Brazos (band)

Brazos is the moniker of Martin McNulty Crane. Originally from Austin, Texas, Brazos gained recognition in 2009 with the self-released debut album, "Phosphorescent Blues". He and the band are currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

Overview

Brazos began as the solo recording project of songwriter Martin Crane, who debuted the band late 2007 with the EPs Feeding Frenzy and A City Just as Tall. Brazos, in its original incarnation, went on to open for Grizzly Bear, Shearwater, Vampire Weekend, The National, Iron & Wine, Wye Oak and Bowerbirds, as well as a national tour with local pals, White Denim.

Phosphorescent Blues was self released in 2009 to positive reviews but after touring took its toll Crane "packed everything he owned into a 1990 Honda Civic station wagon that he'd had since he was 15 and moved to New York." and signed to Dead Oceans.

With new bandmates Spencer Zahn (bass) (who moonlights in Empress Of's band) and Ian Chang (drums) in tow, the band working on its Dead Oceans debut which ultimately became Saltwater which saw international release May 28, 2013.

Discography

Albums

EP / Other Releases

References

External links

Category:Indie rock musical groups from Texas
Category:Musical groups from Austin, Texas
Category:Dead Oceans artists


Ridge Trail Historic District

The Ridge Trail Historic District near Kensington, North Dakota is a  historic district encompassing portions of the first major settler trail through Walsh and Pembina Counties.  It includes 8 segments of a rutted cart trail that was used to move people and supplies into the area from as far off as St. Paul, Minnesota.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

References

Category:Roads and trails on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota
Category:Geography of Walsh County, North Dakota
Category:Geography of Pembina County, North Dakota
Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota
Category:Transportation in Walsh County, North Dakota
Category:Transportation in Pembina County, North Dakota
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Pembina County, North Dakota
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Walsh County, North Dakota


Salarium

Salarium is a SaaS end-to-end payroll automation company that provides enterprise payroll system software for small, medium and large businesses. It is headquartered in Hong Kong and has an office in Manila, Philippines.

Salarium was founded in 2013. In February 2014, Salarium won a global contest in Geneva, Switzerland and landed an equity investment worth $500,000 from Seedstars World (SSW).

History

Salarium was founded by Judah Hirsch in 2013.

September 2014: Salarium was bootstrapped until it received its first round of investment in 2014 after winning the 2nd Seedstars World (SSW) startup competition.

March 2015: Salarium signed a partnership with VMoney Inc. to use VMoney's funds disbursement platform to support its payroll automation software.

April 2015: Salarium partners with PyxPay, a mobile payment firm, in an attempt to increase its service offerings. With this, Salarium will have an e-wallet that can pay employees anywhere in the world.

April 2016: Salarium partners with GCash, a mobile payment company under Globe Telecom.

December 2017: SALPay partners with Union Bank of the Philippines, to incorporate its EON platform with the SALPay app.

March 2019: Salarium expands its operations to Davao City, Mindanao.

July 2019: Salarium opens new operations in Cebu City, Cebu.

August 2019: Salarium announces the launch of its updated payroll software, version 3.0.

Products

Salarium: Payroll automation software as a service.

SALPay: Payroll salary disbursement module with its own mobile app and corresponding Visa debit card.

External links
Crunchbase profile

References

Category:Financial software companies
Category:Software companies of Hong Kong
Category:Financial services companies established in 2013


List of protected heritage sites in Leuze-en-Hainaut

This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Leuze-en-Hainaut. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.

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See also
 List of protected heritage sites in Hainaut (province)
Leuze-en-Hainaut

References
 Belgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrimoine et Energie (DG4)
 www.dglive.be

Leuze-en-Hainaut


Robbers Roost, Arizona

Robbers Roost is a populated place in Coconino County, Arizona, in the United States.

References

Category:Populated places in Coconino County, Arizona


Imperial Bank of India

The Imperial Bank of India (IBI) was the oldest and the largest commercial bank of the Indian subcontinent, and was subsequently transformed into the State Bank of India in 1955. Initially, as per its royal charter, it acted as the central bank for British India prior to the formation of the Reserve Bank of India in 1935.

Origin

The Imperial Bank of India came into existence on 27 January 1921 through the reorganisation and amalgamation of the three Presidency Banks of colonial India into a single banking entity, spearheaded by John Maynard Keynes. The Presidency Banks were the Bank of Bengal, established on 2 June 1806, the Bank of Bombay (incorporated on 15 April 1840), and the Bank of Madras (incorporated on 1 July 1843). The Imperial Bank was 80% privately owned while the rest were owned by the state.

Activities

The Imperial Bank of India performed all the normal functions which a commercial bank was expected to perform. In the absence of any central banking institution in India until 1935, the Imperial Bank of India also performed a number of functions which are normally carried out by a central bank.

Milestones
In 1924, at Apollo Street, currently called Mumbai Samachar Marg, Mumbai, a magnificent stone structure  with fretted windows, was constructed to house a branch of the Imperial Bank of India.
 In 1933, Sir Badridas Goenka, an important public figure and business tycoon of his time, and a prominent member of Marwari community of Calcutta, became the first Indian to be appointed as the Chairman of the Imperial Bank of India.

Epilogue
The Reserve Bank of India, which is the central bank of India, acquired a controlling interest in the Imperial Bank of India in 1955, which was renamed on 30 April 1955 to the State Bank of India. This transformation from the Imperial Bank of India to the State Bank of India was given legal recognition through an Act of the Parliament of India, which came into force from 1 July 1955. On that day, the bank had 480 branches and sub-offices, as well as three local head offices; slightly more than a quarter of the resources of the Indian banking industry was under its control and command. The branch network of the State Bank of India has since grown to 24050 branches as of 31 March 2018. In 2007, the Reserve Bank of India transferred its stake in the State Bank of India to the Indian Government.

Further reading

The Evolution of the State Bank of India Volume III (The Era of the Imperial Bank of India, 1921-1955) Edited by State Bank of India ()
THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATE BANK OF INDIA, Volume 1 — The Roots 1806-1876 by Amiya Kumar Bagchi

See also

Indian banking

Category:Banks established in 1921
Category:Banks disestablished in 1955
Category:Defunct banks of India
Category:1921 establishments in India
Category:1955 disestablishments in India


CO-OPN

The CO-OPN (Concurrent Object-Oriented Petri Nets) specification language is based on both algebraic specifications and algebraic Petri nets formalisms. The former formalism represent the data structures aspects, while the latter stands for the behavioral and concurrent aspects of systems. In order to deal with large specifications some structuring capabilities have been introduced. The object-oriented paradigm has been adopted, which means that a CO-OPN specification is a collection of objects which interact concurrently. Cooperation between the objects is achieved by means of a synchronization mechanism, i.e., each object event may request to be synchronized with some methods (parameterized events) of one or a group of partners by means of a synchronization expression.

A CO-OPN specification consists of a collection of two different modules: the abstract data type modules and the object modules. The abstract data type modules concern the data structure component of the specifications, and many sorted algebraic specifications are used when describing these modules. Furthermore, the object modules represent the concept of encapsulated entities that possess an internal state and provide the exterior with various services. For this second sort of modules, an algebraic net formalism has been adopted. Algebraic Petri nets, a kind of high level nets, are a great improvement over the Petri nets, i.e. Petri nets tokens are replaced with data structures which are described by means of algebraic abstract data types. For managing visibility, both abstract data type modules and object modules are composed of an interface (which allows some operations to be visible from the outside) and a body (which mainly encapsulates the operations properties and some operation which are used for building the model). In the case of the objects modules, the state
and the behavior of the objects remain concealed within the body section.

To develop models using  the CO-OPN language it is possible to use the COOPNBuilder framework that is an environment composed of a set of tools destinated to the support of concurrent software development based on the CO-OPN language.

References

External links
Software Modeling and Verification Group of the University of Geneva.

Category:Specification languages
Category:Petri nets


Simon Ghahary

Simon Ghahary (born 12 May 1972) is an English born artist, brand architect and lifestyle engineer from the United Kingdom known primarily for his unconventional speaker designs. Inspired by art, nature and technology he refers to his fantastical sculptural pieces as functional art. Developing new forms to accompany new ways of living, he has approached audio product design as an art in and of itself. His aesthetic is not only about the combination of performance and design but the space an object can create when not in use.

Blue Room loudspeakers
In 1992 Ghahary founded Blue Room loudspeakers which was then integrated into B & W Loudspeakers championed by Robert Trunz. This move made the global release of Ghahary's pod designs possible.

Blue Room Released
In 1994 Ghahary founded his music label Blue Room Released with the help of Robert Trunz  and Mick Paterson. Globally representing electronic, techno, trance, dub, and breakbeat artists.

SiFi
In an effort to fully realize an eco conscious work/life esthetic, Ghahary began  si-fi.com. To design, manufacture and market high fidelity design conscious products to the domestic market, in such a way as to raise the company’s  profile, satisfy customers, and contribute to the future well being of the company, industry and consumer is the overreaching goal.
The innovative packaging of his minipods and the use of eco friendly ceramics for his Orb 1 speakers, being primary examples of this work ethic.

Design, branding and marketing
In 1991 he designed the Pod Speaker (initially called the House Pod) with the idea that loud speakers performed better in a rounded form than a square box. A chance encounter and subsequent friendship with Bowers & Wilkins engineer Laurence Dickie  (who pioneered the Nautilus Speaker) led to the 1993 release of his first Pod Speaker range. Ghahary managed to design the entire seminal Pod range which included the MiniPod, Bass Station, Cinepod, and Micropod

These products achieving cult status among music and design connoisseurs.

Working as a graphic designer as well, Ghahary  produced album cover art work for likes of The Orb  and Juno Reactor.

In 2007, he worked as Creative Director for Life Water.
At the Raw Coffee Company in the UAE, he managed the brand restructuring (total brand activation), packaging and even the interior of the company headquarters in Dubai.

