title: "Foothill yellow-legged frog" content: before the dam was put into place. To keep up with demands of fisheries, the water's temperature is kept artificially lower than normal, which consequently slows the development of "R. boylii". Therefore, the colder temperatures are making it more difficult for the frogs to grow quickly, which sometimes leaves the species prey to many other animals that feed on their young. The problems occurring between the foothill yellow-legged frog and the dam are being handled by several herpetological organizations, along with the Forest Service, to find ways to alter the effects in a beneficial way for the frog. This species


title: "Foothill yellow-legged frog" content: is also estimated to be gone from most of its range in the Sierra Nevadas, especially south of Highway 80, where pesticides often contaminate rivers, and dams block the essential stream flows. The foothill yellow-legged frog is a natural prey of diving beetles, water bugs, garter snakes, rough-skinned newts, bullfrogs, and western toads. Foothill yellow-legged frog The foothill yellow-legged frog ("Rana boylii") is a small-sized frog from the genus "Rana" in the family Ranidae. This species can be found in the Coast Ranges from northern Oregon, through California, and into Baja California, Mexico as well as in the foothills of


title: "Arctotheca calendula" content: Arctotheca calendula Arctotheca calendula is a plant in the sunflower family commonly known as capeweed, plain treasureflower, cape dandelion, or cape marigold because it originates from the Cape Province in South Africa. It is also found in neighboring KwaZulu-Natal. "Arctotheca calendula" is naturalized in California, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand, and considered a noxious weed in some of those places. "Arctotheca calendula" is a squat perennial or annual which grows in rosettes and sends out stolons and can spread across the ground quickly. The leaves are covered with white woolly hairs, especially on their undersides. The leaves are


title: "Arctotheca calendula" content: lobed or deeply toothed. Hairy stems bear daisy-like flowers with small yellow petals that sometimes have a green or purple tint surrounded by white or yellow ray petals extending further out from the flower centers. It is cultivated as an attractive ornamental groundcover but has invasive potential when introduced to a new area. The plant can reproduce vegetatively or via seed. Seed-bearing plants are most likely to become weedy, taking hold most easily in bare or sparsely vegetated soil or disturbed areas. Arctotheca calendula Arctotheca calendula is a plant in the sunflower family commonly known as capeweed, plain treasureflower, cape


title: "R. V. Raveendran" content: also recused from the Krishna Godavari basin dispute case citing conflict of interest. R. V. Raveendran Justice R. V. Raveendran (born 15 October 1946) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He retired on 14 October 2011, upon reaching superannuation. He holds a bachelor's degree in Science and Law. He became an advocate in 1968. He was inducted to the Karnataka High Court in 1993. He became the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in 2004, and was elevated to the Supreme Court of India in October 2005. He has seen several high-profile cases like


title: "Guy Sternberg" content: Trees project of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, England (funded by the Government of the Netherlands) and served as a taxonomic reviewer for Quercus in Flora of North America. He is a contributing author and volume editor for the "World Compendium of Oaks" prepared in Düsseldorf (published in German by the Langeneicker Eichen Archiv). Sternberg also has been a contributor for several volumes in Houghton-Mifflin's "Taylor's Guide" garden encyclopedia series, including "Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening", and for Taunton Press, Ortho, Timber Press, Reader's Digest, Houghton-Mifflin, Meredith, Better Homes & Gardens, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden horticulture books. Guy


title: "Eric Champion" content: In 1998, Champion was featured at the Atlanta Fest Christian music festival. After the release of his 8th album Natural (his second for Brentwood Essential) Eric left the Nashville scene and moved with his new wife and child to Orlando, FL where he started working at the recording college Full Sail University. In 2005, Eric reappeared with 2 new projects, a new solo EP titled "Unexpected" and a Brit pop rock project called Rook which also included former GS Megaphone drummer Randall Shreve. Eric Champion Eric Champion (born May 12, 1970 in Valdosta, GA) is one of the pioneers of


title: "2005 National Scout Jamboree" content: LaCroix from Troop 711, Ronald Bitzer from Troop 129, and Scott Edward Powell. Scott Powell was the Scout Camp Leader at Camp Gorsuch in Chugiak, Alaska and had recently retired to Perrysville, Ohio. Mike Shibe had two sons at the Jamboree and LaCroix had one. 2005 National Scout Jamboree The 2005 National Scout Jamboree was the 16th national Scout jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America and was held from July 25, 2005 through August 3, 2005 at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Normally, the next jamboree would be held four years afterward in 2009, but the date was changed so


title: CBV-FM content: program, "Samedi et rien d'autre", originates from CBF. The last national program to be produced outside Montreal, "Bien dans son assiette", originated from CBV from 2011 to 2015 and became originated from CBF for its last season on air in 2015-2016. CBV-FM CBV-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of Radio-Canada's Première network in Quebec City. The station broadcasts at 106.3 FM from Mount Bélair. The station was first launched in 1934 as AM 950 CRCK, Quebec City's second-oldest radio station. It was an affiliate of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, airing programming in both English and


title: "Kanye, Botswana" content: Plumer. In the early 20th century, Kanye became the first village in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to introduce irrigation projects and public standpipes. An asbestos mine opened in the 1920s. Kanye and the surrounding area are divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Kanye North and Kanye South, both of which elect a single member to the National Assembly. At the 2014 general election, Kanye North was won by Patrick Ralotsia of the Botswana Democratic Party and Kanye South was won by Abram Kesupile of the Umbrella for Democratic Change. The main method of transport in and out of Kanye is via the


title: "Sedgley Woods" content: club members visited the Sedgley site, they found a landscape that varied from small open areas to dense woods, with a predominance of lightly wooded land and gentle slopes. The area that became the front nine features many small leafed locust trees and several huge oak and maple specimens. The trees in this area allow just enough sun in for grass to grow below these trees. The area of the back nine is more densely wooded. Two ravines cut through the area with dry streambeds. The site is bounded by Reservoir Drive, a park road, on the North; the Smith


title: "Orange-throated whiptail" content: Orange-throated whiptail The orange-throated whiptail ("Aspidoscelis hyperythrus") is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae. The species was previously placed in the genus "Cnemidophorus". "A. hyperythrus" is native to southern California in the United States, and to the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur in Mexico. "A. hyperythrus" has five or six light-colored stripes down a black, brown, or grey dorsal side. The middle stripe may be forked at both ends. The species is whitish-yellow or cream on the venter, and has an orange throat (females and juveniles may lack this character). Its head is yellow-brown to


title: "Orange-throated whiptail" content: olive-colored, and its tongue is forked and flicked continually. It has a snout-to-vent length of . Juveniles of this species have cobalt blue legs and tails. The entire ventral surface of males, including the tail, may be orange, although gravid females may also have some orange especially lining the lower jaw. The colors are most distinct in the breeding season. Males have larger femoral pores than females. The orange-throated whiptail has a distinctive, jerking gait. The subspecific names, "beldingi" and "schmidti", are in honor of American ornithologist Lyman Belding and American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt, respectively. Orange-throated whiptail The orange-throated


title: "Red-spotted toad" content: Red-spotted toad The red-spotted toad ("Anaxyrus punctatus", formerly "Bufo punctatus") is a toad in the family Bufonidae found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is a small toad species growing to in length. It has a flattened head and body, and a light grey, olive or reddish brown dorsum with reddish or orange skin glands. It has a whitish or buff venter with or without faint dark spotting, and round parotoid glands. The snout is pointed. The juvenile toad looks similar to the adult, but has more prominent ventral spotting and the undersides of its feet are


title: "Red-spotted toad" content: yellow. The male red-spotted toad has a dusky throat and develops nuptial pads during the breeding season. It may hybridize with the western toad ("Anaxyrus boreas") in some locations, possibly with other toad species too. It is docile and easily handled with little or no skin gland secretions. This toad is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, especially Baja California. It occurs primarily along rocky streams and riverbeds, often in arid or semi-arid regions. It is very localized on the coastal slope, but widespread in the deserts. In dry areas it needs seasonal pools or even temporary


title: "Red-spotted toad" content: rain puddles to use for breeding. Eggs hatch in three days and the tadpole can transform in 6–8 weeks, taking advantage of the ephemeral water bodies. It spends dry periods in burrows or beneath rocks or moist plant matter, and becomes suddenly active during rainfall when multitudes of individuals emerge. Red-spotted toad The red-spotted toad ("Anaxyrus punctatus", formerly "Bufo punctatus") is a toad in the family Bufonidae found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is a small toad species growing to in length. It has a flattened head and body, and a light grey, olive or reddish


title: Troistorrents content: planted on three mountains of the same between which flow two mountain streams in pale Argent which fall into a third stream in fess; the mountain in the middle charged with a woman sitting, clothed Gules and holding on her knees her child dressed Argent and throwing grain Or." Troistorrents has a population () of . , 10.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 12.7%. It has changed at a rate of 10% due to migration and at a rate of 4.2% due to


title: Troistorrents content: of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 300 or (8.4%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Of the 300 who completed tertiary schooling, 54.0% were Swiss men, 28.3% were Swiss women, 9.3% were non-Swiss men and 8.3% were non-Swiss women. , there were 115 students in Troistorrents who came from another municipality, while 136 residents attended schools outside the municipality. Troistorrents is home to the "Bibliothèque communale et scolaire" library. The library has () 11,263 books or other media, and loaned out 12,540 items in the same year. It was open a total


title: "Eric Guerin" content: bumped by another horse early in the race. Native Dancer never lost another race and went on to capture the next two legs of the Triple Crown series, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. The following year Guerin rode Native Dancer to the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year honors, and for himself, made it back-to-back Belmont wins by riding High Gun to victory in the 1954 classic. In 1972, Guerin was still riding when he was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Three years later at age fifty-one after a thirty-four-year career that produced


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: Belogradchik Rocks The Belogradchik Rocks (, "Belogradchishki skali") are a group of strangely shaped sandstone and conglomerate rock formations located on the western slopes of the Balkan Mountains ("Stara Planina") near the town of Belogradchik in northwest Bulgaria. The rocks vary in color from primarily red to yellow; some of the rocks reach up to 200 m in height. Many rocks have fantastic shapes and are associated with interesting legends. They are often named for people or objects they are thought to resemble. The Belogradchik Rocks have been declared a Natural Landmark by the Bulgarian government and are a major


