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Naval Air Station Oceana
History
On a Navy Master Jet Base, all aircraft at one base are usually of the same Type/Model/Series (T/M/S). That airfield also has the maintenance and training facilities for that type of aircraft. NAS Oceana had two types normally. It had a fighter and Attack aircraft section. In the 1960s, NAS Oceana became the home to all East Coast based F-4 Phantom II squadrons. Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101) created a detachment at NAS Oceana. It served as the "Fleet Readiness Squadron" (FRS). It trained pilots and other crew members to operate the Phantom. It also trained the people who repaired the aircraft. After the F-14 Tomcat began being used in 1976, VF-101 changed to using and training people to use Tomcats. Phantom training operations moved to Fighter Squadron 171 (VF-171). VF-171 dealt with Atlantic Fleet training for the F-4 Phantom until it was no longer used in 1984. The last F-14 was retired on 22 September 2006. At one time, all of the Atlantic Fleet's A-6 Intruder attack squadrons were also home-based at NAS Oceana. VA-42 was the Fleet Readiness Squadron that trained all east coast A-6 pilots, bombardier/navigators and A-6 maintenance personnel. The A-6E was no longer used in the Fleet in 1997.
NAS Oceana became home to the F/A-18 Hornet in 1999 after NAS Cecil Field, Florida was closed.
Current operations
NAS Oceana is home to seventeen strike fighter squadrons of F/A-18 Hornets and F/A-18 Super Hornets. The base is the only East Coast Master Jet Base. It is home to all the east coast strike-fighter (VFA) units except VFA-86 and Marine Corps VMFA squadrons. VFA-106 Gladiators are in charge of training. They use F/A-18C/D Hornets and F/A-18E/F Super Hornets.
Tomcat training was done by the VF-101 "Grim Reapers". NAS Oceana was host to the "Tomcat Sunset" reunion from 21–23 September 2006. Over 3000 former and current aircrew and maintainers came together to celebrate the retirement of the F-14 from active use. NAS Oceana was where the F-14 took off for the last time for final flight. The F-14D, Bureau Number (BuNo) 164603, Modex 101, of Fighter Squadron31 (VF-31) was flew from NAS Oceana to Calverton on Long Island, NY. It was put on display at the Northrop Grumman facilities where the Tomcat was first built.
During the 2005 BRAC base closures, it was decided that NAS Oceana could stay open only if some conditions were met. The largest problem was that the city of Virginia Beach had to buy and destroy about 3,400 houses and an unknown number of businesses near the base. These buildings were in the "Crash zone", the area most likely to be the site of an accident on landing. The fighters would likely have been moved to NAS Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida if NAS Oceana was not able to meet the conditions. The plan was well liked by Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton. The Navy decided it did not like the idea of moving the Master Jet Base to the Jacksonville area. On 20 December 2005 the Virginia Beach passed many ordinances to do what BRAC wanted, but did not destroy any of the homes.
NAS Oceana has been an possible landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle if needed.
In addition to the squadrons listed, there are many other commands at Oceana:
Carrier Wings
Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic
Diplodocid
Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae ("double beams"), are a group of sauropod dinosaurs. The family includes some of the longest creatures ever to walk the earth, including Diplodocus and Supersaurus, which may have reached lengths of up to 34 m.
With their peg-like teeth they could strip leaves from branches, and leave the grinding to gastroliths. They bacteria in their vast stomachs would break down the cellulose in the leaves, and the product would be absorbed further on in the alimentary canal.
Suicide Silence
Suicide Silence is an American deathcore band from Riverside, California. Suicide Silence has four members in the band; the current band members are Chris Garza, Mark Heylmun, Alex Lopez and Dan Kenny.
The band was formed in 2002. They released a self-title EP on September 30, 2005 and released their debut album "The Cleansing" on September 18, 2007. The band won the Revolver Golden God award for "Best New Talent" in 2009.
Diplodocid
Their cousins the brachiosaurs are put into a sister family. The much later titanosaurs were the last group of sauropods on Earth.
Suicide Silence
On November 1, 2012, the Orange County Coroners Office said that lead singer Mitch Lucker had died from injuries that were caused by a motorcycle accident. In 2013, the band said that Hernan "Eddie" Hermida would become the lead singer for the band. Hermida was the vocalist for All Shall Perish before he joined Suicide Silence.
Discography
So far, Suicide Silence have released 5 albums:
Coloring book
Coloring book is a book where you can add color using colored pencils, marker s or paint. Coloring book contains contour drawings to add a color. Usually these books consist of animated characters. Except the coloring by contour, coloring books have mazes, connect the dots and sometimes include stickers.
