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The Tampa Bay Tritons were a professional roller hockey team based in Tampa, Florida, United States that played in Roller Hockey International for one season. Mark Messier was the owner of the club during its short existence. His older brother Paul Messier served as the team's head coach and general manager. The club played its home games at Expo Hall in Tampa where the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning had previously played one season.
References
Roller Hockey International teams
Sports teams in Tampa, Florida
Sports clubs established in 1994
Sports clubs disestablished in 1994
1994 establishments in Florida
1994 disestablishments in Florida | wiki |
The Denver Daredevils were a professional roller hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States that played in Roller Hockey International. The Daredevils played in the Roller Hockey International in 1996. Coached by Kevin Cheveldayoff in their only season, they played 28 games: eight of which they won, 17 of which they lost, and three of which they lost in overtime.
References
Roller Hockey International teams
Sports clubs established in 1996
Sports teams in Denver
Sports clubs disestablished in 1996
1996 establishments in Colorado
1996 disestablishments in Colorado
Defunct sports teams in Colorado | wiki |
Whitemoor may refer to:
Whitemoor, Cornwall, England, village
Whitemoor, Nottinghamshire, area of the City of Nottingham, England
Whitemoor Haye, area in the floodplain of the River Tame, Staffordshire, England
Whitemoor (HM Prison), prison in Cambridgeshire, England
Whitemoor marshalling yards, marshalling yards in Cambridgeshire, England
Whitemoor, a pit in the Selby Coalfield, England
See also
Harap Alb, a Romanian-language fairy tale, often translated as "White Moor" | wiki |
Ureteroscopy is an examination of the upper urinary tract, usually performed with a ureteroscope that is passed through the urethra and the bladder, and then directly into the ureter. The procedure is useful in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders such as kidney stones and urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract. Smaller stones in the bladder or lower ureter can be removed in one piece, while bigger ones are usually broken before removal during ureteroscopy.
The examination may be performed with either a flexible, semi-rigid or rigid device while the patient is under anesthesia. In specific cases, the patient is free to go home after the examination.
In pyeloscopy, the endoscope is designed to reach all the way to the renal pelvis (also called pyelum), thereby allowing visualisation of the entire drainage system of the kidney. The endoscope can contain an instrument port which allows for introduction of laser fibres to fragment stones, and micro-baskets to retrieve stone fragments. Kidney stones up to 2 cm in size can be treated by pyeloscopy.
References
External links
International Kidney Stone Institute
Ureteroscopy on eMedicine
Urologic procedures
Endoscopy | wiki |
Vick Cough Drops (conhecidas no Brasil como "Pastilhas Vick") é um remédio em forma de pastilha, pertencente à empresa P&G.
Sabores e dados principais
Mentol - pastilha verde, com gosto de menta.
Cereja - pastilha vermelha, com gosto de cereja.
Laranja - pastilha magenta, com gosto de laranja lima.
Limão - pastilha verde claro, com gosto de lima limão.
Marcas da Procter & Gamble | wiki |
An endangered language is a language that is at a risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
India
The following table lists the 192 languages of India that are classified as vulnerable or endangered.
References
India
Languages of India | wiki |
Foolish may refer to:
the derived term Foolishness
"Foolish" (Ashanti song), 2002
"Foolish" (Shawty Lo song), 2008
"Foolish" (Tyler James song), 2004
Foolish (album), a 1994 album by Superchunk
Foolish (film), a 1999 film
Foolish (soundtrack), soundtrack to the 1999 film
Foolish Lake, a lake in California
See also
Fool (disambiguation)
Folly (disambiguation)
FoolishPeople, a British theatre and production collective | wiki |
Amelands is a dialect of Dutch, spoken on the Wadden Sea island of Ameland. It is especially closely related to the Midslands dialect, spoken in the middle segment of the neighboring island of Terschelling. Amelands, which has about 2,900 speakers, is the only dialect of the Dutch Wadden Sea islands that seems to be maintaining itself in its community, whereas all the other Dutch or West Frisian island dialects are losing ground rapidly in favor of Standard Dutch.
Phonology
It is the only dialect of Dutch which does not feature final obstruent devoicing.
References
Bibliography
Dutch language | wiki |
MSOR can mean:
Marine Special Operations Regiment (United States)
Maths, Stats & OR Network | wiki |
"Without Love" is a song by Nick Lowe from his 1979 studio album Labour of Lust.
Johnny Cash version
Johhny Cash covered the song on his 1980 studio album Rockabilly Blues. Nick Lowe himself produced the recording and played on it together with Dave Edmunds.
Released in January 1981 as a single (Columbia 11-11424, with "It Ain't Nothing New Babe" on the opposite side), Cash's version reached number 78 on U.S. Billboard country chart for the week of February 14, 1981.
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
"Without Love" on the Johnny Cash official website
Nick Lowe songs
Johnny Cash songs
1979 songs
1981 singles
Songs written by Nick Lowe
Song recordings produced by Nick Lowe
Columbia Records singles | wiki |
Kalarko–Mirniny is a Glottolog classification that includes:
Kalarko language
Mirniny language
References
Glottolog languages that correspond to more than one Wikipedia article | wiki |
Polyhedroid may refer to:
A 4-polytope
A form of agate crystal | wiki |
Un assassinat politique peut référer à :
Assassinat politique, au sens propre (meurtre) ;
Assassinat politique, au sens figuré, par ruine de la réputation (character assassination en anglais). | wiki |
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
References
United States | wiki |
Imp (folkor)
Imp (serial) | wiki |
BIC or BIC code can refer to:
ISO 6346 – shipping container owner code, defined by the Bureau International des Containers (BIC)
ISO 9362 – business identifier code for banks and other institutions, defined by SWIFT | wiki |
Glazed architectural terra cotta is a ceramic masonry building material used as a decorative skin. It featured widely in the 'terracotta revival' from the 1880s until the 1930s. It was used in the UK, United States, Canada and Australia and is still one of the most common building materials found in U.S. urban environments. It is the glazed version of architectural terracotta; the material in both its glazed and unglazed versions is sturdy and relatively inexpensive, and can be molded into richly ornamented detail. Glazed terra-cotta played a significant role in architectural styles such as the Chicago School and Beaux-Arts architecture.
History
The material, also known in Great Britain as faience and sometimes referred to as "architectural ceramics", in the USA was closely associated with the work of Cass Gilbert, Louis Sullivan, and Daniel H. Burnham, among other architects. Buildings incorporating glazed terra-cotta include the Woolworth Building in New York City and the Wrigley Building in Chicago.
Glazed architectural terra-cotta offered a modular, varied and relatively inexpensive approach to wall and floor construction. It was particularly adaptable to vigorous and rich ornamental detailing. It was created by Luca della Robbia (1400–1482), and was used in most of his works.
Terra-cotta is an enriched molded clay brick or block. It was usually hollow cast in blocks which were open in the back, with internal stiffeners called webbing, substantially strengthening the hollow blocks with minimal weight increase. The blocks were finished with a glaze, with a clay wash or an aqueous solution of metal salts, before firing. Late 19th century advertising for the material promoted the durable, impervious and adaptable nature of glazed architectural terra-cotta. It could accommodate subtle nuances of modeling, texture and color. Compared with stone, it was easier to handle, quickly set and lower cost. The cost of producing the blocks, when compared to carving stone, was a considerable saving, especially when casts were used in a modular fashion—that is, used repeatedly. It never needed paint, and periodic washings restored its appearance.
Usage
Variations in the color and pattern of the glaze could make it look like granite or limestone; this flexibility helped make it attractive for architects.
Four major types of terra-cotta were widely used
Brownstone was the earliest type. A dark red or brown block which was not necessarily glazed, it was used as imitation sandstone, brick or with real brownstone and associated with the architectural styles of Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, Jr., H. H. Richardson.
Fireproof was developed as a direct result of the growth of the high rise building in America. Cheap, light and fireproof, the rough-finished hollow blocks were ideally suited to span the I-beam members in floor, wall and ceiling construction. Certain varieties are still in production today.
Veneer was developed during the 1930s and is still used today. Unlike traditional architectural terra-cotta, ceramic veneer is not hollow cast. It is a veneer of glazed ceramic tile which is ribbed on the back like bathroom tile and usually attached to a grid of metal ties which have been anchored to the building.
Glazed architectural terra-cotta was the most complex building material developed. The hollow units were hand cast in molds or carved in clay and heavily glazed, then fired. This is the terra-cotta associated with the architecture of Cass Gilbert, Louis Sullivan and Daniel H. Burnham.
Use in the United States
The American Terra Cotta Corporation, founded in 1881, operated for eighty-five years in the little town of Terra Cotta in the heart of Illinois dairy country (near Crystal Lake, Illinois). The company fabricated architectural terra cotta for more than 8,000 buildings throughout the U.S. and Canada. It was the last exclusive manufacturer of architectural terra cotta by the time it ceased production in 1966. From its founding, in time to rebuild the fire-ravished city of Chicago, until its closing, it was the major producer of architectural glazed terra cotta in North America.
Guastavino tile was used in many places, including the Bridgemarket under the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge.
Illinois examples
Use in Canada
Although glazed terra-cotta was much more common in the US, it was used in central Canada starting around 1900, on many of the area's first skyscrapers. The glazed terra-cotta used in central Canada was usually imported from the US or England.
Use in Great Britain
From around 1880 unglazed terra-cotta was supplanted by the glazed version - faience, and glazed brick - which were easily cleaned, and not blackened by city smoke. A prominent producer was Burmantofts Pottery in Leeds, which also exported to Paris and Montreal.
Use in Australia
Faience was popularised in Melbourne in the 1920s by architects such as Harry Norris. One of the leading commercial architects of the time in the city, Norris was strongly influenced by trends in American architecture and used faience on projects such as the Nicholas Building and the Kellow Falkiner Showrooms (a 1928 car showroom) in South Yarra. In Sydney, it featured on notable buildings such as BMA House, designed by Joseph Charles Fowell. Australian-made tiles were available from Wunderlich Tiles, a company founded by London-born Frederick Wunderlich.
See also
Gladding, McBean
Guastavino tile
Tile Heritage Foundation
References
Further reading
Brick - A World History, James W P Campbell & Will Pryce, 2003,
External links and sources
National Park Service.gov: The Preservation of Historic Glazed Architectural Terra-Cotta
Heritage Ottawa.org: "Ottawa's Former Bowles Lunch" (January 2002 article)
Graciano.com: Renovation of Bridgemarket under the Queensboro Bridge — project architect's website.
