title: Ricken Tunnel

text:
The Ricken Tunnel () is an  long rail tunnel under the Ricken Pass in eastern Switzerland. It is on the Swiss Federal Railway Uznach–Wattwil line, between Kaltbrunn station and Wattwil station. The tunnel, which accommodates a single track through, is relatively straight and has a constant incline of 15.75 ‰ from Kaltbrunn to Wattwill.

The Ricken Tunnel was constructed between 1904 and 1910, and was initially used by steam-hauled trains. Following a fatal incident on 4 October 1926 in which nine railway employees died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning in the poorly ventilated tunnel, the line and tunnel were both electrified during 1927. The geology surrounding the tunnel is somewhat unfavourable, the rocks being prone to swelling and damaging the tunnel walls over time, necessitating repeated repairs and the occasional closure. During the 1990s, equipment for capturing geothermal energy was installed within the tunnel and has been used since; it remains open to railway traffic irrespective of this activity.

Operational history
During January 1904, construction of the tunnel commenced. Its excavation proceeded at a rapid pace, to the extent that a record was set in the process. During the boring process, workers encountered pockets of natural gas as well as traces of oil. The tunnel proved to be relatively dry, with the use of cement drainage proving sufficient to handle the levels of water infiltration present. On 30 March 1908, breakthrough was achieved in the Ricken Tunnel.

The complete tunnel was first opened to traffic on 1 October 1910. Prior to its electrification, the line was initially operated by steam locomotives; during this period, the Ricken Tunnel acquired a negative reputation because of its relatively steep gradient and the lack of adequate ventilation, which caused smoke to accumulate and linger within it. No substantial alterations were made to the tunnel to address its apparent ventilation issues prior to a fatal incident occurring.

On 4 October 1926, a steam hauled freight train stalled while inside of the tunnel whilst attempting to ascend the gradient; this unplanned stop was a result of the use of the poor quality briquettes that were being used as fuel for the locomotive. Despite multiple attempts to rescue the train crew, a total of nine railway employees died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which included three of the rescuers. As a consequence, both the line and the tunnel were promptly electrified during the following year.

Since the tunnel's original construction, it has been subject to repeated remedial repairs over time. These have been partially attributed to the surrounding geology, which consists of a high proportion of clay minerals and anhydrite rocks, that absorbs water and swells, with the dimensional changes causing damage to the tunnel walls. These repairs have sometimes necessitated temporary closures of the Ricken Tunnel; during these periods of unavailability, rail-replacement buses via the Ricken Pass have been provided for the use of the travelling public.

During the 1990s, an energy capturing heat pump was installed at the southern portal of Ricken tunnel to function as a source of geothermal energy; by 2003, it was reportedly providing 501 kWt of energy to heat several public buildings in the neighbouring village of Kaltbrunn. This apparatus does not interfere with its use as an active railway tunnel.

References

Citations

Bibliography

 Lauchli, Eugene, "Short and Long Tunnels of Small and Large Section Driven Through Hard and Soft Materials." McGraw-Hill,· 1915.
 Mulholland, Catherine. "William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles." University of California Press, 2002.
 Schneider, Ascanio and Armin Masé. "Railway Accidents of Great Britain and Europe." David & Charles, 1970.

Buildings and structures in the canton of St. Gallen
Railway tunnels in Switzerland
Tunnels in the Alps
Tunnels completed in 1910


title: Platinum Tour

text:
The Platinum Tour presented by Crystal Light is the fifth headlining concert tour by American country music singer Miranda Lambert. The tour was in support of her fifth studio album, Platinum (2014). The first leg of the tour began on July 10, 2014, in Fort Loramie, Ohio and ended on September 20, 2014, in Honolulu with there being thirty dates for that leg. Lambert kicked off the second leg called, the "Certified Platinum Tour" on January 15, 2015, in Evansville, Indiana. This leg will end on July 9, 2015, in Calgary, Alberta. The third leg called the "Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour" began on September 25, 2015, in Billings, Montana and ended on October 19, 2015. The tour ended on March 13, 2016. The 2015 legs of tour grossed $20 million.

Background
The tour was first announced in May 2014, and began on July 10, with the first leg ending on September 20. Lambert says, "Platinum represents a lifestyle for me. It's the color of my hair, wedding ring, my airstream trailer, so it's just a natural fit for the name of my new album and its why we decided to name the tour Platinum too." A second leg was later added beginning on January 2, 2015 and will end on March 26. The shows in March 2016 are a part of the C2C: Country to Country festival and will be Lambert's first European shows.

Concert synopsis
At the beginning of the show, there is "a montage paying homage to female pioneers", such as Sally Ride. Then on a black screen "a slogan in white text" and in capital letters appears saying, "Well-behaved women rarely make history." Before the show began, "there was a screening of the music video for "Somethin' Bad", her hit song with Carrie Underwood. Lambert starts the show with "Fastest Girl in Town" and closes with "Gunpowder & Lead". During "Famous in a Small Town" the video screen shows "clips of Lambert as a child and as a young country star starting her career."

On March 6, 2015, in Oklahoma City and on March, 7, in Wichita, Kansas, Lambert surprised the audience by bringing her husband, Blake Shelton up on stage to sing "God Gave Me You".

Fan interaction
Inspired by Lambert's song and video, "All Kinds of Kinds", Lambert wants to know what "kinds of kinds" the fans are. Concert goers can uploaded photos of themselves online for a chance for their photo to be shown on the big screen during the show.

Opening acts

Neal McCoy
RaeLynn
Danielle Bradbery
Florida Georgia Line
Tyler Farr
Justin Moore
Thomas Rhett

Setlist

"Fastest Girl in Town"
"Kerosene"
"Platinum"
"Little Red Wagon"
"Baggage Claim"
"Hard Staying Sober"
"Over You"
"All Kinds of Kinds"
"Me and Charlie Talking"
"Babies Makin' Babies"
"Famous in a Small Town"
"Mississippi Queen"
"Mama's Broken Heart"
"Bring Me Down"
"Smokin' and Drinkin'"
"The House That Built Me"
"Automatic"
"New Strings"
"White Liar"
"Gunpowder and Lead"
Encore
 "Gravity Is a Bitch"
"Somethin' Bad"

Tour dates

Fairs, festivals and other performances
 This concerts was a part of the Country Concert at Hickory Hills Lake.
 This concert was a part of the Great Jones County Fair.
 This concert was a part of the Faster Horses Fest.
 This concert was a part of the Oregon Jamboree.
 This concert was a part of Stagecoach Festival.
 This concert was a part of Big Barrel Country Music Festival.
 This concert was a part of Dauphin's Countyfest.
 This concert was a part of the North Dakota State Fair.
 This concert was a part of Cheyenne Frontier Days.
 This concert was a part of WE Fest.
 This concert was a part of the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam.
 This concert was a part of Cause for the Paws.
 These concerts are a part of the C2C: Country to Country music festival.

Critical reception
Nate Chinen of the New York Times says, "She hit her marks, but seemed to be punching from a distance for the third of the show. It was as if she had grown weary of her own ironclad image, or the delivery system around it, or the many forms of upkeep required." "Whatever the case, as she labored, her band smoothly churned, with a balance of muscle and finesse."

The Wichita Eagle's Denise Neil remarked how Lambert thrilled the crowd at Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita.

Notes

References

External links
Lambert's Official Website

2014 concert tours
2015 concert tours
2016 concert tours
Miranda Lambert concert tours


title: Zernitz station

text:
Zernitz station is a former station on the Berlin–Hamburg Railway. The station opened in 1846 and is one of the oldest in the German state of Brandenburg. Originally it was used mainly to connect to the town of Kyritz. Next to the station, which had originally been built on an open field, a settlement subsequently developed that was also called Bahnhof Zernitz or Zernitz-Bahnhof (Zernitz station). The station was closed in 1995. The station building, which was built with the original construction of the railway, has heritage protection, as does the burial site of 48 Jewish concentration camp prisoners in the south of the village. They were killed in 1945 when a prisoner transport was accidentally strafed in the station by American low-flying aircraft.

Location

The station is located in Bahnhof Zernitz in the municipality of Zernitz-Lohm in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin, about two kilometres west of the hamlet of Zernitz. It is located at km 83.5, measured from Berlin. The station was originally built to connect the town of Kyritz, which is located about six km north of the station.

History
The original plans for the Berlin–Hamburg Railway proposed a route via Kyritz, then seat of the district of Ostprignitz. However, the realised route runs further south through Neustadt (Dosse) and Wittenberge. As a replacement, Kyritz received a station at Zernitz. The fact that the main purpose of the station was not to meet a few local needs but instead to provide connections from places in the area is evident from the location of the station on the road from Kyritz to Lohm, some distance from the village of Zernitz. The station was not only intended as a station for Kyritz, but was also to serve the much more distant Wittstock. In the 1880s, the railway facilities were extended and the entrance building was enlarged.

In 1887, the town of Kyritz received a direct rail connection with the opening of the Meyenburg–Neustadt (Dosse) railway, so that Zernitz station subsequently mainly served traffic to the surrounding villages.

On 16 April 1945, a train carrying Jewish prisoners, mainly originating from Hungary, from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who had been deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, was accidentally strafed near the station by American low-flying aircraft. 48 prisoners were killed. They were buried in the southern outskirts and are remembered today by a memorial to their fate.

The station building was completely refurbished in 1990/91. Passenger trains have no longer stopped in the station since 1995. In the course of the renovation of the railway in the late 1990s, the station was also closed down operationally and the platforms, points and sidings were removed.

