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The Familia ("The Family", from Latin familia) was the name of an 18th-century Polish political faction led by the House of Czartoryski and allied families. It was formed towards the end of the reign of King of Poland Augustus II the Strong (reign. 1697–1706, 1709–1733). The Familia's principal leaders were Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski, Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, his brother August Aleksander Czartoryski, Voivode of Ruthenia (Rus), their sister Konstancja Czartoryska, and their brother-in-law (from 1720), Stanisław Poniatowski, Castellan of Kraków.
Formation
During the interregnum in 1733, the Familia supported Stanisław I Leszczyński for King. Polish Kings in the period were elected by ballot, by the nobility (Elective Monarchy). The Familia decided to support the Saxon Frederick Augustus II as candidate (elected King Augustus III - reign. 1734–1763 in Poland), instead, and thus became a party of the Royal Court. Following the failure of the Polish Sejm to pass reforms (between 1744 and 1750) the Familia distanced itself from the struggling Royal Court. In foreign affairs, they now represented a pro-Russian orientation (see "War of Polish Succession").
During the next Polish interregnum (1763–1764) near the end of the "Seven Years' War" in Europe, an armed Russian intervention in Poland gave the Familia the opportunity to vanquish their opponents at home. When in 1764 Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski declined to seek election to the throne, the Czartoryskis agreed to the election, instead, of their kinsman Stanisław August Poniatowski, a one-time lover of the Russian Empress Catherine II "the Great".
Around the same time, the Familia succeeded in partially enacting their previous program of reforms. Among others, this included the creation of a Royal Treasury and military commissions who limited the power of Treasurers and Hetmans. The disruptive liberum veto was suspended. Further reforms were, however, blocked by Russian and Prussian interference. The conservat
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Edmund Lacey (or Lacy; died 1455) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Exeter in England.
Lacey was educated at University College, Oxford, where he was a mature commoner, then Fellow, and subsequently Master of the College from 1398 until around 1401. The College prospered and developed under him, as well as under John Appleton and John Castell who followed him.
In 1401, Lacey was appointed Canon of the ninth stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1417.
Around 1414, Lacey was appointed Dean of the Chapel Royal, accompanying King Henry V to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
He was elected to the see of Hereford between 21 January and 17 February 1417 and consecrated on 18 April 1417. He was then translated to the see of Exeter on 15 July 1420. While bishop at Exeter, Lacey promoted the cult of the Archangel Raphael, proclaiming the feast in his diocese in 1443, and working throughout England to institute the cult.
Lacey died on 18 September 1455.
His executors appear as John Cobethorn, Henry Webber, John Germyn and John Burnebyry, all church officials, in 1460;
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Year of birth missing
1455 deaths
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14th-century scholars
Fellows of University College, Oxford
Masters of University College, Oxford
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The 1938 National Division was the second edition of the Turkish National Division. Güneş SK won their first title.
Overview
Fenerbahçe got into a conflict with the Turkish Football Federation, as they initially wanted to play the home games in their own homeground, but the federation declined the request. Fenerbahçe claimed that their travel expenses were not paid appropriately by the TFF and withdrew after the 4th match.
Participants
Güneş SK - Istanbul Football League, 1st
Fenerbahçe - Istanbul Football League, 2nd
Beşiktaş - Istanbul Football League, 3rd
Galatasaray - Istanbul Football League, 4th
Harp Okulu - Ankara Football League, 1st
Muhafızgücü - Ankara Football League, 2nd
Üçok - İzmir Football League, 1st
Alsancak - İzmir Football League
League standings
Results
References
Erdoğan Arıpınar; Tevfik Ünsi Artun, Cem Atabeyoğlu, Nurhan Aydın, Ergun Hiçyılmaz, Haluk San, Orhan Vedat Sevinçli, Vala Somalı (June 1992). Türk Futbol Tarihi (1904-1991) vol.1, Page(80), Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu Yayınları.
Turkish National Division Championship seasons
1937–38 in Turkish football
Turkey
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Leptis or Lepcis Parva was a Phoenician colony and Carthaginian and Roman port on Africa's Mediterranean coast, corresponding to the modern town Lemta, just south of Monastir, Tunisia. In antiquity, it was one of the wealthiest cities in the region.
Name
The Punic name of the settlement was written or (), signifying either a new "construction" or a "naval station". Phoenician colonies often duplicated their names, as with the two "New Towns" distinguished in English as Carthage and Cartagena. This name was hellenized Léptis (). Under the Romans, the Punic name was Latinized as Lepcis or Leptis. It was known variously as , , or Leptiminus, all meaning "Lesser Leptis" to distinguish it from the "Greater Leptis" in what is now Libya.
Geography
Leptis was located on the Gulf of Hammamet, the classical Gulf of Neapolis (), between Hadrumetum and Thapsus. It was located in the fertile coastal district of Emporia, in the region of Byzacium, the later Roman province of Byzacena.
History
Phoenician colony
Leptis was established as a Tyrian colony, probably originally as a waypost on the trade route between Phoenicia and the Strait of Gibraltar. It appears in the periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, written in the middle or latter part of the fourth centuryBC, as one of the cities in the country of the legendary lotus-eaters.
Carthaginian town
Like other Phoenician colonies, Leptis came to pay tribute to Carthage. After the First Punic War, Leptis was at the center of the Mercenary War, a revolt of the Carthaginian mercenaries led by Mathos. This was suppressed with difficulty through the coöperation of Hamilcar Barca and Hanno the Great in 238BC.
Leptis recovered from the damage and, at the time of the Second Punic War, was one of the wealthiest cities of Emporia. Its tribute to Carthage was equivalent to one Attic talent ( of fairly pure silver) per day. It was at Leptis that Hannibal's army disembarked on their return to Africa in 203BC. In the following year, Leptis was on
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Manifold: Space is a science fiction book by British author Stephen Baxter, first published in the United Kingdom in 2000, then released in the United States in 2001. It is the second book of the Manifold series and examines another possible solution to the Fermi paradox. Although it is in no sense a sequel to the first book it contains a number of the same characters, notably protagonist Reid Malenfant, and similar artefacts. The Manifold series contains four books, Manifold: Time, Manifold: Space, Manifold: Origin, and Phase Space.
Plot summary
Alien activity is discovered in a Kirkwood gap; the aliens are identified as self-replicating machines (von Neumann probes). Their activity is potentially an immense threat, as Malenfant notes in an earlier speech: "A target system, we assume, is uninhabited. We can therefore program for massive and destructive exploitation of the system's resources, without restraint, by the probe. Such resources are useless for any other purpose, and are therefore economically free to us. And so we colonize, and build."
The self-replicating spacecraft are named Gaijin (Japanese for "foreigner"), after their discovery by a Japanese observer on the Moon. Malenfant travels in a prototype fusion engine to the Kirkwood Gap and discovers an interstellar teleportation device. He travels around the galaxy to uncover information about the Fermi paradox (see below). At the same time, the story also follows the efforts of Humans on Earth and the eventual draining of the Earth's resources, making a move off-world necessary. At the same time small group of humans use anti-aging techniques and an alien form of interstellar teleportation to "parachute" in on the changing solar system over many centuries.
Eventually, it is revealed that in this version of the Fermi paradox, sentient life is endemic throughout the universe; Humanity simply hadn't noticed it earlier because the universe destroys any race before it becomes advanced enough to develop a
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was a town located in Ama District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2004, the town had an estimated population of 23,345 and a density of 2,099.37 persons per km². The total area was 11.12 km².
On April 1, 2005, Saori was merged with the town of Saya, and the villages of Hachikai and Tatsuta (all from Ama District), was merged to create the city Aisai.
Dissolved municipalities of Aichi Prefecture
Aisai, Aichi
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Mihkel Jürna (17 September 1899 – 5 December 1972, Tallinn) was an Estonian writer and translator.
He was born in Soonuka in present-day Vinni Parish. He attended schools in Kiltsi and Väike-Maarja. From 1917 until 1923 he studied at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu. After graduation, he entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu and graduated in 1926. From 1934 until 1937 he studied at the university's Faculty of Medicine.
He died in 1972 and is buried at Metsakalmistu Cemetery in Tallinn.
Selected works
1921: play Idee
1925: collections Sang and Bumerang (co-authored with Juhan Schütz (Sütiste) and Erni Hiir)
1927: collection of novellas Tavalised
1929: collection of novellas Üks armastus
1932: collection of novellas Ärigeenius
1972: collection Tavalised
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1899 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Estonian writers
Estonian male poets
20th-century Estonian poets
Estonian male short story writers
Estonian translators
Hugo Treffner Gymnasium alumni
University of Tartu alumni
Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence
People from Vinni Parish
Burials at Metsakalmistu
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Myrmica elmesi is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The species, known from north-west Himalaya (India, Jammu and Kashmir), belongs to pachei group, and is significantly different from all other described species of this group.
Distribution and habitat
Species has been collected from leaf litter in both the habitats. The collection site at Machedi has a patchy Cedrus forest along with agricultural land surrounding the site; moreover the area has lot of anthropogenic activities with a dry type of environment (mean temperature during collection period 32 °C, relative humidity 36.62%, annual rain fall 970 mm and thickness of leaf litter 2.1 cm). The collection site at Sarthal has dense Cedrus forest with abundant leaf litter, no agricultural land, it remains snow clad from November to beginning of March and has very limited anthropogenic activities with only nomads visiting the area (mean temperature during collection period 22 °C, relative humidity 66.38%, annual rain fall 1476 mm and thickness of leaf litter 3.9 cm) with comparatively wet environment.
This zone where the species is distributed is a transitional zone between sub temperate and temperate Himalaya and geographically it penetrates in to the Palearctic realm (whose boundary in Southern Asia is largely altitudinal, where an altitude of 2000–2500 meters above mean sea level forms the boundary between Palearctic and Indomalayan realms). Besides, Himalayan ecology is temperature-dependent. The snow line occurs at an average of 6000 meters above mean sea level and the timber line at an average of 3000 meters (the highest altitude at which the forest ends). With this sort of environment, the microclimate plays an important role for ants like Myrmica which prefer to live under stones or in rare cases in leaf litter, as the soil temperature is comparatively higher to ambient temperature in these habitats.
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Myrmica
Insects described in 2011
Hymenoptera of Asia
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The 2023 Cranbrook Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States between 3 and 9 July 2023.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings are as of 26 June 2023.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Kei Nishikori
Ethan Quinn
Michael Zheng
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
Christian Harrison
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:
Skander Mansouri
James McCabe
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Ernesto Escobedo
Omar Jasika
Aidan McHugh
Mukund Sasikumar
Tristan Schoolkate
Evan Zhu
Champions
Singles
Steve Johnson def. Mikhail Kukushkin 6–4, 6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–4).
Doubles
Tristan Schoolkate / Adam Walton def. Blake Ellis / Calum Puttergill 7–5, 6–3.
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2023 ATP Challenger Tour
2023 in American tennis
2023 in sports in Michigan
July 2023 sports events in the United States
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Stepan Dmitrievich Akimov (1896 – October 29, 1941) was a Soviet general and army commander.
He was born in what is now Pskov Oblast. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks.
During world War II, he commanded the 48th Army (August 4-31, 1941) and the 43rd Army
(October 10–29, 1941).
He died in a plane crash on October 29, 1941, near the village of Golodyaevka, Penza Region.
He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star. He also received the Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army".
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1896 births
1941 deaths
People from Pskov Oblast
Soviet lieutenant generals
Russian military personnel of World War I
Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
Soviet military personnel of the Winter War
Soviet military personnel killed in World War II
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Çaykirpi is a village in the Taşköprü District of Kastamonu Province, Turkey. Its population is 150 (2022).
Culture
Çaykirpi has a festival celebrating halva. The halva festival comes from its ancient traditions. The village has its own specific dishes such as a meal prepared from goose meat, pilaf with duck meat, and food prepared from okra.
Geography
The distances from the cities of Kastamonu and Taşköprü are 49 km and 7 km, respectively. The effect of Black Sea on the climate of the village is considerably high.
Population
The table below shows the number of people living in the village in select year.
Infrastructure
The village has a primary school, a drinking water network, and a sewer system. There is no hospital.
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Villages in Taşköprü District
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Fábrica Nacional de Mobilidades, shortened FNM Elétricos, is a Brazilian automotive manufacturer headquartered in the city of Rio de Janeiro. FNM produces electric trucks in Caxias do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul.
History
In 2008, a company acquired the rights to use the name and logo of the defunct National Engine Factory – FNM, from the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), to use them in a series of electric trucks. In the new version, the acronym now stands for "Fábrica Nacional de Mobilidades".
FNM is designing vehicles with zero gas emissions. Developing the RePower system, which consists in transforming fossil-fuel vehicles into electric ones.
The production of the vehicles occurs in partnership with Agrale, from Caxias do Sul, which already has expertise in developing and manufacturing trucks, tractors, and bus chassis. The first models to leave the factory are the FNM 832, with a total gross weight of 13 tons, and the FNM 833, with a gross weight of 18 tons.
Although they have nothing to do with the old manufacturer, the cabins of the vehicles have a retro look, in a contemporary reinterpretation of the "Fenemês" manufactured in the 1960s.
The trucks feature a tablet connected to operational IT and logistics systems, collision avoidance cameras with artificial intelligence, lane change system, and driver alerts. It will be ready to be an autonomous vehicle when technology allows. The electric motor has a 650-volt system and a power equivalent to 355 hp, while the reported autonomy is 130 kilometers, with an urban vocation for medium deliveries. Components such as batteries, motors, and the digital system will be imported from Finland, China, and the United States.
In 2019, the company was selected by Ambev, along with other brands in the automotive industry, to manufacture 1000 units of the FNM 833 for urban use by the company, with the first 100 delivered in 2021.
