The Service de l'énergie opérationnelle (SEO), formerly known as Service des essences des armées (SEA), which translates as the Operational Energy Service is an inter-service branch of the French Army subordinate to the head of the defence staff.  Recruits are taken both from the French military as a whole and from civilian life. Ranks are based on training.

History

During the First World War, facing the increased use of mechanized warfare, the French armed forces needed to set up a new network for fuel supply.  It was then composed of a service to stock and supply the fuel, and a transport service automobile to deliver it to the end users.  At the same time, a wider service to provide petrol, oils and lubricants was created.  After the war, from July 12 1920 the munitions service resumed the sourcing and stockpiling role, and the artillery the distribution role.  Then on November 25 1940 - during the Vichy regime, these functions were combined into one unified service arm: it received the name Military fuel service (SEA), which it still bears.

The order of March 17 1945 defines the SEA as a central service in charge of refueling the whole of the armed forces. A 1991 decree further defined this mission.  The service has "to assure at all times, in all places and in all circumstances the fuel support of the armed forces, while also acting as fuel advisor to the General Staff".  It therefore supervises the supply of fuels and lubricants for the vehicles of the Army, Navy (outside of naval fuels of hold), Air Force, National Gendarmerie and the National Guard, as well as providing fuel advice.

Unique Ranks in the SEA
The Ingénieurs Militaires des Essences ("Military Fuel Engineers") are engineer officers occupying posts involving scientific fuel research, technical fuel expertise, and administrative control of fuels. They hold the following grades:
Ingénieur principal (equivalent to a "Commandant" in the French Air Force and Army and "Major" in the United States Armed Forces)
Ingénieur en chef de deuxième classe (equivalent to a Lieutenant-Colonel)
Ingénieur en chef de première classe (equivalent to a Colonel)
Ingénieur général de deuxième classe (equivalent to a Général de brigade).
Ingénieur général de première classe (equivalent to a Général de division). Director of the SEA.

The officiers of the Corps Technique et Administratif ("Technical and Administrative Corps") occupy supervisory posts and manage the SEA.

The Corps des Agents Techniques (Corps of Technical Agents) provides fuel and lubricant experts, specialists, and advisers to the SEA. Its sous-officers are in three grades:
Agent Technique ("Technical Agent", equivalent to an Adjudant)
Agent Technique en Chef ("Chief Technical Agent", equivalent to an Adjudant-Chef)
Agent Technique Major ("Major Technical Agent", equivalent to a Major)

References

External links
SEA website
Section on joining SEA

Defence agencies of France


Ariomma is a genus of deepwater, marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ariommatidae.  Members of this genus are found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.  Several members of this genus are of commercial importance as food fish.  This genus is currently the only known extant genus in its family.

Species
Currently, the 7 recognized species in this genus are:
 Ariomma bondi Fowler, 1930 (silver-rag driftfish)
 Ariomma brevimanus (Klunzinger, 1884)
 Ariomma indica (F. Day, 1871) (Indian driftfish)
 Ariomma lurida D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1904 (ariommid)
 Ariomma melana (Ginsburg, 1954) (Brown driftfish)
 Ariomma parini Piotrovsky, 1987 (Parin's ariomma)
 Ariomma regulus (Poey, 1868) (spotted driftfish)

Timeline

References

Ariommatidae
Perciformes genera
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder


Gregory Arkhurst (born 6 May 1976) is an Olympic swimmer from Côte d'Ivoire. He represented his country at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, while living and training in Canada, however.

2000
Arkhurst swam in the 100 metre freestyle in 2000, finishing 63rd out of 74 total swimmers.

2004
In 2004, he swam in the 50 metre freestyle, finishing 58th out of 86 total swimmers.

External links
 Info Yahoo!.com

1976 births
Living people
Ivorian male freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Ivory Coast


Major Sir John Arnold Wallinger  (25 October 1869 – 7 January 1931) was a British Indian intelligence officer who led the Indian Political Intelligence Office from 1909 to 1916. As a colonial policeman and counter-intelligence officer he became a specialist in countering those opposed to British rule in India, operating both in India and in England.

During the First World War he was engaged in combating the Hindu–German Conspiracy. During this period he employed the novelist W. Somerset Maugham as an intelligence agent in Geneva. Wallinger is perhaps best known as the principal inspiration for the character of "R.", the fictional British spymaster who employs Ashenden in Maugham's stories.

Early life
Wallinger was born on 25 October 1869 at Poona, British India. His father was William H. Arnold Wallinger, a British official in the Indian Civil Service with the Imperial Forestry Service. In 1896, he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Ahmadabad as an inspector.

Intelligence career
In 1902, during a period of concern over the activities of Indian nationalist political activists, Wallinger was seconded to the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard. This was the first of his activities in countering Indian anti-colonial activists in Europe, before returning to India in 1904. He gained a reputation in intelligence circles as "a brave officer with a talent for acquiring local native dialects and a flair for undercover criminal intelligence operations when he would ‘black up’".

In 1910 he returned to England with the rank of superintendent to lead the newly-established Indian Political Intelligence Office. This was a substantial organisation and role, reflecting the concerns the British government had regarding anti-colonial political activists, described by historian Richard Popplewell as "not much smaller than the European intelligence operations of the Secret Service Bureau, let alone those of the War Office". He was awarded the King's Police Medal in the 1914 New Year Honours.

During the First World War he was given the temporary rank of Major in the British Army, his commission listed as "Special List (General Staff Officer)". Wallinger was attached to general headquarters in France, where he operated in a counter-intelligence capacity against the Berlin Committee and the Hindu–German Conspiracy. Here he also worked alongside his younger brother Ernest, a major in the Intelligence Corps who had lost his foot at the Battle of Le Cateau serving in the Royal Field Artillery. In August 1916, Wallinger returned to intelligence work in India. After the war in 1919 he was posted to Egypt, and the following year he was appointed deputy inspector-general of the Indian Imperial Police.

He was highly decorated for his intelligence work: on 14 January 1916 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and in the 1918 New Year Honours he was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. After the war, on 3 June 1925, he was awarded a KBE. In 1926 he was offered the role of deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, but instead chose to retire to Brighton on the south coast of England, where he died on 7 January 1931.

Literary and cultural influence
Among Wallinger's more famous agents was Somerset Maugham, whom he recruited in London and sent as a secret agent to Switzerland. Wallinger was the literary prototype of the spymaster of a number of Maugham's short stories, and was notably portrayed as the spymaster "R." in the Ashenden stories Maugham wrote following the war.

Inspired by Maugham's stories, the character of "R." based on Wallinger was played by Charles Carson in the 1936 Alfred Hitchcock espionage thriller Secret Agent.

Notes

References

International Institute for Asian Studies: Indian Political Intelligence Files Released for Research
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1869 births
1931 deaths
British police officers in India
Indian Police Service officers in British India
Hindu–German Conspiracy
English recipients of the Queen's Police Medal
Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
World War I espionage
British people in colonial India


Chuck Miller may refer to:
 Chuck Miller (musician) (1924–2000), American singer and pianist
 Charles A. Miller (political scientist) (1937–2019), American author and academic
 Chuck Miller (baseball) (1889–1961), Major League Baseball outfielder

See also
 Charles Miller (disambiguation)


Mildred Callahan Jones (September 19, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American businesswoman known as the "flag lady", who pioneered and helped develop the decorative flag industry.

Early life
Mildred Callahan was born on September 19, 1943, in Chase City, Virginia, and grew up on a tobacco farm. She earned her degree in nursing from what is now called Virginia Commonwealth University.

She met her husband, Thomas Jones, a lawyer, while working as a nursing manager at the Medical College of Virginia. The two bought their first home in the Fan district of Richmond, Virginia, which is one of the largest remaining Victorian neighborhoods left in North America.

Flag making
Jones originally started making flags as a hobby. Jones first purchased a piece of Scandinavian cloth in 1971 in order to guide party guests to her home in the Fan district section of Richmond, Virginia.

However, her interest in flag making turned into a small business after she hung a giant flag outside her home with the words, "It's a Boy", announcing the birth of her son in 1975. Jones, and her idea for decorative flags, soon propelled her into the national consciousness. Reporters from around the country, including ABC's Good Morning America and the Wall Street Journal, soon began arriving at her Richmond home in order to file stories on the "flag lady," as Jones became known.

She founded her company, Festival Flags Unlimited Inc., The Original Decorative Flag, in 1977. In 1978, Jones and her family moved to the family's new home at 2307 Monument Avenue, which was also in Richmond's Fan district. She immediately put her new basement to good use as the center of her flag making company. (Her previous workroom had been a small guest bedroom in her old home.)

Jones specialized in one-of-a-kind stitched nylon flags personalized for her individual customers. Famous clients and customers reportedly included former United States President Ronald Reagan, as well as actors Jack Lemmon and Carol Channing. A special custom made flag was ordered by the Governor of Virginia as a gift to actor James Garner after he filmed a television movie in Richmond.

However, as the popularity of her trademark "It's a Girl" and "It's a Boy" decorative flags soared, Jones and her company soon began mass-producing flags to be sold in major retail stores. She continued to hand sew special order flags throughout her career.

She expanded her Festival Flags business outside of her home in 1983, when she purchased and renovated a rundown property at 322 W. Broad Street in Richmond. The new facility allowed for the rapid expansion and manufacture of her decorative flags, banners, pennants and wall decorations. The building also housed left apartments which helped to redevelop the then declining neighborhood.