Harvard Graduate School of Design.edu: Ceramics Research
Randalls Urban Sculptures — photos of architectural terra cotta and gargoyles from demolished buildings.
Terracotta
Architectural elements
Building materials
Ceramic art
Ceramic glazes
Ornaments (architecture)
Tiling
Wallcoverings | wiki |
Tech Declare is an international satellite and terrestrial television equipment manufacturer based in London, England, that was founded in 2000.
Tech Declare sells satellite channel receiving equipment such as set-top boxes, DVB-S and DVB-T receivers, personal video recorders and aerials. Their receivers are often bought to receive European, Arabic and Asian channels not found on set top boxes designed for Sky and Freesat services, picking up channels from Hotbird 1, Turksat 3A and Astra 1.
Consumer electronics retailers of the United Kingdom | wiki |
In rhetoric, parisosis occurs when clauses have very similar lengths, as measured by syllables. It is sometimes taken as equivalent to isocolon.
An example of parisosis is: I came, I saw, I conquered.
References
Rhetorical techniques | wiki |
In rhetoric, paromoiosis is parallelism of sound between the words of two clauses approximately equal in size. The similarity of sound can occur at the beginning of the clauses, at the end (where it is equivalent to homoioteleuton), in the middle or throughout the clauses.
For example: "Open to gifts and open to words."
References
Rhetoric
Figures of speech | wiki |
The visual cliff is an apparatus created by psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk at Cornell University to investigate depth perception in human and other animal species. It consists of a sturdy surface that is flat but has the appearance of a several-foot drop part-way across. The visual cliff apparatus allowed them to conduct an experiment in which the optical and tactile stimuli associated with a simulated cliff were adjusted while protecting the subjects from injury.
Using a visual cliff apparatus, Gibson and Walk examined possible perceptual differences at crawling age between human infants born preterm and human infants born at term without documented visual or motor impairments.
Design
The visual cliff consisted of a sheet of Plexiglas that covers a cloth with a high-contrast checkerboard pattern. On one side the cloth is placed immediately beneath the Plexiglas, and on the other it is dropped about below.
Original study
Gibson and Walk (1960) hypothesized that depth perception is inherent as opposed to a learned process. To test this, they placed 36 infants, six to fourteen months of age, on the shallow side of the visual cliff apparatus. Once the infant was placed on the opaque end of the platform, the caregiver (typically a parent) stood on the other side of the transparent plexiglas, calling out for them to come or holding an enticing stimulus such as a toy. This allowed so the infant would be motivated to crawl across towards them. It was assumed if the child was reluctant to crawl to their caregiver, he or she was able to perceive depth, believing that the transparent space was an actual cliff. The researchers found that 27 of the infants crawled over to their mother on the "shallow" side without any problems. A few of the infants crawled but were extremely hesitant. Some infants refused to crawl because they were confused about the perceived drop between them and their mothers. The infants knew the glass was solid by patting it, but still did not cross. In this experiment, all of the babies relied on their vision in order to navigate across the apparatus. This shows that when healthy infants are able to crawl, they can perceive depth. However, results do not indicate that avoidance of cliffs and fear of heights is innate.
Infant studies
During early development, infants begin to crawl, sit, and walk. These actions impact how the infants view depth perception. Thus, infant studies are an important part of the visual cliff. When an infant starts to engage in crawling, to sit, or walking, they use perception and action. During this time, infants begin to develop a fear of height. The everyday exploration of infants gives them clues about things or objects to avoid when exploring. Other research that has used the visual cliff focuses on preterm infants, prelocomotor Infants, and maternal signaling.
Preterm infants
Sixteen infants born at term and sixteen born preterm were encouraged to crawl to their caregivers on a modified visual cliff. Successful trials, crossing time, duration of visual attention, duration of tactile exploration, motor strategies, and avoidance behaviors were analyzed. A significant surface effect was found, with longer crossing times and longer durations of visual attention and tactile exploration in the condition with the visual appearance of a deep cliff. Although the two groups of infants did not differ on any of the timed measurements, infants born at term demonstrated a larger number of motor strategies and avoidance behaviors by simple tally. This study indicates that infants born at term and those born preterm can perceive a visual cliff and change their responses accordingly.
Prelocomotor infants
Another study measured the cardiac responses of human infants younger than crawling age on the visual cliff.
This study found that the infants exhibited distress less frequently when they were placed on the shallow side of the apparatus in contrast to when they were placed on the deep side. This means that prelocomotor infants can discriminate between the two sides of the cliff.
Maternal signaling
James F Sorce et al. tested to see how maternal emotional signaling affected the behaviors of one-year-olds on the visual cliff. To do this they placed the infants on the shallow side of the visual cliff apparatus and had their mothers on the other side of the visual cliff eliciting different emotional facial expressions. When the mothers posed joy or interest most of the babies crossed the deep side but if the mothers posed fear or anger, most of the babies did not cross the apparatus.
On the contrary, in the absence of depth, most of the babies crossed regardless of the mother's facial expressions. This suggests that babies look to their mother's emotional expressions for advice most often when they are uncertain about the situation. Joseph J. Campos research focuses on facial expressions between the caregiver and infant. Specifically his researcher shows that the infants will not crawl if the caregiver expresses a signal of distress. If the caregiver gives the infant a positive facial expression the child is more likely to crawl across the visual cliff.
Non-human experiments
Before Gibson and Walk conducted their study with human infants, multiple experiments were conducted using rats, one-day-old chicks, newborn kids, kittens, pigs, adult chickens, dogs, lambs, and monkeys. Overall, most species would avoid the deep side of the visual cliff, some right after being born. The first visual cliff experiment was conducted with rats who were raised in the dark and in the light. The results were that both groups of rats would walk all over the shallow and deep parts of the cliff without an issue, which surprised Gibson, Walk, and Thomas Tighe (a research assistant). A later experiment with kittens raised in the dark and then placed on the visual cliff showed that depth perception was not innate in all species as the kittens would walk on either side of the visual cliff. After six days of being in the light, the kittens would avoid the deep side of the visual cliff (Rodkey, 2015). Later researchers conducted experiments using other species.
Rats
Rats do not depend upon visual cues like some of the other species tested. Their nocturnal habits lead them to seek food largely by smell. When moving about in the dark, they respond to tactual cues from their stiff whiskers (vibrissae) located on the snout. Hooded rats tested on the visual cliff show little preference for either side of the visual cliff apparatus as long as they could feel the glass with their vibrissae. When placed upon the glass over the deep side, they move about as if there was no cliff.
Cats
Cats, like rats, are nocturnal animals, sensitive to tactual cues from their vibrissae. But the cat, as a predator, must rely more on its sight. Kittens were observed to have excellent depth-discrimination. At four weeks, the earliest age that a kitten can skillfully move about, they preferred the shallow side of the cliff. When placed on the glass over the deep side, they either freeze or circle backward until they reach the shallow side of the cliff.
Turtles
The late Robert M. Yerkes of Harvard University found in 1904 that aquatic turtles have somewhat worse depth-discrimination than land turtles. On the visual cliff one might expect an aquatic turtle to respond to the reflections from the glass as it might to water and prefer the deep side for this reason. They showed no such preference; 76% of the aquatic turtles crawled onto the shallow side. The large percentage that choose the deep side suggests either that this turtle has worse depth-discrimination than other animals, or that its natural habitat gives it less occasions to "fear" a fall.
Cows
The ability for cows to perceive a visual cliff was tested by NA Arnold et al. Twelve dairy heifers were exposed to a visual cliff in the form of a milking pit while walking through a milking facility. Over this five-day experiment the heifers’ heart rates were measured along with the number of times they stopped throughout the milking facility. Dairy heifers in the experimental group were exposed to a visual cliff while dairy heifers in the control group were not. The experimental group was found to have significantly higher heart rates and stop more frequently than the heifers in the control group. Depth exposure did not have any effect on cortisol levels or the ease of handling of the animals. These findings provide evidence of both depth perception and acute fear of heights in cows. This may lead to a reorganization of the way milking factories function.
Criticisms
One of the criticisms of the visual cliff study was whether the research in the study really supported the hypothesis that depth perception was innate in humans. One issue was about the glass over the deep part of the visual cliff. By covering up the deep side with glass the researchers enabled the babies to feel the solidity of the glass before they would cross over. This response was repeated over and over again in tests. Another criticism has to do with the experience of the infant. Infants who learned to crawl before 6.5 months of age had crossed the glass, but the ones that learned to crawl after 6.5 months of age avoided crossing the glass. This helps support the hypothesis that experience does influence avoidance of the glass, rather than just being innate.
See also
Developmental psychology
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
References
External links
Visual Cliff Video
Vision
Psychology experiments | wiki |
Bounce rate is an Internet marketing term used in web traffic analysis. It represents the percentage of visitors who enter the site and then leave ("bounce") rather than continuing to view other pages within the same site. Bounce rate is calculated by counting the number of single page visits and dividing that by the total visits. It is then represented as a percentage of total visits.
Bounce rate is a measure of "stickiness." The thinking being that an effective website will engage visitors deeper into the website. Encouraging visitors to continue with their visit. It is expressed as a percentage and represents the proportion of single page visits to total visits.
Bounce rate (%) = Visits that access only a single page (#) ÷ Total visits (#) to the website.
Purpose
Bounce rates can be used to help determine the effectiveness or performance of an entry page at generating the interest of visitors. An entry page with a low bounce rate means that the page effectively causes visitors to view more pages and continue deeper into the website.
High bounce rates typically indicate that the website is not doing a good job of attracting the continued interest of visitors. That means visitors only view single pages without looking at others or taking some form of action within the site before a specified time period.
Interpretation of the bounce rate measure should be relevant to a website's business objectives and definitions of conversion, as having a high bounce rate is not always a sign of poor performance. On sites where an objective can be met without viewing more than one page, for example on websites sharing specific knowledge on some subject (dictionary entry, specific recipe), the bounce rate would not be as meaningful for determining conversion success. In contrast, the bounce rate of an e-commerce site could be interpreted in correlation with the purchase conversion rate, providing the bounces are considered representative of visits where no purchase was made. Typically, Bounce Rate for e-commerce websites is in the range of 20% to 45%, with top performers operating at a 36% average Bounce Rate.
