title: "MOS Technology 6522" content: one-shot (monostable) "interval timer" mode; timer 1 can also be used in "free-running" (divider/square wave) mode, in which the timer is automatically reloaded with the initial count when it reaches zero, and timer 2 can also be used in "pulse counting" mode, in which the timer will count the high-to-low state transitions of pin PB6 (the 7th bit of parallel I/O port B). In the one-shot mode, each timer continues free-running so that the time since zero was reached can be determined, but no further interrupt is issued until the timer is restarted. Each timer can generate an interrupt when


title: "Cessna Skymaster" content: affected. Flying a Skymaster requires a pilot to hold a multiengine rating, although many countries issue a special "centerline thrust rating" for the Skymaster and other similarly configured aircraft. Ground handling requires certain attention and procedures. The rear engine tends to overheat and can quit while taxiing on very hot days. Accidents have occurred when pilots, unaware of the shutdown, have attempted take-off on the nose engine alone, though the single-engine take-off roll exceeded the particular runway length. Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Directive 77-08-05 prohibits single-engine take-offs and requires the installation of a placard marked "DO NOT INITIATE SINGLE ENGINE


title: "Ford Cologne V6 engine" content: Ford Cologne V6 engine The original Ford Cologne V6 is a series of 60° cast iron block V6 engines produced continuously by the Ford Motor Company in Cologne, Germany, since 1965. Along with the British Ford Essex V6 engine and the U.S. Buick V6 and GMC Truck V6, these were among the first mass-produced V6 engines in the world. Throughout its production run, the Cologne V6 has evolved from the engine displacements of 1.8, 2.0, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9, and 4.0 litres engines. All except the Cosworth 24v derivative and later 4.0 litre SOHC engines were pushrod overhead-valve engines,


title: "David Armstrong Extreme Park" content: David Armstrong Extreme Park The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot (3,700 m²) public skatepark located near downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in the Butchertown neighborhood. It opened on April 5, 2002, and gained national recognition after the release of Tony Hawk's Secret Skatepark Tour, in which the park was featured. The park is open 24 hours everyday, and was designed with the input of a local task force. The public skatepark is owned by Louisville Metro Government and operated by Metro Parks. In 2014, about one-third of the park was demolished, to


title: "David Armstrong Extreme Park" content: be followed by the rebuilding of facilities on adjacent property, to make way for flyover ramps to support the new Abraham Lincoln Bridge. The rebuild was completed on April 14, 2015, where the park was dedicated in former Louisville Mayor David L. Armstrong's honor. The park is most often known for its full pipe, but it also has an impressive set of other features including, two bowls, two bowls, two bowls, a bowl, a few fun boxes, a street course, a flat bank, several ledges, rails, and endless lines. It also has a wooden vert ramp with a extension. There


title: "David Armstrong Extreme Park" content: are also publicly accessible restrooms and emergency telephones. David Armstrong Extreme Park The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot (3,700 m²) public skatepark located near downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in the Butchertown neighborhood. It opened on April 5, 2002, and gained national recognition after the release of Tony Hawk's Secret Skatepark Tour, in which the park was featured. The park is open 24 hours everyday, and was designed with the input of a local task force. The public skatepark is owned by Louisville Metro Government and operated by Metro Parks. In 2014,


title: "Steppe bison" content: was eventually contemporaneous with the Pleistocene woodland bison ("B. schoetensacki)" and the European bison ("Bison bonasus") in Europe, "Leptobison" in Japan, and the long-horned bison ("Bison latifrons") in North America. The steppe bison became extinct in the early Holocene, as it was replaced in Europe by the modern bison "B. bonasus", which is likely a hybrid between "B. priscus" and the "Bos primigenius", and in America by a sequence of several species (such as "Bison antiquus" and "Bison occidentalis") culminating in the modern American bison ("Bison bison"). European cave paintings appear to depict both "B. bonasus" and "B. priscus". Resembling


title: "Boat lift" content: Boat lift A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane. It may be either vertically moving, like the ship lifts in Germany, Belgium, the lift at "Les Fontinettes" in France or the Anderton boat lift in England, or rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. A precursor to the canal boat lift, able to move full-sized canal boats, was the tub boat lift used in mining, able to raise and lower the 2.5 ton tub


title: "Boat lift" content: when completed. Boat lift A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane. It may be either vertically moving, like the ship lifts in Germany, Belgium, the lift at "Les Fontinettes" in France or the Anderton boat lift in England, or rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. A precursor to the canal boat lift, able to move full-sized canal boats, was the tub boat lift used in mining, able to raise and lower the 2.5


title: "Cello sonata" content: Cello sonata A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for solo cello or small instrument ensemble. The most famous Romantic-era cello sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi. The following list contains cello sonatas with or without accompanying instruments. See the See also list for more comprehensive lists divided up into solo and accompanied works. The following list (inevitably incomplete) tries to place the major sonatas and equivalent works for cello and piano or cello solo in


title: "He Yong (rock musician)" content: He Yong (rock musician) He Yong (born 15 February 1969 in Beijing) is a Chinese rock musician who has been particularly active in the 1980s and 1990s. A self-styled punk, He Yong's lyrics and outspoken nature have made him controversial in mainland China and Hong Kong. His only album, "Garbage Dump", exemplified his negative, though often nostalgic perspective toward life. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Chinese rock. From the age of six He Yong began learning music from his father He Yusheng (何玉声), a professional "sanxian" (three-string snakeskin banjo) player. In 1980, he appeared in the


title: "Valeriya Novodvorskaya" content: rights»." From the article "We Won't Give Our Rights to the Left!" in Novy Vzglyad, №46, August 28, 1993 "«Manic depression — so that's what they call «the Russian miracle» and «the Russian soul»! That's why we are so good at war! Unhealthy aggression of a maniac masterfully aimed at aliens by our own rulers that turns into a slavish prostration after the return from war!.. Our President should either give us weapons and start a new fight, or lend us a Skete big enough for 10 million of free people who would rather explode or burn themselves down than


title: "Moraine Lake" content: trails which are, from time to time, restricted. The trail most commonly taken by tourists is The Rockpile Trail, which is along the actual moraine. The trail is approximately long, with an elevation change of . The view of the lake from the top of the rockpile is one of the most photographed locations in all of Canada. That view of the mountains behind the lake in Valley of the Ten Peaks is known as the "Twenty Dollar View", as Moraine Lake was featured on the reverse side of the 1969 and 1979 issues of the Canadian twenty dollar bill.


title: "Bunny Yeager" content: took over 1,000 pictures of Page. Along with photographer Irving Klaw, Yeager played a role in helping to make Page famous, particularly with her photos in "Playboy" magazine. "American Photo" magazine described Yeager's work with Page as "a body of imagery that remains some of the most memorable — and endearing — erotica on record" in a 1993 article. The most famous images of Page by Yeager include the January 1955 "Playboy" centerfold in which she kneels wearing only a Santa hat while hanging a silver ornament on a Christmas tree and a series of photographs with a pair of


title: "Darlington Nuclear Generating Station" content: - Clarington) 2014: Local Economic Impact Award (Clarington Board of Trade) 2012: Environmental Achievement Award (Environmental Earth Angels) 2011: In December 2011 Darlington achieved 12 million hours without a lost time injury 2009: William H. Howard Conservation, Education and Outreach Award (Wildlife Habitat Council) 2008: International Corporate Habitat of the Year Award (Wildlife Habitat Council) 2007: Performance Improvement Award (Institute of Nuclear Power Operators) 2007: 20th Anniversary Signatures of Sustainability Award (Wildlife Habitat Council) 2005: International Corporate Habitat of the Year Award (Wildlife Habitat Council) On Dec. 21, 2009, Darlington nuclear staff over-filled a storage tank with lake water. The


title: "Evolution 2: Far Off Promise" content: Evolution 2: Far Off Promise "Evolution 2: Far Off Promise" was also released for the European market in 2002 as one of the last European Dreamcast games. In the UK the game was exclusive to the video game chain Game. Like the first "Evolution" game, "Evolution 2" is a dungeon crawler. Unlike the first, "Evolution 2" has both random and predetermined dungeon maps. This game and "Evolution: The World of the Sacred Device" were remade into "Evolution Worlds" on the Nintendo GameCube. Continuing from "Evolution: The World of Sacred Device", Mag Launcher and company venture towards the continent's center via


title: "Pirate FM" content: times. Pirate 2 DAB launched on 4 August 2014. The station airs a series of weekly talk shows: The Business Hub (Mondays, 7pm), the Health and Wellbeing Show (Tuesdays, 7pm), the Education and Training Show (Wednesdays, 7pm), the Farming Show (Thursdays, 7pm), the Homes and Gardens Show (Fridays, 7pm), the Youth Show (Saturdays, 4pm). Pirate FM's two transmitters broadcast separate opt-outs for news bulletins, travel information and advertising. The Redruth transmitter on 102.8 MHz FM includes content for the mid and west of the county of Cornwall, and the Caradon Hill transmitter (on 102.2 MHz FM) covers the East and


title: "Sunrise Radio" content: was one of forty radio professionals honoured by the Radio Centre for their significant contribution to the growth and success of the industry Sunrise Radio Group went into administration on 13 January 2014. The Sunrise Radio brand was transferred to 963/972 kHz, the previous frequency of Buzz Asia. On 19 January 2016 Sunrise Radio was observed as being silent on the Kent and Surrey & North Sussex DAB multiplexes. Sunrise Radio went Nationwide on DAB in early 2016. On 18 November 2014, Tony Lit, MD Sunrise Radio and Gurdev Jassi, Chairman Sunrise Radio, launched the Sunrise Radio Training Academy, a


