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Sing to Me may refer to:
Sing to Me (Renée Geyer album), 1985
"Sing to Me" (Kate Miller-Heidke song), 2014 |
The Remington Model 11-87 is a semi-automatic shotgun manufactured by Remington Arms and based on the earlier Model 1100. The Model 11-87 remains in contemporary production, years after being introduced in 1987.
Design
The Model 11-87 is a gas operated semi-automatic shotgun. Upon firing a shell, some of the high-pressure gases from the burning gunpowder are diverted through two small holes under the barrel, forcing the bolt toward the buttstock, which in turn ejects the spent shell. A spring then forces the bolt forward, sending a new shell from the magazine into the chamber. This gas operation has the effect of reducing the recoil felt by the shooter, since the total recoil energy is spread out over a longer period of time than would be the case with fixed-breech shotguns.
The Model 11-87 incorporates a self-compensating gas system design, which allows the gun to operate with a range of loads, from light shells to Magnum shells, without any adjustment by the operator. It is manufactured in 12 gauge and 20 gauge; both will cycle -inch and 3-inch shells.
A lightened version of the Model 11-87, the Model 11-96, was offered in the late 1990s in 12 gauge only.
Operation
Some Model 11-87 shotguns, especially those with barrels shorter than , or Magnum models, may have issues cycling light target and birdshot loads consistently.
A 12 gauge model that accepts shells is marketed as the Super Magnum. This model comes with an extra component on the magazine tube called a "barrel seal activator" that helps cycle lighter loads. The barrel seal activator is meant to be removed when using -inch or 3-inch shells, and installed when using shorter shells.
Some Model 11-87s have interchangeable screw-in chokes; other barrels are available with fixed chokes. Barrels are not interchangeable between the Model 1100 and Model 11-87. Barrel lengths range from (for use by law enforcement) to .
In popular culture
The weapon found widespread notoriety when a sound-suppressed version of it was used by the main antagonist in the Coen brothers' film No Country for Old Men, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel. First developed in 1987, this weapon is an anachronism to the movie's storyline, set 1980.
Users
: Used by numerous law enforcement agencies.
References
Further reading
External links
Remington 11-87 via YouTube
Remington Arms firearms
Semi-automatic shotguns of the United States
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1987 |
Marquis Weeks (born October 2, 1980) is a former American football running back. He was originally signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Virginia
Marquis lettered in high school football and track at Conestoga High School, located in Berwyn, PA.
In the summer of 2014, Weeks was hired to teach as a 5th grade social studies teacher in the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District at Valley Forge Middle School, the same school district in which he attended high school, Conestoga and went to school at Tredyffrin Easttown Middle School. In 2016, Marquis was hired as the head football coach at Conestoga High School his alma mater.
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
People from Fort Ord, California
Players of American football from Monterey County, California
American football running backs
Virginia Cavaliers football players
Seattle Seahawks players
Denver Broncos players |
Dimitrios Litenas (; born 21 September 1995) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League 2 club Niki Volos.
References
1995 births
Living people
Greek men's footballers
Football League (Greece) players
Super League Greece 2 players
Gamma Ethniki players
Tyrnavos 2005 F.C. players
AEL Kalloni F.C. players
Veria F.C. players
Apollon Larissa F.C. players
Niki Volos F.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Larissa |
Callicercops is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Species
Callicercops iridocrossa (Meyrick, 1938)
Callicercops milloti (Viette, 1951)
Callicercops triceros (Meyrick, 1926)
External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Gracillariinae
Gracillarioidea genera |
Min-jung, also spelled Min-jeong, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "min" and 75 hanja with the reading "jung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
People with this name include:
Entertainers
Seo Min-jung (born 1979), South Korean actress
Lee Min-jung (born 1982), South Korean actress
Kim Min-jung (actress) (born 1982), South Korean actress
Han Yeo-reum (born 1983), stage name Seo Min-jeong, South Korean actress
Yeo Min-jeong (voice actress) (born 1986), South Korean voice actress
Sportspeople
Ku Min-jung (born 1973), South Korean volleyball player
Kim Min-jung (speed skater) (born 1985), South Korean speed skater
Kim Min-jung (badminton) (born 1986), South Korean badminton player
Kwak Min-jeong (born 1994), South Korean figure skater
Kim Min-jung (judoka) (born 1997), South Korean judoka
Kim Min-jung (sport shooter) (born 1997), South Korean sport shooter
Choi Min-jeong (born 1998), South Korean short track speed skater
Other
Michael Yang (born Yang Min-jeong, 1962), South Korean-born American entrepreneur
Mina Cheon (born Cheon Min-jeong, 1973), South Korean-born American new media artist
Kim Min-jeong (poet) (born 1976), South Korean poet
See also
List of Korean given names
References
Korean feminine given names
Feminine given names |
Angel Face is a short film written and directed by Cecile Cinco.
Premise
A tragic love triangle surrounding Angela, played by Patricia Javier, and her husband, David, played by Joseph Will. Angela and David's happy marriage is turned into a not so living hell when their lives are shattered by Angela's new friend.
Cast
Patricia Javier as Angela
Joseph Will as David
Grace Roberts as Jesse
Robert Walcher III as the Reporter
Bill Ascherfeld as the Realtor
References
External links
Angel Face official website
2008 short films |
The Women's Points Race was one of the 8 under-23 women's events at the 2008 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland. The race was held on 6 September and 22 cyclists from 14 countries participated in the event.
Ellen van Dijk won the race ahead of Lizzie Armitstead and Aksana Papko.
Final results
DNF = did not finish
Sources
See also
2008 European Track Championships – U23 Women's individual pursuit
2008 European Track Championships – U23 Women's scratch
References
2008 European Track Championships
European Track Championships – U23 Women's points race |
Ciconia lydekkeri is an extinct species of stork from the Middle and Late Pleistocene of Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina.
Florentino Ameghino named the species after British paleontologist Richard Lydekker, whom first described bones discovered in caves near Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Ciconia maltha has been considered to be a synonym of this species and, if accepted, would increase its range to include United States and Cuba.
References
External links
lydekkeri
Pleistocene birds
Quaternary birds of South America
Pleistocene Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Pleistocene Bolivia
Fossils of Bolivia
Pleistocene Brazil
Fossils of Brazil
Fossil taxa described in 1891
Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
Storks |
```css
How to easily check browser compatibility of a feature
Make text unselectable
Default to a transparent `border-color` before adding a border to on `:hover` state elements
Hexadecimal color system
Use `SVG` for icons
``` |
```glsl
module Fable.Tests.RecordTypes
open Util.Testing
#if FABLE_COMPILER
open Fable.Core
#endif
type RecursiveRecord =
{ things : RecursiveRecord list }
type Person =
{ name: string; mutable luckyNumber: int }
member x.LuckyDay = x.luckyNumber % 30
member x.SignDoc str = str + " by " + x.name
type JSKiller =
{ ``for`` : float; ``class`` : float }
type JSKiller2 =
{ ``s p a c e`` : float; ``s*y*m*b*o*l`` : float }
type Child =
{ a: string; b: int }
member x.Sum() = (int x.a) + x.b
type Parent =
{ children: Child[] }
member x.Sum() = x.children |> Seq.sumBy (fun c -> c.Sum())
type MutatingRecord =
{ uniqueA: int; uniqueB: int }
type Id = Id of string
let inline replaceById< ^t when ^t : (member Id : Id)> (newItem : ^t) (ar: ^t[]) =
Array.map (fun (x: ^t) -> if (^t : (member Id : Id) newItem) = (^t : (member Id : Id) x) then newItem else x) ar
let makeAnonRec() =
{| X = 5; Y = "Foo"; F = fun x y -> x + y |}
type Time =
static member inline duration(value: {| from: int; until: int |}) = value.until - value.from
static member inline duration(value: {| from: int |}) = Time.duration {| value with until = 10 |}
type CarInterior = { Seats: int }
type Car = { Interior: CarInterior }
let tests =
testList "RecordTypes" [
testCase "Anonymous records work" <| fun () ->
let r = makeAnonRec()
sprintf "Tell me %s %i times" r.Y (r.F r.X 3)
|> equal "Tell me Foo 8 times"
let x = {| Foo = "baz"; Bar = 23 |}
let y = {| Foo = "baz" |}
x = {| y with Bar = 23 |} |> equal true
// x = {| y with Baz = 23 |} |> equal true // Doesn't compile
x = {| y with Bar = 14 |} |> equal false
testCase "Anonymous records can have optional fields" <| fun () ->
let add (o: {| bar: int option; zas: string option; foo: int option option |}) =
let bar = o.bar |> Option.map string |> Option.defaultValue "-"
let zas = defaultArg o.zas ""
let foo = match o.foo with Some(Some i) -> string i | Some None -> "xx" | None -> "x"
bar + zas + foo
{| bar = Some 3; zas = Some "ooooo"; foo = Some None |} |> add |> equal "3oooooxx"
{| bar = Some 22; zas = Some ""; foo = Some(Some 999) |} |> add |> equal "22999"
{| bar = None; zas = None; foo = None |} |> add |> equal "-x"
{| foo = Some None; bar = None; zas = None |} |> add |> equal "-xx"
testCase "Anonymous records can have optional function fields" <| fun () ->
let add (o: {| bar: (int -> int -> int) option; foo: int -> int -> int |}) =
let fn = o.bar
let f1 = fn |> Option.map (fun f -> f 6 9) |> Option.defaultValue -3
let f2 = match fn with Some f -> f 1 8 | None -> -5
o.foo 3 4 + f1 + f2
{| bar = Some (+); foo = (*) |} |> add |> equal 36
{| bar = None; foo = (+) |} |> add |> equal -1
testCase "SRTP works with anonymous records" <| fun () ->
let ar = [| {|Id=Id"foo"; Name="Sarah"|}; {|Id=Id"bar"; Name="James"|} |]
replaceById {|Id=Id"ja"; Name="Voll"|} ar |> Seq.head |> fun x -> equal "Sarah" x.Name
replaceById {|Id=Id"foo"; Name="Anna"|} ar |> Seq.head |> fun x -> equal "Anna" x.Name
testCase "Overloads with anonymous record arguments don't have same mangled name" <| fun () ->
Time.duration {| from = 1 |} |> equal 9
Time.duration {| from = 1; until = 5 |} |> equal 4
testCase "Anonymous record execution order" <| fun () ->
let mutable x = 2
let record =
{|
C = (x <- x * 3; x)
B = (x <- x + 5; x)
A = (x <- x / 2; x)
|}
record.A |> equal 5
record.B |> equal 11
record.C |> equal 6
testCase "Recursive record does not cause issues" <| fun () ->
let r = { things = [ { things = [] } ] }
equal r.things.Length 1
testCase "Record property access can be generated" <| fun () ->
let x = { name = "Alfonso"; luckyNumber = 7 }
equal "Alfonso" x.name
equal 7 x.luckyNumber
x.luckyNumber <- 14
equal 14 x.luckyNumber
testCase "Record methods can be generated" <| fun () ->
let x = { name = "Alfonso"; luckyNumber = 54 }
equal 24 x.LuckyDay
x.SignDoc "Hello World!"
|> equal "Hello World! by Alfonso"
testCase "Record expression constructors can be generated" <| fun () ->
let x = { name = "Alfonso"; luckyNumber = 7 }
let y = { x with luckyNumber = 14 }
equal "Alfonso" y.name
equal 14 y.luckyNumber
testCase "Records with key/reserved words are mapped correctly" <| fun () ->
let x = { ``for`` = 1.0; ``class`` = 2.0 }
equal 2. x.``class``
testCase "Records with special characters are mapped correctly" <| fun () ->
let x = { ``s p a c e`` = 1.0; ``s*y*m*b*o*l`` = 2.0 }
equal 1. x.``s p a c e``
equal 2. x.``s*y*m*b*o*l``
testCase "Mutating records work" <| fun () ->
let x = { uniqueA = 10; uniqueB = 20 }
equal 10 x.uniqueA
equal 20 x.uniqueB
let uniqueB' = -x.uniqueB
let x' = { x with uniqueB = uniqueB' }
equal 10 x.uniqueA
equal 10 x'.uniqueA
equal -20 x'.uniqueB
let x'' = { x' with uniqueA = -10 }
equal -10 x''.uniqueA
equal -20 x''.uniqueB
testCase "Nested record field copy and update works for records" <| fun () ->
let car =
{ Interior = { Seats = 4 } }
let car2 =
{ car with Interior.Seats = 5 }
equal 5 car2.Interior.Seats
testCase "Nested record field copy and update works for anonymous records" <| fun () ->
let car =
{| Interior = {| Seats = 4 |} |}
let car2 =
{| car with Interior.Seats = 5 |}
equal 5 car2.Interior.Seats
]
``` |
Parkengear is a hamlet in the parish of Probus, Cornwall, England.
References
Hamlets in Cornwall |
```css
/**/
/**/
.button{
-fx-border-width: 0;
-fx-background-color: null;
}
.button:focused:hover{
-fx-background-color: #eee5;
}
.ui{
//-fx-min-width, -fx-pref-width, -fx-max-width
-fx-pref-width:960;
-fx-pref-height:300;
-fx-background-color:null;
}
/**/
.button_menu_1 {
-fx-pref-width:260;
-fx-pref-height:135;
-fx-border-radius: 5;
-fx-border-width: 0;
-fx-border-color : null;
-fx-alignment: TOP_LEFT;
-fx-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";
-fx-font-size: 21px;
-fx-text-fill: white;
-fx-background-color: #eee5;
}
.button_menu_1:hover,
.button_menu_1:pressed{
-fx-text-fill: red;
-fx-background-color:eee2;
//-fx-effect:innershadow(three-pass-box, red, 10, 0.5, 0, 0);
}
.button_menu_2 {
-fx-pref-width:260;
-fx-pref-height:48;
-fx-border-radius: 5;
-fx-border-width: 0;
-fx-border-color : null;
-fx-alignment: TOP_LEFT;
-fx-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";
-fx-font-size: 21px;
-fx-text-fill: white;
-fx-background-color: #eee5;
}
.button_menu_2:hover,
.button_menu_2:pressed{
-fx-text-fill: red;
-fx-background-color:eee2;
}
.button_menu_3 {
-fx-pref-width:260;
-fx-border-radius: 5;
-fx-border-width: 0;
-fx-border-color : null;
-fx-alignment: TOP_LEFT;
-fx-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";
-fx-font-size: 21px;
-fx-text-fill: white;
-fx-background-color: #eee5;
}
.button_menu_3:hover,
.button_menu_3:pressed{
-fx-text-fill: red;
-fx-background-color:eee2;
}
.text_desc{
-fx-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";
-fx-font-size: 12px;
-fx-fill:white;
-fx-text-fill: white;
-fx-max-width: 20px;
}
/*Home*/
.button_home{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_Home.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
/**/
.button_setting{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_Engine.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
/**/
.button_personal{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_User.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
/**/
.button_open_app_out_dir{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_File.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
/**/
.button_open_out_dir{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_Location2.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
-fx-background-size: 15,15;
}
.button_open_file{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_Search.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
-fx-background-size: 18,18;
}
.button_proguard_help{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_Info.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
-fx-background-size: 12,20;
}
/*tooltip*/
.tooltip_button{
-fx-font-family: "Microsoft YaHei";
-fx-font-size: 12px;
-fx-text-fill: white;
}
/*debug*/
.button_debug{
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-border-style: null;
-fx-background-color: null;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/bug_green.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
/**/
.button_back{
-fx-background-radius: 100;
-fx-border-radius: 100;
-fx-border-width: 2;
-fx-border-color : white;
-fx-background-color: transparent;
-fx-background-insets: 0;
-fx-border-insets: 0;
-fx-background-image:url('../res/white_icon/white_icon_LeftArrow.png');
-fx-background-position: center center;
-fx-background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
``` |
"Good Feeling" is a song by American rapper Flo Rida from his 2012 EP of the same name, also appearing on his fourth studio album, Wild Ones. It was released as the album's lead single on August 29, 2011, in the United States. The song was written by Flo Rida, Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Breyan Isaac, Arash Pournouri, Avicii, Etta James, Leroy Kirkland and Pearl Woods. It was also produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut.
The song contains vocal samples from Etta James's 1962 single "Something's Got a Hold on Me", which is why James, Leroy Kirkland and Pearl Woods received writing credits. Avicii and Arash Pournouri received credits as well because Avicii's song "Levels", which also sampled the Etta James song, is used as the primary musical interpolation throughout "Good Feeling". In addition, this is Flo Rida's fourth collaboration with Dr. Luke (after "Right Round", "Touch Me" and "Who Dat Girl") and first collaboration with Cirkut. The three would next collaborate with Taio Cruz on the song "Hangover".
"Good Feeling" peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Flo Rida's sixth top-ten and fourth top-five single on the chart. The song became a top ten hit in 16 countries.
Background and composition
"Good Feeling" is the lead single from his album Wild Ones. The track was written by Flo Rida, Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Breyan Issac, Arash Pournouri, Avicii, Etta James, Leroy Kirkland and Pearl Woods, while production was helmed by Dr. Luke and Cirkut. Dr. Luke has previously produced Flo Rida's songs "Right Round", "Touch Me" and "Who Dat Girl"; Cirkut has previously teamed with Flo Rida on the latter song as well. "Good Feeling" is written in the key of D♭ minor and features acoustic-driven guitars, computerized beats and charging keyboards over a prominent sample from Avicii's song "Levels", which in turn samples Etta James's 1962 gospel-tinged hit "Something’s Got a Hold on Me".
The first use of the Etta James vocal sample in a popular track was by Pretty Lights in the song "Finally Moving" in 2006, with a remix surfacing in 2008.
Critical reception
The song has received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Trent Fitzgerald of "Pop Crush" gave the song four stars (out of possible five), writing that "the song is certainly destined to be a dance floor burner." The reviewer also said that "We have a good feeling that Flo Rida has a chart-topping hit on his hands with this club banger. It feels like an anthem for the fist-pumping crowd that idolizes MTV's Guido-ville show ‘The Jersey Shore.’" In a more favorable review, Katherine St Asaph of "Pop Dust" wrote that the track "might be the most listenable Flo Rida track ever" and that it's "pretty damn good."
In a more negative review, Digital Spy's Robert Copsey rated it two stars (out of possible five) and wrote that "the sampling of DJ Avicii's 'Levels' – which in turn samples Etta James's 'Something's Got a Hold on Me' – makes this club-rap number sound about as authentic as Asda's tinned spaghetti." Following James's death on January 20, 2012, Flo Rida dedicated the song in her memory.
Chart and sales performance
"Good Feeling" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 82 in its first week of release, and peaked at No. 3 in its 16th week on the Hot 100 in January 2012. It reached 3 million in sales by April 2012, and has sold over 4 million in the U.S. as of March 2014.
In the UK, "Good Feeling" reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 2012 eight weeks after release. It became Flo Rida's fourth No. 1 in the UK with sales of 51,000 that week. The song has sold 1,200,000 copies in the UK as of December 2020.
Music video
A lyric video was uploaded to Flo Rida's YouTube channel on August 29, 2011. He shot the music video on September 27, 2011, and it was then later officially released to YouTube on October 21, 2011.
The music video for "Good Feeling" follows Flo Rida on a tour around Europe. A lot of his exercise regimen can be seen in detail. American rap artist Snoop Dogg can be seen in this video shaking hands with Flo Rida during a Marseilles show.
It also shows Flo Rida holding an Apple iPad in front of his face. He also rides a 'Tron Bike', created by Parker Brothers.
In popular culture
Media
The song was featured in an advert for British travel company First Choice in late 2011 promoting all inclusive holidays.
The song was used as a promotional song for the Australian television station Channel Ten for their revival of Young Talent Time, and was also used as a background for the title sequence and credits for the second series of BBC Three's Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands. The song was used in a 2011 Express Holiday Collection commercial. A mashup with The Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary" was featured in Budweiser's "Eternal Optimism" ad that aired during Super Bowl XLVI. This song is used in Nickelodeon South East Asia's and Nickelodeon Philippines's commercial for the Good Friday special. The same sampling used in "Levels" by Avicii and "Die Young" by Kesha is used in the first trailer for Wreck-It Ralph and in the teaser trailer for its sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet. The song is also featured in the video game Just Dance 4.
The song is also used in 2013 TV commercials for Buick and Royal Caribbean, as well as a 2023 TV commercial for the pharmaceutical, Veozah. The song was used in the 2012 movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days.
The song is present in the pilot episode of iZombie.
It was also used in the official trailer for the 2017 comedy Father Figures.
Sports
For the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, "Good Feeling" was the unofficial victory song of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New York Rangers. The song was played after every Rangers home win at Madison Square Garden until it was replaced with "Wake Me Up", also by the song's producer, for the 2013–14 season. The song can also be heard in the second episode of HBO's 24/7, Road to the 2012 Winter Classic following a scene of the Rangers last second win against the Phoenix Coyotes on December 17, 2011.
“Good Feeling” was played to introduce the Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants during a celebration at the state's City Hall. Following this, each player received a key to New York City by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Flo Rida performed this song at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game on February 26.
The WWE used this song as the official theme song to WWE Survivor Series 2011 and it was one of two Flo Rida songs that were used as one of the official theme songs to WrestleMania XXVIII with the other being "Wild Ones". Flo Rida also performed "Good Feeling" along with "Wild Ones" live at WrestleMania XXVIII prior to The Rock entrance for his "Once In A Lifetime" match against John Cena.
The song was also used at Arthur Ashe Court during the 2012 US Open in Flushing, Queens, New York as a warm-up song.
The song was played at Oracle Arena after every Golden State Warriors home win until the Warriors' move to San Francisco in 2019 where it has continued to be played after every home win at Chase Center. It is also played after Game 5 of the 2017 NBA Finals, where the Warriors won their 2017 NBA Championship.
Track listing
CD single
"Good Feeling" – 4:06
"Good Feeling" (Jaywalker Remix) – 4:51
Digital download
"Good Feeling" – 4:06
Digital download — remixes
"Good Feeling" – 4:06
"Good Feeling" (Bingo Players Remix) – 5:33
"Good Feeling" (Hook N Sling Remix) – 6:15
"Good Feeling" (Carl Tricks Remix) – 5:40
"Good Feeling" (Sick Individuals Remix) – 6:18
"Good Feeling" (Jaywalker Remix) – 4:51
"Good Feeling" (J.O.B. Remix) – 5:50
"Good Feeling" (Seductive Remix) – 4:45
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
All-time charts
Certifications
Release history
See also
List of number-one hits of 2011 (Austria)
List of number-one hits of 2011 (Germany)
List of number-one singles of 2012 (Ireland)
List of UK Singles Chart number ones of 2012
List of UK R&B Chart number-one singles of 2011
List of UK R&B Chart number-one singles of 2012
References
2011 singles
2011 songs
Flo Rida songs
Song recordings produced by Cirkut
Song recordings produced by Dr. Luke
Songs written by Dr. Luke
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
Number-one singles in Austria
Number-one singles in Germany
Number-one singles in Scotland
Songs written by Breyan Isaac
Songs written by Arash Pournouri
New York Rangers
Golden State Warriors
Atlantic Records singles
Etta James
Songs written by Avicii |
Charles Clifford Curtis (1862-1956) was a pioneering American photographer who is best remembered for his documentary photography of the logging industry in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the late 19th century. His photographs, which captured the felling of the famous Mark Twain Tree and the General Noble tree, helped to convince the public that these giant sequoias were not a hoax. Curtis was well known for his use of large plate photography, which allowed him to capture portraits of people and gatherings that were dwarfed by the scale of the giant trees. His images of logging crews working in the rugged terrain of Converse Basin are considered some of the most iconic and enduring images of the era.
Early life
C.C. Curtis was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, on May 28, 1862. He moved to California at the age of 19 and began his photography career as an apprentice in San Francisco. He quickly developed a passion for the craft and began traveling throughout the San Joaquin Valley with his bulky and heavy glass plate photography equipment, using a donkey as his mode of transportation.
He worked as an apprentice for nine months before his brother provided him with funding to purchase his own photo tent and equipment. Curtis set up base in Hanford and traveled from town to town, earning $1 for 8x10" portraits. He had natural eye for photography and was known for his ability to capture community settings and activities in his images.
In 1883, Curtis fell in love with Maria Dewey, who worked in a millinery shop in Porterville. The two were married on March 29, 1884, in Visalia and later moved to Traver where Curtis opened his own photography studio. Traver was a thriving community at the time, thanks to the Central Valley Irrigation Project and the wheat boom.
Kaweah Colony
In 1886, Curtis joined the Kaweah Colony, a group of socialists led by Burnette Haskell in San Francisco. The colony acquired land in the Giant Forest under the Timber and Stone Act, and Curtis and his wife Maria worked on the road crew building the first road from the San Joaquin Valley to the colony. However, the camp was dissolved by the end of 1887 due to challenges to their land claims by the General Land Office, and Curtis became disillusioned. He destroyed most of the glass plate photographs he had taken of the Kaweah Colony.
Comstock Mill
After a brief visit to Big Stump Grove in 1887, the Curtis family returned to Traver for the winter. In 1888, Charles sold his photography studio and returned to Hanford with his family. That summer, they packed up their photography equipment and headed back to Big Stump.
Upon arriving at the Comstock Mill, located near today's Lake Sequoia and not far from the General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon National Park, the Curtis family set about building their own shelter. Charles built their home atop a giant sequoia stump that measured nearly 20 feet in diameter and was about ten feet off the ground, requiring a staircase to access it. This unique one-room cabin served as both a home and a photography studio for the family, and they lived there for the summer of 1888. The studio was located about 250 yards from the Mark Twain Tree.
During this time, Curtis photographed hundreds of people gathered around the General Grant Tree and other trees in the Grant Grove area, as visitors were interested in having their own photographs taken amongst the giant sequoias. These images were used to prove to the public the size of these trees, as some people were skeptical of their existence. This was the first time that Curtis was able to earn a living as a photographer and stay in one place. The Comstock Mill was abandoned in 1888.
Millwood
In 1885, Hiram C. Smith and A.D. Moore established the Kings River Lumber Company in Millwood, a bustling lumber boomtown that became Curtis's next home in the mountains. He built his photography studio on top of a flat rock across from the Sequoia Hotel, where travelers often came to have their pictures taken by the nearby General Grant tree and the stumps of logged giant sequoias. The loggers had cut "picture trees" with unnecessarily large undercuts to serve specifically as photo backdrops. Between the years of 1887 and 1893, Curtis divided his time between photographing the mountains in the summer and the wheat fields of the San Joaquín Valley in the winter.
Exhibition trees
Mark Twain Tree
In 1891, the American Museum of Natural History purchased the rights to cut down the Mark Twain Tree for display. Curtis photographed the entire process of this significant event, and his images went on to be exhibited at the museum, bringing him fame and financial success through the sale of photos of the tree.
General Noble Tree
In 1892, Charles made an agreement with the Kings River Lumber Company to photograph the felling of another giant sequoia, the General Noble Tree for display at the World's Fair in Chicago. He traveled to the fair with plans to sell prints of the images he had taken of the process. However, upon arriving at the fair with fifty-thousand prints to sell, he was denied a vendor booth and was unable to recoup his significant investment. As a result, he returned home financially ruined.
Later life
In early 1891, a group of former members of the Kaweah Colony, including Curtis, established another utopian experiment called the Esperanza Land Improvement Company in an area called Esperanza on the Kettleman Plains, located to the west of the Traver and Hanford area. After returning from the World's Fair in 1892, Curtis and his family lived on their property in Esperanza as wheat farmers and scaled down his photography business. They struggled financially during the depression of 1882–1885.
Eventually, Curtis moved to San Jose, California to work in a spice mill and later to San Francisco to work at the Folgers Coffee Company. He helped to save the Folgers factory during a fire caused by the 1906 earthquake. He eventually settled in Pasadena, where he lived until 1932 and worked as a produce buyer. In 1932, he and his wife Maria retired to Cottage Grove, Oregon. Maria passed away that year at the age of 68 after 48 years of marriage. Curtis remarried twice before passing away at the age of 93 in 1956.
Throughout his life, Curtis kept his glass plate negatives, which were later rescued and saved by his grandson, Charles Curtis Annand. Today, many of Curtis's prints are part of the collections of UCLA, the National Park Service, and the Library of Congress.
