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If people can still not figure out what the object is after an investigation, it is called a UFO.
If they figure out what the object is, it can no longer be called a UFO because it has been identified.
Even though UFOs can be anything, people often use the word UFO when they are talking about alien spacecraft.
Flying saucer is another word that is often used to describe an unidentified flying object.
Identified flying objects (IFOs)
Studies estimate that 50-90% of all reported UFO sightings are identified later.
Usually 10-20% are never identified.
Studies also show that very few UFO sightings are hoaxes (people trying to trick other people).
Most UFOs are actually natural or man-made objects that looked strange.
astronomical causes (for example: planets, stars, or meteors)
balloons (including weather balloons)
Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating, and Reporting UFO Sightings, 1979, Doubleday & Co.,
Wikinews - UFO Archive
CIA educational summary on UFO  (working link or what?
Maybe it should be used this link  instead?)
NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
BBC article on Mexican Air-force videotape
NASA UFO Hacker Video Interview
Popularmechanics Article - When UFOs Arrive: February 2004 Cover Story
The Second War of Scottish Independence began in 1333 when Edward III of England did not accept the 1328 Treaty of Northampton any more, under which England recognised the legitimacy of the dynasty established by Robert Bruce.
Edward was determined to support the claim of Edward Balliol, the son of the former king, John Balliol, over David II, Bruce's son and heir.
Balliol had ruled in Scotland for a short time in the autumn of 1332, but was thrown out of the country later in the year.
The war itself lasted until 1357, when David II was released from English captivity.
English involvement in Scotland was also one of the factors that lead to the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War with France in 1337.
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This is a list of postal code abbreviations used by the United States Postal Service.
They are used to help the postal service process mail.
In other contexts, such as newspaper articles, the traditional abbreviations for the states are used.
Federal districts
Freely associated states
Codes that are no longer used
Booing means shouting "BOO!"
If people shout "boo" after a performance (for example, a concert, play or opera) they are showing that they did not like it.
It is the opposite of applause (clapping to show that the performance was good).
Booing and hissing used to be very common, especially at the opera.
In the early days of opera (from the 17th to the early 19th century) opera audiences often behaved badly.
They went to the opera to chat with their friends, to cheer their favorite singers and to boo the singers they did not like, not to listen carefully to the music.
Booing has recently become less common in Western culture except at sports events because people think it is rude.
Audiences today are more likely simply not to clap if they do not like a performance.
Slow hand-clapping is also a way of showing sarcastic applause.
Applause is the sound made by an audience who are clapping their hands (applauding) to thank someone for a performance.
People at a concert usually applaud when the performers come onto the stage.
This is a way of welcoming them.
At the end of a performance people applaud again to thank the performers.
People may applaud after someone makes a speech or at a sporting match.
They will applaud after a play in the theatre or at the end of an opera.
The length of applause (how long they applaud for) may depend on how much they liked the performance.
If they liked it very much they may also shout "BRAVO!".
When an audience applauds with really wild excitement it is called an "ovation".
Very occasionally (in English-speaking cultures) an audience might all stand up as well.
This is called a "standing ovation".
Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is a NASCAR race car driver.
Busch races in the Monster Energy Cup, Xfinity Series and the Camping World Truck Series.
Kyle's brother, Kurt Busch also races in the Sprint Cup series.
Busch won his 100th NASCAR race on July 17, 2011.
He is only the third driver in NASCAR history to do this.
The other two drivers are Richard Petty with 200 wins, and David Pearson with 106 wins.
With over 50 wins in the Nationwide series, Busch has more wins than any other driver in that series.
At the end of the 2015 Sprint Cup Series, Kyle Busch won his first Sprint Cup Series Championship.
NASCAR drivers
American racecar drivers
Sportspeople from Las Vegas, Nevada
Section 498-A is an offence under the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
It was brought into the IPC in 1983 to stop cruelty to married women because of dowry.
This often led to their deaths.
It makes it a crime to be cruel to your wife or to your relative's wife.
The law explains that "cruelty" means anything that is done on purpose, and either causes harm to the woman or makes the woman want to kill herself.
It also makes the laws against dowry or payment made by the bride's family to the husband's family stronger.
It makes it a crime to harass a woman to try to make her family pay a dowry.
If someone breaks this law he can be put in prison for up to 3 years with fine.
The law is criticized.
The critics of the law say it allows a woman to ask the police to arrest her husband without any evidence or investigation, and that women have abused the law in domestic disputes.
Others say it gives important support to women who are vulnerable from abusive husbands.
The Supreme Court of India expressed its concerns over the misuse of section 498-A and termed it "Legal Terrorism".
These are the some useful Judgement which a use in discharged and final argument in case MyRights is an organization which fights for Justice and provides free legal tips and tutorial.