Over the years Jones and Festival Flags produced thousands of flags and other related products. Her flags were used in a wide array of public events and venues around the world and beyond, including art exhibitions, colleges, churches, such as the National Cathedral, museums, playgrounds and even several castles in England. Jones' flags were even carried into space on board the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985.

Festival Flags generated more than $1 million in sales revenue a year at the peak of its success in the mid-1990s. However, sales fell to approximately 100,000 a year by 2000, which corresponded to trends within the flag industry.

In the process, Jones also became deeply committed to her Richmond and Fan district community. She was a co-founder of the Old and Historic Broad Street Association, which worked to restore homes and buildings in the Presidents Row section of the city. The Richmond neighborhood is now considered an arts and dining district. She was also involved in other urban restoration and preservation organizations, including the Fan District Association and the Monument Avenue Preservation Society.

Jones sold her flag business in 2003 due to chronic health problems. She was a diabetic and had undergone quadruple-bypass surgery in 1998 before suffering a series of strokes in 2002.

Death
She died on January 17, 2008, at her home in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of 64. She was survived by her husband, Thomas O. Jones, her son, Jonathan and her mother,  Ida Mildred Callahan.

References

External links
Boston Globe: Mildred Jones, 64; created colorful festive flag business
Los Angeles Times: Mildred Jones, 64; pioneered festive flags
Chicago Tribune: Mildred Jones, 64; pioneered festive flags
Legacy.com (From the Associated Press): Mildred Callahan Jones obituary
Festival Flags
Fan District Association

1943 births
2008 deaths
Flag designers
Businesspeople from Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
People from Chase City, Virginia
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen


(born January 31, 1910, date of death unknown) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as forward. He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

External links

Junzo Inohara's profile at databaseOlympics.com
Junzo Inohara's profile at Sports Reference.com

1910 births
Year of death missing
Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 8 February 1951. Although elections had been held for the Legislative Council since 1925, the Council did not have complete control over the legislation, and the voting franchise was limited to residents of urban areas meeting property requirements and the councils of chiefs. The 1951 elections were the first in Africa to be held under universal suffrage.

Background
Amongst growing calls for self-governance, such as the 1948 Accra Riots and unrest (which led to the arrest of the Big Six), the Coussey Committee was commissioned by the United Kingdom government. Its report led to the 1951 constitution, which gave the Executive Council an African majority, and created an 84-member Legislative Assembly, 38 of whom were to be elected by the people, 37 representing territorial councils, six appointed to represent commercial interests and three ex officio members appointed by the Governor. Those representing commercial interests and appointed by the Governor were all white.

Campaign
A total of 117 candidates contested the 38 elected seats. The Convention People's Party (CPP) contested every seat, while the United Gold Coast Convention and National Democratic Party provided its main opposition.  There were also several independent candidates, as well as the Asante Kotoko party. General Secretary of the CPP, Kojo Botsio, won the Winneba seat unopposed, the only candidate to do so.

Nkrumah's aide and later Finance Minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah is credited with organising the entire campaign while Nkrumah was still in Fort James prison, detained by the colonial government. Nkrumah duly won the Accra Central Municipal seat.

Results
Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party won 34 of the 38 elected seats in the assembly, claiming all five seats and nearly 95% of the vote in urban areas; Nkrumah himself winning the Accra Central seat with 22,780 of the 23,122 votes cast. In rural areas the CPP won 29 of the 33 seats, taking around 72% of the vote. The main opposition, the United Gold Coast Convention, fared badly, winning only three seats, and was disbanded following the elections. Former members of the UGCC went on to form the Ghana Congress Party (which later became the United Party). The other parties were unsuccessful.

The CPP was also supported in the Assembly by 22 of the indirectly elected members, and thus held 56 of the 84 seats.

Aftermath
After winning the Accra Central seat, Nkrumah was released from prison, and was appointed "Leader of Government Business", before becoming the country's first Prime Minister the following year after a constitutional amendment.

Another new constitution was promulgated in 1954, followed by elections the same year, also won by the CPP. Following another convincing election victory by Nkrumah's party in 1956, Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan African state to gain independence (aside from apartheid South Africa) on 6 March 1957, changing its name to Ghana.

See also
List of MLAs elected in the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election

References

Elections in Ghana
Gold Coast
1951 in Gold Coast (British colony)
1951 elections in the British Empire
February 1951 events in Africa
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results


The Center for Improvisational Music (or CIM)  is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the teaching of jazz and creative music with a heavy emphasis on the inner workings of improvising. Founded by Ralph Alessi in 2001 and based in  Brooklyn, NY, CIM's main project is The School for Improvisational Music (or SIM) which since 2001 has presented 20 workshop series for 800 emerging improvisers from all over the globe. SIM's faculty includes Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, Jim Black,  Jason Moran and Steve Coleman  among others. The center stages performances and educational workshops, and has hosted an intensive two-week summer program for musicians.

References

External links

Music schools in New York City


Gümerdiğin is a neighbourhood of the town Şabanözü, Şabanözü District, Çankırı Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,189 (2021). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). Gümerdiğin is nearly 6 km northwest of Şabanözü and nearly 80 km from Ankara. Although Şabanözü is a district of Çankırı Province, Gümerdiğin is mostly in relation with Ankara.

Economy

Agriculture is the main part of the economy. There are two artificial lakes and also Sanı Çayı is used to supply water for the fields. Wheat, beans, apple and a bunch of vegetables are the main produce.

Education
In Gümerdiğin there's a primary and a middle school but not a high school. The students from some neighbouring villages also attend school here.

History
The town was named after Seljuk commander Humar Tigin who came to the area after the Battle of Manzikert with his clan. The name was slowly corrupted over time to its present form Gümerdiğin.

Health
In Gümerdiğin there's a state health office. In the office there a nurse, and a health officer but no doctor. When a doctor is needed people are transferred to Şabanözü where there's a State Hospital. Gümerdiğin is also lack of Pharmacy and the medicals can be obtained from Şabanözü also.

Demographics
Gümerdiğin's population is as follows;

Mayors of Gümerdiğin Municipality

References

External links
 Local information website

Şabanözü
Neighbourhoods in Çankırı Province


Frederick Merrifield (1831 – 28 May 1924, Brighton) was an English barrister, entomologist and campaigner for women's suffrage.

Merrifield was a London attorney and clerk to the County Council of East Sussex.

An expert on Lepidoptera, he was especially interested in the effect of temperature on the colour and patterning of butterflies, rearing larvae and pupae in controlled temperature incubators and recording the effect on the colouration of adults. Examples of his very many scientific papers on this subject are (1890). Systematic temperature experiments on some Lepidoptera in all their stages. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London, 131-59 and (1891). Conspicuous effects on the markings and colouring of Lepidoptera caused by exposure of the pupae to different temperature conditions. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London, 155-67.  He was President of the Royal Entomological Society (1905-1906).

Frederick was a Liberal and attended meetings of the Reform League that campaigned for better 'representation of the working classes'.  He and his wife Maria Merrifield (nee de Gaudrion, 1825-1894) were part of establishing the Brighton branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1872, along with Henry Fawcett and Millicent Fawcett and with Mrs Merrifield as treasurer. Frederick was also a member of the National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts since the legislation adversely affected women. With his younger daughter, Flora Merrifield, he campaigned for women's suffrage in Lewes and was present at the formation of the Brighton branch of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.  After his death, he was described as being 'from the beginning...a stout supporter of women's suffrage'.

Frederick Merrifield's mother was the author and artist, Mary Philadelphia Merrifield and he assisted her with her work, along with his elder brother, the mathematician Charles Watkins Merrifield.  In 1877, he was the chair of Brighton's School of Art, which later developed into the University of Brighton.

Frederick's eldest daughter Margaret de Gaudrion Verrall (1857-1916) became a spiritualist medium. Frederick was also a spiritualist, but lost respect for the medium Daniel Dunglas Home after claiming to have observed him cheat. At a séance in the house of the solicitor John Snaith Rymer in Ealing in July 1855, Merrifield observed that a "spirit-hand" was a false limb attached on the end of Home's arm. Merrifield also claimed to have observed Home use his foot in the séance room.

References

[Merrifield, F.]. (1903). A Sitting With D. D. Home. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 11 76–80.
[Merrifield, F.]. (1924). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 60 156.

English lepidopterists
1831 births
1924 deaths
Frederick


"Rockferry" is the debut single by Welsh singer Duffy, written by Duffy and Bernard Butler. It is the first track on the album of the same name. The music video for Rockferry was filmed in Porthmadog.

Song information
"Rockferry" was available for download on 19 November 2007 and was released on 3 December 2007 on limited edition 7" vinyl, with only 500 copies. A free download of the track was originally available via a link published on 15 October 2006 in Observer Music Monthly. The cover and music video was taken in a shoot at the Ffestiniog Railway in Porthmadog, which was renamed for the occasion.  The B-side "Oh Boy" was written by Richard J. Parfitt. Duffy cites "Oh Boy" as the song which meant she was discovered.

The song charted at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as charting at number 35 on the Swiss Singles Chart.

Critical reception
The track received widespread critical acclaim. Rolling Stone commented that she's "singing with great sincerity." AllMusic called it a "grand, sweeping ballad." MusicOMH.com said that she "carries the song unbelievably well, pouring drama and emotion into the lyrics, building up quite masterfully to the song's climax." Spin Magazine included "Rockferry" in its list of the 20 best songs of 2008. Time included it at number 9 of its Top 10 songs of 2008.

