Amanda Swisten

Amanda Swisten (born December 20, 1978) is a former American model and actress of Scandinavian/Slavic descent, who has appeared in various films and TV shows.

Swisten was born in New York City, New York. Her first credited appearance was in the film American Wedding in 2003 while playing Fraulein Brandi.  After which she appeared in films such as The Last Run (2004), The Girl Next Door (2004), and Freezer Burn (2005).  She has had guest appearances on TV series such as I'm with Her, Two and a Half Men, Quintuplets, and Joey. She has also appeared in a music video for William Hung's She Bangs as the artist's "new girlfriend".

Early life
Swisten was born in Manhattan, but grew up in Connecticut.

References

External links

Official site of Amanda Swisten
Amanda Swisten at Maxim
The Official Amanda Swisten MySpace

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Elazar Fleckeles

Elazar Fleckeles (August 26, 1754 in Prague – April 27, 1826) was a Bohemian rabbi and author.

Biography
Fleckeles was a pupil of Meïr Fischels and Yechezkel Landau. At the age of twenty-four he became rabbi of Kojetein, a small town in Moravia. In 1780 he was appointed dayan (rabbinic judge) in his native city Prague. Later he accepted the office of rabbi of the beth midrash founded by Joachim Edler von Popper and Israel Fränkel. Fleckeles was renowned for his scholarship and oratorical gifts, and for his skill in worldly affairs. He twice had audience with Emperor Francis I, and enjoyed a good relationship with the royal censor, Carl Fisher, even printing a teshuva to Fisher in his responsa.

In a fashion similar to that of his mentor Landau, Fleckeles viewed the threat that Sabbatianism posed to tradition, in particular to the centrality of Talmud and its study, as emanating from excesses of mysticism. Hence even legitimate Kabbalah and its derived practices, such as prefacing mystical intentional formulae to the recitation of blessings, should, he believed, play no public role. Rather, as in days of yore, such practices should become esoteric observances restricted to a learned elite. Fleckeles states unequivocally that if one would claim to be the Messiah because of his broad knowledge of the Kabbalah, he would not be believed if his knowledge of the Talmud was deficient.

Fleckeles also denounced Reform Judaism, joining with his Prague colleagues in condemning the Hamburg Temple reforms in particular.

Works
Fleckeles was a prolific author. Among his works are:
Olas Chodesh, in four parts, containing sermons, including a criticism of Moses Mendelssohn's translation of the Pentateuch
Ahavas David, an address directed against the followers of Shabsai Tzvi and Jacob Frank (Prague, 1785-1800)
Teshuva MeAhava, responsa, in three parts (the responsum concerning Elazar Hakalir is often quoted by writers on Jewish hymnology) (Prague, 1800–21)
A funeral sermon on the occasion of the death of Joachim Edler von Popper, (1795)
Melekhet ha-Ḳodesh, two funeral sermons and two essays on the holy names of God which occur in the Scriptures
Nefesh David veNefesh Chayyah, on the death of his parents, ib. 1812;
Ma'ase de-Rabbi Eliezer, a commentary on the Haggadah of Passover, ib. (1812)
Mevasser Tov, two sermons delivered on the occasion of the victory of the  Austrian army at Naples in 1821 (1821)
Ḥazon la-Mo'ed, a part of his Sefer ha-Doresh (1824)
Milli de-Avos, a commentary on Pirkei Avos
Mille de-Oraisa, sermons

References

External links

Works
Teshuva MeAhava vol. one
Teshuva MeAhava vol. two
Teshuva MeAhava vol. three
 Maaseh Berabi Elazar
Olas Chodesh, vol. one
Olas Chodesh, vol. two (incomplete)
Olas Chodesh, vol. three
Ahavas David
Nefesh Dovid VeNefesh Chaya
Chazon Lamoed
''Melaches Hakodesh
Limud HaTorah Beleil Nittel (pp. 165-167)

Biographical information
Jewish Encyclopedia: Fleckeles, Eleazar ben David
YIVO Encyclopedia: Fleckeles, Elazar ben David
R' Fleckeles relationship with Karl Fischer

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Minnie Mendoza

Cristobal Rigoberto Mendoza Carreras (born November 16, 1933), better known as Minnie Mendoza, is a former Major League Baseball infielder and coach who played for the Minnesota Twins during the 1970 MLB season.

Biography
Minnie Mendoza was born on November 16, 1933 in Ceiba del Agua, Cuba.

Playing career
Mendoza played 10 years for minor league Charlotte Hornets.

Mendoza played 16 games for the Minnesota Twins during the 1970 MLB season as a 36-year-old rookie.  In 16 at-bats, Mendoza compiled 3 hits and 2 runs, while recording a .188 batting average.

The Mendoza Line
Mendoza is featured in the controversy surrounding the naming of the Mendoza Line, meaning a .200 batting average.  While most believe that the "Mendoza Line" first referred to by George Brett is named after 9-year veteran Mario Mendoza (who had a .215 career batting average and hit .198 in his biggest season), there is some controversy as to whether Brett was actually referring to Minnie Mendoza when he coined the famous phrase.  However, Minnie did not play during the time of George Brett.

Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Mendoza was a coach for the Charlotte O's.
Mendoza was also a first base coach for the Baltimore Orioles during the 1988 season. After the 1988 season, he became a roving minor league instructor in the Orioles organization.

Mendoza was a coach for the Burlington Indians in the Appalachian League and was manager for the team in 1992.
As of 2008, Mendoza the Latin America field coordinator in the Cleveland Indians organization.

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Jordon Zadorozny

Jordon Zadorozny (born c.1974 Pembroke, Ontario) is a Canadian rock musician and producer. He is the singer and songwriter for indie rock band Blinker the Star. He is best known for cowriting songs with Courtney Love in the late 1990s. Zadorozny has also appeared on recordings by Melissa Auf der Maur, Sam Roberts, Tara Slone and Mandy Moore. He produced a number of bands in the Ontario area at his Skylark Park studios. Jordon was a member of Canadian indie band Abbey with Sofia Silva from 2004 to 2008. He has since reformed Blinker the Star and released the album We Draw Lines and his latest, 8 Of Hearts.

See also

 Music of Canada
 Canadian rock
 List of Canadian musicians

References

External links
 SheLoom

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Chihiro Sasakawa

is a Japanese bacteriologist well known for his pioneering research into the invasive mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria and the host’s subsequent immune response to infection. In his work on Shigella species and Helicobacter pylori, Sasakawa was an early adopter of a multi-disciplinary research strategy, combining molecular biology, cellular biology, biochemistry and immunological approaches. This research strategy and his discoveries greatly influenced later research on the invasive mechanisms of other pathogenic bacteria.

Biography
Sasakawa was born in 1948 in Tokyo. He graduated from the Faculty of Science at Chiba University in 1972, and obtained his doctorate from the Graduate school of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 1978. Following research stints at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo (1978-1980) and the Medical school of Washington University in St. Louis, USA as an NIH Fogarty Fellow (1980-1983), he became an associate professor at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, becoming a full professor in 1995. He also concurrently held the position of professor at the Osaka University Research Institute for Microbial Diseases from 1998 to 2001. Sasakawa retired from the University of Tokyo in 2012 and is currently a professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo and a Managing Director of the Nippon Institute for Biological Science.

Contribution
In the field of bacteriology, Sasakawa’s work has shed light on many fundamental principles underlying the infectious process of highly pathogenic bacteria and the role of the host’s natural immune response in defending against infection. Utilizing model species such as Shigella and Helicobacter, he elucidated the pathogen-host interaction in a holistic manner that encompassed molecular biology, cellular biology, biochemistry and immunology, thereby significantly contributing to the creation of the discipline of “Infection Biology”.

Honors and awards
Sasakawa has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the highly prestigious Government of Japan (Medal with Purple Ribbon):
1995: Kobayashi Rokuzo Award (Japanese Society for Microbiology)
1998: Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Award for Medical Sciences
2006: Takeda Medical Award
2012: Asakawa Award (Japanese Society for Microbiology)
2012: Medal with Purple Ribbon (Medals of Honor (Japan), Government of Japan)

Editorial board activities
Sasakawa currently serves on the editorial board of multiple leading scientific journals.
Cell Host Microbe (2007 to present)
Nature Review Microbiology (2003 to present)
Trends in Microbiology (1999 to present)
Current Opinion in Microbiology (2002 to present)
Cellular Microbiology (1998 to present)
He has also previously served on the editorial boards of Molecular Microbiology (1995-2002) and Microbes and Infection (1999-2002).

Leadership of scientific societies
Sasakawa was the Chairman of the Japanese Society for Bacteriology from 2006 to 2008 and currently serves as General Director of the Federation of Microbiological Societies of Japan (since 2012).

