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Demise of the Crown Act may refer to
Demise of the Crown Act 1702, Act of the Parliament of England
Demise of the Crown Act 1727, Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
Demise of the Crown Act 1901, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom | wiki |
Ashley Rolfe is one of the United States Air Force female fighter pilots who qualified to fly McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. As a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, she makes history at the 104th Fighter Wing as the first female fighter pilot in the wing's 70-year history in Aug. 18, 2016. She served in 67th Fighter Squadron at Kadena Air Base. Kadena was Rolfe's first duty assignment, where she also made history by serving in the 67th Fighter Squadron as the only female F-15 pilot. In 2010 she was the only female fighter pilot participating in Exercise Commando Sling that appeared in Air Force TV News "One of a Kind".
Rolfe graduated United States Air Force Academy. She completed pilot training in 2007, fulfilling her lifelong dream to become an F-15 Eagle fighter pilot. She has served in the active-duty Air Force for 11 years. In addition to serving at Tyndall, she has been stationed as a fighter pilot at Kadena Air Base in Japan and Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. She has deployed twice, most recently to Afghanistan for six months. She flew T-38 aircraft in an aggressor role as part of the F-22 Raptor fighter program at her previous duty assignment at Tyndall before coming to the 104th. She is married and has one daughter.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Female officers of the United States Air Force
Place of birth missing (living people)
Articles containing video clips
Massachusetts National Guard personnel
United States Air Force Academy alumni
21st-century American women | wiki |
Caroline Anderson may refer to:
Caroline Anderson (writer), British novelist
Caroline Still Anderson (1848–1919), American doctor
Caroline Anderson (New Zealand writer), contributor to 2016 comics anthology Three Words | wiki |
The .510 Whisper is a subsonic rifle cartridge developed by SSK Industries for use in suppressed rifles. It is capable of firing a .51-caliber bullet weighing at roughly .
Overview
The .510 Whisper (13×47 mm) is the second of two 1/2 inch caliber rounds developed by J. D. Jones with a specific focus on the Thumper concept and subsonic use. Based on the .416 Rigby case, it is a non-belted and bottlenecked cartridge.
Earlier J. D. Jones had already developed the similar .500 Whisper round, which has a roughly 0.4 inch (10 mm) longer belted bottlenecked case based on the .378 Weatherby Magnum.
Despite the large bullet, this round is very quiet when using a suppressor due to the subsonic nature of the cartridge. When used with a very high ballistic coefficient bullet, the round only loses about out to over 500 yards. This gives it more downrange energy at that distance than traditional .30 caliber rounds such as the .308 Winchester and .300 Winchester Magnum. Sako TRG-S test rifles have achieved minute of angle, and better, accuracy with this cartridge at 600 yards.
Powders such as H110, 4227, or surplus WC820 are well suited for subsonic loads and give a low standard deviation. Necessary components such as barrels, reloading dies, etc. are available from SSK. Sako TRG-S actions are most often converted to this caliber. The Thompson Center Encore is also suitable, but is rather lightweight for shooting this heavy recoiling cartridge, especially when using bullets.
Design
The case of the .510 Whisper is based on the .416 Rigby (same as the .338 Lapua Magnum) as the parent case. Overall length of the loaded round is about .
See also
Whisper Family of Firearm Cartridges
12.7×55mm STs-130
12 mm caliber
Glossary of firearms terminology
List of rifle cartridges
References
Pistol and rifle cartridges
Whisper cartridges
Subsonic rifle cartridges | wiki |
The Roland GR-300 is an analog guitar synthesizer manufactured by Roland Corporation.
The GR-300 was considered the first "playable" guitar synthesizer. (Its predecessor, the GR-500, was plagued with tracking problems that rendered it virtually unplayable.) The GR-300 had no MIDI and could only be played through a GR-300 series guitar controller.
The actual synthesizer module sat on the floor and had the rugged appearance of a large guitar-type foot pedal (complete with carrying handles). It featured 6-voice polyphony, one voice per string and 2 oscillators per voice. Each pair of VCOs were harmonically locked to each string but could be tuned separately to play different pitches. The GR-300 also featured a VCF with variable lengthsweep up and down, and an LFO. Each string had an enable-disable switch as well as a string sensitivity switch (basically audio compression). Built-in footswitches controlled the VCO mode (single/dual), the VCO harmonize pitch (detuning of the VCO's), and the VCF mode (on, bypass, or inverted). There was also a pedal control input for the VCF. The GR-300 could output either the guitar, the synth, or a mix of the two.
Notable users
Pat Metheny
Chuck Hammer
Robert Fripp
Andy Summers
Adrian Belew
Charly García
Shawn Lane
Kazumi Watanabe
David Byrne
Jimmy Page
Pete Townshend
Trevor Rabin
Jeff Beck
References
External links
Roland GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer and G-808 Guitar
GR-300
Guitar synthesizers | wiki |
Short loin is the American name for a cut of beef that comes from the back of the cattle. It contains part of the spine and includes the top loin and the tenderloin. This cut yields types of steak including porterhouse, strip steak (Kansas City Strip, New York Strip), and T-bone (a cut also containing partial meat from the tenderloin). The T-bone is a cut that contains less of the tenderloin than does the porterhouse. Webster's Dictionary defines it as "a portion of the hindquarter of beef immediately behind the ribs that is usually cut into steaks." The short loin is considered a tender beef.
In Australian, British and South African butchery, this cut is referred to as the sirloin (sometimes as the striploin in South Africa).
See also
References
Cuts of beef | wiki |
"Dancin' the Night Away" is a 1981 song by the disco dance duo Voggue from their self-titled album. The song was written by Denis Lepage and Denyse Lepage and produced by Trans-Canada Disques.
Chart performance
"Dancin' the Night Away" went to number one for three weeks on the Billboard disco/dance chart. The single failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the R&B chart(although the single did "Bubble Under" at No. 109 for one week). In the UK, the single peaked at No.39 in August 1981. In the Netherlands, it reached number 22.
References
1981 singles
1981 songs
Atlantic Records singles
Disco songs | wiki |
Maximilien August Topler (25 June 1870 – 14 March 1960) was a German physicist known for his work on electrostatics, sparks and Schlieren photography. His father was the physicist August Toepler.
Toepler's law (1906) states that the resistance of an electric arc at any time is inversely proportional to the charge which has flowed through the arc:
where I(t) is the current in the arc discharge at time t, and D is the gap between the electrodes. The parameter is a constant whose value is .
References
Toepler's law (PDF)
High Voltage Engineering Fundamentals
Toepler, Annalen der Physik, 1906; 4: 191. (original publication)
1870 births
1960 deaths
20th-century German physicists | wiki |
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Friidrott vid olympiska sommarspelen | wiki |
Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology discusses precipitation characteristics of tropical cyclones that have struck Mexico over the years. One-third of the annual rainfall received along the Mexican Riviera and up to half of the rainfall received in Baja California Sur is directly attributable to tropical cyclones moving up the west coast of Mexico. The central plateau is shielded from the high rainfall amounts seen on the oceanward slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental and Occidental mountain chains.
General characteristics
Storms track near and along the western Mexican coastline primarily between the months of July and September. These storms enhance the monsoon circulation over northwest Mexico and the southwest United States. On an average basis, eastern Pacific tropical cyclones contribute about one-third of the annual rainfall along the Mexican Riviera, and up to one-half of the rainfall seen annually across Baja California Sur. Mexico is twice as likely (18% of the basin total) to be impacted by a Pacific tropical cyclone on its west coast than an Atlantic tropical cyclone on its east coast (9% of the basin total). The three most struck states in Mexico in the 50 years at the end of the 20th century were Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, and Quintana Roo.
Highest known rainfall amounts
Below is a list of the top ten highest known storm total rainfall amounts from individual tropical cyclones across Mexico. Most of the rainfall information was provided by the Mexico's National Weather Service, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, which is a part of the National Water Commission, Comisión Nacional del Agua.
Maximum tropical cyclone rainfall per state for Mexico
On the western side of Mexico, the Sierra Madre Occidental keeps the central plateau free of excessive rainfall, as tropical cyclones originating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean rain themselves out on the upslope sides of the topography. On the eastern side of Mexico, the Sierra Madre Oriental has the same orographic effect, this time blocking tropical disturbances making landfall from the Gulf of Mexico. State maxima relating to tropical cyclones and their remnants are shown on the right, color-coded by amount.
See also
List of wettest tropical cyclones by country
Tropical cyclone
Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting
References
External links
Individual Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Pages for North America
SOI and PDO relation to tropical cyclone rainfall variability in Mexico
Characteristics of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones in the United States and Mexico: Climatology and Interannual Variability
Tropical cyclone meteorology | wiki |
Beef plate (also known as the short plate) is a forequarter cut from the belly of the cow, just below the rib cut. It is typically a cheap, tough, and fatty meat. In U.K. butchery, this cut is considered part of the brisket.
It is used for short ribs and two kinds of steak - skirt and hanger. It may also be cured, smoked, and thinly sliced to make beef bacon.
The beef navel is the ventral part of the plate, and it is commonly used to make pastrami.
The remainder is usually used for ground beef.
References
Cuts of beef | wiki |
Keep Pushin' may refer to the title of a song.
As a single
"Keep Pushin'" by Boris Dlugosch
From an album
"Keep Pushin'" from R.E.O. (album)
"Keep Pushin'" from Pebble to a Pearl
"Keep Pushin'" from Silverback Gorilla | wiki |
Chipewyan Lake is an unincorporated community in northern Alberta within the Municipal District of Opportunity No. 17. It is located on the southern shore of Chipewyan Lake approximately north of Wabasca and west of Fort McMurray. The community is not accessible by Alberta's provincial highway system. It is however accessible by using the Laricina Energy/Shell Canada S-4 access road.
Chipewyan Lake was placed under mandatory evacuation order on May 30, 2019, due to out-of-control wildfires in the area.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Chipewyan Lake had a population of 72 living in 22 of its 28 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 86. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Chipewyan Lake had a population of 0 living in 2 of its 6 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 38. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
List of communities in Alberta
List of designated places in Alberta
References
Designated places in Alberta
Localities in the Municipal District of Opportunity No. 17 | wiki |
Lift chairs, or riser armchairs, are chairs that feature a powered lifting mechanism that pushes the entire chair up from its base and so assists the user to a standing position.
In the United States, lift chairs qualify as Durable Medical Equipment under Medicare Part B.
In a February 1989 report released by the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services, it was found that: lift chairs might not possibly meet Medicare's requirements for Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and lift chair claims need to be re-regulated. The report was stimulated by an increase in lift chair claims between 1984 and 1985 from 200,000 to 700,000. A New York Times article stated that aggressive TV ads were pushing consumers to inquire about lift chairs and, once consumers called in, a form was sent to them for their physicians to sign. Some companies would ship lift chairs before receiving a physician's signature; therefore, forcing the physicians to sign or else their patient will be forced to pay for the chair.
Medicare may only cover the cost of the lift-mechanism rather than the entire chair. Before Medicare can be considered for covering the cost, patients will need to have a visit with their physician to discuss the need for this particular equipment. The DME provider will then request a prescription and a certificate of medical necessity (CMN). The CMN typical involves five questions that the physician needs to answer. Typically, the questions are (1) Does the patient have severe arthritis, (2) Does the patient have a neuromuscular disease, (3) Is the patient incapable of getting up from a regular chair in their home, (4) Can the patient walk once standing, and (5) Have all other therapeutic measures been taken? If any of the questions are answered "NO", it may likely result in a denial of the claim.
Typically, DME providers require full payment for the lift chair and will offer reimbursement upon approval from Medicare. DME providers cannot bill Medicare without first providing the equipment.
Lift chairs can also come with a number of additional feature options and addons. These include heat and massage, adjustable head pillows, adjustable lumbar, battery backups, and premium fabrics.
See also
List of chairs
Massage chair
Mobility aid
Recliner
References
External links
Mobility devices
Chairs
chair
Medical equipment
Accessibility | wiki |
Hamilton Library can refer to the following libraries:
Hamilton Library (Hawaii)
Hamilton Public Library (Ontario), in Canada
Hamilton City Libraries (New Zealand)
Hamilton Library in Scotland, located at Hamilton Townhouse | wiki |
The beef shank is the leg portion of a steer or heifer. In the UK, the corresponding cuts of beef are the shin (the foreshank), and the leg (the hindshank).
Due to the constant use of this muscle by the animal, it tends to be tough, dry, and sinewy, so is best when cooked for a long time in moist heat. It is an ideal cut to use for beef bourguignon. As it is very lean, it is widely used to prepare very low-fat ground beef. Due to its lack of sales, it is not often seen in shops. However, if found in retail, it is very cheap and a low-cost ingredient for beef stock. Beef shank is a common ingredient in soups.
In Australia, it is commonly sold from butchers as gravy beef for bone-less shanks or as osso buco with bone-in.
In Asia, braised beef shank is very popular.
See also
List of steak dishes
References
Cuts of beef | wiki |
Charmed is an American fantasy drama television series developed by Jennie Snyder Urman, Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin based on the original series created by Constance M. Burge. It premiered on October 14, 2018, on The CW. The show follows the life of three sisters who are destined to battle the forces of evil.
The third season premiered on January 24, 2021. On February 3, 2021, The CW renewed the series for a fourth season which premiered on March 11, 2022. On May 12, 2022, The CW canceled the series after four seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2018–19)
Season 2 (2019–20)
Season 3 (2021)
Season 4 (2022)
Ratings
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
References
Charmed (2018 TV series)
Charmed (2018 TV series) | wiki |
A broken toe is a type of bone fracture. Symptoms include pain when the toe is touched near the break point, or compressed along its length (as if gently stubbing the toe). There may be bruising, swelling, stiffness, or displacement of the broken bone ends from their normal position.
Toes usually break because they have been stubbed or crushed. Crushing breaks are often caused by dropping something on the toe. More rarely, over-extending a toe joint can break off a portion of the bone, and stress fractures are possible, especially just after a sudden increase in activity. Diagnosis can be based on symptoms and X-rays.
Fractures of the smaller toes are usually treated with rest, buddy taping (taping the toe to the nearest toe, with some absorbent padding in-between), and wearing a stiff-soled shoe. For pain and swelling of all toes, rest, icing, elevation and pain medication are used. Pain usually decreases significantly within a week, but the toe may take 4–6 weeks to heal fully. As activity is slowly increased to normal levels, the toe may be a bit sore and stiff. If the bone heals crooked, it may be relocated with or without surgery. Broken toes can usually be cared for at home, unless the break is in the big toe, there is an open wound, or the broken ends of the bone are displaced. In high-force crushing and shearing injuries, especially those with open wounds, blood circulation (tested by capillary refill) can be impaired, which needs urgent professional treatment. More serious broken toes may need to be re-aligned or put in a cast; surgery is rarely needed. These cases may take longer (six to eight weeks) to heal fully.
Broken toes are one of the most common types of fracture seen in doctor's offices, and make up just under 10% of fractures in some offices. Broken pinky toes are to blame in 45% of individuals complaining of loss of balance.
Definition and classification
A broken toe is a type of fracture which may be categorised as a big toe fracture or fractures of the lesser toes. Toe fractures may be articular (affecting the joint surfaces at the ends of the bone) or diaphyseal (between the ends). They can be displaced, non-displaced, closed or open.
The AO Foundation/Orthopaedic Trauma Association (AO/OTA) classification generates numeric codes for describing broken toes. They run 88[meaning a fracture of the phalanges].[number-code of toe, with the big toe=1 and the little toe=5].[number-code of phalanx, counting 1-3 outwards from the foot].[number-code of location on the bone, with 1 being the inner end, 3 the outer, and 2 in-between]. So, for instance, 88.1.2.1 means a fracture to the big toe's innermost bone, at the proximal end. A letter can be added to describe the fracture pattern.
Signs and symptoms
Symptoms include pain when the site of the fracture is gently pressed, or when the toe is gently compressed along its length or moved. There may be bruising or swelling; sometimes there is a crackling sound. There may be displacement of the bones; the alignment of the nail bed is compared to the same toe on the uninjured foot to check if the toe has rotated (see spiral fracture).
Injuries to the nail bed and neurovascular bundles may be present.
Complications
Malunion, healing with the bones out-of-place, can cause long-term pain and significant disability. Malunion of joint surfaces may cause degenerative joint disease. Malunions may be corrected with or without surgery.
When a toe is broken by crushing, there is often also a subungual hematoma (bleeding/bruising of the nail bed, under the toenail). If there is enough blood to cause pain, it can be drained to relieve the pain and avoid (temporarily) losing the nail. Draining is usually done if the injury is less than 24 hours old. Preserving the nail helps splint the broken toe. Contaminated wounds are more serious; the wound should be kept clean.
Broken toes with open wounds, especially if there is necrosis, can lead to osteomyelitis. Joint problems are more likely in cases of involvement/possible displacement of the joint surface and, in children, involvement of the growth plate. Degenerative arthritis of the distal (outer) big toe joint can occur as a complication of fractures, especially fractures to the proximal (inner) end and diaphysis (midsection) of the proximal bone. If the proximal phalanx of the big toe is broken, hallux valgus (bunion) is a frequent complication.
In high-force crushing and shearing injuries, especially those with open wounds, blood circulation can be impaired.
Causes
Toes usually break because they have been stubbed or crushed. Crushing breaks are often caused by dropping something on the toe. More rarely, over-extending a toe joint can break off a portion of the bone, and stress fractures are possible, especially just after a sudden increase in activity.
Risk factors
Kicking the ground during sports may result in "turf toe" with an associated broken toe. Getting up suddenly at night, particularly when barefoot, and having a forceful impact with furniture may lead to a broken toe, also called a "bedroom fracture" "nightstand" or "nightwalker fracture". Although generally associated with the fifth toe and big toe, it can occur in any toe. In such a fracture, the hard blow to the tip of the distal phalanx typically results in a transverse or oblique fracture in the proximal phalanx (base of toe), but can occur in any phalanx. An open wound toe fracture may result from an injury from a lawn mower. Although broken toes in horse riders are uncommon, when they do occur it is most likely when standing next to their horse.
Mechanism
Because the big toe is more important for weight-bearing, balance, walking, and running, breaks to the big toe are more likely to be problematic. If the big toe is stubbed and breaks, it usually breaks the distal (outermost) bone. A crushing injury can break both big-toe bones.
If the joint was bent too far (i.e. either hyperextended or hyperflexed) then spiral fractures and avulsion fractures are common. Spiral fractures with displacement make the toe rotate and shorten. With transverse fractures (i.e. across the toe), the toe may bend abnormally.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis is by direct visualisation and sometimes X-rays. The neighbouring toes and joints are also imaged. In people with multiple traumas, foot trauma is often neglected. Blood circulation may be tested by capillary refill.
Differential diagnosis
Differential diagnosis includes sprains of ligaments and tendon injuries.
Treatment
It may not be clear whether the toe is broken or just bruised. In such cases the treatment is usually the same in either case.
Removing rings
Any rings on the toes are removed immediately, before the toe starts to swell. Pulling rings off forcefully may worsen the swelling. Relaxation, elevation, icing, lubrication (e.g. soapy water or oil), and rotating the ring as if unscrewing it may help. If these methods don't work, it may be possible to remove the ring by temporarily wrapping the toe with a slick thread (something like dental floss), passing the inner end of the thread under the ring and then unwrapping it, pushing the ring ahead of the unwrapping thread. Failing that, the ring may need to be cut off.
Nonoperative
Fractures of the smaller toes are commonly treated by buddy taping (see image). Padding is used between the toes to keep the space dry and the toes aligned comfortably. If the toes are less comfortable when buddy-taped, the buddy tape should be removed. Stiff-soled shoes that protect the toe from bending are also helpful. Fractures with less than 2mm displacement and less than 25% of the area of the joint surface on the broken part are generally also be treated with buddy taping and stiff shoes; the evidence on this treatment is not extensive.
Fractures with displacement at the break, including rotation, can often be reduced (re-aligned) by a family doctor. Some broken toes may need to be put in casts, especially if the fracture is unstable (it won't stay reduced on its own). If more than 25% of the area of the joint surface was on the broken-loose part, or the break had to be reduced, follow-up X-rays are done 7–10 days afterwards.
Fractures of the big toe are treated with a short-leg walking boot, or a short-leg walking cast with a sole that protrudes beyond the big toe. These are worn for 2–3 weeks. Buddy taping and a rigid sole are then used for 3–4 weeks, if symptoms allow. At four weeks, range-of-motion exercises can start. If the joint was involved or the break had to be reduced, follow-up X-rays are done a week afterwards.
To reduce pain and swelling, rest, ice, elevation and over-the-counter pain medication are used. The toe is chilled with ice 20 minutes of every hour for the first waking day, and 2-3 times a day afterwards. Ice is not put directly on the skin.
Surgical
Surgery is not needed for most broken toes, but may involve fastening bits of toe bone together with wires, screws, or screwed plates. Such procedures are within the scope of orthopaedic surgery.
Prognosis
Complete healing may take four to six weeks, and complex cases may take up to eight weeks. Some athletes may need longer. Long-term disability is rare. (see complications section).
Epidemiology
Approximately 8 to 9% of all broken bones are of a toe. Studies have varied as to whether broken big toes are more or less common than broken lesser toes. In a UK study involving nearly 6000 fractures seen in hospital, 3.6% were broken toes. Fractures of big toes make up about a fifth or third of all toe fractures, and 5.5% of all foot and ankle fractures in major US trauma hospitals. Toe fractures are the most common foot fractures. About 20% of broken toes involve open wounds.
Other animals
Buddy strapping can be used for toe fractures in big birds. Sometimes a ball bandage can be used, where the bird curls its toes over it. Due to pneumatic bones in birds, washing an open toe fracture may be harmful. Broken toes in grebes can be splinted but if dislocated, often require amputation. A toe fracture in an elephant may go unnoticed. Knocked-up toes in racing greyhounds may be mistaken for a toe fracture.
