The Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project (CDP) began on 8 February 2008 to deepen the shipping channels leading to Melbourne, Australia.

The project was to deepen channels in Port Phillip to  draught to allow greater access for container ships. An estimated A$969 million was to be spent on the works, with $150 million funded by taxpayers. The dredging works were conducted by Dutch company Royal Boskalis Westminster for the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC), a statutory body established by the Victorian Government responsible for the running of the port, at a cost of $500 million and was expected to be completed before 31 December 2009, pending auditor reports and various legal actions against the project. This project was to be conducted under a controversial Public-Private-Partnership.

Operating almost 24 hours a day, the project involved the removal of approximately 22.9 million m3 (810 million cu ft) of sand, fine river silt (including about around 3 million m3 (110 million cu ft) of contaminated sediment). The material removed was transported to designated "dump sites". According to numerous scientists, community representatives, environmental and community groups, the dredging would disturb marine plant, animal and microbial life through large areas of the bay.

The project caused significant controversy among many communities throughout the Victorian population, and was strongly opposed by scientists such as biologists and geologists, the CSIRO, university academics and scientists including Monash University, and many groups representing the community including the Dive Industry of Victoria, the Victorian Greens, the Australian Peak Shippers' Association, and the Victorian National Parks Association. The amalgamated community group Blue Wedges held public rallies and several pickets from 2004 to 2008, involving surfers, canoes, kayaks, boats and yachts who put themselves in the path of the dredging ship Queen of the Netherlands, which delayed the project for a time. The project eventually began, although under limited conditions, after Blue Wedges won a reprieve in the Federal Court. The limited conditions were stripped from 28 March 2008 after ensuing legal proceedings saw the Blue Wedges case dismissed. Legal costs were pursued by the state government.

In 2009 the Victorian Auditor-General's report was released . The Auditor-General sourced information on what percentage of ships could and could not enter the bay, from the Port of Melbourne exclusively, who had twice previously overestimated the number of ships that could not enter the bay prior to dredging. In contrast, in the Drewry Report, the more accurate calculation of ships that were not loading to full capacity in Melbourne was calculated to be between 10% and 4% -- this Drewry Report was commissioned by the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC previously VCA) in 2001, but was not made accessible to the public until the Victorian Greens obtained it under a Freedom of Information request in 2005—the Drewry Report concluded that, were the channel deepening project to be completely cancelled, the economic loss from this small percentage of ships unable to load to capacity would be in the vicinity of $13 million, rather than the $30 million that had previously been claimed by PoMC. Furthermore, the Drewry Report also concluded that a dredge of 0.5 metres would be sufficient for 96% of vessels, and the PoMC's planned dredge to 2.5 metres depth was "extreme" and "potentially disastrous" and expensive and unnecessary. In addition, almost all of the shipping companies that use Melbourne's ports stated that there was no need for dredging or channel deepening in the bay or around the ports.

The government announced the completion of works in November 2009, ahead of schedule and $200 million under budget.

The project
The Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project was carried out by Dutch dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster for the Port of Melbourne Corporation. The PoMC also sought the assistance of Boskalis Australia Pty Ltd, a daughter company of Royal Boskalis Westminster.

Prior to the completion of the works, ships entering the Port of Melbourne were restricted to  draught ( at high tide). Larger container ships instead need  to carry full loads. The PoMC estimated that in the 2006-07 financial year, 38.5% of ships visiting the port was already potentially affected by draught limitations because the channel did not allow for the extra depth, with this figure rising to 44.3% in the December quarter of 2007. The key objective of the Channel Deepening Project was to address these draught restrictions.

Project areas

The PoMC has specified four project 'areas' of the bay to be completed progressively.

Yarra River and Hobsons Bay

North of Bay

The second area to be dredged, dredging was expected to begin in this area but was delayed after a court injunction, with dredging instead beginning in the south of the bay.

South of bay

The first area to be dredged under limited conditions specified in a court injunction.

The Entrance

The Entrance was argued to be one of the more sensitive areas of Port Phillip Bay to be dredged, after a rockfall incident that occurred during trial dredging in 2005.

Disposal of dredged material

Materials dredged in Port Phillip were disposed of in two areas.

Contaminated dredged material from the Port Melbourne, Williamstown and Yarra River channels was disposed of in the existing Port of Melbourne Dredge Material Ground (DMG), which covers an area of about  (or approximately 0.48% of the total bay area). The site was expected to be extended to the south by an area of  (or approximately 0.14% of the bay) to accommodate the dredged material volumes as a result of the dredging project as well as to accommodate dredged material volumes from future maintenance dredging.

Uncontaminated dredged material from the South Channel and the Great Ship Channel was to be disposed of in a dredged material ground yet to be built in the south east part of the bay, expected to cover an area of  (or approximately 0.39% of the bay area).

Those materials which are contaminated were to be stored in an underwater clay containment area known as a 'bund' at the existing Port of Melbourne DMG, and capped with clean dredged sand.

Environmental management
Various environmental monitoring activities must be carried out by the PoMC as stipulated in the Environmental Management Plan (EMP)
Turbidity monitoring

A new, risk-based approach to setting limits on turbidity so as to protect seagrasses in the southern regions of the Bay was developed by Environmetrics Australia. Six-hourly Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) control charts and 2-week moving average control charts were also developed by Environmetrics Australia. These calculation tools provide, respectively, an early warning capability and an assessment of the likelihood that minimum light requirements for seagrasses will be maintained.

Office of the Environmental Monitor

In 2007, the Office of the Environmental Monitor, an independent government body, was established to scrutinize the environmental proceedings of the project, in particular, to make sure that the project conforms to the EMP. The objectives of the independent body were to "Be accessible to all stakeholders and the community; Scrutinise, report and advise on the Project’s environmental performance in an independent and transparent way; Communicate all available information on the Project’s environmental performance in a timely manner to stakeholders and the community."

Environmental Protection Authority
Monitoring Tool

The use of a robust monitoring tool in providing accurate and timely information was an important aspect of the project. SRA Information Technology provided its EnviroSys software as the tool whereby turbidity monitoring and vessel tracking could occur in real time. Early warning alerts could be generated by the monitoring tool to inform when predefined exceedance levels had been triggered.

Project approval
Cooperating with the Environment Effects Act 1978, the PoMC released its Environmental Effects Statement (EES), a report on the environmental, economic and social impacts of the channel deepening project, on 5 July 2004. The EES was available for public viewing until 16 August 2004 and an independent panel sat from 21 September to 17 December 2004 to hear submissions and consider the environmental effects and issues raised in the EES. In February 2005, the independent panel released their report on the EES, presenting 137 key aspects of the EES which needed building on. These included further examination of channel deepening designs; investigation of dredging technology; investigation of best methods of sediment disposal, and examination of turbidity. The panel's recommendations led to the Trial Dredge Program (TDP) that took place from 6 August 2005.

Consequently, on 31 March 2005, the then Minister for Planning Rob Hulls announced that the PoMC would be required to carry out a Supplementary Environmental Effects Statement (SEES) to further investigate the environmental impact of the dredging project and address its shortcomings. Hulls said the SEES would "build upon the EES process to date" and would be "based upon the key areas outlined by the panel and allow for further expert analysis". On 21 March 2007 the PoMC released its Supplementary Environment Effects Statement (SEES) for public viewing until 7 May.

The EES and the SEES culminated in the Environmental Management Plan (EMP), a report prepared by the PoMC consisting of "regulatory controls, environmental controls, project delivery standards and environmental monitoring" for the channel deepening project. On 5 February 2008, Environment Minister Peter Garrett approved of the EMP.

Timeline

2004
July
5 July - The Environmental Effects Statement (EES) is released by the PoMc for public viewing until 16 August.
The PoMC enters into alliance with Royal Boskalis Westminster.
21 September - An independent panel sits until 17 December to hear submissions and consider the environmental effects and issues raised in the EES.

2005
February - The EES Panel Report presents 137 recommendations regarding the EES.
31 March - Minister for Planning Rob Hulls announces that the PoMC are required to carry out a Supplementary Environmental Effects Statement (SEES).
5 August - A Blue Wedges injunction to stop the trial dredging fails as the objection is dismissed by the Supreme Court of Victoria.
6 August - The A$32 million nine-week Trial Dredge Program (TDP) carried out by the Queen of the Netherlands begins.
A rockfall incident occurs at an area known as the Canyon at The Heads, with the PoMC stating that the rockfall is minor and damage is minimal and temporary.
30 September - Trial dredging ends two weeks ahead of schedule and within budget.

2007
21 March - The Supplementary Environment Effects Statement (SEES) is released for public viewing by the PoMC until 7 May.
4 April - Minister for Planning at the time, Justin Madden, announces the members of the panel the independent panel that will consider the SEES for the dredging project.
May - Blue Wedges releases its submission to the Supplementary Environment Effects Statement.
 Days before the Inquiry Panel is due to adjourn, the PoMC presents documents stating that the rockfall of August 2005 was in fact much larger than initially reported with , or approximately  of rock, falling down the canyon wall, damaging sealife inside the canyon.
December
Victorian Minister for Environment and Climate Change Gavin Jennings gives the project approval under the Coastal Management Act 1995.
Federal Minister for Environment Peter Garrett gives the project approval to proceed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
5 December - Blue Wedges wins the right to challenge Environment Minister Peter Garrett's right to sign off on the dredging project, with the plan to take the matter to the Federal Court in January 2008.