Books (in English)
Molecular Medical Microbiology (ed., M. Sussman), Academic Press, 2002, pp. 645–668.
Methods in Enzymology, Elsevier Science, 2002, 358: 385-392.
Bacterial Invasion of Host Cells (ed., R. Lamont), Cambridge University Press, 2004, 25-57

Publications
Sasakawa, C. et al. Infect Immun 51, 470-5 (1986).
Sasakawa, C. et al. J Bacteriol 175, 2334-46 (1993).
Suzuki, T., Lett, M. C. & Sasakawa, J Biol Chem 270, 30874-80 (1995).
Watarai, M., Funato, S. & Sasakawa, J Exp Med 183, 991-9 (1996).
Suzuki, T., Miki, H., Takenawa, T. & Sasakawa, C. EMBO J 17, 2767-76 (1998).
Tamano, K. et al. EMBO J 19, 3876-87 (2000).
Tatsuno, I. et al. Infect Immun 69, 6660-9 (2001).
Mimuro, H. et al. Mol Cell 10, 745-55 (2002).
Tanaka, J., Suzuki, T., Mimuro, H. & Sasakawa, Cell Microbiol 5, 395-404 (2003).
Ogawa, M. et al. Science 307, 727-31 (2005).
Suzuki, M. et al. J Exp Med 202, 1235-47 (2005).
Yoshida, S. et al. Science 314, 985-9 (2006).
Suzuki, T. et al. PLoS Pathog 3, e111 (2007).
Iwai, H. et al. Cell 130, 611-23 (2007).
Ogawa, M. et al. Nat Rev Microbiol 6, 11-6 (2008).
Kim, M. et al. Nature 459, 578-82 (2009).
Yoshikawa, Y. et al. Nat Cell Biol 11, 1233-40 (2009).
Ashida, H., Ogawa, M., Kim, M., Mimuro, H. & Sasakawa, C. Nat Chem Biol 8, 36-45 (2011).
Sanada, T. et al. Nature 483, 623-6 (2012).

References

External links
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Robert E. Langdon Jr.

Robert Earl Langdon Jr. (May 31, 1918 – August 13, 2004) was an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. With Ernest C. Wilson Jr., he designed 27 office buildings along Wilshire Boulevard as well as the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades and the Bank of America Building in Beverly Hills. He was the President of the Pasadena chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Early life
Robert E. Langdon Jr. was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He went on to graduate from the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California in 1944.

Career
He started his career by designing buildings for his alma mater, the University of Southern California, whose campus grew shortly after World War II.

In 1949, he partnered with Ernest C. Wilson Jr., a fellow USC graduate in Architecture, to start an architectural firm. Two years later, in 1951, they officially named it Langdon & Wilson. Shortly after, they opened offices in Los Angeles and Newport Beach. Later, they partnered with fellow architect Hans Mumper, renaming the firm Langdon, Wilson & Mumper. Eventually, they changed the name again to Langdon Wilson Architects. They had 125 employees. Langdon served as the chairman of the Los Angeles office, overseeing design projects in the LA area.

The firm designed the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which makes up the J. Paul Getty Museum with the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood. They also designed the Glendale Federal Savings Building, also known as the Bank of America Building, or 9454 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Another notable building they designed was the CNA Tower, located at 6th Street and Commonwealth Avenue, and completed in 1972. Overall, they designed twenty-seven buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. They also designed the factory of the Hughes Aircraft-Electro Optical Systems in El Segundo.

Langdon served as the President of the Pasadena Chapter as well as the Director of the California Council of the American Institute of Architects. Additionally, he was the national President of Scarab fraternity, an architectural organization.

Personal life
He was married to Jacqueline (Hughes) Langdon. They had a son, Robert Langdon, III, and a daughter, Jan (Langdon) Handtmann. They resided in Pasadena, California.

Death
He died on August 13, 2004 in Pasadena, California. He was 86 years old.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw is a novel written by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney, the third book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The book acts as a journal and follows the adventures of Greg Heffley, the narrator of the book, who is in the second half of his seventh-grade year. This book was released in the US on January 13, 2009.

Summary
The book begins on January 1, with Greg talking about his family's New Year's resolutions. Life becomes more difficult for Greg and his best friend Rowley when their school bus route is "rezoned" to the Whirley Street neighborhood, so they have to walk to and from school.

Greg also deals with being compared to his father Frank's boss's sons, who all play sports and always seem to be outside exercising. Frank is jealous of this and wants his sons to be like His Boss's sons. After conflicts over Greg wanting to stay inside and watch TV on Saturdays and Frank stealing his school snacks, Frank makes him sign up for intramural soccer after an incident at the church on Easter.

At first, he rides the bench but becomes the starting goalie when the main goalie is injured. He takes a break to pick dandelions on the field, which ultimately costs his team the game. Frank is embarrassed by this when his boss shows it to him in the paper.

After this, Frank runs into a neighborhood troublemaker named Lenwood who has apparently reformed after going to military school. Impressed with his former enemy's turnaround, he decides to sign Greg up for a summer program at a place called Spag Union Military School, hoping Greg will change for the better but mostly hoping this will end the embarrassment.

To impress his dad and thereby avoid military school, Greg decides to join the troop 133 Boy Scouts. However, he is sick and misses their camping trip, which Frank has to go to anyway (he is a chaperone) and has a terrible time. Later, when Greg, Frank, and Rodrick have a camping "do-over", they end up at a hotel after heavy rain, where Rodrick locks Greg out of their room in his underwear.

After this, Greg becomes more resigned to his military school fate, especially after his attempts to make a good impression on a girl named Holly Hills in his class. But on what he thinks is his only day of summer vacation, Greg ends up inadvertently saving Frank from making a fool of himself at their neighbor's birthday party.

The next day, his dad reconsiders his decision to send Greg to Spag Union, and the book ends with Greg looking forward to his summer vacation.

Adaptations
On August 3, 2012, a film based on this book, Dog Days, was released; the movie starred Zachary Gordon, Steve Zahn, Robert Capron, Devon Bostick, Rachael Harris, Peyton List, Grayson Russell and Karan Brar. Principal photography began on August 8, 2011 in Vancouver and was completed on October 7, 2011. A poster was leaked in March 2012. A teaser trailer was attached to The Three Stooges. An advance screening for the film was held on July 31, 2012.

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Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)

Neal Shaara, also known as Thunderbird, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was depicted briefly a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Leinil Francis Yu, he first appeared in X-Men vol. 2 #100 (May 2000).He is the first Indian member of the X-Men.

An Indian pyrokinetic, he has no connection to the previous X-Men characters called Thunderbird. He is a vegan and was originally intended to be called Agni, after the Hindu god of fire.

Fictional character biography

Early life
Neal Shaara comes from an affluent family in Kolkata, where his father is the city's chief of police. His family also owned a large tea estate, where they all lived.

He was popular among girls because of his good looks. When his journalist brother Sanjit disappears, Neal decides to investigate, against his parents' wishes. Neal is shadowed by his father's best detective Karima Shapandar, and after Karima saves him from a group of thugs, the two began a romantic relationship while they search for Neal's missing brother.

Karima turned into a Prime Sentinel
They are ultimately captured by the villain Bastion, who plans to turn them into Prime Sentinels as he has done to Sanjit. However, the shock of the transformation causes his latent mutant powers to manifest, the power to generate and control solar plasma and heat.

Sanjit is able to disable the other Sentinels, but is severely wounded in the attempt. Karima, who is able to temporarily rebel against her programming, tells Neal to leave her, as her own transformation process commences, which will result in her killing him when the transformation is complete.

Joining The X-Men
Neal was now lost, alone and with strange powers that he neither comprehends nor wants. Neal goes to see family friend Moira MacTaggert on Muir Island, and he meets the X-Men, although he does not know this when he first meets them. Later, the X-Men revealed themselves, when they used their powers to stop Cable when his techno-organic virus runs out of control. Neal is initially frightened, but is eventually convinced to join the team. He chooses the codename Thunderbird, becoming the third bearer of that name so after the Proudstar brothers. He later adopted a more armored yellow and red uniform with wire mesh padding.

Psylocke
While with the X-Men, Thunderbird struggles with his fear of killing or hurting someone with his plasma. In addition, he also falls in love with the X-Man Psylocke, even though she is in a relationship with Archangel. Thunderbird and Psylocke often engage in flirtatious behavior in front of Archangel, who makes his displeasure felt to Thunderbird. The couple eventually breaks up, and Psylocke pursues a romantic relationship with Thunderbird.

Thunderbird becomes friends with Colossus, who like him, has also lost his brother. He also introduces him to the game of cricket. During one of their conversations, he says that though he is happy with Psylocke, he still retains his feelings for Karima, who is a Prime Sentinel.

Thunderbird's lack of control over his powers often caused problems during combat. He refrains from using them on his opponents due the fear of killing them. Archangel, who bears animus toward him because of his breakup with Betsy, mocks him and questions his place in the X-Men.

