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Single (music) | Early history | they were released with an A-side and B-side, on which two singles would be released, one on each side. Moreover, traditionally, only the most popular songs from a previously released album would be released as a single. In more contemporary forms of music consumption, artists release most, if not all, of the tracks on an album as singles. Early history The origins of the single are in the late 19th century, when music was distributed on phonograph cylinders that held two to four minutes' worth of audio. These were then superseded by phonograph records, which initially also had a short |
Stephanie Lacoste | International career | Stephanie Lacoste International career Lacoste capped for Uruguay during the 2014 Copa América Femenina. |
Steve Everitt | University of Michigan & Professional football | with Matt Elliott during the 1990 and 1991 seasons. As a senior, he started all 12 games for the undefeated 1992 Michigan team that compiled a 9-0-3 record, outscored opponents 389-198, and defeated Washington in the 1993 Rose Bowl. He was selected as a first-team player on the 1992 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Professional football Everitt was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (14th overall pick) of the 1993 NFL Draft. He played three seasons for the Browns from 1993 to 1995, appearing in 46 games, including 45 games at the team's starting center. After |
Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp | Life | Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp Life She was a daughter of Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony. On 16 September 1649 in Gottorp, she married John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. After her husband died in 1667, she became regent for her minor son Charles William, until he came of age in 1674. |
Smita Patil | Career | down big, commercial offers because of my commitment to small cinema and what have I got in return? If they want names I'll make a name for myself. So I started and took whatever came my way.
In time she was accepted by commercial filmmakers and from Raj Khosla and Ramesh Sippy to B.R. Chopra, they all agreed that she was "excellent." Her fans, too, grew with her new-found stardom. Patil's glamorous roles in her more commercial films — such as Shakti and Namak Halaal — revealed the permeable boundaries between "serious" cinema and "Hindi cinema" masala in the Hindi film industry. |
Rugby union in Ivory Coast | Governing body & History | Rugby union in Ivory Coast Governing body Rugby union in the Ivory Coast is administered by the Fédération Ivoirienne de Rugby. It was founded in 1961 and became affiliated to the International Rugby Board in 1988. History The sport is mainly played in and around the former capital Abidjan.
The first recorded game in the Ivory Coast was just after the Second World War, in 1946, when Mme Andre Benois organised a match between two teams of expatriates. They used an improvised ball made from the inner tube of a tyre.
The game was further developed by French schoolmasters working in the |
Sean Ensign | Early life | Sean Ensign Early life The last of eight children, Sean Ensign was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. From an early age, he learned to appreciate the value and beauty of music. Ensign taught himself to play the piano. He took every chance that presented itself to sing. However, it was not until he began writing his own songs that he was able to fully express himself emotionally and artistically. Before releasing his first album, Ensign worked as a professional hospital intensive care nurse and as a male fitness model. Since retiring from music in 2013, Sean is now |
Rollout.io | History & Products | Rollout.io History Rollout was founded by Erez Ruzovsky and Eyal Keren in 2014. The company launched its product at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2015.
In October 2015, Rollout closed a $2 million Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners Israel. Additional investors included Plus Ventures, 2B Angels, and Star Farm Ventures.
In February 2016, Rollout announced additional funding from Sweet Capital in the amount of $1 million.
In April 2017, Rollout launched a new product called ROX.
Rollout's customers include Upwork, Musical.ly, Intuit and Badoo.
In June 2019 Rollout was acquired by CloudBees Products Rollout currently has one product called ROX, a continuous feature |
Step climb | Description | may diminish efficiency rather than improve it (propellers tend to lose efficiency in thinner air, and many small general aviation aircraft lack supercharging, effectively decreasing the engine's compression pressure, and therefore efficiency, as the aircraft climbs into more rarified atmosphere). |
Saidpur, Bangladesh | History & Civil administration | Saidpur, Bangladesh History The city of Saidpur was established around the Saidpur Railway Workshop, established in 1870 by the British Colonial regime. Nothing is definitely known about the origin of the upazila's name. It is learnt that in the long past there came a Sayed family from Koch Bihar of India and settled in this area and started preaching Islam. It is generally believed that the upazila might have derived its name, Saidpur, from the name of that Sayed family. Saidpur became Thana in 1915. Civil administration The municipality of Saidpur was incorporated in 1958. The city is divided into |
Rheometer | Rotational cylinder & Cone and plate | define a Bingham plastic model which used to be widely used in the oil industry for determining the flow character of drilling fluids. In recent years rheometers that spin at 600, 300, 200, 100, 6 & 3 RPM have been used. This allows for more complex fluids models such as Herschel–Bulkley to be used.
Some models allow the speed to be continuously increased and decreased in a programmed fashion, which allows the measurement of time-dependent properties. Cone and plate The liquid is placed on horizontal plate and a shallow cone placed into it. The angle between the surface of the |
South Australian borders | 1788-1832 & 1832-1836 & 1836-1846 | NSW border.
Following the settlement of the Swan River Colony (SRC) in 1829 (2 May 1829 - Map), the eastern boundary was declared to be 129° east, that is coinciding with the western boundary of New South Wales at the time.
The colony of Western Australia (WA) was commissioned in March 1831.
From 1829 to 1832 129° east was the SRC/NSW border. 1832-1836 The name of the Swan River Colony changed to Western Australia in 1832 (6 February 1832 - Map).
From 1832 to 1846 129° east was the WA/NSW border. 1836-1846 South Australia became a colony in 1836 and until 1846 |
R v Jordan (2016) | Background | further dates were set throughout 2010 and 2011. In May 2011, Jordan was committed to stand trial. The trial lasted from September to February 2013, bringing the total delay between the charges and the conclusion of the trial to 49.5 months, of which 5.5 were imputable to the accused.
During his initial trial, Jordan brought an application for stay of proceedings under section 11(b), which was dismissed. His appeal to the Supreme Court of British Columbia was dismissed because it was judged Jordan had not suffered significant prejudice as required by the framework. His appeal to the British Columbia Court of |
St. Matthews Central School, Mudgee | History | St. Matthews Central School, Mudgee History A Catholic school was first established in Mudgee in the 19th century. Leading Australian author Henry Lawson studied there for a time but struggled to find friends due to deafness and left school early.
A new school in Mudgee south was finished in April 1912. The same week tenders were called for a new Catholic School.
