Miska Siikonen

Miska Siikonen (born 12 May 1996) is a Finnish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Lahti Pelicans in the Finnish Liiga.

Siikonen made his Liiga debut playing with Lahti Pelicans during the 2014–15 season.

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Stepping feet illusion

The stepping feet illusion is a motion perception phenomenon involving two "buses," one blue and one yellow, moving horizontally across a "street" consisting of black and white stripes. Although both of the buses move at a constant speed, their perceived speed varies dramatically.

When the blue bus lies on the white stripes, the contrast is high (dark blue vs. white) and easily visible, so it appears to move faster than its actual speed. On the contrary, when the blue bus is against the black stripes, the contrast is low (dark blue vs. black) and harder to see, so the movement looks slower (see figs. 1 and 2). The opposite effects occur for the yellow bus. The two buses resemble a pair of moving of feet, giving the illusion its name.

Overall, the higher-contrast movements look faster than those with lower contrast. The effect disappears when the street's striped texture is removed because there is no contrast remaining, showing how an object's background can have a significant effect on its perceived speed.

Historical background
The stepping feet illusion was initially demonstrated by Stuart Anstis in 2003. He proposed that the contrast effect was experienced by drivers in foggy conditions in which the difference in brightness between the car and its surroundings is generally less than a sunny day. As a result, people tended to misjudge that the speed of their cars was moving slower than the actual speed and felt that other cars were becoming less visible. While in foggy conditions, other cars were reduced in contrast, thus appearing slower than they really were.

Causes

Contrast effect
Theoretically, the stepping feet illusion is influenced by the contrast between moving objects and their background. Contrast refers to the measured stimulus property of luminance differences. While the background has black and white stripes, the contrast changes from one line to the next. Both black and white lines have different patterns in contrast, for the dark object (blue bus), high contrast object against white lines and low contrast objects against black lines. In contrary for the light object (yellow bus), high contrast object against black lines and low contrast object against white lines. It is noted that not just any color can be paired for contrast, but there must be a luminance difference between the two, one of which must be bright, while the other must be dark.

Amplitude motion
Contrast not only modifies latency, but also the amplitude of perceived motion. Any difference in latency between different edges will move the diamond along the upright ellipse, but will not tilt the path from the vertical. Contrast modifies the perceived motion amplitudes of each side before edge motion coupled with boundary intersections.
Contrast effects not only real smooth movement, but also stroboscopic clear movement. A blue bus and a yellow bus placed one on top of another, surging back and forth horizontally over a quarter of the square. Around the dark, yellow bus appears to jump through more distances, because they have a higher contrast. Around the light or white stripes, the blue bus seems to leap through a further distance, because now the square had a higher contrast. Here, contrast affects the apparent amplitude of motion, not its speed.

Visual codes for motion coding
Anstis considers the stepping feet illusion as a motion analogue of the Bezold–Brücke color intensity effect on color vision. Bezold–Brucke illusions may show the same scheme for motion coding, i.e. reflecting non-linearity in which a cone in one cone, or more likely in one colored path, increase faster with its luminance than the other. The contrast illusion depicted in the illusion of footsteps may be just the analogue movement of the Bezold–Brucke effect, when two hypothetical neurons are tuned respectively for fast and slow motion. At low contrast, the speed of a particular medium simulates both channels equally.

If the contrast (not the luminance) increases, then both fast and slow channels will increase their firing rate, ideally by the same amount. In the model, however, non-linearity creeps in, and the advantages of fast channels increase with more contrast than slow channel acquisition. As a result, at high contrast, the same medium speed as before stimulates discharge channels disproportionately over slow channels and the movement looks more quickly subjectively.

Additional research
Jun On, Akiyasu Tomoeda, and Kokichi Sugihara (2014) won the best illusion of the year contest. They made a version of the "kickback illusion" which is closely related to the stepping feet illusion. In this illusion a rectangle moving at a constant speed in front of stripes generates apparent reverse motion, this apparent motion is similar to the action of a neck when the pigeon walks.

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Igbo Olodumare

Igbo Olodumare (translated from
Yoruba) as (The Forest of God) is a mystery novel written by Daniel O. Fagunwa. Considered the second novel written in the Yoruba language, after its predecessor Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ and one of the first to be written in any African language, it was first published in 1949 and is Daniel O. Fagunwa's second novel.. It is a prequel to his first book and details the adventures of Olowo-Aye, father of the protagonist in "Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmole."

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Palotás

Palotás is a surname of Hungarian origin. The name refers to:
 Péter Palotás (1929–1967), also referred to as Péter Poteleczky, was a Hungarian footballer
 István Palotás (1908, date of death unknown) was a Hungarian football midfielder
 József Palotás (1911–1957) was a Hungarian wrestler

Palotás is the name of an Hungarian settlement:
 Palotás, Hungary

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Micrurapteryx salicifoliella

Micrurapteryx salicifoliella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada (Québec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories) and the United States (including Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont, Kentucky, Michigan, Texas, California).

The wingspan is about 9 mm. Adults are on wing in mid to late July in Illinois, with a possibly a second generation emerging in October. In California, adults can be found from April to October and in Texas in November.

The larvae feed on Populus species (including Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides and Populus grandidentata) and Salix species (including Salix alba, Salix arbusculoides, Salix babylonica, Salix bebbiana, Salix brachycarpa, Salix exigua, Salix glauca, Salix integra, Salix interior, Salix lasiandra, Salix longifolia, Salix monticola, Salix novae-angliae, Salix planifolia and Salix scouleriana). They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is found on the upperside of the leaf, sometimes covering the entire leaf area. It is a flat upperside blotch, initially greenish but later turning brown. The larva chews a hole through the bottom of the mine and exits through it to pupate. The cocoon is often spun on the upperside of a leaf, parallel to its long axis.

References

External links
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Micrurapteryx at microleps.org
Bug Guide

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Jacobus Duminy

Jacobus Petrus Duminy (16 December 1897 – 31 January 1980) was a South African academic who became principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town. As a young man, he was also a cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1927 to 1929. He was born at Bellville, a suburb of Cape Town and died at Groote Schuur Hospital, also in Cape Town. In his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack he is called "Johannes Petrus Duminy".

Life and academic career
Duminy grew up on a farm in the Tygerberg Hills. He published a memoir, Twilight over the Tygerberg, in 1979. He went to study at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar at the age of 23. Duminy served as chairman of various academic commissions.

During his tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town he resolutely opposed apartheid, sometimes at personal risk. He also helped established multi-racial cricket weeks for boys and girls.

Cricket career
As a cricketer, Duminy was a left-handed opening or middle-order batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler. His cricket career was episodic: two matches in 1919–20, one in 1921, and then a few more in 1927–28 and 1928–29, followed by three further games under unusual circumstances in 1929. He was not successful in his two appearances for Western Province against the Australian Forces team in 1919–20, and made 0 and 2 in his only first-class game for Oxford University in 1921, when he was a Rhodes scholar; he did, however, win a "Harlequin" cap as a member of the University second cricket team.

Duminy reappeared in first-class cricket in the 1927–28 South African season, playing for Transvaal in two matches against the MCC touring team. In the first, he made an unbeaten 95, and in the second he scored 55 and was then not out for 74 when the match was left drawn. That led to his selection for the first Test of a five-match series: he was not successful in the match at Johannesburg with the bat, scoring 0 and 4, but his left-arm spin, used as the sixth bowler in the South African attack, broke up a second-wicket partnership of 230 between Herbert Sutcliffe and Ernest Tyldesley which took England's first-innings total past South Africa's with only one wicket down. Duminy did not play in the second or third Tests, but when the tour returned to Johannesburg in late January, he was picked for the fourth Test, although he had played no first-class cricket in the meantime: the move was again unsuccessful, and he scored just 7 and 5.

In 1928–29, the Currie Cup was not contested, but Duminy appeared in three first-class matches for Transvaal. In the third of these, against Border, he made the only century of his first-class career, an unbeaten 168, and took six wickets in a single innings for 40 runs, half his career total of wickets. That was his final first-class game in South Africa. The codicil to his career was an odd one. He was not picked for the 1929 tour of England, but in the summer of 1929 was in Europe. The contemporary Wisden Cricketers' Almanack report states that he "happened to be on a business or professional visit to Europe"; Wisden's obituary of Duminy in 1981 is more specific and says "he was holidaying in Switzerland when he was sent for to join a team beset with injuries". He was conscripted straight into the Test team for the third match of a five-game series at Leeds, and once again, he was not a success, scoring 2 and 12. He stayed with the South African team for the next two first-class matches after the Test, but then departed, and did not play first-class cricket again.

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Jim Sciutto

James Ernest Sciutto (born March 10, 1970) is an anchor and Chief National Security Correspondent for CNN, reporting and providing analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security, including foreign policy, the military, terrorism, and the intelligence community, a position he took on in September 2013. From 2011 to 2013 he served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He was formerly ABC News' Senior Foreign correspondent, based in London. He is the author of Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World. Jim Sciutto is currently an anchor on CNN Newsroom, based in New York City and Washington, DC.

