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Quinceañera (film) | Critical response | as well as Chalo González's portrayal of Tomas. Stephen Holden of The New York Times described the film as "smart and warmhearted" with "a wonderfully organic feel for the fluid interaction of cultures and generations" in Los Angeles. Slate's Dana Stevens commended the film for avoiding clichés and for its "sharp-eyed analysis of class conflict". She singled out the performance of Emily Rios, who she said "carries the movie on her square broad shoulders". Claudia Puig of USA Today awarded the film three out of four stars and described it as "spirited and poignant", with Rios' performance providing "the heart |
Rail transport in Iceland | Kárahnjúkar light railway & Incidents & Korpúlfsstaðir farm railway | from Schoma Lokomotiven of Germany and has returned there. Incidents In 2004, the first collision of two trains occurred in Iceland. A passenger train transporting construction workers ran into a cement train in a tunnel, lying under Valþjófstaðarfjall mountain. Three people were treated for their injuries in the rail mishap. Korpúlfsstaðir farm railway Korpúlfsstaðir was one of the first industrial farms in Iceland. Built in 1930 by Icelandic industrialist Thor Jensen, it was located on the outskirts of Reykjavík, on the Þingvellir road. The farm was equipped with a 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) narrow-gauge railway network, allowing the transportation of goods |
Radar display | Plan position indicator & Beta Scan Scope | electronics needed to do this using a pair of stationary deflection coils were not particularly complex, and were in use in the early 1940s. Beta Scan Scope The specialist Beta Scan Scope was used for precision approach radar systems. It displays two lines on the same display, the upper one (typically) displaying the vertical approach (the glideslope), and the lower one the horizontal approach. A marker indicates the desired touchdown point on the runway, and often the lines are angled towards the middle of the screen to indicate this location. A single aircraft's "blip" is also displayed, superimposed over both |
Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion | Plot | Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion Plot The story of Ravenmark delves into the tribulations suffered by the dominant Empire of Estellion following the death of its beloved Emperor, Sergius Corvius. Faced with a power struggle stirring from within, the Empire is quickly engulfed in chaos when the vengeful mystics of Kaysan invade the territories of Estellion and its neighboring nations within the world of Eclisse.
Through the different story campaigns, players follow the perspectives of commanders from each nation involved in the conflict. The campaigns of Estellion follow the bookish, mild-mannered Calius Septim and his mentor, the great general Vidius Harper, while |
Queen's Police Medal | Queen's Police Medal | has also been awarded posthumously. Acts of gallantry in the police service normally attract the George Cross, George Medal or Queen's Gallantry Medal.
Over time, many Commonwealth countries have created their own police medals, replacing the issue of the QPM to police in those countries. For example, Australia created the Australian Police Medal in 1986. It did not supersede the QPM which continued to be awarded to Australians until 1989. On 5 October 1992, Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating, announced that Australia would make no further recommendations for British honours. The Australian Order of Wear states that "all imperial British awards |
Nootka Crisis | Name & Background | no longer played a role north of California and transferred its historic claims to the United States in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819. Name The events at Nootka Sound, apart from the larger international crisis, are sometimes called the Nootka Incident, the Nootka Sound Incident, and similar terms. The larger Nootka Crisis is known variously by names such as the Nootka Sound Crisis, the Nootka Sound Controversy, the Great Spanish Armament, and other variations. Background Northwestern North America (the Pacific Northwest) was little-explored by European ships before the mid-18th century. But by the end of the century, several nations were |
Prince Arisugawa Takahito | Biography | of State Shinto.
In 1881, he resigned from his political posts and became head of the newly established Research Institute for Japanese Classical Literature (Kōten Kōkyūsho), the forerunner of Kokugakuin University). The prince was a master of waka poetry and Japanese calligraphy. The official copy of the Meiji Charter Oath was in his handwriting, and he supplied many inscriptions for various Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. His pen-name was Shōzan.
Prince Takahito resigned as head of the Arisugawa-no-miya house in favor of his eldest son, Prince Arisugawa Taruhito, on 9 September 1871. He died in Tokyo on 24 January 1886. |
Ressentiment (Scheler) | Essential structures of Ressentiment proper: "Pathological Ressentiment" | in life given them, yet prove to lack the talent for achieving the goals set for him or her self.
These re-experienced feelings of impotency become rationalized on a subconscious level as knee-jerk attitudinal projections: i.e., prejudices, bias, racism, bigotry, cynicism, and closed mindedness.
Noteworthy is the "abstract" focus of Ressentiment: the fact that specific individuals (i.e., the "Master figure" or their counterpart "Slave figure") are no longer even required for Ressentiment feelings and their rationalized forms of expression to continue and drive forward. One only needs a representative member of the class of one's focus of resentment to be represented in |
Piti Belmonte | Manager career | 2013, Piti was appointed CF Badalona's manager. |
Parvin Darabi | Background | Parvin Darabi Parvin Darabi (born 1941, Tehran) is an Iranian-born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights. Background Darabi studied at California State University Northridge, University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, and California Coast University. Parvin worked as an electronic systems engineer, program manager, company president, and engineering consultant until 1994. From 1985 to 1990 she owned and operated her own Company PT Enterprises, in Mountain View, California where they developed the most sensitive Radar Detector presently on the German Naval Vessels active in NATO.
Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in a |
Programmable logic controller | Overview | Programmable logic controller Overview PLCs can range from small modular devices with tens of inputs and outputs (I/O), in a housing integral with the processor, to large rack-mounted modular devices with a count of thousands of I/O, and which are often networked to other PLC and SCADA systems.
They can be designed for multiple arrangements of digital and analog I/O, extended temperature ranges, immunity to electrical noise, and resistance to vibration and impact. Programs to control machine operation are typically stored in battery-backed-up or non-volatile memory.
It was from the automotive industry in the USA that the PLC was born. Before the |
Professional magazine | null | Professional magazine A professional magazine or professional journal is a periodical published by the governing body of a profession. The standard of quality of such a periodical may be similar to that of a scholarly publication.
A professional journal is said to be one which is "published by the profession and for the profession", which cannot be charged with being dominated by trade, and which "serves a higher and therefore a better use" than a so-called trade journal "by printing in an unbiased way the subject matter". |
Planeta Xuxa | Concept & History | euphoric, and wave to the hostess, asking them to be the chosen ones. In June of the same year, another picture was implanted in the program: Viagem Surpresa do Planeta, in which the camera focused some participant in the audience that gained a trip of a week for some Brazilian tourist spot. The lucky guy should have immediate availability to board. History On April 19, 1998, the program changed day and time, and it will be shown on Sundays at noon. Still with the general direction of Marlene Mattos, was subordinated to the general direction of creation of Carlos Manga.