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: tourist attraction in the region. They are the only habitat of the critically endangered Bulgarian endemic plant "Hieracium belogradcense". The Belogradchik Rocks are spread over the western part of the Balkan Mountains and cover an area of 50 km. They extend from the village of Rabisha in the west to the village of Belotintsi in the east. The central group of rocks is situated just to the south and adjacent to the town of Belogradchik. Located here are the most interesting and impressive formations: Adam and Eve, the Mushrooms, the Schoolgirl, the Bear, the Dervish, the Shepherd Boy, the Lion,


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: the Camel, the Madonna, the Horseman, the Monks, the goddess Bendida, the Rebel Velko, and many other stone figures. The second group of rocks lies to the west of Belogradchik. The rocks are of the Alpine variety and are surrounded by steep precipices. The most famous of these rocks are Zbegovete, Erqupriya, and Boritch The third group of rocks lies 4 km. to the east of Belogradchik and includes the rocks around the Latin Gate and the Lipenik Cave. The fourth group of rocks lies between the villages of Borovitsa and Falkovets. These rocks include the Pine Stone, the Bee


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: Stone, the Torlak, and the Maid’s Rock. The fifth group of rocks lies between the villages of Gyurgich and Belotintsi. Many fantastic rock figures and small valleys with steep vertical slopes have formed over hundreds of millions of years as a result of the natural processes of erosion, denudation, growth of mosses and lichens, and other natural factors. The formation of the Belogradchik Rocks started during the Permian period, about 230 million years ago, when the tectonic cycle was folding to create the Balkan Mountains and elevating the region of Belogradchik. Later, during the Triassic period, the region became the


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: floor of a shallow sea. At the same time, the destruction of the earlier Paleozoic rocks formed enormous quantities of gravel, sand and clay, which were deposited by the rivers into the sea basin. The sediment piled up and gradually became thicker layers of conglomerates and sandstone, with the conglomerate pieces becoming well rounded over time by the forces of water. During the Jurassic period, over a period of 20 million years, the layered materials became firmly glued together by sand-clay solder or silicon. The hot and dry climate formed a great amount of iron oxide, or hematite, which gave


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: the rocks their rusty red color. When the earth’s crust started to settle, lighter and smaller sandstones merged with the red conglomerates. At the beginning of the Cenozoic era and the early Alpine tectonic cycle, large anticlines, or folds were being formed in the Balkan Mountains, and during this time the region turned to dry land. About 45 million years ago, the rising of the Belogradchik anticline began, and during this folding, the limestone and the conglomerates in the core cracked, creating vertical and horizontal rifts in the ridge of the anticline. In the core of the Belogradchik anticline, Paleozoic


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: rocks are found and the slopes are formed of conglomerates, sandstone, and Jurassic limestone. The vertical penetration and surface rivers favored vertical erosion of the rock layers, and the rifts, where tectonic movements occurred, were transformed by the erosion in small valleys and passes with vertical or steep slopes forming separate vertical blocks seen today as the rock figures. The Belogradchik Rocks are a major tourist destination in northwest Bulgaria, along with the town of Belogradchik and the Belogradchik Fortress, which incorporates the rocks as part of its natural defense, and the nearby Magura Cave, situated near the village of


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: Rabisha. Another tourist attraction in the area is the Baba Vida medieval fortress in the nearby town of Vidin on the Danube river. The Bulgarian Committee of the Natural Environment declared the rocks as a natural monument in 1949, and the rocks were listed in the Bulgarian National Register of Natural Landmarks in 1987. In 1984, the Belogradchik Rocks and the Magura Cave were both placed on the Tentative List of places to be named to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. The Belogradchik Rocks are under consideration as a Geopark in the European Geoparks Network and the UNESCO Global


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: Geoparks Network. In September 2008, Belogradchik was named as one of twenty finalists by the European Commission as a “European Destination of Excellence.” In January 2009, the Belogradchik Rocks were named as Bulgaria’s nomination in the campaign for the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The Madonna – Once there were a monastery and nunnery amongst the Belogradchik Rocks. There lived a beautiful nun, who was secretly envied by all for her beauty. More than once, the old Mother Superior reminded the nun not to forget that even though she was young and pretty, that she had taken the veil and


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: was vowed to God. During the Petrovden celebration, a young patrician came to the festival on his white horse. Immediately, when she saw him, the nun recognized the man of her dreams. She could not resist her heartache and secretly met him, but the nun’s illicit love was eventually discovered by the cries of her young child. The Mother Superior decided to severely punish the nun by all monastic canons, and even the monks from the monastery were summoned to pass judgment on her. It took a long time for the white bearded monks to draw a punishment, but at


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: last they decided to expel her and her child out of the priory. The poor nun was doomed to a life worse than death itself. Ordinary people would treat her like a leper, and no one would dare talk to her, let alone give her shelter or food. The nun was ready to have her life taken rather than be chased out of the nunnery. As heartbreaking as her sincere plea for mercy was, it did not move the monks. As the nun was exiting the monastic gates, a miracle happened. The day became night and a frightening thunder was


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: heard. The rocks opened up and the monastery and nunnery were both driven into the ground, and the Monks, on their retreat back to the cloister, the Madonna, bending over her child, and the Horseman, riding to his beloved on his white horse, were all turned to stone. The Schoolgirl – Once there lived a schoolgirl in town, a student in the hunchback dervish’s school, known for her raving beauty. The schoolgirl fell in love with a young hammersmith, and they used to meet each other near Subashin’s spring, known for its delicious water. But the dervish was extremely envious


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: of this pure love. One day, he waited for the schoolgirl near the spring when she was going for some water, and attacked her. She somehow managed to wrestle out of his hands and started running to the rocks, hoping to escape the fiend. She was running for a long time between the rocks and crags, but the dervish mercilessly pursued her. Suddenly a rapacious bear came in front of the schoolgirl. Shocked by fear and amazement, she fell to her knees. She would rather have been torn apart and eaten by the bear than to be ravished in the


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: arms of the hateful dervish. At this moment, a miracle occurred. A loud thunder was heard and the day became night, and into the darkness, a scared cry of a girl, the frightening roar of a bear, and the terrified cry of a man rang out. Then a sinister silence fell around. And when it became light again, they all stood in stone – the Schoolgirl, the Bear in front of her, and the despicable Dervish behind her. And the sun was shining bright and peaceful as if nothing had happened. The Vincent - There lived a man in the


title: "Belogradchik Rocks" content: town named Vincent Isidro. People in the town believed that he was a sorcerer, capable of ending the cruel occupation of the foreign army . The townsfolk clamored for the mysterious sorcerer to lead their rebellion. The sorcerer asked the people to evacuate the town and leave no belonging behind. After ensuring that the townsfolk are safe, he yelled out a powerful spell that causes the earth from below to rise up and destroy the foreign army garrison. The rocks that are visible today are remnants of that event. Belogradchik Rocks The Belogradchik Rocks (, "Belogradchishki skali") are a group


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, in the Czech Republic is a Baroque monument (Trinity column) that was built between 1716 to 1754. The main purpose was to celebrate the Catholic Church and faith, partly caused by feeling of gratitude for ending a plague, which struck Moravia (now in the Czech Republic) between 1713 and 1715. The column was also understood to be an expression of local patriotism, since all artists and master craftsmen working on this monument were Olomouc citizens, and almost all depicted saints were connected with the city of Olomouc in some way.


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: It is the biggest Baroque sculptural group in the Czech Republic. In 2000 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as "one of the most exceptional examples of the apogee of central European Baroque artistic expression". According to the ICOMOS evaluation of this patrimony, "the erection of Marian (plague) columns on town squares is an exclusively Baroque, post-Tridentine, phenomenon. Its iconographic basis lies in the Book of Revelation. The basic model is thought to have been the column in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, from 1614. This monument for Olomouc was the culmination of work of


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: several artists and master craftsmen, but it did not bring much fortune to them. The first to die during the work was Wenzel Render, a monumental mason and privileged imperial architect. He came first with the idea to build the column, enforced his will upon the city council, designed it, built the first stage and helped to finance it. His followers Franz Thoneck, Johann Wenzel Rokický and Augustin Scholtz also did not live long enough to see the column finished; it was completed by Johann Ignaz Rokický. The sculptural decoration was started by Phillip Sattler. After his death Andreas Zahner


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: continued and made 18 sculptures and 9 reliefs in 7 years before he died as well. Goldsmith Simon Forstner, who made gilded copper sculptures of the Holy Trinity and of the Assumption of the Virgin, was somewhat luckier and managed to finish his brilliant work. However he lost his health when working on the sculptures and using toxic mercury compounds during the gilding process. After the Holy Trinity Column was finished in 1754, it became a source of great pride for Olomouc, since all people participating in its creation were citizens of the town. The column was consecrated in a


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: great celebration attended by Empress Maria Theresa and her husband Francis I. Only four years later, when Olomouc was besieged by a Prussian army and the Holy Trinity Column was hit by shots from Prussian cannons several times, Olomouc citizens went in a procession to beg the Prussian general not to shoot at the monument. General James Keith complied with their wishes. The column was repaired soon after the war and a replica of a stone shot was half-buried in its stem on the place where it was hit to remind people of this event. The column is dominated by


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: gilded copper sculptures of the Holy Trinity accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel on the top and the Assumption of the Virgin beneath it. The base of the column, in three levels, is surrounded by 18 more stone sculptures of saints and 14 reliefs in elaborate cartouches. At the uppermost stage are saints connected with Jesus’ earth life – his mother’s parents St. Anne and St. Joachim, his foster-father St. Joseph, and St. John the Baptist, who was preparing his coming – who are accompanied by St. Lawrence and St. Jerome, saints to whom the chapel in the Olomouc town hall


