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Saar (river)
Upper Saar
The Saar river, and its two source rivers, flow first through the Moselle department, in the Lorraine region; then, for a short distance, flow through the Bas-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region. From Sarrealbe to Sarreguemines, the Saar flows along the border with Germany. At Sarreguemines, the Blies river, the largest tributary of the Saar, flows into the Saar and its discharge rises from 20.9 m³/s to 41.5 m³/s.
Middle and lower Saar
From Sarreguemines, the Saar is navigable (it is deep, wide and slow enough for a ship to pass). Then the Saar gets into German territory forming a narrow valley through the western Rhenish Massif. At its beginning in this region, it forms the famous Saar loop (German: Saarschleife) at Mettlach.
After 246 km (129 km in France, and 117 km in Germany) the Saar flows into the Moselle river at Konz (Rhineland-Palatinate) between Trier and the Luxembourg border.
Grapes, to produce wine, are grown along the lower Saar, mainly between Serrig and Konz.
Tributaries of the Saar
Some of the important tributaries of the Saar are:
Towns along the river
Some towns and cities found along the river are:
Norberto Mario Oyarbide
Norberto Oyarbide (1 January 1951 – 1 September 2021) was an Argentine politician and lawyer. He was born in Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina. In 1994, he became a member of the Supreme Court of Argentina after being nominated by President Carlos Menem. He retired in 2016.
Oyarbide died on 1 September 2021 from problems caused by COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, aged 70.
Saint Clair, Missouri
Saint Clair is a city in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
Josef Bican
Josef "Pepi" Bican (25 September 1913 – 12 December 2001) was an Austrian-Czech professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the second-most prolific goalscorer in official matches in recorded history according to Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Soccer Statistics Foundation
According to RSSSF, Bican scored over 1813 total goals in over 1089 total matches. In total Bican scored 1137 goals in more than 514 games for Slavia Praha including friendlies, with a ratio of 1.79 goals per game across his almost 15-year career at the club in total.
The Way You Make Me Feel
"The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song by Michael Jackson. It was the third single from Jackson's seventh album Bad. It was produced by Quincy Jones. Like the two singles before it, it reached number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100. It was also number 1 in Spain. He performed the song at the 1988 Grammy Awards. After Jackson died in 2009 the song entered the charts again.
Mark Durkan
Mark Durkan (born 26 June 1960) is a retired Irish nationalist politician from Northern Ireland. Durkan was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from November 2001 to October 2002. He also was the Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from 2001 to 2010. He unsuccessfully ran for MEP with Fine Gael at the 2019 European Parliament election.
Independence Day of Ukraine
The Independence Day of Ukraine (Ukrainian: День Незалежності України) is the main state holiday in Ukraine. It is held on August 24, remembering the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence of 1991. It was first celebrated on 16 July 1991, as the first anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. Since the Declaration of Independence was issued later, and confirmed by a referendum on 1 December 1991, the date of the holiday was changed. Starting in 2004, 23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag.
Man in the Mirror
"Man in the Mirror" is a song by Michael Jackson. It was written by Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard. It was released as the fourth single from Jackson's seventh album, Bad. It was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. It reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100.
Partner (business rank)
A partner in a law firm, accounting firm, consulting firm, or financial firm is a partnership where someone is a co-owner of a firm.
Mohammad Alavi Tabar
Mohammad Alavi Tabar (, 1930–10 March 2020), also known as Kiyavash, was an Iranian politician. He was born in Zanjan. In August 1978, he took part in torching Abadan's Cinema Rex, killing at least 420 people. Tabar was a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Ahvaz between 1980 and 1984, representing Abadan between 1984 and 1988.
Tabar died from COVID-19 on 10 March 2020 in Tehran, aged 89–90.
Electronic health record
An electronic health record is a way of keeping the record of a person's health problems and treatments in electronic form so that it can be shared by health workers in different places. It can let people see their own health records and add to them. They also let scientists study many records so they can see patterns. They are also used to make bills.
Getting these records shared over large areas and between different organisations takes a long time and costs a lot of money. When it is done it can save a lot of time and money.
Deadlines to set up shared electronic records in various parts of the English National Health Service have been missed several times. The latest plan was to "raise every NHS trust to a “core” level of digitisation by March 2025". When NHS Digital was closed in 2023 the money was mostly used for other things.
Electronic Health Record VS Electronic Medical Record
Electronic health record is the a more comprehensive version of Electronic medical record that includes data from all providers and settings where a patient receives care.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was an airplane flight between Iran and Ukraine that crashed shortly after it flew away from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport on 8 January 2020. All 176 passengers onboard and its crew died.
