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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello%20Conversi

Marcello Conversi

Marcello Conversi (August 25, 1917 – September 22, 1988) was an Italian particle physicist. He is best known for his 1946 cosmic ray experiment where he showed that the "mesotron", now known as the muon, was not a strongly interacting particle. Conversi studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Rome, and received his doctorate in 1940, doing his thesis under Bruno Ferretti. During World War II, Conversi remained in Italy, doing research and teaching at the University of Rome. Together with Oreste Piccioni and Ettore Pancini he conducted the experiment that Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize laureate of 1968, called the "start of modern particle physics" in his Nobel lecture. In 1946, they showed that the "mesotron", now known as the muon, which had been discovered in 1937 by Seth Neddermeyer and Carl David Anderson, was not the particle predicted by Hideki Yukawa as mediator of the strong force. If the "mesotron", a cosmic ray particle of negative charge, was indeed the meson postulated by Yukawa, it should be captured without decaying. Conversi, Piccioni and Pancini moved their experiment to a high school to avoid air raids. In their experimental setup negative and positive particles were separated by large pieces of iron on the roof of the high school. The negative particles were absorbed in matter. After switching from iron to graphene absorbers, the 1946 experiment dramatically showed that the negatively charged component of cosmic rays decayed radioactive rather than being captured by the graphite. From 1947 to 1946 Conversi held a position as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, before he returned to Italy as a Professor of Experimental Physics and Director of the Physics Institute at the University of Pisa. During his time in Pisa, he founded the Centro Studi Calcolatrici Elettroniche (CSCE), where the first Italian computer was built. For this work he received the gold medal of the President of Italy in 1961. He also developed a new track detector, known as the flash chamber — a precursor to the spark chamber — which went on to become the standard tool in particle and cosmic ray physics. In 1958 he returned to the University of Rome, as a Professor of Advanced Physics. He had two appointments as director of the institute, one from 1960 to 1962 and the second from 1964 to 1966. His influential school, from 1950 at Pisa and from 1958 at Rome, produced many famous Italian particle physicists, such as Marcello Creti, Carlo Rubbia and Luigi Di Lella. From 1962 to 1964, and again from 1975 to 1977, Conversi was affiliated CERN. At CERN, Conversi was a member of the Scientific Committee from 1969 to 1975, becoming its vice-president. From 1959, he participated in a series of quests at the Synchro-Cyclotron (CERN) for “forbidden” processes in weak interaction. When the new Super Proton Synchrotron began its operation in 1976 he played a prominent role in searches for short-lived particles using a stack of nuclear emulsion coupled to the BEBC bubble chamber. Conversi was vice president of Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics from 1967 to 1970. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society since 1950 and a member of the Italian science academy. References External links List of publications 1917 births 1988 deaths People associated with CERN Experimental physicists 20th-century Italian physicists Particle physicists University of Pisa alumni Sapienza University of Rome alumni People from Tivoli, Lazio

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie%20van%20Nee

Hennie van Nee

Hendrik van Nee (13 August 1939 — 25 January 1996) was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward from 1957 to 1971. Born in Zwolle, he played for Zwolsche Boys, Heracles Almelo (two spells), PEC Zwolle, GVAV, Kickers Offenbach, La Gantoise (now K.A.A. Gent), Cercle Brugge and Haarlem. Van Nee earned five caps and scored twice for the Netherlands at international level. He made his debut on 30 September 1964, in a 1–0 loss away to Belgium in the Low Countries derby. He scored in both games he played of the Dutch team's failed 1966 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign: a 2–0 win away to Albania on 25 October 1964 and a 2–1 loss away to Northern Ireland the following 17 March. References 1939 births 1996 deaths Sportspeople from Zwolle Association football forwards Dutch footballers Netherlands international footballers Heracles Almelo players PEC Zwolle players GVAV players Kickers Offenbach players K.A.A. Gent players Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players HFC Haarlem players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Tweede Divisie players Regionalliga players Belgian First Division A players Belgian First Division B players Dutch expatriate footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Germany Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Germany German footballers needing infoboxes

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Department%20of%20Energy%20national%20laboratories

