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Troy is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census. Troy contains two villages: the unincorporated village of Troy, and the incorporated village of North Troy.
Government
Town
Moderator – Robert Starr
Selectboard Chairman – Robert Langlands
Town Clerk – Terri Medley
Treasurer – Terri Medley
Delinquent tax collector – Terri Medley
Lister – Eric McCann, Karen Rinner, Helene Croteau
Grand Juror – Robert Bishop
Road budget – $460,119
Robert Starr has been moderator for Fifty years.
School District
Schools are operated by North Country Supervisory Union.
Board Member, North Country Union High School – Rosemary Mayhew
Director, School Board – Cliff Forster
Board members – Carol Currier, Richard Wells Jr., Gaston Bathalon, Andre Desautels
Principal – Chris Young
Budget – $2,975,840
Services
The town has two departments providing local services to residents:
Water Department – providing water to residents and businesses
Highway Department – maintaining local roads
There are two fire departments serving Troy:
Troy Volunteer Fire Department – 1 station, equipped with an engine, tanker, tower ladder and rescue truck
North Troy Volunteer Fire Department – 1 station, equipped with an engine, tanker, and rescue truck.
Both fire departments are members of North East Mutual Aid, providing and/or receiving assistance from fire departments in Mansonville & Potton in Southern Quebec, Canada.
EMS: Mississquoi Valley Ambulance Service-1 station, a combined volunteer/paid agency providing paramedic level care.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.1 square miles (93.4 km2), all land.
History
Troy was chartered as "Missisquoi." It once produced over of cast iron annually.
In the winter of 1799, a small party of American Indians, led by their chief, Captain Susap, joined the colonists at Troy, built their camps on the river and wintered near them. These I
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In Irish mythology, Credne (Old Irish) or Creidhne was the goldsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann, but he also worked with bronze and brass. He and his brothers Goibniu and Luchtaine were known as the Trí Dée Dána, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha Dé used to battle the Fomorians.
It is said that Creidhne fashioned King Nuada's silver hand, together with Dian Cecht.
Creidhne is often confused with the Irish warrior Creidne.
Of Creidne's death, according to a poem affixed to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, it was said: Creidne the pleasant artificer was drowned
on the lake-sea, the sinister pool,
fetching treasures of noble gold,
to Ireland from Spain.
References
Irish gods
Tuatha Dé Danann
Smithing gods
Irish goldsmiths
Irish silversmiths
Irish metalsmiths
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This is a list of lists of journalists.
By country
List of American print journalists
List of Argentine journalists
List of Armenian journalists
List of Brazilian journalists
List of Bulgarian journalists
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List of newsreaders and journalists in France
List of German journalists
List of Haitian journalists
List of Hong Kong journalists
List of Indian journalists
List of Italian journalists
List of Malawian journalists
List of Pakistani journalists
List of Slovenian journalists
List of South African journalists
List of Sri Lankan journalists
List of Swedish journalists
List of Uruguayan journalists
Other by country
List of journalists killed during the War in Afghanistan (2001–14)
List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
List of journalists killed in Europe
List of journalists killed in Guatemala
List of journalists killed in Honduras
List of journalists killed in India
List of journalists killed in Assam (India)
List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia (Italy)
List of journalists killed in the Mexican Drug War
List of journalists killed during the Balochistan conflict (1947–present) (Pakistan)
List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration (Philippines)
List of journalists killed in Russia
List of journalists killed during the Somali civil war
List of journalists killed in South Sudan
List of journalists killed during the Mahdist War (Sudan)
List of journalists killed during the Syrian civil war
List of journalists killed in Tajikistan
List of arrested journalists in Turkey
List of journalists killed in Turkey
Timeline of reporters killed in Ukraine
List of journalists killed in the United States
List of journalists killed in Yemen
See also
Journalism
Glossary of journalism
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Elsau is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
Elsau is first mentioned in 1043 as Elnesouva. On 23 April 1398 Count Donat von Toggenburg, Herr zu Brettengow und Tavas donated the church of Elsow as benefice for the new Allerheiligenaltar at the grave of the Toggenburg family in the Rüti Abbey, for the salvation of his daughter soul Menta von Toggenburg who died shortly before, as well as further lands and goods in the present Weinland district of the canton of Zürich, confirmed among others by Ruodolf von Bonstetten from Ustra.
Geography
Elsau has an area of . Of this area, 56.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 25.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 17.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 10.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (6.1%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.5% of the area. 15.4% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
The municipality is located along both banks of the Eulach river. It consists of the villages of Elsau, Rümikon (mentioned in 829 as Rumaninchovun), Räterschen and since 1922 the villages of Unter- and Oberschottikon.
Demographics
Elsau has a population (as of ) of . , 11.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 14.5%. Most of the population speaks German (93.0%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.3%) and Albanian being third ( 1.3%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 39.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17.4%), the FDP (14.7%) and the CSP (10.5%).
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years o
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The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is the standardizing body of English Braille orthography in the United States and Canada. It consists of a number of member organizations, such as the Braille Institute of America, the National Braille Association, and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
In late 2012 BANA announced the gradual phasing in of Unified English Braille for general use. Nemeth Code (1972) will continue to be used for mathematics and science, Music Braille Code (1997) for musical notation, and IPA Braille Code (2008) for linguistics.
Member organizations
The following organizations are members of the BANA:
Full members
Alternate Text Production Center of the California Community Colleges (ATPC)
American Council of the Blind
American Foundation for the Blind
American Printing House for the Blind
Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind & Visually Impaired
Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Braille Institute of America
California Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind)
Council of Schools and Services for the Blind
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Horizons for the Blind
National Braille Association
National Braille Press, Inc.
National Federation of the Blind
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Associate members
Braille Authority of New Zealand Aotearoa Trust
Crawford Technologies
T-Base Communications
References
External links
Braille organizations
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Adiel F. Stewart (January 18, 1897 – March 6, 1960) was an American politician. A Republican, he served as the mayor of Salt Lake City from 1956 to 1959.
Biography
Adiel Fitzgerald Stewart was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 18, 1897, the son of Joshua Beyon Stewart and Mary Jane (Fitzgerald) Stewart. He attended the schools of the Granite School District and the University of Utah, then began a business career as a partner with his brothers J. B. and Harold in the Stewart Brothers coal company.
Stewart was a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as president of the Temple View Stake and bishop of the McKinley Ward. He was also a well-known singer, and performed at thousands of church and public functions throughout his life.
Stewart's business ventures and holdings expanded over time, and included serving as an executive, manager, or board of directors member of Stewart Brothers Sand and Gravel, Cinder Block, Inc., Acme Lime Products, Grand Deposit Mining, Plateau Gas and Oil, Acme Lime Weight Aggregates, and Deseret News Publishing.
A Republican in politics, Stewart served as chairman of the Salt Lake County Commission from 1953 to 1955. He served as mayor of Salt Lake City from 1956 to 1959.
Stewart died of a heart attack in Salt Lake City on March 6, 1960. He was buried at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Millcreek, Utah.
Family
In 1923, Stewart married Mary DeEtte Buys. They were the parents of three children: Adiel Gerald (Jerry), William Lawrence (Larry), and Mary DeEtte.
References
1897 births
1960 deaths
Mayors of Salt Lake City
Utah Republicans
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Lac-Juillet is an unorganized territory in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, part of Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality.
The eponymous Lake Juillet is located in the eastern part of the territory and was named after Blaise Juillet Avignon, a companion of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, who drowned on April 19, 1660, near Nuns' Island.
Demographics
Population trend:
Population in 2021: 0
Population in 2016: 0
Population in 2011: 26
Population in 2006: 0
Population in 2001: 0
Population in 1996: 0
Population in 1991: 0
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Unorganized territories in Côte-Nord
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Robert Hawker Dowling (1827 – 8 July 1886) was an Australian colonial artist.
Biography
Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, née Darke. He was brought to Launceston, Tasmania with his parents in 1839 in the Janet. He received lessons from Thomas Bock and Frederick Strange, and in 1850 advertised as a portrait painter. In 1856 Dowling left for London partly with the help of friends in Launceston. He exhibited 16 pictures at the Royal Academy between 1859 and 1882 and others at the British Institute. Returning to Launceston he afterwards came to Melbourne and painted portraits of Sir Henry Loch, Dr James Moorhouse, Francis Ormond, and others. He went to London again in 1886 but died shortly after his arrival.
Dowling was a conscientious painter of figure subjects, often scriptural or eastern. He is represented in the Melbourne and Launceston galleries.
On 2 May 2007, one of Dowling's paintings – Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware – was bought for A$823,500 by the National Gallery of Victoria.
References
Isabella J. Mead, 'Dowling, Robert Hawker (1827 - 1886)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, p. 98. Retrieved on 4 October 2008
Additional resources listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography:
H. Button, Flotsam and Jetsam (Launceston, 1909); 'no 364. "Early Effort: Art in Australia"', Art-Journal (London), 1860, p 169; Art-Journal (London), 1860, pp 351, 379; Examiner (Launceston), 5, 19 Mar 1851, 25 Aug, 20, 23 Oct 1860, 19 Feb 1863, 16 Feb, 20 1864, 15, 17 July 1886; Atlas (London), 25 Aug 1860; Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston), 20 Oct 1860, 29 June 1877; Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 23 Feb, 26 Mar 1885, Tasmanian (Launceston), 24 Apr 1886
External links
Robert Dowling at ARTcyclopedia
Grandfather's visit 1865 - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
1827 births
1886 deaths
English emigrants to colonial Australia
Settlers of Tasmania
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Islam in Mauritius is the nation's third largest religion behind Hinduism and Christianity. Muslims constitute over 17.3 per cent of Mauritius population. Muslims of Mauritius are mostly of Indian descent. Large numbers of Muslims arrived to Mauritius during the British regime starting in 1834 as part of the large scale indentured labor force from India.
Mauritius became independent in 1968 and no official religion is defined in the constitution. Hindus make up about half of the population; Christians about a third and Muslims most of the rest. Several religious groups including Muslim ones are recognized by parliamentary decree and receive state subsidies according to their percentage of the population.
History
Some scholars believed that Muslims arrived in Mauritius with the Dutch as slaves from Arabia, but this view has been disproved as the Arabians who were with the Dutch were mostly traders. Muslims arrived in Mauritius during the British regime, starting in 1810. Indentured labourers arrived on a large scale from India, mostly from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Bengal, and the cities of Kolkata and Mumbai. There were a total of 450,000 immigrants during the period from 1835 to 1907, and after 1909, the immigration of indentured labourers stopped. They were brought from India for a period of five years, after which they were returned. By 1922, only 160,000 had returned to India, while others settled down in Mauritius. There were a few families of wealthy Muslim traders from Gujarat which also settled along with the majority poor working classes. The population of Muslims is rumoured to have been 33% (no reference) of the total population during 1835, 64% during 1861 (no reference), but allegedly reduced to less than 25% by 1909. Traditionally Sunnis remained a majority, while other groups like Sunni Shafia, Shia and Bohra formed around 20 per cent of the total Muslims in the country. Cocknies, Kodjas, Bohras and Aga-khanities are believed to have arrived
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Coenogonium barbatum is a species of foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) lichen in the family Coenogoniaceae. It is characterised by its distinctive beard-shaped growth, setting it apart from closely related species. Identified and named as a new species in 2006, the lichen has been specifically found at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. The species name barbatum hints at its beard-like appearance.
Description
Coenogonium barbatum has filamentous thallus, extending horizontally from the , specifically leaves, in a manner reminiscent of a beard. This structure is composed of several tufts of filaments connected at the base, with a yellowish-green colour and measuring up to in both length and breadth. The or the algal component of the lichen, belongs to the green algal genus Trentepohlia. The algal cells are cylindrical, arranged in clear filaments and are larger than those found in other species in the genus. The , the sexual reproductive structures of the lichen, are rounded and semi-stalked with pale yellow to yellow-orange . No substances were detected in the species following a thin-layer chromatography analysis.
Despite its resemblance to the semi-circular thalli-producing species C. linkii and C. congense, C. barbatum is differentiated by its unique growth form and wider algal cells.
Habitt and distribution
The habitat of C. barbatum is the understory of lowland rainforests where it grows on leaves. According to the authors, its specific location and its distinctive beard-shaped structure suggest the involvement of a unique and photobiont in this species. A similar yet distinct taxon, referred to as C. aff. barbatum, has also been observed at the same locality, albeit with a different growth form and narrower photobiont cells, further emphasising the distinctive characteristics of C. barbatum.
References
Gyalectales
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2006
Lichens of Central America
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
Taxa named by André Aptroot
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Tolbaños de Abajo is a village in the municipality of Valle de Valdelaguna located southeast of the province of Burgos, Castilla y León (Spain).
In Tolbaños de Abajo may be one of the better preserved meadows of the Iberian Peninsula, with specimens of oak (Quercus pyrenaica) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea), the latter are close to 400 years of age. There are also beautiful examples of holly.
References
1.↑ Enrique del Rivero. Rincones singulares de Burgos. VI El sur de la Sierra de la Demanda. Caja de Burgos, 200, Dep. Legal Bu-445, p. 32
2.↑ Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Burgos, número 79 de 25 de abril de 2007[1]
3.↑ Uno de de los catorce partidos que formaban la Intendencia de Burgos durante el periodo comprendido entre 1785 y 1833, tal como se recoge en el Censo de Floridablanca de 1787
Towns in Spain
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Wasini Island lies off the coast of southeast Kenya in the Indian Ocean, south of Mombasa, and opposite the harbour of the village of Shimoni. It is approximately long and across. The name "wasini mpunguti" came from the early inhabitants. The island has only footpaths of sharp old coral or sand. There are no cars, carts or bicycles. Cargo is transported by foot or by a wheelbarrow with a solid tyre. Transport is over the paths, or via the beaches, mainly consisting of coral and only passable with low tide, or by boat over the sea. Before 1963, in the British colonial time, there was an airstrip in the lagoon situated longitudinally south on the island; only small pieces of tarmac now remain.