X-Treme X-Men
A short while, Thunderbird and five other X-Men formed a splinter group of X-Men dubbed the X-Treme X-Men, cutting all ties with the rest of the team while searching for Destiny's Diaries. He trains with Psylocke to gain better control of his powers, and learns to use only a small amount of plasma to blind or singe his opponents. Psylocke dies at the hands of Vargas, leaving behind a grief-stricken Thunderbird.

For a time he is seen working with the X-Man from the future, Lucas Bishop, another mutant with energy-related powers, in an attempt to overcome his fears and gain greater control over his powers. He comes to think of Bishop as his mentor. After Psylocke's death, he begins questioning the purpose of his life. Bishops tells him that while none of the X-Men are mentioned in the history books of his time, Neal is, a revelation that greatly motivates Neal.

Lifeguard
Some time after, Neal started a relationship with Heather Cameron, who was also known as Lifeguard. She and her brother Davis (who would become Slipstream) joined the offshoot group of the X-Men. After the inter-dimensional Invasion at Madripoor by the villain Khan, Thunderbird and Lifeguard left to search for her brother Slipstream, who left the team.

X-Corporation
Neal and Heather would later be seen as a member of the X-Corporation in Singapore, although Slipstream was nowhere to be seen. However this was short-lived as there was a synchronized attack on several of the X-Corporation offices after the catastrophic events of M-Day, leading Cyclops to call for the disbanding of all offices. Whether they aborted their search for Slipstream, or did find him, is not yet known.

Current status
In the "Decimation" storyline, it is seen in the 198 files, that he is one of the few mutants to retain their powers after the events of M-Day.. During the X-Men battle versus X-Man, aka Nate Grey, Jean Grey called help of all current and former X-Men to assist in the fight. Neal Shaara was one of those who joined the final fight. Though most of those who were at the end fight appeared in the Age of X-Man crossover, Neal was not seen.

Powers and abilities
Thunderbird has the ability to transform the molecules of his body into solar plasma, enabling him to convert portions of himself into thermodynamic energy furnaces that release luminescent radiance, pyrotechnic displays, concentrated plasma beams, shaped plasma charges that can deflect solid matter or displace volumes of air on impact for a heatless release of concussive force, and explosive thrust from his legs for flight or projection of focused blasts, flashes, or explosive spheres. Because plasma is a superheated, ionized state of matter, it can melt or destroy most objects, with the exception of adamantium. Thunderbird can also use his power to generate sufficient propulsive thrust to fly at supersonic speeds. In his initial appearances, Thunderbird is relatively unskilled in the use of his powers, but receives further training from Psylocke and Bishop.

During his time being mentored by Bishop, he achieves greater control over his powers, learning how to use his blasts to only single targets. He can also use only a small amount to create a blinding flash.

References

External links

 UncannyXmen.net Spotlight on Thunderbird III

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Tony Vidmar

Antony "Tony" Vidmar ( ; born 4 July 1970 in Adelaide) is an Australian former football (soccer) player and coach, who currently serves as an assistant coach with the Australia national association football team. He was a member of the Australian national team, competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for his native country, and with 76 caps, is one of Australia's most capped players. His brother Aurelio Vidmar was also an Australian football player.

Club career
His biggest impact in club football came whilst at Scottish side Rangers, for whom he played over 150 games and won the Scottish Premier League twice, the Scottish League Cup twice and the Scottish Cup 3 times. His goal against Italian side Parma in a UEFA Champions League qualifying round tie in 1999 cemented him a place in Rangers folklore. He left the club in 2002 and joined Middlesbrough on a free transfer.

He then joined Welsh side Cardiff City on a free transfer in 2003, with manager Lennie Lawrence being quick to sign him after missing out the previous year following his release from Rangers. Vidmar quickly became a fans favourite at Cardiff and made 73 appearances for the club before leaving in 2005 to re-sign for Dutch side NAC Breda, the club he had left to join Rangers.

International career
Highly criticised as one of the main weak points in the Australian defence under Frank Farina's tenure, Guus Hiddink's appointment sparked a tremendous improvement in his performance, culminating in an impressive performance in the second leg of the World Cup qualifying tie against Uruguay. Vidmar notably volunteered to take his team mate Mark Bresciano's kick in the penalty shootout (after the latter had been substituted through injury). This was successfully converted, giving Australia a 3-1 lead, and they subsequently won 4-2 on penalties.

On 9 May 2006 Vidmar announced he was withdrawing himself from World Cup team selection for medical reasons, specifically an irregular heart rhythm. Doctors discovered this irregularity was due to a blood clot in his left coronary artery. Following an operation in London, Vidmar was given the all-clear to resume his professional football career. Vidmar announced his international retirement after the friendly fixture against Paraguay on 7 October 2006, in which Australia drew 1-1.

Retirement
On 14 February 2008 Vidmar announced his retirement and an end to his decorated playing career after the 2008 A-League Grand Final. The former Socceroo defender said he wanted to end speculation about his future and thought the domestic decider was the best way to end his career. "There has been a lot of speculation on what I was going to do, whether to continue on or to end my career. I made up my mind about three weeks ago and thought that it was probably the right time to finish and that was well before we clinched our Grand Final berth."
"My aim at the start of the season was to help qualify the team for the AFC Champions League and to top that now would be very difficult."

Vidmar said there had been a lot of influential players on his career, which began at Adelaide City in 1989: "There are a lot of people that I'd like to thank – when I first started in the National Soccer League my first coach Zoran Matic was a huge influence for my career and every other coach that I've had since has influenced me in some way."
"I'd like to thank everyone at the Mariners – everyone in the office to the coaching staff and my team-mates, after what happened with my medical condition it was a gamble that they took to bring me here and I'd like to thank them for giving me the opportunity to finish my career in Australia, it would definitely be nice to finish it off with a Championship."

The Mariners went on to lose the Grand Final to the Newcastle Jets.

Career statistics

Club

1 Includes English League Cup, Scottish League Cup, A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup

International

International goals

Honours
With Australia:
 FIFA Confederations Cup: 1997 (Runners-up)
 OFC Nations Cup: 2004
With Central Coast Mariners:
 A-League Premiership: 2007-08
With Rangers:
 SPL Championship: 1998-99, 1999–2000
 Scottish Cup: 1998-99, 1999–2000, 2001–02
 Scottish League Cup: 1998-99, 2001–02
With Adelaide City:
 NSL Championship: 1991-92, 1993–1994

References

External links
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Xedio

Xedio is a professional HD/SD modular application suite for News and Sports Production developed by EVS Broadcast Equipment.

Intended for broadcast professionals, it handles the acquisition, production, media management and the playout of News and sport media. Xedio suite integrates a non-linear editing system. This editor has been included in the IPDirector suite as a plug-in.

This solution is used by Channel One (Russia), RTL-TVI (Belgium), GOL TV (Spain), RTCG (Montenegro), BHRT (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sky News (UK), ....

History

See also

 EVS Broadcast Equipment

References

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Ibrahima Diédhiou

Ibrahima Diédhiou (born 13 October 1994) is a Senegalese international footballer who plays AS Beauvais Oise as a defender.

Career
Diédhiou has played club football for Eupen. Diédhiou was released by Eupen after the 2016–17 season, and after one year without a club, he signed for fifth-tier French amateurs AS Beauvais Oise.

Diédhiou played for Senegal U-23 at the 2015 CAF U-23 Championship. He made his senior international debut for Senegal in a friendly against Colombia on 31 May 2014.

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SM UB-93

SM UB-93 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 15 May 1918 as SM UB-93.

UB-93 was surrendered to Britain on 21 November 1918 and broken up in Rochester in 1922.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 12  April 1918. UB-93 was commissioned later the same year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Karl Thouret. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-93 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-93 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-93 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

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Craig Pead

Craig George Pead (born 15 September 1981) is an English former professional football full back who played in the Football League for Walsall, Coventry City, Brentford and Notts County. He was capped by England at youth level.

Club career

Coventry City
A midfielder, Pead began his career in the youth system at Premier League club Coventry City in 1997 and signed his first professional contract in September 1998. While a teenager, Pead had an operation on his right knee, which removed 90% of the cartilage and the subsequent problems with the knee were so severe that he contemplated quitting football. After returning to fitness and being moved from left back to his preferred central midfield position, Pead finally made his senior debut when he played the opening 82 minutes of a 1–0 defeat to Burnley on 21 April 2002.

Pead broke into the squad during the 2002–03 season and was a regular inclusion from December 2002 through to the end of the campaign. He made 26 appearances and scored the first senior goal of his career, which came in a 2–2 draw with Preston North End on 5 April 2003. Pead's progress was rewarded with a new two-year contract in March 2003 and he was voted the club's 2002–03 Young Player of the Year. Behind three loan midfielders in the pecking order and suffering with injuries, Pead had "a wasted" 2003–04 season, in which he made only 18 appearances, scoring one goal. A calf injury saw him sit out the opening month of the 2004–05 season and he subsequently spent much of the campaign away on loan. Pead was released in May 2005 and made 45 appearances and scored two goals during seven years as a professional at Highfield Road.