Biography
Sciutto attended Regis High School in Manhattan. Sciutto is a 1992 graduate of Yale University, where he majored in Chinese history. Sciutto began his career in television as the moderator and the producer of a PBS program, The Student Press, a weekly public affairs talk show aimed at college students. Sciutto was the Hong Kong correspondent for Asia Business News, and covered the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Sciutto also covered stories in China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, and South Korea. He joined ABC News in 1998, working in Chicago before moving to Washington, D.C. to cover the Pentagon. In 2006, Sciutto was named Senior Foreign Correspondent, ABC's lead reporter on foreign stories. Sciutto has traveled to and covered stories in 50 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, including more than a dozen assignments each in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. Sciutto was the only American journalist to embed with U.S. Special Forces during the Iraq invasion, to report from inside Myanmar during the government crackdown in the fall of 2007, and to file from inside Zimbabwe during the election crisis in April 2008.

Sciutto was also an appointee of the Obama administration, serving as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke.

Works

Honors
 Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting from Iran during the 2009 election protests.
 George Polk Award for Television Reporting in 2007 for his undercover reporting inside Myanmar.
 Emmy awards in 2004 and 2005 for best story in a regularly scheduled newscast for his reporting in Iraq. Emmy nominations in 2008 for his reporting inside Myanmar and in 2005 for his reporting in Beslan, Russia during the school siege.
 Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1994.
 Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale.
 Selected as a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2008.

Personal life
Sciutto attended the Jesuit college preparatory school Regis High School in Manhattan and graduated from Yale University cum laude.
He is married to ABC News Correspondent Gloria Riviera. Together they have three children, Tristan, Caden, and Sinclair.

See also
 New Yorkers in journalism

References

CNN bio

External links

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Flexible Flyer

Flexible Flyer is a toy and recreational equipment brand, best known for the sled of the same name, a steerable wooden sled with steel runners.

Operation

Flexible Fliers are flexible both in design and usage. Riders may sit upright on the sled or lie on their stomachs, allowing the possibility to descend a snowy slope feet-first or head-first.  To steer the sled, riders may either push on the wooden cross piece with their hands or feet, or pull on the rope attached to the wooden cross-piece.  Shifting the cross-piece one way or the other causes the flexible rails to bend, turning the sled.

Flexible Flyers work best on hard packed or icy snow.  If the snow is soft and deep, the sled's runners are likely to sink in and prevent the sled from moving.

History

Samuel Leeds Allen patented the Flexible Flyer in 1889. in Cinnaminson, New Jersey using local children and adults to test prototypes.  Allen's company flourished by selling these speedy and yet controllable sleds at a time when others were still producing toboggans and "gooseneck" sleds.

Allen began producing sleds in his farm equipment factory to keep his workers busy even when it was not the farm season.  He developed many prototypes before he created the Flexible Flyer.  The sleds did not sell well until he began marketing them to the toy departments of department stores.  In 1915, around 120,000 Flexible Fliers were sold, and almost 2,000 Flexible Flyers were sold in one day.

In 1968, Leisure Group of Los Angeles, California bought the S. L. Allen Company.  Leisure Group continued to produce Flexible Flyers in Medina, Ohio.  In 1973, a group of private investors bought Leisure Group's toy division and started manufacturing the sleds under the name "Blazon Flexible Flyer" in West Point, Mississippi.  In 1993, Roadmaster purchased the rights to production and moved production to Olney, Illinois, and in 1998, production was moved to China.  , Flexible Flyers are mostly made in China and some are made in South Paris, Maine by Paricon, Inc.

Examples

References

External links
About Paricon Sleds
U.S. Patent 408,681
Biographical information about Samuel L. Allen
The Story of the Flexible Flyer

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Laure de La Raudière

Laure de La Raudière (born 12 February 1965) is a member of the National Assembly of France.  She represents the Eure-et-Loir department,  and is a member of The Republicans.

In 2018, she voted for the use of Glyphosate in cultural process in France.

References

External links
Official website
Parliamentary activities

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2016–17 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. season

The 2016–17 season is Oldham Athletic's 122nd season in their history and 20th consecutive season in League One. Along with competing in League One, the club will also participate in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy.

The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

Transfers

Transfers in

Transfers out

Loans in

Loans out

Competitions

Pre-season friendlies

League One

League table

Matches

FA Cup

EFL Cup

EFL Trophy

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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Voyage to the Outer Planets

Voyage to the Outer Planets was an early multimedia experiment combining Omnimax film, 70 mm film and planetarium special effects. The special effects and stills on standard and zoom equipped slide projectors were provided by the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater, and their Spitz Space Transit Simulator (STS). The large format footage was provided by Graphic Films. The presentation was mostly multimedia, with short clips of the planets and spacecraft.

The production was to portray a manned mission to the outer planets in the year 2348, a year in which the planets would be in a favorable alignment permitting such a three-year journey of exploration.

It transpired that the Space Theater was still under construction, with equipment months from installation, and there was no way of viewing finished or full format test footage before the theater opened. Beyond that, it was infeasible to film in directly the Imax format which would be used for projection. The crew were therefore obliged to film in smaller format (65 mm eight-perf) for later optical blowup and projection to a screen image magnification 600 times the size of the camera negative.

Credits

References

External links
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
Graphic Films

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Allentown, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)

Allentown, Pennsylvania could refer to:
 Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Allentown metropolitan area, containing the city of Allentown
 Allentown (Pittsburgh), an unrelated neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh

See also
 Allentown (disambiguation)
 Allen Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)


Clarion Workshop

Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Knight and Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop.

In 1972, the workshop moved to Michigan State University. It moved again, in 2006, to the University of California, San Diego.

Other Clarion Workshops
Independently-operated workshops which share the Clarion name and follow its founding principles include:
 Clarion West Writers Workshop, founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971 by Vonda N. McIntyre. It has been held annually since 1984.
 Clarion South Writers Workshop was held at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. It was founded in 2004 and ran biennially. In 2009, Clarion South lost its venue, although the workshop was held that year. In March 2011, Clarion South organizers announced that future workshops were "on hold indefinitely."

See also
 List of Clarion Writers Workshop Instructors
 List of Clarion Writers Workshop alumni
 List of Clarion South Writers Workshop Instructors

References

Further reading

External links
 Clarion official website
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop: Archive of Stories by Participants MSS 681. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

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Education Networks of America

Education Networks of America (ENA) is a private company providing internet services to public schools and libraries. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States.

ENA was founded in 1996, and  is estimated to generate $100 million in revenue annually. It is now owned by ZMC, an investment company based in New York.

On January 18, 2018, TeleQuality Communications (TeleQuality) of San Antonio, Texas became a subsidiary of ENA On June 28, 2018, CatchOn became part of ENA family of companies

References

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Milli mass unit

The milli mass unit or (mmu) is used as a unit of mass by some scientific authors even though this unit is not defined by the IUPAP red book nor by the IUPAC green book. It is a short form of the tongue-breaking but formally more correct "milli unified atomic mass unit" (mu) and equivalent to  of the unified atomic mass unit (u). A more modern name is the millidalton (mDa)

since the "unified atomic mass unit" is more and more displaced by the unit dalton. (1 Da = 1 u)

Since 1961 the unified atomic mass unit "u" has been defined as  the mass of C. Before that the atomic mass unit "amu" was defined as  the mass of O (physics) and as  the mass of O (chemistry). Thus the publication date in literature ought to be heeded when reading about the milli mass unit as its name does not reveal whether it refers to the old amu or the newer u.

The mass excess is usually indicated in mu or mmu.

In mass spectrometry the mass accuracy of a mass analyzer is often indicated in mu, even though a more correct unit would be mTh (millithomson) since mass spectrometers measure the mass-to-charge ratio, not the mass. The relative mass accuracy is often indicated in ppm, even though this is no longer supported by the IUPAC green book which suggests using units like μTh/Th instead of ppm.

References

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Broadview, Montana

Broadview is a town in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. The population was 192 at the 2010 census.

The post office was established in 1908 and the town was incorporated in 1917.

Geography
Broadview is located at  (46.097709, -108.877944).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.

Climate
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Broadview has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 192 people, 66 households, and 47 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 73 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 95.3% White, 1.0% Native American, 3.1% from other races, and 0.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.8% of the population.

There were 66 households of which 34.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.6% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 28.8% were non-families. 24.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 18.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.91 and the average family size was 3.43.

The median age in the town was 39.5 years. 31.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.9% were from 25 to 44; 25.1% were from 45 to 64; and 16.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 52.6% male and 47.4% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 150 people, 64 households, and 41 families living in the town. The population density was 624.7 people per square mile (241.3/km²). There were 66 housing units at an average density of 274.9 per square mile (106.2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 96.67% White, 0.67% Native American, and 2.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.67% of the population.

There were 64 households out of which 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.1% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.4% were non-families. 32.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.95.

