Port of Jiangyin

The Port of Jiangyin () is a natural inland port located at Jiangyin, Wuxi Prefecture, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. It extends over of the southern shore of the Yangtze river. The port had a container throughput of 1,001,000 TEU in 2013
Setting.
The Port of Jiangyin is located in the plain between the river and the Lake Tai.
Layout.
The Port has 7 deep-water berths, capable of handling ships of up to 100,000 DWT. Channel depth is . It has a land area of .


Idaho Centennial Trail

The 900-mile (1,448 km) Idaho Centennial Trail (ICT) is a scenic trail through Idaho. It winds its way through various ecosystems from high desert canyonlands in southern Idaho to wet mountain forests in Northern Idaho. ICT travelers will cross many mountains, streams and rivers in between.
History.
The notion of a trail connecting the Northern and Southern borders of Idaho was first envisioned in the early 1980s. Roger Williams and Syd Tate came up with the idea in 1986. Williams and Tate made a challenging three-month-long, twelve hundred mile journey over the entire length of Idaho and in the process the idea of an official trail route was born.
The ICT was designated as the official state trail during Idaho's Centennial year in 1990 by the Lasting Legacy Committee of the Idaho Centennial Commission. Since then the number of hikers completing the trail have remained low.
Route.
The Idaho Centennial Trail (ICT) route is along existing trails and primitive roads. Hikers typically start at the southern trailhead near Murphy Hot Springs on the Idaho-Nevada border in early June when snow levels are starting to recede and travel northward through high desert with the goal of entering higher country before the heat of summer sets in. As thru-hikers approach the Sawtooth Mountains the snows have receded enough by mid-July to allow for easier and safer travel. The end of the trail at the Idaho-British Columbia border must then be reached before the snows of late September/early October.
The ICT is located in the Sawtooth Wilderness, the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness for more than 300 miles (483 km). Within these areas the trail borders Middle Fork of the Salmon River and the Selway River. These rivers are both bestowed with the designation as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, a designation due largely to Frank Church, for whom one of Idaho's Wilderness areas is named.
North of the Selway-Bitterroot, the trail hop-scotches along the Idaho-Montana border on the backbone of the Bitterroot Mountains for more than 85 miles (137 km) on high ridges. Dozens of high mountain lakes along this portion of the route will beckon angler and those who delight in scenery.
Elevation Gain and Loss.
The trail features many climbs and descents losing and gaining elevation to cross a river or canyon, and then climbing once again to a high ridge. The Centennial Trail begins at 6,000 feet (1,829 m) near Murphy Hot Springs, descends to 2,500 feet (762 m) at the Snake River near Glenns Ferry, and then yo-yos up and down through the mountains of Central Idaho between 3,000 (914 m) and 9,000 feet (2,743 m). The trail's low point (1,900 feet (579 m) above sea level) is along the Selway River near the Moose Creek Guard Station, and then it climbs again to high points between 5,000 (1,524 m) and 6,000 feet (1,829 m) in the Cabinet Mountains and Selkirk Mountains as the trail approaches the northern boundary.
Controlling Agencies.
The Idaho State Centennial Trail is a cooperative effort. The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation provides overall trail coordination. The Bureau of Land Management manages the southern section of the trail. The U.S. Forest Service manages the middle and northern sections of the trail. Private and other public land agencies allow trail users to cross their property for continuity.
Maps.
U.S. Forest Service maps, Bureau of Land Management maps, and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 1-24,000 scale topographic hard copy maps or topographic software such as National Geographic TOPO! are recommended for planning and on-trail use. For a current map, view the Idaho Centennial Trail interactive online map.
Trail Guide.
In 1998 Stephen Stuebner's "Idaho Centennial Trail Guidebook" was published. This guidebook, although well written, is considered to be out of date by the Idaho Centennial Trail coordinator, Leo Hennessey.


Port of Midia

The Port of Midia is located on the Black Sea coastline, approx 13.5 NM north of Constanţa.
It is one of the satellite ports of Constanța and was designed and built to serve the adjacent industrial and petrochemical facilities.
The north and south breakwaters have a total length of 6,97 km. The port covers 834 ha of which 234 ha is land and 600 ha is water. There are 14 berths (11 operational berths, 3 berths belong to the Constanța Shipyard) with a total length of 2,24 km.
Further to dredging operations performed the port depths are increased to 9 m at crude oil discharging berths 1–4, allowing access to tankers having an 8.5 m maximum draught and .
The Port of Midia is mainly used for the supply of crude oil for the nearby Petromidia Refinery.


State Highway 22 (Kerala)

State Highway 22 (SH 22) is a State Highway in Kerala, India that starts in Kodungallur and ends at State Highway 23. The highway is 70.5 km long.
The Route Map.
SH 22 Highway Shornur <- Cheruthuruthy <- Vazhacode Junction <- Wadakkanchery <- Mulangunnathukavu <- Viyyoor <- North bus stand <- Trichur Round West <- Kuruppam Road <- Kokkalai <- Koorkanchery <- Palakkal <- Chevoor <- Perumbillissery <- Thiruvillakkavu <- Urakam <- Karuvannur - Mapranam <- Irinjalakuda <- Vellangallur <- Pullut <- Kodungallur


Rodovia Anchieta

Rodovia Anchieta (Anchieta Highway, official designation SP-150) is a highway connection between São Paulo and the Atlantic coast, the cities of Cubatão and Santos, in Brazil. In the plateau, the highway serves several cities of Greater São Paulo, such as São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, Santo André and Riacho Grande and traverses a picturesque region of dams and rain forests.
Rodovia Anchieta is a major pride of the Brazilian engineering, because it was built with a great number of bridges and tunnels along the steep cliffs of Serra do Mar; and the first modern, concrete-paved road built in São Paulo in the 1930s.
The highway is one of the busiest of the country, because of the movement of goods to and from Santos's seaport. Traffic problems are common, mainly if there is bad weather or in long weekends when many families living in São Paulo go to Santos or Guarujá beaches. Rodovia Anchieta is approximately 60 km long.
It is named after the Jesuit priest, Father José de Anchieta,who often called the trail "the worst trail in the world" it was given this nickname because it badly hurt his feet when he would walk the trail. It connected to the city of São Vicente by the sea with the village he helped to found in the high plateau, São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, in 1554.
The highway is managed by a state concession to the private company Ecovias, and therefore is a toll road.
The two carriageways of Rodovia Anchieta are both fully reversible. Traffic is managed to flow either bidirectionally (uphill on one carriageway and downhill on the other) or unidirectionally (uphill or downhill on both carriageways), depending on demand. In the unidirectional mode, the opposing traffic is diverted to Rodovia dos Imigrantes.


Superior Hiking Trail

The Superior Hiking Trail, also known as the SHT, is a long hiking trail in northeastern Minnesota that follows the rocky ridges overlooking Lake Superior for most of its length. The trail travels through forests of birch, aspen, pine, fir, and cedar. Hikers enjoy views of boreal forests, the Sawtooth Mountains, babbling brooks, rushing waterfalls, and abundant wildlife. The lowest point in the path is above sea level and the highest point is above sea level. The footpath is intended for hiking only. Motorized vehicles, mountain bikes, and horses are not allowed on the trail. Many people use the trail for long-distance hiking, and facilitating this purpose are 94 backcountry, fee-free campsites.
History.
Construction of the Superior Hiking Trail began in the mid-1980s, and the trail now extends from the Minnesota-Wisconsin border southwest of Duluth to the Canada–US border. In addition there are of spur trails that connect trailheads to the main trail. Inspiration for building the trail came from the Appalachian Trail, which extends from Georgia to Maine. The Superior Hiking Trail Association (SHTA) was formed in 1986 to manage the construction, planning, and day-to-day care of the trail. The SHTA received several grants from the State of Minnesota, three of which were from the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources. This money helped jump start the construction of the trail and funded construction for the first few years. In 1987, the trail had an opening ceremony at Britton Peak to celebrate the beginning of construction. The ceremony included a log-cutting event and many state government officials and SHTA founders attended. Three years later, in August 1990, the trail had reached a half-way mark and another celebration was held. That celebration included a hike for about a dozen brave hikers who completed it in 12 days. Since 1991, a ultramarathon known as the "Superior 100", along with several other races, has been hosted annually on the Superior Hiking Trail. In 1995, Paul Hlina, who was paralyzed from the waist down, hiked the entire trail on crutches and is now known as the first hiker to thru-hike the trail. He raised $16,000 in pledges for the Superior Hiking Trail Association, the non-profit organization which maintains the trail. Trail construction and improvements continued, and in 2016, the 30th year of trail construction, the Superior Hiking Trail became a continuous footpath from the Minnesota-Wisconsin border to the 270 Degree Overlook near the Canada–US border. The Superior Hiking Trail is now a portion of the North Country National Scenic Trail, a National Scenic Trail that stretches over from North Dakota to Vermont.
Sections of the trail.
There are two primary sections to the Superior Hiking Trail.
The Duluth section of the trail comprises and starts southwest of the city of Duluth at the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The trail extends to the northeast through Jay Cooke State Park, the Spirit Mountain Recreation Area, Brewer Park, Enger Park, the Historic Downtown Area, Canal Park, the Lakewalk, and Hartley Nature Center, before it ends at a trailhead located on Martin Road on the north side of the city. The Duluth section is particularly suited for day hiking. There is only one backcountry campground, located near the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, along the Duluth section.
The North Shore section of the trail is long and begins at the Martin Road Trailhead on the northern boundary of the City of Duluth. From there, the trail extends to the northeast along Lake Superior through seven state parks, including Gooseberry Falls State Park, Split Rock Lighthouse State Park and Tettegouche State Park. This section of the SHT passes near the towns of Lutsen and Grand Marais, and ends just before the Canada–United States border. The North Shore section provides backcountry experiences and is utilized by both day hikers and backpackers. The Superior Hiking Trail Association maintains 93 backcountry campgrounds along the North Shore section, and a traditional thru-hike of the Superior Hiking Trail typically spans this section. The total elevation gain along the North Shore section is 37,800 feet (11,500 m) and the elevation loss is 37,400 feet (11,400 m) for a northbound hiker.
On the northern end the Superior Hiking Trail is connected to the long Border Route Trail which starts a short distance from the trail head on Otter Lake Road. This then connects to the long Kekekabic Trail which gives the hiker the ability to hike all the way through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and end near Ely.
The Superior Hiking Trail Association.
The Superior Hiking Trail Association (SHTA) builds, promotes and maintains the trail. It is a Minnesota-based non-profit corporation with more than 3200 members. The association produces a quarterly newsletter called "The Ridgeline" for its members which contains noteworthy news of the trail, trail volunteer bios, and association financial information. The most visible activities of the SHTA are the popular organized hikes featuring leaders with interpretive skills, such as naturalists, geologists, photographers, and historians and ranging from day hikes to backpacking trips of several days' duration.
The trail was mostly built by crews of people that were hired from local towns or by the Minnesota Conservation Corps. In addition, the SHTA coordinates the efforts of numerous volunteers who assist with trail and campground construction and maintenance. These volunteers include interested individuals, scout troops, and other outdoor organizations. Some groups have chosen to adopt a section of the trail to maintain, while others participate in scheduled maintenance hikes.
Accolades.
In December, 2000, "Backpacker Magazine" named the Superior Hiking Trail the trail with the "Best Trail/Camp/Shelter conditions," the trail with the "Best Signage" in the country, and one of the most scenic trails in the nation.
According to Andrew Skurka of National Geographic, Superior Hiking Trail is one of his ten favorite hikes in America.
In the May, 2005, Readers Digest listed Superior Hiking Trail as one of the "5 Best Hikes in America".


