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The liquid to be tested is poured into a tall container, often a graduated cylinder, and the hydrometer is gently lowered into the liquid until it floats freely.
The point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer is noted.
Hydrometers usually contain a scale inside the stem, so that the specific gravity can be read directly.
A variety of scales exist, and are used depending on the context.
A hygrometer is a meteorological instrument that is used to measure the humidity of the air.
A common way these devices work is by using a material that attracts moisture.
This material changes depending on how hydrated it is.
A hygrometer has two bulbs: one wet and one dry.
Both bulbs are like thermometers, though one is covered with a wet or dry towel.
After a period of time, the water on the bulb evaporates and at that time, the temperature is measured on each bulb.
The difference between the temperatures is noted.
Then each of the temperatures are used on a chart to find the relative humidity of that temperature and area.
Relative humidity is a ratio, so it has no unit.
A small difference between the temperature of the bulbs shows a high relative humidity coming from a low evaporation rate.
In dry air, evaporation takes place faster showing a large difference in temperature thus giving a low relative humidity.
Sling psychrometer
A sling psychrometer works when the scientist spins two thermometers through the air, one plain and one with a wet cloth around it.
The dry thermometer measures the air temperature.
The wet thermometer measures the dew point, because the wet cloth is cooled as the thermometer spins.
Since the water on the cloth evaporates, due to latent heat, which is the loss of heat energy when matter goes through a phase change, the cloth cools.
Then, the thermometer measures the temperature of the cloth.
Eventually the cloth will match the amount of water absorbed in it with the amount of water absorbed in the air, or the humidity.
When the matching happens, the temperature will stabilize.
Then, the scientist looks on a table to find the dew point according to the air temperature and humidity measured by the wet bulb.
A gondola lift is a type of public transport.
It consists of cabins fixed to a cable that travels between two stations.
The cable is moved around by motors at the stations and is lifted from the ground by towers.
A gondola lift is similar to a cable car, and sometimes it is called like that.
However, unlike a cable car a gondola lift contains many cabins that go around at the same time.
Usually the cabins slow down at the stations to allow passengers to get in or out.
List of incidents
October 22, 1979: One person was killed and 17 other injured when two gondolas fell from the "Swiss Sky Ride" at the Texas State Fair.
Winds gusting to  caused three cars to collide and two fell on midway games below the cable.
January 29, 1983: The Singapore Cable Car disaster, which saw seven people killed when two cabins plunged into the sea after the cableway was hit by a Panamanian-registered oil rig being towed.
September 5, 2005: Nine people died and ten were injured when a  concrete block was accidentally dropped by a construction helicopter in Sölden, Austria.
Hundreds had to be evacuated from the lift.
July 13, 2006: Five people, including a three-year-old girl, were injured after two cable cars collided and one crashed to the ground.
The accident took place at the Nevis Range, near Fort William in northwest Scotland.
There were no fatalities and the gondola was deemed safe for operation shortly after the accident.
2006:  Two gondolas collide During a trial run of the Ngong Ping 360, leaving 200 volunteers stranded high above Hong Kong for several hours.
February 18, 2007: A gondola car derailed from the cable at Ski Apache in New Mexico and rolled backwards hitting another car.
Eight people were involved in the crash but only two suffered minor injuries.
March 2, 2008: A man fell out of a gondola in Chamonix and died, perhaps after he and one of his friends leaned on and broke the plexiglass window.
December 16, 2008: Ten people were injured (none seriously), and others left stranded after a tower supporting the Excalibur gondola lift on Blackcomb mountain collapsed, at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in Whistler, Canada.
January 31, 2011: A ten-year-old boy fell  from a gondola in Hafjell, Norway.
He suffered minor injuries.
Cologne Cable Car closed in July 2017 due to an accident.
August 2019: Someone cut the cable of the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, British Columbia.
No one was hurt but the gondola’s cars were destroyed when they crashed to the ground.
The tourist attraction was closed for repairs.
Ski lifts
John A. Roche (August 12, 1844 – February 10, 1904) was an American politician.
He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1887–1889).
Roche was born on August 12, 1844 in Utica, New York.
Roche died on February 10, 1904 in Chicago from a type of poisoning, aged 59.
DeWitt Clinton Cregier (June 1, 1829 – November 9, 1898) was an American politician.
He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1889 to 1891.
Cregier was born on June 1, 1829 in New York City, New York.
He was married to Mary Sophia Foggin.
Cregier died on November 9, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois from pneumonia, aged 69.
He is buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Lincoln Square, Chicago.
Hempstead Washburne (November 11, 1852 – April 13, 1919) was an American politician.
He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1891 to 1893.
Washburne was born on November 11, 1852 in Galena, Illinois.
Washburne died on April 13, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, aged 66.
John Patrick Hopkins (October 29, 1858 – October 13, 1918) was an American politician.
He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1893–1895).
Hopkins was born on October 29, 1858, in Buffalo, New York.
Hopkins died on October 13, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois from a flu, aged 59.
The city of Jeonju was the political, economic and cultural center in the Honam Plain, Korea’s most fertile farmland that encompasses today’s South and North Jeolla Provinces.