2008
15 January - The Federal Court of Australia dismisses the Blue Wedges claim.
17 January - The Black Marlin transport ship enters Port Phillip carrying equipment to assist with dredging.
18 January - The Queen of the Netherlands leaves Singapore on its journey to Melbourne.
29 January
The Queen of the Netherlands docks at the South Wharf in Melbourne at 11:00 am after entering the heads. Approximately 25 protest boats tail it as is enters the heads and a smaller group gather on the shore at the mouth of the Yarra River and paddle on kayaks and surfboards as the ship passes under the West Gate Bridge. Seven protesters are arrested for endangering their lives after breaching maritime safety regulations.
Victorian Premier John Brumby confirms the cost of the actual dredging as $500 million (approximately €300 million). This comes after Royal Boksalis Westminster provided the figure to the European stock exchange Euronext.
30 January - Blue Wedges wins a reprieve in the Federal Court with a hearing date of 20 February 2008.
Premier of Victoria John Brumby made an emotional plea for the Victorian public to support the project and declared that Melbourne risks becoming "a backwater like Adelaide" and that Melbourne "would die a slow death" if dredging in Port Phillip Bay did not go ahead.
5 February - Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett approves the dredging project after reviewing the Environmental Management Plan (EMP). He announces new conditions, including monitoring of water and tidal currents and contaminated sediment not being able to escape from the dredger.
6 February - Negotiations are held between Blue Wedges and the Port of Melbourne Corporation. Limited operations are allowed to commence on 8 February until the hearing date of 20 February. The limited conditions, specified in a court order, state that only one million cubic metres (to a depth of ) can be dredged in an  zone in the southern channel (the PoMC had planned dredging the north of the bay first). The dredged material is to be deposited in a designated area about  off Mount Martha.
8 February
Limited dredging by the Queen of the Netherlands begins in the southern end of the bay off Rye at 8:30 am.
The Queen of the Netherlands is tailed by Blue Wedges.
 At about 8:15 am, ten activists on surfboards and five in kayaks from the protest group Operation Quarrantine breached the  exclusion zone (which states that "bathing, diving and the operation (including anchoring, mooring or allowing a vessel or craft to lie) of vessels and craft, are prohibited within 200 metres of the Queen of the Netherlands whilst that vessel is under way around the Queen of the Netherlands) in an attempt to stop it, with the Dredge coming to a stop only metres from the protesters. Two activists are detained by police. Channel deepening is delayed by 40 minutes while the protesters are cleared. All were reportedly fined $176.
17 February - About 1, 000 protesters congregate near Rosebud Pier to protest against the dredging operation.
21 February - The Federal Court of Australia adjourns Blue Wedges' case against the dredging of Port Phillip until 3 March. Limited dredging is allowed to continue during this time.

28 February - The Legislative Council of the Parliament of Victoria decide to examine the economic case for the dredging project after growing concerns about the project's financial benefit. The motion is put forward by the Greens MP Sue Pennicuik.
28 March - The Federal Court of Australia dismisses the Blue Wedges case against Peter Garrett approval of the project, with justice Tony North putting forward that Blue Wedges had not established that he failed to act within the law. Justice North maintains that "It is not the function of the court to make a judgement as to whether the channel deepening is a good thing or a bad thing or whether it is harmful to the environment or not", only whether the Garrett acted within the bounds of the law.
5 April
Dredging by the Queen of the Netherlands begins at The Entrance.
200 protesters gather on each side of The Entrance (at Point Nepean and Point Lonsdale) and boats, power-skis and surfboards. Police issue seven infringement notices to members of protest group Operation Quarantine for breaching the exclusion zone around the ship and lighting flares.
24 April - Dredging begins in the Yarra River by the grab dredge Goomai.

2009
26 November - the State Government announces the completion of works, ahead of schedule and $200 million under budget.

Environmental impact
The principal concern of the project lies in its potential for severe long-term environmental consequences. On this front, major opposition to the project has come from the community group Blue Wedges, a coalition of over 65 environmental groups, which legally challenged the PoMC and the Victorian Government and was subsequently forced into bankruptcy due to the pursuit of legal costs by the state government .

During trial dredging in 2005, a rockfall incident occurred in an area of The Heads known as the Canyon, which caused some of the rock in this area to scour and disintegrate. Much of the Port Phillip heads falls under the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park due to its significant marine diversity and marine geological formations.

Cost and economic benefits
In 1997, the cost of the project was estimated at $100 million. In 2001, the projected cost was estimated at around $200 million to $230 million and in 2004 it rose from $337 million in June to $498 million in August to $545 million in September. In 2006 in March 2007, the cost of the project was projected at $763 million and in 2008 it rose to $969 million.

Also, the $500 million cost of the actual dredging work carried out by Royal Boskalis Westminster was claimed to have been kept secret by the Victorian Government and the PoMC, who entered into alliance with Royal Boskalis Westminster in 2004, for at least for 3 years. Under Victorian legislation passed in 2000, all contracts worth more than $10 million must be published - the cost of the dredging was above this at the time, yet details were not released.

The PoMC estimates that the direct economic benefits as a result of the dredging are $2 billion. However, a study commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation (carried out by Melbourne-based firm Economists at Large) raised questions about the economic benefits of the project. The study reported that the basis upon which the economic benefits were originally calculated had drastically changed, with given rising costs and legal proceedings, concluding it was no longer economically viable:

References

External links
Port of Melbourne Corporation
Channel Project - PoMC's official site for information about the channel deepening project including environmental management, project approval and benefits, media releases and dredging schedules and locations
Office of the Environmental Monitor - Independent government environmental management monitor
Environmetrics Australia - Specialist Environmental Statistical Consultants responsible for risk-based turbidity monitoring program
SRA Information Technology - Environmental monitoring software solutions
Royal Boskalis Westminster
Blue Wedges - Anti-dredging group
Operation Quarrantine - Anti-dredging group
Save our Bay - Anti-dredging group
Bay Vigil - Anti-dredging group
Review of the Channel Deepening Project, EPA Victoria
Australian Conservation Foundation - Channel Deepening Project - review of the Channel Deepening Project
Department of Planning and Community Development - documents pertaining to the Channel Deepening Project

Channel Deepening Project Documents
SEES Report
Blue Wedges submission to SEES
Environmental Management Plan
Environmental Management Plan (Revision 1)
Environmental Management Plan (Revision 2)
Summary of changes between EMP 1 and 2

2008 in Australia
Transport in Melbourne
Water transport in Australia
Port Phillip
Environment of Victoria (state)
Port of Melbourne


The Life of the Party is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Neal McCoy. Released in 1999, it contains the singles "I Was" and "The Girls of Summer", which peaked at #37 and #42, respectively, on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts that year. "Straighten up and Fly Right" is a cover of a Nat King Cole song.

Track listing

Personnel
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
Thom Flora – background vocals
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
Jim Horn – saxophone
John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards
Paul Leim – drums
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Neal McCoy- lead vocals
Gene Miller – background vocals
Steve Nathan – keyboards
Donny Parenteau – fiddle
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
Tom Roady – percussion
Chris Rodriguez – background vocals
Harry Stinson – background vocals
Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – six string electric bass
Dennis Wilson – background vocals
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Curtis Young – background vocals

Chart performance

1999 albums
Atlantic Records albums
Neal McCoy albums
Albums produced by Kyle Lehning


The Gușoianca is a right tributary of the river Pesceana in Romania. It flows into the Pesceana in Streminoasa. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Vâlcea County


24-7-365 is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It is also his only album for Giant Records following the closure of his previous label, Atlantic Records. Singles from this album include "Forever Works for Me" (re-titled "Forever Works for Me (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)" partway through its chart run), "Every Man for Himself", and "Beatin' It In", which all charted on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2000.

Track listing
Writers per liner notes.

Charts

References

2000 albums
Neal McCoy albums
Giant Records (Warner) albums


Cristiano is an Italian and Portuguese form of the male given name Christian.

Cristiano may also refer to:

 Cris (footballer, born 1977), Cristiano Marques Gomes, Brazilian footballer and manager
 Cris (footballer, born 1979), Cristiano Lima da Silva, Brazilian footballer
 Cris (footballer, born 1980), Cristiano Alves Pereira, Brazilian-born Togolese footballer
 Cristiano (footballer, born 1976), Cristiano Rocha Canedo Roland, Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano (footballer, born 1981), Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues, Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano (footballer, born 1983), Cristiano Moraes de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano (footballer, born 1987), Cristiano da Silva Santos, Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano (footballer, born 1990), Cristiano Pereira Figueiredo, German-born Portuguese footballer
 Cristiano Alves, Brazilian clarinetist
 Cristiano Amon (born 1970), Brazilian electrical engineer
 Cristiano André, Angolan judge
 Cristiano Andrei (born 1973), Italian discus thrower
 Cristiano Araújo (1986-2015), Brazilian singer-songwriter
 Cristiano Ávalos (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Bacci (born 1975), Italian footballer and coach
 Cristiano Banti (1824–1904), Italian genre and landscape painter
 Cristiano Bergodi (born 1964), Italian footballer and manager
 Cristiano Biraghi (born 1992), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Bortone (born 1968), Italian director, screenwriter and producer
 Cristiano Caccamo (born 1989), Italian actor
 Cristiano Camillucci (born 1981), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Caratti (born 1970), Italian tennis player
 Cristiano Castelfranchi (born 1944), Italian associate researcher
 Cristiano Citton (born 1974), Italian track cyclist
 Cristiano Corazzari (born 1975), Italian politician
 Cristiano Cordeiro (born 1973), Brazilian-born Hong Kong footballer
 Cristiano da Matta (born 1973), Brazilian racing driver
 Cristiano da Silva (born 1987), Brazilian footballer
 Cris Silva (born 1993), Cristiano da Silva Leite, Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Dal Sasso (born 1965), Italian paleontologist
 Cristiano Del Grosso (born 1983), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Dias (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Doni (born 1973), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Farinelli (17th century), Italian composer and violinist
 Cristiano Felício (born 1992), Brazilian basketball player
 Cristiano Ficco (born 2001), Italian weightlifter
 Cristiano Fitzgerald (born 2003), Singaporean-born Irish footballer
 Cristiano Fumagalli (born 1984), Italian road cyclist
 Cristiano Gimelli (born 1982), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730-1793), Austrian composer
 Cristiano Godano (born 1966), Italian musician and author
 Cristiano Gomes (disambiguation), several people
 Cristiano Júnior (1979-2004), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Lombardi (born 1995), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Lopes (born 1978), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Lucarelli (born 1975), Italian footballer and manager
 Cristiano Luís Rodrigues or Asprilla (footballer, born 1981), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Lupatelli (born 1978), Italian footballer and coach
 Cristiano Machado (1893– 1953), Brazilian politician
 Cristiano Malgioglio (born 1945), Italian composer
 Cristiano Marcello (born 1977), Brazilian mixed martial artist
 Cristiano Michelena (born 1971), Brazilian swimmer
 Cristiano Migliorati (born 1968), Italian motorcycle racer
 Cristiano Monguzzi (born 1985), Italian racing cyclist
 Cristiano Morgado (born 1979), South African racing driver
 Cristiano Novembre (born 1987), Italian football goalkeeper
 Cristiano Parreiro (born 1979), Portuguese futsal player
 Cristiano Pascoal (born 1992), Portuguese footballer
 Cristiano Pereira de Souza or Brasília (born 1977), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Piccini (born 1992), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Ronaldo (born 1985), Portuguese footballer
 Cristiano Ruiu (born 1979), Brazilian sports journalist
 Cristiano Salerno (born 1985), Italian road cyclist
 Cristiano Scazzola (born 1971), Italian footballer and coach
 Cristiano Sergipano (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Souza (born 1982), Brazilian mixed martial artist
 Cristiano Spirito (born 1992), Italian footballer
 Cristiano Testa (born 1973), Brazilian tennis player
 Cristiano Teixeira (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Vidal (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
 Cristiano Vasconcelos (born 1989), Portuguese footballer
 Cristiano Zanetti (born 1977), Italian footballer and coach