On 9 January 2020, it was reported that U.S. officials believed that plane was shot down by an Iranian Tor-M1 surface to air missile, probably by mistake.
Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a dam in the Three Gorges region on the Yangtze River in Sandouping, in the country of China. Being one of the largest dams in the world, it also generates the biggest amount of hydroelectric power (22,250 megawatts), pushing the massive Itaipu Dam in Brazil from first place to second place.
The Three Gorges Dam project was completed on July 4, 2012. The dam was built for flood control, irrigation, and electricity. However, this has not come without problems. The dam covers a lot of historic sites and has caused 1.24 million people to lose their homes under the rising water. The dam forms the Three Gorges Reservoir, which extends nearly 410 mi upstream to the city of Chongqing.
History
The dam was proposed by Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese political leader, in 1919. The site was surveyed in 1932 and 1939, by the Chinese and Japanese respectively. The Japanese drew up a plan (the Otani plan) for the dam, only to realize later that China would remain under Chinese control. Later, in 1944, the United States helped make plans for the dam, but all work on the dam stopped in 1947, because of the Chinese Civil War. In 1949, work resumed, but the work was slow because of problems in the economy. Later in 1958, some engineers who were against the dam were put in jail.
In 1980, work on the dam continued faster. The National People's Congress voted in 1992 for the dam. The dam was accepted by the government, and on December 14, 1994, construction began. In 2009, the dam began to make hydroelectricity. Some new plans, such as a set of 6 new power generators under construction, became operational in the year 2011. The reservoir filled to capacity at the end of 2008.
Design, cost and purpose
The dam cost $180 billion Chinese Yuan Renminbi (about $30 billion USD). While this cost seems huge, it actually was $20 billion yuan (about $3.3 billion USD) less than the original budget of $203.9 billion yuan (about $34 billion USD). However, this cost will be recovered when the dam makes money by making electricity. In about 10 years, the complete cost of the dam will be recovered.
Flood control
One of the big reasons the dam was built to control floods. It protects large cities like Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, which are very close to the river. Lots of farms, small villages and towns, and factories are also located near the river. In the event of a flood, there are 22 cubic kilometers (18 million acre feet) of space behind the dam to hold back the flood waters. The flood waters are stored behind the dam for future use. In the dry season, the water is released down the river, and the reservoir level drops to prepare for the next flood. However, the dam does not protect the lower river tributaries from flooding.
Navigation
Another reason the dam was built was for water navigation, or the transport of people and goods by ship. There are two sets of locks each of which has five stages. Each lock is 918 ft long, 114 ft wide, and 16.4 ft deep, which is similar in size to the original locks of the Panama Canal, one of the biggest canals in the world. The reservoir behind the dam floods dangerous sections of the river, so boats and ships can go safely and easily. There is also a "ship lift" (an elevator for ships) that can lift ships that weigh up to 3,000 tons.
Electricity
The Three Gorges Dam generates 22,250 megawatts, which makes it the biggest single hydroelectric power source in the world. It has 34 electricity generators, and 32 are main generators. Each generator is powered by water that comes from the reservoir. Each of these 32 generators makes about 700 megawatts of electricity. (This is more electricity than the entire electricity generation of Glen Canyon Dam, one of the biggest dams in the United States.) The other two generators will make power for the dam itself. These two generators each make 50 megawatts.
Generators
Of the 32 main generators, 14 generators are on the north side of the dam. 12 are on the south side of the dam. 6 are in a separate powerhouse under a mountain just south of the dam. The generating capacity of the dam is 10,000 MWh (megawatt-hours), or the amount of megawatts generated per hour. Each main generator weighs a massive 6000 tons (about the same weight as three thousand cars). The water drops 264 ft from the reservoir to the generator, which uses a type of turbine called a Francis turbine. Each turbine is 34 ft wide and 32 ft tall. The amount of water that goes into the turbine can be from 1,968 cubic feet (600 m3) to 3,116 cubic feet (950 m3) per second. The turbines turn at a speed of 75 RPM (rotations per minute). The efficiency of the generators is from 94 to 96.5 percent.
Construction
The 14 main generators on the north side were installed from 2003 to 2005. The first one to begin making electricity (Generator No.2) started on July 10, 2003. The last one (Generator No.9) started on September 7, 2005. The full power (9,800 megawatts) of the north side generators was first tested on October 18, 2006, when the reservoir had risen to 511 ft above sea level. The 12 main generators on the south side were installed from 2007 to 2008. The first one to begin making electricity (Generator No.22) started on June 11, 2007. The last one (Generator No.23) started on August 19, 2008.
Electricity production and distribution
From its completion to March 2009, the Three Gorges Dam has generated about 296,550,000 MWh (Megawatt-hours) of electricity.