Population, culture, language and religion
The island has a population of about 3.000, living on the south coast in the two villages of Wasini and Mkwiro, respectively at the west and east side of the island, and inland in the hamlet Nyuma Maji, which means 'behind the water' in Swahili. In Wasini-village and Nyuma Maji live the Bantu people the Vumba, whose mother tongue is the Swahili dialect kivumba; in Mkwiro the Kifundi (Shirazi) have their own mother tongue, the Swahili dialect kikifundi. Besides that they all speak Swahili and sometimes English. The Vumba are of Arabic origin. The Arabs came to the East-African coast in the 1st century A.D., and after mixing with the Bantu people they together formed the Coast or Swahili people. The Shirazi probably came from the Persian Gulf in the 15th century A.D. Strong cultural connections and family ties exist between the island and the Tanzanian islands Pemba and Zanzibar, south-east of the island in the Indian Ocean. The population is for about 99% Muslim, from liberal to orthodox. (See note 1).
Economy and tourism
Tourism is the main source of income; second comes fishing. The high poverty level has greatly diminished in the last 30 years due to the tourism based on the approximately 10 km far Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Natio
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William Henry Dean Jr. (1910-1952) was an American economic geographer. He was the second African American to gain a PhD in economics from Harvard University. His 1938 doctoral dissertation applied results from mathematics and astronomy to location theory in economic geography.
Works
The theory of the geographic location of economic activities, with special reference to historical change. PhD thesis, Harvard University, 1938.
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1910 births
1952 deaths
American geographers
Economic geographers
African-American economists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
20th-century American economists
20th-century African-American scientists
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The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is the Main Library Branch of the Dallas Public Library system. It is located at 1515 Young Street in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas, directly across from Dallas City Hall.
About
The structure was built to replace the Old Dallas Central Library. The new structure consists of ten stories, eight stories above ground floor and two below ground floor, designed in the modernist architectural style. The design of the nearby Dallas City Hall inspired the design of the library – the library's upper floors are oriented away from Young Street while (symmetrically) the upper floors of City Hall are oriented toward Marilla Street (an open area between Young and Marilla Streets separates the buildings).
It was named for J. Erik Jonsson, a founder of Texas Instruments and mayor of Dallas, and long-time sympathetic supporter and patron of the library system. He also led the ten-year drive to raise private funds that allowed the construction of a state-of-the-art main library.
During the 2000s the library embarked on a long-range renovation program which will reorganize each floor's layout, update interior finishes, repair maintenance issues and overall create a more inviting experience.
See also
List of buildings and structures in Dallas, Texas
External links
J. Erik Jonsson Central Library website
Dallas Public Library System
Libraries in Dallas
Downtown Dallas
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UN Member States are currently negotiating a legally-binding, international agreement on plastics that will address the entire life cycle of plastics, from design to production and disposal. On March 2, 2022 UN Member States voted at the resumed fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) with the mandate of advancing a legally-binding international agreement on plastics. The resolution is entitled "End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument."
Timeline
Following UNEA-5.2, The mandate specifies that the INC must begin its work by the end of 2022 with the goal of "completing a draft global legally binding agreement by the end of 2024."
Work towards the treaty began with the meeting of an Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) in Dakar, Senegal from May 30 through June 1, 2022. During that meeting, Member States established a timeline for subsequent meetings through the end of 2024, rules of procedure, and the initial scope of work for the first meeting of the INC.
The first meeting of the negotiating committee (INC-1) took place in Punta del Este, Uruguay from November 28, 2022 through December 2, 2022. The agenda contained items including the formal adoption of the rules of procedure. Over 2,300 delegates from 160 countries participated.
The second meeting of the negotiating committee (INC-2) took place in Paris, France from May 29, 2023 through June 2, 2023.
Until the end of 2024, three more meetings are planned. Kenya, Canada, and the Republic of Korea have offered to host INC-3, INC-4 and INC-5. In 2025, the treaty is to be finalized at the conference of the plenipotentiaries, with Ecuador, Peru, Rwanda, and Senegal as potential hosts
Content
Members agreed that the treaty will be international in scope, legally binding, and should address the full life cycle of plastics, including its design, production, and disposal. It has been argued that chemicals containe
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Phacelia purpusii is a species of phacelia known by the common name Purpus' phacelia, that is endemic to California where it can be found in forests and other habitats within Sierra Nevada or farther north in the southernmost portion of the Cascades and adjacent Modoc Plateau.
It is a glandular and hairy-textured annual herb exhibiting a mostly erect habit to a maximum height of about 40 centimeters. Its oval leaves are up to 5 centimeters long and smooth or lobed along the edges, and its hairy inflorescences are one-sided, curving or coiling cymes of tiny, bell-shaped flowers. Each flower is under a centimeter long and a shade of light purple.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery
purpusii
Endemic flora of California
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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PKB is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa, WWII Polish underground police
Patients Know Best, a tool for allowing the patient to share medical records with clinicians
National Awakening Party (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa), an Islamic political party in Indonesia
Base dissociation constant pKb of a chemical compound
Protein kinase B, an enzyme
Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport in Parkersburg, West Virginia, US
Personal knowledge base, a subjective database
PerfKit Benchmarker of cloud performance
PKB Corporation, a Serbian agribusiness company
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Hora Ratna, a treatise on the predictive part of Hindu astrology, was written in the usual Sanskrit Slokas - format by Bala Bhadra sometime during the reign of the Muhghal Emperor Shah Jahan. Whereas the opinion of Parashara prevails much more in North of India, in South India the method of Bala Bhadra, who was influenced by Garga, is considered to be more authoritative. This text is a unique treatise on the effects of the twelve signs and houses which aspect it deals in its own peculiar way.
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Sanskrit texts
Hindu astrological texts
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The state of Wyoming, being a land locked state, has a wide variety of freshwater fish in its lakes, rivers, and streams.
References
"Wyoming Fishing Network: Species of Fish in Wyoming." Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wyomingfishing.net/species.htm.
"Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Native Fish Species of Wyoming." Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Fishing-and-Boating/Fish-of-Wyoming/Native-Fish-Species-of-Wyoming.
"Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Non Native Fish Species of Wyoming." Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Fishing-and-Boating/Fish-of-Wyoming/Non-Native-Fish-Species-of-Wyoming.
Accessed April 27, 2020. http://projects.warnercnr.colostate.edu/cofishguide/index.cfm?step=literature.
Fish
Wyoming
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St Anthony in Roseland is a village and a former parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is a small settlement on the Roseland Peninsula.
At Trewince is a house of five bays and two storeys built in 1750. There is a lighthouse at St Anthony's Head built of granite.
Parish church
The parish church of St Anthony was built in 1150 and dedicated to St Antoninus King and Martyr. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church was established by the prior of the Augustinian Priory at Plympton in Devon. The site of the former priory is now the site of the house of the Spry family, Place, which was built in 1840 in front of the church. After the dissolution of 1538 part of the priory was used as a residence and parts were pulled down: much of the stone went towards the building of St Mawes Castle. The church still has its original mediaeval cruciform plan, more or less as it was built in the 12th and 13th centuries, despite having been extensively restored in the 19th century. The restoration was commissioned by Samuel Thomas Spry, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodmin between 1832 and 1841, who employed his cousin, the Revd Clement Carlyon to rebuild the chancel, and install the wooden roofs, floor tiles and stained glass. The church contains monuments to members of the Spry family. The tower is above the crossing and has a spire of timber and lead; there are many memorials of the Spry family including Sir Richard Spry. The church is now one of three in the care of the priest-in-charge of Gerrans and Philleigh.
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Villages in Cornwall
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HSwMS Karl XIV Johan was a ship of the line that served in the Swedish Navy and was built by Karlskrona Naval Shipyard. She was named after Karl XIV Johan. Commissioned in 1835 and decommissioned in 1867.
Design and description
Karl XIV Johan was 53.8 meters long, 14.4 meters wide and had a draft of 6.8 meters. The machinery installed in 1854 consisted of four steam boilers that generated steam for a Motala angle steam engine. The total engine power was 800 indicated horsepower. The ship had a top speed of 6.5 knots under engine and 9 knots under sail. At the time of completion, the equipment consisted of 84 pieces of varying calibers. The crew amounted to 739 men.
Construction and career
Karl XIV Johan was laid down by Karlskrona Naval Shipyard at their shipyard at Blekinge on 8 November 1817 and launched on 10 November 1824. She was commissioned in 1835. She did not see much service as she was scrapped in 1867.
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Ships built in Karlskrona
1824 ships
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Edward Haigh (7 November 1935 – 17 February 2016) was a British trade unionist.
Haigh grew up in Birstall, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was educated at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Batley. He became a carpet weaver in 1956, and joined the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers (NUDBTW). He was chosen as a shop steward four years later, then, in 1969, became a full-time district organiser for the union.
In 1973, Haigh became a district secretary for the NUDBTW, and in 1977, he was appointed as its National Organiser, also leading on negotiations on pay and conditions for members. In 1979, he was elected as the union's Assistant General Secretary, but the NUDBTW decided to merge into the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) in 1982. He was appointed as secretary of the TGWU's new dyers, bleacher and textile workers group, and was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), although he served only one year before it was reorganised. The TUC decided that the textile workers could no longer be represented separately from the rest of the TGWU, and Haigh therefore left the council.
From 1982 until 1991, Haigh served on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. He was loosely associated with the party's left wing, although he voted for the expulsion of the committee of Militant. He chaired the party's important Finance and General Purposes Committee from 1986, In 1992, he chaired the party's annual conference.
In 1985, Haigh was appointed as Assistant General Secretary of the TGWU, serving until he took early retirement, in 1991.
References
1935 births
2016 deaths
Trade unionists from Yorkshire
Labour Party (UK) people
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
People from Birstall, West Yorkshire
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The Publications Act (PublA) (, , ), is a Swiss federal law that governs the publication of the compilations of federal law (Official Compilation and Systematic Compilation) and of the Federal Gazette. It was adopted on 18 June 2004 by the Federal Assembly and came into force on 1 January.
The law replaces the previous Publications Act from 1984. Some of the key changes include the introduction of a legal basis for the electronic publication of legal texts on the internet. Prior to the law of 1984, the topic was regulated through the Ordinance of 5 March 1849 on the publication of a Federal Gazette (, , ).
See also
Federal Gazette (Switzerland)
Official Compilation of Federal Legislation
Systematic Compilation of Federal Legislation
References
External links
Official text (read online)
Law of Switzerland
Swiss Federal Acts
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Symonanthus aromaticus is a species of flowering plant in the potato family that is endemic to Australia.
Description
The species grows as an erect shrub to 30–130 cm in height. The white flowers appear from August to November.
Distribution and habitat
The species is found on sandy soils in the Coolgardie and Mallee IBRA bioregions of south-west Western Australia.
References
aromaticus
Eudicots of Western Australia
Solanales of Australia
Taxa named by Charles Gardner
Plants described in 1939
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Waltograph is the name of a freeware typeface based on the lettering of the Walt Disney logotype.
Description
Several versions exist, some under its original title of "Walt Disney Script". The typeface is not, as many assume, based on the actual handwriting of Walt Disney; rather, it is an extrapolation of the Walt Disney Company's corporate logotype, which was based on a stylized version of Walt Disney's autograph. First released in 2000, Walt Disney Script was continuously updated and eventually renamed Waltograph in 2004.
Reception
Although the project is unofficial and not affiliated with nor endorsed by the Walt Disney Company, it has been used by the company on occasions.
One writer remarked that "When Mickey Mouse sits down to tap out his memoirs, we bet the title page will be set in Waltograph." Like the informal font Comic Sans, Waltograph gets rave reviews from many, but not all audiences.
References
External links
Waltograph at mickeyavenue.com
Casual script typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2000
The Walt Disney Company
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The Oberbergische Kreis is a Landkreis (rural district) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Oberbergische means Upper Bergian, meaning it is the part of the medieval county of Berg which is up river. The other part of the county, lower down the river Wupper was called Niederbergisch or Lower Berg.
The districts in North Rhine Westphalia were changed between 1969/75.
Coat of arms
Politics
District Administrator
1945-1951: Dr. August Dresbach, CDU
1951-1952: Fritz Eschmann, SPD
1952-1956: Wilhelm Henn, CDU
1956-1961: Fritz Eschmann, SPD
1961-1964: Reinhard Kaufmann, CDU
1964-1969: Dr. Heinrich Schild, CDU
1969-1989: Hans Wichelhaus, CDU
1989-1994: Hans-Leo Kausemann, CDU
1994-1999: Herbert Heidtman, SPD
Since the October 1st, 1999 there is only one (directly elected) District Administrator who at the same time is head of management:
1999-2004: Hans-Leo Kausemann, CDU
2004-today: Hagen Jobi, CDU
District Administrator for the management
1946-1979: Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Goldenbogen, CDU
1979-1987: Dr. Dieter Fuchs, CDU
1987-1994: Dr. Gert Ammermann, CDU
1995-1999: Heribert Rohr, SPD
Towns and municipalities
References
Other websites
Official website
Touristical website
Kreisinformationssystem Oberberg
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Curtain Road Arts was an artist-run project housed in an old furniture warehouse in Shoreditch, London, which functioned as a studio and an art project space. It was a centre for a great deal of activity in the 1990s, and included artists such as Glenn Brown, Alex Landrum, Dermot O'Brien, Anya Gallaccio, Cornelia Parker, Angela Bulloch, Stephen Hughes, Dan Hays, Mariele Neudecker, Debbie Curtis, Emma Smith and Michael Stubbs. Curtain Road Arts also housed The Agency Gallery.