Berrien County, Michigan
Berrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 154,316. The county seat is St. Joseph.
Boismont, Somme
Boismont is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Helen Hardacre
Helen Hardacre (born May 20, 1949) is an American academic and Japanologist. At Harvard University, she is the Reischauer Professor of Japanese Religions and Society.
Early life
Hardacre is the daughter of British historian Paul H. Hardacre.
Her research was supported by a Gugghenheim fellowship.
Career
Hardacre was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1995 through 1998.
Her research interests focused on religion in Japan and the history of Japan.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Helen Hardacre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings
Asian house shrew
The Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) is a type of shrew. It is native to South and Southeast Asia. It is the largest type of shrew. It is a least concern species. It has been introduced in several West Asian and East African countries. It is an invasive species.
Description
The Asian house shrew is 100 mm and 150 mm long. An adult female weighs between 23.5 g and 82.0 g. An adult male weighs from 33.2 g to 147.3 g. It has short, dense fur. It is mid-grey to brownish-grey color.
Distribution and Habitat
The Asian house shrew is native to South and Southeast Asia. It was introduced to eastern Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, the Philippines and other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
It is found in forests, agricultural lands, and in places with lots of human activity. It is also found in many houses and businesses. It is mainly a terrestrial animal.
Feeding
It is mainly an insectivore. It eats insects, mammals, plants and human food.
Behaviour
It very adaptable species. They are nocturnal. They are thought to mainly live by themselves.
Reproduction
They breed throughout the year. It gives birth to one to eight young ones. The gestation period is one month. It starts breeding when it is around one year old.
Relationships with humans
It helps to control the population of many pests. It is an invasive species. They compete with many types of plants and animals. It is also a pest. It can damage food and other materials found in homes and businesses.
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
On 3 January 2020, the United States Air Force launched an airstrike against a convoy traveling near Baghdad International Airport that was carrying several passengers, including Iranian Major General and IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Several missiles reportedly struck the convoy. Five Iranians and five Iraqis were killed.
Ralph McGehee
Ralph Walter McGehee (April 9, 1928 – May 2, 2020) was an American intelligence official. He worked for 25 years in American intelligence, being a former case officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). From 1953 to 1972, his assignments were in East Asia and Southeast Asia. After leaving the CIA, he published books and became a critic of the agency. McGehee was born in Moline, Illinois.
McGehee died on May 2, 2020 of COVID-19 in Falmouth, Maine at the age of 92.
Luke Young
Luke Young (born 19 July 1979) is an English footballer. He plays for Aston Villa.
Club career statistics
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2007-08 UEFA Champions League
The 2007-2008 UEFA Champions league was the 16th season in the UEFA's Premier European football Tournament
In this tournament Cristiano Ronaldo was the highest goal scorer with 8 goals.
The final was played between both the top premier league clubs Manchester United and Chelsea, won by Manchester united in the penalties by 6-5. It was also Manchester United's 3rd Champions league title Under Sir Alex Ferguson.
Villers-Canivet
Villers-Canivet is a commune. It is in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
No Way Out (2000)
No Way Out (2000) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on February 27, 2000 at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. It was the first No Way Out event held under the "No Way Out" name, although it was preceded in 1998 by an event named No Way Out of Texas.
Westlake, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Westlake is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Computer engineering
Computer engineering is the practice of making computers and their parts. Computer engineers are always trying to make new parts smaller and better. They can also work on software, especially software for embedded systems (specialized electronics like cell-phones and satellite receivers, not a general-purpose computer).
Computers are electrical machines that run programs.
Computer engineering has parts of both electrical engineering and computer science/software engineering. In computer engineering classes, students learn about the hardware and software of computers. They start with learning how transistors and computer chips are made and how they work (which uses quantum mechanics). Then the student learns how the chips talk to each other and how to make a complete printed circuit board (PCB), which is the electrical part. They also learn how to program the ROM or Flash memory so the computer can do something useful.
Because computer engineering is closely related to electrical engineering and computer science, the fields are found in the same department at many universities. Students also need to learn fundamental science subjects and mathematics, such as calculus and differential equations.
Computer engineering is difficult to learn, but computer engineers are needed. Software engineering companies, telecommunications firms, designers of digital hardware, and many other companies hire computer engineering majors upon graduation and pay them well.
List of people who have walked on the Moon
Twelve people have walked on Earth's Moon. The first one was Neil Armstrong and the last one was Gene Cernan. All crewed moon landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972 as part of the United States Apollo program. All twelve people who have walked on the Moon are American men.
Villers-sur-Mer
Villers-sur-Mer is a commune in the Basse-Normandie region in the Calvados department in northwest France.
