Sì (operetta)

Sì premiered on 13 December 1919 at the Teatro Quirino in Rome with several members of the Calligaris-Lombardo operetta company in the cast. The conductor was Lombardo's brother Costantino. The premiere was a great success, although Mascagni had been unhappy with the last-minute changes that the conductor had made to his score.Bürgertheater, sung in a German translation by Josco Schubert. On that occasion it was conducted by Mascagni himself, who restored the score to his original version. The German version conducted by Mascagni was also performed in Baden-Baden, Dresden, and Wiesbaden later that year.Montepulciano (later released on CD) and in 2002 at the Vienna Volksoper with Eva Lind in the title role.Il re di Chez Maxim, a 1919 operetta by Mario Pasquale Costa.

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role                                                             Voice type     Premiere cast, 13 December 1919
                                                                                Conductor: Costantino Lombardo
Sì, an actress at the Folies Bergère                             soprano        Gisella Pozzi
Luciano di Chablis, heir to the dukedom of Chablis               tenor          Orlando Bocci
Vera di Chablis, Luciano's cousin                                soprano        Amelia Sanipoli
Cléo de Mérode, Luciano's manservant                             tenor          Nuto Navarrini
Romal, a post office manager and director at the Folies Bergère  bass           Leone Gariano
Palmira, a post office clerk                                     mezzo-soprano  Giuseppina Calligaris
Post office clerks, hotel page boys, servants, bon viveurs

Recordings

  * Mascagni: Sì – Margherita Vivian (Sì), Amelia Felle (Vera), Mauro Nicoletti (Luciano di Chablis), Marina Vera Gentile (Palmira), Antonio Comas (Cleo de Mérode), Giulio Liguori (Romal); Orchestra Sinfonica del Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte conducted by Sandro Sanna. Recorded live at the Teatro Poliziano di Montepulciano July 1987 (CD). Label: Bongiovanni #2050

Notes

Sources


Sì (operetta)

Notes

Sources

  * Bernardoni, Virgilio (2008). "Mascagni, Pietro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 71. Treccani
  * Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Sì, 13 December 1919". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  * Ciolfi, Simone (2005). "Lombardo, Carlo (pseudonimo Léon Bard e Leblanc)". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 65. Treccani
  * Flury, Roger (2001). Pietro Mascagni: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 16, 139–142. ISBN 0313296626.
  * Gelli, Piero, ed. (2007). "Sì". Dizionario dell'Opera. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. p. 1215. ISBN 978-8860731845.
  * Gori, Gianni (October 2002). "La bella Sì del miglior Mascagni". Il Giornale della Musica (in Italian)
  * Lombardo, Carlo (1919) Sì: Libretto. Casa Musicale Sonzogno
  * Sí (Mascagni): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project


Schizella

Schizella is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae. They are delicate flies from 3.7 to 6.3 mm, with long, thin legs, and the thorax is brown to orange-brown with blue, purple, or golden-coloured setae.

This genus is only known from the Philippines.

Species

  * Schizella furcicornis Bezzi, 1916
  * Schizella pulchrina Frey, 1954
  * Schizella woodleyi Kerr, 2004


Snakeman (film)

Snakeman (stylized as SnakeMan),The Snake King, is a Syfy original film that premiered April 8, 2005, on the Syfy channel.

Story

Anthropologists deep in the Amazon uncover the remains of a man they come to determine was approximately 300 years old when he died. This leads to a second expedition to discover the reason behind his longevity, but there's a major problem in the form of an Amazonian tribe that guards the proverbial fountain of youth and the giant, multi-headed snake they worship.

The scientists, led by Dr. Susan Elters (Jayne Heitmeyer), local amazonians, and their guide, Matt Ford (Stephen Baldwin), work their way through the jungle losing half the crew on the way and discover the tribe known as the Snake People. Once they find the tribe, they are held hostage and the only way they can leave peacefully is if they bring their recently discovered remains.

The scientists are able to contact the head of the expedition who promises to bring the body back. When he and his soldiers show up without the body, they become enemies with the Snake People. They search for the fountain of youth, killing Snake People along the way. They find the fountain in a cave and the final battle between the scientists and the snake takes place. The entire team of soldiers are killed and the only people left alive are Dr. Susan Elters and Matt Ford, who find that they need to keep the secrets to eternal youth with the Snake People.

Cast


Snakeman (film)

Cast

  * Stephen Baldwin as Matt Ford
  * Jayne Heitmeyer as Dr. Susan Elters
  * Larry Day as Dr. Rick Gordon
  * Gary Hudson as Dr. John Simon
  * Ross McCall as Timothy
  * Jorge Tarquini as Jonathan Rodgers
  * Phil Miler as Dr. Richman (as Marcelo Gomes de Oliveira)
  * Gideon Rosa as Dahar
  * Caco Monteiro as Will Bahia (as Caludio de Carvalho Monteiro)
  * Shelly Varod as Sil Santini
  * Mike Zafra as "Rush" Fernandez
  * Narcival Rubens as Tika
  * Lucas Wilber Silva Laborda as Bada
  * Charles Paraventi as Ronald
  * Michael P. Flannigan as Jim (as Michael Flannigan)
  * Sandro Lyrio as Edwardo
  * Agnaldo Santos Lopez as Mase
  * Caio Roderigo Chaves as Prospector
  * Randolph Burlton as Snakeman

Release

Home media

Snakeman was released on DVD by First Look Pictures on March 21, 2006. It was later released by Boulevard Entertainment on December 15, 2008.

Reception

Dread Central panned the film, awarding it a score of 0 1/2 out of 5, writing "Snake King is one of those movies so formulaic it very easily could have been written by an automated screenwriting program. You got the good guy male lead that knows his way around these parts, you got the female lead that ends up becoming his love interest, you got the bad guys that all eventually end up getting killed one way or another, and everyone else is just snake fodder. It’s all done in such a lifeless manner that it manages to fail as either a monster movie or a jungle adventure."Popcorn Pictures similarly panned the film, rating it a score of 1/10, and calling it "a low grade straight-to-TV movie".

  * List of killer snake films
  * Skeleton Man, a 2004 Sci Fi original film
  * Mosquito Man, a 2005 Sci Fi original film
  * Sharkman, a 2005 Sci Fi original film
  * Snakeman at AllMovie
  * Snakeman at IMDb
  * Snakeman at Rotten Tomatoes


Wreck of the Surat

The wreck of the three-masted ship Surat, on New Year's Day 1874, was a major event in the early history of New Zealand's Otago Region.

The Surat, a 1,000 ton iron vessel, was under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company and was carrying emigrants and their belongings from Gravesend, England to Dunedin, New Zealand. She left Gravesend on 28 September 1873, with a crew of 37 under the command of Captain Johnson, carrying 271 passengers and 980 tons of cargo,Surat's first trip to New Zealand; she had previously carried British emigrants several occasions since the mid 1860s.

Wreck in the Catlins

The majority of the voyage was uneventful, and the ship rounded the southern end of New Zealand's South Island on the last day of the year. At just before 10 p.m., under the command of her second mate,Catlins coast, and probably close to Chasland's Mistake. A check at the time found that the hull was sound and there was no leak. During the night, however, a weakened section of hull broke through, and the pumps had to be manned.

At daylight, the steamer Wanganui was sighted and offered help, but Captain Johnson — according to many accounts in a state of heavy intoxication — made it clear in no uncertain terms that help was not needed. Several of the passengers protested and attempted to contact the Wanganui, but Johnson produced a revolver and threatened to shoot anyone defying his command.Jack's Bay and allowing passengers to land. About half the passengers were landed before it was discovered that the ship was in danger of foundering. At this point, the anchor was raised and the Surat continued north to the mouth of the Catlins River, where she was deliberately beached in the sandy bay now called Surat Bay and formerly known as Forsyth's Bay.Port Molyneux harbourmaster, Captain C. E. Hayward,

Aftermath


Wreck of the Surat

Aftermath

Once news of the wreck reached Dunedin, the harbourmaster at the city's port, Port Chalmers, enlisted the help of a French warship, the Vire, which was anchored at the port. Under the command of its captain, Jacquemart, the ship travelled south to the scene of the wreck. With the help of the steamer Wallabi (or Wallabie), which had arrived from Bluff, the Surat's passengers were safely delivered to Dunedin.

All of the emigrants' belongings were left in the watery hulk, as was the ship's other cargo. The ship's wreck — including its cargo — was later sold at auction, but by that time, the settlers' possessions were damaged beyond repair, and they had to rely on an emergency fund set up by the residents of Dunedin.Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.

The inquiry into the wreck held that Captain Johnson and his officers were accountable for the wreck. Both the Captain and second mate had their certificates cancelled, and Johnson was further sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

46°28′40″S 169°44′30″E / 46.47778°S 169.74167°E


Lagardère

Lagardère may refer to:

  * Lagardère Group, a French media group
  * Jean-Luc Lagardère (1928–2003), French engineer and businessman and CEO of the Lagardère Group
  * Arnaud Lagardère (born 1961), French businessman and son of Jean-Luc Lagardère
  * Lagardère, Gers, a commune of the Gers département, France
  * Henri de Lagardère, a character created by Paul Féval
  * Lagardère (film), a 2003 TV movie featuring the Paul Féval character


Sound studies

Sound studies is an interdisciplinary field that to date has focused largely on the emergence of the concept of "sound" in Western modernity, with an emphasis on the development of sound reproduction technologies. The field first emerged in venues like the journal Social Studies of Science by scholars working in science and technology studies and communication studies; it has however greatly expanded and now includes a broad array of scholars working in music, anthropology, sound art, deaf studies, architecture, and many other fields besides. Important studies have focused on the idea of a "soundscape", architectural acoustics, nature sounds, the history of aurality in Western philosophy and nineteenth-century Colombia, Islamic approaches to listening, the voice, studies of deafness, loudness, and related topics. A foundational text is Jonathan Sterne's 2003 book "The Audible Past", though the field has retroactively taken as foundational two texts, Jacques Attali's Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) and R. Murray Schafer's The Tuning of the World (The Soundscape) (1977).

Initial work in the field was criticized for focusing mainly on white male inventors in Euro-America. Consequently, the field is currently in a period of expansion, with important texts coming out in recent years on sound, listening, and hearing as they relate to race, gender, and colonialism.

Hearing and listening

Two significant categories to what we hear and pay attention to are natural and technological sounds. According to R. Murray Schafer (through a survey of quotes in the literature), the proportion of nature sounds heard and noticed among European authors has decreased over the past two centuries from 43% to 20%, but not for North America, where it has stayed around 50%. Additionally, the proportion of technological sounds mentioned in literature has stayed around 35% for Europe, but decreased in North America. While technological increases have not been sonically noticed, the decrease in silence has been noticed, from 19% to 9%.


