University of Illinois Global Campus

The University of Illinois Global Campus was an early, short-lived experiment in online university education by the University of Illinois. The trustees of the university voted to phase out the project in early 2009.

History

In January 2008, the University of Illinois system launched The Global Campus, the University's newest initiative in online education. The University Board of Trustees established The Global Campus in March 2007 to further the land-grant mission to expand educational opportunities for the Illinois community and beyond with distance education technologies.

All degree and certificate programs were created in collaboration with the colleges and academic departments at the University's residential campuses at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. The curricula were developed by University of Illinois faculty.

The Global Campus offered degrees and certificates in Business Administration, E-Learning, Nursing, Patient Safety Leadership, and Recreation, Sport and Tourism.

In May 2009, the board of trustees voted to phase out the Global Campus Initiative. The University of Illinois transitioned the programs developed by the Global Campus to academic units on the corresponding residential campuses.

Educational technology scholars Bush and Mott cite Global Campus as an example of a handful of "very thoughtful educational technology 'solutions,'" including Columbia University's Fathom.com, which "failed to meet their stated goal of expanding educational opportunities, most likely because they did not align with student needs, and, hence, were not financially viable."

  * University of Illinois system
  * Timmins, Mary (March 2007), "Like the Morrill Act and the GI Bill, will the UI Global Campus Partnership be a new model for educational opportunity?", Illinois Alumni Magazine
  * University of Illinois system (official site)
  * University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (official site)
  * University of Illinois Chicago (official site)
  * University of Illinois Springfield (official site)
  * University of Illinois Chicago Online Degree Requirements


Parkview

Parkview may refer to:

Geography

  * Parkview, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County
  * Parkview, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States
  * Parkview (Edmonton), a neighborhood in Canada
  * Parkview, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
  * Parkview, New South Wales, a suburb in Australia
  * O'Connor-Parkview, a neighbourhood near Toronto, Canada
  * Hong Kong Parkview, a private housing estate in Tai Tam, Hong Kong

Schools and districts

  * Parkview High School (Georgia), a public high school in Lilburn, Georgia
  * Parkview High School (Springfield, Missouri), a public high school in Springfield, Missouri
  * Parkview High School (Wisconsin), a public secondary school in village of Orfordville, Wisconsin
  * Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School, a magnet school in Little Rock, Arkansas
  * Parkview Community College of Technology, a secondary school in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England
  * Parkview School District, a school district serving areas of Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
  * Parkview School (Edmonton), a school in the Parkview community of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  * Parkview Christian School, a Christian school in Yorkville, IL

Other meanings

  * Parkview Health, a community health system in Indiana
  * Parkview Medical Center, a hospital in Pueblo, Colorado
  * Parkview Square, an office building in Singapore
  * Parkview (SEPTA station), an interurban rapid transit station in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania
  * Park View (disambiguation)


Knut Müller

Knut Müller (born 21 March 1974) is a Norwegian ski jumper.

He made his FIS Ski Jumping World Cup debut in January 1991 in Oberhof. He collected his first World Cup points at the Holmenkollen ski festival in March 1991 with a 26th place, later adding a 23rd place in January 1992 and 24th in January 1993. His last World Cup outing came in January 1995 in Sapporo.

He represented the sports club Asker SK.


Josh Tyler

Josh Tyler (born 17 December 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player. A Lock forward, he played for UWIC RFC before making his debut for the Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons on 27 January 2012 versus the Ospreys

  * Newport Gwent Dragons profile


Physical Culture Palace

54°53′54″N 23°56′4″E / 54.89833°N 23.93444°E

Physical Culture Palace nowadays

Physical Culture Palace (Lithuanian: Kūno kultūros rūmai) was the first sports governing body in the state. It acted from 1932 to 1940 in Kaunas, Lithuania.Lithuanian Sports University central palace.


Lepidochrysops dollmani

Lepidochrysops dollmani is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in south-western and western Tanzania, northern Zambia and possibly Malawi.Brachystegia woodland.

Both sexes feed from the flowers of herbaceous plants. Adults have been recorded in November and December.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lepidochrysops dollmani.
Wikispecies has information related to Lepidochrysops dollmani.


Mill Hill (Derbyshire)

Mill Hill is an open, flat-topped hill, 1,785 feet (544 m) above sea level, in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England.

Location

Mill Hill is 2.5 miles (4 km) southeast of the town of Glossop in the hills of Derbyshire's Peak District and a similar distance northwest of the Peak's highest point on Kinder Scout.

Description

Mill Hill is a bare, domed summit surrounded by peat moorland that lies on the route of the Pennine Way about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of the highest point in the Peak District, Kinder Scout. There is a cairn and marker pole at the summit. The summit area has been so eroded by visitors that the highest point is now to the NE.

Aircraft crash site

On 11 October 1944, a Liberator of the US 310th Ferry Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, crashed at Mill Hill.RAF Burtonwood to RAF Hardwick. After having problems at take-off, the aircraft climbed to 2,800 feet.


Market loss payments

Market loss payments is a designation first used in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, FY1999 (P.L. 105-277) to describe the $3.1 billion in emergency income support payments authorized for eligible grain, cotton, and dairy farmers. The Act stated that such funds were to compensate farmers for the loss of 1998 income caused by “regional economic dislocation, unilateral trade sanctions, and the failure of the government to pursue trade opportunities aggressively.” Similar economic emergency support payments for selected commodities were subsequently enacted in P.L. 106-78 ($6.5 billion), in P.L. 106-224 ($6.5 billion), in P.L. 106-387 ($0.9 billion), and in P.L. 107-25 ($5.5 billion). Market loss assistance to grain and cotton producers were distributed in parallel manner to the contract payments authorized by the Agricultural Market Transition Act.

  * Apple Market Loss Assistance Program
  * Dairy Market Loss Assistance
  * Onion market loss assistance
  * [Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from Jasper Womach. Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition (PDF). Congressional Research Service.


Salahvarzi

Salahvarzi (Persian: سلاحورزي, also Romanized as Salāḥvarzī and Salāvarzī)Honam Rural District, in the Central District of Selseleh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34, in 7 families.


Ogri

Ogri watching Malcolm working on his Ol' Ratter

Ogri is a cartoon character of a British rocker-style biker created by English cartoonist and illustrator Paul Sample in 1972 for UK magazine BikeBack Street Heroes, the custom motorcycle magazine. Four book collections of Ogri strips have been produced, and a VHS video. Ogri is a tough, leather-jacketed biker with Thor-like wings attached to his helmet. The actor Ewan McGregor is a fan

Paul Sample draws in black ink line and colour from 1997,Robert Crumb. As with some other cartoonists, such as Carl Giles, a lot of the pleasure in the cartoons comes from looking at the detail in the cartoon frames; there is almost inevitably a subplot going on. The funny and well observed stories about British bikers usually take place within one page, though two-pagers are sometimes drawn.

Several compilation cartoon books collecting the strips have been published in the UK. Sample also produces a variety of Ogri-related memorabilia, including T-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, greetings cards, and badges. The Paul Sample archive, including many original Ogri strips along with other Paul Sample artwork, was auctioned in Shrewsbury in January 2010.

Ogri himself

Bearing a stubbly, unshaven lantern jaw that would not disgrace Desperate Dan, and a nose that appears to have sustained an impact with a solid object at some time in its history, Ogri's rough and unhandsome face belies its essentially good-natured owner. Ogri originally had a blond mane of hair that showed under his helmet, however this changed early in his history to the better-known black scruff he now sports. Well able to deal out violence when it is warranted, Ogri normally asks little of the world except that it should leave him alone and he does not trouble it when it does not trouble him. He enjoys his beer but is seldom if ever seen worse the wear for drink, and certainly never to the extent of being unfit to ride. Ogri is an all-weather rider, and treats inclement weather in the same manner as the risk of injury - with respect, but defiance.

Ogri's bike


Ogri

Ogri's bike

In his original incarnation (1972-1983) Ogri rode Armageddon, a 1000cc Norvin which he may well have built himself. Sometimes he would experiment with another mount, including on one heroic occasion a scooter into which he 'shoehorned' an engine from a Kawasaki H2 Mach IV 750cc two-stroke triple, but he invariably returned to Armageddon.

On his return to Bike in 1986, Ogri sold Armageddon to a collector (and on learning that the buyer never intended the bike to be ridden again, opportunely removed most of the working parts for further use). He now rides a slightly more modern machine, but doesn't usually have either the means or the inclination to follow the latest manufacturing trends. Besides, Ogri is the living embodiment of the principle that it is the rider, not the machine, that determines speed; he can outrace lesser mortals over any going whatever, no matter what they are riding.

Engineering

Ogri is a gifted tinkerer who can repair most mechanical faults with a spanner, a screwdriver and a spot of know-how. He once reduced his bank manager's BMW to its component parts at the roadside in order to find out why it wouldn't go (obliging the manager to reconsider Ogri's loan application before he would put it back together). Caught out in a severe rainstorm while riding a sidecar combination, Ogri jury-rigged the machine to be controlled from the comfort of the sidecar (with a dummy on the bike to give the illusion of normality and, as matters turned out, to be arrested by an over-zealous traffic policeman, while Ogri sped off in the confusion). He once equipped his grandmother's hand lawnmower with a spare bike engine; thus adapted, the mower cut the lawn in a matter of seconds. He has fitted motorcycles with war-surplus superchargers intended for aero-engines, and has even built a turbojet into a motorcycle frame (a la the actual MTT Superbike). Unfortunately, his few forays into making a living out of motorcycle engineering foundered, as though predestined, on the rocks of sidekick Malcolm's well-meaning incompetence.