Current models
Trucks
FNM 831
FNM 832
FNM 833
FNM 836
Vans
FNM 837
FNM 8
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Sensenbrenner Park is a park in downtown Columbus, Ohio, United States. The park was dedicated on September 18, 1980, and commemorates former mayor Jack Sensenbrenner.
See also
List of parks in Columbus, Ohio
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External links
1980 establishments in Ohio
Downtown Columbus, Ohio
High Street (Columbus, Ohio)
Buildings and structures completed in 1980
Parks established in the 1980s
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Palyeshgah Metro Station is a station in Tehran Metro Line 1. It is located near Tehran Refinary, a town near Shahr-e-Rey on the southern outskirts of Tehran. It is Between Shahed - Bagher Shahr Metro Station and Shahr-e-Rey Metro Station.
The station was formerly called Bagher Shahr, but the name was changed, along with the name of Shahed - Bagher Shahr Metro Station, formerly known simply as Shahed on 26 August 2017. The reason was that this station, even-though named after the town Baqershahr, it is away from town limit, but only away from Tehran Refinery, after which it is now named. Whereas the other station is only away from the city limit, even though it wasn't named after it.
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Tehran Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 2005
Railway stations in Iran opened in the 2000s
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Janaúba is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In 2020 the population was 72,018 in a total area of 2,189 km2. The elevation is 692 meters above sea level.
Location
The distance to the state capital, Belo Horizonte, is 547 km. The most important city in the north of Minas, Montes Claros, is 132 km. away. Neighboring municipalities are:
South: Francisco Sá
Southeast: Riacho dos Machados
East and Northeast: Porteirinha and Nova Porteirinha
North: Jaíba
Northwest: Verdelândia
West: Capitão Enéas and São João da Ponte.
Microregion
Janaúba is also a statistical microregion (30) consisting of 13 municipalities: Catuti, Espinosa, Gameleiras, Jaíba, Janaúba, Mamonas, Mato Verde, Monte Azul, Nova Porteirinha, Pai Pedro, Porteirinha, Riacho dos Machados and Serranópolis de Minas. The area is 15,191.70 km² and the population was 230,786 in 2000.
Districts and villages
Districts: Sede, Barreiro da Raiz, Quem-Quem and Vila Nova dos Poções.
Villages: Pedra Preta, Baixa da Colônia, Algodões II, Monte Alto, Lagoa Grande, Barroquinha, Maromba, Quem-Quem, and Assentamento da Fazenda Marabá.
Climate
The climate is sub-humid to semi-arid, with irregular rainfall and occasional long periods of drought. The average annual rainfall is , with a highly concentrated seasonal regime: 85% of the rain falls in the months of November to March, while 2% falls from May to August. During this period, that may include the months of September and October, the deficiency in the soils is deep and the waters of the rivers drop to critical levels.
The average annual temperature is with little seasonal variation. It varies between in winter and in summer. In winter, due to the action of masses of polar air the temperature can reach .
The maximum temperature varies from to . In the summer there are high temperatures, especially in the months of December to February. The climate is overall hot and dry.
The economy
The main economic activities are cattle raising
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The John E. Olcott House is a historic house at 35–37 Central Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1837, the two story house is a rare local example of Federal style executed in brick. The house was built and occupied by John Olcott, a bricklayer, and is essentially vernacular in its styling, lacking some of the flourishes found in the more elaborate Elijah Fiske House. It is five bays wide, with a shallow-pitch hip roof, twin chimneys, and a projecting enclosed entry vestibule.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Waltham, Massachusetts
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts
Federal architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1837
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Behavior Tech Computer (BTC) manufactures many computer accessories including keyboards, webcams and mouse devices; they used to manufacture optical drives but decided to leave the market and sold their Optical Division to Foxconn.
The company was founded in 1982, launching a capacitance keyboard the following year. International expansion followed rapidly:
1986 BTC USA
1988 BTC Korea
1989 BTC Europe - a sales hub based in the Netherlands
1991 BTC France
1992 BTC Latin - based in Florida, USA
1993 BTC Germany - with a focus on Germany and Eastern Europe
The expansion has led to BTC being described by the Taiwanese Business Weekly magazine as the "third most internationalized" company in Taiwan.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
1982 establishments in Taiwan
Computer peripheral companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange
Taiwanese brands
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The Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC), founded in 1945, is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of cosmetic science. The Society publishes the bimonthly Journal of Cosmetic Science. Together with Société Française de Cosmétologie, SCC also publishes the International Journal of Cosmetic Science.
History
Founded in May 1945 in New York (some says 1948) following the suggestion of Mr. Maison G. de Navarre, the Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) had 23 founding members with Mr. Freddie Wells being its first chairman.
In 1959, the SCC became a founding member of the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC).
As of 2023, the SCC has over 6,000 members globally at all degree-levels. The Society has 19 Chapters throughout the United States and Canada which each conduct monthly meetings, hold educational seminars, and publish monthly newsletters.
Funding
The primary source of income of the SCC is from membership dues, but also receives donation from stakeholders of the cosmetic and personal care industry.
Educational and professional activities
The SCC holds a national meeting once a year in New York City, and a national scientific meeting once a year in various cities around the country.
It publishes a scholarly bimonthly journal, the Journal of Cosmetic Science: The Official Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, as well as various monographs about cosmetic testing and cosmetic ingredient technology. Together with Société Française de Cosmétologie in France, SCC also publishes the International Journal of Cosmetic Science since 1979.
See also
International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists
Cosmetic industry
References
Chemistry societies
1945 establishments in New York (state)
Scientific organizations established in 1945
Scientific societies based in the United States
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Old Stone Tavern, also known as Rock House, is a historic inn and tavern located near Atkins, Smyth County, Virginia. It was built by Frederick Cullop before 1815, and is a two-story, three bay, limestone structure with a central-hall plan. A frame rear ell was added in the mid-19th century. It has a side gable roof. The front facade features a mid-19th century porch supported by chamfered columns connected on each level by a decorative cyma frieze and sawn balustrade. The tavern was built to accommodate travelers in the heavy migration through Cumberland Gap to the west in the early 19th century.
It received Virginia Landmark status in 1981 (VLR Listing Date 03/17/1981)–– and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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Drinking establishments on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Commercial buildings completed in 1815
Buildings and structures in Smyth County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Smyth County, Virginia
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Ng Cho-nam (, August 15, 1960 – December 13, 2019), , was a Hong Kong environmental studies scholar and conservationist who taught as an associate professor within the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. He served as a top advisor on numerous Hong Kong government committees in areas of conservation, sustainable development, environmental protection, urban planning, and was an active member in various environmental NGOs. He was the director of the Conservancy Association from 2000 to 2019.
Ng was among the first generation of Hong Kong environmentalists. He is most notable for his contribution to the campaign that led to the rescue of Long Valley wetlands in 1999, the JC-WISE Project (Jockey Club Water Initiative on Sustainability and Engagement) and the ongoing sustainable Lai Chi Wo program. He was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (2004) and the Silver Bauhinia Star (2014) by the Hong Kong SAR Government "in recognition of his meritorious public and community service, particularly for his contribution to environmental protection and promotion of nature conservation in Hong Kong."
Early life and education
Ng was born in 1960 in British Hong Kong. He grew up in Central, Hong Kong, where his mother and father were hawkers on Li Yuen Street East. He completed his primary education at Kei Yan Primary School and his secondary education at the Salesian English School in 1978. He became interested in nature at a very young age, and joined the Scout Association of Hong Kong in secondary school.
Ng obtained his Bachelor of Science (with Honors) in 1983 (Grizedale College) and PhD in 1987 in environmental sciences from the University of Lancaster, U.K. His doctoral advisor was Peter Young. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre for Research on Environmental Systems, University of Lancaster, from 1987 to 1988.
Academic career
After earning his doctorate degree, Ng returned to Hong Kong to teach. He began his academic career as a lectu
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Homicidal ideation is a common medical term for thoughts about homicide. There is a range of homicidal thoughts which spans from vague ideas of revenge to detailed and fully formulated plans without the act itself. Most people who have homicidal ideation do not commit homicide. 50–91% of people surveyed on university grounds in various places in the United States admit to having had a homicidal fantasy. Homicidal ideation is common, accounting for 10–17% of patient presentations to psychiatric facilities in the United States.
Homicidal ideation is not a disease itself, but may result from other illnesses such as delirium and psychosis. Psychosis, which accounts for 89% of admissions with homicidal ideation in one US study, includes substance-induced psychosis (e.g. amphetamine psychosis) and the psychoses related to schizophreniform disorder and schizophrenia. Delirium is often drug induced or secondary to general medical illness(es).
It may arise in association with personality disorders or it may occur in people who do not have any detectable illness. In fact, surveys have shown that the majority of people have had homicidal fantasies at some stage in their life. Many theories have been proposed to explain this.
Diagnosis
Violence risk
Homicidal ideation is noted to be an important risk factor when trying to identify a person's risk for violence. This type of assessment is routine for psychiatric patients or any other patients presenting to hospital with mental health complaints. There are many associated risk factors which include: history of violence and any thoughts of committing harm, poor impulse control and an inability to delay gratification, impairment or loss of reality testing, especially with delusional beliefs or command hallucinations, the feeling of being controlled by an outside force, the belief that other people wish to harm them, the perception of rejection or humiliation at the hands of others, being under the influence of substances or a hi
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The 2013 Dubai Sevens was the second tournament within the 2013-2014 Sevens World Series. It was held over the weekend of 29–30 November 2013 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played everyone in their pool one time. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Bowl/Shield brackets.
Teams
The participating teams and schedule were announced on 13 October 2013.
Pool Stage
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Knockout stage
Shield
Bowl
Plate
Cup
References
External links
2013
2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series
2013 in Emirati sport
2013 in Asian rugby union
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Brazil competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Twelve competitors, all men, took part in fifteen events in four sports.
Athletics
Eight athletes represented Brazil in 1924. It was the nation's debut appearance in the sport.
Ranks given are within the heat.
Rowing
Two rowers represented Brazil in 1924. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport as well as the Games.
Ranks given are within the heat.
Shooting
A single sport shooter represented Brazil in 1924. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport as well as the Games.
References
External links
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1924 Summer Olympics
1924
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The 1946 New Zealand rugby league season was the 39th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.
International competitions
New Zealand defeated the touring Great Britain side. The New Zealand team was: Warwick Clarke, Roy Nurse, Len Jordan, Maurie Robertson, Bill Mountford, Roy Clark (c), Rex Cunningham, John Newton, Bob Aynsley, Bruce Graham, Arthur Gillman, Charlie McBride and Travers Hardwick.
Great Britain beat South Island 12–24 at the Show Grounds in front of 8,000 fans. The West Coast defeated Great Britain, 17–8, at Victoria Park to inflict their biggest loss of the entire Australasian tour.
Auckland lost to Great Britain twice, 9-7 and 22–9, in front of crowds of 15,000 and 12,000 at Carlaw Park. Auckland included Warwick Clarke, Arthur Read, Trevor Barmley, Frank Collins, Ron McGregor, Roy Nurse, Maurie Robertson, captain Roy Clark, Rex Cunningham, Joffre Johnson, John Rutherford, Bruce Graham, Les Pye, Des Ryan and Travers Hardwick.
The New South Wales Rugby League's champion Balmain Tigers traveled to Auckland, being defeated 17-9 by the Auckland Rugby League's champion Richmond club.
National competitions
Northern Union Cup
West Coast again held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season.
Inter-island competition
The South Island defeated the North Island 25–11 in the annual fixture. The South Island included Ray Nuttall, Ken and Bill Mountford, Jack Forrest, Pat Smith, Bob Aynsley, Len Brown, John Newton, Arthur Gillman, Charlie McBride and Ces Davison.
Inter-district competition
Auckland toured the South Island, losing to the West Coast 10–7 in Greymouth before defeating Canterbury 51–28 at the Addington Show Grounds. The Auckland team included; Warwick Clarke, Arthur Read, Trevor Bramley, Roy Nurse, Maurie Robertson, Ron McGregor, captain Roy Clark, Abbie Graham, Rex Cunningham, Jim Fogarty, Des Ryan, Joffre Johnson, Don Hardy, Fred James, Les Pye, Clarrie Petersen and Travers Hardwick. Len Jordan and John Rutherford w
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Horace Bristol Pond (born 1882) was an American business executive, philanthropist, American Red Cross personnel, World War II prisoner, and an expatriate in Manila, Philippines.
Early life
He was born in 1882.
Career
Political
H. B. Pond arrived in the Philippines in 1902 to work as a government stenographer.
Commercial
He joined Appleby Nauman, rose through the ranks, and became President of Pacific Commercial Company, then the largest company in the Philippines.
He was also a leader in the American community, a member of many socio-civic and cultural organizations, and a founding Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands.
In 1934 he headed a committee of American and Filipino businessmen that attempted to convince the United States government to continue free trade with the Philippines.
He was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines.
Red Cross
In 1918 he became the first civilian president of the American Red Cross Philippine Chapter founded in 1917.
Cultural
He was President of the Metropolitan Theater Company which built the Manila Metropolitan Theater.
He was also among the top patrons and financial supporters who kept the Manila Symphony Orchestra existing and performing.
Incarceration
Pond was incarcerated by the Japanese at Santo Tomas Internment Camp where he was a member of the internee government.
Bibliography
Center for Internee Rights, Inc., ed, 2002, Civilian Prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands, Paducah, Kentucky: Turner.
Gleeck, Lewis Edward, Jr. (1912–2005), The Manila Americans (1901–1964), Manila: Carmelo & Bauermann, 1977.
___, Over Seventy-five Years of Philippine-American History: The Army and Navy Club of Manila, Manila: Carmelo & Bauermann, 1976.
Stevens, Frederic Harper (1879-1982), 1946, Santo Tomas Internment Camp, New York: Stratford House.
