title: Omar Lizardo

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Omar Lizardo (born 7 September 1974) is an American sociologist who is LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was previously professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame (2006-2018), and co-editor of the American Sociological Review. In 2020, Lizardo became a member of the board of reviewing editors of the journal Science. He has also served on the editorial board of the journals Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Poetics, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Theory and Society, Sociological Theory, and Journal of World-Systems Research.

The website academic influence ranks Lizardo as the most influential sociologist from the period 2010–2020.  According to one commentator, he "has a history of grappling with important ideas in an innovative and insightful fashion". Lizardo is a widely published and cited author in numerous sub-fields of sociology. He is known for his work at the intersection of cognitive science and sociology of culture, social networks, organizational studies, and sociological theory.

Biography

Lizardo was born in New York City, but spent most of his childhood and teenage years in La Romana, Dominican Republic. He graduated from Brooklyn College, CUNY with a B.S. in Psychology in 1997. He received a MA in 2002 and PhD in 2006 from the University of Arizona both in sociology. He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Ronald Breiger, Kieran Healy, and Erin Leahey, titled Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective. Lizardo also co-authored several articles with Albert Bergesen while at Arizona. In 2006, he started as an Assistant Professor of Sociology, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. While at Notre Dame, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2012, and to the rank of full professor in 2016. In 2018, he moved to Los Angeles, to occupy his current post at UCLA.

Affiliations

During his time as a professor of sociology at Notre Dame, he was an External Member of the Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics at Trent University. He has also served as a faculty fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and was also a faculty member of iCeNSA, the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications at Notre Dame, now renamed the Center for Network & Data Science.

Projects

Lizardo has been involved in various multidisciplinary data analysis and data collection projects, including the NSF-funded NetSense data-collection project and the NIH-funded NetHealth data-collection project.

Writing
Lizardo has been involved in three major book projects. In 2019, with Elliot Weininger and Annette Lareau, he co-edited the book Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins, published by Routledge. The volume features contributions from a wide range of social scientists whose work has been inspired by or seeks to extend the theories of the sociologist Randall Collins. Lizardo co-drafted the introduction to the volume with Weininger in which they summarized the intellectual development of Randall Collins's work. In 2020 Lizardo was part of the multiauthor collective that resulted in the book Measuring Culture, published by Columbia University Press. The book covers the history and state of the art of how sociologists think about measuring culture across a wide range of distinct methodological and theoretical traditions. The book has been well-received as a strong and likely influential contribution to the field. In 2021, with Seth Abrutyn he co-edited the Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory published by Springer. This is a collection of essays designed to update and re-orient the status of classical theory in contemporary sociology.

Awards and recognitions
In 2005, as a graduate student at the University of Arizona he won two ASA section awards with co-author Jessica Collett. First, the best Graduate Student Paper Award from the section on the Sociology of Religion for their paper Why biology is not (religious) destiny: a second look at gender differences in religiosity (a revised version of the paper was later published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion under a different title). The second was the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the section on the Sociology of Emotions for their paper Socioeconomic status and the experience of anger. (a revised version of that paper was later published in the journal Social Forces under a slightly different title).

In 2008, he won the Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article from the ASA's section on the Cultural Sociology for a paper entitled How cultural tastes shape social networks, previously published in American Sociological Review. In this article, Lizardo confronts the "traditional network model" in which cultural taste formation and transmission is shaped and determined by social networks and instead asks "whether cultural tastes and practices themselves have an independent effect on social structure (conceived as patterns of network relations)." He concludes that "popular culture" is characterized by wide appeal and ease of incorporation and is therefore associated with more weak ties (e.g., used as bridges), while "highbrow culture" is more exclusive and serves to strengthen close ties (e.g., used as fences).

In 2013, Lizardo won the Lewis Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, which is "intended to recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology.” The next year Lizardo delivered the Lewis Coser Lecture at the 2014 meetings of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco. An abridged and edited version of the lecture was subsequently published as an online pamphlet by Alison Gerber.

In 2014, with co-author Robert Fishman, Lizardo won the Charles Tilly Best Article Award of the ASA's Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology for their paper How macro-historical change shapes cultural taste: Legacies of democratization in Spain and Portugal, previously published in American Sociological Review.

In 2015, along with co-author Jessica Collett, Lizardo received an honorable mention for the ASA's Section on Sociology of Emotions Recent Contribution Award for their paper Embarrassment and social organization: A multiple identities model, previously published in Social Forces

In 2017, along with co-author Michael Strand, Lizardo received an honorable mention for the ASA's Section on Theory Prize for Outstanding Article for their paper Beyond world images: Belief as embodied action in the world, previously published in Sociological Theory.,

In 2018, Lizardo was elected chair of the ASA's section on the Sociology of Culture. In 2019, Lizardo was elected a member of the Sociological Research Association.

References

External links
 Faculty web page at the University of California, Los Angeles
 Personal academic website
 Google Scholar profile

1974 births
Living people
American sociologists
University of Arizona alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Sociology of culture
Brooklyn College alumni
American Sociological Review editors


title: Long Lane, City of London

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Long Lane is a street in the City of London, the historic and primary financial centre of London.

It runs east–west and forms part of the B100 route. At the western end it becomes West Smithfield and in the east it becomes Beech Street, at the junction with Aldersgate Street.

The street is particularly known for drinking and dining, with a pub, The Old Red Cow, at Nos. 71–72, and restaurants Chabrot at Nos. 62-63 and Apulia (formerly Morgan M) at No. 50.

See also
Long Lane, Southwark, also in London.

References

Streets in the City of London


title: DFINE, Inc.

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DFINE, Inc. was an American medical device company with headquarters in San Jose, California. It was known for its development of minimally invasive therapeutic devices built upon a radiofrequency platform for the treatment of spinal diseases. The platform included two applications, the StabiliT Vertebral Augmentation System for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures and the STAR Tumor Ablation System for pain relief treatment of metastatic spinal tumors.

History

DFINE was founded in 2004 in San Jose, California. It has had five rounds of funding since inception. The first being $35 million in 2009 led by Prospect Venture Partners. In January 2010 it received an additional $2.8 million. It received $36.2 million in equity finance in July 2010, led by Split Rock Partners with participation from OrbiMed, Prospect Venture Partners, and Vanguard Ventures. Its fourth round was $25 million with an additional $1.8 million coming in April 2012.

In 2011, DFINE was awarded a five-year Federal Supply Schedule from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The contract included DFINE supplying its StabiliT System and related products to the Veterans Health Administration.

Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MMSI), a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used primarily in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy, announced on June 06, 2016 that it has acquired DFINE, Inc. in a merger transaction through which DFINE became a wholly owned subsidiary of Merit. The purchase consideration was approximately $97.5 million in cash and was financed by a group of banks led by Wells Fargo and included Bank of America, HSBC and U.S. Bank.

Products

DFINE developed products for the treatment of spinal diseases using a radiofrequency platform. The platform covers two procedures, one for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures and one for palliative treatment of metastatic spinal tumors. Both have received clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration and CE Mark approval for use within the European Economic Area.

StabiliT Vertebral Augmentation System

The StabiliT System is an FDA cleared device that uses radiofrequency targeted vertebral augmentation (also written RF-TVA) to repair compression fractures in the vertebrae. it is a minimally invasive procedure designed to preserve good bone while performing kyphoplasty. In contrast with balloon kyphoplasty, RF-TVA is performed by a physician navigating within the vertebral body by placing a working canula into the vertebra and creating a cavity using a small chisel-like instrument. The cavity is then filled with ultra-high viscosity bone cement which then permeates into the surrounding bone, stabilizing the fracture and restoring vertebral height. As of 2014, the system has been used to treat more than 15,000 spinal fractures worldwide.

STAR Tumor Ablation System

The STAR Tumor Ablation System is an FDA-cleared medical device that uses targeted radiofrequency ablation (also written t-RFA) to heat and destroy cancerous tumors caused by metastatic disease that has spread to the spine, causing severe pain and discomfort. STAR is not used as a treatment for cancer, but for pain relief. It is typically an outpatient procedure and can be performed using local anesthesia through a small incision. It works by placing a small steerable device into the vertebra which is guided by the physician to precisely target the tumor. The system then ablates the tumor, destroying the tumor cells while minimizing damage to surrounding tissues. In some cases it has been shown to alleviate pain with one treatment.

See also

 Interventional radiology
 Neoplasm
 Cancer pain

References

External links
 DFINE, Inc. official website
 STAR Tumor Ablation System website

American companies established in 2004
Manufacturing companies based in San Jose, California
Manufacturing companies established in 2004


title: Christian Ulrik Foltmar

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Christian Ulrik Foltmar ( – 11 August 1794) was a Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist.

Foltmar was the son of the musician Johan Voltmar, and he was a brother to the composers Herman Friedrich Voltmar, Johan Foltmar, and to the painter Christoffer Foltmar. When he had his daughter baptized on 22 March 1769 he was in the parish register addressed as organist, however he primarily worked as a miniature painter. After his brother Christoffer's death, he took over as royal painter to the court painting portrait miniatures. There is also a self-portrait of him and his wife. He is buried at St. Peter's church cemetery.

Notes
Dansk biografisk Lexikon 1905 to 1979

18th-century Danish painters
18th-century male artists
Danish male painters
Danish classical organists
Male classical organists
Portrait miniaturists
Foltmar family
1716 births
1794 deaths
18th-century keyboardists


title: Hazel Hannell

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Hazel Hannell (December 31, 1895 – February 6, 2002) was an American artist and activist, born Mary Hazel Johnson in La Grange, Illinois.  She is known for her pottery, watercolors, woodblock prints, activism for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and development of the Chesterton Arts Fair.  She taught pottery in her studio at home and watercolor painting at The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin through her connection to fellow Prairie Club member Jens Jensen. She died in Ashland, Oregon while living with Harriet Rex Smith at age 106.

