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Herr's Potato Chips 200 The Herr's Potato Chips 200 presented by Federated Car Care is an ARCA Menards Series East race at Toledo Speedway. Before 2020, the race was part of the ARCA Menards Series schedule for decades before being moved to the East Series schedule after the unification of NASCAR's East and West Series with the ARCA Menards Series. Frank Kimmel has won the race 9 times, the most of any driver. |
A second version follows the perimeter of the rainfall catchment area only, cutting across the dam wall of the Silent Valley reservoir. A third version of the route was specified for an organised walking event in 2013. This version also appears in Paddy Dillon's guidebook 'The Mournes Walks'. |
In the United States, "undergraduate" refers to a student who is studying for a bachelor's degree. The most common bachelor's degrees are Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB) and Bachelor of Science (BS or SB), but other degrees such as Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Music (BM), Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) are also possible. Unlike in the British model, degrees in law and medicine are not offered at the undergraduate level and instead are completed at a graduate level after earning a bachelor's degree. Neither field specifies or prefers any undergraduate major, though medical schools require a set of courses that must be taken before enrollment. Students can also choose to attend a community college prior to further study at another college or university. In most states, community colleges are operated either by a division of the state university or by local special districts subject to guidance from a state agency. Community colleges award associate degrees of different types, some intended to prepare students to transfer to universities (e.g. Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS)), and others intended to provide vocational skills and training for students wishing to enter into or advance in a profession. Those seeking to continue their education may transfer to a university after applying through a similar admissions process as those applying directly to the four-year institution called articulation. Some community colleges have automatic enrollment agreements with a local college or university, where the community college provides the first two years of study and the university provides the remaining years of study, sometimes all on one campus. The community colleges award associate degrees, while universities and colleges award the bachelor's. However, some community colleges, such as Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Texas offer bachelor's degrees along with associate degrees. Conversely, some universities such as the University of Delaware also award associate degrees. In Hong Kong, the English system is followed. Students sit for the Certificate of Education examinations at around sixteen years of age, and the Advanced-level, or A-level examinations at around eighteen, then follow by three years of undergraduate education, except for a few specific fields, such as medicine, nursing and law. This is due to be changed, with five-year secondary education and two-year matriculation examination combined and shortened to six years matriculation, and undergraduate education lengthened to four years. Students may be able to receive general education in their first years in universities, more akin to the North American system. |
Bleach (season 2) The is the second season of the "Bleach" anime series, containing 21 episodes. The episodes are directed by Noriyuki Abe, and produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu and Studio Pierrot. In the English release by Viz Media, the title is translated as The Entry. The episodes are based on Tite Kubo's "Bleach" manga series. The episodes' plot centers on Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends' journey to the Soul Society in order to save Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki from her impending execution. The arc initially ran from March 1, to July 19, 2005 in Japan on TV Tokyo. The first English airing of the series lasted from February 3 to July 14, 2007. It was shown on YTV's Bionix programming block in Canada and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in the United States. The episodes use five pieces of theme music: two opening themes and three ending themes. The opening theme for the first five episodes is Orange Range's single "Asterisk"; the rest use "D-tecnoLife" by Uverworld. The initial ending theme is "Thank You!!" by Home Made Kazoku, switching at episode 26 to Younha's and again at episode 39 to "HappyPeople" by Skoop on Somebody. Five DVD compilations, each containing four episodes of the season, have been released by Aniplex between July 27, 2005 and November 23, 2005. The DVDs of the English adaptation of the series are distributed by Viz Media; five DVD compilations, each containing four episodes of the season, have been released by Viz Media between September 25, 2007, and May 20, 2008. In the United Kingdom, Manga Entertainment released the season in two DVD volumes on June 30, 2008 and November 3, 2008. A compilation of these two volumes was released on December 29, 2008. The second season of "Shonen Jump’s Bleach" (aka "Bleach: The Entry" in the English-dubbed version, or the "Soul Society: The Sneak Entry" arc) is currently licensed by VIZ Entertainment LLC in North America, when it aired on Cartoon Network’s late-night primetime programming block, Adult Swim. It is also now distributed by Warner Bros. Animation/Warner Home Video on North American home video. |
Morrisby Profile The Morrisby Profile is an integrated set of twelve tests which assess mental function. The assessment, which is considered a comprehensive battery test, offers complete statement concerning the basic mental structure of an individual, is employed in personnel selection, career counselling, and personal counselling. Published by Educational and Industrial Test Services Ltd, T/A The Morrisby Organisation, the Morrisby Profile (MP) is a considerably revised version of the Morrisby Differential Test Battery, originally authored by John Morrisby. It consists of six ability tests, four personality measures and two manual dexterity measures. The six ability tests include: the Compound Series Test (CST); three General Ability Tests (GAT) (Verbal, Numerical and Perceptual); the Shapes Test and the Mechanical Ability Test. The tests used in vocational counselling also an occupational interest questionnaire, along with the ability and personality tests. The four 'personality' measures are derived from four speed tests (which produce what is called the 'modal' profile). Two other speed tests are used to produce the 'dexterity' profile. The ability tests may be used separately and the whole battery may be used either in its entirety as a selection and development measure or linked with an interest inventory and a computerised report to form the Morrisby Guidance Service (MGS). Although scores on the ability measures can be related to the general population through norms, vocational interpretations are based more strongly on the pattern of aptitudes shown. In 2014 an online version of the Morrisby Profile was launched. In this version, the Speed tests are replaced by a Jungian type indicator and the Compound Series and two Dexterity measures have been removed. The paper version of the Morrisby Profile is being phased out from 31st August 2020. Morrisby Profile is used for the My Career Insights service to deliver career advisory services to Year 9 students in all government schools in Victoria, Australia. The initiative is being delivered by the Career Education Association of Victoria and Career Analysts on behalf of the Department of Education and Training Victoria. |
Ibrahim Hassan (athlete) Ibrahim Hassan (born 12 February 1971) is a Ghanaian former sprinter who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. |
The single "Another Night" produced by Alan Parsons, which was released after the aforementioned single, appeared on Billboard's Rack Singles Best Sellers chart at no. 32 on 28 July 1975 and peaked at no. 71 on that publication's Hot 100. After the US failure of the Hollies' single "4th of July, Asbury Park", written by Bruce Springsteen, Epic gave up on the Hollies in the US, combining their two 1976 albums into their last US release of the decade, "Clarke, Hicks, Sylvester, Calvert, Elliott" (again including the Springsteen song to give it one last chance at success). The Hollies continued to have singles chart hits during the rest of the seventies, but mostly in Europe and New Zealand. In 1976, for example, the group released three singles in three different styles, none of which charted in the UK or the US. "Star," an uptempo harmony number reminiscent of their sixties hits, charted only in New Zealand and Australia, the hard rock number "Daddy Don't Mind" charted only in The Netherlands and Germany, and "Wiggle That Wotsit," an excursion into disco territory, charted only in The Netherlands, Sweden, and New Zealand. Especially popular outside of the US, always very professional in their continuous concert engagements, the Hollies had album chart successes with compilation albums in 1977 and 1978, which kept them going through the late 1970s. In 1980, the Hollies returned to the UK charts with the single "Soldier's Song", written and produced by Mike Batt, which was a minor hit in 1980 reaching No.58 in the UK. They also released an album of Buddy Holly covers named "Buddy Holly" which didn't chart in the UK or the US, but did chart in the Netherlands among other places. In May 1981, Calvert and Sylvester left the group after musical disagreements with Bruce Welch, who was producing them at that time (nothing from the Welch sessions was ever released during this time). Sylvester also disagreed strongly with the band's sacking of their long time manager Robin Britten. Alan Coates joined the band on rhythm guitar and high harmony vocals shortly afterwards. The Hollies went back in the studio on 6 June 1981 with singer/writer/guitarist John Miles and session bassist Alan Jones to record "Carrie" and "Driver". But neither one of these songs was released at this time ("Carrie" appeared as the b-side of the re-released "He Ain't Heavy" in 1988). |
Karmarama have featured in the Sunday Times Best Companies To Work For multiple times. In 2017 they were the number one communications agency and won the "Innovation in Employment Engagement" award. In 2016 and 2017, Karmarama won the Grand Prix DMA award for their data-driven content campaigns for Unibet and The Army. The agency also won IPA effectiveness awards for its work with Costa and Plusnet. In November 2016, Karmarama was acquired by Accenture Interactive. As of May 2017, Karmarama works with clients including Iceland, Confused.com, Honda, Just Eat and Unilever. Karmarama was named Agency of the Year 2011 by "Marketing Week" magazine. In 2014, Karmarama was named as the top Independent Agency by The Drum magazine. In 2015, Karmarama was the highest ranked agency in the Sunday Times Top 100 Places to Work, coming 22nd out of all the thousands of businesses who entered. |
In the fall of 1888, the first school was built and Brooke School District was formed. Records show that up until 1920, the Brooke School District was in continuous operation, except for a very short time in 1888. The prominent Rialto Trapp family bought the first school house in 1921, remodeled the building, and members of the family resided in it until it was destroyed by fire. The Rialto School District (today Rialto Unified School District), was formed in 1891. The staff consisted of two teachers and a principal with separate play areas for the boys and girls. In 1901 a cemetery was established in the township. It is administered by the City Treasurer. The Chamber of Commerce was established in 1907. The Chamber incorporated in the spring of 1911. By 1911 the population had grown to 1,500 with 40 businesses and a local newspaper. The election results on October 31 of the same year were 135 votes for the incorporation of the city and 72 against. Foothill Boulevard was repaired in 1913 and became U.S. Route 66, a section of the U.S. highway system. In 1914 Los Angeles' Pacific Electric Railway completed its San Bernardino Line through the City of Rialto, with a junction at Riverside Avenue for the Riverside Line. Today the Tracks above First Street are a part of the Union Pacific and the Pacific Electric depot on Riverside Avenue is Cuca's Restaurant. A fire in the 1920s swept through and destroyed many of the buildings in the downtown area. Rialto's population growth had increased to 3,156 by 1950. In 1956 the population soared to 15,359. By 1964 it showed increase to 23,290 and 33,500 in 1978. Rialto is wide and long. Rialto's population grew from 80,000 in 1994 to nearly 100,000 by 2010. As of 2020, the department heads are: In the California State Legislature, Rialto is in , and in . In the United States House of Representatives, Rialto is split between , and . Rialto is served by the Rialto Unified School District. It has a Christian School called Bloomington Christian School for junior high and high school. It also has preschool thru 8th grade hosted by Calvary Chapel Rialto. Rialto is also home to a private Catholic school (preschool thru 8th grade). Catherine of Siena Parish School is located on Sycamore Avenue. The western portion of Rialto is served by Fontana Unified School District while the southern portion of Rialto is served by Colton Joint Unified School District. |
Those chapters were collected and published in three "tankōbon" volumes by Kodansha, with the first released on February 21, 2003 and the last on March 23, 2004. On July 27, 2010, the company Ichijinsha released a reprint of the series in two collected volumes. The series is licensed for English language release in North America by Del Rey, which published the series from January 30, 2007 to July 31, 2007. In the United Kingdom, it was published by Tanoshimi from February 1, 2007 to August 2, 2008. It is also licensed for regional language releases in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing, in Italy by Star Comics, and Hong Kong by Jonesky. "Free Collars Kingdom" received mixed reviews from English-speaking audiences. Matthew Alexander of "Mania" praised the artwork, noting that characters were "cute and sexy with a wide variety of clothing that does a good job expressing the character's personality" and that, overall, the artwork was "very clean with attractive characters and well-detailed backgrounds". In his review of the second volume, Alexander wrote that "so far, the story continues to be a fun examination of what life might be like from the cat's point of view, but I don't know how the whole Wild Cat storyline is going to be wrapped up in only one more volume". In his review of the third volume, Alexander felt that "the story probably received an early ending", but concluded that "despite the series only being three volumes, it really is a worthy read and quite funny if you've ever owned a cat". In reviewing the second volume, "Manga Life" Dan Polley felt "Fujima [did] a very good job of laying down the framework and executing a plot for fun and carefree adventures." In his review of the third volume, Polley wrote that "the art is enjoyable, but can sometimes be overloaded" and that "often there are sequences in which there is too much going on and it is hard to decipher exactly what the eyes are seeing." However, he noted that "fans of the series will continue to enjoy the animalistic cheekiness." Writing for "School Library Journal", Benjamin Russell criticized the series for being "slow and formulaic" with "similarly formulaic" character designs that made "it seem staid". He also stated that the "animal world" portrayed could be fun and that it was "interesting to see humanoid characters so tiny next to artifacts of human culture", but it failed to hold the reader's interest. |
List of United States technological universities Institutes of technology and polytechnics have existed at least since the 18th century, but became popular after World War II with the expansion of engineering education and technical education, associated with the new needs created by industrialization. In some cases, polytechnics or institutes of technology are engineering schools or technical colleges. A handful of American universities include the phrases "Institute of Technology", "Polytechnic Institute", "Polytechnic University", or similar phrasing in their names; these are generally research-intensive universities with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The level of academic rigor in these schools may vary from undergraduate level state universities to world-renowned elite schools. |