Ishikawa Tunnel

The is part of Japan National Route 329 in Uruma, Okinawa. It cuts through the cliffs south of Ishikawa to connect the Ishikawa By-pass to Route 329 proper. The by-pass, tunnel, and bridge were built in the 1990s.


Flores (TransMilenio)

The simple-station Flores is part of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.
Location.
The station is located in northern Bogotá, specifically Avenida Caracas, between Calles 67 and 69.
History.
In 2000, phase one of the TransMilenio system was opened between Portal de la 80 and Tercer Milenio, including this station. The station is named Flores due to its proximity to the flower market named Plaza las Flores, which is located on the east side of the station. It serves the Chapinero, La Concepción, and La Esperanza neighborhoods.
Station Services.
Feeder routes.
This station does not have connections to feeder routes.
Inter-city service.
This station does not have inter-city service.


Port of Calapan

The Port of Calapan () or the Calapan Baseport is a seaport in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro in the Philippines. It is the main port serving Oriental Mindoro. The port has at least seven berths which can accommodate fastcraft, conventional and RoRo vessels. Primary items handled at the port are agricultural products such as copra, rice, and banana for outgoing cargo and cement, fertilizer and general comidities for incoming cargo.


Porta Furba - Quadraro (Rome Metro)

Porta Furba is a station on Line A of the Rome Metro. It is located under the intersection of Via Tuscolana, Via dei Fulvi and Via Monte del Grano.


Piges (Charleroi Metro)

Piges is a Charleroi Metro station, located in Dampremy (part of the Charleroi municipality), in fare zone 1. The station is built on a viaduct and is accessed through escalators and stairs from a street entrance located on "Chaussée de Bruxelles" (Brussels Road).
Although the station is built on a viaduct, tracks enter a tunnel at its western end, as they pass under a spoil tip ("Terril des Piges") toward Dampremy.
A tram line to Gosselies starts at the station. Works are in progress to open it to commercial passenger service.
Nearby points of interest.
Station surroundings are sparsely populated (lower part of the "Chaussée de Bruxelles") and do not feature important points of interest, which explains the low passenger flow through the station.
Transfers.
TEC Charleroi bus lines 41, 85 and Midi-Docherie.


Vallamkulam Bridge

Vallamkulam Bridge was a narrow steel bridge, linking the Eraviperoor and Kaviyoor panchayats in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.
It was constructed four decades ago. It is the only steel bridge on the main trunk route to Sabarimala.
The Vallamkulam Bridge is across the Manimala river on the Thiruvalla - Kozhencherry Road.
It is 6 km away from Thiruvalla town.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurated the newly constructed bridge across river Manimala at Vallamkulam on the Thiruvalla-Kumbazha State Highway on 25 March 2012. The 75-metre-long, 11.5-metre-wide new bridge was constructed at a cost of Rs.4.5 crore in two years.


Daniel Scott (harbourmaster)

Daniel Scott (1800 – 20 February 1865) was a Western Australian harbour-master. Originally from Liverpool, England, he moved to the newly established Swan River Colony in 1829. Scott was the first chair of the Fremantle Town Trust in 1848. In addition to his civic and harbour duties, he was involved with launching a number of enterprises in early Western Australia, including the first whaling business, the first ship builders (he built the first large ship from local timber), and a lead mining business.
Life.
Scott was born in Liverpool to Janet ( Campbell) the second wife of Daniel Scott, a flag maker. The son went away to sea and was mentioned by the Royal Humane Society after rescuing three men in a boat.
Shipping.
He built up experience on ships journeying to the Gold Coast and the West Indies, enabling him to gain employment as a deputy harbour-master in Fremantle in 1829. This was the same year that Captain Charles Fremantle arrived with the first settlers and James Stirling, the first Governor. Scott was given a grant of 4,000 acres on the Swan River by the British government instead of any pay or pension owing. Seven months after his arrival on the "Calista" Scott married Frances Harriet Davis.
Scott was employed at a hundred pounds a year but he set forth with acts of his own enterprise. Scott soon had a number of boats transporting goods from his own jetty. The activity seems to have been approved of as James Stirling, the Governor of Western Australia, was one of his customers. This approval was outdone by general acclaim when Scott went into the shipbuilding business. In May 1836 Scott's first seagoing ship was launched at King George Sound. A gala was organised to celebrate the launching of the "Lady Stirling" which was the first large ship built from local timber. Lady Ellen Stirling was not available and the ship was launched by the wife of Lieutenant Roe.
Whaling.
In 1837, Scott made substantial investment in the Fremantle Whaling Company, which established a whaling station at Bathers Beach at the entrance to Fremantle Harbour. His co-investors included the Fremantle merchant John Bateman. Scott's Fremantle Whaling Company paid for a tunnel to be dug under the Round House prison by the prisoners. This tunnel went beneath the prison and linked Bathers Beach to the High Street in Fremantle.
Scott rented this station in the 1840s for whaling. He was the captain of a whaler "Napoleon" when it set out in 1842. This ship was owned by Scott and a syndicate in Liverpool. "Napoleon" left Australia for England in 1844. Scott was lucky to find a replacement when another barque called the "Merope" was driven ashore and it and all her whaling equipment were sold to Scott. The "Merope" did set out whaling but the business does not appear to have been driven hard.
The whaling company ceased trading in 1850.
Civil responsibility and convicts.
Scott decided to build a warehouse and to dig a well. With a well and warehouse he could act as a ship's victualler but the waterfront warehouse was invaluable when the first 75 convicts arrived in Fremantle on 1 June 1850. The convicts that had arrived on the "Scindian" used Scott's warehouse as their only home until Captain Henderson and the convicts had constructed their own convict establishment. Convicts would continue to arrive in Fremantle until 1868. Scott negotiated a rental of the wool warehouse for five years at £250 a year, although it was agreed that improvements could be made in lieu of rent up to a value of £1000.
Scott was a leading light in Fremantle where he became the first chair of the town's Town Trust in 1848. He was a keen supporter of the Church of England and underwrote the building of the first church, St John's Anglican Church, in 1843.
Retirement.
In 1851 he resigned his position as harbour-master, a position he still held despite all of his commercial and municipal responsibilities. He was noted for using his own boats on colonial business but an injury to his arm made him relinquish this task and "retire". By 1864 he had formed the Geraldton Mining and Smelting Company to mine lead, but his own death a year later meant that the company did not thrive. Scott died in Fremantle on 20 February 1865.
Legacy.
Daniel and Frances had eleven children. Scott's eldest son Daniel Henry Scott led his father's other enterprises after his death. Scott and his daughter occupy two of the graves featured in Fremantle Cemetery's Historical Walk Trail.
As part of the WAY '79 celebrations in 1979, 150 plaques were laid along St Georges Terrace in Perth, each commemorating an important Western Australian. Scott was chosen to be associated with the year 1850, the year that he made his warehouse available to house convicts.
The land where Scott's first warehouse became a temporary prison for convicts is now the location of the Esplanade Hotel. The restaurant there is called The Harbour Master after Daniel Scott.


Acacia Highway

The Acacia Highway is a section of the Cebu South Road that stretches from Tinaan, Naga to Valladolid, Carcar in Cebu, Philippines.
It is lined with raintrees and acacia. The trees were planted in 1915 by the personnel of the Bureau of Public Works, the DPWH’s predecessor.


Castlebar railway station

Castlebar railway station serves the town of Castlebar in County Mayo, Ireland.
The station is on the Dublin to Westport Rail service. Passengers to or from Galway travel to Athlone and change trains. Passengers to or from Ballina and Foxford travel to Manulla Junction and change trains.
History.
The station opened on 17 December 1862, from via Mullingar.


Breydon Bridge

The Breydon Bridge is a road bridge carrying the A47 in Great Yarmouth across the River Yare close to Breydon Water. It replaces the former railway Breydon Viaduct which was closed in 1953 and demolished by 1963.
When built in 1985, the bridge was allocated the road number A12, which ran from London to Great Yarmouth via Lowestoft and Ipswich/A14, in February 2017, the A12 was reallocated the number A47 as a Southern extension of the latter road, therefore leaving the Breydon Bridge carrying the number A47 which continues to Lowestoft before terminating at the A12.