Track listing

UK 7" vinyl

 "Rockferry" [Single Version] – 4:11
 "Oh Boy" – 2:29

Promo CD
"Rockferry" [Single Version] – 4:09

iTunes Rockferry – single
"Rockferry" – 4:12
"Oh Boy" – 2:32

Charts
"Rockferry" peaked at number 45 in the UK Singles Chart, whilst due to the popularity of the song, the B-side, "Oh Boy" managed to chart number 96.

"Rockferry"

"Oh Boy"

Music video
The black and white album art and video for the title track were shot by directors Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, on and around the Ffestiniog Railway in Porthmadog, which was renamed 'Rockferry' for the occasion.

References

External links
Yahoo! Rockferry Review

2007 songs
2007 debut singles
Duffy (singer) songs
Songs written by Bernard Butler
A&M Records singles
2000s ballads


Several techniques can be used to move signals in the time-frequency distribution. Similar to computer graphic techniques, signals can be subjected to horizontal shifting, vertical shifting, dilation (scaling), shearing, and rotation. These techniques can help to save the bandwidth with proper motions apply on the signals. Moreover, filters with proper motion transformation can save the hardware cost without additional filters.

The following examples assume time in the horizontal axis versus frequency in the vertical axis. As a coincident, the following transformations happen to have the motion properties in the time-frequency distribution.

Shifting
Shifting on time axis is like horizontal shifting in time-frequency distribution. On another hand, shifting on the frequency axis would be vertical shifting in time-frequency distribution.

Horizontal shifting
If t0 is greater than 0, we would be shifting the signal to the right on time axis. (negative would be left)

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

Vertical shifting
If f0 is greater than 0, we would be shifting the signal to the upward on frequency axis. (negative would be downward)

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

This results in an amplitude modulation signal.
This sort of shift is also used in a frequency extender.
This sort of shift is also used in most bat detectors.

Such an effect is typically implemented using heterodyning

Dilation
Dilation is like doing scaling on one of the axis and area is the same after the process. When a > 1, it's expanding on time axis, and narrowing on frequency axis ;vice versa when a < 1.

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

When this kind of dilation is applied to audio, it causes a chipmunk effect.

Time stretching

Time stretching is doing scaling only on the time axis, leaving frequencies the same.
When  (the most common case), it's narrowing on the time axis, reducing the area.

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

Shearing
Shearing by definition is moving the side of the signal on one direction. Vertical and Horizontal shearing is introduced here.

On Vertical axis only (frequency)
It's shearing on frequency axis, since this only changes the phase.

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

On Horizontal axis only (time)
It's shearing on time axis, since this only changes the time.

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

Rotation
Many transforms has the property of rotations, like Gabor-Wigner, Ambiguity function (counterclockwise), modified Wigner, Cohen's class distribution.

STFT, Gabor, and WDF is introduced in here.

Clockwise rotation by 90 degrees
By switching the time and negative frequency to frequency and time would act like rotating 90 degrees clockwise.

STFT:

Gabor:

WDF:

Counterclockwise rotation by 90 degrees
By switching the negative time and frequency to frequency and time would act like rotating 90 degrees counterclockwise.

If , then

Rotation by 180 degrees
Changing the sign of both time and frequency would be like flipping twice on both axis, and it ends up like doing 180 degrees rotation.

If , then

Example
If we want the left image to become the right image, we can use the techniques from above to achieve the requirement.

There are several ways to solve this problem, this is one of the possible solutions.

First, we apply clockwise rotation of 90 degree by using one of the transform.

STFT:

Gabor:

WDF:

Second, we set a = 1/3, and perform a horizontal shearing on t-axis.

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

Third, we shift the signal 2 to the right on t-axis by setting t0 = 2

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

Finally, we shift the signal 1 to the left on f-axis by setting f0 = -1

STFT, Gabor:

WDF:

Applications
As mentioned in the introduction, the above techniques can be used to save the bandwidth or the filter cost.

Assume the signal look like this.

.

The dashed box is the filter, and the area of the dashed box would be the bandwidth required.

After some operations like the above example, the signal turn into the position like this.

As a result, the bandwidth was saved, since the area became smaller. Moreover, only a lowpass filter is required to recover the signal, instead of a bandpass filter.

See also
Other time-frequency transforms:
Short-time Fourier transform
Wigner distribution function
Ambiguity function
Cohen's class distribution function

References
 J.J. Ding, "time-frequency analysis and wavelet transform course note," the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.
 J.J. Ding, "time-frequency analysis and wavelet transform homework 3," the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.

Integral transforms
Fourier analysis


Sadayoshi Kobayashi (; February 14, 1905 – May 23, 1997) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as back.

He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

References

External links

profile

1905 births
1997 deaths
Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


is a junction passenger railway station located in the Tokuyama area of the city of  Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture,  Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Lines
Kushigahama Station is served by the JR West Sanyō Main Line, and is located 411.5 kilometers from the terminus of the line at . It is also served by the Gantoku Line and is 43.7 kilometers from the terminus of that station at

Station layout
The station consists of one side platform and two island platforms connected by a footbridge. There is an unnumbered fifth track that looks like a siding track on the inbound platform, but is used only for maintenance purposes and is a dead end.The station is unattended.

Platforms

History
Kushigahama Station was opened on 11 February 1929 as an infill station on the San'yo Main Line. The Gantoku Line began operations from 29 May 1932. With the privatization of the Japan National Railway (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan railway Company (JR West).

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 777 passengers daily.

Surrounding area
Tokuyama Boat Race Course
Shunan City Athletic Stadium
Shunan City Kushihama Elementary School
Shunan Municipal Taika Junior High School

See also
List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 JR West Station Official Site

Railway stations in Yamaguchi Prefecture
Sanyō Main Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928
Shūnan, Yamaguchi


(born August 17, 1910, date of death unknown) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as forward.

External links

Haruhiko Kon's profile at databaseOlympics.com
Haruhiko Kon's profile at Sports Reference.com

1910 births
Year of death missing
Sportspeople from Tokyo
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


Nationwide Children's Hospital (formerly Columbus Children's Hospital) is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care teaching hospital located in the Southern Orchards neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The hospital has 673 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the Ohio State University College of Medicine. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Ohio and surrounding regions. Nationwide Children's Hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. Nationwide Children's Hospital also features an AC- designated Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, one of four in the state. The hospital has affiliations with the nearby Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Nationwide Children's Hospital is located on its own campus and has more than 1,379 medical staff members and over 11,909 total employees.

In recent years, the hospital has been ranked as one of America's Best Children's Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and in 2023, the hospital was ranked as the 6th best overall children's hospital in the United States. The hospital has also been the recipient of numerous other awards.

History

Children's Hospital of Columbus opened in 1892 with 9 patient beds, which quickly grew to 15 beds. In 1923, the cornerstone for the new hospital was laid, and in 1924, the new hospital opened accommodating 75 patients with the ability to expand to 150 beds immediately (eventually going to 300 beds). It was in 1931 that the hospital began taking private patients for $4 per week.

In 1954, construction began on the Sellers Wing, which was a physical therapy building used to house polio patients.  In 1965, the federal government granted money to be used for the establishment of Children & Youth (C&Y) Clinics throughout the city.  These clinics grew into the Close To Home network of clinics since government funding decreased and the hospital continued to privately support them.

The first successful kidney transplant in central Ohio was performed at Children's in 1966, on an 11-year-old boy. Also in 1966, a new infant intensive care service (NICU) opened, specializing in the care of the seriously ill infants. It was operated independently of the regular intensive care unit (ICU).

In 1999, Children's and OhioHealth announced a relationship to operate the Neonatal Special and Intensive Care units at OhioHealth Central Ohio hospitals, which are: Doctors Hospital West, Grant Medical Center and Riverside Methodist Hospital. The hospitals have since collaborated to provide pediatric emergency care at Ohio Health campuses and urgent care facilities throughout Ohio.

On March 16, 2002, 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was struck in the head by a deflected puck during a Columbus Blue Jackets' game against the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena. She was rushed to the hospital and died two days later, becoming the only NHL fan to be killed in a game-related accident. The family sued the Blue Jackets, the NHL, and the Nationwide Children's Hospital for failing to detect a torn artery.

In 2003, Children's began an $80 million,  clinical expansion and started renovating  of existing space. Children's became the first freestanding children's hospital in Ohio to receive “Magnet Recognition” in 2004, which is the highest honor for excellence in nursing.

In 2005, the hospital performed its first lung transplant on a 23-year-old cystic fibrosis (CF) patient.

In 2006, a “Domino” heart and double lung transplant was performed, involving the world's youngest living heart donor. The transplant was performed successfully, by the Children's Hospital Heart Center team led by Dr. Mark Galantowicz.

In 2007, the hospital received a gift of $50 million from the Nationwide Foundation of the Nationwide Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Children's Hospital was accordingly renamed to Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Clinical services
In 2018, Nationwide Children's Hospital had 18,128 inpatient discharges, performed 38,036 surgeries and saw 1,468,343 outpatient visits.  The hospital system has 125 specialties within its main downtown campus and its 34 outpatient care centers throughout the central Ohio area. These include sixteen Close To Home Centers, which offer diagnostic and therapeutic services, and eleven Primary Care Centers, which offer primary care check-ups for children from birth to age 21.

Six Close To Home Centers in Canal Winchester, Dublin, Downtown, East Columbus, Marysville and Westerville offer urgent care services. Other outpatient facilities include the Homecare Center, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, the Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center and the Orthopedic Center.  Also on site is the Outpatient Care Center, which provides subspecialty ambulatory clinics; an outpatient lab and outpatient pharmacy, and pediatric and surgical specialists. The system also has an urgent care center that offers immediate treatment for illnesses and injuries that do not require hospital emergency department attention.

