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Kandahar (ski course) | A new downhill run for men in 2009, "Kandahar 2" shares the same start and finish with the original course. It begins at the original start at 1,690 m (5,545 ft) (AA) on Kreuzjoch mountain, reaching speed up to 100 km/h (62 mph) after the "S-Kurve". After the "Tröglhang", the steepest section until 2008, the course continues into newly built route in 2009 to "Olympia-Kurve" and then to "Panorama-Sprung". After that comes the "Alte Quelle", before the route at the "Bödele" returns into the original Kandahar to the start of the giant slalom above "Eishang" and after the cable car jump (40 to 60 m (130 to 195 ft)), the racers turn right into the second newly designed part at the "Kramersprung" (20 to 40 m (65 to 130 ft)). Then to the next newly section called "Padöls" and into "Auf der Mauer" flat passage. Next is "Frei Fall", with 92% incline, the absolute steepest section in this competition. At the end, last couple of hundred metres, routes joins with the old original course into the "Tauber-Schuss" and a twenty-metre (65 ft) jump just before the finish line. |
The Red Onion Jazz Band | Inspired by the Yarra Yarra Jazz Band in 1960, The Red Onion Jazz Band was formed around 1960, as the Gin Bottle Jazz Band, by Allan Browne who was taking lessons from Melbourne University Jazz Band's drummer, Norm Hodges, and Brett Iggulden who was taking trumpet lessons from Ade Monsbourgh, then one of Australia's leading jazzmen. Browne recalls that the Yarra Yarra Jazz Band "were playing 200 metres from my house in Beaumaris; I went with my two oldest friends, Brett (Iggulden) and Bill (Howard) We were 16 and it was becoming a bit passé to make model aeroplanes, so we went to this dance." The original lineup, drawn largely from the bayside Beaumaris, Sandringham and Brighton suburbs of Melbourne, consisted of Allan Browne, drums; Brett Iggulden, trumpet; Kim Lynch, tea-chest bass; Bill Howard trombone; Felix Blatt, banjo and John Pike, piano, while Brett's sister Sally (aka "Sweet Sal", who later married Browne and became a clothes designer) was an occasional addition on washboard. John Funsten, another pupil of Ade Monsbourgh, was added on clarinet. They played New Orleans inspired traditional jazz and infused it with their own vitality, their flair for presentation and promotion and zany sense of humour. |
The Red Onion Jazz Band | In November 1961, Geoff Thomas took over from Felix Blatt as banjoist and the band started the Red Onion Jazz Club in Brighton. They also played at the Downbeat Jazz Concert in 1962 before Fred Charles and Geoff Thomas left the band in October and were replaced by Gerry Humphrys and Rainer Breit (who had been playing together in a skiffle trio for about a year). After securing gigs at the Ormond R.S.L. Hall and Beaumaris Yacht Club, they joined the 17th Jazz Convention in Sydney in December 1962, where their long hair, formal wear, violins and mad vocals caused a stir. Returning to Melbourne they played Friday nights at the 'Newport' Jazz Club at the Edithvale Life Saving Club and on Saturday nights at their own venue 'The Onion Patch' in Oakleigh. In early 1963, the group released their first 7" EP, An Impromptu Recital by the Amazing and Entertaining Red Onion Jazz Band on the tiny EAST (Elwood Audio Services Transcriptions) recording label, and it received conspicuous airplay on radio station 3XYs Jazz As You Like It program. John Pike left in March and for 11 months the band played without a pianist, but had a busy year of concerts that included Moomba, Myer Music Bowl, a three-day tour of Tasmania including radio, T.V. and dance engagements in Hobart, as well as the 18th Australian Jazz Convention. The Red Onion Jazz Band at the 1963 Jazz Convention EP (their second recording) contains two vocal tracks; the bawdy sea-shanty "Barnacle Bill", and a version of Tampa Red and Georgia Tom's "It's Tight Like That". Gerry Humphrys left the band for four months in June 1963, and Jerry Salt, Derek Miller or Eddie Robbins replaced his clarinet, while Brett Iggulden took up alto sax for special numbers. Venues then included the 'Driftwood' Club and the 'Downbeat' Jazz Club where in February the 17-year-old pianist Ian Clyne first sat in and thereafter became a regular member. |
The Journal of Genetic Psychology | Aims and Scopes: The Journal of Genetic Psychology is devoted to research and theory in the field of developmental psychology. The journal encompasses a life-span approach, so in addition to manuscripts devoted to infancy, childhood, and adolescence, articles on adulthood and aging are also published. The journal accepts submissions in the area of educational psychology as long as they are developmental in nature. Submissions in cross cultural psychology are accepted, but they must add to our understanding of human development in a comparative global context. Applied, descriptive, and qualitative articles are occasionally accepted, as are replications and refinements submitted as brief reports. Although the inclusion of genetic and biological data is not required, the journal encourages the submission of studies that explore the intricate interplay between genetic, temperamental, and/or biological factors with environmental influences. In line with the journal's commitment to fostering a comprehensive understanding of developmental psychology, all submitted articles should report, in the title and/or the abstract, the geographical and socio-cultural context where the study is rooted. The review process for all submissions to The Journal of Genetic Psychology consists of double anonymized review. |
1996 National League Division Series | A well fought Game 2 saw the Cardinals squander two leads. Scott Sanders faced Andy Benes. Willie McGee put the Cardinals on top on the third with an RBI single after two walks. Ken Caminiti tied the game with a leadoff home run in the fifth. In the bottom of the inning, Sanders allowed two singles and a walk to load the bases with one out before Ron Gant cleared them with a double off of Dario Veras to make it 4–1 Cardinals. In the sixth, after back-to-back one-out singles, a two-run single by Tony Gwynn aided by center fielder Willie McGee's throwing error made it a one-run game in the Padres sixth. In the eighth, Benes allowed a leadoff single and walk. A sacrifice bunt moved the runners up off of Rick Honeycutt before an RBI ground out by Steve Finley tied the game, but in the bottom half, Doug Bochtler walked two and threw a wild pitch to put runners on second and third with one out. Tom Pagnozzi's ground out off of Trevor Hoffman scored Brian Jordan and put the Cardinals up 5–4. Dennis Eckersley got his second save of the postseason with a perfect ninth. |
1996 National League Division Series | In Game 3, the Cardinals looked to Donovan Osborne to put the Padres away. Opposing the potential sweep was Andy Ashby. Brian Jordan put the Cardinals ahead when he singled to center field to score Royce Clayton, who walked to lead off and moved to second on a single. After back-to-back one-out singles, Chris Gomez's fielder's choice and Jody Reed's double scored a run each to put the Padres up 2–1. Then Ken Caminiti homered to make it 3–1 in the third. An RBI single in the bottom of the fourth by Reed after back-to-back leadoff singles made it 4–1 Padres and Osborne was done. A leadoff homer by Ron Gant made it 4–2 in the sixth. Then, Jordan singled, stole second, and scored on a one-out triple by John Mabry. Tim Worrell relieved Ashby and allowed an RBI single to Tom Pagnozzi to tie the game at four. The Cardinals would take the lead in the seventh when Ray Lankford scored on a bases-loaded double play by Gant. Caminiti's second home run of the game off of Rick Honeycutt tied the game in the eighth, However, after a walk in the ninth, Jordan hit a two-run home run off of Trevor Hoffman that proved to be the series winner. A one-out single by Rickey Henderson in the ninth put the tying run at the plate but nothing would be made of it as Eckersley got his third save in as many tries to win the series. |
HMH-462 | On 1 November 1957, 462 was reactivated at Marine Corps Air Facility Santa Ana as Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron (Medium) 462 HMR(M)-462. In March 1958 the squadron received the Sikorsky HR2S-1(CH-37 Mojave), known as the "Deuce." In July 1958 the squadron participated in NASA's abort recovery tests of the Mercury space capsule in the Salton Sea. During July 1959 HMR(M)-462 worked with the United States Army in El Paso, Texas, to conduct the initial aerial transport tests of the Hawk missile system. One year later, the squadron worked with Convair Astronautics Corporation in San Diego to help construct Atlas missile silos. Also during 1960, HMR(M)-462 joined with the Federal Aviation Administration, Sikorsky Aircraft, the U.S. Army, New York Airways and British technical representatives of the Decca Corporation to establish Instrument Flight Procedures for helicopters. In June 1965 the squadron was once again decommissioned and placed in a cadre status as the Marine Corps awaited the arrival of the CH-53A "Sea Stallion." |
Bechtle | Bechtle was first established in 1983 by former Heilbronn University students Klaus von Jan, Ralf Klenk and Gerhard Schick. Its first operations were set up in a small shop in Heilbronn. In 1995, the company reached a milestone with revenues exceeding 100 million German Mark and began trading over the internet. At Bechtle's IPO on 30 March 2000, the stock was listed on the Neuer Markt segment of Germany's stock exchange Deutsche Börse, and has been listed on the TecDax since 2004. In 2012, revenues exceeded €2bn for the first time. In August 2018, Bechtle concluded a framework agreement with the Bundeswehr. From 24 September 2018, the share is listed in the MDAX in addition to the TecDAX. In mid-October 2018, Bechtle AG won a software tender from the EU Commission for the supply of software up to 2025 with a volume of 52 million euros per year. In November 2022, it was announced Bechtle had acquired the Northampton-headquartered cybersecurity, managed IT and cloud service specialists, ACS Systems. |
Twin paradox | In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving identical twins, one of whom makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find that the twin who remained on Earth has aged more. This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin as moving, and so, as a consequence of an incorrect and naive application of time dilation and the principle of relativity, each should paradoxically find the other to have aged less. However, this scenario can be resolved within the standard framework of special relativity: the travelling twin's trajectory involves two different inertial frames, one for the outbound journey and one for the inbound journey. Another way of looking at it is to realize the travelling twin is undergoing acceleration, which makes them a non-inertial observer. In both views there is no symmetry between the spacetime paths of the twins. Therefore, the twin paradox is not actually a paradox in the sense of a logical contradiction. There is still debate as to the resolution of the twin paradox. |
Twin paradox | Starting with Paul Langevin in 1911, there have been various explanations of this paradox. These explanations "can be grouped into those that focus on the effect of different standards of simultaneity in different frames, and those that designate the acceleration as the main reason". Max von Laue argued in 1913 that since the traveling twin must be in two separate inertial frames, one on the way out and another on the way back, this frame switch is the reason for the aging difference. Explanations put forth by Albert Einstein and Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a direct effect of acceleration. However, it has been proven that neither general relativity, nor even acceleration, are necessary to explain the effect, as the effect still applies if two astronauts pass each other at the turnaround point and synchronize their clocks at that point. The situation at the turnaround point can be thought of as where a pair of observers, one travelling away from the starting point and another travelling toward it, pass by each other, and where the clock reading of the first observer is transferred to that of the second one, both maintaining constant speed, with both trip times being added at the end of their journey. |
Twin paradox | Einstein: If we placed a living organism in a box ... one could arrange that the organism, after any arbitrary lengthy flight, could be returned to its original spot in a scarcely altered condition, while corresponding organisms which had remained in their original positions had already long since given way to new generations. For the moving organism, the lengthy time of the journey was a mere instant, provided the motion took place with approximately the speed of light. Resnick: If the stationary organism is a man and the traveling one is his twin, then the traveler returns home to find his twin brother much aged compared to himself. The paradox centers on the contention that, in relativity, either twin could regard the other as the traveler, in which case each should find the other younger—a logical contradiction. This contention assumes that the twins' situations are symmetrical and interchangeable, an assumption that is not correct. Furthermore, the accessible experiments have been done and support Einstein's prediction. |
Twin paradox | The paradoxical aspect of the twins' situation arises from the fact that at any given moment the travelling twin's clock is running slow in the earthbound twin's inertial frame, but based on the relativity principle one could equally argue that the earthbound twin's clock is running slow in the travelling twin's inertial frame. One proposed resolution is based on the fact that the earthbound twin is at rest in the same inertial frame throughout the journey, while the travelling twin is not: in the simplest version of the thought-experiment, the travelling twin switches at the midpoint of the trip from being at rest in an inertial frame which moves in one direction (away from the Earth) to being at rest in an inertial frame which moves in the opposite direction (towards the Earth). In this approach, determining which observer switches frames and which does not is crucial. Although both twins can legitimately claim that they are at rest in their own frame, only the traveling twin experiences acceleration when the spaceship engines are turned on. This acceleration, measurable with an accelerometer, makes his rest frame temporarily non-inertial. This reveals a crucial asymmetry between the twins' perspectives: although we can predict the aging difference from both perspectives, we need to use different methods to obtain correct results. |
Twin paradox | Although some solutions attribute a crucial role to the acceleration of the travelling twin at the time of the turnaround, others note that the effect also arises if one imagines two separate travellers, one outward-going and one inward-coming, who pass each other and synchronize their clocks at the point corresponding to "turnaround" of a single traveller. In this version, physical acceleration of the travelling clock plays no direct role; "the issue is how long the world-lines are, not how bent". The length referred to here is the Lorentz-invariant length or "proper time interval" of a trajectory which corresponds to the elapsed time measured by a clock following that trajectory (see Section Difference in elapsed time as a result of differences in twins' spacetime paths below). In Minkowski spacetime, the travelling twin must feel a different history of accelerations from the earthbound twin, even if this just means accelerations of the same size separated by different amounts of time, however "even this role for acceleration can be eliminated in formulations of the twin paradox in curved spacetime, where the twins can fall freely along space-time geodesics between meetings". |