Some Advocates and lawyer are also member of Myrights.
SC on 498a - preeti gupta vs state of Jharkhand
SC on 498a - Ruchi Agrawal vs. Amit kumar Agrawal
SC on 498a - Geeta Malhotra vs. State of UP
SC on 498a - Ramesh vs. State of Tamilnadu
SC on 498a - BS Joshi vs. State of Hariyana
In cryptography, a Caesar cipher is an ancient form of substitution cipher.
It is named in the honor of Roman emperor, Julius Caesar
To encrypt a message with a Caesar cipher, each letter in the message is changed using a simple rule: shift by three.
Each letter is replaced by the letter three letters ahead in the alphabet.
A becomes D, B becomes E, and so on.
For the last letters, we can think of the alphabet as a circle and "wrap around".
W becomes Z, X becomes A, Y becomes B, and Z becomes C. To change a message back, each letter is replaced by the one three before it.
However it is very easy to break a Caesar cipher, even if you change the "key number" to a different number.
Using a more modern form of encryption would be better.
Changing by three is the rule that the well known Julius Caesar used, but the same idea works for any number.
ROT13 can be seen as a modern version of the Caesar cipher, with the same weaknesses.
The Caesar cipher is a substitution cipher: each letter is replaced by another.
No substitution cipher is safe for sensitive information.
Social Engineering (also known as „Social Manipulation“) is a type of confidence trick to influence people with the goal to illegally obtain sensitive data (i.e. passwords, credit card information).
Social Engineers observe the personal environment of their victims and use fake identities to gain secret information or free services.
In most cases Social Engineering is used to infiltrate third party computer systems to spy on sensitive data; in that case social engineering is also called Social Hacking.
An early way of Social Engineering first occurred in the 1980s and was named Phreaking.
Phreakers called phone companies and claimed to be system administrators and asked for passwords which they used to connect illegally and free of charge to the Internet.
A more modern form of Social Engineering is called Phishing (Phishing is derived from “fishing”), which is an attempt to get access to Internet user's data via faked WWW-addresses.
The most common way of Phishing is Fraud Mailing also known as Scam Mailing, where the victim is being sent a fake E-Mail i.e. of a bank.
In most Scam Mails the letter includes a link that is redirecting to a fake website which is logging the login id and the appropriate password of the victim.
The hackers are often using DNS-Spoofing to fake the sender's E-Mail address.
Main model
The main model of Social Engineering shows up with faked phone calls: the Social Engineer calls employees of a company and impersonates a technician who needs sensitive data to complete important technical operations.
In advance the attacker has gathered information about work routines of the target company from public sources or former raid attempts, that gives him advantage in further Social Engineering trials.
The invader tries to confuse his victims and to seem trustful, using trade language and involving the victims in small talk.
Further the assaulter pretends authority to frighten his victims.
Under circumstances the employee actually requested technical support and is expecting such a phone call.
The prevention of Social Engineering is difficult.
By influencing the victim subconsciously, the invader abuses typical human behavior like helpfulness in emergency situations or to respond with help to the seemingly helpful attacker.
General mistrust would disturb the efficient and trustful team work of an organization.
The most effective way to avoid Social Engineering is to assure the identity of the caller.
This can already be done by asking for the caller's name and phone number and to politely ask for patience, even if the caller's issue seems to be very urgent.
Even if one could verify the caller's identity, one should only hand out the absolutely necessary information.
Famous social engineers
DATA PROTECTION ESSENTIALS Knowledge about SE, Information about Kevin Mitnick
Hydroponics or Hydro-culture is the method of growing plants in the nutrients that they need instead of soil.
The plant foods are simply put into water instead and it makes a solution for the plants to live in.
Vegetables, flowers and herbs can all be grown in water.
It is quite an old idea.
The earliest published work on growing terrestrial plants without soil was the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum by Francis Bacon, printed a year after his death.
Water culture became a popular research technique after that.
In 1929, William Frederick Gericke of the University of California at Berkeley began publicly promoting that solution culture be used for agricultural crop production.
Oliver and Tintin are the pioners of Hydrophonics
There are many ways to grow plants in this way.
Static solution culture
This puts or floats the plants in water containing nutrients into a container.
The water is renewed by a control system to prevent the plants' roots from becoming dry.
The water does not flow through the container but remains static.
Because the water is still algae often grows, using nutrients and covering the plants roots so that they are not able to take in the nutrients so well.
Algae growth can be reduced by using some method to prevent light from reaching the roots, for example, black plastic, or aluminium foils.
The static solution has to be changed every week or two to ensure it has the correct amount of nutrients.
Continuous-flow solution
This is growing plants in a stream of continuously running water.
The plants can be placed in a shallow container and the water containing the nutrients runs through the roots.
