Hans Balatka

Hans Balatka (March 5, 1827 – April 17, 1899) was an American conductor and composer. His efforts contributed much to the great increase in popularity of European classical music in the United States during the late 19th century.
Life.
Balatka was born in Hoffnungsthal (near Olmütz, today Doly, part of the village Bouzov), Moravia. His parents were noted musicians. He studied law at Olmütz, and after finishing the course was engaged as tutor by a wealthy family in Vienna. There he also perfected his knowledge of harmony and composition under Simon Sechter und Heinrich Proch.
He began his musical career as conductor for singing societies. He became a member of the Academic Legion during the Revolutions of 1848. After the Vienna Uprising was crushed, he decided to emigrate to the United States. In 1849 he reached Wisconsin and, following a romantic impulse, tried rural life for a spell, but soon settled in Milwaukee, where he conducted the Musical Society (), founded in 1850, beginning in 1851. He produced several oratorios and operas, and conducted musical festivals in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.
In 1860 he left the Musikverein to become leader of the newly founded Philharmonic Society of Chicago. In 1867 he became director of the Germania Männerchor, and in the same year conducted the group at Nord-Amerikanischer Sängerbund held in Indianapolis, where they performed the works of Franz Abt. In 1868 he directed a musical festival at Chicago, which was pronounced the greatest that had been held in this country up to that time.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed his home, and he went on a concert tour for two years. He organized the Liederkranz Society in 1873, and later the Mozart Club and the Chicago Musical Society. He was also director to the Arion des Westen Musical Society and in 1879 he founded the Balatka Academy of Musical Art, in which his son Christian and his daughter Annie were teachers. He conducted a great Saengerfest in Chicago, with a chorus of 2,200, a mixed chorus of 1,200, and an orchestra of 150. He died in Chicago at the age of 72.
Works.
Balatka's compositions are few in number. Besides his addition of a climax to Chopin's "Funeral March," in place of its abrupt ending, he composed a grand aria for soprano with accompaniment, a piano quartet, a sonata, and several songs. He was the author of "A Condensed History of Music" (1888), "A History of Orchestra Music in Chicago", and contributed musical articles regularly to the Chicago "Daheim".


Avezzano railway station

Avezzano is a railway station in Avezzano, Italy. The station opened in 1888 and is located on the Rome–Sulmona–Pescara railway and Avezzano-Roccasecca railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
Exposed as a monument at the station is the locomotive called Monte Velino (number 8), one of the ten used by Alessandro Torlonia to transport beet from Fucino to the sugarbeet factory. The engine was placed on a track specially made in front of Villa Torlonia on the occasion of the celebrations related to the centenary of the 1915 earthquake. This locomotive is considered one of the symbols of post-earthquake Avezzano.
History.
The original buildings, inside and outside the station, were destroyed by the 1915 earthquake. The new building was restored after World War II.
Train services.
The station is served by the following service(s):
References.
"This article is based upon a translation of the as at January 2015."


Ponte de Coronados

Ponte de Coronados is a bridge in Portugal. It is located in Aveiro District.


Lviv Metro

The Lvív Metro () is a rapid transit system that was planned in the city of Lviv in western Ukraine during the 1980s. During the early 2000s, the project was changed to utilize light-rail transport instead.


Japanese patrol vessel Akitsushima

"Akitsushima" (PLH-32) is a "Akitsushima"-class patrol vessel currently operated by the Japanese Coast Guard.
Design.
"Akitsushima"-class patrol vessels have surface-search and navigation radars and a single-mounted Oerlikon 35 mm or 40 mm autocanon. And as a secondary weapon, two JM61 20 mm gun systems were set up. This system adopts the same rotary cannon as the conventional JM61-M, but it is remotely controlled with an optical director as opposed to JM61-M being manually trained and elevated. It derived from one of the PG-821-class guided-missile patrol boats of the JMSDF, and later, added as a standard equipment of the JCG as the JM61-RFS.
Aviation facilities have also been enhanced. Two Eurocopter AS332 or EC225LP Super Puma helicopters were deployed as the shipboard helicopters, whereas the conventional PLHs are equipped with smaller Bell 212.
Construction and career.
"Akitsushima" was laid down on 10 May 2011 and launched on 4 July 2012 by IHI, Tokyo. She was commissioned on 28 November 2013.
In 2015, during the Emperor's and to Palau, "Akitsushima" was used as an accommodation ship. Slopes and handrails were set up so that both elderly Majesties could get on board comfortably.


Jalan Bakun

Jalan Bakun or Jalan Bintulu-Bakun, Federal Route 803, is a federal road in Bintulu and Kapit Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is a main route to Bakun Hydroelectric Dam.
At most sections, the Federal Route 803 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.
Pan Borneo Highway project.
As a part of the Pan Borneo Highway project (WPC 10; Bintulu Airport Junction to Sg. Tangap), Jalan Bakun will have new four lane two way carriageway and an interchange at its junction. It was taken by Lebuhraya Borneo Utara (LBU) Sdn Bhd as turnkey contractor and the main contractor of the project is Pekerjaan Piasau Konkerit Sdn Bhd (PPK).


Seletar Expressway

The Seletar Expressway (Abbreviation: SLE) is a highway in Singapore that traverses the northern end of the island and joins the Central Expressway (CTE) and Tampines Expressway (TPE) in Seletar to the Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) in Kranji.
History.
The first stage of the expressway started as a continuous road from the Central Expressway and ended at Upper Thomson Road. On 13 April 1989, the Seletar Expressway was opened from Lentor Avenue to Upper Thomson Road. Later on, this stretch was opened on 24 March 1990 to connect SLE and CTE. Later, it was extended from Upper Thomson Road to the BKE. It replaced various roads - Lorong Handalan, Lorong Lentor, Lorong Selangin and Lorong Hablor.
The SLE is a six-lane dual carriageway. The Upper Thomson Road - BKE extension was opened in two parts: from BKE to Woodlands Avenue 2 on 5 November 1995, and from Woodlands Avenue 2 to Upper Thomson Road on 22 February 1998. Construction of the second phase began in 1992. The interchange of SLE and BKE was completed in 1994. The third stage of construction, completing in July 1996 from Woodlands Avenue 2 to Lorong Gambas. The final phase involved the construction from Lorong Gambas to Upper Thomson Road. The last sector of this expressway which opened was the last completed expressway project in Singapore until the opening of a section of the Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway on 28 October 2007.
It had the largest clearing of the roads in the history - Lorong Gambas, Jalan Ulu Sembawang, and some dirt tracks.


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Jalan Kinabalu Flyover

Jalan Kinabalu Flyover or Kinabalu Flyover is a flyover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was the first flyover built in the country after independence on 1957. Construction began in 1963 and was completed in 1965. The flyover was opened to traffic on August 1965 and is part of the Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road system.


Pele (volcano)