Education and inspiration (1895 – early 1920s)
Born in La Grange, Illinois on December 31, 1895 to an Alabama-born father and college graduate mother, Hazel started painting as early as age 5 using her mother's leftover paints.  Throughout childhood she studied painting, and by the command of her father, secretarial studies, since to him artistic wages were not predictable ones. While in high school, Mrs. Hannell also studied at the Saturday morning classes of the Art Institute of Chicago. She graduated from the Emma Church School of Art in Chicago. For income Hazel and her friends worked for Marshall Fields designing chintzes. During that time she learned to love Oriental Art and tuned into the "effect of Divine Intelligence through nature on her heart and mind". In 1987 Hazel revealed her inspiration to the Chesterton Tribune:  "Hamada, a Japanese master potter, says you really ought not have to sign things, your works should be recognizably yours."  As Hamada, many of Hazel's works lack signature.  Works from earlier years such as her watercolor Self Portrait (1934) bear a signature in the same medium. It is worth noting that upon many of her works a penciled signature has been placed after their departure from her possession.

Feminist movement, adventures of employment & marriage (late 1920s – 1930)
Hannel's spirit as an activist took root during her college years. In a letter from her nephew Wilbert Reuter to former director of the Brauer Museum of Art, Richard H.W. Brauer, "There was great concern…when she brought disgrace and dishonor upon the entire family, and its name, by appearing in a public demonstration supporting women's suffrage." Mrs. Hannell's moral compass would lead the way toward great regional changes as well. While renting a studio from the Church School of Art on Michigan Avenue in Chicago in the 1920s, Hazel met Vaino Hannell, a Finnish-American artist she would marry on December 31, 1923. Oftentimes for money the two were commissioned for a variation of small projects. While living in Chicago in the 20s, the first pottery of the Hannells' was a group of fountain tiles done for a Chicagoan architect Arthur Hoyne. Hazel recalls that the two "had a reputation for either being able to do things or knowing someone who could" and that they "did all kinds of things; from murals to papering wastebaskets."  They even worked with Jane Adams at the Hull House for some time.
Hazel was inspired to join the Prairie Club, an organization that aimed to ease the ills of industrialization, by a friend because she "admired her and her taste so much." So, on the weekends the Hannells visited the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore with a group of weekend painters including Fred Biesel, Frances Strain, and Harriet Rex Smith, and Jens Jensen, among others. Its beauty also drew artists like Frank Dudley, whose paintings would eventually aid the Dunes preservation projects.  Together they walked along the beach and documented its beauty. Her subject matter consists mainly of the flora and fauna in its natural habitat in the Dunes. The Hannells and Biesels were closely acquainted, and together they led a movement against the conservative jury system in connection with Chicago art exhibits in the 20s. Vaino was part of The Ten, a radical group that had been instructed by George Bellows at the Art Institute in their production of controversial realism.
In 1928 along with known artists Frances Strain, Fred Biesel, Hannell and Vin went on a trip to Paris and Finland. While there, they visited with the Dalstroms and the parents of Janet Sullivan, founder of the Art Barn and school of rural Valparaiso. This trip inspired her to repeatedly paint lily-of-the-valley, native to Vin's home in Finland but also to the National Lakeshore.  After their return to the States, as well as many weekend trips to the Indiana Dunes to visit Biesel and Strain, Vin and Hazel were drawn to Furnessville, Indiana.

Pottery
World War I came and their financial situation made it necessary for the Hannells move to their getaway home near the Dunes in 1930. Hannell tried to get a secretarial job, but that soon ended.  "I got fired for being impertinent," Hazel said in an interview with The Seattle Times, "One of the foremen told me to do something and I was annoyed with him and I said, 'I won't'," even though I'd already done it." Within Hazel was a fire that would not go out. In Indiana, Hazel and Vin used that fire to run a pottery business.  They created a potting studio from a chicken coop, lived off Vin's government pension, and used the regional clay to gain an income from which a living could be sustained. Regionally as well as in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Hazel's work was featured throughout the 30s. This is where Hazel gained her fame.  A wholesaler saw some of their work and offered her a business deal.  Former director of Chesterton Art Center Gloria Rector reported, "Hannell once said that her clay pottery was their bread and butter during hard times."  "To make a living as a painter, you either have to be a salesman or have a salesman," Hannell explained to the Vidette Messenger in 1983, "Pottery sells itself."  The 1940s brought that salesman: a New York agency offered to market it nationally, putting the Hannells' work into department stores and gift shops all over the United States while providing them with a substantial allowance, as well as publicity.

It is true that many of Hannell's works of pottery were for dinner-time, but the shape and design are identifiably of her hand and design. An article in Craft Ceramist Utopia from the 1950s tells of her "stunning centerpieces of piled up artichokes, onions, peppers, etc., all done in a solid finish of gold of pewter with matching treatment in the dinner wear, enough to transport the buyer to the world of Cellini." Oftentimes Hazel designed the pieces and Vin would fire them.  Hannell's method of applying the designs to her pottery involved an oriental brush with cobalt (blue), copper oxide (green), iron oxide (brown), and pewter glaze. The beauty of her cobalt pieces is known well among collectors of her work. Clem and Nixon Hall of New York, a designer-distributor organization, brought "their years of design and merchandising experience to the end that Hannell pieces fit market demands." A feature of the couple in The Gary Post-Tribune spoke of the Hannells' open to the public studio in which, "Vin would probably be watching over the two electric kilns, where the articles are fired," or would be checking "the infra-red, electric lamps, which provide a quick-drying method for the newly made cups and saucers." Her pieces are not perfect in form and often include bulges or indentations allowing for easy handling. This was done purposefully as a counter to the industrialization against which she often protested. "Some people seem to like the factory-made look," she told the Chesterton Tribune, "I'm a little inclined not to bother with it; the pieces are more interesting if they're not all exactly the same." On the pottery dune grasses can be found, bending in the wind, flora such as the lily-of-the-valley, or privately done calligraphy.  Hannell also designed a series of clay angels and women figures such as the Madonna from Indian red clay.

Save the Dunes
In 1952 Porter County area residents began to hear that the area was being bought up by major steel making facilities. Hazel and Vin became charter members of the Save the Dunes Foundation, and in 1958 the first bill to preserve the Dunes was introduced after bus trips from Save the Dunes Council to testify before Congress. Hazel went on one of these trips to Washington D.C. along with founder Dorothy Buel. A video on the foundation of Save the Dunes talks about the women bringing a Dudley painting to Congress to show to the lawmakers the beauty of their homes. The Hannells even donated some of their land to the Indiana National Lakeshore, claiming they, "wanted Congress to know that the people who didn't want it were not the majority here." Meanwhile, she was capturing the beauty of the Indiana National Lakeshore in watercolor paintings in hopes that they would aid her audience's value of the environment.

Chesterton Arts Fair

In 1952, Chesterton held its centennial celebration as "Gateway Town of the Dunes" in connection with the Hannells, who promoted a tent show art exhibition. The Modern Artist's Guild, including members such as David Sander and Harriet Rex Smith had works in this tent as well. Gaining sponsorship by the Chesterton Retail Merchants' Association, their tent show developed into the Chesterton Arts Fair, which is now one of the best juried shows in the United States. By 1960 a group of the merchants and artists from the arts and crafts fairs developed into the Association of Artists and Craftsmen of Porter County.  First chairman of this association was Ernst Schwidder, former head of the art department at Valparaiso University, which now holds over 35 works by Vaino and Hazel.  Meetings for the Association of artists and Craftsmen of Porter County commonly took place in the home of the Hannells.

Late years (1960s–2002)
Hazel's husband died in 1964 but she kept the business alive for 25 years in Furnessville until moving to Ashland, Oregon to live with Rex Smith. Hannell taught watercolor at the Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin.  This position came from her connection with Jens Jensen, Prairie Club member, Chicagoan Architect and Artist. She also taught pottery in her studio in Furnessville, in Chesterton Art Gallery, until she moved. In the 1980s Hannell rented a place in Ajijic, Mexico during the winter months where she went with many artists including Rex Smith, Elizabeth Murray, and Jan Sullivan.  Sullivan commented on the greens were something she was especially talented in capturing perfectly. Property previously owned by the Hannells was donated to the Indiana Dunes once Hazel moved away.  Russ Nelson from Art & Frame in Valparaiso was the recipient and dealer for the works left behind by Hannell after her move to Oregon in 1988.  Sullivan of the Art Barn in Valparaiso hosted a public farewell for Hannell when she left Northwest Indiana, although the friends still visited each other annually. Once she arrived in Oregon, Hannell began documenting the wild flowers around the area using woodblock prints. Hazel agreed that the most interesting thing to do was roam the country side with her painting equipment, just as a retired Sung Dynasty Chinese high official or emperor himself were known to do. She was a part of the Chicago Society of Artists, which featured her prints in their 1971 calendar.

Since her departure brought many of the Hannells' work into public hands, many museums bought it from The Brauer Museum of Art has exhibited her works on several occasions.  In 1986 they exhibited the watercolors Spring Rock Garden and Hapatica.  The "Porter County's Artists-Past and Present" exhibition was held in the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University in the fall of 1988 which displayed Edge of Swamp. Some of Hannell's floral studies were displayed in August 1989 at Moellering Library.  The Ginny and Friends exhibit featured her work not long after in September 1992. Also in 1992 Hazel was awarded a FRIENDS honorary membership, and donated her "Spring Snow" watercolor into the Brauer Museum of Art's collection.  Her Self Portrait (1934) was donated to the same museum as a gift, and then shortly afterward there was a Sloan Gallery and Moellering Library exhibition put on that fall for Hazel's works. A show by Dankook University had an exhibition done by their Institute of Asian Studies and Cultures which she took part in because of the inspiration for her works. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Northern Indiana Art Salon, Gary Southern Shores Exhibit, Dunes Art Foundation, and South Bend Art Center have also displayed her pottery, watercolors, and woodblock prints. In her public farewell, the Art Barn listed that her work was for sale or rental at the Chicago Art Institute, Collectors Showroom in Chicago, Station Gallery at Crown Point, and the Freight Station and Chesterton Art Gallery.

References

Further reading
Feature of Hazel in the 1986 for the "Porter County Art" exhibition by Valparaiso University
Griffith, Toni. "Art in Porter County." Porter County Arts Commission [Valparaiso] September 22, 1988, 1B/3B sec.: n. pag. Print.
Reuter, Wilbert O. Wilbert O. Rutter to Richard Brauer, Valparaiso, IN, August 14, 1994. "Sale of Hazel Hannell's Artwork Will Help the Symphony Flourish." Mail Tribune [Ashland, Oregon] June 28, 2002: 19. Print.
Weininger, Susan. "Frances Strain." Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920–1950. Accessed June 2, 2014.