Curtain Road Arts ended in 1999, due to rising rents in the now very fashionable Hoxton area. A number of the artists founded a similar smaller project called Mellow Birds, which ran until 2002.
External links
Michael Stubbs Website
Artist-run centres
English art
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The 46th Telluride Film Festival took place from August 30 to September 2, 2019, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Author Pico Iyer was selected as the guest director of the event. Telluride honored Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver, and Philip Kaufman as the Silver Medallion winners. Sound studio Dolby Laboratories received the Special Medallion award.
Official selections
Main programme
Guest Director's Selections
The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Pico Iyer.
Filmmakers of Tomorrow
Student Prints
The selection was curated and introduced by Gregory Nava. It selected the best student-produced work around the world.
Calling Cards
The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.
Great Expectations
The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill.
Backlot
The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
Festivities
Silver Medallion
Renée Zellweger
Adam Driver
Philip Kaufman
Special Medallion
Dolby Laboratories
References
External links
2019 film festivals
2019 in Colorado
46th
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Vasily Petrovich Ilyin (; 8 January 1949 – 21 September 2015) was a Soviet handball player.
Ilyin was born in Lisy Nos settlement, Pargolovsky District, Leningrad Oblast He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. He was a member of the USSR National Team since 1970 and became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1976. In 1972 he was part of the USSR Olympic Team which finished fifth at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He played all six matches and scored eleven goals. Four years later he won the gold medal with the Soviet team at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He played three matches and scored two goals. During his career he played 101 match for the USSR National Team and scored 177 goals.
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profile
1949 births
2015 deaths
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Soviet male handball players
Russian male handball players
Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople
Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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Douglas F. Easton FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who conducts research on the genetics of human cancers. He is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge. He founded Cambridge's Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit in 1995, and was a Principal Research Fellow there from 2001 to 2011. He is a Professorial Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.
Research
Easton's research focuses on identifying single-nucleotide polymorphisms that increase the risk of common human cancers, in part through the use of genome-wide association studies. In 2007, he and his colleagues reported that they had found four genes associated with breast cancer, based on a study of almost 50,000 women. The gene with the strongest association with breast cancer risk was FGFR2; women with two copies of the gene's high-risk allele had a 60% increased risk of breast cancer. This finding was described by New Scientist as "...the most significant advance in the genetics of breast cancer since researchers implicated the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2". He has since published additional research identifying genes associated with breast cancer risk.
Honors and awards
Easton was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002. In 2008, the American Association for Cancer Research chose him to receive its inaugural Outstanding Investigator Award in Breast Cancer Research in recognition of his research on the genetics of breast cancer. In 2019 (March 14), the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Medicine.
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External links
Faculty page
British epidemiologists
Genetic epidemiologists
British geneticists
Living people
Cancer epidemiologists
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of London
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
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Pinguicula macroceras, the California butterwort or horned butterwort, is a species of perennial carnivorous herb that is native to the North American Pacific coast, as well as other select distributions in Canada, Russia, Japan, and the United States.[3] [7] Common names include California butterwort, horned butterwort and butterwort. Pinguicula macroceras belongs to the genus Pinguicula and the family Lentibulariaceae.
Description
Pinguicula macroceras is a carnivorous perennial herb growing less than 20 cm tall.[3] With simple fleshy leaves (green-dark brown) that form a basal rosette, that are often recognized as slimy or sticky, and occasionally incurving over trapped prey.[3] The leaves are adaxially glandular with stalked glands for capturing small organisms and sessil glands for the digestion of their prey.[3] A single rosette can have 1-5 inflorescences held up by individual stems, which are composed of a single purple-blue flower (rarely observed with 2) that lack bracts.[3] The calyx upper lip of the flower is 3-lobed, while the lower lip is 2-lobed with the center colored white.[3] The corolla measures 13–21 mm with a lip that is often found to be hairy and generally does not block the throat of the flower.[3] The flowers form a distinct horn on the top, hence the common name horned butterwort.
Habitat
Pinguicula macroceras are found growing in moist habitats and often in serpentine conditions.[3] Moist slopes and serpentine banks along creeks and rivers, at an altitude less than 1800 m are places where they are likely to be located.[4] Serpentine cliff sides (most often north facing) with fast flowing seeps have also been documented habitat of the Pinguicula macroceras.[4] Moist habitats that are home to Pinguicula macroceras are often dominated by layers of moss that they form basal rosettes on top of and bury their roots underneath.
Distribution
In North America P. macroseras is found within 750 km of the Pacific coast in California, Oregon, Was
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Janáček is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 47 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1985. Janáček is named for the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, who lived from 1854 to 1928.
The MESSENGER Mercury orbiter crashed near the crater on 30 April 2015.
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Impact craters on Mercury
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Leslie Alan Clark (16 December 1930 – 21 September 2017), known as Alan Clark, was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Wellington, Otago and Auckland between 1959 and 1962. His father, also named Leslie, was a cricket umpire and played two first-class matches for Otago in 1956.
Clark was born at Wellington in 1930, the son of Leslie and Doris Clark. He played age-group cricket for Wellington sides from the 1949–50 season and played for New Zealand Universities before making his senior debut for Wellington in a December 1955 match against Central Districts. Opening the bowling, he took a five-wicket haul on debut and retained his place in the side for the remainder of the season. He played a total of 14 times for Wellington over the three seasons he played in the capital, including against the touring West Indians in 1955–56. He played in a trial match for the New Zealand Test team at the end of the 1957–58 season but did not play for the New Zealand team in international matches. He moved to Otago for two seasons, playing 10 times for the First XI, before playing for Auckland in three seasons. After he retired from playing he became a selector for the Auckland side.
Clark died at Auckland in 2017 after living in a nursing home for a period. He was aged 86.
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1930 births
2017 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Otago cricketers
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The 1985 Prize of Moscow News was the 20th edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 4–8, 1985. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviet skaters swept the men's podium, led by world champion Alexandre Fadeev. American Caryn Kadavy won the ladies' category ahead of Anna Kondrashova. Olympic bronze medalists Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov took the pairs' title. The ice dancing event featured Olympic medalists Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin and Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko, who would take gold and silver respectively.
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Ladies
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1985 in figure skating
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Jalan Syed Putra (formerly Lornie Drive), Federal Route 2 is a major highway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was named after Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Perlis, the third Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which used to reside at Istana Negara which lies at one end of the highway.
Jalan Syed Putra was known as Lornie Drive during the British administration. It was named after J. Lornie, one of the British Residents of Selangor in the 1920s. Lornie was also the president of the Royal Selangor Golf Club in 1926.
Landmarks
At the eastern end of the highway is Wisma Tun Sambanthan, which stands tall over the rest of the structures in the area. Surrounding the building are small banks and offices including the Darul Takaful Finance Area (formerly the UMBC Bank building), the former Sime Darby Securities office, and the Kuala Lumpur & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH).
Kuen Cheng High School , one of the country's Chinese independent high schools, sits next to the former Istana Negara, which is located in between Jalan Syed Putra and Jalan Istana. There are two Chinese temples along the road including the Yuen Tong Chee, and the road leading up to the Thean Hou Temple.
Further down the highway sits the KEMAS training centre that is facilitated by the Rural and Regional Development Ministry. The headquarters of the Selangor and Federal Territory Family Planning Association and the Malaysian International Youth Home are also along the road.
The Mid Valley Megamall sits at the western end of the highway, just before the intersection to Jalan Klang Lama and the New Pantai Expressway .
Infrastructure
Along the highway runs Klang River, which has now been paved to support heavy monsoon rain and modern development.
Jalan Syed Putra is now connected to Jalan Tun Sambanthan through different roads while before it was only connected through a bridge across the Klang River.
List of interchanges and junctions
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Serene charm on quiet
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German submarine U-348 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She carried out six patrols but sank no ships.
She was sunk near Hamburg by US bombs.
Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-348 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two AEG GU 460/8–27 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . U-348 was fitted with five torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes, one SK C/35 naval gun, 220 rounds, and two twin C/30 anti-aircraft guns. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.
Service history
The submarine was laid down on 17 November 1942 at the Nordseewerke yard at Emden as yard number 220, launched on 25 June 1943 and commissioned on 10 August under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Norbert Schunck.
U-348 served with the 8th U-boat Flotilla, for training and then with the 9th flotilla for operations from 1 April 1944. She came back under the command of the 8th flotilla on 12 July and was reassigned to the 5th flotilla on 16 February 1945; she stayed with that organization until her destruction on 30 March.
U-348 made short trips from Kiel in Germany to Stavanger, Kristiansand and Bergen in Norway in April 1944.
First, second, and third patrols
Her first patrol began with her departure from Bergen on 23 April 1944. The detonation of a landmine near
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In geometry, the truncated tetrahexagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. There are one square, one octagon, and one dodecagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of tr{6,4}.
Dual tiling
Related polyhedra and tilings
From a Wythoff construction there are fourteen hyperbolic uniform tilings that can be based from the regular order-4 hexagonal tiling.
Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 7 forms with full [6,4] symmetry, and 7 with subsymmetry.
Symmetry
The dual of the tiling represents the fundamental domains of (*642) orbifold symmetry. From [6,4] symmetry, there are 15 small index subgroup by mirror removal and alternation operators. Mirrors can be removed if its branch orders are all even, and cuts neighboring branch orders in half. Removing two mirrors leaves a half-order gyration point where the removed mirrors met. In these images unique mirrors are colored red, green, and blue, and alternately colored triangles show the location of gyration points. The [6+,4+], (32×) subgroup has narrow lines representing glide reflections. The subgroup index-8 group, [1+,6,1+,4,1+] (3232) is the commutator subgroup of [6,4].
Larger subgroup constructed as [6,4*], removing the gyration points of [6,4+], (3*22), index 6 becomes (*3333), and [6*,4], removing the gyration points of [6+,4], (2*33), index 12 as (*222222). Finally their direct subgroups [6,4*]+, [6*,4]+, subgroup indices 12 and 24 respectively, can be given in orbifold notation as (3333) and (222222).
See also
Tilings of regular polygons
List of uniform planar tilings
References
John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tessellations)
External links
Hyperbolic and Spherical Tiling Gallery
KaleidoTile 3: Educational software to create spherical, planar and hyperbolic tilings
Hyperbolic Plana
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Sir Edmund Shaa or Shaw (died 20 April 1488) was a London goldsmith, Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor of London in 1482. Shaa lent money to Edward IV and, as mayor (at least), was extensively involved in the coronation of Edward IV's brother Richard III. He was later knighted and made a member of the Privy Council.
Family
Edmund Shaa, the son of John Shaa of Dukinfield, Cheshire, is said to have been born in the district of Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire. He was the brother of Ralph Shaa, and the uncle of Sir John Shaa (died c. 1503), Lord Mayor of London in 1501. Lord Mayor of London. His granddaughter, Julian Browne, was the second wife of Sir John Mundy, Lord Mayor of London.
Career
In 1450 Shaa was apprenticed to a London goldsmith, probably Robert Butler. He completed his apprenticeship in 1458, and in 1462 was appointed engraver to the Royal Mint at the Tower of London and Calais. He held the office for the next twenty years.
Shaa was mayor in interesting times. It is sometimes stated that Shaa's brother, Ralph Shaa, preached against the legitimacy of Edward IV's marriage and that Shaa (as mayor) offered the crown to Richard III. Shaa is a character in William Shakespeare's play Richard III. Sir John Shaa, the first 16th century Lord Mayor, was his nephew, while Sir William Browne (d. 3 June 1514), Lord Mayor in 1513, was his son-in-law. He was knighted in 1483.
Shaa made his will on 20 March 1488, and died 20 April 1488. He was buried in the Mercers' chapel in the church of St Thomas of Acon. In 1506 his son-in-law, Thomas Rich, was his surviving executor.
Amongst numerous legacies at his death was a sum to found a grammar school at Stockport, where his parents had been buried. He is commemorated by a Blue Plaque on Church Brow, Mottram.
Marriage and issue
Shaa married, by 1471, a wife named Julian (d. July 1494), whose surname is unknown, by whom he had a son and two daughters:
Hugh Shaa, who died without issue.
Margaret Shaa, who married
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Hodgson-Aid Mill, also known as Hodgson Water Mill and Aid-Hodgson Mill, is a historic grist mill located on Bryant Creek near Sycamore, Ozark County, Missouri. It was constructed around 1897, and is a -story, timber frame mill building covered with red-painted weatherboards. Associated with the mill are the man-made mill pond and the limestone barrel vault constructed at the base of the cliff where Hodgson Spring discharges. The mill has not been in operation since 1976. It is privately owned.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
History
The area around Hodgson-Aid Mill had been settled prior to the Civil War; Ozark County, Missouri was organized in 1841, and until 1857, included parts of Howell and Douglas County. The Hodgson-Aid Water Mill is at least the second mill to be located on the Hodgson Mill Spring. In the early 1860s, William Holeman settled on Bryant Creek and constructed a water mill on or near the site of the Hodgson-Aid Mill. This mill was closed during the Civil War. It is unclear whether Holeman reopened this original mill, or whether he had to construct a new mill after the war. It is reported that Holeman's mill was powered by a vertical wood turbine. Holeman operated the mill until his death in 1879.
In 1884, Alva Hodgson and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Hodgson, purchased the mill from Manuel and Elizabeth Smith, the parents of Alva's future wife, Mary Elizabeth Smith Hodgson, for $500.00. Alva Hodgson continued to operate Holeman's existing mill, but made plans to construct a state-of-the-art mill capable of producing new white or "patent" flour, a higher quality flour than had previously been produced, made possible by the invention of the "middlings purifier" around 1870. Hodgson used this new milling machinery, including roller mills, and also installed two vertical steel water turbines, known as "Leffel turbines" or now as Francis Turbines.