In the town, the population was spread out with 28.0% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 20.7% from 25 to 44, 27.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $29,500, and the median income for a family was $34,688. Males had a median income of $35,417 versus $16,250 for females. The per capita income for the town was $12,882. There were 6.4% of families and 9.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including 10.6% of under eighteens and 16.7% of those over 64.

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Leny Andrade

Leny de Andrade Lima, known professionally as Leny Andrade, was born in Rio de Janeiro, on January 26, 1943, and is a Brazilian singer and musician. Both Andrade's first and last names are sometimes misspelled in English as "Lenn", "Leni", and "Adrade". She has had several hits on the Brazilian charts. In 2007 she shared a Latin Grammy Award with Cesar Camargo Mariano for Best MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) Album, Ao Vivo.

She began her career singing in clubs, lived five years in Mexico, and spent a good part of her life living in the United States and Europe. She studied piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music.

She has performed with Paquito D'Rivera, Luiz Eça, Dick Farney, João Donato, Eumir Deodato, Pery Ribeiro, and Francis Hime. Andrade's style is a synthesis of samba and jazz.

Reception
She has been described by Tony Bennett as the "Ella Fitzgerald of Brazil" and others have compared her to the late Sarah Vaughan. In Europe where she toured, she was the Brazilian First Lady of Jazz, building a huge fan base in the Netherlands and Italy. She recorded the album Embraceable You in July 1991 at Volendam, the Netherlands.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote of Andrade's performance at Birdland on August 27, 2008, "To describe Ms. Andrade as both the Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald of bossa nova only goes so far in evoking a performer whose voice seems to contain the body and soul of Brazil. You may think you know "The Girl from Ipanema", the final number in the show's opening medley of Jobim songs. But you haven't really absorbed it until you've heard Ms. Andrade sing it in Portuguese; disgorge might be a better word than sing, since, like everything else she performs, it seems to well up from the center of the earth."

Discography
 A Sensacao (RCA, 1961)
 A Arte Maior de Leny Andrade (Polydor, 1963)
 Gemini V with Pery Ribeiro (Odeon, 1965)
 Estamos Ai (Odeon, 1965)
 Gemini V en Mexico with Pery Ribeiro (Odeon, 1966)
 Leny Andrade (RVV, 1968)
 Gemini Cinco Anos Depois with Pery Ribeiro (Odeon, 1972)
 Alvoroco (Odeon, 1973)
 Leny Andrade (Odeon, 1975)
 Registro (CBS, 1979)
 Leny Andrade (Pointer, 1984)
 Cartola 80 Anos (Pan Producoes Artisticas, 1987)
 Luz Neon (Eldorado, 1989)
 Eu Quero Ver (Eldorado, 1990)
 Bossa Nova (Eldorado, 1991)
 Embraceable You (Timeless, 1991)
 Nos with Cesar Camargo Mariano (Velas, 1993)
 Maiden Voyage with Fred Hersch (Chesky, 1994)
 Coisa Fina with Romero Lubambo (Perfil Musical, 1994)
 Letra & Musica: Antonio Carlos Jobim with Cristovao Bastos (Lumiar Discos, 1995)
 Luz Negra: Nelson Cavaquinho por Leny Andrade (Velas, 1995)
 Bossas Novas (Albatroz, 1998)
 Seja Voce (Albatroz, 2001)
 Canta Altay Veloso (Obi Music, 2002)
 Lua Do Arpoador with Romero Lubambo (Biscoito Fino, 2006)
 Ao Vivo (Albatroz, 2012)
 As Cancoes Do Rei (Albatroz, 2013)
 Iluminados – Leny Andrade sings Ivan Lins & Vítor Martins (2014)
 Alegria De Viver with Roni Ben-Hur (Motema, 2014)
 Canta Fred Falcao: Bossa Nova (Biscoito Fino, 2018)
 Alma Mia (Fina Flor, 2019)

References

External links
 Leny Andrade in Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popula Brasileira

Leny Andrade at Slipcue.com's guide to Brazilian music
Leny Andrade NM Music Agency Artist Profile of Leny Andrade

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Renal plexus

The renal plexus is formed by filaments from the celiac ganglia and plexus, aorticorenal ganglia, lower thoracic splanchnic nerves and first lumbar splanchnic nerve and aortic plexus.

The nerves from these sources, fifteen or twenty in number, have a few ganglia developed upon them.

It enters the kidneys on arterial branches to supply the vessels, Renal glomerulus, and tubules with branches to the ureteric plexus. Some filaments are distributed to the spermatic plexus and, on the right side, to the inferior vena cava.

The ovarian plexus arises from the renal plexus, and is one of two sympathetic supplies distributed to the ovary and fundus of the uterus.

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References

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Zurab Gogochuri

Zurab Gogochuri (, born 22 March 1990 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian high jumper.

His personal best is of 2.26 m (NR, 2012). He won the high jump during the 2013 European Team Championships and 2017 European Team Championships.

References

External links
IAAF Athlete’s profile

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Cusp of Carabelli

The cusp of Carabelli, or Carabelli's tubercle, or tuberculum anomale of Georg Carabelli is a small additional cusp at the mesiopalatal line angle of maxillary first molars. This extra cusp is usually found on the first molar, and becomes progressively less likely in the second, third molars. This cusp is entirely absent in some individuals and present in others in a variety of forms. In some cases, the cusp of Carabelli may rival the main cusps in size. Other related forms include ridges, pits, or furrows. This additional cusp was first described in 1842 by the Hungarian Georg Carabelli (Carabelli György), the court dentist of the Austrian Emperor Franz.

The cusp of Carabelli is an heritable feature. Kraus (1951) proposed that homozygosity of a gene is responsible for a pronounced tubercle, whereas the heterozygote shows slight grooves, pits, tubercles or bulge. Later studies showed that the development of this trait is affected by multiple genes. The cusp of Carabelli is most common among Europeans (75-85% of individuals) and rarest in Pacific Islands (35-45%), although no study is referenced here to back up that claim.

Although it is sometimes referred to in textbooks as the Cusp of Carabelli, it is actually a tubercle, as it is may be made only of enamel, and may not contain dentin but never has a root underneath. It is in unlikely, but entirely possible for the cusp to have a pulp horn. If the cusp is large, approaching the size of a regular cusp, then it will typically be formed of dentin and enamel.

See also
Dens evaginatus
Talon cusp
Tubercle

References

Further reading
 Simon Hillson. 1996. Dental Anthropology. Cambridge University Press.

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Melanie Moore (disambiguation)

Melanie Moore may refer to:
 Melanie Moore, winner of So You Think You Can Dance Season 8
 Melanie Deanne Moore, American actress


List of travel magazines

This is a list of notable travel and tourism magazines:

Travel and tourism-related magazines

In circulation

 Afar (2009)
 Armenia TourInfo( 2003; Published by Orange Agency ) First free monthly magazine in Armenia
 Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel (1999; published by Intellitravel Media)
 British Columbia Magazine (1959; My Passion Media)
 Caravan (1933; Warners Midlands Plc)
 Caribbean Beat (1992; published by Media and Editorial Projects Limited, inflight magazine of Caribbean Airlines)
 Condé Nast Traveler (1987; published by Condé Nast Publications)
 Cruise International (2008; published by Chelsea Magazine Company)
 Darling (2009)
 Departures Magazine (1984; published by American Express Publishing)
 EnRoute, inflight magazine of Air Canada
 Escapism Travel Magazine
 Executive Travel magazine (2002; published by American Express)
 FIDO Friendly (2003)
 Get Lost Magazine (2004; published by Grin Creative)
 Hana Hou! (1998; published by Pacific Travelogue Inc., as the inflight magazine of Hawaiian Airlines)
 Islands (published by Bonnier Corporation)
 Holiday (1946–1977; Curtis Publishing Company, relaunched in Paris, France, in 2014)
 Lonely Planet Traveller (2009; published by the BBC in the UK, monthly. Also Argentine, Singaporean and Indian editions)
 Maui No Ka 'Oi Magazine (published by the Haynes Publishing Group, bi-monthly regional travel focus)
 Merian (1948; , published by Jahreszeiten Verlag, Hamburg)
 Metropolis (1994)
 National Geographic Traveler (1984; National Geographic)
 Outside (1977; published by Mariah Media)
 New Mexico Magazine (1923; published by the New Mexico Tourism Department)
 Road & Travel Magazine (1989; published by Caldwell Communications, Michigan)
 RoadRUNNER (2001; published by RoadRUNNER Publishing, focuses on motorcycle touring and travel)
 Saveur (1994; published by Bonnier Corporation)
 Sidetrip Travel Magazine (Manila, focuses on travel in the Philippines)
 Sports+Travel Hong Kong (Hong Kong, free magazine that focuses on sports related travel from Hong Kong)
 Suitcase Magazine (2012; published by SUITCASE Magazine)
 The Sunday Times Travel Magazine (2003; [UK] published by News UK)
 Sunset (1898; Sunset Publishing Corporation)
 Texas Highways (1980)
 TNT (1983; published by TNT Publishing, London, free magazine for Australian, New Zealand and South African expatriates)
 Today's Traveller (1997; published by Gill India Communications Pvt. Ltd. (GICPL), Indian international travel magazine)
 Travel + Leisure (1971; published by Exposure Media Marketing)
 Travel Agent (1930; trade, published by Questex Media Group)
 Travel & Hospitality Awards (Trade magazine, published by Supra Creative Media Ltd )
 Travel In Taiwan (Vision International Publishing Co. Ltd., on behalf of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau)
 Travel Trade Gazette (TTG) (1953; trade, published by United Bupsiness Media, London)
 Travel Weekly (1958)
 Vagabond (1987, Sweden)
 Voyage. Studies on Travel & Tourism (1997; , published by Profil-Verlag, Munich)
 Wanderlust Magazine (1993; Independent; eight issues per annum; editor and publisher is Lyn Hughes)
 Weg! (2004; , published by Media24)
 Where (1938)
 Yankee (1935)
Arizona Highways (1921;published by the Arizona Department of Transportation)

