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Roy was drafted 254th overall by the Dallas Stars in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft but never played in the National Hockey League.
After spending two years at Michigan Technological University he signed with the Manitoba Moose in 1997.
Roy spent nine seasons with the Manitoba Moose, the first four in the International Hockey League and the rest in the American Hockey League after the Moose became members of the league when the IHL folded.
He holds different team records like games played and most goals.
For the 2006–07 season Roy signed with the Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
In Iserlohn he developed to a key player, known for his leading quality on and off the ice.
He also helped the club to sign some former Moose players like Ryan Ready and Pat Kavanagh.
Roy extended his contract after his first season in Germany for two years.
On Christmas Day 2008 the Roosters announced again that Roy has signed for two more years.
As a Rooster he usually plays on a line with Ryan Ready.
In the 2007–08 season their center was Pat Kavanagh, the next season Bob Wren was their linemate.
2002–03 Yanick Dupre Memorial Award
2006 AHL All-Star Game
After playing four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Labbé began a very successful American Hockey League career.
He played for the Prince Edward Island Senators, Cornwall Aces, Hershey Bears, Hamilton Bulldogs, Hartford Wolf Pack and Syracuse Crunch in his AHL tenure.
His best season came in 1996–1997 with the Hershey Bears, when he won both the Hap Holmes Memorial Award for lowest goals against average and the Les Cunningham Award for league MVP.
Labbé won the Calder Cup with the Hartford Wolf Pack in 2000.
1996-97 AHL Hap Holmes Memorial Award (lowest GAA)
1996-97 AHL Les Cunningham Award (MVP)
1999-00 AHL Hap Holmes Memorial Award (lowest GAA)
Lowest GAA in a single season - 2.18 (2001–02)
Highest single season save percentage - .928 (2001–02)
Career shutouts - 11
Sherbrooke Faucons players
Tatyana Ali (born January 24, 1979) is an American R&B singer and actress.
She is best known for playing Ashley Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
She later played Roxanne in The Young and the Restless.
Caribbean Heritage Organization
2011: Recipient, Living Legacy Award
1996: Won, Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1997: Nominated, Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
2010: Nominated, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama – The Young and the Restless
2011: Nominated, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series – Love That Girl!
2011: Won, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama – The Young and the Restless
2012: Won, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama – The Young and the Restless
2012: Nominated, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series – Love That Girl!
2013: Nominated, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series – Love That Girl!
1996: Nominated, Favorite Television Actress – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1991: Won, Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1992: Nominated, Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1993: Nominated, Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1994: Nominated, Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1995: Nominated, Outstanding Young Comedienne in a Television Series – Name Your Adventure
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley (born July 21, 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican singer.
Marley has won four Grammy Awards.
He is the son of Bob Marley.
Marley has released four studio albums.
Marley has ten siblings: Ky-Mani, Julian, Stephanie, Karen, Rohan, Robbie, Stephen, Ziggy, Cedella and Sharon.
Marley has a football team named after him in England called FC Zion.
Damian Marley official website
Marley, Bob
Upstate cities include Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca and Utica.
Rural areas of New York are also upstate.
These include the Adirondack Mountains and the Mohawk Valley.
Culturally, upstate New York is quite different than New York City.
The people who live in upstate New York came from different places than the people who live in New York City.
Also, upstate New York is more moderate politically, with rural counties voting more conservative and urban counties more liberal, contrasted with the mostly liberal New York City.
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning
Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park
International Boxing Hall of Fame, Canastota
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown
Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls
Women's Rights National Historic Park, National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls
The Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) is a visual system next to the touch-point on a runway.
The purpose of the system is to lead a plane in correct approach.
The PAPI creates ray of light which gives pilot information about his actual height.
If plane is over correct approach line, pilot will see 3 white lights and 1 red.
If he is higher, he will see all lights in white.
If plane keeps correct approach, pilot will see 2 white lights and 2 red.
The right line is in the angle 3 degrees from axis of airport.
If plane is under correct approach line, pilot will see 3 red lights and 1 white.
If he is lower, he will see all lights in red.
The rules about the parameters are written in standard ANNEX 14 ICAO.
The brochure contains more specific information about intensity of ray, location where we can get device etc.
Campeonato Mineiro da Primeira Divisão Módulo II: 2
1996, 2007
Campeonato Mineiro da Segunda Divisão: 1
Twiztid are an American hip-hop/Horrorcore group from Detroit, Michigan.
The group consists of two members: Jamie Madrox and Monoxide.
hip hop bands
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD or UC San Diego) is a public research university.
It is in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States.
UCSD is part of the University of California system.
It was founded in 1960 near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
There were 22,048 undergraduate and 5,073 graduate students in Fall 2007.
The university awarded 6,802 degrees in 2005/06.
The university is organized into six undergraduate colleges and six graduate divisions.
It offers 125 undergraduate majors, 52 masters degrees, 51 doctoral programs, and four professional degrees.
