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Street (on the south bank) with Foundation Street to the north, which then immediately branched into Lower Brook Street. The area north of the road, between St Peter's church and St Mary-at-Quay (and east of that), is thought to represent the site of the Anglo-Saxon industrial waterfront development. Its first urban catchment area extended north up to Falcon Street, Old Cattle Market, Dog's Head Street and Tacket Street, with burial grounds on rising land to the north. Probably during the 8th century the Stoke Bridge crossing was created, establishing | the importance of St Peter's Street as the main northern route, and urban expansion spread over the burial grounds north to include the street called Buttermarket, the Cornhill area, and the line of the prehistoric road now represented by Westgate Street, Tavern Street and Carr Street. Discoveries of early sceattas in this area, and a dedication to St Mildred, suggest that this new layout was planned during the reigns of Kings Ealdwulf (664-713) and his son AElfwald (713-749). The |
Perry Grimm Perry Grimm (February 19, 1914 – September 11, 1971) was an American racecar driver who raced midget cars in California and Australia. Section:midget car. Grimm drove midget cars for the Edelbrock dirt track racing team. He raced on the West Coast of the United States in the URA(United Midget Racing Association), and won the 1946 and 1949 Turkey Night Grand Prix at Gilmore Stadium, and place second and third in two others. | Also, in 1949, he won the Pacific Coast Midget title, as well. After a few years of driving and several major crashes, racing in the Southern California circuit had begun to take a toll on him. He recommended to Vic Edelbrock that he replace him with a young driver named Rodger Ward. Ward took over for Grimm late in the 1949 season and went on to a glorious career, including 2 wins of the Indianapolis 500. Section:Australian midget car racing. Grimm is credited with transforming the scene of Australian m |
66 of the Act). If a creditor does not register a security interest and a debtor is adjudicated bankrupt or is placed into liquidation, secured creditors will be prioritised when payments are made or assets distributed. Section:Activities.:Searching. The PPSR can be used to assess the level of risk that a debtor may represent to a creditor. Before entering into a contractual relationship with a debtor, a creditor may search the PPSR to check whether they may pose a risk. It possible for potential creditors to: Consumers may also search | the PPSR before buying an item of personal property to check that there is no money owing. This is particularly important if purchasing a second hand car privately – it is possible to search the PPSR using the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) to check whether there may be money owed (registered security interests) on the vehicle. The PPSR also correlates information from the NEVDIS (National Exchange of Vehicle and Driver Information System) database to provide write-off history and stolen vehicle data in the form of a PPSR certificate, which can be issued upon |
you snigger, and then you snigger at yourself for doing as much at something so obviously silly and raunchy. You realise there is reason behind the mindless mayhem that just unfolded before your eyes as the end credits roll. It's called box-office moolah, and this film is going to make lots of it." Kunal Guha of Yahoo! gave the movie 2/5 stars, commenting that "'Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum' is surely a school of sickeningly dirty jokes that will shock, disgust and scandalize but ensure | that you have a good time. So don't leave your brains (or any other organs) at home, you will need it to dig out the implied meaning in every line." Aniruddha Guha of DNA India gave the movie 2/5 stars, saying that "Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum amuses you intermittently but largely leaves your brains in a tangle, and the mind gasping for breath. In other words, dimaag ki macho deta hai." Deboshree Ghosh of Bollywood Life gave the movie 2/5 |
1939, probably influenced by shows such as those mentioned above. He would later refer to this period as a brief "flirtation with Surrealism" but it had a great impact on his future career as he developed his own highly individual take on Surrealism and produced works that are said to be unprecedented in Scottish art of the period. Section:Post-War work. Lucas was a committed pacifist and as a conscientious objector he worked in hospitals at Killearn and Raigmore during the war. He returned to Edinburgh in 1944 and | the immediate post-war years were a very creative and prolific time for him. He returned to work as a Civil Servant, in the Estate Duty Office, but also attended evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art and saw himself as a serious painter who had a day job. Patrick Elliott, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, described the purchase in 2013 of some of Lucas's works of this period as follows: They are impressive because they are inexplicable, I've not seen anything quite like them before in my 20 years at |
8 days of an ocean voyage, he arrived in Istanbul, where he was welcomed by his mother, and cheered as a national hero. Becoming the first ever Turkish global circumnavigator, he paved the way for global circumnavigation of Turkish sailors. The memories about his voyage around the world were published as newspaper serialization in the daily "Hürriyet" at that time, and were written down later in his popular book "Pupa Yelken" (Turkish for "Full Sail"). Erected in front of the Kalamış Marina's | main entrance in Kadıköy, Istanbul, a monument featuring Sadun Boro at boat's wheel of his sloop and his wife Oda standing next, both sailing on the globe commemorates his achievement. Section:Later years. Between 1977–79, Sadun Boro sailed with his wife and then-eight-year old daughter Deniz to the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States. After 1980, he settled down in Bodrum and Gökova, known for its idyllic coasts full |
Prof. Dr. M.Yaldiz, Director of the Museum of Asian Art Berlin - Dahlem. In 1999 he worked on the preliminary studies of the book "Voodoo in Africa". Chesi traveled to West Africa to prepare the exhibition "2000 Years of African Ceramic" (German: "2000 Jahre afrikanische Keramik"). On behalf of the city Schwaz, he organized two exhibitions with the title "The Spirit of Silver" on the occasion of the 100 year festival of becoming a city. | After a severe heart surgery in 2000, Chesi traveled to Africa and Asia on several occasions. After an extensive trip to China the preparations of the exhibition "Textile Art of Chinese Mountain Peoples" (German: „Textile Kunst chinesischer Bergvölker") were completed. The concept of "Buddha in Art and Myth" (German: "Buddha in Kunst und Mythos") was realized; the exhibition was opened in March. During the same year, Gert Chesi discovered a significant sculpture of the Nok and acquired it for |
Cercle de l'Union interalliée The cercle de l'Union interalliée, also known as the Cercle interallié, is a private social and dining club established in 1917. The clubhouse is the Hôtel Perrinet de Jars at 33 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, France. It adjoins the British Embassy and an annex of the embassy of Japan. The club's second president was Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, Marshal of the United Kingdom, Marsh | al of Poland and supreme commander of the Allies of World War I. The club includes royalty and political figures among its international members. Section:History. The Union Interalliée was founded in 1917, at the time of the official American entry into World War I. This was after the voluntary aviators from the Lafayette Escadrille had come to France to increase the number of those who were fighting for the same cause on French soil. The founders of the Union Interalliée (the Count of Beaumont, Paul Dupuy, the Count J. de Bry |
questioned the legitimacy of unifying them artificially and suggest that one should speak of "Hinduisms" in the plural. Theistic Hinduism encompasses both monotheistic and polytheistic tendencies and variations on or mixes of both structures. Hindus venerate deities in the form of the "murti", or idol. The "Puja" (worship) of the murti is like a way to communicate with the formless, abstract divinity (Brahman in Hinduism) which creates, sustains and dissolves creation | . However, there are sects who have advocated that there is no need of giving a shape to God and it is omnipresent and beyond the things which human can see or feel tangibly. Specially the Arya Samaj founded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Brahmo Samaj founder by Ram Mohan Roy (there are others also) do not worship deities. Arya Samaj favours Vedic chants and Havan, Brahmo Samaj go for simple prayers. Some Hindu philosophers and theologians argue for a transcendent metaphys |
am. It is the 1128th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. It received a world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival in October 2008, and won numerous awards at various other festivals. The film was released in Sri Lanka on 21 August 2009, and became a box-office hit in that country. It was also Sri Lanka's initial entry to the 2010 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but was replaced by "Alimankada" ("The Road from Elephant Pass | "). Section:Plot. Sandhya Rani (Malini) is an aging film star who was once the darling of the silver screen. Having lost fame and fortune in a changing world, she now lives quietly in obscurity. She ekes out a living by renting out a room in her home to the young film and television stars of today to satisfy their illicit sexual desires, and by selling dumplings. Rani is introduced to Shalika (Dilhani), a popular film actress, when she decides to carry on her affair with a co-star past shooting. |
ausea and Amudhavan brought her to a hospital. The doctor then informed Amu that the daughter had fungal infection and gave her some medicine. She also asked him to meet Dr. Dhanapal and he advised Amu to send his daughter to a spastic children's home for her to learn a lot. Amu did not had the heart to leave his daughter alone there for 3 days but he had to with a heavy heart. Paapa too missed her dad and cried in remembering him. Meanwhile, when Amudhavan was going back he met Meera and got to know | about her very well. Meera too helped Amudhavan to find a house for him. When Amudhavan went again to meet Paapa a social worker lied to Amudhavan saying that Papaa had gone on a field trip but another spastic child over there who knows Amudhavan pointed his hand towards to upper floor and revealed that Paapa had been beaten by the workers. With a heavy heart Amudhavan brought Paapa back home. Amudhavan also meets Dr. Dhanapal in order to understand more about his daughter. He also asked Meera's help to |
against his elder half-brother Ordoño III, Fernán's own son-in-law. When Sancho failed, Fernán was forced to recognize Ordoño as king, even though the latter cast off Fernán's daughter. Ordoño's early death allowed Fernán to recover his maneuvering capacity, although he abandoned his old ally, now king Sancho I, instead supporting his rival Ordoño IV, son of Alfonso IV and the new husband of Fernán's daughter Urraca. Shortly after 4 September 959, his wife Sancha of | Navarre died, and in 960 Fernán was defeated through Navarrese intervention on Sancho's behalf. He was captured by García Sánchez I of Pamplona, but he recovered his freedom after making various territorial concessions and by forswearing his support for Ordoño IV. Prior to 5 May 964 he cemented the new alliance by remarrying García's own daughter Urraca, the niece of his first wife, while Fernán's daughter of the same name, this time divorced by Ordoño IV, was |