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People of American colonial Philippines
American business
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The 2016 Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 6, 2016 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The race, postponed a day because of persistent rain, was contested over 160 laps on the triangular racecourse, and was the fourteenth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Kurt Busch scored his first and only victory of the 2016 season, his third career victory at Pocono and first win at the track since 2007. the race had 14 lead changes among different drivers and ten cautions for 40 laps.
Background
The race was held at Pocono Raceway, which is a three-turn superspeedway located in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The track hosts two annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races: the Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400 and the Pennsylvania 400, as well as one Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series event. Since 2013, the track is also host to a Verizon IndyCar Series race.
Pocono Raceway is one of a very few NASCAR tracks not owned by either Speedway Motorsports, Inc. or International Speedway Corporation. It is operated by the Igdalsky siblings Brandon, Nicholas, and sister Ashley, and cousins Joseph IV and Chase Mattioli, all of whom are third-generation members of the family-owned Mattco Inc, started by Joseph II and Rose Mattioli.
Outside of the NASCAR races, the track is used throughout the year by Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and motorcycle clubs as well as racing schools and an IndyCar race. The triangular oval also has three separate infield sections of racetrack – North Course, East Course and South Course. Each of these infield sections use a separate portion of the tri-oval to complete the track. During regular non-race weekends, multiple clubs can use the track by running on different infield sections. Also some of the infield sections can be run in either direction, or multiple infield sections can be put together – such as running the North Course and the South Course and using the tri-oval to c
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Inbound aircraft to London Heathrow Airport typically follow one of a number of Standard Arrival Routes (STARs). The STARs each terminate at one of four different RNAV waypoints (co-located with VOR navigational aids), and these also define four "stacks" where aircraft can be held, if necessary, until they are cleared to begin their approach to land. Stacks are sections of airspace where inbound aircraft will normally use the pattern closest to their arrival route. They can be visualised as invisible helter skelters in the sky. Each stack descends in intervals from down to . If these holds become full, aircraft are held at more distant points before being cleared onward to one of the four main holds.
The stacks
Bovingdon
The Bovingdon stack (BNN) is for arrivals from the north west. It extends above the village of Bovingdon and the town of Chesham, and uses the RNAV waypoint BNN (co-located with the BNN VOR), which is situated on the former RAF Bovingdon airfield.
Biggin Hill
The Biggin Hill stack (BIG) on the south east edge of Greater London is for arrivals from the south east. It uses the RNAV waypoint BIG (co-located with the BIG VOR), which is situated on London Biggin Hill Airport.
Lambourne
The Lambourne stack (LAM) in Essex is for arrivals from the north east. It uses the RNAV waypoint LAM (co-located with the LAM VOR), which is situated adjacent to Stapleford Aerodrome.
Ockham
The Ockham stack (OCK) in Surrey is for arrivals from the south west. It uses the RNAV waypoint OCK (co-located with the OCK VOR), which is situated on the former Wisley Airfield. During typical easterly operations, the proximity of arrival traffic via OCK requires departures from Heathrow's runway 09R towards the Compton VOR (CPT) to follow a non-standard departure procedure.
Developments
The arrival procedures are being revised since 2014 to reduce stacking by introducing variable speed limits and alternative holding procedures.
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On 1 December 2003 at 6am, a
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The Apalachicola Northern Railroad was a short-line railroad which operated in the Florida Panhandle. It owned and operated a between Port Saint Joe, Florida, and Chattahoochee, Florida, with a short spur to Apalachicola, Florida. It was founded in 1903 and ceased operating in 2002 when the St. Joe Company, its corporate parent, leased its line to the AN Railway.
History
The company was chartered on April 7, 1903. Construction began on March 21, 1905, and trains began running north from Apalachicola in 1907. The extension to Port St. Joe was completed on May 10, 1910.
The company operated in receivership on three separate occasions: July 1907 to October 1908, May 1914 to February 1916 and May 1932 to December 1936.
The company came under ownership of Alfred I. du Pont in 1933, along with the entire town of Port St. Joe. The railroad's largest customer, the St. Joe Paper Company mill in Port St. Joe, was owned by the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust from 1936 to 1996. On September 30, 1940, Edward Ball, who managed the du Pont trust properties, transferred control of the railroad to the St. Joe Paper Company. When the paper company was sold in 1996, ownership of the railroad was returned to the St. Joe Company.
AN Railway, a subsidiary of the Rail Management Corporation leased line from the St. Joe Company on September 1, 2002 and acquired the railroad's locomotives, rolling stock, and railroad equipment. From that date the Apalachicola Northern ceased to operate as a railroad. The St. Joe Company continues to own the physical line.
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Florida railroads
Railway companies established in 1903
Non-operating common carrier freight railroads in the United States
American companies established in 1903
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St Stephen's Presbyterian Church is a heritage-listed former Presbyterian church at 2 Allowrie Street, Jamberoo, Municipality of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Colley and built in 1875 by John and James Marks, D. L. Dymock and W. Stewart. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The church building was sold to private interests in 2009.
History
The first white settlers came to the Jamberoo District during the 1820s following the initial granting of land rights, but it was not until the 1830s that the nucleus of a settlement evolved. Dr. Robert Menzies, a young Scottish naval doctor, and his wife Margaret, took up residence at Jamberoo on 6 May 1839, in a small cottage on their recently purchased property. They, in common with a number of other colonists from Scotland and from Northern Ireland, were of the Presbyterian communion. The importance they attached to their faith is illustrated by the fact that within a few months of their arrival Presbyterian services of worship were being conducted in Dr. Menzies' barn by the Rev. John Tait, MA, the first minister of the Church of Scotland in Illawarra. Mr. Tait preached from his home base in Wollongong as far south as the Shoalhaven from 1837 until his transfer to Parramatta in 1841. Dr. Menzies built "Minnamurra House" in the early 1840s, which still stands today. The barn in which the first Presbyterian service was held stood until 1940.
The township of Jamberoo was subdivided from Michael Hyam's grant in 1841. Mr. Hyam, a Jew, gave blocks to some of the Churches, including the Presbyterian. In 1842 a church-school was built by the Presbyterians on their land at a cost of $70. It was made of slabs and plastered inside being constructed in the main by voluntary labour. The building was used on Sundays as church and Sunday School; other denominations used it at times. On weekdays it served as a school. It appears to have been the first Church building in
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Vincenzo Colucci (12 October 18461918) was an Italian veterinarian and zoologist.
He was born in Calabria in 1846, and, by the age of five, he had lost both parents (his father, an opponent of the repressive Bourbon rule in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, died in prison). His grandfather and uncle arranged for the orphan to have a sound classical education in the town of Cittanova, Calabria, after which he studied in the University of Naples. From there he went to the University of Bologna with the intention of becoming a medical doctor; however, he changed his plans and entered the veterinary school about 1870, where he worked there for the next 15 years, taking on positions of ever-increasing responsibility. In 1886, he joined veterinary faculty at the University of Parma until 1893, when he moved to the Veterinary school of the University of Pisa, remaining there until his death in 1918. In Cittanova, he is honored by a street named Via Vincenzo Colucci.
Although he usually dealt with normal and pathological histology of domestic animals, he published two papers on regeneration in salamanders. The first, in 1886, described the cellular events during regeneration of extirpated limbs and tails. The second, in 1891, demonstrated that the regenerating lens of the eye arises from the iris; three years later in Germany, Gustav Wolff (1894), without mentioning his Italian colleague, published exactly the same result; Emery (1896)suggested that Wolff learned of Colucci's work from an abstract on page 174 of Zoologischer Jahresbericht für 1891 (1893), repeated the experiment, and passed it off as his own original discovery a year later. Even so, such lens regeneration has long been called Wolffian and not Coluccian. Significantly, Colucci's regeneration studies were among the first to examine the phenomenon extensively at the cellular level of organization in any animal.
References
Ravenna E. 1976. Vinzo Colucci. In: Corriere di Reggio, September 11, 1976, Number 34
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The 2026 UEFA European Under-19 Championship will be the 23rd edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (73rd edition if the Under-18 and Junior era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Wales, which were selected by UEFA on 26 September 2023, will host the tournament. A total of 8 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup as the UEFA representatives.
Qualification
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).
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External links
2026
Under-19 Championship
2026 Uefa European Under-19 Championship
2025–26 in Welsh football
Scheduled association football competitions
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Anguillan Creole is a dialect of Leeward Caribbean Creole English spoken in Anguilla, an island and British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. Although classified as a dialect of Leeward Caribbean Creole English spoken in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat due to a common British colonial history, it is actually closer to the British Virgin Islands and Saint Martin varieties of Virgin Islands Creole. The number of speakers of Anguillan Creole is below 10,000. Anguillan Creole does not have the status of an official language.
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Society of Anguilla
English-based pidgins and creoles
English language in the Caribbean
Languages of the United Kingdom
Languages of the African diaspora
Creoles of the Caribbean
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Akhali Kselebi Ltd ( new web), also known as New Net is the third largest telecommunication company of Georgia and Caucasus (After Silknet and MagtiCom). It is a private electronic communications network operator which has business relations with various leading communications companies worldwide. Company was founded on August 2, 1996. It was a new word in electronic communications development and modernization business. The company is under corporate management by the supervisory board and management. More than 700 workers are employed in the company.
Akhali Kselebi is a member of (T&T Group) consisting of the following companies:
System Net Ltd
Akhtel Ltd
Foptnet Ltd
GTC Ltd
CGC Ltd
Iveria Net Ltd
Sanapiro Ltd
Akhtel (blend of ახალი ("new") and ტელეკომუნიკაციები ("telecommunications")) is one of the companies founded by Akhali Kselebi that successfully operates on the telecommunications market.
External links
AK.ge: official Akhali Kselebi website —
Telecommunications companies of Georgia (country)
Brands of Georgia (country)
Telecommunications companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in Georgia (country)
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Grimethorpe is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. As of the 2011 census it has a population of 4,672. Grimethorpe is located in the eastern Barnsley, and until the local government reorganisation of 1974, it was part of the Hemsworth district and constituency. The village is part of the North East ward of Barnsley MBC.
For much of the 20th century Grimethorpe's economy was rooted in coal mining. Since the 1984–85 miners' strike, the downscaling of UK coal mining accelerated and international cheap open-cast mining provoked closure of its colliery in May 1993. In 1994 it was regarded as the poorest village in Europe.
There are roads linking the village to some of the country's biggest arteries, and the village is home to approximately 50 businesses, including the online fashion retailer ASOS.
History
The name Grimethorpe originates from "Grim's Torp", a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Viking names, meaning a torp or hamlet owned by a Viking named Grimey. Grimethorpe is at the foot of the hill upon which is the village of Brierley. In fact, Grimethorpe was named such as a Norse farm built close to Brierley village. Following the Norman conquest, the Brierley-Grimethorpe area came under the rule of the De Laceys of Pontefract, a local Saxon. In 1066, the village's owner was Ernui who was said to have six carucates of land at Brerelia and Hindelia, valued at forty shillings. (A carucate was as much land as could be ploughed in one year by one plough and eight oxen. An acre was as much land as could be ploughed in one day by one plough and a pair of oxen.)
This land was given after the Norman conquest to Airic who was given the whole of Staincross wapentake by Ilbert de Lacey, the Norman of Pontefract. All of Yorkshire was divided into wapentakes, Staincross being the one for the Barnsley area. It was about ten miles from north to south and about twenty miles from east to west, its boundaries being in the northeast the high rid
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Alwyn Young is a professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He held a named chair at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Boston University and the MIT Sloan School of Management before joining the LSE faculty. A graduate of Cornell University, he holds an MA in law and diplomacy and a PhD in international relations, both from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. Young has taught courses in introductory economics at the LSE to first-year undergraduates, and topics in modern economic growth as a part of advanced macroeconomics course at postgraduate level.
Well known academic papers by Alwyn Young include The tyranny of numbers: confronting the statistical realities of the East Asian growth experience and A tale of two cities: factor accumulation and technical change in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Professor Young's most recent research has focussed on growth in the African continent as well as the impact of HIV-Aids on GDP figures
Selected publications
"The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations". Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (May 2005): 243–266. PDF. Appendix.
"Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the People's Republic of China during the Reform Period". Journal of Political Economy 111 (December 2003): 1220–1261.
"The Razor's Edge: Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China". Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (November 2000): 1091–1135. Data.
"Growth without Scale Effects". Journal of Political Economy 106 (February 1998): 41–63. JSTOR.
"The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience". Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (August 1995): 641–680. JSTOR.
"Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A Contrarian View." European Economic Review 38 (1994): 964–973.
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Richard Yeeles in an English-born Australian businessman and former senior South Australian public servant with interests in the resources sector, particularly uranium mining and processing.
Career
Yeeles has worked at the Olympic Dam mine near Roxby Downs in South Australia under the management of Western Mining Corporation and later BHP Billiton during their open-pit expansion proposal. Yeeles holds the position of Corporate Affairs Manager at BHP Billiton and was appointed Approvals and Community Director of the Australian Securities Exchange listed uranium explorer and prospective mining company Toro Energy in October 2009.
Yeeles entered the resource sector in 1996, having previously held several key senior positions within the Government of South Australia including Chief of Staff for both the Premier and Opposition Leader, Press Secretary and Manager of Public Relations. Yeeles worked as Chief of Staff for Liberal party opposition leader Dale Baker in 1989. In the 1990s he was Baker's closest confidante and adviser and remains a close friend. Yeeles began his professional life as a cadet journalist for the ABC and is the editor and author of two books about former South Australian premier, Don Dunstan.
Yeeles was appointed as a member of the Resources Industry Development Board in 2008. The board provides policy advice to the Government of South Australia.
Yeeles was appointed to the Olympic Dam Agreement Trust Advisory Council in 2010. The council provides advice to the trustee administering payments to Aboriginal people in northern South Australia under the terms of the Olympic Dam Agreement.
In 2015, Yeeles wrote a 270-page submission to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission supporting the development of high-level nuclear waste storage facilities and an expanded nuclear industry in South Australia.
In 2016, he was appointed Policy Director of the Liberal Party of South Australia.