Infrastructure

The station building is located north of the railway line (on the side towards the town of Kyritz), although most of the district of Zernitz and Bahnhof Zernitz is located south of the track. Unlike most of the station buildings on the Berlin–Hamburg Railway, the two-storey building with a gabled roof initially had a cross-shaped ground plan, which on all sides had a triangular pediment with acroteria. The long sides had four portals with avant-corps, the lateral sides had three portals. The architects of the building with its "sober neoclassical plaster structure" were Friedrich Neuhaus (the planning director of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway) and Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz. The building was extended in the longitudinal direction, presumably in the late 1880s. Unlike other station buildings along the route that were extended during this period (such as Paulinenaue station), Zernitz station continued to be strictly symmetrical and its structure was limited to a few distinct forms. It has been preserved in this form until today.

In 1990/91, the building was extensively renovated with a large amount of yellow used around the windows. It was given heritage protection in 1993. Afterwards it continued to be used for residential purposes in the 1990s, but it stands empty today. Next to the station building there is a toilet block. South of the tracks is the goods shed, which was probably built in the 1880s. The ensemble is itemised as the "station building with toilet block and forecourt" on the list of historic monuments.

None of the railway tracks of the station, except the two through tracks, are preserved, but operationally Zernitz still serves as a block post.

District

The settlement around the station has been officially named Bahnhof Zernitz (Zernitz station), but on the entrance signs and in other places it also called Zernitz-Bahnhof. It was built only after the opening of the station. Mostly traders and businessmen settled here. The settlement belonged to the municipality of Zernitz, which was merged with the neighbouring municipality of Lohm to form the municipality of Zernitz-Lohm on 31 December 1997.

Two country roads, the L14 from Kyritz to Lohm and the L141 from Neustadt (Dosse) to Breddin, cross in the village.

Most of the houses of the settlement lie parallel to the railway line and south of it on Stüdenitzer Straße, but a few houses are grouped around the entrance building on the north side of the tracks. The road from Kyritz crossed the railway track on a level crossing west of the station. During the upgrade of the line, the crossing was closed and replaced by an underpass east of the station. South of the road there is a small grove containing a cemetery where this is a small memorial for the Jewish concentration camp prisoners.

Jewish cemetery

The memorial for the murdered Jewish prisoners is a listed building. There is a memorial plaque in German and Hebrew to the victims:

Beside it is a description on another panel in German, Hebrew and Hungarian of the events and a third plaque gives the names of the dead. Apart from the actual memorial there is another grave for the Jewish lawyer Theodor Steigerwald, who died in 1947. He had been hiding from the Nazis during the war in the Kyritz area. Before his death he had made known his wish to be buried here also.

References

Railway stations in Brandenburg
Neoclassical architecture in Germany
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1846


title: Eglin AFB Site C-6

text:
Eglin AFB Site C-6 is a United States Space Force radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment.  Commencing operations in 1969, the AN/FPS-85 was the first large phased array radar.  The entire radar/computer system is located at a receiver/transmitter building and is supported by the site's power plant, fire station, 2 water wells (for 128 people), and other infrastructure for the system.  As part of the US Space Force's Space Surveillance Network its mission is to detect and track spacecraft and other manmade objects in Earth orbit for the Combined Space Operations Center satellite catalogue.  With a peak radiated power of 32 megawatts the Space Force claims it is the most powerful radar in the world, and can track a basketball-sized object up to  from Earth.

Background and mission
The AN/FPS-85 radar constructed at Eglin Site C-6 in the 1960s during the Cold War as a cutting edge  phased array radar and computer system originally designed to detect and track orbital nuclear missiles.  During the 1960s, to counter the growing threat from the West's nuclear missiles on their borders in Turkey, Europe, and Asia, the Soviet Union (now Russia) developed a system to deliver nuclear weapons with missiles in Earth orbit, called a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS).   The United States had early-warning radar systems for missiles such as BMEWS, but it could only detect threats incoming from the north, because a nuclear strike against the US from the Soviet Union using conventional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) would come by the shortest (great circle) route, over the North Pole.  FOBS missiles in contrast could orbit the Earth before beginning their reentry, so they could attack the US from any direction.  In a 15 March 1962 speech during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev alluded to this developing capability:

"We can launch nuclear missiles not only over the North Pole, but in the opposite direction too. Global rockets can fly from the oceans or other directions where warning facilities cannot be installed.  Given global missiles, the warning system has lost its importance. Global missiles cannot be spotted in time to prepare any measures against them."

The possibility of such a threat from space, as well as the increasing number of satellites in Earth orbit since Sputnik, convinced the U.S. Air Force that it needed to greatly expand its space tracking facilities, and the AN/FPS-85 was designed for this mission.   Its south-facing radar antenna with 120° azimuth coverage was well situated for monitoring low-inclination (equatorial) orbits in addition to detecting FOBS attacks, and could reportedly see 80% of satellites orbiting the Earth.

Construction of the radar began in 1962, but a fire during predeployment testing destroyed it in 1965.  It was rebuilt and became operational in 1969.

The AN/FPS-85 was the world's first large phased array radar.  The Air Force developed phased array technology because conventional mechanically rotated radar antennas could not turn fast enough to track multiple ballistic missiles.  A nuclear strike on the US would consist of hundreds of ICBMs incoming simultaneously.  The beam of a phased array radar is steered electronically without moving the fixed antenna, so it can be pointed in a different direction in milliseconds, allowing it to track many incoming missiles at the same time.  The AN/FPS-85 could track 200 objects simultaneously.  This capability is now useful for tracking the thousands of manmade pieces of space debris currently in orbit.  The phased array technology pioneered in the AN/FPS-85 was further developed in the AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS radars, and is now used in most military radars and many civilian applications.

In 1975 the deployment by the Soviet Union of submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), which were also not limited to a northern trajectory and were a greater threat because of the smaller warning time due to their shorter flight path, caused the Air Force to change the primary mission of the radar to SLBM detection and tracking.  By 1987 the construction of two south-facing PAVE PAWS radar sites in Georgia and Texas took over this workload, and the AN/FPS-85 was returned to full-time spacewatch duties.

Today other radars share the spacetracking duties, but the AN/FPS-85 is still the primary surveillance radar in the US Space Surveillance Network due to its high power and good coverage, reportedly handling 30% of the SSN workload.  The Space Force claims it is the only phased array radar that can track spacecraft in deep space, can detect an object the size of a basketball out to geosynchronous orbit, 35,700 km in space,  and is the most powerful radar in the world.  However its aging legacy technology, which uses vacuum tubes, gives it high maintenance costs.  Its maintenance crew must repair an average of 17 of its 5000 modular transmitter units daily, at an annual cost of $2 million.

How the radar works

The AN/FPS-85 radar operates at a frequency of 442 MHz (a wavelength of 68 cm) in the UHF band, just below the UHF television broadcast band, with a 10 MHz bandwidth and a peak output power of 32 megawatts.  The radar has separate transmitting and receiving array antennas mounted side-by-side on the sloping face of its transmitter building, pointing south at an elevation angle of 45° (modern phased array radars use a single antenna array for both transmitting and receiving, but at the time it was built this was the simplest design). The transmitting antenna (on the left in the pictures) was a square 72x72 array of 5,184 crossed-dipole antenna elements spaced 0.55 wavelength (37 cm) apart, which was later upgraded to 5928 elements. Each antenna element receives power from a separate transmitter module having an output power of 10 kW.  The receiving antenna on the right consists of an octagonal array 58 m in diameter consisting of 19,500 crossed dipole antenna elements feeding 4,660 receiver modules.

The transmitter module for each antenna element contains a phase shifter which can change the phase (relative timing) of the oscillating current applied to the antenna, under control of the central computer.  Due to the phenomenon of interference, the radio waves from each separate transmitting antenna element combine (superimpose) in front of the antenna to produce a beam of radio waves (plane waves) traveling in a specific direction.  By altering the relative phase of the radio waves emitted by the individual antennas, the computer can instantly steer the beam to a different direction.

The beam of radio waves reflects off the target object, and some of the waves return to the receiving array.  Like the transmitting antennas, each receiving antenna element has a phase shifter attached, through which the current from the antenna must pass to get to the receiver.  The currents from the separate antennas add together in the receiver with the correct phase that the receiver is sensitive to waves coming from only one direction.  By altering the phase of the receiving antennas, the computer can steer the receiving pattern (main lobe) of the antenna to the same direction as the transmitted beam.

The radar beam can be deflected up to 60° from its central boresight axis, allowing it to scan an azimuth (horizontal angle) of 120° and an elevation range from the horizon to 15° past the zenith.  The transmitted beam is 1.4° wide.  The receive pattern is only 0.8° wide, but is split into 9 subbeams or sublobes at slightly different angles, surrounding the target.  By determining which of the 9 sublobes receives the strongest return signal, the computer can determine which direction the target is moving, facilitating tracking.

The operation of the radar is completely automated, controlled by 3 computers, including two IBM ES-9000 mainframes.  The radar operates 24 hours a day, in a rapid repeating cycle 50 milliseconds long (called a "resource period") during which it transmits up to 8 pulses and listens for an echo.  In its surveillance mode it repeatedly scans a predetermined path called a "surveillance fence" along the horizon across a wide azimuth to detect orbiting objects as they rise above the horizon into the radar's field of view.

Structures

Transmitter/receiver building  The antenna elements are mounted on the inclined faces of the transmitter/receiver building. and within the structure is the remainder of the radar, computer, and crew operations equipment.  By 2012, the computer room had 2 "IBM ES-9000 mainframe computers, two RADAR and Interface Control Equipment cabinets, and two SunSparc workstations."  In the squadron Mission Operations Center, "...personnel use a screen with [space] objects assigned numbers, similar to an air traffic control screen."  An attached garage is on the building's east side.
Power building  The power building has an electrical generation system (cf. the earlier BMEWS "ELEC PWR PLANT" models AN/FPA-19 and -24.)
Fire Station  In 2011, the site's fire station () was added to the USGS's Geographical Names Information System (the transmitter/receiver building is not listed.)
Recreation facilities  A softball field and gymnasium are available.
Monitoring station  A nearby monitoring station is used for processing a once-per-second calibration pulse transmitted by the radar.