United States Department of Energy national laboratories

The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers are a system of facilities and laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for scientific and technological research. Sixteen of the seventeen DOE national laboratories are federally funded research and development centers administered, managed, operated and staffed by private-sector organizations under management and operating (M&O) contract with DOE (with the National Energy Technology Laboratory being the exception). History The system of centralized national laboratories grew out of the massive scientific endeavors of World War II, in which new technologies such as radar, the computer, the proximity fuse, and the atomic bomb proved decisive for the Allied victory. Though the United States government had begun seriously investing in scientific research for national security in World War I, it was only in late 1930s and 1940s that monumental amounts of resources were committed or coordinated to wartime scientific problems, under the auspices first of the National Defense Research Committee, and later the Office of Scientific Research and Development, organized and administered by the MIT engineer Vannevar Bush. During the Second World War, centralized sites such as the Radiation Laboratory at MIT and Ernest O. Lawrence's laboratory at Berkeley and the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago allowed for a large number of expert scientists to collaborate towards defined goals as never before, and with virtually unlimited government resources at their disposal. In the course of the war, the Allied nuclear effort, the Manhattan Project, created several secret sites for the purpose of bomb research and material development, including a laboratory in the mountains of New Mexico directed by Robert Oppenheimer (Los Alamos), and sites at Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Hanford and Oak Ridge were administered by private companies, and Los Alamos was administered by a public university (the University of California). Additional success was had at the University of Chicago in reactor research, leading to the creation of Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, and at other academic institutions spread across the country. After the war and its scientific successes, the newly created Atomic Energy Commission took over the future of the wartime laboratories, extending their lives indefinitely (they were originally thought of as temporary creations). Funding and infrastructure were secured to sponsor other "national laboratories" for both classified and basic research, especially in physics, with each national laboratory centered around one or many expensive machines (such as particle accelerators or nuclear reactors). Most national laboratories maintained staffs of local researchers as well as allowing for visiting researchers to use their equipment, though priority to local or visiting researchers often varied from lab to lab. With their centralization of resources (both monetary and intellectual), the national labs serve as an exemplar for Big Science. Elements of both competition and cooperation were encouraged in the laboratories. Often two laboratories with similar missions were created (such as Lawrence Livermore which was designed to compete with Los Alamos) with the hope that competition over funding would create a culture of high quality work. Laboratories which did not have overlapping missions would cooperate with each other (for example, Lawrence Livermore would cooperate with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which itself was often in competition with Brookhaven National Laboratory). The idea of regional laboratories to work with local universities for nuclear development originated with Arthur Compton and Charles Allen Thomas, though Leslie Groves later claimed the idea as his own. The national laboratory system, administered first by the Atomic Energy Commission, then the Energy Research and Development Administration, and currently the Department of Energy, is one of the largest (if not the largest) scientific research systems in the world. The DOE provides about a third of the total national funding for physics, chemistry, materials science, and other areas of the physical sciences. Many are locally managed by private companies, while others are managed by academic universities, and as a system they form one of the overarching and far-reaching components in what is known as the "iron triangle" of military, academia, and industry. The National Labs can work directly with private industry through Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) agreements. List National Laboratories The United States Department of Energy currently operates seventeen national laboratories which fall under six of the department's divisions: Technology Centers Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory* at West Mifflin (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania (1949) Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory* at Niskayuna, New York (1946) In addition Knolls operates the Kenneth A. Kesselring site at West Milton, New York New Brunswick Laboratory**, at Argonne National Laboratory Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education* at Oak Ridge, Tennessee Radiological and Environmental Sciences Laboratory** Savannah River Ecology Laboratory* * GOCO (Government-owned, Contractor-operated) ** GOGO (Government-owned, Government-operated) List of scientific user facilities Accelerator Test Facility Advanced Light Source Advanced Photon Source Alcator C-Mod Argonne Leadership Computing Facility: IBM Mira Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System Atmospheric Radiation Measurement B-Factory Bates Linear Accelerator Center Booster Neutrino Center for Functional Nanomaterials Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Center for Microanalysis of Materials Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Center for Nanoscale Materials Combustion Research Facility Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility DIII-D Tokamak Facility Electron Microscopy Center for Materials Research Energy Sciences Network Energy Systems Integration Facility Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Final Focus Test Beam Free Air CO2 Experiment High Flux Isotope Reactor Center for Neutron Scattering Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility James R. Macdonald Laboratory Joint Genome Institute Linac Coherent Light Source Main Injector Laboratory for Laser Energetics Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center Materials Preparation Center Molecular Foundry National Center for Electron Microscopy National High Magnetic Field Laboratory National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Ignition Facility National Spherical Torus Experiment National Synchrotron Light Source National Transportation Research Center Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator Neutrinos at the Main Injector Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory Pulse Radiolysis Facility Radiochemical Engineering Development Center Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Shared Research Equipment Program Spallation Neutron Source Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Structural Biology Center Synchrotron Radiation Center Tevatron collider Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory University of Washington Tandem Van de Graaff Yale University Tandem Van de Graaff In popular culture In the Netflix web series Stranger Things, a fictional laboratory called Hawkins National Laboratory run by the DOE is located in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. The laboratory is later shut down after it is revealed that a portal to another dimension called the "Upside Down" is opened and inhumane experiments are performed on children to turn them into weapons against the USSR. In the AMC show Breaking Bad, Walter White works for Sandia National Laboratories prior to Season One. See also University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System References Further reading Westwick, Peter J. (2003). The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947–1974. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. . External links Energy.gov: Department of Energy National Laboratories website Science.energy.gov: U.S. Department of Energy; Ten-Year Plans for the Office of Science's National Laboratories Energy.gov: DOE Budget Page, with link to National Laboratories budgets DOE national lab Energy research institutes Department of Energy laboratories Laboratories Department of Energy National Laboratories National Laboratories Department of Energy National Laboratories National Laboratories