Rodovia Luiz de Queiroz

The Rodovia Luiz de Queirós (official designation SP-304) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
It interconnects the cities of Americana, by the Anhanguera Highway (SP-330) and Piracicaba, serving also the city of Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, at which level crosses with the Rodovia dos Bandeirantes (SP-348). It is approximately 45 km long and double-lane.
It has been named in honour of Luís Vicente de Sousa Queirós, a farmer and agriculturist who founded in Piracicaba the first practical school of agriculture in the state, which later became a college of the University of São Paulo.
The highway is managed and maintained by the Department of Roads of the state of São Paulo (DER), thus a toll is not required.


Kvalsaukan Bridge

The Kvalsaukan Bridge () is a bridge that crosses the Hognfjorden in Sortland Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Norwegian County Road 82 between the town of Sortland and the neighboring Andøy Municipality. The bridge is long and the maximum clearance to the sea is .
The Kvalsaukan Bridge was opened in 1975. It was one of four bridges that were built in the 1970s to connect the islands of Vesterålen to each other. The other bridges that were built during that period are the Sortland Bridge, Andøy Bridge, and Hadsel Bridge. Together with the Tjeldsund Bridge near Harstad, these bridges connect the islands of Vesterålen to the mainland. The Kvalsaukan Bridge is the only one of these four bridges that was never a toll bridge.


Nanjing Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge

The Nanjing Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge, was Fourth Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China. The bridge is the sixth longest span in the world and the third largest in China. The bridge has renamed on 20 December 2019.
Jiangsu province's first suspension bridge, it lies 10 km downstream of the second Yangtze River Bridge. The bridge connects Hengliang town, a section of Nanjing Raoyue, Nanjing-Nantong Highway, Hongguang village, towns like Long Pao, Xianling and Qilin in Jiangning District, and a section of Raoyue and Shanghai-Nanjing Highway.
The 4th Nanjing Yangtze twin-tower bridge fashioned after standard expressway, boasts dual six-lane carriageway designed to maintain a 100–125 km an hour traffic.


Mikra station

Mikra () is an under-construction metro station serving Thessaloniki Metro's Line 2. It will serve as the eastern terminus of the line and is expected to enter service in 2023.


Creagh railway station

Creagh (BER) railway station was on the Baltimore Extension Railway in County Cork, Ireland.
History.
The station opened on 2 May 1893.
Regular passenger services were withdrawn on 1 April 1961.


Chartershaugh Bridge

Chartershaugh Bridge is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield as part of the A182 road. The bridge was opened in 1975 and is named after the former settlement of Chartershaugh, which once stood on a site near the bridge.


Horta premetro station

Horta premetro station is a stop on the Brussels Metro. It is located on the north-south Brussels premetro line in the Saint-Gilles commune of the Brussels capital region, Belgium. It was opened on 3 December 1993.
Location.
The premetro station forms part of a southerly extension to the north-south Brussels premetro line (formerly line 3), which originally linked the Brussels-North railway station and Brussels-South railway station. Located on the Chaussée de Waterloo/Waterloosesteenweg, the underground station serves the 3, 4, 33 and 51 trams while the 81, 83 and 97 trams and 48 bus stop 100 m to the north-west around the Barrière de Saint-Gilles.
An underground car park occupies the space between the platforms and the park above. The station is unusual in that it can only be reached from the eastern end, at the entrance on the Chaussée de Waterloo/Waterloosesteenweg, whereas no entrance was built leading to Place van Meenen/Van Meenenplein, which would have eased access to the town hall.
Decoration.
The station is named for Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, who designed a number of significant buildings in the area. Decorative ironwork and stained glass designed by Horta for the Maison du Peuple/Volkshuis and Hôtel Aubecq, which were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s, is on display in the station.
The interior tilework is grey. The station is a favourite hangout for adolescents, and the STIB/MIVB security officers, community wardens and police are often in attendance. On 22 January 2012, the station suffered a graffiti attack of such scale - paint had been splashed carelessly all the way along the walls - that it was closed for 24 hours while it was cleaned.


Yuzui Yangtze River Bridge

Yuzui Yangtze River Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning over the Yangtze River near Yuzuizhen, Chongqing, China. The bridge is wide and carries the G5001 Chongqing Ring Expressway between the Nan'an District south of the Yangtze River and the Jiangbei District to the north.


Guelma Belkheir Airport

Guelma Belkheir Airport was a public use airport located near Guelma, Guelma, Algeria. Google Earth Historical Imagery shows the asphalt runway deteriorated and unusable, with junk, storage sheds, and vegetation.


Ururi-Rotello railway station

The Ururi-Rotello station is the railway station serving the municipalities of Ururi and Rotello in the province of Campobasso.
The station is closed for the passenger service.
External links.
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Jalan Hulu Langat

 Jalan Hulu Langat (Selangor state route B52) is a major road in Selangor, Malaysia. The 10-km section of this road, which is known as Jalan Kawasan Perindustrian Hulu Langat (from Pekan Batu Sembilan (Bt-9) Cheras to Pekan Batu Empat Belas (Bt-14) Hulu Langat), is also commissioned as Industrial Federal Route 3210.


UP Aerospace

UP Aerospace, Inc. is a private spaceflight corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. UP Aerospace provides sub-orbital transportation for corporate, military and educational payloads, via their SpaceLoft XL sounding rocket launch vehicles.
History and future plans.
UP Aerospace was started in 1998 by Jerry Larson, an aerospace engineer who had long been involved in the space program as an employee of Lockheed Martin. Larson was also a member of the Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT), which in 2004 became the first amateur organization to launch a (suborbital) rocket into space. The company was incorporated in 2004.
The first launch of the SpaceLoft XL occurred on September 25, 2006 from Spaceport America in Upham, New Mexico. The vehicle failed to go higher than 40,000 ft due to a malfunction attributed to faulty fin design and unexpected aerodynamic effects.
UP Aerospace conducted eight launches from Spaceport America during 2006–2009, including three in 2009.
They plan to "double the number of customer launches from Spaceport America to six or more in 2010 as demand for the company's services increases."
As of November 2015 the company is developing an orbital small satellite launch vehicle known as Spyder, with support from NASA.
On July 31, 2018 UP Aerospace announced it had been awarded a 5-year IDIQ launch contract by NASA under Flight Opportunities Program. The contract calls for UP Aerospace to conduct suborbital rocket flights for NASA using its SpaceLoft XL rocket. This was the third contract of this type awarded to UP Aerospace by NASA. UP Aerospace had conducted, up to 31 July 2018, 7 launches for NASA under the Flight Opportunities program since 2012.
Launches.
As of 23 November 2019, UP Aerospace has made 18 launches, including 13 with the SpaceLoft XL rocket. Most launches have been successful. All launches have been suborbital and all launches have taken place from Spaceport America.
Maiden launch of SpaceLoft XL took place on 25 September 2006.
On April 28, 2007, some of the cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who played Chief Engineer Scott on the 1960s television series "", and from astronaut Gordon Cooper, were rocketed into suborbital space (along with ashes of about 200 other people) by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America. This was the first successful launch from the site. The payload container was recovered 18 May 2007.
By August 2007, UP Aerospace began offering low-cost launches to youth and students through the Space Generation Advisory Council for as low as US$2,000 per experiment. From 2008, the Space Generation Advisory Council hosted a range of competitions for youth to address specific technical or logistical challenges through the design of their own UP Aerospace TinySat module.
In April 2008, UP Aerospace was hired by the large US aerospace company Lockheed Martin to provide launch services at Spaceport America for a test rocket program. Lockheed Martin stated that they are trying to create a lower-cost-to-orbit cargo service, using a winged vehicle launched atop a land-based rocket. UP Aerospace and the New Mexico location were chosen to aid in testing prototype systems. UP Aerospace was chosen, particularly, because of their experience launching rockets at Spaceport America.
UP Aerospace conducted their 6th sub-orbital launch on April 5, 2012. Called SpaceLoft 6, it was contracted by the Department of Defense (ORS) office. The vehicle also carried on board an experiment from NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. The Spaceloft XL rocket launch set a new Spaceport America record at the time, reaching an altitude of 385,640 feet.
UP Aerospace SL-7 launch took place on June 21, 2013. The vehicle carried 7 payloads for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program and the cremated remains for 39 individuals. This successful flight reached an altitude of 73.9 miles. All payloads were recovered on White Sands Range.
UP Aerospace SL-8 launch on November 12 reached 385,000 feet, on board were experiments sponsored by NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. SpaceLoft XL 8 was the second fully manifested launch for the Flight Opportunities Program.
UP Aerospace SL-9 took place at Spaceport America on October 23, 2014. After a 3-day weather hold, the rocket was launched reaching 408,035 feet (77.25 miles). The NASA Flight Opportunities supported Launch Carried 4 Technology Payloads. Also on board were cremations of 30 individuals provided through Celestis memorial spaceflights as well as an experiment from a private company.
UP Aerospace SL-10 mission launched on November 6, 2015 from Spaceport America. The SpaceLoft XL suborbital sounding rocket carried four technology experiments for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program to an altitude of approximately 75 miles (120 km). For the first time for UP Aerospace the payload experiments were separated from the rocket for an independent re-entry and were recovered 30 miles downrange after parachuting down individually.
UP Aerospace SL-12 mission launched on September 12, 2018 from Spaceport America. The SpaceLoft XL suborbital sounding rocket carried three technology demonstration payloads for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. The payloads were an umbrella-like heat shield called Adaptable Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT), the Suborbital Flight Environment Monitor (SFEM-3) and the Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS). Reached an altitude of 114 km (70.84 miles).
UP Aerospace SL-11 mission was launched on September 17, 2018 from Spaceport America, just five days after the previous flight. The SpaceLoft XL suborbital sounding rocket carried technology demonstration payloads for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. Also on-board was Celestis-15 "Starseeker". Reached an altitude of 114 km (70.84 miles).
UP Aerospace SL-14 mission was launched on November 22, 2019 from Spaceport America. The SpaceLoft XL suborbital sounding rocket carried payloads for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. Reached an altitude of 92 kilometres (57 mi).