Notts County (loan)
On 9 September 2004, Pead joined injury-hit League Two club Notts County on a one-month loan. He made six appearances and the loan was extended for a second month, but a lack of funds to retain Pead meant that the loan was terminated before he could make any further appearances.

Walsall (loan and permanent transfer)
On 23 March 2005, Pead joined League One strugglers Walsall on loan until the end of the 2004–05 season. He was an ever-present starter in the final eight league matches of the season and helped the Saddlers finish comfortably in mid-table. On 27 May 2005, Pead joined Walsall on a permanent basis and signed a two-year contract. He captained the team on occasion during a disastrous 2005–06 season, which ended with relegation to League Two. Pead had an excellent 2006–07 season, making 45 appearances and winning the first silverware of his career when Walsall secured an immediate return to League One by winning the League Two championship. He was voted into the League Two PFA Team of the Year, but despite the accolade, Pead was not offered a new contract by manager Richard Money and was released in June 2007.

Brentford
On the recommendation of his former Walsall captain Michael Dobson, Pead joined newly relegated League Two club Brentford on a two-year contract on 2 July 2007. Less than three weeks later, he suffered an ankle ligament injury during a pre-season friendly and had to wait until 1 September to make his competitive debut for the Bees, which came in a 2–1 victory over Bury. He was utilised as a central midfielder by manager Terry Butcher, but after Butcher was replaced by Andy Scott in December 2007, Pead was moved to right back, which had come to be his preferred position. Despite making 35 appearances during the 2007–08 season and being voted into the League Two PFA Team of the Year for the second year in succession,

Pead was made available for transfer by manager Andy Scott in May 2008. He failed a medical at Port Vale in May and trialled with Cheltenham Town in July 2008 and remained with Brentford for the 2008–09 season. He began the season as a regular starter, but dropped to the bench in September 2008 and underwent exploratory surgery on his long-standing knee problem late in the year. Pead failed to return to fitness before the end of the season, but despite making just six league appearances, he was awarded a League Two championship medal. Pead was released in May 2009 and elected to retire, due to his long-standing knee problem. During his two seasons with Brentford, he made 44 appearances.

Coventry Sphinx
Pead came out of retirement to join Midland Alliance club Coventry Sphinx in August 2010. He made just one appearance for the club, in a 4–3 defeat to Friar Lane & Epworth on 10 August.

Redditch United
Pead joined Conference North club Redditch United in August 2010 and made 12 appearances during the 2010–11 season.

International level
Pead was capped by England at U18 and U20 level. He was a part of the U20 squad which finished fourth at the 2002 Toulon Tournament.

Personal life
Pead's father worked as a kit man at Coventry City. Whilst players at Brentford, Pead shared a flat in Feltham with Lee Thorpe. After his retirement from football in 2009, Pead returned to the West Midlands and opened Soccer Rockz, a youth football coaching school. He later worked as Business Development Manager for BPMpro.

Career statistics

Honours

Walsall
Football League Two (1): 2006–07

Brentford

 Football League Two (1): 2008–09

Individual

 Football League Two PFA Team of the Year (2): 2006–07, 2007–08
 Coventry City Young Player of the Year (1): 2002–03
 Coventry City Academy Hall of Fame

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Juan Ulloa

Juan Ulloa Ramírez (February 5, 1935 – February 11, 2017) was a Costa Rican football player, who used to play as a striker.

Club career
Ulloa started his career in 1948 at Third Division side El Carmen de Alajuela and played the majority of his career for hometown club Alajuelense, but also had spells at Puntarenas, San Carlos, Uruguay de Coronado and Orión as well as abroad at Guatemalan side Aurora, in Mexico with León, four months with Real Betis in Spain and Unión Deportiva Canarias in Venezuela.

Ulloa was top scorer of the Primera División three times, in 1959, 1960 and 1966, totalling 140 goals in the Costa Rica Primera División. He scored a record total of 247 goals in all competitions (league, cup, national team and internal club matches).

He retired in 1970.

International career
Ulloa was also part of the Ticos, playing 27 games and scoring 27 goals. He was the national teams all-time goalscorer until Rolando Fonseca surpassed him in 2001. He represented his country in 7 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.

Death
On February 11, 2017, Ulloa was invited to receive a tribute in the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto before a match between Alajuelense and San Carlos, as he had played for both teams in his career. Former Alajuelense player Pablo Nassar took him back to his house, where Ulloa suffered a cardiorespiratory problem. He was taken to the San Rafael Hospital in Alajuela, where he died.

References

External links

 Profile - Alajuelense

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Trading account assets

Trading account assets refer to a separate account managed by banks that buy (underwriting) U.S. government securities and other securities for their own trading account or for resale at a profit to other banks and to the public, rather than for investment in the bank's own investment portfolio. Trading assets are segregated from the investment portfolio. They are recorded separately when acquired until they are disposed of or sold, and are then recorded at the price in effect when these securities are purchased or sold. Trading assets held for other banks are marked to market (adjusted to current market value) while held by a bank.

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Abul Ahsan Chowdhury

Abul Ahsan Chowdhury (born January 13, 1953) is a poet, researcher and folklorist of Bangladesh.

Biography
Chowdhury was born in Mazampur, Kushtia, Bangladesh. His father, Fazlul Bari Chowdhury, was a writer, social worker and former honorary magistrate. His mother is Saleha Khatun. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Dhaka in 1975, graduating with honours. He received his Master of Arts Degree from the University of Dhaka in 1976, and his Ph.D. from the same university in 1995.

He is the senior professor of the Department of Bengali at the Islamic University, Bangladesh, in Kushtia, and is active in research and academic matters home and abroad.

He has also served as
 Feature Editor, The Weekly Swadhin Bangla (Newspaper on Liberation War)—1971
 Editor, The Weekly Jagoroni, Kushtia, Bangladesh—1972
 Editor, Loko Sahitya Patrika (Quarterly), Kushtia, Bangladesh—1975-84
 Editor, The Islamic University Studies, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh—1998
 Editor, Islami Biswabidyalaya Barta (Quarterly), Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh—2000
 Edited three books on Hason Raja: Proshongo Hason Raja, Hason Rajar Gan and Hason Raja: The minstrel of the mystic soil—2009

Publications
Chowdhury has published two books of poetry—Swadesh Amar Bangla (1971) and Nilkantha Jiban Tumi (1974) and a range of research publications, including on Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kangal Harinath Mazumder,

Awards
 Lalon Award, West Bengal Lalon Mela Shomittee, India, 2000
 Sayed Abdur Rob Sambardhana, Faridpur, 2001
 Bangla Academy Literary Award, 2010

References

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Cuisenaire rods

Cuisenaire rods are mathematics learning aids for students that provide an interactive, hands-on way to explore mathematics and learn mathematical concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations, working with fractions and finding divisors. In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularised this set of coloured number rods created by the Belgian primary school teacher Georges Cuisenaire (1891–1975), who called the rods réglettes.

According to Gattegno, "Georges Cuisenaire showed in the early 1950s that students who had been taught traditionally, and were rated ‘weak’, took huge strides when they shifted to using the material. They became 'very good' at traditional arithmetic when they were allowed to manipulate the rods."

History
The educationalists Maria Montessori and Friedrich Fröbel had used rods to represent numbers, but it was Georges Cuisenaire who introduced the rods that were to be used across the world from the 1950s onwards. In 1952 he published Les nombres en couleurs, Numbers in Color, which outlined their use. Cuisenaire, a violin player, taught music as well as arithmetic in the primary school in Thuin. He wondered why children found it easy and enjoyable to pick up a tune and yet found mathematics neither easy nor enjoyable. These comparisons with music and its representation led Cuisenaire to experiment in 1931 with a set of ten rods sawn out of wood, with lengths from 1 cm to 10 cm. He painted each length of rod a different colour and began to use these in his teaching of arithmetic. The invention remained almost unknown outside the village of Thuin for about 23 years until, in April 1953, British mathematician and mathematics education specialist Caleb Gattegno was invited to see students using the rods in Thuin. At this point he had already founded the International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Education (CIEAEM) and the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, but this marked a turning point in his understanding:

Then Cuisenaire took us to a table in one corner of the room where  pupils were standing round a pile of colored sticks and doing sums which seemed to me to be unusually hard for children of that age. At this sight, all other impressions of the surrounding vanished, to be replaced by a growing excitement. After listening to Cuisenaire asking his first and second grade pupils questions and hearing their answers immediately and with complete self-assurance and accuracy, the excitement then turned into irrepressible enthusiasm and a sense of illumination.

