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Meg releases Charles from IT's clutches and tessers with him through time and space, landing in her twin brothers' vegetable garden on Earth, where her father and Calvin stand waiting.
The family joyously reunites, and the Mrs. W's visit the happy scene en route to further travels.
Meg Murry -  The book's heroine and protagonist, a homely, awkward, but loving high school student who is sent on an adventure through time and space with her brother and her friend Calvin to rescue her father from the evil force that is attempting to take over the universe.
Meg's greatest faults are her anger, impatience, and lack of self-confidence, but she channels and overcomes them, ultimately emerging victorious.
Calvin O'Keefe -  A popular boy and talented athlete in Meg's high school who accompanies the Murry children on their adventure.
Calvin comes from a large family that does not really care about him, but he nonetheless demonstrates a strong capacity for love and affection, and shows a burgeoning romantic interest in Meg.
IT -  The disembodied brain that controls all the inhabitants of Camazotz with its revolting, pulsing rhythm.
IT, identified with the Black Thing, is the embodiment of evil on this planet.
Mrs. Whatsit -  The youngest of the three celestial beings who accompany the children on their adventure.
Meg initially comes to know Mrs. Whatsit as the tramp who stole bed-sheets from their neighbors and then sought shelter from a storm in the Murrys' warm kitchen.
She later learns that Mrs. Whatsit gave up her existence as a star in order to fight the Dark Thing.
Mrs. Which -  The oldest of the three celestial beings who accompany the children on their adventure.
Mrs. Which has difficulty materializing and is usually just a shimmering gleam.
Her unconventional speech is usually rendered in capitalized words, with the first consonants repeated several times.
Mrs. Who -  The second of the three celestial beings who accompany the children on their adventure.
She usually speaks in quotations from famous thinkers and writers because she finds it too difficult to craft her own sentences.
When the children first meet Mrs. Who, she is sewing sheets in the haunted house in their neighborhood.
Mr. Murry  -  Meg's father and a physicist who works for a top-secret government agency on experiments with travel through space-time in the fifth dimension.
In trying to tesser to Mars (i.e., travel through a tesseract, or wrinkle in time), he is captured and imprisoned on the dark planet of Camazotz.
When the plot begins, no one on Earth has heard from him for over a year.
Aunt Beast -  This tall, furry, many-tentacled inhabitant of the planet Ixchel cares lovingly for Meg after she is nearly destroyed by the Black Thing.
Aunt Beast, like all the creatures on Ixchel, lacks eyes and has no concept of light or vision.
Happy Medium -  A jolly, clairvoyant woman in a silk turban and satin gown who shows the children a vision of Earth through her crystal ball.
The Medium is reluctant to show them anything unpleasant, but the Mrs. W's insist that they see what they are up against.
Man with the Red Eyes  -  A robot-like inhabitant of Camazotz who tries to hypnotize Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin in the CENTRAL Central Intelligence building.
The Man, like all of Camazotz, is totally controlled by the power of IT.
Mrs. Murry  -  Meg's mother and an experimental biologist who works out of a lab in the Murry home.
She is at once a brilliant scientist and a loving mother who cooks meals for her family on her Bunsen burner.
She also writes loving letters to her absent husband every night.
Sandy and Dennys Murry  -  Meg's athletic and socially successful ten-year-old twin brothers who encourage her to let them fight off the bullies who make fun of Charles Wallace.
The twins do not accompany Meg and Charles Wallace on their interplanetary adventure.
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A Wrinkle in Time study guide, themes, quotes, multimedia, & teacher guide
A calibre (or caliber in American English) is the diameter of the barrel of a gun.
For example, a rifle with a diameter of 0.22 inch is a .22 cal.
Guns that have a particular calibre are designed to fit and use bullets of the same calibre.
Types of callibre
Callibre is measured in inches, not millimetres.
Common callibres include:
Alexandre Rosell i Feli or Sandro Rosell (born March 6, 1964 in Barcelona) is the current chairman of FC Barcelona.
He was the vice-president from 2003 to 2005.
Common bitter foods and beverages are coffee, pure chocolate, beer,  citrus peel and escarole.
Quinine is also known for its bitter taste and is found in tonic water.
Saltiness, the taste of salt
Sweet (taste), the taste of sugar
Sourness, the taste of lemon
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was a comet.
It broke apart and crashed into Jupiter, in July 1994.
The event was special because people could see, for the first time, how objects in the Solar System, outside Earth, collided.
It caused a large amount of coverage in the media.
The comet was carefully watched by astronomers worldwide.
The crash gave new information about Jupiter.
It also showed up its role in reducing space debris in the inner Solar System.
The name came out of the discovers' last names.
Discovery of this comet
The comet was discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy on March 24, 1993.
It was found in a picture taken by the  Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory, in California.
When it was discovered, it was orbiting Jupiter.
It was the first comet seen to be orbiting a planet.
Scientists think that it had been orbiting the planet for 20 - 30 years before its discovery.
Calculations showed that its unusual broken up form was due to a previous closer approach to Jupiter in July 1992.
At that time, the orbit of Shoemaker-Levy 9 passed within Jupiter's Roche limit.
Jupiter's tidal forces had acted to pull the comet apart.
The comet was later observed as a series of pieces up to  in diameter.
These fragments collided with Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 and July 22, 1994.
