In cartography, a conformal map projection is one in which every angle between two curves that cross each other on Earth (a sphere or an ellipsoid) is preserved in the image of the projection; that is, the projection is a conformal map in the mathematical sense. For example, if two roads cross each other at a 39° angle, their images on a map with a conformal projection cross at a 39° angle.

Properties
A conformal projection can be defined as one that is locally conformal at every point on the map, albeit possibly with singular points where conformality fails. Thus, every small figure is nearly similar to its image on the map. The projection preserves the ratio of two lengths in the small domain. All of the projection's Tissot's indicatrices are circles.

Conformal projections preserve only small figures. Large figures are distorted by even conformal projections.

In a conformal projection, any small figure is similar to the image, but the ratio of similarity (scale) varies by location, which explains the distortion of the conformal projection.

In a conformal projection, parallels and meridians cross rectangularly on the map. The converse is not necessarily true. The counterexamples are equirectangular and equal-area cylindrical projections (of normal aspects). These projections expand meridian-wise and parallel-wise by different ratios respectively. Thus, parallels and meridians cross rectangularly on the map, but these projections do not preserve other angles; i.e. these projections are not conformal.

As proven by Leonhard Euler in 1775, a conformal map projection cannot be equal-area, nor can an equal-area map projection be conformal. This is also a consequence of Carl Gauss's 1827 Theorema Egregium [Remarkable Theorem].

List of conformal projections
Mercator projection (conformal cylindrical projection)
Mercator projection of normal aspect (Every rhumb line is drawn as a straight line on the map.)
Transverse Mercator projection
Gauss–Krüger coordinate system (This projection preserves lengths on the central meridian on an ellipsoid)
Oblique Mercator projection
Space-oblique Mercator projection (a modified projection from Oblique Mercator projection for satellite orbits with the Earth rotation within near conformality)
Lambert conformal conic projection
Oblique conformal conic projection (This projection is sometimes used for long-shaped regions, like as continents of Americas or Japanese archipelago.)
Stereographic projection (Conformal azimuthal projection. Every circle on the earth is drawn as a circle or a straight line on the map.)
Miller Oblated Stereographic Projection (Modified stereographic projection for continents of Africa and Europe.)
GS50 projection (This projection are made from a stereographic projection with an adjustment by a polynomial on complex numbers.)
Littrow projection (conformal retro-azimuthal projection)
Lagrange projection (a polyconic projection, and a composition of a Lambert conformal conic projection and a Möbius transformation.)
August epicycloidal projection (a composition of Lagrange projection of sphere in circle and a polynomial of degree 3 on complex numbers.)
Application of elliptic function
Peirce quincuncial projection (This projects the Earth into a square conformally except at four singular points.)
Lee conformal projection of the world in a tetrahedron

Applications

Large scale
Many large-scale maps use conformal projections because figures in large-scale maps can be regarded as small enough. The figures on the maps are nearly similar to their physical counterparts.

A non-conformal projection can be used in a limited domain such that the projection is locally conformal. Glueing many maps together restores roundness. To make a new sheet from many maps or to change the center, the body must be re-projected.

Seamless online maps can be very large Mercator projections, so that any place can become the map's center, then the map remains conformal. However, it is difficult to compare lengths or areas of two far-off figures using such a projection.

The Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system and the Lambert system in France are projections that support the trade-off between seamlessness and scale variability.

For small scale

Maps reflecting directions, such as a nautical chart or an aeronautical chart, are projected by conformal projections. Maps treating values whose gradients are important, such as a weather map with atmospheric pressure, are also projected by conformal projections.

Small scale maps have large scale variations in a conformal projection, so recent world maps use other projections. Historically, many world maps are drawn by conformal projections, such as Mercator maps or hemisphere maps by stereographic projection.

Conformal maps containing large regions vary scales by locations, so it is difficult to compare lengths or areas. However, some techniques require that a length of 1 degree on a meridian = 111 km = 60 nautical miles. In non-conformal maps, such techniques are not available because the same lengths at a point vary the lengths on the map.

In Mercator or stereographic projections, scales vary by latitude, so bar scales by latitudes are often appended. In complex projections such as of oblique aspect. Contour charts of scale factors are sometimes appended.

See also
 List of map projections

Notes

References
  E 490

Further reading

  Chapters also published in The Canadian Cartographer. 13 (1). 1976.

Conformal projections


The Daiichi Fudosan Cup was a professional golf tournament that was held in Japan from 1988 to 1992. It was an event on the Japan Golf Tour from 1990 and was the first official event of the season with prize money of ¥90,000,000. It was replaced on the tour schedule in 1993 by the Token Homemate Cup.

Tournament hosts

Winners

References

External links
Coverage on the Japan Golf Tour's official site

Former Japan Golf Tour events
Defunct golf tournaments in Japan
Sport in Miyazaki Prefecture
Recurring sporting events established in 1988
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1992
1988 establishments in Japan
1992 disestablishments in Japan


Maria Laurino (April 24, 1959) is an American journalist, essayist, memoirist, and former political speechwriter.

Early life and education
Maria Laurino, a third generation Italian-American, grew up in North Jersey. She graduated from Georgetown University and received her graduate degree in English literature from New York University. In 2018, Laurino was honored as a Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) by the Italian Consul General Francesco Genuardi on behalf of Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

Career
Laurino began her career as a journalist at The Village Voice, where she covered local and state politics and social issues, such as New York's housing market and the resulting surge in its homeless population. In 1989, Laurino left the Village Voice to become the Chief Speechwriter for New York City Mayor David Dinkins, serving until the end of his term in 1993. After leaving government, Laurino returned to freelance journalism, writing for numerous publications, including The New York Times; and her essays have been widely anthologized, including in the Norton Reader. Her first memoir, Were You Always an Italian?, was a national bestseller and explored the issue of ethnic identity among Italian-Americans. Her second memoir, Old World Daughter, New World Mother, examined the pull and tug the author experienced between Old World traditions that valued familial dependence and a New World feminism that prized female autonomy. In 2014, she published The Italian Americans: A History, chronicling the Italian-American experience from 1860 to the present day (companion book to the PBS series of the same name).

Personal life
Laurino is married to Anthony Shorris, a civil servant who served as First Deputy Mayor of New York City and Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. They have one son and live in New York City.

References

American newspaper reporters and correspondents
Georgetown University alumni
American people of Italian descent
New York University alumni
Living people
New York University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)


WVYB (103.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. Licensed to Holly Hill, Florida, United States, the station serves the Daytona Beach area.  The station is currently owned by Southern Stone Communications, LLC.

History
The station was assigned the call letters WAHJ on March 11, 1994.  On April 25, 1997, the station changed its call sign to WDXD and again on November 3, 1999, to the current WVYB.

References

External links

VYB
Radio stations established in 1996
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
1996 establishments in Florida


Joseph Russell Jones (February 17, 1823 – April 11, 1909) was a successful US merchant and politician, a close friend of Ulysses S. Grant and an acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln.

Biography

Jones was born in Conneaut, Ohio, and his childhood was modest. His father died when he was two, necessitating the young Jones to curtail his formal education. At age 13, his career began as a store clerk. At 25, Jones had risen to become a partner in the mercantile firm of Benjamin H. Campbell in Galena, Illinois. This success gave Jones the financial means to build one of the grandest homes in Galena. His Italianate villa, Belvedere Mansion, was situated next to the Greek revival mansion of Elihu Washburne, who was a prominent attorney and U.S. congressman (1853–1869). The neighbors developed a rich friendship, which was highly beneficial to Jones’ political career.

In 1860, Jones was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. The same year, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) moved to Galena after resigning as a captain in the army. In Illinois, Grant struggled financially as an assistant in his father's leather shop. Grant became friends with Jones and Washburne whose recommendations aided his return to the army when the Civil War began.

Jones, as an enterprising businessman, saw financial opportunity in the lack of cotton in the North due to wartime restrictions. His friendship with Grant provided him with the necessary passes to bring Southern cotton to the North where it could be sold for significant profit.   Their friendship extended beyond the political domain. Grant aided Jones in his cotton speculations, and Jones in return provided Grant with financial assistance.

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln became president and appointed Jones as U.S. Marshall for the Northern District of Illinois. Lincoln consulted Jones, Grant's confidant, to learn if Grant was planning to run against him in the next election. After President Lincoln was assassinated, Jones served as a pallbearer for Lincoln's funeral train procession in Chicago.

In 1869, Grant was sworn in as president and nominated Jones as Minister Resident to Belgium. In 1875, Jones asked to leave his post in Belgium. He returned to Illinois where Grant made him Collector of the Port of Chicago. However, a year later Grant, urged by Generals John A. Logan and Stephen A. Hurlbut, asked Jones to resign.  This request, perceived as a public disgrace Jones felt at the hands of his old friend, severed their friendship permanently. Jones resumed various business ventures with continued financial success. He died at the age of 86 in Chicago, Illinois.

References

Sources
 George R. Jones Joseph Russell Jones, 1964, privately printed by George R. Jones
 Jeffrey Norman Lash A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, 2003, Kent State University Press
 Chicago Historical Society Charter, Constitution, By-laws, Membership List, Annual Report, 1908

Further reading
 Belvedere Mansion and Gardens: History of J. Russell Jones

1823 births
19th-century American diplomats
1909 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Belgium
Members of the Illinois House of Representatives
People from Conneaut, Ohio
People from Galena, Illinois
Politicians from Chicago
19th-century American politicians


List of historic buildings in Ho Chi Minh City:

Buildings in Ho Chi Minh city have a variety of foreign influences, notably from China and France, two countries that once ruled over Vietnam.

18th century

19th century

1900-1909

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

Historic buildings

Historic
Buildings


John Peet may refer to:
John Peet (surgeon) (1818–1874), British surgeon
John Peet (1915–1988), British journalist
John Peet (born 1954), British journalist
J. H. John Peet, travelling secretary of the Biblical Creation Society


In mortgages, refinancing burnout is the tendency for prepayments to drop after rates fall, rise, and fall again. In other words, when interest rates keep on dropping, those who can benefit by taking advantages of refinancing will have done so already when rates declined in previous periods and this prepayment behavior is called refinancing burnout.

