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Sven Michel | Curling career | Sven Michel Curling career As a junior curler, Michel won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Curling Championships, playing third for Christian von Gunten.
Michel won a silver medal at the 2010 European Mixed Curling Championship, playing second for Claudio Pätz. Later in the season, he and partner Alina Pätz won the gold medal at the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Michel would then become one of the top skips in Switzerland, and would represent his country at the 2011 and 2012 European Curling Championships as skip. He also represented Switzerland at the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling |
Rheometer | Dynamic shear rheometer & Rotational cylinder | predict the end-use performance of these materials. Rotational cylinder The liquid is placed within the annulus of one cylinder inside another. One of the cylinders is rotated at a set speed. This determines the shear rate inside the annulus. The liquid tends to drag the other cylinder round, and the force it exerts on that cylinders (torque) is measured, which can be converted to a shear stress.
One version of this is the Fann V-G Viscometer, which runs at two speeds, (300 and 600 rpm) and therefore only gives two points on the flow curve. This is sufficient to |
Siviriez | Education | and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 221 students attending 15 classes in Siviriez. A total of 427 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 4 kindergarten classes with a total of 48 students in the municipality. The municipality had 10 primary classes and 165 students. During the same year, there was one lower secondary class with a total of 8 |
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge | Amphibians & Reptiles | refuge include bullfrogs and lowland leopard frogs. Lowland leopard frogs respond well to shallow, permanent wetland habitat created for the Yuma clapper rail. They are not present elsewhere on the Refuge due to competition from exotic bullfrogs. Woodhouse's toad and red-spotted toads are also found on the refuge. Reptiles Many different species of reptiles occur on the refuge. Common species include the gopher snake, western diamondback snake, coachwhip, common kingsnake, whiptail lizard, desert spiny lizard and side-blotched lizard. The spiny soft-shell turtle and the desert tortoise are also found on the refuge. Spiny soft-shell turtles are found in freshwater drains |
Stuart Polak, Baron Polak | Early life & Career | Stuart Polak, Baron Polak Early life Stuart Polak was born in Liverpool, England. He attended the Childwall Hebrew Congregation, a synagogue in Liverpool, where he was a chazan, or cantor, on Jewish High Holidays. He took educational trips to Israel from the age of fifteen. Career Polak was a youth officer at the Edgware United Synagogue in Edgware, northwest London. He served as an officer of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in the 1980s.
Polak joined the Conservative Friends of Israel in 1989. He served as its Director for twenty-six years, until August 2015; he now serves as its |
Serbian comics | 1991 - present | written by Darko Grkinić) from the University of Arts in Belgrade and went on to work for Soleil Productions as the illustrator on Scourge of the Gods. In 2009 he would revisit those characters in his Technotise: Edit & I animated feature film, first of its kind in Serbia. R.M. Guerra worked in Europe for years before illustrating Jason Aaron’s Scalped for DC Comics’ imprint Vertigo in 2007. Željko Pahek and Zoran Tucić published in Heavy Metal and other magazines abroad.
Back home, enthusiasts kept the scene alive. First comic book stores were opened and comic book conventions organized. A co-founder |
Sleeping with Ghosts | Content | back to what's happened in my past emotional decade, trying to understand it. Trying to exorcise the ghosts and the demons of relationships past. It's the old cliché of it being therapeutic but it does work for me in that way."
Another interview has Molko explaining:
The album title's about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back. For me it's about the relationship that you have with your memories. They inhabit your dreams sometimes. There can be a lot in |
Sparta, Wisconsin | 2000 census & Economy | city was $18,238. About 10.0% of families and 11.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.0% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over. Economy Sparta is the home and international headquarters of several businesses including Century Foods International, Northern Engraving Corp., Spartek, Mathews Inc., F.A.S.T. Corp., Sparta Brush Company, McPherson Guitars, Multistack, Lake States Lumber, and Wesco Home Furnishings. |
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Wapakoneta, Ohio) | Church building & School | newest churches in the region, and it plainly is a part of the final generation. School In 1853, the church purchased a frame building adjacent to its property and quickly opened a parish elementary school inside. After sixteen years, a larger structure was desired, and a larger brick building was erected immediately to the east of the church at a cost of $4,000. Continued growth necessitated its replacement by a newer building in 1899; this structure is still standing. With features such as towers and turrets, St. Joseph's School is one of the most architecturally-prominent Catholic schools |
SDN48 | 2013: Reunion & New Projects & SDN48 1st Stage "Yuuwaku no Garter" | Projects On March 31, 2013, one year after the disbandment, an SDN48 reunion concert was held at AKB48 theater.
On May 6, 2013, it was announced that seven former members were creating a new group, called 7cm. The group was under the Avex label and the members include Juri Kaida, KONAN, Mana Ito, Haruka Umeda, Megumi Imayoshi, Mami Kato and Miyuu Hosoda. The group disbanded in December 30, 2014. SDN48 1st Stage "Yuuwaku no Garter" All SDN48's members did perform only one stage, "Yuuwaku no Garter". They usually were divided as 1st and 2nd/3rd generation stages. They performed at the AKB |
Savile Row tailoring | null | Savile Row tailoring Savile Row tailoring is traditional and modern, men and women's bespoke tailoring that takes place on Savile Row and neighbouring streets in Mayfair, Central London. In 1846, Henry Poole, credited as being the "Founder of Savile Row", opened an entrance to his tailoring premises into No. 32 Savile Row. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers. The short street has been termed the "golden mile of tailoring", where customers have included Charles, Prince of Wales, Jude Law, Winston Churchill, Muhammad |
Subgenomic mRNA | 3' to 5' DNA or RNA & 5' to 3' (positive sense) viral RNA & Result | the newly created strand).
As a result, the translated strand will have a similar 5' end to varying degrees with the original template (depending on which part of the template the transcription jumped over) and a similar 3' end to the template. 5' to 3' (positive sense) viral RNA Positive-sense (5' to 3') viral RNA which may be directly translated into the desired viral proteins, undergoes a similar process as described in 3' to 5'. Portions of the viral RNA may be skipped during translation. Result The result is that many different proteins can be created from the same mRNA strand, |
Simon Affleck | null | Simon Affleck Major Simon Affleck (ca. 1660 – 1725) was a Swedish tax official, of Scottish descent, who worked in then Swedish-ruled Finland. He had been appointed by the King of Sweden to collect taxes in the Pielisjärvi region, and also paid the rent of his mansion in Pielisjärvi to the King.