Sound studies

For the idea of listening, objects can be considered auditorily as compared to visually. The objects that are able to be experienced by sight and by sound can be thought of in a venn diagram, with mute and visible objects in the vision category, with aural and invisible objects in the sound category, and aural and visible objects in the overlapping category. Objects that do not fall into a specific category can be considered beyond the horizons of sound and sight. The common denominator for aural objects is movement.

Three modes of listening have been articulated by sound theorist Michel Chion: causal listening, semantic listening, and reduced listening. Causal listening, the most common, consists of listening in order to gather information about the sound's source, or its cause. Sound in this case is informational and can be used to recognize voices, determine distance, or understand differences between humans and machines. Semantic listening is when one listens in order to understand the encoded meaning of the sound such as in speech or other sounds that are imbued with meaning such as morse code or user interface feedback sounds. Reduced listening focuses on the traits of the sound itself regardless of cause and meaning.

Jean-Luc Nancy's short book, Listening, distinguishes hearing from listening. Hearing is a sonic attentiveness to meaning and understanding while listening is a radical sonic receptivity to what is other and unexpected. "To be listening," he writes, "is always to be on the edge of meaning, or in an edge meaning of extremity."

For Nina Sun Eidsheim, especially in The Race of Sound, we are trained to listen for what we hear and as a result, what we hear affirms our initial expectations. In response, she calls for us to listen to our listening, and redirect our attention to ourselves, asking not what or who or what kind of subject I'm hearing, but "Who am I, who hears this?"

Spaces, sites and scapes


Sound studies

Spaces, sites and scapes

Sound is heard through space. But this defining of sound and space is further nuanced by their interdependent existence, creation, and dissolution. This idea of the acoustic environment and its social inextricability has become a source of interest within the field of sound studies. Critical to this contemporary discussion of the symbiotic social space and sonic space is R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape. Schafer uses the term soundscape to describe "a total appreciation of the sonic environment," and, through soundscape studies, attempts to more holistically understand "the relationship between man and the sounds of his environment and what happens when those sounds change".

Schafer's concept of the soundscape has become a hallmark of sound studies and is referenced, built upon, and criticized by writers from a wide breadth of disciplines and perspectives. Common themes explored through the analysis of the soundscape are the conflict between nature and industry, the impact of technology on sound production and consumption, the issue of cultural sound values and the evolution of acoustics, and the power dynamics of silence and noise.

Transduce and record

Our perception of a recorded sound's authenticity has been greatly impacted by the commercial influence of capitalism. Even the dead now profit from recordings they've made, making music more timeless than ever before.

In a Memorex commercial involving Ella Fitzgerald and Chuck Mangione, Fitzgerald is unable to discern the difference between a live performance and a recording of Mangione playing the trumpet. This presents a scene to viewers which sells cassette tapes as ideal objects of high-fidelity, auditory preservation.

Part of this shift in the dynamics of recorded sound has to do with a desire for noise reduction. This desire is representative of a mode of recording referred to by scholar James Lastra as "telephonic:" a mode in which sound is regarded as having hierarchically important qualities, with clarity and intelligibility being the most important aspects. This contrasts with phonographic recording, which generates a "point of audition" from which a sense of space can be derived, sacrificing quality for uniqueness and fidelity.


Sound studies

* Audiophile
  * R. Murray Schafer (1977), The Tuning of the World, (considered as the first contribution in sound studies.)
  * R. Murray Schafer (1994), The soundscape. In The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books. pp. 3–12
  * Michael Doucet (1983), "Space, Sound, Culture, and Politics: Radio Broadcasting in Southern Ontario". Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadienVolume 27, Issue 2, pages 109–127, June 1983,
  * Jacques Attali (1985), Noise: The Political Economy of Music
  * John Potts (1997), "Is There a Sound Culture?", Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, December 1997, vol. 3 no. 4, pp. 10–14
  * Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco (2002), Analog Days
  * Thompson, Emily (2002), The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America 1900-1930. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 1–12
  * Jonathan Sterne (2003), The Audible Past
  * Jonathan Sterne (ed.) (2012), The Sound Studies Reader
  * Georgina Born (1995), Rationalizing Culture
  * Georgina Born (ed.) (2013), Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience
  * Peter Szendy (2007), Listen, A History of Our Ears (the original French version, Ecoute, une histoire de nos oreilles, was published in 2001)
  * Michele Hilmes (2005), "Is There a Field Called Sound Culture Studies? And Does It Matter?", American Quarterly, Volume 57, Number 1, March 2005, pp. 249–259,
  * Holger Schulze & Christoph Wulf (2007), Klanganthropologie
  * Holger Schulze (2008), Sound Studies
  * special issue on "The Politics of Recorded Sound" by Social Text 102 (2010), edited by Gustavus Stadler.


Sound studies

* Veit Erlmann (2010), Reason and Resonance
  * Trevor Pinch & Karin Bijsterveld (2011), Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
  * Florence Feiereisen & Alexandra Merley Hill (2011), Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century
  * Kate Crawford (2009) "Following You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media". Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 525–535
  * Shuhei Hosokawa (1984), "The Walkman Effect", Popular Music 4:165-80
  * James Lastra (2000), "Fidelity Versus Intelligibility" pp. 138–43. New York: Columbia University Press
  * Kodwo Eshun (1999). Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality. London: Quartet Books.
  * Goodman, Steve (2010) "The Ontology of Vibrational Force" Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear Cambridge: MIT Press. pp 81-84
  * Don Ihde (1974). The Auditory Dimension. In Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound. Athens: Ohio University Press. Pp. 49-55
  * John Picker (2003). Victorian Soundscapes. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 41–52.
  * Michael Bull (2008) Sound Moves : iPod Culture and Urban Experience. London: Routledge. pp 39–49.
  * Meredith Ward (2019) 'Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture'. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  * Justin St. Clair (2013). Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening. New York: Routledge.
  * Justin St. Clair (2022). Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age: A Century of "Books that Sing." New York: Routledge.
  * European Sound Studies Association
  * A syllabus from a graduate seminar on Sound Studies taught by Jonathan Sterne in the fall of 2006.
  * Weird Vibrations, a sound studies blog.
  * Sounding Out!, a sound studies blog


Sound studies

* Sounding Out!, a sound studies blog
  * Anthropology of Sound, a sound studies blog
  * Master of Arts: Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, study Sound Studies at the University of Arts Berlin
  * Sound Studies Lab, a research project on auditory culture at the Humboldt-University of Berlin


PPP (complexity)

In computational complexity theory, the complexity class PPP (polynomial pigeonhole principle) is a subclass of TFNP. It is the class of search problems that can be shown to be total by an application of the pigeonhole principle. Christos Papadimitriou introduced it in the same paper that introduced PPAD and PPA.PPAD and PWPP (polynomial weak pigeonhole principle) as subclasses. These complexity classes are of particular interest in cryptography because they are strongly related to cryptographic primitives such as one-way permutations and collision-resistant hash functions.

Definition

PPP is the set of all function computation problems that admit a polynomial-time reduction to the PIGEON problem, defined as follows:

Given a Boolean circuit [C] having the same number [n] of input bits as output bits, find either an input [x] that is mapped to the output [{\displaystyle C(x)=0^{n}}], or two distinct inputs [x\neq y] that are mapped to the same output [{\displaystyle C(x)=C(y)}].

A problem is PPP-complete if PIGEON is also polynomial-time reducible to it. Note that the pigeonhole principle guarantees that PIGEON is total. We can also define WEAK-PIGEON, for which the weak pigeonhole principle guarantees totality. PWPP is the corresponding class of problems that are polynomial-time reducible to it.WEAK-PIGEON is the following problem:

Given a Boolean circuit [C] having [n] input bits and [n-1] output bits, find [x\neq y] such that [{\displaystyle C(x)=C(y)}].

Here, the range of the circuit is strictly smaller than its domain, so the circuit is guaranteed to be non-injective. WEAK-PIGEON reduces to PIGEON by appending a single 1 bit to the circuit's output, so PWPP [\subseteq ] PPP.

Connection to cryptography


PPP (complexity)

Connection to cryptography

We can view the circuit in PIGEON as a polynomial-time computable hash function. Hence, PPP is the complexity class which captures the hardness of either inverting or finding a collision in hash functions. More generally, the relationship of subclasses of FNP to polynomial-time complexity classes can be used to determine the existence of certain cryptographic primitives, and vice versa.

For example, it is known that if FNP = FP, then one-way functions do not exist. Similarly, if PPP = FP, then one-way permutations do not exist.[\pi ] on an output [y] to PIGEON. Construct a circuit [C] that computes [{\displaystyle C(x)=\pi (x)\oplus y}]. Since [\pi ] is a permutation, a solution to PIGEON must output [x] such that [{\displaystyle C(x)=0=\pi (x)\oplus y}], which implies [{\displaystyle \pi (x)=y}].

Relationship to PPAD

PPP contains PPAD as a subclass (strict containment is an open problem). This is because End-of-the-Line, which defines PPAD, admits a straightforward polynomial-time reduction to PIGEON. In End-of-the-Line, the input is a start vertex [s] in a directed graph [G] where each vertex has at most one successor and at most one predecessor, represented by a polynomial-time computable successor function [f]. Define a circuit [C] whose input is a vertex [x] and whose output is its successor if there is one, or [x] if it does not. If we represent the source vertex [s] as the bitstring [0^{n}], this circuit is a direct reduction of End-of-the-Line to Pigeon, since any collision in [C] provides a sink in [G].

Notable problems

Equal sums problem


PPP (complexity)

Notable problems

Equal sums problem

The equal sums problem is the following problem. Given [n] positive integers that sum to less than [2^{n}-1], find two distinct subsets of the integers that have the same total. This problem is contained in PPP, but it is not known if it is PPP-complete.

Constrained-SIS problem

The constrained-SIS (short integer solution) problem, which is a generalization of the SIS problem from lattice-based cryptography, has been shown to be complete for PPP.PIGEON.

Integer factorization

There exist polynomial-time randomized reductions from the integer factorization problem to WEAK-PIGEON.generalized Riemann hypothesis, there also exist deterministic polynomial reductions. However, it is still an open problem to unconditionally show that integer factorization is in PPP.


Salmson AD.3

The Salmson AD.3 or Salmson 3 Ad was a French designed, three-cylinder, air-cooled radial aero engine. It was also produced by British Salmson in Great Britain during the 1920s.

Applications (3 Ad)

  * Adaridi AD 3
  * Farman Aviette
  * Peyret-Nessler Libellule

Engines on display

A preserved Salmson 3 Ad engine is on public display at the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

Specifications (AD.3)

Data from Flight, 21 February 1924.