1895 births
2002 deaths
American centenarians
American women painters
American potters
American watercolorists
Women potters
People from La Grange, Illinois
American women ceramists
American ceramists
Women centenarians
Women watercolorists
20th-century American women artists
20th-century American people


The 2014–15 Richmond Spiders women's basketball team will represent the University of Richmond during the 2014–15 college basketball season. Michael Shafer assumes the responsibility as head coach for his tenth season. The Spiders were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference and play their home games at the Robins Center. They finished the season 19–14, 9–7 in A-10 play to finish in fifth place. They advanced to the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 women's tournament where they lost to Fordham. They were invited to the Women's National Invitation Tournament where defeated Stetson in the first round before losing to a A-10 member Duquesne in the second round.

2014–15 media
All Spiders games are broadcast on WTVR 6.3 with Robert Fish on the call. The games are also streamed on Spider TV .

Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=9 style="background:#000066; color:#990000;"| WNIT

Rankings
2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings

See also
 2014–15 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team
 Richmond Spiders women's basketball

References

Richmond Spiders women's basketball seasons
Richmond
2015 Women's National Invitation Tournament participants
Richmond Spiders women's basketball
Richmond


title: Salamiyah Subdistrict

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Salamiyah Subdistrict ()  is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Salamiyah District in Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Salamiyah Subdistrict had a population of 115300 in the 2004 census.

References

Salamiyah
Salamiyah District


title: Psilocybe congolensis

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Psilocybe congolensis is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae.  It is the only psilocybin mushroom known from the Congo, Africa.  It was described as new to science in 2013.

See also
List of Psilocybin mushrooms

References

congolensis
Entheogens
Psychoactive fungi
Psychedelic tryptamine carriers
Fungi of Africa
Taxa named by Gastón Guzmán
Fungi described in 2013


Radiofrequency targeted vertebral augmentation (also written as RF-TVA) is a form of kyphoplasty that uses radiofrequency heat to control the viscosity of polymethylmethacrylate cement and deliver it into the vertebral body to treat vertebral compression fractures.

Procedure

Radiofrequency targeted vertebral augmentation is a minimally invasive procedure designed to preserve good bone while performing vertebral augmentation (sometimes referred to as kyphoplasty). With traditional kyphoplasty, a balloon is used to create a space within the cancellous bone and then cement is injected into the space. The RF-TVA procedure is different in that a physician directs a small navigational canula into the vertebra and creates a small pathways for the cement as opposed to using a balloon. This process preserves more of the healthy canncellous bone. The pathways are then filled with ultra-high viscosity bone cement which then permeates into the surrounding bone, stabilizing the fracture and restoring vertebral height. As of 2014, the system has been used to treat more than 15,000 spinal fractures worldwide.

History

RF-TVA was first developed by DFINE, Inc., a medical device company based in San Jose, California. Its product, the StabiliT Vertebral Augmentation System received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2008 and is CE marked for commercial sale in Europe.

See also

 Intervertebral disc
 Minimal invasive spine surgery
 Osteoporosis

References

Medical procedures


title: Barri Sharqi Subdistrict

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Barri Sharqi Subdistrict ()  is a Syrian nahiyah (Subdistrict) located in Salamiyah District in Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Barri Sharqi Subdistrict had a population of 13767 in the 2004 census.

References

Barri Sharqi
Salamiyah District


title: Al-Saan Subdistrict

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Al-Saan Subdistrict ()  is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Salamiyah District in Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Saan Subdistrict had a population of 14366 in the 2004 census.

References

Saan
Salamiyah District


title: Sabburah Subdistrict

text:
Sabburah ()  is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Salamiyah District in Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Sabburah Subdistrict had a population of 21900 in the 2004 census.

References

Sabburah
Salamiyah District


title: Uqayribat Subdistrict

text:
Uqayribat Subdistrict ()  is a Syrian nahiyah (subdistrict) located in Salamiyah District in Hama.  According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Uqayribat Subdistrict had a population of 21,004 in the 2004 census.

References

Uqayribat
Salamiyah District


title: Jill McDonald

text:
Jill Masefield  McDonald  (30 October 1927 – 2 January 1982) was a New-Zealand-born children's writer and  illustrator, working in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s. Much of her work was done for Puffin Books, the children's imprint of Penguin, and for its club's  magazine Puffin Post.

Life
She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1927. Her father was Reginald Bedford Hammond, a distant cousin of John Masefield. She initially trained as an architect, but turned to illustration following her marriage, becoming art editor of the New Zealand School Journal.

In 1965 she moved to England with her two children. There she worked  for Puffin Books, the children's imprint of Penguin. Much of her work was on Puffin Post, the members' magazine of the Puffin Club,  launched in 1967, whose visual style she shaped. In addition to the cover designs, her contributions included a regular column in which Odway, a philosophical dog, invited responses from readers. In McDonald's Times obituary, Kaye Webb, the editor of Puffin Books wrote of her work:everyone who knows it has been captivated  not only by her brilliant use of colour and unique style, but the way each sure, strong line seems to impose a very individual and secret humour.

She was the author of twelve picture books for children.

She died in London on 2 January 1982.

Selected works

As writer and illustrator
 Maggy Scraggle Loves the Beautiful Ice-cream Man (1978) Harmondsworth: Kestrel Books
 Counting on an Elephant  (1975) Harmondsworth : Kestrel Books
 The Happyhelper Engine (1980) London: Methuen Children's Books

As illustrator
 Aitchison, Janet (1970), The Pirates' Tale Harmondsworth: Penguin (Picture Puffin)
 Cash, Alan (1966), The Puffin Crossword Puzzle Book Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (Puffin)
 Cunliffe, John (1971), Farmer Barnes and the Goats London: Collins
 Greaves, Margaret (1966), Your Turn Next London: Methuen Educational; (1973 edn):
 Greaves, Margaret (1968), Gallery London: Methuen Educational
 Greaves, Margaret (ed.) (1969), Scrap-box: Poems for Grown-ups to Share with Children London: Methuen
 Greaves, Margaret (1971), The Snowman of Biddle (Gallimaufry 1) London: Methuen Educational
 Greaves, Margaret (1971), The Rainbow Sun (Gallimaufry 2) London: Methuen
 Greaves, Margaret (1971), King Solomon and the Hoopoes (Gallimaufry 3) London: Methuen
 Greaves, Margaret (1971), The Great Bell of Peking (Gallimaufry 4) London: Methuen
 Greaves, Margaret (1971), The Dagger and the Bird London: Methuen
 Greaves, Margaret (1972), Two at Number 20 London: Methuen
 Greaves, Margaret (1973), Little Jacko and the Wolf People London: Methuen
 Hunter, Norman (1974), Norman Hunter's Book of Magic London: Bodley Head
 Hunter, Norman (1976), Professor Branestawm’s Do-it-yourself Handbook London: Bodley Head ; (1979) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (Puffin)
 Hunter, Norman (1978), Vanishing Ladies, and Other Magic London : Bodley Head
 Hunter, Norman, with illustrations by George Adamson, Derek Cousins, W. Heath Robinson and Jill McDonald (1980), The Best of Branestawm London: Bodley Head
 Sloan, Carolyn (1974), The Penguin and the Vacuum Cleaner. Harmondsworth: Penguin (Puffin)
Turnbull, Michael Robert McGregor (1960), The Changing Land: A Short History of New Zealand for Children London: Longman
Waters, John F. (1972) The Royal Potwasher London: Methuen

References

External links

1927 births
1982 deaths
People from Wellington City
New Zealand artists
New Zealand women artists
New Zealand writers
New Zealand women writers


title: Neon Hitch discography

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The discography of English singer and songwriter Neon Hitch. Neon's debut digital single "Get Over U" was released in February 2011. Hitch then released her single "Bad Dog", which was intended to be the lead single from her debut album. Later in 2011, she was featured on Gym Class Heroes' song "Ass Back Home". In 2012, Neon Hitch released "Fuck U Betta" and "Gold" featuring Tyga, her official first and second singles respectively. Both songs peaked at number one on the Billboard Dance/Club Play chart.

Neon then debuted an EP entitled Happy Neon in January 2013, which was released online for free. In October 2013, Neon announced that her debut album Beg, Borrow & Steal had been scrapped and she would release a new album that had more of her soul in it. In January 2014, Neon released the mixtape 301 to Paradise for free. In May 2014, it was announced that Hitch had parted ways with her label Warner Bros. and was gearing up to releasing her new debut album Eleutheromaniac; she also released Happy Neon and 301 to Paradise to digital retailers independently in the same month.

She premiered the lead single of Eleutheromaniac, "Yard Sale", in August 2014. In January 2015, Neon released "Sparks" as the first single from the album. In March 2015, Hitch released the EP 24:00 for free. In 2016, it was announced that Hitch had changed the name of her debut album to Anarchy, which was released on July 22, 2016. The lead single from the album, "Please", was released on July 8, 2016. The album did not contain any of the singles intended to be on Eluetheromaniac, but included a promomotional single she released in 2015, "Freedom".

After the release of her debut album, Hitch then released a single called ''Serious'' in tribute to the Pulse Nightclub shootings in June 2016.

In August 2017, Neon returned with a new single ''I Know You Wannit'' as a teaser for her upcoming sophomore studio album due out in 2018.

In July 2018, Hitch released two new singles Problem and Wall Street in support of her upcoming second album Reincarnation, released under her own label WeRNeon in January 2018.

Albums

EPs & Mixtapes

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Promotional singles

Songwriting

Music videos

As lead artist

As featured artist

Other appearances

References

Discographies of British artists
Pop music discographies


title: Targeted radiofrequency ablation

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Targeted radiofrequency ablation (also written t-RFA) is a minimally invasive procedure to treat severe pain and discomfort caused from metastatic tumors in the vertebral body of the spine. This procedure uses radiofrequency energy to target and ablate a specific spinal tumor, causing it shrink and reduce the pressure on the surrounding nerves and tissues.  The procedure minimizes damage to the vertebrae and surrounding tissues. It is used as a palliative therapy rather with the intention of treating the cancer itself.

