title: Dargo Ktor

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Dargo Ktor is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He lived in a distant dystopian future, where people of Earth are controlled by the oppressive Corp. He becomes the Thor of that future after realising that he is worthy to lift Mjolnir.

The character first appeared in Thor #384 and was created by Tom Defalco and Ron Frenz.

Fictional character biography
Dargo Ktor lived in an alternate earth in the distant future which is ruled by the oppressive Corp.  He was a part of the Cult of Hammer, worshippers of Thor's hammer Mjolnir who believed that someone would be worthy of lifting Mjolnir, gain Thor's power, and save their future. Dargo was skeptical at first, but eventually lifted Mjolnir and became an avatar of Thor.  After Dargo fights off Loki's minions, it is revealed that Loki was allied with the Corp all along  and has tricked his brother Thor by exiling him into a different dimension. After Dargo learns that Thor cannot return without Mjolnir's help, he sends Mjolnir through the dimensional portal.

Sometime later, Mjolnir returns to Dargo for unknown reasons and he resumes being Thor, battling the Demonstaff and is briefly used as a pawn against Earth-616's Fantastic Four by Zarrko the Tomorrow Man. Zarrko fools Dargo into traveling back in time to Earth-616 to attack Eric Masterson, then Thor's modern-day avatar, whom Zarrko claimed had stolen Thor's hammer. Dargo fought both Eric and Stellaris before Beta Ray Bill, another "Thor", intervened and foiled Zarrko's deception. Zarrko intended to siphon the combined energy from Eric and Dargo's hammers to power his Radical Time Stabilizer and collapse the multiverse into a single timeline, but together the Thors overcame Zarrko and Dargo returned to his own timeline.

Dargo Ktor was the last champion of Midgard. He opposed Thor's half-brother Loki. At some point, he was left for dead by Loki in the ruins of Minneapolis, with his wife and other relatives being killed. Years later, Tannan Six was driven by his curiosity to steal both Mjolnir and Captain America's Shield and ran away from Loki. He met a fugitive from Loki, who told him about the Avengers. Aided by Hercules, Thaddeus Stark and Deva Van Dyne, they reassembled the Avengers and went out in Minneapolis to find Dargo and convinced him to reclaim his mantle as Thor and fight for good.

Powers and abilities
Dargo Ktor is worthy of Mjolnir and hence possesses a portion of all of Thor's powers and abilities, such as superhuman strength, speed, durability, electric and weather manipulation.

See also
Thor (Marvel Comics)
Alternative versions of Thor (Marvel Comics)

References

External links
Dargo Ktor at the Marvel Database

Comics characters introduced in 1993
Characters created by Tom DeFalco
Characters created by Ron Frenz
Fictional characters from parallel universes
Fictional characters with electric or magnetic abilities
Fictional hammer fighters
Marvel Comics 2
Marvel Comics superheroes
Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters who use magic
Marvel Comics characters with accelerated healing
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength


title: Howard Eichenbaum

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Howard B. Eichenbaum (October 16, 1947 – July 21, 2017) was an American psychologist and neuroscientist who studied the hippocampus. He was a university professor and director of the Center for Memory and Brain at Boston University, having previously worked at Wellesley College. He was the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Hippocampus.

Research on the role of hippocampus in memory function
Eichenbaum performed extensive research on the role of the hippocampus in memory function, presenting a theory of the role of the hippocampus in forming relational memories. This work was important for emphasizing the behavioral role of the hippocampus beyond forming spatial representations of the environment. Eichenbaum and his collaborators performed early studies emphasizing the non-spatial responses of hippocampal neurons, showing spiking responses selective to individual odors and reward delivery during performance of behavioral tasks.

Research on context-selective neuronal responses
Research by Eichenbaum also demonstrated the strong context-dependence of neuronal responses in the hippocampus. One study from his lab at Boston University presented data from rats performing a spatial alternation task with return arms. As the rat ran up the stem of the task on different trials, the spiking response of hippocampal neurons depended on the prior or future response of the rat, showing differential firing even though the location and movement direction of the rat was the same. This illustrated the strong memory dependence of hippocampal neuronal responses independent of the spatial location and movement of the rat. This experiment and other data from his laboratory show how different events in the same location could be coded as different episodes.

Research on time cells
Research by Eichenbaum and others has demonstrated that individual neurons in the hippocampus and other regions show spiking activity at specific time intervals during behavioral tasks. Eichenbaum described these neurons as "time cells" and argued that the same neurons could equally act as place cells. The loss of time cells in the hippocampus may contribute to the loss of episodic memory function described in patient HM. Time cells may contribute to the role of the hippocampus in allowing what Tulving termed mental time travel in the recall of past episodic memories. Time cells may code individual time intervals necessary to disambiguate different temporal episodes within an episodic memory.

References

Boston University faculty
20th-century American psychologists
1947 births
2017 deaths
American neuroscientists
Jewish American scientists
21st-century American Jews


title: List of Mexican restaurants

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This is a list of notable Mexican restaurants. Mexican cuisine is primarily a fusion of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking with European, especially Spanish, elements added after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the 16th century. The basic staples remain native foods such as corn, beans and chili peppers, but the Europeans introduced many other foods, the most important of which were meat from domesticated animals (beef, pork, chicken, goat and sheep), dairy products (especially cheese) and various herbs and many spices.

Mexican restaurants

Fast food Mexican restaurants

Former Mexican restaurants
 Chi-Chi's
 Don Pablo's
 Mi Mero Mole, Portland, Oregon
 Original Taco House, Portland, Oregon
 Pup 'N' Taco
 Real Mex Restaurants
 Rio Bravo Cantina
 Two Pesos

See also

 Canby Asparagus Farm and Casa de Tamales, Milwaukie, Oregon
 Latin American cuisine
 List of Mexican dishes
 List of restaurants in Mexico
 Lists of restaurants
 Taco stand
 Taquería

References

External links

Mexican


title: Wazir Ali (cyclist)

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Wazir Ali (born 15 February 1928 – 20 December 1999) was a Pakistani cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and the time trial events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1928 births
1999 deaths
Pakistani male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Pakistan
Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics


title: Gelophaula aenea

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Gelophaula aenea is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Hosts

The larvae bore through the developing leaves of Celmisia lyalli.

References

Moths described in 1877
Archipini
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
Endemic moths of New Zealand


title: Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim

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Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim (born January 23, 1961) is a Nigerian politician and businessman. He was the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), a Nigerian political party.

The PDM, which initially started out as a movement formed in the wake of Nigerians' agitation for a democratic governance, was denied registration as an official political party by the Abacha regime. Upon the Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999, the movement, hence, formed a major building block of what would become Nigeria's ruling party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP). After years of running the country's affairs and a seeming disconnect between what had been envisioned and what had, in fact, been achieved by the PDP, some members of the PDM decided to leave the PDP and register the movement as a party, so that it could abide by the ideals which guided its formation. The PDM was, thus, registered as a political party in 2013, with Bashir as its first National Chairman.

Mentored by the late Aminu Kano, Bashir has had a public service career spanning several decades, serving in various capacities including that of Special Adviser to both President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar at varying stages of their tenures, and on several committees including the Justice Niki Tobi Committee on the 1999 Constitution, among others.

He is a fellow of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative and the Aspen Institute. He is also a Member of Institute of Directors, Nigeria.

Early life and family background
Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim was born on January 23, 1961, to Alhaji Yusuf Ibrahim and Hajjiya Khadija Usman. Both parents came from renowned Islamic clerical families. His maternal uncle, Sheikh Tijjani Usman, with whom Bashir was quite close as a child, was one of the best known scholars in West Africa until his death in a road accident in 1970. Initially the third of six children, Bashir became the first son of the family after he lost his elder brothers to a measles epidemic which hit the city of Kano in the early 1960s. By the time his father died in July 1982, he was one of the fourteen children his father left behind.

Bashir was brought up in a typical African Muslim home in a polygamous family with his mother being the first of four wives. His father, Alhaji Yusuf Ibrahim, was an itinerant businessman who travelled through Africa, dealing in ivory and precious metals and ran a transport business in former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo. Alhaji Yusuf Ibrahim was also a polyglot, learning to speak several African languages during his many extended business trips, and one of the African foreigners and businessmen deported from the Congo in 1972 during the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko.

Despite his long periods of absence, often spending several months away from their Kano home, Bashir's father, himself being the eldest male in the extended family, ensured that his children had a sheltered upbringing under the watchful eyes of several uncles. Bashir's father was a strict disciplinarian who was especially concerned about the company that his children kept, and due to his father's strict nature, Bashir had few friends growing up.

Bashir looked up to Mallam Aminu Kano of NEPU and PRP fame, and due to his closeness to one of Aminu Kano's nephews who was his classmate. He visited the Aminu Kano home often, interacting with his mentor and role model and gaining insight into the politics of the day. Aminu Kano was revered for his role in challenging the structure of power in Northern Nigeria as well as traditional norms and traditions and for promoting the education of women and girls in a bid to establish a progressive society for all.

Education
Bashir was introduced to schooling and education at quite an early stage; in accordance with the prevalent Northern Muslim tradition, he began attending an Islamiyyah (Islamic school) at the age of 3. Three years later, at the age of six, he was enrolled in Mayanka (now Jakara) Primary School, Kano, while also attending three different Islamiyyah schools – one in the morning before conventional school hours, the other in the evening after he returned from primary school, and yet another after night prayers. His first ever school was founded by the late Mallam Aminu Kano with whom Bashir shared immediate neighbourhood.