History
1950s missile testing over the Gulf of Mexico used radar sites on federal land assigned to Eglin AFB (e.g., the Anclote Missile Tracking Annex through 1969 at the mouth of the Anclote River near Tampa, the 1959 Cudjoe Key Missile Tracking Annex, and the Carrabelle Missile Tracking Annex that "transferred from RADC to Eglin AFB" on 1 October 1962.)   "Following the launching of Sputnik I on 4 October 1957, the Air Force's Missile Test Center at Patrick AFB, Florida, set up·a project to observe and collect data on satellites."

Eglin AFB had its "first satellite tracking facility…operational fall 1957", and the 496L System Program Office formed in early 1959.  Bendix Corporation was contracted and built a linear array at their Baltimore facility, followed by a prototype "wideband phased array radar (EPS 46-XW 1)" with IBM computer from Spring 1959 through November 1960.  The Bendix AN/FPS-46 Electronically Steerable Array Radar (ESAR) using L-band began transmitting in November 1960 as "the first full-size pencil-beam phased-array radar system."  "HQ AFSC decided to give full technical responsibility for the development of a sensor for the 496L Space Track System to RADC…after the Soviet lead in satellite technology in October 1957 and the subsequent failure to locate Explorer XII for six months after it was launched" on August 16, 1961. Gen. J. Toomay was program manager after the phased array program transferred to RADC and based on the Bendix Radio Division's ESAR success, the FPS-85 contract was signed on 2 April 1962.

Site construction
Site C-6 construction began in October 1962 for a system "providing for the possibilities of numerous tube failures by arranging for a large number of people to do replacements" during operations.  On 5 November 1964, DDR&E recommended the Site C-6 system be used for submarine-launched ballistic missile detection.  Before radar testing planned in May 1965, a 5 January 1965 fire due to arcing that ignited dielectric material "almost totally destroyed" the transmitter/receiver building and contents (the system was insured.)  On 22 June 1965 the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed CONAD to prepare a standby plan to also use Site C-6 computer facilities "as a backup" to the NORAD/ADC Space Defense Center "prior to the availability of the AN/FPS-85."

By December 1965 NORAD decided to use the future Site C-6 radar "for SLBM surveillance on an "on-call" basis"  "at the appropriate DEFCON", and the specifications for the Avco 474N SLBM Detection and Warning System contracted 9 December 1965 required the AN/GSQ-89 processing system for networking the AN/FSS-7 SLBM Detection Radar to also process Site C-6 data.   By June 1966 the Site C-6 system was planned "to have the capability to operate in the SLBM [warning] mode simultaneously with the [space] surveillance and tracking modes".  Rebuilding of the "separate faces for transmitting and receiving" began in 1967, with the destroyed analog phase shifters and vacuum tube receivers replaced by low-loss diode phase shifters and transistor receivers.

Space Defense
Eglin Site C-6's squadron of the 9th Aerospace Defense Division activated in September 1968 (now the 20th Space Control Squadron) and after "technical problems"; the site with radar and computer systems was completed in 1968, were turned over to Air Force Systems Command on 20 September 1968, and "became operational in December 1968,

Eglin Site C-6 was assigned to Aerospace Defense Command on 20 December 1968, and the site - using the FORTRAN computer language--became operational during the week of 9 February 1969.  Site C-6 was the 1971-84 location of the Alternate Space Surveillance Center.  In 1972 20% of the site's "surveillance capability…became dedicated to search for SLBMs" (the USAF SLBM Phased Array Radar System was initiated In November 1972 by the JCS  while the Army's MSR and PAR phased arrays for missile defense were under construction.)  The FPS-85 was expanded in 1974, and "a scanning program to detect" SLBM warheads was installed in 1975.  Alaska's AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane phased array site was completed in 1976 and from 1979 until 1983, Site C-6 was assigned to Strategic Air Command's Directorate of Space and Missile Warning Systems (SAC/SX)--as were the new PAVE PAWS phased array sites operational in 1980.

Space Command / Air Force Space Command
In 1983 Eglin Site C-6 transferred to Space Command (later renamed Air Force Space Command), and the "FPS-85 assumed a deep space role in November 1988 after receiving a range-extension upgrade enabling integration of many pulses."  After a contractor protest was denied in 1993, a "new radar control computer" was installed at the site in 1994 (upgraded software was installed in 1999.)  The original central monitoring system that tested for failing transmitter modules was replaced by a PC-based system in March 1994.  In 1994 when the "amplifier and mixing functions on the existing transmitters" used six vacuum tubes for each module, Southwest Research Institute was redesigning the transmitters (5 tubes were replaced by solid-state components.)  By 1998, the site was providing space surveillance on "38 percent of the near-earth catalogue" of space objects (ESC's "SND C2 SPO was the System Program Office.)  "A complete modernization…of the 1960s signal-processing system was being studied in 1999", and in 2002 Site C-6 was tracking "over 95 percent of all earth satellites daily."  In 2008, the site's squadron won the General Lance W. Lord Award for mission accomplishment (new "3-D modeling software" had been implemented.)  In 2009, the site had been included in a computer model of the February 2009 satellite collision, and GCC Enterprises was contracted for completing "AntiTerrorism and Force Protection Improvements" to the site's infrastructure (perimeter fences, etc.), By 2011 the site's "16 million observations of satellites per year" (rate of 30.4/minute) was "30 percent of the space surveillance network's total workload".  A 2012 Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility opened at the site and in 2013, "new operating modes at Cavalier AFS and Eglin AFB [Site C-6 provided] more accuracy" than the 1961 VHF Space Surveillance Fence, which could not detect space objects in low altitude/high eccentricity orbits and was decommissioned by November 2013.

In September 2019, L3Harris Technologies was awarded a $12.8 million in a contract for sustainment support of the radar in the Air Force Space Command Space Surveillance Network.

United States Space Force
In December 2019, with the establishment of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as an independent U.S. military service under the Department of the Air Force, Eglin Site C-6 and its assigned squadron became a USSF facility.

References

Aerospace Defense Command military installations
Strategic Air Command radar stations
Equipment of the United States Space Force
United States Space Surveillance Network


title: Johan Damius

text:
Johan Damius (1570 – 15 December 1648), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.

Biography
He was born in Ladenburg a/d Neckar as the son of Johannes Dammius who moved to Haarlem before 1578 where he gave the first Protestant sermon in the Grote Kerk, Haarlem after Haarlem was freed from Spanish (Catholic) occupation. The young Damius was educated along with his brother Mathias to become a doctor, but both brothers later became political rebels after their father died in 1612, acting against the remonstrant council of Haarlem in 1618. Mathias was banned from the city for supporting Adriaen Jacobsz Tetrode and Daniel de Souter when he published 3 contra-remonstrant pamphlets in 1617 starting with Requeste der dolerende Kercke te Haerlem. He and his brother were reinstated after the political changeover in 1618. Johan became a judge and later mayor.

He also became captain of the St Adrian militia in 1619-1621 and 1624-1625, becoming fiscaal/provost in 1625-1627. He was married twice; to Catharina van Deutekom on 6 February 1596 and to Anna van Offenberg 29 October 1620.

He was portrayed by Frans Hals in his militia group portrait or schutterstuk, The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627. Anna was the cousin of Boudewijn van Offenberg, the flag bearer in the pendant of this painting, painted in the same year for the St. George militia: The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627.

He died in Haarlem.

References

Johan Damius De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 60, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives

1570 births
1648 deaths
Mayors of Haarlem
People from Ladenburg
Frans Hals


title: Let It Burn (song)

text:
"Let It Burn" is a song by American singer Jazmine Sullivan. It was written by Sullivan and Key Wane for her third studio album Reality Show (2015), while production was helmed by the latter. The song is built around a sample of "Ready or Not" (1989) by American R&B group After 7. Due to the inclusion of the sample, its writer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds is also credited as songwriter.

The song was released as the album's third single and became Reality Show highest-charting offering, reaching number four on the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the song — along with its parent album — received two nominations in the categories for Best R&B Song and Best Traditional R&B Performance. After 7 and Sullivan performed a mashup of "Let It Burn" and "Ready or Not" at the 2015 Soul Train Music Awards, celebrating fellow honoree Babyface.

Background
"Let It Burn" was written by Sullivan and producer Key Wane for her third studio album Reality Show (2015) and samples from "Ready or Not" (1989) by American R&B group After 7 as written by Kenneth "Babyace" Edmonds. A throw-back to 1980s music, the song is a dreamy, simmering late-night ballad, that is built upon a synth-heavy instrumentation. Lyrically, "Let It Burn" was inspired by a previous relationship during which Sullivan felt that she was not acting like an ideal girlfriend. In 2019, she revealed that she almost failed to finish the song.

Sullivan recorded her vocals on the song in one take. Pre-produced by frequent collaborator Wane, she initially recognized the melody of "Let It Burn" as something she had heard before, but was not aware of the sample until months after she recorded it. When asked about the sample, she commented: "I don’t mind samples if the feel is there. With “Let it Burn” the track felt so good that I couldn't imagine it without the sample, but I think it helped that I didn't know the original song." Sullivan further described "Let It Burn" as a "classic song, a timeless R&B song."

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Gleyder "Gee" Disla – recording
Kenneth Edmonds – writer (sample)
Joe Gallagher – vocal recording
Gary Noble – mixing
Jazmine Sullivan – vocals, writer
Key Wane – producer, writer

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

2015 singles
2014 songs
Jazmine Sullivan songs
RCA Records singles
Songs written by Babyface (musician)
Songs written by Key Wane
Songs written by Jazmine Sullivan


title: Con vos en la web

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Con Vos en la Web ("With you on the web") is a communication and information strategy on the safe use of the Internet. The program develops prevention contents and works on educating young people and their teachers on the responsible use of Information and Communication Technologies. It is a space for communication, advice and participation of children and teenagers on issues related to new technologies and the protection of personal data.