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: was dedicated. Three reliefs represent the Three theological virtues Faith, Hope, and Love. Below them, the second stage is dedicated to Moravian saints St. Cyril and St. Methodius (Czech "Metoděj"), who came to Great Moravia to spread Christianity in 863 (St. Methodius became Moravian Archbishop), St. Blaise, in whose name one of the main Olomouc churches is consecrated, and patrons of neighbouring Bohemia St. Adalbert of Prague (Czech "Vojtěch") and St. John of Nepomuk (Czech "Jan Nepomucký"), whose following was very strong there as well. In the lowest stage one can see the figures of an Austrian patron St. Maurice


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: and a Bohemian patron St. Wenceslas (Czech "Václav"), in whose names two important Olomouc churches were consecrated, another Austrian patron St. Florian, who was also viewed as a protector against various disasters, especially fire, St. John of Capistrano (Czech "Jan Kapistránský"), who used to preach in Olomouc, St. Anthony of Padua, a member of the Franciscan Order, which owned an important monastery in Olomouc, and St. Aloysius Gonzaga, a patron of students. His sculpture showed that Olomouc was very proud of its university. Reliefs of all twelve apostles are placed among these sculptures. The last missing in this list of


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: saints is St. John Sarkander (Czech "Jan Sarkander"), whose statue (holding a lily as a symbol of purity) is on the second stage. John Sarkander was a priest who was tortured to death in Olomouc prison in the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, because he, as the legend says, refused to break the seal of confession. The decision to place him here violated the tradition, since Sarkander had not been canonized and not even beatified in that time yet, which could have resulted in problems with the Holy See. However, his following was so strong here that the craftsmen


title: "Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc" content: decided to take the risk. Sarkander was beatified in 1859 and canonized in 1995 on the occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II in Olomouc. The column also houses a small chapel inside with reliefs depicting Cain's offering from his crop, Abel's offering of firstlings of his flock, Noah's first burnt offering after the Flood, Abraham's offering of Isaac and of a lamb, and Jesus' death. The cities of Jerusalem and Olomouc can be seen in the background of the last mentioned relief. Books in Czech language: Holy Trinity Column, Olomouc The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, in


title: "Wendy Kaplan" content: Wendy Kaplan Wendy Foxworth (born February 19, 1966) is an actress who appeared in films, on television, and in theater. She is best known for her role in the 1989 horror movie "" as Tina Williams. Wendy Kaplan's most recent film role is in the 2005 movie "Blood Deep". Kaplan appeared on the soap opera "Guiding Light" as Eleni Andros Spauding Cooper from 1994-1995. She played the wife of Brian Wilson in the 1990 TV-movie "". Kaplan made guest appearances on "Alien Nation", "Law & Order", "Police Story", and "My Two Dads" among others. She has performed major roles in


title: "Physocarpus capitatus" content: Physocarpus capitatus Physocarpus capitatus, commonly called Pacific ninebark or tall ninebark, is a species of "Physocarpus" native to western North America from southern Alaska east to Montana and Utah, and south to southern California. It is a dense deciduous shrub growing to tall. The name comes from the appearance of the bark, which is flaky, peeling away in many layers. The shrub has distinctive maple-like lobed leaves long and broad, and clusters of small white flowers with five petals and numerous red-tipped stamens. The unique fruit is an inflated glossy red pod which turns dry and brown and then splits


title: "Physocarpus capitatus" content: open to release seeds. It is often found in wetlands, but also forms thickets along rivers and in moist forest habitats. While it grows most robustly in wet environments, it is drought-tolerant to a degree and is a popular California garden plant. Casebeer, M. (2004). "Discover California Shrubs". Sonora, California: Hooker Press. Physocarpus capitatus Physocarpus capitatus, commonly called Pacific ninebark or tall ninebark, is a species of "Physocarpus" native to western North America from southern Alaska east to Montana and Utah, and south to southern California. It is a dense deciduous shrub growing to tall. The name comes from the


title: "Lavandula angustifolia" content: Lavandula angustifolia Lavandula angustifolia (lavender most commonly true lavender or English lavender, though not native to England; also garden lavender, common lavender, narrow-leaved lavender), formerly "L. officinalis", is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean (Spain, France, Italy, Croatia etc.). It is a strongly aromatic shrub growing as high as tall. The leaves are evergreen, long, and broad. The flowers are pinkish-purple (lavender-coloured), produced on spikes long at the top of slender, leafless stems long. The species name "angustifolia" is Latin for "narrow leaf". Previously, it was known as "Lavandula officinalis", referring to its medicinal properties.


title: "Lavandula angustifolia" content: English lavender is commonly grown as an ornamental plant. It is popular for its colourful flowers, its fragrance, and its ability to survive with low water consumption. It does not grow well in continuously damp soil and may benefit from increased drainage provided by inorganic mulches such as gravel. It does best in Mediterranean climates similar to its native habitat, characterised by wet winters and dry summers. It is fairly tolerant of low temperatures and is generally considered hardy to USDA zone 5. It tolerates acid soils but favours neutral to alkaline soils, and in some conditions it may be


title: "Lavandula angustifolia" content: short-lived. The following cultivars of "L. angustifolia" and its hybrids have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:- Compacta, Folgate, Dwarf Blue, Dwarf White, Hidcote Pink, Hidcote Superior, Munstead, Nana Atropurpurea, Nana Rosea, Sarah, Summerland Surpreme, Lady Lavender Bowles Early, Hidcote Variety, Loddon Blue, Martha Roderick, Jean Davis, Twickle Purple, Pink Perfume Alba, Blackhouse Purple, Biostos, Bridestowe, Graves, Gray Lady, Gwendolyn Anley, Hidcote Giant, Irene Doyle, Mailette, Middachten The flowers and leaves are used as a herbal medicine, either in the form of lavender oil or as a herbal tea. The flowers are also used as a culinary


title: "Lavandula angustifolia" content: herb, most often as part of the North American version of the French herb blend called "herbes de Provence". Lavender essential oil, when diluted with a carrier oil, is commonly used as a relaxant with massage therapy. Products for home use, such as lotions, eye pillows (including lavender flowers or the essential oil itself) and bath oils, etc., are also used. Both the petals and the oil are the most popular ingredients in handmade soap. Dried lavender flowers and lavender essential oil are also used as a prevention against clothing moths, which do not like their scent. "Lavandula angustifolia" is


title: "Lavandula angustifolia" content: included in the Tasmanian Fire Service's list of low flammability plants, indicating that it is suitable for growing within a building protection zone. "Lavandula" hybrids are referred to as lavandins. Hybrids between "L. angustifolia" and "L. latifolia" (spike lavender) are called "Lavandula x intermedia". They bloom later than the ordinary English lavenders. Lavandula angustifolia Lavandula angustifolia (lavender most commonly true lavender or English lavender, though not native to England; also garden lavender, common lavender, narrow-leaved lavender), formerly "L. officinalis", is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean (Spain, France, Italy, Croatia etc.). It is a strongly


title: "Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion" content: General Electric J47s, with heat supplied by the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment-1 (HTRE-1). The first full power test of the HTRE-1 system on nuclear power only took place in January 1956. A total of 5004 megawatt-hours of operation was completed during the test program. The HTRE-1 was replaced by the HTRE-2 and eventually the HTRE-3 unit powering the two J47s. The HTRE-3 used "a flight-type shield system" and would probably have gone on to power the X-6 had that program been pursued. On February 5, 1957, another reactor was made critical at the Critical Experiments Facility of the Oak Ridge


title: "Frenzy (Transformers)" content: he was portrayed as being smaller than the other Decepticons, but still able to engage in combat with the likes of Jazz. He participated in Blackout's attack on the Autobots, double-teaming Optimus Prime, although they failed. Later, in the final assault he was taken out by Jazz. Frenzy first appears when he infiltrates Air Force One to hack into the U.S. military's mainframe to find out Megatron's location. The military officials disrupt the downloads and send three secret service agents after the infiltrator, but Frenzy kills them and escapes. He then aids Barricade in locating Sam Witwicky. When let loose


title: Earthscope content: organizations also contribute to the initiative. There are three EarthScope observatories, these include the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO), and the Seismic and Magnetotelluric Observatory (USArray). These observatories consist of boreholes into an active fault zone, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, tiltmeters, long-baseline laser strainmeters, borehole strainmeters, permanent and portable seismographs, and magnetotelluric stations. The various EarthScope components will provide integrated and highly accessible data on geochronology and thermochronology, petrology and geochemistry, structure and tectonics, surficial processes and geomorphology, geodynamic modeling, rock physics, and hydrogeology. USArray, managed by IRIS, is a 15-year program


title: "Aralia californica" content: Aralia californica Aralia californica, known by the common name elk clover though not actually a clover, is a large herb in the family Araliaceae, the only member of the ginseng family native to California and southwestern Oregon. It is also called California aralia and California spikenard. It is a deciduous, herbaceous, perennial plant growing to a height of 2–3 m on stems which are thick but not woody. The stems bear large green pinnately compound or tri-pinnately compound leaves 1–2 m long and 1 m broad, the leaflets 15–30 cm long and 7–15 cm broad. The leaflets are arranged opposite


title: "Aralia californica" content: with an odd terminal leaflet. The greenish white flowers are produced in large compound racemes of umbels 30–45 cm in diameter at the stem apex; each flower is 2–3 mm in diameter, and matures to small (3–5 mm) dark purple or black fruit, each berry containing 3–5 seeds. It is distributed throughout western and central California and into Oregon. It is more common in cooler, moister areas in northern California, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area. This plant is sometimes substituted for other species of its genus which are used as herbal remedies, such as American spikenard and Japanese


title: "Aralia californica" content: spikenard. A preparation of the root has traditionally been used as an anti-inflammatory, douche, and cough suppressant. The Concow tribe call the plant mâl-ē-mē' (Konkow language). Aralia californica Aralia californica, known by the common name elk clover though not actually a clover, is a large herb in the family Araliaceae, the only member of the ginseng family native to California and southwestern Oregon. It is also called California aralia and California spikenard. It is a deciduous, herbaceous, perennial plant growing to a height of 2–3 m on stems which are thick but not woody. The stems bear large green pinnately


