Stefan Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Филиповић) (born January 18, 1987) is a Montenegrin pop singer.

Biography
Filipović was born in Titograd, now Podgorica, and studied in the Cetinje Music Academy. He started singing at age seven and he took part in various festivals in Montenegro and abroad. On January 27, he won MontenegroSong 2008, hence gaining the right to represent Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, that was held in Belgrade, Serbia. The song performed was chosen internally by a 30-member jury appointed by RTCG. The winning song was titled "Zauvijek volim te" (I love you for eternity), and was made by a team of Macedonian musicians - Grigor Koprov (author), Ognen Nedelkovski (composer) and Vladimir Dojčinovski (arranger), the same trio that created the Macedonian entry in 2007 - Mojot Svet. An English version of the song was also recorded, under the title "Never forget that I love you". The song's demo version was presented on Saturday, March 8 and was rearranged until March 15.  Filipović performed the song at the first semi-final of the competition, but failed to reach the final having only received 23 points placing him 14th in a pool of 19.

Singles
 Zujalica (Naša Radost - kids' festival, Podgorica)
 Đede Pero što je ovo (Naša Radost 1999)
 Deca imaju pravo (UNICEF kids festival, Tivat)
 Ringeringe raja (Naša Radost)
 Ja Mogao Bih Sve (Music Festival Budva 2005 - 4th place & Best Debutant Award)
 Ne Umijem (Sunflower Music Festival in Zrenjanin 2005 - 3rd place & Best Debutant Award)
 Za Nju (Evropesma 2006 - 4th place)
 Šećer i Voće (Music Festival Budva 2006 - 2nd place)
 Ne Mogu Bez Tebe (MontenegroSong 2007 - 2nd place)
 Nebo i More (Music Festival Budva 2007 - 1st place)
 Zauvijek Volim Te / Never Forget That I Love You (Eurovision Song Contest 2008)

External links
The Njegoskij Fund Network : "Montenegrin public voted: Stefan Filipovic to Belgrade in May".
The Njegoskij Fund Network : "Stefan Filipovic’s Eurovision 2008 song finally revealed!".
The Njegoskij Fund Network : "Stefan Filipovic’s Eurovision 2008 song presented in English version" (final version with lyrics).
Grigor Koprov composing a song for Stefan (in Macedonian)

1987 births
Living people
Musicians from Podgorica
21st-century Montenegrin male singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Montenegro
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2008


Sachin Tendulkar is a retired Indian cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsman of all time, he is the most prolific run-scorer in international cricket. Tendulkar has scored the highest number of centuries (100 or more runs) in Test matches and One Day International (ODI) matches organised by the International Cricket Council. His total of 51 centuries in Test matches and 49 in ODIs are world records for highest number of centuries by a batsman. He became the first and only cricketer to score 100 international centuries when he made 114 against Bangladesh in March 2012.

After making his Test debut in 1989, Tendulkar achieved his first century against England at Old Trafford, Manchester in 1990; he made 119 not out. In Test matches, Tendulkar has scored centuries against all the Test cricket playing nations, and is the second batsman to score 150 against each of them. He has scored a century in at least one cricket ground of all Test cricket playing nations, except Zimbabwe. In October 2010, Tendulkar went past Brian Lara's record of 19 scores of 150 or more by hitting his 20th against Australia in Bangalore. He made his highest score in 2004, when he made 248 not out against Bangladesh at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka. Tendulkar has scored six double centuries and remained unbeaten on 15 occasions. His centuries have come in 30 different cricket grounds, with 27 of them being scored in venues outside India. Tendulkar has been dismissed nine times between scores of 90 and 99.

Although Tendulkar made his ODI debut in 1989 it was only after five years he made his first century in the format. He made 110 against Australia in the third match of the Singer World Series at the R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo in September 1994. In ODIs, Tendulkar has scored centuries against 11 different opponents. He has scored centuries against all cricketing nations that have permanent One Day International status. He was the first batsman to score a double century in ODIs, which he scored against South Africa at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior in 2010. He has scored 19 ODI centuries in India, compared to 30 in away or neutral venues. Seven of these centuries were hit at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium. He has been dismissed 18 times between the score of 90 and 99 and 17 times between the score of 80 and 89.

Key
 *  Remained not out
   Captain of India in that match
   Man of the match

List of Test cricket centuries

List of ODI centuries

Sachin Tendulkar centuries and results for India

See also
 List of career achievements by Sachin Tendulkar
 List of cricketers by number of international centuries scored
 Player of the Match awards (cricket)
 List of One Day International cricket records
 List of Test cricket records

Notes and references
Notes

References

Further reading

Indian cricket lists
Tendulkar, Sachin
Sachin Tendulkar


Corinth Refinery is an  oil refining complex in Greece, the largest industrial complex in the country with a capacity of , operated by Motor Oil Hellas.

Facilities

Fuels production
Crude oil is processed in the crude distillation unit, from which liquified petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, kerosene, diesel and fuel oil are produced. Kerosene and Diesel are further treated mainly in order to remove sulfur thus complying with the required specifications and to produce jet fuel and diesel fuel respectively (both automotive and heating grades).

Gasoline production
Naphtha is treated to produce gasoline of a high octane number, eliminating the need for adding tetraethyllead to gasoline.

Hydrocracker complex
This unit is the most recent investment project undertaken by the Company the capital expenditure of which amounted to € 350 million completed in 2005. The operation of the Hydrocracker enabled the production of the new clean fuels with low sulfur content according to the specifications of the European Union effective as of 2005 and 2009 (Auto Oil II). Furthermore, the unit contributed decisively to the improvement of the environmental conditions at the Refinery as the emissions from Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) were drastically reduced.

Fluid catalytic cracking complex
Atmospheric Fuel Oil is fed to the FCC complex to produce LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, and Fuel Oil. Parts of the LPGs are sent to downstream units and are converted into high quality gasoline components.

Lubricants production
Atmospheric Fuel Oil is also fed to the Lubes Vacuum Unit. After a series of processes in order to improve properties of the lubricants, such as viscosity index, pour point, cloud point, the final base lubes are produced and stored. Additionally, asphalt can be produced from the Lubes vacuum unit, whereas the bottoms of both vacuum units are routed to the visbreaker for further upgrading and production of fuel oil.

See also

 Aspropyrgos Refinery

References

External links
 Official Motor Oil Hellas site

Oil refineries in Greece
Corinth


Susan Faye Cannon, born Walter Faw Cannon (October 15, 1925, in Durham, North Carolina –November 6, 1981), was an American historian of science, physicist, and Smithsonian curator.

Career
In 1947, Cannon gained a bachelor's degree in physics at Princeton University. Turning to the history of science, she earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1956, with a dissertation "On uniformity and progression in early Victorian cosmography."

In the early 1960s, she wrote influential articles on uniformitarian geology, the "Cambridge network," William Whewell's tidology, John Herschel, the relation of Charles Darwin to William Paley, liberal Anglicanism, and the general place of science in nineteenth-century culture.