His probable grandfather Hillebrand or Gilbert Affleck was born in Scotland and was a burgess in Turku and inspector of gunpowder factories.
Affleck is said to have been a ruthless collector of taxes with little pity towards the poor Finnish peasants. This, and the large and ferocious dog he kept |
Scott Putski | Global Wrestling Federation (1991–1992) | 1991, he debuted for the Dallas-based Global Wrestling Federation.
On March 20, Putski and Terry Simms captured the Tag Team Championship from the Coast to Coast Connection ("Hollywood" John Tatum and "California Studd" Rod Price). Less than a month later, on April 17, the belts were held up following a match between Putski and Simms and the Goodfellows (Gary Young and Steven Dane). Young and Dane would go on to win the rematch on May 1 and become the undisputed champions.
On May 29, he defeated Johnny Mantell in a tournament final to capture the North American Heavyweight Championship, the federation's top |
Sun Liang | Zhuge Ke's regency | main Cao Wei forces, inflicting heavy losses. Zhuge Ke's reputation became even more established. In 253, he carried out a plan he had for a while – to gather up nearly all service-eligible young men of Eastern Wu to make a major attack against Cao Wei – despite opposition from a number of other officials. He further coordinated his attack with Jiang Wei, a general from Eastern Wu's ally state Shu Han. However, his strategy turned out to be faulty – he initially targeted Shouchun (壽春; in present-day Lu'an, Anhui) but, on his way, changed his mind and attacked Hefei |
Soto Street | History & Transportation | North, was declared functionally obsolete and scheduled for replacement. The bridge was constructed in 1936 as joint venture between the state, city and Pacific Electric Railway as an overpass of its Red Car system. Transportation Metro Local lines 251 and 252 run along Soto Street, in addition to Metro Rapid line 751. The Metro Gold Line operates a light rail underground station at its intersection with 1st Street in Boyle Heights. |
Sal Paolantonio | Before ESPN | Sal Paolantonio Before ESPN A native of Stewart Manor, New York, Paolantonio attended Sewanhaka High School.
He graduated from the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1977 with a bachelor of arts degree in history. He also attended New York University, where he received a master's degree in journalism in 1978. Paolantonio served as a gunnery officer in the United States Navy from 1979-1983 where he was awarded the United Nations Meritorious Service Medal in 1983. He served aboard USS Ouellet and the USS Haleakala.
Prior to joining ESPN, he was a political reporter and Philadelphia Eagles beat reporter |
Softball at the 2011 Pan American Games | Competition format | Softball at the 2011 Pan American Games Competition format Eight teams compete in the Pan American softball tournament, and the competition consists of two rounds. The preliminary round follows a round robin format, where each of the teams plays all the other teams once. Following this, the top four teams advance to a page playoff system round consisting of two semifinal games, and finally the bronze and gold medal games. |
Strange Bird | Background & Recording and production | band were looking to work on a follow up, Dawson was killed in car crash. Keyboardist Kiernan Box was brought in to replace him. Recording and production Strange Bird was written in an abandoned telephone company building in Preston, a suburb of Melbourne. Unlike Sunset Studies, which was produced by Paul McKercher and Richard Pleasance, Augie March chose to produce Strange Bird independently; drummer Dave Williams explained to Beat that the band was so comfortable working together in the studio that they felt confident producing the album themselves. Recording sessions took place at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios and Sydney's Megaphon |
St Mary the Virgin's Church, Wiggenhall | History & Exterior | St Mary the Virgin's Church, Wiggenhall History The north and south doorways date from the 13th century, and the rest of the church from about 1400. It was restored in 1862 by G. E. Street. Exterior The church is constructed in carrstone and brick. The aisles have lead roofs, and the nave and chancel are slated. Its plan consists of a nave with a clerestory and North and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and a west tower. Its architectural style is Perpendicular, and it is said to be a "fine example" of this style. The tower is in three stages, and |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Soviet strategic bombing | primarily on military targets. There were 1,114 sorties over Germany in 1942. In March 1943 there was a strategic shift: in preparation for the Kursk Offensive, the bombers were directed against the German railroads behind the front. In April the Long Range Air Force expanded to eight air corps and eleven independent divisions containing 700 planes. After the Kursk preparations, the Soviets turned their attention to administrative and industrial targets in East Prussia in April. With 920 aircraft taking part, they dropped 700 tonnes of bombs there. The largest Soviet bomb of the war, an 11,000-pound weapon, was dropped on |
Stephen Fried | Career in journalism | antibiotic drugs.
Fried went on to publish three award-winning pieces about mental health care. "War of Remembrance" (Philadelphia, January 1994), was the first in-depth investigative treatment of the "false memory syndrome" and the Freyds family of Philadelphia, who invented and popularized it. It won a Health Journalism Gold Award and is generally credited with leveling the playing field in the contentious debate over false memory syndrome's validity. His Washington Post Magazine cover story "Creative Tension" (April 16, 1995) was the first major national profile of Johns Hopkins psychologist Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, and the first time she "came out" as having |
Sydenham railway station (London) | Station layout & Connections | building. Connections London Buses routes 122, 176, 197, 202 and 450 serve the station. While routes 75 and 194 run close by. |
Scribe (comics) | Fictional character biography | population. When Brian became Captain Britain and confronted the Black Queen Miss Emma Steed, Mountjoy revealed that he had been possessing Scribe and attacked him. Captain Britain defeated the London Inner Circle, and Scribe, Mountjoy and the others were put in jail.
Scribe, who was still possessed by Mountjoy, was later bailed out of jail by Sebastian Shaw. Scribe was taken to Liberty Island to participate in a duel against Madelyne Pryor. As Scribe was about to defeat Madelyne, she reached inside Scribe and pulled out Mountjoy, defeating both Scribe and Mountjoy. Her current whereabouts are unknown and it is unknown |
Syracuse University School of Architecture | null | of Architecture moved to a temporary home in a converted warehouse in downtown Syracuse so that Slocum Hall could undergo massive renovations. As of fall of 2008, the school has returned to its home in Slocum Hall. |
Startling Stories | War years | was well regarded, so even though the story was not one of his best, it was excellent publicity for the magazine. Otto and his brother, Earl, also contributed a story, "Science Island", under their joint pseudonym Eando Binder. The "Hall of Fame" reprint was D.D. Sharp's "The Eternal Man", from 1929. Other features included a pictorial article on Albert Einstein, and a set of biographical sketches of scientists, titled "Thrills in Science". The letter column was called "The Ether Vibrates", and there was a regular fanzine review column, providing contact information so that readers could obtain the |
St Peter's Church, Dorchester | History | the north vestry. The gallery at the west end was removed and the organ loft relocated to the north aisle. The existing pews were replaced with open seats of deal and the reading pews replaced by a reading desk and lectern of oak. The architect and supervisor of the work was John Hicks of Dorchester, a pupil of whom was Thomas Hardy, and the builder John Wellspring of West Fordington. Work began in August 1855 and the church reopened for worship on 10 July 1856. During the period of its closure, Divine service was held in Dorchester's town hall.