title: "Battle of Lang Vei" content: to harass the small force of soldiers still trapped in the command bunker with hand grenades, explosives and bursts of gunfire down the stairwell that led into the bunker. Shortly after 06:00 am, the PAVN threw several fragmentation grenades and tear gas grenades down the stairwell. Then, a voice called down the stairwell in Vietnamese, demanding the American-led forces give up at once. Following a quick discussion with his CIDG soldiers, the South Vietnamese special forces commander led his troops up the stairwell to surrender, but were killed by PAVN soldiers, leaving behind their American counterparts. After the South Vietnamese


title: "Douglas squirrel" content: Douglas squirrel The Douglas squirrel ("Tamiasciurus douglasii") is a pine squirrel found in the Pacific coastal states of the United States as well as the southwestern coast of British Columbia in Canada. It is sometimes known as the chickaree or pine squirrel, although these names are also used for the American red squirrel. Variant spellings of the common name are Douglas' squirrel and Douglas's squirrel. The Native Americans of Kings River called it the "Pillillooeet", in imitation of its characteristic alarm call. John Muir described the Douglas squirrel, "Tamiasciurus douglasii", as "by far the most interesting and influential of the


title: "Hyatt Regency walkway collapse" content: the ceiling, and the other connecting the second floor walkway to the fourth floor walkway. This design change proved fatal. In the original design, the beams of the fourth floor walkway had to support only the weight of the fourth floor walkway, with the weight of the second floor walkway supported completely by the rods. In the revised design, however, the fourth floor beams were required to support both the fourth floor walkway and the second floor walkway hanging from it. The serious flaws of the revised design were compounded by the fact that both designs placed the bolts directly


title: "Multi-task learning" content: Multi-task learning Multi-task learning (MTL) is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple learning tasks are solved at the same time, while exploiting commonalities and differences across tasks. This can result in improved learning efficiency and prediction accuracy for the task-specific models, when compared to training the models separately. Early versions of MTL were called "hints" In a widely cited 1997 paper, Rich Caruana gave the following characterization:Multitask Learning is an approach to inductive transfer that improves generalization by using the domain information contained in the training signals of related tasks as an inductive bias. It does this by


title: "Multi-task learning" content: learning tasks in parallel while using a shared representation; what is learned for each task can help other tasks be learned better. In the classification context, MTL aims to improve the performance of multiple classification tasks by learning them jointly. One example is a spam-filter, which can be treated as distinct but related classification tasks across different users. To make this more concrete, consider that different people have different distributions of features which distinguish spam emails from legitimate ones, for example an English speaker may find that all emails in Russian are spam, not so for Russian speakers. Yet there


title: "Multi-task learning" content: is a definite commonality in this classification task across users, for example one common feature might be text related to money transfer. Solving each user's spam classification problem jointly via MTL can let the solutions inform each other and improve performance. Further examples of settings for MTL include multiclass classification and multi-label classification. Multi-task learning works because regularization induced by requiring an algorithm to perform well on a related task can be superior to regularization that prevents overfitting by penalizing all complexity uniformly. One situation where MTL may be particularly helpful is if the tasks share significant commonalities and are


title: "Multi-task learning" content: generally slightly under sampled. However, as discussed below, MTL has also been shown to be beneficial for learning unrelated tasks. Within the MTL paradigm, information can be shared across some or all of the tasks. Depending on the structure of task relatedness, one may want to share information selectively across the tasks. For example, tasks may be grouped or exist in a hierarchy, or be related according to some general metric. Suppose, as developed more formally below, that the parameter vector modeling each task is a linear combination of some underlying basis. Similarity in terms of this basis can indicate


title: "Multi-task learning" content: the relatedness of the tasks. For example, with sparsity, overlap of nonzero coefficients across tasks indicates commonality. A task grouping then corresponds to those tasks lying in a subspace generated by some subset of basis elements, where tasks in different groups may be disjoint or overlap arbitrarily in terms of their bases. Task relatedness can be imposed a priori or learned from the data. Hierarchical task relatedness can also be exploited implicitly without assuming a priori knowledge or learning relations explicitly.. For example, the explicit learning of sample relevance across tasks can be done to guarantee the effectiveness of joint


title: "Multi-task learning" content: learning across multiple domains. One can attempt learning a group of principal tasks using a group of auxiliary tasks, unrelated to the principal ones. In many applications, joint learning of unrelated tasks which use the same input data can be beneficial. The reason is that prior knowledge about task relatedness can lead to sparser and more informative representations for each task grouping, essentially by screening out idiosyncrasies of the data distribution. Novel methods which builds on a prior multitask methodology by favoring a shared low-dimensional representation within each task grouping have been proposed. The programmer can impose a penalty on


title: "Multi-task learning" content: tasks from different groups which encourages the two representations to be orthogonal. Experiments on synthetic and real data have indicated that incorporating unrelated tasks can result in significant improvements over standard multi-task learning methods. Related to multi-task learning is the concept of knowledge transfer. Whereas traditional multi-task learning implies that a shared representation is developed concurrently across tasks, transfer of knowledge implies a sequentially shared representation. Large scale machine learning projects such as the deep convolutional neural network GoogLeNet, an image-based object classifier, can develop robust representations which may be useful to further algorithms learning related tasks. For example, the


title: "Multi-task learning" content: pre-trained model can be used as a feature extractor to perform pre-processing for another learning algorithm. Or the pre-trained model can be used to initialize a model with similar architecture which is then fine-tuned to learn a different classification task. Traditionally Multi-task learning and transfer of knowledge are applied to stationary learning settings. Their extension to non-stationary environments is termed Group online adaptive learning (GOAL). Sharing information could be particularly useful if learners operate in continuously changing environments, because a learner could benefit from previous experience of another learner to quickly adapt to their new environment. Such group-adaptive learning has


title: "Multi-task learning" content: numerous applications, from predicting financial time-series, through content recommendation systems, to visual understanding for adaptive autonomous agents. The MTL problem can be cast within the context of RKHSvv (a complete inner product space of vector-valued functions equipped with a reproducing kernel). In particular, recent focus has been on cases where task structure can be identified via a separable kernel, described below. The presentation here derives from Ciliberto et al., 2015. Suppose the training data set is formula_1, with formula_2, formula_3, where indexes task, and formula_4. Let formula_5. In this setting there is a consistent input and output space and the


title: "Multi-task learning" content: to set up an open source internet database that can be accessed and continually updated from around the world. The goal is to facilitate a cloud-based interactive knowledge base, accessible to technology companies and academic institutions, which can enhance the sensing, acting and learning capabilities of robots and other artificial intelligence agents. The Multi-Task Learning via StructurAl Regularization (MALSAR) Matlab package implements the following multi-task learning algorithms: Multi-task learning Multi-task learning (MTL) is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple learning tasks are solved at the same time, while exploiting commonalities and differences across tasks. This can result in


title: Curtain content: Curtain The maker of curtains was Sir. Curt Ainsley. A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop. Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light, for instance at night to aid sleeping, or to stop light from escaping outside the


title: Curtain content: building (stopping people outside from being able to see inside, often for privacy reasons). In this application, they are also known as "draperies". Curtains hung over a doorway are known as portières. Curtains come in a variety of shapes, materials, sizes, colors and patterns. They often have their own sections within department stores, while some shops are completely dedicated to selling curtains. Curtains vary according to cleanability, ultraviolet light deterioration, oil and dust retention, noise absorption, fire resistance, and life span. Curtains may be moved by hand, with cords, by press-button pads or remote-controlled computers. They are held out of


title: Curtain content: the way of the window by means of curtain tie-backs. Measuring curtain sizes needed for each window varies greatly according to the type of curtain needed, window size, and type and weight of curtain. Curtains are a form of window treatment, and complete the overall appearance of the house. Window treatment helps control the ambiance and flow of natural light into the room. The effect of drapery or curtains is best seen in daylight, and with proper indoor light positioning, can look attractive even at night. From evidence found in excavation sites at Olynthus, Pompeii and Herculaneum, portieres appear to


title: "Military service" content: Military service Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Some nations (e.g., Mexico) require a specific amount of military service from every citizen, except for special cases, such as physical or mental disorders or religious beliefs. Most countries that use conscription systems only conscript men; a few countries also conscript women. For example, China, North Korea, Israel, Eritrea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Libya and Peru conscript both men and women. Some nations with conscription systems do not enforce them (see


title: "Military service" content: below). Nations which conscript for military service typically also rely on citizens choosing to join the armed forces as a career. Some nations with armed forces do not conscript their personnel (e.g. most NATO and European Union states). Instead, they promote military careers to attract and select recruits; see military recruitment. Some of these nations reserve the right in law to conscript personnel in the future. Some, usually smaller, nations have no armed forces at all, or rely on an armed domestic security force (e.g. police, coast guard). In this summary, 195 countries are included. The following 100 countries have


title: "Military service" content: been identified as having no enforced conscription: The following twelve countries and colonies have been identified as having both compulsory and voluntary military service: The following thirteen countries have been identified as having selective conscription: The following fifteen countries have been identified as having a civilian, unarmed or non-combatant service optional alternative to compulsory military service: The following twenty countries have been identified as having compulsory military service limited to 1 year or less: The following 12 countries have been identified to having compulsory military service limited to 18 months or less: The following thirty-two countries have been identified as


title: "Military service" content: having compulsory military service terms longer than 18 months: , three countries have been identified as intending to abolish conscription in the near future: The following nineteen countries have been identified as having no defense forces or as having no standing army but having very limited military forces: Compulsory military service has declined considerably since 1970. A 2016 study finds "that the probability of a shorter military service time is positively associated with smaller country populations, smaller lagged army sizes, increases in primary schooling among young males, and having common law legal origins." Albania had compulsory military service. Albania's armed