It was created in 2012 within the National Directorate for Personal Data Protection, an entity under the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, during the office of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as President and Julio Alak as Ministry of Justice On 2018, it was relocated to the National Directorate for the Argentine Legal Information System under the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

Purpose

The purpose of Con Vos en la Web is to inform and promote good practices for the use of the Internet and to identify and reduce any risk factors intrinsic to the use of new technologies. To this end, the Program develops educational contents for children and their parents and teachers throughout the Argentine territory.

References

Sources
 “Con Vos en la Web” official website

External links
 About new technologies for education on the web
 Talk on the responsible use of the Internet
 Awareness of the responsible use for digital natives
 Caution online

Education in Argentina
Argentine websites


title: Robert Cassen

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Professor Robert Harvey Cassen OBE (born 1935), is a British economist and former Professor of the Economics of Development at the University of Oxford.

Biography

Robert Cassen was born on 24 March 1935 and educated at Bedford School, at New College, Oxford, at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University, where he completed his doctorate in economics. He taught in the department of economics at the London School of Economics between 1961 and 1969, was Senior Economist at the Overseas Development Ministry between 1966 and 1967, Senior Economist at the World Bank between 1969 and 1972 (and again between 1980 and 1981), Special Advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Overseas Development between 1973 and 1974, Director of the Oxford Department of International Development between 1986 and 1993, Professor of the Economics of Development at the University of Oxford between 1986 and 1997, and Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford between 1986 and 1997. He has been visiting professor at the London School of Economics since 1997.

He was appointed OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Publications

India: Population, Economy, Society, 1978
Planning for Growing Populations, 1979
World Development Report, 1981
Rich Country Interests and Third World Development, 1982
Soviet Interests in the Third World, 1985
Does Aid Work?, 1986, 2nd edition 1994
Poverty in India, 1992
Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions, 1994
India: The Future of Economic Reform, 1995
21st Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development and the Environment, 2004
Tackling Low Educational Achievement, 2007

References

1935 births
People educated at Bedford School
Alumni of New College, Oxford
English economists
Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford
Living people
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Academics of the London School of Economics
University of California, Berkeley alumni


title: Domatoceras

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Domatoceras is a nautiloid genus and member of the Grypoceratidae from the Pennsylvanian and Permian with a wide spread distribution.

The shell of Domatoceras is evolute, coiled with whorls touching but not overlapping, some growing to be moderately large. Whorl section subquadrate, higher than wide.  Sides essentially straight to slightly bowed and slightly convergent on a broad slightly arched venter on the outer rim.  Shoulder are narrow but rounded.  Chambers are short but lengthen slightly before the mature living chamber, septa close spaced, sutures form broad shallow lateral and ventral lobes and sharp ventro-lateral saddles.  The dorsum in slightly impressed (indented) where it rides over the previous whorl. The siphuncle is subventral, located between the center and the ventral margin and, where known, slightly expanded so as to be longitudinally spindle shaped.

References
 Bernhard Kummel 1964. Nautiloidea-Nautilida   Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.

Nautiloids
Pennsylvanian first appearances
Permian genus extinctions


title: North Charlestown Historic District

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The North Charlestown Historic District encompasses a 19th-century rural village in Charlestown, New Hampshire. Located about  north of the town's center, the district includes a small cluster of buildings along New Hampshire Route 12A (River Road) that is a remnant portion of a larger agricultural village. First settled in the 1750s, the oldest buildings in the district date to the 1790s, and most of the major buildings were built in the 19th century. Its economy was based on lumber (supported by a mill on the Little Sugar River) and farming. The village was once considered a much larger, dispersed settlement, but construction of New Hampshire Route 11 in the 1960s separated some of the more remote parts of the village from its nucleus, which was bypassed by that construction.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It extends along NH 12A from its junction with Ox Brook Rooad south to the Little Sugar River, just north of its junction with Depot Hill Road. Notable buildings include the 1841 Greek Revival Methodist Church, the Union Hall/Grange Hall built in 1888, and the Farwell School, a stone building erected in 1889. Most of the district's buildings are wood-frame houses, although there are two of brick. Stylistically, they are typically vernacular expressions of Federal and Greek Revival architecture, although examples of Italianate and Second Empire architecture are also to be seen. The district also includes ruinous mill remnants on the Little Sugar River.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire

References

Colonial architecture in the United States
Georgian architecture in New Hampshire
Historic districts in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Charlestown, New Hampshire


title: Venice missile launch complex

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The Venice missile launch complex was a Cold War Regulus missile firing installation "adjacent to the Venice Municipal Airport" on the Venice, Florida, beach.  Beginning in 1959, KD2U-1 drone versions of the Regulus were JATO-launched from the strip of beach in front of the airport, flew across the Gulf of Mexico for simulating a penetrating enemy bomber for test interception, and then were "recovered on the runway at Eglin" AFB.  The launch complex was one of several Eglin missile range facilities (e.g., the Anclote Missile Tracking Annex near Tampa) and conducted the "Regulus 2, KD2U intercept missile test [on] September 3, 1959" in which the "first launch of the Air Force's new Bomarc IM-99A missile [successfully intercepted] the Regulus 2 missile at 35,000 feet altitude and at supersonic speed" (the Bomarc launch complex was at tbd after "BOMARC missiles arrived Jul 1958" at Hurlburt Field.)

References

Installations of the United States Air Force in Florida
Military history of Florida

Sarasota County, Florida
1959 establishments in Florida


title: Maria Isabel Barreno

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Maria Isabel Barreno de Faria Martins GOIH (10 July 1939 – 3 September 2016) was a Portuguese writer, essayist, journalist and sculptor. She was one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portugesas (New Portuguese Letters), together with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution.

Biography
Born in Lisbon in the freguesia of Socorro, her parents moved to Areeiro, where she spent her childhood and adolescence. She studied College of Letters at the Universidade de Lisboa, where she graduated in Historico-Philosophical Sciences.

After graduation, she took a job working for the Instituto de Investigação Industrial. She dedicated herself to the cause of feminism, taking part in the Portuguese feminist movement together with the writers Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa, the "Three Marias" (Três Marias).

On 8 March  2004, she was made a Grand Official in the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique.

Barreno died on 3 September 2016 at the age of 77.
The sketch shown here is not a portrait of Barreno but of Maria Fatima Velho da Costa. A 1975 photo of the Three Marias published in The Economist shows Isabel Barreno on the right.
A late-life photo of her appears with her obituary on a Portuguese government site, cig.gov.pt.

Works
Adaptação do Trabalhador de Origem Rural ao Meio Industrial Urbano (1966)
A Condição da Mulher Portuguesa (1968) (collaboration)
De Noite as Árvores São Negras (1968)
Os Outros Legítimos Superiores (1970)
Novas Cartas Portuguesas (1971) (co-authored with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa)
A Morte da Mãe (1972)
A Imagem da Mulher na Imprensa (1976)
Inventário de Ana (1982)
Contos Analógicos (1983)
Sinos do Universo (1984)
Contos (1985)
Célia e Celina (1985)
O Outro Desbotado (1986)
O Falso Neutro (1989)
O Direito ao Presente (1990)
Crónica do Tempo (1991) – winner of the Fernando Namora Prize
O enviado (1991)
O Chão Salgado (1992)
Os Sensos Incomuns (1993) – winner of the Prémio P.E.N. Clube Português de Ficção, and the Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco
O Senhor das Ilhas (1994)
As Vésperas Esquecidas (1999)

References

1939 births
2016 deaths
21st-century Portuguese women writers
20th-century Portuguese women writers
Writers from Lisbon
Portuguese women novelists
20th-century novelists


title: MV Van Hung

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Van Hung is a cargo vessel, registered in Vietnam. The container ship delivers cargo around the coast of Vietnam, mainly between the cities of Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang.

Description
The single deck ship was built in 1996, and measures  by  with  a gross tonnage of 4914 tonnes.

References

Cargo ships of Vietnam
1996 ships


title: Taka (paper mache)

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Taka refers to papier-mâché made using carved wooden sculpture used as a mold. The craft originated in the town of Paete, Laguna in the Philippines.

History
Taka was made by Paete local Maria Piday. During Christmas, Piday was in charge of the church's decorations. The wooden angels and cherub was heavy causing the carvings to fall. Piday devised the lightweight taka papier-mâché as an alternative to the wooden sculptures. Piday was also a maker of local toys such as the yoyo and the small acrobat hand puppet. Taka eventually became folk art and was sold to nearby towns for festivals. In the 1970s, Tere Afuang, a knowledgeable practitioner of the craft, popularized the craft.

Taka-making
A takaan, a carved wooden sculpture, is used as a mold in making taka. Brown craft paper is used as a final layer for taka made for export. This provides a thicker base and smoother finish for the craft. Taka is also painted. The traditional way of painting a taka is to use primary colors, add simple flower motifs and use repetitive lines and shapes. Gold finish, usually used in angel, reindeer and huge taka is accomplished by using gilded paper.

Subjects of Taka
Common and traditional subjects of taka include the  manok, kabayo, kalabaw, dalaga (chicken, horse, carabao, maiden) which is made primarily for local use. Due to exposure and migration of Paete residents to Manila and abroad, European-influenced papier-mâché toys began to be made for export to other countries, such as Germany. Taka images now include those of Santa Claus, reindeer, giraffes, and other subjects that are in demand.

References

Handicrafts
Philippine handicrafts
Culture of Laguna (province)
Papier-mâché


Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection, known in Japan as  is a life simulation and rhythm video game developed by Compile Heart and Tamsoft and published by Idea Factory in Japan and NIS America in North America, Australia and Europe exclusively for the Sony PlayStation Vita. The game is a spin-off of the Hyperdimension Neptunia game series. The game was released in Japan on June 20, 2013, in North America on June 3, 2014, in Australia on June 5, 2014, and in Europe on June 6, 2014.