Taiping Lake Bridge

Taiping Lake Bridge is an arch bridge in the Huangshan District of Huangshan City, Anhui, China. The bridge spans over the south western arm of Taiping Lake. The bridge carries four lanes of the G3 Beijing–Taipei Expressway.


Fen Road Bridge

Fen Road Bridge or Fen Causeway Bridge is the third river Cam bridge overall and the first road bridge on its upstream in Cambridge.
The road was formally opened on 9 December 1926.


Provincial Highway 84 (Taiwan)

Provincial Highway 84 () is an expressway, which begins in Beimen, Tainan on the Provincial Highway No. 61 and ends in Yujing, Tainan on Zhongshan Road (Provincial Highway No. 20).
History.
The route between Beimen, Tainan and Syuejia, Tainan is under construction and will be completed in 2014.
A short section in Beimen, Tainan between National Highway No. 61 and Provincial Highway No. 17 was open in 2004. It functions as a feeder to National Highway No. 61.
Length.
The total length is 41.428 km.
Exit list.
The entire route is within Tainan City.
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Nea Ionia station

The Nea Ionia station (Greek: Σταθμός Νέας Ιωνίας "Stathmos Neas Ionias") is an Metro station in Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece. It is located from the datum point in Piraeus. It was previous a train station operated by Attica Railways that served Lavriou Square and Strofyli, it was from Lavriou Square.
The first station on this site was open from 1922 to 1938. This station was named Podarades (Ποδαράδες) for an older name of the settlement which later became the city of Nea Ionia, named for refugees from an area formerly called Ionia in Asia Minor. The present Metro station was opened on 14 March 1956 under its present name. It was the northernmost terminus of Line 1 until March 4, 1957. The station, which features two side platforms was renovated in 2003–4.


James Nias Croke

Commander James Nias Croke R.N. (1 February 1837 – 1879) was the fourth harbourmaster at the Port of Fremantle (1868–1874).
Croke was born in Falmouth, Cornwall on 1 February 1837, the youngest son of Commander Wentworth Parsons Croke R. N. and Mary Smith.
On 25 November 1858 he was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. In 1863 he took command of .
Croke married Ida Frances Dickson (1838 – ?) in 1865. They had a one daughter, Ida Clara Mary.
On 28 April 1868 he was formally appointed the Fremantle Harbourmaster.
In 1873 he was promoted to commander on the navy's retired list. In the same year Dalgety Street was renamed Croke Street after him.
In January 1874 Croke took a leave of absence and returned to England with his wife and daughter. He failed to return, and his position was filled in November by George Forsyth.


Broighter railway station

Broighter railway station served Broighter in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway opened the station on 29 December 1852.
It closed on 3 July 1950.


3 Wheeling

3 Wheeling is a Manx observational documentary film charting the sidecar class at the 2016 Isle of Man TT. The film used hidden cameras and lavalier microphones to capture an insight into the sport's highest-profile competitors, Dave Molyneux and Tim Reeves.
The film was financed and distributed by Beaumanx Productions and was shot in association with North One Television, Blue Olive Productions and the Isle of Man Government. It received a limited theatrical release in Northern Ireland, Germany and the Isle of Man, and was released on home media in May 2018.
Development.
Manx sidecar enthusiast and sponsor Christopher Beauman first devised the idea of a reality show in the Isle of Man TT paddocks hoping to promote sidecar racing to a wider audience, in order to increase sponsorship potential for the competitors. Development began in early 2015 with "Greenlight International" handling sales and distribution.
Production.
The Department of Economic Development (Isle of Man) provided support in allowing the production company access to restricted zones at the TT Grandstand, and principal photography took place during racing period of 2016 with Dave Molyneux, Tim Reeves and Klaus Klaffenböck attached to star.
Manx-Based company Blue Olive Productions captured original footage with racing footage filmed and licensed by North One Television. The camera-crew described the filming technique as "invisibly intrusive" and admitted that it took several days to develop a suitable method of capturing the action close-up, without affecting the race-team's concentration.
Beaumanx Productions sponsored "Dave Molyneux Racing" in order to secure the publicity-shy racer. The film's director stated that Molyneux's dislike for the limelight made "3 Wheeling" difficult to film, but acknowledged that it allowed them to portray Molyneux as a "...brilliant character..." with "...a tremendous screen-presence...".
"Second Unit" was filmed during the Southern 100 and Manx Grand Prix 2016, and the movie took ten months to complete.
Release.
The official trailer was previewed at the TT Press Launch in March 2017 and the film was premiered at the Villa Marina on 7 May. Most of the film's stars were in attendance; Reeves and Klaffenböck were unable to attend due to racing seasons commitments. The film was then released in theatres in Northern Ireland, Germany, and the Isle of Man.


Aksakal railway station

Aksakal railway station () is a railway station near Ergili, Balıkesir in Turkey. Located about northeast of the villagen, TCDD Taşımacılık operates two daily trains from İzmir to Bandırma: The southbound 6th of September Express and the northbound 17th of September Express.


Sarwar Shaheed Halt railway station

Sarwar Shaheed Halt railway station
() is located in Pakistan.


Xinguang Bridge

The Xinguang Bridge is an arch bridge located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Opened in 2008, it has a main span of making it one of the ten longest arch bridge spans in the world.


The Inland Sea

The Inland Sea is a 1991 American travel documentary directed by Lucille Carra. It is inspired by the 1971 travelogue of the same title written by Donald Richie. In the documentary, filmmaker Carra undertakes a similar trip across the islands of Japan's Inland Sea as Richie did twenty years prior. Donald Richie narrates the film.
The film won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival (1991) and the Earthwatch Film Award. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
Production.
American-born author Donald Richie primarily researched and wrote about the Japanese people and their culture. In 1971 he published "The Inland Sea", a memoir of his travels across the isolated islands of the Seto Inland Sea to observe the way of life of the region's inhabitants. Twenty years later, documentary film director Lucille Carra intended to retrace his trip. The region was researched for a three-year period before filming began.
Reception.
Critical reception.
The film won the Best Documentary Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Earthwatch Film Award. It screened at over forty film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival. It is in the permanent film collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the UCLA/Sundance Collection.
Home media.
"The Inland Sea" was released on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in 2019.


Taiping Sky Bridge

The Taiping Sky Bridge () is a suspension bridge in Meishan Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. It is the longest suspension bridge in Taiwan.
History.
The bridge was inaugurated on 20 August 2017 in a ceremony attended by Chiayi Magistrate Helen Chang. It then opened on 23 September 2017.
Technical specifications.
The bridge spans over a length of 281 meters with a height of about 1,000 meters above sea level.


Ponte de Varziela

Ponte de Varziela is a bridge in Portugal. It is located in Castro Laboreiro, Viana do Castelo District.