In 2012, UCSD was ranked the 15th best university in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked UC San Diego as the 35th best university in the nation.
UCSD is consistently ranked high in other college and university rankings.
In 2010, the university ranked 1st nationally in The Washington Monthly.
Official website of the University of California, San Diego
Historical Overview of UCSD
NEES @ UC San Diego Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table website
The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California.
The University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system.
The University of California has a combined student body of more than 220,000 students and over 170,000 faculty and staff.
Its first campus, UC Berkeley, was founded in 1868, while its tenth and newest campus, University of California, Merced, opened for classes in fall 2005.
The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field and is widely regarded as one of the top public university systems in the world.
Eight of its undergraduate campuses are ranked among the top 100, six among the top 50, and two among the top 25 U.S. universities by the U.S. News and World Report.
Six of its campuses are members of the Association of American Universities, a group of over 60 top U.S. and Canadian research universities.
The current president of the University of California is Janet Napolitano.
The University of California, Hastings College of the Law is affiliated with UC, but governed separately from the rest of the UC system.
Official website of the University of California
Luther Vandross (April 20, 1951-July 1, 2005) was an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter.
He had over 25 million albums and won eight Grammy Awards during his singing career.
The University of California, Santa Barbara (also referred to as UCSB and UC Santa Barbara) is a research university in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
The third-oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara offeres 87 undergraduate and 55 graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.
The main campus is located on a 1,022-acre (4.1 km2) site in Santa Barbara, California, 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles.
The University was founded in 1909 and joined the University of California-system in 1944.
UC Santa Barbara is a "very high activity" research university.
UCSB houses twelve national research centers.
UCSB faculty includes five Nobel Prize laureates, one  Fields Medalist, 29 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 23 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Official website of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Uc Santa Barbara
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a large bird that lives along the coasts of the Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico in North and South America.
Brown pelicans are carnivores (meat-eaters) and hunt during the day (they are diurnal).
They eat mostly fish and some amphibians and crustaceans.
The Lincoln Continental was an American luxury car first produced around in 1939.
The production ended around 1948, but resumed during 1956.
This car was a fully sized vehicle during most of its years.
Its production ended around 2002.
The replacement vehicle was Lincoln LS V8.
Julia Stiles (b. March 28, 1981, New York City) is an American actress.
She played Nicky Parsons in the Bourne movie series.
She is also a stage and television actress.
On March 17, 2001, Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live.
Ryu Gwan-sun or Yu Gwan-sun (Hangul: 유관순, Hanja: 柳寬順) (December 16, 1902 – September 28, 1920) was a Christian Korean freedom fighter who protested against the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Ryu Gwansun was born on December 16, 1902, in a small farming village.
Her brother said that she taught herself how to read Hangul.
She was a playful, lively child who enjoyed running "like a boy" and was able to memorize Bible verses quickly.
Her nephew, who grew up in the same village as her, said that she had very large, bright black eyes.
Her brother described her as tall, with a plump, fair face.
Ryu Gwansun joined in the March 1st Movement with some friends from her school, though her teacher strongly told them not to.
She was taken to prison for a short time, and her school was closed.
With the help of her family and friends, Ryu planned a peaceful demonstration in her province for 1 March.
The day before the demonstration, Ryu lit a bonfire on a mountain as a signal to begin the demonstration.
The next day, over 2000 people came together in a marketplace for the demonstration.
The Japanese police shot at the people, and about 19 people died, including Ryu's parents.
Ryu Gwansun was taken to prison.
She died on September 28, 1920 from injuries sustained from torture and beatings in prison.
Dorothy Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is an American athlete.
She won a gold medal in the 1976 Winter Olympics in figure skating.
Hamill was born in Chicago but grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.
She was married to Dean Paul Martin from 1982 until they divorced in 1984.
She was married to Kenneth Forsythe from 1987 until 1995.
Hamill has been married to John MacColl since 2009.
She has a daughter by Forsythe.
Peggy Fleming is an American figure skater and ABC Sports television commentator.
She was the champion at 1968 Winter Olympics.
She was born July 27, 1948 in San Jose, California.
One function of display is in courtship.
In most species the male has a striking feature that is distinguished by colour, shape or size, used to attract a female.
In many species the male has another, more cryptic, form out of the mating season.
A related function is armament (horns, teeth) exhibited and used by 'tournament' species.
In these species, males fight to gain the 'right' to breed.
The display part of the process is a mechanism for younger males to avoid being damaged by prime males.
Instinctive behaviour prompts lesser males to leave the field.
Peafowl, deer, antelope and elephant seals are good examples.
The other main function is in species which have territorial display behaviour.
This may preserve a foraging or hunting territory for its family or group.
Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American gymnast.
She was born in Fairmont, Virginia.
Retton won gold, silver and bronze medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
She was the first female outside Eastern Europe to win an Olympic all around title.
An air mass is a volume of air defined by its  temperature and water vapor content.
Air masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square miles.
Colder air masses are called polar or arctic, while warmer air masses are called tropical.