From 1962 to 1979, Cannon was a historian of science and a Curator of the Classical Physics and Geosciences collection at the Smithsonian Institution. She founded and was the first editor of the Smithsonian Journal of History.

Personal life
Cannon was born October 15, 1925, in Durham, NC, the daughter of James Cannon III (1892–1960), Dean of Duke University Divinity School.

In 1976, Cannon changed her name to Susan Faye Cannon, thereafter referring to herself as a "male woman." Now, Cannon would be called a transgender woman.

Cannon was found dead of a codeine overdose November 6, 1981.

Works
 "The Problem of Miracles in the 1830s", Victorian Studies 4 (1960), 5–32.
 "The Impact of Uniformitarianism: Two Letters from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836–37," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105 (1961) 310–14.
 "The Uniformitarian-Catastrophist Debate," Isis 51 (1960) 38–55.
 "John Herschel and the Idea of Science," Journal of the History of Ideas, 22 (1961), 215–39
 "Scientists and Broad Churchmen: An Early Victorian Intellectual Network", Journal of British Studies 4 (1964): 65–88.
 Science and Culture: The Early Victorian Period, 1978. Winner, Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society.

References

 Morrell, J. B., 'Susan Faye Cannon (Walter Faw Cannon) October 15, 1925 – November 6, 1981', Isis, Vol. 74, No. 1. (Mar. 1983), p. 88.

1925 births
1981 deaths
Princeton University alumni
Harvard University alumni
American historians of science
20th-century American historians


Latremenoi Mou Geitones () or My Beloved Neighbors is a Greek TV serial written by Panos Amarantidis and Constntine Ganosis, directed by Pierros Andrakakos, created by Studio ATA and broadcast on Mega Channel starting in 2007 with additional episodes in 2008.

The series is based on a Spanish production, Mis Adorables Vecinos.

The series revolves around the lives of two families. The Moustoxides family is from a poor neighborhood and working class, however their young daughter, Betty, wins a reality singing show (much like Pop Idol) and ends up a superstar with the family becoming very rich. They move in next door to the Papapavlos family who are sophisticated Athenians.

At the heart of the story is the on-off relationship between Aris Moustoxidis (Dimitris Vlachos) and Lisa Papapavlou (Smaragda Kalimoukou).

The Families

The Moustoxidis Family
 Babis (Kostas Koklas) was a greengrocer; he's now so rich he doesn't have to work but has problems coming to terms with doing nothing all day. He argues loudly with his wife but they are always in love and have a healthy relationship.
 Pelagia (Ava Galanopoulou) worked in a hairdresser.
 Aris (Dimitris Vlachos) is the older son of the family. He has an on-off relationship with Lisa from the next door and makes friends easily at his new school including a romantic interlude with different girls. However he sometimes goes too far (notably annoying his English teacher (Sean James Sutton) and causing problems in class).
 Mihalakis (Dimitris Daoulis) is the younger son of the family.
 Betty (Nefeli Kanaki) is the daughter of family and the cause of all the wealth.
 Zambeta (Efi Papatheodorou) is the Pelagia's mother who lives with them.
 Ioulia (Eleni Tzortzi) is the maid of the family.

The Papapavlou Family
 Vyron (Giorgos Konstantis) is the father of family also a plastic surgeon with a cash strapped surgery. He is the main butt of the jokes and often gets frustrated by the actions of his new neighbours.
 Miranda (Arietta Moutousi) is the mother of family, more sympathetic to their new neighbours and tries, in her subtle way, to help them (especially Pelagia) fit in with the sophisticated Northern Athens suburb life.
 Lisa (Smaragda Kalimoukou) is the older daughter and has accepted the family but is frustrated by Aris and their on-off relationship.
 Nefeli (Vasiliki Kara is the younger daughter of the family.
 Konstantinos (Kostantinos Lagos) the son of the family.
 Milica (Anna Dimitrijevic) is the maid of family.

Focus

Although there are occasional glimpses of the underlying tensions involved with class and behaviour, upbringing and status, the series generally focuses on the obvious for its humour, for example the way in which Pelagia dresses and behaves betrays her origins and often the upper-class locals look down on her ways.

Ratings
The first season averaged a 35% rating and the second, with a lot of changes (writer, cast etc.),  22%.

External links
IMDB Site

Mega Channel original programming
2007 Greek television series debuts
2009 Greek television series endings
2000s Greek television series
Greek television soap operas


James Edward Collin (16 March 1876, Kirtling – 16 September 1968) was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

He was the author of Empididae. British Flies, Volume 6. University Press, Cambridge (1961). This was the third volume in an uncompleted series begun by his uncle George Henry Verrall.

Collin wrote extensively on Diptera of most families of Diptera (excepting those in Nematocera). The specimens collected by Collin and his uncle Verrall are in the Hope Entomological Collections at the University of Oxford. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History's website provides a searchable database of the new species they described.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and its president 1927–1928.

References
Chvála, M. 1970  [Collin, J. E.]  Entomologist 103 144–146.
Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758-1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z).Leiden, Backhuys Publishers.
Smith, K. G. V. 1968: [Collin, J. E.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 104 145–148.
Smith, K. G. V. & Morge, G. 1970 [Collin, J. E.] Beitr. Ent. 20 202–203.

External links
Bishop Museum Portrait

English entomologists
Dipterists
1876 births
1968 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society


Desmond William Barrick (28 April 1926 – 25 December 2007) was an English cricketer who played in 301 first-class matches between 1949 and 1960.

Career
Barrick was born in Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire. A right-handed batsman and an occasional leg-break and googly bowler, he made his first-class debut for Northamptonshire in 1949, aged 23. In his first match he scored 34 not out and 36 not out, in his second match a month later he made 147 not out against the New Zealanders, and he was not dismissed until his third match, by which time he had made 228 runs.

A short but fearless attacking middle-order batsman, Barrick hit his career best of 211 against Essex in 1952, adding 347 for the fifth wicket with Dennis Brookes. He was awarded his county cap during that season. He played a number of matches for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1953 and 1957. He toured India with the Commonwealth XI in 1953–54, scoring 867 runs at an average of 41.28 in the first-class matches, including 102 not out in the second unofficial Test.

Barrick reached 1000 runs in a season seven times between 1952 and 1960, with a highest tally of 1570 runs in 1952. In 1953 he scored 1407 runs in the County Championship at an average of 61.17, and set a second-wicket partnership record for the county when he and Jock Livingston put on an unbroken 299 in 265 minutes against Sussex. In his final season, 1960, he captained Northamptonshire in most of their matches in the absence of Raman Subba Row owing to Test match duties and injuries.

After he retired from first-class cricket, Barrick played league cricket, including two seasons as professional for Todmorden in the Lancashire League in 1962 and 1963.

Personal life
Barrick married Jean Reynolds and they had three children. He died in Kellington, North Yorkshire, on Christmas Day 2007, aged 81.

