title: Quiet Riot 10

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Quiet Riot 10 (also alternatively known as just 10, or Quiet Riot Number 10) is the twelfth studio album by the heavy metal band Quiet Riot, which was released on June 27, 2014. It is their first studio album since 1988's QR not to feature longtime and founding vocalist Kevin DuBrow in any newly recorded material, due to his death in November 2007. It is also the band's first album since reuniting in 2010. Although a studio album, the final four tracks on Quiet Riot 10 are live performances taken from some of the band's final shows with DuBrow in 2007. Love/Hate vocalist Jizzy Pearl joined the band in November 2013 and performs lead vocals on the six studio tracks.

After a longtime search for a new vocalists that went on and on, the aforementioned Jizzy Pearl, a veteran singer having worked before with L.A. Guns, Love/Hate, and Ratt, solidified the current touring line-up. Frankie Banali on drums, bassist Chuck Wright, and guitarist Alex Grossi round out the group. The album's sound mixes heavy metal with elements of blues rock and general hard rock influences. Many fans of the DuBrow-fronted incarnation of the band expressed skepticism of the album. However, it has received overall positive reviews from publications such as KNAC.com and Music Enthusiast Magazine.

Background
On November 25, 2007, Quiet Riot's original singer and longtime member, Kevin DuBrow, was found dead in his Las Vegas apartment. The cause of death was determined to be an accidental cocaine overdose. The band's longtime drummer and manager, Frankie Banali, later issued a statement on his website insisting that Quiet Riot would no longer exist as a live performing or recording entity and would never reform.

However, Banali later sought the blessings of DuBrow's mother to revive the band, and he announced a new version of Quiet Riot in September 2010 with himself on drums, previous Quiet Riot bassist Chuck Wright, Alex Grossi on guitar, and newcomer Mark Huff (formerly of the Van Halen tribute band 5150) on vocals.  This lineup toured throughout 2011 and there were talks of a new album. However, in early 2012, Huff was abruptly fired from the band. After former Montrose member Keith St. John filled in for the remainder of the band's touring commitments, Banali hired unknown vocalist Scott Vokoun as Huff's official replacement.

In November 2013, Quiet Riot underwent another change in vocalists when Vokoun amicably parted ways with the band, and was replaced with Love/Hate vocalist Jizzy Pearl. Shortly afterwards, Pearl entered the studio with the band to record vocal tracks for their then-recently announced upcoming album.

In December 2013, Frankie Banali was interviewed by Loudwire, during which he discussed the future of Quiet Riot as well as their then-upcoming album. He revealed that the album would feature six new songs recorded in the studio, with former bassist Rudy Sarzo and Rehab session bassist Tony Franklin playing on two songs each, as well as four live songs taken from Kevin DuBrow's final professionally recorded shows with the band in 2007. Banali said of the song choices:
"I made a conscious decision not to use the usual songs that people would expect. I picked tracks that were special and of the moment. Let’s just say that there will be a familiar track, two unexpected choices and one that really shows the roots of Quiet Riot and how the band interacted in the live arena. I think that Quiet Riot fans will really appreciate my choices."

On June 25, 2014, Quiet Riot announced the title of their album, alongside a snippet of a new song titled "Rock in Peace". The album was released only two days later online on Amazon and iTunes.

Track listing

Personnel
Quiet Riot
 Jizzy Pearl - lead vocals on studio tracks
 Kevin DuBrow - lead vocals on live tracks
 Alex Grossi - guitar
 Chuck Wright - bass on "Band Down", "Dogbone Alley" and all live tracks
 Frankie Banali - drums

Additional personnel
 Rudy Sarzo - bass on "Bang for Your Buck", and "Backside of Water"
 Tony Franklin – bass on "Rock In Peace", and "Back On You"

Reviews and responses
News of the rejuvenated group met with a mixed response among fans, with Music Enthusiast Magazine remarking that "[l]ongtime listeners may scoff at the fact that ’10’ is equally  both new studio material and previously unreleased live recordings". The magazine also stated that the album simply didn't amount to what "dedicated fans have been anticipating". However, the publication itself gave the album a mostly supportive review, finding that the band sounded "revived" and that the release was a "strong comeback from a previously shattered Quiet Riot".

KNAC.com published a mostly supportive review written by Andrew Depedro. He argued that he thought the group "pulled it off pretty damn well with Jizzy Pearl in command of the mic given the circumstances." He also wrote that the album "helps to add another chapter to the band's legacy and there's plenty of material of their own to merit the band's capacity in rockin' the suburbs for many more years to come."

See also
2014 in music
Heavy metal music
Rehab (QR's previous album)

References

2014 albums
Quiet Riot albums


title: Daiotyla

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Daiotyla is a genus of orchids native to Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

Daiotyla albicans (Rolfe) Dressler - Panama, Costa Rica
Daiotyla crassa (Dressler) Dressler - Panama
Daiotyla maculata (Garay) Dressler - Colombia
Daiotyla xanthina Pupulin & Dressler - Colombia

See also
 List of Orchidaceae genera

References

External links

Zygopetalinae genera
Zygopetalinae


title: Kris Duggan

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Kris Duggan (born July 10, 1974) is an Australian-born entrepreneur, advisor, investor, who co-founded and was the founding CEO of Badgeville and BetterWorks.

Life and education

Kris Duggan was born in Sydney, and grew up in Houston, Texas and then Southern California. He graduated with an MBA in Information Technology from University of California, Irvine. He moved to Silicon Valley in 1999 and resides in Palo Alto with his wife and two sons.

Career

From 2003 until 2006, Duggan held senior sales management positions with WebEx prior to its acquisition by Cisco for $3.2 billion. The company is currently known as Cisco WebEx, and provides a host of virtual, on-demand collaboration software including web conferencing and videoconferencing.

From 2009 until 2013, Duggan served as an advisor to Palantir Technologies, assisting with go-to-market strategy and execution. He developed the company in a number of ways, including expansion into the federal government.

Kris Duggan co-founded Badgeville in 2010. During his three-year tenure as CEO, the company raised $40M in capital, including $25M in a third round of funding from InterWest Partners.

In 2013, Duggan co-founded BetterWorks, a Silicon Valley-based company that provides a cloud-based continuous performance management platform for enterprise companies. BetterWorks is funded by Kleiner Perkins (board member John Doerr) and Emergence Capital (board member Jason Green) and has raised $40M in capital. In 2015, Duggan created the BetterWorks performance tracker smartphone app for the Apple watch. During Duggan’s tenure, BetterWorks raised $15.5M from a group of investors in 2014 and another $20M in Series B funding in 2016. Duggan and the company made national news in 2015 for switching from typical annual reviews and pay raises to other incentives. Duggan resigned as CEO of BetterWorks in July 2017 following allegations of sexual misconduct and battery by an ex-employee. As of February 2018, Duggan was an active board member.

Kris Duggan is an advisory chair to the Alchemist Accelerator, an organization which facilitates enterprise startups and advises new entrepreneurs. He was also an adjunct faculty member for Singularity University.

Legal issues
On July 11, 2017, Beatrice Kim, a former employee of BetterWorks, filed a civil lawsuit in Superior Court in San Francisco against the company, Duggan, and two other employees accusing them of sexual harassment and discrimination. Kim's accusations against Duggan in particular included battery and assault. Duggan denied the allegations. He resigned his position as CEO of BetterWorks on July 26, 2017. The lawsuit was settled for around $1 million. The claims of sexual misconduct and the controversy surrounding them led to the delayed publication of a book co-written by Duggan; it was later published without his name.

References

External links

1974 births
Living people
Australian businesspeople
Gamification
University of California, Irvine alumni


title: Ryohei Arai

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Ryohei Arai may refer to:

, Japanese film director
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese javelin thrower
, Japanese voice actor


title: Echinorhyncha

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Echinorhyncha is a genus of orchids. It contains 5 known species, all native to Colombia and Ecuador.

Echinorhyncha antonii (P.Ortiz) Dressler - Colombia
Echinorhyncha ecuadorensis (Dodson) Dressler - Ecuador
Echinorhyncha litensis (Dodson) Dressler - Colombia, Ecuador
Echinorhyncha manzurii (P.Ortiz) P.A.Harding & Manzur - Colombia
Echinorhyncha vollesii (G.Gerlach, Neudecker & Seeger) Dressler - Colombia, Ecuador

See also
 List of Orchidaceae genera

References

External links

Orchids of South America
Zygopetalinae genera
Zygopetalinae


title: Jillian Morgese

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Jillian Morgese (born September 25, 1989) is an actress notable for her performance in the role of Hero in Joss Whedon’s 2012 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Life and career
Raised in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Morgese graduated from Fair Lawn High School in 2007, where she was more interested in athletics than acting.

Morgese, an alumna of the Fashion Institute of Technology who had determined to pursue an acting career, was singled out by Whedon as she was performing as an extra, a waitress reacting in fear and horror, then fleeing the scene, in The Avengers. Whedon refers to Morgese as having 'a quality which is undeniable'.

Filmography

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Actresses from New Jersey
American film actresses
Fashion Institute of Technology alumni
Fair Lawn High School alumni
People from Fair Lawn, New Jersey
21st-century American women


title: The Wrong Enemy

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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 is a 2014 book by Carlotta Gall. In the book, she argues that the United States and its allies have been focused on stopping the terrorist activities of al-Qaeda and its Taliban supporters in Afghanistan, but that focus should instead have been on antagonistic forces in Pakistan. She claims that the Taliban exists and Osama bin Laden was able to survive for so long because Pakistan's government and the people at the Inter-Services Intelligence provided support to them.

Gall argues, using quotations from the area's leaders, that the US should have fought al-Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan instead of going to war in Iraq in 2003.

References

2014 non-fiction books
Books about Afghanistan
Books about Pakistan
Works about the Taliban
Houghton Mifflin books


title: Cyber Essentials

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Cyber Essentials is a United Kingdom certification scheme designed to show an organisation has a minimum level of protection in cyber security through annual assessments to maintain certification.

Backed by the UK government and overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It encourages organisations to adopt good practices in information security. Cyber Essentials also includes an assurance framework and a simple set of security controls to protect information from threats coming from the internet.

The certification underwent substantial changes in January 2022 which included bringing all cloud services into scope and changes to the requirements on multi-factor authentication, passwords and pins.