History

Targeted radiofrequency ablation was first developed by DFINE, Inc., a medical device company based in San Jose, California. Its product, the STAR Tumor Ablation System received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration in August 2010. It is cleared for sale in the US and CE marked in Europe. The procedure was first performed at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center located at the University of Louisville Hospital in March 2012.

Procedure

Targeted radiofrequency ablation is not a treatment for cancer, but is used for pain management. It is usually an outpatient procedure using local anesthesia through a small incision. t-RFA uses a small steerable device that is placed into the vertebra, navigated by a physician to the targeted tumor. The physician can then deliver the energy to heat and destroy metastatic spinal tumor cells. The procedure minimizes damage to surrounding tissue and vital structures and has been shown to provide pain relief in a single treatment.

Efficacy

A 2013 study published in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery showed that t-RFA was an effective method of pain relief with low morbidity. Patients in the study also reduced their requirements of pain relieving drugs after receiving the treatment and also regained the ability to perform movements that they were previously restricted from due to the pain. Another 2013 study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology showed that patients receiving the procedure had reduced pain where traditional treatment methods were unsuccessful. A third study published in 2013 showed that t-RFA allowed treatment of lesions that were not controlled by either radiation therapy or systemic therapy. A 2014 study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology showed a decrease in tumor volume and metabolic activity in all 34 patients who received the treatment.

The ability to provide localized t-RFA of metastatic lesions of the spine may provide rapid and lasting pain relief, enabling patients to restore their quality of life with minimal, if any, delay in systemic, curative therapy of their primary cancer. As compared to radiation, which often requires multiple visits, the procedure provides patients with pain relief from metastatic spinal tumors in a single, minimally invasive treatment. The STAR System potentially minimizes additional VCFs due to radiation related bone fragility as well as the side effects of radiation.

This procedure can be performed in addition to chemotherapy, radiation therapy or other therapies that are ongoing to treat the primary cancer often allowing the patient the tolerance to  continue their therapy.

See also

 Spinal tumor
 Invasiveness of surgical procedures
 Interventional pain management

References

Medical procedures


title: MultiMechanics

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MultiMechanics is a software company based in Omaha, NE.  Their flagship product, MultiMech, is a multiscale finite element simulation package used for the structural analysis of advanced materials.

The company was founded in 2010 by Flavio Souza and Leandro Castro.

MultiMechanics is part of the Altair Hyperworks Partner Alliance, the Ansys App Store, and the Dassault Systèmes Partner Program.  The company was named the DesktopEngineering.com "Pick of the Week" in 2016 and the Nebraska Business Development Center’s Technology Company of the Year in 2011.

References

American companies established in 2010
Companies based in Omaha, Nebraska
2010 establishments in Nebraska


title: Young in America

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"Young in America" is a song recorded by American country music artist Danielle Bradbery and written by Whitney Duncan, Jaren Johnston, and Kylie Sackley. It was released as the second single from her self-titled debut album on April 21, 2014.

Critical reception
Vickye Fisher of the country blog For The Country Record gave the song a favorable review, stating "they pick up on a cheesy patriotic theme with plenty of inter-rhymes and making sure to name-check various cities, at the same time mentioning fun, “young” things to do, making this a pleasant track that is bound to attract teens" Also, Fisher says "‘Young In America’ also keeps the strong Dixie Chicks-esque fiddle line that was present in ‘The Heart of Dixie’, plus mandolin and acoustic guitar to keep things sweet, and a strong but broad drum line to encourage dancing." Similarly, Jen Swirsky of Country Music Chat states "With Danielle’s broad vocal range, heavy strings and percussion behind her, and an uplifting, positive beat, “Young In America” is the perfect joyride Spring/Summer song for the young at heart."

Music video
Filmed by Shane Drake, the "Young in America" music video was released on May 16, 2014. The video opens with Bradbery walking through a field, to be picked up by friends on the other side. Throughout the video, you see Bradbery and friends doing many activities such as playing with cards, lighting fireworks, and running through the woods.

Charts

The song peaked at number 49 on the Country Airplay chart but a fan favorite.

References

2013 songs
2014 singles
Songs written by Jaren Johnston
Danielle Bradbery songs
Big Machine Records singles
Republic Nashville singles
Song recordings produced by Dann Huff
Songs written by Whitney Duncan
Songs written by Kylie Sackley
Music videos directed by Shane Drake
Republic Records singles
Songs about Tennessee
Songs about Mississippi
Songs about Los Angeles
Songs about New York City


title: List of buffet restaurants

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This is a list of notable buffet restaurants. A buffet is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners generally serve themselves. Buffets are offered at various places including hotels and many social events. Buffets usually have some hot dishes, so the term "cold buffet" (see Smörgåsbord) has been developed to describe formats lacking hot food.

Buffet restaurants

 America's Incredible Pizza Company – an American restaurant chain based in Springfield, Missouri, the restaurants are pizza buffets and entertainment centers
 Cabalen – a Philippine buffet restaurant chain primarily serving traditional Filipino entrees
 Chuck-A-Rama – a chain of buffet restaurants based in Salt Lake City, Utah with a focus upon American comfort food and meat entrees.
 Cicis – an American buffet restaurant chain based in Irving, Texas specializing in pizza
 Cosmo – a chain of 19 buffet restaurants in the United Kingdom
 Gatti's Pizza – a Southeastern United States pizza-buffet chain
 Godfather's Pizza
 Golden Corral
 Happy Joe's – some locations have a buffet
 Hoss's Steak and Sea House
 HuHot Mongolian Grill – an American restaurant chain specializing in a create-your-own stir fry cuisine
 KFC – some locations include a buffet
 Mandarin Restaurant
 Moo Moo Restaurant
 Pancho's Mexican Buffet
 Peter Piper Pizza
 Pizza Hut – full-size restaurants have a lunch buffet
 Pizza Inn
 Pizza Ranch
 Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse
 Round Table Pizza – some locations have a buffet
 Shakey's Pizza
 Shoney's
 Sirloin Stockade
 Sizzler
 Souper Salad
 Tahoe Joe's
 Valentino's
 Western Sizzlin' – previously known as Austin's Steaks & Saloon
 Za Za Bazaar

Defunct
 The Attic (defunct) – a former 1,200 seat Smörgåsbord restaurant in West Vancouver, British Columbia, that was open from 1968 to 1981
 Fresh Choice (defunct) – a former chain of buffet-style restaurants which operated in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa
 Furr's (defunct) – a chain of family restaurants in the United States. For many decades Furr's was known for cafeteria-style dining, but has since redeveloped into buffet-style dining.
 Ovation Brands (defunct) – owned several American national chains of buffet restaurants, including Ryan's Grill, Buffet and Bakery, HomeTown Buffet and Old Country Buffet
 Souplantation, also known as Sweet Tomatoes (defunct)
 Swagman Restaurant (defunct) – a former restaurant in Ferntree Gully, Melbourne, Australia, which opened in 1972 and burnt down in 1991
 Taybarns (defunct) – a former British low cost all-you-can-eat restaurant chain owned by Whitbread

See also

 Buffet
 Cafeteria
 Conveyor belt sushi
 Dim sum
 List of cafeterias
 List of casual dining restaurant chains
 Lists of restaurants
 Mongolian barbecue
 Salad bar
 Types of restaurant

References

Lists of restaurants


title: Sony Xperia C3

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The Sony Xperia C3 is a touchscreen-enabled Android smartphone designed, developed and manufactured by Sony Mobile Communications. Codenamed "Wukong" and the successor to Sony Xperia C, it features a Snapdragon 400 processor.

The Xperia C3 was announced on July 8, 2014, marketed as the "world's best selfie smartphone". Unlike other Sony smartphones, it has a 5MP front camera, as well as a 8MP rear camera. It was released in August 2014, starting in China and followed by other markets.

Specifications

Hardware
The Sony Xperia C3 has a 5.5-inch HD IPS display, 1.2 GHz quad core Snapdragon 400 processor, Adreno 305 GPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal storage, 8 MP rear camera and 5 MP front-facing camera.

Software

Sony Xperia C3 ships with Android 4.4.2 KitKat and is upgradable to Android 5.1 Lollipop.

References

External links

Android (operating system) devices
Sony smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2014
Discontinued smartphones


title: Ian Moss (darts player)

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Christian "Ian" Moss (born 3 April 1963 from Oxfordshire) is a former English professional darts player who has played in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments.

Career
Moss reached the final of the qualifier for the 2014 PDC World Championship, but was whitewashed 5–0 by Matt Clark. However, for winning through to the final he earned a spot in the preliminary round of the event where he was beaten 4–3 by New Zealand's Rob Szabo. Moss entered Qualifying School in January 2014 and finished eighth on the Order of Merit to earn a two-year PDC tour card. His deepest run during the year came at the fifth Players Championship where he lost 6–4 in the last 32 to Wayne Jones.

At the 2015 UK Open, Moss defeated Adi Acott and Connie Finnan, before losing 5–3 to Christian Kist in the second round. In May at the 10th Players Championship, Moss beat Roxy-James Rodriguez, Terry Jenkins and Stuart Kellett to reach the last 16 of a PDC event for the first time, but lost 6–2 to Keegan Brown. He won through to the final of the non-ranking Worthingtons Darts Champion of Champions event where he lost 2–0 in sets to Gerwyn Price. Moss had one last 16 appearance in a Challenge Tour event in 2016 and had no success in the main Pro Tour events.

Ian Moss stopped playing PDC Events in 2018.

World Championship results

PDC
 2014: Preliminary round (lost to Rob Szabo 3–4) (legs)

References

External links

Living people
1963 births
English darts players
Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders


title: ICAC Investigators 2004

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ICAC Investigators 2004 (Traditional Chinese: 廉政行動2004; literally "Upright Government Walk Movement 2004") () is the 2004 installment of the ICAC Investigator series, produced by Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and TVB. It is broadcast on TVB Jade channel. Each criminal case is based on actual cases investigated by the ICAC.