Family centered care

The hospital provides “family centered care", focusing on the family's needs, as well as the child's, to promote and maintain the health of the child in the context of the family and community.

Research and education

Research
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital is one of the fastest growing pediatric research centers in the United States. Organized research began after the Second World War with the recognition of E. coli III as a source and cause of epidemic diarrhea, and the development of a treatment for histoplasmosis. In 2009, among free-standing children's hospitals, The Research Institute ranked 9th based on NIH funding and amongst all other pediatric research organizations ranked 18th based on NIH funding.

The Research Institute contains Biobehavioral health, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research,  Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, Clinical and Translational Research, Gene Therapy, Injury Research and Policy, Innovation in Pediatric Practice, Microbial Pathogenesis, Genomic Medicine, Perinatal Research, Mathematical Medicine, and Vaccines and Immunity departments.

Children's Hospital Investigative Laboratory Division, CHILD, was created in the 1950s when the hospital realized a separate organization was needed to manage research. The first medical science research building at [Nationwide] Children's Hospital, Ross Hall, was completed in 1961.  CHILD evolved into Children's Hospital Research Foundation, a non-profit corporation that was incorporated on May 12, 1964.  Two years later in 1966, research expenditures exceeded $1 million for the first time.  And in 1987, the new Wexner Center for Pediatric Research opened.  In 2003, Children's Hospital Research Foundation was renamed the Columbus Children's Research Institute. Also that year, the Research Institute not only began a human testing phase for a new HIV/AIDS vaccine, but they finished the year with $34 million in external research awards.  A new  research building opened in 2004.  In 2006, the Nationwide Foundation donated a 10-year, $50 million gift to support child safety and injury prevention, neonatal intensive care, and the heart center at Nationwide Children's Hospital. In 2007, the Columbus Children's Research Institute was renamed The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Prominent researchers at this institute include neurologist Jerry Mendell, who led the world's first clinical trial for gene therapy for duchenne muscular dystrophy at the institute in 2007.

Education
Nationwide Children's Hospital houses the Department of Pediatrics for The Ohio State University College of Medicine.  It is a teaching hospital offering nationally recognized pediatric residencies and fellowships in medical and surgical specialties.  The residency programs offered are a dual residency with OhioHealth's Doctors Hospital, Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residency, Genetics Residency, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Pharmacy, Pediatric Research Pathway, Pediatric Residency, and Pediatric Surgery. Fellowships are available in 33 areas of patient care, including Cardiology, Child Abuse and Maltreatment, Critical Care, Gastroenterology, Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Surgical Critical Care.

In 1931, the pediatric residency program began at Children's Hospital.  Six years later, in 1937, the teaching of pediatrics was moved from the Starling Loving Hospital at The Ohio State University to Children's Hospital. Dr. Earl H. Baxter became the first chairman of the Ohio State University Department of Pediatrics in 1943.  The Pediatric Pathology residency program began in 1953 and was followed by the Pediatric Dentistry program in 1954.  Dr. Bruce Graham became chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at OSU and Medical Director of the hospital in 1964 and was the first to combine these two positions.  Dr. Grant Morrow III became chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at OSU and Medical Director of the hospital in 1978. The Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program began in 1983, followed by the neonatology fellowship in 1984 and the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship in 1985.  In 1990, construction began on the new $18.3 million education building that opened in 1992.  Dr. Thomas N. Hansen was named chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at OSU and Medical Director of the hospital in 1995.  The Department of Pediatrics was awarded the prestigious Ohio State University Departmental Teaching Excellence Award in 1999, and the Educational Building was renamed the Ann Isaly Wolfe Education Building in recognition of her support.  In 2003, new fellowship programs begin in pediatric nephrology, pediatric ophthalmology, and pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation.  A year later, another new residency program in pediatric orthopedic surgery began. Nationwide Children's Hospital is home to the International Symposium on the Hybrid Approach to Congenital Heart Disease (ISHAC).

The hospital has a large active education program with 252 interns and residents employed at the hospital.

Expansion

Nationwide Children's Hospital opened a new, 12-story,  main hospital on June 20, 2012, with select floors and patients transferred to individually complete floors from January 2012 onward. Other components of the hospital's 2012 Master Facilities plan included “Research III,” a $93 million, six-floor research facility, which added  to the current  of research space. Research III will be home to the new Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Facility with state-of-the-art equipment including hybrid suites, and the Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine. The successful expansion followed green design principles, including a LEED-certified new central energy plant.

Houston firm FKP Architects was the master designer for the expansion.

Awards
In 2023, the hospital was ranked as the 6th best children's hospital in America by U.S. News & World Report.

As of 2023, Nationwide Children's Hospital has placed nationally in all 10 ranked pediatric specialties on U.S. News & World Report for 10 years in a row.

Controversy and criticism

Emergency department naming
In 2008, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus planned to rename its emergency department the Abercrombie & Fitch Emergency Department and Trauma Center in exchange for a $10 million donation from Abercrombie & Fitch, a locally based retail clothing corporation. A letter written by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and signed by over 100 doctors and children's advocacy groups urged the hospital not to go ahead with the renaming, arguing that, "Given this company's appalling history of targeting children with sexualized marketing and clothing, no public health institution should be advertising Abercrombie & Fitch." People all over the United States questioned the ethics of allowing a pediatric emergency room to be named after a clothing company.

In popular culture
The hospital was consulted on in the Netflix series Diagnosis when 17-year-old Lashay Hamblin was diagnosed with rumination and was connected with specialists at the Nationwide Children's Hospital rumination program. The program is one of only few in the country. Due to distrust of doctors, Lashay did not seek treatment at the hospital.

See also

 List of children's hospitals in the United States
 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
 Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
 Akron Children's Hospital
 Dayton Children's Hospital

References

External links

Hospital buildings completed in 1924
Hospital buildings completed in 2012
Children's hospitals in the United States
Hospitals in Columbus, Ohio
Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area
Pediatric trauma centers


Walk It Off is the second album from the Minneapolis-based band Tapes 'n Tapes, released on 2 April 2008.

While their previous album, The Loon, was produced by the band's bassist and producer, Eric Applewick, and was recorded in a friend's unfinished basement studio, Walk It Off was recorded by a producer, David Fridmann, at Tarbox Road Studio in Cassadaga, New York. The album has 12 tracks, although it was originally planned to have fifteen. The first single released for the album was "Hang Them All".

The critical reception to the album was generally favourable, scoring a rating of 61% from Metacritic.

History
In March 2007, Josh Grier announced that a variety of new untitled songs had been written after an extensive bout of touring that began in January 2007. In an interview with Billboard, Grier said the band would wait until their April tour before playing any new material to make sure the lyrics were written, so the songs wouldn't sound like "[mumbled] words." The band announced on October 25, 2007, that recording for Walk It Off was finished. Grier commented that the band tried to make sure each song had its own personality and sound. He explained that there would be material on Walk It Off that would differ from songs the band played previously, because the band intentionally experimented with new sounds.

Recording
Josh Grier stated that "having a budget was awesome" as it allowed them to have a studio where the band could get the sounds they wanted, including real drum sounds, as last time they had recorded the drums "in a place that had six-feet ceilings".
Grier said that the band wanted to make a rock record without any over-indulgences, and focused on creating music where the songs sounded like the band playing songs instead of a "crazy orchestration". He also said that he wanted the music to sound the same when performed in front of a live audience.

Grier stated that some of writing for the album took place on the two months before the band recorded in the studio. The recording process was said to entail Grier writing the song, adding "all the music" and then the band would meet up and practice together to "figure out everybody's part". Grier said the last part of the process would be to add the vocals of which he would "make words kind of to match the sounds" and finally make additions and amendments to the vocals or writing whilst the band were in the studio.

Grier said of the recording process that it was "cool" to be able to live at the studio as it enabled him to "work on stuff all day and mess around with it and work on stuff all night if [he] wanted to." However, by the end of the first couple of weeks, Grier said he was "definitely ready to be done in the studio for a little bit."

Lyrics
The album's lyrics were said to be different from previous songs, as the band wanted to "try some different things out" and "not do the same thing all over again." Grier voiced that the songs were written to have ambiguous meanings and were written with the intent of letting the listener interpret the meanings themselves. In addition, Grier said that there were some songs that he "spent a little bit more time on" and that he was "definitely happy with how everything turned out."

Album title
Grier said the title of the album was suggested by drummer, Jeremy Hanson, who liked the idea of Walk It Off.

Critical reception

The critical reception to the album was generally mixed. Based on 21 reviews, review aggregate website Metacritic reported a rating of 61%.

Heather Phares of Allmusic discussed the pairing of Dave Fridmann with Tapes 'n Tapes, and said that, "while teaming a quintessential indie rock producer like him with a band of indie rock classicists like Tapes 'n Tapes might seem like a good idea on paper, it doesn't quite work".

Many reviewers compared Walk It Off to the band's debut album, The Loon, as with Jessica Braham of the BBC, who said that Walk It Off was a poor follow-up, and said it was difficult to believe that Walk It Off was by the same band who released the "innovative, abstract, and gritty debut album, The Loon". Phares said, "Nothing makes as much of a visceral impact here as songs like "Insistor" did on The Loon [...] often, it feels like there's fog or a glass wall between the music and listeners' ears".