Gattegno named the rods "Cuisenaire rods" and began trialing and popularizing them.  Seeing that the rods allowed students "to expand on their latent mathematical abilities in a creative and enjoyable fashion", Gattegno's pedagogy shifted radically as he began to stand back and allow students to take a leading role:

Cuisenaire's gift of the rods led me to teach by non-interference making it necessary to watch and listen for the signs of truth that are made, but rarely recognized.

While of course the material has found an important place in myriad teacher-centered lessons, Gattegno's student-centered practice inspired a number of educators. The French-Canadian educator Madeleine Goutard in her 1963 Mathematics and Children, wrote:

The teacher is not the person who teaches him what he does not know. He is the one who reveals the child to himself by making him more conscious of, and more creative with his own mind. The parents of a little girl of six who was using the Cuisenaire rods at school marveled at her knowledge and asked her: 'Tell us how the teacher teaches you all this', to which the little girl replied: 'The teacher teaches us nothing. We find everything out for ourselves.'

John Holt, in his 1964 How Children Fail, wrote:

This work has changed most of my ideas about the way to use Cuisenaire rods and other materials. It seemed to me at first that we could use them as devices for packing in recipes much faster than before, and many teachers seem to be using them this way. But this is a great mistake. What we ought to do is use these materials to enable children to make for themselves, out of their own experience and discoveries, a solid and growing understanding of the ways in which numbers and the operations of arithmetic work. Our aim
must be to build soundly, and if this means that we must build more slowly, so be it. Some things we will be able to do much earlier than we used to, fractions for example.

Gattegno formed the Cuisenaire Company in Reading, England in 1954 and, by the end of the 1950s, Cuisenaire rods had been adopted by teachers in 10,000 schools in more than a hundred countries. The rods received wide use in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2000, the United States-based company Educational Teaching Aids (ETA) acquired the US Cuisenaire Company and formed ETA/Cuisenaire to sell Cuisenaire rods-related material. In 2004, Cuisenaire rods were featured in an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by New Zealand artist Michael Parekowhai.

Rods

Another arrangement, common in Eastern Europe, extended by two large (10+ cm) sizes of rods, is the following:

Use in mathematics teaching
The rods are used in teaching a variety of mathematical ideas, and with a wide age range of learners. Topics they are used for include:
 Counting, sequences, patterns and algebraic reasoning
 Addition and subtraction (additive reasoning)
 Multiplication and division (multiplicative reasoning)
 Fractions, ratio and proportion
 Modular arithmetic leading to group theory

The Silent Way
Though primarily used for mathematics, they have also become popular in language-teaching classrooms, particularly The Silent Way. They can be used
 to demonstrate most grammatical structures such as prepositions of place, comparatives and superlatives, determiners, tenses, adverbs of time, manner, etc.,
 to show sentence and word stress, rising and falling intonation and word groupings,
 to create a visual model of constructs, for example the English verb tense system
 to represent physical objects: clocks, floor-plans, maps, people, animals, fruit, tools, etc. which can lead to the creation of stories told by the students as in this video.

Other coloured rods

In her first school, and in schools since then, Maria Montessori used coloured rods in the classroom to teach concepts of both mathematics and length. This is possibly the first instance of coloured rods being used in the classroom for this purpose.

Catherine Stern also devised a set of coloured rods produced by staining wood with aesthetically pleasing colours, and published books on their use at around the same time as Cuisenaire and Gattegno. Her rods were different colours to Cuisenaire's, and also larger, with a 2 cm unit cube rather than 1 cm. She produced various resources to complement the rods, such as trays to arrange the rods in, and tracks to arrange them on. Tony Wing, in producing resources for Numicon, built on many of Stern's ideas, also making trays and tracks available for use with Cuisenaire rods.

In 1961 Seton Pollock produced the Colour Factor system, consisting of rods from lengths 1 to 12 cm. Based on the work of Cuisenaire and Gattegno, he had invented a unified system for logically assigning a color to any number. After white (1), the primary colors red, blue and yellow are assigned to the first three primes (2, 3 and 5). Higher primes (7, 11 etc.) are associated with darkening shades of grey. The colors of non-prime numbers are obtained by mixing the colors associated with their factors – this is the key concept. A patent is registered in Pollock's name for an "Apparatus for teaching or studying mathematics". The aesthetic and numerically comprehensive Color Factor system was marketed for some years by Seton Pollock's family, before being conveyed to Edward Arnold, the educational publishing house. The colors of Pollock's system were named distinctively using, for example, 'scarlet' instead of 'red', and 'amber' instead of 'orange'. They are listed below.

See also
Number line

References

Further reading
 Cuisenaire Rods in the language classroom – article by John Mullen
 Maths with Rods - 40 exercise tabs to play with parents – downloadable book with Creative Commons License
 Learn Fractions with Cuisenaire Rods. Introduction

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 A 1961 film from the National Film Board of Canada. Caleb Gattegno conducting a demonstration lesson with Cuisenaire rods: In 3 parts on YouTube
 Online Cuisenaire rods (NumBlox Freeplay)
 The Cuisenaire Company - registered UK trademark holder, with background to Cuisenaire and Gattegno.
 La méthode Cuisenaire - Les nombres en Couleurs - site officiel (in French)
 History of the number rods from 1806 to 2020 (in french).

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Philadelphia Charge

The Philadelphia Charge was an American women's professional soccer team that played in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team played at Villanova Stadium on the campus of Villanova University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

History
The team was founded in 2000 and began play in 2001 in the inaugural season of the Women's United Soccer Association.

Players
Several notable U.S. Women's National Team stars made their pro debuts with the Charge, including defender Heather Mitts (2001-2003) and goalkeeper Hope Solo, who appeared in 8 matches as a rookie backup goalkeeper in 2003.  Other notables included French international Marinette Pichon, who won the 2002 WUSA Most Valuable Player award for the Charge, and English star Kelly Smith.

2003 Roster

Coach: Mark Krikorian

Year-by-year regular season record

Awards
In 2001, Philadelphia Charge player, Doris Fitschen was named WUSA Defender of the Year.

In 2002, Philadelphia Charge player, Marinette Pichon was named WUSA's Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year and was the co-recipient with Mia Hamm for Goal of the Year for a scissor kick volley against the San Diego Spirit. Goalkeeper Melissa Moore was awarded Goalkeeper of the Year and Stacey Tullock was named Rookie of the Year. Coach Mark Krikorian took the honor of WUSA Coach of the Year the same year.

In 2003, the Charge was awarded the WUSA Team Fair Play Award and defender, Jenny Benson, was named WUSA Humanitarian of the Year.

League Suspension
The Women's United Soccer Association announced on September 15, 2003 that it was suspending operations.

See also

 Women's professional sports
 List of soccer clubs in the United States
 Women's association football

References

External links
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Streptomyces rimosus

Streptomyces rimosus is a bacterium species in the genus Streptomyces .

Uses
The antibiotic oxytetracycline and tetracycline are produced in cultures of S. rimosus.

External links
Type strain of Streptomyces rimosus at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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Jersey Girl (2004 film)

Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written, co-edited and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Stephen Root, Mike Starr and Raquel Castro. The film follows a young man who must take care of his precocious daughter in the midst of a family tragedy.

It was the first film written and directed by Smith not to be set in the View Askewniverse as well as the first not to feature appearances by Jay and Silent Bob, although animated versions of the duo appear in the View Askew logo at the beginning of the film, as well as a still version of the logo at the end. At $35 million, it is Smith's biggest-budgeted film, and went on to underperform at the box office, grossing just $36 million.

Plot
Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) is a powerful media publicist in New York City whose wife, Gertie (Jennifer Lopez), dies during childbirth with an aneurysm. To avoid his grief, he buries himself in his work and ignores his new daughter, Gertie, while his father, Bart (George Carlin), whose own wife died many years earlier, takes a month off from work to take care of her, later returning to work to force his son to live up to his responsibility as a single parent. Under the stress of a botched diaper change and a crying baby, he insults his client, Will Smith, and his soon-to-be-released film, Independence Day, in front of assembled reporters. He is fired as a result and moves back in with Bart in New Jersey. He eventually apologizes for ignoring Gertie and attributes his public outburst to his grief.

Blacklisted by all of New York City's public relations firms, Ollie has to work as a civil servant in the borough where he now lives. Seven years later, Gertie (Raquel Castro), now in elementary school, often coaxes him to rent films to watch. At the video store, they meet Maya (Liv Tyler), a graduate student and one of the clerks, whose uninhibited probing into Ollie's love life almost leads to them having sex. She soon becomes a part of their lives.

As part of his job in the borough, Ollie speaks to a group of outraged citizens to win over their approval for a major public works project that will temporarily close a street in the neighborhood. His successful and enjoyable interaction with them leads him to realize how much he misses the public relations work. He contacts Arthur (Jason Biggs), his one-time protégé, who sets up a promising interview.