Cast and Synopsis

ICAC agents on multiple cases
Shek Sau as ICAC Principal Investigator Don Tang
Marco Ngai as ICAC Senior Investigator Ron Chan
Michael Tong as ICAC Investigator Paul Fung
June Chan as ICAC Investigator Suki Chan
Gregory Lee as ICAC Investigator Frankie Kwok
Augustine Lee as ICAC Investigator Paul Kwan

Case #1: Gambler's Fallacy (不一樣的賭注)
Starring:
Wayne Lai as Ho Fat
Gordon Liu as Wong Tian
King Kong Lam as Luk Dai Tong
Power Chan as Ah Wai
Ho Fat (Wayne Lai) works as an armored truck security guard. He is an unruly employee who makes race horse bets while on the job; due to his compulsive gambling problem he is unable to pay off his loan shark. At work he is given the Hong Kong China border armor car route, but he is unhappy about it and has an argument with his supervisor. His loan shark finds out about his work route and suggest that he pays off his loan and in addition make money by transporting stolen cellular phones to mainland China. When he returns to work his supervisor decides to take him off the Hong Kong China route in order to make him happy; with his opportunity to make money on the side disappearing he begs his supervisor to keep him on the Hong Kong China route. The incident is brought to the attention of ICAC Investigator Ron Chan (Marco Ngai). ICAC finds it odd that someone who had complained would beg to have the route he didn't want back. Ho Fat gets his co-workers Wong Tian (Gordon Liu) and Luk Dai Tong (King Kong Lam) in on the scheme. ICAC obtains photograph evidence of them moving the goods in the middle of the road. With enough evidence Ho Fat, Wong Tian and Dai Tong are arrested at the border by ICAC.

Case #2: Malfeasance (以權謀私)
Starring:
Julian Cheung as ICAC Senior Investigator Wong Kai Chun
Sammul Chan as ICAC Investigator Ming
Felix Lok as Au Yiu Yeong
Ruby Wong as Ho Ming Mei
Joseph Lee as Tam Tuen
Dickson Li as Lau Jip Keung
Au Yiu Yeong (Felix Lok) is suspected of abusing his power as a government properties manager by hiring his girlfriend Ho Ming Mei (Ruby Wong) cousin Tam Tuen's (Joseph Lee) building maintenance and security firm to manage maintenance of government properties. ICAC agents Wong Kai Chun (Julian Cheung) and Ming (Sammul Chan) are unable to find any illegal dealings between Yiu Yeong and Tam Tuen so they decide to look through stacks of the properties management old files and find that an employee named Lau Jip Keung (Dickson Li) had tried to file a complaint against Tam Tuen's company for his workers doing an under par job of maintenance. ICAC brings Lau Jip Keung in for questioning and finds out that Yiu Yeong's colleagues were against using Tam Tuen's maintenance firm, but Yiu Yeong's insist on signing Tam Tuen's firm. After interviewing numerous employees and rival maintenance firms ICAC finds out that Yiu Yeong always favors Tam Tuen's firm. ICAC later finds evidence of Yiu Yeong forging documents so that Tam Tuen's firm would always win the government work contracts and he is arrested. At his court hearing he is heavily sentenced to 30 month in prison for being a government worker who conducted in corruption for self gain.

Case #3: Taxing Investigations (獵戶天龍)
Starring:
Alex Fong as ICAC Senior Investigator Micheal Tang
Edmond So as Lau Wai Suen
Ram Chiang as Chow Bing Chung
Halina Tam as Si Na
Maggie Shiu as ICAC Chief Investigator Rachel
Akina Hong as Linda Ho
Lau Wai Suen (Edmond So) and Chow Bing Chung (Ram Chiang) work for the Hong Kong IRD tax department. They conspire in helping citizens cheat on their taxes in exchange for personal gain. Wai Suen works for big corporation in cheating taxes while Bing Chung works with local street merchants for small gains. ICAC Senior Investigator Micheal Tang (Alex Fong) and Senior Investigator Ron Chan's team has to work together to gather enough evidence to make an arrest, but they are unable to before Wai Suen resigns from the IRD and works for a private accounting firm. Even though Wai Suen no longer works for IRD he is able to bribe former co-workers into giving him inside tax information. ICAC is not able to find any solid evidence on Wai Suen until they make the connection that his secretary Linda Ho (Akina Hong) is also his mistress and she is where he has been hiding the bribe money. ICAC arrest over 30 IRD employees but with no one cooperating they still don't have enough evidence to charge Wai Suen until ICAC is able to get a warrant to search IRD files. Bing Chung who does not work with Wai Suen is found guilty when ICAC finds a  IRD date stamp which he illegally obtained, at his home. Even though his gain was small he too was charged with abusing his position.

Case #4: Short Stake (短樁)
Starring:
Eddie Kwan as Wong Ding Chung
Lai Lok-yi as ICAC Investigator Arthur Kwok
Edwin Siu as Hung Gwok Keung
Kwok Fung as Wu Jol Gan
Yoyo Mung as ICAC Chief Investigator Grace
Leila Tong as Mary
Hung Gwok Keung (Edwin Siu) is a new building engineer, he highly looks up to the head of the construction crew Wong Ding Chung (Eddie Kwan). One night he heads to the building site because he left his passport there, but at the work site he sees a bunch of construction workers cutting piling columns short. At home he tells his girlfriend Mary (Leila Tong) what he had witnessed, she tells him to do the right thing and tell his superior Wu Jol Gan (Kwow Fung). He soon finds out that everyone at work is in on the devious scheme even Ding Chung. To keep Gwok Keung quiet they bribe him with a trip to Japan, not wanting to offend the construction crew he hesitatingly accepts the bribe. ICAC receives a tip of wrong doing when the previous project manager quits because he refused to cooperate with the construction crew. The stern new project manager demands to see all previous work documents, the construction crew afraid they will be found out forges fake files at night and have Gwok Keung pressured into signing the documents, but he refuses and finds out Ding Chung has been forging his signature, he decides to resign as he doesn't want to be part of their lies anymore. The new project manager finds the forged documents and reports it to Jol Gan, that night his life is threaten by two construction workers, soon he resigns also. ICAC finds their lead when records show a huge sum of money was transferred to the new project manager's bank account shortly after he resigned. ICAC brings him in for questioning, and he lets them know he didn't do anything wrong as he returned the money to the company and proceeds to tell ICAC all the information they need. With the forged documents on hand ICAC arrest all the workers that was involved even Gwok Keung because he had accepted bribes from them to keep quiet.

Case #5: Battle of Wits (終極鬥智)
Starring:
Anthony Wong as ICAC Chief Investigator Antonio Wong
Christine Ng as ICAC Principal Investigator Anna
Carl Ng as Moriz
Andrew Lin as Kwan Siu Yue
Evergreen Mak as Yue Gan Son
Hawick Lau as ICAC Officer Cheung Lap San
Moriz (Carl Ng) is a Russian nationalist who has been found with a fake passport by the police. He is sent to ICAC since the police are unsure this matter falls under their jurisdiction. Moriz tells ICAC Chief Investigator Antonio Wong (Anthony Wong) that a guy name Kwan Siu Yue (Andrew Lin) sold him the fake passport. ICAC finds out that Kwan Siu Yue is a crooked Immigration officer with a lengthy rap sheet. In exchange for letting Moriz go they ask him to help them net Siu Yue, but Moriz only agrees if ICAC protects him. Moriz sets up a fake deal with Siu Yue and his partner, Customs officer Yue Gan Son (Evergreen Mak), telling them that his boss from Russia is interested in buying a large amount of fake passports. Siu Yue demands to meet Moriz's boss in person before proceeding with the deal. In order for ICAC to carry through with the operation they work with US Customs on the case. US Customs sends one of their agents to pretend to be Moriz's boss, during the meeting with Siu Yue he tells the US agent that he can obtain a diplomatic passport for him, interested ICAC and US Customs decide to add that case to their operation. On the day of the exchange Siu Yue's partner from the US recognizes the US Customs agent and the deal almost falls through when Siu Yue tries to destroy evidence. With ICAC Investigator Wong's quick thinking he is able to stop evidence from being destroyed and all that is involved in the fake passport scam is arrested, but they forget about the African government agent who is to sell the diplomatic passport. ICAC Officer Cheung Lap San (Hawick Lau) who is still in the same facility as the African government agent pretends to be the buyer and arrest him when the deal is completed.

See also
ICAC Investigators (TV series)
Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)

References

External links
Official TVB Website (Chinese)
Official ICAC Website
Official ichannel Website (Chinese)

TVB dramas
2004
Hong Kong television series
2004 Hong Kong television series debuts
2004 Hong Kong television series endings
2000s Hong Kong television series


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

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The women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 21 September on National Stadium, Bukit Jalil.

Results

References

Relay
1998
1998 in women's athletics


The University of South Florida St. Petersburg Baseball Club was founded during the 2013 Fall semester. The club's president, founder, and head coach, Jeremy Berger, wanted to offer USFSP students the opportunity to play college baseball competitively. Even though the team is treated as a fraternity, both male and female students are welcomed to join the team.

The team's opening game was against the University of South Florida Tampa Campus' team. The USFSP baseball team won and earned well deserved bragging rights and huge momentum the team carried throughout the rest of the season. The team finished its inaugural opening season with an 18–5 season and played against larger, well established teams like the University of Florida and Florida State University. The team also traveled to Miami to play the University of Miami. However, because the team is considered only a club and is not a registered, official team, the USFSP Baseball Club was ineligible to play or qualify for any championships or playoffs.

However, the team does have long-term plans of becoming an NCAA team. In the meantime, the officers and players are focusing on recruiting more talented players. This way, the team can gain more acknowledgment and support from faculty and students. They also want to establish a name for themselves amongst other colleges. The team also hopes that more fans will come out to support the baseball team during their games next season, even if they do not like baseball. Players have said that simply coming to the game to support student athletes, friends, and classmates is encouraging.

Despite being barred from championships at the present time, the team did have some special acknowledgments and awards to accompany its amazing first season including an acknowledgment from USF President Dr. Judy Genshaft and was the  2013-14 New Organization of the Year. Berger was also nominated for student leader of the year.

The season began on February 15, 2014, with USF St. Petersburg playing against USF Tampa. The competition was dubbed “The Battle of the Bay” and was inspired by the already existent inter-campus rivalries. Dozens of students from both campuses arrived to cheer on their teams. Although the Tampa team, which was also playing its inaugural game, lost the 9-inning contest, both teams hope to make the inter-campus games an annual tradition.