Construction
A bounce occurs when a website visitor only views a single page on a website, that is, the visitor leaves a site without visiting any other pages before a specified session-timeout occurs. There is no industry standard minimum or maximum time by which a visitor must leave in order for a bounce to occur. Rather, this is determined by the session timeout of the analytics tracking software.
where
Rb = Bounce rate
Tv = Total number of visitors viewing one page only
Te = Total entries to page
A visitor may bounce by:
Clicking on a link to a page on a different website
Closing an open window or tab
Typing a new URL
Clicking the "Back" button to leave the site
Session timeout
There are two exceptions:
1) You have a one-page website
2) Your offline value proposition is so compelling that people would see just one single webpage and get all the information they need and leave.
A commonly used session timeout value is 30 minutes. In this case, if a visitor views a page, does not look at another page, and leaves his or her browser idle for longer than 30 minutes, they will register as a bounce. If the visitor continues to navigate after this delay, a new session will occur.
The bounce rate for a single page is the number of visitors who enter the site at a page and leave within the specified timeout period without viewing another page, divided by the total number of visitors who entered the site at that page. In contrast, the bounce rate for a website is the number of website visitors who visit only a single page of a website per session divided by the total number of website visits.
Caveats
While site-wide bounce rate can be a useful metric for sites with well-defined conversion steps requiring multiple page views, it may be of questionable value for sites where visitors are likely to find what they are looking for on the entry page. This type of behavior is common on web portals and referential content sites. For example, a visitor looking for the definition of a particular word may enter an online dictionary site on that word's definition page. Similarly, a visitor who wants to read about a specific news story may enter a news site on an article written for that story. These example entry pages could have a bounce rate above 80% (thereby increasing the site-wide average), however they may still be considered successful.
See also
Exit rate
Internet marketing
Landing page
Landing page optimization
Web analytics
Conversion rate
References
Digital marketing
Web analytics | wiki |
The following highways are numbered 325:
Canada
Nova Scotia Route 325
Quebec Route 325
China
China National Highway 325
Costa Rica
National Route 325
India
National Highway 325 (India)
Japan
Japan National Route 325
United States
Arkansas Highway 325
Colorado State Highway 325
Florida State Road 325 (former)
Georgia State Route 325
Iowa Highway 325 (former)
Louisiana Highway 325 (former)
Kentucky Route 325
Montana Secondary Highway 325
New Mexico State Road 325
New York:
New York State Route 325
County Route 325 (Erie County, New York)
Ohio State Route 325
Oklahoma State Highway 325
Pennsylvania Route 325
Puerto Rico Highway 325
Tennessee State Route 325
Texas:
Texas State Highway 325 (former)
Texas State Highway Spur 325
Farm to Market Road 325
Virginia State Route 325 | wiki |
A Braille trail is a walking path or hiking trail that is designed to be accessible by those who are visually impaired. In particular, trails are often delineated with ropes or other physical barriers, and signage and other markers have audio or are written in Braille.
One example is the Watertown Riverfront Park and Braille Trail along the Charles River Reservation in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA, which opened in July 2016. A guide wire runs along the edge of the 1/4 mile (400 meter) path, which borders a sensory park with a variety of features including a wooden boat to climb on and a musical bench.
References
Hiking trails
Blindness | wiki |
Joan Brown (1938–1990) was an American figurative painter.
Joan Brown may also refer to:
Joan Brown (artist, born 1945), American artist, illustrator and educator
Joan Brown (potter) (1926–2016), British potter
Joan Myers Brown, American dance instructor
Joan Heller Brown, American pharmacologist
Joan Mary Wayne Brown (1906–1998), English children's writer
See also
Joan Browne, mother of actor Alan Alda | wiki |
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
Languages
Number of speakers
See also
Languages of Mexico
References
Mexico
Languages of Mexico | wiki |
Lotus in Formula One can refer to:
Team Lotus, the original Lotus team that competed from 1954 to 1994
Pacific Team Lotus, competing in 1995
Team Lotus (2010–2011)
Lotus F1, a team that competed from 2012 to 2015, later purchased by Groupe Renault | wiki |
A walkover is an automatic victory awarded if there are no other players available.
Walkover may also refer to:
Uncontested election, where all candidates are elected by default
Walkover (film), a 1965 Polish film
Back walkover, an acrobatic maneuver
Front walkover, an acrobatic maneuver | wiki |
May 2008 tornado outbreak may refer to:
May 1–2, 2008 tornado outbreak, killed seven; affected most of the Central and Southern United States
Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence, outbreak sequence that affected the Southern Plains, the southeastern and Middle Atlantic region of the United States from May 7 to May 15, 2008
Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence, outbreak sequence that affected the Central and Southern Plains of the United States and southern Manitoba from May 22 to May 31, 2008 | wiki |
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Danville, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Danville, Illinois.
Arts and culture
Military
Politics
Space
Sports
References
Danville
Danville | wiki |
The 2020 Oregon State Beavers baseball team represented Oregon State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Beavers played their home games at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field and were members of the Pac-12 Conference. The team was coached by Mitch Canham in his 1st season at Oregon State after long-time head coach Pat Casey chose not to exercise an option to return following a year sabbatical. Canham is a former catcher for Oregon State and was a member of the 2006 and 2007 national championship teams. The season was indefinitely suspended after 14 games after the NCAA abruptly canceled all winter and spring season tournaments, including the College World Series, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 14, 2020, the season officially came to an end after the Pac-12 athletic conference canceled the remainder of all scheduled spring sports competitions through the end of the academic year.
Season synopsis
The Beavers began Mitch Canham's first season with a daunting schedule, playing their first 11 games on the road, including a three-game series against No.9 Mississippi State in Mississippi. After just a 14-game season, the Beavers finished with their first losing record since 2003.
Roster
Schedule and results
Rankings
2020 MLB Draft
References
Oregon State Beavers baseball seasons
Oregon State
2020 in sports in Oregon | wiki |
forfone is a free VoIP-application which enables the user to make calls, send and share text messages, photos & the user’s current location. The App does not require any additional registration or user account but allows direct access to all mobile and landline networks worldwide through Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G or UMTS.
100% reachability can be guaranteed by sending push-notifications. To answer calls or receive messages, the App therefore does not have to be open or be running in the background. The application is compatible with every iPhone, iPod Touch or Android device and runs on iOS 4.0 or higher or Android 2.2 or higher. forfone is a VoIP and messaging App which makes internet telephony as easy and intuitive as making a normal phone call through a mobile operator.
Data security
The independent Viennese research institute SBA-Research discovered security holes in messenger applications currently on the market. The researchers were not only able to take over the account, but also send free text messages from the servers of many tested applications. Only at forfone and 3 other applications, it was not possible to take the account over, nor were they able to send or receive text messages of the users.
See also
Mobile VoIP
References
External links
Official Website
forfone FAQ Archived
GBWhatsapp APK
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Communication software
Instant messaging clients | wiki |
The dorsal branch of ulnar nerve arises about 5 cm. proximal to the wrist; it passes backward beneath the Flexor carpi ulnaris, perforates the deep fascia, and, running along the ulnar side of the back of the wrist and hand, divides into two dorsal digital branches; one supplies the ulnar side of the little finger; the other, the adjacent sides of the little and ring fingers.
It also sends a twig to join that given by the superficial branch of the radial nerve for the adjoining sides of the middle and ring fingers, and assists in supplying them.
A branch is distributed to the metacarpal region of the hand, communicating with a twig of the superficial branch of the radial nerve.
Additional images
References
External links
- dorsal at right
Nerves of the upper limb | wiki |
Astragalus whitneyi is een soort uit de vlinderbloemenfamilie. De soort komt voor in het Cascadegebergte, gelegen in het westen van de Verenigde Staten.
whitneyi
Plant uit het Nearctisch gebied | wiki |
Lisa Sutton may refer to:
Lisa Song Sutton, Asian-American entrepreneur
Lisa L. Sutton, Washington Court of Appeals judge | wiki |
The 2012 Mito HollyHock season sees Mito HollyHock compete in J.League Division 2 for the 13th consecutive season and 15th second-tier season overall. Mito HollyHock are also competing in the 2012 Emperor's Cup.
Players
Competitions
J. League
League table
Matches
Emperor's Cup
References
Mito HollyHock
Mito HollyHock seasons | wiki |
UTC−11:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −11:00. This time is used in Niue, American Samoa, Swains Island, and parts of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. This is the latest inhabited time zone, meaning this is the last inhabited time zone to celebrate the New Year, as the world's latest time zone (UTC-12:00) is completely uninhabited.
As standard time (year-round)
Principal settlements: Alofi, Pago Pago, Tafuna
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
Polynesia
Niue
United States – Samoa Time Zone
American Samoa
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Jarvis Island
Kingman Reef
Midway Atoll
Palmyra Atoll
Formerly within
Kiribati
Phoenix Islands (of which only Canton Island is inhabited) (Phoenix Islands Time) advanced 24 hours to the eastern hemisphere side of the International Date Line by skipping December 31, 1994.
New Zealand
Tokelau – Time in Tokelau advanced 24 hours to the eastern hemisphere side of the International Date Line by skipping December 30, 2011.
Samoa – Time in Samoa advanced 24 hours to the eastern hemisphere side of the International Date Line by skipping December 30, 2011.
United States
Bering Standard Time – Before Alaska Standard Time was adopted across almost all of Alaska (other than the Aleutian Islands, which adopted the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone) in 1983, Nome, and the Aleutian Islands were previously in Bering Standard time.
References
UTC offsets
es:Huso horario#UTC−11:00, X | wiki |
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
Languages
References
Colombia | wiki |
The Palau de la Metal·lúrgia () is a venue located in Barcelona. Constructed for the 1929 International Exposition, it hosted the fencing and the fencing part of the modern pentathlon events for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
References
1992 Summer Olympic official report. Volume 2. pp. 189–91.
Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics
Sports venues in Barcelona
Olympic fencing venues
Olympic modern pentathlon venues | wiki |
See also
List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom
David Smith, convicted killer suspected of being responsible for unsolved murders
References
Lists of victims of crimes
United Kingdom crime-related lists
Lists of events in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom unsolved | wiki |
Multimodal cancer therapy, often referred to simply as multimodal therapy or multimodal cancer care, is an approach for treatment of cancer that combines of radiation and chemotherapy likes multiple therapeutic modalities. For example, in the case of mesotheliomas, treatments combine modalities such as surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiotherapy. Multimodal treatments can often have synergistic effects leading to better clinical outcomes.