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Ark

Russian Ark

Russian Ark (, Russkij Kovcheg) is a 2002 experimental historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. In Russian Ark, an unnamed narrator wanders through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, and implies that he died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through the palace. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various periods in the city's 300-year history. He is accompanied by "the European", who represents the Marquis de Custine, a 19th-century French traveler. The film was recorded entirely in the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum on 23 December 2001 using a one-take single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. Russian Ark uses the fourth wall device extensively, but repeatedly broken and re-erected. At times the narrator and the companion interact with the other performers, whilst at other times they pass unnoticed. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Plot On a winter's day, a small party of men and women arrive by horse-drawn carriage to a minor, side entrance of the Winter Palace, dressed in the style of the early 19th century to attend a ball hosted by the Emperor Alexander I. The narrator (whose point of view is always in first-person) meets another spectral but visible outsider, "the European", and follows him through numerous rooms of the palace. "The European", a 19th-century French diplomat who appears to be the Marquis de Custine, has nothing but contempt for Russians; he tells the narrator that they are unable to create or appreciate beauty as Europeans do, as demonstrated by the European treasures around him. Each room manifests a different period of Russian history, although the periods are not in chronological order. Featured are Peter the Great harassing and striking one of his generals; a spectacular presentation of operas and plays in the era of Catherine the Great; an imperial audience in which Tsar Nicholas I is offered a formal apology by the Shah of Iran for the death of ambassador Alexander Griboyedov in 1829; the idyllic family life of Tsar Nicholas II's children; the ceremonial changing of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; people touring the palace in the present; the museum's director whispering the need to make repairs during the rule of Joseph Stalin; and a desperate Leningrader making his own coffin during the 900-day siege of the city during World War II. A grand ball follows, held in the Nicholas Hall, with many of the participants in spectacular period costume and a full orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev featuring music by Mikhail Glinka, then a long final exit with a crowd down the grand staircase. The European tells the narrator that he belongs here, in the world of 1913 where everything is still beautiful and elegant, and does not want to go any further. The narrator then walks backwards out the hallway and sees many people from different time periods exiting the building together. As he watches them, the narrator quietly departs the procession, leaves the building through a side door and looks out upon the River Neva. Cast Alexander Sokurov as Narrator Sergei Dontsov (Sergey Dreyden) as the European (Marquis de Custine) Mariya Kuznetsova as Catherine the Great Marksim Sergeyev as Peter the Great Anna Aleksakhina as Alexandra Feodorovna Vladimir Baranov as Nicholas II Production The film displays 33 rooms of the museum, which are filled with a cast of over 2,000 actors and three orchestras. Russian Ark was recorded in uncompressed high-definition video using a Sony HDW-F900 camera. The information was not recorded compressed to tape as usual, but uncompressed onto a hard disk which could hold 100 minutes which was carried behind the cameraman as he traveled from room to room, scene to scene. According to In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, the documentary on the making of the film, four attempts were made. The first failed at the five-minute mark. After two more failed attempts, they were left with only enough battery power for one final take. The four hours of daylight available were also nearly gone. Fortunately, the final take was a success and the film was completed at 90 minutes. Tilman Büttner, the director of photography and Steadicam operator, executed the shot on 23 December 2001. In a 2002 interview, Büttner said that film sound was recorded separately. "Every time I did the take, or someone else made a mistake, I would curse, and that would have gotten in, so we did the sound later." Lighting directors of photography on the film were Bernd Fischer and Anatoli Radionov. The director later rejected Büttner's nomination for a European Film Academy award, believing that only the whole film should gain an award. Post-production In post-production the uncompressed HD 87-minute