Three power lines send electricity away from the dam, to three electricity grids called the East, Central, and South China grids. The dam provides about 3% of China's electricity. However, the dam was originally planned to supply 10% of China's electricity. The reason for the decrease is, China's energy use grew much faster than the designers expected.
Benefits of the dam
Because of reducing electricity needs on fossil fuels like coal and oil, the Three Gorges Dam has saved 31 million tons of coal per year, and prevented:
The dam also persuaded the government of China to think seriously about the pollution in the Yangtze River and the rest of China.
Disadvantages of the dam
A total of 1.24 million people had to move to different places because their homes were flooded by the dam. This number is about 1.5% of the total population of Hubei Province (60.3 million) and Chongqing City (31.44 million) where the reservoir is located. 140,000 from Hubei Province alone. On July 22, 2008, most of the people were safely relocated. 4 million more people will ultimately have to move to Chongqing from their homes near the Three Gorges Dam.
Wildlife habitat and historic sites
A large amount of animal habitat has also been destroyed. Many animals with critically low populations have lost their vital habitat. These include the endangered Siberian Crane, the Yangtze river dolphin (baiji), and Yangtze sturgeon. About one billion tons of dirty water flow into the Yangtze River each year. The dam has stopped this dirty water from being washed away to Shanghai, and led to serious pollution problems.
About 1,300 historical sites have been flooded by the Three Gorges reservoir. Many of these historic sites have been moved to safer places. Some historic sites cannot be moved because of their location, size, or design.
The Three Gorges Dam will become much less spectacular, because the water level will rise up to 300 ft in places, reducing the depth of the canyons.
Sediment problems
A lot of silt (sediment) that is carried by the river has been trapped in the reservoir. Eventually, if the dam is not removed, the reservoir will fill with silt, making it useless. Also, because the river's silt doesn't go downstream anymore, the city of Shanghai will suffer because there has been no silt to replace land that is washed away at the river's mouth. In a high-silt content river like the Yangtze, sediment can clog the dam's outlets, and it cannot release water. The water would back up behind the dam and have nowhere to go, and would eventually go over the dam, making it collapse.
Other dangers
The dam is also a possible target in war, weakening China's national security. It is also possible that the dam sits on a seismic fault.
Gezhouba Dam
The Gezhouba Dam (Gezhouba Water Control Project, Chinese: 长江葛洲坝水利枢纽工程) is an afterbay (smaller dam in front) of the Three Gorges Dam. It forms a pool that extends upstream to the base of the Three Gorges Dam, improving navigation. The dam was built from December 30, 1970 to December 10, 1988. The dam is 8513 ft long and up to 154 ft tall. It generates 2,710 megawatts of electricity. There are three ship locks at the dam. Lock No.2, which is 918 ft long, 111 ft wide, and 16.5 ft deep, is among the 100 largest in the world.
Other dams
A series of other dams are also planned upstream, on the Yangtze and Jinsha rivers. About four dams are planned on the stretch of the Yangtze River, and they will produce 38,500 megawatts in total. Eight dams are planned on the Jinsha River, and eight more upstream of it, and one original plan called for a dam in the Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest river canyons in the world. This plan was, however, scrapped in December 21, 2007, because of the gorge's status as a World Heritage site.
Tomorrow (Silverchair song)
"Tomorrow" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released as the group's first single in 1994. It was later re-recorded for their 1995 debut album Frogstomp. It reached number-one on the charts in Australia, becoming their first of three number-one singles there.
The song was written by the group's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, as well as the group's drummer, Ben Gillies.
Warren Oates
Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American television program and movie actor. He acted mostly in movies. He was known for playing Lyle in the famous 1969 movie The Wild Bunch, and John Dillinger in the movie Dillinger. He was born in Kentucky, and later relocated to Los Angeles for acting reasons.
Oates died of a heart attack at age fifty-three. His final movie, Blue Thunder, was shot in 1980 but not released until 1983, one year after his death.
Washington, Missouri
Washington is a city in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
Joe Baltake
Joseph John Baltake Jr. (September 16, 1945 – March 26, 2020) was an American movie critic, movie historian, author of the movie blog The Passionate Moviegoer. His work has been seen on Knight-Ridder, Scripps Howard News Service, and the McClatchy wire services. Baltake was born in Camden, New Jersey.
Meteor burst communication
Meteor burst communication uses radio waves which bounce off the ionized trails made by meteors as they enter the earth’s atmosphere. It is also called Meteor scatter communication.
Meteors are lumps of rock which are floating about in space. There are always meteors which are entering the earth’s atmosphere. They normally burn up in the atmosphere. A few very large ones that hit the earth are called 'meteorites'. Most meteors are only tiny specks of dust. As they enter the atmosphere the heat made by air friction rips off electrons. This produces an ionized trail. This trail can reflect radio waves in the same way that a wire would.
