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He studied at the University of Mississippi and at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
was married to Catherine Davey Vaulx from 1909 until his death in 1945.
McCain died on September 6, 1945 in Coronado, California from a heart attack, aged 61.
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Our Lady of La Vang was a reported Marian apparition (a supernatural appearance of the Virgin Mary) in Vietnam.
The appearance was reported at a time when Catholics were being persucted and killed in Vietnam.
In Vietnamese she is called  or .
Modern scholars believe the name came from a plant in the area (La means "leaf" and Vang means "herbal seeds").
Others believe the name came from a Vietnamese word that meant "crying out" as if the Vietnamese Catholics at that time were "crying out" to God for help.
Some believe the name came from the rainforest's name La Vang.
Fearing the spread of Catholicism, Emperor Canh Thinh banned the practice of Catholicism.
Soon thereafter the emperor made an anti-Catholic edict which made the practice of Catholicism punishable by death.
Many Catholics sought refuge in the rainforest  of La Vang in Quang Tri Province.
While hiding in the rainforest, the small community would gather every night at the foot of a tree and pray.
One night, an apparition surprised them.
In the branches of the tree, a lady dressed in the traditional Vietnamese dress (ao dai), holding an infant in her arms with two angels beside her, appeared.
The people who witnessed this apparition said that the lady and the infant was the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus.
They said that the lady comforted them and told them to boil the leaves from the tree for medicine to cure the illness.
In 1802, many of the Catholics went back to their villages, spreading the story of the apparition.
Soon, many people came back to the site to offer incense and to pray.
In 1820, a chapel was built.
From 1830- 1885 another wave of persecutions decimated the Catholic population.
The chapel of Our Lady of La Vang was destroyed and in 1886 a new chapel was built.
Vatican recognition
There is no official recognition from the Vatican for this as a "Marian apparition".
Although there is no official recognition, Pope John Paul II publicly recognized the importance of Our Lady of La Vang and expressed a desire to rebuild the La Vang Basilica to honor the 200th anniversary of the first apparition.
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The city of Naples is in this province.
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Nicolas Berejny (born 27 June 1968)  is a skier from France.
He has a disability.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race.
He was the third skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.
Because he cannot see, Gregory Nouhaud was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain.
French skiers
Chris Williamson (born 5 May 1972)  is a skier from Canada.
He was the second skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.
He was the third skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race.
He was the third skier to finish in the slalom race.
Because he cannot see, Robin Femy was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain.
He also skied in the 2010 Winter Paralympics and was the fourth skier to finish the  Giant Slalom, the sixth skier to finish the Slalom and the sixth to finish in the Super G, Visually Impaired.
Nick Brush helped him down the mountain.like how Robin Femy did.
Ignacio Gutiérrez (born 1976 in Constitución) is a Chilean journalist and television presenter.
Nicolas Berejny (born 6 April 1986) is a skier from France.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the second skier to finish in the standing men's downhill race.
He was the second skier to finish in the men's standing Super-G race.
He was the first skier to finish in the men's standing Super Combined race and the slalom race.
Our Lady of Good Health is the name given to an apparition of the Virgin Mary believed to have appeared in the town of Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu, India.
She is also known as Our Lady of Vailankanni and Holy Mother of Good Health.
Her name in the Tamil language is  (Arokia Matha).
The three miraculous events
Although there is no written record of these three events, the oral tradition is that there were three apparitions.
Two were during the 16th century and one in the 17th century.
The first apparition was in the town of Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu.
It is said that a Hindu boy was resting under a banyan tree near a pond.
While he was resting, a woman with an infant on her hand came to him and asked him for milk.
The boy agreed and ran off to get the milk.
When he came back, he apologized for his lateness and the reduced amount of milk due to an accident when he was coming back with the milk.
However, on inspection the boy found the pot of milk to be full and was convinced a miracle happened.
Together a man, also a Hindu, and the boy went back to the pond where the apparition had occurred.
Again, the Lady appeared with her child.
On learning that it was the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus who appeared to the boy, the residents of the local Roman Catholic community became ecstatic and renamed the pond  (Our Lady's Pond).
Second appearance
Later towards the end of the 16th century, it is believed the Virgin Mary appeared to a crippled boy (and also a son of a widow) in a place called Thittu, once again in the same town of Vailankanni.
The boy is said to have offered buttermilk to the Virgin Mary and then he was cured of his illness.
The boy was then commanded by Mary to tell a Catholic gentleman in the nearby town of Nagapattinam.
The first shrine was built by this Catholic gentleman.
Third appearance
The third appearance of the Virgin Mary was in the 17th century.
A Portuguese merchant vessel was sailing from Macau in China to Colombo in Sri Lanka.
When the vessel was sailing, it was caught in a storm in the Bay of Bengal.
The sailors vowed to build a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary if they could reach land safely.