Diverse types of cancer can be treated via a multimodal approach, including non-small cell lung cancer and gastric cancer.
See also
Treatment of cancer
References
Citations
Oncology
Cancer | wiki |
Thou Art That may refer to:
Tat Tvam Asi, a Hindu aphorism
Thou Art That (book), a book by Joseph Campbell | wiki |
Group B nerve fibers are axons, which are moderately myelinated, which means less myelinated than group A nerve fibers, and more myelinated than group C nerve fibers. Their conduction velocity is 3 to 14 m/s. They are usually general visceral afferent fibers and preganglionic nerve fibers of the autonomic nervous system. They are used in Bainbridge reflex as afferents.
Neurohistology | wiki |
Andrew Burke may refer to:
Andrew H. Burke (1850–1918), American politician who served as governor of North Dakota
Andrew Burke (poet) (born 1944), Australian poet
Andrew Burke (sailor) (1949–2009), Barbadian Olympic sailor | wiki |
In the palm of the hand the median nerve is covered by the skin and the palmar aponeurosis, and rests on the tendons of the Flexor muscles. Immediately after emerging from under the transverse carpal ligament the median nerve becomes enlarged and flattened and splits into a smaller, lateral, and a larger, medial portion.
The medial portion of the nerve divides into two Common palmar digital nerves (common volar digital nerves).
The first of these gives a twig to the second Lumbricalis and runs toward the cleft between the index and middle fingers, where it divides into two proper digital nerves for the adjoining sides of these digits;
the second runs toward the cleft between the middle and ring fingers, and splits into two proper digital nerves for the adjoining sides of these digits; it communicates with a branch from the ulnar nerve and sometimes sends a twig to the third Lumbricalis.
Additional images
See also
Proper palmar digital nerves of median nerve
References
External links
Nerves of the upper limb | wiki |
The corporation counsel is the title given to the chief legal officer who handles civil claims against the city in some US municipal and county jurisdictions, including negotiating settlements and defending the city when it is sued. Most corporation counsel do not prosecute criminal cases, but some prosecute traffic and local ordinance violations. In Washington, D.C., the former corporation counsel, now known as the attorney general, prosecutes juvenile delinquency cases in addition to traffic and local ordinance violations.
In New York City, the corporation counsel, in addition to handling all civil litigation on behalf of the city, prosecutes juvenile delinquency proceedings.
The cities of New York, Chicago, and Boston, among others, use this title. Counties in Hawaii and Wisconsin have a corporation counsel as well.
In some jurisdictions, such as Ohio, the county prosecuting attorney is, by law, corporation counsel for the county and other governmental entities in the county.
See also
City attorney
General counsel
New York City Law Department
References
Lawyers by type
Legal professions | wiki |
The Man Who Died Twice may refer to:
The Man Who Died Twice (film), by Joseph Kane
The Man Who Died Twice (novel), by Richard Osman | wiki |
A split leap or split jump is a sequence of body movements in which a person assumes a split position after leaping or jumping from the floor, respectively, while still in the air. Split leaps and split jumps are both found in various genres of dance including acro, ballet and jazz dance, and in gymnastics. Split jumps may also serve as a form of exercise, and the term split jump is also commonly used to describe similar body movements in figure skating.
Types
Some types of split leaps and jumps are named according to the type of split that is performed, while others may use nomenclature associated with specific dance genres. For example, a straddle (sometimes called side) split leap incorporates a straddle split, with legs extended symmetrically to the sides, whereas a grand jeté, which involves a front split, derives its name from ballet terminology. A stag split leap is a split leap in which one knee is bent, whereas both knees are bent in a double stag split leap.
Technique
Split leaps and split jumps require significant flexibility and strength. Flexibility and strength are both needed to attain a split position without the aid of external leg support. Also, in order to remain airborne while in the split position, strength is needed to propel the body upward with sufficient kinetic energy to compensate for the loss of vertical momentum that results from raising the legs into a split position while airborne.
In dance, the perceived quality of a split leap or split jump depends in large part on the application of various dance techniques. In particular, emphasis is often placed on pointing the feet while airborne, especially during the split, so as to extend the leg lines. Also, proper technique (i.e., best practice) typically calls for straight legs (except in stag variations) and a full split position at the apex of the leap or jump. Ballon, which is the appearance of effortless and weightless movement, is another important aesthetic.
Ballet
In ballet the leap, called a grand jeté in ballet terminology begins with a grand battement. Ballet demands that knees are stretched and feet are pointed when performing the jump. One variation of the jump colloquially called the "Plisetakaya head kick" after Bolshoi prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya is a jump with the front leg tilted downward and a full backbend.
See also
Split jump (figure skating)
Split jump (exercise)
References
Dance moves
Gymnastics elements | wiki |
The Real Story is a radio programme hosted by Carrie Gracie on the BBC World Service. Each episode of the weekly programme covers one topic in-depth for 50 minutes, featuring a panel of experts.
Prior to 22 February 2018, the programme was known as Newshour Extra, and was hosted by Newshour host Owen Bennett-Jones.
References
Real Story | wiki |
A Current Sense Monitor is a type of monitor. It uses a high side voltage and reforms it into a proportional output current. It has a range of 20 Volts to 2.5 Volts. It is used for portable battery products.
References
Electronic circuits | wiki |
Granville Bridge may refer to:
Granville Bridge, Maryborough, a bridge in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
Granville Street Bridge, a bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia
See also
Granville | wiki |
Blite could refer to any one of the following plants:
Amaranthus blitum
Strawberry blite (Chenopodium capitatum, formerly of the genus Blitum)
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Some species of Atriplex
Coastblite goosefoot
Sea blite (aka plant genus Suaeda)
Not to be confused with blight, a plant disease. | wiki |
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 24% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time.
This time zone is used in all predominantly Chinese-speaking regions, giving international Chinese websites and TV channels the same time.
In Indonesia, it is known as Central Indonesian Time () while in Western Australia, it is known as Australian Western Standard Time.
As standard time (year-round)
Principal cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila, Makassar, Denpasar, Perth, Irkutsk
North Asia
Russia – Irkutsk Time
Far Eastern Federal District
Buryatia
Siberian Federal District
Irkutsk Oblast
East Asia
Mainland China – China Standard Time
Hong Kong – Hong Kong Time (Hong Kong Standard Time)
Macau – Macau Time (Macau Standard Time)
Taiwan – National Standard Time
Mongolia – Time in Mongolia
Eastern part, including Dornod, Sükhbaatar, Ulaanbaatar
Southeast Asia
Brunei – Brunei Darussalam Standard Time
Indonesia – Central Indonesia Time
Parts of Kalimantan:
East Kalimantan
North Kalimantan
South Kalimantan
Lesser Sunda Islands
Bali
East Nusa Tenggara
West Nusa Tenggara
All provinces in Sulawesi
Malaysia – Malaysia Standard Time
Philippines – Philippine Standard Time
Singapore – Singapore Standard Time
Oceania
Australia
Western Australia (except Eucla and nearby areas, including Caiguna, Cocklebiddy, Madura and Mundrabilla, unofficially observes UTC+08:45)
Antarctica
Southern Ocean
Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica
Australia
Casey Station
Discrepancies between official UTC+08:00 and geographical UTC+08:00
This section is only partly updated for longitudes using other time zones. This concerns areas within 112°30′ E to 127°30′ E longitude.
Parts of Russia, including very easternmost parts of Krasnoyarsk Krai, where UTC+07:00 is used, and Zabaykalsky Krai and most of western Sakha Republic where UTC+09:00 is used.
Parts of Indonesia, including eastern East Java with its capital city Surabaya, most of Central Kalimantan with its capital city Palangka Raya, and eastern part of West Kalimantan, where UTC+07:00 is used, and some of the western islands in the province of Maluku and North Maluku where UTC+09:00 is used.
East Timor, where UTC+09:00 is used.
Parts of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, including Sakishima Islands with its westernmost point Yonaguni, western parts of Kerama Islands, and some islands of the western Okinawa Islands, where UTC+09:00 is used.
The western parts of Korea, including the North Korean capital city, Pyongyang and South Korean capital city, Seoul, where UTC+09:00 is used.
Areas outside UTC+08:00 longitudes using UTC+08:00 time
Areas between 127°30′ E and 142°30′ E ("physical" UTC+09:00)
Parts of northeast China including the eastern half of Heilongjiang Province and the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province.
Easternmost parts of Western Australia.
Areas between 97°30′ E and 112°30′ E ("physical" UTC+07:00)
From south to north:
Singapore
Malaysia:
Western part of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.
Peninsular Malaysia, where the nation's capital Kuala Lumpur is.
Many parts of central China including:
Hainan
Guangxi
Yunnan
Guizhou
Sichuan
Chongqing
Shaanxi
Ningxia
Gansu
western two-third of Hunan
western half of:
Hubei
Shanxi
Inner Mongolia, including its capital Hohhot.
western third of:
Guangdong
Henan
Most of central Mongolia including the capital Ulaanbaatar.
In Russia, most of:
Irkutsk Oblast
Buryatia
Areas between 82°30′ E and 97°30′ E ("physical" UTC+06:00)
Parts of China
most of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (although many locals set their clocks at UTC+06:00 even if it is officially UTC+08:00, in any case work and shop schedules are two hours after Shanghai and Beijing). See also Time in China.
most of Tibet Autonomous Region
Western Mongolia.
Areas between 67°30′ E and 82°30′ E ("physical" UTC+05:00)
Parts of western China including western Xinjiang province (Kashgar) (although most locals observe UTC+06:00 even if it is officially UTC+08:00).
Historical time offsets
The southern half of Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) was formerly part of this time zone prior to the national reunification on 30 April 1975, making it one hour ahead of North Vietnam. After 1975, the whole country came under the North Vietnamese time zone, UTC+07:00.
According to Presidential Decree 41/1987, Indonesia's ex-province of Timor Timur used this time zone with neighboring East Nusa Tenggara and other provinces in Lesser Sunda Islands, parts of Kalimantan and Sulawesi until independence as East Timor, which the country changed to UTC+09:00 as official time zone.