Out of print
 Blue (1997–2000; tourism magazine)
 Caribbean Travel & Life (c. 1986–2013; published by Bonnier Corporation, replaced by Islands magazine)
 Gulfscapes Magazine (2001–2012; published by Craig and Victoria Rogers)
 Travel + Leisure Golf (1998–2009; American Express)
 Travel Holiday (1901–2003; New York Central Railroad, Shane family, Reader's Digest, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.)
 Walkabout magazine (1934–1974; Australian National Travel Association)

References

External links

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Magazines


Lachesilla dona

Lachesilla dona is a species of fateful barklouse in the family Lachesillidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

References

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Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington

Garret Colley Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (19 July 1735 – 22 May 1781) was an Anglo-Irish politician and composer, best known today for fathering several distinguished military commanders and politicians of Great Britain and Ireland.

Life
Wesley was born at the family estate of Dangan Castle, near Summerhill, a village near Trim in County Meath, Ireland, to Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington, and Elizabeth Sale. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and was elected its first Professor of Music in 1764. From early childhood he showed extraordinary talent on the violin, and soon began composing his own works. As a composer he is remembered chiefly for glees such as "Here in cool grot" (lyrics by William Shenstone) and for a double Anglican chant. It was the future Duke of Wellington who, alone of his children, inherited something of his musical talent.

Wesley represented Trim in the Irish House of Commons from 1757 until 1758, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Mornington. In 1759 he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Meath and in 1760, in recognition of his musical and philanthropic achievements, he was created Viscount Wellesley, of Dangan Castle in the County of Meath, and Earl of Mornington. He was elected Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in 1776, a post he held until the following year. Like his father he was careless with money, and his early death left the family exposed to financial embarrassment, leading ultimately to the decision to sell all their Irish estates.

Legacy
Four streets in Camden Town, which formed part of the estate of his son-in-law Henry FitzRoy, were named Mornington Crescent, Place, Street and Terrace after him. Of these, the first has since become famous as the name of a London Underground station.

Family
Wesley married The Hon. Anne Hill-Trevor, eldest daughter of the banker Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon, and his wife Anne Stafford, on 6 February 1759. His godmother, the famous diarist Mary Delany, said the marriage was happy, despite his lack of financial sense and her "want of judgment". They had nine children, most of them were historically significant:

 Richard, Viscount Wellesley (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842); later 1st Marquess Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington.
 Arthur Gerald Wellesley (? - 1768), named after his maternal grandfather and died at six or seven.
 The Hon. William Wellesley (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845); later William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, 1st Baron Maryborough.
 Francis Wellesley (1767 - 10 March 1770), died at three.
 Lady Anne Wellesley (13 March 1768 – 16 December 1844), married (1) The Hon. Henry FitzRoy (younger son of Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton), (2) Charles Culling Smith.
 The Hon. Arthur Wellesley (c. 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852); later 1st Duke of Wellington.
 The Revd and Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley (7 December 1770 – 24 October 1848), father of George Wellesley.
 Lady Mary Elizabeth Wellesley (1772 – 1794), died at 22.
 The Hon. Henry Wellesley (20 January 1773 – 27 April 1847); later 1st Baron Cowley.

Four of Lord Mornington's five sons were created peers in the Peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. The Barony of Wellesley (held by the Marquess Wellesley) and the Barony of Maryborough are now extinct, whilst the Dukedom of Wellington and Barony of Cowley are extant. The Earldom of Mornington is held by the Dukes of Wellington, and the Barons Cowley has since been elevated to be Earls Cowley.

References

External links

 Article from thepeerage.com

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Itasca, Texas

Itasca   is a city in Hill County in Northern Central Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,644.

History
Itasca began as a railroad station for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in 1881, and was incorporated in 1885.

In the 1984 Willie Nelson film Songwriter, Willie's character mentions as a joke that he's going to "a weavers convention in Itasca, Texas".

Geography
Itasca is located at  (32.158509, -97.147852).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.  The town's theme seen on some of its signs and its website is the "Big Little Town." Located off I-35W south of Fort Worth, Texas, and north of Waco, Texas, Itasca is the approximate midway point between the two cities.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,503 people, 549 households, and 384 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,242.9 people per square mile (479.6/km²). There were 612 housing units at an average density of 506.1 per square mile (195.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 64.54% White, 17.03% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 16.10% from other races, and 1.80% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 26.41% of the population.

There were 549 households out of which 32.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were married couples living together, 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% were non-families. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.17.

In the city, the population was spread out with 26.2% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,050, and the median income for a family was $34,241. Males had a median income of $26,200 versus $22,045 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,443. About 15.2% of families and 20.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.6% of those under age 18 and 17.2% of those age 65 or over.

Education
The city is served by the Itasca Independent School District. The district has three schools, Itasca High School, Itasca Middle School, and Itasca Elementary School.

Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.  According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Itasca has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

References

External links

 Community website
 Itasca ISD
 City-Data.com
 Texas State Historical Association: ITASCA, TX

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Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau

The Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau (Robert Doisneau house of photography) is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau and dedicated to exhibiting humanist photography.

Robert Doisneau
Doisneau (1912–1994) was born in Gentilly, and in April 1992 consented to the use of his name for a photographic gallery there. The gallery opened in 1997 with a wide-ranging exhibition of the history of photography.

Among the photographers to have been awarded one-man shows at Maison Robert Doisneau are Graciela Iturbide (2006), Hervé Gloaguen (2006), Izis (on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the gallery's founding, 2007), Nikos Economopoulos (2009–10). and Émile Savitry (2012/13).

From January 2006, the gallery has belonged to the intercommunality of Val de Bièvre.

The address of the gallery is 1, rue de la Division du Général Leclerc, 94250 Gentilly.

References

External links
 Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau - official site

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1989 San Francisco Giants season

The 1989 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 107th season in Major League Baseball, their 32nd season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 30th at Candlestick Park.  The Giants finished in first place in the National League West with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses. It was their second division title in three years. The Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs in five games in the National League Championship Series. However, they were swept by their cross-Bay rivals, the Oakland Athletics, in an earthquake-marred World Series.

Offseason
December 8, 1988: Mike Aldrete was traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Montreal Expos for Tracy Jones.
February 27, 1989: Ernie Camacho was signed as a Free Agent with the San Francisco Giants.

Regular season

Opening Day starters
 Brett Butler
 Will Clark
 Terry Kennedy
 Candy Maldonado
 Kevin Mitchell
 Rick Reuschel
 Robby Thompson
 Jose Uribe
 Matt Williams

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions
April 14, 1989: Goose Gossage was signed as a Free Agent with the San Francisco Giants.
June 5, 1989: Clay Bellinger was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 2nd round of the 1989 amateur draft. Player signed June 8, 1989.
June 16, 1989: Tracy Jones was traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Detroit Tigers for Pat Sheridan.
June 18, 1989: Charlie Hayes was traded by the San Francisco Giants with Dennis Cook and Terry Mulholland to the Philadelphia Phillies for a player to be named later and Steve Bedrosian. The Philadelphia Phillies sent Rick Parker (August 7, 1989) to the San Francisco Giants to complete the trade.
 August 2, 1989: Bob Brenly signed as a Free Agent.
August 10, 1989: Goose Gossage was selected off waivers by the New York Yankees from the San Francisco Giants.

Major League debuts
Batters: Mike Benjamin (July 7)  Greg Litton (May 2)
Pitchers: Randy McCament (June 28)  Russ Swan (August 3)  Stu Tate (September 20)

Game log and schedule

Postseason

Roster
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Dave Dravecky
The previous season, a cancerous desmoid tumor was found in Dravecky's pitching arm. He underwent surgery on October 7, 1988, removing half of the deltoid muscle in his pitching arm and freezing the humerus bone in an effort to eliminate all of the cancerous cells. By July 1989, he was pitching in the minors, and on August 10, he made a highly publicized return to the major leagues, pitching 8 innings and defeating Cincinnati 4-3. In his following start five days later against the Expos, Dravecky pitched three no-hit innings, but in the fifth inning, he felt a tingling sensation in his arm. In the sixth inning he started off shaky, allowing a home run to the lead off batter and then hitting the second batter. Then, on his first pitch to Tim Raines, his humerus bone snapped, ending his career.