The church |
Sydney 2000 (video game) | Gameplay | the event. Each event has four stages (Open Trials, Invitation Event, The Championship, and Olympic Class), and for each stage the player must complete minigames in the Cyber Gym that range from running on a treadmill, climbing a pole, squats or reaction training, for a total of 20 minigames. Completing a Cyber Gym game improves the athlete in one of the three ratings temporarily, and to earn the new capacities definitively, the athlete must complete an event with a certain score. After the player is happy with the athlete development, he can try to qualify for the next stage |
Robert Barton | Family & Politics | was born on 13 July 1836. He married Agnes Alexandra Frances Childers, daughter of Rev. Canon Charles Childers, on 26 October 1876. He died on 3 October 1890 at age 54. Robert's two younger brothers, Erskine and Thomas, died in the British Army during the First World War. Politics At the 1918 general election to the British House of Commons Barton was elected as the Sinn Féin member for West Wicklow. In common with all Sinn Féin members, he boycotted the Westminster parliament and instead sat in Dáil Éireann (the "First Dáil"). Arrested in February 1919 for sedition, he escaped |
Sugar caster | null | the form of powder. The name comes from the act of casting the contents when using the set. The name was extended to other vessels used to contain condiments at table, and eventually to the type of sugar with crystal size that could easily be cast.
Until well into the 19th century, sugar came in solid blocks called sugar loaves, which needed to be broken into smaller pieces to use. Only the wealthy could afford the effort needed to produce the small granules needed for a sugar caster.
A caster may also be a pierced spoon for sprinkling sugar, with no integral |
Siege of Babylon Fortress | Conquering of Babylon Fortress | an ingenious strategy and inflicted heavy casualties on the Byzantine forces by encircling them from three sides during one of their sallies. The Byzantines were able to retreat back to the fort, but were left too weak for any further offensive action. This situation forced the Byzantines to negotiate with the Muslims. The Byzantine general Theodore shifted his headquarters to the Isle of Rauda, whilst Cyrus of Alexandria, popularly known as Muqawqis in Muslim history, entered into negotiations with the Muslims, which failed to give any productive results. Emissaries were also exchanged between Theodore and 'Amr, leading to 'Amr meeting |
South Australian borders | 1836-1846 & 1846-1847 | would be surrounded on land by New South Wales (NSW), with South Australia extending west to the 132° east longitude. (132° east) and north to 26° south (28 December 1836 - Map).
From 1836 to 1846 129° east was the WA/NSW border. 132° east was the SA/NSW border as were 26° south and 141° east. 1846-1847 In 1846 the colony of North Australia (NA) was proclaimed by Letters Patent, which was all of New South Wales north of 26° south (17 February 1846 - Map).
From 1846 to 1847 129° east was the WA/NSW border and the WA/NA border. 132° |
Store Dyrehave | Location | Store Dyrehave Location Store Dyrehave has an almost quadratic shape. Præstevang, an area on the northwestern side of the forest, is bounded by the town of Hillerød on three sides. The small town of Ny Hammersholt and Hillerød Golf Club are located on the southwest side while the northeastern margin of the forest is bounded by the Istedrødvej motorway. To the southeast is the small village of Kirkelte in Allerød Municipality. Its open surroundings, which were protected in 1972, partly separate Store Dyrehave from Tokkekøb Hegn. Kongevejen, a former royal road that is now part of secondary route 201, passes |
Smallest organisms | Cetaceans & Flowering plants (angiosperms) & Nanobes | the vaquita. Male vaquitas grow to an average of around 135 cm (53 in); the females are slightly longer, averaging about 141 cm (55 in) in length. Flowering plants (angiosperms) Duckweeds of the genus Wolffia are the world's smallest flowering plants. Fully grown, they measure only 300 µm by 600 µm and reach a mass of just 150 µg. Nanobes Nanobes are thought by some scientists to be the smallest known organisms
about one tenth the size of the smallest known bacteria. Nanobes, tiny filamental structures first found in some rocks and sediments, were first described in 1996 by Philippa Uwins of the University of |
Siege of Léva | The battle | was sent from Buda to halt the imperial army near Léva. But this Ottoman army, composed mainly of irregular troops, was no match for the well-organized imperial battalions of musketeers, protected by their phalanx of pikemen. At first, de Souches hid a part of his troops to provoke an Ottoman attack. When they walked into the trap and then discovered the rest of the enemy's army, the irregular Ottoman troops panicked and fled, leaving many dead and a rich booty of carts and weaponry on the battlefield, including 11 large artillery pieces. The commander, Ali Pacha, was killed during |
Suffolk University Law School | Curriculum and attendance statistics | Criminal Law courses. A course in Professional Responsibility is required, and each student must also fulfill legal writing and legal skills requirements prior to graduation. Until 2008 Fiduciary Relations, a class concentrating on the law of Agency and Trusts, was required. Upon completion of the required curriculum, students at Suffolk choose from over 200 upper-level courses, many of which focus on learning practical skills, including several legal clinics. Students may also receive credit for diverse internships and clerkships, including those at various courts in the Boston area. Academic concentrations are available in Civil Litigation, Financial Services, Health/Biomedical, and Intellectual |
Shakespeare in Love | References to Elizabethan literature | the pages and departs for Deptford, where he is killed. The only surviving text of The Massacre at Paris is an undated octavo that is probably too short to represent the complete original play. It has been suggested that it is a memorial reconstruction by the actors who performed the work.