The legend claimed that the sea became quiet and they reached safety on the shore of Vailankanni on the Virgin Mary's birthday, September 8.
Because of their vow to the Virgin Mary, the Portuguese sailors put up a chapel at Vailankanni by transforming the last small shrine built by the last Catholic gentleman.
Vanessa Nathaly Aguilera Castro (born October 31, 1989 in Temuco) is a Chilean singer, songwriter and actress.
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Cambia el mundo (2009)
Thomas Pfyl (born January 1, 1987) is a skier from Switzerland.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the standing men's downhill race,  Super-G race, and the Super Combined race.
Akira Kano  (狩野 亮 Kanō Akira?) (
born March 14, 1986) is a skier from Japan.
He has a disability and uses a wheelchair.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the sitting men's downhill race.
Taiki Morii   (森井 大輝 Morii Taiki?) (
born July 9, 1980)  is a skier from Japan.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.
He was the first skier to finish in the Giant Slalom race, and was the second skier to finish in the sitting men's downhill race and the Super-G race.
Robin Femy (born 19 October 1989) is a skier from Canada.
He helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go on a mountain.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Chris Williamson.
They were the third skiers to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race.
They were the second skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.
They were the third skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race.
They were the third skiers to finish in the slalom race.
Sighted guides
Gregory Nouhaud (born 26 August 1982) is a skier from France.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Nicolas Berejny.
They were the first skiers to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race.
They were the third skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.
Miguel Galindo Garces (born 1981) is a skier from Spain.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Jon Santacana Maiztegui.
They were the second skiers to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race.
They were the first skiers to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race, the Giant Slalom race and the Super Combined race.
They were the second skiers to finish in the slalom race.
Quarantine is where animals, people or an area of land are isolated to prevent the spread of disease or pests.
Countries often stop animals and plants from being brought in from elsewhere, unless they are known not to carry a disease.
The word "quarantine" comes from quarantena, the Venetian language meaning "forty days".
This is because of the 40-day isolation of ships and people practiced as a measure of disease prevention related to the plague.
The quarantining of people often raises questions of civil rights.
Quarantine can have bad psychological effects on the quarantined.
These include post-traumatic stress disorder, confusion and anger.
Self quarantine (or self-isolation) is a term that became popular during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, which spread to most countries in 2020.
Citizens were either encouraged or forced by law to stay home to lower the spread of the disease.
Some countries went into lockdowns as a form of quarantine.
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Jakub Krako  (born July 7, 1990) is a skier from Slovakia.
He has a disability: he cannot see things.
He was the second skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race and the Giant Slalom race.
He was the first skier to finish in the slalom race.
Because he cannot see, Dusan Simo was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain.
Slovakian skiers
Takeshi Suzuki   (鈴木 猛史 Suzuki Takeshi?) (
born May 1, 1988) is a skier from Japan.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the sitting men's Super Combined race and in the slalom race.
He was the second skier to finish in the Giant Slalom.
Erode Venkata Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also called Periyar, Thanthai Periyar or E. V. R. by his followers, was an Indian philosopher , politician, independence and social activist.
He started the Self-Respect Movement or the Dravidian Movement and proposed the creation of an independent state called Dravida Nadu, comprising the states of South India.
He is also the founder of the socio-cultural organisation, Dravidar Kazhagam.
Periyar was born in Erode, Madras Presidency in a rich family.
At a young age, he witnessed many incidents of racial, caste and gender discrimination.
Periyar married when he was 19, and had a daughter who lived for only 5 months.
His first wife, Nagammai, died in 1933.
Periyar married for a second time in July 1948.
His second wife, Maniammai, continued Periyar's social work after his death in 1973, but still his thoughts and ideas were being spread by Dravidar Kazhagam.
Periyar fought for the Tamil language, Tamil people and for their rights until his death.
He was against Brahmin for their caste and religious following.
Periyar organised anti-Hindi protests in 1938, against the introduction of Hindi as a compulsory language of study in schools.
Now in the present days the Periyar's followers are increasing more all over the world among the Tamil people, due to their interest in Tamil language and history behind them.
Yohann Taberlet  (born March 29, 1981) is a skier from France.
He was the second skier to finish in the men's sitting slalom race and was the third skier to finish in the sitting men's Super Combined race.
Toby Kane (born 30 December 1986) is a skier from Australia.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the standing men's slalom race.
Australian skiers
Cyclonic Storm Viyaru, formerly known as Cyclonic Storm Mahasen, was an active tropical cyclone.
It passed over the Bay of Bengal.
It threatened Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Its origin was a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal.
The low pressure area was created in the first week of May.
Viyaru slowly developed.
It became a depression on May 10 by almost remaining still.
Gradually it gained speed on May 11 and became a cyclonic storm.
It was the first storm of the season.