References
 Collateralized Mortgage Obligations: Structures and Analysis by Frank Fabozzi
 Pricing Mortgage backed securities using prepayment functions and pathwise Monte Carlo Simulation by Osman Acheampong
 Bond Portfolio Management by Frank Fabozzi
  http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/burnout.asp

Mortgage industry of the United States


Robert ParkeHarrison (born 1968) is a photographer, best known for his work (with wife Shana ParkeHarrison) in the area of fine art photography.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are a husband and wife duo who are based in Missouri. They have been making photographs together for almost 20 years. Their work focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment—an idea that has only recently come to popularity with movements like the Go Green initiative and concepts like the carbon footprint. Using photogravure, collage, and painting techniques, the ParkeHarrisons create cinematic environments that explore how we interact with our natural surroundings.

The ParkeHarrisons' work can be found in over 20 prestigious museum collections, and their book The Architect's Brother was named one of the ten best photography books by the New York Times in 2000. Recently the couple has begun working in sculpture—large dramatic pieces that complement the dreamy qualities of their photogravures.

The photographs of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison have been displayed in 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows worldwide. Their work can also be found in over 20 collections, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the George Eastman House.

Their book, The Architect's Brother, was named as one of 'the Ten Best Photography Books of the Year' of 2000 by The New York Times.

My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience. —Robert ParkeHarrison

Many of his images are of ParkeHarrison himself, in costume and interacting with specific scenes, objects, and landscapes. Due to this aspect of performance in the images, they can be viewed as part stand-alone photographs, part documents of a singular instance of performance art.

ParkeHarrison's work is stylistically similar to that of Teun Hocks.

References

External links
 Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect's Brother (George Eastman House Exhibition)
 Robert ParkeHarrison: George Eastman House, Still Photograph Archive, 5 Selected Images
 Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate
 Robert and Shanna Parke-Harrison exhibit at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, 2007
 Apotheosis - Grapevine - Robert ParkeHarrison Afterimage, March, 2002 by Are Flagan
 21st Editions Listening to the Earth and The Book of Life
 Teun Hocks Photoworks

20th-century American photographers
1968 births
Living people
People from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Photographers from Missouri
20th-century American male artists
21st-century American photographers
21st-century American male artists


WSBB (1230 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting an adult standards format. Licensed to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States, the station serves the Daytona Beach metropolitan area.  The station is owned by Diegel Communications and its studios are located at 229 Canal Street, just a few blocks away from WSBB's historic studios on the west end of the causeway. The causeway location, off Indian River North, continues to serve as the main transmission site for WSBB.

The stations play adult standards music from over five decades, and the playlist is locally programmed at the station.  At the beginning of most hours, WSBB carries CBS News Radio.  It also broadcasts University of Florida sports, including Florida Gators football games, and the nationally syndicated Dave Ramsey Show.

In addition to being heard on AM 1230, programming is also heard on an FM translator station, 106.9 W295CN in Ormond Beach.  In addition, WSBB is simulcast on co-owned WTJV (1490 AM) in DeLand.  Both AM stations transmit with 1,000 watts using non-directional antennas.  The translator’s effective radiated power is 250 watts.

History
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit for a new AM station in New Smyrna Beach in 1950.  WSBB signed on the air on February 1, 1952.  It was only powered at 100 watts and was owned by the Beach Broadcasting Company.  By the 1970s, its power had increased to 1,000 watts by day, 250 watts at night.  In the 1980s, the station began broadcasting at 1,000 watts around the clock.

In 2006, the station was bought by Gore-Overgaard Broadcasting, Inc., for $450,000.   In the spring of 2008, WSBB was sold to Skip “Big Dump” Diegel, president of Diegel Communications, LLC.

References

External links
FCC History Cards for WSBB
Official website

SBB
Radio stations established in 1952
1952 establishments in Florida
Adult standards radio stations in the United States


William Graham (1817 – 16 July 1885), Liberal MP for Glasgow, was a Scottish politician, wine merchant, cotton manufacturer and port shipper. He is remembered as a patron of Pre-Raphaelite artists like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a collector of their works.

Art collector

Graham's father was the founder of a firm, and in 1810 W & J Graham & Co diversified its business interests when it began importing wines from Portugal. Graham's became one of Britain's most prominent port shippers. Graham was a moderate Liberal, who was elected on 14 July 1865 with Robert Dalglish (1808–1880) in Glasgow. He was re-elected in 1868 with Dalglish and George Anderson (1819–1896) in the party's great Glasgow triumph in the general election of 1868 when Glasgow's electoral representation was raised from two to three MPs.

Graham was a friend and patron of Edward Burne-Jones since 1856. Graham bought several of Burne-Jones's works and the 1886 sale of his collection allowed new Burne-Jones enthusiasts to acquire coveted pieces. Graham also invited artists such as Burne-Jones and Edward Clifford to his country house, Stobhall, in Perthshire. Clifford in turn acquired three paintings from Graham's collection in 1886.

At Rossetti's persuasion, he commissioned Found for 800 pounds in 1869; the painting remained unfinished, and took possession of the work after the painter's death in April 1882. In 1871, Graham commissioned The Blessed Damozel (1871) from Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He also acquired La Donna Della Finestra (1880) from the artist.  Graham began to buy from Rossetti in the mid-1860s. When they came on the market in 1874 and 1885, Graham bought his two Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood oils, Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850) and The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) both now in the Tate Gallery. He also commissioned the large Dante's Dream, although this was found to be too big for his London house. Many of the pictures he owned are now in Tate Britain.

From Edward Burne-Jones, Graham also acquired many pieces. In the 1870s, Graham commissioned the two large oils Laus Veneris (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and Chant d'Amour (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), which were the most important items in a large collection of Burne-Jones's work, formed from the mid-1860s. The Graham piano was painted by Burne-Jones for Graham's daughter Frances (Mrs. Horner, later Lady Horner); Frances continued her father's role as friend and patron of Burne-Jones. William Morris and Burne-Jones also prepared a copy, one of four, of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859) for Frances.

His importance is not only as a purchaser and a patron, but also as a person whose fine collection of early Italian paintings helped to inspire the artists whom Graham supported such as Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. After his death, his collection was sold at auction by Christie's in April 1886.

Issue and descendants
Graham married Jane Catherine Lowndes (1819/1820–1899), and had issue including:
 Frances Jane Graham (1854/1855–1940), married 1883 John Francis Fortescue Horner, barrister, later Sir John Horner, of Mells Park, Somerset, and had issue:
 Katharine Frances Horner (1885–1976) married the barrister Raymond Asquith (killed in action 1916), and was grandmother of the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith. She was a friend of Ronald Knox and Siegfried Sassoon.
 Edward Horner (1888 – November 1917), killed in action in the Battle of Cambrai, a member of The Coterie with his brother-in-law.
 Agnes Graham (1860/1861–1937), married 1881 Herbert Jekyll, later Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll (1846–1932), brother of the celebrated gardener Gertrude Jekyll. Agnes became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Lady of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. They had issue one son who died unmarried (1882–1965), and two daughters:
 Barbara Jekyll (1887–1973), married first 1911 the Hon. Francis McLaren, M.P., who was killed in 1917 in the War, and, secondly, in 1922, Colonel B. C. Freyberg, V.C., later Lord Freyberg (1889–1963), and had issue by both husbands. She was named a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1953.
 Pamela Jekyll (1889–1943), married 1908 the Right Hon. Reginald McKenna (d. 1943), and had issue.

References

Sources

William Graham MP The Glasgow Story.

 Obituary: Sir Herbert Jekyll The Times, 30 September 1932.
 Obituary: Barbara, Lady Freyberg The Times, 26 September and 3 October 1973
 Obituary: General Lord FreybergThe Times, 6 July 1963
 Leigh Rayment , last updated 4 November 2006. Retrieved 21 January 2008.

Further reading

 Oliver Garnett, 'The Letters and Collection of William Graham - Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector', The Walpole Society, 1999–2000, pp. 249, 254, 290 (no b26)

External links

Scottish Liberal Party MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
Scottish art collectors
1817 births
1885 deaths


The Irish Cave Rescue Organisation (ICRO) is a voluntary body responsible for cave and abandoned mine rescues within the island of Ireland. The organisation attends, manages and carries out rescues at the request of the  in the Republic of Ireland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, and is responsible to both police services.

The rescue organisation has 100 members, including general members who are available to help in any situation and those who have specific skills to assist a rescue, such as first-aid training and the ability to rig a cave.

Funding
The organisation was previously funded by the Northern Ireland Mountain, Cliff and Cave Rescue Coordinating Committee (through Sport Northern Ireland and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure) and the Irish Coast Guard.

It is now funded by the Northern Ireland Department of Justice and a member of the Northern Ireland Search & Rescue Policy Group and the Northern Ireland Search & Rescue Practitioners Group.

Affiliations
ICRO is affiliated with the Speleological Union of Ireland (SUI), collectively they are known as SUICRO, as well as the British Cave Rescue Council. If needed, additional rescuers from Britain can be called in with specialised skills, such as for the recovery of Artur Kozłowski in 2011.

ICRO has representatives on the National Co-ordinating Committee for Mountain and Cave Rescue (NCCMCR) in the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Mountain Rescue Co-ordinating Committee (NIMRCC).

Training
ICRO carries out major rescue training exercises throughout the year, and additional specialist training in areas
such as rescue rigging, rope skills, stretcher handling, communications, wilderness first aid and casualty care. Once a year an extended overnight rescue training exercise takes place, replicating the reality and duration of a real cave rescue incident. Through the British Cave Rescue Council, ICRO has access to training in rescue techniques in Britain.