Twin paradox | For a moment-by-moment understanding of how the time difference between the twins unfolds, one must understand that in special relativity there is no concept of absolute present. For different inertial frames there are different sets of events that are simultaneous in that frame. This relativity of simultaneity means that switching from one inertial frame to another requires an adjustment in what slice through spacetime counts as the "present". In the spacetime diagram on the right, drawn for the reference frame of the Earth-based twin, that twin's world line coincides with the vertical axis (his position is constant in space, moving only in time). On the first leg of the trip, the second twin moves to the right (black sloped line); and on the second leg, back to the left. Blue lines show the planes of simultaneity for the traveling twin during the first leg of the journey; red lines, during the second leg. Just before turnaround, the traveling twin calculates the age of the Earth-based twin by measuring the interval along the vertical axis from the origin to the upper blue line. Just after turnaround, if he recalculates, he will measure the interval from the origin to the lower red line. In a sense, during the U-turn the plane of simultaneity jumps from blue to red and very quickly sweeps over a large segment of the world line of the Earth-based twin. When one transfers from the outgoing inertial frame to the incoming inertial frame there is a jump discontinuity in the age of the Earth-based twin (6.4 years in the example above). |
Twin paradox | It may be difficult to see where simultaneity came into the Doppler shift calculation, and indeed the calculation is often preferred because one does not have to worry about simultaneity. As seen above, the ship twin can convert his received Doppler-shifted rate to a slower rate of the clock of the distant clock for both red and blue images. If he ignores simultaneity, he might say his twin was aging at the reduced rate throughout the journey and therefore should be younger than he is. He is now back to square one, and has to take into account the change in his notion of simultaneity at the turnaround. The rate he can calculate for the image (corrected for Doppler effect) is the rate of the Earth twin's clock at the moment it was sent, not at the moment it was received. Since he receives an unequal number of red and blue shifted images, he should realize that the red and blue shifted emissions were not emitted over equal time periods for the Earth twin, and therefore he must account for simultaneity at a distance. |
Twin paradox | The mechanism for the advancing of the stay-at-home twin's clock is gravitational time dilation. When an observer finds that inertially moving objects are being accelerated with respect to themselves, those objects are in a gravitational field insofar as relativity is concerned. For the traveling twin at turnaround, this gravitational field fills the universe. In a weak field approximation, clocks tick at a rate of t' = t (1 + Φ / c2) where Φ is the difference in gravitational potential. In this case, Φ = gh where g is the acceleration of the traveling observer during turnaround and h is the distance to the stay-at-home twin. The rocket is firing towards the stay-at-home twin, thereby placing that twin at a higher gravitational potential. Due to the large distance between the twins, the stay-at-home twin's clocks will appear to be sped up enough to account for the difference in proper times experienced by the twins. It is no accident that this speed-up is enough to account for the simultaneity shift described above. The general relativity solution for a static homogeneous gravitational field and the special relativity solution for finite acceleration produce identical results. |
List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters | Spike is a vampire character whose role varies dramatically through the course of the series, ranging from a major villain to "love's bitch", to the sarcastic comic relief, to Buffy's romantic interest in a relationship that grows from miserable lust to a friendship, and eventually to a self-sacrificing hero, dying as a Champion at the Hellmouth. His path to redemption subsequently resumes in L.A. (in season five of Angel), where his resurrected character continues to develop into a selfless hero and reconciles with his former nemesis and love rival, Angel, and occasionally works with him. Spike is known for his Billy Idol platinum hair (Buffy mentions in one episode that Spike doesn't style his hair like Idol's, but the other way around), his catch-phrase "bloody hell", and his black leather duster, which he acquired after killing his second Slayer. In Season 4, he was captured by the Initiative and had a chip implanted in his brain to prevent him from hurting humans. In Season 6, he underwent a trial in order to remove the chip, instead he had his soul restored. After accidentally killing a human in Season 7, the chip nearly killed him and he had it medically removed. |
Dispute over the oldest school in the Philippines | Unlike the University of Santo Tomas which has an undisputed foundation date, the true foundation year of the University of San Carlos had been a subject of several debates. Contrary to the position of the University of Santo Tomas, the University of San Carlos claims that it is older by 16 years by tracing its roots to the Colegio de San Ildefonso . According to the university's claim, San Carlos traces its roots to the Colegio de San Ildefonso founded by three Spanish Jesuit missionaries Antonio Sedeno, Pedro Chirino and Antonio Pereira on August 1, 1595. It was closed in 1769 at the expulsion of the Jesuits. In 1783, Bishop Mateo Joaquin de Arevalo initiated the opening of the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos. In 1852, the management of the college was entrusted to the Dominican Christian priests, replaced in 1867 by the Vincentian Fathers then, in 1935, the Societas Verbi Divini or the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). The Colegio de San Carlos (CSC) was granted its university charter in 1948, and in 1995 celebrated its Quadricentennial (400th Anniversary). |
Dispute over the oldest school in the Philippines | Numerous scholars and official government bodies have reviewed the case. According to Dr. Victor Torres of the De La Salle University, the University of San Carlos' claim dates back to 1948 only when USC was declared a university. Fidel Villarroel from the University of Santo Tomas argued that USC only took over the facility of the former Colegio de San Ildefonso and that there is no 'visible' and 'clear' link between San Carlos and San Ildefonso. According to Fr. Aloysius Cartagenas, a professor at the Seminario Mayor de San Carlos of Cebu, "following Church tradition, the foundation event and date of University of San Carlos should be the decree of Bishop Romualdo Jimeno on 15 May 1867 (turning over the seminary to the Congregation of the Missions) and the first day of classes in the history of what is now USC is 1 July 1867, the day P. Jose Casarramona welcomed the first lay students to attend classes at the Seminario de San Carlos." Thus, he says that San Carlos cannot claim to have descended from the Colegio de San Ildefonso founded by the Jesuits in 1595, despite taking over the latter's facilities when the Jesuits were expelled by Spanish authorities in 1769. According to him there is "no visible and clear link" between Colegio de San Ildefonso and USC. San Carlos was specifically for the training of diocesan priests, and it simply took over the facility of the former, a Jesuit central house with an attached day school. |
1987–88 Chicago Blackhawks season | The 1987–88 Chicago Black Hawks were coming off a year in which they finished third in the Norris Division and were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings. The Blackhawks made several moves in the offseason with GM Bob Pulford replacing himself as coach with Bob Murdoch and trading young star Eddie Olczyk and aging star Al Secord to the Toronto Maple Leafs for wingers Rick Vaive and Steve Thomas and defenseman Bob McGill. Goaltender Bob Mason was the summer's big free agent signing. Though relatively untested at the NHL level, Mason was in demand after an impressive performance in the 1987 playoffs. In addition to Mason, the team signed Ed Belfour who had just backstopped the University of North Dakota to the NCAA championship, and used their number one pick in the June draft to select Jimmy Waite from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The Blackhawks regular goaltenders from the previous season, veterans Murray Bannerman and Bob Sauve, never played another regular season game for Chicago. The Blackhawks also acquired Duane Sutter from the New York Islanders in exchange for a 2nd round pick in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. Captain Darryl Sutter retired before the start of the season and the team chose not to name a replacement. |
Yegor Khabarov | After analyzing the last phone calls on Anton's phone and his last known activities, investigators established that Yegor Khabarov was one of the last people to see him alive. He was detained on May 14, 2009, and after a short interrogation, implicated both himself and Kochnev as responsible for the killings of Anton and Porfiriev. The motive for the killings was supposedly homicidal mania, as Khabarov stated that he intended to record the deaths, as he felt euphoric when he saw his victims convulse and suffer during the electrocution process. Kochnev denied that he was directly involved in the murders, but admitted to being present at the crime scenes, confirmed that Khabarov seemed euphoric from watching his victims suffer and that the shocks were so powerful that the vehicles violently shaked. Kochnev claimed that after each death, Khabarov fell into what he described as a "state close to drug intoxication" and even hugged him. His explanations for his participation was due to Khabarov's short stature leaving him unable to restrain his victims on his own, suggesting that he was just there to keep them pinned down and under control. |
Yegor Khabarov | Among Khabarov's personal belongings and documents, law enforcement officers found a traffic police certificate with notes on duty in the spring of 2009, as well as a driver's license. During the checkup it was determined that the ID was not fake and present in all databases, having been issued in 2004, despite the fact that Khabarov had been acquitted by reason of insanity for the possession and manufacturing of illegal weaponry. Despite the fact that mental illness should have prevented him from owning a driver's license, this never occurred for unknown reasons. The incident caused a public outcry, as a result, the Verkhotursk District Attorney's Office launched a separate investigation into a number of officials with the purpose of establishing the circumstances on the basis of which Khabarov, officially declared as insane, was able to obtain a permit from the Traffic Police and was not deprived of his driving privileges; however, said investigation's results were never revealed to the public. |
Yegor Khabarov | He also planned to ambush and attack motorists on a road leading up to Yekaterinburg, and to this end, he had purchased a hidden video camera and installed it in the soles of his boots, which he would place by the roadside and observe the passing cars from his computer at home. In order to stop the vehicles of potential victims, Khabarov assembled a microwave generator from transistors, lamps, a Tesla coil, and a magnetron from a microwave oven whose microwave rays would disable electronics and silence the engine through leaks and rubber seals in the car hood's cover, but he ultimately failed in making a workable version of this device. To conduct various experiments, he assembled a small, high-frequency generator in his apartment that he planned to improve the performance of explosions of vessels and containers containing liquid, by bringing them to bare wires under voltage and selecting a certain frequency. He also conducted experiments on creating a neuro-optical system, which would create flashes that affected parts of the brain responsible for storing memories. To this end, Khabarov assembled a device using the casing of a Soviet Luch-M photoflash which he claimed could successfully erase the subject's short-term memory, but these claims were never verified. |
Blockage discount | A blockage discount adjusting fair market value also affects the tax consequences of a sale in the U.S., and is frequently a subject of litigation when an artist dies while holding a large collection of her or his own work. For instance, when Georgia O'Keeffe died she had over 400 of her own works in her estate, and when Andy Warhol died he had over 90,000 works, including 4,100 paintings, 9,000 drawings, 19,000 prints and 63,000 photographs. In Georgia O'Keeffe's case, her estate's appraisers established blockage discounts based on solid evidence of market sales, but the IRS used its own valuation and the Tax Court assessed a resulting tax of more than the valuation of the collected works at her death. In Andy Warhol's case Surrogate Court of New York rejected the proposed discounts of Christie's, which averaged 60%. Instead, the court applied an average discount of 25%. The court failed to articulate the specific rationale for its determination, but did state that Warhol was more famous than Smith & O'Keeffe. The court's application of an average discount of 25% has been criticized by attorneys and appraisers because, inter alia, it ignored the necessary time it would take to sell 90,000 pieces of art. Therefore, accountants and estate planners for artists plan with such eventualities in mind. |
Donald Oborowsky | Oborowsky was raised in Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan. Choosing not to complete high school, he left home at the age of seventeen and relocated to Edmonton, Alberta in 1966. That same year, he commenced his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, at the initiative of his employer, a small, residential building contractor. Following work as a carpenter, he obtained employment as a steel fitter, leaving his carpentry apprenticeship program after three and a half years. In 1971, at the age of twenty-two, he co-founded, with Theodore Degner, Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd. and became the company's Chief Executive Officer. The company, owned as of 2015 by the Hillcore Group, a Canadian investment firm, grew to include approximately 800 employees and is regarded as one of the largest privately owned automated industrial steel fabrication facilities in Canada. The company is also recognized as a Platinum Member of Canada's Best Managed Companies, a recognition program sponsored by Deloitte, where the company has qualified by being so honoured for at least seven consecutive years. |
Pasupatheesvarar Temple, Pasupathikovil | The presiding deity in the garbhagriha is represented by the lingam known as Pasupatheesvarar. The Goddess is known as Palvalanayaki. The shrine of the presiding deity has mahamandapa, arthamandapa, anthrala and the garbhagriha. In the east, facing west Kasi Visvanatha linga, Subramania, Chandra and Surya are found. In between Chandra and Surya a window is found. At the east of the window a path is found for walking. Along with it a small gopura, in a different style is found. It is presumed that there might have been a gopura earlier and might have been destroyed. In due course it might have been built. As Varaha saved the earth from the asura, Kali in order to save from asuras, as Varahi appeared and worshipped the presiding deity. Kamadhenu did penance in this place. So many places were identified by cows. This is one such sacred place. The presiding deity was worshipped by the cow and so the Goddess was known as Palvalanayaki. While Anavidyanatha Sharma along with his wife came and worshipped here, she also blessed them. |