See also
 Cristiano Otoni, Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais
 Christianno, Brazilian footballer
 Christian (disambiguation)
 Cristiano (surname)

Masculine given names


Uncelen, Uncelin, or Uncilin (from Latin Uncelenus; died c. 613) was the Duke of Alemannia from 587 to 607. He was appointed to replace Leutfred by the Austrasian king Childebert II.

On Childebert's death in 595, the Thurgau, Kembsgau, and Alsace passed to the Kingdom of Burgundy, then under the rule of Theuderic II.

In 605 Theuderic went to war with his brother Theudebert II, who ruled Austrasia. His army, which did not wish to go to war, he placed under the command of his majordomo Protadius with instructions to induce the soldiers to fight. The next year (606) at Quierzy-sur-Oise, Theuderic re-assembled the army, but the men once again refused to fight their countrymen and the king ordered Uncelen to coerce them. Uncelen, however, declared that the king had ordered the Protadius' death. The despised majordomo was killed by the warriors and the king was forced to sign a treaty. Queen Brunhilda, who had induced Theuderic to war, had Uncelen's foot cut off. According to the Lex Alamannorum, a duke was only eligible for office if he could mount a horse. Being unable to continue exercising his office, Uncelen was removed.

Sources

Fuchs, Karlheinz; Kempa, Martin; Redies, Rainer. Die Alamannen (Ausstellungskatalog). Stuttgart: Verlag Theiß, 2001. .
Geuenich, Dieter. Geschichte der Alemannen. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2004. .

Alemannic monarchs
613 deaths
7th-century dukes in Europe
7th-century Frankish nobility
Year of birth unknown


Momentum is 3-D planar EM simulation software for electronics and antenna analysis, a partial differential equation solver of Maxwell's equations based on the method of moments. It is a 3-D planar electromagnetic (EM) simulator used for passive circuit analysis.

It combines full-wave and quasi-static EM solvers to provide insight into EM behavior of MMIC, RFIC, RF Board, Signal Integrity, and antenna designs. The Momentum simulation engine is integrated into Keysight ADS and Keysight Genesys.

It was originally developed by a Belgian company, Alphabit, a spinoff from the Electromagnetics Group of Ghent University and IMEC. Early contributors to the technology include Niels Faché, Jan Van Hese, Frank Libbrecht, Jeannick Sercu, Luc Vandormael, Mieke Herreman, Peter Kok, Tom Dhaene and Krist Blomme.

The company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard, later it became part of Agilent Technologies and since November 2014 it is part of Keysight Technologies EEsof division, the current owners.

References

Numerical differential equations
Electronic design automation software


This is a chronological list of Iraq War-related documentaries.

List
 In Shifting Sands (2001)
 Back to Babylon (2002)
 About Baghdad (2003)
 Baghdad or Bust (2004)
 Control Room (2004)
 Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories (2004)
 Iraq Raw: The Tuttle Tapes (2004)
 Last Letters Home (2004)
 Soldiers Pay (2004)
 Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)
 Voices of Iraq (2004)
 War Feels Like War (2004)
 War with Iraq: Stories from the Front (2004)
 We Iraqis (2004)
 Alpha Company: Iraq Diary (2005)
 American Soldiers (2005)
 Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope (2005)
 The Dreams of Sparrows (2005)
 Gunner Palace (2005)
 In the Shadow of the Palms (2005)
 Iraqi War: The Untold Stories (2005)
 Occupation: Dreamland (2005)
 Off to War: From Rural Arkansas to Iraq (2005)
 Why We Fight (2005)
 Baghdad ER (2006)
 The Corporal's Boots (2006)
 The Ground Truth (2006)
 Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
 Iraq in Fragments (2006)
 My Country, My Country (2006)
 Nice Bombs (2006)
 No Substitute / Victory: Vietnam to Iraq (2006)
 Shadow Company (2006)
 The War Tapes (2006)
 When I Came Home (2006)
 Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007)
 Body of War (2007)
 Buying the War (2007)
 Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
 I Am an American Soldier (2007)
 Jerebek (2007)
 No End in Sight (2007)
 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007)
 This Is War: Memories of Iraq (2007)
 Three Soldiers (2007)
 Year at Danger (2007)
 PBS Frontline: Bad Voodoo's War (2008)
 Bulletproof Salesman (2008)
 Changing Us (2008)
 The Corporal's Diary: 38 Days in Iraq (2008)
 Leading to War (2008)
 Fighting for Life (2008)
 Lioness (2008)
 My Vietnam, Your Iraq (2008)
 Reserved to Fight (2008)
 Brothers at War (2009)
 Triangle of Death (2009)
 Poster Girl (2010)
 This is War (2010)
 The Tillman Story (2010)
 The Unreturned (2010)
 The War You Don't See (2010)
 The Iraq War: Regime Change (2013)
Only the Dead (Australian documentary, 2015)
Apache Warrior (Netflix documentary film, 2017)
Medal of Honor (Netflix TV series, 2018)
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020)
 that which i love destroys me (2015)
 Life After War: Iraq  (2022)

References

External links
 List with summaries and links to some videos

Doco
Lists of documentaries


Super Roots 5 is the fourth installment in the Super Roots EP series by noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1995 by Warner Music Japan.

There was never a Super Roots 4 released due to some sort of conflict with a record label (rather than the popularly cited superstition about the number in Japanese culture).

Track listing

References

Boredoms EPs
1995 EPs


That's Life is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was released on August 23, 2005 on his own 903 Music label. Three singles were released from this album: "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", the first of these three, reached #10 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2005, becoming McCoy's first Top Ten hit since "The Shake" in 1997. "The Last of a Dying Breed" peaked at #35, while "Tail on the Tailgate" failed to chart. Also included here is a live rendition of "Hillbilly Rap", the original version of which was an album cut from his 1996 self-titled album.

Track listing
"Got Mud" (Monty Criswell, Jerrod Niemann) – 2:51
"Intro (General Tommy Franks)" – 0:45
spoken-word intro to "The Last of a Dying Breed", recited by Tommy Franks
"The Last of a Dying Breed" (Tommy Connors, Don Rollins, D. Vincent Williams) – 3:02
"That's Life" (Eric Silver, Matt Rollings) – 4:10
"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" (Philip White, Michael Mobley) – 3:38
"That's a Picture" (Bryan Simpson, Wade Kirby, Ashley Gorley) – 3:04
"You Let Me Be the Hero" (Silver, Rodney Clawson) – 3:46
"Tail on the Tailgate" (Brian Gene White, Tania Hancheroff, Clawson) – 4:00
"Tails I Lose" (Silver, Neal McCoy) – 3:46
"Jessie" (Jeremy Campbell, McCoy, Donny Hackett) – 3:52
"You're My Jamaica" (Kent Robbins) – 3:45
featuring Charley Pride
"Head South" (Darrell Scott) – 2:40
"Hillbilly Rap (Live)" (Lord Burgess, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, William Attawar, Paul Henning) – 6:31

A special CD-ROM track of "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" is also available on some presses of the album.

Personnel
David Angell - violin
Steve Auburn - fiddle, background vocals
Bekka Bramlett - background vocals
Bob Britt - electric guitar
Matt Britton - steel drums
Chuck Butler - drum programming
David Davidson - violin
Scott Dixon - electric guitar
Tommy Franks - introduction on track 2
Sonny Garrish - steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Wes Hightower - background vocals
Mark Hill - bass guitar
Wayne Killius - drums, percussion
Anthony LaMarchina - cello
Troy Lancaster - electric guitar
Brent Mason - electric guitar
Lynn Massey - drums, background vocals
Neal McCoy - lead vocals
Shane McDaniel - steel guitar, background vocals
Jerry McPherson - electric guitar
Lorne O'Neil - bass guitar, background vocals
Charley Pride - vocals on "You're My Jamaica"
Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
Jeffrey Roach - Hammond organ, synthesizer
Tom Roady - percussion
Lou Rodriguez - acoustic guitar, background vocals
Mike Rojas - Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer
Matt Rollings - piano
Eric Silver - banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, shaker, background vocals, wah wah guitar
Pamela Sixfin - violin
Todd Stewart - keyboards
Bryan White - background vocals
Kristen Wilkinson - string arrangements, viola
Andrea Zonn - background vocals

Chart performance

References

2005 albums
Neal McCoy albums


IOCC may refer to:

 Interception of Communications Commissioner
 International Orthodox Christian Charities
 Iron Ore Company of Canada


High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a flexible, scalable, policy-based, software-defined Hierarchical Storage Management product developed by the HPSS Collaboration.  It provides scalable hierarchical storage management (HSM), archive, and file system services using cluster, LAN and SAN technologies to aggregate the capacity and performance of many computers, disks, disk systems, tape drives, and tape libraries.