ice have shown other adverse health effects due to DEHP exposure. Ingestion of 0.01% DEHP caused damage to the blood-testis barrier as well as induction of experimental autoimmune orchitis. There is also a correlation between DEHP plasma levels in women and endometriosis. DEHP is also a possible cancer causing agent in humans, although human studies remain inconclusive, due to the exposure of multiple elements and limited research. In vitro and rodent studies indicate that DEHP is involved in many molecular events, including increased cell proliferation, decreased | apoptosis, oxidative damage, and selective clonal expansion of the initiated cells; all of which take place in multiple sites of the human body. Section:Government and industry response. Section:Government and industry response.:Taiwan. In October 2009, Consumers’ Foundation, Chinese Taipei (CFCT) published test results that found 5 out of the sampled 12 shoes contained over 0.1% of phthalate plasticizer content, including DEHP, which exceeds the government’s Toy Safety Standard ( |
to get married to a rich groom. However, her parents fixed her wedding with a middle-class groom and her dream to become rich fell apart. Pooja then found herself in a mental hospital and managed to escape from there. It was only then that she decided to seduce Raj and paid a drug addict to cause Raj a serious accident. Finally, Pooja sold his project to a buyer but the software asks for a password. Pooja in panic goes back to the mental hospital and she threatens to kill Raj if he doesn't give her the password. At that time, | DSP Karthik arrives and shoots Pooja to save Raj. Two months later, Raj receives widespread acclaims for his work. The film ends with Raj in a wheelchair celebrating his birthday in a home for disabled children along with his mother in tears and the mentally ill Pooja. Section:Cast. Section:Production. Richard Raj, a NRI and an owner of a restaurant in New Zealand, produced and played an important role in the film while actress Pooja Gandhi signed to play the female lead role. The film was inspired by a physically- |
the pros tautomer, "N-H"-histamine. Histamine has two basic centres, namely the aliphatic amino group and whichever nitrogen atom of the imidazole ring does not already have a proton. Under physiological conditions, the aliphatic amino group (having a p"K" around 9.4) will be protonated, whereas the second nitrogen of the imidazole ring (p"K" ≈ 5.8) will not be protonated. Thus, histamine is | normally protonated to a singly charged cation. Histamine is a monoamine neurotransmitter. Section:Synthesis and metabolism. Histamine is derived from the decarboxylation of the amino acid histidine, a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme L-histidine decarboxylase. It is a hydrophilic vasoactive amine. Once formed, histamine is either stored or rapidly inactivated by its primary degradative enzymes, histamine-N-methyltransferase |
Sandcastle (software) Sandcastle is a documentation generator from Microsoft. It automatically produces MSDN-style code documentation out of reflection information of .NET assemblies and XML documentation comments found in the source code of these assemblies. It can also be used to produce user documentation from Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML) with the same look and feel as reference documentation. Section:Overview. Sandcastle is a set of command line programs, configuration files, build components and XSLT files that work together to convert XML-based documentation into help topics that are fit for viewing in a help system. Sandcastle | is typically used to automatically generate web-ready, XML-compliant HTML documentation in one of three built-in presentation styles from .NET assemblies and XML documentation files that are generated by compilers. The resulting HTML files are then used as input to tools such as the HTML Help Workshop to produce compiled help for distribution with the corresponding computer program. Sandcastle currently features a lightweight graphical user interface (GUI) as an alternative to the MSBuild project, batch script and Windows PowerShell scripts that are also provided. Several community GUI tools are also available for Sandcastle, providing additional features and simplifying its |
and The Beach Boys to be of particular value and significance, affording him a considerable amount of time in-studio where he was given the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art equipment and to learn the language and various philosophies behind recording professionally. Shenale's instruments of choice during this time included the Hammond, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Orchestron, Mellotron and Leslie Cabinet, along with various other synthesizers. Section:Career in popular music. Shenale's work has been featured on albums by artists such as Tori | Amos, Willy DeVille, Jane's Addiction, Tracy Chapman, Billy Idol, Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, The Bangles, Dionne Warwick, Rick Springfield, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and John Hiatt. Section:Career in film, theater, and other works. Shenale's work has also been featured on films and musicals by director's such as Curtis Hanson, John Hughes, Carl Reiner, Herbert Ross, Walter Hill, Richard Lester, Brian Yuzna, Steve Miner, Paul Ver |
Hits station, branded as ""Bob 105.9"" with a new call sign of WQBB. The station was programmed by local radio vet, "Weerd Wayne" Watkins. In July 2014, station owner, Triad Broadcasting was sold to Alpha Media along with sister stations, WCPR, WGBL, WXYK and WTNI Section:History.:105.9 The Monkey. In December 2018, it was announced Alpha Media would be selling its Gulf Coast cluster to local Mississippi broadcast company, | Telesouth Communications Inc, who already owned WOSM, the SuperTalk Mississippi in the Biloxi market. The FCC approved the sale on February 12, 2019, and closed on March 1, 2019. On that day at midnight, after playing ""Stairway To Heaven"" by Led Zeppelin, WQBB dropped its Variety Hits format and assumed the programming of 107-1 The Monkey, which was spun off to another local company, Port Broadcasting as part of the sale to Telesouth. The |
anyone ill." According to the FDA, all tissue products collected and distributed by BTS were recalled and will be monitored for a complete accounting of all graft material. BTS sold its products to five companies; two of the companies were Life Cell Corporation, of New Jersey, and Regeneration Technologies, of Florida. Overall, about 10,000 patients in the United States and Canada received graft tissue from BTS. BTS was not an accredited member, nor did the company ever apply to be a member, of the American Association of Tissue Banks. | Robert Rigney, who heads the association, said he doubts anyone who received tissue donations originating from the company is in any kind of health danger, because the processors the company dealt with would have subjected the tissues to their own screening processes. However, transplant patient Betty Pfaff was one person who suffered severe infection, septic shock, underwent dialysis and ultimately paralysis due to having received an implant made from infected cadaver tissue from Mastromarino's company. Although a recent judicial ruling has increased the difficulty of patients in |
-my-god." Section:Production.:Filming. Filming began on February 5, 2007 at Pinewood Studios, and was completed by May 11, despite a brief interruption when Depp's daughter was taken seriously ill. Burton opted to film in London, where he had felt "very much at home" since his work on "Batman" in 1989. Production designer Dante Ferretti created a darker, more sinister London by adapting Fleet Street and its surrounding area. Burton initially planned to use minimal sets and | film in front of a green screen, but decided against it, stating that physical sets helped actors get into a musical frame of mind: "Just having people singing in front of a green screen seemed more disconnected". Depp created his own image of Todd. Heavy purple and brown make-up was applied around his eyes to suggest fatigue and rage, as if "he's never slept". Burton said of the character Sweeney Todd, "We always saw him as a sad character, not a tragic villain or anything. He's basically a dead person when you meet him; |
s musical, cultural, and educational communities, performing as principal (first-chair) violist of the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra (now defunct), playing benefit concerts for her church, All Souls Unitarian Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma), and playing solo and chamber music recitals on violin, viola, and viola d'amore, and serving on the music faculties of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma City University, the University of Oklahoma, and University of North Texas College of Music. In her 60s, already a distinguished artist and pedagogue, | Kramer returned to school and earned both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music. She has been described as "perhaps in the history of Tulsa its most outstanding musician." Tosca Kramer died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 73. She was survived by her four children Donald, Betti, Edi, and Susy. She was also survived by her mother (Lucy Emma Berger) who was five months from her 100th birthday. Section:Discography. Includes: Section: |
Desk Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I. The show received harsh appraisals from the critics and had weak sales. Section:Plot. Section:Plot.:Act I. The musical is set in 16th-century Ireland, a wild country ruled by feuding clans. Most clans are landed, but some, such as Clan O’Malley, are sea-farers. Because King Henry VIII of England decided to annex Ireland, Clan O’Malley begins to attack English treasure ships coming from China, India, and the West Indies in retribution. At | the start of the musical, Clan O’Malley is christening a new ship (“Prologue”). Grace (Gráinne) O’Malley, the eighteen-year-old daughter and only child of Dubhdara, Chieftain of the O’Malley clan, sneaks aboard the ship with Tiernan, a sailor and her childhood sweetheart. Tiernan, pursuing her in a game of hide-and-seek, finds her and they engage in a serious sword-fight, something which has turned Grace into a skilled |
was made Viscount Asquith, of Morley in the West Riding of the County of York, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title is used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom. Asquith had originally wanted to be created simply Earl of Oxford. However, this greatly offended the relatives of the dormant earldom of Oxford, held for many centuries by the de Vere family, and Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, held by the Harley family in the second creation. In the face of opposition from | them, another title had to be selected – the formal title 'Earl of Oxford and Asquith' was finally decided as a compromise, with it being abbreviated to 'Earl of Oxford' in everyday conversation and letters, which still irritated the other family members. The first Earl was succeeded in 1928 by his grandson, his eldest son Raymond Asquith having been killed in World War I. The second Earl was a diplomat and administrator and served as Governor of the Seychelles from 1962 to 1967. He died in |
ed. They worked in the field under the Operations Branch of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Europe, commanded by Eisenhower), and were actively involved in battle preparations. In preparing to take Florence, which was used by the Nazis as a supply distribution center due to its central location in Italy, Allied troops relied on aerial photographs provided by the MFAA which were marked with monuments of cultural importance so that pilots could avoid damaging such sites during bombings. When damage to monuments did occur, MFAA personnel worked to assess damage | and buy time for the eventual restoration work that would follow. Monuments officer Deane Keller had a prominent role in saving the Campo Santo in Pisa after a mortar round started a fire that melted the lead roof, which then bled down the iconic 14th century fresco-covered walls. Keller led a team of Italian and American troops and restorers in recovering the remaining fragments of the frescoes and in building a temporary roof to protect the structure from further damage. Restoration of the frescoes continues even today. Countless other monuments, churches, and |