In 2009-2012, again in the position of Creative Director at Pico International, Ghahary founded the Pico Eco  brand identity and initiative under the endorsement of the chairman. There he created all green policies, mandates and  brand activation. Working intrinsically with various government agencies and companies such as Lexus.

In February 2010 he became a member of the Board of Directors for the Emirates Green Building Council in Dubai, facilitating its brand development.
EmiratesGBC is a professional platform and membership driven organization. It is an independent forum created in 2006 with the goal of advancing green building principles for protecting the environment and promoting sustainability in the Middle East and North Africa.

References

External links
http://ghahary.com/
Si-Fi.com
Scandyna
Cinepod reviews
Micropod reviews
Listing of Blue Room Releases

Category:Living people
Category:British industrial designers
Category:1972 births


P. J. McDonald

Patrick Joseph "P.J." McDonald (born 1982) is a Group One winning Irish jockey and President (Flat) of the Professional Jockeys' Association.

Career

McDonald was born in County Wexford and started to ride ponies as a child at his grandmother's cottage.

Having been taught to ride horses by Dusty Sheehy, McDonald began his career as a jump jockey, with Padge Berry mentoring him as a point-to-point rider. However, he only won 3 out of 70 races in his first four years racing under rules, as a rider for trainer Charles O'Brien and considered giving up. He was then persuaded to move to England by an ex-jockey and friend, Michael Cleary, to save his career.

In England, he rode for Ferdy Murphy, for whom he won the Scottish Grand National on Hot Weld in 2007. McDonald credits Murphy for helping his development as a jockey: '[He] gave me the confidence, he gave me the platform and he guided me the right way'. Murphy persuaded McDonald to spend a summer flat racing as a means of keeping fit, although finding he felt healthier for it, he continued under that code, with a caveat that he could return to Murphy if he liked.

Progressing slowly, his first major success as a flat jockey was winning the 2016 Yorkshire Cup on Clever Cookie, deputising for Danny Tudhope who has been injured in a fall the previous day. The following year at York he also won the Lonsdale Cup on Montaly, trained by Andrew Balding. Also in 2017, he won two Group races on Havana Grey - the National Stakes at Sandown and the Molecomb Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

His most famous connection, however, is with the Karl Burke trained Laurens who was runner up in the 2018 1,000 Guineas, before winning two French Group Ones - the Prix Saint-Alary and Prix de Diane. However, after being thrown from a horse in the parade ring at Newcastle, he fractured his heel and ankle, and missed several weeks of the season during which Laurens won two late season Group Ones under Tudhope. Returning to ride Laurens in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot Champions Day, he finished 8th behind Roaring Lion, but would win another Group One, the Prix Rothschild in July 2019.

He is retained jockey to Laurens' owner John Dance and rides most regularly for trainer Karl Burke. He also rides for Mark Johnston. He has been the Professional Jockeys' Association's safety officer in the North since 2010 and in July 2018 was appointed Flat President of the PJA, replacing Steve Drowne.

Personal life

He lives in Leyburn, North Yorkshire and is married to Abby, who he met at Ferdy Murphy's stables. They have two daughters - Amelia and Lavinia.

Statistics

Flat wins in Great Britain by year

Major wins
 Great Britain
Fillies' Mile - Laurens (2017)
 France
Prix de Diane - Laurens (2018)
Prix Rothschild - Laurens (2019)
Prix Saint-Alary - Laurens (2018)

Notes

References

Category:Irish jockeys
Category:1982 births
Category:Living people


Hot Sleep

Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle (1979) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card set in the Worthing series.  Although it is currently out of print, Card's novel The Worthing Chronicle (1983) covers some of the same ground.

Plot summary
The book follows Jason Worthing, also known as Jazz, who is a boy growing up on Capitol, the capitol planet of the Empire. Jas has "the swipe", which is a genetic trait that allows for telepathy. The swipe is feared in the Empire, so those who possess it are executed. After being found out as a swipe, Jas tries to escape, which leads to his capture by Abner Doon, who helps him rise to prominence as a space pilot. Eventually, Abner sends Jason away as the head of a colony so that the swipe would become more widespread, but when his ship reaches the planet, he is attacked, and the memories of all but one of the three-hundred eleven colonists are destroyed and two-third of the colonist are killed or damaged beyond awakening. Jason prevails, however, leading to the survival of the colony, which he visits every several years, being on Somec the rest of the time. Eventually, Abner Doon comes and sees how Jason has done, and after Doon leaves, Jason takes his ship to the bottom of the ocean.

Title
The title arises from the operation of somec, the life extension drug forming the foundation of the interstellar Empire.  Somec creates an unbearable, torturous burning sensation throughout the body while pushing the patient to suspended animation.  However, the somec process exterminates the user's memory, and so these memories are recorded and stored separately shortly before they go under, to be returned to the body after they have awakened, and so the memory of the process itself cannot be retained.  Thus, each somec patient experiences the panic of burning hot sleep "for the first time" (as far as their memory goes) no matter how many times they have taken somec before.

Other publication
Hot Sleep was re-released as a serialized novel in the first issue of Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show in October 2005.

Related works
Capitol
The Worthing Chronicle
The Worthing Saga

See also

List of works by Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card

External links
 Publication information for Hot Sleep available from Card’s website
 The novel Hot Sleep from Card's website IGMS

Category:1979 American novels
Category:Novels by Orson Scott Card
Category:1979 science fiction novels


USS Parsons

USS Parsons (DD-949/DDG-33) began her career as a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy.  She was named in honor of Rear Admiral William S. Parsons (1901–1953), who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Parsons keel was laid down 17 June 1957 by Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 17 August 1959, sponsored by Mrs. William S. Parsons, and commissioned 29 October 1959 at Charleston, South Carolina with Commander W. R. Loomis in command.

 History

After shakedown, Parsons reported to her home port, San Diego, California, and commenced operations with the First Fleet in February 1960. In October she deployed to the Western Pacific with Seventh Fleet units. She returned to resume West Coast operations in July 1961 and entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard on 6 October for major improvements in her communications and antisubmarine warfare (ASW) equipment. She then rejoined the First Fleet in extensive coastal training from January to November 1962, deployed for her second WestPac tour in November, and returned in July 1963 to the California coast.

Under the command of Cdr. Jack Jester, USN, during the summer and fall of 1963 she carried out AAW and ASW operations in the San Diego, California area. During November she escorted Midway (CVA-41) and Hancock (CVA-19) to the Western Pacific and returned to San Diego. Parsons continued her training and service operations alternately with First Fleet and Seventh Fleet until she was decommissioned at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard on 19 January 1966.

Parsons was one of four Forrest Sherman-class destroyers selected for conversion from all-gun destroyers to the new Decatur class of guided missile destroyer. The others were Decatur (DD-936/DDG-31), John Paul Jones (DD-932/DDG-32), and Somers (DD-947/DDG-34). Parsons was assigned hull classification symbol DDG-33''' on 15 March 1967, recommissioned 3 November 1967, and assigned to the Cruiser-Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet. Following shakedown she carried out a rigorous testing program for her missile systems, and in September 1968 she assumed duties as flagship for Destroyer Squadron 31 (DesRon 31) and immediately deployed to the Western Pacific for operations with the Seventh Fleet off Vietnam. Interspersed with her aircraft carrier escort duties on Yankee Station, she conducted on-station training operations, assuming duties as ASW training coordinator ship with Commander Destroyer Squadron 31 (ComDesRon 31) embarked. Parsons also visited Kaohsiung, Yokosuka, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sasebo. She returned to San Diego, California, on 12 May 1969 to resume operations from there and train for her next deployment.

The conversion removed both of the after  5 in (127 mm) 54-caliber gun mounts and installed one AN/SPG-51C Missile Fire Control System (MFCS), one Mk.13 Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS), one Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC) system, and modified the Gun Fire Control System to accommodate an illuminator to provide a second missile capable Gun/Missile Fire Control System (G/MFCS). The ship could then engage two air targets simultaneously (one with each FCS) using from two to four Tartar medium-range, less than 20 nautical mile (37 km) missiles, depending upon the engagement policy in force (Shoot-Look-Shoot or Shoot-Shoot-Look).

The forward five-inch/54-caliber gun mount was retained as were the torpedo tubes. The 5 in (127 mm) 54-caliber gun was, nominally, a rapid-fire mount capable of firing over 30 rounds per minute at targets up to ranges of 12 nautical miles (22 km). The torpedo launchers each held three Mk46 torpedoes, for use only against submarines.

The conversion created a unique ship, but one that never found a unique role. In the long run, one of the ship's best capabilities, convoy escort, was taken over by the Oliver Hazard Perry class.

After conversion, Parsons was homeported in San Diego, California, from re-activation until late 1971, when the ship, as part of Destroyer Squadron 15 (DesRon 15), was forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan. As part of this movement, the families of all eligible crewmen were transported to Japan, where they lived in U.S. Navy Housing, located in both the Yokosuka and Yokohama areas.

From December 1971 through December 1972, Parsons provided support to forces afloat and ashore involved in the Vietnam War by operating as:

 Naval Gunfire Support (NGFS) unit in both I and IV Corps areas, with the vast majority of operating time spent very close to the DMZ, supporting Marines in that area.
 Search and Rescue (SAR) unit (or escort when a DLG held the SAR position) at both the North (N-SAR) and South (S-SAR) stations in the northern Tonkin Gulf. This station provided a means to rescue downed U.S. pilots.
 Carrier escort on Yankee Station.Parsons left Vietnam for the last time on or around 19 December 1974.

On 29 October 1980 she rescued 111 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles  south of Saigon.

DDG operations ranged from Anti-Aircraft Warfare (AAW) to Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) to Anti-Surface Warfare (SUW) and Naval Gunfire Support (NFGS) and included, as necessary, Electronic Warfare (EW).

FateParsons'' was decommissioned on 19 November 1982. She was stricken from the Navy list on 1 December 1984, and finally disposed of as a target on 25 April 1989.