Pasupatheesvarar Temple, Pasupathikovil | This temple was first built by Kochchenganan. The temple is situated in the north east of the village. The entrance is facing east. It has three tier rajagopura, the biggest in these seven temples. On either side of the entrance sculptures of Thanjavur Nayak style are found. After crossing over the 7 m x 10 m entrance of the gopura, one can enter into the temple premises. It has two structures one for presiding deity and another for the consort. This temple has one big outer prakara. A bali pita and rishaba are found in the outer prakara. In the prakara, vilva tree, shrines of Dakshinamurthy, Jestadevi, Nagavalli, temple well, Sanisvara and Bhairava are found. In the north west of the outer prakara two shrines are found. In one shrine naga devata is set up. Next to this shrine, Gajalakshmi shrine is found. Through the steps found in southern side, the shrine of the presiding deity could be reached. The shrine is 5 m above the ground floor. Upper floor has two sections. In this floor shrines of Uchista Vinayaka, presiding deity and Goddess are found. The main shrines are found on the upper floor, at a height of 3 m. After going through the steps Ganesha shrine could be reached. |
USS Blakeley | On 25 May 1942, Blakeley was on a patrol off Martinique, inspecting all incoming ships for evidence of activities by Vichy French collaborators alongside her sister ship USS Ellis. At 08:30 a.m., she altered course to pursue a sound ping on her sonar. Nothing was found at the site of the ping, and the crew assumed it was caused by a school of blackfish. As the ship turned to resume its course, it was struck by a torpedo fired by the unnoticed German submarine U-156 under the command of Werner Hartenstein. The torpedo struck between frames 18 and 24 at about 4 feet (1 m) below her water line. The force of the impact blew off 60 feet (18 m) of her forward bow and forecastle. After several minutes, the crew determined they could still operate the ship, and it was brought back under control and sailed for Fort-de-France. The ship was steered with a combination of rudder and varying shaft speeds, and four hours after the attack, she was moored in Fort-de-France. Six men died and twenty one were wounded during the attack. Hartstein radioed a U-boat headquarters in Lorient requesting permission to finish Blakeley off, but permission was denied. Destroyers Breckinridge, Greer, Tarbell and two PBY Catalina planes from VP-53 were scrambled to assist the stricken Blakeley. |
KDND | Shortly prior to the start of jury selection in the trial, KDND began to tease that it would be "saying goodbye" on September 8, 2009, leading to speculation that the station was planning to drop The End in favor of a different format or shut down entirely; however, it was later revealed that the campaign was actually for a new commercial-free Tuesdays promotion. On September 14, jury selection in the wrongful death case began at the Sacramento County Superior Court's main courthouse in the city of Sacramento. Over the next month, the jury heard testimony from over 41 witnesses as 192 exhibits were entered into evidence. On October 29, 2009, after a week of deliberations, the jury awarded the survivors of Jennifer Strange the sum of $16,577,118 in monetary damages. Entercom Sacramento LLC was found to be 100% at fault for Strange's death, while Entercom Communications was found to be 0% at fault. The jury also found that Strange was 0% at fault (that is, there was no contributory negligence) for her own death. |
Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area | The land that the Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area encompasses is a part of the traditional territory of the Syilx Nation. The Syilx Nation is trans-boundary because the territory includes the Okanagan region of British Columbia and parts of Northern Washington State. The territory stretches from the most northern point close to Mica Creek to its southern point near Wilbur, Washington. Guichon Creek is the western boundary while the eastern border is Kootenay Lake. The Syilx Nation is currently composed of seven communities in Canada and one confederated tribe in the United States. Vaseux-Bighorn NWA is currently and historically used as an area for gathering and hunting for the Syilx people. The plants that are found within the Vaseux-Bighorn NWA (e.g. Arrow-Leaved Balsamroot, Saskatoon Berry, Chokecherry) have a variety of uses for the Syilx people as tools, food and medicine. The wildlife that inhabited the area (e.g., waterfowl, upland game birds, fish) provided a significant food source for the Syilx people. While the resources provided by the land that the park encompasses (i.e., firewood, freshwater) allowed for the use of the land by the Syilx people. |
Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area | European Settlers arrived in the region in the early 1800s in search of resources for the fur trade and later gold. Nonetheless, colonizers only fully settled in the area over a hundred years later , when irrigation for agriculture and subsequent villages were established. The region's mild climate, with a frost-free span between 125 and 175 days, made the area profitable for agriculture. The grassland and shrub-steppe are ideal feeding grounds for livestock, and fruit crops such as grapes for vine production flourished in the region. Despite its protection in 1979, agriculture and urban developments have transformed large parts of the area, reducing the natural plant biodiversity of the Vaseoux-Bighorn NWA and the larger South Okanagan-Similkameen region. For instance, excessive grazing led to a decrease in the native bluebunch wheatgrass and rare turf grasses. In addition, the damming of the Okanagan River in 1950 for flood control has altered the terrain of the Vaseux-Bighorn NWA and the Vaseux Lake Migratory Bird Sanctuary. |
Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area | The Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area extends over the Bunchgrass and Ponderosa Pine Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. Both biogeoclimatic zones fall in the Coast and Purcell mountains' rain shadow, creating a dry climate in the Vaseux-Bighorn NWA with hot summers and relatively short winters. Scientists predict the southern Okanagan Valley, including the Vaseux-Bighorn NWA, to become warmer and more sensitive to heat stress under the influence of climate change. Hot summer days (over 30 Degrees Celsius) are expected to double by the 2050s and triple by the 2080s. Similarly, winter temperatures are predicted to rise in the region. The southern Okanagan Valley currently has the lowest frost span of the Okanagan Valley at 96 days on average. Under the influence of climate change, frost days are predicted to decline by 49% until the 2050s and 71% until the 2080s. Precipitation patterns are likewise expected to change in the southern Okanagan Valley. Scientists anticipate an increase in spring and fall precipitation and a 14% decrease in summer precipitation. Because the Vaseux-Bighorn area is located in the driest part of the Okanagan region, a reduction in summer precipitation could increase the likelihood of forest fires due to droughts. Severe fires during the summer months could lower air quality and alter the abundance of local plant species. Heat stress could impact ecosystem function and biodiversity in the Okanagan Basin. Desertification can also result in water shortages and wetland loss, negatively impacting aquatic species. |
Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area | The goal of the creation of this protected area is to protect and conserve the wildlife. There are five goals that will lead this protected area to its goal of conservation and enhancement of habitat. The first goal is the restoration and management of critical habitats and ecosystems, particularly for species at risk, migratory birds and other priority species. The second goal is control of invasive species. To protect this area from invasive species, the government of Canada has planned to implement chemical treatment, hand-pulling, and biological control. Invasive species should be managed so that the endangered species in the area have less competition, either directly or through exploitation. With less competition, the endangered species have a higher chance of survival. The third goal is the control of unauthorized activities in the protected area (e.g., ensuring that the public walks only on designated paths). All other activities require permission. The habitat and species within this area must not be disturbed or harmed by humans to ensure the site's protection. The fourth goal is to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires in the area to ensure endangered species' survival; Therefore, the Canadian government has planned to implement controlled burns, selective logging and reduce debris and litter. The last goal is to limit anthropogenic impacts on water quality in the protected area. The areas surrounding the Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife area are undergoing rapid development. The areas surrounding the Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife area are undergoing rapid development. Protecting this area from anthropogenic threats is becoming increasingly challenging because the surrounding resources that affect the habitat should also be protected. Besides, one of the surrounding resources is water, and a river in the area has been channelled. The water in this area became contaminated by human wastewater and chemicals from agricultural drainage. The goal is the limitation of anthropogenic sources of water contamination. The Government of Canada has stated some objectives and methods to reduce threats to species within the protected area; however, methods and monitoring processes need to be more transparent. Therefore, the results of the management goals are not available. |
Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area | The Vaseux-Bighorn National Wildlife Area hosts the Vaseux Lake Migratory Bird Sanctuary and the Vaseux Lake Important Bird Area. Other endangered species located in the area include the spotted bat, American badger, Nuttall's cottontail, and the western harvest mouse. A species in the area of special concern is the long-billed curlew. This area also includes many invasive species such as the purple loosestrife, Eurasian milfoil, sulphur cinquefoil, reed canary grass, cheatgrass, smooth brome, bull thistle, diffuse knapweed, Hound's Tongue, and St. John's wort. It also includes some rare plant communities including the antelope brush, needle-and-thread grass, water birch, red-osier dogwood, bluebunch wheatgrass, arrow-leaved balsamroot, and ponderosa pine bluebunch wheatgrass. Some reptile and amphibian species at risk in the area include the desert nightsnake, great basin gopher snake, Great Basin spadefoot, rubber boa, tiger salamander, western painted turtle, western rattlesnake, western skink, western toad, western yellow-bellied racer. There are no known endemic species in the Vaseux-Bighorn National wildlife area. |
Reverse transport | The primary function of most neurotransmitter transporters is to facilitate neurotransmitter reuptake (i.e., the reabsorption of neurotransmitters by the cell which released them). During neurotransmitter reuptake, neurotransmitter transporters will move specific types of neurotransmitters from the extracellular space into the cytosol of a neuron or glial cell. When these transporters operate in reverse, they produce neurotransmitter efflux (i.e., the movement of neurotransmitters from the cytosol to the extracellular space via transporter-mediated release, as opposed to exocytotic release). In neurons, transporter reversal facilitates the release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft, resulting in a higher concentration of synaptic neurotransmitters and increased signaling through the corresponding neurotransmitter receptors. For example, many monoamine releasing agents cause monoamine neurotransmitter efflux (i.e., the release of monoamine neurotransmitters from neurons into the synaptic cleft via monoamine transporter-mediated release) by triggering reverse transport at vesicular monoamine transporters (specifically, VMAT1 and VMAT2) and other monoamine transporters that are located along the plasma membrane of neurons (specifically, DAT, NET, and SERT). |
Drop D tuning | In drop D, the three open bass strings form a D5 power chord. Other fifth chords are made when barred with the index finger of the fretting hand shifted up the fretboard. Drop D tuning is frequently used in heavy metal and its various subgenres, as guitarists in these styles often need fast transitions between power chords. Drop D is also used in metal because it adds two lower semitones to the bass range of the rhythm guitar, which adds two more low-range power chords (E♭ and D) and enables a heavier, deeper sound. The tuning has also been used in many other styles of music, including blues, country, folk, and classical. Due to its similarity to standard tuning, drop D is recognised as a useful introduction to alternative tunings, leading logically to an exploration of DADGAD, open D, D tuning (in which all strings are tuned 1 full note lower DGCFAD), drop D♭ (in which only the 6th string is tuned 3 frets lower D♭ADGBe) and drop D drop G (in which both the 5th and 6th strings are dropped a tone DGDGBe) tunings. |
Death and funeral of Babe Ruth | On August 19, there were 300 police assigned for crowd control at St. Patrick's Cathedral where a service for Ruth was to be held. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran the headline, "180,000 Brave Rain as Rites Are Held for Babe Ruth" on August 19, 1948. There was a service for Ruth at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the majority of people could not enter the church so they waited outside. The funeral procession arrived at 11 am and Ruth was carried into the cathedral in a mahogany casket. Roughly 5,000 people were able to enter the cathedral and the police estimated that 75,000 were waiting outside. The Messenger newspaper reported that the crowd fell silent when Ruth's body was taken from the hearse. Only the noise from the policemen's horses walking could be heard, and people looked on from rooftops and from the windows of the buildings near the church. Also attending the funeral were Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Mel Ott, right fielder of the New York Giants, and Hank Greenberg, former first baseman and outfielder from the Detroit Tigers. |
Francia Márquez | On election day, which occurred on 29 May, Márquez's Historic Pact ticket placed first, advancing to the runoff, since no candidate received over 50% of the vote. Márquez and Petro faced Rodolfo Hernández and Marelen Castillo. Shortly after the first round, Márquez and Petro received the endorsement of Luis Gilberto Murillo for the second round. Murillo had been the Vice-Presidential running mate of Sergio Fajardo in the Hope Center Coalition, which did not qualify for the runoff. Márquez and Petro went on to defeat Hernández and Castillo in the second round held on 19 June. Upon her electoral triumph, Márquez proclaimed that the Petro administration would not "expropriate anyone". She said the most significant challenge she faced whilst on the campaign trail was racist attacks. Márquez's inauguration as vice president occurred on 7 August 2022. On the other hand, due to the approval needed by Congress to establish the ministry of equality, Márquez may not assume the leadership of the proposed department until mid-way through her term as vice president. |
.338 Winchester Magnum | The .338 Winchester Magnum is a .338 in (8.6 mm) caliber, belted, rimless, bottlenecked cartridge introduced in 1958 by Winchester Repeating Arms. It is based on the blown-out, shortened .375 H&H Magnum. The .338 in (8.6 mm) is the caliber at which medium-bore cartridges are considered to begin. The .338 Winchester Magnum is the first choice among professional brown bear (specifically grizzly bear) guides in Alaska to back up clients where a powerful stopping caliber is required on charging bears. It is also the most popular medium-bore cartridge in North America and has the most widely available choice in rifles among medium bore rifles. The action length is the same as a .30-06, and most major rifle manufacturers in the United States chamber rifles for the cartridge including the semi-automatic Browning BAR Mk II Safari, making it a very powerful combination against charging dangerous game. The cartridge was intended for larger North American big-game species and has found use as for the hunting of thin-skinned African plains-game species. |