The first historic records about the city come from the Unified Silla Period.
Back then, the city was called Wansanju.
After the Unified Silla was divided, Jeonju served as the capital of the late Baekje, one of the kingdoms set up after the breakup of the Unified Silla.
Coming to the Joseon period, Jeonju became even more important as the city was the birthplace of the first ancestor of Lee Sung-gae, the first king of the Joseon Dynasty.
Known as a city with 1000-year history, Jeonju is also promoted as a gateway to traditional Korean culture and gastronomy.
The Hanok Village in Jeonju is one of the most famous tourist attractions that many Koreans and foreigners visit every year.
The Hanok Village, where traditional Korean houses from the Joseon Period are preserved, offers traditional Korean cuisine, hanji, or traditional Korean paper, and oriental medicine.
Tourists can get a hands-on experience at various tourist facilities and historic sites in the city.
UNESCO has officially designated Jeonju as a City of Gastronomy.
The flavorful foods Jeonju offers are widely known among Koreans as well, and there are many restaurants in Korea that claim that they have originated from Jeonju.
Two most famous foods from Jeonju are bibimbap and a bean sprout soup called kongnamulgukbap.
Bibimbap is a dish that mixes rice with sautéed vegetables, meat, eggs, and hot red-pepper paste and offered in a bowl.
Different ingredients blend in well to create a harmonious taste.
Kongnamulgukbap is a bean sprout soup offered with rice in it.
It seems a simple dish to make.
But it has a very special taste that also comes from a mix of different ingredients put it to make the soup broth.
Frank J. Corr (January 12, 1877 – June 3, 1934) was an American politician.
He was the acting mayor of Chicago, Illinois in 1933 after the assassination of Anton Cermak.
Corr was a Democrat.
Corr was born on January 12, 1877 in Brooklyn, New York.
His family moved to Chicago in 1890.
Corr was married to Mary Corr.
Corr died on June 3, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois from a heart attack, aged 57.
Kelly was born on May 1, 1876 in Chicago, Illinois.
He was married to Mary Edmond Roche from 1910 until her death in 1918.
Then he was married to Margaret Ellen Kirk from 1922 until his death in 1950.
Kelly died on October 20, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois from heart failure, aged 74.
Backpacking is a form of low-cost and basically independent travel.
Backpacker is the term for those who travel by carrying a light backpack for a relatively long period of time.
The cost of backpacking depends on the duration of traveling.
No matter how long they are planning to travel, backpackers also need to spend money on eating, sleeping and moving.
Backpacking travel type minimizes the cost by choosing cheap accommodation, such as youth hostels.
One of the popular ones is Youth Hostels Association (YHA).
Many hostels are registered with YHA, and they have common standards.
Depending on room types and season, the cost varies from $10 to $60 per night.
Sometimes backpackers book accommodations at low rate and stay as a paying guest while on a long journey.
Portals like airbnb.com, isearchrentals.com accumulates such kind of paying guest accommodations which helps backpacking travelers choose their stay at low costs.
Backpackers are highly connected to each other.
They get information not only from the internet, but also from a bulletin board of their accommodation, Backpackers.
They share their information how to get to the destination wisely and about shops or restaurants on the bulletin board.
Some backpackers depend on couch surfing, not spending money on accommodation, visiting local people's houses.
There are Backpackers Group in reach region, who plan their trip on regular intervals year around.
Martin H. Kennelly (August 11, 1887 – November 29, 1961) was an American politician.
He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1947–1955).
Kennelly was born on August 11, 1887 in Chicago, Illinois.
Kennelly died on November 29, 1961 from heart failure, aged 74.
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American science fiction action adventure thriller movie.
It was released on November 7, 1997.
The gross amount of money the movie made was $65,000,000 (worldwide).
The companies that helped make the movie TriStar Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Big Bug Pictures.
Starship Troopers was directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Starship Troopers is about an interplanetary war between the Humans (Mobile Infantry) and large insect-like aliens in the 23rd century.
It is about the experience of Johnny Rico, one of 3 close friends who join up to fight the bugs before his hometown of Buenos Aires is destroyed by the Arachnids.
Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell.
She wrote a short story "A Jury of Her Peers".
She adapted the story from the play a year after its debut.
It was first shown to the public by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 8, 1916.
In the original play, Glaspell played the role of one of the characters, Mrs. Hale.
It frequently appears in American literature textbooks.
The play is about the murder of John Hossack.
Glaspell reported on the murder while she was working as a news journalist for the Des Moines Daily News.
People thought that Hossack's wife, Margaret, killed her husband.
However, Margaret argued that someone had entered the house and killed John with an axe.
She was found out to be guilty, but Susan Glaspell could not forget about the accident.
Feminist drama
Trifles is an example of early feminist drama.
There are two female characters: Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale.
They had the ability to sympathize with the victim's wife, Minnie.
Therefore, they could find the evidence against her while the men could not find the evidence because of their cold, emotionless search of material facts.
The female characters find the body of a canary.
Its neck was twisted and it was killed in the same way as John Wright, who was the dead husband.