See also
Foot fractures
Subungual hematoma (black nail)
Interphalangeal joints of the foot (toe joints)
Phalanges (bones of fingers and toes)
Broken finger
References
Bone fractures
Injuries of ankle and foot | wiki |
Monoamine-depleting agents are a group of drugs which reversibly deplete one or more monoamine neurotransmitters. One mechanism by which these agents act is by inhibiting reuptake by the vesicular monoamine transporters, VMAT1 and VMAT2. Examples of monoamine-depleting agents include deutetrabenazine, oxypertine, reserpine, tetrabenazine, and valbenazine.
References
Monoamine-depleting agents
VMAT inhibitors | wiki |
Water Talkies are devices which makes talking underwater possible. They were invented by Richie Stachowski, Jr. in 1995 at age 11.
The Water Talkie is a colorful, cone-shaped device that amplifies voices underwater for up to . What started as one product turned into a company producing water toys "made by a kid for kids" - a line of eight pool toys.
Rich Stachowski won the 1999 Entrepreneur of the Year Award (the youngest ever) for this invention.
Indigate
Megaphone
References
American inventions
Audio amplifiers
1990s toys
Water toys | wiki |
Adrenergic release inhibitors are a class of drugs which inhibit the release of epinephrine (adrenaline) and/or norepinephrine (noradrenaline) from adrenergic nerve terminals and are used as antihypertensives. Examples of these agents include bethanidine, bretylium, debrisoquine, guanadrel, guanazodine, guancydine, guanethidine, guanoclor, and guanoxan. Most agents of this class are guanidinium compounds and have little capacity to cross the blood–brain barrier.
References
Adrenergic release inhibitors | wiki |
Younger Brothers may refer to:
James-Younger Gang
James & Michael Younger, also known as the Younger Brothers, American country music group
The Younger Brothers, 1949 Western film directed by Edwin L. Marin, and starring Wayne Morris and Janis Paige.
See also | wiki |
Cyclus may refer to:
Literary cycle
Cyclus (genus), a genus of prehistoric crustaceans
Cyclus (installation art), a piece of installation art by Vasko Lipovac | wiki |
Bridge End may refer to:
Bridge End, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland
Bridge End, County Durham, England
Bridge End, Lincolnshire, England
Bridge End, Northumberland, England
Bridge End, Shetland, Scotland
Bridge End, Warwick, England
Bridge End railway station, Belfast, Northern Ireland (renamed to Titanic Quarter since March 2012)
See also
Bridgend (disambiguation) | wiki |
Baulenas may refer to:
People
Lluís-Anton Baulenas (born 1958), Spanish novelist
Marta Cuní Baulenas, a competitor in the 2010 Spanish Figure Skating Championships
Other
Baulenas, alternate name of Bolinas, California | wiki |
The 16th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1994 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1993. For the first time in Stinkers' history, there were additional categories to be included besides just Worst Picture. Such categories are shown below along with Worst Picture and its dishonourable mentions, which are films that were considered for Worst Picture but ultimately failed to make the final ballot (19 total). All winners are highlighted.
Winners and Nominees
Worst Picture
Dishonourable Mentions
The Beverly Hillbillies (Fox)
Body of Evidence (MGM/UA)
Born Yesterday (Hollywood)
Cliffhanger (Sony)
Coneheads (Paramount)
Dazed and Confused (Gramercy)
Dennis the Menace (Warner Bros.)
Gettysburg (New Line)
Indecent Proposal (Paramount)
Look Who's Talking Now (Sony)
Made in America (Warner Bros.)
Poetic Justice (Sony)
Short Cuts (Fine Line)
So I Married An Axe Murderer (Sony)
Super Mario Bros. (Hollywood)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 (New Line)
The Temp (Paramount)
Wayne's World 2 (Paramount)
Weekend at Bernie's II (Sony)
Other Categories
References
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
1993 film awards | wiki |
Mathematics courses named Math A, Maths A, and similar are found in:
Mathematics education in New York: Math A, Math A/B, Math B
Mathematics education in Australia: Maths A, Maths B, Maths C
Mathematics disambiguation pages | wiki |
Eighty-five tropical or subtropical cyclones have affected the state of New York since the 17th century. The state of New York is located along the East Coast of the United States, in the Northeastern portion of the country. The strongest of these storms was the 1938 New England hurricane, which struck Long Island as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. Killing more than 60 people, it was also the deadliest. Tropical cyclones have affected the state primarily in September but have also hit during every month of the hurricane season, June through November. Tropical cyclones rarely make landfall on the state, although it is common for remnants of tropical cyclones to produce heavy rainfall and flooding.
Before 1800
Between 1278 and 1438: A major hurricane struck the modern-day New York/New Jersey area.
August 25, 1635: A hurricane that is reported to have tracked parallel to the East Coast impacts New England and New York, although it remains unknown if any damage occurred.
September 8, 1667: A 'severe storm' is reported in Manhattan and is reported to be a continuation of a powerful hurricane which affected the Mid-Atlantic.
October 29, 1693: The Great Storm of 1693 causes severe damage on Long Island, and is reported to create the Fire Island Cut as a result of the coast-changing storm surge and waves.
September 23, 1785: Several large ships crash into Governors Island as a result of powerful waves which are reported to have been generated by a tropical cyclone.
August 19, 1788: A hurricane strikes New York City or Long Island and is reported to have left the west side of the Battery "laid in ruins" after severe flooding occurs.
1800–1899
October 9, 1804: Heavy snow falls in Eastern New York peaking at 30 inches (75 cm) as a hurricane tracks northward along the East Coast and becomes extratropical, as cold air fed into the system.
September 5, 1815: A hurricane tracks over North Carolina and parallels the East Coast before producing a heavy rainstorm in New York.
September 24, 1815: Several hundred trees fall and the majority of the fruit was stripped off apple trees just prior to harvesting time after a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island.
September 16, 1816: A possible hurricane strikes New York City, but damage remains unknown.
August 9, 1817: A tropical storm produces heavy rainfall in New York City and Long Island.
September 3, 1821: The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane results in severe damage on Long Island and is accompanied by storm surge of 13 feet (4 m). High wind causes a ship to crash on Long Island killing 17 people.
June 4, 1825: A hurricane moves off the East Coast and tracks south of New York causing several ship wrecks, and killing seven people.
August 27, 1827: High tides are reported in New York City which are caused by a hurricane offshore.
August 1, 1830: A hurricane passes to the east of New York and produces gale-force winds to New York City and Long Island.
October 4, 1841: Gale–force winds affect New York City as a hurricane tracks north along the East Coast of the United States. Damage is estimated at $2 million (1841 USD, $41 million 2007 USD).
October 13, 1846: The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 tracks inland, causing some damage to New York City.
October 6, 1849: Severe structural damage occurs in New York City and Long Island with the passage of a hurricane to the east.
July 19, 1850: A hurricane destroys a Coney Island bath house and causes heavy rain, although damage is unknown. This storm destroyed the ship Elizabeth off Fire Island and drowned American transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
August 24, 1850: A storm that is reported to be a hurricane affects New York and New England although there is no known damage.
September 9, 1854: A hurricane brushes the East Coast from Florida to New England causing rain on Long Island.
September 16, 1858: Low barometric pressure of 28.87 inches mercury at Sag Harbor is reported, and is thought to be associated with a tropical cyclone which causes no known damage.
September 6, 1869: A category 3 hurricane makes landfall in Rhode Island and brushes Long Island, which is affected by rain, although minimal damage resulted from the storm.
October 28, 1872: A tropical storm passes over New York City and Long Island.
October 1, 1874: New York City and the Hudson Valley receives rainfall after a minimal tropical storm tracked over Eastern New York.
September 19, 1876: The remnants of the San Felipe hurricane track over western New York State, although damage is unknown.
October 24, 1878: The state is affected by tropical storm-force winds and heavy rain with the passage of a hurricane, which made landfall in Virginia.
August 22, 1888: A tropical storm tracks over New York City before tracking north along the East Coast of the United States.
August 24, 1893: Hog Island is washed away by strong storm surge associated with a tropical storm of unknown strength. According to HURDAT, this was a Category 1 hurricane that struck the western end of the Rockaway Peninsula, passing through Brooklyn as a weakening hurricane. Manhattan Island saw gale-force winds to 56 mph.
August 29, 1893: | Sea Islands hurricane moves thorough the Hudson Valley as a tropical storm. Lives were lost in the Rockaways and when tow boats were destroyed at various points along the Hudson River. Roofs, structures, boats and crops were destroyed or damaged from Brooklyn to as far west as Dunkirk. Winds of 54 and 57 MPH recorded in New York and Albany respectively.
October 10, 1894: 10 People were killed and 15 injured at 74 Monroe Street in Manhattan when winds blew a building under construction onto a tenement crushing it. Extensive damage in the NYC and Long Island to telegraph lines, trees and boats docked on shore. Storm formed over Gulf of Mexico as a Category 3 weakened over land in the Southeast and re strengthened to a Category 1 over the Chesapeake Bay before striking Long Island.
1900–1949
September 12, 1900 – Remnants of the Galveston hurricane brought tropical storm conditions to New York City and Brooklyn killing one person and damaging property.
September 17, 1903: The 1903 Vagabond Hurricane produces wind gusts in excess of 65 mph (105 km/h) and 3 inches (75 mm) of rain in Central Park.
August 15, 1904: A Category 2 hurricane skirts the East Coast of the United States producing gale-force winds and heavy rain in Eastern New York and Long Island.
August 2, 1908: A hurricane develops near North Carolina and moves northward along the coast, brushing Long Island.
July 21, 1916: Strong winds are reported on Long Island as a category 1 hurricane passes to the east.
August 25, 1933: The 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane produces up to 6 inches (150 mm) of rain in Southeast New York State; other damage is unknown.
September 8, 1934: A strong tropical storm makes landfall on Long Island.
September 20, 1936: Strong waves and storm surge associated with a powerful hurricane floods much of Long Beach Island and causes severe beach erosion along the coast.
September 21, 1938: The New England hurricane of 1938 (also called "The Long Island Express") makes landfall on Suffolk County (Long Island) as a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. Wind gusts of and storm surge of 18 feet (5 m) washes across part of the island. In New York 60 deaths and hundreds of injuries were attributed to the storm. In addition, 2,600 boats and 8,900 houses are destroyed. Throughout New England the hurricane killed over 682 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at $4.7 billion (2005 US dollars).
September 14, 1944: The 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane makes landfall on Long Island as a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale at a high forward speed of . Wind gusts of well over breaks previous wind records in New York City, while a minimum pressure reading of 28.47 inches is recorded on Long Island. 117 homes are completely destroyed, while 2,427 are severely damaged and almost 1000 businesses are destroyed or damaged. In all, six people are killed, and one person is injured.
September 18, 1945: A weak tropical depression crosses into Southeastern New York.
August 29, 1949: A tropical storm tracks into Central New York causing no known damage.
1950–1974
August 31, 1954: Hurricane Carol makes landfall on Long Island and produces wind gusts of on Montauk Point. On eastern Long Island near where Carol made landfall, a pressure of 960 mbar is recorded. Winds on the island gust to . The hurricane's storm surge covers the Montauk Highway in Montauk, effectively isolating eastern Long Island for a period of time. Due to the compact nature of the storm, most of Long Island is largely unaffected by the hurricane. Specific damage totals for New York are unknown, although the storm in its entirety causes $460 million (1954 USD) in damage.
September 10, 1954: Hurricane Edna tracks to the east of Long Island producing 9 inches (230 mm) of rain. Prior to the storm, New York City orders an emergency standby for the majority of its hospitals, and subways.
October 15, 1954: Hurricane Hazel—wind gust of 113 mph at Battery Park, highest ever recorded in New York City.
August 13, 1955: Hurricane Connie produces 13.24 inches (370 mm) of rain in Southeast New York, although damage is unknown.
September 28, 1956: Hurricane Flossy tracks to the south of Long Island, brushing it with light rainfall.
October 1, 1959: The remnants of Hurricane Gracie track into Central New York and drops up to 6 inches (150 mm) of rain.
September 11, 1960: Hurricane Donna makes landfall on Long Island as a Category 2 hurricane. Sustained winds of on eastern Long Island and winds on western Long Island are reported, and tides are 6 feet (2 m) above normal along most of the coast. Strong waves also cause beach erosion and several homes along the shore to be destroyed. Due to well-executed warnings, damages are extremely low, and it is reported that no deaths result from the storm.
September 21, 1961: Hurricane Esther causes $3 million (1961 USD, $20 million 2007 USD) in damage in Suffolk County as it tracks to the east of Long Island. Coastal areas of Long Island were flooded, as well as storm surge and wind gusts of , which causes 260,000 homes to be left without power.
October 8, 1962: Hurricane Daisy tracks east of New England, producing light rainfall in extreme eastern portions of Upstate New York.
September 23, 1964: Beach erosion and moderate wind gusts are reported on Long Island as Hurricane Gladys tracks a couple hundred miles south of New York.
October 19, 1964: Light rainfall is reported as Hurricane Isbell tracks off the coast.
September 10, 1969: Rainfall up to 3 inches (75 mm) is reported on Long Island and in portions of Southeastern New York associated with Hurricane Gerda.
August 28, 1971: Tropical Storm Doria produces up to 8 inches (200 mm) of rain in New York City and Upstate New York causing moderate to severe flooding and floods subways in New York City.
June 22, 1972: Hurricane Agnes makes landfall near New York City and produces up to 12 inches (300 mm) of rain in Southeastern New York State and much of Western New York, with locally higher amounts. Storm tides of 3.1 feet (1 m) and wind gusts of occur in New York City, and severe river flooding causes 24 deaths.
1975–1999
August 11, 1976: Hurricane Belle makes landfall on Long Island as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, producing up to 6 inches (150 mm) of rain. 30,000 people are evacuated in New York in anticipation of Belle. Wind gusts of up to 70 mph and tides of 7.2 feet (2.3 m) above normal are reported in New York City and Long Island. Moderate river flooding occurs, as well as minor crop damage. In all, one person is killed by a falling tree, and damage is reported at $257 million (1976 USD, $980 million 2007 USD).
September 1, 1978: The remnants of Tropical Storm Debra produces light rainfall along the southern edge of New York State.
September 7, 1979: The remnants of Hurricane David produce light to moderate rainfall up to 3 inches (75 mm) in much of New York State.
September 2, 1983: Tropical Storm Dean produces light rain near New York City and causes minor beach erosion.
Late October 1984: The remnants of a tropical depression track just north of New York City, producing extremely light showers.
July 1985: The remnants of Hurricane Bob produce light rainfall in Southeastern New York.
September 25, 1985: The remnants of Tropical Storm Henri produce light rain in isolated areas.
September 27, 1985: Hurricane Gloria makes landfall on Long Island as a Category 2 hurricane. Wind gusts of up to and 3.4 inches (86 mm) of rain contribute to $300 million (1985 USD, $591 million 2007 USD) in damage, and one fatality. In addition, 48 homes on Long Island were destroyed, and hundreds more were damaged.
September 10, 1987: Tropical Depression Eleven produces rainfall up to 3 inches (75 mm) in much of New York State.
August 30, 1988: Tropical Storm Chris produces moderate rainfall in Upstate New York.
September 24, 1989: The remnants of Hurricane Hugo produce light rain and gusty winds in Central and Eastern New York.
August 19, 1991: Hurricane Bob comes within a short distance of making landfall on the eastern tip of Long Island as a category 2 hurricane. Heavy rainfall up to 7 inches (175 mm) and high wind gusts causes two deaths and $75 million (1991 USD, $117 million 2007 USD), as well as severe beach erosion which came as a result of storm surge up to 6 feet (2 m) above average.
October 30, 1991: The 1991 Perfect Storm kills one man when he is swept off a bridge, and causes moderate to severe beach erosion.
August 28, 1992: The remnants of Hurricane Andrew produce light rainfall in the western portions of the state.
September 27, 1992: Tropical Storm Danielle produces light rain in Western New York.
July 22, 1994: Tropical Depression Two produces light rain in isolated areas of the state and generates thunderstorms which down several trees.
August 18, 1994: Tropical Storm Beryl's remnants produce up to 3 inches (75 mm) of rain in Central New York causing moderate flooding which causes two fatalities and $1.5 million (1994 USD, $21 million 2007 USD) in damage, and 14 homes are damaged or destroyed. In addition, State Route 7 was closed for several hours due to flooding.
July 13, 1996: Hurricane Bertha makes landfall on Long Island as a tropical storm, producing heavy rainfall which caused moderate flooding in the lower Hudson Valley in addition to tropical storm-force winds.
July 24, 1997: Hurricane Danny causes light rainfall over New York City and Long Island.
September 8, 1999: The remnants of Hurricane Dennis produce bands of heavy rain which caused some flooding, especially in Rockland County where three feet of flood water accumulated in some locations.
September 16, 1999: Hurricane Floyd produces rainfall up to 13 inches (325 mm) and wind gusts of up to affect Southeastern New York. Severe flooding results from the storm, killing two people and causing an early estimate of $14.6 million (1997 USD, $18 million 2007 USD), although it is reported that damage could total to far more than that. One of the deaths occurred when a person was swept into a flooded river.
2000–2009
September 20, 2000: The remnants of Hurricane Gordon produce light rainfall in Southeastern New York State.
June 17, 2001: The remnants of Tropical Storm Allison produce moderate rainfall up to 3 inches (75 mm), although it fell in just a couple hours causing minor to moderate flash flooding.
August 10, 2002: Tropical Storm Cristobal generates rip currents which drown three people on the coast of Long Island.
September 28, 2002: The remnants of Hurricane Isidore produce widespread light rainfall over much of the state and moderate wind gusts. Some small trees are blown down, and minor power outages are reported.
September 21, 2003: Hurricane Isabel affects the state with high winds and flooding. Damage in New York totals to $90 million (2003 USD, $98 million 2006 USD). In and around New York City, about 1.1 million customers were left without power, though most outages were fixed by the day after the hurricane passed through the region. Offshore of Long Beach, rough waves killed a man while bodysurfing.
August 4, 2004: Hurricane Alex drops 2.83 inches (70 mm) of rain on Long Island.
August 13, 2004: Tropical Storm Bonnie produces rainfall peaking at 4 inches causing several rivers to swell to at or slightly above flood stage.
August 14, 2004: Hurricane Charley brushes Long Island and produces light rainfall.
September 4, 2004: Hurricane Gaston produces light rainfall on Long Island.
September 9, 2004: The remnants of Hurricane Frances produces heavy rainfall up to 7 inches (175 mm) which causes extensive flooding in central New York. One death from drowning and $6 million (2005 USD, $6.5 million 2007 USD) in damage resulted from the flooding.
July 9, 2005: The remnants of Hurricane Cindy produce moderate rainfall in Upstate New York causing light damage due to flooding and gusty winds, which downed some trees.
August 30, 2005: The remnants of Hurricane Katrina produce heavy rainfall up to 5 inches (125 mm) of rain in the western portion of the state. High winds also affect the state, with 4,500 people in Buffalo left without power after high winds downed trees and power lines.
October 5, 2005: Tropical Storm Tammy's remnants contribute to a rainstorm which turns into the Northeast U.S. flooding of October 2005. Up to 13 inches (325 mm) of rain cause severe flooding throughout the Hudson Valley, causing no deaths in the state, but millions of dollars in damage throughout the country.
September 2, 2006: The remnants of Hurricane Ernesto produce light to moderate rainfall over much of the state and wind gusts of up to . Numerous trees and power lines are reported fallen, and several thousand people are left without power, primarily in the New York City area.
June 5, 2007: Tropical Storm Barry produces 3.91 inches (99 mm) of rain in New York City. The heavy rainfall leads to flooding in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, washing out roads and driveways. Roads and several driveways were washed out.
September 6, 2008: Hurricane Hanna strikes Long Island as a tropical storm with wind gusts of at Shinnecock Inlet. Aside from numerous downed trees, damage was minimal.
August 22, 2009: Offshore Hurricane Bill causes severe beach erosion and coastal damage on the southern shore of Long Island.
2010–2019
August 27–28, 2011: Hurricane Irene makes landfall on Coney Island as a tropical storm with winds of per hour. Storm surge reached underneath the boardwalks in both Coney Island and Long Beach. and the Hudson River also flooded. Top recorded winds reached 70 mph at the height of the storm and left 400,000 without power. The storm also killed five people in the state and had a major impact on Upstate NY. The storm caused the National Weather Service in Albany, New York to issue a Tropical Storm Warning for the local forecast area. This had never been done before, and actually required a breach in protocol to achieve. Prior to this event, the Albany, New York forecast area was considered outside of the valid area for Tropical Storm warnings.
October 28–29, 2012: Hurricane Sandy, a historic storm, makes landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey with 80 mph winds. This storm was unusual because it was a late season hurricane combined with a Nor'easter at high tide during a full moon, producing long-lasting and devastating results not seen in generations. The largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin, wind gusts topped in some parts of the New York metropolitan area. Sandy was not a hurricane when it hit the NY-CT region. Sandy caused a record storm surge at Battery Park, New York City, flooding various parts of Lower Manhattan including various tunnels and subway systems, making them inoperable for weeks. As of late 2019 some are still damaged and are in the process of being repaired, with projects like 14th Street Tunnel shutdown. The immediate aftermath included widespread flooding, massive power outages and a system-wide disruption of mass transit service. Sandy had a significant effect on the digital world: the Federal Communications Commission estimated that the hurricane...also disrupted cable TV, broadband Internet and landline phone service for 25 percent of customers in the affected areas." Over nine million customers were without power, including 90 percent of Long Island and most of Manhattan below 49th Street, some for several months. Many low-lying neighborhoods in NJ and NY were completely destroyed. Thousands of homes and businesses were demolished by the record storm surge.
June 7–8, 2013: Remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea impact New York with 4+ inches of rain and wind gusts of .
July 4, 2014: Hurricane Arthur passes to the southeast of New York, producing light to moderate rainfall along the coast; however, winds remain generally below tropical storm force. Some holiday celebrations in the New York metropolitan area were canceled or postponed.
June 21–22, 2015: The remnants of Tropical Storm Bill pass through Upstate New York, producing heavy rain.
May 28, 2016: Tropical Storm Bonnie brings heavy rain up to the Northeast coast.
