S-S-S-Single Bed

"S-S-S-Single Bed" is a song by British-based pop group Fox from their third album Blue Hotel. Written and produced by the group's founder Kenny Young, it became their third and final hit on the UK Singles Chart in May 1976, spending 10 weeks on the chart and reaching a peak of number four. It marked a return to success for Fox, whose second album Tails of Illusion and its single "Strange Ships" had failed to chart. The song was most successful in singer Noosha Fox's native Australia, where it reached number one for four weeks in August 1976.

The song features suggestive lyrics, sung from the perspective of a lady addressing a man who has missed the last train home, warning him "All I've got is a single bed / there ain't no room for your sweet head". Speaking in 1976, Noosha Fox said she considered the song musically the best thing the band had done, describing it as understated.Cherry Red's The Fox Box for Louder Than War in 2017, Ian Canty described the song as a "submerged but tight funk/reggae backing track with a great hook-line complementing the cool, sultry vocal".

In stage performances the backing singer would use a talk box to produce a distorted effect for the verse

''Baby don't cry

Bye bye baby Baby don't cry

Bye bye baby''

Other recordings

In 2009, Bananarama released their version of the song on their album Viva.

Charts

Weekly charts                             Year-end charts

Chart (1976)                    Peak      Chart (1976)                   Position
                                position  Australia (Kent Music Report)  8
Australia (Kent Music Report)   1         Belgium (Ultratop)             99
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)  12
Ireland (IRMA)                  4
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)      10
Netherlands (Single Top 100)    8
UK Singles (OCC)                4


Polyptychus nigriplaga

Polyptychus nigriplaga is a moth in the family Sphingidae. It is native to central and western Africa.

The length of the forewings is 29–36 mm for males. The forewings and body are pale cinnamon to creamy clay. There is a dark mesial streak on the head and thorax and a dark dot at the base of the forewing and one at the costa, near the apex. The wavy transverse lines of the forewing are very variable in intensity, some specimens being almost unmarked (these are known as form barnsi, although this is sometimes treated as a valid species), others being very heavily marked (form kivui, although this form is sometimes treated as a subspecies). The hindwings are paler, but darker at the tornus. The inner marginal black streak and tornal spots are present but variable. The length of the forewings for females is 33 mm. The apex and tornus are more acute that in the male. The ground colour is russet but darker towards the termen. The wavy transverse lines and stigma are faint, as is the subapical dot. There is no basal dot. The hindwings are uniformly russet with dark tomal

Subspecies

  * Polyptychus nigriplaga nigriplaga
  * Polyptychus nigriplaga kivui Clark, 1926 (lowland forest from Liberia and the Ivory Coast to the Congo and Uganda)


Japanese submarine I-17

I-17 was a Japanese B1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy which saw service during World War II. This long-range submarine cruiser spent the early months of the war in the eastern Pacific and was the first Axis ship to shell the continental United States. She later supported the Imperial Japanese Army in fighting around the Solomon Islands and remained active in the southwest Pacific until she was sunk in August 1943.

Service

Pearl Harbor

During the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, I-17 patrolled north of Oahu. Its mission was to reconnoiter and engage any ships that tried to sortie from Pearl Harbor.I-17 proceeded to a patrol station off Cape Mendocino following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The 6,912-ton General Petroleum tanker SS Emidio was sailing in ballast from Seattle, Washington en route to San Pedro, California. I-17 hit the tanker with five 14-centimeter (5.5 in) shells in the early afternoon of 20 December 1941. The tanker was within sight of land, and survivors reached the Blunt Reef lightship in lifeboats. The tanker drifted north onto rocks off Crescent City, California where the wreck remained until scrapped in 1959. A scheduled shelling of American coastal cities on Christmas Eve of 1941 was canceled because of the frequency of coastal air and surface patrols.

Shelling the U.S. continent

At night on 19 February 1942, I-17 covertly landed on Point Loma, San Diego to determine her position after arriving from Kwajalein Atoll.I-17 then headed north along the coast of California.I-17 achieved some notability as the first Axis ship to shell the United States mainland in an incident known as the Bombardment of Ellwood. A few minutes after 7 pm, she surfaced a few hundred yards off a beach 10 miles (16 km) west of Santa Barbara, California, within the Ellwood Oil Field. Over 20 minutes, she fired 17 shells from her 14 cm gun at the giant Richfield aviation fuel storage tanks on the blufftop behind the beach. The shots were mostly wild, one landing more than a mile inland. The closest shell exploded in a field 30 yards (27 m) from one of the tanks. The shelling did only minor damage to a pier and a pumphouse, but news of the shelling triggered an "invasion" scare along the West Coast.


Japanese submarine I-17

The following night, the anti-aircraft defenses in Los Angeles exploded into action in response to an imagined invasion (later to be known as the Battle of Los Angeles. During a 30-minute fusillade, guns hurled 1,440 rounds of 3-inch (76 mm) and 37 mm ammunition into the night sky at a supposed enemy aircraft, and about ten tons of shrapnel and unexploded ammunition fell back on the city.

Date                Attack type/Location               Vessel/Weapon                                                                       Commander
23 Feb 1942         Oil Field, Goleta, California      I-17, 5.5-inch deck gun                                                             Cdr Nishino
24 and 25 Feb 1942  Battle of Los Angeles, California  I-17 - This battle was the result of panic created by I-17's attack on 23 Feb 1942  Cdr Nishino

Aleutians and Guadalcanal

In early June 1942, I-17 took part in the opening stages of the Aleutian Islands campaign.

In November 1942, I-17's 14 cm deck gun was removed and she set out for Guadalcanal on the first of many supply missions.

Battle of the Bismarck Sea

On 2 March 1943 in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lae was bombed and strafed by USAAF and Royal Australian Air Force planes for three successive days. All of the eight transports and cargo vessels in the convoy and four of the eight escorting destroyers were sunk. The Japanese in lifeboats, rafts and in the water were strafed by planes and PT boats. I-17 was directed to the area.

On 5 March two PT boats, PT-143 and PT-150, discovered I-17 with three lifeboats full of survivors from the Bismarck Sea battle. The submarine was taking them on board. I-17 crash dived as the PT boats strafed and fired torpedoes at her. The PT boats then sank the lifeboats with machine gun fire and depth charges. Several hours later, I-17 resurfaced and picked up 33 surviving soldiers.

The following day, I-17 rescued another 118 soldiers and four sailors. She then sailed to Lae and disembarked her 155 passengers.

Torpedoing Stanvac Manila


Japanese submarine I-17

Torpedoing Stanvac Manila

On 24 May 1943, 100 miles (160 km) south off Noumea 23°45′S 166°30′E / 23.750°S 166.500°E. I-17 sighted the 10,169 ton Panamanian-flagged tanker Stanvac Manila. The tanker had six PT boats on board as cargo. At 0407, I-17's torpedo hit the tanker, flooding the engine and fire room and disabling all power and communications. At 12:05 Stanvac Manila sank, taking PT-165 and PT-173 with her.USS Preble arrived and towed three of the surviving PT boats, PT-167, PT-171 and PT-174 to Noumea. The remaining boat, PT-172, made Noumea under her own power. One life was lost.

Loss

On 19 August 1943, 40 miles (64 km) southwest off Noumea I-17's "Glen" floatplane made a reconnaissance flight and spotted a convoy that had just cleared the harbour. After stowing the aircraft, I-17 set out after the convoy. The New Zealand armed trawler HMNZS Tui, escorting the convoy, picked up a submarine contact, she made an initial run without using depth charges, a second dropping two depth charges, and a third run with another two depth charges, then lost contact with I-17.

Kingfisher floatplanes of US Scouting Squadron VS-57, based in New Caledonia, joined the search.Tui should investigate smoke on the horizon, I-17 was sighted on the surface and Tui opened fire at maximum range, scoring one, possibly two hits. I-17 was severely damaged and sank, leaving a trail of bubbles and oil.

Five minutes later, I-17 resurfaced with her bow exiting at a steep angle. The floatplane briefly strafed the submarine, before dropping more depth charges and I-17 sank at 23°26′S 166°50′E / 23.433°S 166.833°E.I-17's with the loss of 91 of her crew. Tui rescued six survivors, who said Tui's depth charge attacks had damaged I-17, forced her to the surface and the Kingfisher's depth charges had sunk her.


Japanese submarine I-17

* McDougall, R J (1989) New Zealand Naval Vessels. Page 59-61. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-477-01399-4
  * Milanovich, Kathrin (2021). "The IJN Submarines of the I 15 Class". In Jordan, John (ed.). Warship 2021. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. pp. 29–43. ISBN 978-1-4728-4779-9.
  * Parshall, Jon; Hackett, Bob and Kingsepp, Sander. "Imperial Japanese Navy Page: HIJMS Submarine I-17: Tabular Record of Movement"{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  * Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War II: Chapter V: 1943
  * Waters, Sydney David (1956) The Royal New Zealand Navy, Official History.
  * Harker, Jack (2000)The Rockies: New Zealand Minesweepers at War. Silver Owl Press. ISBN 0-9597979-9-8
  * Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Dieter Jung, Peter Mickel. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. United States Naval Institute, 1977. Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 1977. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
  * B1-type submarines
  * The sinking of Stanvac Manila
  * Photo of Stanvac Manila


List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to East Timor

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to East Timor is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. The British Embassy in Dili was opened in 2002 when East Timor (as it is called in English) became independent of Indonesia, and closed in July 2006 along with British Embassies and High Commissions in several other countries; since 2006 the UK has been represented in East Timor by the Ambassador to Indonesia.

List of heads of mission

Ambassador to East Timor

  * 2002–2004: Hamish Daniel
  * 2004–2006: Tina Redshaw
  * 2006 onwards: see List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Indonesia
  * UK in Timor-Leste


Mayotte Bollack

Mayotte Bollack is a French professor of philology at the University of Lille Nord de France. She was the wife and close collaborator of Jean Bollack whose research interests she shared.