The pieces were moving at a speed of approximately 60 km/s. The impact scars were more easily seen than the Great Red Spot and they stayed for many months.
The International League (IL) is a minor league baseball league based in the Eastern United States.
Like the Pacific Coast League and the Mexican League, the International League plays at the Triple-A level.
It was so-named because it had teams in both the United States, Canada, and Cuba.
However, all of the league's teams are now based in the U.S.
The International League's official website
The International League's symbol
Cigerxwîn or Cegerxwîn (born Sheikhmous Hasan; 1903 – October 22, 1984) was a Kurdish polymath, and nationalist.
In mathematics, division by two is when a number is divided by two.
Some cultures, like the ancient Egyptians, thought this was a different operation than division.
Some mathematicians up until the 16th century (1500-1599) thought this too.
Today division by two is handled specially in modern computer programming.
In a binary number system, there are only two digits: 0 and 1.
All other numbers are represented with those two digits.
For example, "one" is 1, "two" is 10, "three" is 11, "four" is 100, and so on.
Most of the time people use a number system with ten digits (the numbers 0 through 9.)
Division by two in binary is very easy.
It is done by dropping the last digit on the right of the number.
This is called a "bit shift operation."
For example, if we performed a bit shift operation on the binary number 100, we'd get 10.
Since binary 100 is decimal 4, and binary 10 is decimal 2, this makes sense.
Another example is performing a bit shift operation on 1101.
This would leave us with 110, but we dropped a 1 from the end, not a zero.
This also makes sense because 1101 in binary is 13 in decimal.
If we divide 13 by 2, we get 6 with a remainder of 1 (we have 1 left over.)
Computers use the binary number system to store information.
Information is broken up into tiny pieces called bits.
Each bit is either a 0 or a 1.
Because of this, the fastest and easiest way for a computer to do division is by a bit shift operations -- division by two.
Replacing regular division with bit shifts is a way to do program optimization. (
Program optimization is trying to make a program faster and more efficient.)
In computer programming, the symbol >> is sometimes used to show a bit shift operation.
In Java, we can ask the computer to do the problem  by writing 19 >> 2.
This is the same as writing 19/2.
Both of these versions will give us the answer 9.
There is a problem when trying to do something a problem like .
In Java, if we write -3/2, the computer will tell us the answer is -1.
But if we try to do -3 >> 2, the computer will say the answer is -2.
This will happen every time we try to do a bit shift operation with one negative number.
The reason for this is complicated, and has to do with the way negative binary numbers are saved by the computer.
Even though it is fastest for computers to do division using bit shift operations, most computer code does not do it this way.
This is because programmers want their programs to be portable and readable.
Portable means that a program can be run on many different kinds of computers and operating systems.
Readable means that the source code is easy to read and understand.
Most of the time, the compiler (a program that changes source code into 0's and 1's that the computer can understand) will change the division into bit shifts automatically.
International Ice Hockey Federation (1908)
Major professional
National Hockey League (1917) (Canada; United States)
Minor professional
American Hockey League (1936) (United States; Canada)
ECHL (1988 as East Coast Hockey League) (United States; Canada)
Southern Professional Hockey League (2004) (United States)
Federal Hockey League (2010) (United States)
Liga Mexicana Élite (Mexico)
Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (2004) (Canada)
Major junior
Note: that the Major Junior level is considered professional by some authorities, including the NCAA, as its players earn a small stipend.
Canadian Hockey League (governing authority)
Ontario Hockey League (1933) (Canada; United States)
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (1969) (Canada)
Western Hockey League (1966) (Canada; United States)
Junior A
Canadian Junior A Leagues
Canadian Junior Hockey League (governing authority)
Manitoba Junior Hockey League
Maritime Junior Hockey League (1967 as Metro Valley Junior Hockey League; became a junior A league in 1977)
Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League
Ontario Junior Hockey League
Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League
Superior International Junior Hockey League
American Junior A Leagues
United States Hockey League (1979)
North American Hockey League (2003)
Eastern Hockey League (Premier and 19U Elite) (2013) formerly the Atlantic Junior Hockey League (2003)
North American 3 Atlantic Hockey League (1966) formerly the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League (1966–2016)
North American 3 Hockey League (1970) formerly the Central States Hockey League
Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League (2015)
United States Premier Hockey League (Elite, Premier, USP3) (2013)
United Hockey Union (AAU) Junior Leagues
Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League (2016)
National College Prospects Hockey League (2016)
Western Prospects League (2015)
Western States Hockey League (1994)
Independent Junior Leagues
Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (2006)
Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League (1970)
Junior B
Canadian Junior B Leagues
Calgary Junior Hockey League
Capital Junior Hockey League
Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2 formerly Eastern Ontario Jr B hockey League
Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (OHA)
Heritage Junior B Hockey League
Island Junior Hockey League
Keystone Junior Hockey League formerly Manitoba Junior B Hockey LeagueKootenay International Junior Hockey League
Lakehead Junior Hockey League
Ligue de Hockey de La Capitale *
Ligue de Hockey Chaudière-Appalaches Junior AA *