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Vinjeåi is a river in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The long river starts at the southeastern end of the lake Vinjevatn where the water flows out into the river. The river flows downstream and end when it joins the river Tokke at the village of Åmot. Vinjeåi was regulated as part of the Tokke hydroelectric power development in the 1960s, and water from Vinjevatn is transferred through tunnel to the Tokke Hydroelectric Power Station.
See also
List of rivers in Norway
References
Vinje
Rivers of Vestfold og Telemark
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Earl Thompson (May 24, 1931 – November 9, 1978) was a leading American writer of naturalist prose. Nominated for the National Book Award for A Garden of Sand and chosen by the Book of the Month Club for Tattoo, Thompson died suddenly at the peak of his success, having published just three novels—the fourth The Devil to Pay, was published posthumously.
Life and career
Thompson was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1931. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1945 to 1946 and in the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1954, serving as a Sergeant First Class, Tank Commander, and First Sergeant. He attended the University of Missouri from 1954 to 1957, and Columbia University in 1959–60.
His first novel A Garden of Sand describes the events of his birth and early childhood in vivid detail. Tattoo picks up where his first novel left off with his protagonist joining the U.S. Navy. Both novels are autobiographical, with the lead character (called Jack MacDeramid in the first and Jack Andersen in the second) a close facsimile of Thompson himself.
Thompson's third novel Caldo Largo was his first to depart from his autobiographical preoccupations, although its main setting—a fishing boat—was one with which Thompson had had first-hand experience.
Thompson lived in Europe for several years, and taught a novelist workshop at the University of California at Berkeley.
Two years after Caldo Largo was published, Thompson died of a heart-attack in Sausalito, California. His fourth and last book, The Devil to Pay, returns to his autobiographical narrative—this time with a nearly identical protagonist called Jarl Carlson ("Jarl" is the Scandinavian form of Earl)—and was published after his death by Thompson's friend and estate executor Gilmer Y. Waggoner. The book is considerably shorter than the dense A Garden of Sand and its counterpart Tattoo, and according to Waggoner, was finished by a ghostwriter.
Bibliography
A Garden of Sand. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. paperback edition: New
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The 1997 German Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 91st edition of the Hamburg Masters (German Open), and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1997 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center in Hamburg, Germany, from through 5 May through 12 May 1997.
The singles field was headlined by ATP No. 3, Dubai, Miami Masters, titlist, Australian Open semi-finalist Thomas Muster, 1996 French Open runner-up, 1994 German Open finalist, Prague, Lyon winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Tokyo champion, Monte Carlo quarter-finalist and Wimbledon defending champion Richard Krajicek. Other top seeds competing were Australian Open finalist Carlos Moyá, Monte Carlo winner Marcelo Ríos, Wayne Ferreira, Albert Costa and Boris Becker.
Finals
Singles
Andrei Medvedev defeated Félix Mantilla 6–0, 6–4, 6–2
It was Andrei Medvedev's 1st title of the year, and his 11th overall. It was his 1st Masters title of the year, and his 4th overall. It was also his 3rd victory at the event after 1994 and 1995.
Doubles
Luis Lobo / Javier Sánchez defeated Neil Broad / Piet Norval 6–3, 7–6
References
External links
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile
1997 in German tennis
May 1997 sports events in Germany
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Time Clock Wizard, Inc is a New York-based online company known for its eponymous employee time tracking app.
History
The company was founded as a single-product company by the CEO, Sean Wolf, in February 2014.
Time Clock Wizard is a freemium software, which includes a mobile app, that allows unlimited users and employees to work in a single schedule, whereas, optional services such as web design, merchant accounts and other business loans credit to the company's business model. These optional features are often shown in the software dashboard.
The company additionally provides payroll functionality as a part of its basic software application to allow for payroll generation, overtime, and reporting.
Time Clock Wizard, Inc. featured in multiple media outlets and website reviews including Dr. Wright TV Show Website in December of 2014 The company has also been cited as one of the "10 Best Time Tracking Apps For Designers & Developers".
Features
The basic software application contains the following features:
Schedule & task management
Time and presence tracking
Receive email or text alert for unscheduled time in or out
GPS tracking via mobile app
Photo capture
Payroll management & reporting
Reimbursements
See also
Comparison of time-tracking software
Employee-scheduling software
Project-management software
References
External links
Time Clock Wizard website
Time-tracking software
Companies based in New York (state)
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Don José Noriega (March 19, 1796 - May 30, 1869) was a Spanish-born Californio ranchero and politician. He served as Alcalde of San José (mayor) and was a prominent landowner in the Bay Area.
Biography
Noriega was born on 19 March 1796 in Asturias, Spain. He emigrated to Alta California as part of the Híjar-Padrés colony in 1834.
Noriega served as Alcalde of San José (mayor) for a one term in 1839.
Noriega was the grantee of numerous rancho grants, including Rancho Los Méganos in 1835, Rancho Las Positas in 1839, and Rancho Quito in 1841. He purchased Rancho Cañada de los Vaqueros in 1847.
He died on 30 May 1869 and is buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park.
Personal life
He was married to Manuela Fernández de Noriega, daughter of José Zenon Fernandez, who also came with Híjar-Padrés colony in 1834. They had one daughter Enedina Noriega, who was married to José Villar.
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Californios
1796 births
1869 deaths
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Michael Burke ( or ; – 6 July 1881) was an Irish poet.
Biography
Born sometime about 1800 in the townland of Bresk, parish of Kiltullagh, four miles east of Athenry town, Burke was educated at the nearby Dominican College at Esker. In time he became schoolmaster at Esker National School, hence his nickname,The Schoolmaster of Esker. Writing in 2018, Martyn said of him:
Many details of his early life remain unknown. The only man of the name documented in the 1821 census is thirty-two year old Michael Burke, his twenty-six year old wife, Mary, and their two year old daughter, Mary; but Michael is listed as a "Farmer & Labourer" (Mary a "Flax spinner") and resided at "Careenlea, Kiltullagh". Therefore, identifying him with Micheál de Búrc is problematic.
Known as a good scholar who spoke, read and wrote in Latin, Greek, Irish and English, Burke emigrated to the United States sometime after 1839. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa wrote that as of 1853, "He teaches in the [Roman Catholic] Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn .. is both a scholar and poet, and composes in the Irish language". Burke died at his home in Brooklyn in 1881.
Oíche na Gaoithe Móire
Burke's chief claim to fame is the poem Oíche na Gaoithe Móire (Night of the Big Wind), concerning a severe windstorm which swept across Ireland on the night of 6–7 January 1839 causing severe damage to property and several hundred deaths. According to Mary Burke,
The hurricane-like storm of 1839 arrived suddenly after a strangely calm day, plunging towns into immediate darkness, which magnified the terror. Author Peter Carr notes that eddying winds caused the contents of houses to dance in the air and the din forced those huddled together to sign in order to communicate. Thousands hastily abandoned badly built and suddenly roofless houses, innumerable farm animals perished, and the Shannon flooded vast areas of the surrounding countryside. ... Irish-speaking areas constituted the island's poorest and most isolated regions, so
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Moco may refer to:
Biochemistry
Molybdenum cofactor, any of a number of biochemical cofactors
MOCOS, molybdenum cofactor sulfurase
Moco RNA motif, a conserved RNA structure presumed to be a riboswitch that binds molybdenum cofactor
Moco-II RNA motif, a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics
Business
Moelis & Company, a global independent investment bank (referred to colloquially as MoCo)
Mozilla Corporation
Nissan Moco, marketed name for the Suzuki MR Wagon in Japan
Geography
Montgomery County, Maryland, nicknamed "MoCo"
Mount Moco, the tallest mountain in Angola
People
Chilala Moco (born 1977), an Angolan photographer
Marcolino Moco (born 1953), the Prime Minister of Angola from 1992 to 1996
Didi Mocó, stage name of Brazilian comedian Renato Aragão (born 1935)
Miss Moço, Canadian drag queen
"Moco", stage name of Julian Villarreal from the Mexican band and record producer (Celso Piña) (Banda Machos) (Tigrillos) El Gran Silencio
Moco, the fictional drug lord in the 1992 film El Mariachi portrayed by Peter Marquardt
Moco, a character in the anime Dragon Quest
Zoology
Mocó (Kerodon rupestris), also known as the rock cavy, a Brazilian rodent
Oligosoma moco, or Moko skink, a species of skink endemic to New Zealand
See also
Loco moco, a traditional meal in Hawaiian cuisine
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The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle is a monthly Jewish newspaper, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was established in 1921 by a pair of German Jews, Nathan J. Gould and Irving G. Rhodes. The editor is Rob Golub.
Golub won two 2016 Milwaukee Press Club awards for Excellence in Journalism, for an editorial and a critical review in the Chronicle.
A former editor was Andrew Muchin who resigned after running an editorial calling for the resignation of then-Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle website
German-American culture in Milwaukee
German-Jewish culture in the United States
Jewish newspapers published in the United States
Jews and Judaism in Wisconsin
Mass media in Milwaukee
Newspapers established in 1921
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
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CBU-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Music network in Vancouver, British Columbia. The station broadcasts at 105.7 FM. CBU-FM's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
The station was originally launched on December 12, 1947 as an FM simulcast of the CBC AM station CBR. It was rebranded as CBU-FM in 1952 when the Vancouver AM station was renamed.
It was not part of the CBC's original FM network in 1960, but became part of the 1964 relaunch.
The station operates from the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre at 700 Hamilton Street in Downtown Vancouver. As with most CBC Music stations, presently there is no Vancouver-specific programming on the station apart from short weather updates. However, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and In Concert, both hosted by Bill Richardson, currently originate from Vancouver.
Rebroadcasters
Community-owned rebroadcasters
Territories
CBU-FM-8 Whitehorse was originally known as CFWH-FM until 2009. CBNY-FM was known as CFYK-FM until June 3, 2013.
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BU-FM
BU-FM
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in British Columbia
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Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice, (4 October 1936 – 25 August 2022) was a British Labour politician and author. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001. He later became a member of the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.
Radice died from cancer on 25 August 2022, at age 85.
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1936 births
2022 deaths
United Kingdom Life Peers
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
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Werner Kutzsche (14 May 1911 – 1 February 2000) was a German engineer, who was known for his work in the fields of radio-frequency engineering and electroacoustics.
Kutzsche was born in Niederlößnitz near Radebeul. He was Professor and Director of the Institute for radio-frequency engineering and electroacoustics at the Hochschule für Elektrotechnik Ilmenau from 1957 and 1958, respectively, and Professor of information technology at the same institution from 1969.
He received an honorary doctorate at the Hochschule für Verkehrswesen in 1966, received the National Prize of East Germany in 1968, became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1974 and received the Humboldt Medal in Gold in 1976. He died in Dresden, aged 88.
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Werner Kutzsche, Stadtwiki Dresden
1911 births
2000 deaths
People from Radebeul
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
East German scientists
Engineers from Saxony
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Lissoceras is an involute, smooth or finely vetrolaterally ribbed, ammonite with a blunt, un-keeled venter, included in the Haploceratidae, that lived from the Lower Bajocian - Middle Oxfordian (Middle to Upper Jurassic) in what is now Europe, south Asia, and southern Alaska.
Lissoceratoides, once considered to be a subgenus of Lissoceras, is indistinguishable morphologically from it.
References
Notes
Bibliography
Arkell et al., 1957 Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Geol Society of America and Univ Kansas Press R.C Moore (ed) 1957
D.T Donavan, J.H. Callomon, and M.K Howarth. 1981. Classification of the Jurassic Ammonitina. In The Ammonoidea. M.R. House and J.R. Senior, eds. Systematics Assoc. Pub Academic Press.
Haploceratoidea
Ammonitida genera
Middle Jurassic ammonites
Late Jurassic ammonites
Middle Jurassic ammonites of Europe
Late Jurassic ammonites of Europe
Jurassic ammonites of North America
Middle Jurassic North America
Late Jurassic North America
Bajocian first appearances
Late Jurassic extinctions
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Aglish, Ballinameela and Mount Stuart is a large parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. It is situated the west of Dungarvan, County Waterford in Ireland. The parish comprises the villages of Aglish and Villierstown, plus the outlying areas of Ballinameela and Mount Stuart.
There are three Catholic churches within the parish: the Church of the Assumption (Aglish), the Church of St. James (Ballinameela; 1833), and Mount Stuart Church.
The three Catholic schools located within the parish are Aglish NS, Whitechurch NS, and Villierstown NS.
Geography of County Waterford
Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore
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Larkana Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Larkana District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The city of Larkana is the capital.
History
During British rule, Larkana became the headquarters of Larkana District and Larkana Taluka - and for a time was part of the Bombay Presidency of British India.
The Imperial Gazetteer of India, written over a century ago during British rule, describes the taluka as follows:
Administration
The Assistant Commissioner of Taluka Larkana is Mr. Ahmed Ali Soomro.
Larkana Taluka is administratively subdivided into 18 Union Councils.
See also
History of Larkana
References
Talukas of Sindh
Larkana District
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Theropod paleopathology is the study of injury and disease in theropod dinosaurs. In 2001, Ralph E. Molnar published a survey of pathologies in theropod dinosaur bone that uncovered pathological features in 21 genera from 10 theropod families. Pathologies have been seen on most theropod body parts, with the most common sites of preserved injury and disease being the ribs and tail vertebrae. The least common sites of preserved pathology are the weight-bearing bones like the tibia, femur and sacrum. Most pathologies preserved in theropod fossils are the remains of injuries, but infections and congenital deformities have also been documented. Pathologies are less frequently documented in small theropods, although this may simply be because the larger bones of correspondingly larger animals would be more likely to fossilize in the first place.