awr). Intercepted at sea by mercenaries in the employ of now King Edward I, both Amaury and Eleanor were taken captive. Following two paragraphs taken mainly from "Chronica, ascribed to William Rishanger, a monk of St. Albans", ed. Henry Thomas Riley [1865], 87, 99. While Eleanor's captivity was gentle and relatively short-lived (she was married to Prince Llywelyn at King Edward's expense in 1278), Amaury was held 'without | rigour' in Corfe Castle and later in Sherborne Castle. After requests from the Pope, Prince Llywelyn and Archbishop John Peckham of Canterbury, Amaury was released after swearing at London not to return to England unless invited by the king. Upon his release in mid April 1282, Amaury returned to France, never again to see his sister, who died in childbirth that very year, mere months before the death of her husband Llewylyn and the annexation of North Wales to the English crown. Amaury after some years renounced his cler |
List of thwarted Islamist terrorist attacks Jihad terror attacks by Islamist extremists enacted to further a perceived Islamic religious or political cause occur globally. Some of these plots have been successfully prevented. The culprits used tactics such as arson, vehicle rampage attacks, bomb threats, suicide attacks, bombings, spree shooting, stabbings, hijackings, kidnappings and beheadings. The following is a list of thwarted Islamist terrorist attacks that have received significant press coverage since 1993. See the | list of Islamist terrorist attacks for major incidents that did result in violence. Section:2000s. Section:2000s.:2001. Section:2000s.:2004. Section:2000s.:2005. Section:2000s.:2006. Section:2000s.:2009. Section:2010s. Section:2010s.:2010. Section:2010s.:2011. Section:20 |
8 along with the introduction of the quad cab, and rounded black plastic side-view mirrors replaced the previous rectangular design. Section:Second generation (1994–2001/2002; BR/BE).:1998 updates. In 1998, Dodge introduced the "Quad Cab", which uses smaller, "suicide" doors directly behind the main doors. This was offered as an option on the "Club Cab" for this model year. Other changes for 1998 included rounded mirrors replacing the classic square ones, a re | vised interior, dual airbags, a chime replacing the buzzer for seat belts/door ajar/headlights/ and a digital odometer. The OBD II System was also standard, with a computer port near the driver's-side footwell and a code-checking system via the new digital odometer readout. In late 1998 Dodge introduced a revised front end for the 1999 model year Sport models with a restyled bumper, quad-beam clear-lens headlamps, and body-color grille. A |
and organizations for children, health and social welfare. In 1970, she initiated the Thai SOS Children Foundation. Among others, she founded welfare organizations for crippled persons in 1944, mentally disabled persons in 1962 and for physically disabled persons in 1980. Her contributions to societal and cultural wellbeing had a notable impact on Thailand. When her husband Prem Purachatra was appointed as ambassador to various countries between 1968 and 1975, Ngarmchit followed him to these | posts, abandoning her work for the "Standard" for which she had been editor for 20 years. She was elected president of the new founded "National Council of Women of Thailand" in 1959, which was representing Thai women in the international umbrella organization, the International Council of Women. In that organization, she served as president between 1976 and 1979. Interested in traditional craft, she founded the Asian Handicraft Promotion and Development Association in 1981, which was as local partner organization with UNESCO. She was also engaged |
Mohave High School Mohave High School is the high school for Bullhead City, Arizona. It is operated by the Colorado River Union High School District. The Thunderbirds were the Class B state basketball runners-up in the 1972-73 season, won the Class B state football title in 1973, and were the Class B state football runners-up in the 1974 season. (Class B was the equivalent to the 2A Conference.) The Thunderbirds were the 4A Division II state basketball champions in 2006. | The Thunderbirds placed 1st place in Division 2 of Cheerleading in the 2013-2014 Season at the AIA Spiritline State Qualifier on November 9th,2014, taking place at Estrella Foothills High School in Goodyear Arizona. Mohave High School has an award winning marching band. In 2016, they won caption awards for Best Percussion, Best Auxiliary, and Best overall feel. The Mohave High Marching Band or "Thunder Band" placed 14th in State |
Darling Beauty, etc. Some of these shows came from Bulgarian and Russian fairy-tales, others from other parts of the world. His preference for the marionettes with the highest degree required an exceptional puppeteering technique from the actors. This circumstance contributed to further achievement of notable puppeteering mastery by the actors' team of Varna. Five years after its construction, first international event for the theatre - participation in the World Puppet Art Festival in Bucharest, Romania in May 1958. On 12 July 1985, the | theatre moved to a new building in the city centre. Professor Nikolina Georgieva's performance Carnival of Animals was played at the official inauguration. Section:Managers and artistic directors. Section:Managers and artistic directors.:Mihail Mateev. Manager and playwright of Varna State Puppet Theatre from 1958 to 1968. Section:Managers and artistic directors.:Yordan Todorov. Manager and artistic director of Varna State Puppet Theatre from 1958 to 1968. His |
Neftchala District Neftchala (Neftçala) is a rayon on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Section:History. The Neftchala region was formed as a district in the composition of Azerbaijan Republic on February 11, 1940. Until this time it was located in the area of modern Salyan, and during the year it became part of the Khilly region, organized on January 24, 1939. As Neftchala was an exceptionally industrial region, it was liquidated in December 1 | 959 and unified with the Salyan region. However, after 4 years it was isolated from Salyan region and became independent industrial zone. But similar mixed system for control did not justify itself, and the once again Neftchala region was again liquidated in 1965 and became part of the Salyan. The region become independent after 7 years on April 27, 1973. Section:Territory. There is one city (Neftchala), 48 villages, and 3 settlements (Banke, Khylly, and Hasan |
in $17,000 from her retirement fund to start the press. The company now publishes in other categories of trade publishing. As of 2010 they had 54 apps in development. By 2015, the publisher had 120 employees, working on a diverse list of adult, children's, and young adult books, in addition to its rapidly expanding e-commerce businesses. As of 2010 they were the largest woman-owned book publisher in the United States. In 2013, the publisher launched a personal | ized book engine with its "Put Me In The Story" application and website. It has added brands such as Sesame Street, the Berenstain Bears, and Hello Kitty, in addition to authors and illustrators such as Nancy Tillman. Later additions to Put Me In The Story included Curious George and characters from Disney and Nickelodeon, among others. In 2013, Sourcebooks acquired motivational and inspirational book publisher Simple Truths, which specializes in direct-to-consumer publishing. The company cited a 20% gain in sales |
error of up to approximately 1 minute in Greenwich time, or one quarter degree of longitude. By 1810, the errors in the almanac predictions had been reduced to about one-quarter of a minute of arc. By about 1860 (after lunar distance observations had mostly faded into history), the almanac errors were finally reduced to less than the error margin of a sextant in ideal conditions (one-tenth of a minute of arc). Section:Errors.:Lunar distance observation. The best sextants at the very beginning of the lunar distance era | could indicate angle to one-sixth of an arc-minute and later sextants (after c. 1800) to 0.1 arc-minutes, after the use of the vernier was popularized by its description in English in the book "Navigatio Britannica" published in 1750 by John Barrow, the mathematician and historian. In practice at sea, actual errors were somewhat larger. Experienced observers can typically measure lunar distances to within one-quarter of a minute of arc under favourable conditions, introducing an error of up to |
Arizona Democratic Party The Arizona Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Arizona. Its headquarters are in Phoenix. Section:Party organization. The Arizona Democratic Party is organized into three parts, the state committee, the executive committee, and the executive board. Section:Party organization.:State Committee. The state committee is composed of "the chairperson of each county committee of the Democratic Party of Arizona, plus one (1) member of the county committee for every three (3) members of the county committee elected pursuant to statute." The state committee meets biennially. A state committee | member has four duties: a) Canvass and campaign only on behalf of Democratic candidates. b) Assist in registration programs and in turning out a maximum Democratic vote. c) Support the permanent State Party organization as well as their County and District Party committees. d) Encourage financial support of the State Democratic Party, their County Committees and their districts. The state committee has many officers including: Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, First Vice-Chair (who is required to be a different gender and county residence than the chair), three Vice-Chairwomen, three Vice Chairmen, |
Yelena proved beyond help when she agreed to be transformed into the new Super-Adaptoid by A.I.M. and HYDRA. Section:Fictional character biography.:Civil War/Initiative. During the Superhero Civil War, Natasha becomes a supporter of the Superhuman Registration Act and a member of the taskforce led by Iron Man. Afterward, the registered Natasha joins the reconstituted Avengers. S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury is presumed killed, and deputy director Maria Hill incap | acitated, so Natasha assumes temporary command of S.H.I.E.L.D. as the highest-ranking agent present. Later, Tony Stark assigns Natasha to convey the late Captain America's shield to a secure location, but is intercepted by her former lover, Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, who steals the shield. Natasha and the Falcon then rescue Barnes from the Red Skull's minions, and bring him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, where Stark convinces B |
ola" (1996), "Kati Apo Mena" (1998), "21os Akatallilos" (2000), "Ola Kala" (2002), "To Hrono Stamatao" (2003), "S'eho Erotefthi" (2005), "Iparhi Agapi Edo" (2006), "Irthes" (2008), and "Parafora" (2010). He has also released two live | albums: "Live Ballads" (2006) and "This Is My Live" (2007). These album have been released through PolyGram Records Greece (1991–96), Minos EMI (1997–present), and abroad on Universal Music France (2002–2007). All of his albums have been certified gold or higher by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry of Greece. As of 2008, he has sold an estimated near two million albums, making him one of the best-selling Greek |
oucho dictates a letter to his lawyer, which Zeppo takes down. Adamson noted, There is a common assumption that Zeppo = Zero, which this scene does its best to contradict. Groucho dictating a letter to anybody else would hardly be cause for rejoicing. We have to believe that someone will be there to accept all his absurdities and even respond somewhat in kind before things can progress free from conflict into this genial mishmash. Groucho clears his throat in the midst of his dictation, and Zeppo asks him if he wants that in the letter. Groucho | says, 'No, put it in the envelope.' Zeppo nods. And only Zeppo could even try such a thing as taking down the heading and the salutation and leaving out the letter because it didn't sound important to him. It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it. In the same book, Adamson noted Zeppo's position as the campy parody of the juvenile romantic in his analysis of "Horse Feathers". This tongue-in-cheek observation bolstered the theory of Zeppo's |