October 9–10, 2016: Hurricane Matthew interacts with a frontal system, bringing heavy rain and minor flooding to the state.
June 19, 2017: The remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy producing severe thunderstorms and EF-0 tornadoes around the Tri-State Area.
August 18, 2017: The remnants of Hurricane Gert cause flash flooding on Long Island.
September 19–20, 2017: Tropical Storm Jose passes Long Island closely, producing heavy wind and rain.
September 27, 2017: Hurricane Maria brings showers and some gusty winds to the shore.
October 28–30, 2017: Tropical Storm Philippe interacts with a low-pressure system, bringing high winds and heavy rain to the Northeast.
September 8–9, 2018: The remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon which had previously been absorbed by another system bring minor flooding to NYC
October 11–12, 2018: Hurricane Michael interacts with a cold front and brings heavy rain and gusty winds to NYC and Long Island.
September 6–7, 2019: Hurricane Dorian prompted rip current warnings and predicted swells of up to 10 feet, which caused the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to announce that all city beaches would be closed to swimming and surfing, due to the dangerous conditions as an effect from the hurricane.
2020–present
July 10–11, 2020: Tropical Storm Fay made landfall in New Jersey, and then traveled northwestward into New York. In Long Beach, New York, a 19-year-old drowned after being caught in rip currents related to Fay. He was with five other swimmers, who were rescued after also being caught in the rip currents. The storm flooded several New York City Subway stations.
August 4, 2020: Tropical Storm Isaias brought 3 to 6 inches (76.2 – 152.4 mm) of rain with wind gusts of 50 to 80 mph, (80 km/h To 130 km/h) with peak gusts of 78 mph (125.5 km/h) recorded at Republic Airport in Farmingdale and 70 mph (112 km/h) at JFK in Queens. New York City's Flash Flood Emergency plan was activated by New York Emergency Management, due to the minor-moderate risk of storm surge impacting South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. On August 3, 2020, a Tropical Storm Warning was issued by the National Weather Service as well as a travel advisory that evening by NY Emergency Management, stating that the strongest of the storm would be from 12 PM to 2 PM (EST) on August 4. A Tornado watch was issued for the area on the morning of August 4. Multiple trees fell damaging several homes, as well as leaving 2.5 million people without power across the tristate area.
August 31, 2020: The remnants of Hurricane Laura fuel isolated severe thunderstorms, prompting watches and warnings.
October 12, 2020: The remnants of Hurricane Delta cause light rainfall in New York City.
October 28–30, 2020: Outer rainbands of extratropical Hurricane Zeta causes rain and snow in portions of New York. In addition, the low temperature in Albany of on Halloween caused after the storm was just one degree from tying the record low.
July 9, 2021: Hurricane Elsa brings heavy rain and flooding across the northeast and turned extratropical as it heads for Canada. Several subway stations and roads across Manhattan and the Bronx flooded both due to the thunderstorm on July 8 and the actual tropical storm on July 9.
August 18, 2021: The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred causes flooding across New York, and Auburn, New York recorded of rain.
August 22, 2021: Hurricane Henri passes just east of Montauk Point as a tropical storm, but pummels Long Island and New York City with heavy rain. Hurricane Henri’s two day rainfall total in New York City was the largest since Hurricane Irene, and the rainfall total of on August 21 set a daily rainfall record. Most of Montauk shut down due to the hurricane.
September 1, 2021: The remnants of Hurricane Ida reached the New York City metro area, with heavy rainfall and flooding, a Tornado Watch was issued for the area. As the storm forced most of the subway system to shut down with many flooded stations. For the first time in the history of the city, New York City was put under a Flash Flood Emergency. It is estimated that 16 people died in the state, 13 of those in New York City, including 11 from apartment basements flooding. New York City recorded their wettest hour in history as of rain fell from 8:51 pm to 9:51 pm on September 1.
October 26, 2021: A Nor'easter brings high winds and heavy rainfall across northeast which would later form into Tropical Storm Wanda. One person died due to the nor’easter due to drowning in the Long Island Sound.
October 1-5, 2022: Extratropical remnants of Hurricane Ian brought rain and gusty winds across the Tri-State area, including New York. The remnant low-pressure area of Ian stalled off the coast of New York and New Jersey for nearly a week.
November 11, 2022: The remnants of Hurricane Nicole spreads heavy rain and gusty winds across New York.
Listed by month
Deadly storms
The following table includes all storms which caused fatalities in New York State.
See also
List of New Jersey hurricanes
List of New England hurricanes
List of Pennsylvania hurricanes
List of North Carolina hurricanes
List of Florida hurricanes
New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier
References
External links
National Hurricane Center
National Climatic Data Center
Lists of tropical cyclones in the United States
Hurricanes| New York Hurricanes| Meteorology
Hurricanes | wiki |
Three men can refer to:
Triumvirate, rule by three men
Three men and a baby, a 1987 American film | wiki |
A monocular is a modified refracting telescope.
Monocular may also refer to:
Monocular vision, vision in which each eye is used separately.
Monocular O, a variant of Cyrillic letter O
See also
Monocle | wiki |
Ruth White may refer to:
Ruth White (actress) (1914–1969), American actress
Ruth White (Baháʼí author) (born 1867), Baha'i and author of works relating to the Baha'i faith
Ruth White (children's author) (1942–2017), American author of works relating to life in Virginia
Ruth White (composer) (1925–2013), American composer known for electronic music
Ruth White (fencer) (born 1951), American Olympic fencer | wiki |
Mile-a-minute may refer to:
People
Charles Minthorn Murphy (1870–1950), nicknamed "Mile-a-minute" Murphy, American bicycle racer
Mick Murphy (cyclist) (1934–2015), Irish cyclist, also nicknamed "Mile-a-minute" Murphy
Plants
Dipogon lignosus, a species of flowering plant in the legume family
Fallopia baldschuanica, a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family
Ipomoea cairica, a species of morning glory
Mikania micrantha, a tropical plant in the family Asteraceae
Persicaria perfoliata, (basionym Polygonum perfoliatum), a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family
See also
0 to 60 mph, the time to reach a mile-a-minute from rest | wiki |
The table shows the highest mountains by prefectures of Japan. Where the highest point of a prefecture is not a peak, it will be separately described.
References
田代博、藤本一美、清水長正、高田将志 『山の地図と地形』 山と渓谷社、1996年
日本の主な山岳標高 都道府県別最高地点の一覧（国土地理院）
『山の便利手帳2001』山と渓谷2001年1月号第786号付録、山と渓谷社、2001年、P350
Notes
See also
List of mountains and hills of Japan by height
List of tallest buildings by Japanese prefecture
Highest
Japan | wiki |
Imperial Theater or Imperial Theatre may refer to:
In Europe
Imperial Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark
Imperial Theatre, at the former Royal Aquarium, London
Imperial Theatres of Russian Empire, existed in Saint Petersburg and Moscow till 1917.
In North America
Imperial Theatre (Augusta, Georgia)
Imperial Theater (San Francisco)
Imperial Theatre, New York City
Imperial Theatre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Imperial Theatre, Toronto, former cinema now the Ed Mirvish Theatre
See also
Imperial Theatre (Japan)
Lists of theatres | wiki |
A speckled hen is a chicken of specked plumage.
Speckled hen or Speckled Hen may refer to:
Old Speckled Hen, an English ale
Problem of the speckled hen, a problem in the theory of empirical knowledge
Pet speckled hen, or Guineafowl, an African bird
"", an East Slavic nursery rhyme
"Speckled Hen", an episode of Russian TV series Muhtar's Return | wiki |
Oncological emergencies are a group of conditions that occur as a direct or indirect result of cancer or its treatment that are potentially life-threatening
These include:
Hypercalcaemia
Neutropaenic sepsis
Tumour lysis syndrome
Leukostasis
Raised intracranial pressure
Spinal cord compression
Cauda equina syndrome
Superior vena cava obstruction
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH)
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
References
Oncology | wiki |
"Once Upon a Summertime" is the title of the American version (with lyrics from Johnny Mercer) of a French song written by Michel Legrand, Eddie Barclay and Eddy Marnay.
The French original is La valse des lilas.
Notable recordings
Blossom Dearie – Once Upon a Summertime (1958), Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's (1966)
Tony Bennett – I Wanna Be Around (1963)
Miles Davis – Quiet Nights (1963)
Sarah Vaughan – Star Eyes (1963)
Monica Zetterlund and Bill Evans – Waltz for Debby (1964)
Astrud Gilberto – Look to the Rainbow (1966)
Barbra Streisand – Je m'appelle Barbra (1966)
Oscar Peterson – Walking the Line (1970)
June Christy – Impromptu (1977) with the Lou Levy Sextet
Chet Baker – Once Upon a Summertime (1977)
Maria Farantouri – 17 Songs (1990)
Betty Carter – It's Not About the Melody (1992)
Betty Carter with Vienna Art Orchestra - Quiet Ways: Ballads (1997)
References
Songs with music by Michel Legrand
Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer
The Walker Brothers songs
Songs written by Eddy Marnay
Year of song missing
1950s songs | wiki |
Norse Gods and Giants is a children's book written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and published by Doubleday in 1967. It was reissued by Doubleday in 1986 as d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants and by New York Review Books in 2005 as d'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths.
The 154-page book is organized as a collection of 30 Norse myths, with color illustrations throughout, from "The first gods and giants" and "The creation of the world" to "Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods" and "A new world". The 2005 Library of Congress catalog summary called it a companion to Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire's Book of Greek myths, published by Doubleday in 1962, a 192-page collection of 46 Greek myths. The Greek and Norse collections are the couple's second and third most widely held works in WorldCat libraries, after their Caldecott Medal-winning picture book Abraham Lincoln (Doubleday, 1957).
See also
Norse mythology
Norse pantheon
References
External links
Formats and Editions of D'aulaires' Norse gods and giants at WorldCat
American picture books
Children's non-fiction books
Norse mythology in art and literature
1967 children's books
Doubleday (publisher) books | wiki |
A chondroid syringoma is a well circumscribed but unencapsulated, multilobulated sweat gland-derived tumor. It is centered in the deep dermis or subcutaneous fat. Microscopically it is a mixed tumor, characterized by prominent chondroid or myxoid stroma enveloping benign bland appearing epithelial and myoepithelial cells. Its malignant counterpart is malignant chondroid syringoma.
References
Epidermal nevi, neoplasms, and cysts | wiki |
A cirque glacier is formed in a cirque, a bowl-shaped depression on the side of or near mountains. Snow and ice accumulation in corries often occurs as the result of avalanching from higher surrounding slopes.
If a cirque glacier advances far enough, it may become a valley glacier. Additionally, if a valley glacier retreats enough that it is within the cirque, it becomes a cirque glacier again.
In these depressions, snow persists through summer months, and becomes glacier ice. Snow may be situated on the leeward slope of a mountain, where it is sheltered from wind. Rock fall from above slopes also plays an important role in sheltering the snow and ice from sunlight. If enough rock falls onto the glacier, it may become a rock glacier.
Randklufts may form beneath corrie glaciers as open space between the ice and the bedrock, where meltwater can play a role in deposition of the rock.
Further reading
Lewis, W.V. (1960) Norwegian Cirque Glaciers, Royal Geographical Society Research Series 4
Glaciology
Cirques | wiki |
Qismat Ka Likha () previously titled Qismat is a 2019 Pakistani family drama television series produced by Aijaz Aslam under Ice Media and Entertainment. It aired every Monday on Express Entertainment.
Cast
Zhalay Sarhadi as Mehreen
Aijaz Aslam as Obaid
Jinaan Hussain as Laiba
Rubina Arif as Suriya
Laila Wasti as Aisha
Sabahat Ali Bukhari as Nafisa (Aisha's mother)
Fahima Awan as Shaista
Jinaan Hussain as Zari
Maryam Tiwana as Hiba
Faraz Farooqui as Hadi
Zulqarnain Haider
References
2019 Pakistani television series debuts
Pakistani drama television series
Urdu-language television shows
Pakistani television series | wiki |
Anna Radius Zuccari (May 7, 1846 – July 13, 1918) was an Italian writer who used the pen name Neera.
Biography
The daughter of Fermo Zuccari, an architect, she was born Anna Zuccari in Milan and grew up in Caravaggio. Her mother died when she was ten and she was raised by two older unmarried aunts from her father's family. Her father died when she was twenty. In 1871, she married the banker Emilio Radius. She published her first short story in 1875 in the publication Il Pungolo. Zuccari contributed to various magazines and journals, such as Rivista d'Italia, , , and L'Idea Liberale. In 1890, she founded the journal Vita Intima.
Despite her career as a successful author, it was Zuccari's view that a woman's place was in the home, which she called "real feminism".
She died in Milan of cancer at the age of 72, being confined to bed by her illness. During the period before her death, she dictated her memoirs which were published after her death as Una giovinezza del secolo XIX (Portrait of a 19th-century youth).
Selected works
Un romanzo (A novel) (1876)
Addio! (Farewell), novel (1877)
Il castigo (The punishment) (1881)
Dizionario d'igiene per le famiglie (Dictionary of hygiene for families), instructional (1881), with Paolo Mantegazza
Teresa, novel (1886)
Lydia, novel (1887)
L'indomani (The day after), novel (1890)
Il libro di mio figlio, essays (1891)
Battaglie per un'idea, essays (1897)
Battaglie per un'idea, essays (1898)
Le idee di una donna (The idea of a woman) (1903)
References
1846 births
1918 deaths
20th-century Italian novelists
Italian essayists
Italian women essayists
Writers from Milan
Deaths from cancer in Lombardy
20th-century essayists
20th-century Italian women writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
19th-century Italian novelists
19th-century Italian women writers
19th-century essayists
19th-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers | wiki |
Blue State may refer to:
Blue state, a state in the United States with a tendency toward electing Democrats
Blue States (band), an electronica band from London
Blue State (film), a 2007 romantic comedy film
See also
Blue State Coffee, coffee stores in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts
Blue State Digital, a Washington, D.C.-based Internet strategy and technology firm | wiki |
A push pin is a short nail or pin with a long, cylindrical head made of plastic.
Push pin may also refer to:
Push-pin (game), an English child's game
Push Pin Studios, a graphic design studio | wiki |
The Kingdom of Croatia (; ; , ) was part of the lands of the Habsburg monarchy from 1527, following the Election in Cetin, and the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867. It was also a part of the Lands of the Hungarian Crown, but was subject to direct Imperial Austrian rule for significant periods of time, including its final years. Its capital was Zagreb.
The Kingdom of Croatia had large territorial losses in wars with the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. Until the 18th century, the kingdom included only a small north-western part of present-day Croatia around Zagreb, and a small strip of coastland around Rijeka, that were not part of the Ottoman Empire or part of the Croatian Military Frontier. Between 1744 and 1868, the Kingdom of Croatia included a subordinate autonomous kingdom, the Kingdom of Slavonia. The territory of the Slavonian kingdom was recovered from the Ottoman Empire, and was subsequently part of the Military Frontier for a short period. In 1744, these territories were organized as the Kingdom of Slavonia and included within the Kingdom of Croatia as an autonomous part. In 1868, they were merged into the newly formed Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.
History and government
Habsburg rule
Following the fall of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács, in 1527 the Croatian and Hungarian nobles needed to decide on a new king. The bulk of the Croatian nobility convened the Croatian Parliament in Cetin and chose to join the Habsburg monarchy under the Austrian king Ferdinand I von Habsburg. Some nobles dissented and supported John Zápolya, but the Habsburg option still prevailed in 1540, when John Zápolya died.
Territory recovered by the Austrians from the Ottoman Empire was formed in 1745 as the Kingdom of Slavonia, subordinate to the Croatian Kingdom. In 1804 the Habsburg monarchy became the Austrian Empire which annexed the Venetian Republic in 1814 and established the Kingdom of Dalmatia. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (by which the Austrian Empire became the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement () of 1868, the Kingdom of Croatia and Kingdom of Slavonia were joined to create the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Hungarian part of the Empire, while the Kingdom of Dalmatia remained a crown land in the Austrian part of the Empire.
Croatian-Ottoman Wars
The change of leadership was far from a solution to the war with the Ottomans, in fact, the Ottoman Empire gradually expanded in the 16th century to include most of Slavonia, western Bosnia and Lika. Croatian territory under Habsburg rule was 25 years later reduced to about . In 1558, the parliaments of Croatia and Slavonia were united after many centuries into one. The centre of the Croatian state moved northward from coastal Dalmatia, as these lands were conquered by the Ottomans. The town of Zagreb gained importance, as did nearby Varaždin.
Taking advantage of the growing conflict between King Sigismund II of Poland and Emperor Maximilian II, Suleiman the Magnificent started his sixth raid of Hungary in 1565 with 100,000 troops. They successfully progressed northwards until 1566 when they took a small detour to capture the outpost of Siget () which they failed to capture ten years previously. The small fort was defended by Count Nikola IV Zrinski and 2,300–3,000 men. They were able to hold their ground for a month, and decimated the Ottoman army before being wiped out themselves. This siege, now known as the Battle of Szigetvár, bought enough time to allow Austrian troops to regroup before the Ottomans could reach Vienna.
By orders of the king in 1553 and 1578, large areas of Croatia and Slavonia adjacent to the Ottoman Empire were carved out into the Military Frontier ( or ) and ruled directly from Vienna's military headquarters. Due to the dangerous proximity to the Ottoman armies, the area became rather deserted, so Austria encouraged the settlement of Serbs, Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks and Rusyns/Ukrainians and other Slavs in the Military Frontier, creating an ethnic patchwork.
The negative effects of feudalism escalated in 1573 when the peasants in northern Croatia and Slovenia rebelled against their feudal lords over various injustices such as unreasonable taxation or abuse of women in the Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt. Ambroz Matija Gubec and other leaders of the mutiny raised peasants to arms in over sixty fiefs throughout the country in January 1573, but their uprising was crushed by early February. Matija Gubec and thousands of others were publicly executed shortly thereafter, in a rather brutal manner in order to set an example for others.
After the Bihać fort finally fell to the army of the Bosnian vizier Hasan Pasha Predojević in 1592, only small parts of Croatia remained unconquered. The remaining where around 400,000 inhabitants lived were referred to as the "remnants of remnants of the once great and renowned Kingdom of Croatia" ().
The Revived Croatia
By 1699, the Ottoman Empire was driven out of Ottoman Hungary and Croatia, throughout the course of Great Turkish War, and Austria brought the empire back under central control.
The Enlightened Absolutism Period
Croatia was one of the crown lands that supported Emperor Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and supported Empress Maria Theresa in the War of the Austrian Succession of 1741–48 and the Croatian Parliament signed their own Pragmatic Sanction of 1712. Subsequently, the Empress made significant contributions to Croatian matters, by making several reforms in the administrative control of the Military Frontier, the feudal and tax system. In 1767 she founded the Croatian Royal Council () as royal government of Croatia and Slavonia, with seat in Varaždin, later in Zagreb, presided by the ban, but it was abolished in 1779 when Croatia was relegated to just one seat in the governing council of Hungary (the Royal Hungarian Council of Lieutenancy, also known as the Hungarian Vice-regency Council, headed by the palatine), held by the ban of Croatia. The empress also gave the independent port of Rijeka to Croatia in 1776. However, she also ignored the Croatian Parliament.
Napoleonic Wars
With the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, its possessions in eastern Adriatic mostly came under the authority of France which passed its rights to Austria the same year. Eight years later they were restored to France as the Illyrian Provinces, but won back to the Austrian crown by 1815.
19th century
In the 19th century Croatian romantic nationalism emerged to counteract the non-violent but apparent Germanization and Magyarization. The Croatian national revival began in the 1830s with the Illyrian movement. The movement attracted a number of influential figures and produced some important advances in the Croatian language and culture. The champion of the Illyrian movement was Ljudevit Gaj who also reformed and standardized Croatian. The official language in Croatia was Latin until 1847 when it became Croatian.
By the 1840s, the movement had moved from cultural goals to resisting Hungarian political demands. By the royal order of January 11, 1843, originating from the chancellor Metternich, the use of the Illyrian name and insignia in public was forbidden. This deterred the movement's progress but it couldn't stop the changes in the society that had already started.
Springtime of Nations - 1848
In the revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire, the Croatian Ban Jelačić cooperated with the Austrians in quenching the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by leading a military campaign into Hungary, successful until the Battle of Pákozd. Despite this contribution, Croatia was later subject to Baron Alexander von Bach's absolutism as well as the Hungarian hegemony under ban Levin Rauch when the Empire was transformed into a dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867.
From 1848 to 1850 Croatia was governed by the Ban's Council () appointed by the Ban and the Parliament or the Croatian-Slavonian Diet (; in 1848 first Diet with the elected representatives was summoned). In 1850 the Ban's Council was transformed into Ban's Government () which, after the introduction of the absolutism (31 December 1851), was under the direct control of the Austrian Imperial Government in Vienna. From 1854 to 1861 the Imperial-Royal Croatian-Slavonian Lieutenancy (presided by the ban) in Zagreb (), under the Austrian Ministry of Interior, was the main governing body of the Croatian-Slavonian crown land (). After the fall of Bach's absolutism (the October Diploma of 1860 and the February Patent of 1861), the Royal Croatian-Slavonian Court Chancellery () in Vienna - from 1861 to 1862 "courtly (aulic) department for Croatia and Slavonia" (ministry) - and the Croatian-Slavonian-Dalmatian Royal Council of Lieutenancy (also known as the Croatian-Slavonian-Dalmatian Vice-regency Council, it was headed by the ban; ) in Zagreb were founded. These remained Croatian-Slavonian government until 1868.
Ban Jelačić had succeeded in the abolition of serfdom in Croatia, which eventually brought about massive changes in society: the power of the major landowners was reduced and arable land became increasingly subdivided, to the extent of risking famine. Many Croatians started emigrating to the New World countries in this period, a trend that would continue throughout the next hundred years and create a large Croatian diaspora.