The child John Webster (Joe Roberts) who plays with rats is a reference to the leading figure in the next, Jacobean, generation of playwrights. His plays (The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil) are known for their 'blood and gore', which is humorously referred to by the child saying that |
Stuart Meissner | null | Stuart Meissner Stuart Meissner (born 1962 in Brooklyn N.Y.) is an American attorney, who is currently challenging Democratic U.S. Senator Cory Booker in the 2020 U.S. Senate Elections. His firm Meissner Associates opened in 2001 with offices in Manhattan NY, and across the country focuses on the securities industry, investment disputes, FINRA attorney representation, SEC whistleblower matters.
In 2016 his client was awarded over 22 million dollars from the SEC as a result of the Dodd Frank SEC Whistleblower program, which was the largest award given to any US citizen in the history of the program. Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, which |
RisingOn | Attire & Fouls | short tights, short leggings or kickboxing shorts. Fouls Passive actions, Headbutts, Elbow strikes, Knee strikes without knee-pads, Hitting to opponent's head on the ground position, Stomping, Buster, Knee strikes to the opponents on the ground. |
Seta River (Mie) | null | Seta River (Mie) The Seta River (勢田川 Seta-gawa) is a river that has both its source and its mouth in the city of Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It flows through the heart of Ise. In 1980,it was designated the most polluted river in Mie, however it no longer holds this status due to cleanup efforts by the city of Ise. |
Squatch | null | Squatch Squatch (a derivation of Sasquatch) was the team mascot for the Seattle SuperSonics, a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise formerly based in Seattle, Washington. Between his 1993 debut and the team's relocation to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2008, Squatch appeared at more than 175 events annually, and was with the organization during their run to the 1996 NBA Finals.
In 2007, Chris Ballew of the rock band The Presidents of the United States of America wrote and performed a song about the mascot. That same year, Squatch attempted to set a world record with a jump of 30 feet |
Su Chiao-hui | Early life & Legal career & Personal life | Su Chiao-hui Early life Su Chiao-hui was born in Taipei. She obtained her bachelor's degree in law from National Taiwan University. She then obtained her Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Legal career Su Chiao-hui was a trial lawyer who did pro bono work for people in poverty. While working for Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law, a firm founded by Fan Kuang-chun and John Chen, Su was mentored by Wellington Koo. She has also served as executive director of her father's Eball Foundation starting in 2012. Personal life Su is the |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Casualties & Asia | of 1957 stated that 64,354 Italians were killed by aerial bombing, 59,796 of whom were civilians. Historians Marco Gioannini and Giulio Massobrio argued in 2007 that this figure is inaccurate due to loss of documents, confusion and gaps, and estimated the total number of civilian casualties in Italy due to aerial bombing as comprised between 80,000 and 100,000.
Over 160,000 Allied airmen and 33,700 planes were lost in the European theatre. Asia Within Asia, the majority of strategic bombing was carried out by the Japanese and the US. The British Commonwealth planned that once the war in Europe was complete, a |
Stuart Meissner | null | alimony POW Freedom Rally, to protest against "the horrific continuation of debtor's prison in New Jersey for those unable to pay their alimony". Meissner pulled in a minority of votes in 2013 NJ special election for US Senate, falling behind 2, but ahead of 3, other independent candidates.
Meissner was one of the earliest volunteers for the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 primary season, working in Trump Tower on a weekly basis from well before the first primaries began and long before the nomination. Following the successful Presidential campaign Meissner continued representing clients as SEC whistleblowers, focusing |
Sisak (film) | Reception | against section 377 of the Indian Penal Code". The film was nominated for the Satyajit Ray Award. |
Stephen Fried | Career in journalism | manic-depressive illness – the disease she had devoted her life to researching and treating (laying the groundwork for her bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind). "Creative Tension" won a 1995 Easter Seals Equality, Dignity and Independence Award for enhancing the image of people with disabilities, as did Fried's Philadelphia story the same month, "The Incredible Shrinking Institute", about the rise and fall of the nation's first psychiatric institution (and the birthplace of the American Psychiatric Association). In 1999, his final year as a writer at Philadelphia magazine, he received the National Headliner Award for Feature Writing on a Variety of Subjects |
Ruben F. Mettler | Career | Corporation, later known as TRW Inc., where he served as president and chief operating officer from 1969 to 1977, and as chairman and CEO from 1977 to 1988. He served on its board of directors from 1964 to 1994. He worked on the SM-65 Atlas, SM-68 Titan, LGM-30 Minuteman and PGM-17 Thor nuclear missile programs for the United States Air Force and NASA, and the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory.
He sat on the boards of directors of Bank of America, Merck & Co., the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Bechtel. He served as chairman of the Business Roundtable from 1982 to |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Bombing in Italy & Bombing in France | the population to flee to mainland Italy (the town was later annexed to Yugoslavia).
Except for Rome, Venice, Florence, Urbino and Siena, damage to cultural heritage in Italy was widespread. Bombing in France German-occupied France contained a number of important targets that attracted the attention of the British, and later American bombing. In 1940, RAF Bomber Command launched attacks against German preparations for Operation Sealion, the proposed invasion of England, attacking Channel Ports in France and Belgium and sinking large numbers of barges that had been collected by the Germans for use in the invasion. France's Atlantic ports were important bases |
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | Criticism | 3GP videos is not real blood. It is not clear if the blood in the 3GP scenes is water with red dye or digitally constructed or edited video blood" and that "videographic and mathematical analysis of the two 3GP videos show that the videos either were edited, or staged, or both”. He concluded that “Careful analysis of the two 3GP videos which included both frame by frame visual inspection as well as the robust mathematical attributes of the video frames, has led us to the conclusion that this is a very deliberate and orchestrated video". The report also detailed the |
Saprinus splendens | Description & Distribution | Saprinus splendens Description These beetles can reach a length of about 3.7–7 millimetres (0.15–0.28 in). Females are longer than males. They are very variable in size, punctation and color. Body is oval, weakly convex and shiny. Pronotum is yellowish-green, while elytra may be shiny dark blue or bottle green or reddish. Elytra show three-four external dorsal striae and a punctation quite variable in density, area and size. Distribution This species is widely distributed. It is present from the Republic of South Africa through tropical Africa, Arabia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Pakistan, most of the Oriental Region and Japan. It has been introduced in |
Stewart of Darnley | Claimants to the English Throne | Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox married Margaret Douglas, the granddaughter of Henry VII. Their sons Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, were held by contemporaries to have a credible claim to the throne of England.