In |
Prime meridian (Greenwich) | null | continued to use the Paris meridian for several decades. In the 18th century, London lexicographer Malachy Postlethwayt published his African maps showing the "Meridian of London" intersecting the Equator a few degrees west of the later meridian and Accra, Ghana.
The plane of the prime meridian is parallel to the local gravity vector at the Airy transit circle (51°28′40.1″N 0°0′5.3″W) of the Greenwich observatory. The prime meridian was therefore long symbolised by a brass strip in the courtyard, now replaced by stainless steel, and since 16 December 1999, it has been marked by a powerful green laser shining north across the |
Politics of Pakistan | Ombudsman/Mohtasib | seven Prime Ministers of Pakistan either resigned or were ousted. On October 7, 1958 Pakistan's civilian and first President Iskander Mirza in collaboration with General Mohammad Ayub Khan abrogated Pakistan's constitution and declared Martial Law.
General Ayub Khan was the president from 1958 to 1969, and General Yahya Khan from 1969 to 1971, Chief Justice Habib Khan Marvath elected first Chairman Senate of Pakistan. Civilian, yet socialist-oriented autocratic, rule continued from 1972 to 1977 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, but he was deposed by General Zia-Ul-Haq. General Zia was killed in a plane crash in 1988, after which Benazir Bhutto, daughter |
Push email | Nokia Symbian Series 60 & Nokia Mail for Exchange | Nokia Symbian S60 models support basic IMAP IDLE functionality with its built-in client. But on newer E72, E52 etc. phones this functionality is broken, because connection to the mail server is closed (probably even outside the mailing application) and never restored. Nokia Mail for Exchange The Nokia asha smartphones and select models of Nseries smartphones and newer s60 and Symbian^3 handsets running symbian os 9.x or Symbian^3 support the Mail for Exchange software, which is compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server Active Sync and Direct Push, allowing the Nokia smartphones to receive push email as well as sync contact lists, |
Quinceañera (film) | Production & Release | since the filmmakers could afford little else. Robin Katz finished editing the film in August 2005. Release Quinceañera premiered on January 23, 2006, at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the dramatic feature category. Its U.S. distribution rights were bought by Sony Pictures Classics while its international rights were purchased by Celluloid Dreams. The film was later screened at the Berlin International Film Festival before its theatrical release.
The film opened in limited release in the United States on August 4, 2006, earning $95,400 on its opening weekend from eight |
Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge | Themes | that popular television shows, for example are very efficient generators of common knowledge. He examined data on the prices of network television advertising slots, citing the example of the Super Bowl, whose advertisements for "coordination problem" goods, "had become the best common knowledge generator in the United States." Chwe used the example of how the airing of a domestic violence Super Bowl ad, not only put the issue on the "national agenda more publicly than ever before", but it led to a long-lasting myth spread by news reports following the game that the Super Bowl itself was a catalyst for |
Raid on Koiari | Raid & Aftermath | a barrage that allowed rescue craft to remove the raiding group from the beach; the last boat left the area at 20:40 hours under the cover of darkness. Aftermath None of the objectives of the raid were achieved and the raid was a failure with 15 killed or died of wounds, 99 wounded and 7 missing. It was estimated that the Japanese had lost between 145 and 291 men. Again the lack of preliminary naval and artillery bombardment proved to be important in the outcome of the engagement. In the aftermath of the raid, US plans to expand the perimeter |
Reliquary (novel) | Plot summary | Reliquary (novel) Plot summary The story picks up where the epilogue of Relic left off. Two headless skeletons are found in the Humboldt Kill. When further decapitated bodies follow, there is suspicion of a second Mbwun monster. Major characters from the original book team up with new ones to solve the puzzle. The mystery soon leads underground to the Mole people, and even deeper towards enigmatic beings called the Wrinklers. In the end, it is revealed that the Wrinklers are led by Frock, who has refined a modified version of the Mbwun plant, created by Kawakita to regain the |
Redneck Rampage | Plot & Cuss Pack | Redneck Rampage Plot The game's plot revolves around two brothers, Leonard and Bubba, fighting through the fictional town of Hickston, Arkansas to rescue their prized pig Bessie and thwart an alien invasion. The brothers battle through such locales as a meat packing plant and a trailer park, and battle evil clones of their neighbors. There are also male and female alien enemies. The bosses are the Assface and the leader of the alien invasion, the Queen Vixen. Cuss Pack The Cuss Pack, an add-on which added stronger language to the game, was released. The add-on was available for download on |
R. Kalidas | Death | R. Kalidas R. Kalidas was a politician in Tamil Nadu, India. He was State vice-president of the Hindu Makkal Katchi. Death R. Kalidas was murdered in Madurai on June 21, 2005. According to police sources he was hacked to death by two men in broad daylight. He was 55 years old. Police sources indicated that they suspected 'fundamentalists' as the culprits of the murder. |
Posterization | Applications & Posterizing time | and vectorizing photo-realistic images. This tracing process starts with 1 bit per channel and advances to 4 bits per channel. As the bits per channel increases, the number of levels of lightness a color can display increases.
A visual artist, faced with line art that has been damaged through JPEG compression, may consider posterizing the image as a first step to remove artifacts on the edges of the image. Posterizing time Temporal posterization is the visual effect of reducing the number of frames of video, while not reducing the speed at which it actually plays. This compares to regular posterization, |
Olympiacos F.C. | European performance | for the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup. Their best European campaigns are their presence in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, where they lost a semi-final spot in the last minutes by Juventus, and in the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals, losing to Atlético Madrid.
Olympiacos is by far the highest ranked Greek club in the UEFA rankings, occupying the 35th place in Europe in the five-year ranking and the 31st in the ten-year ranking as of 2019. They are also the Greek team with the most wins in all European competitions, leading also the table with the most home |
Phishing | Early AOL phishing & Anti-phishing | servers, and AOL promptly deactivate accounts involved in phishing, often before the victims could respond. The shutting down of the warez scene on AOL caused most phishers to leave the service. Anti-phishing There are anti-phishing websites which publish exact messages that have been recently circulating the internet, such as FraudWatch International and Millersmiles. Such sites often provide specific details about the particular messages.