The Illyrian movement was rather broad in scope, both nationalist and pan-Slavist. It would eventually develop into two major causes:
a Croatian national cause aimed primarily at the unification and independence of the people of Croatia, headed by people like the parliamentarian Ante Starčević, who formed the Party of Rights in 1861
a pan-South-Slavic, Yugoslav cause also oriented towards the integration of the neighboring South Slavic nations, organized through the People's Party, and headed by people like bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer, who founded the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1867 and re-founded the University of Zagreb in 1874.
Dual Monarchy Period
The loss of Croatian domestic autonomy was rectified a year after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, when in 1868 the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement was negotiated, which combined Croatia and Slavonia into the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. With this agreement, the Kingdom of Croatia received autonomy in administrative, educational, religious and judicial affairs. However, the governor (ban) was still appointed by Hungary, 55% percent of all tax money went to Budapest, and Hungary had authority over the biggest sea port of Rijeka (something that was reportedly not part of the Settlement actually agreed upon).
Demographics
According to the 1802 data, the population of the Kingdom of Croatia included 400,000 (98.8%) Roman Catholics, 4,800 (1.2%) Eastern Orthodox Christians and 40 Protestants.
In 1840, a Hungarian statistician Fenyes Elek analyzed the ethnicity in the countries belonging to the Hungarian Crown. According to the data he collected and processed, 526,550 people lived in the Kingdom of Croatia, out of which 519,426 (98.64%) were Croats, 3,000 (0.56%) Germans, 2,900 (0.55%) Serbs and 1,037 (0.19%) Jews. Population data by counties:
Primorje County
40,390 Croats
2,000 Germans
200 Hungarians
105 Jews
67 Greeks
Varaždin County
130,678 Croats
153 Serbs
474 Jews
Zagreb County
279,991 Croats
1,000 Germans
978 Serbs
313 Jews
Križevci County
68,367 Croats
1,769 Serbs
145 Jews
The first modern population census was conducted in 1857 and it recorded religion of the citizens. Population by religion in the counties of Kingdom of Croatia:
592,702 Roman Catholics
6,048 Eastern Orthodox
2,511 Jews
394 Lutherans
24 Calvinists
14 Unitarians
4 Armenian Orthodox
2 Armenian Catholic Church
Insignia
In 1848 the Kingdom of Croatia adopted a new official flag and coat of arms. The new flag was the Croatian tricolor of red, white, and blue, and it was to remain the symbol of Croatia up to the present day. The coat of arms adopted in 1848 was an amalgam of three coats of arms, one for Croatia, another for the Kingdom of Dalmatia, and another for the Kingdom of Slavonia. The Kingdom also used the name "Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia" during certain periods (though this was not recognized by the Empire). The Kingdom still controlled the Kingdom of Slavonia, but did not control the Kingdom of Dalmatia. In 1852 the imperial Austrian government, which never recognized the tricolor as official, banned its use, along with the coat of arms. Between 1852 and 1861 the Kingdom of Croatia used the red and white flag, and its old chequy coat of arms. The tricolor was used again after 1861 (October Diploma and February Patent) and became official after 1868.
See also
Bans of Croatia
Croatian Military Frontier
Croatian nobility
History of Croatia
Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War
Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Kingdom of Dalmatia
Kingdom of Slavonia
Kings of Croatia
List of noble families of Croatia
Turkish Croatia
Twelve noble tribes of Croatia
References
External links
Austrian Empire (grey)
Map of military districts in the Austrian Empire
The Habsburgs began to regain Croatian crown lands from the end of the 17th century (Britannica website)
Croatian-Hungarian Compromise of 1868 (Britannica website)
Former countries in the Balkans
Croatia
Croatia under Habsburg rule
Croatia
Former countries
Lands of the Kingdom of Hungary (1867–1918) | wiki |
Extra Life is a fundraising event, the proceeds of which go to branches of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. 100% of all donations go directly to the hospitals.
Extra Life was formed in 2008 to honor Victoria , who died of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It was aided by the Sarcastic Gamer community, who sent gifts and video games to her.
The main premise of the event is that group or teams get together and play different types of games for a 24 hour marathon. Many of these users will live-stream their game-play and activities on the platform Twitch. During this process, players will ask for donations that will then be sent to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Groups that participate range from Austin, Texas media company Rooster Teeth, to East Carolina University Board Gaming Society, and donations are given through cash or credit donation. Many participants have connections to the hospitals that they chose to highlight and donate their proceeds to and some donation pages continue to accept donations until December 31 of the year of the event.
Event totals and participant numbers
2008: $120,000
Gamers: 1200
2009: $170,000
Gamers: Unknown
2010: $451,000
Gamers: 4,500
2011: $1,100,000
Gamers: 15,500
2012: $2,100,000
Gamers: 17,000
2013: $4,100,000
Gamers: 43,000
2014: $6,218,000
Gamers: 50,000
2015: $8,451,590
Gamers: 55,000
2016: $9,600,000
Gamers: 50,000
2017: $11,124,217
Gamers: 50,000
2018: $8,800,000
Gamers: 50,000
2019: $14,000,000
Gamers: 50,000
References
External links
Fundraising events | wiki |
Wild Beast may refer to:
Wild Beast (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Wild Beast (novel), a 1991 novel by Wang Shuo
See also
Wildebeest, a bovidae native of Africa
Wildlife, undomesticated organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans | wiki |
Mighty Mouse is a cartoon superhero.
Mighty Mouse may also refer to:
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, an American animated television series featuring the cartoon character
Mighty Mouse (film), an upcoming film starring the cartoon character
"The Mighty Space Mouse", a 1984 episode of Voltron
Mighty Mouse (nickname), various people
Kevin 'Mighty' Mouse, a fictional footballer in the British comic strip Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse
Mighty mice, a genetic strain of house mouse with the myostatin gene knocked out
Mighty Mouse, the first mouse with a scroll wheel jointly developed by NTT and ETH Zürich in 1985
Apple Mighty Mouse, the first multi-button computer mouse produced by Apple Inc.
Mk 4 FFAR Fin-Folding Aerial Rockets, used by the United States Air Force | wiki |
L'ají est une sauce piquante originaire du Pérou.
Elle se compose de tomate, de coriandre, de piment ají, d'oignon et d'eau.
Notes et références
Sauce à la tomate
Sauce piquante | wiki |
Kenilworth Park is a public park in Portland, Oregon's Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood, in the United States. The park was acquired in 1909.
References
External links
Creston-Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon
Parks in Portland, Oregon
Protected areas established in 1909 | wiki |
Bread crumbs are small particles of dry bread.
Bread crumb(s) or breadcrumb(s) may also refer to:
Breadcrumbs (film), a 2016 film
Breadcrumb (navigation), a navigation technique used in user interfaces
"Breadcrumbs" (Once Upon a Time), an episode of the television series Once Upon a Time
Breadcrumb sponge, common name for Halichondria panicea, a species of marine demosponge | wiki |
A washboard is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its secondary use as a musical instrument.
Description and use
The traditional washboard is usually constructed with a rectangular wooden frame in which are mounted a series of ridges or corrugations for the clothing to be rubbed upon. For 19th-century washboards, the ridges were often of wood; by the 20th century, ridges of metal were more common. A "fluted" metal washboard was patented in the United States by Stephen Rust in 1833. Zinc washboards were manufactured in the United States from the middle of the 19th century. In the late 20th century and early 21st century, ridges of galvanized steel are most common, but some modern boards are made of glass. Washboards with brass ridges are still made.
Many parts of the world still use washboards for washing clothes. Clothes are soaked in hot soapy water in a washtub or sink, then squeezed and rubbed against the ridged surface of the washboard to force the cleansing fluid through the cloth to carry away dirt. Washboards may also be used for washing in a river, with or without soap. Then the clothes are rinsed. The rubbing has a similar effect to beating the clothes and household linen on rocks, an ancient method, but is less abrasive. Military personnel often use washboards to do their laundry when no local laundry facilities exist.
Some writers claimed that using a washboard was superior to using older laundry machines, because they save water and heating costs, and are not so hard on the clothing. Modern washing machines are typically more energy-efficient than older machines. While convenient and labor-efficient compared to the traditional washboard, laundry machines require far more input to manufacture and cannot compete in terms of environmental sustainability.
References
Laundry washing equipment | wiki |
Central Park North may refer to:
Central Park North, a section of 110th Street (Manhattan), New York City
Central Park North–110th Street station
Central Park North (album), a 1969 album by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra | wiki |
The term Whoreson can refer to
Bastard (law of England and Wales) - Bastardy law in England
Whoreson - a 1972 novel by Donald Goines | wiki |
Washboard may refer to:
Washboard (laundry), a tool for washing clothes
Washboard (musical instrument), a percussion instrument
Washboarding, corrugation on gravel or dirt roads | wiki |
A casino hotel is an establishment consisting of a casino with temporary lodging provided in an on-premises hotel. Customers receive the benefits of both gambling facilities and lodging. Since the casino and hotel are located on the same premises, a gambler's necessities can be provided for in one location.
The casino may offer common forms of gambling including slot machines, table games, and sports betting. The hotel, nearby or directly connected to the casino, provides lodging and may include other popular services such as food and beverages, valet parking, a swimming pool, health club, and on-site entertainment. Many casino hotels in popular destinations such as the Las Vegas Strip and Atlantic City, New Jersey, operate as resort hotels with additional services such as upscale lodgings, ballrooms, and large conference facilities. Such establishments recruit their gambling accommodations with workers to manage not only all the game processes but also more common entertainment elements for which they need choreographers, conjurers, and streamers.
Casino hotels can be significant employers in an area; in 2009 in Atlantic City, Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union represented 22,000 casino hotel workers.
See also
List of casino hotels
References
Further reading
"Service climate and customer satisfaction in a casino hotel: An exploratory case study". International Journal of Hospitality Management.
"Analysis of Las Vegas Strip casino hotel capacity: an inventory model for optimization". Tourism Management.
"Yield management in Las Vegas casino hotels". Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly.
"The Modern Las Vegas Casino-Hotel: The Paradigmatic New Means of Consumption"
"Intrinsic and extrinsic factors impacting casino hotel chefs' job satisfaction". International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
"Analysis of Return on Hotel Investment: A Comparison of Commercial Hotel Companies and Casino Hotel Companies". Journal of Hospitality & Tourism .
"Performance Measurement Through Cash Flow Ratios and Traditional Ratios: A Comparison of Commercial and Casino Hotel Companies". The Journal of Hospitality Financial Management.
"Job Stress Among Casino Hotel Chefs in a Top-Tier Tourism City". Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management.
"Ben Siegel: Father of Las Vegas and the Modern Casino-Hotel". Wiley.
"Investing in the Casino Hotel". Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
"Smoke gets in your eyes - Examining air quality in casino-hotels". Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly.
"The Contribution of the Casino Hotel Industry to New Jersey’s Economy". Rutgers.
"A Primer on the Casino Hotel". Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
"The Modern Las Vegas Casino-Hotel: The Paradigmatic New Means of Consumption". Management.
Penner, Richard H.; Adams, Lawrence; Rutes, Walter (2013). Hotel Design, Planning and Development. Routledge. pp. 361- .
Kilby, Jim; Fox, Jim; Lucas, Anthony F. (2006). Casino Operations Management. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 49- .
Atlantic City Casino Hotel Association (1982). A Report on the Economic Impact of Atlantic City Casino Hotel Operations for 1981. The Association. 6 pages.
Casinos
Hotel types | wiki |
Le tkemali est le nom d'une variété de prune géorgienne et d'une sauce aux prunes dont elle est l'ingrédient principal.
Sauce tkemali
La sauce se compose d'une variété locale de mirabelle, d'ail, de pouliot, de coriandre, d'aneth, de piment et de sel.
Notes et références
Sauce aux fruits
Cuisine géorgienne | wiki |
Cercidiphyllum japonicum, known as the katsura (from its Japanese name カツラ, 桂), is a species of flowering tree in the family Cercidiphyllaceae native to China and Japan. It is sometimes called caramel tree for the light caramel smell it emits during leaf fall.
Description
The tree is deciduous and grows to 10–45 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 2 meters (rarely more).
The shoots are dimorphic, with long shoots forming the structure of the branches and short shoots being born from their second year onward. The leaves are produced in opposite pairs on long shoots and singly on short shoots; they have a 1.4–4.7 cm petiole, and are rounded with a heart-shaped base and a crenate margin. Leaves on short shoots are larger, 3.7–9 cm long and 5–8.3 cm broad, and those on long shoots smaller, being 3.2–4.5 cm long and 1.9–3.2 cm broad. The leaves turn a variety of pinks and yellows in autumn and sometimes have a distinctive caramel scent when in fresh autumn colors. The flowers are inconspicuous and produced in early spring among the opening leaves, with male and female flowers on separate plants (dioecious). The fruit is a cluster of two to four follicles 1–1.8 cm long and 2–3 mm wide with each follicle containing several winged seeds.
Status
The species is listed as endangered in China, but overall when Japanese populations are included C. japonicum is classified as being lower risk. The Chinese populations were sometimes distinguished in the past as Cercidiphyllum japonicum var. sinense Rehder & E.H.Wilson, but this is now generally regarded as not distinct from the species.
Cultivation
Katsura is a popular ornamental tree in Japan as well as elsewhere. In Japan, it is also grown for its timber, which is used for construction and woodworking.
Several different cultivars are grown, including 'Aureum', 'Heronswood Globe', and 'Ruby'. The following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017):
C. japonicum
C. japonicum ‘Heronswood Globe’
C. japonicum f. pendulum
Gallery
References
External links
Cercidiphyllum japonicum images at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Plant Image Database
"Katsura, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, China 1910." Library Featured Images, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University website, 14 September 2017. Accessed 1 May 2020.
Friedman, William (Ned). "Leaves have teeth too." Posts from the Collection, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University website, 18 April 2020. Accessed 1 May 2020.
Dosmann, Michael and Andrew Gapinski. "Posts from the Field: Chasing Wilson in Northern Sichuan." Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University website, 16 October 2017. Accessed 1 May 2020.
Saxifragales
Trees of Japan
Trees of Korea
Trees of China
Ornamental trees
Plants described in 1864 | wiki |
The following characters had significant roles in the American television comedy series Malcolm in the Middle, which was originally televised from 2000 to 2006 on the Fox Network.
Characters
Originally, the series featured four brothers, although Malcolm's oldest brother attended a military school away from home, so Malcolm was still the middle sibling left at home. A fifth son named Jamie was introduced in the show's fourth season. The boys are, from eldest to youngest: Francis, Reese, Malcolm, Dewey, and Jamie. In the final episode, Lois discovered she was pregnant with a sixth child. In the third season, Francis travels home (to celebrate his father's birthday) with an Alaskan Piama, and reveals that they are married.
During the show, the family's name was kept a secret. In the fifth-season episode "Reese Joins the Army (1)", Reese uses a fake ID by the name of "Jetson" to lie about his age. In the series finale, "Graduation", Francis' employee ID reads "Nolastname" (or "No Last Name", a joke referring to the fact that the family name was never spoken aloud). In the same episode when Malcolm was introduced to give the graduation speech, the speaker announces Malcolm's name, but microphone feedback makes his surname inaudible, even though he does appear to mouth the phrase "No last name".
The DVD insert from series five shows the family surname as "Wilkerson" in the description of the episode, Block Party. This last name is confirmed in Pilot, Dinner Out and Company Picnic Pt. 1.
Character appearances
Main
Malcolm
Malcolm, played by Frankie Muniz (150 episodes), is the main protagonist and occasional narrator of the series. He is about five years younger than his oldest brother Francis, one year younger than his older brother Reese, five years older than his younger brother Dewey, and about 15 years older than his youngest brother Jamie. In the first episode of the series, he is discovered to be a child prodigy and immediately moved from his regular class into the "Krelboynes", a class for gifted students. Despite his high intelligence, he still gets into mischief either alongside or working against his brothers (in particular, Reese), although he becomes more self-centered and vain in the later seasons as he goes through puberty. Being a genius, Malcom often serves as the ring leader in the brother’s juvenile schemes. According to Hal, in "Stock Car Races" (season 1), Malcolm was named after Hal's favorite Stock Car Racer, Rusty Malcolm, although he had previously argued with Lois about giving the name to Francis and Reese. Malcolm, like Reese, is very unpopular at school, yet he has had a number of girlfriends during the series run. Like Lois, he gets angry or frustrated very easily but he also has problems containing his opinion about himself. Malcolm also occasionally serves as the voice of reason, and does have a conscience, for instance, despite emotionally manipulating a grieving Hal to buy him a car in the episode "Hal Grieves," when the time comes to make the purchase he finds he can't go through with it. In the series finale, it is revealed that Lois intended him to have a hard life, knowing that he is destined to assume the role of President of the United States; she wants him to remember where he came from to get there and help families like his own when he assumes the office. Malcolm eventually comes to terms with his future, after being unable to tell Lois he cannot do it. In the series finale, he begins taking classes at Harvard University. Throughout the series, Malcolm frequently breaks the fourth wall and talks to the viewer about either the current situation or giving exposition about past events.
Reese
Reese, played by Justin Berfield (151 episodes), is the second-oldest of the brothers. He is about three years younger than his brother Francis, one year older than his brother Malcolm, six years older than his brother Dewey, and about 16 years older than his youngest brother Jamie. It was revealed in the episode "Flashback", in season 2, that Reese has been vicious from the womb, so vicious in fact that when he kept kicking Lois during labor, she pushed him out by force. In Clip Show #2, he is revealed to have directly caused Lois' Staph Infection due to his uncontrollable kicking in her womb. Reese is the worst-behaved of the brothers and generally feels little to no empathy towards those he torments. Reese is the most frequently punished of his brothers to the point where he treats being grounded by Lois as an everyday occurrence. At the beginning of the series, Reese is the school’s top bully and is often inclined to beat up the Krelboynes except Stevie who is off-limits because he is in a wheelchair. Despite his infamous reputation as a bully, Reese has at times been shown to be intimidated or afraid of people who are stronger than him. Considered to be the least intelligent of his brothers, Reese is not academically gifted and often has the Krelboynes do his schoolwork for him. Despite this, Reese is actually a culinary prodigy, after finding that he has a talent and genuine love for cooking and baking to the point where he is put in charge of cooking for holidays and special events. He is also considered by others to be an evil genius when it comes to bullying, tormenting, blackmailing and beating up others for his own satisfaction. He is the favorite grandson of his grandmother Ida, who taught him the importance of having patsies. In the series finale, Reese moves in with Craig Feldspar and is a janitor at his alma mater North High.
Dewey
Dewey, played by Erik Per Sullivan (151 episodes), is portrayed as being quieter, more innocent brother but becomes just as spiteful and destructive as his older siblings as the series progressed. Initially the youngest brother, Dewey is regularly bullied by both Malcom and Reese for years to the point where he becomes completely immune to their torture methods. He is also frequently underestimated by his brothers to the point where they sometimes find themselves at his mercy. Despite this, he partakes in many of the brother’s juvenile schemes and is just as spiteful and vindictive as they are. Dewey is more inclined to the arts than his brothers. He soon finds he is a musical prodigy, and as the series goes on he becomes more caring and thoughtful especially in regards to his younger brother Jamie, whom he decides not to bully like he was by Malcolm and Reese. Lois remarks at one point that unlike Malcolm, who would have to work hard to achieve success, Dewey would have success handed to him. Dewey joins the Buseys, a class for the emotionally disturbed, by mistake and ends up becoming their unofficial teacher. He ended up caring for his fellow students so much that, when the mistake was uncovered, he feigned severe emotional problems so he could remain. In the final few seasons, Dewey becomes increasingly bitter towards his parents due to them overlooking him throughout his childhood and neglecting his interests. Because of this, he forces them to give Jamie the childhood he never had. In the last episode, he and Jamie (the only other remaining brother living at home) continued the tradition of causing havoc all over the house.
Lois
Lois, played by Jane Kaczmarek (146 episodes), is Francis, Reese, Malcolm, Dewey, and Jamie's temperamental and overbearing mother. She is despised by the neighbors to the point that they refuse to invite her to their gatherings, revealed in "Mono". Unlike Malcolm, Lois is not bothered by it and tries her best to blend in with it. Lois is 38 years old as of Season 2, and had originally planned to attend music school and become a concert violinist before she married Hal ("Lois' Birthday"). She was revealed to be a charming and nurturing mother while Francis was little, but toughened up. When she became more overbearing and demanding, it did not help Francis or the other boys to behave, but she unknowingly made it worse. She also stubbornly believes she is always in the right, to the point of being unable to say that she was wrong. Lois's severe anger issues are very often caused by her sons' frequent bad behavior, and also from a miserable childhood, living with uncaring parents Ida and Victor, both of whom favored her younger sister, Susan. Lois and Susan would later have a serious falling out after it is revealed that Hal was originally Susan's boyfriend. She is a pushy academic mother and in the series finale, it is revealed that she is trying to groom Malcolm to become President of the United States. The finale also reveals that she is pregnant again. Lois is usually seen driving the family's early 1990s Dodge Grand Caravan.
Hal
Hal, played by Bryan Cranston (151 episodes), is the father of the family. Though relaxed in his parenting when compared to Lois, Hal has shown that he can slide into a disciplinarian when confronted by the boys' bad behavior. He used to be like his sons, especially Francis, until he married Lois and she nurtured him. He comes from a wealthy family who resent his choice to marry Lois over Susan (an action also shared by Victor and Ida). Hal has a hard time making good decisions, which he often deferred to Lois. Despite the fact many of the neighbors hate his family and especially Lois, Hal blends in well with them. He loves Lois more than she loves him, never even thinking about other women. He is also very scared of her, even more than the boys are, which is why he often bribes their sons to take the fall for his wrongdoings. He is very devoted to Lois and willing to give the boys punishment they deserve that Lois gives them. Lois is usually head of the household and Hal is second-in-command. He is very neurotic and has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, and also enjoys unusual hobbies. Briefs are his underpants of choice. Hal is also a sex addict, as revealed in the episode "Poker 2" when Hal tells his friends he has sex 14 times per week. It is mentioned again in the episode "Forbidden Girlfriend" when Lois is taking medication and is unable to have sex for an entire week, and Hal has a hard time coping with this. It was also revealed that Hal was a chain smoker before quitting the habit. Hal's best friend is Abe Kenarban. Hal works in a lower management job in a corporation that he always hated. He used to be an executive and got demoted when he mouths off to his boss in the season 2 finale. Hal is usually seen driving a late 1980s to early 1990s Dodge Dynasty.