Image gallery
Bibliography
McGee, Lizzie. Mills of the Sequoias, Visalia, California, Tulare County Historical Society, Historical Bulletin, March 1952
References
External links
Reedley Historical Society and Museum
19th-century American photographers
20th-century American photographers
Photographers from California
Landscape photographers
Nature photographers
History of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
1862 births
1956 deaths |
```swift
//
// Cache.swift
// SwiftLinkPreview
//
// Created by Yehor Popovych on 1/17/17.
//
import Foundation
public protocol Cache {
func slp_getCachedResponse(url: String) -> Response?
func slp_setCachedResponse(url: String, response: Response?)
}
public class DisabledCache: Cache {
public static let instance = DisabledCache()
public func slp_getCachedResponse(url: String) -> Response? { return nil; }
public func slp_setCachedResponse(url: String, response: Response?) { }
}
open class InMemoryCache: Cache {
private var cache = Dictionary<String, (response: Response, date: Date)>()
private let invalidationTimeout: TimeInterval
private let cleanupTimer: DispatchSource?
//High priority queue for quick responses
private static let cacheQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "SwiftLinkPreviewInMemoryCacheQueue", qos: .userInitiated, target: DispatchQueue.global(qos: .userInitiated))
public init(invalidationTimeout: TimeInterval = 300.0, cleanupInterval: TimeInterval = 10.0) {
self.invalidationTimeout = invalidationTimeout
self.cleanupTimer = DispatchSource.makeTimerSource(queue: type(of: self).cacheQueue) as? DispatchSource
self.cleanupTimer?.schedule(deadline: .now() + cleanupInterval, repeating: cleanupInterval)
self.cleanupTimer?.setEventHandler { [weak self] in
guard let sself = self else {return}
sself.cleanup()
}
self.cleanupTimer?.resume()
}
open func cleanup() {
type(of: self).cacheQueue.async {
for (url, data) in self.cache {
if data.date.timeIntervalSinceNow >= self.invalidationTimeout {
self.cache[url] = nil
}
}
}
}
open func slp_getCachedResponse(url: String) -> Response? {
return type(of: self).cacheQueue.sync {
guard let response = cache[url] else { return nil }
if response.date.timeIntervalSinceNow >= invalidationTimeout {
slp_setCachedResponse(url: url, response: nil)
return nil
}
return response.response
}
}
open func slp_setCachedResponse(url: String, response: Response?) {
type(of: self).cacheQueue.sync {
if let response = response {
cache[url] = (response, Date())
} else {
cache[url] = nil
}
}
}
deinit {
self.cleanupTimer?.cancel()
}
}
``` |
Leah Rosenfeld (October 25, 1908 – November 12, 2006) was a railroad telegraph operator and station agent whose 1968 lawsuit against the Southern Pacific Railroad and the state of California helped to end job and wage discrimination against women and ensure equal opportunities for women in the railroad industry.
Early life and beginning of railroad career
At age 16 in 1924, Rosenfeld had worked as a clerk and paralegal in a law firm. In October 1944, then 36 years old, she began her career as a railroad telegrapher and station agent with the Southern Pacific Railroad after completing courses in telegraphy and clerical work. The railroads began to hire increasing numbers of women during World War II to replace the men drafted into military service; Rosenfeld took the job to help support her growing family, then consisting of nine children.
Employment as railroad operator – 1944–1955
After her divorce in 1953, she became the sole support of 6 of her 12 children and worked in a number of one-operator stations, mostly in desert areas around the Salton Sea from Mecca, California, to Yuma, Arizona. For a time, the family lived in a refrigerator car that Southern Pacific converted into housing with added screen porches. In 1955, a position opened in Saugus, California, for an agent/telegrapher. With ten years' seniority, Rosenfeld applied for the position. The Southern Pacific Railroad denied her promotion from operator to station agent, citing the state of California's "women's protective laws" which barred women from lifting more than 25 pounds or working more than eight hours per day, both of which were required of station agents. However, railroad workers were covered by the federal Railroad Labor Act, which did not distinguish between male and female workers.
Rosenfeld then protested to her union, the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, noting that she had already performed the duties of a station agent in her previous employment, but earning a lower wage. However, the union did not support her claim.
Suit against the State of California – 1968
The railroad continued to reject her claims for promotion, citing the California state law that barred women from performing the duties of station agents. However, In 1964, the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its Title VII made it illegal for employers to discriminate against women in hiring practices, and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to redress employment grievances. When the Southern Pacific Railroad gave the position of agent/telegrapher at Thermal, California, to a man with less seniority in March 1966, she took her case to the EEOC, which advised her to file suit against the State of California. On August 30, 1968, she filed suit against the State of California, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and her union, then known as the Transportation Communications International Union. On November 25, 1968, the suit against the Southern Pacific Railroad was settled and the California women's protective laws were declared unconstitutional. A subsequent appeal filed by the railroad in 1971 was also decided in Rosenfeld's favor.
The outcome of the suit was a victory for Rosenfeld, who received her promotion and pay increase, and benefited all women railroad workers. As a result, the railroad industry began hiring women in all positions in 1971 at the same pay rate as men.
Later life and retirement
Rosenfeld was able to receive her promotion and pay adjustment shortly before she retired from the Southern Pacific in 1974. She spent the rest of her life in Mariposa, California, where she was interviewed by railroad historian Shirley Burman and photographed by railroad photographer Richard Steinheimer in 1987. In her retirement, she helped to found the local animal shelter. She died in Mariposa in 2006.
References
Further reading
American women trade unionists
Trade unionists from California
Jewish-American history in California
People from Mariposa, California
1908 births
2006 deaths
21st-century American women |
Solendovirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Caulimoviridae order Ortervirales. Plants serve as natural hosts. There are two species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include: TVCV: vein-clearing symptoms in N. edwardsonii.
Taxonomy
The genus contains the following species:
Sweet potato vein clearing virus
Tobacco vein clearing virus
Structure
Viruses in Solendovirus are non-enveloped, with icosahedral geometries, and T=7 symmetry. The diameter is around 50 nm. Genomes are circular and non-segmented, around 7.7kb in length. The genome has 3 open reading frames.
Life cycle
Viral replication is nuclear/cytoplasmic. Replication follows the dsDNA(RT) replication model. dsDNA(RT) transcription is the method of transcription. The virus exits the host cell by nuclear pore export, and tubule-guided viral movement. Plants serve as the natural host. Transmission routes are seed borne.
References
External links
Viralzone: Solendovirus
ICTV
Caulimoviridae
Virus genera |
The following is a list of Pastor Greg episodes.
Specials
Season 1
Season 2
Lists of sitcom episodes |
Pinero or Piñero is a surname of the following people
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), English actor, dramatist and stage director
Begoña García Piñero (born 1976), Spanish basketball player
Dolores Piñero (1892–1975), Puerto Rican doctor
Esteban Piñero Camacho (born 1981), Spanish singer
Facundo Piñero (born 1988), Argentinian basketball player
Félix Piñero (born 1945), Venezuelan fencer
Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero (born 1958), Spanish politician
Jesús T. Piñero (1897–1952), governor of Puerto Rico
Juan Jesús Piñero Bolarín (born 1988), Spanish football forward
Manuel Piñero (born 1952), Spanish golfer
Marlon Piñero (born 1972), Filipino football player
Miguel Piñero (1946–1988), Puerto Rican playwright and actor
Piñero, a 2001 American drama film about Miguel Piñero
Norberto Piñero (1858–1938), Argentine lawyer, writer and politician
Sergio Piñero (born 1974), trap shooter from the Dominican Republic
Taqwa Pinero (born 1983), American basketball player |
```php
<?php
/*
* FecShop file.
*
* @link path_to_url
* @license path_to_url
*/
namespace fecshop\services\customer;
use fecshop\services\Service;
/**
* DropShip child services.
* @author Terry Zhao <2358269014@qq.com>
* @since 1.0
*/
class DropShip extends Service
{
}
``` |
The 2012 Munster Senior Football Championship was that year's installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Munster GAA. It was won by Cork who defeated Clare in the final. It was Cork's 37th title. This was Clare's first appearance in the final since 2000.
The winning Cork team received the Munster Championship Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Clare entered the All-Ireland Qualifiers but lost their next game, to Kerry. Cork were eliminated by eventual All-Ireland winners Donegal.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
References
External links
Munster GAA website
2M
Munster Senior Football Championship |
John Luton (October 11, 1922 – January 30, 2014) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member for the 9th district of the Oklahoma Senate.
Life and career
Luton was born in Miami, Oklahoma. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Luton was an attorney in Muskogee County, Oklahoma from 1959 to 1963.
Luton served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1964 to 1988, representing the 9th district.
Luton died on January 30, 2014 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, at the age of 89.
References
1922 births
2014 deaths
People from Miami, Oklahoma
Democratic Party Oklahoma state senators
20th-century American politicians |
They (also known as Wes Craven Presents: They) is a 2002 American supernatural horror film, directed by Robert Harmon and starring Laura Regan, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jay Brazeau, and Marc Blucas. The plot is centered on a group of four adults experiencing night terrors and attempting to deal with the fallout from their prior childhood experiences. The film was produced by Ted Field and Tom Engleman; Wes Craven served as one of its executive producers and was its presenter.
The film was released during the Thanksgiving week and received generally negative reviews, though Laura Regan's performance received significant praise. The film was also a box office bomb, grossing only $16.1 million against its $17 million budget.
Plot
In 1983, a young boy named Billy Parks is frightened and has difficulty falling asleep after waking up from a nightmare. His mother Mary assures him the monster he thinks is in the closet is imaginary. As he tries to fall asleep again, a dark apparition emerges from his closet and spirits him away.
In present-day 2002, the plot focuses on a Psychology grad student named Julia Lund and the events that turned her life upside down. As a child, she experienced horrifying night terrors that manifested after witnessing her father commit suicide but has seemingly overcome the problem. She reunites with a childhood friend, a now grown-up Billy. In the diner, Billy is constantly startled by the flickering lights, as he is now deathly afraid of the dark. He tells her that he believes their night terrors are caused by something otherworldly, as he was kidnapped by mysterious creatures as a child and went missing for two days. He warns her to stay out of the dark before shooting himself.
Julia stays over at her paramedic boyfriend Paul Loomis' apartment for comfort and to grieve. Loomis has two roommates whom he is subservient to, paying their portion of the rent and utilities. When he passively asks them to contribute, they mock him, to the point of joking about keeping the money he gave them for the electric bill. The roommates, not him, appear in charge even when one of them sees his girlfriend nude and flirts with her. That night Julia hears the shower running and investigates to find a mysterious black fluid erupting from the sink drain, and the bathroom mirror reveals an opening to alternate dimension filled with mysterious creatures. Paul hears her screams and comes to her aid only to find her alone. He suggests that she might have been sleepwalking, since she does not remember what happened.
At his funeral, Julia consoles Billy's parents and meets up with two of his friends and roommates, Terry Alba and Sam Burnside, who slowly begin to believe his claims, as they also experienced night terrors as children and suspect they are returning. Offended by Sam's careless comments, Julia visits Billy's childhood room and discovers his drawer filled with batteries. Terry shows up and apologizes for Sam's insensitivity and informs her that Billy used to talk a lot about Julia and his experiences with night terrors, and why he was obsessed with staying out of the dark.
As Julia is driving in the middle of nowhere, an unknown creature sprints across the windshield as the SUV engine mysteriously stops. As Julia attempts to restart the SUV, she is startled by a vision of Billy and falls over backwards onto the road only to nearly get hit by an oncoming semi-truck. Julia visits Paul's apartment for comfort only to discover him drunk with his friends Troy and Darren. She leaves in disgust.
At Terry and Sam's apartment, the trio study Billy's diary. Terry and Sam ask Julia if she has experienced any return of the night terrors, which she denies. Terry explains her night terrors started when she was 5 years old, after witnessing her sister drown in a lake where her family would spend their summers. In one instance, she disappeared from her bedroom and returned in the dog house, and as her father reached in to get her, she stabbed him in the eye with a kitchen knife, as she was convinced he was some kind of demon.
Julia is at first skeptical but slowly starts to believe in her friends' stories after meeting a little girl named Sarah, one of Dr. Booth's patients who also suffers from night terrors which started after her mother's untimely death. Sarah claims "They" are going to eat her in her horrible nightmares, and the only thing that keeps them away is lights. She then starts picking at a strange mark on her arm, a similar mark that also appeared on Billy's hand, Sam's shoulder, and Terry's ankle. Terry and Sam are soon taken by the creatures.
Julia finally believes the stories when she discovers the mark left by "Them" on her forehead and pulls out a long black needle. She runs to Paul's apartment in fear. Paul, now convinced that Julia is insane, drugs her drink with a sleeping pill and attempts to call Dr. Booth. Realizing he drugged her, she runs to the subway station to vomit the sleeping pill out, only to get trapped in the station as the closing gates lock her in.
Trapped, she is forced to ride a train home and is the only passenger. The train's lights start to flicker, and the vehicle stops completely. She gets off and sees all the light bulbs burst in the train tunnel before the creatures assault her. Julia manages to escape and is finally discovered by a group of tunnel workers who attempt to help her, only for Julia to violently assault them with shards of glass, convinced they are not human.
She is committed to Dr. Booth's mental institution, where she is attacked once more and transported into the separate dimension she previously saw, only this time inside of a closet. She screams for help to Dr. Booth and an orderly, neither of whom can see or hear her. Dr. Booth closes the door, and the creatures drag Julia away.
Cast
Laura Regan as Julia Lund
Jessica Amlee as Young Julia
Marc Blucas as Paul Loomis
Ethan Embry as Sam Burnside
Dagmara Dominczyk as Terry Alba
Jon Abrahams as Billy Parks
Alexander Gould as Young Billy
Jay Brazeau as Dr. Booth
Jodelle Micah Ferland as Sarah
Desiree Zurowski as Mary Parks
Mark Hildreth as Troy
Jonathan Cherry as Darren
Peter LaCroix as David Parks
L. Harvey Gold as Professor Crowley
David Abbott as Professor Adkins
Production
The initial script featured godlike, organic machines who used humans for spare parts. This was rewritten from scratch by the producers. They was Radar's first film production.
Release
Dimension purchased the distribution rights after footage was shown in England. They received its US premiere on November 27, 2002. In its opening weekend They grossed about $5.1 million. The film grossed $12.8 million in the US and $3.3 million overseas, making for a total worldwide gross of $16.1 million.
Home media
The film was released on VHS and DVD on June 10, 2003. The film received its Blu-ray release on September 11, 2012 through Echo Bridge Entertainment, in a double feature with another Wes Craven film, Cursed.
Deleted scenes
There were scenes that were filmed but excluded from the final cut; the first two are available on the Japanese DVD and include:
After Julia sees Sarah's mark on her arm she leaves Dr. Booth's waiting room with him walking in to find her gone. Julia is seen at a hardware store purchasing lighting supplies afterwards. The cashier asks her if she is going camping but she does not respond.
Julia is seen packing in her bedroom to prepare for Billy's funeral while Paul makes her breakfast. The two then share an intimate moment before she leaves for the funeral.
After Julia pulls out the splinter from her forehead she runs over to Sam's apartment as he is being attacked by "They", after calling out his name a few times more Sam's corpse is thrown through a window and lands on top of her, a monster on his back growls at Julia as it pulls his corpse into the shadows.
These deleted scenes were all included in the Blu-ray release of the film.
Alternate endings
Two alternate endings were shot but neither of them made it to the final cut, they include:
After the incident in the subway the film's plot cuts to nine months later where Julia is shown hospitalized in a mental institution. Julia manages to convince a panel of psychiatrists including Dr. Booth that she has regained her sanity. She then sees one of the creatures climb through an air shaft in the ceiling but continues to deny their existence. She is finally released and proceeds to set up high powered lights all over her apartment room. The camera then pulls out of her bedroom as she is seen sitting on her bed. A door creaks open in her darkened hall and the film cuts to black. (This ending was shown to test audiences which was deleted and re-filmed after test audiences responded negatively to the ending; this ending is unavailable in any DVD.)
Julia wakes up in the mental hospital and sees that all the people in her story − Dr. Booth, Sam, Billy, Terry - are patients in the mental hospital and her boyfriend Paul is a doctor working there. The doors to Julia's room then break open and one of "them" enters and seemingly attacks her until it is realized that it was all a delusion fabricated by Julia's mind and she had been suffering from Schizophrenia throughout the whole movie. (Some versions of the DVD and all Blu-ray versions have this ending available.)
Alternate opening
An alternate opening shown to test audiences featured a flashback of young Julia sleeping instead of a flashback of Billy. This opening was scrapped and is unavailable on any DVD.
Critical response
They holds a 39% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 57 reviews, and an average rating of 4.5/10. The site's consensus states: "They fails to sustain the level of creepiness necessary to rise above other movies in the horror genre." On Metacritic the film has a score of 31 out of 100 based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote of the film: "Though you may share [the characters]' skepticism about the reality of those nightmare creatures, and occasionally twitch with impatience at the movie's clumsy dialogue and haphazard logic, you may also find yourself thoroughly terrified. I confess I was relieved when the movie ended and the lights came back on." Jamie Russell of the BBC awarded the film four out of five stars, writing: "None of it is likely to make this into the year's best horror movie, but as far as scaring the pants off you for an hour and a half, They will do that. And more." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that the film "This entertaining scary movie isn't overly burdened with originality, but it's an enjoyable watch with some nicely creepy moments."
Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick Lasalle wrote: "Perhaps [executive producer] Craven was attracted by the metaphor of monsters and mental illness, but the metaphor is old, and director Robert Harmon does nothing to make it seem new again. Or perhaps Craven was just captivated by the movie's last and best scene, which is spooky enough to make They almost worth seeing."
See also
Shadow person
Sleep paralysis
Night terror
Darkness Falls, a 2003 horror film with a similar premise to this film
References
External links
2000s supernatural horror films
2000s monster movies
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
2002 horror films
2002 films
American monster movies
American supernatural horror films
Dimension Films films
Films directed by Robert Harmon
Films scored by Elia Cmíral
Films about parallel universes
Films produced by Scott Kroopf
Focus Features films
Miramax films |
Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995. The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994. According to web traffic analysis companies, Yahoo has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million unique users per month in the United States alone. As of October 2007, the global network of Yahoo receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average, making it one of the most visited US websites.
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country. As of July 2015, Yahoo has acquired 114 companies, with Polyvore being the latest.
Acquisitions
See also
List of largest mergers and acquisitions
Lists of corporate acquisitions and mergers
References
Yahoo |
Cresheld Draper (8 November 1646 – 15 March 1694) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1678 to 1689.
Draper was the son of William Draper of May Place Crayford and his wife Mary Cresheld daughter of Richard Cresheld, sergeant at law. His father died when Draper was four, leaving him the manors and estates at Crayford.
Cresheld Draper's mother remarried to John Egioke (–1663) 0f Shurnock Court, Worcestershire, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/egioke-john-1616-63
Here in Crayford Church, lieth interred the remains of William Draper of Crayford in the county of Kent Esq. who departed this life January 1650; and of Mary his wife the 4th and youngest daughter of Richard Chresheld Sarjant at Law and One of the Late King's Justices of the Common Pleas who after she had bore to her said husband one only son Cresheld and two daughters Mary and another still borne finished her course September 1652
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp227-263
Draper was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Winchelsea on petition on 7 February 1678 after complaining of an undue Return of John Banks and held the seat until 1689. In 1685 he was Baron of the Cinque Ports for the coronation of King James II.
Draper held the rank of colonel. He died at the age of 47 and his heirs sold his properties at Crayford to Sir Cloudesley Shovel.
Draper married Sarah Gauden daughter of Denis Gauden of Clapham, Surrey in around 1666.
References
1646 births
1694 deaths
English MPs 1661–1679
English MPs 1679
English MPs 1680–1681
English MPs 1681
English MPs 1685–1687 |
The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei) on the Toei Oedo Line in Tokyo, Japan.
Following testing of a two-car prototype in the late 1980s, the 12-000 series was introduced into service in December 1991. A total of 53 eight-car 12-000 series sets were built between 1990 and 2000 by Nippon Sharyo and Hitachi.
Formation
Each M1 car is fitted with a lozenge-type pantograph.
Car 5 is designated as a mildly-air-conditioned car.
Interior
History
Two prototype cars, numbered 12-001 and 12-002, were delivered from Tokyu Car Corporation in April 1986. These cars had stainless steel bodies and were originally built with conventional traction motors. The cars were converted to linear motor propulsion in 1987, with testing conducted on a special test track at Magome Depot. Following successful testing, it was announced in December 1988 that linear motor propulsion would be used for the new Toei Ōedo Line (then Line 12) under construction in Tokyo.
The first production trains were delivered as six-car sets from Nippon Sharyo to Hikarigaoka Depot from September 1990 for testing on the line between and before entering revenue service in December 1991. By 2001, a total of 424 vehicles would be built by Nippon Sharyo and Hitachi, formed as 53 8-car sets. The production trains featured aluminium bodies, and the first six sets were painted.
The last remaining first-batch trains (sets 01 to 06) began withdrawal in June 2016. The final first-batch train was retired from service on 30 June 2016.
Preserved examples
The two prototype cars, 12-001 and 12-002 are preserved at Chihaya Flower Park in Toshima, Tokyo.
Gallery
References
External links
Nippon Sharyo 12-000 series information
Electric multiple units of Japan
Toei Subway
Train-related introductions in 1991
Hitachi multiple units
Nippon Sharyo multiple units
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Tokyu Car multiple units |
Cerithiopsis familiarum is a species of sea snail, a gastropod in the family Cerithiopsidae, which is known from the Gulf of Mexico. It was described by Rolán, Espinosa, and Fernández-Garcés, in 2007.
References
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
Cecalupo A. & Robba E. (2010) The identity of Murex tubercularis Montagu, 1803 and description of one new genus and two new species of the Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea). Bollettino Malacologico 46: 45-64.
familiarum
Gastropods described in 2007 |
Kapenguria is a town in Kenya. It is the capital and largest urban center of West Pokot County. The town lies north east of Kitale on the A1 road along Kitale-Lodwar road in north Western Kenya. Kapenguria forms a municipality with a population of 40,751 as per the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census.
Kapenguria constituency has six wards namely (Kapenguria, Mnagei, Siyoi, Riwo, Endugh and Sook). All of them belong to West Pokot county, which has a total of 20 wards.
Economy
With Kapenguria being the administrative headquarters of West Pokot county, the county and national governments constitute the largest employers. The various sectors of the service industry such as financial services, small-scale retail, hospitality, charity organisations, religious bodies and professionals comprise the other major significant employers.
Financial institutions which have branches in the town include Cooperative Bank, Kenya Commercial Bank, Equity Bank, Absa Bank and Post Bank.
Points of interest
Saiwa Swamp National Park
The Saiwa Swamp National Park is located some 25 kilometres south of Kapenguria off the road to Kitale.
Kapenguria Museum
Kapenguria is home to the Kapenguria museum in the prison where Jomo Kenyatta was incarcerated in 1953 for his alleged role in the Mau Mau Rebellion.
Education
Kapenguria town is a local educational hub with campuses of the University of Nairobi as well as Kisii University. Other tertiary institution located within the town include, a Kenya Medical Training College, West Pokot Teachers Training College and Pokot Technical Training Center among others.
Health
The town hosts the Kapenguria County Referral Hospital which is the main health facility in West Pokot county.
Notable personalities
Kapenguria is the home of Tegla Loroupe, world-record-holder in the marathon, half-marathon, 20,000-metre, 15,000-metre and 10,000-metre races. She holds annual Peace Race races here, to bring peace among the eight tribes in the West Pokot area.
This is the location of the Tegla Loroupe Peace Academy, founded to provide education for orphans from the tribal wars.
See also
Kapenguria Six
References
Populated places in West Pokot County
County capitals in Kenya |
John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming (c. 1465 – 1 November 1524) was a Scottish nobleman.
He was the son of Malcolm Fleming, 1st Lord Fleming, and Euphame Livingstone, a daughter of James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston. He was assassinated by John Tweedie of Drumelzier, and his followers, while hawking.
His son was Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming.
References
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms
1460s births
1524 deaths
16th-century Scottish people
Lord High Chamberlains of Scotland
Lords of Parliament (pre-1707) |
```vue
<template>
<div class="container">
<h1>Grouping</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<vue-form-generator :schema="schema" :model="model" :options="formOptions" tag="section"></vue-form-generator>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<pre v-if="model" v-html="prettyModel"></pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import mixinUtils from "../../mixins/utils.js";
export default {
mixins: [mixinUtils],
data() {
return {
model: {
name: "Brian Blessed",
email: "brian@hawkman.mongo",
others: {
more: "More",
things: "Things"
},
single: "blah"
},
schema: {
groups: [
{
legend: "Contact Details",
fields: [
{
type: "input",
inputType: "text",
label: "Name",
model: "name"
},
{
type: "input",
inputType: "email",
label: "Email",
model: "email"
}
]
},
{
legend: "Other Details",
fields: [
{
type: "input",
inputType: "text",
label: "More",
model: "others.more"
},
{
type: "input",
inputType: "text",
label: "Things",
model: "others.things"
}
]
}
],
fields: [
{
type: "input",
inputType: "text",
label: "Single field (without group)",
model: "single"
}
]
},
formOptions: {
fieldIdPrefix: "frm1-"
}
};
},
created() {
window.app = this;
}
};
</script>
<style lang="scss">
@import "../../style.scss";
</style>
``` |
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 18 December 1997. The result was a victory for opposition candidate Kim Dae-jung, who won with 40.3 percent of the vote. When he took office in 1998, it marked the first time in Korean history that the ruling party peacefully transferred power to the opposition party.
Nominations
National Congress for New Politics
The NCNP National Convention was held on 19 May at Olympic Gymnastics Arena. Kim Dae-jung, a former 6-term lawmaker from South Jeolla, was nominated for president, defeating Chyung Dai-chul, a former four-term lawmaker from Seoul.
New Korea Party
The ruling New Korea Party's presidential nominating convention took place on 21 July at Olympic Gymnastics Arena, during which former Prime Minister Lee Hoi-chang defeated former Gyeonggi governor Lee In-je after two rounds of voting and became the party's nominee.
United Liberal Democrats
The ULD National Convention held on 24 June at Olympic Gymnastics Arena overwhelmingly nominated 8-term lawmaker Kim Jong-pil from South Chungcheong for president.
Democratic Party
On 11 September, the Democratic Party, once the premier opposition to the New Koreans but a fringe party ever since the defection of Kim Dae-jung's faction in 1995, nominated Seoul mayor Cho Soon for president.
New National Party
On 4 November, former NKP politicians unhappy with Lee Hoi-chang founded the New National Party and nominated Lee In-je for president. This was after the scandal regarding Lee Hoi-chang's sons being excused from the military service hit the news cycle and brought Lee's popularity down.
Campaign
Early polls showed Lee Hoi-chang leading Kim Dae-jung by as much as 30 percentage points.
Lee Hoi-chang's lead was lost when press reports emerged that Lee’s two sons had evaded military conscription by shedding weight before their physical examinations. The South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment. Lee In-je then launched his own bid for the presidency, claiming that Lee Hoi-chang could not win the election and stood for a generational shift in South Korean politics as he was 20 years younger than any candidate in the race. These developments led to Kim leading in the polls by a slender margin.
The election also took place in the context of the IMF crisis where South Korea was forced to accept an IMF bailout on 3 December amidst an economic crash.
Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-pil form an alliance
Kim Dae-jung, or "D.J." and Kim Jong-pil, or "J.P." agreed on 3 November to form an alliance against their common enemy, Lee Hoi-chang. In this agreement, JP announced to withdraw his bid for president to endorse DJ, and in turn DJ would appoint JP as the prime minister once elected president. The two Kims also agreed to revise the Constitution after the election from presidential system to parliamentary system, and the NCNP and ULD would cooperate on different issues as a coalition government. Kim Dae-jung shocked his supporters with this move as Kim Jong-pil prominently served as prime minister under the Park Chung-hee authoritarian regime of the 1960s and 70s to join his ticket even though Kim was targeted by the Park regime as a political dissident, surviving government assassination attempts and imprisonment.
Anti-Kim Coalition: the Grand National Party
On the other hand, needing a breakthrough as Kim Dae-jung's popularity soared, Lee Hoi-chang and Cho Soon also agreed to combine forces. On 21 November, the New Korea Party and Democratic Party merged into one party, and was founded as the Grand National Party. Cho Soon was made the chairman of the party, and Lee Hoi-chang the candidate for president.