As recently as 2007, the adoption of anti-phishing strategies by businesses needing to protect personal and financial information was low. Now there are several different techniques to combat phishing, including legislation and technology created specifically to protect against |
Pay-by-plate parking | Principles & Enforcement | use of debit cards, credit cards and NFC are also advantageous to the city as they do not have to empty the machines as often lowering the cost of maintenance. It can also help to limit pilfering by employees who empty the parking meters. Enforcement Enforcement of license plates is done in one of three ways: by manual plate entry into a handheld device, by Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in a handheld device or by vehicle mounted ALPR. The enforcement officer enters the plate manually or automatically depending on the technology used, and the system looks up payment information |
Rat Pack | 1960s | asked Sinatra if he would have Kennedy as a guest at his Palm Springs house in March 1962, and Sinatra went to great lengths (including the construction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertainer's association with Mafia figures such as Sam Giancana, the stay was cancelled. Kennedy instead chose to stay at rival Bing Crosby's estate, which further infuriated Sinatra. Lawford was blamed for this, and Sinatra "never again had a good word for [him]" from that point onwards. Lawford's role |
Radar display | Oscilloscopes & A-Scope | radar display, the output signal from the radar receiver is fed into one of three input channels in the oscilloscope. Early displays generally sent this information to either X channel or Y channel to displace the spot on the screen to indicate a return. More modern radars typically used a rotating or otherwise moving antenna to cover a greater area of the sky, and in these cases, electronics, slaved to the mechanical motion of the antenna, typically moved the X and Y channels, with the radar signal being fed into the brightness channel. A-Scope The original radar display, the A-scope |
Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk | Design and development | Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk Design and development The T-1A Jayhawk is a medium-range, twin-engine jet trainer used in the advanced phase of Air Force Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training for students selected to fly strategic/tactical airlift or tanker aircraft. It is used also for training Air Force Combat Systems Officers in high and low level flight procedures during the advanced phase of training. It also augmented or served in lieu of the T-39 Sabreliner in the Intermediate phase of US Navy/Marine Corps Student Naval Flight Officer training until the joint Air Force-Navy/Marine Corps training pipeline split in 2010 and now remains |
Ressentiment (Scheler) | Background | the (perceived) expense of the higher, or more inherently "noble" classes. Hence, Ressentiment first emerged as, what some might view, a reactionary and elitist concept by today's democratic standards; while others of a more conservative mind-set might view Ressentiment as liberalism disguised as a socialist attempt at usurping the role of individual responsibility and self-determination. In any event Scheler's contributions regarding this topic can not be fully appreciated without some cursory reference to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900).
Friedrich Nietzsche used the Kierkegaardian term Ressentiment as the source of this emerging degenerative morality issuing from an underlying existential distinction between |
Really Really (song) | Music video & Chart performance | Really Really (song) Music video The song's accompanying music video premiered on December 11, 2015 on Kevin Gates's YouTube account. Since its release, the video has received over 158 million views on YouTube. Chart performance "Really Really" debuted at number 94 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated January 9, 2016. It eventually reached its peak at number 46 for the chart dated July 9, 2016. On January 25, 2019, the single was certified triple platinum for combined sales and streaming data of over three million units in the United States. |
Peugeot 203 | The body & Engine and running gear | interest. The prototype was converted into a factory fire engine for the Peugeot plant. Engine and running gear The 1290 cc four-cylinder engine was unusual in its 'oversquare' cylinder dimensions, and was noted for the hemispherical form of the combustion chambers included in the light metal cylinder heads. At launch, a power output of 42 PS (31 kW) (41 hp) was claimed, which was increased in 1952 to 45 PS (33 kW) (44 hp) for the October 1952 Paris Motor Show. Peugeot advertising pointed out that the increase in power came without any penalty in terms of fuel economy or car tax (which was |
Rajasthan Cricket Association | Rajasthan Premier League | the state of Rajasthan has to offer. |
Red Gate | National roots & History of Red Gate | Golitsyn estate on Volkhonka street (adjacent to Pushkin Museum). History of Red Gate The original arch on the site of Red Gate was built to commemorate the Battle of Poltava in 1709. Catherine I replaced it with a new structure in order to commemorate her own coronation in 1724. This arch burnt down 8 years later and was restored in 1742, for Elizabeth's coronation procession, which proceeded from the Moscow Kremlin to the Lefortovo Palace through the edifice.
In 1753, the wooden arch was demolished and replaced with a stone one. The design by Prince Dmitry Ukhtomsky faithfully followed that of |
Political positions of Kirsten Gillibrand | Gun laws | and Education subcommittee hold a hearing on whether to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study of gun violence and "the annual appropriations rider that some have interpreted as preventing it" with taxpayer dollars. The senators noted their support for taking steps "to fund gun-violence research, because only the United States government is in a position to establish an integrated public-health research agenda to understand the causes of gun violence and identify the most effective strategies for prevention."
Following the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, Gillibrand was one of twenty-four senators to sign a |
Programmable logic controller | Programming | program into a removable chip such as an EPROM.
Under the IEC 61131-3 standard, PLCs can be programmed using standards-based programming languages. The most commonly used programming language is Ladder diagram (LD) also known as Ladder logic. It uses Contact-Coil logic to make programs like an electrical control diagram. A graphical programming notation called Sequential Function Charts is available on certain programmable controllers. A model which emulated electromechanical control panel devices (such as the contact and coils of relays) which PLCs replaced. This model remains common today.
IEC 61131-3 currently defines five programming languages for programmable control systems: function block diagram (FBD), |
Pierre Antoine Poiteau | Biography | published Histoire naturelle des orangers (Natural history of the orange trees).
In 1818, Poiteau went to French Guiana where he supervised the cultures of the plantations of the royal houses. Back in France in 1822, he was appointed head gardener of the castle of Fontainebleau. From 1829 to 1851 he directed the Revue horticole (Horticultural review). In 1835, with Pierre-Jean-François Turpin, he published a new edition of the Traité des arbres fruitiers (Treatise of the fruit trees) by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) and, in 1846, Pomologie française. Recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France... (French pomology). In 1848 |
Port Hughes, South Australia | Description & History | store and tavern. History The government town of Port Hughes was surveyed in April 1863 and named after Sir Watson Hughes. The boundary of the town was extended in April 1960 and again in October 1985. Boundaries were created for the locality now known as Port Hughes in January 1999 which include the full extent of the former government town. The locality was enlarged in July 2008 by the addition of land from the adjoining locality of Moonta Bay.