After primary school, Bashir was admitted to School for Arabic Studies in 1973 where he obtained the Teachers Grade II Certificate in 1977 and quickly obtained a General Certificate of Education from the School of Preliminary Studies, Kano in 1978. He was an Interim Joint Matriculation Board, IJMB student at the same School of Preliminary Studies from 1979 to 1981 where he was secretary-general and president of the students' union. In 1981, he took a course in Journalism at Graduate School, USDA in Washington DC and New York Institute of Technology, after which he sat for the Interim Joint Matriculation Board Exam in 1982. His next academic endeavour was as a student at the prestigious Bayero University, Kano, graduating in 1986 with a second class upper degree in History and Political Science.

In 1991, he took a course in economic reporting at the United States Information Service in Lagos. In 2004, he obtained a master's degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and is also an alumnus of Wits Business School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Institute of Public Private Partnerships, Washington DC.

Early influences
The city of Kano is renowned for being very politically active and cosmopolitan and its people reputed for both political and business acumen. This holds true in Bashir's case, as not only did he become involved in politics at a rather young age, but also began his foray into business and profit-making at an even younger age. As a child Bashir never lost an opportunity to make an income, buying and selling items from and to youngsters his age.

The older Bashir grew, the more he learnt – especially at the feet of his mentor, Mallam Aminu Kano, who was revered and popular for his radical disposition - that leadership was about vision, courage and sacrifice and that for society to make progress leaders must envision a better future for their people and take them there regardless of the obstacles they face. Like many young people in Kano back then, politics gradually became an integral part of the young Bashir and it was, therefore, only natural for him to gravitate towards formal political engagement and seek to become part of the process. In 1978, at the age of 17, his foray into politics officially began when he became a member of the (now defunct) Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN). His preference for UPN, the late Obafemi Awolowo’s party, was due to the founder's touted socialist ideology. He, however, left for the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in 1979 after Aminu Kano left the National Movement and joined others to found his own party.

In 1979, in reaction to Aminu Kano's disqualification from the presidential race by General Obasanjo's military regime on the grounds of non payment of tax, Bashir and a childhood friend, Awwalu Anwar, organised a youth protest to challenge the disqualification. The protest, however, mutated into a citywide riot which lasted for several days. Later he was to become a Students Union activist and the first Deputy Senate President of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS.

In 1986, Bashir was detained at the interrogation centre run by NSO, Nigeria's secret police, on Awolowo Road in Lagos. He was later transferred to Shagamu prison in Ogun State between August and December 1986, where he spent most of his time in a hospital bed after he fell sick due to poor conditions and ill treatment. He was detained under Decree 2 by the military dictatorship of General Ibrahim Babangida for leading a nationwide one-million-signature campaign to force the military to release his former boss, governor Abubakar Rimi of Kano State, and other political prisoners, who were jailed by military tribunals, some of whom were serving long prison terms of three hundred years and even more. Twenty-five other leaders of the signature campaign were detained along with him, including three former members of the House of Representatives and the former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido.

Family life
Bashir married his first wife in 1986, a few months before graduation, after meeting her a year earlier in the university. She succumbed to cancer after several years of treatment. His second marriage lasted four years. He has been happily married to his current wife since 1999. Bashir has seven children, with ages ranging from 26 years to 7 years old. His eldest child is an information security specialist at one of Nigeria's largest financial institutions.

Public service and professional career
Bashir first took up formal employment in 1978, when he was employed as a senior information assistant at the Kano State Ministry of Information. In 1981, he joined the Kano State Television Corporation where he trained as news producer. In 1982, he was appointed Personal Assistant to the governor at the Research Unit of Kano State Government House. He served in this position for a year and returned to school after his boss, governor Abubakar Rimi lost his reelection. After graduation from university in 1986 he spent his national service year as Teaching Assistant on Public Policy and Foreign Policy where he handled final year students at the Department of Political Science in his alma mater, Bayero University, Kano.

Upon completion of the mandatory one year national youth service, Bashir took up employment at the College of Arts and Science as a lecturer in Government. He held that job from 1987 to 1990, after which he became the Features Editor and subsequently Editor of The Nation on Sunday (now rested) in 1991.

In January 1992, he was appointed the Director-General of the Jigawa State Government House and served in this capacity until early 1994. As Director-General, he was the Chief of Staff to the State Governor and the administrative head of the Government House. His principled stand against corruption, sound advice and impact on government policy in the young state earned him the governor's full confidence and a few uncomplimentary nicknames. It also strained some important relationships and earned him the ire of quite a number of close friends.

By the time Bashir left Jigawa State Government House, the new state had become something of a model for other states created at the same time in 1991. Although the new military administrator had asked him to stay, Bashir politely declined and returned to Abuja where he established his own practice as public policy consultant at New Paradigm Consulting. One of his earliest projects was his preparation of the concept note for the First Lady's Family Support Programme and articulation of its education component. Later, he consulted for such highly regarded private and public entities such as Afri-Projects Consortium, Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund and Bureau of Public Enterprises, Nigeria's privatization agency under the management of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai where he was commissioned to advise on organization-wide remodeling and restructuring, rescaling of human resources and a new compensation structure for the new and energetic workforce.

While his consulting practice thrived, Bashir doubled as Executive Director at Blueprints Consortium, a leading media and publishing company located in Abuja between 1998 and 2001. He held this position until 2001, when he was appointed Special Assistant to then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Conflict Resolution. He resigned from this appointment in 2002. He was later to serve as Special Assistant to then Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, between 2003 and 2006. After his resignation, Bashir was appointed the President of Dirham Group, a conglomerate with interests in energy, telecommunications and real estate; a position he still holds today. He is also the chairman of the Board of Directors of Layer3 Limited, a mobile network solutions company, and has a wide range of business interests in media, ISP's, Oil and Gas, and construction, among others. In 2010, Bashir served as consultant on Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea for the Michael Ansari Africa Centre of the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council is aWashington DC-based think-tank with a strong foreign policy bias and influence with the US State Department

He has served on several committees including the Justice Niki Tobi Committee on the 1999 Constitution, as secretary of the presidential committee on the rehabilitation of the National Mosque, as chairman of the committee for restructuring the Abuja Investment Company, and as a member of the Federal Government committee on job creation under chairman Aliko Dangote.

Bashir has been invited to speak on democracy, political parties and elections at home and abroad, including at Nigeria’s National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, National Democratic Institute, International Republican Institute, United Nations Development Program, the Africa Studies Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, etc.

Political career
Bashir first joined the UPN in 1978, after which he joined the PRP with his mentor, Aminu Kano, in 1979. He remained in the PRP until 1983 then became a member of the Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP) in 1983. In 1989, he joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and went on to coordinate the Ali Sa'ad Birnin Kudu governorship campaign in 1991. His candidate won and served as governor from January 1992 until the General Sani Abacha coup of November 1993. He was a member of the Hope ’93 MKO Abiola Campaign Organisation in 1993. The MKO campaign was successful but the victory was soon annulled.

In 1994, Bashir became the Interim National Secretary of the All Nigeria Congress (ANC), after which he joined the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM). Both ANC and PDM were denied registration as political parties by the General Sani Abacha regime.
With hopes of a democratic system of government becoming more feasible, Bashir joined others to form the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1998. He was also a member of the Olusegun Obasanjo presidential campaign team and contested for the Kano Central senatorial seat in 2002. He, however, lost out at the party primaries, which were marred with allegations of rigging.

After failing to clinch the senatorial nomination, he was called upon to step in as the National Coordinator of the Dr. Alex Ekwueme Presidential Campaign due to the sudden departure of the substantive coordinator abroad for medical treatment. When the incumbent president, Obasanjo, won the party primaries, Bashir chose to assume a neutral position since he did not support the president's candidacy. Nonetheless, he was again appointed a member of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Campaign in which he played a rather passive role. After the elections had been won, he was appointed as a Special Assistant to Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on National Assembly and, later, on Political Matters, a job he kept until 2006 when he, again, resigned.

Bashir went on to become the founding secretary of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD), which was formed to fight President Obasanjo's third-term agenda. The MRD later closed ranks with the Movement for the Defense of Democracy (MDD) to form the Movement for the Restoration and Defense of Democracy (MRDD). Realizing that he could not be part of government while working in the opposition, Bashir turned in his resignation and left the PDP in 2006.

MRDD, however, had a few leadership challenges and could not gain traction quickly. Some members, including Bashir, decided to move on to form a proper political party, and the Action Congress (AC) was born. Bashir also emerged as the founding secretary of the AC, running the secretariat with the support of other key members such as Wale Osun and Yinka Odumakin. He served in various capacities within the Action Congress, including interim national secretary, secretary of the constitution drafting committee, secretary of the manifesto drafting committee, secretary of the national launching committee, and of the committee on distribution and zoning of national offices.
He also contested for the office of the substantive National Secretary of Action Congress but, instead of opening the office to contest, some leaders of the party decided to forgo internal democracy and proceeded to allot the office to Jigawa State in order to favour a particular candidate. Subsequently, Bashir was appointed the Director of Administration and Logistics of the Action Congress Presidential Campaign. The AC presidential candidate was his former boss, Atiku Abubakar, and while the campaign was brilliantly executed, Atiku's presidential bid was not successful due, reportedly, to his ongoing fight with his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, over his tenure elongation plan, the many court cases he had to pursue and the quality of the elections when they eventually held.