At first the system's ultimate direction was not clear, but moved closer to eastern India.
On May 14, the circulation of Viyaru turned northeastward.
Myanmar recommended a large evacuation in order to be prepared for the storm; however, for this reason people wanted to escape by boat.
As a result, they made boats overcrowded, and one or more boats capsized.
This killed at least eight people.
The storm had extensive cloud mass, which brought unsettled weather to Sri Lanka, Thailand, and southeastern India.
Severe storms in India and Sri Lanka killed 15 people and caused major damage.
One person was killed in Thailand.
The name Mahasen caused some argument from nationalists and officials in Sri Lanka.
They claimed that the name Mahasen comes from a Sinhala king.
He brought prosperity to the island.
So naming a destructive force of nature after him would be improper.
Sri Lankan authorities instead have not given the storm a name.
Cyclone Viyaru struck Southern Bangladesh on 16 May 2013.
The speed of the wind was about 100 kph.
Weather history
An area of convection first appeared on May 4.
It slowly moved eastwards and organized into a low pressure area on May 8.
A pulse in the Madden–Julian oscillation, together with a convective Kelvin wave allowed the system to develop.
These oscillations also caused Tropical Storm Jamala to form.
The JTWC later issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) on May 10, after the system became more organized.
The IMD upgraded it to a well-marked low pressure area.
Later the same day, JTWC issued the first warning for the storm.
JTWC designed it 01B, followed by the IMD upgrading the storm into a depression, and later into a deep depression.
Recent storm information
As of 0830 IST (0300 UTC), 16 May 2013, Cyclonic Storm Mahasen was located near latitude 21°N and longitude 90°E, about  south-southeast of Kolkata and  southwest of Chittagong.
The storm is forecast to maintain power.
It is moving northeastwards.
It is expected to cross the Bangladesh coast close to Chittagong by evening of 16 May.
Sustained maximum surface wind speed is estimated at , gusting to .
Estimated minimum central pressure is at 988 mbar.
Dvorak intensity of the storm is at T2.5.
Corporate Disaster Resource Network, India
For the latest information
The IMD's Cyclone warning for Indian coast .
The IMD's Tropical Cyclone Advisory  and forecast track .
The JTWC's Tropical Cyclone warning  and forecast track.
May 2013 events
2013 in India
Thomas Nolte (born June 13, 1984) is a skier from Germany.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the sitting men's  slalom race.
German skiers
Henrieta Farkašová (born May 23, 1986)   is a skier from Slovakia.
She has a disability: she cannot see everything.
She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.
She was the first skier to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race, slalom race, giant slalom race and super combined race.
Because she cannot see, Natália Šubrtová was her guide and told her where to go when going down the mountain.
Natália Šubrtová (born 1 May 1989 in Kežmarok) is a skier from Slovakia.
She helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go on a mountain.
She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Henrieta Farkašová.
They were the first skiers to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race, slalom race, giant slalom race and super combined race.
Engineering tolerance is the ability of a machine to cope with changes while still continuing to work.
This includes changes to size, quality (for example, the smoothness of the surface), the outside world (for example, dampness or heat).
When a machine is made the needed engineering tolerance is set to provide a balance between performance and the need to cope with the changes it may experience.
Henrieta Farkašová (born 21 February 1988) is a skier from Australia.
She was the second skier to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race, and the third skier to finish in the Super-G race and the Super Combined race.
Because she cannot see, Andrew Bor was her guide and told her where to go when going down the mountain.
Andrew Bor (born 14 April 1963) is a skier and ski coach from Australia.
He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with Melissa Perrine.
They were the second skiers to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race, and the third skiers to finish in the Super-G race and the Super Combined race.
Alexandra Frantseva (born 24 April 1987) is a skier from Russia.
She was the second skier to finish in the women's visually impaired Super-G race, Giant slalom race and Super Combined race, and the third skier to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race and slalom race.
Because she cannot see, Evgenia Kolosovskaya was her guide and told her where to go when going down the mountain.
Bioturbation is the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants.
It disturbs and changes sediment.
Any animal living in the soil or on the bottom under water may disturb the sediment by moving it around.
Burrowing, eating and defecation of sediment grains, building galleries (etc.)
all disturb the sediment.
Fossil sites with bioturbation do not leave traces of soft-bodied animals.
In contrast, fossil sites with undisturbed sediment have given rise to important lagerstätten with many impressions of small soft-bodied invertebrates.
Paradip (also Paradeep) is a major seaport town in India.
It is a designated notified area in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha.
Paradip is located at .
It has an average elevation of .
About Paradip
Port of Paradip
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This sport has been adapted to the needs of people with a disability, and is called  Para-alpine skiing.
The sport started in Germany and Austria during and after the Second World War.
The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee Sports Committee.
