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7986334 | Sungai Besi LRT station | Sungai Besi LRT station is an LRT station in Sungai Besi, a town in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This station is served by the Sri Petaling line and was opened in 1996, along with 17 other LRT stations. Its location is .
See also.
Ampang Line;
Sri Petaling Line;
Kelana Jaya Line;
KL Monorail;
Rawang-Seremban Line;
Sentul-Port Klang Line;
External links.
Rapid KL Official Site;
Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd; |
2843783 | 3 Flies Up | 3 Flies Up is a simple variant of American football that is popular in schoolyards, and typically involves one 'flier' who throws the football to a group of catchers, each individually attempting to best each other and catch 'flies' (passes that have not hit the ground) out of the air for points.
Once a single catcher catches three 'flies' (they do not usually need to be consecutive), he or she becomes the new flier, and a new game is played, in which the prior flier joins the rest of the catchers. This can go on for a long time, making 3 Flies Up a perpetual game that can be played indefinitely. In some versions, players make it "interesting" by playing until a specific moment or time, in which the current flier at the time is named champion.
Variations.
Another popular version of the game (different regions and schools play different ways) is called "500", and consists of the same basic principles, but with a different scoring system; The passer randomly calls out a number between 1 and 500 as he or she throws the ball to the cluster of catchers. If successfully received by a catcher, the designated amount of points is awarded, and a winner is declared once a score of '500' is reached. Many school teachers prefer this method, because it can require some basic arithmetic skills, which can be practiced through the physical activity. |
9139633 | Sterling College (Vermont) | Sterling College is a work college in Craftsbury Common, Vermont known as the smallest accredited four-year college in the country. The school is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Sterling is one of only two colleges in the United States to offer a degree in circumpolar studies.
History.
Sterling School was founded in 1958 as a boys' college preparatory school by former Berkshire School faculty member Norman Rioux. The school's educational philosophy was influenced by that of Outward Bound founder Kurt Hahn. The school transition to higher education during the 1970s began with the Academic Short Course in Outdoor Leadership, a 21-day program for 13 to 16 year olds.
Faced with closure in 1974, a group of faculty chose to remain and established an academic year-long program similar to Outward Bound programs known as Grassroots Project in Vermont at Sterling Institute. By 1983, Sterling had developed into an accredited college offering an Associate of Arts degree in resource management with full accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges granted in 1987.
Since 1997, Sterling College has been accredited as a four-year college and has awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with concentrations in wildlands ecology and management, outdoor education and leadership, and sustainable agriculture. The four-year program builds on the Grassroots Year and second-year internship program from the two-year program with a junior year in which many students engage in field studies abroad and a comprehensive Senior Applied Research Project. Sterling College joined the Work Colleges Consortium in 1999 and the Center for Northern Studies, which had been operating in neighboring Wolcott since 1971, merged with Sterling College in 2003.
Campus.
The primary campus is 130 acres (526,091 m²). It has 14 buildings including a woodworking shop and a library. Outdoor teaching facilities include a managed woodlot, a challenge course, a 30-foot climbing tower, organic gardens, and a working livestock farm with two solar/wind powered barns. Much of what is grown and raised is consumed in the dining hall. The Center for Northern Studies at Sterling College is comprised of a 300 acre (1,214,057 m²) boreal wetland and a building containing a library, classroom space, offices and a lounge.
References.
External links.
Sterling College;
Work College Consortium;
Melissa Kirkby, student at Sterling College five-part commentary series at Grist; |
7218360 | Deus Ex SDK | Deus Ex SDK is a software development kit (SDK) for the computer game Deus Ex. It allows users to make their own missions for the game. It was released on September 22 2000 as a free download.
See also .
Deus Ex mods;
External links .
Deus Ex SDK Experiments + toturials |
7214517 | Tefft Middle School | Tefft Middle School is a middle school that educates 7th and 8th graders located at 1100 Shirley Avenue in Streamwood, Illinois. It is a part of School District U46. As of 2006, Tefft serves over 800 students. The principal of Tefft is Lavonne Smiley, the vice principal is David Harshbarger. The dean's Assistant is Anthony Coleman. Tefft also has an on-duty police officer named Joe King.
Special Programs.
Tefft Middle School has several special programs. Tefft has special classes for students who are Hard of Hearing (HOH). It also is one of a few middle schools in U-46 that houses a SWAS (School Within A School) program. SWAS is a program for gifted students. The current SWAS teachers are; Reading Mr. Ziegler, English Mrs. Smerecky, Science Mrs. Hernandez, Social Studies Mrs. Kukla, and Math Mr. McLear.
History.
Tefft Middle school is named after the Tefft Family. The Tefft was an important family in Elgin history. The family helped to begin major farming and industry in the Elgin and Hanover Township area 1835 through the late 1840's. Later in 1852 Phineas Smith hauled milk via an ox team to elgin which was then sent to Chicago on the Galena and Chicago Union railroad. The railroad was built in 1850. Tefft began as the school district's first junior high school and later became a middle school. Tefft middle school was founded in 1964.
Houses of Learning.
Tefft divides its students up into groups called houses (commonly referred to as "cores" or "teams"). All the students in the same house share the same teachers (the only exceptions are physical education and rotation teachers). These are the different houses:
Athena- includes both 7th and 8th graders;
Atlantis- includes only 7th graders;
Atlas- includes both 7th and 8th grade hard of hearing students;
Gladiators- includes both 7th and 8th grade "SWAS" students;
Pegasus- includes only 8th grade students;
Titans- includes only 7th grade students;
Zeus- includes only 8th grade students;
Extracurricular Activities.
Like most U46 schools, Tefft offers several extracurricular activities.
Band, Orchestra, and Chorus.
Students at Tefft have the opportunity to play in the school band or orchestra. As of 2006, students also have the option to join an in-school choir. The Tefft band is directed by Daniel Dorotiak, the Tefft orchestra by Donna Garcia, and the Tefft Choir by David Hain. Band, orchestra, and chorus members are not able to participate in rotation classes.
Rotation Classes.
Students who do not take band, orchestra, or chorus along with the five "core" classes (Social Studies/History, English, Reading, Math and Science) take "rotation" classes. These classes last six weeks and include drama, music, art, family and consumer sciences, industrial education, and computers.
Sports.
Tefft students can participate in sports. In the fall boys can play football and girls can play volleyball. In the early winter and late winter, students can play on the Tefft basketball team. The sports teams play the teams of all the other middle schools in the district. Tefft and nearby Eastview Middle School and Canton middle school have a small rivalry, due to their close proximity to each other. The boys and girls 7th grade basketball team of 2006 won the district championship, going 13-1 for both genders.
Feeder Schools.
Student attending Tefft come from several different feeder schools. Students from either Heritage, Parkwood, Glenbrook, Horizon, or Sunnydale Elementary Schools attend Tefft after completing 6th grade. After completing 8th grade, these students will attend Streamwood High School. Students who attended Horizon Elementary School and Ontarioville Elementary School will attend Bartlett High School. Some will attend South Elgin High School.Students who apply for educational academies in 8th grade will attend the high school where the academy is housed.
External links.
Tefft's website
See also.
Elgin Area School District U46; |
6693237 | Economy of Stamford, Connecticut | The economy of Stamford, Connecticut is unusual for having a cluster of corporate headquarters (many of which moved from New York in the 1980s both to lower their tax bill and to be closer to the homes of their top executives).
The city has four Fortune 500 Companies, nine Fortune 1000 Companies, and thirteen Courant 100 Companies, as well as numerous divisions of large corporations. This gives Stamford one of the largest concentrations of corporations in the nation.
Royal Bank of Scotland announced in October 2005 that it would consolidate its North American headquarters in downtown Stamford and build the largest trading floor in North America (the current largest trading floor is in the UBS building across the street from where the new building is under construction).
Large and distinctive companies.
Citizens Communications (CZN)-- headquarters, 3 High Ridge Park; a provider of telephone, television and Internet access to rural areas and small- and medium-sized towns and cities in 23 states; it also runs a local exchange carrier service in the western states through a subsidiary, Electric Lightwave LLC subsidiary; 6,100 employees companywide; 170 in Connecticut; $2.2 billion in annual revenues; Maggie Wilderotter, CEO since November 2004;
Crane Co. (CR) -- headquarters, 100 First Stamford Place; a diversified manufacturer of engineered systems ranging from vending machines to anti-skid brakes for aircraft; 10,400 employees, 90 in Connecticut; $2 billion in annual revenues; CEO Eric C. Fast;
Conair Corporation -- sales headquarters, 1 Cummings Point Road; maker of blowdryers and other personal health care products, such as Jheri Redding and Rusk, and consumer electronic products, including telephones and Cuisinart products; the company is officially headquartered in East Windsor, New Jersey, but it is privately held by Leandro P. "Lee" Rizzuto, who maintains a home in lower Fairfield County near the Stamford office. Rizzuto is the 392nd richest American, with an estimated $925 million in assets, according to the Forbes magazine "Forbes 400" list. (Rizzuto, a cousin of former Yankees baseball player Phil Rizzuto, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 2002. He was co-founder of the company with his father in 1959.) ;
Gartner Inc. (IT) -- 56 Top Gallant Road; provides research and analysis on the information technology sector; 3,700 employees comanywide; 730 of them in Fairfield County; $989 million in annual revenues; CEO Gene Hall;
General Electric Capital Corp. -- 260 Long Ridge Road;
General Re Corp. -- division of Berkshire Hathaway, 695 East Main St.; a holding company for global reinsurance and related operations. It owns General Reinsurance Corporation and is one of the largest reinsurers worldwide; 895 employees in county, 3,200 companywide; $10.5 billion in revenues in 2003; CEO Joseph P. Brandon ;
Hexcel Corp. (HXL) -- headquarters; develops and makes carbon fibers, industrial fabrics and lightweight, high-performance composite materials, and parts and structures used in commercial aerospace, space and defense, recreation and other industries; 4,455 employees, 35 of them in Connecticut; $1.2 billion in annual revenues; CEO David Berges;
MXenergy (privately held) -- sells electricity and natural gas. The company's fixed-price one- to three-year contracts for homeowners and small businesses were a large part of the reason why the company grew 382.1 percent in revenue in the three years from 2002 to 2005. The company made the Inc. magazine "Inc. 500" list of fastest growing small companies in 2006, ranking No. 370. In 2005 the company had $326.1 million in annual revenue and 100 employees, according to Inc. magazine. ;
Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. (ORH) -- a global property-casualty reinsurance company, 80-percent-owned by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: FFH) of Toronto; 600 employees, 300 of them in Connecticut; $2.6 billion in annual revenues; CEO Andrew A. Barnard;
Outdoor Life Network -- (owned by Comcast) headquarters, 281 Tresser Blvd. (NFL studios are there.);
Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI)-- headquarters, 1 Elmcroft Road; the world's biggest maker of postal meters and mailing equipment and provides mailing and delivery software and services to companies; 32,700 employees companywide, 3,500 in Fairfield County; $5.5 billion in annual revenues; CEO Michael J. Critelli ;
SAC Capital Advisors LLC, a hedge fund run by Steven A. Cohen;
Sempra Energy -- trading division;
Silgan Holdings Inc. (SLGN) -- headquarters, 4 Landmark Square; a supplier of consumer goods packaging products with a 50 percent share of the U.S. metal food container market; 7,500 employees, 225 of them in Connecticut; annual revenues of $2.5 billion; Co-CEOs Anthony J. "Tony" Allott and D. Greg Horrigan;
Star Gas Partners L.P. (SGU) -- headquarters, 2187 Atlantic St.; distributor of home heating oil, propane and other fuels in the Midwest and eastern U.S.; mostly owned by shareholders; 2,700 employees companywide; revenues of $1.2 billion; CEO Irik P. Sevin;
Statoil ASA - North American headquarters, 1055 Washington Blvd.; Statoil ASA is Norway's largest oil and gas company.
Student Loan Corp. (STU) -- headquarters; originates, holds and services student loans; company is mostly owned by Citigroup; 550 employees, 30 of them in Connecticut; revenues of $1.5 billion; CEO Michael J. Reardon;
Thomson Corp. -- operational headquarters; One of the largest companies in Canada, Thomson retains nominal headquarters there, but the company is run from its operational headquarters in Stamford, and if it were officially a U.S.-based company it would be in the Fortune 500; $8.7 billion in 2005 revenue;
Time Warner Cable -- headquarters of this division;
UBS (UBS) -- U.S. headquarters, 677 Washington Blvd.; a financial services company; 4,000 employees in Fairfield County; The UBS trading floor in Stamford, Connecticut holds the Guinness World Record as the largest securities trading floor in the world. The 103,000 square-foot operation has 40 foot arched ceiling freeing it of columns or walls. The size of two football fields and home to 1,400 traders and staff who handle about $1 trillion worth of transactions a day. It is roughly 227 wide by 410 feet long.
Vineyard Vines (privately held) -- The company designs and sells ties, polo shirts, flip-flops and other products. It has a store on Martha's Vineyard and (in partnership with others) has opened stores in Greenwich, and Nantucket. In 2005 the company made the Inc. magazine "Inc. 500" list of fastest growing companies, placing at No. 202 with revenue growth of 547 over three years (2002 to 2004). In 2006, the company again made the list, this time at No. 217 with 569.4 percent growth in revenues over three years (from 2003 to 2005). Its 2005 revenues came to 23.8 million (up from 13.2 the year before) and 85 employees (up from 45 the year before), according to Inc. The company was founded in 1998.
World Wrestling Entertainment -- 1241 E. Main St.; headquarters of the company said to be the largest sports entertainment company in the world.
Xerox Corp. -- headquarters, 800 Long Ridge Road; a Fortune 500 company that makes and sells color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies;
Footnotes.
External links.
Stamford Chamber of Commerce;
Stamford Downtown Special Services District;
Stamford Town Center;
"Made in Stamford: A History of Stamford as a Manufacturing Center";
City of Stamford; |
2371881 | Oingo Boingo (EP) | Oingo Boingo is the first official release from the band Oingo Boingo. This was also the first release of the song "Only A Lad." In a cost saving move, the label chose to release the band's demo recordings rather than paying for a studio session. The song selection includes three original compositions by Danny Elfman as well as a ska inflected cover of bluesman Willie Dixon's "Violent Love." The song "Only A Lad" was subsequently re-recorded and issued as the title track on their first long playing album.
The cover includes an illustration of a cat by artist Louis Wain from the later stages of his schizophrenia.
Track listing.
"Only A Lad" 4:08;
"Violent Love" 2:31;
"Ain't This The Life" 3:21;
"I'm So Bad" 3:49; |
3066522 | Shambhala Mountain Center | The Shambhala Mountain Center was founded by Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1970 at Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. Trungpa arrived in 1971 with a number of students from Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, VT, now known as Karmê Chöling.
The property is nestled on 600 acres (2.4 km²) of grassy fields, forest, ponds, and streams. The center boasts 35,000 square feet of building space for meditation, dharma talks, programs, and living quarters.
The center hosts regular Shambhala Training programs as well as yoga instruction, leadership training, children's programs, and retreats, which last from a week to several months.
Following the death of Trungpa in 1987, his followers began a fourteen-year process of building a stupa at the Shambhala Mountain Center. Completed in August of 2001, The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Which Liberates Upon Seeing reaches 108 feet (33 m) and is open to visitors daily.
Shambhala Mountain Center is affiliated with Shambhala International.
Shambhala Mountain Center was previously known as Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (RMDC) and Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center.
External links.
Shambhala Moutain Center; |
5121228 | Geraldton Gold Cup | The Geraldton Cup, a thoroughbred horse race, was first run on Dec 8, 1887 with a winners purse of £300. The race, staged over 3200m by the Victoria Turf Club was won by Baron Necktar a full brother to Dunlop, the Melbourne Cup winner of the same year. In 1887, the Perth Cup had a winners purse of £250 and placed Geraldton racing ahead of what was to become one of Western Australia's most popular races.
The Gerarldton Gold Cup is hosted by the Geraldton Turf Club.
Past Winners .
2006 TapDog ;
2005 Elvis Rules;
2004 Colorado River ;
2003 Robe River Man ;
2002 TapDog ;
2001 Sir Donald;
2000 Interest Free;
1999 Mount Henry;
1998 Boston Blue;
1997 Clan West;
1996 The Walrus;
1995 Pago Music;
1994 The Walrus;
1993 Pago Magic;
1992 Top Voltage;
1991 Mr. Geraldton;
1990 Great Fellow;
1989 Brazen Face;
1987 Stylish Lord ;
1986 Calingiri City;
1985 Mick's Lad;
1984 Star Warning;
1983 Stock Market;
1982 Outcome;
1981 Russian Robert;
1980 Kens Marty;
1979 Jimadaw;
1978 Under Control;
1977 Racaralma; |
6584222 | Centennial Scarborough | Centennial Scarborough is a neighbourhood located in Toronto, more specifically in Scarborough. The neighbourhood is bounded by Kingston Rd to the North, Port Union Rd to the East, Scarborough Shoreline (Lake Ontario) to the South and Highland Creek to the West.
The largest segment of this neighbourhood is much more commonly known as Port Union, which was the name of the waterfront village that stood here in the 1800s. When railroads came in Port Union did not fare well, however, in recent years a sub division has been built along the waterfront which joins the traditional neighbourhood to the new frontier.
The neighbourhood has many mature trees, parkland and waterfront. It is not among the most affluent neighbourhoods in the city but it is an upper middle class neighbourhood with 93% ownership. For those who want to feel like they are in the country while in the city, this neighbourhood fits the bill.
See also.
List of neighbourhoods in Toronto;
External links .
http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/profiles_map_and_index.htm; |
3272557 | Félix Lajkó | Félix Lajkó (Serbian: ) (born December 17, 1974 in Ba ka Topola, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia) is an ethnic Hungarian "world music" violinist and composer from Vojvodina.
Lajkó's music is difficult to categorize; it is based on wide spectrum of influences of traditional string music from Pannonian plain. It can be viewed as a specific form of jazz, but based on traditional music of Hungary and Vojvodina.
He is a virtuoso violinist, playing with great fervor and passion, and occasionally he plays other traditional instruments, such as Cimbalom. On concerts, he usually performs with his small band, but sometimes also plays solo violin.
Discography.
Lajkó Félix 7 (2005);
Félix (2002);
Félix Lajkó and his Band (2001);
Boban Markovics Orkestar Feat. Félix Lajkó (2000);
Félix Lajkó and his Band: Concert 98 (1998);
Félix Lajkó Attila Lõrinszky: Live at the Academy (1997);
Félix Lajkó And his Band (1997);
Noir Desir: 666.667 Club CD (guest musician) (1996);
SaMaBa Trió: Opus Magnum CD (guest musician) (1996);
Félix Lajkó and his Band (1995);
Mihály Dresch Dudás: Zeng a lélek (1993);
External links.
Official site; |
419644 | Alternative education | Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, is a broad term which may be used to refer to all forms of education outside of traditional education (for all age groups and levels of education). This may include both forms of education designed for students with special needs (ranging from teenage pregnancy to intellectual disability) and forms of education designed for a general audience which employ alternative educational philosophies and/or methods.