Pele is an active volcano on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. It is located on Io's trailing hemisphere at A large, tall volcanic plume has been observed at Pele by various spacecraft starting with "Voyager 1" in 1979, though it has not been persistent. The discovery of the Pele plume on March 8, 1979 confirmed the existence of active volcanism on Io. The plume is associated with a lava lake at the northern end of the mountain Danube Planum. Pele is also notable for a persistent, large red ring circling the volcano resulting from sulfurous fallout from the volcanic plume.
Observations.
"Voyager".
As "Voyager 1" approached the Jupiter system in March 1979, it acquired numerous images of the planet and its four largest satellites, including Io. One of the most distinctive features of these distant images of Io was a large, elliptical, footprint-shaped ring on the satellite's trailing hemisphere (the side facing away from the direction of motion in a synchronously-rotating satellite like Io). During the encounter itself on March 5, 1979, "Voyager 1" acquired high-resolution images of the footprint-shaped region. At the center of bow tie-shaped dark region in the middle of the ring was a depression partially filled with dark material, by in size. This depression, later found to be the source of the Pele volcano, is at the northern base of a rifted mountain later named Danube Planum. With the other dramatic evidence for volcanic activity on the surface of Io from this encounter, researchers hypothesized that Pele was likely a caldera.
On March 8, 1979, three days after passing Jupiter, "Voyager 1" took images of Jupiter's moons to help mission controllers determine the spacecraft's exact location, a process called optical navigation. While processing images of Io to enhance the visibility of background stars, navigation engineer Linda Morabito found a tall cloud along the moon's limb. At first, she suspected the cloud to be a moon behind Io, but no suitably sized body would have been in that location. The feature was determined to be a volcanic plume tall and wide, generated by active volcanism at Pele. Based on the size of the plume observed at Pele, the ring of reddish (or dark as it appeared to Voyager's cameras, which were insensitive to red-wavelengths) material was determined to be a deposit of plume material. Following this discovery, seven other plumes were located in earlier "Voyager" images of Io. Thermal emission from Pele detected by the "Voyager 1" Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer (IRIS) detected a thermal hotspot at Pele, indicative of cooling lava, further indicating that volcanic activity at the surface was linked to the plumes observed by "Voyager 1".
When "Voyager 2" flew through the Jupiter system in July 1979, its imaging campaign was modified to observe Io's plumes in action and to look for surface changes. Pele's plume, designated Plume 1 at the time as it was the first of Io's volcanic plumes to be discovered, was not seen by "Voyager 2" four months later. Surface monitoring observations revealed changes with the red ring surrounding Pele. While it was heart- or hoofprint-shaped during the "Voyager 1" encounter, it was now more elliptical with the notch in the southern part of the plume deposit now filled in, possibly due to changes in the distribution of plume sources within the Pele patera.
Following the Voyager encounters, the International Astronomical Union officially named the volcano after the Hawaiian volcano goddess, Pele, in 1979.
"Galileo" and beyond.
"Galileo" arrived at the Jupiter system in 1995 and, from 1996 to 2001, regularly monitored volcanic activity on Io through observations of Io's thermal emission at near-infrared wavelengths, imaging Io while it was in the Jupiter's shadow in order to look for thermal hotspots at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, and imaging Io during most orbit in order to detect changes in the appearance of diffuse material and lava flows on the surface. Thermal emission from Pele was detected in nearly every occasion Io's trailing hemisphere was imaged while the moon was in the shadow of Jupiter. The volcanic plume at Pele was found to be intermittent or primarily composed of gas with occasional bursts of increased dust content. It was detected only twice by "Galileo" in December 1996 and December 2000. In these two detections, the plume height varied from to . The plume was also detected by the Hubble Space Telescope in October 1999 while "Galileo" was conducting a flyby of the moon. The Hubble observations allowed for the detection of diatomic sulfur (S2) for the first time on Io in Pele's plume. Subtle changes in the shape and intensity of the large red-ring plume deposit surrounding Pele were observed in daylight images of the volcano, with the most notable change seen in September 1997 when dark pyroclastic material from an eruption of Pillan Patera covered up a portion of Pele's plume deposit.
During "Galileo's" encounters with Io between October 1999 and October 2001, the spacecraft observed Pele on three occasions using its camera and infrared spectrometers while the volcano was on Io's night-side. The cameras revealed a curved line of bright spots along the margin of the Pele patera (a term used for volcanic depressions on Io, akin to calderas). Within the east-west dark band along the southeastern portion of the patera, a large amount of thermal emission was observed, with temperatures and distribution consistent with a large, basaltic lava lake.
Thermal emission at Pele was also seen in December 2000 by the "Cassini" spacecraft, in December 2001 from the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, and by the "New Horizons" spacecraft in February 2007.
Physical characteristics.
Lava lake.
Pele has a volcanic crater, also known a patera, by in size, which lies at the base of the northern tip of the mountain Danube Planum. The patera has multiple floor levels, with a higher north-eastern section and a lower section that consists of an east-west-trending graben. Volcanic activity at Pele, as seen in images taken by "Galileo" in October 2001 while Pele was on Io's night side, appears to be limited to small thermal "hot-spots" along the margins of the patera and a more intense thermal emission source within a dark area in the southeast portion of the patera floor. This distribution of activity, combined with Pele's stability as a hotspot in terms of temperature and power emitted, suggests that Pele is a large, active lava lake, a combination of eruption style and intensity of activity not seen elsewhere on Io. The small hotspots seen in the Galileo data represent areas where the crust of the lava lake breaks up along the margins of the patera, allowing fresh lava to become exposed at the surface. The southeastern portion of the patera, an area of dark terrain in "Voyager 1" imagery, is the most active region of the Pele volcano, with the most extensive region of hot lava at Pele. This area is thought to be a vigorously overturning lava lake, suggestive of a combination of a large mass flux of lava to the lake from a magma reservoir below the surface and a large mass fraction of dissolved volatiles like sulfur dioxide and diatomic sulfur. Given Pele's brightness at near-infrared wavelengths, activity at this portion of the lava lake may also result in lava fountaining.
Lava temperatures measured using the near-infrared emission spectrum of thermal hotspots observed at Pele are consistent with silicate basaltic lava erupting at the lava lake. The measurements from "Galileo" and "Cassini" images of Pele suggest peak temperatures of at least 1250–1350 °C, while the near-infrared spectrometer on "Galileo" found peak temperatures of 1250–1280 °C. While Pele's energy output and temperature remained consistent on the timescale of months to years throughout much of the "Galileo" missions, measurements of Pele's brightness using "Cassini" data taken during an eclipse of Io by Jupiter found considerable variations on the timescale of minutes. This is consistent with variations in the distribution and size of lava fountains at Pele over that timeframe.
Plume.
Pele's plume is the archetypal Pele-type plume: tall, producing a large reddish deposit that is concentric around the source vent. The plume is created from the degassing of sulfur (S2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) from erupting lava in the Pele lava lake. The persistence of degassed sulfurous compounds to Pele's plume is likely from a stable and consistent magma supply to its lava lake, which could be the largest magma chamber of Io's volcanoes. Images of the plume taken by "Voyager 1" revealed a large structure without a central column like the smaller, Prometheus-type plumes, but instead having a filamentary structure. This morphology is consistent with a plume that is formed by sulfurous gases erupted skyward from the Pele lava lake, which then condense into solid S2 and SO2 when they reach the shock canopy along the outer edge of the umbrella-shaped plume. These condensed materials then are deposited onto the surface, forming a large, red, oval-shaped ring around the Pele volcano. The oval shape of the deposits, elongated in roughly the north-south direction, may be the result of an east-west, linear source region, consistent with the shape and orientation of the graben that forms the southern and more active portion of the Pele patera. Variable activity in different portions of the Pele lava lake may also result in the changes in brightness and shape of the plume deposit over time observed by various spacecraft.


Cappella-Agnuzzo railway station

Cappella-Agnuzzo railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Collina d'Oro in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The station is on the metre gauge Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway (FLP), between Lugano and Ponte Tresa.
The station is served by FLP trains on line S60 of the Ticino rapid transit network, which operate every 15 minutes between Lugano and Ponte Tresa, with trains every 30 minutes at weekends and evenings.
The station has a passing loop, with side platforms.


Nabisar Road railway station

Nabisar Road railway station
() is located in Pakistan.


Panzdah-e-Khordad Metro Station

Panzdah-e Khordad Metro Station (15th Khordad metro station) is a station in Tehran Metro Line 1. It is located in Panzdah-e Khordad Square, junction of Khayam Street and Panzdah-e-Khordad Street. It is between Khayam Metro Station and Imam Khomeini Metro Station. The square and the metro station below are named after the 1963 demonstrations in Iran, which in the Iranian calendar took place on 15th Khordad, 1342.


Vaasa Airport

Vaasa Airport (, ) is located in Vaasa, Finland, about south-east of Vaasa city centre. It is the 6th biggest airport in Finland in terms of passengers. In 2018, 315,900 passengers traveled via the airport.
History.
The airport was opened in 1938 when Aero began passenger traffic, which was later interrupted by the war. In 1945 the airport building was completed and passenger routes were reopened.
The airport took it current shape in the 1950s, when the runway was extended to 1,800 metres and the airport building was expanded. In 1951 Vaasa Airport got its first international connection as Veljekset Karhumäki opened a route to Sundsvall in Sweden. In 1971 the runway was extended to 2,000 metres and Finnair began jet traffic with DC-9 aircraft.
In 1993 the third and most significant expansion at the airport was completed, with the airport getting separate facilities for domestic and international traffic and with a significant improvement of the airport's services. In 1998 Vaasa Airport took a step towards more international aviation, as the runway was extended to 2,500 metres in October. In 2014 the terminal's renovation was completed: a new baggage claim hall, security control rearrangement, another café and a new store.
In 2005, 2008, and once again in 2017 Vaasa Airport was chosen as the Airport of the Year in Finland.
Regular airlines at Vaasa airport are Finnair and Scandinavian Airlines. The airport is also served by several charters with destinations to Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Thailand.


Najkot railway station

Najkot railway station
() is located in Pakistan.


SP-222

 SP-222 is a state highway in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.


Desertone Halt railway station

Desertone Halt railway station served Disertowen and Magheramason, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
It was opened by the Donegal Railway Company on 1 May 1908.
It closed on 1 January 1955.