This can be carried out in several different ways, either passing the water over the bare roots inside a tube or hollow container or passing the water through a mat of fibre into which the roots have grown or variations between the two.
One of the main advantages of this system is that the nutrient water can be kept in a storage container and if any changes need to be made to the nutrient it is easy to do this to the storage container.
The system usually runs be gravity, the storage container is placed in a higher position than the plants and the water trickles downwards until it has passed though the roots of the plants and into a lower storage container where it is pumped back up to the higher container.
An advantage of this method is that it uses the nutrients efficiently, it allows oxygen to reach the roots (important for healthy growth) and the water can be adjusted very easily.
The main disadvantages are that if any fault occurs with the circulation system the plants have little water to live on until the fault is corrected and the flow channels must be regular in their slope, if they are not then water can remain in the non-sloping areas and this can cause problems.
Gravity fed systems
This system does not use electricity to circulate the water containing nutrients.
The system has a large container positioned higher than the plants and the water runs down through and to the plants in a controlled way.
This system is used with plants that are grown in pots with the water being delivered to the base of the pot and capillary action drawing the water up into the pot.
This uses a system where the roots of the plants are contained in a chamber which is sprayed continuously or discontinuously with a fine mist of water containing nutrients.
The roots of the plant hang in the air and the advantage of this system is that the roots have good access to oxygen.
This system was invented in 1983 by Richard Spooner and has become a successful way of growing a wide range of crops including seed potato production, tomato production, leaf crops, and small salad leaves.
Other advantages of aeroponics are that a much wider range of plants can be grown with this system, (some plants do not like to have their roots in water continuously) plants grow with only one quarter of the nutrients needed in normal hydroponics and NASA has an interest in this system because managing a spray is easier than handling liquids in zero gravity.
Finally, plants grown by this method can be transferred to soil or another growing medium without suffering from a slowing of growth while they adjust to the new conditions.
The main disadvantage is that this system is more costly to build and maintain than the normal hydroponic systems.
Passive sub-irrigation
This method is also known as passive hydroponics or semi-hydroponics.
This system has the plants growing in a porous material like special clay granules, vermiculite, fibre glass, coconut husk, perlite or a similar substance that holds water, has lots of air spaces but does not act directly on the plants roots.
The water is run through the material to keep it wet and the material keeps the plants roots separated to allow a good contact with the air to help the plant use oxygen and carbon dioxide.
this method is easy to set up and control and is suitable for a number of plants like orchids or bromeliads that in nature grow with their roots in warm damp air.
Ebb and flow sub-irrigation
This method is also known as "Flood and Drain".
It uses a method that has a large container of water with nutrients positioned below the level of the plants being grown and at intervals the water is pumped or manually lifted to irrigate the plants and then drain back into the container.
This is a simple method to build and can be easily controlled with an automatic mechanism.
Run to waste
This is a method where plants are grown on a material that holds some water but has many air spaces, such as vermiculite, perlite, fibreglass or coarse sand.
The water with nutrients is controlled by a timer and the amount of irrigation will depend on several factors such as temperature, the size of the plants, the type of material the plants are growing in and other more technical things.
The water runs to a collecting container after irrigating the plants and may be used again or discarded.
This system is used very widely for growing commercial crops of vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers.
Deep water culture
This involves the growing of plants hanging in water with nutrients.
The plants are held in nets with their roots in the water.
The nets may or may not contain a material to separate the roots.
The water has air pumped through it to increase the oxygen in the water which assists the roots to grow.
Bubbleponics
This is a method which is used together with the above method of Deep Water Culture.
In the early stages of growth the roots of the plants are irrigated with water and nutrients that are pumped through an air-stone to introduce a high level of dissolved oxygen into the water which greatly helps the young roots to grow.
It is usually used only in the early stages of growth when the plants are forming roots clumps.
Hydroponic crops can be packaged and sold while still alive, increasing the length of freshness.
Over and under-watering is stopped.
Hydroponics is a good method of plant growing for areas without good soil, such as Antarctica, space stations, and space colonies.
Hydroponics is very good for plant teaching and research.
No soil is needed.
Crops are not contaminated with soil.
Less water is needed than with soil-grown crops.
Hydroponics cost less than other ways for growing strawberries.
Hydroponics give the plants more sunlight.
Bugs and other pest threats are reduced with a hydroponic system.
Crop rotation  is a practice used in farming.
It involves the planting of different seeds on the same land in different years or seasons, using a set pattern.
This technique helps replace the nutrients in the soil for the plants.
It also reduces plant-specific pests on the land.
A Hard Day’s Night was a 1964 album by The Beatles, released on 10 July of that year.
It was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, starring the Beatles and directed by Richard Lester.
It was their third album.