one-shot could be reworked in detail: besides many object removals (mainly cables and other film equipment), compositings (e.g. additional snow or fog), stabilisations, selective colour-corrections and digitally added focus changes, the whole film was continuously and dynamically reframed (resized) and for certain moments even time-warped (slowed down and sped up). This work took several weeks and was mainly executed by editor Patrick Wilfert under supervision of lead editor Sergei Ivanov on Discreet Logic's Inferno system. Avoiding any playouts and using framestore to framestore transfers only, the picture was left uncompressed, before being reprinted onto filmstock for theatrical distribution. Background The narrator's guide, "the European", is based on the book by the French aristocrat Marquis de Custine, who visited Russia in 1839 and wrote La Russie en 1839, in which he depicted Russia in extremely unflattering terms. A few biographical elements from Custine's life are shown in the film. Like the European, the Marquis' mother was friends with the Italian sculptor Canova and he himself was very religious. Custine's book mocks Russian civilization as a thin veneer of Europe on an Asiatic soul. For Custine, Europe was "civilization" while Asia was "barbarism", and his placing of Russia as a part of Asia rather than Europe was meant to deny that Russians had any sort of civilization worthy of the name. Echoing this sentiment, the film's European comments that Russia is a theater and that the people he meets are actors. The Marquis's family fortune came from a porcelain works, hence the European's interest in the Sèvres porcelain waiting for the diplomatic reception. At the end of the film, which depicts the last imperial ball in 1913, the European appears to accept Russia as a European nation. In One Breath, a documentary about the making of Russian Ark, written and directed by Knut Elstermann, gives more insight into the single long shot tracking techniques and formidable organization behind the making of the film. Reception Box office The film was not a huge commercial success, though as an arthouse film it performed strongly in many territories. These include the UK, Japan, Korea, Argentina, and especially the US, where the film remains one of the most successful of both German and Russian movies of recent decades. Russian Ark is a German-Russian co-production. The film grossed $3,048,997 in the United States and Canada, with $5,641,171 internationally, for a worldwide total of $8,690,168. Critical response Russian Ark received high critical acclaim. Roger Ebert wrote, "Apart from anything else, this is one of the best-sustained ideas I have ever seen on the screen.... [T]he effect of the unbroken flow of images (experimented with in the past by directors like Hitchcock and Max Ophüls) is uncanny. If cinema is sometimes dreamlike, then every edit is an awakening. Russian Ark spins a daydream made of centuries." Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 105 reviews, with an average rating of 7.88/10. The consensus review summary reads, "As successful as it is ambitious, Russian Ark condenses three centuries of Russian history into a single, uninterrupted, 87-minute take." On Metacritic, which uses an average of critics' reviews, the film has an 86/100 rating based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Slant Magazine ranked the film 84th in its list of the best films of the 2000s. In a critics' and readers' poll by Empire magazine, it was voted the 358th greatest film of all time. Awards Russian Ark received the Visions Award at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, a Special Citation at the 2003 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards and the 2004 Silver Condor Award for Best Foreign Film from the Argentine Film Critics Association; it was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Hugo at the 2002 Chicago International Film Festival and the 2004 Nika Award for Best Film. In addition, Alexander Sokurov was named Best Director at Fancine in 2003 and was nominated for the 2002 European Film Award for Best Director. Cinematographer Tilman Büttner was also nominated for various awards for his work on the film, including a European Film Award and a German Camera Award. References External links 2000s avant-garde and experimental films 2000s fantasy films 2000s historical films 2002 films 2002 drama films 2000s ghost films Films set in 1829 Films set in 1913 Cultural depictions of Catherine the Great Cultural depictions of Nicholas II of Russia Cultural depictions of Peter the Great Cultural depictions of Nicholas I of Russia Films directed by Alexander Sokurov Films set in museums Films set in Saint Petersburg Films shot from the first-person perspective German films Historical fantasy films One-shot films Persian-language films Russian films Russian historical films Russian-language films