However other reviewers felt that the album followed in a similar vein to their debut, with Billboard stating that, "[The Loon] was characterized by fuzzy vintage cool, and it's followed here with a much more frustrated version of the same", whilst others said that Walk It Off was different from their debut but that the change in sound was positive; "It doesn't match its predecessor but it's a banquet of sound well worth feasting on."

Track listing
All songs written by Josh Grier.
"Le Ruse" – 2:56
"Time of Songs" – 3:42
"Hang Them All" – 3:00
"Headshock" – 2:48
"Conquest" – 4:14
"Say Back Something" – 3:12
"Demon Apple" – 4:30
"Blunt" – 3:10
"George Michael" – 4:02
"Anvil" – 3:34
"Lines" – 4:03
"The Dirty Dirty" – 5:02

iTunes Bonus Track
"Wired" - 4:58

Band members
Josh Grier – guitar, vocals
Jeremy Hanson – drums
Matt Kretzman – keyboards, multi-instruments
Erik Appelwick – bass guitar

References

External links
Tapes 'n Tapes official website

Tapes 'n Tapes albums
2008 albums
Albums recorded at Tarbox Road Studios


Demons Fall for an Angel's Kiss is the 1994 studio solo album of the American deathrock veteran musician Eva O.

Recording history
For this solo project, Eva O wanted to write a dark concept album about angels and began searching for literature about the subject, and the album was initially entitled Angels Fall for a Demon's Kiss. After reading through books that approached the subject from a new age point of view, Eva decided to look for more traditional sources and read Billy Graham's book titled Angels. After reading the book, Eva realized the hierarchy of angels and rewrote the album, titling it Demons Fall for an Angel's Kiss.

Musically, the album emphasizes on a mellower and calmer yet dark, atmospheric deathrock. Eva O's haunting vocals are upfront in the mix and dominate the output, with the echoed guitars and keyboards being less apparent.

Track listing
"Daydreamer" - 5:48
"Children of the Light" - 4:20
"Angel on Earth" - 4:42
"Angel of Fire" - 2:18
"For the Angels 1" - 1:20
"Take a Jesus" - 3:11
"Angel of Death - 4:41
"Universal Trip" - 4:54
"For The Angel 2"- 0:11
"Souls That Save" - 5:26
"Power of Hope" - 3:54
"Unveil" - 3:55

References

1994 albums
Eva O albums


was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Hamhung, Korea. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as forward.

References

External links

Kenichi Konishi's profile at databaseOlympics.com
Kenichi Konishi's profile at Sports Reference.com

1909 births
1986 deaths
People from Hamhung
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


Karl Meersman (born 14 September 1961) is a Belgian editorial cartoonist, living in Sint-Niklaas. He is known for his weekly caricatures in the popular magazines Trends and Knack. Meersman is married to former VRT-television journalist and presenter Lies Martens.

Meersman's art has been widely lauded in the press, in the art world, and in politics. He gained international attention when his work was displayed in the Belgian consulate in New York City, in 2006–2007.

Biography

Early life
Meersman comes from an artistic family.  His grandfather was a painter, and both his mother and father were professional artists.  When he was a young boy his parents took him to the art school in Temse, where they worked as teachers. At age thirteen, he entered a drawing contest for children, but was disqualified because the jury did not believe his entry was drawn by a child.

After deciding he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his parents, he dropped out of high school and attended different art night schools instead.  He was awarded degrees in publicity, printmaking, and figure drawing.  In the meantime his father sent him to a photogravure company, where Meersman held a day job. When his father's drawing workshop became too big to be run by a single person, he became permanently involved there. In 1991, together with two of his siblings, Meersman took over his father's drawing studio Meersman I.D. to manage the ever-growing work load.

Career
Initially, Meersman was mainly occupied with work in the publicity sector. He was hired as a caricaturist by Trends magazine in 1987 after he was noticed drawing visitors in a furniture shop, and has been drawing political cartoons for the magazine weekly ever since.  The economical magazine calls the cartoonist their "jester of the socio-economic society".

In 2002, he became the permanent illustrator for Focus Knack, for which he draws caricatures of showbiz people most of the time.

Artwork
The artwork for magazines is done using traditional techniques: watercolor and pencil on paper.  His interest in contemporary politics and news led him to political caricature as a living, and as he says: "I like to stand with both feet in the present, my work is a mirror of today."

As his biggest influences he names Egon Schiele and the satirical prints in the tradition of Félicien Rops, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Honoré Daumier. His style is described as realism with a strong eye for detail.

Besides caricatures and editorial cartoons Meersman also produces posters, stamps, paintings, and interior designs. In the past he also produced book illustrations and children's books.

Bibliography

Editorial cartoon
 Meersman; Karl (2010). VIPS TOO : very important paintings too. Roularta Books.
 Meersman, Karl (2007). VIPS : very important paintings. Roularta.
 Vandamme, Hugo and Cambien, Karel (2007). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Wat baten kaars en bril : management in spreekwoorden : wat je op school niet leert. Roularta.
 Trends (2000). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. België : tekenend en getekend 1990–2000 : Karl Meersman tekent tien jaar België / La Belgique traits pour traits 1990–2000 : Karl Meersman croque dix belges années. Roularta.
 Seghers, Hendrik (1997). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. De nieuwe collaboratie : een ondernemer in het verzet. Davidsfonds.
 Trends (1993). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. België in 30 hoofdstukken : over economie en politiek in de jaren '90. Roularta.
 Uytterhoeven, Mark (1988). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Wat een jaar, beste spotliefhebber! : de hoogtepunten van het sportjaar 1988. Roularta.

Child and young adult literature
 Meersman, Karl (2002). Een melkje wolk. Afijn.
 Kolet, Janssen (2000). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Wisselkind : roman. Davidsfonds.
 Linders, Jac (1999). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. De derde kans. Davidsfonds.
 De Maeyer, Gregie (1998). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. De koningste koning. Davidsfonds.
 Langenus, Ron (1997). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Onder de zwarte heuvel. Davidsfonds.
 Linders, Jac (1997). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Complot tegen Jesse. Davidsfonds.
 De Maeyer, Gregie (1996). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Ach. Davidsfonds.
 Langenus, Ron (1996). Illustrated by Meersman, Karl. Het geheim van de Zwarte Dame. Davidsfonds.

See also
 List of caricaturists
 List of editorial cartoonists

Notes and references

Further reading
 Herremans, Ben (2003). Karl Meersman : een getekend wereldbeeld / Karl Meersman traits marquant le monde. Roularta.

External links
 Karl Meersman official website
 Lambiek Comiclopedia article.

Living people
1961 births
Belgian editorial cartoonists
20th-century Belgian painters
21st-century Belgian painters
Belgian illustrators
Belgian caricaturists
Belgian humorists
People from Temse


Hiroshi Nagata (, 30 August 1907 – 4 August 1961) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as forward.

References

External links

Hiroshi Nagata's profile at databaseOlympics.com
Hiroshi Nagata's profile at Sports Reference.com

1907 births
1961 deaths
Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


Peter Norfolk defeated David Wagner in the final, 6–2, 6–3 to win the inaugural quad singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2008 Australian Open.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Wheelchair Quad Singles
2008 Quad Singles


Killerball is a video game about a futuristic sport published by Microïds in 1989 which blends American football with roller-skating, similar to the 1975 film Rollerball. This violent game is played in a circular rink where each 5-man team tries to score by putting the ball into the hole of the opposing team on the opposite sides of the track. Taking the ball from an opponent can only be done by knocking him down.

Gameplay
Killerballs has a training mode, where the player competes against another player or the computer in a single exhibition game, and a league mode in which the player picks 1 of the 8 Killerball teams and battles through an entire season till they reach the championship game. League mode can also be played with another player.

There are three leagues that affect the rules and gameplay of Killerball that can be selected in both training and league game modes:Minor league: There are no inflicted injuries on both teams no matter how hard the players hit or tackle the opposing player and the team with the most scoring points against the opposing team wins the game.Major league: Both teams must win by either scoring the most goals or optionally injuring the entire opposing team, If a killerball player is injured in the game they are replaced by a substitute player, which are limited. Elite League:''' There is no time limit; one of the teams just has to survive and injure all the opposing team's skaters to win the game, no matter how many goals both teams scored.

See alsoRocketball''

References

External links
Microïds
TheLegacy: Killerball

1989 video games
Microïds games
Action games
Fantasy sports video games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Amiga games
DOS games
Europe-exclusive video games
Video games developed in France


Eiichi Nakamura (Japanese: 中村 英一, Nakamura Eiichi; 1909 – 27 May 1945) was a Japanese athlete and field hockey player from Kyoto Prefecture. Nakamura is best known for competing in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Nakamura was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

He was killed in action during World War II.

References

External links

profile

1909 births
1945 deaths
Sportspeople from Kyoto Prefecture
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Japanese civilians killed in World War II

Deaths by American airstrikes during World War II


Thiazepines are substituted thiepins, with a nitrogen replacing a carbon in the seven-membered heterocyclic compound. Depending on the location of the nitrogen, one distinguishes 1,3-thiazepine and 1,4-thiazepine.

Benzothiazepines have a single benzene attached to the ring, while dibenzothiazepines have two. Diltiazem, a benzothiazepine, is a calcium channel blocker intermediate in properties between verapamil and the dihydropyridines. It is used to treat variant angina (Prinzmetal's angina), either naturally occurring or drug-induced and stable angina.

References

External links

Thiazepines


Katsumi Shibata (, 1909 – August 1942) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as halfback. He was born in Tokyo, Japan and was killed in action during World War II.