Alternatives of the latter type are often the result of education reform and are rooted in various philosophies that are commonly fundamentally different from those of traditional compulsory education. While some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, others are more informal associations of teachers and students dissatisfied with certain aspects of traditional education. These alternatives, which include charter schools, alternative schools, independent schools, and home-based learning vary widely, but often emphasize the value of small class size, close relationships between students and teachers, and a sense of community.
In certain places, especially in the United States, the term alternative may largely refer to forms of education catering to "at risk" students or students with other kinds of special needs, as it is, for example, in this definition drafted by the Massachusetts Department of Education. Other words used in place of alternative by many educational professionals include non-traditional, non-conventional, or non-standardized, although these terms are used somewhat less frequently and may have negative connotations and multiple meanings. Those involved in forms of education which differ in their educational philosophy (as opposed to their intended pupil base) often use words such as authentic, holistic, and progressive as well. However, these words each have different meanings which are more specific or more ambiguous than simply alternative.
Overview .
While pedagogical controversy is very old, "alternative education" presupposes some kind of orthodoxy which the alternative is in opposition to. In general, this limits the term to the last two or perhaps three centuries, with the rise of standarized and, later, compulsory education at the primary and secondary levels. Many critics in this period have suggested that the education of young people should be undertaken in radically different ways than ones in practice. In the 19th century, the Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, the founders of progressive education John Dewey and Francis Parker, and educational pioneers such as Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner (founder of the Waldorf schools), among others, all insisted that education should be understood as the art of cultivating the moral, emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the developing child. Anarchists such as Leo Tolstoy and Fransisco Ferrer y Guardia emphasized education as a force for political liberation, secularism, and elimination of class distinctions.
More recently, social critics such as John Caldwell Holt, Paul Goodman, Frederick Mayer and Ivan Illich have examined education from more individualist, anarchist, and libertarian perspectives, that is, critiques of the ways that they feel conventional education subverts democracy by molding young people's understandings. Other writers, from the revolutionary Paulo Freire to American educators like Herbert Kohl and Jonathan Kozol, have criticized mainstream Western education from the viewpoint of their varied left-liberal and radical politics.
Modern forms .
A wide variety of educational alternatives exist at the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education. These generally fall into four major categories: school choice, alternative school, independent school, and home-based education. These general categories can be further broken down into more specific practices and methodologies.
School choice .
The public school options include entirely separate schools in their own settings as well as classes, programs, and even semi-autonomous "schools within schools." Public school choice options are open to all students in their communities, though some have waiting lists. Among these are charter schools, combining private initiatives and state funding; and magnet schools, which attract students to particular themes, such as performing arts.
Alternative school .
In education, the phrase alternative school, sometimes referred to as a minischool, or remedial school, is any public or private school having a special curriculum, especially an elementary or secondary school offering a more flexible program of study than a traditional school. A wide range of philosophies and teaching methods are offered by alternative schools; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, while others are more ad-hoc assemblies of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspect of traditional education. Today, alternative schools cater to students who have special educational needs as well as those who would like to experience school differently. There are similar programs that exist in higher education settings that serve adults returning to school.
Independent school .
Independent, or private, schools have more flexibility in staff selection and educational approach. The most plentiful of these are Montessori schools, Waldorf schools (the latter are also called Steiner schools after their founder), and Friends schools. Other independent schools include democratic, or free schools such as Sands School, Summerhill School and Sudbury Valley School, Krishnamurti schools, open classroom schools, those based on experiential education, as well as schools which teach using international curriculum such as the International Baccalaureate and Round Square schools. An increasing number of traditionally independent school forms now also exist within state-run, public education; this is especially true of the Waldorf and Montessori schools. The majority of independent schools offer at least partial scholarships.
Home-based education .
Families who seek alternatives based on educational, philosophical, or religious reasons, or if there appears to be no nearby educational alternative can decide to have home-based education. Some call themselves unschoolers, for they follow an approach based on interest, rather than a set curriculum. Others enroll in umbrella schools which provide a curriculum to follow. Many choose this alternative for religious-based reasons, but practitioners of home-based education are of all backgrounds and philosophies.
Correctional Education .
Other .
There are also some interesting grey areas. For instance, home-educators have combined to create resource centers where they meet as often as five or more days a week, but their members all consider themselves home-educated. In some states publicly run school districts have set up programs for homeschoolers whereby they are considered enrolled, and have access to school resources and facilities.
Also, many traditional schools have incorporated methods originally found only in alternative education into their general approach, so the line between alternative and mainstream education is continually becoming more blurred.
Internationally .
Canada .
In Canada, some privately run schools receive government school funding.
The Toronto District School Board has adopted alternative programs into their school system. Sometimes these take the form of entire schools, like Mountview Alternative School which shares space with the much larger Keele Elementary School in Toronto's High Park-Junction, and sometime they are programs within schools, like the Triangle Program, Canada's only high school program designed especially for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.
Then there are also schools like Divine Class, a holistic non-school that guides and certifies average people (aged 18+) how to read people, situations, and events through alternative methods such as Tarot, psychic ability, and esoteric systems.
In Quebec the Universal School of Life has been around for more than 23 years and is focused on Indigo Children and Families and has created a way of life for Indigo Families. see: http://universalschooloflife.com
England .
Sands School is an alternative school in the UK. It has only 65 students, with a high ratio of teachers. The students learn at their own pace in a supportive environment. The school is run democratically, with the students having as much say in how the school is run as the staff. Decisions are made by voting in a weekly school meeting, where matters ranging from what colour the new carpets should be, to the employment of new staff. The school offers a full range of subjects, and attendance to lessons is negotiated, not compulsory. The school also educates students on a larger range than most schools, and gives students choice in what they can learn. Their interests form a large part of what is offered in the curriculum.
Australia .
Preshil, in Kew, Australia, was established in the 1930s. It is one of the few alternative schools in Australia that is unaffiliated with any doctrinal or theological movement. Its primary school has run since established by Margaret Lyttle in 1931, and the secondary school since the late 1970's. See also Village School, Vic; Currambena Primary, NSW; Melbourne Community School, Vic; Collingwood College, Vic; Fitzroy Community School, Vic; Lynall Hall, Vic; Berengarra, Vic Candlebark School, Vic and Brisbane Independent School, Qld.
United States .
Terra Bella Academy, in Mountain View, CA is a publicly funded alternative public school for 8th through 12th grades with about a 1/12 student teacher ratio. The academic curriculum is affiliated with the University of Santa Clara (Santa Clara, CA, USA) and includes social interactive and team building activities. See also http://aecnews.org/newsletter_11_2006/feature.php?#terrabella
India .
In India, beginning in the early part of the 20th century, many educational theorists have discussed and implimented radically different forms of education. Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan and Mahatma Gandhi's ideal of "basic education" are primary examples. In recent years many new alternative schools have formed, like Sarang Palakad Kerala, Adharshila Saakad MP, Sita School - Bangalore, Kanavu, and Timbaktoo Collective Andhra Pradesh. At higher levels of education one finds educational alternatives like multiversity.com that hold open knowledge as an ideal. In the last few decades holistic education, in which the environment of the student is considered an essential part of the educational process, has become popular.
See also .
Unschooling;
Free school;
Autodidacticism;
School;
Education;
Alternative school;
Gifted education;
Special education;
Further reading .
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Resources .
Alternative Education Resource Organization They publish the journal Education Revolution and have a yearly conference.
CHOICE Alternative School, Shelton, WA, USA;
External links .
eklavya foundation Madhya Pradesh India's premier organisation that has developed alternative material ;
Aravind Gupta Toys allowing free use of books and toys A site that provides the BEST collection of readings on alternative education around the world.
Iowa Association of Alternative Education;
International Association for Learning Alternatives;
Blueprint Education, Phoenix, Arizona;
Sands School, Devon, UK;
Informal Education;
Special Education in Alternative Education Programs - ERIC Digest E585;
International Association for Learning Alternatives;
AltLearn - a worldwide network of Natural Learners, Unschoolers, and support groups, linked together by map;
A Vermont High School based on Alternative Education Methods - Otter Valley Experiential High School -Experience The Alternative...Experience Your Life.
Goddard College a progressive, low residency college based upon the ideals and theories of John Dewey - founded in 1938;
Shimer College--a unique Great Books school in Chicago, IL; |
3519472 | Theodore O'Hara | Theodore O'Hara (February 11, 1820 - June 6, 1867) was a poet and Confederate colonel, best known for the poems "The Bivouac of the Dead" and "The Old Pioneer".
The Early Years: Professor, Lawyer, Colonel.
O'Hara was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kane O'Hara in Danville, Kentucky before the family moved to Frankfort. He continued his education at St. Joseph Academy in Bardstown, Kentucky, where he also served as a Greek professor during his senior year. He later studied law with student John C. Breckinridge before being appointed for a position in the United States Treasury department in 1845. As the Mexican-American War was just beginning, O'Hara signed up for the U.S. Army and held the positions of captain and quartermaster of volunteers as of June 26, 1846. For excellent conduct in the Battle of Contreras and Churubusco, O'Hara was honored with the rank of brevet-major on August 20, 1847. O'Hara wrote his first poem, "The Bivouac of the Dead" in honor of the Second Kentucky Regiment officers who died in the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847. Long before the officers were buried at the state cemetery in Frankfort on June 20, 1847, there was a dedication ceremony for a monument in honor of these men. Lines from the poem would eventually grace the gates of numerous national cemeteries. After the war ended in 1848, O'Hara returned to Washington, D.C. to continue his law practices until 1851.
The Later Years: Editor, Diplomat, Confederate.
O'Hara joined others from Kentucky in an expedition to Cuba in 1850. He commanded a regiment in the battle of Cárdenas before a severe injury. He was appointed captain of the Second Calvary on March 3, 1855 before resigning on December 1, 1856. When John Forsyth Jr., editor-in-chief of the Mobile Register became minister to Mexico in 1856, O'Hara took his place in the newspaper. He also edited for the Louisville Times and the Yeoman. He continued to follow government orders, such as his diplomatic mission into the Tehuantepec grant debate. At the beginning of the War Between the States, O'Hara joined the Confederate army and became colonel of the Twelfth Alabama Regiment. He later served with General Albert Sidney Johnston and General John C. Breckinridge, his fellow law student. After the war ended, O'Hara went to Columbus, Georgia to be in the cotton business, but eventually lost his business to a fire. He later resided on a plantation near Guerrytown, Alabama where he died and was returned to Columbus for burial. On September 15, 1874, his remains, along with those of other Mexican War officers were buried in the state cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. O'Hara's friend Sergeant Henry T. Stanton read "The Bivouac of the Dead" at the reinterment and said, "O Hara, in giving utterance to this song, became at once the builder of his own monument and the author of his own epitaph."
External links.
The Bivouac of the Dead; |
185138 | Shabeellaha Dhexe | Middle Shabele (Somali: Shabeellaha Dhexe; ) is an administrative region (gobolka) in southern Somalia. As part of the former Benadir region, its capital was Mogadishu until the mid 1980s, when the town of Jowhar became the capital. It is bordered by the Somalian regions of Galguduud, Hiiraan, Lower Shabele, and Banaadir and the Indian Ocean.
It is named after the river Shabeelle that passes this region.
Districts .
Aadan Yabaal;
Balcad;
Cadale;
Jowhar (capital);
Mahadaay Weyn;
Warsheekh; |
73427 | Detour (1945 film) | Detour is a 1945 film noir cult classic that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake and Edmund MacDonald. A B-movie, it was shot in six days. The film, budgeted for $89,000, ended up costing $117,000 to make. To preserve the film's right-to-left orientation used in the cross-country scenes, the director reversed many of the hitchhiking shots so that the cars appear to be on the wrong side of the road.
The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Martin Goldsmith's novel, and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The 68-minute film was created and released by the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). Because the 1945 Production code mandated that "murderers... must be brought to justice" in all films made, director Ulmer satisfied censors by ending the movie with Al the hitchhiker being picked up after predicting his arrest earlier.
Plot .
A piano player, Al (Neal), sets off hitchhiking his way to California to be with his girl. Along the way, a stranger in a convertible gives him a ride. While driving, Al stops to put the top up during a rainstorm. He discovers that the owner of the car has died in his sleep. Al panics and dumps the body in a gully and drives off in his car. Later, he picks up another hitchhiker. Vera, (Savage) a femme fatale, threatens to turn him in for the supposed murder unless he assumes the identity of the dead man to collect an inheritance.
The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Critical response to the film today is almost universally positive. TIME lists the film in the magazine's All Time 100 Films, and film critic Roger Ebert wrote of the film:
"This movie from Hollywood's poverty row, shot in six days, filled with technical errors and ham-handed narrative, starring a man who can only pout and a woman who can only sneer, should have faded from sight soon after it was released in 1945. And yet it lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it."
Quote .
I know. Someday a car will stop to pick me up that I never thumbed. Yes, fate, or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all.
Cast .
Tom Neal as Al Roberts;
Ann Savage as Vera;
Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey;
Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr;
Tim Ryan as Nevada Diner Proprietor;
Esther Howard as Holly, Diner Waitress;
Pat Gleason as Joe, Trucker at Diner;
See also .
Lost Highway;
External links .
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Time Magazine All Time 100 Movies; |
2375428 | Mabasa, Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya | Mabasa is a barangay of Dupax del Norte in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. It was one of the oldest barrio of Dupax (when the town was not yet divided into two, Dupax del Norte and Dupax del Sur). Mabasa was originally called San Roque, named by the parish priest of Dupax after the saint of hunters because the place then was a thick forest where game was abundant such as deers and wild pigs.
History.
The first settlers of San Roque were Ilokano migrants from the town of Paoay in Ilocos Norte and from Alcala and San Nicolas towns in Pangasinan. They travelled by foot and by horses and carabaos through San Nicolas, Pangasinan, passing through Imugan, Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya because that was the shortest way possible during those times. The migrants settled at Sitio Poonan (later called Puongan). The family of Apolonio Vadil was the first settler in Poungan. Old records from the Roman Catholic Church in Dupax del Sur showed that the daughter of Apolonio Vadil, Tomasa, was baptized on October 10, 1887.
More migrants came and settled along the Apean (Apayan) River from Puongan upstream and occupied the western part of the barrio now called Riverside East and Riverside West. The settlers found the place always flowing with abundant water coming from a spring in the eastern part of the barrio, and so they called the place "Nabasa" which means "wet" in Iloko language. It was later officially called "Mabasa" changing the old name "San Roque." |
9377383 | Catamount Ski Area | Catamount Ski Area is a ski resort located in the Berkshire Mountains in Hillsdale, New York and South Egremont, Massachusetts. It is one of the few remaining family-owned ski areas. While in comparison to "big" mountains in the Northeast, it is small, but it provides some of the best skiing close to New York City (a mere two hours away). While many families tend to prefer nearby Butternut, Catamount has a more diverse and challenging range of trails, including Catapult, one of the steepest trails in the Northeast. In addition, because Butternut now has multiple High-Speed Quad Chairlifts, it is often too crowded. Catamount lifts have short lines and the trails have less people, which means more skiing.
History.
Catamount first open for business in 1939 with three rope tows. But the mountain remained relatively unpopular for a good amount of time. In the 1950s, Jiminy Peak and Butternut Ski areas opened, the other two mountains in the Berkshires and skiing in the area began to become more popular.
Bill Gilbert and Don Edwards took over management and bought Catamount in 1974 and made it what it is today. Both men had a lot of experience manging mountains. Since they have taken over, a lot of new terrain has been added, including Catapult, Sidewinder, and Promenade, and new chairlifts. When they bought the mountain, less than 25% of the mountain was covered by snowmaking and now more than 98% is covered.
Mountain statistics.
Elevation.
Vertical drop: 1000 ft;
Trails.
Skiable area: 119 acres;
32;
10 novice - 40%;
10 intermediate - 27%;
12 advanced and expert - 33%;
Longest trail - 2.5 miles Ridge Run to Upper and Lower Promenade;
98% of the acrerage of the trails are covered by snowmaking.
Trail Map
(m) - trail with moguls most of the time when conditions provide;
(t) - terrain park with various jumps and features including rails and halfpipes;
(n) - no snomaking;
Lifts.
6 total;
1 quad chairs;
1 triple chairs;
2 double chairs;
2 surface lifts;
Lodges.
Main Base Lodge: located at the base.
Taconic Lodge: temporary lodge located at the bottom of the mountain near the Ridge Quad. It will be moved when the incoming condos are built.
Gift Shops.
Cat's Paw Retail Shop - discount for season pass holders. Has some Catamount logo stuff and basic ski clothing. Nothing too special.
Plans for the Future.
Catamount has begun its renovation project to compete with neighboring Butternut. In Summer 2006, the Summit Quad Chairlift was completed. In coming years, an 126 Condo Complex will be built around a lake at the base with ski in/out access. The new condos will also include a retail shopping, dining, a spa, and parking. It will operate year round. The renovations are seomwhat similar to Jiminy Peak's recent upgrades.
Skiing the Mountain.
A few years ago, many would choose Butternut over Catamount because of its draw for families. Butternut has a lot of easier trails. But Catamount has recently dedicated an entire area to beginners called the Meadows and it is serviced by its own triple chair lift. The triple offers to places to get off. One is halfway up the mountain where you can take Ali's Alley or Kelli's Run to various other greens.
The mountain offers an incredible variety of terrain for a small mountain. It has difficult trails such as Catapult, one of the steepest trails in the Northeast. It has black diamond cruisers such as Alley Cat and a favorite intermediate cruiser in Sidewinder. If one should desire a nice, long trail, one could take Ridge Run to Promenade for a 2.5 mile easy run.
The views while skiing are incredible. Some of the notable views include when you ski on the New York side from the Summit right before you get on Glade. When you reach the bottom of Lower Glade or Upper Alleycat, there is a fabulous view of the rest of the mountain. Likewise, when coming down Mountain View on the Massachusetts side, you can see the rest of the mountain.
Overall, the mountain is great for what it is. It is small but will keep you busy all day. It is uncrowded and family friendly.
Tips for a Great Day
Stay away from the Catamount Double Chairlift. It is always crowded and does not take you high enough to make it worth the wait. Just go to the top.
Ski during lunch time. Everyone goes inside the lodges then and the lines are very short.
If you can't ski all day. Get there early so you can get the good snow and short lines. If not, you gotta wait til the end of the day for short lines and by then, the snow is no good.
Trail Reviews.
Easiest (Green Circle)
Ali's Alley - Has no snowmaking and therefore is rarely open. Nice easy Green.
Kelli's Run - Perfect green run for beginners. Not steep but steep enough to get going if you want.
Cat's Meow - Flat trail that takes you from the middle of the mounatin over to the meadows. At times you must "skate" so you can move because the trail is so flat.
Colonel's Caper - A surprisingly fun green that can take you from one side of the triple chair to the other. ;
Esplanade - A great, wide green trail. Excellent for all abilities and easy to learn techniques, etc. Makes Walter's Way worth taking.