After results were announced, Umaru Musa Yaradua – who was declared winner under very controversial circumstances – announced that he would run a government of national unity. This announcement divided the ranks of the Action Congress, with those who wanted the government of national unity decamping to the ruling PDP and the few who wanted to maintain a vibrant opposition remaining in the AC.

Bashir held on to the AC for a while longer, but upon realizing that key figures who had chosen to remain in the party were actually working with President Yar’adua as well in order to further their personal interests, he knew that the centre could no longer hold. He returned to the PDP in 2009. Earlier on, President Yar’adua, in a bid to win those who had left the PDP back had promised to make changes and right the many wrongs plaguing the party. He, however, died before he could implement these changes and the PDP went from bad to worse under his successor, with internal party democracy completely ignored. Before the January 2011 presidential primaries and the general elections in April, two National Chairmen of the PDP were thrown out in rapid succession, allegedly to ensure the new President's total control of the Party.
Nonetheless, in 2010 Bashir was called, once again, to help manage the presidential campaign of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who contested for the PDP ticket against the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan. Bashir served as Deputy Director General of the campaign in charge of Operations. It was the most competitive contest the party had witnessed up to that time, with the incumbent reportedly coming to the primaries with two prepared texts - one for victory, another for defeat. In the end, the incumbent won the presidential primary and went on to win the general elections as well. After the general elections, Bashir decided to call it quits with politics and went on to register a free zone company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

By June 2012 it was becoming obvious Nigeria was beginning to face one of its most trying times in the hands of the elected President, with the country deeply polarized between North and South, Muslims and Christians and a raging insurgency in the North East which had led to the loss of thousands of lives. Bashir decided to return to Nigeria's turbulent political terrain in a bid to help reverse his country's drift to perdition and anarchy. In this regard he, along with other political associates began the move to rebuild the defunct Peoples Democratic Movement and pull it out of the ruling PDP and create a strong alternative opposition with a view to dislodging the PDP from power in 2015 or beyond. However, upon registration of the PDM as a political party, some of his comrades and colleagues backed out after they allegedly struck a deal with the ruling party and accused him and others of unilateral action and disloyalty to the PDP. Despite this, Bashir and other members proceeded.

The Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), which Bashir led as the National Chairman, is especially youth-inclined. Bashir has stated on several platforms that for the PDM to be different, it needs to be reengineered, redefined by a new vision for Nigeria and driven by the youth. The PDM has, so far, succeeded in catching the imagination of the Nigerian youth, becoming the first political party in Africa to introduce online membership registration, attracting over 3 million members within the first few months. It also made history as the first Nigerian political party to advocate for voting rights for Nigerians abroad.

In 2015, he emerged as Chairman of the Nigeria Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) - the umbrella organization of Nigeria's registered political parties. Each political party is represented on the council by its National Chairmen. The primary objective of the council is to ensure compliance with  Political Parties Code of Conduct and to work with the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.  During his tenure as Chairman, he initiated the first ever IPAC Annual Conference bringing together representatives of political parties to discuss the state of Nigeria's democracy and how it could be improved. He held this position until 2016, when he was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Constitution and Electoral Reform under the leadership of former Senate President Ken Nnamani. The Committee was tasked to make broad consultations with Nigerians and develop proposals for the reform of Nigeria's electoral system and processes. Among the Committee's proposals was the introduction of independent candidature, out-of-country voting, electronic voting and new executive bills to support the proposals. Bashir was the Chairman of the sub-committee which reviewed existing electoral laws and proposed new ones.

References

1961 births
Living people
People from Kano State
Nigerian Muslims
Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria) politicians
Action Congress of Nigeria politicians


title: Sophronanthe

text:
Sophronanthe  is a small genus of flowering plants in the Veronica family. The two included species are native to the Southeastern United States. These species were recently included in the genus Gratiola, but a study in 2008 showed that there are four distinct groups within Gratiola and resurrected the genus Sophronanthe.

There are two included species:
 Sophronanthe hispida Bentham ex Lindley – pineland hedge-hyssop
 Sophronanthe pilosa (Michaux) Small – shaggy hedge-hyssop

References

Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae genera
Flora of the Southeastern United States


title: Kalmithaus

text:
The Kalmithaus, also called the Ludwigshafener Hut, near Maikammer in the Rhineland-Palatinate county of Südliche Weinstraße is a refuge hut in the Palatinate Forest run by the Ludwigshafen-Mannheim branch of the Palatinate Forest Club. It is located in the southern part of the Haardt mountains at the summit of its highest peak, the Kalmit (), and is thus the highest hut in the Palatinate Forest. From its terrace there is "a splendid view of the Upper Rhine Plain and German Wine Road as far as the foothills of the southern Odenwald and northern Black Forest. Immediately next to the hut is the observation tower on the Kalmit, which is out of bounds to the public, and houses a radio relay station, a weather station and a visibility survey station.

History
A commemorative board below the Kalmithaus refers to a refuge hut built in 1882 by the Palatinate Conservation Club. The first hut managed by the Ludwigshafen branch of the Palatinate Forest Club was inaugurated in 1908. After the Second World War the Kalmit and its refuge hut were occupied by French troops. After lengthy negotiations the hut was handed back on 11 October 1953 and opened again in 1955. Following the receipt of a large sum of money from the War Damages Office, supplemented by donations, a brand new hut was opened in 1957. On 13 November 1981 the front part of the hut was completely destroyed by a gas explosion. After it was rebuilt the present Kalmithaus was inaugurated on 12 June 1983.

Access and walking
The Kalmithaus can only be reached on the forest tracks of the Kalmit; although there is hiker's car park known as the Kalmit on the Kalmithöhenstraße (ca. 645 m) only about 250 metres northwest of the summit. One route to the top runs from Alsterweiler (; in the municipality of Maikammer) through the valley between the Wetterkreuzberg (400.7 m) and Breitenberg (545.2 m). Other routes include the one from Sankt Martin () through the Altbach and Wolsel valley, from Maikammer through the Klausental and from Neustadt an der Weinstraße () through the Kaltenbrunnen valley. Other walks run from Hüttenhohl (476.9 m) on the Totenkopfstraße via the Hüttenberg (620.1 m) and the Felsenmeer Hüttenberg or from Hambach Castle (379.2 m) via the Sommerberg (501.9 m), the Hohe Loog Plateau () and the Zwergberg (589.3 m). The neighbouring Palatinate Forest Club huts are the Haus an den Fichten, the Totenkopf Hut, the Klausental Hut and the Hohe Loog Haus.

Gallery

References

Literature
 Matthias Wittber: Pfälzerwald mit Bienwald. Bruckmann Verlag, 2009, .
 Pietruska-Wanderkarte: Edenkoben – Die Urlaubsregion zwischen Landau und Neustadt. 1:25,000. Pietruska Verlag, Rülzheim, 2007, .
 Pietruska-Wanderkarte: Hauenstein & Trifelsland. 1:25,000. Pietruska Verlag, Rülzheim, 2006, .

External links

 Das Kalmithaus (official home page)

Mountain huts in Germany
Buildings and structures in Südliche Weinstraße
Maikammer


title: Gelophaula aridella

text:
Gelophaula aridella is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in New Zealand.

The wingspan is 15 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, somewhat darker along the costa and greyish externally. The hindwings are fuscous. Adults have been reported on wing from December to January.

References

Moths described in 1934
Archipini
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand


title: LAE J095950.99+021219.1

text:
LAE J095950.99+021219.1 is one of the most distant galaxies discovered as of yet, and has high scientific use, as it has revealed many important details of the early universe and emerging stars. LAE J095950.99+021219.1 is about 13 billion light years away and is among the most-distant known objects in the universe. It is a Lyman-alpha emitter.

Discovery

LAE J095950.99+021219.1 was discovered in mid-2012. It was observed using the Magellan Telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

Light

LAE J095950.99+021219.1 is emitting light identified at redshift 6.944. It is 2-3 times fainter than other Lyman Alpha Galaxies

See also
List of the most distant astronomical objects

References

External links
Astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy - Science Daily
A Lyα GALAXY AT REDSHIFT z = 6.944 IN THE COSMOS FIELD

Galaxies
Sextans
Astronomical objects discovered in 2012


title: Wilford Conrow

text:
Wilford Seymour Conrow (1880-1957) was an American artist, most noted for portrait painting. He married Lyra Millette.

Early life
Wildford Conrow was born in South Orange, New Jersey on June 14, 1880. He studied business at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, graduated with a degree in business from Princeton University in 1901, and, for eight years, worked as secretary and director of a wholesale paper business. Then, from 1911 to 1916, he lived in Paris, studying art at the Académie Julian and exhibiting work in the 1914 Paris Salon.  Interrupted by World War I, Conrow left his studies to serve the U.S. camouflage department in Europe, designing concealment for men and machinery. While serving in Paris, he met Lyra Millette, an American Red Cross director, and his future wife.