In recent years, Port Hughes has been the subject of significant interest from land developers, with several land subdivisions in the local |
Ressentiment (Scheler) | Essential structures of Ressentiment proper: "Pathological Ressentiment" | most important achievement when it determines a whole "morality," preventing the rules of preference until what was "evil" appears "good".
9) Pathological Ressentiment ultimately results in a deadening (psychological numbing) of normal sympathetic feeling states, as well as all higher forms of psychic and spiritual feelings and feeling states. As opposed to a pure well ordered emotive life (Ordo Amoris) appropriate to the ethical person as created in God's image through love (ens amans), Pathological Ressentiment emotively results in a disordered heart (de’ordre du coeurs), or what we might commonly refer to as a "hardened heart."
For Scheler, morality finds expression in |
Regency Cafe | Description & Menu | Spy. It has also appeared in the films Layer Cake, Brighton Rock, Pride, and Rocketman. In print, it has appeared in the Japanese version of the magazine Vogue and in a Volkswagen advertisement. Menu Regency Cafe serves cuisine traditionally seen in a British cafe. It includes a variety of breakfast food such as eggs Benedict, although with fried eggs. The tea served was described by Harry Wallop for The Daily Telegraph, as "Proper builders’ tea, the stuff that once fuelled the docks, factories and steelworks of Britain; a mug of pure, liquid copper." Other items include a homemade steak pie. |
Politics of Pakistan | Kashmir in Pakistani politics | ex-officio member, the prime minister of Azad Kashmir, and six Azad Kashmir members elected by the Legislative Assembly.38 The interim constitution act lists fifty-two subjects—virtually everything of any importance—that are under the jurisdiction of the Azad Kashmir Council, which has been described as the “supra power” by the Azad Kashmir High Court. Its decisions are final and not subject to judicial review.
Thus, Azad Kashmir remains for all intents and purposes under Pakistan's strict control, exercising no real sovereignty of its own. From the outset, the institutional set up in the territory was designed to ensure Pakistan's control of the area's |
Red Bank Battlefield | Park features & Visiting | with various cannonballs recovered from the battlefield. Several monuments honor the combatants, including a memorial to the fallen Hessian leader, whose remains were buried on the grounds, and a 75-foot (23 m)-tall monument. Visiting The 44-acre (180,000 m²) park is open to visitors during daylight hours. The Whitall House may be visited during more limited hours. An annual reenactment of the battle takes place on the park grounds in October. In the early 1980s, a lifeguard was on duty and swimming was permitted in the Delaware River. |
Phonological history of English close front vowels | Happy tensing | the vowel underwent the transition. The fact that tensing is uniformly present in South African English, Australian English, and New Zealand English implies that it was present in southern British English already at the beginning of the 19th century. Yet it is not mentioned by descriptive phoneticians until the early 20th century, and even then at first only in American English. The British phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis believes that the vowel moved from [i] to [ɪ] in Britain the second quarter of the 19th century before reverting to [i] in non-conservative British accents towards the last quarter of the 20th |
PAOK FC | Supporters | etc). A research by Marca in August 2018, reported that PAOK are the most popular Greek football team on social media.
Toumba Stadium is infamous for its hostile atmosphere, a factor that led to the attribution of the Stadium as 'The Black Hell'. On high-profile encounters, when the players walk out of the tunnel, the song Hells Bells by AC/DC is heard from the stadium's speakers. The notorious Gate 4 is home to many PAOK organized supporters' groups from around the globe, with the homonymous 'Gate 4' fan club which was founded in April 1976, being the most familiar everywhere. The |
Political positions of Kirsten Gillibrand | Israel & Libya & North Korea | occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government. This bill was criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights proponents including Amnesty International. In direct response to criticisms, Gillibrand said that she would urge changes to the bill so that it would only apply to companies, not individuals. In August 2017 she withdrew her support, and, in 2019, she ultimately voted against the legislation. Libya In 2011, Gillibrand supported limited American military action in Libya. North Korea In March 2018, Gillibrand stated that a potential meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un |
Political positions of Kirsten Gillibrand | Immigration | twenty senators to sponsor the Dreamer Confidentiality Act, a bill imposing a ban on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from passing information collected on DACA recipients to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement agency with exceptions in the case of fraudulent claims, national security issues, or non-immigration related felonies being investigated.
In February 2019, Gillibrand was one of sixteen senators to vote against legislation preventing a partial government shutdown and containing 1.375 billion for barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border that included 55 miles of fencing.
In March 2019, |
Refik Resmja | Style of play | Style of play In his career, Resmja was distinguished for his strong physique, and agility which made him a target for the defenders. A predominantly a left footed player, Resmja is known to have scored most of his goals with it, some of them from outside the penalty area. His short and athletic stature made Resmja a great dribbler which allowed him to get past most of the challenges he got in the field. Resmja had also been noted for his stamina, work rate and accurate passing. The most well-known ability of Resmja was his scoring instinct, attacking movement and |
Red Auerbach | General manager (1966–84) | Soon after, heading a team press conference, and with his typical bravado, Auerbach puffed on his trademark cigar and stated simply, "I'm not going anywhere. We're going to sign Larry Bird, and we're going to be on top again." Despite knowing that Bird, a talented young player from unheralded Indiana State, had a year of college eligibility remaining, he had drafted Bird as a junior eligible in the 1978 NBA draft and waited for a year until the future Hall-of-Fame forward Bird arrived, finally setting aside his team salary rules when it became clear that his choices were paying |
Rehearsal letter | Usage in the late 19th century to 21st century | and J, as well as O) are used up with just three more pages left in the score. For the final flute and bassoon solo, the editors use Ö (the final letter of the Finnish alphabet) as a rehearsal letter.