The adaptations used include ski poles (outrigger skis), and a chair on a ski (sit-skis, and mono-skis).
Para-alpines skiing types are Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Super Combined, and Snowboard.
Para-alpine skiing classification is the order system for para-alpine skiing.
It is designed to give equal competition between alpine skiers with different types of limited physical powers and vision.
The ordering system is grouped into three general conditions of being unable: standing, unable to see, and sitting.
A factoring system was made for para-alpine skiing.
It lets the three classification groups fairly race against other people with the same type of disability.
Alpine skiing was one of the sports at the first Winter Paralympics in 1976, with Slalom and Giant Slalom being raced.
Different types of Alpine skiing were made to be at the Paralympic Games over time.
The 2010 Winter Paralympics para-alpine skiing races were at Whistler Creekside.
The race types at Whistler included Downhill, Super-Combined, Super-G, Slalom, and Giant Slalom.
Disability skiing started around the Second World War because many soldiers got hurt.
In Germany, Franz Wendel, an amputee who was missing his leg, used pair of crutches to make short skis.
Sepp "Peppi" Zwicknagel is an Austrian veteran who was wounded by a hand grenade and lost his leg.
Zwicknagel learned to ski on his own and then became a ski instructor.
He worked at Kitzbühel and created a division of the Austrian Ski Association for disability skiers.
By 1947, disability ski races were being held in Austria.
Next, Ludwig Guttman helped make ski events for people with disabilities.
In the United States, Gretchen Fraser started teaching skiing to amputees in the army hospitals.
By the 1960s, ski groups for people with disabilities were being made.
Disability skiing was only for people with amputations until 1968.
In 1969, blind skier Jean Eymore began a skiing program in Aspen, Colorado for skiers who cannot see.
Eymore was ski instructor before he lost his vision.
The first international competition, the World Disabled Alpine Championships, was held in France in 1974.
Standing alpine skiing was one of the first sports at the first Winter Paralympics in 1976.
Slalom and Giant Slalom were the race types held.
At the 1984 Winter Paralympics, the downhill event was added to the para-alpine program.
Sit-skiing was an example sport in 1984.
At the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Albertville, Canada, downhill, giant slalom and slalom events were on the Paralympic program.
At the 1994 Winter Paralympics, Super Giant Slalom was raced.
In 1998, sit-skiers and blind skiers could get medals.
Before 1998, only standing skiers could get medals at the Winter Paralympics.
At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, women's downhill and men's unable to see downhill were on day 1.
Men's standing and being seated downhill were on day 2.
Men's standing and being seated Super-G was on day 3.
Men's unable to see, and women's Super-G was on day 5.
Men's standing and being seated Giant Slalom was on day 7.
Women's and men's unable to see Giant Slalom was on day 8.
Men's standing and being seated Slalom was on day 9.
Women's and men's unable to see Slalom was on day 10.
At the 2006 Winter Paralympics, a new classification system was used.
It made 14 classes into three groups and used factored results for each of the three groups.
At the 2006 Games, there were 55 male competitors in the Super-G compared to 18 women in the standing group.
The 2010 Winter Paralympics para-alpine skiing race was at Whistler Creekside.
The types of races at Whistler included downhill, Super-Combined, Super-G, slalom, and giant slalom.
Super-combined was raced in 2010.
It was the first time it was raced at the Paralympic Games.
In the downhill races, there were 25 men and 18 women in the standing group, 25 men and 10 women in the seating group, and 12 men and 10 women in the cannot see the group.
In the Super-Combined races, 18 men and 14 women for standing, 18 men and 10 women for being seated, and 10 men and 10 women for cannot see.
The slalom race was the shortest racecourse for para-alpine events at the 2010 Games.
The downhill was on day 2 for men and women skiers in all groups.
The Super-G for men and women in standing classes was on day three cannot, anding seated skiers raced in the Super-G on day 4.
The Super Combined races were on day 5 for all skiers.
The standing Giant Slalom for men and women was on day 7.
The being seated and cannot skiers raced on day 8.
The slalom was for standing men and women was on day 9.
The other skiers raced the slalom on day 10.
Rules and events
Para-alpine ski events held with skiers worldwide and skiers from specific countries include the Winter Paralympics, World championships World cups, Continental cups, National championships IPCAS competition, and IPCAS Para-Snowboard.
Skiers from 39 different countries race in para-alpine skiing races.
The sport is that one of eight given government by the International Paralympic Committee Sports Committee, with rules for para-alpine skiing put forth in the IPCAS Rules and Regulations.
Special rules may be used for events like the Paralympic Games.
One group of special rules was used in 1994 and were detailed in the IPC Handbook.
This was used to make necessary IPC-sanctioned events like the Paralympic Games for many years.
Competition rules for classes use rules put by or made an adjustment from rules made come into existence by the  International Ski Federation (FIS).