The meteors that are used for meteor burst communication are between one thousandth and one hundredth of a gram. Meteors which are smaller than this are too weak to be used. Larger ones are not frequent enough.
The ionized trail can last for several seconds. During this time messages can be sent between two radio communication stations. The messages will be transmitted very fast: about 200 times as fast as with ordinary shortwave radio communication. A teletypewriter may type several lines of text during a meteor burst. The two stations that want to communicate will have to be ready all the time as they never know when the next burst of communication will come. They may have to use several meteor bursts before the whole message is received. The transmitters are often put on buoys in the sea.
Meteor burst communication was first widely used in the 1950s. It was particularly useful for military communications, because a receiver could not tell exactly which direction the message had come from. This was because the message was reflected on the way, so it did not travel in a straight line (i.e. in a simple great circle round the earth’s curve).
The use of communications satellites in the late 20th century has made meteor burst communication rare.
Fresco
Fresco is a way of painting pictures. A fresco is a kind of mural, a painting that is done on a wall. A wall painting is sometimes called a fresco by mistake. A true fresco is painted onto plaster that is fresh. The plaster has been laid on the wall that day and is still damp. The word fresco comes from the Italian for "fresh".
Ancient
Not all wall paintings are frescoes. In Ancient Egypt, for example, many of the wall paintings were done on dry plaster and are not true frescoes.
Many Ancient Roman wall paintings can be seen at Pompeii from the 1st century AD, but these are not true frescoes.
The Sigiriya Frescoes painted in Sigiriya in Sri Lanka around 485 AD use the "fresco lustro" technique which varies slightly from the pure fresco technique in that it also contains a mild binding agent. This gives the frescoes added durability as they have survived exposed for nearly 1500 years.
Medieval
There are many frescoes dating from the late Middle Ages, about 1000-1400 AD when, it was the fashion to paint the inside of churches with people and stories from the Bible. The order of the pictures was carefully planned by the artists and priests. Above the altar is usually seen a picture of Jesus Christ. On the west wall is often a frightening picture of The Last Judgement to remind people to turn to Jesus. Many frescoes like this can be seen in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Armenia, Romania and Russia. There are a few in Germany, France and Italy.
Renaissance
In Italy, around 1300 AD, the artist Giotto painted frescoes that were so full of life that people were amazed. Each picture was like looking onto a stage where real people told the story. This was the beginning of the period of art history called the Renaissance. Giotto's frescoes became so famous that he had many pupils and followers. Giotto's most famous frescoes are in the Arena Chapel in Padua. He also painted in the Church of St. Francis at Assisi and at Santa Croce (Church of the Holy Cross) in Florence.
A hundred years later, about 1400 AD, two artists called Masolino and Masaccio worked in the city of Florence, painting a chapel. Their names translate as "Little Tom" and "Fat Tom". Masaccio's way of painting was the biggest change since Giotto, in particular the two weeping naked figures of Adam and Eve. Everyone thought that Masaccio was one of the greatest painters alive. But he died at only 27 years old. These frescoes are in the Church of the Carmine, in Florence. In the 1400s many other artists in Italy were given the job of painting churches or chapels. They were paid by patrons, rich people who could afford an artist. The most important patron was the Pope. Pope Sixtus IV had built a new chapel in the Vatican in Rome. In 1481, he got some of the best artists in Italy to decorate the walls for him. See Sistine Chapel.
In 1508 the work continued in the Sistine Chapel when Pope Julius II made the great artist Michelangelo go to Rome to paint the ceiling. It took him four years, and he became sick from the strain and the smell. But when he had finished, he had painted one of the greatest artworks in the world. Then, 1537-1541, he painted the west wall of the same chapel with The Last Judgement
For the next 200 years, painted ceilings were in fashion. But artists soon discovered that it was easier to paint in oil on canvas and put it up on the ceiling than to paint on the ceiling in fresco. The fashion for fresco painting began to fade.
Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light
Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light was a live television programme, created by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It replaced the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was going to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The show was shown live from Hilversum, Netherlands on 16 May 2020 and lasted for two hours. It was hosted by Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit, who had been chosen to present the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 before its cancellation.
Format
During the programme, all 41 songs that had been chosen to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 were show but no one could vote. Participants from the past were invited to make an appearance. Together, the artists performed "Love Shine a Light" from their home countries. Videos of Eurovision fans singing along to "What's Another Year" by Johnny Logan, which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 in The Hague, were shown as well.