July 1914 saw tenders called for a new high school building completed in 1916.
In 1992, part of the school was burnt down by vandals. A new school was rebuilt on the site. The school currently has approximately 600 students in |
Steve Pearce (baseball) | Second stint with the Orioles & Tampa Bay Rays & Third stint with the Orioles | plate appearances. Tampa Bay Rays On January 28, 2016, Pearce signed a one-year contract worth $4.75 million with the Tampa Bay Rays. The deal also had up to $1.25 million in bonuses for plate appearances, as well as a $250,000 bonus if he was traded by the Rays. Throughout his stint with Tampa Bay, Pearce was utilized as the designated hitter for the team but also played first base, second, and third at times. In 60 games, he hit .309 with 10 home runs. Third stint with the Orioles On August 1, 2016, the Rays traded Pearce to the Orioles |
Spasmodic dysphonia | Signs and symptoms & Diagnosis | young as teenage years. Diagnosis Diagnosis of spasmodic dysphonia requires a multidisciplinary team and consideration of both perceptual and physiological factors. There is currently no universally accepted diagnostic test for spasmodic dysphonia, which presents a challenge for diagnosis. Additionally, diagnostic criteria have not been agreed upon as the distinguishing features of this disorder have not been well-characterized.
A team of professionals including a speech-language pathologist, an otolaryngologist, and a neurologist, are typically involved in spasmodic dysphonia assessment and diagnosis. The speech-language pathologist conducts a speech assessment including case history questions to gather information about voice use and symptoms. This is followed |
Samuel Fallows | Early life & American Civil War service | Samuel Fallows Early life Fallows was born in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, England and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1848. He became a Methodist minister in 1858. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison) in 1859. He was elected Vice-President of Gainesville University, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. While ministering to the Oshkosh church, the Civil War began. He resigned his charge, and became chaplain of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. American Civil War service During the American Civil War, he fought in the Union Army, rising to lieutenant colonel of the |
Ryan Stoa | Professional | the Monsters, co-leading the AHL with 23 goals among rookies.
On July 7, 2012, Stoa signed as a free agent to a one-year deal with the Washington Capitals. Assigned to AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bears, for the 2012–13 season, Stoa missed two-months to injury before returning to finish with 19 points in 46 games. On April 15, 2013, Stoa was re-signed by the Capitals on a one-year extension.
For a second successive season within the Capitals organization, Stoa was assigned to the Bears to begin the 2013–14 season. In 67 games, Stoa matched his career high 40 points from his rookie campaign |
Startling Stories | War years | Virgil Finlay. The initial cover art was mostly painted by Howard Brown, but when Earle K. Bergey began to paint covers for Startling in 1940, soon after its launch, Bergey quickly became identified with the magazine; between 1940 and 1952 (the year of Bergey's death) he painted the great majority of covers. Bergey's covers were visually striking: in the words of science fiction editor and critic Malcolm Edwards, they typically featured "a rugged hero, a desperate heroine (in either a metallic bikini or a dangerous state of déshabillé) and a hideous alien menace". The brass bra motif |
Spasmodic dysphonia | Abductor spasmodic dysphonia | affecting around 13% of individuals with SD. In ABSD, sudden involuntary muscle movements or spasms cause the vocal folds to open. As the name suggests, these spasms occur in the single abductor muscle of the vocal folds, called the posterior cricoarytenoid. The vocal folds cannot vibrate when they are open. The open position of the vocal folds also allows air to escape from the lungs during speech. As a result, the voices of these individuals often sound weak, quiet, and breathy or whispery. As with adductor spasmodic dysphonia, the spasms are often absent during activities such as laughing or singing, |
Sigma Alpha Mu | Controversy | President Mark Schlissel entered a four-year ban from campus life. This was "the most severe sanction that can be implemented against any campus student organization." He also asked to national fraternity's council to pull its charter. A lawsuit, claiming that “the resort says it now believes the vandalism was in retaliation for management confronting the students earlier in the day over payment” and prior damage.
In 2008, a University of Delaware freshman died of alcohol poisoning after attending a party hosted by members of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, where the student was pledging. |
Sefton Samuels | Life and work | Samuels worked in the mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire and as a professional jazz drummer before turning to photography.
His photograph of George Best was used on the cover of Paul Weller’s Stanley Road album designed by artist Peter Blake. Samuels’ intimate images of LS Lowry at home were used as the basis for a life-size statue of the painter erected in a Manchester bar.
In 2011, Random House published a major collection of Samuels' work documenting the north of England over five decades, entitled Northerners: Portrait of a no-nonsense people. He was interviewed about Northerners by his son, BBC documentary maker |
Scott Lloyd | Professional career | Scott Lloyd Professional career Lloyd was selected in the second round in the 1976 NBA draft (24th pick overall) by the Milwaukee Bucks. The next summer he was named MVP of the Summer Pro League after averaging 23.4 points and 8.2 rebounds.
Lloyd played the next season for the Buffalo Braves, who became the San Diego Clippers after the 1977–78 season. After being traded to the Chicago Bulls as a back-up for Artis Gilmore, Lloyd then played one season of pro ball in Venice, Italy.
Lloyd's big break came in 1980 when he was signed by the expansion Dallas Mavericks. He played |
Scott Fulhage | Professional career | leading the NFC with 24 punts inside the opponents' 20-yard line, and finishing third in the NFL with 84 attempts. In 6 years of playing in the NFL, Fulhage successfully completed one fake punt against the San Francisco 49ers, a 12-yard pass for a successful first down, in the 1989 season during his time with the Atlanta Falcons. Fulhage is also credited with two rushing attempts, during the 1989 and 1992 seasons, but gained a total of 0 yards. Although he started with a slow career he picked up the pace. The remainder of his statistics show consistency and |
Squatch | null | relocated team, currently performing as Rumble the Bison, the Thunder's mascot. |
Steven Sinofsky | Sinofsky at the Windows division | Windows operating system.
Sinofsky left Microsoft on December 31, 2012. His departure was described by both parties as a mutual decision, but widely seen externally as the result of a power struggle or friction between himself – tipped as a future leader of the company – and CEO Steve Ballmer. Technology website Ars Technica drew attention to the sense of staffing changes after a major project – the Windows 8 rollout, but also noted the abrupt and exceptional manner of departure and a similar analysis of recent politics within Microsoft by ZDNet. Sinofsky was succeeded by Julie Larson-Green |
Simon Gikandi | Career | 2011). This text was widely acclaimed, earning many academic awards. He is currently editing Vol. 11 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Africa and the Atlantic World.