Pierre Radisson-class icebreaker

The "Pierre Radisson"-class icebreakers, also known as R-class icebreakers, are a class of four icebreakers constructed for and operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The Canadian Coast Guard designates the four ships in the class as medium icebreakers. Built in two phases, the first three ships, , "Franklin" and , were built to a common design. The fourth, was built to a modified design and is considered a subclass, the Improved R-class icebreaker. "Franklin" was later renamed "Sir John Franklin" before undergoing a re-design for use primarily as an Arctic research vessel. Upon the vessel's return to service, the ship was once again renamed . All the vessels are named for people who sailed through Canada's northern waters. The class operates in the Arctic Ocean in the summer, patrolling, icebreaking and research missions.
Design and description.
The "Pierre Radisson" class were designed for Coast Guard operations in the Arctic Ocean. "Pierre Radisson", being the first ship constructed in the class, has a standard displacement of and fully loaded. As built the vessel has a gross register tonnage (GRT) of 5,910, a and . The ship is long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The tonnage was later remeasured to .
The vessel is propelled by two fixed-pitch propellers and one bow thruster powered by a diesel-electric system comprising six Alco M251F diesel engines that when driving the shafts create and six GEC generators creating 11.1 megawatts sustained powering two motors that when driving the shafts create . The vessel is also equipped with one Caterpillar 398 emergency generator. This gives the vessel a maximum speed of . The vessel can carry of diesel fuel and has a range of at and can stay at sea for up to 120 days.
"Pierre Radisson" is equipped with a Sperry navigational radar operating on the E/F and I bands. The icebreaker has a flight deck and hangar which originally accommodated a MBB Bo 105 or Bell 206L light helicopter, but currently supports the Bell 429 GlobalRanger and Bell 412EPI which were acquired by the Canadian Coast Guard in the 2010s to replace the older helicopters. The ship can carry of aviation fuel for the helicopters. The vessel is certified as Arctic Class 3 and has a complement of 31 with 11 officers and 20 crew.
Improved R class.
Classified as a Medium Gulf/River Icebreaker by the Canadian Coast Guard, "Henry Larsen" was ordered to a modified design from the rest of the class. The vessel's hull form differs from her classmates, with a differently-shaped bow with a raised forecastle and underwater "ice knife". The vessel also has a different propulsion system. Furthermore, the ship has a Wärtsilä air-bubbling system installed to allow the vessel to reduce hull friction and more easily break ice. "Henry Larsen" displaces at full load. The vessel has a and a making her the largest vessel in the class. The icebreaker is long overall with a beam of and a draught of .
The ship is propelled by two fixed-pitch propellers driven by a diesel-electric system comprising two GE AC electric motors and three Wärtsilä Vasa 16V32 diesel engines. Combined, the system creates , giving the ship a maximum speed of . The ship carries of diesel fuel, giving the ship a range of at and can stay at sea for up to 90 days.
The icebreaker is equipped with a Sperry Marine Bridgemaster navigational radar. "Henry Larsen" has a flight deck and hangar located at the stern of the ship which originally accommodated a MBB Bo 105 or Bell 206L light helicopter, but currently supports the Bell 429 GlobalRanger and Bell 412EPI which were acquired by the Canadian Coast Guard in the 2010s to replace the older helicopters. The ship can carry of aviation fuel for the helicopters. The vessel is certified as Arctic Class 4 and has a complement of 31 with 11 officers and 20 crew and 40 additional berths. The vessel is also equipped with a hospital ward.
"Amundsen" modifications.
In 2003, "Sir John Franklin" was reactivated and transformed into a hybrid science ship. Part of the vessel's storage holds were transformed into laboratory space. The refit included the addition of a moon pool, which enables scientists to lower scientific instruments from inside the hull without cutting a hole in the ice, multi-beam sonar, the replacement of heating and electrical systems, and installation of state-of-the-art scientific equipment.
Service history.
The first three ships entered service between 1977 and 1982. "Pierre Radisson", the first ship of the class, underwent sea trials while transiting the Northwest Passage en route to Quebec City. During the transit, "Pierre Radisson" assisted which had been severely damaged by ice in the western Arctic. After completion, "Franklin", the second ship of the class, performed sea trials in the western Arctic and Northwest Passage. While transiting the Northwest Passage, heading to the icebreaker's assigned base in Newfoundland, "Franklin" lost a propeller in Viscount Melville Sound and was rescued by and returned to the west coast. The two ships then transited to the East Coast of Canada via the Panama Canal. In 1980, the vessel was renamed to "Sir John Franklin" at the request of the crew. In 1983, "Des Groseilliers", the third vessel in the class, made her first voyage to the Arctic.
In April 1984, after the opening of the navigation season on the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes, the area froze up, driving six cargo ships ashore and a further eighteen became stuck in the ice. Five icebreakers were assigned to aid the merchant vessels, however, they proved unable to meet the task. "Des Groseilliers" and were sent to their aid, with "Des Groseilliers" arriving on 11 April and worked to free the stuck vessels and provide safe passage until 29 April.
In 1987, "Sir John Franklin" escorted the Arctic cargo ship/oil tanker to Nanisivik. In July 1989, the icebreaker again attempted to transit the Northwest Passage but was forced to break off the attempt after ice conditions were found to be too severe. In June 1994, at the height of the Turbot War, "Sir John Franklin" was among the Coast Guard vessels sent to monitor the European fishing fleets on the Grand Banks. The ship was kept just out of sight but within radar range of foreign fishing trawlers. These actions led to the detainment and seizure of the Spanish fishing trawler "Estai".
In 1988, "Henry Larsen" joined the fleet. On the ship's maiden voyage from Victoria, British Columbia to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the vessel transited the Northwest Passage, performing sea trials on the trip. Following the 1995 transfer of the Canadian Coast Guard from the Department of Transport to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, "Sir John Franklin" was deemed surplus to the fleet in 1996. In August 2003 after funding was received for the new dedicated research vessel, and "Sir John Franklin" was taken to Les Mechins, Quebec to be refitted as a research ship. The ship reentered service that year and was renamed "Amundsen".
As part of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) experiment in 1997, "Louis S. St-Laurent" and "Des Groseilliers" sailed through the Northwest Passage to meet in Alaskan waters. "Sir Wilfrid Laurier" then escorted "Des Groseilliers" to a point where "Des Groseilliers"s engines were shut off on 2 October and the ship was left with a minimum crew and a group of international scientists. The vessel was then left to drift in the pack ice for a year and dubbed "Ice Station SHEBA".
"Pierre Radisson" participated in Operation Nanook in 2008 and 2009, annual joint training exercises with elements of the Canadian Forces to conduct sovereignty and disaster patrols in the Canadian Arctic. In 2011, it was announced that an image of "Amundsen" would be placed on the backside of the new Canadian 50 Dollar polymer banknote. This was intended to mark Canada's northern frontier and arctic research In September 2013, "Henry Larsen" was sent to aid sister ship "Amundsen" in recovering a MBB Bo 155 helicopter that had deployed from "Amundsen" and crashed near Banks Island killing three crew members including "Amundsen"s master. The helicopter had sunk in of water and "Henry Larsen" assisted "Amundsen" in keeping the ice clear while "Amundsen" brought the helicopter wreckage back to the surface. In August 2014, "Henry Larsen" participated in Operation Nanook.


Cork Victoria Road railway station

Cork Victoria Road railway station was on the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway in County Cork, Ireland.
History.
The station opened on 8 June 1850.
Passenger services were withdrawn on 6 February 1873 with the opening of Cork Albert Street railway station.


Chlef International Airport

Aéroport International de Chlef , also known as Aboubakr Belkaid Airport, is an airport north of the city of Chlef, in Algeria.
The DAOI-Chlef VOR/DME (Ident: CLF) is located on the field.
During World War II, the facility was known as "Warnier Airfield". It was a major Twelfth Air Force base of operations during the North African Campaign against the German Afrika Korps.


Sitiawan Airport

Sitiawan Airport is an airport in Sitiawan, Manjung, Perak, Malaysia.


Ponte do Castelo do Mau Vizinho

Ponte do Castelo is a bridge in Portugal. It is located in Aveiro District.


Provincial Highways of Gilgit-Baltistan

The Provincial Highways of Gilgit-Baltistan consists of all public highways maintained by Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The Gilgit-Baltistan Highway Department under the Planning & Development Department maintains over of roadways organised into various classifications which crisscross the province and provide access to major population centers. These are not to be confused with national highways which are federal roads maintained by the Government of Pakistan and the National Highway Authority.


When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube

When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube is a 1965 German-Austrian comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Hansjörg Felmy, Ingeborg Schöner and Gaston Brocksieper. The cinematographer was Heinz Pehlke. Its German title is An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht.


Lahore Badami Bagh Bus Terminal

Lahore Badami Bagh Bus Terminal (, or Lari Adda), is one of three major bus terminals in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located near Badami Bagh railway station on Circular Road. Badami Bagh serves as the major entry and exit point for all bus travelers.


National Route A008 (Argentina)

National Route A008 is a beltway highway for the city of Rosario, Argentina. Built for traffic to avoid the congested city center, it allows drivers to bypass the city going around it in a much shorter time.
In its length, it intersects with National Route 9, National Route 3, National Route 34, National Route 11 and National Route 174.
The official numbering system denotes this road as "A008" but this denomination is mostly unknown by the locals as it is still called ""Avenida de Circunvalación 25 de Mayo" ("25 of May Beltway Avenue"") commemorating the May Revolution of 1810. Some sections are named after different personalities by local decree. For example:


Selat Lumut Bridge

Selat Lumut Bridge is the longest straits bridge in Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. It connects mainland Port Klang to Pulau Indah.


Drag Pack

Drag Pack was Ford Motor Company's marketing name for an option package available in the United States for some of its car models that included a remote mounted oil cooler and higher ratio rear axle gear (plus engine components on some models). This option is printed on the factory invoice as Drag Pack, Super Drag Pack, Drag Pak, or Super Drag Pak (the spelling "Pak" was used by the Lincoln/Mercury division of Ford). The only known exception is a factory equipped Boss 302 Mustang with the Drag Pack option, which was not marketed by Ford as such, or by any other name.
At the start of the 1970 model year, Ford began installing the Drag Pack on approximately 10% of Boss 302 Mustangs. For those who were aware of it, this free Drag Pack upgrade was available simply by ordering a 4.30 rear axle ratio. The only known exceptions are two early production vehicles with 3.91 axle ratio (special factory orders which received the oil cooler), and two 4.30 axle ratio vehicles (which reportedly did not receive their intended oil cooler, possibly the result of a supply problem). The 4.30 axle ratio exceptions are insignificant in terms of establishing a meaningful pattern, as they represent a normal (1970) production line margin of error.
Donald Farr's book, Mustang "Boss 302", is considered to be the bible of Boss 302 Mustangs. Farr notes on page 78 that
"One engine performance option remained a mystery since Ford failed to publish any information about its availability, although many cars were so equipped. The engine oil cooler, a known Drag Pack option for the 428 Cobra Jet, was frequently found on Boss 302 Mustangs although listed as not available for the Boss 302 in Ford literature. However, it appears that many Boss 302s were factory equipped with a Drag Pack option."


JDS Kitakami

JDS "Kitakami" (DE-213) is the third ship of Ikazuchi-class destroyer escort of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Development and design.
This class was the first JMSDF surface combatant adopted shelter-deck design. Propulsion systems varied in each vessels because the JMSDF tried to find the best way in the propulsion systems of future DEs. The design concept of this class and the CODAD propulsion system of the "Kitakami"-class became prototype of them of the latter DEs and DDKs such as and .
The gun system was a scale-down version of the , four 3"/50 caliber Mark 22 guns with two Mark 33 dual mounts controlled by a Mark 63 GFCS. Main air-search radar was a OPS-2, Japanese variant of the American AN/SPS-12.
Construction and career.
"Kitakami" was laid down on 7 July 1962 at IHI Corporation, Tokyo and launched on 21 June 1963. She's commissioned on 27 February 1964 and was incorporated into the Ominato District Force with JDS Ōi.
On 31 January 1990, the 32nd Escort Corps was abolished, the type was changed to a special service ship, and the ship registration number was changed to ASU-7016. Transferred to the Ominato District Force as a ship under direct control. The long torpedo launcher has been removed due to the conversion work to the special service ship.
She was stricken on 16 November 1993.


Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses

"Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" is a song written by Paul Nelson and Gene Nelson, and recorded by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in March 1988 as the second single from her album "Untasted Honey". The song hit number one on both the US and Canadian Country charts in 1988.
Content.
The song is about a truck driver named Charlie who is retiring after thirty years to spend more time with his wife. The song mentions Charlie receiving a gold watch, a common retirement gift.
Music video.
The video was directed by May/Sams. The video opens with Mattea dining at the Pie Wagon, a diner off Music Row in Nashville, when a truck driver approaches her and asks for her autograph as a present for his wife. Throughout the video, there are scenes of Mattea on her tour bus, performing with her band, and scenes of the truck driver. In the end, the driver makes it home, his wife greeting him, and he hands her the dozen roses mentioned in the song's lyric, as they walk arm in arm into their house; Kathy turns off the lights to the bus, and the video ends with a shot of various trucks driving on the highway.