They can find out from the evidence that Minnie was the murderer, and they appear to empathize with her situation.
Clearly, the wife is symbolized by the caged bird, a common symbol of women's roles in society.
The plot ends with the two women hiding the evidence against Minnie.
The male characters have prejudice.
They believed that they can discover nothing important in areas of the house where Minnie spent most time.
Because of their prejudice, they overlook important clues that are "trifles" to them, while women concern about the clues.
Male characters search the barn and the bedroom, places where men have power, rather than the kitchen, the only place where a woman would be powerful.
One important line, spoken by the sheriff, says of the kitchen "Nothing here but kitchen things."
The main reason of their failure of finding the evidence is that they ignored the importance of woman's life and did not want to enter the "woman's sphere".
The most important evidence, the dead canary that the two women find, was hidden in Minnie's sewing basket.
After they find the evidence, the two women face the moral dilemma of telling the men about the motive or protecting Minnie because they see Minnie as a victim.
Their choice raises questions about solidarity among women, the meaning of justice, and the role of women in society as a source of justice.
As the women note, Minnie used to sing before she married John Wright.
Martha thinks that Minnie could not sing or do anything that makes her happy because of her husband.
Martha also thinks that Minnie's spirit was dead when she got married.
The writer symbolizes it in the strangling of her songbird companion.
Minnie is similar to her kitchen and sewing things.
The cold weather freezes and breaks her preserve jars.
That symbolizes the cold environment of her home breaking her spirit.
In addition, the coldness cause the characters to fail to empathize each other.
The male characters are clear symbols of "law" and cold rationality, while the women are intuitive.
They raise questions of the value of rational thought.
Modern Theater
One thing unique in this play is that the main "players" in the murder, Minnie (the murderer) and John Wright (the murdered) never appear on stage.
Other characters describe their lives and personalities.
George Henderson, the County Attorney (originally played by Michael Hulgan)
Henry Peters, Sheriff (originally played by Robert Conville)
Lewis Hale, A neighboring farmer (originally played by George Cram Cook)
Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff's wife (originally played by Alice Hall)
Mrs. Hale (originally played by Susan Glaspell, and later by Kim Base)
The SSG Landers, known as the SK Wyverns from 2000 to 2020, is a professional baseball team in South Korea.
It was established in 2000.
The team is based in Incheon and plays home games at Incheon SSG Landers Field.
The mascot of this team was a wyvern, a king of dragons, while it was known as the SK Wyverns.
Now, the mascot of this team is a dog.
In the 2000 season, the Ssangbangwool Raiders, a team that had previously represented the North Jeolla region since 1991, was dissolved because of the bankruptcy of the Ssangbangwool Group.
Then the KBO appointed SK company as a supporter of the new team, and SK determined its team name as SK Wyverns.
So the Raiders and the Wyverns has no historical links although the Wyverns consisted of many players from the Raiders.
The Hyundai Unicorns, a team that had previously represented Incheon, went to Suwon, and the SK Wyverns became new Incheon team.
It advanced the first Korean Series in 2003, where somewhat ironically, it was defeated by the Hyundai Unicorns in seven games.
In 2007, under the new director Kim Sung-keun, SK defeated the Doosan Bears in six games to win the 2007 Korean Series - the first time the franchise had won the Korean Series - after finishing the league in first place.
They became the first team in Korean Series history to win after losing the first two games.
Designated Hitter Kim Jae-hyun was the series MVP.
SK went to the Korean Series again in 2008, once again facing their main rivals, Doosan Bears.
In a repeat of 2007, SK defeated Doosan and became the Korean Series Champions again.
Choi Jeong, 21 year old 3rd baseman, was the series MVP.
In 2009, in spite of many injured players, SK advanced the Korean Series again, but they were defeated by the KIA Tigers in 7 games.
However, in 2010, it regained the champion title by defeating Samsung Lions.
In the next two years, SK lost to Samsung in the Korean Series.
Michael Anthony Bilandic (February 13, 1923 – January 15, 2002) was an American politician.
He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1976-1979).
He became mayor after being elected by the Chicago City Council to become acting mayor, upon the death of Richard J. Daley, beating Wilson Frost.
Bilandic was born on February 13, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois.
He was married to Heather Morgan.
Bilandic died on January 15, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois from heart failure, aged 78.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (before 1750 – August 18, 1818) was the founder of the city of Chicago, Illinois in c. 1770s.
Point du Sable was the first person to live in the city.
He settled around where today the Chicago River is located at.
He left Chicago in 1800.
Point du Sable was born around the 1750s.
His birthplace is not known.
Many people say that he was born in Haiti.
Point du Sable died on August 18, 1818 in St. Charles, Missouri.
DuSable Heritage Association
Lester Legrant Bond (October 27, 1829 – April 15, 1903) was an American politician.
He was the acting Mayor of Chicago, Illinois from August 18, 1873 through December 1, 1873 when Joseph Medill left for Europe.
Bond was born on October 27, 1829 in Ravenna, Ohio.
He was married to Mary Aspenwell.
They had a daughter, Laura Bond.
