Ouachita Parish () is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its parish seat is Monroe. It was created in 1807 by the state government. As of the 2010 census, 253,720 people lived there.
West Richland, Washington
West Richland is a city in Benton County, Washington, United States.
West Monroe, Louisiana
West Monroe is the second-largest city in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Hammond, Louisiana
Hammond is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, is a common sight in Hammond. The old station is still in use and is located right in the middle of downtown.
Part of Hammond's success is due to its location at the junction of two heavily travelled interstate highways:
Two U.S. Highways serve the city:
State highways serving the area include:
Crowley, Louisiana
Crowley is the parish seat of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Nicola Pfund
Nicola Pfund, (born November 7, 1960 in Sorengo) is a Swiss Italian writer, blogger and journalist.
He comes from Canton Schaffhausen, but he was born in Sorengo (Canton Ticino). After studying at a teacher-training college, he got a diploma as librarian-documentalist and later as General Culture teacher. Currently he teaches at a vocational school and he writes for some newspapers as a sports journalist (member sportpress.ch and AIPS). He is the author of several books in the historical, educational, sports and travel fields. In particular, his tales about cycling trips in Switzerland and over the Alpine passes are well known and they sometimes offer new and original information about the country.
In 2012, he created a sports blog (triathlon, ecology and ethics in sports) that rapidly became one of the most visited in the Italian language area. Enough to be selected among the seven biggest bloggers of Switzerland involved in a new project of the blogosphere, for the circulation of information concerning the “Energy Strategy 2050” of Switzerland.
Hesperides
The Hesperides () are nymphs in Greek mythology. They look after a peaceful garden in the far west of the world. The garden is located near Cyrene (or Benghazi) in Libya or the Atlas Mountains further west. In the Ancient Greek view of the world, this is at the edge of Oceanus, the world-ocean. The nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.
Stochastic process
A Stochastic process is a mathematical description of random events that occur one after another. It is possible to order these events according to the time at which they occur.
This can be used to model such things as stock market and exchange rate changes, or medical information like a patient's EKG, EEG, blood pressure or temperature.
Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky is a 'nonsense poem' written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel "Through the Looking-Glass". All the same, it does strangely make a kind of sense.
In an early scene Alice in wonderland finds the verse "Jabberwocky". She says (p24)
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideasonly I don't exactly know what they are".
This is now thought to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given us nonsense words portmanteau words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".
The concept of nonsense verse was not original to Carroll. Nonsense existed in Shakespeare's work and was well known in the Brothers Grimm's fairytales, some of which are called lying tales or "lügenmärchen".
John Tenniel reluctantly agreed to illustrate the book in 1871, and his illustrations are still the defining images of the poem.
The illustration of the Jabberwock may reflect the Victorian obsession with natural history and the fast-evolving sciences of palaeontology and geology. The works of Darwin and the models of dinosaurs at the Crystal Palace Exhibition helped feed the interest. Perhaps it is not so surprising that Tenniel gave the Jabberwock "the leathery wings of a pterodactyl and the long rough neck and tail of a sauropod".
Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the Manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Many of the words in the poem are playful words of Carroll's own invention, without special meaning. When Alice has finished reading the poem she gives her impressions:
'It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's rather hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate'
In "Through the Looking Glass", the character of Humpty Dumpty explains to her the nonsense words from the first stanza of the poem. However, Carroll's personal commentary on several of the words differ from Humpty's. An analysis of the poem and Carroll's commentary is given in the book "The Annotated Alice" by Martin Gardner.
Rupert Sheldrake
Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author. From 1967 to 1973 he was a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University., Then he went to work in India from 1974 to 1978. His first book, "A New Science of Life", was published in 1981. It is about his a theory called "morphic resonance". He gave a TEDx talk in 2013 on his book "The Science Delusion" that was banned. In 2009 Adam Rutherford, the deputy editor of a scientific journal called "Nature", wrote in the Guardian about him and his book "A New Science of Life". He said "don't read this book, it will make you stupider". He is an Anglican. He is married to Jill Purce.
Ridgeway, Minnesota
Ridgeway is an unincorporated community (Class Code U6) in Winona County, Minnesota. It is at latitude 43.912 and longitude -91.56 (Ridgeway Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 1,342 feet. Ridgeway is on the Witoka U.S. Geological Survey Map.
City-Haus
City-Haus is a skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. It has 42 stories, and is tall. It was built from 1971 to 1974 and designed by architects Johannes Krahn and Richard Heil. Today it is part of the headquarters of DZ Bank.
Deutsche Bank Twin Towers
The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers (also called Deutsche Bank Headquarters; or '), are a pair of skyscrapers in Frankfurt, Germany. It is located in the city's Westend-Süd district. The two towers are the same design ("twin towers"). They are tall. They serve as the headquarters for the Deutsche Bank. This is the largest bank in Germany. The twin towers are also sometimes nicknamed debit and credit (German: '), which are two aspects of every financial transaction.
Ship of the line
A Ship of the line was a kind of warship. Most ships of the line were built between the 17th and 19th century. At that time, battles were fought by many such ships, which sailed in a line. At first, such ships were sailing boats, but from about the 1840s, steam-driven ships of the line were built. The steam-powered ships of the line were still made of wood. From about 1859, the Ironclad warship replaced them.