Later life and work

After the war, Conrow returned to New York City, where he lived with his wife above Carnegie Hall and operated a successful portrait studio. During the summers, he resided in Hendersonville, North Carolina. In 1940, during an art exhibition in Asheville, North Carolina, Conrow met artist Paul Whitener. Conrow had never considered himself a teacher, but when Whitener petitioned the portraitist to instruct him, Conrow accepted the promising young artist as his student. The two worked together each summer for the next fourteen years.  During this time, Whitener expressed an interest in establishing an art museum in his hometown of Hickory, North Carolina.  As Vice-president of the American Artists Professional League in New York, Conrow was greatly in favor of a museum that would promote American art in the south, and proved to be instrumental in the development of the eventual Hickory Museum of Art.  Over the years, he would provide the museum with his knowledge of American art, New York connections, paintings from his private collection, and a large number of his own works.
His portraits are characterized by an intimacy achieved through weeks of time spent with each of his subjects.  Beyond physical appearance, he strove to portray character, and becoming acquainted with the subject was consistently part of Conrow's painting process.  He is also known for his unconventional use of bold color to enhance flesh tones. He is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Hickory Museum of Art.

References

External links

 Conrow portrait of Professor William H. Goodyear, 1916, at the Brooklyn Museum

1880 births
1957 deaths
American portrait painters
20th-century American painters
American male painters
20th-century American male artists
Artists from South Orange, New Jersey
Painters from New Jersey
New York University Tandon School of Engineering alumni
Princeton University alumni
Académie Julian alumni
American military personnel of World War I


title: International Renewable Energy Agency

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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organization mandated to facilitate cooperation, advance knowledge, and promote the adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy. It is the first international organisation to focus exclusively on renewable energy, addressing needs in both industrialised and developing countries. It was founded in 2009 and its statute entered into force on 8 July 2010. The agency is headquartered in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi. The Director-General of IRENA is Francesco La Camera, a national of Italy. IRENA is an official United Nations observer.

History
The first suggestions for an international renewable agency is based on the 1980 Brandt Report activities. NGOs and industry lobbying groups like Eurosolar, the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and the World Wind Energy Association have promoted IRENA since several decades. In 1990, the Austrian government of Franz Vranitzky suggested a reneweables agency to the UN. One of the drivers was Hermann Scheer, a German politician and lobbyist which was acting as president of EUROSOLAR and chair of WCRE.

On 15 June, at their annual event, the WWEA gave their 2010 World Wind Energy Award to the Founding member States of IRENA. They stated: "The creation of IRENA can be seen as the most important decision ever taken on the global level in favour of renewable energy. The founding of IRENA sent out a very strong signal to the world community that renewable energy will have to play and will play a key role in the future energy supply all over the world. With the Award, WWEA would also like to indicate that WWEA is committed to work closely with IRENA and will continue to give its full support."

Since 1981, several meetings took place to discuss the formation of IRENA. The Preparatory Conference for founding IREA was held on 10 and 11 April 2008 with 54 countries participating. Here, government representatives discussed the objectives, activities, finances, and organizational structure of IRENA. Participants expressed a need to begin a swift transition to a more secure, sustainable renewable energy economy with the assistance of an international body.

The Founding Conference of the International Renewable Energy Agency was held in Bonn, Germany, on 26 January 2009. 75 countries signed the Agency's statute. The statute entered into force on 8 July 2010, 30 days after the 25th country deposited its instrument of ratification. The Founding Conference established the Preparatory Commission for IRENA, which consists of all signatory states.

During the first session of the Preparatory Commission in Bonn on 27 January 2009, the signatory countries adopted criteria and procedures for selecting IRENA's Interim Director-General and its interim headquarters. An Administrative Committee was created to assist the commission in preparing its second session. The Administrative Committee prepared draft proposals for an interim work programme and budget as well as for interim staff regulations and interim financial rules.  Nominations for the Interim Director-General and the interim headquarters were submitted by 30 April 2009.

The second session of the Preparatory Commission met in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 29–30 June 2009, to elect the Interim Director General and decide the location of IRENA's interim headquarters. It was decided, that the interim headquarters will be located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The UAE thus became the first developing country to host a major international organisation. In addition, an innovation and technology center will be located in Bonn, and an office dedicated to liaising with the United Nations and other international institutions will be located in Vienna.  Hélène Pelosse was elected as the Interim Director-General. The second session of the Preparatory Commission also adopted an interim work programme and budget as well as for interim staff regulations and interim financial rules.

The fourth session of the Preparatory Commission on 24–25 October 2010 in Abu Dhabi appointed Kenyan representative Adnan Amin, Deputy Interim Director-General, to perform functions of Interim Director-General after resignation of Hélène Pelosse.  On 4 April 2011, Adnan Amin was sworn in as the first Director-General.

The agency has staged a number of events bringing together member states for interaction on ways and means of furthering renewable energy, and conducted significant research and development into viable solutions for the future. On 8 September 2014, IRENA published a notable report on its works titled REthinking energy, which encouraged "speedier adoption of renewable energy technologies," as "the most feasible route to reduce carbon emissions and avoid catastrophic climate change." The study set out to gauge the global power sector and establish how technological advances, economic growth and climate change are transforming it. "A convergence of social, economic and environmental forces are transforming the global energy system as we know it. But if we continue on the path we are currently on and fuel our growing economies with outmoded ways of thinking and acting, we will not be able avoid the most serious impacts of climate change," Amin said at a function to release the report.

The Ninth Meeting of International Renewable Energy Agency Council was held on 10–11 June 2015 at Abu Dhabi.

Aims
IRENA aims to become the main driving force in promoting a transition towards the use of renewable energy on a global scale:

Acting as the global voice for renewable energies, IRENA will provide practical advice and support for both industrialised and developing countries, help them improve their regulatory frameworks and build capacity. The agency will facilitate access to all relevant information including reliable data on the potential of renewable energy, best practices, effective financial mechanisms and state-of-the-art technological expertise.

IRENA provides advice and support to governments on renewable energy policy, capacity building, and technology transfer. IRENA will also co-ordinate with existing renewable energy organizations, such as REN21.

Member states
The statute to gain IRENA membership requires that a state be a member of the United Nations and to regional intergovernmental economic-integration organizations. States that gain membership to IRENA must uphold the organizations statute to the best of its abilities.

On 9 January 2019, Canada became IRENA's 160th member.

As of July 2022, 168 states and the European Union are members of IRENA, and a further 17 are in the process of accession.

Institutional structure

The Assembly
This assembly is IRENA's main institutional governing body, which includes one delegate from each member state. The assembly meets once yearly to discuss all IRENA management including things such as budget, membership applications and yearly goals. The 9th Assembly took place in January 2019 with the 10th Assembly scheduled for 11–12 January in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Council
The IRENA council is composed of 21 elected officials from member states, who each serve for two-year terms and must answer to the assembly. Council members rotate between states to ensure an efficient and fair representation of various member country sizes, geographic location, rates of development and particular concerns. The council deals directly with IRENA matters related to budgeting and annual reports.

The Secretariat
The Secretariat is the executive branch of IRENA and consists of the Director-General and their staff. The Secretariat acts as oversight to the council and assembly and offers technical support to these governing bodies. The current of Director-General of IRENA is the Italian Francesco La Camera who was appointed to the position during IRENA's Ninth Assembly and assumed office on 4 April 2019.

IRENA's first Director-General was Adnan Z. Amin, a Kenyan national. He was elected to the post in April 2011 and completed a second term that ended April 2019. Afterwards, he was accorded Amin the honorary title of Director-General Emeritus. Along with his work as Secretariat, Amin also served as the Director of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) at their New York office and as Special Representative of the UNEP Executive Director where he played a crucial role in reviewing international governance and his organizations participation at the World Summit of Sustainable Development. During his time as Director General of IRENA, the organization was involved in the implementation of policies such as the Paris Agreement, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the G7 and G20. IRENA's membership also grew to include nearly all countries world-wide.

United Nations

Hélène Pelosse, former Interim Director General of IRENA, met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during 2009 Climate week in New York City, and together with Ban explored future fields of cooperation between IRENA and various UN bodies. IRENA also seeks to cooperate with the UN and associated organisations like the United Nations University, UNESCO, the World Bank, GEF, UNIDO, UNDP, UNEP, and WTO in the areas of education and training, financing, access to energy, potential studies and trade.

See also

American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Energy development
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
International Energy Agency
International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation
International Renewable Energy Conference
Hans Jørgen Koch
Lists about renewable energy
REEEP
Renewable energy commercialization
Renewable energy in the European Union
Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
Repower America
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)
United Nations Environment Organization

References

Further reading
Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2017 (2018) by IRENA
Clean Tech Nation: How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy (2012) by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
Deploying Renewables 2011 (2011) by the International Energy Agency
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (2011) by Amory Lovins
Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (2011) by the IPCC
Solar Energy Perspectives (2011) by the International Energy Agency

External links

International Renewable Energy Agency
 International Renewable Energy Agency
Renewable energy policy
Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty
International organizations based in the Middle East


title: Warsaw Voivodeship

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Warsaw Voivodeship may refer to:

 Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)
 Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939)
 Warsaw Voivodeship (1975–1998)
 Masovian Voivodeship, created in 1999

See also
Voivodeships of Poland
Warsaw


title: Gelophaula palliata

text:
Gelophaula palliata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in New Zealand.