The election was also the first to feature election debates between the candidates.
Results
With a winning margin of 1.52%, the 1997 presidential elections were the closest until the 2022 presidential elections.
By region
See also
X-file scandal
References
Presidential elections in South Korea
Presidential election
South Korea |
Can You Forgive Her? is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels.
The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow. Early on, Alice asks the question "What should a woman do with her life?" This theme repeats itself in the dilemmas faced by the other women in the novel. Lady Glencora and her husband Plantagenet Palliser recur in the remainder of the series.
Background
An early form of the novel appeared in Trollope's play The Noble Jilt, which was written in 1850 and would not be published in his lifetime. It was released in a limited press run in 1923. Trollope wished to use this title for Can You Forgive Her?, but feared that critics would think Alice Vavasor was not sufficiently noble.
Trollope published Can You Forgive Her? in monthly installments throughout 1864, before turning it into a two volume novel through the Chapman and Hall publishing house. The first volume was illustrated by noted Dickens artist Phiz; however, Trollope complained of the finished product, stating that he could not think of a worse illustrator, and that he refused to see his book contain such pictures. The second volume was instead illustrated by Marcus Stone.
Plot
Alice Vavasor, a young woman of twenty-four, is engaged to the wealthy, respectable, dependable if unambitious and bland, John Grey. She had previously been engaged to her cousin George, but broke it off after he went through a wild period. John, trusting in his love, makes only the slightest protest about Alice’s planned tour of Switzerland with her cousin Kate, George's sister, even when he learns George is to go with them as their male protector. Influenced by the romance of Switzerland, by Kate's contriving to restore George to Alice's favour, and by her own misgivings about John's shortcomings, Alice jilts her second fiancé.
Alice's noble but despised relations are shocked, but their protests only strengthen Alice's resolve, and she eventually renews her engagement to George, who seems charismatic, ambitious and alluring, in contrast to John. She respects his honesty in acknowledging in his letter proposing their marriage that her money would support his parliamentary ambitions, and she tells him that he can draw on her funds even before they marry. Ever attentive to Alice's welfare, John secretly pays the money instead.
George wins the byelection, but finds the financial demands and prospect of the forthcoming General Election to be crushingly disappointing. Now desperate, his darker side becomes increasingly visible. He has fantasies about murdering his grandfather, and breaks Kate's arm when the old man dies of natural causes having denied George his inheritance. He comes last in the General Election after his grandfather's death and estrangement from Kate. In despair, and after learning of John's interference in his campaign and engagement, he almost murders John before escaping to America.
A second story involves the comic rivalry between the wealthy farmer Cheesacre and the pauper soldier Captain Bellfield for the affections (and substantial inheritance) of the widow Mrs Greenow. Mrs Greenow, the aunt of Alice, George, and Kate, had married young to a very rich older man who had recently died. Still in mourning, which for her involves a great deal of performance, she also enjoys basking in the attentions of her beaux and pitting them against each other. Finally she decides to marry the more attractive Captain Bellfield, knowing that she can keep him under control.
The third story deals with the marriage of the extremely rich Plantagenet Palliser to the even wealthier heiress, Lady Glencora M'Cluskie. They are not very well suited. He is a stiff-necked, hardworking politician in line to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, while she has a lively, fun-loving personality and a well-developed sense of humour. She is outspoken and often shocks Alice by her frankness. The marital situation is made more tense by Glencora's failure to conceive a child. Previously, she had been engaged to Burgo Fitzgerald, an aristocratic wastrel, but the same noble relations that protested about Alice's jilting of John Grey had successfully pressured Glencora to abandon Burgo to marry Plantagenet. But Glencora is still passionately in love with Burgo, who plots to elope with her. To Alice's dismay, Glencora argues that it would be for the best if she eloped with Burgo as then Plantagenet could divorce her and marry someone else who could give him children. She publicly dances with Burgo at a ball and nearly agrees to go with him, even at the risk of her fortune and reputation.
Plantagenet sacrifices his political ambitions to save his marriage by taking Glencora on a European tour, with Alice accompanying them. After some rancorous travelling, Glencora finds that she is pregnant, which solidifies her marriage and fulfils Plantagenet's life, though it is clear that Glencora does not love him. John Grey pursues Alice to Switzerland to renew his courtship and eventually wins her over again. Although Alice loves him, her acceptance of him is not whole-hearted and is described in terms of a surrender. Having jilted him before, she struggles to forgive herself and feels she is unworthy of him. She finally relents, noting that he had "left her no alternative but to be happy." They become engaged and Plantagenet persuades his new friend to run for Parliament. Alice is somewhat pleased by this as she had been dissatisfied with John's earlier lack of ambition.
Back in England, Mrs Greenow marries Bellfield, Glencora gives birth to a son, and Alice finally marries John. Alice’s happiness is temporarily alloyed by sense of defeat at having her wedding turned into a formal social event where she endures the reproachful lectures of high-ranking relations she had sought to avoid. Trollope suggests that she is fortunate not to have suffered more by trying to defy social convention.
Characters
Mrs Arabella Greenow, a wealthy widow; the aunt of Alice Vavasor
Mr John Grey, the Member of Parliament for Silverbridge who is in love with Alice Vavasor
Lady Glencora MacCluskie Palliser, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser whose early love for Bungo Fitzgerald is renewed
Plantagenet Palliser, the heir to the Duke of Omnium who gives up becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer to save his marriage
Alice Vavasor, a headstrong young woman who eventually marries John Grey
George Vavasor, the scarred, dangerous cousin of Alice Vavasor who takes her money to run for Parliament
John Vavasor, the father of Alice
Kate Vavasor, the sister of George
Captain Gustavus Bellfield, the rakish suitor of Arabella Greenow
Mr Bott, the obsequious parliamentary supporter of Plantagenet Palliser who spies on Glencora
Samuel Cheesacre, a rural Norfolk farmer who tries to court Arabella Greenow
Bungo Fitzgerald, the handsome but penniless nephew of Lady Monk who attempts to court Lady Glencora
Lady Margaret Midlothian, a busybody relative of Alice Vavasor who is critical of her conduct
Lady Monk, the aunt of Bungo Fitzgerald who encourages his pursuit of Lady Glencora Palliser and provides him with funds
Reception
The satirical periodical Punch mocked the work, referring to it as Can You Stand Her? due to its writers' irritation at Alice's ineptitude in deciding between her two suitors. Henry James, when writing for the New York Nation, quipped "Can we forgive Miss Vavasor? Of course we can, and forget her too, for that matter."
In his memoir about writing, Stephen King pokes fun at the book's length, joking that for modern audiences a more appropriate title might be Can You Possibly Finish It?
The lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, wrote the song "Can You Forgive Her?" in 1992 after reading Trollope's novel whilst on holiday.
References
External links
Entry on the official Trollope Society website
Palliser novels
1864 British novels
1865 British novels
Novels first published in serial form
Chapman & Hall books |
Dario Cedeño (born August 20, 1991 in Chone) is an Ecuadorian football defender currently playing for Barcelona.
See also
Football in Ecuador
References
External links
FEF Player card
Ecuadorian men's footballers
1991 births
Living people
Barcelona S.C. footballers
Men's association football defenders |
Cicely Hey (1896–1980) was a British artist known as a painter, sculptor and model-maker. Although born in England she spent much of her career in Wales.
Biography
Hey was born in Faringdon in Oxfordshire. She first studied art at the Brussels School of Art and then in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Art.
As well as working as a painter and draughtsman, Hey also modelled for the artist Walter Sickert who painted her portrait several times in the early 1920s. The two had first met at a lecture by Roger Fry in January 1923 for which Hey was collecting the ticket money. Hey sat for Sickert on a daily basis throughout January and February 1923 and continued to see him regularly on a social basis afterwards. The large number of drawings and paintings Sickert produced of Hey included a double portrait of the pair of them, Death and the Maiden. The last painting by Sickert to feature Hey had her posed as the sister in The Raising of Lazarus. Sickert gave Hey a large number of paintings and drawings which she donated to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester shortly before she died.
At the time Hey met Sickert she was living in a house in Bloomsbury which she shared with, among others, Robert R. Tatlock, an art critic and long-time editor of the Burlington Magazine, who she later married. Hey began to exhibit at group shows with the London Group from 1928, with the Women's International Art Club, the New English Art Club and the Society of Graphic Artists. Her first solo show was in 1933 at the Lefevre Gallery in London and included drawings of writers and artists including Sickert, Rebecca West and Duncan Grant. In 1938 Hey exhibited a portrait of Sir Adrian Boult at the London Group.
In 1941 Hey moved to north Wales and settled in Llysfaen and began to focus on her model making. She would work in terracotta, wire and paper mache to create miniature period figures often with historically accurate costumes. Examples of her work featured in the Arts Council of Wales 1955 touring exhibition of contemporary Welsh painting and sculpture and she exhibited with the North Wales Group from 1956 to 1968. Between 1957 and 1961 Hey was a regular exhibitor at the art exhibition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and in 1964 had a solo exhibition, Period Figures, at the Geffrye Museum in London and which also toured. The Llanover Hall arts centre in Cardiff hosted an exhibition of her drawings in 2006 and both the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, the Contemporary Arts Society for Wales and the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading hold pieces by her.
References
1896 births
1980 deaths
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Artists from Oxfordshire
English women painters |
Alan Brian Levine (born May 22, 1968) is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who pitched 234 games in the minor leagues, and 416 games in the major leagues.
Early life & career
Levine, who is Jewish, was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, and graduated from Hoffman Estates High School, attended and played for Harper Junior College, and graduated from Southern Illinois University. In , Levine walked onto the SIU team as a pitcher.
Baseball career
The Chicago White Sox drafted him in the 11th round of the 1991 draft.
Minor leagues
In 1991 he debuted with the Class A Utica Blue Sox, and was 5th in the New York-Penn League with two complete games. In 1992, he stuck 142 batters between the Sarasota White Sox and the single-A South Bend White Sox, tying for second among White Sox minor leaguers. In 1993, he led Florida State League pitchers with 129 strikeouts while pitching for Sarasota, and came in third in the league with three complete games, and fifth with 11 wins. Levine played AA for the Birmingham Barons in 1994, along with Michael Jordan, until he was called up to AAA mid-season, and came in eighth in with a 3.31 ERA.
In 1995, he started in the Nashville Sounds' starting rotation, but spent most of the season in double-A Birmingham, where he was second on the team with seven saves.
Levine pitched 234 games in the minor leagues, over 11 seasons.
Major leagues
Levine made his major league debut in with the White Sox. In , he held batters to a .125 batting average when there were two outs with runners in scoring position. In December 1997, he was traded by the White Sox with Larry Thomas to the Texas Rangers for Benji Gil.
In April , he was selected off waivers by the Anaheim Angels from the Texas Rangers. In , he held batters to a .186 batting average when there were two outs with runners in scoring position. In , he had perhaps his best season. He had a 2.38 ERA (2.11 in relief; second-best among all AL relievers) for the Angels in 64 games, and his eight wins were third-most among all AL relief pitchers. In , he held batters to a .206 batting average when there were two outs with runners in scoring position.
In January , Levine signed as a free agent with the St. Louis Cardinals, but was released in March. In April, he signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who then sold him to the Kansas City Royals on July 31. In 2003, he had another excellent season, splitting it between the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Kansas City Royals. He had a 2.79 ERA in 54 games. He held batters to a .189 batting average when there were two outs with runners in scoring position. In December 2003, he signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers. In , he held batters to a .154 batting average when there were two outs with runners in scoring position.
For seven seasons in a row, from 1999–2004, he pitched in at least 50 games each year.
In February , he signed as a free agent with the San Francisco Giants, who released him in June. On July 7, 2005, he was signed as a free agent by the Florida Marlins, but was released a week later without pitching a game for them.
Levine played for seven major league teams. For his career, he held batters to a .220 batting average when there were runners in scoring position with two outs.
Atlantic League
In 2008, Levine pitched for the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
Personal life
Levine later lived in Belleville, Illinois.
See also
List of select Jewish baseball players
References
External links
Retrosheet
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
Adam Levine explains his comment on The Voice
Jews in Sports biography
1968 births
Anaheim Angels players
Birmingham Barons players
Caribes de Oriente players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Chicago White Sox players
Detroit Tigers players
Erie SeaWolves players
Fresno Grizzlies players
Jewish American baseball players
Jewish Major League Baseball players
Kansas City Royals players
Living people
Major League Baseball pitchers
Nashville Sounds players
Newark Bears players
Oklahoma RedHawks players
People from Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Sportspeople from Park Ridge, Illinois
Baseball players from Cook County, Illinois
Salt Lake Stingers players
San Francisco Giants players
Sarasota White Sox players
South Bend White Sox players
Southern Illinois Salukis baseball players
Tampa Bay Devil Rays players
Texas Rangers players
Utica Blue Sox players
Harper Hawks baseball players
Hoffman Estates High School alumni
21st-century American Jews |
Skuleboda () was a quartz and feldspar mine near Vänersborg, in western Sweden. Mining at Skuleboda begun in 1927, then halted the same year and continued again from 1931 to 1934. The mined deposit is a pegmatite with a length of 45 m and a maximum width of 10 m. It contains amazonite feldspar. Rare occurrences of yttrotantalite has been found in the mined pegmatite.
References
1927 establishments in Sweden
1934 disestablishments in Sweden
Feldspar mines in Sweden
Quartz mines in Sweden
Vänersborg Municipality
Former mines in Sweden
Pegmatite mines |
Sean Michael Kyer (born July 31, 2001) is a Canadian actor who played the role of Oscar in 51 episodes of the children's live action educational television series Odd Squad from 2014 until 2017. Kyer has also appeared in the series Continuum as Sam Cameron and When Calls the Heart as Albert Bickley.
Career
Sean Michael Kyer was born on July 31, 2001, in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he began a minor acting career as an infant. His first television role was at the age of 9, when he played "Brian" in an season 1 episode of the sci-fi television series V in 2010. Kyer obtained more slight roles in television namely discrete roles in episodes of Fringe, Alcatraz, Falling Skies, Cedar Cove and Supernatural. His first film role was in the film Girl in Progress. He also had a voice role in the TV movie A Fairly Odd Christmas. He appeared on two episodes of R.L. Stine's: The Haunting Hour as two different characters. Afterwards, Kyer had a main character part on 10 episodes of Continuum and as Oscar in Odd Squad from 2014 to 2017. In addition to those roles Kyer had a recurring role in 7 episodes of When Calls The Heart between 2014 and 2015.
In 2016, Kyer won a Leo award for his role as Oscar in Odd Squad.
Filmography
External links
References
2001 births
Living people
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male child actors
Male actors from Vancouver
21st-century Canadian male actors |
```objective-c
/*
*
* Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
* that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
* tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
* in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may
* be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
*/
#ifndef RTC_BASE_NUMERICS_MOD_OPS_H_
#define RTC_BASE_NUMERICS_MOD_OPS_H_
#include <algorithm>
#include <type_traits>
#include "rtc_base/checks.h"
namespace webrtc {
template <unsigned long M> // NOLINT
inline unsigned long Add(unsigned long a, unsigned long b) { // NOLINT
RTC_DCHECK_LT(a, M);
unsigned long t = M - b % M; // NOLINT
unsigned long res = a - t; // NOLINT
if (t > a)
return res + M;
return res;
}
template <unsigned long M> // NOLINT
inline unsigned long Subtract(unsigned long a, unsigned long b) { // NOLINT
RTC_DCHECK_LT(a, M);
unsigned long sub = b % M; // NOLINT
if (a < sub)
return M - (sub - a);
return a - sub;
}
// Calculates the forward difference between two wrapping numbers.
//
// Example:
// uint8_t x = 253;
// uint8_t y = 2;
//
// ForwardDiff(x, y) == 5
//
// 252 253 254 255 0 1 2 3
// #################################################
// | | x | | | | | y | |
// #################################################
// |----->----->----->----->----->
//
// ForwardDiff(y, x) == 251
//
// 252 253 254 255 0 1 2 3
// #################################################
// | | x | | | | | y | |
// #################################################
// -->-----> |----->---
//
// If M > 0 then wrapping occurs at M, if M == 0 then wrapping occurs at the
// largest value representable by T.
template <typename T, T M>
inline typename std::enable_if<(M > 0), T>::type ForwardDiff(T a, T b) {
static_assert(std::is_unsigned<T>::value,
"Type must be an unsigned integer.");
RTC_DCHECK_LT(a, M);
RTC_DCHECK_LT(b, M);
return a <= b ? b - a : M - (a - b);
}
template <typename T, T M>
inline typename std::enable_if<(M == 0), T>::type ForwardDiff(T a, T b) {
static_assert(std::is_unsigned<T>::value,
"Type must be an unsigned integer.");
return b - a;
}
template <typename T>
inline T ForwardDiff(T a, T b) {
return ForwardDiff<T, 0>(a, b);
}
// Calculates the reverse difference between two wrapping numbers.
//
// Example:
// uint8_t x = 253;
// uint8_t y = 2;
//
// ReverseDiff(y, x) == 5
//
// 252 253 254 255 0 1 2 3
// #################################################
// | | x | | | | | y | |
// #################################################
// <-----<-----<-----<-----<-----|
//
// ReverseDiff(x, y) == 251
//
// 252 253 254 255 0 1 2 3
// #################################################
// | | x | | | | | y | |
// #################################################
// ---<-----| |<-----<--
//
// If M > 0 then wrapping occurs at M, if M == 0 then wrapping occurs at the
// largest value representable by T.
template <typename T, T M>
inline typename std::enable_if<(M > 0), T>::type ReverseDiff(T a, T b) {
static_assert(std::is_unsigned<T>::value,
"Type must be an unsigned integer.");
RTC_DCHECK_LT(a, M);
RTC_DCHECK_LT(b, M);
return b <= a ? a - b : M - (b - a);
}
template <typename T, T M>
inline typename std::enable_if<(M == 0), T>::type ReverseDiff(T a, T b) {
static_assert(std::is_unsigned<T>::value,
"Type must be an unsigned integer.");
return a - b;
}
template <typename T>
inline T ReverseDiff(T a, T b) {
return ReverseDiff<T, 0>(a, b);
}
// Calculates the minimum distance between to wrapping numbers.
//
// The minimum distance is defined as min(ForwardDiff(a, b), ReverseDiff(a, b))
template <typename T, T M = 0>
inline T MinDiff(T a, T b) {
static_assert(std::is_unsigned<T>::value,
"Type must be an unsigned integer.");
return std::min(ForwardDiff<T, M>(a, b), ReverseDiff<T, M>(a, b));
}
} // namespace webrtc
#endif // RTC_BASE_NUMERICS_MOD_OPS_H_
``` |
Yttersjö is a locality situated in Umeå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 384 inhabitants in 2010.
References
Populated places in Umeå Municipality |
Catastrophic optical damage (COD), or catastrophic optical mirror damage (COMD), is a failure mode of high-power semiconductor lasers. It occurs when the semiconductor junction is overloaded by exceeding its power density and absorbs too much of the produced light energy, leading to melting and recrystallization of the semiconductor material at the facets of the laser. This is often colloquially referred to as "blowing the diode." The affected area contains a large number of lattice defects, negatively affecting its performance. If the affected area is sufficiently large, it can be observable under optical microscope as darkening of the laser facet, and/or as presence of cracks and grooves. The damage can occur within a single laser pulse, in less than a millisecond. The time to COD is inversely proportional to the power density.
Catastrophic optical damage is one of the limiting factors in increasing performance of semiconductor lasers. It is the primary failure mode for AlGaInP/AlGaAs red lasers.
Short-wavelength lasers are more susceptible to COD than long-wavelength ones.
The typical values for COD in industrial products range between 12 and 20 MW/cm2.
Causes and mechanisms
At the edge of a diode laser, where light is emitted, a mirror is traditionally formed by cleaving the semiconductor wafer to form a specularly reflecting plane. This approach is facilitated by the weakness of the [110] crystallographic plane in III-V semiconductor crystals (such as GaAs, InP, GaSb, etc.) compared to other planes. A scratch made at the edge of the wafer and a slight bending force causes a nearly atomically perfect mirror-like cleavage plane to form and propagate in a straight line across the wafer.
But it so happens that the atomic states at the cleavage plane are altered (compared to their bulk properties within the crystal) by the termination of the perfectly periodic lattice at that plane. Surface states at the cleaved plane have energy levels within the (otherwise forbidden) band gap of the semiconductor.
The absorbed light causes generation of electron-hole pairs. These can lead to breaking of chemical bonds on the crystal surface followed by oxidation, or to release of heat by nonradiative recombination. The oxidized surface then shows increased absorption of the laser light, which further accelerates its degradation. The oxidation is especially problematic for semiconductor layers containing aluminium.
Essentially, as a result when light propagates through the cleavage plane and transits to free space from within the semiconductor crystal, a fraction of the light energy is absorbed by the surface states where it is converted to heat by phonon-electron interactions. This heats the cleaved mirror. In addition the mirror may heat simply because the edge of the diode laser—which is electrically pumped—is in less-than-perfect contact with the mount that provides a path for heat removal. The heating of the mirror causes the band gap of the semiconductor to shrink in the warmer areas. The band gap shrinkage brings more electronic band-to-band transitions into alignment with the photon energy causing yet more absorption. This is thermal runaway, a form of positive feedback, and the result can be melting of the facet, known as catastrophic optical damage, or COD.
Deterioration of the laser facets with aging and effects of the environment (erosion by water, oxygen, etc.) increases light absorption by the surface, and decreases the COD threshold. A sudden catastrophic failure of the laser due to COD then can occur after many thousands hours in service.
Improvements
One of the methods of increasing the COD threshold in AlGaInP laser structures is the sulfur treatment, which replaces the oxides at the laser facet with chalcogenide glasses. This decreases the recombination velocity of the surface states.
Reduction of recombination velocity of surface states can be also achieved by cleaving the crystals in ultrahigh vacuum and immediate deposition of a suitable passivation layer.
A thin layer of aluminium can be deposited over the surface, for gettering the oxygen.
Another approach is doping of the surface, increasing the band gap and decreasing absorption of the lasing wavelength, shifting the absorption maximum several nanometers up.
Current crowding near the mirror area can be avoided by prevention of injecting charge carriers near the mirror region. This is achieved by depositing the electrodes away from the mirror, at least several carrier diffusion distances.
Energy density on the surface can be reduced by employing a waveguide broadening the optical cavity, so the same amount of energy exits through a larger area. Energy density of 15–20 MW/cm2 corresponding to 100 mW per micrometer of stripe width are now achievable. A wider laser stripe can be used for higher output power, for the cost of transverse mode oscillations and therefore worsening of spectral and spatial beam quality.
In the 1970s, this problem, which is particularly nettlesome for GaAs-based lasers emitting between 1 µm and 0.630 µm wavelengths (less so for InP based lasers used for long-haul telecommunications which emit between 1.3 µm and 2 µm), was identified. Michael Ettenberg, a researcher and later Vice President at RCA Laboratories' David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, devised a solution. A thin layer of aluminum oxide was deposited on the facet. If the aluminum oxide thickness is chosen correctly, it functions as an anti-reflective coating, reducing reflection at the surface. This alleviated the heating and COD at the facet.
Since then, various other refinements have been employed. One approach is to create a so-called non-absorbing mirror (NAM) such that the final 10 µm or so before the light emits from the cleaved facet are rendered non-absorbing at the wavelength of interest. Such lasers are called window lasers.
In the very early 1990s, SDL, Inc. began supplying high power diode lasers with good reliability characteristics. CEO Donald Scifres and CTO David Welch presented new reliability performance data at, e.g., SPIE Photonics West conferences of the era. The methods used by SDL to defeat COD were considered to be highly proprietary and have still not been disclosed publicly as of June, 2006.
In the mid-1990s IBM Research (Ruschlikon, Switzerland) announced that it had devised its so-called "E2 process" which conferred extraordinary resistance to COD in GaAs-based lasers. This process, too, has never been disclosed as of June, 2006.
Further reading
Graduate thesis about COD in high power diode lasers from 2013
References
Semiconductor device defects
Laser science |
The 2023 Copa Conecta was the 2nd edition of the Copa Conecta, a knockout competition for Mexican football clubs from Liga Premier and Liga TDP.
The Copa Conecta is an official Mexican tournament that was created in 2021 with the aim of providing a greater opportunity for development to the football players of the Premier and TDP league teams.
Qualified teams
Teams classified at the worst third ranked; fourth place of the 3 groups and Reserve Team champions at Serie A, and the teams ranked in places 1–7 of Serie B.
Alebrijes de Oaxaca (Serie B – 2nd Place)
Calor (Serie B – 4th Place)
Chilpancingo (Serie B – 5th Place)
Inter Playa del Carmen (Serie A, Group 3 – 5th Place)
Mazorqueros (Serie B – 1st Place)
Montañeses (Serie A, Group 3 – 4th Place)
Pachuca (Serie A, Group 3 – 1st Place, Reserve Teams Champions)
Pioneros de Cancún (Serie B – 3rd Place)
Saltillo (Serie A, Group 2 – 4th Place)
T'hó Mayas (Serie B – 7th Place)
Tritones Vallarta (Serie A, Group 1 – 4th Place)
Zitácuaro (Serie B – 6th Place)
Teams classified at the first place of the 18 groups of the Liga TDP and the top 2 classified in the league coefficient table.
Artesanos Metepec – (Liga TDP – Group 6)
Atlético Chavinda – (Liga TDP – Group 11)
Búhos de Oaxaca – (Liga TDP – Group 2)
Chihuahua – (Liga TDP – Group 17)
Delfines UGM – (Liga TDP – Group 3)
Deportiva Venados – (Liga TDP – Group 1)
Diablos Tesistán – (Liga TDP – Group 13)
Dorados de Sinaloa – (Liga TDP – Group 15)
Halcones Negros – (Liga TDP – Group 8)
London – (Liga TDP – Group 18)
Mexiquense – (Liga TDP – Group 5)
Mineros Reynosa – (Liga TDP – Group 16)
Muxes – (Liga TDP – Group 4)
Orgullo Surtam – (Liga TDP – Group 9)
Poza Rica – (Liga TDP – Group 9, Classified by Coefficient)
Tepatitlán – (Liga TDP – Group 12)
Tigres Yautepec – (Liga TDP – Group 7)
Titanes de Querétaro – (Liga TDP – Group 10)
Toluca – (Liga TDP – Group 6, Classified by Coefficient)
Tuzos UAZ – (Liga TDP – Group 11)
Bracket
Matches
Round of 32
The matches will be played on 17, 18 and 19 January 2023.
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Matches
Round of 16
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Matches
Quarter–finals
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Matches
Semi–finals
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Matches
Final
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See also
2022–23 Serie A de México season
2022–23 Serie B de México season
2022–23 Liga TDP season
References
External links
Official website of Copa Conecta
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General Sir Walter Mervyn St George Kirke, (19 January 1877 – 2 September 1949) was the Commander in Chief of the British Home Forces during the Second World War.
Military career
Born the second son of Colonel St. George Mervyn Kirke of the Royal Engineers and his wife Sarah, Walter Kirke was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant on 21 September 1896. He was promoted to lieutenant on 21 September 1899, and to captain on 4 December 1901 while serving in Waziristan on the North West Frontier of India between 1901 and 1902. From July 1902 he was seconded for service with the Burma Military Police.
Kirke was instrumental in creating the Army's Intelligence Corps in 1907, and he worked for Colonel George Macdonogh in the War Office's Intelligence Department. This area of work comprised special duties, such as protective security, ciphers and censorship of post (news) and telegraphs. Starting October 1, 1909, the new Secret Service Bureau (MI5) was created and fell under Macdonogh's supervision. Here, Kirke came to know Major Vernon Kell (headed up counter-espionage) and Captain Mansfield Cumming (enemy intelligence). Together, Cumming and Kell formed the two halves of MI5. Macdonogh and Kirke travelled to France and spent two weeks on a walking tour of the French and Belgium borders, visiting areas that looked vulnerable to a German attack. On August 12, 1914, the Intelligence Corps crossed the English Channel, near Le Havre, France as part of the deployment of the B.E.F.