Megara railway station

Megara railway station () is a station in the city of Megara, West Attica, Greece. It is located east of Megara, near the A8 motorway between Athens and Patras. It was opened on 27 September 2005 as part of the extension of the Athens Airport–Patras railway to Corinth and its current form dates to 2007. It has two side platforms and a siding. The station is served by Line 2 of Proastiakos Athens between Piraeus and Aigio. and Line 5 between Aigio and central Athens/Athens Airport. It should not be confused with the now-closed station on the old Piraeus–Patras railway, which is located within the city itself.
History.
The station was opened on 27 September 2005 as part of the extension of the Athens Airport–Patras railway to Corinth, and its current form dates to 2007. It should not be confused with the now closed station on the old Piraeus–Patras railway SPAP, which is located within the city itself.
Facilities.
The Station has waiting rooms. The raised station is assessed via stairs or lift. It has two side platforms and a siding. The station is staffed, with ticket purchasing facilities and toilets. The station also has a small car park on site. There is a bus stop next to the station.
Services.
The station is served by Line 2 of Proastiakos Athens between Piraeus and Aigio. and Line 5 between Aigio and central Athens/Athens Airport.


Boufarik Airport

Boufarik Airport is a military airport near Boufarik, Algeria. It is the home base for the Air Transport fleet of the Algerian Air Force.
The based aircraft are Beechcraft 1900, EADS CASA C-295, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Ilyushin Il-76. It has the 2e Escadre de Transport Tactique et Logistique and the 7e Escadre de Transport Tactique et de Ravitaillement en vol homebased.
On 11 April 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 operated by the Algerian Air Force crashed just after takeoff from this airport, killing about 257 passengers on board.


Wierzbno metro station

Metro Wierzbno is a station on Line M1 of the Warsaw Metro, located in the Wierzbno neighbourhood, from which it derives its name. The station is in the Mokotów district of Warsaw.
The station was opened on 7 April 1995 as part of the inaugural stretch of the Warsaw Metro, between Kabaty and Politechnika.


Bella-Muro railway station

Bella-Muro is a railway station near Bella, Italy. The station opened on 6 November 1877 and is located on the Battipaglia–Metaponto railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
Train services.
The station is served by the following service(s):
References.
"This article is based upon a translation of the as at June 2014."


Ems Werk railway station

Ems Werk railway station is a railway station near Ems, Switzerland. It is located on the Landquart–Thusis line of the Rhaetian Railway.
Services.
The following services stop at Ems Werk:


Taraz Airport

Taraz Airport , also known as Jambyl Airport is an airport serving Taraz (formerly Jambyl and Aulie-Ata), a city in the Jambyl Province of Kazakhstan.


Izu Skyline

Izu Skyline is a toll road through Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. The road measures 40.6 km and leads through mountainous terrain in the eastern part of Izu Peninsula and connects Atami-touge IC near Kannami-cho, Tagata-gun, Shizuoka and Amagi-kougen IC of Atami city.


SP-98

 SP-98 is a state highway in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.


Xindong Bridge

The Xindong Bridge () is a bridge connecting Gongguan Township and Miaoli City in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
History.
The construction of the bridge began in 1995 and was completed in 1997.
Technical specifications.
The total length of the bridge is 326 meters with its main span spans over a length of 176 meters. It carries 4 lanes of traffic in its 21 meters width and it crosses the Houlong River.


Oulu railway station

The Oulu Railway Station is located in the centre of Oulu, Finland, in the city district of Vaara. All trains are operated by VR. Nearby is the bus station for long-distance buses.
The railway station was built in 1886 when the Ostrobothnia railway line reached Oulu.
The railway from the south to Oulu was electrified in 1983, using overhead electric wires at 25 kV. The electrification northwards from Oulu to Rovaniemi was not completed until 2004. In 2006 the railway from Oulu to Iisalmi was also electrified. The fastest trains from Oulu to Helsinki are operated by VR's Pendolino trains.


Francavilla Fontana railway station

Francavilla Fontana is a railway station in Francavilla Fontana, Italy. The station is located on the Taranto–Brindisi railway and Martina Franca-Lecce railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia and Ferrovie del Sud Est.
Train services.
The station is served by the following service(s):
References.
"This article is based upon a translation of the as at May 2014."