But in the case of some composers, such as Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich, twice through the alphabet might still not be enough. For this reason, some editors prefer rehearsal numbers to rehearsal letters. Mahler's and Shostakovich's scores use rehearsal numbers rather than letters. These are typically in boldface and enclosed in a box, or less commonly, a circle. Confusingly, however, |
Prince George's County, Maryland | Recreation | Baysox, a minor league baseball team. The county is known for its very successful youth. In basketball, ESPN published an article declaring Prince George's County the new "Hoops Hot Bed" and ranked it as the number one basketball talent pool in the country. A number of basketball prospects, including Ty Lawson, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Roy Hibbert and Michael Beasley from AAU basketball teams such as the PG Jaguars, DC Assault, and DC Blue Devils. Besides AAU, basketball has skyrocketed from local high schools such as DeMatha Catholic High School and Bishop McNamara High School, both of which have found |
Programmable logic controller | Features & Scan time | modules attached to a fieldbus or computer network that plugs into the PLC. Scan time A PLC program generally loops i.e. executes repeatedly, as long as the controlled system is running. At the start of each execution loop, the status of all physical inputs are copied to an area of memory, sometimes called the "I/O Image Table", which is accessible to the processor. The program then runs from its first instruction rung down to the last rung. It takes some time for the processor of the PLC to evaluate all the rungs and update the I/O image table with the |
Pterostylis mutica | Description | Pterostylis mutica Description Pterostylis mutica, is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber. There is a rosette of between six and twelve, egg-shaped leaves, each leaf 10–30 mm (0.4–1 in) long and 5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) wide at the base of the plant. Between two and twenty well-spaced flowers are borne on a flowering spike 150–350 mm (6–10 in) high with five to ten stem leaves wrapped around it. The flowers are pale green, 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long and about 5 mm (0.2 in) wide. The dorsal sepal and petals are joined to form a hood called the "galea" over the column. The galea is curved |
Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 | Cost & Similar legislation | private companies providing Internet services would pay over $200 million in costs. Costs would include servers for storage of the user data.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has issued a report suggesting that the cost of data retention would be much higher than the Congressional Budget Office report indicates, and would grow prohibitively expensive with ongoing trends in internet addressing. Similar legislation H.R. 1981 is similar to Canada's Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act which "requires Internet providers to acquire the ability to engage in multiple simultaneous interceptions and gives law enforcement the power to audit their surveillance capabilities. Should |
Prenk Bib Doda | Exile & Return from exile | of Brigadier General in the palace of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. While in Istanbul, Doda had become a member of the Young Turks. He was released in 1908, after the Young Turk Revolution and the new Ottoman government thought that Doda's freedom would assist in gaining the support of the Mirdita tribe. Local Muslim and Christian Albanian highlanders (Malisors) viewed Doda's return as more important than the Ottoman constitution. The local Young Turk (CUP) branch in Shkodër, under pressure from local tribal chieftains, chose to obtain Doda's release for Mirdita in return for supporting the new constitutional government. Return from |
Peter Feuchtwanger | Life and work | He held part-time professorships at conservatoriums in Karlsruhe and Basel. From 1967, he gave Master Classes throughout the world. He developed a novel technique of piano playing, which led to the publication of special piano exercises. He was the vice president of the European Piano Teachers Association (London West).
Feuchtwanger died in his apartment in London, aged 85, survived by his partner, the artist Michael Garady. He was buried at the Brompton Cemetery. |
RK-55 | Operational history | Yankee class SSBN with additional torpedo tubes for 35-40 land attack cruise missiles. They were probably nuclear-tipped S-10s during the Cold War, and then converted to use conventional warheads after the START I treaty restricted sub-launched nuclear cruise missiles. The US Navy has done the same on a grander scale with the SSGN conversions of four Ohio-class submarines. It has been suggested that S-10's could in future be fitted to converted Delta class submarines, or to surface ships, but these have not been confirmed.
The ground-launched variant was subject to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed in December 1987 and |
Operation Linda Nchi | Lead up and planning | Operation Linda Nchi Lead up and planning Kenya's incursion into southern Somalia started after the 13 October kidnapping of two Spanish women who were working for Médecins Sans Frontières at the Dadaab refugee camp. The abductions were allegedly carried out by Al Shabaab militants. Médecins Sans Frontières issued a press statement at the time disassociating itself from any armed activities and related declarations launched following the abduction. The Kenyan government claimed its troop deployment had received approval from the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG). Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, Moses Wetangula, stated that the deployment of Kenyan troops was at |
Red Auerbach | The dynasty (1956–66) | made the outlet pass himself, providing their sprinting colleagues opportunities for an easy slam dunk or layup. Auerbach also emphasized the need for role players like Frank Ramsey and John Havlicek, who became two of the first legitimate sixth men in NBA history, a role later played by Don Nelson. Auerbach's recipe proved devastating to the opposition. From 1957 to 1966, the Celtics won nine of ten NBA championships. This included eight consecutive championships—which is the longest championship streak in North American sports—and six victories over the Los Angeles Lakers of Hall-of-Famers Elgin Baylor and Jerry West in the NBA |
Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom | Disparity with global rankings | weighting to the undergraduate student experience, taking account of teaching quality and learning resources, together with the quality of a university's intake, employment prospects, research quality and drop-out rates.
The disparity between national and international league tables has caused some institutions to offer public explanations for the difference. LSE for example states on its website that 'we remain concerned that all of the global rankings – by some way the most important for us, given our highly international orientation – suffer from inbuilt biases in favour of large multi-faculty universities with full STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) offerings, and against |
NuCLEus | Planning & Design | the hopes of breaking ground by the end of 2019.
Stark is most famous for the development on the major retail, office, residential, entertainment campus in Westlake, Ohio known as Crocker Park. Design The complex will be a mix of ultra modern, mixed-use construction, a specialty of Stark Enterprises and their portfolio spanning over 8 states. Being designed as a lane way connecting the downtown Cleveland sector, nuCLEus hopes to be a catalyst for future downtown Cleveland properties and revitalize the core of the city. Its nexus location of Gateway and its position between East 4th Street District (Cleveland) and Huron |
Political positions of Kirsten Gillibrand | Immigration | Gillibrand voted to block President Trump's national emergency declaration that would have granted him access to $3.6 billion in military construction funding to build border barriers.
In April 2019, Gillibrand signed a letter led by Catherine Cortez Masto to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Enforcement asserting that "the civil detention of an expectant mother for potential immigration offenses is never justified" due to the "absence of compelling evidence that the detention of a pregnant woman is necessary because she is a threat to herself or others, or is a threat to public safety or national security". The senators |
Programmable logic controller | Invention and early development | of the documentation. If even one wire were out of place, or one relay failed, the whole system would become faulty. Often times technicians would spend hours troubleshooting by examining the schematics and comparing them to existing wiring. It was for this reason PLCs were programmed in "ladder logic", which strongly resembles a schematic diagram of relay logic. This program notation was chosen to reduce training demands for the existing technicians. Other early PLCs used a form of instruction list programming, based on a stack-based logic solver.