Taipei Pass

The Taipei Pass (), or the Taipei Tourism Passport, is a travel pass issued by the Traffic Bureau commissioned EasyCard Corporation in Taipei. First issued in November 2006, it is available for periods of 1, 2, 3, or 5 days. Once a pass is purchased, the holder can have unlimited rides on the Taipei Rapid Transit System (MRT) and Taipei bus system within the specified time period since first use. The pass can be extended if an applicant's previous purchase is on record.
Prices of Taipei Pass NT$180 for one day, NT$310 for 2 days, NT$440 for 3 days, NT$700 for five days, and NT$250 for one day plus unlimited Maokong Gondola rides. (All in New Taiwan Dollar)
The Taipei Pass can be bought at the information desk in MRT stations and at the Easycard Taipei Main Station customer service center.


Zhivopisny Bridge

Zhivopisny Bridge (, lit. Picturesque bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans Moskva River in north-western Moscow, Russia. It is the first cable-stayed bridge in Moscow. Opened on 27 December 2007 as a part of Krasnopresnensky avenue. It is also the highest cable-stayed bridge in Europe.
 The author of the project is the architect Nikolay Shumakov.
Design and specifications.
The bridge is unique in that most of its length runs along the river, not across it (see the site plan). Thus the bridge and highway it carries will bypass the protected territory of Serebryany Bor island.
Total length of an S-shaped deck exceeds 1.5 kilometers, including a 409.5-meter long, 47-meter wide main section running 30 meters above and "along" the centerline of river Moskva. The main pylon is a 105-meter high arch "across" the river, carrying the weight of deck through 78 cables
Under the top of the arch, there is a disk-like structure that was intended to house a restaurant. The restaurant project is now abandoned due to fire safety concerns and lack of investment.


Jalan Bukit Goh

Jalan Bukit Goh, Federal Route 1486, is a federal road in Pahang, Malaysia.
At most sections, the Federal Route 1486 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.


Freienbach SBB railway station

Freienbach SBB railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and municipality of Freienbach. The station is located on the Lake Zurich left-bank railway line, owned by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). It is an intermediate stop on Zurich S-Bahn service S8, between Zurich and Pfaffikon SZ.
Freienbach SBB station should not be confused with the nearby Freienbach SOB railway station, which is on the Pfäffikon SZ–Arth-Goldau line. The two stations are approximately apart on foot.


Eindhoven Strijp-S railway station

Eindhoven Strijp-S is a railway station located in northwestern Eindhoven, Netherlands at the Strijp-S creative and residential district built on the former Philips factory complex. The station was opened on 23 September 1971 and is located on the Breda–Eindhoven railway. The station is operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
The station was known as "Eindhoven Beukenlaan" until 13 December 2015 when it was renamed Eindhoven Strijp-S. This is to reflect the redevelopment of the area around the station into a business park, called Strijp-S.
Before 2018 the station will have lifts installed to make the platforms accessible for persons of reduced mobility, buggies etc.
Train services.
The station is served by the following service(s):


Castellaneta Marina railway station

Castellaneta Marina is a railway station in Castellaneta Marina, Italy. The station is located on the Taranto–Reggio di Calabria railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
Train services.
The station is served by the following service(s):


Basarab railway station

Basarab railway station () in Bucharest is situated near the city's main station, Gara de Nord. Built in 1959 to handle a share of the main station's traffic and mainly used by short-distance commuter trains run by Căile Ferate Române, it is often considered to be an annex of Gara de Nord, to which it is linked by a footbridge.
Basarab railway station is served directly by the Bucharest Metro system, via Basarab metro station. The underground passageway to the Metro station can also be used to cross the train tracks of Gara de Nord, since it has exits on both sides of the tracks.
RATB lines:


Formula AE

The Formula AE is a solar and wind powered car. The initial startup is by solar power. As the car travels at faster speeds, strategically placed air intakes are designed to direct air flow to power the wind turbines. The a body is made of lightweight aluminum and super strong steel, and the motor has a power output of 212 kilowatts. With the Formula AE, to achieve an acceleration of 0 to 60 mph will take less than four seconds. A full battery would enable the driver to travel more than 200 miles or to race around a track for an hour.


Irakleio station

The Iraklio ( - "Stathmos Irakleiou") is an Athens metro station in Irakleio, Attica, Athens, Greece. It is marked at the 19.246 km from the starting point in Piraeus station of Line 1.
Initially, the station served the Athens–Lavrion Railway and Lavrion Square-Strofyli railway, ran by the Attica Railways. From 1929 the Lavrion branch was operated by Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways. The station was closed in 1938 for Kifissia traffic but remained open for Lavrion trains until 1957/1962. At the same location, the present station of EIS was opened on March 4, 1957, using the same name. It was the northernmost terminus of EIS until Kifissia station was reopened on August 10, 1958. The station has two passenger platforms and a reversing siding.


Provincial Highway 6 (Taiwan)

Provincial Highway 6 () is a highway connecting Houlong, Miaoli and Dahu, Miaoli. The entire highway is within Miaoli County. The highway is now primarily used for local access after the completion of (Provincial Highway 72), an expressway running parallel to the highway.
Route description.
The route is a major highway in Miaoli County, as it connects the coastal townships in Miaoli with the mountainous ones. It is also known as Old Houwen Highway (舊後汶公路) since the terminus of the highway is Houlong and Wenshui (汶水), a village in Shitan.
The highway begins at Xibin Expressway (西濱快速道路), also known as PH 61, in the coastal township of Houlong. The highway closely follows Houlong River, passing through junctions with PH 1, Freeway 3, PH 13 as it reaches Miaoli City. The highway continues to head south towards Gongguan, where it meets Freeway 1. Highway 4 reaches its terminus at an intersection with PH 3 at the border of Shitan and Dahu townships.
External links.
http://www.thb.gov.tw/ (National Highway Bureau, in Traditional Chinese)


Crolly railway station

Crolly railway station served the hamlet of Crolly in County Donegal, Ireland.
The station opened on 9 March 1903 when the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway opened their Letterkenny and Burtonport Extension Railway, from Letterkenny to Burtonport. It closed on 3 June 1940 when the LLSR closed the line from Tooban Junction to Burtonport in an effort to save money.