The prospect of moving back to New York City creates tension among Ollie, Gertie, Bart, and Maya, especially when he says that his interview is on the same day as Gertie's school talent show. She yells at him, saying she hates him and that she wishes he had died instead of her mother. He claims he hates her too, and says she and her mother Gertie took his life away and he just wants it back. He immediately tries to apologize, but she angrily pushes him away and tearfully runs to her room. A few days later they finally patch things up, and she accepts that they will be moving to New York City. While waiting to be interviewed, he has a chance encounter with Will Smith (playing himself). Smith has no idea who Ollie is, but they have a conversation about work and children that persuades Ollie to skip the interview and leave.

Ollie rushes to make it to Gertie's Sweeney Todd performance at the last moment. The film ends with him, Gertie, Bart, Maya, and the rest celebrating at the bar. He and Maya hint at possible feelings for each other before being interrupted by Gertie. He holds her in his arms and says that they are staying in New Jersey because he decided to not take the job. She asks why he did so if he loved it so much. He then says that he thought he did, but he loves his new life more because being a father to her was the only thing that he was ever really good at.

Cast
 Ben Affleck as Ollie Trinké
 Liv Tyler as Maya Harding
 Raquel Castro as Gertie Trinké
 George Carlin as Bart Trinké
 Jennifer Lopez as Gertie Steiney-Trinké
 Stephen Root as Greenie
 Mike Starr as Block
 Jason Biggs as Arthur Brickman
 Will Smith as himself (uncredited)
 Jason Lee as PR Exec. 1
 Matt Damon as PR Exec. 2
 S. Epatha Merkerson as Doctor
 Paulie Litt as Bryan (as Paulie Litowsky)
 Harley Quinn Smith as Trace Colelli (uncredited)
 Matthew Maher as Delivery Guy (as Matt Maher)

Production
The film's budget included $10 million for Affleck and $4 million for Lopez. In the original draft of the script, Bruce Willis rather than Will Smith was the cause of (and eventual resolution to) Ollie's problems. Smith wrote the first fifty pages of the script with Bill Murray and Joey Lauren Adams in mind. The film was primarily shot in Highlands, New Jersey. Academy Award-winning Vilmos Zsigmond, its director of photography, was said by Smith to have been "an ornery old cuss who made the crew miserable." Paulsboro, New Jersey served as another of the shooting locations; scenes were shot there at its municipal building, Clam Digger Bar, and high school. Cut from it were scenes at Paulsboro's St. John's Church and Little League Field. The scene in the church was to show the marriage between Ollie and Gertie; it was cut shortly after Affleck and Lopez split up in real life and their scenes were reshot, reducing her part due to concern over the poor box-office reception of Gigli.

It is the first major theatrical release to include a joke about the September 11 attacks: when Gertie asks to see Cats, Ollie refuses on the grounds that it is "the second-worst thing to happen to New York City." On the second episode of the podcast "Blow Hard with Malcolm Ingram", Smith tells a story of Malcolm sending him lyrics to "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac, trying to apologize for an earlier incident. He was so touched by the email that he included the song in the soundtrack.

Jason Mewes, who plays Jay in the View Askewniverse films, was to have a part in the film as "Delivery Guy", but Kevin Smith had temporarily severed ties with him as part of a "tough love" approach to get him to quit using heroin. The role was given to Matthew Maher.

Soundtrack
 "Everyone's A Kid At Christmas" – Performed by Stevie Wonder
 "Let's Stay Together" – Performed by Al Green
 "Parents Just Don't Understand" – Performed by Jeffrey A. Townes (as DJ Jazzy Jeff) and Will Smith (as the Fresh Prince)
 "That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart" – Written and Performed by Aimee Mann
 "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" – Performed by George Jones
 "Worlds They Rise and Fall" – Performed by The Incredible String Band
 "Johanna" – Written by Stephen Sondheim
 "Wandering" – Performed by Ben Folds
 "Landslide" – Performed by Fleetwood Mac
 "My City of Ruins" – Written and Performed by Bruce Springsteen
 "High" – Performed by The Cure
 "Let My Love Open The Door (E.Cola Mix)" – Written and Performed by Pete Townshend
 "Jersey Girl" – Performed by Bruce Springsteen
 "God That's Good" – Performed by Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Raquel Castro, Stephen Root, and Mike Starr

Release
The film is Smith's first to have received a PG-13 rating, rather than an R. According to interviews with Smith in the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, it was originally given an R, due to the dialogue with Ollie and Maya discussing masturbation in the diner, but the decision was overturned. An extended cut was shown at Kevin Smith's private film festival Vulgarthon in 2005 & 2006. The extended version included much more of the Jennifer Lopez section, Ben Affleck's full speech at city hall, a longer ending, and some music changes. On the film's audio commentary, Smith stated that a longer version would be released within the next year. At a Q&A session in Vancouver in early 2009, Smith said that a release of the extended cut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc is "very possible". It has not been released as of 2019.

Reception

Box office
The film grossed $25.2 million in North America, and $10.8 million internationally, for a total gross of $36.1 million, against a $35 million budget.

Critical reception
Jersey Girl received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 42% based on 173 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A surprisingly conventional romantic comedy from Kevin Smith, Jersey Girl is warm but often overly sentimental" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 43 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Smith was quoted saying his film was "not for critics". Smith's reaction to Jersey Girl after its failure was dour. He referenced the film during his cameo appearance in Degrassi: The Next Generation, jokingly telling Paige Michalchuk, whom his character had cut out of his fictional film Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh!, that he cut Lopez out of most of Jersey Girl and wanted to cut Affleck out too, "but then it just would have been that little kid." In an interview on the Clerks II DVD, Smith noted "All these people were just trashing this movie's stars instead of looking at the movie itself. I get that a lot of people didn't like it but dude, I spent two years of my life on that movie."

The film was nominated for three Razzie Awards: Worst Actor for Ben Affleck, Worst Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lopez, and according to the press release, "Ben Affleck and either Jennifer Lopez or Liv Tyler" for Worst On-Screen Couple. Raquel Castro won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Actress Age Ten or Younger, for her performance, and the film was nominated for Best Family Feature Film – Comedy or Musical, but lost to Christmas with the Kranks.

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Hablame Como La Lluvia

Háblame Como La Lluvia is an album  from Mexican singer Benny Ibarra, released on the summer of 1992. It's his first album and includes the singles "Dame un Poco de tu Amor" and "Tonto Corazón".

Track listing
"Háblame Como la Lluvia" (Benny, Anahi Van Zandweghe) – 5:05
"Tonto Corazón (Memo Méndez Guiú, Paulyna Carraz)" – 4:23
"Dentro de Ti" (Benny) – 3:22
"El Pájaro" (Benny) – 4:00
"Lluvia de Amor" (J. Sinpoli, Paulyna Carraz)- 4:05
"Dame un Poco de Tu Amor" (Memo Mendez Guiu) – 4:40
"Solo un Pez en la Mar" (T. Hazell) – 5:05
"Si el Miedo Venciera" (Amy Ray, Benny, Julissa I. de Llano) – 4:50
"Adonde Vayas Tú" (Benny, Anahi Van Zandweghe) – 3:58
"Rincón de Luna (Luis de Llano, Julissa I. de Llano, Luis de Llano Palmer)" – 2:35

Credits
Benny Ibarra – main performer, background vocals, arrangements, producer, guitars, cymbals, talking drum, setback
Memo Méndez Guiú – background vocals, producer, arrangements, piano
Billy Preston – piano, organ
Pedro Aramburo – programming
Luis Conte – percussion
Abraham Laboiel – bass
John Robinson – drums
Ken Wild – acoustic bass
Everardo Cano – producer
Mariano Rocca – acoustic guitar
Kenneth Barzilai – photography
The Choir:
Benny, Memo, Baby Batiz, Javier Batiz, Francisco Ruiz, Marilú Bano,Paty Tanus, Aureo Baqueiro; Claudia Madrid, Nanso Estevané (Dame Un Poco DE Tu Amor, Lluvia de Amor) – chorus

Category:Benny Ibarra albums
Category:1992 albums


Østbanegade

Østbanegade is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark. It begins at Østerport Station on Oslo Plads and continues north along the west side of the railway tracks for about 2 kilometres to Aarhusgade where an underpass connects the street to the other side of the railway line. A second underpass is situated at Nordre Frihavnsgade, just south of Nordhavn station, while a foot and cycle bridge is found at Mandalsgade near the beginning of the street.

Trondhjems Plads (English: Trondheim Square) is a garden square occupying a triangular space between Østbanegade and Trondhjemsgade.

History

The layout of the street was decided in connection with the plans for the new Coast Line in 1893. It was named after Østbanegården (English: The East Station), now Østerport station, which opened in 1897. The new Free Port was inaugurated on reclaimed land on the other side of the planned railway in November 1894.   Construction of the street began after in 1895. The street first crossed the former glacis outside Kastellet and then followed the old coast line to the Old Limery. Further it passed Øresund Chemical Factories which had opened in 1859 after professor Hans Peter Jørgen and Julius Thomsen had established a process for manufacturing soda from cryolite, obtained from the west coast of Greenland. The plant existed until 1990.