Venue
Hilversum was the host city and Studio 21 in Media Park was the venue of the show. It was the second time Hilversum hosted a Eurovision event, having previously hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1958.
Performances
The show featured performances from the following Eurovision artists:
Song showcase
The show also showcased the artists and songs that would've been performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, by showing short videos of the songs' music videos or stage performances, along with video messages from the artists themselves.
Broadcasters and commentators
The countries below broadcasted the live show:
Ray Batten
Raymond "Ray" Batten (23 September 1945 – 23 September 2020) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He was born in York, Yorkshire. He played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1980s.
He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Heworth ARLFC and Leeds. He coached at club level for Wakefield Trinity.
Batten died on his 75th birthday on 23 September 2020.
Bürchau
Bürchau is a village and a former municipality in Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it became part of the new municipality of Kleines Wiesental.
Council Tax
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It started in 1993 when Poll tax was stopped.
Every home is put into a band (A to H) in England and Scotland or (A to I) in Wales depending on the value of it. It is collected by the local authority. There is only one band for homes valued (in 1991) above £320,000 in England.
If only 1 person lives there they only have to pay 75% of the tax.
Some homes and some people do not have to pay.
Freak
"Freak" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released in January 1997 as a single, and was later released the next month on their second album, Freak Show. It reached number-one on the charts in Australia, becoming their second of three number-one singles there.
It was written by the group's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, as well as the group's drummer, Ben Gillies.
Calgary Flames
The Calgary Flames are an ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL). They began in 1972 in the city of Atlanta, and moved to Calgary in 1980. They won the Stanley Cup in 1989. They also made the Stanley Cup finals in 1986, losing to the Montreal Canadiens, and in 2004, losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning four games to three. The Flames won the Presidents' Trophy as regular season champion in 1988 and 1989.
The Flames play in the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is called the "Saddledome" because the roof is shaped like a saddle.
Some of the best players to play for the Flames include Al MacInnis, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player in the playoffs in 1989; Jarome Iginla, who won the Art Ross Trophy as top point scorer in 2001-02, as well as the Rocket Richard Trophy as top goal scorer in 2001-02 and 2003-04; Lanny MacDonald, who scored 500 career goals, mostly on Calgary; Gary Suter, who won the Calder Trophy as "rookie of the year" in 1985-86 and captained the team to their only Stanley Cup win; goaltender Mike Vernon; and forwards Joe Mullen, Joe Nieuwendyk, and Theoren Fleury.
Anzoátegui
Anzoátegui (Estado Anzoátegui, ), is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Anzoátegui is known for its beautiful beaches that attract many visitors. Its coast has only one beach. The beach is about 100 km long.
The capital of Anzoátegui is Barcelona. Other cities include Puerto la Cruz and El Tigre.
Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is a museum in Tokyo that shows visitors different ways of making buildings. It is part of the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It is in Tokyo near Koganei Park.
Many old buildings were moved to the museum. Most of them are from the Meiji Period, which was in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It has houses, a fire house, a tailor shop and a Japanese bathhouse.
Barinas
Barinas may refer to:
Concepción del Uruguay
Concepción del Uruguay is a city in Argentina. It is located in the Entre Ríos province. It is about 320 kilometers north from Buenos Aires. 80,000 people lived here in 2001.
Dirty Diana
"Dirty Diana" is a song by Michael Jackson. It was released as the fifth single from Bad April 18, 1988. It is about groupies. Steve Stevens plays guitar in it.
Rabia Basri
Rābia al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya (رابعة العدوية القيسية; 717 – 801 AD) was a female Muslim saint and Sufi mystic. She was born in Basra, and is therefore also called Rābia al-Basrī (رابعة البصري).
Haddonfield, New Jersey
Haddonfield is a borough located in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough had a total population of 11,593.
Rabia Basri
Rābia became an ascetic. Over time, many came to follow her. Even though Rābia did many favors for them and lived in poverty and hardship, she is said to have never asked for anything, even from God.
Pluto TV
Pluto TV is a video streaming service. It is owned and operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. The company was founded by Tom Ryan, Ilya Pozin and Nick Grouf in 2013. It is based in Los Angeles, California. Pluto provides its services in the United States, parts of the rest of the Americas and Europe. It offers programming in a way that is similar to traditional broadcast programming. The service earns money from advertisements seen during programming. These ads are seen in ad breaks similar to those on conventional television.
Straight Lines
"Straight Lines" is a song by the Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released on March 20, 2007 as a single, and ten days later it was released on their fifth and final album, titled Young Modern. It reached number-one on the charts in Australia, becoming their third and last number-one single there.