title: "Military service" content: forces announced an objective to create a professional army by the end of 2010. Argentina suspended military conscription in 1995 and replaced it with a voluntary military service, yet those already in service had to finish their time in service. This came as a result of political and social distrust of the military, dwindling budgets which forced the military to induct fewer conscripts every year, the experience of the 1982 Falklands War which proved the superiority of professional servicemen over conscripts and a series of conscription-related brutality scandals which came to a head with the murder of Private Omar Carrasco


title: "Military service" content: at an Army base in 1994, following a brutal disciplinary action. It should be noted that military conscription has not been abolished; the Mandatory Military Service Law is still in the books and might be enforced in times of war, crisis or national emergency. Conscription was known in Argentina as "la colimba". The word "colimba" is a composite word made from the initial syllables of the verbs "correr" (to run), "limpiar" (to clean) and "barrer" (to sweep), as it was perceived that all a conscript did during service was running, cleaning and sweeping. Conscripts themselves were known and referred to


title: "Military service" content: as ""colimbas"". Voluntary service in the Boer War (1899-1902) was initially from a number of the separate colonies before federation in 1901 and later volunteers were deployed as an Australian force. Two conscription referendums were defeated during World War 1. Military service during WW1 was voluntary (1st AIF) as was service in WW2 (2nd AIF). Volunteer militia units (part-time civilian soldiers) were to be used only within the Commonwealth of Australia (such as in the Great Emu War in 1932) but in 1942 some militia units were deployed to Papua New Guinea, as it was considered part of Australia at


title: "Military service" content: that time, to fight the advancing and later withdrawing Japanese invasion army. Various levels of conscription (National Service) were in force during the 1950s but only for service in Australia during times of conflicts but the (Vietnam War) saw NS deployed to war with over 500 KIA and thousands WIA with about half of the casualties being NS. The Vietnam War was lost on 1 May 1975 over three years after the ADF withdrew in late 1971. All forms of conscription were abolished by the Whitlam Government in later 1972. Barbados has no conscription. The country has set the minimum


title: "Military service" content: age for voluntary recruitment into the Barbados Defence Force at 18. Younger recruits may be conscripted with parental consent. Belgium suspended conscription on 31 December 1992 by amending the 1962 Law on Conscription, which became applicable only to conscripts drafted in 1993 and earlier. In practice this meant that the law no longer applied to those born in 1975 and later. Since 1 March 1995 the Belgian armed forces consist of professional volunteers only. Belize has set minimum age for voluntary recruitment into the Armed Forces at 18. (According to the Section 16 of the Defense Act of the Defence


title: "Military service" content: Ordinance of 1977.) Conscription has never been prescribed in the Defense Act, but is at the Governor General’s discretion. Bosnia and Herzegovina abolished compulsory military service as of 1 January 2007. Bulgaria abolished compulsory military service. The last conscripts were sent home on 25 November 2007. Previously there was mandatory military service for male citizens from eighteen to twenty-seven years of age. Duration of the service depended on the degree of education. For citizens studying for or holding a bachelor's degree or higher the service was six months, and for citizens with no higher education it was nine months. The


title: "Bridget Jones" content: 1996, Fielding asked him to collaborate in what would become an eight-page interview between Bridget Jones and Firth in her 1999 sequel novel, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason". Conducting the real interview with Firth in Rome, Fielding lapsed into Bridget Jones mode and obsessed over Darcy in his wet shirt. Firth participated in the following editing process of what critics would consider "one of the funniest sequences in the diary's sequel". Both novels make various other references to the BBC serial. "Pride and Prejudice" screenwriter Andrew Davies collaborated on the screenplays for the 2001 and 2004 "Bridget Jones" films,


title: "Messier 80" content: Messier 80 Messier 80 (also known as M80 or NGC 6093) is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. The star cluster is located midway between α Scorpii (Antares) and β Scorpii in a field in the Milky Way that is rich in nebulae. It can be viewed with modest amateur telescopes as a mottled ball of light. With an apparent diameter of about 10' and at an estimated distance of 32,600 light-years, M80's spatial diameter is about 95 light-years. It contains several hundred thousand stars, and is among the more densely


title: "Messier 80" content: in M80 that attained a magnitude of +7.0. The nova, variable star designation T Scorpii, reached an absolute magnitude of −8.5, briefly outshining the entire cluster. Messier 80 Messier 80 (also known as M80 or NGC 6093) is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. The star cluster is located midway between α Scorpii (Antares) and β Scorpii in a field in the Milky Way that is rich in nebulae. It can be viewed with modest amateur telescopes as a mottled ball of light. With an apparent diameter of about 10' and


title: "Tortilla chip" content: and monosodium glutamate. The triangle-shaped tortilla chip was popularized by Rebecca Webb Carranza in the 1940s as a way to make use of misshapen tortillas rejected from the automated tortilla manufacturing machine that she and her husband used at their Mexican delicatessen and tortilla factory in southwest Los Angeles. Carranza found that the discarded tortillas, cut into triangles and fried, were a popular snack, and she sold them for a dime a bag at the El Zarape Tortilla Factory. In 1994, Carranza received the Golden Tortilla award for her contribution to the Mexican food industry. Tortilla chips are the quintessential


title: "Tortilla chip" content: not made from a tortilla, but from corn meal which has been processed into a particular shape, typically a small scoop. Fritos are an example of this. The principal difference between the corn in tortilla and corn chips is that the corn in a tortilla chip has undergone a process known as nixtamalization, which involves processing the raw corn with quicklime. Both tortilla and corn chips are referred to as "corn chips" in Australia and Oceania. Tortilla chip A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into wedges and then fried—or baked (alternatively they


title: "Walter E. Mooney" content: to compete against the Cessna 172 in 1971. The Flying Aces model club of Washington has held a Walt Mooney Memorial model airplane meet named in his honor. Walter E. Mooney Walter E. Mooney (June 6, 1925 – March 1, 1990) was a MIT educated engineer, aircraft designer, pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego, California. He was well known professionally for his full scale aircraft efforts for Convair division of General Dynamics but more popularly known for the many plans and articles published in the magazines "Model Airplane News", "Boys' Life", and "Aero Modeller" in the


title: "Snow line" content: Snow line The climatic snow line is the boundary between a snow-covered and snow-free surface. The actual snow line may adjust seasonally, and be either significantly higher in elevation, or lower. The permanent snow line is the level above which snow will lie all year. Snow line is an umbrella term for different interpretations of the boundary between snow-covered surface and snow-free surface. The definitions of the snow line may have different temporal and spatial focus. In many regions the changing snow line reflect seasonal dynamics. The final height of the snow line in a mountain environment at the end


title: "Double-elimination tournament" content: Double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost "two" games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only "one" defeat results in elimination. One method of arranging a double-elimination tournament is to break the competitors into two sets of brackets, the "winners bracket" and "losers bracket" ("W" and "L" brackets for short; also sometimes "upper bracket" and "lower bracket", respectively) after the first round. The first-round winners proceed into the W bracket and the losers


title: "Double-elimination tournament" content: The two respective champions then play a single elimination game for the World Series championship. Variations of the double-elimination tournament include: Other common tournament types are Double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost "two" games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only "one" defeat results in elimination. One method of arranging a double-elimination tournament is to break the competitors into two sets of brackets, the "winners bracket" and "losers bracket" ("W" and "L"


title: "Embroidery stitch" content: Embroidery stitch In everyday language, a stitch in the context of embroidery or hand-sewing is defined as the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the front side and back to the back side. The thread stroke on the front side produced by this is also called "stitch". In the context of embroidery, an embroidery stitch means one or more "stitches" that are always executed in the same way, forming a figure. Embroidery stitches are also called "stitches" for short. Embroidery stitches are the smallest units in embroidery. Embroidery patterns are formed by doing many


title: "Kolinsky sable-hair brush" content: Kolinsky sable-hair brush A kolinsky sable-hair brush (also known as "red sable" or "sable hair brush") is a fine artists' paintbrush. The hair is obtained from the tail of the kolinsky ("Mustela sibirica"), a species of weasel rather than an actual sable. The "finest" brushes are made from the male hair only, but most brushes have a mix of about 60/40 male-to-female hair. Kolinsky bristles tend to be pale red in colour with darker tips. The weasel is not an animal that is raised well in captivity, and is generally isolated to the geographical region of Siberia. Due to this


title: "Kolinsky sable-hair brush" content: some cases seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service due to the kolinsky's inclusion in the international CITES agreement. Kolinsky sable-hair brush A kolinsky sable-hair brush (also known as "red sable" or "sable hair brush") is a fine artists' paintbrush. The hair is obtained from the tail of the kolinsky ("Mustela sibirica"), a species of weasel rather than an actual sable. The "finest" brushes are made from the male hair only, but most brushes have a mix of about 60/40 male-to-female hair. Kolinsky bristles tend to be pale red in colour with darker tips. The weasel is not an


title: "Submarine base" content: Submarine base A submarine base is a military base that shelters submarines and their personnel. Examples of present-day submarine bases include HMNB Clyde, Île Longue (the base for France's Force océanique stratégique), Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Naval Submarine Base New London, and (near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky). The Israeli navy bases its growing submarine force in Haifa Former submarine bases include DORA 1, , Naval Submarine Base Bangor (now part of Naval Base Kitsap), Mare Island Naval Shipyard (a nuclear-capable base), Ordnance Island in Bermuda during World War II, and the formerly-classified Soviet base at Balaklava in the now Autonomous Republic of


title: "Submarine base" content: Crimea. The hamlet of New Suffolk, New York claims to be the first submarine base in the United States: it served as the base for , a submarine launched in May 1897. Submarine base A submarine base is a military base that shelters submarines and their personnel. Examples of present-day submarine bases include HMNB Clyde, Île Longue (the base for France's Force océanique stratégique), Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Naval Submarine Base New London, and (near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky). The Israeli navy bases its growing submarine force in Haifa Former submarine bases include DORA 1, , Naval Submarine Base Bangor (now part