Publications (selection)

  * With Heinz Wismann: Philologie und Hermeneutik im 19. Jahrhundert / Philologie et herméneutique en 19ème siècle, Bd. 2, Göttingen 1983
  * A. Monet (Hg.): Le jardin romain. Épicurisme et poésie à Rome. Mélanges offerts à Mayotte Bollack. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Centre de Gestion de l’Édition Scientifique, Université Charles-de-Gaulle—Lille 3, 2003. ISBN 2-84467-057-1 (Rez. James Warren, The Classical Review (New Series) 55 (2005) 116-118)
  * Mayotte Bollack on data.bnf.fr


Tiye (20th dynasty)

This article is about Tiye, the Egyptian queen. For other uses, see Tiye (disambiguation).
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Tije
Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tiye was an Ancient Egyptian queen of the Twentieth Dynasty; a secondary wife of Ramesses III, against whom she instigated a conspiracy.

Tiye is known from the Judicial Papyrus of Turin, which recorded that there was a harem conspiracy against Ramesses, in which several people in high positions in the pharaoh's government were involved. The conspirators wanted to kill the king and place Tiye's son Pentawer on the throne, instead of the appointed heir, the son of Tyti, one of the king's two chief wives.

Ramesses was attacked by multiple assailants, one slitting his throat, another removing his big toe with a heavy sword or axe. However, his designated heir was able to control the situation, and succeeded him as Ramesses IV. The conspirators were caught, brought to trial, and condemned. Most were burned to death and their ashes scattered in the street. Others, including Pentawer, were compelled to commit suicide. It is not known what happened to Tiye.


Ryuki Nishimuro

Ryuki Nishimuro (西室隆規, Nishimuro, Ryuki, born 2 June 1993 in Yamanashi) is a Japanese footballer who plays for Verspah Oita.

Club statistics

Updated to 1 January 2020.

Club performance  League           Cup            Total
Season            Club             League         Apps   Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Japan             League           Emperor's Cup  Total
2016              Kataller Toyama  J3 League      6      0      2     0      8     0
2017              11               0              1      0      12    0
2018              Verspah Oita     JFL            21     2      0     0      21    2
2019              ReinMeer Aomori  15             1      –      15    1
Career total      53               3              5      0      58    3

  * Ryuki Nishimuro at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
  * Profile at Kataller Toyama


Otto Schnepp

Otto Schnepp (1925 - January 2, 2019) was an Austrian-American scientist.

Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, he lived in Shanghai from 1939 to 1948, where he bounced between the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession as his father continued to practice medicine.Above the Drowning SeaUniversity of California, Berkeley. He spoke German, Hebrew, French, Chinese

Professor Schnepp researched the area of optical molecular spectroscopy. He also studied science and technology of modern China, U.S.-China technology transfer and physical chemistry. He was active in the field of Science Policy, especially as it concerned China.Beijing from 1980 to 1982, and a former director of the USC East Asian Studies Center, 1994-2000.

He received many honors, including the Superior Honor Award of the U.S. Department of State, USC Associates’ Award for Creative Scholarship and Research, and the USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award.

Schnepp self-published Roots Lost, Roots Found,

Otto Schnepp died on January 2, 2019, in Walnut Creek, California.


Virginia's Husband

Virginia's Husband may refer to:

  * Virginia's Husband (play)
  * Virginia's Husband (1928 film), a 1928 British silent comedy film
  * Virginia's Husband (1934 film), a 1934 British comedy film


René Pomerleau

René Pomerleau

René Pomerleau, OC (27 April 1904 in Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec – 11 October 1993 in Quebec City) was a mycologist and plant pathologistfungi and lichens.Laval University before an MS at the McGill University and later study at the Sorbonne. In 1972, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University.La mycolade also had him as the main character.

In 2016, following a major legacy gift, the Acfas created the René-Pomerleau Fund, dedicated to initiatives from the next generation of scientists.

Awards

  * 1955 Léo-Pariseau Prize
  * 1981 Prix Marie-Victorin


S-One

S-One is a Japanese robot made by Tokyo-based company Schaft to compete in the Robotics Challenge, a DARPA-organized competition with an aim to "discover" the most up-to-date humanoid robots.

S-One won the competition with 27 points out of 32 by completing tasks such as clearing the ground of objects and passing through debris without difficulty. The S-One lost points when it was unable to exit from a vehicle.

Characteristics

S-One is 130 cm (4 feet 17⁄64 inches) high and weighs 95 kg (209 lbs).


Polyptychus paupercula

Polyptychus paupercula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from forests from Liberia to Uganda.

The length of the forewings is 27–31 mm for males, while females are larger, darker and broader winged. The wings are broader and less acuminate (tapering to a long point) than other Polyptychus species. It is very similar in shape and markings to Andriasa contraria. The forewings are pale greyish brown, with numerous crenulate (scalloped) darker transverse lines, more or less parallel. There is a darker spot near the apex and another at the inner margin, near the tornus. There is also a large rounded orange brown basal dot. The hindwings are pale greyish brown, but the margin is darker, especially near the tornus. There are traces of an inner marginal streak.

Subspecies

  * Polyptychus paupercula paupercula
  * Polyptychus paupercula senniger Jordan, 1920


KKOL

KKOL may refer to:

  * KKOL (AM), a radio station (1300 AM) licensed to Seattle, Washington, United States
  * KKOL-FM, a radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Aiea, Hawaii, United States


Roderick Miller (politician)

Roderick L "Rod" Miller was a politician in Louisiana.1980 Republican National Convention.Louisiana House of Representatives.Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton Jr.


Maypole Dairy Company

Entrance to former Maypole Dairy shop, 276 Canongate, Edinburgh

Maypole Dairy Co, container for lard c.1900

The Maypole Dairy Company or Maypole Dairies were an early chain of British dairies who rose to be the biggest employer in Britainmargarine as an alternative to butter, originally under the name of Butterine but following legal action protecting this name was known as margarine from 1887.

The logo of the company is a group of young people dancing around a maypole.

Origins

The Maypole Dairy on West Richmond Street in Edinburgh c.1900

Cumulative preferred oridinary share of the Maypole Dairy Company Ltd., issued 5 December 1917

The dairy evolved in Birmingham from the Watson family, who had owned dairies in the area for generations. In 1859 George Jackson created the company Medova Dairies with three younger men the Watson brothers. Internal arguments regarding the introduction of margarine to their product range led George Watson to restart alone in 1887 as Maypole Dairies, leaving his brothers to continue with the Medova Dairies. George's main premises was at 67 Queen Street in Wolverhampton.

The family rejoined forces in 1898 but decided to keep both dairy names. Expanding greatly by 1905 Maypole Dairies had 105 branches (compared to 80 branches of Medova), including multiple branches in London, Manchester, Glasgow and other major cities and were a household name. They had strong links to Denmark and much of their dairy produce was Danish. Their main products were butter, cheese, margarine, eggs and condensed milk (but curiously not milk itself). By 1873 they were importing 30,000 tons of Danish butter per annum.

The company was a high-volume, low-margin company, providing dairy products at very affordable prices, and they focussed on working class areas. By 1915 they had 985 branches and they celebrated the opening of their 1000th shop in 1926, by that time the most extensive company in Britain. Over and above their retail units they owned eight creameries in Ireland and one in England, and had offices organising supplies in both Denmark and Sweden.

In 1902 they acquired the OMA margarine factory in Godley, Greater Manchester which produced 200 tons of margarine per week. By 1912 the company was making £550,000 per annum.


Maypole Dairy Company

Their concentration on the promotion of margarine made them the biggest single producer in the UK supplying one third of all supplies by 1914. Unlike rival companies which used animal products, the Maypole margarine was made with groundnut oil from peanuts in West Africa.

The First World War had a huge negative impact due to restrictions of cargoes as margarine was largely made with oils from Africa. Rationing did further damage. Maypole sold their factory in Manchester to Lever Brothers.

In 1915 they took over Otto Monsted's huge OMA margarine factory in Southall in an attempt to recoup losses. This was the biggest margarine factory in the world and employed 650 people and made 35,000 tons of margarine per annum. They also bought the edible oil refinery in Erith in eastern London. By 1918 they had increased production to a staggering 100,000 tons per annum in Southall alone. By this time margarine accounted for 85% of all the Maypole sales.

Rivalry and demise

Foreign competition, especially from Blue Band margarines started a price war in the 1920s which pushed prices and profits downwards. In 1924 the Watson family sold their majority share holding to the firm Home and Colonial Stores. In 1925 lard was added to the product range.

Ironically the name "Maypole Dairy" still continued to expand due to its customer good will, and it peaked in 1928 with a stunning 1040 stores and 18 creameries.

In 1929 the huge Southall factory was sold to "Wall's" to make sausages and ice-cream.

Sir William George Watson (the company chairman) died in 1930 leaving £2 million.

In 1931 their West African peanut plantations were sold to the United Africa Company (controlled by Unilever).

By 1939 stores had dropped to 977 and World War II rationing forced further diversification.

The Maypole brand survived until 1964 when it was absorbed with other companies by Allied Suppliers and a central headquarters created in London. The final Maypole Dairy closed in 1970.

The name survives mainly in tile-work at entranceways and occasionally internally (most of the dairies had tiled interiors).

The rights to the Maypole Dairy brand name are owned by Morrisons supermarkets.

Trivia


Maypole Dairy Company

Trivia

Their factory in Southall gave name to Margarine Road (later renamed Bridge Road).

Appearance in Film

In the Ealing comedy The Magnet one scene is set in a Liverpool branch of Maypole Dairies.


Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church

Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, originally named the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, is a landmark church located on West Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The church was designed by architect Hugh M.G. Garden and was built in 1901. The church was sold to its current owners in 1947. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 16, 1989,National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

  * National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side Chicago
  * Official website


Ryukyu (disambiguation)

Look up Ryukyu or Ryukyuan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The Ryukyu Islands are a volcanic arc archipelago.

Ryukyu may also refer to:

  * Kingdom of Ryukyu, a former kingdom annexed by the Empire of Japan
  * Ryukyuan languages
  * Ryukyuan people
  * Ryukyu (My Hero Academia), a character in the manga series My Hero Academia
  * Okinawa (disambiguation)
  * Okinawan (disambiguation)
  * Liuqiu
  * Lewchewan (disambiguation)


Otto Scheerpeltz

Otto Scheerpeltz (16 July 1888, Olomouc - 10 November 1975, Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles, particularly the rove-beetles, Staphylinidae.