It was written by the group's lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns, as well as Australian musician Julian Hamilton. "Straight Lines" is one of only four Silverchair songs to feature a co-writing credit by a non-member, the other three also being songs from Young Modern co-written by Johns and Hamilton.
Spyware
Spyware is a category of software for computers. Spyware is malware that collects some data, usually without the computer users' knowledge. Very often, this data is then sent over the internet to someone else. Very often, this is used for marketing. Spyware can also be used to steal data from computers. One kind is a keylogger which can see whatever you are typing. Keyloggers can steal important information like passwords that you type.
The best protection is to get a program that protects against spyware. However, many websites that claim to have them are actually spyware, not something to protect against it. This method of installing spyware is called a Trojan horse which looks like a normal program, but when it runs, it collects information to use against you. Spyware tracks your computer and uses some of the things on it. This includes your files, your downloads, and usernames/passwords for websites and programs. With this, the trojan operator can log into your accounts.
There are spyware applications that are designed to enable users to spy on themselves rather than others. This is called myware. The term myware has mainly been applied to software applications in three areas: social networking, marketing and time tracking.
Kamba people
The Kamba (Akamba in the plural) are a Bantu ethnic group.
They live in the semi-arid Eastern Province of Kenya, from Nairobi east to Tsavo and north up to Embu, Kenya. This land is called Ukambani. They are one of the largest ethnic group in Kenya. They speak the Bantu Kikamba language as a mother tongue.
The Kamba mostly live in the Machakos District of Kenya. The total population of the Kamba is about 4 million. The Kamba are also called Kikamba, Kekamba, Masaku, Ukamba, Kitui and Mumoni.
Nat Turner
The Governor had scheduled about three thousand militiamen to stop the rebellion. The violent rebellion lasted two days until soldiers finally ended it, but Turner escaped. He hid for 6 weeks to avoid being killed. He was found on October 30. Turner was executed on November 11 by hanging. He was skinned. At least 55 white people were killed in the rebellion. The state executed 55 people, but acquitted a few. 200 black people were killed by groups of white people. Slaves as far away as North Carolina were said to be connected with the rebellion. Many were tried and executed. Because of the rebellion, new laws were made in Virginia. People could not bring black people together to teach them how to read and write. Nat Turner was an American Hero
Fin whale
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) is a huge baleen whale. It is the second largest animal on Earth (the blue whale is the biggest). This whale is sometimes called the "greyhound of the sea" because of its fast swimming speed; it can swim up to 23 mph (37 km/hr) in short bursts. The fin whale is also called the finback, finner, razorback, common rorqual, and herring whale.
Description
The fin whale is a streamlined whale that is found worldwide; it is most common in the North Atlantic. There are three separate populations of fin whales, one in the North Pacific, one in the North Atlantic, and one in the Southern Hemisphere; they do not interbreed. Many groups of fin whales migrate between feeding grounds and breeding grounds. This whale usually swims in pods of 3-7 whales but larger groups (up to 300 animals) may form at rich feeding grounds.
Diet and baleen
Fin whales are filter feeders that eat plankton (tiny crustaceans like krill and copepods) and small fish from the water. They have very fine grey-black baleen that traps very small particles of food. Each side of the upper jaw has 270-470 baleen plates.
Elbenschwand
Elbenschwand is a village and a former municipality in Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it became part of the new municipality of Kleines Wiesental.
Marshall County, Illinois
Marshall County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2020 census, 11,742 people lived there. The county seat is Lacon.
European Exchange Rate Mechanism
After the adoption of the euro, policy changed to linking currencies of EU countries outside the eurozone to the euro (having the common currency as a central point). The goal was to improve the stability of those currencies. As of 2020, three currencies participate in ERM II: the Danish krone, the Croatian kuna and the Bulgarian lev.
Exchange rate by countries
Sources: EC convergence reports 1996-2014, Italian lira, Spanish peseta, Portuguese escudo, Finish markka , Greek drachma, UK pound
Peter Schaefer
Peter Schaefer (born July 12, 1977 in Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger. He has played in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins. He is best known as a two-way forward.
Family
Peter has a younger brother, Nolan Schaefer, who is a goaltender in the Minnesota Wild organization, currently playing for the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League.
Tavern
A tavern, also known as a saloon or bar, is a place where alcoholic drinks (such as beer, wine, or spirits) are served. While the word "tavern" used to be common in England, in the 19th century the word began to be seen as old fashioned. The current term today in England is "pub" which comes from public house. However, taverns remain a popular part of fantasy stories and games. The term is still commonly used in the United States.
David H Gutmann
David Hillel Gutmann is an American neurologist. He lectures at Washington University in St. Louis.