To see a pitcher break his arm with a loud cracking sound while doing something as ordinary as throwing a pitch, then fall to the ground rolling in agonizing pain, was shocking, unusual, and upsetting, especially for those who had followed his touching story.  The pitch was replayed on television repeatedly over the following days.

The Giants won the National League pennant in 1989, and in the post-game celebration, Dravecky's arm was broken a second time. A doctor examining Dravecky's x-rays noticed a mass in his arm. Cancer had returned. Eighteen days later, Dravecky retired from baseball, aged 33, leaving a 64-57 record with 558 strikeouts and a 3.13 ERA in 1,062.2 innings.  He won the 1989 Willie Mac Award honoring his spirit and leadership.

Player stats

Batting

 Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

 Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

 Pitching

 Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

 Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

 Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

National League Championship Series

Game 1
October 4 at Wrigley Field in Chicago

Game 2
October 5 at Wrigley Field in Chicago

Game 3
October 7 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California

Game 4
October 8 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California

Game 5
October 9 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California

The Giants made it to their first World Series since 1962 with a 3-2 win over the Cubs to win the 1989 National League pennant, four games to one. The final game pitted Mike Bielecki against a well-rested (due to his quick exit from Game 2) Rick Reuschel. Reuschel made amends for his poor start in Game 2 by giving up only one run over eight innings. The one run Reuschel gave up was an unearned run the Cubs scored when Walton reached on an error by Mitchell and then scored on Sandberg's double. The Cubs held the 1-0 lead until the seventh inning when Will Clark tripled and scored on Mitchell's sacrifice fly.

With two outs in the eighth, the Cubs appeared ready to perhaps send the series back to Chicago. But Candy Maldonado pinch-hit for Reuschel and walked. Bielcki then proceeded the load the bases by walking both Butler and Thompson. Don Zimmer sent for Mitch Williams to end the jam, but Clark drove a single to center that gave the Giants a 3-1 lead. The Cubs strung together three straight singles with two outs in the ninth to pull within a run, but Bedrosian got Sandberg to ground out to second to end the game and the series.

The Giants were in their first World Series since 1962. Clark's stellar performance earned him Most Valuable Player honors for the Giants. Clark hit .650 with eight RBIs.

World series

It was the first World Series in which the losing team never had the lead and never had the tying run at the plate in its final turn at-bat.

Game 1
October 14, 1989, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California.

Game 2
October 15, 1989, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California

Game 3
October 17, 1989, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

The game was delayed until October 27, or about ten days, due to the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Game 4
October 28, 1989, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

Award winners
 Will Clark, NLCS MVP
 Dave Dravecky, Hutch Award
 Dave Dravecky, Willie Mac Award
 Kevin Mitchell, National League MVPAll-Star Game'Farm system

References

External links
 1989 San Francisco Giants at Baseball Reference 1989 San Francisco Giants at Baseball Almanac''

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Device

A device is usually a constructed tool. Device may also refer to:

Technology

Computing
 Device, a component of personal computer hardware
 Device file, an interface of a device driver
 Peripheral, any device attached to a computer that expands its functionality

Warfare
 Improvised explosive device (IED)
 Nuclear weapon

Other uses in technology
 Appliance, a device for a particular task
 Electronic component
 Gadget
 Machine
 Medical device

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups
 Device (metal band)
 Device (pop rock band)

Albums
 Device (Device album), 2013
 Device (Eon album), 2006

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 Plot device, as in storytelling
 Rhetorical device, a technique used in writing or speaking
 The Device, a 2014 American science fiction horror film

Other uses
 Dev1ce or Device, nicknames for Nicolai Reedtz, a Danish professional CS:GO player
 Device, something that can be trademarked, such as a logotype (or "logo") in printing or in law
 Devices, aspects of a military-award decoration in the United Kingdom
 Personal device, another name for a heraldic badge

See also
 Devise (disambiguation)


Zoviyeh-ye Yek

Zoviyeh-ye Yek () may refer to:
 Zoviyeh-ye Yek-e Olya
 Zoviyeh-ye Yek-e Sofla


Constant Prévost

Louis-Constant Prévost (4 June 1787 – 14 August 1856) was a French geologist.

Early life and education
Prévost was born in Paris to Louis Prévost, a tax farmer, receiver of the rentes of Paris. He was educated there at the Central Schools, where, inspired by the lectures of Georges Cuvier, his particular mentor Alexandre Brongniart, and André Marie Constant Duméril, he determined to devote himself to natural science. He took his degree in Letters and Sciences in 1811, and for a time pursued the study of medicine and anatomy.

Career
Mainly through the influence of Brongniart he turned his attention to geology. During the years 1816-1819 he took advantage of the necessity of accompanying his associate Philippe de Girard, who was seeking out a site for establishing a textile mill near Vienna, by making  a special study of the Viennese Basin. In doing so, he pointed out for the first time the presence of Tertiary strata like those of the Paris Basin, but which included a series of later date. His next work (1821) was an essay on the geology of parts of Normandy, with special reference to the "Secondary"—or Mesozoic— strata, which he compared with those of southern England; in this he had the collaboration of Charles Lyell.

From 1821-1829 he was professor of geology at the Athenaeum at Paris, and he took a leading part with Ami Boue, Gérard Paul Deshayes and Jules Desnoyers in the founding of the Société géologique de France (1830). In 1831 he became assistant professor and afterwards honorary professor of geology to the faculty of sciences of the Sorbonne. He was on hand with an artist to witness the undersea volcano that produced Ferdinandea (now Graham Bank) off the south coast of Sicily that July; he named it Île Julia, for its July appearance, and reported in the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France In 1848 he was elected to his late mentor Brogniart's seat in the Académie des sciences

Having studied the volcanoes of Italy and Auvergne, he opposed the views of Christian Leopold von Buch regarding craters of elevation, maintaining that the cones were due to the material successively erupted. Like Lyell he advocated a study of the slow and incessant forces in action at present, in order to illustrate the past, the principle in geology called uniformitarianism, discounting catastrophic events. One of his more important memoirs was De la Chronologie des terrains et du synchronisme des formations (1845), in which he expounded the principle of the synchronicity of successive stages of igneous and sedimentary deposition across wide terrains. His most general titles were Documents pour l'histoire des terrains tertiaires (Paris, 1827) and his Traité de géographie physique co-authored with E. Bassano (Paris, 1836).

Notes

References

Imago Mundi: Constant Prévost
K.B. Bork, "Constant Prevost (1787-1856):The life and contributions of a French uniformitarian", Journal of Geoscience Education 38 pp 21-27
National Maritime Museum: Graham Island (now the Graham Shoal)

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1993 alleged Turkish military coup

According to some sources, there was a "coup d'état" in 1993 in Turkey, allegedly organised and carried out by elements of the Turkish military through covert means. Although the early 1990s were a period of great violence in Turkey due to the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, 1993 saw a series of suspicious deaths: of President Turgut Özal, leading military figures, and journalists. Particularly in the context of the Ergenekon trials from 2008 onwards and related investigations of the Turkish "deep state" and of suspicious deaths from this period, claims of a "covert coup" intended to prevent a peace settlement (and to protect the covert relationships between the Turkish military, intelligence services including JITEM, Counter-Guerrilla, Kurdish forces including Kurdish Hizbollah, and the Turkish mafia) have been made.

Fikri Sağlar, a former member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal which first began to shed light on the Turkish deep state, is one who has made such claims, describing "a covert military coup". Former PKK commander Şemdin Sakık has described an Ergenekon organization-linked group named the Doğu Çalışma Grubu, holding it responsible for assassinations including those of Turkish Gendarmerie General Commander Eşref Bitlis (17 February), President Turgut Özal (17 April), General Bahtiyar Aydın (22 October) and former Major Cem Ersever (4 November). In addition to the assassination of key figures supporting a peace process, several massacres took place in 1993, which it is claimed were intended as part of an alleged "strategy of tension". These include the May 24, 1993 PKK ambush, and the Sivas massacre and Başbağlar massacre in early July.

Overview
In the early 1990s, President Turgut Özal agreed to negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the events of the 1991 Gulf War having changed some of the geopolitical dynamics in the region. Apart from Özal, himself half-Kurdish, few Turkish politicians were interested in a peace process, nor was more than a part of the PKK itself. In 1993 Özal was working on the peace plans with former finance minister Adnan Kahveci and General Commander of the Turkish Gendarmerie Eşref Bitlis. Negotiations led to a cease-fire declaration by the PKK on 20 March 1993—by which time Kahveci and Bitlis were dead.