Architecture
HPSS supports a variety of methods for accessing and creating data.  Among them are support for FTP, parallel FTP, FUSE (Linux), as well as a robust client API with support for parallel I/O.

As of version 7.5, HPSS has full support on Linux.  The HPSS client API is supported on AIX, Linux, and Solaris.

The implementation is built around IBM's Db2, a scalable relational database management system.

The HPSS Collaboration
In early 1992, several United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories — Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Los Alamos (LANL), Oak Ridge (ORNL), and Sandia (SNL) — joined with IBM to form the National Storage Laboratory (NSL). The NSL's purpose was to commercialize software and hardware technologies that would overcome computing and data storage bottlenecks. The NSL's research on data storage gave birth to the collaboration which produces HPSS. This collaboration began in the fall of 1992 and involved IBM's Houston Global Services and five DOE national labs (Lawrence Berkeley [LBL], LLNL, LANL, ORNL, and SNL). At that time, the HPSS design team at the DOE national laboratories and IBM recognized there would be a data storage explosion driven by computing power rising to teraflops/petaflops requiring data stored in HSMs to rise to petabytes and beyond, data transfer rates with the HSM to rise to gigabytes/s and higher, and daily throughput with a HSM in tens of terabytes per day. Therefore, the collaboration set out to design and deploy a system that would scale by a factor of 1,000 or more and evolve from the base above toward these expected targets and beyond.

The HPSS collaboration is based on the premise that no single organization has the experience and resources to meet all the challenges represented by the growing imbalance between computing power and data collection capabilities, and storage system I/O, capacity, and functionality. Over twenty organizations worldwide including industry, US Department of Energy (DOE), other federal laboratories, universities, National Science Foundation (NSF) supercomputer centers, French Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), and Gleicher Enterprises have contributed to various aspects of this effort.

As of 2022, the primary HPSS development team consists of:
 IBM Global Business Services (Houston, TX)
 Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM)
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA)
 Lawrence Berkeley National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (Berkeley, CA)
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN)
 Sandia National Laboratory (Albuquerque, NM)

Notable achievements

 Two of the larger HPSS sites, ECMWF and UK Met Office, had 217 and 99 petabytes of data stored within a single HPSS instance and namespace as of December 7, 2016.
 On November 14, 2007, the San Diego Supercomputer Center along with IBM, DataDirect, and Brocade demonstrated a "Billion File" test which successfully backed up a billion files from GPFS into HPSS.
 In May 2013 a 380 Petabyte HPSS installation entered service at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

References

IBM storage devices
Storage software


The following is a list of the most populous municipalities in North Macedonia. The total population of North Macedonia in 2002 was 2,022,547.

Municipalities over 20,000 population

North Macedonia is divided into 80 municipalities, out of which 34 have seats in cities or towns, 37 have seats in villages, and 10 make up Greater Skopje. The following lists municipalities in North Macedonia that have a population of at least 20,000.

Population distribution

See also
List of municipalities in North Macedonia

External links
2002 census results (PDF)

Municipalities
List
North Macedonia


is a Japanese television drama originally aired by TV Asahi from June to September 2006. The series centers on three high school students involved in their school's cross-dressing princess system, and was loosely based on the manga Princess Princess by Mikiyo Tsuda.

Plot
Fujimori Academy is an elite all-boys boarding school with a unique Princess system: each year three freshmen are chosen to become the school princesses, attending school functions and cheering the clubs and teams dressed as girls to the spirits of the students, who are not able to regularly see girls in the school grounds.

Mikoto Yutaka is one of the chosen for Princess duty in his junior year, along with students Yujiro Shihoudani and Tooru Kouno. At first very contrary to joining the Princess system, Mikoto is eventually convinced by the other Princesses. But just as Mikoto is reluctantly accepting his role, the mysterious Otoya Hanazono transfers into the school. Dissatisfied with the current Princesses' half-hearted efforts and accusing the Student Council of being neglectful of the students' wishes, Otoya creates his own team (the Dark Princesses) to rival the Princesses, and nominates himself candidate for the New School Council.

Mikoto is caught in the fight between Otoya and the current Student Council, unsure of which side to stand for. He also has to deal with his conflicting feelings towards Otoya, and how they affect both his friendship with Yujiro and Tooru and his loyalty to the Princess system. In this process, he comes to understand the true meaning of being a Princess, and finally embraces his role, putting his man's pride aside in favor of the Princesses' pride.

Cast
 Kenta Kamakari as Mikoto Yutaka
 Ray Fujita as Yuujirou Shihoudani
 Takeru Satoh as Touru Kouno
 Yuichi Nakamura as Otoya Hanazono
 Kento Shibuya as Kurou Minamoto
 Kazuma as Ranta Mori
 Takumi Saito as Shuuya Arisada
 Osamu Adachi as Akira Sakamoto
 Hideo Ishiguro as Haruka Kujouin
 Shota Minami as Masayuki Koshino
 Haruhiko Sato as Wataru Harue
 Hiroshi Yoshihara as Takahiro Tadasu
 Kohei Yamamoto as Kaoru Natashou

Adaptations
The live action version of the Princess Princess series differs in many points from its manga and anime counterparts, the most significant changes being the main character and the Black Princesses. In the manga and anime versions, Tooru is the protagonist, while in the drama series the focus is on Mikoto. The Black Princesses were original characters created by the manga author exclusively for the drama version.

The drama also excluded all female characters, including Mikoto's girlfriend. That relationship was exchanged for one
heavy on boys love overtones between Mikoto and Otoya.

Episodes

Media
A series of character-related merchandise items was released through the series' original run, including theme songs performed by the actors.

Visual
 Official Photo Album Princess Princess D
 Released August 2006,
 Princess Princess D Making Book
 Released October 2006,

Music
 Princess Princess D Character Song Series Vol.1: Treasure - Hime (Kenta Kamakari, Ray Fujita & Takeru Satoh)
 1. Treasure
 2.

 Princess Princess D Character Song Series Vol.2: Shiawase no Yokan - Kurohime (Yuichi Nakamura, Kento Shibuya & Kazuma)
 1.
 2.

 Princess Princess D Character Song Series Vol.3: Hateshinaku sumiwataru sora no mukou mezashite - Kenta Kamakari
 1.
 2.

 Princess Princess D Character Song Series Vol.4: Raindrops - Ray Fujita
 1.
 2.

 Princess Princess D Character Song Series Vol.5: YES! - Takeru Satoh
 1.
 2.

External links
 Pony Canyon release website
 Japanese Wikipedia article on プリンセス・プリンセス

Japanese drama television series
Japanese high school television series
Japanese LGBT-related television shows
TV Asahi television dramas
2006 Japanese television series debuts
2006 Japanese television series endings
Television series about teenagers

ja:プリンセス・プリンセス (漫画)


Stephen A. Love (born May 19, 1950 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States) is an American eight times RIAA award winning Gold, Platinum and Multi platinum American entertainer, expert senior construction manager, country rock pioneer, multi-instrumentalist musician, lead singer, songwriter, producer, entertainment business promoter, CEO of the James Allen Promotions and Blue Jeans Music BMI. He lives near New York City and in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.

Love has multiple references in the old and new Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, The Great Rock Discography by Martin C. Strong, Cuts from a San Francisco Rock Journal by Debora Hill, San Francisco Rock by Jack McDonough with the NRPS, "Desperados" The Roots of Country Rock, "Blues Network Greece" by Michael Liminios "BAM" Bay Area Music, Relix magazine and many other online or physical publications.

Musical career
Stephen A. Love's musical achievements have included the industry's highest awards including RIAA certification, gold, platinum and multi platinum recording for Garden Party with Ricky Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band. The popular record sold more than eight million copies worldwide and ranked number one on Billboard Adult contemporary and number six on the industries Billboard chart. Love also performed at the biggest concert of the year in 1977 with the New Riders of the Purple Sage, the Grateful Dead, and the Marshall Tucker Band in Englishtown, New Jersey. More than 125,000 people were in attendance. High-profile concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Hyde Park, London, Madison Square Garden in New York, and Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, were enjoyed by many fans.  He has appeared on many television shows including Larry King, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, McCloud starring Dennis Weaver, In Concert, Saturday Night Live, Biography with Ricky Nelson, the Kenny Rogers Show, CBS, NBC, ABC evening news, Don Kirchner's Rock Concert, Nashville, BBC Live in London, and Australian, Italian and German television. Animal Planet has used his music regularly, the last few years. His songs have played in over 60 countries worldwide.

In mid July 2017, "Number One Son of a Gun" written by Stephen A Love, was released on the entertainment industries "Radio Submit" chart, featuring David Fitz on drums and went directly to the top of the full weekly chart, monthly chart and alltime chart holding its position for five months, plus twenty 98% consecutive weekly charts as of December 20, 2017. Love’s 2014 release, had three original songs, "Mr. Love" "Like a Dead End Street", and "Its Rockabilly Music We Love".

Love's European hit single released in the spring of 2011 "Never Be Anyone Else But You" was awarded number one on two of the independent country music charts in the world. Spending more than 22 months on major charts, it peaked in January and February 2012. In addition the European ECMA has awarded "Never Be Anyone Else But You" number one the week of January 12, 2012 and continuing for two consecutive weeks more. Three charts in total, on the Top 100, dominating over 10,000 songs released in the three-week period worldwide, and also remains on many of their other world charts. The first multiple number one recording for Love in 35 years, following the path of his mentor in 1959, Eric Hillard Nelson and Garden Party in 1972, which Love recorded the classic and was on stage in  Madison Square Garden concert, New York City in the fall of 1971.