See also
ASEAN Common Time
Hong Kong Time
Philippine Standard Time
Singapore Standard Time
Time in Australia
Time in Brunei
Time in Cambodia
Time in China
Time in Indonesia
Time in Laos
Time in Malaysia
Time in Mongolia
Time in Russia
Time in Taiwan
Time in Vietnam
References
External links
History of Hong Kong Time Service
UTC offsets
Time in Singapore
Time in Australia
Time in China
Time in Taiwan
Time in Southeast Asia
Time in Malaysia
Time in Indonesia
Time in the Philippines | wiki |
An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. When talking about poetry written in English the term is arguably of limited significance or utility, at least by comparison to its antonym, catalectic, for the simple reason that acatalexis is considered to be the "usual case" in the large majority of metrical contexts and therefore explicit reference to it proves almost universally superfluous.
For example, to describe Shakespeare's sonnets as having been written in iambic pentameter acatalectic would be factually accurate, but redundant and never said, because iambic pentameter is presumed to be acatalectic unless specified as being catalectic. However, in very rare contexts where catalexis might be considered probable (e.g., in English trochaic tetrameter, or in differentiating acatalectic verses from surrounding catalectic ones), explicit expression of the verse's metrical completeness may be achieved by using the term. When talking about poems published in languages other than English, the term might prove itself more useful. For example in Polish poetry acatalectic iambic lines are unusual, because feminine ending is dominant. Thus iambic pentameter in Polish is not 10-syllable long but almost always 11-syllable long.
See also
Catalectic
References
Poetic rhythm | wiki |
Caleb West may refer to:
Caleb Walton West (1844–1909), Governor of Utah Territory
Caleb West (novel), an 1898 novel by Francis Hopkinson Smith | wiki |
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is a third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars franchise. It the fourth installment in the Star Wars: Battlefront series, and the second handheld exclusive, after Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron. It was released on November 3, 2009, in North America and November 6 in Europe, for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.
The game's single-player campaign follows an elite clone trooper named "X2" created from the DNA of a Jedi Master, who, upon the formation of the Galactic Empire, joins the Rebel Alliance and takes part in all major battles throughout the Galactic Civil War, later going on to serve the New Republic and train as a Jedi, while also facing fellow clone X1, who had become a Sith. The campaign is part of the now non-canonical Star Wars Legends continuity and features appearances from several characters from the movies and other Star Wars media, such as Luke Skywalker and Rahm Kota (a main character in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed).
Gameplay
Elite Squadron allows players to participate in combat on foot, in ground vehicles or in space. Players are also able to enter capital ships and, once the shields are down, fight the enemy inside on foot. The ground-space transitions are accompanied by short cutscenes while the game loads the next area. The same is also true of entering or exiting a capital ship. This is the first Battlefront game to allow players to fly from ground to space battles. The consequences of each battle will depend on the players actions, meaning that each individual enemy killed can affect the outcome of a result. The battlefront will not be one giant, seamless map, but a compilation of inter-connected, smaller size areas, each one capable of affecting the other.
It includes playable characters such as Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, The Emperor and Kit Fisto, and the Heroes and Villains mode (Assault Mode) last featured in Star Wars: Battlefront II. Also included is General Rahm Kota, a character from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as well as other characters from Renegade Squadron, such as Col Serra. Also, the Galactic Conquest mode features a new mechanic not seen in previous versions, where two players are able to share a single PSP, and compete against each other in a strategy based game mode. Players are also able to mix characters from the Star Wars saga and put them into locations and situations that never happened within canon. The story mode has been called "a huge step up from previous story modes", and was praised for incorporating the controls into the mission. As players made progress in the story and completed objectives, they would unlock customization props.
Plot
The game's campaign takes place in the Star Wars Legends canon, beginning around the time of Revenge of the Sith and covering events up to Return of the Jedi, as well as some that go beyond the films. Throughout the campaign, the player assumes the role of X2, an elite clone trooper created from the DNA of a Jedi Master. Along with his brother X1, he is assigned to serve under Jedi General Ferroda, and oversee the training of the clone army used by the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars. Under Ferroda's command, X2 and X1 are assigned various missions throughout the war, including defending a training camp on Tatooine, and fighting in the Battles of Coruscant and Cato Neimodia. During the latter, Order 66 is issued, branding all Jedi as traitors to the Republic, including Ferroda. X2 reluctantly executes him, an action he soon comes to regret. Following the transformation of the Republic into the Galactic Empire, X1 joins the Empire, while X2 goes rogue, haunted by the memory of killing Ferroda.
X2 travels to Dantooine to meet his genetic template, Jedi Master Falon Grey, who trains X2 in the Jedi arts, teaching him how to use his Force abilities. Not long into X2's training, their location is discovered by the Empire, and X1 leads an assault. X2 manages to escape, but is badly injured, while Grey is killed during the fight. Years later, blind Jedi Master Rahm Kota finds X2 and convinces him to join the Rebel Alliance, where he forms Grey Squadron in honor of Grey. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, X2 encounters former bounty hunter Shara and convinces her to join Grey Squadron. Three years later, during the Battle of Hoth, X2 infiltrates a Star Destroyer and plants explosives to destroy it, but runs into X1, who had started training in the Dark Side of the Force. The two clones briefly engage in a duel, before both are forced to escape when the ship is destroyed.
Roughly one year later, following the Battle of Endor and the Empire's defeat, X2 begins training under Luke Skywalker for his inevitable battle with his brother. After locating X1's base at Darth Vader's abandoned castle on Vjun, X2, Shara and the rest of Grey Squadron investigate and manage to track down X1 to Mustafar. There, X1 confronts X2, now a Sith Lord, who has captured Luke and reveals he is planning to build a new Empire under his rule. The two clones engage in a final duel, and X2 emerges victorious. With X1 dead and Luke rescued, Grey Squadron leave Mustafar, with X2 reflecting on the challenges the New Republic has yet to face.
Development
The PlayStation Portable version was developed by Rebellion Developments, who developed the previous Battlefront game, Renegade Squadron. It features twelve campaign missions and a deeper customization system than Renegade Squadrons, boasting "the deepest customization options ever seen in a Star Wars Battlefront title". Players can customize weaponry, armor, species, and other physical attributes. Sixteen player multiplayer is supported, with statistic tracking. The game is played from the traditional third person, over-the-shoulder perspective. On October 25, 2009, a demo was released on the PlayStation Store allowing players to play on the planet Tatooine.
The Nintendo DS version was developed by n-Space, known for the DS installments to the Call of Duty series, World at War and Modern Warfare, and uses a modified version of the same game engine used for the DS version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a fact that becomes evident as this version recycles the dialog UI from the DS version of Unleashed and was developed by the same team that worked on the DS version of Unleashed. This version features eleven campaign missions and up to four players via wi-fi connection. The game features no customization, but instead uses the traditional class-based system. It uses an isometric view, similar to a modern dungeon crawler. Unlike classic Battlefront games, Instant Action is played with only four players, usually one from each faction. There are three modes – Free-For-All, Team Game and Hero Mode. Games are won in space by destroying enemy ships to earn points, in capital ships by collecting R2 units, and on the ground by capturing command posts and killing enemies.
Reception
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron received mixed reviews. Metacritic gave it a score of 63 out of 100 for the PSP version, and 61 out of 100 for the DS version.
IGN gave the PSP version a score of 6 out of 10. GameSpot gave the same version 7 out of 10, commending its campaign mode and its three linked battlefronts, as well as the customization options it provides. GameSpot, however, criticized the little impact that the space battles had on the overall outcome, and the controls, calling them "stiff and awkward".
The DS version received a 6.9 out of 10 score from IGN, praising the single-player storyline but stating that the Instant Action feature "leaves a lot to be desired".
References
External links
Battlefront series official site
2009 video games
LucasArts games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation Portable games
Rebellion Developments games
Star Wars: Battlefront
Third-person shooters
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games developed in the United States
Multiplayer and single-player video games | wiki |
Omar Bradley (1893–1981) was a U.S. Army general who became General of the Army in World War II. General Bradley may also refer to:
Alfred Eugene Bradley (1864–1922), U.S. Army brigadier general
John Jewsbury Bradley (1869–1948), U.S. Army brigadier general
Luther Prentice Bradley (1822–1910), Union brigadier general
Mark Edward Bradley (1907–1999), U.S. Air Force general | wiki |
Lawlessness is a lack of law, in any of the various senses of that word. Lawlessness may describe various conditions.
In society
Anomie is a breakdown of social bonds between an individual and their community, in which individuals do not feel bound by the moral strictures of society. The term was popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential 1897 book Suicide.
Anarchy (meaning "without leadership") is a condition in which a person or group of people reject societal hierarchies, laws, and other institutions. It often entails the dissolution of government.
Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.
Civil disorder, or civil unrest, refers to public disturbances generally involving groups of people, and resulting in danger or damage to persons or property. Civil disorder is a breakdown of civil society, and may be a form of protest. It may take various forms, such as illegal parades, sit-ins, riots, sabotage, and other forms of crime.
In nature
Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability in events.
In religion
Antinomianism, in Christianity, is a theological position which takes the principle of salvation by faith and divine grace to the point of asserting that the saved are not bound to follow the Law of Moses.
See also
Law (disambiguation)
References
Broad-concept articles
Legal terminology
Anarchism
Injustice | wiki |
This is a partial list of alumni of the Clarion Workshop, an annual writers' workshop for science fiction, fantasy, and speculative literature writers.
See also
List of Clarion Writers Workshop Instructors
Clarion Workshop
Clarion West Writers Workshop
List of Clarion West Writers Workshop alumni
Clarion West Writers Workshop instructors
Creative writing programs
Science fiction organizations
Clarion West Writers Workshop instructors
Clarion West Writers Workshop instructors | wiki |
Una pupa in libreria (Stacked) – sitcom statunitense prodotta dal 2005 al 2006
Stacked – film per la televisione del 2008 diretto da Jennifer Perrott
Stacked – album di Kash Doll del 2019 | wiki |
Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907), femme de lettres américaine
Jane Keckley (1876-1963), actrice américaine | wiki |
Peripheral vasculopathy is a general classification for disorders of the blood vessels relative to a person's arms, legs or extremities including peripheral vascular disease.
References
Vascular diseases | wiki |
The National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children & Youth in the United States is a U.S. federal government committee created by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act.
The committee advises on policies concerning improvements to the United States' response to the sex trafficking of children and youth.