Scheerpeltz was born in Olomouc where he went to the local schools. Although interested in plants and animals, he followed his father's advice to study civil engineering at the Technical University. He taught geometry and technical drawing for a while in Vienna and became a full-time teacher in 1910. He started studying zoology and botany in 1922 and received a doctoral summa cum laude in 1930. He did not complete his habilitation due to the outbreak of World War II. He retired as a teacher from the Schottenfelder Oberrrealschule, Vienna in 1945 and joined the Natural History Museum, Vienna in 1948. He helped build the collections and the library there and retired in 1953.

His collection of Staphylinidae included 300000 specimens with about 10,000 types was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum, Vienna. He authored a catalogue of the Staphylinidae of the world in collaboration with Max Bernhauer. Published in 1926, they described 12,740 species.


Virginia (schooner)

Virginia is a wooden schooner that is a modern replica of an early twentieth century pilot vessel of the same name. She conducts educational programs and passenger trips along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Canada, and in the Caribbean.

The original Virginia

The original schooner Virginia was commissioned by the Virginia Pilots Association and designed by naval engineers Cox and Stevens. Pilots Association president William Rowe Boutwell instructed the designers to model the vessel after the America's Cup competitors of the day. She was built by A.C. Brown & Son of Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, and was completed in 1916. Although steamboats were readily available at the time, Virginia was built with no engines so as to maintain the pilots' sailing skills and train new apprentices.

Virginia served actively as a pilot vessel during World War I. Following the war, she was fitted with two 75 hp diesel engines, which necessitated a shortening of her fore boom to accommodate a smokestack.

In 1939, Virginia was sold to Walter K. Queen of Boston. She was sold again in 1944, and in 1945 was sold to her final owner, William H. Hoeffer of New York. In 1947 she was reported "stranded."

The modern Virginia

The replica Virginia was commissioned by the Virginia Maritime Heritage Foundation and built, with about $5 million in state and federal funding,Norfolk, Virginia.gaff rigged knockabout schooner, meaning she lacks a bowsprit; her headsails can be handled and furled from the deck.

In 2004, the Virginia Senate deferred a bill that would establish the Commonwealth of Virginia as a co-owner of the Virginia.

In 2007, Virginia was awarded a $10,000 grant from the United States Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program, by way of the American Sail Training Association, for her youth sail training programs.

In 2014 it was reported that Virginia was for sale,In 2016 a listing on YachtWorld.com showed Virginia's asking price as $1.5m.

Programs


Virginia (schooner)

Programs

In the summer, Virginia offers week-long educational programs for boys and girls aged 13–17. In conjunction with the professional crew, the trainees help to sail, maintain, and navigate the ship.Virginia also provides scholarships to allow underserved youth to participate in these programs.

Virginia also carries paying guests between various destination points.

Virginia has raced in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race several times.

  * List of schooners
  * Schooner Virginia homepage
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Virginia (ship, 2005).


René Picado Michalski

René Picado Michalski (December 28, 1905 – July 12, 1956) was a Costa Rican politician.


S-Tone Inc.

S-Tone Inc. is Italian multi-instrumentalist jazz musician Stefano Tirone's main musical project. Originating from Milan, Italy, Tirone has been a professional musician for over twenty years. The first official S-Tone Inc. recording was released in 1992 during the acid jazz era, a formative time for Tirone, who was heavily influenced by the combination of soul, jazz and Latin rhythms of the period.

Biography

Early years

He started playing music in the early 1980s during the new wave period. He graduated in architecture from Politecnico di Milano university and currently alternates between the two professions of architect and musician, though he has reportedly given priority to the latter in more recent years.

He has studied guitar and later piano for a certain period with Sonny Taylor (Mayafra Combo) and Antonio Zambrini, two pianists who have opened his mind towards new harmonic horizons. The activity as a producer starts in 1990 together with the dj Valenti with whom he has released the track "What's up" under the name Baby Doll House with the label Irma. From 1992 to 1994 he has collaborated with dj Don Carlos with whom he has created two projects, Montego Bay and Antigua Managua, which were based on 1970s disco samples with a house feel. In 1993 he participates to the compilation "Totally Wired Italia" released by the English label Acid Jazz with a track under the name Square Circle. Since 1994 he works for the labels of Luciano Cantone and Davide Rosa, the founders of Schema records, first with Milano 2000 and then with Schema from 2001.

Recordings


S-Tone Inc.

Recordings

The first S-Tone Inc. album was released in 1996 with the name Love Unlimited and it contains in particular the track "Ainda Sonhar", which has been chosen for dozens of compilations all over the world. In 1997, with the name Cosmorama he released a monothematic album inspired by drum&bass, yet jazzy and soulful. In 1999, he released the second S-Tone Inc. album, Free Spirit. But it's with the album Sobrenatural released in 2002 that Stefano Tirone proved to have established his own style, made of various influences that go from Brazilian music, to jazz, funk, and soul, without forgetting his experience in house music. In 2003, he produced a 12" with Stefano Ghittoni, of The Dining Rooms, under the name Vuca. One of these tracks, "Bossafrica", has been later re-recorded during the sessions of the fourth S-Tone Inc. album.

In 2004, he produced the album Instalaçao do Samba for the Brazilian songwriter Tomaz Di Cunto who has chosen the name Toco for his project. During 2003 and 2004 he wrote and produced the tracks of his fourth album "Luz y Sombra", that has a more acoustic vein and features many musicians from the Milan jazz scene, plus five Brazilians. In particular the vocal guests are Laura Fedele, Toco, Manuela Ravaglioli, Adi Souza, Angie Brown and Luciana Cury from São Paulo. It also features a string quartet in two tracks. In November 2005, he has produced in Rio de Janeiro the second album of Toco titled Outro Lugar, with the participation of Roberto Menescal (bossa nova pioneer with Jobim and Gilberto) on guitar and some of the best Brazilian sidemen. The recordings were completed in Milan during spring/summer 2006 and was released on Schema records in February 2007. In April 2009, Schema Records released his fifth album Moon in Libra, which included new and old collaborations and a more intense approach to songwriting and producing. The album includes two cover versions, one of the popular "Stormy" revisited in a bossa nova mood and "My Only Man" by Italian composer Piero Umiliani and formerly sung by Helen Merrill.

Occasionally S-Tone Inc. have played live with various guests. He also has selected records in radio programs and clubs.


S-Tone Inc.

Discography

  * 1996 - Love Unlimited
  * 1999 - Free Spirit
  * 2002 - Sobrenatural
  * 2005 - Luz Y Sombra
  * 2009 - Moon In Libra
  * 2013 - Lost & Found
  * 2017 - Onda
  * 2020 - Body & Soul


Polyptychus carteri

Polyptychus carteri is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo and Uganda.


KKMV

KKMV (106.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Rupert, Idaho, United States, the station serves the Twin Falls (Sun Valley) area. The station is currently owned by Lee Family Broadcasting, Inc.

  * KKMV in the FCC FM station database
  * KKMV on Radio-Locator
  * KKMV in Nielsen Audio's FM station database


Roderick Moore

Roderick Moore may refer to:

  * Roderick W. Moore, American Ambassador to Montenegro
  * Roderick "Rod the Bod" Moore, former boxer


Mount Lyttleton

Mount Lyttleton ( 66°24′S 65°22′W / 66.400°S 65.367°W) is a conspicuous, almost entirely snow-covered mountain near the head of Cardell Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Finn Ronne, 1947–48, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Westcote R. Lyttleton (1877–1956), New Zealand Works Director of Triplex Safety Glass, London, who first introduced laminated safety glass for use in goggles in about 1912.

[Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Lyttleton". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


Metropolitan Klezmer

Metropolitan Klezmer is a New York band that was established in 1994.Klezmer band, Metropolitan Klezmer takes an eclectic approach to Yiddish musical genres from around the globe.

Songlines magazine calls them "One of the finest American klezmer bands".

The band was formed by drummer (and Yiddish film scholar) Eve Sicular with Ismail Butera (accordion), Michael Hess (violin, ney flutes, kanun zither), Dave Hofstra (bass and tuba), and klezmer legend Howie Leess (1920-2003) (clarinet & tenor sax). The group expanded to include vocalist Deborah Karpel and a dynamic horn section: Debra Kreisberg (clarinet/alto sax), Pam Fleming (trumpet/fluegelhorn), and Rick Faulkner (trombone).

Individually, Metropolitan Klezmer players have worked with such diverse artists as Bonnie Raitt, The Toasters, Bill Frisell, Toshi Reagon, Juan Carlos Formell, Indigo Girls, Burning Spear, Amy Sedaris, Max Roach, Rufus Wainwright, Nora York, and the Microscopic Septet, as well as Jewish music performers from the Klezmatics and Andy Statman to David Krakauer, Sephardic stars Alhambra and SF's Charming Hostess.

The band's CDs have enjoyed positive reviews, awards, and worldwide airplay.

  * Band website


Ryujiro Ueda

Ryujiro Ueda (植田 龍仁朗, Ueda Ryūjirō, born January 29, 1988 in Kadoma, Osaka) is a Japanese former football player who last played for Roasso Kumamoto.

Career

On October 30, 2011, he scored the only goal for his team against Yokohama FC with his head from his own half. The distance of 58.6 metres was thought to be a world record, but later measurements showed that the ball was headed in from 57.8 metres out. That means Jone Samuelsen still holds the record with 58.13 metres.

Ueda retired at the end of the 2019 season.

Club career statistics

Updated to 23 February 2017.

Club performance  League           Cup            League Cup     Total
Season            Club             League         Apps           Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Japan             League           Emperor's Cup  J. League Cup  Total
2006              Gamba Osaka      J1 League      0              0      0     0      0     0      0     0
2007              0                0              0              0      0     0      0     0
2008              0                0              0              0      0     0      0     0
2009              Fagiano Okayama  J2 League      31             0      0     0      -     31     0
2010              7                0              0              0      -     7      0
2011              30               3              2              0      -     32     3
2012              34               1              2              0      -     36     1
2013              33               3              0              0      -     33     3
2014              5                0              1              0      -     6      0
2015              10               0              0              0      -     10     0
2016              Roasso Kumamoto  36             2              0      0     -      36    2
Total             186              9              5              0      0     0      191   9

  * Profile at Roasso Kumamoto
  * Ryujiro Ueda at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)


Otto Schaden

Otto John Schaden (August 26, 1937 – November 23, 2015) was an American Egyptologist. He was the field director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis (Tennessee). In addition to his work on the tomb of Amenmesse (KV10) in the main arm of the Valley of the Kings, he has also cleared and reinvestigated tombs WV23, WV24, and WV25 in the Western Valley.