Law and order


Ogri

Law and order

Traffic police are one bane of Ogri's existence, although not the worst. He has been stopped for speeding on numerous occasions, but he is hard to catch and so (at least in cartoon land) generally escapes unidentified and unpunished. On one topic however he and the police do see eye to eye: motorcycle theft. When a friend of his had his bike stolen, and caught up to the thief at about the same time as the police, Ogri thoroughly approved of letting the police throw the book at the criminal before pursuing any kind of personal revenge. And other than motoring offences, Ogri manages not to cause the police any trouble; although many times guilty of at least minor public-order offences, Ogri steers clear of anything serious.

He is more than willing, though, to take the law into his own hands where necessary. He once dealt with a road-hog by catching up to him, reaching through his open window, and tearing out his steering-wheel. He is not averse to handing out a severe beating to anyone who has endangered his life through careless driving or malice, nor is he above booby-trapping his bike to deal with vandals or thieves. Again, the moral is: you can leave Ogri alone (and he will leave you alone), or you can wish you had.

Kickstart

Ogri keeps a pet dog, a small white mongrel with a strong strain of terrier, that accompanies him wherever he goes. Kickstart never speaks, but his thought-bubbles betray human-like intelligence. He sits placidly on Ogri's pillion seat heedless of speed or danger, asking little of life except the occasional sausage or saucer of beer. In spirit he is a fiercely protective guardian of Ogri's bike and other property, but in practice he is too small to be much of a deterrent. However, on one occasion Kickstart, while leashed to Ogri's bike, scented a lady dog in heat several streets away, and proved strong enough to drag the machine behind him while in pursuit of romantic excitement.

Malcolm


Ogri

Malcolm

Permanently acne-ridden and runny-nosed, Malcolm is Ogri's utter antithesis; a bumbling incompetent whether riding or maintaining his bike (originally Lunge, a blue Triumph pre-unit twin of 1960s vintage),another course. Ogri once gave Malcolm a handful of engine parts to de-grease; he dropped them into a bath of caustic soda, unaware that the chemical dissolved aluminium. He gave him most of an engine to de-coke; Malcolm put it in the washing machine, destroying both the engine and the washing machine. And testing the spark from his spark-plug at the same time as checking the petrol in his tank led to a predictable conflagration that Ogri at once recognised as Malcolm's handiwork from at least a mile away.

Somehow or other, Malcolm manages to avoid permanent injury, whether self-inflicted or as a result of a beating from an infuriated Ogri, and Ogri, no matter what loss Malcolm's unexampled stupidity has occasioned him, invariably forgives the poor, useless article in time for the next strip, and Malcolm's cry of "Aargh! I don't wanna die!" will probably be heard for as long as the cartoon is drawn.

In the animated cartoon "Ogri - Biker Hero", Malcolm is referred to as Ogri's cousin.

Mitzi


Ogri

Mitzi

Beautiful girls feature large in Ogri's world, although not such as to detract from the main themes of bikes and biking. A long-running addition to the cast is Mitzi, who is stacked like a porn starlet and habitually rides wearing a PVC basque and stockings. It would be a mistake to write Mitzi off as a brainless lust-object, though. She is nearly Ogri's equal as a rider (in a straight race between them, it would be a case of whether Ogri could tune-out Mitzi's distracting appearance well enough to keep his mind on the job, and hardly any other bikers would be even a serious contest) and is dangerous to cross. Plainly an advocate of the look-but-don't-touch ethos, Mitzi is used to men drooling over her but resents unwarranted familiarity and certainly doesn't need to hide behind Ogri. The exact nature of their relationship is not well-established; at times they have been lovers, at other times apparently uninvolved.

Appearances outside the comic world

  * "Ogri", or "OGR1" has appeared on several motorbike number plates around the world, including a Texan Honda Goldwing, an Australian Triumph Tiger, a Canadian R1200GS Adventure and a Michigan Ducati 750SS.
  * The Mayor of Sunderland's official vehicle bears the registration mark OGR 1
  * Ogri is the name of a British motorcycle club with members world-wide
  * Ogri was formerly the name of a motorcycle mailing list. It changed its name to Ixion after Sample objected.
  * Ogri appears in an animated music video for the song "Get a Grip" that was culled from the 1995 Black Sabbath album, Forbidden.

Published work


Ogri

Published work

  * Sample, Paul (1983). The Ogri Book. Dalkieth Press. ISBN 0946512019.
  * Sample, Paul (1996). Ogri: v 4. John Brown Publishing. ISBN 1-870870-77-8.
  * Sample, Paul (1998). The Ogri Collection. J H Haynes. ISBN 1-85960-616-4.
  * Sample, Paul (2000). The Ogri Collection: No 2. J H Haynes. ISBN 1-85960-693-8.
  * Sample, Paul (2005). The Ogri Collection: No 3. J H Haynes. ISBN 1-84425-229-9.
  * Werner, a similar German cartoon
  * Paul Sample's official website
  * Feature in the Daily Telegraph about the Ogri auction


University of Illinois Ice Arena

The University of Illinois Ice Arena, also known as the Big Pond,Champaign, Illinois, and owned and operated by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The arena is the home for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's and women's college ice hockey teams competing in the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The men's ice hockey team competes at the ACHA Division I level as a member of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League and the women's team competes independently. Illinois also has an ACHA Division II team that plays in the Mid American Collegiate Hockey Association. Additionally, the facility is the home of the Illinois synchronized skating Team, the Illinois Intercollegiate Figure Skating Team and several skating clubs such as the Champaign Regional Speed Skating Club, Ice Cubes Youth Synchronized Skating and the Champaign-Urbana Youth Hockey Association.

The arena features a non-standard sized ice sheet approximately 197 by 115 feet (60 by 35 m). By comparison, an NHL regulation sheet is 200 ft x 85 ft and Olympic regulation ice sheets are 200 ft x 100 ft. The arena is used for ice hockey, figure skating, short track speed skating, open skating, and local youth and high school hockey.

History

The University of Illinois Ice Arena was built in 1931 and designed by Chicago architecture firm Holabird and Root, the same firm that designed the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium and Chicago's Soldier Field. The arena features four rows of bleacher seating in an elevated balcony that runs the length of the ice rink on either side. These bleachers provide seating for roughly 1,300 fans, with standing room and bench seating available underneath. Because of this set-up the team benches are actually directly underneath the stands. This situation made for easy player/spectator verbal and physical contact. "It was not unheard of to evict a fan and a player due to skirmishes back in the late 1960[s] and [19]70s," said Referee Michael Rzechula.


University of Illinois Ice Arena

Due to the size of the rink being originally larger than 200 by 100 feet (61 by 30 m) at approximately 200 by 125 feet (61 by 38 m) it was and still remains at its current size of 197 by 115 feet (60 by 35 m) one of only a few remaining rinks in the entire U.S.A. to be capable of hosting Junior, National, and International level short track speed skating meets. The first World Short Track Speed Skating Championships were held at this rink in 1976 capable of placing 9 racers instead of 6 on the start line unlike any other rink in the U.S.A. It was and still is the largest indoor ice sheet in the U.S.A.

This rink has been called home by many and been host to virtually all U.S. World Champion and Olympic speed skaters.
Local Olympians include: Jonathan Kuck, Katherine Reutter, Chantal Bailey, Bonnie Blair, Erik Henriksen, Roger Capan.
It is rumored that the rink will be closed and later demolished in the late 2020s. Currently (January 2020) there are two sites being discussed for development of 3 new sheets of ice all only 200 ft x 85 ft NHL size which will end the long history of speed skating in Champaign, Illinois.

  * Ice Arena website


Parkside railway station (Derbyshire)

Parkside railway station was the only station on the Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway. Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway was a short narrow-gauge railway operating at Rowsley South,Midland Railway Centre.

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Headshunt

Parkside

Carriage
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Preceding station  [Heritage Railways] Heritage railways  Following station
Terminus                                                  Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway    Terminus

53°10′29″N 1°36′34″W / 53.1746°N 1.6095°W


Knut Nordholm

Knut Nordholm (24 August 1904 – 5 January 1981) was a Swedish fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

  * Knut Nordholm at Olympedia
  * Knut Nordholm at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)


Kagarol

Kagarol is a village in the Agra district of Uttar Pradesh state in India. It is situated at a distance of about 25 kilometers to the south-west of Agra city.Archaeological Survey of India reports compiled by Alexander Cunningham and his assistants, J. D. Beglar and A. C. L. Carlleyle.

27°01′N 77°51′E / 27.017°N 77.850°E


Persicula obesa

Persicula obesa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.


Ralph Bingham

Ralph Bingham (2 August 1870-28 December 1925) was a humorist, entertainer, monologist and violinist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Hamilton Bingham and Jane E. (McClintock) Bingham. He went to public school and was also privately tutored, and earned a degree from Villanova College, Pennsylvania in 1906. He married Christina Lorinda Giles of New London, Ohio in October, 1908.

Career

He began his career at the age of 9 as an orator in Richmond, Virginia. Under the management of his father he first toured the United States and Canada. He was a founder and president of the International Lyceum Association America.Redpath Bureau for 15 years, was also a member of the Lamb's Club in New York as well as the Pen and Pencil Club of Philadelphia.

Death

He died suddenly at home in Philadelphia. The cause of death was stated in his obituary as "acute indigestion followed by an attack of heart disease." His death certificate states that he is buried in Hillside Cemetery.

  * YouTube Video The Boy in the Bleachers-My Possum Hunt


Mill Hill railway station (Isle of Wight)

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around The Isle of Wight.

Mill Hill railway station is a disused station in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

History

It opened in 1871Cowes railway station emerged from the 208 yard tunnel along the curving platform,

Conversely, after passenger closure in 1966 a single employee spent six months on duty at the crossing just past the station with not one chance to open it,

Stationmasters

  * William Henry Strawn ca. 1879
  * John William Gibbs ca. 1896
  * F. Williams ca. 1910
  * Percy Hawkins ca. 1920
Preceding station    Disused railways                  Following station
                     British Rail
Medina Wharf         Southern Region                   Cowes
                     IoW CR : Newport to Cowes line

  * List of closed railway stations in Britain
  * Pictures of Mill Hill

50°45′26″N 1°17′50″W / 50.7573°N 1.2973°W


The Magnificents

The Magnificents may refer to:

  * Johnny Keyes and the Magnificents, a 1950s doo-wop vocal group
  * The Magnificents (Scottish band), a Scottish electro rock band
      + The Magnificents (album), their debut album
  * Magnificent (disambiguation)
  * The Magnificent (disambiguation)
  * Magnificence (disambiguation)


Salahlı, Samukh

Salahlı (Salahly) is a village and municipality in the Samukh District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 670.