The wingspan is 24–27 mm for males and about 29 mm for females. The forewings of the males are dark fuscous with pale-yellow scales, tinged with blue near the costa and dorsum. The hindwings are dark reddish fuscous. Females have pale-fuscous forewings, with light-yellow scales, which become bluish white towards the middle of the costa. Adults have been reported on wing from November to February.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on the rosettes of Celmisia prorepens.

References

Moths described in 1914
Archipini
Moths of New Zealand


title: Sergey Tereshchenko (disambiguation)

text:
Sergei or Sergey Tereshchenko or Tereschenko (Russian: ) may refer to:

Sergey Tereshchenko (1951–2023), Kazakhstani politician
Sergei Tereshchenko (born 1984), Russian footballer
Sergei Tereschenko (born 1991), Russian ice hockey defenceman

See also
 Sergey Tereshchenkov (1938–2006), Soviet cyclist


title: Mr. Asia Contest

text:
Mr. Asia (亞洲先生競選), is a male beauty pageant contest run by Mr. Asia contest Organization based in Hong Kong

Recent titleholders

By number of wins

Runner-up

See All
Manhunt International
Mister World
Mister International
Chinese:Mr. Asia Contest

External links
Page facebook Mr. asia contese
Competition
Male beauty pageants
Continental beauty pageants


title: Hotel Rosslyn Annex

text:
The Hotel Rosslyn Annex is a historic building in Los Angeles, California built in 1923 at the corner of 5th and Main streets.  The structure was designed by the firm Parkinson & Parkinson in the Beaux Arts style and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

The building is across the street from the original 800-room Rosslyn Hotel built in 1914. Designed as a twin, both were topped by mammoth glowing signs featuring the names surrounded by a heart, the shape acknowledging the Hart brothers who owned the hotels.

The 264-unit Hotel Rosslyn Annex was renovated in 2015 to house a mix of homeless veteran, low-income and market-rate tenants.

See also
 List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
 The Million Dollar Hotel, a 2001 movie

References

Further reading

External links

Hotels in Los Angeles
Buildings and structures in Downtown Los Angeles
Hotel buildings completed in 1923
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles
John and Donald Parkinson buildings
Beaux-Arts architecture in California
1923 establishments in California
Main Street (Los Angeles)


title: Catherine Bond-Mills

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Catherine Louise Bond-Mills (born 20 September 1967 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a Canadian retired track and field athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. She represented her country at two Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 1996, as well as three World Championships.

Competition record

Personal bests
Outdoor
200 metres – 24.79 (-0.2 m/s) (Stuttgart 1993)
800 metres – 2:12.57 (Seville 1999)
100 metres hurdles – 13.92 (-0.2 m/s) (Gothenburg 1995)
High jump – 1.80 (Gothenburg 1995)
Long jump – 5.61 (-0.4 m/s) (Seville 1999)
Shot put – 13.56 (Seville 1999)
Javelin throw – 37.28 (Seville 1999)
Heptathlon – 6193 (Victoria 1994)
Indoor
Pentathlon – 4309 (Edmonton 1999)

References

1967 births
Living people
Canadian heptathletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
Olympic track and field athletes for Canada
People from Woodstock, Ontario
Sportspeople from Oxford County, Ontario
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
Pan American Games track and field athletes for Canada
Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games


title: Frederick Parker Gay

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Frederick Parker Gay (July 22, 1874 – July 14, 1939) was an American bacteriologist who combated typhoid fever and leprosy as well as studied the mechanism of immunity. He was a charter member of the Explorers Club.

Early life
Frederick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to George Frederick Gay and Louisa Maria Parker. In 1894 he was part of an Arctic expedition led by Frederick Cook.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1897 after a trip around the world. He went to the Philippine Islands in the Spanish–American War fighting Emilio Aguinaldo. He graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1901. With funding from Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, he became a demonstrator in pathology at University of Pennsylvania.

Scientist
In 1906 he worked at the Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts and began to collaborate with Elmer Ernest Southard in the study of anaphylaxis. They induced reactions in guinea pigs with horse serum and published their findings (see Works below).

Travelling in Europe in summers, Gay became acquainted with Jules Bordet in Brussels who was developing a theory of immunity through serology. The analysis studies "the series of events that accompany the struggle between host and infecting organism." Gay investigated the alexin (complement) fixation reaction. In 1907 he became Instructor in pathology at Harvard Medical School, and in 1909 translated Bordet’s Studies in Immunity.

In 1910 he became Professor of Pathology at University of California, Berkeley. Frederick was a faculty sponsor when biology students on campus formed a society called Beta Kappa Alpha. He also provided a typhoid serum and supervised the inoculation of students. He continued to research antibodies and antigens. In 1918 he published his book on typhoid fever, and in 1921 he became Head of the new Department of Bacteriology.

In 1923 Gay became professor of Bacteriology at Columbia University; he introduced a graduate study program leading to a Ph.D. His research turned toward the reticulo endothelial system. In 1929 he returned to the Philippines to combat leprosy on the Leonard Wood Memorial Commission. He contributed to Agents of Disease and Host Resistance(1935) concerned with bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rickettsiae and viruses.

He wrote, "The modern study of viruses, though largely in the hands of bacteriologists, has developed new biological, chemical, and physical approaches, and has brought us closer to an enlarged, though by no means final, interpretation of life itself."

Gay retired to a farm in New Hartford, Connecticut.

Works
 1909: Jules Bordet (Frederick P. Gay translator) Studies in Immunity, John Wiley & Sons, link from Internet Archive.
 1910: Immunology: A Medical Science Developed through Animal Experimentation, Council on Defense of Medical Research of the American Medical Association, link from HathiTrust.
 1912: (with G.Y. Rusk) Studies in the Locus of Antibody Formation, Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, link from Biodiversity Heritage Library.
 1915: (with Karl F. Meyer and Glanville Y. Rusk) Outline of a combined courses in pathology, including bacteriology and protozoology, infection and immunity, experimental pathology, histopathology and morbid anatomy, link from HathiTrust.
 1918: Typhoid Fever considered as a problem of scientific medicine, link from HathiTrust.
 1938: The Open Mind: Elmer Ernest Southard, 1876–1920, Chicago: Normandie House .
 "A half-century of bacteriology at Columbia", Columbia University Quarterly 31: 112–39, 203–17.

Papers on anaphylaxis, written in collaboration with Elmer Ernest Southard:
The papers were published in the Journal of Medical Research (JMR) which was the publishing arm of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists:
 1907: "On serum anaphylaxis in the guinea pig", Journal of Medical Research 16: 143–80.
 1908: "On the mechanism of serum anaphylaxis and intoxication in the guinea-pig", JMR 18: 407–31.
 1908: "On recurrent anaphylaxis and repeated intoxication in guinea-pigs by means of horse serum", JMR 19:1–4.
 1908: "The relative specificity of anaphylaxis", JMR 19: 5–15.
 1908: "The localization of cell and tissue anaphylaxis in the guinea-pig, with observations of the cause of death in serum intoxication", JMR 19: 17–35.
1909: (with J. G. Fitzgerald) "Neurophysiological effects of anaphylactic intoxication", Journal of Medical Research 21: 21–40.

References

1874 births
1939 deaths
American bacteriologists
Harvard University alumni
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni


title: Gog Group

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The Gog Group is a stratigraphic unit in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in the western main ranges of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and British Columbia, and in the Cariboo Mountains and in the central Purcell Mountains in southwestern British Columbia. It was named by C.F. Deiss in 1940 for a type locality near Mount Assiniboine.

Lithology and environment of deposition
The Gog Group consists primarily of thick deposits of cross-bedded quartzose sandstone and quartzite, with minor quartzitic conglomerate and sub-arkosic sandstone. It also includes mudstone, siltstone, limestone and dolomite formations. The Gog sediments are thought to have been deposited in shallow marine environments on the subsiding margin of the North American craton (Laurentia).

Stratigraphy

Subdivisions
The Gog Group is subdivided into the following formations:

Jasper area (north)

Kicking Horse Pass area (south)

Paleontology
Trace fossils such as Skolithos, Cruziana, Diplocraterion, Chondrites, Planolites, Rusophycus and others are abundant in the Gog Group sediments, and Early Cambrian trilobites of the genus Olenellus are found in the Peyto Formation limestones at the top of the Group. Small archaeocyathid bioherms have been reported from the base of the Mahato Formation, and archaeocyathids, salterellids, primitive brachiopods and echinoderms have been reported from the Mural Formation.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta
 Big Rock (glacial erratic)
 Foothills Erratics Train

References

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Cambrian Alberta
Geologic groups of Alberta
Cambrian British Columbia
Geologic groups of British Columbia
Sandstone formations of Canada
Quartzite formations


title: Mural Formation

text:
The Mural Formation is a geologic formation in Alberta. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Cambrian Alberta
Cambrian southern paleotropical deposits


title: Dessa Dawn Formation

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The Dessa Dawn Formation is a geologic formation in Alberta. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Carboniferous Alberta
Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits
Geologic formations of Alberta


title: Etherington Formation

text:
The Etherington Formation is a geologic formation in Alberta. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Carboniferous Alberta
Geologic formations of Alberta


title: Tunnel Mountain Formation

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The Tunnel Mountain Formation is a geologic formation that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Canadian Rockies of western Alberta. Named after Tunnel Mountain near Banff, it was deposited during the Early Pennsylvanian sub-period of the Carboniferous period.