Biography

Schaden taught the Middle Egyptian language at the University of Minnesota in the early 1970s. On 8 February 2006, it was announced that his team had discovered KV63, an intact chamber at first thought to be a tomb.

Harper's Magazine for January 2008 contains a long essay by Gregory Jaynes about his March 2006 visit to the KV63 tomb, in which he describes Otto Schaden's dispute with his superior Lorelei Corcoran from the University of Memphis.University of Memphis and Dr. Schaden severed their relationship and Schaden's research was to continue under the auspices of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, a very unusual move because most are conducted under a university. He died on November 23, 2015, at the age of 78.

  * KV63 Official Website Managed by Bill and Roxanne Wilson
  * KV10: The Amenmesse Project Managed by Bill and Roxanne Wilson
  * MSNBC Science online. "Egyptian ‘tomb’ was mummy workroom: Sarcophagi contained supplies, not royalty, top archaeologist says."


Virginia's warbler

Virginia's warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) is a species of New World warbler.

Despite what its name may suggest, Virginia's warbler is not actually named after the American State of Virginia, which makes sense as the birds' typical range only reaches as far east as the state of Texas. The bird's common eastern range is central and southern mountains of Colorado, central Wyoming, and central and western New Mexico. The bird was named for Virginia Anderson, the wife of an army surgeon who discovered the bird at Fort Burgwin, New Mexico, in 1858. When Spencer Fullerton Baird of the Smithsonian Institution fully described the bird for science in 1860 he honored the wishes of the warbler's discoverer and designated Virginia to be both the bird's common and scientific name.

Description

Virginia's warbler is a small bird, only 4 to 4+1⁄2 inches (100 to 110 mm) in length. It is mainly gray in color, with a lighter colored under-belly and a white eye ring. The rump and undertail coverts are yellow. They also have a yellow patch on their breast and a partially hidden dark reddish crest. Females are slightly duller, with less yellow on breast. Virginia's warbler can be easily mistaken for the rare Colima warbler, but it is smaller, has a more yellow rump, and is more widespread. Colima Warbler also lacks yellow breast patch.

Life history

Virginia's warbler is common in dense oak and pinyon woodlands and brushy streamside hills at altitudes ranging from 6,000–9,000 ft (1,800–2,700 m). It summers in the south-western United States and will migrate as far south as Belize during the winter, as well as stopping in several Caribbean islands such as the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Nests are built on the ground, hidden amongst dead leaves and tufts of grass at the base of a shrub or young tree. The nest is cup-shaped and constructed from moss, grass, strips of bark, and roots. The female will lay between three and five eggs, which are white in color and dotted with fine brown speckles. Young are attended to by both sexes, but incubation period and other nesting habits are mostly unknown.


Virginia's warbler

* Vermivora virginiae, ITIS Report

Books

  * Olson, C. R., and T. E. Martin. 1999. Virginia’s Warbler (Vermivora virginiae). In The Birds of North America, No. 477 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Thesis

  * Conway, Courtney Joseph, Ph.D., (1998) Ecological and physiological constraints on avian incubation behavior and nest-site selection. University of Montana, 149 pages.

Articles


Virginia's warbler

Articles

  * Berry ME & Bock CE. (1998). Effects of habitat and landscape characteristics on avian breeding distributions in Colorado foothills shrub. Southwestern Naturalist. vol 43, no 4. p. 453-461.
  * Howard P. (1999). Virginia's Warbler at Kennesaw Mountain, Cobb County, Georgia. Oriole. vol 64, no 1–2. p. 5-6.
  * Martin PR & Martin TE. (2001). Behavioral interactions between coexisting species: Song playback experiments with wood warblers. Ecology. vol 82, no 1. p. 207-218.
  * Martin PR & Martin TE. (2001). Ecological and fitness consequences of species coexistence: A removal experiment with wood warblers. Ecology. vol 82, no 1. p. 189-206.
  * Sedgwick JA. (1987). Avian Habitat Relationships in Pinyon-Juniper Woodland. Wilson Bulletin. vol 99, no 3. p. 413-431.
  * Swanson DL, Palmer JS, Liknes ET & Dean KL. (2000). A breeding population of Virginia's warblers in the southwestern Black Hills of South Dakota. Southwestern Naturalist. vol 45, no 1. p. 39-44.
  * Voelker, Gary and Sara L McFarland. (2002) Molt patterns and molting grounds of Lucy's and Virginia's Warblers: Similar yet different. The Wilson Bulletin. Vol 114, no 2. p. 255 (9 pages).
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René Petersen

René Petersen is a Danish retired footballer.

Career

Petersen started his senior career in Denmark. In 1996, he signed for Sint-Truidense V.V. in the Belgian Pro League, where he made over forty appearances and scored two league goals. After that, he played for English club Kidderminster Harriers and Danish club Hvidovre IF before retiring.

  * René Petersen på vej hjem
  * Petersen calls it a day
  * Fodbold: Verdens bedste job med komplikationer
  * Anders Nielsen: «Misschien ben ik te braaf»


Rybachuk

Rybachuk is a surname of Ukrainian origin. It is a patronymic derivation from surname/nickname Rybak, the latter literally meaning "fisherman". Notable people with this surname include:

  * Ada Rybachuk (1931–2010), Ukraine/Soviet muralist, painter, sculptor and architect
  * Oleh Rybachuk (born 1958), Ukrainian politician
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Pyramidella magdalenensis

Pyramidella magdalenensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Description

The very pale horn yellow shell has an elongate conic shape. Its length measures 5.8 mm. The two whorls of the protoconch are well rounded, forming a depressed helicoid spire, the axis of which is at right angles to that of the succeeding turns, in the first of which it is about one-third immersed. The nine whorls of the teleoconch are flattened. They are narrowly shouldered at the summit with a deep spiral groove at the periphery which shows in the suture of all the turns and gives this the appearance of being deeply channeled. The summit of the whorls is strongly crenulated. The weak depressions on the sides of the crenulation pass down the sides of whorls for a short distance below the summit. The rest of the surface is marked by fine lines of growth and exceedingly fine spiral striations. The deep peripheral sulcus is crossed by slender axial riblets, which are more slender and more numerous than the crenulations at the summit of the whorls. The base of the shell is moderately long, and well rounded. It is provided with a strong fasciole at the anterior end and marked by rather strong incremental lines and very fine spiral striations. The aperture is oval. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin, showing four denticles within, of which the median two are the strongest. The inner lip is thick, almost straight, and provided with three folds, of which the first is lamellar and almost transversely disposed. It covers the posterior portion of the basal fasciole. The other two folds are much weaker and much more obliquely placed and extend to the anterior portion of the columella. The parietal wall is glazed with a thin callus.

Distribution

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Magdalena Bay, Lower California.

  * To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  * To World Register of Marine Species


KKOK-FM

KKOK-FM (95.7 FM), also known as "Prairies Hit Country", is a Country formatted radio station in Morris, Minnesota owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc.

It is located at 46671 State Hwy 28, along with sister station KMRS.

  * KKOK website
  * KKOK in the FCC FM station database
  * KKOK on Radio-Locator
  * KKOK in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

45°36′11″N 95°53′17″W / 45.603°N 95.888°W


Roderick McGill

Roderick Benton McGill (July 15, 1888 – July 1968) was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Benton County, from 1916 to 1920.

Biography

Roderick Benton McGill was born on July 15, 1888, in Falkner, Tippah County, Mississippi.Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Benton County as a Democrat, in 1915.W. E. Houston.Ripley, Mississippi.


Mount Mabolasi

The Mount Mabolasi (traditional Chinese: 馬博拉斯山; simplified Chinese: 马博拉斯山; pinyin: Mǎbólāsī Shān) is a mountain in Taiwan. The peak is located in Xinyi Township, Nantou County, near the border of Hualien County.Mount Wulameng (traditional Chinese: 烏拉孟山; simplified Chinese: 乌拉孟山; pinyin: Wūlāmèng Shān).

Geology

The mountain is located within the Central Mountain Range with a maximum peak height of 3,785 metres (12,418 ft). It is the fourth highest mountain of Taiwan.

History

On 22 September 2015, an AIDC AT-3 of the Republic of China Air Force crashed around the mountain area during routine training flight, killing its two pilots.

On 20 January 2019, Taiwanese hiker, Gigi Wu, known for her social media photos of herself atop Taiwanese mountains wearing only two-piece bathing suits, fell into a 20-meter valley near Mabolasi Mountain. Rescue workers found her deceased.

  * 100 Peaks of Taiwan
  * List of mountains in Taiwan
  * Yushan National Park


Lújar

Lújar is a village in southern Spain in the Sierra Nevada, a couple of kilometres inland from the coast and the city of Motril along a fairly precipitous road. Its coordinates are 36°47′15″N 3°24′5″W / 36.78750°N 3.40139°W (36.7877, -3.4016). Its population is approximately 1,200.

History

The village was one of the first to be taken during the Spanish Civil War.

Facilities

There is a municipal open air swimming pool at the western end of the village, and a couple of bars.


Lucas, Illinois

Lucas is an unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois, United States. Lucas is located along U.S. Route 136 west of McLean.


Otto Schindler (zoologist)

Otto Schindler (1906–1959) was a German zoologist who specialised in ichthyology.

In 1931 he joined the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Zoologische Staatssammlung München) as an assistant curator of ichthyology, to work on the specimens collected by the III German Grand Chaco Expedition to East Paraguay. In 1937 he joined the IV expeditionSecond World War he was appointed Curator of Ichthyology and restored and ordered the collection of fish which had survived the war.Lake Titicaca with Peru by the Bolivian Ministry of Agriculture; the Peruvian negotiator was another German, Hans Wilhem Koepcke. He collected many specimens from Lake Titicaca and he sampled in the vicinity of Cochabamba and in the Amazon lowlands with the amateur entomologist Rudolf Zischka. During the expeditions he collected the types of Aphyocharacidium bolivianum, Oligosarcus schindleri and Characidium schindleri.goby genus Schindleria named after him. He described the type species as Hemipramphus praematurus and Louis Pierre Giltay raised the genus Schindleria for this distinctive fish in 1934.