References

External links

Katsumi Shibata's profile at databaseOlympics.com
Katsumi Shibata's profile at Sports Reference.com

1909 births
1942 deaths
Sportspeople from Tokyo
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Japanese military personnel killed in World War II
20th-century Japanese people


Monja Danischewsky (28 April 1911 – 16 October 1994) was a British producer and writer, born in Archangel into a Russian-Jewish family who left Russia for England in 1919 and who produced and wrote the films Topkapi and Rockets Galore! (1957)  and others.

Biography

Early life
Monja Danischewsky's family left Russia for Great Britain in 1919.

Career
He started out with various publicity jobs, then to Ealing Studios as publicity director in 1938 and occasional writer. Switched to producer 1949; became independent producer The Galloping Major (1951); returned as producer/writer in mid-1950s and continued briefly after Ealing ended; Rockets Galore (1958) and The Battle of the Sexes (1959). Autobiography, 'White Russian, Red Face', 1966.

Filmography

As writer
Undercover (1943)
Bitter Springs (1950)
The Galloping Major (1951)
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
The Love Lottery (1954) (additional dialogue and scenes)
Rockets Galore! (1957)
The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
Two and Two Make Six (1962)
Topkapi (1964) (screenplay)
Mister Moses (1965)
Avalanche (1969) (as John Danischewsky)
That Lucky Touch (1975) (adaptation)

As producer
Whisky Galore! (1949) (associate producer)
The Galloping Major (1951)
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
The Love Lottery (1954)
The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
Two and Two Make Six (1962) (producer)
Avalanche (1969) (producer) (as John Danischewsky)
Run Wild, Run Freedom (1969)

Published works
White Russian, Red Face (Gollancz, 1966)
Out of My Mind (Michael Joseph, 1972)
 short memoir by Danischewsky of Barnett Freedman, in Emma Mason (ed.), Tales of Barnett Freedman (Bread and Butter Press, 2020)

References

External links

1911 births
1994 deaths
English film producers
White Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Russian Jews
20th-century English screenwriters
20th-century English businesspeople


Nicholas Taylor and David Wagner defeated Sarah Hunter and Peter Norfolk in the final, 5–7, 6–0, [10–3] to win the inaugural quad doubles wheelchair tennis title at the 2008 Australian Open.

Seeds

  Nicholas Taylor /  David Wagner (champions)
  Sarah Hunter /  Peter Norfolk (finals)

Draw

Finals

External links
 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Doubles Scores

Wheelchair Quad Doubles
2008 Quad Doubles


was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dalian, China. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as back.

References

External links

1909 births
Year of death missing
Sportspeople from Dalian
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


Frederick J. Iseman is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of CI Capital Partners (formerly Caxton-Iseman Capital) private-equity firm.

Early life and education
Iseman is the son of Joseph S. Iseman, a noted New York City attorney and partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He earned a B.A. in English literature from Yale College and is a member of its Elizabethan Club.

Career
Iseman founded Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC in partnership with Caxton Associates.  Caxton-Iseman Capital LLC announced on December 21, 2007, that it had completed its spin-off from Caxton Associates to form an independent private equity fund to be named CI Capital Partners LLC.  Frederick Iseman currently serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of CI Capital Partners LLC.

Iseman is a former chairman of CI Capital Partners' portfolio companies, including Ply Gem Industries, American Residential Services, Conney Safety Products, KIK Custom Products, and CoVant, Transplace, Tech Air, Interactive Health Solutions, Galls, IntraPac, A-T Solutions, Foundation Building Materials, and Total Fleet Solutions. Iseman is also a member of the advisory board of investment firm STAR Capital in London. Iseman was the chairman of Anteon International Corp. until Anteon's sale to General Dynamics Corp. in June 2006.

Philanthropy
Iseman sat on the boards of directors of the International Rescue Committee and was a member of the advisory board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, whose chairman is former senator Sam Nunn. He currently serves on the international council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

His philanthropic interests include medical research at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the Frederick Iseman Theater at Yale University, the Wharton Institute, the Taub Institute for Brain Research, oncology, immunology, and other disciplines. In 2014, he provided Yale with a $3 million endowment for creation of the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry faculty position.

As a member of the board of directors of The Metropolitan Opera, Iseman underwrote the production of Dimitri Shostakovich's The Nose for the 2009–2010 season.  He was also on the board of trustees of Carnegie Hall and was chairman of the Mariinsky Foundation of America. Iseman is also a Harold Pratt Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on that Council's Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy. He was the lead sponsor of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization's 2008 conference on nuclear weapons. Iseman is a major supporter of Stanford University's Preventive Defense Project, a part of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Yale Center for Genocide Studies. His support of the latter allowed Adam Jones to complete his book, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people

American money managers
Harvard Kennedy School staff
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people
Businesspeople from the Upper East Side
Philanthropists from New York (state)
Private equity and venture capital investors
Yale College alumni


Toshio Usami (, February 22, 1908 – June 1, 1991) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. In 1932 he was a member of the Japanese field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played two matches as forward.

References

External links

Toshio Usami's profile at databaseOlympics.com
Toshio Usami's profile at Sports Reference.com

1908 births
1991 deaths
Sportspeople from Aichi Prefecture
Japanese male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Japan
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Japanese people


Platypleura divisa is an African cicada first described by Ernst Friedrich Germar, entomologist and professor of mineralogy at Halle, who also studied beetles.

The genus Platypleura occurs widely across Africa and southern Asia. Some of the South African species are remarkable for their endothermic thermoregulation that enables crepuscular signalling, an adaptation that reduces risk of predation and enables a greater range for their calls. In field experiments their maximum body temperature while calling at dusk, was measured at 22 °C above ambient temperature.

Platypleura divisa is even more noteworthy in that it has been collected only from one species of foodplant, the small tree Maytenus heterophylla. The closely related coastal species P. maytenophila shares its strong bond with Maytenus heterophylla, but is distinguishable by a quite different call.

The Platypleurini are distributed from the Cape in South Africa, throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, through India and south East Asia, to Japan. The faunas of West Africa and Madagascar are distinctive, while those of southern and east Africa resemble the Asian group. Endothermy occurs in several large-bodied South American and South African species, but not in related small-bodied species.

References

External links
Taxonomy
Japanese site
List of Homoptera in Swedish Museum of Natural History
An Appraisal of the Higher Classification of Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) with Special Reference to the Australian Fauna - M.S. Moulds
The Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of South Africa (Villet)

Insects of Africa
Platypleura
Insects described in 1834


Microlith is a brand of catalytic reactor invented by engineer William C. Pfefferle.

Technology

A catalyst is a substance that speeds a reaction but that itself is left in its original state after the reaction, so that it can assist in the reaction of a large quantity of material over a long period of time. A Microlith reactor is constructed with a very thin metal substrate coated with a variety of materials including catalysts to speed reactions, and adsorbent materials for use in filters. The substrate has short channels (0.001–0.020 in) which resemble screens or meshes. This results in a lower pressure drop than other reactors and allows for high cell density and low thermal mass. Mass and heat transfer are significantly increased, allowing faster reactor response to gas temperatures and improved rates of reactant contact with the surface. By passing an electric current through the metal substrate, the Microlith can be heated rapidly and efficiently. Over 12 Microlith related US patents have been issued.

Applications

 Fuel reforming
 Fuel processing
 Catalytic combustion
 Regenerable contaminant adsorbers
 Contaminant oxidizers
 Automotive catalytic converters
 Infrared generators for aerial targets

References

External links
Microlith Reactor Systems
Performance of Microlith Based Catalytic Reactors for an Isooctane Reforming System

Heating
Catalysts


Urmas Kirs (born 5 November 1966) is an Estonian football manager and a retired footballer. He lastly coached the Estonian Meistriliiga club Tarvas. He played in the position of defender. Kirs spent the most of his career in Flora.

International career
Kirs won a total of 80 international caps for the Estonia national football team. He earned his first official cap on 3 June 1992, when Estonia played Slovenia in a friendly match.

Career statistics

International goals

References

External links

1966 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Viljandi
Estonian men's footballers
Estonian football managers
Estonia men's international footballers
Meistriliiga players
Veikkausliiga players
Viljandi JK Tulevik players
FC Flora players
FC Elva players
Estonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
Estonian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Men's association football defenders


Brian McCabe is a Scottish writer, tutor and editor, best known for his short stories and poetry.

Biography
Born in 1951, McCabe grew up in Bonnyrigg, a mining community near Edinburgh. He studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he encountered other young writers such as Ron Butlin and Andrew Greig and was influenced by older Edinburgh poets such as Norman MacCaig and Robert Garioch. Along with Greig, Butlin and Liz Lochhead, McCabe was one of "The Lost Poets," a rough collective which organised readings and other events in central Scotland in the early 1970s.

Since 1980, McCabe has been a full-time writer and has held a number of fellowships both in Scotland and abroad, including a residence at the University of Edinburgh. He has published three collections of short stories, one novel The Other McCoy (1991), and five volumes of poetry. His Selected Stories was published in 2003.  As well as poetry and fiction, McCabe writes radio drama.

In 2004, McCabe became editor of Edinburgh Review. As a creative writing tutor, he has worked at the universities of Lancaster, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, besides numerous community projects.

References

External links

Living people
Scottish poets
Scottish short story writers
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
People educated at Lasswade High School Centre
Year of birth missing (living people)


Aderemi Raji-Oyelade (born 1961) is a Nigerian poet, writing in English. He is popularly known by his pen name, Remi Raji.