Eva Busch

Eva Busch (born Eva Zimmermann: 22 May 1909 - 20 July 2001) was a German born singer and cabaret artist.
Life.
Family provenance and early years.
Eva Senta Elisabeth Zimmermann was born in Berlin: she shared her birthday with Richard Wagner. She was the illegitimate daughter of the opera singer Emmy Zimmermann whose admirers had included Claude Debussy. A year before the publication of her autobiography in 1991 she disclosed the identity of her father in an interview. was a Swiss orchestral conductor and, perhaps even more significantly, a son in law to Richard Wagner whose musical reputation was by the time of Eva's birth sky high. He was another of Emmy Zimmermann's admirers. In 1908, while his wife, Isolde was suffering from a bout of tuberculosis, Franz Beidler and Emmy Zimmermann fell in love. Eva's birth was the result. Later Eva's mother, Emmy Zimmermann married: as a result Eva's name changed and she was known until her own marriage as Eva Klein.
Musical training.
Eva Klein received her first piano lesson when she was 4 and her first violin lesson when she was 7. Dancing lessons began when she was 5. Musical training sometimes came at the expense of other conventional aspects of her schooling, and when her evening engagements began to interfere with her school work she gave up on her . She nevertheless received a rigorous conventional musical training, attending the Berlin Music Conservatory where she received lessons in piano and violin playing. Her first singing teacher was her mother. She also took lessons at the Reinhardt academy. Her first professional engagements were as a singer and actress at Berlin's recently opened Volksbühne (theatre). She frequently appeared both at the Volksbühne and in cabaret productions with Ernst Busch, a stage performer like herself and, additionally, a committed communist. The two of them married in 1932. One benefit of the marriage for Eva was that it gave her a nationality: because of her illegitimacy she had, up till this point, been legally "stateless". There is little sign that Eva Busch ever shared her husband's communist beliefs, but she was, like him, openly opposed to the Nazi party which was gaining public support in response to populist-nationalist currents of the time and the economically challenging backwash from the Great depression. Ernst and Eva Busch enjoyed success in their stage performances with songs by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Mehring and Kurt Tucholsky (and others).
Exile from Nazi Germany.
The Nazis took power in January 1933 and lost no time in transforming Germany into a one-party dictatorship. Ernst Busch, who had a reputation from his cabaret appearances as a singer of political songs, received a tip-off that he was about to be arrested and on 9 March 1933, anticipating and avoiding the arresting officers by a few hours, he escaped to the Netherlands. He was accompanied or quickly followed by Eva. In the Netherlands she was engaged to perform as a singer on the national broadcasting network and began to put together her own programmes. Together with Ernst she also used her radio slots to criticise the Nazi government in Germany. According to one source this was the reason that Ernst and Eva were both deprived of their German citizenship "in absentia" in 1937. She also made a point of singing songs from The Threepenny Opera and other songs with words by German lyricists whose work had been banned from Germany's own broadcast media for reasons of race and/or politics.
For Eva Busch statelessness was not an unfamiliar condition, but this time she was fairly quickly able to obtain identity documents from the Dutch authorities which enabled her to travel internationally. That was important for her work. In 1936 she travelled to the United States of America where she performed for various radio stations, but she missed Europe and returned to the Netherlands. Her travels also took her to Belgium and Switzerland. It was in Zürich that she was for a time a member of Erika Mann's exiled cabaret troupe, . Increasingly, however, it was to France that she was drawn. Meanwhile, Ernst Busch was drawn by his own professional and political connections to the Soviet Union where he worked with Gustav von Wangenheim on the 1935 film "Kämpfer" ("Fighters"). Shortly after that he became a fighter himself, moving to Spain where sources relate that he serves in the Civil War with the anti-fascist International Brigades as a singer. In or before 1938 Eva and Ernst Busch were divorced. Eva explained, "the divorce did not reflect any shortage of love, but our marriage was simply impossible" ("Die Scheidung war kein Mangel an Liebe, sondern unsere Ehe war einfach unmöglich.")
By around 1937 Eva Busch was living and working as a singer and cabaret artist in Paris. She featured on the cabaret stage with Suzy Solidor. She met Picasso, Cocteau and Giraudoux. She appeared for the first time in the cabaret of in January 1939. She also featured as a singer on the radio stations and began to make recordings. In May/June 1940 the German invasion of northern France took her by surprise. During the first part of the decade Paris had been a welcoming refuge for political refugees from Nazi Germany, but as international tensions increased French immigration policy had become less welcoming. By 1940 all the German born residents were obliged to register their address with their local town hall, and report to the local authorities once per week. That meant that once the Germans invaded and the government worked out what to do, the authorities had up to date information on the whereabouts of the many German exiles in Paris. Like all the registered German born citizens of Paris she was identified as an enemy alien and invited to report to the Winter Velodrome. Here they were detained, held for a few days in Paris, and then transported to the Gurs internment camp in the far southwest of the country where Busch remained between May and July 1940.
The Gurs internment camp had been created a couple of years earlier to accommodate fighters returning from the Spanish Civil War. By around 1942 it was conventionally secure, but during 1940 "security" was for most purposes dependent on the fact that it was a long way up a small mountain valley and a very long way off the beaten track. Sources record that she escaped from Gurs, which she probably did by walking out through the front gate and not returning from the village in the evening. Making her way back across France, as she did, would have been a greater challenge. On returning to Paris she was able to work incognito, singing for the radio stations set up in France to entertain the German troops controlling northern France.
Recapture and repatriation.
In 1942 the Gestapo caught up with her in Paris where she was condemned for having imperiled "the security of the people and the state" and for "damaging the reputation of Germans in the eyes of foreigners." The condemnation was accompanied by an eight-year prison sentence. She was taken from Paris to Berlin where she was held in the Alexanderplatz prison. After seven months her sentence was converted into indefinite detention in a concentration camp. She was transferred to the women's concentration camp at in the marshy countryside to the north of Berlin. She was accommodated with other "political prisoners". Most had been imprisoned because they were Jewish or Communists (or both). Eva Busch was neither of these, but she had emigrated to get away from Nazi Germany which was enough for the authorities. Conditions were grim. Work was undertaken in "labour columns": it included loading barges, carrying rocks and creating timber structures. When she was caught helping French inmates she was placed in a dark windowless cell for seven weeks. In the words of one source, hatred for the Nazis gave her the strength to survive: she was determined to live long enough to see their downfall.
After the war was over she told an interviewer that even while she was kept in the concentration camp, she was much loved by German audiences: "Because of Goebels' stupidity I was known here [in Germany]. Although my records were banned, he sent them to all the [soldiers at the] front".
Eva's mother, Emmy Zimmermann, bombarded the authorities with appeals for Eva to be released. During 1944 the mother fell seriously ill which evidently increased her determination, or at least the effectiveness of her campaign on behalf of her daughter. It was not generally known at this time that Eva Busch had been conceived as a result of her mother sharing Eva Busch's father with the father's wife, , who also happened to be Richard Wagner's daughter. But Emmy Zimmermann's career as a top Wagner soprano during the earlier decades of the twentieth century and her continuing "connections" to the powerful Wagner dynasty were no secret. It was also no secret that top Nazis, including Hitler himself, were enthusiastic backers of the Wagner cult. Sources differ over whether it was her mother's efforts on her behalf that shifted government opinion, or whether she benefitted from a growing awareness that one of the singers whose records were most popular with the troops fighting the war was being held in a concentration camp. Either way, whereas most Ravensbrück survivors emerged only as the war ended, Eva Busch, camp inmate number 7964, was released some months earlier. She made her way back to Berlin, arriving in time to experience, from inside the city limits, the city's destruction . Escaping the city quickly became impossible and was in any case officially forbidden. At the "Haus Vaterland" pleasure palace in the Potsdammer Platz she sang to entertain war-wounded soldiers with songs she had earlier sung in Paris such as Manfred Krug's "Du hast Glück bei den Frau'n, Belami" ("You're lucky with the women, handsome friend"). Weeks later she was singing for Russian troops and then for the Americans.
During the final ten days of April 1945 the Soviet army entered Berlin. Ernst Busch was released from the Brandenburg penitentiary on 27 April 1945 into a city where suddenly the artillery bombardments had fallen silent. He had spent most of the war years in state detention after being arrest in Antwerp on or shortly after 10 May 1940 as the German army invaded Belgium. Eva Busch and her former husband were briefly reunited in the sea of rubble that had been Berlin. Together they made an appearance on the RIAS (radio service) that the Americans had set up. Before she left the city Eva Busch made a couple more radio broadcasts which she used to report on aspects of her concentration camp experiences.
"Home" to Paris.
In November 1945, again legally stateless, Eva Busch managed to get a seat on a plane returning to the only city where she really felt at home. In Paris, initially she was able to sing only to American troops, but once her identity papers had been sorted out she was able to sing to the French public and on radio broadcasts. On 6 January 1946, through a friend, she met the "Paris-Soir" journalist and resistance hero George Sinclair. As Eva Busch later (and repeatedly) stated, it was "love at first sight". The two of them would stay together till Sinclair's death on 19 May 1984. Sinclair wrote poems which Busch included in her musical repertoire, as she pursued a career as a German dark timbered singer concentrating on the chanson genre. It was only in 1982, when Sinclair fell ill, that she abandoned her stage career in order to care for him. Up till then she also had an international career as a chansonnière, travelling several times to the United States of America where she made two recordings with Bing Crosby. Closer to home she toured in the Netherlands and France and also made brief trips across the Rhine, appearing in the radio and television studios back in West Germany where she was perceived as exotic, francophile and "very literary", and thereby outside the mainstream of contemporary German singers in the chanson genre.
In 1984, following Sinclair's death, she moved back to Germany, making her home in Munich. She continued to make media appearances in both France and Germany. Eva Busch died in Munich on 20 July 2001.


Japan Marine United

 (informally JMU) is a Japanese ship building marine engineering and service company headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.
It's Japan’s second largest shipbuilder after Imabari Shipbuilding, with shipyard facilities in Kure, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Nagasu, Kumamoto, Maizuru, Kyoto and Mie prefectures.
JMU's products include the design, manufacture, purchase and sale of both merchant and naval ships, offshore engineering and ship life cycle services.
History.
Osaka Iron Works (Hitachi Zosen) established in 1881. Nippon Kokan (NKK) established by Asano zaibatsu in 1912. Both united and became Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in 2002.
Ishikawajima Shipyard established in 1853. Uraga Dock (Sumitomo Heavy Industries) established in 1893. Both united and became IHI Marine United in 2002, part of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., later renamed IHI Corporation
Universal Shipbuilding Corporation and IHI Marine United Inc. united and became Japan Marine United in 2013.
On January 1, 2021, JMU (with 49% of shares) merged into a new joint venture with Imabari Shipbuilding (with 51% of shares) named Nihon Shipyard covering all ship types except LNG tankers. In parallel, Imabari Shipbuilding bought 30% of JMU's shares. The cooperation between these two Japanese companies make it one of the largest marine engineering and shipbuilding company in the world.