Story
All of a sudden an idol game appears and MOB48 (a reference to the real-world idol group AKB48) are taking shares away from the four goddesses (Console Patron Units, or simply CPUs). Players have to get shares back by earning stage points during live performances. Each show, the number of fans and haters will change depending on the show. Players can choose costumes for the idols and change the camera angle. During live events, the CPUs can transform which also transforms their singing voice.

Characters

The four goddesses, Neptune, Noire, Blanc and Vert are all set to return in this game. They are in their Victory costumes according to the official website.

Their sisters, Nepgear, Uni, Ram and Rom are also set to appear in the game. Players can use them in the concerts as background dancers in unlimited live mode only.

IF and Compa are also usable as background dancers as well.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight and three sevens for a total of 29 out of 40.

References

External links

2013 video games
Compile Heart games
Hyperdimension Neptunia games
Japanese idol video games
Music video games
Nippon Ichi Software games
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Vita-only games
Video game spin-offs
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists


title: PlayCanvas

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PlayCanvas is an open-source 3D game engine/interactive 3D application engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform that allows for simultaneous editing from multiple computers via a browser-based interface. It runs in modern browsers that support WebGL, including Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The engine is capable of rigid-body physics simulation, handling three-dimensional audio and 3D animations.

PlayCanvas has gained the support of ARM, Activision and Mozilla.

The PlayCanvas engine was open-sourced on June 4, 2014.

In April 2019, BusinessInsider.com reported that the company was acquired by Snap Inc. in 2017.

Features

The PlayCanvas platform has collaborative real-time Editor that allows editing project by multiple developers simultaneously. The engine supports the WebGL 1.0 and 2.0 standard to produce GPU accelerated 3D graphics and allows for scripting via the JavaScript programming language.
Projects can be distributed via a URL web link or packaged in native wrappers, p.g. for Android, using CocoonJS or for Steam using Electron, and many other options and platforms.

Notable PlayCanvas applications

Various companies use PlayCanvas in projects of different disciplines of interactive 3D content in the web.

Disney created an educational game for Hour of Code based on its Moana film.

King published Shuffle Cats Mini as a launch title for Facebook Instant Games.

TANX – massively multiplayer online game of cartoon styled tanks.

Miniclip published number of games on their platform with increase of HTML5 games popularity on the web.

Mozilla collaborated with PlayCanvas team creating After the Flood demo for presenting cutting-edge features of WebGL 2.0.

See also
 List of WebGL frameworks
 List of game engines
 JavaScript
 HTML5
 WebGL

References

External links
PlayCanvas Official Website
PlayCanvas Engine (Open Source)
PlayCanvas API Reference
PlayCanvas Tutorials
Various free-to-play games built with PlayCanvas

Cloud applications
Collaborative real-time editors
Cross-platform free software
Free 3D graphics software
Free game engines
Free software programmed in JavaScript
Graphics libraries
IOS video game engines
Software using the MIT license
Video game development software
Video game engines
Web applications
Web development
Web development software
Web software
WebGL


title: Pier Bridge

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The Pier Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Newport, New Hampshire. Originally built in 1907 to carry the Boston and Maine Railroad across the Sugar River, it now carries the multi-use Sugar River Trail, which was built on the abandoned right-of-way. It is one of a modest number of historic covered bridges in New Hampshire, and is named for the fact that it has a central pier. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Description and history
The Pier bridge is located about  east of the former Chandler railroad station in western Newport, crossing the Sugar River at an angle with a roughly east–west orientation. It consists of two Town-Pratt lattice trusses, resting on granite abutments which have been capped by concrete, and a central pier of similar construction. The western span is  long, the eastern one . Its trusses consist of Town-style lattice trusses sandwiched between Pratt trusses. Elements of the truss and lattice networks are joined by a combination of wooden pegging and iron rods, with iron turnbuckles joining some of the chords. The exterior is finished in vertical board siding, with a ventilation gap of about  between the siding and the roof.

The bridge was built in 1907 for the Boston and Maine Railroad. The railroad line it was built on dates to 1872, and was built by the Sugar River Railroad, which was merged into the B&M in 1887. The line was operated by the B&M until 1954 when it was sold to the Claremont & Concord Railway. The C&C last ran to Newport in 1977 and the line was subsequently abandoned. The bridge is one of two surviving railroad bridges on the line; the other is Wright's Bridge.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
List of New Hampshire covered bridges

References

Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Bridges completed in 1907
Bridges in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Newport, New Hampshire
Wooden bridges in New Hampshire
Lattice truss bridges in the United States


title: Van Hung

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Van Hung may refer to:

MV Van Hung, a Vietnamese cargo ship
Peter Nguyen Van Hung (born 1958), Vietnamese Australian Catholic priest and human rights activist
Nguyễn Văn Hùng (martial artist) (born 1980), Vietnamese martial artist
Nguyễn Văn Hùng (athlete) (born 1989), Vietnamese triple jumper


title: Swervedriver discography

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The discography of Swervedriver, an English alternative rock band, consists of six studio albums, one compilation album, one video album, seven extended plays, and eighteen singles. The band's back catalog of non-studio-album material rivals that which has been released in album format.

Swervedriver was formed in 1989 by vocalist and guitarist Adam Franklin, guitarist Jimmy Hartridge, bassist Adrian "Adi" Vines, and drummer Graham Bonnar. Though emerging from the shoegazing scene of Oxford, the band also incorporated contemporary American guitar rock into its sound. They signed with British independent record label Creation and released the Son of Mustang Ford and Rave Down EPs in 1990. In early 1991, the band signed with American label A&M Records and put forth its third EP, Sandblasted. The band then released its debut full-length album, Raise, later that year, charting 44th in the UK.

Following the departure of founding members Bonnar and Vines, Swervedriver enlisted new drummer Jeremy "Jez" Hindmarsh in 1993 and released their second album, Mezcal Head (with Franklin and Hartridge splitting bass duties). The album debuted at number 55 on the UK chart and provided their most popular single, "Duel", which reached number 60. Bassist Steve George also joined the group, and after two years of touring and recording, they released their third album, Ejector Seat Reservation, in 1995. Label troubles thwarted a North American release of Ejector Seat Reservation and later forced the band to seek out independent label Zero Hour from New York City to release 1998's indie rock-styled fourth effort, 99th Dream.

At the end of 1998, the band dissolved for what would become a nine-year hiatus. On 14 March 2005, Castle Music released Juggernaut Rides '89–'98, a two-disc anthology compiling numerous tracks that had previously been only on seven-inch singles or unavailable. Swervedriver announced their reunion on 19 October 2007; the band would release its first material in fifteen years with the 2013 single "Deep Wound" on Tym Records. They have since released two more full-length albums, I Wasn't Born to Lose You on Cobraside in 2015 and Future Ruins in 2019, with former touring stand-ins and new permanent members drummer Mikey Jones and bassist Mick Quinn.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Video albums

Extended plays

Singles

Notes

References

External links

Alternative rock discographies
Rock music group discographies
Discographies of British artists


title: Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart

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Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1623 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The painting has also been titled as Young Man and Woman in an Inn or Portrait of Pieter Ramp.

Painting
The painting shows the face of a smiling woman leaning up against a young cavalier who is holding a flask above his head as if he has just taken it from her, apparently as part of a joke. With his left hand, the young cavalier is holding the head of a dog. The couple stand before a partially open curtain which shows a room beyond with a smiling man carrying a dish and a burning fireplace behind him.

Name
The painting was for a long time considered to be a portrait of a young ensign of the Haarlem schutterij, Pieter Ramp. This has been rejected however as the female shows a strong resemblance to the young woman portrayed in Hals' Shrovetide Revellers. Both are considered to be genre works today, so the models could be anyone in Hals circle such as his children or pupils. In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot noted this painting had a copy in London and wrote:139. JUNKER RAMP AND HIS GIRL. B. 13 ; M. 209.- In an interior a young cavalier, seen to the hips, stands facing three-quarters right. He wears a doublet with lace collar and wristbands, and a broad-brimmed hat with a plume. In his right hand he holds up a wine-glass, at which he laughs heartily. He grasps with his left hand the head of a dog, which is in the right-hand bottom corner. Behind him to the right stands a girl who smiles at the spectator. She lays her right hand on his right shoulder, and touches his left shoulder with her left hand. In the right background is a chimney-piece with two long pictures. In front of it a young man comes forward; he looks towards the left and carries something. On the left, beside the chimney-piece, hangs another picture. Signed on the edge of the chimney-piece, F. Hals 1623; canvas on panel, 42 inches by 31 inches. A repetition of this picture is in the Heseltine collection [see 140]. Sales. J. A. Versijden van Varick, Leyden, October 29, 1791, No. 103 (130 florins). Copes van Hasselt of Haarlem, Amsterdam, April 20, 1880, No. 1. Pourtales, Paris. In the possession of the London dealer Duveen. In the collection of B. Altman, New York. In his 1989 catalog of the international Frans Hals exhibition (which did not include this painting because it can never be lent out) Slive claimed it is the only genre work by Hals that is dated. Slive did mention in his discussion of Hals' Four evangelists that another interpretation is possible, namely that this painting could possibly be a Hals interpretation of the biblical Prodigal son. In the same year that Slive was writing, Claus Grimm rejected the attribution of this painting to Frans Hals, though he conceded it was probably after a painting by Hals, calling it a copy of a lost original.

Hals' positioning of the two figures with a major figure accompanied by "an accomplice" was common to many of his paintings of the 1620s:

See also
 List of paintings by Frans Hals
Kraantje Lek - an old inn (now a restaurant) near Haarlem where this painting was (possibly) painted

References

1623 paintings
Paintings by Frans Hals
Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dogs in art


title: MV Asakaze

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Asakaze is a general cargo vessel, registered in Panama City. The container ship delivers cargo around the Asia-Pacific area, including China, South Korea and Vietnam.