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Natracare is a British feminine hygiene brand that produces organic and plastic-free menstrual products, including tampons, sanitary pads and panty liners.
Natracare was founded in 1989 by Susie Hewson. She decided to start the company after watching a television documentary about the environmental impact of dioxins. She arranged a £90,000 overdraft from NatWest. According to Hewson, established feminine hygiene companies tried to discredit research into the health risks of chemicals in menstrual products and engaged in a campaign of "harassment in the media and sending lawyers' letters". In 1996, the company was the first to produce certified organic cotton tampons. The company started producing wet wipes that may be safely flushed down the toilet in 2019. Hewson was awarded an MBE in the 2023 Birthday Honours.
Natracare is part of Bodywise (UK) Ltd, and is headquartered in Bristol. Natracare tampons are plastic-free, made with organic cotton, bioplastics and cardboard applicators that are biodegradable. A 1994 study found that Natracare tampons produced no measurable amounts of the superantigen TSST-1, which causes toxic shock syndrome.
Since 2019, Natracare has been a member of One Percent for the Planet. Natracare was the first non-food product to receive a Korean LOHAS certification. Natracare's makeup removal wipes have received COSMOS certification. The company's wet wipes were the first product to qualify to use Water UK's "fine to flush" symbol. Natracare won The Queen's Awards for Enterprise for export in 2018.
As part of its Project #BeKind campaign, Natracare partnered with the United Kingdom charity Social Farms and Gardens in 2023 for composting trials of its products. Natracare's advertising campaigns have included influencer marketing.
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Official website
Feminine hygiene brands
British brands
Companies based in Bristol
Manufacturing companies established in 1989
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Ena Thomas (5 June 1935 – 5 July 2020) was a Welsh television chef. She came from Carmarthenshire, and was known as the chef on the 1990s Welsh-language television programme Heno (Tonight).
She published a number of Welsh-language cookery books, including Coginio Cartref Ena (Ena's Home Cooking) (1999) and Blas ar Fywyd (Taste of Life) (2012).
Thomas died on 5 July 2020, aged 85.
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Welsh women chefs
Welsh television chefs
Welsh women television presenters
1935 births
2020 deaths
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The 2020 Hamburg state election was held on 23 February 2020 to elect the members of the 22nd Hamburg Parliament. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by First Mayor Peter Tschentscher.
Despite losses, the SPD remained comfortably in first place with 39% of votes. The Greens doubled their vote share to 24%, becoming the second largest party in the state Parliament for the first time. The opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered their worst ever result in Hamburg, and their worst result in any state election since 1952, falling to third place with 11% of votes. The Left achieved a small upswing and remained in fourth place. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) narrowly cleared the 5% electoral threshold, recording a decline compared to its previous result for the first time in any state or national-level election. The Free Democratic Party lost a third of its vote share and fell narrowly short of the 5% electoral threshold, in total winning only one seat from a direct constituency.
The SPD–Green government was returned with an increased majority of 87 seats, comprising 71% of the Parliament. The coalition was subsequently renewed. Peter Tschentscher was re-elected Mayor on 10 June.
Issues and campaign
Federal
The Hamburg state election was overshadowed by the Thuringia government crisis, the resignation of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as federal CDU leader, and a terrorist attack targeting immigrants in Hanau which took place four days before the election.
Local
In the wake of the Thuringia government crisis, approximately 20% of the FDP's election posters in Hamburg were defaced or destroyed. Greens leader Katharina Fegebank stated that such actions "harmed democracy".
Electoral system
The elections were conducted under a list proportional system in the same manner as the prior election. 71 seats were awarded directly in the 17 multi-mandate constituencies (of between 3-5 seats each) via open c
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James Sibbald was launched at Bombay in 1803. She was a "country ship", a British vessel that traded only east of the Cape of Good Hope (the Cape). A French privateer captured her in late 1804, but she quickly returned to British ownership in Bombay in a process that is currently obscure. She made several voyages for the British East India Company (EIC).
Career
On 12 November 1804 Captain Thomas Henry (or Henri), of , captured James Sybald, of ten guns and 1,000 tons (bm); James Sybald was carrying 16,000 bags of rice. (James Sibald had been sailing from Bengal to Bombay.) Henriette then returned to Port Louis on 10 December. James Sybald was armed with ten guns. She resisted and during the course of this resistance Captain Henri received a wound from a "biscaïen", a type of large-caliber musket. The wound exposed his entrails.
, Lieutenant Lord George Mouat Keith, participated in the capture of the Dutch Cape Colony in January 1806. At some point Protector captured a Dutch East Indiaman off the Cape that turned out to be James Sibbald. The Indiaman was carrying a cargo of cochineal, ivory, indigo, etc. reportedly worth £300,000. Keith took her back to England.
1st EIC voyage (1810): Captain George Harrower sailed from Bombay on 18 June 1810. James Sibbald reached St Helena on 8 September and arrived at the Downs on 9 November.
2nd EIC voyage (1811–1812): Captain John Blanshard acquired a letter of marque on 22 March 1811. He sailed from Portsmouth on 25 April 1811, bound for Madras and Bengal. James Sibbald reached Madeira on 30 June and Madras on 26 September; she arrived at Calcutta on 17 November. Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 9 January, reached St Helena on 12 May, and arrived at the Downs on 23 June.
James Sibbald was admitted to the registries of Great Britain on 17 February 1813.
3rd EIC voyage (1813–1814): Captain Blanshard sailed from Portsmouth on 2 June 181, bound for Bombay. James Sibbald reached Madeira on 21 June and arrived at Bombay on
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Farkas from the kindred Bejc (; died after 1269) was a Hungarian prelate in the 13th century, who served as Bishop of Győr from 1268 to 1269. Prior to that, he was provost of Székesfehérvár and vice-chancellor in the royal court, then briefly elected Bishop of Zagreb.
Biography
Also referred to as Wolfgang, his German name variant, Farkas originated from the gens (clan) Bejc (or Beuch), a minor Hungarian kindred, which possessed lands in Vas County around their centre, Bejc (present-day part of Bejcgyertyános), near the village of Rum. A large forest between Káld and Bejcgyertyános is still called "Farkas-erdő" (lit. Farkas' Forest) today, presumably named after the bishop. Through his brother Paul, he had a nephew Nicholas, who was granted the castle of Hricsó (present-day Hričovské Podhradie, Slovakia) by Béla IV of Hungary in 1265, courtesy to his uncle. The clan existed until the mid-14th century.
Farkas bore the title of "magister", demonstrating his potential education and skills in science. He was a staunch supporter of King Béla IV during his civil war against his son, Duke Stephen. He served as vice-chancellor and provost of the Székesfehérvár Chapter from 1262 to 1268. As a candidate of the monarch, he was elected Bishop of Zagreb by some members of the cathedral chapter in the second half of 1262, but the election was not confirmed by Pope Urban IV, because Béla's rival, the influential cardinal Stephen Báncsa suggested his namesake nephew at first, then the chamberlain of his household, Timothy to become the Bishop of Zagreb. Although Pope Urban IV instructed Farkas to visit the Roman Curia within four months in early 1264, however he was unable to take a journey possibly because of the emerging civil war between Béla IV and his son Duke Stephen. As a compensation of his unsuccessful candidacy in Zagreb previously, Pope Clement IV confirmed him as provost of Székesfehérvár on 4 July 1266.
Farkas was unanimously elected Bishop of Győr around April 126
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ADA S.A., operating as Aerolínea de Antioquia (ADA), was a regional airline headquartered at the Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín, Colombia. It started operations in 1987. It ceased all operations on March 29, 2019. At its peak, the airline operated scheduled domestic services from Medellín to over 20 destinations. Its main base was in Olaya Herrera Airport.
History
The beginning of operations of Aerolínea de Antioquia dates back to 1987, when it was established for the executive charter service. In 1998, it began its transformation process by connecting Medellín with regional destinations.
At the start of its regular operation, ADA had 4 Twin Otter type aircraft that had been operated by ACES, and only covered short routes within the department of Antioquia. In March 2002, it acquired a Twin Otter fleet from ACES Colombia. It contracted with that company for the training of its crews and maintenance of its aircraft; ACES in turn contracted with ADA for the operation of some of its regional routes such as Caucasia, Puerto Berrío and Armenia until it ceased operations in 2003.
In 2003, ADA became a commercial air service company of the Regular Public Transport, in their Secondary Category. This new stage allowed the airline to access new routes. ADA transported players from Atlético Nacional to the Copa Libertadores and journalists to the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
In 2006, ADA further consolidated its corporate social responsibility policy with the "Making the dream of flying come true" program. With it, hundreds of passengers from different municipalities of the country could travel by plane for the first time in their lives and enjoy a flight over their regions of origin. In 2012, ADA strengthened its services by adding the Dornier 328 to their fleet. In March 2019, ADA suspended its operations, due to financial losses of more than 400 million pesos.
Destinations
Aerolínea de Antioquia served the following destinations (as of March 2019):
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The 37 provinces and their departments, in the Republic of Gran Colombia from 1824 to 1831.
Gran Colombia was a country in northern South America from 1819 to 1831. Its subdivisions were redrawn in 1824, from the original 3 departments into 3 districts with departments and provinces.
See also
Subdivisions of Gran Colombia — districts, departments, & provinces.
Subdivisions of Gran Colombia
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The New Era Building, also known as the Dobson Town Clock Building, is a commercial building located in Maquoketa, Iowa. The Late Victorian structure was designed by John Lake and built in 1890. The building was owned by Dr. A.B. Dobson, a "clairvoyant physician who treated patients by mail." Patients were asked to send one dollar and a lock of hair, which would enable him to cure their ills. The building's clock tower was built separately and was removed for scrap to help in the war effort during World War II.
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
Victorian architecture in Iowa
Commercial buildings completed in 1890
Buildings and structures in Maquoketa, Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Iowa
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The term Last of the Romans has historically been used to describe a person thought to embody the values of ancient Roman civilization – values which, by implication, became extinct on his death. It has been used to describe a number of individuals. The first recorded instance was Julius Caesar's description of Marcus Junius Brutus as the one with whom the old Roman spirit would become extinct.
List of people described as the "Last of the Romans"
In ancient and medieval Mediterranean
Gaius Cassius Longinus (d. 42 BC), so called by Brutus and by the ancient historian Aulus Cremutius Cordus.
Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4), one of the last great orators and writers of the Roman Republic.
Valentinian I (321–375), the last Western Emperor to campaign extensively on both sides of the Rhine and Danube frontiers.
Valens (328–378), "the Last True Roman" Eastern Emperor (and brother of Valentinian I) who led his army to a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of Adrianople.
Stilicho, a powerful Vandalic-Roman general in the early 5th century. Also called "the last of the Roman generals" in Chapter XXX of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Flavius Aëtius (396?–454), a general in the late Western Roman Empire who defended Gaul against the Franks and other barbarians, and defeated Attila in the Catalaunian Fields near Châlons, in 451. So called by Procopius.
Count Boniface (died 432), a general in the late Western Roman Empire. Rival of Flavius Aëtius. So called by Procopius.
Galla Placidia (388-450), empress consort to Constantius III and mother of Valentinian III, she was "the last Roman empress" and de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire from 425 to 437.
Majorian (420–461), Roman Emperor between 457 and 461. He was the last emperor universally recognized as the de facto ruler of the entire western empire, briefly reconquering most of the lost territories in Gaul and Hispania.
Ambrosius Aurelianus (5th century), a R
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The Sabouroff head is a Late Archaic Greek marble sculpture. It is dated to circa 550–525 BC. This head of a Kouros was named after Peter Alexandrovich Saburov, a collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities. It is 23 centimeters in height. The sculpture is currently located in the Antikensammlung Berlin and allegedly from Attica or Aegina. There are conjectures that it may also have been from Caria in Asia Minor.
This marble head may have belonged to a life-size statue. It has been the object of various debates regarding the unusual design of the hair and beard. Men usually had long hair in 6th century Greek statues, but the beard was a common attribute in archaic sculpture. The treatment of the moustache, separate from the beard on the cheeks and chin, is very rare for Greek sculpture and gives an exotic look to the head. The head has been described as "nearer to a portrait than any other work surviving from Archaic Greece" (other than the Boxer Relief in Athens).
Using an optical 3D-scanner the cast copy at the Heidelberg University was acquired and analyzed using the GigaMesh Software Framework. The geometric measurements using Voronoi cells and Geodesic distances at the high-resolution 3D-model show an unbalance and a slight tilting of the head indicating that it was part of an equestrian statue.
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6th-century BC Greek sculptures
Classical sculptures in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Mytheon was a free to play massively multiplayer online video game developed by Petroglyph Games. The game incorporated action, role-playing, and strategy elements. Players advanced through the game's Greek mythology-themed dungeons using a deck of collectible spells called power stones.
The game was released on March 3, 2011. After close to six months of operation, UTV True Games announced the shut down of the game servers on July 27, 2011. A reworked version, designed to allow for a single purchase instead, was released on Steam.
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External links
Official website
2011 video games
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games set in antiquity
Video games based on Greek mythology
Video games scored by Frank Klepacki
Video games developed in the United States
Inactive massively multiplayer online games
Petroglyph Games games
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"Let's Get Excited" is a song performed by English singer-songwriter Alesha Dixon. It is the third single from her second studio album, The Alesha Show, released by Asylum Records. The song has been added to BBC Radio 1's A-List. The single was the second single taken from "The Alesha Show" in most countries.
Background
"Let's Get Excited" was written by Dixon, Kuk Harrell, Sean Hall and Todd Herfinda and is an up-tempo dance track. After writing with Dixon, Harrell and Sean K produced the song on behalf of RedZone Entertainment, the company which he is managed by. Harrell was also the song's vocal producer and engineer.
Lyrically, the song namechecks Madonna, and makes a reference to "Into the Groove", a 1985 Madonna song. Dixon later stated that "Growing up Madonna was my idol and I loved dressing up like her and so she has definitely been a big influence on my career".