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There are no restrictions on either IVF or surrogacy. Since June 26, 2020, Georgia protects its citizens from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Prior to Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, state law did not protect against employee discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. However, some cities and counties in the state have enacted local ordinances banning such discrimination in varying degrees. The cities of Atlanta, Clarkston and Doraville have ordinances prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in both public and private employment. Gwinnett County has a Human Relations Commission that ensures fair and equal treatment and opportunity for all persons, with protections including gender identity and sexual orientation. In 2020, County Commissioner Ku stated that internal Gwinnett County policies were updated to provide protection that includes protections with gender identity and sexual orientation for public employment Additional cities have enacted more limited protections, prohibiting discrimination against public municipal employees only. The cities of Athens, Augusta, Avondale Estates, Columbus, Decatur, Macon, Pine Lake and Savannah have ordinances banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in public employment, while the cities of East Point, Sandy Springs, and Tybee Island, as well as the counties of DeKalb and Fulton have similar anti–discrimination ordinances in public employment covering only sexual orientation. Note that statutory law does not provide protections based on gender identity, but on December 6, 2011, in "Glenn v. Brumby", the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling that firing someone based on gender-nonconformity violates the Constitution’s prohibition on sex discrimination. The Court of Appeals found the Georgia General Assembly had discriminated against Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman who was fired from her job as legislative editor after telling her supervisor that she planned to transition from male to female. This effectively provides legal protections to transgender and gender non-conforming employees in the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Georgia law bans bullying at schools, though it does not list individual protected groups. Nonetheless, DeKalb County and Fulton County have regulations for teachers that address bullying and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Gwinnett County Public schools prohibits discrimination by sexual orientation and gender identity in their Student Conduct Behavior Code. Both sexual orientation and gender identity are explicitly covered under the U.S. federal hate crime law since "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act" was signed into law in October 2009 by Barack Obama - right after being passed (as an attachment to a military funding authorisation bill) by US Congress. |
Ulrich Reich Ulrich Reich (born 10 May 1951) is a retired West German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. As a teenager he won the silver medal at the 1970 European Junior Championships. At the 1972 European Indoor Championships he won the silver medal in the 400 metres race. He also won a silver medal in the 4 x 360 metres relay, together with Peter Bernreuther, Rolf Krüsmann and Georg Nückles. He repeated the relay silver in 1973, this time with new teammates: Falko Geiger, Karl Honz and Hermann Köhler. In domestic competitions, he represented the sports club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He won the silver medal at the 1972 West German indoor championships. |
A House of Pomegranates A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The stories included in this collection are as follows: Dedicated to Margaret, Lady Brooke (the Ranee of Sarawak) "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning. During the night, he has three nightmares, one for each element of his raiment, showing him where they came from and how they were obtained. The first dream shows a group of starving, haggard peasants - including children - working at looms to weave his robe where they receive little payment or food despite being worked so hard. The second dream shows a group of slaves on a ship where the youngest slave has his ears and nostrils filled with wax and is sent underwater to find pearls for the young King's scepter but dies after finding the best pearl. The third dream is the most elaborate and deals with the source of his new crown's rubies. In it, men excavate a dry riverbed in a tropical jungle, while overlooking them, the god Death tries to bargain with the goddess Avarice for a single grain of her corn. Each time Avarice refuses, Death summons Ague, Fever and Plague to kill one third of her servants, leaving the place devoid of life. Avarice flees in terror and Death leaves to attend to his duties caused by war and famine around the world. On the coronation day, the Young King refuses the costume brought to him, and makes a crown from a loop of dried briars, a scepter from his shepherd's staff, and wears his threadbare tunic in place of the royal robe. On his way to the cathedral, the nobles rebuke him for bringing shame to their class, the peasants for trying to deprive them of work, and the bishop for foolishly trying to take all the world's suffering upon himself. |
Ghanata Senior High School Ghanata Senior High School is a public senior high school located in Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Built in 1936, initially in Adidome in the Volta region of Ghana, the school's median name was Gold Coast People's College. It was founded by Rev. E. Osabutey Aguedze. The school later moved to Dodowa where it established its major campus.The motto of the school is Carpe Diem; which means seize the opportunity. |
These companies are responsible for the waste they have picked up from their customers before disposal. The PCD estimates that in 2017 organic waste collected by municipalities across Thailand accounted for nearly two-thirds of the country's total waste output: a reported 7.6 million tonnes— 64%—of the refuse collected was organic waste. It is thought that a significant portion of this waste is not merely fruit and vegetable peelings, but edible surplus food. This in a nation where 400,000 to 600,000 children may be undernourished due to poverty, yet ten percent of all children are obese. Prevailing attitudes do not encompass composting or waste sorting: 64 percent of the Thai population do not sort their rubbish according to one study. Thailand is a profligate user of one-time use plastics. Thais use 70 billion plastic bags a year. The country is a major contributor, along with China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka, of up to 60% of plastic pollution in oceans. Thailand's 23 coastal provinces dump an estimated one million tonnes of garbage into the sea each year. Plastic bags make up 15%, plastic straws account for seven percent, and cigarette butts five percent. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 150 sea turtles, 100 whales and dolphins, and 12 dugongs die each year from discarded trash, half of which die from eating plastic bags. In June 2017, Thailand pledged at an international forum to reduce plastic use. Thailand admitted waste mismanagement was the major cause of Thailand's poor record. Delegates representing Thailand's military government at the conference committed to put an end to the problem. Accordingly, it has included waste management in its 20-year national strategy. In an easy step forward, Thailand's Pollution Control Department (PCD) got agreements from five major water bottlers to cease using plastic cap seals on drinking water bottles by 1 April 2018. A cap seal is the small plastic wrap molded over the bottle cap that must be peeled off before the bottle can be opened. Studies have found that bottles without them pose no hygienic health risk. The PCD aims to have them removed from all bottled water containers by the end of 2018. According to the PCD, Thailand produces 4.4 billion plastic drinking water bottles per year. Sixty percent, or 2.6 billion, of these bottles have cap seals. The weight of the plastic cap seals alone is around 520 tonnes per year. On 21 July 2018 the Thai government kicked off a campaign to reduce the use of foam containers and single-use plastic bags at fresh markets countrywide. |
Second request In United States antitrust law, a second request is a discovery procedure by which the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department investigate mergers and acquisitions which may have anticompetitive consequences. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, before certain mergers, tender offers or other acquisition transactions can close, both parties to the deal must file a "Notification and Report Form" with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division. If either the FTC or the Antitrust Division has reason to believe the merger will impede competition in a relevant market, they may request more information by way of "Request for Additional Information and Documentary Materials", more commonly referred to as a "Second Request". A typical second request asks to gather information about the sales, facilities, assets, and structure of the businesses which are party to the transaction. This frequently requires a large number of documents to be produced, and law firms representing parties to a transaction in which a second request has been issued often must hire contract attorneys to review all the documents involved. Parties to a transaction who feel that the second request is unnecessary or needlessly duplicative of information discovered earlier may appeal to either the FTC or the Antitrust Division (whichever agency issued the request). |
Dick Johnson (reporter) Richard S. Johnson (October 1953 – June 9, 2020) was the morning news co-anchor and a street reporter for NBC-owned television station WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Before coming to WMAQ-TV in 2002, he was a longtime reporter/anchor at rival WLS-TV. Johnson won numerous awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Award (the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) and the Emmy Award. Johnson was also the producer for the summer play productions put on by the Community House in Hinsdale, Illinois. In 2006, he produced "Oliver!", and one year later, in the summer of 2007, he produced and performed as Franklin D. Roosevelt in "Annie". He died on June 9, 2020, following days of respiratory complications. He was being treated at a northern Michigan hospital at the time of his death. |
Jimmy's Winnin' Matches Jimmy's Winnin' Matches is an hour-long documentary which followed the success of the Donegal senior football team that won the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final under the guidance of Jim McGuinness. It take its name from "Jimmy's Winning Matches", the anthem of Donegal's 2012 Championship success. It first aired on RTÉ One on 3 January 2013 at 9.35 pm. Coco Television were responsible for putting it together. The documentary featured an exclusive interview with McGuinness filmed at his Glenties home, while Rory Gallagher, who penned the famous song, also featured, with Alan Foley doing the research. |
Throughout the third series, however, she develops a close bond with her new Danish partner, Henrik. While this initially consists of casual sex, it grows deeper and more emotional when he begins to seek her company in order to cope with his insomnia and loneliness, and in turn allowing her to stay at his house with him and providing her with emotional support when her beloved boss, Hans dies, her manipulative mother returns to her life and her new boss proves less understanding, which makes her work harder. Henrik is shown as having an intuitive understanding of her personality and a great deal of respect for her boundaries. The fourth and final series focus on Saga's realization that she is falling in love with Henrik, but with the issue of children at risk of coming between them: while Henrik, whose key backstory involves the disappearance of his wife and daughters, considers being a father as a central part of his identity, Saga explicitly does not want to have children. Despite having few close relationships, Saga is generally liked and accepted by her colleagues, such as her team in series one and the Malmö pathologist, a recurring character. A subplot of the second series focus on her conflict with a new colleague, Rasmus, who does not like her, but this is presented as an exception. Even some characters who initially have difficulty working with her, such as her new boss Linn in series three, eventually warm to her. Little is known about Saga's background at first, although in the second series, Martin looks into her family history, discovering that her sister Jennifer committed suicide. In the third series, her mother appears at her apartment, telling her that her father is on his deathbed, and wishes to see her. Saga refuses, but Marie-Louise persists in trying to rebuild their relationship. She later turns up at the police station with medical documents in hand which, upon inspection by the police mortician, appear to absolve Marie-Louise of blame in Jennifer's health problems (the mortician states that though Jennifer was often sick, no clear pattern of abuse is visible). Saga is sceptical, and continues to insist that as children she and her sister were both always getting sick as a result of her mother's Munchausen by Proxy. When Saga was financially able to live independently of her parents, she had them jailed on false sexual assault charges in order to get Jennifer away from them. Sometime later, when Jennifer was fourteen years old, she killed herself by leaping in front of an oncoming train, which is explored greatly and in more depth in the third series, in which Saga's relationship to her mother is rekindled and spirals out of control, with Marie-Louise committing suicide and framing her death as murder, with Saga being the likely culprit. |
Veria replaced Kalaitzidis with Makis Chavos who was later fired, after the first two fixtures in 2012–13 Superleague Greece season. Nikos Karidas was appointed eventually as a caretaker and after a 2–0 defeat in Crete against OFI, Kalaitzidis was appointed again and for the last time till today, as Veria's manager. Kalaitzidis returned to finish what he started. He brought back his offensive style of football and achieved to save Veria from relegation for the first time in Superleague after the 1996–97 season. During his last spell as manager of Veria in Superleague, Veria and Kalaitzidis enjoyed some big wins against Panathinaikos (3–0), Aris (3–1) and Platanias (5–0). In his last interview as Veria's manager he stated ""Another circle is closed for me in Veria, if another opens and when, is still unknown"" He also tutored and made a team regular the Nigerian talent Michael Olaitan who was later signed by Olympiacos in the end of that season. After his department from Veria, Kalaitzidis was appointed as Nea Salamis Famagusta manager. He used the same football style as he did for Veria, and he had a great run. Although, he was doing great, but after a defeat against Ethnikos Achna part of the fans disapproved him and he decided to leave the club. Despite the club's board effort to convince him to stay in the club, Kalaitzidis did not change his mind and he resigned on 15 January 2014. The club board also mentioned in their announcement about the resignation of Kalaitzidis ""In fifteen championship fixtures with Dimitris Kalaitzidis as coach, Nea Salamina had an overall of twenty four points, the best performance of the club in the last nine years, playing a beautiful style of football and he has set the bases for the accomplishment of club's season goals. The administration board of Nea Salamina wishes to its friend Dimitris Kalaitzidis, any future success to his coaching career as well as any personal and family happiness"". After Aris was relegated to Football League 2, the president of amateur Aris signed Kalaitzidis as the team manager. Though, the signing of Spyros Gogolos made by Galanos, a temporary president of the club, led Kalaitzidis to quit his post as he was never notified or even asked about that move. |