Terraforming | The astronomer Carl Sagan proposed the planetary engineering of Venus in an article published in the journal Science in 1961. Sagan imagined seeding the atmosphere of Venus with algae, which would convert water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide into organic compounds. As this process removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect would be reduced until surface temperatures dropped to "comfortable" levels. The resulting plant matter, Sagan proposed, would be pyrolyzed by the high surface temperatures of Venus, and thus be sequestered in the form of "graphite or some involatile form of carbon" on the planet's surface. However, later discoveries about the conditions on Venus made this particular approach impossible. One problem is that the clouds of Venus are composed of a highly concentrated sulfuric acid solution. Even if atmospheric algae could thrive in the hostile environment of Venus's upper atmosphere, an even more insurmountable problem is that its atmosphere is simply far too thick: the high atmospheric pressure would result in a "atmosphere of nearly pure molecular oxygen" at high pressure. This volatile combination could not be sustained through time. Any carbon that had been reduced by photosynthesis would be quickly oxidized in this atmosphere through combustion, "short-circuiting" the terraforming process. |
Terraforming | Motivated by Lovelock's book, biophysicist Robert Haynes worked behind the scenes to promote terraforming, and contributed the neologism Ecopoiesis, forming the word from the Greek οἶκος, oikos, "house", and ποίησις, poiesis, "production". Ecopoiesis refers to the origin of an ecosystem. In the context of space exploration, Haynes describes ecopoiesis as the "fabrication of a sustainable ecosystem on a currently lifeless, sterile planet". Fogg defines ecopoiesis as a type of planetary engineering and is one of the first stages of terraformation. This primary stage of ecosystem creation is usually restricted to the initial seeding of microbial life. A 2019 opinion piece by Lopez, Peixoto and Rosado has reintroduced microbiology as a necessary component of any possible colonization strategy based on the principles of microbial symbiosis and their beneficial ecosystem services. As conditions approach that of Earth, plant life could be brought in, and this will accelerate the production of oxygen, theoretically making the planet eventually able to support animal life. |
Terraforming | Terraforming a planet would involve making it fit the habitability requirements listed in the previous section. For example, a planet may be too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. Its temperature could be raised by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, using orbiting mirrors to reflect more sunlight onto the planet, or lowering the albedo of the planet. Conversely, a planet too hot for liquid water could be cooled down by removing greenhouse gases (if these are present), placing a sunshade in the L1 point to reduce sunlight reaching the planet, or increasing the albedo. Atmospheric pressure is another issue: various celestial bodies including Mars, Mercury and most moons have lower pressure than Earth. At pressures below the triple point of water (611.7 Pa), water cannot be liquid at any temperature. Human survival requires a still-higher pressure of at least 6.3 kPa, the Armstrong limit; below this pressure, exposed body fluids boil at body temperature. Furthermore, a thick atmosphere protects the surface from cosmic rays. A thin atmosphere could be thickened using gases produced locally (e.g. the Moon could be given an atmosphere of oxygen by reducing lunar rock) or gases could be imported from elsewhere. |
Omak Airport | After being considered for upgrading in December 1956, the Omak City Council thought that the boundary lighting of what would become known as Omak Airport required improvements, and estimated that the cost would be around $16,000. By March 1957, the improvements were seen as a high priority, but all of the bids from the seven companies interested in carrying out the work exceeded the estimate. The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) was notified, with the city council suggesting that the contract should be awarded to Wenatchee's Regan Electric, who bid $17,672. In addition to the lighting, 14,000 feet (4,300 m) of electric cables were to be installed, and the work was to be completed within 120 days of signing the contract. A tour sponsored by the Wenatchee Chamber of Commerce was provided to enable aviators to see the improvements being made. The work, which included an aerodrome beacon, was not completed until 1958, and a dedication program was planned for May 1958, jointly organised by two flying clubs and the city council. All of these improvements ultimately cost $18,000. The city council approved an ordinance which made an extra $1,000 available towards their share of the cost, which amounted to 48.28 percent of the total; the remaining 52 percent was paid for by the CAA. |
Omak Airport | With the state given $994,938 in 1960 for airport improvements across Washington, the Omak City Council was granted $12,172 for their Omak Airport. A radio navigation aid was proposed for the Omak Airport around 1961 by affiliated city council members because it would increase aircraft traffic according to supporters, although the FAA suggested that nearby city Brewster gain an aid for their local airport: Anderson Field. The former now maintains a navigation aid, while the latter does not. In June 1979, a terminal, air traffic controller and fuel tanks containing 10,000 US gallons (38,000 L; 8,300 imp gal) of jet fuel, 100 octanes of general aviation fuel and 6,000 octanes of fuel for older aircraft costing approximately $237,000 at the Omak Airport began to construct, having completed in August 1979; its newly paved runway was 5,000 feet (1,500 m) at that time. The terminal was dedicated to Arno Hopfer, a former city councilman who positively spoke for the airport when others considered it to be a stale project; the then-new Okanogan Valley Pilots Association, which is no longer existent, gave it an aircraft presentation on September 30, 1979. |
Omak Airport | Numerous aircraft took off after an air show celebration at the terminal, which contained a breakfast service for aircraft pilots and a dinner service later that day. Precision aircraft takeoffs and landings were also provided at the presentation, which flew around the Okanogan County, in addition to flour bombing runs which involved flour dropping onto selected targets on the ground. These services were initially announced by Bruce Burk, the then-new spokesman for the Okanogan Valley Pilots Association. Members of this organization parked their aircraft at the Omak Airport, at their permanent high-downs. According to The Spokesman-Review, these services were provided in the hopes that Omak Airport may become a commercial airport in the future. There were plans later that month by a member of the no longer existent flight school Omak Aviation which operated at the airport, to create an airline between Omak, Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Wenatchee. It served as the largest airport in the Okanogan County that supported Boeing B-17, Boeing B-26, Cessna, Douglas DC-3, and helicopter landings since historical dates; some of these aircraft were operated around the local community during World War II. The Omak Airport's taxiway and runway lighting was expanded in 1993, and 1997 with approximately $662,400 in funds the latter year. The Omak Flying Club and Norcewa Flying Club, both pilot training clubs, formerly operated at the Omak Airport around the 1960s. |
Omak Airport | Throughout its history, a number of airlines have served the airport. Flights have been provided since historical dates to Omak for access to the Omak Stampede using charter airlines. 30 private aircraft came to the airport from locations in Eastern Washington in 1949, for an air show presentation around the Okanogan County. Commercial airlines have also previously served the airport. West Coast Airlines offered their services at this airport from 1954 to 1960 as a trial. In July 1960, the airline provided 149 flights to other destinations. According to the then-airport manager Jim Davenport, if five more flights were provided that month, then it would have been about five flights given to other airports daily. However, as this was a trial, West Coast Airlines stated that five was the minimal amount for their services to continue. In September that year, Taquan Air also began testing their services at the Omak Airport to Wenatchee and Seattle for a period of three to six months; this did not continue after because of a consensus against it. Omak Airlines operated its services and maintained its hub and headquarters at the airport, having provided flights to destinations such as the Spokane International Airport and there was consideration then to offer flights to other airports around Washington, while its runway was also improved in 1980. Operations to Seattle or Spokane and Wenatchee were considered around 2005 by the Omak City Council in response to offered information to Harbor Air, but no further action was taken. |
Omak Airport | Aside from airline flights, Ivan Farrar built an aircraft himself around 1970 and tested it at the Omak Airport in the 1970s. No major accidents or incidents have occurred throughout its history among all aircraft operations. In October 1953, the airfield was leased to a firm for four-years under conditions as a public airport; the Omak Chamber of Commerce was told about the situation. The Omak Airport has historically suffered from financial difficulties, specifically in November 1959. In attempt to resolve the issue, city and county members met in a government conference. The flight strip gained $40,000 and $60,000 for improvements and maintenance. Despite this, it was suggested that this money depends largely upon commercial airline service among the Okanogan County and the "job is too big" for the Omak City Council. At that time, there were also budget restrictions which prevented large help for the airport. One proposal was to develop a port or airport district to operate the airfield, although snow removal in the winter by a plow machine would be a difficult task to perform. City council members of nearby city Okanogan stated that their airport, Okanogan Legion Airport, also required assistance with its snow by a plow machine. The city proposed leasing the airfield in 1965, but an action was not noted. |
Omak Airport | Approximately 17,875 aircraft movements were also garnered in 1995, 2000 and 2001, showing no sign of improvement over the previous statistics from 1990; it gained the same amount of operations under the same categories until 2005. At this time, there was a significant decrease in aircraft movements representing a drop by 57.4 percent and dropped to 8,000 in terms of actual aircraft operations. Of these, 75 were used for both itinerant and local military purposes, totaling to 150, while there were 3,600 aircraft movements for commercial use air taxi services; a total of 3,081 movements were provided for itinerant general aviation needs and 1,169 were used for local general aviation services. No aircraft used the airport in 2006 and 2007 although the following year, 15,396 did. Of these aircraft movements, 75 were used for local military purposes, 2,887 for commercial air taxi purposes, 9,626 for itinerant general aviation use and 2,808 for local general aviation service. A total of 15,396 also used the airfield the following year, having gained the same number of movements under the same categories. |
Omak Airport | In 2010, when a 72.4 percent decrease was represented, a total of 4,254 aircraft used the Omak Airport. 80 aircraft were used for local military purposes and there were 2,714 commercial air taxi movements, while the count for both itinerant and local general aviation was 730, totaling to 1,460. Statistics for based aircraft and passengers have also been recorded. In 1980, there were 32 based aircraft, 28 of which were single-engined and four were multi-engined, while in 1985, 29 aircraft were based, with the total of singled-engined planes being 27 and multi-engined being two. Meanwhile, the airport had 64 enplanement passenger boardings in 2000, 57 in 2001, 24 in 2002, 20 in 2003, 31 in 2004, 56 in 2005, 69 in 2006, 14 in 2007, 25 in 2008, 48 in 2009, and 23 in 2010. While the FAA has not released statistics, it was estimated that approximately 2,000 passengers were served in 2005. Overall, the highest number of movements it has gained yearly is 142,000 and lowest is 4,254 according to the WSDOT; the most based aircraft at the Omak Airport was 658 at one point. |
Omak Airport | The Omak Airport, a non-towered airport that covers an area of 153 acres (62 ha) of city-owned property and 325 acres (132 ha) overall at an elevation of 1,305 feet (398 m), is located on 202 Omak Airport Road in Riverside, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Omak's city centre, which is the municipality it primarily serves, situated off Washington State Route 20 and Washington State Route 97 on a mountainous and forested terrain. However, some people have stated it is based in Omak city limits regardless. It is located 41.3 miles (66.5 km) south of the Canada–United States border and opposite the Duck Lake, Fry Lake and Proctor Lake attractions, which are lakes based in the area; to the east of the airfield are mountain peaks. The nearest commercial airport is the Penticton Regional Airport, 79.3 miles (127.6 km) north in the Canadian city of Penticton. It is part of the Okanogan County minimum requirement district, and North Omak Business Park. Due to its location, the airport serves the Okanogan County as a whole, and nearby communities outside of that county. |
Omak Airport | This is one of three aviation services serving the Omak area, the others being Mid-Valley Hospital EMS Heliport, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) south, and Wings for Christ Airport, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southeast, which are available for private use. Paid parking, taxis and car rentals are available, but there is no bus service. There are 34 tie-in parking spaces offered that are enlarged. The local and upcoming weather of Omak and Riverside is observed at its weather station, which provides real-time climatologically data, such as wind directions and speed using an automated surface observation system. The station determined that the Omak Airport itself experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk). With little precipitation, hot summers, and moderate winters, it annually handles 15.72 inches (399 mm) of precipitation, an average high of 56.1 °F (13.4 °C), a daily mean of 47.3 °F (8.5 °C), an average low of 39.2 °F (4.0 °C) and 46.12 inches (1,171 mm) of snow. These statistics differ significantly from central Omak. |
Omak Airport | Food and snacks are available at this airport's terminal, as well as a medical facility, accommodation areas, administrative offices and hangar buildings maintained by the Omak City Council; some of these serve as pilot lounges, while three office spaces exist. There are also off-site buildings relating to the airport, several of which are used for storage purposes. The based aircraft obtain their fuel from Chevron Corporation, which is located on site and serves as an aviation dealer. This site is home to a self-service automated fuel pump system by the company which serves 100LL avgas, just outside the terminal, and credit card purchasing system. Per year, about 50,000 US gallons (190,000 L; 42,000 imp gal) of fuel are sold. There is also a FedEx Express drop-off box available for public use. As of 1999 when a performance survey was conducted for improvement, the airfield has a 4,667 by 150 feet (1,423 by 46 m) paved, asphalt runway aligned 17–35 that is equipped with automated lights and maintains a published global positioning system non-precision approach approved by the FAA, making it the largest in the Okanogan County and third largest in Central Washington, that large aircraft and bomb tankers may land on. Military transportation rights have been secured for the airport. |