General characteristics

  * Type: Three-cylinder, single-row, water-cooled radial engine
  * Bore: 70 mm (2.75 in)
  * Stroke: 86 mm (3.4 in)
  * Displacement: 0.993 L (60.6 cu in)
  * Length: 650 mm (25.6 in)
  * Diameter: 550 mm (21.6 in)
  * Dry weight: 34 kg (75 lb)

Components

  * Valvetrain: Two overhead valves per cylinder, pushrod operated
  * Fuel system: Claudel carburettor
  * Oil system: Pressure lubrication
  * Cooling system: Air-cooled
  * Reduction gear: Direct drive

Performance

  * Power output: 12 kW (16 hp) at 2,400 rpm
  * Compression ratio: 5.5.:1
  * Specific fuel consumption: 250 g (0.55 lb) per horsepower-hour
  * Oil consumption: 15 g (0.33 lb) per horsepower hour
  * Power-to-weight ratio: 0.35 kW/kg (0.21 hp/lb)

Comparable engines

  * Blackburne Thrush
  * Bristol Lucifer
  * Szekely SR-3

Related lists

  * List of aircraft engines
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Nike PUL 9

The Nike PUL 9 is an Argentine experimental tailless aircraft powered by a Rotax 447 engine.

Design and development

The PUL 9 had its origins in Argentina, the home of the German flying wing pioneer Reimar Horten since 1948. In late 1989 a collaboration between Horten and Siegfried Panek produced a design for a single seat, single pusher engine tailless aircraft. The name was an acronym of Panek UltraLight, with 9 the span in metres. Construction began near Frankfurt, Germany in January 1990 but was transferred to the Italian company Nike Aeronautica in the spring. The PUL 9 first flew on 22 June 1990.

It had 30° of sweep on the leading edges of its thick (thickness/chord ratio 20%), symmetric aerofoil, wings, built using carbon fibre and Kevlar with glassfibre for the spars. The wingtips were rounded, with washout. Elevons controlled both pitch and roll; there was no vertical stabilizing surface, rudder or separate tailplane.

Like some of Horten's tailless gliders, the I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú for example, the PUL 9 had a well defined, though short, fuselage or pod. This was a deep steel tube structure starting about mid-chord and extending well behind the trailing edge, with a single seat open cockpit at the front and a 42 hp (31 kW) Rotax 447 two cylinder two-stroke engine in pusher mode behind. The main wheels of the PUL 9's fixed tricycle undercarriage were also mounted on the steel frame, with the nosewheel attached near the leading edge. The undercarriage used rubber cord shock absorbers and drum brakes.

The PUL 9 is reported to have flown several times and handled well. By the end of 1991 attention had turned to a two-seat version, the Nike PUL 10.

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1991/2

General characteristics


Nike PUL 9

General characteristics

  * Crew: 1
  * Length: 3.90 m (12 ft 10 in)
  * Wingspan: 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in)
  * Height: 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
  * Wing area: 11.60 m2 (124.9 sq ft) approximate
  * Empty weight: 150 kg (331 lb)
  * Max takeoff weight: 300 kg (661 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 447UL 2-cylinder inline two-stroke, 31.3 kW (42.0 hp)
  * Propellers: 3-bladed Arplast 148GAM adjustable pitch pusher, 1.48 m (4 ft 10 in) diameter

Performance

  * Maximum speed: 225 km/h (140 mph, 121 kn) at sea level
  * Cruise speed: 140 km/h (87 mph, 76 kn) economical, at sea level
  * Stall speed: 55 km/h (34 mph, 30 kn)
  * Rate of climb: 5.08 m/s (1,000 ft/min)
  * BAaer BA-5 Guri


Syko Cipher Device

The SYKO cipher device was a compact British cipher apparatus in use during World War II. It was invented and patented by Morgan O'Brien before the war. O'Brien developed a sophisticated cipher typewriter, which was complex and delicate, but then came up with the relatively simple device adopted by the military that was known the SYKO. Although the German crypt analysts managed to break the SYKO code, it remained in use for much of the war as a quick method for low-level encoding of radio traffic, particularly from aircraft. Code breaking took considerable time plus a sufficient sample of messages, and for certain classes of radio traffic (such as an aircraft's position) decoded information that became available many hours later was of little value.

Description

The SYKO machine is a purely mechanical device. Details of its mechanical construction can be found in GB Patent 534615 (Morgan O'Brien and O'Brien Cipher Machines Ltd, London)Royal Australian Air Force in November 1940 have been made available on-line.

When the grey top cover is opened up it reveals 32 vertical columns of letters. Each column has the characters reading downwards from A to Z then 9 to 0 followed by a pause character (37 characters in all). These columns are moveable on an endless band. The SYKO case contains a propelling pencil with a small brass pin at the other end, which is inserted in a notch at each letter allowing the columns to be moved as required. Use of the device requires the code card for that day. This is placed within the machine and is revealed as the columns are moved down.

The code card contains 32 columns of symbols, each column having the same 37 characters as in the moveable columns but in a random order. Code cards were different for each day, and usually aircraft only carried the card for the day. In the event that events dictated a flight unexpectedly went past midnight there was provision when sending code to indicate you were using an earlier days card. The characters on the code card were paired in each column (18 pairs) leaving a single character unpaired. The pairing means that, for example, if 'C' codes as 'R', then 'R' codes as 'C'. There is a 1 in 37 chance that a character will be the un-paired character and code as itself.


Syko Cipher Device

The bottom cover of the device can be slid in to reset all the columns to 'A' at the top. Encoding involves taking the special pencil and, for each column in turn, selecting the corresponding letter in the message using the pencil brass pin to draw down the moveable column so that letter is at the bottom bar thus revealing the code card underneath. The encoded message is then the lower-most symbol visible on the code card (i.e. above the 'A' in each moveable column). The original message is still visible along the bottom bar, so you can check the column placement hasn't moved. Due to the pairing of characters outlined above, the decoding of messages follows the same process, with it essential that both parties are using the same coding card. To avoid confusion between similar letters on the code card, the 'i' was in lower case, the zero had a line through it, and the 'e' was lower case.

The use of the reciprocal codes (e.g. A codes as Z, and Z codes as A) limited the variations possible, so in July 1942 non-reciprocal codes for SYKO and NYKO were introduced. This meant turning the code card over when changing from coding to decoding, but it did make the code significantly harder to break.

History

Morgan O'Brien filed several patents while living in New Zealand related to burglar alarms and security on tills and shops. Around 1925 he came to England with his wife (via Vancouver and Montreal), and realised that while long-distance telegraph communication transformed the links between parts of the empire, the message information was not as private as letters and so there was a business opportunity for a technique for coding messages. Around 1927 the British military were also considering the problems of using unencrypted radio messages and in 1928 established the Wireless Messages Committee to look into the issues.

It was in 1928 that Morgan O'Brien patented a cipher typewriter.Enigma machine in a detailed account of its evaluation by the UK and US military experts.

Morgan O'Brien had continued to develop the cipher typewriter at least until 1935 when he issued a further patent,Ronaldsway on 2 September 1939 which records the Air Ministry controller taking over and taking possession of the Syko cards.


Syko Cipher Device

An Admiralty document from November 1945, formerly Top Secret, now declassified, reviews Naval codes and ciphers used during the war and also gives some insight on the usage of SYKO by the RAF.

For the first 2 years of the war the Navy used the Syko with Naval cards as the standard low-grade system for communication with vessels such as auxiliary minesweepers, anti-submarine craft, examination vessels, harbour defence vessels, MTBs, etc. - none of which carried a high grade code capability. This was replaced by a small ships code in August 1941 (S.P. 02383) known by its prefix LOXO.

List of RAF and Navy SYKO code card series
Code Card Series  Start         End          Description
Navy Peacetime    Early 1939    Sept 1939    Discontinued when war broke out
S.P. 02255        Sept 1939     ?            Naval wartime SYKO cards
S.P. 02266        Sept 1939     1 June 1943  R.A.F. card series
S.P. 02342        Early 1940    1 June 1942  Inter-service code cards (replaced by Cysquare)
S.P. 02435        March 1942    ?            Middle-East cards for use by RAF and Navy in the Mediterranean
S.P. ?            1 April 1942  1 July 1943  North-Atlantic cards for UK and Gibraltar based aircraft
S.P. ?            1 July 1942   >1945        Naval non-reciprocal code cards*
S.P. 02308        1 June 1943   >1944        R.A.F. world-wide card series - non-reciprocal code cards

* Implied change as Admiralty document states non-reciprocal code cards introduced on 1 July 1942, and states RAF was still on SP 02266 until 1 June 1943.

On 1 April 1942 another special series of cards was introduced for aircraft operating in the North Atlantic, solely for shore-based aircraft operating from the UK and Gibraltar (i.e. for the Coastal Command operations to protect convoys). 1 July 1942 marked the introduction of non-reciprocal cards to improve the security. On 1 July 1943 coastal command dropped usage of SYKO, instead using a new Aircraft Reporting Code (S.P. 2488).

Naval aircraft continued to use the SKYO code with Naval cards in 1944,


Syko Cipher Device

With several sets of cards there were occasions when a vessel would need more than one, as was evident from the report on the loss of HMS Khartoum in June 1940, in which the accounts list a SYKO machine, instructions for use of SYKO machine, and both naval and RAF SYKO cards.

This complex series of releases of different code cards appear to have all used the same SYKO device with little or no modification - however the Admiralty report does say that in March 1942 the SYKO devices were in short supply, and that "Rekoh" cases were issued to use with the SYKO cards in their place.

The SYKO device was used for RAF aircraft communications until at least June 1944 (from operations logs, e.g. 200 Squadron Record of Operations

A small number of SYKO devices have survived in private collections or museums, in the UK the Solway Aviation Museum has a Syko Cipher Device on display.

  * Crypto Museum
  * Jerry Proc - Crypto Machines


Síle

Síle, Gaelic-Irish female given name.

Bearers of the name

  * Síle Ní Mathgamna, died 1473.
  * Síle Ní Siurtáin, died 1485.
  * Síle Níc Ceallaigh, died 1486.
  * Síle Níc Carthaigh, died 1489.
  * Síle Ní Raghalligh, died 1491.
  * Síle Níc Uidhir, died 1499.
  * Síle Ní Domnaill, died 1521.
  * Síle Ní Fhallamhain, died 1530.
  * Síle Ní Birnn, died 1531.
  * Síle Ní Domhnaill, died 1544.
  * Síle Ní Domhnaill, died 1582.
  * Síle Ní Falluin, died 1589.
  * Sile Horgan, seventh president of the Camogie Association, 1949-52.
  * Síle de Valera, former Fianna Fáil politician, born 1954.
  * Síle Seoige, Irish television presenter, born 1979.
  * Síle Ní Bhraonain, Irish television presenter, born 1983.
  * Síle Burns, Cork camogie player and physiotherapist, born 1985.
  * Sheila
  * http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Sile.shtml


Schizachyrium maritimum

Schizachyrium maritimum is a species of grass known by the common name Gulf bluestem. It is native to the Gulf Coast of the United States, where its distribution extends from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

This species produces single stems that lie decumbent, often rooting at nodes that come in contact with the sandy substrate, making them look like rhizomes.