Holiday - Great, wide, expansive green trail. Steep at the end.
Upper and Lower Promenade - Great, flat trail, with some surprisingly decent pitches at times. Fun trail for beginners, giving them a long option from to top of the meadows. Beautiful views at the beginning.
More Difficult (Blue Square)
Catamount - great wide trail with decent pitch. An excellent way to finish Chute and Glade although not entiely worth it if you only take the Catamount Doublt to the middle.
Chute - Great way to zip down from Alley Cat to the middle of the mountain. Steep pitch. You can really get some speed and finish off with an array of blue and black trails at the bottom, including Catamount.
Ridge Run - beginning of the longest run on the mountain. It starts off slow and flat but you soon encounter a number of good pitches. The run always has a good amount of snow on it. Gives you options when you get to the meadows.
Mountain View - one of two blue options when you finish Ridge Run. Has fabulous views of the mountain and is a wide trail with decent pitch. Great snow grooming and one of the most underrated trails on the mountain. You meet Holiday at the bottom.
Walter's Way - The other of the two blue options in the meadows. It's okay and has a decent pitch but is often very icy. What makes the trail worth it is after when you get to Esplanade, which is arguably better than Holiday.
Race Slope - small trail from middle of the mountain. It's okay. usually closed for Race Training.
Upper and Lower Sidewinder - Since it's addition it has been one of the most popular trails on the mountain. It is a great long cruiser with steep pitches and not as steep pitches, making it truly enjoyable. It is filled with twists and turns including great views as you pass through the trees and weave through the mountain. One downside is , because of it's popularity, by the end of the day it is icy, especially Upper Sidewinder.
Most Difficult (Black Diamond)
Upper and Lower Glade - A great, wide black trail with nice pitch, especially right before you get to the middle of the mountain. Can be icy at times.
Upper and Lower Alley Cat - Simply the best trail on the mountain for good skiers. It has fabulous twists and turns, great snowmaking, and rarely has people on it. Great, steep pitches allowing for great speed.
Expert (Double Black Diamond)
Catapult - One of the steepest trails in the Northeast. Enough said. very difficult, especially with moguls.
Costs.
Season Passes
A season pass purchase at Catamount is one of the best values in skiing. If you buy in the spring or summer before the season, you can get a great deal of $200 for adults, $150 for juniors and seniors, $100 for kids. Also, if you buy in March, you can ski free that march. If you buy at the right time, it pays in four visits. Not to mention the discount at the Cat's Paw Retail Shop and discounts at other mountains.
Lift Tickets
Night Skiing
Twighlight
Nearby Mountains.
Ski Butternut (Great Barrington, MA);
Thunder Ridge (Patterson, NY);
Bellayre Mountain (Highmount, NY);
Hunter Mountain (Hunter, NY);
Windham Mountain (Windham, NY);
Related Links.
Catamount Ski Area
On The Snow - Catamount Ski Area Reviews
Catamount at About.com
Catamount at SnowCountry.com
References . |
2523900 | German Scholars Boston | German Scholars Boston, also known as German Scholars Agency, and abbreviated as GSA or GSB, is an independent organization for and of 3500+ German speaking scholars, alumni and professionals living and working in Cambridge or the greater Boston area interested in germanic culture. It comprises scientists, scholars, students, fellows, postdocs and alumni from all major universities in the area, including but not limited to Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Tufts University, as well as professionals from different companies, and people from government- and non-governmental organizations. With more than 3100+ alumni, GSB's worldwide membership is at 6600+ now.
GSB provides a forum for its members to meet, discuss, exchange ideas and vital information. As such, GSB invites to specific cultural and social events to get together on a regular basis.
External links.
German Scholars Boston website; |
6913992 | Panagiotis Vasilopoulos | Panagiotis Vasilopoulos (born 1985, Athens) is a Greek professional basketball player. He was a member of the Greece national basketball team that finished second in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. He is a small forward but he can also play as a center or power forward. He is curently plays for Olympiacos BC and he has a two-year contract. |
133654 | Foster Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania | Foster Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,124 at the 2000 census.
Geography.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 34.2 km² (13.2 mi²). 34.1 km² (13.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.30%) is water.
Demographics.
As of the census2 of 2000, there were 1,124 people, 105 households, and 72 families residing in the township. The population density was 33.0/km² (85.5/mi²). There were 115 housing units at an average density of 3.4/km² (8.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the township was 53.20% White, 43.24% African American, 0.27% Native American, 1.96% Asian, 0.62% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.70% of the population.
There were 105 households out of which 28.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.3% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. 28.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.08.
In the township the population was spread out with 5.6% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 61.0% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 6.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 778.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 971.7 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $31,042, and the median income for a family was $29,688. Males had a median income of $15,180 versus $21,607 for females. The per capita income for the township was $11,538. About 16.0% of families and 15.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.1% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over. |
6832988 | Wiener-Ikehara theorem | The Wiener-Ikehara theorem can be used to prove the prime number theorem (see Chandrasekharan's book Introduction to Analytic Number Theory). It was proved by Norbert Wiener and his student Shikao Ikehara in 1932. It is an example of a Tauberian theorem.
Statement .
Let A(x) be a non-negative, monotonic decreasing function of x, defined for . Suppose that
;
converges for Re(s)>1 to the function f(s) and that f(s) is analytic for , except for a simple pole at s=1 with residue 1: that is, is continuous in . Then the limit as x goes to infinity of e(-x)A(x) is equal to 1.
Application .
An important number-theoretic application of the theorem is to Dirichlet series of the form
;
where a(n) is non-negative. If the series converges to an analytic function in
;
with a simple pole of residue c at s=b, then
.
Applying this to the logarithmic derivative of the Riemann zeta function, where the coefficients in the Dirichlet series are values of the von Mangoldt function, it is possible to deduce the prime number theorem from the fact that the zeta function has no zeroes on the line
; |
6140010 | Bukit Timah Road | Bukit Timah Road (Chinese: ; Malay: Jalan Bukit Timah) is a major road in Singapore extending from the city centre to Woodlands Road on the way to Johor Bahru in Malaysia. The road has a distance of 25km, which is one of the longest roads in Singapore, and the road takes its name from the hill. En route, it passes through the areas of Little India, Newton Road, Farrer Road, Singapore Botanic Gardens and Bukit Timah.
Bukit Timah Road splits into two roads at Newton Circus, the west-bound Bukit Timah Road and east-bound Dunearn Road, both of which straddle a canal along their entire lengths. Bukit Timah Road begins at the junction with Rochor Canal Road, Serangoon Road and Selegie Road just south of Tekka Centre as Bukit Timah Road, follows a canal in a northwest direction up to its junction with Clementi Road where it continues northwards as Upper Bukit Timah Road ( ) until the junction with Bukit Panjang Road and Choa Chu Kang Road near the Ten Mile Junction shopping mall as Woodlands Road. The road passes through the Bukit Timah Planning Area. Buildings named after the road are Bukit Timah Plaza and Bukit Timah Shopping Centre.
History.
The road was built in 1845 and the area was infested with tigers that it was a serious threat to humans. The first horseback ride in the island was along Bukit Timah in 1840, which took four days and was made by Mr Thomson and Dr. Little. In 1860, about 200 were killed by the tigers in and about the gambier and pepper plantations. The road was also the last defensive stand against the Japanese army in 1942. The British surrendered to the Japanese at the Old Ford Motor Factory at Upper Bukit Timah Road. A canal was built in later years between Dunearn Road and Bukit Timah Road to solve the flooding problem in the area. In the 1990s, a tunnel and a flyover was constructed namely the Bukit Timah Underpass and the Wayang Satu Flyover. The Newton Flyover exists since the 1970s which goes over the junction of Newton Circus.
Etymology.
Bukit Timah Road is known as tek kha kang a ki in Hokkien, which means "the side of the stream in tek kha (Selegie Road) district". This only refers to the eastern end of the road. The Wayang Satu (Whitley) and Bukit Timah village were differently called. They also referred the road as bee chia lo bue, meaning the "end of the horse carriage road".
Landmarks.
Along the road, major landmarks include Tekka Centre, Little India MRT Station, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, Kampong Java Park, Newton Food Centre, Newton MRT Station, Balmoral Plaza, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Serene Centre, Coronation Plaza, Hwa Chong Institution, Methodist Girls' School and King Albert Park. At Upper Bukit Timah Road, landmarks include Bukit Timah Plaza, Bukit Timah Market and Food Centre, Beauty World, Cheong Chin Nam Road, Hoover Park, Rail Mall and the Old Ford Motor Factory.
References.
Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern University Press, ISBN 981-210-364-3; |
7449438 | Micro loop heat pipe | A micro loop heat pipe or MLHP is a miniature loop heat pipe in which the radius of curvature of the liquid meniscus in the evaporator is in the same order of magnitude of the micro grooves' dimensions; or a miniature loop heat pipe which has been fabricated using microfabrication techniques. |
1081474 | COMPUTE! | COMPUTE! () was a computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. In its 1980s heyday it covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. One of these was COMPUTE!'s Gazette, catering to Commodore computer users.
Its original goal was to write about and publish programs for all of the computers that used some version of the MOS Technology 6502 CPU. It started out with the Commodore PET, Commodore Vic-20, the Atari 8-bit series, the Apple II plus, and some 6502-based computers one could build from kits, such as the Rockwell AIM 65, the KIM-1 by MOS Technology, and others from companies such as Ohio Scientific. Support for the kit computers and the Commodore PET were eventually dropped. The platforms that became mainstays at the magazine were the Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit series, TI-99/4A, and the Apple II series. Later on the IBM PC, Atari ST series, and the Commodore Amiga series computers were added to its line-up.
In addition, COMPUTE! published a large number of computer books.
Most personal computers of the time came with some version of the BASIC programming language. The magazine often featured type-in programs written in these versions of BASIC for their respective computers. Machine code programs were also published, usually for simple video games listed as hexadecimal numbers that could be POKEd into the memory of a home computer such as a VIC-20 or Atari 400. Machine language listings could also be entered in decimal with a program provided in each issue called MLX (available for Apple II and Commodore hardware, and written in Basic). It was noted particularly for software such as the multiplatform word processor SpeedScript, and the spreadsheet SpeedCalc.
Editors of the magazine included Founder Robert Lock, Richard Mansfield, Charles Brannon, and Tom R. Halfhill. Noted columnists included Jim Butterfield, educator Fred D'ignazio and science fiction author Orson Scott Card.
In May 1988, the magazine changed its focus to PCs and PC clones and dispensed with the type-in listings. During the early 1990s, with the decline of the home computer market in favor of the PC market, COMPUTE! went out of publication for a while until it was sold to General Media, publishers at the time of Omni and Penthouse magazines. Ziff Davis bought COMPUTE!'s assets, including its subscriber list, in 1994. General Media had ceased its publication before the sale.(3)
Where are they now?.
Robert Lock: After founding COMPUTE! Publications, Lock started another successful company, Signal Research, which was among the first to publish magazines and books about computer games. He also wrote the book, The Traditional Potters of Seagrove, N.C. in 1994, and started Southern Arts Journal a quarterly magazine featuring essays, fiction and poetry about all things Southern, in 2005.(1)
Richard Mansfield: Mansfield has written many books, mostly on Microsoft technologies, including Visual Basic .NET All in One Desk Reference for Dummies, Visual Basic .NET Power Tools, Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition For Dummies, and CSS Web Design For Dummies. He also writes occasional pieces for DevX.com. He created much controversy with an article he wrote there called OOP is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice.
Tom R. Halfhill: Halfhill went on to become a senior editor at Byte. He currently writes for Microprocessor Report and Maximum PC.(2)
Sources.
Tom Halfhill's web site;
Correction - Ziff buys Compute assets -- Newsbytes News Network, August 10, 1994;
External links.
COMPUTE! at The Classic Computer Magazine Archive website;
Southern Arts Journal;
DevX.com;
Richard Mansfield's article OOP is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice;
Microprocessor Report;
Maximum PC; |
3069860 | Coruña del Conde | Coruña del Conde is a Spanish village and municipality located at the south of Burgos province, Castile-Leon autonomous community, in the Aranda de Duero jurisdiction. 197 people.
Ruins of ancient Muslim, later Castilian Counts' castle, at the top of the hill that towers over the town. Santo Cristo's Romanesque Chapel. Claims to be the venue of the first human flight by air pioneer Diego Marín Aguilera (a plane was placed by the Spanish Defence Ministry by the castle as a remainder of the fact). Birthplace of Bishop Agustín of Popayán, Colombia.
The town is the heir of Roman Colonia Clunia Sulpicia, one of the main Hispania's cities and a conventus iuridicum capital of the Hispania Tarraconensis Roman province, located between it and the neighbour Peñalba de Castro. There, Emperor Galba was proclaimed by its legions and marched over Rome. Stones from the ancient city are usually located as part of in noble buildings of the area, such as churches, arches, walls, castles or even palaces at Peñaranda de Duero.
External link.
Guide about Coruña del Conde; |
1736073 | Cascade Communications | Cascade Communications was a Westford, Massachusetts based manufacturer of communications equipment.
Founding.
Cascade was founded by Desh Deshpande in 1990, and was led by CEO Dan Smith.
Product.
Cascade made a compact Frame Relay system. This system allowed Service providers to deliver ATM-based Frame Relay service in an efficient and cost-effective package.
Their most important direct competitor was StrataCom, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996 for US $4B.
Acquisition.
In 1997, Ascend Communications acquired Cascade Communications for US $3.7 Billion, to move into ATM and Frame Relay markets. Ascend was later acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999 in one of the largest mergers in communications equipment history (US $24 Billion). The Cascade portion of Ascend's business was more interesting to Lucent than the modem termination business that comprised the rest of Ascend.
The seed of startups.
Both Desh Deshpande and CEO Dan Smith profited handsomely from the acqusition, as did hundreds of Cascade employees. In addition, Cascade was notable for invigorating the telecommunications startup culture in Massachusetts in the mid 1990s. Cascade alumni were founders or key contributors to many other financially successful telecom companies:
ArrowPoint, founded by Cheng Wu. ArrowPoint was bought by Cisco for $5.7B during the height of the telecom bubble. ;
Argon Networks, which had Chris Baldwin as VP of Marketing. Argon, along with Castle Networks and Redstone, was bought by Siemens to form Unisphere.
Castle Networks, founded by Steve Kelly. Castle became part of Unisphere.
Ignitus, founded by Mahesh Ganmuhki and Peter Fetterolf. Ignitus was bought by Lucent.
Redstone, founded by Jim Dolce and Kurt Melden. Redstone formed the backbone of Unisphere, and its product line lives on after Juniper Networks bought Unisphere.
Sonus Networks, which hired Hassan Ahmed as CEO. Sonus remains a public company.
Spring Tide Networks, which hired Bob Sullebarger as VP of Marketing & Product Management. Spring Tide was bought by Lucent for $1.5B.
Sycamore Networks, founded by Desh Deshpande and Dan Smith. Sycamore remains a public company. |
2220654 | Gateside, Fife | Gateside is a small village in the north east of Fife, Scotland. It is inhabited by around 200 people although a local housing development scheme wish to use a site in Gateside, (to the majority of residents dislike) to build many more houses. It also comprises a school, a pub, a church, a town hall and Minimart, selling Mini and Smart cars.
The River Eden runs through the village, which flows to St Andrews and then into the North Sea.
The nearest large city is Perth, although Edinburgh is only half an hour away by car. |
6923306 | Magdalena District | Magdalena is a district of the province of Chachapoyas. Magdalena's district, located on the this south of the province of Chachapoyas of the region Amazon, in the high part of the interAndean vale of the river Utcubamba.
Fairy cake is located where the low mountain towards the shores of the River Utcubamba. Fairy cake offers several attractive places for tourists as the beautiful Ruins of Macro. Also he emphasizes the square in the center of the village. To come to Fairy cake a car takes in the city of Chachapoyas.
The management holidays of the cardinal Fairy cake it is celebrated the day of Maria Magdalena, July 20. The Anniversary of the Secondary School Cesar Vallejo is carried out every October 18. As typical meals there is known the parboiled one, the nickname, the candy stick, the Locro of bare Nickname and the cuy with dads between others. Fairy cake is the head office of the parroquía of Fairy cake that is attended by a Priest of the Diocese of Chachapoyas.
In the north Magdalena's District has border with the District of San Isidro of Maino (Chachapoyas) and the District of Levanto (Chachapoyas), in the East with the Province of Rodríguez de Mendoza, in the south with the District of The Jalca (Chachapoyas), in the south-west with the District of Saint John of Lopecancha and in the west with the District of Tingo.
External links.
Magdalena district official website ; |
571313 | François Coty | François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; May 3 1874, Ajaccio, Corsica July 25 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfume manufacturer and the founder of the fascist paramilitary group Solidarité Française.
He married Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron in 1900, and took the more French-looking name Coty, a variation on his mother's maiden name, when he moved to Paris.
He began by selling essences derived from flowers in Grasse, and then peddled his scents to the barbers of Paris. His genius, however, was in marketing and in recognizing that the bottle made the perfume. He had bottles designed by the great ceramist René Lalique. His Rose Jacqueminot scent, in a bottle by Baccarat, was his first great success. Coty's great success, Chypre, gave its name to an entire fragrance family used in the industry's classifications.
He was one of the wealthiest men in France and owned two Paris newspapers, the working class L'Ami du peuple and the aristocratic Le Figaro. He also bought the hunting pavilion of Louveciennes near Saint-Germain-en-Laye, once the property of Madame du Barry. He built multiple large residences, but lived in a hotel on the Champs-Élysées.
Coty was something of a recluse, disliking crowds of any kind, and hiding behind his public image. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc., based in New York City.
The movement he founded drew on the previous Coty-backed groups Faisceau and Croix-de-Feu. Solidarité Française attempted to become the equivalent of the Italian National Fascist Party, with Coty as France's Benito Mussolini (he styled himself the French Duce). Never anything but marginal, the group peaked during the February 6, 1934 rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, when it attempted, in alliance with other far right groups, to topple the Third Republic (Coty had the ambition of having it replaced with a monarchy). The group was outlawed in 1936, through a decision taken by the Popular Front government.
The Stade François Coty in Ajaccio was named after him.
See also.
February 6, 1934 crisis;
Jean Despres;
External links.
Coty, Inc.;
François Coty the Corsican father of modern perfumiers; |
134757 | Chamberlain, South Dakota | Chamberlain is a city in Brule County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 2,338 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Brule County. Chamberlain is home to the Akta Lakota Museum, which profiles the live of nomadic Plains Indians.
Geography.
Chamberlain is located at (43.805548, -99.328444).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 16.9 km² (6.5 mi²). 16.8 km² (6.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.61%) is water.
Chamberlain has been assigned the ZIP code range 57325-57326 and the FIPS place code 11220.
Demographics.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,338 people, 942 households, and 550 families residing in the city. The population density was 139.3/km² (360.8/mi²). There were 1,044 housing units at an average density of 62.2/km² (161.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.83% White, 0.60% African American, 10.18% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races, and 1.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.68% of the population.