title: "Barry Hearn" content: Neal Foulds, Jimmy White, Cliff Thorburn and Ronnie O'Sullivan. Hearn appeared alongside many Matchroom players in the video for "Snooker Loopy", a hit for "rockney" pop rock duo Chas & Dave. In December 2009 Hearn was elected as the new WPBSA Chairman after Sir Rodney Walker failed to get re-elected and left his post. In June 2010, following a vote by the members, Hearn took over a 51% controlling interest in the organisation's commercial business World Snooker Limited with a view to revitalising the game. The commercial business was separated from the regulatory body, the WPBSA. Hearn moved into boxing


title: "Rational ClearQuest" content: is analogous to a database column. Supported data types are: A hook is an arbitrary piece of code that can be configured to be executed when a particular event occurs. There are two main types of hooks: Field Hooks and Action Hooks and ClearQuest breaks these down further to allow very fine-grained control over when hook code is run. Hooks can be used for a variety of tasks such as pre-populating fields, validating Field and Record data, and even creating new Record Types. On Unix and Linux, hook code must be written in Perl, whereas on Windows it can be


title: "Pet insurance" content: States and Canada either pay off a benefit schedule or pay a percentage of the vet costs (70-100%), after reaching a deductible, depending on the company and the policy. The owner usually pays the amount due to the veterinarian and then sends in the claim form and receives reimbursement, which some companies and policies limit according to their own schedules of necessary and usual charges. For very high bills, some veterinarians allow the owner to put off payment until the insurance claim is processed. Some insurers pay veterinarians directly on behalf of customers. Most American and Canadian policies require the


title: "Taxus canadensis" content: Taxus canadensis Taxus canadensis, the Canada yew or Canadian yew, is a conifer native to central and eastern North America, thriving in swampy woods, ravines, riverbanks and on lake shores. Locally called simply "yew", this species is also referred to as American yew or ground-hemlock. Most of its range is well north of the Ohio River. It is, however, found as a rare ice age relict in some coves of the Appalachian Mountains. The southernmost colonies are known from Ashe and Watauga Counties in North Carolina. It is usually a sprawling shrub, rarely exceeding 2.5 m tall. It sometimes forms


title: "Taxus canadensis" content: strong upright central leaders, but these cannot be formed from spreading branches, only from the original leader of the seedling plant. The shrub has thin scaly brown bark. The leaves (needles) are lanceolate, flat, dark green, long and broad, arranged in two flat rows either side of the branch. The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, open at the end. The seeds are eaten by thrushes, waxwings and other birds, which disperse the hard seeds undamaged in


title: "Taxus canadensis" content: their droppings. The male cones are globose, 3 mm diameter. It is a monoecious plant – one of the few in the genus. All parts of Canadian yew, save the aril, are toxic; it is, however, thought to be of lower toxicity than "T. baccata". Tribes in its native range used small quantities of yew leaf tea topically or internally for a variety of ailments – notably rheumatism. Tribes are also been said to have used yew twigs in steam baths to help alleviate rheumatism. Again, the plant is quite toxic and modern herbalists prefer safer, more effective herbs. "Taxus


title: "Taxus canadensis" content: canadensis" is also being harvested in northern Ontario, Québec and Atlantic Canada as the plant is a source of the class of poisonous chemicals known as taxanes, which have been a focus for cancer research. "T. canadensis" is much more abundant than the near-threatened "Taxus brevifolia" (Pacific yew), and the "greens" (new growth) can be harvested sustainably every five years, instead of stripping the bark and killing the plant. The most abundant taxane in "T. canadensis" is 9-dihydro-13-acetylbaccatin III, which can be effectively converted to 10-deacetylbaccatin III, used in the production of paclitaxel. Two additional taxanes have been identified from


title: "Taxus canadensis" content: "T. canadensis", including 7β,10β,13α-triacetoxy-5α-(3'-dimethylamino-3'-phenylpropanoyl)oxy-2α-hydroxy-2(3→20)abeotaxa-4(20),11-dien-9-one and 2α,10β-diacetoxy-9α-hydroxy-5α-(3'-dimethylamino-3'-phenylpropanoyl)oxy-3,11-cyclotax-4(20)-en-13-one. Taxus canadensis Taxus canadensis, the Canada yew or Canadian yew, is a conifer native to central and eastern North America, thriving in swampy woods, ravines, riverbanks and on lake shores. Locally called simply "yew", this species is also referred to as American yew or ground-hemlock. Most of its range is well north of the Ohio River. It is, however, found as a rare ice age relict in some coves of the Appalachian Mountains. The southernmost colonies are known from Ashe and Watauga Counties in North Carolina. It is usually a sprawling shrub, rarely exceeding


title: "As Tears Go By (song)" content: anglais playing the opening bars I knew it was going to work. After a couples of takes it was done. Andrew came and gave be a big hug. Congratulations darling. You've got yourself a number six, he said" She admits that she "was never that crazy about As Tears Go By". "God knows how Mick and Keith wrote it or where it came from...In any case, it is an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written a song about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life." Oldham subsequently gave the ballad (a format that the


title: "Buland Darwaza" content: Buland Darwaza Buland Darwaza (, ), or the "Gate of victory", was built in 1572 A.D. by Mughal emperor Akbar to commemorate his victory over Gujarat. It is the main entrance to the palace at Fatehpur Sikri,which is 43 km from Agra, India. Buland Darwaza is the highest gateway in the world and is an example of Mughal architecture. It displays Akbar's empire. The Buland Darwaza is made of red sandstone, decorated by white and black marble and is higher than the courtyard of the mosque. The Buland Darwaza is symmetrical and is topped by large free standing kiosks, which


title: "Buland Darwaza" content: are the chhatris. It also has at the top center, terrace edge gallery-kiosks on the roof, stylized buckler-battlements, small minar-spires, and inlay work with white and black marble. On the outside a long flight of steps sweeps down the hill giving the gateway additional height. It is 40 metres high and 50 metres from the ground. The total height of the structure is about 54 metres from the ground level. It is a 15-storied high gateway acting as the southern entrance of the city of Fatehpur Sikri. The approach to the gate consists of 42 steps. It is semi octagonal


title: "Buland Darwaza" content: in plan and two smaller triple-storeyed wings on either side. It has three kiosks on its top surrounded by thirteen smaller domed kiosks. There are smaller turrets surrounding the gateway. The expanse is broken by arched niches, small chhatries and marble highlights. ights the courtyard of the Jama Masjid. The principal arch stands in the centre of three projecting sides and topped by a dome. The central arch is broken into three tiers with rows of smaller arches and flat brackets. The great gate itself is plain. The three horizontal panels of buff stone noticeable in Badshahi Darwaza are also


title: "Buland Darwaza" content: present here. The plain red sandstone spandrels are framed in white marble with a flower like ornament inlaid in white marble at the apex of the arch, and a flattish rosette, centered with the narrow panel above it, on either side. The cusped ornament, large and bold in fact, but small and delicate when seen from below, is carried down below the springing of the arch. Two pieces have been broken off from the left hand side and eight from the right.The arch has three actual openings bordered by decorative panels and superimposed by three other arched openings crowned by


title: "Buland Darwaza" content: a semi-dome. The total height of the Gate above the pavement is 176 ft. A Persian inscription on eastern archway of the Buland Darwaza records Akbar's conquest over Uttar Pradesh and the victory in Gujarat in 1573. An inscription on the central face of the Buland Darwaza describes Akbar's religious openness. On the main gateway an Islamic inscription written in Persian reads "Isa (Jesus), son of Mary said: 'The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day may hope for eternity, but the World endures but an hour. Spend


title: "Buland Darwaza" content: it in prayer for the rest is unseen.'" Jesus was advising his followers not to consider the world as a permanent home. Verses from the Quran have been carved in the Naskh (script) along the top. These were drawn by Khwaja Hussain Chishti, a disciple of Sheikh Salim Chishti. Buland Darwaza was not a part of the original design of the Jama Masjid, it was erected by Akbar to celebrate his conquest of Gujarat in 1573. Buland Darwaza Buland Darwaza (, ), or the "Gate of victory", was built in 1572 A.D. by Mughal emperor Akbar to commemorate his victory


title: "Ernesto Biondi" content: Ernesto Biondi Ernesto Biondi (January 30, 1855 – 1917) was an Italian sculptor who won the "grand prix" at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1905 he sued the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art for breach of contract after they refused to display his "Saturnalia". The New York Supreme Court ruled against him, stating that the museum director did not have the authority to initiate contracts without a vote from the board of trustees. Biondi preferred to work with bronze and often explored themes from ancient Rome or the Middle East. Biondi was born January 30, 1855 in


title: "Carbonate ester" content: 240 °C. Other advantages are low ecotoxicity and good biodegradability. Many industrial production pathways for carbonates are not green because they rely on phosgene or propylene oxide. Organic carbonates are used as a solvent in lithium batteries; due to their high polarity they can dissolve lithium salts. The problem of high viscosity is circumvented by using carbonate mixtures for example mixtures of dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate and dimethoxy ethane. Carbonate ester A carbonate ester (organic carbonate or organocarbonate) is an ester of carbonic acid. This functional group consists of a carbonyl group flanked by two alkoxy groups. The general structure


title: "The Stand (miniseries)" content: him in the more unusual role of the deaf and mute Nick Andros would better suit the production (Lowe has been deaf in his right ear since childhood). Adam Storke ended up with the role of Underwood, where his musical skills were an asset. Miguel Ferrer, who played Lloyd Henreid, was originally interested in the role of Randall Flagg, but the sights for that part were initially set on actors such as Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, and James Woods. Stephen King wanted someone the audience "wasn't terribly familiar with". After Ferrer heard that Jamey Sheridan had been offered


title: "Bohemian Switzerland" content: the composer, Carl Maria von Weber, who set his famous opera "Der Freischütz" in the vicinity of Rathen. As early as 1972, the whole of Bohemian Switzerland was placed under protection. When, in 1990, the status of Saxon Switzerland was raised to that of a national park, efforts were stepped up to place the Bohemian part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains under national park protection as well. A plan devised in 1991 envisaged that this would also include the Růžovský vrch (formerly "Rosenberg"). This plan was heavily resisted by various groups, such as the owners of hunting land and the