Antelope is a term for many even-toed ungulate species.
Antelope is not a strict taxonomic term because they are not a clade.
Antelope is a 'wastebasket taxon' in the family Bovidae.
It includes the old-world species which are not cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, or goats.
Antelopes occupy the ecological niche which deer occupy north of the Sahara.
Both deer and antelopes are grass-eating mammals which have replaced browsers as the dominant vegetarian animals as forests gave way to grasslands.
Antelope are found mostly in Africa below the Sahara, and parts of Asia.
No antelope are native to North America: the pronghorn is a member of the family Antilocapridae, another family.
True antelope have horns which are unbranched and never shed, while pronghorns have branching horns, and shed annually.
There are 91 species of antelope, most of which are native to Africa, in about 30 genera.
A group of antelope is called a herd.
Species of forest, woodland, or bush tend to be sedentary, but many of the plains species undertake huge migrations.
These migrations enable grass-eating species to follow the rains and therefore their food supply.
The gnus and gazelles of East Africa perform some of the most impressive mass migratory circuits of all mammals.
Many antelope are sexually dimorphic.
In most species, both sexes have horns, but those of males tend to be larger.
There is a tendency for males to be larger than the females
Gazelles and springbok are known for their speed and leaping abilities.
Even larger antelope, such as elands, and kudus, are capable of jumping 8 feet (2.4 m) or greater, although their running speed is restricted by their greater mass.
In 1646 lightning hit the gunpowder tower of the castle, causing an explosion that destroyed the castle and the town, killing Lord Haersolte of Bredevoort and his family, as well as others.
In April 2009 big walls were discovered  underground in the heart of the town.
On the square they found remain of the gate building which was a part of the ring wall surrounding the castle.
That foundation is visible on the square today.
Tim Leveque (born June 13, 1968) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player.
He is most famous for being the Laval Chiefs enforcer that is called up later in the season in the hockey documentary "Les Chiefs".
Leveque started his career with the Thunder Bay Senators of the Colonial Hockey League during the 1993-94 season.
In two games, Leveque accumulated 23 PIMs.
After an eight year layoff, Leveque would resurface with the Laval Chiefs of the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League (currently the LNAH).
Leveque would engage in several fights with Dominic "The Giant" Forcier of the Sorel Royaux during the season.
Forcier who stood 6' 7" and 320 lbs, was taken down by Leveque during each of their three fights.
After Leveque's final fight with Forcier on February 10, 2002, he would fight Chad Nicholson in the closing minutes of the same game.
This would be Leveque's final game with the Chiefs.
After the game, Leveque would tell the team that he had "connections in Norfolk" and that he was leaving the team.
In 2004, Leveque received a tryout with the Sherbrooke Saint-Francois.
He would play one game with Sherbrooke, and was briefly involved in a fight with David Lessard.
Leveque would be released after the game.
In 2005, Leveque played a preseason game with the Sorel-Tracy Mission and fought Corey Dean.
After one game with the Mission, Leveque was released.
Trent Kenneth McCleary (born September 8, 1972) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL).
His career was ended in 2000 after taking a slapshot to the throat, an injury that required life-saving surgery moments after the incident.
He played 192 games, scoring 8 goals and 23 points.
A native of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, McCleary played junior hockey in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with his home-town Swift Current Broncos beginning in 1988.
He played a total of four seasons with the Broncos, winning the WHL championship and Memorial Cup with the team in 1988–89 though he played only three games with the team.
He was a defensive forward in the WHL, but scored 50 points in his final year in helping the Broncos win a second championship.
He added a goal in four games at the 1993 Memorial Cup.
The Ottawa Senators signed McCleary as an undrafted free agent upon his graduation, and he spent the majority of the 1993–94 season with the Thunder Bay Senators of the Colonial Hockey League (CoHL).
He moved up to the Prince Edward Island Senators of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1994–95 but missed three months of the season after suffering retinal damage to his right eye when he was hit in the face by a stick.
Upon his recovery, McCleary returned wearing a visor that he would retain throughout his career.
He made his NHL debut in Ottawa in 1995–96, scoring 14 points in 75 games.
The Senators traded McCleary, along with a draft pick to the Boston Bruins for Shawn McEachern following the season.
He appeared in 59 games with the Bruins but was unable to come to an agreement on a new contract for the 1997–98 season.
As a result, he signed to play in the International Hockey League (IHL), splitting the season between the Las Vegas Thunder and Detroit Vipers.
His rights ultimately released by the Bruins, McCleary signed with the Montreal Canadiens as a free agent in 1998, appearing in 46 NHL games in 1998–99.
Early the following season, he again suffered a severe injury to his right eye, suffering a severed tear duct when he was hit in the face by an errant skate.
He recovered, splitting the early part of the season between the Canadiens and the Quebec Citadelles in the AHL.
During a game between the Canadiens and the Philadelphia Flyers on January 29, 2000, McCleary dropped to the ice in an attempt to block a Chris Therien slapshot.