There were 942 households out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.3% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.6% were non-families. 36.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 3.01.
In the city the population was spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 86.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,487, and the median income for a family was $43,500. Males had a median income of $29,545 versus $22,009 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,018. About 4.4% of families and 12.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.9% of those under age 18 and 25.9% of those age 65 or over.
External links. |
77776 | All-Fours | All-Fours is a card game known in America as Old Sledge, or Seven Up. It is usually played by four players, with the full pack of fifty-two cards, which rank in play as at Whist, the ace being the highest, and the two
the lowest. The game is seven points.
The game is very popular in Blackburn, England, where it is traditionally played in pubs . Even at the present time it is still organised into pub teams who play on Sunday nights. Nobody is quite sure how long this game has been played in Blackburn, but it has been a fixture in pubs there for a long time.
The game has also been exported to the island nation of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, where is it is the de-facto "National" card game.
There are four different items which count towards the score, whence the name All-Fours. Such items are as follows:
High.--The highest trump out, scoring one to the
original holder.
Low.--The lowest trump out, scoring one to the
original holder.
Jack.--The knave of trumps, scoring one to the
dealer, if turned up; if otherwise, to the winner of
the trick to which it falls.
Game.--Scoring one to the ultimate holder of
the more valuable cards in the tricks won by him,
according to the following scale:
For each ten (trump or otherwise) 10;
For each ace 4;
For each king 3;
For each queen 2;
For each knave 1;
In the case of the players being equal in this particular, or of neither party holding any card which counts towards Game, the elder hand scores the point.
Method of Playing.
The players cut for deal, the highest card having the preference. (This is the old-fashioned rule, but at the present day the Whist rule of "lowest card deals" is frequently followed.) The dealer gives six cards to each, turning up the thirteenth as trump. If the elder hand is dissatisfied with his cards, he may say, "I beg," in which case the dealer is bound either to allow him (by the phrase, "Take one") to score one point, or to give each player three more cards from the pack, turning up that next following by way of fresh trump card. If this should be of the same suit as the original trump, the dealer is bound to give three more cards to each, again turning up the seventh, until a new suit does actually turn up. If the turn-up card is a knave, the dealer scores one, this taking precedence over any other score. If, by reason of the elder hand "begging," there is a further deal, and the dealer a second time turns up a knave, he again scores one. The elder hand leads any card he pleases. His antagonist must follow suit or trump, his right to do the latter not being affected by his holding cards of the suit led. If, however, having a card of the suit led, he neither follows suit nor trumps, he becomes liable to the penalty of a revoke.
The player of the highest card of the suit led, or a trump, wins the trick, which is turned down as at Whist, and the hand progresses through the six tricks. In scoring, the order of precedence is (1) High, (2) Low, (3) Jack, (4) Game; subject, as we have seen, to the contingency of "Jack" having been the turn-up card, the point for this being scored before the hand is played.
The play is mainly directed toward capturing the Jack, and such cards as may score towards Game.
Some players score a point whenever the adversary does not follow suit or trump. Some, again, make it the rule that each player must count his score without looking at his tricks, under penalty of losing one or more points, as may be agreed, in the event of a miscalculation.
Historically, the lowest court playing card was termed the "knave", not the "Jack".
However, due to the influence of the All-fours game, the knaves were increasingly referred to as
"Jacks". When indices were added to playing cards, the lowest court card was abbreviated as
"J" (Jack) in Anglo-American cards because "Kn" (Knave) was too similar to "K" (King),
and from then on the lowest court card in such decks has been referred to as the "Jack".
Historically, All-Fours was a card game played by the lower classes, and thus even the term "Jack" was at one time considered vulgar.
Other meanings.
The expression on "all fours" sometimes refers to a crouched position of being on hands and knees, or bending down to touch the floor or ground with both hands while still standing (also see Adho Mukha Svanasana).
See also.
Four-handed All Fours;
External links.
All Fours online;
All Fours Group;
Manitoba All-fours Association; |
8047139 | It is No Secret | It is No secret is a Christian-country song composed by Carl Stuart Hamblen in 1950's.
Lyrics.
It is no secret,
what God can do.
What he's done for others,
He'll do for you.
With arms wide open,
He'll welcome you.
It is no secret,
what God can do.
History .
When Hamblin quit drinking thanks to Billy Graham he began to lose favor with Hollywood. He was ultimately fired by the radio station when he refused to accept a beer company as a sponsor. Hard times were upon him. During his struggle, John Wayne took him aside and told him all your troubles started when you "got religion" and asked if it was worth it all. Hamblen answered simply, "Yes". Then he said, "You liked your booze so much. Don't you ever miss it?" And the answer was, "No". John then said, "I don't understand how you could give it up so easily." And Hamblen response was, "It's no big secret. All things are possible with God." To this John said, "That's a catchy phrase. You should write a song about it." |
7226213 | Truth (Yuna Ito) | "Truth" is Yuna Ito's 6th single and last of 2006. This is her second single to be a part of the NANA franchise, the first being "ENDLESS STORY".
Overview.
Truth is said to be a ballad, making it her first ballad since Precious which was released on May 3, 2006. This single will be the ending theme to the movie NANA II, a movie which stars Mika Nakashima and also in which Yuna will co-star in.
The PV for "Truth" was filmed in Scotland as well as the performance to the b-side song Take Me Away that is an inside song for the movie.
Tracklist.
Truth;
Take Me Away;
ENDLESS STORY -Little Big Bee Lovespell Remix- ;
Truth -Instrumental-;
Live Performances.
November 26, 2006 - MelodiX! - "Truth";
December 8, 2006 - Music Station - "Truth";
December 9, 2006 - Music Fighter - "Truth";
December 15, 2006 NHK Pop Jam - "Truth";
December 23, 2006 MTV's Cool Christmas - "White Christmas" and "Truth";
December 29, 2006 Sakigake Ongaku Banzuke - "Precious" and "Truth";
Charts.
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan) |
3060222 | Oenophilia | Oenophilia (IPA: ), originally from Greek, is the love (philia) of wine (oeno). An oenophile is a lover of wine.
In the strictest sense, oenophilia describes a disciplined devotion to wine, accompanying strict traditions of consumption and appreciation. In a general sense however, oenophilia simply refers to the enjoyment of wine, often by laypersons.
Oenophiles are also known as a wine aficionados or connoisseurs. They are people who appreciate or collect wine, particularly grape wines from certain regions, varietal types, or methods of manufacture. While most oenophiles are normal, everyday people, some may also be vintners, wine merchants, or as in the case of Robert Parker, one who tastes and grades wines for a living.
The oenophile stereotype is often used for comedic effect, a well-known example being the 2004 comedy Sideways.
See also.
Oenology;
Wine tasting;
Wine making;
Wino; |
2385020 | Larry Morrissey | Lawrence J. "Larry" Morrissey (Born in 1969 in Rockford, IL) is the Mayor of Rockford, IL. As an independent, Morrissey defeated Democrat incumbent Doug Scott in the 2005 mayoral elections after trying in his first run in 2001 with a populist campaign promising road improvements, education reforms, and a revitalized downtown. Mayor Morrissey has struggled to accomplish some of his plan. His sales tax increase referendum was defeated soundly in the March 2006 primary and his effort to return "Home Rule" to Rockford was defeated on the floor of the Rockford City Council. He has been successful at creating a department of lifelong learning, enacting a tough anti-truancy policy, and increasing enforcement of community standard ordinances.
Personal.
-His family are very strong Democrats.
-He was dating a single mother who has a daughter from a previous relationship.
External Links .
Official Bio;
Campaign Site;
Swearing in Speech; |
4946462 | Tom Papania | Tom Papania (b. May 30, 1944) is a Christian evangelist who claims before his conversion that he was a high-ranking enforcer in the Gambino crime family. However, his account is questioned by leading writers and schlders including noted Mafia expert and founder of Ganglandnews.com, Jerry Capeci, writer Rocky Scarfone (who claims that many of the stories Papania tells as his own were stolen from his own autobiography, House of Cards: The Curse of Alphonso) and researchers Wayne Robinson and Brian Karjala who have researched and posted information, email, official U.S. Government documents, and certified arrest and imprisonment records concerning Papania at The Rogues Gallery.
Papania's claimed history.
According to Papania's claims, he grew up in an Italian (Sicilian) family in New York City. Born Thomas Anthony Papanier to the son of a laborer, Tom did not realize until his teens that his late grandfather on his mother's side was Joe "The Boss" Mazaria whom the FBI claims originally brought the mob overseas from Europe. Due to a lack of a purposeful relationship with his father, Tom went on to a life of crime in his mid-teens. For instance, after donning a ski-mask and robbing the corner cafe, a hangout for Italian gangsters, Tom instinctively insisted that they remove their pants a further disrespect so they couldn't chase him. Sometime later Tom states in his messages three men in black showed up at his home to inform him and his parents that they believed it was Tom who had robbed them and that the only reason he was still alive was due to the respect they had for his grandfather. They warned him that if it happened again, not even the respect for his grandfather could save him. Tom explains that he never even knew of his grandfather and that after this meeting, his dad severely chastened him, warning him not to speak with these men again. Tom says he was thick headed and having believed that his dad never showed him compassion he had never taken Tom to ball games nor had ever referred to him as a "son" at the next opportunity, he went to those men and demanded to know who his grandfather was. This is how Tom's story begins of his induction into the mafia to become the 3rd highest member under Carlo Gambino. Tom says he was an efficient collector; he threatened people with ice picks or harm toward their family in order to collect on their debts.
The mafia is like a war, inside and out. Externally they are on constant surveillance by police, and internally there are always members who seek to dethrone those in authority at any expense. Tom states that attempts were made on his life at least three times; for example, once they kidnapped him, tied him up in a warehouse and set fire to it, but somehow he always managed to escape.
According to Papania, he was ordered to shoot some out-of-state men who robbed the garment district. He was told that the inside men were takin care of and eliminated, but they wanted to make an example for the guys on the outside by having them shot in the legs. Tom says that he did as ordered, but that when he got in the airplane to head back to New York, the only people in the airplane were police who put him under arrest for the shooting of those men whom, Tom says, he had not even heard of their names until after his arrest. Tom vowed to keep silent and said nothing before the sentencing judge who gave him the maximum penalty, 5 to 7 years.
After being released on good behavior five years later, Tom was asked to see his Capo (boss of the family). In a meeting with him, he was asked what he thought about for the past five years: Tom had wondered what he had done wrong to get caught. The men explained to him that it was they who had turned him in as a test of his character, and that he had passed the ultimate test: "welcome to the family, Son."
Tom's anger must have boiled but it all simmered down at the sense of belonging to a family for the first time. He says the Gambinos offered him anything out of the "black book" to have control over. Since Tom liked a few of the discothèques, he asked for a couple of days to think it over. As the story goes, Tom was given all three of these for his faithful service.
Regardless of all the millions of dollars he was making, Tom says there remained a vacuum in his life. Papania claims that after his conversion to Christianity, he told Paul Castellano, the current boss at the time, that he was leaving the mafia. Castellano, according to Papania, had a contract on Tom's life until John Gotti took over in December of 1985.
Ministry.
Tom currently has a ministry for prisoners and their families and shares his story around the world.
External links.
Link to Tom Papania's Website - God's Saving Grace Ministries;
Tom Papania's Testimony;
"Former Mobster Takes A Hit In Domain-Name Dispute" -- article regarding Papania and Scarfone's domain-name dispute;
"Tom Papania's testimony is fraudulent! View certified USA courtroom transcripts from Tom himself that prove it" -- Link to webisite with certified records;
"About Rogues Gallery And Tom Papania" -- Over 50 pages of Tom Papania history ;
"CNBC Television Interview with Tom Papania" -- on demand Papania video and articles;
"Jerry Capeci of Ganglandnews says he certainly ain't what he claims to be"; |
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In Hackmeetings, local hacklabs and other similar groups take part in a multitude of activities related to Internet and new technologies, from a political point of view and social, like conferences, round tables, demonstrations, factories and other activities- all of them generally open to the public.
The main reason for this is to present movements like free software, new technologies like wireless and the problems derived from the new technologies like lack of privacy, besides also to spread techniques and applied computer science knowledge of high level.
Meeting places are usually social centers okupados, and public. Hackmeeting is inspired by the event HackIt that began 1998 in Italy, although through the years it has been evolving until obtaining its own identity. It also exists as hackmeeting international, by the alias transhackmeeting, which celebrated its first edition in Croatia. |
306725 | Wallerfangen | Wallerfangen is a municipality of Saarlouis district, Saarland, Germany. Located west of Saarlouis and along the French border, it is the seat of the villages of Ittersdorf, Ihn, Leidingen, St. Barbara, Kerlingen, Gisingen, Rammelfangen, Oberlimberg, Bedersdorf, and Düren. It was established by the Duchy of Lorraine, and belonged to the Duchy until the Napoleonic Wars in the late 18th century, at which time it came under French control. Up until 1687, Wallerfangen possessed town privileges. In that year, the fortifications and most of the buildings were destroyed and the inhabitants were moved to the newly found town-fortress of Saarlouis.
In 1815, under the Treaty of Paris, Prussia assumed control of the area. For all intents and purposes, it remained in the possession of the German Federation of States until 1919. The Treaty of Versailles created an independent and autonomous territory of Saargebiet, administered by France and the League of Nations until 1935. Under the terms of Versailles, the citizens of the Saargebiet voted to become part of Germany, doing so inspite of Adolf Hitler having assumed power in 1933.
World War II brought much despair and bloodshed for Wallerfangen and its citizens. Being the western border of the German Reich, the area became battleground in 1944/45, and the area was evacuated en masse twice. After WWII, Wallerfangen belonged to the newly independent, but French controlled, Saarland. |
1797398 | Santa Cruz, Madeira | Santa Cruz (pron. , Portuguese meaning Holy Cross) is a parish in the eastern part of Madeira. Much of the parish is mountainous, while farmlands cover the remainder of the land including a couple of cherry fields. Santa Cruz is linked with Madeira's only superhighway. It is the third largest major parish in population after Funchal and Câmara de Lobos. Its parish population is 16,842- and the borough is 29,721. The parish is one of the smallest on the island. Its area is 81.52 km²/8,152 ha. Its density is 354.59/km² thus ranking the second most densest in Madeira. It is located SE of Santana, SW of Machico, NE of Funchal. It is linked with a road linking Funchal and Machico while part of the parish is passed with a road linking to Santana. The urban sprawl of Funchal lies westward, while in the East of the parish is the international Funchal Airport, the gateway to Madeira.
The main source of industry are agriculture and fishing while a number of businesses are in the downtown area. The area is split with a stream.
Location:
Latitude: 32.6833 (32°41') N;
Longitude: 16.8 (16°48') W;
Santa Cruz has a few schools, a few lyceums, a gymnasium, banks, a post office, a small port, beaches and squares or plazas (praças).
Parishes.
The 5 parishes of Santa Cruz include:
Camacha;
Caniço;
Gaula;
Santa Cruz;
Santo António da Serra
Parish of Câmara de Lobos.
The parish has a population of 6,070 in 2001, its density is 216/km² and the area is 28.1 km²/2,810 ha.
Nearest parishes (parish).
Agua de Pena, north;
Santo Antonio da Serra, northwest;
Camacha, west;
Gaula, southwest;
External links.
Official site;
Photography
Photos of Santa Cruz;
Map and aerial photos;
Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint or Google;
Aerial photograph from Microsoft Terraserver or Google;
Coordinates: ; |
6769390 | Santa Maria a Vico | Santa Maria a Vico is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about 30 km northeast of Naples and about 13 km southeast of Caserta. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 13,827 and an area of 10.8 km2.
Santa Maria a Vico borders the following municipalities: Arienzo, Cervino, Durazzano, Maddaloni, San Felice a Cancello, Sant'Agata de' Goti.
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6540707 | Peter Simpson (Native rights activist) | Peter Simpson (1871?-1947) was a Canadian-born Tsimshian activist for Alaska Native rights. He grew up in Metlakatla, Alaska, but his Tsimshian ancestors were from Lax Kw'alaams and Metlakatla, British Columbia.
Peter Simpson was born July 4, 1871, in Metlakatla or Lax Kw'alaams (a.k.a. Port Simpson), B.C., though there is conflicting information on his date and place of birth. He was listed as twenty-three years old in 1887 when approximately 800 Tsimshians from "Old Metlakatla," B.C., founded the community of "New Metlakatla," Alaska. He was a member of the Gispwudwada (Killerwhale clan) of the Tsimshian and was raised by an uncle and aunt, Henry and Alice Ridley. He was also related to the Rev. Edward Marsden.
He was well liked by the Anglican lay minister William Duncan, founder of the Christian utopian communities at both Old and New Metlakatla. When Simpson was a young man, he was one of the eight people sent in a canoe by Duncan from New Metlakatla to dismantle the church they had left behind at Old Metlakatla. They hacked it to pieces and burned it to the ground and escaped back to Alaska before they could face prosecution. (Not all histories of Old Metlakatla record this as the cause of the fire that destroyed the church in 1901.)
Simpson also was a principal investor in the short-lived sawmill community of Port Gravina, near Ketchikan, Alaska, from its founding in 1892 until it burned in 1904. This was an offshoot of the Metlakatla community, one committed to Presbyterianism under Marsden. After the fire, Simpson moved to Juneau, and then to Sitka, Alaska.
In 1912, Simpson became chairman of the committee that was eventually to form the Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB), and the committee's only non-Tlingit member. He is considered the father of the ANB and also "the father of Land Claims" in Alaska, the long process that led to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (without Metlakatla's participation, interestingly), long after his death.
Simpson is widely known for his famous quotation, uttered to the Tlingit land-claims activist William Paul at the 1925 ANB convention: "Willie, who owns this land?" William Paul (after a long pause): "We do." Peter Simpson: "Then fight for it." One biography of Paul, Then Fight for It, by Fred Paul (William's son), derives its title from this exchange.
Simpson helped build Sitka's sawmill in 1935 and was closely involved in the life of the Sheldon Jackson School there (now Sheldon Jackson College). The school's workboat the SJS was built by Simpson in 1936, and in 1942 it became a U.S. Navy patrol boat.
Simpson's wife, Mary Sloan, was a Tlingit from Sitka. They raised fifteen children. He died December 27, 1947, in Sitka.
Bibliography.
Johnson, Gertrude Mather (1994) "The Life of Peter Simpson." In Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories, ed. by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, pp. 665-676. Seattle: University of Washington Press. |
1079109 | ABA digital signature guidelines | The ABA digital signature guidelines are a set of guidelines published on 1 August 1996 by the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Science and Technology Law. The authors are members of the Section's Information Security Committee. The document was the first overview of principles and a framework for the use of digital signatures and authentication in electronic commerce from a legal viewpoint, including technologies such as certificate authorities and public key infrastructure (PKI). The guidelines were a product of a four-year collaboration by 70 lawyers and technical experts from a dozen countries, and have been adopted as the model for legislation by some states in the US, including Florida and Utah.
The Digital Signature Guidelines were followed by the Public Key Infrastructure Assessment Guidelines published by the ABA in 2003.