References

External links

  navsource.org: USS Parsons
  navysite.de: USS Parsons

Category:Forrest Sherman-class destroyers
Category:Cold War destroyers of the United States
Category:Vietnam War destroyers of the United States
Category:Ships built in Pascagoula, Mississippi
Category:1959 ships
Category:Ships sunk as targets
Category:Maritime incidents in 1989


Judo at the 2009 East Asian Games

The Judo competition at the 2009 East Asian Games was contested in nine weight classes, nine each for men and women.

This competition was held at Shek Kip Mei Park, from 12 to 13 December 2009.

Medal overview

Men

Women

Medals table

Sources
The official website of Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games -Games Results-

External links
Judo Union of Asia

Category:2009 East Asian Games
2009
East Asian Games
Category:Judo competitions in Hong Kong


Canadian Forces Naval Reserve

The Canadian Forces Naval Reserve (NAVRES, ) is the Primary Reserve component of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). The primary mission of the NAVRES is to force generate sailors and teams for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operations, including: domestic safety operations as well as security and defence missions, while at the same time supporting the Navy's efforts in connecting with Canadians through the maintenance of a broad national presence.

History

Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (1914–1918)

Canada's modern Naval Reserve finds its origins with the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR) created on 14 May 1914 under the provisions of Naval Service Act. Organised into Atlantic, Lake and Pacific subcommands, 8,000 Canadians enlisted for service in the RNCVS during WWI. Agreeing to serve in wartime with either the RCN or the British Royal Navy (RN), members of the RNCVR crewed 160 vessels, patrolling the shores of Canada and conducting convoy escort duties. The RNCVR was extinguished four years later and its personnel demobilized following the end of the war in 1918.

Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve (1923–1945)

In 1923, the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) was stood up and under the command of Rear-Admiral Walter Hose who authorized the creation of NRDs in every major Canadian city. In 1941 Naval Reserve divisions were granted the designations ‘His or Her Majesty’s Canadian ships’ and received its own command and a seat on the Naval Board. The new naval reserve establishment formed a robust reserve force building popular support amongst Canadians for the fledgling Canadian Navy. During the Second World War, the RCNVR became the backbone of the Canadian Navy, recruiting officers and sailors for the Navy. By the end of the war, Canada possessed the third-largest navy in the world, with a complement of nearly 100,000. Most of these men and women were members of the RCNVR.

Naval Reserve (1945–1968)
With the end of the Second World War, the Naval Reserve was formed in 1945 replacing the RCNVR. Expected to maintain the same level of skill as the Regular Force, training and pay for reservists was equalised. Focused on minesweeping, escort, and coastal patrol; each division mirrored its organisation, training and crew with all officer branches and non-commissioned trades across the fleet. Despite successfully expanding the University Naval Training Division (UNTD), forming a dedicated 'Commanding Officer, Naval Divisions' command in 1953 and attaching various tender craft to NRD's; the Naval Reserve experienced suffered a decline in skill due to focusing on generalist skills and lack of opportunities to sea-going ships leading up to the unification of the Canadian Forces in 1968.

Canadian Forces Naval Reserve (1968-1990)
With the unification of the Canadian Forces, the Naval Reserve was renamed the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve and years of decline set in. With no combat capability, except the Naval Reserve Naval Control of Shipping (NCS) program, the Naval Reserve lost political advocacy and was left out of any formal role in the Canadian Forces defence structure. Left outside the Canadian Forces structure, the Naval Reserve would rely on new and unique ways of keeping relevant during the Cold War years. With the UNTD program shuttered, for example, NRDs worked to expand their recruiting numbers by employing students at local level, and force generating sailors initially trained at the unit level to serve on major warships. Years of decline was finally ended with Canada's 1987 White Paper on defence policy Challenge and Commitments.

Canadian Forces Naval Reserve (1990-2001)

With more integration of the Primary Reserve into the 'Total Force Concept' as outlined by the 1987 Defence White Paper, and then confirmed in the 1994 follow-up White Paper, the naval reserve was tasked with providing niche capabilities to assist the Regular Force. One such task undertaken by the naval reserve was to spearhead enhancing RCN mine countermeasures (MCM) operation capabilities and by crewing twelve new KINGSTON-class coastal defence vessels (MCDV), that since their introduction in 1996, have significantly contributed to Canadian maritime security and allied commitments, both domestically and internationally. The naval reserve was additionally tasked with maintaining standing Port Inspection Diver (PID) teams, supporting Regional Dive Centres and supplying four non-standing Port Security units and four Naval Control and Guidance to Shipping (the former NCS, now NCAGS) units.

Mission
The mission of the NAVRES is to generate trained individuals and teams for CAF operations, including domestic safety operations as well as security and defence missions, while at the same time supporting the RCN's efforts in connecting with Canadians through the maintenance of a broad national presence.

The tasks of the NAVRES is to:

 Respond to domestic safety operations with trained sailors and small boat expertise.
 Provide specific unique skill sets for security missions for the RCN.
 Augment the fleet on any platform or shore capacity for defence missions, both at home and abroad.
 Provide the linkage for the RCN to local communities.

NAVRES fills a number of roles within the Total Force Plan. In addition to augmenting the Regular Force, Naval Reservists form diving units and public relations units such as the National Band of the Naval Reserve.

Equipment
As of 2019, naval reserve divisions (NRDs) across Canada primarily operate various types of inboard and outboard rigid-hull inflatable boats in addition to Defender-class boats operated by the Naval Security Team (NST). Most particularly, NAVRES is tasked with providing the personnel for the KINGSTON-Class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels and Naval Security Team (NST).

Organization

Naval Reserve Divisions (NRD)
Organized into 24 shore-based NRDs, Naval Reserve units are dedicated to training sailors to augment the Regular Force as well as functioning as local recruitment centres for the RCN and NAVRES. Manned by a small cadre of full-time reservists and Regular Force members to coordinate training and administration, operations at NRDs are conducted year-round with reservists frequently deploying on operations and training courses during the summer season.

Naval Reserve Headquarters (NAVRESHQ)
Located in Quebec City at the Pointe-à-Carcy Naval Complex, Naval Reserve Headquarters (NAVRESHQ) oversees the operation of all 24 NRDs across Canada. Co-located with NAVRESHQ is NRD HMCS Montcalm, Canadian Forces Fleet School Quebec (CFFS Québec) and the Naval Museum of Quebec - Stanislas-Déry Naval Museum.

Canadian Forces Fleet School Quebec (CFFS Québec)
Canadian Forces Fleet School Quebec (CFFS Québec) is the RCN's school dedicated to training reservists at various points of their careers and serving as the CAF centre of excellence for coastal and littoral warfare training .

Naval Security Team (NST)

The Naval Security Team (NST) is a modular, scalable, flexible, and deployable naval team primarily composed of Naval Reservists, with Regular Force members rounding out the team when required. Tasked with providing enhanced force protection (FP) and security of deployed RCN ships and personnel at home or overseas, the NST deployed for the first time in 2017 providing force protection for  during her port visit to Busan, South Korea. Headquartered at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt the NST reports directly to the Commander Canadian Fleet Pacific

National Band of the Naval Reserve (NBNR)

Each summer, musicians from the five NRD's come together to form the National Band of the Naval Reserve (NBNR) (). During the summer months the NBNR is a full-time touring military band composed of musicians from HMCS Chippawa, HMCS Montcalm, HMCS Star, HMCS Tecumseh and HMCS York.

Personnel
Naval Reservists are individuals who are otherwise engaged in civilian careers while pursuing a military career in the CAF with NAVRES as an officer or non-commissioned member. They train and work for the Navy in the evenings, on weekends and during the summer period, in an occupation of their choice. They can be students, teachers, lawyers, delivery persons, secretaries, or other members of society. Most serve on a part-time basis, with no obligation to participate in any mission overseas. However, many full-time employment opportunities and deployments are available to those Reservists who volunteer for them.

Throughout their career, sailors may serve in three classes of service:

 Class A (part-time);
 Class B (full-time non-operational); or
 Class C (full-time operational).

Training and pay
Reserve Force members are trained to the same level as their Regular Force counterparts. They usually begin training with their home unit to ensure that they meet the required basic professional military standards. They are paid 92.8% of Regular Force rates of pay, receive a reasonable benefits package and may qualify to contribute to a pension plan. In an effort to streamline the recruiting processes for naval reservists, in February 2017 NAVRES initiated the Expedited Reserve Enrolment to allow applicants who meet security, medical, and basic fitness standards to enroll in as few as 21 days or between two and three visits after initial contact with NRD recruiters.

Naval Reserve occupations
The Canadian Armed Forces lists 28 occupations that are performed by either officer or non-commissioned members of the Naval Reserve. Many occupations – such as intelligence officer - are common across all three environments, while others – such as naval communicator – are specifically Navy. , the following occupations are listed as Naval Reserve occupations:

 Communications research operator
 Cook
 Biomedical electronics technologist
 Boatswain
 Chaplain
 Financial services administrator
 Health care administration officer
 Human resources administrator
 Imagery technician
 Intelligence officer
 Intelligence operator
 Legal officer
 Logistics officer
 Medical officer
 Marine technician
 Medical technician
 Military police
 Military police officer
 Musician
 Naval combat information operator
 Naval communicator
 Naval warfare officer
 Nursing officer
 Personnel selection officer
 Pharmacy officer
 Physiotherapy officer
 Public affairs officer
 Supply technician

Ranks

Commissioned officers

Non-commissioned members

Senior commanders
Through the Commander of the Naval Reserve (Comd NAVRES), Commander Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) is the functional authority responsible for the organization and management of the Naval Reserve.