It is said that the title was accidentally said by Ringo Starr during the filming of the movie.
The movie was made because United Artists, a movie company, wanted to sell a soundtrack album.
Many movies that included rock and roll were not good movies.
The Beatles did not want to star in a movie unless it was well made, with a good plot.
United Artists agreed, and a playwright, Alun Owen, was hired.
Alun Owen travelled with the Beatles on a concert tour.
He was to write a fictional story at first, based on how the band interacted with other people, but Owen decided the best story to tell was real, based on what he saw.
The "grandfather" character (played by Wilfrid Brambell) was added to appeal to older viewers.
Brambell was a popular television actor, who starred in Steptoe and Son (a forerunner of Sanford and Son) as a "dirty old" junk dealer.
Even with a script, the Beatles improvised (made up) some of their own dialogue in the movie.
They also acted out ideas from the director, Richard Lester.
Movie overview
In the movie's storyline, the Beatles go to London to perform in a television program.
Paul's family send along his grandfather, so he and Paul can keep each other company.
The grandfather is a "mixer", and likes to cause trouble between people. (
He is also noticed often as being "very clean"; a play on Brambell's "dirty" television role.)
The Beatles enjoy breaking rules and expectations, and playing jokes.
Their manager Norm and road manager "Shake" try to make things run smoothly, but have a busy time keeping up with both the Beatles and Paul's grandfather, and making sure the television show goes as planned. (
Norm and Shake were based loosely on road managers Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans.)
I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
Can’t Buy Me Love
Any Time At All
I’ll Cry Instead
1964 albums
In stories (folklore), a changeling is the child of a troll, elf, or fairy that has been left in the place of a human child.
The stolen human child then lives with the troll family.
A changeling is like a human baby but ugly, always hungry, and with a bad temper.
Sometimes the changelings are much wiser than a human baby would be.
It is thought that changeling stories came from actual events.
A family who had a handicapped or sick child may have traded their sick child for a healthier, better-looking child.
Folklore says that it might be possible for parents to figure out that their child has been replaced with a changeling.
If they discovered the changeling quickly enough, they could get their human child back.
One way to get the child back was to put the changeling in an oven.
Another way was to put the changeling in a forest so that the troll could take its child back.
Sometimes children died in the oven or forest.
A bomb is an explosive object that makes and lets out its energy very quickly.
This detonation makes a big shock wave.
Bombs have been used for centuries.
Some bombs also throw out dangerous metal fragments, and some are firebombs.
Most bombs do not contain more energy than ordinary fuel, except in the case of a nuclear weapon.
However, they release their energy more quickly, thus are more powerful.
A bomb is usually some kind of container filled with explosive material that is designed to destroy things.
The word bomb comes from the Greek word βόμβος (bombas), an onomatopoeic term with almost the same meaning as "boom" in English.
Air forces send bombers to destroy enemy targets.
Terrorists use bombs in suicide attacks.
Explosive materials used in mining work the same way, but are usually not called bombs.
Dieter Gunther Bohlen is a German musician, born on 7 February 1954.
He was born in Berne, Lower Saxony.
He was a member of Modern Talking, but now appears in the TV programme "Germany Searches for a Superstar" , which is the German version of Pop Idol and American Idol.
Entertainers from Lower Saxony
German pop musicians
German television personalities
SWOT Analysis is a tool to find out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that are to be expected in a project or in a business venture or in something similar.
It means that the situation (internal and external to the organization or individual) is looked at.
It is one of the best tools to conduct the internal and external analysis for any company.
Internal and external factors
Internal factors may include employment, finance, manufacturing opportunities, and all of the marketing mix's 4Ps.
External factors include macroeconomics, technological change, legislation, and sociocultural changes, as well as changes in the marketplace.
SWOT analysis can be used in any decision-making situation.
SWOT analysis can be used:
to build organizational or personal strategy;
for matching and converting;
allow organizations to achieve their goals;
as a basis for the analysis of business and environmental factors;
in marketing — analyzing competitors.
In community organizations
Strengths and weaknesses (internal factors within an organization):
Human resources — staff, volunteers, board members, target population;
Physical resources — your location, building, equipment;
Financial — grants, funding agencies, other sources of income;
Activities and processes — programs you run, systems you employ;
Past experiences — building blocks for learning and success, your reputation in the community.
Opportunities and threats (external factors from community or societal forces):
Future trends in your field or the culture;
The economy — local, national, or international;
Funding sources — foundations, donors, legislatures;
Demographics — changes in the age, race, gender, culture of those you serve or in your area;
The physical environment — is your building in a growing part of town?
Is the bus company cutting routes?;
Legislation — do new federal requirements make your job harder...or easier?;
Local, national, or international events.
A project is a temporary  undertaken to create a unique product or service.