References

External links

1926 births
2007 deaths
English cricketers
Northamptonshire cricketers
Commonwealth XI cricketers
People from Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Players cricketers
Cricketers from Yorkshire
A. E. R. Gilligan's XI cricketers
L. E. G. Ames' XI cricketers
Duke of Norfolk's XI cricketers


Luca Siligardi (born 26 January 1988) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for  club SPAL.

Club career
A native from the province of Reggio Emilia, he started his career at regional team likes Campagnola and Riese, and Dorando Pietri in the province of Modena. He joined one of the most famous club in Emilia-Romagna, Parma F.C. for one season, before returned to Dorando Pietri and played in Eccellenza.

In summer 2006, he joined Inter, and made his first team debut on 17 January 2008, a Coppa Italia match that won Reggina 3–0. In that match, he replaced Dejan Stanković in half time. He played another against S.S. Lazio, a semi-final first leg of Coppa Italia, on 16 April 2008.

Siligardi renewed his contract with Inter until 30 June 2012 and completed two loan moves to Bari and Piacenza for the 2008–09 Serie B season, spending the first half at Bari and the second at Piacenza. On 13 July 2009, Siligardi was loaned to Triestina for the 2009–10 Serie B season. On 16 July 2010, Siligardi was loaned to Bologna for the 2010–11 Serie A season, for €550,000, with option to buy outright for €500,000, with counter-option of €600,000. He signed a contract worth €150,000 annually in net. In June 2011 Bologna excised the rights but Inter activated the counter-option, made Bologna received €50,000 in net as a bonus within a season in order to lent a place for Siligardi.

Livorno
In summer 2011 Simone Dell'Agnello and Siligardi were sold to Livorno as part of Francesco Bardi's deal. Both clubs also retained 50% registration rights of the players. Siligardi signed a four-year contract. In June 2012 Inter acquired Bardi outright, as well as Livorno acquired Dell'Agnello and Siligardi outright.

Verona
On 2 July 2015, Siligardi was signed by Hellas Verona.

Parma
He signed for Parma on 15 July 2017.

On 5 October 2020, Siligardi joined Crotone on loan. On 1 February 2021, he moved on loan to Reggiana.

Feralpisalò
On 29 January 2022, he moved to Feralpisalò.

SPAL
On 28 July 2023, Siligardi signed a one-season contract with SPAL.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
People from Correggio, Emilia-Romagna
Men's association football midfielders
Italian men's footballers
Inter Milan players
SSC Bari players
Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
US Triestina Calcio 1918 players
Bologna FC 1909 players
US Livorno 1915 players
Hellas Verona FC players
Parma Calcio 1913 players
FC Crotone players
AC Reggiana 1919 players
Feralpisalò players
SPAL players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Footballers from the Province of Reggio Emilia


Air Ranger: Rescue Helicopter  is a helicopter simulator video game released for the Sony PlayStation 2, developed by ASK Corporation and published by Midas Interactive Entertainment. The game was released on March 29, 2001 in Japan, and November 15, 2002 for Europe. The game was never released in North America. In the game the player must take the role of a Rescue Helicopter pilot, and complete missions involving accidents such as car crashes or fires.

Reception
On release, Famitsu magazine scored the game a 30 out of 40.

Air Ranger 2 Plus Rescue Helicopter
A sequel to Air Ranger has been released for PlayStation 2.  Air Ranger 2 allows the player to pilot rescue and law enforcement helicopters.  All the helicopters from the previous game are available with a few extra helicopters such as the Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin and Sikorsky H-53.

See also
City Crisis
SimCopter

References

2001 video games
Flight simulation video games
Helicopter video games
Midas Interactive Entertainment games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Single-player video games
Video games about firefighting
Video games developed in Japan


Hebraic Political Studies was a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Shalem Press, funded by the Shalem Center, and devoted to recovering the Hebraic political tradition and evaluating its place in the history of political thought.

History
According to Carlin Romano, the Journal emerged from a 2004 conference on Jewish Sources in Early Modern Political Thought held at Jerusalem's Mishkenot Sha'ananim convention center.

In 2004, the Shalem Center announced a call for papers for a conference on political Hebraism and, according to Gordon Schochet (Rutgers University), "the enthusiastic response convinced us there was a need for a journal." The journal was established in 2005 with  Schochet and Arthur Eyffinger (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands) as editors-in-chief. The journal was devoted to the recovery and exploration of the Hebraic political tradition, that is, the uses of biblical, Talmudic, rabbinic, and other Jewish and Judaic sources by Christian and Muslim as well as Jewish authors in the history of political thought.

The journal's last issue appeared Fall 2009, and its website states that it is no longer accepting submissions.

Reception
Allan Arkush (Binghamton University) compared the journal with the other Shalem Center publication "Azure", which, Arkush argued, was seen by many as a "neoconservative" political magazine. Despite different editorship and stated goals, the two magazines shared many characteristics, with both sharing characteristics of the reputation of each. In the end, Arkush argues,

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 International Political Science Abstracts
 Political Science Complete
 Social Services Abstracts
 Sociological Abstracts
 Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

References

External links

Area studies journals
Political science journals
History journals
Judaic studies journals
Academic journals established in 2005
Publications disestablished in 2009
Open access journals
English-language journals


World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle video game developed and published by independent game developer 2D Boy. The game was released on Microsoft Windows and Wii  on October 13, 2008, with releases on Nintendo Switch, Mac OS X, Linux, and various mobile devices in subsequent years. World of Goo has the player use small balls of goo to create bridges and similar structures over chasms and obstacles to help other goo balls reach a goal point, with the challenge to use as few goo balls as possible to build this structure.

The game was nominated for numerous awards—the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Design Innovation Award, and Technical Excellence—at the Independent Games Festival, and has gone on to win several other gaming awards. The game was critically acclaimed and became one of the earliest examples of a commercially successful indie game.

Gameplay

Overview

The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo. The game is divided into five chapters, each containing several levels. Each level has its own graphic and musical theme, giving a unique atmosphere. There is also a bonus meta-game called World of Goo Corporation, where the objective is to build the highest tower using goo balls which the player collected through the course of the game. Players from all over the world can compete, as the height of the tower and number of goo balls used are being constantly uploaded to the 2D Boy server.

Objective
The main objective of the game is to get a requisite number of goo balls to a pipe designed to represent the exit. In order to do so, the player must use the goo balls to construct bridges, towers, and other structures to overcome gravity and various terrain difficulties such as chasms, hills, spikes, windmills, or cliffs. There are several types of goo balls in the game, each of which has unique properties. The player must exploit combinations of these goo balls in order to complete each level. Extra goos recovered in the pipe are pumped through to World of Goo Corporation, a sandbox area where the objective is to compete with other players worldwide by building the tallest tower possible. Players can also try to achieve the "Obsessive Completion Distinction Flag" for each level by completing the level under more stringent criteria, such as collecting a larger number of Goo balls, finishing under a set amount of time or using as few moves as possible.

The WiiWare version includes multiplayer with up to four people on the same Wii. This facility is also available, albeit unsupported, in the Linux port.