See also
 Mountain Rescue Ireland

References

External links
 Official website of SUICRO (Speleological Union of Ireland & Irish Cave Rescue Organisation)

Cave rescue organizations
All-Ireland organisations
Cave Rescue
Volunteer search and rescue in the United Kingdom
1961 establishments in Ireland
Organizations established in 1961


WYND (1310 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format.  Licensed to DeLand, Florida, the station serves the Daytona Beach metropolitan area.  The station is owned by Clarence and Andrea Williams, through licensee Proclaim Media Group, LLC.

By day, WYND is powered at 10,400 watts non-directional.  But to protect other stations on 1310 AM from interference, at night it greatly reduces power to 115 watts.  The transmitter is co-located with the radio studios on East Taylor Road, near U.S. Route 17 in DeLand.Radio-Locator.com/WYND-AM  Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W241CZ at 96.1 MHz in DeLand.Radio-Locator.com/W241CZ

Programming
WYND airs a mix of Christian talk and teaching shows and Christian adult contemporary music, with Southern Gospel and Christian Jazz heard on Sundays.

National religious leaders whose shows are heard on WYND include Charles Stanley, J. Vernon McGee, Adrian Rogers, Joyce Meyer, Chuck Swindoll and David Jeremiah.  WYND seeks donations on the air and on its website.

History

WOOO
The construction permit for this radio station was first issued to Trio Broadcasting Company on June 6, 1956, following its application to the FCC in December 1955.  The call sign was WOOO.  Transmitter facilities were constructed on East Taylor Road in DeLand, with studios in the Conrad Building, downtown.  WOOO signed on the air on .  The original power output was 1,000 watts.  It was a daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset.  On June 25, 1957, the station was granted a construction permit to increase its power to 5,000 watts, but still daytime only.

The power increase was completed in 1958.  In November 1961, the station was sold to Polaris Broadcasting, Inc., only to later be put into receivership in September 1964.  That year, the license was transferred to receiver Brian Tolby, operating the station as Shom Broadcasters.

WKKX, WDLF
In October 1967, the station was granted pre-sunrise authority, which allowed it to operate at 500 watts two hours prior to local sunrise.  On May 3, 1973, the station changed its call letters to WKKX, and its ownership to DeLand Broadcasters, Incorporated.  Studios were also moved to 700 Highway 92 in DeLand, but were later re-located to 118 North Boulevard in DeLand.  In 1978, the station came under new ownership by Mid-Florida Broadcasting Company.

The station was assigned the call letters WDLF on December 22, 1980, months after coming under new ownership but the licensee name was retained as Mid-Florida Broadcasting Company briefly before the change in name to West Volusia Communications Corporation.

WYND
On April 6, 1984, not long after its sale from West Volusia Communications to John Locke, the station changed its call sign to the current WYND.  In December 1986, the station was sold to Dr. D. Stephen Hollis for $255,000 and coming under control of station general manager Buddy Tucker some years later.  At some point around this time, studios were co-located with the station's transmitter facility along East Taylor Road.

WYND was granted limited nighttime power of 95 watts, allowing it to stay on the air around-the-clock if desired.  In 2006, WYND was granted a construction permit to increase its power to its current values.  In August 2018, Buddy Tucker Associates agreed to sell WYND to its current owner.  The FCC granted to transfer of license on October 12, 2018.

Translator
WYND is rebroadcast over F.M. translator station W241CZ.

References

External links
FCC History Cards - WYND

YND (AM)
Radio stations established in 1980
Moody Radio affiliate stations
1980 establishments in Florida


Yevgeni Valerievich Konstantinov (born March 29, 1981) is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender.

Konstantinov was drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the third round, 67th overall, of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. He played in two NHL games while with the Lightning.

As a youth, he played in the 1995 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team combined from Yaroslavl and Kharkiv.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1981 births
Ak Bars Kazan players
Detroit Vipers players
HC Dynamo Moscow players
HC MVD players
Living people
Louisiana IceGators (ECHL) players
Pensacola Ice Pilots players
Russian ice hockey goaltenders
Sportspeople from Kazan
Springfield Falcons players
Tampa Bay Lightning draft picks
Tampa Bay Lightning players


John Dennis Corriveau  (born July 27, 1941) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served successively as the seventy-first Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and the sixth Bishop of Nelson.

Biography
John Corriveau was born on the shores of Lake Huron in Zurich, Ontario. He was initially attracted to the diocesan priesthood, but decided to enter the religious life like one of his cousins (who was a Redemptorist). He attended the Capuchin minor seminary in Blenheim, and then went to the United States to continue his education. He studied at the Capuchin novitiate in Cumberland, Maryland, St. Fidelis College (1960–1962) in Herman, Pennsylvania, and Capuchin College in Washington, D.C. (1962–1966), from where he obtained his MA in religious education.

Corriveau made his temporary vows as a Capuchin on July 14, 1960, and his perpetual profession exactly three years later, on July 14, 1963. Following his was priestly ordination on October 23, 1965, he served as a lecturer and the prefect of discipline at Mount Alverno Minor Seminary in Toronto, Ontario.

Corriveau was elected Councillor of the vice-province of Central Canada in 1969; during his three-year-long tenure as Councillor, he also held the office of Guardian and Chaplain for the Christian Brothers. He was elected Minister of the vice-province being in both 1971 and 1974. He then served as President of the Conference of Capuchins of North America until 1975, whence he became pastor of St. Philip Neri Parish in Toronto. In 1980, he was nominated to serve on the General Council of the Capuchins. After a sabbatical year, he was once again elected Provincial of Central Canada in 1989. During that same year, he began a year's study of pastoral theology at Berkeley in California.

Corriveau was the worldwide head of his religious order as the seventy-first Minister General of the Capuchins from 1994 to 2006; although his headquarters were located in Rome, he travelled for the majority of the year. He once said of the post, "The general minister is not so much an authority figure but a charismatic figure representing our contact with St. Francis". Upon his return to Canada, he began work at St. Francis' Table, a restaurant for the poor in Parkdale, where the Capuchin priest welcomed guests and served as a waiter, whilst doing parish work on weekends.

On November 30, 2007, he was appointed the sixth Bishop of Nelson, British Columbia, by Pope Benedict XVI. Corriveau received his episcopal consecration on January 30, 2008, from Archbishop Luigi Ventura, with Archbishop Raymond Roussin and Bishop Eugene Cooney serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Nelson. He was formally installed as bishop on January 31.

Corriveau took as his episcopal motto, "Pacificans per sanguinem crucis eius" (Colossians 1:20), or "Making peace through the blood of His cross."

References

External links
The Catholic Register
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Order of Capuchin Friars Minor

1941 births
Living people
Capuchin bishops
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada
General Vicars and Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
Roman Catholic bishops of Nelson


WROD (1340 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Daytona Beach, Florida, and broadcasting a classic rock radio format.  As of June 24, 2015, WROD is owned by Miracle Media LLC.

WROD is a Class C radio station transmitting with 1,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna.  Programming is also heard on 120-watt FM translator 104.7 W284AV in nearby Deltona, Florida.  It uses the FM frequency in its moniker, "104.7 WROD The Rock of Daytona."

History
In 1947, with 250 watts of power, WROD went on the air as Daytona Beach's third radio station. By 1961, WROD was licensed to operate with 1,000 watts of power during the day. The radio station operated from its transmitter site from its beginning to 2005, when its offices moved to 100 Marina Point Drive in Daytona Beach. Later in 2015, after being bought by Miracle Media, the offices moved to 106 Ivy Lane Daytona Beach while the studios found their home at 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach.

FM translator W284AV 104.7 went on the air in July 2012 simulcasting WROD.  The station flipped from oldies to classic rock at midnight on January 1, 2015.

References

External links
Official website

FCC History Cards for WROD

1947 establishments in Florida
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1947
ROD


Stanak (in original Bosančica: Сmɖɴɖк; ) is the most common name used to refer to the assembly of nobility in medieval Bosnia. The assembly was also known as the Rusag (from the Hungarian word orszag, meaning "country"), Zbor, Sva Bosna (meaning "Whole of Bosnia") or just Bosna, with the officials of the Republic of Ragusa employing several Latin terms as well. The term stanak is first attested in the charter of Tvrtko I in 1354. Its influence peaked between the 1390s and the 1420s. The Serbian historian Sima Ćirković and most other Yugoslav scholars believed that the existence of the stanak proved a unity and feeling of belonging to a Bosnian identity and integrity, but also illustrated weakness of the monarch and decentralization of the state, as argued by American colleague John Van Antwerp Fine, Jr.

The right to take part in the sessions of the stanak was enjoyed by every Bosnian knez, from magnates to petty lords, collectively known as vlastela, but the ultimate authority belonged to the highest nobility. The stanak was convoked when required, usually by the ruler, who presided over it and led its sessions. If male, his wife was allowed to attend, but his children were not. The Bosnian Church clergy, not belonging to the vlastela, were also barred, but influenced decision-making in the stanak through the great lords associated with them. The magnates of the country convoked the stanak themselves when the country experienced greater domestic issues, such as succession crisis or deposition of the ruler, domestic conflicts or wars. It normally took place wherever the monarch held court: in Mile, Milodraž, Bobovac, Kraljeva Sutjeska and Jajce.

The stanak enjoyed great power and authority; it deliberated on matters such as election of the new king or queen and coronation, foreign policy, sale or cession of territory, contracting and signing treaties with neighboring countries, and military issues. Charters issued by monarchs reflected the decisions made by the stanak; as the royal power weakened, that of stanak increased.

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Historical legislatures
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WELE (1380 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a progressive news/talk radio format. Licensed to Ormond Beach, Florida, United States, the station serves the Daytona Beach metropolitan area. The station is owned by Bethune-Cookman University.  It is branded as "1380 The Cat".

By day, WELE broadcasts with 5,000 watts, but to avoid interference to other stations on 1380 AM, at night it reduces power to 2,500 watts.  It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array.  Programming is also heard on 10-watt FM translator W268DG at 101.5 MHz.

Programming
WELE carries a number of nationally syndicated talk shows, including Russ Parr, Stephanie Miller and Democracy Now.  WELE also broadcasts Bethune-Cookman University football and NFL games during the football season.  World and national news is supplied by CBS News Radio.