These rules were put at the 42nd International Ski Conference in 2000.
The two rule groups worked in united ways with each other, with the FIS rules specifying the rules for alpine skiing and the IPC making ready adjustments for para-alpine skiing.
The IPC Alpine Sports Assembly Executive Committee can decide if skiers have the necessary qualities to race in IPC sanctioned events without thought or attention to what the rules say.
National Paralympic Committees can have their own rule for races they organize.
The first necessary things used in the sport includes outrigger skis, sit-skis, and mono-skis.
Being dependent on if a skier sits, stands or cannot see, other necessary things may be used by skiers other equipment may be used by skiers including guide skiers, short ski poles, orthopedic aids, or prostheses.
For skiers with seeing problems, guides are used to help the skier know the direction to ski.
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Different part rules decide what sort of necessary things is let in competition, such as one long ski pole, two ski poles, zero ski poles, or one or two skis.
Rules for necessary things use in competition are made by FIS and the IPC.
There are least long distance for skis used in competition is at least  for men and  for women.
Bindings used for skis have a greatest point high level of .
Sit-skis are for wheelchair users or other skiers who have paraplegia.
The first sit-ski was made in 1967 by Josef Shrall.
Shrall is from the Bavaria in Germany.
The first sit-skis had two wide skis, brakes, and were made special to fit a skier.
The weight of the sit-ski made it so no skiers could ski moguls or on steep slopes.
Sit-ski kept getting made better in the 1980s.
A new type of sit-ski was made in Engelberg, Switzerland in 1987, and people were able to see it at a workshop made by the Swiss Association of Paraplegics.
As the technology got better, a chair was made that could be added to the skis, made for skiers who had no disability.
Now sit-skis are made from fiberglass and polyester.
Sit-skis now have much less weight, allowing skiers to ski on steeper slopes and race in the moguls.
Now sit-skis include seat belts.
Sit-skis for people with disabilities and skis for people who do not have disabilities have improved to become special for different types of alpine skiing races.
Some standing skiers can use outrigger skis when racing.
These are ski poles with small skis on the end.
They help a skier balance when they ski down a mountain, and help in going short distances up a mountain.
Outrigger skis also help skiers to do things like a climb a hill to get on a ski lift.
Guide skiers can see.
They help skiers who cannot ski go down the mountain by telling the cannot see skier where to go using a radio or talking to them.
Skiers can use more than one guide during a race type, but the guide can only win a medal if they raced with the same skier for the whole race type.
Like the skier, the guide has to have an IPCAS Licence to compete in races.
Guide skiers need to follow to anti-doping rules.
Skiers also wear special boots, helmets, ski suits, and goggles.
Ski equipment cannot have advertisements on it at the Paralympic Games.
Ski boots are made to connect to the ski at the heel and toe.
They help support the foot and ankle with the use of materials like hard plastics.
All helmets used in races must be hard-shell helmets.
Types of skiing
Para-alpine skiing types are downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Super Combined and Snowboard.
The rules are based on the rules of the International Ski Federation, though some rules have been adjusted for skiers with limited physical powers.
While skiing, skiers go as quickly as  an hour.
This is a go quickly based timed ski race, where skiers go over snow quickly down a sloping sharply direction that can be  to  lower than it started while having in it many turns and jumps.
The first skier to finish is based on one run down the mountain, with the skier with the fastest time being the first.
Skiers move between gates in the downhill.
Downhill has the least number of gates among all para-alpine types.
If a skier does not ski between the gates, they do not finish.
Some ski races make a skier first show they are good enough to ski.
They can make this be seen in the downhill or Super-G.  Skiers can get points for competitions with skiers from other countries in races by International Ski Federation.
Skiers can race in the downhill at the Paralympic Games.
Skis for women must be at least  long.
For men, skis must be at least  long.
Women and men's skis need a least possible or recorded straight line from middle to edge circle turn of .
Skiers used curved narrow ski poles for this event.
Men and women both need their skis to have a straight line from middle to edge circle of .
Top speed in this event can be up to  an hour.
Before the start of the race, the skier needs to do a practice run, and need to wear a helmet to keep safe during all their runs.
Made in the 1980s, the Super-G is less scientific with skiers going very fast.
From top to bottom part of the mountain, skiers go down   to  high.
Acomparison to other para-alpine sking types, this type has a tendency to be mid-length.
It is longer than the Giant Slalom and the Slalom but shorter than the downhill type.
In this type, skiers go quickly between alternating red and blue gates  that are  apart,  with men needing to go between 35 gates and women needing to go between 30 gates.
With a drop of  to , this is one of the more need to be very correct when turning the para-alpine disciplines.
This skiing type gets two runs down a straighter and shorter mountain than the downhill.
It is longer and having fewer turns than the Slalom.