Career
A Salzburg Fellow and visiting professor and writer to a number of institutions, among them Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the Universities of California at Riverside and Irvine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Cambridge University, UK, Raji has had scholarly essays published in journals including Research in African Literatures and African Literature Today. He has read his poems widely in Africa, Europe and America. In 2005, he served as the Guest Writer to the City of Stockholm, Sweden.

His volumes of poetry include Webs of Remembrance (2001), Shuttlesongs America: A poetic guided tour (2003), Lovesong for My Wasteland (2005), Gather My Blood Rivers of Song (2009) and Sea of My Mind (2013). Raji’s works have been translated into French, German, Catalan, Swedish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Croatian and Hungarian. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar to Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Remi Raji was elected as the Publicity Secretary of the Oyo State chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in 1989. His second elective position was as Vice-Chair of the ANA in 1997. He became the substantive Chairman of the ANA from 1998 to 2000, at the election of Dr. Wale Okediran to the national executive committee of the ANA. Raji served as the Year 2000 Editor of the ANA Review, the official journal of the association. On 3 December 2011, during the 30th-anniversary celebration of the founding of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Remi Raji was elected as the ANA's 11th President.

Raji was the National Coordinator of the resuscitated Nigerian PEN Centre in 1999 before he was elected as the Secretary of the Centre, a position he held till February 2010. During this period, Raji facilitated international workshops and strategic meetings of African PEN Centres within Africa and in Europe. He was unanimously elected as the first Coordinating Secretary of PAN, the Congress of PEN African Centres, at a special meeting of the group on 22 November 2003 in Mexico City.

At his university, University of Ibadan, the Professor of English and African Literatures and Creative Writing has served in many administrative capacities which culminated in his appointment as the Head of the Department of English in 2011. Over a year after that substantive position, he was elected as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

Bibliography
 A Harvest of Laughters, 1997, joint winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors/Cadbury Poetry Prize and winner of the Association of West African Young Writers' VOCA Award for Best First Published Book
 Webs of Remembrance, 2001
 Shuttlesongs America: A Poetic Guided Tour, 2001–2003
 Lovesong for My Wasteland, 2005
 Gather My Blood Rivers of Song, 2009.
 Sea of My Mind, 2013.
 Wanderer Cantos, 2021.

References

External links
 Remi Raji's Selected Poems in the Dublin Quarterly.
 Sule E. Egya, "The Nationalist Imagination in Remi Raji's Lovesong for My Wasteland", in Research in African Literatures, Winter 2007, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 111–126.

Living people
1961 births
20th-century male writers
21st-century male writers
Academic staff of the University of Ibadan
Nigerian poets


The New Folk Implosion is the fourth studio album by the Folk Implosion. It was released on iMusic in 2003. In Europe, it was released on Domino Recording Company. The album was the group's first release without co-founder John Davis.

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 57, based on 11 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Exclaim! wrote that the album "features Barlow in fine voice and exploring the catchy guitar rock that's marked his career." Now wrote that "the grittier, guitar-heavy sound stands in contrast to "Natural One"'s slick hiphop slinkiness and One Part Lullaby’s multi-layered marriage of indie rock and electronica."

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

The Folk Implosion
 Lou Barlow – vocals, bass guitar, loop (2, 7), production, recording (2, 7), mixing (1–3, 5, 6, 9)
 Imaad Wasif – guitar, sitar (6), production, mixing (1–3, 5, 6, 9)
 Russell Pollard – drums, bass guitar (3, 9), vocals (9), production, mixing (1–3, 5, 6, 9)

Additional personnel
 Aaron Espinoza – piano (3, 5), recording (1, 3, 5, 6, 9), mixing (1, 3, 5, 6, 9)
 Wally Gagel – production (2, 7), recording (2, 7), mixing (2, 7)
 Mickey Petralia – production (4, 8), recording (4, 8), mixing (4, 8)
 Greg Kurstin – electric piano (4)
 David McConnell – mixing (1, 3, 9)
 Eddie Schreyer – mastering
 Carol Sheridan – photography

References

External links

2003 albums
The Folk Implosion albums
Domino Recording Company albums
Albums produced by Mickey Petralia


Diego Hidalgo y Durán (1886–1961) was a Spanish intellectual and politician, who was appointed minister of war during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936).

Biography
Born in Los Santos de Maimona (Extremadura) in a family of aristocratic descent, Diego Hidalgo had to make a living early as his family had no lands and his father died when he was young. After studying law, he passed the state exam to become a notary, and started supporting his mother and four siblings.

Hidalgo was a Republican (even though he had rights to two titles of Marquis, given up by his grandfather, Diego Hidalgo y Solís). One of the drafters of the Constitutions of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, and a member of the Radical Republican Party presided by Alejandro Lerroux, Hidalgo became Minister of War in 1934. When serving as Minister, Hidalgo chose Francisco Franco (who was later going to be lead nationalist Spain during the civil war and be the caudillo for nearly 40 years) as one of his advisers. Hidalgo ordered Franco to stop the asturian miners' strike of 1934. Although Franco would later reveal to be ideologically different from Hidalgo, he kept affection for him, and Hidalgo was one of the only people who could speak freely with Franco.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Diego Hidalgo had to flee from Spain, where he was threatened both by Nationalists and Republicans. He spent most of the war in France where he married Gerda Schnur, the daughter of German industrialist David Schnur.

Back in Spain in 1938, Hidalgo continued his activities as a lawyer, notary, and writer. Notably, he saved 39 Republican political prisoners from being executed, proving their innocence. Hidalgo was also a member of the International Court of Justice.

Diego Hidalgo y Durán was the father of the Spanish intellectual and philanthropist Diego Hidalgo Schnur.

Major writings by Diego Hidalgo y Durán
Un notario español en Rusia, 1929.
¿Por qué fui lanzado del ministerio de la guerra?: diez meses de actuación ministerial, 1934.
, 1947.
José Antonio de Saravia: de estudiante extremeño a general de los ejércitos del Zar, 1936.

Notes

References
Books on Diego Hidalgo y Durán
Alvarez Junco (J.), Espadas Burgos (M.), Lopez (E.), Muñoz Tinoco (C.), Diego Hidalgo: Memoria de un tiempo difícil Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1986.
Muñoz Tinoco, Concha. Diego Hidalgo : un notario republicano / Concha Muñoz Tinoco. Badajoz : Departamento de Publicaciones, Diputación Provincial, 1986.

1886 births
1961 deaths
People from Zafra-Río Bodión
Radical Republican Party politicians
Government ministers of Spain
Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic
Politicians from Extremadura
20th-century Spanish lawyers
Exiled Spanish politicians
Government ministers during the Second Spanish Republic


The  was a two-ship class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the mid-1890s. They were the first battleships in the IJN, and were constructed in the UK as Japan lacked the industrial facilities needed to build them. Their design was based on the battleships being built for the Royal Navy at that time.

The ships participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur in February 1904 and two bombardments of Port Arthur during the following month. Yashima struck a mine off Port Arthur in May and capsized while under tow several hours later. Fuji fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action. She was reclassified as a coast defence ship in 1910 and served as a training ship for the rest of her active career. The ship was hulked in 1922 and converted into a barracks ship fitted with classrooms. Fuji was finally broken up for scrap in 1948.

Background
In the late 19th century, the strategy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was based on the radical Jeune Ecole naval philosophy, as promoted by French military advisor and naval architect Emile Bertin. This emphasised cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armoured ships. The acquisition of two German-built s by the Imperial Chinese Beiyang Fleet in 1885 threatened Japan's interests in Korea. A visit by the Chinese warships to Japan in early 1891 forced the Japanese government to acknowledge that the IJN required similarly armed and armoured ships of its own to counter the ironclads; the three lightly armoured s ordered from France would not suffice, despite their powerful guns. The IJN decided to order a pair of the latest battleships from the United Kingdom as Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships.

Obtaining funding for the battleships was a struggle for the Japanese government. The initial request was submitted in the budget of Prime Minister Matsukata Masayoshi in 1891, but was deleted by the Diet of Japan due to political infighting. Matsukata submitted the request again and, when again denied, was forced to dissolve his cabinet. His successor, Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi, attempted to pass the funding measure in 1892, but he also failed. This led to an extraordinary personal intervention by Emperor Meiji in a statement dated 10 February 1893, wherein the emperor offered to fund the construction of the two battleships himself, through an annual reduction in the expenses of the Imperial Household, and asked that all government officials likewise agree to a reduction in their salaries by ten percent. The funding measure for the Fuji-class battleships was passed by the Japanese Diet soon after. Completion of the ships was originally scheduled for 1899, but the start of the First Sino-Japanese War shortly before they were laid down in 1894 caused the government to accelerate the schedule by two years.

Design and description

The design of the Fuji class was derived from that of the British s, albeit about  smaller. The Fuji-class ships improved on the Royal Sovereigns in several ways; they were about  faster, they incorporated superior Harvey armour, and their guns, although smaller and lighter, were the same as those of the later  and were protected by armoured hoods (gun turrets). The two ships of the class were almost identical even though they were designed by two different naval architects, Yashima by Philip Watts and Fuji by George C. Mackrow. The primary difference was that Yashima had her deadwood cut away aft and was fitted with a balanced rudder. This made her almost a knot faster than her sister and gave her a smaller turning circle at the cost of a weaker stern that required careful attention when drydocked lest it sag.

The Fuji-class ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . They displaced  at normal load. The ships had double bottoms and were subdivided into a total of 181 watertight compartments. The crew numbered about 650 officers and enlisted men. Yashima was fitted as a flagship with accommodation for an admiral and his staff.