He served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer at GHQ in France and Belgium. In 1916 he learned that German soldiers were intercepting British field telephone conversations and acted to secure them. On March 23, 1918, Kirke was flown in from the front to brief the War Cabinet in London on Operation Michael. In late 1918 he became deputy director of Military Operations at the War Office and was then moved to Aldershot in 1922. In 1924 he was appointed Head of the British Military Mission to Finland and in 1925 President of Inter-Allied Commission of Investigation for Hungary.
Then in 1926 he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff for India moving on to be General Officer Commanding 5th Division in 1929. In 1933 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command and in 1936 he became Director-General of the Territorial Army.
He served in the Second World War initially as Inspector-General of Home Defence and then as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. in that role he always thought that the threat of a German invasion was exaggerated. He retired in 1940.
He was also an Aide-de-Camp General to the King from 1937 to 1940.
References
External links
The Daily Telegraph (London): Link
Internet Archive: (sign up to view source material for footnotes), Link
Journal of Intelligence History, Link
Judd, Alan, "The Quest for C: Sir Mansfield Cumming and The Founding of the Secret Service", London, HarperCollins, 1999
The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: Link
The London Gazette, Link
Mackenzie, S.P., The Home Guard: A Military and Political History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995
UK National Archives, Link
Generals of World War II
Further reading
Private Papers of General Sir Walter Kirke GCB CMG DSO can be found in the Imperial War Museum, Documents and Sound section, ref: Documents.20171 (82/28/1 & Con Shelf).
Service Record: Link
Organization of Military Intelligence (MI) Sections During World War I: Link
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1877 births
1949 deaths
People from Portsmouth
Military personnel from Portsmouth
British Army generals
Royal Artillery officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army generals of World War II
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order |
The 1984 Minnesota Strikers season of the North American Soccer League was the first season of the new team, and the club's eighteenth season in professional soccer. It is also the first ever incarnation of the club's new name. Previously, they were known as the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. This was the first time the club played in the Western Division. They finished in third place and did not make the playoffs that year. After the league ended in 1984, the club folded the outdoor team and placed an indoor team in the Major Indoor Soccer League during the 1984–85 season, and continued to do so until 1988.
Background
Review
Competitions
NASL regular season
W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, BP = Bonus Points, Pts= point system
6 points for a win,
4 points for a shootout win,
0 points for a loss,
1 point for each regulation goal scored up to three per game.
Scoring leaders
GP = Games Played, G = Goals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point), Pts = Points
Leading Goalkeepers
Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; W = Wins; L = Losses; SO = Shutouts
Results summaries
Results by round
Match reports
NASL Playoffs
Did not qualify
Statistics
Transfers
References
1984
Minnesota Strikers
Minnesota Strikers
Minnesota |
The Vienna–Bratislava–Budapest Supermarathon (Vienna–Budapest Supermarathon until 2005) is a 320 kilometer five-day ultramarathon connecting the capitals of Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. It is the largest and most significant ultramarathon race in Hungary and one of the biggest in Central Europe.
Organised since 1990, this multiday race was run for its first fifteen years between Vienna and Budapest but was modified in 2006 to include Bratislava as well.
The change in the route shortened the race to 320 kilometers from 352 kilometers. This reduced the second day to 84 kilometers from 116 kilometers, which according to competitors, significantly changed the dynamics of the event. The shorter second day made completion easier but sped up the event and now favors faster ultra runners over those with more endurance.
The race developed quickly in the early 1990s and there were 65 individual competitors by 1995. However, the race began a slow decline as many individual athletes saw that organizers put more time, money and effort into accommodating the accompanying relay race at the disadvantage of the individual competition. By 2003, the number of competitors had fallen to 30, although the change in route also helped the individual race and the number of runners grew to 42 in 2006.
Meanwhile, the relay race thrived and from an initial 55 teams grew to 167 teams by 2006.
Relay teams consist of five members and during the first four days, four of the five runners compete. On the fifth day, each relay member as well as individual athletes compete in a half marathon.
Prize money awarded in the race is unequalled by any other race in Hungary. Winners receive around $7,800 worth of cash, gifts and other prizes, second place receives $5,800 and third place receives $4,200.
Due in part to the relatively high prize money, the race regularly attracts some of the region's biggest names, including former Comrades Marathon winner Maria Bak of Germany, former Badwater Ultramarathon winner Anatoli Kruglikov of Russia, former Spartathlon winner János Bogár and Polish greats Jaroslaw Janicki and Thomasz Chawawko as well as Brazil's former 100 kilometer world record holder Valmir Nunes.
Winners
Women
Men
Route
External links
Official Event Site:
The Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest Ultramarathon homepage
Multiday races
Ultramarathons
Cross-border races |
evimed GmbH is a German information service provider in the field of health care. The company offers software for the management of medical patient data. The software provided by evimed supports and automates processes of patient recruitment and feasibility studies as well as monitoring and documentation of clinical trials.
History
evimed was founded in Cologne in August, 2009. The company aims to improve the processes of patient recruitment in order to support the processing of clinical studies. Patient data are being stored in a database-driven system and can be matched for application in given studies based on matching appropriate medical parameters.
In February 2010, the company launched the world's biggest cancer database for individual therapy to date.
In 2014, evimed relocated to Frankfurt am Main (Hesse).
Service
evimed offers software for patient data management for clinical studies. The computer-based management of patient data significantly reduces the complexity of data handling for clinical research centers and physicians, offering automated matching of patient data with defined parameters for any given clinical study.
The software is built upon modular structures, offering functionality for clinical feasibility studies, as well as documentation and monitoring. Automated data matching allows for an exact choice of patient-specific parameters, linking it to the specific requirements of given studies. The software thus heads way for personalized medical treatment.
References
External links
Website of evimed GmbH
Health care companies of Germany
Medical and health organisations based in Hesse |
Narasapuram Municipality is the local self government in Narasapuram, a town in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is classified as a first grade municipality.
Administration
The municipality was constituted in 1956 and is spread over an area of with 31 wards.
Civic works and services
The city municipality implements the use of local language, Telugu in civic services and also publishes Narsapur Times.
See also
List of municipalities in Andhra Pradesh
References
1956 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Government agencies established in 1956
Municipal Councils in Andhra Pradesh |
The Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD) is the primary law enforcement agency in Prince George's County, Maryland in the United States, servicing a population of over 900,000 residents and visitors within 498 square miles (1,290 km2) of jurisdiction.
The department headquarters is in the Palmer Park area of Landover, a census-designated place.
History
The Prince George's County Police Department was created on June 1, 1931, in response to the increasing population and crime the county was experiencing. Prior to 1931, the county was primarily policed by the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office (PGSO). When serious crimes, such as murder or rape, were committed, detectives from the Baltimore City Police Department were borrowed.
On June 26, 1978, Officer Albert Marshal Claggett IV and Officer James Swart were shot and killed with Claggett's revolver by Terrence Johnson (February 27, 1963 - February 27, 1997), a 15-year-old theft suspect, while in the booking area of the Hyattsville District Station. Johnson was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Officer Claggett and not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of Officer Swart. Johnson was sentenced to 25 years in prison; he was paroled in 1995. on February 27, 1997, Johnson and his brother Darryl robbed a bank in Aberdeen, Maryland. As police officers approached to arrest him, Johnson committed suicide on his 34th birthday.
On February 8, 1982, Officer Raymond Hubbard was shot and killed when he intervened in an armed robbery while off duty at Iverson Mall. While shopping at the mall Officer Hubbard observed an armed robbery in progress at a jewelry store. He drew his weapon and confronted the suspects. Unbeknownst to Officer Hubbard, there were accomplices nearby who opened fire on him. Officer Hubbard was struck several times and fell to the ground. The suspects then stood over him and shot him several more times before stealing his service revolver. All four suspects were eventually apprehended and convicted of Officer Hubbard's murder. Three were sentenced to life and one was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Officer Hubbard had served with the Prince George's County Police Department for 2 years and previously served for the U.S. Air Force from 1975 to 1979.
In August 1988, Corporal Mark Kevin Murphy was shot while he attempted to force open a door during a drug raid. As Murphy knelt down to position equipment, someone inside the home opened the door. Murphy's partner and childhood best friend, Cpl. Gary Sommers, then opened fire hitting Murphy in the back of the head.
Around 1988 when the Maryland State Police went to Beretta, the Prince George's County Police Department started to replace their revolvers with the 9mm Beretta 92.
During the late 1990s, the PGPD used the Chevrolet Lumina.
In July 1999, the department was subject to a complaint by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding alleged excessive use of force by police canine units.
In January 2004, the department signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations of excessive force. This resulted in the establishment of an independent monitoring group by Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI), a defense contractor.
On June 21, 2005, Sergeant Steven F. Gaughan was killed during a traffic stop in Laurel.
On June 27, 2008, Corporal Richard S. Findley was killed by Ronnie L. White, who was driving a stolen pickup truck. White struck Corporal Findley with the truck as he attempted to elude police and avoid being arrested in Laurel. White appeared to be in good physical condition when he was arrested but died of asphyxiation while in the custody of the Prince George's County Department of Corrections. The death was ruled a homicide. The Prince George's County Police investigated the crime; suspects included several guards. A cell video camera, which would have recorded the incident was either disabled or obstructed. There were no arrests.
On July 29, 2008, the PGCPD, together with the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office, raided the residence of the Mayor of Berwyn Heights. The mayor was cleared of wrongdoing, while the police were heavily criticized for their actions.
On October 23, 2008, the county and three individually named police officers were found not liable for use of excessive force by a jury after deliberating for twenty minutes. The claim involved injuries sustained by a University of Maryland student who was involved in a riot following a victory over Duke University in basketball in 2005. The student was struck near the eye allegedly by a projectile fired from a FN 303 less-than-lethal riot gun.
On March 9, 2010, Private First Class Tom Jensen died at Prince George's Hospital Center after being taken there following a vehicular crash. He was responding to a man breaking into a woman's apartment on February 27, 2010. Due to his over five years of service in the department, he was posthumously promoted to corporal.
On October 9, 2010, an instructor at the Prince George's Police Academy, was transferred out of the academy. Reportedly, he had given all of his recruits perfect scores on tests, even though students' actual scores varied, and at least some students had failed those exams. There was evidence that he shared exam questions with students in advance, allowing several classes of recruits to graduate after cheating on their exams.
On February 3, 2012, Corporal Donald Taylor allegedly struck Ryan Dorm with the butt of his service weapon. The pistol fired from the impact with Dorm's face. Taylor then allegedly filed a report falsely claiming Dorm had somehow attacked him. A surveillance video at the Brentwood, Maryland gas station showed this to be false and in September 2012, Taylor was charged with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, providing a false statement to police and misconduct in office. Dorm, who had been arrested on various charges had all charges against dropped after being jailed for four months. Cpl Donald Taylor was charged with assault and misconduct in office. He was found not guilty and acquitted of all charges after a trial.
In May 2012, Officer Daniel Gonzalez was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after crashing his official car. Gonzalez was found not guilty of all charges after a trial.
In July 2012, Corporal Rickey Adey was indicted by a grand jury on charges of assaulting a teenaged boy during an arrest. Adey was acquitted of the charges after a trial.
On August 20, 2012, Officer Adrian Morris died as a result of an automobile accident on the Washington, D.C. Capital Beltway, near Route 212. Officer Michael Risher was also injured but survived, according to the police department. Morris, who was driving the police cruiser, was attempting to catch up to another vehicle while investigating a reported crime. The police cruiser apparently veered off the highway and into a ravine. Morris, who was thrown from the vehicle, suffered severe head injuries. He was pronounced dead at Prince George's Hospital. Morris, 23, was a former member of the Prince George's Police Explorers.
In April 2014, Officer Sinisa Simic was sentenced to ten years' confinement for his protection of a gang distributing cocaine and untaxed cigarettes. Simic had been indicted on various charges in 2010 as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation that lead to the arrest of three other officers.
In March 2021, the department hired Dallas law enforcement veteran Malik Aziz as its new chief of police. The previous chief, Hank Stawinski, resigned on June 18, 2020, following a report that found widespread patterns of racism throughout the department.
Organization
The current Chief of Police is Malik Aziz, who is the 19th chief. The previous Chief of Police, Hank Stawinski, resigned in 2020.
As of 2010, the agency has an authorized strength of 1,786 sworn officers and 317 civilians.
The agency is divided into eight districts. Each district is divided into sectors, which are divided into individual beats:
District I (Hyattsville: Adam and Baker sector),
District II (Bowie: David and Edward sector),
District III (Palmer Park: George sector),
District IV (Oxon Hill: John and King sector),
District V (Clinton: Frank sector),
District VI (Beltsville: Charlie sector)
District VII (Fort Washington: William sector)
District VIII (Forestville: Henry sector)
Organizational structure
Bureau of Administration
Bureau of Patrol
Bureau of Investigation
Bureau of Forensic Science and Intelligence
Specialized units
As of January 1, 2014, each division has various units in it as listed below.
Bureau of Patrol
Patrol Squads/shifts
Special Assignment Teams
COPS Squads (Community Oriented Policing Services)
Bicycle Patrol Trained Officers
Regional Investigative Division
Divided into 3 regions
North (Hyattsville/Beltsville), Central (Bowie/Landover), South (Clinton, Oxon HIll)
Each region has its own detectives:
Robbery Suppression Team Detectives
Property Crimes Section Detectives
Crimes Against Persons Detectives
Special Operations Division
Emergency Services Team (SWAT)
Canine Unit (K-9)
Traffic Enforcement Unit
Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit
Motors Unit
Marine Unit
Honor Guard
Conflict Negotiator Team
Civil Disturbance Unit
Special Events Planning Section
Automated Enforcement Division
National Harbor Unit
Aviation Unit - operates four MD520N helicopters.
Criminal Investigation Division
Homicide Unit
Commercial Robbery Unit
Sex Crimes Section
Child & Vulnerable Adult Abuse Section
Domestic Violence Unit
Crime Scene Investigation Division
Evidence Section
DNA Analysis Lab
Firearms Examination Unit
Drug Analysis Lab -
Computer Data Recovery Unit
Special Investigation Division
Washington Area Vehicle Enforcement Team/Auto Theft Task Force
GANG Unit
Pawn Unit
Commercial Retail Theft Investigation Unit
Scrap/Precious Metals Investigation Unit
Violent Crime Impact Section/ VCU
Environmental Crimes Unit
Financial Crimes Unit
ROPE
Internal Affairs Division
Internal Affairs
Special Investigative Response Team
Administrative Hearing Board Unit
Court Liaison Unit
Narcotics Enforcement Division
Major Narcotics Section
Street Narcotics Section
Bureau of Support Services
Recruitment and Selection Unit
Training & Education Division - Academy
Technology Integration Section
Clothing & Supply Unit
Property Management Division
Records Section
Community Services Division
Professional Compliance Section
Intelligence Division
Uniform and rank structure
Uniform
The uniform of a PGPD officer consists of a light grey uniform shirt with PGPD patch on the sleeve, French blue pants with a black stripe, black shoes or boots, and a French blue 8 point cover. When wearing the winter uniform of the day a black tie is worn over a long sleeve uniform shirt. Alternatively, PGPD officers are giving the option to wear a utility uniform on patrol consisting of navy blue pants and shirt. Officers assigned to the Special Operations Division, Emergency Services Team (SWAT) are authorized to wear green utility uniforms. Badges and nameplates are gold, and all officers between the ranks of officer first class and sergeant have blue chevrons with a grey outline on each sleeve. Officers from the ranks of lieutenant to police chief wear a white shirt with gold rank insignia on the collars. The dress uniform consists the light grey shirt (white for commissioned officers), French blue pants, hi-gloss shoes, the French blue 8 point cover, and a dark blue dress blouse with French blue epaulets, pocket flaps, and piping around the sleeve.
Rank structure
The following is the rank precedence of sworn personnel in descending order:
Chief of Police
Assistant Chief of Police
Deputy Chief
Major
Captain
Lieutenant
Sergeant
Corporal
Police Officer First Class
Police Officer
Fleet and weapons
The department's fleet consists primarily of the Ford Police Interceptor Utility and Sedan, the Chevrolet Tahoe is also used, with the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor and Chevrolet Impala 9C1 being phased out. The department's service pistol is the Smith & Wesson M&P 40, chambered in .40 Caliber. AR-15 patrol rifles and shotguns are also used.
Controversy
In 2023, a video surfaced. It shows a Prince George cop going into the back of a marked police car, with a woman.
See also
Prince George's County Sheriff's Office
List of law enforcement agencies in Maryland
Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor's residence drug raid
References
External links
Official website*
1931 establishments in Maryland
County police departments of Maryland
Prince George's County, Maryland
Government agencies established in 1931 |
```c++
//===-- CodeGen/AsmPrinter/WasmException.cpp - Wasm Exception Impl --------===//
//
// See path_to_url for license information.
//
//===your_sha256_hash------===//
//
// This file contains support for writing WebAssembly exception info into asm
// files.
//
//===your_sha256_hash------===//
#include "WasmException.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Mangler.h"
#include "llvm/MC/MCContext.h"
#include "llvm/MC/MCStreamer.h"
using namespace llvm;
void WasmException::endModule() {
// This is the symbol used in 'throw' and 'br_on_exn' instruction to denote
// this is a C++ exception. This symbol has to be emitted somewhere once in
// the module. Check if the symbol has already been created, i.e., we have at
// least one 'throw' or 'br_on_exn' instruction in the module, and emit the
// symbol only if so.
SmallString<60> NameStr;
Mangler::getNameWithPrefix(NameStr, "__cpp_exception", Asm->getDataLayout());
if (Asm->OutContext.lookupSymbol(NameStr)) {
MCSymbol *ExceptionSym = Asm->GetExternalSymbolSymbol("__cpp_exception");
Asm->OutStreamer->EmitLabel(ExceptionSym);
}
}
void WasmException::markFunctionEnd() {
// Get rid of any dead landing pads.
if (!Asm->MF->getLandingPads().empty()) {
auto *NonConstMF = const_cast<MachineFunction *>(Asm->MF);
// Wasm does not set BeginLabel and EndLabel information for landing pads,
// so we should set the second argument false.
NonConstMF->tidyLandingPads(nullptr, /* TidyIfNoBeginLabels */ false);
}
}
void WasmException::endFunction(const MachineFunction *MF) {
bool ShouldEmitExceptionTable = false;
for (const LandingPadInfo &Info : MF->getLandingPads()) {
if (MF->hasWasmLandingPadIndex(Info.LandingPadBlock)) {
ShouldEmitExceptionTable = true;
break;
}
}
if (!ShouldEmitExceptionTable)
return;
MCSymbol *LSDALabel = emitExceptionTable();
assert(LSDALabel && ".GCC_exception_table has not been emitted!");
// Wasm requires every data section symbol to have a .size set. So we emit an
// end marker and set the size as the difference between the start end the end
// marker.
MCSymbol *LSDAEndLabel = Asm->createTempSymbol("GCC_except_table_end");
Asm->OutStreamer->EmitLabel(LSDAEndLabel);
MCContext &OutContext = Asm->OutStreamer->getContext();
const MCExpr *SizeExp = MCBinaryExpr::createSub(
MCSymbolRefExpr::create(LSDAEndLabel, OutContext),
MCSymbolRefExpr::create(LSDALabel, OutContext), OutContext);
Asm->OutStreamer->emitELFSize(LSDALabel, SizeExp);
}
// Compute the call-site table for wasm EH. Even though we use the same function
// name to share the common routines, a call site entry in the table corresponds
// to not a call site for possibly-throwing functions but a landing pad. In wasm
// EH the VM is responsible for stack unwinding. After an exception occurs and
// the stack is unwound, the control flow is transferred to wasm 'catch'
// instruction by the VM, after which the personality function is called from
// the compiler-generated code. Refer to WasmEHPrepare pass for more
// information.
void WasmException::computeCallSiteTable(
SmallVectorImpl<CallSiteEntry> &CallSites,
const SmallVectorImpl<const LandingPadInfo *> &LandingPads,
const SmallVectorImpl<unsigned> &FirstActions) {
MachineFunction &MF = *Asm->MF;
for (unsigned I = 0, N = LandingPads.size(); I < N; ++I) {
const LandingPadInfo *Info = LandingPads[I];
MachineBasicBlock *LPad = Info->LandingPadBlock;
// We don't emit LSDA for single catch (...).
if (!MF.hasWasmLandingPadIndex(LPad))
continue;
// Wasm EH must maintain the EH pads in the order assigned to them by the
// WasmEHPrepare pass.
unsigned LPadIndex = MF.getWasmLandingPadIndex(LPad);
CallSiteEntry Site = {nullptr, nullptr, Info, FirstActions[I]};
if (CallSites.size() < LPadIndex + 1)
CallSites.resize(LPadIndex + 1);
CallSites[LPadIndex] = Site;
}
}
``` |
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor was appointed by the Secretary-General to lead the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor. During the transition from Indonesian rule to independence the United Nations appointed administrator fulfilled a role, which could be said to correspond in some ways to that of a head of state.
List
See also
Special Representative of the Secretary-General
References
United Nations operations in East Timor |
Konrad Łukasz Niedźwiedzki (born 2 January 1985, Polish pronunciation: [ˈkɔnɾat ɲɛd͡ʑˈvʲjɛt͡ski]) is a Polish long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.
Personal life
Konrad Niedźwiedzki was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father Krzysztof is coach of Polish national speed skating team. Konrad dated with Katarzyna Woźniak also speed skater.
Olympic Games
In the 2013 World Single Distance Championships in Sochi, Russia, Niedźwiedzki won the bronze medal in the men's team pursuit together with Zbigniew Bródka and Jan Szymański. The same result was reached at the 2014 Winter Olympics which was held at the same venue.
Personal records
Career highlights
Olympic Winter Games
2006 – Torino, 13th at 1000 m
2006 – Torino, 12th at 1500 m
World Allround Championships
2006 – Calgary, 8th
World Single Distance Championships
2005 – Inzell, 14th at 1500 m
European Allround Championships
2005 – Heerenveen, 22nd
2006 – Hamar, 14th
2007 – Collalbo, 13th
2008 – Kolomna, 13th
World Cup
2004 – Hamar, 3rd at team pursuit
2005 – Baselga di Pinè, 3rd at team pursuit
World Junior Allround Championships
2001 – Groningen, 34th
2002 – Collalbo, 12th
2004 – Roseville, Minnesota, 13th
National Championships
2003 – Warsaw, 3rd at 1500 m
2004 – Tomaszów Mazowiecki, 2nd at 1500 m
2004 – Tomaszów Mazowiecki, 3rd at 1000 m
2004 – Sanok, 2nd at sprint
2007 – Warsaw, 3rd at 500 m
2007 – Warsaw, 3rd at 5000 m
2007 – Warsaw, 1st at 1500 m
2007 – Warsaw, 1st at 1000 m
Nordic Junior Games
2004 – Berlin, 1st at 1500 m
2004 – Berlin, 3rd at 3000 m
2004 – Berlin, 1st at 1000 m
References
External links
Konrad Niedźwiedzki at Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
1985 births
Living people
Polish male speed skaters
Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for Poland
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Speed skaters from Warsaw
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in speed skating
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Poland
Universiade silver medalists for Poland
Universiade bronze medalists for Poland
Speed skaters at the 2007 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade
Medalists at the 2007 Winter Universiade
21st-century Polish people |
The second season of the TV Land's original sitcom The Exes premiered on June 20, 2012. A total of 12 episodes were produced for the second season. The series stars Donald Faison, Wayne Knight, Kristen Johnston, David Alan Basche and Kelly Stables.
Cast
Donald Faison as Phil Chase
Wayne Knight as Haskell Lutz
David Alan Basche as Stuart Gardner
Kelly Stables as Eden Konkler
Kristen Johnston as Holly Franklin
Production
On February 2, 2012, TV Land renewed The Exes for a second season, set to premiere on June 20, 2012, at 10:30pm following The Soul Man. Season two was set to have 12 episodes, to coincide with the first season of The Soul Man.
In April 2012, People magazine reported that Kelly Stables (Eden) and husband Kurt Patino were expecting their first child, due in the fall. TV Land stated that her pregnancy will be written into the show. Guest stars for season two include, Kathleen Rose Perkins as Dr. Carol Thomas, Garcelle Beauvais as Kendra, James Morrison as Mr. Hubner, Holly's boss, Erin Matthews as Joan, Mr. Hubner's wife, Maksim Chmerkovskiy as Don, Janet Varney as Lorna, Stuart's ex-wife, Paula Jai Parker as Amelia, Michael Voltaggio as himself, Dot-Marie Jones, Amanda Detmer as Jill, Holly's sister, Zach Braff as Chuck Feeney, and Todd Stashwick as Grant, Phil's pretentious boss. Guest stars returning from the first season include: Diedrich Bader as Paul, Holly's co-worker/romantic interest, and Judith Light as Marjorie, Holly's mother.
Episodes
References
External links
2012 American television seasons |
Prostitution in Cuba is not officially illegal; however, there is legislation against pimps, sexual exploitation of minors, and pornography. Sex tourism has existed in the country, both before and after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Many Cubans do not consider the practice immoral. In Cuban slang, female prostitutes are called Jineteras, and gay male prostitutes are called Jineteros or Pingueros. The terms literally mean "jockey" or "rider", and colloquially "sexual jockey", and connotes sexual control during intercourse. The terms also have the broader meaning of "hustler", and are related to jineterismo, a range of illegal or semi-legal economic activities related to tourism in Cuba. Stereotypically a jinetera is represented as a working-class Afro-Cuban woman. Black and mixed-race prostitutes are generally preferred by foreign tourists seeking to buy sex on the island. UNAIDS estimate there are 89,000 prostitutes in the country.
Sex trafficking is a problem in the country.
History
Colonial Cuba
The country, and Havana in particular, has often been associated with prostitution in foreign eyes. From the late sixteenth century onwards, Havana was a port of call for transatlantic sailing ships, and developed an economy serving the needs of sailors and passengers. During times of economic slump in Caribbean sugar plantations, slave owners would place slave women on the urban market as prostitutes, or send out female slaves as prostitutes for ships' crews. Havana's rapidly-expanding urban population in the mid-nineteenth century, a result of the booming tobacco industry, led to colonial officials re-locating prostitutes to the margins of the city. Under Spanish law slaves had the right to buy their own freedom, and some of the slaves working in Havana households used prostitution as a way of raising money for this purpose. The abolition of slavery in 1886, and Cuba's three liberation wars against Spain, resulted in the migration of significant numbers of Afro-Cuban workers to Havana in search of housing and employment. A public debate followed concerning the relationship between the changes in the city's demographics and the levels of prostitution in the city. Havana's prostitutes used pseudonyms to protect their identity, and advertise their personal characteristics or skills. Attempts to regulate prostitution in the late nineteenth century arose as a result of concerns about syphilis among soldiers. After the Spanish–American War, there were attempts to set up "zonas de tolerancia", effectively red-light districts for commercial sex. At this time there were around 200 registered brothels in Havana. Cultural and literary sources attest to the existence of male prostitutes during this period. However, they were not officially classified as prostitutes, but instead treated as criminals guilty of the crime of sodomy.
In Havana, Cuba during the late 19th century, a group of sex workers who called them Las Horizontales produced a newspaper La Cebolla.
Independence
In 1913, President Mario García Menocal announced Cuba's deregulation law, saying that regulated prostitution was "incompatible with ... the spirit of freedom that governs our nation". During the first half of the 20th century, Havana was thought of, and depicted as, "the whorehouse of the Caribbean". Prostitution in 1920s Cuba was a flourishing business, so much so that the Minister for the Interior made efforts to "solve the problem of prostitution". The number of prostitutes in Havana increased from 4,000 in 1912 to 7,400 in 1931. For many men, a visit to a prostitute was a celebrated feature of a trip to the city. By the late 1950s, about 270 brothels operated in Havana, with more than 11,500 women working as prostitutes. The city's Plaza del Vapor functioned as a large marketplace for prostitution. Descriptions of brothels routinely appeared in tourist guidebooks, and there were sex shows and live pornographic theaters such as the Shanghai Theater and the Tokyo Cabaret. The English novelist Graham Greene, writing in his autobiography Ways of Escape, described: "the Shanghai Theatre where for one dollar and twenty-five cents one could see a nude cabaret of extreme obscenity with the bluest of blue films in the intervals." The American journalist David Detzer wrote that, "Brothels flourished. A major industry grew up around them; government officials received bribes, policemen collected protection money. Prostitutes could be seen standing in doorways, strolling the streets, or leaning from windows". Brothels, casinos, and nightclubs were increasingly controlled by organized crime based in the United States. Tourism had become Cuba's second-largest earner of foreign currency, with around 350,000 visitors per year, and the brothels and bars of Havana catered to Americans visiting on weekend excursions. Cuban prostitutes also worked at the US Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The sex industry in 1950s Cuba was primarily based on the provision of sexual "services" by black and mixed race women to predominantly white North American men. It drew upon a tradition of exoticising mixed-race Cuban women which originated in the work of male Cuban writers, artists, and poets.