The White Ship (Aitmatov novel) "The White Ship" ("Белый пароход") is a novella written by Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It was first published in 1970 in Novy Mir,, accompanied by a film adaptation of the novel titled "The White Ship" which was released in 1976. "The White Ship" is a story of a young boy who grows up with his grandfather, Momun, on the shores of Issyk-Kul Lake. He spends time exploring, listening to legends from his grandfather, and looking out over the lake as white ships sail along. He finds particular interest in the stories that his grandfather tells him about the Horned Mother Deer that is sacred to the Bogo tribe. A series of tragedies occurs at the end of the novella, and a hunting party kills a sacred deer with Momun and the boy as witnesses. This sends the boy into despair. Longing for love and acceptance, he dives into the waters of a stream nearby to "turn into a fish" and swim towards Issyk-Kul in search of his father. A controversy surrounded the novel after publication due to its graphic and violent depictions of Soviet "heroes" as well as hints of child suicide. "The White Steamship", translated by Tatyana & George Feifer, Hodder & Stoughton, 1972 "The White Ship", translated by Mirra Ginsburg, Crown Publishers Inc., New York, 1972 |
Juandalynn Givan Juandalynn Givan is an American lawyer and politician. She serves as a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives, where she represents Jefferson County. At a committee meeting in March 2017, Givan said that African-Americans were more likely to get arrested for marijuana possession. She was accused of playing the race card by former Representative Richard Laird, and she asked him not to attend meetings any more. In May 2017, she opposed the bill for the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, which would make it harder to remove Confederate monuments in Alabama; she argued, "This type of legislation ... continues to put Alabama in a negative light, which it is known for racism, discrimination." |
The first house was designed by José Manuel Carrerá, an architect of Dominican origin and is linked to all his companies and the projects of the Alfonso family, which was his wife's, especially the railway network that both deployed in the province of [[Matanzas]]. The influence of Don Domingo Aldama is revealed in the fact that in order to authorize him to construct the Palace, the Spanish authorities repealed an order prohibiting civil constructions in the military zone; that is, adjacent to the [[Campo de Marte, Havana| Campo de Marte]], although the Palace's front elevation was required to face that space. Las Cuevas Toraya notes that it is a masonry house, even the interior partitions, and draws attention to the main staircase, built with Carrara marble blocks, the treads are adjusted to each other without any added external support. The building has a dining room that was designed for more than one hundred people. The arcade has a height of two floors, covering the ground floor and the mezzanine. An upper deck is supported by the capital decorations, typical of neoclassical constructions, although it has some elements of the late Baroque and the [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]]. The Palacio de Aldama is constructed of ashlar stone masonry, a finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual [[rock (geology)|stone]] that was worked until squared. Ashlar is the finest stone [[masonry]] unit, generally rectangular [[cuboid]], mentioned by [[Vitruvius]] as [[opus isodomum]], or less frequently [[trapezoid]]al. Precisely cut "on all faces adjacent to those of other stones", ashlar is capable of very thin joints between blocks, and the visible face of the stone may be [[Quarry-faced stone|quarry-faced]] or feature a variety of treatments: tooled, smoothly polished, or rendered with another material for decorative effect. Ashlar may be coursed, which involves lengthy horizontals layers of stone blocks laid in parallel, and therefore with continuous horizontal joints. Ashlar may also be random, which involves stone blocks laid with deliberately discontinuous courses and therefore discontinuous joints both vertically and horizontally. In either case, it generally uses a joining material such as mortar to bind the blocks together, although dry ashlar construction, metal ties, and other methods of assembly have been used. The dry ashlar of [[Inca]] architecture in [[Cusco]] and [[Machu Picchu]] is particularly fine. |
The Magic of Oz The Magic of Oz is the thirteenth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 7, 1919, one month after the author's death, "The Magic of Oz" relates the unsuccessful attempt of the Munchkin boy Kiki Aru and former Nome King Ruggedo to conquer Oz. The novel was dedicated to "the Children of our Soldiers, the Americans and their Allies, with unmeasured Pride and Affection." At the top of Mount Munch lives a group of people known as the Hyups. One of their numbers, a Munchkin named Bini Aru, discovered a method of transforming people and objects by merely saying the word "Pyrzqxgl". After Princess Ozma decreed that no one could practice magic in Oz except for Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz, Bini wrote down the directions for pronouncing "Pyrzqxgl" and hid them in his magical laboratory. When Bini and his wife are at a fair one day, their son Kiki Aru, who thirsts for adventure, finds the directions and afterward transforms himself into a hawk and visits various countries outside the land of Oz. When he alights in the land of Ev, Kiki Aru learns that he needs money to pay for a night's lodging (versus Oz, where the money is not used at all) and changes himself into a magpie to steal a gold piece from an old man. A sparrow confronts the then-human Kiki Aru with knowledge of the theft, and Kiki says that he did not know what it was like to be wicked before, he is glad that he is now. This conversation is overheard by Ruggedo, the Nome who was exiled to the Earth's surface in "Tik-Tok of Oz", and he sees through Kiki Aru's power a chance to get revenge on the people of Oz. Kiki changes himself and Ruggedo into birds and they fly over the Deadly Desert into the Land of Oz. They enter Oz as animals to escape detection by Glinda and to recruit an army of conquest from the country's wild animal population. When they first appear in the Forest of Gugu in the Gillikin Country, Kiki changes himself and Ruggedo into Li-Mon-Eags (fictional creatures with the heads of lions, the bodies of monkeys, and the wings of eagles as well as having the tails of donkeys) and lies that they've seen the people of the Emerald City plan to enslave the animal inhabitants of the Forest. |
The batter is made of black lentils and rice and is similar in composition to the batter used to make idli and dosa. The dish can also be made sweet or spicy depending on the ingredients jaggery and chillies respectively. Paniyaram is made on a special pan that comes with multiple small fissures. It is known by various names in South India, including kuzhi paniyaram, paddu, appe, guliappa, gulittu, yeriyappa, gundponglu, gunta ponganalu. Vada [vəɽɑː] is a common term for many different types of savoury fried snacks from India. Different types of vadas can be described variously as fritters, doughnuts, or dumplings. Alternative names for this food include wada, vade, vadai, wadeh and bara. The various types of vadas are made from different ingredients, ranging from legumes (such as medu vada of South India) to potatoes (such as batata vada of West India). They are often eaten as breakfast or snack, and also used in other food preparations (such as dahi vada and vada pav). A bhaji, bhajji or bajji, is a spicy Indian snack or entree dish similar to a fritter, with several variants. It is often served with chutney. Pakodas are a kind of fritters and an all-time favorite snack in India. There are endless variations of pakodas. Mixed vegetable pakodas as the name suggests are made with a variety of vegetables. Pakodas are great as an appetizer or snack for any type of the gathering. They are perfect for a rainy day, and even more delicious paired with a cup of hot spicy chai. Boli in Tamil Nadu is a golden yellow sweet pancake from South India. It is eaten during a traditional Sadhya along with Payasam. Several varieties of boli are prepared including thenga (coconut) boli and jaggery,sugar. Boli is especially famous in the southernmost districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India and northern Sri Lanka. Boli is eaten mostly after lunch or as an evening snack. Boli is golden yellow in colour. Jigarthanda is a cold milk beverage and cold dessert that originated in the South Indian city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu. |
When foraging, they move slowly through the trees. In the summer, individuals roost alone rather than in colonies. In the winter, their colonies form unique, ball-shaped dense clusters during the daytime to conserve body heat. Their winter colonies can have as many as 100 individuals. Bonin flying foxes do not have a strong fear of humans. Bonin flying foxes are an animal species known to display homosexual behavior, with males observed performing fellatio on other males. This behavior occurs independently of social grooming, and one possible explanation for it is that it promotes colony formation for warmth among males who would otherwise repel each other during competition for females. Copulation is frequent in winter colonies, with as many as 27 instances observed per day in colonies with large proportions of female bats. During mating, the bats screech loudly, and males will lick the female's vulva. This species probably has the ability to breed year-round. Gestation is estimated at 5–7 months, after which the female gives birth to one pup. Pups are most frequently seen in August, though they have been observed in February, March, April, and December as well. It is one of the northernmost species of flying foxes. It is endemic to the Bonin Islands of Japan, including Chichijima and Hahajima; and the Iwo Islands, including North Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, and South Iwo Jima. They live in subtropical habitat. The islands where they are found have many steep hills In 1994 and 1996, the Bonin flying fox was classified as vulnerable by the IUCN. In 2000, the classification was revised to critically endangered. In 2017, they were downlisted to endangered. They are considered endangered because their extent of occurrence is less than , their habitat is severely fragmented, and the population is estimated at fewer than 250 mature individuals. In 1969, this species was listed as a Natural Monument of Japan. This law made it illegal to capture or hunt them. The population of bats Chichijima Island was estimated at 150 individuals in 1997, but by 2002, it was estimated at only 65-80 individuals. Possible reasons for their decline include entanglement in agricultural nets and depredation by feral cats. It is speculated that they are threatened by competition with invasive species, including rats, white-eyes, and honey bees. This species has been kept at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo in the past. One individual died in 1998 and another in 1999, and it is unclear if the species is still kept there or if there are attempts at a captive breeding program. |
Pilbeam Theatre The Pilbeam Theatre is an indoor performance venue in Rockhampton, Queensland. The Pilbeam Theatre was officially opened by Australian Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen on 6 June 1979 and was named after the city's mayor at the time, Rex Pilbeam. Located on the corner of Cambridge Street and Victoria Parade in the city directly opposite the Fitzroy River, the theatre was designed by local architect, Neil McKendry. The venue has a maximum capacity of just under 1000 people. A life-sized sculpture of explorer Charles Archer on his horse Sleipner, designed by Australian artist Arthur Murch, was installed in front of the theatre and unveiled in 1980. A special seven-night program was held in the theatre's opening week with the opening night concert broadcast live on ABC Radio along with the ceremonial speeches. Anthony Doheny, a Rockhampton-born violinist featured on opening night as a soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Early in his career, Australian film director Baz Luhrmann directed a community musical called "Crocodile Creek" at the Pilbeam Theatre in 1986, vision of which was unearthed by a film historian in 2014. Among the many popular Australian musical artists that have used the Pilbeam Theatre over recent years have been Tina Arena, Guy Sebastian, Boy & Bear, Angus & Julia Stone, Kasey Chambers, Jimmy Barnes, Xavier Rudd, Lee Kernaghan, Melinda Schneider, Beccy Cole, Paul Kelly, Adam Harvey, Troy Cassar-Daley, Graeme Connors, Marina Prior and David Hobson. Comedians who have performed at the theatre over recent years include Kitty Flanagan, Jimeoin, Carl Barron, Dave Hughes, Kevin Bloody Wilson, Arj Barker and Akmal Saleh. It was reported in 2015 that Carl Barron holds the record for the fastest selling adult show in the Pilbeam Theatre's history. Akmal Saleh was scheduled to perform at the Pilbeam Theatre again in 2011, with proceeds from the show destined for the victims of the 2010-11 Queensland floods. However, he cancelled the show after claiming he had received threats from local residents, following his controversial comments about Rockhampton on Network Ten's "Good News Week" in 2009 when he said the city should be removed from Australia and relocated to Afghanistan. Saleh claimed he was angry after being assaulted and racially abused by a woman who had accused of being a paedophile after allegedly observing Saleh film children on an amusement ride at the 2009 Rockhampton Show while Saleh and two friends, including Joel Ozborn, were filming a "Borat-esque" skit dressed in traditional Arabian outfits. |
Tommy loses and chides Hyacinthe for selling him out. However, Shaun has a feeling that Tommy threw the game. Hyacinthe manages to win Tommy back by singing to him outside his window,a nd Tommy is moved to forgive her. Shaun, still suspicious from his victory, invites Tommy to an underground high-stakes chess club, which is rife with shady characters, hot babes, and money. Shaun, hoping to prove his suspicions of Tommy's monumental talent, volunteers him to play a blitz game against the top player in the club. Tommy reluctantly shows up but wins easily. When it is announced that the Russian Junior Chess Team is coming to play Hatley High, the whole town is thrown into a frenzy for an opportunity for redemption. At the pregame dance, Anya, the captain of the Russian chess team, easily seduces Shaun, ties him up, and locks him in the school's attic, solidifying a Russian win. During halftime, Tommy performs a spectacular magic show. When Shaun does not escape from his bonds in time to play the remaining match, the coach is forced to substitute Tommy in his place. The film won two awards at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival; "Best Director" for Phil Price, and "Best Screenplay" for Myles Hainsworth. |
Đỗ Cảnh Thạc Đỗ Cảnh Thạc (, 912–967) was a warlord of Vietnam during the Period of the 12 Warlords. Đỗ Cảnh Thạc was a Chinese from Guangling (in mordern Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province). In 905, he was sent to put down together with Ngô Xương Văn and Dương Cát Lợi. Ngô Xương Văn was the second son of the former ruler Ngô Quyền. When their troops reached Từ Liêm, Văn persuaded his two colleagues to turn their armies back, and dethroned the usurper Dương Tam Kha. After Ngô Xương Văn's death, Thạc occupied Đỗ Động Giang (mordern Thanh Oai District, Hanoi), and titled himself Đỗ Cảnh Công (杜景公). Later, he was defeated by Đinh Bộ Lĩnh. |
Moti Gitik Mordechai "Moti" Gitik () is a mathematician, working in set theory, who is professor at the Tel-Aviv University. He was an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congresses of Mathematicians, and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. Gitik proved the consistency of "all uncountable cardinals are singular" (a strong negation of the axiom of choice) from the consistency of "there is a proper class of strongly compact cardinals". He further proved the equiconsistency of the following statements: |
Hirebidanur Hirebidanur is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Gauribidanur taluk of Chikkaballapura district in Karnataka. It is situated 2 km away from sub-district headquarter Gauribidanur and 33 km away from district headquarter Chikkaballapura. According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Hirebidanur village is 623257.. Hirebidanur village is also a gram panchayat. Villages comes under Hirebidanur gram Panchayat are Veerlagollhalli, Moorumanehalli, Kurubarahalli, Herebidanur and Cheegatagere. The total geographical area of village is 369.38 hectares. Hirebidanur has a total population of 5,815 peoples with 3,095 males and 2,720 females. There are about 1265 houses in Hirebidanur village. Gauribidanur is nearest town to Hirebidanur which is approximately 2 km away. People belonging to the Hirebidanur village grow very much maize, millet silk, etc. The major occupations of the residents of Hirebidanur are dairy farming. The dairy cooperative is the largest individual milk supplying cooperative in the state. Hirebidanur has below types of facilities. Alakapura |