Ligue de Hockey Estrie-Mauricie Junior AA *
Ligue de Hockey Lac St. Louis Junior AA *
Ligue de Hockey Laurentides-Lanaudière Junior AA*
Ligue de Hockey Métropolitaine Junior AA *
Ligue de Hockey Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean Junior AA *
New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League
North Eastern Alberta Junior B Hockey League
North West Junior Hockey League
Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League
Pacific Junior Hockey League
Prairie Junior Hockey League formerly South Saskatchewan Junior B Hockey League, merged with North Saskatchewan Junior B Hockey League
St. John's Junior B Hockey League
Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League(*) Quebec Junior "AA" is roughly equal to Ontario Junior "B"Junior C
Canadian Junior C Leagues
Calgary Junior C Hockey League
Hanover Tache Junior Hockey League
Ligue de Hockey Junior A Bois Francs *
Ligue de Hockey Junior A Rive-Sud *
Ligue Interzone de hockey mineur BC Rive Nord (Junior A)
National Capital Junior Hockey League
Noralta Junior Hockey League
Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League
Prince Edward Island Minor Junior Hockey League
Provincial Junior Hockey League 2016-17 - Merging of the Southern Ontario's Jr. C Leagues*Bill Stobbs Division (OHA) - formerly (Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League ) *Central Division (OHA) - formerly (Central Junior C Hockey League)*Empire B Division (OHA) - formerly (Empire B Junior C Hockey League)*Georgian Mid-Ontario Division (OHA) - formerly (Georgian Mid-Ontario Junior C Hockey League)*Niagara & District (OHA) - formerly (Niagara & DistrictJunior C Hockey League)*Pat Doherty Division (OHA) (2013–14) - formerly (Midwestern Junior C Hockey League) *Pollock Division (OHA) - formerly (Western Jr C Hockey League) *Southern Division (OHA) (From Jr D 2013-14) - - formerly (Southern Ontario Junior C Hockey League)
Qu’Appelle Valley Hockey League formerly the Saskatchewan Junior C Hockey League(*) Quebec Junior "A" is roughly equal to Ontario Junior "C"Junior D
Ligue Interzone de hockey mineur BC Rive Nord (Junior B) (Canada) *(*) Quebec Junior "B" is roughly equal to Ontario Junior "D"College
CIS Hockey (Canada)
Canadian Interuniversity Sport (Canada, varsity)
Atlantic University Sport
Canada West Universities Athletic Association
Ontario University Athletics
Quebec Student Sports Federation
Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference
British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League
NCAA Hockey (United States)
National Collegiate Athletic Association (United States, varsity)
Atlantic Hockey (Division I, men only)
Big Ten (Division I, men only)
College Hockey America (Division I, women only)
ECAC Hockey (Division I, both sexes)
Hockey East (Division I, both sexes)
National Collegiate Hockey Conference (Division I, men only)
Western Collegiate Hockey Association (Division I, both sexes)
Northeast-10 Conference (Division II)
Eastern College Athletic Conference East (Division III)
Eastern College Athletic Conference Northeast (Division III)
Eastern College Athletic Conference West (Division III)
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (Division III)
Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association (Division III)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division III)
Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (Division III)
New England Small College Athletic Conference (Division III)
State University of New York Athletic Conference (Division III)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division III)Note: The Northeast-10 sponsors a championship for its members that play ice hockey, but the NCAA doesn't currently sponsor a national championship at the Division II level.
Non-NCAA Hockey
American Collegiate Hockey Association (United States)
Men's Division 1
Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL)
College Hockey Mid-America (CHMA)
Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association (ECHA)
Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League (ESCHL)
Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League (GLCHL)
Northeast Collegiate Hockey League (NECHL)
Western Collegiate Hockey League (WCHL) (2013–14)
Men's Division 2
Colonial States College Hockey Conference (CSCHC)
Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League (ACCHL)
Great Midwest Hockey League (GMHL)
Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference (GNCHC)
Mid-American Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA) (Gold division)Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA)
Mountain West Collegiate Hockey League (MWCHL)
Northeast Collegiate Hockey Association (NECHA)
Pacific 8 Intercollegiate Hockey Conference (PAC-8)
Super East Collegiate Hockey League (SECHL)
Tri-State Collegiate Hockey League (TSCHL)
West Coast Hockey Conference (WCHC)
Western Collegiate Club Hockey Association (WCCHA)
Men's Division 3
Blue Ridge Hockey Conference (BRHC)
College Hockey Association (CHA) (Contains Non-ACHA members)College Hockey East (CHE)
Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference (DVCHC)
Empire Collegiate Hockey Conference (ECHC)
Mason-Dixon Collegiate Hockey Association (MDCHA)
Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey Conference (MCHC) (Contains Non-ACHA members)Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference (MCHC)
Mid-American Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA) (Silver division)Indiana Collegiate Hockey Conference (ICHC)
North Central Collegiate Hockey Association (NCCHA)
Southeastern Collegiate Hockey Conference (SECHC)
Southern Collegiate Hockey Conference (SCHC)
Pacific Collegiate Hockey Association (PCHA)
Women's Division 1
Central Collegiate Women's Hockey Association (CCWHA)
Eastern Collegiate Women's Hockey League (ECWHL)
Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference (DVCHC Women's)
National Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA)
Upstate New York Club Hockey League (UNYCHL) (CIHA-affiliate)Note: there are also many independent teams in all three ACHA divisions in addition to the many within the hockey conferences and leagues.