This plant grows at the coastal waterline. It is sometimes submerged in water. It binds the soil.bluestem grass on the Gulf of Mexico."

  * NatureServe


Snakeholme Lock

Snakeholme lock, restored after many years of closure

Snakeholme Lock is a brick chamber canal lock on the Driffield Navigation, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is notable in being a staircase lock, but only the upper lock is still used. It was designated Grade II in 1986.

Location

It is 0.5 mile (0.8 km) south-east from the village of Wansford, and is approximately 17 miles (27 km) north of Kingston upon Hull city centre.

Situated on the Driffield Navigation

  * Next location upstream = Wansford Bridge
  * Next location downstream = Brigham

History

Built during the construction of the Driffield Navigation after the Act of Parliament in 1767. It was the first lock reached on the new section of canal, and became the tidal limit on the navigation. A swing bridge reached over the bottom of the lock to allow the Yorkshire Keels to get through without lowering the mast.

Once regular trade started to use the new navigation, problems with low water were noticed. The tide on the River Hull does not easily push up the river due to sharp bends, and narrow sections, and so there was regularly not enough depth over the bottom gate cill.

Lower chamber of the staircase

To remedy this situation, a new chamber was built below the lock creating a staircase lock. Since the lock was only needed to get the boats over the lower cill, the bottom lock only had a minimum rise, and would not even be needed on good spring tides, or during high river flows. A sluice was built into the side of the chamber to allow emptying, filling being performed from the lock above.

During the navigation improvements of 1803–1811, a new lock at Struncheon Hill was built, keeping a permanent high water level at the lock, and it would be unlikely the lower chamber was used after this.

Trade declined on the navigation, but some of the last cargoes were to the mills at Wansford, and so kept the lock going for a few more years than the rest of the canal. In 1967 a trip to the lock showed it unnavigable, but in reasonable condition.

At some point the swing bridge was replaced with a fixed structure.


Snakeholme Lock

At some point the swing bridge was replaced with a fixed structure.

Occasional working parties by the Driffield Navigation Ammeninties Association kept the worst of the vegetation at bay through the 1980s, but it was only in 2002 that a grant allowed work to restore the structure back to working conditions. When the lock was drained, the original swing bridge turntable casting was found in the mud and saved for historical interest.

On 18 April 2003, the lock was reopened to traffic by the Mayor of Driffield. Several boats made the trip to "The Trout" pub in Wansford, but large amounts of silt and a trout farm located just above the lock have limited the numbers of boats using this stretch. The paddles on the top gate are currently locked up to stop misuse.

  * Canals of the United Kingdom
  * History of the British canal system
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  * Driffield Navigation Website
  * Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1261822)". National Heritage List for England.

53°59′3″N 0°22′21″W / 53.98417°N 0.37250°W


Wilfred Beaver

Captain Wilfred Beaver (10 May 1897 – 19 August 1986) was a World War I flying ace credited with 19 aerial victories.

Early life and Army service

After passing his childhood in his native England, Beaver sailed for Canada. His parents separated in 1911, and he was shipped off to Montreal, Canada. He was supposed to live with his uncle and study dentistry. He enlisted in the 1st Canadian Heavy Battery of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 7 August 1914.

Aerial success

He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 28 February 1917.Bristol Fighters. He scored his first victory on 13 November 1917. On 6 January 1918, he became an ace. He continued collecting victories, with a double on 5 February 1918 and three wins on 27 May 1918. His final victory came on 13 June 1918. In the final analysis, Beaver and his observers (including fellow aces M. B. Mather and Ernest Deighton) were credited 11 enemy airplanes destroyed and eight driven down out of control.

Between the wars

Beaver was transferred the unemployed list effective 13 April 1919.Greenville, Mississippi in 1920. He became a naturalized citizen on 21 September 1926.Jamestown, New York.

World War II and beyond

He returned to service in World War II as a major, and was the executive officer of the 447th Bombardment Group, 3rd Air Force, from 25 June 1943,Bronze Star. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and moved up to command the group from 1 July 1945 through August.

Honours and awards

Military Cross T./2nd Lt. Wilfred Beaver, Gen. List, and R.F.C. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During the last five months he has destroyed five hostile machines, and has brought down completely out of control six others. During the recent operations he has performed exceptionally good work in bombing and firing upon hostile troops from very low altitudes. He has displayed marked gallantry and resource, and has proved himself a patrol leader of great dash and ability.


Salahlı, Agstafa

41°16′11″N 45°21′11″E / 41.26972°N 45.35306°E

Salahlı (Salahly) is a village in the Agstafa District of Azerbaijan.

  * Salahlı, Agstafa at GEOnet Names Server


Ski Mistress

Ski Mistress (Italian: La maestra di sci) is a 1981 Italian sex comedy film directed by Alessandro Lucidi and starring Carmen Russo.

Plot

Cast

  * Carmen Russo as Celia Berni
  * Andy Luotto as Franco
  * Cinzia De Ponti as Carla
  * Daniele Vargas as Emir Hussein
  * Sonia Otero as Stella
  * Renzo Ozzano as Walter A. Thompson
  * Ghigo Masino as Hotel Manager
  * Giacomo Rizzo as Kidnapper
  * List of Italian films of 1981
  * Ski Mistress at IMDb


PPRU

* Pirate Party of Russia
  * Policy Planning and Research Unit (UK)
  * Personnel Policy Research Unit
  * Packaging and Polymer Research Unit
  * Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit (US NIH)
  * PPRU-1 is a Soviet/Russian mobile air target reconnaissance and command center


Salmson-Moineau S.M.1

The Salmson-Moineau S.M.1 A3, (later re-designated Salmson Sal. 1 A3), was a French armed three-seat biplane long range reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War designed by René Moineau for the Salmson company.

Design and development

The S.M.1 A3 was developed from 1915 to meet the French military A3 specification, which called for a three-seat long range reconnaissance aircraft with strong defensive armament. The S.M.1 was unconventional, powered by a single Salmson 9A liquid-cooled radial engine mounted in the fuselage powering two airscrews mounted between the wings with a system of gears and drive shafts. This layout was chosen by Moineau to minimise drag. The twin airscrew layout allowed a wide field of fire for the two gunner-observers, one seated in the nose and one behind the pilot. Both gunners operated ring-mounted flexible 37 mm APX cannon built by Arsenal Puteaux. The airframe itself was relatively conventional, the boxy fuselage mounted on a system of struts between the wings. The undercarriage included a nose wheel, intended solely to prevent the aircraft nosing over, and a tail skid.

One aircraft may have been fitted experimentally with a Salmson (Canton-Unne) P.9 engine. A single S.M.2 S2 aircraft, with an additional Salmson 9A engine in the nose driving a conventional tractor airscrew, was tested with poor results, due to inadequate engine cooling, in 1918.

Operational history

The aircraft was tested in early 1916 and was sufficiently successful to receive an order for 100 aircraft although the performance was inferior to the Sopwith 1½ Strutter. In service the S.M.1 was not successful. The nose-wheel undercarriage would collapse if misused and this caused many accidents. The complicated transmission system was difficult to service in the field and the performance of the aircraft was poor. It appears that around 155 S.M.1s were built in total. The type was largely withdrawn from service in 1917 but a small number of aircraft remained in use until late 1918. Some S.M.1s were supplied to the Imperial Russian Air Service, but they were no better liked in Russia.

Operators


Salmson-Moineau S.M.1

Operators

France
  * French Air Force
Russia
  * Imperial Russian Air Service

Variants

S.M.1 A3 The production 3-seat reconnaissance aircraft, powered by a single Salmson 9A2c radial engine laterally mounted in the fuselage driving two propellers via shafts and gearboxes. S.M.2 S2 An enlarged S.M.1, for the S2 2-seater ground attack role, with extended upper wings with additional bracing, reinforced undercarriage and a second Salmson 9A2c in the nose driving a 2-bladed tractor propeller directly.

Specifications (S.M.1 A3)

Data from

General characteristics

  * Crew: 3
  * Length: 10 m (32 ft 10 in)
  * Wingspan: 17.475 m (57 ft 4 in)
  * Height: 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
  * Wing area: 70 m2 (750 sq ft)
  * Gross weight: 2,050 kg (4,519 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Salmson 9A2c 9-cyl. water-cooled radial piston engine, 180 kW (240 hp)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propellers, one each side driven by shafts via gearboxes

Performance

  * Endurance: 3 hours

Armament


Salmson-Moineau S.M.1

* Endurance: 3 hours

Armament

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  * Comas, Matthieu (January–February 2020). "Salmson-Moineau SM. 1: L'étrange triplace des escadrilles de crops de armée (première partie)" [The Strange Three-seater of the Army Cooperation Squadrons (Pt.1)]. Avions (in French) (233): 66–93. ISSN 1243-8650.
  * Cony, Christophe (September–October 2020). "Salmson-Moineau SM.1: L'étrange triplace des escadrilles de corps de armée (troisième et dernière partie)" [The Strange Three-seater of the Army Cooperation Squadrons (Pt.3)]. Avions (in French) (236): 62–85. ISSN 1243-8650.
  * Davilla, James J., & Soltan, Arthur M., French Aircraft of the First World War. Stratford, Connecticut: Flying Machines Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9637110-4-0
  * Owers, Colin A.; Jon S. Guttman; James J. Davilla (2001). Salmson Aircraft of World War I. Boulder, Colorado: Flying Machine Press. ISBN 1-891268-16-3.


William Plifka

William Plifka (born May 8, 1977) is an American lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1999 World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines with the lightweight men's eight.


Syktyvkar Southwest Airport

Syktyvkar Southwest is an unfinished and abandoned airport in Komi, Russia located 19 km southwest of Syktyvkar. It was intended to be a civilian airport and was partially constructed in the 1980s, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting drop in air passenger traffic, the plans to complete it were dropped. Today, the existing Syktyvkar Airport within city limits continues to serve as the city's air transport gateway.

  * RussianAirFields.com


Stephan Collishaw

Stephan Collishaw is an author from Nottinghamshire.

Collishaw was born at Nottingham City Hospital.Goldsmiths, University of London, where he wrote several other substantial unpublished works, and based on an interest in history and literature, decided to become a teacher in 1991.Vilnius in 1995, where he met and married a Lithuanian womanLithuanian.Palma de Mallorca for two years, where Marija gave birth to Collishaw's son Lukas,Nottingham Trent University.