After the first race down the mountain, the last 20% of finishers can be taken away from the competition at the authority of the judges.
The starting order for the second run starts with the slowest of the top 15 skiers, with the fastest skier in the first race racing 15th.
Any skiers who completed outside the top 15 then race based on their times from the first run.
For example, the 18th fastest finisher in the first run skis 18th in the second run.
In some competitions,  an adjustment is made using 30 skiers instead of 15.
The IPC/FIS run together make the rules for Slalom race.
Giant Slalom is a race on the current Paralympic schedule.
Skiers use straight ski poles in Giant Slalom.
The name for this race is from a Norwegian word that is "sloping footway."
This event is the most complex ski discipline, with a drop of only   to  on an purposely iced mountain.
This is the shortest of all the para-alpine race events and uses two different races with different directions down a mountain.
Skiers go down each different race once, with their coming to an end position being marked based on their complete-time from both races.
There are gates in this race, about 55-75 for men and 40-60 for women, and if a skier does ski between the gate, they are unable to finish the race because of the rules.
After the first race, the last 20% of finishers can be taken away from the competition at the authority of the judges.
The starting order for the second run starts with the slowest of the top 15 skiers, with the fastest skier in the first run skiing 15th.
Any skiers who completed outside the top 15 then skiers race based on their times from the first run.
Skiers use straight ski poles in this race.
In some competitions that need to show people you should be allowed to race in it, a skier can show they should be allowed to race using finish race times from downhill, Slalom, or Super-G.   The IPC/FIS make the rules for Slalom.
Slalom is a race on the current Paralympic schedule.
Skiers often wear extra protective equipment when racing in slalom.
Super Combined
The Super Combined is a mix of two disciplines: Slalom and Super-G, or the downhill and the Slalom.
In the event, skiers go down the downhill mountain race once and the Slalom mountain race twice.
The three races are put together, with the fastest time for all three races being the skier who finishes first.
Snowboard has drops between  and  for both men's and women's races with the race being run over a distance of  to .
The race has alternating ski gates.
The sport is only open to standing racers.
Para-alpine skiing classification is designed to give insurance equal competition between alpine skiers with different types of limited physical and seeing powers.
The system of orders is grouped into three general conditions of being unable sorts: standing, unable to see, and sitting.
The International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing is the boss of the classification.
Skiers are put in order based on medical problems and their body position when they ski.
Skiers cannot see are valued only on a medical doctors saying how bad their vision is.
Prior to International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing being in charge, several sport groups handled classification.
They included the  International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD), International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMWSF), International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CP-ISRA).
Some order systems are persons given organizations other than International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing.
These order systems are not used in international competition.
The sport is open to all competitors with a seeing or physical condition of being unable.
It is not open to people with to do with intellectual disabilities.
The first order systems for para-alpine classification were made in Scandinavia, with early systems designed for skiers with amputations.
At the time, there was no ski tools for skiers with spinal cord wounds.
The purpose of the early order systems was to be made from able to use your body but ended up being medical order systems.
At the first Winter Paralympics in 1976, there were two systems of classification for the sport.
By the 1980s, skiers with cerebral palsy had a classification system.
At that time, with inspiration from wheelchair basketball order, efforts were made to make order more of an ability to use the body classification system.
Ten classes had existence by the 1980s.
Since then, efforts have been made to make better the classification system by lowering the number of classes so fewer medals can be awarded.
Factor system
A factoring system was made to come into existence for para-alpine skiing for three general groups: being seated, standing, and not seeing.
Each group races against only people in the same group.
A skier can finish in the top three for only seated, standing, or not seeing.
People from one group do not race against other skiers in a different group.
Inside each group, there is a wide range of ability to move and medical problems or see.
Skiers are classed inside one of the three groups.
The factoring system works by having a number for each class, where the results are worked out by increasing in number the look time by the factored number.
The coming out number is used to decide on the one who came out best in events where the cause system is used.
This means the quicker skier down a hill may not be the first event in events where the factor system is used.
This means the faster skier down a hill may not be the winner of an event.
The factor system is used at Alpine Cup, North American Races, European Cup, World Cup races, World Championships, and the Winter Paralympics.
The European badger (Meles meles) is a species of badger.
It is classed as Least Concern for extinction by the IUCN because of its wide distribution and large population.
The European badger is a social, burrowing animal.
It eats a wide variety of plants and animals.
It is very fussy over the cleanliness of its burrow, and defecates in latrines.
It is known of European badgers that they bury their dead family members.
Although they are ferocious when provoked, the European badger is generally a peaceful animal.
It has been known to share its burrows with other species such as rabbits, red foxes and raccoon dogs.
Although it does not usually prey on domestic animals, the species is sometimes reported to damage livestock through spreading bovine tuberculosis.