Apathy
Apathy (also called impassivity) is a state of indifference or suppression of concern, not being excited or having no passion to perform things. Apathy is often expressed by people with schizoid personality disorder, depression and schizophrenia.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (born March 24, 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. Unger studied law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Unger was born in Rio de Janeiro. At the time Unger's parents lived in the United States, but Unger's father had suffered a heart attack during a family visit to Brazil. This led to the family staying in Brazil for longer than planned and Unger being born there. When Unger's father recovered, Unger's family went back to New York. Unger grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
George Dureau
George Dureau (December 28, 1930 – April 7, 2014) was an American visual artist. His career lasted forty years. He was known for charcoal sketches and black and white photography. His work was often called homoerotic. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Xi Shun
Xi Shun (Bao Xishun) (China, born in 1951) is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man. He is 236 cm tall. The last time he was measured was on January 15 of 2005. On August 7, 2007 Leonid Stadnyk was measuring and was found to be taller than him. In September 2005 he made his first trip outside of China to London to visit Guinness World Records.
Xi Shun served in the People's Republic of China army but got discharged because of rheumatism. He once saved some dolphins' lives by getting pieces of plastic from their stomachs that veterinarians could not reach. Radhouane Charbib was the tallest man by Guinness world records until Bao Xishun beat his record on 15 January 2005. That is where he was measured 2 millimetres taller in the Chifeng Hospital in China.
Glioblastoma multiforme
Glioblastoma multiforme is a malignant brain tumor that carries an extremely poor prognosis.
Treatment
Currently, most patients with Glioblastoma multiforme are initially treated with maximal surgical removal of the tumor, which is then followed by radiotherapy and Chemotherapy, most often with Temozolomide, a chemotheraputic agent that has been shown to have activity against glioblastoma multiforme. Radiosurgery is being investigated in the treatmet glioblastoma multiforme.
Noun
Nouns often need a word called an article or determiner (like the or that). These words usually do not go with other kinds of words like verbs or adverbs. (For example, people do not also describe nouns). In English, there are more nouns than any other kind of word.
Éder Militão
Éder Gabriel Militão (born 18 January 1998) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for the Spanish club Real Madrid and the Brazil national team. Mainly a central defender, he can also play as a right back or defensive midfielder.
Noun
Every language in the world has nouns, but they are not always used in the same ways. They also can have different properties in different languages. In some other languages, nouns do not change for singular and plural, and sometimes there is no word for the.
Tarnobrzeg
Tarnobrzeg is a city in southeastern Poland. In 2009, 49,419 people lived there.
Noun
Examples of nouns: time, people, way, year, government, day, world, life, work, part, number, house, system, company, end, party, information.
Éder Militão
Militão made his senior international debut for Brazil in 2018. He was part of their squads that won the Copa América in 2019 and came runners-up in 2021.
Noun
History
The word noun comes from the Latin nomen meaning "name." Words like nouns were described in early days by the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini and ancient Greeks like Dionysios Thrax. Also in ancient Tamil like "Peyarchol"
Uses of nouns
In English sentences, nouns can be used as a subject, object, or complement. They often come after prepositions, as the 'object of preposition'.
Nouns can sometimes describe other nouns (such as a soccer ball). When they do this, they are called modifiers or adjuncts.
There are also verb forms that can be used in the same way as nouns (such as 'I like running.') These are called verbals or verbal nouns, and include participles (which can also be adjectives) and infinitives.
Nouns are classified into common and proper. Pronouns have commonly been considered a different part of speech from nouns, but in the past some grammars have included them as nouns as do many modern linguists.
Proper nouns
Proper nouns (also called proper name) are specific names. Examples of proper nouns are: London, John, God, October, Mozart, Saturday, Coke, Mr. Brown, Atlantic Ocean. Proper nouns are individual things with names, not general nouns.
Proper nouns begin with an upper case (capital) letter in English and many other languages that use the Roman alphabet. (However, in German, all nouns begin with an upper case letter.) The word "I" is really a pronoun, although it is capitalized in English, like a proper noun.
Some common nouns (see below) can also be used as proper nouns. For example, someone might be named "Tiger Smith" -- even though he is not a tiger or a smith.
Common nouns
Common nouns are general names. Sometimes the same word can be either a common noun or a proper noun, depending on how it is used; for example:
Countability
In English and many other languages, nouns have 'number'. But some nouns are only singular (such as furniture, physics) and others are only plural (such as clothes, police). Also, some nouns are countable (for example, one piece, two pieces) but others are uncountable (for example, we do not say one furniture, two furnitures).
The plural form of most nouns is created simply by adding the letter(s) -(e)s.