His first novel, The Last Girl, about an elderly and impoverished poet in Vilnius, was completed in 2001The Guardian, Julie Myerson described it as "astoundingly complex for a first novel", and also commented favourably on the reserved and un-flashy tone of Collishaw's prose.Amber, in 2004. Also set in Vilnius, it was inspired in part by (and contained numerous references to) Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlaine, which had been a favorite of Collishaw's as a young man.

Collishaw's third novel, The Song of the Stork was published by Legend Press. The Song of the Stork is set in Lithuania during the Second World War and tells the story of the brittle, unlikely relationship between a 15-year-old girl, Yael, and the mute outcast Aleksei against the background of the Jewish partisan resistance. The novel is a love story and a coming-of-age tale. It is about a young woman finding her voice as around her the voices of her community are extinguished.


Stephan Collishaw

In 2018 Legend Press published Collishaw's fourth novel, A Child Called Happiness. Rosie Garthwaite wrote that it was, 'An incredibly timely book about the human upheaval in all its emotional forms', whilst Celeste Hicks wrote that 'Collishaw's characters are delicately created and endearingly human'. Set in Zimbabwe, the story explores two stories of struggle over a farm in the Bindura valley. In 2010 a young British girl goes to stay with her uncle on his family farm as tensions with the local authorities and the War Veterans reach boiling point. 115 years earlier, village chief Tafara struggles to keep control of his land as white settlers move into the area. Collishaw 'Deftly weaves together two stories set in different periods of Zimbabwe's history, always taking the reader with him. The vexed issue of land in Zimbabwe and who it belongs to is the common thread. Collishaw creates atmosphere and a sense of place, bringing to life the characters, the history and the politics' Mary Harper.

Stephan also edited Any Place But Home which contains personal histories of seven Lithuanians who settled in England's East Midlands in the 1940s.

His brother is Mat Collishaw the artist.

  * Review of The Last Girl in J. The Jewish News of Northern California
  * Review of Amber in The Independent
  * Review of "The Last Girl" in Lituanus


Schizaphis hypersiphonata

The Pangola Grass Aphid (Schizaphis hypersiphonata), also known as Schizaphis (Schizaphis) hypersiphonata, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera.

  * http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Schizaphis_hypersiphonata/classification/
  * http://aphid.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1166087
  * https://www.gbif.org/species/2075979


MRSC

MRSC may refer to:

  * Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, a rescue coordination centre dedicated to organizing search and rescue in a maritime environment
  * Member of the Royal Society of Canada
  * Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  * Municipal Research and Services Center, a Seattle, Washington, organization


Otto Schindler (canoeist)

Otto Schindler (11 August 1925 – 6 March 2009) was an Austrian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he finished sixth in the C-2 1000 m and eighth in the C-2 10000 m event.

  * Otto Schindler's profile at Sports Reference.com


Salahi

Salahi may refer to:

Places
  * Salahi, Khuzestan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
  * Salahi, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
People
  * Adil Salahi, editor of Arab News, a Saudi newspaper
  * Michaele and Tareq Salahi ("the Salahis"), known as perpetrators of the 2009 U.S. state dinner security breaches
      + Michaele Salahi, cast member on The Real Housewives of D.C. and ex-wife of Tareq
      + Tareq Salahi, former vintner
  * Mohamedou Ould Salahi, author of a memoir of his incarceration at Guantanamo
  * Salehi
  * Salehi, Iran (disambiguation)


Ski Apache

Ski Apache is a ski resort located in southern New Mexico on the slopes of Sierra Blanca mountains. It is owned and operated, since 1963, by the Mescalero Apache Tribe. Ski Apache was the only ski resort in New Mexico with its own gondola lift, until Taos Ski Valley obtained a gondola lift but it doesn't serve ski runs, but connects the children's center to the base making the Gondola at Apache the only true Gondola lift in the entire state. Runs in the resort include Apache Bowl, an intermediate run on the upper west side of the mountain known for its wide, open space, and views from the top of Chairlift 6; Capitan, a steep, challenging pitch that drops 475 feet; and the Gondola Liftline, a steep and narrow advanced run that runs from the top of the mountain to the main lodge. Another run is Snow Park, which is known for being one of the most difficult beginner runs in the world,gondola lift, three quad chairlifts, and four triple chairlifts. The resort receives an average annual snowfall of fifteen feet.

Ski Apache also has three zip lines. The longest is one mile long and starts at 11,500 feet elevation.

Image Gallery

  * [The Lodge at Ski Apache in 2006]
    The Lodge at Ski Apache in 2006
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  * Ski Apache resort

33°23′50″N 105°47′57″W / 33.39722°N 105.79917°W


PPS-1350

PPS-1350 is a Hall-effect thruster, a kind of ion propulsion system for spacecraft. It was used in the SMART-1 mission to the moon and one geostationary satellites: Inmarsat-4A F4.

It creates a stream of electrically charged xenon ions accelerated by an electric field and confined by a magnetic field.Snecma, a French aerospace firm, in cooperation with Fakel, who designed the SPT-100, on which the PPS 1350 is based.

Specifications

Parameter                                        Value
Power (nominal) (W)                              1500
Thrust (mN)                                      90
Thrust-to-power level (mN/kW)                    60
Specific impulse (s)                             1,660
Total impulse delivered (N.s)                    3.4×106
Number of cycles                                 7300
Efficiency (%)                                   55
Supply voltage (V)                               350
Discharge current (A)                            4.28
Xenon supply pressure (bar)                      2.50 — 2.80
Mass (including 2 Xe flow control systems) (kg)  5.30
Reference:

  * Comparison of orbital rocket engines


Safwan M. Masri

Safwan M. Masri is a Jordanian professor, senior academic administrator, global educator, and scholar of education in the Arab World.Dean of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and was head of Columbia Global Centers (2011-2022) as well as director of Columbia Global Center in Amman since its founding in 2009.

As a scholar on education and contemporary geopolitics and society in the Arab world, Masri's work focuses on understanding the historic, postcolonial dynamics among religion, education, society, and politics. He is the author of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly (Columbia University Press, 2017), which examines why Tunisia was the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring as a democracy. Masri's writings on education and current affairs have been featured in the Financial Times, Huffington Post, The Hill, The Brown Journal of World Affairs,Times Higher Education.

Life and career

Masri joined Columbia University in 1988 as a professor of operations management at Columbia Business School, where he served as vice dean from 1993-2006. Previously, he was a visiting professor at INSEAD, and taught at Stanford University and Santa Clara University.

At the request of King Abdullah II of Jordan, Masri led the effort to establish King's Academy in Jordan,Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan,

Masri currently holds a senior research scholar appointment at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Masri is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and a member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES). He serves on the Board of Directors for AMIDEAST and on the Global Advisory Board for the Chazen Institute at Columbia Business School. Masri is also a trustee of International College in Beirut and the Welfare Association (Taawon) in Ramallah, and a director of Endeavor Jordan.

Columbia Global Centers

In 2009, Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger created the Columbia Global Centers,Amman, Jordan;Beijing, China;Istanbul, Turkey;Mumbai, India;Nairobi, Kenya;Paris, France;Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Santiago, Chile.Tunis, Tunisia;

Education


Safwan M. Masri

Education

Masri earned his B.S. in 1982 and his M.S. in 1984 in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. In 1988, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University.

Awards and Recognitions

Masri was awarded the 2003 American Service Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; and the Robert W. Lear Service Award, the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in a Core Course, and the Singhvi Professor of the Year for Scholarship in the Classroom Award, all from Columbia University.

  * Columbia Global Centers
  * World Economic Forum: Safwan M. Masri bio


William Placher

William Carl Placher (1948–2008) was an American postliberal theologian. He was Follette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College until his death in 2008. He was a leader at Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Publications

Readings in the History of Christianity, Volume 1, Westminster Press, 1988.
The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking about God Went Wrong, Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
Jesus the Savior: The Meaning of Jesus Christ for Christian Faith, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.


Marcello, I'm So Bored

Marcello, I'm So Bored is a 1966 short animated film co-directed by John Milius and John Strawbridge. The film was made when Milius was a student at the University of Southern California and was a parody of Italian cinema.

The film was edited by George Lucas.

  * Marcello, I'm So Bored at IMDb
  * Marcello, I'm So Bored at the British Film Institute


Stephan Barratt-Due

Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due Jr. (born 1 June 1956 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian violinist, the son of violinist Stephan Henrik Barrat-Due (1919–1985) and Else Barratt-Due (b. Holst, June 1925).

Biography

Barrat-Due started his violin studies with his father at an early age. Later he attended the Norwegian Academy of Music and continued his studies in the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States. He debuted in 1981, gave numerous concerts in Europe, the United States and Asia, and has been the artistic director of the Barratt Due Institute of Music from 1985. He has been the artistic director of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (1990–96), and an initiator and artistic leader of the Kristiansand Chamber Music Festival. Barrat-Due also has had extensive chamber musical collaboration with his former wife.

Honors

  * 2003: First class Knight of the Order of St. Olav
  * 2012: The Norwegian Arts Council Honorary Award, together with Soon-Mi Chung

Discography (in selection)

  * 1986: Christian Sinding: Serenade For To Fioliner Og Klaver, Opus 92 / Serenade For To Fioliner Og Klaver, Opus 56 (Norsk Kulturråds Klassikerserie)
  * 1988: Johan Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 & 2 • Norwegian Festival Overture Op. 16 • Entry Of The Boyars • Bergensiana, (Roccoco Variations) • Andante Religioso • Wedding March • Passacaglia (Norsk Kulturråds Klassikerserie), with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Karsten Andersen
  * 1994: Mozart, Nordheim, Hvoslef: DuoDu (Victoria Records), with Soon-Mi Chung
  * 2006: Grieg: Holberg Suite • Melodies For String Orchestra (Naxos Records), with Oslo Camerata
  * Official website


Sarah McLaughlin

For the British singer-songwriter, see Bishop Briggs, and for the Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan

Sarah Jane McLaughlin (born 3 June 1991) is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.

She was a member of the New Zealand squad in the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup,Canada,Denmark,Colombia.

McLaughlin also represented New Zealand at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile,Nigeria,Chile,England before England equalised late in injury time to eliminate New Zealand from the tournament.2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, playing in two group games.

McLaughlin made her senior Football Ferns debut as a substitute in a 0–6 loss to China on 10 January 2009.

  * Sarah McLaughlin – FIFA competition record (archived)


MRSV

MRSV may refer to:

  * Maize red stripe virus, a plant virus
  * Member of the Royal Society of Victoria, a post-nominal title
  * Multi-role support vessels in the Indian Navy amphibious vessel acquisition project
  * The ICAO code for San Vito de Java Airport in Costa Rica
  * Multi-role support ship (disambiguation)


Namoliki

Namoliki is a suburb of Honiara, Solomon Islands and is located South of Chinatown.