Blue Origin facilities

The private aerospace company Blue Origin has a number of development, manufacturing, and test facilities in four US states: Washington, Texas, Florida, and Alabama.
Blue Origin began in 2000 with only a development and office facility near Seattle, Washington. By 2003 Blue was buying land in west Texas for a rocket engine test facility and, subsequently, for a suborbital rocket launch site.
Blue Origin is currently developing a new orbital launch facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and a nearby rocket assembly facility in Brevard County, Florida.
Development facility and headquarters.
The company is headquartered on of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located. The facility was in size in early 2015, growing to by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings. , the Kent facility housed engineering, manufacturing and business operations and the majority of the 600-person Blue Origin workforce, which grew from about 350 persons at Kent in May 2015. They added an additional of office, manufacturing and warehouse space to their headquarters facilities in 2016 and 2017.
In late 2017, Blue purchased an additional —adding to their existing —of land on which they plan to build another of facility in Washington state.
Florida facilities.
In September 2015, Blue Origin leased Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) in Cape Canaveral, Florida to build a launch pad for their orbital launch vehicle New Glenn. , the first Blue Origin launch from LC36 is planned for 2020. An August 2015 estimate predicted that initial launch happening earlier than 2020. Groundbreaking for the facility to begin construction occurred in June 2016. By March 2018, Blue's construction at LC-36 was lagging, but the company stated they did not think it would delay achieving the anticipated 2020 initial launch of "New Glenn".
The Blue Origin orbital launch site will be situated on a total of 306 acres of leased land assembled from former Launch Complexes 11, 36A, and 36B. The land parcel will be used to build a rocket engine test stand for the BE-4 engine, a launch mount—called the Orbital Launch Site by Blue—and a reusable booster refurbishment facility for the New Glenn launch vehicle, which is expected to land on a seaborne platform and returned to Port Canaveral for refurbishment.
In addition, the manufacturing of "large elements, such as first stages, second stages, payload fairings, etc." will occur at the Blue launch vehicle factory on Space Commerce Parkway in nearby Exploration Park, near the entrance to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island.
In October 2018, "Stena Freighter," 182 meter cargo-ship purchased from ferry operator Stena Line, arrived in Florida from Spain. CEO Bob Smith, confirmed "Stena Freighter" would be used as the landing platform vessel for first-stage boosters. The landing ship will be hydrodynamically stabilized.
Launch Site One suborbital launch and engine test site.
Blue Origin has a suborbital launch facility known as Launch Site One. It is located in the West Texas region, near the town of Van Horn. Current launch license and experimental permits from the US government Federal Aviation Administration authorize flights of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital system, In addition to the suborbital launch pads, the West Texas site includes a number of rocket engine test stands. Engine test cells to support both hydrolox, methalox and storable propellant engines are present.
Included are three test cells just for testing the methalox BE-4 engine alone: two full test cells that can support full-thrust and full-duration burns, as well as one that supports short-duration, high-pressure preburner tests, to "refine the ignition sequence and understand the start transients."
Alabama engine manufacturing facility.
In June 2016, Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson announced that they would build a new facility in Huntsville, Alabama to manufacture the large BE-4 cryogenic rocket engine.


Calolziocorte railway station

Calolziocorte railway station, formerly called "Calolziocorte-Olginate", is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Lecco–Milan railway, where the line to Bergamo diverges, it serves the municipalities of Calolziocorte and Olginate.


Jalan Ayer Panas

Jalan Ayer Panas (Johor state route ) is a major road in Johor state, Malaysia.


Midden-Zeeland Airport

Midden-Zeeland Airport , also known as Zeeland Airport, is an airport located east northeast of Middelburg, Zeeland in the Netherlands, just south of the Veerse Meer lagoon. The airfield is uncontrolled and has a single grass runway of long in the 09/27 direction, with a displaced threshold of for the 09 direction. It was founded in 1968 and officially opened in 1970.


Capodichino Aeroporto

Capodichino - Airport will be a station on line 1 of the Naples metro, located near the Naples-Capodichino airport.
The new metro station redesigns access to the airport with covered pedestrian walkways and a capillary network of roads, connected to the parking area. The project characterizes the terminal with the large translucent round roof that allows natural light to penetrate from above into the deep central shaft. The vertical path comes alive with the movement of travelers: the elevators and the spiral of the escalators orient and distribute the flows of arrivals and departures.
On December 15, 2013, the CIPE approved a 650 million euro loan for the Garibaldi-Capodichino Airport section, with the intermediate stops at the Centro Direzionale, Tribunale and Poggioreale.
The completion of the works, initially foreseen by the CIPE for 2018, will take place no earlier than 2023.
Interchanges.
The station will have:


Huai Khwang MRT station

Huai Khwang station (, , ; code BL18) is a MRT station on the Blue Line in Bangkok, Thailand. It is located under Ratchadaphisek Road, near the MRT Depot. Before the station was opened, its planned name was "Pracha Rat Bamphen", but it was changed to "Huai Khwang" later. The station's symbol is color orange.
Station details.
Huai Khwang is underground station, widths 23 meters, lengths 226 meters, depths 19 meters, and use island platform.
There is MetroMall in the station, but not opened yet.


Alversund Bridge

The Alversund Bridge () is a suspension bridge spanning the Alverstraumen, a narrow strait between the island of Radøy and the mainland in the village of Alversund in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The bridge was opened for traffic on 29 June 1958. The Alversund bridge was the first toll bridge collaboration project between the municipalities in the region of Nordhordland. The bridge's main span is and the maximum clearance to the sea is .
It was decided that even when the bridge was paid for in 1968, the toll fees would continue as a prepayment for the planned Nordhordland Bridge (opened in 1994).


Otoyol 7

The Otoyol 7 (O-7; English: Motorway 7), or Kuzey Marmara Otoyolu, is a toll motorway intended to bypass Istanbul to the north. The motorway has 243 km between the Kınalı junction and the Akyazı junction, with 8 lanes (4+4 lanes).
The completed section of highway crosses the Bosphorus Strait via the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, which was opened in August 2016. The route is intended to serve as the outermost beltway of Istanbul as well as being the third motor-crossing of the Bosphorus. The route stretches from "Silivri", on the European side, to "Akyazı" on the Asian side. Connections to the O-4 as well as both the Bosphorus and Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridges will be built as the Northern Marmara Motorway will bypass Istanbul to the north.
Up to 2016, the only section under construction was the section from Odayeri to Paşaköy. In this section, 14 tunnels, 61 viaducts, 45 underpasses, and 63 overpasses will be constructed.
The western (Silivri-Odayeri) and eastern (Kurtköy-Akyazı) sections were tendered in early May 2016. Construction was then estimated to take three years and to start in 2016. The section of motorway south of O-3 was constructed in 1987 and was listed as a connector of the O-3 until 2016.


Folda Bridge

The Folda Bridge () is a suspension bridge in Nærøysund municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The bridge crosses the Foldereidsundet strait which is part of the inner-Foldafjord. The bridge is long, the main span is , and the maximum clearance below the bridge . At the northern end of the bridge, the road enters a long tunnel through a mountain before entering the village of Foldereid. The bridge was completed in 1969.


Anatoliy Daron

Anatoliy Davidovich Daron (26 April 1926 - 24 June 2020) was a Russian rocket engineer and scientist, who created the engines for the rockets that delivered the first satellite and the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
Daron made a significant contribution to the development of the first experimental chambers KS-50 and ED-140. He was a leading designer in the development of the RD-107 and RD-108 liquid-propellant rocket engines for the R-7 rocket family, as well as the RD-270 for the UR-700 launch vehicle.
Biography.
Daron was born in Odessa, Russia. When he was 12, his family fled Odessa to Kislovodsk during World War II to escape the advance of the Romanian Army.
In 1948, Daron graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, specializing in liquid propellant for rockets. He became the lead engineer of the liquid propellant rocket engines of the Experimental Design Bureau No. 456 (OKB-456). He developed the RD-107 and RD-108 for the R-7, providing the Soviet Union with ICBM capability.
Daron's engines were also used for the Sputnik rocket and for all Soviet Union piloted spacecraft; Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz. In 1957, he was also part of the Soviet nuclear program.
In 1998, the Russian Federation permitted Daron to go to the United States for heart surgery. He stayed there for the rest of his life.


Jalan Bukit Katil

Jalan Bukit Katil or Jalan Tun Kudu (Malacca state route M144) is a dual-carriageway state roads in Malacca state, Malaysia. It is also a main road to North–South Expressway Southern Route via 143 Lebuh Ayer Keroh.