Despite plural forms being written using the letter(s) -(e)s, the pronunciation of the letter(s) will pronounced as /-s/, /-z/, or /-ız/ depending on which type of phoneme, or unique sound, comes before it. These variations of the plural morpheme are called allomorphs.
Some dictionaries list "busses" as an acceptable plural for "bus". Presumably, this is because the plural "buses" looks like it ought to rhyme with the plural of "fuse," which is "fuses." "Buses" is still listed as the preferable plural form. "Busses" is the plural for "buss," a seldom used word for "kiss."
There are several nouns that have irregular plural forms. Plurals formed in this way are sometimes called mutated (or mutating) plurals.
Many of the above irregular plural forms stem from Old English, which had more complex rules for making plural forms.
And, finally, there are nouns that maintain their Latin or Greek form in the plural.
Possessives
Nouns are words for things, and since things can be possessed, nouns can also change to show possession in grammar. In English, we usually add an apostrophe and an s to nouns to make them possessive, or sometimes just an apostrophe when there is already an s at the end, like this:
Barwon Heads Airport
Barwon Heads Airport is a small airfield used only for light aircraft on the Bellarine Peninsula near the township of Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia. It is mainly used for scenic tourist flights, private aircraft and flight training.
Tropical Storm Ana (2009)
Tropical Storm Ana was the first tropical storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the first tropical cyclone to affect the Caribbean during 2009. The storm formed on August 11, but strong wind shear weakened it on August 13. Ana later reformed and became a tropical storm on August 15 before wind shear tore apart the storm again. The storm finally died on August 17.
Barwon Heads Airport
The airport is small and undeveloped. In 2008 five new hangars and new carparking was built.
Tropical Storm Ana (2009)
Between August 15 and 17, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) gave out tropical storm watches to some Caribbean islands like the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Some people took a few precautions. Most of the damage from Ana was in the form of rain.
Barwon Heads Airport
The airport has a flight training school with two classrooms, fuel facilities and a seafood shop. There are showers and toilets in the terminal building. other facilities include a kitchen, snack and drink machines, and a lounge area.
Tropical Storm Ana (2009)
Storm history
A tropical wave formed over the Cape Verde islands on August 9. The NHC started watching the storm to see if it would turn into a tropical cyclone. It became a tropical depression on August 11. By then, the storm had a lot of thunderstorm activity near its center. On August 12, the NHC said that the storm was close to tropical storm-stength. While the storm was still alive, it was not called a tropical storm. However it was later found that the storm had actually reached tropical storm strength winds. The next day, the storm began to weaken and fall apart because of wind shear and dry air. The remains of the storm moved west across the Atlantic Ocean.
Barwon Heads Airport
The airport has two runways, the main one is a gravel north/south runway. There is a smaller east/west grass runway, mainly used by ultralight aircraft, and light aircraft in stronger wind conditions.
Tropical Storm Ana (2009)
Storm history
On August 14, the NHC saw that the storm was reforming. Later that day, a Hurricane Hunter airplane flew into the storm and the NHC started to follow the storm again. On August 15, the storm was given the name Ana after it reached tropical storm strength. Soon wind shear started to affect Ana again. The next day, the storm moved into an area of dry air over the Caribbean Sea. Ana weakened into a depression after another Hurricane Hunter airplane found no tropical storm-winds. The storm's circulation fell apart and Ana finally died on August 17.
Barwon Heads Airport
History
The owners of Barwon Heads Airport have tried to stop skydiving near the airport. They think the airport runway is too close to the proposed drop zones. In 2005, a ban was placed on skydiving near the airport. In 2008, airport owners said the company Skydive City was using an illegal runway 200 metres from the airport. Skydive City had been forced out of an airport hangar for not paying rent. Airport owners said the illegal runway was dangerous for airport users.
Noun
Word order in noun phrases
A noun phrase is a phrase where the head word is a noun. In English, the word order of most noun phrases is that determiners, adjectives, and modifying nouns in respective order must appear before the head word, and relative clauses must appear after the head word.
Tropical Storm Ana (2009)
Preparations and impact
On August 15, a tropical storm watch was given to the islands of St. Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius, Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, and the United States Virgin Islands. Later on August 17, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, and St. Barthelemy were also put on tropical storm watch. When Ana weakened into a remnant low later that day, all watches were stopped.
In St. Thomas, wind speeds from Ana were recorded at 28 mph (45 km/h) and gusts peaked at 40 mph (65 km/h). Also, a lot of rainfall created flooding in Puerto Rico. But there was only little damage done. At most, 4 in (100 mm) of rain fell on the island. Some streets had to be shut down because of the flooding. About 6,000 people lost electricity from the storm. Tree branches broke down power lines. People also reported tornadoes and waterspouts created by Ana in Puerto Rico. The remains of Ana brought rainfall to parts of Hispaniola. But no damage was reported.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an Russian-American anarchist and labor organizer. She was an anarcho-communist who was an early supporter of atheism, gay rights and feminism.