References
External links
Commission on International Religious Freedom
Human trafficking in the United States | wiki |
General Elles may refer to:
Edmond Elles (1848–1934), British Army lieutenant general
Hugh Elles (1880–1945), British Army lieutenant general
William Elles (1837–1896), British Army lieutenant general
See also
General Ellis (disambiguation) | wiki |
223 (two hundred [and] twenty-three) is the natural number following 222 and preceding 224.
In mathematics
223 is a prime number. Among the 720 permutations of the numbers from 1 to 6, exactly 223 of them have the property that at least one of the numbers is fixed in place by the permutation and the numbers less than it and greater than it are separately permuted among themselves.
In connection with Waring's problem, 223 requires the maximum number of terms (37 terms) when expressed as a sum of positive fifth powers, and is the only number that requires that many terms.
In other fields
.223 (disambiguation), the caliber of several firearm cartridges
The years 223 and 223 BC
The number of synodic months of a Saros
References
Integers | wiki |
227 (two hundred [and] twenty-seven) is the natural number between 226 and 228. It is also a prime number.
In mathematics
227 is a twin prime and the start of a prime triplet (with 229 and 233). It is a safe prime, as dividing it by two and rounding down produces the Sophie Germain prime 113. It is also a regular prime, a Pillai prime, a Stern prime, and a Ramanujan prime.
227 and 229 form the first twin prime pair for which neither is a cluster prime.
The 227th harmonic number is the first to exceed six. There are 227 different connected graphs with eight edges, and 227 independent sets in a 3 × 4 grid graph.
References
Integers | wiki |
Line A is name of several transport lines:
A (New York City Subway service), U.S.
Line A (Buenos Aires Underground), Argentina
A Line (Los Angeles Metro), U.S.
Line A (Prague Metro), Czech Republic
Line A (Rome Metro), Italy
Mexico City Metro Line A, Mexico City
Line A (EuskoTran), Bilbao, Spain (former name)
See also
A Train (disambiguation)
A-line (disambiguation) | wiki |
The Judiciary of England and Wales contains many levels, based on the court in which the judge sits. Titles are given to judges relating to their position and, in the case of knighthoods and peerages, this includes the positions they had previously held. Retired judges that sit in any court use their full name with their titles added (such as Sir or Dame, or post-nominal KC). Members or former members of the higher judiciary who are King's Counsel do not use the post-nominal letters KC.
Due to the various honours bestowed on members of the judiciary and traditions associated with the varying levels, their personal titles and forms of address often change as they progress in a judicial career.
Extant titles
Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
If there are two Justices of the Supreme Court with the same surname, then the junior Justice will take a territorial designation (i.e. "of [place]") in their title. When two or more Justices are referred at the same time in a law report, their post-nominal letters become SCJJ.
Court of Appeal
If there are two Lord Justices of the Appeal with the same surname, then the junior Lord Justice will take their first name as part of their judicial title. When two or more Lord Justices are referred at the same time in a law report, their post-nominal letters become LJJ.
High Court
If there are two Justices of the High Court with the same surname, then the junior Justice will take their first name as part of their judicial title. When two or more Justices are referred at the same time in a law report, their post-nominal letters become JJ.
Junior courts
Extinct titles
References
Judiciary of England and Wales
Titles in the United Kingdom | wiki |
A repetitive visual stimulus is a visual stimulus that has a distinctive property (e.g., frequency or phase). The stimuli are simultaneously presented to the user when focusing attention on the corresponding stimulus. For example, when the user focuses attention on a repetitive visual stimulus, a steady state visually evoked potential is elicited which manifests as oscillatory components in the user's electroencephalogram, especially in the signals from the primary visual cortex, matching the frequency or harmonics of that stimulus.
Repetitive visual stimuli are said to evoke a lesser response in brain cells, specifically superior collicular cells, than moving stimuli. Habituation is very rapid in healthy subjects in reference to repetitive visual stimuli. Development changes around the first year of life are attributed for attention control and these are said to be fully functional around the ages of two and four years old. This is the age that toddlers seem to now prefer moving and changing stimuli, much like healthy adults. In infants, there is evidence that supports the hypothesis that infants prefer repetitive visual stimuli or patterns, in comparison to moving or changing targets.
References
Neurophysiology
Visual perception | wiki |
Daniel Chamberlain is the name of:
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (1835–1907), 76th Governor of South Carolina
Daniel R. Chamberlain, President of Houghton College (1976–2006)
See also
Daniel Chamberlain House | wiki |
Could've Been may refer to:
"Could've Been (H.E.R. song)", a song by H.E.R.
"Could've Been (Tiffany song)", a song by Tiffany
See also
"Could've Been Me", a song by Billy Ray Cyrus
"Could've Been You", a song by Cher | wiki |
Morris and Company may refer to:
Morris & Company, a Chicago meatpacking company
Morris & Co., a decorative arts firm founded by William Morris | wiki |
Where You Live è il settimo album di Tracy Chapman, pubblicato nel 2005.
Tracce
Note
Collegamenti esterni | wiki |
In Israel, Pitzuchim (Hebrew: פיצוחים, lit. crackables) is a colloquial term referring to varieties of nuts and seeds that are cracked open with ones' teeth and eaten as a snack.
Among the popular Pitzuchim are sunflower seeds (also called "גרעינים שחורים", "black seeds"), pumpkin seeds (also known as "גרעינים לבנים", "white seeds"), and watermelon seeds. Pitzuchim are a popular snack at soccer games. Less popular varieties of Pitzuchim include more expensive nuts, such as pistachios, Brazil nuts, cashews, almonds and more.
The Israeli Ministry of Health recommends that children under the age of five not be allowed to eat Pitzuchim because of the danger of suffocation. In addition, consuming large amounts of kernels without removing the shell can cause bowel obstruction.
Pitzuchim are commonly sold in the form of pre-packaged plastic bags in supermarket and local grocery stores, or by weight in health food stores or kiosks that include a stall of Pitzuchim. A kiosk that sells Pitzuchim is called a "פיצוחיה" or "פיצוציה", Pitzuchiya or Pitzutziya, where the nuts or seeds are usually roasted on location and sold by weight, often packaged in brown paper bags.
References
Snack foods
Israeli cuisine
Edible nuts and seeds
Purim foods | wiki |
Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
Anguilla may also refer to:
Anguilla, Georgia
Anguilla, Mississippi
Anguilla, United States Virgin Islands
, a British Royal Navy frigate in commission from 1943 to 1946
Anguilla Cays, a group of islands on Cay Sal Bank in the Bahamas
Anguilla, the only genus in the eel family Anguillidae
See also | wiki |
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory began as a short paper and was eventually published as a book written by Albert Einstein with the aim of explaining the theory of relativity.
Contents
Publication history
It was first published in German in 1916 and later translated into English in 1920. It is divided into 3 parts, the first dealing with special relativity, the second dealing with general relativity and the third dealing with considerations on the universe as a whole. There have been many versions published since the original in 1916, the latest in December, 2011.
Reception
People such as Robert W. Lawson have called the work unique in that it gives readers an insight into the thought processes of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
Notes
External links
Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1920/2000) at Bartleby.com
Works by Albert Einstein
1920 non-fiction books | wiki |
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is an Irish poet who writes in the Irish language. Born in Tralee, County Kerry, in 1984, she graduated from NUI Galway in 2005 with a BA in Irish and French. She spent time in Bordeaux, France, before returning to Ireland to do an MA in Modern Irish, again at NUI Galway.
She went to New York in August 2007 to teach Irish with the Fulbright program in the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies at Lehman College in the Bronx. The Arts Council of Ireland (An Chomhairle Ealaíon) awarded her an artist's bursary in 2008.
She has helped to translate her own work into English.
Ní Ghearbhuigh's first collection, Péacadh, was published in 2008. It has been noted that, although its general tenor is optimistic, many of the collection's stronger pieces are marked by a disorientating sense of alienation and an awareness of the world's capricious nature.
Her doctoral dissertation, “An Fhrainc Iathghlas? Tionchar na Fraince ar Athbheochan na Gaeilge, 1893-1922″ (NUI, Galway), won the Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation in 2014.
Bibliography
Péacadh (Coiscéim, 2008)
Notes
References
Three Irish-language Poets Named For Western Writers' Centre Project
Lehman program helps preserve Irish language
1984 births
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish poets
Living people
Alumni of the University of Galway
Irish-language poets
Irish women poets
People from Tralee
Irish poets
21st-century Irish women writers | wiki |
Secrets and Words is a 2012 British drama television series shown on BBC One, produced by Jimmy McGovern's production company, LA Productions. Each episode is a story on the theme of adult literacy. BBC Skillswise collaborated with the series, providing adult learners with an activity to participate with following each episode.
Production
The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) were involved in developing the series, highlighting challenges facing British who had literacy issues. It was filmed in Liverpool.
Episodes
References
External links
2012 British television series debuts
2012 British television series endings
2010s British drama television series
2010s British television miniseries
BBC television dramas
BBC Daytime television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Liverpool | wiki |
The European Convention on the Recognition of the Legal Personality of International Non-Governmental Organisations is an international treaty that sets the legal basis for the existence and work of international non-governmental organizations in Europe. It was adopted by the member states of the Council of Europe, meeting at Strasbourg on 24 April 1986. It entered into force on 1 January 1991; signatory states were Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
As of 31 May 2018, the treaty has been ratified by Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and has been extended by the UK to Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.
See also
Legal personality
References
External links
European Convention on the Recognition of the Legal Personality of International Non-Governmental Organisations, Council of Europe
European Convention on the Recognition of the Legal Personality of International Non-Governmental Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
Council of Europe treaties
Treaties concluded in 1986
Treaties of Austria
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Cyprus
Treaties of France
Treaties of Greece
Treaties of the Netherlands
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Slovenia
Treaties of Switzerland
Treaties of North Macedonia
Treaties of the United Kingdom
1986 in France
Treaties extended to Guernsey
Treaties extended to Jersey
Treaties extended to the Isle of Man
Treaties entered into force in 1991 | wiki |
The 2013 CONCACAF Awards were the first year for CONCACAF's awards for the top region football players, coaches and referees of the year. The results were announced on 13 December 2013.
Award winners and shortlists
Player of the Year
Female Player of the Year
Goalkeeper of the Year
Coach of the Year
Referee of the Year
Goal of the Year
This award applies only to goals scored during CONCACAF official competitions.