Francis
Francis, played by Christopher Kennedy Masterson (118 episodes), is the oldest of the brothers, whom Malcolm often looks up to. According to the season 1 episodes "Sleepover" and "The Bots and the Bees", Francis was a breech birth. The season 2 episode "Flashback" reveals that Lois was in labor with him during her and Hal's wedding. A rebel from birth, showing signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder, Francis was exiled to the Marlin Academy military school by Lois for his behavior. By season 3, he emancipates himself to run away from the academy to work in Alaska, incurring his mother's wrath. Shortly after moving to Alaska, he marries a local woman about one year older than him named Piama, who had a previous brief marriage, though Lois disapproves of Francis marrying her. During the fourth and fifth season, Francis works at a dude ranch owned by Otto Mannkusser and his wife Gretchen. Francis is mostly absent for the last two seasons, but, in the series finale, Hal discovers that he has taken a job with Amerysis Industries, a large corporation where Francis works in a cubicle and inputs numbers into a computer, and is also still happily married to Piama. Although Francis enjoys the job, he refuses to tell Lois about it, as he enjoys torturing her by telling her that he is still unemployed.
Caroline Miller
Caroline Miller, played by Catherine Lloyd Burns (15 episodes), is the primary teacher of Malcolm's "Krelboyne" class in the first two seasons. She is shown to be overly-earnest as well as to adore Malcolm. In season 1, she is included as part of the main cast, but in season 2, is a recurring character. In season 2, she is shown to be pregnant until she gives birth to her baby in the parking lot. After her baby was born, she quit teaching. She was never seen or mentioned again after season 2.
Recurring characters
The Kenarbans
Stevie Kenarban, played by Craig Lamar Traylor (56 episodes), is Malcolm's best friend and classmate. He is a paraplegic, asthmatic and was born with one lung, requiring him to speak slowly and take deep breaths in between words. Though Malcolm is initially upset when Lois arranges a "playdate" for him and Stevie in the pilot episode, the boys immediately find common ground, particularly their love of comic books, and become friends. His parents are very overprotective of him, although Stevie displays in many episodes that he lives very comfortably with his disability and even has a dark sense of humor about it.
Abe Kenarban, played by Gary Anthony Williams (19 episodes), is Stevie's father and Kitty's husband, and a close family friend of both Lois and particularly Hal. Abe is initially depicted as cowardly and dependent on Kitty's guidance (which he attributes to his upbringing, having been raised by his grandmother and four spinster aunts). However he ultimately becomes more self-reliant after Kitty's departure. Despite this, Abe is more than willing to take Kitty back after her return, going as far as to harbor resentment towards Lois after she criticized Kitty's decision to leave.
Kitty Kenarban, played by Merrin Dungey (5 episodes), is Stevie's mother and Abe's wife. Because of Dungey's commitment to the ABC series Alias, Kitty remains unseen for much of the series, apparently due to her abandoning her husband and son, which briefly throws Stevie into a deep depression. She returns once in the season 6 episode "Kitty's Back".
Krelboynes
Lionel Herkabe, played by Chris Eigeman (9 episodes), is the central antagonist of the series. He was first introduced in season 3 as the Krelboynes' teacher after Caroline leaves. A Krelboyne himself in middle school, he was forced into a teaching career after losing his millions in a failed dot-com company. He is portrayed as a malevolent, cynical, and conniving man who thrives on psychological warfare and making his students suffer. Malcolm especially is a threat to him and quickly becomes his nemesis at school, even blackmailing North High's principal, Block (before Hodges took over), into hiring him as vice principal when Malcolm enrolls there. Mr. Herkabe also intensely enjoys humiliating Reese to antagonize Malcolm more. However, Herkabe's arrogance in confessing that he skipped gym class in his senior year of high school and lied about not taking the course is brought to light, leading to Mr. Hodges revoking his GPA Award in the season 7 episode "Malcolm Defends Reese". He is last seen when Reese tosses dodgeballs at him in P.E. class as an attempt to reclaim his title.
Cynthia Sanders, played by Tania Raymonde (4 episodes), is one of Malcolm's classmates. She has a very extensive vocabulary, but has a difficult time making friends. Depicted as relatively cheerful, Cynthia becomes one of Malcolm's earliest crushes on the show, although a relationship never develops.
Lloyd Jensen, played by Evan Matthew Cohen (25 episodes), is one of Malcolm's "Krelboyne" classmates who recurs throughout the series. He frequently worries about random small things, gets hurt, and falls victim to bullies.
Dabney Hooper, played by Kyle Sullivan (24 episodes), is one of Malcolm's "Krelboyne" classmates who recurs throughout the series. Often depicted as the weakest and most cowardly of the group, his overbearing mother almost completely controls his life until his last appearance, in which using paintball as an outlet for his anger towards his mother results in him immediately developing a tougher, if still somewhat socially awkward persona.
Flora Mayesh, played by Kristin Quick (15 episodes), is one of Malcolm's other "Krelboyne" classmates. As a background character, Flora rarely speaks and is uncredited for 12 of her appearances.
"Eraserhead" (real name: Kyle), played by Will Jennings (12 episodes), is one of Malcolm's "Krelboyne" classmates who recurs throughout early episodes of the series.
Kevin, played by Victor Z. Isaac (5 episodes), is one of Malcolm's "Krelboyne" classmates who recurs throughout later episodes of the series.
Family members
Piama Tananahaakna, played by Emy Coligado (29 episodes), is Francis' wife whom he meets and marries off-screen during his year in Alaska. Piama was born on an Alaska Native reservation, is about a year older than Francis, and was married once before meeting him. Primarily due to her being brought home under volatile circumstances, in which Francis (while still a minor, although emancipated) shocks the family with news of the marriage and thus disrupting Hal's birthday party, Lois dislikes Piama from her introduction in the third season and into the fourth. However, after an embarrassing encounter with her wealthy in-laws, Lois starts to respect Piama more. Piama is against having children until the series finale, when one of Reese's pranks goes awry.
Victor Welker and Ida Kenzel-Welker, played by Robert Loggia (1 episode) and Cloris Leachman (11 episodes) respectively, are Lois' parents. Victor dies some time before the events of the season three episode "Christmas", in which Ida is widowed. Ida harbors a strong dislike for both Francis and Lois, evident by the way she treats them. She favors Reese, which allows him to love her. Ida belittles Malcolm for being weak in not standing up to his mother and largely ignores Dewey, although she saves him from being hit by a car, causing her to lose a leg. Ida harbors resentment towards Victor's secret other family for stealing what was rightfully hers, until Lois discovers near the end of the fifth season that she is not blood-related to Victor (and possibly Susan as well) and abandons Ida. Ida had a sister, Helen, whose funeral is featured in the first season.
Susan Welker, played by Laurie Metcalf (1 episode), is Lois' younger sister who is often mentioned throughout the series and makes her first appearance in the episode "Lois' Sister" of season 5. Susan is regarded as more talented, popular, and successful, as well as the family favorite. Susan dated Hal before Lois did and blames her sister for stealing him, leading to their rivalry. When Lois learns she is in Kidney failure, she decides to donate one of her kidneys to save her life, which Susan rejects until Lois persuades her otherwise. Susan is briefly mentioned in seasons 6 and 7, but not seen again.
Raduca, played by Rheagan Wallace, is Reese's wife for two episodes during season 7, chosen by Ida. During their short-lived marriage, Raduca has an affair with another man throughout.
Jamie, played by identical twin brothers James and Lukas Rodriguez (35 episodes), is the youngest child born to Hal and Lois. He is the only brother who beats Lois in her own game, bordering to attacking her (though Reese is mostly responsible for feeding him soda). Like Malcolm and Dewey, Jamie is intelligent, as evidenced when he tricks Reese into taking a marker after coloring part of a wall.
Walter, played by Christopher Lloyd (1 episode), is Hal's wealthy father and a retired military veteran, who along with his unseen wife Sharon wanted Hal to marry a wealthy woman rather than Lois. He has a habit of not listening to Hal voicing his problems from childhood to the present because he isn't sure how to deal with them, as his other children did not experience the same problems growing up. Walter takes a liking to Malcolm more than his other grandsons because of their shared love of history, and he is particularly passionate about the American Civil War. He dies offscreen in the season 7 episode "Hal Grieves."
Amelia and Claire, played by Brenda Strong and Jeannine Jackson respectively (1 episode), are Hal's older sisters, who dislike Lois and swap passive-aggressive comments with her. Despite her similar poor background, it was implied that Amelia and Claire liked Susan more than Lois.
Friends and neighbors
Craig Feldspar, portrayed by David Anthony Higgins (39 episodes), is Lois' cowardly, somewhat childish co-worker at the Lucky Aide, who is promoted to assistant manager early on. He is a hopeless romantic, and has unrequited feelings for Lois. He plays the ukulele and the banjo, and he sings in a countertenor voice. He is also very knowledgeable about home entertainment systems, computers and old TV shows. By the end of the series, Craig becomes Reese's roommate.
Malik, Trey, Brian, and Steve, played by Dan Martin, Alex Morris, Edward James Gage, and Jonathan Craig Williams, respectively (7 episodes), are Hal and Abe's poker buddies and fellow a cappella band-mates.
Jessica, played by Hayden Panettiere (4 episodes), is a manipulative neighbor of the family and a classmate of Malcolm and Reese's.
Ed, played by Paul Willson (5 episodes), is one of the many neighbors who despises Hal and Lois, along with Reese. He has shown some favoritism towards Malcolm for helping him set up his new computer.
Polly, played by Julie Hagerty (4 episodes), is Jamie's slightly insane hippie babysitter.
Karen, played by Amy Farrington (2 episodes), is Lois' alcoholic and airheaded friend from the book club.
Marlin Academy
Commandant Edwin Spangler, played by Daniel von Bargen (16 episodes), is the military veteran in charge of the cadets at Marlin Academy. A retired United States Air Force general who has never experienced frontline combat, he has a contentious relationship with the rebellious Francis throughout his entire stay at the academy, although the two sometimes show a deep sympathy for the other's emotional scarring from family. He wears an eye patch and has a hook for a hand, although it is never fully explained why. Before Francis leaves Marlin Academy, Spangler tells Francis that bullying him rejuvenated him and he would have retired without him, then gives him a ceremonial sword as thanks, which Francis accidentally cuts off Spangler's remaining hand with. Later in the third season, Spangler tracks Francis to Alaska, having been fired and sued for drinking on the job, and feeling depressed with no one to turn to. Francis gets him a job at the Snow Haven Retirement Home, where he has free rein to bully the elderly.
Cadet Eric Hansen, played by Eric Nenninger (28 episodes), one of Francis' friends and classmates from Marlin Academy. Francis accompanies Eric in his plan to abandon the academy to find well-paying labor work in Alaska. At the end of season three, Eric is seen for the final time being left by Francis to hitchhike home.
Cadet Drew Horton, played by Drew Powell (11 episodes) is physically the strongest cadet at Marlin Academy, but is emotionally weak.
Cadet Stanley Winn, played by Karim Prince (8 episodes) is Francis' friend and informal bodyguard during the first season.
Cadet Ken Finley, played by Arjay Smith (9 episodes) is a friend of Francis during seasons 1 and 2. He is reputed to have good grades and was hazed once from a cult group.
Cadet Joe, played by Kasan Butcher (12 episodes) is another cadet who threatens Francis in one episode.
Alaska
Lavernia, played by Brenda Wehle (10 episodes), is Francis and Eric's malevolent boss who owns the logging site in Alaska. She has a debt book and presumably knows every dark secret about her workers. Lavernia develops a personal grudge towards Piama after she blackmails her to be nice to Francis by holding her pet parakeet hostage. Lavernia is known to hate sex toys in her lodging and which Francis is aware of.
Pete, played by Sandy Ward (11 episodes) is a possibly insane, senile elderly coworker of Francis at the Alaskan lodge.
Artie, played by John Ennis (9 episodes) – is an overweight, uneducated, color blind, and dyslexic coworker of Francis at the Alaskan lodge.
The Grotto
Otto Mankusser, played by Kenneth Mars (25 episodes), is Francis' friendly and cheerful boss at the dude ranch, albeit a bit naïve at times. Originally from Germany, he and his wife Gretchen (Meagen Fay) own the ranch, which is known as the Grotto, a combination of their first names.
Other classmates and faculty
Richie, played by Todd Giebenhain (6 episodes), is Francis' dim-witted best friend before being sent to military school.
Circus and Justin, played by Parker Mills and Justin Pierce (2 episodes), are Francis' hoodlum friends.
Julie Houlerman, played by Landry Allbright (3 episodes) is a girl whom Malcolm has a short-lived crush on in the first season.
Alison, played by Brittany Renee Finamore (5 episodes) is Reese's girlfriend during season 4. She originally dated Malcolm, but broke up with him.
Nikki, played by Reagan Dale Neis (4 episodes) is Malcolm's girlfriend during season 4.
Ira Prescott, played by Jonny Acker (3 episodes), is a student of North High School. He is Billy's older brother and Reese's bully. Ira debuts in "Forbidden Girlfriend" in which he owns a car which Reese ruins by using Dewey in pouring cement in it and letting Billy take the blame for the prank. With Dewey's help, Ira gets his revenge on Reese for his prank and using Billy by simply beating him up. He returns briefly in Season 5's "Malcolm Films Reese" and is among the students in humiliation and in "Reese's Apartment" when Malcolm is tutoring Ira and help get him a passing grade in his classes so he can keep his spot on the North High School football team. Unlike Reese, Ira has more respect for Malcolm.
Chad, played by Cameron Monaghan (6 episodes) is a student in Dewey's special class. He is prominently featured in the episode "Chad's Sleepover".
David Hanson, played by Danny McCarty Jr. (5 episodes) is a student in Dewey's special class. He runs for class president with a colorful campaign speech.
Zoe Desenea, played by Amy Bruckner (4 episodes) is a student in Dewey's special class.
Mr. Hodges, played by Steve Vinovich (3 episodes in season 7) is Malcolm & Reese's school principal during their senior year.
Barton, played by Will Stebile (episode 9 in season 3) is the only classmate introduced who is smarter than Malcolm.
Guest Stars
Girl Versions of the Boys
Mallory, played by Lisa Foiles (episode 10 in season 4)
Renee, played by Mimi Paley (episode 10 in season 4)
Daisy, played by Jennette McCurdy (episode 10 in season 4)
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Luna Thiel (born 26 November 1999) is a German athlete. She competed in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships.
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Place of birth missing (living people)
German female sprinters
World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
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To Crush the Moon is a 2005 hard science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy, the last in the four-part Queendom of Sol series. It was nominated for the 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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2005 American novels
2005 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Novels by Wil McCarthy
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WAG Nation is an Australian reality series that was aired on Arena, a subscription television channel. The series follows the lives of five women described as "WAGs", wives and girlfriends of Australian sportsmen.
The first season of WAG Nation premiered on 18 April 2012 and consists of 10 episodes. The cast features Terry Biviano, wife of NRL Sydney Roosters player Anthony Minichiello; event planner Lynette Bolton, wife of AFL Sydney Swans player Jude Bolton; promotions manager Jana Peterson, girlfriend of NRL Cronulla Sharks player John Williams; fashion boutique owner Jackie Spong, wife of AFL North Melbourne player Jarrad Waite; and model/flight attendant Chantelle Raleigh, girlfriend of NBL Gold Coast Blaze player Adam Gibson.
Cast
Reception
The series was criticised for using the term "WAG", although the intention of the show - to focus more on the complexities of the subjects lives than their appearance - was regarded as a strong positive. Commentator Brad Newsome criticised the show as being dull. In describing the first episode, Newsome wrote "You might have imagined that the lives of Australian WAGs (wives and girlfriends of sportsmen) would be terribly exciting. And perhaps they are, but it doesn't seem so in the first episode of this new series.".
See also
The Shire
Freshwater Blue
Stafford Brothers
References
External links
Arena (TV network) original programming
2012 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian reality television series
English-language television shows | wiki |
Ape hybrid could refer to:
Koolakamba, legendary chimpanzee-gorilla hybrids
Bili ape, real-life ape with characteristics intermediate between chimpanzees and gorillas
Mangani, fictional ape with similar characteristics as the Bili ape from Tarzan
Hobo, a fictional chimpanzee-bonobo hybrid in the novel Wake
Humanzee, theoretical chimpanzee-human hybrid | wiki |
Professors in the United States commonly occupy any of several positions of teaching and research within a college or university. In the U.S., the word "professor" informally refers collectively to the academic ranks of assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. This usage differs from the predominant usage of the word professor internationally, where the unqualified word professor only refers to "full professors." The majority of university lecturers and instructors in the United States, , do not occupy these tenure-track ranks, but are part-time adjuncts, or more commonly referred as college teachers.
Research and education are among the main tasks of tenured and tenure-track professors, with the amount of time spent on research or teaching depending strongly on the type of institution. Publication of articles in conferences, journals, and books is essential to occupational advancement. As of August 2007, teaching in tertiary educational institutions is one of the fastest growing occupations, topping the U.S. Department of Labor's list of "above average wages and high projected growth occupations", with a projected increase of 524,000 positions between 2004 and 2014. In 2011, a survey conducted by TIAA-CREF Institute senior researcher Paul J. Yakoboski estimated that 73% of professors with senior tenure ranged between the ages of 60 and 66 and that the remaining 27% were above the age of 66. Yakoboski estimated that 75% of these professors have acknowledged that they have made no preparations for retirement due to the ongoing financial crisis and reluctance to leave their profession. A 2013 survey conducted by Fidelity Investments would echo similar results when the question about retirement came up.
In 2020, the National Center for Education Statistics counted 189,692 professors, 162,095 associate professors, 166,543 assistant professors, 96,627 instructors, 44,670 lecturers, and 164,720 other full-time faculty.
Overview
The term "professors" in the United States refers to a group of educators at the college and university level. In the United States, while "Professor" as a proper noun (with a capital "P") generally implies a position title officially bestowed by a university or college to faculty members with a PhD or the highest level terminal degree in a non-academic field (e.g., MFA, MLIS), the common noun "professor" is often used casually to refer to anyone teaching at the college level, regardless of rank or degree. At some junior colleges without a formal ranking system, instructors are accorded the courtesy title of "professor".
Although almost all tenured professors hold doctorates, some exceptional scholars without them are occasionally granted tenure: Jay Forrester (electrical engineering, M.I.T.) had only a master's degree; Saul Kripke (philosophy, Rockefeller) and Andrew Gleason (mathematics, Harvard) had only a bachelor's degree; Edward Fredkin (computer science, M.I.T.) and Erik Erikson (psychology, Harvard) did not even have bachelor's degrees. Tenure without a doctorate is somewhat more common in fields with an artistic component, as with Howard Nemerov (poetry, Washington University in St. Louis) and Colin Rowe (architectural history and theory, Cornell). Until the middle of the 20th century, professors without doctorates were more common.
Tenured and tenure-track positions
These full-time faculty members with PhDs or other highest-level terminal degrees (designated as acceptable by a university or college, including the "professional equivalent" to the doctorate at institutions such as Columbia University), engage in both undergraduate and graduate teaching, mentoring, research, and service. Only faculty in these positions are eligible for tenure.
: An introductory level professor. A position generally taken after receiving a PhD and often, especially in the sciences, completing a post-doctoral fellowship. After 7 years, in most American colleges and universities, a tenure-track faculty member (usually assistant professor) must be either awarded tenure, or dismissed from the university.
: A mid-level, usually tenured, professor.
Professor (sometimes referred to as "Full Professor"): a senior, tenured professor.
Distinguished Professor or Endowed Chair (e.g., "the Brian S. Smith Professor of Physics"): An honorary position in which a full professor's salary may be increased, perhaps by being tied to an endowment derived from the university, private individuals, firms, or foundations.
The top administrative post in many academic departments is the "department chair." Prior to the 1970s, such administrators were called "chairmen" or "chairwomen", but the term in most institutions has since been the gender-neutral "chairperson", or shortened to "chair". While many department chairs also hold endowed chair positions, the two positions are distinct.
Educators who hold a formal title of "Professor" (referred to as tenured/tenure-track faculty) typically begin their careers as assistant professors (or "lecturers" and "senior lecturers"), with subsequent promotions to the ranks of associate professor and finally professor. The titles are historical traditions; for example, it is not implied that an assistant professor "assists" more senior faculty. There is often a strict timeline for application for promotion from assistant to associate professor, most often 5 or 6 years following the initial appointment. Applicants are evaluated based on their contributions to research, teaching, and administration. The relative weightings of these contributions differ by institution, with PhD-granting universities usually placing more emphasis on research and liberal arts colleges placing more emphasis on teaching. The decision to grant tenure and promotion from assistant to associate professor usually requires numerous levels of approval, with a common sequence being:
external reviewers—several nationally or internationally prominent academics in the candidate's field will be asked to review the candidate's application for promotion and submit a confidential report;
based on this report and evidence of the candidate's accomplishments in his or her curriculum vitae, a committee of members from the candidate's department will make a recommendation for tenure/promotion or denial of such;
the department will vote;
the department decision is communicated to a university panel of individuals from outside of the department who evaluate the application and decide whether they agree or disagree with the departmental recommendation;
the dean;
the board of governors/president or other upper level governing body.
A decision to reject a candidate for tenure normally requires that the individual leave the institution within two years (under the AAUP tenure guidelines). Otherwise, tenure is granted along with promotion from assistant to associate professor. Although tenure and promotion are usually separate decisions, they are often highly correlated such that a decision to grant a promotion coincides with a decision in favor of tenure, and vice versa. Promotion to associate professor usually results in an increased administrative load and membership on committees that are restricted to tenured faculty.