Lithology and stratigraphy
The Tunnel Mountain Formation consists of quartzose sandstone, interbedded with lesser amounts of dolomite, dolomitic sandstone in the lower part, and minor beds of quartzite in the upper part. In areas where they can be differentiated, the formation is subdivided into the three formations shown below in ascending order. Where they cannot be differentiated, the name Tunnel Mountain Formation is applied to the entire sequence.

 Tobermory Formation: quartz-chert sandstone, very fine- to fine-grained, quartz and dolomite cement; rare cross-bedding; minor interbeds of sandy dolomite.
 Storelk Formation: quartz-chert sandstone, very fine- to coarse-grained, quartz cement, typically massive, very rare cross-bedding.
 Tyrwhitt Formation: quartz-chert sandstone, very fine- to fine-grained, quartz and dolomite cement, rare cross-bedding; minor interbeds of sandy dolomite.

Paleontology
The dolomite beds of the Tunnel Mountain sequence include scattered brachiopods and foraminifera.

Thickness, distribution, and relationship to other units
The Tunnel Mountain Formation is present in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies of western Alberta, and reaches a maximum thickness of about 200 metres (600 ft). It unconformably overlies the Etherington Formation or the Todhunter Formation of the Mississippian Rundle Group, and is conformably overlain by the Late Pennsylvanian Kananaskis Formation. In areas where the Kananaskis is not present, it is unconformably overlain by the Permian Ishbel Group.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Geologic formations of Alberta
Carboniferous Alberta
Sandstone formations of Canada
Dolomite formations
Quartzite formations


title: Gelophaula praecipitalis

text:
Gelophaula praecipitalis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in New Zealand.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Celmisia lyallii.

References

Moths described in 1934
Archipini
Moths of New Zealand


title: Blood River Sandstone

text:
The Blood River Sandstone is a geologic formation in Alberta, Canada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Cretaceous Alberta


title: Brazeau Formation

text:
The Brazeau Formation is a geologic formation in Alberta. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Cretaceous Alberta
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Geologic formations of Alberta


title: Westgate Formation

text:
The Westgate Formation is a geologic formation in Alberta. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Cretaceous Alberta


title: 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship

text:
The 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship was a rugby union competition held between the Under-21 players from the fourteen provincial rugby unions in South Africa, plus the  sub-union. It was contested from 11 July to 25 October 2014.

Group A

Competition

There were seven participating teams in the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group A. These teams played each other twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away.

Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored 4 or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by 7 points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).

The top 4 teams qualified for the title play-offs. In the semi-finals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that finished fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals played each other in the final, at the same venue as the 2014 Currie Cup Premier Division Final.

The bottom team in Group A played a play-off game at home against the winner of the Group B final for a place in the 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group A.

Teams

Team listing

The following teams took part in the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group A competition:

Log

Fixtures and results
 Fixtures are subject to change.
 All times are South African (GMT+2).

Round one

Round two

Round three

Round four

Round five

Round six

Round seven

Round eight

Round nine

Round ten

Round eleven

Round twelve

Round thirteen

Round fourteen

Semi-finals

Final

Honours

Group B

Competition

There were eight participating teams in the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group B. These teams played each other once over the course of the season, either at home or away.

Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored 4 or more tries in a game, as well as to teams that lost a match by 7 points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).

The top 4 teams qualified for the title play-offs. In the semi-finals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that finished fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals played each other in the final, at the same venue as the 2014 Currie Cup First Division Final.

The winner of the final played a play-off game away from home against the bottom team in Group A for a place in the 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group A.

Teams

Team listing

The following teams took part in the 2014 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group B competition:

Log

Fixtures and results
 Fixtures are subject to change.
 All times are South African (GMT+2).

Round one

Round two

Round three

Round four

Round five

Round six

Round seven

Round eight

Semi-finals

Final

Honours

Promotion/relegation play-off

  were promoted to 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group A.
  were relegated to 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship Group B.

See also
 2014 Currie Cup Premier Division
 2014 Currie Cup qualification
 2014 Currie Cup First Division
 2014 Vodacom Cup
 2014 Under-19 Provincial Championship

References

External links

Under-21 Provincial Championship
Currie Cup Under-21


title: Alexo Formation

text:
The Alexo Formation a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (late Frasnian to early Famennian) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the central Rocky Mountains and foothills of Alberta. The formation consists primarily of dolomite. It is locally fossiliferous and includes remains of marine animals such as brachiopods and conodonts.

Lithology and thickness

The Alexo Formation was deposited in a marine setting and consists of dolomite, silty and argillaceous dolomite, dolomitic siltstone, and vuggy dolomite. It has a maximum thickness of about , and is thinner in areas where it covers carbonate buildups (reefs) in the underlying formations.

Distribution and relationship to other units

The Alexo Formation is present in the central Rocky Mountains of Alberta and the adjacent foothills, extending from the Crows Nest Pass area in the south to the North Saskatchewan River in the north. It overlies the Southesk or Mount Hawk Formation, depending on the location. It is overlain by the Palliser Formation.

The Alexo was originally considered to extend as far north as Jasper but was revised by McLaren and Mountjoy in 1962. In the area between the North Saskatchewan River and Jasper, they designated the upper beds of the Alexo as the Sassenach Formation, and the lower beds as part of the upper Southesk Formation.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Devonian Alberta
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Geologic formations of Alberta
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Frasnian Stage
Dolomite formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Paleontology in Alberta


title: Hillsong: Let Hope Rise

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Hillsong: Let Hope Rise is a 2016 American Christian documentary film on Hillsong United directed by Michael John Warren. The film was released on 16 September 2016, by Pure Flix Entertainment after several delays.

Synopsis
The film chronicles the unlikely rise to prominence of the Australia-based Christian band Hillsong United. Their music is so popular it is estimated that on any given Sunday, more than 50 million churchgoers around the world are singing their songs. The film follows an event that took place on 23 October 2014 at the Forum arena in Los Angeles with 17,000 people attending, and moments preceding the concert with the creation of new songs featured on Empires (2015).

Soundtrack
Hillsong: Let Hope Rise - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released as the film's soundtrack on 12 August 2016 under Hillsong Music, Sparrow Records and Capitol Christian Music Group. The soundtrack features songs from Hillsong United, as well as Hillsong's Worship and Young & Free divisions.

Track listing

Charts

Release
Directed by Michael John Warren, the film was originally supposed be released by Warner Bros. during the 2015 Easter weekend. In March 2015, Relativity Media obtained the distribution rights and the film shifted to a 29 May release. In April, Relativity moved the film to 30 September 2015. However, after Relativity Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the film was moved to an unknown release date. The film was later picked up by Pure Flix Entertainment and the film was released on 16 September 2016.

Reception

Box office
The film made $1.4 million from 816 theaters in its opening weekend, which was considered low, with Deadline Hollywood saying "we've seen [documentaries] make this much money on half the number of screens".

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 60%, based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 6.04/10. On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 90%.

Nick Olszyk of Catholic World Report gave it his highest rating of five reels, saying it "renewed [my] courage to face my trails." He also said their performance of Oceans was "as good as anything by Bach, Handel, or the great anonymous monastics of the Middle Ages."

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2016 films
American documentary films
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Documentary films about singers
Biographical films about musicians
Films about Christianity
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2010s American films


title: Cairn Formation

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The Cairn Formation is a geologic formation of Late Devonian (Frasnian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It was named for the Cairn River near its junction with the Southesk River in Jasper National Park by D.J. McLaren in 1955.

The Cairn Formation is stratigraphically equivalent to the Leduc Formation, which is a major oil-producing formation in central Alberta. Like the Leduc Formation, it was deposited in reef environments and is highly fossiliferous. Extensive outcrops of the Cairn Formation near Canmore, Alberta are a popular field trip destination for those wishing to learn about Devonian reefs. They are also popular with rock climbers who enjoy the challenges presented by their extremely irregular surfaces.

Lithology
The Cairn Formation was originally deposited as limestones and mudstones in intertidal to subtidal reef environments, and was extensively dolomitized during later diagenesis. It now consists primarily of buff to dark grey, very fine to medium grained crystalline dolomite with good intercrystalline, biomoldic and vuggy porosity. Most of it is classified as floatstone, with stromatoporoids and other fossils supported in a dolomite matrix. The Cairn also includes minor amounts of undolomitized limestone and chert.

Paleontology
Bulbous stromatoporoids are particularly common in the Cairn Formation and were the main reef-building organism. There are also tabular stromatoporoids, Amphipora, horn corals, tabulate corals such as Thamnopora, brachiopods, crinoids, algae and foraminifera. The organisms are commonly either in growth position or have only been moved short distances. Some stromatoporoids show evidence of bioerosion by boring sponges.

Thickness and distribution
The Cairn Formation typically ranges from  to  in thickness. It occurs in outcrop in the front and main ranges of the Canadian Rockies from Kakwa Lake in northeastern British Columbia to south of the Bow River in Alberta. It is also recognized in the subsurface in some areas.

Relationship to other units
The Cairn Formation rests conformably on the Flume Formation, which is considered to be the lower member of the Cairn Formation in some areas, and it is overlain by the Peechee Member of the Southesk Formation. At reef margins the Cairn may interfinger with the Perdrix Formation which was deposited in deeper water, off-reef environments.