A similar effort was undertaken in Slovenia by the Digital Signature Working Group (within the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (CCIS)).
External links.
The ABA digital signature guidelines available for download;
A tutorial; |
3116814 | Maréchal, nous voilà ! | Maréchal, nous voilà ! (Marshal, here we are!) is a French song dedicated to Marshal Petain. Lyrics were composed by André Montagnard, and music was composed by André Montagnard and Charles Curtioux. The song was performed by André Dassary and whole school children in unoccupied France and Algeria during Vichy France.
La Marseillaise remained the official anthem of the state, but a popular though unofficial patriotic song was Maréchal, nous voilà !. Officially, the song was created in 1940, but Montagnard and Curtioux actually reused another song dedicated to the Tour de France called Voilà le Tour qui passe. The first two lines of that song were: Attention, les voilà ! les coureurs, les géants de la route.
Lyrics.
Une flamme sacrée
Monte du sol natal
Et la France enivrée
Te salue Maréchal!
Tous tes enfants qui t'aiment
Et vénèrent tes ans
A ton appel suprême
Ont répondu « Présent »
REFRAIN:
Maréchal nous voilà!
Devant toi, le sauveur de la France
Nous jurons, nous, tes gars
De servir et de suivre tes pas
Maréchal nous voilà!
Tu nous as redonné l'espérance
La Patrie renaîtra!
Maréchal, Maréchal, nous voilà!
Tu as lutté sans cesse
Pour le salut commun
On parle avec tendresse
Du héros de Verdun
En nous donnant ta vie
Ton génie et ta foi
Tu sauves la Patrie
Une seconde fois:
REFRAIN
Quand ta voix nous répète
Afin de nous unir:
"Français levons la tête,
Regardons l'avenir!"
Nous, brandissant la toile
Du drapeau immortel,
Dans l'or de tes étoiles,
Nous voyons luire un ciel:
REFRAIN
La guerre est inhumaine
Quel triste épouvantail!
N'écoutons plus la haine
Exaltons le travail
Et gardons confiance
Dans un nouveau destin
Car Pétain, c'est la France,
La France, c'est Pétain!
REFRAIN |
3880295 | Palm court | For the Vancouver highrise, see Palm Court (Vancouver).
A palm court is a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances. Notable examples include the Ritz Hotel in London (pictured) and Alexandra Palace.
The concept of the palm court orchestra, a small orchestra playing light classical music, comes from this root. |
452451 | Howard Scott Warshaw | Howard Scott Warshaw is a former game designer who worked for Atari in the early 1980s, where he designed and programmed the games Yars' Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the infamous flop, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. He has also written two books and directed two video documentaries.
Warshaw's first success, Yars' Revenge, first started as an Atari 2600 adaptation of the arcade game Star Castle. However, as limitations became clear, Warshaw re-adapted the concept into a new game involving mutated houseflies defending their world against an alien attacker. The game was a major success and is still regarded as one of the best games made for the Atari 2600. This led Warshaw to be picked as the designer of the game adaptation of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was also a commercial success and was critically acclaimed at the time.
It was his success on Raiders that led to Warshaw being chosen to design and program the ill-fated Atari 2600 adaptation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Problems began early as he was only given five weeks to go from concept to finished product. Amazingly, he was able to finish the game on time. However, it was poorly received, seen as being confusing and frustrating. Atari took a major financial loss on the project, which combined with other poor business decisions and conditions, led to the company being divided and sold within two years. During this time, Warshaw developed and finished another game called Saboteur, which was then re-adapted into a game based on the television series The A-Team. However, Atari was dismantled before either version could be released.
Following the collapse of Atari, Warshaw wrote two books. The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name. In the second, Conquering College, Warshaw discusses his techniques toward academic success, referred to as RASABIC (Read Ahead, Stay Ahead, Be In Class) which enabled him to graduate early and save one full year's tuition.
Later, he studied video production, and released the documentary From There to Here: Scenes of Passage., a chronicle of the American immigration of two Russian women from the same family, one in 1912 and the other in 1978. Subsequently he went on to produce the multi-part documentary Once Upon Atari, a collection of interviews and stories of employees and designers at Atari during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In 2004 classic video game enthusiasts were able to produce cartridges of Saboteur for sale at game expos. It debued at PhillyClassic 5 where Warshaw was at hand to bless the distribution and even autograph the cartridges. That year Atari also released the Atari Flashback system that includes fifteen Atari 2600 and five Atari 7800 titles, including Saboteur.
In his games, Warshaw is also known for always leaving his initials as an Easter Egg. Along with this, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the player can find a "Yar;" and in E.T., the player can find both a "Yar" and an "Indy."; in Yar's Revenge, if the player stays on the "mean streak" while the base is exploding, HSWWSH (his initials forwards and backwards) appear on the screen - and end the game.
External links.
Howard Scott Warshaw's Home Page;
Once Upon Atari;
Warshaw's Conquering College Book;
Warshaw's PAN Book;
Digital Press interview with Howard Scott Warshaw;
Howard Scott Warshaw profile on MobyGames; |
8368367 | Raoul van Caenegem | Raoul van Caenegem, a Belgian historian, was a professor at the University of Ghent. In 1974, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences for his work on medieval history. He studied the history of continental and common law, and why they diverge so sharply. He revealed the significance of power struggles between the judiciary, legislators and legal scholars.
References. |
355024 | Capital (architecture) | In several traditions of architecture including Classical architecture, the capital (from the Latin caput, 'head') forms the crowning member of the column. The capital projects on each side as it rises, in order to support the abacus and unite the form of the latter (normally square) with the circular shaft of the column. The bulk of the capital may either be convex, as in the Doric order; concave, as in the inverted bell of the Corinthian order; or scrolling out, as in the Ionic order. These form the three principal types on which all capitals are based. The Composite order (illustration, right) established in the 16th century on a hint from the Arch of Titus, adds Ionic volutes to Corinthian acanthus leaves.
From the prominent position it occupies in all monumental buildings, the capital is often selected for ornamentation, and is often the clearest indicator of the architectural order (see Orders of architecture). The treatment of its detail may be an indication of the building's date.
Ancient capitals.
The two earliest Egyptian capitals of importance are those which are based on the lotus and papyrus plants respectively, and these, with the palm tree capital, were the chief types employed by the Egyptians, until under the Ptolemies in the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE, various other river plants were also employed, and the conventional lotus capital went through various modifications.
Some kind of volute capital is shown in the Assyrian bas-reliefs, but no Assyrian capital has ever been found; the enriched bases exhibited in the British Museum were initially misinterpreted as capitals.
In the Achaemenid Persian capital the brackets are carved with the lion or the griffin projecting right and left to support the architrave; on their backs they carry other brackets at right angles to support the cross timbers. The profuse decoration underneath the bracket capital in the palaces of Xerxes at Susa and elsewhere, serves no structural function, but gives some variety to the extenuated shaft.
The earliest Aegean capital is that shown in the frescoes at Knossos in Crete (1600 BCE); it was of the convex type, probably moulded in stucco. Capitals of the second, concave type, include the richly carved examples of the columns flanking the Tomb of Agamemnon in Mycenae (c. 1100 BCE): they are carved with a chevron device, and with a concave apophyge on which the buds of some flowers are sculpted.
Classical capitals.
The Doric capital is the simplest of the five Classical orders: it consists of the abacus above an ovolo molding, with an astragal collar set below. In the Temple of Apollo, Syracuse (c. 700 BCE), the echinus moulding has become a more definite form: this in the Parthenon reaches its culmination, where the convexity is at the top and bottom with a delicate uniting curve. The sloping side of the echinus becomes flatter in the later examples, and in the Colosseum at Rome forms a quarter round (See the more complete discussion at Doric order).
In the Ionic capital (illustration, left), spirally coiled volutes are inserted between the abacus and the ovolo. In the Ionic capitals of the archaic Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (560 BCE) the width of the abacus is twice that of its depth, consequently the earliest Ionic capital known was virtually a bracket capital. A century later, in the temple on the Ilissus, the abacus has become square (See the more complete discussion at Ionic order).
It has been suggested that the foliage of the Greek Corinthian capital was based on the Acanthus spinosus, that of the Roman on the Acanthus mollis. Not all architectural foliage is as realistic as Isaac Ware's (illustration, right) however. The leaves are generally carved in two 'ranks' or bands, like one leafy cup set within another. One of the most beautiful Corinthian capitals is that from the Tholos of Epidaurus (400 BCE); it illustrates the transition between the earlier Greek capital, as at Bassae, and the Roman version that Renaissance and modern architects inherited and refined (See the more complete discussion at Corinthian order).
In Roman architectural practice, capitals are briefly treated in their proper context among the detailing proper to each of the 'Orders', in the only complete architectural textbook to have survived from classical times, the Ten Books on Architecture, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, better known just as Vitruvius, dedicated to the emperor Augustus. The various orders are discussed in Vitruvius' books iii and iv. Vitruvius describes Roman practice in a practical fashion. He gives some tales about the invention of each of the Orders, but he does not give a hard and fast set of canonical rules for the execution of capitals.
Two further, specifically Roman orders of architecture have their characteristic capitals, the sturdy and primitive Tuscan capitals, typically used in military buildings, similar to Greek Doric, but with fewer small moldings in its profile, and the invented Composite capitals not even mentioned by Vitruvius, which combined Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus capitals, in an order that was otherwise quite similar in proportions to the Corinthian, itself an order that Romans employed much more often than Greeks.
The increasing adoption of Composite capitals signalled a trend towards freer, more inventive (and often coarser) capitals in Late Antiquity.
Indo-Corinthian capitals.
Main article: Indo-Corinthian capital;
Indo-Corinthian capitals are capitals crowning columns or pilasters, which can be found in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, and usually combine Hellenistic and Indian elements. These capitals are typically dated to the first centuries of our era, and constitute important elements of Greco-Buddhist art.
The Classical design was often adapted, usually taking a more elongated form, and sometimes being combined with scrolls, generally within the context of Buddhist stupas and temples. Indo-Corinthian capitals also incorporated figures of the Buddha or Bodhisattvas, usually as central figures surrounded by, and often under the shade of, the luxurious foliage of Corinthian designs.
Byzantine and Gothic capitals.
Byzantine capitals are of endless variety; the Roman composite capital would seem to have been the favourite type they followed at first: subsequently, the block of stone was left rough as it came from the quarry, and the sculptor, set to carve it, evolved new types of design to his own fancy, so that one rarely meets with many repetitions of the same design. One of the most remarkable is the capital in which the leaves are carved as if blown by the wind; the finest example being in Santa Sophia, Thessalonica; those in the Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice specially attracted Ruskin's fancy. Others appear in St Apollinare-in-Classe, Ravenna.
The capital in San Vitale, Ravenna shows above it the dosseret required to carry the arch, the springing of which was much wider than the abacus of the capital.
The Romanesque and Gothic capitals throughout Europe present as much variety as in the Byzantine and for the same reason, that the artist evolved his conception of the design trom the block he was carving, but in these styles it goes further, on account of the clustering of columns and piers.
The earliest type of capital in Lombardy and Germany is that which is known as the cushion-cap, in which the lower portion of the cube block has been cut away to meet the circular shaft. These early types were generally painted at first with various geometrical designs, afterwards carved.
In Byzantine capitals, the eagle, the lion and the lamb are occasionally carved, but treated conventionally. In England and France, the figures introduced into the capitals are sometimes full of character. These capitals, however, are not equal to those of the Early English school, in which the foliage is conventionally treated as if it had been copied from metalwork, and is of infinite variety, being found in small village churches as well as in cathedrals.
Renaissance and post-Renaissance capitals.
In the Renaissance period the feature became of the greatest importance and its variety almost as great as in the Byzantine and Gothic styles. The flat pilaster, which was employed so extensively in the Renaissance, called for a planar rendition of the capital, executed in high relief. This affected the designs of capitals. A traditional 15th century Early Renaissance variant of the Composite capital turns the volutes inwards above stiffened leaf carving. In new Renaissance combinations in capital designs, most of the ornament can be traced to Roman sources.
The Renaissance was as much a reinterpretation as a revival of Classical norms. The volutes of Greek and Roman Ionic capitals lie in the same plane as the architrave above them. This may create an awkward transition at the corner, where, for example, the designer of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis, brought the outside volute of the end capitals forward at a 45-degree angle. The problem was more satisfactorily solved by the 16th century Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio, who angled outwards all the volutes of his Ionic capitals. Since then, the use of antique Ionic capitals, instead of Serlio's version, has tended to lend an archaic air to the entire context, as in Greek Revival.
Within the bounds of decorum, a certain amount of inventive play has always been acceptable within the classical tradition. When Benjamin Latrobe redesigned the Senate Vestibule in the United States Capitol in 1807, he introduced six columns that he 'Americanized' with ears of corn (maize) substituting for the European acanthus leaves. As Latrobe reported to Thomas Jefferson in August 1809,
"These capitals during the summer session obtained me more applause from members of Congress than all the works of magnitude or difficulty that surround them. They christened them the 'corncob capitals'.";
References.
Lewis, Philippa & Gillian Darley (1986) Dictionary of Ornament, NY: Pantheon; |
8013366 | The Darkest Cloud | The Darkest Cloud is the debut album by Chicago rapper Vakill, released May 5, 2003 on Molemen Records . The album came eight long years after the rapper's 1995 debut EP Who's Afraid? . The album drew acclaim from underground fans and critics alike, due to its dark production and advanced lyricism . The Darkest Cloud features production from members of The Molemen, and guest appearances from Slug (of Atmosphere), Copywrite, Camu Tao, Breez Evahflowin and Jakki Da Motamouth . The album's lead single is "End of Days" b/w "Sickplicity" b/w "The Creed" .
Track listing.
Album singles. |
6058974 | 1984 Orange Bowl | The 1984 Orange Bowl, played on January 2 between unbeaten Nebraska Cornhuskers and once-beaten Miami Hurricanes has been listed among the most memorable college football games by various sources, including ABC Sports Online's five "classic Orange Bowl moments".. After leading 31-17 in the fourth quarter, Miami held on for a 31-30 victory. Nebraska pulled to within one with :48 left to play, but a two-point conversion attempt by Nebraska failed when quarterback Turner Gill's pass was tipped away by Miami safety Ken Calhoun. The win gave Miami its first national championship.
The Osborne decision.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne made a particularly memorable call, a trick play later named the fumblerooski at a score of 17-0 for Miami. However, the match became a textbook case in game theory because of Osborne's call for a two-point conversion in the closing minutes which his team could not execute, leading to the one-point loss. A simple extra point conversion would have tied the game and arguably given Nebraska the national championship. Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff note that the coach's fault was not in not going for the tie, but in not looking ahead earlier: "Tom Osborne would have done better to first try the two-point attempt (at the score of 31-23), and then if it succeeded go for the one-point, while if it failed attempt a second two-pointer." Dixit and Nalebuff offer the example as a case of faulty decision making under uncertainty.
References.
See also.
1983 Miami Hurricanes football team;
External links.
Orange Bowl official site recap;
Nebraska Cornhuskers official site recap;
Miami Hurricanes official site recap;
Miami Hurricanes fan site recap;
ESPN.com Page 2 The List: Greatest bowl games; |
3610684 | Mu Beta Psi | Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Musical Fraternity is a service and music fraternity with chapters and colonies at universities throughout the United States. Founded in 1925 at North Carolina State University by the director of bands, Major Percy Walter "Daddy" Price, this group began as a male-only, honor fraternity for band students. However, it soon spread to a number of colleges throughout the southern United States and allowed women to join the group in the early 1960s. By the early 2000s, the fraternity had spread to several colleges through the eastern United States, both in the north and south.
Although the name contains National Honorary Musical Fraternity, Mu Beta Psi views itself as primarily a music service group. Several of the chapters run scholarship programs and pride themselves on giving service to their music departments.
Active chapters .
The chapters were named in order of their acceptance to Mu Beta Psi.
In addition, Mu Beta Psi has an Alumni Association that is considered an active chapter. The Alumni Association is open to alumni of all Mu Beta Psi chapters, active or otherwise.
External links.
Mu Beta Psi National Webpage; |
5683191 | American Ninja V | American Ninja V is a 1993 action/adventure sequel starring David Bradley and Lee Reyes. It was directed by Bobby Jean Leonard and written by John Bryant Hedberg, Greg Latter and George Saunders.
See also.
American Ninja;
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation;
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt;
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation;
External links.
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41657 | Reproduction speed | In telecommunication, the term reproduction speed has the following meanings:
In facsimile systems, the rate at which recorded copy is produced. (The reproduction speed is usually expressed (a) as the area of recorded copy produced per unit time, such as square meters per second or (b) as the number of pages per minute.);
In duplicating equipment, the rate at which copies are made. (The reproduction speed is usually expressed in pages per minute.);
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 |
1275392 | I Can't Be New | I Can't Be New is the sixth album by American singer/songwriter Susan Werner, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music).
Track listing.
all songs written by Susan Werner, except where noted
"I Can't Be New" (Jane Paul, Werner) - 2:54;
"Late for the Dance" - 3:36;
"Seeing You Again" - 2:41;
"I'm Not Sure" - 4:15;
"Much at All" - 4:08;
"Tall Drink of Water" - 3:01;
"You Come Through" - 3:13;
"No One Needs to Know" - 2:58;
"Let's Regret This in Advance" - 2:45;
"Don't I Know You" - 3:05;
"Philanthropy" - 2:53;
"Stay on Your Side of Town" - 2:54;
"Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter (Coda)" - 1:46;
Personnel.
Susan Werner - piano, rhythm guitar, ukulele, vocals, background vocals, Wurlitzer, nylon string guitar;
Eugene Friesen - cello;
Crit Harmon - percussion, handclapping, snaps;
Hatfield Five - string quartet;
Brad Hatfield - piano, Hammond organ, vibraphone, Fender Rhodes;
John Lockwood - upright bass;
Dave Mattacks - drums;
Billy Novick - clarinet, woodwind;
Stephen Sadler - banjo, dobro, mandolin, ukulele, baritone ukulele;
Mike Turk - chromatic harmonica;
Production.
Producer: Crit Harmon;
Engineer: Crit Harmon, John Lupfer;
Mixing: John Lupfer;
Mastering: Paul Angelli;
A&R: David Wilkes;
Digital editing: Matt Beaudoin;
Arranger: Billy Novick;
Product manager: Dan O'Leary;
Design: Jeff Gilligan;
Caricatures: Adam Belmares; |
69017 | Military of Bolivia | Military branches of Bolivia:
Army (Ejército Boliviano), Navy (Fuerza Naval Boliviana, includes Marines), Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Boliviana), National Police Force (Policía Nacional de Bolivia)
Military manpower - military age:19 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 19-49:
1,949,267 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 19-49:
1,269,228 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males:
86,863 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$147 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.8% (FY99)
Army .
The Army maintains a small fleet of utility aircraft, primarily to support headquarters.