He was critically injured when hit in the throat by the shot which fractured his larynx and resulted in a collapsed lung.
Unable to breathe, McCleary rushed to the bench, collapsing upon his arrival.
Medical staff worked to partially open his airway in the hallways of Molson Centre, actions which McCleary credits with saving his life.
He was then rushed to a waiting ambulance and transported to hospital where surgeons performed an emergency tracheotomy.
He remained in full equipment during the procedure; hospital staff did not even have time to remove his skates.
Unable to speak immediately following his surgery, McCleary sent a written note to his teammates explaining he was all right while his surgeon revealed that he came "as close ... as you could come" to dying in the moments after he was struck.
He met with the media two weeks following his injury, responding to questions via note pad, stating that he hoped to return to his career upon recovery.
McCleary attempted a comeback at the start of the 2000–01 season.
Despite doubts he would be capable of returning, the Canadiens signed him to a one-year, US$300,000 contract.
He appeared in exhibition games with the Canadians, but found he was unable to play a full shift without running short of breath.
He was examined by his doctor, who noted that because his air passage was left 15% narrower than before his injury, it was too dangerous for him to continue playing.
As a result, on September 20, 2000, McCleary announced his retirement, calling it the "toughest day" in his seven year career.
The Canadiens kept him in the organization, naming him a WHL scout.
McCleary's parents Kyle and Leah still live in Swift Current.
He and his wife Tammy have three children.
The Pirate Party Germany (German: Piratenpartei Deutschland; short: PIRATEN, "Pirates") is a political party in Germany based on the model of the Swedish Piratpartiet.
Party Platform
The party opposes the loss of civil rights in telephony and on the Internet, in particular the rules for keeping information about telephone calls and Germany's new Internet censorship law called Zugangserschwerungsgesetz.
The party was founded on 10 September 2006.
Party leader has been Patrick Schiffer since August 2016.
Previous leaders were among others Sebastian Nerz, Dirk Hillbrecht, Jens Seipenbusch and Christof Leng.
In February 2009, the village spokesperson of Hohenstein, a city councillor in Strausberg, Jens Knoblich joined the Pirate Party Germany.
In June 2009, Bundestag member Jörg Tauss, who has been charged with the crime of child pornography possession and distribution, left the SPD and joined the Pirate Party after the Zugangserschwerungsgesetz was passed.
He said that while he supports the fight against child pornography, the means are unacceptable.
In late August 2009, Herbert Rusche, one of the founding members of the German Green Party and, in the 1980s, the first openly homosexual member of parliament in Germany, joined the Pirate Party.
2009 German Federal election
On 27 September 2009, the PIRATEN received 2.0% (845,904 votes) in the 2009 German federal election.
This result means that the party failed to secure any seat in the Bundestag, however this was also the best result among the parties who did not achieve the required 5% threshold.
Among the first-time male voters the party received 13%.
2009 European Parliament election
It received 229,117 votes in the 2009 European Parliament election, which was 0.9%, but not enough (at least 5%) for a seat.
The number of party members has increased since then.
As of March 2010, the party had over 12,000 members.
German State and Regional elections
On 30 August 2009, the PIRATEN received 1.9% in the 2009 Saxony state election.
On the same day, the party also received one seat in each council in the local elections of Münster and Aachen, although candidates of the party ran for office only in some constituencies of both cities.
Support for The PIRATEN differs between States.
The party received 1.8% in the 2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election and 1,5% in the 2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election (though without securing seats), but only 0.5% in the 2009 Hesse state election and did not participate in the 2009 Brandenburg and Saarland state elections
Junge Piraten - Youth organisation
Opossums are the largest order of marsupials  in the Western Hemisphere, the Didelphimorphia.
The Virginia opossum was the first animal to be called an opossum: the word comes from the Algonquian language, and means "white beast."
It was one of the few South American marsupials to establish itself permanently in North America after the Great American Interchange, and the only one to survive there today.
Opossums can help slow the spread of Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever because they eat deer ticks and other ticks that carry the germs for these diseases.
One opossum can eat 5000 ticks each year.
They also eat garden pests, for example slugs, and animals that can carry disease, for example mice and rats.
Marsupials like opossums are born before their jaw bones have grown enough for them to drink their mothers' milk the way other baby mammals do.
Scientists from King's College London found that opossums and other marsupials use tissue from their inner ear to make a temporary jaw so they can feed and grow.
Damian Jacques Jackson (born August 16, 1973 in Los Angeles, California) is an American baseball player.
He is a second baseman for the Orange County Flyers of Golden Baseball League.
Damian Jackson at sports.espn.go.com
The eland is the largest antelope.
There are two species, both African.
The common eland, Taurotragus oryx, is from East Africa and South Africa.
The giant eland, Taurotragus derbianus, is found in Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon and Senegal  and West Africa.
The two species are rather similar in size: males range in size from  and may even reach a ton on rare occasions; females range from .