title: "Ireland On-Line" content: Ireland On-Line Ireland On-Line (IOL) is a former ISP in Ireland. Ireland On-line was the first commercial internet service provider in the state. The company was formed in 1992 by Barry Flanagan, and was reported to have launched "Ireland's first mass-market Internet service" in January 1994. In 1997, the company was bought by An Post for IR£ 2.5m. Two years later, it was sold to Esat Telecom Group plc for IR£ 115m. A year later, Esat Telecom was taken over by BT Group plc. In 2002 Esat was rebranded Esat BT. In 2009 BT Ireland withdrew from retail telecommunications and


title: "Kingston Vale" content: Evans Memorial Playing Fields, adjacent to Wimbledon Common, play host to a variety of sporting activities including football, rugby football, cricket, Australian rules football and frisbee, with the site being used to host the UK Ultimate Frisbee Championships in 2007 and the European Ultimate Frisbee Championships in 2008. The site is also home to the annual National Schools Rugby Sevens Tournament. It has an active local amenity group – the Kingston Vale Residents Association (KVRA). This is a democratic body which deals with matters such as planning, conservation, transport, environment and social. There area's newsletter called the ""Bottom Line"" taking


title: "Seventh-inning stretch" content: again and was never seen following that game. After the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' 1998 home opener, they played the popular Jimmy Buffett song "Fins" after the 6th inning, rather than the 7th inning stretch. The grounds crew sent on the field after the 6th inning wore tropical clothing, and everyone in the park formed their arms into fins for the "Fins to the left, fins to the right" portions of the song. This tradition was dropped several years later. The Texas Rangers initially played only "Cotton-Eyed Joe" during the 7th inning stretch. When the team moved to their new


title: "Seventh-inning stretch" content: facility in 1994, The Ballpark in Arlington (now The Globe Life Park in Arlington), "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" was added to 7th inning stretch, followed by "Cotton-Eyed Joe". Somewhat unusual for a 7th inning stretch song, the version of "Cotton-Eyed Joe" played is an instrumental, by Al Dean from the album "Plays For Urban Cowboys". Rather than singing along, the crowd claps along and stomps their feet to the tune. The Minnesota Twins play "Little Red Corvette" by Prince, due to the tradition that rookies and newly traded players know the lyrics to the song. Other clubs that


title: "Upper middle class" content: Upper middle class In sociology, the upper middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class. This is in contrast to the term "lower middle class", which is used for the group at the opposite end of the middle-class stratum, and to the broader term "middle class". There is considerable debate as to how the upper middle class might be defined. According to sociologist Max Weber the upper middle class consists of well-educated professionals with postgraduate degrees and comfortable incomes. The American upper middle class is defined similarly using income, education and occupation as


title: "Upper middle class" content: universities, often within the Russell Group. Upper middle class In sociology, the upper middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class. This is in contrast to the term "lower middle class", which is used for the group at the opposite end of the middle-class stratum, and to the broader term "middle class". There is considerable debate as to how the upper middle class might be defined. According to sociologist Max Weber the upper middle class consists of well-educated professionals with postgraduate degrees and comfortable incomes. The American upper middle class is defined similarly


title: "Puma (brand)" content: Puma (brand) Puma SE, branded as Puma, is a German multinational company that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories, which is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. PUMA is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. The company was founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler. In 1924, Rudolf and his brother Adolf Dassler had jointly formed the company "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory). The relationship between the two brothers deteriorated until the two agreed to split in 1948, forming two separate entities, "Adidas" and "Puma". Both companies are currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Puma


title: "Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines" content: 2004, IGN named "Bloodlines" the Best PC RPG of that year and GameSpy called the "Ocean House Hotel" quest the Level of the Year. In 2005, "Computer Gaming World" called it the Role Playing Game of 2004, saying that it offered "a deep, balanced character creation system, a truckload of interesting quests, a good story and great NPCs to interact with." "Computer Games Magazine" nominated "Bloodlines" for its 2004 "Best Writing" award, which ultimately went to "Half-Life 2". "Bloodlines" is considered a cult classic. Retrospective critiques continue to praise the game's narrative and degree of choice. In 2009, an article


title: Misirlou content: was sung by the Armenian singer Paul Baghdadlian as "Anoush Yar". Hawaiian artists Honoka & Azita created a ukelele version. In 2017, a Greek band named Blandras"," created another arrangement of the song, a psychedelic rock version with the original lyrics, published in their debut album "Purple Sun". In 1945, a Pittsburgh women's musical organization asked Professor Brunhilde E. Dorsch to organize an international dance group at Duquesne University to honor America's World War II allies. She contacted Mercine Nesotas, who taught several Greek dances, including Syrtos Haniotikos (from Crete), which she called Kritikos, but for which they had no


title: "Hebron Academy" content: Director of Outdoor Education is a Registered Maine Guide, Wilderness First Responder, NATO certified telemark ski instructor and NWS certified weather spotter, and the program's faculty includes two Registered Maine Guides, two Wilderness First Responders, an EMT and many outdoor enthusiasts. The Outdoor Education Program is a co-curricular program which meets every afternoon after classes. This program satisfies Hebron Academy's physical activity requirement. The standards of the program are set in part by the Junior Maine Guide Certification program. Students learn orienteering, low-impact camping, wet day fires, trip planning and many other skills. It also teaches wilderness first aid and


title: "Kitten heel" content: Kitten heel A kitten heel is a short, slender heel, usually from 3.5 centimeters (1.5 inches) to 4.75 centimeters (1.75 inches) high, with a slight curve setting the heel in from the back edge of the shoe. The style was popularized by Audrey Hepburn, and more recently by Theresa May, Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton. Shoes with kitten heels may be worn at work in an office setting by women who wish to wear feminine attire that is still practical. For parties, kitten heels are an alternative for women who find high heels uncomfortable. Further, kitten heels are also worn


title: "Albert Jacka" content: Major General Harold Bridgwood Walker. The Australian division suffered 5,285 casualties after three days of fighting. The Australian force captured Pozières, but the fight was so bloody that the Australians could only identify their trenches by the bodies of their comrades showing their red-and-white shoulder patches. On the morning of 7 August 1916, after a night of heavy shelling, the Germans began to overrun a portion of the line which included Jacka's dug-out. Jacka had just completed a reconnaissance, and had gone to his dug-out when two Germans appeared at its entrance and rolled a bomb down the doorway, killing


title: "Instant film" content: to form the correct color, much like an LCD display or television. For instance, a photo of a yellow flower would expose the emulsion beneath the red and green masks and not the blue mask. The developing process removed the exposed emulsion (under the red and green masks) and diffused the unexposed dye developer (under the blue mask) to its receiving layer, blocking light from coming through. This resulted in the projected light shining through the red and green masks but not the blue mask, creating the color yellow. Because of the film density, film speeds were necessarily slow. High


title: "USS Flounder" content: immobilized at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and New London, Connecticut, she was decommissioned and placed in reserve at New London on 12 February 1947. The second and fourth of "Flounder"’s six war patrols were designated "Successful," and she is credited with having sunk 2,681 tons of Japanese shipping as well as "U-537". "Flounder" received two battle stars for World War II service. USS Flounder USS "Flounder" (SS-251), a "Gato" class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flounder. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut on 5


title: Fartlek content: Fartlek Fartlek, which means "speed play" in Swedish, is continuous training with interval training. Fartlek runs are a very simple form of a long distance run. Fartlek training “is simply defined as periods of fast running intermixed with periods of slower running." For some people, this could be a mix of jogging and sprinting, but for beginners it could be walking with jogging sections added in when possible. A simple example of what a runner would do during a fartlek run is “sprint all out from one light pole to the next, jog to the corner, give a medium effort


title: Fartlek content: their way up, and work their way back down with timed breaks in between. Ladders are similar to interval training in that they require more structure, but they are different because the faster speed sections vary in time or distance. Although ladders are most similar to interval runs, the fact that the portions performed at the faster speed vary in length or time mirrors fartlek runs. Fartlek Fartlek, which means "speed play" in Swedish, is continuous training with interval training. Fartlek runs are a very simple form of a long distance run. Fartlek training “is simply defined as periods of


title: Open-Xchange content: In July 2015 the company announced PGP support for OX Guard. The company partners with Dutch software vendor Summa to create "OX Messenger", a WebRTC based solution for secure peer to peer chat, voice and video communications that is integrated into OX App Suite. "Open-Xchange" is being offered in 5 different versions, two hosting solutions (OX Server Edition and OX Hosting Edition) and three software packages (OX App Suite, OX Web Edition, OX Community Edition). Out of these 5 versions only OX Community Edition can be used permanently without paid subscription. "OX App Suite" can be downloaded for evaluation and


title: "Fair catch" content: player wishing to make a fair catch signals his intent by extending one arm above his head and waving it while the kicked ball is in flight. The kicking team must allow the player an opportunity to make the catch without interference. The primary reason for the fair catch rule is to protect the receiver. A receiver directs his attention toward the incoming punt and cannot focus on the defenders running towards him. He is quite vulnerable to injury and is also at risk for fumbling or muffing the kicked ball if the punter intentionally makes a high short kick


title: "Bahrain International Circuit" content: left hander that leads immediately into the flat-out right hander of 12, then the third gear right-hander of turn 13 which requires a good exit to gain speed down the following straight. It is worth braking quite early for turn 14 to gain speed down the main straight. If you brake about 100 metres before the apex then it is easy to keep it tidy through the slow right hander and you can also put the power down early, and gain speed all the way through turn 15 and the main straight (which is the DRS zone). The lap record