Just Love's Hot Country Tour I, began in Amsterdam, Holland on September 1, 2011, encompassing seven European countries and 16 international disc jockeys. Just Love's Hot Country Tour II, began in Saltzburg, Austria on June 6, 2012, encompassing eight European countries and 12 international disc jockeys. On October 29, 2014 "Mr. Love" was released by Blue Jeans Music in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. In mid-January 2012, Blue Jeans Music released Love's single "Travelin' Man" in Europe.  It became number one on the Indiworld Country chart (May 18, 2012).  On May 21, 2012, Blue Jeans Music released Love's single "Lonesome Town", which reached number 4 on the ECMA European Country Music Association Top 100. Stephen A Love's company "James Allen Promotion" promoted the Number One single in 2013 'Full Circle" written by Gene Clark and performed by the "Piedmont Brothers Band".

Love associates have included Rick Nelson, George Harrison, Randy Meisner, Jerry Garcia, John Mayall, Alvin Lee, Roger McGuinn, John Cipollina, Joe Cocker, The Allman Brothers Band, Huey Lewis and the News, Toy Caldwell, Buddy Cage, Tom Brumley, Spencer Dryden, Carl Sagan, Joey Covington, Kingsman, Bob Dylan, Bob Johnston, Patrick Shanahan, Maurice "Reece" Anderson, James Allen, Rhonnie Scheuerman, Richie Walker, Richard Bowden, and Greg Attaway.

Early days
Love joined bands in high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, starting with The Third Edition. In college at Scottsbluff, Nebraska, he met Randy Meisner who was working with Rick Nelson, and they traveled to Hollywood. Meisner joined the Linda Ronstadt band which became The Eagles. Love took up bass guitar and vocals for Rick Nelson in the Stone Canyon Band at age 20.

Discography
Albums:
Garden Party — Ricky Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band (1972)
Roger McGuinn & Band — Roger McGuinn (1975)
Who Are Those Guys? — New Riders of the Purple Sage (1977)
Marin County Line — New Riders of the Purple Sage (1978)
Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/31/77 — New Riders of the Purple Sage (2009)
Always Within Kissin Range — Stephen A. Love (2018)
Things Get A Bit Twisted — Stephen A. Love (2015)

References

External links

1950 births
Living people
American country musicians
Record producers from Indiana
People from Crawfordsville, Indiana
New Riders of the Purple Sage members
Singer-songwriters from Indiana


In the National Basketball Association (NBA), a game seven is the final game of a best-of-seven series in the NBA playoffs. Based on the playoffs format arrangement, it is played in the venue of the team holding home-court advantage for the series. The necessity of a game seven is not known until the outcome of game six is determined, assuming that a series reaches that far. In other words, game seven is the only one in a series that is not guaranteed more than one game in advance. Due to the decisive nature of game sevens, they are often "played more conservatively" and receive more media and fan attention.

The NBA Finals has always employed a best-of-seven series format. The Conference (or Division) Finals have used this format since 1958; the Conference (or Division) Semifinals since 1968; and the First Round since 2003. During the 1947 and 1948 playoffs, in which teams from different divisions met each other in the opening rounds, the first-place teams from each division played a best-of-seven series against each other before one advanced to the league finals. The other teams in the playoffs competed against each other in three best-of-three series to determine the other spot in the finals.

Since the inception of the NBA, 148 game sevens have been played. Of those, six went into overtime, and one into double overtime. 37 game sevens have been won by the road team. Every active NBA franchise has played in at least one game seven. There have been twelve NBA playoff seasons in which no game seven was played: 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1967, 1972, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, and 1999. The 1994, the 2014 and the 2016 postseasons hold the record for most game sevens played, with five. In 1979, 1981, 1988, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2018 and 2020, four game sevens were played. The Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks both hold the record for most game sevens played in a single postseason, having played three game sevens in 1988 and 1994, respectively, the maximum possible at that time.

Key

All-time game sevens

All-time standings

Reoccurring game seven matchups
(*) – Number of overtime periods played in the seventh game.

Notes

 The home-and-away format in every round of the playoffs is the 2–2–1–1–1 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in games one, two, five and seven). The format of the finals from 1984–2013 used the 2–3–2 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in games one, two, six and seven). In the past, there have been several other formats used in the playoffs.
 Won as the designated road team at a neutral-site game.

References
General

Specific

National Basketball Association playoff games
National Basketball Association lists
National Basketball Association Finals


Flacey is the name of several communes in France:
 Flacey, Côte-d'Or, a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France
 Flacey, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France
 Flacey-en-Bresse, Saône-et-Loire


is the 12th single by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto. It was her first single that was not composed by Yoko Kanno.

"Loop" was used as the ending theme for the first season of Tsubasa Chronicle.

Single track listing

Charts

References

2005 singles
Maaya Sakamoto songs
2005 songs
Victor Entertainment singles
Songs with music by H-Wonder


is a railway station on the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line in the city of Annaka, Gunma, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Annaka-Haruna Station is served by the Hokuriku Shinkansen high-speed line between  and  via , but only a small number of Asama services stop at the station (approximately one train every two hours during the daytime). One evening Hakutaka service also stops at this station. It is not served by any other lines. The station is located 18.5 kilometers from  and 123.5 kilometers from the starting point of the line at .

Station layout
The elevated station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
The station opened on 1 October 1997.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 284 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

 Annaka Asama Elementary School

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 Annaka-Haruna Station

Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Gunma Prefecture
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1997
Annaka, Gunma


Terrance Darby Dill (born May 13, 1939) is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour, Champions Tour, and most recently, the European Seniors Tour.

Dill won one tournament on the Senior PGA Tour (now Champions Tour), the 1992 Bank One Classic. He also won the par-3 contest at the Masters Tournament.

Professional wins (1)

Senior PGA Tour wins (1)

Senior PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

References

External links

American male golfers
Texas Longhorns men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
Golfers from Texas
Sportspeople from Fort Worth, Texas
People from Lakeway, Texas
Sportspeople from Travis County, Texas
1939 births
Living people


James Michael "Sorry" Tierney (27 November 1878 – 20 March 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) and the South Australian Football League (SAFL), mainly with the West Adelaide Football Club.

Biography
Tierney was born in Gawler, South Australia, to Luke Tierney, an Irish emigrant from County Cavan, and Mary Jane Havens. His father died in 1889, when James was a child.

Career

Tierney, a Sand carter, had three stints at West Adelaide. He made his debut on 10 August 1901 and stayed with the club in 1902. He played 18 games and kicked seven goals during this time.

He then moved to the West Torrens Football Club in 1903 where he earned selection for the South Australian state team. On reaching Melbourne, with the team, Tierney refused to play, in protest over the non-selection of Sturt ruckman "Taffy" Wayne. As a result, the SAFA suspended Tierney from interstate games for three years, though he was still able to play league football. As a result of this Tierney left West Torrens with only four games left in the season and finished the year playing for the Alma Football Club in Broken Hill.

1904 saw Tierney return to West Adelaide for one season before moving to play with South Adelaide in 1905. He was to stay at South for 1906 but after only four games of the season he transferred back to West Adelaide where he would continue until the end of the 1910 season. Tierney was named co-captain of the club in 1907 and was vice-captain of West Adelaide's 1908 and 1909 premiership sides. In 1908 West Adelaide also were crowned 'Champions of Australia' after defeating the Victorian Football League (VFL) premiership winning team  12 9 (81) to 7 10 (52) in a match played at the Adelaide Oval.

During his third and last stint at West Adelaide Tierney partnered Tom Leahy in the ruck with great success, winning the Magarey Medal in 1908 to become the first player from the club to win the award. He also formed a winning combination with West's brilliant centreman and 1909 Magarey Medalist Richard "Dick" Head.

After West finished a disappointing fifth in 1910, Tierney (along with Leahy) joined North Adelaide for the 1911 season. It was reported that while still having the stamina, Tierney's reflexes had slowed down by this time and after a lacklustre 1911 season he decided to retire from league football.

Despite his three-year ban from interstate football, Tierney played in nine games for South Australia.

Later life
Tierney later worked as a labourer. In March 1917, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in Adelaide, but was discharged three months later after being declared unfit for service. He had suffered from poor vision for several years, and was nearly blind in one eye after being hit in the eye with a rock two years prior.

Tierney later moved to Melbourne, where he died in 1959 at the age of 80.

See also
 1908 Melbourne Carnival

References

Further reading

External links

West Adelaide profile

1878 births
1959 deaths
West Adelaide Football Club players
West Torrens Football Club players
South Adelaide Football Club players
North Adelaide Football Club players
South Broken Hill Football Club players
Magarey Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
People from Gawler, South Australia
Australian people of Irish descent
Australian Roman Catholics
Australian military personnel of World War I


A game seven is the final game of a best of seven series. This game can occur in the postseasons for Major League Baseball (MLB) (League Championship Series and World Series), the National Basketball Association (NBA) (all rounds of the NBA playoffs), and the National Hockey League (NHL) (all rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs). The game is generally played at the site of the team holding the home advantage across the series.

The nature of a best-of-seven series requires that the series be tied 3–3 going into game seven, such that either team can take the series (advancing further in the playoffs or winning the championship) by winning the game. Because of this decisive nature, game sevens add an element of drama to their sports. Aside from North American sports leagues, game sevens are also a fixture in many other sports around the world, mostly in baseball, basketball, and ice hockey leagues. Most codes of football do not employ a best-of-seven series (or any best-of-x series in general), hence game sevens are not played in those leagues. Some playoff rounds (such as MLB's current Division Series) are played in a best of five format, such that game 5 has similar qualities to those described above, though the suspense and drama have less time to build in a shorter series. Furthermore, the World Series of 1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921 were played in a best of nine format, though none of the four went to a decisive game 9.

The game seven is comparable to a final or to a single game in a single-elimination tournament or to a one-game playoff. A championship series' game seven is equivalent to the Super Bowl game in the National Football League in that the game's winner is the league's champion for the season.