Giant eland are alert and wary, making them difficult to approach and observe.
They are gregarious, and migrate in small herds of twenty or so animals.
Giant eland live in open forest and savannah where they eat grass, leaves, and branches.
Common eland live in large herds.
Observers have, as usual, found it difficult to measure their speed of running.
Some claim they move quickly, running at over , and despite their size are exceptional jumpers, easily clearing heights of .
Others claim elands are one of the slowest antelopes, but can even jump a height of  or more.
When walking, tendon or joints in the eland's foreleg produce a sharp clicking sound, the cause of which is not known.
The sound carries some distance and is a good indication of an approaching herd.
Naturalists think it is a form of communication in elands.
Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and environmental activist.
She starred in many movies during the 1980s, including Splash.
Air India Flight 182 was a passenger plane which, on June 23, 1985, exploded from a bomb that was placed on the plane.
The aircraft was going between Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, Montreal, Quebec, and New Delhi, India.
It was an Air India Boeing 747-237B, registration VT-EFO.
The bombing was called the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history, and the deadliest act of air terrorism before 9/11.
The flight was going between Montreal and New Delhi.
The plane exploded when it was flying 31,000 feet over Atlantic Ocean South of Ireland.
The bomb was hidden in a Sanyo tuner in a suitcase which was in the forward cargo hold.
Around fifty-five minutes later after the loss of the aircraft, a suitcase which was checked in by one of the accused perpetrators in the bombing exploded at Japan’s Narita Airport and killed two baggage handlers and injured four other people nearby.
The suitcase was on its way to another airliner at Narita.
At least 329 people were killed in the explosion aboard flight 182.
Most of the victims on-board were Canadians, but 27 came from the United Kingdom, and 10 more came from the United States, five from Brazil, four from Germany, three from France, two each from Italy and Australia, one each from Japan, Mexico, Russia, China, and Belgium.
Four passengers and all 22 crew members were from India'
Talwinder Singh Parmar
Inderjit Singh Reyat
Ripudaman Singh Malik
Ajaib Singh Bagri
Surjan Singh Gill
Hardial Singh Johal and Manmohan Singh
Daljit Sandhu
Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode
1980s murders in Europe
20th century in the Republic of Ireland
Terrorist incidents in Europe in the 1980s
Tachisme is a French art style popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
It had large brush strokes and had many drips and blobs of paint straight from the paint tube.
Wale has released 7 studio albums:
Attention Deficit (2009)
Ambition (2011)
The Gifted (2013)
The Album About Nothing (2015)
Shine (2017)
Wow... That's Crazy (2019)
Folarin II (2021)
Wale's Official website
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is United States corporation whose members serve as advisers to the nation on science.
New members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)
United States National Research Council (NRC)
The NAS is running  21-month project which will study how humans might influence weather patterns, assess dangers and investigate possible national security implications of climate geoengineering attempts to mitigate global warming.
The project is funded by the CIA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA.
National Academy of Sciences: About the NAS
k-os's Official website
Belinda Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American Grammy Award nominated singer, author and songwriter.
She is the lead singer of The Go Gos.
Carlisle was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Hydroplaning or Aquaplaning happens when a layer of water builds between the rubber tires of the vehicle and the road surface and leads to the loss of traction (grip) on the road.
Hydroplaning causes the vehicle to stop responding to control inputs such as steering, braking or accelerating.
The effects of hydroplaning depends on which wheels have lost traction and the direction that the vehicle is traveling.
Sintel is a short 15-minute movie made with computers using open source software.
It began production in September 2009 and was released on September 28, 2010.
The online release was made available for download on September 30, 2010.
It was first developed under the name Projet Durian, named after a type of smelly fruit.
It was changed to Sintel a word from the Dutch language, which can mean 'cinder', or 'ember'.
Sintel is a story about a girl who lives in the made-up city.
One day, a dragon lands on the roof of a house she is standing next to.
The dragon is hurt, so she helps it.
She and the dragon (which she names Scales) become good friends.
One day, Scales goes to chase a group of birds flying in the sky.
Another, bigger, dragon comes along, and kidnaps Scales.
Sintel goes to looks for Scales.
She finds the adult dragon in a Dragon Blood tree, There she fights the big dragon and kills it.
But, it turns out that the big dragon is actually Scales.
The movie ends with Sintel sad, because she accidentally killed her friend.
Ton Roosendaal announced the movie in May 2009.
The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Film Fund paid for part of the project.
Everyone who preordered before September 1 has his or her name listed in the movie's credits.
The movie was released for download on the Official Durian Project website on October 1, 2010.
The Sintel website
The Blender website (Blender was the program used to make Sintel)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Research Council (NRC)
serve collectively as the scientific national academy for the United States.
The NAS, NAE, and IOM are honorary membership organizations, with a total membership of over 6,000 scientists, engineers, and health professionals.
New members for each organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The NRC is called the "working arm" of the Academies, which serves to collect, analyze, and share information through studies and reports.