a tank platoon commander of the 3rd Tank Regiment of the 37th Mechanized Brigade, part of the 1st Mechanized Corps, and subsequently led them during Operation Bagration. On 26 June, near Bobruisk, the platoon captured the crossing over the Ptsich and moved along the Bobruisk-Glusk Highway, cutting the escape route for German troops. On 27 June, pursuing German troops, the platoon reached Lenino. On 8 July the platoon reached Baranovichi. On 7 July, he was | awarded the Order of the Red Star. On 27 September, Rafiyev received the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his leadership. Section:Postwar. In 1945, Rafiyev graduated from the Higher School of Armored Officers. In 1951, he graduated from the Higher School of Self-Propelled Artillery Officers. He became a military commissar in the Julfa District. He retired in 1956 with the rank of major and later lived and worked in Baku. In 19 |
'A'. Hill landed near to the Diersfordterwald forest, which was occupied by German soldiers "who are switched-on people," killing a number of paratroopers whose parachutes became tangled up in the trees. His brigade headquarters was positioned by a copse which was supposed to have been immediately cleared, but when he arrived it was still occupied by German troops; Hill immediately ordered a company commander of the 8th Parachute Battalion to clear the copse. The officer did so, but was killed in the process. Hill then moved his headquarters to the copse, but was then | nearly killed by an approaching glider which barely managed to pull up in time, landing in the trees above him; upon investigation, Hill discovered that it contained his batman and personal Jeep, which took some time to lower down safely. The brigade suffered a number of casualties as it engaged the German forces in the Diersfordter Wald, but by 11:00 hours the drop zone was all but completely clear of enemy forces and all battalions of the brigade had formed up. The key town of Schnappenberg was captured by the 9th Parachute Battalion in |
1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics (), officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event, losing to Albertville. Lillehammer was awarded the 1994 Winter Olympics in 1988, after beating Anchorage, United States; Östersund, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria. L | illehammer is the northernmost city to ever host the Winter Games and the Olympic Games overall. The Games were the first to be held in a different year from the Summer Olympics, the first and only one to be held two years after the previous winter games. The Games were the second Winter Olympics hosted in Norway, after the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, and the fourth Olympics in the Nordic countries, after the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, and the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Although many events took place in Lillehammer, |
200,000 people in 2017, approximately 30,000 of them tourists. There were more than 250,000 participants reported in 2018. There were more than 250,000 participants reported in 2019. As of June 2019, it is the largest LGBTQ event in the Middle East, and second-largest in Asia after Taiwan Pride in Taipei. Tel Aviv was the first location in Israel where "gay" events were organized and also | the first city in Israel to host a gay pride parade. Section:As a part of Tel Aviv culture. In the early years of the Pride Parade, the majority of participants were politically motivated. Later on, as the Parade grew, people who took part came with the notion that the Parade should focus on LGBT rights, equality and equal representation, and should not be used as a stage for radical politics, which are not accepted by most of the Parade's participants. Gradually, the Parade came to be less political due to the scale and diversity of participation. In recent |
"family trees going back through several centuries" was defeated in 1973; and a September 1974 issue of the "Cornish Nation" describing Michael Gaughan, an IRA hunger striker, as a "Celtic hero" was widely criticised in the press and rebuked by the party. MK's divisions came to a head in May 1975, when a motion to depose the party's leadership and integrate the party with the Stannary Parliament, which had newly reopened in 1974, was narrowly defeated | . On 28 May 1975, Whetter, who had led the defeated motion, resigned his membership of MK to form a second Cornish Nationalist Party, which campaigned for full Cornish independence on a pro-European platform. This second CNP also had disappointing electoral results and has not contested elections since 1985. During the 1970s, MK held rallies in support of Cornwall's fishing industry and against regional unemployment and nuclear waste; in the 1980s, these rallies were |
are given the color of rubies. In the illustrations of the German novel, he appears much like a Chinese dragon or his appearance is of a camel (Great Pyrenees); whereas a cover for the book by Dan Craig illustrated Falkor as lion-like; and in the 1984 film adaptation of the novel, Falkor has canine features upon a white furred body and is pleased by affectionate scratchings behind his ear. Luckdragons possess neither an immense physical strength, nor great magical talents, though they can exhale blue fire. Their only distinct | ive ability that sets them apart is incredible luck in everything they do, as shown when Falkor locates and rescues his companion after being lost in a violent, blinding storm. Luckdragons never stop drawing air and heat through their scales, which makes eating unnecessary and makes submersion in water deadly to them. Luckdragons are capable of sleeping while flying, and prefer to occupy as much open space as possible. In the first film, Falkor is voiced by Alan Oppenheimer. In the second film, Falkor is voiced by an uncredited Donald |
a vocal producer and arranger, he told Lewis that he was going to put him "on TV". Shrugging the notion off Lewis didn't give it much thought, until he received a call from MTV stating that Diddy wanted him to be a part of the series "Making The Band". As a vocal coach and producer, Lewis was featured on MTV's "Making the Band", Season 3 with Diddy and pop girl group Danity Kane. Diddy also enlisted Lewis to work on most of his album, where Lewis did vocal production for "Come to Me" working | with Nicole Scherzinger, "Tell Me", working with Christina Aguilera, "Making It Hard" working with Mary J. Blige, string arranging for "Thought You Said" featuring Brandy, and co-wrote two songs with Diddy, "Crazy Thang" and "Claim My Place". In 2009, Rob Lewis was commissioned by Diddy once again to be on MTV's television series "Making His Band" where Lewis used his musical directing skills to assist Diddy in finding young, up and coming |
story it tells—indeed, argues Coxon, it deliberately avoids doing so. This is in stark contrast to church-sponsored morality plays. It has been described as an over-the-top "erotic fantasy", "one of the first ever erotic poems". It has been described as illustrating the importance that contemporaries placed upon root medicines, particularly in connection with sexually-transmitted maladies. "Der Rosendorn", argue German medievalists Albrecht Classen and Peter Dinzelbacher is, along with "Nonnenturnier" | and "Gold und Zers", one many medieval priapeia "in which anthropomorphized genitals talk to their owners, earnestly negotiate with them, get into quarrels, separate from one another, are maltreated and sometimes come together again". "Der Rosendorn" also shares, with "Minnerede", elements of personification. The German Linguist, D. H. Green has suggested that works such as "Der Rosendorn" were actually part of a " widespread reaction to romance fiction" such as "Parzifal". D |
kept Japan from being completely uninformed about the critical phase of Western scientific advancement during the 18th and 19th century, allowing Japan to build up the beginnings of a theoretical and technological scientific base. This openness could partly explain Japan’s success in its radical and speedy modernization following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1854. Section:Types of Rangaku. Section:Types of Rangaku.:Medical sciences. From around 1720, books on medical sciences were obtained from the Dutch, and then analyzed and translated into Japanese. Great | debates occurred between the proponents of traditional Chinese medicine and those of the new Western learning, leading to waves of experiments and dissections. The accuracy of Western learning made a sensation among the population, and new publications such as the of 1759 and the of 1774 became references. The latter was a compilation made by several Japanese scholars, led by Sugita Genpaku, mostly based on the Dutch-language "Ontleedkundige Tafelen" of 1734, itself a translation of "Anatomische Tabellen" (1732) by |
diagnostic kits for HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections, Group A streptococcal infection and pregnancy detection. His research has been documented by way of several articles and his work has drawn many citations. Besides, he has published two texts on Immunology titled "Reproductive Immunology" and "Immunology: Perspectives in Reproduction and Infection". Gupta sat in the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 2005 and headed the "Expert Group on Reproductive Health and Biology | "of the Department of Biotechnology in 2013. He is a trustee of the Immunology Foundation, a member of the Indian Immunology Society and has been a member of the International Society for Immunology of Reproduction (1998–2004). His associations with international medical conferences include the VII International Congress of Reproductive Immunology held in New Delhi in October 1998 where he served as the convenor. He is a former member of the editorial boards of "Reproductive Biomedicine Online", "Journal |
Army captain and former president of Sturm, Ruger & Co. where he "helped direct 'the successful coordinated response to municipal lawsuits that threatened the firearms industry in the late 1990s,' according to a 2008 press release". Doug Painter, a former NSSF president, was featured in a video released by the group in 2009. According to the Sunlight Foundation, the NSSF spent $1.7 million on lobbying efforts from 1998 to 2012. The NSSF launched | its voter education website Gunvote in 2012. Section:SHOT Show. The largest gun show in the United States is the annual SHOT Show, sponsored by the NSSF. It attracted over 60,000 attendees to its 630,000 square feet of exhibition space in Las Vegas. It is among the top 25 trade shows in the country. Section:Industry and NSSF history. The state of Connecticut has a long history in the manufacture of guns, going back to Eli Whitney and Samuel Colt |
–26. In particular the tenures of Gene Roberti (1979–84) and Bob Valvano (1984–88) saw the program hit all-time lows in winning percentage, during those two tenures the Terriers went 81–166 (32.7%). After Valvano, Rich Zvosec took the reins of the Terriers in 1988 and became the youngest Division I coach in the country at age 27. Zvosec produced a winning season 3 years into his tenure going | 15–14. The winning season was only the 3rd in 22 years and the first in 11 seasons since Rossini accomplished the feat in 1978–79. Because of this feat, Zvosec was awarded the 1991 NEC Coach of the Year award. Also during this time St. Francis College moved its campus and in 1971 the Terriers settled into a new home at the Pope Physical Education Center. Other transitions during this time included St. Francis joining a new conference in 1981, the |
August 1200. Angoulême had considerable strategic significance, and the marriage made "very good political sense", according to Warren. However, Isabella had been betrothed to Hugh of Lusignan, and John's treatment of Hugh following the marriage, including the seizure of La Marche, led Hugh to appeal to Philip II. Philip summoned John to his court, and John's refusal resulted in the confiscation of John's continental possessions excluding Normandy in April 1202 and Philip accepting Arthur's homage for the | lands in July. Philip went on to invade Normandy as far as Arques in May, taking a number of castles. John, following a message from his mother, Eleanor, rushed from Le Mans to Mirebeau, attacking the town on 1 August 1202, with William des Roches. William promised to direct the attack on condition he was consulted on the fate of Arthur, and successfully captured the town along with over 200 knights, including three Lusignans. John also captured Arthur, but antagonised William, failing to consult him on |