History
On , the station first signed on the air.  It originally held the call sign WQXQ. It was a daytimer, with a power of 1,000 watts and required to go off the air at sunset.  Seeking identification with its target area, in 1969 the call sign was changed to WDAT.  The DAT stood for Daytona.

Nighttime operations were added in 1973, running 1,000 watts around the clock. In 1977, the station's daytime power was increased to 5,000 watts, and its nighttime power was increased to 2,500 watts. Its call sign was changed to WELE in 1986.

In October 2013, Wings Communications donated the station's license to Bethune-Cookman University. The donation was consummated on August 5, 2014.

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One of the first ten revenue cutters, Active may have been the second of the ten cutters to enter service.  The Columbian Centinel on 30 April 1791 noted:

A Revenue Cutter, was launched at Baltimore the 9th inst. at Captain Stodder's Ship Yard, and is considered by good judges, a beautiful vessel.  She is to be commanded, we hear, by Capt. Gross, formerly First-Lieutenant of the Continental Frigate CONFEDERACY.

Operational history

Active almost never made it into the water.  Apparently no shipbuilder in the Baltimore area was willing to build a cutter for the price offered by the government.  Eventually, after an exasperated Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton offered to increase the payment by no more than 10 percent and then threatened to have the Maryland cutter built in Virginia, David Stodder, of Baltimore, agreed to build the revenue cutter for the government's asking price.  She was laid down in January 1791 and her keel entered the water on 9 April of that same year.  When she was sold out of government service in 1798, she was described as having a "square stern, a square tuck, no galleries and no figurehead."  She was a two-masted topsail schooner with a single deck.  It is also known how she was initially outfitted and equipped thanks to the survival of a letter from her first master, Simon Gross, to Alexander Hamilton.

Personnel problems
Active seemed to have been plagued with problems from the start.  For the first few months of her existence she remained tied up in port.  Gross, a man of known intemperance, had trouble hiring a crew at the wages the government offered.  The pay in the merchant service proved to be much more lucrative.  Gross also did not get along with his first mate.  These problems manifested themselves, despite the name of the cutter, in a decided lack of activity.  Baltimore's Collector of Customs complained that merchant vessel manifests, supplied to the Active by incoming ships, did not reach his desk for weeks, if at all.  Relative incompetence amongst the officers and difficulty obtaining a full crew continually troubled the revenue cutter throughout its service life.  Indeed, the collector wrote Hamilton in disgust that the cutter was "of no more advantage to the United States and perhaps much less, than if she had been built and manned on the lake Erie."

Gross and Porter both saw fit to leave the cutter under the command of the second mate on numerous occasions, thereby adding to the frustration of the collector and the Secretary of the Treasury as well.  Gross submitted his resignation in the summer of 1792 and Porter, with the recommendation of President George Washington, assumed command of the lackluster Active.  Even the President seemed satisfied that Gross was leaving government service.  He noted in a letter that "... the service would sustain no loss by the resignation of the Master of the Maryland Revenue Cutter."

Little seemed to change under the command of Porter although he did complain that his third mate, Forbes, had difficulty staying away from the bottle, as apparently did some of the other crewmen.  Many of the crew were also unhappy with the daily ration allowance and poor pay and as such Porter, as did Gross, had trouble finding crewmen.  He wrote to Hamilton asking for an increase, and Hamilton promptly raised the daily ration allowance from nine cents to 12.  It is not certain if this solved Porter's problems but Porter once again asked for a greater increase in both the pay and ration allowances.  This, however, was not the way to endear him to the parsimonious Secretary of the Treasury.  But one wonders if Porter really cared at all.  Despite his apparent concern for the welfare of his men and attention to duty, Hamilton was perplexed at the obvious inaction of the cutter, its commanding officer, and even his collector of customs.

According to Kern, for the next few years Porter rarely sailed on Active, rather, he let the first mate handle command of the cutter—if she sailed on patrol at all.  He did sail to the West Indies with his son, twice in 1796, but not on board his cutter.  He sailed on board a merchant vessel in which he had a monetary stake.  Whether he had permission to leave his duty post and what occurred on board the cutter while he was way is unknown.  Unfortunately her journals have not survived the ravages of the British Army, which burned Washington, D.C. in 1814, and the later fire at the United States Treasury Department in 1833, so there is little documentation regarding her accomplishments or conversely, explaining her inaction.  But Hamilton's letters have survived and he was not overly pleased with his Baltimore-based cutter.  Indeed, when ordered to sell the Active in 1798, Porter could not locate her!  He eventually found her grounded in the mud of the riverbank outside Baltimore Harbor.  She was sold at auction for $750.00 and her new owners sailed her to the West Indies and promptly sold her once again.  Porter stayed on the federal payroll for another year after his cutter had been sold.

The cast of characters who paraded on, around, and nowhere near her decks continued to lead rather interesting lives.  Porter went back into the merchant trade after failing to secure a commission in the Navy and ran into trouble in the courts under suspicion of barratry and fraud.  He was apparently not convicted and he eventually received a naval commission as the sailing master of gunboat based at New Orleans in 1807—under the overall command of his son!  It seems that David Junior joined the Navy as a midshipman  at the age of nineteen and went on to have a distinguished career.  Indeed, he became one of the Navy's most celebrated heroes, as did his two sons and his adopted son, David Glasgow Farragut.  Not so the first master of the Active, Simon Gross.  Gross had secured a commission as a first lieutenant in the Navy after leaving the Active, only to earn the wrath of another famous naval personage, Captain Thomas Truxton, who admonished him that "every drunkard is a Nuisance and no drunkard ought to be employ'd and if employ'd Shall ever remain an officer with me."  He later picked a fight with, of all people, David Porter, Junior, when they were both lieutenants.  Gross made some rather "insulting" remarks about Porter's father, who, it will be remembered, was Gross's first mate on the Active!  After a fistfight, Gross was dismissed from the service and he then enlisted as a seaman in the Navy.  The last anyone heard of him he was an oarsman on an officer's barge.

Commanding officers

Captain Simon Gross, Master; 1791–1792

Captain David Porter, Master; 1792–1798

Original Crew:

David Porter, First Mate
William Thomas, Second Mate
James Forbes, Third Mate; replaced by William Dunton when Forbes moved to second mate in 1792.

Notes
Citations

References cited
Active, 1791, US Coast Guard website.
Canney, Donald, 1995:  U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
Evans, Stephen H., 1949: The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915: A Definitive History (With a Postscript: 1915-1950).  Annapolis: The United States Naval Institute, 1949.
Kern, Florence, 1977:  A Beautiful Vessel: Simon Gross's U.S. Revenue Cutter Active, 1791-1798,  Washington, DC: Alised Enterprises.
U.S. Coast Guard, 1934: Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933,  Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (reprinted 1989).

First ten Revenue Service cutters
Ships built in Baltimore
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Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (; 14 February 192814 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa.

Life and career
Kapitsa was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Anna Alekseevna (Krylova) and Pyotr Kapitsa. His maternal grandfather was Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov, naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist, and the developer of the insubmersibility technique. He was baptized while back in Britain, with Ivan Pavlov serving as his godparent. During his late life Kapitsa described himself as a "Russian Orthodox atheist".

In 1935 his family returned to the USSR. Kapitsa graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1949. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Kapitsa's contributions to physics were in the areas of applied electrodynamics and accelerator physics; he is known, in particular, for his work on the microtron, a device for producing electron beams.  In later years, his research focus was on historical demography, where he developed a number of mathematical models of the World System population hyperbolic growth and the global demographic transition.

His activities in science popularization included hosting the Russian Television program, Evident, but Incredible, starting in 1973, for which he was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science in 1979 and the USSR State Prize in 1980, and editing the Russian edition of Scientific American from 1982 onwards.  He was also active in issues of science and society through his participation in the Pugwash conferences and the Club of Rome.  In the 1980s he, along with Carl Sagan, was outspoken about the possibility that international nuclear war would bring about a nuclear winter, making presentations in the US Senate in 1983 and the United Nations in 1985.  He was an advocate of planetary exploration and served on the advisory council of the Planetary Society.  In 2012, Kapitsa was awarded the first gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Kapitsa was a pioneer of scuba diving in the Soviet Union, he shot the first underwater film about the Sea of Japan, which was shown at international film festivals, in particular in Cannes, where it was second only to the film by Jacques Cousteau.

Kapitsa was the vice president of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and president of the Eurasian Physical Society, and was a strong proponent of restoring support for science in Russia.

In 1992 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) presented Kapitsa with the Public Education in Science Award.

On 14 August 2012, Kapitsa died at the age of 84 in Moscow. He is remembered for his role in the popularisation of science and, after forty years of hosting Evident, but Incredible, holding the record for being the longest serving host of a TV programme.

Views
In 2008 Kapitsa signed an open letter in defense of Svetlana Bakhmina.

During the late years Kapitsa was very critical of the state of the popular science and Russian television in general. In one of the last interviews he told about the closing of his TV program: "Channel One ordered me, first, to trash Soviet science, and, second, not to object against pseudoscience. I refused categorically. Then I was thrown out... They were cynical... The results of their political setups could be felt today: intellectual defeat of Russia, I can't find another word for their activity... TEFI would've never turned into a one-class dictatorship before. I didn't receive a single TEFI. Only in the past 2008, when Vladimir Posner had left, I was awarded one for "personal contribution to the development of Russian television"."

Memorialization

5094 Seryozha main-belt asteroid, discovered on 20 October 1982, was named in honor of Sergei Kapitsa.

On 5 March 2014 the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree "On memorialization of ".

On February 12, 2015 the Publishing and Trading Centre Marka issued a commemorative postage stamp and a postmark with image of Sergei Kapitsa.