Description
The single-deck ship was built in 2014, and measures  by  with  a gross tonnage of 7,193 tonnes.

References

Ships of Panama
2014 ships


title: Huw Thomas (physician)

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Sir Huw Jeremy Wyndham Thomas  (born 25 February 1958) is a British gastroenterologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London, and professor of Gastrointestinal Genetics at Imperial College London and St Mark's Hospital.

In 2005 he was appointed physician to the Royal Household and in July 2014, head of the Medical Household, the medical section of the Royal Household of the British monarch, and Physician to the Queen. Thomas was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2021 New Year Honours.

Early life and education
Huw Thomas was born on 25 February 1958 in London, England. He was educated at Harrow School. He studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979: following tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. He then undertook further studies in medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, completing his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree in 1982. He later undertook postgraduate research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on molecular genetics of colorectal cancer in 1991 at University College London.

Career
In 1994 Thomas was appointed consultant physician at St Mary's Hospital, London, and director of the Family Cancer Clinic at St Mark's Hospital, London. In 2007, he became professor of Gastrointestinal Genetics at Imperial College, London.

He is on the staff at King Edward VII's Hospital. In 2005 he was appointed physician to the Royal Household and in July 2014, head of the Medical Household, the medical section of the Royal Household of the British monarch, and Physician to the Queen. Thomas was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2021 New Year Honours.

References

20th-century British medical doctors
21st-century British medical doctors
Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of University College London
British gastroenterologists
British medical researchers
Court physicians
Living people
English people of Welsh descent
1958 births
Physicians of St Mary's Hospital, London
People educated at Harrow School
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order


title: Fábio Silvestre

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Fábio André Silvestre Tomas (born 25 January 1990 in Sobral de Monte Agraço) is a Portuguese former cyclist.

Major results

2008
 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2010
 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
 3rd Overall Volta ao Alentejo
2011
 National Under-23 Road Championships
1st  Road race
3rd Time trial
2012
 1st  Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
 4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
 9th Duo Normand (with Alexandre Pliușchin)
 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2013
 1st  Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
1st  Points classification
 1st Stage 4 Circuit des Ardennes
 Ronde de l'Oise
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 4
 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Czech Cycling Tour
 3rd Dorpenomloop Rucphen
 4th Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Stage 1
 7th Ronde van Noord-Holland
 10th Grand Prix Südkärnten

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Portuguese male cyclists
European Games competitors for Portugal
Cyclists at the 2015 European Games
Sportspeople from Lisbon District


title: Jennifer Ouellette (milliner)

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Jennifer Ouellette is a milliner based in New York City and Santiago de los Caballeros. She designs hats for both men and women, in addition to headbands and other hair accessories for the "everyday modern girl." Ouellette's headbands and hair accessories are distinctive in that traditional millinery techniques are used to ensure a comfortable and secure fit.

Early life and education
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Ouellette developed her appreciation for fashion and millinery at her mother's vintage clothing store where she was exposed to historic and classic lines.  Her father is an industrial designer with 45 US patents specializing in complex packaging. Ouellette adopted his philosophy of craftsmanship and quality, earning her first utility patent for headband construction in 1999.

After graduating from Kirkwood High School in 1989, she went on to study Textile and Apparel Management and Theater Design at the University of Missouri. Thereafter, she attended the London College of Fashion and was an apprentice of the London-based milliner Stephen Jones.

Business
Starting her company in 1996, Ouellette delivered her first official order to Barneys New York in the same year.  Her work has since been featured in Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, T Magazine, People, and Women's Wear Daily, among others.  She designed the headdress and handbag for Sarah Jessica Parker's 1997 wedding. Other celebrity clients include Penélope Cruz, Gwen Stefani, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears.

In 2007, Ouellette opened a studio in Hudson Heights, Manhattan. As of 2015, Ouellette's private studio and showroom is located in the Flatiron District of Manhattan.  She also has a smaller studio based in Santiago, in the Dominican Republic. Although more expensive than outsourcing to China and India, Ouellette has expressed appreciation for the Dominicans' fine hand-sewing.

Exhibitions

Ouellette's work was featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Hats: an Anthology, curated by Stephen Jones. When the exhibit travelled to the Bard Graduate Center in New York, Ouellette was one of several local milliners (including Rod Keenan and Eugenia Kim) to have millinery designs included in the exhibition. One of her designs in the exhibition featured a straw cityscape applied to a straw pagoda shape on a headband, which she said was in tribute to New York's resilience following the events of 9/11.

References

Living people
American milliners
American fashion designers
American women fashion designers
Artists from St. Louis
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Missouri alumni
Alumni of the London College of Fashion
21st-century American women


title: The Boat Race 1949

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The 95th Boat Race took place on 26 March 1949. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames in London.  The race, umpired by the former Oxford rower Guy Oliver Nickalls, was notable as the commentator for the BBC, John Snagge announced "I can't see who's in the lead, but it's either Oxford or Cambridge."  Cambridge won by a quarter of a length, the narrowest margin of victory since the 1877 race, which was officially recorded as a dead heat.  The victory took the overall record in the event to 51–43 in their favour.

Background

The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").  First held in 1829, the race takes place on the  Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London.  The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and, as of 2014, broadcast worldwide.  Cambridge went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1948 race by five lengths, with Cambridge leading overall with 50 victories to Oxford's 43 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).

Cambridge were coached by R. Beesly (who had rowed for the Light Blues in the 1927, 1928 and 1929 races), W. L. S. Flemming, Mike Nicholson (non-rowing boat club president for the 1947 race), Harold Rickett (who had rowed three times between 1930 and 1932), and M. H. Warriner (a three-time Blue between 1928 and 1930).  Oxford's coaches were Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards (who had rowed for Oxford in 1926 and 1930), F. E. Hellyer (who had coached Cambridge on five previous occasions), A. McCulloch (who had rowed in the 1908 race) and J. MacNabb (who had coached Cambridge between 1930 and 1932).  The race was umpired by Guy Oliver Nickalls who had rowed for Oxford in the 1921, 1922 and 1923 races.

Writing in The Observer, G. I. F. Thomson noted that "neither crew contains an oarsman of any exceptional power, distinction or reputation" yet both crews had improved in form since their arrival at Putney.  The rowing correspondent for The Manchester Guardian praised the quality of the final coaching on the Thames, and stated that "there has been no threat of influenza, and no last-minute change in the constitution of either crew".  He went on to claim that "Oxford should win".  The Times rowing correspondent suggested that the crews were "extraordinarily evenly matched".

Crews
The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 10.75 lb (80.9 kg),  per rower more than their opponents.  Oxford's crew contained five participants with prior Boat Race experience, including cox Alastair Palsgrave-Brown.  Cambridge saw one rower return to the crew in number five Paul Bircher.  The Light Blue's crew contained three Olympic medallists: Brian Lloyd, Bircher and Paul Massey won silver when they finished second in the men's eight at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Race

Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Middlesex station, handing the Surrey side of the river to Cambridge.  The umpire, Nickalls, started the race at 11:30 a.m. The Dark Blues took an early lead and were half a length ahead after the first minute of the race.  They were clear of Cambridge by Craven Steps, and by the time the crews passed the Mile Post, were a length ahead.  In the headwind along Chiswick Reach, and with the bend in the river in their favour, Cambridge slowly redressed the balance and by Chiswick Eyot they had begun to overlap Oxford's boat.

By the bottom of Dukes Meadows, Oxford's lead was down to half a length and as Cambridge out-rated their opponents, they drew level and passed under Barnes Bridge side by side.  Despite numerous spurts from Oxford's stroke Davidge, Cambridge kept in touch and "were fighting every inch of the way".  Commentating for the BBC on a launch whose engine had failed, John Snagge announced "I can't see who's in the lead, but it's either Oxford or Cambridge."  Both crews were rating over 33 strokes per minute as they approached the finishing post, with the Light Blues just edging ahead to win by a quarter of a length in a time of 18 minutes 57 seconds.  The winning distance was the narrowest since the "dead heat" result of the 1877 Race.  It was Cambridge's third consecutive victory and took the overall record in the event to 51–43 in their favour.  The rowing correspondent for The Manchester Guardian suggested that this was a race that "will never be forgotten", while the correspondent for The Times claimed that "1949 must go down in Boat Race history as having provided one of the epic struggles of all time." G. I. F. Thomson, writing in The Observer, stated that "heroic determination on both sides ... produced perhaps the most exciting Boat Race of all time."

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Official website

1949 in English sport
1949 in rowing
The Boat Race
March 1949 sports events in the United Kingdom
1949 sports events in London


title: Jalan Lama Bukit Putus

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Jalan Lama Bukit Putus, Federal Route 361 is a federal road in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia passing through Bukit Putus in the Titiwangsa Mountains.  This 7 km (4.3 mi) road was an old stretch of Route  is notorious for its narrow and dangerous sharp corners, prior to its realignment in 2009.

Route background
The road was constructed by British in the 1920s. In July 2014, the old stretch of the Bukit Putus (Federal Route 51) was redesignated as Federal Route 361.
Even though  is safer, many people (especially cyclists) often use this road instead. This road is also home to a few attractions such as Starfresh Agro Park and a scout camp. There are hiking trails at Bukit Putus that can be accessed from this road, notably to Mount Angsi, the seventh highest point in Negeri Sembilan.
Many people also consider using this road as an alternative whenever  is experiencing congestion.

Description
The Kilometre Zero is located at the junctions of  at Bukit Putus (West). This stretch of the road was infamous for its winding section, sharp corners, and occasional landslides as it is located at the edge of a cliff known as Bukit Putus. Because of this, a less winding 6.7km piece of road on the Jalan Kuala Pilah was built to bypass the dangerous Bukit Putus section, which would lead to the construction of the fourth highest bridge in Malaysia, Bukit Putus Viaduct.