ARKive  Photographs and video
Badgerland - The Definitive On-Line Guide to Badgers (Meles meles) in the UK
Badgerwatcher.com - A guide to watching badgers in the UK
Wildlifeonline - Natural History of the European Badger
Lancashire Badger Group.
Science & Nature: Animals , BBC.
Badgers in the Netherlands, Badgergroup Brabant Foundation.
Badger Survey in the Netherlands 2000-2001 , The Census Foundation.
Waarneming.nl  Originally a Dutch site, but you can change language at the top of the page.
Sightings, pictures and distribution maps of European badgers in the Netherlands.
Badgers in France, L’assiociation Meles.
A video of an adult european badger.
This is a close up video showing their behaviour
Outrigger skis are skis that are used by para-skiers to help with balance, turn, control their rate of motion, stop and make greater the direction of turns.
They be different in size and level, and have different things.
Being dependent on the total number of skis used by the skier (1 or 2), outrigger ski form  is sometimes named "Three Track Skiing" or "Four Track Skiing".
When falling, skiers are taught to move their arms to put a stop to falling on the outrigger ski and damaging themselves.
Skiing equipment
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) (; ; , more commonly just  ) is the largest bank in the world by profit and market capitalization.
It is one of China's 'Big Four' state-owned commercial banks.
The other three banks are Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, and China Construction Bank.
It was founded on January 1, 1984.
At first it was a private company.
It had assets of RMB 12.55 trillion (US$1.9 trillion).
It also had over 18,000 outlets including 106 overseas branches and agents globally.
In 2013, it was ranked number 1 on Forbes Global 2000 list of world's biggest public companies.
Financial Reports
The Swami Nellaiappar Temple () is a Hindu temple in the city of Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.
It is a the main centre of attraction in the city.
The Nellaiappar Temple is in the middle of Tirunelveli.
It is surrounded by roads on all four sides.
All the roads are filled with small stores, hotels and other small businesses.
The other name for Tirunelveli is Nellai, which is derived from the god of this temple "Nellaiappar", means the Protector of Nellai.
The Nellaiappar Temple was constructed by Nindraseer Nedumaran who reigned in the 7th century A.D. There is a flower garden in the centre of the temple.
In the centre of the garden, there is a square vasantha mandapam with 100 pillars.
It is said that this whole place used to be full of bamboo trees and was destroyed, and so inside the temple they still have some bamboo trees.
Temples in India
Cooling towers are towers that are used to transfer waste heat to the atmosphere.
Cooling towers may use the evaporation of water to remove heat and cool the working fluid to near the wet-bulb air temperature.
They may also use only air to cool the working fluid to near the dry-bulb air temperature.
Cooling towers are used in oil refineries, petrochemical plants and power stations, especially nuclear power stations.
In a nuclear power plant, the cooling tower is isolated from the nuclear reactor by a heat exchanger, and the steam from the cooling tower is not radioactive.
The cooling tower is usually the tallest and most visible part of a nuclear power plant, much taller than the reactor building or turbine hall.
The Gakkel Ridge (formerly known as the Nansen Cordillera and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge) is a mid-oceanic ridge.
It is located in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Siberia.
It is a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
Geologically, it connects the northern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the Laptev Sea Rift.
The existence and approximate location of the Gakkel Ridge were predicted by Soviet polar explorer Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel.
It was confirmed on Soviet expeditions in the Arctic around 1950.
The ridge is named after him.
The name was recognized in April 1987 by SCUFN (under that body's old name, the Sub-Committee on Geographical Names and Nomenclature of Ocean Bottom Features).
Jokat, Wilfried, and Mechita C. Schmidt-Aursch.
Geophysical Characteristics of the Ultraslow Spreading Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean".
Geophysical Journal International.
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Polar Discovery: Gakkel Ridge
NOAA scientist and colleagues find hot springs in cold waters
Autotransplantation is  transplanting tissues from one part of the body to another part of the same person.
Skin grafts are a common example.
Xenotransplantation (from the Greek -  meaning "foreign"), is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.
Eddie Koiki Mabo ( 29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992) was an Indigenous Australian activist from the Torres Strait Islands.
He became well known for campaigning for indigenous land rights.
In particular, he became famous for his role in an historic decision by the High Court of Australia in 1992, which overturned the idea that Australia was terra nullius (land belonging to nobody).
Mabo was born as Eddie Koiki Sambo.
He changed his surname to Mabo when he was adopted by his mother's brother, Benny Mabo.
He was born on Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
He worked on a number of jobs before becoming a gardener with James Cook University in Townsville, when he was 31 years old.
The time he spent on the university campus had a major impact on his life.
In 1974, Mabo was surprised to learn that his family did not legally own the land they lived on.
In a conversation with Noel Loos and Henry Reynolds, he learned that legally that land belonged to the Crown.
Activism and legacy
In 1981, a conference on land rights was held at James Cook University.