Examples

Baseball

Chinese Professional Baseball League
The Chinese Professional Baseball League's championship series, the Taiwan Series, has seen nine series decided in game seven.

Taiwan Series that were decided in game seven include:

Major League Baseball

In the Major League Baseball postseason, game seven can occur in the League Championship Series and the World Series; a game seven cannot occur in the Division Series of the playoff, which are played as best-of-five series.

In the World Series, there have been 40 decisive game sevens through the 2022 season; visiting teams have won 21 of those games. Note that of the four World Series that were contested on a best-of-nine basis (1903, 1919, 1920, 1921), none went to a game nine, although all four included a non-decisive game seven, which are not included in the below table. World Series that were decided by a game seven:

Basketball

National Basketball Association

All playoff rounds in the National Basketball League (NBA) are now in a best-of-seven series format so all rounds can have a maximum of seven games. The NBA Finals has been consistently played in a best-of-seven series format since its inception. The game sevens where the championship was awarded:

Ice hockey

Kontinental Hockey League
In the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, game seven can occur in all playoff series. The KHL playoffs' final series, the Gagarin Cup Final, has seen five series decided in game seven.

The game sevens where the Gagarin Cup was awarded are:

Liiga
In Liiga (or Finnish Elite League) playoffs, game seven can occur in all playoff series except the wild-card rounds. The Liiga playoffs' final series has seen several series decided in game seven.

The game sevens where Liiga awarded gold medals and the Kanada-malja include:

National Hockey League

In the National Hockey League's (NHL) Stanley Cup playoffs, game seven can occur in all playoff series. The Stanley Cup became the NHL's de facto championship trophy in 1926, and the league instituted the best-of-seven series starting in the  season. No Stanley Cup Finals game seven has ever ended with a 1–0 score.

The game sevens where the Stanley Cup was awarded are:

Comebacks
This table below lists teams that, after being down three games to none, have forced a seventh game.

More common, and not enumerated here, are teams that have forced and won a seventh game after being down three games to one.

Successful
In only ten instances (five in major North American sports leagues) has a team been able to come back from being down 0–3 to win a series:

Mike Richards and Jeff Carter are the only players to have been a part of two comebacks from being down 0–3, having played for both the 2009–10 Philadelphia Flyers and the 2013–14 Los Angeles Kings.

Unsuccessful
In the following twelve instances, teams were able to force a seventh game in a series after being down 0–3, but lost the final game:

The New York Islanders are the only team to have twice fallen behind 0–3 and then forced a game seven in the same postseason; in the 1975 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals (which they won) and then the 1975 Stanley Cup Semifinals (which they lost).

Major sports leagues

This table summarizes the above results for the three major sports leagues in North America that play seven-game series:

References

Baseball terminology
Basketball terminology
Ice hockey rules and regulations
Ice hockey terminology

Terminology used in multiple sports


Oung Chanthol (born 1967 in Kampot, Cambodia) is the founder and executive director of the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center (CWCC). She has documented cases of rape, trafficking, and domestic abuse in Cambodia. Under her leadership, CWCC has mounted awareness campaigns against sex trafficking, educating local authorities and broadcasting radio and television messages. In 2001, Chanthol was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership.

She was a member of the Forum of Young Global Leaders from 2006 (a five-year period).

References

1967 births
Living people
Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
Cambodian activists
Cambodian women activists


Canterbury Flames were a New Zealand netball team based in Christchurch, Canterbury. Between 1998 and 2007 they played in the Coca-Cola Cup/National Bank Cup league. Between 2000 and 2002, Flames  played in three successive grand finals. In 2004, they played in their fourth grand final. On all four occasions, they lost out to Southern Sting. In 2008, when the National Bank Cup was replaced by the ANZ Championship, Canterbury Flames were rebranded as Canterbury Tactix.

History

Founding members
In 1998, together with, Auckland Diamonds, Bay of Plenty Magic, Capital Shakers, Counties Manukau Cometz, Northern Force, Otago Rebels, Southern Sting, Waikato Wildcats and Western Flyers, Flames, were founding members of the Coca-Cola Cup/National Bank Cup league.

Rebrand
In 2008, when the National Bank Cup was replaced by the ANZ Championship, Canterbury Flames were rebranded as Canterbury Tactix. Canterbury Tactix were subsequently renamed Mainland Tactix.

Home venues
Flames played the majority of their home matches at Christchurch's Westpac Centre.

Stats

Grand finals

Coca-Cola Cup

National Bank Cup

Notable former players

Internationals

 Charlotte Kight

 Cynna Kydd

 Vilimaina Davu

 Julianna Naoupu

ANZ Championship players
 Megan Hutton
 Elizabeth Manu
 Jo McCaw
 Peta Stephens
 Jade Topia

Captains

Coaches

Head coaches

Assistant coaches

Main sponsors

Honours
Coca-Cola Cup/National Bank Cup
Runners Up: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004

Gallery

References

Mainland Tactix
National Bank Cup teams
Defunct netball teams in New Zealand
Sport in Christchurch
Sports clubs and teams established in 1998
1998 establishments in New Zealand
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 2007
2007 disestablishments in New Zealand


Ammonium polyphosphate is an inorganic salt of polyphosphoric acid and ammonia containing both chains and possibly branching.  Its chemical formula is H(NH4PO3)nOH showing that each monomer consists of an orthophosphate radical of a phosphorus atom with three oxygens and one negative charge neutralized by an ammonium cation leaving two bonds free to polymerize.  In the branched cases some monomers are missing the ammonium anion and instead link to three other monomers.

The properties of ammonium polyphosphate depend on the number of monomers in each molecule and to a degree on how often it branches.  Shorter chains (n < 100) are more water sensitive and less thermally stable than longer chains (n > 1000), but short polymer chains (e.g. pyro-, tripoly-, and tetrapoly-) are more soluble and show increasing solubility with increasing chain length.

Ammonium polyphosphate can be prepared by reacting concentrated phosphoric acid with ammonia.  However, iron and aluminum impurities, soluble in concentrated phosphoric acid, form gelatinous precipitates or "sludges" in ammonium polyphosphate at pH between 5 and 7. Other metal impurities such as copper, chromium, magnesium, and zinc form granular precipitates. However, depending on the degree of polymerization, ammonium polyphosphate can act as a chelating agent to keep certain metal ions dissolved in solution.

Ammonium polyphosphate is used as a food additive, emulsifier, (E number: E545) and as a fertilizer.

Ammonium polyphosphate (APP) is also used as a flame retardant in many applications such as paints and coatings, and in a variety of polymers: the most important ones are polyolefins, and particularly polypropylene, where APP is part of intumescent systems. Compounding with APP-based flame retardants in polypropylene is described in. Further applications are thermosets, where APP is used in unsaturated polyesters and gel coats (APP blends with synergists), epoxies and polyurethane castings (intumescent systems). APP is also applied to flame retard polyurethane foams.

Ammonium polyphosphates used as flame retardants in polymers have long chains and a specific crystallinity (Form II). They start to decompose at 240 °C to form ammonia and phosphoric acid.  The phosphoric acid acts as an acid catalyst in the dehydration of carbon-based poly-alcohols, such as cellulose in wood.  The phosphoric acid reacts with alcohol groups to form heat-unstable phosphate esters.  The esters decompose to release carbon dioxide and regenerate the phosphoric acid catalyst .  In the gas phase, the release of non-flammable carbon dioxide helps to dilute the oxygen of the air and flammable decomposition products of the material that is burning.  In the condensed phase, the resultant carbonaceous char helps to shield the underlying polymer from attack by oxygen and radiant heat. Use as an intumescent is achieved when combined with starch-based materials such as pentaerythritol and melamine as expanding agents. The mechanisms of intumescence and the mode of action of APP are described in a series of publications.

References

External links

Specialchem4polymers.com

Food additives
Polymers
Ammonium compounds
Inorganic fertilizers
Flame retardants


Henry Richard Head (3 April 1887 – 20 December 1940 in Adelaide, South Australia), was an Australian rules football player who played 143 games with West Adelaide in the South Australian Football League (SAFL).

Career
Head made his league debut in 1906 as a teenager, and, in 1909, became just the second ever West Adelaide player to win a Magarey Medal, following on from teammate James Tierney's win in 1908.

The Register described him as a deserving winner of the award. "The one man who shone above all others was Head, West Adelaide's centre pivot", the paper reported. "In nearly every match in which the red-and-blacks took part he was the best of the 36. On the ground he was too clever for all opponents, and in the air about the only player who eclipsed him was Hutton, of Norwood. Much of the success which West Adelaide achieved was due to his wonderful skill, resourcefulness and judgment, with which he associated considerable speed, absolute unselfishness and a gentlemanly demeanor. If anybody deserves the Magarey medal, Head does."

He was appointed club captain in 1913 and also captained the South Australia interstate side that year. Head was chosen to represent South Australia more often than not during his career, playing 17 games in total for his state.

In 1921, Head crossed to Sturt, but he managed just four games before announcing his retirement. He returned to the league, however, the following season as a non-playing coach at Glenelg, and with the side struggling, he took the field for seven games that year to finish with a total of 154 SAFL games. Head continued as Glenelg coach in 1923, his last season of coaching in the SANFL.

Several years after quitting active involvement with football, Head returned as a member of the first Umpires Appointment Board in 1931 alongside other well known figures, such as Vic Richardson, and later became chairman. Head was still serving football in that capacity when he died on 23 December 1940 at the age of 53.

In 2002, Head was one of the 113 inaugural inductees into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame, and he is also a member of the West Adelaide Hall of Fame.

References

External links

West Adelaide Football Club players
Sturt Football Club players
Glenelg Football Club players
Glenelg Football Club coaches
Magarey Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from South Australia
South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
1887 births
1940 deaths


Gabriel J. Campana  is an American politician. He served as the 39th mayor of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He assumed office in January 2008 and won re-elections in 2011 and 2015 before leaving in 2020. On October 7, 2019, he announced that he was running a write-in campaign for mayor in the November election.