Certification
The Cyber Essentials program provides two levels, the first is self-certification and the second requires independent validation of claims made:

Cyber Essentials
Commonly referred to as mark your own homework, organisations self-assess their systems, and then complete an online assessment. The online assessment is marked by a Cyber Essentials Assessor who provides feedback on any areas where improvements could be made.

There is no independent validation of the accuracy of the answers at this level.

The cost for Cyber Essentials starts from £300 and is subject to VAT in the UK. The pricing model is tiered based on the number of employees and more information can be found on the IASME website.

Cyber Essentials Plus
The same as the basic but with independent validation by an accredited third party.

Systems are independently tested, and Cyber Essentials is integrated into the organisation's information risk management.

The cost for the Plus accreditation is dependent on the complexity of the environment but for a simple SME would typically cost around £1,400 and subject to VAT within the UK.

IASME has incorporated the Cyber Essentials into the wider IASME information assurance standard.

As with ISO/IEC 27001, organisations may choose to limit the scope of certification to a certain subset of their business and this must be disclosed on their certificate.

Controls
The five technical controls are:
Boundary firewalls and internet gateways
Secure configuration
Access control
Malware protection
Patch management

Cyber Essentials guidance breaks these down into finer details.

These controls can be mapped against the controls required by ISO/IEC 27001, the Standard of Good Practice for Information Security, and IASME Governance, although Cyber Essentials has a narrower focus, emphasising technical controls rather than governance, risk, and policy.

History
The Cyber Essentials scheme was launched on 5 June 2014. Several organisations were quickly certified by the end of June. Since October 2014, Cyber Essentials certification has been required for suppliers to the central UK government who handle certain kinds of sensitive and personal information. This is intended to encourage adoption by businesses wishing to bid for government contracts. Insurers have suggested that certified bodies may attract lower insurance premiums. Over 30,000 Cyber Essentials certificates have been awarded to businesses and organisations.

It was developed in collaboration with industry partners, including the Information Security Forum (ISF), the Information Assurance for Small and Medium Enterprises Consortium (IASME), and the British Standards Institution (BSI), and it is endorsed by the UK Government. It was launched in 2014 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

After the WannaCry ransomware attack, NHS Digital refused to finance the £1 billion which was the estimated cost of meeting the Cyber Essentials Plus standard, saying this would not constitute value for money and that it had invested over £60 million and planned to spend a further £150 million to address key cyber security weaknesses over the next two years.

As of September 2019, there were five accreditation bodies including APMG, CREST, IASME, IRM security and QG.

Beginning in April 2020, IASME has been chosen by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to be the sole Cyber Essentials Scheme Accreditation body.

In January 2022 the pricing model will change to a tiered model based on the number of employees, this is to better reflect the more complex nature of assessing larger organisations.  Cloud services, BYOD, home working, thin clients and MFA will see big changes as part of the assessment.

See also
 CESG
 Cyber Assessment Framework
 GovAssure
 Government Digital Service
Government Security Classifications Policy
 IASME
ISO/IEC 27001
NCSC
 UK cyber security community
UK Cyber Security Forum

References

External links
 Official Cyber Essentials Website
 Official Cyber Essentials Advice
 Official Cyber Essentials Guidance - All Topics
 National Cyber Security Centre: 10 Steps to Cyber Security

Computer security in the United Kingdom
Computer security organizations
Information assurance standards
Information governance
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom


title: Renzonghai Dam

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The Renzonghai Dam is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Tianwanhe River, a tributary of the Dadu River, in Shimian County of Sichuan Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports three power stations downstream, the Renzonghai, Jinwo and Dafa Hydropower Stations. Water from the dam is sent via penstock first to the 246 MW Renzonghai () then the 287.2 MW Jinwo () and finally, the 246 MW Dafa Hydropower Station ().  The total installed capacity of the power stations is 779.2 MW Construction on the project began in August 2004 and the Jinwo power station was commissioned in 2007, the Dafa in 2008 and the Renzonghai in 2009. The Jinwo station contains the largest Pelton turbines in Asia, two at 146.3 MW each.

See also

List of dams and reservoirs in China
List of tallest dams in China

References

Dams in China
Rock-filled dams
Dams completed in 2007
Hydroelectric power stations in Sichuan
Energy infrastructure completed in 2009


title: Bootheel

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Bootheel can refer to:

The heel of a boot (a type of footwear)
In the United States, a term used for a short type of panhandle protruding southward, including:
The Missouri Bootheel, a region in the southeastern part of the state
The New Mexico Bootheel, a region in the southwestern part of the state
The Salento peninsula of Italy, also known colloquially as "Italy's bootheel"


title: Camayo Arcade

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The Camayo Arcade is a historic shopping arcade located along Winchester Avenue in downtown Ashland, Kentucky. It opened in July 1926 and was the first indoor shopping mall built in the state of Kentucky. The building is part of the Ashland Commercial Historic District.

History

On September 22, 1925, a construction contract was awarded to C. Harrison Smith, a general contractor from Huntington, West Virginia. Demolition of the Josselson Brothers Furniture Store began the following week on the site where the arcade would be constructed. By this time, 60% of the retail space on the second and third floors of the building had been leased. The storefronts were constructed out of rosetta marble and each interior store featured a depth of 17.5 feet, with a width of 15, 30 or 45 feet, with or without partitions.  Electrical fixtures were installed beginning in June 1925 by the Beardslee Chandelier Manufacturing Company of Chicago. The arcade opened under the management of John C. C. Mayo, Jr. and Alexander Cameron in July 1926.

On October 9, 1926, the  Camayo Arcade Recreation Center opened in basement of the building. The recreation center featured billiards tables and a bowling alley. Once completed, the Camayo Arcade had  of total floor space.

The building underwent significant renovations in 2012 after being purchased by resident Perry Madden.

See also

Arcade (architecture)
Ashland Commercial Historic District
Cityscape of Ashland, Kentucky
Retail
Shopping Arcade

References

Commercial buildings completed in 1926
Shopping malls established in 1926
Shopping malls in Kentucky
Shopping arcades in the United States
Ashland, Kentucky
National Register of Historic Places in Boyd County, Kentucky
Historic district contributing properties in Kentucky
1926 establishments in Kentucky


title: Stenotyla

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Stenotyla is a genus of orchids. It contains 9 known species, all native to Central America and southern Mexico.

Stenotyla estrellensis (Ames) P.A.Harding - Costa Rica
Stenotyla francoi Archila - Guatemala
Stenotyla helleri (Fowlie) P.A.Harding - Nicaragua
Stenotyla lankesteriana (Pupulin) Dressler - Costa Rica, Panama
Stenotyla lendyana (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
Stenotyla maculata Archila - Guatemala
Stenotyla maxillaperta Archila - Guatemala
Stenotyla panamensis Pupulin - Panama
Stenotyla picta (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Costa Rica, Panama

See also
 List of Orchidaceae genera

References

External links

Orchids of North America
Zygopetalinae genera
Zygopetalinae


title: Angraecum atlanticum

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Angraecum atlanticum is a species of comet orchid that can be found in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It is known from three subpopulations; in Monte Alén National Park in Equatorial Guinea and in Moukalaba-Doudou National Park and Ivindo National Park in Gabon. It is found in epiphyte-rich submontane forest, and in the shrubby fringes rich in Burseraceae.

References

atlanticum
Orchids of Africa
Orchids of Gabon
Flora of Equatorial Guinea
Near threatened plants


title: Pierre-François Berruer

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Pierre-François Berruer (1733 – 4 April 1797) was a French sculptor. He is known for the twelve statues that decorate the front of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux.

Early years

Pierre François Berruer was born in Paris in 1733.
In 1754 he won the second prize of the Prix de Rome after Charles-Antoine Bridan (1730–1808) with his Le Massacre des Innocents.
He won the first prize in 1756, tied with André-Jean Lebrun (1737–1811), with his Abraham et Melchisédech.
This gained him a scholarship to the Villa Medici in Rome from 1758 to 1764.
He was a pupil of Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791) and René-Michel Slodtz (1705–1764).
After returning to France, Berruer was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1765.

Career

In 1767 Berruer made a marble statue of Hebe holding a cup and vase for the Duc de Choiseul.
In the Salon of 1771 Berruer exhibited a proposal for the tomb of Marshal the Comte de Harcourt in Nôtre-Dame, following the maudlin taste of the time. According to the Mercure de France, "Monsieur Berruer's plan for a mausoleum for the late comte de Harcourt has been conceived with warmth and will be viewed with interest, because it will make one consider the tender wife who throws herself in front of Death in order to save her husband from the blow that is about to be struck against him."

Berruer designed a long relief panel for the facade of the École de Chirurgie in Paris, built in 1769–74.
The panel is placed above the entablature of the Ionic order and below the upper cornice.
It shows King Louis XV of France, followed by Minerva and surrounded by the sick, commanding that the school be built. Architecture, Surgery, Vigilance and Providence are also depicted on the panel.
After the church of Ste-Geneviève, the school was the most admired building of the period.

Berruer made two busts of the engraver Jacques Roëttiers, one dated 1772–73 and the other 1774–75.
In 1781 he made a bust of Philippe Néricault Destouches of the Académie française, which was installed at the Comédie-Française.
He was one of the main artists whose work was included in the collection of the Comédie-Française at the end of the 18th century.
Others were Jean-Baptiste d'Huez, Jean-Joseph Foucou, Simon-Louis Boizot and Augustin Pajou.

Berruer was named a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1785.
His pupils included Charles-Louis Corbet (1758–1808).
His best known works are the statue of Chancelier d'Aguesseau at the Palace of Versailles and the twelve stone statues of  on the peristyle of the facade of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. They represent nine muses and three goddesses. He completed four himself and entrusted his assistant Van den Drix the task of carving the others from models that he had made.

Pierre François Berruer married Anne-Catherine Ménagé.
He died at home in the Cour du Museum in the 4th arrondissement of Paris on 15 Germinal V (4 April 1797). He was aged 63.