Margaret Douglas was the fruit of the 1514 union of Margaret Tudor, Dowager Queen of Scots and elder daughter of Henry VII with Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Born in England and raised at the court of her uncle Henry VIII, Margaret was Henry's officially recognized heir between the disgrace of Anne Boleyn and the birth of the future Edward |
Stephen Fried | Career in journalism | his story ran, the police interrogated Mr. and Mrs. Noe and received a confession from Marie that she had suffocated eight of her own children (two died of natural causes), leading to a guilty plea and a controversial sentence — which was to include house arrest and probation, along with her cooperation in an unprecedented analysis of her medical history and actions by top experts in fields that study post-partum violence (an analysis which was never carried out). For his work on the Noe case, Fried became the first journalist to receive the Medal of Honor from the Vidocq Society, |
Spasmodic dysphonia | Diagnosis | by clinical observation and perceptual rating of voice characteristics such as voice breaks or strain, which are selectively present in normal speech over other voice activities such as whispering or laughing. Symptoms also vary across types of spasmodic dysphonia. For example, voiced sounds are more affected in adductor spasmodic dysphonia, while unvoiced sounds are more affected in abductor spasmodic dysphonia. Following speech assessment, the otolaryngologist conducts a flexible transnasal laryngoscopy to view the vocal folds and activity of the muscles controlling them in order to eliminate other possible causes of the voice disorder. In spasmodic dysphonia, producing long vowels or |
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | Interviews | trapped in the conflict zone; and Sinhalese critics of the government.
According to Dix from September 2008 there were a number of air raids (by the Sri Lankan Air Force) each day on Kilinochchi, often at night. The Sri Lankan government told the UN that they could no longer guarantee their safety – they must leave Kilinochchi and other Tamil Tiger held areas. According to Gordon Weiss the Sri Lankan government regarded the UN as an "impediment" to their defeat of the Tamil Tigers. By removing the aid agencies from the Tamil Tiger areas there were no longer any international witnesses |
Statutory rape | Rationale of statutory rape laws & Female on male statutory rape | In the past, the solution to such problems was often a shotgun wedding, a forced marriage called for by the parents of the girl in question. This rationale aims to preserve the marriageability of the girl and to prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy.
Historically, a man could defend himself against statutory rape charges by proving that his victim was already sexually experienced prior to their encounter (and thus not subject to being corrupted by the defendant). A requirement that the victim be "of previously chaste character" remained in effect in some U.S. states until as late as the 1990s. Female on male |
Shakespeare in Love | Plot & Production | beginning of Twelfth Night, in character as a castaway disguised as a man after a voyage to a strange land. Production The original idea for Shakespeare in Love was suggested to screenwriter Marc Norman in the late 1980s by his son Zachary. Norman wrote a draft screenplay which he presented to director Edward Zwick, which attracted Julia Roberts, who agreed to play Viola. However, Zwick disliked Norman's screenplay and hired the playwright Tom Stoppard to improve it (Stoppard's first major success had been with the Shakespeare-themed play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).
The film went into production in 1991 at Universal, |
Sylvester of the River Obnora | null | Sylvester of the River Obnora Sylvester of the River Obnora (died 25 April 1479), also known as Sylvester of Obnorsk, was a Russian Orthodox hermit who is recognized as a saint. Sylvester was inspired by the teachings of Sergius of Radonez. He was trained at Trinity Monastery. Sylvester then went as a hermit to live along the banks of the River Obnora, living on either herbs or tree bark and roots. He nearly died but is said to have received sustenance from an angel that saved him. Later others joined him and he established a monastery. |
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Morocco vacation & Death and funeral | At the end of November 2010, he returned to Saudi Arabia because King Abdullah had left for the United States for surgery. His return was seen as a legal formality necessary under Saudi law, which stipulates that only one of the kingdom's top two officials can be abroad at a given time. Death and funeral The Saudi Royal court announced on 22 October 2011 that Prince Sultan died at dawn of an unspecified illness. According to media reports, Prince Sultan had been battling cancer and had been seeking medical treatment in the United States since mid-June 2011. He had a |
Sofidel Group | null | market.
In 2016, it was announced that 100% of Sofidel tissue products in Western Europe will bear the FSC label. |
Shirley, Colorado | History | Shirley, Colorado Shirley is an unincorporated community located north of Banning Lewis Reservoir Number 1 in El Paso County, Colorado. History It was once a spur of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The tracks were removed in the 1980s. |
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | International broadcasts & Special screenings | in Norway on 27 September 2011 at 10.30pm on NRK2. Special screenings Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group, Open Society Foundations and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission jointly screened the documentary at the Congressional Auditorium, Washington, D.C. on 15 July 2011 to an audience of senators, congressmen, officials and diplomats.
Three cross-party New Zealand MPs (Jackie Blue, Keith Locke and Maryan Street) jointly screened the documentary at the Beehive Theatrette in Wellington on 16 August 2011 to an audience of parliamentarians and political activists.
Human Rights Watch and three cross-party Canadian MPs (Patrick Brown, John McKay and Rathika Sitsabaiesan) |
Strategic bombing during World War II | U.S. bombing in Europe | simply bombing cities. However the American Eighth Air Force received the first H2X radar sets in December 1943. Within two weeks of the arrival of these first six sets, the Eighth command gave permission for them to area bomb a city using H2X and would continue to authorize, on average, about one such attack a week until the end of the war in Europe.
In reality, the day bombing was "precision bombing" only in the sense that most bombs fell somewhere near a specific designated target such as a railway yard. Conventionally, the air forces designated as "the target area" a |
Sisyphus fragment | Text | Sisyphus fragment The Sisyphus fragment is a fragment of verse, preserved in the works of Sextus Empiricus and thought to have been composed in the 5th-century BC by a Greek playwright, either Critias or Euripides, and which is thought to contain an atheistic argument. Text The Greek text is conserved in Sextus Empiricus 9.54
Several English versions exist. That by R. G. Bury runs:-
A time there was when anarchy did rule
The lives of men, which then were like the beasts,
Enslaved by force; nor was there then reward
For good men, nor for wicked punishment.
Next, as I deem, did men establish laws
For punishment, |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Germany later in the war | England be given a more aggressive stamp. Accordingly, when targets are being selected, preference is to be given to those where attacks are likely to have the greatest possible effect on civilian life. Besides raids on ports and industry, terror attacks of retaliatory nature are to be carried out against towns other than London. Minelaying is to be scaled down in favour of these attacks.
— Signal from the Führer's headquarters to the Luftwaffe High Command, 14 April 1942.