The National Academies do not perform original research; rather they provide independent advice.
Federal agencies are the primary financial sponsors of the Academies' work; additional studies are funded by state agencies, foundations, other private sponsors, and the National Academies endowment.
The external sponsors have no control over the conduct or results of a study, once the statement of task and budget are finalized.
The Institute of Medicine
The National Academy of Engineering
National academies of sciences
Jens Seipenbusch (born 6 August 1968) is a German politician and physicist.
He was leader of the Pirate Party of Germany.
Seipenbusch was a founding member of his party.
He studied physics at the University of Münster.
He was first elected party leader in May 2007.
In May 2008 he became deputy leader for one year, before he became re-elected leader of the party in July 2009, and once more in May 2010.
In May 2011, Sebastian Nerz became leader of the party.
Jens Seipenbusch (Vorsitzender) , German Pirate Party's website
Maria Beatrice d’Este (Maria Beatrice Ricciarda; 7 April 1750 – 14 November 1829) was heiress of the two Duchies of Modena and Reggio.
She was married to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, son of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in an attempt to give the Austrians more influence in the Italian states.
Maria Beatrice was the Duchess of Massa and Carrara in her own right as well as an Archduchess of Austria by marriage.
from 1790 until 1797 and from 1816 until her death in 1829.
She and her husband formed the "House of Austria-Este".
Maria Beatrice was born at the Ducal Palace of Modena.
She was the only daughter of Ercole III of Modena and Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, ruling Duchess of Carrara and Massa.
Three years after her birth, her mother gave birth to a son who died aged 5 months in May 1753.
Her parents were part of an unhappy marriage which made the chance of having another son very unlikely.
Her parents separated and Maria Beatrice was soon acknowledged as an heiress to four sovereign duchies.
As heiress to four duchies, Modena and Reggio from her father and Massa and Carrara from her mother, she was a very attractive candidate for marriage.
From 1753 it was arranaged that she would marry Archduke Leopold of Austria, younger son of Empress Maria Theresa.
The situation changed when Leopold's childlessness made Leopold the heir to the Holy Roman Empire.
As a result, she was instead engaged to Leopold's brother, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.
Plans began in 1754 and it was concluded by their actual marriage in Milan on 15 October 1771.
Some of the festivities for the marriage were played by Mozart.
When her mother died in 1790 Maria Beatrice succeeded to Massa and the Principality of Carrara which she held in her own right.
After the French conquest of her domains in Italy, she spent her life in Austria and left the rule to administrators.
Just after the marriage, the couple had settled in Modena then travelled to Milan where Maria Beatrice gave birth to most of her 10 children by Ferdinand.
As Modena did not allow female succession, Maria Beatrice's rights to the throne passed to her son when her father died in 1803.
By her marriage, the House of Austria-Este was created, a cadet branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, which ruled Modena between 1814 and 1859.
At her death in her palace in Vienna in 1829, Massa and Carrara were added to the Duchy of Modena which were subsequently given to her son.
Archduke Joseph Francis (1772-1772) died young.
Archduchess Maria Theresa (1773-1832) married Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and had issue.
Archduchess Josepha (1775-1777) died young.
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine (1776-1848) married Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria no issue remarried Ludwig von Arco and had issue.
Francis IV of Modena (1779-1846) married Maria Beatrice of Savoy and had issue
Archduke Ferdinand Charles Joseph (1781-1850) died unmarried.
Archduke Maximilian Joseph (1782-1863) died unmarried.
Archduchess Maria Antonia (1784-1786) died young.
Archduke Karl Ambrosius (1785-1809) died unmarried.
Archduchess Maria Ludovika (1787-1816) married Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor no issue.
7 April 1750 - 15 October 1771 Her Highness Princess Maria Beatrice
15 October 1771 - 29 December 1790 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Beatrice of Austria
29 December 1790 - 29 June 1797 Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Massa, Archduchess of Austria
29 June 1797 - 30 May 1814 Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Beatrice of Austria
30 May 1814 - 14 November 1829 Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Massa, Archduchess of Austria
Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress and movie producer.
She received a Golden Globe Award for her part in the 1995 movie Casino.
Her role in the movie Basic Instinct was also notable.
Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County in Meadville.
She was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania.
One of the pageant judges said she should quit school and move to New York City to become a fashion model.
In 1977, Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey.
Within four days of her arrival in New Jersey, she was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York.
While living in Europe, she decided to quit modeling and become an actress.
Stone was cast for a brief role in Allen's Stardust Memories (1980).
She had many roles in movies in the 1980's.
Being in Total Recall (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger helped her career.
To promote the movie, she posed nude for Playboy.
The movie that made her a star Basic Instinct (1992).
She played a person thought to be a serial killer.
In the movie's most notorious scene, her character is being questioned by the police.
She crosses and uncrosses her legs, exposing her genitalia, which are not covered by underwear.
After Basic Instinct, she was listed by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
In 2003, she appeared in three episodes from the eighth season of The Practice.