Vladimír Sobotka (volleyball)

Vladimir Sobotka (born 7 May 1985) is a Czech male volleyball player. He is part of the Czech Republic men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for VK Ceske Budejovice.

  * profile at FIVB.org


René Piché

René Louis Piché (May 5, 1931 – January 22, 2011) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1985 who represented the northern Ontario riding of Cochrane North. He served as a minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Frank Miller. He was mayor of Kapuskasing from 1971 to 1980 and again from 1991 to 1993.

Background

Piché was born in Cache Bay, Ontario in 1931 to parents Louis Piché and Églantine Nadon. He was one of four children. He lived in Kapuskasing and later Orleans, Ontario.Ontario Northland Transportation Commission for seven years from 1973 to 1980.

Politics

In 1971, Piché was elected mayor of Kapuskasing and served in that position until 1980.

In the 1981 provincial election he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Cochrane North, defeating Liberal candidate Jean-Paul Bourgeault by 188 votes.backbench supporter of Bill Davis's government for four years. In 1983 he was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Revenue. When Frank Miller became Premier in 1985, he appointed Piché as Minister without portfolio responsible for northern transportation.

The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a tenuous minority government in the 1985 provincial election. Piché was defeated losing to Liberal René Fontaine by 1,910 votes.

Piché attempted to return to the Ontario legislature in the 1990 provincial election, but finished third against New Democrat Len Wood.

He later returned to municipal politics, and again served as Kapuskasing's mayor in the 1991 and served one term until 1993.

  * Ontario Legislative Assembly parliamentary history


Ryazan Plant for Manufacturing and Processing Non-Ferrous Metals (Ryaztsvetmet; Russian: ЗАО «Рязцветмет») is Russia’s chief manufacturer of lead and lead alloys.

Production

Ryaztsvetmet produces pure lead (99.97% and 99.985%) and antimony and tin based lead alloys, as well as custom-made lead alloys with alloying additions.

Ryaztsvetmet offers a selection of lead powder and feathered tin, solder alloys, Babbitts, lead pipes and goods (anodes & wires)

The plant also sells crushed polypropylene (from discarded automotive batteries).

Shipment

The products are supplied to manufacturers of accumulator batteries all over the world.

A significant part of the production is sold in the domestic market and used for manufacturing automotive batteries.

  * Ryazan Plant for Manufacturing and Processing Non-Ferrous Metals Official Site


Kabasakal

Kabasakal is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Çukurova, Adana Province, Turkey.Seyhan.Adana, the distance between the village and the city center being only 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and it has almost merged with the city. The city cemetery of Adana (Turkish: Kabasakal mezarlığı) is about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) west of Kabasakal.


Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm

Pass and stop bands of a filter designed by the Parks–McClellan algorithm
The y-axis is the frequency response H(ω) and the x-axis are the various radian frequencies, ωi. It can be noted that the two frequences marked on the x-axis, ωp and ωs. ωp indicates the pass band cutoff frequency and ωs indicates the stop band cutoff frequency. The ripple like plot on the upper left is the pass band ripple and the ripple on the bottom right is the stop band ripple. The two dashed lines on the top left of the graph indicate the δp and the two dashed lines on the bottom right indicate the δs. All other frequencies listed indicate the extremal frequencies of the frequency response plot. As a result, there are six extremal frequencies, and then we add the pass band and stop band frequencies to give a total of eight extremal frequencies on the plot.

The Parks–McClellan algorithm, published by James McClellan and Thomas Parks in 1972, is an iterative algorithm for finding the optimal Chebyshev finite impulse response (FIR) filter. The Parks–McClellan algorithm is utilized to design and implement efficient and optimal FIR filters. It uses an indirect method for finding the optimal filter coefficients.

The goal of the algorithm is to minimize the error in the pass and stop bands by utilizing the Chebyshev approximation. The Parks–McClellan algorithm is a variation of the Remez exchange algorithm, with the change that it is specifically designed for FIR filters. It has become a standard method for FIR filter design.

History of optimal FIR filter design

In the 1960s, researchers within the field of analog filter design were using the Chebyshev approximation for filter design. During this time, it was well known that the best filters contain an equiripple characteristic in their frequency response magnitude and the elliptic filter (or Cauer filter) was optimal with regards to the Chebyshev approximation. When the digital filter revolution began in the 1960s, researchers used a bilinear transform to produce infinite impulse response (IIR) digital elliptic filters. They also recognized the potential for designing FIR filters to accomplish the same filtering task and soon the search was on for the optimal FIR filter using the Chebyshev approximation.


Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm

It was well known in both mathematics and engineering that the optimal response would exhibit an equiripple behavior and that the number of ripples could be counted using the Chebyshev approximation. Several attempts to produce a design program for the optimal Chebyshev FIR filter were undertaken in the period between 1962 and 1971.

Similar to Herrmann's method, Ed Hofstetter presented an algorithm that designed FIR filters with as many ripples as possible. This has become known as the Maximal Ripple algorithm. The Maximal Ripple algorithm imposed an alternating error condition via interpolation and then solved a set of equations that the alternating solution had to satisfy.ωi} and the desired function D(ωi) defined the pass and stop band implicitly. Unlike previous attempts to design an optimal filter, the Maximal Ripple algorithm used an exchange method that tried to find the frequency set {ωi} where the best filter had its ripples.

History

In August 1970, James McClellan entered graduate school at Rice University with a concentration in mathematical models of analog filter design and enrolled in a new course called "Digital Filters" due to his interest in filter design.Sid Burrus. At that time, DSP was an emerging field and as a result lectures often involved recently published research papers. The following semester, the spring of 1971, Thomas Parks offered a course called "Signal Theory," which McClellan took as well.

The algorithm

The Parks–McClellan Algorithm is implemented using the following steps:


Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm

The Parks–McClellan Algorithm is implemented using the following steps:

 1. Initialization: Choose an extremal set of frequences {ωi(0)}.
 2. Finite Set Approximation: Calculate the best Chebyshev approximation on the present extremal set, giving a value δ(m) for the min-max error on the present extremal set.
 3. Interpolation: Calculate the error function E(ω) over the entire set of frequencies Ω using (2).
 4. Look for local maxima of |E(m)(ω)| on the set Ω.
 5. If max(ω∈Ω)|E(m)(ω)| > δ(m), then update the extremal set to {ωi(m+1)} by picking new frequencies where |E(m)(ω)| has its local maxima. Make sure that the error alternates on the ordered set of frequencies as described in (4) and (5). Return to Step 2 and iterate.
 6. If max(ω∈Ω)|E(m)(ω)| ≤ δ(m), then the algorithm is complete. Use the set {ωi(0)} and the interpolation formula to compute an inverse discrete Fourier transform to obtain the filter coefficients.

The Parks–McClellan Algorithm may be restated as the following steps:

 1. Make an initial guess of the L+2 extremal frequencies.
 2. Compute δ using the equation given.
 3. Using Lagrange Interpolation, we compute the dense set of samples of A(ω) over the passband and stopband.
 4. Determine the new L+2 largest extrema.
 5. If the alternation theorem is not satisfied, then we go back to (2) and iterate until the alternation theorem is satisfied.
 6. If the alternation theorem is satisfied, then we compute h(n) and we are done.

To gain a basic understanding of the Parks–McClellan Algorithm mentioned above, we can rewrite the algorithm above in a simpler form as:


Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm

1. Guess the positions of the extrema are evenly spaced in the pass and stop band.
 2. Perform polynomial interpolation and re-estimate positions of the local extrema.
 3. Move extrema to new positions and iterate until the extrema stop shifting.

Explanation

The picture above on the right displays the various extremal frequencies for the plot shown. The extremal frequencies are the maximum and minimum points in the stop and pass bands. The stop band ripple is the lower portion of ripples on the bottom right of the plot and the pass band ripple is the upper portion of the ripples on the top left of the plot. The dashed lines going across the plot indicate the δ or maximum error. Given the positions of the extremal frequencies, there is a formula for the optimum δ or optimum error. Since we do not know the optimum δ or the exact positions of the extrema on the first attempt, we iterate. Effectively, we assume the positions of the extrema initially, and calculate δ. We then re-estimate and move the extrema and recalculate δ, or the error. We repeat this process until δ stops changing. The algorithm will cause the δ error to converge, generally within ten to twelve iterations.

Additional notes

Before applying the Chebyshev approximation, a set of steps were necessary:

 1. Define the set of basis function for the approximation, and
 2. Exploit the fact that the pass and stop bands of bandpass filters would always be separated by transition regions.

Since FIR filters could be reduced to the sum of cosines case, the same core program could be used to perform all possible linear-phase FIR filters. In contrast to the Maximum Ripple approach, the band edges could now be specified ahead of time.

To achieve an efficient implementation of the optimal filter design using the Parks-McClellan algorithm, two difficulties have to be overcome:

 1. Defining a flexible exchange strategy, and
 2. Implementing a robust interpolation method.

In some sense, the programming involved the implementation and adaptation of a known algorithm for use in FIR filter design. Two faces of the exchange strategy were taken to make the program more efficient:


Parks–McClellan filter design algorithm

1. Allocating the extremal frequencies between the pass and stop bands, and
 2. Enabling movement of the extremals between the bands as the program iterated.

At initialization, the number of extremals in the pass and stop band could be assigned by using the ratio of the sizes of the bands. Furthermore, the pass and stop band edge would always be placed in the extremal set, and the program's logic kept those edge frequencies in the extremal set. The movement between bands was controlled by comparing the size of the errors at all the candidate extremal frequencies and taking the largest. The second element of the algorithm was the interpolation step needed to evaluate the error function. They used a method called the Barycentric form of Lagrange interpolation, which was very robust.

All conditions for the Parks–McClellan algorithm are based on Chebyshev's alternation theorem. The alternation theorem states that the polynomial of degree L that minimizes the maximum error will have at least L+2 extrema. The optimal frequency response will barely reach the maximum ripple bounds.