Identification
Paleontologist Ralph Molnar has observed that genuine injuries and illnesses in theropod remains can be distinguished from scavenging traces because pathological bones should show signs of healing, while damage to a carcass after death would not. He also notes that the location of a potential pathology on the body can help determine whether the apparent injury was inflicted before or after death. He reasons that body parts like hands and feet lacked enough soft tissue to be attractive to scavengers, so apparent injuries to sites like digits and metapodials were more likely to be injuries received in life than to be traces of post mortem feeding. Molnar also cautioned fellow researchers that when unusual fusions between, or asymmetry of the skull bones are found it means the individual in question was probably just suffering from advanced age rather than specific illness.
History of research
Scientific documentation of pathologies in theropod bones goes all the way back to the first description of a large theropod. Nevertheless, Ralph Molnar contends that despite the long history of recognized pathologies in therop
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Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood in his mid-twenties and became a ceremonial magician. At the age of 40, he began professing knowledge of the occult. He wrote over 20 books on magic, Kabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism.
The pen name "Éliphas Lévi", was an anagram of his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew. Levi gained renown as an original thinker and writer, his works attracting attention in Paris and London among esotericists and artists of romantic or symbolist inspiration. He left the Grand Orient de France (the French Masonic organization that originated Continental Freemasonry) in the belief that the original meanings of its symbols and rituals had been lost. "I ceased being a freemason, at once, because the Freemasons, excommunicated by the Pope, did not believe in tolerating Catholicism ... [and] the essence of Freemasonry is the tolerance of all beliefs."
Many authors influenced Levi's political, occultic and literary development, such as the French monarchist Joseph de Maistre, whom he quotes in many parts of his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, Paracelsus, Robert Fludd, Swedenborg, Fabre d'Olivet, the Rosicrucians, Plato, Raymond Lull, and other esotericists.
Life
Early period
Born Alphonse Louis Constant, he was the son of a shoemaker in Paris. In 1832 he entered the seminary of Saint Sulpice to study to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood, as a sub-deacon he was responsible for catechism, later he was ordained a deacon, remaining a cleric for the rest of his life. One week before being ordained to the priesthood, he decided to leave the priestly path, however the spirit of charity and the life he had in the seminary stayed with him through the rest of his life, later he wrote that he had acquired an understanding of faith and science without conflic
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Dutch roll is a type of aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of "tail-wagging" (yaw) and rocking from side to side (roll). This yaw-roll coupling is one of the basic flight dynamic modes (others include phugoid, short period, and spiral divergence). This motion is normally well damped in most light aircraft, though some aircraft with well-damped Dutch roll modes can experience a degradation in damping as airspeed decreases and altitude increases. Dutch roll stability can be artificially increased by the installation of a yaw damper. Wings placed well above the center of gravity, sweepback (swept wings) and dihedral wings tend to increase the roll restoring force, and therefore increase the Dutch roll tendencies; this is why high-winged aircraft often are slightly anhedral, and transport-category swept-wing aircraft are equipped with yaw dampers. A similar phenomenon can happen in a trailer pulled by a car.
Stability
In aircraft design, Dutch roll results from relatively weaker positive directional stability as opposed to positive lateral stability. When an aircraft rolls around the longitudinal axis, a sideslip is introduced into the relative wind in the direction of the rolling motion (due to the lateral component of lift when the wings are not level). Strong lateral stability (due to the more-direct airflow past the down wing, which has been pivoted forward by the slip) begins to restore the aircraft to level flight. At the same time, somewhat weaker directional stability (due both to greater drag from the wing which is now generating greater lift, and by aerodynamic force on the vertical fin due to the yaw) attempts to correct the sideslip by aligning the aircraft with the perceived relative wind. Since directional stability is weaker than lateral stability for the particular aircraft, the restoring yaw motion lags significantly behind the restoring roll motion. The aircraft passes through level flight as the yawing motion is continuing in t
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The SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino) was an Italian automobile manufacturer from Turin, founded in 1906 by Giovanni Battista Ceirano.
The company was active from 1906 to 1932 and achieved Targa Florio wins in 1911, 1912 and 1914. The first produced models were the 12 HP, the 16 HP and the 22 HP of 1909.
Ceirano family background
The Ceirano brothers, Giovanni Battista, Giovanni, Ernesto and Matteo, were influential in the founding of the Italian auto industry, being variously responsible for: Ceirano; Welleyes (the technical basis of FIAT); Fratelli Ceirano; Società Torinese Automobili Rapid (STAR/Rapid); SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino); Itala and SPA (Società Piemontese Automobili). Giovanni's son Giovanni "Ernesto" was also influential, co-founding Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili (aka Giovanni Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili) and Fabrica Anonima Torinese Automobili (FATA).
In 1888, after eight years apprenticeship at his father's watch-making business, Giovanni Battista started building Welleyes bicycles, so named because English names had more sales appeal. In October 1898 Giovanni Battista and Matteo co-founded Ceirano GB & C and started producing the Welleyes motor car in 1899. In July 1899 the plant and patents were sold to Giovanni Agnelli and produced as the first FIATs - the Fiat 4 HP. Giovanni Battista was employed by Fiat as the agent for Italy, but within a year he left to found Fratelli Ceirano & C. which in 1903 became STAR building cars badged as 'Rapid'. In 1904 Matteo Ceirano left Ceirano GB & C to create his own brand - Itala. In 1906 Matteo left Itala to found SPA with chief designer, Alberto Ballacco. In 1906 Giovanni founded SCAT in Turin. In 1919 Giovanni and Giovanni "Ernesto" co-founded Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili (aka Giovanni Ceirano Fabbrica Automobili) and in 1922 they took control of FATA).
Production
SCAT production before World War I:
1906 12/16 hp 2,724 cc > 1910 15/20 hp 2,951 cc
1907 16/20 hp 3,190 cc
1907 22/32 hp
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Henry Monck Mason Hackett (1 March 1849-24 December 1933 ) was Dean of Waterford from 1903 until 1913.
Hackett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1875. After a curacy in Banbridge he was a CMS Missionary in Benares from 1877 to 1881; and was at Allahabad from 1881 to 1886. He was the Minister of Christ Church, Richmond, Surrey from 1886 to 1888; and of Christ Church, Hampstead from 1892 to 1894. He was Missionary-Principal of St Paul's Divinity School, Allahabad from 1892 to 1896; and Principal of Montreal Diocesan Theological College from 1898 until his appointment as Dean. After his years in Waterford he was the Vicar of St Peter, Belsize Park from 1913 to 1929.
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Ideology and Organization in Communist China is a 1966 book by the American sociologist and sinologist Franz Schurmann that offers a sociological analysis of the Chinese Communist revolution It was first published by University of California Press in 1966, then in enlarged editions in 1968 and 1971. Schurmann used the sociological tools developed by Max Weber to analyze Mao Zedong's "dialectical conception of Chinese society" and how Mao structured his organizational approach to the Chinese Communist Party and the government.
David Stafford, writing in the American Sociological Review called it a "near classic, widely recognized as scholarly and authoritative."
Background
Schurmann left college when he was drafted into the Army in World War Two, learned Japanese in an Army language school, then without a B.A. degree enrolled in a doctoral program at Harvard. His doctoral thesis, an annotated translation of the fiscal sections of the Yuan dynasty official history, was published as Economic Structure of the Yüan Dynasty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1956). He eventually learned a dozen languages. He traveled to Istanbul to learn Turkish and Persian, languages which he then taught at University of California at Berkeley before gaining a position in the sociology department there.
Because Americans were not allowed to enter China in the 1950s, Schurmann did much of his research in Hong Kong. He conducted interviews with lower level officials and local cadre who came out of China and read government documents, Chinese newspapers and journals not available in the United States. He was one of a group of China watchers who used these sources to go below the level of official directives and national politics.
"After I had completed the book," Schurmann added, "I realised that I had omitted an important area of organisation: the army." Later editions included treatment.
Themes and argument
The Introduction presents historical background. A century of war and revo
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Gymnocalycium eurypleurum is a small "chin cactus" that is highly prized by cactus collectors and is known to be fairly easy to grow, albeit very slow It has been cultivated outside in latitudes as far north as Modesto, California. In the wild, the species is almost always solitary (non-clumping) and may grow in association with Frailea species. The species when grown in the greenhouse is also known for its fidelity to wild specimens. It is said to live in seasonally very dry habitat (annual rainfall ), clay soils between 6.8–7.2 pH, and maximum temperatures to .
Gymnocalycium eurypleurum is an endemic specie from Paraguay.
Range
Friedrich Ritter describes the range of the species as, "even more vast than generally known. We found G. eurypleurum until close to the military station of Fn. Palmar de las Islas, up in the north near the Bolivian border. Here the species coexisted together with the beautiful Echinopsis chacoana, Gymnocalycium mihanovichii var. stenopleurum and Frailea spec."
References
eurypleurum
Cacti of South America
Flora of Argentina
Plants described in 1979
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Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan defeated Michaël Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in the final, 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4 to win the doubles tennis title at the 2003 Tennis Masters Cup. It was their first Tour Finals title.
Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach were the reigning champions, but did not compete that year.
Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
Draw
Finals
Red group
Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5. steering-committee decision.
Blue group
Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5. steering-committee decision.
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2003 Tennis Masters Cup Doubles Draw
Doubles
2003 ATP Tour
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Claude Mondésert (?-1990) was a French Jesuit at Fourvière, Lyon and co-founder (with Jean Daniélou and Henri de Lubac) of the Sources Chrétiennes collection. He specialised in the work of the early Christian thinker, Clement of Alexandria, several volumes of which he edited or translated in this series.
He participated in a Colloquium held 1977 in Lyon concerning the persecution of Christians in Lugdunum in the year 177.
References
Clément d'Alexandrie, Les Stromates, Stromate IV (Sources Chrétiennes no.463), Paris, 2001
Claude Mondésert, Conclusions, in: CNRS (Ed.), Les martyrs de Lyon (Colloques internationaux du centre national de la recherche scientifique, N. 575), Paris 1978, p. 311-321.
20th-century French writers
French religious writers
20th-century French Jesuits
Year of birth missing
1990 deaths
20th-century French translators
French male writers
20th-century male writers
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Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker (19 March 1850 in Palermo – 3 November 1936 in Rome) was a Sicilian-English ornithologist, archaeologist and sportsman. He was a member of the Whitaker family. He is mainly known for his work on the birds of Tunisia, and for being involved in the foundation of the Sicilian football club US Città di Palermo. He was married to the author and hostess Tina Scalia Whitaker.
Biography
Whitaker's family came from Huddersfield in west Yorkshire. He inherited the Ingham Marsala wine business through his paternal grandmother, Mary Ingham, whose brother Benjamin (1784-1861) went into business in Palermo. The Inghams were from Ossett in Yorkshire - there is an Ossett website which gives a detailed biography of the Ingham Marsala Wine co. He and his brother William Ingham Whitaker (Pylewell Park) inherited vast vineyards and his great grandfather Ingham's banking empire. Their story is told in Raleigh Trevelyan's 1972 Princes Under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily.
Marriage and children
Joseph Whitaker married Tina Scalia. She was the daughter of General Alfonso Scalia, who landed in Sicily with Giuseppe Garibaldi during the years leading up to the Risorgimento. Choosing to settle in Palermo over the more provincial Marsala, the couple built as their family home the Villa Malfitano, an Art Nouveau mansion near Zisa Castle on the Via Dante. In these years, the Belle Époque age, the house was the venue for lavish parties attended by British and Italian royalty and celebrated European society. Tina Whitaker knew Richard Wagner, Benito Mussolini, the Kaiser and Edward VII, Empress Eugenie and Queen Mary. She unwittingly found herself in a circle involved in the Irish Crown Jewels scandal. In 1907 she published Sicily & England: Political and Social Reminiscences 1848-1870.
The couple had two daughters; the elder of whom married General Antonio Di Giorgio(1868-1932), a Minister of War who fought in the 1st and 2nd wars
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is a passenger railway station located in the town of Samukawa, Kōza District. Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Samukawa Station is served by the Sagami Line, and is located 5.1 kilometers from the terminal station of the line at .
Station layout
The station consists of a single island platform with an elevated station building built over the tracks and platform. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
Platforms
History
Samukawa Station was opened on September 28, 1921 as a station the Sagami Railway. A freight spur line, the Nishi-Samukawa Spur Line, began operations from May 10, 1922 (Its operations were discontinued in 1984). On June 1, 1944, the Sagami Railway was nationalized and merged with the Japan National Railways. Freight operations were discontinued in 1971. On April 1, 1987, with the dissolution and privatization of the Japan National Railways, the station came under the operation of JR East. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC card system came into operation from November 2001. The station building was remodeled and expanded in 2006.
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 6,822 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below.
Surrounding area
Samukawa Town Hall
Nissan Koki head office
Gallery
See also
List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Official home page.
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1921
Railway stations in Kanagawa Prefecture
Sagami Line
Samukawa
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Columbia TriStar or Columbia Tristar may refer to:
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, now Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
Columbia TriStar Home Video, later called Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Columbia TriStar Television, active from 1994 to 2002
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors, now Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International, now Sony Pictures Releasing International
Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, the only company continuously carrying the said name; not much is known about CTMG.
See also
SPE (disambiguation)
Columbia (disambiguation)
Tristar (disambiguation)
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Creative Pedagogy is the science and art of creative teaching. It is a sub-field of Pedagogy, opposed to Critical pedagogy (just as creative thinking for example in Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking is opposed to critical thinking). "In its essence, creative pedagogy teaches learners how to learn creatively and become creators of themselves and creators of their future."
Disambiguation
Creative Pedagogy should be differentiated (disambiguated) from Creative Education that is usually associated with teaching creativity as a subject (see Creative Education Foundation). Creative Pedagogy, on the contrary, can be applied to ANY subject, whether it is Math, Science, Language, or Economics and Finance. To some extent, one can state that subject does not matter, methodology (type of pedagogy) does: that's why the introduction of creative methodologies changes the process of teaching/learning.