  * Salahlı, Samukh at GEOnet Names Server


Ogris

Ogris is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Andreas Ogris (born 1964), Austrian footballer and manager
  * Ernst Ogris (1967–2017), Austrian footballer


University of Illinois Department of Landscape Architecture

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was among the first institutions in the nation to offer an educational program in landscape architecture, with a degree program in place by 1907.

Today, the department sponsors one of the leading graduate-level academic and research programs in the country.Stanley Hart White, impacting the work of Peter Walker, Hideo Sasaki, Richard Haag, Charles Harris, Philip H. Lewis Jr. and others.

  * Official website


Parkteatret

59°55′24.704″N 10°45′29.99″E / 59.92352889°N 10.7583306°E

Parkteatret

Parkteatret is a theater located at Olaf Ryes plass 11, Grünerløkka in Oslo, Norway. It was established in 1907 as a cinema originally by the name "Kristiania Bryggeri Grünerløkkens Kinematograf". Parkteatret is renowned as an urban cultural heritage. In November 2007, Parkteatret was awarded the Olavsrosa seal of quality by the foundation Norsk Kulturarv.

History

The cinema was designed by the architect Frithjof Aslesen (1854–1921). In 1913 the establishment changed its name to "Grünerløkkens Verdenstheater". In 1918–1922 it went through a major structural transformation and the cinema got its current name. The new facade was built in the neoclassical style by the architect Erik Glosimodt (1881–1921).

The artistic decoration of 1932 was done by the painter Paul Ansteinsson (1885–1939), simultaneously as architect Jens Dunker (1892–1981) redesigned the interior. The external neon lights were first switched on in the 1960s.

Parkteatret cinema was a municipal cinema from 1926 through 1991. From 1992 to 2001 the establishment housed the Nordic Black Theatre. In 2002 Parkteatret Scene started leasing the building, behind this new establishment was Geir Johnson, director of the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, and Pål Steigan. Parkteatret Scene is owned by Grünerløkka kulturhus, which also runs Parkteatret Bar, a 1960s-inspired bar specializing in cocktails and craft beer. The company has continued to improve the interior design of the building along with architect Henrik E. Nielsen.

  * Parkteatret Scene website
  * Norsk Kulturarv website


Rodker

Rodker is a surname. It may refer to:

  * Joan Rodker (1915–2010), English political activist and television producer
  * John Rodker (1894–1955), English writer, modernist poet, and publisher of modernist writers
  * Mary Rodker, marriage name of Mary Butts (1890–1937), English modernist writer


Kagawa, Kagawa

Kagawa in Kagawa Prefecture

Kagawa (香川町, Kagawa-chō) was a town located in Kagawa District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 24,236 and a density of 886.79/km2 (2,296.8/sq mi). The total area was 27.33 km2 (10.55 sq mi).

On January 10, 2006, Kagawa, along with the towns of Aji and Mure (both from Kita District), the town of Kōnan (also from Kagawa District), and the town of Kokubunji (from Ayauta District), was merged into the expanded city of Takamatsu and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

  * Official website of Takamatsu (in Japanese)
  * Official website of Takamatsu (in English)


Persicula shepstonensis

Persicula shepstonensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.


Ralph Boulton

Ralph Boulton (22 July 1923 – 1992) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward.


USS Swivel

USS Swivel (ARS-36) was a Weight-class rescue and salvage ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken vessels.

Swivel, ex-BARS-8, ex-SS York Salvor, was laid down on 28 April 1942 by the American Car and Foundry Co., Wilmington, Delaware; launched on 6 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. T. W. Goslin; and commissioned on 6 October 1943.

World War II service

Swivel moved down the coast and held her shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay area. On 15 December 1943, the wooden-hulled salvage ship sailed in a convoy for Falmouth, England, via the Azores Islands. She arrived in the United Kingdom and operated there from 5 January to 25 June 1944.

Normandy invasion operations

Her primary duties consisted of towing and preparing small ships for the invasion of France. On 25 June, she crossed the channel to the Omaha Beach assault area and began clearing the beaches to expedite the landing of troops and supplies. This duty, including towing several ships back to England, continued until November.

Harbor-clearing duties

Swivel proceeded to Le Havre, France, on 12 November, and assisted in clearing that harbor. She moved to Cherbourg on 25 December 1944, helped clear the harbor, and assisted ships there until 27 June 1945. She returned to Le Havre on that date and engaged in clearing screws, inspecting underwater bottoms, and making temporary repairs until returning to the United States on 31 October 1945 for disposition.

Handwritten log of Paul W.'s deployment on the USS Swivel during World War II. Paul W. began service on the Swivel in Norfolk VA and continued until being transferred in 1946. Note: the entry "Stinky Died" refers to their dog.

Post-war decommissioning


USS Swivel

Post-war decommissioning

On 13 April 1946, Swivel reported to the 1st Naval District; was inspected; and found beyond economical repair. A Board of Inspection and Survey found her surplus to Navy requirements and recommended that she be disposed of. Swivel was decommissioned on 4 June 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 3 July. She was sold to Mr. L. 0. Butts, West Newton, Massachusetts, on 6 December 1946 and scrapped.

Military awards and honors

Swivel received one battle star for World War II service. Her crew was eligible for the following medals:

  * American Campaign Medal
  * European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1)
  * World War II Victory Medal

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

  * NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - ARS-36 Swivel


Swing's the Thing (Illinois Jacquet album)

Swing's the Thing is an album by American jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet, recorded in late 1956 and released on the Clef label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source                                Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek observed: "the magic is in the performances, so to speak with Jacquet, Roy Eldridge, Jo Jones, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Jones and Ray Brown in the party... This is essential Jacquet."

Track listing

 1. "Las Vegas Blues" (Roy Eldridge) - 6:17
 2. "Harlem Nocturne" (Earle Hagen, Dick Rodgers) - 4:31
 3. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) - 6:42
 4. "Achtung" (Illinois Jacquet) - 5:06
 5. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:56
 6. "Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young) - 5:44

Personnel

  * Illinois Jacquet - tenor saxophone
  * Roy Eldridge - trumpet
  * Jimmy Jones - piano
  * Herb Ellis - guitar
  * Ray Brown - bass
  * Jo Jones - drums


Salahi, Khuzestan

Salahi (Persian: صالحي, also Romanized as Şālaḥī) is a village in Meydavud Rural District, Meydavud District, Bagh-e Malek County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 406, in 85 families.


Voss Church

Voss Church (Norwegian: Voss kyrkje, Voss kirke, or Vangskyrkja) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vossevangen. It is the church for the Voss parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The gray, stone church was built in a long church design in 1277 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 460 people.

History

View of the church

The site of the present church may once have been occupied by a heathen temple. In 1023, King Olaf Haraldsen visited Vossevangen to convert the people to Christianity. Tradition says that he built a large stone cross at the site, which was probably the first Christian place of worship at Voss and this place became the main church for all of Hordafylket during the Middle Ages.

The first church in Voss was a wooden building, possibly a stave church, that was likely built during the 11th century. That church was torn down during the 13th century and a new stone church was built to replace it. In a royal letter dating from December 1271, King Magnus Lagabøte expressed his satisfaction that the parishioners were going to replace the old wood church with a new stone one, and he urged the continuation and completion of the task. When it was finished in 1277, the church was dedicated to Saint Michael. The new stone church was built to have a rectangular nave and a narrower, rectangular chancel; a large stone tower above a church porch on the west end of the nave; and a sacristy on the north side of the chancel. During the 17th century, the old stone tower was removed and a wooden tower was erected in its place.

In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.


Voss Church

During the 1870s, a major renovation was carried out under the leadership of the architect Christian Christie. This included new, larger windows, new paint, and other improvements. These changes gave the church a neo-Gothic style and after they were completed, led to much dissatisfaction among the residents of Voss. At this time, the church was described as having a 18.25-by-10.8-metre (59.9 ft × 35.4 ft) nave, a 8.4-by-8-metre (28 ft × 26 ft) chancel to the east of the nave, and a 7-by-7.12-metre (23.0 ft × 23.4 ft) church porch on the west end of the nave. A new round of restoration work was implemented starting in 1920 under the direction of Georg Greve.World War II and bad economic times. These renovations included restoring the more original shape of the windows and bringing the whole church decor back to a pre-Reformation look. The renovations continued after the war in the late-1940s and finally finishing in 1953, this time under the direction of the architect Georg Fischer.

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  * List of churches in Bjørgvin
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University of Illinois College of Applied Health Sciences

The College of Applied Health Sciences (AHS), formerly known as the College of Applied Life Studies, is an undergraduate and graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It can trace its roots back to 1895, with the foundation of the Department of Physical Training for Men. AHS's mission is "to advance research, instruction and public engagement that promotes the development of healthy, livable communities, facilitates optimal living with disability and promotes health and wellness across the lifespan and throughout a diverse society."

Facilities

  * George Huff Hall – location of the College of Applied Health Sciences, the Department of Community Health, and the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism
  * Louise Freer Hall – location of the Department of Kinesiology
  * Speech and Hearing Science Building – location of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Programs

Community Health – Founded in 1957 as Health and Safety Studies. It was merged with the Department of Rehabilitation Education in 1998 and in 2004, the Faculty Senate supported the merging of Community Health with the Department of Kinesiology. The program offers three concentrations, in Health Education and Promotion, Health Planning and Administration, and Rehabilitation Studies. The degree prepares you for work in the healthcare setting, typically in a hospital, a non-profit organization or in public health. The professional core includes classes in contemporary health issues, public health promotion, healthcare systems, health behavior and epidemiology. In 2011, the Department of Community Health created a Masters of Public Health degree, which can be earned as a 5-year joint degree with the B.S. in Community Health.