Modern PLCs can be programmed in a variety of ways, from the relay-derived ladder |
Refik Resmja | Early life & Club career | Refik Resmja Early life Resmja was born in Tirana from an ethnic Albanian family and started to play the game at a very young age along with his friends at "Xhamija Sherif" street (modern-day "Ali Demi Street"). He also used to go with his friends at Shallvare ground, playing and watching his club Tirana play. In his youth, Resmja dreamed of becoming a goalkeeper, idolizing players such as Niko Dovana or Giacomo Poselli. Club career Resmja joined 17 Nëntori Tirana in 1946 where he was just 15 years old as a goalkeeper. He made his competitive debut on 28 |
Red Auerbach | Legacy | owner Brown and ask, "Walter, are our last paychecks going to clear?" to which Brown would always positively respond, and they would. Despite Brown's own close association with the NHL's Boston Bruins, whose owners also possessed the Boston Garden, the Celtics were fleeced on concessions and profits as tenants. During this era, when most team owners not only thought of, but also treated their players as cattle and/or slaves, athletes from all the four major professional sports leagues were fighting for their rights and economic fairness. As Auerbach represented management of the Celtics, team members frustrated with their salaries had |
Rheometer | FiSER & Sentmanat | as a function of time and position. By deforming at an exponentially increasing rate, a constant strain rate can be achieved in the samples (barring endplate flow limitations). This system can monitor the strain-dependent extensional viscosity, as well as stress decay following flow cessation. A detailed presentation on the various uses of filament stretching rheometry can be found on the MIT web site. Sentmanat The Sentmanat extensional rheometer (SER) is actually a fixture that can be field installed on shear rheometers. A film of polymer is wound on two rotating drums, which apply constant or variable strain rate extensional deformation |
Poggio a Caiano | The Medici villa | largely unfinished; however, work resumed under Lorenzo’s second son, Giovanni, who became pope as Leo X. The central hall is named after this first Medici pope.
In the following century, the Villa di Poggio a Caiano was used by successive Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany. In 1587, Bianca Cappello and Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany died there within a day of one another after short illnesses; raising the still unsolved question of their poisoning by Francesco’s brother Ferdinand, who succeeded Francesco as Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the architects |
Quasi-bipartite graph | null | Gröpl et al. gave a 1.217-approximation algorithm for the special case of uniformly quasi-bipartite instances. |
Palermo | Ancient period | too. The colony developed around a central street (decumanus), cut perpendicularly by minor streets. This street today has become Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
Carthage was Palermo's major trading partner under the Phoenicians and the city enjoyed a prolonged peace during this period. Palermo came into contact with the Ancient Greeks between the 6th and the 5th centuries BC which preceded the Sicilian Wars, a conflict fought between the Greeks of Syracuse and the Phoenicians of Carthage for control over the island of Sicily. During this war the Greeks named the settlement Pánormos (Πάνορμος), meaning "all port" due to its large anchorage, from |
Rail transport in Iceland | Recently proposed railways | begun talks with the local municipalities about the planning and alignment of the railway. The railway would run double tracked from the airport, roughly parallel to the current road, and would then be placed in tunnels from Hafnafjörður with a terminal at Reykjavík's main bus station BSÍ . The maximum operating speed is 250 km/h, and the journey would take 15 minutes. In 2015 "Fluglestin Þróunarfélag ehf." was created with the intention of acquiring funding for the project and planning. The proposed English name for the project is "Lava Express". If the project goes on as planned construction should start in |
Operation Linda Nchi | Intergovernmental Authority on Development | Authority on Development On 17 November, Somalia's President Sharif Ahmed met in Nairobi with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (who had Ugandan troops in Somalia as part of AMISOM). On 18 November, Voice of America reported that an alliance of countries in East Africa were planning a broader joint military campaign to quash Al-Shabaab. An Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) meeting slated for 25 November would reportedly urge all member nations, including Ethiopia, to contribute troops to the operation. Ethiopian officials indicated that no decision had officially been reached with regard to joining the troop contributing |
Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 | Privacy issues | issues that the bill raises.
Representative Zoe Lofgren, (D-Calif.), a vocal opponent of the bill, presented an amendment to rename the bill the "Keep Every American's Digital Data for Submission to the Federal Government Without a Warrant Act." Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) also opposed it, saying "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes." She also argued that the bill's pertinence to "commercial" ISPs would allow criminals to circumvent legislation if they used the Internet anonymously in venues including Internet cafes or libraries.
Lamar Smith, however, |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | War in Donbass & Turkey | The dead man was an American paramedic, while the injured included a woman from Germany and a man from the Czech Republic.
On 18 July 2018 it was revealed that Russian intelligence services received inside information about the activities of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine from a staff member of the OSCE. The insider information consisted of observer's preference to alcohol, women, their financial situation, and their contacts in Ukraine. The OSCE issued a statement expressing concern over the alleged security breach. Turkey In April 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticized the OSCE for reporting that opposition "No" |
Rhodes House | History | United States of America", and to be the headquarters of the Rhodes Scholarship system and Rhodes Trust.
Sir Herbert Baker, described as "Cecil Rhodes' own architect", was the sole-architect of Rhodes House. Architectural sculpture was provided by Charles Wheeler, who also worked on other inter-war colonial buildings including: India House, South Africa House and the Neuve Chapelle Indian Memorial. Rhodes House features a series of public rooms included a library, reading room, lecture hall and seminar rooms, a hall in which the Rhodes Scholars hold their annual dinner and the residence for the Rhodes Trust Oxford Secretary or Warden.
During 1931, Albert |
PAOK FC | The great team of the 1970s | in 7 Greek Cup finals from 1970 to 1978 . In 1969–70 Greek Cup PAOK lost 1–0 to local rivals Aris in the final held at Kaftanzoglio Stadium and in the 1970–71 Greek Cup final they were defeated 3–1 by Olympiacos at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (home ground of Olympiacos).
The first domestic title PAOK won, was the 1971–72 Greek Cup. PAOK eliminated Pierikos, Aias Salamina, local rivals Aris in the quarter-finals with a 2–1 victory at Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium and progressed to the final with their semi-final victory over Lamia. This time PAOK would face league champions Panathinaikos who also reached |
Purchase (horse) | Racing career | was offered $100,000 for the colt (or, depending on the source, $300,000), but turned it down.