Life
Goldman fought for women’s rights and equality, workers' rights, queer rights, and anarchism (anarchism is the belief that society should be run without authorities or a government). She was also known for being one of the first women’s reproductive rights activists. In addition, Goldman wrote many books. Her most famous book, “Living My Life,” is an autobiography.
Activism
Goldman was born in a part of the Russian Empire, which is now known as Lithuania. She moved to the United States with her family when she was 17. She was upset by the way workers and labor activists were treated in the US. In 1889 she moved to New York. In New York, she joined an anarchist group. In the anarchist group, she met a new friend and someone she would work with for a long time, Alexander Berkman. In 1892, they attempted to assassinate (kill) Henry Clay Frick, for the way he treated workers. Berkman was unsuccessful and spent fourteen years in prison, but Goldman was not punished.
Besides being a defiant radical, Emma was very well known for being incredibly influential in women’s reproductive rights activism. She fought for women’s sexual and economic freedom. Goldman was a nurse and midwife and taught other women about birth control. She was imprisoned in 1916 for this because at the time spreading information about birth control was illegal.
Troubles
Goldman faced many legal troubles. In 1893 she was convicted of starting a riot and spent a year in prison. She was arrested in 1901 for allegedly conspiring in the assassination of President McKinley, but was never found guilty. In 1917 she was arrested and spent two years in prison for not supporting World War I.
Back to Russia
In 1919, Goldman and Berkman were sent back to Russia because the American government thought they were too dangerous. The Russian Revolution had just happened and Goldman was hopeful that Russia might end up being a good place. She ended up deciding that the revolution in Russia was not as good as she thought and that the Bolsheviks tricked many of the people in Russia. She thought the Bolsheviks were too controlling and were too powerful. She also did not like that the Soviet Union put lots of anarchists in jail for not agreeing with them.
Death
She died in Toronto of a stroke. She is buried near Chicago.
Damodar River
The Damodar River is a river in India. It flows through the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand. The river is nicknamed "the Sorrow of Bengal" because of the floods in the plains of West Bengal.
Tributaries
The Damodar River has many tributaries. They are:
Sorrow of Bengal
Chota Nagpur Plateau receives an annual rainfall of around 1400 mm. The volume of this monsoon rain produces the floods of the Damodar River. Many of the floods of the Damodar River is recorded in the years of 1700, 1855, 1866, 1926, 1935 and 1943.
1964 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1964 Final Tournament was held in the Netherlands.
Teams
The following teams entered the tournament:
Villerville
Villerville is a commune. It is in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Waterproof, Louisiana
Waterproof is a village in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Robert Simac
Robert Simac is a former French racing driver. Robert Simac raced in rally seasons: Lyon-Charbonnières, San Remo, Tour de Corse, Tour Auto, and Sweden. Robert Simac was Formula 2 European Champion in 2003 and 2004.
In 2005, he encountered a certain rivalry with Martin Stretton, whom he would face in certain races. In 2012 he narrowly missed the title. Finally, from 2013 to 2016, Robert Simac will win the title of historic FIA Formula 2 European champion four years in a row, driving a March 712 M (chassis n ° 11), repainted and redecorated with its true colors. origin, which Jean-Pierre Jaussaud piloted in 1971 within Team Arnold.
Ned O'Gorman
Edward Charles "Ned" O'Gorman (September 26, 1929 – March 7, 2014) was an American poet and educator. Some of his best known works are The Harvesters' Vase (1968), The Flag the Hawk Flies (1972), The Wilderness and the Laurel Tree: A Guide for Teachers and Parents on the Observation of Children (1972) and Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution (1969). He was born in New York City, New York and was raised in both Southport, Connecticut and Bradford, Vermont.
Sandra Mason
Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, (born 17 January 1949) is a Barbadian politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the eighth and last Governor-General of Barbados and has been the 1st and current President of Barbados since 2021.
Life and career
Sandra Mason was born on 17 January 1949 in Saint Philip, Barbados.
In 1975, she obtained a Legal Education Certificate from Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago. She was admitted to the bar on 10 November the same year, becoming the first female member of the Barbados Bar Association.
Abadan, Iran
Abadan is a city in southwestern Iran. In the year 2006 there were 217,988 people living there.
Sandra Mason
Life and career
From 1992 to 1994, Sandra Mason was the ambassador of Barbados to Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. In 1994, she returned to Barbados and served in several judicial positions.