Definition
The founder of Creative Pedagogy, Dr. Andrei Aleinikov, defined it in the form of formula of invention – a strict word pattern used to describe inventions for patenting in technology:
"Creative pedagogy that includes educational influence on the learner for acquisition of certain study material (subject) [as pedagogy in general] and differing from the above by the fact that in order to achieve higher efficiency of learning, the pedagogical influence is provided on the background of centrifugal above-the-criticism mutual activity in which the learner is raised from the object of [pedagogical] influence to the rank of a creative person, while the traditional (basic) study material is transformed from the subject to learn into the means of achieving some creative goal, and the extra study material includes the description and demonstration of the heuristic methods and techniques."
The concept of Creative Pedagogy got noticed and cited by numerous educators - see external links below. The authors of Encyclopedic Dictionary not only included an article on Creative Pedago
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Methodist theologians include those theologians affiliated with any of the Methodist denominational churches such as The United Methodist Church, independent Methodists, or churches affiliated with the Holiness Movement including the Church of the Nazarene, the Free Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Methodist Church (America), the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), the Pilgrim Holiness Church, and the Wesleyan Church, as well as other church organizations.
Proto-Methodist theologians
Jacobus Arminius - ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed church, studied under Theodore Beza and rejected the teachings of John Calvin, inspired the Remonstrance and the soteriological system now known as Arminianism.
Hugo Grotius - playwright, poet, and humanist philosopher of the Aristotelian tradition, systematized Arminianism and developed the moral government theory of Christ's atonement.
John Goodwin - Puritan-Arminian (1594–1665)
18th century
John Wesley
Charles Wesley
George Whitefield
John Fletcher
Thomas Coke
Joseph Benson
19th century
Nathan Bangs - Arminian apologist, first editor of the Methodist magazine Christian Advocate, opposed the antinomianism of the New Light Baptist community. Wrote six significant theological letters to a Presbyterian pastor, Rev. S. Williston.
Amos Binney
Borden Parker Bowne - wrote numerous books on various theological themes; renowned as a philosopher and theologian.
Jabez Bunting - author of numerous articles and published sermons.
Adam Clarke - Biblical theologian uncomfortable with systematic approaches to Christian theology, Wrote a single volume theology. He also wrote a commentary which became one of the most widely used commentaries of all time.
Helenor M. Davisson - the first woman ordained in American Methodist Church.
Wilbur Fisk - religious educator, favored ending slavery progressively (rather than in the revolutionary way proposed by other notable abolitionists, so as to avoid a split in the Church), early
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Lonely or The Lonely may refer to:
Loneliness, an emotional response to perceived isolation
Music
EPs
Lonely (Frente! EP) or the title song, 1994
Lonely (Spica EP) or the title song, 2012
Songs
"Lonely" (2NE1 song), 2011
"Lonely" (Akon song), 2005
"Lonely" (Casey Donovan song), 2017
"Lonely" (DaBaby and Lil Wayne song), 2021
"Lonely" (Diplo song), 2019
"Lonely" (Eddie Cochran song), 1960
"Lonely" (Joel Corry song), 2020
"Lonely" (Jonghyun song), 2017
"Lonely" (Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco song), 2020
"Lonely" (Maluma and Jennifer Lopez song), 2020
"Lonely" (Mao Abe song), 2010
"Lonely" (Matoma song), 2018
"Lonely" (Medina song), 2010
"Lonely" (Merril Bainbridge song), 1998
"Lonely" (Nana song), 1997
"Lonely" (Peter Andre song), 1997
"Lonely" (Shannon Noll song), 2006
"Lonely" (Sistar Song), 2017
"Lonely" (Tracy Lawrence song), 2000
"L-O-N-E-L-Y", by Bobby Vinton, 1965
"The Lonely" (British Sea Power song), 2002
"The Lonely" (Christina Perri song), 2011
"Lonely", by Alan Walker from Different World, 2018
"Lonely", by American Music Club from California, 1988
"Lonely", by Atreyu from Congregation of the Damned, 2010
"Lonely", by Attack Attack! from Attack Attack!, 2010
"Lonely", by B1A4 from Who Am I, 2014
"Lonely", by Bon Jovi from Lost Highway, 2007
"Lonely", by Brian McKnight from Back at One, 1999
"Lonely", by Britney Spears from Britney, 2001
"Lonely", by Chloe x Halle from Ungodly Hour, 2020
"Lonely", by Crimson Glory from Transcendence, 1988
"Lonely", by Danny Brown from Old, 2013
"Lonely", by Demi Lovato featuring Lil Wayne from Tell Me You Love Me, 2017
"Lonely", by Emeli Sandé from Long Live the Angels, 2016
"Lonely", by Foreigner from Can't Slow Down, 2009
"Lonely", by Gabry Ponte and Jerome, 2020
"Lonely", by Hyolyn from Love & Hate, 2013
"Lonely", by Illenium from Ascend, 2019
"Lonely", by Imagine Dragons from Mercury – Act 1, 2021
"Lonely", by Jamila Woods from Heavn, 2016
"Lonely", by Janet Jackson from Rhythm Nation 1814, 1989
"Lonely", by Julian
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The Berkeley Heights Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Berkeley Heights in Union County, New Jersey.
As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 2,499 students and 230.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
The district's high school serves public school students of Berkeley Heights, along with approximately 300 students from neighboring Borough of Mountainside who are educated at the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Mountainside School District that is covered by an agreement that runs through the end of 2021-22 school year. Governor Livingston provides programs for deaf, hard of hearing and cognitively-impaired students in the district and those who are enrolled from all over north-central New Jersey who attend on a tuition basis.
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Early childhood
Mary Kay McMillin Early Childhood Center with 304 students in PreK-2 grade
Anne Corley-Hand, principal
William Woodruff Elementary School with 180 students in grades K-2
Brenda Marley, principal
Elementary school
Thomas P. Hughes Elementary School with 264 students in grades 3-5
Jessica Nardi, principal
Mountain Park Elementary School with 243 students in grades 3-5
Jon Morisseau, principal
Middle school
Columbia Middle School with 544 students in grades 6-8
Paul Kobliska, principal
High school
Governor Livingston Hi
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The city of San Ignacio is one of the thirteen provinces that make up the Department of Cajamarca, under the administration of the regional government of Cajamarca, in Peru. It bordered on the north by the province of Zamora Chinchipe (Ecuador); on the east by the Department of Amazonas; on the south by the province of Jaen; on the west by the Department of Piura. It is known as the land of coffee, honey and natural forests. Its population by economic activity agriculture which is based exclusively to coffee.
History
In 1926, the negotiations for the creation of the province of San Ignacio for the effect of which was assigned a commission to travel to Lima began; the same that was composed by Father Juan Cabrera Arias, Donovan Bartolini Rangel and Luis Manuel Soto Adrianzén Salary Huaman, who appeared before the military junta led by Major General Ricardo Perez. The May 12, 1965, by Law No. 15560 created the province during the first government of President Fernando Belaunde.
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2005 northern Peru earthquake
Cajamarca Region
Populated places in the Cajamarca Region
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RenewFM is a network of Christian radio stations in New England, broadcasting Christian music and Christian talk and teaching programs.
Stations
Originally airing on WRYP, RenewFM is heard on 10 full-powered stations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, as well as 4 translators.
RenewFM's first station, WRYP, began broadcasting in 2006. In 2010, Horizon Christian Fellowship purchased WFGL and WJWT from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa for $300,000.
Full-powered stations
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Translators
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Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
2006 establishments in Massachusetts
Radio stations established in 2006
Christian radio stations in Massachusetts
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Alameda Hospital is a hospital in Alameda, California, United States.
The hospital was founded in 1894. Up until 2002, it was a private non-profit hospital. In 2002, Alameda voters approved a $298 per year parcel tax, and the hospital became a district hospital with the formation of the Alameda Health Care District. The parcel tax was billed as the 'last hope' for the hospital.
In 2010, a controversy arose when residents pointed out that local EMS protocols dictated that stroke victims be routed to Alameda Hospital, even though it was not certified as a stroke center. The preference seemed to date back to a 1983 memo wherein the Assistant City Manager wrote, "...the City must consider what impact a paramedic system might have vis-a-vis the Alameda Hospital. Local concerns have been raised that fewer acute medical cases being referred to Alameda Hospital could greatly impact, or even jeopardize, the hospital's ability to retain its highly qualified medical staff." The controversy prompted the hospital to secure stroke treatment certification.
The 2014-2015 Alameda County Civil Grand Jury report found that "the lack of leadership and scrutiny on the part of the Alameda Health System board of trustees and the lack of oversight by the county board of supervisors contributed to the financial problems at AHS," noting that the acquisitions of Alameda Hospital and San Leandro Hospital contributed to the financial problems with the county medical system.
Despite the parcel tax generating $7 million in revenue annually for the hospital, it still struggled. In 2013, the county affiliated Alameda Health System announced it would take over Alameda Hospital, contingent on the parcel tax remaining in place with funds going to the larger health network. At the time, hospital CEO Deborah Stebbins said the hospital "would not be sustainable even in the near term without entering into an affiliation."
In 2016, some Alameda residents began calling for the repeal of the parcel tax,
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A language observatory is something which is built or implemented to observe and measure language activities in society.
The need for observatories
According to the UNESCO report "Atlas of the World Languages in Danger of Disappearing", between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are spoken throughout the world and, that many more have become extinct. Concerns regarding content online have been expressed. Another UNESCO document, "Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace" noted in its preamble that "linguistic diversity in the global information networks and universal access to information in cyberspace are at the core of contemporary debates and can be a determining factor in the development of a knowledge-based society", and recommended that UNESCO establish "a collaborative online observatory on existing policies, regulations, technical recommendations, and best practices relating to multilingualism and multilingual resources and applications, including innovations in language computerization." In 2018, was created the UNESCO Chair Language Policies for Multilingualism as a research network to generate knowledge on the different contexts of multilingualism so to help the development of UNESCO policies, such as the Promotion of Multilingualism in Cyberspace, and the development of the UNESCO Atlas of the World Languages.
Language observatories in the world
Several language observatory activities and projects have already emerged in various parts of the world, such as Language Observatory, and UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society, which has a section focusing on Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism. One observatory which is dedicated to produce indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet, "The Observatory of linguistic and cultural diversity on the Internet " was active between 1998 and 2009 and regained activity in 2017, updating since then and yearly indicators for 329 languages and pro
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Colorlines is a digital media platform that seeks to build a political home for everyday people and activists. The platform creates accessible multimedia to power its vision of a just multiracial democracy where all thrive.
History
Colorlines was founded in 1998 as a print publication published jointly by the Applied Research Center (now Race Forward), and the now defunct Center for Third World Organizing, a training center for community organizers of color. Founded by Bob Wing and Jeff Chang, Colorlines worked to popularize a race-centered cultural and political analysis and bring attention to contemporary race justice issues and movements in the United States.
In 2010, Colorlines became an exclusively digital publication featuring investigative reporting and news analysis from the perspective of communities of color. For over a decade, Colorlines published award-winning journalism and articles that ranged from essays, investigative reports, think pieces, opinion columns, and cultural criticism. The publication's shift to digital publishing resulted in national recognition and an annual readership of over 20 million.
Under the leadership of Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Chief of Staff at Race Forward, Colorlines restructured in the fall of 2022 to meet the demands of the political landscape and grew into a digital multimedia platform. Today, Colorlines creates accessible media to power its vision of a just democracy where all thrive. Its full launch is pending for January 2023.
Notable Impact and Awards
In 2011, Race Forward and Colorlines launched a pledge campaign to drop the usage of the word "illegal" in reference to undocumented immigrants. On November 15, 2011, Drop the I-Word called on the Associated Press to remove "Illegal Immigrant" from Stylebook. In April 2013, the Associated Press announced the change via a Blog post. The New York Times and USA Today also announced the consideration of discontinuing its use. The L.A. Times followed suit on May 1, 2013.
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Bugulina is a genus of bryozoans in the family Bugulidae.
Species
, the World List of Bryozoa accepted the following species:
Bugulina angustiloba
Bugulina aquilirostris
Bugulina avicularia
Bugulina borealis
Bugulina calathus
Bugulina californica
Bugulina carvalhoi
Bugulina ditrupae
Bugulina eburnea
Bugulina flabellata
Bugulina foliolata
Bugulina fulva
Bugulina hummelincki
Bugulina longirostrata
Bugulina multiserialis
Bugulina pedata
Bugulina pugeti
Bugulina simplex
Bugulina spicata
Bugulina stolonifera
Bugulina tricuspis
Bugulina turbinata
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Bryozoan genera
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The unnamed wife of Pontius Pilate appears only once in the Gospel of Matthew (27:19), where she intercedes with Pilate on Jesus' behalf. It is uncertain whether Pilate was actually married, although it is likely. In later tradition, she becomes known as Procula or Procla and plays a role in various New Testament Apocrypha. At a later date, she acquires the name Claudia Procula in Western tradition, as well as other names and variants of these names. She is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eastern Catholic Church, the Coptic Church, and the Ethiopian Church. She has also frequently been featured in literature and film.
Name
Pilate's wife is left nameless in her only early mention, the Gospel of Matthew. She is one of several women identified in the Bible only by their relationship to their husband.
The cognomen Procula (in Latin) or Prokla (in Greek) for Pilate's wife first appears in the Gospel of Nicodemus (5th c.) and the chronicle of John Malalas (6th c.). This name is relatively stable for her both in eastern and western Christianity. Ernst von Dobschütz suggested that the name might have come from the Fasti consulares for 37 CE, which records the death in that year of Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus, co-consul of Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus, thus providing the names Proculus and Pontius together. Heinrich Paulus, among others, has proposed that the name arose from a transcription error in the Latin text that took the Latin word (far off) to be the name Procula. Others believe that it may accurately reflect the cognomen of Pilate's wife.