From 1991 until 2004, Gikandi taught at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, as a faculty member in the Comparative Literature department. He began teaching at Princeton in 2004, as a faculty member in the English department. Gikandi has also held positions at University of Massachusetts-Boston (1987–91), Harvard University (1989-90), and California State University- Bakersfield (1986–87). |
Second Afar insurgency | Background | Second Afar insurgency Background The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) was founded in 1993, through the merging of three Afar rebel groups, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Union, the Afar Ummatah Demokrasiyyoh Focca (AUDF), and the Afar Revolutionary Forces (ARF). The three groups were united under the goal of creating an independent state in the Afar Region. The group operates within Ethiopia, allegedly receiving Eritrean support. In 1995, ARDUF perpetrated its first attack, kidnapping an Italian tourist. The victim was later released unharmed.
The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation (RSADO) was founded in 1999. Along with the Eritrean National Salvation |
Slow code | Background | found or is not an option), end-stage AIDS and its accompanying severe opportunistic illnesses (which are not responding to antiretroviral and drug therapy and/or the white blood cell count is too low), or those who are older than about 70 and/or homebound (where they and/or their guardians, instead of a DNR order, have authorized such half measures and the law permits it).
A patient may request, in an advance directive, to prohibit certain responses, including intubation, chest compression, electrical defibrillation, or ACLS. This is referred to as a partial code or partial resuscitation and such resuscitation "commonly violates the ethical obligation |
Sofidel Group | null | Sofidel Group Sofidel is an Italian producer of tissue paper for sanitary and domestic use.
The Sofidel Group was founded in 1966. It is one of the world leaders in the tissue paper market and the second largest producer in Europe behind Essity. In 2010 its production capacity totaled 940,000 tons, in 2015 the number rose to 1,050,000 tons per year.
The privately held company is owned by the Stefani and Lazzareschi families, has subsidiaries in 13 countries and more than 5,200 employees. In 2015, it announced multiple US investments, being the first Italian tissue company to make it into the US |
Queen's Police Medal | King's Police Medal | wear a silver bar on the ribbon in lieu of a further issue of the medal, or a rosette where the ribbon alone was worn. Initially recipients were required to have shown:
(a) Conspicuous gallantry in saving life and property, or in preventing crime or arresting criminals; the risks incurred to be estimated with due regard to the obligations and duties of the officer concerned.
(b) A specially distinguished record in administrative or detective service.
(c) Success in organizing Police Forces or Fire Brigades or Departments, or in maintaining their organization under special difficulties.
(d) Special services in dealing with serious or widespread outbreaks |
Rob Zicari | Obscenity prosecution | led to the subsequent undercover operation by federal authorities.
In April 2003, the premises of Extreme Associates were raided by federal agents. Zicari, his then wife Lizzy Borden and his company were indicted for distributing obscene pornographic materials. The case is United States v. Extreme Associates.
Zicari's company is located in Northridge near Los Angeles, but the trial took place in Pittsburgh, from where under-cover agents had ordered the offending materials.
Zicari remained in business during the trial; he continued to market and sell the five tapes that are at the center of the prosecution as The Federal Five, with a portion of |
San Martín de Albelda | null | known to history, stopped at the monastery in order that his amanuenses could copy the De uirginitate beatae Mariae of Ildephonsus of Toledo. By that time it also possessed one daughter house: San Prudencio de Laturce. In 976 the abbey's scriptorium compiled and illustrated the Codex Albeldensis, a parchment manuscript of 430 folios. It contains the first visual representations of Spanish monarchs (images of Sancho Garcés II, Ramiro Garcés, and Urraca Fernández), illustrated within those monarchs' lifetimes, and also the first record of Arabic numerals in western Europe (the numbers 1–9, but not 0, are represented). Besides the Godescalcus' copy |
Smrje | Name & Mass graves | Smrje Name The name Smrje is probably derived from *Smьrďane, a plural demonym from the Slavic common noun *smьrdъ 'simple man'. However, it may also be derived from the identical Slavic common noun *smьrdъ 'juniper' and may therefore refer to the local vegetation. Mass graves Smrje is the site of five known mass graves or unmarked graves the end of the Second World War. They all contain the remains of German soldiers from the 97th Corps that fell at the beginning of May 1945. The Ravence Mass Grave (Slovene: Grobišče Ravence) is located in a meadow 1,100 m south of |
Rufim Njeguš | Battle of Kosov lug (1613) | September newly appointed Sanjak-bey of Shkodër Arslan-bey Balićević renewed attacks on Montenegrins, splitting his forces in two, and tasking first army with penetration to Cetinje and second army with suppressing rebellious forces around Spuž. Both armies failed, as the first one was stopped in Lješanska nahija again without reaching Cetinje, and the second one was defeated when Rufim personally led a side attack of 700 Katunjani in the aid of Piperi, Bjelopavlići and Rovčani forces which were already engaging enemy around the village of Kosov lug. The battle resulted in Sultan's official recognition of Montenegrin autonomy, by issuing a berat |
Statutory rape | Denmark & Current issues | the penalty can be increased to 12 years, if the child is under the age of 12. Current issues While there is broad support for the concept of statutory rape as criminal in the United States, there is substantial debate on how vigorously such cases should be pursued and under what circumstances.
In May 2006, the Irish Supreme Court found the existing statutory rape laws to have been unconstitutional, since they prevented the defendant from entering a defense (e.g., that he had reasonably believed that the other party was over the age of consent). This has led to the release of |
Startling Stories | Publication history | though his experience was in western fiction rather than sf. During Friend's tenure Startling slipped from bimonthly to quarterly publication. Friend lasted for a little over two years, and was replaced by Sam Merwin Jr., as of the Winter 1945 issue.
Merwin succeeded in making Startling popular and successful, and the bimonthly schedule was resumed in 1947. At the start of 1952 Startling switched to a monthly schedule; this was unusual in that Startling was notionally junior to Thrilling Wonder, its sister magazine, which remained bimonthly. Merwin left shortly before this switch, in order to spend more time on his |
Rugby union in Ivory Coast | 1995 World Cup | out on qualifying for the World Cup because they had rested a number of key players in the qualifying rounds. Ivory Coast slipped past them, as well as past Zimbabwe and the third African favourite Morocco.