Cuban Revolution
Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new Cuban government saw prostitutes as victims of corrupt and foreign capitalism, and viewed prostitution itself as a "social illness", a product of Cuba's pre-revolutionary capitalist culture, rather than a crime. In 1961, pimping was outlawed. Prostitution itself remained legal, but the government, assisted by the Federation of Cuban Women, attempted to curb it. Medical clinics for health examinations were established, along with rehabilitation programs for pimps and re-education programs for former prostitutes. A census of the sex industry was conducted in 1961, identifying 150,000 prostitutes and 3,000 pimps. Troops raided the red-light districts of Havana, and rounded up hundreds of women, photographed and fingerprinted them, and required them to have physical examinations. Women who wished to leave prostitution were given training courses, and offered factory jobs. The result was that, officially, prostitution was eliminated from Cuba, a situation which continued for three decades. Transactional sex continued during this period, with some women forming relationships with high-status men, in return for better access to consumer goods. During the "Revolutionary Offensive" of 1968, the claim was made that privately owned nightclubs and bars were havens of prostitution. Most of the remaining private businesses on the island were nationalized. In the 1970s, some women were independently offering sex in Havana hotels, in exchange for consumer goods, but prostitution remained extremely limited until the early 1990s.
Special Period
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba experienced economic depression, resulting from the loss of income from Soviet trade. This Special Period saw the re-introduction of elements of market capitalism into the Cuban economy, and prostitution re-appeared. The need for foreign capital resulted in a dual economy. The possession of US dollars became a primary route to prosperity, and prostitution was an avenue used by many women to obtain them. The development of the Cuban tourist industry resulted in the income available from prostitution being many times greater than professional salaries in the country, and university-educated women turned to dollar-earning prostitution in the tourist sector. Young women began selling sex to tourists in a style that resembled the sex tourism that had become established in Southeast Asia, and Cuban prostitutes began to dress in ways which made their profession clear. The British-born writer Pico Iyer reported in 1994 that, "Prostitution, which was scarcely visible (if only for security reasons) five years ago, is pandemic now: The tourist hotels are filled with Cuban teen-agers reddening their lips with children's crayons". Prostitution was practiced widely and openly in tourist areas, and was generally tolerated by the police, for the revenue it brought into the country. In some cases, prostitution was seen as a possible route to a better life through marriage and emigration.
In 1995, a new economic policy was introduced, marking the country's worst economic period. Financial need was the primary motivation for people entering prostitution during this time, and Cuba gained a reputation as the "Thailand of the Caribbean". However, in Cuba, the situation had some differences from other developing countries. Prostitutes in Cuba did not work in oppressive conditions, alcohol and drug addiction were not routes into prostitution, and people were not sold into prostitution by their families. Julia O'Connell Davidson noted in her 1996 article "Sex Tourism in Cuba" that, "In Cuba there is no network of brothels, no organized system of bar prostitution; in fact, third-party involvement in the organization of prostitution is rare". Women's fiction increasingly included the subject of prostitution, and Cuban theatres began to stage foreign plays about prostitution. Prostitution also began to be presented in Cuban films, acting as a metaphor for the downfall of the socialist system and for the island being sold out to foreign tourists and investors. Prostitutes were often represented as individualistic, greedy, lazy women. Male-to-male sex workers, known as jineteros or pingueros, appeared during the Special Period, and were a significant part of the developing Cuban gay scene when LGBT rights in Cuba began to develop.
Government attempts to limit prostitution began in 1998, and have continued since. In 2004, prostitutes could still be seen in Havana after sunset, outside the main tourist hotels and certain discos and bars, or hitchhiking along the Malecón highway. Dressed in skimpy clothes, they would proposition tourists or invite them to nightclubs, where cash-for-sex could be suggested more discreetly. However, by 2007, prostitution had been significantly reduced, and was no longer practiced openly and widely in tourist areas.
Child prostitution
Incidences of child prostitution were reported during the Special Period, and subsequent investigations by foreign journalists have reported cases of child prostitution, with the clientele mainly being sex tourists. Cuban laws prohibit the sexual exploitation of girls or boys aged under 15, and those convicted can be sentenced to maximum of 30 years in prison, or the death penalty if there are aggravating factors.
Sex trafficking
Cuba is a source and destination country for adults and children subjected to sex trafficking. Child sex trafficking and child sex tourism occur within Cuba. Cuban authorities report people from ages 13 to 20 are most vulnerable to human trafficking in the country. Traffickers also subject Cuban citizens to sex trafficking in South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Traffickers recruit Cuban citizens through promises of work abroad, providing fraudulent contracts and immigration documents for a fee, and subsequently coercing these individuals into prostitution to pay off these debts. The government reported foreign national sex trafficking victims in Cuba.
The penal code's definition of sex trafficking conflates sex trafficking with prostitution and pimping. The law criminalizes inducement to or benefiting from prostitution, but treats force, coercion, and abuse of power or vulnerability as aggravating factors rather than an integral part of the crime. These provisions prescribe penalties ranging from four to 10 years imprisonment with more severe penalties for complicit government officials.
The United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ranks Cuba as a 'Tier 3 Watch List' country since 2019, before which it was Tier 2.
AIDS
AIDS, which had been controlled through public health measures, began to rise during the 1990s. In the early part of the decade, people with the HIV virus were quarantined. Between 1986 and 1998, a total of 1,980 people tested positive for the virus in Cuba, and a further 3,879 more were discovered to have the virus between 1998 and 2004. According to United Nations sources, the early detection of the virus has been assisted by the country's free primary care clinics. The United States embargo against Cuba has prevented Cuba from purchasing medical supplies from the US, but medical scientists in Cuba have synthesised some of the antiviral drugs used in the management of HIV/AIDS, and these have been provided to patients at no cost. In 2004, the country had thirteen AIDS sanatoriums, and a stay of between three and six months in one was compulsory for anyone found to be HIV positive. At that time, World Health Organization figures put the infection rate at less than 0.1 percent of the population, the lowest in the Western Hemisphere, one-sixth that of the US, and far below that in many neighbouring countries. A public-education campaign in schools and on television and radio promotes the use of condoms and informs people about how HIV is transmitted. Additionally, government subsidies for condoms (both domestic and imported) means prophylactic prices remain very low. Prostitution is not considered to be a major factor in the spread of AIDS, with only a small number of people admitted to sanatoriums being former prostitutes. The low level of infection and the relatively inexpensive price of sex have made the island popular with foreigners as a sex tourism destination. Another incentive is the lack of social stigma associated with single male tourists visiting Cuba, in comparison with the better-known sex tourism destinations of Thailand and Cambodia.
See also
Crime in Cuba
Human trafficking in Cuba
La Macorina
Sex tourism
Sociolismo
Malandragem
References
Further reading
Society of Cuba
Economy of Cuba |
```swift
//
// TopicListApi.swift
// V2ex-Swift
//
// Created by huangfeng on 2018/9/17.
//
import UIKit
enum TopicListApi {
//
case topicList(tab: String?, page: Int)
//
case favoriteList(page: Int)
//
case nodeTopicList(nodeName: String, page:Int)
}
extension TopicListApi: V2EXTargetType {
var parameters: [String : Any]? {
switch self {
case let .topicList(tab, page):
if tab == "all" && page > 0 {
//
return ["p": page]
}
return ["tab": tab ?? "all"]
case let .favoriteList(page):
return ["p": page]
case let .nodeTopicList(_, page):
return ["p": page]
// default:
// return nil
}
}
var path: String {
switch self {
case let .topicList(tab, page):
if tab == "all" && page > 0 {
return "/recent"
}
return "/"
case .favoriteList:
return "/my/topics"
case let .nodeTopicList(nodeName, _):
return "/go/\(nodeName)"
// default:
// return ""
}
}
}
``` |
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione (born 1986) is an oboist and principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She joined the ASO in the fall of 2007, and was granted tenure January 2009. She is a native of Buffalo, New York. Her teachers were Richard Woodhams and Daniel Stolper. She was a student at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Interlochen Arts Academy.
She is notable in that she was appointed principal oboe of a major symphony orchestra at the young age of 21. She shares this feat with Elaine Douvas who was also appointed principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 21.
She has also been guest principal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the oboe solo in the Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky), with Andrew Davis (conductor) and Evgeny Kissin (pianist). She has played at the Grand Teton Music Festival as a member of a woodwind quintet, which has included Robert S. Williams on bassoon and Larry Combs on clarinet.
References
Living people
American classical oboists
Musicians from Buffalo, New York
1986 births
Women oboists
21st-century American women musicians
Classical musicians from New York (state) |
Eaglemont is an established suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Banyule local government area. Eaglemont recorded a population of 3,960 at the 2021 census.
Formerly known as Mount Eagle, Eaglemont is a picturesque enclave situated between Ivanhoe East and Heidelberg. The heritage-laden garden suburb was designed by Walter Burley Griffin, playing home to many of Australia's most famous artists at the Heidelberg School of Art.
Walking distance to first class private schools, the Yarra River, parks, walking trails, shopping centers and a public golf course, the median house prices in Eaglemont remain amongst the highest in Melbourne, with the market for properties notoriously tough to break and few properties up for sale.
History
Two properties were built in the area in the 1840s; "Leighton" was built by the Bolden brothers, whilst "Hartlands" was built by novelist S. J. Browne. "Hartlands" was located on the elevated region known as Mount Eagle, and was subdivided in 1853. The area remained agricultural, apart from a large house and gardens, named "Mount Eagle", built in the late 1850s by parliamentarian J. H. Brooke.
During the landboom of the 1880s, the "Mount Eagle" and "Leighton" properties were bought by a syndicate and subdivided. The area was named Mount Eagle Estate. The "Mount Eagle" property failed to sell, and remained vacant until 1888 when it was made available to a group of artists. This group became known as the Heidelberg School, and included Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and Frederick McCubbin.
In 1915 Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin were commissioned to design a subdivision in the Mount Eagle Estate. The design incorporated curving streets which followed the contours of the land, and private parklands, as an early example of a Garden Suburb design. In 1916 they designed the nearby Glenard Estate upon similar principles. The Griffins designed numerous houses in the area, and later became residents of Eaglemont, living at 23 Glenard Drive in the small knitlock house 'Pholiota' They lived alongside the house of Walter's brother-in-law Roy Lippincott at no. 21.
Eaglemont Post Office opened on 14 October 1929 some time after the opening of the railway station in 1926.
Present
Eaglemont's small shopping strip includes a newsagency/licensed post office, cafes, grocery store and hairdressers, along with the Eagle Bar.
Eaglemont is well serviced by public transport, having its own railway station, as well as numerous bus routes and bike paths. Public library facilities are provided by Yarra Plenty Regional Library. The nearest libraries are at Ivanhoe and Rosanna.
Notable residents
Eaglemont has been home to many notable residents over the years, many of whom have been involved in the artistic professions, including:
Shane Jacobson actor
Harold Desbrowe Annear architect
Robin Boyd architect
Charles Conder artist
Marion Mahony Griffin architect and artist
Murray Griffin artist
Walter Burley Griffin architect and town planner
Frederick McCubbin artist
Tom Roberts artist
Frederick Romberg architect
Arthur Streeton artist
Walter Withers artist
Cate Blanchett actress
See also
City of Heidelberg Eaglemont was previously within this former local government area.
References
External links
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Banyule
Cities planned by Walter Burley Griffin |
Oct-1-en-3-one (CH2=CHC(=O)(CH2)4CH3), also known as 1-octen-3-one or amyl vinyl ketone, is the odorant that is responsible for the typical "metallic" smell of metals and blood coming into contact with skin. Oct-1-en-3-one has a strong metallic mushroom-like odor with an odor detection threshold of 0.03–1.12 µg/m3 and it is the main compound responsible for the "smell of metal", followed by decanal (smell: orange skin, flowery) and nonanal (smell: tallowy, fruity). Oct-1-en-3-one is the degradative reduction product of the chemical reaction of skin lipid peroxides and Fe2+. Skin lipid peroxides are formed from skin lipid by oxidation, either enzymatically by lipoxygenases or by air oxygen. Oct-1-en-3-one is a ketone analog of the alkene 1-octene.
Natural occurrences
It is also produced by Uncinula necator, a fungus that causes powdery mildew of grape.
See also
Odorant
1-Octen-3-ol, the alcohol analog that is used by mosquitoes as an odor cue
References
Flavors
Enones |
Henry Bryant (May 12, 1820 – February 2, 1867) was an American physician and naturalist.
Early life
Bryant was born in Boston, and graduated from Harvard University in 1840, and then followed this from a degree at Harvard Medical School in 1843. Following this, he went to Paris to study medicine, but his health broke down while researching at a Paris hospital. In order to restore his health, he joined the French army in Algeria as a surgeon.
In October 1847, Bryant returned to Boston to work with Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow as a surgeon, but after a few months his health broke down again. After being forced to abandon medicine because of ill health, Bryant turned to natural history, especially ornithology, which was a childhood passion. Bryant visited nearby Cohasset, Massachusetts for one of his first collecting trips, but he seriously injured his stomach from a fall while landing his boat. After his recovery, he decided to push himself further in an attempt to strengthen his body. His collecting trips became more frequent and more far flung.
Civil War service
Bryant took a break from natural history to volunteer as a surgeon during the American Civil War. He accepted an appointment as a surgeon for the 20th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was also known as "The Harvard Regiment." By September 1861, Bryant was promoted to brigade surgeon. Soon after, he served on the staff of General Frederick W. Lander until March 2, 1862, when the general died of pneumonia.
After Lander's death, Bryant was appointed Medical Director for General James Shield, a future senator. While serving as this post, Bryant fell off his horse so hard that his knee was nearly amputated. Despite the pain, he continued his duties. In the middle of 1862, he was placed in charge of organizing several hospitals, including Cliffburn Hospital and Lincoln Hospital. However, his mental and physical health collapsed again, and he resigned his commission in May 1863.
Life after the Civil War
After the Civil War ended, Bryant made several trips to France, including to purchase the Frédéric de Lafresnaye collection of birds in 1865, which he presented to the Boston Society of Natural History. This collection contained nearly 9,000 mostly non-American specimen. The unpacking and remounting of the specimen was conducted by younger naturalists, including Charles Johnson Maynard, and took about a year to complete.
In addition to his visits to France, Bryant collected birds in Florida, the Bahamas, Ontario and Labrador, North Carolina, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. He was one of the first American ornithologists in the Caribbean.
He died in Puerto Rico on February 2, 1867 during a brief illness on a collecting trip.
References
Barbara and Richard Mearns - The Bird Collectors. Academic Press, 1998.
Barrow, Mark V. A Passion for Birds. Princeton University Press, 1998.
"Obituary Notice of Dr. Henry Bryant" Annual Report of the Boston Society of Natural History, May 1867.
S.L. Abbot - Account of the life and scientific career of the late Dr. Henry Bryant. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 11 (1866-1868): 205–215.
1820 births
1867 deaths
American ornithologists
People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War
Union Army surgeons
Harvard Medical School alumni
19th-century American zoologists
Physicians from Massachusetts
Scientists from Massachusetts |
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1 A pivotal difference between Android and the other Linux kernel-based operating systems is the C standard library: Android's libbionic is different in that it does not aim to support POSIX to the same extent as the other libraries. With the help of libhybris it is possible to run Android-only software on other Linux kernel based operating systems, as long as this software does not depend on subsystems found only in the Android-forked Linux kernel, such as binder, pmem, ashmem, etc. Whether software programmed for Linux can run on Android, depends entirely on the extent to which libbionic matches the API of the glibc.
2 provides device detection via udev, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction. also provides a generic X.Org input driver. support was first merged in Weston 1.5. and is also used by Mutter.
Other
DirectFB
Quartz Compositor
SPICE
SurfaceFlinger
See also
Display server
Windowing system
References
Display servers
Computer graphics
Communications protocols |
Harold Robertson Heaton (born January 19, 1861) was a newspaper artist whose work focused on cartoons. His prodigious body of work contributed to the development of political cartoons. He also illustrated books and produced sketches and paintings. He left newspaper work in 1899 to begin acting on the stage, and later wrote plays as well. He returned to cartooning for six years beginning in 1908, but continued acting while doing so. He appeared in many Broadway productions through 1932. A brief retrospective on his employment with the Chicago Tribune, from October 1942, mentioned his obituary had been printed "a few years ago".
Early years
Born in Salem, Illinois, he was the son of Charles Heaton, a civil engineer from England, and Amy Robertson from Missouri. Although born in Illinois, he spent much of his childhood in New York., before moving to St. Louis. As a boy and young man he went by "Harry Heaton".
He attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts then worked on the Missouri Republican in St. Louis. In 1887 he was the first artist hired by the Chicago Daily Tribune, where he later headed the illustration department.
Newspaper artist
Chicago Tribune
The first drawings Heaton prepared for the Tribune were done using the "chalk plate" method at his own home. This gave way to the zinc etching method by the end of 1887. One drawing of the still incomplete but newly-opened Auditorium Building for the 1888 Republican National Convention was reprinted fifty years later by the Tribune as an example of Heaton's skill.
Heaton's illustrations became some of the newspaper's most popular features, and his work was presented on the front page soon after he began working for the Tribune. During the 1890's he signed his newspaper artwork as "HRH", which led to the nickname "His Royal Highness". In 1893, he produced illustrated weekly commentaries on the World's Columbian Exposition. The newspaper had him continue the Events of the Week drawings long after the exposition closed, and later published annual compilations in book form.
These "pen pictures" as the Tribune labelled them were a series of contiguous panels, a bit like a comic strip, though without a continuous storyline. Only the central panel bore the "HRH" signature. Besides drawing, Heaton also delivered lectures on newspaper illustrating to professional societies and social groups. During the later years of the 1890s he also started taking part in amateur theatricals. Heaton left the newspaper in the Fall of 1899 to pursue a stage career.
The Inter Ocean
In the fall of 1908 Heaton re-entered journalism by joining the The Inter Ocean as an editorial cartoonist. Although his cartoons with the The Inter Ocean began as wide-ranging commentaries on current events, he found his niche within the world of Chicago politics. His cartoons developed a particular focus on Chicago Mayor Fred Busse and State's Attorney John E. Wayman. For this time period, he signed his work as "Harold Heaton" and often inserted a small crow into drawings as a trademark. He gave a lecture on newspaper illustration to the Illinois Woman's Press Association in 1910, and with other newspaper cartoonists contributed drawings to the Actors' Fund Day special program, distributed in Chicago theaters on April 17, 1914.
At first appearing on the front page, his daily cartoon was moved to the editorial page 3 in later years. One cartoon, called "Merely a Passenger", won acclaim from a national group of bankers meeting in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress for financial reform. However, a retrospective by a Chicago Tribune writer many years later claimed that though Heaton had good ideas, his style while at The Inter Ocean was out of date. His last drawing for the newspaper appeared on April 25, 1914, when the paper was already in receivership.
Other artwork
Although best known for his cartoons and drawings for newspapers, Heaton was also an accomplished artist in both black-and-white sketches and water-color landscapes. He traveled a great deal for the latter, with pictures from Maine, Florida, and Tangier being noted at a Chicago exhibition in 1900. Heaton also traveled to Spain and Morocco for a book illustrating assignment in the early 1890's, and had several illustrations for magazine stories published during 1893-1895. His black-and-white pictures were favorably received at the Chicago Society of Artists annual exhibitions at the Athenæum. His artwork of all types was annually on exhibition at Anderson's Art Gallery and O'Brien's Art Gallery.
Acting career
With the death of his mother in January 1899, Heaton decided to give up newspaper work for acting. An interviewer, visiting him in August 1899, was told if he'd come "a month hence, you wouldn't have found me here". Heaton expressed frustration with his inability to break into magazine illustration, saying a newspaper artist was typecast by publishers. According to Heaton, he'd wanted to quit newspaper work four years previously, but had his mother living with him.
Early stage work
William Gillette cast Heaton in Sherlock Holmes as Sir Edward Leighton, a role he would play from the play's first tryout in Buffalo, New York during October 1899 through its Broadway run up to its final tour in Boston during March 1901. When Gillette went to London with Sherlock Holmes, Heaton was again part of the cast, but he stayed on in England after the play closed. He spent a year in the United Kingdom with the James Welch company, playing at the Comedy Theatre in the West End of London and on tour in England and Wales with The New Clown.
Heaton's next stage work was for the American version of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, which opened in November 1903. After it closed in March 1904, he formed a three-person troupe, Harold Heaton & Company, which played a one-act farce of his own writing called The Rat on a vaudeville circuit. Heaton then joined the touring company for The Admirable Crichton starting in October 1904.
Heaton was again cast by William Gillette for a revival of Sherlock Holmes in March 1905. Heaton also wrote another one-act play, In the Artist's Studio, for Jessie Busley to use in vaudeville. He then joined Lawrence D'Orsay's troupe for the tryouts and Broadway run of The Embassy Ball in early 1906.
Lady Jim
The first full-length play Heaton wrote was this three-act comedy. Lady Jim had been purchased by Walter N. Lawrence in March 1906 as a vehicle for Hilda Spong, with rehearsals starting in August. Heaton and George Forster Platt staged the play, which featured Antoinette Perry. The play premiered on August 28, 1906 at Weber's Theatre.
The reception was severe; writing, staging, and acting all came in for criticism, with only the set design escaping censure. The New York Times was harsh and personal, asserting that "Harold Heaton" must be a nom de plume for a naive young girl, and disparaging Hilda Spong's acting. Despite some rewriting by Heaton and the producer, the show closed on September 19, 1906. Heaton spent the remainder of 1906 and part of 1907 on tour with The Embassy Ball. In early 1908 he played a role in a Julia Marlowe revival of When Knighthood Was in Flower.
Intermission
During the second half of 1908, Heaton took a position with The Inter Ocean as cartoonist. His acting slowed for several years, but he still took part in Chicago-based performances. Some were for benefits, another was a work called The Stolen Story, where the cast consisted of real newspapermen from Chicago papers. In 1911 he performed in a musical comedy called The Heart Breakers by Frank R. Adams and Will M. Hough, with songs by Harold Orlob and Melville Gideon, that ran for seven weeks. His cartoons, meanwhile, continued to appear in The Inter Ocean. By late April 1914, however, the newspaper was failing financially and Heaton's cartoons for it stopped.
Later stage work
For the next year Heaton continued to live in Chicago, appearing in and staging amateur productions for a variety of clubs, social groups, and Chautauqua assemblies. Sometime in 1915 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he became active in the Little Theater movement there. He gave lectures at the Schuster-Martin School of Drama and staged plays at the attached Little Playhouse Company. In April 1916 he joined the touring Redpath Chautauqua, for which he wrote a new one-act play, Account Overdue (1916).
After several years with professional touring companies, Heaton returned to Broadway in 1920 with The Guest of Honor. William Hodge wrote and starred in it, and caught the full brunt of Heywood Broun's merciless review. Despite the savaging, the play lasted two months on Broadway then went on tour. At Chicago, critic Percy Hammond commiserated with Heaton's character losing the girl to the star, saying it was "no reward for a pleasant actor and a reformed cartoonist". Heaton's next Broadway role was in The Fan, which starred Helen Spong, who had evidently forgiven him for Lady Jim. He spent three years playing revivals with touring companies, before landing a character role in the Broadway version of Mozart in November 1926.
Heaton was then cast in two more Broadway plays, both involving Zoe Akins. For The Crown Prince in 1927, Akins adapted a play by Ernest Vajda from the Hungarian. The popular success, The Greeks Had a Word for It, was written by Akins in 1930. By this time Heaton was sixty-nine years-old, and relegated to a feature role, as he would be in Three Times the Hour in 1931.
Final performances
Heaton was a featured player in two Broadway productions during the first half of 1932, Happy Landing and The Boy Friend, both of which lasted less than a month.
His last known acting work was for a play called Cain's Sister. It had a three-day tryout starting September 29, 1932 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, followed by a one-week tryout at the Broad Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey. The producer then retired the play "for revision".
Personal life
When he applied for a passport in April 1891, he was recorded as being 5'11.5" (181.6 cm) tall, with grayish-blue eyes and dark brown hair. The art critic James William Pattison said Heaton was tall and a clever "joke-maker". Besides drawing, painting, and acting, Heaton also played the piano, and wrote poetry. He had an active social life in 1890's Chicago, attending parties, balls, and the opera with such notables as Mrs. Fiske and Marshall Field. He was described by a reporter as "one of the pleasantest men I ever met, and surely one of the most versatile artists who ever worked on a metropolitan newspaper". He was a member of The Savage Club, a Chicago-based professional men's social club, and as late as 1932 was elected president of the Cartoonists' Club of Chicago.
Works
Books
Events of the Week: A Pictorial Record, (1894) - First series of HRH drawings, published by the Chicago Tribune.
Events of the Week: A Pictorial Record, (1895) - Second series of HRH drawings, published by the Chicago Tribune.
Events of the Week: A Pictorial Record, (1896) - Third series of HRH drawings, covering from December 1, 1894 through December 1, 1895, published by the Chicago Tribune.
Plays
The Rat, (1904) - One-act domestic farce, played on vaudeville circuit by Harold Heaton & Company.
In the Artist's Studio (1905) - One-act farce, first performed May 8, 1905 at Boston's Empire Theater.
Dressing for Dinner, (1905) - One act play, originally written for and performed by Clara Bloodgood.
A Friend in Need, (1905) - One-act farce presented on a matinee program by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the Empire Theatre, January 11, 1906.
Lady Jim, (1906) - Heaton's first three-act play was not a success on Broadway.
Where There Is Smoke, (1914) - One-act play, first performed by Hull House Players at the Hull House Theater.
Account Overdue, (1916) - Written for the Redpath Chautaqua, and played on tour in 1916 and 1917.
Alan Intrudes, (1917) - Three-act comedy, first performed in Cincinnati at Memorial Hall on March 19, 1918.
The Third Generation, (1919) - Never produced.
A Woman Had a Friend, (1920) - Society melodrama, never produced.
Stage performances
Notes
References
External links
Harold R. Heaton Political Cartoons at Newberry Library
1861 births
1940 deaths
American cartoonists |
Cryptophasa psammochtha is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea.
The wingspan is 50–54 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, with the veins on the costal half tinged with brownish and with a costal band of violet-brown suffusion. The hindwings are pale ochreous yellowish.
References
Cryptophasa
Moths described in 1925 |
Henry Pyne (before May 1688 – 28 February 1713) was a politician in Ireland.
He was a Member of the Parliament of Ireland for Dungarvan from 1709 to 1713.
References
Year of birth uncertain
1713 deaths
Irish MPs 1703–1713
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Waterford constituencies |
Citrus × vulgaris can refer to:
Citrus × vulgaris Ferrarius ex Mill., a synonym of Citrus × limon (L.) Osbeck, lemon
Citrus × vulgaris Risso, a synonym of Citrus × aurantium L., bitter orange |
```ruby
# frozen_string_literal: true
require "decidim/meetings/admin"
require "decidim/meetings/api"
require "decidim/meetings/engine"
require "decidim/meetings/admin_engine"
require "decidim/meetings/directory"
require "decidim/meetings/directory_engine"
require "decidim/meetings/component"
require "decidim/meetings/polls"
module Decidim
# Base module for this engine.
module Meetings
autoload :Registrations, "decidim/meetings/registrations"
autoload :MeetingSerializer, "decidim/meetings/meeting_serializer"
autoload :UserAnswersSerializer, "decidim/meetings/user_answers_serializer"
autoload :DownloadYourDataUserAnswersSerializer, "decidim/meetings/download_your_data_user_answers_serializer"
include ActiveSupport::Configurable
# Public Setting that defines whether proposals can be linked to meetings
config_accessor :enable_proposal_linking do
Decidim.const_defined?("Proposals")
end
# Public Setting that defines the interval when the upcoming meeting will be sent
config_accessor :upcoming_meeting_notification do
2.days
end
config_accessor :embeddable_services do
%w(www.youtube.com www.twitch.tv meet.jit.si)
end
end
module ContentParsers
autoload :MeetingParser, "decidim/content_parsers/meeting_parser"
end
module ContentRenderers
autoload :MeetingRenderer, "decidim/content_renderers/meeting_renderer"
end
end
``` |
```c++
// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at path_to_url
#include <boost/python/module.hpp>
#include <boost/python/def.hpp>
#include <boost/python/class.hpp>
struct C {};
struct D {};
struct E
{
const D fe (const C&) {return D();}
const D fe2(const C&, const C&) {return D();}
};
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(bienstman2_ext)
{
using namespace boost::python;
class_<C>("C");
class_<D>("D");
class_<E>("E")
.def("fe", &E::fe) // this compiles.
