Spaulding is a census-designated place in Lassen County, California. It is 1,566 meters above sea level, near Eagle Lake. At the 2010 census, 178 people lived there. The town has a small airport.
Masherbrum
Masherbrum is a mountain in the Karakoram range, in Pakistan. It was also once known as K1. It is the 22nd highest mountain in the world. The first people to reach the top of Masherbrum were George Irving Bell and Willi Unsoeld, in 1960.
Gasherbrum I
Gasherbrum I is a mountain in the Karakoram range, in China and Pakistan. It is also known as K5 and Hidden Peak. It is the 11th highest mountain in the world. The first people to reach the top were Pete Schoening and Andy Kauffman in 1958.
Batura Sar
Batura Sar is a mountain in the Karakoram range, in Pakistan. It is the 25th highest mountain in the world. The first people to reach the top were Hubert Bleicher and Herbert Oberhofer in 1976.
Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She has won many awards.
Walton was born in Aberdare, in the Cynon Valley of Wales. She went to Park School in Aberdare, then Aberdare Girls' Grammar School. She lived for a year in Cardiff and went to Howell's School Llandaff. She finished her education at Oswestry School in Shropshire, and at the University of Lancaster. She lived in London for two years. Then she lived in Lancaster until 1997. She moved to Swansea, where she lived until moving to Canada in 2002.
Walton speaks Welsh.
Walton has been writing since she was 13. Her first novel was published in 2000. Before that, she had been published in a number of role-playing game publications, such as "Pyramid". She often wrote with her husband at the time, Ken Walton. Walton was also active in online science fiction fandom, especially in the Usenet groups "rec.arts.sf.written" and "rec.arts.sf.fandom". Her poem "The Lurkers Support Me in E-Mail" is widely quoted on it and in other online arguments, often without her name attached.
Her first three novels, "The King's Peace" (2000), "The King's Name" (2001), and "The Prize in the Game" (2002) were all fantasy. They happen in a world based on Arthurian Britain and the Táin Bó Cúailnge's Ireland. Her next novel, "Tooth and Claw" (2003) was about dragons, but in the style of Anthony Trollope.
"Farthing" was her first science fiction novel. It was a mystery and an alternate history in which the United Kingdom made peace with Adolf Hitler before the United States entered World War II. It was nominated for a Nebula Award, a Quill Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. A sequel, "Ha'penny", was published in October 2007 by Tor Books, with the final book in the trilogy, "Half a Crown," published in September 2008. "Ha'penny" won the 2008 Prometheus Award (jointly with Harry Turtledove's novel "The Gladiator") and has been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.
In April 2007, Howard V. Hendrix stated that professional writers should never release their writings online for free. He claimed doing this made the writer a scab. Walton responded to this by declaring 23 April as International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Writers who disagreed with Hendrix could release their stories online all at once. In 2008 Walton celebrated this day by posting several chapters of an unfinished sequel to "Tooth and Claw" called "Those Who Favor Fire."
In 2008, Walton began writing a column for Tor.com, mostly reviews of older books.
Walton moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after her first novel was published. She is married to Dr. Emmet A. O'Brien. She has one child. Her son, Alexander, was born in 1990.
She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel "Tooth and Claw" in 2004. Her novel "Ha'penny" was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel "Lifelode" won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her novel "Among Others" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.
Murray Thomson
Murray McCheyne Thomson (December 19, 1922 − May 2, 2019) was a Canadian peace activist. He was known as a founder of many non-profit organizations in Canada, including Peace Brigades International and Project Ploughshares. He was awarded in 1990 with the Pearson Medal of Peace. In 2001, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was born in Taokow, Honan, China where his parents were Christian missionaries. He was a Quaker.
Thomson died in Ottawa, Ontario on May 2, 2019. He was 96.
Aeroflot Flight 1492
Aeroflot Flight 1492 was a regular passenger flight operated by Aeroflot. The Russian passenger flight was meant to fly from Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow to Murmansk Airport, Murmansk. On 5 May 2019, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft used for the flight returned to Sheremetyevo shortly after take-off. The plane was reported to have veered off the runway and caught fire. Of the 78 people on board, including five crew, 41 people died in the crash.
Carmel, New York
Carmel is a town in Putnam County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 34,305.
Scarsdale, New York
Scarsdale is a town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 17,166.
Brett Halsey
Brett Halsey (born Charles Oliver Hand; June 20, 1933) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in European-made B-movies beginning in the 1960s. He was credited as as Montgomery Ford in some movies. He starred in movies such as "High School Hellcats" (1958), "Return of the Fly" (1959), "Jet Over the Atlantic" (1959), "The Best of Everything" (1959), "Return to Peyton Place" (1961) and "Twice-Told Tales" (1963), "The Avenger of Venice" (1964), "Espionage in Lisbon" (1965), "Kill Johnny Ringo" (1966), "Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!" (1968), "All on the Red" (1968), "Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven" (1969), "Roy Colt and Winchester Jack" (1970) and "The Godfather Part III" (1990). He also appeared in the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" and TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard". In 1961, Halsey won the Golden Globe Award for "New Star of the Year".
Halsey was born in Santa Ana, California. He is a great-nephew of William Halsey Jr., a U.S. Navy admirable. He has been married four times, including to Italian actress Luciana Paluzzi. He has three children.
Cytoplasmic streaming
Cytoplasmic streaming is where there is flow inside the cytoplasm. It is sometimes called protoplasmic streaming or cyclosis.
Streaming is often seen in large plant and animal cells. Cytoplasm moves inside the cells. The flow is driven by forces in the cytoskeleton. The function of the flow is probably to speed up transport of molecules and organelles around the cell. Cytoplasmic streaming is usually found in large cells, larger than about 0.1 mm. In smaller cells diffusion of molecules is rapid, but it slows as the cell size increases. Larger cells need flow to move nutrients inside them rapidly enough for efficient working.
British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) promotes science. It was founded in 1831. Until 2009 it was known as the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). It is a charity.
The British Science Association's mission is to get more people engaged in science. It does this by organising projects.