Ivory Coast went into the World Cup optimistic, with coach Claude Ezoua quoted as saying: "We want to prove to the world that there is more to African rugby than just South Africa." Although Namibia and Zimbabwe had qualified for the RWC at different times, both of these countries were firmly within the South African orbit, and had mostly white players who spoke English and/or |
SDN48 | 2010-2011: Major label debut | first anniversary concert, Noro announced to the audience that SDN48 would debut under Universal Music in the fall. The group also suggested they would be eliminating the age restriction. Through their TV show, Suppon no Onna-tachi (すっぽんの女たち), SDN48 held a senbatsu (選抜, lit. selection) election to determine the top twelve members who would participate in their debut single. Former AKB48 member Megumi Ohori won No. 1 and was given the center position. The single would be titled "Gagaga" and be released on November 24, 2010. On September 30, 2nd generation member Sakura Fukuyama announced through her blog that she |
Shirō Asano (politician) | Political career | population. With little time to prepare he decided to run for the prefecture where he had grown up. He won, and his grass-roots approach to campaigning would carry him two more terms to the position of governor.
In 2005 he stepped aside and started a new career as an academic (now professor at Keio University and Tohoku University) and political TV commentator. Charismatic and good speaker he was encouraged to run for Tokyo governor in the 2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election. He faced Shintaro Ishihara, who run for his third four-year term, and several minor candidates. With barely a couple of months |
Sobolev spaces for planar domains | Invertibility of ∆ & Smoothness of eigenfunctions | kernel of ∆ in H¹(T²) consists of constant functions and none of these except zero vanish on the boundary of Ω. Hence the kernel of H¹
₀(Ω) is (0) and ∆ is invertible.
In particular the equation ∆f = g has a unique solution in H¹
₀(Ω) for g in H⁻¹(Ω). Smoothness of eigenfunctions It follows by induction from the regularity theorem for the dual Dirichlet problem that the eigenfunctions of ∆ in H¹
₀(Ω) lie in C∞(Ω⁻). Moreover, any solution of ∆u = f with f in C∞(Ω⁻) and u in H¹
₀(Ω) must have u in C∞(Ω⁻). In both cases by the vanishing |
Scattered Order | History | Scattered Order History Scattered Order were formed in 1979 in Sydney by Mitchell Law Ross-Jones (a.k.a. Mitch Jones) on vocals, guitar and bass guitar; Michael Tee on guitar and Simon Vidale on drums. Jones worked as a live sound engineer for the Birthday Party and Pel Mel. Jones and Tee formed their own record label, M Squared. They were joined in Scattered Order by Patrick Gibson on guitar and synthesiser in January of the following year. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, their "aim was to combine all manner of 'found sounds' and loose song structures with a perverse absurdist |
Slave states and free states | Early history | western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each. Beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the dividing line between the slave and free states was called the Mason-Dixon line (between Maryland and Pennsylvania).
The 1787 Constitutional Convention debated slavery, and for a time slavery was a major impediment to passage of the new constitution. As a compromise, the institution was acknowledged though never mentioned directly in the constitution, as in the case of the Fugitive Slave Clause. The Constitution prohibited ending slave importation, but in a compromise, the prohibition would not go into effect for twenty years. |
Statutory rape | Female on male statutory rape | 2006 review of scientific literature found that the majority of men who had sex with women as underaged boys hold a positive reaction, with a third of them being neutral and less than 5% being negative toward it. However, these men expressed slightly higher levels of psychological distress than men who had not had these experiences. The authors posit that societal views may disincline men from recognizing negative or abusive elements of the relationships. In contrast, women who were involved with adult men when they were underaged mainly showed negative reactions once they left the relationship. That is, they had |
Sleepaway Camp | Home media & Related works | who subsequently redesigned the box art to remove the cross logo. In 2005, the Canadian-based Legacy Entertainment released a region-free budget DVD release of the film. However, unlike the original VHS release, this release contains numerous edits to the film to either shorten violence or certain moments like dialogue.
Scream Factory released the film in a collector's edition Blu-ray set on May 27, 2014. This release contains a 2K scan of the original camera negative, and this release also has the film in its original uncut version, unlike the DVD released by Anchor Bay. Related works In the late 1980s, |
Ruben F. Mettler | Philanthropy & Personal life | and Jews in 1979, and the Roy Wilkins Memorial Award from the L.A. Chapter of the NAACP in 1981. He was a member of the board of trustees of Caltech from 1968 to his death, and served as chairman from 1985 to 1993. He was also a life member of the Caltech Associates, the President's Circle, and the Caltech Alumni Association. The Ruben and Donna Mettler Professorship at Caltech is named for him. Personal life He was married to Donna Jeane Smith and resided in Los Angeles. They had two sons: Matthew Frederick Mettler, an engineer at TRW Inc., and |
Ronnie Lee Gardner | Early institutionalization | guess you know if that doctor comes back, I'll have to kill you both." In the course of the escape, Gardner struck Leavitt so hard that he needed wires to reconstruct his face. Gardner forced a medical student named Mike Lynch to take him from the premises on a motorcycle while pointing a gun into his back. On August 11, a letter carrier found Leavitt's firearm in a mailbox with a note from Gardner that said, "Here's the gun and wallet taken from the guard at the hospital. I don't want to hurt no one else. I just want to |
Scattered Order | History | sense of humour (in the Snakefinger/Residents vein) and set them to a rock backing; in short, white noise with an amphetamine beat."
The group's first recording, "Bent Up", appeared on a Various Artists album, Growing Pains (November 1980), for their own label. The band issued a four-track extended play, Screaming Tree (May 1981). They followed with another track, "I'm not Whole", for another Various Artists compilation, A Selection (November). In November 1982 they released their debut album, Prat Culture, which was recorded with the line up of Gibson, Jones and Tee joined by Michael Prowse on drums. McFarlane felt it was |
S. Lynne Stokes | Awards and honors | and honors Stokes is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
At Southern Methodist, she was the Dedman Family Distinguished Professor for 2013. |
Saint-Victor, Quebec | History | Saint-Victor, Quebec History The area was first settled as Tring township municipality, established in 1804. Colonization peaked between 1834 and 1838. Settlers came from the neighboring areas of Saint-François (Beauceville), Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lauzon, and Bellechasse.