With the PKK's ceasefire declaration in hand, Özal was planning to propose a major pro-Kurdish reform package at the next meeting of the National Security Council. The president's death on 17 April led to the postponement of that meeting, and the plans were never presented. A month later the May 24, 1993 PKK ambush ensured the end of the peace process. Former PKK commander Şemdin Sakık maintains the attack was part of the Doğu Çalışma Grubu's coup plans. Under the new Presidency of Süleyman Demirel and Premiership of Tansu Çiller, the Castle Plan (to use any and all means to solve the Kurdish question using violence), which Özal had opposed, was enacted, and the peace process abandoned. Further massacres (notably the Sivas massacre and Başbağlar massacre in early July) and assassinations ensured that the peace process was well and truly buried.

Alleged incidents
 Assassination of journalist Uğur Mumcu (24 January, car bomb)
 Assassination of politician and Turgut Özal confidante Adnan Kahveci (5 February, suspicious car accident)
 Assassination of General Commander of the Turkish Gendarmerie Eşref Bitlis (17 February, allegedly sabotaged plane)
 Assassination of President Turgut Özal (allegedly by poison, 17 April)
 May 24, 1993 PKK ambush (24 May)
 Arson attack on hotel in Van (30 June)
 Sivas massacre (2 July)
 Başbağlar massacre (5 July)
 Van massacre (18 July)
 Assassination of Kurdish deputy Mehmet Sincar (4 September)
 Assassination of General Bahtiyar Aydın (22 October)
 Assassination of former Major Cem Ersever (4 November)

Investigations
Former General Levent Ersöz, who was head of JITEM, and is considered a key suspect in the Ergenekon trials, was charged in 2013 with having had a role in the 1993 death of President Turgut Özal.

Further reading
 Muhsin Öztürk (2011), Adı Konulmamış Darbe: 1993 (An Unnamed Coup: 1993), Zaman Kitap
 Hakkı Öznur (2012), 1993 Örtülü Darbe, Timas Publishing Group.

References

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Stars on Parade (1944 film)

Stars on Parade is a 1944 American film starring Larry Parks.

Cast
 Larry Parks as Danny Davis
 Lynn Merrick as Dorothy Dean
 Ray Walker as Billy Blake
 Jeff Donnell as Mary Brooks
 Selmer Jackson as J. L. Carson
 Edythe Elliott as Mrs. Dean
 Mary Currier as Nan McNair
 Danny O'Neil (formerly known as Bill Shumate; né William Petree; 1920–2002) as Danny
 Frank Hubert as Frank
 Jean Hubert as The Chords Member
 Nat King Cole as Nat King Cole
 Judy Clark as The Chords Member
 Ben Carter as Ben Carter Choir Member

References

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Julie Pomagalski

Julie Pomagalski  (born 10 October 1980) is a French snowboarder.

She was born in La Tronche. She competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where she placed sixth in parallel giant slalom. She competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where she placed sixth in parallel giant slalom. She won a gold medal in snowboard cross at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 1999, and a silver medal in parallel giant slalom at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2003.

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Romain Sort

Romain Sort is a French rugby league footballer who represented France at the 2000 World Cup.

Playing career
In 1997 Sort was part of the Paris Saint-Germain Rugby League which played in Super League II. He later played for the Villeneuve Leopards.

He made his debut for France in 1998 against Ireland. In 2000 he was named as part of the French squad for the 2000 World Cup and went on to play in three matches in the tournament. He toured New Zealand and Papua New Guinea in 2001, finishing his career having played in 15 matches for France.

References

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Mamilian commission

The Mamilian commission was established by Gaius Mamilius in 109 BC for the investigation of corruption and treason. Its jurors were pulled from the equestrian class, rather than the Senatorial class, launching an assault against corruption in the ruling Senatorial oligarchy. This broad assault against corruption across the state, in the opinion of Sallust, led to the commission conducting "[its] investigation[s] with harshness and violence, on hearsay evidence and at the caprice of the commons".

In its first year, it convicted four men of consular rank for alleged crimes against the state. The Commission would have its independence significantly eroded in a bill passed in 106 by Quintus Servilius Caepio, which changed the jury pool from solely the equestrians to a mix of equestrians and Senators.

References

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Lola Cornero

Lola Cornero (30 March 1892 – 6 May 1980) was a Dutch film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 17 films between 1916 and 1920.

Filmography
 John Heriot's Wife (1920)
 As God Made Her (1920)
 Het verborgen leven (1920)
 Zonnetje (1919)
 Amerikaansche meisjes (1918)
 Oorlog en vrede - 1918 (1918)
 Oorlog en vrede - 1916 (1918)
 Oorlog en vrede - 1914 (1918)
 Toen 't licht verdween (1918)
 De kroon der schande (1918)
 Ulbo Garvema (1917)
 Gouden ketenen (1917)
 Madame Pinkette & Co (1917)
 La renzoni (1916)
 Majoor Frans (1916)
 Liefdesoffer (1916)
 Vogelvrij (1916)

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Tavistock and Summerhill School

Tavistock and Summerhill School, located in Lindfield just 4 minutes from the heart of Haywards Heath, West Sussex was an independent day mixed nursery and preparatory school established in 1973 following the merger of Tavistock Hall and Summerhill Court. It closed down on 26 October 2015.

The Headteacher before closure was Dr Sandra Hastie. The religious affiliation was non-denominational. The school was non selective. Admission was through informal assessment.

Nursery
The school's nursery was situated in the walled garden. Children in the nursery were offered a flexible timetable. Some pupils attended every day for the whole day, whereas some only attended certain mornings.

Pre-prep department (PPD)
The pre-prep department (referred to as the PPD) had small classes and took children through reception class and through years 1 and 2.

The prep school
The prep school started in Year 3 when the specialist teaching in core subjects began. Pupils began work for their SATS in Year 6. After the SATS in Year 6, the pupils then had to prepare for Common Entrance exams at the end of Year 8. Traditionally 50% of the pupils tried for scholarships to other private schools at the end of Year 8.

The school and its facilities

Sports
Tavistock and Summerhill offered many sports including: football, rugby, netball, hockey, rounders, cricket, gymnastics, athletics, tennis and swimming in a pool on-site. All pupils had the opportunity to represent the school against a wide variety of local schools. During term time there were several house competitions and in the summer term there was a sports day and a house swimming gala. The school had number of pupils who have represented their sport at an elite level, including winners of national athletic medals.

Music and the performing arts
Tavistock and Summerhill offered specialist music teaching to all pupils from nursery to year 8. All pupils learned to play the recorder during lessons from year 2 to year 5 and many pupils had individual instrumental lessons. They had a choir which performed regularly to both local audiences as well as concerts at school and annually at The O2 Arena (London). There was an informal concert held every year, a Christmas carol service held at a nearby church and a summer concert held in the walled garden.

Every year the school put on dramatic productions and musicals with different year groups taking part in different productions.

Extra curricular activities
The school offered a variety of clubs held both during lunchtimes and after school. Textiles, touch typing, sports clubs including karate, fencing and tennis.

Houses and award ceremonies
Pupils in years 3-8  were put into houses. These houses had competitions every term throughout the year, including House Cricket, House Football, House Swimming, Sports Day etc. The four houses were:

Belverdere (light blue tie)
Court (red tie)
Field (dark green tie)
Gregory (gold tie)

At the end of each term there was a prize giving ceremony where prizes (shields, cups and certificates) were handed out to both pupils and houses. The main ceremony was the Summer Prize Giving Ceremony which was held at nearby Clair Hall. In 2010 Chris Bradford, the author of the Young Samurai series presented the awards.

References

External links
BBC report on school closure
Mid Sussex Times report on school closure
School website
OFSTED Report 2010

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Battle of Kuala Lumpur

The Battle of Kuala Lumpur was a battle between Japanese invasion forces and the British forces in Kuala Lumpur, then capital of the-Federated Malay States, a British protectorate.

Background
Japanese naval aircraft launched the first air raid over Kuala Lumpur on 21 and 22 December 1941. British anti-aircraft guns and RAF aircraft intercepted the attack and shot down one Japanese aircraft and damaged another. More raids followed on the 25th and 27th. The last bombing was on 10 January 1942, after Port Swettenham fell.

By 7 January, the northern part of Malaya, including Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu and the Straits Settlement of Penang had fallen into Japanese hands.

After the Battle of Slim River, the Japanese troops' next military objective was Kuala Lumpur. Being the capital of the Federated Malay States it was of utmost importance to the Japanese. Kuala Lumpur by then was also the capital of the State of Selangor. The city was also home to RAF Kuala Lumpur.

Prelude
On 7 January, it was decided to abandon Selangor and Negeri Sembilan to the Japanese, and British forces began a quick retreat to Johor then to Singapore. The city, now abandoned, quickly descended into a state of anarchy and chaos. Looting was widespread; the Robinsons and Whiteaway and Laidlaw department stores at Java Street were sacked by panicked KLites. Cinemas such as Cathay and Odeon at Batu Road were closed, and the Malay Mail published its last pre-war issue. The FMS administration is no longer in place.

As the British retreated, they continued the scorched earth policy they had used in Perak - tin mines, rubber plantations and munitions were simply torched. Fires continued to burn for days even after the Japanese took over Kuala Lumpur.

Japanese entry
On 10 January the Japanese reached Serendah, about 26 km from Kuala Lumpur.