Mark John Currie

Captain Mark John Currie RN (later Vice-Admiral) played a significant role in the exploration of Australia and the foundation of the Swan River Colony, later named Western Australia.
He explored areas in New South Wales, after which he returned to a post in England. In 1829 he married and left three weeks later for Australia on the 443-ton with his wife and servants, arriving at the coast of what was to become the Swan River settlement on 31 May 1829. Chief among the other passengers were Lieutenant Governor Captain James Stirling, Colonial Secretary Peter Brown, Surveyor-General Lieutenant John Septimus Roe, botanist James Drummond and their families.
The diaries and paintings by his wife, Jane Eliza Currie, provide a glimpse into the hard life of the first settlers. Her painting "Panorama of the Swan River Settlement" shows Fremantle in 1831. From it one can begin to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge faced by the colonists.
Family background.
Mark John was born on 21 June 1795, the second of eight children of Mark Currie, Esq. of Upper Gatton, Surrey, and Elizabeth (née Close) and he was educated at Charterhouse School. A portrait by Romney of his mother, entitled "Mrs Mark Currie 1789", is in the Tate Gallery, London. His younger brother, Frederick was created 1st Baronet in 1847 for his services to the Government of India in negotiating the treaties of Lahore and Bhyrowal. The family descended from the ancient Scots Corrie family of Annandale and the Western Isles, through Cuthbert Currie, a cadet living in Duns in the 16th century. It is not related to the Clan Currie created in the 18th century from a sept of the ancient Scots MacMhuirrich Clan.
Mark John married Jane Eliza née Wood on 14 January 1829. They had six children. The first two, Jane Eliza (17 January 1830) and Mark Riddell (17 August 1831) were born in the Swan River Colony. Charlotte (1833), Henrietta Blackwood (1834), Albert Purcell (12 September 1837) and Algernon (1840) were born in England.
Career.
Early days.
He entered the Royal Navy as a Volunteer, First-Class, at age 12 on 29 April 1808, and was posted to under Captain Blackwood (later Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood). There he met James Stirling and the two became close and lifelong friends.
He was promoted to Lieutenant on 23 September 1813 and served on (1814/15), (1816/17), (1818), (1820), (1821) and (1821/22). He was promoted to Commander on 9 July 1823.
In 1822 and 1823, as commander of , he carried out surveys of channels and port entries on the coast of New South Wales and in 1822 commented critically on the penal colony at Newcastle, reporting "King Lash is master here". He was probably not referring directly to the Commandant of the colony, James Thomas Morisset, but to the number and harshness of the punishments he saw at the time of his visit.
Starting in May 1823, Currie, together with Brigade Major John Ovens and experienced bushman Joseph Wild explored the country east and south-west of Lake George in New South Wales. After crossing several rivers and the Goulburn plains they arrived at the east bank of the lake, at about north of the southern end. They struck south-south-east and then west across the Limestone Plains through an area ideal for settlement (now Canberra) to an area which Currie named Isabella's Plain after Isabella Brisbane, the infant daughter of the Governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane. Today this is a suburb in the Tuggeranong district of Canberra. They came to the Murrumbidgee River and followed it in a southerly direction, crossing the Umaralla River thinking it to be the Murrumbidgee. There they came to fertile plains which they named Brisbane Downs. Today the aboriginal name Monaro has been restored to the region. It is likely that the fertility of these areas of New South Wales led him to underestimate the problems that would later be faced in the Swan River Settlement.
When he was a midshipman he must have given a good account of himself because, when in 1827 Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, he appointed Currie as his Secretary. The Nore was a naval station at the mouth of the River Thames and for several hundred years one of the most important commands for the defence of the United Kingdom.
The Swan River Settlement.
During most of the second half of 1828 Stirling was in London, vigorously promoting his dream of leading a settlement at the Swan River. Initial Government reaction was unfavourable, but his persistence and enthusiasm paid off and by November the scheme had support from Sir George Murray, Secretary for War and the Colonies, and had gained an unstoppable momentum. By this time the team of administrators had been decided and on 31 December 1828, Under Secretary Robert W Hay formally appointed Currie as Harbour Master for the new settlement, on no salary. Currie promptly married and on Sunday, 8 February 1829, he and his wife and their servants were on their way on board the .
During the voyage Stirling started to make arrangements for the administration of the settlement. He formed "A Board of Counsel and Audit in the management of the property of the Crown and of public property within the Settlement" and on 16 May the Colonial Secretary, Peter Brown issued an instruction appointing Currie, Roe and the Registrar, William Stirling, to act as Commissioners of the Board. The document ended: "The duties of this office created by the appointment will be fully made known to you hereafter by the Instructions and References which you will occasionally receive. In the meantime I am to acquaint you that his Excellency expects from your zeal the performance of the service required of you without reward of remuneration beyond the satisfaction you will derive from the fulfilment of a duty of this confidential nature."
On 31 May the passengers had their first sight of the western coast of Australia and that night the "Parmelia" anchored off the west coast of Garden Island. The following day the plan was to anchor in Cockburn Sound, between Garden Island and the mainland, but a heavy swell prevented this and instead they anchored off Rottnest Island. On 2 June they made another attempt but, in Stirling's words "The "Parmelia" under my over-confident pilotage took the ground". The next day Captain Charles Fremantle, who had been sent ahead in to claim the colony for King George IV, and the combined efforts of the crews of both ships "extricated her from her perilous situation after she had received much damage". The need to repair the damage made it necessary for the livestock and the passengers and their property to be unloaded and landed on Garden Island. Jane Currie's diary records "July 8, 1829 - Left the Parmelia. Dined at the Governor's. Slept under His Majesty's canvas, within our own walls". She lists their "stock, brought from the Cape and landed on Garden Island - Cow & calf, 4 Merinos, Sow, Goat & kid, 4 Ducks, 4 Drakes, 2 Cocks and 3 Hens - 3 couple Pigeons, 2½ couple Rabbits, 3 couple Guinea fowl." The families remained on Garden Island for the first few months while the menfolk explored the mainland. Soon after arrival Currie, on the Governor's pony, was declared the winner of the colony's first unofficial horse race, held on the shore of Garden Island.
Currie made three expeditions south of the Swan during 1829. In July he led an exploration south of Fremantle. He was accompanied by botanist James Drummond, Dr Simmons and Lieut. George Griffin. From the coast at the present day town of Rockingham they moved inland and climbed a small hill, now named Baldivis. From the summit of this hill they could see a course of water, that Currie later referred to as the Serpentine. This name first appeared on a map published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1832. At one time this river was mistaken for the Murray River.
The first task of the administrators was to find a site for the principal town. A location on the Swan River was selected and on 12 August Helen Dance, wife of Captain William Dance of , ceremoniously cut a tree to mark the foundation of Perth. Currie was present at the ceremony and later the same day took up his duties, at a salary of 100 pounds, as the first Harbour Master of Fremantle, responsible for pilotage and services at the port. A tent was erected "for the despatch of business" on the site chosen for the town. This was to provide offices for the Colonial Secretary, the Surveyor General, the Harbour Master, the Civil Engineer and the Commissioners of the Board of Counsel and Audit. However, later that year, Currie decided it would be more convenient to make his office as Harbour Master and Postmaster on board the wreck of the "Marquis of Anglesea", which had been swept ashore in a gale on 23 August 1829. The wreck is visible in Jane Currie's "Panorama of the Swan River Settlement".
Currie became the Swan River Colony's first Auditor, appointed 1 July 1831, at a salary of 300 pounds "because his ability, intelligence and Integrity render him far more valuable to the public in that capacity than as Harbour Master". He was made responsible to the Colonial Office through the Governor.
On 6 February 1832, empowered by Parliament through the Order-in-Council officially constituting the colony, a legislative council was formed, comprising the governor, the Senior Military Officer, the Colonial Secretary, the Surveyor-General and the Advocate-General. On his own initiative Stirling added Currie to the list as clerk to the council, as he "could not find within the colony a person better calculated than the gentleman who now fills it".
This was high praise, but wasted, because later that year Currie wrote to Peter Brown requesting that the Governor grant him leave of absence "to proceed thither" to England because of "urgent private affairs". This was granted on 26 June and on 12 August, the third anniversary of the Foundation of Perth, Currie and his family left the colony on "Sulphur", not to return. However, two of his servants, Frederick and Mildred (Kitty) Ludlow, remained. In 1834 Ludlow kept a diary of a journey from Augusta to Perth and is credited with the discovery of the Capel River.
Land development.
Currie was allotted a grant of land south-west of the present centre of Perth, alongside a wide point in the Swan River known then as Eliza Bay and Point Currie. The Curries left Garden Island on 2 November to set up their tent on their allotment.
After Currie left the colony he sold this grant to Henry Sutherland, the Assistant Surveyor, who later changed the name to Crawley Bay after his mother's maiden name.
Later still it became Matilda Bay, to honour Matilda Roe, the wife of the Surveyor General.
In 1910 the site was acquired by the state and today is the campus of the University of Western Australia.
Point Currie, also known as Pelican Point and J H Abraham's Reserve, is today the home of the Royal Perth Yacht Club, the Mounts Bay Sailing Club and the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scouts.
A later settlement was alongside the Swan, north of east of the centre of Perth. Here, early in 1831, he built a brick homestead, near the present day Water Street, which he named Redcliff, after the steep red clay banks of the river. Today the area is part of the suburb Redcliffe. A further grant was located about north-west of Beverley at the junction of the Avon River and Dale River, adjoining a grant made to Stirling. Currie's and Stirling's grants were combined in 1849 to form the Avondale Estate, which was acquired by the state in 1910 and is now the site of the Avondale Agricultural Research Station.
Jane Brook, a suburb of the town of Swan about north-east of Perth, takes its name from the brook, a tributary of the Swan River. Stirling named this "Jane Brook", in Jane Currie's honour.
Later career.
He was promoted to Post Captain in 1841.
In January 1854, Rear Admiral Sir James Stirling was appointed "Commander-in-Chief China and the East Indies Station" and immediately wrote to the Admiralty applying for Currie to be his secretary. They arrived in Hong Kong on 11 May and the Admiral's flag was transferred to . Two weeks later news was received from England that war had been declared on Russia and the next day the "Winchester" led a small squadron northwards along the Chinese coast to make a show of strength and 'to prevent Russian ships of war and their prizes from making use of (Japanese) ports'. Stirling's letters and Currie's diaries record the patient and tactful negotiations with the Governor of Nagasaki to achieve this aim and the events leading up to Stirling signing the first Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty.
He received two further promotions, to Rear Admiral on the Reserved List in 1862 and to Vice-Admiral in 1867.
Vice-Admiral Mark John Currie died on 2 May 1874, in Thicket Road, Anerley, Crystal Palace, Surrey. Jane Eliza Currie survived him by two years. In the 1871 British Census she is recorded at 193 Clifton Villas, Beckenham, Kent, on a visit to her daughter Jane Eliza Macrae, who married Robert Campbell Macrae in 1854 and had eight children, the eldest of whom, Mark, later lived at Cranbrook Road, Rose Bay, New South Wales.


Rudy Kennedy

Rudy Kennedy (born Rudi Karmeinsky October 24, 1927 – November 10, 2008) was a British rocket scientist, Holocaust survivor, and a protester for Jewish causes. He spent a substantial period of his youth in Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. After liberation, he worked as a rocket scientist and led the campaign for compensation for the survivors of the German policy of "extermination through labour".
Early life.
Kennedy was born on October 24, 1927 in Rosenberg (now Olesno, Poland), a place near Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He was six years of age when Hitler was elected and had to face antisemitism and physical attacks from other boys when he went to school, as he was the only Jewish boy in class. After fighting back against boys from the school who had attacked him, Kennedy's father then enrolled him to an all-Jewish school in Breslau. Rudy's whole family, which consisted of his father Ewald, mother Adele and a younger sister Käthe, moved to Breslau in 1939. By 1941, Kennedy started working as an electrician with his father.
Rudy's family was forcibly relocated by the Schutzstaffel (SS) to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. At his father's direction, he lied about his age at the concentration camp—claiming to be 18 years of age although he was just 15. His sister and mother were immediately sent to a gas chamber and killed, while Rudy and his father were employed for work. Rudy's father was sent to IG Farben rubber factory, while Rudy was put to work on building roads (where the life expectancy was 6 weeks at most). Rudy's father managed to get him a job in the IG Farben factory where he quickly identified a fault with an electrical system and was kept on to work indoors working for Siemens. Two months later, Rudy's father was killed by the SS when he collapsed due to exhaustion and was deemed "unfit for work", sent to the camp hospital and given a phenol injection. Rudy endured cruel beatings at work and realized that he too would be killed if his work wasn't good enough.
As the Soviet Red Army approached, the SS evacuated the camp in January 1945. Rudy was sent to Mittelbau-Dora to work in a missile factory where he joined a group of prisoners who tried to hinder the production by urinating or throwing sand into the rocket guidance systems. In April 1945 he was sent to Bergen-Belsen where he was deprived of food and survived only by eating grass. Though the British liberated the camp, they didn't know what to do with the thousands of diseased prisoners, but they didn't want them to go out and mix with the general population. Rudy escaped from the camp with 5 other inmates and they made their way to Hannover.
He married Gitti and had two surviving children (Katie and Steve) at the time of his death.
Post-World War II career as a rocket scientist.
Rudy emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1946. He attended college and started working for English Electric as a rocket scientist. He left the company to participate in a joint venture in rocketry and medical engineering with Rolf Schild and Peter Epstein, giving birth to Huntleigh Electronics, a £200 million company. Rudy setup his own company, named Digital Electronics in the 1970s. After selling Digital Electronics, he worked as a board member of Roche Pharmaceuticals.
Campaign.
Rudy founded "Association of Claims for Jewish Slave Labour Compensation" and led the campaign in the 1990s that put pressure on German companies that had co-operated with the Nazi's "Extermination through labor" program to admit responsibility and pay reparations to those who had been forced to work as slave laborers. A BBC Storyville documentary, "I Was a Slave Labourer" followed the progress of the campaign. Among the companies accused of complicit with the Nazi policy and targeted by the campaign were IG Farben, Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz. The campaign group were approached by a firm of class-action lawyers who held that they could obtain damages in the US courts against the companies who were complicit with the Nazi policy. The lawsuit saw only partial success for the plaintiffs; the companies agreed to pay a maximum of £5,000 to each survivor for their sufferings in the concentration camps as "a goodwill gesture" without any legal responsibility to do so. Some of the American lawyers who originally promised to act free of charge, accepted millions of dollars for themselves. Kennedy was dissatisfied with the deal and continued campaigning, speaking at public meetings and protesting at IG Farben shareholder meetings until he started suffering from Alzheimer's.
In August 2000 the German Parliament passed a law to create the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future which provided individual humanitarian payments to former forced labourers and other victims of National Socialism. From 2001 to 2007 a total of € 4.4 billion was paid out to more than 1.66 million people in almost 100 countries.