Additional references

The following additional links provide information on the Parks–McClellan Algorithm, as well as on other research and papers written by James McClellan and Thomas Parks:

 1. Chebyshev Approximation for Nonrecursive Digital Filters with Linear Phase
 2. Short Help on Parks–McClellan Design of FIR Low Pass Filters Using MATLAB
 3. Intro to DSP
 4. The MathWorks MATLAB documentation
 5. ELEC4600 Lecture Notes (original link, archived on 15 Apr 2012)
 6. C Code Implementation (LGPL License) – By Jake Janovetz
 7. Iowa Hills Software. "Example C Code"
 8. Revised and expanded algorithm McClellan, Parks, & Rabiner, 1975; Fortran code.


Landecker

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

  * Amy Landecker (born 1969), American actress
  * Hannah Landecker (born 1969), American sociologist
  * John Records Landecker (born 1947), American disc jockey


Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan Gazette

The Mount Lyell Standard was a Queenstown based newspaper in Western Tasmania, that was contemporaneous with the Zeehan and Dundas Herald. It was also known as the Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan gazette.

The newspaper was quoted about developments in the mining operations in other newspapers.

Editorial banners included Shakespearean quotes - such as:

Be just and fear not
Let all the ends thou aim at be thy Country's
Thy God's, and Truth's

— Shakespeare

It was notable for carrying material related to the early Australian politician King O'Malley.

Extracts from the paper, which was being published at a very busy time on the west coast, have been reprinted at various stages to reflect the conditions of the community.

  * Miller, E. Morris (1953) A Historical Summary of Tasmanian Newspapers, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Papers and Proceedings, vol.2, no.2, March 1953


Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos

Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos (Braga, 19 April 1889 – Rio de Janeiro, 11 November 1950) was a Portuguesephilosopher and teacher, noted for coining the term and writing the first theory of rhythmanalysis, focused on its physiological dimensions. His ideas on rhythmanalysis have been later further developed by French philosophers Gaston Bachelard and Henri Lefebvre.

Biography

Born in Braga on 19 April 1889, Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos first studied law at the University of Coimbra. He later moved to Lisbon where he embarked on a teaching career. In 1917 he emigrated to Brazil,Guimarães constituency, and between 1923 and 1926 was the Head of the Education Services of Portuguese India.

Following the military coup of 1926, he went again into exile to Brazil. He published in 1931 the book Ritmanálise, which had no major impact at the time,Gaston Bachelard.

  * Portrait of Pinheiro dos Santos by Abel Manta, 1914


Lucas Alarcón

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alarcón and the second or maternal family name is Ancapi.

Lucas Bastián Alarcón Ancapi (born 5 March 2000) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a defender for Chilean Primera División side Deportes La Serena on loan from Universidad de Chile.

International career

At early age, he represented Chile at under-15 level at the 2015 South American U-15 ChampionshipChile U17 at two friendly matches against USA U17, at the 2017 South American U-17 Championship – Chile was the runner-up – and at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Also, he played all the matches for Chile U17 at the friendly tournament Lafarge Foot Avenir 2017 in France, better known as Tournament Limoges, where Chile became champion after defeating Belgium U18

On 2019, he represented Chile U20 at the 2019 South American U-20 Championship and played four matches for Chile U23 at the 2019 Maurice Revello Tournament.

Career statistics

Club

As of 17 January 2021. Club                      Season  League            Cup   Continental  Other  Total
Division                  Apps    Goals             Apps  Goals        Apps   Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Universidad de Chile      2019    Primera División  4     0            0      0      0     0      0     0      4  0
Deportes Valdivia (loan)  2020    Primera B         21    1            0      0      —     0      0     21     1
Total career              25      1                 0     0            0      0      0     0      25    1

Notes

Honours

International

Chile U17
  * Tournoi de Limoges: 2017

Lucas Alarcón at Soccerway


Namoi Shire

Namoi Shire was a local government area in the North West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia.

Namoi Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906.Narrabri.

In 1937, Namoi Shire absorbed the Municipality of West Narrabri.

The Local Government Areas Amalgamation Act 1980 saw the amalgamation of Namoi Shire with the Municipality of Narrabri to form Narrabri Shire on 1 January 1981.


Vladimír Weiss (footballer, born 1939)

Vladimír Weiss (21 September 1939 – 23 April 2018) was a Czechoslovak football defender and coach. He won the Olympic silver medal for Czechoslovakia at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Personal

Weiss' son, Vladimír Weiss, is the former head coach of Slovakia and the current head coach of Slovan Bratislava, and his grandson, Vladimír Weiss, plays for Slovan Bratislava, having also appeared in Premier League, La Liga and Serie A..

Weiss died on 23 April 2018 at the age of 78.

Honours

ČH Bratislava
  * Czechoslovak First League
  * 1958–59
International
  * 1964 Summer Olympics
  * Silver medal
  * Vladimír Weiss at Olympedia
  * Vladimír Weiss at Olympics.com
  * Vladimír Weiss at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)
  * Vladimír Weiss at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)
  * Futbalová sága rodu Weissovcov pokračuje už treťou generáciou (in Slovak)


René Pollesch

René Pollesch (born 29 October 1962 in Friedberg, Hesse) is a German author and dramatist. From 1983 to 89, he studied Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen.Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2001 for world wide web-slumsCappuccetto Rosso.Volksbühne Theatre in 2019 and take up the role in 2021

  * René Pollesch at IMDb


List of anti-nuclear advocates in Germany

Main article: Anti-nuclear movement in Germany

This is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed reservations about nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or nuclear waste disposal in Germany.Nuclear-Free Future Award.

  * Karl Bechert
  * Hermann Behmel
  * Hildegard Breiner
  * Rolf Disch
  * Hans-Peter Dürr
  * Hans-Josef Fell
  * Erich Fromm
  * Siegwart Horst Günther
  * Robert Jungk
  * André Larivière
  * Irene Meichsner
  * Rainer Moormann
  * Claudia Roth
  * Rüdiger Sagel
  * Hermann Scheer
  * Jens Scheer
  * Gerhard Schröder
  * Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake
  * Michael Sladek
  * Ursula Sladek
  * Klaus Traube
  * Roland Vogt
  * Armin Weiss
  * Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival
  * Black bloc
  * Brokdorf
  * Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland
  * Free Republic of Wendland
  * Nuclear power phase-out
  * Nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf
  * Renewable energy commercialization
  * Renewable energy in Germany
  * List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
  * List of books about nuclear issues
  * List of Chernobyl-related articles
  * List of nuclear whistleblowers
  * Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents


Kabash Mountain

42°15′00″N 20°50′00″E / 42.25°N 20.833333°E Kabash is a mountain near KorishaPrizren Municipality of Kosovo. It is named after the Albanian Kabashi tribe, and is part of the wider Kabash Mountains chain (Bjeshkët e Kabashit) that belongs to the Sharr Mountains.Saint Mark Koriški Monastery.

Conservation

Kabash Mountain is one of the protected areas of the Sharr Mountains designated as lands reserved for touristic development and sports/recreational activities, as well as grazing pastures and private properties for the local community that is located near the villages that border the National Park.

Fauna

Kabash Mountain is home to several different species of fauna, notably the European badger.


Polyptychus affinis

Polyptychus affinis is a moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is known at elevations up to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.

The larvae feed on Detarium senegalense and Albizia species.

Taxonomy

Polyptychus retusus is sometimes treated as a valid species.


Landecker Berg

Landecker Berg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

50°50′25″N 9°53′20″E / 50.84028°N 9.88889°E


Mount Lymburner

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Northern Sentinel Range map.

Mount Lymburner ( 77°26′S 86°30′W / 77.433°S 86.500°W) is a mountain, 1,940 metres (6,360 ft) high, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) west-northwest of Mount Weems near the north end of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for J.H. Lymburner, an assistant pilot on Ellsworth's expedition.

  * Mountains in Antarctica

[Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Lymburner". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


Lúcia Vânia Abrão Costa

Lúcia Vânia Abrão Costa (born October 15, 1944) is a Brazilian politician. She has represented Goiás in the Federal Senate since 2003. Previously she was a Deputy from Goiás from 1987 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2003. She is a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party.


Schizaea fistulosa

Schizaea fistulosa, the narrow comb fern is a small plant found in a variety of habitats. Widespread but a fairly uncommon fern found in southern Australia. Also seen in other countries such as New Zealand, Chile and New Caledonia. A low plant, 4 to 30 cm tall in moist situations.fistulosa means "tube shaped".

This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the year 1807, published in the Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. Described from a Tasmanian plant by the French botanist, Jacques Labillardière.


Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour

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Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour is a live album by the English new wave band Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox, released in 1982 by Safari Records.

Background

The material was recorded on 17 and 18 July 1982 at London's Hammersmith Odeon at the end of the band's The Changeling UK tour. "Neon Womb" and "Street Creature", although performed during those shows, do not feature on the final album.Nick Tauber and the mixing took place at the Marquee Studios in London in August and September 1982.

The original double LP release of this album was the only Toyah record to be issued in a gatefold sleeve. It additionally contained an insert with Toyah's biographical discography. The album was released in early November 1982 and subsequently debuted and peaked at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart. It also reached number 1 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour was re-released in CD format in 2005.

Track listing


Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour

Track listing

Side one
 1. "Good Morning Universe" (Toyah Willcox, Joel Bogen) – 5:03
 2. "Warrior Rock" (Willcox, Bogen, Phil Spalding) – 3:55
 3. "Danced" (Willcox, Bogen, Peter Bush) – 7:18
 4. "Jungles of Jupiter" (Willcox, Bogen, Spalding) – 6:23
Side two
 1.
 2. "It's a Mystery" (Keith Hale) – 5:23
 3. "Castaways" (Willcox, Bogen) – 5:20
 4. "Angel & Me" (Willcox, Bogen) – 5:52
 5. "Brave New World" (Willcox, Bogen) – 6:39
Side three
 1. "The Packt" (Willcox, Bogen) – 7:05
 2. "Thunder in the Mountains" (Willcox, Adrian Lee, Nigel Glockler) – 4:33
 3. "We Are" (Willcox, Bogen) – 3:37
 4. "I Want to Be Free" (Willcox, Bogen) – 6:38
Side four
 1.
 2. "Dawn Chorus" (Willcox, Bogen, Spalding) – 5:13
 3. "War Boys" (Willcox) – 6:04
 4. "Ieya" (Willcox, Bogen, Bush) – 10:13

2005 CD edition contains abridged versions "War Boys" and "Ieya".

Personnel

  * Toyah Willcox – vocals
  * Joel Bogen – guitar, guitar synth, backing vocals
  * Keith Hale – keyboards, backing vocals
  * Phil Spalding – bass, backing vocals
  * Simon Phillips – drums
Production
  * Nick Tauber – producer
  * Simon Hanhart – engineer
  * Barry Ainsworth, Andy Rose, Tim Wybrow – engineers
  * Phil Harding, John Eden – additional mixing
  * Mike Higgs, Andy Lovell, Mark Wade, Mike Duffy – mixing assistants

Charts

Chart (1982)                         Peak
                                     position
UK Albums (Official Charts Company)  20
UK Independent Albums                1

  * Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour – official audio stream on YouTube
  * The official Toyah website


Vladimír Venglár

Vladimír Venglár (20 February 1923 – 5 July 1977) was a Slovak footballer who played as a defender and appeared for both the Slovakia and Czechoslovakia national teams.