The Cairn Formation is equivalent to, but not contiguous with, the lower Leduc Formation which lies farther to the east in central Alberta. It is also equivalent to the Cooking Lake Formation in central Alberta, and to the lower Duperow Formation and possibly the upper Souris River Formation in the Williston Basin. Its relationship to units in the Crowsnest Pass area of southern Alberta has not been established.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

References

Geologic formations of Alberta
Devonian Alberta
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Frasnian Stage
Dolomite formations
Limestone formations
Tidal deposits
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Paleontology in Alberta


title: Mount Hawk Formation

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The Mount Hawk Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (late Frasnian) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Rocky Mountains and foothills of Alberta. It consists primarily of limestone and mudstone, and was named for Hawk Mountain in Jasper National Park by R. de Wit and D.J. McLaren in 1950.

The Mount Hawk Formation is fossiliferous and preserves remains of marine animals such as Syringopora and other corals, and brachiopods.

Lithology and deposition
The Mount Hawk Formation was deposited in a marine basin surrounding the carbonate buildups (reefs) of the Southesk Formation. It can be divided into two informal units. The lower unit consists of thin-bedded argillaceous limestone interbedded with calcareous shale. It grades into the upper unit, which consists of thin- to medium-bedded limestone with minor thin interbeds of argillaceous limestone.

Distribution and thickness
The Mount Hawk Formation is recognized in the Rocky Mountains and foothills of Alberta from the Canada-United States border northward to at least the Smoky River area of west-central Alberta, a distance of more than 650 km (400 mi). It ranges in thickness from about 65 to 200 m (210 to 655 ft).

Relationship to other units
The upper and lower boundaries of the Mount Hawk Formation were redefined several times after the formation was first described in 1950. The formation conformably overlies the Perdrix Formation or, in the Crows Nest Pass area, the Borsato Formation. It is overlain by Sassenach Formation. It is laterally equivalent to the reefal carbonate rocks of the Southesk Formation, and in some areas it interfingers with or is overlain by the Southesk.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Devonian Alberta
Geologic formations of Alberta
Paleontology in Alberta
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Frasnian Stage
Limestone formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America


title: Flume Formation

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The Flume Formation is a geologic formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in Alberta, Canada. It was deposited as an extensive carbonate platform along the western edge of the basin during Late Devonian (Frasnian) time and the reefs of the Cairn Formation subsequently developed on it.

Lithology
The Flume Formation was deposited as limestone, but it was strongly dolomitized during diagenesis, and it now consists primarily of dark grey, medium-to thick-bedded, fine to medium crystalline dolomite. It includes abundant dark grey chert nodules and stringers, as well as scattered stromatoporoids and Amphipora. It is distinguished from the overlying Cairn Formation by its higher chert content and lower fossil content. In areas where it is overlain by Cairn Formation reefs the Flume may be classified as the lower member of the Cairn Formation, but where the Cairn is absent the Flume has formation rank.

Thickness and distribution
The Flume Formation reaches thicknesses of up to . It has been exposed by thrust faulting in the main and front ranges of the Canadian Rockies in a belt extending from the Kakwa Lakes area in northeastern British Columbia to south of the Bow River in Alberta.

Relationship to other units
The Flume Formation rests unconformably on formations of late Cambrian to Ordovician age or, in parts of the mountains and foothills, on the Middle Devonian Yahatinda Formation. It is conformably overlain by the reefs of the Cairn Formation, or where they are absent, by the Southesk Formation. It is equivalent in part to the upper Beaverhill Lake Group farther to the east.

Fossil content
The formation has provided fossils of:
Brachiopods

 Atrypa sp.
 Schizophoria sp.
 Spinatrypa sp.
 Strophomena (Strophodonta) sp.

Corals

 Tarphyphyllum besti
 Tabulophyllum sp.
 ?Grypophyllum sp.
 Stromatoporoidea indet.

Flora
 Receptaculites sp.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia

References

External links

Geologic formations of Alberta
Geologic formations of British Columbia
Devonian Alberta
Devonian British Columbia
Frasnian Stage
Dolomite formations
Limestone formations
Reef deposits
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Paleontology in Alberta
Paleontology in British Columbia


title: Ghost River Formation

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The Ghost River Formation is a now-abandoned name for a geologic formation that encompassed Cambrian to Middle Devonian strata in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Alberta, Canada. It was established by C.D. Walcott in 1923. The name was abandoned because of uncertainty about the age of the strata that it encompassed.

The type section of the Ghost River Formation contained strata that are now subdivided into several Cambrian formations, unconformably overlain by Middle Devonian strata now assigned to the Yahatinda Formation.  The latter are contained in a channel eroded into the Cambrian rocks and include a variety of plant fossils and remains of fresh water fish.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Cambrian Alberta
Devonian Alberta
Geologic formations of Alberta


title: Perdrix Formation

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The Perdrix Formation is a geologic formation of Late Devonian (Frasnian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It  named for Roche à Perdrix in Jasper National Park, Alberta, by P.E. Raymond in 1930. It includes fossils of marine animals.

Lithology
The Perdrix Formation was deposited in a marine basin and consists primarily of black, bituminous shales. The upper portion includes nodules and thin nodular beds of argillaceous limestone that increase in frequency upwards and laterally toward the reefs of the Cairn Formation.

Thickness and Distribution
The Perdrix Formation is present as outcrops in the front and main ranges of the Canadian Rockies from the Kakwa Lakes area in northeastern British Columbia to the Ram River area of Alberta. It is also recognized in the subsurface immediately adjacent to the mountain front. Thicknesses range from about  to .

Relationship to Other Units
The Perdrix Formation overlies the Maligne Formation or, where the Maligne is absent, the Flume Formation. It is conformably overlain by the Mount Hawk Formation and the contact is gradational. Laterally it interfingers with the Peechee Formation and the reefs of the Cairn Formation.

Paleontology
Tentaculids are common throughout the Perdrix Formation, and brachiopods and pelecypods are present in the more limestone-rich portions.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Devonian Alberta
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Frasnian Stage
Geologic formations of Alberta
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Paleontology in Alberta
Shale formations
Limestone formations of Canada


title: Simla Formation

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The Simla Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (late Frasnian) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Rocky Mountains and foothills of west-central Alberta and east-central British Columbia. It consists primarily of carbonate rocks and siltstone, and was named for Mount Simla in northern Jasper National Park by D. J. McLaren and E. W. Mountjoy in 1962.

The Simla Formation is fossiliferous. It preserves remains of marine animals, and is especially known for its many species of rugose corals.

Lithology and deposition
The Simla Formation consists of recessive argillaceous siltstones, overlain by thick-bedded, cliff-forming limestones and dolomitic limestones. It was deposited as a shallow subtidal, open-marine carbonate shelf.

Thickness and distribution
The Simla Formation is present over a distance of about 280 km (175 mi) in the Rocky Mountains and foothills of west-central Alberta and east-central British Columbia, where it is consistently about 60 to 85 m (200 to 280 feet) thick.

Relationship to other units
Originally considered to be the lower part of the Alexo Formation or a member of the Southesk Formation, the Simla was raised to the rank of formation by H. H. J. Geldsetzer in 1982. It conformably overlies the Mount Hawk Formation or the Southesk Formation, and is conformably overlain by the Sassenach Formation or the Palliser Formation, depending on the location.

Paleontology
The Simla Formation is known for its rugose coral fauna, which comprises more than 30 species. It was the product of an evolutionary burst that began in middle Frasnian time and was ended by the Frasnian–Famennian extinction event. The formation also includes tabulate corals, brachiopods, stromatoporoids, crinoids, conodonts, and foraminifera.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Devonian Alberta
Geologic formations of Alberta
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Frasnian Stage
Dolomite formations
Limestone formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Paleontology in Alberta


title: Southesk Formation

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The Southesk Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (late Frasnian) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Rocky Mountains and foothills of Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. It was named for the Southesk River in Jasper National Park by D.J. McLaren in 1955.

The formation consists primarily of dolomite and it preserves fossils of marine animals such as stromatoporoids and rugose corals.

Lithology and thickness

The Southesk Formation was deposited in reefal environments. It is commonly between 150 and 260 m (490 and 850 feet) thick, and reaches a maximum of about 300 m (1000 feet) in the Flathead area of southeastern British Columbia. It has been subdivided into four members, shown in descending order below.

Distribution and relationship to other units
The Southesk Formation is discontinuously present in the Canadian Rockies from Jasper National Park to the Flathead area of southeastern British Columbia. It is also present in the subsurface beneath the adjacent plains to the east. It conformably overlies the Cairn Formation or, in the Crows Nest Pass area, the Borsato Formation. At its margins it may interfinger with the Perdrix and Mount Hawk Formations. In the mountains it is unconformably overlain by the Sassenach, the Alexo or, rarely, the Palliser Formation. It is overlain by the Crowfoot Formation in the plains.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Devonian Alberta
Paleontology in Alberta
Geologic formations of Alberta
Geologic formations of British Columbia
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Frasnian Stage
Dolomite formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Limestone formations of Canada
Devonian British Columbia


title: Yahatinda Formation

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The Yahatinda Formation is a geologic formation of Middle Devonian (Givetian) age in the southwestern part of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the mountains of southwestern Alberta. Its type locality lies the on the eastern face of Wapiti Mountain above Ya-Ha-Tinda Ranch at the eastern edge of Banff National Park. The Yahatinda contains a variety of Devonian fossils.