Levels
World of Goo is split up into four chapters and an epilogue, each containing a number of levels. The chapters are set over the course of a year in the World of Goo. Each chapter takes place over one season, beginning in the start of summer, and ending at the end of spring the next year. The 4th chapter is seasonless, and is set in a virtual world. Levels and chapters in the game are interspersed with cut scenes.

An additional location reached from the main menu is the World Of Goo Corporation. Goo balls collected above and beyond the required amount to pass a level are piped out of each of the played levels to here. Starting from just a single triangle of Goo, the aim is to build the highest possible tower. The Goo balls in the World of Goo Corporation are unique in that they can be repositioned like Ivy Goos but are black and can only form two connections at once like Common Goos.

In the World of Goo Corporation, towers built by other players of the game are represented by clouds bearing the player's name, nationality and height of the tower, including details on the total number of balls collected by the player and how many were used in constructing their tower. The altitude of each cloud represents the height of that player's tower. An online leaderboard charts the heights of the top 50 towers, as well as the top 10 players for each level of the game.

There are a total of 48 levels in the game, including World of Goo Corporation.

In an interview the developers stated that the retail version released in Europe would receive an additional sixth chapter, set on the Moon. Few details were disclosed, but reportedly this chapter would have featured a freeform sandbox mode, similar to that of the World of Goo Corporation. This addition was canceled for Wii when 2D Boy announced they were releasing the game on WiiWare in Europe.

Plot
The story is told primarily through cut scenes and signs encountered throughout the game, which were left by an unseen character known as the Sign Painter.

Initially, pipes appear throughout the land, waking up many sleeping Goo Balls who have gone undisturbed until this, as they are filled with a childlike sense of curiosity and naivety they build themselves towards the pipes. Upon reaching the pipe entrance, the Goo Balls are sucked by the pipe system into the "World of Goo Corporation" main building where they are processed into many products, for example an energy drink. The excess Goo Balls are left outside the Corporation headquarters where they together begin to build a giant tower. At the end of the first chapter, some Goo Balls escape from a Corporation building by attaching themselves to eyeballs which have the ability to fly. The chapter ends with the Goo Balls "seeing far away new lands".

In the second chapter, more pipes appear in a hostile wasteland where World of Goo Corporation turns out to be searching for a new power source due to wind power not being sufficient anymore. However, the location and appearance of the power source was forgotten, because in the past, it stopped producing electricity. A new Goo Ball is introduced, which is ground up by the Corporation into a facial cream. Near the end of the chapter, the power plant, which looks like a giant woman, is discovered. It is revealed that for many years, its remarkably powerful "beauty juice" powered the world. Yet with age, her beauty and consequently her electric output began to die. However, unrefined beauty goo was injected directly into her forehead, as to restore her youthful beauty once more. At the expense of her ability to move her face, power was restored to the entire world. With this newfound energy, World of Goo Corporation was able to open a factory, aiming to complete their most compelling new product.

During the third chapter it is said that the Corporation is developing a mysterious "Product Z." It eventually turns out that the mysterious Product Z is actually the third dimension (Product Z is the Z axis in mathematics). This causes much commotion amongst the general population who cannot see where anything is now. World of Goo Corporation tells them to contact tech support in the information superhighway after all life is rendered "incompatible with the world".

In the fourth chapter the Goo Balls set out to find the mysterious "MOM" program amongst a vector style environment. Shortly after the beginning the Goo Balls find the object responsible for rendering all the graphics. After pumping many of their own kind into the object, the graphics rendering improves, creating a more realistic environment (and the Pixel Goo Balls). Near the end they encounter MOM's computer, who turns out to be a spam bot, and supplies the Goo Balls with an "undelete" program. The Goo Balls try to overload Product Z by sending every message in the history of spam to everyone at World of Goo Corporation. After venturing to the Recycle Bin and un-deleting everything, World of Goo Corporation receives the mail and, unable to deal with so much spam and mail, explodes, shutting down Product Z while creating a massive layer of smog, dust, smoke and debris that envelops the entire world.

In the final chapter, it is revealed that all Goo Balls, except "scientifically pure" ones, have been sucked away to the "Tower of Goo Memorial Park and Recreation Center". The remaining Goo Balls decide to work their way up the world's tallest island to reach a site where the telescope is located. The final level of the game reveals that the Goo Balls are now completely extinct, all the remaining having been sucked away to the shattered remains of World of Goo Corporation and added to the tower, and the gigantic telescope at the site has been rendered useless as it cannot see past the layer of smog. The Sign Painter reveals in his final sign that he has now become the Telescope Operator. Some balloon-like fish in the sea connect to the telescope and lift it out of the ground, where it breaks through the layer of smog and sees the tower of goo that has been built at the former World of Goo Corporation Headquarters, which can also see past the smog. The telescope falls back to earth before it could see what the Goo Balls were building towards. A final and last cutscene reveals their goal; the camera pans up into space to reveal that the Goo Balls that escaped at the end of Chapter 1 have managed to reach a far-off planet populated entirely by Goo Balls.

An additional chapter, located on the Moon, was initially planned for the European retail version of the game. This idea was put on hold as the developer felt they were rushing to finish extra content to justify the price, "If we release any additional content, we will make it available on all platforms, to all people, at the same time. No more of this 'region' nonsense".

Development

World of Goo was developed by 2D Boy, a team based in San Francisco consisting only of former Electronic Arts employees Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel. The game's development was started in January 2005 as a graduate student project at the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University. Gabler created this initial prototype in four days and submitted it under the title Tower of Goo for the Experimental Gameplay Project at the university as a response to the prompt "make something with springs".

Carmel and Gabler estimated that development on World of Goo lasted two years and cost US$10,000 of their personal savings, which included equipment, food, and rent. Actual development was usually carried out in coffeehouses equipped with Wi-Fi hotspots.

World of Goo was programmed using available open-source technologies, including Simple DirectMedia Layer, Open Dynamics Engine for physics simulation, TinyXML for configuration files, Subversion, Mantis Bug Tracker, and PopCap Games Framework. Allan Blomquist, a friend of Gabler and Carmel, was responsible for porting and optimizing the game for WiiWare.

On July 6, 2010, 2D Boy, Capybara Games, and thatgamecompany started a program called the "Indie Fund", which aims to support game development, by helping independent developers become financially independent.

Release
World of Goo was released both for Windows and WiiWare in North America on October 13, 2008. The Mac OS X version was released on November 2. The Linux version was released on February 13, 2009. After the initial release, 2D Boy announced a bonus patch called "Profanity Pack", which would "[replace] the normal voices in the game with naughty words." The patch would be made available to users who pre-ordered the game. The patch was never released.

2D Boy decided against placing digital rights management (DRM) protection on the PC versions, stating that "DRM is a futile attempt to prevent piracy, and it's expensive. Every game for which there is demand will be cracked and find its way onto the scene, so why waste time and money trying to prevent the inevitable?" 2D Boy later reported that between one in five and one in ten copies of the PC versions had been legitimately purchased.