The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, "to throw something forwards" which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time (paralleling the Greek πρό) and jacere, "to throw".
The word "project" thus actually originally meant "something that comes before anything else is done".
When the word was initially adopted, it referred to a plan of something, not to the act of actually carrying this plan out.
Something performed in accordance with a project was called an object.
This use of "project" changed in the 1950s when several techniques for project management were introduced.
With this advent the word slightly changed meaning to cover both projects and objects.
However, in certain projects there may still exist so called objects and object leaders, reflecting the older use of the words.
Temporary means that any project will have a start date and end date (but it has nothing to do with short duration).
Project produces unique results: meaning the product or service at the end of the project should be some way different than the existing (can be an invention or an innovation.)
Projects are characterized by progressive elaboration: due to uniqueness and greater uncertainty projects cannot be understood entirely at or before project start, and therefore planning and execution of projects is happening many times in separate steps or phases.
As project progresses, project team understands next steps, deliverables and way of execution much better.
Based on this knowledge team members elaborate initial draft plans, and execute next phase of the project based on these detailed plans.
A project usually needs resources to deliver its results.
Most of the time project execution is based on detailed plan, which considers also external factors and constraints.
Planning, execution and controlling of project is the primary field of project management.
For major projects it is necessary sometimes to set up a special temporary organization, consisting of a project team and one or more work teams.
Product development projects
RD projects
Organisation development projects
Logistics projects
Marketing projects
Community projects
Cultural projects
Internal projects
Departmental projects
Cross unit projects
External projects (customer facing projects)
Complex projects
Megaprojects
Manhattan Project: Developed the first nuclear weapon
Project Apollo: Landing a man on the moon
Scottsdale, Tasmania, in Australia
Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States
This time zone is called Central Standard Time (CST) during standard time (Winter).
It is called Central Daylight Time (CDT) during daylight saving time (Summer).
In the United States and Canada, this time zone is often just called Central Time (CT).
The largest city in the Central Time Zone is Mexico City.
In the United States, the largest city is Chicago, and the largest metropolitan area is the Chicago metropolitan area.
Places that are in Central Time Zone
Most of Mexico belongs to the Central Time Zone.
The six northwestern states are not part of the time zone.
Central America, South America, Oceania
Central Time Zone includes the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
In South America, this zone includes the Ecuadorian province of Galápagos.
In Oceania, the Chilean Easter Island also belongs to this time zone.
Daylight saving time occurs from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November.
During daylight saving, Central Time Zone is only 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−5).
Most of the locations in Central Time Zone observe daylight saving time.
A few places do not.
These include Saskatchewan, Central America and Galápagos.
They stay on standard time all year.
Gioachino Rossini (born Pesaro 29 February 1792; died Passy 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer.
He was the most famous composer of operas in his time.
His operas had lots of new ideas.
Italian operas had become rather unimaginative, with composers such as Cimarosa and Paisiello writing the same sort of thing each time.
Rossini made his operas interesting by writing skillfully for the singers, giving them good tunes, as well as giving the orchestra interesting music, and by choosing a variety of stories for his operas.
The opera for which he is best known today is the Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).
Many of the overtures to his operas are played at orchestral concerts.
The most popular is the overture to his opera Guillaume Tell (William Tell) with its feature in the British TV show The Adventures of William Tell.
During the last 40 years of his life Rossini wrote no more music.
His friends begged him to write another opera but he always refused.
Rossini was born on 29 February of the leap year 1792.
His birthplace was Pesaro, a small town in Italy on the Adriatic coast.
His father played the horn in military bands and opera houses and his mother sang in operas.
Often his parents toured together and the young Rossini was left in the care of his grandmother.
The family eventually settled in Bologna.
Rossini had lessons in singing, cello, piano and counterpoint.
He did not like the counterpoint lessons, but it did help him to study different styles of music and he became very good at writing harmony in a clear way.
Italian opera at this time needed a new composer to bring more life into it.
Five of his first nine operas were written for the Teatro S Moise in Venice.
Other theatres soon asked him to write operas.
In 1812 he wrote La pietra del paragone for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Many of these early operas were comic operas (opera buffa).
Sometimes he had to produce so many new operas that he kept reusing some of the music he had already written in another opera.
Nevertheless, they include a lot of fine music, and Rossini was developing his musical personality.
His overtures have a fine sense of orchestral colour.
He often started with a slow section and then went into fast music with a crescendo.
Because he did this a lot it is often called a “Rossini crescendo” or “Rossini rocket”.
It was not easy for him to earn enough money to keep himself.
He only got paid for the operas he took part in.
There were no copyright laws in those days.
The important singers were well paid, but the composers earned much less.
We know very little about his life at this time, but we do know that he travelled a lot.