title: "Model military vehicle" content: molds made of RTV rubber material. A scratchbuilding modeler should possess talents in the following areas: soldering, gluing, drilling, taping, grinding, sanding, cutting & shaping in metals and plastics, creating RTV molds (1,2 & 3 part types), painting & weathering, research of prototype material, casting in low temp metals, creating sketches and diagrams of what is being made, measuring in inches or millimeters, use of calipers and other specialized tools. "Aftermarket" denotes any kit or detail set that is sold to replace existing kit parts in order to reproduce a more accurate model or simply a different version not otherwise


title: "Democratic Unification Party" content: organize legally and participate in the political process. Decree No. 92-94 of the National Election Tribunal of 28 January 1994, gave the PUD recognition as the fifth legally recognized political party in Honduras. The colours of PUD are red and yellow. Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs of the struggle and yellow symbolizes the new dawn of Honduras. The banner of PUD is yellow with the letter "UD" in red. The slogan of PUD is "UD marca la differencia" ("UD [can be interpreted as "usted", you] makes a difference"). PUD defines itself as a patriotic, democratic, popular and revolutionary


title: "American rock" content: phrase "rock and roll" to describe the music. There is much debate as to what should be considered the first rock and roll record. One contender is "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (in fact, Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in Memphis in 1951. It has been argued that "That's All Right (Mama)" (1954), Elvis Presley's first major single for Sun Records was the first rock and roll record, but, at the same time, Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle & Roll", later covered by Bill Haley,


title: "William Shawn" content: actor Wallace Shawn, composer Allen Shawn, and Mary Shawn, Allen's twin sister, who is autistic and resides at an institution in Delaware. In 2007, Allen Shawn published a memoir, "Wish I Could Be There", centering on his own phobias. In 1996, William Shawn's longtime "New Yorker" colleague Lillian Ross revealed in a memoir that she and Shawn had engaged in an extramarital affair from 1950 until his death, with Mrs. Shawn's knowledge. Ross reported that Shawn was active in the upbringing of Ross's adopted son, Erik. William Shawn William Shawn (August 31, 1907 – December 8, 1992) was an American


title: "Red Angus" content: Red Angus The Red Angus is a breed of reddish-brown-coloured beef cattle. It derives from the population of Aberdeen Angus cattle and, apart from the coat colour, is identical to it. Red Angus are registered separately from black Angus cattle in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The Scottish Angus is usually black, but red individuals occur; this may be the consequence of cross-breeding in the eighteenth century of the small Scottish cattle with larger English Longhorn stock, aimed at increasing their draught power. In the United States, these red individuals could until 1917 be registered in the herd-book of


title: "Red Angus" content: the American Angus Association. From about 1945, some herds consisting only of red stock were formed. In 1954 a breeders' association, the Red Angus Association of America, was established at a meeting in Fort Worth, Texas. The registered population in 2008 numbered about head, making it the fifth beef breed by number in the United States; American Angus, Charolais, Hereford and Simmental were more numerous. In Australia, breeders of the red variant proposed a scheme for registration of their stock with the Angus Society of Australia; it was not accepted, and in 1970 they formed the Red Angus Society of


title: "Red Angus" content: Australia. The Red Angus is a beef breed, and is reared only for that purpose. Comparative trials have not identified any commerciallysignificant difference between it and the American Angus. Bulls have been used as sires for crossbreeding. The Red Angus is a parent breed to the Regus (cross-breeding with Hereford) and to the RX3 (a mixture of Hereford, Red Angus and Red Holstein). Red Angus The Red Angus is a breed of reddish-brown-coloured beef cattle. It derives from the population of Aberdeen Angus cattle and, apart from the coat colour, is identical to it. Red Angus are registered separately from


title: "American Angus Association" content: American Angus Association The American Angus Association was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1883, with 60 members, breeders of Aberdeen Angus cattle. Its original name was shortened in the 1950s from the American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association. Its headquarters are now in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and includes offices for Angus Productions Inc., which publishes the Angus Journal and the Angus Beef Bulletin. In the first century of operation more than 10 million head were recorded. The Association records more cattle each year than any other beef breed association, making it the largest beef breed registry association in the world. In fiscal


title: "American Angus Association" content: year ending September 30, 2010, it registered 297,087 head for 2009-10. The American Angus Association hosts an annual show for members each year at a new destination. Along with hosting shows for the youth, the National Junior Angus Association awards many undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to eligible members at local, state, regional and national level associated with the Angus breed. The American Angus Association set up the "Certified Angus Beef" (CAB) brand in 1978. Cattle are eligible if they meet strictly-defined criteria. American Angus Association The American Angus Association was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1883, with 60 members, breeders


title: "Groupe Bull" content: Groupe Bull Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French-owned computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull, and Bull HN. Bull was founded in 1931, as H.W. Egli - Bull, to capitalize on the punched card technology patents of Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925). After a reorganization in 1933, with new owners coming in, the name was changed to Compagnie des Machines Bull (CMB). The company has undergone


title: "Groupe Bull" content: Rights (FIDH). In March 2012 Groupe Bull divested itself of the Eagle System, selling it for the sum of 4 million euros to Nexa Technologies, a company run by a former Amesys CEO. Groupe Bull Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French-owned computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull, and Bull HN. Bull was founded in 1931, as H.W. Egli - Bull, to capitalize on the punched card


title: "Galactica 1980" content: Galactica 1980 Galactica 1980 is an American science fiction television series and a spin-off from the original "Battlestar Galactica" television series. It was first broadcast on ABC in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980, lasting for 10 episodes. A massive write-in campaign began upon the cancellation of the original "Battlestar Galactica". Because letter writing campaigns in favor of restoring cancelled television programs were uncommon in 1979, it prompted ABC to re-think their reasons for canceling the show. After some deliberation, they contacted Glen A. Larson to see about reviving the series, albeit in some modified and


title: "Galactica 1980" content: less expensive format. Both Larson and the network felt the show needed some major change of focus to relaunch it as a spin-off, and Larson and Donald P. Bellisario decided to set the new series five years after "The Hand of God", the final episode of the original series. This would allow them to weed out many supporting characters who were now considered superfluous - Colonel Tigh, Athena, Cassiopeia, Boxey, etc. - which would bring down production costs. The only major characters to return from the original series would be Commander Adama, Colonel Boomer (replacing Tigh), Apollo, Starbuck and Count


title: "Galactica 1980" content: Baltar. Baltar was to have made atonement for betraying the Colonies to the Cylons, and was now the President of the Council of Twelve. Upon discovering a "present-day" Earth completely unable to defend itself from the Cylons, Adama decided to just head off into deep space to lead the Cylons away from the planet, but Baltar suggested using time travel technology to alter Earth's history so its technology would develop more rapidly up to a Colonial level. The Council votes this suggestion down, so Baltar steals a ship capable of time-travel and heads into Earth's past to carry out his


title: "Galactica 1980" content: plan anyway. After some deliberation, Starbuck and Apollo are sent after him to bring him back or at least undo his changes to history. Episodes would feature a new "Time Mission" every week, generally with Apollo at some different time in the past, and Starbuck flying back and forth between "Now" and "Then" to give information and support to Apollo. ABC approved this pitch, and gave the approval to develop a pilot for the series. However, Dirk Benedict (Starbuck in the original series) was unavailable at the time of filming. Richard Hatch (Apollo in the original series) was sent a


title: "Galactica 1980" content: script for "Galactica 1980", but turned it down since he wasn't sure what his part in the series would be now that all the characters had changed. It was then decided the series would take place thirty years after the end of the original series, and that Boxey would be renamed Troy and take Apollo's role, while a character named Lt. Dillon would take over the Starbuck part. President Baltar was written out entirely, and Commander Xavier or Doctor Xavier was created to take up his role as the villain. The premise of setting the series thirty years after the


title: "Galactica 1980" content: original series created a plot hole in that the original series ended with a video transmission being picked up by the "Galactica" from the Apollo moon landing, meaning that the original series would have to have taken place sometime after 1969 by Earth's calendar. A thirty-year journey would mean that the Colonial Fleet could not have possibly reached Earth until the turn of the 21st Century rather than in 1980. After the pilot was completed, the network was unhappy with the time travel aspects of the story, which was intended to be an ongoing premise in each episode as the


title: "Galactica 1980" content: Colonials chased Xavier through different periods in Earth's history. They agreed to pick up the series only if the time-travel element was dropped. Larson and Bellisario reluctantly agreed, and the series instead became focused on Troy's and Dillon's attempts to protect some Colonial children on Earth. Bellisario later returned to the original time-travel concept, and reused it as the basis of the considerably more successful "Quantum Leap." Set during the year 1980, and a generation after the original series, the "Galactica" and its fleet of 220 civilian ships have finally discovered Earth, only to find that its people are not


title: "Galactica 1980" content: as scientifically advanced and that the planet can neither defend itself against the Cylons nor help the "Galactica" as originally hoped. Therefore, teams of Colonial warriors are covertly sent to the planet to work incognito with various members of the scientific community, hoping to advance Earth's technology. Commander Adama on the advice of Doctor Zee, a teenage prodigy serving as Adama's counsellor, sends Captain Troy, who is the adopted son of Adama's own son Apollo, and Lieutenant Dillon to North America, where they become entangled with TV journalist Jamie Hamilton. After an initial, epic time travel adventure to Nazi Germany


title: "Galactica 1980" content: in the 1940s (to stop rebel Galactican Commander Xavier, trying to change the future to improve Earth's technology level), the three friends devise ways to help Earth's scientists and outwit the Cylons in the present day. Meanwhile, Adama sends a group of children from the "Galactica" fleet (the "Super Scouts") to Earth in order to begin the process of integrating with the population. However, due to differences in gravity and physiology, the children must deal with the fact they have nearly super-human powers on Earth. The fates of several characters from the original series are explained during the course of