Omak Airport | The runway, which is home to a non-directional beacon, is inspected occasionally by land development and transportation service organization WHPacific, is home to a full-length 50 feet (15 m) taxiway which was developed in 1997 and finished by 1999 in addition to a taxilane between hangar buildings in "fair to poor condition" according to the WSDOT. There is guidance provided on the runway for use by pilots who use it. Its orientation is determined by the direction of winds. Its freight volume includes 910,000 pounds (410,000 kg) of deplaned cargo and an enplane of 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg). The airfield contains three apron areas, all of which are situated on the east side. The fueling apron is the southernmost apron in the airport, with a 325 by 200 feet (99 by 61 m) region with concrete anchors, while the central one is an asphalt 140 by 200 feet (43 by 61 m) tie-down. With a dimension of 195 by 688 feet (59 by 210 m), the northernmost apron is covered by asphalt and is a tie-down. Funds for airport improvement in the future consists of $48,675. |
Omak Airport | There is a radio navigation aid provided at the Omak Airport which are used by pilots on aircraft coming from other nearby airports to determine their location. The navigation system is owned by the Omak City Council, operates 24 hours daily, and serves a number of surrounding airports that do not contain these aids. Other navigational purpose aids include a communication system, full-instrument landing approach system, lighted wind sock and segmented circle. A water system is situated at the Omak Airport as well, and there are proposals to improve it. While telephone service is provided by US West, power to the E-class airfield in Omak, is offered by the Okanogan County Public Utilities District. There have been proposals from the FAA to amend its E-class status by extending upward to an elevation of 700 feet (210 m) and removing its non-active navigation aid since January 2013. The FAA noted that the size and shape of the Omak Airport would still stay the same by using its airport reference point. According to them, the regulation would only involve technical facilities. Owned and operated by the Omak City Council, the airport contains a number of employees including manager Ken Mears. Having been surveyed by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey and part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it serves as a member of the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport, along with two other Okanogan airports: Anderson Field and Dorothy Scott Airport. The NPIAS has commercial airports, reliever and selected general aviation airports part of their system. |
Omak Airport | The Omak Airport's revenue resources include fuel sales, landing fees and rental fees set by the Omak City Council. While aircraft fuel charges are $0.50 per gallon, landing fees are charged to commercial contact carriers who do not purchase at least 20 US gallons (76 L; 17 imp gal) of fuel for their respective airplane, typically $40 per month. Tanker aircraft are also charged for this reasoning unless they buy gas at a rate of $0.20 per 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of maximum depending on aircraft weight usually. In addition, there are hangar lease fees; all hangars are owned and operated by the Omak City Council with a $0.09 per square foot rate annually. In January 2012, there were plans for an airport technical maintainer to be obtained. After expressing this interest in improving their airport, the Omak City Council requested access to letters of interests from qualified consultants who would like to provide design and construction of it for a period of five years in April 2012. The Washington State Office of Minority & Women's Business stated that management offerings may also be included in what the consultant chosen must perform. |
Omak Airport | Although this airport does not support direct commercial flights, it does provide three daily charter flights and general aviation services from Monday to Friday to other selected destinations, including the Pangborn Memorial Airport, by charter airlines such as Ameriflight and Empire Airlines. For the 12-month period ending on May 30, 2012, the airport garnered 23,750 aircraft movements, 1,000 of which were for cargo use with an average of 63 per day for all of the movements, making it the second busiest airport in the Okanogan County after Anderson Field, which gained 25,000 aircraft operations approximately. Of these aircraft movements, 3,600 of them were used for air taxi purposes, while 5,500 aircraft used it for local general aviation services; the aircraft operation count for itinerant general aviation was 14,500. Meanwhile, there were 150 military aircraft operations, meaning that based on all of these statistics, the following data was calculated: 61 percent used it for itinerant general aviation, while 23 percent used it for local general aviation; 15 percent used it for air taxi services and 1 percent for military purposes. |
Jure Francetić | After the establishment of the NDH on 10 April 1941, Francetić was appointed as the chief Ustaša delegate in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the role of strengthening the Ustaša regime there. He arrived in Sarajevo on 24 April 1941 with Marshal Slavko Kvaternik, around 800 Ustaša militia, and 300 Ustaša police to establish formal control. Francetić effectively became the most powerful political leader in Sarajevo, and established a reputation for ruthlessness in dealing with Serbs and Jews. Francetić's Ustashe took control over the local administration by dismissing all civil servants and teachers belonging to the category of "Srbijanci" (Serbs), as well as Jews. Killings, arrests, and deportation of Serbs and Jews was a regular duty of Francetić's henchmen—based and justified by the official Ustashe policy which demanded the total extermination of Jews and the murder (1/3) and/or expulsion (1/3) and/or forced conversion to Roman Catholicism by Orthodox Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1/3). "On 23 July 1941 the headquarters of the NDH Ustasha police sent an order to the heads of all regions, including Francetić, to begin with the arrest and transportation of Jews, Serbs and communists to the Gospić concentration camp. |
Venice Declaration | As tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict escalated, European countries decided that the current negotiations (as coordinated by the United States) were not working, that the situation was serious, and that they needed to interfere. In justifying their role in the negotiations, the nine European countries cited their traditional and common interests as ties to the region. They based the Venice Declaration on Security Council Resolution 242 and Security Council Resolution 338. They emphasized, in the fourth point of the declaration, that they were primarily concerned with "the two principles universally accepted by the international community: the right to existence and to security of all States in the region, including Israel, and justice for all the peoples, which implies the recognition of legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" (). They also stated the need to establish boundaries in the Middle East and to maintain peace within them. While they said it was important to resettle the Palestinian refugees, the European leaders also stressed the value of self-government for Palestinians and that, like the Israelis, they should be involved in the process of peace settlement. Furthermore, the Declaration asserts that these principles are necessary for the establishment of peace and that everyone involved, both Palestinian and Israeli, should have access to Jerusalem. The nine European powers determined that Israel should "put an end to the territorial occupation which it has maintained since the conflict of 1967." They concluded by saying that force would be used to implement the Declaration and that they, the nine European powers, would reach out to the Middle Eastern nations in order to initiate the changes. |
Carlos Arroyo | Arroyo studied in Florida International University (FIU) from 1998 to 2001, where he played for the campus' team, the Golden Panthers. He was a four-year letterman in the university having completed his baccalaureate and played with the team four years, establishing several records in the team's history. Among these records is: the all-time lead in assists, as well as the single season assist record, having made 459 successful passes. Arroyo is also the only player in Florida International University to have scored more than six hundred points in a single season. He is in the second global position in lifetime scoring, having scored 1,600 points throughout his university career, with an average of 16.0 points per game and 4.6 assists per game over his 100 games. Arroyo was also selected as a member of the Sun Belt Conference's All-Star team on two separate occasions. On January 5, 2007, Florida International University presented a ceremony where Arroyo's university number (30) was symbolically retired to recognize his performance with the institution's team. |
Carlos Arroyo | The Orlando Magic started the 2007–08 season with new coach Stan Van Gundy, and Arroyo again was at the backup point guard position. On November 28, 2007, he had a career-high 14 assists in a game against the Seattle SuperSonics. On December 29, 2007, Arroyo was promoted to the starting position after Nelson experienced an extended offensive slump. With Nelson in the starting position during this period the team was having an average of seventeen turnovers per game, and he was unable to score in double digits on 10 out of 17 games. This led to Van Gundy issuing several public notices concerning the team's performance eventually leading to changes in the starting formation. During Arroyo's first three games in the starting position the number of turnovers produced by the team was lowered to eleven per game. Arroyo's points average was within double digits in all of these games and he recorded seventeen assists. Arroyo closed January in the starting position, the team finished the month winning five out of six games. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | Arabs are portrayed in film as film characters in both Arab films as well as non-Arab films, and both Arabs and non-Arabs take the role of an Arab. These portrayals often depict an ethnocentric perception of Arabs rather than an authentic and realistic depiction of Arabic cultures, religions, dialects, as well as customs and traditions. Common characteristics that are implemented in the role of Arab characters include speaking in a heavy accent, being hostile and vicious, and are in the context of terrorism. Key issues that have been explored in these portrayals include how Arabs are identified in mainstream Hollywood film, how Arabs self-represent themselves in their own film, with examples from Egyptian cinema, Palestinian cinema, as well as Syrian cinema. This article will also cover the emphasis on Islamophobia and its impacts on film. There has also been the portrayal of Arab women in film, the portrayal of Arabs post 9/11, the portrayal of Arabs in silent film, and positive portrayals and negative portrayals of Arabs. Lastly, the United States efforts to avoid the stereotyping of Muslims/Arabs and shifting the focus onto a positive outlook. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | There are three main approaches in film that closely associate the larger Arab identity with just the Muslim Identity, disregarding other religions and beliefs in the Arab region. Some Arabic films address other religions and beliefs as part of the larger Arab identity, but the majority of Arab films still intertwine Muslim and Arab identity as being one, both implicitly as well as explicitly. The first approach is in how main historical Arab religious films have had a tendency to explicitly address religious identity through the telling of Islamic history, and, as such, convey a historically deep-rooted Muslim identity. The second approach is in how large numbers of dramas that get produced implicitly display religion. This is either displayed in the set's location (e.g. a mosque), or displayed through the character's behaviour (e.g. visiting a shrine or praying on a Muslim prayer mat). This approach displays the Muslim identity as being the moral compass used to address ethical as well as social aspects of everyday life. The third approach is in how a film gets to set parameters on how a Muslim is defined, whether a bad Muslim character or a good Muslim character. This is usually prone to stereotyping. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | Ibrahim 'Izz al-Din, director of the Egyptian film Zuhur al-Islamv , depicts life in the Arab Peninsula before the rise of Islam. The film was originally inspired by the historical novel Al-Wa'd Al-Haq , by Egyptian writer Taha Hussein, who tried to rewrite Islamic history. It depicted how the first Muslims struggled with their new belief, opposed by worshipers of other gods or religions. These first Muslims were tortured. However, despite that, they persisted and kept faithful to their newly acquired religion. Quite a number of similar films were produced, all depicting Islam to be victorious in its emergence during its early years. However, none of these films were historically accurate. These films symbolically represented the re-emergence of national identity after colonial rule, relating to mainly resurfaced views on morality. These films failed in accurately depicting the story of Islam's military victories, but rather, represented the moral restoration of people whose morals were repressed under colonialism. With the increase of the significance of Islam as being tied to Arab identity, the genre of the historical religious dramas gained increasing popularity with television shows, series, as well as film. This depiction of Muslims being victims of slander and colonialism whilst also being victorious, has become a popular character mold again after the events of 9/11, as Muslims had to suffer with stigmatization by the West. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | The 'everyday drama' is one of the most popular genres in Arab cinema. Religion in films of this genre plays an implicit role in the setting, characters, actions, or symbols, which predominantly are identified as being Muslim, the religion of the protagonists and their society. Some of the images that feature in these films include images of mosques, as well as churches and synagogues, images of women wearing the hijab as well as images of women wearing the cross around their necks, images of saints, shrines, people praying, as well as secularists, atheists, fundamentalists, magic, religious violence, and the call to prayer. There are images of the Islamic pilgrimage (the Hajj), images of the holy Islamic feasting month of Ramadan, the two holy annual Islamic holy feats and Christmas. Therefore, religious values are portrayed as a natural part of daily life in these films, regardless of the fact that the film or its storyline is not directly about religion itself. Religious values in these everyday dramas are often portrayed as a social struggle against injustice rather than a religious one, which is embodied in the protagonist or hero, who represent the ideal human and moral way of behaving. The protagonist is exposed to injustice and opposes it in a civil manner, a manner that is rooted from tradition, morals, fairness, as well as other positive human values. In religious historical films, moral and ethical values which derive from Islamic tradition, are the natural answer to social injustice. This further emphasizes the inherent as well as natural behaviour or character of religious identity. This identity is further strengthened by visualizing Islamic tradition as being evident in so aspects of daily life. Two particular examples which are popularly used in depicting a Muslim identity in the everyday drama genre, is the call to prayer as well as the use of holy places and sites. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | The film Divine Intervention is based on the lives of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation, and how their day-to-day lives are. The main character is played by the director of the film, Elia Suleiman. He does not speak throughout the film, which gives out the idea of how life under the Israeli occupation is draining him. Divine Intervention is shot in a comedic way that is also very powerful and effective. The shots are left without any dialogue to allow the viewer to analyze the scenes themselves. However, the film has some comedic scenes, such as one neighbor bickering about how the other neighbor leaves the trash in front of their house. Another scene is when a red balloon appears with Yasser Arafat's face on it. The balloon floats over the Israeli checkpoint, focusing on the faces of the Israeli soldiers and how they were contemplating about whether they should shoot the balloon down or not. They get so caught up with the balloon that they do not notice a car that goes by the checkpoint. The film also shows a love story between a Palestinian man and woman. The man lives in Jerusalem and the woman lives in Ramallah. In order for them to see one another, they would have to go through various checkpoints. Viewers are left to see them meeting in the car near one of the checkpoints, every time they wanted to see one another, which was the only was they would be able to spend time with each other. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | According to The Guardian, Divine Intervention has been rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture for the category of Best Foreign Picture in the Oscars since they do not feel like Palestine is not a recognized or real nation. Another point The Guardian highlighted was that English was only spoken a twice in the film by a tourist that needed directions. They also tied this to another scene which was aimed towards showing how Israelis do not know anything, which is when the tourist asked for directions to the Church of Holy Sepulchre. The Israeli soldier did not know the directions so he got the blindfolded Palestinian man from the police car and told him to assist the tourist by giving her directions to the church. The Guardian also see the film as unrealistic and making certain scenes comedic by humiliating or belittling the Israeli soldiers, such as how they were distracted by the red balloon that had Yasser Arafat's image on it which made them not notice the car that was passing by the checkpoint. |
Portrayal of Arabs in film | This film deals with discrimination against interracial couples: more specifically in this case, discrimination against an Arab and a German who fall in love with each other. Set in post-war Germany, in the city of Munich, the protagonist is a handsome Moroccan mechanic who experiences prejudice as well as his German partner. People all around the city mock the couple, from waiters to cleaning ladies to apartment dwellers to shopkeepers. In the film, Ali begins opening up to Emma, his lover, a German widow in her 50s, and begins to admit to how he genuinely feels like Arabs are not considered actual people in Germany, but more like street dogs. He's been mistreated by the Germans and how they made him feel inhumane. We also see how Emma's own children get outraged upon the discovery of their mother being married to an Arab, when he has been nothing but a gentleman to her. Towards the end of the film, in the last few frames, we see the couple happy side by side, and that prejudices may perhaps have been learnt. |
Jaega | The area occupied by the Jaega corresponds to the East Okeechobee culture region, an archaeological culture that is part of, or closely related to, the Belle Glade culture or the Glades culture. The East Okeechobee region was approximately coterminous with the eastern half of present-day Palm Beach and Martin counties, extending along the coast from the St. Lucie Inlet to the Boca Raton Inlet, and inland to some point between the coast and Lake Okeechobee. Included in the Glades culture in early assessments, archaeological sites and settlement patterns in Palm Beach County differed from those of the Glades culture found in the tree islands of the Everglades. It was a transitional culture area, with ceramics, shell tools, and large mounds typical of the St. Johns culture to the north and the Belle Glade culture to west, compared to the Glades culture to the south. On the other hand, bone tools and ornaments of the East Okeechobee region most closely resembled those of the Glades culture. The influences of neighboring cultures appears to have changed over time. After AD 1000, the East Okeechobee culture area was primarily influenced by the St. Johns and Indian River cultures to the north, with little influence from the Belle Glade culture to the west, or the Glades culture of the Tequesta to the south. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | The Alliance of Democrats has its origins in the Democratic Clubs, which were opposed to authoritarian and nationalistic tendencies in the Second Republic of Poland between the two World Wars . The first club was founded in Warsaw in September 1937, and by 1938 there were clubs in all major urban centres, with active participation of the co-founders of Polish independence, whose primary objective was ensuring a fully democratic political system in Poland. The group's founders came from the democratic circles of former legionaries, peasant activists, left-wing Sanationists connected to, among others, with the Union for the Repair of the Republic, as well as from the left-wing part of the Union of Work for State "Legion of the Young" and socially radical intelligentsia and youth groups. The national founding convention of the Alliance of Democrats was held on 15 April 1939. The Declaration of Policy included such issues as improvement of the national economy, a development plan to raise the level of education, and modernisation of the armed forces. Mieczysław Michałowicz, a member of the Senate, was appointed as the first party leader of the Alliance. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | The Party was officially established in April 1939 at the All-Polish Founding Assembly (1st Congress) in Warsaw. The political line of the new grouping was determined by the political metrics of its leading activists and disagreement with the evolution of the "May Revolution" system limiting civil liberties. Hence, specific postulates did not at first aim at overthrow, but at a significant reform of the system towards the restitution of democratic values. Among the classic postulates were: the reform of electoral law to the Sejm and Senate, as well as a broad programme of social and economic transformations, which was characterised by a return to democratic models shaped on the basis of the actual application of the provisions of the March Constitution (inter alia, fully democratic electoral law, respect for the law and civic freedoms, radical defence of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary, criticism of nationalist and totalitarian tendencies likely to destabilise the state). The personification of the party's values and political programme thus became a citizen enjoying freedom and the achievements of the democratic system, honouring the basic communal value of labour, the creator of state power. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | During World War II, a significant number of Alliance members were involved in the anti-Nazi Polish underground. One of its major leader was active in the Vila Ghetto. It was partly due to their initiative that Żegota, the Council for Aid to Jews, was founded in 1942 as well as the Social Organisation for Self-Defence. The Alliance of Democrats and other political and social organisations set up the Association of Democrats, which then entered the Council of National Unity, the Polish Underground State Parliament. In 1943 SD split into two factions, one of which supported the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, and the second co-operated with the communist Polish Workers' Party and recognized the State Country Council as the actual parliament and the Provisional Government of National Unity as the actual government of Poland. In 1945, following the Red Army seizure of Poland, two members of the Association, Eugeniusz Czarnowski and Stanisław Michałowski, were arrested by the NKVD and tried in the Stalinist-orchestrated Trial of the Sixteen, aimed at eliminating non-communist Polish political leadership. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | The political programme promulgated during the occupation had the unmistakable mark of synthesising pre-war experience and taking into account the geopolitical conditions changed by the outbreak of war. Thus, in April 1943, the SD proclaimed a vision of so-called integral democracy intended to be a combination of a pluralistic state formula and democratic socio-economic relations. Postulates such as economic equality and social justice were to become the driving forces behind the proposed form of political and social itre. The Republic of Poland was perceived as an entity existing between western neo-democracies and itotalisms, hence the necessity to create a new order became the content facing the imperative of defending sovereignty. Thus, through the ideology of social egalitarianism, welfare and respect for the fundamental rights of the individual realised in a democratic republic, based on a five-part electoral law, the independence of the judiciary and the presidential system (the head of state, characterised by a superior role, appeared as a systemic bond), the realisation of a kind of third way was proposed as a developmental option for peacetime. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | After the end of World War II, the leadership of the party was infiltrated by ideological communists, and included former activists supportive of the Soviet Union - the party was used as a tool of legitimacy of the newly established Communist Poland. Soviet-aligned officials started enforcing strict party discipline and uniformity, ensuring that the party, despite its name and pre-war alignment, would be a loyal part of the communist government, as a "token" liberal faction. Despite the marked predominance of crypto-communist members, there was also a liberal-democratic wing active in the SD, represented among others by Kraków activists such as Adam Krzyżanowski and Jerzy Langrod. They criticised the industrialisation carried out according to Soviet models, expressed a friendly attitude to the PSL, and attacked the new, pseudo-democratic electoral law. The Katowice SD organisation took a similar stance, verbalising its position on, among other things, an autonomous electoral list before the 1947 election to the Legislative Sejm, and officially defending the honour of Home Army soldiers, many of whom were incorporated into the Party's work in Silesia. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | In January 1946, the SD announced its official, post-war program. It expressed the will to base political self-identification on the communist PWKN manifesto, but by making direct reference to the reformist tradition of the Great Sejm, the Kościuszko Uprising or the activities of the Polish Democratic Society, the party also indicated a broader than class-based basis for activity. The document's provisions postulated a system ensuring democracy in politics, socio-economic affairs and culture. The party system was to be characterised by such values as pluralism, egalitarianism and mutual recognition of powers. The new regime was to guarantee the rule of law and civil liberties, such as freedom of conscience and religion, resulting in a stable rule of law. In a programmatic nod to its own pre-war tradition, labour was seen as the basis of wealth, which in an unforced way coincided with one of the conclusions of the new power's making the working masses the formal sovereign. The basis of foreign policy was seen in cooperation and friendship with the Soviet Union. |
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) | After 2009, new politicians joined the party, such as centrist-conservative Paweł Piskorski. The party restored their representation in parliament, by taking over of the members of the Democratic Party – demokraci.pl group consisting of three members (including Marian Filar, Bogdan Lis and Jan Widacki). After Paweł Piskorski rise to the leadership of the party many of its old members of party resigned from being members of SD. In the 2009 European Elections, the party's candidates obtained 0.027% of votes because of registration problems and lack of organisation. Since May 2009 the Alliance of Democrats has been a member of the European Democratic Party. SD supported former Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrzej Olechowski's candidature in the 2010 presidential election. In the 2011 parliamentary elections, Alliance did not register any lists but three candidates who were enlisted on the Poland Comes First election list but were supported by SD received 0.0031% of the popular vote. The Party was to announce its new political programme at its XXVI Congress. |
Pine Terrace | In 1849 he determined to retire from the river and was induced to take charge of the West Point Hotel, situated within the Academic grounds, and which during his subsequent career became known all over the world as Roe's Hotel. He conducted the hotel business with great success, and was very popular with the army officers and other public men. Among those with whom he was closely intimate was Gov. William H. Seward, who, to mark his confidence and regard for the Captain, appointed him first as an aide upon his staff, and subsequently made him Inspector-General of the State. In 1867 Mr. Roe retired from the management of the hotel and from all business. He is survived by his wife and one son, Lieut. Charles F. Roe, Adjutant of the Second Cavalry. He was during his residence in New York a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, the Rector of which, the Rev. Dr. Houghton, will officiate at the funeral services. The time of the funeral has not yet been fixed, owing to the desire of the family to carry out his wish to be buried at the West Point Cemetery. This requires the consent of the War Department, to which the necessary application has already been made." |
Ọjà | The ọjà // ⓘ is an integral part of the rich cultural heritage of the Igbo people and continues to play a significant role in their musical traditions. The Igbo people, who are indigenous to Nigeria, are renowned for the utilization of the ọjà (flute) traditional musical instrument in cultural activities or events. It is made from bamboo or metal and is played by blowing air into one end while covering and uncovering holes along the body to create different notes. The ọjà, which is skillfully carved from wood, produces a beautiful sound when played during songs. In traditional Igbo music, the ọjà is often performed in conjunction with a number of other instruments such as the ekwe, udu (percussion instrument), igba (drum), ogene (bell), ichaka/0sha (rattle), okwa (gong), etc. These instruments complement each other to create a unique and distinct sound that characterizes the musical traditions of the Igbo people. The seamless integration of these instruments in musical performances highlights the strong musical heritage and cultural identity of the Igbo people. |