Family
 Father – Pyotr Kapitsa, a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, discoverer of superfluidity
 Mother – Anna Alekseevna Kapitsa (née Krylova)
 Maternal grandfather – Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov, naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist, developer of insubmersibility technique
 Younger brother – Andrey Kapitsa, geographer, credited with the discovery and naming of Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica, which lies  below the continent's ice cap
 Wife – Tatiana Alimovna Damir (since 1949)
 Son – Fyodor Kapitsa (ru) (1950–2017), Russian philologist, folklorist and writer
 Daughter – Maria (1954), psychologist at the Moscow State University
 Daughter – Varvara (1960), a doctor

Further reading
 Paradoxes Of Growth: Laws Of Global Development Of Humanity. Sergei Kapitsa. (Glagoslav Publications, 2017)

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The region of South West England has, since the 2010 general election, 55 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 15 borough constituencies and 40 county constituencies.
At that election the Conservative Party held the largest number of constituencies, with 36. The Liberal Democrats had 15 and Labour had 4. At the 2015 general election the Liberal Democrats lost all of their seats (14 to the Conservatives and one to Labour), while the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour, leaving the Conservatives with 51 and Labour with 4. In the 2017 general election, the Conservatives remained, by far, the largest party with 47 seats, though losing three to Labour, who won 7, and one to the Liberal Democrats, who won 1. In the 2019 general election, the Conservatives increased their number of seats to 48 by regaining Stroud from Labour, who held their other six seats, while the Liberal Democrats retained their sole seat in Bath.

Constituencies

Proposed boundary changes
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. The Commission calculated that the number of seats to be allocated to the South West region will increase by 3, from 55 to 58. Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

Under the proposals, the following constituencies for the region will come into effect at the next general election:

Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019

2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising the South West region in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Percentage votes

Key:

CON - Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966

LAB - Labour Party

LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992

UKIP/Br - UK Independence Party 2010 to 2017 (included in Other up to 2005 and in 2019); Brexit Party in 2019

Green - Green Party of England and Wales (included in Other up to 2005)

Seats

Key:

CON - Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966

LAB - Labour Party

LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992

OTH - 1945 - (1) Independent Progressive (Vernon Bartlett); (2) Independent National (Daniel Lipson)

Former constituencies

Abolished in 2010
Bridgwater → Bridgwater and West Somerset
Falmouth and Camborne → Camborne and Redruth, Truro and Falmouth
Northavon → Thornbury and Yate, Filton and Bradley Stoke
Plymouth Devonport → Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Plymouth Moor View
Plymouth Sutton → Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Plymouth Moor View
Taunton → Taunton Deane
Teignbridge → Newton Abbot, Central Devon
Truro and St Austell → Truro and Falmouth, St Austell and Newquay
Wansdyke → North East Somerset
Westbury → South West Wiltshire, Chippenham
Woodspring → North Somerset

Abolished in 1997
Cirencester and Tewkesbury → Cotswold, Tewkesbury
Plymouth Drake → Plymouth Sutton
Swindon → North Swindon, South Swindon
West Gloucestershire → Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury

See also
 List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Avon
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Devon
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Dorset
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Somerset
 List of parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

Notes

References


The Last Dream is a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by American writer Gordon R. Dickson.  It was first published by Baen Books in 1986.  Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Fantastic, Startling Stories and Worlds of Fantasy.

Contents

 Introduction, by Sandra Miesel
 "St. Dragon and the George"
 "The Present State of Igneos Research"
 "Ye Prentice and Ye Dragon"
 "A Case History"
 "The Girl Who Played Wolf"
 "Salmanazar"
 "With Butter and Mustard"
 "The Amulet"
 "The Haunted Village"
 "The Three"
 "Walker Between the Planes"
 "The Last Dream"

References

1986 short story collections
Short story collections by Gordon R. Dickson
Fantasy short story collections


Phillip Blaine Merling (born April 19, 1985) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Clemson University.

He was also a member of the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins.

Early years
Merling played tight end and defensive end at Fork Union Military Academy in 2004. He totaled 38 catches for 647 yards and five touchdowns on  offense and on defense he added five sacks, 51 tackles, and eight pass breakups. He had 20 catches for 430 yards and four scores as a senior and totaled 96 tackles and thirty four sacks as a senior. For that performance he was the MVP at Fork Union. After his senior year at Cordova High School, in Cordova, Tennessee, he played in the Tennessee/Kentucky All-Star game. He was also First-team All-state and All-region as a senior at Cordova High School.  He played tight end and defensive end and helped his team reach the 6A state play-offs.  Phillip had 9 quarterback sacks, 10 pass knock downs, 4 caused fumbles, 7 tackles for loss and he had 28 pass receptions for 415 yards and 4 touchdowns.  Prior to Fork Union, Merling attended Calhoun County High School in Saint Matthews, SC, for three years.

Merling was also All-conference, All-region, and All-area in basketball as a sophomore and junior. He averaged 20 points and 12 rebounds as a senior and averaged 15 points and 13 rebounds as a junior.

College career
Merling appeared in 38 games at Clemson, starting his final 26. He delivered 146 tackles (99 solos), 12 sacks for minus 80 yards, 31 stops for losses totaling 152 yards and 45 quarterback pressures.

In 2007, he recorded 78 total tackles (first among defensive linemen), including 17 tackles-for-loss and seven sacks. He was instrumental to the Tigers’ top 10 national ranking in scoring and total defense. Was voted Second-team All-ACC for his efforts.
He was named ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week three times, more than any other ACC player. It marked the first time since 2001 that a Clemson player was named ACC Player of the Week three times.

He started all 13 games of the 2006 season, finishing with 46 total tackles on Clemson's top-16 total and scoring defense. Merling had had 10 tackles for loss, second-most on the team behind Gaines Adams. Merling also recorded three sacks, 20 quarterback hurries and one forced fumble that year.

Merling played 271 snaps during his true freshman season in 2005. Won the 12th Man Award for the defense as a  freshman and was a Second-team freshman All-America defensive end by Rivals.com.

Statistics

Professional career

Pre-draft
Merling underwent a successful laparoscopic by athletic pubalgia surgeon Dr. William Myers to repair a sports hernia. As a result, he did not participate in most drills at the combine or the Clemson Pro day due to his recovery from surgery. However, on April 25, 2008, Merling had a private "pro day" for scouts and "performed well". Merling worked out hard for about 45 minutes. "The kid's a pretty safe pick," one scout said. "He's not going to get outflanked," another said, referring to Merling's stoutness at the point of attack. No numbers have been released from the workout.

Measurables
Height: 6'4½" Weight: 271 lbs
40-yard time: 4.63, 4.73, 4.84 (pre-combine)
225-pound bench press: 17 reps

Miami Dolphins

Merling was selected 32nd overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. Although being picked 32nd overall, Merling is considered a second-round pick due to the involvement of the New England Patriots in the Spygate Scandal, resulting in the loss of their first round pick. In Week 17 of the 2008 season, he intercepted a Brett Favre pass and returned it for a touchdown, helping the Dolphins clinch the 2008 AFC East Division championship.

Before the 2010 season he suffered a torn Achilles' Tendon and was ruled out for the season, although he was activated before the Dolphins' Week 13 game with Cleveland.

Merling was waived by the Dolphins on April 23, 2012. He had only made seven tackles over the last two seasons.

Green Bay Packers
Merling signed with the Green Bay Packers on May 23, 2012. He was released by the Green Bay Packers on November 6, 2012

Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins signed Merling to a reserve contract on January 8, 2013. On October 1, he was released, along with John Potter, in order to make room on the roster for the reinstatement of Rob Jackson and Jarvis Jenkins.

NFL statistics

Key
 GP: games played
 COMB: combined tackles
 TOTAL: total tackles
 AST: assisted tackles
 SACK: sacks
 FF: forced fumbles
 FR: fumble recoveries
 FR YDS: fumble return yards
 INT: interceptions
 IR YDS: interception return yards
 AVG IR: average interception return
 LNG: longest interception return
 TD: interceptions returned for touchdown
 PD: passes defensed

Personal
Merling was arrested in Broward County, Florida on May 26, 2010 and charged with aggravated battery against his then-fiancée Kristen Lennon, who was two months pregnant at the time. Merling was the second of two defensive linemen for the Miami Dolphins, Tony McDaniel being the first, to be arrested and charged with battery against a female during the 2010 offseason.  The charges were later dropped by the Broward State Attorney's Office after Lennon moved back to her home state of South Carolina and did not return to testify against him, because she could not travel, as she was 8 months pregnant at the time.

In the fall of 2014, Merling enrolled at Clemson, where he worked as a graduate assistant for the football team. He left the university that October. That same month, a warrant was issued for his arrest for failure to pay child support to Kristen Lennon.

References

External links
Clemson Tigers bio
Miami Dolphins bio

1985 births
Living people
People from Calhoun County, South Carolina
Players of American football from Memphis, Tennessee
Players of American football from Portsmouth, Virginia
American football defensive tackles
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Miami Dolphins players
Green Bay Packers players
Washington Redskins players


Karel Bětík (born October 28, 1978) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted in the fifth round, 112th overall, by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He played three games in the National Hockey League with the Lightning, during the 1998–99 season, scoring two assists.

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Living people
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Detroit Vipers players
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Kelowna Rockets players
Rockford IceHogs (UHL) players
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Kinesin heavy chain isoform 5C is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIF5C gene. It is part of the kinesin family of motor proteins.

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John Scott Peet (1915 - 29 June 1988 in East-Berlin) was a British journalist who defected to East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) in 1950.

Biography

Parental family

John Peet was born on 27 November 1915, the third child of Hubert William Peet (1886 - 1951) and his wife, Edith Mary, born Scott. He had two older sisters and a younger brother, Stephen. John's parents were Quakers, unlike his four grandparents who were Congregationalist. His mother's parents had served as missionaries.

John went to the Quaker boarding schools at Saffron Walden and then Bootham

His father was a journalist, who wrote religious news and also edited the weekly Quaker magazine The Friend from 1932 to 1949. He was also an absolutist conscientious objector, who suffered three terms of imprisonment for his refusal to obey military orders.

Grenadier Guard
"For complex reasons", after Quaker School, John Peet joined the Grenadier Guards. According to his brother, Stephen, he was bought out after three months

Spanish episode
John Peet fought in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigade.