List of junctions and towns

References

Malaysian Federal Roads


title: Cudjoe Key Air Force Station

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Cudjoe Key Air Force Station (earlier Cudjoe Key Missile Tracking Annex, Eglin AFB Site "No D 8") is a Formerly Used Defense Site of  in Monroe County, Florida,  Northeast of Perky, Florida.

Background
In February 1959, the Monroe County Commission approved extension of a potable fresh water line to what was described as a, "...missile tracking site on Cudjoe Key" being built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Activated on 16 Jun 1959 by the Army, the original mission of the site was, "...to track missiles traveling over the Eglin Gulf Test Range." The Air Force assumed operations in 1960 with test activities of the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) at Eglin AFB, Florida having claimancy responsibilities.  The site also had a concurrent air defense mission as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) with an initial radar station site code J-08 that was later changed to Z-399 in 1963.

On 30 June 1967, Cudjoe Key AFS transferred from the claimancy of AFSC and Eglin AFB to the USAF Security Service at Goodfellow AFB, Texas after commencing a May 1967 classified mission under USAFSS auspices.

Aerospace Defense Command / Tactical Air Command / Air Combat Command
On 30 September 1970, the installation transferred to the claimancy of the Aerospace Defense Command (ADC) with Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida as the custodial base, and in 1973 the first aerostat of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) was deployed at the site, later increasing to two aerostats.  With the disestablishment of ADC, the base came under the claimancy of the Tactical Air Command (TAC) in 1976.

By 1977 the site had transferred under the 671st Radar Squadron until that squadron's inactivation in 1980.  The station then became a detachment of the 20th Air Division followed by the 23rd Air Division.

In 1981, a TARS aerostat at Cudjoe Key AFS broke free while being brought down prior to a storm.  It was later shot down by an F-4D Phantom II aircraft from Homestead AFB.  Another aerostat at Cudjoe Key AFS broke free again in 1989 and 1991.

In July 1987, the Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS) was reestablished and the station was redesignated as Detachment 3, SEADS.

With TAC's disestablishment in 1992, the installation came under the claimancy of the Air Combat Command (ACC).  On 1 October 1995, the Southeast Air Defense Sector was reassigned to the Florida Air National Guard and SEADS was re-designated Southeast Air Defense Sector (ANG) and came under the Continental NORAD Region (CONR) Headquarters at Tyndall AFB.

On 1 November 2005, SEADS ceased air defense operations and its duties were absorbed into the Northeast Air Defense Sector which was renamed Eastern Air Defense Sector. The former SEADS transformed into the 601st Air and Space Operations Center at Tyndall AFB and currently performs the duties as the Air Operations Center for 1st Air Force / Air Forces Northern (1AF/AFNORTH), the USAF component command of United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM).

In 2007 a private Cessna 182Q Skylane that had departed Key West International Airport collided with the TARS tethers, killing the pilot and 2 passengers.. The aircraft had violated a 15,000 foot, 3 nautical mile radius restricted area around the Cudjoe Key AFS TARS site.

Customs and Border Protection

In 2013, the TARS at Cudjoe Key was identified for shutdown/deflation due to budget cuts imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011, otherwise known as sequestration.  Petition signatures among citizens in the Lower Keys were gathered to keep the "Fat Albert" aerostats at the station .

In 2014, responsibility for the TARS at Cudjoe Key was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Cudjoe Key AFS became a DHS facility.  As of October 2016, Cudjoe Key was one of eight TARS sites operated by CBP.

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2013 disestablishments in Florida
Aerospace Defense Command military installations
Stations of the United States Air Force
Formerly Used Defense Sites in Florida
Monroe County, Florida
1959 establishments in Florida
Military installations closed in 2013


title: George Trosse

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George Trosse (1631–1713) was an English nonconformist minister. He is best known for his autobiographical accounts of periods of mental illness he experienced in his younger years.

Early life
The younger son of Henry Trosse, counselor-at-law, he was born at Exeter on 25 October 1631; his mother was Rebekah, daughter of Walter Burrow, a prosperous merchant and twice mayor of Exeter. His family had no Puritan leanings; his uncle Roger Trosse (1595–1674), rector (1618) of Rose Ash, Devon, was one of the sequestered clergy of the English Civil War. Trosse was intended for the practice of law; his father, dying early, left him his law library; but on leaving Exeter grammar school Trosse went into business.

In 1646 Trosse was sent to an English merchant at Morlaix in Brittany, who placed him for a year with Ramet, a Huguenot pastor at Pontivy, to learn French. Returning to Exeter in 1648, he was sent to a brother-in-law in London for introduction to a Portugal merchant. Having been made free of the Drapers' Company, he sailed for Oporto where he remained for two and a half years. He returned to Exeter early in 1651.

Breakdown, recovery and Oxford
Three times Trosse's friends placed him under restraint with a physician at Glastonbury. Between his episodes he listened to Presbyterian preachers, became a communicant, and was especially drawn to Thomas Ford. After two relapses and an attempt at suicide, he experienced better mental health.

Supported by his mother, Trosse entered Pembroke College, Oxford as a gentleman commoner at the end of May 1657, where his tutor was Thomas Cheeseman, a blind scholar; among his contemporaries at Oxford was his kinsman Denis Grenville. He matriculated on 9 August 1658, spent seven full years at Oxford, acquired a fair amount of Greek and Hebrew knowledge, but took no degree in consequence of the required subscription to the 39 Articles.

Minister
Meaning to enter the ministry, Trosse studied the question of conformity; his views were formed under the influence of Henry Hickman. Returning to Exeter in 1664, he attended church with his mother, but began to preach privately out of church hours. Robert Adkins, ejected from St. John's, Exeter, pressed him to receive ordination. He was ordained in Somerset (1666) by Joseph Alleine of Taunton, and five others, including Adkins. During the year (1672–3) of Charles II's indulgence, he preached publicly in a licensed house. For conventicle preaching he was arrested with others on 5 October 1685 and imprisoned for six months. He declined to avail himself (1687) of James II's Declaration of Indulgence, though the Exeter dissenters built a meeting-house, James's Meeting, in that year for Joseph Hallett I.

On Hallett's death (14 March 1688–9) Trosse succeeded him, and from the passing of the Act of Toleration 1689 conducted services in church hours and took a stipend which (except in the year of indulgence) he had until then declined. His assistant was Joseph Hallett II. He took part in the formation in 1691 of a union of Devon ministers, on the London model. He remained active to the end of a long life; though ailing in health, he preached as usual on the morning of Sunday, 11 January 1713, and died soon after reaching home. He was buried on 13 January in St. Bartholomew's churchyard, Exeter; his funeral sermon was repeated to large audiences.

Works
Trosse published, besides a sermon (1693) before the united ministers at Taunton:

The Lord's Day Vindicated, 1682; in reply to Francis Bampfield; answered by Joseph Nott and by Edmund Elys, and defended in The Sauciness of a Seducer Rebuked, 1693.
A Discourse of Schism, 1701.
A Defence of ... Discourse of Schism, Exeter, 1702.
Mr. Trosse's Vindication ... from ... Aspersions, Exeter, 1709.

The Exposition of the Assembly's Catechism, 1693, by John Flavel, was finished and edited by Trosse. In 1719, during the Exeter controversy around James Peirce, a catechism and sermon by Trosse were published in a pamphlet, and answered by Thomas Emlyn.

Trosse's autobiography to 1689 (finished 15 February 1693) was published (1714) as The Life of the Reverend Mr. Geo. Trosse Late Minister of the Gospel in the City of Exon, in accordance with his instructions to his widow in his will; a preface by Hallett, his assistant, defends the publication. He dwells on his drunkenness, lechery and masturbation. Attacks of mental illness recurred until he was about 26. He attributed the attacks, in part, to demonic possession. His work, in which theology is used to describe madness, has been considered the first such psychological account of an episode.

The autobiography was abridged in the Life by Isaac Gilling, who made use also of a further manuscript, and of correspondence. Gilling gives an elaborate account of Trosse's ministry.

Family
Trosse married (1680) Susanna, daughter of Richard White, an Exeter merchant, who survived him, without issue.

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1713 deaths
English Presbyterians
People with mental disorders
Clergy from Exeter
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Clergy with disabilities
English writers with disabilities


title: Genny

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Genny  is an Italian ready-to-wear manufacturer founded in Ancona in 1961 by Arnaldo Girombelli.

History
Born in Ancona, Arnaldo Girombelli was the owner of a boutique with an adjacent small tailor workshop for skirts and blouses in his hometown. After gradually expanding the workshop and increasing the number of seamstresses, in 1962 he founded a label for his creations, "Genny", named after his eldest daughter.

In the second half of the 1960s Genny started to have a large success thanks to a line of pleated oblique skirts obtained through a new treatment technique of cloth,  then in 1973 it introduced a youthful line, "Byblos", and Gianni Versace became its designer.  Later, Guy Paulin and his assistant Christian Lacroix replaced Versace at Byblos, while Versace launched another Genny's experimental line, "Complice". In 1983, Byblos became an independent company. After the death of Girombelli, his wife Donatella became the chairwoman of the group.

In 2001 Prada acquired the label, and Genny stopped its production in 2004. In 2011 the label was acquired by Swinger International S.p.A., which decided to relaunch the brand and appointed Gabriele Colangelo as the new designer.

On July 21, 2018, the brand received Tao Award for fashion during the Taomoda event in Taormina.