title: "Galactica 1980" content: the series. Apollo is apparently dead, the cause of his seeming death not addressed. Starbuck was marooned on a desert planet, although the script for the episode "The Wheel of Fire" (unfilmed at the time of cancellation) indicated that Starbuck was eventually rescued from the planet by the inhabitants of the "Ships of Light" and became one of their inhabitants. Captain Troy is revealed to be Boxey, and Lt. Boomer has risen to the rank of Colonel and has become Adama's second in command. Baltar was apparently rescued from the planet he was marooned on in "Hand of God", and


title: Trot content: Trot The trot is a two-beat diagonal gait of the horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat. It has a wide variation in possible speeds, but averages about . A very slow trot is sometimes referred to as a jog. An extremely fast trot has no special name, but in harness racing, the trot of a Standardbred is faster than the gallop of the average non-racehorse, and has been clocked at over . On June 29, 2014 at Pocono Downs in Pennsylvania the Swedish standardbred Sebastian


title: Trot content: a "moment of suspension" or "unsupported transit" during the trot gait. Depending on the amount of engagement and collection of the horse, the trot can generally be classified as "working", "collected", or "extended". By the rhythm, one may distinguish a true, two-beat square trot when each diagonal pair of hoofs hits the ground at the same moment from a four-beat intermediate ambling gait, such as the fox trot or the "trocha" sometimes seen in the Paso Fino. Different speeds and types of trots are described by the following terms: Two variations of the trot are specially trained in advanced dressage


title: Trot content: trot. Most riders learn to sit a slow jog trot without bouncing. A skilled rider can ride a powerfully extended trot without bouncing, but to do so requires well-conditioned back and abdominal muscles, and to do so for long periods is tiring for even experienced riders. A fast, uncollected, racing trot, such as that of the harness racing horse, is virtually impossible to sit. Because the trot is such a safe and efficient gait for a horse, learning to ride the trot correctly is an important component in almost all equestrian disciplines, particularly for equitation riders. "Gaited" or "ambling" horses,


title: Trot content: which have smooth 4-beat intermediate gaits that replace or supplement the trot, are popular with riders who prefer for various reasons not to have to ride at a trot. There are three ways the trot may be ridden: A rider posts to one "diagonal" or the other at the trot; when the rider is on the correct diagonal, the rider sits as the horse's inside hind leg and outside foreleg are on the ground and rises as the outside hind leg and inside foreleg are on the ground. Diagonals are used in the posting trot help to keep the horse


title: "Glider Badge" content: War, the Glider Badge was authorized to any service member who had completed glider unit training at the Airborne School. Glider-borne soldiers wore a wing trimming (a.k.a. oval) behind their Glider Badges to signify assignment to glider units. The color pattern of the trimming varied depending upon the unit. (Note: During World War II the term "Airborne" included parachute, glider, and air-landing units. With the elimination of glider and air-landing units from the force structure in the post-war years, Airborne became synonymous with parachute units only.) In the post-World War II years, the US Army converted its remaining glider units


title: "Glider Badge" content: not formally rescinded until 3 May 1961; however, it remained authorized for wear by those who earned it. By 1949 glider training still took place but was included in the basic Airborne course, which was then five weeks long. The first week of the course covered air transportability training, which included glider training. During late summer of that year, a glider crashed, killing many of those on board, and glider training came to an end. U.S. Army glider units participated in eight glider-airborne operations during World War II: Glider Badge The Glider Badge was a qualification badge of the United


title: "Sega Smash Pack" content: Sega Smash Pack Sega Smash Pack (Sega Archives from USA in Japan) is a series of game compilations featuring mostly Sega Genesis games. The first pack titled "Sega Smash Pack" ("Sega Archives from USA Vol. 1" in Japan) featured eight games. The second pack titled "Sega Puzzle Pack" ("Sega Archives from USA Vol. 2" in Japan) featured three games. The third pack titled "Sega Smash Pack 2" ("Sega Archives from USA Vol. 3" in Japan) featured eight games. The console version of "Sega Smash Pack" was released for Dreamcast titled "Sega Smash Pack Volume 1" and featured twelve games, although


title: Million+ content: Million+ MillionPlus, formerly known as the Campaign for Mainstream Universities and the "Coalition of Modern Universities" (CMU), is a membership organisation, which aims to promote the role of "modern universities" in the UK higher education system; it describes itself as "The Association for Modern Universities in the UK". MillionPlus is funded by subscriptions from its members, currently 20 UK universities. While all of the member institutions are "new" universities, many have long histories as colleges and polytechnics. Formed in 1997 as the Coalition of Modern Universities, the name was changed in 2004 to the Campaign for Mainstream Universities. In November


title: Million+ content: 2007, the organisation was rebranded with the present name. This name was chosen to reflect the fact that the member institutions educate over a million students. MillionPlus is involved in the political debate about the role and contribution of universities to the economy and society, where it is seen as representing the post-1992 "new" universities. As such, it is frequently quoted in the media on higher education topics, such as the Government's green paper on higher education reform, reform of the external examination system, and the economic diversity of the student population. The group is chaired by Professor David Phoenix,


title: Million+ content: Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University. The Chief Executive is Dr Greg Walker. Million+ MillionPlus, formerly known as the Campaign for Mainstream Universities and the "Coalition of Modern Universities" (CMU), is a membership organisation, which aims to promote the role of "modern universities" in the UK higher education system; it describes itself as "The Association for Modern Universities in the UK". MillionPlus is funded by subscriptions from its members, currently 20 UK universities. While all of the member institutions are "new" universities, many have long histories as colleges and polytechnics. Formed in 1997 as the Coalition of Modern Universities, the


title: "Drunken Tiger" content: which became the new home of Drunken Tiger. The release of Drunken Tiger's seventh album, "Sky Is The Limit", marked another high point in Drunken Tiger's career. Although Tiger JK's ability to perform was inhibited by his recently diagnosed acute transverse myelitis, the album's single "8:45 Heaven," a tribute to his late grandmother, became a fan favorite and won Best Hip Hop Song at the 2008 Korean Music Awards. Drunken Tiger released its eighth album, in 2009. The double-disc album featured American hip-hop legend, Rakim, as well as Roscoe Umali, who had not appeared on the last few Drunken Tiger


title: "Drunken Tiger" content: Daum's music chart were from "Wondaland." The album ultimately reached #8 on Billboard's World Albums chart. Tiger JK said the reason he wasn't making music under the name Drunken Tiger anymore was because his young son did not like the word "drunken." In April 2018, Drunken Tiger returned for a final self titled album, the last album they would ever make under the name "Drunken Tiger" Drunken Tiger Drunken Tiger () was a Korean hip hop group that debuted in 1999 and has since released several albums and won numerous awards. They are known as pioneers of Korean hip-hop who


title: Champion content: Champion A champion (from the late Latin "campio") is the victor in a , contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, and even further (artificial) divisions at one or more of these levels, as in soccer. Their champions can be accordingly styled, e.g. national champion, world champion. In certain disciplines, there are specific titles for champions, either descriptive, as the baspehlivan in Turkish oil wrestling, yokozuna in Japanese sumo wrestling; or copied from real life, such as the "koning" and "keizer" ('king' and 'emperor') in


title: Champion content: traditional archery competitions (not just national, also at lower levels) in the Low Countries. The original meaning of the word partakes of both these senses: in the Feudal Era, knights were expected to be champions and paragons of both prowess in combat and of causes, the latter most commonly being either patriotic, romantic or religious in nature (thus becoming models of virtue). This reaches its most literal meaning in a trial by combat, in which each combatant champions the cause of one side of the trial. A "King's Champion" is appointed for ceremonial purposes at the coronation of an English


title: Champion content: Monarch, to defeat any challenger to the monarch's right to be crowned. Champion warfare refers to a type of battle, most commonly found in the epic poetry and myth of ancient history, in which the outcome of the conflict is determined by single combat, an individual duel between the best soldiers ("champions") from each opposing army. World Champion is a title used to denote a winner of a World championship in a particular sport (such as mixed martial arts, professional boxing or professional wrestling), discipline or game. Being a champion at any sport or game requires an extraordinary amount of


title: Champion content: focus, discipline, drive and complete dedication, usually from a young age. What separates a world champion from the average competitor aside from natural ability and environmental advantages with access to the best training facilities, is the ability to focus on their goal and to become the best of the best, the obsession to continually improve and mental conditioning required to focus on becoming the best in the world at their given subject. Champion A champion (from the late Latin "campio") is the victor in a , contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional


title: "Maha Bodhi Society" content: Maha Bodhi Society The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society founded by the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala and the British journalist and poet Sir Edwin Arnold. The organization's self-stated initial efforts were for the resuscitation of Buddhism in India, and restoring the ancient Buddhist shrines at Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Kushinara. Although some Indians had remained culturally Buddhist for centuries after the decline of Buddhist philosophy, they did not self-identify as "Buddhist". The Maha Bodhi Society renewed interest in Buddhism, and spawned the Ladakh Buddhist Association, All Assam Buddhist Association, and Himalayan Buddhist Society, as


title: "Beechcraft Travel Air" content: spar was borrowed from the large Model 50 Twin Bonanza, along with thicker gauge aluminum on the leading edge; landing gear systems had been taken from the United States Navy Mentor, which was a stronger structure built for training pilots for later aircraft carrier landings. Power came from, in the 1958 model year, two Lycoming O-360-A1A at at 2700rpm each. With 75% power, the Travel Air was capable of 200mph at 7,500ft. Although developed and initially marketed as the "Badger", a 1956 letter from the United States Air Force notified Beechcraft that the name had been previously chosen as a