His most famous operas from this period are Tancredi, La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) which has often been called the greatest of all comic operas.
By 1815 Rossini’s operas were famous everywhere in Western Europe except in Naples.
Neapolitan opera had been famous throughout the 18th century and the city was proud of its tradition.
The Neapolitans did not want a young composer from the north to continue their operatic tradition.
Nevertheless, Rossini soon won their hearts.
He wrote for the Teatro S Carlo which had a fine orchestra and very good singers.
He wrote many of his best serious operas (opera seria) for Naples, and this tradition which he built up made it possible for Verdi to take over thirty years later as Italy’s leading opera composer.
Rossini’s international fame took him to Vienna where he met Beethoven.
After returning to Italy for a while he travelled to Paris and England.
He was only 31 years old and had written 34 operas.
The Paris audiences already knew his operas.
In London a Rossini Festival was organized.
Most of the time in England he spent at social parties at the houses of rich people who were glad to pay him money to come and be their guest.
Soon after this he settled in Paris for five years.
He was director of the Théâtre-Italien until 1836.
His two greatest operas from this period were Le Comte Ory (which was an opéra comique) and Guillaume Tell which was based on a play by Schiller.
These works have beautifully flowing tunes (like Italian opera) as well as grand drama (like French opera).
In 1829, at the age of 37, Rossini decided to retire.
He had lots of money but his health was not particularly good.
Although he wrote a few small pieces of music he never composed another opera.
He went back to Bologna, although he returned to Paris nearly 20 years later with his wife.
Here his health improved and he wrote a little music.
His Petite messe solennelle for 12 voices, two pianos and harmonium is still performed today.
When he died in 1868 thousands of people came to his funeral.
Rossini’s place in music history
Rossini was a composer of the classical period.
He was brought up hearing 18th century opera, and much of his best known music is still Classical in style, but he developed a lot as he matured and was writing in a more Romantic way by the end of his career.
He gradually stopped writing music which has set numbers all the time: music divided sharply into arias and recitative.
His recitative became more expressive and was accompanied by the orchestra instead of by a harpsichord.
This helped to make his music more continuous.
He did not often write for castrati as they were going out of fashion.
The chorus have an important part in the drama of his operas (in 18th century opera they just used to comment on what was going on).
Salerno is a southern Italian city.
It has a port.
It faces the Mediterranean Sea.
It is capital of the province of Salerno.
Cities in Campania
An opera house is a building where operas and ballets are performed.
It is similar to a theatre.
The first opera houses were built in the 1630s in Italy, about thirty years after the first operas were written.
Traditionally they have a stage where the action takes place and a proscenium archway with a curtain that can be drawn back when the performance begins.
In front of the stage is an orchestra pit which is a little lower than the stage so that the audience can still see the stage.
The audience sit in the auditorium which is often horse-shoe shaped.
The downstairs seats are called “stalls”.
Round the stalls there are two or three tiers (storeys) of boxes.
Each box can seat a small number of people.
At the top towards the back there is a balcony and often a gallery along the sides as well.
Some seats in the gallery may have restricted view (it is not possible to see all of the stage).
Kullervo is a person in the Finnish national epic Kalevala.
He is a good looking man with golden hair.
Bad things happen to him; his destiny is tragic.
In folk stories Kullervo is the son of the giant Kaleva.
In the Kalevala however Kullervo is the son of a man called Kalervo.
In the Kalevala Kullervo's family is killed by Untamo's family before Kullervo is born.
Only one woman is not killed.
She gives birth to Kullervo who will be a slave of Untamo.
Every work that Kullervo tries goes ill.
This is why Untamo sells him to a smith called Ilmarinen.
Ilmarinen puts Kullervo to shepherd cows.
Ilmarinen's wife gives Kullervo bread that has stones in it.
While Kullervo cuts the bread his knife hits the stone and breaks.
Kullervo gets angry and curses bears to eat cows and Ilmarinen's wife.
Then he escapes.
While travelling Kullervo has sex with a girl.
He does not know that this is his own sister.
When he finds out he goes very angry and attacks Untamo and kills him and his family.
Then he commits suicide.
Ephraïm Inoni (born 16 August, 1947) is the former Prime Minister of Cameroon, a country in central west Africa.
H.E. Ephraim Inoni comes from the South West province in Cameroon, which is part of the Anglophone provinces in Cameroon.
Ephraim Inoni is a member of the ruling party and a strong supporter of President Paul Biya.
He was part of President Paul Biya's campaign team in 2006.
Inoni was found guilty of conspiracy in the embezzlement of about $31 million in a fouled up 2001 deal to purchase an airplane for the President Paul Biya of Cameroon.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Yaounde Special Criminal Tribunal.