Promotion
Alesha performed the song live at the following events:
The Nokia Green Room - 19 December 2008
The Feelgood Factor - 23 February 2009
Let's Dance for Comic Relief - 14 March 2009
The Paul O'Grady Show - 5 May 2009
Tonight's the Night - 9 May 2009
Radio 1's Big Weekend - 10 May 2009
Guinness World Records Smashed - 10 May 2009
Loose Women - 14 May 2009
Music video
The video, directed by Max & Dania was shot in three days, starting on 26 March 2009.
The video is set in an East London nightclub surrounded by many dancers. Alesha Dixon is wearing black leggings and gold shoes and has her hair in a high-black ponytail. The entire video is set in the club but there is a variety of different looks and scenes going on. Near the end of the video everyone in the club is soaked with hoses.
The video was televised on Tuesday 7 April on 4Music at 7:00pm, and on terrestrial TV on Wednesday 8 April on Channel 4 at 00:05AM. The video premiered, along with the single cover on Dixon's website on 8 April 2009.
Reception
Digital Spy
Give the past eight years of Alesha Dixon's career a dustin
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Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839. The libretto was written by Émile Deschamps, and the completed work was assigned the catalogue numbers Op. 17 and H. 79. It is based on Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet; it is regarded as one of Berlioz's finest works, and it is among the most original in form. The score is Berlioz's most comprehensive and detailed programmatic piece.
Composition
Genesis
Initial inspiration came from a performance he witnessed in 1827 of Romeo and Juliet (in David Garrick's edited version) at the Odéon Theatre in Paris. The cast included Harriet Smithson, who also inspired Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. In his Memoirs, Berlioz describes the electrifying effect of the drama:
... to steep myself in the fiery sun and balmy nights of Italy, to witness the drama of that passion swift as thought, burning as lava, radiantly pure as an angel's glance, imperious, irresistible, the raging vendettas, the desperate kisses, the frantic strife of love and death, was more than I could bear. By the third act, scarcely able to breathe—it was as though an iron hand had gripped me by the heart—I knew that I was lost. I may add that at the time I did not know a word of English; I could only glimpse Shakespeare darkly through the mists of Letourneur's translation; the splendour of the poetry which gives a whole new glowing dimension to his glorious works was lost on me. ... But the power of the acting, especially that of Juliet herself, the rapid flow of the scenes, the play of expression and voice and gesture, told me more and gave me a far richer awareness of the ideas and passions of the original than the words of my pale and garbled translation could do.
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Russell Howard Swan (January 3, 1964 – April 26, 2006) was an American professional baseball relief pitcher who played from 1989 through 1994 for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Listed at 6' 4", 210 lb., Swan was a southpaw reliever usually used in the set-up role, although occasionally would be called upon to work as a closer during the 1991 and 1992 campaigns. He was selected by the Giants in the ninth round of the 1986 MLB draft.
On June 9, 1990, Swan took a no-hitter into the eighth inning while starting a game for Seattle against the Detroit Tigers.
Following his playing retirement, Swan worked as a pitching coach at Washington State University and for the Colorado Rockies organization.
On April 17, 2006, Swan was found unconscious after a fall in a stairwell in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. He had been found without a wallet or any identification. Swan died nine days later at a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 42.
Sources
External links
, or Retrosheet
Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)
1964 births
2006 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in Arizona
Accidental deaths in Nevada
Amarillo Dillas players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball coaches from California
Calgary Cannons players
Charlotte Knights players
Cleveland Indians players
Clinton Giants players
Edmonton Trappers players
Everett Giants players
Fresno Giants players
Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Minor league baseball coaches
Sportspeople from Fremont, California
Baseball players from Alameda County, California
Phoenix Firebirds players
San Francisco Giants players
San Jose Giants players
Seattle Mariners players
Spokane Falls Bigfoot baseball players
Shreveport Captains players
Texas A&M Aggies baseball players
Texas A&M University alumni
Tigres de Aragua players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Washington State Cougars baseba
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The AND gate is a logic gate that outputs 1 (true) only when both of its inputs are 1 (true). Since 0 is false, AND outputs the product (result of multiplication) of its inputs. That means that if either or both of its inputs are 0, the output will be 0 (zero multiplied by any real number is zero).
Symbols
There are three symbols for the AND gate:
Logic gates
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Cutoff Mountain is a mountain summit located in Park County, Montana.
Description
Cutoff Mountain is located in the Absaroka Range, which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. It is situated in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, along the Yellowstone National Park boundary, on land managed by Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Lamar River, which in turn is a tributary of the Yellowstone River. Topographic relief is significant as the southeast aspect rises above Pebble Creek in 1.5 mile. This geographical feature was originally named Cutoff Peak in 1929, and the Cutoff Mountain name was officially adopted in 1969 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Cutoff Mountain is located in a subarctic climate zone characterized by long, usually very cold winters, and mild summers. Winter temperatures can drop below −10 °F with wind chill factors below −30 °F.
Gallery
See also
Geology of the Rocky Mountains
Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park
References
External links
Weather forecast: Cutoff Mountain
Mountains of Montana
Mountains of Park County, Montana
Mountains of Yellowstone National Park
North American 3000 m summits
Gallatin National Forest
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This is a list of rivers wholly or partly in Afghanistan, arranged geographically by river basin.
Flowing into the Arabian Sea
Indus River (Pakistan)
Gomal River
Kundar River
Zhob River
Kurram River
Kabul River
Bara River
Kunar River
Pech River
Landai Sin River
Surkhab
Alingar River
Panjshir River
Ghorband River
Salang River
Logar River
Flowing into endorheic basins
Sistan Basin
Harut River (or Ardaskan River)
Farah River
Helmand River
Khash River
Arghandab River
Dori River
Tarnak River
Arghistan River
Lora River
Musa Qala River
Tirin River
Kaj River
Ab-i Istada
Ghazni River
Jilga River
Karakum Desert
Harirud
Jam River
Murghab River
Kushk River
Kashkan River
Aral Sea basin
Amu Darya
Sari Pul River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya
Balkh River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya
Khulm River (formerly Tashkurgan River), no longer reaches the Amu Darya
Kunduz River (or Surkhab River)
Khanabad River
Andarab
Bamiyan River
Kokcha River
Anjuman
Panj River
Aksu (Bartang)
Pamir River
Wakhan River
Shirin Tagab River, no longer reaches the Amu Darya
Shor Darya River
See also
List of dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan
Water supply in Afghanistan
References
External links
Map of Principal River Drainage Systems at page 12
Afghanistan
Rivers
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and the recreational climbers who climbed them. It is a narrative-style collection of stories from climbers who pioneered redwood climbing, including botanist Steve Sillett, lichenologist Marie Antoine, and Michael Taylor. They inadvertently discovered a thriving ecosystem hidden among the tree tops, 60–90 meters (200–300 ft) above, of redwood lattices, berry bushes, bonsai trees, epiphytes, lichens, voles, and salamanders.
The book was #83 on Amazon's Best Books of the Year. It was illustrated by Andrew Joslin.
The Wild Trees introduces several characters and provides backgrounds for them, as far back as their childhoods. Throughout the book, information about trees, forests and logging is woven into the story.
Several of the largest and tallest known redwoods are introduced, including descriptions. Details are provided about how these trees are climbed, explored and studied, although many of their specific locations are not given.
See also
Hyperion
References
Amazon.com
External links
"Climbing the redwoods", an earlier essay by Preston that appeared in The New Yorker
American non-fiction books
Coast redwood groves
Sequoia (genus)
Books about California
2007 non-fiction books
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Diplacanthopoma is a genus of viviparous brotulas.
Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:
Diplacanthopoma alcockii Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896
Diplacanthopoma brachysoma Günther, 1887
Diplacanthopoma brunnea H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1913
Diplacanthopoma japonicus (Steindachner & Döderlein (de), 1887)
Diplacanthopoma jordani Garman, 1899
Diplacanthopoma kreffti Cohen & J. G. Nielsen, 2002 (Deepbody cusk)
Diplacanthopoma nigripinnis Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924
Diplacanthopoma raniceps Alcock, 1898
Diplacanthopoma riversandersoni Alcock, 1895
References
Bythitidae
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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SOSI is a geospatial vector data format predominantly used for exchange of geographical information in Norway.
SOSI is short for Samordnet Opplegg for Stedfestet Informasjon (literally "Coordinated Approach for Spatial Information", but more commonly expanded in English to Systematic Organization of Spatial Information).
The standard includes standardized definitions for geometry and topology, data quality, coordinate systems, attributes and metadata.
The open standard was developed by the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. It was first published in 1987 (version 1.0). It is continuously being revised and further developed. The long term development points towards international standards (ISO 19100). This work is being done by ISO/TC211, currently chaired by Olaf Østensen with the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority.
References
Further reading
References
GML 3.1 specification (requires EULA to read)
Digital Earth: GeoWeb
GeoRSS - Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS Feeds
Recommended XMLGML encoding of common CRS definitions, Open Geospatial Consortium
Demonstration of a Coordinate Reference System Registry, Open Geospatial Consortium
Coordinate Reference System Registry of the OGP, - Supersedes above demonstration registry. OGP = Oil and Gas Producers Association.
C++ Data Binding for GML
sosi2kml utility
GIS file formats
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James Vance May (1873–1947) was an American psychiatrist and an early proponent for statistical studies and classification of mental diseases. He was among the first to recognize mental disease as a public health problem, a view that did not gain recognition and acceptance for many years.
May was born in Lawrence, Kansas. He received his AB at the University of Kansas in 1894 and his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. He was a resident at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia for one year then moved to the Brigham Hall Hospital in Canandaigua, New York, a private mental hospital where he was in charge of the pathology department and its laboratory. From 1900 to 1902, he served in the U.S. Army during the Philippine insurrection (Philippine War of Independence; Spanish–American War).
Following his Army service, he began to work at the New York State Mental Hospital System in Central Islip, New York, but after a short stay, he transferred to the Binghamton State Hospital and stayed until 1911. He became superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in 1911, and then moved to another position as medical member of the New York State Hospital Commission. In 1916, he moved to Massachusetts to become the superintendent of the Grafton State Hospital. Soon thereafter, he transferred to the Boston State Hospital where he stayed as superintendent from 1912 to 1936.
In 1913, the American Medico Psychological Association (later the American Psychiatric Association) established a committee on statistics and May was appointed to serve as a committee member. He stayed involved with the committee for nineteen years and was the committee chair for ten years. As an administrator, he was interested in mental hospital statistics and the classification of mental diseases, which were not uniform in the United States. His interest and work in these areas culminated in a publication in 1922 of the book Mental Disease: A Public Health
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The Astures or Asturs, also named Astyrs, were the Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of the northwest area of Hispania that now comprises almost the entire modern autonomous community of Principality of Asturias, the modern province of León, and the northern part of the modern province of Zamora (all in Spain), and eastern Trás os Montes in Portugal. They were a horse-riding highland cattle-raising people who lived in circular huts of stone drywall construction. The Albiones were a major tribe from western Asturias. Isidore of Seville gave an etymology as coming from a river Asturia, identified by David Magie with Órbigo River in the plain of León, by others the modern Esla River.
Location
The Asturian homeland encompassed the modern autonomous community of Asturias and the León, eastern Lugo, Orense, and northern Zamora provinces, along with the northeastern tip of the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes. Here they held the towns of Lancia (Villasabariego – León), Asturica (Astorga – León), Mons Medullius (Las Medulas? – León), Bergidum (Cacabelos, near Villafranca del Bierzo – León), Bedunia (Castro de Cebrones – León), Aliga (Alixa? – León), Curunda (Castro de Avelãs, Trás-os-Montes), Lucus Asturum (Lugo de Llanera – Asturias), Brigaetium (Benavente – Zamora), and Nemetobriga (A Pobra de Trives – Ourense), which was the religious center.
Origins
The Astures may have been part of the early Hallstatt expansion that left the Bavarian-Bohemian homeland and migrated into Gaul, some continuing over the mountains into Spain and Portugal. By the 6th century BC, they occupied castros (hillforts), such as Coanna and Mohias near Navia on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. From the Roman point-of-view, expressed in the brief remarks of the historians Florus, epitomising Livy, and Orosius , the Astures were divided into two factions, following the natural division made by the alpine karst mountains of the Picos de Europa range: the Transmontani (located in the modern Asturias, "bey
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The Chinese Taipei baseball team is the national men's baseball team of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It is governed by the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association. The team is ranked fourth in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation. The team is usually made up of professionals from Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League, Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, and Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball from the United States.
Originally known as the National Baseball Team of the Republic of China it was renamed in the 1980s as the Chinese Taipei Baseball Team.
The team has won five titles in the Asian Baseball Championship (most recently in 2019), a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and a silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. It won the gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha in a sweeping victory by beating South Korea, Thailand, China, Philippines, and finally all-time rival Japan. It achieved eighth place in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The team came in fifth in the 12-team 2019 WBSC Premier12 Tournament, in November 2019. The team will try to qualify for the 2020 Olympics at the six-team Final Qualifying Tournament.
Results and fixtures
The following is a list of professional baseball match results currently active in the latest version of the WBSC World Rankings, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Legend
2019
2023
Current roster
Tournament record
Premier12 Tournament
2015
Team Chinese Taipei came in ninth in the 2015 WBSC Premier12 Tournament.
2019
Team Chinese Taipei came in fifth in the 12-team 2019 WBSC Premier12 Tournament, in November 2019.