title: "Chevrolet Tahoe" content: in 1998 the 4-door was released as the Silverado 4-door, and both were available in Base, LS, and luxury LT trim lines. In Venezuela, the Tahoe 2-door was released in 1993 (4WD only), called the Chevrolet Grand Blazer, and in 1996 the 4-door was released as the Grand Blazer 4-door (2WD). In 1996 the 2-door was discontinued. In 1996 only Grand Blazer 4-door 4WD was available. In Bolivia, 1995 the 4-door was released as the Tahoe 4-door (4WD). Beginning in 1994, GM began making numerous annual changes to the Blazer/Yukon, including: When the GMT800 platform based Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon was


title: "Chevrolet Aveo (T200)" content: the United States, Pontiac sold the 5-door hatchback as the Pontiac G3 starting in the spring of 2009. Because of General Motors phasing out the Pontiac brand, the Pontiac G3/Wave is no longer manufactured after the 2010 model year, and the last Pontiac G3 Wave rolled off the line in December 2009, making this the last overall Pontiac vehicle to roll off the line, even though the last Pontiac for the American market was the 2010 Pontiac G6. The Pontiac G3 has the distinction of being the last Pontiac-badged model introduced to the United States market before the brand's 2010


title: "Chevrolet Aveo (T200)" content: Malibu (the Chevrolet logo color was changed from blue to tan). Deleted: 4-door SVM equipment group, Aveo5 LT model. New Features: 6-disc in-dash CD player and MP3 playback audio system, restyled 4-Door Model, new neutral interior in cloth and leatherette, steering wheel mounted audio controls, aux input jacks on all 4-door and LS radios, sedan instrument panel and door accents in wood appearance, metallic grain appearance or silver appearance trim on LS and LT models, manual lumbar adjuster on driver seat, driver seat armrest, back glass antenna on 4-door models. Changes: power outside mirrors now on both driver and passenger,


title: "Chevrolet Express" content: Chevrolet Express The Chevrolet Express and its mechanically identical twin GMC Savana are full-size vans from General Motors. They replaced the Chevrolet Van and GMC Vandura in 1995. The Express and Savana (which were known as the GMT600 platform), were a major upgrade from the previous generation van which dated from the late 60's. The GMT600 featured full body on frame construction, the new central-port injection V6 and V8 engines, and greatly improved ride & handling from its GMT400 derived chassis. After 2003, the Express and Savana had updated front-end sheet metal similar to the GMT800 light trucks and GMT360


title: "Beechcraft Baron" content: six-place seating over the Baron 55 and 56TC. In 1976, the turbocharged Baron 58TC and pressurized Baron 58P were introduced. These variants were powered by turbocharged Continental TIO-520s of 310–325 hp (230–240 kW), had an increased 6100–6200 lb (about 2800 kg) gross weight, and were certified under FAR23 with a new type certificate. The Baron 58P/58TC models were capable of cruising at 200 knots (370 km/h) at 8000 ft (2400 m) and 220 knots (410 km/h) at 20000 ft (6100 m), and were typically equipped with 190 US gallon (719 L) fuel tanks. A big change in panel/system layout on


title: "Under Armour" content: Under Armour Under Armour, Inc. is an American company that manufactures footwear, sports, and casual apparel. Under Armour's global headquarters are located in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices located in Amsterdam (European headquarters), Austin, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Munich, New York City, Panama City (international headquarters), Paris, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, São Paulo, Santiago, Seoul, Shanghai (Greater Chinese headquarters), and Toronto. Under Armour was founded in 1996 September 25 by Kevin Plank, a then 23-year-old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team. Plank initially began the business from his grandmother's basement in


title: "Under Armour" content: Washington, D.C. He spent his time traveling up and down the East Coast with nothing but apparel in the trunk of his car. His first team sale came at the end of 1996 with a $17,000 sale. From his grandmother's basement, Plank moved to Baltimore. After a few moves in the city he landed at his current headquarters in Tide Point. As a fullback at the University of Maryland, Plank got tired of having to change out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts worn under his jersey; however, he noticed that his compression shorts worn during practice stayed dry. This inspired him


title: "Under Armour" content: to make a T-shirt using moisture-wicking synthetic fabric. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Plank developed his first prototype of the shirt, which he gave to his Maryland teammates and friends who had gone on to play in the NFL. Plank soon perfected the design creating a new T-shirt built from microfibers that wicked moisture and kept athletes cool, dry, and light. Major competing brands including Nike, Adidas and Reebok would soon follow in Plank's footsteps with their own moisture-wicking apparel. Plank opted to use the British spelling "armour" in the company name because the toll-free vanity number was


title: "Under Armour" content: still available for that version. People began to take notice of the brand when a front page photo of "USA Today" featured Oakland Raiders quarterback Jeff George wearing an Under Armour mock turtleneck. Following that front page, Under Armour's first major sale came, when an equipment manager from Georgia Tech requested 10 shirts from Plank. This deal opened the door to a contract with NC State, Arizona State, and other Division I football teams. With positive reviews from players, word began to spread and orders began to increase. That same year, Under Armour launched with several new apparel lines including


title: "Under Armour" content: ColdGear, TurfGear, AllseasonGear, and StreetGear. By the end of 1996, Under Armour had sold 500 Under Armour HeatGear shirts, generating $17,000 for the company. In 1997, Plank had $100,000 in orders to fill and found a factory in Ohio to make the shirts. Under Armour received its first big break in 1999 when Warner Brothers contacted Under Armour to outfit two of its feature films, Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday" and "The Replacements." In "Any Given Sunday", Willie Beamen (played by Jamie Foxx) wears an Under Armour jockstrap. Leveraging the release of "Any Given Sunday", Plank purchased an ad in


title: "Under Armour" content: "ESPN The Magazine". The ad generated close to $750,000 in sales. The following year, Under Armour became the outfitter of the new XFL football league, gaining even more attention during the league's debut on national television. In 2003, consumer sector focused private equity firm Rosewood Capital invested $12 million into the company. The same year, the company launched its first television commercial, which centered on their motto, "Protect this house." The company IPO'd on the NASDAQ in November 2005, raising $153m of capital. In late 2007, Under Armour opened its first full-line full-price retail location at the Westfield Annapolis mall


title: "Under Armour" content: in Annapolis, Maryland. It has also opened several specialty stores and factory outlet locations in Canada, China, and 39 states including the opening of its first Brand House in Baltimore in 2013 and second Brand House in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. In 2009, baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. formed an alliance under which the company would have significant presence at several venues and events under the auspices of Ripken Baseball, including providing uniforms for the minor league Aberdeen IronBirds and youth teams participating in the Cal Ripken World Series. The company is reported to be the major commercial sponsor


title: "Under Armour" content: for the reality TV show "Duck Dynasty" and has garnered attention for taking a stand supporting show "patriarch" Phil Robertson. Under Armour provided the suits worn by speedskaters in the 2014 Winter Olympics. The US speedskaters were losing while wearing the new Mach 39 speedsuits, but when they reverted to the previous model suits, the skaters continued to lose. Although there did not appear to be a design flaw in the suit that caused the poor results, the news of the suits caused Under Armour stock to drop 2.38%. The company, offering a reported over 10 years, also bid hard


title: "Under Armour" content: over Nike to sign NBA MVP Kevin Durant to an endorsement deal. However, Nike ultimately re-signed Durant after agreeing to structure a contract, offering . On January 21, 2014, it was announced that the University of Notre Dame and Under Armour had come to terms on providing uniforms and athletic equipment for the university. This 10-year deal was the largest of its kind in the history of college athletics and became effective July 1, 2014. As of 2014, Under Armour has operated revenue and operating profit more than 30%, accelerating from their 2013 pace. Its share price has soared 62.5%


title: "Under Armour" content: this year. After its November 2013 acquisition of digital app maker MapMyFitness for , in February 2015 Under Armour announced it had purchased the calorie and nutrition counting app maker MyFitnessPal for $475m, as well as the fitness app maker Endomondo for . On January 6, 2016, Under Armour announced a strategic partnership with IBM to use IBM Watson's cognitive computing technology to provide meaningful data from its IOT kit and UA Record app. On March 3, 2016, the company became the Official Match Ball Partner of the North American Soccer League, starting with their 2016 season. On May 26,


title: "Hogwarts staff" content: and rings. She speaks in a whispy voice and wears thick glasses, which cause her eyes to appear greatly magnified. Her odd classroom in the North Tower of Hogwarts is a cross between "someone's attic and an old-fashioned tea shop"; it can only be reached by climbing to the top of the stairs and then up a ladder through a trapdoor set in the ceiling. This dim, heavily scented, and "stiflingly" warm room often affects students' wakefulness. Professor Trelawney first appears in the third book of the series, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione start divination lessons. The friends generally believe


title: "Port of Oakland" content: of the newly organized Board of Port Commissioners. Under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1922, the project produced the channel thirty feet deep and eight hundred feet wide through the shoal south of Yerba Buena Island narrowing to six hundred feet at the end of the Oakland jetties, widening of the estuary channel to six hundred feet to Webster Street, dredging of the south channel basin to thirty feet and a turning basin, then thirty feet to Park street, at a cost to the federal government of six million dollars. In 1962, the Port of Oakland began to admit


title: "55 Cancri" content: 55 Cancri 55 Cancri ( or ) (abbreviated 55 Cnc) is a binary star approximately 41 light-years away from the Sun in the constellation of Cancer. The system consists of a G-type star (designated 55 Cancri A, also named Copernicus) and a smaller red dwarf (55 Cancri B). , five extrasolar planets (designated 55 Cancri b, c, d, e and f; named Galileo, Brahe, Lipperhey, Janssen and Harriot, respectively) are believed to orbit 55 Cancri A. 55 Cancri is the system's Flamsteed designation. It also bears the Bayer designation ρ¹ Cancri (Latinised to Rho¹ Cancri) and the Bright Star Catalogue