Commander Naval Reserve
Commodore Michael Hopper (2018-present)
Commodore Marta B. Mulkins (2015–2018)
Commodore David W. Craig,  (2011-2015)
Commodore Jennifer Bennett, CMM, CD (2007–2011)
Commodore Bob Blakely (2004–2007)
Commodore W.F. O'Connell (2000–2004)
Commodore Raymond Zuliani (1997-2000)
Commodore R. Beauniet (1995-1997)
Commodore Jean-Claude Michaud (1993-1995)

Senior Naval Reserve Adviser (SNRA)
Commodore Jean-Claud Michaud (1992-1993)
Commodore L.F. Orthlieb (1989-1992)
Commodore G.L. Peer (1986-1989)
Commodore Waldron Fox-Decent (1983-1986)
Commodore T.A.M. Smith (1977-1983)
Commodore R.T. Bennett (1974-1977)
Commodore D.R. Learoyd (1971-1974)
Commodore B.S.C. Oland (1967-1971)

Commanding Officer Naval Division (COND/Regular Force Officers)
Commodore G.C. Edwards (1965-1966)
Commodore P.D. Taylor (1960-1965)
Commodore E.W. Finch-Noyes (1958-1960)
Rear-Admiral K.F. Adams (1955-1958)
Commodore K.F. Adams (1953-1955)

Chief Staff Officer Reserves (CSOR)
Captain (naval) P.W. Earl (1945)
Captain (naval) P.B. Cross (1944-1945)

Commanding Officer Reserve/naval Divisions (CORD/COND)
Commodore, Second Class E.R. Brock (1942-1945)

Naval Reserve Chief Petty Officer / Formation Chief Naval Reserve
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Giguere (2017–Present)
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class David Arsenault (2014–2017)
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Peter Caza (2012–2014)
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Leroy Hearns (2010–2012)
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Glynn Munroe (2007–2010)
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Glenn Woolfrey (2004–2007)
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class John Redican (2001–2004)

See also

 List of Naval Reserve divisions
Orca-class Patrol Craft Training (PCT) tender
YAG-300 (Yard Auxiliary, General) vessels
Rear Admiral Walter Hose, CBE

References

Further reading

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May 1941 Sanski Most revolt

The May 1941 Sanski Most revolt (also known as the Đurđevdan uprising () or the rebellion of the Sana peasants  ()) occurred near the town of Sanski Most in what was at the time Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The Serb population revolted against oppression by the Ustaše regime, the rulers of the Independent State of Croatia who were sponsored by Nazi Germany. Many civilians died during the three days of hostilities.

Introduction
On 6 May 1941, during Đurđevdan slava, a Eastern Orthodox holy day in honour of Saint George, the uprising began in Kijevo and Tramošnja villages and continued for three days. It was the first episode of hostility against the occupying forces.

The celebration of Đurđevdan in Kijevo and Tramošnja was disturbed by the  Ustaše. This provoked local Serb civilians to rise up against the Ustaše. To suppress the uprising, the Ustaše requested help from Germany. On 7–8 May 1941, German infantry and artillery forces arrived in the villages. They took 450 Serb civilians hostage. By 8 May 1941, the uprising was suppressed. Many Serb civilians were killed. Up to three Germans and 2 Ustaše were injured. On 9 May 1941, 27 Serb civilians were executed in retaliation. Their bodies were hanged in the center of Sanski Most. In 1973, their bodies were interred in a memorial in Sušnjar.

Background

The Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany and Italy. It was created on 10 April 1941 from part of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia which had been occupied by the Axis powers. The Independent State of Croatia consumed most of current day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and part of Serbia.

Oppression by the Ustaše regime was directed at Serbs, Jews, Muslims and Roma people, as part of a larger campaign of genocide. In Sanski Most, NDH officials, including Viktor Gutić, commissioner incited local Croats and Muslims to attack Serbs. On 23 April 1941, Gutić ordered all Serbs and Montenegrins living in the Bosanska Krajina, who had been born in Serbia or Montenegro, to leave the area within five days. This edict, which had been publicised on local radio and in the press was executed by some local Croats and Muslims. Eugen Dido Kvaternik, a Croatian nationalist politician, and Ante Pavelić, the Croatian fascist dictator, were involved. Under the premise that Đurđevdan, also known as the day of hayduk (bandits), was one of Serb rebel gatherings, they attacked notable Serb civilians.

6 May 1941
Oppression by the Ustaše regime caused spontaneous resistance by civilians which developed into armed uprisings in villages south-east of Sanski Most.

On 6 May 1941, hostilities were precipitated by Ustaše (mostly Muslims) breaking into houses of Serb civilians in Kijevo and Donja Tramošnja. In Tramošnja, several houses were burned. A group of about twenty Serb civilians, most of them with no firearms, prevented the burning of other houses.  Up to six Ustaše were injured. The Serb civilians were joined by former members of reserve military units and villagers from Sjenokosi hamlet. The Serb civilians chased away the Ustaše who escaped to Kijevo and Sanski Most and requested help from the German garrison in Prijedor.

7 May 1941
On the morning of 7 May 1941, Ustaše authorities imprisoned several notable Serb civilians in the army barracks at the railway station. The population was warned they would be executed if harm came to any member of the Ustaše or German army. One member of the Ustaše, a local forest ranger, may have intentionally wounded himself and then reported to Ustaše authorities in Sanski Most that he had been attacked and wounded by the Serb civilians.

The Germans sent a reconnaissance patrol of one platoon. The forty-two soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 132nd Infantry Division stationed in Prijedor arrived on 7 May 1941. Together with Ustaše and gendarmes, they chased the insurgent Serb civilians. In the early morning of 7 May 1941, Ustaše killed three Serb civilians in Sanski Most.

The Serb civilians, buoyed by their success of the day before, resisted. Serbs from Banja Luka, Prijedor and Sanski Most traveled to Tramošnja to join the fight. They numbered about 200 and were armed with various types of rifles, one machine-gun and one automatic gun. They positioned their force in Kijevo and Tomina. The Serb civilians from Kijevo, Vidovići, Tramošnja, Kozica and other neighbouring places quickly took defensive positions on the slopes of Kijevska Gora  above Sjenokos. They resisted the attack of the Axis forces.  In this battle, three German soldiers were wounded.

8 May 1941
Rudolf Sintzenich, general and commander of the 436 Infantry Regiment of the 132nd Infantry Division (Pappenheim) ordered the 3rd battalion of the 436 Infantry Regiment to entrain at 0200h. Their route was from Banja Luka to Sanski Most via Prijedor. The 3rd battalion was commanded by Henigs. One company of 132 Pioneer Battalion traveled by bicycle and one motorised battery from Kostajnica joined Henig's forces.

On 8 May 1941, the German force was strengthened by motorized infantry from Bosanski Novi and a battery of two cannons from the Artillery division garrisoned in Prijedor. Before firing, the Germans captured 450 Serbs. Between 8 and 11 a.m., the German forces fired 38 grenades from two cannons positioned in Čaplje, killing several dozen Serbs. After shelling Tramošnja and Kijevska Gora (a mountain near Kijevo), the German forces moved toward Tomina, Podovi and Kozica villages.

The uprising was suppressed on 8 May 1941. Germans and Ustaše burned all the houses at Sjenokose hamlet, Kijevo. Many Serb civilians were captured unarmed, having discarded their weapons. The Serb civilians of Tomina were released at the intervention of an Italian soldier. However, the German forces did transport about thirty Serb prisoners from the Tomina area to Sanski Most, even though they had not individually participated in the hostilities.

Aftermath

On 9 May 1941, Germans killed twenty-seven Serb civilians. Jews and Serb civilians were forced to hang the bodies in the center of Sanski Most. The bodies remained hanging for two days.

At the end of May 1941, Gutić said, "The roads will wish for the Serbs, but Serbs will be no more." He announced further measures to kill all Serb civilians. The Đurđevdan uprising and the June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina preceded a general uprising organized by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Until the end of July 1941, most of the leaders of the Đurđevdan uprising hid in a wooded area near Kmećani and planned their next action. The Ustaše oppression and harassment of Serbs and Jews in retaliation to the Đurđevdan uprising continued.

Following the collapse of the NDH in 1945, Gutić fled to Austria and Italy. In Venice he was recognized, arrested, and taken to a camp in Grottaglie. In early 1946, he was extradited to Yugoslavia and in Sarajevo he was sentenced to death. On 20 February 1947, Gutić's execution was carried out in Banja Luka.

In 1971, Serb civilians killed during this conflict were interred in a Memorial complex in Šušnjar. In July 2003, the complex was renewed and designated a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

Sources

External links
 Memorial complex Šušnjar

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Joel Fraizer House

The Joel Frazer House is a historic residence near Cynthiana, Kentucky, United States, that was built in 1810 by the stonemason and future Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalf.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Approximately  around the house was designated as historic; besides the house itself, two related structures qualified as contributing properties. The house itself is a three-bay stone building, one-and-a-half stories tall, located on the bank of the Licking River.

It was listed on the National Register as part of a survey of historic stone buildings in central Kentucky.

References

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Detergent

A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties in dilute solutions. These substances are usually alkylbenzenesulfonates, a family of compounds that are similar to soap but are more soluble in hard water, because the polar sulfonate (of detergents) is less likely than the polar carboxylate (of soap) to bind to calcium and other ions found in hard water.

In domestic contexts, the term detergent by itself refers specifically to laundry detergent or dish detergent, as opposed to hand soap or other types of cleaning agents.  Detergents are commonly available as powders or concentrated solutions.  Detergents, like soaps, work because they are amphiphilic: partly hydrophilic (polar) and partly hydrophobic (non-polar).  Their dual nature facilitates the mixture of hydrophobic compounds (like oil and grease) with water.  Because air is not hydrophilic, detergents are also foaming agents to varying degrees.

Etymology
"Detergent" is borrowed from the Latin verb "detergere", which is a compound of de, "away from", and tergere, "to wipe".  In the English language, it was used as an adjective, "detergent", in the 17th century.

Chemical classifications of detergents
Detergents are classified into three broad groupings, depending on the electrical charge of the surfactants.