Some people remain at the level of associate professor throughout their careers. However, most will apply for the final promotion to full professor; the timeline for making this application is more flexible than that for assistant to associate positions and the associate professor does not normally lose his/her job if the application is rejected. As with promotion from assistant to associate professor, promotion from associate to full professor involves review at multiple levels, similar to the earlier tenure/promotion review. This includes external reviews, decisions by the department, recommendations by members of other departments, and high-ranking university officials. Usually, this final promotion requires that the individual has maintained an active research program and excellent teaching, in addition to taking a leadership role in important departmental and extra-departmental administrative tasks. Full professor is the highest rank that a professor can achieve (other than in a named position) and is seldom achieved before a person reaches their mid-40s. The rank of full professor carries additional administrative responsibilities associated with membership on committees that are restricted to full professors.
Two-year community colleges that award tenure often use the "professor" ranking system as well. Candidates for tenure at those institutions would not normally need to hold a PhD, only the degree necessary (usually a master's) for employment as an instructor.
Non-tenure-track positions
Individuals in these positions who typically (though not always) focus on teaching undergraduate courses do not engage in research (except in the case of "research professors"), may or may not have administrative or service roles, and sometimes are eligible for job security that is less strong than tenure. They may still be referred to casually as "professor" and be described by the common-noun "professor", whether or not they officially designated that position title by the university or college. Likewise, the term "instructor" is very generic and can be applied to any teacher, or it can be a specific title (tenure or tenure-track) depending upon how an institution chooses to use the term.
Professors of (the) practice and professors of professional practice: have commonly been reserved for practitioners who are appointed because of skills and expertise acquired in nonacademic careers and whose primary focus is teaching. This designation is bestowed on individuals who have achieved a distinguished career in a specific field of practice (engineering, management, business, law, medicine, architecture etc.), and will have a substantial basis of experience equal to a tenured professor (normally a minimum of 12 years) and a national/international reputation for excellence reflected in a record of significant accomplishments. Such appointments are also being offered to individuals with academic career backgrounds. These latter professors of practice are principally engaged in teaching and are not expected to be significantly involved in research activities.
Teaching assistant (TA), graduate teaching assistant (GTA), course assistant (CA), teaching fellow (TF), instructional student assistant (ISA), or graduate student instructor (GSI): Positions typically held by graduate students. TAs play a supportive role involving grading, review sessions, and labs. Teaching fellows (and at some universities TAs or GSIs) teach entire courses. In any event, these positions are notably not considered "faculty" positions, and never vote in faculty elections or serve on faculty committees, etc. even at institutions where part-time faculty may do so. Even their teaching is considered part of their training as students at the university. See also: Teaching fellow#United States.
Adjunct Faculty – professor/lecturer/instructional or sessional lecturer: Part-time, non-salaried, faculty members who are paid for each particular class they teach. Most adjunct faculty (adjuncts) are hired as a lecturer or instructor. Originally, the title adjunct professor usually involved professionals employed elsewhere full-time, or retired professional academics, and their teaching may have had a professional practice emphasis.
Lecturer/Instructor: A full- or part-time position at a college or university that usually does not involve tenure or formal research obligations (although sometimes they choose to perform research) but can often involve administrative service roles. When in a regular, long-term salaried position of at least some minimal appointment level (e.g., half-time), it may include voting and other privileges. This position often involves a focus on undergraduate and/or introductory courses, sometimes as a cost-savings measure due to the lower salaries compared to tenure-track positions. In some colleges, the term Senior Lecturer is used for highly qualified or accomplished lecturers. A convention some schools have begun to use is the title "teaching professor", with or without ranks, to clarify that these are in fact true faculty members who simply do not have research obligations.
Collegiate or teaching or clinical professor (with or without ranks): A recent title with many different variations, sometimes dependent upon rank, these instructors may hold parallel ranks as their tenure-track counterparts (i.e., teaching assistant professor, teaching associate professor, and (full) teaching professor) at institutions whose policy is to only provide "tenure" to those who do research. In professional fields where such positions typically involve a practical or skills-based emphasis (e.g. medicine, law, engineering), they may be titled as clinical professors, studio professors (in architecture and design), or industry professors (in fields such as engineering and technology). A similar recent title that has come into use is "professor of practice."
Visiting professor (with or without ranks): (a) A temporary assistant/associate/full professor position (see above), e.g. to cover the teaching load of a faculty member on sabbatical. (b) A professor on leave who is invited to serve as a member of the faculty of another college or university for a limited period of time, often an academic year.
Research professor (with or without ranks): A position that usually carries only research duties with no obligation for teaching. Research professors usually have no salary commitment from their institution and must secure their salary from external funding sources such as grants and contracts. (These are often known as "soft money" positions.) Although research professor positions usually are not eligible to be awarded tenure, their ranks parallel those of tenure-track or analogously instructional-only positions (i.e., research assistant professor, research associate professor, and (full) research professor).
Retired faculty
Retired faculty may retain formal or informal links with their university, such as library privileges or office space. At some institutions, faculty who have retired after achieving the rank of professor are given the title "professor emeritus" (male) or "professor emerita" (female).
Tenure-track faculty ranks
Although the term "professor" is often used to refer to any college or university teacher, there are different 'tiers' of professorship ranging from an entry-level position as an "assistant professor" to "full professor", a rank reserved for professors who have established themselves as experts within their academic fields. Contrary to some beliefs, assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors are all, in fact, technically professors. Usually students who have completed their doctoral studies seek positions as assistant professors in colleges and universities. As they progress in their established fields through research, teaching, and service, they can make bids for promotion and tenure, which typically elevates them to the rank of associate professor. Associate professors who continue to establish high profiles and become experts in their fields of study may bid for a promotion to full professor, which is considered an esteemed position reserved for the most successful professors working in their fields. College and university teachers who hold the rank of lecturer or instructor are typically not tenured/tenure-track faculty, usually focus on teaching undergraduate courses, and are generally not involved in research, nor are they typically involved in department and university decision-making. (Note that in other English-speaking countries, the term lecturer might have a different meaning. For example, in the United Kingdom and in Ireland, the position of lecturer is equivalent to that of assistant professor in the US system.)
Assistant professor
The rank of assistant professor generally is held for a probationary period of five to seven years, after which the individual will either be promoted to associate professor and granted tenure (i.e., cannot be fired without cause and a formal hearing process) or will be terminated from employment. As of 2007, 23.1% of academics held the rank of assistant professor.
Competition for assistant professor positions in many fields is rapidly growing; the number of PhD graduates is rising, while the number of assistant professor openings remains roughly constant. The opposite is true, however, in business disciplines, where the anticipated shortfall of business faculty may reach 2,400 openings by 2012. The U.S. Occupation Outlook Handbook notes that a significant proportion of any growth in academic professor jobs will be due to "part-time and non tenure-track positions". As of 2003, the average age at which scientists received tenure in the United States was 39, which can make it difficult for professors to balance professional and family obligations.
The tenure process
After several years at the rank of assistant professor, individuals are considered for a promotion and tenure. Tenure generally constitutes a lifetime employment agreement and could also serve as a means of protecting faculty whose research may be socially, politically, or scientifically controversial. Rates for achieving tenure vary, depending on the institutions and areas of study; in most places at least 50% of assistant professors will eventually become tenured and promoted to associate professors; however, this number can be as low as 10% in natural sciences departments of top universities or in non-PhD-granting schools. In unusual circumstances, it is possible to receive tenure but to remain as an assistant professor, typically when tenure is awarded early.
Associate professor
Upon successfully receiving tenure, an assistant professor usually is promoted to the rank of associate professor. The mid-level position is usually awarded after a substantial record of scholarly accomplishment (such as the publication of one or more books, numerous research articles, a successful program of external research grant support, successful teaching, and/or service to the department); however, the specific requirements vary considerably between institutions and departments. As of 2007, 22.4% of academics hold the rank of associate professor.
Alternatively, a person may be hired at the associate professor level without tenure (which is a typical practice at some universities, often done as a financial inducement to attract someone from outside the institution, but who might not yet meet all the qualifications for tenure). If an applicant is appointed to the rank of associate professor without tenure, the position is usually tenure-track with an expectation that the person will soon qualify for tenure.
At some institutions, individuals are promoted to the rank of associate professor prior to receiving tenure. In these situations, the individual may eventually apply for tenure at that institution or, optionally, seek a tenured position elsewhere.
Professor
Upon a sustained and distinguished track record of scholarly achievement within one's university and academic discipline, an associate professor may be promoted to professor (sometimes referred to as "full professor"). In most traditional colleges and universities, this position is always tenured; however, this may not be the case in a for-profit private institution or certain church-affiliated universities and colleges.
The rank of professor is the highest of the standard academic ranks in the United States, and is held by 29.5% of U.S. academics. Advancement past the rank of professor typically involves administrative duties (e.g., department chair, dean, or provost) or selection for an honorary title or endowed chair.
The absence of a mandatory retirement age contributes to "graying" of this occupation. The median age of American full professors (in 2006) was around 55 years. Very few people attain this position before the age of 40. The annual salary of full professors averages at $99,000, although less so at non-doctoral institutions, and more so at private doctoral institutions (not including side income from grants and consulting, which can be substantial in some fields); in addition, institutions in major cities or high cost of living areas will pay higher salaries.
In addition to increasing salary, each promotional step also tends to come with increased administrative responsibilities. In some cases, these changes are offset by reduced teaching or research expectations.
Special academic ranks (tenured)
Professor emeritus and emerita
A full professor who retires in good standing may be referred to as a professor emeritus for men, or professor emerita for women. This title is also given to retired professors who continue to teach and to be listed. The title may also be given to full professors who have left for another institution but are still working full-time. The concept has in some places been expanded to include also tenured associate professors, or also non-tenure-track faculty. In some systems and institutions the rank is bestowed on all professors who have retired in good standing, while at others it needs a special act or vote. Depending on local circumstances, professors emeriti may retain office space or other privileges.
The word is typically used as a postpositional adjective ("professor emeritus") but can also be used as a preposition adjective ("emeritus professor"). There is a third, somewhat less common usage, following the full title (e.g., "professor of medicine, emeritus".)
Distinguished (research/teaching) professor
Often specific to one institution, titles such as "president's professor", "university professor", "distinguished professor", "distinguished research professor", "distinguished teaching professor", "distinguished university professor", or "regents professor" are granted to a small percentage of the top tenured faculty who are regarded as particularly important in their respective fields of research. Some institutions grant more university-specific, formal titles such as M.I.T.'s "Institute Professor", Yale University's "Sterling Professor", or Duke University's "James B. Duke Professor".
Some academic and/or scholarly organizations may also bestow the title "distinguished professor" in recognition of achievement over the course of an academic career. For example, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture annually recognizes up to five faculty at architecture schools in the United States and Canada with the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.
Named/endowed chair
The incumbent of a "named chair" or "endowed chair" is a professor who holds a specific position within a university system, typically department chair that is financially supported by an investment portfolio (i.e., an endowment) initially created by donated funds from a firm, person, or group of persons. Endowed chairs are typically named for the person or entity who donated these funds, or for a person whom the monies were donated in honor of, such as a distinguished emeritus professor at that institution. Endowed chairs are best classified as a position rather than a career rank, because professors of different ranks could hold such a chair. Investment income earned from the chair's endowment is typically used to supplement the professor's salary, to provide a yearly budget that can be used to support the professor's research activities, or both.
Other designations
For non-tenure track teaching positions in the US, academic institutions use a wide array of different job titles depending on if the position is temporary or permanent, if the work is full-time or part-time, and numerous other factors. Adding to the confusion over the formal names of non-tenure track positions, in almost every case the common-noun descriptor "professor" is used informally for people who teach at a college or university, regardless of their formal job title, and the terms are often loosely interchanged by faculty and administrators. For example, US President Barack Obama is commonly referred to as having been a professor of law at the University of Chicago, when in fact he formally held the title of senior lecturer, causing some controversy during the 2008 US Presidential Election. The faculty of the University of Chicago Law School eventually published a statement noting that it is common for lecturers to be referred to as professors, and that they support the use of the term professor to describe Obama's role with the university.
Lecturer / Instructor
"Lecturers" and "instructors" in the US can work full-time or part-time and may be referred to as "professor" by their classes, but they often don't mind when students refer to them as college teachers. At some institutions, they teach as their primary purpose, but they can also serve on academic committees. Since these positions are usually non-tenure track, they often do not involve a research or publishing requirement, although many of these professors do publish, research, and consult. Alternatively, at US medical colleges, the title "Instructor" can be given to someone who is full-time faculty and who may conduct research with no teaching obligation. These appointments can be tenure-track in some universities.
Visiting professor
An individual hired with a college or university to teach for a limited time is sometimes referred to as a "Visiting Professor" or "Visiting Lecturer"; this may be someone who is a professor elsewhere, or a scholar or practitioner who is not. The term may also refer simply to non-tenure track teaching appointments (usually 1 to 3 years) and/or post-doctorate research appointments. The title can mirror the naming conventions used in tenure-track positions, for example the professor in question could be called a "Visiting Assistant Professor", "Distinguished Visiting Professor", etc.
Adjunct professor
An adjunct professor is a professor who does not hold a permanent or full-time position at that particular academic institution. Adjunct professors usually have no expectation of tenure as a part of their contract. An adjunct is generally not required to participate in the administrative responsibilities at the institution expected of tenure-track professors, nor are adjuncts paid for their research.
Traditionally the majority of adjuncts held full-time jobs outside academia, and taught one or two classes in their respective fields of expertise to provide a practical perspective to the often theoretical coursework taught by full-time professors. Since the 1990s, however, the nature of adjunct professorship in the United States and other nations has shifted to refer mainly to persons hired to teach courses on a short-term contractual basis. Such adjuncts generally have a teaching load below the minimum required to earn employment benefits such as health insurance or access to retirement accounts. In contrast with tenure-track professors, adjuncts do not usually have individual offices or a place to store possessions.
Adjuncts are not funded to maintain currency in their fields of expertise, nor to interact with students other than within the course(s) they are hired to teach. Often, adjuncts will work for several universities simultaneously, as working at one school often fails to provide adequate income to support oneself. These adjuncts have been called part of the "working poor". In 2014, a national news story described the situation of adjuncts as "Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation." In 2015, an adjunct professor of law writing in The Guardian provided an anecdotal example of the low pay some adjuncts earn: teaching five courses with a gross salary of $15,000 for the year, less than a professional pet sitter.
Universities often treat adjuncts as inexpensive and replaceable when compared to tenure-track faculty, and as additional teaching resources to be called up as necessary. Adjuncts cannot count on employment: classes can be transferred from adjuncts to full-time professors, classes with low enrollment can be summarily canceled; and the teaching schedule from one semester to the next can be unpredictable.
In some cases, an adjunct may hold one of the standard academic ranks in another department, and be recognized with adjunct rank for making contributions to the department in question. Thus, one could be an "associate professor of physics and adjunct professor of chemistry".
In some universities, there are different ranks of adjunct faculty. For example, at the University of Iowa, the ranks are adjunct instructor, adjunct assistant professor, adjunct associate professor, and adjunct full professor; the University states that "the expectations at each rank are similar to those for the same rank on the tenure track".
Professor by courtesy/affiliated professor
A professor who is primarily and originally associated with one academic department, but has become officially associated with a second department, institute, or program within the university and has assumed a professor's duty in that second department as well, could be called a "professor by courtesy." Example: "Dan Jurafsky is professor of linguistics and professor by courtesy of computer science at Stanford University". Usually, the second courtesy appointment carries with it fewer responsibilities and fewer benefits than a single full appointment (for example, affiliated professors rarely have voting rights in their courtesy department).
Research professor
A professor who does not take on all of the classic duties of a professor, but instead focuses on research. At most universities, research professors are not eligible for tenure and must fund their salary entirely through research grants, with no regular salary commitment from internal university sources. In parallel with tenure-track faculty ranks, there are assistant and associate research professor positions.
Assistant, associate or full teaching professors
These types of professors focus on teaching, often at higher loads than research faculty, and in departments with graduate students, supervising teaching assistants. They may be ranked assistant, associate, and full. At some institutions (like within the University of California system), these are full voting members of the Academic Senate who get tenured and promoted in the same manner as other tenure-track faculty, and have all the powers/rights of other faculty at the same rank (e.g. Principal investigator status, supervising doctoral dissertations, serving in academic leadership roles, etc.).
At some institutions, they may be full-time contingent instructors who are not required to meet the research requirements of the tenure track.
Clinical professor
A clinical professor engages in practical instruction (of professional students) typically with an emphasis on practical skills as opposed to theory. This generally is not a "tenure track" position, but can be either full- or part-time. These types of appointments are common in law, medicine, and business schools, and are sometimes referred to as 'professor of practice'.
Honorary professor
This is a title normally granted to those who have contributed significantly to the school and community (for example, by donation for furtherance of research and academic development), but may or may not have earned a PhD.
Demographics
Most professors in the U.S. are male, liberal (in the contemporary American political sense), and upper middle class. A slight majority of professors ranked among the top 15% of wage earners, in 2005.
According to a study by Robert Lichter, a professor at George Mason University, "The vast majority of professors in the United States identify themselves as liberal, and registered Democrats commonly outnumber registered Republicans." However, this demographic tendency varies across departments. A 2010 study by Gross and Fosse found that the political persuasions of American professors had changed over the 20th century. In the 1800s professors were often clergymen and tended towards conservatism, gradually becoming more liberal with the Progressive Era and Great Depression. By the mid-20th century, the humanities and social sciences were dominated by liberal or Democratic professors, with Republicans or conservatives showing a slight majority in departments of business, agriculture and engineering. From the late 1970s to the mid 1980s there was a trend towards conservatism amongst professors (paralleling a national shift to the right with the "Reagan Revolution"): about 5% of professors identified themselves as strongly left-wing, about a third identifying themselves as liberals, about 25% identifying themselves as moderates, 25% as conservative, and 5% as strongly conservative. Since the 1980s, the percentage of liberal professors has grown steadily, with nationwide research consistently finding somewhere between 7 and 9 liberals for each professor of another political persuasion.
In terms of education, the vast majority of professors hold doctorate degrees. Professors at community colleges may only have a master's degree while those at four-year institutions are often required to hold a doctorate or other terminal degree. To some extent this is a result of "credential creep": why hire someone without a doctorate, since there are so many applicants with one? Older faculty, hired when doctorates were less common, are less likely to hold the degree.
Salary
Most of the full-time tenured or tenure-track professors are paid by a college or university on nine- or ten-month contracts. Salary data for professors is typically reported as a nine-month salary, not including compensation received (often from research grants) during the summer. In 2006, the overall median 9-month salary for all professors in the U.S. was reported to be $73,000, placing a slight majority of professors among the top 15% of earners at age 25 or older. Yet, their salaries remain considerably below that of some other comparable professions (even when including summer compensation) such as lawyers (who earned a median of $110,000) and physicians (whose median earnings ranged from $137,000 to $322,000 depending on speciality). According to the U.S. Department of Labor,
[Academic year 2007] salaries for full-time faculty in the U.S. averaged $73,207. By rank, the average was $98,974 for professors, $69,911 for associate professors, $58,662 for assistant professors, $42,609 for instructors, and $48,289 for lecturers. Faculty in 4-year institutions earn higher salaries, on average, than do those in 2-year schools. In 2006–2007, faculty salaries averaged $84,249 in private independent institutions, $71,362 in public institutions, and $66,118 in religiously affiliated private colleges and universities.
Salaries vary widely by field and rank, ranging from $45,927 for an assistant professor in theology to $136,634 for a full professor in legal professions and studies. A 2005 study by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources found the average salary for all faculty members, including instructors, to be $66,407, placing half of all faculty members in the top 15.3% of income earners above the age of 25. Median salaries were $54,000 for assistant professors, $64,000 for associate professors and $86,000 for full professors 2005. During the 2005–2006 year, salaries for assistant professors ranged from $45,927 in theology to $81,005 in law. For associate professors, salaries ranged from $56,943 in theology to $98,530 in law, while salaries among full professors ranged from $68,214 in theology to $136,634 in law. During the 2010–2011 year, associate professor salaries vary from $59,593 in theology to $93,767 in law. Full professors at elite institutions commonly enjoy six-figure incomes, such as $123,300 at UCLA or $148,500 at Stanford. The CSU system, which is the largest system in the U.S., with over 11,000 faculty members, had an average full-time faculty salary of $74,000 in 2007, which had been scheduled to increase to $91,000 by 2011. Unfortunately for these faculty, the ensuing crash of the U.S. economy resulted in temporary pay reductions and total salary stagnation at the 2007 level instead, in spite of ongoing inflation.
Adjunct faculty make from $1,500 to $4,000 per course, so that if teaching four courses per semester – a schedule difficult to maintain for reasons of distance and market saturation, and a higher teaching load than tenure-track faculty usually endure – they can earn from $12,000 to $32,000 per year.
The following table uses figures for the 2005–2006 academic year:
See also
American Association of University Professors
Academic discipline
Academic rank
Lecturer
Scholarly method
School and university in literature
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"Dance Little Dreamer" is a 1978 disco single by Bionic Boogie, a group created by disco producer, Gregg Diamond and was included in Bionic Boogie's, self-titled, 1978 album. "Dance Little Dreamer", along with the track, "Risky Changes" made it to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play disco charts for three weeks. Despite the popularity of the album cuts, both failed to make both the soul and pop singles chart.
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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2022. A total of eighteen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2022, all by lethal injection.
List of people executed in the United States in 2022
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Executions in recent years
See also
List of death row inmates in the United States
List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976
List of most recent executions by jurisdiction
List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present
List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
List of women executed in the United States since 1976
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The NBC Comedy Hour was a comedy show that ran on NBC in the first half of 1956, intended to be a replacement for The Colgate Comedy Hour.
Leo Durocher hosted the show in January, and Gale Storm from February until April 8; from April 22 on, hosts were called in per episode. Comic Jonathan Winters was a more frequent face than any of the hosts; he appeared in 17 of the 18 episodes. Stan Freberg was also a guest 6 times. Topical comedian Mort Sahl's network debut was on the Comedy Hour. A group of acting chimpanzees named The Marquis Chimps performed parodies of movies in 3 episodes.