Career

Venglár made his international debut for Slovakia on 23 August 1942 in a friendly match against Romania, which finished as a 1–0 win in Bratislava. He earned his second and final cap for the country the following month on 6 September in a friendly match against Croatia, which finished as a 1–6 loss in Zagreb. He later represented the Czechoslovakia national team, making his first appearance on 10 October 1948 in the 1948–53 Central European International Cup against Switzerland, which finished as a 1–1 draw in Basel. He was capped eight times for Czechoslovakia, making his final appearance on 20 May 1951 in a friendly against Romania, which finished as a 2–2 draw in Prague.

Personal life

Venglár died on 5 July 1977 at the age of 54.

Career statistics

International

Team            Year  Apps  Goals
Slovakia        1942  2     0
Total           0     0
Czechoslovakia  1948  1     0
1949            3     0
1950            3     0
1951            1     0
Total           8     0
Career total    10    0

General references

  * Vaněk, Karel (1984). Malá encyklopedie fotbalu [Little encyclopedia of football] (in Czech). Prague: Olympia.
  * Vladimír Venglár at FAČR (in Czech) (archived)
  * Vladimír Venglár at National-Football-Teams.com
  * Vladimír Venglár at FootballDatabase.eu


Kitay-gorod (Moscow Metro)

For the historic area of Moscow, see Kitay-gorod.

Kitay-gorod (Russian: Кита́й-го́род) is a Moscow Metro station complex in the Tverskoy District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines. Kitay-gorod is one of the five stations within the Moscow Metro network providing a cross-platform interchange (besides Kuntsevskaya, Tretyakovskaya, Park Pobedy and Kashirskaya).

Until November 1990, the station was called Ploshchad Nogina (Russian: Площадь Ногина) (Nogin Square), for the square that was named in honour of Viktor Nogin, the prominent Bolshevik. After the city restored the historic name of Ploshchad Varvarskiye Vorota (Varvara Gate Square) to the southern part of Ploshchad Nogina, the station was renamed for the historic Kitay-gorod area, which was almost entirely destroyed by the Soviet regime in the 1930s.

History

Originally the station was to open along the intersection of the two lines when their connecting points in the centre would link the Zhdanovskiy and Krasnopresnenskiy radii and the Kaluzhskiy and Rizhskiy radii in mid-1970s.

The first trains arrived from both Kaluzhskaya and Zhdanovskaya lines on 30 December 1970. Because Ploshad Nogina was a terminus for both lines, trains would terminate at the eastern hall and then go off into the tunnels, where piston junctions were installed for both lines, and then come back on the western hall. For the transfer purposes, it was possible for passengers not to depart the trains when they crossed the platform on the eastern hall.


Kitay-gorod (Moscow Metro)

On 31 December 1971, the Kaluzhskaya line linked up with the Rizhskaya to form the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line. Trains from that line began operating in normal thoroughfare, though it was still possible to go on the Zdanovskaya line by boarding on the eastern platform. The transfer point entered its full operational regime only in late 1975 when on the 17 December, Zdanovskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya lines connected to form the Zhdanovsko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line.

Design

Consisting of two separate, parallel station halls united via a transfer corridor and two combined vestibules, the station was built in an era when decorative architecture once again began to emerge and the combined effort of the architects Strelkov and Moloshenok as well as decorative authors Rusin, Lapina and Bodniek, whose efforts, amongst other places, are seen on the metallic artworks on the walls of both halls.

The western hall, nicknamed Kristall (Crystal) is decorated with two rows of angular pylons faced with light gray marble. Large metal cornicles running along the base of the ceiling hide the illumination lamps. The walls are faced with bright marble and the floor with gray granite. The eastern hall is nicknamed Garmoshka (Garmon), because of its pylons (faced with yellowish marble) which look like a stretched accordion parallel to the length of the hall. The walls are faced with a greyish marble and the floor with bright granite. Heritage of the station's original name, Ploshchad Nogina, can still be found midway in the transfer passage, where a bust of Viktor Nogin (sculptor Shlykov) still stands.

Transfers

The station serves northbound trains heading towards Medvedkovo and Planernaya come via the eastern platform and southbound trains heading towards Novoyasenevskaya and Kotelniki coming via the western one. For passengers wishing to travel in the opposite direction, it is required to use a transfer corridor linking the two platforms.

Exits


Kitay-gorod (Moscow Metro)

Exits

Two underground vestibules allow transfer to the surface. The southern vestibule is located under Slavyanskaya Square and is interlinked with multiple subways. Both escalator tunnels follow directly to the vestibule. The northern one is located under the Staraya Square with subway linkages to the Maroseika street along with others. The passengers must first travel up a flight of stairs from the two halls before turning left and travelling for a while and then go up on a combined escalator. This arrangement was purpose-built for a transfer to the future Maroseika station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, whose tunnels pass north of the Kitay-gorod station.

Station platform


Lagardère Publishing

Lagardère Publishing is the book publishing arm of Lagardère Group.

Publishing companies and imprints


Lagardère Publishing

France                                  United Kingdom                                  Australia

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  * Deux Coqs d'Or                            + Bounty Books                              * Headline
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      + E.P.A                                 + Hamlyn                                    * Orion
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Lagardère Publishing

Main article: List of largest UK book publishers
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Kabassa Lodge

8°26′49″N 13°16′10″W / 8.44705937051286°N 13.269491499338054°W Kabassa Lodge is the former residence of the President of Sierra Leone and currently belongs to the state of Sierra Leone. It is located on 25 acres at the summit of Juba Hill in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Early history

In 1978, President Siaka Stevens gave International Construction Company the contract to build a presidential residence.Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil.

Kabassa Lodge took two years months to complete.1980 O.A.U. Summit.

Confiscation

After the 1992 coup, Valentine Strasser, the head of state, confiscated and occupied Kabassa Lodge, declaring it a state asset.

Ownership

Over the years, ownership of Kabassa Lodge has been disputed over the years. Many Sierra Leoneans holding that the property was paid for by the state and therefore is the property of the state. However, Siaka Stevens willed the property to his children and his family believe that they are the rightful owners.

In 2012, during the Ernest Bai Koroma presidency, the All People's Congress (APC) administration gave the property to the Stevens' family, who turned it into several rental apartments.

The building remains in a state of disrepair.


Polyptychus trisecta

Polyptychus trisecta is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from lowland forests from Liberia and Ghana to the Congo and western Uganda.

The length of the forewings is 42–45 mm.


Kleinzee

Kleinzee is a small village on the west coast of the Northern Cape province in South Africa at the mouth of the Buffels River. It is just south of Grootmis, 72 km south-east of Port Nolloth and 105 km west of Springbok. Previously a closed company town, it was known for its diamond-mining operations until the 2000s.

The Buffels River "flows" through Kleinsee, but most of the time it is just a dry river bed and only flows approximately every ten years. Bounded by semidesert and the Atlantic Ocean, it has a large underground water table.

History

It was originally the site of a freehold farm called Kleyne Zee. The name means 'small sea', referring to a lagoon at the mouth of the Buffels River.De Beers the following year.

The Namaqualand Mines Division of De Beers established Kleinzee as a private alluvial diamond mining settlement. At its peak, it reportedly had a population of around 4 thousand. With access from the outside world restricted, Kleinzee was mostly inhabited by middle-class mine workers, managers, and their families. De Beers covered the residents' utility bills and invested in amenities such as pools, a golf course and sports fields, and hobby clubs.

The diamonds had begun to run out by the 2000s. The population of Kleinzee generally consisted of around 2 thousand residents, but considerably reduced after the down-scaling of mining activities in 2009.

Economy

With sparse vegetation, Kleinzee relies more so on fishing than farming. One of the few local industries De Beers has continued to invest in is oyster farming on the dams left by the mines.

Tourism

Both the nature and man made sites have drawn tourists to the village and its surrounding semidesert coastal area. Despite its reputation as a ghost town, the village, now more accessible to the public, has seen an uptick in tourism since De Beers' departure. Koos van der Merwe opened a resort in 2014, and a number of B&Bs and camping sites have since followed. It is on the Shipwreck Route and the Spektakel Daisies Pass.

Kleinzee Yacht Club


Kleinzee

Kleinzee Yacht Club

As part of De Beers' recreational investments, one of the cofferdams was converted into a half kilometre-long artificial lake for a yacht club with sailing and other water sports. Due to a lack of maintenance, it has a particularly high salt content, which gives the water a reddish-pink hue and enables people to float in it.

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Boulder Heritage Route and Kleinzee Museum

Boulder Heritage Route is a historic trail through Kleinzee's old diamond mines. Kleinzee Museum also seeks to preserve the village's history.

Education

Laerskool Kleinzee is a private school with an attendance of 111 students. The Primary School became a Centre for learning and Development.

Transport

The village is serviced by the small Kleinzee Airport (KLZ). It is a 105 km drive from Springbok and the N7.


Mount Macbain

Mount Macbain ( 83°6′S 162°18′E / 83.100°S 162.300°E) is a prominent mountain, 2,205 metres (7,230 ft) high, standing between the mouths of Cornwall Glacier and Helm Glacier in the Queen Elizabeth Range, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander Merle Macbain, U.S. Navy, Public Information Officer with the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, during U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze III and IV, 1957–58 and 1958–59.