Anionic detergents

Typical anionic detergents are alkylbenzenesulfonates.  The alkylbenzene portion of these anions is lipophilic and the sulfonate is hydrophilic.  Two different varieties have been popularized, those with branched alkyl groups and those with linear alkyl groups.  The former were largely phased out in economically advanced societies because they are poorly biodegradable. An estimated 6 billion kilograms of anionic detergents are produced annually for domestic markets.

Bile acids, such as deoxycholic acid (DOC), are anionic detergents produced by the liver to aid in digestion and absorption of fats and oils.

Cationic detergents
Cationic detergents that are similar to the anionic ones, with a hydrophilic component, but, instead of the anionic sulfonate group, the cationic surfactants have quaternary ammonium as the polar end.  The ammonium sulfate center is positively charged.

Non-ionic and zwitter ionic detergents
Non-ionic detergents are characterized by their uncharged, hydrophilic headgroups. Typical non-ionic detergents are based on polyoxyethylene or a glycoside. Common examples of the former include Tween, Triton, and the Brij series. These materials are also known as ethoxylates or PEGylates and their metabolites, nonylphenol.  Glycosides have a sugar as their uncharged hydrophilic headgroup. Examples include octyl thioglucoside and maltosides. HEGA and MEGA series detergents are similar, possessing a sugar alcohol as headgroup.

Zwitterionic detergents possess a net zero charge arising from the presence of equal numbers of +1 and −1 charged chemical groups. Examples include CHAPS.

See surfactants for more applications.

History

In World War I, there was a shortage of oils. Synthetic detergents were first made in Germany.

Major applications of detergents

Household cleaning

One of the largest applications of detergents is for household and shop cleaning including dish washing and washing laundry.  The formulations are complex, reflecting the diverse demands of the application and the highly competitive consumer market.

Fuel additives
Both carburetors and fuel injector components of Otto engines benefit from detergents in the fuels to prevent fouling.  Concentrations are about 300 ppm.  Typical detergents are long-chain amines and amides such as polyisobuteneamine and polyisobuteneamide/succinimide.

Biological reagent
Reagent grade detergents are employed for the isolation and purification of integral membrane proteins found in biological cells. Solubilization of cell membrane bilayers requires a detergent that can enter the inner membrane monolayer. Advancements in the purity and sophistication of detergents have facilitated structural and biophysical characterization of important membrane proteins such as ion channels also the disrupt membrane by binding lipopolysaccharide, transporters, signaling receptors, and photosystem II.

See also
 Soap
 Cleavable detergent
 Dishwashing liquid
 Dispersant
 Green cleaning
 Hard-surface cleaner
 Laundry detergent
 List of cleaning products
 Triton X-100

References

External links

 About.com:  How Do Detergents Clean
 Campbell tips for detergents chemistry,  surfactants, and history related to laundry washing, destaining methods and soil.

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Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted

Framnæs shipyard (Framnæs mekaniske Værksted) was a former Norwegian shipbuilding and engineering firm headquartered in Sandefjord, in Vestfold county, Norway. Originally strongly linked to the whaling industry, in later years it entered into more versatile shipbuilding, including rigs and modules for the offshore business. It was incorporated in 1898 and was closed down in 1986.

History

A/S Framnæs mek Værksted has its origins from three earlier shipyards.

Christen Christensen took over Rødsverven in 1868 and bought the other yards one by one. He started Sandefjord Flytedokker A/S in 1884. In 1892, he privately owned almost all of the properties that later became A/S Framnæs mek.Værksted. In the meantime, he also bought Kamfjordverven and Stubbverven. In order to finance the conversion of the yards to steel shipbuilding, Christensen reorganized the corporate structure of the yard in 1898, to a shareholders' company. Sandefjord Flytedokker was dissolved and the two docks sold. New docks were then built by the yard.

1816-1861

Klavenessverven 1816-1861
In 1816, sheriff, farmer, yard owner and ship owner Thor Aagessøn Klavenes (1767–1854) established a site for keelhauling, and later a shipbuilding berth at Framnes. The keelhauling site was situated in the area where the carpentry shop was later built, with the building berth located to the northeast. In 1832, his son Aake Torssøn Klavenes took over the management of the yard until his death in 1853. Thor was the main creditor and reassumed control of the company, until Henrik Klaveness (the eldest son of Aake Klaveness) took over in 1857. He sold it to Joseph Lyhmann four years later.

1861-1892

Lyhmanns mek Verksted 1861-1882
The owner, businessman and ship owner Joseph Lyhmann (18 September 1825 – 15 April 1915) built in 1861 Lyhmanns mek Verksted approximately where the A/S Framnæs mek Værksted engine shop were located, northwest of today's Skagerrak middle and high schools.

Here, he started a machinery manufacturing business producing mainly agricultural machines such as threshing machines, chaff-cutters, plough equipment, and milling equipment, including Norway's first threshing machine. He also manufactured bicycles, which were claimed to be the first built in Norway. In addition, the business also made steamboats of steel. The company also produced steam engines, steam engines and equipment for sawmills, and boiling equipment for whaling.

Sandefjord mek Verksted 1882-1892
In the autumn of 1882, Lyhmann sold the industry to the engineers Hetlesæter and Solberg. The enterprise was renamed Sandefjord mek. Verksted. After having done various mechanical activities, they also built many steamships made of steel, but they faced bankruptcy in 1886.

Lyhmann, the industry’s main creditor, took back the facility and sold it in 1889 to Captain A.M. Aamundsen, the engineer Jacob Moe, and Adolf Top. They built and repaired steam ships, turbines, boilers, mills, and sawmill machines, and repaired sealing and other docked ships.

The business did not fare well, and in 1892 it was sold to Christen Christensen.

After Lyhmann sold the facility in 1882, he lived at "Birkerød" for some time. Here he had a small shop where he made grinding and polishing machines for knives. He kept poultry and bees, and made and sold honey separators. He also sold and bought ships. Lyhmann became a businessman in Oslo, where he manned the counter. Lyhmann married twice. He met his second wife through an advertisement in a newspaper. She was 14 years younger than his eldest daughter from his first marriage. They had four children; the youngest, his son Gaute, was born in 1907. Mr. Lyhmann was then 82 years old.

1826-1986

Søebergverven 1826-1865
Månedsløytnant, timber merchant and shipowner Peder Soeberg (died 1863) came to Sandefjord in 1807 to join the coast guard. In the autumn of 1808, he conquered a Swedish and a British ship outside Vallø. He purchased one of these from the government and settled down in Sandefjord as a ship owner and businessman. In 1826, he started building ships at Søebergverven which was located northeast of the former boiler shop at A/S Framnæs mek Værksted, with the building berth pointing northwest where the biggest floating dock used to be. The shipyard’s tug M/S David was the last ship launched from this building berth in 1930. In the same year that Peder Søeberg leased this site, he also bought Stubbverven.

From the mid-1830s he entered into a cooperation with the sailmaker, businessman, yard owner, and ship owner Søren Lorentz Christensen (9 April 1810 – 5 May 1862), who from 1842 and onwards built a number of ships here. In 1850, Søren Lorentz Christensen bought half of the Søebergverven from Søeberg. Søren Lorentz Christensen became relatively early a tired man, and died at the age of 52.

Rødsverven 1865-1878
Christensen’s widow Otilie, (née Kruge), was in charge of the management of the business for some years, and continued to do so until her son, yard owner, ship owner, and whaling manager Christen Christensen (9 September 1845 – 16 November 1923), took over as manager in 1868. Later A/S Framnæs mek Værksted started numbering their new buildings from that date. New building no.1 was Sleipner, built by Christen Christensen for his mother Otilie.

Framnæs Skipverft 1878-1892
Christen Christensen was a very enterprising man and bought all the surrounding shipyards and properties. When Christen Christensen moved from his private home in the town of Sandefjord (later, butcher Lauritz Pedersen's home) to Framnæsodden in 1879, he had become the sole owner of Rødsverven and the Langestrand area. He laid out an apple garden in the same area as the Framnæs mek Verksted later on had their shipbuilding berth. The house was later dismantled and moved to South Georgia as the administrator residence.

Framnæs mek Værksted 1892-1898

In 1892, he also bought Lyhmanns mek Verksted or Sandefjord mek Verksted as the name was at that time, and renamed it Framnæs mek Værksted. He owned, at that time, practically all properties and facilities which Framnæs mek Værksted later owned. In the meantime he had, in 1894 , established Sandefjord Flytedokker A/S (Sandefjord Dry Docks A/S). They possessed two wooden floating docks, and had close ties with the yard in general.

A/S Framnæs mek Værksted 1898-1986

As it gradually became necessary to change from building ships of wood to ships of steel, and therefore to engage in costly investments, the shipyard in 1898 became a joint-stock company, namely A/S Framnæs mek. Værksted. Christen Christensen remained its dominating shareholder, as his descendants have been since then. From 1899 to his death in 1923 he was chairman of the company. Director of the shipyard for 47 years was the engineer Ole Wegger (1859 - 1936). Christensen was also the founder, main shareholder and chairman of the world's largest seal-hunting company, A/S Oceana, established in Sandefjord in 1887 and registered in Sandefjord in 1891. Christen Christensen's biggest contribution was in the whaling business, as he started whaling in the Antarctic.

Properties
A/S Framnæs mek Værksteds's landed property is mainly separated from a farm by the name of Vestre Rød. The eldest known name on the farm is Rud in Valley, and the first known owner was Svale Jonsson Smør. From 1620-30 the Vestre Rod belonged to the feudal overlord, Admiral Ove Gjedde, and was later included as a speck in his son-in-law, Niels Langes's big estate. When Niels Langes's bankruptcy was settled, Vestre Rod, in 1667, was first transferred to Mayor Marcus Barenholt’s property and then to Vilhelm Mechelsberg.

In 1972, Vestre Rod was redeemed by Ulrik Fredrik Gyldenlove, and then it became county estate. The county estate was sold in 1805 to King Frederick VI of Denmark, who again sold it in 1817 to a shareholder company in Larvik, namely the gentlemen: county governor Michael Falk, dean J.F. Sartz, businessman Matthias Sartz and the cashier at Fritsø Jernverk, Gether (also called the badgers).