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20Fodder

Canon Fodder

Canon Fodder is a 2000 AD series created by Mark Millar and Chris Weston. It features the adventures of the eponymous character Canon Fodder, the sole survivor of the Priest Patrol, a bizarre cross between the police and the church who patrol the streets of a future London after Judgment Day has caused the dead to rise, and society to breakdown. Publication history Canon Fodder first appeared in 1993, with a sequel written by Nigel Long (as "Kek-W") in 1995. A dispute between Fleetway and Mark Millar regarding ownership of the character prevented further development. Millar had stopped working for 2000 AD by the time the second series was created and objected to the series being continued in his absence. Artist Chris Weston has since said that he only agreed to illustrate the second series because he thought the character was the property of 2000 AD. 2000 AD 's editor, David Bishop, shelved plans to continue the series to avoid offending Millar. Cast Canon Fodder: The last surviving member of the Priest Patrol; the other members were Deacon Blue, Father O'Blivion, and Cardinal Syn. He was a judge at a beauty pageant the day his comrades were horribly killed. Canon usually tries to conduct himself in a calm authoritative manner but when annoyed can be quite sarcastic and impatient. Canon is firmly grounded in his belief in God; he is a skilled fighter and can be very insightful. Canon has no patience for sinners and issues harsh punishments to even those who confess voluntarily. Sadie: Canon's housekeeper. Although she has feelings of love for him (as does he for her), neither have ever told each other of their feelings. Plot Canon Fodder The story opens with a badly wounded Canon Fodder being confronted by Lucifer who then apparently finishes him off. It then cuts to a flashback with Dr. Watson discovering that Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty have killed themselves in a suicide pact, in order to go to heaven and kill God for not appearing on Judgement Day. Fodder and Watson recruit Mycroft Holmes (who is portrayed as a psychopath similar to Hannibal Lecter), to get them to heaven before Holmes and Moriarty. However, Holmes and Moriarty were themselves too late, and discover that Lucifer has overthrown and killed God. Fodder and his comrades arrive on the scene to be confronted by Lucifer, whose demons kill Watson and Mycroft and rip off Fodder's hand. As Lucifer is about to finish Fodder off, God unexpectedly returns. He kills Lucifer and asks why he shouldn't wipe out mankind, but Fodder points out that without mankind, God will never find the answer to who created him. The story ends with Dr Watson completing his entry in the Purgatory journals as the last adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Dark Matter After a failed attempt at stopping a hostage crisis in a church, Canon is locked up in Bedlam asylum, being treated by Sigmund Freud. He is freed by Deacon Blue, one of the vanished members of the Priest Patrol, who reveals that the Priest Patrol (apart from Fodder, who was judging the "Miss Purity 2000" pageant) were investigating the League of Anabolic Atheists when they were sucked into another dimension. Blue managed to escape and return to the real world, and now wants Fodder to return with him to rescue their colleagues. Freud, Fodder and Blue travel to the other dimension, which seems to be the collective unconscious, where Deacon Blue turns out to be a demon in disguise, and the rescue mission a trap. Fodder is rescued in the nick of time by a trans-dimensional airship captained by Jules Verne. Returning to the normal universe, he is briefed by Albert Einstein and Wilhelm Reich on the threat posed by the accelerating expansion of the dimension they have just come from, which it seems is composed of dark matter, and which is feeding on humanity's fears and dark desires. Reich has constructed an "Orgone Bomb" which can destroy the dark matter universe, and Fodder returns there to detonate it. After facing down his deepest fear he detonates the device expecting to die but is amazed to discover he has instead set free the Goddess who was imprisoned in the universe and who returns him to the normal universe. Collected editions "Canon Fodder" (with Mark Millar, in 2000 AD #861-867, 1993, collected in Judge Dredd Megazine Supplement 4, 2008) "Dark Matter" (with Nigel Long writing as "Kek-W", in 2000 AD #980-987, 1995, collected in Judge Dredd Megazine Supplement 17, 2009) Notes References Canon Fodder at 2000 AD online Comics characters introduced in 1993 Comics by Mark Millar 2000 AD comic strips 2000 AD characters The Devil in fiction

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BetOnline

BetOnline

BetOnline is a privately held online gambling company offering sports betting, online casinos, and wagering on horse racing. The company's CEO is Eddie Robbins III. In 2006, according to Casino City Press, BetOnline.com was among the top 60 online sportsbook, racebook, and betting exchanges, by overall traffic received. The site has been in operation at least since 2001. Innovations BetOnline has publicized some of its more innovative approaches to online gaming. In 2009, the company set out to place and accept the first wager from the summit of Mount Everest. Hiring a veteran climber, Tim Rippel, the company promised to donate $20,000 to a popular charity (as chosen by voters on Facebook and Twitter) upon successfully summiting the peak and placing a bet. While the climbing team was unable to place a bet from the summit, a wager was placed on May 18, 2009 (local time) from “Base Camp 4” at 26,000 feet above sea level. The bet was a winner, wagering that the Los Angeles Lakers would cover the spread against the Houston Rockets in Game 7 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals. BetOnline still donated the $20,000 across three top vote-getting charities. BetOnline becomes one of the first online poker rooms to use the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Domain Name BetOnline has switched to the Betonline.ag domain name. Their Betonline.com domain is still active but they told their partners that the Betonline.ag domain will be their primary address starting on April 4, 2012. Live Dealer Blackjack Controversy An online video of a blackjack hand surfaced which caused a lot of controversy. The video shows the dealer switching cards to change the hand, resulting in numerous players to lose. Due to the scandal, on February 18, 2017, BetOnline officially ended their relationship with 3rd party dealing vendor Global Gaming Labs and partnered up with Visionary iGaming for their "Live Dealer" services. References External links Online gambling companies of Panama Companies based in Panama City Internet properties established in 2004