The Tring township municipality was created in 1845, dissolved in 1847, and reestablished in 1855. In 1864 it split into the Saint-Victor-de-Tring and Saint-Éphrem-de-Tring municipalities. Saint-Victor-de-Tring was named after a Catholic parish, which was established in 1848 and became canonical in 1852. The parish included parts of Saint-François-de-Beauce parish and of Tring and Broughton townships. It was named after Pope Saint Victor I because the first chapel's |
Silverliner | Features | automatic door system which removed the need for train crew to manually open doors at high level platforms. The Silverliner IVs were also the first to be delivered in a married pair configuration, although a minority of cars were outfitted as single units. The delivery of the Silverliner IVs allowed SEPTA to replace most of its remaining PRR MP54s and Reading's pre-war MU fleet save for the 38 rebuilt "Blueliner" cars. While being fitted with an updated propulsion system from General Electric, the Silverliner IVs were nevertheless still delivered with Ignitron tube rectifiers, which were later replaced |
State Bank of India Officers' Association | History | State Bank of India Officers' Association History Existing associations of head cashiers, sub-accountants, staff assistants, and staff officers merged in the 1960s to form the SBI Supervising Staff Association in Madras which was registered as a trade union on 14 August 1965. This merged with associations in Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta to form the All India State Bank Supervising Staff Federation, which became the current association. |
Savile Row tailoring | Welsh & Jeffries & Chester Barrie | as junior partner. Yingmei Quan won the Golden Shears competition in 2011 which enhanced her reputation as one of the better female cutters on Savile Row. Cottrell stated: "Finding your cutting style is a process that improves with your experience throughout the years by looking at people’s figures and trying to get a perfect line and balance for that person. That is what bespoke tailoring is all about." Chester Barrie Chester Barrie was established in 1935 by expatriate English tailor Simon Ackerman, who wanted a British brand and tailoring for his New York-based clothing business. Locating its factory in Crewe |
Stephen Fried | Early life and education & Books | ABC News writer and producer Joel Siegel, GQ contributing editor Lisa DePaulo and Eliot Kaplan, editorial talent director at Hearst magazines — created a mentorship prize in Magid's name in 2003. Fried eulogized Magid eleven years earlier in a piece for Philadelphia magazine, in which he shared experiences from her first-ever Advanced Expository Writing class in 1977. He graduated with a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Books Fried published his first book, a biography of high-fashion model and AIDS victim Gia Carangi, in 1993. Titled Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, the |
Scott Fulhage | Professional career | a solid history as a punter, with only one fumble in those six years. He played in 88 games, punted 399 times for a total of 16,513 yards (averaging just over 41 yards per punt) with a long of 65 yards. |
Sandy Hollow–Gulgong railway line | History | no modern mechanical devices used on it, other than trucks carrying concrete for the tunnels and bridge piers, all other work being done with picks, shovels, hand drills, horses and carts. Construction continued through World War 2 at a desultory pace, held up by money, labour and especially steel shortages, only to be abandoned unfinished, approximately 92% complete, a few years later in 1951. The line crosses the Great Dividing Range by following the Goulburn River and Bylong Valleys from Sandy Hollow to Bylong, with a tunnel under Cox's Gap.
The tunnel, No.1 of three in the Bylong range |
Sohan Lal Bhatia | Biography | May 1918 he was attached to the 105th Mahratta Light Infantry (now the Maratha Light Infantry, then part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force). In September 1918, he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for courage under fire during the Battle of Megiddo; the award was gazetted in April 1919:
Near Sabieh, on the 19th September 1918, for conspicuous gallantry under intense fire. The enemy put down a heavy barrage where he had established his aid post. In the midst of this he carried out his work with an absolute disregard of his personal safety. The skilful way the wounded were |
Sripathi Rajeshwar Rao | Death & Legacy | Sripathi Rajeshwar Rao Death On 28 April 2013, Indian news media reported that Rao had died from kidney failure after a long illness, at the age of 73. Legacy His eldest son Sripathi Sathish Kumar is active in politics. He serves as Telangana Telugudesam Party State Organizing Secretary & TDP Greater Hyderabad Vice President. He served as the President of his father's project 'Akhila Bharatha NTR Abhimana Sangham'. |
Spasmodic dysphonia | Types & Adductor spasmodic dysphonia | mixed spasmodic dysphonia. A fourth type called whispering dysphonia has also been proposed. Adductor spasmodic dysphonia is the most common type. Adductor spasmodic dysphonia Adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD) is the most common type, affecting around 87% of individuals with SD. In ADSD, sudden involuntary muscle movements or spasms cause the vocal folds (or vocal cords) to squeeze together and stiffen. As the name suggests, these spasms occur in the adductor muscles of the vocal folds, specifically the thyroarytenoid and the lateral cricoarytenoid. These spasms make it difficult for the vocal folds to vibrate and produce voice. Words are often cut |
Sir James Long, 5th Baronet | null | in 1698. He married Henrietta Greville on 6 June 1702 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London. She was the daughter of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke and his wife Sarah Dashwood, and a descendant of the Earl of Bedford. On the death of his grandmother Lady Dorothy Long in 1710, he inherited the Draycot Estate together with Athelhampton Manor, other land in Wiltshire and Dorset, and an estate near Ripon in Yorkshire. He used the inheritance to purchase more land in Dorset, adjacent to Athelhampton, in the manors of Burleston and Southover.
Long was returned as Member of Parliament |
Savile Row tailoring | History | which is a guide to SR: "London is the home of menswear. We invented the suit, and in Savile Row we have the most important men’s shopping street in the world but we also have the very best in contemporary formal wear." History While the first tailors moved onto the street Savile Row in 1806, the origins of its tailoring history can be traced back to the beginning of the 17th century. The story begins with a tailor called Robert Baker (RB), originally from Staplegrove in Somerset, who bought up land to the north west of Charing Cross on the |
Sisak (film) | Making & Reception | shooting was mostly done in guerrilla style in Mumbai’s local trains. Reception The movie was screened at various film festivals around the world including Cannes, Wicked Queer in Boston, FilmOut San Diego Film Festival, 2017 KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, prestigious Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival and also the Pune LGBT Festival screening. It has been nominated for the prestigious Iris Prize (an international LGBTQ short film prize).