title: ACADM content: ACADM ACADM (acyl-Coenzyme A dehydrogenase, C-4 to C-12 straight chain) is a gene that provides instructions for making an enzyme called acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase that is important for breaking down (degrading) a certain group of fats called medium-chain fatty acids. These fatty acids are found in foods such as milk and certain oils, and they are also stored in the body's fat tissue. Medium-chain fatty acids are also produced when larger fatty acids are degraded. The acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase for medium-chain fatty acids (ACADM) enzyme is essential for converting these particular fatty acids to energy, especially during periods without food


title: "Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere" content: established an Initiatic College, Esoteric Center, and Study Center free of charge, as well as a Meditation Center, and Yoga Institute together with Jose Manuel Estrada, co-founder. In Venezuela Serge met his first and most notable disciples and descendant masters: Jose Manuel Estrada, Juan Victor Mejias and Gil Colmenares ("Elder Brothers"). It is primarily these three disciples who are responsible for establishing the basic principles and structures of the Universal Great Brotherhood, which is a public institution, and the Supreme Order of Aquarius, which is the internal esoteric group that contains several streams and approaches to the establishment of these


title: "Sun He (Zixiao)" content: the system for personal gain (e.g. taking petty revenge against colleagues), so he wrote a memorial to the imperial court urging them to take actions to discourage and eliminate such harmful practices. On one occasion, two officials, Liu Bao (劉寶) and Ding Yan (丁晏), made accusations against each other. Sun He told Ding Yan, "It's hard to find competent employees in both the civil and military sectors. If everyone starts attacking each other over trivial and petty disputes, then how can we expect to have prosperity?" He then stepped in to mediate the conflict and succeeded in helping them resolve


title: "Secret societies at the University of Virginia" content: much is known about the society except that it is highly selective. Unlike many societies on Grounds, The Thirteen Society is formally recognized by the University. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were established in the early 2000s, and are said to pursue liberty while decrying tyranny. Though the judgements passed by the SDL are done in secrecy, it is well known and documented that they stand firmly against the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the most notable debating society of The University. The SDL began when the Sons of Liberty were founded in the early 2000s. Shortly after, the


title: "Eremalche rotundifolia" content: Eremalche rotundifolia Eremalche rotundifolia, the desert five-spot, is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to the Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States. The dicot and annual herb is found in scrublands, desert flats, washes and open stony areas between 50 and 1,500 m in elevation. It can be found in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and in Death Valley National Park in southern California. It can also be found in Utah, Nevada and Utah. Generally this wildflower is only found between March and May. "Eremalche rotundifolia" is an annual plant growing to 8–60 cm tall,


title: "Eremalche rotundifolia" content: with rounded leaves 1.5–6 cm broad with a toothed margin. The flowers are dark-pink to lilac with five overlapping petals, each with a dark red/purple spot near the base. When fully open the petals are slightly in-curved, giving the flower a nearly spherical shape. The center contains a ring of light pink stigmas around a group of smaller pink stamens. The leave are round and green with a covering of short bristly hairs, while the red/brown stems have similar but longer hairs. Stems are usually unbranched. Petals close at night, reopening the next morning, and the leaves move during the


title: "Eremalche rotundifolia" content: day to receive the maximum amount of sunlight. Eremalche rotundifolia Eremalche rotundifolia, the desert five-spot, is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to the Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States. The dicot and annual herb is found in scrublands, desert flats, washes and open stony areas between 50 and 1,500 m in elevation. It can be found in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and in Death Valley National Park in southern California. It can also be found in Utah, Nevada and Utah. Generally this wildflower is only found between March and May. "Eremalche rotundifolia" is


title: "Linum lewisii" content: Linum lewisii Linum lewisii ("Linum perenne" var. "lewisii") (Lewis flax, blue flax or prairie flax) is a perennial plant in the family Linaceae, native to western North America from Alaska south to Baja California, and from the Pacific Coast east to the Mississippi River (USDA Plant Profile: "Linum lewisii"). It grows on ridges and dry slopes, from sea level in the north up to in the Sierra Nevada. It is a slender herbaceous plant growing to 80 cm tall, with spirally arranged narrow lanceolate leaves 1–2 cm long. The flowers are pale blue or lavender to white, often veined in


title: "Linum lewisii" content: darker blue, with five petals 1-1.5 cm long. "Linum lewisii" is extremely durable, even aggressive, in favorable conditions, successfully seeding even into established lawns. Linum lewisii Linum lewisii ("Linum perenne" var. "lewisii") (Lewis flax, blue flax or prairie flax) is a perennial plant in the family Linaceae, native to western North America from Alaska south to Baja California, and from the Pacific Coast east to the Mississippi River (USDA Plant Profile: "Linum lewisii"). It grows on ridges and dry slopes, from sea level in the north up to in the Sierra Nevada. It is a slender herbaceous plant growing to


title: "2K22 Tunguska" content: the improved 9M311-M1 missile with an increased range of 2.5–10 km and an altitude of 15 m – 3.5 km. The missile has two stages, a large booster stage with four folding fins, which boosts the missile to a velocity of 900 m/s, before falling away. The second stage has four fixed fins, and four steerable control surfaces. The complete missile is around 2.56 meters long with a weight of 57 kg. Guidance is performed by the target tracking radar, it constantly relays target range, elevation and bearing to the fire-control computer, and on the basis of this data the


title: "Monica Macovei" content: stating "this vote is a domestic issue for Romania and cannot be commented upon.” In addition, there was a demonstration against the Parliament in support of Macovei by a number of civil society organizations, including Freedom House, the Romanian Academic Society and APADOR-CH, with organizers stating that MPs passed the motion against Macovei because they were worried by her push for more transparency and stricter controls on conflicts of interest. Transparency International condemned the anti-Macovei motion, stating that the text voted by the Senate was "written in a superficial manner and motivated by political reasons, ignoring the principle of independence


title: "Roberto de Assis Moreira" content: Roberto de Assis Moreira Roberto de Assis Moreira, commonly known as Assis (born January 10, 1971), is a former footballer who is the brother, manager, agent and adviser of Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho. Although Assis is known predominantly for his intelligent managing of better known and more illustrious younger brother Ronaldinho's career, he himself was a budding football talent in his youth. In fact, Brazilian club Grêmio offered Assis' family a villa in order to keep the promising youngster with the club. Previously, the family had lived in a wooden house in the middle of a "favela" or slum in Porto


title: "2007 World Men's Handball Championship" content: 2007 World Men's Handball Championship The 2007 World Men's Handball Championship took place from 19 January to 4 February 2007 in Germany. 24 national teams played in 12 German cities. It was the 20th edition of the World Championship in team handball and was won by the hosts. 12 German cities were hosts for the 2007 Championship. The most modern stadiums – spread all over the country – had been selected. The final match took place in the "Kölnarena" in Cologne ("Köln"). "2007 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification" The 24 competing teams will be drawn into six preliminary groups


title: IShares content: Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts () (now the 'SPDR S&P 500'), which was traded in real time and tracked the S&P 500 index. This was the first ETF to trade in the United States, and it continues to trade to this day. In response, Morgan Stanley launched a series of ETFs called "WEBS" which tracked its MSCI foreign stock market indices. WEBS, an acronym for "World Equity Benchmark Shares", were developed in cooperation with Barclays Global Investors, the fund manager. Unlike the SPDR fund that was a unit investment trust, the underlying vehicle of the WEBS were mutual funds. In


title: "Ada Kaleh" content: emigrate to Turkey after the evacuation of the island, instead of re-settling on Șimian Island. Also, a smaller part went to Dobruja, another Romanian territory with a Turkish minority, so the reconstruction of the "New Ada Kaleh" was never completed. Ada Kaleh plays an important part in the novel of one of the most famous Hungarian authors, Mór Jókai. In the novel "The Golden Man" ("Az Arany Ember"), published in 1872, Ada Kaleh is called the "No One's Isle" and it becomes an almost mythical symbol of peace, seclusion and beauty, juxtaposed with the material outside world. In "Between the


title: "Mendez v. Westminster" content: to ensure that the importance of Mendez v. Westminster in American history will not be forgotten. In September 2011, the Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL), in partnership with a half-dozen government agencies and universities, opened a nine-month exhibition about the case at the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana, California. The exhibition, for which the team won a 2013 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, continues to travel to other locations to educate the public, both adults and students, about the details around this landmark case. Mendez v. Westminster Mendez, "et al"


title: "Dody Goodman" content: or any Person who Essentially Plays Herself. Her work in a revival of "Ah, Wilderness!" in 1984 earned her a nomination for a Drama Desk Award. She died of natural causes on June 22, 2008, at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey, after having lived at the Lillian Booth Actors Home since October 2007. Dody Goodman Dody Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the beginning


title: "Fiona Sit" content: Fiona Sit Fiona Sit (born 11 August 1981) is a Hong Kong singer and actress. In an interview with Hong Kong Newspaper Apply Daily in 2006, Fiona Sit revealed that she always had been interested in singing in front of an audience since very young age, but growing up as the only child in the family left her with little opportunity to sing in front of people of her own age. So she enjoyed visiting her relatives' homes during her childhood to perform in front of her cousins and relatives. She attended Island School and studied Creative Media in City


title: "Zero differential overlap" content: Zero differential overlap Zero differential overlap is an approximation in computational molecular orbital theory that is the central technique of semi-empirical methods in quantum chemistry. When computers were first used to calculate bonding in molecules, it was possible to only calculate diatomic molecules. As computers advanced, it became possible to study larger molecules, but the use of this approximation has always allowed the study of even larger molecules. Currently semi-empirical methods can be applied to molecules as large as whole proteins. The approximation involves ignoring certain integrals, usually two-electron repulsion integrals. If the number of orbitals used in the calculation


title: "Bobby Chacon vs. Rafael Limón" content: Southwest states like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada and California were actually part of Northern Mexico before the United States took over those areas after the Mexican–American War. When the United States took over the states that border with Mexico, Hispanics predominated the area. As a consequence, many Mexican families abounded. When the United States took possession (Arizona and New Mexico became states in 1912), the children of Mexicans who lived in these states became, legally speaking, Mexican-Americans. Later on, other facts to be taken into consideration also took place. The coming of the Hollywood era, for example, should be


title: "The Parafaith War" content: out at perimeter stations and ship techs wait until the last minute to replace failing parts. Rev corpses are even scrounged off the battlefields to be processed into fertilizer and organonutrient, necessary fuel for planet-side Coalition generators since fusion reactors ("fusactors") are forbidden in all but deep space. For food, soldiers are often left consuming Sustain, a nutrient-energy drink made of water and powder mix; algae crackers; and other synthetic materials. Real food is frequently too expensive to translate to border worlds, and a full meal of any quality can easily cost a full week of pay to a soldier.