In physics, Compton scattering, or the Compton effect, is the name used for what happens to the energy (or frequency or wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon when it interacts with matter; the wavelength increases (or energy/frequency decreases) as it scatters off electrons.
This scattering is one of the main things that happen when gamma rays meet matter.
The Compton effect was studied by Arthur Holly Compton  in 1923.
Scottsdale (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of the state of Arizona in the United States.
In 2000 there were 202,705 people living in Scottsdale which made it the 83rd largest city in the United States.
In 2005 the Census Bureau said that more people were living in Scottsdale, about 226,000 people, this makes it the 80th largest city in the US.
The city is in the Salt River Valley, or the, "Valley of the Sun", in the northern Sonoran Desert.
To the east and northeast of Scottsdale is the McDowell Mountain Range.
Scottsdale borders the city of Phoenix and town of Paradise Valley to the west, Tempe to the south, and Fountain Hills to the east.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 477.7 km² (184.4 mi²).
477.1 km² (184.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (0.12%) is water.
Scottsdale's climate is arid.
Winters are mild and summers are very hot.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the city is 19.0 °F (−7.2 °C), on February 20, 1955, and the highest temperature ever recorded is 119.0 °F (48.3 °C), on June 26, 1970 and August 2, 1972.
History and Culture
Scottsdale was originally inhabited by Hohokam.
From 800 to 1400, this ancient civilization farmed the area and built ingenious irrigation canals.
The city was incorporated in 1951.
The seal, which shows a mounted cowboy surrounded by a 64-pointed star burst, was designed by Mrs. Gene Brown Pennington.
There are many businesses in Scottsdale.
Many of them are in a business park known as The Scottsdale Air Park.
Some of these companies are: AXA, GE Capital, DHL, Discount Tire Company, Tempo Creative, Fidelity Investments, JDA Software and The Vanguard Group.
Scottsdale is seen as an upscale tourist and shopping destination.
It is also known as a good model of western American style.
The New York Times described downtown Scottsdale as "a desert version of Miami's South Beach."
The Times article also stated there was "plenty of late night partying and a buzzing hotel scene".
Scottsdale is governed by a mayor and city council, all of whom are elected "at large" to represent the entire city.
A city manager is responsible for the leadership of the city staff.
He also helps carry out the council policies, develops programs and budgets to respond to council goals, and makes sure that people get effective and efficient city services.
The city manager also serves as the city treasurer.
Public education in Scottsdale is provided by the Scottsdale Unified School District.
Some parts of the town fall under other school districts in the Phoenix Metro Area, including the Cave Creek Unified School District, Paradise Valley Unified School District, Phoenix Union High School District, Tempe Union High School District, and the Balsz Elementary School District
The primary college in the city is Scottsdale Community College.
The college actually lies inside the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Reservation.
Many students also commute to nearby Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Penn Foster College, a distance education college, is based in Scottsdale
Scottsdale has four branches within the Scottsdale Public Library System.
A fifth is currently being built.
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Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce
Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau
1951 establishments in the United States
REO Speedwagon is an American rock band.
They formed in Illinois in the late 1960s.
The band continues to record and tour to this day.
They were most popular in the 1980s, when they had a #1 album and two #1 singles.
REO Speedwagon (1971)
R.E.O./T.W.O. (1972)
Ridin' the Storm Out (1973)
Lost in a Dream (1974)
This Time We Mean It (1975)
R.E.O. (1976)
You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish (1978)
Nine Lives (1979)
Hi Infidelity (1980)
Good Trouble (1982)
Wheels Are Turnin' (1984)
Life as We Know It (1987)
The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken (1990)
Building the Bridge (1996)
Find Your Own Way Home (2007)
No So Silent Night... Christmas with REO Speedwagon (2009)
REO Speedwagon's Official website
Musical groups from Illinois
Will (modal verb)
Shall and will, comparison of the two verbs
Will (law), a legal document that explains the last wishes of someone after they die, such as what they want to happen to their money and their things.
Living will, a legal document that explains the desires of the author with regard to medical decisions when they are unable to act on their own behalf.
Will (philosophy), is the part of us that makes conscious choices and actions.
Free will, is the theory that every person can decide what to do freely.
Carlisle is a city in the north of England near the border with Scotland.
It is in  the county of Cumbria.
Carlisle has a population of 71,773 people.
Carlisle is famous for Carr's Table Water Biscuits.
They are only made in Carlisle and are by appointment of her majesty the Queen.
Stanisław Konarski, Sch.
P. (actual name: Hieronim Konarski; 30 September 1700 – 3 August 1773) was a Polish teacher and writer.
He wrote political books, poems, and plays.
He was a monk - member of the order of Piarists; he brought the Enlightenment in Poland.
Between 1725 and 1727 Konarski learned at the Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric - the art of good speaking.