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Aircraft
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Origin
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Type
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Versions
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|In service
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Notes
|-----
| Beechcraft King Air
|
| Staff transport
| Beech 90 Beech 200
| 1 1
|
|-----
| Cessna 206
|
| Utility
|
| 4
|
|-----
| Cessna 421
|
| Staff transport
| Cessna 421B
| 1
|
|}
Air Force .
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Aircraft
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Origin
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Type
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Versions
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|In service
! style="text-align: left; background: #aacccc;"|Notes
|-----
| Aérospatiale Lama
|
| Utility helicopter
| SA 315B
| 2
|
|-----
| Aerotec A-132
|
| Trainer
| A-132B T-23
| 2 5
|
|-----
| Beechcraft Baron
|
| Utility
| 55
| 2
|
|-----
| Beechcraft Bonanza
|
| Utility
| V35
| 2
|
|-----
| Beechcraft King Air
|
| Staff transport
| Super King Air 200
| 4
|
|-----
| Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
|
| Trainer
| FMA T-34B
| 21
|
|-----
| Bell 205
|
| Utility helicopter
| UH-1H
| 12
|
|-----
| Bell 212
|
| Utility helicopter
|
| 1
|
|-----
| Canadair T-33
|
| Attack
| AT-33A
| 4
|
|-----
| CASA C-212
|
| Transport
|
| 1
|
|-----
| Cessna 152
|
| Utility
|
| 10
|
|-----
| Cessna 172
|
| Utility
| 172K
| 2
|
|-----
| Cessna 185
|
| Utility
|
| 2
|
|-----
| Cessna 206
|
| Utility
|
| 11
|
|-----
| Cessna 210
|
| Utility
|
| 4
|
|-----
| Cessna 310
|
| Utility
|
| 1
|
|-----
| Cessna 402
|
| Utility
| 402B
| 1
|
|-----
| Cessna 421
|
| Utility
| 421B
| 1
|
|-----
| Convair 580
|
| Transport
|
| 2
|
|-----
| Douglas DC-3
|
| Transport
| Basler Turbo 67
| 1
|
|-----
| Fokker F27
|
| Transport
| F27-400M
| 4
|
|-----
| Lancair 320
|
| Trainer
|
| 1
|
|-----
| Learjet 25
|
| VIP transport
| 25B 25D
| 1 1
|
|-----
| Lockheed C-130 Hercules
|
| Transport
| Total C-130A C-130B C-130H
| 6 2 3 1
|
|-----
| MD Helicopters MD 500
|
| Utility helicopter
| 500M
| 10
|
|-----
| NEIVA T-25 Universal
|
| Trainer
|
| 6
|
|-----
| Pilatus PC-7
|
| Trainer
|
| 9
|
|-----
| Piper PA-34
|
| Utility
|
| 2
|
|-----
| Rockwell Sabreliner
|
| VIP transport
| Sabreliner 60
| 1
|
|}
Navy .
See full article: Bolivian Naval Force.;
References .
This article was adapted from the CIA World Factbook 2000. |
520975 | Ralph Bellamy | Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years.
Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began his acting career on stage, and by 1927 owned his own theatre company. In 1931 he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the thirties, establishing himself as a capable supporting actor. Bellamy received the lead role in the 1936 film Straight from the Shoulder. He then received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) opposite Irene Dunne and Cary Grant and played a similar part (the naive, aw-shucks boyfriend competing with the sophisticated light-comedy Grant character) in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the forties, but as his film career had not progressed, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the fifties.
Highly regarded within the industry, he served four years as President of Actor's Equity.
Bellamy was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth during its initial run.
On Broadway he appeared in one of his most famous roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. He later starred in the 1960 film version.
On film, he also starred in Rosemary's Baby (1968) as a sweet talking but devilish physician, before turning to television during the seventies. An Emmy Award nomination for the mini-series The Winds of War (1983), in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin Roosevelt, and a role as a conniving billionaire alongside Don Ameche in Trading Places (also 1983) brought him back into the limelight.
In 1984 he was presented with a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, and in 1987 received an Honorary Academy Award "for his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting."
Among his later roles was a memorable appearance as a once-brilliant but incresingly forgetful lawyer sadly skewered by the Jimmy Smits character on an episode of L.A. Law.
He continued working regularly and gave his final performance in Pretty Woman (1990).
He died as a result of a lung ailment in Santa Monica, California at the age of 87, and was buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Bellamy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6542 Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography.
The Secret Six (1931);
The Magnificent Lie (1931);
West of Broadway (1931);
Surrender (1931);
Forbidden (1932);
Disorderly Conduct (1932);
Young America (1932);
The Woman in Room 13 (1932);
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932);
Almost Married (1932);
Wild Girl (1932);
Airmail (1932);
Second Hand Wife (1933);
Parole Girl (1933);
Below the Sea (1933);
Destination Unknown (1933);
Picture Snatcher (1933);
The Narrow Corner (1933);
Flying Devils (1933);
Blind Adventure (1933);
Headline Shooter (1933);
Ace of Aces (1933);
Ever in My Heart (1933);
Before Midnight (1933);
Spitfire (1934);
Once to Every Woman (1934);
This Man Is Mine (1934);
Crime of Helen Stanley (1934);
One Is Guilty (1934);
Girl in Danger (1934);
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942);
Rosemary's Baby (1968);
Trading Places (1983);
Disorderlies (1987);
Coming to America (1988);
Pretty Woman (1990);
External links.
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489752 | Geneviève Bujold | Geneviève Bujold (born July 1, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress.
Related to 19th century Quebec strongman/weightlifter Louis Cyr, Bujold was raised by strict Roman Catholic French-Canadian parents who sent her to a convent school for her full twelve years of education. She disliked the school and its strict discipline, and eventually left it to pursue an acting career.
Dramatically trained at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, she got her big break while on tour with a theatrical company in Paris, France when French director Alain Resnais selected her for a role opposite Yves Montand in La Guerre est finie (1966). This led to her staying in France for a time where she made more films with noted French directors such as Louis Malle.
Bujold appeared in a variety of film roles for Canadian and U.S. television earning a 1967 Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Joan of Arc in an NBC "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation. That year, she married Canadian film director Paul Almond, who directed her in Isabel (1968), and Act of the Heart (1970), opposite Donald Sutherland. They had a son Matthew in 1968 and were divorced in 1972. Also in 1968, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French film.
In 1969, she starred opposite Richard Burton in the film, Anne of the Thousand Days. For her powerful performance, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a motion-picture drama as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her considerable acting skills had the media touting her to become one of the brightest stars but Bujold's temperament led to run-ins with her employer Universal Studios and she walked away from her contract, resulting in a lawsuit (which was settled when she agreed to appear in the 1974 disaster film Earthquake). In the ensuing years she gave many sterling performances (in films such as The Trojan Women (1971, opposite Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave), Kamouraska (1973), Brian De Palma's Obsession (1976), Alex and the Gypsy (1976, opposite Jack Lemmon), the medical thriller Coma (1978, opposite Michael Douglas), Choose Me (1984, directed by Alan Rudolph) and Tightrope (1984, directed by Clint Eastwood), but never reached the heights of movie stardom which many believed to be her due. She won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Genie Award for Murder by Decree (1979).
In 1994, she signed on to play the lead character, Captain Nicole Janeway, in the American television series Star Trek: Voyager. However she dropped out after filming just a few scenes of the series' first episode, stating that a TV series work schedule was too demanding. Kate Mulgrew replaced her and the character's name was changed to Kathryn Janeway.
Bujold who spent several years away from her acting career after giving birth to a second son in 1980 (she re-emerged in the 1984 Alan Rudolph film Choose Me) continues to work in film, primarily with independent production companies.
Filmography.
Television.
Les Belles histoires des Pays-d'en-Haut (1956) ;
Ti-Jean caribou (1963);
Mistress of Paradise (1981) ;
Red Earth, White Earth (1989);
Les Noces de papier (1989) ;
Cinema.
Amanita Pestilens (1963);
La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes (1964);
La terre à boire (1964);
La fin des étés (1964);
Geneviève (1965);
La Guerre est finie (1966);
Le roi de c½ur (1966);
Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1967);
The Thief of Paris (1967) (Le voleur);
Isabel (1968);
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969);
Act of the Heart (1970);
The Trojan Women (1971);
Journey (1972);
Kamouraska (1973);
Antigone (1974);
Earthquake (1974);
L'Incorrigible (1975);
Swashbuckler (1976);
Obsession (1976);
Alex & the Gypsy (1976);
Un autre homme, une autre chance (1977);
Coma (1978);
Murder by Decree (1979);
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980);
Final Assignment (1980);
Monsignor (1982);
Tightrope (1984);
Choose Me (1984);
Trouble in Mind (1985);
The Moderns (1988);
Dead Ringers (1988);
False Identity (1990);
Rue du Bac (1991);
The Dance Goes On (1992);
Oh, What a Night (1992);
An Ambush of Ghosts (1993);
Mon amie Max (1994);
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996);
Dead Innocent (1996);
The House of Yes (1997);
Last Night (1998);
Eye of the Beholder (1999);
Alex in Wonder (2001);
Jericho Mansions (2003);
Finding Home (2003);
External links.
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A fansite with galleries and biography: http://www.bujold.co.uk |
6983089 | The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid | The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid is a 1982 collection of two science fiction novels by L. Sprague de Camp. Both works are part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and of its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. The collection was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1982. It was issued as the fourth volume of the standard edition of the Krishna novels, and its component parts were at the time of publication the fourth and fifth Krishna novels, chronologically. Afterwards, publication of The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982) and The Bones of Zora (1983) made them the fifth and seventh Krishna novels, respectively.
Contents:
The Virgin of Zesh;
The Tower of Zanid;
Setting .
The planet Krishna is de Camp's premier creation in the Sword and Planet genre, representing both a tribute to the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and an attempt to "get it right", reconstructing the concept logically, without what he regarded as Burroughs' biological and technological absurdities.
Trivia .
The titles of all of de Camp's "Krishna" novels have a "Z" in them, a practice he claimed to have devised to keep track of them. Short stories in the series do not follow the practice, nor do Viagens Interplanetarias works not set on Krishna. |
1248931 | Barry Pepper | Barry Robert Pepper (born April 4, 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born actor.
He is best known for his role as a religious sniper in Saving Private Ryan, as journalist Joseph L. Galloway in We Were Soldiers, his leading role in the movie Battlefield Earth, his depiction of Roger Maris in Billy Crystal's HBO film 61*, and as Dale Earnhardt in the ESPN movie .
Trivia.
Has two older brothers, Alex and Doug.
At a young age, he spent three years sailing with his family in the ship they built called "The Moonlighter," traveling to places such as Fiji and New Zealand;
He graduated in 1988 from Georges P. Vanier Secondary School in Courtenay, British Columbia ;
Attended Camosun College's Visual Arts program in Victoria, B.C.
Landed his first role in the Canadian TV show Madison (1993).
Has one daughter named Annaliese with wife Cindy.
Appeared in the Jagged Edge music video, "Goodbye.";
Originally was going to play Glen Odekirk in the movie, The Aviator, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
Inspired several fansites, including Meet Barry Pepper, created in 1998 by Jayne Childers, a fan from Virginia. Childers was personally contacted on more than one occasion by Barry Pepper, who also passed information and answers to questions from fans to the site via his brother, Doug. While the site remained an unofficial one, Pepper's tacit endorsement and willingness to communicate with his fans highlighted the respect he had for them. The site, last located at www.pepperfans.com, went offline in 2005.
Only a year after filming Saving Private Ryan he starred alongside Tom Hanks again in The Green Mile to play Dean Stanton.
In late 2006, he was accidentally bitten by a freshwater dolphin while trying to feed it.
Partial filmography.
Titanic (TV movie) (1996) - Assistant Marconi wireless operator Harold Bride;
Firestorm (1998) - Packer;
Enemy of the State (1998) - Detective David Pratt;
Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Private Daniel Jackson (sniper);
The Green Mile (1999) - Dean Stanton;
Battlefield Earth (2000) - Jonnie Goodboy Tyler;
We All Fall Down (2000) - John;
61* (2001) - Roger Maris;
Knockaround Guys (2001) - Matty Demaret;
We Were Soldiers (2002) - Joe Galloway;
25th Hour (2002) - Frank Slaughtery;
The Snow Walker (2003) - Charlie Halliday;
(TV movie) (2004) - Dale Earnhardt;
Ripley Under Ground (2005) - Tom Ripley;
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) - Mike Norton;
Flags of Our Fathers (film) (2006) plays Michael Strank.
Unknown (2006) - Rancher Shirt;
External link.
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eFilmCritic.com interview with Barry Pepper about "Flags of Our Fathers"; |
4717457 | Liljana Bishop | Liljana 'Lil' Bishop (née Ristic) was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Marcella Russo. She first appeared in 2003 and remained in the show until her presumed death in 2005 following the Neighbours plane crash.
Of Serbian descent, Lilijana grew up under the dominant shadow of her mother Svetlanka Ristic and lived in Perth, Western Australia, surrounded by her family. However, her parents were less than pleased when she married Australian born David Bishop aged only 19, but their marriage seemed to be a success and the two had a daughter named Serena.
After David was offered a job in Erinsborough the whole family moved where they thought they would be living in their newly built house in Eden Hills. Yet having invested all their savings into a business that appeared to have gone bust David almost bankrupt the family and instead of furthering her education, Lil was forced to get a job as a receptionist for Karl Kennedy.
Things gradually got worse for the family after Serena was involved with a paedophile, Chris Cousens, whom Lil promptly slapped, and David's job meant he was away a lot. The Bishop family's lot was even worse when wicked Svetlanka turned up and after a heated argument revealed that Lil had been pregnant and that was why she married David. She had found herself pregnant to Ivan Petrovich, a worker at the family vineyard. Ivan fled the scene, so when David came along to help the family with their accounts, Lil quickly saw him as a potential father for her child. But Lil was led to believe that the child was stillborn, and she never even saw it for 19 years.
Meanwhile, Serena had made friends with a young Serbian friend named Luka, her grandmother's godson, and the two started a relationship. However, she was at the time unaware that Luka was her long lost half-brother, whom Svetlanka had kept away from the rest of her family for 19 years.
Lil suffered from acute liver failure and needed part of a family member's liver to survive. It was revealed that Luka would be able to save her. Upon returning to good health, Svetlanka was promptly thrown out by her daughter while Luka later decided to return to his adoptive parents. It was then that Lil was offered a job with Paul Robinson as manager of the Helen Daniels Trust.
Yet the marriage soured after David became obsessed with his work and Lil had an affair with Paul. Only when Paul was revealed to be plottong to destroy Erinsborough did Lil finally return to her husband.
As the family's luck was finally starting to get better they all boarded a plane to Tasmania to celebrate the re-opening of Lassiters' by going to a casino and hotel. Before the plane was boarded, a person, later revealed to be Paul's son, Robert, planted a bomb on the plane that exploded in flight. David, Lilijana and Serena hugged one another as the plane crashed into the Bass Strait. David was confirmed dead, but Lil and Serena's bodies were not found.
At her and Serena's memorial service (only David's body was recovered) Susan Smith said the following:
"Lil had a spectacularly short fuse, which was matched only by her sense of humour. But I think it was her passionate love affair with life that made her such such a wonderful friend. That and her cooking. But always to Lil, the most important thing was family. I hope they re together now and I hope they remain in peace forever"
She appeared on the show between 2003 and 2005. The Bishop family were axed, which proved most unpopular with fans and the actor who played David's father Harold Bishop, Ian Smith.
Trivia .
Lilijana slapped two people on the show, both in defense of her daughter, Carmella Cammenetti and Chris Cousens.
She was able to read coffee grounds, and before they left for the tragic plane journey she informed David that it looked as though he had no future, as all the grounds were gone. ;
She usually called Harold 'Tata', a common Eastern European greeting for an older male relative.
Lil was best friends with Susan and Lyn, but following her death neither woman seemed particualry distraught.
Her mother Svetlanka was apparently too upset to go to the memorial service and was apparently ill in bed and on medication.
Luka Dokic, Lil's long-lost-son who she had recently reunited with did not come to her funeral;
Family tree .
Miroslav Ristic (father), married to Svetlanka Ristic (mother) ;
Liljana Ristic, had a relationship with Ivan Petrovich (deceased),married to David Bishop (deceased);
Serena Bishop (daughter) (deceased);
Luka Dokic (son);
Zoran Ristic (brother); |
1155826 | Penny Hedge | The Penny Hedge legend dates back to 1159. It is a legend and tradition in the English town of Whitby in Yorkshire.
The Abbot of Whitby imposed a penance on three hunters, and on their descendants for all time, for murdering a hermit at Eskdaleside.
On the shore, they had to construct a short hedge from stakes woven together. The instructions stipulated that a knife of a penny price is to be used.
The ceremony is still performed in Whitby every year on the eve of Ascension Day.
External links.
Penny Hedge in Whitby Local Attractions; |
1278543 | Henry Cort | Henry Cort (1740 1800) was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. In 1782 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore. The The Henry Cort Community College bears his name, located in the large town of Fareham, south of Funtley.
Early Life.
The son of a builder, Cort was born in Lancaster in 1740. As a young man, he worked as a Royal Navy agent in London, where his interest in the poor quality of English iron against overseas supplies developed, leading to his inventions that greatly increased the quality of iron production. He left his job as an agent in 1775. His 1768 marriage to Elizabeth Heysham had connected him to the Attwick family of Gosport, and to Elizabeth's uncle, William Attwick. Cort joined Attwick in the family iron business, living and working in Gosport.
Commerce, Innovation, and Ruin.
With an increase in demand for iron goods from the Royal Navy, the ironworking enterprise in Middle Street, Gosport flourished, but was severely strained by a 1779 contract for barrel hoops. To cope with an unexpectedly high demand, and beset by the high cost of Swedish iron, Cort set up an iron works in Fontley, Hampshire. This was a rolling mill, and here he developed his ideas, leading to patents in 1783 for the steam-powered grooved rolling process and 1784 for his balling or pudding furnace, allowing the manufacture of crude, standardized shapes. His work built on the existing ideas of the Cranege brothers and their reverberatory furnace (where the heat is applied from above, rather than forced air from below) and Peter Onions' puddling process where the iron is stirred to separate out impurities and extract the higher quality wrought iron. The "puddler" extracts a mass of iron from the furnace using a rabbling bar. The extracted ball of metal is then processed into a shingle by a shingling hammer, after which it is rolled in a rolling mill.
His partnership in the Fontley Mill was with Samuel Jellicoe (son of Adam Jellicoe, who had important Navy connections). This eventually turned out very badly, but initially the elder Jellicoe financed Cort's experimentation with large sums and a wharf at Gosport was purchased. On Adam Jellicoe's death (1789), he was in debt himself, and Cort's debts (guaranteed by his patents) to Jellicoe were called in to settle the estate. Because of the nature of the business, which was now vital to the supply of iron to the Navy, the patents were taken over by the Government. The younger Jellicoe was given sole control of the mill and wharf. Royalties on the patents were not recovered (which might have cleared Cort's debts) and so Cort's impoverishment was settled.