For her performances, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Stone tried a return to the mainstream with roles in the movies Cold Creek Manor (2003) with Dennis Quaid and Catwoman (2004) with Halle Berry.
Both movies were not well liked by either the public or critics.
Stone married Michael Greenburg in 1984.
They separated in 1987 and the divorce was finalized in 1990.
In 1993, Stone met William J. MacDonald (aka Bill MacDonald) on the set of the movie Sliver.
MacDonald left his wife Naomi Baca for Stone and became engaged to her.
They separated one year later in 1994.
While working on the movie The Quick and the Dead in 1995, Stone met Bob Wagner and they became engaged.
On February 14, 1998, Stone married Phil Bronstein, executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner.
They adopted a son, Roan Joseph Bronstein (born on May 22, 2000) in late May or early June of 2000.
They divorced in 2004.
After her divorce she adopted another two boys, Laird Vonne Stone (born on May 7, 2005) and Quinn Kelly Stone
Stone is a convert to Tibetan Buddhism.
She is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church.
Kim Delaney (born November 29, 1961) is an American movie and television actress.
She played Jenny Gardner in the soap All My Children.
She played a detective in the television series NYPD Blue.
She also acted in the television series Philly.
Delaney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The mosquito can be recognized by white markings on legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the thorax.
It is a small mosquito, with a body length of about half one centimeter.
Aedes is a genus of mosquito originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but has spread by human activity to all continents excluding Antarctica.
Several of the species transmit important human diseases and one species, Aedes albopictus, is the most invasive mosquito in the world.
The name comes from the Greek aēdēs, meaning "unpleasant" or "odious", so called because of the diseases this type of mosquito transmits, including dengue fever and yellow fever.
The Rice White Stemborer (Scirpophaga innotata) is a species of moth of the Crambidae family.
It is found in Indonesia, Pakistan the Philippines and the tropical north of Australia.
Eugene Airport, also known as Mahlon Sweet Field, is a medium-sized airport in Eugene, Oregon in the United States.
It has ten connections to larger airports in the forty-eight states via four airlines.
Allegiant flies to Las Vegas, Oakland, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
Delta Connection flies to Salt Lake City.
Horizon Airlines flies to Portland and Seattle, and United Express flies to Portland, Denver and San Francisco.
Henry "Hank" Rutherford Hill (born April 15, 1953 in The Bronx, New York) is a fictional character in the television series, King of the Hill.
He lives in Arlen, Texas with his wife Peggy and his son Bobby.
He was named one of the wisest people on television by The Economist.
He suffers from Diminished Gluteal Syndrome (DGS) which is a fictional genetic disorder.
He works at Strickland Propane and sells propane and propane accessories.
His father's name is Cotton who was a World War II veteran who had his shins "blowed off by a Japanman's machine gun" in combat, and had his feet attached to his knees, he has a Japanese half brother named Junichiro, and his cousin is the bassist and vocalist for ZZ Top, Dusty Hill.
He is usually seen hanging out with his friends Dale, Bill and Boomhauer.
Caviar is a luxury food.
Caviar is  salted and un-fertilized sturgeon roe eggs.
The world's largest producer and exporter of caviar is Iran.
The producer of 90 percent of the world's caviar is the Caspian Sea.
Caviar is usually put in gold, plastic, wood, ivory containers.
It is rarely in silverware or steel because this may interfere with the flavor and color.
Jackson is an American city in the state of Wyoming.
It is in Teton County.
The current mayor of Jackson is Mark Barron.
As of 2000, 8,647 people lived there.
Many tourists go through Jackson when they visit the nearby Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and the National Elk Refuge.
Jackson's Official website
The 2009 Philippine region typhoon season was the period that tropical cyclones formed in the Western Pacific Ocean.
The season ran throughout the year during 2009, with most tropical cyclones forming between May and November.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones (including tropical depressions) that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility.
These names, however, are not in common use outside of the Philippines.
Tropical Depression Auring
Tropical Depression Bising
Typhoon Crising
Typhoon Dante
Typhoon Emong
Tropical Storm Feria
Tropical Depression Gorio
Tropical Depression Huaning
Typhoon Isang
Tropical Depression Jolina
Tropical Storm Labuyo
Tropical Depression Maring
Typhoon Nando
Typhoon Ondoy
Typhoon Pepemg
Typhoon Quedan
Typhoon Ramil
Tropical Storm Santi
Tropical Depression Tino
Tropical Depression Urduja
Tropical Depression Vinta
Body of Proof is an American medical drama television series on  ABC starring Dana Delany and Jeri Ryan.
The series stars Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, a medical examiner.
The show focusses on Hunt's efforts to balance the demands of her professional life with her personal life.
Hunt was previously employed as a top-flight neurosurgeon who had a life-changing automobile accident.
2011 American television series debuts
Blue Valentine is a 2010 movie.
It is a romantic drama starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling.