Putra Bridge

Putra Bridge is the main bridge in Putrajaya, Malaysia. It is analogous to Khaju Bridge in Esfahan, Iran. With a span of 435 metres, this bridge connects the Government Precinct to the Mixed Development Precinct and links Putra Square with the Boulevard. It was constructed in 1997.
The upper level of the bridge forms part of the Boulevard. This huge three-deck bridge provides vehicle, monorail and pedestrian access. Besides providing the link between Precinct 1 and Precinct 2 on the Core Island, it has been designed to be a special feature of Putrajaya. The piers also accommodate fine dining restaurants within its main pillar supports.


Ulukent railway station

Ulukent is a railway station in Ulukent, Izmir Province, Turkey. The station is served by İZBAN's Northern Line and TCDD's Alsancak-Uşak Express. The station is away from Alsancak Terminal. For the construction of the Karşıyaka Tunnel, all trains started and terminated at Ulukent between 2008–10.


Carlow railway station

Carlow railway station serves the town of Carlow in County Carlow.
It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford intercity route. The station has two platforms. The far-side platform is only used when two trains are in the station at once, as it is not accessible other than by footbridge. The station has a café.
History.
The station opened on 4 August 1846 and was closed for goods traffic on 9 June 1976.


IHI Corporation XF9

The IHI XF9 is a low-bypass afterburning turbofan engine developed by the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) of Ministry of Defense of Japan (MoD) and IHI Corporation.
Overview.
The XF9 is a product of an ATLA project "Research on fighter engine system" (2015–2019) which followed two preliminary projects, "Research on main components of next generation engines" (2010–2015) and "Research on fighter engine elements" (2013–2017). Started after development of the XF5 turbofan engine (1995–2008), these research projects are preliminary works for Japan's future fighter program or the successor to the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter.
The basic concept is to produce a "slim and high-power" engine, thereby creating more capacity for accommodating fuel and weaponry inside the fuselage of stealth fighter to reduce radar cross section. The concept, dubbed High-power Slim Engine, also appears in an MoD report titled "A vision for research and development of future fighter aircraft" (2010) as the powerplant for a conceptual Japanese future fighter, the i3 FIGHTER.
While its predecessor, the XF5, was a small engine, the XF9-1 prototype is close to the General Electric F110 in size, and is comparable to the Pratt & Whitney F119 in terms of thrust class. With the core that withstands 2,073 K (1,800℃) class Turbine Inlet Temperature, the XF9-1 produces a high thrust, improving fuel economy at the same time. As of 2018, the officially publicized thrust level of the prototype is "11 tons (107 kN / 24,000 lbf) or more" in military thrust and "15 tons (147 kN / 33,000 lbf) or more" with afterburner. The XF9 is designed to be adaptable to a wide range of thrust level, higher or lower, depending on requirement; and the future fighter engine program is conducted with a target maximum thrust of 20 tons (196 kN / 44,000 lbf) in mind, which was unveiled at the ATLA Technology Symposium 2018.
Technical features.
The XF9-1 is a twin-spool axial-flow afterburning turbofan with a dual redundant FADEC, consisting of a 3-stage fan, a 6-stage high-pressure compressor, an annular type combustor, a single-stage high-pressure turbine, a single-stage low-pressure turbine, an afterburner, and a convergent-divergent nozzle. The concept, slim and high-power, resulted in an approximately 30% higher thrust per unit cross-sectional area compared to the GE F110 the Mitsubishi F-2 is equipped with. To achieve this thrust level, a higher combustion temperature (1,800℃ class) and an optimized aerodynamic design were needed, which in turn required advanced material, manufacturing, cooling and fluid analysis technologies.
Each of the rotors is a blisk to contribute to weight reduction and downsizing. The combustor is equipped with patented new-type burners, Wide-angle Swirler, to facilitate stable combustion and more uniform heat distribution at the outlet. To reduce cost, the high-pressure turbine disk is manufactured by forging technique instead of powder metallurgy (PM) employed in the XF5; the material is a nickel-cobalt base superalloy, TMW-24, developed by NIMS, of which heat resistance is comparable to that of PM superalloys. Turbine blades made of a Japanese fifth generation nickel base single-crystal superalloy are friction welded to the disk to form the blisk, which is enclosed in the shroud made of ceramic matrix composites. The afterburner is a new type to eliminate the conventional annular flame holders to improve efficiency.
As another characteristic, the XF9-1 incorporates a starter generator that outputs 180 kW, meaning that a twin-engine fighter with this engine can be supplied with as much as 360 kW of electricity by engines alone. The capacity is quite large compared to that of conventional fourth or fifth generation fighters such as the Boeing F-15E (76 kW), the Lockheed Martin F-22 (130 kW), and the Lockheed Martin F-35 (160 kW), allowing for next generation avionics and other high power consuming onboard devices and equipment.
In addition, a research to demonstrate thrust vectoring control and its failure handling technology is conducted from 2016 to 2020 in parallel with development of the engine. This research is aimed at achieving higher maneuverability and smaller control surfaces favorable to stealth aircraft. For the XF9-1, the XVN3-1 three-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzle is available, which can deflect thrust up to 20 degrees in all circumference directions.


Rodrigo de Araya metro station

Rodrigo de Araya is an elevated metro station on the Line 5 of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. The station consists of an elliptical cylindrical structure enclosing the side platforms and tracks. Staircases jut out from the tubular structure and lead to the concourse level, which is located below the viaduct deck. The station was opened on 5 April 1997 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from Baquedano to Bellavista de La Florida.
Currently the platforms are being enlarged from to , to support seven-car trains. The renovation project includes the use of tensile roofing structures to cover the newer portion of the station, as well as the open portion of the original station.


Cox Green Footbridge

Cox Green Footbridge is a footbridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Cox Green and Washington Staithes. The bridge opened in 1958, replacing a former ferry route.


Kompozit

OAO "Кompozit" (Open Joint Stock Company "Kompozit") () is a company in the field of materials science, famous for its role in several spacecraft and rocket projects. It is based in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast.
Overview.
OAO Kompozit carries out research, experimentation, development and production of materials for advanced and general applications. Its products include aluminum, beryllium, titanium, nickel alloys; intermetallics, constructional steels, carbon-carbon and ceramic-matrix composites, metal-matrix composites reinforced with boric and carbon fibers, constructional glass, organic and carbon fibers plastics, coverings, glues, compounds and enamels.
The company has been involved in several spacecraft programs, such as Salyut, Soyuz, Proton, Mir, Energiya‑Buran, Sojuz‑Apollon, Vega, Fobos and the International Space Station. It has also delivered some elements of the beryllium ion guide of CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
History.
OAO Kompozit's history dates back to 1947, when it was founded as the material science department of plant No 88. It later became a branch of the material science research institute-88. In 1975 the separate organization "Central material science research institute" under the General Engineering Ministry of the USSR was created. In 1987 it was reorganized into the scientific production association "Kompozit" (since July 1993 it has been a public corporation).


N-25 National Highway

The N-25 or National Highway 25 () is an 813 km national highway in Pakistan which extends along from Karachi in Sindh province to Chaman in Balochistan province. It was previously known as the "Regional Cooperation for Development Highway" (RCD Highway). Also known as killer highway
Route.
The N-25 National Highway or RCD Highway connects Balochistan with a number of provinces and cities in Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. It is 813 km long, it starts from Shershah Colony, Karachi, passing through Bela, Khuzdar, Kalat, Quetta and Chaman and continuing into Afghanistan, It then joins N-40 (National Highway 40 Quetta-Taftan International Border Circuit) which leads it via Naukundi to Road 84 in Iran and through various Iranian Highways to Turkey and onwards Europe. The highway also has a recent connection to Gwadar. It also passes through many towns in Balochistan. Over 150 commercial vans and coaches move between the port city of Karachi and Quetta. It is a major road for Balochistan, connecting the province with the rest of Pakistan.
History.
The RCD Highway was constructed under a treaty between Pakistan, Iran and Turkey and was first constructed during the regime of Sardar Attaullah Mengal as Chief Minister of Balochistan.
The Karachi segment was revamped in 2017 and highway lights were installed till Hub River Bridge.
It is known for frequent collisions between vehicles and is named as killer highway.
According to Sama news bureau every year about 6000 people are being killed due to accidents taking place on this road while according to Pakistan Bureau of Statics 3000 to 4000 thousand people dying owing to accidents on N25 road. Due to lack of resources in Province accurate figures are unable to attain and it differs
On 12 March 2020, a humanitarian organisation namely Balochistan Youth And Civil Society organised a LongMarch on foot from Karachi to Quetta in order to draw the attention of government towards the seriousness of the matter.As they demanded to construct 4 lane road from Chaman to Karachi to avoid the accidents as the figures rising per month more than hundred deaths are being recorded.