Bond died on April 15, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois from a stroke, aged 73.
Thomas Hoyne (February 11, 1817 – July 27, 1883) was an American politician who was elected as the Mayor of Chicago in 1875.
Since Honye was an Independent, there was never a Democrat or Republican who wanted to run for mayor at the time.
But after his victory, he did not wanted to be the mayor because of the conflict and might ruin his career.
Hoyne was born on February 11, 1817 in New York City, New York.
He was married to Leonora Maria Temple.
Hoyne was killed on July 27, 1883 in Carlton, New York in a train crash, aged 66.
David Duvall Orr (born October 4, 1944) is an American Democratic politician from Chicago, Illinois.
He was the mayor of Chicago from November 25, 1987 through December 2, 1987.
He became the mayor after the death of Harold Washington.
Orr was born on October 4, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois.
He was married to Loretta Lim.
Orr now lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Hector Camacho (May 24, 1962 – November 24, 2012) was a Puerto Rican boxing performer known for his quickness in the ring.
He held three world championships , one in the super featherweight, one in  the lightweight and one in the junior welterweight boxing weight divisions.
His boxing career lasted for almost 30 years.
On November 20 2012 the boxer was shot while he sat inside a vehicle close to a bar in Puerto Rico; he died November 24, aged 50.
In phonetics, a voiced consonant is a consonant which is pronounced with the vibration of the vocal cords.
For example, the sound [] is a voiced consonant (specifically a sibilant), while [] is not, and it is called a voiceless consonant.
You can feel when your vocal cords are vibrating by putting your finger at your larynx, or the Adam's apple.
Here are some examples of voiced and voiceless consonant pairs in English:
A dyke (or dike) in geology is a type of later vertical rock between older layers of rock.
Technically, it is any geologic body which cuts across:
The most usual thing that happens is that later volcanic activity pushes lava through strata which were laid down earlier in a sedimentary fashion, or through earlier igneous rocks.
On the Isle of Arran, for example, there are hundreds of igneous dykes giving rise to the term dyke swarm.
Alternatively, sedimentary rocks can be laid down in vertical gaps between strata.
Or, after underwater earthquakes, gaps caused by the earthquake can be filled in with breccia, that is, broken rocks.
Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress.
She starred in the features Dressed to Kill and Pay it Forward.
She was also the star of the television series Police Woman.
Her daughter Nikki (born in 1966) committed suicide in January 2007.
In geology, a sill is a flat sheet-like intrusion.
As molten magma, it pushed between older layers of rock.
The older rock may be sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or metamorphic rock.
The sill does not cut across preexisting rocks, unlike dykes.
Sills are fed by dykes as they form from a lower magma source.
The existing rocks must split to create the planes along which the magma moves in.
These planes or weakened areas allow the intrusion of a thin sheet-like body of magma paralleling the existing strata.
When it cools and crystallises, it is then a sill.
In chemistry, an enantiomer is a special kind of isomer.
It is a molecule that looks exactly like another one when viewed in a mirror.
The subject of mirror-image chemicals is known as chirality.
If you try to put the two molecules on top of each other, they will not be the same (they will not superimpose).
This is because they have one chiral centre.
It is important that they only have one, otherwise the two molecules are called diastereoisomers.
Both enantiomers of a molecule have the same basic properties.
For example, they have the same boiling point and NMR spectrum.
Therefore they are difficult to separate.
It is sometimes very important to separate them because in some drug molecules one enantiomer might have the right effect but the other might be dangerous.
One famous example is thalidomide: one enantiomer of the molecule causes birth defects.
Difference between a chiral molecule and enantiomers
A chiral molecule is a molecule that is not superimposable on its mirror image, while enantiomers are the set (all of) the molecules which are mirror images of eachother
Molecule A and B have mirror images (A' and B' respectively).
A' and B' are not superimposable on A and B, thus, both A and B are chiral molecules since their mirrors are not the same as the originals, but only [ A and A' ] and/or [ B and B' ] are enantiomers.
In other words, a chiral molecule X is chiral if its image X' is not the same, while the set of both [ X and X' ] are enantiomers.
The aldol reaction is a very important reaction in organic chemistry.
It allows to form new carbon-carbon bonds.
It was discovered in 1872.
The reagents are two carbonyl compounds together with a base.
A proton is removed from one of them forming a negative charge on the α-carbon (the carbon just next to the C-O double bond).
The negative charge can then attack the other carbonyl compound, forming the bond.
The product is a β-hydroxy carbonyl compound, a molecule with a C-O double bond and an alcohol two carbon atoms down the chain.
This reaction is very powerful because it can form a big molecule from two smaller ones.
Modern ways of doing the aldol reaction also allow to control the stereochemistry of the product.
This is a very good way to create new chiral centres.
Robert Toshio Kuroda (November 8, 1922-October 20, 1944)  was a United States Army soldier.
Kuroda was born in Hawaii.
Kuroda volunteered to be part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
For his actions in October 1944, Kuroda was awarded the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC).
Kuroda's award was upgraded to the Medal of Honor.