Selected works

Works include:
 Bordeaux :
 Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, facade : Nine muses and three goddesses, 1780,
 Musée des Beaux-Arts : Hébé, 1767, terracotta,
 Chartres, Chartres Cathedral :
 Charity and Hope, high relief in the choir,
 Faith and Humility, high relief in the choir,
 The Baptism of Christ, bas-relief,
 The Annunciation, bas-relief,
 Paris :
 École de Chirurgie, relief on the front : Theory and Practice swear eternal union, 1780,
 The Louvre : Louis XV rewards Painting and Sculpture, 1770, bas-relief in marble,
 Versailles, Palace of Versailles : Henri d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France, c. 1779, marble,
 Unknomn location :
 Bacchic scene, 1784,
 Bust of the engraver Jacques Roëttiers, terracotta in 1773, marble in 1775,
 Nymph of Sincerity holding a dove in her hands.

References
Citations

Sources

1733 births
1797 deaths
18th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
18th-century French male artists


title: Calculation of radiocarbon dates

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The calculation of radiocarbon dates determines the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon (also known as carbon-14), a radioactive isotope of carbon.

Radiocarbon dating methods produce data based on the ratios of different carbon isotopes in a sample that must then be further manipulated in order to calculate a resulting "radiocarbon age". Radiocarbon dating is also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating.  Calculations of radiocarbon dates are typically made based on measurements from beta counting devices or from accelerator mass spectrometers (AMS).  There are several possible sources of error in both the beta counting and AMS methods.

Calculations
The calculations to be performed depend on the measurements taken based on the technology used, since beta counters measure the sample's radioactivity, whereas accelerator mass spectrometers (AMS) determine the ratio of the three different carbon isotopes in the sample.

Standards
The calculations to convert measured data to an estimate of the age of the sample require the use of several standards. One of these, the standard for normalizing  values, is Pee Dee Belemnite (PDB), a fossil which has a / ratio of 1.12372%. A related standard is the use of wood, which has a  of -25‰, as the material for which radiocarbon ages are calibrated. Since different materials have different  values, it is possible for two samples of different materials, of the same age, to have different levels of radioactivity and different / ratios. To compensate for this, the measurements are converted to the activity, or isotope ratio, that would have been measured if the sample had been made of wood. This is possible because the  of wood is known, and the  of the sample material can be measured, or taken from a table of typical values. The details of the calculations for beta counting and AMS are given below.

Another standard is the use of 1950 as "present", in the sense that a calculation that shows that a sample's likely age is 500 years "before present" means that it is likely to have come from about the year 1450. This convention is necessary in order to keep published radiocarbon results comparable to each other; without this convention, a given radiocarbon result would be of no use unless the year it was measured was also known—an age of 500 years published in 2010 would indicate a likely sample date of 1510, for example. In order to allow measurements to be converted to the 1950 baseline, a standard activity level is defined for the radioactivity of wood in 1950. Because of the fossil fuel effect, this is not actually the activity level of wood from 1950; the activity would have been somewhat lower. The fossil fuel effect was eliminated from the standard value by measuring wood from 1890, and using the radioactive decay equations to determine what the activity would have been at the year of growth. The resulting standard value, Aabs, is 226 becquerels per kilogram of carbon.

Both beta counting and AMS measure standard samples as part of their methodology. These samples contain carbon of a known activity. The first standard, Oxalic Acid SRM 4990B, also referred to as HOxI, was a 1,000 lb batch of oxalic acid created in 1955 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Since it was created after the start of atomic testing, it incorporates bomb carbon, so measured activity is higher than the desired standard. This is addressed by defining the standard to be 0.95 times the activity of HOxI.

All of this first standard has long since been consumed, and later standards have been created, each of which has a given ratio to the desired standard activity. A secondary standard, Oxalic Acid SRM 4990C, also referred to as HOxII, 1,000 lb of which was prepared by NIST in 1977 from French beet harvests, is now in wide use.

Calculations for beta counting devices
To determine the age of a sample whose activity has been measured by beta counting, the ratio of its activity to the activity of the standard must be found. The equation:

gives the required ratio, where As is the true activity of the sample, Astd is the true activity of the standard, Ms is the measured activity of the sample, Mstd is the measured activity of the standard, and Mb is the measured activity of the blank.

A correction must also be made for fractionation. The fractionation correction converts the / ratio for the sample to the ratio it would have had if the material was wood, which has a  value of -25‰. This is necessary because determining the age of the sample requires a comparison of the amount of  in the sample with what it would have had if it newly formed from the biosphere. The standard used for modern carbon is wood, with a baseline date of 1950.

Correcting for fractionation changes the activity measured in the sample to the activity it would have if it were wood of the same age as the sample. The calculation requires the definition of a  fractionation factor, which is defined for any sample material as

The  fractionation factor, Frac14/12, is approximately the square of this, to an accuracy of 1‰:

Multiplying the measured activity for the sample by the  fractionation factor converts it to the activity that it would have had had the sample been wood:

where Asn is the normalized activity for the sample, and Frac14/12 (s) is the  fractionation factor for the sample.

The equation for δ13C given earlier can be rearranged to

Substituting this in the  fractionation factor, and also substituting the value for δ13C for wood of -25‰, gives the following expression:

where the δ13C value remaining in the equation is the value for the sample itself. This can be measured directly, or simply looked up in a table of characteristic values for the type of sample material—this latter approach leads to increased uncertainty in the result, as there is a range of possible δ13C values for each possible sample material. Cancelling the PDB / ratio reduces this to:

AMS calculations
The results from AMS testing are in the form of ratios of , , and . These ratios are used to calculate , the "fraction modern", defined as

where  is the / ratio for the sample, after correcting for fractionation, and  is the standard / ratio for modern carbon.

The calculation begins by subtracting the ratio measured for the machine blank from the other sample measurements. That is:

where  is the measured sample / ratio;  is the measured ratio for the standard;  is the measured ratio for the process blank, and  is the measured ratio for the machine blank. The next step, to correct for fractionation, can be done using either the / ratio or the / ratio, and also depends on which of the two possible standards was measured: HOxI or HoxII.  is then HOxI or HOxII, depending on which standard was used. The four possible equations are as follows. First, if the / ratio is used to perform the fractionation correction, the following two equations apply, one for each standard.

If the / ratio is used instead, then the equations for each standard are:

The δ13C values in the equations measure the fractionation in the standards as , prior to their conversion to graphite to use as a target in the spectrometer. This assumes that the conversion to graphite does not introduce significant additional fractionation.

Once the appropriate value above has been calculated,  can be determined; it is

The values 0.95 and 0.7459 are part of the definition of the two standards; they convert the / ratio in the standards to the ratio that modern carbon would have had in 1950 if there had been no fossil fuel effect.

Since it is common practice to measure the standards repeatedly during an AMS run, alternating the standard target with the sample being measured, there are multiple measurements available for the standard, and these measurements provide a couple of options in the calculation of . Different labs use this data in different ways; some simply average the values, while others consider the measurements made on the standard target as a series, and interpolate the readings that would have been measured during the sample run, if the standard had been measured at that time instead.

Next, the uncorrected fraction modern is calculated; "uncorrected" means that this intermediate value does not include the fractionation correction.

Now the measured fraction modern can be determined, by correcting for fractionation. As above there are two equations, depending on whether the / or / ratio is being used. If the / ratio is being used:

If the / ratio is being used:

The δ13Cs value is from the sample itself, measured on  prepared while converting the sample to graphite.

The final step is to adjust  for the measured fraction modern of the process blank, , which is calculated as above for the sample. One approach is to determine the mass of the measured carbon, , along with , the mass of the process blank, and Cs, the mass of the sample. The final fraction modern,  is then

The fraction modern is then converted to an age in "radiocarbon years", meaning that the calculation uses Libby's half-life of 5,568 years, not the more accurate modern value of 5,730 years, and that no calibration has been done:

Errors and reliability
There are several possible sources of error in both the beta counting and AMS methods, although laboratories vary in how they report errors. All laboratories report counting statistics—that is, statistics showing possible errors in counting the decay events or number of atoms—with an error term of 1σ (i.e. 68% confidence that the true value is within the given range). These errors can be reduced by extending the counting duration: for example, testing a modern benzene sample will find about eight decay events per minute per gram of benzene, and 250 minutes of counting will suffice to give an error of ± 80 years, with 68% confidence. If the benzene sample contains carbon that is about 5,730 years old (the half-life of ), then there will only be half as many decay events per minute, but the same error term of 80 years could be obtained by doubling the counting time to 500 minutes. Note that the error term is not symmetric, though the effect is negligible for recent samples; for a sample with an estimated age of 30,600 years, the error term might be +1600 to -1300.

To be completely accurate, the error term quoted for the reported radiocarbon age should incorporate counting errors not only from the sample, but also from counting decay events for the reference sample, and for blanks. It should also incorporate errors on every measurement taken as part of the dating method, including, for example, the δ13C term for the sample, or any laboratory conditions being corrected for such as temperature or voltage. These errors should then be mathematically combined to give an overall term for the error in the reported age, but in practice laboratories differ, not only in the terms they choose to include in their error calculations, but also in the way they combine errors. The resulting 1σ estimates have been shown to typically underestimate the true error, and it has even been suggested that doubling the given 1σ error term results in a more accurate value.

The usual presentation of a radiocarbon date, as a specific date plus or minus an error term, obscures the fact that the true age of the object being measured may lie outside the range of dates quoted. In 1970, the British Museum radiocarbon laboratory ran weekly measurements on the same sample for six months. The results varied widely (though consistently with a normal distribution of errors in the measurements), and included multiple date ranges (of 1σ confidence) that did not overlap with each other. The extreme measurements included one with a maximum age of under 4,400 years, and another with a minimum age of over 4,500 years.

It is also possible for laboratories to have systematic errors, caused by weaknesses in their methodologies. For example, if 1% of the benzene in a modern reference sample is allowed to evaporate, scintillation counting will give a radiocarbon age that is too young by about 80 years. Laboratories work to detect these errors both by testing their own procedures, and by periodic inter-laboratory comparisons of a variety of different samples; any laboratories whose results differ from the consensus radiocarbon age by too great an amount may be suffering from systematic errors. Even if the systematic errors are not corrected, the laboratory can estimate the magnitude of the effect and include this in the published error estimates for their results.

The limit of measurability is approximately eight half-lives, or about 45,000 years. Samples older than this will typically be reported as having an infinite age. Some techniques have been developed to extend the range of dating further into the past, including isotopic enrichment, or large samples and very high precision counters. These methods have in some cases increased the maximum age that can be reported for a sample to 60,000 and even 75,000 years.