He travelled and worked in various European cities, until 1939, when he joined the British Army, serving in the British Mandate of Palestine. There he ran the news section of Jerusalem Radio, until he was recruited by Reuters News agency in 1945.

International journalist
He worked for Reuters in Palestine, Vienna and Warsaw and covered the Nuremberg trials after World War II, November 1945 to October 1946.

Defection
After three years as a reporter in Berlin, Peet announced, during a Press Conference in East Berlin in 1950, that he was leaving the West because of West German rearmament.

From 1952 to 1975, Peet produced the Democratic German Report, a fortnightly newsletter targeting the left-of-centre public opinion in the United Kingdom. His positive portrayal of the GDR was among the GDR's most believable and powerful propaganda in Britain.

He spent the last ten years of his life translating Marx and Engels into English. The Times (London) published three of his letters to the Editor during his exile.

Many East Germans saw Peet as the archetypical Englishman, and he played this character in several East German films.

Peet was married four times. In 1952, he married the Bulgarian Ravensbrück survivor Georgia Tanewa (1923-2012) and they had two children.

He died on 29 June 1988, after a long illness. He was survived by his fourth wife, Engelgard.
An autobiography, The Long Engagement was published after his death, with an introduction by Len Deighton. In these memoirs, Peet writes about his defection stating he "could no longer serve the Anglo-American warmongers ...". He also writes about his relationship with Soviet intelligence.

References

Other sources
Friendly enemies: Britain and the GDR 1949-1990, by Stefan Berger and Norman Lapole; Berghahn Books, New York and London (2010). Text available online (minus index)

British communists
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Kinesin-like protein KIFC3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIFC3 gene.

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Lion Store (founded in 1857 as Frederick Eaton & Co. and incorporated in 1890 as The Lion Dry Goods Co.) was a Toledo, Ohio department store chain. Mercantile Stores operated the chain from 1914 until its 1998 acquisition by Dillard's, which retired the Lion nameplate in 1999.

Originally established as a downtown-based dry goods retailer, Lion evolved during the post-war period, establishing new stores during Toledo's suburbanization and closing the downtown store in 1980 amid urban decay. By 1998, the chain comprised three fashion apparel stores and two home furnishing stores in area shopping malls targeting middle to upper-middle income consumers.

Long a dominant Toledo retailer, Lion held an estimated thirty to forty percent market share in 1998. The store influenced the growth of Toledo's retail environment, with developers acknowledging that their projects hinged on whether Lion would become an anchor tenant. Lion's outsized influence on local consumers prompted one local retail executive to jokingly remark that "people born in Toledo are born with two things: a Social Security card and a Lion credit card."

History

Early years
In the mid 19th century, New Englander Frederick Eaton opened up a dry goods store in Toledo. The store made $15,000 in its first year of business, prompting the store, then known as Frederick Eaton & Company to move to a larger location in downtown Toledo. Between 1859 and 1865, Eaton purchased two life-size cast-iron lions and placed them outside the doors of his store. The store's customers began referring to the store as "The Lion Store." The store made a move to its final downtown location in 1866, where the lions followed. The Lion Store became part of H.B. Claflin & Company upon the 1890 death of Eaton. Subsequently, the store was acquired by the Mercantile Stores group.

Post-war expansion
The company opened up a store in the Westgate Village Shopping Center in 1957, which would, by the 1990s, become a home store, and briefly a Dillard's Home Store before its closure. Another store was opened at Southwyck Shopping Center in 1972. A second Home Store also opened at Southwyck following the close of the Lamsons store there. Both the Southwyck stores closed in the early-to-mid first decade of the 21st century, after brief conversions to Dillard's stores. The downtown store closed in the early 1980s.

Later years and Dillard's acquisition
In the mid-1980s, Lion Store opened a location at North Towne Square in North Toledo, which was closed in the late 1990s after a brief period as a Dillard's store. In 1993, a store was opened at Franklin Park Mall, which serves under the Dillard's name as the only functioning descendant of the Lion Store today. It is at the Franklin Park Dillard's location where one can see the lion statues, who preside in the store's main atrium.

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References
The Grand Emporiums, Scarborough House, Hendrickson, 1979.

Companies based in Toledo, Ohio
Defunct department stores based in Toledo, Ohio
Retail companies disestablished in 1998
Defunct companies based in Ohio


The Vârciorog Waterfall  is a tourist attraction and a protected area, located in the Apuseni Natural Park, Romania. It is situated on a small right tributary of the river Arieșul Mare, near the village Vanvucești. The waterfall is 15 m high.

References

 Parcul Natural Apuseni

Protected areas of Romania
Geography of Alba County


Task Force ODIN, whose name is an acronym for observe, detect, identify, and neutralize, is a United States Army aviation battalion created in August 2006 to conduct reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) operations to combat insurgent operators of improvised explosive devices in Iraq.

The unit was formed in Texas, and first deployed in October 2006. An Army article says the unit is meant to meet "the critical requirement to 'win back the roads' using Army Aviation assets to maintain a persistent stare over demonstrated at-risk areas for IEDs."  The United States Army stood up TF ODIN as a Quick Reaction Capabilities project whose efficacy proved so effective it shaped the Secretary of Defense Directive to establish the Air Force Project Liberty and other ISR related missions.

ODIN is the Army's only unit that flies the MQ-1B Warrior-Alpha unmanned aerial vehicle. Built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, the extended-range multi-purpose hybrid UAV has an advanced sensor package incorporating electro-optical sensors, including FLIR, and synthetic aperture radar together with a laser rangefinder and a laser designator, the latter for "painting" targets for strikes with Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs.

By September 2007, the Warrior-Alpha had flown more than 6,000 hours and had contributed to the killing of 3,000 insurgents in Iraq.

The task force trains operators for active, reserve, and Army National Guard. These analysts work with every type of unit including the military's top secret units.

Task Force ODIN received a Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for their work with the 25th Infantry Division.

The Army established a sister, TF ODIN-A, unit in Afghanistan. After "Operation New Dawn" (OND), TF ODIN was temporarily positioned in an undisclosed location until further movement into Afghanistan to combine both TF-ODIN and TF-ODIN-A as TF-ODIN-E Operation Enduring Freedom. There are many sub-divisions in the task force: Highlighter, Desert Owl and Night Eagle to name a few.

On 23 February 2009, Task Force ODIN performed the first MQ-1B Warrior-Alpha combat missile launch.

According to General David Petraeus in August 2010, during the previous 90 days in Afghanistan information provided by ODIN had resulted in the killing or capture of 365 militant leaders, detained 1,335 insurgent foot soldiers, and killed another 1,031 Taliban.

As of May 2019, MAG Aerospace continues to help the U.S. military fight the Taliban in Afghanistan as part of Task Force ODIN under the Army's Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (MARSS) program.

References

Ad hoc units and formations of the United States Army
Aviation battalions of the United States Army
Military task forces


Keratin, type I cuticular Ha3-II is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KRT33B gene.

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the keratin gene family. It is one of the type I hair keratin genes which are clustered in a region of chromosome 17q12-q21 and have the same direction of transcription. As a type I hair keratin, it is an acidic protein which heterodimerizes with type II hair keratin to form hair and nails. There are two isoforms of this protein, encoded by two separate genes, KRTHA3A and KRTHA3B.

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Play Magazine was a weekly online sports magazine, associated with The New York Times. The magazine was later published quarterly. It was first published in February 2006. Mark Bryant was the editor-in-chief of the magazine which ceased publication in Fall 2008.

References

External links
Official website

Online magazines published in the United States
Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Sports magazines published in the United States
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2006
Magazines disestablished in 2008
Magazines published in New York City
Play


Galectin-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGALS4 gene.

The galectins are a family of beta-galactoside-binding proteins implicated in modulating cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. LGALS4 is an S-type lectin that is strongly underexpressed in colorectal cancer. The 323-amino acid LGALS4 protein contains two homologous, approximately 150-amino acid carbohydrate recognition domains and all amino acids typically conserved in galectins.

Structure
Gal 4 belongs to the family of galectin. Among various structure of galectins like dimeric, tandem or chimera, Gal-4 is tandem in its structure, so they contains at least two distinct carbohydrate recognising domains (CRD) within one polypeptide, thus are said to be intrinsically divalent. The CRDs are linked with a small peptide domain.

Protein name
Recommended name:Galectin-4, Short name: Gal-4 Alternative name(s):
 Antigen NY-CO-27
 L-36 lactose-binding protein, Short name: L36L
 Lactose-binding lectin 4

Location (In human Body)
Gal-4 is generally found in stomach and intestine.

Functions
Gal-4 has binding ability with high affinity to lipid rafts suggesting a role in protein delivery to cells

Plus they can perform the following Physiological functions:

Gal-4 enhances the stabilization of lipid raft

Gal-4 participates in apical trafficking

Gal-4 has bactericidal activity against bacteria expressing blood group antigen

Gal-4 promotes intestinal wound healing

Gal-4 promotes growth of axon and myelination in neuron

Clinical Significance
Gal-4 and cancer

Gal-4 which has been detected in many cancer has involved in association with the development and sequence of  pancreatic carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, Colorectal cancer (CRC), breast carcinoma, gastric cancer, and lung cancer (Rechreche et al., 1997; Hippo et al., 2001; Hayashi et al., 2013; Belo et al., 2013; Cai et al., 2014). Afterall, it plays contradictory roles in different type of cancer cell. In addition to that, it has been found in serum of some cancer patients (Kim et al., 2013; Cai et al., 2014; Barrow et al., 2011; Barrow et al., 2013). Till now, in spite of a number of published data regarding galectin-4 expression in cancer, the available information has remained very much limited. Among these cancers, only the role of galectin-4 in CRC development has been revealed explicitly.