Brenda Robertson
Brenda Mary Robertson, CM, ONB (May 23, 1929 – September 23, 2020) was a Canadian Conservative politician. She was a Senator from New Brunswick between 1984 and 2004. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and the first woman to become a cabinet minister in the province. She was born in Sussex, New Brunswick.
Robertson died on September 23, 2020 in Riverview, New Brunswick at the age of 91.
Juan Rodríguez Vega
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Vega (16 January 1944 – 1 September 2021) was a Chilean footballer. He played as a defender. He made 26 appearances for the Chile national team from 1968 until 1974. Rodríguez Vega was born in Santiago de Chile.
Rodríguez Vega died on 1 September 2021 in Santiago at the age of 77.
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Senators play their home games at the 20,652-seat Canadian Tire Centre, which opened in 1996.
The team was started by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone, the team is the second NHL franchise to use the Ottawa Senators name. The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1883, had a rich history, winning 11 Stanley Cups and playing in the NHL from 1917 until 1934. On December 6, 1990, after a two-year public campaign by Firestone, the NHL awarded a new franchise, which began play in the 1992–93 season. The current team owner is Eugene Melnyk, and in 2011, the club was valued by Forbes Magazine at $201 million.
The team has had success, qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs in twelve of the past fourteen seasons, four division titles, the Presidents' Trophy in 2003 and appeared in the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals. The success has been reflected in attendance. The club has averaged over 20,000 fans per game since 2005–06, peaking at 21,821 in 2007–08.
Head coaches
Statistics are accurate through the hiring of D.J. Smith.
General managers
Source: Ottawa Senators 2009–10 Media Guide, p. 206.
Season-by-season record
''This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by the Senators. For the full season-by-season history, see List of Ottawa Senators seasons''
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes
Team scoring leaders
These are the top-ten regular season point-scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed NHL regular season.
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game average;
Source: Ottawa Senators Media Guide
NHL awards and trophies
Prince of Wales Trophy
Presidents' Trophy
Calder Memorial Trophy
NHL Plus-Minus Award
Jack Adams Award James Norris Memorial Trophy
King Clancy Memorial Trophy
Mark Messier Leadership Award
Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
NHL Second All-Star Team
Team records
Source: Ottawa Senators.
References
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Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a cancer of white blood cells and bone marrow. When a person has leukemia, the body creates too many white blood cells (leukocytes).
There are many kinds of leukemia. Leukemia is part of a bigger group of diseases, the blood cancers (hematological neoplasms). Without treatment, leukemia may lead to death within weeks, months, or years. The life of the person depends upon the type of leukemia.
In 2000, about 256,000 children and adults around the world developed some form of leukemia, and 209,000 died from it. About 90% of all leukemias are seen in adults.
Oklahoma House of Representatives
The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house and larger body of the two houses of the Oklahoma Legislature, the other being the Oklahoma Senate.
Leukemia
Four major types of leukemia
Leukemia can be either acute or chronic. Acute leukemia usually grows quickly. Chronic leukemia grows slowly.
Cass City, Michigan
Cass City is a village in Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In 2010, 2,428 people lived there.
Leukemia
Four major types of leukemia
Leukemia can also affect two different types of white blood cells. These are lymphoid cells and young granulocyte cells (which are called myelocytes).
For this reason, all of the different forms of leukemia are divided into four main types:
Causes and risk factors
The causes of most types of leukemia are not known. In general, all cancers have a breakdown in the normal way cell division is controlled. Most likely, the different kinds of leukemias have different causes. The known causes account for relatively few cases. Most of the causes are outside our control.
Viruses that are believed to cause leukemia include:
Fanconi anemia is also a risk factor for developing acute myelogenous leukemia.
Leukemia inhibitory factor
Leukemia inhibitory factor, or LIF, is an interleukin 6 class cytokin. It affects cell growth by inhibiting differentiation. When LIF levels drop, the cells differentiate.
James Skinner (East India Company officer)
James Skinner CB (1778 – December 4, 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer in India.
Skinner was born in India, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hercules Skinner and a Jat lady. Because of his Indian heritage, Skinner was unable to serve as an officer in the East India Company army and, at the age of eighteen, he entered the Mahratta army under Benoît de Boigne, where he soon showed military talent. He remained in the same service under Pierre Cuillier-Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the second Anglo-Maratha War all Anglo-Indians were dismissed from Mahratta service.
Lamar Hunt Jr.
Lamar Hunt Jr. (born October 20, 1956) is owner of a North American ECHL professional hockey team. He purchased sole ownership of the Missouri Mavericks in January 2015. He later changed their name to the Kansas City Mavericks in June 2017. Team ownership is part of his family legacy as he is also the son of Lamar Hunt, who founded the American Football League and the Kansas City Chiefs NFL team. Recently Forbes named the Hunt family #16 on Americans richest families list, worth $13.7 Billion dollars.