World Baseball Classic
World Baseball Classic, 2006
Chinese Taipei participated in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. The squad included players from Major League Baseball. During the Classic, the team played in Pool A but ended up being the third place and did not advance. Their only victory was a 12–3 win over Chi
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Stone House, also known as the Zachariah Johnson House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia. It was built in 1797, and is a -story, five bay, stone dwelling. It has a side gable roof, interior end chimneys, and a central-hall-plan. The front facade features a rough-hewn, four columned portico with pediment.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
References
External links
Stone House, State Route 687, Lexington, Lexington, VA: 6 photos, 6 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Houses completed in 1797
Houses in Rockbridge County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Rockbridge County, Virginia
1797 establishments in Virginia
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The Blue Line is a light rail line in the system of mass transit in Dallas, Texas (USA), operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. Along with the , it is one of the original modern rail lines in Dallas.
Route
The southern terminus of the line is currently at UNT Dallas in south Dallas at University Hills Blvd. just south of Camp Wisdom Rd. The line runs north, under the Dallas Convention Center and through downtown Dallas. After leaving Mockingbird, the line diverts to the northeast towards White Rock Lake. The line then goes north and then east into Garland, finally ending in Rowlett.
History
The rail line was part of the initial launch of DART's light rail service in 1996. At the time, the line only ran from Illinois to Pearl in the northeast corner of downtown. In 1997, the Blue Line was extended south to Ledbetter and was extended along the Red Line to Mockingbird in 1999, in preparation for the future extension to Garland.
On September 24, 2001, the Blue Line extended to White Rock, just northwest of White Rock Lake. On May 6, 2002, the Blue Line was extended to the LBJ/Skillman, just beyond LBJ Freeway (Interstate 635). It was extended to Downtown Garland on November 18, 2002, and to its current northern terminus, Downtown Rowlett, on December 3, 2012.
DART's 2030 Transit System Plan, approved in October 2006, calls for the Blue Line to be extended south beyond Ledbetter to the University of North Texas at Dallas, as well as a branch along Bonnie View road to Interstate 20 and the SouthPort Intermodal Terminal. The plan also includes a new Lake Highlands station near Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane, which opened as DART's second infill station in December 2010.
In October 2014, construction began for a 2.6-mile extension south from Ledbetter station to the University of North Texas at Dallas, adding two new stations to the line: Camp Wisdom and UNT Dallas. The extension opened for service on October 24, 2016.
Future plans
The D2 Sub
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Explora can refer to:
Ici Explora, Canadian French-language television channel
Explora (Albuquerque, New Mexico), science center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Parque Explora, science museum in Medellín, Colombia
Explora-Museum, science museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Explora Phones Inc, New York-based telecommunications company
Explora Petroleum, Norwegian oil company
Explora Knoll, undersea knoll in the Antarctic
Explora (magazine), Italian monthly magazine
Explora (comics), series of comics published by Glénat since 2012
Explora (Light studio), Indian light studio
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The Compesières Commandry is the main Commandry of the Order of Malta in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The Commandry is located in the municipality of Bardonnex.
History
The village of Compesières existed since the 12th Century and was also mentioned as the family name of the local noble family. In 1270 the Bishop of Geneva, Aymo of Menthonay, granted the village church to the Order of Saint John. They then expanded the church into a Commandery. It is likely that the oldest parts of the castle date from this period. The current castle was built in the 15th Century. It was used by the Order as a hospice for pilgrims, hospital and a military saltpeter factory. In 1536, during the Protestant Reformation, the Commandry was stripped from the Order. The order returned to the castle in 1564, but it was held by the Protestant leaders of Geneva and Bern until a treaty between Geneva and Savoy returned it completely in 1598.
The order continued to hold the Commandry until the 1882, when it was transferred to the municipality of Bardonnex. In 1955, the municipality gave one of the rooms in the castle to the Order of Malta to build a museum.
See also
List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland
References
Castles in the canton of Geneva
Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Geneva
Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller
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Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (14 March 1810, Herrelöv's Farm, near Kristianstad - 20 September 1890, Stockholm) was a Swedish landscape painter and art professor.
Biography
After completing his basic education, a friend of the family provided the assistance he needed to study with in Lund, who taught him drawing. On his recommendation, Palm was able to make some illustrations for a book on European algae by the botanist, Carl Adolph Agardh. He then attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and supported himself by doing more illustrations; notably for the zoologist, Sven Nilsson.
His early paintings were landscapes in the Romantic style that showed the influence of Carl Johan Fahlcrantz. After a trip to Norway in 1833, with Count , who dabbled in lithography, he came under the influence of Johan Christian Dahl and began to depict nature more realistically. This change came to fruition in his book of lithographs from 1837.
That same year, he went to Berlin for treatment of an unspecified eye disease. Rather than returning home, he travelled throughout Germany and spent two years in Vienna; finally arriving in Rome in 1840. That winter, he went to Venice, filling sketchbooks that he took back to Rome. Altogether, he spent eleven years in Italy, becoming part of a local community of Swedish artists that dominated the Swedish art scene until the ascension of the Düsseldorf School.
In 1851, he toured through Spain and Paris on his way back to Sweden. The following year, he was named a member of the Royal Academy. In 1856, he married Eva Sandberg, the daughter of Professor Johan Gustaf Sandberg. Their daughter, Anna Palm de Rosa, also became a painter. He began teaching at the Academy in 1859. His students gave him the nickname "Palma Vecchio" (Old Palm, in Italian), and he began signing his paintings with a picture of a palm tree. Upon his retirement in 1880, he was named Professor Emeritus. He remained uninfluenced by the new styles of art that developed during his l
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones Sr. (1911/1912 – February 24, 2004) was the longtime owner and editor of the Tulsa Tribune.
In 1933, Jones. earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin.
Jones was the editor of the Tulsa Tribune from 1941 to 1988 and its publisher until 1991. Lloyd Jones' father Richard Lloyd Jones had bought the newspaper in 1919 from businessman-philanthropist Charles Page, and had also served as its editor. His brother Richard Lloyd Jones Jr served as president. His son Jenkin "Jenk" Lloyd Jones Jr. took over as editor and then publisher when Jones Sr. retired.
Jones Sr. was also the president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1956, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1972.
He died on February 24, 2004, at age 92.
Family
Jones' father, Richard Lloyd Jones, was a cousin of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed his home in Tulsa in 1929. The house, officially known as Westhope, was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on April 10, 1975. Its NRIS number is 75001575.
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American newspaper editors
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Writers from Tulsa, Oklahoma
American male journalists
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Henry William Murray, (1 December 1880 – 7 January 1966) was an Australian grazier, soldier, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Decorated several times throughout his service in the First World War, Murray rose from the rank of private to lieutenant colonel in three and a half years. He is often described as the most highly decorated infantry soldier of the British Empire during the First World War.
Born in Tasmania, Murray worked as a farmer, courier and timber cutter before enlisting in September 1914. Assigned to a machine gun crew, he served during the Gallipoli Campaign, where he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal before the withdrawal from the peninsula. He was later transferred along with the rest of his battalion to France for service on the Western Front, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order during the Battle of the Somme. In February 1917, Murray commanded a company during the battalion's attack on the German position of Stormy Trench. During the engagement, the company was able to capture the position and repulse three fierce counter-attacks, with Murray often leading bayonet and bombing charges himself. For his actions during the battle, Murray was awarded the Victoria Cross. Soon after his Victoria Cross action, he was promoted to major and earned a Bar to his Distinguished Service Order during an attack on the Hindenburg Line near Bullecourt. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in early 1918, he assumed command of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion, where he would remain until the end of the war.
Returning to Australia in 1920, Murray eventually settled in Queensland, where he purchased the grazing farm that would be his home for the remainder of his life. Re-enlisting for service in the Second World War, he was appointed as commanding officer of the 26th (Militia) Battalion. Taking his disch
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Commodore Yosaphat "Yos" Sudarso (24 November 1925 – 15 January 1962) was an Indonesian naval officer killed at the Battle of Arafura Sea. At the time of his death, Yos Sudarso was deputy chief of staff of the Indonesian Navy and in charge of an action to infiltrate Dutch New Guinea. He was promoted to vice admiral posthumously.
The Battle near Vlakke Hoek (Etna Bay) of the Arafura Sea stopped an attempt by the Indonesian Navy to drop off 150 soldiers in Kaimana in Dutch New Guinea for sabotage and to incite the local population against the Dutch government. Sudarso was in charge of the operation at sea, while Colonel Murshid commanded the infiltrants. Three Jaguar-class torpedo boats left the Aru Islands in the middle of the night but were intercepted by a Dutch reconnaissance plane, as the Dutch had anticipated the action for weeks. The torpedo boats responded to the flares sent off by the plane by shooting at it. The Dutch destroyer then joined the scene and sunk the RI Matjan Tutul, commanded by Sudarso. The other two ships, RI Matjan Kumbang and RI Harimau, fled, but one hit a reef and the other was disabled by shooting. The Evertsen was able to save most occupants of the Matjan Tutul, but at least three sailors died, among whom was Commodore Sudarso.
The action itself was an abject failure and General Nasution even refused to relay the bad news to Sukarno, forcing Colonel Murshid to do this in person. However, the small battle was partially responsible for the subsequent involvement of the Soviet Union and United States in the case of Dutch New Guinea, and it is honored in Indonesia by "Sea Sacrifice Day," an annual nationwide day of remembrance. Twelve years after his death, Yos Sudarso was officially added to the register of Indonesian heroes of the Revolution. Indonesia issued a special postage stamp to commemorate his service to his country, while the RI Harimau was made into a monument at Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.
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Rockley is a small village in the Central Tablelands region in New South Wales, Australia. At the , Rockley had a population of 178 people.
Rockley has a tablelands climate similar to Bathurst. Summers are generally warm and mild. Autumn is generally mild to cool with few frosts at the end of the season. Winter is generally cool to cold with some day times maxima under 5 degrees, there are on average about 3 snowfalls per years. Many days through winter have thick frost and fog. Spring has some late frosts and then days turn warm.
History
Rockley was first opened as a township in 1848 after a copper mine was opened 8 km from the town and gold was also uncovered. However it was first granted as farm land to William Lawson in 1818, then granted to Captain Watson Augustus Steel who named the property after his birthplace in Wiltshire England.
Buildings
Currently the village has two churches, an Anglican church and a Catholic church. There are two recreation halls, the School of Arts Hall and the Sports Oval Hall.
Accommodation is available at a bed and breakfast that was at one time a bank building on Budden Street in the centre of the town.
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The Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1817 by King George III, who also established the Regius Chairs of Surgery and Natural History at the university. The chair originated from a lectureship in chemistry, established in 1747.
Regius Professors of Chemistry
The first Professor was Thomas Thomson, inventor of the saccharometer and discoverer of Thomsonite. He was succeeded by Thomas Anderson, who assisted Joseph Lister, Regius Professor of Surgery, with his work on antisepsis, and who discovered pyridine. The chair was later held by Nobel laureate Sir Derek Barton.
The current occupant is Professor Leroy Cronin.
Thomas Thomson FRS FLS FRSE (1818)
Thomas Anderson (1852)
John Ferguson FRS (1874)
George Henderson FRS (1919)
George Barger FRS FRSE FCS LLD (1937)
Sir James Cook (1939)
Sir Derek Barton FRS FRSE (1955)
Ralph Raphael CBE FRS FRSE (1957)
Gordon Kirby (1972)
Philip Kocienski FRS (1997)
Charles Wilson (2003)
Leroy Cronin FRSE FRSC (2013)
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List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
Chemistry, Regius
1817 establishments in Scotland
Chemistry, Glasgow
Chemistry, Regius, Glasgow
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Evadale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jasper County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,246 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Evadale is located in southern Jasper County at (30.353492, -94.065332). It is bordered to the west by the Neches River, which forms the Hardin County line.
U.S. Route 96 passes through the community, leading northeast to Buna and west to Silsbee. Farther afield, Jasper is north via US-96, and Beaumont is to the southwest.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Evadale CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 3.78%, are water.
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,246 people, 555 households, and 374 families residing in the CDP.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,430 people, 537 households, and 407 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 591 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.95% White, 0.07% Native American, 0.42% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.82% of the population.
There were 537 households, out of which 36.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.2% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.2% were non-families. 20.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.10.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 29.1% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.8 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $30,781, and the median income for a family was $36,813. Males had
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The HTML500 is a multi-city Canadian technology conference that teaches 500 attendees per event the basics of HTML and CSS programming. Its goal is to promote web development and web programming literacy among Canadian youth, and open the doors for those who may be interested in pursuing careers in technology.
The HTML500 is Canada's largest educational technology event, having taught thousands of Canadians how to code since its inception. Its annual events are held in four Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, London, and Calgary. Event sponsors include IBM, Telus (a Canadian telecom giant), the British Columbia Government's Innovation Council, and Microsoft.
History
The HTML500 was founded in 2013 by Canadian entrepreneurs Khurram Virani and Jeremy Shaki. Virani and Shaki are the co-founders of Lighthouse Labs, the largest Canadian web developer Coding Bootcamp . Lighthouse Labs acts as the official sponsor and parent company of the conferences. In an interview with BetaKit, Shaki said of the educational initiative, "It's about more people in Canada understanding the value of digital literacy. It's about trying to get our governments and other major Canadian institutions involved in the conversation."
In 2014, the event expanded to three additional Canadian cities: Calgary, Toronto, and London.
The second annual event in Vancouver had over 2500 applicants, of which the official 500 were selected through a lottery process. Over half of the attendees were women. Beginning with the second Vancouver event, the Vancouver Economic Commission began running a career fair in tandem with the day's activities to further provide career resources to aspiring web developers.
The multi-city events are routinely covered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television network.
Event activities
Each event is designed to host 500 attendees. In each city, 50 local technology companies are chosen to help participate by managing and providing teaching assistance at one of
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James Carl Stevens (born July 27, 1953), a chemist, was the first Distinguished Fellow, at the Dow Chemical Company, retiring in January 2015. His area of expertise is organometallic chemistry and his primary field of research is in the area of polyolefin catalysis, particularly in the area of polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene/styrene copolymers, and the combinatorial discovery of organometallic single-site catalysts. Stevens major contributions have come in the discovery and commercial implementation of single-site polyolefin catalysts. He invented and led the commercialization of constrained geometry catalyst for the polymerization of olefins. These have been commercialized by Dow as a number of polymers, elastomers and plostomers.