For the game's European release in December, 2D Boy depended upon the community to translate and localize World of Goo into the appropriate languages, including Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. During the 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit, Nintendo announced that it would publish World of Goo in Japan during the second quarter of 2009; the game was released on April 21, 2009, under the title .

World of Goo was made available through Microsoft's Windows Games on Demand marketplace as a Games for Windows – Live title on December 15, 2009. World of Goo was also ported to iOS, to iPad in December 2010 and to iPhone in April 2011. On October 3, 2011, 2D Boy announced that they would port World of Goo to Android, which was released on November 28, 2011. It was available to both Android phones and tablets with demo and full versions available. Tomorrow Corporation, formed by Gabler in 2010 along with his former EA colleagues Allan Blomquist and Kyle Gray, would develop and publish World of Goo for the Nintendo Switch which was released in March 2017. The Japanese version was later released in May 2017 by Flyhigh Works.

According to 2D Boy, Epic Games reached out to them to release World of Goo as a free promotional title on the Epic Games Store. The developers decided to use this opportunity to create an updated version for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems, incorporating changes and improvements made from the console versions. This includes supporting widescreen and higher resolutions that have become the normal since the game's original release, and stripping out the game's digital-rights management to make it amendable to modding. These updates will be offered free to users on other digital storefronts like Steam and GOG.com, with the patches to be released around the same time that the Epic Games Store promotion starts in May 2019.  Netflix released a remastered version on May 23, 2023.  It requires a Netflix subscription to play but is free to subscribers.

Soundtrack
The World of Goo soundtrack was created by Kyle Gabler, who also designed, wrote and illustrated the game. It was released as a free download on January 20, 2009.

The song "World of Goo Beginning" was created with the intention of resembling Libertango by Ástor Piazzolla. "Regurgitation Pumping Station" was originally written for a friend's short film about going on a date with the devil. "Threadcutter" was originally written for a game called Blow which Gabler made available on his site. "Rain Rain Windy Windy" was originally written for the soundtrack for a short children's film, commenting that writing children's music is difficult. "Jelly" was originally written for a short film about a virtual reality world. "Burning Man" was written for a friend's drama/mystery series. He made it by recording two friends singing single notes, and then using a keyboard to make it sound like a choir. "Cog in the Machine" was originally written for another game of his called Robot and the Cities who Built Him.

Reception

Both Wii and Windows versions of World of Goo received critical acclaim, holding an aggregate score from Metacritic of 94/100 and 90/100 respectively. Eurogamer called World of Goo "Physics' latest, purest, and most brilliant gift." IGN said of the Wii version "World of Goo is an amazing WiiWare game that you simply must buy for this is exactly the type of software that needs both recognition and support", finding only minor fault with the camera controls and lack of a level editor. 1UP.com called World of Goo "one of just a handful of truly excellent original games for the Wii". Nintendo World Report criticized the "slow start" of the game, but otherwise praised it as "easily the best WiiWare game to date and, perhaps, one of the best this generation." Resolution Magazine referred to it as "an instant classic", awarding it 90%. Official Nintendo Magazine awarded the Wii version a score of 95%, claiming it to be "Virtually flawless". The magazine also ranked it as the 83rd best game available on Nintendo platforms. The staff called it the best WiiWare game "by a long shot."

World of Goo has won many awards. At the 2008 Independent Games Festival, World of Goo won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Design Innovation Award, and Technical Excellence.  As a result, 2D Boy found publishers that previously had rejected them approaching them to publish the title. It won Best Independent Game from the Spike TV Video Game Awards show, and won six Wii-specific awards and one for the PC, including Best Puzzle Game, Best Artistic Design, Best WiiWare Game, Best New IP, Most Innovative Design, and Game of the Year from IGN. GameSpot awarded it as the Best Game No One Played. It was featured in Eurogamer top 50 games of 2008 in the tenth slot. Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports, in a rant about FIFA 09 being missing from Eurogamer list, commented that he was surprised World of Goo was included up so high in the list, despite not having played it. 2D Boy responded by saying they were honored that World of Goo had this much mainstream awareness, and that it derives sick pleasure from the "industry big-wig's indignant, self-righteous incredulity". In 2010, the game was included as one of the titles in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.

Sequel
2D Boy initially stated that they would not be producing a sequel. In a November 2010 entry on the World of Goo blog, Kyle Gabler stated that "a second World of Goo is a possibility and something we would enjoy working on."

Notes

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This is a list of famous people from the Israeli city of Haifa.

Academia and research

Rachel Adato (gynecologist)
Dan Bar-On (psychologist)
Nitza Ben-Dov (Literature)
Edmond Bonan (mathematician)
Aaron Ciechanover (biologist; 2004 Nobel Prize, Chemistry)
David Deutsch (physicist)
Dahlia Gredinger (chemist)
 Yehuda Hayuth (geography; President of the University of Haifa)
Avram Hershko (biochemist, 2004 Nobel Prize, Chemistry)
 Amnon Pazy (1936–2006), mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ilan Pappé (historian)

Arts and entertainment

Abed Abdi (painter, sculptor)
Chava Alberstein (singer)
Moran Atias (model)
Ralph Bakshi (animator and director)
Mike Brant (pop star)
David Broza (musician)
Delilah (fictional character from John Rain series)
Ari Folman (film director)
Amos Gitai (film director)
Ivry Gitlis (violinist)
Carine Goren (pastry chef, cookbook author, and television baking show host)
Tamara Musakhanova, sculptor and ceramist
Infected Mushroom (electronic music duo)
Avi Lerner (movie executive)
Dani Litani (musician and actor)
Shiri Maimon (singer)
Izidore Musallam (film director)
Vince Offer (entertainer and pitchman)
Eytan Pessen (voice teacher, pianist and opera director)
Yehuda Poliker (singer)
Nasreen Qadri (singer)
Odeya Rush (actress)
Daniel Salomon (musician)
Rinat Shaham (opera singer)
Simon Shaheen (musician-Oud player)
Gene Simmons (musician, bassist of Kiss)
Shirin Sahba (painter, artist)
Hillel Slovak (musician, original guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Drew Tal (Dror Toledano, photographer and visual artist)
David Tartakover (artist)
Dudu Topaz (1946–2009) (TV and radio personality, comedian, and author)
Nilli Willis (adult film star)
Noam Zylberman (actor)
Talia Lewenthal (Miss Israel 1996)
Miri Zamir (Miss Israel 1968)
Dorit Jellinek (Miss Israel 1978)
Ronit Rinat (Miss Israel 1964)

Education
Dr. Arthur Biram (educator)

Engineering and technology
Moshe Safdie (architect)
Johny Srouji (computer scientist)

Fashion
Lea Gottlieb (founder and fashion designer of Gottex)

Journalism and media
Ari Libsker (journalist)
Rula Jebreal (Palestinian-Italian journalist)
Tewfik Mishlawi (veteran Lebanese journalist)

Literature
Emile Habibi (author)
Sami Michael (author)
Galila Ron-Feder Amit (author)
Alex Aronson (author, teacher)