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louhajang%20River

Louhajang River

Louhajang River ( ) is located in central Bangladesh. It branches out from the Jamuna near Gabsain at Bhuapur, Tangail District. Thereafter it splits into two parts before the parts meet up again. It flows past Tangail city, Karotia and Jamurki before joining the Bangshi. The Louhajang is linked with the Dhaleshwari. The average depth is and maximum depth is . References External links Includes a map of the river. Rivers of Bangladesh Rivers of Dhaka Division

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kati%20Kov%C3%A1cs

Kati Kovács

Kati Kovács (born Katalin Anna Sarolta Kovács 25 October 1944), is a Ferenc Liszt and Kossuth Award-winning Hungarian pop-rock singer, performer, lyricist and actress. She is one of the most famous singers of Hungary with dozens of recorded albums, awards and presentations in Hungary and abroad, and with international recognition and a very active career until today. Kovacs is known for her raspy and very strong mezzo-soprano singing voice which received wide praise from Hungarian music critics who have called her: "The Best Female Voice of Hungary". She can sing opera, rock, jazz, pop, dance, blues and rock and roll. Career She appeared first time on stage in 1962. She became the first famous nationally in 1965 when she won the seminal TV talent show in Hungary "Ki mit tud?". A year later, she achieved some even greater successes with her performance of the song I Won't Be Your Plaything (Nem leszek a játékszered) which won the TV Dance Song Festivals in Hungary in 1966. In 1968 she played the leading roles in some films, for example The Girl. The psychedelic spiritual Lord Send Us Rain (Add már, uram, az esőt!) won the Hungarian Dance Song Festival and the German Song Contest in 1972. She worked with the Hungarian rock band Locomotiv GT on three albums (Kovács Kati & Locomotiv GT, Közel a naphoz and Kati) and a compilation (Rock and Roller). In 1974 she won the Castlebar Song Contest in Ireland with the song Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue (Nálad lenni újra jó lenne). She appeared as a singer in the 1977 Hungarian film Ök ketten (Women), which was directed by Márta Mészáros. Since 1979 she sang the covers of several disco and hit songs in Hungary originally performed by Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Laura Branigan, Madonna, Tanita Tikaram, Sam Brown, Anastacia etc. Besides singing, Kati Kovács also writes lyrics. One of her best known works which she also performed is the lyrics to Vangelis’ composition 1492: The Conquest of Paradise. Since 23 October 2009 she works with the psychedelic soul-beat band The Qualitons. They had a very successful concert in Budapest with the singer's rare beat and funk songs. It is said to be Kati's big comeback. In 2010 they are on tour around the country. They were planning a new album together but their connection is lost. Christina Aguilera's 2010 single "Woohoo" contains a sample from the song Add már, uram, az esőt!. Awards Music Week Star of the Year Award (England) in 1974 Liszt Prize in 1986 Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Knight's Cross in 1994 Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Officer's Cross in 2011 Honorary Citizen of Budapest in 2011 Kossuth Prize in 2014 Albums See also Hungarian pop References External links 1944 births Living people Women rock singers 20th-century Hungarian women singers Hungarian pop singers 21st-century Hungarian women singers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20Epilepsy%20Centers

National Association of Epilepsy Centers

The National Association of Epilepsy Centers is an association of Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers - academic departments of epilepsy in the United States that meets certain criteria and has certain resources available for the care of the most complicated patients with epilepsy. It is based in Washington DC. Footnotes Epilepsy organizations Medical and health organizations based in Washington, D.C. Organizations based in Washington, D.C.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptychosalpinx%20globulus

Ptychosalpinx globulus

Ptychosalpinx globulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. References Buccinidae Gastropods described in 1889