.def("fe2", &E::fe2) // this doesn't... well, now it does ;-)
;
}
``` |
Legend of Tianyun Mountain () is a 1980 Chinese film about Chinese people's sufferings from the long-term political campaigns from "Anti-rightists" in 1950s until the fall of Gang of Four. It depicted the individuals' hardship in the political turmoils and critically reflected the impact of that special history after the formation of the People's Republic of China. The film was based on the novel written by Lu Yanzhou, and was directed by Xie Jin, starring Wang Fuli, Shi Weijian, Zhong Xinghuo and Shi Jianlan.
Plot
In the early 1950s, Song Wei and Feng Qinglan, two female newly graduates from school, join Tianyun Mountain Exploration Team. Song falls in love with Luo Qun, the newly appointed political commissar. In spring of 1957, Song is sent to study in the Party school and joins the CPC. When these two plan to get married, the Anti-Rightist Movement outbreaks, and Luo is classified as "rightist" and deprived of his post. Wu Yao, who leads the political campaign in Tianyun Mountain, forces Song to break up with Luo. Under the political pressure, Song sends Luo a farewell letter, and later, marries Wu. Luo is sent to do drudgery in a rural village. On the other hand, Feng, who has hidden her admiration and love for Luo, leaves the exploration team and comes to Luo. They get married, despite outside duress, and live an impoverished but content life.
20 years later and after the fall of Gang of Four, Wu becomes the vice Party chief and head of the organization department of the region, and Song is also elevated to vice director of the organization department, though she has no real power. One day, a young girl, Zhou Yuzhen, tells Song about her encounter with a coachman named Luo Qun in Tianyun Mountain, who is still a non-rehabilitated rightist. Song feels guilty and decides to rectify Luo's injustice by herself. But her husband, Wu, viciously interferes with the case. Song stands up to the resistance and appeals to higher-ranking officers, and finally, Luo's case is straightened out. When the good news comes, however, the flame of Feng's life extinguishes due to long-drawn-out hardship. In the end, from a distance Song sees Luo standing in silent tribute in front of the grave of Feng.
Cast
Wang Fuli as Song Wei
Shi Weijian as Luo Qun
Shi Jianlan as Feng Qinglan
Zhong Xinghuo as Wu Yao
Hong Xuemin as Zhou Yuzhen
Criticism
This was the first time director Xie Jin focused on Anti-Rightist Movement, and faithfully displayed that particular history on the screen. The film boldly and intensively revealed that historic tragedy that honest people were mistakenly condemned to "rightist". The film tried to analyze the historic lessens from various aspects including politics, ethics and morality, and address the origins of the tragedy. It mixed the individuals' personality, emotional changes with the political atmosphere, social problems and history development, underscoring the theme. The film won the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Design awards in the first Golden Rooster Awards in China in 1981.
External links
Legend of Tianyun Mountain at the Chinese Movie Database
Chinese drama films
1980 films
1980s Mandarin-language films
Golden Rooster Best Film recipients
Films directed by Xie Jin
1980 drama films |
Liang Jing (; born 4 January 1985) is a Chinese track cyclist. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the national team.
Achievements
2011-2012 Track Cycling World Cup in Astana - Team pursuit
References
1985 births
Living people
Chinese female cyclists
Chinese track cyclists
Olympic cyclists for China
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
People from Binzhou
21st-century Chinese women |
James Edward McConnon (21 June 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1954 as an off-spin bowler. He played for Glamorgan from 1950 to 1961, albeit missing the 1956 season when he decided to play for Burnley in the Lancashire League. His 819 first-class wickets cost less than 20 runs each.
Life and career
Jim McConnon was born in Burnopfield, County Durham. His was a late conversion to cricket, having played football for Aston Villa and Newport County. A knee injury resulted in McConnon switching sports and, for a short time, his lovely bowling action utilising long spinner's fingers threatened Jim Laker's role in the England team.
He made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against Surrey at the start of the 1950 season, in the same match as Don Shepherd. He claimed 100 wickets in a season three times, with 136 at 16.07 in 1951 being his best. Against the South African tourists in that year he took 6 for 27 including a hat-trick, helping Glamorgan to an unlikely victory.
McConnon's selection for the Ashes tour of 1954-55 was controversial in that it meant that Laker was not taken. As it was McConnon broke a finger during the tour, and he returned home early.
His season as a professional in the Lancashire League was successful: he topped the League bowling averages with 52 wickets at 6.8, and Burnley won the championship. After he left first-class cricket he played a few seasons of Minor Counties cricket for Cheshire.
McConnon and his wife Pauline had three children, Michael, Catherine and Christopher.
McConnon died in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, at the age of 80.
References
External links
1922 births
2003 deaths
England Test cricketers
English cricketers
Glamorgan cricketers
Commonwealth XI cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Cheshire cricketers
People from Burnopfield
Cricketers from County Durham |
```go
package bigcache
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"runtime"
"strconv"
"sync"
"testing"
"time"
)
func TestEntriesIterator(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// given
keysCount := 1000
cache, _ := New(context.Background(), Config{
Shards: 8,
LifeWindow: 6 * time.Second,
MaxEntriesInWindow: 1,
MaxEntrySize: 256,
})
value := []byte("value")
for i := 0; i < keysCount; i++ {
cache.Set(fmt.Sprintf("key%d", i), value)
}
// when
keys := make(map[string]struct{})
iterator := cache.Iterator()
for iterator.SetNext() {
current, err := iterator.Value()
if err == nil {
keys[current.Key()] = struct{}{}
}
}
// then
assertEqual(t, keysCount, len(keys))
}
func TestEntriesIteratorWithMostShardsEmpty(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// given
clock := mockedClock{value: 0}
cache, _ := newBigCache(context.Background(), Config{
Shards: 8,
LifeWindow: 6 * time.Second,
MaxEntriesInWindow: 1,
MaxEntrySize: 256,
}, &clock)
cache.Set("key", []byte("value"))
// when
iterator := cache.Iterator()
// then
if !iterator.SetNext() {
t.Errorf("Iterator should contain at least single element")
}
current, err := iterator.Value()
// then
noError(t, err)
assertEqual(t, "key", current.Key())
assertEqual(t, uint64(0x3dc94a19365b10ec), current.Hash())
assertEqual(t, []byte("value"), current.Value())
assertEqual(t, uint64(0), current.Timestamp())
}
func TestEntriesIteratorWithConcurrentUpdate(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// given
cache, _ := New(context.Background(), Config{
Shards: 1,
LifeWindow: time.Second,
MaxEntriesInWindow: 1,
MaxEntrySize: 256,
})
cache.Set("key", []byte("value"))
// when
iterator := cache.Iterator()
// then
if !iterator.SetNext() {
t.Errorf("Iterator should contain at least single element")
}
getOldestEntry := func(s *cacheShard) ([]byte, error) {
s.lock.RLock()
defer s.lock.RUnlock()
return s.entries.Peek()
}
// Quite ugly but works
for i := 0; i < cache.config.Shards; i++ {
if oldestEntry, err := getOldestEntry(cache.shards[i]); err == nil {
cache.onEvict(oldestEntry, 10, cache.shards[i].removeOldestEntry)
}
}
current, err := iterator.Value()
assertEqual(t, nil, err)
assertEqual(t, []byte("value"), current.Value())
next := iterator.SetNext()
assertEqual(t, false, next)
}
func TestEntriesIteratorWithAllShardsEmpty(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// given
cache, _ := New(context.Background(), Config{
Shards: 1,
LifeWindow: time.Second,
MaxEntriesInWindow: 1,
MaxEntrySize: 256,
})
// when
iterator := cache.Iterator()
// then
if iterator.SetNext() {
t.Errorf("Iterator should not contain any elements")
}
}
func TestEntriesIteratorInInvalidState(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// given
cache, _ := New(context.Background(), Config{
Shards: 1,
LifeWindow: time.Second,
MaxEntriesInWindow: 1,
MaxEntrySize: 256,
})
// when
iterator := cache.Iterator()
// then
_, err := iterator.Value()
assertEqual(t, ErrInvalidIteratorState, err)
assertEqual(t, "Iterator is in invalid state. Use SetNext() to move to next position", err.Error())
}
func TestEntriesIteratorParallelAdd(t *testing.T) {
bc, err := New(context.Background(), DefaultConfig(1*time.Minute))
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
wg.Add(1)
go func() {
for i := 0; i < 10000; i++ {
err := bc.Set(strconv.Itoa(i), []byte("aaaaaaa"))
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
runtime.Gosched()
}
wg.Done()
}()
for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
iter := bc.Iterator()
for iter.SetNext() {
_, _ = iter.Value()
}
}
wg.Wait()
}
func TestParallelSetAndIteration(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
rand.Seed(0)
cache, _ := New(context.Background(), Config{
Shards: 1,
LifeWindow: time.Second,
MaxEntriesInWindow: 100,
MaxEntrySize: 256,
HardMaxCacheSize: 1,
Verbose: true,
})
entrySize := 1024 * 100
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Second*10)
defer cancel()
wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
wg.Add(2)
go func() {
defer func() {
err := recover()
// no panic
assertEqual(t, err, nil)
}()
defer wg.Done()
isTimeout := false
for {
if isTimeout {
break
}
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
isTimeout = true
default:
err := cache.Set(strconv.Itoa(rand.Intn(100)), blob('a', entrySize))
noError(t, err)
}
}
}()
go func() {
defer func() {
err := recover()
// no panic
assertEqual(t, nil, err)
}()
defer wg.Done()
isTimeout := false
for {
if isTimeout {
break
}
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
isTimeout = true
default:
iter := cache.Iterator()
for iter.SetNext() {
entry, err := iter.Value()
// then
noError(t, err)
assertEqual(t, entrySize, len(entry.Value()))
}
}
}
}()
wg.Wait()
}
``` |
```tcl
#your_sha256_hash----------
# This script contains several sub-programs used to test FTS3/FTS4
# performance. It does not run the queries directly, but generates SQL
# scripts that can be run using the shell tool.
#
# The following cases are tested:
#
# 1. Inserting documents into an FTS3 table.
# 2. Optimizing an FTS3 table (i.e. "INSERT INTO t1 VALUES('optimize')").
# 3. Deleting documents from an FTS3 table.
# 4. Querying FTS3 tables.
#
# Number of tokens in vocabulary. And number of tokens in each document.
#
set VOCAB_SIZE 2000
set DOC_SIZE 100
set NUM_INSERTS 100000
set NUM_SELECTS 1000
# Force everything in this script to be deterministic.
#
expr {srand(0)}
proc usage {} {
puts stderr "Usage: $::argv0 <rows> <selects>"
exit -1
}
proc sql {sql} {
puts $::fd $sql
}
# Return a list of $nWord randomly generated tokens each between 2 and 10
# characters in length.
#
proc build_vocab {nWord} {
set ret [list]
set chars [list a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z]
for {set i 0} {$i<$nWord} {incr i} {
set len [expr {int((rand()*9.0)+2)}]
set term ""
for {set j 0} {$j<$len} {incr j} {
append term [lindex $chars [expr {int(rand()*[llength $chars])}]]
}
lappend ret $term
}
set ret
}
proc select_term {} {
set n [llength $::vocab]
set t [expr int(rand()*$n*3)]
if {$t>=2*$n} { set t [expr {($t-2*$n)/100}] }
if {$t>=$n} { set t [expr {($t-$n)/10}] }
lindex $::vocab $t
}
proc select_doc {nTerm} {
set ret [list]
for {set i 0} {$i<$nTerm} {incr i} {
lappend ret [select_term]
}
set ret
}
proc test_1 {nInsert} {
sql "PRAGMA synchronous = OFF;"
sql "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;"
sql "CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE t1 USING fts4;"
for {set i 0} {$i < $nInsert} {incr i} {
set doc [select_doc $::DOC_SIZE]
sql "INSERT INTO t1 VALUES('$doc');"
}
}
proc test_2 {} {
sql "INSERT INTO t1(t1) VALUES('optimize');"
}
proc test_3 {nSelect} {
for {set i 0} {$i < $nSelect} {incr i} {
sql "SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1 MATCH '[select_term]';"
}
}
proc test_4 {nSelect} {
for {set i 0} {$i < $nSelect} {incr i} {
sql "SELECT count(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1 MATCH '[select_term] [select_term]';"
}
}
if {[llength $argv]!=0} usage
set ::vocab [build_vocab $::VOCAB_SIZE]
set ::fd [open fts3speed_insert.sql w]
test_1 $NUM_INSERTS
close $::fd
set ::fd [open fts3speed_select.sql w]
test_3 $NUM_SELECTS
close $::fd
set ::fd [open fts3speed_select2.sql w]
test_4 $NUM_SELECTS
close $::fd
set ::fd [open fts3speed_optimize.sql w]
test_2
close $::fd
puts "Success. Created files:"
puts " fts3speed_insert.sql"
puts " fts3speed_select.sql"
puts " fts3speed_select2.sql"
puts " fts3speed_optimize.sql"
``` |
Indonesia competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. 27 athletes competed for Indonesia in this Youth Summer Olympics.
Medalists
Archery
Indonesia qualified a female archer from its performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships and a male archer from its performance at the 2013 Asian Archery Championships.
Individual
Team
Athletics
Indonesia qualified one athlete.
Qualification Legend: Q=Final A (medal); qB=Final B (non-medal)
Girls
Field events
Badminton
Indonesia qualified two athletes based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings.
Singles
Doubles
Legend: F= Advanced to Final; BM= Advanced to Bronze-medal match ; SF= Advanced to Semi Final ; QF=Advanced to Semi Final
Basketball
Indonesia qualified a boys' and girls' team based on the 1 June 2014 FIBA 3x3 National Federation Rankings.
Skills Competition
Boys' tournament
Roster
Kurniawan Indraprasto
Vincent Kosasih
Rivaldo Pangesthio
Widyanta Teja
Group stage
Girls' tournament
Roster
Ni Nyoman Astari
Calista Elvira
Regita Pramesti
Ida Ayu Wijaya
Group stage
Beach volleyball
Indonesia qualified a boys' and girls' team by their performance at the AVC qualification tournament.
Rowing
Indonesia qualified one boat based on its performance at the Asian Qualification Regatta.
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; R=Repechage
Sailing
Indonesia qualified two boats based on its performance at the Byte CII Asian Continental Qualifier.
Shooting
Indonesia was given a wild card to compete.
Individual
Team
Swimming
Indonesia qualified four swimmers.
Boys
Girls
Weightlifting
Indonesia qualified 1 quota in the girls' events based on the team ranking after the 2013 Weightlifting Youth World Championships. Indonesia later qualified 1 quota in the boys' events based on the team ranking after the 2014 Asian Weightlifting Youth & Junior Championships.
Boys
Girls
References
2014 in Indonesian sport
Nations at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Indonesia at the Youth Olympics |
Croixsyde is a historic house in May Township, Minnesota, United States, near the city of Stillwater. It was built from 1922 to 1927 as one of the first summer homes on the St. Croix River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Benjamin B. Sheffield House in 1980 for its local significance in the themes of architecture and entertainment/recreation. It was nominated for being an early example of the area's summer homes and for its fine rustic architecture.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Minnesota
References
1927 establishments in Minnesota
Houses completed in 1927
Houses in Washington County, Minnesota
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Log cabins in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Minnesota
Rustic architecture in Minnesota |
Field Day is a yearly outdoor music festival in London. It was first held in Victoria Park in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 11 August 2007 and returned there each year until 2017. The 2018 festival moved to Brockwell Park, and in 2019 it was held at Meridian Water in Enfield, with a capacity of 25,000.
It has continuously expanded, and since its inception, has sold out yearly.
Village mentality
The festival hosts an annual village fete titled Village Mentality. Beginning in 2008, the area includes a sack race, tug of war and egg and spoon race. In 2008, the events took place until 5pm, finishing earlier than the rest of the festival. In 2009, the area was extended to include its own musical line-up, playing on the Village Mentality Stage. Acts included Mumford & Sons, Toumani Diabaté and Malcolm Middleton. The area is handled by organiser Tom Baker's partner Natalie Silk. Village Mentality was formerly known as Homefires, who hosted their own London festival until 2007.
Field Day radio
Field Day and Eat Your Own Ears founder Tom Baker, together with radio production company Folded Wing, recorded a series of radio shows in the run up to Field Day festival in 2012. It features sessions and interviews with the performing artists and has been a regular feature of the festival since. Episodes include exclusives interviews and mixes from the likes of Pixies, Grimes, Solange, Mulatu Astatke, Panda Bear, Caribou, Omar Souleyman, Metronomy, John Cooper Clarke, Four Tet, Kurt Vile and many more.
Lineups
2007 festival
The inaugural Field Day festival took place on 11 August 2007, with the first Underage Festival taking place the same weekend. Over fifty artists featured across four stages, as well as a musical bandstand. Artists included the 1990s, Absentee, Adem, Alberta Cross, Andrew Weatherall, Archie Bronson Outfit, Bat for Lashes, Battles, Caribou, Casper C, The Cock N Bull Kid, Crispin Dior, El Plate, Electrelane, Erol Alkan, Euros Childs, Fanfarlo, Filthy Dukes, Florence and the Machine, Foals, Four Tet, Fridge, GoodBooks, Gruff Rhys, Hannah Holland, James Yorkston, Jo Jo de Freq, Justice, Kid Harpoon, Late of the Pier, Laura Marling, Liars, Matt Walsh, Matthew Dear, Miss Odd Kidd, Mystery Jets, Nadia Ksaiba, Patchwork Pirates, The Pictish Trail, Pull Tiger Tail, Skull Juice, The Aliens, The Concretes, The Earlies, The Lovely Jonjo, Vetiver, Warboy, White Rabbits, Young Turks and Zombie Disco Squad. Originally being billed as a capacity of 6,000, the amount was increased to 10,000 shortly before the festival.
2008 festival
The 2008 event took place on 9 August 2008, with the Underage Festival taking place the previous day. The entire site was redesigned by Vanguardia Consulting, who provide specialist advice on sound control. Capacity was increased to 20,000, and bars and toilets across the site were doubled. More than fifty artists were again billed for the festival, including Simian Mobile Disco, Les Savy Fav, Mystery Jets and Laura Marling. The event was headlined by Foals, in what was their first UK headline festival performance. A 25-member brass band was also added as a final addition to the line-up. The event now featured five stages, an increase from the previous year. The main stage was retitled the "Converse Century Stage", to reflect the company's 100-year anniversary in 2008. A similar stage was used at Underage Festival the previous day.
Dan Deacon had been due to play on the NME stage, but was later forced to pull out due to passport issues. Mystery Jets also pulled out due to illness. They were later replaced by Lightspeed Champion.
2009 festival
The 2009 festival took place on 1 August 2009, one day prior to Underage. The first line-up announcements were made on 28 January 2009, when NME announced that Mogwai would headline the event. Four Tet, James Yorkston, Apes and Androids, Malcolm Middleton, Fennesz, Errors and Skream were also announced. Further line-up additions were announced on 7 April 2009, including The Horrors, Little Boots, Santigold and Mystery Jets. Other line-up announcements have been sporadically announced through the festival's Twitter account.
2010 Festival
The 2010 event was confirmed to take place on 31 July 2010, in their fourth annual outing in Victoria Park. On 9 February 2010, it was announced that Phoenix would headline the event, with Amiina, Beth Jeans Houghton, Caribou, Esben and the Witch, Chilly Gonzalez, Corsano and Flowers, Gold Panda, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, James Holden, Joker & MC Nomad, Max Tundra, Memory Tapes, Mouse on Mars, Pantha Du Prince and Silver Apples also announced to perform. Further acts were announced on 12 March 2010, when Babeshadow, Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi & Riton), Chapel Club, Hudson Mohawke, Lightspeed Champion, No Age, Simian Mobile Disco, Tamikrest, The Fall, These New Puritans and YucK were added. The festival is set to expand further to six stages, including the Outdoor live stage, Adventures in the Beetroot Field arena, Homefires stage, Bugged Out! arena, Bloggers Delight stage, and the musical bandstand.
For the first time in 2010, Field Day is to take part in a festival 'twinning' scheme, organised by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). The initiative encourages twinned festivals to swap artists and cross promote each other's events. Field Day was 'twinned' with the Øya Festival in Oslo, Norway.
2011 Festival
The 2011 event took place on 6 August 2011. The next day, a companion festival took place, with the same organisers and similar stages at the location, under the name The Apple Cart festival.
2012 Festival
The 2012 festival date moved from the traditional August month to Saturday 2 June 2012 (bank holiday weekend). This was due to Victoria Park being used for events to celebrate the London Olympics. The Apple Cart festival took place again on the next-day Sunday.
2013 Festival
Following on from 2012's change in date, Field Day 2013 took place on Saturday 25 May (bank holiday weekend).
2014 Festival
In 2014, Field Day expanded to a two-day event. It took place on the weekend of 7–8 June 2014, headlined by Pixies and Metronomy.
Appearing were:
2015 Festival
The 2015 festival took place on the weekend of 6–7 June 2015, and was headlined by Caribou, Ride and Patti Smith.
2016 Festival
2016 was the 10th anniversary edition of Field Day. It took place on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12 June 2016. The line up was:
2017 Festival
The festival was reduced to one day and was on Saturday 3 June. This was the last year in Victoria Park.
2018 Festival
The 2018 festival moved to Brockwell Park in Herne Hill and took place on 1 and 2 June. The headliners were Erykah Badu, Four Tet, Thundercat and Fever Ray.
2019 Festival
The 2019 festival was at Meridian Water in Enfield on 7 and 8 June. The headliners were Skepta and Jorja Smith. There was a new system in place for the festival; a Day part and a Late Night part; the Day part of the festival finished around 10.30 pm and the Late Night part of the festival finished around 3 am. The line up was:
Friday 7 June
Saturday 8 June
References
External links
Field Day official website
The Line of Best Fit - 2012 festival photo gallery
Alternative rock festivals
Music festivals in London
Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets |
Dosseh is a given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Dosseh (rapper) (born 1985), French rapper of Cameroonian and Togolese origin
Robert-Casimir Tonyui Messan Dosseh-Anyron (1925–2014), Togolese Roman Catholic archbishop
Dosseh Attivi (born 1989), Togolese footballer |
Heliotrope Books is an independent publisher based in Lower Manhattan. Founded and operated by Naomi Rosenblatt, Heliotrope specializes in cross-genre books with mixed sales categories, memoirs by journalists (including the "memoir-noir", a category coined by Heliotrope), and fiction set in New York City. Heliotrope also publishes a line of children's books under the imprint HelioTot. Notable authors include humorist entrepreneur Richard A. Moran; award-winning professor and bestselling memoirist Susan Shapiro; Catherine Hiller, novelist, filmmaker, and author of the notable marijuana memoir Just Say Yes; novelist, poet, and playwright Sonia Pilcer; author, playwright, and actor Don Cummings, and international foraging expert Leda Meredith.
As a New York City press, Heliotrope works closely with neighborhood bookshops and local entertainment venues including The Strand Bookstore, Book Culture, Dixon Place, The Red Room at KGB Bar, and Theatre 80 St. Marks.
Awards
Foreword Indies Winner / Bronze, Religion, 2018 - To the Moon and Back
London Book Fair, Honorable Mention, 2018 - To the Moon and Back
Family Choice Award, 2015 - The Rainbow Remembers The Music
Guernica Magazine Pick of 2013 - Fame Shark
References
External links
Official Heliotrope Books website
Publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in Manhattan |
USS Hull (DD-7) was a Hopkins-class destroyer, which was a sub-class of the , in the United States Navy, the second ship named for Commodore Isaac Hull.
Construction
Hull was launched by Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware, on 21 June 1902; sponsored by Miss Mabel Hull, a descendant of Commodore Hull; and commissioned on 20 May 1903, Lieutenant Samuel Robison in command.
Pre-World War I
During her first two years of service, Hull engaged in patrol and training maneuvers off Newport and in Chesapeake Bay. After a cruise to the Caribbean January–April 1905, she returned to League Island, Pennsylvania, where she decommissioned on 30 September.
Hull recommissioned on 14 November 1906 at Philadelphia, and took part in winter exercises with fleet units in Cuban waters. After operations off Newport, the ship returned to Norfolk in October 1907 to prepare for the voyage of the "Great White Fleet". Hull sailed as an escort vessel on 2 December and after stopping at many South American and Central American ports on the voyage around South America with the great battleships, arrived San Diego on 28 April 1907. Hull was detached on the west coast, and the Great White Fleet continued on its cruise, showing the flag around the world. The destroyer remained in the vicinity of San Francisco until departing on 24 August 1908 for a cruise to the South Pacific. She took part in various exercises in Hawaiian and Samoan waters before returning to San Diego in November.
World War I
Hull spent the years before World War I on patrol and training exercises off the California coast. She decommissioned on 30 October 1912 and joined the Reserve Torpedo Division at Mare Island, with which she made occasional training cruises to California ports. When America entered the war in April 1917, Hull was being refitted at Mare Island. She sailed with other destroyers for the Panama Canal Zone on 25 April and for the next three months was engaged in defensive patrol off the western approaches to that vital waterway. She sailed to Norfolk on 26 July for escort and patrol duty along the East Coast. In the months that followed, Hull escorted ships to Bermuda and engaged in training maneuvers with other ships of the fleet as well. In June 1918, she broke up an attack by German submarine U-151 on a merchant ship, and often rescued sailors from sinking ships. She continued this vital ocean patrol duty until the end of the war.
Hull arrived at Philadelphia on 29 January 1919, and decommissioned on 7 July. She was sold on 5 January 1921 to Henry A. Hitner's Sons Company of Philadelphia.
Noteworthy commanding officers
Lieutenant Samuel Robison (20 May 1903 – 23 June 1904) (Later Rear Admiral)
Lieutenant Thomas C. Hart (14 November 1906 – 14 June 1907) (Later Admiral)
Lieutenant commander Robert Stevenson Haggart (December 1917-7 July 1919) (Later Commodore)
Notes
References
Bainbridge-class destroyers
World War I destroyers of the United States
1902 ships
Ships built by Harlan and Hollingsworth |
Matthew Rettenmund (born December 25, 1968) is a Michigan-born editor, founder of Popstar! magazine and blog Boyculture.com, as well author of different books, including 1995 works, Encyclopedia Madonnica which debuted with solid reviews and sales, and the novel Boy Culture, which was later adapted into a movie in 2006 and in a spin-off web series in the 2020s with rave reviews.
Rettenmund moved to Chicago and began his first forays in media in 1987. He later moved to New York where made his publishing debut at St. Martin's Press, after working as an editorial assistant. Through his career, Rettenmund has worked in LGBT-targeted magazines such as Mandate and Torso, and penned articles in a variety of publications, including The Advocate and Esquire magazines. Various international media outlets have acknowledged him as a savvy pop culture commentator, including Pitchfork, El País and Instinct magazine.
Life and career
Matthew Rettenmund was born in 1968, in Michigan, United States. He identified himself as gay since his early life. He moved to Chicago, and studied at University of Chicago. He was featured inside their The University of Chicago Magazine in 1993. Rettenmund made his first forays in media in 1987 working for literary agent Jane Jordan Browne in Chicago, whom Rettenmund called her a "mentor". After college, Rettenmund moved to New York and went to work as an editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press.