Roland Kany argues that the earliest extant reference to her as Claudia Procula is the Pseudo-Dexter Chronicle, a forgery first published in 1619. However, Tibor Grüll and Jill Carington Smith both assert that the name first appears in the works of Saint Jerome (347 to 430). Ian Boxall writes that the name probably became Claudia Procula with Pseudo-Dexter "regular claims to the contrary notwithstand
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Stone is an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It was established in 1912. Stone was a mining community named for Galen Stone, head of the Pond Creek Coal Company which was based in Stone. In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. In 1936 Fordson sold the mine at Stone to Eastern Coal Company.
Stone is located just across the Tug Fork from Williamson, West Virginia, upstream from Belfry, Kentucky, on Pond Creek.
References
Notes
Sources
University of Kentucky, Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer entry
CoalCampUSA.com entry on Eastern Kentucky coalfields includes photos of Stone
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Kentucky
Populated places established in 1912
Company towns in Kentucky
Coal towns in Kentucky
1912 establishments in Kentucky
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Rowland Ellis (24 April 1841 – 11 December 1911) was a Welsh bishop who held the post of Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1906 until his death.
Life
Ellis was born in Caerwys, Flintshire, and was educated at Ruthin School before graduating from Jesus College, Oxford, with a BA degree, in 1863. After being ordained in 1864, he held various church positions in Wales: curate of Gresford (1864–68), vicar of Gwersyllt (1868–72) and vicar of Mold 1872–84 (also Rural Dean of Mold from 1873 to 1884). He was a friend of William Ewart Gladstone, who lived nearby in Hawarden.
He joined the Scottish Episcopal Church when he became rector of St Paul's Church in Edinburgh in 1884. He was synod clerk of Edinburgh, and canon of St. Mary's Cathedral, and he became Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in 1906. He was consecrated on 25 April of that year at St. Andrew's Church, Aberdeen.
He wrote a number of theological works, including Some aspects of woman's life: five lenten addresses (1881), and was regarded as a strong opponent of disestablishment of the Church in Wales. He died in his sleep at Delgatie Castle, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, where he was staying as a guest of Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll.
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Bishops of Aberdeen and Orkney
People from Caerwys
Welsh bishops
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
1841 births
1911 deaths
People educated at Ruthin School
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"Serious" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani for her debut solo studio album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004). It was released on November 12, 2004, along with the rest of the aforementioned album by Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani and her No Doubt bandmate, Tony Kanal. The latter also produced the song with Mark "Spike" Stent, who Stefani and Kanal previously worked with on No Doubt's fifth studio album, Rock Steady (2001). "Serious" is a synth-pop song with lyrics pertaining to a strong romantic interest in a significant other.
"Serious" received generally positive reviews from music critics upon release and was frequently compared to the works of both early Madonna and Kylie Minogue, particularly Minogue's track, "Fever". The song was also received well for its mirror production to '80s songs, with additional praise for being "catchy". An accompanying music video for the recording was filmed in Los Angeles but never released; however, a low-quality clip of the video surfaced on YouTube in 2006. Stefani performed the track on her 2005 Harajuku Lovers Tour during the encore of the show, where she danced with the Harajuku Girls in nurse costumes.
Background and composition
In early 2003, Stefani began embarking on recording sessions for her debut album. After listening to songs recommended to her by No Doubt bassist and former boyfriend Tony Kanal, she considered recording material that "modernized 1980s music". After writing a series of several songs, including "Serious", "Crash", and "Luxurious", the pair gave up after Stefani didn't find anything worth recording from the sessions. When asked about the aforementioned collaborations, Stefani expressed her doubts of whether or not her newly recorded material would be any good: "If I were to write the chorus of 'Yesterday' by the Beatles, and that's all I wrote, that would be good enough to be part of that history." Due to Stefani's doubts, the project began a six-month hiatus, which
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The Makati Life Medical Center is a private tertiary hospital in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.
History
The Makati Life Medical Center, formerly known as the Ospital ng Makati 2 (OsMak2), was built to mainly serve residents of Makati in the first district. It is meant to complement the Ospital ng Makati in the second district.
The construction of the Makati Life Medical Center was funded under a public-private partnership between the Makati city government and private firm LifeNurture Inc. The joint venture was finalized in April 2021.
The hospital project costed around . of the funding came from syndicated loans from the Development Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank and Union Bank.
On May 8, 2023, the health facility was formally opened with the start of operations of the outpatient department. The hospital is projected to be fully operational by early 2024.
Facilities
The Makati Life Medical Center is a consortium between the Makati city government and LifeNurture. Makati Life itself is a fully private tertiary hospital.
The hospital is designed to accommodate 360 beds and 190 doctor's clinics.
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External links
Hospitals in Metro Manila
Buildings and structures in Makati
Hospitals established in 2023
Private hospitals in the Philippines
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Ugwuoba is the gateway town into Enugu State from southern Nigeria. It is a border town on the bank of Oji River in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. Ugwuoba is for its arable land for agricultural utilities. The town is known for its gas reserves within the gas-rich Anambra Basin, Southeastern Nigeria. There is also the popular Ugwuoba clay deposits that could serve as effective Zinc ion adsorbent. Ugwuoba is rich in cultural and social life activities. Ugwuoba is made up of seventeen (17) villages which includes: Upata, Okwe, Agungwu, Aguabosi, Mkpagu, Eziachi, Okpuno, Ude, Egbeagu, Agolo, Obinagu, Efulu, Ogbudu, Umualu, Agungwu-ogboo, Umuonwu and Aniocha. The Ojinator and Dodo community is an extension of Okwe.
High Chief Osita Omah is the present President General of Ugwuoba Development Union, the executive leadership of the town.
Boundaries
Ugwuoba is bounded by Amansea to West, Oji River urban on the East, Ozzu Ndiukwuenu and Agbalaenyi to the South and Obinofia Ndiagu to the North.
Economy
The people of Ugwuoba are notable farmers. The Mamu Forest Reserve is an annex of the Ugwuoba land. There is a federal agricultural research settlement in Agungwu and Aguabosi villages. One of the popular markets of the town is the Ugwuoba Garki cattle market. The market is strategically located around the border of Enugu and Anambra States along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway. Afor Market Ugwuoba attracts traders from Awka, Oji-River urban, Enugu and its environs.
The town is home to Akukwa field in the OPL 907 area, first drilled by Shell in 1938 – 1939. Thereafter, the gas field recorded further successful drills by Shell-BP in 1955 and 1956.
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Towns in Enugu State
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The following lists events that happened during 1918 in Afghanistan.
Incumbents
Monarch – Habibullah Khan
Events
Little news emerges from Afghanistan during the year. It is reported from India that the amir continues to maintain his neutrality in the war in a most scrupulous and loyal manner.
Afghanistan
Years of the 20th century in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
1910s in Afghanistan
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"Alone in My Room" is a song by Ami Suzuki, released as her second single in September 1998.
Information
"Alone in My Room", like Ami's first single, "Love the Island", was used by the Japanese Government to promote winter tourism on the island of Guam. The song was also used multiple times as the opening theme of ASAYAN, a television show.
The complete single, including all its tracks, were creations of Ami's music mastermind in the Sony days, Tetsuya Komuro. Two of the remixes bear the initials T.K. because of this.
The single was the first one released by Ami in Maxi Single format, including more than three songs on it. The maxi CD was housed in a J-card-type 12 cm slimline single case. The case used was 7 mm thick, showing artwork through the front, and also through the spine and part of the back of the case. The CD itself was inserted upside-down, allowing the artwork on the disc itself to show through the transparent back of the case. The CD also included an obi that advertised Suzuki's previous single.
Following her blacklisting from the music industry in September 2000, production and distribution of the single stopped in its entirety.
Track listing
Alone in My Room
Love the Island (TK ragga mix)
Alone in My Room (Club TK mix)
Alone in My Room (Instrumental)
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
External links
Ami Suzuki on Last.fm
Ami Suzuki songs
1998 singles
Songs written by Tetsuya Komuro
1998 songs
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The British Computer Society Young Professionals Group (YPG) was formed in 1986 (although, its roots date back to around 1983) to provide representation and support to younger members of the IT profession. Today the group is one of the largest and arguably one of the most influential young professionals groups in the UK, with over 26,000 members. The group organises events and provides services from lectures and debates to networking evenings, various competitions, college bursaries and awards.
Whilst support is provided from the British Computer Society, the group's leadership is run primarily by volunteers from the younger membership of the British Computer Society which form the YPG's executive committee and network of regional representatives.
Young IT Practitioner of the Year
The YPG judges, promotes and awards the Young IT Practitioner of the Year Award along with naming annual British Computer Society Medal Winners. This underlines one of the YPG's key roles to nurture and applaud individual ingenuity and entrepreneurial success that have made the British IT industry a leading global player. The awards mark the vital contribution made by young people to the IT profession.
Former winners of the award
2010 — Meri Williams, Procter & Gamble
2009 — Jacques Erasmus, Prevx
2008 — Sarah Christie, Procter & Gamble
2007 — Travers Powell, Vocalink
2006 — Saqib Shaikh, Microsoft Corporation
2005 — Andrew McAnulla, BTL Group Ltd
2004 — Karen Elizabeth Petrie, NASA
2003 — James Bailey, Eclipse Internet
Former medal winners
2010
Adam Thompson, IBM UK Ltd
Dominic Green, Microsoft
2009
Luke Claughton, Micheldever Tyre Services Ltd
Riyaz Patel, Yorkshire Water
2008
Victoria O'Reilly, Allianz Insurance plc
Luke Robison, IBM UK Ltd
2007
Kate Scott, Premier Inn - Whitbread Group plc
Chris Dale, IBM UK Ltd.
2006
Paul Cheek, TeamSpirit Software Ltd
Mark Alexander, Graham Technology Plc
Iain McGinniss, Graham Technology Plc
2005
Verity Wiscarson, IBM
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A Concrete Aboriginal, also known as a Neville, is a lawn ornament once common in Australia. The ornament is a concrete statue depicting an Aboriginal Australian, generally carrying a spear and often standing on one leg. The statues were once common in Australia but rarely seen since the 1980s.
The fashion for keeping a concrete Aboriginal in the garden was satirised in the Australian 1980s situation comedy Kingswood Country, where the lead character referred to his concrete Aboriginal as "Neville". The name "Neville" was thought to be a reference to Neville Bonner, the first Aboriginal Australian to sit in the Parliament of Australia.
See also
Lawn ornament
Lawn jockey
Cigar store Indian
Blackamoor
Garden gnome
Jew with a coin
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Australian culture
Garden ornaments
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The French National Railways used to run a considerable number of lines, a few of which still operate mostly in tourist areas, such as the St Gervais-Vallorcine (Alps) and the "Petit Train Jaune" (little yellow train) in the Pyrenees. The original French scheme was that every sous-prefecture should be rail connected. Extensive gauge lines were also built for the sugar-beet industry in the north often using ex-military equipment after the First World War. Decauville was a famous French manufacturer of industrial narrow-gauge railway equipment and equipped one of the most extensive regional narrow-gauge railway, the Chemins de fer du Calvados. Corsica has a narrow-gauge network of two lines following the coast line, that are connected by one line crossing the island through highly mountainous terrain. The petit train d'Artouste, a tourist line in the Pyrenees, uses gauge.
Narrow-gauge funiculars
Funiculars of Lyon
Funiculaire du Perce-Neige
Funival
Funiculaire de Thonon-les-Bains
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat funicular; operating
Belleville funicular tramway (1891-1924)
Chemin de fer d'Anvin à Calais (1881-1955)
Chemin de fer de Boulogne à Bonningues (1900-48)
Chemin de fer de La Mure (1888-2010)
Chemin de fer des Côtes-du-Nord (1905-56)
Chemin de fer du Blanc-Argent
Chemin de fer du Cambrésis (1881-1960)
Chemin de fer du Finistère (1893-1946)
Chemin de fer du Montenvers
Chemin de fer du Vivarais
Chemins de Fer d'Aire à Fruges et de Rimeux-Gournay à Berck (1891-1955)
Chemins de fer de la Corse
Chemins de fer de Provence
Chemins de fer du Morbihan (1902-48)
Funiculaire de Pau
Funiculaire de Saint-Hilaire du Touvet
Funiculaire du Pic du Jer
Funiculars of Lyon
Ligne de Cerdagne
Petit train de la Rhune
PO Corrèze (1904-70)
Réseau Albert (1889-1955)
Réseau Breton
Réseau des Bains de Mer (1887-1951)
Chemin de fer de la Baie de Somme
Saint-Étienne tramway
Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway
Train des pignes
Tramway d'Avranches (1907-14)
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Kheri Town railway station is a small railway station in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is KITN. It serves Kheri city. The station consists of one platform, which is not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities, including water and sanitation.
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Railway stations in Lakhimpur Kheri district
Lucknow NER railway division
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Alexandra Backford (1942–2010) was an Aleut-American painter from Alaska. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the 1960s and has exhibited her work across the country. Some of her works are in the permanent collection of institutions including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Backford was the daughter of Constantine and Anna Backford of Nushakag, Clark's Point, Alaska. She said of her time at the institute, "I like it here." Some of her work features local landscapes and people at work.
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External links
Alexandra Backford works at the National Museum of the American Indian
1942 births
2010 deaths
20th-century American painters
20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas
20th-century Native American artists
20th-century American women artists
Native American painters
Native American women artists
Painters from Alaska
Aleut people
20th-century Native American women
21st-century American women artists
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Robyn de Groot, born 26 December 1982, is a South African cyclist. She cycled professionally on the road from 2006 to 2012. Representing South Africa for 6 consecutive years, she represented South Africa at 4 World Championships, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India and the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She was unable to finish within the time limit due to an early crash and mechanical problems.