At the end of his three-year-old season, Hildreth, feeling he had nothing else to beat (and the connections of Man o' War only racing their horse against three-year-olds; by then Purchase was four), still kept Purchase in training. Breezing at Laurel Park, the horse struck a rock on the track, tearing the ligaments loose in his off front leg. He did not race again until he was five years old. In this last season he ran under the colors of Harry |
Quinceañera (film) | Critical response | a rating of 86%, based on 95 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The site's consensus reads, "This slice-of-life story of a teenage girl in Echo Park is both a sweet crowd-pleaser and a perceptive look at socioeconomic community issues." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 72 out of 100, based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Variety critic David Rooney summarized Quinceañera as "a fresh, spirited drama, charming and unpretentious" as well as a "small gem of a movie with a stirring soul". He praised the "subdued, natural performances" of the inexperienced teenaged actors |
Province of Toledo | Provincial government & Representation of the Central Government & Arms of the province of Toledo | plenary of the deputation (diputación) are indirectly elected from among the municipal councillors in the province based on the results of the municipal elections. In turn, the plenary elects the president of the deputation from among its members. Representation of the Central Government The Government of Spain appoints a Government Sub-delegate for the province, whose headquarters are located at Toledo. The Government Delegate charged with the representation in the whole autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha also has its seat in Toledo. Arms of the province of Toledo Since 2013 the province of Toledo uses the arms of the city, the |
Militant (Trotskyist group) | Poll tax | The All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation called a demonstration in London on 31 March 1990 which led to a riot in Trafalgar Square. Non-payment rose to 17.5 million people in serious arrears, and central government began to consider the community charge unworkable. The poll tax was swiftly abandoned by the new Prime Minister John Major. Thatcher called the victory 'One of the greatest victories for these people ever conceded by a Conservative Government.' The last issue of Militant, 31 January 1997, claimed that the Anti-Poll Tax movement brought down Thatcher herself. Taaffe claimed in The Rise of Militant that "It |
Push email | Other mobile solutions | mail capabilities to exiting IMAP servers such as Dovecot, Courier, UW-IMAP and more. This
Another company to offer a push email solution is Critical Path, Inc. under the brand name Memova Mobile. The only requirement of this is that the handset have GPRS and MMS capability.
Thexyz offers a proprietary push email solution powered by Microsoft's ActiveSync. Thexyz MobileSync is enabled on existing IMAP email accounts which can be combined with full Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) on the same domain, allowing for hybrid option that is not usually offered.
Most of these non-proprietary solutions are network independent, meaning that as long as |
Pyaar Mein Twist (TV series) | Plot | Pyaar Mein Twist (TV series) Plot This show is about a unique love story between a geek Amol (Manish Paul)and a hot girl called Rekha (Roshni Chopra). Amol is a nerdy guy who first meets Rekha at a camp after college ends, and he tries to save Rekha from some goons. Rekha starts liking Amol from the day of the campfire. When, Rekha's mom wants Rekha to get married to Rohit, the guy who left Rekha with the goons the day of the campfire, she refuses. Rekha's mom tells her to chooses between 3 pictures or else she will have |
Radar display | Beta Scan Scope | lines, the signals being generated from separate antennas. Deviation from the centerline of the approach can be seen and easily relayed to the pilot.
In the image, the upper portion of the display shows the vertical situation, and the lower portion the horizontal. In the vertical, the two diagonal lines show the desired glideslope (upper) and minimum altitude approach (lower). The aircraft began its approach below the glideslope and captured it just before landing. The proper landing point is shown by the horizontal line at the left end. The lower display shows the aircraft starting to the left of the approach |
Priority right | Example & Partial priority | date of filing in the United Kingdom remains July 15, 2007, and this is the date from which the 20-year duration of any ensuing patent is calculated. The example also applies to many other countries, such as to all countries which are party to the Paris Convention. Partial priority The extent to which a partial priority can be acknowledged for a single claim in a patent application -i.e., only for a part of the claim, for which the subject-matter is disclosed in the priority document- is a delicate question. |
Operation Linda Nchi | Military events | Ministry of State for Defence has been drawn to the influx of propaganda and false information in regards to the on-going operation in Somalia. The continued false reporting by Press TV and other like minded media is unacceptable and should not be taken as factual information and events," said Major Chirchir.
On 16 November, TFG and Kenyan forces attacked an Al-Shabaab base in Busar. An Al-Shabaab official alleged that his group had killed 8 and captured 3 allied soldiers during the battle. Kenyan military officials denied the claim, saying that the joint forces had killed 12 militants but incurred no casualties. |
Proastio, Patras | Geography | Proastio, Patras Proastio (Greek: Προάστιο or Προάστειο, meaning "suburb"; before 1928 it was named Bozaitika, Μποζαΐτικα in Greek) is a neighbourhood in the northern part of the city of Patras, 6 km from the city centre. The Greek National Road 8 (Corinth - Patras) and the OSE Corinth - Patras railway line pass through the neighbourhood. The river Charadros flows 1 km north. The municipal boundary with Rio is also to the north. Geography The farmlands are to the central part, residential homes are by the Ionian Sea and by the new highway to the east. Its total area is |
Nobby Clark (photographer) | Background & Recent career | Peter Hall, Bill Bryden, John Dexter, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, and John Schlesinger. He has also worked with several comedians on their live shows including Dave Allen, Rik Mayall, Billy Connolly, and Ben Elton and, for Noel Gay Television. In 2005 he was production photographer for the 7th series of cult UK television comedy Red Dwarf. Recent career He worked with Sir Peter Hall (director) on the 2009 season of plays at the Theatre Royal, Bath having been production photographer for all previous seasons. In 2007 he presented an exhibition of black and white photographs at the Royal National Theatre called |
President's Daily Brief | Public awareness & Usage by presidents and presidents-elect | the 9/11 Commission, which was convened during 2004 to analyze the September 11, 2001 attacks. On April 8, 2004, after a testimony by then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, the commission renewed calls for the declassification of a PDB from August 6, 2001, entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US. Two days later, the White House complied and released the document with redaction. Usage by presidents and presidents-elect During the 2012 re-election campaign, a former Bush administration official and President Barack Obama critic reported that "officials tell me the former president [Bush] held his intelligence meeting six days |
Red Auerbach | Legacy | out of shape, and, suffering from various injuries, provided little contribution as the team lost a playoff for the first time ever to the Lakers in the 1985 Finals. Two subsequent facts are perhaps most relevant in evaluating Auerbach's legacy: First, he was able to trade Maxwell to San Diego in exchange for former MVP Bill Walton, who was a major contributor to the team winning its 16th title in 1986, the last of Auerbach's career. Second, Maxwell continues to be embraced as a beloved member of the Celtics family, including having his number retired alongside the team's legendary |
René Wenzel | Biography | renamed Saturn Cycling, as manager and directeur sportif in 1995. Wenzel worked for Saturn Cycling until spring 2000, when together with his wife, Kendra Wenzel, he returned to her native Oregon, where later that year they became parents to daughter Katrine.