For its first season, the team made Al Lang Stadium and Walter Fuller Baseball Stadium its home stadiums. The Al Lang Stadium, a couple blocks away from the school campus and in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, hosts dozens of sporting events for several different teams and sports. During soccer season, the stadium is transformed into a soccer field and hosts The Rowdies, the St. Petersburg professional soccer team. When the season is over, however, the field is transformed into a baseball field and allows for amateur baseball teams to play. The Walter Fuller Baseball Stadium was the former spring training field for the Tampa Bay Rays. However, when the Rays moved spring training to the Charlotte Sports Park, the Walter Fuller Baseball Stadium started hosting high school baseball teams and baseball tournaments.

On June 5, 2014, the St. Petersburg City Council held a meeting to determine if future contracts with the USFSP team will be made. The council decided in favor for these future contracts to be written. Now, the team has a place to play for at least one more season.

USF St. Petersburg has yet to build a stadium for any of the school's organized sports to be played on teams. The small campus does have a gym with dozens of work out machines, a pool, a couple basketball courts, and a waterfront program that gives sailing, scuba diving, and paddle boarding lessons just to name a few of its services.

The only team that the USFSP campus houses is the sailing team. This team keeps all of its equipment in the school's harbor and waterfront storage house. Because the school borders against the water, the sailing team practices and races in the ocean behind the campus. Also, because of the nature of this water sport, no benches or bleachers have been made to observe the races from land.

All the other USF teams are based out of the USF Tampa campus. However, even in Tampa, the teams often have to go to a different, already established stadium for professional teams in order to play. Even the USF football team has to travel to Raymond James Stadium (the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) to play opponents in games.

Despite the USFSP baseball team having an impressive first season and bring more sports to the St. Petersburg campus, it is not the first time a baseball team has represented the small, coastal campus. For several years during the 1970s, not a full decade after the campus was founded, students had built a  team as well. Like today, the team was categorized as a club rather than an actual, registered team - likely due to the fact that it is a club, not a registered team. Players brought their own gloves, bats, and other equipment in order to play since the school did not provide any. Despite this, the team still played larger universities and had impressive season records, much like today's team. Because the USFSP would rarely win against these other registered teams, it often confused the other team about what to do with their records. Other universities did not know if these games should count as wins since the USFSP team was not registered. It was common for these teams to decide not to include the USFSP games in their records. They simply considered the games to be practice or warm ups for the rest of the season.

References

External links

University of South Florida
2013 establishments in Florida


title: Theophilus Jones (1666–1742)

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Theophilus Jones (2 September 1666 – 14 March 1742) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1692 until his death in 1742.

He lived in Headfort, near Drumsna, County Leitrim.

He was a Member of Parliament for Sligo Borough from 1692 to 1695, and then for County Leitrim from 1695 to 1742.

His grandson Theophilus Jones (1729–1811) was a member of Parliament and a Privy Councillor.

References

1666 births
1742 deaths
Irish MPs 1692–1693
Irish MPs 1695–1699
Irish MPs 1703–1713
Irish MPs 1713–1714
Irish MPs 1715–1727
Irish MPs 1727–1760
Politicians from County Leitrim
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Sligo constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Leitrim constituencies


title: Himas

text:
In Greek mythology, Himas or Himantes was the father of Plouto and grandfather of Tantalus.

Note

References
 Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

Anatolian characters in Greek mythology


title: TI4

text:
TI4 may refer to:
 The International 2014, a Dota 2 tournament
 Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition, a 2017 board game


title: Latimer House

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Latimer House is a large country house at Latimer, Buckinghamshire. It is now branded as De Vere Latimer Estate and functions as a countryside hotel used for country house weddings and conferences. Latimer Place has a small church, St Mary Magdalene, which was built by Lord Chesham, in the grounds.

The Cavendish family

Latimer House, a mansion on the hill on the edge of the village, was once a home of members of the Cavendish family who became the barons Chesham. During the 17th century, Latimer Manor was the home of Christian Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, then later of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Cecil because Chatsworth House had been sequestered by Parliament. Their daughter, Anne Cecil, Countess of Exeter was born at Latimer and would later marry John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter, known as Lord Burghley, and would go living at Burghley House. During the 18th century, the Manor was lived in by the wife of Elihu Yale, Catherine Hynmers Yale and their daughter, Ursula Yale. Both are buried in the small church on the estate. They rented the estate from their son-in-law Lord James Cavendish, son of the 1st Duke of Devonshire, and husband of Anne Yale. The 3rd Baron Chesham was a commander in the Boer War. The original Elizabethan house, where Charles I was imprisoned in 1647 and Charles II took refuge before fleeing abroad, was gutted by fire in the early 1830s and the present red brick Tudor style mansion, which was designed by Edward Blore, was completed in 1838.

The House was built by Charles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham (1793-1863) in 1838. He was the son of Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Compton who was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northampton. In 1814 he married Lady Catherine Susan Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly. The couple had three children, two daughters and one son. In 1818 he became a Member of Parliament and remained in this role for most of his life.

His father had inherited the Latimer Estate some time before and there had been an old manor house on the property. On his father’s death in 1834 the property had passed to Charles with the manor but in 1838 there was a fire which caused severe damage to the house. Charles commissioned the famous architect Edward Blore to build the new house which was completed in 1838 and still stands today. A newspaper of that time made the following comment about the property. It stated:
"Mr Blore has fully sustained his character as the most skilful reviver of the domestic architecture of “Merrie Old England” in his admiral restoration of the quaint and picturesque Latimers."

Charles died in 1863 and his son William George Cavendish 2nd Baron Chesham (1815-1882) inherited Latimer House. He was educated at Eton College. He gained the rank of Officer in 1833 in the 10th Light Dragoons.

In 1847 he was elected Member of Parliament for Peterborough, a seat he held until 1852, and later represented Buckinghamshire from 1857 to 1863. He then succeeded his father in the Barony and took his seat in the House of Lords.

In 1849 William married Henrietta Frances Lascelles, daughter of William Saunders Sebright Lascelles and his wife Lady Caroline Georgiana Howard, daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle of Castle Howard. The couple had five children the eldest of whom was Major General Charles Compton William Cavendish (1850-1907) who became the 3rd Baron Chesham when his father died in 1882.

Major General Charles Compton William Cavendish was born in 1850 in London. He married Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor, daughter of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster  of Eaton Hall, and Lady Constance Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, on 13 November 1877. He had a very distinguished military career and fought in the Boer War where he received very favourable commendations. He had four children, one of whom was Lilah Cavendish. In 1903 Lilah was married at Latimer and the wedding was such a lavish affair that it was mentioned in numerous newspapers including some in Australia. The Australian paper gave the following description of the event:

"The church being within the grounds of Latimer, the family seat of the Cavendish family, the bridal party walked to It, the bride being accompanied by, her father, who gave her away. She wore a gown of white chiffon over satin, tastefully trimmed with Brussels lace and orange blossom, and a white satin train veiled with lace and embroidered with silver. Her chief jewel was a diamond and pearl cross brooch given by the bridegroom, and she carried a lovely Goodyear bouquet of lilies of the valley and white roses.

The magazine called “The Gentlewoman” carried a large picture of the bridal party returning from the Church after the wedding to Latimer House.

The 3rd Baron Chesham died in a hunting accident in 1907 when his horse stumbled while jumping a fence. His son John Compton Cavendish who was only 13 years old at the time became the 4th Baron Chesham.

John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham (1894-1952), was educated at Eton College and later gained the rank of captain in the 10th Hussars. He fought in both the first and second World Wars and in the First World War was awarded the Military Cross.

Second World War

During the Second World War, the house was the headquarters of IV Corps from August 1940 and the center of top secret activities by MI5 and MI6. It was also one of three stately homes where captured German U-boat submarine crews and Luftwaffe pilots were initially held before being transferred to conventional prisoner of war camps. The center included the M Room, with special recording equipment, and the covert approach taken was kept in secret, even from parliament. They recorded private conversations between German prisoners and generals, giving away war secrets in the process.

One of the conversations overhead was about Hitler's V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket missile. The information was sent to Winston Churchill, who was also a frequent visitor of Latimer House, and London was saved from bombarding as they destroyed the  German's missile base from afar. Hitler had the intention of launching 300 missiles a day on London. Today, Latimer is considered equal in importance to Bletchley Park for its role in the World War. Bletchley Park is the basis of the movie "The Imitation Game", portraying the historical computer scientist Alan Turing. When the estate was sold in the 1980s, a clause was added by the government to not open a secret wall in the basement for the next 50 years, as it also hide a secret tunnel used by top secret activities.

Over the course of the war, thousands of German prisoners, including Hitler’s Generals, would pass through Latimer House. They bugged the conversations of over 10,000 German prisoners-of-war, all recorded in over 100,000 transcripts, which are part of the National Archives. The operation of converting the estate for secret purpose was ordered by Churchill himself, with an unlimited budget, which in the end cost over 21 million pounds. The head of Latimer was Colonel Thomas Kendrick, a senior officer of MI6, who had about a thousand employees under his command, including listener Fritz Lustig.

Hitler's generals were often taken for a walk on the estate as way to extract them information, and many were used to help the gardener dig the vegetable garden on the estate. Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy, the highest ranking German prisoner ever held by British Intelligence, is believed to have been held at Latimer. Colonel Kendrick was also involved in the training of the OSS for the United States, known as the Office of Strategic Services, which became the CIA. U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, who replaced Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of JFK, had also his residence on the estate.

National Defence College

John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham died in 1952 and a year later the house became the home of the British military's National Defence College. On 12 February 1974, a bomb containing about 20 lbs of explosive, was placed close to one of the main buildings at the National Defence College by the Irish Republican Army. At 9.10 am the bomb exploded injuring 10 people but with no fatalities. Damage estimated at over £6,000 was caused.

Present day
Latimer Place is currently run as an independent hotel with conference facilities and branded the De Vere Latimer Estate. It was the subject of a TV documentary in the ITV series Britain's Secret Homes.