8°46′S 160°42′E / 8.767°S 160.700°E


Salahoba

41°41′58″N 48°30′36″E / 41.69944°N 48.51000°E

Salahoba (also, Salakhoba) is a village in the Qusar Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Üzdənoba.

  * Salahoba at GEOnet Names Server


Svetlana Bubnenkova

Svetlana Yuryevna Bubnenkova-Stolbova (Russian Светлана Юрьевна Бубненкова; born 2 January 1973 in Izhevsk, Udmurtia) is a racing cyclist from Russia. She represented her native country at three Summer Olympics: 1996, 2000 and 2004. Her biggest achievement was winning the 2002 Giro d'Italia Femminile. Bubnenkova twice won the world title in the women's team time trial (1993, 1994). She tested positive for the use of EPO in the Tour Féminin en Limousin 2006. In June 2007 she was suspended for two years by the French doping association. Later the UCI adopted this suspension, but due to miscommunications Bubnenkova continued to race in 2007. At the end of 2007 the UCI disqualified Bubnenkova in all races she started between June and September 2007.

Palmarès

Source:


Svetlana Bubnenkova

1993 1st World Team Time Trial Championships with Olga Sokolova, Valentina Polkhanova & Aleksandra Koliaseva 1st Chrono Champenois-Trophée Européen 2nd National Time Trial Championships 1994 1st World Team Time Trial Championships with Olga Sokolova, Valentina Polkhanova & Aleksandra Koliaseva 1st National Time Trial Championships 1st overall Tour de Bretagne 2nd National Road Race Championships 2nd Chrono Champenois-Trophée Européen 1995 3rd Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop 3rd overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin 3rd National Time Trial Championships 1996 1st National Road Race Championships 2nd overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin 18th Olympic Games


Svetlana Bubnenkova

18th Olympic Games Time Trial 1997 2nd overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin 1999 2nd overall Giro d'Italia Femminile 2nd overall Giro del Trentino 2000 1st stage 7 Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale 1st stage 6A & 7 Giro d'Italia Femminile 1st National Road Race Championships 3rd overall Giro del Trentino 5th Olympic Games Road Race 2001 2nd National Road Race Championships 2002 1st overall Giro d'Italia Femminile 1st stage 3 & 6 1st National Road Race Championships 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda 1st GP Suisse Féminin 3rd National Time Trial Championships 2003 1st Bern-Oberbottigen 1st National


Svetlana Bubnenkova

1st National Road Race Championships 1st National Time Trial Championships 1st Sparkassen Giro Bochum 3rd Berner Rundfahrt 2004 2nd National Time Trial Championships 8th World Road Cycling Championships 2005 1st overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira 1st stage 1 1st overall Giro del Trentino 1st prologue 1st National Time Trial Championships 1st stage 8 Giro d'Italia Femminile 1st stage 2, 3, 4 & 5 Tour de l'Ardèche 2nd overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile 1st stage 3 3rd National Road Race Championships 3rd overall Giro di San Marino 2006 1st overall Giro di San Marino 1st stage 2


Svetlana Bubnenkova

1st stage 2 1st overall Giro del Trentino 1st stage 1 & 2 1st Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile 1st stage 5 2nd Russian National Time Trial Championships 2nd overall Tour Féminin en Limousin 3rd overall Geelong Tour 3rd Coppa dei Laghi 3rd overall Route de France Féminine 1st stage 8 9th World Road Cycling Championships 2007 1st Futur Géant de la Route CC Hollerich 1st stage 8 Giro d'Italia Femminile 1st Critérium International Feminin 1st overall Tour Féminin en Limousin 1st stage 1 & 4 1st Critérium des Championnes 2nd National Time Trial Championships


Svetlana Bubnenkova

Time Trial Championships 2nd overall Route de France Féminine 1st stage 2, 5, 6 & 7 2nd Trophée des Cyclistines 3rd overall Giro del Trentino 2009 1st GP Elsy Jacobs 1st Classic Féminine Vienne Poitou-Charentes 3rd overall Giro del Trentino 3rd National Time Trial Championships 2010 3rd overall Giro del Trentino 2011 2nd National Road Race Championships 3rd overall Gracia–Orlová 1st prologue 3rd Russian National Track Cycling Championships (team pursuit) with Natalia Boyarskaya & Irina Molicheva 2012 5th World Team Time Trial Championships with Boyarskaya, Kasper, Kupfernagel, Molicheva & Zabelinsaya 2013 1st National Road


Svetlana Bubnenkova

1st National Road Race Championships 3rd overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin


Svetlana Bubnenkova

* Svetlana Bubnenkova at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
  * Svetlana Bubnenkova at Cycling Archives


Paul Grist

Paul Grist may refer to:

  * Paul Grist (actor) (born 1939), British actor
  * Paul Grist (comics) (born 1960), British comic book creator


Running lights

Running lights may refer to:

  * Lights on vehicles designed to increase visibility while moving - see:
  * Daytime running lamp, for increased visibility of vehicles during the day
  * Automotive lighting, for running lights for cars
  * Bicycle lighting, for running lights for bicycles
  * Navigation light, for running lights for aircraft, ships and spacecraft
  * Running lights (theater), running lights used in theaters
  * Chase lights
  * "Running Lights", a song by Sonata Arctica in Pariah's Child


William Pleydell

William Pleydell was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Pleydell was the son of Sir Charles Pleydell of Midgehall, Wiltshire and Kilburn Priory, Middlesex. In November 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett. He supported the King in the Civil War and was disabled from sitting in February 1644.

Pleydell was the brother of John Pleydell who was later MP for Wootton Bassett.


Marcello Abbondanza

Marcello Abbondanza (born August 24, 1970, in Cesena, Italy) is an Italian volleyball coach. He's currently coaching the Chemik Police, a polish team based in Police and plays in Orlen Liga.

Career

He started as an assistant coach on the bench of Big Power Ravenna Team between 1996 and 1997. He was again an assistant coach between 1998 and 2000 in Foppapedretti Bergamo Team and then in 2002–2003 season he started as a head coach with the Meccanica Pierre OML Mazzano, in Serie A2 (Italian second league) and was very close to winning the league.

Afterwards he transferred Robursport Scavolini Pesaro Team in first league, for 3 seasons which won the 2005-06 CEV Cup, and for 2 seasons in Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi where he led the team to a playoffs in 2006–2007 league.

After he started coaching in Infidel Forlì Team in the 2008–09 season in Serie A2. He was subsequently hired by MC PietroCarnaghi Villa Cortese, a rookie in A1 in the 2009–10 season. He won the Italian Cup for two years consecutively and led the team to the playoffs finals in 2009–10, 2010–11 and 2011–12. He was also a coach of the Italian national team at the World University Games.

He also coached the Bulgaria Women's National Team between 2011 and 2014, and won the silver medal in European League in 2012 in Czech Republic and a bronze medal in European League in 2013 in Bulgaria.

In the 2012–13 season he moved to Azerbaijan hired by Rabita Baku, which immediately won one silver medal in the World Cup for Clubs in Doha. During this season he qualified for the Final Four of the Champions League finishing the competition at second place and also he won the Azerbaijan's championship in the same season.

After signing Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü, Abbondanza started to improve their volleyball day by day, and he won the CEV Cup in 2013–14 season. Fenerbahçe won historic double the following season, by winning the 2014–15 Turkish Cup2014–15 Turkish Championship


Marcello Abbondanza

At the beginning of his 3rd season in Fenerbahce he won the Turkish Super Cup 2015–16.,Turkish League, a silver medal in the Turkish League Finals and a bronze medal in Final Four of the Champions League, and this was his third Final Four with three different club.

The season 2016-17 is the 4th in Fenerbahce, and Marcello Abbondanza won the fifth title-winning the Turkish Cup in the Final Eight in Ankara, and this was the second time in his career, and he could defend the trophy from 2015 (tournament was not held in the season before).,Turkish championship against Eczacıbaşı VitrA, Abbondanza won also for his second time in four years the Turkish League beating 3-0 the eternal rival Galatasaray in the Final.

In January 2017, the Volleyball Canada announces Abbondanza as new women's head coach.

In May 2017, the Volleyball Casalmaggiore announces their new head coach,

In his first summer with the Canada women's national volleyball team both won the gold medal at the NORCECA Senior Women's Continental Championship and qualified for the 2018 World Championships in Japan.

After be suddenly fired after only one month at the beginning of the season from Pomì Casalmaggiore, he signed in February 2018 with the polish champions Chemik Policeseason, and he led the team to the gold medal.

In the summer of 2018, his second one as a head coach of Canada women's national volleyball team, won the silver medal at 2018 NORCECA Challenge CupEdmonton, Alberta and an historic bronze medal at the 2018 Pan American Cup, the second medal in the whole Canada women's national volleyball team's history.

In his second season leading Chemik Police, he won another important trophy, the Polish Cup at the Final Four in Nysa, Poland.

Record

In the season 2017-18 Abbondanza sets a new record as the first coach to achieve nine championship finals in a row in four different countries. He started in the season 2009–10 in Italy, passing through Azerbaijan, Turkey and Poland.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marcello Abbondanza.


Stephan DuCharme

Stephan DuCharme (April 20, 1964, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Senior Advisor to L1 Retail and Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Dia Group.

He is a citizen of United States of America and Germany.

Biography

DuCharme graduated with honors from University of California, Berkeley (USA), has an MBA degree from INSEAD business school.Salomon Brothers Bank.

Since 1992, he has been a vice head of the Moscow office in the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). From 1997 to 2001, he has worked as corporate development, finance and supervisory director in Alfa Group.

In 2001, he left for London and was one of the leaders in SUN Group,SUN Interbrew.

DuCharme was a board member of directors in CSA Czech Airlines, Alfa-Bank, and SUN Interbrew Ltd,Tbilisi, Georgia),Concern Galnaftogas (Lviv, Ukraine).

From December 2006 to September 2008, he was board member of the Siberian Coal Energy Company,

From October 2008 to July 2012, he was a member of the supervisory board at X5 Retail Group,chief executive officer at X5 Retail Group.

From November 2015 to march 2022, he was chairman of the supervisory board at X5 Retail Group.

X5 Retail Group (LSE ticker: FIVE) is the largest retailer in Russia.

Since March 2016, DuCharme has been a member of the board of trustees at «Rus» Food Foundation.

Since December 2016 he has been the head of L1 Retail.Holland & Barrett for 1.77 billion pounds ($2.26 billion) in its first acquisition.

DuCharme was executive chairman of the Dia Group between May 2020 and August 2022, and led the thorough transformation of its strategy, business model, processes and offering.