Hunt graduated from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1979. Then he played flute for the Kansas City Symphony for nine seasons. Today he serves on the board of the Kansas City Symphony.
As a founder of Loretto Companies, Lamar Hunt Jr. has distinct ventures in real estate, sports, and his charitable giving. Under Loretto Commercial, Hunt Jr. works to develop commercial projects that thrive and are sustainable in order to add to the quality of life in Kansas City. The Loretto Foundation helps to build strong families and encourage spiritual growth by focusing on Catholic schools and charities in the Kansas City area. Loretto Sports Ventures is closely tied to hockey with his overall goal of growing the youth game of ice hockey by bringing the highest level of youth hockey to the Kansas City metro.
Make Believe (Toto song)
"Make Believe" is a 1982 song by American rock band Toto and is the second single from their fourth studio album Toto IV. It went to number 30 in the United States.
Sperm
Sperm are the male reproductive cells. Most animals and plants use sperm to reproduce. They have different ways of making and releasing the sperm. In all cases the sperm meets with the egg of the female and grow into a new organism.
The name sperm is taken from the Greek word sperma meaning seed.
An animal sperm cell is capable of movement, as it has to get to the uterus to meet with the ovum. Animal sperm cells (including humans) have small 'head' and a long tail called a flagellum. The flagellum acts like a motor to propel the sperm cell through the female reproductive system.
In humans
Human sperm is made in the testicles of a man. Human sperm contains 23 chromosomes. A human needs 46 chromosomes, so a sperm cell is called a haploid as it only has half. The other half is contained within the ovum or egg of a female. During sex, semen is shot out of the man's penis during ejaculation. Semen carries the sperm into the woman's vagina and down to the ovum in the uterus. During ejaculation millions of sperm cells are released, but only one hundred or so reach the egg. The egg can merge with one sperm cell that reaches it. Because it now has 46 chromosomes, it is called a diploid, like ordinary cells of the body. This diploid is called a zygote, and it can grow into a fetus and eventually a baby.
In plants
Some plants such as ferns and mosses have sperm that move. Flowering plant sperm cells cannot move by themselves. The flowering plant sperm cells are contained within pollen grains. Thus, they rely on transportation to take their sperm cells to other plants. For example, a bee lands on a plant to collect the nectar. Some pollen will get stuck to the bee. The bee moves on to another plant and the pollen falls onto that plant. The sperm is moved down a pollen tube until it reaches the ovule at the bottom of the flower.
Moelfre, Anglesey
Moelfre is a village, a community and until 2012 an electoral ward on the north-east coast of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.
The 2011 census measured the village population as 710.
Robert Curtis Clark
Robert Curtis "Bob" Clark (July 2, 1937 – July 10, 2020) was a Canadian teacher, civil servant and politician. He was in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1960 to 1981. He was Leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party and Leader of the Official Opposition. He was born in Acme, Alberta.
Clark died on July 10, 2020 in Calgary, aged 83.
Neuenweg
Neuenweg is a village and a former municipality in Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it became part of the new municipality of Kleines Wiesental.
LA Knight
LA Knight is a professional WWE wrestler on the Smackdown! brand television show. He has currently been feuding with Bray Wyatt.
Massac County, Illinois
Massac County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2020 census, 14,169 people lived there. The county seat is Metropolis.
John O'Dowd
John Fitzgerald O'Dowd (born 10 May 1967) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He has been the Minister for Infrastructure since 16 May 2022 and the Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann since 2003. He was the Minister for Education from 2011 to 2016. He was the deputy First Minister in 2011 for a short time.
Mason County, Illinois
Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 13,086. Its county seat is Havana. Mason County was created in 1841 and named for George Mason.
Douglas Wilmer
Douglas Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016 ) was an English actor. He was best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series. He also appeared in Jason and the Argonauts, the Pink Panther movies A Shot in the Dark (1964) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), The Vampire Lovers (1970), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), and Octopussy (1983).
On 31 March 2016, it was reported by Roger Moore by social media that Wilmer had died at the age of 96.
O-Town
O-Town (also known as OTWN/OTOWN) is an American boy band formed from the first season of the reality television series Making the Band in 2000. As of 2015 the group consisted of Erik-Michael Estrada, Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood, and Dan Miller. The line up also included Ashley Parker Angel. Ikaika Kahoano was originally part of the band but was replaced by Miller after dropping out of the group.
Steam bath
A steam bath, steam room, or sweat bath is a way human beings wash themselves. Many gyms and health spas have steam rooms. Some steam baths, for example the Native American sweat lodge and Russian banya, are also about cleaning the spirit.