References

Sources

Country houses in Buckinghamshire


title: Time to Die (Electric Wizard album)

text:
Time to Die is the eighth studio album by English stoner/doom metal band Electric Wizard, released on 29 September 2014. It is their debut on Spinefarm, having left Rise Above. The album is the first since 2002’s Let Us Prey to feature founding member Mark Greening on drums.

The album is the longest Electric Wizard studio album to date (excluding bonus tracks and the added silence at the end of Dopethrone).

Track listing

Personnel

Electric Wizard
 Jus Oborn – guitar, vocals, bass
 Liz Buckingham – guitar
 Mark Greening – drums, Hammond organ

Guest musicians
  Count Orlof  – bass

Production
 Chris Fielding – mixing
  Jus Oborn – production

Charts

References

2014 albums
Electric Wizard albums


title: Ian Patrick Harris

text:
Ian Harris is a comedian, director, and mixed martial arts trainer. He owns a Los Angeles-based MMA training center called "Fight Science", named for the unique fighting style that he created. He integrates skepticism and critical thinking into his comedy.

Career

Comedy

In the year 1992, Ian moved to Los Angeles from Santa Cruz, California, with a friend. There they wrote the script Armaghetto, which they unsuccessfully tried to sell. Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles he was asked, after an audition, to close the show Annex Sunday Night at the comedy club The Ice House. After that he toured the U.S. performing at comedy shows. He often appeared in the comedy club Punch Line.

In 2000 he moved back to Los Angeles, where he earned a reputation for being brash and irreverent in his comedy. However, in 2006 he stopped doing stand-up comedy and touring, because of his production work and the birth of his daughter in 2005.

In 2011 Harris came back to stand-up comedy, integrating skepticism and critical thinking into his act: "I’m a comedian. That’s what I am at my core." He has made fun of Vaccine controversies, glucose intolerance, politics, religions, and the homeopathic “cold preventer” Airborne.
Six months after his comeback, Harris toured with comedians Jason Relser and Maurice Northup, doing a secular comedy show The Evolution of Comedy Tour.

Harris directed a few comedy specials, including one by Dwayne Perkins, which was bought directly by Netflix. On December 21, 2012, he recorded his own comedy special Ian Harris: Critical & Thinking. Harris' second hour TV special "ExtraOrdinary" was released Dec 12, 2017, by Adam Carolla's Chassy Media and is available on video-on-demand platforms. It was produced with Netflix in mind, but due to policy changes in the company's comedy division they did not pick it up. It was recorded in 2016 at the Rio Theatre in his home town of Santa Cruz (California).

Ian is also a regular contributing writer for US Weekly magazine's Fashion Police.

Harris has performed his comedy act at several atheist and skeptical events:
2017 American Atheists National Conference
2012 Ascent of Atheism Convention in Denver
2013 American Humanist Association National Convention in San Diego
2013 CFI Summit in Tacoma, Washington

In 2014 he hosted a Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles and in 2013 he performed for Atheists United.

Since 2015, Harris has been taking his comedy show to Atlanta's DragonCon, as part of the Skeptrack speaker roster.

In the Summer of 2017, Harris was added as a part-time co-host of Dogma Debate podcast with David Smalley.

Like comedian Bill Maher before him, he enjoys going to socially conservative areas in the united States. “There’s 10-20% that are starving for anything. They’re constantly surrounded by Jesus, nativity scenes, the right-wing propaganda is in full effect, it’s like Fox News year-round. So when he (Maher) goes into town, those 10%, they all buy a ticket. While you go to LA, with 13 million people just like you, they don’t give a shit.”

Comedy achievements

In the year 2001 he was on the Top 100 Comedians list of the Entertainment Business Journal, and he was a semi-finalist in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots Competition. Backstage West called him Top Character Comedian in Town, and he was a finalist in the San Francisco Comedy Competition.

Comedy awards and events:
1995 Finalist Cal State Chico Comedy Competition
1998 Finalist UCSF Comedy Competition
2000 Finalist San Francisco International Comedy Competition
2001 Semi-finalist Comedy Central Laugh Riots Competition
2013 Ventura Comedy Festival

Film

After some years of comedy, Ian wrote and directed his first movie It Burns When I Laugh which won Best Feature Film at the Seattle Underground Film Festival.
This film was presented in festivals, where it had a moderate success, then it was distributed on home video. Ian directed some other movies, short movies and music videos, and in 2013, he began to direct comedy specials for other fellow comedians.

Voice-over

In 2003 Ian began performing voice-overs in a commercial for Universal Orlando Resorts that aired on the Super Bowl of the same year. Since then he has performed voice-over for commercials, television shows, network promos, video games and animation. Clients have included DirecTV, Lays Potato Chips, Full Tilt Poker, Round Table Pizza and the networks Disney XD, Bravo and Fuel. Ian was the narrator for Fuse's Mad Genius, Pepsi/Twitter Live for Now and Scripps Top 3 of Everything. He also does some voice over on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

MMA

Ian began boxing at age six. He wrestled for two and a half years and trained Kenpo Karate, Wing Chun and Japanese Jujutsu for nine years. He also trained from 1992 to 2005 with Richard Bustillo, a Bruce Lee student. With him, Ian trained Jeet Kune Do and Muay Thai. In 1996 he also began to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu with Claudio Franca. He began training other fighters in 2003.
Ian has been featured in Tapout Magazine and Grappling Magazine teaching techniques and was showcased in the book MMA Lessons, a collection of the best MMA techniques from Tapout Magazine.
Ian coined his MMA fighting style Fight Science. In August 2017, Ian, along with three of his former students, opened an MMA training center in Los Angeles. They named it "Fight Science," after the style Ian created.

Critical thinking
Harris has been contributing a comedy essay focusing on critical thinking to the Skeptical Inquirer magazine in 2017-2018 in a column called The Last Laugh.

Awards

Film Awards and Accolades:
Official Selection, 2007 Newport Beach Film Festival
Official Selection, 2007 Del Rey Beach Film Festival
Best Short Nominee, 2007 Swansea Bay Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival
Best Feature Film, Seattle Underground Film Festival
Best Director, 2005 48 Hour Film Project, Los Angeles
Best Use of Genre: 2005 48 Hour Film Project, Los Angeles
Official Selection, 2005 Dances with Films Film Festival
Official Selection, 2005 Best of LA Shorts Festival
Audience Choice, 2004 48 Hour Film Project, Los Angeles
Best Music, 2004 48 Hour Film Project, Los Angeles
Finalist, 2003 Fade-In Magazine Short Film Awards
Best Film, 2003 Zephyr Short Film Festival, Los Angeles
Audience Choice Award, 2002 Colfax Film Festival
Official Selection, 2003 Cal State Fullerton Call to Arts Festival

Filmography

Director
 "Dwayne Perkins: Take Note" (2016) hour comedy special
"Ty Barnett: Issues" (2013) hour comedy special
"Bryan Kellen: Ballet Komedico" (2013) Hour Comedy Special
“Pashittu” Short Film (2006)
“The Cult” Television Pilot (2006)
“Booking Tacoma” Feature Film (2004)
“It Burns When I Laugh” Feature Film (2003)
“Silver Patriot: The Final Chapter” Short Film (2005)
“The Paul Decca Story” Short Film (2004)
“Ring Tone Blues” Short Film (2004)
“Dual” Short Film (2002)
“A.P.U. Art, Pot & Underwear” Short Film (2003)

Music videos
“Darkest Days” Good Riddance, 2006 Fat Wreck Chords
“Smoother than You” Danny Hamilton, 2005 Koala Records
“Dance of Shiva” OUTLIE, 2004 Porterhouse Records
“You Burn Me Up” The Haywoods, 2000 Wormtone Records

Personal life

Ian was born and grew up in Santa Cruz, California, USA. He attended San Lorenzo Valley High School. He was interested in stand-up comedy, writing short stories, boxing, martial arts and surfing.

“I grew up in the 80s (…) in Santa Cruz, in this kind of hippie counter-culture, with punk rock, which was huge in the Bay area back in the 80s. (…) I’ve been an atheist my own life. My act is kind of punk rocky.”  As a consequence, he tends to attract crowds of a certain age, the same older, white, educated people he meets at secularism conventions. “These are the college professors, not the students. They’re the ones who know who I am and who appreciate what I do. It’s very funny to me that this is the crowd. It’s a hip crowd though!”

Harris believes people within the secular movement should respect the range of political opinions of its members.  “We’re so splintered. Atheism is not a belief, it’s just a lack of belief in God. Everybody gets to atheism in a different way. (…) This guy might be kind of conservative, he may be a “lower taxes” guy. (...) It doesn't mean that he's not an atheist. (we're always straw-manning people in their own community, because they're easy targets. (...) But all they're doing is splintering their own community.”

He lives with his wife Jeaninne and their daughter Bella in Los Angeles, California, USA.

References

External links

 Extended Interview from Sensibly Speaking Podcast - December 2017

1971 births
Living people
American male comedians
American male mixed martial artists
21st-century American comedians


title: Pencil Code

text:
The Pencil Code is a high-order finite-difference code for solving partial differential equations, written in Fortran 95. The code is designed for efficient computation with massive parallelization. Due to its modular structure, it can be used for a large variety of physical setups like hydro- and magnetohydrodynamics relevant for, e.g., astrophysics, geophysics, cosmology, turbulence, and combustion. Many such setups are available as ready-to-run samples. Pencil Code is free software released under the GNU GPL v2.

Methods
The computational scheme is finite-difference and non-conservative; the time integration is implemented by an explicit scheme. Due to the usage of the vector potential, the magnetic field is intrinsically divergence free. High-order (4th, 6th, and 10th order, as well as single-sided or upwind) derivatives are available to resolve strong variations on the grid scale. With a set of automated tests, the functionality of the code is validated on a daily basis. MPI is used for parallelization, but the code can also be run non-parallel on a simple PC. There are modules for different time-integration schemes (e.g. three-step Runge–Kutta), treatment of shocks, embedded particle dynamics, chemistry, massive parallel I/O, etc.

Applications
The Pencil Code has mainly been applied to describe compressible turbulence and resistive magnetohydrodynamics. Applications include studies of planet formation, the solar dynamo, mono-chromatic radiative transfer, the coronal heating problem, debris disks, turbulent combustion of solid fuels, and others.