Kinesiology – Kinesiology traces it roots back to the Department of Physical Training for Men and the Department of Physical Culture for Women in 1895. These departments merged in 1972 and were renamed the Department of Physical Education, which was renamed to the Department of Kinesiology in 1987. Kinesiology prepares people for careers in human-movement related fields or for advanced studies or graduate work. The kinesiology core includes classes in human movement, motor development, and the psychosocial aspects of physical activity. Students in this program can also earn the Masters of Public Health as a joint 5-year degree program.


Speech and Hearing Science – Originally established within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1973 as the Department of Speech Correction. It became part of the College of Applied Health Sciences in 1991 and was renamed the Department of Speech and Hearing Science. The major offers three tracks, Human Communication Sciences, which gives a broad overview of human communication, and Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, which are pre-professional tracks for graduate school. Students in the major take courses in speech pathology, audiology, the speech mechanism and phonetics.

Recreation, Sport & Tourism – RST began in 1937 as one class called Principles of Recreation and in a matter of ten years, a Bachelor's Degree in Recreation was created. It was elevated from a program to a department in 1957, and underwent many name changes before finally settling on the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism in 2004. Students in Recreation, Sport and Tourism complete classes in leisure theory, management, and leadership and are offered three concentrations in recreation management, sports management or tourism management. The major prepares students to work in park, leisure and tourism management fields.

  * College of Applied Health Sciences

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Polyptychus aurora

Polyptychus aurora is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Malawi.


Rodman's Neck

Former private mansion on Rodman's Neck

Rodman's Neck (formerly Ann Hook's Neck)New York City borough of the Bronx that juts out into Long Island Sound. The southern third of the peninsula is used as a firing range by the New York City Police Department; the remaining wooded section is part of Pelham Bay Park. The north side is joined to what used to be Hunters Island and Twin Island to form Orchard Beach and a parking lot.

Rodman's Neck has three meadows. One is a natural salt water meadow; the other two are manmade freshwater meadows, one of which was created by Robert Moses' projects. The City Island Traffic Circle and several small ballfields also exist, while every original building has been razed. A landfill area for City Island Road crosses Turtle Cove Saltwater Marsh with a culvert made of concrete pipes connecting it to the salt water Eastchester Bay. A second land berm built for horsecars had its always-clogged three foot diameter culvert removed, and a trench with a stainless steel bridge was installed.

History

Rodman's Neck

US Naval Reserve Training Station at Rodman's Neck

The first inhabitants of the land now known as Rodman's Neck were the Siwanoy, the indigenous people of the area.Thomas Pell in 1654.Revolutionary War's Battle of Pell's Point. It was originally named "Anne's Hoeck" (or Ann Hook's NeckAnne Hutchinson; her killer, Wampage I, who took the name Anhõõke after the massacre; and his son, Wampage II, who used the name "Ann Hook".

Rodman had owned a ferry that ran between Minneford Island (now known as City Island) and Anne's Hoeck where the bridge is now. Then L.R. Marshall built a Southern-style mansion on his estate, renamed "Hawkswood", at the southernmost tip of Rodman's Neck. His mansion was converted and used as an innNew York City Parks Department acquired the property for Pelham Bay Park.

Due to overcrowding at the nearby Hunter Island campsite, NYC Parks opened a campsite in 1906 at Rodman's Neck on the south tip of the island, with 100 bathhouses.


Rodman's Neck

The land was first used as a United States Army training location from 1917 to 1919, during World War I, when it was used by the 105th and 108th Infantry Regiments.

Between 1930 and 1936, the southern tip of the peninsula was used by the New York City Police Academy for summer training and explosives detonation. It was also part of Camp Mulrooney, a summer camp for the NYPD, and was used in that sense until 1936.

In 1941, during World War II, the U.S. Department of War began to use the area as a Navy base.Cold War, building a radar fire control center there.bomb went off accidentally.

NYPD firing range

A 54-acre police training facility is operated by the NYPD Firearms & Tactics Section and is used for handgun and rifle practice and qualification by the NYPD, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fire Department Fire Marshals, Correction Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and training probationary police officers, as well as for antiterrorist, disorder control, Emergency Service Units, and Organized Crime Control Bureau training. The base has seven rifle ranges with a 230 total firing points for trainees. The base has a school with lecture hall and seven classrooms with instructors. The base also has a training area designed to look like a city neighborhood for practical training exercises. It has one of the world's largest police armories and a firearms machine shop for maintenance and experimental weapons development.


Rodman's Neck

The grounds include mock buildings called Urban Training Center/Tactical Village and Tactics House used for urban training scenarios, and a FireArms Training Simulator building including an interactive video simulator that was all paid for by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is also a specially equipped vehicle armed for disorder control nicknamed "The War Wagon" in case of rioting. The base was used during the 1960s by the National Guard to train riot troops and was an emergency base of operations during the September 11, 2001 attacks. This area is restricted for police and military use only. The area is also used for destroying unexploded bombs. Many bombs have been detonated since 1930, including ones made by George Metesky, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Animal Liberation Front, al-Qaeda, and serial bomber Cesar Sayoc. These explosives are always detonated at the southernmost point that juts out into Eastchester Bay in a crater called "The Pit". Around July 2 every year, impressive impromptu volcanic displays are put on as seized illegal fireworks are destroyed.

The range was intended as a temporary facility, according to the plans laid out by Robert Moses and Mayors Robert F. Wagner, Jr., John Lindsay, and Abraham D. Beame. However, Mayor Ed Koch favored it becoming permanent. The range was previously part of Pelham Bay Park. In the late 1980s, Governor Mario Cuomo signed an eminent domain law separating this land from the park and giving the NYPD the right to stay permanently. The range was to have been converted into the Olympic Firing Range for the unsuccessful New York City 2012 Olympic bid.

A widely used paper target figure officially known as "Advanced Silhouette SP-83A" or target "B-60"colloquially known as "The Thug".

In April 2007, the NYPD announced that all gun practice would move to a new indoors facility in College Point, Queens.

  * Official website - NYPD Rodman's Neck Firing Range
  * Rodman's Neck History
  * Robert Moses Meadow

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Pocestë

Pocestë is a community in the Korçë County, Albania.Maliq.


Persicula hennequini

Persicula hennequini is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.

Description

Distribution


Ralph Black (soccer)

Ralph Black (born October 6, 1963 in Glasgow) is a retired Scottish-American soccer defender who spent most of his career in indoor soccer.

Indoor soccer

MISL

Black began his career with the Denver Avalanche of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). The Avalanche folded at the end of 1981-1982 season. He then moved to the Baltimore Blast. However, in 1984, MISL granted a franchise in Washington State, known as the Tacoma Stars. Black established himself as a mainstay in the Stars defense. He spent at least the 1989-1990 season with the San Diego Sockers. However, he was back in Tacoma for the 1991-1992 season. The Stars and MISL folded in 1992. He finished his career in the MISL ranked sixth on the all time games played list with 442 games.

NPSL

After the MISL folded, Black moved to the Buffalo Blizzard of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) for two seasons, 1992-1994.

CISL

However, in 1993 Black moved back west to sign with the expansion Anaheim Splash of the newly established Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). In 1994, he was the CISL Defender of the Year as well as a member of the All-CISL First Team. In 1995, he moved back to Pacific Northwest to play for the Seattle SeaDogs.Portland Pride. He played that and the 1997 season with the Pride.

PSA/WISL

At the end of the 1997 season, the CISL folded and the Pride, under new ownership, changed its name to the Portland Pythons. The Pythons then helped found the Premier Soccer Alliance (PSA). The PSA played one season, 1998, before changin its name to the World Indoor Soccer League (WISL). Black remained with the team through all these changes, becoming the Pythons’ head coach for 1998 and 1999. At the end of the 1999 season, the Pythons folded when a rumoured move to Tacoma, Washington fell through.

Outdoor soccer

Black was on the roster of the San Jose Earthquakes of the Western Soccer League during the 1988 season.Tampa Bay Rowdies of the American Professional Soccer League (APSL).

Coaching


Ralph Black (soccer)

Coaching

After retiring as a player, Black went on to be head coach of the Portland Pythons.

  * Washington Premier F.C. profile
  * MISL stats


USS Sylph (1813)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Sylph.

USS Sylph was a schooner in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.

Built to strengthen Commodore Isaac Chauncey's squadron on Lake Ontario, Sylph was laid down on 26 July 1813 at Sackett's Harbor, New York, by Henry Eckford; and launched on 18 August 1813.

Service history

Three days later, the new schooner reinforced Chauncey's fleet on Lake Ontario. On the afternoon of 11 September, she began a long-range, running battle off the mouth of the Genesee River. During the three and one-half hour engagement, the American squadron suffered no casualties nor damage while the Royal Navy had a midshipman and three seamen killed and seven wounded. One of their brigs was seriously damaged before the British squadron escaped into Amherst Bay.

Sylph got into action again on the 28th when the two fleets met in York Bay. However, since she was towing a slower schooner throughout the engagement, she was unable to get close to the fleeing British ships, instead firing at them from a great distance as her contribution to the American victory.

Chauncey broke off the pursuit about mid-afternoon, lest his fleet be endangered by a threatening storm. Bad weather lasted until the evening of the 31stConfiance and HMS Hamilton, which were the former American ships USS Julia and USS Growler. Thereafter, the British fleet remained in Kingston, Ontario, where they were blockaded until the end of November when cold weather closed navigation on the lake for the winter.

During the off-season, both fleets engaged in a shipbuilding race in an effort to achieve naval superiority in 1814. During this period, Sylph was rerigged as a brig, and her armament was changed to 2 × 9-pounder and 16 × 24-pounder carronades.