Three former athletes, Greg Strock, Erich Kaiter and Gerrik Latta accused Wenzel, along with Chris Carmichael, Cycling USA and Angus Fraser, of treating them with illegal drugs in 1990, feeding them pills and giving them injections, such as cortisone, an immunosuppressant; Greg Strock in 2000, Erich Kaiter later in 2001 and Gerrik Latta. Strock, Kaiter and Latta reportedly made out-of-court |
Rail transport in Malawi | Railway links with adjacent countries | Rail transport in Malawi Malawi Railways is the national rail network in Malawi, run by a government corporation until privatisation in 1999. As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.
The rail network totalled 797 kilometres in 2001. It is a narrow gauge line with a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge track. Railway links with adjacent countries There is no direct link with neighbouring Tanzania as there is a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)/1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge break of gauge.
A rail link to Chipata in Zambia was completed in 1984, |
Philosophy of human rights | Natural rights | principle that man in the state of nature, which is to say without a "commonwealth" (a state) is in a state of constant war one with the other and thus in fear of his life and possessions (there being no property nor right without a sovereign to define it). Hobbes asserted natural law as how a rational human, seeking to survive and prosper, would act; the first principle of natural law being to seek peace, in which is self-preservation. Natural law (which Hobbes accepted was a misnomer, there being no law without a commonwealth) was discovered by considering humankind's natural |
Ramayyan Dalawa | Early life & Association with the Maharajah | successful. He was employed as an assistant to the Attiyara Pohtty Brahmin of Vanchiyoor, a member of the Ettara Yogam or the Council of Eight and a Half who controlled the Temple of Padmanabhapuram and a man of great power and influence. Association with the Maharajah While employed with the Attiyara Pohtty one evening, when the Maharajah Marthanda Varma was dining at Attiyara, he noticed Ramayyan who impressed him by dealing with a minor yet significant incident with great sense and intelligence. The pleased Marthanda Varma asked the Attiyara Pohtty to let him take the young boy into his service |
Red-tailed monkey | Activity and habitat | of in East and Central Africa ranging to Kenya and many areas of the Congo. The red-tailed monkey species is categorized in recognized subspecies and these subspecies have different ranges, the subspecies C. a. schmidti having the widest distribution from Congo into countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and the subspecies C. a. atrinasus having the smallest distribution restricted to a local habitat of Zovo, Angola. They are primarily arboreal but will come to the ground. In the trees, they are very active and travel at greater speeds than being on the ground. On the ground, they travel quadrupedally, on |
Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk | Design and development | strike resistance and an additional fuselage fuel tank. A total of 180 T-1 trainers were delivered between 1992–1997.
The first T-1A was delivered to Reese Air Force Base, Texas, in January 1992, and student training began in 1993.
Another military variant is the Japan Air Self-Defense Force T-400 (400T) trainer, which shares the same type certificate as the T-1A. |
Ressentiment (Scheler) | Essential structures of Ressentiment proper: "Pathological Ressentiment" | some way. "Members of a group can become random targets of hate, borne out of impotence that seeks to level the group." Such a random formal treatment of "otherness" offers a plausible explanation for hate crimes, serial killings (in part), genocide, the general framing of an enemy in faceless non-human terms, as well as any top-down or bottom-up form of class warfare agenda, etc. Hence, there must be a psychic distancing of de-personalization between Master and Slave perceptions of "the other" in order for Ressentiment to operate effectively.
7) Pathological Ressentiment entails "Value-Delusion". Value Delusion is "a tendency to belittle, |
Return to Paradise (1953 film) | Plot | Return to Paradise (1953 film) Plot During the 1920s, itinerant American beachcomber Mr. Morgan (Gary Cooper) is deposited on the island of Matareva in the South Pacific. When he decides to stay he is confronted by Pastor Cobbett (Barry Jones), who lost both his father and his wife as a young missionary on the island. Cobbett rules Matareva as a Puritanical despot, using local bullies as "wardens" to enforce his rules. "Morgan Tane" stays on Matareva by winning the support of the natives after he defeats the wardens with the aid of an empty shotgun. Morgan has an illegitimate child, |
Patchwork stingaree | Description | much wider than long, with broadly rounded outer corners and nearly straight anterior margins that converge at an obtuse angle. The tip of the snout protrudes slightly past the disc. The small eyes are followed by comma-shaped spiracles with angular posterior rims. The outer rim of each nostril may be enlarged into a small knob; between the nostrils is a skirt-shaped curtain of skin with a finely fringed trailing margin. There are 8–14 stubby papillae (nipple-like structures) on the floor of the large mouth, as well as a narrow patch of large papillae on the lower jaw. The teeth are |
Radio Tirol | History | was integrated into the ORF.
Radio Tirol officially started its program on 1 October 1967 as the ÖR-Radio Tirol. In 1972 the ORF Tirol Studio was opened in the Saggen of Innsbruck. ORF Tirol did not only produce Radio Tirol, but also TV shows for Österreich Bild, from 1988 also the regional news "Tirol heute". In 1992 the old marketing name ÖR, which stood for Österreich Regional, was discontinued and Ö2 was used from then on. After the introduction of nationwide private radios, Ö2 was pushed further back and all regional radios got names following the scheme "Radio (State)", in the |
Rheometer | Sentmanat & Acoustic rheometer | on the polymer film. The stress is determined from the torque exerted by the drums. Acoustic rheometer Acoustic rheometers employ a piezo-electric crystal that can easily launch a successive wave of extensions and contractions into the fluid. This non-contact method applies an oscillating extensional stress. Acoustic rheometers measure the sound speed and attenuation of ultrasound for a set of frequencies in the megahertz range. Sound speed is a measure of system elasticity. It can be converted into fluid compressibility. Attenuation is a measure of viscous properties. It can be converted into viscous longitudinal modulus. In the case of a Newtonian |
Red Auerbach | Writing & Legacy | written with Dan Shaughnessy. In October 2004, his last book, Let Me Tell You a Story, was co-authored with sports journalist John Feinstein. Legacy Among Auerbach's accomplishments during his 20-year professional coaching career were eleven Eastern Division titles (including nine in a row from 1957–65), 11 appearances in the finals (including ten in a row from 1957–66), and nine NBA championships. With a total of 16 NBA championship rings in a span of 29 years (1957–86) as the Celtics coach, general manager, and team president, Auerbach is the most successful team official in NBA history. He is credited with creating |
Punik Gárdony | Career | Castle, and they also adopted the Grebeni surname after that. |
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