Notes

Footnotes

References

Eriksson Stenström, Kristina; Skog, Göran; Georgiadou, Elisavet; Genberg, Johan; & Johansson, Anette. "A guide to radiocarbon units and calculations". 2011. Lund:Lund University.
L'Annunziata, Michael F. (2007). Radioactivity: Introduction and History. Oxford: Elsevier.

Radiocarbon dating


title: The Stone (blog)

text:
The Stone is the New York Times philosophy series, edited by the Times opinion editor Peter Catapano and moderated by Simon Critchley. It was established in May 2010 as a regular feature of The New York Times Opinion section, with the goal of providing argument and commentary informed by or with a focus on philosophy.
The series, as described on the Times website "features the writing of contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless." More than a dozen of the essays in the series have been chosen as winners of  the American Philosophical Association's public op-ed contests. Works from the series have been collected into two volumes — "The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments" and "Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments," both published by Liveright.

Over the years, many essays published in the series have won the American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op-ed Prize, including four of the five winners in 2020. The New York Times announced in May of 2021 that the series would be ended, as part of a rebranding of the editorial page and a move away from labeled columns.

Contributors
Linda Martin Alcoff
Louise Antony
Paul Bloom
Paul Boghossian
Tyler Burge
Judith Butler
Noam Chomsky
Alice Crary
Arthur Danto
Jay L. Garfield
Gary Gutting
Carol Hay
John Kaag
Philip Kitcher
Rae Langton
Ernie Lepore
Peter Ludlow
Michael P. Lynch
Michael Marder
Jeff McMahan
Feisal G. Mohamed
Alva Noe
Martha Nussbaum
Steven Pinker
Peter Singer
Scott Soames
Jason Stanley
Bryan W. Van Norden
Cornel West
Edward O. Wilson
George Yancy
Santiago Zabala

References

External links

Philosophy blogs
The New York Times
2010 establishments in the United States


title: Hindu High School, Muthukrishnaperi

text:
Hindu High School, Muthukrishnaperi is a high school in Muthukrishnaperi, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 1929.

External links

High schools and secondary schools in Tamil Nadu
Education in Tirunelveli district
Educational institutions established in 1929
1929 establishments in India


title: Stratum (album)

text:
Stratum is the second full-length studio album by the Norwegian Christian extreme metal band Drottnar, initially released on October 13, 2012 through Endtime Productions.  A single was released for the album, "Lucid Stratum", on November 8, 2011, and the band went on a four-stop tour with Deuteronomium and Pantokrator in Finland from May 2–5, 2013. The album features a highly technical and complex form of extreme metal, and met with a positive reception from critics.

Background and recording

Drottnar formed in Fredrikstad, Norway, in 1996. The band recorded and released two demos, Doom of the Antichrist and A White Realm, both of which were re-mastered and re-released as a compilation, Spiritual Warfare, in 2000. The compilation was described as death/doom and Viking metal. In 2003, the group released an EP, Anamorphosis, and adopted a more minimalist black metal style. A studio album, Welterwerk, followed in 2006, and featured a technical and chaotic sound. Around the time of Welterwerk'''s release, the band members started wearing early 20th century military regalia in mockery of Nazi and Communist regimes.

Recording for Stratum began in 2009, which the band announced on Facebook on February 1 of that year. The next day, Drottnar announced the departure of guitarist Bengt Olsson. However, later that year, on August 12, the band announced that Olsson had rejoined Drottnar. Recording continued for the next few years. The album was mastered at Strype Audio by Tom Kvålsvoll.

Promotion and release
A single from the album, "Lucid Stratum", was released on November 8, 2011. On October 13, 2012, the band released Stratum in digital format, as well as a music video for the song "We March". Drottnar held a release party on March 16, 2013 at Elements of Rock in Uster, Switzerland, and announced on March 19 that a few physical copies of Stratum were available before they hit stores. On February 14, 2014, Drottnar released a lyric video for "Cul-De-Sac".

Musical style
Reviewers described the music on Stratum as a highly complex and technical form of extreme metal. HM's Michael Larson noted that on Stratum, Drottnar continued with the technical playing of the past, and perhaps even became more technical, but balanced this with a "subdued grind and some atonal chord work". André Gabriel of Metal.de described the music as "extreme", melding black metal with a "weird", progressive style, and noted the many tempo changes and intricate song structures. Radio show MLWZ wrote that on the album, Drottnar brings together "elements of technical, black, death, industrial, avant-garde and just about every form of extreme metal one can think of".

Touring
On December 1, 2012, Drottnar performed at Metal Night at Fabriken in Alingsås, Sweden. On May 2–5, 2013, Drottnar went on the 20 Years of Holy Metal tour in Finland with Deuteronomium and Pantokrator. The tour made four stops: Tampere, Kuopio, Lahti, and Helsinki.

Critical receptionStratum met with a positive reception from critics. Michael Larson of HM rated the album four out of five stars, remarking that "Drottnar sure takes their sweet time putting out albums, with 6 or 7 years between full-length releases. This time, it was definitely worth the wait." Larson opined that he liked the band's first release, 2000's Spiritual Battle, but disliked the band's previous album, 2006's Welterwerk, as was "too chaotic". However, in Larson's opinion, "Stratum seems to have taken the best of both those releases and melded them together into a furious sonic fury." He felt that while the band kept its technical playing style, it avoided getting too "chaotic and noisy". He also praised the production quality of the release, dubbing it "stellar". André Gabriel of Metal.de rated the album six out of ten, calling the album intelligently designed and well-played, but not outstanding. Kev Rowland, writing for the Polish radio show MLWZ, stated that he was "incredibly impressed" by the album. He lavished praise on the album's production, describing the sound quality as "incredible, large, loud and incredibly clear and concise so that one can hear just how much the bass is adding in terms of nuance". He concluded that Stratum'' is frightening; it is compelling, schizophrenic and all encompassing. This is not music for everyone, as its very nature will push many away, but if you want your music to be extreme yet always maintain a sensibility and power then look no further. The very first time I played this I was incredibly impressed, and repeated plays have only cemented that opinion. This could well be the extreme metal album of the year...

Track listing

Release history

References

Drottnar albums
2012 albums
Industrial metal albums
Avant-garde metal albums


title: EtonHouse International Education Group

text:
EtonHouse International Education Group is headquartered in Singapore with 120 schools in over 12 countries. Together these schools provide education to over 12,000 children globally.

There are 9 IB schools in the EtonHouse family.

History
The first EtonHouse school was opened in Singapore in 1995 by Ng Gim Choo, who had been inspired by her observations as a parent of play-based preschools in London. Initially, the school had difficulty acquiring local staff due to a lack of educators with early-childhood education training and so brought in teachers from overseas. By 2010, the Group was earning  $40 million a year with 26 schools across Asia with an emphasis on expanding into China.

The group managed alongside its regular institutions three main operations: EtonHouse E-Bridge, which offered education at lower fees in return for government priority in opening. High demand for registration created long lines and a requirement for revision to enrollment procedures. In October 2014 EtonHouse announced plans to open its first high school in cooperation with The Singapore Chinese Highschool, to be located in Bukit Timah, to be ready in 2016. The group also announced a partnership with Hwa Chong International to open a bilingual preschool/primary school in the same city. Due to laws in Singapore, while the preschool will be open for enrollment to everyone, the primary school will be international only, with Singaporean children taken only in exceptional circumstances.

The Group also announced its investment of $110mil in a China campus project in Deyang of Sichuan, China in 2017. The new campus will have a capacity of 5000 students and includes 3 campuses - a standalone kindergarten, a primary and secondary school, a kindergarten and high school campus as well as a teacher training centre.

In September 2017, EtonHouse has expanded to the Middle East through a franchise agreement with MBA Fakhro Group, and opened Etonhouse Bahrain division, the first Etonhouse preschool in Bahrain, and in August 2020 announced plans to open Etonhouse kindergarten.

Etonhouse International Schools list

Bahrain
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Bahrain

Cambodia
 EtonHouse International School, Phnom Penh

China
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Changshu
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Chengdu
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Chongqing
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Chongzhou
 EtonHouse International School & Bilingual Pre-School, Dalian
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Deqing
 EtonHouse International School & Pre-School, Dongguan
 EtonHouse International School (FEIS), Foshan
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Harbin
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Henan Luohe
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Henan Xinxiang
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Henan Zhengzhou
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Jinan
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Kunming
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Mianyang
 EtonHouse International School & Pre-School, Nanjing
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Shanghai
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Shenzhen
 EtonHouse International School & Pre-School, Suzhou
 EtonHouse Pre-School Xiangcheng Weitang, Suzhou
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Wenzhou
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Xian
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Xichang
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Xuzhou
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Zhuhai

Indonesia
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Jakarta
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Surabaya

Japan
 EtonHouse Karuizawa Learning Hub
EtonHouse International Pre-School, Tokyo

Kazakhstan
 EtonHouse International School, Kazakhstan

Malaysia
 EtonHouse Malaysia International School, Kuala Lumpur
 Etonhouse International Pre-School, Melaka

Myanmar
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Yangon

Singapore
 EtonHouse International School, Broadrick
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Claymore
 EtonHouse Pre-School, Islander
 EtonHouse International Pre-School, Mountbatten 718
 EtonHouse Pre-School, Mountbatten 717
 EtonHouse Mountbatten, 223 Pre-School
 EtonHouse Pre-School, Newton
 EtonHouse International School, Orchard
 EtonHouse Pre-School, Robertson Walk
 EtonHouse Sentosa International Pre-School & Primary Education, Sentosa
 EtonHouse International School, Thomson
 EtonHouse Pre-School, Upper Bukit Timah
 EtonHouse Pre-School, Vanda
 EtonHouse Zhong Hua Pre-School

Vietnam
 EtonHouse Thao Dien, Ho Chi Minh City

References

International schools in Singapore
Educational institutions established in 1995
1995 establishments in Singapore


title: South Gladstone, Queensland

text:
South Gladstone is a suburb of Gladstone in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , South Gladstone had a population of 3,476 people.

History
In about 1895, a frozen meat works was established at Parson's Point with production commencing on 24 May 1896. The location was chosen for its access to Port Curtis for harbour facilities and the adjacent railway line.