tern Corps ranks were decimated by the Parallax-possessed Jordan. The Corps' power source, the Central Power Battery, was drained by Jordan and destroyed, removing the original power source for the rings. One Guardian, Ganthet, survived Jordan's onslaught, and chose a young human artist, Kyle Rayner, as the sole Green Lantern of the Corps. Rayner would eventually become Parallax's nemesis, and during their first battle, Rayner intentionally triggered a chain reaction in Oa's core, causing the planet to explode. | After the fall of the Corps, other organizations tried to fill in the power vacuum left by the Guardians. Two organizations had initial notable successes: the Darkstars and L.E.G.I.O.N. However, neither ever achieved the power and reach of the Green Lantern Corps. Section:Fictional group history.:Rebuilding the Green Lantern Corps. When Kyle Rayner accidentally travelled through time to ten years in the past and met a young Hal Jordan, the Guardians were able to send Rayner back to his own time by using the power from the |
city has a total area of , all of it land. Section:Demographics. Section:Demographics.:2010 census. As of the census of 2010, there were 275 people, 111 households, and 75 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 125 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.5% White, 0.4% African American, 0.4% Native American, and 1.8% from two | or more races. There were 111 households of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.9% were married couples living together, 5.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 32.4% were non-families. 27.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size |
late as the 1930s exhibition games of knur and spell by veterans drew large crowds to the Rusland Valley in North Lancashire, according to the chronicles of the "North-West Evening Mail", but even then it was regarded as an archaic game. Section:Etymology. Knurr (from Middle English: "knurre", knot) refers to a hardwood or pottery ball, as could be made from a knot of wood. Spell (from , spindle) is the stick of wood used to strike it. The game around Bar | nsley was known as "Potty Knocking". Section:Equipment and play. In Yorkshire it is played with a levered wooden trap, by means of which the knurr, about the size of a walnut, is thrown into the air. In Lancashire the knurr is suspended stationary from string. The knurr is struck by the player with the spell. The object of the game is to hit the knurr the greatest possible distance, either in one or several hits. Each player competes as an individual, without interference, and any number can enter a competition. The spell |
1735. John was ordained at Deerfield, on August 31, 1735. Initially, there were two Native American settlements, separated by about eight miles, called Skatehook, to the south, where Lieutenant Umpachanee lived, and Wnahktukook, to the north, where Captain Konkapot lived. This created logistical issues, and John and schoolmaster Timothy Woodbridge had to make trips between the two locations, often swapping places. Governor Belcher therefore proposed to the General Assembly that a township be granted to the mission | , so that the entire tribe could live together, and attend the same church and school. This involved swapping lands with those who had already settled the land in question. The township, which was to become Stockbridge, but was then simply called "Indian Town", was granted March 25, 1736 and settled in May. One of the stipulations of the grant was that four new English families would be allowed to settle there. In January 1737, in order to live among his congregation, John Sergeant came to live with Timothy Woodbridge, who had recently |
akers, were still selling this rear-axle configuration to buyers of the Ford Capri until 1984. Section:Evolutionary design and a lukewarm reception.:New name. Various theories have been put forward as to why the “Ford Taunus 17M” name of the P5 was replaced with “Ford 17M” for the P7. The most likely explanation seems to be that the Ford of Germany, which for the first time since the war, now had a German general (managing) director, in Max Ueber, who had | previously worked as the company’s sales director, took the view that the longer name was for most purposes too much of a mouthful. Section:Evolutionary design and a lukewarm reception.:Facelifts and upgrades. The emergency face-lift of 1968 left the overall silhouette of the P7 little changed, but a number of the fussier elements disappeared. The cheese-grater grill was replaced by a set of thin parallel bars and at the corners the meeting points between the lights and the bumpers were tidied up. The bump |
m not okay, you're okay Hostile Weakness - I'm not okay, you're not okay Friendly Strength - I'm okay, you're okay Hostile Strength - I'm okay, you're not okay A diversified and holistic guide to the four life scripts was first introduced by Dr. Leary and three of his colleagues in 1951. Leary suggested there were balanced, healthy forms of behaviour in relation to each of the life scripts and extreme, unhealthy forms of behaviour in relation to each of the scripts. By the | late 1960s psychologists such as Eric Berne, Thomas Harris and Claude Steiner had changed Leary's holistic guide to one which favoured the life position of 'I'm okay, you're okay' over all the other scripts. Section:Influence on comic book mythology. The author Grant Morrison later incorporated the idea into his "Invisibles" comic book series (1994–2000) and his "New X-Men" comic book series (2001–2004). Morrison |
Edmund MacRichard Butler Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler of Polestown (1420 – June 13, 1464) was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler of Polestown and adopted the Gaelic title of The MacRichard of Ossory. Section:Career. Like his father before him, Edmund was the Lord Deputy to his cousin, James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond who was absent from Ireland (and had even given the English title of Earl of Wiltshire in 1449). Edmund first came to attention in | 1443 when he instigated the murder of Finan and Dermot MacGillapadraig, the sons of the King of the ruling Irish clan in Ossory. In 1447, Edmund founded the bridge at Carrick-on-Suir – the first over the estuary. In 1462, his second cousin John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, arrived in Ireland with the objective of opening another front against the Yorkists during the Wars of the Roses. Enlisting Edmund MacRichard's help, he captured Waterford |
Blue's discoveries and signings have helped shape popular culture for the last 15 years. Blue personally signed as a writer to Warner Chappell Music Publishing and in addition to signing Linkin Park he worked, signed and developed and wrote for releases such as "Queen of the Damned" soundtrack, "Beautiful Creatures", several compilations, and co-developed the artist Daniel Powter. Blue co-produced the 2005 Better than Ezra album, "Before the Robots" which spawned two top ten singles. In 2008 he developed, | co-wrote, and co-produced the debut album for Roadrunner artist, Steadlur. Blue is currently signed as a songwriter to Universal Music Publishing where he co-wrote the 2009 hit single "So Close, So Far" for multi-Platinum artist Hoobastank. Blue won a BMI Award for his songwriting on "Pictures of You" for The Last Goodnight. He additionally produced, A&R'd, and performed all the drums and percussion on the Virgin Records album which also spawned Australia's #1 song of the year |
science. During the Second World War, Michael Graham was engaged on operational research in the RAF, for which he was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire). He retired in 1958 to devote himself to reclaiming derelict land in south Lancashire, and successfully demonstrated a practical and economic way of ‘greening over’ post-industrial slag heaps. From 1966 to 1971 he was a visiting Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Salford University, and to his great joy the Department adopted and continued his | work of land reclamation. Sadly, Michael Graham didn’t live to see his last book "A Natural Ecology" (1973) published; he died on New Year's Day 1972 at the age of 72. Section:Fisheries Survey of Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria has witnessed many dramatic changes over the past Century as a result of the introduction of Nile Perch, eutrophication and climatic change. These influences have in-turn resulted in major alteration to indigenous fish communities. In 1927 Michael |
agnie de Saint-Gobain). He also consulted for the IMF, the World Bank and the EU. Azour published more than five books and several articles on economic and financial issues in international publications and academic journals, and has a long teaching experience at the American University of Beirut. Jihad Azour sits on the board of various companies, universities and social institutions, among them: - CMA – CGM Group (third largest international shipping company), - Carnegie Middle East Advisory Council - Lebanese American University - Chairman of the board of International Advisors | and member of the board of Trustees - Iktissad Wal Aamal Group - member of the Board of Directors. He has also pioneered various projects and initiatives: Chairman of Mobile Innovation Hub, MiHub - A joint program with the World Bank Group to promote startups and technology sector in Lebanon, the Young Lebanese Entrepreneurs Program - BADER, to support Lebanese entrepreneurs. Jihad Azour is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur in France. Azour's involvement in government |
ayetteville, the county seat, and northeast to Dunn. Interstate 95 passes to the southeast of the town, with access from Exit 61. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which , or 0.54%, is water. The Cape Fear River runs just north of the town limits. Section:Demographics. As of the census of 2000, there were 480 people, 196 households, and 131 families residing in the town. The population density was | 367.6 people per square mile (141.5/km²). There were 220 housing units at an average density of 168.5 per square mile (64.8/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 72.29% White, 22.71% African American, 1.46% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.62% Pacific Islander, 2.50% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.71 |
ercle national des combattants". Section:Life and activism. Roger Holeindre was born on 21 March 1929 in Corrano, Corse-du-Sud. He grew up in Vosges and then Seine-Saint-Denis. In 1989, he wrote "À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris" ("To those who haven't understood a thing") in which he claims to have stolen two machine guns from the Germans in August 1944 and that the operation got a friend killed. It hasn't been proven or | denied he joined any Resistance organisation afterwards, but it can be assumed he never had any connection with the German occupation forces as he didn't spent any jail sentence after 1945 (which was a pre-requisite to any investigation for suspicious persons about collaboration in France at that time). After working as a steel worker, he volunteered for the Indochina War in 1948 and later for the Algerian War . After being almost fatally wounded in the head, he was demobilized and lived in the city of Tebessa in the East of Algeria. He |
was born in Goochland County, Virginia, on February 10, 1788. He was seventh of twelve children born to Stephen Giles and Betsy (Perkins) Letcher. The family moved to Kentucky about 1800, first living at Harrodsburg, then settling in Garrard County. For a time, Letcher attended the common schools of the area, but he was dismissed for being unruly. He studied the trade of masonry, though not very enthusiastically, at his father's brickyard. Letcher enrolled | in Joshua Fry's private academy near Danville, Kentucky, faring better under Fry's instruction than he had in the common schools, and gained a sound education. Following his instruction at Fry's academy, he returned to his father's brickyard, where tradition holds that he helped build the state's first governor's mansion alongside future governor Thomas Metcalfe. He then read law in the office of Humphrey Marshall, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Lancaster, Kentucky. He briefly served as a judge advocate in Colonel John Allen' |