The original rating of this movie was NC-17, but the rating was successfully appealed to an R rating.
The movie is about a married couple who are shifting back and forth, along with their eventual divorce.
2010s romantic drama movies
Patty Lee Ramey (or Patty Loveless; born January 4, 1957) is an American country singer and songwriter.
She emerged onto the country music scene around 1986.
She has also sung Bluegrass and country pop.
She was born in Pikeville, Kentucky.
1996 Top Female Vocalist
1997 Top Female Vocalist
1989 Favorite New Country Artist
1995 Album of the Year – "When Fallen Angels Fly"
1996 Female Vocalist of the Year
1998 Vocal Event of the Year with George Jones – "You Don't Seem to Miss Me"
Inducted in 1988
Inducted in 2005Grammy AwardsBest Country Collaboration with Vocals – "Same Old Train" (1998)
Best Bluegrass Album – Mountain Soul II (2011)Kentucky Music Hall of Fame'Inducted in 2011 (announced 17 March 2010)
Patty Loveless (1986)
If My Heart Had Windows (1988)
Honky Tonk Angel (1988)
On Down the Line (1990)
Up Against My Heart (1991)
Only What I Feel (1993)
When Fallen Angels Fly (1994)
The Trouble with the Truth (1996)
Long Stretch of Lonesome (1997)
Strong Heart (2000)
Mountain Soul (2001)
Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas (2002)
On Your Way Home (2003)
Dreamin' My Dreams (2005)
Sleepless Nights (2008)
Mountain Soul II'' (2009)
An Islamic state  is a state that has adopted Islam as its state religion, and Islamic law as the foundation for political institutions.
Current examples of such states are Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Mauritania and the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Theocracies
Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen (15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz.
Their discoveries were about individual and social behaviour patterns, and how they are triggered.
In the 1960s Niko collaborated on a series of wildlife movies, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969), which won the Italia prize in that year and the American blue ribbon in 1971.
Aspects of his life
Niko, who had two eminent brothers, Luuk and Jan, was a prisoner of war during World War II.
His experience as a prisoner of the Nazis led to some friction with longtime intellectual collaborator Konrad Lorenz, and it was several years before the two reconciled.
After the war, Tinbergen moved to England, where he taught at the University of Oxford.
He remained in England for the rest of his life.
Several of his Oxford graduate students went on to become prominent biologists; these include Richard Dawkins, Marian Dawkins, Desmond Morris, and Iain Douglas Hamilton.
He married Elisabeth Rutten and they had five children.
Supernormal stimuli
The body of Tinbergen's research focused on what he termed supernormal stimuli.
This was the concept that an artificial object could be a stronger trigger for an instinct than the natural object for which the instinct originally evolved.
Tinbergen found that territorial male stickleback fish would attack a wooden fish model more vigorously than a real male if its underside was redder.
He constructed cardboard dummy butterflies with more defined markings that male butterflies would try to mate with in preference to real females.
The superstimulus, by its exaggerations, clearly showed what features were triggering the response.
Causation (Mechanism): what are the stimuli that elicit the response, and how has it been modified by recent learning?
Development (Ontogeny): how does the behaviour change with age, and what early experiences are necessary for the behaviour to be shown?
Evolution (Phylogeny): how does the behaviour compare with similar behaviour in related species, and how might it have arisen?
Function (Adaptation): how does the behaviour impact on the animal's chances of survival and reproduction?
Hans Kruuk 2003.
Niko's nature: the life of Niko Tinbergen and his science of animal behaviour
SF1 Kraken is a weapon mainly used by police forces during riots to restore order.
It is not lethal (hit causes only injury, not death).
The weapon is specially made for usage against civilians without risking casualties (loss of life).
The average distance of fire is about 30m, maximum is 100m and depends on type of bullet.
SF1 Kraken uses the energy of gases from .357 Magnum blank cartidges (without a bullet) which are made by Libra a.s.
in the Czech Republic.
It is also able to use several types of 59mm calibre bullets.
Common tennis ball - to stop or paralyse human or animal, for distances up to 30m.
Gas grenade - covers an area or some of friendly units with harmless smoke.
Tear gas grenade - covers an area of crowd with tear gas, causes intensive crying and burn of eyes.
P1 charge - uses strong acoustic effect (similar to simple banger or firecracker) to frighten or shock human or animal.
P2 charge - uses acoustic effect and tear gas, combination of Tear gas grenade and P1 charge.
Shot gun - filled with 20 rubber balls (instead of lead bullets).
General charasterictics
Calibre: 59 mm
Barrel length: 230 mm
Weapon length (without shoulder pad): 436 mm
Weapon length: 711 mm
Weight: 1,5 kg
Fire mode: repeating (the gun must be manually reloaded after every shot)
Cartridge calibre: .357 Magnum blank
Muzzle velocity: 110 m/s (with thennis ball)
Rate of fire: 6 rpm
Muzzle energy: 403 J
Impact energy (30m): 227 J
Oedema (U.S. edema) is dropsy.