Concerned citizens at Parsons Point decided a school was needed for to cater for the meatworkers’ children. A provisional school was built at Parsons Point in 1898 and Parson's Point Provisional School opened on 1 August 1898. The provisional school became Parsons Point State School on 1 February 1913. A second site was offered for a new school – an acre of land adjacent to the road leading to the meatworks, about 400 yards from the present school. The new school was opened in 1915. In October 1934, land bordered by Little, Toolooa, Derby and Ann Streets was offered as a possible site for the relocation of the school. Finally, in 1945, the school was moved to its present location in Toolooa Street and renamed South Gladstone State School. During the 1980s the name was changed from South Gladstone State School to Gladstone South State School to be consistent with the naming of other schools in Gladstone. The school swimming pool was built in the 1980s and Gladstone South is still the only primary school in the Gladstone city area that has its own swimming facilities. A school dental clinic was opened in 1981.

Gladstone Water Treatment Plant opened in 1972 with an initial capacity to produce of  of drinking water each day.

Toolooa State High School opened on 27 January 1981 with 11 teachers and almost 200 Year 8 students. The name Toolooa is a reference to theTulua people, the Aboriginal people who traditionally occupied the Gladstone area.

In the , South Gladstone had a population of 3,626.

In the , South Gladstone had a population of 3,295 people.

The  revealed that the population of South Gladstone had risen to 3,476 people.

Education
Gladstone South State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 153 Toolooa Street (). In 2013, the school had 251 students and 29 teachers (23 full-time equivalent). By 2017, it had become a primary (P-6) school as part of an overall change to state education, and the school had an enrolment of 330 students with 22 teachers (20 full-time equivalent) and 24 non-teaching staff (16 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 347 students with 27 teachers (24 full-time equivalent) and 22 non-teaching staff (14 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program.

Toolooa State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at Philip Street (). In 2013, the school had 839 students with 66 teachers (63 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 1,042 students with 87 teachers (82 full-time equivalent) and 55 non-teaching staff (35 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program.

Central Queensland University has a campus at 25 Derby Street () which it shares with TAFE Queensland ().

Facilities
Gladstone Water Treatment Plant is at 3 Bruce Street (). It draws water from Lake Awoonga and, on average, it supplies  drinking water each day, but can produce up to  per day.

Gladstone SES Facility is at 7 Lamington Drive ().

Amenities
Port City Christian Church is at 10-12 McCann Street (). It is affiliated with the Australian Christian Churches.

References

Attribution
This article contains material from Our School (accessed on 11 November 2018, archived on 11 November 2018) published by Gladstone South State School, © The State of Queensland (Department of Education) 2018, under CC-BY-4.0 licence (accessed on 11 November 2018, archived on 11 November 2018).

Further reading

External links

Suburbs of Gladstone


title: Angraecum bancoense

text:
Angraecum bancoense is a species of comet orchid that can be found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe and Sierra Leone. It can be found with Calamus, on Lophira alata, Macrolebium or Blighia welwitschii.

References

bancoense


title: Hunter's Moon (Finch novel)

text:
Hunter's Moon is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Finch and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eleventh Doctor, and his Companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams.

Summary
A poorly chosen casino game lands Rory in a fight for his life as he 'works off' a debt for a criminal conspiracy. Amy is lost in space and the Doctor finds himself lost in red tape with the TARDIS well out of reach. Rory's best hope is for the Doctor to impersonate a violent mercenary. And also to run really fast.

Characters
Eleventh Doctor
Amy Pond
Rory Williams
Xorg Krauzzen
Mallick
Grant Pangborne
Harry Mossop
Dora Mossop
Sophie Mossop
Kobal Zalu
Zalizta
Zarbotan
Zargadoz Xaaael
Sergeant Xelos

Continuity
 The TARDIS is stolen by Xorg. It was previously stolen by The Master in Utopia and by Thomas Brewster in the Big Finnish Audio Drama The Boy That Time Forgot.
 The Terileptils are mentioned. They were at war with the Torodon in The Visitation.
 Aggedor, the Royal Beast of Peladon which appears in the story, is a species that fought on the Moon of Gorgoror in The Curse Of Peladon and The Monster Of Peladon.
 Kobal Zalu mentions that The Doctor had white hair the last time they met, suggesting an encounter with either the First or Third Doctor's.

Audiobook
The story was released as an audiobook on 20 October 2011 on 6 CDs read by Arthur Darvill. It is also available as an unabridged audio download on Amazon.

2011 British novels
2011 science fiction novels
Eleventh Doctor novels


title: Yoán Moncada

text:
Yoán Manuel Moncada Olivera (born May 27, 1995) is a Cuban professional baseball third baseman for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut for the Boston Red Sox in 2016, and was traded to the White Sox during the 2016–2017 offseason. He is one of the first active MLB players to represent the Cuban national team in international competition.

Professional career

Elefantes de Cienfuegos
Moncada made his debut for Cienfuegos of the Cuban National Series in 2012. In his two years with Cienfuegos he hit .277/.388/.380 with four home runs and 21 stolen bases. Moncada left Cuba in June 2014. Before signing with the Red Sox, Moncada was a highly sought after Cuban free agent. He was seen as a generational, five-tool talent, being compared to the likes of Robinson Cano.

Minor leagues

On February 23, 2015, the Boston Red Sox reportedly agreed to terms with Moncada, for a signing bonus of $31.5 million. The contract was finalized on March 12. He made his professional debut with the Greenville Drive of the Class A South Atlantic League on May 18. In the winter of 2015, he was consistently cited as one of the top prospects in the Red Sox system.

Entering the 2016 season, MLB.com ranked Moncada as the 7th best prospect in Major League Baseball.

Boston Red Sox
Moncada was called up and made his major league debut on September 2, 2016, against the Oakland Athletics. In his first plate appearance, he walked and subsequently scored a run. He recorded his first major league hit the following day. Moncada finished the 2016 MLB season with a .211 batting average (4-for-19) with one RBI.

Chicago White Sox

On December 6, 2016, the Red Sox traded Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander Basabe, and Victor Diaz to the Chicago White Sox for Chris Sale.

Moncada began the 2017 season with the Charlotte Knights of the Class AAA International League. On July 19, 2017, he was called up after the trade of Todd Frazier to the New York Yankees. Later that day, he made his Chicago White Sox debut against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He worked a walk in his first at bat, against Kenta Maeda.

On July 26, 2017, Moncada hit his first career major league home run off of Jake Arrieta of the Chicago Cubs. On August 25, he was placed on the 10-day disabled list due to shin issues. He played 54 games in 2017, finishing year with a .231 batting average, 8 home runs, and 22 RBIs.

In 2018, Moncada played 149 games, finishing with a .235 batting average, 32 doubles, 17 home runs, 61 RBIs, and struck out an MLB-leading 217 times. He had the lowest fielding percentage among major league second basemen, at .963.

In the 2019 campaign, Moncada set career highs in numerous batting areas, such as hits (161), doubles (34), home runs (25), RBIs (79), and batting average (.315), among others, with his batting average ranking third in the American League.

Overall, in 2020, Moncada batted .225 with six home runs and 24 RBIs in 52 games.

In 2021, Moncada batted .263 in 144 games hitting 14 home runs and 61 RBIs.

For 2022, Moncada began the season on the injured list with an oblique strain. On May 9, Moncada was activated off the IL and made his season debut that day against the Cleveland Guardians going 1-for-4.

International career
Moncada was named to the Cuban national team for 2023 World Baseball Classic. Along with White Sox teammate Luis Robert Jr., he became the first active MLB player to be play for Cuba. In the tournament, Moncada batted .435/.519/.739, with a team-leading 10 hits in 23 at-bats.

Musical career
In 2021, Moncada recorded "Desastre Personal" with artists El Chacal and Lenier.

References

External links

Joan Manuel Moncada, a prospect of Cienfuegos Baseball

1995 births
Living people
2023 World Baseball Classic players
Boston Red Sox players
Chicago White Sox players
Elefantes de Cienfuegos players
Greenville Drive players
Major League Baseball infielders
Major League Baseball players from Cuba
Cuban expatriate baseball players in the United States
People from Abreus, Cuba
Portland Sea Dogs players
Salem Red Sox players
Surprise Saguaros players
Charlotte Knights players


title: Northern Texas PGA Championship

text:
The Northern Texas PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the championship of the Northern Texas section of the PGA of America. Benny Passons, club pro playing out of Creekview Golf Club in Texas, holds the record for most victories with six. No PGA Tour winners have also won Northern Texas PGA Championship.

Winners

 2022 Matt Ryba
 2021 Chad Moscovic
 2020 Chad Moscovic
 2019 Matt Lohmeyer
 2018 Greg Gregory
 2017 Ben Kern
 2016 Benjamin Cuzen
 2015 Chad Moscovic
 2014 Cameron Doan
 2013 Stuart Deane
 2012 Stuart Deane
 2011 Dean Larsson
 2010 Jamie Elliott
 2009 Dean Larsson
 2008 Perry Arthur
 2007 Chad Williams
 2006 Lindy Miller
 2005 Matt MacConnell
 2004 Perry Arthur
 2003 Todd Sandow
 2002 Perry Arthur
 2001 Bob Elliott
 2000 Tim Hobby
 1999 Perry Arthur
 1998 Tim Hobby
 1997 Gordon Johnson
 1996 Doug Higgins, Jr.
 1995 Ed Gatlin
 1994 Benny Passons
 1993 Terry Dear
 1992 Lindy Miller
 1991 Dow Finsterwald, Jr.
 1990 Benny Passons
 1989 Bob Smith
 1988 Don Robertson
 1987 Don Robertson
 1986 Lindy Miller
 1985 Robert Hoyt
 1984 Dwight Nevil
 1983 Robert Hoyt
 1982 Benny Passons
 1981 Benny Passons
 1980 Benny Passons
 1979 Benny Passons

References

External links
PGA of America – Northern Texas section

Golf in Texas
PGA of America sectional tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 1979


title: George S. Patton (attorney)

text:
George Smith Patton (September 30, 1856 – June 10, 1927) was an American attorney, businessman and politician who served as Los Angeles County District Attorney and the first mayor of San Marino, California.

Patton was the son of Susan Thornton Glassell and George S. Patton Sr., a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War.  His mother moved to California after his father was killed during the war, and Patton was educated in Los Angeles.  He returned to Virginia to attend Virginia Military Institute, from which he graduated in 1877.  After studying law at his uncle's firm, he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Los Angeles.  He served in local offices including school board member. He was elected County District Attorney in 1887.