Semovente da 47/32 The Semovente L. 40 da 47/32 was an Italian self-propelled gun built during World War II. It was created by mounting a Cannone da 47/32 anti-tank gun in an open-topped, box-like superstructure on a L 6/40 light tank chassis. Some were built as command tanks with a radio installed instead of the main gun. An 8 mm machine gun disguised as the 47 mm main gun was used on these versions to make them look like a regular Semovente 47/32s. About 300 Semoventi da 47/32 were built from 1941 onward. The Semovente da 47/32 was the most heavily armed Italian armoured fighting vehicle used on the Eastern Front. While the 47 mm gun was adequate for 1941, by the time the Semovente reached the field it was already outdated and ineffective against enemy medium tanks, and therefore the vehicle was not particularly successful. After the Italian armistice in September 1943, the German Army took all Semovente 47/32s they could get hold of for their own use. The German designation was StuG L6 47/32 630(i). Some of these were provided to Germany's Croatian puppet state and the Slovene Home Guard. |
McGlew and Goddard (62) shared an opening partnership of 147, but after Goddard was out, McGlew became another finger injury casualty and four further wickets fell cheaply. Waite and Winslow then came together and shared a sixth wicket partnership of 171. Both made centuries: Waite 113 and Winslow 108. When McGlew resumed his innings at the fall of the seventh wicket, he became the third century-maker with an unbeaten 104. England lost openers Kenyon and Graveney for just a run apiece. Then May, with 117, shared century stands with Compton (71) and Colin Cowdrey (50). The injured Evans made 36 of a last-wicket partnership of 48 with Bailey, but South Africa needed 145 to win in 135 minutes. McGlew and McLean hit 72 in 50 minutes, and though wickets fell regularly after that, the target was achieved in what would have been the penultimate over. South Africa lost half their first innings wickets for 38 and were then 98 for seven. Innings of 41 apiece by McLean and Endean gave the total some respectability; Peter Loader took four wickets for 52 runs. England's new opening pair of Trevor Bailey and Frank Lowson failed, and only May with 47 and Compton (61) made runs against an attack depleted by injury to Adcock. Just 20 behind on the first innings, South Africa's openers, McGlew and Goddard, opened with a careful stand of 176, the highest first-wicket partnership against England to this point. Goddard went for 74, but McGlew completed a century, falling eventually for 133. Keith made 73, and after a mid-innings collapse Endean, with 116, shepherded the lower order batsmen to a total of 500. Graveney opened with Lowson as England sought 481 in eight hours and 20 minutes, but Lowson was out without scoring. Graveney made 36 and then May (97) and Doug Insole (47) put on 101 for the third wicket. The rest of the batting was worn down by Goddard and Tayfield, both of whom finished with five wickets in the innings. Goddard bowled 62 overs in all, bowling continuously on the last day from 11.30 in the morning until victory at 4.12 in the afternoon. Prior to the start of the game there was a lengthy South African Selection Committee debate as to who should captain the team, Cheetham opting for McGlew following his victories in the Third and Fourth encounters, McGlew disagreeing and so it was that Cheetham led the side out onto the Oval that Saturday in humid conditions, conditions which initially assisted the South African seam bowlers Heine and Fuller, however they bowled too long, the Englishmen masterful in reaping the error. |
Multithreading libraries provide a function call to create a new thread, which takes a function as a parameter. A concurrent thread is then created which starts running the passed function and ends when the function returns. The thread libraries also offer synchronization functions which make it possible to implement race condition-error free multithreading functions using mutexes, condition variables, critical sections, semaphores, monitors and other synchronization primitives. Another paradigm of thread usage is that of thread pools where a set number of threads are created at startup that then wait for a task to be assigned. When a new task arrives, it wakes up, completes the task and goes back to waiting. This avoids the relatively expensive thread creation and destruction functions for every task performed and takes thread management out of the application developer's hand and leaves it to a library or the operating system that is better suited to optimize thread management. For example, frameworks like Grand Central Dispatch and Threading Building Blocks. In programming models such as CUDA designed for data parallel computation, an array of threads run the same code in parallel using only its ID to find its data in memory. In essence, the application must be designed so that each thread performs the same operation on different segments of memory so that they can operate in parallel and use the GPU architecture. |
Malibu Nights Malibu Nights is the second studio album by American indie pop band LANY. It was released on October 5, 2018, by Side Street Entertainment and Polydor Records. The album was produced by Mike Crossey. The album was promoted by two singles, including the ballad lead single "Thru These Tears". "Malibu Nights" was written and recorded in early 2018 following the end of a romantic relationship frontman Paul Jason Klein was having with English singer Dua Lipa. Klein says he wrote music as a form of catharsis without the idea of an album in mind but realized after "50 days" that he had written the band's second album. Klein later stated he was thankful for experiencing heartbreak as it allowed him a productive and therapeutic outlet. The album was originally planned to be called "January" but was renamed to be more universal. The album's sound was characterised as "airy, treacly and catchy" by "Bandwagon Asia". "Billboard" called it the band's "most vulnerable work to date" and a set of "nine lush pop songs". The lead single "Thru These Tears" was called a "somber exploration of lost love" and "a song about finding the hope in sorrow". Second single "I Don't Wanna Love You Anymore" details the "anguish and heartache felt after a lover unexpectedly leaves frontman and lead vocalist Paul Jason Klein", with the pre-chorus: "Sick of staring up at the ceiling. How'd you change your mind just like that? The only way to get past this feeling, is to tell myself you're not coming back". Along with lyrics about "love, longing and loss in the wake of heartbreak", the album incorporates more guitar, piano and drums than their self-titled debut. The album's title track is based around a piano instrumental. The album was announced in an Instagram post in March 2018, and later promoted with a performance of lead single "Thru These Tears" on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" in August 2018. |
Ciancia Medica Santaclara Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Santa Clara Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz is a medical university in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba with students from all around the world. In this university students from many countries including Algeria, Guatemala, Pakistan, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, South Africa and many others are studying, along with their Cuban fellows, under scholarship offered by the Government of Cuba. |
Catabena lineolata Catabena lineolata, the fine-lined sallow, is a species of owlet moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for "Catabena lineolata" is 10033. |
Musicologist Martin Cooper calls this practice a subtle form of unifying a piece of music and adds that Tchaikovsky brought it to a high point of refinement. (For more on this practice, see the next section.) Like other late Romantic composers, Tchaikovsky relied heavily on orchestration for musical effects. Tchaikovsky, however, became noted for the "sensual opulence" and "voluptuous timbrel virtuosity" of his orchestration. Like Glinka, Tchaikovsky tended toward bright primary colors and sharply delineated contrasts of texture. However, beginning with the Third Symphony, Tchaikovsky experimented with an increased range of timbres Tchaikovsky's scoring was noted and admired by some of his peers. Rimsky-Korsakov regularly referred his students at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to it and called it "devoid of all striving after effect, [to] give a healthy, beautiful sonority". This sonority, musicologist Richard Taruskin points out, is essentially Germanic in effect. Tchaikovsky's expert use of having two or more instruments play a melody simultaneously (a practice called doubling) and his ear for uncanny combinations of instruments resulted in "a generalized orchestral sonority in which the individual timbres of the instruments, being thoroughly mixed, would vanish". In works like the "Serenade for Strings" and the "Variations on a Rococo Theme", Tchaikovsky showed he was highly gifted at writing in a style of 18th-century European pastiche. In the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" and the opera "The Queen of Spades", Tchaikovsky graduated from imitation to full-scale evocation. This practice, which Alexandre Benois calls "passé-ism", lends an air of timelessness and immediacy, making the past seem as though it were the present. On a practical level, Tchaikovsky was drawn to past styles because he felt he might find the solution to certain structural problems within them. His Rococo pastiches also may have offered escape into a musical world purer than his own, into which he felt himself irresistibly drawn. (In this sense, Tchaikovsky operated in the opposite manner to Igor Stravinsky, who turned to Neoclassicism partly as a form of compositional self-discovery.) Tchaikovsky's attraction to ballet might have allowed a similar refuge into a fairy-tale world, where he could freely write dance music within a tradition of French elegance. |
Tumisang Monnatlala Tumisang Monnatlala (born 31 January 1995) is a South African steeplechase runner. He competed in the 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. Outdoor |
Finiș Finiș () is a commune in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania, two kilometers from the town of Beiuș. It is composed of five villages: Finiș, Brusturi ("Papkútfürdő"), Fiziș ("Füzes"), Ioaniș ("Körösjánosfalva") and Șuncuiș ("Belényessonkolyos"). |
El Barod Sharq El Barod Sharq is one of the villages surrounding the town of Sodfa in the Asyut Governorate, Egypt. According to statistics from the year 2006, the total population in El Barod Sharq was 3168 people, of which 1620 are men and 1548 women. |
It won its time-slot beating "Mayday" and "Embarrassing Bodies". This was the best premiere episode of a weekday new drama series in the United Kingdom since ITV's "Whitechapel" debuted in January 2009. The second episode continued to perform well pulling in 5.78 million viewers (23.2 percent audience share), while another 606,000 viewers (3.7 percent) watching on time-delayed viewing. It once again won its competitive time slot beating "Embarrassing Bodies" and BBC One's "Shetland". The third episode climbed to its biggest audience so far pulling in 7.30 million viewers (30.9 percent audience share), adding 241,000 (1.1 percent) via time-delayed viewing. Once again it won its time slot. The fourth episode continued to draw a large audience, pulling in 6.88 million viewers (28.1 percent audience share), and further 308,000 viewers (1.79%) watching on time-delay. The fifth episode climbed in the ratings from the previous week to help give ITV a win over BBC One, overnight data revealed. The fifth episode attracted 6.29 million viewers (24.5 percent audience share) at 9 PM. A further 310,000 viewers tuned in via time-delay viewing. The sixth episode climbed once again in the ratings, overnight data revealed. Live viewers rose to 6.29 million (24.5 percent audience share) with 310,000 viewers tuning in via time-delay. The penultimate episode won an audience of 6.93 million (27.7 percent audience share) on ITV, with 342,000 (1.9 percent) tuning in on ITV+1. "Broadchurch" attracted an average weekly audience of 7.1 million "live" viewers during its run. After accounting for time-delayed viewing, "Broadchurch" averaged 9.2 million viewers per episode. "Broadchurch" series one was not a rating success in all countries, however. When it aired on BBC America in the United States, ratings were negligible. American consumption of the series on iTunes, Amazon.com, and other streaming video sites was also small. "Broadchurch" was nominated for seven BAFTA awards. Olivia Colman won Best Actress, David Bradley won Best Supporting Actor, and the show was named Best Drama Series. The show competed for the BAFTA Audience Award, but lost to "The Day of the Doctor" ("Doctor Who"), which also starred David Tennant. Ólafur Arnalds won Best Original Television Music, while James Strong was nominated for Best Director-Fiction for "Episode One", Mike Jones was nominated for Best Editing-Fiction for "Episode Eight", Catrin Meredydd was nominated for Best Production Design, and Chris Chibnall was nominated for Best Writer-Drama. |
DNA demethylation In mammals, DNA demethylation causes replacement of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) in a DNA sequence by cytosine (C) (see figure of 5mC and C). DNA demethylation can occur by an active process at the site of a 5mC in a DNA sequence or, in replicating cells, by preventing addition of methyl groups to DNA so that the replicated DNA will largely have cytosine in the DNA sequence (5mC will be diluted out). Methylated cytosine is frequently present in the linear DNA sequence where a cytosine is followed by a guanine in a 5' → 3' direction (a CpG site). In mammals, DNA methyltransferases (which add methyl groups to DNA bases) exhibit a strong sequence preference for cytosines at (CpG sites). There appear to be more than 20 million CpG dinucleotides in the human genome (see genomic distribution). In mammals, on average, 70% to 80% of CpG cytosines are methylated, though the level of methylation varies with different tissues. Methylated cytosines often occur in groups or CpG islands within the promoter regions of genes, where such methylation may reduce or silence gene expression (see gene expression). Methylated cytosines in the gene body, however, are positively correlated with expression. Almost 100% DNA demethylation occurs by a combination of passive dilution and active enzymatic removal during the reprogramming that occurs in early embryogenesis and in gametogenesis. Another large demethylation, of about 3% of all genes, can occur by active demethylation in neurons during formation of a strong memory. After surgery, demethylations are found in peripheral blood mononuclear cells at sites annotated to immune system genes. Demethylations also occur during the formation of cancers. During global DNA hypomethylation of tumor genomes, there is a minor to moderate reduction of the number of methylated cytosines (5mC) amounting to a loss of about 5% to 20% on average of the 5mC bases. The mouse sperm genome is 80–90% methylated at its CpG sites in DNA, amounting to about 20 million methylated sites. After fertilization, the paternal chromosome is almost completely demethylated in six hours by an active process, before DNA replication (blue line in Figure). |
Barclay Bay Barclay Bay () is a bay in Drake Passage lying between Cape Shirreff and Essex Point on the north side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Its head is fed by Etar Snowfield. The name appears on an 1825 chart of the British sealing expedition under James Weddell, and is now established in international usage. Barclay Bay is part of the mise-en-scène in the Antarctica thriller novel "The Killing Ship" authored by Elizabeth Cruwys and Beau Riffenburgh under their joint alias Simon Beaufort in 2016. The plot involves a ship sent to the bottom of the bay, which is shown on a sketch map of Livingston Island illustrating the book. |