In the spring of 1814, the British squadron was first to venture out upon the lake. On 5 May, they captured the American base at Oswego, New York; and then proceeded to Sacketts Harbor which they blockaded until 6 June.


USS Sylph (1813)

The American fleet got underway on 31 July and sailed up to the head of the lake where Chauncey intercepted the British brig Sir Sydney Smith. He ordered Sylph to sail into shoal water to destroy the brig but, before Sylph could do so, the British vessel's crew ran her aground and burned her.

Chauncey then took his squadron to Kingston where he blockaded the British fleet until winter ended navigation.

The Treaty of Ghent obviated further naval operations on the Great Lakes. Sylph was laid up at Sacketts Harbor until 1823 when she was reported sunk and decayed. Her hulk was sold before 1825.

  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.


Swing's the Thing (Al Sears album)

Swing's the Thing is an album by saxophonist Al Sears, recorded in 1960 and released on the Swingville label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source                             Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "A fine swing-based tenor who could stomp and honk with the best of them (although he rarely screamed), Sears had relatively few opportunities to record as a leader ... Sears sticks to basic originals, blues, and standards, and is in top form on these swinging and generally accessible performances."

Track listing

All compositions by Al Sears, except where indicated.

 1. "Moving Out" (Walter Bishop) – 4:29
 2. "Record Hop" – 4:32
 3. "Take off Road" – 3:41
 4. "Already Alright" – 5:08
 5. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 5:30
 6. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:04
 7. "Ain't No Use" (Don Abney) – 6:36
 8. "The Thrill Is Gone" (Ray Henderson, Lew Brown) – 4:02

Personnel

  * Al Sears – tenor saxophone
  * Wally Richardson – guitar
  * Don Abney – piano
  * Wendell Marshall – bass
  * Joe Marshall – drums


Salahuddin Panhwar

Salahuddin Panhwar (born 9 August 1966) is a Pakistani jurist and has been Justice of the Sindh High Court since 27 June 2012.


Vosoritide

Vosoritide, sold under the brand name Voxzogo, is a medication used for the treatment of achondroplasia.

The most common side effects include injection site reactions (such as swelling, redness, itching, or pain), vomiting, and decreased blood pressure.

Achondroplasia is a genetic condition that causes severely short stature and disproportionate growth.

Vosoritide was approved for medical use in the European Union in August 2021,Food and Drug Administration considers it to be a first-in-class medication.

Medical uses

In the European Union, vosoritide is indicated for the treatment of achondroplasia in people two years of age and older whose epiphyses are not closed.

In the United States, vosoritide is indicated to increase growth in children five years of age and older with achondroplasia and open epiphyses (growth plates).

Mechanism of action

A: Chondrocyte with constitutionally active FGFR3 that down-regulates its development via the MAPK/ERK pathway
B: Vosoritide (BMN 111) blocks this mechanism by binding to the atrial natriuretic peptide receptor B (NPR-B), which subsequently inhibits the MAPK/ERK pathway at the RAF-1 protein.

Vosoritide works by binding to a receptor (target) called natriuretic peptide receptor type B (NPR-B), which reduces the activity of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3).receptor that normally down-regulates cartilage and bone growth when activated by one of the proteins known as acidic and basic fibroblast growth factor. It does so by inhibiting the development (cell proliferation and differentiation) of chondrocytes, the cells that produce and maintain the cartilaginous matrix which is also necessary for bone growth. Children with achondroplasia have one of several possible FGFR3 mutations resulting in constitutive (permanent) activity of this receptor, resulting in overall reduced chondrocyte activity and thus bone growth.


Vosoritide

The protein C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), naturally found in humans, reduces the effects of over-active FGFR3. Vosoritide is a CNP analogue with the same effect but prolonged half-life,

Chemistry

Vosoritide is an analog of CNP. It is a peptide consisting of the amino acids proline and glycine plus the 37 C-terminal amino acids from natural human CNP. The complete peptide sequence is

PGQEHPNARK YKGANKKGLS KGCFGLKLDR IGSMSGLGC

with a disulfide bridge between positions 23 and 39 (underlined).by mouth.

History

Vosoritide was developed by BioMarin Pharmaceutical and got orphan drug status in the US as well as the European Union.

The safety and efficacy of vosoritide in improving growth were evaluated in a year-long, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase III study in participants five years and older with achondroplasia who have open epiphyses. centimeters taller compared to those who received a placebo.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the approval of Voxzogo to BioMarin.

Society and culture

Controversy

Some people with achondroplasia, as well as parents of children with this condition, have reacted to vosoritide's study results by saying that dwarfism is not a disease and consequently does not need treatment.

Research

Vosoritide has resulted in increased growth in a clinical trial with 26 children. The ten children receiving the highest dose grew 6.1 centimetres (2.4 in) in six months, compared to 4.0 centimetres (1.6 in) in the six months before the treatment (p=0.01).body proportions, more specifically the ratio of leg length to upper body length – which is lower in achondroplasia patients than in the average population – was not improved by vosoritide, but not worsened either.


Vosoritide

* "Vosoritide". Drug Information Portal. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  * Clinical trial number NCT03197766 for "A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of BMN 111 in Children With Achondroplasia" at ClinicalTrials.gov


The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, or UIUC license, is a permissive free software license, based on the MIT/X11 license and the 3-clause BSD license. By combining parts of these two licenses, it attempts to be clearer and more concise than either.

The license is the result of efforts by a University of Illinois committee set up in 2001. The intention was to create a new license standard for both NCSA and the worldwide software community in general. It was formally certified as an open-source license during a March 28, 2002 board meeting of the Open Source Initiative.

Source code under the NCSA license can be incorporated into proprietary products without the reciprocity requirements that copyleft free software licenses raise. The license is compatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.LLVM and Clang (version 8.0.1 or earlier

Terms

The following is a license template. On an actual license the sections within angle brackets (year, owner organization name, etc.) will be filled out.

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The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License is template-based, like the MIT/X11 and BSD licenses.

The initial license grant is based on text from the MIT license; it clearly states that it applies to the software plus any associated documentation files, and is more specific about what rights are conveyed than the BSD license.

The three license clauses are almost identical to those found in the modified BSD license. It requires that redistributions reproduce the license, and prevents the names of contributors from being used to promote derived products without permission. Here it is more precise than the MIT license, which does not distinguish between redistributions in source code or object form.

The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License inspired Lawrence Rosen of the Open Source Initiative to create the Academic Free License. The Academic Free License is more complex than the BSD, MIT and NCSA licenses, and covers additional areas such as patent and trademark law.

  * Software using the NCSA license (category)
  * University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License template
  * Illinois Open Source License – Office of Technology Management


Polyptychus hollandi

Polyptychus hollandi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Nigeria to the Congo .


Rodman Slough

Rodman Slough is a wetland that drains into Clear Lake in Lake County, California. It provides an important habitat for fish, amphibians, birds and other wildlife. It is fed by Scotts Creek and Middle Creek, which contribute about 70% of the sediment and nutrients that cause algae problems in Clear Lake. The slough is the remnant of a much larger area of wetlands and open water that extended from Tule Lake to the northeast through a wide area of land north and east of the present slough that was drained for farmland. Since 1978 there have been proposals to restore large parts of the former wetlands, and much of the funding has been approved, but progress has been slow.

Location

Rodman Slough is at an elevation of 1,325 feet (404 m) in Lake County, California. It flows south for 2.5 miles (4.0 km) into Clear Lake.

Stream                         GNIS id  Parent         Mouth                                              Length
Coords                         Elev ft  Elev m         mi                                                 km
Rodman Slough                  267193   Clear Lake     39°07′35″N 122°53′55″W / 39.12639°N 122.89861°W  1,325   404  2.5  4.0
←Scotts Creek                  234664   Rodman Slough  39°09′45″N 122°57′14″W / 39.16250°N 122.95389°W  1,335   407  30   48
←Robinson Creek                234576   Rodman Slough  39°08′41″N 122°54′28″W / 39.14472°N 122.90778°W  1,332   406  4    6.4
←Middle Creek (Rodman Slough)  234282   Rodman Slough  39°08′54″N 122°54′45″W / 39.14833°N 122.91250°W  1,329   405  8.5  13.7

Environment


Rodman Slough

Environment

Tule Lake is a seasonal lake that forms in the winter when Scotts Creek overflows its banks.rookery of great blue heron (Ardea herodias), where migrating birds congregate in the fall. Other birds include American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), Canada goose (Branta canadensis), cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae), heron and egret (Ardeidae) and grebe (Podicipediformes).black bass (Micropterus), black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus), white crappie (Pomoxis annularis) and catfish.

History

In the past the Scotts and Middle creeks flowed through Robinson Lake, also called Rodman Bay, before entering Clear Lake. Robinson Lake was a mosaic of shallow wetlands, meandering channels, riparian forest and open water.Bloody Island massacre in response to a Pomo revolt from slavery.

Between 1918 and 1933 farmers built levees in Robinson Lake and the area was drained for agriculture, leaving only the narrow Rodman Slough along the west of the former lake.2,000 acres (810 ha) of wetland was one of the causes of a surge in sedimentation in Clear Lake after 1927.

In 1955 Congressman Hubert B. Scudder introduced a bill, which was authorized, for flood control works on Middle Creek at an estimated Federal cost of $1,110,000 and Non-Federal Cost of $790,000. At this time the community of Upper Lake was partially flooded three times a year, and almost all the town was flooded every ten years.United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) completed levees on the north side of Scotts Creek between Tule Lake and the mouth of Rodman Slough as part of the Middle Creek Flood Control project.

In 1978 the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) determined that much of the area covered by the flood control project was in the 100-year floodplain of Clear Lake. Restoring the area to its natural state would reduce costs of maintaining old levees and drainage pumps, and reduce or eliminate the cost of fighting floods in high water years.