Patton married the daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, one of California's wealthiest men, and moved with his family to a San Gabriel estate called Lake Vineyard.  He was active in politics as a Democrat and made unsuccessful races for Congress in 1894 and 1896.  When San Marino was incorporated as a city separate from San Gabriel, he was elected San Marino's first mayor, a post he held from 1913 to 1922 and 1922 to 1924.  In 1916 he was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator.

A longtime friend of Henry E. Huntington, in 1902 Patton became an executive in Huntington's real estate development company, and played a major role in developing the San Gabriel Valley and other areas of southern California.  He died in San Marino in 1927, and was buried at San Gabriel Cemetery in San Gabriel.  Patton was the father of two children, including General George S. Patton.

Early life
Patton was born as George William Patton in Charleston, West Virginia (then Virginia) on September 30, 1856.  Patton's parents were George S. Patton Sr. and Susan Thornton Glassell.

Patton's father served in the Confederate States Army and attained the rank of colonel as commander of the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment.  By some accounts, he had been recommended for advancement to brigadier general, but was killed at the Battle of Opequon (Third Battle of Winchester) before the promotion was acted on.   His brother Waller T. Patton, Patton's uncle, was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army, and commanded the 7th Virginia Infantry until he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and died several weeks later.

Patton's mother moved to California with her four children in 1866 to live near her brother, Andrew Glassell, and she later married Hugh Smith, Glassell's partner in the Glassell & Smith law firm.  Patton was raised to follow in his father's footsteps and in 1868, he chose to have his middle name changed from William to Smith, his father's middle name.

Education
Patton was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles.  In 1873, he returned to Virginia to begin attendance at the Virginia Military Institute, taking advantage of a scholarship offered to the sons of Confederate officers who died in service.  He graduated in 1877, and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the class valedictorian.  He remained at the school for a year as an instructor of Latin, then returned to California to study law at Glassell & Smith.

Career
Patton was admitted to the bar in 1880 and practiced in Los Angeles as a member of his family's law firm, now renamed Glassell, Smith and Patton.  According to some sources, he served as the first City Attorney of Pasadena, but the city's records for its officeholders do not include his name.

In 1882, Patton was elected to a seat on the Los Angeles board of education and he served as the board's secretary.  Patton also became active in the California National Guard, and was appointed inspector of the 1st Brigade with the rank of major.

In January 1887, he became Los Angeles County District Attorney and he served until resigning in April 1887 because of ill health.

The Patton family later moved to Lake Vineyard, a large landholding in San Gabriel, California, where they grew oranges, operated a winery, and raised other crops.

In 1894, Patton was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives from California's 6th District and lost to Republican James McLaclan.  In 1896, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 6th District.  After he and another candidate were tied for several ballots, both withdrew in favor of a compromise choice, Harry W. Patton (no relation).

Patton was a longtime friend and neighbor of businessman Henry E. Huntington.  Beginning in 1902, Patton worked as an executive for Huntington's real estate development company, which was responsible for construction and settlement in much of the San Gabriel Valley, and extended throughout southern California.

In 1913 the city of San Marino was incorporated separately from San Gabriel, and Patton was elected the first mayor of San Marino.  He served from April 1913 to April 1922, and again from October 1922 to August 1924.

Patton was the 1916 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from California.  Running as a conservative opposed to women's suffrage and other reforms, on November 7, 1916, Patton lost the general election to Governor Hiram Johnson, a progressive Republican.

Family

In 1884, Patton married Ruth Wilson, daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, a prominent landowner, businessman, and politician, and Margaret (Hereford) Wilson. They had two children, army general George S. Patton and Anne Wilson "Nita" Patton (1887-1971).

Death
On June 10, 1927, Patton died at his Lake Vineyard home in San Marino.
He was buried at San Gabriel Cemetery in San Gabriel, California.

See also
 1894 United States House of Representatives elections in California
 Women's suffrage in the United States#Opposition to women's suffrage

References

External links

1856 births
1927 deaths
Patton family
Mayors of places in California
District attorneys in California
California Democrats
George S. Patton
People from the San Gabriel Valley
Politicians from Charleston, West Virginia
Virginia Military Institute alumni
Burials in California
Lawyers from Charleston, West Virginia
California National Guard personnel
School  board members in California


title: Angraecum doratophyllum

text:
Angraecum doratophyllum is a species of comet orchid that is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe. On São Tomé, it can be found from elevations of 850–1,600 m, growing with Syzygium guineense or with Bulbophyllum lizae. On Príncipe, it is found in shrubby vegetation at around 300 m elevation. It is threatened by deforestation for agriculture and timber.

References

distichum
Endangered plants
Endemic flora of São Tomé and Príncipe
Flora of São Tomé Island
Flora of Príncipe


title: Guangdong Radio and Television

text:
Guangdong Radio and Television, commonly known as GRT, is a broadcasting company based in Guangdong, China. The company is operating 9 radio channels, 12 free-to-air and 10 pay television channels. The company is owned by the Guangdong provincial government. The company is based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. The GRT compete ratings with local municipal broadcasters (e.g. Guangzhou Broadcasting Network) and Hong Kong's TVB network in the province.

History

GRT was formed on 23 April 2014 after the merge of Guangdong Television (GDTV), Radio Guangdong, Southern Media Corporation, and Television Southern (TVS).

Television

References

Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Mass media in Guangzhou
2014 establishments in China
Television in China


title: Meranoplus radamae

text:
Meranoplus radamae is a Malagasy species of ant in the genus Meranoplus. The species diurnal.

Distribution
Meranoplus radamae is restricted to the grasslands and woodlands of the High Plateau, and the spiny forests of southern Madagascar. Specimens are known from 370 to 1550 m above sea level, and nests have been collected under stones in grassland and from ground nests. A few collections have been made in southern rainforest sites, but these may represent local adaptation to disturbed habitats.

References

External links

Myrmicinae
Hymenoptera of Africa
Insects described in 1891


title: Diocletianopolis (Palestine)

text:
Diocletianopolis () was a city near Ascalon. It was given the status of a city under the name Diocletianopolis as part of a Roman policy of urbanization, what had been the territory of Ascalon was divided into three municipal districts, those of Ascalon, Maiumas Ascalon, and Diocletianopolis. Ken Butcher says that what was given the name Diocletianopolis was the port of Ascalon.

History
This arrangement occurred probably in the reign of Diocletian (284–311). so that the city of Diocletianopolis then belonged to the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about 390, it became part of the newly created province of Palestina Prima, which had Caesarea Maritima as capital.

Diocletianopolis was also called Sarafia a name that survives in the present name of Khirbat al-Sharaf or Khirbat al-Ashraf and that Christians seem to have preferred to the official name that recalled the persecuting emperor.

Ecclesiastical History
Diocletianopolis was a Christian episcopal see by the mid-4th century, but the only bishop of the see who is known by name is Eliseus, who took part in the Semi-Arian synod of Seleucia in 359.

Titular see
No longer a residential diocese, the bishopric is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

The diocese was initially (18th century?) restored nominally under the name Diocletianopolis, only in 1933 the titular bishopric was renamed Diocletianopolis in Palæstina.

It is vacant, having had the following incumbent, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
 Bazilije Božičković, Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (O.S.B.M., Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic) (1759.09.04 – 1777.06.17)
 Johann Michael Josef von Pidoll de Quitenbach (1794.02.21 – 1802.05.25)
 Johann Michael Leonhard (1836.02.01 – 1863.01.19)
 James Whelan, Dominican order (O.P.) (1864.02.12 – 1878.02.18)
 Anton Johann Zerr (1883.03.15 – 1889.12.30)
 Fedele Abati, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1890.06.06 – 1915.04.08)
 Antônio Augusto de Assis (1918.08.02 – 1922.02.24), as Auxiliary Bishop of Mariana (Brazil) (1918.08.02 – 1931.07.31); previously Titular Bishop of Sura (1907.07.10 – 1909.11.29), Coadjutor Bishop of Pouso Alegre (Brazil) (1907.07.10 – 1909.11.29), succeeding as Bishop of Pouso Alegre (1909.11.29 – 1916.02.07), Bishop of Guaxupé (Brazil) (1916.02.07 – 1918.08.02); later Titular Archbishop of Berytus (1922.02.24 – 1931.07.31), Bishop of Jaboticabal (Brazil) (1931.07.31 – 1961.02.07)
 Gerard Vesters, Sacred Heart Missionaries (M.S.C.) (1923.02.16 – 1954.08.30)
 Aníbal Maricevich Fleitas (1957.02.05 – 1965.12.04)

References

Source and External links
 GigaCatholic, with titular incumbent biography links

Archaeological sites in Israel
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Ascalon


title: West Gladstone, Queensland

text:
West Gladstone is a suburb of Gladstone in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , West Gladstone had a population of 4,844 people.

Geography
The suburb is bounded to the west and north-west in part by the Auckland Inlet, to the north in part by Murray Street and Side Street, to the east in part by Glenlyon Street, and to the south in part by Philip Street.

The suburb is at sea level in the west by the Auckland Inlet and rises towards the east of the suburb. Round Hill in the south-east of the suburb () is the highest point, rising to .

Dawson Road enters the suburb from the north-east (Gladstone Central/CBD) and exits to the south-west (Clinton, New Auckland, Kin Kora) as the Dawson Highway.

The North Coast railway line enters the suburb from the west (Callemondah) and exits to the north-east (Gladstone Central/CBD); there are no railway stations within West Gladstone.

History
Gladstone State High School opened on 2 February 1953.

Gladstone West State School opened on 24 January 1966.

A Catholic secondary school opened in 1966 with 23 boys and girls in Year 8 in temporary premises at the Star of the Sea Church and School in Gladstone CBD. In 1967, the school relocated to its present site in West Gladstone, where the Sisters of Mercy established Stella Maris College for the girls. In 1968, the Marist Brothers established Chanel College as the school for the boys. Later, the two schools amalgamated as Gladstone Catholic High School. In 1985, the school adopted the name Chanel College for the co-educational school.

Rosella Park School opened on 17 May 1971.