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescot%20Parish%20Church

Prescot Parish Church

Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church. History The circular shape of the churchyard suggests that a church was on the site before the Norman Conquest, and parts of the existing fabric in the chancel and north vestry date possibly from the 15th century. The church was largely rebuilt in 1610. The tower was built in 1729 and the spire added in 1797. The tower and spire were designed by Henry Sephton, the spire being rebuilt after a lightning strike. An organ was gifted by Elizabeth, the widow of William Atherton. The aisles were widened between 1817 and 1819, a restoration took place in 1876, and the south vestry was added in 1900. In 1953 the aisles were rebuilt. Architecture The church is built in red sandstone. Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles and a chancel with north and south vestries. The tower has a west entrance with a three-light window above and an inscribed frieze. The bell stage has Doric flat pilasters and an entablature, 2-light louvred bell openings, and clock faces. The parapet has a balustrade and three finials to each angle, and the spire has three tiers of lucarnes. The aisles have cornices and embattled parapets. Internally are five-bayed arcades. Stone plaques on the walls carry the arms and sometimes the initials of the 1610 benefactors. The stalls, with poppyhead carving, are dated 1636. The reredos is of panelled timber, dated 1891 and designed by Kempe. There are two fonts, one Norman and simple on a modern base, the other, which was donated in 1755, was previously an Italian marble stoup. The chancel screen is dated 1921. The stained glass includes some in the south aisle by Morris & Co. There are a number of monuments, including one on the south side dated 1803 by Sir Richard Westmacott, to the memory of plantation owner William Atherton of Prescot, surmounted with a family crest, with the Latin motto “clarior e tenebris” (brighter after the darkness), and a 1836 brass to George Case, Liverpool mayor and slave trader, which was designed by A. W. N. Pugin. External features The churchyard contains the war graves of 24 service personnel, 22 of World War I and two of World War II. See also Grade I listed churches in Merseyside Listed buildings in Prescot References External links Prescot Parish Church (official website) Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley Church of England church buildings in Merseyside Grade I listed churches in Merseyside Anglican Diocese of Liverpool English Gothic architecture in Merseyside 1610 establishments in England Churches completed in 1610 17th-century Church of England church buildings

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Hatem Abdulrahman

Hatem Abdulrahman () (born 12 June 1995) is an Emirati footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder . Career Ajamn Hatem Abdulrahman started his career at Ajman and is a product of the Ajman's youth system. On 23 October 2014, Hatem Abdulrahman made his professional debut for Al-Ain against Al Wahda in the Pro League, replacing Boris Kabi. Masfout On Season 2016 signed with Masfout. References External links 1995 births Living people Emirati footballers Ajman Club players Masfout Club players UAE Pro League players UAE First Division League players Association football midfielders Place of birth missing (living people)

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Retta (disambiguation)

Retta (born 1970) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Retta may also refer to: People Given name Retta Davidson (1921–1998), American animator Retta T. Matthews (1856–1899), American painter and sculptor Retta Scott (1916–1990), American animator and illustrator Retta Ward (1953–2016), American health advocate Retta Young (born 1949), American singer Surname Joe Retta, front man and vocalist of British glam rock band The Sweet Seifu Retta (born 1954), Ethiopian boxer Other uses Retta, Arkansas, a community in the United States Retta Dixon Home, an institution for Aboriginal children in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Retta language, spoken in parts of the Indonesian Archipelago Retta Nagala, a village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India See also Rettah Chess, a variant of chess invented by V.R. Parton Reta (disambiguation)