Junior College
National Junior College Athletic Association (United States)
National Women's Hockey League (2015)
Canadian Women's Hockey League (2007)
Western Women's Hockey League (2004)
National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship (2000)
NCAA Division III women's ice hockey
Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's ice hockey championship (1998)
Junior Women's Hockey League (2007)
Hockey collégial féminin RSEQ (1999)
Livonia League
Mid-Atlantic Women's Hockey League (1975)
Provincial Women's Hockey League (2004)
Sanctioned by Hockey Canada or USA Hockey
Big 6 Hockey League (Saskatchewan Sr.
AAA)
Chinook Hockey League (Alberta Sr.
Highway Hockey League (Saskatchewan Sr.
Ligue Centrale de Hockey (LCH) (Quebec Sr.
AAA/semi-pro) (1990)
Major League Hockey (Ontario Sr.
AAA) (1953)
North Peace Hockey League (Alberta Sr.
Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League (Ontario Sr.
AA and A) (1948)
Great Lakes Hockey League (1937)
Hockey North America (1980)
School and youth
Central States Developmental Hockey League
United States Premier Hockey League (2013)
Delaware Scholastic Hockey Association
Independent School League (Boston Area)
Interscholastic Hockey League
Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA)
Super Eight (hockey)
Midwest Prep Hockey League
Minnesota State High School League boy's hockey
Missouri high school hockey
Mid-States Club Hockey Association (MSCHA)
Mid America High School Hockey League (MAHSHL)
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
New York high school hockey
New York State Public High School Athletic Association (varsity)
New York State Amateur Hockey Association (non varsity)
North Dakota High School Activities Association
Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League
Pennsylvania high school hockey
Penguins Cup
Flyers Cup
Washington high school hockey
Western Washington High School Hockey League
Tri-Cities Amateur Hockey Association
West Virginia high school hockey (Penguins Cup)
Wisconsin high school hockey
Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association
Wisconsin Amateur Hockey Association
Defunct leagues
All-American Hockey League (1987–1988)
All American Hockey League  (2008-2011)
America East Hockey League (2005–2008)
Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (1886–1898)
American Amateur Hockey League (1896–?)
Atlantic Coast Hockey League (1981–1987)
Atlantic Coast Hockey League (2002–2003)
California Hockey League (1928–1933)
California Hockey League (1957–1963)
Canadian Amateur Hockey League (1899–1905)
Canadian-American Hockey League (1926–1936)
Canadian Elite Hockey League (2005–2006)
Canadian Hockey Association (1909–1910)
Canadian Independent Junior Hockey League (2014)(folded prior to playing any games)
Canadian International Hockey League (2014) - played one season
Canadian Professional Hockey League (1926–1930)
Central Collegiate Hockey Association (NCAA Division I, 1971–2013)
Central Hockey League (1963–1984)
Central Hockey League (1992-2014) (United States; Canada)
Central Ontario Hockey League (Unknown-1980)
Central Ontario Women's Hockey League (1992-1998)
Central/West Junior Hockey League (relegated from Jr B 2014 and became inactive)
College Hockey America men's division (NCAA Division I, 1999–2010; conference remains in operation as a women's hockey league)
Coloured Hockey League (1895–1925)
Continental Elite Hockey League (2001–2004)
Continental Hockey League (1972–1987)-became All-American Hockey League
Eastern Amateur Hockey League (1933–1934, 1935–1948, 1949–1953)
Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (1905–1909)
Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League (1923–?)
Eastern Hockey League (1934–1935, 1954–1973, 1979–1981)
Eastern Junior Hockey League (1993–2013) – Some split from the league to form the United States Premier Hockey League and the remaining teams joined the Eastern Hockey League
Eastern Junior B Hockey League (1951–1972)
Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League (2003–2008)
Eastern Professional Hockey League (2008–2009)
Eastern Professional Hockey League (1914–1915, 1959–1963)
Eastern States Hockey League (2003–2013) formerly the Continental Hockey Association 2003–2011
EJHL South (2006–2013) formerly the Southeastern Junior Hockey League, affiliated with the Eastern Junior Hockey League from 2011–2013 before merging with the United States Premier Hockey League as the Elite Division
Empire Junior Hockey League (–2013) – Merged with the United States Premier Hockey League as the Empire Division
Federal Amateur Hockey League (1904–1909)
Global Hockey League (DNP, 1990)
Great Lakes Junior Hockey League (2008-2012)
Great West Hockey Conference (NCAA Division I, 1985–1988)
Gulf Coast Hockey League (2001–2002)
International-American Hockey League (1936–1941)-became American Hockey League
International Independent Hockey League (2003)
International Hockey League (1929–36)
International Hockey League (1945–2001)
International Professional Hockey League (1904–1907)
Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union (1908-?)