Matthew Rettenmund made his publishing debut with St. Martin's Press' book Encyclopedia Madonnica (1995), based in the life and work of American singer Madonna, obtaining solid reviews and sales as well, followed by his novel Boy Culture the same year, celebrated upon its release by reviewers as an "example of a new and more sharply observant class of gay fiction". The lattermost work also inspired the name of the blog Boyculture.com which he founded, and was later adapted into a film in 2006, and a spin-off web series in early 2020s. Described as a "standout in the gay film genre", Queerty editor Cameron Scheetz, remarked the film as a "game-changer for putting gay sex and sexuality on screen in an honest, authentic way".
In 1998, Rettenmund became founder and editor-in-chief of Popstar! magazine. He has worked in a variety of other publications, including Mandate and Torso magazines in the 1990s, and has also penned articles for various media outlets, including The Advocate, PrideSource and Esquire. Rettenmund helped Bethenny Frankel runs her own website.
In 1997, The Advocate acknowledged his "notable" success as an editor and writer, and almost two decades later, in 2015, magazine's editor Neal Broverman remarked his versatility career. Media outlets such as El País, Pitchfork, Xtra and Instinct magazines have acknowledged him as a savvy pop culture commentator. In 2014, HuffPosts Senior Culture Reporter, Curtis M. Wong called his blog Boyculture a "popular gay blog".
Books
Encyclopedia Madonnica. 1995. St. Martin's Press.
Boy Culture. 1995. St. Martin's Press.
Blind Items: A Novel. 1996. St. Martin's Press.
Totally Awesome 80s. 1996. St. Martin's Press.
Hilary Duff: All Access. 2005. Berkley Boulevard Books.
Starf*cker: A Meme-oir. 2015. Lethe Press.
Re-prints
Encyclopedia Madonnica 20: Madonna from a to Z. 2015. Boy Culture LLC.
Encyclopedia Madonnica: 40+ Years of Madonna. 2022. Boy Culture LLC.
Boy Culture: 25th-Anniversary Edition. 2019. Boy Culture LLC.
Collaborations
Queer Baby Names. 1996. St. Martin's Griffin. (with Jaye Zimet)
Mlvc60: Madonna's Most Amazing Magazine Covers: A Visual Record. 2018. Boy Culture LLC. (With Anthony Coombs)
References
External links
Boyculture.com
1968 births
Living people
American non-fiction writers
American gay writers
University of Chicago alumni |
The Brillouin and Langevin functions are a pair of special functions that appear when studying an idealized paramagnetic material in statistical mechanics. These functions are named after French physicists Paul Langevin and Léon Brillouin who contributed to the microscopic understanding of magnetic properties of matter.
Brillouin function
The Brillouin function is a special function defined by the following equation:
The function is usually applied (see below) in the context where is a real variable and is a positive integer or half-integer. In this case, the function varies from -1 to 1, approaching +1 as and -1 as .
The function is best known for arising in the calculation of the magnetization of an ideal paramagnet. In particular, it describes the dependency of the magnetization on the applied magnetic field and the total angular momentum quantum number J of the microscopic magnetic moments of the material. The magnetization is given by:
where
is the number of atoms per unit volume,
the g-factor,
the Bohr magneton,
is the ratio of the Zeeman energy of the magnetic moment in the external field to the thermal energy :
is the Boltzmann constant and the temperature.
Note that in the SI system of units given in Tesla stands for the magnetic field, , where is the auxiliary magnetic field given in A/m and is the permeability of vacuum.
{| class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" width="80%" style="text-align:left"
!Click "show" to see a derivation of this law:
|-
|A derivation of this law describing the magnetization of an ideal paramagnet is as follows. Let z be the direction of the magnetic field. The z-component of the angular momentum of each magnetic moment (a.k.a. the azimuthal quantum number) can take on one of the 2J+1 possible values -J,-J+1,...,+J. Each of these has a different energy, due to the external field B: The energy associated with quantum number m is
(where g is the g-factor, μB is the Bohr magneton, and x is as defined in the text above). The relative probability of each of these is given by the Boltzmann factor:
where Z (the partition function) is a normalization constant such that the probabilities sum to unity. Calculating Z, the result is:
.
All told, the expectation value of the azimuthal quantum number m is
.
The denominator is a geometric series and the numerator is a type of arithmetico–geometric series, so the series can be explicitly summed. After some algebra, the result turns out to be
With N magnetic moments per unit volume, the magnetization density is
.
|}
Takacs proposed the following approximation to the inverse of the Brillouin function:
where the constants and are defined to be
Langevin function
In the classical limit, the moments can be continuously aligned in the field and can assume all values (). The Brillouin function is then simplified into the Langevin function, named after Paul Langevin:
For small values of , the Langevin function can be approximated by a truncation of its Taylor series:
An alternative, better behaved approximation can be derived from the
Lambert's continued fraction expansion of :
For small enough , both approximations are numerically better than a direct evaluation of the actual analytical expression, since the latter suffers from catastrophic cancellation for where .
The inverse Langevin function is defined on the open interval (−1, 1). For small values of , it can be approximated by a truncation of its Taylor series
and by the Padé approximant
Since this function has no closed form, it is useful to have approximations valid for arbitrary values of . One popular approximation, valid on the whole range (−1, 1), has been published by A. Cohen:
This has a maximum relative error of 4.9% at the vicinity of . Greater accuracy can be achieved by using the formula given by R. Jedynak:
valid for . The maximal relative error for this approximation is 1.5% at the vicinity of x = 0.85. Even greater accuracy can be achieved by using the formula given by M. Kröger:
The maximal relative error for this approximation is less than 0.28%. More accurate approximation was reported by R. Petrosyan:
valid for . The maximal relative error for the above formula is less than 0.18%.
New approximation given by R. Jedynak, is the best reported approximant at complexity 11:
valid for . Its maximum relative error is less than 0.076%.
Current state-of-the-art diagram of the approximants to the inverse Langevin function
presents the figure below. It is valid for the rational/Padé approximants,
A recently published paper by R. Jedynak, provides a series of the optimal approximants to the inverse Langevin function. The table below reports the results with correct asymptotic behaviors,.
Comparison of relative errors for the different optimal rational approximations, which were computed with constraints (Appendix 8 Table 1)
Also recently, an efficient near-machine precision approximant, based on spline interpolations, has been proposed by Benítez and Montáns, where Matlab code is also given to generate the spline-based approximant and to compare many of the previously proposed approximants in all the function domain.
High-temperature limit
When i.e. when is small, the expression of the magnetization can be approximated by the Curie's law:
where is a constant. One can note that is the effective number of Bohr magnetons.
High-field limit
When , the Brillouin function goes to 1. The magnetization saturates with the magnetic moments completely aligned with the applied field:
References
Eponymous laws of physics
Magnetism |
```java
/*
*
*
* path_to_url
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
*/
package im.ene.toro.sample.nested;
import android.os.Bundle;
import im.ene.toro.sample.Deck;
import im.ene.toro.sample.common.BaseActivity;
/**
* @author eneim (7/2/17).
*/
public class NestedListActivity extends BaseActivity {
@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
if (savedInstanceState == null) {
try {
Deck.present(this, NestedListFragment.class);
} catch (Deck.ToroDemoException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
if (e.getCause() != null) e.getCause().printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
``` |
```java
package com.yahoo.vespa.hosted.provision.autoscale;
import com.yahoo.config.provision.Capacity;
import com.yahoo.config.provision.ClusterInfo;
import com.yahoo.config.provision.ClusterResources;
import com.yahoo.config.provision.ClusterSpec;
import com.yahoo.config.provision.IntRange;
import com.yahoo.config.provision.NodeResources;
import com.yahoo.vespa.hosted.provision.applications.BcpGroupInfo;
import com.yahoo.vespa.hosted.provision.provisioning.DynamicProvisioningTester;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.Optional;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
/**
* Tests autoscaling using information from the BCP group this cluster deployment
* is part of to supplement local data when the local deployment lacks sufficient traffic.
*
* @author bratseth
*/
public class AutoscalingUsingBcpGroupInfoTest {
/** Tests with varying BCP group info parameters. */
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_single_content_group() {
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture().awsProdSetup(true).build();
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 3.6, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher query rate
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.1, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 7.1, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher headroom
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.3, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 4.2, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher per query cost
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.45));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 5.4, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Bcp elsewhere is 0 - use local only
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(0, 1.1, 0.45));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling using local info",
8, 1, 1.1, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
}
/** Tests with varying BCP group info parameters. */
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_multiple_content_groups() {
var min = new ClusterResources(3, 3,
new NodeResources(1, 4, 10, 1, NodeResources.DiskSpeed.any));
var max = new ClusterResources(21, 3,
new NodeResources(100, 1000, 1000, 1, NodeResources.DiskSpeed.any));
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture()
.awsProdSetup(true)
.initialResources(Optional.of(new ClusterResources(9, 3, new NodeResources(2, 16, 75, 1))))
.capacity(Capacity.from(min, max))
.build();
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
3, 3, 12.3, 41.8, 189.3,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher query rate
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.1, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
3, 3, 24.4, 41.8, 189.3,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher headroom
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.3, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
3, 3, 14.5, 41.8, 189.3,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher per query cost
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.45));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
3, 3, 18.4, 41.8, 189.3,
fixture.autoscale());
}
/**
* Tests with varying BCP group info parameters for containers.
* Differences from content
* - No host sharing.
* - Memory and disk is independent of cluster size.
*/
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_container() {
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture().clusterType(ClusterSpec.Type.container).awsProdSetup(true).build();
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 4.0, 16.0, 40.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher query rate (mem and disk changes are due to being assigned larger hosts where we get less overhead share
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.1, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 8.0, 16.0, 40.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher headroom
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.3, 0.3));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
5, 1, 8.0, 16.0, 40.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Higher per query cost
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.45));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
6, 1, 8.0, 16.0, 40.8,
fixture.autoscale());
}
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_with_bcp_deadline() {
var capacity = Capacity.from(new ClusterResources(2, 1,
new NodeResources(1, 4, 10, 1, NodeResources.DiskSpeed.any)),
new ClusterResources(20, 1,
new NodeResources(100, 1000, 1000, 1, NodeResources.DiskSpeed.any)),
IntRange.empty(), false, true, Optional.empty(),
new ClusterInfo.Builder().bcpDeadline(Duration.ofMinutes(60)).build());
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture()
.capacity(capacity)
.clusterType(ClusterSpec.Type.container).awsProdSetup(true).build();
// We can rescale within deadline - do not take BCP info into account
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(100, 1.1, 0.45));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("No need for traffic shift headroom",
3, 1, 4.0, 16.0, 40.8,
fixture.autoscale());
}
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_single_content_group_with_some_local_traffic() {
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture().awsProdSetup(true).build();
// Baseline: No local traffic, group traffic indicates much higher cpu usage than local
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.3, 0.45));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 12.6, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Some local traffic
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.3, 0.45));
Duration duration1 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration1.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 10.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 7.3, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Enough local traffic to get half the votes
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.3, 0.45));
Duration duration2 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration2.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 50.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 3.2, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Mostly local
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.3, 0.45));
Duration duration3 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration3.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 90.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 2.3, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Local only
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.3, 0.45));
Duration duration4 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration4.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 100.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 2.2, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// No group info, should be the same as the above
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(BcpGroupInfo.empty());
Duration duration5 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration5.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 100.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 2.2, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// 40 query rate, no group info (for reference to the below)
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(BcpGroupInfo.empty());
Duration duration6 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration6.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 40.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 1.6, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Local query rate is too low but global is even lower so disregard it, giving the same as above
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200 / 40.0, 1.3, 0.45 * 40.0));
Duration duration7 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration7.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 40.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 1.6, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
// Local query rate is too low to be fully confident, and so is global but as it is slightly larger, incorporate it slightly
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200 / 4.0, 1.3, 0.45 * 4.0));
Duration duration8 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration8.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 40.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Scaling up cpu using bcp group cpu info",
8, 1, 1.9, 7.2, 28.8,
fixture.autoscale());
}
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_containers_with_some_local_traffic() {
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture().clusterType(ClusterSpec.Type.container).awsProdSetup(true).build();
// Some local traffic
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.store(new BcpGroupInfo(200, 1.9, 0.01));
Duration duration1 = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.58f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration1.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, __ -> 10.0);
fixture.tester().assertResources("Not scaling down due to group info, even though it contains much evidence queries are cheap",
3, 1, 4.0, 16.0, 40.8,
fixture.autoscale());
}
/** Tests with varying BCP group info parameters. */
@Test
public void test_autoscaling_metrics() {
var fixture = DynamicProvisioningTester.fixture().awsProdSetup(true).build();
// Empty has metrics at zero
assertEquals(new Autoscaling.Metrics(0, 0, 0),
fixture.autoscale().metrics());
// No external load mesurements -> 0
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
assertEquals(new Autoscaling.Metrics(0, 1.0, 0),
fixture.autoscale().metrics());
// External load is measured to zero -> 0
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
var duration = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, i -> 0.0);
assertEquals(new Autoscaling.Metrics(0, 1.0, 0),
fixture.autoscale().metrics());
// External load
fixture.tester().clock().advance(Duration.ofDays(2));
duration = fixture.loader().addCpuMeasurements(0.7f, 10);
fixture.tester().clock().advance(duration.negated());
fixture.loader().addQueryRateMeasurements(10, i -> 110.0);
assertEquals(new Autoscaling.Metrics(110, 1.0, 0.05),
round(fixture.autoscale().metrics()));
}
private Autoscaling.Metrics round(Autoscaling.Metrics metrics) {
return new Autoscaling.Metrics(Math.round(metrics.queryRate() * 100) / 100.0,
Math.round(metrics.growthRateHeadroom() * 100) / 100.0,
Math.round(metrics.cpuCostPerQuery() * 100) / 100.0);
}
}
``` |
CISC Semiconductor GmbH defines itself as “design and consulting service company for industries developing embedded microelectronic systems with extremely short Time-To-Market cycles.” The company started in 1999, working in the semiconductor industry, but soon expanded its field towards the automotive branch and further extended business towards the radio frequency technology (RFID) sector in 2003. Since then, CISC gained significant experience and expertise in RFID, developing an own business segment and highly sensitive measurement equipment to test and verify RFID systems for different industries. Representatives of CISC Semiconductor are actively working on and contributing to worldwide standardization of future technologies like RFID, in different standardization organizations. This effort brings CISC into the position of being a leader in research and development, and thus being able to be “one step ahead of innovation”. As of 2011 CISC Semiconductor is in a globally leading standardization position for RFID testing by providing the convener of ISO/IEC JTC1 WG4/SG6 on “RFID performance and conformance test methods“, as well as GS1 EPCglobal co-chairs for performance and conformance tests.
Their main office is at the Lakeside Science & Technology Park in Klagenfurt, Austria, near the University of Klagenfurt. A branch office is located in Graz, Austria, enabling a close cooperation with the Graz University of Technology. In the U.S.A the company has a subsidy in Mountain View (California).
History
CISC Semiconductor Design+Consulting GmbH was founded in 1999 as an R&D focused and 100% privately owned business by CEO Dr. Markus Pistauer in Klagenfurt, Austria.
Between 2000 and 2002 CISC was part of two international R&D <s: “High Quality Design in Deep Submicron Technology” and “Technology Driven Design and Test”.
In 2002 CISC opened an R&D center in Graz, Austria with the purpose of enabling a closer cooperation with the Institute for Technical Informatics at Graz University of Technology.
In 2003 CISC Semiconductor expanded its business towards radio frequency identification (RFID) and radio frequency (RF) communication, laying the foundation for its current activity in various standardization processes.
Getting further into RFID technology, CISC became a member of EPCglobal™ and started participating in RFID standardization work for the first time in 2004.
In 2004 CISC launched its product SyAD (System Architect Designer) and won an Austrian Innovation and Research Prize Award (Province Carinthia).
Since 2004 CISC is organized in three business units: Automotive (AT), RFID+RFComm (RF) and Tools+Methodology (TM).
CISC joined two European R&D projects: “Robust Design for Efficient Use of Nanometer Technologies” (ROBIN) and “Wireless Technologies for small area Networks with Embedded Security and Safety” (Witness), starting in 2004.
In 2006 CISC won a special economy prize on high innovative products (by Privatstiftung Kärntner Sparkasse, Austria) for its RFID Application and System Design Toolset (CISC RFID ASD Kit+Library), which was brought to the market in the same year, as well as another RF product: The CISC RFID Field Recorder.
From 2006 on CISC started providing expert training on RFID via the European EPC Competence Center.
In the year 2007 CISC launched products in all its three business units: AT (Automotive Bus System Lib and Automotive Core Lib), RF (Tag Emulator and MeETS), as well as TM (SyAD V2.0).
Furthermore, in 2007 CISC and its products were present at four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and America, further extending the company's export efforts.
In 2007 CISC joined the Open SystemC initiative and became certified Alliance Partner of National Instruments.
In January 2007 CISC opened its R&D branch office in Graz, Austria.
Two new research projects were started in 2008: “SR2 – Short Range Radio” and “TEODACS – Test, Evaluation and Optimization of Dependable Automotive Communication Systems” at the Virtual Vehicle Competence Center. Another one followed in 2009: “e3car” via the ENIAC Joint Undertaking, which was meant to push the development of hybrid and electrical vehicles.
In 2010 CISC pushed product development in the business units RF and TM, improving MeETS to achieve measurement sensitivities of UHF RFID tag performance measurements beyond -100dBm and releasing SyAD’s 3rd generation – SyAD 2010.
From 2010 on CISC Semiconductor is official industry partner of the Technical University of Munich joining their RFID AZM (RFID User Center Munich).
The international research project: “Process Oriented Electronic Control Units for Electric Vehicles Developed on a Multi-System Real-Time Embedded Platform” (POLLUX) under the umbrella of ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking started in 2010.
In 2011 the company's name was changed to CISC Semiconductor GmbH, eliminating the phrase “Design+Consulting” to better fit the current field of business.
In Spring 2012 CISC Semiconductor decided to adapt and change its logo to visualize the development that the company has gone through since its foundation in 1999.
The Company's new product - RFID Xplorer - was successfully launched in April and presented at the Euro ID trade fair in Berlin.
Main Markets
CISC Semiconductor's main markets are situated in the Semiconductor, Automotive and RFID industry. Tools and techniques are designed for simulation based system development of embedded microelectronic systems, including RFID systems. The most important markets include:
EDA (Electronic Design Automation) – e.g. design and simulation frameworks
RFID (Radiofrequency Identification) – e.g. measurement and test equipment for tags, readers and systems
Competences
The company's core competences are ranging from system design, modeling and simulation to verification and optimization of heterogeneous, embedded, microelectronic systems, with a particular focus on Automotive and RFID systems. CISC's versatile competences are reflected in their business units:
Automotive
In terms of Automotive, CISC offers various tools and services related to microelectronic engineering work, assisting in development work by providing know-how and tools to support design engineers.
Wireless Identification
In RFID and RF communication CISC's competences are covering experience in RFID product development, simulation tool development and RFID measurement systems as well as experience in evaluation, modelling, simulation and testing of RFID products and systems. Furthermore, CISC is experienced with RFID trainings and consulting and plays a leading role in RFID standardization (ISO/IEC, EPCglobal and ETSI).
Tools+Methodology
Within the business unit Tools+Methodology, CISC works on system design, modeling, simulation, verification and optimization of heterogeneous embedded microelectronic systems, as well as software engineering e.g. for the EDA industry.
Standardization
CISC's history in standardization started in 2003 with the expansion of its business towards the wireless communication technology RFID (radiofrequency identification). With the development of a new business segment and several RFID measurement products, CISC representatives – especially Josef Preishuber-Pflügl – started to play an active role in international standardization. Since then, CISC has been actively participating in international RFID standardization processes (ISO, IEC, ETSI, ASI/ÖNORM) and is currently active member of EPCglobal and the LPRA (Low Power Radio Association). CISC's input on standards and technology development ensures to keep technology in line by continuous development and change of regulatory constraints.
CISC is active member of several different standardization working groups, currently CISC provides the convener of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 WG4/SG6 responsible for performance and conformance measurements for RFID for item management, the project editor for ISO/IEC 18000-6 “UHF RFID air interface”, ISO/IEC 29167 “RFID security”, the convener of the Austrian AG 001.31, the national mirror committee of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31, as well as the vice-chairmen to ETSI ERM TG34 responsible for RFID regulatory.
References
Semiconductor companies of Austria
Electronics companies established in 1999
Austrian companies established in 1999
Economy of Carinthia (state)
Economy of Klagenfurt |
Harold E. Harrison (1908–1989) and Helen Coplan Harrison (1911–2004) were a husband-and-wife research team in pediatrics who individually and jointly published more than 175 research papers and one textbook on topics including pediatric metabolic disorders, parathyroid hormone and bone, vitamin D, renal and intestinal transport, nutrition, rickets, and lead poisoning. They were jointly the authors of Disorders of Calcium and Phosphate Metabolism in Childhood and Adolescence, a comprehensive medical reference published in 1979.
The Harold E. Harrison Medical Library is a part of the Johns Hopkins University Bayview Medical Campus.
Awards and honors
1938 E. Mead Johnson Award, awarded jointly
1942 E. Mead Johnson Award, awarded jointly
1961 Borden Award, to Harold E. Harrison
1980 American College of Nutrition Award to Harold E. Harrison
1983 John Howland Award, awarded jointly
References
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians
American pediatricians
Goucher College alumni
Married couples |
```objective-c
/*
*
*/
#ifndef ZEPHYR_INCLUDE_DT_BINDINGS_USB_USB_H_
#define ZEPHYR_INCLUDE_DT_BINDINGS_USB_USB_H_
/* Ideally we'd generate this enum to match what's coming out of the YAML,
* however, we dont have a good way to know how to name such an enum from
* the generation point of view, so for now we just hand code the enum. This
* enum is expected to match the order in the yaml (dts/bindings/usb/usb.yaml)
*/
enum dt_usb_maximum_speed {
DT_USB_MAXIMUM_SPEED_LOW_SPEED,
DT_USB_MAXIMUM_SPEED_FULL_SPEED,
DT_USB_MAXIMUM_SPEED_HIGH_SPEED,
DT_USB_MAXIMUM_SPEED_SUPER_SPEED,
};
#endif /* ZEPHYR_INCLUDE_DT_BINDINGS_USB_USB_H_ */
``` |
P. K. Dave (; 1 January 1923 19 September 2006) was an Indian bureaucrat, civil servant, former Chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir state and 15th lieutenant Governor of Delhi, served in office for over five years from 1992 to 1997.
Education
He graduated from the Institute of Science, Nagpur, and later he was selected as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
Career
In 1967, he was first appointed as Chief Secretary to the government of Jammu and Kashmir until 1971, and later he served as Petroleum Secretary from 1971 to 1976. From 1976 to 1977, he served as Advisor to the governor of Tamil Nadu, and also Ambassador to Brussels from 1977 to 1981. He also served as Deputy Secretary to the government of Madhya Pradesh for Planning department until he retired in 1981.
In 2004, he was awarded Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his service to the oil industry of India.
Death
Deva was suffering from a medical condition. He died on 19 September 2006 in a hospital in Delhi following his chronic condition.
References
1923 births
2006 deaths
Ambassadors of India to Belgium
Lieutenant Governors of Delhi
Indian Administrative Service officers
Missing middle or first names |
The Profitable house of I. M. Trofimenko () is a mansion built in the beginning of the 20th century in Oktyabrsky district of Rostov-on-Don executed in eclecticism style. It is located at 73 Prosveshcheniya Street. The building is an object of cultural heritage of local value. Originally in the building, the profitable house, then paper-mill with printing house was placed. Nowadays I. M. Trofimenko's house occupies Lyceum № 33 of a name of the Rostov regiment of a national militia.
History
At the beginning of the 20th century, the two-story household located on Prosveshcheniya Street at that time belonged to retired lieutenant Samuel Kipman, the representative of Georges Blok association. The association was engaged in Rostov-on-Don in the sale of bicycles, knitting and sewing machines, weights, arithmometers, cash registers, caskets, etc. In 1909 because of financial difficulties, the company left the market and the house was taken over by sculptor, artist, and schedule Ivan Mikhaylovich Trofimenko. He was the owner of a printing house established on Dmitriyevskaya Street (nowadays Shaumyana). Having got the new building, Trofimenko moved the printing house to his first floor, and placed a paper mill of the Kolorit association on the second. About 30 people worked at the enterprise.
In March 1913, there was the strong fire in the building. The blaze destroyed the entire second floor and roof. All equipment and material of the paper mill became useless: the press, cars, typographical fonts, printing products, and the inventory burned down. The stone walls resisted. All lost property was insured in the Russia and Salamander insurance companies that allowed Trofimenko to not only quickly anew build the building, but also to build on the third floor. After reconstruction revenues of the house, owner increased from 910 to 2580 rubles a year.
Meanwhile, the quickly developing industry of Rostov-on-Don demanded experts in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. In City Council, the issue of opening of the second school in the city was discussed. In February 1914, Duma members considered petitions of 13 house owners suggesting to place this school in Trofimenko's building. The majority of vowels of a thought preferred the new house of Trofimenko, having agreed to pay from the city budget of 7000 rubles a year for rent. A portion of the deputies criticized the place chosen for an educational institution because of its remoteness from the downtown, its proximity to the gvozdilny plant, and because dropouts and workers lived on the premises.
References
Tourist attractions in Rostov-on-Don
Buildings and structures in Rostov-on-Don
Cultural heritage monuments in Rostov-on-Don
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Rostov Oblast |
Nikia Hillarie Deveaux (born September 28, 1985) is a female freestyle swimmer from the Bahamas. She swam for the Bahamas at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2007 Pan American Games she was part of the bronze medal-winning women's 4 × 100 m medley relay alongside Alicia Lightbourne, Arianna Vanderpool and Alana Dillette.
See also
Swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games
References
sports-reference
1987 births
Living people
Bahamian female swimmers
Bahamian female freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for the Bahamas
Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for the Bahamas
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the Bahamas
Kentucky Wildcats women's swimmers
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games |
Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.
Language contact
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arutani, Paez, Sape, Taruma, Witoto-Okaina, Saliba-Hodi, Tikuna-Yuri, Pano, Barbakoa, Bora-Muinane, and Choko language families due to contact.
Classification
Chacon (2014)
There are two dozen Tucanoan languages. There is a clear binary split between Eastern Tucanoan and Western Tucanoan.
Western Tucanoan
?Cueretú (Kueretú) †
Napo
Orejón ( M'áíhɨ̃ki, Maijiki, Coto, Koto, Payoguaje, Payaguá, Payowahe, Payawá)
Correguaje–Secoya
Correguaje (Koreguaje, Korewahe, a.k.a. Caquetá)
Siona–Secoya (Upper Napo, Baicoca–Siecoca)
?Macaguaje ( Kakawahe, Piohé) †
Siona (Bai Coca, Sioni, Pioje, Pioche-Sioni, Tetete)
Secoya (Sieko Coca, Airo Pai, Piohé)
?Tama †
Eastern Tucanoan
South
Tanimuca (a.k.a. Retuarã)
?Yauna (Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna) †
West
Barasana–Macuna
Macuna (a.k.a. Buhagana, Wahana, Makuna-Erulia, Makuna)
Barasana (Southern Barasano, a.k.a. Paneroa, Eduria, Edulia, Comematsa, Janera, Taibano, Taiwaeno, Taiwano)
Cubeo–Desano
Cubeo (Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa)
Yupua–Desano
?Yupuá †
Desano–Siriano (a.k.a. Desano)
East
Central
Tucano (Tukana, a.k.a. Dasea)
Waimaha–Tatuyo
Waimajã (a.k.a. Bara, Northern Barasano)
Tatuyo
North
Kotiria–Piratapuyo
Guanano (Wanana, Wanano, a.k.a. Kotedia, Kotiria, Wanana-Pirá)
Piratapuyo (a.k.a. Waikina, Uiquina)
Pisamira–Yuruti
Pisamira–Carapano (Carapana, Karapana)
Tuyuca–Yuruti
Tuyuka (Tejuca, Teyuka, Tuyuca, a.k.a. Bara, Barasana)
Yurutí
Plus unclassified Miriti.†
Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.