The Mater Hospital Gladstone was opened on 14 April 1999 by the Mater Group, a Catholic healthcare organisation founded by the Sisters of Mercy. In April 2020, the Mater Group sold the Mater Hospital Gladstone to Queensland Health to become the West Wing of Gladstone Hospital. The Mater Group closed the hospital due to declining numbers of private patients making it financially unviable. The hospital had ceased maternity services in October 2018 and by January 2020 was only offering day surgery. It was a Catholic private hospital at 50 Rossella Street ().

In the , West Gladstone had a population of 5,201 people.

In the , West Gladstone had a population of 4,728 people.

The  revealed that the population of West Gladstone was 4,844 people.

Education

Gladstone West State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Boles Street (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 641 students with 45 teachers (43 full-time equivalent) and 35 non-teaching staff (23 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program.

Rosella Park School is a special primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at 20 Park Street (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 78 students with 22 teachers (20 full-time equivalent) and 32 non-teaching staff (20 full-time equivalent).

Gladstone State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 30 Dawson Road (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 1,512 students with 120 teachers (112 full-time equivalent) and 68 non-teaching staff (48 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. It includes the EQIP Technical College, a secondary (11-12) technical education unit on Boles Street ().

Chanel College is a Catholic secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 11 Paterson Street (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 481 students with 45 teachers (43 full-time equivalent) and 29 non-teaching staff (26 full-time equivalent).

Facilities
Gladstone Fire & Rescue Station is at 3 Charles Street ().

Gladstone Hospital is a public hospital at 10 Park Street ().

Gladstone Cemetery is on the south-west corner of the Dawson Highway and Cemetery Road ().

Amenities
Stockland Gladstone is a shopping centre at 75 Dawson Highway and across the road at 195 Philip Street ().

Parks
There are a number of parks in the area:
 Ailsa Street ()
 Auckland Creek Park ()

 Boles Street Park ()

 Carramar Park ()

 Coase Park ()

 Derribong Park ()

 Glen Creek Park ()

 Illoura Park ()

 Kooyong Park ()

 Lions Park ()

 Matson Cresent Park ()

 Palm Drive Junior Sporting Complex ()

 Potters Park ()

 Reg Tanna Park ()

 Webb Park ()

References

External links

Suburbs of Gladstone


title: Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant

text:
Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant (born 15 July 1966) is a Brazilian jurist and International law scholar. He serves as judge of the International Court of Justice since 4 November 2022. He is also a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the founder of the International Law Center (CEDIN), in Belo Horizonte.

He was elected to the ICJ in the 2022 election following the death of Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade. Brant had previously ran unsuccessfully for the International Criminal Court judges election, 2014.

Education
Brant graduated from the School of Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais, in 1991. In the same year, he obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Human Rights at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. In 1993, he obtained a Master's Dregree in International Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, with the thesis "The Right to Development as a Human Right".

From 1996 to 2000, Brant studied at Université Paris X - Nanterre, France, where he obtained his PhD. He was awarded Doctor of International Law with the thesis "L’autorité de la chose jugée en Droit International Public". His thesis was awarded with the "Prix du Ministère de la Recherche - Département Sciences de la Société de la République Française-Paris" in 2000. He also obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies at the Institut International des Droits de L'Homme, Strasbourg, France (1996) and a Diploma in Advanced Studies at the United Nations Study Programme, Geneva, Switzerland (1997).

Career
Brant started as a Professor of Public International Law and International Criminal Law at Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. From 2000 to 2021, he was also a Tenured Professor of Public International Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte.

From 2003 to 2004 he worked as a Legal Advisor at the Juridical Department of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

In 2005, Brant founded the Brazilian International Law Center (CEDIN), a research center specialized in International law, Humanitarian law, International criminal law and International Security. CEDIN and its associates have held important international events such as Congresses and Seminars. Furthermore, the Center has coordinated several profound studies on specific areas of International Law.

Brant also founded the Brazilian Yearbook of International Law, in 2006. He is the Chief editor of the periodical, which is published in several foreign languages and distributed to the largest and most relevant Universities and international academic centers. Its main goal is to establish in the country an annual publication engaged in the promotion and consolidation of the Latin-American view of International Law.

In 2007 Brant worked at Université Caen Basse-Normandie, France, as a visiting professor. In 2009, also as a visiting professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales, he taught at the Université Panthéon Assas Paris II, France. In the same year, we was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. The following year, at the XXXVII Course on International Law of the Organization of American States (OAS). Brant was also a visiting professor at Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre la Défense, in 2013. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as visiting professor at L’Institut d’Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence - SciencesPo Aix,France.

In June 2014, Brant was officially indicated by the Brazilian Government to the application to the charge of judge at the International Criminal Court. The judges elected during the 13th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court scheduled for 8 to 17 December 2014 in New York, will serve for nine years until 2024.

Professional experiences

2018: Member of the list of judges for the composition of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, The Netherlands.

2016 - 2017: Visiting Professor at the L’Institut d’Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence - SciencesPo Aix, France.

2013: Member of the Advisory Committee, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

2013 - 2014: Former Member of the Advisory Committee for Nominations of the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague.

2013: Visiting Professor at the Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France.

2011: Speaker at Gilberto Amado Memorial Lecture.

2010: Instructor at the XXXVII Training Course for Jurists of the Organization of American States (OAS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2009: Visiting Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales – Université Panthéon Assas Paris II, France.

2009: Visiting Researcher at the Lauterpacht Centre, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

2007: Visiting Professor at Université Caen Basse-Normandie, France.

2007: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Conference, Cologne, Germany.

2007: President of International Relations Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association of Minas Gerais (OAB-MG), Brazil.

2006 - current: President and Founder of the Brazilian Yearbook of International Law.

2005 – 2006: Director of the Brazilian branch of the International Law Association (ILA), Brazil.

2005 - current: President and Founder of the International Law Winter Program, Brazil.

2004 – 2008: Director of the International Law branch at the Minas Gerais Bar Association (IA-MG), Brazil.

2003: Lecturer at L’Université de Dijon, Dijon, France.

2003 - 2004: Legal Officer on the Registry of the Legal Department of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague.

2000 - current: President and Founder of the International Law Center (CEDIN), Brazil.

2000 - 2022: Lawyer and Partner at Nemer and Guimarães Chamber, Brazil.

2000 - 2021: Tenured Professor of International Public Law of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

1994-1995 and 2005-2009: Legal Advisor of International Affairs of the Municipality of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

1994 - current: Tenured Professor of International Public Law of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Selected publications

 BRANT, L. N. C. (Org.). Comentário à Carta das Nações Unidas: artigo por artigo. Belo Horizonte: CEDIN, 2008. 1340p.
 BRANT, L. N. C. A Corte Internacional de Justiça e a construção do Direito Internacional. Belo Horizonte: CEDIN, 2005. 1291p.
 BRANT, L. N. C.; LAGE, D. A.; CREMASCO, S. S. (Org.). Direito Internacional contemporâneo. Curitiba: Juruá, 2011. 872p.
 BRANT, L. N. C.; DINIZ, P. I. R. (Org.). Agenda 2030 e o desenvolvimento sustentável no contexto latino-americano. Belo Horizonte: CEDIN, 2020. 160p.
 BRANT, L. N. C. L’autorité de la chose jugée en Droit International Public. Paris: LGDJ, 2004. 396p
 BRANT, L. N. C.; STEINER, S. H. (Org.). O Tribunal Penal Internacional: comentários ao Estatuto de Roma. Belo Horizonte: Del Rey, 2015. 1688p.
 BRANT, L. N. C. (Org.). O Brasil e os novos desafios do Direito Internacional. Rio de Janeiro: Forense, 2004. 712p.
 BRANT, L. N. C. (Org.). Direito e terrorismo: os impactos do terrorismo na Comunidade internacional e no Brasil: perspectivas jurídico-políticas. Rio de Janeiro: Forense, 2002. 570p.
 BRANT, L. N. C. Teoria geral do direito internacional público. Belo Horizonte: O Lutador, 2020. 607p.
 BRANT, L. N. C; SILVA, T. M. (Org.). Mineração em terras indígenas na América Latina: desenvolvimento e meio ambiente. Belo Horizonte: CEDIN; Konrad Adenauer Stiftung; EKLA-Programa Regional de Segurança Energética e Mudanças Climáticas, 2021. 183p.
 BRANT, L. N. C. Para entender o funcionamento da Corte Internacional de Justiça:  processo contencioso e sentença. 7. ed. Curitiba: Juruá, 2012. 157p.

2014 International Criminal Court judges election

During the 13th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, scheduled for 8 to 17 December 2014 in New York, six judges of the International Criminal Court were elected. Professor Brant was an unsuccessful candidate for this election.

During the 19th Session in 2020, the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, elected six judges of the International Criminal Court. To run for the post of judge at the ICC, the Brazilian Federal Government nominated Mônica Jacqueline Sifuentes. However, Marcos Coelho Zilli and Brant were among  the names suggested by the Brazilian national group in the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

2022 International Court of Justice judges election

Brant was one of the two Brazilian candidates running for the 2022 International Court of Justice judges election. In October, he was elected judge in replacement of Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade. According to Opinio Juris (blog), he will "continue Latin America’s legal legacy at the Court, after the passing of Judge Trindade".

References

Living people
Brazilian jurists
1966 births
International Court of Justice judges


title: Rangiya–Murkongselek section

text:
The Rangiya-Murkongselek section is a  long railway line connecting Rangiya in Kamrup district with Murkongselek in Dhemaji district in the Indian state of Assam. The entire section is under the jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway.

History

Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway
The Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway was built as a  long,  narrow gauge railway line between Tezpur and Balipara in 1895 with the primary aim of transporting tea from upcountry estates to the river port of Tezpur for onward shipment down the Brahmaputra to Calcutta. A  extension to this line was made from Rangapara, then a station on this line, to Borjuli Tea estate as well. However, this line was closed to traffic on 1908.

This line continued to operate until 1952 before it was taken over by the North Eastern Railway and was converted to metre gauge.

Singri-Panchnoi River Tramway
The Singri-Panchnoi River Tramway was a privately owned narrow gauge line that ran northwards from Singri Ghat on the Brahmaputra River to the environs of Hugrajuli. The line opened in 1919 to transport tea down to the Singri Ghat.

Eastern Bengal Railway
Tracks were laid at Rangiya as a part of the extension of Eastern Bengal Railway's main metre gauge line from Sarbhog to Amingaon in 1909. The Tangla extension was built from Rangiya to Tangla in 1912. The line was extended to Rangapara North station on the Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway by 1933.