Comics to Watch in 2010". Kinane has had a longstanding relationship with the cable channel Comedy Central, including serving as the voice for their on-air announcements since 2011. His first "Comedy Central Presents" half-hour special was on February 25, 2011. Other Comedy Central programs on which he has appeared include "Drunk History" (on which he retold the story of the Haymarket affair while drunk), the game show "@midnight", which he has won seven times, and the 2014 animated series | "TripTank". Kinane's first stand-up comedy DVD special, "Whiskey Icarus", was released in 2012. His second stand-up DVD special, ""I Liked His Old Stuff Better,"" was released in 2015. Kinane has performed his stand-up on television programs "Last Call with Carson Daly", "Live at Gotham", "Conan" and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". He has opened for comedians Patton Oswalt and Daniel Tosh on tour. He has appeared |
stra won the race after his victory in 2014 and the fourth successive victory for . It was the eighth victory for the team in Qatar. Terpstra took the lead of the race with victory in the third stage of the race, the individual time trial, and held the lead of the race to the finish. Maciej Bodnar () took second place, six seconds behind Terpstra; Alexander Kristoff won stages 2, 4 and 5 on the way to finishing third, nine seconds off the overall lead. In the race's other classifications, Kristoff won the silver jer | sey of the points classification, thanks to his three-stage wins. Peter Sagan () was the winner of the pearl white jersey of the young riders classification as he was the highest placed rider born after 1 January 1990. The team classification was won by . Section:Preview. The Tour of Qatar is one of the early races in the season, coming in the middle of three races in the Middle East (alongside the Dubai Tour and the Tour of Oman) that see high levels of participation from the top European teams. The race is particularly popular as a prepar |
"' (1959), two works of Psychogeography created from found magazines of Copenhagen and Paris respectively, collaged and then printed over in unrelated colours. Section:After World War II; post-modernism and pop art.:Dieter Roth and Ed Ruscha. Often credited with defining the modern artist's book, Dieter Roth (1930–98) produced a series of works which systematically deconstructed the form of the book throughout the fifties and sixties. These disrupted the codex's authority by creating books with | holes in (e.g. "Picture Book", 1957), allowing the viewer to see more than one page at the same time. Roth was also the first artist to re-use found books-comic books, printer's end papers and newspapers (such as "Daily Mirror", 1961, and "AC", 1964). Although originally produced in Iceland in extremely small editions, Roth's books would be produced in increasingly large runs, through numerous publishers in Europe and North America, and would ultimately be reprinted together by the |
elements, such as with "Complex" regarding its arcade cabinet and Cracked.com regarding its game over sequence. Crunchyroll's Patrick Macias wrote: "I'll confess my heart skipped a beat when I read "The Punisher" arcade game, the legacy of a misspent youth and countless tokens whittled away at Chuck E. Cheese." Some critics regard "The Punisher" as among the best of the beat 'em up genre, as well as among the best video game adaptations of comic books, especially of Marvel titles. In | 2010, it was ranked as the tenth top greatest superhero game by IGN's News & Features Team, and as the fifth top Marvel arcade game by iFanboy's Josh Richardson. Nerdist Industries included it among the top ten most iconic Marvel video games in 2013, calling it "one of the few games that benefits from its cheesiness" and stating that in 1993 the two-player experience "was pretty much what "Army of Two" wishes it was today." That same year, it was also listed as |
" (1644) by Agostino Ciampelli, a pupil of Santi di Tito. Ciampelli also painted the canvases flanking the altar with depictions of "St Sebastian" and "St Michael Archangel". In the 3rd altar on the right is a canvas depicting "St Peter in Chains" by Alessandro Tiarini. The canvas in the choir depicting "San Policronio and other Saints" was painted by Ercole Bazzicaluva, who is best known for his engravings in the style | of Callot, Stefano della Bella, and Cantagallina. In the altar of the Sacrament, of the left side of the nave near the apse, is a canvas depicting, the "Archangel Raphael and Tobias returning sight to Tobias' father" by Alessandro Bardelli; and in the next chapel a "Virgin of the Annunciation" by the cavalier Giovanni Battista Paggi. Between the two chapels on the left is a canvas depicting "Jesus changing the heart of St Catherine of Siena" by Jac |
, i.e. if formula_18, there is no effect on the observer. Section:Precession. The frame-dragging effect will cause a gyroscope to precess. The rate of precession is given by where: That is, if the gyroscope's angular momentum relative to the fixed stars is formula_24, then it precesses as The rate of precession is given by where formula_27 is the Christoffel symbol for the above metric. "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler provides hints on how to most easily | calculate this. Section:Gravitomagnetic analysis. It is popular in some circles to use the gravitomagnetic approach to the linearized field equations. The reason for this popularity should be immediately evident below, by contrasting it to the difficulties of working with the equations above. The linearized metric formula_28 can be read off from the Lense–Thirring metric given above, where formula_29, and formula_30. In this approach, one writes the linearized metric, given in terms of the gravitomagneitc potentials formula_31 and formula_32 |
4,293. Males had a median income of $34,405 versus $24,875 for females. The per capita income for the village was $17,066. About 14.3% of families and 14.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.9% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over. The village was incorporated in 1881 and population peaked in the early 1960s | , with a 1960 census reported population of 4,708. Section:History. The original inhabitants of the area were Onondaga clans, whose village was atop a hill on the eastern border of Onondaga territory along what is now Kinne St. An established trail ran down part of what is now James Street to Ley Creek where the Onondagas could travel by canoe to their capital along the northeast shore of Onondaga Lake. Portions of this Onondaga village dating from the early eighteenth century were uncovered in the 1930s when |
Ninja" rebels enabled the 2007 election to be held fully in the Pool Region; in the previous parliamentary election in 2002, voting did not take place in the eight of the 14 constituencies in the Pool Region due to the activities of Ntumi's rebel group. Prior to the vote, the boycotting opposition appealed to the Constitutional Court regarding alleged electoral flaws, seeking to have the election cancelled, but on June 22 the Constitutional Court rejected this and ruled that only candidates could dispute the election. Campaigning for | the election began on June 8 and continued until June 22. Although many voters did not receive their voter cards, Armand Baboutila, the Director-General of Electoral Affairs, assured them on June 20 that their voter cards would be available at the polling stations on election day. In the first round of the election, held on 24 June, serious problems were reported, including the absence of electoral rolls and voter cards, or errors in them, in some places. Widespread delays were reported in the opening of polling stations, and turnout was |
65 or over. Section:Economy. Dixon is a regional employment hub and is part of two fast growing distribution and warehousing and food processing districts: one is I-88 West and the other, the I-39 Logistics Corridor. The biggest industries are healthcare and government. Healthcare employs over 1,700, while government jobs approach 1,500. The Dixon Correctional Center employs over 600 workers, as does the Department of Transportation. KSB Hospital has nearly 1 | ,000 employees. Dixon has many industries employing thousands of the region's residents. The largest are Raynor Garage Doors, Donaldson Inc., Borg Warner, and Spectrum Brands. Fifteen miles away in Ashton, Crest Foods employs over 600. Section:Arts and culture. The city of Dixon has numerous art venues including: a downtown art gallery, 2 galleries held in museums, and several private business galleries. Dixon also has a performing arts theatre called Dixon Stage Left, and a musician and |
ony, had placed him on the commission for church visitation in Thuringia, and in 1529 appointed him pastor and superintendent at Eisenach, where for eighteen years he administered church affairs with tact, and fostered the spread of education. In 1529 he brought out his "Oeconomia christiana" (a treatise in German, on the right ordering of a Christian household) with a dedication to Duchess Sybil of Saxony and a preface by Luther. Menius's tractate, written in concert with Myconius, controver | ting "Der Wiedertaufer Lehre und Geheimniss" (1530) was also prefaced by Luther. The reversion to the Roman communion of his old friend Crotus led to his mordant "Responsio amici" (1532, anon.) to the "Apologia" (1531) of Crotus. He took his part in the theological disputations of the time, at Marburg (1529), the Concordia at Wittenberg (1536), the Convention at Schmalk |
an object with multiple potential collisions on a set of dates, a Torino Scale value should be determined for each date. It may be convenient to summarize such an object by the greatest Torino Scale value within the set." Section:History and naming. The Torino Scale was created by Professor Richard P. Binzel in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The first version, called "A Near-Earth Object Hazard Index", was presented at a United Nations conference in 1995 and was published by Binzel | in the subsequent conference proceedings ("Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences," volume 822, 1997.) A revised version of the "Hazard Index" was presented at a June 1999 international conference on NEOs held in Torino (Turin), Italy. The conference participants voted to adopt the revised version, where the bestowed name "Torino Scale" recognizes the spirit of international cooperation displayed at that conference toward research efforts to understand the hazards posed by NEOs. ("Torino Scale" is the proper |
. Clouzot's most remarkable traits: he knows how to write." At the 1947 Venice International Film Festival, Clouzot won the International Prize for Best Director for the film. The film received positive critical reception in the United States on its initial release. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" referred to the film as "a fascinating and penetrating film". Richard L. Coe of "The Washington Post" referred to the film as "a fine, engrossing French crime film". "Variety" gave the film a positive review, proclaim | ing that "In every respect ["Quai des Orfèvres"] is outstanding." In 1949, the film won an Edgar Award for Best Foreign film. Modern reception of the film has also been positive. French critics have continued to praise the film since its release. In 1964 Jean Mitry wrote that the film is "one of the few films—with Renoir's "Rules of the Game", "All About Eve", and two or three others—which allows us to think that the cinema, like the novel and the theater, can some day be |