In 2012, she retired from professional road cycling. She returned to her profession in Biokinetics. Robyn took up mountain biking in 2013, primarily as a hobby, it soon became another avenue she excelled at. She won the MTN National marathon mountain bike series proving the consistency of her results. Robyn went on to win the SA marathon title on her first attempt, and was selected to represent her country at the Marathon world championships in Austria, where she finished 19th. In 2014 Robyn successfully defended her National XCM title for the 2nd consecutive year, and finished 6th at World Championships held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
In March, 2017, De Groot, riding with German Sabine Spitz, finished the Absa Cape Epic in third position after a string of setbacks – mainly the German's two major crashes – put paid to the pre-race favourites' chances. It was de Groot's third Cape Epic. She had finished 2nd in 2015 and as an individual finisher in 2016 when her partner pulled out of the race due to illness.
In September 2019, De Groot placed third in the elite women's race at the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships held in Grächen, Switzerland
Early life
Born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She attended Panorama Primary, followed by Northliff High School where she matriculated in 2000. Robyn studied Sport psychology at the University of Johannesburg, and went on to do her honors in Biokinetics at the University of Cape Town (2004).
Qualification:
B.A Sport Psychology
B.S.c (Med)(Hons) Exercise Science(Biokinetics)
Palmarès
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Borussia Dortmund clinched its 6th national championship, thanks to a stellar ending to the season, passing long-time leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the penultimate round, before sealing the title with a win on the final day. It also reached the final of the UEFA Cup, where it had the disadvantage of playing away from home against Feyenoord. With skipper Jürgen Kohler being sent off in his final match of the career, Feyenoord were able to win 3–2 and deprive Dortmund of its first international title since its famous UEFA Champions League victory in 1997.
Key players in Dortmund's success were Czech duo Jan Koller and Tomáš Rosický, top scorer Márcio Amoroso and German internationals such as Christoph Metzelder, goalkeeper Jens Lehmann and Christian Wörns. It was coach Matthias Sammer's first season in charge, and the 1996 European Player of the Year was an instant hit, becoming one of the very few coaches to win one of Europe's top domestic league at his first attempt.
Squad
Left club during season
Competitions
Bundesliga
League table
Champions League
Third qualifying round
Group stage
UEFA Cup
Third round
Fourth round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
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Notes
Borussia Dortmund seasons
Borussia Dortmund
German football championship-winning seasons
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Mentha longifolia var. asiatica is known by the common name Asian mint. It is a variety of the mint species Mentha longifolia. It has also been treated as the separate species, Mentha asiatica and Mentha vagans.
Taxonomy
Mentha longifolia var. asiatica was first described as the species Mentha asiatica by Antonina Borissova in 1954. It was reduced to a variety of Mentha longifolia by Karl Heinz Rechinger in 1954.
Distribution
Mentha longifolia var. asiatica is native to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), Western Asia (Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq) and China (South Central China, Tibet and Xinjiang).
Cultivation
Asian mint is a species of perennial herb that typically grows in full sun to partial shade. Asian mint prefers to grow in soil with adequate moisture retention year-round. It produces purple showy flowers that are fragrant. Unlike the other plants in the family Lamiaceace, Asian mint produces an unusual foliage color of leaves that are evergreen and opposites. Asian mint is suitable for wintersowing and handles well with transplanting. They do not typically come true from seed, similar to other mints, because mint seeds are highly variable and some varieties are sterile. An easier way to propagate is from cuttings from root, division, or even runners (stolons) from fully grown plants.
References
Flora of Central Asia
Flora of Western Asia
Flora of China
longifolia var. asiatica
Plants described in 1954
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Judith Rousseau is a Bayesian statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Education and career
Rousseau studied statistics and economics at ENSAE ParisTech, starting in pure mathematics but changing fields after taking a statistics class "because of all the interactions it has with other fields". She completed a doctorate in 1997 at Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her dissertation, Asymptotic properties of Bayes estimates, was supervised by Christian Robert.
She taught at Paris Descartes University from 1998 to 2004, Paris Dauphine University beginning in 2004, and (while on leave from Paris Dauphine) at ENSAE from 2009 to 2014. She joined Oxford in 2017.
Recognition
In 2015 Rousseau won the inaugural Ethel Newbold Prize of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.
The award recognizes a "recipient of any gender who is an outstanding statistical scientist for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics". The body of work for which Rousseau was recognized includes her work on infinite-dimensional variants of the Bernstein–von Mises theorem.
In 2019, she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advance Grant for her project "General theory for Big Bayes".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French statisticians
Women statisticians
Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
Academic staff of Paris Descartes University
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford
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Lachnocnema exiguus, the white woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and north-western Tanzania.
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External links
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 65 g
Butterflies described in 1890
Miletinae
Butterflies of Africa
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Beaver Scouts is the Beavers section of Scouts Canada for children aged 5 to 7. When a Beaver graduates from the third year of the program, they become Cub Scouts.
The Scouts Canada section of Beaver Scouts was first inspired by the Beavers which began in Northern Ireland, named so in 1966. It began as an independent group in 1971, until absorbed by Scouts Canada in 1974. Scouts Canada's Beaver Scouts has, in turn, been the inspiration for many other divisions of Beavers scouts across the world.
History and founding
The Canadian Beavers program was developed by three people: Harry McCartney, who was the Manitoba Executive Scout Director and the author of the short story Friends of the Forest; Alan Jones, who was a Winnipeg Scout Executive; and Gordon Hanna, who was part of the United Way Youth Council and was asked by McCartney to be the project's coordinator. As concepts were developed by Jones and Hanna, McCartney would write the next chapter of Friends of the Forest.
A one month grant from the United Way was provided to hire Gordon Hanna as the Project Coordinator to help develop and practically test the concepts. Three colonies were initially started in 3 parts of Winnipeg to pilot the ideas: Elmwood, St. James and St. Vital. The first colony in Elmwood had 13 boys join on Sept. 23rd, 1971. The program was an immediate success and grew exponentially. It was made an official part of Scouts Canada in 1974.
Uniform
When in uniform, members normally wear a brown vest, a blue and brown bucket hat (with a tail signifying their year in the program), and a group specific neckerchief. A diagram of the uniform, including placement of awards and crests, is provided on the Scouts Canada Website.
Symbols
Investiture and Tail Ceremony
A new Beaver is called a "Kit"; a Kit must learn the Beaver Promise, Law, and Motto, and go through the Investiture and Tail Ceremony to become an "Eager Beaver". The ceremony officially welcomes the Beaver into the Beaver program, and
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Nerodia floridana, commonly known as the Florida green watersnake, or eastern green watersnake, is a harmless species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to the southeastern United States.
Description
N. floridana is the largest watersnake in North America. Fully grown it will typically reach in total length (including tail), with the record-sized specimen having measured in total length. Its coloration is solid grey or greenish-brownish with a white or yellow belly in adults, which darkens in color under the tail. Encircling the lower half of the eye is a row of scales, which is separate from the upper lip scales. Among all southeastern U.S. snakes, only the green water snake has this feature. Juveniles have typically, about 50 dark crossbars on the dorsum and on the sides, which fade gradually with age.
Geographic distribution and habitat
N. floridana is found in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. In southern South Carolina it is commonly found in open, marshy wetland areas. It is rarely found in rivers or streams. It prefers choked vegetation and calm waters such as swamps and marshes. It is also generally found in lakes, ponds, ditches, and occasionally in brackish water.
Behavior and ecology
In southern Florida, N. floridana is active year round. Like other water snakes of the southeastern U.S., N. floridana hibernates during the winter in the northern, coldest parts of its range. In colder areas and months, the snake can be seen basking outdoors on sunny days. In southern Florida, it often travels overland on rainy days.
Diet
Little is known about the diet of N. floridana. Most reports suggest that its diet consists primarily of fish, including sunfish, crappies, and small bass. It also preys upon frogs, especially pig frogs, tadpoles, and salamanders. Little is known about its methods for finding prey, but like other water snakes, N. floridana swallows its prey alive.
Reproduction
N. flor
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The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Background
Otto Nordenskjöld, a Swedish geologist and geographer, organized and led a scientific expedition of the Antarctic Peninsula. The expedition's overall command was placed under the Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen, an experienced Antarctic explorer who served as captain of , and who had previously commanded a whaling reconnaissance mission in 1892–1893. Seven other scientists, including archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson, botanist Carl Skottsberg, and zoologist Axel Ohlin, along with 16 officers and men joined them on the voyage. On 16 October 1901, the Antarctic left the Port of Gothenburg.
Events
Despite its end and the great hardships endured, the expedition would be considered a scientific success, with the parties having explored much of the eastern coast of Graham Land, including Cape Longing, James Ross Island, the Joinville Island group, and the Palmer Archipelago. The expedition, which also recovered valuable geological samples and samples of marine animals, earned Nordenskjöld lasting fame at home, but its huge cost left him greatly in debt.
Two key Antarctic islands are associated with the expedition: Snow Hill Island, where Nordenskjöld and five of his colleagues spent two winters—one of them planned and the second forced by the sinking of the Antarctic—and Paulet Island, where the crew of the Antarctic were stranded from February until November 1903. The expedition was rescued by the Argentinian naval vessel Uruguay.
Snow Hill Island
On the way to Snow Hill Island in 1901, Nordenskjöld had passed through Buenos Aires, where the Argentine government gave him supplies and other assistance on the condition that he include in his wintering-over party a young Argentine naval officer, Lieutenant José María Sobral. The American artist F
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Northwest Township is one of ten townships in Orange County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 375 and it contained 199 housing units.
History
Northwest Township was named from its position in the northwestern corner of Orange County.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.64%) is land and (or 0.36%) is water.
Unincorporated towns
Bonds at
Hindostan at
Scarlet at
(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
Cemeteries
The township contains these three cemeteries: Faucett, Freeman and Miller.
Major highways
U.S. Route 150
School districts
Springs Valley Community School Corporation
Political districts
Indiana's 9th congressional district
State House District 62
State Senate District 48
References
United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
IndianaMap
External links
Indiana Township Association
United Township Association of Indiana
City-Data.com page for Northwest Township
Townships in Orange County, Indiana
Townships in Indiana
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Hulverstone is a hamlet of about 12 houses on the Isle of Wight on the edge of the English Channel. It has a post office in a private home and the 400-year-old Sun Inn. Sun Inn was used in smuggling operations. There is a school in Hulverstone in a private home that had been a barn before it was converted in the mid-19th century by Charles Seely. According to the Post Office the population of the hamlet at the 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of Brighstone.
There was a Hulverstone farm but it no longer exists. The manor house is still used as a private home, however.
The Chapel Furlong Farm in Hulverstone is the site of a bed and breakfast.
Public transport is provided by Southern Vectis buses on route 12.
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Hamlets on the Isle of Wight
Brighstone
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The Salisbury Court Theatre was a theatre in 17th-century London. It was in the neighbourhood of Salisbury Court, which was formerly the London residence of the Bishops of Salisbury. Salisbury Court was acquired by Richard Sackville in 1564 during the last seven years of his life when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Elizabeth; when Thomas Sackville was created Earl of Dorset in 1604, the building was renamed Dorset House. (His grandson, Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, was Queen Henrietta Maria's Lord Chamberlain in the 1630s, and was a prime mover in theatre and drama in London in that era, including the force behind the founding of this theatre.)
According to contemporary chronicler Edmund Howes, "a new faire Play-house" was erected in 1629, just to the west of the medieval walls of the City of London, between Fleet Street and the River Thames, in a building converted from a barn or granary in the grounds of Dorset House. An enclosed "private" venue like the Blackfriars Theatre, it was a successor to the earlier Whitefriars Theatre (which had been just on the other side of Water Lane) and the short-lived Porter's Hall Theatre, and catered to an upscale and elite audience—in contrast to the open-air theatres like the Globe, Fortune, and Red Bull theatres that served a mass audience (especially in the latter two cases).
Little is known about the actual form and shape of the Salisbury Court Theatre. Yet since it was on a plot of land wide, it may have resembled, to some greater or lesser degree, the plan for a small theatre drawn by Inigo Jones in the later Jacobean or Caroline era, which adheres to a very similar scale.
The Salisbury Court was built at a cost of £1,000 by Richard Gunnell, a veteran actor and the manager of the Fortune, and William Blagrave, deputy to Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels. At some point in the middle of the 1630s, control of the theatre passed to the "dictatorial management" of Richard Heton, who was in char
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The Verden–Rotenburg railway is a single-track mainline in the German state of Lower Saxony, which connects Verden (Aller) station on the Wunstorf–Bremen railway with Rotenburg station on the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway.
Together with the Nienburg–Minden railway, it represents the shortest direct connection between Hamburg and Ostwestfalen-Lippe with Bielefeld. It also serves as an important diversion route for the Intercity-Express and Intercity services on the Hanover–Hamburg railway. If the line between Verden and Bremen is closed, Regional-Express services are diverted via this line.
The Deutsche Reichsbahn opened the line in 1928.
History
The Prussian state railways (Preußische Staatsbahn) received the concession for the construction of the line on 10 June 1914. Because of the First World War, however, it was not opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn until 1 July 1928.
Weekend passenger services were not reintroduced until 2001. After that the RB 76 (Rotenburg – Minden) services was used especially by travellers using the Schönes-Wochenende ("happy weekend") ticket (an excursion ticket that can be used on local services nationwide on weekends), because it has the shortest travel times between the Ruhr area and Hamburg using local services.
As a result of the reduction of the regionalisation funds, it was proposed that regional services would be discontinued in December 2007. This would have meant that the investment made a few years ago for the reopening and the enlargement of the Petershagen-Lahde station would have gone to waste, but the abolition of local services was averted. Due to the very low demand for through traffic, the operation of through services between Minden and Rotenburg was abandoned from Mondays to Fridays. The additional services that previously ran at the weekend, were cancelled without replacement. Although trains now have to be changed on the weekend in Verden and Nienburg, the change in Minden on trips to/from Bielefeld has been eliminat
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