Post-independence
Post-independence the metre-gauge line was extended from Rangapara North to Murkongselek. The Balipara-Bhalukpong branch line was built in 1989–90.

Conversion to broad gauge
The conversion of this section to broad gauge started on 2007–08. The Rangiya-Rangapara North-Dekargaon section was converted and opened for traffic in 2013. The Tezpur railway station was abandoned however owing to its proximity to Brahmaputra river which caused frequent flooding and Dekargaon railway station became the terminus of the branch line. The Rangapara North-Harmuti & Harmuti-North Lakhimpur sections were converted in 2014 and the North Lakhimpur-Sripani section was converted and opened in 2015. The final stretch between Sripani and Murkongselek along with the Balipara-Bhalukpong branch line was converted and opened to traffic in May 2015 as well.

Branch lines
The Balipara-Bhalukpong branch line was built in 1989–90. The line was converted to broad gauge in May 2015.

The Harmuti-Naharlagun branch line was announced in 2008 and was opened in 2014 as a part of the Rangiya-Murkongselek gauge conversion project. This was declared a national project considering that it connected Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh, with the Indian railway network.

The Bogibeel Bridge was sanctioned in 1997 and work started on it in 2002. It was intended to link the Rangiya-Murkongselek section on the north bank of the Brahmaputra with the Lumding-Dibrugarh section in the South bank. The work was completed on 2018 and the first train across the bridge was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Proposed projects and extensions

Three national projects of strategic importance are proposed in this section primarily focusing on providing connectivity with Arunachal Pradesh. A broad gauge railway track is proposed from the existing rail head at Bhalukpong to Tawang via Tenga & Dirang. Another Lakhimpur-Bame-Silapathar line is proposed from North Lakhimpur to Silapathar via Bame & Aalo The terminal station of the section is also expected to be moved from Murkongselek to Parshuram Kund in Arunachal Pradesh, via Pasighat and Tezu and to further connect it to the Lumding–Dibrugarh section at Rupai.

The  long Silghat Town-Dekargaon new line project has been sanctioned to connect Silghat on the south bank of Brahmaputra on the Chaparmukh-Silghat branch line with Dekargaon. This also entails the building of a new railway bridge across the Brahmaputra River.

References

5 ft 6 in gauge railways in India
Rail transport in Assam
Railway lines opened in 1900


title: Angraecum gabonense

text:
Angraecum gabonense is a species of comet orchid that can be found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

It is usually found in dense lowland forest rich in Caesalpinioideae up to 1,350 m elevation. It can be found growing on fallen tree trunks or large branches of Gilbertiodendron dewevrei and Julbernardia seretii.

It is threatened by deforestation for logging or oil palm plantations.

References

gabonense
Orchids of Africa
Orchids of Cameroon
Orchids of Gabon


title: National Slavic Museum

text:
The National Slavic Museum in Fell's Point, Baltimore is a museum dedicated to the documentation of the Polish and Slavic heritage of Baltimore, including Baltimore's Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carpatho-Rusyn, Croatian, Czech, Lemko, Moravian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Ukrainian heritage.

See also
 History of the Czechs in Baltimore
 History of the Poles in Baltimore
 History of the Russians in Baltimore
 History of the Ukrainians in Baltimore

References

External links

Museum, a First, Has a Past

2012 establishments in Maryland
Belarusian-American history
Bulgarian-American history
Croatian-American culture
Czech-American culture in Baltimore
Ethnic museums in Maryland
European-American museums
Fell's Point, Baltimore
Lemko American
Museums established in 2012
Museums in Baltimore
Polish-American culture in Baltimore
Russian-American culture in Baltimore
Rusyn-American culture in Maryland
Serbian-American culture
Slavic-American history
Slovak-American culture in Maryland
Slovene-American history
Ukrainian-American culture in Baltimore


title: A. J. Bernheim Brush

text:
Alice Jane Bernheim Brush is an American computer scientist known for her research in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW).  She is particularly known  for her research studying and building technology for homes as well as expertise conducting field studies of technology.
She is the co-chair of CRA-W from 2014 to 2017.

Biography
Brush received a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
from Williams College in 1996. She received a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1998 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2002.

She then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington from 2002 to 2004. She then joined Microsoft Research.

Career

Brush currently focuses on home automation research and co-leads the Lab of Things project, a publicly available platform for experimental research using connected devices in homes. Brush's research on the challenges and opportunities of smart homes based on interviews with people living in smart homes  informed the design of the Lab of Things software.

Brush and her collaborators conducted research on family coordination and calendaring  and built prototypes  that influenced Windows Live Calendar and the Windows Phone Family Room feature. Studying use of technology in homes, Brush and her colleagues have repeatedly demonstrated how frequently devices are shared in households, even devices typically considered "personal" such as mobile devices.  She has co-developed and tested multiple alternative paradigms for user account management that better match shared usage.

Awards

Brush received the CRA-W 2010 Borg Early Career Award.

Her other notable awards include:
 Best Paper Nominee for a CHI 2006 paper: LINC-ing" the Family: The Participatory Design of an Inkable Family Calendar
 2011 Pervasive Computing Best Paper Award for: Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities
 2011 Pervasive Computing Best Paper Nominee for: SpeakerSense: Energy Efficient Unobtrusive
 2010 Pervasive Health Best Paper Award for: Automatic Classification of Daily Fluid Intake
 2005 HICCS Best Paper Nominee for: 'Today' Messages: Lightweight Support for Small Group Awareness via Email

References

External links
 Microsoft Research: A.J.Brush Computational User Experiences Group

American women computer scientists
University of Washington alumni
Williams College alumni
Living people
People from Wilmington, Delaware
Year of birth missing (living people)
Microsoft employees
Microsoft Research people
American computer scientists
Scientists from Delaware
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists


title: One More Time (Real McCoy album)

text:
One More Time is the second studio album by Real McCoy under Arista Records and the third under BMG Berlin. It was the follow-up to the multi-platinum selling album Another Night. Music producer Juergen Wind (J. Wind) wrote and produced the album with the Sweden based production team known as Lemon Productions (Per Adebratt, Douglas Carr & Tony Ekman). American songwriter Brent Argovitz and German rapper Olaf Jeglitza worked together as songwriters on the album. A producer duo known as the Berman Brothers also produced a Shania Twain cover for the album and made the remixes for the singles. For promotional reasons, Jeglitza was credited as an Executive Producer alongside Wind and Arista Records CEO Clive Davis. Released worldwide in early 1997, the album failed to match the success of its predecessor, peaking at No. 55 on the Canadian Hot 100 and No. 79 on the US Billboard 200. The lead single from the album, (also called "One More Time"), reached No.3 in Australia and achieved Platinum status in the country but saw lesser success in the US, peaking at No. 27 on the charts. The follow-up singles "I Wanna Come (With You)" and the Shania Twain cover "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!" failed to chart and were also commercial failures.

Critical reception
William Cooper from AllMusic gave the album a negative review, saying; "only the title track, a catchy, lightweight piece of pop fluff, makes any kind of impression. Most of One More Time is empty filler, and a couple of moments are unbearable: the silly "I Wanna Come (With You)" teases with the provocative title but fails to deliver, and the absurd Euro-pop remake of Shania Twain's "If You're Not in It for Love (I'm Outta Here)" is awful, but it isn't even bad enough to be fun. European dance acts rarely have a long shelf life, and this album proves The Real McCoy is no exception. Stick with the debut."

Track listing

Standard edition

US edition
 "One More Time" – 3:59
 "I Wanna Come (With You)" – 3:25
 "Give a Little Love" – 3:31
 "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here" – 3:58
 "Love Almost Faded" – 3:23
 "Look at Me" – 4:24
 "Love Save Me" – 4:08
 "Take a Look at Your Life" – 4:08
 "The Sky Is the Limit" – 3:38
 "Love Is a Stranger" – 3:38
 "Tomorrow" – 4:05
 "Tonight" – 3:49
 CD-ROM multimedia presentation

Japanese edition
 "One More Time" (UK radio mix) – 5:08
 "One More Time" (original radio mix) – 3:49
 "Give a Little Love" – 3:33
 "The Sky Is the Limit" – 3:39
 "Tomorrow" – 4:07
 "I Wanna Come (With You)" – 4:02
 "Love Almost Faded" – 3:25
 "Party" – 3:58
 "Take a Look at Your Life" – 4:09
 "Love Save Me" – 4:09
 "Love Is a Stranger" – 3:40
 Silly" – 4:20
 "Look at Me" – 4:27
 "Tonight" – 3:50
 "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!" – 3:56
 "Start Loving Me" – 3:27
 "One More Time" (Mox Lazy Dub) – 6:37

Personnel

Members
 Olaf Jeglitza (O-Jay)
 Vanessa Mason
 Lisa Cork

Producers
 Juergen Wind (J. Wind) – executive producer
 Berman Brothers
 Per Adebratt, Douglas Carr & Tony Ekman for Lemon Productions

Charts

References

1997 albums
Arista Records albums
Real McCoy (band) albums


title: Angraecum penzigianum

text:
Angraecum penzigianum is a species of comet orchid that is endemic to Madagascar, and is recorded from Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa and Toamasina provinces, from elevations of 1,000–2,000 m. It is an epiphytic perennial which grows in mossy forests. However, it was previously thought to be endemic to the Andringitra Massif. It is threatened by slash-and-burn cultivation, cattle grazing, charcoal production and bush fires.

References

penzigianum
Near threatened plants
Endemic flora of Madagascar
Flora of the Madagascar subhumid forests


title: Cheongwon-gu

text:
Cheongwon-gu () is a non-autonomous district in the city of Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Cheongwon-gu was established from a part of Sangdang-gu and a part of Cheongwon-gun in July 2014.

Administrative divisions
Cheongwon-gu is divided into 2 towns (eup), one township (myeon), and 5 neighbourhoods (dong).

References

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Districts of Cheongju
2014 establishments in South Korea
States and territories established in 2014


title: Distel hitch

text:
Distel hitch is a friction hitch knot used to attach a carabiner to a rope, allowing a climber to descend or ascend. The knot is similar to the prusik knot, however it grips the rope more consistently, making for increased climber control.

See also
List of friction hitch knots

References