In September 1835, they surrendered the properties to department counsel Villum Fredrik Treschow, who, on 11 September bought the claims of the county from King Frederick, who wanted to keep the wood and sell the farmland. In that way, sheriff Thor Aagessøn Klavenes on 4 January 1838 bought farm no.1 from Vestre Rod (the farm Vestre Rød was at that time split in two). Included was also a property he leased in 1816 for Klavenessverven, but not the part that Peder Søeberg leased in 1826 for Søebergverven.

Henrik Klaveness, the grandson of Thor Klaveness, took over this property by means of an auction convey of 21 February 1857 and sold it later, on 30 March 1861, to Joseph Lyhmann.

In 1826, Peder Søeberg bought the Stubbverven from Jacob and Søren Hauene, and he took on the lease to the Soebergverven the same year.

This site Joseph Lymann bought from Michael Treschow on a convey of 9 December 1864.

By a convey of 6 June 1865 Joseph Lyhmann sold the site to Henrik Klaveness.

By a convey of 21 March 1874 Joseph Lyhmann and Henrik Klaveness sold the whole site of Søebergverven to the businessman Jon Elisæus Sanne Wetlesen (father of art painter Wilhelm Wetlesen and brother-in-law of Christen Christensen).

In the summer of 1872, Christen Christensen, shopkeeper P.C.Pedersen, shopkeeper G.Wierød and Christen Lorentz Sørensen d.y. from Nordby built a steam sawmill at Svines by the lake Gogsjo.

This came into the ownership of sheriff Bjørndal and Ole and Anders Skorges in the summer of 1916. This was named Gogsjø Dampsag.

According to the convey, registered on 27 November 1874, J.E.S. Wetlesen did sell his part in the Rødsverven (Søebergverven) to Gogsjø Dampsag, who on 23 April 1878 transferred this site to Christen Christensen.

On 31 October 1876 Christen Christensen bought from Joseph Lymann that part of Vestre Rød that reached from Rødsverven and out to Langestrandsbekken.

By a convey dated 8 January 1892 Christen Christensen bought Sandefjord mek Verksted, formerly Lyhmanns mek Verksted, and later the same year also Stubbverven.

Vestre Rød was already in the year of 1757 split into two farms. From 1821 to 1855 the farm no.2 was run by Hans Perssøn Holtan. In 1857 farm no.2 was sold to Martin Larsen Bettum {grandfather of Frithjof Bettum (ref.A.Jahres rederi)}. Christen Christensen bought in May 1878 from Martin Larsen a lot south of Langestrandsbekken and further out to the property of Gjelstad in south.

Christen Christensen became the private owner of all the land A/S Framnæs mek Værksted took over in the year of 1898.

Ships built

The most commonly known ships today built in the shipyard include:

Jason
Endurance
Christian Radich
Viking

See also
Framnaes

Sources
Lardex - Framnæs mek Værksted

External links

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Koopvaardijschepen - Framnaes, Sandefjord

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Albert Kapikian

Albert Zaven Kapikian (1930 – 2014) was an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants. He was awarded the Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine.  He is the 13th recipient of this recognition, awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute.  Called the father of human gastroenteritis virus research, Kapikian identified the first norovirus, initially called Norwalk virus, in 1972; and he and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health identified the hepatitis A virus in 1973.

Kapikian graduated from Cornell Medical College in 1956 and began a career with the National Institutes of Health in 1957.  He was chief of the epidemiology section of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a position he held for 45 years. In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Kapikian died on February 24, 2014, at the age of 83.

References

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Yale Tarn

Yale Tarn () is a mountain lake (tarn} located 0.8 miles (1.3 km) northeast of Mount Falconer in Tarn Valley, Victoria Land. This feature is the most eastern of four tarns in the valley named after American universities by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1965-66.

See also
 Harvard Tarn
 Penn Tarn
 Princeton Tarn

References

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Tiszaigar

Tiszaigar is a village in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.

Geography
It covers an area of  and has a population of 826 people (2015).

References

External links
 Official site in Hungarian

Category:Populated places in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County


Mother and Child (1924 film)

Mother and Child (German:Mutter und Kind) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Henny Porten, Friedrich Kayßler and Wilhelm Dieterle. It was remade in 1934 as a sound film of the same title also starring Porten.

Cast
Henny Porten as Köchin Lene
Friedrich Kayßler as Senator Hansen
Wilhelm Dieterle as Kutscher Christian
Erna Morena as Renate, Senator Hansens Frau
Willy Fritsch as Werner, Senator Hansens Neffe
Wilhelm Diegelmann as Hausarzt
Arnold Rieck as Schuster
Hanne Brinkmann as Schusterin
 as Pastor
Loni Nest as Kind

References

Bibliography
 Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

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Tony Ally

Antonio ("Tony") Pietro Ally (born Ali, 17 August 1973) is a British diver.

Diving career

Olympic Games
In his first Olympic Games he competed in the 1996 men's 3 metre springboard at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atalanta, United States. Four years later he competed in the 2000 men's 3 metre springboard and qualified for the final, finishing in 12th place. He also competed in the synchronized event with Mark Shipman and came seventh. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he publicised the plight of British divers and the lack of funded support by publicly selling his British Olympic Team kit to pay off loans.

Commonwealth Games
Ally competed in five Commonwealth Games winning four medals. He represented England in the springboard and platform events, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. This was the first of his five Commonwealth Games appearances. In 1998 he was a bronze medalist in the 3 metres springboard, at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. He followed this success up by winning double silver in the 2002 Commonwealth Games before going on to be the flag bearer for the English contingent at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where he won another silver medal in the synchronized three metre springboard.

European Championships
He won gold in the European Championships for the three metre event in 1999, and won silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.

His club is the City of Sheffield.

Other news
He appeared on The Million Pound Drop Live on the 8 October 2011, and lost. On the 11 August 2012, he appeared on BBC News Live programme, as part of a panel discussion about Tom Daley's diving progression. It was announced Ally now works as a strength and conditioning coach.

References

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The Crumbs on the Table

"The Crumbs on the Table" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 190.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 236*, Imitating Bird Sounds, because in the original Swiss dialect, the responses imitate live chickens.

Synopsis
A countryman tells his puppies to come into the parlor and take the crumbs.  They say the mistress will beat them, but he persists and persuades them.  The mistress returns just then and beats them, and the countryman only laughs, so they have to run away.

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Orange Line (Jaipur Metro)

The Orange Line of the Jaipur Metro is a proposed rapid transit line for the city of Jaipur, India. It will connect Sitapura in South to Ambabari in North. It is  in length and will have 20 stations - 5 underground and 15 elevated.

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Route

See also

Jaipur Metro
Pink Line
List of Jaipur Metro stations
Jaipur BRTS
List of rapid transit systems in India

References

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Ken Landreaux

Kenneth Francis Landreaux  (born December 22, 1954) is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the California Angels, Minnesota Twins, and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1977 through 1987.

Playing career
After graduating from Dominguez High School in Compton, California, Landreaux was drafted by the Houston Astros in the eighth round of the 1973 Major League Baseball draft, but chose to attend Arizona State University. While at Arizona State, he played in the 1975 and 1976 College World Series on teams that included future major leaguers Floyd Bannister, Chris Bando, and Bob Horner.

Landreaux was then selected by the California Angels in the first round of the 1976 Major League Baseball draft. In his major league debut with the Angels, on September 11, 1977, against the Chicago White Sox, Landreaux threw out three base runners from the outfield.

In , the Angels traded Landreaux, Dave Engle, Paul Hartzell, and Brad Havens to the Minnesota Twins for Rod Carew. In 1980, Landreaux set a Minnesota record with a 31-game hitting streak, tied for the longest in the AL since Dom DiMaggio's 34 in 1949. He still holds the record for most consecutive games with a hit in Minnesota Twins history.

Landreaux was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for three prospects (Mickey Hatcher and two minor leaguers) in . Landreaux was a member of the 1981 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, and caught the final out of the 1981 World Series, a fly ball to center field off the bat of Bob Watson. Landreaux's best seasons were 1982 and 1983. Usually batting 2nd in the order, he combined with leadoff man Steve Sax to give the Dodgers two formidable "table setters." Landreaux hit over .280 and had at least 30 stolen bases in each of those seasons. He also hit a career high 17 home runs for the 1983 National League Western Division champion Dodgers. He remained with the Dodgers, completing his major league baseball career in .

Career statistics
In 1264 games over 11 seasons, Landreaux compiled a .268 batting average (1099-for-4101) with 522 runs, 180 doubles, 45 triples, 91 home runs, 479 RBI, 145 stolen bases, 299 base on balls, 421 strikeouts, .317 on-base percentage and .400 slugging percentage. Defensively, he recorded a .981 fielding percentage at all three outfield positions. In postseason play covering 24 games, he batted .221 (15-for-68) with 6 runs and 4 RBI.

Post-playing career
After retiring, Landreaux abused substances. After achieving sobriety, he worked as a counselor at Bellwood Health Center in Bellflower, California. He and Darrell Jackson, a former baseball teammate, founded the Athletic Connection Team to aid athletes with substance use problems. Landreaux spends his time teaching young baseball players at the Urban Youth Academy in Compton. Ken Landreaux returned to Arizona State Universary in 2012 and earned a Bachelor of Liberal Studies Degree in 2014.

Personal life
Landreaux is a cousin of former major league third baseman Enos Cabell.

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NCES

NCES may refer to:

National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education
Net-Centric Enterprise Services, a United States Department of Defense program
Normal curve equivalents, a type of scale score based on the normal curve

See also
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Armenavan

Armenavan is a village in the Tartar Rayon of Azerbaijan.

This village is in an area occupied by the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. It is suspected that this village has undergone a name change or no longer exists, as no Azerbaijani website mentions it under this name.