He married twice. A short-lived marriage to Elizabeth Brown was succeeded by his marriage in 1768 to Elizabeth Heysham, with whom he had a large family. However, his business ventures did not bring him wealth, even though vast numbers of the furnaces that he developed were eventually used (reportedly 8,200 by 1820). He was awarded a government pension after leaving his firm, but died a ruined man, and was buried in Hampstead churchyard.
Further reading.
R. A. Mott (ed. P. Singer), Henry Cort: the Great Finer (The Metals Society, London 1983);
External links.
Biography from http://www.tilthammer.com/;
Biography;
Biography;
Biography Dedicated website following 5 years of research; |
2537855 | Bruce Cordell | Bruce Robert Cordell (born 1968) is an American author of roleplaying games and fantasy novels. He is the winner of the Origins Award as well as several ENnies. He lives in Seattle with his wife and household of pets.
Biographical timeline.
1968 - born in Watertown, South Dakota;
1992 - received Bachelor of Science in biology from University of Colorado at Boulder, hired as a Research Associate by NeXstar (since bought out by Gilead);
1995 - hired by TSR, Inc. (originally Tactical Studies Rules), the Dungeons & Dragons company, relocated to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin ;
1997 - hired by Wizards of the Coast, relocated to Seattle;
Roleplaying work.
Bruce Cordell's RPG work includes many scenarios and sourcebooks; many of which are directly or indirectly concerned with monsters of a Lovecraftian bent (particularly mind flayers and psionics.
Cordell frequently references certain characters, ideas, and organizations repeatedly in his RPG works, creating a personal continuity between various supplements. For example, The Illithiad references the character of Strom Wakeman and the organization known as the Arcane Order. Wakeman was quoted occasionally in Planescape books by Cordell, such as A Guide to the Ethereal Plane, and was instrumental to the course of events in the adventure Dawn of the Overmind (books which were themselves also connected through a phenomenon called an ether gap). Meanwhile, the Arcane Order returned in Tome and Blood as a detailed organization and the basis of a prestige class.
Most of Cordell's work for Malhavoc Press has followed similar patterns, creating a sort of story arc across When the Sky Falls, If Thoughts Could Kill, and Hyperconscious, connected by the god-like Dark Plea and, to a lesser extent, the kureshim race. In an interview with Monte Cook, Cordell himself described his style as including "subtle story threads that connect seemingly unrelated projects".
Adventures.
2nd Edition AD&D.
Gates of Firestorm Peak (1996);
Evil Tide (1997);
Night of the Shark (1997);
Sea of Blood (1998);
Return to the Tomb of Horrors (1998);
A Darkness Gathering (1998);
Masters of Eternal Night (1998);
Dawn of the Overmind (1998);
Return to White Plume Mountain (1999);
Die Vecna Die! (with Steve Miller, 2000);
Reverse Dungeon (with John D. Rateliff, 2000);
3rd Edition D&D.
The Sunless Citadel (2000);
Heart of Nightfang Spire (2001);
Bastion of Broken Souls (2002);
Sourcebooks.
2nd Edition AD&D.
College of Wizardry (1998);
Dungeon Builder's Guidebook (1998);
Bastion of Faith (1999);
The Illithiad (1998);
3rd Edition D&D.
Enemies and Allies (2001);
Psionics Handbook (2001);
Epic Level Handbook ;
Tome and Blood (2001);
Expanded Psionics Handbook (2004);
Third-Party d20 System Sourcebooks
If Thoughts Could Kill (Malhavoc Press, 2002);
Hyperconscious (Malhavoc Press, 2004);
Bruce has written nearly 40 game products: a list of which can be found externally here: Amazon list of credits
Novels.
Darkvision (Forgotten Realms Novel, #3 in series The Wizards), 2006
Lady of Poison (Forgotten Realms Novel, #1 in series The Priests), 2005
Oath of Nerull (Writing as T. H. Lain), 2004
"Not all that Tempts", Dragon's Return, Malhavoc Press, 2005
"Hollows of the Heart", Children of the Rune, Malhavoc Press, 2004
References.
External links.
Bruce Cordell's web site and blog;
Amazon list of credits;
Pen & Paper listing for Bruce Cordell; |
1534301 | Rolling pin | A rolling pin is a cylindrical food preparation utensil used to shape and flatten dough. Two styles of rolling pins are found; roller and rods. Roller types consists of a thick cylindrical roller with small handles at each end; rod type rolling pins are usually thin tapered batons. Rolling pins of different styles and materials offer advantages over another, as they are used for different tasks in cooking and baking.
Types of rolling pins.
Rod: Thin rods typically made of wood around 2-3 cm in diameter. They are used by rolling the rod across the dough using one's palm. The pins may be tapered at one or both ends for more pivot control in certain tasks such as making small jiaozi skins or pie shells. Most East Asian or French style rolling pins, and the Turkish Oklava are rod style.
Roller: Consists of a thick heavy roller made of a variety of materials around 7-10 cm in diameter with thinner handles which extend through the roller. They are used by grasping the handles and pushing the pin across the dough. Many Western rolling pins are roller types.
Material.
Rolling pins come in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials including glass, wood, stainless steel, marble, and plastic. Some are hollow and are able to be filled with cold or warm water to better roll a desired food. Marble rolling pins are often cooled in a refrigerator for maintaining a cold dough while making puff pastry.
In popular culture.
Rolling pins are the stereotypical weapon of angry housewives and are frequently employed in cartoons as an instrument for inflicting cranial injury. According to some cookbooks, heavy wooden roller type rolling pins are best used on kitchen helpers when frustrated, and not on dough.
See also.
Some special dice are also denoted rolling pins.
References. |
6531932 | Adrian McCoubrey | Adrian McCoubrey (born April 3, 1980) is an Irish cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He has represented Ireland since 1999, and between 2002 and 2004 was a player for Essex.
McCoubrey participated in the 2001 and 2005 ICC Trophy tournaments. He is a strong medium-fast bowler and a tailending batsman for his country.
External links.
Adrian McCoubrey at Cricket Archive; |
325425 | Huang Zhong | Huang Zhong (148 220) was a leading military general of the Kingdom of Shu during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. He was most noted for his victory in the Battle of Mount Dingjun, in which his force routed that of Xiahou Yuan, who was slain in the battle. For his merits, Huang Zhong was ranked among the five leading generals of Shu, later popularized as the Five Tiger Generals.
Huang Zhong had always been portrayed in popular literature and arts as an elderly general with youthful vigor and constitution. Even now, the spirit to strive for excellence despite old age is often attributed to him. However, little was documented about him in historical records and it is impossible to tell how old he was when he was named one of the Five Tiger Generals.
Life.
Born in Nanyang Commandery (present day Nanyang, Henan), Huang Zhong initially served a military post under Liu Biao, governor of Jingzhou ( ). After Liu Biao's death in 208, the powerful warlord Cao Cao conquered Jingzhou and Huang Zhong continued his service under this new lord of the land, specifically in Changsha under the city governor Han Xuan ( ).
Following Cao Cao's defeat at the Battle of Red Cliffs in the same year, Liu Bei was gradually taking over the various commanderies in southern Jingzhou, including Changsha. Huang Zhong then began his service under Liu Bei. He performed extremely well in Liu Bei's campaign to gain Yizhou ( ) from 212 to 214, his bravery in battles unmatched by any. After Yizhou was taken, Huang Zhong was promoted to General who Campaigns against Rebels ( ).
In 217, Liu Bei led a force upon Hanzhong, which was under the control of Cao Cao. His force met with resistance led by Xiahou Yuan at Yangping Pass ( ). The confrontation dragged on for more than a year until one night, Liu Bei set fire to the barbed fence around Xiahou Yuan's camp at the foot of Mount Dingjun ( ). Alarmed by the attack, Xiahou Yuan sent Zhang He to defend the eastern corner of the camp, while he guarded the south. Liu Bei's main force pressed against Zhang He, outmatching the latter. Xiahou Yuan had to dispatch a fraction of his own troops to Zhang He's rescue.
Accompanied by thundering drums, the division led by Huang Zhong then descended upon Xiahou Yuan's dwindling force. The battle became a rout and Xiahou Yuan himself was killed in battle. The victory at Mount Dingjun was a major stepping stone to the later conquest of Hanzhong.
In 219, Liu Bei proclaimed himself King of Hanzhong and effectively the first emperor of the Kingdom of Shu. He then promoted Huang Zhong to General of the Rear ( ), placing the latter on the same level as four other veteran generals: Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun. However, Huang Zhong died in the next year, to an unspecified cause. He was given the posthumous title of Marquis Gang, literally meaning the unyielding marquis.
Huang Zhong in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a historical novel by Luo Guanzhong, was a romanticization of the events that occurred before and during the Three Kingdoms period. In the novel, Huang Zhong was portrayed as an aged but extremely talented warrior, excelling especially in archery. He was also credited with the slaying of Xiahou Yuan, a prominent general of the Kingdom of Wei, in the Battle of Mount Dingjun, though in reality the latter was most probably killed in the rush of enemy soldiers.
Battle of Mount Dingjun.
In Chapter 71, Xiahou Yuan stationed his troops on Mount Dingjun and effectively resisted the advance of Huang Zhong. Under the council of advisor Fa Zheng, Huang Zhong occupied Mount Tiandang ( ), a taller peak that lied to the west of Mount Dingjun. From this new vantage point Huang Zhong had an excellent view of Xiahou Yuan's troop movements.
Xiahou Yuan could not tolerate his enemy spying on him and insisted on attacking Mount Tiandang. Setting out his troops to surround Mount Tiandang, Xiahou Yuan rode forth and challenged his enemy to battle. However, Huang Zhong kept his troops back and refused to engage.
In the afternoon, Fa Zheng saw from his lookout post near the peak that Xiahou Yuan's troops had grown tired and dispirited. He then hoisted a red flag, signalling Huang Zhong to attack. Amid deafening drums and war horns, the Shu troops rushed downhill with Huang Zhong galloping in the forefront. Before he could react, Xiahou Yuan was cleft in two below his shoulders by Huang Zhong. With their commander dead, the Wei soldiers were easily defeated and Mount Dingjun was felled.
Battle outside Luocheng.
Prior to the Battle of Mount Dingjun, before Liu Bei had even gained Yizhou ( ), Luo Guanzhong created a fictional battle in which Huang Zhong competed with his colleague Wei Yan for credits. In Chapter 62, Liu Bei's main force was approaching Luocheng ( ), a strategic city which would allow further advances on Chengdu, capital of Yizhou.
The enemy had established two camps sixty li outside the city, one under Ling Bao ( ) and the other under Deng Xian ( ). Huang Zhong had volunteered to lead a vanguard force to vanquish both camps, which Liu Bei approved, when Wei Yan voiced his doubts over the aged Huang Zhong's physical ability. This infuriated Huang Zhong, who challenged Wei Yan to a duel. To appease both, Liu Bei then ordered Huang Zhong to attack Ling Bao and Wei Yan to strike Deng Xian.
Wanting all credits for himself, Wei Yan set out his troops early next morning and headed for Ling Bao's camp instead. However, Ling Bao was ready for the attack and used a flanking tactic on the enemy. Wei Yan's troops, exhausted after a long march, were overpowered and began to retreat. Wei Yan's horse stumbled, throwing its rider off. A force led by Deng Xian had by then arrived, and its commander came straight for Wei Yan with his spear held forth.
Just then, an arrow knocked Deng Xian off in mid-gallop. So it was that Huang Zhong had come to the rescue. Having slain the fallen Deng Xian, Huang Zhong then went for Ling Bao, brandishing his sword. Ling Bao was no match for his ferocious foe and had to retreat. However, his camp was already taken over by Liu Bei's main force. In his frantic attempt to find an escape, Ling Bao was ambushed and captured by Wei Yan, who had regrouped his force in a bid to redeem himself. For the victory, Huang Zhong was heavily rewarded while Wei Yan was pardoned for his disobedience.
Death.
The events leading up to Huang Zhong's death in Chapter 83 were probably fictitious as well. Luo Guangzhong wrote that in 222, Huang Zhong followed Liu Bei on a campaign against the Kingdom of Wu. One day, hearing that Liu Bei commented on aged and incapable generals, Huang Zhong mounted his horse and rode straight to the forward camp.
Just at this time, an enemy vanguard force had arrived. Huang Zhong insisted on meeting the enemies. Holding his sword ready, the old general challenged for a duel with the enemy commander Pan Zhang ( ). Pan Zhang sent out his aide Shi Ji ( ), who was slain by Huang Zhong within three bouts.
Brandishing the late Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Blade, Pan Zhang then rode forward to meet Huang Zhong. Neither could establish a clear advantage but Huang Zhong was fighting with all his might. Not expecting to win the battle, Pan Zhang then retreated.
The next day, Pan Zhang rode out to issue challenge for another duel, which Huang Zhong eagerly took up. Within bouts, however, Pan Zhang turned to escape. Huang Zhong gave pursuit without hesitation. It was in fact a plot by the enemy, who had ambushed in wait for Huang Zhong. Running right into the trap, Huang Zhong was struck beneath the collar bone by an arrow fired by Ma Zhong ( ) and almost fell off his horse.
Fortunately, a friendly force led by Guan Xing and Zhang Bao ( ) came to the rescue and brought back Huang Zhong. Liu Bei came personally to the forward camp to see the injured general, but Huang Zhong was too old and weak to survive the arrow wound. He died the same night in camp, at the age of seventy-five.
Modern references.
Huang Zhong is a playable character in the Koei video game series Dynasty Warriors. Huang is depicted as a wise and honourable elderly man whom younger officers, such as Zhao Yun, respect and look to for guidance. always eager to prove to friend and foe alike that he is still a very capable officer and combatant. His weapon of choice is a large and elaborate saber he calls the "Oracle Sword," although his prowess with a bow features largely into his cinematic sequences and conversations.
The Battle of Mt. Ding Jun is Huang's shining moment. Leading his unit into battle against the defending Cao Wei army, Huang personally slays Xiahou Yuan in almost every release in which he appears. He will usually compliment Xiahou's skill, but will refuse to spare his life, due to the level of arrogance and disdain with which he treats his opposition. Although his relationship with other officers is not as strong as other characters, he is shown to have ties to Wei Yan, as the two served together before entering Liu Bei's service. He is also shown to have a good relationship with Yan Yan, who constantly serves as Huang's second-in-command. Apart from his long, grey beard, Huang is usually depicted as appearing youthful for his age. He generally wears light armour consisting of steel and leather over cloth, commonly worn by cavalry archers and other frontline fighters who rely on agility and swift movement during battle. This is sometimes accompanied by flowing, green and gold robes to add a unique style to his appearance.
References.
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See also.
Three Kingdoms;
Personages of the Three Kingdoms;
Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms;
Romance of the Three Kingdoms; |
6458802 | Gunning S. Bedford | Gunning S. Bedford (1806 - 5 September 1870) was a Medical writer, teacher and founder of the United States' first obstetrical clinic for those too poor to pay a doctor's fee.
Dr. Bedford graduated in 1825 at Mount Saint Mary's University (then Mount Saint Mary's College), Emmitsburg, Maryland, and took his medical degree from Rutgers College. He spent two years studying abroard and in 1833 became professor of obstetrics in Charleston Medical College. After this he became a professor in the Albany Medical College.
He later founded the University Medical College in which he established an obstetrical clinic for those too poor to afford a doctor which was the first of in the United States. He retired from teaching for health reasons in 1862 and he died in 1870. His funeral panegyric was preached by Archbishop John McCloskey a fellow student at Mount St. Mary's.
Two books written by him, "Diseases of Women" and "Practice of Obstetrics" went through a number of editions, were translated into French and German and adopted as textbooks in American schools.
He was the nephew of Gunning Bedford one of the framers of the United States Constitution and aide-de-camp to General Washington.
References. |
3701321 | HMY Osborne | HMY Osborne was a Royal Yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. She was launched 1868 and replaced the yacht of the same name formerly known as the HMY Victoria and Albert.
She displaced 1,850 tons, and was used on the milk run to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. |
21900 | List of NATO reporting names for transport aircraft | NATO reporting name/ASCC names for transport aircraft, with Soviet designations, sorted by reporting name:
"Cab" Lisunov Li-2;
"Camber" Ilyushin Il-86;
"Camel" Tupolev Tu-104;
"Camp" Antonov An-8;
"Candid" Ilyushin Il-76;
"Careless" Tupolev Tu-154;
"Cart" Tupolev Tu-70;
"Cash" Antonov An-28;
"Cat" Antonov An-10;
"Charger" Tupolev Tu-144;
"Clam" Ilyushin Il-18;
"Clank" Antonov An-30;
"Classic" Ilyushin Il-62;
"Cleat" Tupolev Tu-114;
"Cline" Antonov An-32;
"Clobber" Yakovlev Yak-42;
"Clod" Antonov An-14;
"Coach" Ilyushin Il-12;
"Coaler" Antonov An-72/An-74;
"Cock" Antonov An-22;
"Codling" Yakovlev Yak-40;
"Coke" Antonov An-24;
"Colt" Antonov An-2;
"Condor" Antonov An-124;
"Cooker" Tupolev Tu-110;
"Cookpot" Tupolev Tu-124;
"Coot" Ilyushin Il-20/Il-22;
"Cork" Yakovlev Yak-16;
"Cossack" Antonov An-225;
"Crate" Ilyushin Il-14;
"Creek" Yakovlev Yak-12;
"Crib" Yakovlev Yak-8;
"Crow" Yakovlev Yak-12;
"Crusty" Tupolev Tu-134;
"Cub" Antonov An-12;
"Cuff" Beriev Be-30/Be-32;
"Curl" Antonov An-26;
NATO reporting name/ASCC names for transport aircraft, with Soviet designations, sorted by Soviet designation:
Antonov An-2 "Colt";
Antonov An-8 "Camp";
Antonov An-10 "Cat";
Antonov An-12 "Cub";
Antonov An-14 "Clod";
Antonov An-22 "Cock";
Antonov An-24 "Coke";
Antonov An-26 "Curl";
Antonov An-28 "Cash";
Antonov An-30 "Clank";
Antonov An-32 "Cline";
Antonov An-72/An-74 "Coaler";
Antonov An-124 "Condor";
Antonov An-225 "Cossack";
Beriev Be-30/Be-32 "Cuff";
Ilyushin Il-12 "Coach";
Ilyushin Il-14 "Crate";
Ilyushin Il-18 "Clam";
Ilyushin Il-20/Il-22 "Coot";
Ilyushin Il-62 "Classic";
Ilyushin Il-76 "Candid";
Ilyushin Il-86 "Camber";
Lisunov Li-2 "Cab";
Tupolev Tu-70 "Cart";
Tupolev Tu-104 "Camel";
Tupolev Tu-110 "Cooker";
Tupolev Tu-114 "Cleat";
Tupolev Tu-124 "Cookpot";
Tupolev Tu-134 "Crusty";
Tupolev Tu-144 "Charger";
Tupolev Tu-154 "Careless";
Yakovlev Yak-8 "Crib";
Yakovlev Yak-12 "Creek"/"Crow";
Yakovlev Yak-16 "Cork";
Yakovlev Yak-40 "Codling";
Yakovlev Yak-42 "Clobber";
See also: NATO reporting name |
4766716 | List of NCAA Philippines basketball champions | This is a list of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) basketball champions, that is winner of the NCAA basketball tournament held every first semester (June to October) of the academic year.