Military and security
Ze'ev Almog (11th Commander of the Israeli Sea Corps)
Yohai Ben-Nun (6th Commander of the Israeli Sea Corps)
Yaakov Dori (1st Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces)
Haim Laskov (5th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and 4th Commander of the Israeli Air Force)
Ehud Shani (general)
Paul Shulman (2nd Commander of the Israeli Sea Corps)
Shmuel Tankus (5th Commander of the Israeli Sea Corps, Palmach hero)
Benjamin Telem (9th Commander of the Israeli Sea Corps)

Medicine and Health Care
 Dr. Ora Golan, Founder of The Ora Golan Center for Functional Medicine

Politics and government
Rachel Adato (politician)
Naftali Bennett (politician)
Moshe Feiglin (politician)
 Noah Gal Gendler (ambassador)
Emile Habibi (Christian Communist writer and politician)
Zevulun Hammer (politician)
Khaled al-Hassan (Palestinian politician)
Hani al-Hassan (Palestinian politician)
Moshe Kahlon (politician)
Leila Khaled (Palestinian politician)
Uzi Landau (politician)
Uri Lupolianski (mayor of Jerusalem)
Jabra Nicola (Palestinian Trotskyist leader)
 Boaz Rodkin (ambassador)
Dan Tichon (politician)
Emile Toma (politician)
Moti Yogev (politician)

Religion
Yona Metzger

Sports

Ruth Abeles (born 1942), Olympic gymnast
Nina Amir (born 1999), Olympic sports sailor
Reuven Atar, footballer
Tal Banin, footballer
Orr Barouch (born 1991), footballer
Arik Benado, footballer
Miron Bleiberg, football coach
Gil Cohen (born 1992), Olympic sports sailor
Jonathan Erlich (born 1977), tennis player
 Anastasia Gorbenko (born 2003), swimmer
Ayala Hetzroni (born 1938), Olympic shotputter
Yaniv Katan, association football player
Jonatan Kopelev (born 1991), swimmer
Ilana Kratysh, freestyle wrestler
Eyal Levin (born 1986), Olympic sports sailor
Eduard Meron (born 1938), Olympic weightlifter
 Lior Mor (born 1976), tennis player
 Ran Nakash (born 1978), cruiserweight boxer
Noam Okun (born 1978), tennis player
Tomer Or (born 1978), fencer
Guy Parselany (born 1978), professional basketball player
Shahar Perkiss (born 1962), tennis player
Lior Refaelov, footballer
Ronny Rosenthal (born 1963), footballer
Shem-Tov Sabag (born 1959), Olympic marathoner
Idan Tal (born 1975), footballer
 Bar Timor (born 1992), basketball player
Eithan Urbach (born 1977), Olympic swimmer, backstroke
Yochanan Vollach, footballer, president of Maccabi Haifa
 Yiftach Ziv (born 1995), basketball player

Other
Gilla Gerzon, Director, Haifa USO
Amir Gal-Or,  businessman
Eival Gilady, CEO of the Portland Trust
Hannah Safran, feminist, activist and researcher
David Sambar, international investment banker, financial advisor and investor
Eyal Weizman, intellectual and architect

References

People
Haifa


The Rejected Woman is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Albert Parker (in New York) and written by John Lynch. The film stars Alma Rubens, Conrad Nagel, and Béla Lugosi in a supporting role as Jean Gagnon. It was produced by Distinctive Pictures and distributed by Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan Distributing Corporation. A print of The Rejected Woman is preserved at the George Eastman House.

Plot
John Leslie (Nagel) is a rich, New York City man who leads a brilliant life. While piloting his plane in Canada, he meets Diane Du Prez (Rubens) while seeking refuge from a storm. Shortly after John returns to New York City, Diane moves to town and the two began dating. Leslie's friends are scandalized by the relationship as Diane is poor, shabbily dressed and unsophisticated. Unbeknownst to John, his business manager James Dunbar (Wyndham Standing) offers Diane financial assistance so that she can buy the clothing and receive the proper training to fit in with John's upper class friends. Diane's father Samuel (George MacQuarrie) attempts to dissuade Diane from accepting the offer but she disregards her father's advice as she is convinced that John will never love her unless she becomes well dressed and sophisticated.

Shortly thereafter, John and Diane marry. After John learns of the arrangement Diane has made with his business manager, he becomes angry and the two quarrel. The couple eventually reconcile after realizing their love is greater than their differences.

Cast

See also
 Béla Lugosi filmography

References

External links

Stills and newspaper articles at beladraculalugosi.com
The Rejected Woman available for free download at Internet Archive

1924 films
1924 drama films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Albert Parker
Goldwyn Pictures films
1920s American films


Chengzhi may refer to:
Chengzhi Co., Ltd, a Chinese technology company based in Jiangxi
Liao Chengzhi (1908-1983), Communist Party of China leader who played an important role in Sino-Japanese relations
Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948), China's most popular Muslim writer


Ain's 1st constituency is one of five French legislative constituencies in the department of Ain. It is currently represented by Xavier Breton of The Republicans (LR).

Historic representation

Elections

2022

2017

2012

2007

References

External links
Results of legislative elections from 2002 to 2017 by constituency (Ministry of the Interior)
Results of legislative elections from 1958 to 2012 by constituency (CDSP Sciences Po)
Results of elections from 1958 to present by constituency (data.gouv.fr)

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Yeosuana aromativorans is a species of non-motile aerobic marine bacterium that can degrade benzopyrene. It was first isolated from Gwangyang Bay and forms yellow-brown colonies requiring chlorides of both magnesium and calcium.

References

Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria
Bacteria described in 2006


"Bend Me, Shape Me" is a song written by Scott English and Larry Weiss. It was first recorded by The Outsiders as a track on their album In in 1966. The best-known version  in the US is the 1967 single released by The American Breed that peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1968, No. 3 in South Africa, and No. 24 on the UK Singles Chart.

The American Breed's 2:05 single mix of this song was sped-up during mastering for release, while the widely available original 2:25 version was done at a normal speed. The following year, The American Breed released their last single, "Anyway That You Want Me", which borrowed its title phrase from "Bend Me, Shape Me". Co-songwriter Scott English later went on to write and sing "Brandy", which Barry Manilow later covered as his 1974 breakout hit "Mandy".

A video was also produced. The band members are seen working out in a gym and performing on stage.

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions
There have been many other recordings of "Bend Me, Shape Me". The first version was released by The Models in 1966 on the MGM label. Other notables include one by Amen Corner with slightly altered lyrics, which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1968. There was also a hit disco single on Ariola/Hansa by Austrian singer Gilla in 1978. A few years later, Gilla also performed with Boney M.

The Kidsongs Kids perform it on their 1987 video/album: "The Wonderful World of Sports".

The American Breed version of the song was included in the soundtrack of the 2018 neo-noir US thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale.