Stevens led efforts in the development of photovoltaic materials based on earth abundant elements prior to his retirement.
Education
Born in Miami Springs, Florida, Stevens received his bachelor's in chemistry from The College of Wooster in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1979 where he studied with Daryle Busch. His thesis topic was Synthetic and Physical Inorganic chemistry of monomeric molecular oxygen complexes. In 2011, Stevens received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Texas A&M University.
Advancements to chemistry
Stevens is known primarily for the discovery and commercialization of a number of significant families of polymers in widespread commercial use today. This discovery can be found in many forms of consumer products including plastic wine corks; shoe and sneaker insoles; casual plastic footwear (such as Crocs); automobile parts (dashboards, bumpers, hoses, gaskets); food wraps and films like poultry bags; synthetic EPDM rubber, hot melt adhesives and more.
Stevens discovered and led the implementation of many families of new single site catalysts, cocatalysts, and new polymers. His ground-breaking discovery of constrained geometry catalysts (see Constrained geometry complex), single-site
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The 2004–05 FA Women's Premier League Cup was the 14th edition of the FA Women's Premier League's league cup competition, which began in 1991. It was sponsored by Nationwide and was officially known as the FA Nationwide Women's Premier League Cup. The competition was contested by all 34 teams of the three divisions of the FA Women's Premier League (National Division, Northern Division and Southern Division). Arsenal won their eight title after a 3–0 win over Charlton Athletic in the final.
Results
All results listed are published by The Football Association (FA).
The division each team play in is indicated in brackets after their name: (NA)=National Division; (NO)=Northern Division; (S)=Southern Division.
Preliminary round
First round
Second round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
See also
2004–05 FA Women's Premier League
2005 FA Women's Cup Final
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RSSSF
FA Women's National League Cup
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are an invaluable tool of Japanese Diet members, especially of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). These groups serve as pipelines through which funds and other support are conveyed to legislators and through which the legislators can distribute favors to constituents in return. To avoid the stringent legal restrictions on political activity outside of designated campaign times, koenkai sponsor year-round cultural, social, and "educational" activities. For example, Tanaka Kakuei used his "iron constituency", or invincible constituency, in rural Niigata Prefecture to build a formidable, nationwide political machine. But other politicians, like Ito Masayoshi, were so popular in their districts that they could refrain, to some extent, from money politics and promote a "clean" image. Koenkai remained particularly important in the over-represented rural areas, where paternalistic, old-style politics flourished and where the LDP had its strongest support.
In the classic oyabun-kobun manner, local people who were consistently loyal to a politician became favored recipients of government largess. In the 1980s, Tanaka's third electoral district in Niigata was the nation's top beneficiary in per capita public works spending. The importance of local loyalties is also reflected in the widespread practice of a second generation's "inheriting" Diet seats from fathers or fathers-in-law. This trend is found predominantly, although not exclusively, in the LDP.
Introduction
Definition
Koenkai (後援会) are Japanese political support groups centered on individual politicians that emerged in the post-war period. In their most basic form, koenkai serve two functions. First and most importantly, they act as a vote mobilization machine that supports the politician for whom the koenkai was established. Throughout time, the vote-gathering role played by koenkai has been substantial and consistent, especially for the LDP. From 1972 to 2003, people who identified themselves with koenkai were
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Saint Patrick is one of the Catholic parishes of Grenada, covering the north of the country.
Attractions
A spectacular coastline with several fine bays faces several small islands to the north. Its most famous beach is Bathway Beach. The principal town in St. Patrick is Sauteurs. One landmark is Leapers' Hill, where legend states approximately 40 indigenous Caribs jumped over the cliff and into the sea to escape colonization by the French. Several volcanic cones and craters are located within the parish, such as Punchbowl and Lake Antoine.
History
In the 18th and 19th Centuries, Irvin's Bay was a working harbour for shipping sugar and other produce. Goods were grown in nearby estates and the Bay House and were sent to England and France. In 1867, the Maidstone sailing ship carried 289 Indians from Calcutta to Irvin's Bay to address a labour shortage on Grenada estates.
For much of the twentieth century, the parish was agricultural with several large estates accounting for a significant share of cocoa and nutmeg production in Grenada.
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Union Junior/Senior High School is a small, public High School, located in Rimersburg, Clarion County. The school is part of the Union School District. The school campus is home to approximately 375 students and 30 Faculty Members. Students, at their choosing, have the opportunity to attend Clarion County Career Center if they desire to pursue a vocational trade.
Extracurriculars
Union School District offers students a variety of clubs, activities and sports. Beginning in 2016, Allegheny-Clarion Valley Junior/Senior High School entered into an athletic co-op agreement with Union Junior/Senior High School with regard to football, cross country, and golf. Under the agreement, Union High School would act as the host school for football (Though games are expected to be played at both schools evenly), while A-C is the host school for golf and cross-country.
Athletics
Union participates in PIAA District IX (9)
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Schools in Clarion County, Pennsylvania
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Rubus tholiformis is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the rose family. It has been found only in eastern Canada (Québec and Nova Scotia) and the northeastern United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont).
The genetics of Rubus is extremely complex, so that it is difficult to decide on which groups should be recognized as species. There are many rare species with limited ranges such as this. Further study is suggested to clarify the taxonomy. Some studies have suggested that R. tholiformis may have originated as a hybrid between R. setosus and R. hispidus.
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Flora of Quebec
Flora of Nova Scotia
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New In Town was a life-simulation social network game developed by Digital Chocolate that "allows players to customize an avatar and take another shot at life after high school, choosing a career and establishing themselves in a fictional city." The game's genre is similar to popular The Sims series but with a time mechanics based gameplay that is more reminiscent of legacy titles such as Jones in the Fast Lane.
Gameplay
The player's goal is to "find a life, love and gainful employment in the big city". The gameplay is based on time mechanics: everything the player's character—their avatar—does costs a certain number of time units to complete. This includes moving around the city, purchasing items, hanging out with friends or working. When the player runs out of time units, the current game day is over and the avatar must sleep.
If the avatar's happiness level is too low or hungry, a penalty to the time units available for the next day is levied. Happiness can be restored by eating food (which only has to be done once per day in order to stave off the hunger penalty), shopping, socializing with friends or attending fun activities such as going to the movies. Happiness drops while working or studying, though both are necessary: working provides the player with money, while studying increases skill levels, certain levels of which are necessary to secure higher-paying jobs.
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Official web site
2012 video games
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Inactive multiplayer online games
Digital Chocolate games
Facebook games
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Giuseppe Misuraca (28 February 1884 – 4 June 1962) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and served as Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela from 1941 to 1949.
Biography
Giuseppe Misuraca was born on 28 February 1884 in Cefalù, Sicily, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 18 April 1908. In his diaries, Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII described him as "my dear friend from the Seminary".
To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1908. His work in the diplomatic service of the Holy See included a posting in the United States where he was promoted from second class to first class secretary in 1913 As World War II was starting he was counselor at the nunciature in Italy.
On 2 July 1941, Pope Pius XII named him Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela and titular archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. He received his episcopal consecration on 20 July 1941 from Cardinal Luigi Maglione.
He resigned in March 1949 at the age of 65.
Misuraca died on 4 June 1962 at the age of 78.
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1962 deaths
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4BU is an Australian radio station serving the Bundaberg region in Queensland, Australia. It was opened in December 1935.
4BU is a classic hits station playing hit songs from the 1960s right through to the mid-2000s. Owned by ARN, 4BU places strong emphasis on local programming, with its entire daytime lineup broadcast from its Maryborough St studios.
4BU also takes talk programming from 2UE overnight.
In November 2021, 4BU, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, were acquired by the Australian Radio Network. This deal allows Grant's stations, including 4BU, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. The deal was finalized on January 4, 2022. It is expected 4BU will integrate with ARN's Pure Gold Network, but will retain its current name according to the press release from ARN.
On-air line up
Weekdays
5am - 10am: The Big Breakfast
10am - 12pm: Music
12pm - 1pm: The 80's Lunch
1pm - 5pm: Trevor Leutton
5pm - 6pm: The Christian O'Connell Show
6pm - 7am: JAM Nation
7pm - 9pm: The 20/20 Retro Countdown
Heritage listing
The 4BU Radio Station building at 55 Woongarra Street was built by the station in 1957 and occupied until 1992 when the station relocated to larger premises. The building was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 2000.
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Radio stations established in 1935
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Pleasant Valley Township is a township in Scott County, Iowa, United States.
Geography
Pleasant Valley Township covers an area of and is located on the shore of the Mississippi River between the cities of Bettendorf and Le Claire According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Fenno and Pleasant Valley. Forest Grove School No. 5 and the Roswell Spencer House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located in the township.
Education
Pleasant Valley Township is served by the Pleasant Valley Community School District, including Pleasant Valley High School.
Recreation
Smith's Island Recreation Area, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, offers fishing and viewing of local wildlife.
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Townships in Scott County, Iowa
Cities in the Quad Cities
Townships in Iowa
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The Black Unicorn is a fantasy book written by Terry Brooks. It is the second book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series. The book continues the stories of Ben Holiday, Willow, and Questor Thews. Each of them had a dream about something important to them. They each left Sterling Silver (the castle they live in) to look for what they dreamed about. The dreams led Ben Holiday to Chicago, Questor Thews to find the books of magic, and Willow to hunt for the black unicorn.
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1987 books
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Major General B. N. Kumar was an Indian Army officer. He was chairman of Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB). He was shot dead by militants in Chandigarh on 7 November 1988. He was the highest ranking military personnel to be killed by Sikh militants during the insurgency.
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1988 murders in Asia
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was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Nanbu, in Sannohe District of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. It was also known as the (i.e. former Sannohe Castle). It was located at a strategic junction of the Ōshū Kaidō with the Kakuno Kaidō and the Mabechi River.The site of the castle, as well as the Buddhist temple of Sankō-ji, and the Moto-Sannohe Hachiman-gu Shinto Shrine collectively received protection as a National Historic Site on 30 September 2004. Portions of the site are now on private lands occupied by local farm houses and fruit orchards.
Shōjojidate ruins
The Nanbu clan claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji of Kai Province. Minamoto no Yoshimitsu was awarded Kai Province following the Gosannen War, and his great-grandson Nobuyoshi took the surname Takeda. Another great grandson, Mitsuyuki, took the name "Nanbu", after the location of his estates in Kai Province, which are now part of the town of Nanbu, Yamanashi. Nanbu Mitsuyuki joined Minamoto no Yoritomo at the Battle of Ishibashiyama and served in various mid-level positions within the Kamakura shogunate and is mentioned several times in the Azuma Kagami. He accompanied Yoritomo in the conquest of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara in 1189, and was awarded with vast estates in Nukanobu District the extreme northeast of Honshū, building Shōjujidate Castle.
The fortification was more of a fortified house than a true castle, and is a built on a roughly trapezoidal 20 meter hilltop, partially protected to the north by a 20 meter wide dry moat, and by steep cliffs on other sides. It was also located adjacent to the Nanbu clan temple of Shōjo-ji, from which it takes its name. The castle served as the residence of the Sannohe Nanbu clan for over 200 years, until the time of the 24th hereditary chieftain, Nanbu Harumasa, when it was burned down in a revolt by one of his retainers in June 1539.
Shōjujidate Castle is located only 700 meters west of Hiragasaki
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The 1997-98 Azerbaijan Top League was the seventh season of the Azerbaijan Top League, since their independence from the USSR in August 1991, and was contested by 15 clubs. Kapaz won their second title and Qarabağ and the Azerbaijan U-18 team were relegated. Khazri Buzovna pulled out of the league and dissolved after 8 games, as did Kur Nur at the end of the season.
Teams
Stadia and locations
1Qarabağ played their home matches at Surakhani Stadium in Baku before moving to their current stadium on 3 May 2009.
League table
Results
Season statistics
Top scorers
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Azerbaijan 1997-98 RSSSF
APL Stats
Azerbaijan Premier League seasons
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1997–98 in Azerbaijani football
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The Bismarck Civic Auditorium on North 6th Street in Bismarck, North Dakota, was built in 1914. It has also been known as City Auditorium and, after 1989, the Belle Mehus Civic Auditorium. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
It was a major work of Bismarck architect Arthur Wesley Van Horn (1860-1931). Preliminary design work was done by architects Reed and Stem of St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Theatres completed in 1914
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Rancho Nacional was a Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present day Monterey County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Vicente Cantua. The grant was between the Salinas River and present day Salinas.
History
Vicente Cantua (April 5, 1793 in Fresno, California - 1871 in Monterey, Ca) married Juana Soto (Dec 26, 1802 in Carmel, Monterrey, CA - 1841) in Monterey in 1827. He was mayordomo of Rancho El Alisal (Hartnell) in 1836, and administrator of Mission Soledad in 1839. He was granted the two square league Rancho Nacional in 1839. During Spanish rule, the land had been designated as Rancho del Rey San Pedro. The "del Rey" in the name indicated that the land was set aside specifically to provide food for the king's soldiers garrisoned at the nearby Presidio of Monterey. Independent Mexico, having no king, changed the name to Rancho Nacional.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Nacional was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Vincente Cantua in 1866.
In 1851, James Bryant Hill came from Boston and leased part of Rancho Salsipuedes. Hill purchased Rancho Nacional, started a settlement known as Hill Town on the Salinas River, and began growing grain. Up until this time, the land had mostly been used to raise cattle. Although he produced record amounts of wheat and barley, Hill ended up losing his holdings.
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Ranchos of California
List of Ranchos of California
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1839 establishments in Alta California
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Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan on 18 September 2010 to elect members of the House of the People (Wolesi Jirga). The Afghan Independent Election Commission - established in accordance with the article 156 of the Constitution of Afghanistan for the purpose of organizing and supervising all elections in the country - postponed the poll from its original date of 22 May to September 18.