Arnschwang
Arnschwang is a rural municipality in the district of Cham in Bavaria, Germany. The population was 2,004 as of the 2010 census.
Sandra Mason
Life and career
In 2020, Sandra Mason announced Prime Minister Mia Mottley's decision for Barbados to become a republic.
In October 2021, she was elected the 1st President of Barbados and she took her oath of office on 30 November 2021 when the monarchy was officially abolished.
Ned O'Gorman
O'Gorman died from pancreatic cancer on March 7, 2014 at his home in Manhattan. He was 84 years old.
Niles, Michigan
Niles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census.
Price controls
In economics, price control is the idea that the government fixes the prices that can be charged for a given product or service, in a given market. The government either fixes an absolute price that is charged, or a price range, with a minimum and a maxium. Usually this is done so that goods such as staple food remain affordable. It can also be done to avoid people charging way too much for a good or service, which is known as price gouging. Another field where it is done is to ensure a minimum wage or salary that employers must pay.
The problem with the approach is that according to the Law of Supply and Demand, the price of a good or service depends on its supply compared with the demand for it. If the price is fixed below the price the market would normally ask, the demand will increase - the product is "cheaper" than it should be. In general, the supply is fixed- at some point it is not possible to increase the production, and the supply. In the long term, it will therefore not be possible to meet the demand, and there will be a shortage.
In the 4th century BC, Lactantius wrote that Diocletian "by various taxes he had made all things exceedingly expensive, attempted by a law to limit their prices. Then much blood [of merchants] was shed for trifles, men were afraid to offer anything for sale, and the scarcity became more excessive and grievous than ever. Until, in the end, the [price limit] law, after having proved destructive to many people, was from mere necessity abolished." As with Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices, shortages lead to black markets where prices for the same good exceed those of an uncontrolled market. Furthermore, once controls are removed, prices will immediately increase, which can temporarily shock the economic system.
The Arab oil embargo between October 19, 1973 and March 17, 1974 is another example on how price controls cause shortages: Long lines of cars and trucks quickly appeared at retail gas stations in the U.S. and some stations closed because of a shortage of fuel at the low price set by the U.S. Cost of Living Council. The fixed price was below what the market would otherwise pay and, as a result, the inventory disappeared. It made no difference whether prices were voluntarily or involuntarily posted below the market clearing price. Scarcity resulted in either case. Price controls fail to achieve their proximate aim, which is to reduce prices paid by retail consumers, but such controls do manage to reduce supply. When price controls on gasoline were lifted, the shortage ended and the long lines of cars at gas pumps disappeared.
Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman said "We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas."
Maurice, Louisiana
Maurice is a village in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Gueydan, Louisiana
Gueydan is a town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed Ali Ebrahimi (جمال جعفر محمد علي إبراهيمي, 1954 – 3 January 2020), known by the kunya Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (أبو مهدي المهندس), was an Iraqi-Iranian military commander. He headed the Popular Mobilisation Committee (Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi). He was the commander of the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia.
He was accused of being a terrorist over his activities in Kuwait in the 1980s. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Kuwait for his involvement in 1983 Kuwait bombings.
Muhandis was on the United States list of designated terrorists.
He was killed by a US airstrike at the Baghdad International Airport on 3 January 2020.
Black box (disambiguation)
Black box has these meanings:
National League (ice hockey)
The National League A is a professional ice hockey league in Switzerland. Before the 2007-08 season, it was known as the Nationalliga A.
Past champions
Swiss National Championship Serie A (1909-1937)
Swiss International Championship Serie A (1916-1933)
Memphis Pyramid
The Pyramid Arena or Memphis Pyramid is a pyramidal sports facility and store located in Memphis, Tennessee. The building has served numerous purposes since its construction in 1991. It's currently a Bass Pro Shops store that also includes restaurants, a campground-themed hotel, archery range, bowling alley and observation deck. When it first opened, the Memphis Pyramid was an indoor stadium capable of seating 20,142 people.
Shipwreck Island (Struan Murray novel)
Shipwreck Island is the second book of the trilogy written by Struan Murray and first published on March 4, 2021.
Villiers-le-Sec, Calvados
Villiers-le-Sec is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Creully sur Seulles.
Erzurum
Erzurum is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the capital and largest city in Erzurum Province. The 2000 census showed 361,235 people lived there with a Kurdish minority based on the south side. The number of people increased to 367,250 by 2010.
Cass County, Michigan
Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,589. Its county seat is Cassopolis.
Tatars
Tatars refer to a number of Turkic-speaking peoples, which include (but are not limited to) the Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Siberian Tatars. But do not include the Crimean Tatars. Most Tatars live in Russia (forming the majority in Tatarstan), as well as in countries as Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Crimean Tatars live in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
Smaller minorities of Tatars live in Israel, France, Canada, Australia, the United States, Finland, and Japan.