Kuroda's Medal of Honor recognized his conduct in frontline fighting in France in 1944.
Without help from others, he destroyed two machine gun nests.
Kuroda attacked two enemy machine gun positions.
During the fighting, he was killed by a sniper.
Staff Sergeant Robert T. Kuroda distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action, on 20 October 1944, near Bruyeres, France.
Leading his men in an advance to destroy snipers and machine gun nests, Staff Sergeant Kuroda encountered heavy fire from enemy soldiers occupying a heavily wooded slope.
Unable to pinpoint the hostile machine gun, he boldly made his way through heavy fire to the crest of the ridge.
Once he located the machine gun, Staff Sergeant Kuroda advanced to a point within ten yards of the nest and killed three enemy gunners with grenades.
He then fired clip after clip of rifle ammunition, killing or wounding at least three of the enemy.
As he expended the last of his ammunition, he observed that an American officer had been struck by a burst of fire from a hostile machine gun located on an adjacent hill.
Rushing to the officer's assistance, he found that the officer had been killed.
Picking up the officer's submachine gun, Staff Sergeant Kuroda advanced through continuous fire toward a second machine gun emplacement and destroyed the position.
As he turned to fire upon additional enemy soldiers, he was killed by a sniper.
Staff Sergeant Kuroda's courageous actions and indomitable fighting spirit ensured the destruction of enemy resistance in the sector.
Staff Sergeant Kuroda's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
Robert Kuroda is the namesake of the US Army logistics support vessel, the USS Robert T. Kuroda (LSV-7).
A parade ground at Fort DeRussy in Honolulu is named after Kuroda.
Ryu Hyun-Jin ( born March 25, 1987 in Incheon, Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean professional baseball player.
He is 6 ft 2 inches tall and weighs 215 lbs.
He is a left-handed pitcher.
He plays for the Toronto Blue Jays.
In the past, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In 2003, Ryu pitched for his school in the Michoohall National High School Championship.
He recorded an 0.00 ERA in 3 games.
In 2004, he went through the Tommy John surgery.
So he did not show up in any official games.
In 2005, he led his team to the top place of the Blue Dragon Open National High School Championship.
He pitched 1.54 ERA in 53 and 2/3 Innings, earning 6 wins and 1 loss.
Ryu Hyun-Jin played well in the Amateur League.
So Ryu was selected by the Hanwha Eagles as the 1st pick in 2006.
His professional league debut was on  April 12, 2006 pitching against LG Twins.
That day he earned his first league win.
He allowed only 3 hits and no runs for 7 and 1/3 innings.
He became a sensation in the league from his debut.
And finished the season with 18-6, 2.23 ERA and 205 strikeouts in 201 and 2/3 innings.
In his first year, he got the pitching Triple Crown, and was named both Rookie of the year and Player of the Year.
Since then, Ryu kept his place as a top pitcher in the league.
And he won many personal titles.
In August 2008, Ryu played for the South Korea national baseball team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The South Korea national baseball team won the gold medal.
For this, Ryu does not have to join the Military for 2 years like other men in South Korea.
In March 2009, he played for the South Korea national baseball team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
His team finished in second place.
In 2010, Ryu played in the 2010 Asian Games.
Desire to play in the Major League Baseball
Ryu always showed his wish to play in the Major League Baseball.
The Korea Baseball Organization allows their players to make a contract with a Major League team after playing 7 years in the Korean League.
But the agreement of the player's original team is needed.
After the 2012 season, Ryu used this rule to play in the Major League Baseball league.
The Los Angeles Dodgers suggested $25,737,737.33 to get the agreement from his original team, the  Hanwha Eagles.
Hanwha Eagles accepted the suggestion, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Ryu agreed on his salary and contract years on December 10, 2012.
Skyfall is a 2012 spy movie and the twenty-third in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.
The movie is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and includes Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, and Judi Dench, as M. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan, and features the theme song "Skyfall", written and performed by Adele.
It was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
The movie centres around Bond investigating an attack on MI6; the attack is part of a plot by former MI6 operative Raoul Silva to humiliate, discredit and kill M as revenge against her for betraying him.
It sees the return of two recurring characters after an absence of two movies: Q, played by Ben Whishaw, and Miss Moneypenny, played by Naomie Harris.
Mendes was approached to direct after the release of Quantum of Solace in 2008.
Development was suspended when MGM ran into financial trouble, and did not resume until MGM emerged from bankruptcy in December 2010; meanwhile the original screenwriter, Peter Morgan, left the project.
When production resumed, Logan, Purvis, and Wade continued writing what became the final version.
Filming began in November 2011, primarily in the United Kingdom, with smaller portions shot in China and Turkey.
Skyfall premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 23 October 2012 and was released in the UK on 26 October and in North America on 9 November.
It was the first James Bond movie to be screened in IMAX venues, although it was not filmed with IMAX cameras.
The release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the series, which began with Dr. No in 1962.
Skyfall was very well received by critics, who praised its screenplay, acting (particularly by Craig, Bardem, and Dench), Mendes's direction, Deakins's cinematography, Thomas Newman's musical score, and action sequences.