A/UX | In November 1991, Apple launched A/UX 3.0, planning to synchronize the two concurrent release schedules of A/UX and System 7. At that time, the company also preannounced A/UX 4.0, expected for release in 1993 or 1994. The announcement expounded upon the historic technology partnership between Apple and IBM, expecting to merge Apple's user-friendly graphical interface and desktop applications market with IBM's highly scalable Unix server market, and allowing the two companies to enter what Apple believed to be an emerging "general desktop open systems market". The upcoming A/UX 4.0 was proposed to target the PowerOpen Environment ABI, merge features of IBM's AIX variant of Unix into A/UX, and use the OSF/1 kernel from the Open Software Foundation. A/UX 3.0 was proposed to serve as an "important migration path" to this new system, making Unix and System 7 applications compliant with the PowerOpen specification. The future A/UX 4.0 and AIX operating systems were intended to run on a variety of IBM's POWER and PowerPC hardware, and on Apple's PowerPC-based hardware. |
A/UX | A/UX 3.0 was praised in the August 1992 issue of InfoWorld by the same author, describing it as "an open systems solution with the Macintosh at its heart" where "Apple finally gets Unix right". He praised the GUI, single-button point-and-click installer, one year of personal tech support, the graphical help dialogs, and the user's manuals, saying that A/UX "defies the stereotype that Unix is difficult to use" and is "the easiest version of Unix to learn". Its list price of $709 is much higher than that of "much weaker" competing PC operating systems such as System 7, OS/2, MS-DOS, and Windows 3.1, but low compared to the then prevailing proprietary Unix licenses of more than $2,000 . The review found the system speed "acceptable but not great" even on the fastest Quadra 950, blaming not the software but the incomplete Unix optimization found in Apple's hardware. Though "a very good value", the system's price-performance ratio was judged as altogether uncompetitive against Sun's SPARCstation 2. The reviewers thought it unlikely for users "to want to buy Macs just to run A/UX" and would have awarded InfoWorld's top score if the OS was not proprietary to Macintosh hardware. |
Maria Adela Diaz | One of her most prominent works is "Borderline," which is a video performance created in 2005 that is featured in the E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One exhibition at Studios at the Park in Paso Robles, California. "Borderline" was set in the ocean, where Diaz actually sat herself in an enclosed wooden box and was launched into the ocean for 45 minutes without any means of protection. Adela explains that the purpose behind this video performance is to enhance the discussion on the injustices that exist in the United States toward immigrants. It demonstrate the instability that exists in the lives of migrants who reside in the U.S., through their marginalization and the discrimination that they are forced to endure. Diaz mentions that her personal experience as an immigrant in the United States is reflected in this video performance. 2005, aside from being the year that she created this art piece, was also a detrimental year for her legal status. She states that through the making of this piece, she risked her own life not only in terms of dying but also of getting caught by the police who could potentially deport her back to Guatemala. She mentions that a part of her desired for this to occur. This artwork was meant to provide a voice for the millions of men and women who are trapped in similar situations. |
Golden Days (novel) | In Golden Days, Edith Langley, a 38-year-old divorcee returns to Los Angeles from the East Coast with her two daughters, Aurora and Denise, to start a new life in 1980. They move into a home in Topanga Canyon, and Edith reinvents herself as a financial reporter and then a financial advisor to other women. Edith begins a relationship with Skip Chandler, an older married man. Skip is back in the States for a medical issue—his wife and children still in Argentina where they moved after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Edith and Skip live the affluent life of the 1980s in Southern California—money, Lear Jets, and Porsches. They fly to San Francisco to attend a weekend seminar given by Lion Boyce on "Abundance as a Natural State." At the seminar, Edith runs into an old friend—Lorna McAvey. On their return, Skip goes to the doctor and discovers there is nothing wrong with him. The novel then flashes back to 1962 when Edith meets her friend Lorna—who sees her through the years of her first marriage and divorce. The story then returns to L.A. in the early eighties; Edith grows a business as a gem dealer and banker. Edith and Lorna are friends again—Edith refers to it as their second friendship. Edith fills Lorna in on her second failed marriage to Dirk Langley, an Australian surf film director. As Edith becomes richer and richer, Lorna reinvents herself on television preaching the positive message of abundance. The book then jumps forward to 1986, by which time Edith's eldest daughter has graduated from college and is a successful international courier while her younger daughter is still at home and in school. Edith and Skip have settled into a quiet life entrenching themselves through their affluence against an increasingly unsettled world focusing on the younger daughter's school. A war begins in Central America. At the school, Edith and Lorna meet Franz deGeld a Hollywood executive whom Lorna is having an affair. At that time, a Nuclear bomb goes off in a Central American jungle killing a few thousand people. Life goes on as before. Aurora has fallen in love and announces she is marrying Skip's son Deeky and moving with him to South America. Skip gives them a house in La Plata. |
John Stainton (barrister) | Stainton was born on 29 February 1888 to John Prout Stainton. After schooling at Winchester College, he went up to Christ Church, Oxford, to read classics. After graduating in 1911, he was called to the bar in 1913 and practised on the Western Circuit. He served in the First World War, being commissioned into the 4th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1915. He was wounded and ended the war as a captain. With demobilisation he returned to his legal practice, found success in the Western Circuit and represented the Great Western Railway Company. In 1929, he joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and was appointed Second Parliamentary Counsel in 1937, serving until 1946 when he became Counsel to the Lord Chairman of the Committees in the House of Lords, serving until retirement in 1953. While at the OPC, he drafted the Finance Bills and became an expert in income tax law; he was also responsible for the National Insurance Act 1946, a highly complex piece of legislation the drafting of which The Times described as Stainton's "hardest job". It was partially due to this that he accepted the House of Lords position, which entailed less work, although it was in that capacity that he drafted the model Bill and standard clauses for Private Bills. Stainton was knighted twice, firstly as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1939 and then again on retirement in 1953 as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He took silk in 1947. |
Jean Tatlian | Tatlian was born in an Armenian family in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 1 August, 1943. He was the youngest of three children. In 1947 the family moved to the USSR, to the Armenian SSR and then to Abkhasia. As a schoolboy, Tatlian bought himself a guitar with money he earned from painting houses. He studied guitar at the Sukhumi Philharmonia and before the age of 16 was already earning money from concerts in nearby republics, in which he performed songs by French and Italian chansonniers. Later he studied in a workshop of variety art in Kiev, where the 19-year-old (not yet 18 according to other sources) was noticed by the conductor of the State Armenian Orchestra, Konstantin Orbelian, who invited him to join the orchestra as a soloist in a tour across Ukraine. Around the same time, in the early 1960s, he had his first success, with the song "Street Lamps" ("Уличные фонари"), for which a video was shot and shown on television. The song became popular. After a while Tatlian moved to Leningrad. He loved the city and lived there from then on. In Leningrad he founded his own orchestra and would give 350–400 concerts per year working with Lenconcert (a concert association that organized concerts in Leningrad) until the late 1960s. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, following a disagreement with a female director of the Orel Philharmony, Tatlian was effectively banned from any concert activity (and also, from the very beginning, he was de facto banned from leaving the Soviet Union), and in 1971 emigrated to France. |
Amino acid synthesis | The conversion of glutamate to glutamine is regulated by glutamine synthetase (GS) and is a key step in nitrogen metabolism. This enzyme is regulated by at least four different mechanisms: 1. Repression and depression due to nitrogen levels; 2. Activation and inactivation due to enzymatic forms (taut and relaxed); 3. Cumulative feedback inhibition through end product metabolites; and 4. Alterations of the enzyme due to adenylation and deadenylation. In rich nitrogenous media or growth conditions containing high quantities of ammonia there is a low level of GS, whereas in limiting quantities of ammonia the specific activity of the enzyme is 20-fold higher. The confirmation of the enzyme plays a role in regulation depending on if GS is in the taut or relaxed form. The taut form of GS is fully active but, the removal of manganese converts the enzyme to the relaxed state. The specific conformational state occurs based on the binding of specific divalent cations and is also related to adenylation. The feedback inhibition of GS is due to a cumulative feedback due to several metabolites including L-tryptophan, L-histidine, AMP, CTP, glucosamine-6-phosphate and carbamyl phosphate, alanine, and glycine. An excess of any one product does not individually inhibit the enzyme but a combination or accumulation of all the end products have a strong inhibitory effect on the synthesis of glutamine. Glutamine synthase activity is also inhibited via adenylation. The adenylation activity is catalyzed by the bifunctional adenylyltransferase/adenylyl removal (AT/AR) enzyme. Glutamine and a regulatory protein called PII act together to stimulate adenylation. |
Amino acid synthesis | Lysine is synthesized from aspartate via the diaminopimelate (DAP) pathway. The initial two stages of the DAP pathway are catalyzed by aspartokinase and aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase. These enzymes play a key role in the biosynthesis of lysine, threonine, and methionine. There are two bifunctional aspartokinase/homoserine dehydrogenases, ThrA and MetL, in addition to a monofunctional aspartokinase, LysC. Transcription of aspartokinase genes is regulated by concentrations of the subsequently produced amino acids, lysine, threonine, and methionine. The higher these amino acids concentrations, the less the gene is transcribed. ThrA and LysC are also feed-back inhibited by threonine and lysine. Finally, DAP decarboxylase LysA mediates the last step of the lysine synthesis and is common for all studied bacterial species. The formation of aspartate kinase (AK), which catalyzes the phosphorylation of aspartate and initiates its conversion into other amino acids, is also inhibited by both lysine and threonine, which prevents the formation of the amino acids derived from aspartate. Additionally, high lysine concentrations inhibit the activity of dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHPS). So, in addition to inhibiting the first enzyme of the aspartate families biosynthetic pathway, lysine also inhibits the activity of the first enzyme after the branch point, i.e. the enzyme that is specific for lysine's own synthesis. |
Amino acid synthesis | This leader sequence is important for the regulation of histidine in E. coli. The His operon operates under a system of coordinated regulation where all the gene products will be repressed or depressed equally. The main factor in the repression or derepression of histidine synthesis is the concentration of histidine charged tRNAs. The regulation of histidine is actually quite simple considering the complexity of its biosynthesis pathway and, it closely resembles regulation of tryptophan. In this system the full leader sequence has 4 blocks of complementary strands that can form hairpin loops structures. Block one, shown above, is the key to regulation. When histidine charged tRNA levels are low in the cell the ribosome will stall at the string of His residues in block 1. This stalling of the ribosome will allow complementary strands 2 and 3 to form a hairpin loop. The loop formed by strands 2 and 3 forms an anti-terminator and translation of the his genes will continue and histidine will be produced. However, when histidine charged tRNA levels are high the ribosome will not stall at block 1, this will not allow strands 2 and 3 to form a hairpin. Instead strands 3 and 4 will form a hairpin loop further downstream of the ribosome. The hairpin loop formed by strands 3 and 4 is a terminating loop, when the ribosome comes into contact with the loop, it will be "knocked off" the transcript. When the ribosome is removed the His genes will not be translated and histidine will not be produced by the cell. |
Amino acid synthesis | The genes required for the synthesis of cysteine are coded for on the cys regulon. The integration of sulfur is positively regulated by CysB. Effective inducers of this regulon are N-acetyl-serine (NAS) and very small amounts of reduced sulfur. CysB functions by binding to DNA half sites on the cys regulon. These half sites differ in quantity and arrangement depending on the promoter of interest. There is however one half site that is conserved. It lies just upstream of the -35 site of the promoter. There are also multiple accessory sites depending on the promoter. In the absence of the inducer, NAS, CysB will bind the DNA and cover many of the accessory half sites. Without the accessory half sites the regulon cannot be transcribed and cysteine will not be produced. It is believed that the presence of NAS causes CysB to undergo a conformational change. This conformational change allows CysB to bind properly to all the half sites and causes the recruitment of the RNA polymerase. The RNA polymerase will then transcribe the cys regulon and cysteine will be produced. |
Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers | The Aquitian Rangers are later seen or referenced in further seasons. Cestro returns unmorphed in "Graduation Blues", seeking Billy's help against the Hydro-Contaminators. Cestro later briefly appears with Delphine in "Revelations of Gold". The Aquitian and Zeo Rangers team-up in the "Rangers of Two Worlds" two-parter, the first instance on the series of two full teams appearing together. The two-parter also centered around Billy rapidly aging because of his use of the regenerator. In "Countdown to Destruction" in Power Rangers in Space, the Aquitian Rangers battle and are overwhelmed by Divatox's forces. Aurico later appears morphed in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode, "Forever Red", which saw every previous Red Ranger (save Rocky, as Jason returned to his previous role as Red Ranger, for which Rocky originally replaced him) united to stop the remnants of the Machine Empire. All five Rangers would later return in the series finale of Power Rangers Super Megaforce to battle alongside other veteran Ranger teams and the Megaforce Rangers. |