The utility of CEA (Carcinoembryonic antigen) and CA19-9 as colorectal carcinoma (CRC) markers is limited and development of additional reliable markers is under investigation. Circulating levels of galectin-1/-3/-4 in CRC patients were importantly higher compared to those in controls. Gal-1 and gal-4 levels significantly decreased after having surgery (P<0.01), and the level of gal-4 in most patients fell below the cut-off value. The levels of circulating gal-4 significantly increased as the tumor stage progressed (P<0.001), whereas those for galectin-1 were relatively high from an early stage. Combined use of gal-4 with CEA and/or CA19-9 distinctly increased the proportion of CRC patients who were positive for tumor markers (from 33.3 to 59.0% for CEA and from 17.1 to 51.4% for CA19-9). Our data show that galectin-4 may be a tumor marker for use in patient follow-up, while galectin-1 could be used for tumor screening. In particular, galectin-4 can be useful as a complementary marker when combined with CEA/CA19-9 to improve CRC follow-up

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Gal-4 and intestinal inflammation

Gal-4 was demonstrated to worsen the condition of intestinal inflammation by directly inducing the CD4+ T cells (cluster of differentiation 4)  to produce IL-6(Interleukin) on TCR(T-cell receptor) mutational colitis model (Hokama et al., 2004). IL-6, a well-known inflammatory cytokine, could exacerbate intestinal inflammation in the presence of impaired mucosal barrier or injury to the mucosa. Furthermore, IL-6 was also confirmed to enhance the expression of B-cell lymphoma-2(Bcl-2) and B-cell lymphoma-extra large (Bcl-xl) through activating the STAT3(Signal transducer and activator of transcription) signal pathway, thus inhibiting the apoptosis of CD4+ T cells, and leading to sustainable development of IBD (Atreya et al., 2000; Allocca et al., 2013; Waldner and Neurath, 2014). Gal-4 may directly interact with the CD4+ T cells through binding to the immunological synapse, which is a specific activator of the protein kinase C(PKC) θ-associated signaling cascade in lipid raft (Hokama et al., 2004; Nagahama et al., 2008). Through activating the PKC -associated pathway, galectin-4 stimulates the production of IL-6, therefore exacerbates intestinal inflammation. Anyway, it is not sure which receptor on intestinal CD4+ T cells particularly crosslinks with gal-4. It was found that an inducible colitis-associated glycome (CAG), which contains an immature (nonsialylated) core-1 O-glycan expressed by CD4+ T cells, was identified as a ligand of gal-4 under intestinal inflammatory conditions (Nishida et al., 2012). Thus, gal-4 may activate the PKCθ by binding to CAG and, then contributing to aggravation of colitis. In consistent with this, gal-4, which shows a high affinity to immature O-glycan (Ideo et al., 2002; Blixt et al., 2004), has been shown to exacerbate an experimental chronic colitis (Hokama et al., 2004). Nevertheless, Paclik D et al. demonstrated that gal-4 could induce T cell apoptosis by binding to the CD3  epitope at T cells surface on wild-type colitis model. Once binding to this epitope, gal-4 promotes apoptosis of T cells in calpain-dependent manner and reduces the secretion of cytokines including IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, and IL-17, and then improving the inflammation (Paclik et al., 2008a). Another research found that the role of gal-4 varied in different experimental colitis models (Mathieu et al., 2008). Based on the existing data, we can conclude that gal-4 may exacerbate intestinal inflammation in TCR mutational colitis model, while ameliorate intestinal inflammation in wild-type colitis model

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St George's Church is in the town of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England.  The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Bowdon.

History

The original church was built as a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Bowdon in 1799. The tower and spire date from 1874 and the chancel from 1886. In 1896–97 the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley rebuilt the nave and aisles.

The History of the Parish Church of St George's, Altrincham has its roots within the Wesleyan Movement. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, made his first visit to the town in 1738. He was then a young man of 35. He returned several times, his last visit being on Easter Monday, 1790, only one year before his death. His purpose on that occasion was to preach at the first Wesleyan chapel in the town in Chapel Walk – later to become Regent Road.

A man named Oswald Leicester was a successful grocer in the time when grocers were becoming rich from exotic foods from the Thirteen Colonies. His third son was born in 1761 and baptised on 17 September 1761: he was Oswald Leicester Jnr. and became known as "The Founding Father of St George's Altrincham".

The First Sunday School

In 1783 the young Oswald Leicester, then only 22, formed a Sunday School in Altrincham; renting the upper room of a cottage in Ashley Road, Altrincham, then known as Thorley Moor Lane. There, on Sundays, children climbed the stone outer flight to learn to read and write, to hear Bible stories. He had closely followed the example of Robert Raikes who had founded the first Sunday School in 1780. It is very likely that both Leicesters were influenced by Wesley's teachings.

There is no evidence, however, that the Sunday School was supported by the Wesleyans. It must be regarded as an independent act of zeal and faith by the Leicesters, one which would lead in time to the building of the Parish Church of Altrincham.

Architecture

Exterior
The church is constructed in red brick with terracotta dressings. It has a slate spire and clay tile roofs. Its plan consists of a west tower and porch, a nave with a clerestory, north and south six-bay aisles which continue alongside the tower, and a polygonal chancel with a vestry and chapel. The tower is in three stages with corbelled eaves. The east window has three lights above which is a rose window. The other windows have semicircular heads.

Interior
In the chancel is a memorial to Rev. O. Leicester, the church's first curate-in-charge who died in 1831. Also in the church are two painted churchwardens' staves dated 1838. The stained glass windows in the chancel dating from 1895 were designed by Mary Lowndes, the first woman glazier in the Arts and Crafts movement and a leading figure in the suffragette movement. The two-manual organ is in the west gallery. It was built in 1977 by Wood Wordsworth & Co. of Leeds, using the case, some pipework and other items from Bridge End Chapel, Brighouse.

Members

Incumbents

See also

 Listed buildings in Altrincham
 List of churches in Greater Manchester
 List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1914)

References

External links

Church of England church buildings in Greater Manchester
Grade II listed churches in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford
Diocese of Chester
Austin and Paley buildings
Saint George


LIM homeobox 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LHX1 gene. This gene encodes a member of a large protein family which contains the LIM domain, a unique cysteine-rich zinc-binding domain. The encoded protein is a transcription factor important for control of differentiation and development of neural and lymphoid cells. It is also key in development of renal and urogenital systems and is required for normal organogenesis. A similar protein in mice is an essential regulator of the vertebrate head organizer.

Function

The Lim gene family is a subfamily of homeobox genes. The homeobox genes are essential in organizing the body plan of an organism and all contain the same conserved homeodomain of amino acids. Evidence that Lim-1 is essential to a developing organism is its conservation throughout evolution and presence in a variety of organisms. The Lim-1 gene encodes a transcription factor which binds to the DNA of specific genes and functions to produce the needed gene product for development of the organism. Lim-1 is important during early molecular development and is required in both primitive streak-derived tissue and visceral endoderm of the early embryo for development of a head. Studies done using mutant organisms without the Lim gene results in organisms that develop no head structure at all support the essential role of the Lim-1 gene in formation of the head. This gene has also been shown to play a crucial role in the formation of the female reproductive tract. The gene is expressed in the developing Müllerian duct of females, and when the gene is knocked out no reproductive tract forms. Recent studies have shown that Lim-1 mutations may be one cause of the Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome. MRKH is characterized by defective development, or absence, of the uterus and upper part of the vagina in women with normal ovaries and karyotype.

Lim-1’s expression is controlled in part by the sonic hedgehog-Gli signaling pathway. Recent studies in mice have shown that Lim-1 silencing halts tumor growth and impairs tumor cell movement via inhibition of protein expression involved in metastatic spread. Therefore, in tumor cells Lim-1 acts as an oncogene. Thus, targeting Lim-1 can be a potential cancer therapy. In addition, Lim-1 is important in rodent renal development. Lim-1 deficiency results in development of multicystic kidney, whereas, its expression can contribute to pathogenesis of nephroblastomas. Also, Lim-1 plays a role in embryonic retinal development. Lim-1 expression affects differentiation and maintenance of horizontal cells located in the retinal, thus, it could serve as a marker in studies of horizontal cell specification.

Lim-1 (Lhx1) functions as a transcription factor necessary for regulating the production of coupling factors required for proper communication between the neurons located in the part of the brain responsible for regulation of circadian rhythms called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). In mouse studies where Lim-1 transcription was restricted at some point during development in utero, the individual units within the subject’s molecular clock functioned properly but were unable to work together. Communication of these units is required to match their release of clock proteins which begin a transcription cascade of many other proteins that produce functional responses in tissues. The cyclic pattern of these responses is due to the feedback of the clock proteins and consequent changes to this transcription cascade. Reduced Lim-1 expression leads to inadequate levels of proteins such as Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide (VIP) that work to produce the neuron coordination required for a regulated circadian rhythm. The lack of such coupling factors causes the circadian clock to not function properly because the units within the SCN cannot match their release of clock proteins, and therefore their transcriptional cascades of proteins that cause changes in arousal do not align.

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is a private university in Japan. Its campus is located in Shinzaike, Hiraoka-cho, Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. The university is one of the seven schools run by , a school foundation with a Buddhist background (Nishi Hongwanji denomination).

History
Mutsumi Gakuen
 1921: Taishi Sunday School was started in memory of the 1300th anniversary of Shotoku Taishi's death.
 1923: Suma Taishi Hall was opened in Suma-ku, Kobe, to which the Training Course of Sewing (a girls' school) was attached.
 1937: Suma Taishi Hall Foundation was incorporated. The foundation established Suma Mutsumi Girls' Vocational School (Sumanoura Girls' High School today).
 1951: The school foundation was renamed Mutsumi Gakuen.
 1955: The school foundation established Mutsumi Gakuen Women's Junior College.
 1966: The junior college was renamed Hyogo Women's Junior College, moving from Suma-ku, Kobe to Kakogawa.
Hyogo University
 1995: Mutsumi Gakuen established Hyogo University.
with one faculty: Faculty of Economics and Information Science
 1998: The junior college was reorganized into the Junior College Department of Hyogo University.
 1999: Graduate School of Economics and Information Science was established.
 2001: The Faculty of Health Science was added.
with Departments of Nutrition Management and Health System Management
 2006: The Department of Nursing was added.