References
CONCACAF trophies and awards
Awards
CONCACAF | wiki |
Edward Flint may refer to:
Edward S. Flint (1819–1902), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1861 to 1862
See also
Flint (disambiguation) | wiki |
A sugar caster is a small container, with a perforated top, larger than a salt shaker but similar in form. The sugar caster was part of a set of vessels, and a rack to hold them used to contain spices and condiments on the dining table. The set would have a salt shaker, a pepper shaker, a vinegar cruet, an oil cruet, a sugar shaker, and a mayonnaise jar with spoon. The word is first attested to in 1676.
The set was used by the affluent and wealthy, to cast or sprinkle, pepper, sugar, salt, or the like, in 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 (‘caster sugar’).
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 container, to be used with a sugar-bowl (or at least, with a bowl of sugar). Such casters are usually silver or plate.
References
Sugar
Condiments | wiki |
Quoats is a LINK research project funded by government, levy boards and industry groups that aims to develop and apply state-of-the-art genomic and metabolomic tools for the genetic improvement of oats. Its name is a portmanteau of the words quality and oats. Its focus is on the understanding and manipulation of key traits that will enhance the value of oats in human health improvement, to capitalise on the value of oats as a low input cereal crop, increase the environmental and economic sustainability of cereal based rotations, realise the potential of oats as a high value animal feed and develop new opportunities for using oats for industrial use through advanced fractionation. The project objective is to deliver powerful enabling genetic technologies for the identification of specific genes and markers that will drive the development of breeder–friendly tools accelerating the production of improved oat varieties that will be evaluated and marketed by industrial partners. Quoats is a multi-disciplinary research programme which combines modern phenotyping methodologies with the expertise of genomics researchers, oat breeders and end-users. It also addresses long term breeding goals by developing experimental oat populations which are polymorphic for agronomically important traits but more amenable to mapping and forward genetic approaches than conventional agronomic lines.
References
External links
Website
Research projects
Agricultural research | wiki |
Girard Bank was a Philadelphia-based bank founded after the death of Stephen Girard in 1831 by local merchants eager to trade on the sterling reputation of their namesake. Stephen Girard neither founded the bank, nor had any financial ties to the bank that bore his name. The bank was acquired by Mellon Bank in 1983 and then, two decades later, by Citizens Bank.
Founding and early history
After the charter for the First Bank of the United States expired in 1811, Stephen Girard purchased most of its stock and its facilities on South Third Street in Philadelphia, then reorganized it under his direct personal control. He hired George Simpson, the cashier of the First Bank, as cashier of the new bank, and with seven other employees, opened for business on May 18, 1812. He allowed the Trustees of the First Bank of the United States to use some offices and space in the vaults to continue the process of winding down the affairs of the closed bank at a very nominal rent. Although Pennsylvania law prohibited an association of individuals from banking without a charter, it made no such prohibition on a single individual doing so. Philadelphia banks balked at accepting the notes that Girard issued on his personal credit and lobbied the state to force him to incorporate, without success.
Girard's Bank was the principal source of government credit during the War of 1812. Towards the end of the war, when the financial credit of the U.S. government was at its lowest, Girard placed nearly all of his resources at the disposal of the government and underwrote up to 95 percent of the war loan issue, which enabled the United States to carry on the war.
After the war, Girard became a large stockholder in and one of the directors of the Second Bank of the United States. Upon his death in 1831, his own bank passed to a trust according to his will. Merchants of the city chartered the Girard Bank to buy the banking assets from the trust and carry on the business. Ironically, in view of its history, Girard Bank was one of the pet banks to which Treasury Secretary Roger B. Taney transferred the government's Pennsylvania deposits in the Second Bank of the United States. After the passage of the National Banking Act, the bank reorganized in 1863 as Girard National Bank.
In February 1903, Girard Bank acquired the business of the Mechanics National Bank. Five years later it constructed a new headquarters on Broad Street, known as the Girard Trust Building, designed by Frank Furness. In 1930, the bank began construction of a new tower adjoining the domed 1908 building, designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1931. The tower was located on the site formerly occupied by the West End Trust Building (1898-1928). The 1908 domed building today serves as The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia hotel.
Acquisition of Corn Exchange Bank
In 1952, Girard Trust Company acquired The Corn Exchange Bank's Philadelphia branches, and renamed itself Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank. From 1964 to 1971, the bank was known as Girard Trust Bank, later Girard Bank.
Acquisition by Mellon Bank
Girard merged with Mellon Bank in 1983, in a deal valued at $220 million, following a change in Pennsylvania law that allowed local banks to operate statewide (technically, allowing bank holding companies to own multiple banks). Following the acquisition, the bank was immediately renamed Mellon Bank (East). The century-old Girard lost its corporate identity, creating integration issues between Mellon and Girard's employees and customers. The bank was largely sold to Citizens Bank two decades later. Its monumental headquarters building, today a Ritz hotel, still stands at Broad and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia.
In the 1970s, Girard became one of the pioneers of automated banking, launching a proprietary network of automated teller machines in 1978 known as "George". In response, Philadelphia National Bank (PNB) launched its own network of ATMs, the precursor of the MAC system in 1979 with the support of 13 other financial institutions. After Girard's acquisition in 1983, Mellon Bank joined the MAC network.
See also
Stephen Simpson, former employee at Girard's bank and author of the book Biography of Stephen Girard, with His Will Affixed (1832), a very critical account of Girard and his bank.
Bibliography
The history of the Girard National Bank of Philadelphia, 1832-1902 Printed by J. B. Lippincott Co., 1902
Girard Trust Company: a century of financial activity, 1836-1936. E. Stern & Co., inc., 1936
Girard National of Philadelphia Has Acquired the Independence National. New York Times, April 3, 1901
Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank
References
Banks established in 1811
Banks disestablished in 1983
Banks based in Pennsylvania
1811 establishments in Pennsylvania
1983 disestablishments in Pennsylvania | wiki |
La panade est une pâte qui constitue la première étape de la confection de la pâte à choux. C'est un mélange composé de beurre, de sel, et de farine, cuit dans de l'eau ou du lait. L'ingrédient alors manquant est l'œuf qui, incorporé, donnera la mixture attendue.
Voir aussi
Sources
Vocabulaire de la cuisine
Articles connexes
Pâte à choux
Pâtisserie utilisant la pâte à choux | wiki |
Capilano Bridge may refer to:
Capilano Bridge (Edmonton), a freeway bridge in Edmonton, Alberta across the North Saskatchewan River
Capilano Suspension Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia across the Capilano River | wiki |
This is a list of countries by IPv4 address allocation, . It includes 252 areas, including all United Nations member states, plus the Holy See, Kosovo and Taiwan.
There are 232 (over four billion) IP addresses in the IPv4 protocol. Of these, almost 600 million are reserved and cannot be used for public routing. The rest are allocated to countries by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) via the regional Internet registries (RIRs).
Charts and graphs
See also
IP address
IPv4 address exhaustion
Internet Census of 2012 (Carna Botnet)
List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks
References
IPv4 address allocation
Internet-related lists
IPv4 | wiki |
Il National Invitation Tournament 1956 fu la 19ª edizione del torneo. Venne vinto dalla University of Louisville; il miglior giocatore del torneo fu Charlie Tyra.
Squadre
Risultati
Collegamenti esterni
Pallacanestro nel 1956
1956 | wiki |
L'Università statale della California (; CSU) è un sistema di università pubbliche dello stato della California.
La California State University è una delle tre suddivisioni del sistema pubblico di educazione superiore californiano, insieme con l'Università della California e il California Community College.
Il quartier generale è situato al 401 Golden Shore di Downtown Long Beach.
Campus
L'Università statale della California è composta dai seguenti 23 campus, elencati qui in base all'anno di fondazione:
Note
Voci correlate
Università statale della California - Chico
Università statale della California - Northridge
Università statale di San Diego
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
California | wiki |
The Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c.24) received Royal Assent on 29 May 1868, putting an end to public executions for murder in the United Kingdom. The act required that all prisoners sentenced to death for murder be executed within the walls of the prison in which they were being held, and that their bodies be buried in the prison grounds. It was prompted at least in part by the efforts of reformers such as Sir Robert Peel and Charles Dickens, who called in the national press for an end to the "grotesque spectacle" of public executions. Abolition of public executions was one of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1864-1866. A similar measure, the Capital Punishment within Prisons Bill, had been introduced in 1867, but failed for lack of parliamentary time.
The first execution under the new law was carried out by William Calcraft on 13 August 1868 at Maidstone Gaol; 18-year-old Thomas Wells was hanged for the murder of Edward Walshe, the stationmaster at Dover Priory railway station. Calcraft had previously carried out the last public execution in the UK, when he hanged the Fenian Michael Barrett in front of Newgate Prison on 26 May 1868 for his part in the 1867 Clerkenwell Outrage.
See also
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
References
Citations
Bibliography
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1868
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
May 1868 events | wiki |
"Bloodlines" is the eleventh episode of the first season of The CW television series The Vampire Diaries, and the eleventh episode of the series overall. It originally aired on January 21, 2010. The episode's story was written by Sean Reycraft and the teleplay by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. It was directed by David Barrett.
Plot
Elena (Nina Dobrev) is trapped in her car while a mysterious figure approaches. She screams and suddenly the stranger runs away as Damon (Ian Somerhalder) appears and gets her free. Damon asks her if she is fine. Elena says: "I look like her" and faints. Damon picks her up and goes to his car.
Alaric (Matt Davis) stares at a picture of his wife Isobel (Mia Kirshner) as he remembers moments he lived with her. He knows that there is evil in Mystic Falls and that he was right to come here. He later meets Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) at the school's parking lot. Jeremy informs him that he found a journal from the 1800s, something that he seems to be interested in.
Elena wakes up in Damon's car wandering what happened and where they are. Damon takes her with him to Georgia and despite Elena's demands to take her back to Mystic Falls he declines and pulls over. Elena's phone rings, Damon answers it and it is Stefan (Paul Wesley) who worries about her especially since she does not have her vervain necklace anymore. Elena does not want to talk to him and Damon hangs up on him. He promises Elena he will not compel her and she agrees to continue traveling with him.