Warner A. Graham Warner A. Graham (January 9, 1884 – January 28, 1934) was a Vermont attorney and judge. He was notable for his service as a judge of the Vermont Superior Court and an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Warner Aiken Graham was born in Greensboro, Vermont on January 9, 1884, the son of William and Inez Lorinda (Fayer) Graham. He attended the schools of Greensboro, and graduated from Hardwick Academy in 1903. In 1907, Graham received his LL.B. degree from Albany Law School and attained admission to the bar. Graham settled in Rockingham, where he began to practice law in partnership with Herbert D. Ryder. A Republican, Graham served in local offices, including auditor for the village of Bellows Falls, and grand juror (municipal court prosecutor) for the town of Rockingham. During the governorship of Allen M. Fletcher, Graham served as his Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs (chief assistant). In 1914, Graham was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, and he served one term. From 1916 to 1923, Graham was probate judge for the district that included Rockingham. While serving on the probate court, his most notable matter was adjudicating the estate of Hetty Green. In 1923, Graham was appointed a judge of the Vermont Superior Court. He advanced through seniority to become the court's chief judge in 1929, and he served until 1931. He was succeeded on the superior court by Deane C. Davis. In 1931, Graham was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Julius A. Willcox, and he served until his death. Graham died at the hospital in Rockingham on January 28, 1934. He had been ill with appendicitis, and died as the result of post-surgical complications including gangrene and peritonitis. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Bellows Falls. In 1915, Graham married Blanche S. Woodfall (1885-1969) of Bellows Falls. They were the parents of a son, Gordon (1921-1943). Gordon Graham died while serving in the United States Army during World War II, perishing as a result of the sinking of the SS "Dorchester". |
"The New York Times" reported that "consumer" reviews are more effective, because "they purport to be testimonials of real people, even though some are bought and sold just like everything else on the commercial Internet." Some organizations feel that their business is threatened by negative comments, so they may engage in astroturfing to drown them out. Online comments from astroturfing employees can also sway the discussion through the influence of groupthink. Some astroturfing operatives defend their practice. Regarding "movements that have organized aggressively to exaggerate their sway," author Ryan Sager said that this "isn't cheating. Doing everything in your power to get your people to show up is basic politics." According to a Porter/Novelli executive, "There will be times when the position you advocate, no matter how well framed and supported, will not be accepted by the public simply because you are who you are." Data mining expert Bing Liu (University of Illinois) estimated that one-third of all consumer reviews on the Internet are fake. According to "The New York Times", this has made it hard to tell the difference between "popular sentiment" and "manufactured public opinion". According to an article in the "Journal of Business Ethics", astroturfing threatens the legitimacy of genuine grassroots movements. The authors argued that astroturfing that is "purposefully designed to fulfill corporate agendas, manipulate public opinion and harm scientific research represents a serious lapse in ethical conduct." A 2011 report found that often paid posters from competing companies are attacking each other in forums and overwhelming regular participants in the process. George Monbiot said that persona-management software supporting astroturfing "could destroy the Internet as a forum for constructive debate". An article in the "Journal of Consumer Policy" said that regulators and policy makers needed to be more aggressive about astroturfing. The author said that it undermines the public's ability to inform potential customers of sub-standard products or inappropriate business practices, but also noted that fake reviews were difficult to detect. Use of one or more front groups is one astroturfing technique. These groups typically present themselves as serving the public interest, while actually working on behalf of a corporate or political sponsor. Front groups may resist legislation and scientific consensus that is damaging to the sponsor's business by emphasizing minority viewpoints, instilling doubt and publishing counterclaims by corporate-sponsored experts. Fake blogs can also be created that appear to be written by consumers, while actually being operated by a commercial or political interest. |
Clemensia abnormis Clemensia abnormis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in French Guiana. |
Some members craft traditional costumes, based on models from the beginning of the 20th century. Meanwhile, 41 festivals have been organized and held responsibly. More than 15,000 dancers, singers and their companions from 30 countries were taken care of by the association. Until its spin-off in 1992, the musicians performed together with the folk dance group of the club. The musical repertoire ranges from ancient pieces of music of Pieria and Macedonia to the contemporary music of all over Greece. The main concern of the musicians is the preservation and distribution of the local songs. So far, 120 titles have been recorded and archived. Since 1994 the photographers of the association have founded their own department called "Iris". Talented and semi-professional members pass on their knowledge in seminars. There is a darkroom, library, photographic equipment, training facilities and a library. During the transnational project "The National Cultural Heritage Through the Light of Photography" (2013 and 2015) Iris collaborated with photographers from five other European countries. The works of the group were exhibited in different cities within Greece. In 2011, members began to donate blood in organized form in collaboration with the State Hospital in Katerini. |
Colomi Municipality Colomi Municipality is the second municipal section of the Chapare Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Colomi. |
Assales Fatumaca Assales Fatumaca is a school in Baucau District, near Gariuai, East Timor. Missionaries first came to Fatumaca in order to open schools for East Timorese youth, and requested permission of the Gariuai king, and asked for land upon which to build a school. The king granted his permission. There was only one school at first, the ETP (Escola Tecnica Proffecional); Assales Fatumaca was a subsequent school. The Assales Fatumaca educational system is based on the Don Bosco "preventive system", which assumes that preventing someone from making a mistake is better than punishing them after they make a mistake, which makes Assales Fatumaca stricter than ETP Fatumaca; Assales Fatumaca also has an elimination program for those who fall below the marks level set by the school. Assales Fatumaca has a full marching band. ETP and Assales Fatumaca are rivals, and play against one another in three cups: Immaculada Cup (8 Dec), Don Bosco Cup (31 Jan), and the Auxiliadora Cup (24 May). |
Ridiculousness (TV series) Ridiculousness is an American comedy clip show that began airing on August 29, 2011. It is hosted by Rob Dyrdek and co-hosted by Sterling "Steelo" Brim and Chanel West Coast. "Ridiculousness" strictly showcases various viral videos from the Internet, usually involving failed do-it-yourself attempts at stunts, to which Rob and his panelists add mockery and reaction. On September 10, 2012, "Ridiculousness" was renewed for a twenty episode third season. It premiered on February 14, 2013, and included a crossover with "Jersey Shore" when Pauly D guest-starred. The season would later go into hiatus in April 2013 and return on July 18, 2013. Season 3 averaged a 1.6 P12-34 rating and is the No.1 original cable series in its time slot with P12-34. As of October 2015, some episodes of "Ridiculousness" were repackaged due to the series being consistently marathoned on MTV and MTV2, with lower-cost production music under blanket licenses overlaying the former tracks which would have required MTV to pay music licensing fees to artists, as Viacom forced a number of budget cuts on their networks due to ratings issues. The series is produced by Superjacket Productions, Rob Dyrdek's production company, under a multi-year deal with MTV. David Wiegand of the "San Francisco Chronicle" wrote: "The best thing about watching (viral videos) online is that you don't have to listen to Dyrdek's patter or the stellar contributions of his guests... the bigger danger is in watching the show in the first place: You might die of boredom. In other words, don't try this at home." In 2016, a "New York Times" study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "Ridiculousness" "is most popular in rural Alaska, New Mexico and Montana, and least popular in Washington D.C., Atlanta and San Francisco". The program was very successful internationally, which eventually led to the creation of localized versions in some regions. These versions are hosted by local celebrities in their respective regions and is broadcast on international MTV networks, alongside the original U.S version, or on other selected channels. |
Notonomus longus Notonomus longus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Sloane in 1913. |
Jolalpan Jolalpan Municipality is a municipality in Puebla in south-eastern Mexico. |
When the Royal Dramatic Theatre was founded in 1788, he became a member of the theater's board of directors. He was a member of its pioneer generation of actors and counted among its leading members until his retirement. Lars Hjortsberg was very appreciated in comedies, and one of his most popular roles were as Polycarpus in "Kronfogdarne". On 24 November 1825, the theater building of the Arsenal Theatre burned down in the midst of a performance. Lars Hjortsberg discovered the fire, interrupted the play and informed the audience from the stage. The building was with narrow passages and only one exit which could have led to many casualties if Hjortsberg had not directed the evacuation with such calmness and efficiency that no one was killed, which made him a hero in the eyes of the public, who greeted him with great applause at his next performance at the building at the Royal Swedish Opera, where the Royal Dramatic Theatre would now also be located. When the actors board of directors was replaced by an appointed director in 1803, the fame of Hjortsberg forced the management to accept criticism from him, and he was therefore somewhat of a spokesperson for the actors against the management, who was generally very strict. He retired after the failed second strike of Ulrik Torsslow and Sara Torsslow in 1834, but he soon returned. He gave his last performance in 1842. He died in Nyköping and was buried at Västra kyrkogården. Lars Hjortsberg is portrayed in a novel by Agneta Pleijel, "Kungens komediant" ( Norstedts : 2007). |
Dixie Dugan (film) Dixie Dugan is a 1943 American comedy film, directed by Otto Brower. It stars Lois Andrews, James Ellison, and Charlotte Greenwood. Intended as the first of a series, the film was not a success and the plans for sequels were scrapped. |
Hubert Ausbie Hubert Eugene "Geese" Ausbie (born 25 April 1938) is a retired professional basketball player. Ausbie was born in Crescent, Oklahoma. He attended Douglas High School where he played on the basketball and baseball teams. He was such an exceptional basketball star; during a tournament his senior season, he averaged 40 points per game and scored 70, 54 and 62 points in three consecutive games. Following a brother of his, Ausbie attended Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended from 1956 to 1960 and was a star basketball player there, earning All-Conference and All-American honors. He was one of the leading college scorers in the NCAA's College Division (later called Division II), averaging 30 points per game. Ausbie was offered contracts by Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs and National Basketball Association teams. However, he joined the Harlem Globetrotters after his wife sent numerous letters describing his play to the team's founder Abe Saperstein, which led to Ausbie attending an open tryout in 1961 in Chicago. Ausbie gained fame as a Globetrotter from 1961–1985. After the retirement of Meadowlark Lemon, Ausbie took his place as the "Clown Prince of Basketball" for his dazzling play and irrepressible pranks on the court. Ausbie retired from the team in 1985 and pursued other interests such as involvement in "Drug-Free Youth Program & Traveling Museum Showcase (a collection of Globetrotter-related memorabilia) which he has presented to hundreds of students at all grade levels in Arkansas and other states". He has served on the advisory committee for the National Youth Sports Program. In 1994, he received a Globetrotters Legends ring, a recognition given to only a few elite former players. The next year, he became head coach and manager of operations for the Globetrotters. His jersey number 35 was retired by the Globetrotters on January 31, 2017 during the Globetrotters' game at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Ausbie was "married for 25 years to his college sweetheart, Awilda". He has four children. A Mason, Ausbie resides in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he has been a deacon at Greater Archview Baptist Church. |
Joe Grace (baseball) Joseph LaVerne "Joe" Grace (January 5, 1914 – September 18, 1969) was a professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Browns and the Washington Senators. He played 6 seasons in MLB between 1938 and 1947. He served in the US Navy from 1942-45. He posted a .283 batting average (442-1561) with 20 home runs and 172 RBI in 484 games played. His best season was in 1941 with the St. Louis Browns, batting .309 with 6 home runs and 60 RBI. Grace died in an automobile accident at the age of 55. |
Leopold Kyanda Leopold Eric Kyanda is a Major General in the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF). He currently serves as the Chief of Staff of the Land Forces in the UPDF. He was appointed to that position in May 2013, replacing Major General Charles Angina, who was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed "Deputy Chief of Defence Forces of Uganda" (DCDF). Ugandan press reports indicate that in 1994, Leo Kyanda was a driver to General Ivan Koreta, at that time, a Brigadier. He later joined the then "Presidential Guard Brigade" (PGB), which today is part of the "Special Forces Group" (SFG). He rose in its ranks and eventually became the Commander of the PGB. Following that, he became the Commandant of the "Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence" (CMI). From there, he was assigned to the Ugandan Embassy in Washington, DC, as the Military Attaché, serving in that capacity for two years. On his return to Uganda, he was appointed "Chief of Personnel and Administration" in the UPDF. From there, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and assigned his current post of Chief of Staff of Land Forces of Uganda. In December 2017, Kyanda completed a military course from the National Defence College in India. In February 2019 he was promoted from the rank of Brigadier to that of Major General, as a part of a promotions exercise involving over 2,000 men and women of the UPDF. |
Brave 1: The Beginning Brave 1: The Beginning (also known as Brave 1 and Brave: The Beginning) was a mixed martial arts event held live by Brave Combat Federation on Friday September 23, 2016 at the Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town, Bahrain. The event was broadcast live online and locally through Bahrain TV. Brave 1: The Beginning was Brave Combat Federation's debut card and took place on its founder and patron's, Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 27th birthday. The event was the second professional Mixed Martial Arts fight night to take place in Bahrain, after Desert Force 11 in March 7, 2014, but the first one involving a Bahrain-based promotion. The card was officially announced in the promotion's launching press conference, on July 27, 2016. Brave 1 was originally supposed to be headlined by the welterweight bout between Lebanon's Mohammad Fakhreddine and Brazil's Thiago "Monstro" Vieira. Six days before the fight, though, Fakhreddine suffered a knee injury and pulled from the fight, being replaced by Russia's Gadzhimusa Gaziev. Gaziev vs Vieira was then moved to the co-main event position on the fight card, with Abdul Kareem Al-Selwady vs Rami Aziz becoming the new main event of the evening. For years, Abdul Kareem Al-Selwady vs Rami Aziz was one of the hottest rivalries in Middle East. The Iraqi started calling out the opponent when he was still the Desert Force featherweight champion, but the fight never took place in the promotion. With both fighters signing with Brave simultaneously, the agreement for the anticipated bout came soon and the promotion was marked by an intense war of words. A bout between Russia's Eldar Eldarov and Ireland's Peter Queally, from SBG Ireland, was in the works for this card but Queally didn't reach an agreement with Brave and Eldar ended up facing Kevin Koldobsky, also from SBG. Ivan Lopez, from Mexico, was originally scheduled to face Crisanto Pitpitunge, from the Philippines, in a featured flyweight bout but Crisanto pulled from the fight due to an injury. Jessie Rafols, also from the Philippines, was chosen as his replacement. The event was broadcast internationally online, through Brave's official website and YouTube channel, for free. In addition, the card was also broadcast in Bahrain, and in selected cable companies, through Bahrain TV. |