The show was a critical and ratings failure: Variety stated "A more poorly conceived, routined and paced outing would be difficult to imagine." It was cancelled in June, having already been pre-empted 4 times in 5 months. It was succeeded by The Steve Allen Show, whose reputation became a marked contrast to that of The NBC Comedy Hour. The Paley Center for Media has several episodes of the series in their archives.
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The 2016 Utah Utes women's soccer team represented the University of Utah during the 2016 NCAA Division I women's soccer season.
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Underpowered may refer to:
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WKEL may refer to:
WKEL (FM), a radio station (88.1 FM) licensed to serve Webster, New York, United States
WYRA, a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to serve Confluence, Pennsylvania, United States, which held the call sign WKEL from 2007 to 2012 | wiki |
This is a list of stretch-curd cheeses, comprising cheeses prepared using the pasta filata technique. The cheeses manufactured from this technique undergo a plasticising and kneading treatment of the fresh curd in hot water, which gives them fibrous structures.
Stretch-curd cheeses
Akkawi – a white brined cheese originating from the city of Acre (Akko), Israel. Its texture can be compared to mozzarella, feta or a mizithra, since it does not melt easily. The texture and flavor is a result of its specific culturing from its curds that are kept together for a prolonged period longer than simpler tasting curd cheese such as Syrian cheese when akkai is transformed into cheese.
Braided cheese – made from strips of highly elastic cheese wound together in a braid. Turkey, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria, and many Latin American nations make varieties of braided cheese.
Cacio figurato – a type of pasta filata cheese manufactured in Sicily, Italy made from cow's milk.
Caciocavallo – is a type of pasta filata cheese made out of sheep's or cow's milk. It is produced throughout Southern Italy, particularly in the Apennine Mountains and in the Gargano peninsula. Shaped like a tear-drop, it is similar in taste to the aged Southern Italian Provolone cheese, with a hard edible rind.
Galbanino – a soft, mild, cheese produced by the Italian company Galbani, it most closely resembles a mild provolone cheese.
Halloumi – a Cypriot semihard, unripened, brined cheese made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk, and sometimes also cow's milk. It is set with rennet and is unusual in that no acid or acid-producing bacterium is used in its preparation.
Kashkaval – a hard yellow cheese made of cow's milk, sheep's milk, or both. It dates to the 11th and 12th centuries, and is popular in several mediterranean countries.
Moliterno – produced in a similar manner as caciocavallo
Mozzarella – a traditionally southern Italian dairy product made by the pasta filata method. Mozzarella received a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed certification from the European Union in 1998. This protection scheme requires that mozzarella sold in the European Union is produced according to a traditional recipe.
Bocconcini – small mozzarella cheese the size of an egg, it is prepared in the pasta filata manner by dipping curds into hot whey, and kneading, pulling and stretching.
Buffalo mozzarella is made from the milk of Mediterranea Italiana buffalo. It is traditionally manufactured in Campania, especially in the provinces of Caserta and Salerno.
Oaxaca cheese – a white, semihard cheese from Mexico, similar to un-aged Monterey Jack, but with a mozzarella-like string cheese texture. The production process is complicated and involves stretching the cheese into long ribbons and rolling it up like a ball of yarn.
Oscypek is a smoked cheese made using salted sheep's milk and some cow's milk that is made exclusively in the Tatra Mountains region of Poland. Unpasteurized salted sheep's milk is first turned into cottage cheese, which is then repeatedly rinsed with boiling water and squeezed. After this, the mass is pressed into wooden, spindle-shaped forms in decorative shapes. The forms are then placed in a brine-filled barrel for a night or two, after which they are placed close to the roof in a special wooden hut and cured in hot smoke for up to 14 days.
Oštiepok is a traditional smoked sheep's milk cheese made in Slovakia; it is a protected trade name under the EU's protected geographical indication.
Pallone di Gravina is a firm cow's milk cheese from the regions of Basilicata and Apulia in southeast Italy. It is made in the pasta filata style weighing between , in a pear-like shape, ball, or balloon (pallone), and was traditionally produced in the area of the city of Gravina, in the Murgia area of the province of Bari. Today, however, production is centered in the province of Matera.
Palmito cheese is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Costa Rica.
Parenica – a protected trade name under the EU's protected geographical indication, it is a traditional Slovak cheese that is semifirm, nonripening, semifat, steamed, and usually smoked, although a nonsmoked version is also produced.
Provolone – an aged semihard Italian pasta filata cheese originating in Casilli near Vesuvius, where it is still produced in pear, sausage, or cone shapes varying from long. Its taste varies significantly, from provolone piccante (sharp/piquant), aged for a minimum of four months and with a very sharp taste, to provolone dolce (sweet) with a very mild taste. In provolone piccante, the distinctive piquant taste is produced with lipase (enzyme) derived from goat. The Dolce version uses calf's lipase instead.
Ragusano cheese is an Italian cow's milk cheese produced in Ragusa, in Sicily in southern Italy. It is a firm stretched-curd cheese made with whole milk from cows of the Modicana breed, raised exclusively on fresh grass or hay in the provinces of Ragusa and Syracuse. The cheese was awarded Italian Denominazione di Origine Controllata protection in 1955 and EU DOP status in 1995.
Queso de mano – Venezuelan soft, white cheese.
Scamorza – an Italian stretched-curd cow's milk cheese, it can also be made from other milks, but this is less common. In its preparation, the fresh curd matures in its own whey for several hours to allow acidity to develop by the process of lactose being converted to lactic acid. Artisanal cheese makers generally form the cheese into a round shape, and then tie a string around the mass one-third of the distance from the top, and hang to dry. The resulting shape is pear-like.
Stracciata – a fresh cow's milk pasta filata cheese produced in Italy, it is formed into flat strips of about 4–5 cm wide, 1 cm thick, and folded in on itself in a uniform manner or woven wire. The name stracciata means "tattered" in Italian.
Stracciatella di bufala is a cheese produced from Italian buffalo milk in the province of Foggia, located in the southern Italian region of Apulia, using a stretching and a shredding technique.
String cheese refers to several different types of cheese where the manufacturing process aligns the proteins in the cheese, which makes it stringy.
Chechil is a brine string cheese that originated in Armenia. It has a consistency approximating that of mozzarella or sulguni, and is produced in the form of dense strings, rolled up in a figure eight of thick braid-shaped ropes.
Korbáčik is a type of semihard or medium hard string cheese interwoven into fine braids. It originates from the Orava region of northern Slovakia. The two main variants of Korbáčik are smoked and unsmoked.
Sulguni – a brined Georgian cheese from the Samegrelo region. It has a sour, moderately salty flavor, a dimpled texture, and an elastic consistency; these attributes are the result of the process used, and the source of its moniker "pickle cheese". The fried cheese is a popular dish in Georgia.
Vastedda della valle del Belice – is one of the very few spun paste sheep's milk cheese. Produced in western Sicily, between the provinces of Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento, in the territories of the Belìce valley.
Its taste is particular, typical of fresh sheep's cheese, with slightly acidic and never spicy characteristic.
Its texture is white, compact, with some streaks due to artisanal spinning. The characteristic focaccia shape, with its slightly convex faces, makes the Vastedda unforgettable. .
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Lists of cheeses | wiki |
The 60-yard dash is a sprint covering 60 yards (54.86 m). It is primarily run to evaluate the speed and acceleration of American Major League Baseball players. It is also often used to evaluate the speed of American Football (especially NFL) players (although the 40-yard dash is much more common in football).
In the United States, prior to the adoption of metricized outdoor running tracks, the 60 yard dash was a commonly contested indoor event. Prior to 1983, the 60 yard dash was an event every year at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. The event was also regularly contested at the AAU Indoor Track and Field Championships.
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References
Sprint (running) | wiki |
Native title in Australia is decided principally by the High Court and the Federal Court.
References
High Court
Native title case law in Australia
Australian case law | wiki |
The Mexico Pavilion is a Mexican-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at the Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, United States. Its location is next to the Norway pavilion.
Layout
The Mexico Pavilion resembles a Mesoamerican pyramid with steps leading to entrance doors. Visitors enter through a gallery display of Mexican artwork, the "Animales Fantásticos" art collection. The central indoor area of the pavilion is themed as an outdoor twilight-lit Mexican village and marketplace, Plaza de los Amigos. At the edge of the plaza, a restaurant, San Ángel Inn Restaurante, overlooks an indoor lagoon with a themed backdrop of another pyramid and a smoldering volcano in the distance with themed lighting and smoke effects. To the side of the plaza, a boarding area leads to a boat ride, Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros which commences in the indoor lagoon area.
Due to the location and height of the outdoor structure of the pavilion, the nightly fireworks show Harmonious is controlled from a small technical office atop the building.
Attractions and services
Attractions
Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros - 2007 – present.
DuckTales World Showcase Adventure - 2022 - present.
Former Attractions
El Río del Tiempo (The River of Time) - (1982-2007). (Replaced by Gran Fiesta Tour in 2007)
Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure - (2009-2012).
Agent P World Showcase Adventure - (2012-2020)
Dining
San Angel Inn Restaurante - an indoor table-service restaurant located in the central plaza of the pavilion, the restaurant is the sibling to Mexico City's restaurant of the same name, which dates back to 1692.
La Hacienda de San Ángel - a lakeside indoor table-service restaurant, opened in September 2010.
Cantina de San Ángel - a lakeside counter-service location with casual outdoor seating.
La Cava del Tequila - a tequila bar with a vast collection of tequilas, specialty margaritas and light Mexican appetizers, hosted by tequila "connoisseurs" that interact with park guests. Located adjacent to San Angel Inn Restaurante.
Choza de Margarita - an outdoor margarita bar with a wide variety of frozen margaritas, on-the-rocks margaritas and Mexican snacks, opened in November 2017
Live entertainment
Mariachi Cobre
Shopping
Plaza de Los Amigos, a Mexican marketplace that sells products such as sombreros, ceramics, musical instruments such as maracas, bajas and The Three Caballeros' merchandise.
See also
Epcot attraction and entertainment history
References
External links
Walt Disney World Resort - Mexico Pavilion
Walt Disney World Resort - Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros
Walt Disney World Resort - San Angel Inn
Walt Disney World Resort - La Hacienda de San Angel
Walt Disney World Resort - Mariachi Cobre
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts attractions
Epcot
Mexican-American culture in Florida
Mexico in fiction
World Showcase
1982 establishments in Florida | wiki |
The wildlife of Eritrea is composed of its flora and fauna.
Eritrea has 96 species of mammals and a rich avifauna of 566 species of birds.
Fauna
Mammals
Birds
Notes
References
External links
Eastern Africa: Ethiopia, extending into Eritrea,
Eritrean coastal desert
Eastern Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan
Biota of Eritrea
Eritrea | wiki |
Chennai is the third largest software exporter in India, next only to Bangalore and Hyderabad. India's largest IT park is housed at Chennai. Software exports from Tamil Nadu during 2017–2018 rose 8.6% per cent to touch 1,11,179 crore, involving a workforce of 780,000, and the city is the hub for deep tech startup companies. Many software and software services companies have development centres in Chennai, which contributed 14 percent of India's total software exports of 14,42,140 lakh during 2006–07, making it the third largest Indian city software exporter following Bangalore, Hyderabad and the city is the home for 7 top rated IT companies out of 15 in India. The Tidel Park in Chennai was billed as Asia's largest IT park when it was built. Major software companies have their offices set up here, with some of them making Chennai their largest base. Chennai is the largest hub for e-publishing, as there are 67 e-publishing units registered with the STPI and many Rs.8300-Cr data centers, digital hubs are in the process of development. A major reason for the growth of the Software industry are the top engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, of which Chennai is a major contributor, have been a major recruiting hub for the IT firms. According to estimates, these engineering colleges and universities consistently generate about 50 per cent of the human resource requirements for the IT and ITES industry was being sourced from the state, particularly from Chennai. The total employment in the Tamil Nadu’s technology sector crossed the one million (10 lakh) mark in the quarter ended June 2022.
Since the late 1990s, software development and business process outsourcing and more recently electronics manufacturing have emerged as major drivers of the city's economic growth. Chennai has been rated as the most attractive Indian city for offshoring services according to A T Kearney's Indian City Services Attractiveness Index 2005. After Bangalore Chennai leads No. 2 in software space absorption.
Major software companies in Chennai
Major software and software services companies including Altran, Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, DXC Technology, SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, Cisco Systems, HCL Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, CGI Inc., Infosys, Sopra Steria, Symantec, Tata Consultancy Services, Verizon, Wipro, Virtusa, UST Global, Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Fujitsu, NTT DATA, LTI, Honeywell, VMware, Intel, Amazon.com, Inc., Tech Mahindra, Fiserv, Adobe Systems, AT&T, Philips, AstraZeneca, Wolters Kluwer, TransUnion, Ernst & Young, L&T Technology Services, Mindtree, Shell Business Operations, Athenahealth, Ford Global Technology & Business Center, Ramco Systems, Optimum Infosystem, Deloitte, Microsoft, Temenos, Synechron, KPMG, PayPal have development centres in the city. The city is now the second largest exporter of IT and IT enabled Services in the country behind Bangalore.
The IT Corridor, on Old Mahabalipuram Road in the southeast of the city houses several technology parks, and, when completed, will provide employment to close to 300,000 people. Besides the existing Tidel Park, two more Tidel Parks are on the anvil in the IT corridor. One is under construction at the Siruseri IT Special Economic Zone ("SEZ") and the other one is being planned at the current location of MGR Film City which is just before the existing Tidel Park, in Taramani on the IT Corridor. A number of SEZ have emerged in and around Chennai. The Mahindra World City, New Chennai, a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) with one of the world's largest high technology business zones, is currently under construction in the outskirts of Chennai. It also includes the World's largest IT Park by Infosys.
Special economic zones
A number of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) projects has emerged along the Grand Southern Trunk Road (NH 45), making it the SEZ corridor of Chennai. It includes MEPZ SEZ established in 1984, Mahindra World City, New Chennai, Shriram Properties's Gateway SEZ, Estancia SEZ and ETL Infrastructure.
It is also emerging as a major IT SEZ region with a number of huge investments by Infosys. Infosys has set up its largest development center in Mahindra SEZ while India Land Tech Park is developing a massive SEZ which is estimated to have office space for both IT and Electronics use. Shriram The Gateway SEZ, is an integrated township with IT/ITeS SEZ residential and mall, which is also home for IT majors like Accenture, ReDIM Information Systems, later the IT park is expanded to 4.6 million sft in association with Xander Group and EISL is an IT/ITES SEZ by ETL Infrastructure at Chengalpattu on is in the process of development.
Software backend services
Chennai houses the permanent back office of the World Bank, which is one of the largest buildings owned by the bank outside its headquarters in Washington, DC. The Chennai office, administrative and IT services of the bank, including the bank's software based analytical work in bond valuation which is estimated to be US$100 billion.
Software as a service
Chennai has emerged as the "SaaS Capital of India" (SaaS is jargon for "software as a service". The SaaS sector in/around Chennai generated $1 billion USD in revenue and employed about 10000 personnel in 2018.
See also
DLF Cybercity Chennai
TIDEL Park
SIPCOT IT Park
International Tech Park, Chennai
Olympia Tech Park
One Indiabulls Park
Economy of Chennai
Information technology in India
List of Indian IT companies
References
Information technology industry of Chennai
Software industry in India
Software companies of India | wiki |
Travelin' may refer to:
Travelin' (John Lee Hooker album), 1960
''Travelin''' (Chet Atkins album), 1963
''Travelin''' (Tommy James and the Shondells album), 1970 | wiki |
The beef top blade steak (also known as the chicken steak, esp. on the Northeast Coast of the US) comes from the chuck section of a steer or heifer.
Description
The steaks are cross-cut from the top blade subprimal, also known as Infraspinatus. It is becoming more popular and profitable to abstain from cross cutting the top blade and instead produce flat iron steaks which is cut with the grain and eliminates the connective tissue (fascia) that runs down the middle of this steak.
See also
Beef clod
Flat iron steak
References
Cuts of beef | wiki |
Anita Anand (née en 1957), professeur de droit et femme politique canadienne ;
(née en 1972), journaliste et présentatrice de radio et télévision indo-britannique. | wiki |
Washington Highway may refer to:
A183 road (England), called Washington Highway
U.S. Route 1 in Virginia, called Washington Highway in Hanover County | wiki |
Top sirloin is a cut of beef from the primal loin or subprimal sirloin. Top sirloin steaks differ from sirloin steaks in that the bone and the tenderloin and bottom round muscles have been removed; the remaining major muscles are the gluteus medius and biceps femoris (top sirloin cap steak).
Description
The USDA NAMP/IMPS codes related to this subprimal cut are 181A and 184. 181A is obtained from 181 after removing the bottom sirloin and the butt tender (the part of the tenderloin which is in the sirloin). 184 is obtained from 182 after removing the bottom sirloin. The food service cuts from 184 are 184A through 184F, its portion cut is 1184 and, the "subportion" cuts from 1184 are 1184A through 1184F. 181A is not further divided into food service cuts. In Australia, this cut is called D-rump in the Handbook of Australian Meat and assigned code 2100.
Etymology
The word comes from the Middle English , which itself was derived from the Old French word , meaning sur longe or above the loin. In Modern French, the term evolved to become aloyau or faux-filet.
An often quoted false etymology suggests that sirloin comes from the knighting by an English king (various kings are cited) of a piece of meat. However, the English cut of sirloin includes the large portion of beef which includes the short loin, top sirloin and bottom sirloin.
Cooking styles
Top sirloin steak is usually served grilled, broiled, sautéed, or pan-fried.
See also
Baseball steak
Picanha
List of steak dishes
References
External links
Chart of beef cuts
Top sirloin description from Certified Angus Beef
Bovine myology & muscle profile
Cuts of beef | wiki |
Drifting (1923), een film van Tod Browning
Drifting (2010), een film van David Ludlow
Drifting (2014), een film van Anthony Caldarella
driften, een autorijdtechniek | wiki |
IYM may refer to:
India Yamaha Motor
A number of different Quaker Yearly Meetings:
Indiana Yearly Meeting
Iowa Yearly Meeting
Ireland Yearly Meeting
International Year of Mountains, an international observance | wiki |
Frump may refer to:
"Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung", a song on the album "Weird Al" Yankovic
The surname of some of the characters in The Addams Family (1964 TV series)
Donald Frump, an elephant character in Rocko's Modern Life
Judge Horatio Curmudgeon Frump, a character in Tumbleweeds (comic strip)
Babe Frump, NFL player | wiki |
This is a list of major bridges in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Road bridges
Alfords Point
Anzac
Bennelong (private vehicles not permitted)
Bernie Banton
Brooklyn
Captain Cook
De Burghs
Endeavour
Fig Tree
Fullers
Gasworks Bridge
Gladesville
Glebe Island Bridge
Iron Cove
James Ruse Drive
Lansdowne
Lennox
Long Gully Bridge
Peats Ferry Bridge
Richmond Bridge
Roseville
Ryde
Silverwater
Spit
Sydney Harbour
Tarban Creek
Tom Uglys
Victoria Bridge, Penrith
Victoria Bridge, Picton
Windsor
Woronora
Yarramundi Bridge
Railway bridges
Clyde-Carlingford
Como
Glebe Viaduct
Hawkesbury River
Jubilee Park Viaduct
Knapsack Gully viaduct
Lewisham viaduct
John Whitton
Holsworthy rail
Menangle
Picton viaduct
Richmond bridge - Kurrajong line
Wentworth Park Viaduct
Pedestrian bridges
Albert Cotter
Arncliffe
Balgowlah
Boothtown Aqueduct
Elizabeth Street (Parramatta)
Fairfield West
Huntleys Point
Kogarah
Linley Point
Macquarie Culvert
Mt Annan
Pyrmont
Meadowbank
Rozelle
Skye Winter (Claymore)
Sydney University footbridge (Darlington)
Sydney University footbridge (Forest Lodge)
Woollahra
Closed bridges
Glebe Island
See also
Historic bridges of New South Wales
References
Bridges
Sydney bridges
Sydney | wiki |
A re-recording is a recording produced following a new performance of a work of music. This is most commonly, but not exclusively, by a popular artist or group. It differs from a reissue, which involves a second or subsequent release of a previously-recorded piece of music.
Re-recordings are often produced decades after the original recordings were released, usually under contract terms more favorable to the artists. This is especially common among acts who originally agreed to contracts that would be considered unfair and exploitative today. When re-recordings are issued under newer contracts, artists can collect far higher royalties for use in films, commercials, and movie trailers. Other acts re-record their work for artistic reasons. Jeff Lynne of the Electric Light Orchestra released a solo best-of album with new versions of previous hits like "Mr. Blue Sky", the original of which Lynne described as "[not] quite how I meant it". Some artists, such as Def Leppard and Taylor Swift, re-recorded their music because of disputes with their labels.
Re-recordings commonly appear in online music stores and streaming services, such as the iTunes Store and Spotify.
Recording contracts
Recording contracts are a way in which the ownership of sound recordings can be legally recognised. Recording contracts are often between an artist and a record label and stipulate terms relating to royalties, performance rights and recording costs. The motivation behind the re-recording of music is often associated with the legal ownership of the music and how that ownership can bring financial gains to an artist, especially if initial contract terms are financially unfavourable. Different types of recording contracts exist, and a newer model that focuses on paying the artist a prolonged salary for limited ownership of their music is becoming favourable with high profile artists such as Madonna. This new model is often seen as fairer to artists, especially financially. The internet has also given artists more power in negotiating fairer recording contracts, or even self-publishing music directly onto streaming platforms. An element of risk associated with record labels and up-and-coming artists is offered as an explanation for why record contracts can often be seen as unfavourable but necessary to avoid financial losses over time. Recording contracts are a fundamental part of the music industry and recording music, especially for commercial purposes. They serve as a way for artists to negotiate ownership of their music and for profits to be made and leveraged.