Rodman Slough

The levees are substandard and have settled, and are as little as 10.5 feet (3.2 m) above the lowest normal Clear Lake water level. In the past (1890) the Clear Lake water level has risen to 13.66 feet (4.16 m) above this lowest level. There is a very real risk that the levees will be submerged by the type of flood expected at least once every century. The Robinson Lake area was evacuated due to flood threats in 1983, 1986 and 1998.

In 2004 the Fish and Game Commission designated the Clear Lake Wildlife Area, a 97 acres (39 ha) wildlife area extending to the east of the slough in which visitors could engage in birdwatching, seasonal fishing, wildlife viewing and hunting. It included oak-covered hills, dense tule marsh and an extensive riparian habitat. It supports herons, red-tailed hawks, osprey, songbirds, waterfowl, deer, gray fox, bobcat, and coyote.

Restoration projects

Proposals were made by the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG; now the California Department of Fish and Wildlife) and United States Army Corps of Engineers to restore wetlands of Tule Lake and the adjacent Rodman Slough Reclamation Area.

The Middle Creek Restoration Project plans to remove 3 miles (4.8 km) of substandard levees. This will restore 1,400 acres (570 ha) of wetlands and open water, and will improve water quality in Clear Lake.California State Route 20, reinforce seven PG&E power line pylons and replace a bridge on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.


Rodman Slough

In 2008 the DFG issued a draft Conceptual Area Protection Plan for the Clear Lake Wildlife Area. The expanded wildlife area would now cover about 3,225 acres (1,305 ha) including a large part of Tule Lake, the Middle Creek Restoration Project, additional land to the south of this project, and DFG lands and Land Trust lands south of Rodman Slough. Over half the area would be wetland habitat, with the remainder being riparian, open water and oak woodland. The area would conserve and create natural habitat in one of the few relatively natural areas around Clear Lake. It may be valuable to sensitive species such as the Western pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata), foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii), California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii), tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor), double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), osprey (Pandion haliaetus) and bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).

In June 2019 the Lake County Watershed Protection District accepted $15 million from the California Department of Water Resources to purchase and maintain properties affected by the ongoing Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project.1,600 acres (650 ha) of reclaimed farmland. It would provide an area to the north, well away from the lake, where the water would slow down and drop its sediment. It would avert a breach further south, which would release far more sediment and nutrients into the lake. The state's total contribution would be almost $28 million.


Rodman Slough

* Rivers of Lake County, California
  * "Appendix A Engineering Appendix", Middle Creek, Lake County, Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration, 2002
  * Clear Lake Wildlife Area, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
  * Larson, Elizabeth (14 June 2019), "Supervisors approve $15 million contract with state for Middle Creek Restoration Project", Lake County News
  * Lundquist, Erica (February 2010), Scotts Creek Watershed Assessment (PDF), Scotts Creek Watershed Council
  * "Rodman Slough", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
  * Scudder, Hubert B. (1955), "Middle Creek Flood-Control Project", Public Works Appropriations for 1956: Hearings ... 84th Congress, 1st Session.; Western Section, United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
  * "WT7 - Rodman Slough", Konocti Regional Trails, 2015


Pocatalico

Pocatalico may refer to:

  * Pocatalico River, a river in West Virginia
  * Pocatalico, West Virginia, an unincorporated community


Persicula phrygia

Persicula phrygia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.


Ralph Bovey

Sir Ralph Bovey, 1st Baronet (died 11 October 1679), of Hillfields, Warwickshire, England was High Sheriff of Warwickshire and, later, Bedfordshire.

In 1633 he was admitted to Gray's Inn. He was an attorney of the Court of Common Pleas. He held the office of Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1652 and lived in Solihull, Warwickshire. He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in November 1668 and from 1669 to 1670 and lived in Long Stow, Cambridgeshire.

He was created a baronet, of Hillfields in the County of Warwick, on 30 August 1660. He died in 1679 without issue and was buried in linen at Long Stow. The title died with him. He had married the daughter of 1st Baron Maynard.

  * http://www.thepeerage.com/p17569.htm#i175683 thepeerage.com


USS Sylvia

USS Sylvia has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

  * USS Sylvia (1882), a patrol yacht in commission from June to December 1898 and from 1917 to 1919
  * USS Sylvia (SP-471), later USS SP-471, a patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919


Swing!

This article is about the 1999 musical. For other uses, see Swing (disambiguation).

Swing! is a musical conceived by Paul Kelly with music by various artists. It celebrates the music of the Swing era of jazz (1930s–1946), including many well-known tunes by artists like Duke Ellington, William "Count" Basie, Benny Goodman and others. It received a nomination for the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical and other Tony awards.

Productions

Swing! premiered on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on December 9, 1999 and closed on January 14, 2001, running for 461 performances. The director and choreographer was Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and the production was supervised by Jerry Zaks. Among the cast were Laura Benanti, Ann Hampton Callaway and Everett Bradley.

The Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera production, directed and choreographed by one of the original cast members, Dana Solimando, ran in June 2009.

The original cast album was released by Sony Classical on January 18, 2000.

Premise

Swing! combines high energy dancing, singing and acrobatics. There is no dialogue in the show, and the story is told entirely through music and dance. The show tries to recreate the swing style of jazz, which used large bands, fixed musical arrangements and solo-driven improvisations. Together with the development of the music, various forms of swing dancing emerged, varying by geographic regions, such as the Lindyhop or Jitterbug in Harlem or the Whip in Houston.

There are also story-driven numbers for example "I'll Be Seeing You", with Scott Fowler and Carol Bentley doing a Gene Kelly kind of ballet.

The show includes music and dance styles from early swing, West Coast, to other jazz styles, and even hip-hop (as shown as in an all-male version of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"). Some of the individual couples, for example Ryan Francois and Jenny Thomas, perform their own choreography. Francois and Thomas are established stars in the world of swing, having been the Lindy champions in 1997 The American Swing Dance Championships and the U.S. Open Championships.


Swing!

Some of the songs have new lyrics, but most are well-known swing-era hits, including "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"; "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Jumpin at the Woodside"; and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)".

Songs


Swing!

Act I                                                                                Act II
  * "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" – Lyrics by Irving Mills, Music by Duke Ellington                        * "Swing! Brother, Swing!" – Music and Lyrics by Walter Bishop, Sr., Lewis Raymond and Clarence Williams
  * "Air Mail Special" – Music by Benny Goodman, James Mundy and Charlie Christian                                                * "Caravan" – Lyrics by I. Mills, Music by Juan Tizol and D. Ellington
  * "Jersey Bounce" – Lyrics by Buddy Feyne, Music by Tiny Bradshaw, Eddie Johnson, and Bobby Plater                              * "Dancers in Love" – Music by D. Ellington
  * "Opus One" – Music by Don George, Johnny Hodges and Harry James                                                               * "Cry Me a River" – Music and Lyrics by Arthur Hamilton
  * "Jumpin' at the Woodside" – Music by Count Basie                                                                              * "Blues in the Night" – Lyrics by J. Mercer, Music by Harold Arlen
  * "Bounce Me, Brother (with a Solid Four)" (from Buck Privates) – Music and Lyrics by Don Raye and Hughie Prince                * "Take Me Back To Tulsa"/"Stay A Little Longer" – Music by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan
  * "Two and Four" – Music by Ann Hampton Callaway                                                                                * "Boogie Woogie Country" – Music by J. Murphy and Jonathan Smith
  * "Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce" – Lyrics by D. George, Music by D. Ellington                                     * "All of Me" – Lyrics by Seymour Simons, Music by Gerald Marks
  * "Rhythm" – Music by Casey MacGill                                                                                * "I Won't Dance" (from Roberta) – Dorothy Fields and Additional lyrics by Ann Hampton Callaway, Music by Jerome Kern
  * "Throw That Girl Around" – Music and Lyrics by Everett Bradley, Ilene Reid and Michael Heitzman                               * "Bill's Bounce" – Music by Bill Elliott
  * "Show Me What You Got" – Music by Jonathan Smith and E. Bradley                                                               * "Stompin' at the Savoy" – Additional lyrics by Ann Hampton Callaway and Andy Razaf, Music by Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson and Chick Webb


Swing!

* "Bli Blip" (from Jump for Joy) – Lyrics by Sid Kuller, Music by D. Ellington                                                  * "Swing, Brother, Swing" (Reprise) – Music and Lyrics by Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond and Clarence Williams
  * "Billy-A-Dick" – Paul Francis Webster and additional lyrics by Seán Martin Hingston, Music by Hoagy Carmichael                * "Sing,_Sing,_Sing_(With_a_Swing)" – Music and Lyrics by Louis Prima, Andy Razaf and Leon Berry
  * "Harlem Nocturne" – Music by Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers                                                                      * "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Reprise) – Lyrics by Irving Mills, Music by Duke Ellington
  * "Kitchen Mechanics' Night Out" – Music and Lyrics by J. Smith, Paul Kelly, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and C. MacGill
  * "Shout and Feel It" – Music by C. Basie
  * "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)" (from Buck Privates) – Music and Lyrics by D. Raye and H. Prince
  * "G.I. Jive" – Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
  * "A String of Pearls" – Lyrics by Eddie DeLange, Music by Jerry Gray
  * "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo" – Lyrics by Mack Gordon, Music by Harry Warren
  * "Candy" – Music and Lyrics by Mack David, Joan Whitney Kramer and Alex Kramer
  * "I'm Gonna Love You Tonight" – Lyrics by Jack Murphy, Music by C. MacGill
  * "I'll Be Seeing You" (from Right This Way) – Lyrics by Irving Kahal, Music by Sammy Fain
  * "In the Mood" – Lyrics by Andy Razaf, Music by Joe Garland
  * "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" – Lyrics by Lew Brown and Charles Tobias, Music by Sam H. Stept


Swing!