Faculties (Undergraduate schools)

Faculty of Economics and Information Science
Faculty of Health Science
Department of Nutrition Management
Department of Health System Management
Department of Nursing
Faculty of Welfare Society

Graduate schools
Graduate School of Economics and Information Science (Master's courses only)

External links
Official Website (in Japanese)

Private universities and colleges in Japan
Universities and colleges in Hyōgo Prefecture


Leukotriene-B(4) omega-hydroxylase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CYP4F3 gene.  CYP4F3 encodes two distinct enzymes, CYP4F3A and CYP4F3B, which originate from the alternative splicing of a single pre-mRNA precursor molecule; selection of either isoform is tissue-specific with CYP3F3A being expressed mostly in leukocytes and CYP4F3B mostly in the liver.

Function
The cytochrome P450 proteins are monooxygenases which catalyze many reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids, fatty acids and other lipids. CYP4F3 actually encodes two splice-variants, CYP4F3A and CYP4F3B, of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes. The gene is part of a cluster of cytochrome P450 genes on chromosome 19. Another member of this family, CYP4F8, is approximately 18 kb away. Both variants localize on the endoplasmic reticulum and metabolize leukotriene B4 and very likely 5-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, 5-oxo-eicosatetraenoic acid, and 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid by an omega oxidation reaction, i.e. by adding a hydroxyl residue to their terminal (i.e. C-20) carbon. This addition starts the process of inactivating and degrading all of these well-known mediators of inflammation CYP3FA is the major enzyme accomplishing these omega oxidations in leukocytes.

CYP4F3A and/or CYP43FB also omega oxidize arachidonic acid to 20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE) as well as epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) to 20-hydroxy-EETs. 20-HETE regulates blood flow, vascularization, blood pressure, and kidney tubule absorption of ions in rodents and possibly humans; it has also been proposed to be involved in regulating the growth of various types of human cancers (see 20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid#Cancer). EETS have a similar set of regulatory functions but often act in a manner opposite to 20-HETE (see epoxyeicosatrienoic acid#Cancer); since, however, the activities of the 20-HEETs have not been well-defined, the function of EET omega oxidation is unclear.

Genetic Variants
The hydroxylation-induced inactivation of the mediators of inflammation, perhaps particularly of leukotriene B4, may underlie the proposed roles of these cytochromes in dampening inflammatory responses as well as the reported associations of certain CYP4F3 single nucleotide variants (SNPs) with human Crohn's disease (SNPs are designated rs1290617 and  rs1290620 and Celiac disease (rs1290622 and rs1290625).

There is also a study that have found an association within Guangzhou population between the single nucleotide variation rs3794987 and susceptibility to the SARS-CoV-1 virus, discovered in 2003. The GG/AG genotype was associated with an increased susceptibility to SARS-CoV-1, comparing to the AA genotype. However, the results of this association were not replicated in another study, on the Beijing population. The combined analysis of the two studies does not show any association of the CYP4F3 SNPs analyzed with SARS-CoV-1 susceptibility.

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Aurel Jivi (1943–2002) was a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church. He was a teacher and writer.

Life
Jivi was born in Chişoda, Timiș County, Romania, on August 2, 1943. He took his first degree from the Sibiu Theological Institute in 1967 and then a master's degree in Theology from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago in 1973. He completed his doctoral studies at the Bucharest Theological Institute in 1982, with a dissertation on "Orthodoxy in America".

He became a full-time professor at the Sibiu Theological Institute, Department of Universal Church History, in 1983; he also taught at the Faculty of Theology in Oradea, and lectured for several universities in the United States and Great Britain. He was ordained an Orthodox priest in 1993. Father Jivi wrote extensively on topics related to his field of research, but he was also a proficient translator. He died in Sibiu, in 2002.

Works (in Romanian)

 . în MB, an. XIX. 1969, nr. 4–6, p. 226-235;
 , în BOR, an. LXXXVIII, 1969, nr. 11–12, p. 1248–1256;
 , ST, an. XXII, 1970, nr. 1 -2, p. 118-128,
 , în ST, an.  XXII, 1970, nr. 5 -6, p. 452-460;
 , în BOR, an.  LXXXVIII, 1970, nr. 5–6, p. 587–596;
 , în ST, an. XXVII, 1975, nr. 3–4, p. 219–225;
 , în BOR, an. XCIX, 1981, nr. 78, p. 912–917;
 , în ST, an. XXXIII, 1981, nr. 7-10, p. 606–613;
 , în ST. an. XXXVI, 1984, nr. 7–8, p. 482–493;
 , în MMS, an. LXIII, 1987, nr. 5. p. 101–111,
 , în vol. Contribuţii transilvănene la teologia ortodoxă, Sibiu, 1988, p. 101–118;
 , în RT, an. I (73), 1991, nr. 2, p. 23–32;
 , în vol. , Sibiu, 1992 p. 39-57;
 , în RT, an. II (74), 1992, nr. 3. p. 17–27:
 , în vol. Persoană şi comuniune, Prinos de cinstire Pr. Prof Acad.  Dumitru Stăniloaie, Sibiu, 1993, p. 386–397.

Translations (from English)

 Keith Hitchins, . 1846–1873. București, 1995, 343p.
 Other articles and reviews published in: "Biserica Ortodoxă Română", "Studii Teologice", "Mitropolia Ardealului", "Ecumenical Review", and "Byzantinoslavica".

External links
The Aurel Jivi Society (Blog)

1943 births
2002 deaths
Romanian Orthodox priests
21st-century Eastern Orthodox priests
20th-century Eastern Orthodox priests
People from Timiș County
McCormick Theological Seminary alumni


Melanoma-associated antigen 12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAGEA12 gene.

Function

This gene is a member of the MAGEA gene family. The members of this family encode proteins with 50 to 80% sequence identity to each other. The promoters and first exons of the MAGEA genes show considerable variability, suggesting that the existence of this gene family enables the same function to be expressed under different transcriptional controls. The MAGEA genes are clustered at chromosomal location Xq28. They have been implicated in some hereditary disorders, such as dyskeratosis congenita.

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cyangugu () is a diocese located in the city of Cyangugu in the ecclesiastical province of Kigali in Rwanda. Since 2021, the Catholic Diocese of Cyangugu is entrusted to Bishop Edouard Sinayobye.

The Diocese of Cyangugu (in French Diocèse Catholique de Cyangugu) was established by Pope John Paul II on November 14, 1981. It was entrusted to Bishop Thaddeus Ntihinyurwa on January 24, 1982, as diocesan bishop until his appointment as Archbishop of Kigali on March 9, 1996, and as Apostolic Administrator of Cyangugu until January 2, 1997, when the pope appointed his successor, Bishop John Damascene Bimenyimana, who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Cyangugu until he died on March 11, 2018.

Leadership
 Bishops of Cyangugu
 Thaddée Ntihinyurwa (1981.11.05 – 1996.03.09), appointed Archbishop of Kigali but soon became Apostolic Administrator here
 Archbishop Thaddée Ntihinyurwa (Apostolic Administrator 1996.03.25 – 1997.01.02)
Jean Damascène Bimenyimana (1997.01.02 - 2018.03.11)
Edouard Sinayobye (2021.02.06 - ...)

Parishes
 Shangi
 Nkanka
 Mibilizi
 Mwezi
 Muyange
 Nyamasheke
 Yove
 Cyangugu
 Nyabitimbo
 Hanika
 Tyazo
Mashyuza
Mushaka
nyakabuye

See also
Roman Catholicism in Rwanda

References

External links
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy
 Homepage du Diocèse catholique de Cyangugu (french)

Cyangugu
Roman Catholic dioceses in Rwanda
Christian organizations established in 1981
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century


The Cauchy number (Ca) is a dimensionless number in continuum mechanics used in the study of compressible flows. It is named after the French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy.  When the compressibility is important the elastic forces must be considered along with inertial forces for dynamic similarity. Thus, the Cauchy Number is defined as the ratio between inertial and the compressibility force (elastic force) in a flow and can be expressed as

,

where

  = density of fluid, (SI units: kg/m3)
 u = local flow velocity, (SI units: m/s)
 K = bulk modulus of elasticity, (SI units: Pa)

Relation between Cauchy number and Mach number

For isentropic processes, the Cauchy number may be expressed in terms of Mach number. The isentropic bulk modulus , where  is the specific heat capacity ratio and p is the fluid pressure.
If the fluid obeys the ideal gas law, we have

,

where

  = speed of sound, (SI units: m/s)
 R = characteristic gas constant, (SI units: J/(kg K) )
 T = temperature, (SI units: K)

Substituting K (Ks) in the equation for Ca yields

.

Thus, the Cauchy number is square of the Mach number for isentropic flow of a perfect gas.

References

Dimensionless numbers of fluid mechanics
Continuum mechanics


Mannosyl-oligosaccharide 1,2-alpha-mannosidase IA is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MAN1A1 gene.

This gene encodes a class I mammalian Golgi 1,2-mannosidase which is a type II transmembrane protein. This protein catalyzes the removal of 3 distinct mannose residues from peptide-bound Man(9)-GlcNAc(2) oligosaccharides and belongs to family 47 of glycosyl hydrolases.

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The coracoid tubercle is an anatomical feature of the pectoral skeleton in archosaurs,  including maniraptoran dinosaurs. It is sometimes called the biceps tubercle. It is also sometimes called the coracoid tuber or biceps tuber.

The coracoid tubercle is a prominent area on the anterior surface of the coracoid, just ventral to the shoulder socket (glenoid).  The coracoid tubercle forms the pointed portion in those coracoids described as "flexed". It was previously called the biceps tubercle because it was thought to be the origin of the M.biceps muscle. Makovicky & Sues (1998) followed Alick Walker (1990) in asserting that it is, instead, probably the origin of the M. coracobrachialis muscle. Thus, they preferred the term "coracoid tubercle". Norell and Makovicky (1999) followed this precedent and credited Osmolska (1972) with their precise definition of "coracoid tubercle".

References

Dinosaur anatomy