  * Fopay Peak

[Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Macbain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


Lúcia França

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Massis and the second or paternal family name is Gouvêa.

Lúcia Massis de Gouvêa França Gomes (born 28 January 1962) is a Brazilian professor filiated to the Brazilian Socialist Party. The wife of Márcio França, she served as First Lady of the state of São Paulo and also as president of Fundo Social São Paulo.

Biography

Lúcia França was born in São Paulo, but moved to São Vicente at the age of 10. At the age of 17, she graduated in teaching, influenced by her mother who worked in school in São Vicente until being approved to work in Praia Grande.Márcio França since 1986, they had met when they were teenagers. They have two children: pedagogue Helena and lawyer and state deputy Caio França, besides two grandchildren, Enzo and Laura.

She became First Lady of São Paulo in 6 April 2018 after her husband took office as Governor due to the resignation of then Governor Geraldo Alckmin.

From 1997 to 2004, she served as president of Fundo Social de Solidariedade in the municipality of São Vicente.

In 2022, Gouvêa was announced as running mate of Fernando Haddad in the 2022 state election.

  * Lúcia França on Facebook


Schizaea rupestris

Schizaea rupestris is a small Australian fern. Most populations are in found in the ranges near Sydney. However, it also occurs near Woolgoolga

The fern is a mat-shaped plant from which arise slender upright fronds composed of a single unbranched blade. Infertile fronds are 5–12 cm high and 1–2.5 mm wide, while the rarer fertile fronds are 8–20 cm high. Thinner than the infertile fronds, the fertile fronds are topped with a tiny combed reproductive growth. mm long.

Schizaea rupestris is found between Walpole and Torbay Hill in Western Australia, between latitudes 33° and 36°S in the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales.

The generic name Schizaea is from the Greek, meaning "to cleave or split", rupestris means near rocks.Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen, published by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown.


Nyaunggon, Mingin

Nyaunggon is a village in Mingin Township, Kale District, in the Sagaing Region of western Burma. It lies on the Chindwin River.

  * Maplandia World Gazetteer


Mumuni Adams

Mumuni Adams was a Ghanaian politician. He was the member of parliament for the Wala constituency from 1965 to 1966.

Biography

Adams was born in 1907 at Wa, the capital of the Upper West Region of Ghana. He was educated at the Wa Government School where he studied from 1917 to 1925.

After he studies at the Wa Government School, he became a political administration road overseer. In 1928, he became a court registrar and interpreter. He worked in this capacity until 1954 when he joined the department of Social Welfare and Community. A year later, he moved to the Agricultural Development Corporation. He worked at the corporation from 1955 until 1959 when he joined the Cocoa division of the Agricultural Department.

  * List of MPs elected in the 1965 Ghanaian parliamentary election


Kitaura

Kitaura may refer to:

  * Lake Kitaura, a lake in Japan
  * Kitaura, Ibaraki, a former town in Namegata District, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
  * Kitaura, Miyazaki, a former town in Higashiusuki District, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
  * Kitaura Station (disambiguation), multiple railway stations in Japan

People with the surname

  * Toshihai Kitaura (北浦 俊治, born 1952), Japanese rower


Lagardère (film)

Lagardere is a two-part 2003 TV movie, directed by Henri Helman, based on the novel Le Bossu ("The Hunchback") by Paul Féval.

Cast

  * Bruno Wolkowitch : Henri de Largardère, le bossu
  * Yvon Back : Philippe de Gonzague
  * Clio Baran : Aurore de Nevers, adult
  * Christian Hecq : Peyrolles
  * Frédéric Van Den Driessche : Philippe de Nevers
  * Florence Pernel : Inès de Nevers/Caylus
  * Jacques Frantz : Cocardasse
  * Ticky Holgado : Passepoil
  * Priscilla Bescond : Flore
  * Julien Guiomar : le Marquis de Caylus
  * Isabelle Caubère : Anne
  * Pierre Gérard : Le Régent
  * Michel Modo : French Ambassador
  * Florence Muller : Jeanne
  * Michaël Abiteboul : The drunk man
  * Lagardère at IMDb


Kabashima, Nagasaki

Not to be confused with Kabashima in Goto Islands archipelago.

Kabashima Bridge

Kabashima (樺島), also known as Kabajima, is a small Japanese island off the southern coast of Nagasaki Prefecture on the Kyushu island.

Geography

Kabashima is around 1.5 km in diameter and an area of around 2.4 km2. It lies off the main coast of the Kyushu island, near the entrance of the Ariake Sea lagoon. It is connected with the Nomo Peninsula on mainland Kyushu through a causeway over an islet of Nakajima, and the Kabashima Bridge, constructed in 1986. The main settlement, home to about 110 households in 2013, is located in a harbor near the bridge.

Kabashima has steep hills 481 feet in height. East Rocks is a low reef which lies northeast of the island.

Features

Habitat of the giant mottled eel

At the southern end of the island is the Kabashima lighthouse and accompanying Lighthouse Museum. The lighthouse was constructed in 1952, standing 100 meters above sea level, for ships sailing on the open sea about the Gotō Islands and Amakusa Islands.

The habitat of the giant mottled eel, a Natural Monument of Japan, is located on the island.

In 2013, a floating offshore wind turbine was tested about 1 km off the coast of the island. It was a part of a Japanese government test project.

  * Wind power in Japan
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kabashima (Nagasaki, Nagasaki).

32°33′00″N 129°48′00″E / 32.55000°N 129.80000°E


Polyptychus distensus

Polyptychus distensus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Gabon.


Kleinsölk

Kleinsölk is a former municipality in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sölk.

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Naicó

Naicó is a village and rural locality (municipality) in La Pampa Province in Argentina.

36°56′S 64°24′W / 36.933°S 64.400°W


Methimepip

Methimepip is a histamine agonist which is highly selective for the H3 subtype. It is the N-methyl derivative of immepip.


Schizachne

Schizachne is a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family.Schizachne purpurascens, commonly called false melic.

  * Schizachne purpurascens subsp. callosa (Turcz. ex Griseb.) T.Koyama & Kawano – European and Asiatic Russia, China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Shanxi, Yunnan),Mongolia, Korea, Kazakhstan
  * Schizachne purpurascens subsp. capillipes (Kom.) Tzvelev – Kamchatka
  * Schizachne purpurascens subsp. purpurascens – Canada (all 10 provinces plus Yukon + NWT), United States (Alaska, Rocky Mountain States, Great Lakes Region, Northeast)

Melica smithii was formerly included in the genus, as Schizachne smithii.


Nyawita

Nyawita is a settlement in Kenya's Nyanza Province. It is located within Kisumu District, Winam Division. Nyawita is a sub-location that was once famous for being an economic hub for traders in the region; an activity that has since declined owing to many factors such as lack of a well established public transportation system to and from the settlement, among others. It now remains mainly a residential area with scattered shopping kiosks which its residents depend on daily.


Mumtaz Khan Akbar

Mumtaz Khan Akbar (Urdu: ممتاز خان اکبر) is the founder and owner of the Mumtaz brand. He was born in Mera Qadir, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan on 10 February 1959 and joined his family in Britain in 1972. Mumtaz Khan has since become one of the richest men in Yorkshire and Lancashire. (2016)

Mumtaz Khan is the Governor of the first bank to open in Azad Kashmir. He is also known for his charitable work throughout the UK and Pakistan. In 2012 he received two doctorates. One from the University of Bradford and the other from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Mumtaz Khan is the founder of Halal Baby Food and Mumtaz group of Industries.

Mumtaz group of Industries have now built a factory in Bradford, Spain, Malaysia and Switzerland. Mumtaz has recently said in an interview that the Bradford factory is his way of giving back to Bradford.Mumtaz Restaurant, Mumtaz Food Industries and Mumtaz Group.

  * Mumtaz Group


Pulin Behari Das

Anushilan Samiti

Influence
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  * Indian Nationalism (Militant nationalism)
  * Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  * Swami Vivekananda
  * Sister Nivedita
  * Aurobindo Ghosh
  * Shakta philosophy
  * Indian National Congress
  * Bipin Chandra Pal
  * 1905 Partition of Bengal
  * Bande Mataram
  * Jugantar
  * M. C. Samadhyayi
Anushilan Samiti
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  * History
  * Dhaka Anushilan Samiti
  * Jugantar
  * Aurobindo
  * Raja Subodh Mallik
  * Pramathanath Mitra
  * Sarala Devi
  * C.R. Das
  * Surendranath Tagore
  * Kanailal Dutta
  * Jatindra Nath Banerjee
  * Barin Ghosh
  * Pulin Behari Das
  * Bhupendranath Datta
  * Bagha Jatin
  * Atulkrishna Ghosh
  * Jadugopal Mukherjee
  * Rash Behari Bose
  * Bhupendra Kumar Datta
  * Hemchandra Kanungo
  * Ullaskar Dutta
  * Khudiram Bose
  * Prafulla Chaki
  * Tarak Nath Das
  * Abhinash Bhattacharya
  * Guran Ditt Kumar
  * Naren Bhattacharya
  * Bhavabhushan Mitra
  * Bipin Behari Ganguli
  * Sachindra Nath Sanyal
  * Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
  * Pratul Chandra Ganguli
  * Hindustan Republican Association
  * Narendra Mohan Sen
  * M. N. Roy
  * Jatin Das
  * Surya Sen
  * Pritilata Waddedar
  * Communist Consolidation
  * Hare Krishna Konar
  * Shiv Verma
  * Niranjan Sengupta
  * Batukeshwar Dutt
  * Sudhangshu Dasgupta
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  * Alipore Bomb Conspiracy
  * Howrah-Sibpur Conspiracy
  * Delhi–Lahore Conspiracy
  * Barisal Conspiracy
  * Rodda robbery
  * Indo-German Conspiracy
  * Annie Larsen
  * Christmas Day plot
  * Kakori conspiracy
  * Chittagong armoury raid
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  * Sir Harold Stuart
  * Sir Charles Stevenson-Moore
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  * John Wallinger
  * India House
  * Paris Indian Society
  * Abhinav Bharat Society
  * V.D. Savarkar
  * Madam Cama
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  * Ghadar Party
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