title: "Death and the Penguin" content: Misha-non-penguin leaves Sonya a large sum of money, Viktor hires a nanny (Nina) who is the niece of his only other friend Sergey. Over time, a physical yet passionless relationship develops between Viktor and Nina and the "family" is crystallized. The deepest emotional relationship amongst all four individuals is between Viktor and his penguin. After settling into a more or less normal life with Sonya and Nina and a lucrative side job of attending funerals of former obituary subjects with Misha, Viktor's illusion of security is undermined. He finds that an anonymous man (referred in the text only as "fat


title: "Eriogonum nudum" content: Eriogonum nudum Eriogonum nudum is a perennial shrub of the wild buckwheat genus which is known by the common name naked buckwheat or nude buckwheat. The "Eriogonum nudum" plant is a tall, bare, leafless stem, bifurcating into more stems, each topped with rounded clusters of white or pale pink or yellow flowers growing up to six feet from a basal rosette at the ground, where the flat green leaves are located. An striking characteristic is that flower clusters typically occur at the branch as well as the branch tips. The naked stem gives the plant its common name. Naked buckwheat


title: "Eriogonum nudum" content: can be found scattered around the west coast of the United States. This species has one of the widest ecological distributions of all of the buckwheats. It can be found at wet coastal sea level locales and the coldest, driest elevations of the Sierra Nevada, as well as many areas in between. The species is not uncommon, but some specific varieties are quite rare. Nectar-feeding insects such as butterflies are attracted to buckwheat flowers. At least one butterfly subspecies ("Apodemia mormo langei") uses naked buckwheat as its primary food source. The complex of varieties and subspecies of naked buckwheat includes:


title: "Ninja rocks" content: Assembly Bill 2015 to amend section 466 to include ninja rocks. The bill passed unanimously in both houses in August 2002. One Washington trial court found that the ability of ninja rocks to quietly break tempered glass meant that their possession could be used to establish intent to commit burglary, even in a case where the ninja rocks were not actually thrown at any glass because the burglars had found an unlocked door. One defendant appealed his conviction to the Court of Appeals on the grounds that "the trial court erred by admitting an unusual burglary tool into evidence". The


title: "Pedicularis canadensis" content: Pedicularis canadensis Pedicularis canadensis, commonly called Canadian lousewort or wood betony, is a flowering plant in the broomrape family (Orobanchaceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in southeastern Canada, the eastern United States, and eastern Mexico. It has a wide-ranging natural habitat, being found in mesic to dry, forests, woodlands, and prairies. "Pedicularis canadensis" is a perennial, clonal, herbaceous plant, growing to tall. It has long, soft, hairy leaves (many are basal, growing tufted from roots), some long, deeply incised and toothed, often reddish-purple under sunlight. It blooms in the spring to summer, between April and


title: "Pedicularis canadensis" content: June. It produces a broad whorl of tubular, hooded flowers on top of a segmented stalk. The flowers range in color from a greenish-yellow to purplish-red, clustered on short, dense spikes. They are pollinated by bumblebees. The fruit is a long brown seed capsule, which disperses through explosive dehiscence. The genus name "Pedicularis" is from Latin meaning "of or relating to mice", from the belief that cows caught lice when grazing in pastures with the European "Pedicularis palustris". The specific epithet "canadensis" refers to Canada. It was formerly included in the family Scrophulariaceae but is now considered to be in


title: "Pedicularis canadensis" content: Orobanchaceae. Two subspecies are accepted: Wood betony is broadly distributed across eastern North America, from Quebec east to Manitoba, south to Mexico, and east to Florida. It occurs in a variety of habitats, including mesic to dry prairies, savannas, barrens, and woodlands. In the Chicago area it is considered a conservative species, with a coefficient of conservatism of 9. "Pedicularis canadensis" is a hemiparasite, attaching to the roots of diverse species, but also producing chlorophyll on its own. Its roots also have a symbiotic relationship with a fungus that helps it gather nutrients. It has been used in prairie restoration


title: "Pedicularis canadensis" content: projects to reduce the dominance of aggressive tallgrasses. A leaf beetle, "Capraita circumdata" has been collected from inside of the flowers. Several ants have been recorded visiting the flowers, including: "Crematogaster cerasi", "Formica incerta", "Formica subsericea", and "Lasius alienus". Bees documented visiting the flowers of wood betony include "Augochlorella aurata", "Bombus auricomus", "Bombus bimaculatus", "Bombus fervidus", "Bombus griseocollis", "Bombus impatiens", "Bombus vagans", "Halictus confusus", and "Lasioglossum anomalum". This plant was eaten by the Iroquois as a vegetable, often as a soup. It was added to oats and used as horse feed by Native Americans. American Indians used a root infusion


title: "Pedicularis canadensis" content: as a remedy for stomachaches, diarrhea, anemia and heart trouble and made a poultice for swellings, tumors and sore muscles. The Menomini called the root "enticer root" and carried it as a charm when determined on seducing the opposite sex. The root was also used to heal broken marriages by placing it in food the couple would both eat, hoping its magic would rekindle romance. Pedicularis canadensis Pedicularis canadensis, commonly called Canadian lousewort or wood betony, is a flowering plant in the broomrape family (Orobanchaceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in southeastern Canada, the eastern


title: "Trapezoidal thread form" content: and for the external centralizing, and the maximum height is shorter than basic for the internal centralizing Acme threads. The maximum diameter (within tolerance) at the crest of the screw threads, called the "max major diameter of external thread", is that of the basic thread form and equals the "nominal diameter," "D", stated in the screw's designation; the minimum diameter (within tolerance) at the crest of the nut thread, called the "min minor diameter of internal thread", is that of the basic thread form and equals the nominal diameter minus twice the basic thread height (i.e. "D - P"). There


title: "Nick Cuti" content: "Spanner's Galaxy", illustrated by Tom Mandrake. He also scripted the final two Creeper back-up stories that appeared in "The Flash". Cuti moved to California in 1986 to begin work for animated TV series, producing background and prop designs for a dozen different studios, including Disney, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios. At the same time, he continued write comic book scripts and create magazine and book art in both scratchboard and paint. "Captain Cosmos", Cuti's homage to the TV space operas of his childhood, appeared in a series of comic books created in collaboration with Staton and also in Cuti's novel,


title: "Motor Rail" content: Rail Dumper - a 4-ton, 2-wheel-drive dump truck (running on tyres rather than rails). It again used a Dorman engine, and a variant of the Dixon-Abbot gearbox. At least one survives. According to a 1955 advert, the diesel engine dumper had a capacity of 3 cubic yards, and had six forward gears and two reverse. It would carry a load of 4 tons up a 1 in 5 gradient. It was available with front control (driver at the front facing forward), or rear control (driver looking over the load, and hence with rear wheel steering, as is common modern practice).


title: "Clematis virginiana" content: Clematis virginiana Clematis virginiana (also known as devil's darning needles, devil's hair, love vine, traveller's joy, virgin's bower, Virginia virgin's bower, wild hops, and woodbine; syn. "Clematis virginiana" L. var. "missouriensis" (Rydb.) Palmer & Steyermark ) is a vine of the Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family) native to the United States and Canada from Newfoundland to southern Manitoba down to the Gulf of Mexico. The rationale for some of the common names is unclear, as they include examples normally applied to unrelated plants, including twining parasites (e.g. "devil's hair" for "Cuscuta"). The name "Love Vine" also is applied to alleged aphrodisiacs, such


title: "Clematis virginiana" content: as Caribbean species of "Cassytha", which are unrelated to "Clematis", not being in the family Ranunculaceae. This plant is an aggressively growing vine which can climb to heights of by twisting leafstalks. The leaves are opposite and pinnately compound, trifoliate (3 leaflets) that have coarse unequal teeth on the margins. It produces small dull white flowers of wide in July into September that are faintly sweetly fragrant; normally dioecious so that there are separate staminate (male) and pistillate (female) plants. The male plants are a little showier in flower and don't bear seed. The dry fruit is an achene with


title: "Clematis virginiana" content: long hair as silvery gray feathery plumes attached in late August into November. It grows on the edges of the woods, moist slopes, fence rows, in thickets and on streambanks. It grows in full sun to light full shade and is very adaptable to many soils from sandy to clay, dry to draining wet, and acid to alkaline with pH range of 6.0 to 8.5. It has a deep but sparse, fibrous root system that makes it hard to transplant.(2.) Good for USDA hardiness zones of 3 to 8. Virgin's Bower is not commonly planted in gardens and landscapes in


title: "Clematis virginiana" content: most places. It is sold by a good number of native plant nurseries and some specialty and large conventional nurseries. What is usually sold at most every conventional nursery or garden center is the similar sweetautumn clematis, "Clematis terniflora", from Japan that is much more rampant growing, that bears heavier clouds of white flowers with a stronger fragrance, that has simple leaves not compound with 3 leaflets, that as one plant self-sows around a lot, and becomes an invasive plant when escaping cultivation in North America. Clematis virginiana Clematis virginiana (also known as devil's darning needles, devil's hair, love vine,