Man", "Date Night", "Get Him to the Greek", and "Dinner for Schmucks", as well as more prominent roles in "Adult Beginners", "Sausage Party", "Loving", "Sing", "", "The House", "Uncle Drew", "Operation Finale", and "The Secret Life of Pets 2". Section:Early life and education. Kroll was born in New York State, and raised in Rye, New York. He is a son of Lynn and Jules Kroll, a businessman who founded Kroll Inc., a corporate investigations and | risk consulting firm. The youngest child in the family, he has a brother, Jeremy, and two sisters, Vanessa and Dana. He grew up in a Conservative Jewish family, and attended the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester. He went on to high school at Rye Country Day School. During this time, he also briefly attended The Mountain School in Vermont where he developed his fondness for hiking. In 2001, Kroll graduated from Georgetown University. He described himself as "a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, |
04. Millar was investigated in Nanterre in 2006 with nine other defendants, mostly from Cofidis. The court decided it was not clear he had taken drugs in France and that charges could not be pursued. The doctor he had consulted (see below) lived south of Biarritz but across the Pyrenees, in Spain. Millar's statement to the judge, Richard Pallain, told of a man torn apart by the pressure of racing, the expectations placed in him by British fans, and an inability to make close friends. He said he des | paired of cycling in 1999 and began going to parties. At one, he fell down stairs and broke a bone. It put him out of cycling for four months and he didn't get back to racing form until the following year. Winning the prologue of the Tour de France made things worse; he had worn the "maillot jaune" of leadership – his "dream", he said – and when it was all over he was back in his apartment with no friends and just a television for company. Doping had gained him 25 seconds |
change of name to Helensburgh. However it was probably around 1785 when Sir James decided to name the town after his wife, Lady Helen Sutherland (1717–1791); she was the granddaughter of the 16th Earl of Sutherland. However, for a few years both the old and new names for the town were in use and it was also known for a time simply as the New Town. The town's coat of arms is based on those of the Colquhouns and the Sutherlands. Helensburgh received its burgh | charter from King George III in 1802. This was somewhat surprising, as the 1799 Statistical Account of Scotland indicates that Helensburgh only had a population of about 100 at that time. To commemorate the bicentenary of the burgh charter in 2002 many members of Helensburgh Heritage Trust combined to produce a special history book of the town. Section:History.:Henry Bell and the "Comet". Henry Bell (1767–1830) had arrived in Helensburgh by 1806. |
Big Star albums were named in Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time, and “In The Street,” from their first album, became the theme for “That 70s Show.” Early on, the studio recorded Sam & Dave, Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, Leon Russell and The Staples Singers, and in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s recorded James Taylor, ZZ Top, R.E.M., George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Joe Wal | sh, and Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In the 2000s younger artists such as The White Stripes, 3 Doors Down, Cat Power, North Mississippi Allstars, The Raconteurs, Low Cut Connie and Guy Sebastian have recorded at Ardent, and the soundtracks for "Hustle and Flow" and "Black Snake Moan" were produced at Ardent as well. To date, Ardent has recorded over 70 gold and platinum albums and singles. Section:Notable artists. Section:Notable albums. |
" used by the Cleveland Indians in 1950 at the large Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The Chicago White Sox followed suit in 1951, becoming the first team to transport the pitcher from the bullpen all the way to the pitcher's mound. The White Sox discontinued the practice in 1955 after fans continued throwing garbage at the car. In 1959, the Milwaukee Braves began to use a (locally-produced) Harley-Davidson Topper with a sidecar as a bullpen car. In | 1963, the Los Angeles Angels became the first team to use a golf cart as their bullpen car. The New York Mets introduced a bullpen car based on a golf cart with an oversized team hat in 1967. The New York Yankees began using a Datsun 1200 painted with pinstripes in 1972. Rats chewed through the Datsun's cables, and the team switched to a Toyota Celica in 1982. The White Sox introduced a bullpen car |
Along with the rest of South West England, Exmoor has a temperate climate which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of England. The mean annual temperature at Simonsbath is with a seasonal and diurnal variation, but due to the modifying effect of the sea the range is less than in most other parts of the UK. January is the coldest month, with mean minimum temperatures between . July and August are the warmest months in the region, with mean daily maxima around . In general, December is the month with the least sunshine and June the month with the most sun | . The south-west of England has a favoured location with regard to the Azores high pressure when it extends its influence north-eastwards towards the UK, particularly in summer. Cloud often forms inland, especially near hills, and reduce the amount of sunshine that reaches the park. The average annual sunshine is about 1,600 hours. Rainfall tends to be associated with Atlantic depressions or with convection. In summer, convection, caused by the sun heating the land surface more than the sea, sometimes forms rain clouds and at that time of year a large proportion of |
process, collagraphy, lithography, and toner drawings, among others. Section:Innovations and accolades: 1960–1975. Beginning in the early 1960s, Steg was represented by the famed New York City gallery Associated American Artists, resulting in Steg's first New York Times feature in 1963. Steg's printmaking reached its apex in the mid-1960s, "when he introduced photographic images into his intaglio plates." This innovation | to combine photoresist etchings with the intaglio process put Steg on the forefront of American printmaking, alongside contemporaries like Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Steg was "one of the first artists to begin using photoresist etching in a collage-like fashion and to combine it with other printmaking processes." Steg's work in this new process was shown alongside the work of 18 other artists in the 1968 exhibition "Photography in Printmaking" at Associated American Artists, and was compared favorably to Warhol's |
explicit function of the current species populations multiplied by "dt". From that result he deduced, using only the laws of probability, an exact formula for the joint probability density function "p"("τ,j") of the {time "τ" to the next reaction event} and the {index "j" of that reaction}. The SSA consists of first generating random values for "τ" and "j" according to "p"("τ,j"), and then actualizing the next reaction accordingly. The generating step of the SSA can be accomplished using any of several different methods, and Gillespie's original | paper presented two: the "direct method", which follows from a straightforward application of the well known Monte Carlo inversion method for generating random numbers; and the "first-reaction method", which is less straightforward but mathematically equivalent. Later workers derived additional methods for generating random numbers according to Gillespie's function "p"("τ,j") which offer computational advantages in various specific situations. Gillespie's original derivation of the SSA applied only to a well-stirred dilute "gas". It was widely assumed/hoped that the SSA would also apply when the reactant molecules are |
the minor gifts, letting the victim drive a car and taking youths to sporting events. The most frequent context for abuse was a social event and many priests socialized with the families of victims. Abuses occurred in a variety of places with the most common being the residence of the priest. The John Jay report catalogued more than twenty types of sexual abuse ranging from verbal harassment to penile penetration. It said that most of the abusers engaged in multiple types of abuses. According to the report, only 9 percent of the accused performed acts limited to improper touching | over the victim's clothes. Slightly more than 27 percent of the allegations involved a cleric performing oral sex and 25 percent involved penile penetration or attempted penile penetration, reported the study. The study said sexual abuse "includes contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used as an object of sexual gratification for the adult." The report categorized allegations of sexual abuse even if the allegation did not involve force or genital or physical contact. Section:Response of the Church.:Global extent.:Profile of the victims. The |
the Dragonchain Academy. Blockchain development certifications granted to users are stored on the blockchain. All courses come at no cost and token rewards earned for completing courses come from the Dragonchain Foundation. Sieng van Tran is the current President of the Dragonchain Academy, who earlier in his career founded Ilearn.to, the first internet learning company in the United Kingdom that was profitable. Section:Use cases.:Other explored use cases. Before open sourcing Dragonchain they explored and tested a variety of use cases in real enterprise environments. Some of them documented include: Systems for identity that involved | privacy, security and confidentiality factors. Ticketing, specifically for theme parks. Infrastructure for decentralized processing, computing and storage of files or data. Different systems for voting, applicable in various ways such as governments or entertainment. For legal firms the encoding of legal agreements between parties through smart contracts. The reporting and compliance of audit results. Using blockchain and cryptocurrencies for payment platforms. The organization of internal cryptocurrencies to deal with chargebacks or to model micro-economies within teams for interaction and incentive. Contracts |
Sentinel Secondary School Sentinel Secondary School is a secondary school located in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of three public secondary schools in the West Vancouver district (SD #45) including West Vancouver Secondary School and Rockridge Secondary School. The school has a grass field, two baseball diamonds, three street hockey courts, and three tennis courts. The main field is used for all sports, such as soccer, football, and rugby. The school was established for the 1962–63 school year with students who had previously attended Hillside Second | ary School. The first classes were held in the old Inglewood School until the new building was completed in 1963. The first grade 12 graduating class was in 1965. Section:Advanced Placement Program. Sentinel offers Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses, teaching material equivalent to university-level study. All of the courses require a strong comprehension of general knowledge and excellent work habits. It requires a powerful intellectual commitment to perseverance and solid, foundational work habits, and are regarded as more rigorous than the general offerings. Pre |
645). Section:Titles. Section:Battles. Section:Family. Sir Duncan Campbell, 2nd Baronet and 6th Lord of Auchinbreck (1597–1645) was commander of Argyll’s troops in Ireland in 1641 and taking of Dunluce Castle, County Antrim. He held the office of Governor of Rathlin Island. He married first Margaret Blair, who was born about 1575. She was the daughter of the Lord of Blair, and died without issue. He married second | , Miss Maxwell, daughter to the Lord of Newark. They had issue: He married third, 1628, Dame Jean Coloquhoun, Lady Cathcart, of Luss, Scotland. She was born about 1610. Duncan and Jean had issue: Section:Battle of Inverlochy 1645. On 2 February, Sir Duncan Campbell led Argyll’s troops at the Battle of Inverlochy (1645) where he was taken prisoner and executed by Alasdair Mac Colla. One prisoner who |