Civic Initiative | Ksenia's "123 Steps" election program was helped by Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Post-Industrial Society Research Center, and Andrey Nechayev, party leader, and Avdotya Smirnova (in the part related to inclusive society and provisions related to this area in the program) and lawyer Elena Lukyanova (provisions related to constitutional reform). In addition to these individuals, Sobchak's campaign headquarters included: one of the founders of the NTVtelevision company Igor Malashenko, who campaigned for Boris Yeltsin in 1996, director of the AIDS.Center Anton Krasovsky (previously headed Mikhail Prokhorov's headquarters), a Belarusian political strategist who worked with the headquarters of the Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, Vitaly Shklyarov, director of external relations of the Snob project Ksenia Chudinova, director Sergei Kalvarsky, former editor-in-chief of the Political News Agency Stanislav Belkovsky, human rights activist Marina Litvinovich, blogger and former member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council Rustem Adagamov, Timur Valeev (head of the Open Elections project at Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia) and former VK press secretary Georgy Lobushkin. Also Demyan Kudryavtsev, whose family owned the newspaper Vedomosti, gave Ksenia advice related to the campaign. |
Chew's Arkansas Infantry Battalion | Major Robert E. Chew, was killed during the Battle of Prairie Grove. He was born circa 1822 in Virginia, the son of John Winslow and Ann Thornton (Voss) Chew. The family moved to Humphrey Co., Tennessee and by 1850 they were living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In the census of that year the father was listed as the postmaster and Robert, 28, was listed as a farmer. Robert's father died in 1855 and at some point the family moved away probably to Missouri. A query in the Confederate Veteran magazine by Chew's nephew stated that his uncle belonged to a Tennessee regiment and was killed at Prairie Grove. The nephew said he was told that his uncle's sword and watch had been recovered from his body and was hoping these items could be reunited with the family. Chew had, in fact, served as a captain in Company H, 2nd Tennessee Infantry (Col. J. Knox Walker commanding). This regiment was formed entirely in Memphis, so Robert apparently had moved to this city sometime before the war started. The Official Records mentioned that Capt. Chew had assisted in the recapture of an artillery piece at the battle of Belmont, Missouri. At Shiloh the 2nd Tennessee Infantry suffered severe casualties and afterwards was consolidated into four companies. This left Captain Chew without a company to command. Apparently through Arkansas connections, he managed to get transferred back across the river to serve as a staff officer for Gen. Thomas C. Hindman. In that capacity, late in September, 1862, he met face to face with General William T. Sherman when he hand delivered a letter to him from General Hindman and returned with a reply. Sometime in October November, 1862 Robert Chew received a promotion to major and was given the assignment of commanding his own sharpshooter battalion. Adding up the numbers in the casualty list that appeared in the True Democrat, Chew's Battalion went into action with 12 officers and 104 enlisted men. They suffered 3 killed, 22 wounded (five of them mortally), and 5 missing for a total loss of 30. |
Jeremy Till | Till worked for relatively low-key architectural practices, Alex Gordon Partnership and Peter Currie Architects, before joining his partner, Sarah Wigglesworth, to design and build their well known house and office, 9 Stock Orchard Street, which was featured on the first series of the TV Programme Grand Designs; subsequently the presenter Kevin McCloud named the project as one of his favourite projects. The building, made from straw bales and other unconventional materials, was awarded Civic Trust Award , RIBA National Award and RIBA Sustainability Prize . It has been published extensively worldwide, with the journal World Architecture saying: "It is destined to become an icon, the subject of dissertations and copycat projects. Unlike the established canon of exemplary houses, this house/office is a deep, dense and determined essay on the question: what is architecture today?" He left Sarah Wigglesworth Architects in 2002 to concentrate on an academic career. Till curated the British Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. the exhibition, entitled Echo City received very mixed reviews, with severe criticism from the London architectural press, but praise from international reviewers. He chaired the RIBA Awards Panel from 2004 to 2006, the only academic to have held this position. In 2013 he co-curated the UK Pavilion at the Shenzhen Biennale with a team from Central Saint Martins, for which they were awarded the Biennale's Academic Committee Prize. |
Jeremy Till | Till started his teaching career at what was then Kingston Polytechnic in 1986. He moved to the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London in 1990, soon after the appointment of Peter Cook as the School's Head. While at the Bartlett, Till was undergraduate course director, Diploma studio teacher and sub-Dean of the Faculty. In 1999, he was appointed as Head of the School of Architecture and Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Under his direction, the School gained a reputation for the social and political basis of its teaching and research. In 2008 he was appointed Dean of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster. He was appointed as Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts London in 2012, and held that position until September 2022. He was appointed the University Lead on Climate Emergency in 2018. He is now Professor of Architecture at the University of the Arts London. He has sat on a range of national committees including as a panel member for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. He was a member of the RIBA Education and Research Committees in the 2000s. |
Jeremy Till | Till's research and writing has concentrated on the social and political aspects of architecture and the built environment. Stephen Moss writes in the Guardian that, "the appeal of Till's thinking is that he starts with people rather than structures, and asks us not to venerate buildings but to occupy them." His best known book is Architecture Depends, which was widely reviewed, and praised by the Times Higher as "a brave, enjoyable, affirming and important book." Other books include Flexible Housing (written with Tatjana Schneider) and Spatial Agency (written with Nishat Awan and Tatjana Schneider) All three of these books were awarded the RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-based research, making Till the only person to have received this international honour three times. In addition to these books, Till has written numerous articles, which are collected together on his own website. From 2010 to 2013 he ran a large research project on issues of scarcity and creativity in the built environment, funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). From 2021 he led, again with Tatjana Schneider, a research project funded by AHRC and DFG entitled 'Architecture after Architecture: spatial practice in the face of the climate emergency. For this project, he is part of the research collective MOULD It has been commented that his privileged Eton and Cambridge background is at odds with his later left-wing political views. |
Noel Rose | While at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, he worked as a professor of Microbiology and Medicine, director of the Center of Immunology, and director of Clinical Laboratories for twenty years. When he moved to Wayne State University School of Medicine, he served as chairman for the Department of Immunology and Microbiology for ten years. Then, when he joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1981, he became chairman for the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and later directed the Center for Autoimmune Disease Research. He was also a professor in the Department of Pathology and professor in the W. Henry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. At one point, he served as the chairman of the Autoimmune Disease Coordinating Committee of the National Institutes of Health and principal advisor to the former U.S. NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni. In 2015, he retired from Johns Hopkins and was working as a member of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. |
Norton, Northamptonshire | The four sides of the enclosure were 190, 200, 250, and 250 metres (210, 220, 270, and 270 yards), measured clockwise from north, and enclosed an area of about 5.5 hectares (14 acres). The defences were built in two – possibly three – phases. First: a large ditch 7.6 metres wide and 3.1 metres deep (25 ft × 10 ft) backed by a clay and turf rampart was constructed after the end of the first century; second: the primary ditch was filled in with gravel early in the fourth century to provide a firm base for a stone wall with foundations 3.7 metres (12 ft) wide and fronted by two newly-cut, parallel ditches; the inner 5.2 metres wide and 2.4 metres deep (17 ft × 8 ft) and the outer 4.3 metres wide and 1.8 metres deep (14 ft × 6 ft); and thirdly: The inner ditch was filled with gravel shortly after the second phase was completed, perhaps intended as the firm base for external towers, though none have been discovered. The outer ditch was allowed to silt up by the end of the fourth century. Occupation of the site, which may have begun before the Roman conquest, continued into the fourth century. |
Battle of Sapriportis | There was no other moment of the war in which the Carthaginians and Romans found themselves more in doubt between hope and fear. In fact, on the part of the Romans, in the provinces, on the one hand following the defeats in Spain, on the other due to the outcome of the operations in Sicily (212-211 BC), there was an alternation of joys and sorrows. In Italy, the loss of Taranto generated damage and fear, but having preserved the garrison in the fortress against all hope generated great satisfaction (212 BC). The sudden dismay and terror that Rome was besieged and attacked, after a few days vanished to make way for the joy for the surrender of Capua (211 BC). Even the overseas war was as if on equal terms between the parties : Philip became an enemy of Rome in a anything but favorable moment (215 BC), new allies were welcomed, such as the Aetolians and Attalus, kings of Asia, almost as if the fortune already promised the Romans the eastern empire. The Carthaginians also contrasted the loss of Capua with the capture of Taranto and, if it was a source of glory for them to have reached the walls of Rome without anyone stopping them, they on the other hand felt the regret of a vain undertaking and the shame that, while they were under the walls of Rome, from another gate a Roman army was setting out for Spain. Spain itself, when the Carthaginians had hoped to complete the war there and expel the Romans after destroying two great generals (Publius and Gnaeus Scipio ) and their armies, their victory had been rendered useless by an improvised general, Lucius Marcius. And so, thanks to the balancing action of fortune, hopes and fears remained intact on both sides, as if from that precise moment the entire war were to begin for the first time. |
Battle of Sapriportis | Titus Livy then recounts an episode of two ships which, the first of the two teams, clashed with each other. On the Roman ship was the Quinzio himself, on the Tarentine side a certain Nicone, nicknamed Percone, who had always been hostile to the Romans and who belonged to the faction that had handed over Taranto to Hannibal. He managed to pierce the Roman commander with his spear, while he was distracted because he was inciting his men to battle. Quinctius rushed forward with his weapons, in front of the bow of the ship. The victor from Tarentine then crossed over to the Roman ship, whose crew was disoriented due to the loss of their captain, and repelled the enemy, occupying its bow. The Romans, massed at the stern, were having great difficulty defending it, when another enemy trireme appeared from that side. The Roman ship, closed in the middle, had to capitulate. When the other Roman boats saw that the commander's ship had been captured, they were all gripped by great terror, all looking for escape routes to get away from the battle as quickly as possible. Some of these boats were overtaken and sunk on the high seas. Others were dragged towards land by oars, becoming prey to the inhabitants of Thurii and Metapontum. Of all the cargo ships that followed with supplies, very few were captured by the enemy, some in fact managed to move away towards the high seas. |
The Code (Nemo song) | "The Code" was written by Benjamin Alasu, Lasse Midtsian Nymann, Linda Dale, and Nemo Mettler, and was composed at a SUISA songwriting camp. BBC's Mark Savage described the song as a "drum and bass EDM opera" and said its chorus was inspired by The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In press statements, Nemo stated that the song details their realization of their non-binary identity, stating that realizing they are non-binary has given them "freedom" and that by entering the Eurovision Song Contest, they can "stand up for the entire LGBTQIA+ community". According to Nemo, when accepting that they didn't "feel like a man or a woman... I had to break a few codes"; the song references binary code, which is meant to represent the binary classification of genders. Nemo also declares within the song that they have found their "kingdom come", refusing to conform to traditional gender classification norms and stick to only one musical style. Nemo later added in Eurovision World, "being non-binary is a big part my truth... You're always learning about yourself. It never ends." |
The Code (Nemo song) | In a Wiwibloggs review containing several reviews from several critics, the song was rated 8.83 out of 10 points, winning the site's annual ranking for that year. ESC Beat's Doron Lahav ranked the song eighth overall out of the 37 entries competing in Eurovision 2024, praising Nemo's vocal abilities but admitting that the song's subject matter and fusion of musical styles "might be too complicated to digest". Glen Weldon, writer for National Public Radio (NPR), deemed the song a favourite to win the contest, praising the blend of multiple styles within the song and declaring that it had "all the earmarks of a showstopper". The Independent's Roisin O'Connor also listed the song as a potential favourite, drawing comparisons to the Georges Bizet opera Carmen and the James Bond theme. Erin Adam of The Scotsman rated the song 10 out of 10, and dubbed it a "veritable smorgasbord of a song" due to its mix of styles. In contrast, Jon O'Brien, a writer for Vulture, ranked the song 22nd out of 37 songs, stating that while the song had a "great message of freedom, self-identity, and acceptance", he thought that "it gets lost in a cut-and-shut mix of drum and bass, pop opera, Eurorap, and The Greatest Showman that may leave you reaching for the Ibuprofen". |
The Code (Nemo song) | Nemo repeated their performance during the grand final on 11 May. The song was performed 21st, following Cyprus' Silia Kapsis and before Slovenia's Raiven. After the results were announced, Nemo finished with a total of 591 points, with a split result of 365 points from the juries and 226 points from the televote. The total was enough to earn Nemo the victory, earning 44 more points than the runner-up, Croatia's Baby Lasagna. The song received 22 sets of the maximum 12 points. It also received one set of 12 points from the televote, with it coming from Ukraine. As a result of winning, "The Code" become the first victorious song for Switzerland since 1988, with Nemo becoming the first openly non-binary artist to win the competition. In response to their victory, they declared in a post-contest press conference that they dedicated the win to "everyone out there who's non-binary, gender fluid, transgender... people that are daring to be themselves and people that need to be heard and need to be understood." Nemo also heavily criticised the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the sanctioning body that manages the contest, accusing the EBU of "double standards", referencing an incident where Nemo claimed they had to smuggle a non-binary flag that breached the EBU's rules. Nemo later proclaimed, "maybe Eurovision needs fixing a little bit too, every now and then." |