See also

 Italian fashion
 Made in Italy

References

External links

Clothing companies established in 1961
Italian companies established in 1961
Italian suit makers
Luxury brands
High fashion brands
Eyewear brands of Italy
Shoe companies of Italy
Fashion accessory brands
Perfume houses
Bags (fashion)
Swimwear manufacturers
1961 establishments in Italy
Manufacturing companies based in Milan
Clothing brands of Italy


title: Stephen Bernard Dorsey

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Stephen Bernard Dorsey is a serial entrepreneur who founded several companies, two of which, he built into international leaders among manufacturers of word processors. He currently is the CEO of babyTEL, an Internet Telephony Service Provider.

Biography
Dorsey was born in Montreal, Quebec, on July 10, 1937 and is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained engineer.

His son Dan Dorsey, as part of his preparation to film a video about his father, made a March 2017 visit to an exhibit at The Personal Computer Museum by curator Syd Bolton that focused on MICOM.

Career
In 1967, Dorsey founded AES Data Inc. in Montreal, developing industrial remote-control applications. In 1972, AES launched the AES 90 computer, years before Microsoft and Apple were companies. Marketed as a "word processing system," the AES 90 was really the world's first general-purpose personal computer. AES went on to grow to more than $200 million in annual sales. The Word Processor was the precursor to Microsoft Word, Apple and other software based business applications.

Dorsey launched his next venture, Micom Co., after selling his stake in AES in 1975, again selling word processing and office automation systems, but adding telecommunications equipment. Having directed Micom to $200 million in revenue, Dorsey sold it to Philips NV in 1984 and founded Voice & Data Systems in 1991.

Micom concentrators
Micom became known for its ads, often run on the back pages of popular-in-their-day computer industry publications, with the slogan "Concentrate. Because it's cheaper!" The initial ads showed oranges and what resembled a can of frozen orange juice, with a "brand name" of Micom. After adding variations, they began advertising on television. The focus of the ads, within their telecommunications products, was their line of Concentrators.

Their print ads included the trademarked phrase "MICOM: MicroComputers for DataCommunications(tm)"

References

External links
 CASE STUDY of companies founded by Stephen Dorsey

1937 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Businesspeople in information technology
Businesspeople from Montreal
Canadian company founders
History of telecommunications


title: Jimmy Hunt (musician)

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Jimmy Hunt is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.

Originally from Saint Nicolas, a suburb of Lévis, Quebec, Hunt began performing on the local music scene in Montreal in 2000. With the band Chocolat, he released the album Piano élégant in 2008 on Grosse Boîte. In the same year, he appeared on Cœur de pirate's debut album Cœur de pirate as a duet vocalist on her song "Pour un infidèle".

He subsequently released a self-titled album as a solo artist in 2010. He was nominated for two Félix Awards in 2011, in the categories of Contemporary Folk Album of the Year and New Artist of the Year. He also won three awards at the same year's Gala alternatif de la musique indépendante du Québec, winning for Songwriter of the Year, Video of the Year and Singer-Songwriter Album of the Year, and was named one of that year's Révélations Radio-Canada.

He followed up with Maladie d’amour in 2013. The album was a longlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, and won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015.

He has also been a two-time nominee for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, for his songs "Ça va de soi" in 2011 and "Nos corps" in 2014.

References

External links
Jimmy Hunt at Bandcamp
Jimmy Hunt at Grosse Boîte

1970s births
Canadian pop singers
Canadian rock singers
Canadian indie rock musicians
Musicians from Quebec
People from Lévis, Quebec
French-language singers of Canada
Living people
Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year winners
Canadian male singer-songwriters
Canadian singer-songwriters
21st-century Canadian male singers
French Quebecers
21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters


title: 1937 LSU Tigers football team

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The 1937 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1937 college football season. In their third year under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers complied an overall record of 9–2, with a conference record of 5–1, and finished second in the SEC.

Schedule

References

LSU
LSU Tigers football seasons
LSU Tigers football


title: Setsuri River

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Setsuri River is a river in Hokkaido, Japan. It joins the Kushiro River. It is the winter habitat of the Japanese crane.

References

Rivers of Hokkaido
Rivers of Japan


title: Love & Air Sex

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Love & Air Sex, formerly known as The Bounceback, is an American romantic comedy film directed by Bryan Poyser and written by Poyser, David DeGrow Shotwell, and Steven Walters. The film stars Sara Paxton, Ashley Bell, Zach Cregger, and Michael Stahl-David. The film premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival and was picked up by Tribeca Film for a U.S. day-and-date release. The film won awards for "Best Writing" at the 2013 Gen Art Film Festival and "Best Ensemble Cast" at the 2013 Napa Valley Film Festival.

Synopsis
Stan (Michael Stahl-David), a depressed struggling filmmaker, flies to Austin for the weekend to "accidentally" meet up with his ex-girlfriend Cathy (Ashley Bell), a med student.  He finds their friends, crude, foul-mouthed Jeff (Zach Cregger) and hard-partying Kara (Sara Paxton) in the process of breaking up. To complicate matters, the Air Sex World Championships are in town, Cathy is mooning over a guy named Tim, Tim's obnoxious younger brother Ralph is courting Kara, Stan is attracted to an LA native, Haley, Jeff also finds a new love interest, and Stan's roommates Joe and Redge are underfoot.

Cast

 Michael Stahl-David as Stan
 Ashley Bell as Cathy
 Sara Paxton as Kara
 Zach Cregger as Jeff
 Justin Arnold as Tim
 Marshall Allman as Ralph
 Addison Timlin as Haley
 Zach Green as Joe
 Ashley Spillers as Ellie
 Brian McGuire as Redge
 Jesse Tilton as Sandee/Poke-Hot-Ass, Jeff's new girlfriend

Release
The film premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival as "The Bounceback" in the Narrative Spotlight Section on March 10, 2014. In January 2014, the film was acquired by independent distributor Tribeca Film and was retitled "Love and Air Sex." The film was released day-and-date, on VOD February 4 and theatrically on February 7, 2014. The theatrical release was accompanied by a ten-city road-show featuring live air sex demonstrations and competitions led by comedian Chris Trew. International rights were picked up by Archstone Distribution.

Reception
The film was met with mixed reviews from film critics, with some praise from  New York Times film critic  Stephen  for its "cheeky attitude" and "zany vitality,", and from its local paper, the Austin Chronicle. There was lackluster response from  both Slant magazine, and Roger Ebert. FilmThreat critic Don Simpson remarked, "Poyser's oh-so-frank approach to sexuality goes much further than any Hollywood movie I have ever seen." The film was panned by the New York Daily News.

References

External links

2013 films
2010s English-language films


title: List of Lee High School Mascots

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While there are several high schools in the United States named for, after, or similar to Robert E. Lee, the athletic mascots of these schools vary. Below is a list of the schools and their mascots.

Robert E. Lee High Schools
 Robert E. Lee High School (Baytown, Texas) - Gander
 Robert E. Lee Academy (Bishopville, South Carolina) - Cavaliers
 Robert E. Lee High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) - Lancer
 Robert E. Lee High School (Houston, Texas) - Generals
 Robert E. Lee High School (Jacksonville, Florida) - Generals
 Robert E. Lee High School (Midland, Texas) - Rebels
 Robert E. Lee High School (Montgomery, Alabama) - Generals
 Robert E. Lee High School (San Antonio, Texas) - Volunteers
 Robert E. Lee High School (Staunton, Virginia) - The Fighting Leemen
 Robert E. Lee High School (Tyler, Texas) - Red Raiders

Robert Lee High Schools
 Robert Lee High School (Robert Lee, Texas) - Steers

Lee High Schools
 Lee High School (Houston, Texas), formerly named Robert E. Lee High School - Generals
 Lee High School (Huntsville, Alabama) - Generals
 Lee High School (Lee County, Virginia) - Generals
 Upson-Lee High School (Thomaston, Georgia), formerly Robert E. Lee High School - Knights
 Lee High School (Wyoming, Michigan) - Former Rebels, now Legends.

Lee County High Schools
 Lee County High School (Leesburg, Georgia) - Trojans

References

American mascots
High school mascots


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's hammer throw

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The women's hammer throw event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 16 September in Kuala Lumpur.

This was the first time that this event was contested at the Commonwealth Games.

Results

References

Hammer
1998
1998 in women's athletics


title: Premier of Northern Nigeria

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The Premier of Northern Nigeria was the head of government of Northern Nigeria. The office was established by the MacPherson's Constitution of 1951 that guaranteed the autonomy of Nigeria's Regions.
Equivalent to the Office of Prime Minister, the Premier served as the head of a Westminster style government. The Officeholder was appointed by the Governor of Northern Nigeria with the approval of the Northern Nigerian house of assembly.

References

Politics of Northern Nigeria


title: Herman Smith

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Herman Smith is the name of:

 Herman Smith (gridiron football) (born 1971), American former gridiron football player
 Herman L. Smith (1892–1950), American mathematician
 Herman Smith, real name of the Wizard of Oz in The Wiz
 Herman Smith, namesake of the Smith-Harris House
 Red Smith (coach), (1906–1959), American football, baseball, and track coach

See also
 Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875–1987), supercentarian


title: List of hotels in Pakistan

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This is a list of hotels in Pakistan, listed separately for four of its provinces, territories and other administrative units of Pakistan. The list is not a directory of every chain or independent hotel building in Pakistan.

Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir
Khaplu Palace, Khaplu, Baltistan
Quaid-e-Azam tourist lodge, Barsala

Islamabad Capital Territory
The Centaurus, Islamabad

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khan Klub, Peshawar

Punjab
Faletti's Hotel, Lahore
Pearl Continental Bhurban, near Murree resort town

Sindh
Crescent Bay, Karachi

Nationwide chains
Pearl Continental

See also
 Lists of hotels – an index of hotel list articles on Wikipedia

References

External links

Lists of buildings and structures in Pakistan
Pakistan
Hotel chains in Pakistan
Tourism in Pakistan


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's discus throw

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The men's discus throw event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 17 September in Kuala Lumpur.

Results

References

Discus
1998