Southern Cross-Island Highway

The Southern Cross-Island Highway (), also known as Provincial Highway No. 20, links Tainan City on the west coast to Taitung City on the east coast, on the southern section of the island of Taiwan. The road is 209 km long.
From west to east, the road passes through the townships of Sinhua, Yujing, Jiasian, and then the aboriginal communities of Taoyuan, Meishan, and Lidao.
The highest point of the road, Yakou, is above sea level. The section from Meishan to Yakou Tunnel lies within Yushan National Park. Before crossing the Central Mountain Range, the road follows the Laonong River Valley for a considerable distance.
The road, considered one of South Taiwan's major tourist attractions, is sometimes damaged by landslides, especially during the wet summer months. The route was cut through the mountains in the early 1970s, but the highest sections were not properly surfaced until 1992.
This highway and its 50 m surrounding used to have mountain entry control so visitors had to pay a low fee to get Class B mountain entry permits (入山許可證). The mountain entry control is no longer in effect so mountain entry permits are no longer required.
Typhoon Damage and Reconstruction.
The highway was badly damaged by Typhoon Morakot in 2009, with landslides washing away entire sections, and has been closed ever since. Since then there have been continuous reconstruction works. In 2012 heavy rainfall caused further damage. The reopening of the entire length is not expected until 2021.
Sources.
Derek Lee, 2004. A highway less traveled. Taipei Times


BR-377

A BR-377 is an diagonal federal highway in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It connects the city of Carazinho to the border with Uruguay, in the Brazilian city of Quaraí.
In Alegrete and Quaraí, there is a large production of rice and the creation of sheep. The production of soy and corn, among other crops, is large throughout the state.


Lower Bhavani Project Canal

Lower Bhavani Project Canal is a long irrigation canal which runs in Erode district in Tamil Nadu, India. The canal is a valley-side contour canal, fed by Bhavanisagar Dam and irrigates 2.07 lakh hectares of land. The main canal feeds Thadapalli and Arakkankottai channels which irrigate the cultivable lands. The canal was the brainchild M.A Eswaran, member of the legislative assembly of the Erode constituency in the early 1950s.


Metro Transportes do Sul

The Metro Transportes Sul do Tejo (MTS, "South Tagus Rapid Transit System") is a light rail system that provides the Almada and Seixal municipalities, Portugal with mass-transit services.
The MTS connects to Fertagus commuter rail trains to Lisbon and Setúbal at Pragal and Corroios stations.
Lines.
MTS has three lines:
The rolling stock consists of 24 trams from Siemens ( model Combino Plus).


Celadon Group

Celadon Group, Inc. was a truckload shipping company located in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It was one of the ten largest truckload carriers in North America.
History.
Celadon was founded in 1985 and employed over 4,000 individuals.
On May 1, 2017 the company announced that COO Eric Meek had resigned after auditor BKD, LLP had determined that the financial statements for the 2016 fiscal year “should not be relied upon.” On May 8, the New York Stock Exchange informed the company that it had failed to meet the exchange's listing standard and the company's stock could be delisted in six months.
The noncompliant financials put Celadon into default with its lenders. The company reached a new credit deal with Bank of America on July 3 after agreeing to a host of operating and reporting restrictions. CEO Paul Will announced his retirement on July 13.
In April, 2018, the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading the stock of Celadon and moved to remove the company's stock listing after an internal investigation had identified accounting errors that required it to restate financial results dating back to 2014. Subsequently, it was found that the errors were the result of a series of trades of aging and unused trucks using invoices with deliberately inflated values to intentionally hide significant losses from its investors.
On April 25, 2019, it was announced that Celadon Group Inc. had agreed to pay total restitution of $42.2 million as a part of its deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for filing materially false and misleading statements to investors and falsifying books, records and accounts.
On May 9, 2019, the SEC charged the former President of Quality Companies, LLC, a former subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Celadon Group Inc., with an accounting fraud that allowed Celadon to avoid disclosing substantial losses and misrepresent its financial condition.
On December 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged former Celadon president and chief operating officer William Eric Meek and former chief financial officer Bobby Peavler of Celadon with accounting fraud. In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana and the U.S. Department of Justice, Fraud Section jointly announced that Williams had pled guilty to related criminal charges.
Bankruptcy.
On December 8, 2019, Celadon Group, Inc. and 25 affiliates filed bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in October 2019, the company had 2,771 trucks and 2,553 drivers, and was listed as the 38th largest carrier in North America. The company received $165 million from the sale of 49.9% of the company to Luminus Management four months before filing. The trucking company was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in 2017, for failure to disclose quarterly and annual reports as required by SEC, and along with a poor trucking market as well as the legal issues, that included a $42.2 million fine by the U.S. Department of Justice, made securing more funding impossible. The court, in a first stage bankruptcy plan, authorized the use of $5.4 million of an $8.2 million loan to pay employees. The closing also includes Hyndman Transport, that ends 82 years of operation and Jaguar Transportation, but does not include the division of Taylor Express in Hope Mills, North Carolina that is planned to be sold.
Celadon sent messages to the drivers (by ELD messaging) that the company was closing and that everyone that delivered loads and followed directions to return equipment would be compensated.
In March 2020, Celadon auctioned off assets from the company headquarters and driver dorms as part of their bankruptcy agreement.


Koivuhovi railway station

The Koivuhovi railway station (, ) is a station on the VR commuter rail network located between the stations of Kauniainen and Tuomarila.
The station serves the E commuter line from Helsinki to Kaukalahti; and the U and night train L lines between Helsinki and Kirkkonummi. The station is approximately from central Helsinki.
The station has two platforms, and was opened in its current form in 1997.


Flight 256

Flight 256 may refer to:


Japan National Route 44

 is the easternmost of the national highways of Japan. It connects the cities of Kushiro and Nemuro in eastern part of the island and prefecture of Hokkaido in northern Japan.
History.
Route 44 was originally designated on 18 May 1953 as National Route 242, and this was redesignated as Route 44 when the route was promoted to a Class 1 highway.


Michael J. McCulley

Michael James "Mike" McCulley (born August 4, 1943), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, metallurgical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and was the first submariner in space.
Personal data.
Born August 4, 1943, in San Diego, California, but considers Livingston, Tennessee to be his hometown. Married to the former Jane Emalie Thygeson of Melbourne, Florida. Six children. Robert, Marla, Marcy, Cynthia, Robyn, and Sarah. Twelve Grandchildren. Recreational interests include hiking, skiing, reading, camping, biking, and jogging. He is an Eagle Scout and life-long Child Advocate. He currently resides in Cocoa Beach, FL.
Education.
He graduated from Livingston Academy in Livingston, Tennessee in 1961.
He received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from Purdue University in 1970.
Flight experience.
After graduation from high school, McCulley enlisted in the U.S. Navy and subsequently served on one diesel-powered and two nuclear-powered submarines. In 1965 he entered Purdue University, and in January 1970, received his Officer's commission in the Navy and bachelor's and master's degrees. Following flight training, he served tours of duty in A-4 Skyhawk and A-6 Intruder aircraft, and was selected to attend the Empire Test Pilots' School in Great Britain. He served in a variety of test pilots billets at the Naval Air Test Center, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, before returning to sea duty on USS "Saratoga" and .
He has flown over 50 aircraft types, logging over 5,000 flying hours, and has nearly 400 carrier landings from six aircraft carriers.
NASA career.
Selected by NASA in May 1984, McCulley completed a one-year training and evaluation program in June 1985, qualifying him for assignment as a pilot on future Space Shuttle flight crews. His technical assignments include: Astronaut Office weather coordinator; flight crew representative to the Shuttle Requirements Control Board; Technical Assistant to the Director of Flight Crew Operations; lead of the Astronaut Support Team at the Kennedy Space Center. He flew on STS-34 in 1989 and has logged a total of 119 hours and 41 minutes in space.
He used to tell people that for the first couple of years at NASA, his main job was carrying John Young's helmet bag. This he said as a joke, but it was also "sorta true" because he was assigned to accompany the veteran astronaut on many T-38 flights.
Spaceflight experience.
McCulley was the Pilot on mission STS-34. The crew aboard Shuttle Orbiter "Atlantis" launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 18, 1989, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on October 23, 1989. During the mission crew members successfully deployed the Galileo spacecraft on its journey to explore Jupiter, operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SSBUV) to map atmospheric ozone, and performed numerous secondary experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer morphology, lightning research, microgravity effects on plants, and a student experiment on ice crystal growth in space. Mission duration was 4 days, 23 hours, 41 minutes.
Post-NASA career.
In October 1990, following his retirement from NASA and the Navy, McCulley was employed by Lockheed Martin Space Operations and served as Vice President and Deputy Launch Site Director for the Kennedy Space Center. He was promoted to Director in November 1995.
McCulley next served as Vice President and Associate Program Manager for USA's (United Space Alliance) Ground Operations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Named to this position on June 1, 1996, he was responsible for directing the integration of all processing activities associated with America's Space Shuttle program to ensure safe and successful fulfillment of all company contractual commitments to NASA.
In November 1999, McCulley was named Chief Operating Officer (COO) of United Space Alliance (USA). In this role, he had primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations and overall management of USA, the Prime Contractor for the Space Shuttle program. Prior to being named COO, McCulley was Vice President and Deputy Program Manager for the Space Flight Operations Contract (SFOC), where he assisted USA's Vice President and Program Manager in the management of the Space Shuttle program.
On May 15, 2003, McCulley was named President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of United Space Alliance and is ultimately responsible for the direction, development and operations of the company. On September 28, 2007, McCulley retired from his position as CEO of United Space Alliance.
Special honors.
Awarded the Legion of Merit, Defense Superior Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Small Arms Expert Ribbon, NASA Space Flight Medal, and the Child Advocate of the Year Award for the state of Florida from the Children's Home Society, an organization dedicated to services for children and young mothers.