The film was give 3.5/5 by a review on TOI and was praised as "A brave film that expresses dissent |
Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet | null | Francis.
He died in 1883 at age 91 in Chelsea, London. He had married three times, firstly, Sophia Charlotte Williams, daughter of David Williams in 1819; secondly, Martha Louisa Minshull, daughter of William Minshull, in 1840 and thirdly, Ellen Elwes in 1864. He had no children. |
St. Josaphat Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia | History | the Polish People. Archbishop Ryan in 1898 sent Rev. Mieczyslaus Kopytkiewicz to organize the Parish. The first services were held in St. John's Lower Church. (Incidentally, the services were held here also when the present new church was being built.)"
The Rev. Henry Chajencki was then placed in charge of the parish in December 1898. Under his leadership, church leaders paid $25,000 for the old Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Church building on the corner of Silverwood and Cotton, and also purchased "a double home on Grape Street that served as a Rectory and later as a Convent" as they worked to grow |
Sadr Faujdari Adalat | History | Sadr Faujdari Adalat Ṣadr Faujdari ʿAdālat (Urdu: صدر فوجداری عدالت ) were courts of criminal justice in Mughal and British India. The Faujdari criminal courts are considered the beginning of Hindu and Muslim "personal law" separated from the jurisdiction of civil law in colonial India - a juridical norm preserved as a key principle of democratic secularism in postcolonial India. History The chief institution of this criminal court system was known as the Ṣadr Nizami ʿAdālat ("Administrative Court of Justice") in Calcutta of Bengal Presidency. This chief Administrative Court in Calcutta Criminal oversaw criminal courts in outlying districts |
Statutory rape | Age of consent | are more than 7 million incidents of statutory rape every year. However, it is clear that most incidents are not prosecuted and do not lead to arrests and convictions. Laws vary in their definitions of statutory rape. It is generally intended to punish heinous cases of an adult taking sexual advantage of a minor. Thus, many jurisdictions prohibit allowing a juvenile to be tried as an adult under this law (most jurisdictions have separate provisions for child molestation or forcible rape which can be applied to juveniles and for which a minor can be tried as an adult). Some jurisdictions |
Sheryl Searcy Ninth Grade Center | History | Grade Center. Beginning in fall 2009, the campus began to house freshmen zoned to PHS.
In April 2012, the district's board made the decision to merge SNGC back with Pearland High School effectively ending the ninth grade campus concept in PISD. When school began in August 2013, Pearland High School housed ninth through twelfth grades. |
St. Josaphat Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia | History | St. Josaphat Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia History St. Josaphat's parish was founded in 1898. According to historians at the Polish American Liturgical Center in Orchard Lake, Michigan:
"Polish Immigrants looking to better themselves financially, settled where there was more work. In the section of Philadelphia called Manayunk, there was a great need for workers in steel, wool and paper plants. Towards the end of the 19th Century near the Schuylkill River, there was a large steel plant under the name of American Bridge Co. later called Penncoyd Iron Works who employed many of these hard working Poles. The Poles living |
Sergeant Deadhead | Plot | Sergeant Deadhead Plot Sergeant Deadhead is a bumbling soldier who is sent to the guardhouse for blowing up a model rocket on the parade ground of the air base where he is stationed. His fiancée, Airman Lucy Turner despairs of ever marrying him because of him being constantly disciplined for his antics. She is worried that she will have to marry him while he is in the guardhouse.
Together with Private McEvoy, Sergeant Deadhead escapes from the guardhouse. Private McEvoy decides to break back in, but Sergeant Deadhead hides in a nearby space rocket, not knowing it is |
Royal Society of Tasmania | History & The Tasmanian Society of Natural History |
In 1934 the ornithologist Jane Ada Fletcher became the first woman to give a lecture before other members. The Tasmanian Society of Natural History Drawing its inspiration from the illustrious original Royal Society founded in London in 1660, the Royal Society of Tasmania is the oldest royal society outside the United Kingdom, having had a continuing existence since 1843. Earlier bodies include the 1837 formation of the Tasmanian Society of Natural History by Sir John Franklin assisted by Ronald Campbell Gunn.
Queen Victoria became Patron of the Botanical and Horticultural Society of Van Diemen’s Land in 1844 and the name |
Savile Row tailoring | William Hunt | a love of Hollywood, his fiercely masculine designs, infused with splashes of colour, have become a success. Hunt stated: "It’s an edgy, sexy label for ordinary guys... It’s the kind of clothes girls want to see guys in." On the William Hunt website, he states: "My clothes are for modern heroes. They are like armour. With the right attire there is no limit to a man's achievements." His aim is to design powerful suits for powerful men. Former clients include: Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Gary Neville, Gordon Ramsay and Jonathan Ross. Since 2008, Hunt has expanded into golf, setting up |
Steven Sinofsky | Career & Sinofsky at the Windows division | engineers not to move to Google. Sinofsky has blogged in detail about his efforts at Steven Sinofsky's Microsoft TechTalk, about what it's like to be a Microsoft employee, and what new hires in general most of the time never suspect or know about Microsoft, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Windows. Sinofsky at the Windows division Steven Sinofsky became the president of the Windows division in July 2009. His first heavily involved projects included Windows Live Wave 3 and Internet Explorer 8. Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan also headed the development of the next major version of Windows to come after Windows |
South Carolina Highway 24 | History | SC 24 was extended west, in concurrency with US 25 to Hodges, then replacing SC 25 to Donalds, and SC 15 to SC 2 in Clemson. That same year, SC 24 was rerouted to avoid Ninety Six, with its former route becoming SC 246. By 1930, SC 24 was rerouted at North, replacing SC 6 to Orangeburg then in concurrency with SC 2, through Bowman and Rosinville, to US 78. In 1931, SC 24 was extended west along SC 2, through Seneca and Walhalla, then solo through Mountain Rest to the Georgia state line; SC 24 reached its longest at approximately 231 miles (372 km). In 1933, US 178 replaced SC 24 |
Sense about Science | AllTrials & Ask for Evidence | Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense About Science and is being led in the US by Sense About Science USA, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.