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World's Funniest

World's Funniest, formerly World's Funniest Fails, is an American reality television series produced by Dick Clark Productions and Jukin Media which made its debut on Fox on January 16, 2015. Hosted by Terry Crews, the funny videos show was inspired by YouTube channel FailArmy. A panel of comedians views and analyzes the videos, which are divided into categories. In the first season each panel member selected a favorite in each category. Crews chooses a video in each category and decides on the "Fail of the Week" at the end. The panel member who picked the "Fail of the Week" receives the trophy. The show states in a disclaimer that viewer submissions are not accepted; unlike America's Funniest Home Videos, this show makes no claim as to whether people in the videos were hurt by their reckless behavior.

The show was picked up for a second season to begin in the fall of 2015, but they were expected to be 8 or 9 unaired episodes ordered in February. The second season began airing November 6, 2015. The name was shortened, Crews said, because not everything funny is necessarily a fail. Also, the panel of judges no longer nominated favorite videos.

Although not officially cancelled, Fox has not ordered a third season of the series.

The show has no direct connection to another past Fox show of the near-same title, The World's Funniest!, which aired on the network from 1998 until 2000 and was produced by Brad Lachman Productions.

Reception
Brain Lowry of Variety said World's Funniest Fails "tries to concoct a game element around the clips that never really makes sense", but "if the goal was to develop a series that exhibits even a shred of originality or ingenuity, as 'Fails of the Week' go, hey, it looks like we already have a winner!"

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

Season 2 (2015)

See also
Ridiculousness

References

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St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

St. John the Baptist Parish (SJBP, ) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,924. The parish seat is Edgard, an unincorporated area, and the largest city is LaPlace, which is also unincorporated.

St. John the Baptist Parish was established in 1807 as one of the original 19 parishes of the Territory of Orleans, which became the state of Louisiana.

St. John the Baptist Parish is part of the New Orleans–Metairie, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

This was considered part of the German Coast in the 18th and 19th centuries, named for numerous German immigrants who settled along the Mississippi River here in the 1720s.  On January 8, 1811, the largest slave insurrection in US history, known as the German Coast Uprising, started here.  It was short-lived, but more than 200 slaves gathered from plantations along the river and marched through St. Charles Parish toward New Orleans. This is part of the Sugarland or sugar parishes, which were devoted to sugar cane cultivation. Planters used large numbers of enslaved African-American workers before the war, and numerous freedmen stayed in the area to work on these plantations afterward.

The parish includes three nationally significant examples of 19th-century plantation architecture: Evergreen Plantation, Whitney Plantation Historic District, and San Francisco Plantation House.

History
Present-day St. John the Baptist Parish includes the third permanent settlement in what is now the state of Louisiana, after Natchitoches (1714) and New Orleans (1718). It was considered part of the German Coast http://www.gachgs.com/. The area was settled in the early 1720s by a group of German colonists. Many families established towns close to the Mississippi River in the areas now known as Lucy, Garyville, and Reserve. The area was under the French regime until 1763, when France ceded Louisiana to Spain after losing the Seven Years' War to Great Britain (this was known as the French and Indian War on the North American front).

At the beginning of the Spanish colonial period, many Acadians, people of French descent, began arriving in south Louisiana due to being expelled by the British from what is now Nova Scotia. The British took over French territory in Canada and in North America east of the Mississippi river. The first Acadian village was established in what is now Wallace, Louisiana. The German and French cultures thrived alongside one another, but French came to be the dominant language. They developed a culture known as Cajun.

The early settlers in the area received land grants from the Spanish or French royal governments, depending upon which country owned the territory at the time of application. The French style of property allotments was made up of narrow frontage on the river so that each plantation had access for transportation of goods to and from New Orleans and world markets. The main house and supporting outbuildings were constructed near the river. The remaining property extended away from the river deeply into the wetlands, where land was cleared for cultivation of sugar cane.

Most transportation was done by boat, mainly on the bayous and lakes of the area, but via the Mississippi River as well, for decades into the 19th century.  St. John, with its fertile land being nine feet above sea level, proved to be an excellent settlement for farming and agriculture. In the late 18th century, planters began to invest more in labor-intensive sugar cane cultivation and processing, increasing their demand for slave labor. Sugar production meant prosperity for the planters and New Orleans. Planters held large numbers of slaves, to the extent that the sugar and cotton parishes all had black majorities before the Civil War.

With the sugar wealth, some wealthy planters built elaborate houses and outbuildings.  Three survive in St. John parish; each is recognized for its national architectural and historic significance. On the west bank are the major complex of house and outbuildings designated as the Whitney Plantation Historic District and the National Historic Landmark (NHL) of Evergreen Plantation.  San Francisco Plantation House, also a designated NHL, is on the east bank.  San Francisco and Evergreen plantations are open to the public for tours. The Whitney plantation house is planned for renovation. Whitney and Evergreen plantations are both included among the first 26 sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

In January 1811, the German Coast Uprising started in this parish.  It was the largest slave insurrection in US history, but it was short-lived.  The slaves killed two whites, but suffered 96 deaths among their forces at the hands of the militia and in executions after quick trials afterward. They attacked five plantations and burned three houses to the ground.  Charles Deslondes, a mulatto or mixed-race slave brought from Saint-Domingue before the success of its revolution, was one of the leaders of the insurrection.  He and his followers were influenced by the ideals and promises of the French and Haitian revolutions. Slavery was ended on Saint-Domingue after the French Revolution, but reimposed before the slaves gained independence.

Deslondes gathered more than 200 slaves from plantations along the way, marching upriver into St. Charles Parish toward New Orleans before meeting much resistance.  Unable to get the arms they had planned on, the slaves were defeated by the well-armed informal and territorial militias.  During these confrontations and executions after brief trials, Deslondes and ninety-five slaves were killed.  Decades before the American Civil War and emancipation, their actions expressed African Americans' deep desire for freedom.

As the number of white families in the settlement increased, they wanted education for their children. Before the Civil War, typically planters would hire tutors, often college graduates from the North, who would live with the family for an extended period of time, typically two years.  The tutor would teach all of the planter's children, and sometimes the family would arrange for other neighborhood children to join the classes as well.

In 1869, following the Civil War, families wanting French instruction founded private schools to continue their culture.  The Reconstruction legislature established the first public schools in the state during this period, but it took time for the state to arrange adequate funding for public education. The first high schools at Edgard and Reserve were not built until 1909. Students traveled to the schools by horse-drawn buses or by train.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which  are land and  (39%) are water. It is the third-smallest parish in Louisiana by land area and fifth-smallest by total area.

St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana is located on the Mississippi River approximately  upriver from the Gulf of Mexico and  upriver from the City of New Orleans.  The area, known as the River Region, has an abundance of natural resources and a mild "Sunbelt" climate.  The average monthly temperature in New Orleans ranges from 55.1° in January to 83.7° in July, and rainfall averages 53.2² per year with monthly averages running from 2.52² in October to 7.17² in July.  The New Orleans/River Region contains a good supply of raw materials, which has helped Louisiana maintain a high rank in the United States in the production of natural gas, petroleum, sulphur, salt, and fur pelts.  High silica sands, lime, clays, timber, seafood, and various agricultural products are also produced in abundance.

St. John the Baptist Parish is bisected by the Mississippi River. Though the River separates the Parish into northern and southern parts, the former is still referred to as the "east bank" and the latter as the "west bank," referring to the direction of the river as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi provides an important transportation corridor which supports the heavy industry located in the area.

St. John the Baptist Parish is bordered by St. Charles Parish and Lake Pontchartrain to the east, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas to the north, Lafourche Parish and Lac des Allemands to the south, and St. James Parish to the west. It is one of four parishes which comprise the "River Parishes;" St. John Parish is the heart of the "River Parishes."

This section of the state, also consisting of St. James, Ascension, and St. Charles Parishes, makes up the area along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Since the mid-20th century, when the oil industry developed from resources found here, all of these parishes are home to at least one major chemical- and/or petroleum-processing facility. The industry is the major source of employment in the region but it has had adverse environmental effects. St. John the Baptist parish has the highest rate of environmental cancer of any census tract in the United States.

Much of the parish is either open water or wetlands. The wetlands are currently protected by federal law and development is limited to what is permitted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and/or the Federal Wildlife and Fisheries Department.

Higher ground in the parish is found in an alluvial plain which generally borders the Mississippi River on both sides.  Soil deposits from the Mississippi's annual flooding created a rich and fertile area which has historically been intensively farmed (sugar cane, soybeans, feed corn, and occasional cotton). This fact, and the natural transportation corridor supplied by the river, resulted in the creation of numerous plantations and farms along the lower Mississippi Valley.

Many of these plantations were large tracts of land with modest or average-sized homes and outbuildings found on the higher ground. Several, however, were improved with palatial mansions.  Three of the larger homes have survived in St. John Parish, as noted in the History above.

The higher ground along the banks was used to grow crops, while the wetlands were valued for their abundant timber, hunting and fishing.  For years development in the River Parishes was limited to those areas that were naturally higher and less prone to flooding.  Until the existing levees and pump systems were built, however, few places were truly safe from high water. Even today, most of the parish is considered a flood hazard area according to FEMA Flood Maps.

Adjacent parishes
Tangipahoa Parish (north)
St. Charles Parish (southeast)
Lafourche Parish (south)
St. James Parish (west)
Ascension Parish (northwest)
Livingston Parish (northwest)

Transportation

Major highways

 Interstate 10
 Interstate 55
 U.S. Highway 51
 U.S. Highway 61
 Louisiana Highway 18
 Louisiana Highway 44
 Louisiana Highway 3127
 Louisiana Highway 3188
 Louisiana Highway 3213

East Bank - The primary artery on the east bank of St. John Parish is Airline Highway (U.S. Highway 61).  This five-lane, asphalt-paved road was once the predominant route linking Baton Rouge and New Orleans.  Though it is still heavily traveled, much of the New Orleans-Baton Rouge traffic has been diverted to Interstate 10, located in the northern part of the parish.  Interstate 10, a divided, controlled-access highway, has two interchanges in St. John Parish; one at Belle Terre Boulevard and the second at U.S. Highway 51/Interstate 55, both in LaPlace.  Both Belle Terre Boulevard and Highway 51 intersect Airline Highway approximately  south of Interstate 10.