W. Samuel Patten W. Samuel Patten is an American political consultant and lobbyist who received international attention in 2018 in relation to the Special Counsel investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller. In spring 2018, this was due to Patten's relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik, a subject of the investigation. In summer 2018, attention intensified due to Patten's emergence as a subject of the investigation in his own right, followed by his guilty plea, after being charged in August 2018 with | violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department when he represented the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party, from 2014 through 2018. Section:Early life and family. Patten's father is Bill Patten Jr., whose mother was prominent Washington, D.C. socialite Susan Mary Alsop; Patten Jr.'s father was later alleged to have been the British politician Duff Cooper, with whom his mother had an affair while married to her first husband Bill Patten. Patten Jr. |
ills Lane and Maple Avenue. It is a sprawling 2-1/2 story structure, built mainly of rubblestone, with a central rectangular section flanked by wings set at an angle. The style roughly resembles that of a Swiss chateau, with heavy dark chestnut clapboards and a recessed porch with balcony above. The roof has a shallow pitch, and is pierced by truncated gable dormers. Windows are irregular in size and spacing, and are typically fitted with small panes. The interior is divided into public spaces in the center | and north wing ground floors, bedrooms above those, and the service and servants wing to the south. The house was built in 1922, and was one of the later commissions in Norfolk of New York City architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor. Taylor spent many summers in Norfolk in the early 20th century, and is credited with more than thirty commissions. This house includes a number of his signature features, including the use of rustic stone and heavy woodwork, and the angled wings, all of which appear on a number of his works. Section:See also |
uring features such as simple holes, tapered holes, counter-bore holes, counter-sunk holes, counter-drilled holes, hole-chains, hole patterns such as linear, rectangular and circular patterns, fillets, chamfers, blind pockets, through pockets, drafted pockets, filleted and chamfered pockets, simple slots, drafted slots, filleted and chamfered slots, islands in pockets and slots, machinable volumes, machinable slabs, multiple intersecting features, axi-symmetric features such as external turned | profiles, internal turned profiles, turned grooves such as vee and dovetail grooves, and mill-turn features such as slots and pocket in turned profiles. Sheet metal feature recognition library extracts features from a sheet metal perspective. Various features identified through this library include walls, bends, holes, cutouts, flanged holes, flanged cutouts, notches, open hems, closed hems, teardrop hems, rolled hems (curls), jog flanges, edge flanges, contour flanges, stamps such as louver, lance, bridge, dim |
Mikazuki Sunset Section:Background and development. In 1998, Ichiro Yamaguchi while attending high school in Sapporo formed Dutchman, a rock band inspired by British rock. Yamaguchi acted as the band's vocalist and primary songwriter. In 2002, the band released "Demonstration", an album compiled of seven demos the band recorded between 2000 and 2002. "Mikazuki Sunset" was a song Yamaguchi wrote while still living at his family home in Tomi | oka-chō, Otaru, and was written for a girl he liked called Hanako. He wrote the song's words at the same time as the music, and was inspired by there actually being a crescent moon in the sky that night. In late 2002, the band began performing "Mikazuki Sunset", which had a markedly different approach, featuring techno-inspired electronic samples and synths, instead of the band's typical rock sound. It was originally performed with a rock sound, but Yamaguchi felt that a purely rock arrangement did not create the |
two years before joining the Seattle Mariners (1980–1981) and the Texas Rangers (1983–1984). Anderson made his first major league appearance on July 2, 1978 at Anaheim Stadium, and he went 1-for-3 with a walk against Rangers pitchers Dock Ellis and Steve Comer, as the Angels won 4-3. His most productive season came with the Mariners in 1980, when he posted career-highs in games played (116), starts | (84), plate appearances (345), hits (72), home runs (8), RBI (30), and runs (46). Anderson's career totals include 419 games played, a .218 batting average (211-for-970), 13 home runs, 86 RBI, 107 runs scored, and an on-base percentage of .280. A true utility man, he also made appearances at third base, second base, catcher and the corner outfield. In between, Anderson played winter ball |
in other territories, giving it a worldwide total of $373,062,864. Section:Release.:Home media. On September 15, 2009, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" on DVD and Blu-ray disc. The two-disc Blu-ray includes commentary by Hood, another commentary by producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter, the featurette "The Roots of Wolverine: A Conversation with X-Men creators Stan | Lee and Len Wein", the featurette "Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins", 10 character chronicles, two more featurettes, a trivia track, deleted scenes with commentary from Hood, two alternate sequences, a Fox Movie Channel premiere featurette and imdb BD Live technology. Disc two of the set includes a digital copy. In addition, a Wal-Mart exclusive 3-disc set, which includes a standard DVD copy of the film was also released. The two-DVD special edition includes the two commentaries, the featurette with Stan Lee and |
Lone Star College–CyFair Lone Star College–CyFair, formerly Cy-Fair College, is one of six colleges in the Lone Star College System located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. Section:Vision. As more and more of Texas' natural environment is developed by commercial and residential properties, the Cy-Fair College campus was planned to serve as a model of environmentally responsible development within a sensitive ecosystem, in this case the rapidly vanishing Katy Prairie. Section:Campus plan. The Cy-Fair College campus | not only works with the land, it rehabilitates the land. First, the majority of the previously cleared and over-grazed site was restored to its native flora and environment. The undulating hills and meadows are now covered in native grasses like Indiangrass, Little Bluestem, and Gulf Coast Muhly, as well as Coreopsis and Liatris wildflowers, and groves of over 3,200 native and indigenous prairie trees like Loblolly Pines, Bald Mexican Sycamores, and Live Oaks. Second, of lakes |
NLX (motherboard form factor) NLX (New Low Profile eXtended) was a form factor proposed by Intel and developed jointly with IBM, DEC, and other vendors for low profile, low cost, mass-marketed retail PCs. Release 1.2 was finalized in March 1997 and release 1.8 was finalized in April 1999. NLX was similar in overall design to LPX, including a riser card and a low-profile slimline case. It was modernized and updated to allow support | for the latest technologies while keeping costs down and fixing the main problems with LPX. It specified motherboards from to in size. Officially, the NLX form factor was designed to use ATX power supplies and featured the same soft power function. However, some NLX cases instead used the smaller SFX form factor or proprietary form factors with the same 20-pin connector. Many slimline systems that were formerly designed to fit the LPX form factor were modified to fit NLX. NLX is a true standard, unlike LPX, making interchangeability of components easier than it |
the previous playthrough and the game's difficulty will be set to its highest level (regardless of the machine's actual setting) - but the continuation feature will cease to be available; this means that the game will be completely over when the player completes the final stage again or loses all of his lives. Section:Ports. Section:Ports.:Nintendo Entertainment System. A home version of "Super Contra" was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System on February 2, 1990 in Japan and in April, 1990 in North America, where it was | retitled "Super C". A PAL version of the NES game, titled "Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces", was released in 1992. The gameplay and graphics of "Super C" are similar to the port of the first Contra game. There are three stages unique to the NES version: a high-tech base, a mountain and an alien nest, all vertical-scrolling stages. The order of the latter stages and bosses are also slightly different, with new bosses featured in this version (including a new final boss). The NES |
ating Jelena Dokić in the final. The same year, she finished runner-up at the Orange Bowl to Elena Dementieva and she also finished runner-up at the junior 1999 US Open to Lina Krasnoroutskaya. In May 1998, she played her first WTA tournament at the J&S Cup as a wild-card entrant. She also received a wild card for her home event in Moscow, the Kremlin Cup, where she picked up her first top-twenty win over Iva Majoli. By the end of 1 | 999, Petrova had reached the top 100. In 2000, she reached the third round of the Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the Ericsson Open, beating Julie Halard-Decugis for her first top ten win before losing to Lindsay Davenport. She finished the season at No. 50. She reached the fourth round of both French Open and the US Open in 2001 and her ranking hit a high of No. 38 during the season. However, her 2002 season was marred by |
rescued by their herd. This will be a timed action trigger function. Heavy bots will appear in levels to add difficulty to gameplay. The Hovership is a medium-sized transport ship with vertical take-off and landing capabilities. It is mainly used for deployment and retrieval of other robot units. The ship retrieves robots from lakes and goop swamps by lowering down a bungee style ‘mucus rope’. They are equipped with a winch to airlift cargo. Imposter bot. - Herds of sdompe are often purs | ued by imposter bots. Imposter bots will merrily follow a herd, cunningly infiltrate and then disperse it. They disguise themselves in an unconvincing way as a sdompe who then infiltrate the herd before startling active sdompe and scattering them across the terrain. Lifterbots are large powerful units with fork-lifts for hands, equipped with lights to work in darkness of the deep freight halls of the city underground. The lifterbot is generally designed to move and transport cargo. However, |
Rio 4. The fourth edition of Rock in Rio, back to its origins, was held on September 23, 24, 25, 29 and 30, and October 1 and 2, 2011, at an area () to be built next to the old City of Rock – which is currently the site of the Olympic Village of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Three different stages were employed, with the headlining concerts at the Palco Mundo (World Stage), the secondary ones in Palco Sunset (Sunset Stage), and DJ | s playing at a specialized stage for electronic music. The closing acts, Guns N' Roses and System of a Down, entered following a poll on the festival's website. Maroon 5 was a last hour addition, following Jay-Z leaving for personal reasons. Full list of artists who performed at Rock in Rio 4: Section:Rio de Janeiro.:Rock in Rio 5. "Rock in Rio 5" was held on September 2013. The headline acts, chronologically, were: Beyoncé, Muse, Justin Timberlake, Metallica |
Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges are a side-by-side pair of road bridges on the Gateway Motorway (M1), which skirts the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The western bridge carries traffic to the north and the eastern bridge carries traffic to the south. They are the most eastern crossing of the Brisbane River, the closest to Moreton Bay, crossing at the Quarries Reach, between Eagle Farm and Murarrie. The original bridge (formerly named the Gateway | Bridge) was opened on 11 January 1986 and cost A$92 million to build. The duplicate bridge was opened in May 2010, and cost $350 million. On 16 May 2010 the Queensland Government renamed the Gateway Bridge and its duplicate the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges. An opinion poll conducted by Brisbane's Channel Nine News, showed 97% of people were against the decision to rename the bridge and most people still call it the Gateway Bridge. A public open day for the duplicate bridge was held |