Interprovincial Professional Hockey League (1910–1911)
Ligue Centrale de Hockey (1978–2008)
Ligue de Hockey Junior de Montréal
Major Intermediate A Hockey League (1978–1983)
Manitoba Professional Hockey League (1907–1909)
Maritime Major Hockey League (1950–1954)
Maritime Professional Hockey League (1911–1914)
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (NCAA Division I, 1997–2003; conference remains in operation as an all-sports league without ice hockey)
Metro Junior A Hockey League (1991–1998) merged with Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League
Mid-Atlantic Hockey League (2007–2008)
Midwest Junior Hockey League (2012-2015) merged with United States Premier Hockey League
Minnesota Junior Hockey League (1974-2015) merged with United States Premier Hockey League
National Hockey Association (1909–1917)
National Women's Hockey League (1999-2007)
New York-Penn Major Hockey League (1973 to 1979)
North American 3 Eastern Hockey League (2014–2016) formerly the Northern States Hockey League (2012–2014) - merged with North American 3 Hockey League
North American Hockey League (1973–1977)
North Eastern Hockey League (2003–2008)
North of Superior Junior B Hockey League (Canada)
North West Hockey League (1933–1936)
Northern Junior Hockey League (2008–2010) (2008 as United Junior Hockey League)
Northern Pacific Hockey League (2000–2016) - folded and remaining teams joined the United States Premier Hockey League
Northern States Junior Hockey League (2012–2014) - became the North American 3 Eastern Hockey League
Northwest Junior Hockey League (Manitoba) (Canada)
Ontario Professional Hockey League (1907–1911, 1930–1931)
Original Stars Hockey League (2004)
Ottawa City Hockey League (1890–1957)
Pacific Coast Hockey Association (1911–1924)
Pacific Coast Hockey League (1928–1931, 1936–1941, 1945–1952)
Pacific Coast Junior Hockey League (Canada)
Pacific Hockey League (1977–1979)
Prairie Hockey League (1926–1928)
Quebec Hockey League (1952–1959)
Quebec Senior Hockey League (1945–1952)
Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League aka Peace Cariboo Junior Hockey League (British Columbia, Canada)
South East Hockey League (2003–2004)
Southern Elite Hockey League (1998–2000)
Southern Hockey League (1973–1977)
Southern Hockey League (1995–1996)
Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League (1972–1976) -merged with Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League
Southwest Hockey League (1975–1977)
Sunshine Hockey League (1992–1995)
Tri-State Hockey League (1932–1933)
Tri-State League (NCAA Division I, 1950–1972)
Tropical Hockey League (1938–1939)
United Hockey League (1991 as Colonial Hockey League, also known as International Hockey League) (1991-2010)
United States Hockey League (1945–1951)
Western Canada Hockey League (professional) (1921–1925)
Western Canada Hockey League (minor pro) (1932–1933)
Western Canada Senior Hockey League (1945–1951)
West Coast Hockey League (1995–2003)
Western Hockey League (professional) (1925–1926)
Western Hockey League (minor pro) (1952–1975)
Western International Hockey League (1946–1962, 1963–1988)
Western Professional Hockey League (1996–2001)
World Hockey Association (1972–1979)
World Hockey Association 2 (2003–2004)
World United Hockey League (2014–2015)
WHA Junior Hockey League (2006–2008)
Disabled hockey leagues
Amputee Hockey
American Amputee Hockey Association (AAHA)
American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association
Sledge hockey
United States Sled Hockey Association  (USSHA)
Mid-American Great Lakes Hockey League (MAGL)
Special Hockey
Special Hockey International – Representing hockey programs for developmentally challenged athletes from around the word, SHI stages an annual tournament that is the largest of its kind in the world.
Kontinental Hockey League (Belarus, Croatia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine)
Higher Hockey League (Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus)
Asia League Ice Hockey (Japan, South Korea, China, Russia)
Chinese Ice Hockey Championship
Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League
Georgian Ice Hockey League
Hockey Night in Asia
Hong Kong Ice Hockey Championship
Indian Ice Hockey Championship
Israeli League
All-Japan Championship (cup tournament)
Kazakhstan Hockey Championship (league in both Europe and Asia)
Kyrgyzstan Championship
Subang Jaya Ice Hockey League
Mongolia Hockey League
North Korean Championship
Manila Ice Hockey League
Singapore National Ice Hockey League
South African Interprovincial Ice Hockey Championship
Korea Domestic Championship
Thai World Hockey League
Turkish Ice Hockey Super League (1993)
Turkish Ice Hockey First League
Turkish Ice Hockey Women's League (2007)
Turkmenistan Championship (ice hockey) (2013)
Qatar Ice Hockey League
Emirates Ice Hockey League
Alpenliga (1991–1999) - multinational league with teams from Austria, Italy and Slovenia.
Replaced by the International Ice Hockey League (1999–2007)
Eastern European Hockey League (1995–2005) - multinational league with teams from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia and Poland.
North Sea Cup - multinational league with teams in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Panonian League
EUHL - international university league
Armenian Hockey League
Austrian National League
Austrian Oberliga
Austria women's ice hockey Bundesliga
Belarusian Hockey League
Belgian Hockey League
Bosnia and Herzegovina Hockey League
Bulgarian Hockey League
Croatian Ice Hockey Championship
Czech Extraliga (1993)
Czech 1.liga
Czech 2.liga
Metal Ligaen
SM-liiga (1975)
Mestis (renamed in 2000)
Suomi-sarja
Divisioona
SM-sarja
Jääkiekon naisten SM-sarja
Ligue Magnus
German Ice Hockey League (DEL) (1994-)
Ice hockey Bundesliga (1958–1994, replaced by DEL)
DEL2 (2013-)
2nd Bundesliga (ice hockey) (1973-2013, replaced by DEL2)
Oberliga (Ice Hockey) (1948-)
Bavarian ice hockey leagues (1976-)
German women's ice hockey Bundesliga (1988-)
Greek Ice Hockey Championship
MOL Liga
OB I. Bajnokság
Beno Fodor
Icelandic Hockey League
Irish Ice Hockey League
Semi-pro
Serie A (former Elite.