Notable buildings and residents
Glacispalæet  (No. 1, literally "The Glacis Mansion") was built between 1900 and 1903 to a design by Andreas Clemmesen. It formerly served as headquarters of the engineering company Monberg & Thorsen. No. 5–7 (Glacispalais, 1903) and No. 9 are stately residential buildings. The street then passes Trondhjems Plads, a garden square which occupies a rectangular space between Østbanegade and Trondhjemsgade. It affords views of the rear side of Domus Medica. Glacisgården at No. 11 was designed by Aage Langelannd-Mathiesen and completed in 1904. It is a rare example of influence from vienese Jugendstyle on Danish architecture.Gefion and Gylfe (No. 19 and 21) are two apartment buildings connected by am archway across Mandalsgade. It was completed in 1902 to a design by Philip Smidth.

Østerbro Fire Station (No. 99) was designed by Ludvig Fenger and completed in 1901.

Public art

In the garden complex on Trondhjems Plads is Carl Johan Bonnesen's equestrian statue of  Diana. It was installed on the square in 1909 as a gift from Carl Jacobsen. The underpass and outer wall of the raised railway at the end of Nordre Frihavnsgade is decorated with Ib Spand Olsen's illustrations from his childhood memoirs from Østerbro.

Transport
The S-train stations Østerport station and Nordhavn station are located on the street. Østerport Station will also be the site of a station on the City Circle Line of the Copenhagen Metro.

Image gallery

References

External links

Category:Streets in Østerbro


Dzoavits

Dzoavits was a demon or ogre from Shoshonean mythology who stole the sun and kidnapped children. He is associated with volcanism and cannibalism. In most legends he confronts several mythological animals before being trapped in a cave, the most common one being Devils Hole.

References

External links
Rose, Carol. (2001) Giants, monsters, and dragons: an encyclopedia of folklore, legend, and myth.
Godchecker entry

Category:Native American demons
Category:Shoshone
Category:Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America


Boysie Oakes

Boysie Oakes is fictional secret agent created by the British spy novelist John Gardner in 1964 at the height of a period of fictional spy mania.

Character Biography
Oakes is a richly comic character who is inadvertently taken to be a tough, pitiless man of action and is recruited into a British spy agency. He is, in actuality, a devout coward with many other character flaws who wants nothing more than to be left alone.

An example of the endearing points in these novels is the continuing appearance of monogrammed "BO" gifts from his mother - shirts, handkerchiefs, cigarette lighter, and so forth. He would never dream of not using them, even though he resents them.

The cowardly Oakes starred in another seven novels over the next 15 years and eventually, once again by inadvertence, becomes the head of the secret agency that has caused him to be in a constant state of terror for so long.

Film
The first novel in the series, The Liquidator, was made into a feature film of the same name in 1965, starring Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes.

Boysie Oakes novels
The Liquidator (1964)
Understrike (1965)
Amber Nine (1966)
Madrigal (1967)
Founder Member (1969)
Traitor's Exit (1970)
The Airline Pirates (1970) - published in the U.S. as Air Apparent
A Killer for a Song (1975)

Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in The Assassination File (1974): A Handful of Rice, and Corkscrew.

Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in Hideaway (1968): Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device, Sunset At Paleokastritsa.

External links

Oakes, Boysie
Category:Series of books


Mount Tabor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

Mount Tabor is an unincorporated community in Redbank Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. Mount Tabor Cemetery is located nearby at . The community, once knowns as Dry Ridge, is situated  east of New Salem at the intersection of Pete Schicks Road with Dry Ridge Road. Dry Ridge school was located nearby at

History
A post office called Mount Tabor was established in 1883 and closed that same year. The 1876 Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania shows a store at the location of Mount Tabor. The residents at that time were John C Shaffer, L. C. Shaffer, C. Shaffer, W. Harmon, and R. R. Miller.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania


Roton (label)

Roton is an independent Romanian record label established in 1994.

The company has around 100 employees, having offices in Bucharest, Iași, Cluj and Timișoara. The turnover in 2007 was . In 2011, Roton Records entered into a licensing deal with Warner Music Group for some of its most popular artists and their catalogue. In October 2015, Warner Music and Roton extended their distribution deal to include Latin America.

Roton represents several well-known Romanian artists, such as Iris, Holograf, Proconsul, Akcent, Inna, Mihai Trăistariu and Alexandra Stan.

Sub-labels
The Roton Record Company is composed of five labels:
 ROTON
 dance arena
 NRG!A
 R.U.L.
 TEZAUR

References

Category:Romanian record labels

Category:Romanian independent record labels
Category:1994 establishments in Romania


Mueang Uthai Thani District

Mueang Uthai Thani (, ) is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Uthai Thani Province, northern Thailand.

Geography
Neighboring districts are (from the west clockwise) Nong Khayang and Thap Than, of Uthai Thani Province; Krok Phra and Phayuha Khiri of Nakhon Sawan Province; Manorom and Wat Sing of Chai Nat Province.

Administration
The district is divided into 14 sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 86 villages (mubans). The town (thesaban mueang) Uthai Thani covers the whole tambon Uthai Mai. There are a further eight tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

References

Mueang Uthai Thani


Yahoo! Gallery

Yahoo! Gallery was a service from Yahoo! that provided applications using Yahoo! technologies. It was shut down on July 14, 2009.  The site now redirects to Yahoo! Pulse.

External links
 Yahoo! Gallery

Gallery


Alô, Doçura!

Alô, Doçura! was a Brazilian television series created by Cassiano Gabus Mendes and aired by TV Tupi (1953–1964). It was based on the American series I Love Lucy.

Cast
Eva Wilma
John Herbert
Mário Sérgio
Marly Bueno
Luís Gustavo
Yoná Magalhães

References

Category:1950s Brazilian television series
Category:1960s Brazilian television series
Category:Brazilian comedy television series
Category:1953 Brazilian television series debuts
Category:1964 Brazilian television series endings
Category:Portuguese-language television programs


Wireless grid

Wireless grids are wireless computer networks consisting of different types of electronic devices with the ability to share their resources with any other device in the network in an ad hoc manner.
A definition of the wireless grid can be given as: "Ad hoc, distributed resource-sharing networks between heterogeneous wireless devices"
The following key characteristics further clarify this concept:
No centralized control
Small, low powered devices
Heterogeneous applications and interfaces
New types of resources like cameras, GPS trackers and sensors
Dynamic and unstable users / resources

The technologies that make up the wireless grid can be divided into two main categories; ad hoc networking and grid computing.

(Wireless) Ad hoc networking

In traditional networks, both wired and wireless, the connected devices, or nodes, depend on dedicated devices (edge devices) such as routers and/or servers for facilitating the throughput of information from one node to the other. These 'routing nodes' have the ability to determine where information is coming from and where it is supposed to go. They give out names and addresses (IP addresses) to each connected node and regulate the traffic between them. In wireless grids, such dedicated routing devices are not (always) available and the bandwidth that is permanently available to traditional networks has to be either 'borrowed' from an already existing network or publicly accessible bandwidth (open spectrum) has to be used.

A group addressing this problem is MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network).

Resource sharing
One of the intended aspects of wireless grids is that it will facilitate the sharing of a wide variety of resources. These will include both technical as information resources. The former being bandwidth, QoS, and web services, but also computational power and data storage capacity. Information resources can include virtually any kind of data from databases and membership lists to pictures and directories.

Ad hoc resource sharing between mobile devices in the wireless grid require for the devices to agree on sharing/communication protocols without the existence of dedicated servers.

Coordination Systems
Coordination Systems are the actual mechanisms that enable the sharing of resources between different devices. For different resources, devices use different coordination systems. Examples of such mechanisms are: SMB or NFS for sharing disk space and the distributed.net client for sharing processor cycles.

Trust Establishment
Before users are willing to share any resource, they demand a certain amount of trust between them and the users and/or systems they share resources with. The amount of trust required depends on the kind of information/resource that is to be shared. Sharing processor cycles requires less substantial trust then the sharing of personal information and commercial information can require another level of trust establishment altogether. There are systems currently in operation that can provide a certain amount of trust like the public key infrastructure that makes use of certificates; now often used in web based email systems, and Kerberos.

Resource discovery
Before any resource on a device in the grid can be utilized, those resources that are available must be discovered; all the devices that make up the grid and the resources they possess have to be identified. When a client enters the grid, such as a PDA, it has to be able to communicate to the other users that it is a PDA and it has a camera, GPS capabilities, a telephone function and various office applications such as a text editor. Protocols like UPnP and ZeroConf can detect a new node in the network when it enters. When detected, other users can send a query to the new device to find out what it has to offer. Commercial service providers can 'advertise' the resources they have to offer through IP multicasts. Within large grids containing thousands of nodes, a kind of 'friend of a friend' mechanism can be used.
There is a myriad of standards that include resource description protocols. Standards as IETF's ZeroConf, Microsoft's UPnP, the Grid Resource Description Language (GRDL), the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for describing various specific web services and parts of QoS that describe bandwidths all offer devices a way to describe and publish their specific resources and needs. There are also various systems currently available that can gather these resource descriptions and structure them for other devices to use.
The OpenGrid Services Architecture (OGSA) uses a Web service-style IndexService. The Web services community has defined UDDI which can makes a database of services that are available on the network, and JXTA uses ZeroConf to identify resources in a network. However, the problem with using these in wireless grids is that no stable publisher of these descriptions may exist.