Mabo made a speech to the audience where he explained the indigenous customary land inheritance system on Murray Island.
One of the people who attended the conference, a lawyer, suggested they should make a case to claim land rights through the court system.
A case was made, and took 10 years to reach a decision.
Mabo died a few months before the decision.
He died on 21 January 1992, of cancer at the age of 55.
Five months later, on 3 June 1992, the High Court overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius - which was the term applied to the attitude of the British Empire towards land ownership on the continent of Australia.
That decision is now commonly called "Mabo v Queensland" in Australia and is widely recognised for its importance.
Later in 1992, Mabo was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal for his work over many years to gain legal recognition for indigenous people's rights.
Three years after Mabo died, which is the traditional mourning period for the people of Murray Island, a memorial service was held in Townsville.
Overnight, his grave was vandalised; it was spray-painted with swastikas and the word "abo" (a derogatory slang term for an Aboriginal person).
Mabo Papers at the National Library of Australia
Biography by Gail Mabo, his daughter
Collection of art works by Edward Koiki Mabo - held and digitised by the National Library of Australia
Cecilia Carolina Bolocco Fönck (born May 19, 1965 in Santiago) is a Chilean television presenter, actress, model, fashion designer and former Miss Universe 1987 of italian and german origin.
She is the older sister of Diana Bolocco.
He has been summoned to Chile national football team to face friendly matches during the second half of 2011 by team manager Claudio Borghi.
He debuted in the national team on 11 September 2012, on a qualifying match for the 2014 FIFA World Cup against Colombia.
Junior Fernándes at Football Lineups
BDFA Profile
Peter Browne (ca.
1594  1633) was a passenger on the Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact.
In some records he was called Brown and others as Browne.<ref name="plimoth.org">A genealogical profile of Peter Browne, (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) [http://www.plimoth.org/media/pdf/brown_peter.pdf] </ref>  He was baptized on January 26, 1594/5 in Dorking, Surrey, England.
This was the same home town where William Mullins, another Mayflower passengers lived.
Browne was a son of William Brown of Dorking.
He had an older sister and four brothers.
Browne was around 25 when he boarded the Mayflower with the Mullins family.
Unfortunately the Mullins family died shortly after they landed in the New World.
The Mayflower was supposed to land in the Colony of Virginia, but the ship was too damaged and they were forced to land at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.
An interesting incident regarding Browne took place in January 1621 while the Pilgrims were building their settlement of Plymouth.
On January 12 Peter Browne, John Goodman and others had entered the forest in order to find thatch for their roofs.
Sometime around noon, Browne and Goodman wandered further into the forest while the other men stayed behind to bundle the thatch.
They realized that Browne and Goodman were still in the forest and they went to the settlement and told the others.
This caused about 10-12 men to search for them.
As it happened, Browne and Goodman were eating lunch when their dogs starting chasing a deer and they were soon lost.
According to records, they walked all that afternoon and were wet, and at night it got very cold.
They had no weapons but had one sickle each.
At night they thought they heard lions in the forest and climbed a tree for shelter.
They stayed by the tree that night in case they had to escape to safety.
The next day they finally climbed the highest hill they could find, were able to see where they were and were able to get back to the colony.
Browne and Goodman finally arrived in Plymouth quite cold, frost-bitten, tired and hungry.
This was the first time they had gone into the forest in the New England.
In the 1623 Division of Land, as a single man, Browne received one “acre” of land near a brook.
In that record, his name appears as “Peter Browen".
Sometime after the Division of Land, he married the widow Martha Ford.
She arrived in November 1621 on the ship Fortune as the only recorded woman on board.
George Ernest Bowman (1920).
The Mayflower Compact and its signers'',  (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920).
Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document
Ross Turnbull (born 4 January 1985) is an English footballer.
He plays for Chelsea as a goalkeeper.
Ross attended Byerley Park Primary School and Woodham Community Technology College.
He grew up supporting Newcastle United.
Football Champ is an arcade-style football video game.
The game was developed by Taito in Japan.
It was first released in arcades in 1990.
The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica)  is a water bird.
It is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae.
It breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World.
The bar-tailed godwit migrates in flocks to coasts in East Asia, Alaska, Australia, Africa, northwestern Europe and New Zealand, where the sub-species Limosa lapponica baueri is called Kūaka in Māori.
In 2007 birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked by satellite to the Yellow Sea in China.
According to Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) "The distance between these two places is , but the actual track flown by the bird was ".
The flight took about nine days.
This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird.
At least three other bar-tailed godwits reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand.
One female in the flock, nicknamed "E7", flew onward from China to Alaska and stayed there for the breeding season.
Then on 29 August 2007 she departed on a non-stop flight from the Avinof Peninsula in western Alaska to the Piako River near Thames New Zealand, setting a new known flight record of .
Scolopacidae