A and Serie A1)
Serie B (former Seconda Divisione and Serie A2)
Junior and youth
Under 20 (2 national divisions)
Under 18 (2 national divisions)
Under 16 (many regional divisions)
Under 14 (many regional divisions)
Under 12 (many regional divisions)
Under 10 (many regional divisions)
Under 8 (many regional divisions)
Kazakhstan Hockey Championship
Latvian Hockey League
Independent Amateur hockey league (Neatkarīgā Amatieru hokeja līga/NAHL'')
Lithuania Hockey League
Luxembourg Championship
GET-ligaen
divisjon
Polska Liga Hokejowa
Polish 1.
Portugal National Ice Hockey Championship
Liga Naţională de hochei
Russian Major League
Russian Hockey League
Minor Hockey League (Molodezhnaya Hokkeinaya Liga)
Moscow Region
Northwest Region Hockey
Ural Region
Russian Superleague (1996-2008)
International Hockey League (1992-1996)
Russian Second League
Serbian Hockey League
Slovak Extraliga (1993–present after dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League (1931–1993))
Slovak 1.Liga (12 teams, first 8 participate in play-offs and the winner plays with the worst team from Extraliga, last four teams participate in a play-out and 4th team after play-out plays a relegation game with the best team in 2.Liga)
Slovak 2.Liga
Slovenian Ice Hockey League
Soviet Hockey League
Superliga Española de Hockey Hielo
Swedish Hockey League (New name for the top league in 2013.
The national championship has been played since 1922 in other forms.
14 teams)
HockeyAllsvenskan (The Swedish second league.
The four best teams compete in the end of the season with the two worst placed team in SHL.
14 teams.)
Hockeyettan, Division 1, (Divided into 4 regions: North, East, West, and South.
The four best teams in each region make 2 new series called Allettan at the conclusion of the regions.
The two Allettan winners, and the two teams that survive a three-round playoff, compete with the last two teams in HockeyAllsvenskan for their spots in the higher league.
48 teams at present.)
Division 2 (Divided into 11 regions.)
Division 3 (Divided into 13 regions.)
Division 4 (Divided into 6 regions.
In Stockholm called the "Swedish Iron League".
The league does not cover all of Sweden.)
J20 SuperElit (Under 20, junior league.)
J20 Elit (Under 20, junior second league.
Divided into 4 regions: North, East, West, and South.)
J18 Elit (Under 18, divided into 4 regions.)
National League A (1908)
National League B
Professional Hockey League (2011)
Youth Hockey League (2012)
Major League (1992-2011)
First League
Elite Ice Hockey League (2003-)
English Premier Ice Hockey League (1997-)
English National Hockey League (1996-)
Scottish National League
British Universities Ice Hockey Association Cup Competition (2004-)
British National League (1954–1960)
British National League (1996–2005)
Ice Hockey Superleague (1996–2003)
British Hockey League (1982–1996)
Women's Premier League
Women's Division 1 North
Women's Division 1 South
Yugoslav Ice Hockey League
Australian Ice Hockey League
East Coast Super League
Australian Junior Ice Hockey League
Australian Women's Ice Hockey League
New Zealand Ice Hockey League
Mahmud Bayazidi (Kurdish: Mehmûdê Bazîdî), 1797–1859, was a Kurdish philosopher and polymath  from Bayazid in the Ottoman Empire.
Bayazid is now Doğubeyazıt in Ağrı Province, Turkey.
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor.
He was best known for being on Roseanne, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993.
He married Annabeth Herzog in 1989.
Comedians from St. Louis, Missouri
It usually occurs early in life, during a critical period.
That is why the textbooks call it phase-sensitive learning.
It is learning which happens at a particular age or a particular life stage.
The animal fixes on a particular signal (sound or sight), which is said to be 'imprinted' onto the subject.
The process of imprinting is caused by an inherited instinct.
The best-known form of imprinting is the imprinting of the newly-hatched (or born) on one or both parent.
Its function is to keep the young near their parent(s) during the early learning period.
It is most obvious in birds, such as ducks and geese, after the fledglings have left the nest.
They imprint on their parents and then follow them around, often in a long line, on land and on water.
It was first reported in domestic chickens, by the 19th-century amateur biologist Douglas Spalding.
It was rediscovered by the early ethologist Oskar Heinroth, and studied extensively and popularised by his disciple Konrad Lorenz, and by Niko Tinbergen.
Lorenz showed how incubator-hatched geese would imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they saw within what a 'critical period' of 13–16 hours after hatching.
For example, the goslings would imprint on Lorenz himself (to be more specific, on his wading boots).
He is often shown in photographs being followed by a gaggle of geese who had imprinted on him.
In child development, the term is used to refer to the process by which a baby learns who its mother and father are.
The process is recognised as beginning in the womb, when the unborn baby starts to recognise its parents' voices.
The filial imprinting of birds was a primary technique used to create the movie Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur), which contains footage of migratory birds in flight.
The birds imprinted on handlers, who wore yellow jackets and honked horns constantly.
The birds were then trained to fly along with a variety of aircraft, usually ultralights.
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De Dion-Bouton is a French motor car company that began making cars in 1882.
The company was started by Count Albert De Dion, Georges Bouton and Charles Trepardoux.
Their first cars were steam powered and they made their first petrol internal combustion engine car in 1895.
A four-wheeled De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux "La Marquise", a steam-powered car, said to be the oldest car in the world that still going, sold in 2007.