The Tatars mostly practice Sunni Islam.
Their closest relatives are the Bashkirs, and they are also related to the Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Chuvash people, and the Turkish people.
History
Historically, the word "Tatar" might have referred to the Tatar confederation, which eventually became part of the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan joined the various Eurasian steppe tribes into one empire. The term "Tatars" was spelled as "Tartars" on occasion. In the past, this term was used to refer to anyone coming from North and Central Asia dominated by many predominantly Turco-Mongol empires and kingdoms. Neighbouring non-Turkic peoples called any Turkic-speaking people Tatar. Nowadays, this term is used to refer to certain Turkic peoples.
Russian historian D. Iskhakov wrote in 2000: “the real history of Tatars, of the people in every respect historical, is not written yet”. However, a book by independent Tatar historian Galy Yenikeyev about the unwritten history of the Tatars claims to have new facts.
Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя, before 1921 - Oleksandrivsk) is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. In 2001, 817,900 people lived there.
Located on the main waterway of Ukraine - the Dnieper River, at the intersection of transport and communication corridors connecting the south with the capital of Ukraine, western and central regions, Donbass with Kryvyi Rih.
Together with the surrounding settlements it forms the Zaporizhzhia agglomeration. It is one of the largest administrative, industrial and cultural centers of southern Ukraine with advanced engineering, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, chemical and construction industries, a river port and an important transit railway junction.
According to the Consolidated Scheme of District Planning of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia occupies an important place in the regional settlement system and performs the functions of regional, international and district centers, each of which has its own zone of inter-village service.
Thus, in the zone of influence of Zaporizhzhia as a regional center on the territory of 2690 thousand hectares there are 14 cities, 23 urban-type settlements, a significant number of villages and more than 2 million people live. The inter-district settlement system headed by Zaporizhzhia (suburban zone) is characterized by a high level of industrial and economic mastery of the territory, high value of agricultural lands and pago environment. The suburban zone covers Zaporizhzhia, Vilniansk, Orikhiv, Vasylivka and Kamyansko-Dniprovsky administrative districts of Zaporizhzhia region, the total area of ​​which is 760 thousand hectares. There are 5 cities, 6 urban-type settlements and about 300 rural settlements. The total population of the suburban area is approximately 315 thousand people. The peculiarity of the city of Zaporizhzhia is that it concentrates about 65% of the productive capacity of the region and 43% of the population of the region.
On June 27, 2014, the decision of the Zaporizhzhia City Council adopted the final report of the working group to clarify the founding date of the city and changed the official founding date. The working group concluded that the city was founded in 952 on the basis of the treatise of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus "On the management of the empire", as the first written mention of the settlement on both banks of the Dnieper and the island of Khortytsia.
Name
Until March 15, 1921, the city was called Alexandrovsk after the Alexander Fortress, founded in 1770. There is no unequivocal opinion in whose honor the fortress was named. The names of Field Marshal General Alexander Golitsyn and Prince Alexander Vyazemsky are mentioned.
The name reminds that before the construction of the Dnieper HPP dam in 1932 at the place where the river crosses the rocky southern edge of the Ukrainian Shield, numerous Dnieper rapids, which hinder navigation, ended.
Arrach
Arrach is a municipality in the district of Cham in Bavaria in Germany. It is within the scenic valley of the Lamer Winkel.
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League. It is nicknamed "The Kangaroos".
Spectral Force
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North Melbourne Football Club
Club song
Hearts to hearts and hands to hands, Beneath the Blue and White we stand, We shout, God bless our native land North Melbourne, North Melbourne. Out we come, out we come, out we come to play, We train so hard, we play the game, we must win every day. Lots of fun, heaps of fun, enjoy yourself today, North Melbourne's boys are hard to beat, when they come out to play. So join in the chorus and sing it one and all, Join in the chorus, North Melbourne's on the ball. Good old North Melbourne, they're champions you'll agree, North Melbourne is the team that plays to win for you and me.
COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic spread to Jordan on 2 March 2020, when the Ministry of Health confirmed the first case in the kingdom. As of May 2, Jordan had 460 confirmed cases, with 367 recovered and 9 deaths.
Cases
On 2 March, the Prime Ministry of Jordan reported the first case of coronavirus in Jordan. The Jordanian had returned from Italy two weeks prior, before quarantine procedures for Jordanians returning from Italy had been put in place.