Resource description
For any device to be able to use any resource, a way to identify and describe the resource has to be agreed on by all available devices. If, for instance, storage capacity is to be shared, it first has to be clear what the capacity of each device is and what the storage need is. As said, there are many techniques to describe certain resources but there is not one technique that is able to provide this service for all resources. The available techniques combined, however, cover most of what is needed.

Grid Computing

Grid computing came into existence as a manner of sharing heavy computational loads among multiple computers to be able to compute highly complex mathematical problems (a good real-world example being the SETI@Home project). However, it developed rapidly into a way of sharing virtually any resource that is available on any machine on the grid. Wired grids are now used to share not only computing power, but also hard disk space, data, and applications. The grid topology is highly flexible and easily scalable, allowing users to join and leave the grid without the hassle of time and resource hungry identification procedures, having to adjust their devices or install additional software on them. The goal of grid computing is described as "to provide flexible, secure and coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources" (McKnight, Howison, 2004).
It is intended to be a dynamic network without geographical, political, or cultural boundaries that offers real-time access to heterogeneous resources and still offer the same characteristics of the traditional distributed networks that are in use everywhere in our houses and offices. These characteristics being stability, scalability, and flexibility as the most important ones. Ian Foster offers a checklist for recognizing a grid.
A grid allows:
Coordination of resources that are not subject to centralized control
Use of standard, open, general-purpose protocols and interfaces
Delivery of nontrivial qualities of service

The Wireless Grid

One of the biggest limitations of the wired grid is that users are forced to be in a fixed location as the devices they use are to be hard wired to the grid at all times. This also has a negative influence on the flexibility and scalability of the grid; devices can only join the grid in locations where the possibility exists to physically connect the device to the grid (i.e. there is the need for a hub or a switch to plug into).

One description of the wireless grid is "an augmentation of a wired grid that facilitates the exchange of information and the interaction between heterogeneous wireless devices" (Argawal, Norman & Gupta, 2004)

Argawal, Norman & Gupta (2004) identify three forces that drive the development of the wireless grid:

New user interaction modalities and form factors
Applications that exist on current wired grids need to be adapted to fit the devices used in wireless grids. These devices are usually hand held and therefore the user interface devices (screens, keyboards (if any)) are significantly smaller and availability of additional input devices like a mouse are limited. This means the traditional graphical interfaces found on PCs are not suitable.

Limited computing resources
Wireless devices do not possess the computing power nor the storage capacity of full size devices like a PC or laptop. Therefore, wireless applications need to have access to additional computing resources to be able to offer the same functionality that wired networks do.

Additional new supporting infrastructure elements
In the case of an unforeseen event, there will be the need for major amounts of computational and communications bandwidths. An urban catastrophe, for example, would require a dynamic and adaptive wireless network to alert people within the population as well as those in the various coordination and aid services like the police, army, medical services, and government. Applications to provide for these bandwidths and 'instant' networks need to be addressed.

Wireless Grids infrastructure

The infrastructure of the wireless grid consists of three basic levels:
The physical layer technologies and policies. The physical layer contains the spectrum on which the wireless devices can operate and communicate.
Network infrastructure
Middleware to provide communications between heterogeneous devices

See also
Bluetooth
IEEE 802.11
Mesh network
Metcalfe's law
Overlay network
P2P
SOAP
Wi-Fi
Wireless local loop
X.509

External links
FCC
IETF

Further reading

Jürgen Falkner, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering; JNF/842, 2004), The Fraunhofer Resource Grid - making Grids usable
Lee W. McKnight, James Howison (2004). Wireless Grids; Distributed Resource Sharing by Mobile, Nomadic, and Fixed Devices.
Agarwal, Norman and Gupta (2004). Wireless grids: approaches, architectures, and technical challenges.
Lee McKnight and Howison (2003). Towards a sharing protocol for wireless grids
Sridhar Iyer (2000). Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Hwang & Aravamudham. Proxy-based middleware services for peer-to-peer computing in virtually clustered wireless grid networks
Wijngaert, v.d, Bouwman, Moerbeek and Kwiatkowska. Would you Share? Predicting the Potential Use of a New Technology using Multilevel Linear Regression Analysis
Uzunner and Davis. Digital fingerprinting for distributed volume tracking: intellectual property protection in wireless grids

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Amanohashidate

Amanohashidate (天橋立) is one of Japan's three scenic views. The sandbar is located in Miyazu Bay in northern Kyoto Prefecture. It forms part of the Tango-Amanohashidate-Ōeyama Quasi-National Park.

Location
A thin strip of land connects two opposing sides of Miyazu Bay. This sand bar is 3.3 km long and covered with about 7,000 pine trees.

It can be viewed from mountains on either side of the bay or it can be traversed on foot.  Near the northern end is Kono Shrine, Shinto Shrine and the southern end is Chion-ji, a Buddhist temple.

On the bar is the Isoshimizu fresh water well cherished since the Heian period, which was selected as one of 100 best springs and rivers in Japan by the Environmental Agency in 1985.

Access
Amanohashidate Station on the Miyazu Line railway, about two hours from Kyoto Station or Osaka Station, is located within walking distance from the southern end of Amanohashidate.

References

See also
List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments
 The 100 Views of Nature in Kansai

External links

Amanohashidate Tourist Association (English page)

Category:Special Places of Scenic Beauty
Category:Landforms of Kyoto Prefecture
Category:Landforms of Japan
Category:Tourist attractions in Kyoto Prefecture
Category:Shoals of Asia


Peter Gross (comics)

Peter Gross is an American comic book writer and artist known for such works as The Books of Magic, Lucifer and The Unwritten.

Biography
Gross attended St. John's University and did graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He intended to make a living as a fine artist, but was drawn into comics, first doing some work for Marvel and then following it up with his originally-self-published series Empire Lanes.

Bibliography
Comics work includes:

 The Books of Magic #4, 6-8, 18-19, 21-30, 39-41, 43-62, 64-75 (art and (from #51) script, with writer John Ney Rieber, ongoing series Vertigo, August 1994 - August 2000)
 Lucifer #5-8, 10-13, 15-19, 21-23, 25-27, 29-32, 34-40, 42-44, 46-49, 51-54, 56-57, 59-61, 63-65, 67-69, 71-72, 74-75 (with writer Mike Carey, ongoing series, Vertigo, October 2000 - August 2006) collected as:
 Volume 2 Children and Monsters (collects Lucifer #5–13, Vertigo, 2001, )
 Volume 3 A Dalliance with the Damned (collects Lucifer #14–20, Vertigo, 2002, )
 Volume 4 The Divine Comedy (collects Lucifer #21–28, Vertigo, 2003, )
 Volume 5 Inferno (collects Lucifer #29–35, Vertigo, 2004, )
 Volume 6 Mansions of the Silence (collects Lucifer #36–41, Vertigo, 2004, )
 Volume 7 Exodus (collects Lucifer' #42–44 & #46–49, Vertigo, 2005, )
 Volume 8 The Wolf Beneath the Tree (collects Lucifer #45 & #50–54, Vertigo, 2005, )
 Volume 9 Crux (collects Lucifer #55–61, Vertigo, 2006, )
 Volume 10 Morningstar (collects Lucifer #62–69, Vertigo, 2006, )
 Volume 11 Evensong (collects Lucifer #70–75, Vertigo, 2007, )Chosen (with writer Mark Millar, 3-issue mini-series, Dark Horse Comics, 2004, tpb, Image Comics, 72 pages, December 2008, )The Unwritten'' #1- (with Mike Carey, ongoing series, Vertigo, July 2009-ongoing)

Notes

References

External links

Peter Gross Art

Category:Living people
Category:People from St. Cloud, Minnesota
Category:University of Wisconsin–Superior alumni
Category:1958 births


Gregg Lake

Gregg Lake is a lake in Alberta, Canada.

Gregg Lake has the name of J. J. Gregg, a pioneer citizen.

See also
List of lakes of Alberta

References

Category:Lakes of Alberta


Bajhakhet

Bajhakhet  is a village development committee in Lamjung District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3177 people living in 625 individual households.

Media
To Promote local culture Bajhakhet has one FM radio station Radio Marsyangdi - 95.0 MHz Which is a Community radio Station.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Lamjung District

Category:Populated places in Lamjung District