Inner Voices Inner Voices is a 1977 album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, his twelfth to be released on the Milestone label. It was recorded in September 1977 and features performances by Tyner with rhythm section horn section and vocalists. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "In reality, the voices were not needed (they stick out as a bit of a frivolity), but Tyner plays as strong as usual; he has yet to record an uninspired solo". |
List of places of worship in Waverley (borough) As of 2020, there are more than 110 current and former places of worship in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England. Various Christian denominations own and use 87 churches, chapels and halls across the borough, and a further 28 buildings no longer serve a religious function but survive in alternative uses. Waverley is the largest of 11 local government districts in the county of Surrey—a small inland county south of London. The borough is largely rural: there are some small towns and dozens of villages and hamlets. Many of these have ancient parish churches, and other places of worship were established in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The United Kingdom Census 2011 reported that the majority of residents are Christian. The largest number of churches in Waverley belong to the Church of England—the country's Established Church—but Roman Catholicism and Protestant Nonconformism are also well represented, the latter particularly in the ancient towns of Farnham and Godalming. Congregationalist churches can be traced back to the 17th century in the borough, Unitarianism and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) have a long history in Godalming, and Methodists and Baptists each have several congregations. Other denominations and groups represented in the borough include Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Assemblies of God and the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Historic England has awarded listed status to 37 current and seven former places of worship in Waverley borough. A building is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, is responsible for this; Historic England, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of the department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of "exceptional interest"; Grade II* is used for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest"; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of "special interest". As of February 2001, there were 21 Grade I-listed buildings, 92 with Grade II* status and 1,548 Grade II-listed buildings in the borough. Waverley is a largely rural district situated in the southwest of the county of Surrey. |
The Hueneme Road/Rice Avenue intermodal corridor was established by the district along with the cities of Oxnard and Port Hueneme, the County of Ventura, and approved by the state transportation commission in 1998 to deal with the truck traffic. This direct route connects the port to the nationwide freight network and raises the status of the port to give it access to more federal funding resulting in a competitive advantage. Funding was put in place in 2000 to improved the dedicated freight corridor by extending Rice Road southerly to connect Hueneme Road (Port Hueneme Road within Port Hueneme city limits) and totally rebuilding the interchange for State Route 1 at Pleasant Valley Road. The new interchange at Highway 101 and Rice Avenue was dedicated in 2014 after being improved and expanded from a two-lane overpass with narrow freeway ramps that required sharp difficult turns for trucks. The interchange and road improvements also made Rice Avenue, rather than Oxnard Boulevard, the main thoroughfare between the Ventura Freeway and the Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1). An overpass has been planned for almost two decades along this route at the Rice Avenue intersection with Fifth Street (State Route 34). In February 2015, a Metrolink passenger train collided with a truck at this on-grade crossing. Funding is being allocated for design with a desire by local officials to eventually get the estimated $35 million need for this grade separation project. Three historic sites are highlighted at viewing points on the Promenade: the 1872 Wharf, the Oxnard Packing House, and extant Point Hueneme Light. The Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board designated the "Original Hueneme Wharf Site" as County Landmark #24 in 1972. The Oxnard Harbor District is an independent special district formed in 1937. The district is governed by a five-member commission elected at-large to staggered four year terms by the voters within the district boundary. The port is one of the five of the deep water ports governed by special districts in the state of California. The state's other six deep water ports are a function of the city in which the port is located. The District boundary includes the City of Port Hueneme, most of the City of Oxnard, and the unincorporated communities of El Rio, Nyeland Acres, Silver Strand, Hollywood Beach and Hollywood by the Sea. The district formed using the existing boundary of the Oxnard Union High School District which also encompassed Camarillo, a portion of Thousand Oaks and additional unincorporated areas of the county. |
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe) Yissachar Dov Rokeach (born 19 January 1948) is the fifth and present Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Belz. He is the son of Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgoray (1902 – 1949), the grandson of the third Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, and the nephew of the fourth Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, who raised him. He has led Belz since 1966. Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgoray and his half-brother (through his father), Rebbe Aharon, escaped Europe in a daring escape attempt and arrived in Palestine in 1944. Both lost their wives and families to the Nazis. Both remarried in Israel; Rabbi Mordechai's second wife was Miriam, the daughter of Rabbi Hershel Glick of Satmar. Only Rabbi Mordechai had a child, Yissachar Dov. In November 1949 Rabbi Mordechai died suddenly and his son was raised by his uncle, Rebbe Aharon, who groomed him to be the next Rebbe in the dynasty. For most of the year, Yissachar Dov lived near his uncle in Tel Aviv and studied in the Belzer Talmud Torah there; he spent the summer months in Jerusalem, studying in the Satmar Talmud Torah. When Rebbe Aharon died in 1957, Yissachar Dov was only nine years old. For the next nine years, Belz was effectively without an active rebbe, as Yissachor Dov, then called the "Yanuka" (Child) by his followers, was educated by a small circle of trusted advisors. A few years after Rebbe Aharon’s death, Yissachar Dov entered the Belzer yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he was given two dormitory rooms – one which he shared with other students as a sleeping room and a private room where he could study alone and with others. Every decision regarding the young boy was brought before Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Neiman, Rav of the Belzer community in Montreal and a relative of Yissachar Dov on his mother’s side. Yissachar Dov celebrated his bar mitzvah on 25 January 1961 (8 Shevat 5721) in the Tel Aviv beit medrash of Rebbe Aharon, where he sat by himself at the dais, greeting a few hundred guests. |
Alfio Musmarra Alfio Musmarra (born May 30, 1976 in Taurianova, Italy) is an Italian sports journalist and TV presenter of Qui studio a voi stadio. |
Margaret married William Whorwood, a prominent lawyer. Sir Richard left property in Norfolk, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. A direct descendant, Robert Broke of Nacton, was created baronet in 1661, and died without male issue in 1693, when the estates passed to his nephew Robert, grandfather of Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke. |
In late 1973, the group had their biggest hit with "Having a Party", a version of the Sam Cooke song which was infused with a medley of other soul hits. The single, which had been recorded by Williams together with backing vocalists, reached no.7 on the R&B chart and no.56 on the pop chart. The group also released an album, "Having a Party", on MGM, but disbanded soon afterwards. In 2009 their recording of "They Say" was included on a Goldwax Northern soul compilation. |
Pallacanestro Forlì 2.015 Pallacanestro Forlì 2.015, also known as simply Forlì, is an Italian basketball club based in Forlì. Established in 2015, it plays its home games at the Unieuro Arena. The club currently plays in the Serie A2 Basket, the second tier league of Italy. The club was established in May 2015 to fill up the gap which was left after Fulgor Libertas Forlì was dissolved. Forlì 2.015 started playing in the Serie B Basket, Italy's third tier league. In its first season, Unieuro Forli won the Serie B LNP Cup after defeating Eurobasket Roma in the final.6 In the same season, Forlì managed to promote to the Serie A2 Basket. Serie B LNP Cup |
Koitere Lacus Koitere Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The lake is composed of liquid methane and ethane, and was detected by the space probe "Cassini". The lacus is located at coordinates 79.4°N and 36.14°W on Titan's globe, in a region close to the north pole where most of Titan's lakes are located. The lake is 68 km in length, and is named after Koitere, a lake in Finland. |
"Atithi", when released, was a commercial as well as a critical success. It won a National Award and several BFJA Awards, and was India's official competitive entry to the Venice Film Festival. According to one source, Partha Mukherjee missed the Best Actor award at Venice by just a few votes. When asked about the film's success, Tapan Sinha said in an interview, "The greatest achievement was the hearty felicitations of millions of people - both from the intellectual circles and the common man." Shampa Banerjee and Anil Srivastava include "Atithi" in their selection of 100 Indian feature films. They write: "What Sinha did for Tagore's simple tale was to recreate that elusive freedom that the human spirit searches for even today." They add: "One of the most attractive features of the films is its presentation of rural Bengal. The camera revels in the outdoors and freedom becomes a tangible reality." "Atithi" is available in both VCD and DVD formats, in multiple distributions. |
Pittencrieff Park Pittencrieff Park (known locally as "The Glen") is a public park in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It was purchased in 1902 by the town's most famous son, Andrew Carnegie, and given to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year. Its lands include the historically significant and topologically rugged glen which interrupts the centre of Dunfermline and, accordingly, part of the intention of the purchase was to carry out civic development of the area in a way which also respected its heritage. The project notably attracted the attention of the urban planner and educationalist, Patrick Geddes. The glen is an area of topographical and historical significance to Dunfermline as the original site of Malcolm's Tower, the probable remains of which can be identified today on a strongly defendable outcrop of rock. To the eastern side of the park is Dunfermline Palace with Dunfermline Abbey and to the west it overlooks the village of Crossford. The lands of the modern park were previously known as Pittencrieff Estate. In 1902, Andrew Carnegie purchased both Pittencrieff House and Estate from its then-owner, Colonel James Maitland Hunt, ultimately with the intention of giving these to the people of Dunfermline. The official donation ceremony occurred the following year, and a trust fund in honour of the benefactory, known as Dunfermline Carnegie Trust, was founded for the general maintenance of the glen. As part of the donation of the estate, the Dunfermline Carnegie Trust invited proposals for the development of the area as a civic space. Two entries were submitted in 1903–04, one of which was by the world-renowned urban planner, naturalist and educationalist Patrick Geddes (1854–1932). His thinking about the commission, as he saw it, to balance preservation of heritage with regeneration, was an important influence in the formation of his ideas in town planning and civic renaissance. The second entry was by the landscape designer, Thomas Mawson. Although neither scheme was adopted, both influenced subsequent work on the establishment of the park as it exists today. More architectural features of the park, such as the huge ornate entrance gates, are by Robert Lorimer and were built in 1908. In the subsequent development of the modern park, Pittencrieff House was designed as a centre piece. The house was originally built in the 15th century by the Wemyss family. |
Second inauguration of Joko Widodo The second inauguration of Joko Widodo as president of Indonesia took place on Sunday, 20 October 2019 at the DPR/MPR Building, Jakarta. This ceremony marked the commencement of the second consecutive and final five-year term of Joko Widodo (universally known as Jokowi) as president and first term of Ma'ruf Amin as vice president. Jokowi-Amin ticket won the 2019 election with 55.5% of the popular vote against their only opponent, Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno. After Prabowo's dispute was rejected by the Constitutional Court, the General Elections Commission (KPU) declared the ticket as winners. The inauguration ceremony was started on 15:30 local time (08:30 UTC), 60 minutes later than scheduled. It was held on the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) parliamentary session and is led by its speaker Bambang Soesatyo. As the inauguration was held in a Sunday, the assembly decided to push forward the session starting time, which usually held at 10:00 local time. The reasons were to give Christians, Catholics, and Buddhists to attend their respective service. It was also intended to not interrupt the weekly car free day held near the venue at the morning to noon with road closures; the car free day event was cancelled anyway. Unlike the previous inauguration, cultural parades were not held. The event's security involved 31,000 personnel from the Indonesian National Police and the Indonesian National Armed Forces. Morrison's appearance was the fourth consecutive by an Australian prime minister in an Indonesian presidential inauguration, which dates back to 2004, the year of Indonesia's first popularly-elected presidential election. |
The Via Veneto Papers The Via Veneto Papers is a memoir collection by Ennio Flaiano, originally published in Italian in 1973, with a new expanded edition by Rizzoli in 1989 and translated into English by John Satriano in 1992. Wrote critic Richard Eder in Newsday: This is the first English language edition of the Italian original La solitudine del satiro (lit. "The Satyr’s Solitude") published in 1973, a year after Flaiano’s death. The book is divided into three sections: Incipit: "June 1958" -- "I am working with Fellini and Tullio Pinelli, dusting off an old idea of ours for a film, the one about a young provincial who comes to Rome to become a journalist. Fellini wants to adapt the idea to the present day, to paint a picture of this “wog society” that frolics between eroticism, alienation, boredom and sudden affluence. It is a society which, the terrors of the cold war now past and perhaps even in reaction to them, flourishes a bit everywhere. But in Rome, through a mixing together of the sacred and the profane, of the old and the new, through the "en masse" arrival of foreigners, through the cinema, presents more aggressive, subtropical qualities. The film will have "La dolce Vita" as its title and we have yet to write a single line of it; we are vaguely taking notes and going to the different places around town to refresh our memories." --"The Via Veneto Papers," p.1. |