Las Aguas (TransMilenio)

Las Aguas is a station on the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia.
Location.
The station is located in the eastern part of downtown Bogotá, specifically on the Avenida Jiménez extension, Carrera 3 with Calles 18 and 19.
History.
The Eje Ambiental line of the TransMilenio was opened in 2002, which include Museo del Oro, Avenida Jiménez, and this station.
The station is named Aguas due to the church and neighborhood of the same name located in the area.
This station has a "Punto de Encuentro" or point of gathering, which has bathrooms, coffeeshop, parking for bicycles and a tourist attention booth.
Station Services.
Main line service.
Note: the station does not provide service on Sundays and holidays.
Complementary routes.
The following complementary route also works:
Inter-city service.
This station does not have inter-city service.


Jabaquara Intermunicipal Terminal

Jabaquara Intermunicipal Terminal is an intermunicipal bus terminal in São Paulo, Brazil. Along with the Tietê Bus Terminal and the Palmeiras-Barra Funda Intermodal Terminal, it is one of the most important bus terminals in the State of São Paulo.


Virum station

Virum station is a station on the Hillerød radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It serves the neighbourhood of Virum north of Lyngby.


Kamal Harbour

Kamal is a port, on Madura Island in Indonesia. It is a ferry port, and connects with Surabaya's harbour of Tanjung Perak.
References.
Stephen Backshall, "The Rough Guide to Indonesia" p297


Khayam Metro Station

Khayyam Metro Station is a station in Tehran Metro Line 1. It is located in Khayyam Street. It is between Meydan-e Mohammadiyeh Metro Station and Panzdah-e-Khordad Metro Station. The station provides access to Tehran Grand Bazar.


State Highway 6 (Odisha)

Odisha State Highway 6 is a state highway of Odisha. It connects Muniguda and Odisha State Highway 5 to the city of Bhawanipatna in the northwest.


Cukurfabrika Station

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State road D.260 (Turkey)

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Regalado Highway

Regalado Highway, officially named as Regalado Avenue (North), , four-to-six-lane highway connecting Quirino Highway with Commonwealth Avenue. It is a main thoroughfare in the Barangay Greater Lagro to Mindanao Avenue and of the Neopolitan Business Park. It is named Regalado Highway to distinguish it from the nearby Regalado Avenue which is also a main road in the North Fairview area.


Joe Francis (politician)

Joseph Michael Francis (born 11 December 1970) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2008 to 2017, representing the seat of Jandakot. He was a minister in the Barnett government from March 2013 to March 2017, and was considered a front runner for the Liberal Party leadership until he lost his seat at the 2017 state election.
Early life.
Francis was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Robyn Caroline Mitchell and Charles Henry Francis. He has one sister Janelle May Francis. His primary education was at Spiritus Sanctus Primary school at North Ryde NSW. He attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, and after leaving school joined the Royal Australian Navy. He served in the navy from 1989 to 1994, and subsequently worked as a political staffer for several years. Francis moved to Western Australia in 2000, operating a small business. He re-enlisted in the navy in 2002, and served as a navigator and warfare officer with the RAN Submarine Service, initially aboard HMAS "Farncomb" and later as an instructor at a training centre.
Politics.
In 2008, Francis left the navy in order to run for parliament at the 2008 state election. He was elected to the newly created seat of Jandakot, which had been created with a notional majority for the Labor Party. In June 2012, Francis was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Commerce, and the Minister for Small Business. After the 2013 state election, where he increased his majority in Jandakot, Francis was elevated to the ministry, becoming Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Corrective Services, and Minister for Veterans. In August 2013, he was also made Minister for Small Business. He relinquished that position to Sean L'Estrange in a reshuffle in March 2016, but was made Minister for Fisheries instead.
After losing the seat of Jandakot at the 2017 state election, Francis was appointed general manager of Australian Transit Group. In 2019, he was appointed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Community.
Francis was appointed (2017 - current) as WA Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Australia


Razorback Regional Greenway

The Northwest Arkansas Razorback Regional Greenway (usually shortened to Razorback Regional Greenway or just Greenway in Northwest Arkansas) is a primarily off-road shared-use trail in Northwest Arkansas. Dedicated on May 2, 2015, the Greenway connects Walker Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas to north of Lake Bella Vista in Bella Vista, Arkansas, while also serving schools, businesses and other cultural amenities along the route.
History.
First envisioned by the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission (NWARPC) during long-range planning that identified regional trails, the project came to fruition following the creation of a task force, public meetings, and coordination among NWA communities. Initially, the route was to follow three historically significant routes in NWA: the Butterfield Overland Mail route; Civil War routes; and the Trail of Tears in conjunction with the Arkansas Heritage Trails program.
Funding.
A grant from the Walton Family Foundation in 2009 for up to $15 million ($ in current dollars) requiring 1-to-1 match from partner cities provided a revenue source for planning and design. The routing was also finalized during public meetings to serve many community attractions. A $15 million ($ in current dollars) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration in 2010 assisted in right-of-way acquisition and construction of the project. The Arkansas State Highway Commission also provided $855,000 ($ in current dollars) to the project.
Community attractions.
The Greenway serves the following community attractions:


Einstein metro station

Einstein is an underground metro station on the Line 2 of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. This station is named for Einstein Avenue, which in turn was named after Albert Einstein. The station was opened on 25 November 2005 as the northern terminus of the extension of the line from Cerro Blanco. On 21 December 2006, the line was extended to Vespucio Norte.


Igis railway station

Igis railway station () is a railway station in the village of Igis, within the municipality of Landquart, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway Landquart–Thusis line. The Swiss Federal Railways standard gauge Chur–Rorschach line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart.
Services.
Igis is served by regional trains and the S1 of the Chur S-Bahn:


Pinhoti National Recreation Trail

The Pinhoti Trail is a Southern Appalachian Mountains long-distance trail, in length, located in the United States within the states of Alabama and Georgia. The trail's southern terminus is on Flagg Mountain, near Weogufka, Alabama, the southernmost peak in the state that rises over . (The mountain is often called the southernmost Appalachian peak, though by most geological reckonings, the actual Appalachian range ends somewhat farther north in Alabama.) The trail's northern terminus is where it joins the Benton MacKaye Trail. The trails highest point is Buddy Cove Gap, with an elevation of
3164 feet near the Cohutta Wilderness. Its lowest point above sea level is close to Weogufka Creek near Weogufka State Forest at 545 feet.
The Pinhoti Trail is a part of the Eastern Continental Trail and the Great Eastern Trail, both very long-distance US hiking trails connecting multiple states.
Geographic characteristics.
The north terminus is approximately west of Springer Mountain, which is the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
Georgia has about of the trail, and Alabama contains the other of the trail.
History.
From the Pinhoti Trail Alliance. The PTA Facebook account has the most history and current trail conditions online.
"The Pinhoti Trail is considered the realization of forester Benton MacKaye's original 1921 vision of a trail extending the length of the Appalachian Mountain chain, connecting several existing trails, and sprinkled with permanent camps and constructed to "stimulate every line of outdoor non-industrial endeavor," including recreation, recuperation, agriculture and study. He hoped to spark a "back to the land" movement to relieve the ills of urban industrial life." https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Pinhoti_Trail
From the Georgia Pinhoti Trail Association website:
Construction of the Alabama Pinhoti Trail began in 1970 within the Talladega National Forest in east central and northeast Alabama. In 1977, the Talledega National Forest portions of the trail were designated a National Recreation Trail. By 1983, of trail had been constructed and Mike Leonard of the Alabama Wilderness Coalition proposed connecting the Pinhoti to the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. The U.S. Forest Service and Alabama's Forever Wild land trust aided in the acquisition of major wilderness tracts. The Pinhoti Trail currently travels through some of those acquired lands and others in which it is planned to go through.
The Pinhoti Trail was initially completed in February 2008, and officially opened to the public on March 16, 2008. Efforts continue to improve the trail, mainly involving moving road walk sections of the trail onto trails away from the road. A new southern terminus of the trail at the base of Flagg Mountain, opened in March 2015.
Appalachian Trail designation.
For many years, Alabama and Georgia hiking groups have been advocating for U.S. Congress to officially designate the Pinhoti Trail as a part of the Appalachian Trail — a move that would make Flagg Mountain the southern terminus of the AT.


Thirumalai Thenkumari

Thirumalai Thenkumari () is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language road film written and directed by A. P. Nagarajan. Inspired by the 1969 film "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium", it features an ensemble cast consisting of Sivakumar, Kumari Padmini, Rama Prabha, Shylashri, Manorama, Sirkazhi Govindarajan and Suruli Rajan. The film focuses on a group of passengers who embark on a pilgrimage across South India. It was commercially successful, and won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.
Plot.
Ten to twelve families from different walks of life, different age groups and different languages unite for a pilgrimage, beginning with Tirupati and going as far as Kanyakumari.
Production.
"Thirumalai Thenkumari" was among the earliest road films in Tamil cinema, and took inspiration from the 1969 film "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium". Unlike the original, it was given a "religious twist", with its premise focusing on a group of passengers who embark on a pilgrimage across South India, visiting places like Tirupati and Madurai. The film was actually shot in the places depicted onscreen, as opposed to using sets. Since it was previously believed in the Tamil film industry that writer-director A. P. Nagarajan's films were successful only because of their star cast and "mammoth" scales, rather than his directorial skills, he made this film, which featured mostly newcomers, to silence his critics. Cinematography was handled by W. R. Subba Rao, the art direction by Ganga, and the editing by T. Vijayarangam. The film, which was produced by C. Paramasivan under the banner Sree Vijayalakshmi Pictures, was completed within a month.
Soundtrack.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan. He based the song "Thirupathi Malaivaazhum" on the Suprabhatam. The song "Madhurai Arasaalum" is set in the carnatic raga known as Ragamalika. "Thirupathi Malaivaazhum" and "Madhurai Arasaalum" were written by Ulundurpettai Shanmugam.
Release and reception.
"Thirumalai Thenkumari" was released on 15 August 1970. The film was a commercial success, and won in three categories at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards: Best Music Director (Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan), Best Male Playback Singer (Sirkazhi Govindarajan), and a Special Prize. In 2016, film historian Randor Guy said the film would be remembered for "The music, and fine performances by veteran actors".