The following day the Japanese entered Kuala Lumpur without much resistance, besides small skirmishes. The British troops had left the city. The Japanese troops quickly took control of government and institutional buildings, such as the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, the railway station and the Pudu Jail.

After the battle, the Japanese used Pudu Jail as a POW detention centre. Many Allied POWs were tortured to death.

Aftermath
Kuala Lumpur, with the rest of the peninsula, remained under Japanese occupation until September 1945, when the Japanese home islands surrendered unconditionally after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American forces in August 1945. The British Military Administration took over thereafter.

Little is known about the battle, since it did not bear much significance when compared to greater battles in British Malaya such as the Battle of Singapore. This piece of history was slowly forgotten by people, as Kuala Lumpur advances to being a global metropolis.

See also
 Battle of Slim River
 Battle of Singapore
 Bombing of Kuala Lumpur (1945)
 Operation Tiderace (1945)

References

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Stiles Curtis

Stiles Curtis (February 15, 1805 – November 11, 1882) was a Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut from 1845 to 1853.

He was born in February 1805, in Stratford, Connecticut, the son of William Curtis, and Rebecca Judson.

From 1875 to 1892, he was President of the Bank of Norwalk.

References

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Håleniusite-(La)

Håleniusite-(La) (La,Ce)OF is a yellow isometric mineral.  It has a dull, earthy lustre. The geological setting of håleniusite-(La) is in vugs and leaching zones of massive ferriallanite-(Ce), intimately intergrown with cerite-(Ce) and bastnäsite-(La).

It was discovered in 1986 at Bastnäs mines, Riddarhyttan, Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, Sweden and named in honour of Ulf Hålenius, director of the mineralogy department at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden.

References
 Mindat.org
 webmineral

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Springfield Township, Kossuth County, Iowa

Springfield Township is a township in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States.

History
Springfield Township was established in 1891.

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Backstage (South African TV series)

Backstage is a South African youth-targeted soap opera produced by Bottom Line Productions. The story is set at the fictional Vulindlela College, a performing arts college for youth in Johannesburg. The series originally aired on e.tv from 1 May 2000 to 6 July 2007, airing on weekday evenings at 18:30. The show was later cancelled and aired its last broadcast on 6 July 2007. A rebroadcast of Backstage premiered on e.tv on 5 January 2009, at 16:40.

Synopsis
Backstage is a youth-soap opera in which kids from different backgrounds in South Africa come to a college of performing arts in downtown Johannesburg. The story follows the characters as they experience the trials and tribulations of performers all trying to be the best. The business they are involved in seems to deal with musicians, dancers and filmmakers alike. Besides school and the pressures that come with it, the story also revolves around the personal life of the students dealing with love, passion and betrayal throughout the plot. The head of the college, Ipeleng Theledi, deals with the stresses of running a professional college and dealing with the personal lives of the other characters, mainly the students. The lecturers who assist her are mainly Katlego Rathebe, Naomi Singh, Sebastian Young, Charmaine Jacobs and Keketso Chaka.

Cancellation
E.tv cancelled the first running of Backstage in 2007. According to the channel, the reason given for cancelling the show was that "modern youth culture is dynamic and ever evolving, and it is the right time to adapt to these fresh challenges as well as the changing television market." According to Deon Opperman of Bottom Line Productions, the time was right for the channel "to aggressively compete in this primetime slot." The reason for cancellation may have arisen from the stiff competition from rival soap operas, such as SABC 1's Generations, SABC 2's 7de Laan and SABC 3's Isidingo.

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Republican Party of Iowa

The Republican Party of Iowa (RPI) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Iowa. The State Central Committee is led by Chairman Jeff Kaufmann. The RPI operates the Republican side of the Iowa caucuses and previously sponsored the Iowa Straw Poll.

Officeholders
As of 2018, the Republican Party controls four of the seven statewide offices in Iowa and hold a majority in the Iowa House of Representatives. Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and only one of its four U.S. House seats.

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

 Chuck Grassley
 Joni Ernst

U.S. House of Representatives
 Steve King, 4th District

Statewide offices
 Governor: Kim Reynolds
 Lieutenant Governor: Adam Gregg
 Secretary of State: Paul Pate
 Secretary of Agriculture: Mike Naig

State Central Committee
The State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Iowa is composed of the National Committeeman and National Committeewoman, and representatives elected by the District Caucus from each congressional district. The number of Central Committee members that each congressional district is allotted is based on the following table:.

Executive officers

The Republican Party of Iowa's State Central Committee also consists of several executive officers, including Chairman, Co-Chairman, State Finance Chair, and State Co-Finance Chair. These executive members do not need to be seated members of the state central committee. These members also do not have a vote on standard proceedings. The State Chairman may vote only in the case of a tie or to create a tie during a meeting which he is presiding over.

Committees

The Republican Party of Iowa is unique in that it has committees of the state party that can conduct local business. In particular, the party can have a Legislative Campaign Committee in each Congressional District with the purpose of helping Republicans win legislative races. In addition to the Legislative Campaign Committee there are several other standing committees of the Republican Party of Iowa they include: the Budget Committee, the Campaign Committee, the Organization Committee, and the Personnel Committee.

County level

Each county in Iowa may form a County Central Committee. These committees include two members elected by each precinct in the county, though additional members may be elected based on the number of votes for Republican candidates in the previous general election from each precinct. Additionally, the county central committee elects a: Chairman, Co-Chairman, Treasurer, and Secretary from either seated members of the county central committee or from Republicans within the county.

Platform
The Republican Party of Iowa also develops an in-depth platform about what the state party stands for. In general this statement is a general document cementing the principle of the Republican Party while leaving some issues up to individual party voters.

History

The RPI was founded on an anti-slavery platform in 1856 by citizens dissatisfied with the existing Whig and Democratic Parties. Samuel J. Kirkwood, abolitionist and later Iowa's Civil War governor, is credited as one of the principal founders. Summoned from his mill at Coralville and still coated in flour dust, Kirkwood gave a rousing speech at the founding meeting of the Republican Party of Iowa in February 1856 in Iowa City. Many people credited Kirkwood's speech and subsequent work with the success of the party in Iowa. Another principal founder was Edward Russell, an outspoken abolitionist editor who later turned the Davenport Gazette into an award-winning Republican newspaper and one of the largest dailies in Iowa. At the Republican State Convention in 1865, Russell introduced the resolution declaring negro suffrage in Iowa and carried it by a decisive majority. His more famous son, Charles Edward Russell, went on to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Pro-Union sentiment during and after the Civil War helped the party to expand in importance. Between 1858 and 1932 the Republicans won every Iowa gubernatorial election, with the exception of 1890, when Horace Boies, a former Republican, was elected because of his opposition to Prohibition. In 1932 electoral frustration with the Great Depression and Prohibition led to the re-emergence of the Democratic Party in Iowa. Historically the party has held the Governor's office – 30 of Iowa's 41 governors have been Republicans.

The only Republican President from Iowa was Herbert Hoover (a native of West Branch) who was in office from 1929 to 1933.

Presidential selection

Straw poll

Since 1979, the RPI has held a straw poll in Iowa in each year preceding a presidential election, except when there is a Republican incumbent. This straw poll is separate from the Republican caucuses. The straw poll includes a dinner, multiple speeches by candidates, and a variety of booths set up by various candidates and causes, in addition to an actual straw poll of participants' presidential preferences.

Iowa Caucuses
The Iowa Caucuses are the kickoff for the national presidential selection process. Iowa holds a powerful position in that process because it can serve as a sounding board for the strength of a candidate's campaign. A win in the Iowa Caucuses can validate a candidate or propel them from relative obscurity. In particular the Iowa Republican Caucuses hold the most power when either the GOP is not the party in the presidency or an incumbent is not on the ballot. As Iowa is the first state to cast its votes on the nominee the media often focus heavily on opinion polls from the state to determine which way Republican voters are leaning.

In 2008 former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee grew in name recognition because of his Iowa victory and grew his national profile. In 2000 with a potentially heated nomination fight between then Texas Governor George W. Bush and Arizona Senator John McCain, Bush, who carried the state with 41% of the vote, set the tone for his campaign and set up a successful run for the Republican nomination and the presidency.

During the 2012 Republican primaries the Republican Party of Iowa partnered with various news organizations such as Fox News to bring a series of debates that were nationally televised, but directed toward voters in Iowa. This national attention is a potential political boon for a small Midwestern state and attracts attention politically to a state that may otherwise not receive such attention. The caucuses also give power to the party members in the electorate. In this the average GOP voter in Iowa can set the tone for the entire primary campaign, which gives local voters tremendous control over who the next President will be.

The role played by the Iowa Caucuses is viewed with envy by states across the country. Traditionally, Iowa has been first and then followed by the state of New Hampshire, but states such as South Carolina, Nevada, and Florida have been moving up the dates of their presidential primaries to try to capture some of the media and political attention that Iowa and New Hampshire receive.