Belasica Belasica (Macedonian and Bulgarian: , also translit. "Belasitsa" or "Belasitza", Ottoman Turkish: بلش Turkish: "Beleş"), Belles (, "Bélles") or Kerkini (, "Kerkíni";), is a mountain range in the region of Macedonia in Southeastern Europe, shared by northeastern Greece (about 45%), southeastern North Macedonia (35%) and southwestern Bulgaria (20%). The mountain range is fault-block mountain about long and wide and is situated just northeast of Dojran Lake. The highest point is Radomir (Kalabaka) at 2,031 m, with elevation otherwise ranging between 300 and 1900 m above sea level. The borders of all three countries meet at Tumba Peak. The climate in the area shows strong Mediterranean influence. The area of Belasica became a euroregion in 2003. Two football teams are named after the mountain range, PFC Belasitsa from the nearby Bulgarian town of Petrich and FC Belasica from Strumica in North Macedonia. Since ancient times Greeks refer to the range as Ὄρβηλος (Modern Greek: , Ancient Greek: ). According to the ancient authors it was a mountain range in the border area between Thrace and Macedonia. It is generally equated today with the modern Belasica. The name "Órbēlos" is probably derived from the ancient Thracian/Paionian toponym of the mountain, which means shining mountain, from 'belos' - blazing or shining and 'or' - mountain. It was known for its Dionysos cult. The area is also particularly famous for the Battle of Kleidion of 1014, which proved crucial for the fall of the First Bulgarian Empire. Kongur Glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands is named after the peak and nature reserve of Kongur on Belasitsa Mountain. |
Henry George Keene (1826–1915) Henry George Keene (1826–1915) was an English historian of medieval and modern India. Keene was born at the East India College, Haileybury; Henry George Keene (1781–1864) was his father. He was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford, going to India as an East India Company employee in 1847. His career as an official was limited, but he began to write. From 1847 to 1882 Keene served in the Bengal Civil Service. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 he was Superintendent at Dehra Doon.In his subsequent service Keene was in frequent disagreement with his superiors, and he confessed that a certain "unfortunate habit of levity and not always seasonable joking" hindered promotion. A wit and raconteur, he failed to do himself justice as an official. He often had good practical ideas, but was too changeable and too little master of detail to them effect. So when he reached the 35 years' limit he had not got beyond the grade of a district and sessions Judge. But he retired with the decoration of C.I.E., and with a literary reputation which he was able to turn to account in providing for the needs of a large family. Keene was twice married and is survived by four sons and five daughters. Among his sons are Mr. Henry George Keene, late of the Indian Financial Department, Colonel Alfred Keene, D.S.O., editor of the Journal of the National Service League, and Captain Geoffrey Keene, 29th Punjabis. Keene's books included: "Keene's Handbooks" covered a number of Indian cities. He also wrote for the "Dictionary of National Biography" and "Chambers's Encyclopaedia". |
HMS Arachne Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Arachne": |
Shitole Shitole is a Maratha clan found largely in Maharashtra, Karnataka and nearby regions of India. Under the Sultanates of Deccan during the pre-Shivaji era, Shitoles were administrators of more than three hundred villages near Pune. They were the Maratha's revenue collecting agents in Maratha history. The Shitoles served Kolhapur Princely State of Chhatrapatis through Sardar Sultanji Shitole, Sardar Appajirao Shitole, Sardar khetroji Shitole, Sardar Mahadaji Shitole Sardar Naroji Shitole Sardar Baji Shitole and Sardar Tukoji Shitole. |
It developed a Women's Training College, three hostels, one of them for Medical students and other for probationer nurses. In 1924, when Smt. Ranade died, the Pune Seva Sadan was training more than one thousand women in different departments. It was largely owing to Smt. Ranade's initiatives, guidance and exertions that Seva Sadan found a footing and grew so rapidly in spite of prevailing prejudices. The last two outstanding contribution which Smt. Ranade made were – the organisation of agitation for extending compulsory and pre-primary education to girls; and secondly organisation of Women's Suffrage Movement in Bombay presidency in 1921–22. The singular position, which Smt. Ranade assumed at the end of her life deserved Mahatma Gandhi's tribute to her as quoted: "The death of Ramabai Ranade is a great national loss. She was the embodiment of all that a Hindu widow could be. She was a true friend and helpmate of her illustrious husband in his lifetime." "After his death she chose her husband's reform activities as her life's aim. Justice Ranade was a reformer and deeply concerned about the uplifting of Indian womanhood. Ramabai put her heart and soul into Seva Sadan. She devoted her whole energy to it. The result is that Seva Sadan has become an institution with no second of its kind throughout India." In those days mostly widows took the nursing course sponsored by Seva Sadan. Once there was an occasion of the annual social gathering of Seva Sadan. One of the highlights of the function was the prize distribution ceremony. Among the prize winners was a widow. She was dressed in the traditional dress of the widows of those days, a simple dark red sari with the Pallu tightly drawn over her clean-shaven head. As the widow stepped on the stage, the student crowding the galleries started hooting and shouting. This outburst of misbehavior hurt Ramabai's feelings deeply. As she stood upon the stage towards the end of the function to give a brief thanksgiving speech, she was so provoked that she could not help chastising the student crowd with all the severity at her command: "You are college students and yet how can you be regarded as educated? How can those be considered as educated who not only do not extend sympathy to their unfortunate sisters who have fallen victims to cruel fate and merciless social customs, but find it fit to heap ridicule on them. Every one of you probably has some unfortunate widow sheltered under your roof, may be your sister, cousin or aunt or even your own mother. |
Puente Genil Puente Genil () is a Spanish city in the province of Córdoba, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is situated about 45 miles (70 km) from the provincial capital, Córdoba. It has a population of around 30,000 people. The name of the town comes from the bridge over the river Genil. The town is an agricultural centre, also known for its "Semana Santa" celebration, contracted in the local vernacular to ""mananta"". Puente Genil is served by Puente Genil-Herrera railway station, around 4 km from the town centre on the AVE high-speed rail line from Madrid to Málaga. |
In October 1962, the U.S. Army loaned the refrigerated cargo ship "FSR-791" to the BCF, which placed her in service as the new Pribilof tender MV "Pribilof" in 1963. Consequently, the BCF decommissioned "Penguin II" in 1963 and sold her at auction in Seattle on 18 August 1964. "Penguin II" was sold into commercial service. She was sighted in the Port of Los Angeles at Los Angeles, California, in 1976, operating under the Colombian flag with the name "Aurora" and with her home port at San Andrés in Colombia. |
Gelechia rileyella Gelechia rileyella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1872. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Kentucky, Maine and New Hampshire. The forewings are pale yellow, faintly tinged with pink and minutely dusted with fuscous. There is a fuscous streak on the base of the costa. The hindwings are a little paler. |
Indirectly, the young boyar helped found the club's own printing press, which was donated to Maiorescu by Pogor's Bessarabian cousin, the philanthropist Nicolae Ștefan Casso, and, after 1867, the literary sheet "Convorbiri Literare". The latter's mailing address was "Casa Pogor". Pogor himself managed the publishing firm, but did a notoriously poor job. Described by Ornea as "a man for all the hasty projects" and as an "absent-minded" individual, Pogor ran heavy debts and frequently changed managers (Ioan Mire Melik, Al. Farra etc.). The "Junimist" publishing house was barely keeping afloat once Pogor took money out of the budget to create a book store—one of such niche appeal as to make Pogor the only buyer of his books. At "Junimea", Pogor was a picturesque figure. Ornea suggests that, despite being a respectable boyar and the oldest among the founders, Pogor was also the most "child-like" in his reactions. Witnesses recall that he was always amused by the literary works presented for analysis, laughing "till his new teeth jumped out of his mouth", and casually reclining on a sofa as the debates were taking place. Negruzzi recalled that, in defiance for "any social habit", Pogor left his guests unattended to read his books; he writes that, on first impression, Pogor appeared "cheeky and missing something upstairs". Moreover, Pogor embarrassed his friends with his obscene anecdotes, his name-calling, and his occasional outbursts, during which he would hurl his cape at them. However, Pogor's lolling habit and thundering laughter soon became fashionable, and his yawning during the others' recitations was intentionally loud, provocative and contagious. He justified such heckling with the expression "Entre qui veut, reste qui peut" (French for "enters who wishes, stays on who can stand it"), later a "Junimea" motto. The slogan resonated with the "caracudă" ("small game") wing of "Junimea"—mostly passive youngsters who came in for entertainment, and who, Ornea notes, were "apparently immune to beauty and ignorant". For all his unorthodox stances, Pogor was regarded by all his colleagues as a towering intellect, and referred to as "the contemporary library". |
Föld és ég Föld És Ég is the third album from the Hungarian group After Crying. Released in 1994, it was their last album to feature founding member Csaba Vedres. |
Volleyball at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's team rosters This article show all participating men's team squads at the 2007 Pan American Games, played by eight countries held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
Ballyharry Ballyharry () is a townland of 224 acres and an area of archaeological sites on Islandmagee, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where a number of well-preserved Neolithic house sites have been investigated. The townland is situated in the civil parish of Islandmagee and the historic barony of Belfast Lower. Two well-preserved Neolithic houses were discovered to the east of Ballyharry Farm site mentioned below and excavated by Dermot Moore. One house appears to consist of at least four redesign phases, with well-preserved post-holes and a series of pits. A significant quantity of artefacts was recovered, including several thousand sherds of Western Neolithic pottery, flint arrowheads, javelin heads, polished stone axe fragments and quernstones. The second house, some 300 m to the south, was also rich in artefacts. Evidence suggested that the house was rectangular, with well-preserved foundation gullies indicating post and plank walling. Neolithic pottery and polished stone axe fragments were found. An archaeological investigation at Ballyharry Farm, some 700 m west of the two Neolithic house sites above, took place in February and March 2004 and was carried out by the Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, on behalf of the Environment and Heritage Service (now Northern Ireland Environment Agency). It focused on a small field to the north-west of St. John’s Church and identified and recovered a large quantity of lithic material from the cultivated soils. A number of features were considered to represent the remains of Neolithic settlement at the site. (Grid Reference J 463 979) Significant quantities of flint cores and struck flakes were recovered, along with around 100 sherds of Neolithic pottery. |
In addition to his review of the progress made against the objectives of the Egan Report Wolstenholme made several recommendations of his own. He proposed that the construction sector take the opportunity presented by the Great Recession to rebuild itself as a sustainable, low carbon industry. Wolstenholme proposed a shift of focus to consider whole-life cost rather than the relatively small and upfront design and construction costs. Wolstenholme was generally pessimistic about the future performance of the industry and its capacity for change. He highlighted the lack of "joined-up thinking" with regards to sustainability and the proliferation of industry bodies which fragmented the industry. He stated that the traditional separation of construction managers along professional and disciplinary boundaries led to compartmentalization and a failure to attract ethnic minorities and women. Wolstenholme decried the trend for clients to focus on short-term economic issues rather than considering the built environment as a long term asset. He noted that clients were tending to move away from collaborative partnering contracts to traditional method to allow them to exploit the increased competition in the market following the recession. Wolstenholme considered that incentives needed to drive companies to invest in innovation instead of being happy to accept moderate returns. He called for change to be driven by contractors and sub-contractors rather than, as traditionally, by clients. Wolstenholme was also critical of government policy, pointing out that there had been nine different construction ministers and nine housing ministers in the nine years preceding his report and that responsibility for training and skills was fragmented across several government departments. He called for the government to reduce waste in its procurement streams and to provide means of improving the training of construction workers. |
Previously "A good kvedar [really had to know] knew how to "stevja"", wrote Geirr Lystrup (in 1980). ("To "stevjast" is a social form of "songkamp" ["song" + "battle"], where the object is to know many stev so one will not be at loss (or become perplexed)." A kveder from Setesdal, when performing stev, generally sings more slowly, than a kveder from Telemark. One reason for this, may be that Setesdal stev are often more meditative ( or elegiac ), in regard to the stev text. In 1945, Aslak Brekke's performance at "liberation of Norway" concert that was held 1945, in the ceremonial hall (the "Aula") at the University of Oslo. In 1983, a member of Norway's national team of football, Åge Hareide, was honored with a "stev" (performed by another member of the team, Svein Mathisen) related to Hareides receipt of the Norwegian Football Association Gold Watch ( — signifying 25 matches played for Norway's national team). The stev was performed at the banquet in Yugoslavia following a football match of two national teams, and the performer held the head of the lamb that had been eaten at the banquet, while he performed from a tabletop. (The watch was received before the match.) |
Panasonic Toughpad Panasonic Toughpad is a series of tablet computers developed and designed by Panasonic as a subset of its series of Toughbook rugged computers. The first Toughpad was unveiled on November 7, 2011 in the United States. Toughpad tablets feature a fully rugged design certified to meet IP65 and MIL-STD-810G specifications for drops (up to 4 feet), shock, vibration, altitude, humidity and extreme temperatures. Built to most of the same specifications as the Toughbook line, they are designed for professional use and are used in a wide variety of industries, including construction, defense, public safety, emergency services, government, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, oil & gas and telecom/utilities. They offer features not commonly found on consumer-oriented tablets and are ruggedized to withstand vibration, drops, spills, extreme temperature, and rough handling. Toughpad tablets are designed for lower failure rates than standard business devices, translating to less downtime, fewer repair expenses and a lower total cost of ownership. Availability of models varies by country. The Toughpad FZ-G1 is a fully rugged 10-inch Windows tablet featuring a 6th generation Intel Core i5 vPro processor, Microsoft Windows 10 Pro or Windows 7 downgrade, a user-removable battery providing up to 18 hours of continuous use and optional bridge battery. It weighs 2.4 lbs. for the standard configuration. and comes equipped with options for an integrated UHF radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader or contactless smart card reader, and optional certification for use in hazardous locations. An optional Opal-compliant, self-encrypting drive is also available. The Toughpad FZ-B2 is a rugged 7-inch tablet running the Android 4.4 operating system and is powered by a Quad-core Intel Celeron Processor. It has a fully rugged, MIL-STD-810G sealed IP65 dust and water-resistant design. Features include a quick-charging, user-replaceable battery with an optional bridge battery and high-capacity battery; a 5-point capacitive multi-touch screen that works with gloves, as well as with a fine tip stylus pen. The Toughpad FZ-M1 rugged 7-inch tablet PC features a thin, lightweight, rugged and fanless design. It offers two choices of Intel processors and features the Windows operating system and enterprise-grade security features such as Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It also has a sunlight-readable, glove-enabled touchscreen and full-shift battery life with a built-in bridge battery. |