As of January 2018, the AllTrials petition has been signed by 91,989 people and 737 organisations. Ask for Evidence Ask for Evidence was launched by Sense About Science in 2011. It is a campaign that helps people request for themselves the evidence behind news stories, marketing claims and policies. When challenged in this way, organisations may withdraw their claims or send evidence to support them. The |
Semi-colony | Controversy | League for a Fifth International interpret Lenin's analysis of imperialism in a way which defines the vast majority of states in the world as semi-colonies, including all of Eastern Europe. |
Stan Barrett | Land speed record & NASCAR | Stan Barrett Land speed record In an effort led by Hal Needham, another Hollywood stuntman, and sponsored by Budweiser, the Budweiser Rocket was built with the intention of being the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier. The 3-wheeler was powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine. The solid fuel booster engine came from a Sidewinder missile.
At Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base, the vehicle, driven by Barrett, made on December 17, 1979, an attempt to break the sound barrier. The claimed speed of 739.666 mph, equalling Mach 1.01, was never officially recorded. NASCAR The publicity |
Sexuality in Japan | Fetish scene | an eroticized offspring of Hojōjutsu, called kinbaku, that focuses more on gentler holds and uses the historical shame of being tied up to further humiliate the "bottom".
Today, Hojōjutsu is not commonly practiced and is considered by some to be a dying art, but shibari thrives in the BDSM world and has profoundly influenced the bondage scene, integrating itself into many western schools, creating dozens of fusions of styles, and being practiced by itself in BDSM communities worldwide. Kinbaku has introduced to the West ties and positions that specifically apply pressure on the bottom's erogenous zones, asymmetric uses of patterns that |
Ricardo Gomes da Silva | Vietnam & Oman | side achieve the runners-up position in the 2011 BTV Cup where his side lost 2-0 to Brazilian side, Sociedade Esportiva Matsubara in the finals. Oman In 2011, he moved to the Middle East and more accurately to Oman where he was appointed as the head fitness coordinator of the Oman Football Association to work as the fitness coach and rehabilitation specialist with national teams of various levels and also the Oman national beach soccer team and the Oman national futsal team.
He first worked as the fitness coach for Omani football manager, Hamad Al-Azani's Oman national under-23 football team with whom |
Serbian comics | "The Golden Age" (1932-1941) | 1982 film Savamala.
From 1935 to 1941 about twenty comic magazines were launched in Serbia, published weekly and bi-weekly, mostly in black-and-white. They were sold throughout Yugoslavia. In order to boost sales in the western parts of Yugoslavia (today's Croatia and Slovenia), some publications were printed not only in the Serbian Cyrillic but also Latin alphabet. Comics were distributed through convenience stores, newsstands and newsboys, with an average print run of 10,000 - 30,000 copies.
The Golden Age of Serbian comics ended with the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. After World War II some authors were executed as collaborators by the |
Smita Patil | Early life & Career | Smita Patil Early life Smita Patil was born in Pune to a Maharashtrian politician, Shivajirao Girdhar Patil and social worker mother Vidyatai Patil, from Shirpur town (Village-Bhatpure District-Dhule) of Khandesh province of Maharashtra State. She studied at Renuka Swaroop Memorial high school in Pune.
Her first tryst with the camera was in the early 1970s as a television newsreader on the newly transmitting Mumbai Doordarshan, the Indian government run broadcaster. Career Smita Patil belongs to a generation of actresses, including Shabana Azmi and, like her, who are strongly associated with the radically political cinema of the 1970s. Her work includes films |
Roger Shimomura | Education | did very well in his military studies. From 1962 to '64 he served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army's elite 1st Cavalry Division, stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and in Korea.
After leaving the Army, Shimomura began working as a commercial artist and designer – including work on the Polynesian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1964 – but was soon feeling unhappy with the limitations of the field. He began taking painting classes at the University of Washington, where, under the influence of the emerging Pop Art movement, he discovered the possibilities in combining fine art |
Stevan Knićanin | 1848 revolution | language, equality of the Orthodox church as with Catholics, and annual church assembly gatherings. They met at Sremski Karlovci and Novi Sad. Several thousand Serbs met at the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci on 1 May 1848. The delegates chose prominent Austrian-Serb general Stevan Šupljikac as voivode, the civil and military commander (Duke). Josif Rajačić was elected the patriarch of the Serbs. The Serbs demanded a national unit consisting of Banat, Bačka, Baranja and part of Srem, known collectively as Vojvodina. This was completely against the Hungarian authorities visions.
From May 1848 onward, Serbs of Vojvodina directly sought aid from the |
Schwefel | Musical style | and psychedelic rock. |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Post-war to 1993 | following year.) In the mid-1960s new recruits were informed that 'The RAOC occupies nearly 90 different locations in the UK alone and world wide uses 86,000,000 square feet of storage space. Over 1,000,000 different items are held in stock and over 11,000,000 issues are made in a year'. By 1980 the RAOC was reduced to two CODs at Bicester and Donnington (COD Chilwell was closing, CODs Branston and Didcot had closed in 1963 and Weedon in 1965 after being downgraded from a COD in 1957), two CADs at Kineton and Longtown (Nesscliffe had closed in 1959, Corsham in 1963 and |
Step into Liquid | Production and release | Step into Liquid Production and release The film made a box office of $3,681,803 in the United States.
The documentary is available on DVD, DVD-ROM (in WMVHD HDTV) and Blu-ray Disc. It was first released on April 20, 2004 and marked the final DVD release distributed by Artisan Entertainment. |
St. Rita of Cascia High School | Activities & Athletics | with the marching band and at performances in the winter. Athletics St. Rita competes in the Chicago Catholic League (CCL). St. Rita was one of the eight founding members of the league in 1912, and one of five remaining charter members. The school is also a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), the organization which governs most sports and competitive activities in the state.
The school sponsors 12 interscholastic athletics teams which compete in IHSA sponsored state championship tournaments. While not sponsored by the IHSA, the school also sponsors interscholastic teams in ice hockey, and rugby.
St. |
Shanb Ghazan | History | Shanb Ghazan History At the time of the Ilkhanate and Arghun khan's kingdom in 1290 Shanb-e-Ghazan as a village named Shanb or Sham is changed into a large and populous town named Arghuniyye. The main parts of this construction included a Buddhist temple and a palace named Adiliyya.
At the time of king Mahmud Ghazan, Ghazan Khan, Shanb-e-Ghazan is evolved into a large satellite city of Tabriz called Ghazaniya. The neighborhood reached to its most prosperity at this time.