Political career
Campana has been the mayor of Williamsport, Pennsylvania since 2008. He is the only Williamsport Mayor in modern times to win 3 terms.  During his tenure, crime has been cut and economic development has increased. He was responsible for transforming the downtown adding 3 hotels, Kohls
's Deparment Store, an Arena, and much more.  Campana won re-election in 2011 by a 74% to 26% margin.

Campana is a supporter of fracking and the natural gas industry. He purchased a natural gas-powered car, but ended up getting rid of it since it wasn't economical.

He was a school teacher and 12 year member of the City Council before being elected mayor.

Personal life
Mayor Gabriel Campana is one of 11 siblings born and raised in Williamsport.  His father, the late Dr. Louis F. Campana, was a local physician and his late mother Rose Campana, was a nurse.  He attended St. Alban's Prep School in Washington, D.C., has been a Visiting College professor, is a graduate of Temple University, and has Doctorate degree. He is an author of three books, has a podcast, and is an economic development consultant.

References

National Registrar's Who's Who in Education (2006-New York, New York)
Teacher Named to Fill Council Vacancy (Williamsport Sun Gazette-January 5, 1996)

1963 births
Living people
Mayors of Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Republicans
Temple University alumni
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania alumni
Wilkes University alumni
Pennsylvania city council members


Mameshiba may refer to:
  are any of a number of Japanese animation characters, each a legume with the face of a cartoon dog
  is the ninth single by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto


is a junction railway station located in the city of Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Jōshin Dentetsu. It is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

Lines

Shinkansen

JR East
  Takasaki Line

  Ueno–Tokyo Line

 SL Gunma Minakami
 Akagi

Jōshin Dentetsu

Previous Services
 Minakami

Station layout
The Shinkansen portion of the station has two elevated island platforms, with the station building underneath. The JR East local portion of the station has three ground-level island platforms, with one platform forming a half-bay platform, so that a total of seven tracks can be served, and the Jōshin Dentetsu portion of the station has a single bay platform.

JR East

Jōshin Dentetsu

History
The JR East station opened on May 1, 1884, as the then-terminus of the Nippon Railway. The Jōshin Line opened on May 10, 1897. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, it came under the control of JR East.
The Jōetsu Shinkansen was extended to Takasaki Station on November 15, 1982.

Bus terminals
Buses serving the station are operated by the following operators.
 Gunma Bus
 Gunma Chuo Bus
 Kan-etsu Kotsu
 Joshin Railway
 Nippon Chuo Bus

Highway buses
 Sendai Liner; For Sendai Station (Nippon Chuo Bus)
 Azalea; For Narita International Airport (Kan-etsu kotsu, Chiba Kotsu)
 Airport Limousine; For Haneda Airport (Nippon Chuo Bus, Airport Transport Service)
 For Nerima Station, Ikebukuro Station, Shinjuku, and Akihabara Station (Nippon Chuo Bus)
 For Niigata Station, Bandai City Bus Center (Nippon Chuo Bus)
 For Fuji-Q Highland, Kawaguchiko Station (Kan-etsu Kotsu, Fujikyu Yamanashi Bus)
 For Toyama Station, Kanazawa Station and Kenroku-en (Nippon Chuo Bus)
 Silk Liner; For Kanayama Station, Nagoya Station, Nara, Kyōto Station, and Osaka City Air Terminal(Namba Station) (Nippon Chuo Bus)

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 32,160 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The Jōshin Dentetsu portion of the station was used by 2280 passengers daily in fiscal 2018.

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

Notes

References

External links

 Takasaki Station information (JR East)

Railway stations in Gunma Prefecture
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1884
Takasaki, Gunma
Takasaki Line
Ryōmō Line
Agatsuma Line
Jōetsu Line
Hachikō Line
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Shin'etsu Main Line
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Jōetsu Shinkansen


The  is an archaeological site with the ruins of an Asuka to Nara period Buddhist temple located in the Natsumi neighborhood of the city of Nabari, Mie Prefecture Japan. The temple no longer exists, but the temple grounds were designated as a National Historic Site in 1990.

Overview
The Natsumi  temple ruins are located on the southern slope of Otokoyama hill on the right bank of the Nabari River in the southern part of the Iga region of Mie. Numerous roof tiles were found in the area in 1937. Archaeological excavations were carried out in 1946-1947  and in 1984-1986 (Showa 59-61), uncovering the foundations of a Kondō, Pagoda and a Lecture Hall. it was estimated that the Kondō was built around the end of the 7th century during the Hakuho period, and the pagoda and Lecture Hall were built around the first half of the 8th century during the Nara period, and were burnt down around the end of the 10th century during the Heian period. From the location of the ruins and from descriptions in historical sources, such as the , it is believed that the temple was known as Shofuku-ji (昌福寺), which was built by Princess Ōku for her father, Emperor Tenmu.

This theory is reinforced by the unusual arrangement of the buildings necessitated by the terrain, in which the Lecture Hall is located to the southwest of the Kondō, and also by the unusual design of the Kondō itself, with a frontage of three bays and depth of two bays. This design is only found elsewhere at the ruins of the contemporary Yamada-dera in Sakurai, Nara.

Princess Ōku was the first Saiō, or imperial priestess assigned by the court to the Ise Grand Shrines and Nabari was regarded as the eastern border of the Kinai region, or the core territory of the Yamato state. Princess Ōku performed a misogi ritual purification when crossing the Nabari River into Ise Province because of this. However, following the death of Prince Ōtsu in 686 AD, Princess Ōku lost her authority, and the temple was completed by Empress Genmei.

The ruins are located Nabari City Central Park, with the outlines of the foundations of the buildings preserved. In the adjacent , many excavated items such as roof tiles and 516 fragments of Buddha images, along with replicas of Buddhist paintings reflecting Hakuho culture are on display. Many of the excavated items were collectively designated a Mie Prefecture Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. The site is located a seven-minute walk from the  "Natsumi"  but stop on the Mie Kotsu Bus from  Nabari Station on the Kintetsu Osaka Line.

Gallery

See also
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Mie)

References

External links

Nabari City site
Mie Prefecture Information Warehouse of History

Historic Sites of Japan
Nabari, Mie
Iga Province
Asuka period
Buddhist archaeological sites in Japan
Museums in Mie Prefecture


The Draft History of Qing () is a draft of the official history of the Qing dynasty compiled and written by a team of over 100 historians led by Zhao Erxun who were hired by the Beiyang government of the Republic of China. The draft was published in 1928, but the Chinese Civil War caused a lack of funding for the project and it was put to an end in 1930. The two sides of the Chinese civil war, the People's Republic of China and Republic of China have attempted to complete it.

History
The Qing imperial court had long established a Bureau of State Historiography and precompiled its own dynastic history.

The massive book was started in 1914, and the rough copy was finished in about 1927.

1,100 copies of the book were published. The Beiyang government moved 400 of the original draft into the northern provinces, where it re-edited the content twice, thus creating three different versions of the book.

It was banned by the Nationalist Government in 1930. The ban was lifted later, but still no further work was actually done partly due to continued warfare including the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Historian Hsi-yuan Chen wrote in retrospect, "Not only will the Draft History of Qing live forever, but also Qing history as such will forever remain in draft." He argued as follows: "the making of the history of the last dynasty was besieged with unprecedented changes and challenges: universal kingship and the mandate of Heaven had collapsed, the continuity of cultural tradition was put into doubt, and, most important of all, the past was no longer fixable in a static picture for the present to capture. In short, along with the fall of the last dynasty, the genre of “orthodox history” itself became history."

Contents
The draft contains 529 volumes. It attempts to follow the format of previous official histories, containing four sections:

 記/纪 (Ji), containing information about relevant emperors
 志 (Zhi), containing events that happened, i.e. astronomical events
 表 (Biao), containing lists of people who held important posts or were royalty
 傳/传 (Zhuan), containing information concerning notable persons.

Shortcomings of draft
Because of the lack of funding, the authors were forced to publish quickly, and consequently this project was never finished, remaining in the draft stage. The authors openly acknowledged this, and admitted there may have been factual or superficial errors.

The draft was later criticized for being biased against the Xinhai Revolution. Notably, it does not have records of historical figures in the revolution, even those that had been born before the end of the Qing dynasty, although it includes biographies of various others who were born after the collapse of the Qing dynasty. The historians, who were Qing loyalists and/or sympathizers, had a tendency to villainize the revolutionaries. In fact, the draft completely avoided the use of the Republic of China calendar, which was unacceptable for an official history meant to endorse the rise of a new regime.

Modern attempts
In 1961, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of China, the Republic of China government in Taiwan published its own History of Qing, added 21 supplementary chapters to the Draft History of Qing and revised many existing chapters to denounce the Communist Party as an illegitimate, impostor regime. It also removed the passages that were derogatory towards the Xinhai Revolution. This edition has not been accepted as the official History of Qing because it is recognized that it was a rushed job published for political purposes. Nor does it correct most of the many errors known to exist in the Draft History of Qing.

An additional project, attempting to actually write a New History of Qing incorporating new materials and improvements in historiography, lasted from 1988 to 2000 and only published 33 chapters out of the over 500 projected. The New History was abandoned because of the rise of the Pan-Green Coalition, which saw Taiwan as a separate entity from China and therefore not as the new Chinese regime that would be responsible for writing the official history of the previous dynasty.

In 1961, the People's Republic of China also attempted to complete writing the history of the Qing dynasty, but the historians were prevented from doing so by the Cultural Revolution which started in 1966.

In 2002, the PRC once again announced that it would complete the History of Qing. The project was approved in 2003, and put under the leadership of historian Dai Yi. Initially planned to be completed in 10 years, the completion of the first draft was later pushed to 2016. Chinese Social Sciences Today reported in April 2020 that the project's results were being reviewed.