James R. Alexander James Riley Alexander (September 3, 1930 – August 19, 2019) was an American sound engineer. Alexander was born in Los Angeles, California and served in the United States Army as a communications specialist. Alexander was commissioned a sergeant. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the Category Best Sound. |
Our Relations Our Relations is a 1936 feature film starring Laurel and Hardy, produced by Stan Laurel for Hal Roach Studios. This is the third of three films in which the boys each play a dual role: the first is "Brats" and the second is "Twice Two". The story is based on the short story "The Money Box" by W.W. Jacobs, author of "The Monkey's Paw". Laurel and Hardy star as both their famous Stan and Ollie characters and as Stan and Ollie's twin brothers Alf and Bert. In most of the Laurel and Hardy films, their usual Stan and Ollie characters are a pair of hopeless but likable dimwits, often just barely able to earn a living. In "Our Relations", Stan and Ollie are respectable citizens with wives and steady employment. It is their seafaring twin brothers, Alf Laurel and Bert Hardy, who are dim-witted incompetent sailors aboard the "S.S Periwinkle". On board, Alf and Bert wear seafaring garb. Once ashore, they dress in "civilian" clothes—down to the traditional derbies—making them nearly indistinguishable from their brothers. Stan always wore a bow-tie, while Oliver wore the more conventional type. This is reversed for the brothers, with Alf wearing the usual style and Bert wearing the bowtie. Music cues also help differentiate between the twins; Laurel & Hardy's theme song, "Dance of the Cuckoos", plays when Stan and Ollie appear; the tunes "Sailing, Sailing over the Bounding Main" or "Sailor's Hornpipe", play when Alf and Bert are onscreen. The film is distinguished by the camera work of successful dramatic cinematographer Rudolph Maté ("The Passion of Joan of Arc"). The film was based on the story "The Money Box" by W.W. Jacobs. The story was adapted by Jack Jevne and Charley Rogers and the film written by Felix Adler and Richard Connell. In 2000, the Dutch revivalist orchestra The Beau Hunks collaborated with the Metropole Orchestra to re-create composer Leroy Shield's soundtrack to "Our Relations" from original sheet music that had been discovered in a Los Angeles archive in 1994 and 1995. |
Sara (1997 film) Sara is a 1997 Polish movie directed by Maciej Ślesicki. Leon (Bogusław Linda), a former commando, returns home after a job in Yugoslavia. One of his young daughters pulls a gun out of his luggage and targets another daughter. After his wife has left him, and Leon has lost himself in booze, he is roused for an interview with a local criminal ringleader, Jozef (Marek Perepeczko), who is looking for a bodyguard for his 16-year-old daughter, Sara (Agnieszka Włodarczyk). During the interview an attempt is made to assassinate Jozef, and Leon's quick action saves his life. Leon is awarded the job. Sara at first appears unenthusiastic about her new bodyguard, but during an assassination attempt on her, he protects her with his body. Sarah falls in love with Leon. Initially, Leon is wary of Sara's attentions, but sincere and tender feelings for the girl eventually conquer his heart. Leon and Sarah become lovers. Soon Sara becomes pregnant. Another criminal bigwig comes into possession of compromising photos and passes them to Jozef. A confrontation ensues. |
Nowe Niwki Nowe Niwki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chodów, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. |
Brechfa Brechfa, situated between Llandeilo and Carmarthen in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, is a village that has existed since the 6th century at the top of the Cothi Valley. Brechfa village is set in countryside, as well as being located by the Brechfa Forest In the 1840s, Brechfa featured in the Rebecca Riots when rioters destroyed tollgates on the local turnpike road. During the 1930s Great Depression, unemployed men were set to work on the Forestry Commission land, breaking ground, building tracks, and undertaking other heavy labour. The men lived in a work camp in Brechfa, which was one of a number of Instructional Centres run by the Ministry of Labour. The village has a bridge over the river that links both sides of the village. Teilo's Church is based in the middle of the Brechfa and replaced the former church building in 1893. The stone from the former church building was used to build the current church hall which is situated directly opposite St. Teilo's Church. The Bryn Stores Community Store is a co-operative has been set up to run the village shop, which featured in an article in the Daily Telegraph Magazine in 2007. The village was chosen as a special stage in the British Rally from 2006 to 2008. The Forest Arms, the public house located in the centre of Brechfa, featuring open fires, food and drink and car parking to the front and rear. The pub was closed between 2006 and 2014, and was re-opened in April 2014. Brechfa Forest is a mixture of ancient forest and managed woodlands containing mountain bike trails as well as promoted walks and rides, at the top of the Cothi Valley. The managed woodlands of the forest is managed by Natural Resources Wales. The village is the site of Brechfa Mountain Biking which have a number of free car parks with picnic and BBQ facilities. In Byrgwm car park there is The Shed café for those riding the Raven or Derwen Trails. Brechfa Forest provides 17,300 acres of open access for horse riders, who can use any of the tracks within the forest. A number of bridleways and byways run across the farmland and common land surrounding the forest to enable equestrian visitors to enjoy a variety of rides. The River Cothi is the largest tributary of the River Tywi in south Wales. It is noted for its trout and sea trout (sewin) fishing and for salmon. |
PPO-silenced apples are unable to convert chlorogenic acid into the standard quinone product. There are several opportunities for the applications of RNAi in crop science for its improvement such as stress tolerance and enhanced nutritional level. RNAi will prove its potential for inhibition of photorespiration to enhance the productivity of C3 plants. This knockdown technology may be useful in inducing early flowering, delayed ripening, delayed senescence, breaking dormancy, stress-free plants, overcoming self-sterility, etc. RNAi has been used to genetically engineer plants to produce lower levels of natural plant toxins. Such techniques take advantage of the stable and heritable RNAi phenotype in plant stocks. Cotton seeds are rich in dietary protein but naturally contain the toxic terpenoid product gossypol, making them unsuitable for human consumption. RNAi has been used to produce cotton stocks whose seeds contain reduced levels of delta-cadinene synthase, a key enzyme in gossypol production, without affecting the enzyme's production in other parts of the plant, where gossypol is itself important in preventing damage from plant pests. Similar efforts have been directed toward the reduction of the cyanogenic natural product linamarin in cassava plants. No plant products that use RNAi-based genetic engineering have yet exited the experimental stage. Development efforts have successfully reduced the levels of allergens in tomato plants and fortification of plants such as tomatoes with dietary antioxidants. Previous commercial products, including the Flavr Savr tomato and two cultivars of ringspot-resistant papaya, were originally developed using antisense technology but likely exploited the RNAi pathway. RNAi silencing of alpha-amylase have also been used to decrease Aspergillus flavus fungal growth in maize which would have otherwise contaminated the kernels with dangerous aflatoxins. Silencing lachrymatory factor synthase in onions have produced tearless onions and RNAi has been used in BP1 genes in rapeseeds to improve photosynthesis. SBEIIa and SBEIIb genes in wheat have been targeted in wheat in order to produce higher levels of amylose in order to improve bowel function. Another effort decreased the precursors of likely carcinogens in tobacco plants. Other plant traits that have been engineered in the laboratory include the production of non-narcotic natural products by the opium poppy and resistance to common plant viruses. RNAi is under development as an insecticide, employing multiple approaches, including genetic engineering and topical application. |
Torben Neumann Torben Neumann (born 11 July 1991) is a German lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam with the lightweight men's eight. |
This has been observed in captivity, but it is unclear if wild beetles will engage in acts of hybridization. Certain species such as "D. grantii" and "D. hyllus" are believed to be sister species, while "D. tityus" is thought to be a sister taxon to the Central American "white Hercules" lineage. The intermediate species that bridges the "white Hercules" and the "giant Hercules" lineages is thought to be "D. maya". The larval stage of "Dynastes hercules" will last one to two years, with the larva growing up to in length and weighing more than . Much of the life of the larva is spent tunneling through rotting wood. After the larval period, transformation into a pupa, and moulting, the beetle then emerges as an adult. Adults of most species can live from two to ten months and some can even live one or two years. Eastern Hercules beetles, "D. tityus", can live six to twenty-three months in captivity with a hibernation period. Western Hercules beetles, "D. grantii", tend to have a shorter adult lifespan in the wild (two to four months), but in captivity they live for about the same amount of time as the eastern species. It has also been noted that captive longevity is possible without a hibernation period. |
Indeed, he put the property's gates on Ravine to the south, rather than Warburton, which was closest to the house but unpaved, since Ravine was a short distance from the station. Trevor had been active in the community, serving as a presidential elector and chairing meetings of the local Republican Party. Therefore, the house attracted much notice in the local newspapers, as one of the first large houses built in the area since the Panic of 1873 had depressed the economy. It was called a "showplace" for Yonkers, incorporated as a city just five years earlier, in 1872. In 1886 it was one of 12 Yonkers homes selected for engraved illustrations in Thomas Scharf's "History of Westchester County", which has since become a standard reference work for historians. Throughout those years, Trevor lived the life of a gentleman farmer, commuting to Wall Street daily. The family wintered in the city, and sometimes went to the Catskills during the hot stretches of the summer. He was close friends with neighbors like Samuel J. Tilden, formerly governor of New York and Democratic candidate for president in the controversial 1876 election, lawyer William Allen Butler and rail magnate Colgate Hoyt. Guests at Glenview included Civil War generals Nelson Miles and William Tecumseh Sherman, who suggested the eventual renaming of the Trevors' former residence, Edgewater, to Seven Pines after the battle. John B. Trevor, Sr., Trevor's youngest son, recalls the times of his childhood at Glenview as a "paradise." He and Colgate Hoyt's son Sherman, his only neighbor around his age, often played together with the Wiffler sons and his older half-brother. The nearby river played a prominent role in their play. Henry Trevor joined the Yonkers Yacht Club, where he and other members raced as far upriver as Rondout Creek, at Kingston. In the 1890s John and his sisters began to take up golf, another new pastime of the Gilded Age rich. They all took up bicycling as well, and one of the sisters, Emily, became an avid bicyclist as well, once riding as far away as Hastings-on-Hudson and Riverdale. John Bond Trevor died in 1890, with John Wiffler, the gardener he had collaborated with on the property, retiring two years later to open a feed store in downtown Yonkers. The family continued to live in Glenview. Mary Trevor's wedding reception there in 1892 was widely covered by both the local and New York newspapers. |
In 2013 Harris Tweed Hebrides was named UKFT Textile Company of the Year, and in 2015 it was Scottish Exporter of the Year for 2015. It has also won awards for outstanding contribution to style and fashion. Vitol began making charitable grants in 2002, and in 2006 the Vitol Foundation was established, with Taylor as its first chairman. Its declared purpose is to enable children living in deprivation to escape the cycle of poverty and reach their potential in life. Vitol employees are encouraged to identify projects that could benefit from the Foundation's support. Since 2006 the Vitol Foundation has funded over 2,000 projects, with a combined value of about £160m, in 124 countries around the world. In 2011 it received Save the Children's inaugural Outstanding Emergency Partner award. In February 2007, Ian and Tina Taylor established the Taylor Family Foundation to increase the effectiveness of their charitable giving. The Foundation's main objectives are to advance education and promote the arts, especially by providing children and adults with access to training, tutoring and performances in the disciplines of drama and dance. It also tries to provide sports and recreational facilities for underprivileged young people. In the first eight years of its existence the Foundation spent more than £13.8 million on grants and charitable activities. In the financial year ending March 2016, Ian Taylor made donations totalling £2m to the Foundation, which in the same period gave grants totalling £1,947,000 to 35 charitable causes, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation, Merton College Oxford, the Tate Foundation, Maggies, Random Dance Company, the Southbank Centre, the Lowry Centre Trust, the Mosaic Jewish Primary School, Médecins sans Frontières, MCFC-City in the Community, Polka Children's Theatre, Stirling University, Royal Academy of Arts School Scholarship, West London Zone, Children's Hospice Association Scotland, Linden Lodge Charitable Trust, The Wimbledon Civic Theatre Trust, Depaul UK, Prisoners' Education Trust, Rambert (Merton Schools Rambert Imprints), Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, Great Ormond Street Hospital (Play Services), Beanstalk, St Giles Trust, The Royal Ballet School, The Mix (formerly Get Connected), Wimbledon Arts, Home Start Merton, ReadWell, Childhood Trust, Wimbledon Music Festival, REACT, Future Talent, St John's Baptist Church, Mitcham Town Community Trust, King's College School, Dumfries House, Save the Children, NSPCC, Mayor's Fund for London, Honey Pot Children's Charity, Royal London Society and English Heritage (Waterloo 200). |
They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne's "Agnes Grey". Later, Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848) and Charlotte's "Villette" (1853) were published. Elizabeth Gaskell was also a successful writer and first novel, "Mary Barton", was published anonymously in 1848. Gaskell's "North and South" contrasts the lifestyle in the industrial north of England with the wealthier south. Even though her writing conforms to Victorian conventions, Gaskell usually frames her stories as critiques of contemporary attitudes: her early works focused on factory work in the Midlands. She always emphasised the role of women, with complex narratives and dynamic female characters. Anthony Trollope (1815–82) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works are set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire, including "The Warden" (1855) and "Barchester Towers" (1857). He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters, including "The Way with Live Now" (1875). Trollope's novels portrayed the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot's (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) first novel "Adam Bede" was published in 1859. Her works, especially "Middlemarch" 1871–72), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail combined with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict. An interest in rural matters and the changing social and economic situation of the countryside is seen in the novels of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928). A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth. Charles Darwin is another important influence on Thomas Hardy. Like Charles Dickens he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focussed more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874), "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886), "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (1891), and "Jude the Obscure" (1895). |
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