Propulsion
The Fuji-class ships were powered by two Humphrys Tennant 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one  propeller, using steam generated by ten cylindrical boilers with a working pressure of . The engines were rated at , using forced draught, and designed to reach a top speed of  although the ships proved to be faster during their sea trials, reaching top speeds of . A watertight centreline bulkhead separated the two engine rooms as well as the four boiler rooms. The boiler rooms were further separated by a transverse bulkhead. Unlike both the Royal Sovereigns and Majestics, the Fuji class had their funnels on the centreline.

The ships carried a maximum of  of coal which allowed them to steam for  at a speed of . They were fitted with three electric dynamos, each rated at .

Armament

The main battery of the Fuji class consisted of four hydraulically operated Elswick Ordnance Company 40-calibre Type 41 twelve-inch guns mounted in pear-shaped twin-gun barbettes fore and aft of the superstructure. The barbettes had a firing arc of 240° and the guns had a maximum elevation of +15° and could depress to −5°. These barbettes had armoured hoods, or turrets, to protect the guns. The mountings were virtually identical to those used in the first Majestic-class battleships, which could only hoist ammunition from the below-decks magazines in one position. However, 18 shells were stowed in each turret that allowed a limited amount of firing at any angle before their ammunition supply needed to be replenished. The guns were loaded at a fixed angle of 1° and fired  projectiles at a muzzle velocity of . This gave them an approximate range of .

Secondary armament of the Fuji class consisted of ten 40-calibre Type 41 six-inch quick-firing guns, four on the main deck in casemates and six guns on the upper deck protected by gun shields. They fired  shells at a muzzle velocity of . Protection from torpedo boat attacks was provided by fourteen  three-pounder Hotchkiss guns and ten 47-millimetre 2.5-pounder Hotchkiss guns. The three-pounder gun fired  projectiles at a muzzle velocity of  while the 2.5-pounder fired  shells at a muzzle velocity of . The ships were also equipped with five 18-inch torpedo tubes, one in the bow above water and four submerged tubes, two on each broadside.

In 1901, both ships exchanged 16 of their 47 mm guns for an equal number of QF 12-pounder 12 cwt guns. They fired ,  projectiles at a muzzle velocity of . This raised the number of crewmen to 652 and later to 741.

Armour
The armour scheme of the Fuji-class ships was similar to that used by the Royal Sovereigns except that the Japanese ships used superior Harvey armour of the same thickness instead of compound armour. The waterline main belt was  high,  of which was above the waterline at normal load, and had a maximum thickness of . It reduced to  then  at the ends past the two barbettes; above it was a  strake of armour that ran between the barbettes. They were 14 inches thick outside the upper armour belt and reduced to  behind the upper belt. Diagonal bulkheads connected the barbettes to the side armour; the forward bulkhead was 14 inches thick while the rear bulkhead was  thick. The armour of the casemates and the barbette hoods had a maximum thickness of 6 inches while the conning tower was protected by 14 inches of armour. The deck armour was  thick and met the sides of the ship at the top of the main armour belt.

Ships

Service
Both ships had reached Japan by February 1898.
At the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Fuji and Yashima were assigned to the 1st Division of the 1st Fleet. They participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on 9 February, when Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō led the 1st Fleet in an attack on the Russian ships of the Pacific Squadron anchored just outside Port Arthur. Tōgō chose to attack the Russian coastal defences with his main armament and engage the Russian ships with his secondary guns. Splitting his fire proved to be a poor decision as his  and six-inch guns inflicted very little damage on the Russian vessels, which concentrated all their fire on the Japanese ships. Yashima was not struck during the battle, but Fuji was hit twice, two men being killed and 10 wounded.

On 10 March, the two ships blindly bombarded the harbour of Port Arthur from Pigeon Bay, on the southwest side of the Liaodong Peninsula, at a range of , but did little damage. When they tried again on 22 March, they were attacked by Russian coastal defence guns that had been transferred there, and also from several Russian ships in Port Arthur using observers overlooking Pigeon Bay. The Japanese ships disengaged after Fuji was hit by a 12-inch shell.

Fuji and Yashima participated in the action of 13 April when Tōgō successfully lured out two battleships of the Pacific Squadron. When the Russians spotted the five battleships of the 1st Division, they turned back for Port Arthur and the battleship  struck a minefield laid by the Japanese the previous night. The ship sank in less than two minutes after one of her magazines exploded. Emboldened by his success, Tōgō resumed long-range bombardment missions, which prompted the Russians to lay more minefields.

On 14 May, the battleships Hatsuse, , and Yashima, the protected cruiser Kasagi, and the dispatch boat  put to sea to relieve the Japanese blockading force off Port Arthur. The following morning, the squadron encountered a Russian minefield. Hatsuse struck one mine that disabled her steering and Yashima struck two others when moving to assist Hatsuse. Yashima was towed away from the minefield, but she was still taking on water at an uncontrollable rate and the crew abandoned ship some five hours later. Kasagi took Yashima in tow, but the battleship's list continued to increase and she capsized about three hours later.

During the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August, Fuji was not damaged because the Russian ships concentrated their fire on Tōgō's flagship, the battleship , which was leading the column. In May the following year, during the Battle of Tsushima, Fuji was hit a dozen times, the most serious of which penetrated the hood of the rear barbette, ignited some exposed propellant charges, killed eight men and wounded nine. After the ammunition fire was put out, the left gun in the barbette resumed firing and apparently delivered the coup de grâce that sank the battleship .

On 23 October 1908, Fuji hosted a dinner for the American Ambassador, Thomas J. O'Brien, and the senior officers of the Great White Fleet during its circumnavigation of the world. In 1910, her cylindrical boilers were replaced by Miyabara water-tube boilers and her main armament was replaced by Japanese-built guns. Fuji was reclassified as a first-class coast defence ship the same year, and undertook training duties in various capacities until disarmed in 1922. Her hulk continued to be used as a floating barracks and training centre at Yokosuka until 1945. Fuji was damaged by American carrier aircraft during their 18 July 1945 attack on Yokosuka and capsized after the end of the war. The ship was scrapped in 1948.

Notes

Footnotes

References

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External links

 Global Security site

Battleship classes


Pommes Frites is a New York City restaurant which specializes in Belgian-style  fries. The restaurant was located in the East Village at 123 2nd Avenue (near 7th Street), but relocated to 128 MacDougal Street after the original building was destroyed in a 2015 natural gas explosion.

Menu
The restaurant sells only one food item: fries, served in paper cones, with a variety of sauces to choose from. Fries are prepared in the Belgian style, deep fried twice at two different temperatures. Additionally, a variety of European beers, soft drinks, and fruit smoothies are offered as beverages.

History
The shop was opened by Susan Levison, a Bronx native, in January 1997 after returning from a backpacking trip through the low countries. (At the time of its destruction, she co-owned the restaurant with Omer Shorshi.) Nine months after it opened, New York Magazine reported that there were lines outside the restaurant every day. At one time, the restaurant had expanded to two locations, as well a copycat restaurant under the same name with a different owner, but by 2013 only the original location remained.

Gas explosion
On March 26, 2015, the restaurant was destroyed when the building which housed it collapsed, following a natural gas explosion. No Pommes Frites customers or employees were seriously injured, although an employee and a customer of another nearby restaurant were killed.  Pommes Frites reopened on May 23, 2016.

References

External links

1997 establishments in New York City
American companies established in 1997
East Village, Manhattan
Restaurants established in 1997
Restaurants in Manhattan


Absint may refer to:
 Absinthe, an alcoholic beverage
 AbsInt GmbH, a German software company


The ISO 14698 Standards features two International Standards on biocontamination control for cleanrooms. IEST, the Secretariat and Administrator of ISO Technical Committee 209, helped develop this series of ISO 14698 Standards.

ISO 14698-1, Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments—Biocontamination control, Part 1: General principles and methods
ISO 14698-2, Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments—Biocontamination control, Part 2: Evaluation and interpretation of biocontamination data

ISO 14698-1

ISO 14698-1 was first written in 2003. ISO 14698-1 describes the principles and basic methodology for a formal system to assess and control biocontamination, where cleanroom technology is applied, in order that biocontamination in zones at risk can be monitored in a reproducible way and appropriate control measures can be selected. In zones of low or negligible risk this standard may be used as a source of information.

ISO 14698-2

ISO 14698-2 became available to the public in October 2003. ISO 14698-2 gives guidance on basic principles and methodological requirements for all microbiological data evaluation, and the estimation of biocontamination data obtained from sampling for viable particles in zones at risk, as specified by the system selected. This is not intended for testing the performance of microbiological counting techniques of determining viable units.

See also
 Contamination control

References

External links
http://www.iest.org
http://www.iso.org
http://www.ansi.org

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 Cleanrooms in Ireland

14698
Cleanroom technology


Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IOP Publishing eight times per year.

The journal covers computational materials science including properties, structure, and behavior of all classes of materials at scales from the atomic to the macroscopic. This includes electronic structure/properties of materials determined by ab initio and/or semi-empirical methods, atomic level properties of materials, microstructural level phenomena, continuum-level modelling pertaining to material behaviour, and modelling behaviour in service. Mechanical, microstructural, electronic, chemical, biological, and optical properties of materials are also of interest.

The editors-in-chief is Javier Llorca (Polytechnic University of Madrid & IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by:

See also
 Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

External links

IOP Publishing academic journals
Materials science journals
Academic journals established in 1992
English-language journals