The car had belonged to Count Albert De Dion.
Built in 1884, it has a top speed of 35 miles per hour.
The Vienna Secession (also known as the Union of Austrian Artists, or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who left the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus due to its  conservatism.
This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects.
The first president of the Secession was Gustav Klimt, and Rudolf von Alt was made honorary president.
It was founded on  3 April 1897 by artists Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, and others.
Although the architect Otto Wagner is one of the most important members he was not a founding member.
The first exhibition was held in 1898.
In 1898, the group's exhibition house was built near Karlsplatz.
It was designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, the exhibition building soon became known simply as "the Secession" (die Sezession).
Their work was also published in a magazin called "Ver sacrum".
1903 Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätten, a union of artists who wanted to reform  the applied arts (arts and crafts).
1905 Klimt and other artists left the group due to different opinions about art.
Other Secession artists
Julius Exter
Max Fabiani
Jože Plečnik
Carl Moll
Koloman Moser
Malva Schalek
Othmar Schimkowitz
Homepage Secession
Kenneth Harry Olsen (February 20, 1926 —  February 6, 2011) was an American engineer and entrepreneur.
He started Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with  Harlan Anderson.
Olsen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He grew up in nearby Stratford, Connecticut.
His father's parents came from Norway and his mother's parents came from Sweden.
Olsen began his career working summers in a machine shop.
Olsen fixed radios in his basement as a child.
He served in the United States Navy between 1944 and 1946.
Then Olsen studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He earned a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Master of Science degree in 1952.
Both degrees were in electrical engineering.
While he was studying at MIT, the Office of Naval Research of the United States Department of the Navy asked Olsen to help build a computerized flight simulator.
Also while at MIT, Olsen directed a project to make the first transistorized research computer.
Olsen also worked as an engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the TX-2 project.
In 1957, Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, decided to start their own company.
Harlan was also at MIT.
They asked American Research and Development Corporation (ARDC) for money.
ARDC was an early venture capital company started by Georges Doriot.
In the 1960s, Olsen received patents for a saturable switch, a diode transformer gate circuit, an improved version of magnetic core memory, and the line printer buffer.
Their company's headquarters was in an old wool mill in Maynard, Massachusetts.
In 1992, the company had their best sales of $14,000,000,000.
DEC was sold to Compaq for $9,600,000,000 in 1999.
It later became a part of Hewlett-Packard.
Ken Olsen was known throughout his career for his fatherly management style and for supporting new ideas in engineering.
He thought new ideas and technical excellence were very important.
He used engineering matrix management.
This management approach is used throughout many industries today.
In 1986, Fortune Magazine named Olsen "America's most successful entrepreneur", and the same year he received the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award.
Later career history
In 1987 he gave the first of his "snake oil speeches".
Some people thought he was talking about the "Unix Conspiracy".
Olsen believed VMS was a better operating system for DEC customers than UNIX.
He said why VMS was good.
Yet, he did approve and encourage a plan inside DEC to make a UNIX for VAX computers based on BSD.
This version of UNIX was called Ultrix.
However, Ultrix never got good support from within DEC.
Olsen retired from DEC in 1992.
He then became the chairman of Advanced Modular Solutions.
Olsen was also a major contributor to The Family, a religious and political organization.
Olsen also was a trustee of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.
The college named a science center after him.
Olsen died while in hospice care in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 6, 2011, aged 84.
The cause of death was not announced.
His family also did not speak publicly about how he died.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
(1977) This was about having a computer run the house including opening and closing doors and turning water on and off automatically  He had a computer in his home for general use and wanted people to use home computers.
People will get tired of managing personal computers and will want instead terminals, maybe with windows.
(1992) This predicted thin clients and the client-server model of the Internet.
When Olsen said "windows" he was not talking about Microsoft Windows, but about showing more than one program on a screen at the same time.
Earls, Alan R. Digital Equipment Corporation.
Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
Rifkin, Glenn and George Harrar.
The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Schein, Edgar H. DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.
1988 Transcript of an Oral History Interview with Ken Olsen
Ken Olsen, co-founder of DEC, dies at 84 , Mass High Tech
DEC co-founder Kenneth Olsen mourned by computer industry  Network World
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born September 27, 1966) is the U.S. Representative for  since 2005.
She was the Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, the leader the Democratic Party from 2011 until she resigned in 2016.
From 1993 to 2004, she served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate.
Her district covers parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Her district includes the cities of Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach.
Early life, education and career
She was born Deborah Wasserman in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in 1988 and a Master of Arts with certificate in political campaigning in 1990, both in Political Science, from the University of Florida, in Gainesville.
At the University of Florida, Schultz was in student government.
She was President of the Student Senate as well as founder and President of the Rawlings Area Council Government.
She was also a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society, the James C. Grimm chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary, and the union Graduate Assistants United.
She served as President of the Graduate Student Council.
She said that student politics developed her "love for politics and the political process."
In 1988 Schultz became an aide to Peter Deutsch at the beginning of his state legislative career.
In 1992, Deutsch won election to the United States House of Representatives, which made his Florida post vancant.
Schultz recalled getting a call from Deutsch at the time: "It was really amazing.
He called me at home one day in the middle of the legislative session and he said, 'You could run in my race, your house is in my district.'"
She had lived in the district for only three years.