Lithology
The Yahatinda Formation includes both terrestrial river channel and littoral marine sediments. The channel deposits, which are well exposed at the type locality, consist of reddish, medium- to coarse-grained, cross-bedded dolomitic sandstones, siltstones, conglomerates and breccias. The channels contain eroded cobbles and boulders from the older underlying formations, as well as the remains of land plants and freshwater fish.

The littoral deposits consist of micritic mudstones and dolomitic mudstones that are thought to have been deposited in intertidal to supratidal environments. These sequences include paleosols, calcrete and dolocrete.

Thickness and distribution
The Yahatinda Formation is present as discontinuous outcrops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, from the Brazeau River in the north to near the Kananaskis Lakes in the south, and possibly at Mount Wilson in extreme southern Alberta.

The thickness of the Yahatinda is highly variable because it was deposited on an erosion surface with high topographic relief. It is typically less than  thick and is absent over paleotopographic highs, but it can reach thicknesses as great as  in deeply incised paleovalleys.

Relationship to other units
The strata of the Yahatinda Formation were originally included in the Ghost River Formation, but that formation name was later abandoned. The Yahatinda rests unconformably on formations that range in age from late Cambrian to early Ordovician. It is overlain by the Flume and Cairn Formations of the Fairholme Group. It was deposited along the east side of the Western Alberta Ridge, a paleogeographic feature that existed at that time, and it is equivalent to the Cedared Formation that was deposited on the western side of the ridge. It is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Elk Point Group in the basin to the east.

Paleontology
Plant fossils and remains of freshwater fish are found in the channel sediments of the Yahatinda. Branched stems of Archaeopteris (Callixylon) up to  in diameter, some with attached sporangia, have been described from the type area, as have possible remains of Rhacophyton (an ancestral fern), Svalbardia (a branching plant with needle-like leaves), and others. Remains attributed to the freshwater fish Coccosteus and other fish fragments have also been reported.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

External links

Geologic formations of Alberta
Devonian System of North America
Devonian Alberta
Givetian Stage
Sandstone formations
Siltstone formations
Mudstone formations
Conglomerate formations
Fluvial deposits
Tidal deposits
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Devonian southern paleotropical deposits
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Paleontology in Alberta


title: Nordegg Formation

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The Nordegg Formation is a geologic formation in Alberta. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Jurassic Alberta


title: KB Vllaznia

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KB Vllaznia is a professional basketball team based in Shkodër, Albania. The club is one of the major basketball teams in Albania, having won 9 leagues, 12 cups and one supercup. The club, founded in 1919, is the oldest in the country.

Trophies
Albanian Leagues: 9
1967, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2014, 2015, 2015-16
Albanian Cups: 12
1957, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1981, 1985, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2014, 2015
Albanian Supercup: 1
1999

Current roster

Season by season

Notable players
Johnathan Stove (born 1995), basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

References

External links
Eurobasket.com KB Vllaznia Page

Vllaznia
Sport in Shkodër
Basketball teams established in 1919


title: Beaverfoot Formation

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The Beaverfoot Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Ordovician (Ashgill age) to Early Silurian (Llandovery) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta, and the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. It consists of carbonate rocks, and was named for the Beaverfoot Range at Pedley Pass southeast of Golden, British Columbia by L.D. Burling in 1922.

The formation is fossiliferous and is known for its brachiopod faunas. It also contains rugose corals and conodonts.

Thickness and lithology
The Beaverfoot Formation is about 500 m (1640 ft) thick at its type section in Pedley Pass. It was deposited in shallow tropical waters on the western edge of a carbonate platform as limestone, much of which has been altered to dolomite. Chert nodules are present in some beds.

Distribution and relationship to other units
The Beaverfoot Formation is present in the western ranges of the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and forms cliffs along the eastern wall of the Rocky Mountain Trench. It is also present in the Purcell Range west of Radium, British Columbia, and in the main ranges of the Alberta Rockies between the Clearwater and North Saskatchewan Rivers. It disconformably overlies the Mount Wilson Formation or older rocks. It is conformably overlain by the Tegart Formation in the western ranges, and unconformably overlain by the Late Devonian Cairn Formation to the east in Alberta.

Paleontology
The Beaverfoot Formation spans the Ordovician-Silurian boundary and records faunal changes that occurred during the Ordovician-Silurian extinction events. It is known for fossil rhynchonellid, atrypid, and pentamerid brachiopods, most of which have undergone silicification and can be separated from the dolomite matrix by treatment with acid. It also contains conodonts and rugose corals (Deiracorallium prolongatum, Salvadorea distincta, Bighornia patella, Bighornia cf. bottei).

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alberta

References

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Geologic formations of British Columbia
Geologic formations of Alberta
Ordovician Alberta
Ordovician British Columbia
Silurian Alberta
Silurian British Columbia
Dolomite formations
Limestone formations
Shallow marine deposits
Ordovician southern paleotropical deposits
Silurian southern paleotropical deposits
Silurian northern paleotropical deposits


title: Outram Formation

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The Outram Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early Ordovician age that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named for Mount Outram in Banff National Park by J.D. Aitken and B.S. Norford in 1967. The Outram Formation is fossiliferous and includes remains of trilobites and other marine invertebrates, as well as stromatolites and thrombolites.

Lithology and deposition
The Outram Formation formed as a shallow and at times emergent marine shelf along the western shoreline of the North American Craton during Early Ordovician time. It consists primarily of nodular limestone, calcareous quartzose siltstone, limestone pebble-conglomerate, and brown shale. Nodules of grey chert occur throughout the formation.

Distribution and stratigraphic relationships
The Outram is present in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia. Its thickness and shale content increase toward the west. It overlies the Survey Peak Formation and underlies the Skoki Formation. Both contacts are gradational.

Paleontology
The Outram Formation contains several genera of trilobites, as well as brachiopods, conodonts, gastropods,  sponges, echinoderms, bivalves, gastropods, stromatolites, thrombolites, oncolites, rare graptolites, and others.

References

Geologic formations of Alberta
Paleontology in Alberta
Ordovician Alberta
Ordovician southern paleotropical deposits
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America
Limestone formations of Canada
Siltstone formations
Shale formations
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin


title: Skoki Formation

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The Skoki Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early to Middle Ordovician age that is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named for Skoki Mountain near Lake Louise in Banff National Park by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1928. The Skoki Formation is fossiliferous and includes remains of brachiopods and other marine invertebrates, as well as conodonts and oncolites.

Lithology and deposition
The Skoki Formation formed as a shallow marine shelf along the western shoreline of the North American Craton during Early to Middle Ordovician time. Most of the original limestone was subsequently altered to dolomite. Many beds include quartz sand and silt, and some include layers of brown argillite.

Distribution and stratigraphic relationships
The Skoki is present in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It reaches a thickness of up to 186 metres (610 ft) in the southern Rockies and about 500 metres (1800 ft) in the northern Rockies. It conformably overlies the Outram Formation or the Tipperary Quartzite, depending on the location, and underlies the Owen Creek Formation.

Paleontology
The Skoki Formation contains several genera of brachiopods, as well as gastropods, conodonts, cephalopods, trilobites, echinoderms, stromatolites, corals, and oncolites.

References

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Ordovician Alberta
Paleontology in Alberta
Geologic formations of Alberta
Geologic formations of British Columbia
Dolomite formations
Limestone formations
Ordovician southern paleotropical deposits
Ordovician British Columbia


title: Survey Peak Formation

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The Survey Peak Formation is a stratigraphic unit of latest Cambrian to earliest Ordovician age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named for Survey Peak near Mount Erasmus in Banff National Park by J.D. Aitken and B.S. Norford in 1967. The Survey Peak Formation is fossiliferous and includes remains of trilobites and other marine invertebrates, as well as conodonts, stromatolites, and thrombolites.

Lithology and deposition
The Survey Peak Formation formed as a shallow and at times emergent marine shelf along the western shoreline of the North American Craton during latest Cambrian to earliest Ordovician time. It consists of limestones, calcareous shales and mudstones, and siltstones, and can be subdivided into four informal members: a basal siltstone, overlain in turn by a putty-colored calcareous shale, a limestone and shale unit, and a massive, cliff-forming limestone.

Distribution and stratigraphic relationships
The Survey Peak Formation is present in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia. It thickens westward. It overlies the Mistaya Formation or the top of the Lynx Group, and is overlain by the Outram Formation. The basal contact is conformable but abrupt. The top contact is gradational.

Paleontology
The Survey Peak Formation is considered to be one of the best exposed and most accessible fossiliferous examples of the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in Canada. It includes several genera of trilobites, as well as brachiopods, conodonts, gastropods, echinoderms, stromatolites, thrombolites, rare graptolites, and others.

References

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Cambrian Alberta
Geologic formations of British Columbia
Geologic formations of Alberta
Cambrian southern paleotropical deposits
Cambrian System of North America
Ordovician Alberta
Ordovician southern paleotropical deposits
Cambrian British Columbia
Ordovician British Columbia
Limestone formations of Canada
Shale formations
Mudstone formations
Siltstone formations