Even though recording contracts are between an artist and the record label, they often involve the ownership of rights to specific recordings of music, as is the case with Taylor Swift. Swift signed with her first record label, Big Machine Records, in 2005, when she was not even considered an adult, and released six albums under that contract. Her record contract expired in 2018 and she signed with a new record label, UMG. Big Machine Records was sold one year later and Swift’s master recordings for her first six albums followed the sale, leading Swift to re-record those albums. A similar record label contractual dispute is evident with Prince. He was unable to own his master recordings, so he went so far as to change his name to a symbol and tried to release music under that in hopes that he would own the master recordings for those albums if his name was not Prince. This did not work but in 2014 the record label gave Prince back his master recordings after he held a public campaign shaming them. Prince was also one of the first artists to utilise the internet as a way to release music without the involvement of record labels. In using the internet as a way of controlling the release of his music, Prince acted as inspiration for other artists to think about how they want to release their music, particularly in the face of contractual battles, even extending to re-recording of music.
Music copyright
Music copyright refers to protecting a recorded piece of music so that it cannot be reproduced or used without permission of the artist or copyright holder. Unlike copyright for films, music copyright focuses on the author of the piece of music and the sound within the music, not moving images. This means that another individual or machine can reproduce a piece of music without causing copyright infringement, as long as the original recording is not used. This is particularly relevant to re-recording of music as it allows artists to record the same song later as a newer version or a special edition and own that independently.
As the internet has evolved, copyright in music has been put at risk and forced to adapt. The digital landscape has changed the way in which music is shared and for what price, leading to music piracy threatening the legitimacy and control that copyright holders have over their music. Piracy has enabled the sharing of music with the click of a button for no monetary value. This has forced copyright laws to adapt to circumstances such as piracy to protect an artist’s intellectual property. Music copyright can provide an artist with freedom to license and re-record music but is constantly open to vulnerabilities from evolving technology.
Notable examples
Stereo re-recordings
Stereo or hi-fi recordings gained immense popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with mono recordings gradually being completely phased out by record companies by the end of the 1960s. With recordings having been made and issued in single-channel mono up to that point, some artists re-recorded some of their most famous songs so they would be available for purchase in the new stereo format. Sometimes these artists re-recorded their material for the same label, as with June Christy, whose 1955 album Something Cool was entirely re-recorded in stereo for Capitol in 1960, or Ray Conniff, who in 1969 re-recorded a stereo version of "S'Wonderful", a song he had recorded for Columbia in mono in 1956. As well in the late 1950s, a number of dance bands (including the bands of Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and others) issued stereo re-recordings of their best-known songs for a range of different labels.
Perhaps the most commercially successful stereo re-recording was Tommy Edwards' "It's All In The Game". Edwards' original (mono) 1951 version reached No. 18 on the Billboard Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys survey dated September 15, 1951.
By 1958, Edwards had only one session left on his MGM contract, and it was decided to cut a stereo version of "It's All in the Game" to have a stereo master available of the artist's most well-remembered recording. The re-recorded performance was issued as a single in July 1958 and became a hit, reaching number one for six weeks beginning September 29, 1958, making Edwards the first African-American to chart at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In November, the song hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart.
The Everly Brothers
In 1960, The Everly Brothers left Cadence Records, where they had recorded a string of hits from 1957 to 1960. One of their earliest actions for their new label, Warner Brothers, was to re-record new versions of their most popular Cadence songs. The new versions of their Cadence songs were joined with their first hits on the WB label to form a new "Greatest Hits" album issued on WB. In re-recording their music, The Everly Brothers set a precedent that is still widely used in recording contracts today. So that this situation will be avoided in the future, most major label contracts indicate that an artist may not re-record their own music for up to five years when the masters are first recorded or three years after the contract with the artist comes to an end.
Taylor Swift
A notable example of a musician re-recording their music is American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. When Swift originally signed to her prior record label, Big Machine, in 2005, she forfeited the ownership of her recordings. Swift was a teenager when she signed away the ownership of the master recordings, and has since expressed feelings of resentment and frustration as she feels her music should belong to her. Swift was advised by her lawyers that she could start the process of re-recording her old albums and release them as newer versions, as she was no longer affiliated with Big Machine. Following American businessman Scooter Braun's purchase of Big Machine (and the ownership of the masters along with it) after Swift moved to Republic Records, she announced that she would re-record her first six studio albums. This coincided with the release of her seventh studio album, Lover, the first she owns the masters of. Swift has been an advocate for artists to own their music and be aware of contractual terms that are unfavorable towards them, based on her own experiences. Her dispute with Big Machine and Braun was highly publicized and triggered an industry discourse on ethics, musicians' rights, and intellectual property.
In April 2021, Swift released her first re-recorded album, Fearless (Taylor's Version), a re-recording of her second album Fearless. It became the first re-recorded album ever to debut atop of the Billboard 200. As her prior recordings have been sold off to Braun, the re-recordings could potentially devalue the sales of the prior recordings. Upon the release of the re-recordings, Swift has been applauded in the media for her inventive way of tackling a delicate contractual issue, and for the quality of the new recordings. Swift is a current example of a high-profile musician involved in re-recording music and spreading awareness about music contracts and their terms. Commenting on her re-recording venture, Swift said that feels passionately about obtaining full ownership of her music and has said that in re-recording Fearless, she had such an emotional experience that it sparked her desire to re-record all the albums she had previously released prior to Lover. Swift has also said that re-recording her prior albums enables her to give fans a broader experience of what her true intentions for those albums were in the first place. She further stated that when she initially released Fearless, she held certain songs back because they were not appropriate, but whilst re-recording, she decided to release a number of un-released tracks so that fans could know the full meaning and intentions behind the album. These previously unreleased tracks included on Fearless (Taylor's Version) and noted as “From the Vault” comprise “You All Over Me", “Mr. Perfectly Fine”, “We Were Happy”, “That’s When”, “Don’t You”, and “Bye Bye Baby”, featuring artists such as Keith Urban and Maren Morris. Red (Taylor's Version), a re-recording of her fourth album Red, followed in November 2021. It featured nine "From the Vault" tracks, including the 10-minute-long, unabridged version of "All Too Well".
Def Leppard
Another example of an artist re-recording their prior music is Def Leppard. Def Leppard believed they were not receiving adequate remuneration for the digital versions of their albums and songs, and they also believed that an artist should receive the same amount of royalties from digital copies that they receive from physical copies of CDs and vinyl records sold. The band states they have paid back the money owed to their record label UMG and that modifications made to their recording contract over the years have given them the unique position of being able to control via an approval process the way in which their music is sold and distributed.
The band feels as though they have not been treated fairly by their record label, so in a move to reassert their power they have decided to re-record their popular hits and release them digitally so as to provide themselves with a fair share of the profits compared to what their record label was willing to offer them in negotiations. The band referred to these re-recordings as “forgeries” and the first to be released were two of their most popular songs “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Rock of Ages”, which they re-recorded in their own home studio. These songs made over $40,000 for the band from online sales alone and the option of use in advertising, television and movies is listed as a possibility for the band to further capitalise on the re-recorded material.
Further examples
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, K-tel released music compilations including re-recordings of songs by the original artists.
Cleopatra Records is an American record label that has also released compilation albums with re-recordings of songs, through its sublabels X-Ray Records and Goldenlane Records.
Curb Records has also released re-recordings of songs by country singers from the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1981, UK glam rock band Wizzard re-recorded their Christmas classic "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" as the 1973 original was lost.
In 1990, The Righteous Brothers' 1965 recording of "Unchained Melody" was featured in the movie Ghost and released as a single by Verve Records, but only on vinyl. The Righteous Brothers then re-recorded the song for Curb Records which released the re-recording as a cassette single. Both recordings charted in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, the Verve recording charting primarily based on airplay and the Curb re-recording primarily based on sales.
A few artists have re-recorded their songs for the Guitar Hero video game franchise, including Living Colour, Sex Pistols, Aerosmith, MC5, Motörhead, Third Eye Blind, Spacehog, Love and Rockets, Alice Cooper, and The Runaways. According to Sex Pistols vocalist Johnny Rotten, the original master tapes for "Anarchy in the U.K.", which contained multitracks for the instruments, had been lost. For "Kick Out the Jams", MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer teamed up with guitarists Jerry Cantrell and Gilby Clarke to re-record the song using the original voice track of Rob Tyner, who had died in 1991.
In 2010, the British group Squeeze re-recorded a selection of their singles which were originally released between 1978 and 1993. The resulting album title, Spot the Difference, suggests a comparison to the original recordings. Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook co-produced the new recordings using equipment he had saved from the originals. Former Squeeze member Paul Carrack returned to sing "Tempted" for the project.
Namie Amuro re-recorded 39 singles for her 2017 compilation album Finally before retiring from the music industry.
In December 2018, JoJo re-recorded her Blackground Records albums because of a dispute with the label, which involved her first two albums being withheld from streaming and digital services. However, in 2021, her original catalog has been made available after the revival of the label.
Car Seat Headrest's 2018 album Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) is a re-recording of 2011's Twin Fantasy. The latter was subtitled (Mirror to Mirror) after the former's release.
American duo Aly & AJ have re-recorded three songs from their albums with Hollywood Records, including an explicit version of their 2007 single "Potential Breakup Song" after widespread use on TikTok and requests by fans.
In 2021, Paula Cole re-recorded her 1997 single "I Don't Want to Wait", popular for being the broadcast theme of the television series Dawson's Creek, due to licensing issues that had prevented the song from being used on DVD and streaming services.
In 2022, American group Echosmith re-recorded their 2013 hit "Cool Kids" after the song's resurgence on TikTok. The song, titled "Cool Kids (our version)" includes a new bridge and an indie rock style.
In 2010, re-recorded vocal stems of R.E.M. were used in the game Rockband 2. The main vocal lead adds echo and includes less of the original vocals, such as the 'heh' in the It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) vocal stem.
In 2022 R&B singer-songwriter Ashanti had plans to re-record her debut eponymous album after twenty years following contractual conflicts over Master and publishing rights with her record label and/or Irv Gotti.
Re-recording and historical preservation
Re-recording of music is useful in understanding how sounds and recordings from the past have influenced history and can also be a way to preserve history. Early sound recordings can be traced back to 1888 in England, highlighting the historical trajectory of recordings and scope available for preservation. Due to the fragile nature of sound recordings, especially in the past on vinyl and tapes, historical artefacts have been lost including voice recordings of Emperor Franz Josef . Re-recording of music can help in aiding the reproduction of lost voice recordings and music, with many universities using the latest technology to try and preserve history from remnants that are left. Technological advances have enabled sound specialists to draw larger quantities of sounds from old recordings as time passes, making it possible for sounds to be heard that have never been heard before. Recordings from the past can also be improved thanks to re-recording of music, allowing sound specialists the chance to reduce background noise or noise from older style microphones to enable clearer understanding of speech and tone, providing greater understanding and meaning to the recordings. The process of re-recording is therefore attributed to enabling the historic preservation of the past in sound form for future generations to study. This is useful not only in a historical context, but additionally for law enforcement and legal fields where evidence is needed.
The Library of Congress in the United States is an example of an institution that is working to ensure that sound recordings, such as those with historical significance such as Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech are preserved for generations to listen to in the future. A department is in place at the library dedicated to the historical preservation of audio recordings and it has been working for decades. However, a problem that historians at the library cite is that often these recordings can be very old, and it is time critical that they be preserved before they are lost due to heat exposure or breakage from not being handled properly. The library is able to get past these problems and preserve them for future generations by digitising their collection, which preserves the audio if the original is lost and it allows for wider accessibility of the audio. The library is acquiring around 50,000 to 100,000 new audio sources for preservation from the general public each calendar year whilst it is only able to preserve and upload to the digital collection around 15,000 per year. The library staff are having to make sure that the rest are placed in environments that are able to conserve and slow down the deterioration of the original audio sources until they can digitise them, however many have been lost such as historical radio recordings that were dubbed an important piece of society’s “sociocultural heritage”.
References
Music industry
Recorded music | wiki |
Couple, formerly Pair, was a mobile app that provided a mobile messaging service for two people, especially romantic couples. Like many mobile phone messaging applications, Couple allows users to share text, photos, video and other content. It is a competitor to apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and KakaoTalk, but it is unique in that it is for communicating with exactly one other person. Couple is one of a slew of mobile applications that intentionally confine their communication to a small group, as opposed to large public or semi-public networks like Twitter.
The app is no longer available on iPhone and Android. The free application garnered more than 100,000 users after only a week. TenthBit, the company producing Couple, is part of the Y Combinator startup incubator.
On February 2, 2013, TenthBit announced that it had acquired rival U.K. app Cupple and changed the name of the merged app from Pair to Couple.
On February 12, 2016, Couple was acquired by Life360.
Since , the app is defunct and the web interface returns Error 503.
References
Defunct social networking services
IOS software | wiki |
A tomato knife is a small serrated kitchen knife designed to slice through tomatoes. The serrated edge allows the knife to penetrate the tomatoes’ skin quickly and with a minimum of pressure without crushing the flesh. Many tomato knives have forked tips that allow the user to lift and move the tomato slices after they have been cut.
Serrations are not required to cut tomatoes; a sharp straight blade is effective. Serrations allow the knife to cut tomatoes and other foods even when dull: most of the cutting takes place in the serrations themselves. Some knives have serrations on both sides allowing easy slicing for both left-handed and right-handed users. Bread knives and some steak knives are similarly serrated.
See also
Tomato slicer
References
Food preparation utensils
Kitchen knives
Tomatoes | wiki |
Tristan Farnon may refer to:
Tristan A. Farnon, American webcomic author
Tristan Farnon, character in the works of James Herriot, based on the real-life Brian Sinclair (veterinary surgeon) | wiki |
Farnon may refer to:
Charmian Anne Farnon (1942–2016), American actress better known as Charmian Carr
Darlene Farnon (born 1950), American actress better known as Darleen Carr
Dennis Farnon (born 1923), Canadian composer and arranger
Robert Farnon (1917–2005), Canadian composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player
Tristan A. Farnon (born 1970), American web comic author
Siegfried Farnon and Tristan Farnon, characters in the books of James Herriot, based on the real-life brothers Donald and Brian Sinclair | wiki |
The Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame was a professional wrestling hall of fame maintained by the United States Wrestling Association. The induction ceremony for the Class of 1994, the inaugural inductees into the Hall of Fame, took place at the USWA's "Monday Night Memories", a tribute show, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on March 7, 1994. Tommy Gilbert, a longtime Memphis wrestler, referee and promoter, led the class, which included wrestlers Sputnik Monroe, Al and Don Greene, commentator Lance Russell, and promoter Jerry Jarrett.
The success of the first "Memphis Memories" show, attended by over 8,300 fans, resulted in Randy Hales being made head booker of the USWA. Ironically, Eddie Gilbert, with much of the event revolving around his feud with Jerry Lawler, was upset at having been passed over for the position and left the promotion within a few weeks.
On June 10, 1995, the Class of 1995 was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Like the previous ceremony, it was held during a wrestling event, Memphis Memories II, at the Mid-South Coliseum. Wrestler Jackie Fargo's induction led the Class of 1995, which consisted of wrestlers "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, Phil Hickerson, Joe LeDuc, and Billy Wicks. In addition to the inductees, the event featured a special "legends introduction" of Memphis wrestling stars including Corsica Joe, Tommy Gilbert, Gypsy Joe, Jerry Jarrett, Sara Lee, Eddie Marlin, Frank Morell, Buddy Wayne, and Jim White. The 1995 edition was attended by 3,850 fans. Only one inductee, Eddie Gilbert, was inducted posthumously. Overall, there were ten inductees; one commentator, and promoter, and eight wrestlers.
The hall of fame ceased being maintained following the close of the USWA in 1997, however, there have been attempts to revive the idea in recent years. Since 2002, the website KayfabeMemories.com has fan-based voting, similar to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, for each of the various "territory-era" promotions, including the Memphis wrestling territory, covered by the website. From 2008 to 2010, the website RasslinRiotOnline.com also presented its own version of the Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame.
In 2017, the Hall of Fame was reactivated. Since then, they hosted two more ceremonies: one in 2018 and one in 2021. A new website was launched in 2021. Memphiswrestlinghalloffame.com
Inductees
Footnotes
– Entries without a birth name indicates that the inductee did not perform under a ring name.
– This section mainly lists the major accomplishments of each inductee in the Memphis wrestling territory.
See also
List of professional wrestling halls of fame
References
Professional wrestling halls of fame
Organizations based in Memphis, Tennessee
Awards established in 1994
Professional wrestling-related lists
1994 establishments in Tennessee | wiki |
Emancipation Park may refer to:
Emancipation Park (Houston), a park in Houston, Texas, United States
Emancipation Park (Kingston, Jamaica), a park in Kingston, Jamaica
Market Street Park, a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States formerly known as Emancipation Park
Emancipation Park, part of the Charlotte Amalie Historic District, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
See also
Emancipation Garden | wiki |
Unwound are an American post-hardcore band.
Unwound may also refer to:
"Unwound" (song), a 1981 song by George Strait
Unwound (Unwound album), 1995
Unwound (Tim Berne album), 1996 | wiki |
is a Japanese manga series by Kaoru Shintani that has been animated as an OVA and a television series in Japan.
Episodes
References
Official TV Asahi Episode Guide, Part 1 (Archived)
Official TV Asahi Episode Guide, Part 2 (Archived)
Area 88 | wiki |
Ethan – nome proprio di persona inglese, francese ed ebraico maschile
Ethan – centro abitato statunitense nella Dakota del Sud
Ethan – personaggio dei fumetti CrossGen
Ethan – personaggio della serie letteraria Guardians of Time
Ethan – personaggio del fumetto PK - Paperinik New Adventures | wiki |
Spatial intelligence may refer to:
Spatial intelligence (business method)
Spatial intelligence (psychology) | wiki |
VIN etching is a countermeasure to motor vehicle theft, that involves etching a vehicle's VIN onto its windows to reduce the value of a stolen vehicle to thieves. VIN etching is sometimes overpriced and aggressively marketed by car dealers.
Description
VIN etching uses a variety of methods, commonly a stencil and an acidic etching paste, to engrave a vehicle's vehicle identification number (VIN) onto the windshield and windows. Most parts on a vehicle already have at least a partial VIN stamped onto them, and many auto parts buyers will not purchase parts that carry identification numbers. Should a thief try to sell the parts from a vehicle for profit, those marked parts carry a higher risk for the thief and the auto parts seller. Since automotive glass generally does not have identification numbers and is often interchangeable among many different years and models of vehicles, it usually yields a much greater profit for a thief compared to other components on the vehicle; because a vehicle's windows are stamped with the VIN, thieves would need to discard the glass before "parting out" the stolen vehicle, thus reducing or eliminating their profit. VIN etching can also increase the odds of recovery of a stolen car by police.
VIN etching is recommended by police departments, insurance agencies, and government automobile/vehicle theft prevention agencies This service is sometimes offered free of charge at sponsored events.
Vehicles with VIN-etched windows may be eligible for insurance rate reductions of as much as 15% in some US states.
Some automobile dealers try to include VIN etching as an extra service to boost their profit margin when selling a vehicle; they may even pre-print a charge for VIN etching on the bill of sale, as if to suggest that VIN etching is mandatory rather than an optional, add-on service. Inflated dealership fees of $200 to $2,000 for VIN etching are not unheard of. However, consumer advocates note that while some states do require that dealers offer VIN etching, no states require that consumers purchase it from the dealer.
Consumers who want to have the VIN etched on their vehicle windows but are unable to find a free etching service in their area can often save hundreds of dollars over the dealership fee by using a do-it-yourself VIN etching kit purchased from an Internet retailer or a local auto parts dealer, for as little as $20–25.
References
Motor vehicle theft
Vehicle security systems | wiki |
Magnesium (Mg) is a mineral found naturally in the human body and in animal and plant-based foods, beverages, dietary supplements, and some medicines such as laxatives. It is necessary for the functioning of every organ, for the makeup of teeth and bones, and for metabolic processes. Magnesium can not be produced by the human body, and can only be obtained through dietary means.
When the amount of magnesium levels in the blood falls below the normal level (1.3 to 2.1 mEq/L), a person is experiencing hypomagnesia, or magnesium deficiency. A majority of people surveyed in the United States report lower daily intakes of magnesium than what is recommended. Some groups are particularly likely to have inadequate magnesium levels including people with gastrointestinal diseases, people with type 2 diabetes, people with alcohol dependence, and older adults.
Low serum magnesium has been linked to depressive symptoms. Magnesium effects the Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis in the brain, which controls the stress response system and therefore, anxiety and depression. Tentative data indicate that oral magnesium supplementation may be effective for treating mild to moderate adult depression.
Although there is evidence suggesting inadequate dietary Mg as contributing to the cause of depression, independent clinical trials are needed to confirm the efficacy of Mg in treating depression.
Excessive magnesium intake from dietary supplements or medications can cause magnesium toxicity Magnesium can also interact negatively with several medication types, such as antibiotics and diuretics, so people taking medications regularly should consult with a healthcare provider before starting a magnesium supplement.
References
Depression
Treatment of depression | wiki |
Shim Eun-jung (born June 8, 1971) is a former female badminton player from South Korea.
She won the bronze medal in women's doubles with Gil Young-ah at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
External links
profile
South Korean female badminton players
Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players of South Korea
Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea
Olympic medalists in badminton
1971 births
Living people
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Badminton players at the 1990 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games | wiki |
Chilli chicken is a popular Indo-Chinese dish of chicken of Hakka Chinese heritage. In India, this may include a variety of dry chicken preparations. Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some people also use bone-in chicken too.
Recipes
Chilli chicken comes in several variations with differences in spices and seasoning, as well as its "sauce" and "dry" variants with differences in their quantity of sauce or gravy. The South Asian contributions of this dish are in the spices used, while the Hakka contributions include the sweet and savoury flavours along with the Chinese cooking techniques used in its preparation.
Numerous recipes exist for the dish of the same name depending on the restaurateur, including:
Green chilli chicken.
Tangrai chilli chicken.
Chinese chilli chicken.
Bengal chilli chicken.
See also
Chili shrimp
Laziji, similar dish in authentic Sichuan cuisine in China
Indian Chinese cuisine
List of chicken dishes
References
Indian chicken dishes
Pakistani chicken dishes
Indo-Caribbean cuisine | wiki |
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