It was the fourteenth movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide, and the only James Bond movie to do so.
It became the seventh-highest-grossing movie of all time, the highest-grossing movie in the UK, the highest-grossing movie in the series, the highest-grossing movie worldwide for both Sony Pictures and MGM, and the second-highest-grossing movie of 2012.
The movie won several accolades, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Grammy Awards.
The next movie in the series, Spectre, was released in North America in November 2015, with Craig reprising his role, Sony Pictures returning to distribute, and Mendes returning to direct.
The Tomb of Zechariah (Zechariah Ben Jehoiada) is a famous grave in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem.
Tomb of Absalom () is a famous monument grave.
According to the Jewish religion, it is the tomb of Absalom, son of King David.
The monument is next to the Tomb of Zechariah monument grave in Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Virtual Tour of Jerusalem.
Offers 360-degree view from front of Absalom's Pillar.
The Tomb of Nicanor  (also called the Cave of Nicanor) is a famous ancient cave.
According to the Jewish tradition, this is the grave of Nicanor, who built the doors on the First Temple in Jerusalem.
Two famous Zionist activists were buried there: Leon Pinsker and Menachem Ussishkin.
National Pantheon of Israel
They planned to turn it into a national pantheon (monument) for the Jewish people.
After the establishment of the state of Israel the national pantheon was established on Mount Herzl in the west side of the city.
The cave is located in the National Botanic Garden of Israel in the campus of Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Mount Scopus.
Tomb of Nicanor  in the Hebrew University - Mount Scopus Botanic Garden
Archaeological sites in Israel
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is the national academy of art and design of Israel.
It is located in Mount Scopus, with some other small campuses in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Bezalel Academy web site
Bezalel Catalogue of Student Works
Timeline of Bezalel Academy history
absolutearts.com/artsnews
Zionism and Art: Bezalel Narkiss Speaks in 'Israel at 50' Series
The Bahá'í World Centre is the headquarters of the Bahá'í Faith.
It is located in Haifa, Israel on Mount Carmel.
The Bahá'í World Centre includes the World Bahá'í Archive, Universal House of Justice of the Baha'i Faith, International Center for advisors, and the Scripture Study Center.
There are many Baha'i believers in Haifa and Acre.
www.bahai.org - Official website
Photos - The Bahá'í Gardens in Haifa: the Shrine of the Bab Terraces & Gardens
Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken (February 7, 1915 – November 14, 2002) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and comedian.
He was known for his roles in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Fun on a Week-end, Baby's Day Out, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and in We're Not Married!.
Bracken was born on February 7, 1915 in Queens, New York.
He was married to Connie Nickerson from 1939 until her death in 2002.
Bracken died on November 14, 2002 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey after going into surgery, aged 87.
David Newell (born November 24, 1938) is an American television and voice actor who is known for his television role as Mr. McFeely in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
He also voiced the character in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
In 2018, he appeared in the Fred Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?.
Newell was born on November 24, 1938 in O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania.
Newell studied at Pittsburgh University.
Kang In-ho starts a new job as a music teacher in Music Jayae school (a special school for the disabled) thanks to the professor's introduction.
In-ho felt awkward for the first day by watching the scene of severe rape and hearing strange sounds from a restroom.
He came to know a woman who worked for human rights at the garage.
In-ho heard shocking stories from a student named Yeon-du.
Yeon-du, Yoo-Ri, and Min-Su were sexually assaulted by the teachers.
There is a similarity that the students have no parents or parents who suffer from mental diseases.
After listening to the disturbing stories, In-ho and Yoo-jin decided to fight against the school, resulting in the local news press informing the general public about the incident and the attacker appeared before the judge.
Kang In-ho (real name:Gong Yoo) and Seo Yoo-jin (real name:Jung Yoo-mi) are the main characters of this movie.
Kang In-ho is a teacher who started for his new post as a music teacher in Mujin Jayae school.
At first, he ignored the situation that occurred in school for his family.
However, he changed his mind while he watched mistreatments committed towards the disabled students.
Finally, he decided to help poor students and fight against powerful men in the school.
Seo Yoo-jin is a human rights activist in Mujin.
One day, she knew that the disabled students in Jayae school were physically attacked by school officers and she started aggressively resisting school with Kang In-ho.
Actor Gong Yoo and actress Jung Yoo-mi were highly acclaimed by reviewers and the audience because of their calm performances without overaction.
Also, the children who acted like the disabled had put on splendid acting.
Reflect the society
In 2005, the “Gwangju Inhwa School affair” became known to the general public for the first time, but there was no obvious punishment.
However, as the movie The Crucible was a box office hit, many people took an interest in this affair and it brought forth much change to society.
Woo-seok corporate body, one of the social welfare foundations, which operated Inhwa School received a cancellation notice from the government.
Also, the man who was concerned with this affair suffered a punishment.
He denied all charges pressed against him.
However, a lie detector gave the lie to his speech.
Moreover, the National Assembly prepared a revision about punishment of sexual violence crime.
Therefore, in the case of sexual violence against children under thirteen or disabled women, the statute of limitations was abolished.