In January 1944, a beleaguered Germany tried to strike a blow to British morale with terror bombing with Operation Steinbock, nicknamed the "Baby Blitz" |
Siege of Babylon Fortress | Prelude | Siege of Babylon Fortress Prelude Amr ibn al-A'as had visualized that the conquest of Egypt would be a walkover. This expectation turned out to be wrong. Even at the outposts of Pelusium and Bilbeis, the Muslims had met stiff resistance. The siege of Pelusium had lasted for two months and that of Bilbeis for one month. Both battles were preludes to the siege of Babylon, which was a larger and more important city. Here, resistance on a larger scale was expected. After the fall of Bilbeis, the Muslims advanced to Babylon, near modern Cairo. The Muslims arrived at Babylon |
Strategic bombing during World War II | U.S. bombing in Europe | available.
In late 1943, the 'Pointblank' attacks manifested themselves in the Schweinfurt raids (first and second). Despite the use of combat boxes and the assembly ships to form them, formations of unescorted bombers were no match for German fighters, which inflicted a deadly toll. In despair, the Eighth halted air operations over Germany until a long-range fighter could be found in 1944; it proved to be the P-51 Mustang, which had the range to fly to Berlin and back.
USAAF leaders firmly held to the claim of "precision bombing" of military targets for much of the war, and dismissed claims they were |
Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas | History | Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas The Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas (SRCI; English: Indigenous Cultural Broadcasting System) is a state-owned network of radio stations in Mexico. The radio stations it operates are community radio stations that aim to serve different sectors of the country's indigenous peoples. Pursuant to Article 4 of the Constitution, their mission is to strengthen the multicultural nature of the nation by promoting the use of 31 indigenous languages.
As the stations are owned by the federal government, they hold public concessions. History The SRCI began operations in 1979 with the launch of XEZV-AM, "La Voz de la |
Signe Brander | City photography | photography In 1906 the city of Helsinki founded an antiquities board. One of its duties was to document the changing city in photographs. The board hired Brander. Even though a woman photographer was not a rarity in the beginning of the 20th century, there were few working as city photographers.
The photographic documentary work started in 1907 and ended in 1913. The result was 907 photos of the changing cityscapes. The project was carefully planned and the city's planning and building authorities provided information to the antiquities board and Brander. However, she had a lot of freedom to express her artistic |
Standardized coefficient | Usage & Implementation | Standardized coefficient Usage Standardization of the coefficient is usually done to answer the question of which of the independent variables have a greater effect on the dependent variable in a multiple regression analysis, when the variables are measured in different units of measurement (for example, income measured in dollars and family size measured in number of individuals).
A regression carried out on original (unstandardized) variables produces unstandardized coefficients. A regression carried out on standardized variables produces standardized coefficients. Values for standardized and unstandardized coefficients can also be derived subsequent to either type of analysis. Implementation Before solving a multiple regression problem, |
St. Mary's Episcopal School | History | St. Mary's Episcopal School History St. Mary’s Episcopal School was established in 1847 by Mary Foote Pope. It is the oldest private school in Memphis. The school, founded at Calvary Episcopal Church, changed locations many times, including to Hernando, Mississippi in 1862 until the end of the Civil War.
From 1910 to 1949, Helen Loomis guided St. Mary's through the Great Depression and the two world wars. From 1949 to 1958, Gilmore Lynn directed St. Mary's through a period of growth, to 400 students. In 1953, she moved St. Mary's to its current location at the intersection of Perkins |
Society for Individual Freedom | SIF activities | Society for Individual Freedom SIF activities The Society for Individual Freedom regularly offers public meetings with notable speakers, and holds occasional luncheons at the Houses of Parliament.
The SIF has two related campaigns. Tell-IT calls for information technology to be used to provide information on outcomes of drugs and treatments and to make it known and available to doctors and patients alike. Choice in Personal Safety (CIPS) campaigns against compulsion in seatbelt laws and other related matters.
The SIF also publishes a journal, The Individual.
They are a member of Backlash, which was formed in 2005 in order to oppose a |
Strategic bombing during World War II | The Battle of Britain and the Blitz | the population into submission. He stated that "If eight million [Londoners] go mad, it might very well turn into a catastrophe!". After that he believed "even a small invasion might go a long way". Another 250 bomber sorties were flown in the night. By the morning of 8 September 430 Londoners had been killed. The Luftwaffe issued a press notice announcing they had dropped more than 1,000,000 kilograms of bombs on London in 24 hours. Many other British cities were hit in the nine-month Blitz, including Plymouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Southampton, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast, Cardiff, Clydebank, Kingston upon Hull and |
Swarupnagar, North 24 Parganas | Cattle smuggling | Congress activists with cattle smugglers. A large section of the population in this impoverished border region is involved in cattle smuggling. The cattle smugglers are deeply rooted in local society. They not only pay for the services they demand, but they also attack the villagers, burn their houses and molest the women when their orders are not followed. No one dares to stand up to the cattle smugglers, but the local people can vote in elections and vent their feelings. According to estimates of the villagers, more than 5,000-6,000 cows were smuggled every week through the Amudia border under Swarupnagar |
Snow Job (G.I. Joe) | Marvel Comics & Sunbow | vehicle when the team assaults the newly formed Cobra Island. Legal maneuvering forces the Joe team to call off the attack.
Snow-Job is featured in issue #20 of the series G.I. Joe Secret Missions. Along with Frostbite, Avalanche, and Wild Bill and Slip Stream for air support, Snow Job is part of a multi-national force investigating bizarre activity in the Arctic Circle near the Bering Strait. Snow-Job personally destroys several manned Cobra vehicles. Sunbow He first appeared in the G.I. Joe animated series in the mini-series "A Real American Hero". Snow Job was voiced by Rob Paulsen.
He was featured in one |
Shanb Ghazan | History | interested a lot in benevolence, he ordered to build twelve charity building on all twelve sides of this building which consisted of : Jami Mosque, Khanqah, Hanafiyah School, Shafi'iyah School, Dar Al Siyadah, Observatory, Hospital, Library, Beit Al Qanun, Beit Al Motavalli, pool house, and Bathroom.
There were other buildings such as orphanage, and Hakimiyya around this building.
Ghazan Khan's Dome with its 135 meters height astonished the visitors so that changed Shanb-e-Ghazan's other buildings to a scientific - cultural centre in its age. According to Ghazan Khan's order foreign merchants should pass and stay in Shanb-e-Ghazan in order to enter Tabriz. |
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Death and funeral | surgical operation in New York in July 2011. Unnamed U.S. officials cited by The New York Times stated that he died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
His body was taken from New York City to Riyadh on 24 October 2011. His funeral was held at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh on 25 October 2011 in the presence of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. He was buried in Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh.