Interstate 55, a north-south route leading to Jackson, Mississippi, and beyond, intersects Interstate 10 in the northeastern sector of LaPlace.  A third Interstate 10 interchange exists just west of the St. John Parish line near Gramercy (St. James Parish).

River Road, also known as Jefferson Highway or Louisiana Highway 44, is a two-lane, asphalt-paved, winding highway which parallels the Mississippi River.  Most of the heavy industry in the parish fronts on this road.

West Bank - Most of the development on the west bank lies along Louisiana Highway 18 (the Great River Road), a two-lane, asphalt-paved highway which parallels the Mississippi River similarly to Highway 44 on the east bank.  In addition to Louisiana 18, the west bank has Louisiana Highway 3127 or the River Parishes Highway, which is roughly equivalent to the east bank's Airline Highway in that it follows the Mississippi.  It is not as winding nor as populated as River Road.  Highway 3127 leads to Donaldsonville upriver from St. John Parish.  It is home of the "Sunshine Bridge" over the Mississippi River in Ascension Parish.  This road has little development on either side and is generally surrounded by wetlands in St. John Parish.

Veterans Memorial Bridge or Gramercy Bridge - (Louisiana Highway 3213) This bridge originates on the east bank of St. James Parish near Gramercy/Lutcher and has access to I-10 and Airline Highway via Louisiana Highway 641.  The foot of the bridge on the west bank is in St. John Parish near Wallace, with a tie-in to Louisiana Highway 3127 that opened June 18, 2008.  The opening of this bridge has spurred the development hoped for along the west bank of St. John Parish. (The bridge is known as the "Bridge to Nowhere.")

Access to the west bank of St. John Parish is also provided by a ferry crossing at Reserve/Edgard and by the Hale Boggs Bridge over the Mississippi in St. Charles Parish.

Demographics

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 45,924 people living in the parish. 53.5% were Black or African American, 42.5% White, 0.7% Asian, 0.3% Native American, 1.5% of some other race and 1.4% of two or more races. 4.7% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

As of the census of 2000, there were 43,044 people, 14,283 households, and 11,312 families living in the parish.  The population density was 197 people per square mile (76/km²).  There were 15,532 housing units at an average density of 71 per square mile (27/km²).  The racial makeup of the parish was 52.58% White, 44.76% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.53% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.86% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races.  2.86% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 14,283 households out of which 43.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.10% were married couples living together, 18.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.80% were non-families. 17.50% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.98 and the average family size was 3.38.

In the parish the population was spread out with 31.20% under the age of 18, 9.70% from 18 to 24, 30.20% from 25 to 44, 21.10% from 45 to 64, and 7.80% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 94.30 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.70 males.

The median income for a household in the parish was $39,456, and the median income for a family was $43,925. Males had a median income of $37,293 versus $22,323 for females. The per capita income for the parish was $15,445.  About 13.90% of families and 16.70% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.70% of those under age 18 and 17.80% of those age 65 or over.

Government

Education
The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board operates 10 public schools within the parish, the Archdiocese of New Orleans oversees 5 religious schools within the parish and there are 2 privately run schools within the parish.

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National Guard
The 1084th Transportation Company of the 165th CSS Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard resides in Reserve, Louisiana.

Communities

St. John the Baptist Parish has no incorporated areas.

Census-designated places
 Edgard
 Garyville
 LaPlace
 Pleasure Bend
 Reserve
 Wallace

Unincorporated communities
 Mount Airy
 Welcome
Dutch Bayou
Cornland
Lions

Ghost Towns
 St. John the Baptist Parish had two more communities on its east bank, Ruddock and Frenier, which were settled on the isthmus between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain, 10 miles (16.093 km) NNE of LaPlace. In 1892, Ruddock founded by the Ruddock Cypress Company was made into a sawmill town. In September 1915, the 1915 New Orleans Hurricane hit Ruddock and the nearby town of Frenier, destroying the towns and killing some of the residents. Today, Ruddock and Frenier are ghost towns in the parish as well as memorials to themselves. All that remains of Ruddock is rotted wood from Buildings and vegetation. Yet Freneir still has a few buildings being seafood restaurants and a small number of houses all of which are built high to prevent flooding. Nevertheless, Ruddock is still marked on an I-55 exit sign and both are seen on Louisiana road maps, Freneir still has an entrance sign on Highway 51 marking it as a fishing village. It can be seen off I-10 on Lake Pontchartrain.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
German Coast
1811 German Coast Uprising
River Parishes
Etienne J. Caire
Randal Gaines
Nickie Monica
George T. Oubre

References

External links
Parish Government's website
Parish Sheriff's website
Parish District Attorney's website
Parish Clerk of Court's website
Parish Assessor's website
Parish Public School's website
Explore the History and Culture of Southeastern Louisiana, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary

Geology
McCulloh, R. P., P. V. Heinrich, and J. Snead, 2003, Ponchatoula 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle. Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Hydrology
White, V.E., 2015, Water resources of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. U.S. Geological Survey.

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Kōki Idoki

Kōki Idoki (井戸木鴻樹 Idoki Kōki, born 2 November 1961) is a Japanese professional golfer who has played his whole career on the Japan Golf Tour.

Idoki, while playing on the Japan Golf Tour, had two victories: the 1990 Kansai Pro Championship and the 1993 NST Niigata Open.

In his first time playing professionally in the United States, he won the 2013 Senior PGA Championship.

Professional wins (4)

Japan Golf Tour wins (2)

Champions Tour wins (1)

Other senior wins (1)
2012 Fuji Film Senior Championship (Japanese PGA Senior Tour)

Senior major championships

Wins (1)

Senior results timeline
Results are not in chronological order prior to 2017.

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

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Kinetic military action

Kinetic military action is a euphemism for military action involving active warfare, including lethal force. The phrase is used to contrast between conventional military force and "soft" force, including diplomacy, sanctions and cyber warfare. "Kinetic" was used as a retronymic euphemism for military action in Bush at War, a 2002 book by Bob Woodward. United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used the words "kinetic" and "non-kinetic" often.

"Kinetic military action" was used by White House aide Ben Rhodes on March 23, 2011 to describe U.S. military action in Libya:
This use was noted by news media: "'Kinetic military action' is still hell" and "Kinetic Military Action No More".

U.S. Department of Defense used "kinetic operations" on a webpage about USMC Srg. Allen Schaffer and his involvement in "Operation Inherent Resolve". It contained an interactive graphic video of "MURDER IN IRAQ AND SYRIA" and captioned "... operations related to ISIL since kinetic operations started on Aug. 8, 2014 ...".

On February 11, 2015, President Obama used "kinetic strike" in a letter to Congress. He wanted, among other things, Congress to "authorize the use of U.S. forces [against ISIL] in ... [ground] missions to enable kinetic strikes". The phrase was not used in the draft resolution proposed to Congress.

On December 2, 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke after attending a series of NATO meetings in Brussels, “There are various ways in which countries can contribute; they don’t necessarily have to be troops, engaged in kinetic action. There are medical facilities, there are other assets that can be deployed, there is intelligence gathering.”

See also
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 Kinetic energy

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Kotchandpur Govt. Model Pilot Secondary School

Kotchandpur Govt. Model Pilot Secondary School (Bengali: কোটচাঁদপুর সরকারি মডেল পাইলট মাধ্যমিক বিদ্যালয়) is a secondary school located in Kotchandpur Upazila. It is one of the oldest secondary schools of Bangladesh and the most renowned school of Kotchandpur Upazila. It's EIIN: 116644.

History

The school was first established as a primary school and later turned into a secondary school in 1889. Later in 1899, the school was named Kotchandpur English High School at the initiative of Edward George MacLeod, Mr. B. Allen, Mr. JJ Platel and Mr. Masudul Haq. After shifting it to the house of Clive MacLeod, the school was named Kotchandpur High School. Later, it was again renamed Kotchandpur Pilot High School. After nationalization in 2018, the school took the shape of Kotchandpur Govt. Model Pilot Secondary School.

Campus

The school has a 11.78 acre campus with a large playground and a lot of trees. It is situated beside the Kapotaksha River. It has 3 two-storied buildings, 6 one-storied buildings, 1 auditorium, 1 mosque and 36 rooms for educational purposes.

School uniform

Wearing the school uniform is compulsory for all the students. The uniform for boys includes a white shirt with three navy blue stripes on shoulder and a navy blue trouser. The boys have to wear white shoes.

Curriculum

Kotchandpur Govt. Model Pilot Secondary School provides education to its students in the Secondary level in Bengali medium under the national curriculum. The school is affiliated with Jashore Education Board. This is a combined school, both boys and girls can admit here. There is a admission process for admitting into the school. Students have to seat for admission test to be admitted. The school offers its education in Bengali language. As of 2018, the school has approximately 1500 students and 30 teachers.

Extracurricular activities

The school puts deep emphasise on the extracurricular activities that would ensure the betterment of mental as well as physical health of its students.

Every year, students take part in the annual sports and cultural competition.

The school possesses passionate cricket and football teams which actively participate in the inter-school championships.

Notable alumni

 Md. Shamsuddin - Deputy Director and General, Post and Telegraph Pakistan.
 Babu Shailandra Nath Mukhapaddhay - Deputy Postmaster General, Post and Telegraph Kolkata.
 Dr. Atiar Rahman - Doctor of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, England.
 Dr. Ashraf Ali - Doctor of Science, Manager, Boeing, USA.
 Dr. Rakib Uddin - Professor and Head of Chemistry, Rajshahi University.

References

External links
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Litogamasus setosus

Litogamasus setosus is a species of mite in the family Ologamasidae.

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