In late 1297 Ghazan Khan built his unique Tomb called Qubba-ye-Aali (Big Dome) in central part of the town and as he was |
Rehearsal letter | Purpose & Usage in the late 19th century to 21st century | playing. Songs also tend not to use them, because it is more useful to refer to the lyrics (except in pieces where the lyrics are highly repetitive, or those with long lyric-less sections). Usage in the late 19th century to 21st century In some cases, A to Z might not be enough. After Z, Aa may be used, followed by Bb, and so on until Zz (though Ii, Jj and/or Oo might also be skipped). The Wilhelm Hansen edition of Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 7 in C major presents one unusual case: the letters A to Z (including both I |
Signe Brander | Early life & City photography | Signe Brander Signe Viola Brander (15 April 1869 – 17 May 1942) was a Finnish photographer. She is best known for documenting the changing cityscapes of Helsinki and the everyday lives of the city's inhabitants in the early 20th century. Early life Brander was born in Parkano and spent her childhood and youth in Kokkola. After her customs official father died in 1891, the family moved to Helsinki. There Brander took a course in the University of Art and Design to become a drawing teacher, but later focused on photography, working for instance in the studio of Daniel Nyblin. City |
Savile Row tailoring | Chester Barrie & Hardy Amies | from 1939, close to the Port of Liverpool and its cloth supplier in Huddersfield, it introduced semi-bespoke and ready-to-wear tailoring to the row. Sold to Austin Reed in 1980, it went into receivership in 2002, which split the factory from the retail operation. Now owned by Prominent Europe, clients have included Cary Grant and Winston Churchill, while both Steve McQueen and Sean Connery wore Chester Barrie in their films. Hardy Amies The British fashion house Hardy Amies was founded by English dressmaker Hardy Amies in 1946. Having been managing designer for Lachasse in 1934, and having designed clothes for the |
Savile Row tailoring | Richard Anderson & Stowers Bespoke | is not something new to Savile Row, we have customers of all ages." Customers have included Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry and the Black Eyed Peas. Stowers Bespoke Stowers Bespoke, established in 2006 by Ray Stowers, former head of bespoke at Gieves & Hawkes for 25 years, was created to reverse the trend in the modern market to mass-produce garments in the far east, with all ready to wear suits, accessories and made to measure suits in England. Originally working from 13 Old Burlington Street, in the spring of 2007 Stowers Bespoke was the lead brand when Liberty launched their formal |
Steve Pearce (baseball) | Baltimore Orioles | Orioles On June 2, 2012, the Yankees traded Pearce to the Baltimore Orioles for cash considerations. He made his debut against the Tampa Bay Rays the following day, starting in right field and batting eighth. On June 14, he hit his first home run with the Orioles and recorded five RBIs. He and teammate Matt Wieters became the first pair of Orioles to both record five RBIs in the same game since Cal Ripken Jr. and Will Clark did it in 1999 at Turner Field against the Atlanta Braves. Pearce was designated for assignment on July 21. While with the |
Serbian comics | 1991 - present | in recent history has been Sat (Watch), a WW1 story written by Dragan Lazarević De Lazare and drawn by Vujadin Radovanović Vuja with colors by Rade Tovladijac; it was distributed in 120,000 copies via daily Večernje novosti to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. |
Single (music) | In South Korea | it is closer in meaning to the English words "record" or "release". Although the terms "single albums" and "singles" are similar and sometimes may even overlap in meaning, depending on context, they are considered two distinct release types in South Korea. A "single album" refers to a physical release (like CD, LP, or some other media) collecting one or more singles, while a "single" is only a song itself, typically as a downloaded file or streamable song. The Gaon Album Chart tracks sales of all "offline" albums released as physical media, meaning that single albums compete alongside full-length studio albums |
Sharath Gayakwad | 2010 & 2012 | The performance also enabled Sharath to qualify for the Paralympics scheduled to be held in London in 2012. He was ranked No. 13 in the world in his category in 100m Breaststroke event in this year. 2012 He is the first Indian swimmer to achieve the qualifying time for London Paralympics, 2012. He has also won 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals at the 2011 International Deutsche Meisterschaften (IDM) Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany. Sharath is also the Asian record-holder in his category in two events – 50m Butterfly, 50m Breaststroke.
In 2012, GoSports Foundation sent Sharath to a high-performance training |
Standardized coefficient | Advantages and disadvantages | another predictor insofar as the shapes of the two variables' distributions resemble one another. The meaning of a standard deviation may vary markedly between non-normal distributions (e.g., when skewed or otherwise asymmetrical). This underscores the importance of normality assumptions in parametric statistics, and poses an additional problem when interpreting standardized coefficient estimates that even nonparametric regression does not solve when dealing with non-normal distributions. |
Soho Properties | 45 Park Place | May 2016, Soho Properties announced that it had secured $219 million in construction financing for 45 Park Place, a 43-story luxury condominium development. The financing structure, involving banks from the Middle East, Asia and Europe, is Sharia-compliant. El-Gamal said, "Essentially, it's the largest syndicated Sharia-compliant construction loan in New York City."
Construction at 45 Park Place is currently underway. A groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site on June 2, 2016. The tower is expected to be completed in 2018. Adjacent to 45 Park Place at 49–51 Park Place, Soho Properties is constructing a three-story museum and sanctuary designed by architect |
St. John the Martyr Church (New York City) | Closing | June 30, 2017, the church was deconsecrated. |
Paine College | Athletics & Accreditation and finances | shut down. Accreditation and finances The college is experiencing financial issues and has been placed on probation by its regional accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The school began 2015 on probation due to being in violation of nine standards, including financial stability.
In November 2015, Paine College launched the "Build it Back Campaign", which raised over half a million dollars in six months. This was to support its fundraising goal of $3.5, of which $2.5 million in cash has been raised. The college plans to use the money to offset the debt of $5.4 million. |
Simon Patrick | Life | Simon Patrick Life He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on 8 September 1626, and attended Boston Grammar School. He entered Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1644, and after taking orders in 1651 became successively chaplain to Sir Walter St. John and vicar of Battersea, Surrey. He was afterwards (1662) preferred to the rectory of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, where he continued to labor during the plague.
He was appointed Dean of Peterborough in 1679, and Bishop of Chichester in 1689, in which year he was employed, along with others of the new bishops, to settle the affairs of the Church in |
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