  * Alfa Group
  * X5 Retail Group
  * Mikhail Fridman

Links


Stephan DuCharme

Links

  * Telitsyna, Irina (2016-11-16). "Stefan DuСharme: "Faith is an important element of success" (in Russian)". forbes.ru
  * Dulenkova, Anastasia (2015-08-27). ""It is important to have a strong competitor to be on your toes" (in Russian)". kommersant.ru
  * "Transformation. Review. March 2015 (in Russian)" (PDF). bcg.ru. The Boston Consulting Group
  * ""I did not come here to do cosmetics" - Stefan DuСharme, CEO of X5 Retail Group (in Russian)". «Vedomosti» newspaper. 2014-03-25


Sarah Mian

Sarah Mian is a Canadian writer.When the Saints, published in 2015, won two Atlantic Book AwardsStephen Leacock Award.

She has also published short stories, poetry and non-fiction work in literary and general interest magazines, and was a contributor to the CBC Radio One program Definitely Not the Opera.

Originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, she is currently a resident of the rural community of Queensland in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

  * Official website


MRQ

MRQ is an acronym that may refer to:

  * Marinduque Airport (IATA: MRQ)
  * Marquesan language (ISO 639:mrq)
  * Midalja għall-Qlubija, a Maltese medal of bravery whose post-nominal letters are M.R.Q.
  * Modern Rock Quartet, a Canadian jazz-rock band
  * most recent quarter, in a fiscal year
  * MRQE, Movie Review Query Engine
  * MRQP, ICAO for Quepos La Managua Airport


Nammunsan station

Korail Gyeongjeon Line, Nammunsan Station Rearside

Nammunsan station is a defunct railway station on the Gyeongjeon Line in South Korea.

35°9′53.53″N 128°9′45.6″E / 35.1648694°N 128.162667°E


Riverside Park (Arizona)

Riverside Park was a baseball park in Phoenix, Arizona, that fell into disuse after a Phoenix Municipal Stadium was constructed in 1937. It served as the spring training home of the Detroit Tigers in 1929, the first team to hold spring training in Phoenix.

It also served as the home ballpark of the Phoenix Senators, a minor league baseball team.

33°25′18″N 112°04′23″W / 33.4218°N 112.0731°W


Stony Creek, Victoria

Stony Creek is a small township in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located roughly between Meeniyan and Foster. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 281.

History

The post office opened on 23 May 1892 after a settlement was established on the arrival of the railway.

The town today

Stony Creek has a horse racing club, the Stony Creek Racing Club, which schedules around seven race meetings a year including the Stony Creek Cup meeting in March.

It also has a go-kart circuit located next to the race track on the highway.

The town has an Australian Rules football team, the Stony Creek Football Netball Club, nicknamed "The Lions", competing in the Alberton Football League. The club colours are maroon and white. The club's last senior premiership came in 2009 when Stony Creek defeated Wonthaggi Power in the seniors.

Stony Creek railway station, Victoria

  * Township map
  * Stony Creek Racing Club
  * Stony Creek Go-Karts


Ravenswood Estates, Florida

Ravenswood Estates is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 960 at the 2000 census. It is now a community located in Dania Beach, Florida.

Geography

Ravenswood Estates is located at 26°3′20″N 80°10′37″W / 26.05556°N 80.17694°W (26.055591, -80.176839).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.4 km2 (0.2 mi2), all land.

Demographics

As of the censuspopulation density was 2,180.3/km2 (5,773.6/mi2). There were 588 housing units at an average density of 1,335.5/km2 (3,536.3/mi2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.50% White (86.4% were Non-Hispanic White,)African American, 0.10% Native American, 1.98% Asian, 1.25% from other races, and 2.08% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.50% of the population.

There were 434 households, out of which 21.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.7% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families. 29.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.69.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 17.9% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 28.9% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.6 males.


Ravenswood Estates, Florida

The median income for a household in the CDP was $38,824, and the median income for a family was $40,815. Males had a median income of $39,779 versus $27,656 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,653. About 8.6% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over.

As of 2000, English as a first language accounted for 81.04% of all residents, while French made up 13.58%, and Spanish was the mother tongue of 5.36% of the population.


Running on Air (song)

"Running on Air" is a song written and performed by Austrian singer Nathan Trent. The song was intended to be released on 28 February 2017, but leaked online through Spotify and YouTube on 26 February.represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.

Trent recorded an Italian version of the song titled "Fino A Che Volerò"

Eurovision Song Contest

Main article: Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

On 19 December 2016, Trent was announced as the Austrian representative to the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. As he was previously announced as a shortlisted contestant in the German national final, Unser Song 2017, he was forced to withdraw in order to accept the offer to be the Austrian representative.Spotify and YouTube the same day as its announcement.

Despite taking 93 points from the juries, it received none from the public televote, reaching 16th place overall.

Track listing

Digital download
No.  Title             Length
1.   "Running on Air"  2:48

Martin Van Lectro Remix
No.  Title                                       Length
1.   "Running on Air" (Martin Van Lectro Remix)  3:27

Topanga Rework Remix
No.  Title                                    Length
1.   "Running on Air" (Topanga Rework Remix)  3:13

Charts

Chart (2017)                           Peak
                                       position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)            18
Netherlands (Dutch Single Tip)         28
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)  4

Release history

Region     Date              Format            Label
Worldwide  26 February 2017  Digital download  ORF-Enterprise


Oleksandr Kozhevnikov

This article is about a Ukrainian football player. For other people, see Aleksandr Kozhevnikov.

Oleksandr Dmytrovych Kozhevnikov (Ukrainian: Олександр Дмитрович Кожевніков; born 17 April 2000) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a right winger.

Career

Kozhevnikov is a product of his native Vorskla Poltava youth sportive school system.

In July 2019 he was transferred to another Ukrainian Premier League side FC Mariupol and made his debut for in the Ukrainian Premier League as a second half-time substituted player in the drawing away match against FC Rukh Lviv on 20 November 2020.Vorskla Poltava.

  * Oleksandr Kozhevnikov at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
  * Oleksandr Kozhevnikov at Soccerway


Tallinna Teataja

Tallinna Teataja was newspaper published 1910–1922 in Tallinn, Estonia.

Publishers were:

  * M. Schiffer (1910-1911 nr. 97)
  * A. Kampf (1911 nr. 98-184)
  * H. Ant ja J. Masing (1916 nr. 261 - 1917)
  * Ed. Sarepera (1918 nr. 1-62).


Stephan Carrier

Stephan Carrier is a re-recording mixer.

In 2005 he created sound mixes for the film Beowulf and Grendel,Flashpoint.

Recognition


Stephan Carrier

* 1999 Genie Award for Best Overall Sound - Such a Long Journey - Nominated (shared with Henry Embry, Lou Solakofski, Orest Sushko)
  * 2000 Gemini Award for Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series - Amazon - Nominated (shared with Dan Daniels, Jack Heeren)
  * 2000 Gemini Award for Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series - Amazon - Nominated (shared with Dan Daniels, Jack Heeren)
  * 2000 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Television Mini-Series - Dialogue and ADR - Joan of Arc - Won (shared with John Douglas Smith (supervising sound editor/supervising dialogue and adr editor), Tom Bjelic (supervising sound editor), Richard Cadger (editor), Tony Currie (sound editor), John Laing (editor), Dale Sheldrake (editor), Phong Tran (editor), Joe Lafontaine (editor), James Robb (assistant adr editor), Allan Fung (assistant adr editor), Jean Claude Fortier (assistant adr editor), Mike Palmer (assistant adr editor), Urmas Rosin (production mixer), Lou Solakofski (re-recording mixer), Martin Lee (adr mixer), Paul J. Zydel (adr mixer), David Yonson (adr recordist))
  * 2003 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - Max - Nominated (shared with Lou Solakofski)
  * 2003 Gemini Award for Best Sound in a Dramatic Program - Aka Albert Walker - Won (shared with Brandon Walker, Grant Bone, Douglas Ganton, Steve Hammond, Martin Lee)
  * 2004 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - Falling Angels - Nominated (shared with Warren St. Onge, Lou Solakofski)
  * 2005 Gemini Award for Best Sound in a Dramatic Program - Sex Traffic part 1 - Nominated (shared with Jane Tattersall, Kathy Choi, Roderick Deogrades, Barry Gilmore, Steve Hammond, Ronayne Higginson, Janice Ierulli, Garrett Kerr, David McCallum, Simon Okin, Jane Porter, Mark Shnuriwsky, Lou Solakofski, Robert Warchol)


Stephan Carrier

* 2007 Gemini Award for Best Sound in a Dramatic Program - Above and Beyond - Nominated (with Henry Embry, Ronayne Higginson, Dino Pigat, David Rose, Jane Tattersall)
  * 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - Citizen Duane - Nominee (with John J. Thomson, Martin Lee)
  * Stephan Carrier at IMDb


Samaná Peninsula

The Samaná Península is a peninsula in Dominican Republic situated in the province of Samaná. The Samaná Peninsula is connected to the rest of the state by the isthmus of Samaná; to its south is Samaná Bay. The peninsula contains many beaches, especially in the city of Santa Bárbara de Samaná. It contains three rivers. The peninsula was originally inhabited by the Ciguayos, which spoke the Ciguayo language at the time of Spanish intervention.

Transportation

The main roads are the DR-5 and the Samaná Highway, which leads from the peninsula to Santo Domingo. The peninsula also contains the Samaná El Catey International Airport. The peninsula also hosts agriculture and tourism.

Gallery

  * [Cabo Samaná, at the eastern end of the peninsula]
    Cabo Samaná, at the eastern end of the peninsula
  * [El Limon area of Samana, Dominican Republic]
    El Limon area of Samana, Dominican Republic
  * 1873 Dominican Republic Samaná Peninsula referendum
  * Raid on Samaná
  * El Catey International Airport Samana - Dominican Republic
  * Travel Guide to Samana Peninsula


MRPS33

28S ribosomal protein S33, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPS33 gene.

Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomal proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and help in protein synthesis within the mitochondrion. Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) consist of a small 28S subunit and a large 39S subunit. They have an estimated 75% protein to rRNA composition compared to prokaryotic ribosomes, where this ratio is reversed. Another difference between mammalian mitoribosomes and prokaryotic ribosomes is that the latter contain a 5S rRNA. Among different species, the proteins comprising the mitoribosome differ greatly in sequence, and sometimes in biochemical properties, which prevents easy recognition by sequence homology. The 28S subunit of the mammalian mitoribosome may play a crucial and characteristic role in translation initiation. This gene encodes a 28S subunit protein that is one of the more highly conserved mitochondrial ribosomal proteins among mammals, Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans. Splice variants that differ in the 5' UTR have been found for this gene; all variants encode the same protein. Pseudogenes corresponding to this gene are found on chromosomes 1q, 4p, 4q, and 20q


Namo Media

Namo Media was a technology startup providing in-stream advertisements for mobile applications. It was acquired by Twitter in June 2014 for between $50M

It was founded by former Google employees Gabor Cselle, Nassar Stoertz, and Tural Badirkhanli, who raised $1.9 million in seed funding from investors that included Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Betaworks.SDK for Android and iOS allowed developers to integrate native advertising into applications with streams of content,

Namo Media's location control technology was integrated into Twitter's MoPub advertising solutions in October 2014.