A medical assistant (sometimes called an MA) is a medical professional who works in medical settings along with doctors and nurses.
They do things to help doctors and nurses with their jobs, and may perform many different tasks.
Some medical assistants are similar in some ways to a nurse.
They take care of patients in hospitals and other medical facilities, and they perform other tasks to help run the office.
They are different from a nurse mainly in that medical assistants cannot plan out what a patient's care will be like.
They can only do what a nurse or a doctor instruct them to do.
Other types of medical assistants work in the reception area of a doctor's office, similar to a secretary.
These medical assistants may file paperwork, update medical records, and greet patients.
Medical assistants usually go to school for between one and two years.
They may hold an associate's degree, or in some cases a certificate if they already have an associate's degree in something else.
Pay range
Medical assistants tend to earn between $20,000 and $40,000 a year in salary.
Factors that influence a Medical Assistant's salary can be their location, the amount of training they have, the amount of time they've been working as a medical assistant, and the skills they've learned while working.
Scalping is the act of removing the scalp, or a part of the scalp, from a dead body or another living person.
The scalp would serve as a trophy from battle or proof of a warrior's skill.
Scalping was also done for money, when the scalper was given a certain amount of money as a reward for each scalp of the enemy they acquired.
Scalping was often done during the colonisation of North America.
It was practised by certain nations of Native Americans, but this was not the norm.
It was also done by European colonists.
Some United States and Mexican territories paid bounties for enemy Native American scalps.
In Australia, scalping of dingos was a widespread form of bounty hunting.
It began in 1912, when the government of South Australia decided to pay people money for dingo scalps, to reduce attacks on livestock.
This was also done in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Angkaliya Curtis (born c. 1928) is an Australian Aboriginal artist.
She paints animals from the central Australian desert.
Curtis was born around 1928, at a place called Miti, in north-western South Australia.
Her family are Pitjantjatjara people.
They lived a traditional nomadic way of life in the desert, often walking long distances from place to place in search of food and water.
While living in the bush with her family, Curtis learned about the sacred law of the land from her mother and grandmother.
They taught her about the Dreamtime and her family's spiritual ancestors, about bush food and traditional healing.
She also learned about traditional crafts.
She made ceremonial belts and  (head rings) by spinning hair on a hand-made spindle.
When Curtis was still a child, she travelled with her mother to what is now Watarru, her mother's homeland.
The family lived for a time on cattle stations, and traded dingo scalps and rabbit skins for flour, tea and sugar.
They later settled on the mission at Ernabella.
When she was older, Curtis married a man named Bill, and worked at Ernabella spinning wool and making rugs.
In the 1960s, she moved back west (closer to her homeland) when the outstation at Amaṯa was established.
She now lives at Nyapaṟi.
Curtis is best known for her acrylic paintings, but she is also still involved in traditional handicraft work (making grass baskets and wooden carvings).
The most visible motif in Curtis' paintings are her representations of animals.
Her works stand out against other artists from her region because of her subtle use of colours.
Her work has been exhibited around Australia since 2007.
It was first shown internationally in 2010, in San Sebastian, Spain.
Examples of her paintings are displayed in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Australian National University.
Curtis was a finalist for the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2010 and 2011.
She was also one of 16 finalists for the Western Australian Indigenous Art Award in 2011.
Dickie Minyintiri (born c. 1915) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from Pukatja, South Australia.
He began painting in 2005, when he was about 90 years old.
After winning the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2011, he is now a very successful artist.
He is said to be the oldest artist at Pukatja, and also the community's most senior lawman (a keeper of Tjukurpa or sacred knowledge).
Minyintiri was born into a Pitjantjatjara family some time around 1915.
He was born in the bush at Pilpirinyi, Western Australia, near the border with South Australia.
His childhood was spent living nomadically in the desert with his family.
Their homelands were spread over a large area along the border, but they often travelled far to the east for ceremonies.
They camped for several years around the Musgrave Ranges near what would later become the settlement of Ernabella.
This was before the arrival of White people in the area.
The family had their first contact with Western civilisation in the 1920s, when Minyintiri was still a child.
They encountered a group of men on camels trying to pull a truck out of a bog.
Minyintiri and his family were there for the establishment of the mission settlement of Ernabella in 1937.
They settled on the mission with several other Aboriginal families.
Minyintiri has lived at Ernabella since then.
He worked for most of his life as a shepherd and shearer.
In his later years, he became a widely respected  (traditional healer), and is now one of the most important elders in his community.
Before he became a painter, Minyintiri crafted traditional wooden tools (mostly spears).
Minyintiri began painting at Ernabella Arts in late 2005.
He painted at the art centre for a few hours each day, while his wife (now deceased) would wait outside with their dogs to keep her company.
Minyintiri originally painted on paper, but now paints on canvas.
His works have been shown in many group exhibitions since 2006, in most major Australian cities.
The South Australian Museum was one of the first public galleries to show his work, which it did in a 2007 exhibition.
Most of Minyintiri's paintings are done using synthetic polymer paint on canvases.
His earliest paintings were done on paper.