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Year                                                 Award Ceremony        Category             Nominee    Result  Ref
                       2000                          Drama Desk Award      Outstanding Musical  Nominated
Outstanding Choreography                             Lynne Taylor-Corbett  Nominated
Outstanding Orchestrations                           Harold Wheeler        Nominated
Theatre World Award                                  Everett Bradley       Won
Ann Hampton Callaway                                 Won
Tony Award                                           Best Musical          Nominated
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical  Laura Benanti         Nominated
Ann Hampton Callaway                                 Nominated
Best Direction of a Musical                          Lynne Taylor-Corbett  Nominated
Best Choreography                                    Nominated
Best Orchestrations                                  Harold Wheeler        Nominated

  * Swing! at the Internet Broadway Database
  * Swing study guide from TUTS
  * Swing song lyrics Archived June 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine


Riverside Park, Ottawa

Riverside Park is a neighbourhood in the south end of Ottawa, Canada.

It is bounded on the north by Brookfield Road, on the east by the Airport Parkway, on the south by the CN rail tracks and on the west by the Rideau River.

Mooney's Bay Park during the 2006 edition of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival

The neighbourhood includes one of Ottawa's most well known beaches at Mooney's Bay and the Terry Fox Athletic Facility, along with both Vincent Massey Park, Hog's Back Park. Confederation Heights sits at the northern tip of the neighbourhood. It also includes the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, which has hosted professional and amateur golf tournaments.

The area is served by Brookfield High School and the General Vanier, Bayview Public Schools, Georges Étienne Cartier as well as the Holy Cross Catholic School. In addition to Mooney's Bay, the area is served by four other parks; Paget Park, Marble Park, Flannery Park and Pauline Vanier Park, adjacent to General Vanier Public School.

In August 2007, Bayview Public School was closed at its site on Riverside drive. Its French immersion program moved to the R. Byrns Curry Public School building (renamed Bayview Public School). R. Byrns Curry students were reassigned to General Vanier Public School (J-K to grade 3) and Fielding Drive Public School (grades 4 to 8).

The neighbourhood is bifurcated by OCRR Railway. The area west of it is known as Riverside Park West and the area east of it is called Riverside Park East. The area to the south of Walkley Road is known as Riverside Park South.

According to the Canada 2011 Census, the population of the neighbourhood north of Walkley (Census Tract 5050003.00) was 4564 and south of Walkley (Census Tract 5050002.01) was 2893 for a total of 7457.

  * Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association

45°22′04″N 75°41′00″W / 45.36778°N 75.68333°W


Vosne Romanee

Vosne Romanee (foaled 17 September 2002)Kelt Capital Stakes in October 2009,Zabeel ClassicNew Zealand Stakes

The achievements were more notable as the three events were among the most competitive races in New Zealand that season. These wins led to the Vosne Romanee being named the New Zealand Horse of the Year for the 2009/10 season.

Vosne Romanee returned in 2010 to race in the Kelt Capital Stakes. He never travelled comfortably and ran last behind his stablemate Wall Street.

Vosne Romanee is named after a wine region in France. Buddy Lammas was his rider in the Kelt Capital Stakes but has since been regularly in races with Opie Bosson as his regular rider. Vosne Romanee is owned by Ian and Alana Smart Trust. He was trained by Jeff Lynds.

  * Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand


McCool, Mississippi

McCool is a town in Attala County, Mississippi. The population was 135 at the 2010 census.

History

McCool post office was established September 11, 1883, with Charles W. Thompson as first postmaster.Mississippi House of Representatives.

The population was 317 in 1900.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all land.

Demographics

Historical population
Census                 Pop.  Note  %±
1890                   246         —
1900                   317         28.9%
1910                   422         33.1%
1920                   517         22.5%
1930                   562         8.7%
1940                   373         −33.6%
1950                   305         −18.2%
1960                   211         −30.8%
1970                   225         6.6%
1980                   203         −9.8%
1990                   169         −16.7%
2000                   182         7.7%
2010                   135         −25.8%
2020                   103         −23.7%
U.S. Decennial Census

As of the census193.6 inhabitants per square mile (74.7/km2). There were 82 housing units at an average density of 87.2 per square mile (33.7/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 73.08% White, 25.82% African American, 0.55% Asian, and 0.55% from two or more races.

There were 72 households, out of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.6% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.9% were non-families. 27.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.14.


McCool, Mississippi

In the town, the population was spread out, with 20.9% under the age of 18, 12.1% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $19,659, and the median income for a family was $27,083. Males had a median income of $24,583 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the town was $10,760. About 18.4% of families and 19.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.5% of those under the age of eighteen and 11.4% of those 65 or over.

Education

The town of McCool is served by the Attala County School District.

Notable people

  * Thomas U. Sisson, member of the United States House of Representatives from 1909 to 1923
  * Margaret Wade, basketball coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
  * John D. Winters, historian, author of The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), was born in McCool but reared in Lake Providence, Louisiana.


Kabasaki-ji

Kabasaki-ji (樺崎寺) was a Buddhist temple located in what is now the city of Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, in northern Kantō region of Japan. It is noted for its connections to the Ashikaga clan, who ruled Japan during the Muromachi period. The temple is now an archaeological site and has been designated by the national government as a National Historic Site since 2001.

History

Kabasaki-ji was located in a valley along the Kabasaki River, about 4.5 kilometers northeast of the remains of the Ashikaga residence (Banna-ji). It was constructed by Ashikaga Yoshikane in the early Kamakura period to pray for victory over the Northern Fujiwara during Minamoto no Yoritomo's campaign against the forces of Hiraizumi in 1189. In 1195, Ashikaga Yoshikane became a Buddhist monk at this temple, where he died in 1198. The temple thereafter became his memorial temple and bodaiji for the Ashikaga clan. However, by the Sengoku period, the power and influence of the Ashikaga clan had waned, and the temple fell into near ruin. It was maintained in the Edo period by the Kitsuregawa clan, who claimed descent from the Ashikaga, and a Hachiman shrine was built in its precincts. With the post-Meiji restoration haibutsu kishaku movement, the remnants of the Buddhist temple were destroyed, and only the Shinto shrine remained.

Excavations have been carried out continuously since 1984. The foundations of the main buildings are in good condition, and there are remains of a "Pure Land" style Jōdo garden with a large pond, and using the borrowed scenery of nearby Mount Yawata. Numerous ceramic shards and fragments of wood with inscriptions have been found. The traces of Ashikaga Yoshikane's mausoleum and the layout of the buildings matches what is described in contemporary documents. The temple area measures approximately 200 meters square. It is located 15 minutes by car from Ashikaga Station on the JR East Ryōmō Line.

  * List of Historic Sites of Japan (Tochigi)
  * Ashikaga City official website (in Japanese)
  * Kabasaki Hachiman-gu official home page


Rodley, West Yorkshire

Airedale Wharf, Rodley.

Rodley is a suburb in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated within the Calverley and Farsley ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council, just inside the Leeds Outer Ring Road, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west from Leeds city centre and 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east from Bradford. The hamlet of Bagley borders Rodley.

History

Rodley village is not recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book, although several nearby places such as Horsforth, Calverley, Farsley and Bramley are. The earliest use of the name Rodley appears to be "Rodele", who was listed as a tenant in the Domesday Book,

Part of the north-western end of the suburb is in what was, before the Local Government Act 1972, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey; a sign, next to The Owl public house on Rodley Lane, still notes this heritage in 2020.

Industrial history

In 1820 Thomas Smith's Steam Crane Works was established and by 1888 it had gained a reputation internationally for the manufacture of cranes and lifting gear.Joseph Booth & Bros, founded by Joseph Booth's father Jeremiah, a former partner of Thomas Smith's father.

Rowley Workshop of Ian Rowley, makers of 3-2-1, Wizbit and Dusty the Dawg,

The Rodley microcar was made in Rodley by the Rodley Automobile Company between 1954 and 1956.

Community

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through the suburb, running parallel with Rodley Town Street. Many of the stone-built industrial buildings and mills that once lined the banks of the canal have been demolished and replaced with modern apartments and houses, as Rodley has developed into a commuter suburb, being situated roughly equidistant from Leeds and Bradford. Some of the area is now protected as a conservation area.

Rodley has four public houses and a Working men's club: The Railway close to the nearby Calverley Bridge, The Owl, The Rodley Barge next to the canal, The Crown & Anchor and Rodley Social Club on Town Street.


Rodley, West Yorkshire

The Rodley Nature Reserve is a wetland reserve created in 1999 on the site of a former sewage works, just north of Town Street on the north bank of the River Aire.

Adjacent, on the opposite bank to the nature reserve, is Canal Bank Sports Ground, which is the base for a cricket club. Rodley Cricket Club plays in the Airedale and Wharfedale Senior Cricket League.

Notable people

  * Charles M. Maud (1898–1974), World War I flying ace

Location grid

Gallery

  * [Rodley, Rodley Lane.]
    Rodley, Rodley Lane.
  * [Rodley, Canal Road.]
    Rodley, Canal Road.
  * [Rodley, Wesley Terrace.]
    Rodley, Wesley Terrace.
  * [Rodley, No.1 Rodley Lane.]
    Rodley, No.1 Rodley Lane.
  * [Rodley, Town Street.]
    Rodley, Town Street.
  * Listed buildings in Calverley and Farsley
  * Listed buildings in Leeds (Bramley and Stanningley Ward)

Media related to Rodley, West Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons

  * The Ancient Parish of Calverley of which Rodley was part in the 19th century
  * Photographs of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Rodley


Pocha Brahmananda Reddy

Pocha Brahmananda Reddy is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the YSR Congress Party.

  * Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website


Persicula deburghi

Persicula deburghi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.


Quantum Hall transitions

Quantum Hall transitions are the quantum phase transitions that occur between different robustly quantized electronic phases of the quantum Hall effect. The robust quantization of these electronic phases is due to strong localization of electrons in their disordered, two-dimensional potential. But, at the quantum Hall transition, the electron gas delocalizes as can be observed in the laboratory. This phenomenon is understood in the language of topological field theory. Here, a vacuum angle (or 'theta angle') distinguishes between topologically different sectors in the vacuum. These topological sectors correspond to the robustly quantized phases. The quantum Hall transitions can then be understood by looking at the topological excitations (instantons) that occur between those phases.