Jolkesky (2016)
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):
(† = extinct)
Tukano
Tukano, Western
Kueretu †
Tukano, Western, Nuclear
Mai Huna
Koreguaje-Pioje
Koreguaje-Tama
Koreguaje
Tama †
Pioje (Baicoca–Siecoca)
Makaguaje †
Sekoya
Siona
Tetete †
Tukano, Eastern
Tanimuka; Retuarã; Yahuna
Tukano, Eastern, West
Kubeo-Desano
Kubeo
Desano-Yupua
Desano; Siriano
Yupua †
Makuna; Barasano; Eduria
Tukano, Eastern, East
Tukano-Tatuyo
Tukano
Tatuyo-Bara-Waimaha
Tatuyo
Bara; Waimaha
Tuyuka-Wanano
Wanano-Piratapuyu
Wanano
Piratapuyo
Tuyuka-Karapanã
Karapanã; Pisamira
Tuyuka; Yuruti
Varieties
Below is a full list of Tucanoan language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.
Western group
Tama - spoken on the Yarú River and Caguán River, Caquetá territory, Colombia, but now perhaps extinct.
Coreguaje - spoken at the sources of the Caquetá River, department of Cauca, Colombia.
Amaguaje / Encabellado / Rumo - extinct language once spoken on the Aguarico River, department of Loreto, Peru.
Siona / Zeona / Ceño / Kokakañú - language spoken at the sources of the Putumayo River and Caquetá River, Putumayo territory, Colombia.
Ificuene - spoken between the Güepi River and Aguarico River, Loreto. (Unattested.)
Eno - language spoken by a few individuals at the mouth of the San Miguel River, Caquetá territory, Colombia. (Unattested.)
Secoya - language spoken on the Putumayo River, Oriente province, Ecuador. (Johnson and Peeke 1962.)
Icaguate - extinct language once spoken on the Caucaya River and Putumayo River, Putumayo territory, Colombia.
Macaguaje - spoken in the same territory on the Mecaya River and Caucaya River and around Puerto Restrepo, by a few families.
Tetete / Eteteguaje - extinct language once spoken at the sources of the Güepi River, Loreto. (Unattested.)
Pioje / Angotero / Ancutere - spoken on the Napo River, Tarapoto River, and Aguarico River, Loreto.
Cóto / Payoguaje - spoken at the mouth of the Napo River, Loreto, Peru.
Yahuna group
Yahuna / Jaúna - spoken on the Apoporis River, territory of Amazonas, Colombia.
Tanimuca / Opaina - spoken by a small tribe on the Popeyaca River and Guacayá River, Amazonas, Colombia.
Dätuana - spoken north of the preceding tribe on the Apoporis River.
Menimehe - spoken by a very little known tribe at the mouth of the Mirití-paraná River and Caquetá River. (Unattested.)
Yupua group
Yupua / Hiupiá - spoken on the Coca River, a tributary of the Apoporis River, Colombia.
Kushiita - once spoken at the mouth of the Apoporis River, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Now perhaps extinct. (Unattested.)
Durina / Sokó - spoken on the Carapato River, Amazonas territory, Colombia.
Coretu group
Coretu / Kueretú - spoken on the Mirití-paraná River, state of Amazonas, Brazil.
Cubeo group
Cubeo / Kobéua / Kaniwa / Hahanana - spoken on the Caiarí River and Cuduiarí River, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Dialects are:
Dyuremáwa / Yiboia-tapuya - spoken on the Querarí River, Amazonas.
Bahukíwa / Bahuna - spoken by a tribe that originally spoke a language of the Arawak stock, on the Cuduiarí River.
Hehénawa - spoken on the Cuduiarí River.
Hölöua - spoken on the Cuduiarí River, now perhaps extinct. (Unattested.)
Särä group
Särä - spoken between the Tiquié River and Piraparaná River, Vaupés territory, Colombia.
Ömöa - spoken at the sources of the Tiquié River, Colombia.
Buhágana / Karawatana - spoken on the Piraparaná River, Colombia.
Macuna - spoken at the mouth of the Apoporis River, Colombia.
Erulia group
Erulia / Paboa / Eduria - spoken on the Piraparaná River, Colombia.
Tsaloa - spoken on the Piraparaná River.
Palänoa - spoken on the middle course of the Piraparaná River.
Desána group
Desána / Wína / Vina - spoken between the Tiquié River and Caiarí River, partly in Colombia and partly in Brazil.
Chiránga / Siriána - spoken on the Paca-igarapé River, Colombia.
Tucano group
Tucano / Tocano / Dace / Dagseje / Dajseá / Tocana - language of a large tribe that lived on the Vaupés and Tiquié River; state of Amazonas, Brazil.
Uaíana - on the Caiary River, Colombia.
Tuyuca / Doxcapura - spoken on the Tiquié River and Papury River, partly in Brazil, partly in Colombia.
Arapaso / Koréa - extinct language once spoken on the Yapú River, Amazonas, Brazil. The last survivors now speak only Tucano. (Unattested.)
Waikína / Uiquina / Uaíkana / Pira-tapuya - spoken on the Papury River, Colombia.
Uantya / Puçá-tapuya - once spoken on the Macú-igarapé River, Colombia.
Bará / Pocanga - spoken at the sources of the Tiquié River, Colombia.
Uasöna / Pisa-tapuya - spoken on the Caiary River, Colombia.
Tsölá / Teiuana - spoken on the Tiquié River and Piraparaná River, Colombia.
Urubú-tapuyo - extinct language once spoken at the sources of the Caiary River, Colombia.
Pamöá / Tatú-tapuyo - spoken at the sources of the Papury River and on the Tuyigarapé, Colombia.
Patsoca / Iuruty-tapuyo - once spoken on the Abio River and Apoporis River, Colombia.
Möxdöá / Carapana-tapuya - spoken between the Papury River and Caiary River, Colombia.
Uanána / Wanána / Kotédia - spoken on the Caiarí River near the Cachoeira dos Araras, Brazil.
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.
Proto-language
Proto-Tukanoan reconstructions by Chacon (2013):
References
Bibliography
Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. .
Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. .
Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.
External links
Proel: Familia Tucanoana
Language families
Indigenous languages of the South American Northwest
Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia |
A.J. Ernststraat is a tram stop within the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The stop serves tram lines 5 and 25. Line 25, dubbed the Amsteltram before receiving its line number, opened officially on 13 December 2020, unofficially 4 days earlier on 9 December.
Before being rebuilt in 2019 and 2020, the stop used to serve both the low-floor trams of tram line 5 plus the high-floor trams of metro line 51, a hybrid metro/sneltram (light rail) service that opened in 1990. Both lines 5 and 51 shared the same pair of tracks but used separate, adjacent platforms. There were a pair of low-level platforms for line 5 and a separate pair of high-level platforms for line 51, with stairs connecting the two platform levels. In 2019, metro line 51 service south of Amsterdam Zuid station was terminated to rebuild stations to accommodate only the low-floor trams of lines 5 and 25; the high-level platforms were demolished, and the low-level platforms were lengthened to handle a coupled pair of low-floor trams. As part of the rebuild, the stop was relocated from the south side of Arent Janszoon Ernststraat to the north side of the intersection with Buitenveldertselaan.
References
Tram stops in Amsterdam
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 2020s |
The Hermit is the 1976 solo album by British folk musician John Renbourn. On this release, Renbourn drew from lute and harp sources, and pieces from Turlough O'Carolan such as O'Carolan's Concerto transcribed for guitar.
The Lamentation Of Owen Roe O'Neill is featured in Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland from 1903.
Lord Inchiquin was collected in Edward Bunting's manuscripts currently residing at Queen's University Belfast.
Mrs Power is said to have been written by O'Carolan during a virtuosity competition between him and the Italian violinist Francesco Geminiani while both of them may have been invited by an Irish nobleman, Lord Mayo.
A Toye comes from the 1603 tutor Schoole of Musicke by Thomas Robinson.
Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home is an Elizabethan piece. There are versions for solo lute by Thomas Robinson and Nicolas Vallet and by John Dowland with the second part of an anonymous composer, and an arrangement named Rowland by William Byrd in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. It seems that this piece was made popular by William Kempe and his musicians who accompanied Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, in Holland. When Leicester was in disgrace and revoked, Lord Willoughby succeeded him, and Kempe, hoping to find a new employer, renamed the song in his honor.
Track listing
Side A
"The Hermit"
"John's Tune" (loosely based on John James's "Head in the Clouds")
"Little Alice" (a.k.a. "Goat Island" on U.S. release)
"Old Mac Bladgitt"
"Faro's Rag"
"Caroline's Tune" (Dominique Trépeau)
Side B
Three Pieces By O'Carolan
"The Lamentation of Owen Roe O'Neill"
"Lord Inchiquin"
"Mrs. Power (O'Carolan's Concerto)"
"The Princess and the Puddings"
"Pavanna (Anna Bannana)"
Medley
"A Toye"
"Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home"
Personnel
John Renbourn - guitar
John James - guitar
Dominique Trépeau - guitar (duet on "Caroline's Tune")
Other
Art director: Bob Franks
Cover artwork: Paul Ellis
Design: Paul Chave
References
External links
1976 albums
John Renbourn albums
Transatlantic Records albums |
"Who Are You Now?" is the sixth episode of the ninth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on November 11, 2018. This episode is the first not to have Andrew Lincoln credited in the main cast billing as Rick Grimes and the first not to have Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene) credited since season 2.
This episode marks the first appearance of The Whisperers, a prominent antagonistic group featured in the comics following the defeat of Negan and the Saviors.
Plot
Michonne narrates over scenes of the survivors continuing to rebuild their various communities and struggling to survive, six years after Rick Grimes' apparent death.
Judith leads Magna's group to Aaron, Eugene, Laura, and Rosita, who are hesitant about protecting them, but Judith insists. They travel to Alexandria, just as Michonne returns from a scavenging run. Michonne sizes them up and knows that Judith did not follow the proper procedure for bringing new survivors in, but agrees to let them stay overnight and to hear their case the following morning in front of their council which includes the former high-ranking Savior Laura, now a trusted member of the community.
At the Kingdom, Ezekiel recognizes the needs to have a trained blacksmith to help effect repairs, and decides to have Henry travel to Hilltop to be apprenticed in the art. Carol brings Henry along with a number of supplies she plans to bring to the Hilltop too. En route, they are attacked by the remains of the Saviors, aside from those who joined the other communities, led by Carol's old enemy Jed and former Savior lieutenant Regina. Jed reveals that the Sanctuary has fallen and the remaining Saviors have become marauders to survive. They steal the supplies, among them the ring that Ezekiel gave to Carol, and promise they will never see them again. That night, after setting up camp, Carol sneaks out to find the Saviors camp, douses the area in gasoline, and sets them ablaze, killing them while recovering her ring. They continue on the next day, rendezvousing with Daryl who has taken to living on his own.
In the morning, the council asks Magna's group questions similar to what Rick would ask of potential allies. While the other council members seem accepting of their answers, Michonne sees that Magna has a prison tattoo, and a hidden knife, and demands she explain herself. She cannot do so, and the council votes to have them evicted from the community after Yumiko is treated.
Rosita and Eugene go to take some radio equipment to set up on a nearby water tower for Gabriel, who is trying to see if any other communities can make contact. They note that a large herd had passed, but believe it will not interfere with their goal. As Eugene places the radio equipment, he spots the horde now aiming for them. He spooks their horses as he tries to climb down, and Rosita rushes to recover essential gear from their wagon. Eugene is forced to jump the last bit off the tower and injures his leg, and after Rosita gets him a shovel as a makeshift crutch, the two escape.
Judith, who has developed a rapport with the imprisoned Negan, is upset at Michonne for not trusting her. Michonne mulls over her decision as she tends to her and Rick's child, Rick Jr. (RJ). As the group is about to be evicted, Michonne has a change of heart and says they likely will be able to stay over at Hilltop, and will escort them personally there along with Siddiq and former Savior D.J. to watch over Yumiko's recovery.
As Eugene and Rosita make it into the woods, the horde surprisingly stays on their tail, and only once they find a wet ditch and cover themselves in mud does the horde seem to ignore their presence. They hear faint whispers of "Where are they?" and "They must be close, don't let them get away" as the horde passes.
Production
From this episode, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) becomes the main protagonist of the series. This is the first episode broadcast following the departure of Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, which included a six-year time jump from the events of his apparent death. Among changes include Khary Payton (King Ezekiel) being promoted to the main cast as his name appears in the opening credits. This episode introduces Matt Lintz as the older Henry; Matt is the older brother of Macsen Lintz who had played Henry in previous seasons, and brother to Madison Lintz, who had played Carol's daughter Sophia on the first two seasons of the show.
This is the first episode to feature a significant appearance by the Whisperers, which in the comics are a group of human survivors that wear the skin of walkers to mask themselves, and speak only in whispers to avoid drawing the walkers' attention. Within the comics, Rick's son, Carl Grimes, was an essential element to that arc, but within the show, Carl (Chandler Riggs) had been killed off in the middle of the eighth season. According to showrunner Angela Kang, to adapt the comic's story, they plan on taking some of the role that Carl had and giving them to Judith, now aged similarly to Carl, which allows them to follow the main threads of the comic's Whisperer arc but with a new take using Judith's personality.
Reception
Critical reception
"Who Are You Now?" received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 83% with an average score of 6.92 out of 10, based on 16 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Who Are You Now?" swiftly establishes a new world order in The Walking Dead without Rick Grimes, effectively conveying the progression of the survivors, but some viewers may feel adrift in what feels like the umpteenth re-set for the series.
Erik Kain of Forbes praised the episode and the reboot of the series, saying “I’m still shocked by how good ‘’The Walking Dead’’ has gotten, and while I was worried before (and still have some doubts) I don’t think it’s going to suffer too much without Rick. His “death” serves as an interesting catalyst for character growth throughout the community, as they no longer have the luxury of one leader calling all the shots.”
Ratings
"Who Are You Now?" received a total viewership of 5.40 million with a 2.0 rating in adults aged 18–49. It was the highest-rated cable program of the night, and the episode was steady in viewership from the previous week.
References
External links
"Who Are You Now?" at AMC
2018 American television episodes
The Walking Dead (season 9) episodes |
The West Swanzey Covered Bridge (also known as the Thompson Bridge) is a historic wooden covered bridge carrying Main Street over the Ashuelot River in West Swanzey, New Hampshire. Built in 1832, it is one of New Hampshire's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. Unlike most of those, it is prominently located in the village, providing access from the village center to New Hampshire Route 10. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Description and history
The West Swanzey Covered Bridge is located just west of the village center of West Swanzey, carrying Main Street over the Ashuelot River in a roughly east–west orientation. It is one of two bridges in the village; the other is a modern one about downriver. It is a two-span Town lattice truss structure, 136'10" long, with spans measuring 64'0" and 63'6", and rests on a stone central pier and abutments. It is covered by a shallow-pitch metal gabled roof, which extends beyond the trusses to shelter sidewalks on both sides. Only one of the sidewalks now survives, although evidence of the separate walkway portals survives. The main vehicle portals have segmented-arch tops, which are echoed in the pedestrian portals.
The bridge was built in 1832 by Zadoc Taft for the town at a cost of $523.27. In 1973 the bridge was posted for a six-ton limit, requiring school buses to empty before they could cross the bridge. It was closed to all traffic in 1990, and underwent a major reconstruction in 1993.
See also
List of New Hampshire covered bridges
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
References
Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Wooden bridges in New Hampshire
Tourist attractions in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Bridges in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Swanzey, New Hampshire
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Lattice truss bridges in the United States |
Orzechówko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wąbrzeźno, within Wąbrzeźno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately southwest of Wąbrzeźno and northeast of Toruń.
References
Villages in Wąbrzeźno County |
Liang Baibo (; 1911 – ) was a Chinese manhua artist and painter, best known for her short-lived comic strip, Miss Bee, published in 1935. She and Yu Feng were China's first female cartoonists. Born in Shanghai, she worked in Singapore and the Philippines, and was a member of the avant-garde . She had a three-year extramarital relationship with the artist Ye Qianyu, but left him to marry an air force pilot. She moved to Taiwan after the Chinese Communist Revolution, and later died by suicide.
Early life and career
Liang was born in 1911 into a middle-class family in Shanghai, with her ancestral home in Zhongshan, Guangdong. She studied at Hangzhou National College of Art (now China Academy of Art) and then at the Western Art Department of Shanghai Xinhua Art College, where she focused on oil painting.
She was a friend of the revolutionary poet Yin Fu (Bai Mang). In 1930, she drew nine illustrations for his poem collection Children Tower (孩儿塔). However, the book was not published at the time as Yin Fu was executed by the Kuomintang in early 1931 along with four others, together known as the Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers.
Liang was a member of the avant-garde Storm Society, founded in 1931 by Pang Xunqin and Ni Yide. She used the pen name Bomb. Although she later dropped it at the exhortation of her friends, she adopted Bon instead, "to preserve the sound of an explosion". Individualistic and adventuresome by nature, she went to Singapore and then the Philippines, where she taught fine art at a Chinese middle school.
Affair with Ye Qianyu and Miss Bee
Liang returned to Shanghai in early 1935. When submitting her cartoon at Time Book Company, she met Ye Qianyu, a prominent artist and editor, and instantly fell in love with him. According to Ye's memoir, she pursued him without caring about the fact that he was married with children, in the spirit of the romanticism of the 1930s.
In the spring of 1935, Liang and Ye participated in a sanitation propaganda project organized by the Tianjin–Pukou railway. They travelled to Beijing by train, where they stayed for a few days, and then decided to go into hiding in Nanjing. Living secretly with Ye, she drew the comic strip, Miss Bee (蜜蜂小姐), which was published on the front page of the newspaper Libao (立报; Standing Paper). The strip was only published for 25 days, however, before Ye's wife Luo Caiyun and her father tracked him down and forced him to return to Shanghai. Luo refused Ye's request for divorce, but the couple became legally separated.
In November 1935, Liang drew cartoons of the marriage of the "Movie Queen" Hu Die. In 1936, she was elected as one of the 31 members of the Arranging Committee of the First National Cartoon Exhibition.
When Japan invaded China and occupied Shanghai in 1937, Ye Qianyu, together with a group of fellow Shanghai cartoonists, formed the "National Salvation Cartoon Propaganda Corps". Funded by the Kuomintang government, the corps left Shanghai for the interior to spread anti-Japanese propaganda. Liang was the only female member of the corps.
The propaganda corps evacuated Shanghai and went to Wuhan. There she created a cartoon depicting a guerrilla fighter standing as a giant in front of the Japanese Army, which is considered her representative work in war propaganda. She also created the work Women Joining the War, which was exhibited in the Soviet Union. In 1938, Liang met Chen Enjie (陈恩杰), a pilot of the Republic of China Air Force, and fell in love with him on the spot. She terminated her three-year affair with Ye and later married Chen. She travelled to Tibet during the war.
Later life and death
After the surrender of Japan, Liang returned to Shanghai in 1946 and travelled to Xinjiang to paint. When the Communist Party took over mainland China, she moved to Taiwan with her husband, and had a son. In Taiwan, she reconnected with Liao Molin (廖末林), another former member of the National Salvation Cartoon Propaganda Corps, and worked at a kiln Liao opened in Tainan. She later met the writer Lin Haiyin, who introduced her to work as an illustrator for the newspaper United Daily News. However, she did not find career success in Taiwan and suffered from schizophrenia. She died by suicide in Taiwan, circa 1970.
Legacy
Liang is known as China's first female cartoonist, although Yu Feng was her contemporary and possible predecessor. Her known works are few but are praised for their high quality. Her short-lived comic strip, Miss Bee, is described by a critic as "very lovely; the lines were soft and beautiful, and the themes were very interesting. It drew much attention from other cartoonists and was welcomed by readers from the beginning." In Ye Qianyu's memoir, he recalled his three years spent with Liang fondly, and described her as a "talented painter". He said that she had a "poet's temperament" and that he drew much inspiration from her when creating his own works such as the comic strip Mr. Wang.
References
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Chinese comic strip cartoonists
Artists from Shanghai
Chinese female comics artists
20th-century Chinese painters
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Lin Zhi-ai is a Chinese rower. She has won gold medals in the lightweight women's four at World Rowing Championships in 1988 and 1989. At the 1990 World Rowing Championships, she won a bronze medal in the lightweight women's four. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships, she came seventh with the women's eight. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she came fifths in the women's eight.
References
Chinese female rowers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in rowing
Rowers at the 1990 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Olympic rowers for China
Living people
20th-century Chinese women
21st-century Chinese women |
Bolanthur Krishna Prabhu was a Konkani Dramatist and Poet. His musical "Chandrahas" in 1912, is believed to be the first
Konkani stage musical.
Early life
Krishna Prabhu born on 13 November 1882 at Bolanthur, Bantwal Taluk in to a Konkani speaking Goud Saraswat Brahmin family of father, Govinda, and mother, Pommie. His maternal uncle, Soukar Srinivasa Prabhu of Bantwal, who had no male issue, brought him to Bantwal where he studied up to 7th standard in the Mission School.
Literary works
Bolanthur Krishna Prabhu wrote Chandrahas Natak and it saw four editions. His other works include Prahlada Charitre, Draupadi Vastrapaharana, Dhruvacharitre, Krishna Janmashtami, Nalacharitre, and Shri Krishna-Satyabhama Samwada. His Kannada Work Sannavara Subodha Shataka is a collection of poems to impart ethics and morals to the young. It was prescribed as a school text book under the Madras government.
References
Year of death missing
Konkani people
1882 births
Indian male poets
Indian male dramatists and playwrights
People from Dakshina Kannada district
Dramatists and playwrights from Karnataka
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from Karnataka
20th-century Indian male writers
Poets from British India
Dramatists and playwrights from British India |
Marvin D. Price (April 5, 1932 - July 21, 2013) was a Negro league baseball player. He was one of the youngest players in Negro league history, suiting up for the Chicago American Giants at just 14 years old in 1946. He later played for the Cleveland Buckeyes and Newark Eagles from 1949 to 1952.
He later served in the Coast Guard and worked for the United States Postal Service.
He was born in, and died in, Chicago, Illinois. He was nicknamed "Thumper."
References
1932 births
2013 deaths
Chicago American Giants players
Newark Eagles players
Cleveland Buckeyes players
Baseball players from Chicago
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people |
Barstow-Daggett Airport is a county-owned public airport in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is five miles (7 km) east of Daggett and 14 miles east of Barstow. Built in 1933, it is the oldest of the six airports operated by San Bernardino County.
Facilities and aircraft
Barstow-Daggett Airport covers at an elevation of 1,930 feet (588 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt runways: 8/26 is 6,402 by 150 feet (1,951 x 46 m) and 4/22 is 5,123 by 100 feet (1,561 x 30 m).
In the year ending February 16, 2006, the airport had 36,500 aircraft operations, an average of 100 per day: 51% general aviation and 49% military. 59 aircraft were then based at this airport: 32% single-engine, 3% multi-engine, 1.7% jet, 2% helicopter, 2% ultralight and 59% military.
History
Just prior to World War II, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) selected the site as an important civil air field and negotiated a standard agreement (AP 4) with the county of San Bernardino to maintain the air field. Shortly thereafter, the site was chosen by the War Department as a Modification Center. As a result, the county acquired fee interest to the additional land necessary for War Department use. On 4 May 1942, the government entered into an agreement with the county to lease the 1,099-acre site (renewable annually but not beyond 30 June 1967).
About 29 May 1942 the government and Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., entered into a cost plus fixed fee ($1.00) contract (No. W-509-ENG-2557), whereby Douglas agreed to do all things necessary and incident to the procurement, furnishing, delivery and installation of equipment, machinery, machine tools, materials, supplies and facilities for proper operation of a Modification Center. Douglas established the Modification Center and operated it until the middle of 1944, when Army Air Forces deactivated the project. According to a narrative report contained in project files, there was no evidence of the lease ever having been executed, so it was believed that Douglas occupied and used the premises without any written agreement.
On 12 November 1942, the Secretary of War and Standard Oil Co. (San Francisco) entered into an agreement (unnumbered lease to run with lease W-868-ENG-4504), whereby Standard Oil agreed to install, operate, and maintain lubricating oil storage and distribution facilities at the site. In addition, on 20 December 1943, the CAA was granted a permit (to run with Lease No. W-868-ENG-4505) to use and occupy two parcels of land totaling 11.2 acres at the Modification Center for a radio range and communication building site, together with a right of way between the two parcels for establishing and maintaining subsurface cable lines. The original permit period ended 30 June 1944, however, the lease contained a provision for annual renewal, at the option of the government, through 30 June 1967. Upon the expiration of the permit, all CAA property was to have been removed to a condition satisfactory to the Commanding Office or other competent military authority.
About 65 buildings and 20 other structures were built at the facility (headquarters and flight operations buildings, hangars, barracks, sewage treatment plants, warehouses, water wells, water and fuel storage tanks, gasoline station, etc.). The total cost of government improvements was $3,924,273, with the CAA expending an additional $107,235 for various improvements. Douglas built a swimming pool, paint and dope storage shed, and an air hose station for which reimbursement was not made. According to airport personnel, improvements constructed by the county (non-DOD) consisted of one building, and the addition of a small surface water pond in the vicinity.
On 25 September 1945, Major General Willis H. Hale, Fourth Air Force, notified Daggett Army Air Field that it was temporarily inactivated.
The site (all 1,099 acres) was classified as surplus on 15 November 1945. According to the completed Declaration of Surplus Real Property Form (SPB 5, dated 28 March 1946), the improvements at the site were in good condition. Custody and accountability for the site was assumed by the War Assets Administration on 27 June 1946, with the installation immediately transferred to the Navy Department.
The San Bernardino Daily Sun reported on 21 August 1951 that the lease between the county and the Marine Corps on the Daggett Airport had been renewed by the board of supervisors on 20 August.
According to airport personnel interviewed during the site visit, the county obtained control of facility from the military in 1958. However, a fire during the 1960s destroyed County records of the transaction. During 1946 through 1958 it is not clear which agency and jurisdiction over the facility. From 1958 through the present, the airport was controlled by the current owner, the county. According to Exhibit A of the original 1942 lease with the county, the government, at its option, may leave in place the alterations and improvements made to the landing areas in lieu of restoration.
Today the US Army has based several UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and LUH-72 Lakota helicopters operating out of the airport under the Fort Irwin National Training Center aviation company which is based on Fort Irwin.
See also
California World War II Army Airfields
Victorville Army Airfield auxiliary fields
References
External links
San Bernardino County Department of Airports: Barstow-Daggett Airport
Historical record of balloons launched from the airport in the early 1990s
Airport history from Daggett Aviation
1943 establishments in California
Airports in San Bernardino County, California
Military facilities in the Mojave Desert
Airports established in 1943
World War II airfields in the United States
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in California
Historic American Engineering Record in California |
Damavand Mineral Waters Company () is the leader and largest bottled mineral water producer in Iran. It is a joint venture with Danone Group, number 2 in bottled water worldwide.
In 2010 and in 2015 Iran's Health Ministry announced that Damavand bottled water had a microbial infection and the company was prosecuted.
History
In 1973, the company Perrier from France in association with local investors decided to build a mineral water plant in Iran.
In 1977, after all the installations were done, they started some testing and analysis of the water in 4 different seasons to make sure that the mineral percentages are constant, and in 1978, the company started to present its products to the market as the first mineral water company in Iran.
In 1998, Group Castel from France became partners with the Iranian owners and they started to grow the firm.
In 2006, group Danone from France (the leader of mineral water in the world, owner of brands such as EVIAN & VOLVIC) bought Group Castel's share. Today, Damavand water is the leader of more than 370 MB per year. It has around 400 employees and one of the most efficient distribution systems with 7 warehouses across the country.
In 2010 NATO army in Afghanistan rejected Damavand bottled water, and Iran's Health Ministry announced that Damavand bottled water was polluted.
In 2015 Iran's Health ministry announced that Damavand bottled water has microbial infection and the company was prosecuted.
Products
The products are all in polyethylene terephthalate bottles with the most advanced European machines:
Damavand Mineral Water (1.5L & 1L & 0.5L)
Carbonated water: Sparkling mineral water: (0.3L & 1.250L)
Soft drink: Topsia Cola, Topsia Orange, Topsia Lemon, Topsia Tropical (0.3L & 1.250L)
References
Manufacturer
BottledWaterWeb
External links
Food and drink companies of Iran
Food and drink companies established in 1973
Iranian brands
1973 establishments in Iran
Bottled water brands
Mineral water |
Tsukamurella soli is a Gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of Tsukamurella which has been isolated from forest soil from the Hallasan mountain on the Jeju island in Korea.
References
External links
Type strain of Tsukamurella soli at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Mycobacteriales
Bacteria described in 2010 |
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