His paintings are almost always multi-layered (several layers painted over the top of each other), with strong motifs and symbols representing landmarks or figures.
Each layer represents a different memory or story.
Because of his old age, Minyintiri only paints six to eight artworks a year.
Nearly all of them are large canvases.
His paintings depict sacred stories from his Dreaming (a kind of spirituality).
He paints songlines, or the journeys taken by the ancestral beings of his Dreaming country – such as the kanyaḻa (euro), malu (red kangaroo), wiilu (stone-curlew), waru (wallaby) and kaḻaya (emu).
His art is often also a reflection of his younger life in the desert, before settling permanently at Ernabella.
The religious elements of his works are always obscured, for cultural reasons.
NATSIAA
In 2010, Minyintiri's painting  ("Red Kangaroo Tracks") was chosen as a finalist for the 27th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
The award was won by Jimmy Donegan, another Pitjantjatjara artist, from Kalka.
Minyintiri won the 28th NATSIAA in August 2011, for his painting  ("Euro Tracks").
His work was chosen from over 300 entries, which had been reduced to 61 finalists.
Minyintiri was about 96 at the time.
With Donegan winning the award the year before, it was the second year in a row that an artist from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands had won.
is a multi-layered synthetic painting, done on a large canvas.
The background is made up of pale yellows and oranges, and is covered with a complex network of thick, ivory-coloured lines.
Flashes of blue, black and pink peep through the surface lines.
The judges praised Minyintiri for his subtle use of colour.
His work was compared to the early batik works of Emily Kngwarreye.
The painting depicts a sacred men's ceremonial site near Pilpirinyi.
The network of lines traces the tracks of ancestral spirits (kangaroos, dogs and emu) to important waterholes, where men also went for their ceremonies.
Each layer and line is a memory of a journey Minyintiri has made.
The painting is therefore a reflection of the artist's years of travelling his country, and an expression of his ancestral relationship to the land.
24 is a year in the 1st century.
It was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Varro.
Roman war against Numidia and Mauretania ends.
Servius Cornelius Cethegus and Lucius Visellius Varro become consuls.
Charmides becomes Archon of Athens.
Philo declares that the Old Testament is the eternal law of God.
King Yuri rises to the Silla (Korea) throne.
End of the Masinissa line of the rulers of Carthage.
End of Tacfarinas' revolt against the Roman Empire.
Strabo, Greek geographer
Namhae, king of Silla
25 is a year in the 1st century.
was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Agrippa
Tiberius settles a dispute between Messenia and Sparta over the Ager Dentheliales on Mount Taygetus.
He  gives the land to Messenia.
Aelius Sejanus tries to marry the widow of Drusus Julius Caesar.
Cossus Cornelius Lentulus, Marcus Asinius Agrippa become consuls
Pomponius Mela formalizes the climatic zone system
Han dynasty returns to China.
Liu Xiu proclaimed himself Emperor.
Luoyang becomes the capital of the Houhan or Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE).
Gaius Julius Civilis, German chieftain
Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Roman historian
Saint Ambrose (c. 330 – 4 April 397) was an Archbishop of Milan.
He is an important figure in the Catholic church, and the patron saint of Milan.
330s births
390s deaths
Phu Quoc International Airport is an airport on Phu Quoc Island, at the southern end of Vietnam.
The construction began in November 2008 and finished in November 2012.
It was opened on 2 December 2012, and replaced the old airport.
The runway is  long and  wide.
The current capacity is 2.6 million passengers per year and will be upraded to 4 million in 2020, 7 million in 2030.
The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (), is an Israeli academy for music and the performing arts.
It is located in Jerusalem.
Many famous Israeli artists studied there, such as the singer David D'or and the composer Nurit Hirsch.
Interview with Michael Melzer, vice president of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Ben Gurion International Airport (, ) is an international airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
This airport is the main international airport in Israel and the largest airport in Israel.
Ben Gurion International Airport, iaa.gov.il
Israeli Aviation Charts for flight simulation (including Ben Gurion) , vatil.or
Airports in Israel
Korean Augmentation to the United States Army (KATUSA) is a scheme of military duty in South Korea.
Under this program, soldiers in the South Korean Army are given posts in U.S. Army bases that are located in several places in South Korea.
KATUSA soldiers are under the command of both the South Korean Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The purpose of the KATUSA program has been different depending on the historical situation in Korea.
The KATUSA system was established in July 1950 during the Korean War.
It was started as a spoken agreement between President Syngman Rhee and U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
At that time, the U.S. Army needed a military force that had the proper knowledge of the geography of Korea, and the abilities to distinguish ally troops (South Korea) from enemy troops (North Korea) and communicate better between U.S. soldiers and Korean soldiers.
Therefore, some were drafted to KATUSA by force, and others voluntarily (by their own choice) applied .
After training, they were divided into the U.S. military, such as 2nd, 7th, 24th, 25th divisions.
During the Korean Wars, a total 43,660 KATUSA soldiers fought for South Korea with U.S. forces.
Of these soldiers, 11,365 went missing or were killed in action.
After a ceasefire agreement between the United States and North Korea, the U.S. government decided to keep the KATUSA system.