Riverside Park Management

Riverside Park Management is a non-profit organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that manages real estate properties including and surrounding Shaw Park, home to the Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball club.

History

The organization was founded by Winnipeg businessman Sam Katz in 1997 to create a leasehold stake in the proposed CanWest Park stadium that eventually housed his Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball team.

Katz was elected as Mayor of Winnipeg in 2004, and remained president of Riverside Park until April 2008.

Conflict-of-interest controversy

Riverside Park became involved in a local controversy after appealing a steep 2006 property tax reassessment for a parking lot next to the arena. Two years after the appeal was launched, Winnipeg's property department asked city council to renegotiate the lease on terms favourable to the company.

Some journalists and councilors argued that Katz was involved in a conflict-of-interest over this situation, as he was both Mayor of Winnipeg and president of Riverside Park from August 2005 to April 2008, while the two sides were engaged in a financial dispute. Winnipeg Free Press journalist Bartley Kives argued that the conflict was clear, although he added that there was nothing to suggest the mayor misused his position for personal benefit.

Other concerns were later raised about Riverside Park. Councillor Dan Vandal, a frequent critic of Katz, said that the city should have access to its financial records to determine if it was properly fulfilling its role as a non-profit corporation.Russ Wyatt, a member of Katz's cabinet, expressed concern that Riverside Management did not provide any payments to the city from 2001 to 2004 because its land did not officially appear on assessment rolls, and called for the parking lot controversy to be referred to an outside lawyer.

After a rancorous and divisive debate, city council voted 8-6 to revise the lease and retroactively eliminate $233,000 from Riverside Park's back taxes in late 2008. Katz recused himself from both the vote and debate.


Riverside Park Management

A subsequent investigation by the Winnipeg Free Press raised further concerns about Riverside's financial arrangements with the Goldeyes. In an article entitled "Fair ball?", Bartley Kives wrote that "[l]egal, accounting, ethics and non-profit governance experts" suggested that the relationship between the two entities was "unusual from a business perspective". Kives noted that Riverside Park was then leasing four parcels of land from the City of Winnipeg (covering the stadium and surrounding parking lots), which it then sublet to the Goldeyes. Riverside Park also made regular payments to the Goldeyes, which Kives indicated were "presumably to pay back part of the construction debt". Riverside Park reduced its debt to the Goldeyes by $1.3 million between 2000 and 2005, while the Goldeyes increased their annual rent payments to Riverside Park from $75,000 to over $1 million in the same period. Kives further noted that the Free Press was unable to draw any conclusions regarding the accelerated rent payments, as Riverside Park refused to turn over its books for investigation. A corporate lawyer hired by the Free Press said that he had never seen such an arrangement, while the Manitoba director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said the city should have leased the land directly to the for-profit company without going through Riverside Park.

Shortly after city council voted to eliminate Riverside Park's back taxes, the City of Winnipeg took over the parking lot that was the source of the controversy.

  * Sam Katz
  * Shaw Park
  * Winnipeg Enterprises Corporation


Stony Creek (Mohawk River tributary)

Stony Creek is a river that flows into the Mohawk River in Vischer Ferry, New York.


Ravenswood branch

The Ravenswood branch is a 4.7 mi (7.6 km) long branch of the Chicago "L" in Chicago, Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority, it carries the Brown Line. As of February 2013, an average of 30,949 passengers are served each weekday on this branch.

Service

The Ravenswood Branch runs trains from Kimball to Belmont from 4:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Monday thru Saturday and from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on Sundays/Holidays, and runs trains from Belmont to Kimball from 5:00 a.m. to 2:25 a.m. Monday thru Saturday and from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. on Sundays/Holidays.Lakeview, Roscoe Village, North Center, Ravenswood, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood Manor and Albany Park neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois.

History

After its main line began service on May 31, 1900, the Northwestern Elevated Railroad focused on other expansion possibilities especially to the north-west of the city to serve the densely populated areas of Ravenswood. Despite financial difficulties, the Northwestern Elevated made it a priority and initially proposed an extension beyond Wilson at ground level in order to reduce construction costs. However, this proposal faced significant opposition which forced them to instead proposed an elevated line. In 1903, the Northwestern Elevated Railroad submitted a proposal to the City of Chicago for an elevated line to be built along Irving Park Road from the Sheridan station to Ravenswood Avenue, turning north on Ravenswood, before again turning west at Leland Avenue and terminating at Western Avenue. The conditions of the franchise that Northwestern Elevated received from the city required that the line follow a path between Roscoe Street and Newport Avenue from the main line to Ravenswood Avenue, rather than Irving Park road as in its proposal to the city. In 1906, work on the new line started, and on May 18, 1907 service began between Belmont and Western. The surface level track to Kimball entered service on December 14, 1907, along with three intermediate stations: Francisco, Kedzie and Rockwell. Service from Western to Kimball was initially solely a shuttle operation until March 1909. In 1913, Crosstown service was implemented and the Ravenswood Branch was connected to the South Side Elevated Railroad's Kenwood branch via the Loop.


Ravenswood branch

On August 1, 1949, the current routing of service on the Ravenswood Branch (known today as the Brown Line) was established, and the Ravenswood station was closed. In September 1973, the CTA closed the Paulina station. However, the CTA reopened Paulina a month later. In October 1973, work began on a new station at Kimball, which opened in October 1974. On February 21, 1993, the CTA color coded its lines, and the Ravenswood Line was officially renamed the Brown Line. Ridership on the Ravenswood Branch increased from 8.1 million passengers per year in 1987 to 10.6 million in 1998, largely due to an increase in population of the neighborhoods served by the branch. As a result of the increased ridership, in the summer of 2000, the CTA expanded service to the Loop until midnight and offered a shuttle route between Kimball and Belmont before and after the standard service so that passengers can reach the Red Line which runs 24/7 365 days a year.

Station listing


Ravenswood branch

Station listing

Station                                                    Location                   Points of Interest & Notes
Kimball [Disabled access]                                  4755 N. Kimball Avenue     Albany Park, Northeastern Illinois University, Northside College Prep, Albany Park Library
Kedzie [Disabled access]                                   4648 N. Kedzie Avenue      Albany Park, North Park University, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Swedish Covenant Hospital
Francisco [Disabled access]                                4648 N. Francisco Avenue   Albany Park, Ravenswood Manor Historic District, Stephen Tyng Mather High School
Rockwell [Disabled access]                                 4648 N. Rockwell Street    Lincoln Square, Kindred Healthcare
Western [Disabled access]                                  4648 N. Western Avenue     Lincoln Square, Sulzer Regional Library, Krause Music Store, Old Town School of Folk Music
                                                                                Ravenswood, Amundsen High School, Rosehill Cemetery, St. Gregory the Great High School
Damen [Disabled access] [Metra or South Shore connection]  4645 N. Damen Avenue
                                                                                Transfer to Metra trains at Ravenswood. Originally called Robey.

Ravenswood                                                 4530 N. Ravenswood Avenue  Closed August 1, 1949
Montrose [Disabled access]                                 1817 W. Montrose Avenue    Ravenswood, Kinetic Playground, All Saints Episcopal Church
Irving Park [Disabled access]                              1816 W. Irving Park Road   North Center, Lake View High School, Graceland Cemetery, St. Benedict High School
Addison [Disabled access]                                  1818 W. Addison Street     North Center, Gordon Tech High School, WGN-TV Station, Lane Technical College Prep High School
Paulina [Disabled access]                                  3410 N. Lincoln Avenue     Lakeview, Electrical Audio Recording Facility
Southport [Disabled access]                                3411 N. Southport Avenue   Lakeview, Music Box Theatre, Theatre Building Chicago
                                                                                Lakeview, Briar Street Theater, Boystown, The Vic Theatre
Belmont [Disabled access]                                  945 W. Belmont Avenue
                                                                                Transfer to Red and Purple Line Express trains

Image gallery

  * [A Brown Line train crossing the North Branch of the Chicago River]
    A Brown Line train crossing the North Branch of the Chicago River
  * [A Brown Line train at Western and heading eastbound]
    A Brown Line train at Western and heading eastbound
  * [A Brown Line train approaching Francisco]
    A Brown Line train approaching Francisco
  * [The new platforms of the Paulina station]
    The new platforms of the Paulina station
  * Brown Line: Ravenswood at Chicago-L.org


Running in the Family (disambiguation)

Running in the Family is an album by Level 42.

Running in the Family may also refer to:

  * "Running in the Family" (song), a song by Level 42
  * Running in the Family (memoir), a fictionalized memoir by Michael Ondaatje


Oleksandr Kozhemyachenko

Oleksandr Kozhemyachenko (Ukrainian: Кожем'яченко Олександр Вікторович; born 29 December 1978) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer. He spent most of his career with Desna Chernihiv.

Career

Desna Chernihiv

Kozhemyachenko started his career at Desna Chernihiv, where he played 85 games and scored 31 goals between 1998 and 2002.

After a brief spell away, he returned to Desna Chernihiv in 2002. He won the 2005–06 Ukrainian Second League with the club and won the league's golden boot with 21 goals.

Avangard Korukivka

In 2012, he moved to Avangard Korukivka, where he won Chernihiv Oblast Football Championship and the Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup in 2013.

Honours

Desna Chernihiv

  * Ukrainian Second League: 2005–06

FC Avanhard Koriukivka

  * Chernihiv Oblast Football Championship: 2013
  * Chernihiv Oblast Football Cup: 2013

Individual

  * Top Scorer Ukrainian Second League: 2010–11 (12 goals)
  * Top Scorer Ukrainian Second League: 2004–05 (20 goals)
  * Top Scorer Ukrainian Second League: 2005–06 (21 goals)
  * Desna Chernihiv Player of the Year: (4) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011
  * Profile on website (in Russian)


Tallinn water supply system

Tallinn water supply system is a water supply system that provides potable water to Estonia's capital city Tallinn.

90% of Tallinn's potable water is produced from the surface water. The heart of the system Ülemiste Water Treatment Plant is located in the centre of the city, beside the Lake Ülemiste. Because the natural catchment of the lake is quite small (52 km²), additional water is directed to Ülemiste via canals from Pirita, Jägala, Soodla and even from the upper stream of the Pärnu River in Pandivere Heights. The system includes 6 water reservoirs and 69 km of canals and pipelines, which makes the total area of the catchment 1865 km².

The remaining 10% of the water in Tallinn comes from 29 groundwater wells, mostly in the outskirts (Nõmme, Pirita, Kakumäe).