title: "Myrl Shoemaker" content: be the Governor above Interstate 70 and Shoemaker would be the Governor below Interstate 70, the highway that bisects Ohio. Shoemaker died of cancer in 1985 while serving as lieutenant governor. His son Mike Shoemaker succeeded him in the state house, and went on to serve in the Ohio State Senate. The Convocation center on the campus of the University of Cincinnati bears his name. The main arena has been sponsored by Fifth Third Bank since 2005, and is legally named "Fifth Third Arena at Shoemaker Center". Myrl Shoemaker Myrl Howard Shoemaker (April 14, 1913 – July 30, 1985) was


title: "Mike Shoemaker" content: the Ohio General Assembly, Shoemaker opposed the creation of the OSFC, although he served for five years as a non-voting member from 1995 to 2000. Shoemaker and his wife Kathy currently live near Circleville, Ohio. Mike Shoemaker Michael C. "Mike" Shoemaker (born 1945) is an American politician of the Democratic party. He was born in 1945 in Nipgen, Ohio (Ross County). Shoemaker's father, Myrl Shoemaker, was Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. Shoemaker received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and a Master of Education from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began his 10-year teaching


title: Samsonite content: Samsonite Samsonite International S.A. () is a luggage manufacturer and retailer, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, United States. Its registered office is in Luxembourg and it is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado, on March 10, 1910 by Blackhawk, Colorado-born luggage salesman Jesse Shwayder (1882–1970) as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. A religious man, Shwayder named one of his initial cases Samson, after the Biblical strongman, and began using the trademark "Samsonite" in 1941 for its tapered vulcanized


title: Samsonite content: fiber suitcase, introduced in 1939. In 1965 after the Samsonite suitcase became its best-selling product, the company changed its name to SAMSONITE. For many years the subsidiary SAMSONITE Ferniture Co. made folding chairs and card tables in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Shwayder family sold the company to Beatrice Foods in 1973. Samsonite operated with relative independence within Beatrice until 1986, when the company was sold to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Subsequently, the company went through multiple changes of ownership in the 1980s and into the 1990s. First, Samsonite was spun off from KKR as part of E-II, which came under the control


title: Samsonite content: of American Brands. E-II went through bankruptcy and was renamed Astrum International. In 1993, Astrum purchased American Tourister luggage, complementing Samsonite. In 1995, Astrum split, and an independent Samsonite (now including American Tourister) was once again headquartered in Denver. The Denver factory, which employed 4,000 at its peak, closed in May 2001. Samsonite headquarters moved from Denver to Mansfield, Massachusetts, after a change of ownership in May 2005. CVC Capital Partners Ltd. in July 2007 became Samsonite's fifth owner in 21 years. Samsonite moved its US marketing and sales offices from 91 Main Street in Warren, Rhode Island, to Mansfield,


title: Samsonite content: Massachusetts, effective September 1, 2005. In 2005 the company was acquired by Marcello Bottoli, former chief executive of Louis Vuitton as president and CEO, to pull them out of a long slump. Bottoli left the company in 2009. In July 2007 finance investor CVC Capital Partners took over Samsonite for $1.7 billion. On September 2, 2009 Samsonite Company Store LLC (U.S. Retail Division), formally known as Samsonite Company Stores Inc, filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. It planned to close up to 50% of its stores and discontinue the "Black Label" brand in the United States. In June 2011 Samsonite raised US$1.25


title: Samsonite content: billion in an initial public offering in Hong Kong. In August 2012 Samsonite paid $35 million in cash to buy the high-end luggage brand Hartmann, which was founded in 1877. In June 2014, Samsonite agreed to buy technical outdoor backpack brand Gregory Mountain Products from Black Diamond, Inc., for US$85.0 million in cash. In March 2016 Samsonite agreed to buy luxury baggage maker Tumi for $1.8 billion in its largest ever acquisition. Beginning in 1961, Samsonite manufactured and distributed Lego building toys for the North American market under license from the Danish parent firm. A licensing dispute ended the arrangement


title: Samsonite content: in the U.S. in 1972, but Samsonite remained the distributor in Canada until 1986. Albert H. Reckler, then head of Military and export sales for the luggage division, brought the idea of manufacturing and selling Lego in the U.S. to Samsonite. He and Stan A. Clamage were instrumental in establishing the Lego brand in the United States. This was part of an overall company expansion into toy manufacturing in the 1960s that was abandoned in the 1970s. Forty percent of all Samsonite hard luggage is manufactured at its plant in Nashik, India. Samsonite Samsonite International S.A. () is a luggage


title: "Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception" content: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (known as Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception in Europe) is a teen fantasy novel published in 2005, the 4th book in the "Artemis Fowl" series by the Irish author Eoin Colfer. Preceded by "" and followed by "", it is centred on the brilliant pixie Opal Koboi's second try at rebellion (after her was a failure) and Artemis Fowl II and his fairy comrades' efforts to stop her. Critical reception was mixed, with some reviews praising the book but others pointing out confusion and poor writing. Artemis Fowl is


title: "Bristol F.2 Fighter" content: flight testing included the elimination of the end-plates from the lower wing roots and the addition of a shallow coaming around the cockpits. Between 16 and 18 October 1916, the type underwent its official trials at the Central Flying School, Upavon, during which it was tried with both a four-bladed 9 ft 2 in propeller and a two-bladed 9 ft 8 in propeller. By the time of its arrival at the experimental armament station at Orfordness it had also been fitted with a Scarff ring mounting over the rear cockpit and an Aldis optical sight. Only 52 F.2A aircraft were


title: "Hayes Jones" content: Hayes Jones Hayes Wendell Jones (born August 4, 1938) is an American former athlete, winner of the 110 m hurdles event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Born in Starkville, Mississippi, Jones was quite short for a hurdler (only 5 feet and 10 inches), but his outstanding speed, great start, and nearly perfect technique won him many championship titles. Jones burst onto the international athletics scene by winning the hurdles in 1958 AAU championships. He won four more AAU titles: 1960 and 1964 in 110 m hurdles and 1961 and 1963 in hurdles. In 1959, Jones, as an Eastern Michigan University


title: "Telephone line" content: Telephone line A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit within the industry) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. This is the physical wire or other signaling medium connecting the user's telephone apparatus to the telecommunications network, and usually also implies a single telephone number for billing purposes reserved for that user. Telephone lines are used to deliver landline telephone service and Digital subscriber line (DSL) phone cable service to the premises. Telephone overhead lines are connected to the public switched telephone network. In 1878, the Bell Telephone Company began to use two-wire circuits


title: "Telephone line" content: in a single cable using the 25-pair color code. Telephone line A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit within the industry) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. This is the physical wire or other signaling medium connecting the user's telephone apparatus to the telecommunications network, and usually also implies a single telephone number for billing purposes reserved for that user. Telephone lines are used to deliver landline telephone service and Digital subscriber line (DSL) phone cable service to the premises. Telephone overhead lines are connected to the public switched telephone network. In 1878,


title: "Bird nest" content: it has made a crescent-shaped cup. Cup-shaped nest insulation has been found to be related to nest mass, nest wall thickness, nest depth, nest weave density/porosity, surface area, height above ground and elevation above sea level. More recently, nest insulation has been found to be related to the mass of the incubating parent. This is known as an allometric relationship. Nest walls are constructed with an adequate quantity of nesting material so that the nest will be capable of supporting the contents of the nest. Nest thickness, nest mass and nest dimensions therefore correlate with the mass of the adult


title: "Transduction (biophysics)" content: way so that energy is partially "dissipated" at each step. The liberated heat energy serves the homeostasis of the plant, and at the end of the chain the remaining energy is perhaps exactly the one that is needed to build NADP. This process is committed; i.e. there is no return path. Homeostasis, theoretically, might save the day only at the beginning: before the luminic energy transferred to the "chlorophyl pair" is conveyed to the first element of the cytochrome chain, there is a gap in the process when the energy is carried as a series of "excitons". These are now


title: "Takalani Sesame" content: Takalani Sesame Takalani Sesame ("be happy Sesame" in Venda) is the South African version of the children's television program "Sesame Street". Co-produced by Sesame Workshop and South African partners, "Takalani Sesame" is now in its 10th year. "Takalani Sesame" is a uniquely South African interpretation of the Sesame model engaging children and their parents and promoting basic school readiness, literacy, numeracy, and health and hygiene. "Takalani Sesame" also has a special focus on HIV/AIDS awareness and seeks to introduce HIV/AIDS safety while promoting tolerance and reducing stigma. The Takalani series also includes a popular radio program, a newspaper and magazine


title: "Takalani Sesame" content: and Nane Annan have made guest appearances on the show. Takalani Sesame Takalani Sesame ("be happy Sesame" in Venda) is the South African version of the children's television program "Sesame Street". Co-produced by Sesame Workshop and South African partners, "Takalani Sesame" is now in its 10th year. "Takalani Sesame" is a uniquely South African interpretation of the Sesame model engaging children and their parents and promoting basic school readiness, literacy, numeracy, and health and hygiene. "Takalani Sesame" also has a special focus on HIV/AIDS awareness and seeks to introduce HIV/AIDS safety while promoting tolerance and reducing stigma. The Takalani series


title: "Heart Oxfordshire" content: air. Despite being part of GCap since 2005, it retained the logo devised by Capital until September 2007, although its logo after that date was more in keeping with other One Network stations. Originally, its logo was a cartoon fox called "Freddy" whose nose and tail were poking out onto a radio dial which became highly recognisable in the Oxford area as it was distributed widely on car window stickers. Fox FM rewarded notable people from the local area in their annual 'Local Heroes' awards. In 2003, four winners received accolades - including Young Person, Local Hero and Special Award.