See also
 List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States

References

1966 songs
1967 singles
Songs written by Scott English
Songs written by Larry Weiss
Deram Records singles
Amen Corner (band) songs
Number-one singles in New Zealand


Strathrusdale (Brittonic or Scottish Gaelic/Old Norse Hybrid: Strath Rùsdail, Strath, [Brittonic/Gaelic] small valley, of Rusdale, rus, Norse for [male sheep] ram, and dale, also small valley) Glen in the Highlands of Scotland forming the western part of the area known as  Ardross. The Strath runs east to west for 2.5 miles and the river Blackwater flows through it to merge at the eastern end with another tributary to form the River Alness. The floor of the strath is mainly fields used for sheep grazing. The strath is surrounded by commercial pine forest, except to the north, which is dominated by the mountain Beinn Tharsuinn (2831 ft). Traditionally the strath was populated by tenant crofters, however in recent years there has been an increase in the number of new homes and restorations, after many decades of gradual decline.

History

The Picts
Earliest evidence of habitation are still visible in Strathrusdale at the eastern end of the Strath, where there are a number of stone circles, which formed the base of Pictish roundhouses. Picts lived in the area until the 10th century, which was part of the Kingdom of Fortriu. After this period there was progressively more transition as Norse settlement began to increase in the area.

Highland Clearances
During the late 18th century, great change swept the Highlands when landowners realised that more income could be generated by clearing areas farmed by tenant crofters to make way for sheep. Termed the Highland Clearances, this coincided with a period of great unrest and social upheaval in Europe, which unsettled the authorities in Britain.

Strathrusdale became the focus of the clearance policy in 1792 when on the 27th of July the inhabitants of the strath gathered for a wedding in the area where a plot was devised to drive away all the sheep, and by implication all the sheep-farmers. This issue had arisen when, in May 1792, the brothers Captain Allan and Alexander Cameron who were leasing the neighbouring lands of Kildermorie from Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar had driven away the cattle belonging to the Strathrusdale people. The men of Strathrusdale had gathered reinforcements from Ardross and upon arriving at Kildermorie found their cattle were being guarded by the Camerons. The Strathrusdale men were led by Alexander Wallace, known as "Big Wallace" and although the Camerons were powerful men they were too few in number and had to yield. However, one of the Camerons was armed with a loaded gun and a foot long dirk. Wallace grappled with him, disarmed him and the Strathrusdale men recovered their cattle. A week after the meeting of 27 July, about 400 men from the surrounding districts were driving six thousand sheep from the counties of Ross and Sutherland towards Beauly in the county of Inverness-shire. The sheriff-depute of the county, Donald MacLeod, wrote to the Lord Advocate, asking that a force of the 42nd (Black Watch) Regiment from the army be sent north to defeat what MacLeod viewed as open rebellion. The Lord Advocate wrote to the Home Secretary Henry Dundas reporting that sheep farming was very unpopular in the Highlands, as it "tended to remove the inhabitants from their small possessions and dwelling houses". The Home Secretary replied that it was "undisputably necessary that the most vigorous and effectual measures should be taken for bringing these daring offenders to punishment" - and ordered troops north. After a midnight attack on Saturday 6 August by troops of the 42nd Black Watch, the drovers scattered and returned to their crofts. The Inverness County Sheriff Court Records show that six men were given punishments for driving the sheep away: Hugh Breck Mackenzie and John Aird were both ordered to be transported for seven years "beyond seas to such places as His Majesty shall appoint" and that if they returned to Britain within these seven years that they would be sentenced to death. Malcolm Ross was fined £50 and held in prison for one month, while William Cunningham was imprisoned for three years. Donald Munro and Alexander Mackay were both banished from Scotland for the rest of their lives. These events were known as the Ross-shire Sheep Riots but later became known as The Year of the Sheep.

Gallery

References

Valleys of Highland (council area)
1792 in Scotland


There are many Friends of Israel groups active around the world and in a variety of fields, such as academic, legal, political, etc. Those with articles on Wikipedia include:

 Friends of Israel Initiative, an international effort to counter the attempts to delegitimize the State of Israel and its right to live in peace within safe and defensible borders
 Parliamentary groups in the United Kingdom that promote close ties between Britain and Israel:
 Labour Friends of Israel
 Conservative Friends of Israel
 Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel
 Friends of Israel in the Parliament of Norway
 Northern Ireland Friends of Israel
 European Friends of Israel
 Anglican Friends of Israel
 Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
 Clerical Association of Friends of Israël or Opus sacerdotale Amici Israel, an association of Catholic priests (1926 – 1928)


is a train station in the village of Omi, Higashichikuma District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Hijiri-Kōgen Station is served by the Shinonoi Line and is 45.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Shiojiri Station.

Station layout
The station consists of one ground-level island platform and one side platform serving a three tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Hijiri-Kōgen Station opened on 1 November 1900 as . It was renamed to its present name on 1 April 1976. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 311 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
former Omi village office
Omi Post Office

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 JR East station information

Railway stations in Nagano Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1900
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Shinonoi Line
Omi, Nagano


Den Haag Mariahoeve is a railway station on the border of The Hague and Leidschendam-Voorburg in the Netherlands. The railway station, which opened on 22 May 1966, has two side platforms and an island platform. The rail connections between Den Haag Centraal and Schiphol and between Den Haag Centraal and Haarlem halt at Den Haag Mariahoeve.

Train services
The following services call at Den Haag Mariahoeve:
2x per hour local service (sprinter) The Hague - Leiden - Schiphol - Duivendrecht - Hilversum - Utrecht
2x per hour local service (sprinter) The Hague - Leiden - Haarlem

References

External links
NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

Mariahoeve
Railway stations opened in 1966
Railway stations on the Oude Lijn
Leidschendam-Voorburg
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1960s


King's Bishop (1969–1981) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Background
King's Bishop was a bay horse bred in Kentucky by Warner L. Jones, Jr. He was sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Round Table. He was out of the mare Spearfish, a descendant of Nearco.

King's Bishop was owned by Craig F. Cullinan Jr., founding president of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball club, who purchased him as a yearling at the Keeneland Sales for $72,000.

Racing career
Cullinan raced King's Bishop through 1972, then sold him to Allaire du Pont. She raced him in 1973 under the nom de course Bohemia Stable. King's Bishop won several important Graded stakes races and on May 19, 1973 he set a Belmont Park track record of 1:20 2/5 for seven furlongs in winning the Carter Handicap. King's Bishop retired from racing with a record of eleven wins in twenty-eight starts.

In 1984 Saratoga Race Course created the King's Bishop Stakes in his memory. In 2017, the race was renamed to honor U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens.

Pedigree

References

1969 racehorse births
1981 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Horse racing track record setters
Thoroughbred family 11
Chefs-de-Race


The ITU Youth Forum is an initiative of the ITU-D Youth Program. ITU-D is one of three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union. The forums bring together students from all over the world to discuss Information technology and society-related topics.

The ITU Youth Forum is a recurring event arranged to be a part of either regional or global ITU Telecom events. Forum participants (youth fellows) are typically from the ITU member states comprising the region in which the event is organised. During the forum, youth fellows collaborate to produce joint declarations and/or action plans which are published by the ITU.