References

External links

 Official Blog of the Republican Party of Iowa
 Iowa Federation of College Republicans

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Khushdeva Singh

Khushdeva Singh (1902 - 1985) was an Indian physician and social worker, known for his contributions towards the treatment of tuberculosis in India. Born in Patiala in the Indian state of Punjab, he served at the Hardinge Sanatorium, Dharampur in Himachal Pradesh for most of his service. He was the founder of the Lepers' Welfare Society, Patiala for the rehabilitation of leprosy patients of the region. Reports credit him as a humanist with a secular vision; he was known to have treated several Muslims during the Partition of India. He is the author of the books In Dedication and Love is Stronger Than Hate. In 1957, the Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, for his service to the nation. The Padma Shri Dr. Khushdeva Singh Hospital for Chest Diseases in Patiala is named after him.

See also

 Tuberculosis in India
 Sushruta Samhita

References

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Eugene Monroe Bartlett

Eugene Monroe Bartlett Sr. (a.k.a. E.M. Bartlett) (December 24, 1885 – January 25, 1941) was an American Christian singer, songwriter and producer of gospel music. He wrote Victory in Jesus.

Early life
Eugene Monroe Bartlett Sr., was born on December 24, 1885 in Waynesville, Missouri. He grew up in Sebastian County, Arkansas. He attended the Hall-Moody Institute in Martin, Tennessee and graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

Career
Barlett first worked for the Central Music Company, a music publisher in Hartford, Arkansas. In 1918, with David Moore and John A. McClung, he co-founded the Hartford Music Company in Hartford. He served as its President from 1918 to 1935. Over the course of nearly two decades, he opened new branches in Nacogdoches, Texas and Hartshorne, Oklahoma.

He was the founder of the Hartford Music Institute in 1921. Five years later, he mentored Albert E. Brumley, who attended the institute.

He published The Herald of Song, a monthly magazine about gospel music.

A prolific songwriter, he wrote many Christian gospel songs such as Everybody Will Be Happy Over There, Just a Little While, He Will Remember Me, You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down, and Victory in Jesus.  He also wrote the country music song Take an Old Cold Tater (and Wait), recorded by Little Jimmy Dickens.

Personal life, death and legacy
Barlett married Joan Tatum in 1917. They had two children: Gene Bartlett Jr., and Charles Bartlett.

Barlett died on January 25, 1941. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

Bartlett was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee in 1973. His Victory in Jesus appeared on Hymns, an album by Christian singer Michael W. Smith released in 2014.

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Parkinson's Disease (journal)

Parkinson's Disease is an open access medical journal covering Parkinson's disease. It was established in 2009 and is published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.702.

References

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Fibroblast growth factor 23

Fibroblast growth factor 23 or FGF23 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FGF23 gene. FGF23 is a member of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family which is responsible for phosphate and vitamin D metabolism.

Function

The main function of FGF23 seems to be regulation of phosphate concentration in plasma. FGF23 is secreted by osteocytes in response to elevated calcitriol. FGF23 acts on the kidneys, where it decreases the expression of NPT2, a sodium-phosphate cotransporter in the proximal tubule. Thus, FGF23 decreases the reabsorption and increases excretion of phosphate.

FGF23 may also suppress 1-alpha-hydroxylase, reducing its ability to activate vitamin D and subsequently impairing calcium absorption.

Clinical significance

FGF23 is located on chromosome 12 and is composed of three exons. Mutations in FGF23 that render the protein resistant to proteolytic cleavage leads to increased activity of FGF23 and the renal phosphate loss found in the human disease autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets. FGF23 is also overproduced by some types of tumors, such as the benign mesenchymal neoplasm Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor causing tumor-induced osteomalacia, a paraneoplastic syndrome.

Loss of FGF23 activity is thought to lead to increased phosphate levels and the clinical syndrome of familial tumor calcinosis.  This gene was identified by its mutations associated with autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets.

History
Prior to its discovery in 2000, it was hypothesized that a protein existed which performed the functions subsequently shown for FGF23. This putative protein was known as phosphatonin.  Several types of effects were described including impairment of sodium dependent phosphate transport in both intestinal and renal brush border membrane vesicles, inhibition of production of calcitriol, stimulation of breakdown of calcitriol, and inhibition of production/secretion of parathyroid hormone.

References

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Darkroom manipulation

Darkroom manipulation  is a traditional method of manipulating photographs without the use of computers. Some of the common techniques for darkroom manipulation are dodging, burning, and masking, which though similar conceptually to digital manipulations, involve physical rather than virtual techniques. Darkroom manipulations are those processes used, for example, to remove unwanted areas and change image background, among others. Varying techniques can be used to accomplish the same tasks.

History
Photo manipulation started in the darkroom in the 1860s when searching for a heroic image of U.S.  President Abraham Lincoln. An unidentified artist appended the statesman’s head to the body of John C. Calhoun. One of the modern American masters of darkroom manipulation is Jerry Uelsmann. To get his final product, he uses up to twelve enlargers at a time. Jerry Uelsmann seeks to reach a level of surrealist imagery of the unfathomable. He still uses this process today, as do other photographers. Some photographers believe that the darkroom is "a magical place where there is indeed a chamber of secret."

Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann is best known for using digital tools in the darkroom before Photoshop was available. He started off with photography in high school as a hobby and then decided to go to an institution to learn photography. Uelsmann's photographs are different from those of most photographers because he uses multiple negatives to produce one picture. He started with one enlarger but after waiting for some prints to dry one day, he decided to use more enlargers to get more images quickly, then began using seven enlargers at one time. His darkroom style allowed him to create images that had realism and the motion of what would be seen in dreams.

Techniques
Dodging and burning are used to lighten or darken a part of the photograph to get better details in highlights and shadows. Toning changes the color of the photograph. Black and white photographs can be changed to sepia, red, orange and even blue. Toning can be used to help make the photograph last long. Cropping is used to decide what is left out in the final print.

Dodging
Dodging is a very important part of the manipulation process. Dodging holds back exposure in order to make it light.  Dodging can be used by hand or specific tools such as black cardboard or opaque materials so that shadows can lighten the image. Dodging is best when used in a circular motion on the image to get the desired result.

Burning
Burning is when the image receives more exposure so the image can darken. Just like dodging, burning can be done by hand or by using objects that controls the size and shape of the area.  To avoid a very obvious change between the burned-in area and the rest of the image, the device must stay in motion. Burning is a longer process because it needs a longer exposure and time to change the image.

Masking
Image Masking is a very faint positive image that comes from the original negative image.
Masking in darkroom photography can be used with more than one mask for the image by putting the original image and the mask together to come out with the single print. The advantages of masking is that this process sharpens the image and if done correctly, the contrast of the image could change when the image prints out. The mask is a copy of the original, so the edges should line up correctly and density can be shown in the original negative. Masking can give slight texture so that true blacks and shadows look properly dark.

Manipulation used today
Photo manipulation is used today in place of darkroom manipulation. Today, photo manipulation can be started on a photographer’s camera by formatting the image into either a JPEG or RAW format.
An example of manipulation with the camera itself is automatic red-eye removal in the image. After the image is on the computer many other photo editing programs such as Photoshop are used for photo manipulation.

See also
In-camera effect

References

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Qatarization

Qatarization (or Qatarisation) is a governmental initiative devised to increase the number of Qatari citizens employed in public and private sectors. The target is 50% of the workforce in the Industry and Energy sector. Qatarization is one of the focuses of the Qatar National Vision 2030.

While the expatriate population has rapidly grown since the late 20th century, the Qatari population has increased only at a marginal rate. Therefore, as a means to decrease dependence on foreign labor, the Qatari government has heavily prioritized Qatarization in recent years.

History
The first Qatarization scheme was formulated in 1962, with Qatari Labor Law No. 3, which stipulated that Qatari nationals are to be given first priority for filling vacant positions in the workforce. A government census conducted in 1970 revealed that only 16% of the economically active population were Qatari nationals. The only industry with a higher proportion of Qatari citizens to foreigners was the oil industry, which was a result of Qatarization policies.

In the early 1970s, after Qatar gained independence, administrative posts in the public sector were Qatarized. This resulted in 97% of the top administrative positions in the school system being occupied by Qataris by the 1990s. In May 1997, an emiri decree stipulated that at least 20% of the employees of private sector businesses must be Qatari citizens. On 1 June 2000, the most comprehensive Qatarization program went into effect with the aim of reaching a 50% national workforce in the energy sector by 2005. The program fell short of its target, with Qataris comprising only 28% of the labor force in the energy sector by the deadline.

Challenges
A study by the RAND Corporation found that Qatari women are twice as likely to be university-educated as males. However, as a result of gender-exclusionary degrees in public universities, certain sectors are unable to benefit from the more proportionately educated female population.

See also
Emiratisation
Omanisation
Saudization
Bumiputera
Economic nationalism
Nativism (politics)

References

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Jozef Adámik

Jozef Adámik (born 10 April 1985) is a Slovak football defender who plays for SK Vorwärts Steyr.

Club career
He came to Spartak Trnava in summer 2013.

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