title: "Getty Villa" content: but was never visited by Getty, who died in 1976. Following his death, the museum inherited $661 million and began planning a much larger campus, the Getty Center, in nearby Brentwood. The museum overcame neighborhood opposition to its new campus plan by agreeing to limit the total size of the development on the Getty Center site. To meet the museum's total space needs, the museum decided to split between the two locations with the Getty Villa housing the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities. In 1993, the Getty Trust selected Rodolpho Machado and Jorge Silvetti to design the renovation of the


title: "Quintus Pleminius" content: an elite squadron of cavalry to arrest Pleminius and turned him over to the commission. Diodorus reports only the second version that ameliorates Scipio's conduct, but has Scipio summoning Pleminius to Sicily, throwing him in chains, then handing him over to the two plebeian tribunes sent with the commission, who were duly impressed by this firm response. Pleminius was later shipped off to Rome and imprisoned, but died before his trial concluded. The charge would have been "perduellio", a capital crime, most likely to be brought before the centuriate assembly. What was unusual, and perhaps unprecedented at the time, was


title: "Nikon FM10" content: 283 (guide number 120, ASA 100/feet; 37, DIN 21/meters) was still available new a quarter century after its introduction in 1975. The FM10 does not accept a motor drive; film is only advanced manually via a thumb lever. The aluminum alloy chassis used in the FM10 can be traced back more than twenty-five years to the Cosina CT-1. Cosina has a long history of producing equipment to specification for other camera companies. Other famous name SLR cameras that were built around the CT-1 chassis include the Canon T60, Nikon FE10, Olympus OM2000, Ricoh KR-5 Super II and Yashica FX-3. They


title: "Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style" content: kwoon under the watchful eye of Mong Zhu. He declares his plans to discover the secrets of Wu-Tang from Master Xin, who he has discovered to be hiding out on Staten Island in New York, which will presumably give him the power to take over the world. Soon after this, Master Xin is captured by Mong Zhu's goons and the Wu-Tang Clan vow to track Zhu down and rescue their master. The clan fight their way through Mong Zhu's various minions in an effort to rescue their master, leading them through Staten Island, mainland New York and finally China. Unfortunately


title: "Brian Clouston" content: and 1970s culminating in work on the reclamation of the Liverpool International Garden Festival (which as president of the Landscape Institute he had lobbied for) and Willow Tree Lane landfill reclamation project in Hillingdon, NW London. In the 1970s his practice worked on landscape and reclamation projects throughout the Middle East, in particular in Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. In the late 1970s Clouston established an office in Hong Kong which was managed by Alan Tate from which many large scale Landscape Design projects were completed, notably at Sha Tin Town Park. Additional offices were opened in Singapore, Kuala


title: "Maho Beach" content: Maho Beach Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the territory of Sint Maarten. It is famous for being adjacent to the Princess Juliana International Airport, and is a popular site for tourists and planewatchers, who visit the beach to watch aircraft on final approach landing at the airport, passing only a short distance above their heads. Due to the unique proximity of low flying airliners, the location is very popular with plane spotters. This is one of the few places in the world where aircraft can be viewed in


title: "Maho Beach" content: their flight path just outside the end of the runway. Watching airliners pass over the beach is such a popular activity that daily arrivals and departures airline timetables are displayed on a board in most bars and restaurants on the beach, and the Sunset Bar and Grill formerly had a speaker on its outside deck that broadcast radio transmissions between pilots and the airport's control tower. The speaker was no longer in use by August 2015. Maho Beach is unusually close to the threshold of a runway, and is directly under the flight path, resulting in aircraft on their final


title: "Maho Beach" content: approach flying over the beach at altitudes of less than feet above ground level. This makes the beach a popular location for photographers and video makers who intend to capture the aircraft approaching the airport. The beach itself is white sand and has little to no vegetation because of jet blast erosion. The Caravanserai Resort, the Sunset Bar and other restaurants/night clubs such as Bamboo Bernies and Bliss are located nearby. The beach is popular with windsurfers and skimboarders because of occasional large waves. On October 16, 2008, the Maho area of St. Maarten was badly damaged by Hurricane Omar,


title: "Maho Beach" content: which destroyed the Sunset Bar and Grill as well as Bamboo Bernies and Bliss. As of November 2009, Sunset Bar and Grill and Bliss have both re-opened. Hurricane Omar reduced the beach to boulders, and damaged the nearby Royal Islander Club La Plage which re-opened February 14, 2009. The same occurred with Hurricane Irma in 2017. On 12 July 2017, as Caribbean Airlines Flight 457 was taking off from the airport, a 57-year-old woman from New Zealand was killed by jet blast. The woman was holding on to a fence at the end of the runway when the wind blew


title: "Maho Beach" content: her away, causing her head to smash into concrete. Maho Beach Maho Beach is a beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, in the territory of Sint Maarten. It is famous for being adjacent to the Princess Juliana International Airport, and is a popular site for tourists and planewatchers, who visit the beach to watch aircraft on final approach landing at the airport, passing only a short distance above their heads. Due to the unique proximity of low flying airliners, the location is very popular with plane spotters. This is one of the few places


title: "Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium" content: and upgraded its indoor training facilities. Lights were installed in the stadium for the 2008 football season, permitting UMass to play night games at home on a regular basis. The first game played under the permanent lights was the season opener on August 30, 2008, with UMass beating Albany 28-16. A video scoreboard was installed during the 2009 season. A new FieldTurf playing surface was installed in McGuirk Stadium for the 2014 football season. The plaza on the east side of the stadium behind the ticket gates, MinuteFan Park, hosts food and souvenir vendors and other exhibitors on game days.


title: "Jenna Drey" content: Jenna Drey Jenna Drey is an American female singer-songwriter who is a dance-pop and dance music artist. She was born in Los Angeles, California, and resides in Miami, Florida. She is a classically trained three-octave vocalist and pianist who studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, in theory and composition. Drey is the daughter of television and film actress Margaret Teele. Drey's early career began as a songwriter. She won over eight multiple songwriting awards including the 2004 VH1 "Songwriting Contest", the Gibson Guitar "Dallas Songwriting Contest" for “Stand in Line” and the grand prize in the 6th


title: "Bruno Mattei" content: "La Casa Privata per le SS" ("SS Girls") and "KZ9 Lager di Sterminio" ("Women's Camp 119"), some mondo documentary films starring Laura Gemser ("Le Notti Porno nel Mondo" (1977) and "Emanuelle le Porno Notti del Mondo N. 2" (1978)), and nunsploitation films such as "The True Story of the Nun of Monza" and "L'altro inferno" . Mattei continued working in various other exploitation-themed genres in the 1980s such as zombie films, sex films, peplums, and Vietnam War-themed productions. In 1982, Mattei filmed two "women in prison" films, "Women's Prison Massacre" and "Violence in a Women's Prison" (aka "Caged Women"). The


title: "Cages (comics)" content: this work on "Cages" and "Sandman". McKean revealed, via his Twitter account, that he has been in talks concerning adapting "Cages" into an animated film. Cages (comics) Cages is a ten-issue comic book limited series by Dave McKean. It was published between 1990 and 1996, and later collected as a single volume. Cages is a story about artists, belief, creativity and cats, illustrated in a stripped-down pen and ink style. The first seven issues of the series were published by American publisher Tundra (December 1990 - June 1993) and the last three by Kitchen Sink (August 1993 - May 1996).


title: "American Freak" content: shows. An embarrassed federal government grants them their own reservation settlement (on a former nuclear bomb testing site) and goth teens pay homage to the freaks at the camp perimeter. The Un-Men have become caged curiosities yet again. At the end of issue 5, Kane has mutated into a brooding endomorph, a veiny elder statesman narrating his tale from a private cave high above the new Un-Men encampment. American Freak American Freak: A Tale of the Un-Men was a limited series published by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint. It was written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Vince Locke.


title: "Petchara Chaowarat" content: Petchara Chaowarat Petchara Chaowarat (Thai: เพชรา เชาวราษฎร์; born January 19, 1943 in Rayong Province, Thailand) is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles. Her first film and starring role was in "Banthuk Rak Pimchawee" ("Love Diary of Pimchawee"), in 1961. She co-starred with popular leading man, Mitr Chaibancha, and they proved to be popular pair, starring together in more than 150 films. One of their most popular films was 1970's "Monrak luk thung"


title: "Peter Foster" content: any cosmetic, health industry-related or weight-loss business. In 2006, the Federal Court dismissed Foster's appeal against the five-year ban and ordered him to pay the ACCC's court costs. In 2009, Cousins was struck off as a legal practitioner over his role in the scam. In 2003, Foster complained to the Australian Press Council about articles that appeared in "The Courier-Mail" on 10, 11 and 12 March. He complained that the articles said he had "fleeced" or "duped" investors. The APC noted that although the "Courier-Mail" was "extremely tardy" in its response to complaints from Foster, the paper published a clarification


title: "Hovhannes Erznkatsi" content: known and honored in almost every center of learning in Greater Armenia and Cilicia. An outstanding orator, he was the main speaker on the occasion of the conferring of knighthood on Hetoum and Thoros, sons of King Leon III, which was celebrated at Sis in 1284. Having studied Latin, apparently at an advanced age, he translated certain parts of the Theology of Thomas Aquinas into Armenian. Hovhannes Erznkatsi Hovhannes Erznkatsi ( — John of Erznka or Erzinjan) ( 1230– 1293) was an Armenian scholar and philosopher. He was nicknamed Blouz, probably because of his short stature. The little that has


title: "Major League Gaming" content: the defunct IGN Pro League. Activision Blizzard owns the "Call of Duty" and "Starcraft" franchises—which have been popular as e-sports. Reports indicated that MLG was to be shuttered, and that the majority of the purchase price would go towards paying off the company's debt. Activision Blizzard confirmed the purchase on January 4, 2016. therefore Activision CEO Robert Kotick explained that the main target of the acquisition was MLG's streaming operation MLG.tv. Kotick explained to "The New York Times" that their eventual goal was to "build the ESPN of video games"—a television cable channel that would be devoted to e-sports coverage