Each season, member schools participate on the basketball tournament. The tournament consists of four rounds. The first two rounds are the elimination rounds, where the top four teams advance to the semi-finals. The two best teams among the Final Four earns a twice to beat advantage, while the other two only needs to be beaten once in order to be eliminated.
The surviving teams from the semi-finals qualify for the best-of-three Finals series, where the first team to notch two wins would be awarded with the championship trophy.
All of the games of the tournament are said to be held on neutral venues, that is outside campuses of the competing schools.
List of champions per year.
The school that wins both the Juniors and Seniors tournament in the same season are "double champions" and are denoted in bold.
Early years (1924-1935).
The NCAA was founded by the Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle College, the Institute of Accounts (known today as Far Eastern University), National University, San Beda College, the University of Manila, the University of the Philippines, Manila and the University of Santo Tomas. Membership was liquid, and the composition of the league changed frequently.
The old-timer six (1936-68).
After National University, University of the Philippines, Manila, and University of Santo Tomas left the league, the Ateneo de Manila, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, De La Salle College, José Rizal College, Mapúa Institute of Technology and San Beda College continued the league and the league's membership remained unchanged for several decades.
World War II interrupted the league's activities in 1941, but the league resumed operations after the war in 1947.
First expansion (1969-78).
San Sebastian College - Recoletos was admitted in 1969, marking the first change in the league's membership since 1936.
First contraction (1978-84).
The Ateneo de Manila University left the league in 1978 due to the violence that had become rampant in the games.
De La Salle University, on the other hand, left the league in 1981 after a violence-filled 1980 game against Letran.
San Beda College left in 1984 to concentrate on intramural events.
Second expansion (1984-95).
After the Ateneo de Manila, La Salle, and San Beda left, the NCAA opened its doors to new members. In 1984, Perpetual Help College of Rizal was accepted as a new member, while Trinity College of Quezon City became a full member on 1985.
San Beda rejoined the league in 1986, the year Trinity was dropped from the league due to non-compliance of league requirements.
Third expansion (1996-present).
In 1996, Philippine Christian University became the seventh member of the NCAA. Three years later, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde was admitted as the eighth member.
Notes.
The Juniors tournament was suspended from 1961 to 1965 by the NCAA Board of Control when it was revealed when several schools fielded ineligible players.
Seniors championships awarded on the 1963-64 and 1964-65 seasons were later ruled as unofficial by the NCAA.
Colegio de San Juan de Letran returned the Juniors trophy after a player was found to be ineligible.
List of championships per school.
Notes.
Teams marked with an asterisk (*) have withdrawn from the NCAA.
Includes Midgets title.
Excludes the 2 Seniors championships won on Loose Conference seasons.
Championship streaks.
Note: Streaks which are highlighted are currently ongoing.
See also.
NCAA Philippines Basketball Championship - main article;
UAAP Basketball Champions;
References.
Champions list at the official NCAA Philippines website;
Presidents and hosts list at the official NCAA Philippines website;
External links.
NCAA Philippines official website;
UBelt.com; |
923028 | Declaration of Rights of Peoples of Russia | The Declaration of Rights of Peoples of Russia ( ) was a document promulgated by the Bolshevik government of Russia on November 15 (November 2 by Old Style), 1917 (signed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin).
The document proclaimed:
Equality and sovereignty of peoples of Russia;
Right of peoples of Russia of a free self-determination, including secession and formation of a separate state;
Abolition of all national and religious privileges and restrictions;
Free development of national minorities and ethnographical groups populating the territory of Russia.
The meaning of the Declaration is still disputed in Russian historiography. In 1917 the Bolshevist thinking was still largely idealistic, dominated by vague ideas of "universal happiness". Also, at that moment Bolsheviks believed that the World revolution was imminent, so they did not care much about loss of territories.
However, it is often argued that in fact Lenin and Stalin agreed to liberate mostly the territories they had no sovereignty upon since Russia had lost them to Central Powers in 1915 and 1916. Many historians suggest that the purpose of the document was to limit the public dissent after Russia lost most of its western areas and try to complicate the matters behind the front lines.
The declaration had the effect of rallying some of ethnic non-Russians behind Bolsheviks. Latvian riflemen were important supporters of Bolsheviks in the early days of Russian Civil War and Latvian historians recognize the promise of sovereignty as an important reason for that. White Russians did not support self-determination and, as a result, few Latvians fought on the White side.
The right of secession was soon exercised by many nations that earlier had been incorporated into Imperial Russia. Many areas in Russia itself were also declared independent republics. Bolshevist Russia would, however, attempt to establish Soviet power in as many of those as possible. All three Baltic states experienced wars between Soviet governments aiming to establish a Communist state allied with Bolshevist Russia and non-Communist governments aiming for an independent state. The Soviet governments would receive a direct military support from Russia. After the non-Communist side winning, Russia recognized them as the legitimate governments of Baltic states in 1920.
Russian historiography often cited the document as one of the main bases for the liberation of Central European states. However, it is to be noted that Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Estonia were either created as puppet states by the Central Powers or liberated by the nations of the abovementioned countries themselves after the collapse of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
List of seceded lands .
The following countries declared their independence late after the Bolsheviks' declaration, establishing themselves as non-Communist states. Although the role this declaration played for their declared independence is doubtful, it eased Bolshevist Russia's recognition of their independence. Note that except for Finland, all of these areas were outside of Russian sovereignty following the Austro-German successes in the Great War and were officially ceded in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Ukrainian People's Republic (autonomy November 22, 1917, independence January 22, 1918);
Moldova (December 2, 1917 joined Romania in 1918);
Finland (December 6, 1917);
Lithuania (December 11, 1917);
Estonia (February 24, 1918);
Poland (November 11, 1918);
Latvia (November 18, 1918);
Belarus (March 25, 1918);
(exact dates need correction)
These countries declared their independence, as Communist states, soon after the declaration:
Transcaucasia (April 22, 1918);
Tuva (June 1918);
Belarus;
Several other independent republics have been proclaimed but happened to be short-lived:
Kazan;
Kaluga ;
Ryazan;
Ufa;
Bashkiria;
Orenburg;
Later developments.
Bolsheviks have never rejected the idea of self-determination, still the Soviet Constitutions (of 1924, 1936 and 1977) limited the right of secession to the constituent republics only. However, in 1990 Lithuania declared its indepence again, citing their right to secession as written down in Soviet Constitution. |
6433602 | Fivehead Arable Fields | Fivehead Arable Fields () is a 10.3 hectare (25.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Fivehead in Somerset, notified in 1990.
This site has one of the most important assemblages of arable weeds in Britain, several of which are now nationally rare or scarce. There is a large population of the nationally rare Broad-fruited Cornsalad (Valerianella rimosa).
References .
External links .
Fivehead Arable Fields from Somerset Wildlife Trust; |
3181889 | Roderik Bouwman | Arnoldus Leonardus Henricus Roderik Bouwman (born March 24, 1957 in Haarlem) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 107 international matches for The Netherlands, in which the striker scored 82 goals.
He was a member of the Holland squad that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Bouwman made his debut on August 19, 1978 in a friendly match against England. He played in the Dutch League for Amsterdam, SCHC and HGC. His father Henk was also a skillful field hockey player, who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
External link.
Dutch Hockey Federation; |
5111325 | Medicine River | Medicine River is a novel written by author Thomas King. It was first published by Viking Canada in 1989. The book was later adapted into a film version.
Plot.
The main character, Will, is a half-Blackfoot, half-European, whose father is a bull-rider in Calgary. He was raised by his mother in Medicine River. He moves to Toronto to become a photographer. When he goes back to Medicine River for his mother's funeral he is persuaded by Harlen Bigbear, the local jack-of-all-trades, to stay and open a photographer's shop. As the book progresses we learn more and more about his life as a child, and about what life is like in the town near a Native reserve he calls home. He joins the basketball team, creates a calendar with pictures of Native peoples, and has many other adventures as the book progresses. |
994777 | Whittman-Hart | WHITTMANHART is a services company dealing with digital communications.
Founded by Bob Bernard in the Chicago area, it specialized first in AS/400 IT consulting. It grew steadily, for about 15 years, including some acquisitions. The company went public in 1996. In 1997, the Fortune Magazine named it one of the fastest growing companies in the US.
The company acquired US Web/CKS, a California-based web consulting firm, after which Bob Bernard decided to rename the business marchFIRST, inc., the business was re-corporated on March 1st, 2000. This was at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.
However, the company failed later that year, shuttering dozens of locations throughout the USA. It changed owners up to 2003 when it was reacquired by Bob Bernard. It still operates, but is not publicly traded.
In the last couple of years (2005-2006) WHITTMANHART has acquired numerous organizations including Ohio based Infinis Inc, Philadelphia based Insight Interactive Group Inc, Maryland based Estco.net, LLC, Chicago based Vision Enterprises, and Los Angeles based DNA Studio. The company has also established itself as one of the top performers in Interactive Marketing and Advertising, Corporate Performance Management, Banking Solutions and Search Engine Optimization spaces.
Its stock symbol was WHIT and later MRCH (marchFIRST).
External link.
WHITTMANHART; |
6132309 | Daniel Abraham (rugby league footballer) | Daniel Abraham (born March 11, 1981 in Belmont, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is at lock-forward though he also often plays in the second row.
Abraham has also represented the New South Wales country team on two occasions in 2003 and also 2004.
Career playing statistics .
Point scoring summary.
Matches played. |
7806450 | Liquid State Machine | A Liquid State Machine (LSM) is a computational construct, like a neural network. An LSM consists of a large collection of units (called nodes, or neurons). Each node receives time varying input from external sources (the inputs) as well as other nodes. Nodes are randomly connected to each other. The recurrent nature of the connections turns the time varying input into a spatio-temporal pattern of activations in the network nodes. The spatio-temporal patterns of activation are read out by linear discriminant units.
The soup of recurrently connected nodes will end up computing a large variety of nonlinear functions on the input. Given a large enough variety of such nonlinear functions, it is theoretically possible to obtain linear combinations (using the read out units) to perform whatever mathematical operation is needed to perform a certain task, such as speech recognition or computer vision.
The word liquid in the name comes from the analogy drawn to dropping a stone into a still body of water or other liquid. The falling stone will generate ripples in the liquid. The input (motion of the falling stone) has been converted into a spatio-temporal pattern of liquid displacement (ripples).
LSMs have been put forward as a way to explain the operation of brains. LSMs are argued to be an improvement over the theory of artificial neural networks because:
Circuits are not hand coded to perform a specific task.
Continuous time inputs are handled "naturally".
Computations on various time scales can be done using the same network.
The same network can perform multiple computations.
Criticisms of LSMs as used in computational neuroscience are that
LSMs don't actually explain how the brain functions. At best they can replicate some parts of brain functionality.
There is no guaranteed way to dissect a working network and figure out how or what computations are being performed.
Very little control over the process.
Inefficient from an implementation point of view because they require lots of computations, compared to custom designed circuits, or even neural networks.
References .
Wolfgang Maass and Thomas Natschläger and Henry Markram "Real-Time Computing Without Stable States: A New Framework for Neural Computation Based on Perturbations" Computation. 2002;14:2531-2560.;
Wolfgang Maass and Thomas Natschläger and Henry Markram "Computational models for generic cortical microcircuits" in Computational Neuroscience: A Comprehensive Approach, Ch 18, pg 575-605 (2004);
Chrisantha Fernando and Sampsa Sojakka "Pattern Recognition in a Bucket" in Advances in Artificial Life, pg 588-597 of series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN 978-3-540-20057-4; |
2959912 | Quasi-bidirectional I/O | A quasi-bidirectional I/O is a type of input-output port on an integrated circuit such as a PIA. It can be used as an input or output without the use of a control signal for data direction. At power-on the I/Os are HIGH. In this mode, only a current source to VDD is active. An additional strong pull-up to VDD allows fast rising edges into heavily loaded outputs. |
1740474 | Primacy of mind | A belief in the primacy of mind is a ubiquitous element in the history of ideas. In this view the mind or soul is not only primary as an explanation of human nature, but is the only conceivable explanation, as nothing so subtle and sublime as reason and morality could possibly emerge from matter and motion, the primary elements of scientific explanation. In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) Daniel Dennett explains that Judeo-Christian and Islamic cosmogony are established on the assumption that the genesis of all creation is dependent on the action of a "cogitative being".
References.
Dennett, D. C. (1995). Darwin's dangerous idea: Evolution and the meanings of life. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-684-82471-X; |
1579357 | Charles Elkin Mathews | Charles Elkin Mathews (1851 - November 10, 1921 was a publisher and bookseller who played an important role in the literary life of late 19th and early 20th century London.
Mathews' was born in Gravesend and learned his trade in London and Bath, before opening his own shop in Exeter in 1884. He published his first books here, in collaboration with other local booksellers. In 1887 he returned to London and from 1892 to 1894 he worked in partnership with John Lane, culminating in the publication of The Yellow Book in 1894.
Lane began went on to form The Bodley Head and Mathews set up on his own, publishing works by his neighbour W.B. Yeats, Lionel Johnson, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Robert Bridges, amongst others.
Reference.
Papers of Charles Elkin Mathews at the University of Reading Captured March 7, 2005; |
8774243 | John Willard (playwright) | John Willard (born November 28, 1885, San Francisco, California, died August 30, 1942, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright. His most famous work was The Cat and the Canary (1922), a play that was made into the influential silent film of the same name in 1927.
External link .
John Willard at the Internet Movie Database. |
4228806 | Rah Bras | Rah Bras is a synth rock band originally out of Richmond, VA. The band consists of Isabellarah Rubella on synth, Boo Rah on keytar, and Jean Rah on drums, with all three providing vocals.
The band has played in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada and Mexico.
Discography.
Wear the Beat Spectacular EP- Vermiform Records 1998;
Concentrate to Listen to the Rondo That We Christen King Speed EP- Lovitt Records 1998;
Ruy Blas! LP/CD- Lovitt Records 2001;
Torubleman Mixtape CD- Troubleman Unlimited 2001;
This Just In... Benefit For Indy Media - Geykido Comet Records 2005;
WHOHM LP/CD- Lovitt Records 2005;
External links.
Official site;
Lovitt Records;
Rah Bras My Space Page; |
125983 | Las Vegas, New Mexico | Las Vegas is a city in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate towns, West Las Vegas ("Old Town") and East Las Vegas ("New Town"), divided by the Gallinas River, retain distinct characters and separate, rival, school districts. The population was 14,565 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of San Miguel County.
Las Vegas is the home of New Mexico Highlands University. It is also a venue used by the IBNA for teacher training, perhaps due to the proximity of the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West.
Las Vegas is sometimes mistaken for Las Vegas, Nevada.
History.
Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. The town was laid out in the traditional Spanish Colonial style, with a central plaza surrounded by buildings which could serve as fortifications in case of attack. Las Vegas soon prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. During the Mexican-American War in 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the United States.
When the railroad arrived in 1880 it set up shop one mile east of the Plaza, creating a separate, rival New Town (as in Albuquerque). During the railroad era Las Vegas boomed, quickly becoming one of the largest cities in the American southwest. Turn-of-the-century Las Vegas featured all the modern amenities, including an electric street railway, the "Duncan Opera House" at the NE corner of 6th Street and Douglas Avenue, a Carnegie library, a major Harvey House hotel, and the New Mexico Normal School (now NMHU). Since the decline of the railroad began in the 1950s the city's population has remained relatively constant.
Geography.
Las Vegas is located at (35.597031, -105.222589).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 19.5 km² (7.5 mi²), all land.
Demographics.
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,565 people, 5,588 households, and 3,559 families residing in the city. The population density was 748.8/km² (1,938.2/mi²). There were 6,366 housing units at an average density of 327.3/km² (847.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 54.21% White, 0.99% African American, 1.96% Native American, 0.61% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 37.19% from other races, and 4.95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 82.94% of the population.
There were 5,588 households out of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.0% were married couples living together, 21.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.3% were non-families. 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.08.
In the city the population was spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 13.3% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 90.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $24,214, and the median income for a family was $29,797. Males had a median income of $26,319 versus $21,731 for females. The per capita income for the city was $12,619 as compared to $21,587 nationally as noted in the 2000 Census. About 24.3% of families and 27.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.7% of those under age 18 and 20.1% of those age 65 or over.
Architecture.
Las Vegas is home to a very large number of historic structures (mostly railroad-era houses and commercial buildings), with over 900 listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although many buildings are in varying states of deterioration, others have been restored or are awaiting restoration. Some of the city's notable buildings include:
Dr. H.J. Mueller House, 1881 example of Victorian eclecticism with unusual octagonal tower;
Plaza Hotel, 1881, site of the first reunion of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in 1899;
Old City Hall, New Mexico's first municipal building, completed in 1892;
Louis Fort House, Queen Anne house on Carnegie Park, built in 1895;
Masonic Temple, Richardsonian Romanesque building erected in 1895;
La Castaneda Hotel, mission-style Harvey House built in 1898;
Carnegie Library, built in 1903 at the center of Carnegie Park and modeled after Monticello;
Transportation.
Railway
Las Vegas Amtrak Station is a stop on the Southwest Chief route.
Airport
Las Vegas Municipal Airport. Single engine, small commercial jets, and helicopters.
Major Highways
Interstate 25;
Interstate 40 (55 miles via US 84);
Movies filmed in Las Vegas.
Many silent Western films were made in and around Las Vegas, especially in the years 1913-1915, including a number that starred Tom Mix.
In the 1969 movie Easy Rider, Las Vegas, NM is the town where the two bikers ride behind a parade, are arrested for "parading without a permit," and meet Jack Nicholson's character in jail. The town name can be seen in the background in one scene during this part of the movie.
The town was the filming location for parts of the 1978 movie Convoy, a film about truck drivers inspired by the 1975 song of the same name.
Parts of The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983) were filmed in and around Las Vegas.
Las Vegas was the real-world town used to represent the fictional setting of Calumet, Colorado in John Milius' 1984 film Red Dawn. As of 2005, many of the buildings and structures seen in the film remain.
Several scenes in the 1998 John Carpenter's Vampires were filmed in the plaza.
In the 2001 documentary Freedom Downtime, a cross-country road trip to Las Vegas, Nevada ends up in Las Vegas, New Mexico by mistake.
Las Vegas is also the hometown of producer Darren Martinez.
In 2006, the film Fanboys used Las Vegas as one of its film locations. The film is about a dying Star Wars fan and will be released in 2007. The upcoming movie The Astronaut Farmer, also a 2007 projected release, was also filmed here.
External links.
Las Vegas / San Miguel County Chamber of Commerce;
Las Vegas, NM City Government;
Las Vegas / San Miguel Economic Development Corporation;
Las Vegas Daily Optic; |
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