See also

 Twenty-Four Histories

References

External links

 Republic of China New History of Qing (1994) on CTEXT (incomplete)

Chinese-language books
History books about the Qing dynasty
1928 non-fiction books


Patrick Macgillicuddy Alexander (20 March 1940 – 21 September 2005) was an Irish-born poet who settled in Australia. Alexander was the son of Hugh Alexander, the Anglo-Irish mathematician famed for his work on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II. Born in Dublin, Dublin (County), Ireland he studied to be an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1960.

He remained there, except for nine years in Sydney in the late sixties and early seventies. During his time in Sydney, he began submitting to magazines. His publications include Thrown Shadows (1976); five short poems, re-edited as one appeared in Poetry London (London, 1979);  Effects of Remembrance (1994); Images Reflections Gathering Tributes(1995), amongst others. He gave several readings of Blake, of the pre-Raphaelites, and of Japanese Poetry in Translation at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Alexander was renowned as a performance poet. He was, from 1983 to 2004, the only artist to produce an event for every Melbourne Fringe Festival. The relationship of the voice and the written word in poetry was an abiding interest for him. In honour of his contribution, the Festival has named the spoken performance prize the Patrick Alexander Memorial Award.

He died in Fitzroy, Victoria. His papers are held by the State Library of Victoria, and include two travel diaries belonging to the writer Una Maud Lyle Smyth.

References
 http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2BSL
 https://web.archive.org/web/20071019171754/http://www.thegroggysquirrel.com/articles/2006/09/29/2006-fringe-festival-reviews/fringe-festival-awards/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080124044555/http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directa/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20071021194021/https://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/Publications/Yarra%20News/pdf/Yarra%20News%20October%202006.pdf
 http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/859134641
 http://divan.bhtafe.edu.au/divan1/poetbios.htm#alexander
 Papers of Patrick Alexander: manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, 1905-2005. State Library Victoria

1940 births
2005 deaths
20th-century Australian poets
Australian male poets
20th-century Australian male writers
Irish emigrants to Australia
Writers from Dublin (city)
Irish male poets
20th-century Irish poets


is the eighth single from Japanese actress and singer Maaya Sakamoto and was released on August 23, 2000.  The song was used as the opening theme for the Sega Dreamcast game, Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream, in which Sakamoto voiced the main character, Porch Arsia.

Track listing

{Note: The opening theme in Napple Tale}

{Note: The ending theme in Napple Tale}

{Note: Made for Napple Tale, but never used}

Charts

References

External links

2000 singles
Maaya Sakamoto songs
2000 songs
Victor Entertainment singles


KVCK (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format to the  Wolf Point, Montana, United States, area. The station is owned by WolfTrax Broadcasting, LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio.

History
The station went on the air on 1957-09-01 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007.  The call letters represent the first initial of the last name of three original owners.  The letter 'V' representing Mike Vukelich, 'C' representing Pete Coffey, and the 'K' representing Ed Krebsbach.

Ownership
In April 2007, KVCK was acquired by WolfTrax Broadcasting from Wolf Town Wireless Inc.

References

External links

VCK
Radio stations established in 1957
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
1957 establishments in Montana


Wesley Joseph Berggren (April 3, 1971 – October 27, 1999) was an American musician and former guitarist for the rock band Tripping Daisy.

Berggren was found dead of a drug overdose in his apartment on October 27, 1999, by his wife, Melissa. The Dallas County Medical Examiner's office found traces of cocaine, propoxyphene, and benzodiazepine in his body. With Berggren's death, the band cancelled its upcoming tour dates and finished some minor recording sessions for the final album. The self-titled album was released posthumously, with Berggren's father Don playing a Fender Rhodes electric piano on the unfinished song "Soothing Jubilee".

Tripping Daisy officially disbanded on December 14, 1999. Tim DeLaughter, the singer and founding member, went on to form the Polyphonic Spree, which also features former Tripping Daisy members Mark Pirro and Bryan Wakeland. Benjamin Curtis later became a founding member of the bands Secret Machines, School of Seven Bells, and UFOFU.

References

External links
 Official Site of Wes Berggren (1971-1999) {Archive}

1971 births
1999 deaths
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
Cocaine-related deaths in Texas
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians


Ferrous lactate, or iron(II) lactate, are coordination complexes of iron(II) with one or more lactate ligands. One example is  where lactate is .  It is a colorless solid.

Production
Iron(II) lactate can be produced through several reactions, among which are calcium lactate with iron(II) sulfate according to the following reaction:
Ca(C3H5O3)2(aq) + FeSO4(aq)->CaSO4v + Fe(C3H5O3)2(aq)

Another route yielding iron(II) lactate is to combine lactic acid with calcium carbonate and iron(II) sulfate.

Uses
Iron (II) lactate is used as a reagent in the production of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), specifically in the production of cathode catalytic converters used in these cells. It is an acidity regulator and, since it oxidizes on contact with air, it has found use as a color retention agent for foodstuffs such as olives. It is also used to fortify foods with iron, as a remedy for anemia due to iron deficiency, and as a nutritional supplement in tablet or pill form. As a food additive it is coded under the E number E585.

References

Food additives
Iron(II) compounds
E-number additives
Lactates


Robert Snell (born 15 February 1903 in Collie, Western Australia – died April 1983 in Adelaide, South Australia) was an Australian rules footballer who played for East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and New Town in the Tasmanian National Football League (TANFL) between 1923 and 1933.

Career
Snell started his career in 1923 with East Perth and the following season finished second in the Sandover Medal. He sought a clearance to join West Adelaide for the 1925 season but after East Perth refused he had to wait until 1927, playing amateur and junior competitions in the meantime.

A centreman, Snell was a member of a West Adelaide premiership side in his debut SANFL season in 1927. In 1929 he won the Magarey Medal, being the last medallist known to the man who donated the award, William Ashley Magarey, as Magarey passed shortly after the 1929 SANFL season.

Snell then moved to Tasmania in 1931 to play for New Town in the TANFL. In the height of the Great Depression Snell could earn up to A£10 per game and the same in wages playing in the Apple Isle. He returned to West Adelaide in 1932 and stayed with the club until his retirement from playing in 1933 having played 84 games and kicking 16 goals for Wests.

Snell represented South Australia 13 times in Interstate football between 1927 and 1929.

Post career
Having retired from football after 1933, his life post football was spent as a licensed bookmaker. Due to race meetings being held on Saturdays, Snell saw very little league football for many years. He retired from bookmaking in 1973 and spent his time playing lawn bowls twice a week at the Adelaide Bowling Club.

Bob Snell died in Adelaide in April 1983 having recently turned 80. West Adelaide won their 8th and so far last SANFL Premiership in the same year.

References
WAFC Magarey Medallists - Robert Snell 1929
State Library of South Australia

1983 deaths
East Perth Football Club players
West Adelaide Football Club players
Magarey Medal winners
1903 births
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
People from Collie, Western Australia
Date of death missing


Utricularia jamesoniana is a small perennial epiphyte carnivorous plant in the family Lentibulariaceae. It is native to Central America, the Antilles, and northern and western South America. Specifically, it can be found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela and on the islands of Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Dominica, and Martinique. The species was originally published and described by Daniel Oliver in 1860. Its habitat is reported as being mossy tree trunks in montane cloud forests or lowland rain forests at altitudes from sea level to . It flowers year-round.

See also
 List of Utricularia species

References

External links

jamesoniana
Carnivorous plants of Central America
Carnivorous plants of South America
Epiphytes
Flora of Southern America
Taxa named by Daniel Oliver


Randie Carver (December 3, 1974 – September 14, 1999) was an American professional boxer from Kansas City, Missouri.

Amateur career
Carver had an outstanding amateur career, winning the 1993 National Golden Gloves Light middleweight championship.

Death
In the fight against Kabary Salem in September 1999, Carver was headbutted repeatedly during the early rounds in a foul filled bout.
He was knocked down in the 10th round and tried unsuccessfully four times to get to his feet. He then lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital. Carver died two days later from blunt head trauma received during the fight.

References

External links

1974 births
1999 deaths
Sportspeople from Kansas City, Missouri
Boxers from Missouri
Super-middleweight boxers
Deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing
Sports deaths in Missouri
American male boxers
National Golden Gloves champions


Colour retention agents are food additives that are added to food to prevent the colour from changing. Many of them work by absorbing or binding to oxygen before it can damage food (antioxidants). For example, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is often added to brightly coloured fruits such as peaches during canning.

List of colour retention agent

See also
 Artificial sweetener
 Acidity regulator
 Codex Alimentarius
 E number
 Food colouring
 Food safety
 List of antioxidants in food
 List of food additives
 List of food additives, Codex Alimentarius
 List of fruits
 List of vegetables

References

Food additives


Robert Barnes (4 February 1896 – 27 September 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Born in Mount Barker in regional South Australia, Barnes played his early football for West Broken Hill Football Club in the Barrier Ranges Football Association in far west New South Wales, winning the  Kenwrick Medal for Best and Fairest player in the competition. A rover, he was recruited by West Adelaide of the 1921 season and represented the South Australian interstate team that year for the first of eight times. In a 1921 match against North Adelaide Football Club, Barnes kicked a goal from seventy metres out after the final siren to draw the match. West Adelaide supporters carried Barnes shoulder high from the ground.

In 1922 Barnes won the Magarey Medal for the Best and Fairest player in the league and played in West Adelaide's losing Grand Final team. West had finished the minor round in 4th place with a 7-7 record. They defeated West Torrens in the 2nd Semi-final but were defeated 9.7 (61) to 2.16 (28) by Norwood in the Grand Final at the Adelaide Oval. Barnes topped West Adelaide's goal kicking with 17 in 1924.

Robert Barnes finished with 59 games and 67 goals for West Adelaide.

In 1927, Barnes was appointed as captain / coach of the Albury Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League.

References

Sources
 Atkinson, G. (1982) Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking, The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. .

External links

1896 births
1967 deaths
West Adelaide Football Club players
West Broken Hill Football Club players
Magarey Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from South Australia