Stefan finds Bonnie (Kat Graham) and asks her to help him find Elena. He gives her Elena's necklace to make a spell but when she tries nothing happens. She leaves and goes to her grandmother (Jasmine Guy) to ask her why she does not have her powers anymore. Her grandmother tells her that she has to face what scared her, so Bonnie leaves and goes to the Fell's Church where Emily destroyed the crystal.
Damon and Elena arrive at a bar where Damon is old friends with the owner, Bree (Gina Torres). Bree is a witch and Damon came to ask her help so he can bring Katherine back. They all have fun and drink and at one moment Elena goes outside to call Jenna (Sara Canning) and inform her that she is fine and that she slept at Bonnie's. Inside the bar, Damon finally tells Bree what he wants and she tells him that he needs the crystal to open the tomb. Damon does not have the crystal and wants to know if they can use a different spell but to do that, the witch has to be blood related to Emily.
Jeremy is at the school's library looking for information about his paper when he meets Anna (Malese Jow). The two of them start talking and Anna helps him find more information. She also tells him that she also has an old journal and she believes that the stories about vampires are real after the stories her grandfather told her. Jeremy does not believe in vampires and tries to convince her that those stories are just fiction.
Stefan calls Elena who is still angry and demands to know how she is connected to Katherine. Stefan tells her that he does not know while Damon overhears the conversation and appears next to Elena when she hangs up the phone. Bree takes the opportunity of Damon being outside and calls someone to let them know that Damon is there.
Bonnie gets to the Fell's Church but while she is looking around, she falls into a hole in the ground, inside the tomb. At the same time, Stefan goes to Bonnie's grandmother's house and asks for her. Grams Sheila senses that he is a vampire after touching his hand and knowing that she can trust him, she tells him that he knows where to find Bonnie. Stefan goes to Fell's Church, finds Bonnie and gets her out of the tomb. While being in the tomb, Bonnie was hearing noises coming behind a door with a pentagram drawn on it, something that tells Stefan about. He assures her that while the vampires are still barely alive, they are weak and desiccated and locked away safely. Stefan brings Bonnie back home and safe and Sheila thanks him. The two of them seem to know each other from some years ago.
Back at the bar, a mysterious figure walks in and exchanges a look with Bree. Elena walks outside once again to answer her phone, when a man grabs her and drags her away. Damon notices her absence and goes out to look for her. He sees Elena but when he tries to help her, the man beats him with a baseball bat and starts dousing him with gasoline. Elena tries to save Damon's life while the man (Brandon Quinn) tells her that Damon killed his girlfriend, Lexi. Elena manages to convince him not to kill Damon and the man runs away.
Damon, before he travels back to Mystic Falls, confronts Bree and he is pissed because she betrayed him and set him up. Bree explains that she did it because Lexi was her friend and warns him that her blood is full of vervain but she is still scared of him. In an attempt to save her life, she tells him that Emily's spell book holds the secret to reverse the spell. He apologizes and then rips her heart out.
Elena and Damon are back to Mystic Falls and Elena finally talks to Stefan asking him the truth and if he was with her because of her resemblance to Katherine. Stefan explains that she is nothing like Katherine and he noticed that before they even met. He reveals to her that he was there the night she had the accident with her parents and that he was the one who saved her. He tried to save her parents as well but it was too late. Since then he began watching her to be sure that she was not Katherine and he figured out how different she was from her.
Elena is shocked but she keeps wondering why the two of them look so much alike and if they are related. Stefan explains that he was wondering the same thing and that her last name (Gilbert) confused him because Katherine's was different (Pierce). He then discovered that Elena is adopted but he did not want to start asking people about Katherine's family because it was dangerous. Elena gets back home and is mad at Jenna for never telling her she was adopted. Jenna is shocked and tries to explain that she promised not to tell but Elena does not want to hear her.
The episode ends with Alaric sitting at the bar. He remembers the night his wife died, when he got into the room and saw a vampire drinking from her. He recognizes that vampire to the one who is sitting few feet away from him; Damon.
Featured music
"Bloodlines" features the songs:
"Nothing Is Logical" by The Bell
"Out of the Blue" by Julian Casablancas
"Only One" by Alex Band
"Look Inside" by The Dig
"The Night Before" by The Stereotypes
"Pepper Spray" by The Upsidedown
"Push" by The Steps
"Trouble" by Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions
"Can't Stop These Tears (From Falling)" by The Black Hollies
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Black Mustang
"On a Mission" by The Dandelions
"An End Has a Start" by Editors
"Cosmic Love" by Florence and the Machine
Reception
Ratings
In its original American broadcast, "Bloodlines" was watched by 3.68 million, up by 0.11 from the previous episode.
Reviews
"Bloodlines" received positive reviews.
Popsugar of Buzzsugar gave a good review to the episode, saying that it has amazing storylines. "The story picks up where its mid-season cliffhanger left off — with Elena injured in a car crash and a creepy creature coming for her. But there were also amazing storylines picked up for not just Elena, but Bonnie, Jeremy, and Alaric as well. [...] And once again, for as many little threads that were sewn up, there were as many brand-new threads of the story that I can't wait to explore."
Matt Richenthal of TV Fanatic gave a good review to the episode and praised Somerhalder's acting, saying: "As always, it's a testament to Ian Somerhalder's performance that he can be so charming and attractive one moment, only to remind viewers at every turn of his evil side. We audibly gasped when he killed Bree. Somehow, even now, we still didn't see that coming!"
Josie Kafka from Doux Reviews rated the episode with 3/4, saying: "I sort of kept my eye on the clock as this episode went by: each scene was about a minute and a half long. No wonder this show is so intense. Something new is happening every 90 seconds."
Robin Franson Pruter of Forced Viewing rated the episode with 3/4, even though she was not impressed by it, stating: "What saved the episode and pushed it over from a negative 2-star to a positive 3-star review are the interactions between Somerhalder, Dobrev, and Torres and the four big revelations at the end of the episode."
Lauren Attaway from Star Pulse gave a B− grade to the episode.
References
2010 American television episodes
The Vampire Diaries (season 1) episodes
Television episodes set in Georgia (U.S. state) | wiki |
This is an incomplete list of artworks in the Frick Collection in New York City, United States, which mainly holds European artworks from before the 20th century.
Paintings
Sculpture
Notes
References
External links
The Frick Collection website
Frick Collection
List
Frick Collection | wiki |
The Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-third Amendment) Act, 1969, discontinued reservation of seats for the Scheduled Tribes in Nagaland, both in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assembly and stipulated that not more than one Anglo-Indian could be nominated by the Governor to any State Legislative Assembly. Prior to the amendment, the number of Anglo-Indians who could be nominated to the State Legislative Assemblies, was left to the discretion of the Governor of the State. The amendment also extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for another ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 1980.
Article 334 of the Constitution had originally required the reservation of seats to cease in 1960, but this was extended to 1970 by the 8th Amendment. The 23rd Amendment extended this period to 1980. The period of reservation was extended to 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 and 2030 by the 45th, 62nd, 79th, 95th and 104th Amendments respectively.
Text
The full text of Articles 333 and 334, and clause(1) of Article 330, after the 23rd Amendment, are given below:
Proposal and enactment
The Constitution (Twenty-third Amendment) Bill, 1969 (Bill No. 78 of 1969) was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 21 August 1969 by Panampilly Govinda Menon, then Minister of Law. The Bill sought to amend articles 330, 332, 333 and 334 of the Constitution. The full text of the Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the bill is given below:
The bill was debated by the Lok Sabha on 8 and 9 December, and passed in the original form on 9 December 1969. It was considered by the Rajya Sabha on 16 and 17 December, and passed on 17 December 1969. The bill, after ratification by the States, received assent from then President V. V. Giri on 23 January 1970. It was notified in The Gazette of India and came into force on 23 January 1970. It was notified in The Gazette of India on 26 January 1970.
Ratification
The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below:
Assam
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Mysore
Nagaland
Punjab
Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu
West Bengal
Did not ratify:
Andhra Pradesh
Bihar
Gujarat
Haryana
Jammu and Kashmir
Orissa
Uttar Pradesh
See also
List of amendments of the Constitution of India
References
23
1969 in India
1969 in law
Indira Gandhi administration | wiki |
Glossoptosis is a medical condition and abnormality which involves the downward displacement or retraction of the tongue. It may cause non-fusion of the hard palate, causing cleft palate.
It is one of the features of Pierre Robin sequence and Down syndrome.
References
Congenital disorders of musculoskeletal system
Tongue disorders | wiki |
Restaurant Express is an American reality television program aired by the Food Network and hosted by Chef Robert Irvine. The series premiered on November 3, 2013.
Contestants
Nine contestants competed in the premiere season.
Episodes
References
General references
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series | wiki |
Care of or in care of can stand for:
"care of" or "in care of", used to address a letter when the letter must pass through an intermediary
"Care-of address", a temporary IP address for a mobile device used in Internet routing.
"In Care Of", Mad Men (season 6), episode 13 | wiki |
A children's book series is a set of fiction books, with a connected story line, written for children.
See also
Children's literature
List of children's classic books
List of children's literature authors
References
External links
AuthorAlerts.com
FantasticFiction.com
FictFact.com
FictionDB.com
OrderOfBooks.com
StopYoureKillingMe.com | wiki |
A battle of bands is a musical contest of several bands.
It may also refer to:
Battle of Bands, a 10th-century battle in Scotland
Battle of the Bands (video game), a video game for the Nintendo Wii
Battle of the Bands (book), a spin-off novel based upon the High School Musical franchise
Battle of the Bands (TV movie), a Naked Brothers made-for-TV movie
The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, an album by The Turtles | wiki |
Tequila 1519 (NOM: 1577, DOT: 295) is a Certified Organic Tequila by both USDA and European Union that also certified Kosher Pareve by Orthodox Union. According to the official company page the Brand's name come from the year 1519 when conquistadors like Hernán Cortés were introduced to the Aztec's sacred ceremonial drink known as Aguamiel, though this explanation is disputed in other sources.
Products
"1519" Blanco
"1519" Reposado
"1519" Anejo
References
Tequila
Alcoholic drink brands | wiki |
Coming Home is an American reality television series on the Lifetime network that premiered on March 6, 2011. The series is paired with Lifetime's drama series Army Wives.
Premise
The series focuses on the family reunions that occur as United States military personnel return home from active duty overseas, and the lengths that the returning member goes through to make the reunion a surprise.
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
References
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Lifetime (TV network) original programming
2012 American television series endings | wiki |
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