The results were delayed on several occasions, but were finalized on October 31. The Taliban issued a direct threat to all those involved in the House of the People elections.
Campaign
The campaign period kicked off on June 23 and ran until September 16. On June 23, 2010, the full list of candidates was announced; 2,577 candidates filed to run, 405 of them women.
On July 7, 2010, the Electoral Complaint Commission announced that it had disqualified 36 candidates because of ties to illegal private militias. However, according to critics "the net caught a few small fish while the sharks swam around it". Sima Samar, who heads the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, said she was concerned that there were alleged war criminals on the candidate lists.
Security
"We urge people not to participate in the election. Everything and everyone affiliated with the election is our target -- candidates, security forces, campaigners, election workers, voters are all our targets," said Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
Three candidates were killed during the campaign period while there were several attempts on the lives of others, some of which have resulted in the deaths of campaign workers.
In a tally kept by the Free Election Foundation of Afghanistan, at least eleven campaign workers were killed.
Polling centres
On August 18, Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission announced it would open 5,897 polling centers for the 2010 Wolesi Jirga elections. This was 938 fewer than the original plan to have 6,835 centers opened.
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During nuclear magnetic resonance observations, spin–lattice relaxation is the mechanism by which the longitudinal component of the total nuclear magnetic moment vector (parallel to the constant magnetic field) exponentially relaxes from a higher energy, non-equilibrium state to thermodynamic equilibrium with its surroundings (the "lattice"). It is characterized by the spin–lattice relaxation time, a time constant known as T1.
There is a different parameter, T2, the spin-spin relaxation time, which concerns the exponential relaxation of the transverse component of the nuclear magnetization vector ( to the external magnetic field). Measuring the variation of T1 and T2 in different materials is the basis for some magnetic resonance imaging techniques.
Nuclear physics
T1 characterizes the rate at which the longitudinal Mz component of the magnetization vector recovers exponentially towards its thermodynamic equilibrium, according to equation
Or, for the specific case that
It is thus the time it takes for the longitudinal magnetization to recover approximately 63% [1-(1/e)] of its initial value after being flipped into the magnetic transverse plane by a 90° radiofrequency pulse.
Nuclei are contained within a molecular structure, and are in constant vibrational and rotational motion, creating a complex magnetic field. The magnetic field caused by thermal motion of nuclei within the lattice is called the lattice field. The lattice field of a nucleus in a lower energy state can interact with nuclei in a higher energy state, causing the energy of the higher energy state to distribute itself between the two nuclei. Therefore, the energy gained by nuclei from the RF pulse is dissipated as increased vibration and rotation within the lattice, which can slightly increase the temperature of the sample. The name spin-lattice relaxation refers to the process in which the spins give the energy they obtained from the RF pulse back to the surrounding lattice, thereby restorin
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Rutherford University, previously doing business as Senior University International and Stratford International University, was an unaccredited private institution that offered degrees online. It operated from 1993 through 2009 and offered the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Business Administration.
The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization had labeled Rutherford University a degree mill.
Recognition
On its website Rutherford claimed to be accredited by the International States Parliament, an organization based in Palermo, Sicily. Rutherford also claimed to be recognized by the government of the African nation of Swaziland, but this was denied by the nation's minister of education and other education officials in early 2008. Subsequently, the claim of recognition by Swaziland was removed from the university website and returned.
The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization stated that Rutherford University had "no authority to issue degrees." The British Columbia government believed that the school was operating unlawfully from British Columbia.
History
Rutherford was established in 1993 as Senior University International in Evanston, Wyoming. Its owner or co-owner was Lester Carr, who was also a co-owner of Columbia Pacific University and had served as president of Columbia Commonwealth University in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Senior University International was not allowed to continue its operations from Wyoming after it did not meet the requirements of the Wyoming government.
Subsequently, the school officially operated from British Columbia. According to Hoovers it had annual sales of 600,000 dollars with seven employees in Vancouver, but other reports stated that it operated from Richmond. Richmond was the place of residence of Rutherford senior Abdul Sultan Hassam, Vancouver was the residence of Leslie Carr. In March 2006 Rutherford wa
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A germanium-68/gallium-68 generator is a device used to extract the positron-emitting isotope 68Ga of gallium from a source of decaying germanium-68. The parent isotope 68Ge has a half-life of 271 days and can be easily utilized for in-hospital production of generator produced 68Ga. Its decay product gallium-68 (with a half-life of only 68 minutes, inconvenient for transport) is extracted and used for certain positron emission tomography nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures, where the radioisotope's relatively short half-life and emission of positrons for creation of 3-dimensional PET scans, are useful.
Parent isotope (68Ge) source
The parent isotope germanium-68 is the longest-lived (271 days) of the radioisotopes of germanium. It has been produced by several methods. In the U.S., it is primarily produced in proton accelerators: At Los Alamos National Laboratory, it may be separated out as a product of proton capture, after proton irradiation of Nb-encapsulated gallium metal. At Brookhaven National Laboratories, 40 MeV proton irradiation of a gallium metal target produces germanium-68 by proton capture and double neutron knockout, from gallium-69 (the most common of two stable isotopes of gallium). This reaction is: 69Ga(p,2n)68Ge.
A Russian source produces germanium-68 from accelerator-produced helium ion (alpha) irradiation of zinc-66, again after knockout of two neutrons, in the nuclear reaction 66Zn(α,2n)68Ge.
Mechanism of generator function
When loaded with the parent isotope germanium-68, these generators function similarly to technetium-99m generators, in both cases using a process similar to ion chromatography. The stationary phase is either metal-free or alumina, TiO2 or SnO2, onto which germanium-68 is adsorbed. The use of metal-free columns allows direct labeling of 68Ga without prepurification, hence making production of gallium-68-radiolabeled compounds more convenient. The mobile phase is a solvent able to elute (wash out) gallium-68 (III) (68G
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61st Street station is a SEPTA trolley stop in Philadelphia. It is located in the Angora neighborhood of Philadelphia near Baltimore Avenue, where US 13 crosses Cobbs Creek into Delaware County. It is the western terminus of the SEPTA subway–surface trolley lines route 34. Trolleys run from here to Center City Philadelphia.
The trolley tracks in the station form a loop, nicknamed the Angora Loop, so that trains can enter westbound and depart eastbound. The loop circles around a Caribbean barbecue restaurant; it is across US 13 from a local playground as well as the Cobbs Creek Trail across 61st Street.
The Angora Loop lies a few blocks west of the Angora Regional Railroad Station, which serves the SEPTA Media/Wawa Line. No direct connection between the two systems are available at this stop, however.
References
External links
Station from Google Maps Street View
Railway stations in Philadelphia
SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Line stations
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Deeside RFC is a rugby union club based in Banchory, Scotland. The Men's team currently plays in Caledonia North 2.
History
The club began as Aboyne RFC; but they moved to Banchory in 2011, when 4 new rugby pitches were built. The Deeside name was then adopted to reflect the new catchment area.
The club installed new floodlights in 2014.
The club became a registered charity in February 2017. They have the Scottish Charity Number: SCO47171.
It applied to the council to build a clubhouse in 2019.
Sides
The club takes in Primary 1 to adults, and has around 500 players attending in all ages, male and female.
Sevens tournament
The club runs the Deeside Sevens. It is one leg of the 'Kings of the North' tournament.
Honours
Mens
Caledonia North 4
Champions (1): 2022
Banff Sevens
Champions (1): 2019
Garioch Sevens
Champions (1): 1994 (when as Aboyne RFC)
References
Rugby union in Aberdeenshire
Rugby union teams in Scotland
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Precipitation (1933 – 6 March 1957) was an influential British-bred Thoroughbred stallion who is found in the pedigrees of many racehorses and sport horses today. He is responsible for helping maintain the Matchem sireline through his son, Sheshoon.
Pedigree
He was by Hurry On and out of Double Life, a foundation mare of the famous British stud, Someries Stud. Hurry On, the sire of Precipitation, was unbeaten in his six starts and sired three winners of The Derby during the 1920s. Double Life was a good racemare that won six races worth £5,647 and then proved to be an exceptional broodmare. Her foals included Casanova (a winner and a good sire), Persian Gulf (Coronation Cup and outstanding sire) and Doubleton who was the grandam of Meld.
Racing record
Precipitation did not race until he was three owing to a heel problem. He did well on the track, winning seven races including the 1937 Ascot Gold Cup (20f), King Edward VII Stakes (12f), Gratwicke Stakes and Queen's Prize (16f) for a total of £18,419.
Stud record
He was successful at stud, producing seven classic winning racehorses and sport horses. During his stud career, which began in 1938, he was one of the leading sires in England, and produced over 50 stakes winners, including:
Airborne (won St. Leger Stakes, Epsom Derby)
Chamossaire (won St. Leger Stakes and a leading sire)
Preciptic winner of 15 races including Druid Stakes, Lonsdale Handicap, Carew Stakes. stood at the Irish National Stud from age 7 until he died age 22.
Supreme Court (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (£36,949)
Why Hurry (Epsom Oaks)
Premonition (won St Leger Stakes)
Amber Flash (Jockey Club Cup and dam of the Oaks Winner, Ambiguity)
In all Precipitation sired the winners of 431 races for prizemoney of £269,675. Precipitation's daughters produced the winners of 810 races worth £541,370.
In New Zealand, his blood lives on through the offspring of four great sons: Admiral's Luck, Count Rendered, Summertime and Agricola.
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Masters M35 marathon world record progression is the progression of world record improvements of the marathon M35 division of Masters athletics. Records must be set in properly conducted, official competitions under the standing IAAF rules unless modified by World Masters Athletics.
The M35 division consists of male athletes who have reached the age of 35 but have not yet reached the age of 40, so exactly from their 35th birthday to the day before their 40th birthday. Marathon running is not normally seeded into age divisions so all of these records were set in marathon race open to most other age groups.
Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, age 37 at the time, set a world record for men of 2:01:09 on September 25, 2022, at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. Gebrselassie, Lopes and Peters also set the open division world record at the time they set the M35 record.
Key
References
Masters Athletics Marathon list
Masters athletics world record progressions
Marathon world records
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The Fremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation located in Fremantle, Western Australia. It is housed in a registered colonial-era historic building, the Museum and Arts Centre, that was originally constructed in the 1860s as a lunatic asylum and which later served as a women's home and a technical school.
The Fremantle Arts Centre was established in 1973, and its founding director was Ian Templeman. It was not until 1978 that the organisation received its first operational funding from the state government. Following Templeman's resignation in 1990, June Moorhouse was appointed as Director, a position she remained in for six years. In 2005 Jim Cathcart was appointed as Director and remained in the role for 15 years. He was replaced by Anna Reece in 2020, until she resigned in 2023 to take up a role as Artistic Director at the Festival of Perth.
Cultural offerings
The centre offers a diverse range of arts and cultural programs, including exhibitions, performances, workshops, and events. It hosts both contemporary and traditional art forms. It features multiple gallery spaces that showcase visual arts, including paintings, sculptures, photography, and other forms of visual expression. These galleries often host exhibitions by local, national, and international artists.
Fremantle Arts Centre also hosts live music performances and other performing arts events. The centre's outdoor courtyard is a popular venue for concerts and gigs, especially during the summer months. The centre provides educational opportunities for artists and the community through workshops, classes, and artist-in-residence programs. These initiatives support the development of artistic skills and creativity.
Beyond its role as an arts venue, the Fremantle Arts Centre is a gathering place for the local community. It often hosts markets, festivals, and other community events, fostering a sense of connection and cultural exchange.
Press
In 1976 the arts centre inspired the Fremantle Arts
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Jabal el-Hussein camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of the Abdali area district of Amman.
It is one of the first four camps in Jordan founded to accommodate refugees from the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.
References
Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan
1952 establishments in Jordan
Populated places in Amman Governorate
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Datano is a town located in the Amansie South District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It shares boundary with Tontokrom. It is known for the Manso-Datano United Friends Association. In 2017, a GHȼ350,000.00 air-conditioned washroom facility was awarded to improve sanitation in the town. Datano is the most populous, and industrious town with the highest number of people in the Amansie South District.
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Populated places in the Ashanti Region
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The Tirtha Prabandha is one of the main Sanskrit works by Vadiraja Tirtha, the 16th century Dvaita philosopher and saint. The document is written in the form of a travelogue and contains descriptions of pilgrim centers throughout India.
Description
The work comprises 235 shlokas and is divided into 4 chapters, one for each direction. Vadiraja Tirtha composed this document during his extensive pilgrimage throughout India. The shlokas, in addition to describing the places, also provides information on the sacredness of the places and praises the deities.
The chapter covering North India mentions important places such as Pandarapur, Prayag, Kashi, Gaya, Mathura and Ayodhya. The chapter on South India covers Rameshwaram, Kanyakumari and Trivandrum. The chapter on West India covers Pajaka, Udupi, Gokarna and Kolhapur. The chapter on the east covers Puri, Ahobila and Hampi. A total of about 100 places are covered in the document. In addition to holy places, a lot of rivers, including Ganges, Yamuna, Kaveri and Godavari are mentioned.
The Tirtha Prabandha is held in high esteem amongst practising Madhvas and a recitation of all the shlokas is considered equal to an actual pilgrimage covering all the mentioned places.
See also
Works of Madhvacharya
Rukminisha Vijaya
References
Dvaita Vedanta
Hindu texts
Sanskrit texts
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WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 is a wrestling video game that was published by THQ except in Japan where it was published by Yukes. The video game was released for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable video game systems. The video game was released on November 11, 2005 in Europe and November 14, 2005 in North America for the PlayStation 2 and on December 16, 2005 in Europe and December 13, 2005 in North America for the PlayStation Portable.
It is part of the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw video game series.
Other websites
Official WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 website
2005 video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
THQ games
SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006
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