On 22 March, there were 13 additional cases confirmed, one of the cases was for a 19-year-old man who came from Britain, and 5 more cases from Irbid's wedding, and 6 cases for people who were in close contact with a nurse who was infected, including an 83-year-old woman who was in mild to moderate condition, and one of unknown origin, bringing the total of the cases to 112.
Death
On 28 March, the first death resulting from COVID-19 was confirmed in the kingdom. An 83-year-old woman who was admitted to a private hospital suffering from many illnesses along with blood poisoning. Later in the evening, the total confirmed cases rose to 246 after 11 new cases were confirmed. Of those 11, 5 cases came from Irbid, 1 individual who was in close contact with an infected person, 1 woman who was in close contact with her infected daughter that was visiting from Norway, 3 cases from those already quarantined in hotels (2 of which came from the UK and 1 came from Baghdad, and the final remaining case was of unknown origin/cause.
Villons-les-Buissons
Villons-les-Buissons is a commune. It is in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Cassopolis, Michigan
Cassopolis is a village within in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Cass County. The population was 1,774 at the 2010 United States Census.
Chris Broderick
Christopher Alan Broderick (born March 6, 1970) is an American musician. He is best known for having been the guitarist for American thrash metal band Megadeth. He also played the guitar and keyboard for power metal band Jag Panzer. From 2001 to 2003 he played guitar for Nevermore while they were on tour. He played with them again from 2006 to 2007. He is now the main guitarist for Act of Defiance, a band he made with Shawn Drover. Broderick also joined In Flames in 2019 as a touring guitarist.
Mezuzah
A mezuzah is a box with a scroll in it. Jews put on mezuzahs their doors. The mezuzah is written by a Jewish scribe called a Sofer.
Most people put their mezuzah on the front doorpost, but halakha requires that every room with 36 square feet (but not bathrooms) should have a mezuzah on the right side of the doorpost.
There are 4 different types of writing styles for Mezuzahs: Beis Yosef, Arizal, Sephardi and Alter Rebbe.
In the United States, prices for Mezuzahs range from US$50 for a cheap mezuzah, $85 for a medium quality, and $130-150 for a high-quality mezuzah.
Ueslei
Ueslei Raimundo Pereira da Silva (born 19 April 1972) is a former Brazilian football player.
Baghdad International Airport
Baghdad International Airport, previously Saddam International Airport (مطار بغداد الدولي),  is Iraq's largest international airport. It is located in a suburb about 16 km west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate.
It is the home base for Iraq's national airline, Iraqi Airways.
On 3 January 2020, Baghdad International Airport was the location of a U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran's Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, as well as numerous civilians.
List of Kurdish political parties
This is a list of Kurdish political parties.
Tommy Hancock
Thomas O. Hancock (March 25, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American musician. He was called the godfather of West Texas music. Hancock was born in Lubbock, Texas. He played the fiddle. He played for the band The Flatlanders. During the 1970s, Hancock and his family became followers of Guru Maharaj Ji.
On January 1, 2020, Hancock died in Austin, Texas at the age of 90.
Aisne (river)
The Aisne is a river in northeastern France. It is a left tributary of the Oise river. It gave its name to the French department of Aisne. It was known in Roman times with its Celtic name of Axona.
Geography
The Aisne river has a length of 355.9 km, and a drainage basin with an area of 7939 km2.
Arcology
An arcology (portmanteau of architecture and ecology) is a completely self sufficient building or complex which not only would provide the basic facilities of a city or town, but would also produce its own electricity and food as well as recycle its own waste. The building or compound would thus be akin to a self-contained ecosystem.
Many designs for arcologies have been proposed over the years. These include Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mile-high Chicago. The design for Mile-high Chicago was a 5200 ft tall building with 527 floor levels. Other examples include Tokyo SkyCity, SpaceCity 6000, Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid and Freedom Ship.
Aisne (river)
Course
The source of the Aisne is in the "Forest of Argonne", in the Rembercourt-Sommaisne commune (Meuse), near the border with the Marne department, at an altitude of about 240 m. From here, the Aisne flows to the west.
The Aisne river flows through 2 regions and 5 departments. It flows through the following communes, among others:
Finally, it flows into the Oise river in the city of Compiègne.
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Aisne river are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
Hydrology
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Trosly-Breuil (1961 - 2002)
The Aisne shows typical seasonal fluctuations. The highest levels of the river are in winter and spring, from December to May inclusive, with the highest level in February. They are followed by a rapid fall in the flow during the low water period that goes from July to October.
Villy-Bocage
Villy-Bocage is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
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Combles
Combles is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Gupta Empire
The Guptas most probably came from Bengal. At the beginning of the 4th century the Guptas ruled a few small Hindu kingdoms in Magadha and around modern-day Uttar Pradesh.