Historical perspective

Just after the first measurements on the quantum Hall effect in 1980,Anderson localization didn't yet include a topological angle and hence it predicted that: "for any given amount of disorder, all states in two dimensions are localized". A result that was irreconcilable with the observations on delocalization.percolate through the disorder.

As a result of this semi-classical idea, many numerical computations were done based on the percolation picture.critical exponent of the `semi-classical percolation phase transition'. To compare this result with the measured critical exponent, the Fermi-liquid approximation was used, where the Coulomb interactions between electrons are assumed to be finite. Under this assumption, the ground state of the free electron gas can be adiabatically transformed into the ground state of the interacting system and this gives rise to an inelastic scattering length so that the canonical correlation length exponent can be compared to the measured critical exponent.

But, at the quantum phase transition, the localization lengths of the electrons becomes infinite (i.e. they delocalize) and this compromises the Fermi-liquid assumption of an inherently free electron gas (where individual electrons must be well-distinguished). The quantum Hall transition will therefore not be in the Fermi-liquid universality class, but in the 'F-invariant' universality class that has a different value for the critical exponent.

Disorder in the sample


Quantum Hall transitions

Disorder in the sample

The random disorder in the potential landscape of the two-dimensional electron gas plays a key role in the observation of topological sectors and their instantons (phase transitions). Because of the disorder, the electrons are localized and thus they cannot flow across the sample. But if we consider a loop around a localized 2D electron, we can notice that current is still able to flow in the direction around this loop. This current is able to renormalize to larger scales and eventually becomes the Hall current that rotates along the edge of the sample. A topological sector corresponds to an integer number of rotations and it is now visible macroscopically, in the robustly quantized behavior of the measurable Hall current. If the electrons were not sufficiently localized, this measurement would be blurred out by the usual flow of current through the sample.

For the subtle observations on phase transitions it is important that the disorder is of the right kind. The random nature of the potential landscape should be apparent on a scale sufficiently smaller than the sample size in order to clearly distinguish the different phases of the system. These phases are only observable by the principle of emergence, so the difference between self-similar scales has to be multiple orders of magnitude for the critical exponent to be well-defined. On the opposite side, when the disorder correlation length is too small, the states are not sufficiently localized to observe them delocalize.

Renormalization group flow diagram

Scaling of the longitudinal and Hall conductivities in a renormalization group flow-diagram of the quantum Hall effect


Quantum Hall transitions

On the basis of the Renormalization Group Theory of the instanton vacuum one can form a general flow diagram where the topological sectors are represented by attractive fixed points. When scaling the effective system to larger sizes, the system generally flows to a stable phase at one of these points and as we can see in the flow diagram on the right, the longitudinal conductivity will vanish and the Hall conductivity takes on a quantized value. If we started with a Hall conductivity that is halfway between two attractive points, we would end up on the phase transition between topological sectors. As long as the symmetry isn't broken, the longitudinal conductivity doesn't vanish and is even able to increase when scaling to a larger system size. In the flow diagram, we see fixed points that are repulsive in the direction of the Hall current and attractive in the direction of the longitudinal current. It is most interesting to approach these fixed saddle points as close as possible and measure the (universal) behavior of the quantum Hall transitions.

Super-universality

If the system is rescaled, the change in conductivity depends only on the distance between a fixed saddle point and the conductivity. The scaling behavior near the quantum Hall transitions is then universal and different quantum Hall samples will give the same scaling results. But, by studying the quantum Hall transitions theoretically, many different systems that are all in different universality classes have been found to share a super-universal fixed point structure.quantum chromodynamics and might have been important in the formation of the early universe.

  * Quantum Hall effect
  * Anderson localization
  * Fermi-liquid theory
  * Instantons
  * Universality (dynamical systems)


USS Syren (1803)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Siren.

USS Syren (later Siren) was a brig of the United States Navy built at Philadelphia in 1803. She served during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812 until the Royal Navy captured her in 1814. The British never commissioned her but apparently used her for a year or so as a lazaretto, or a prison vessel. She then disappears from records.

Description

Syren was designed by Benjamin Hutton, Jr. of Philadelphia and built for the Navy in 1803 at Philadelphia by shipwright Nathaniel Hutton and launched on 6 August 1803. She was commissioned in September and Lieutenant Charles Stewart was appointed in command.

She was sharper, but smaller than USS Argus (1803), yet carried the same armament. Both vessels were built the same year for the First Barbary War.

Service history in US Navy

First Barbary War

Syren departed Philadelphia on 27 August 1803 and reached Gibraltar on 1 October. A fortnight later she sailed via Livorno to Algiers carrying presents and money to the Dey of Algiers. She then sailed to Syracuse, Sicily, where she arrived early in January 1804.

The first action Syren was involved in was an attack aimed at destroying USS Philadelphia, a frigate that had run aground the previous autumn and that Tripolitan gunboats had then captured. To prevent Philadelphia from opposing his planned operations against Tripoli, the commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean, Commodore Edward Preble, decided to destroy her. To achieve this, Syren and ketch Intrepid sailed from Syracuse on 3 February 1804 and proceeded to Tripoli, which they reached on 7 February. However, before the American ships could launch their attack, they were driven off by a violent gale and did not get back off Tripoli until 16 February. Before the attack Syren tied up alongside Intrepid to transfer some of her crew for the assault on Philadelphia. Aboard Intrepid, under the command of Stephen Decatur, sailors from both Intrepid and Syren succeeded in burning Philadelphia. Also present during the assault was Thomas Macdonough of Syren.

Bombardment of Tripoli, 1804


USS Syren (1803)

Bombardment of Tripoli, 1804

Syren returned to Syracuse on the morning of 19 February. On 9 March, she and Nautilus sailed for Tripoli. Soon after their arrival, on 21 March 1804, she captured the armed brig Transfer belonging to the Pasha. Stewart took Transfer into US service and renamed her USS Scourge.Syren captured a polacca named Madona Catapolcana and sent her to Malta.John Smith for almost a year helping to establish and maintain satisfactory relations with other Barbary states.

The ship returned to America in May 1806 and reached the Washington Navy Yard in August. She was laid up in ordinary there until recommissioned in 1807 and subsequently carried dispatches to France in 1809.Captain John "Mad Jack" Percival.Siren.

War of 1812

Little record has been found of the brig's service during the War of 1812, however small news items appeared in the Salem Gazette and the Boston Gazette.

In May 1813 it was reported that within the space of two days a merchant vessel, Pilgrim, was boarded, first by HMS Herald which was searching for Syren, and then by Syren, which was searching for Herald. Syren was now commanded by Lieutenant Joseph Bainbridge.Syren left Belize and proceeded to Cuba where after three weeks searching for a Royal Navy sloop, probably Herald, she sailed for the coast of Florida putting in at New Orleans before departing on 9 May 1813. No prizes were taken during this voyage and the ship needed repairs.

By January 1814 Syren was in Massachusetts and was now commanded by Lieutenant Parker,privateer, Grand Turk.

Syren captured at least three merchant ships off the coast of Africa. On 28 May she captured and burnt Barton, Hassler, master, which had been sailing from Africa to Liverpool. Then on 1 June Syren captured Adventure, which too was from Africa to Liverpool. She took-off their cargoes of ivory and sank them. Lastly, at some point Syren captured Catherine.


USS Syren (1803)

On 12 July 1814 Syren while cruising off the West African coast encountered the British ship HMS Medway a 74-gun third rate ship of the line under the command of Captain Augustus Brine. Heavily outgunned, Syren attempted to run. After an 11-hour chase Medway captured her despite Syren having lightened her load by throwing overboard her guns, anchors and boats.Samuel Leech, who later wrote an account of his experiences.

According to Samuel Leech, after being captured the crew of Syren were taken to the Cape of Good Hope, and after landing at Simonstown, marched to a jail in Cape Town. Here they were held until transferred to England when the war was over. On arriving at Simonstown, other American prisoners were seen to be leaving the jail and being shipped off to Dartmoor. The Syren crew met these again in England while waiting for transfer to the United States. Some had been present at 'The Massacre'.

British service history

After her capture by the Royal Navy she had a figurehead of a mermaid installed.

The Royal Navy used her as a lazaretto. She is no longer listed after 1815.

  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  * Skaggs, David Curtis (2003). Thomas Macdonough: Master of command in the early U.S. Navy. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. p. 257. ISBN 1-55750-839-9. Url
  * Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
  * USS Syren's plans


The Avenging Rider (1928 film)

The Avenging Rider is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Tom Tyler, Florence Allen and Frankie Darro.

Cast

  * Tom Tyler as Tom Larkin
  * Florence Allen as Sally Sheridan
  * Frankie Darro as Frankie Sheridan
  * Al Ferguson as Bob Gordon
  * Bob Fleming as Sheriff
  * Arthur Thalasso as Dance professor
  * The Avenging Rider at IMDb


Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility is the largest wastewater treatment plant for Spokane, capable of handling up to 150 million gallons a day. During low flow periods, the outflow of the plant comprises up to 20% of the Spokane River's water.Spokane River resulting in recurrent Typhoid fever outbreaks.50,000,000 US gallons (190,000,000 L; 42,000,000 imp gal) a day began in 2016, also adding sub-micron membrane technology filtration. It is part of Spokane's $300 million integrated water quality plan.

  * Riverside State Park, namesake, across Spokane River
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility.
  * Official website
  * 47°41′47″N 117°28′31″W / 47.69639°N 117.47528°W


Vosler

Vosler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Forrest L. Vosler (1923–1992), American aviator
  * Jason Vosler (born 1993), American baseball player
  * Kent Vosler (born 1955), American diver
  * Vogler (surname)
  * Vossler