Various leaders, including the president of Afghanistan, Farouk Al Sharaa, the then vice-president of Syria, the Iranian foreign minister and the head of Egypt's ruling military council, |
Monetary circuit theory | Contrast with mainstream theory | Monetary circuit theory Contrast with mainstream theory The key distinction from mainstream economic theories of money creation is that circuitism holds that money is created endogenously by the banking sector, rather than exogenously by the government through central bank lending: that is, the economy creates money itself (endogenously), rather than money being provided by some outside agent (exogenously).
These theoretical differences lead to a number of different consequences and policy prescriptions; circuitism rejects, among other things, the money multiplier based on reserve requirements, arguing that money is created by banks lending, which only then pulls in reserves from the central bank, |
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge | Reptiles & Fish | and ponds, while the desert tortoise, although rarely seen, can be found in the upland desert areas. Fish Fish populations thrive in the Salton Sea. The aquatic ecosystem is extremely productive because of the large amounts of nutrients it receives. The nutrients stimulate growth of phytoplankton and algae, which in turn, support zooplankton and worms. All of this provides a continuing supply of food for fish. Periodically, decomposition of large algal blooms diminishes the dissolved oxygen in the water. This decomposition has been tied to occasional fish die-offs that occur throughout the year.
Tilapia is the most common fish found in |
Synetic Theater | Significant Events & Other items of note | used for camps, classes and rehearsal space as well as a green room and a reception area.
In 2014 Synetic Theater produced its 10th "silent Shakespeare" adaptation "Twelfth Night."
In 2014, Synetic Theater's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was invited to the 10th Festival Internacional in Chihuahua, Mexico. Subsequently, they also performed at Teatro Victor Hugo Rascon Banda, Juarez, Mexico. Other items of note The name Synetic was coined by founding artistic director Paata Tsikurishvili from the words Synthesis (the coming together of distinct elements to form a whole) and Kinetic (pertaining to or imparting motion; active ... dynamic ...) |
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School (London, Ontario) | History | house 945 students. Its peak enrollment hit approximately 1,800 students in the late 1990s, and has since stabilized to around 800 students.
STA was built with a "cafetorium", a space which could be used as either a cafeteria or auditorium with portable seating stored under the stage. This cafetorium has been the site of many assemblies, school shows, and other various school events and performances. It was also used as a temporary location for weekend Masses for St. George's Parish during church reconstruction in 1998–99.
The school is well known throughout Southwestern Ontario as a school with a proud tradition of strong |
Siviriez | Economy & Religion | were technical professionals or scientists, 17 or 10.3% were in education and 60 or 36.4% were in health care.
In 2000, there were 129 workers who commuted into the municipality and 280 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.1% used a private car. Religion From the 2000 census, 827 or 85.7% were Roman Catholic, while 30 or 3.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of |
Tadashi Sawamura | Influence | series called Kick no Oni (which means "The demon of kickboxing", written by Ikki Kajiwara), and he was also a guest on an episode of the series Return of Ultraman as himself.
His anime series also became intensely popular in Brazil during the 70's and early 80's featuring 26 episodes under the name "Sawamu, o Demolidor". In this series, Tadashi Sawamu (Brazilian translation), was an arrogant karate fighter who was defeated by a kickboxer, leaving Sawamu in a mild coma. Once in the hospital and recovering from the coma, his opponent's kickboxing trainer Noguchi, came to his hospital room and convinced |
Sigma Alpha Mu | Candidate Education & Community service | chapter. Community service Sigma Alpha Mu members, through their chapters, participate in service in the communities in which their respective colleges are located. Bounce for Beats, a national service project, began at Case Institute of Technology's Mu Gamma Chapter in 1965. Scores of chapters bouncing a basketball to symbolize the heartbeat—or now conducting other basketball-related events—have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for worthy causes including the American Heart Association and Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Since 1995, proceeds from the event have benefited the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
In 2005, ΣΑΜ chose the Alzheimer's Association as its service and philanthropy project |
Syracuse and East Side Street Railway | Routes & Financial | Street, East Water Street and Warren Street.
The next portion of the line was planned from the intersection of Pear Street and Burnet Avenue on the line from the city to East Syracuse along Burnet Avenue to Massachusetts Street, Jay Avenue, Boston, Thompson, to the Messina plank road and on to Manlius Street to East Syracuse.
The Elm Street, rail contract was held by the company. Financial Most of the stockholders and officers of the new company in 1894 were creditors of the old Syracuse, Eastwood Heights and DeWitt Railroad Company.
At the end of June 1897, total earnings were $6,674 and had |
Tad Lincoln | Later life & Death | and Tad began attending school. In 1868, they left Chicago and lived in Europe for almost three years, in Germany and later in England.
Lincoln suffered from what one modern commentator has called a "complex speech and language disorder" related to some form of a cleft lip or palate. This caused some problems when Lincoln was in school in Chicago. While at the Elizabeth Street School, his schoolmates sometimes called him "Stuttering Tad" because of the speech impediment, which he was able to overcome as a teenager. Death On Saturday morning, July 15, 1871, Lincoln died at the age of |
Scottish society in the early modern era | Women | the subject of complex negotiations over the tocher (dowry). Some mothers took a leading role in negotiating and finding marriages, as Lady Glenorchy did for her children in the 1560s and 1570s, or as matchmakers, finding suitable and compatible partners. Before the Reformation, the extensive marriage bars for kinship meant that most marriages necessitated a papal dispensation, which could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient. At the beginning of the period, women had a very limited legal status. The criminal courts refused to recognise them as witnesses or independent criminals, and |
Suffolk County Air Force Base Missile Annex | Missile Support Area | used the Assembly and Maintenance (A & M) Shop for preparing newly received missiles, repairing BOMARCs that malfunctioned, and periodic recycling. "Missile Recycle" for 6 mo/2 yr component replacement from "ready-storage" used 5 A & M Shop stations after the missile had been transported to the Main Shop Room following defueling and warhead removal at the Launcher Shelter and decontamination at the Fuel Facility. The A & M Shop with 22 rooms included a "Control Room", and a Telecommunication (TELCO) Room with 2 SAGE Digital Data Receivers and a Digital Data Transmitter for communicating missiles' status to the remote |
Severinus of Bordeaux | null | Severinus of Bordeaux Severinus, or in French Seurin (died 420), was an early bishop of Bordeaux later venerated as the patron saint of the city on account of the miracles he reputedly worked in defence of the city. He was remembered for his strong stance against Arianism. His feast day is October 21 in the latest Roman Martyrology.