Usma Station

Usma Station is a railway station on the Ventspils I – Tukums II Railway.


A6 road (Malaysia)

The A6 road is a federal road in Sabah.


Fannefjord Tunnel

The Fannefjord Tunnel () is a long subsea road tunnel in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The tunnel is part of County Road 64 and it goes under the Fannefjorden, connecting the island of Bolsøya to the mainland at Årø, where it intersects with the European route E39 highway. The tunnel reaches a depth of in elevation with a maximum 10% grade.
The tunnel was part of the Skåla Fixed Link, which also included new roads on the island of Bolsøya and the Bolsøy Bridge from Bolsøya to Skåla Peninsula. The tunnel opened on 24 May 1991 and was partially financed as a toll road. Toll collection remained until 15 June 2005. The tunnel replaced the Molde–Bolsøy Ferry and the Lønset–Grønnes Ferry.


Benliahmet railway station

Benliahmet station is a freight station near the village of Benliahmet in the Kars Province of Turkey.


Isis Bridge

Isis Bridge is a modern road bridge across the River Thames just south of Oxford, England. It carries the Oxford Ring Road, part of the A423 road, across the Thames on the reach between Sandford Lock and Iffley Lock.
The bridge was built in the 1960s and opened to road traffic in 1965 when the section of the ring road between South Hinksey and Heyford Hill was opened. It is a single arch structure, built of 5,000m² steel by British Constructional Steelwork Association for Oxfordshire County Council who are responsible for its maintenance. The bridge required a full wet and dry blast and coating system to the steelwork in 2003 when it was also strengthened.


BR-324

BR-324 is a federal highway in the Northeast Region of Brazil. The 1270.9 km road goes from Balsas, Maranhão, across the states of Piauí and Bahia to the Bahian state capital, Salvador.


CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent

CCGS "Louis S. St-Laurent" () is a Canadian Coast Guard Heavy Arctic Icebreaker. "Louis S. St-Laurent"s home port is St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and is stationed there with other vessels of the coast guard.
Named after the twelfth Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent, PC CC QC LLD DCL LLL BA. The vessel is classed a "Heavy Arctic Icebreaker" and is the largest icebreaker and flagship of the CCG.
Operations.
"Louis S. St-Laurent" is based at CCG Base St. John's in St. John's, Newfoundland. The vessel's current operation tempo consists of summer voyages to Canada's Arctic where she supports the annual Arctic sealift to various coastal communities and carries out multi-disciplinary scientific expeditions. During the winter months, "Louis S. St-Laurent" sometimes operates in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to aid ships in transiting to Montreal, Quebec, although she usually only serves this assignment during particularly heavy ice years.
Since entering service in 1969, the icebreaker has been compelled to go through several refits in order to keep her in service. In November 2020 the federal government announced that it would endeavour to keep the vessel in service through the 2020s. Refits were planned to take place at the Davie Shipyard over three 5-month dry-docking periods in 2022, 2024 and 2027 respectively, with an alongside work period in 2023.
History.
"Louis S. St. Laurent" was launched 3 December 1966 by Canadian Vickers Limited at Montreal, Quebec, and commissioned in October 1969.
From 8–22 September 1969 "Louis S. St-Laurent" sailed on the expedition in the Northwest Passage. She was assisted by and the United States Coast Guard vessels and .
During 1976 "Louis S. St-Laurent", Captain Paul M. Fournier in command, made a partial transit of the Northwest Passage traveling from east to west, through Lancaster Sound, Peel Sound, and Victoria Strait.
In 1979 "Louis S. St-Laurent", Captain George Burdock in command, made a full east to west transit of the Northwest Passage. She assisted CCGS "Franklin", and circumnavigated North America.
"Louis S. St-Laurent" underwent an extensive and costly modernization at Halifax Shipyard Ltd. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, between 1988 and 1993 which saw her hull lengthened as well as new propulsion and navigation equipment installed.
The modernization program was controversial as the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had initially proposed building a class of mega icebreakers (the Polar 8 Project) for promoting Canadian sovereignty in territorial waters claimed by Canada; had made an unauthorized transit of Canada's Northwest Passage in 1985 early in Mulroney's administration, provoking a strong nationalist out-cry across the country. However, budget cuts in the late 1980s saw proposed expansions of the coast guard and armed forces scrapped. In compensation to the coast guard, the government opted to modernize the largest icebreaker in its fleet, "Louis S. St-Laurent".
On 22 August 1994 "Louis S. St-Laurent" and USCGC "Polar Sea" became the first North American surface vessels to reach the North Pole.
In the summer of 2006, CBC TV's "" broadcast from "Louis S. St-Laurent" in a special series focused on climate change.
The vessel was originally scheduled to be decommissioned in 2000 however a refit extended the decommissioning date to 2017. In the 26 February 2008 federal budget, the Government of Canada announced it was funding a $721 million "Polar Class Icebreaker" (named ) as a replacement vessel for "Louis S. St-Laurent". However, this mooted replacement vessel has been continually delayed compelling the life of "Louis St. Laurent" to be significantly extended.
In 2014, with , "Louis S. St-Laurent" performed a cruise to the Arctic to map the undersea continental shelf. The two vessels were slowed by thick ice conditions.
At 1:30 a.m. on 2 April 2015, "Louis S. St-Laurent", arrived near Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador, to take the damaged Canadian Coast Guard vessel under tow. "Ann Harvey", which had run aground near Burgeo, was already being towed by the lifeboat CCGS "W.G. George" when the icebreaker arrived. "Louis S. St-Laurent" took over the tow and brought "Ann Harvey" into Connoire Bay where Royal Canadian Navy divers could inspect the ship.
In 2016 "Louis S. St-Laurent" was deployed to the Arctic carrying an international team of scientists mapping the sea floor. The first leg of the mission was a voyage to Norway mapping the Atlantic. This was to be followed by a 47-day leg to the North Pole. Travelling with the Swedish icebreaker "Oden", "Louis S. St-Laurent"s mission to the Arctic was the last of three performed in order to define Canada's claim to the Arctic continental shelf. While mapping during transit to the north, the scientists aboard the ship discovered a chain of 25–30 undersea volcanoes off the coast of Greenland.
On 22 March 2019, and "Louis S. St-Laurent" were dispatched to aid the tanker which had damaged a rudder in heavy ice and lost steering southwest of Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland. "Captain Molly Kool" towed the vessel further out to sea to await the arrival of a tugboat, which would take the tanker to Sydney, Nova Scotia, for repairs.


Borgone railway station

Borgone () is a railway station in Borgone Susa. The station is located on the Turin-Modane railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
Train services.
The station is served by the following services:


Biglen railway station

Biglen railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Biglen, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is located on the standard gauge Burgdorf–Thun line of BLS AG.
Services.
 the following services stop at Biglen:


Hadsund North Station

Hadsund North Station () was a railway station in Hadsund, Denmark. Opened in 1900 and located near Hadsund Harbour, it served the city until 1 April 1969, when the Aalborg–Hadsund Railway and the Randers–Hadsund Railway closed. The station was demolished in 1985 to make way for a new bus station.


State Highway 4A (West Bengal)

State Highway 4A (West Bengal) is a state highway in West Bengal, India.
Route.
SH 4A originates from Tulin and passes through Jhalda and Kotshila and terminates at Chas More.
The total length of SH 4A is 39 km.
The only district traversed by SH 4A is:
Purulia district (0 - 39 km)