Schultz then won 53 percent of the vote in a six-way Democratic primary and avoided a runoff.
She went on to win the general election and succeeded Deutsch in Florida's House of Representatives.
At the age of 26, she became the youngest female legislator in Florida's history.
She served in the Florida State House of Representatives for eight years.
State term limits required Schultz to leave the House.
In addition to her work as a state legislator, she became an adjunct instructor of political science at Broward Community College.
She also worked as a public policy curriculum specialist at Nova Southeastern University.
She was elected to the Florida State Senate in 2000.
She was considered one of the most liberal members of Florida's state legislature.
She supported legislation requiring gender price parity for dry cleaning.
She supported bills to require that an equal number of men and women were appointed to state boards.
She pushed through several bills including the Florida Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act and one creating a Children's Services Council for Broward County.
The Save The Manatee Club gave Schultz an award for her work in the state senate to protect manatees.
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee assignments
Committee on the Budget
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Party leadership
She is Chief Deputy Whip for the House Democrats.
Schultz is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Schultz was appointed to the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee in her first term in Congress.
During the 2006 elections, she raised over seventeen million dollars in campaign contributions for her Democratic colleagues.
The only two congressmen to raise more money that year were Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel.
Democrats in the House of Representatives chose her to be Chief Deputy Whip.
They appointed her to the Appropriations Committee. (
This was a very good job for a congresswoman with only two years of experience.)
She is a member of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's "30 Something" Working Group, which consists of congressional Democrats under age 40.
The group concentrates on issues affecting young people, including Social Security.
She also has joined the bipartisan Congressional Cuba Democracy Caucus.
According to the Congress.org 2008 Power Rankings, she was the 24th most powerful member of the House and 22nd most powerful Democratic representative (also most powerful Florida representative).
Chair of the Democratic National Committee
In April 2011, Tim Kaine resigned as Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman in order to run for the United States Senate.
On April 5, 2011, President Barack Obama chose Schultz to succeed Kaine as the 52nd Chairman of the DNC.
Between Kaine's resignation and the next DNC meeting, current DNC Vice-Chair Donna Brazile served as the interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
On May 4, 2011, the DNC met and elected Schultz as its chair.
Schultz became the third female DNC chief in history and the first in over 15 years.
Wikileaks scandal and resignation
On July 24, 2016, it was announced that she would resign her position as chairperson of the Democratic National Committee following the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
Leaked emails provided by WikiLeaks showed Schultz and other members of the DNC staff mocking and attempting to sabotage the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders in favor of Clinton's campaign.
Schultz currently lives in Weston outside Fort Lauderdale.
She has three children and is married to Steve Schultz.
She is an active member of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Planned Parenthood and Hadassah.
In March 2009, she said that she went through seven surgeries related to breast cancer in 2008, while remaining a member of the House.
That year, she promoted efforts for early screening for breast cancer.
Giraffe award, Women's Advocacy Majority Minority (WAMM), 1993
Outstanding Family Advocacy award, Dade County Psychol.
Assn.,
Rosemary Barkett award, Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, 1995
Woman of the Year, AMIT, 1994
Outstanding Legislator of the year, Florida Federation of Business & Professional Women, 1994
Quality Floridian, Florida League of Cities, 1994
Woman of Vision, Weizmann Institute of Science
One of Six Most Unstoppable Women, South Florida Magazine, 1994.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz  official U.S. House site
Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Congress official campaign site
Curtin University (formerly known as Curtin University of Technology) is the largest university in Australia.
Its main campus is in Bentley, Western Australia.
Curtin University was first called the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), which opened in 1966.
But the name was changed to the Curtin University of Technology.
In 2010, 'of Technology' was dropped and it is now known just as Curtin University.
Curtin is split into four faculties, the Centre for Aboriginal studies, Curtin Business school, Humanities, and Science and Engineering.
The time period "00:00 - 00:01" is midnight.
On computer clocks, the day changes to the next day the minute(s) after midnight.
Midnight is the opposite of solar noon, which is when the Sun is highest in the sky.
Start and end of day
In the world, midnight is the start of one day and the end of the last day.
It's the dividing point between two days.
In the United States and Canada, digital clocks and computers usually show 12 a.m. right at midnight.
However, people have to remember that any time is actually an instant.
The "a.m." shown on clock displays means the 12-hour period after the instant of midnight.
So when a clock says "12:00 a.m.", midnight has already passed and a new day has started.
In other words, 11:59 p.m. shows until midnight; at the instant of midnight, it changes to 12:00.
At the same time, the p.m. changes to a.m., but a.m. does not mean the instant of midnight which separates p.m. and a.m.
At 24-hour system
Midnight is also 0 o'clock but
0 o'clock in 24-hour system
23:59 24:00 00:00
Rottnest Island (also known as Rotto or just Rottnest) is 18 kilometres from the mainland of Western Australia.
It is called Wadjemup by the Noongar tribe, which means land across the water.
Rottnest is a popular tourist attaction.
Aboriginal people originally occupied Rottnest around 30,000  years ago.
The island was originally connected to the mainland, but it eventually became separated with the Indian Ocean, and so it became an island.
As Aboriginal people did not have boats, the island had no one living on it until the Europeans arrived.
Dutch sailor Willem de Vlamingh named the island Rattenest, meaning Rat's nest.
The 'rats' he was referring to was actually a Quokka, a native animal on the island.