The Roman Martyrology formerly identified Severinus as a bishop of Cologne who died at Bordeaux, leading many scholars to identify him with the independently known Saint Severinus of Cologne, whose feast is on October 23. According to legend, Severinus was taking a walk |
Schönhausen | Geography & History | Schönhausen Geography The village is situated on a terminal moraine, stretching along the eastern bank of the Elbe River. It is located about 70 km (43 mi) north of the state capital of Magdeburg, halfway between Stendal in the west and Rathenow in the east. Since 1 January 2010 Schönhausen includes the former municipality of Hohengöhren.
Schönhausen station is a stop on the Berlin–Lehrte railway line, served by Regionalbahn trains. The parallel Hanover–Berlin high-speed railway runs through the municipality without stopping. History Schönhausen was founded by the Bishops of Havelberg, who had the Romanesque brick church with its prominent westwork erected in 1212. |
Strategic bombing during World War II | Effectiveness | failed to reduce German war production. There is insufficient information to ascertain how much additional potential industrial growth the bombing campaign may have curtailed. However, attacks on the infrastructure were taking place. The attacks on Germany's canals and railroads made transportation of materiel difficult.
The Oil Campaign of World War II was, however, extremely successful and made a very large contribution to the general collapse of Germany in 1945. In the event, the bombing of oil facilities became Albert Speer's main concern; however, this occurred sufficiently late in the war that Germany would soon be defeated in any case.
German insiders credit |
South Australian borders | Surveyor Generals Corner & Cameron Corner & Haddon Corner | of technology available in the 1920s.
The 127-metre section that runs east–west along the 26° south is part of the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory. In June 1968, two monuments were erected to mark each end of this 127-metre sideways section, the easternmost of these monuments, being where all three borders meet, was named Surveyor Generals Corner. Cameron Corner Cameron Corner is the point in the outback of eastern Australia where the boundary lines of the states of Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales meet. Haddon Corner Haddon Corner is the north-eastern corner of the state |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1950) | Design | Smith as lead designer and principal architect. As early as October 1941, less than a year after Gertie's collapse, the WTBA had adopted a rough design for a new span. The new design closely resembled the original design for the 1940 span drawn up by Clark Eldridge. The cost of construction on the new design was then estimated at $7 million (US$125 million in present terms).
Since the original bridge became a major asset in the short time it was in service, the U.S. Navy lobbied heavily for a combination highway/railroad span across the Narrows to replace Gertie, and proposed a steel-cantilever-type |
Steven Sinofsky | Career | four years as a software design engineer and project lead in the Development Tools group, where he helped lead the development of the first versions of the Microsoft Foundation Classes C++ library for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Visual C++.
He previously oversaw the development of the Microsoft Office system of programs, servers and services, responsible for the product development of Microsoft Office 2007 and its new ribbon UI. Prior to that he also oversaw the development of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Sinofsky was actively involved in recruiting for Microsoft. His particular task was to convince |
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Wapakoneta, Ohio) | School & Rectory | in the region, along with schools in Minster, St. Henry, and Chickasaw.
As the parish continued to expand, a high school was opened in 1919; its classes met in the elementary school building until a new building was completed in 1961. However, financial issues caused the high school's closure in 1974; the elementary students were then transferred to the former high school, and the original elementary school was then leased to the Wapakoneta City School District. Rectory As well as completing its school in 1899, the parish also built a rectory in the same year. Expanded in 1922, the |
Sexy (Is the Word) | 2005 re-recording | which was a re-edited version of the original music video. |
St. John the Martyr Church (New York City) | Artifacts & Closing | valued at $92,000, with a debt of $52,500. Father Prout is assisted by Revs. Joseph Parker and Joseph Debal." Closing In 2015 this church was closed and merged into the churches of St. John Nepomucene and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Roosevelt Island) as part of the Archdiocese of New York's great closings and mergers of 2015. Only St. John Nepomucene and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini remained open for regular Masses and other events. This combined parish of East River Catholic churches is called the Church of St. John Nepomucene, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini & St. John the Martyr. On |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1950) | Maintenance, and the bridge today & Construction deaths | lasting legacy hold on the span. As a result of the north cable saddle's plunge from the east tower, and resulting three-day stay in 135 feet of salt water, it now corrodes more than twice as fast as its counterparts.
On the bridge's 50th anniversary in 2000, a private firm that inspected the span concluded that "it is one of the best for its maintenance and condition" and overall, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge remains one of the best maintained spans in the nation.
Today, the bridge serves as the westbound span over the Narrows. Construction deaths As with its predecessor, construction deaths |
Spring Glen, Utah | Geography & Climate | Spring Glen, Utah Geography Spring Glen lies along the Price River, just to the south of Helper and southwest of Kenilworth. To the southeast are Carbonville and the county seat, Price. U.S. Route 6 runs past Spring Glen between Price and Helper, and SR-139 branches east from it to become Spring Glen Road, the major street through town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.8 km²), all of it land. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Spring Glen has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. |
SBV Vitesse | Crest | of Vitesse was a shield-shaped crest. In the middle there was a diagonal dividing line between the left yellow face and the right black box. In the left box, "AVC Vitesse" was diagonally written and in the right-hand side, "1892 ", the club's founding year. The old logo was replaced in 1984, the year in which the roads of the BVO branch and the amateur branch separated. The amateur branch retained the logo with limited modification, SBV Vitesse got a new logo.
The new logo of the BVO from 1984 is once again a shield-shaped figure, but it has straight |
Southern Daly languages | Classification | Southern Daly languages Classification Southern Daly is a distant and problematic relationship. Murrinh-Patha was once thought to be an isolate, due to lexical data: It has, at most, an 11-percent shared vocabulary with any other language against which it has been compared. However, Murrinh-patha and Ngan’gityemerri correspond closely in their verbal inflections. Green (2003) makes a case that the formal correspondences in core morphological sequences of their finite verbs are too similar (in their complexities and their irregularities) to have come about through anything other than a shared genetic legacy from a common parent language. Nonetheless, lexically they have almost |
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