title: "Logic simulation" content: it is not possible to specify delays. A cycle-accurate model is used, and every gate is evaluated in every cycle. Cycle simulation therefore runs at a constant speed, regardless of activity in the model. Optimized implementations may take advantage of low model activity to speed up simulation by skipping evaluation of gates whose inputs didn't change. In comparison to event simulation, cycle simulation tends to be faster, to scale better, and to be better suited for hardware acceleration / emulation. However, chip design trends point to event simulation gaining relative performance due to activity factor reduction in the circuit (due


title: "William Bradley (giant)" content: although one sister who died in an accident at age 16 was tall. He was said to have been teased at school because of his height, though many students were scared of him. Teachers at the school were said to have punished misbehaving students by getting Bradley to lift them onto high cross beams, until the teacher decided to have them taken down again. After leaving school he worked on a farm near the town of Pocklington, earning less than 10 shillings (50p) a week. Bradley travelled with a group of showmen under the alias of the Yorkshire Giant; at


title: "Open Platform Management Architecture" content: Open Platform Management Architecture Open Platform Management Architecture (OPMA) is an open, royalty free standard for connecting a modular, platform hardware management subsystem (an "mCard") to a computer motherboard. Platform hardware management generally refers to the remote monitoring of platform hardware variables such as fan speed, voltages, CPU and enclosure temperatures along with a wide range of other sensors. It also implies the ability to remotely control the power state of the platform and to reset the system back into an operational state should it "hang". A significant advantage of OPMA over previous generation management subsystem attachment methods is that


title: "Accumulated other comprehensive income" content: the Equity section of the Balance Sheet. The FASB released an Accounting Standards Update on January 5, 2016 that changes items reported in OCI. Previously, equity securities could be classified as available for sale, and unrecognized gains and losses on these securities appeared in OCI. However, per this update, there is no longer an available for sale classification for equity securities if the fair value of these securities can be readily determined. Changes in the fair value of equity investments in unconsolidated entities flow through earnings for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017. Accumulated other comprehensive income In 1997


title: Bedonia content: Bedonia Bedonia (Parmigiano: ; ; locally ) is a "comune" within the Province of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. The communal territory was already settled during the Neolithic age, and later was a Roman colony, under the name of Bitunia. From the 11th century it was a fief of the bishops of Piacenza, and later of the Malaspina. In 1257 it was included in the State of the Landi, to which it belonged until 1682, when it was confiscated by the Duchy of Parma. During the Unification of Italy, the population was protagonist of an insurrectionary movement for the annexation


title: "Movements in European History" content: Movements in European History Movements in European History was a school textbook, originally published by Oxford University Press, by the English author D. H. Lawrence. Lawrence was facing destitution at the time and he wrote it as a potboiler. The first edition was published under the pseudonym "Lawrence H. Davison" because his fictional works, such as "The Rainbow" (1915), had been prosecuted for alleged eroticism. "Movements in European History", Oxford University Press, 1921 "Movements in European History, Illustrated edition", Oxford University Press, 1925, ...Epilogue (intended for the second edition) written in 1924 "Movements in European History, Irish Edition", censored, 1926


title: "X Window System core protocol" content: installed when the hardware shows colors according to it. A client can request the server to install a colormap. However, this may require the uninstalling of another colormap: the effect is that windows using the uninstalled colormap are not shown with the correct color, an effect dubbed "color flashing" or "technicolor". This problem can be solved using "standard colormaps", which are colormaps with a predictable association between pixelvalues and colors. Thanks to this property, standard colormaps can be used by different applications. The creation of colormaps is regulated by the ICCCM convention. Standard colormaps are regulated by the ICCCM and


title: "Bastian Sick" content: and punctuation. In 1995 Bastian Sick started working as a documentation journalist in the photo archive of German news magazine "Der Spiegel". Later in 1999 he joined the editorial team of the magazine “Spiegel online”, where he became a literary editor. In 2003 he became famous as the author of the column “Zwiebelfisch”. In those columns he writes in a funny and entertaining way about the case of doubt in the German language, for example the grammar, the spelling, the punctuation and the writing style. In 2004, 50 of these columns were published in a book by Kiepenheuer & Witsch


title: "HMS Hardy (1936)" content: aground at Vidrek. The First Lieutenant, who had not been present on the bridge, assumed command and ordered the ship abandoned. Some of the crew delayed doing so until the last torpedo was fruitlessly fired at a German ship and No. 4 gun fired until it was out of ammunition. Captain Warburton-Lee was brought ashore but died after an hour from his head wounds. 139 other men managed to get ashore, although 26 were seriously wounded. Captain Warburton-Lee was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. "Hardy" was lifted off the beach at high tide and drifted to the head of Skjomen


title: "Clarence Gamble" content: son-in-law, Lionel Epstein, husband of his oldest child, Sally, the ongoing philanthropic activity of Clarence Gamble was incorporated into The Pathfinder Fund. In 1991, The Pathfinder Fund was renamed Pathfinder International. In a typical report from 1959, The Pathfinder Fund listed its activities and expenditures: the fund was paying the salary of a nurse in Mombasa; a nurse in Burma; a nurse in Maadi, Egypt; supplemental salaries for nurses in Taiwan; part-time salary for secretary of the Associazione Italiana Per L'Educazione Demografica; salaries for three workers in Colombo, Sri Lanka; salaries for persons working for the family planning associations of


title: "Hampshire Constabulary" content: prevent and detect crime. Student officers who have successfully completed their training at the Support & Training Headquarters are stationed at one of the patrol hubs initially before undertaking further training with other commands. This strand is the main user of the centralised, borderless model. Officers start and end their shifts at a patrol hub but are not officially confined to any subdivision of Hampshire while at work. The strand also includes call handlers and control room staff who work very closely with the police officers on the ground. This section is filled mostly with skilled and experienced police officers


title: "Troyan Monastery" content: Troyan Monastery The Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God () or, as it is more commonly called, the Troyan Monastery is the third largest monastery in Bulgaria. It is located in the northern part of the country in the Balkan mountains and was founded no later than the end of the 16th century. The monastery is situated on the banks of the Cherni Osam near Oreshak, a village 10 km from Troyan in Lovech Province, and is a popular tourist destination. The main church of the monastery was reconstructed near the end of Ottoman rule


title: "Troyan Monastery" content: during the Bulgarian National Revival period by a master-builder called Konstantin in 1835. The ornate interior and exterior of the church were painted between 1847 and 1849 by Zahari Zograph, a popular Bulgarian painter of the time, who also painted the central church of the Rila Monastery, the largest monastery in Bulgaria. Many of the "moral and social experiments" of art at the time such as "Doomsday" and "Wheel of Life" were reproduced at Troyan. One highly controversial move by Zograph was to paint his image around one of the windows in the back of the church. The iconostasis in


title: "Troyan Monastery" content: the central church is a wood carving dating to 1839. The Troyan Monastery is also, since the 17th century, the home of one of the holiest icons in Bulgarian Orthodoxy, the "Three-Handed Virgin". Many people make a pilgrimage to this monastery on St. George's Day because of an icon of St. George in the main church. The room, in which Bulgarian revolutionary Vassil Levski was hiding and meeting with other revolutionaries during the Ottoman period is a museum. Troyan Monastery The Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God () or, as it is more commonly called,


title: "Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve" content: Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve Rainham Marshes is an RSPB nature reserve to the east of London, adjacent to the Thames Estuary in Purfleet, Thurrock and the London Borough of Havering. In 2000, the area of land was bought from the Ministry of Defence, who used it as a test firing range. With no activity for several years, the nature reserve was officially opened to the public in 2006. It has maintained much of its Medieval landscape, and is the largest area of wetland on the upper parts of the Thames Estuary. The reserve is home to a diverse range of


title: "Gung Ho (film)" content: the townspeople taking Hunt's word over his, abandons the picnic. Hunt comes clean about the 15,000 car deal. He responds by addressing his observations that the real reason the workers are facing such difficulties is because the Japanese have the work ethic that too many Americans have abandoned. While his audience is not impressed, Hunt, hoping to save the town and atone for his deception, and Kaz, desperate to show his worth to his superiors, go back into the factory the next day and begin to build cars by themselves. Inspired, the workers return and continue to work toward their


title: "Acer spicatum" content: Acer spicatum Acer spicatum (mountain maple) is a species of maple native to northeastern North America from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland, and south to Pennsylvania. It also grows at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. "Acer spicatum" is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to tall, forming a spreading crown with a short trunk and slender branches. The leaves are opposite and simple, long and wide, with 3 or 5 shallow broad lobes. They are coarsely and irregularly toothed with a light green hairless surface and a finely hairy underside. The leaves turn brilliant yellow to


title: "Acer spicatum" content: red in autumn, and are on slender stalks usually longer than the blade. The bark is thin, dull gray-brown, and smooth at first but becoming slightly scaly. The fruit is a paired reddish samara, long, maturing in late summer to early autumn. The tree lives in moist woods in rich, well-drained soils on rocky hillsides and along streams. It also grows on ravines, cliff faces, and forested bogs. During ecological succession, it colonizes the understory as pioneer species die. The sap is a source of sugar and can be boiled to make maple syrup. The bark contains tannins, which are


title: "Acer spicatum" content: used in tanning leather. Indigenous peoples infused the piths of young twigs to produce treatments for eye irritation and made poultices from boiled root chips. It is also said to be used to relieve stress in humans. Acer spicatum Acer spicatum (mountain maple) is a species of maple native to northeastern North America from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland, and south to Pennsylvania. It also grows at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. "Acer spicatum" is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to tall, forming a spreading crown with a short trunk and slender branches. The leaves


title: "The Terratin Incident" content: be able to control the ship. On stardate 5577.3, while observing a burnt-out supernova, the Federation starship "Enterprise" picks up a strange message transmitted in a two-hundred-year-old Earth code. The signal is traced to a nearby planet. When the "Enterprise" enters orbit, it is hit by an energy beam of "spiroid radiation" that damages its dilithium crystals and makes the crew begin to shrink (along with all other organic material aboard the ship, including the crew's uniforms). Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy determines that the crew will continue to shrink beyond their ability to control the ship unless a cure