After that, in order to make better his own learning, he traveled through France, Germany and Austria.
In 1730 he went back to Poland and began to work on a new text of Polish law ("Volumina legum").
From 1736 Konarski taught at the Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszów and in 1740 he started the Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw, a school for sons of the people of high social class ("szlachta").
Thereafter, he improved teaching of Piarists in Poland, in a way that agrees with his program of teaching (Ordinationes Visitationis Apostolicae..., 1755).
His improvements became an important point in the fight of 18th century to make the system of Polish teaching more modern.
In the beginning, Konarski was joined politically with King Stanislas Leszczynski; later, he came near to Czartoryski's "Familia" and to King Stanislas August Poniatowski.
He took part in the well-known "Thursday dinners".
Stanislas August Poniatowski caused that a medal was made in the honor of Konarski, with his likeness.
There was written in Latin: Sapere auso ("who was brave to be wise").
Konarski, Stanislas
1700 births
1773 deaths
Gaetano Donizetti (born Bergamo 29 November 1797; died Bergamo 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.
He was the most famous composer of operas in Italy in the years between the death of Bellini (1835) and the time when Verdi was becoming well-known.
Bellini and Donizetti wrote operas in the bel canto style: music with beautiful, smooth melodies.
Donizetti’s family were very poor.
His talent was discovered by Simon Mayr who was maestro di cappella (music director) at S Maria Maggiore in Bergamo.
He opened a school which trained boys to sing in the church choir and gave them a good musical education.
Donizetti learned a lot from Mayr and was always very grateful to him.
Donizetti’s first operas were performed in Venice.
A rich lady who realized he was very talented paid so that he did not have to do military service.
His opera Zoraida di Granata was very successful in Rome and he was given a contract for an opera for Naples.
For several years he composed between two and five operas every year.
They were not particularly successful.
One of the reasons was that the libretti he was given (the words he had to set) were not very good.
In 1828 he married.
None of their three children lived very long and his wife died in 1837 which made him very sad during his last years.
This can be felt in his music.
His opera Anna Bolena made him internationally famous.
It was performed in London and Paris.
His opera Maria Stuarda was based on a play by Schiller.
The audience did not like the tragic ending.
Today it is recognized as containing some great music, especially in the final scene.
After a visit to Paris he returned to Naples to produce Lucia di Lammermoor which was based on Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
There is a French version as well as an Italian version of this opera.
In 1838 he moved to Paris where he had his operas performed in four theatres.
Berlioz wrote very critical articles about him in a music journal.
Donizetti had gone to Paris hoping that he would earn lots of money so that he could then retire, just like Rossini had done.
However, his health was not good and he found it harder to concentrate.
He managed to composed Don Pasquale which is one of the best comic operas every written, but it does have a lot of music that he had written earlier.
He was obviously finding it difficult to think of new ideas.
Soon he became really ill.
He was put in a sanatorium near Paris for 17 months.
In 1847 some friends arranged for him to stay with them, but he was very ill by then.
He was paralysed and almost unable to speak.
His friends looked after him until he died.
He was buried in Bergamo.
His remains are now in a church there.
The house where he was born is a museum.
Saint Caterina Volpicelli  (1839-1894)
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (4th century)
Saint Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463)
Saint Catherine of Genoa (circa 1447–1510)
Saint Catherine Laboure (1806–1876)
Saint Catherine of Ricci, O.P. (1522–1590)
Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P. (Doctor of the Church, 1347–1380)
Saint Catherine of Sweden (circa 1332–1381)
Saint Katharine Drexel (1858-1955)
St Catherine, Somerset
Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Blond or blonde is a light color of hair or a person with this color hair.
The spelling blonde means a female with this hair colour, and the spelling blond can mean a male with the same hair color.
The color itself can have either spelling (blonde or blond), according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
Some people are blonde because they have less pigment in their hair than dark haired people.
To be blonde is usually to have blonde ancestors.
Then it is genetic - blondes have genes that make them blond.
Sometimes it is not genetic - this is called albinism.
People can also use chemicals to make themselves blonde.
Bleach is sometimes used to make the color of a person's hair lighter.
Most people are not blondes by their genes.
Only some people, mostly with European ancestry, are blondes by their genes, and also some Australian Aborigines have a different gene that makes them blonde.
Natural blondes are most common around the Baltic Sea and Scandinavia.
The Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland also have many blond people.
Ireland and Scotland also have a high number of natural blondes.
According to recent genetic analysis, both mtDNA and Y chromosome exist in Austrians.
There is also a large number of blondes in England, Baltic countries, Slavic countries (especially Poland), north-western parts of Russia and among European descent that have lived in Kazakhstan since the Soviet Union.
Natural blondes are also common in Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Germany.
Light hair can also brought on by environmental factors, especially exposure to sunlight.