History
The Pencil Code development was started in 2001 by Axel Brandenburg and Wolfgang Dobler during the 'Helmholtz Summer School' at the Helmholtz Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. It was initially used for MHD turbulence simulations. The development was continued by a team of about ten code owners and around 90 additional developers who extended the code for their scientific research. It is used by additional users from various branches of science. The code repository was hosted at NORDITA until 2008 and was then moved to Google Developers. In April 2015 the code was migrated to GitHub. Since June 2018 the Pencil Code supports the HDF5 data format.

References

External links

 old Code development site and Subversion repository
 new Code development site and Subversion repository

Magnetohydrodynamics
Computational fluid dynamics
Simulation software
Parallel computing
Fortran software
Free astronomy software


title: Whitecross Street

text:
Whitecross Street is a short street in Islington, in Inner London. It features an eponymous street market and a large housing estate.

Since 2010, there has been an annual Whitecross Street Party one weekend in the summer, together with an exhibition of street art.

Location

The street is located in St Luke's, Islington. It runs north–south, between Old Street in the north, where it abuts St Luke Old Street, and the junction with Beech Street (west), Chiswell Street (east) and Silk Street (south, continuing the street) in the south. The southern junction marks the boundary with the City of London: Whitecross and Chiswell (north and east) are in Islington, while Beech and Silk (west and south) are in the city.

History

Whitecross Street formerly continued further south from its current southern end, to just outside Cripplegate, a gate of the London Wall surrounding the City of London.

In his 1720 work, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, John Strype wrote:
In Whitecross street, King Henry V. builded one fair House; and founded there a Brotherhood of St. Giles, to be kept. Which House, had sometime been an Hospital of the French Order, by the Name of St. Giles without Cripplegate, in the Reign of Edward I. The King having the Jurisdiction, and appointing a Custos thereof, for the Precinct of St. Giles, &c. Which Hospital being suppressed, the Lands were given to the Brotherhood, for the relief of the Poor.

In this Street was a White cross; and near it was built an Arch of Stone, under which ran a Course of Water down to the Moor, called now Moorfields."

The Fortune Playhouse, an early Elizabethan theatre, was built on the street c.1600. John Lambe was killed in 1628 at this theatre. It was closed in 1642 as part of Parliament's closure of all theatres. A debtors' prison, Whitecross Street Prison, was built on the street in 1813–15, near Fore Street (which still exists). After the prison's closure in 1870, the Midland Railway Company built a goods terminus and a booking office for goods and passengers on the site in 1876–77.

In between 1876 and 1906 the Cripplegate Bank was located at 31 and then 1 Whitecross Street, before been incorporated into the Union Bank of London.

The Cripplegate area was heavily damaged during World War II. When the Barbican Estate and Barbican Centre were reconstructed after the war, the section of Whitecross Street south of Silk Street was swallowed up by the new construction. The short section between Silk Street and Chiswell Street/Beech Street became part of Silk Street. St Giles Cripplegate, mentioned by Strype, is now within the Barbican Estate.

Whitecross Street Market

Whitecross Street Market, having been in existence for over 150 years, is one of London's oldest markets. The market was formerly one of London's great Sunday markets, and dates to the 17th century; although today, trading is largely limited to lunch times. During the mid-19th century, the street vendors and costermongers operating out of an informal street market in Whitecross Street came to public attention following the publication of a series of articles written by journalist,  James Greenwood, and published in the Pall Mall Gazette.  Greenwood's articles presented a brutal picture of the lives of London's poorest classes and caused a public sensation. By the end of the 19th century, the area had become a by-word for poverty and alcohol, and it became known as Squalors' Market.

Today the market consists of stalls arranged along the northern half of the street, between Old Street and Fortune Street, with the road closed to traffic. There is a small general market and a food market of up to 50 food and drink vendors Monday–Friday lunchtime, which can be bustling with activity (and queues) on a sunny lunch time. It has occasional food festivals. In recent times, there has been significant investment from Islington Council, the City of London and English Heritage. It is open Monday–Friday, 10am–2pm.

Whitecross Street Prison
Whitecross Street Prison was a debtors' prison built 1813–15 to ease overcrowding at Newgate Prison. It had a capacity of 400 prisoners. It closed in 1870, when all of the prisoners were transferred to the newly built Holloway Prison.

Other buildings

The Peabody Trust, one of London's oldest and largest housing associations, has a significant estate of social housing there, the Whitecross Street Estate.

References

External links

Streets in the London Borough of Islington


title: The Voice of China (season 3)

text:
The third season of the Chinese reality talent show The Voice of China premiered on 18 July 2014 on Zhejiang Television. Hu Qiaohua returned as host. Na Ying and Wang Feng returned as coaches. A-mei and Harlem Yu did not return for season three, making room for the return of Yang Kun after a one-season absence, and an addition of a new coach, Chyi Chin. On 7 October 2014, Zhang Bichen of Team Na Ying was announced as the winner of the season, making her the first female winner of The Voice of China. Perhat Khaliq of Team Wang Feng, Ryan Yu of Team Yang Kun, and UZ Qin of Team Chyi Chin finished runner-up, third, and fourth places respectively.

Changes from the previous seasons
This year's Blind Auditions were filmed outside Shanghai, where the two previous seasons were recorded. The number of members on each coach's team was increased to 16 from 14 in previous seasons. In addition, the "Steal" option introduced in Season 2 was removed from the Battle Rounds format.

One major change this year is that the show also allowed entries from street auditions in more than 100 cities in China. Several entries from street auditions passed through pre-show eliminations and made their way to the Blind Auditions.

Teams
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Blind auditions

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Episode 1 (18 July)

Episode 2 (25 July)

Episode 3 (1 August)

Episode 4 (8 August)

Episode 5 (15 August)

 - Na Ying pressed Wang Feng's button.

Episode 6 (22 August)
After the revival round, Chyi Chin's team still had one vacant position left. After discussion by the four coaches and directors, they decided to have an Overtime Round, in which those who were unsuccessful in the revival round got a chance to sing for Chyi Chin and he would decide if he wanted the contestant to join his team.

Episode 9 (12 September)
Originally there were 16 contestants in Yang Kun's group, but Aisin-Gioro Mei was refused and her performance was not broadcast in the show as she was only 14 years old. The vacant position was decided to be given to Liang Dongjiang.

The Battles
Coaches began narrowing down the playing field by training the contestants with the help of a "Dream Coach" ("Trusted Advisor" in all versions in English-speaking countries). Each episode features pairings from within a coach's team, and each battle concludes with the respective coach reducing his or her team from 16 to the top 4.

The format of the Battle Rounds is divided into two stages, the Battle Stage and the Sing-Off Stage. In the Battle Stage, each pairing jointly performs the same song, after which the 3 other coaches and the "Dream Coach" give their opinions. The main coach selects one of the pair to advance to the Sing-Off Stage. In the Sing-Off Stage, the top 8 singers are randomly paired and each performs a solo song, after which the main coach selects one of the pair to advance to the Team Championship Rounds.

Season three's advisors are Karen Mok and Chyi Yu (assistant coach) for Team Chyi Chin, Zheng Jun for Team Wang Feng, Jeff Chang for Team Na Ying and Jam Hsiao for Team Yang Kun.

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The Knockouts
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Coach Appreciation Night (Episode 11)
This episode was first broadcast on September 21, 2014. In this episode, all 16 contestants performed the song 《火》 (Fire), and then each of the contestants performed part of the song that they sang during the blind auditions to thank the coaches.

The Playoffs
There are two rounds in this stage. In the first round, the four contestants are randomly paired up, and the coach decides on the contestant to advance to the next round. In the second round, the two remaining contestants compete against each other, and the votes are decided by the media as well as the coach, who gives a total of 100 points for both contestants. The contestant with the highest number of votes is the team champion.

Round 1

Round 2

Final Battle Concert (Episode 14)
This episode was first broadcast at 21:10 (UTC+8, 14:10 in London, 9:10 in Eastern USA) on October 1, 2014. The final battle concert was held in Macau.

Live show

Episode 15: Finals (7 October)
This episode was first broadcast at 20:00 (UTC+8, 13:00 in London, 8:00 in Eastern USA) on October 7, 2014. The final concert was held in Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing. Zhang Bichen was named the winner.

Artists' appearances on earlier seasons or other talent shows
 Li Man sang in the blind auditions and revival round for season one, but both failed to turn any chairs. Both performances were not broadcast on television, but on http://v.qq.com/cover/b/brya6a9oh56w2dc/e00156bxylw.html.
 Mark Chang and Rose Liu appeared on the fourth season and the fifth season of One Million Star, and both of them finished in the second place.
 Eve Ai and UZ Qin appeared on the first season and the fifth season of Super Idol  as a challenger in the Challenging Round respectively. Ai also participated in the fifth season of Super Idol as a contestant, and went on to become the winner of the show.
 Cheng Shin-ci and Wendy Woo appeared on the second season and the third season of Chinese Million Star, and finished in the second and fifth place respectively.
 Tang Siu Hau appeared on the first season of The Voice, the singing competition from TVB, and finished in the sixth place.

Ratings

The data determined by CSM.

International broadcast

Singapore
In Singapore, the Singaporean audition shows were aired at 20:00 on July 10 and 17, 2014; the first episode aired at 19:00 on July 19, 2014. All the subsequent shows will be aired every Saturday. All shows above aired at MediaCorp Channel 8. Using the Toggle app, viewers in Singapore can watch the show exactly the same time Zhejiang TV broadcast for the first time (21:10 every Friday).

The 4th episode was postponed to 22:30 on August 9, 2014 due to the Singapore National Day Parade.

Malaysia
In Malaysia, the Malaysian qualification shows were aired at 22:30 on July 5 and 12, 2014; the regular episodes will be aired every Saturday, starting from July 19, 2014 at 8TV.

Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, the first episode aired at 21:10 on July 18, 2014 at now Hong Kong. The first episode aired at 13:15 on August 24, 2014 at HD Jade.

Taiwan
In Taiwan, the first episode aired at 20:00 on September 13, 2014 at CTi Variety.

References

Season 3
2014 Chinese television seasons


title: Tylomelania carota

text:
Tylomelania carota is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Kalaena River drainage, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Ecology
Tylomelania carota is a riverine species.

References

carota
Gastropods described in 1898