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Kičevo-Poreče dialect

The Kičevo-Poreče dialect (, Kičevsko-porečki dijalekt) is a member of the central subgroup of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is spoken in a vast area in North Macedonia and mainly in the cities Kičevo and Makedonski Brod. It is also native to the villages of the region Porečje, such as Samokov and those around Kičevo. Because of the migration of the population from Porečje, the dialect is spoken in the region of Polog and in the capital Skopje. The Kičevo-Poreče dialect is closely related to the Prilep-Bitola dialect, Gostivar dialect with which they share many common characteristics. This dialect can be found in many books and novels, and one of the more popular is the novel "Milion mačenici" by Risto Krle. The Kičevo-Poreče dialect has a significantly small number of Serbian and Turkish loan words than the Macedonian dialects. Phonological characteristics change of the nasal vowel /õ/ with /ɔ/; change of the vocal /lˌ/ and vocal /rˌ/; use of the consonant groups шт (št) and жд (žd); lose of the inter vocal /v/: глава (glava) > глаа (glaa; head). Morphological characteristics use of the dative case for personal names: му рече Стојану (mu reče Stojanu; he told to Stojan); use of the diminutive: дете (dete) > детуле (detule; kid); use of the suffix -t for third person singular: тој зборува (toj zboruva) > тој зборуват (toj zboruvat; he talks); use of the preposition "v" and "vo" (in); linking of the prepositions or clitics with the verb: јас ќ’ода (jas ḱ'oda) instead of јас ќе одам (jas ḱe odam; I will go); losing of the suffix "-m" for first person singular: јас зборувам (jas zboruvam) > ја зборува (ja zboruva; I talk); use of "ja" instead "jas" (I); use of "su" instead "sum" (am): јас сум (jas sum) > ја су (ja su; I am). Examples of the dialect Omarno žeško sonce is a song that is written on Kičevo-Poreče dialect. Омарно жешко сонце грејт и никој на земата не смејт очи да отворит, ура, ура. И никој на земјата не смејт очи да отворит, напред, напред. Ја народ црнејт, таму на брего и ноќта ангел јасно викаше: „О, Боже, до кога и до Бога?“ и ноќта ангел јасно викаше: „О, Боже, до кога и до Бога?“ Omarno žeško sonce grejt i nikoj na zemjata ne smejt oči da otvorit, ura, ura. I nikoj na zemjata ne smejt oči da otvorit, napred, napred. Ja narod crnejt, tamu na brego i noḱta angel jasno vikaše: „O Bože, do koga i do Boga?“ i noḱta angel jasno vikaše: „O Bože, do koga i do Boga?“ Poreče dialect A short story on Poreče dialect: Kičevo dialect A short story on Kičevo dialect: References See also Macedonian language Macedonian dialects Dialects of the Macedonian language Kičevo Municipality Makedonski Brod Municipality

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5I

5I or 5-I can refer to: IATA code for Air G, also called Transair Georgia Amos-5i, an AsiaSat 2 satellite SSH 5I (WA), see Washington State Route 510 See also I5 (disambiguation) C5I, a military acronym Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance

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Mohammed Ridaoui

Mohammed Ridaoui (born Abril 13, 1969) is a Moroccan retired professional tennis player who won two bronze medals at the Mediterranean Games partnering with Younes El Aynaoui. He played in twelve Davis Cup ties for Morocco from 1989 to 1993 and won fourteen of his 22 rubbers. References External links ATP Profile ITF Profile Davis Cup Profile Moroccan male tennis players Living people 1969 births Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Morocco Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1993 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis

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George County High School

George County High School is a public high school in Lucedale, Mississippi, United States. It is a part of the George County School District. Athletics The following sports are offered at George County: Band Baseball Basketball Color Guard Cheer Cross Country Dance Football Golf Powerlifting Soccer Softball Tennis Track Volleyball Demographics For the 2014–15 school year, 87% of the student body at George County identified as Caucasian, making up the majority. 11% identified as African American, 2% as Hispanic, 1% as Asian, 0.3% as mixed and 0.2% as Native American. The student body makeup is 52% female and 48% male. References External links Education in George County, Mississippi Public high schools in Mississippi

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Dick Jemison

Richard Stubbs Jemison (September 19, 1886 – January 9, 1965) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter in the South who was for eleven years the sporting editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He wrote extensively on baseball and football, picking many an All-Southern team. Supposedly, he was the first sports editor to include batting stats in his newspaper column. For two years he was president of the Georgia–Alabama League. Dick Jemison himself was an avid golfer, basketball player, and bowler. Early years Dick Jemison was born on September 19, 1886 in Macon, Georgia to Robert W. Jemison and Kate Boifeuillet. His uncle was Edwin Francis Jemison, a Confederate veteran who died at the Battle of Malvern Hill at just 17 years old. Dick's brother J. B. Jemison was later club president of the Thomasville Hornets in 1913. Atlanta On watching the flight of Charles K. Hamilton in 1910 he wrote, "The time is not far off when the automobile will be put in the discard for the flying machine, just like the horse was passed up for the automobile." Sports On Georgia's first All-American he wrote, "When you mention football to an Athens fan its definition is Bob McWhorter, and vice-versa;" and McWhorter's "value to the Red and Black team cannot be fully expressed in mere words, or even figures." In 1915, Jemison was first to report that Georgia captain-elect Charlie Thompson was ineligible. Ohio Jemison also contributed to Motor World. By 1917 he resigned to enter the automobile business as a salesman and publicity manager for Poole & McCullough Motor Company, which handled the Dort, Winton Six, and Locomobile in Atlanta. He was also once in charge of sales promotion at the Miller Rubber Company. In 1920, he was appointed advertising and sales promotion manager of the Oldfield Tire Co. in Akron, Ohio. He was then national advertising manager for the Ohio State Journal. Bibliography Notes References 1886 births 1965 deaths Writers from Macon, Georgia Sportswriters from Georgia (U.S. state) Sportswriters from Ohio