References

International Telecommunication Union
Telecommunication conferences
Youth conferences


Bloom is Lou Rhodes' second solo album, released in 2007.

Opening track "The Rain" was released as a single, backed with "Gabriel", an acoustic version of the song by Rhodes' former band Lamb, and "Satellite", a cover version of Elliott Smith's song from his second album.

The album was positively received by the BBC and WalesOnline.

Track listing
 "The Rain"
 "Greatness in a Speck of Dust"
 "Icarus"
 "Never Loved a Man (Like You)"
 "All We Are"
 "Chase All My Winters Away"
 "This Love"
 "They Say"
 "Sister Moon"
 "Bloom"

References

External links
 Infinite Bloom (Lou's record label)

2007 albums
Lou Rhodes albums


Ossé (; ) is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Châteaugiron.

Population
Inhabitants of Ossé are called Osséens in French.

See also
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

Former communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese.

WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription. These dictionaries contained more translations than the free ones. In 2008, the price was €30 (US$) per year.

 more language pairs had been created: English–German, English–Russian, English–Polish, English–Romanian, English–Czech, English–Greek, English–Turkish, English–Chinese, English–Japanese, English–Korean, English–Arabic. Dutch, Icelandic and Swedish have since been added.

The website features publicly accessible forums allowing registered users to ask questions about vocabulary and grammar.  It also has monolingual dictionaries with definitions in English, Spanish, Italian and Catalan.

References

External links
http://www.wordreference.com

Online dictionaries


Robert Keller (1828-1891) was a German music editor.

Keller was born on 6 January 1828 in Harpersdorf in Lower Silesia. He moved to Berlin where he became a musical editor for the music publishing company N. Simrock.  Keller edited and arranged a substantial number of works by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. He died in Berlin on 16 June 1891.

References

Sheet music publishers (people)
German music publishers (people)
1828 births
1891 deaths


"Deadline" is a 1944 science fiction short story by American writer Cleve Cartmill, first published in Astounding Science Fiction. The story described the then-secret atomic bomb in some detail. At that time the bomb was still under development and top secret, which prompted a visit by the FBI.

In 1943, Cartmill suggested to John W. Campbell, the then-editor of Astounding, that he could write a story about a futuristic super-bomb. Campbell liked the idea and supplied Cartmill with considerable background information gleaned from unclassified scientific journals, on the use of Uranium-235 to make a nuclear fission device. The resulting story appeared in an issue of Astounding, released in February 1944 but dated March of that year.

FBI investigation
By March 8, the story had come to the attention of the Counterintelligence Corps, who saw many similarities between the technical details in the story and the research currently being undertaken in great secrecy at Los Alamos. Gregory Benford describes the incident as told to him by Edward Teller in his autobiographical essay "Old Legends":

Coming three years later in the same magazine, Cleve Cartmill's "Deadline" provoked astonishment in the lunch table discussions at Los Alamos. It really did describe isotope separation and the bomb itself in detail, and raised as its principal plot pivot the issue the physicists were then debating among themselves: should the Allies use it? To the physicists from many countries clustered in the high mountain strangeness of New Mexico, cut off from their familiar sources of humanist learning, it must have seemed particularly striking that Cartmill described an allied effort, a joint responsibility laid upon many nations.
Discussion of Cartmill's "Deadline" was significant. The story's detail was remarkable, its sentiments even more so. Did this rather obscure story hint at what the American public really thought about such a superweapon, or would think if they only knew?
Talk attracts attention, Teller recalled a security officer who took a decided interest, making notes, saying little. In retrospect, it was easy to see what a wartime intelligence monitor would make of the physicists' conversations. Who was this guy Cartmill, anyway? Where did he get these details? Who tipped him to the isotope separation problem? "and that is why Mr. Campbell received his visitors."

Fearing a security breach, the FBI began an investigation into Cartmill, Campbell, and some of their acquaintances including Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. It appears that the authorities eventually accepted the explanation that the story's material had been gleaned from unclassified sources, but as a precautionary measure they requested that Campbell should not publish any further stories about nuclear technology for the remainder of the war.

Campbell, in the meantime, had guessed from the number of Astounding subscribers who had suddenly moved to the Los Alamos area, that the US government probably had some sort of technical or scientific project ongoing there; he declined to volunteer this information to the FBI.

Critical evaluation
"Deadline" was described by Robert Silverberg as "a klutzy clunker" and by Cartmill himself as "that stinker". According to Silverberg, Cartmill also used the phrase "it stinks" when describing the story to a postman who was acting as an informer for military intelligence.

However, the story was included in the anthologies The Best of Science Fiction (1946; ed. Groff Conklin), Science Fiction of the Forties (1978; ed. Joseph Olander, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Frederik Pohl), The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1980; ed. Groff Conklin), and The Great Science Fiction Stories: Volume 6, 1944  (1981; ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg).

References

External links

"Deadline" at the Internet Archive
"The Astounding Investigation: The Manhattan Project's Confrontation With Science Fiction, Albert I. Berger 1984 (Analog)

1944 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Manhattan Project in popular culture
Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact


Touch & Go is a 2003 Canadian comedy film directed by Scott Simpson and starring Elliot Page.

Reception
The film was reviewed by Variety who said it had "a light helming touch, a breakout lead performance … neatly shot with a quirky, original style." It was reviewed in The Chronicle Herald by Andrea Nemetz and The Daily News (Halifax) by Skana Gee.

References

External links
Touch & Go at the Internet Movie Database

2003 films
2003 comedy films
Canadian comedy films
English-language Canadian films
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films


Orgères (; ; Gallo: Orjèrr) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Population
Inhabitants of Orgères are called Orgérois in French.

See also
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association

Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine


WKPQ (105.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Hornell, New York, United States, the station serves the Elmira-Corning area including the Canisteo valley and northern Pennsylvania.  The station is currently owned by Seven Mountains Media.

History
The station signed on in 1946 as WWHG-FM, owned by the W.H. Greenhow Co who also owned the Hornell Tribune newspaper. In the era of AM radio it did not do well financially, so the mission became to procure an AM signal.  In 1949 WWHG began operation on 1590 with 500 Watts.  Very shortly thereafter, WLEA 1320 kHz went into bankruptcy and discontinued operations.  A Pennsylvania radio station operator, Cary Simpson, purchased the equipment, most of which was used to sign on WFRM-AM Coudersport, PA. The license was purchased by WWHG, moving WWHG to 1320 and turning in the 1590 License.  WLEA returned a year later under different ownership on 1480 kHz, where it is today.  WWHG AM-FM later became WHHO AM-FM, eventually bought by Bilbat Radio in 1983.  Renamed WKPQ, 105.3 began an Adult contemporary format; WHHO an MOR/variety format as before.

In the 1990s, the ownership became in flux as Bilbat sold the stations to two different entities, the Pfuntner group (Pembrook Pines Media Group) and Backyard Broadcasting.  Backyard soon retreated but Bilbat's legal battle continued with Pembrook continued.  Bilbat partner Richard C. Lyons (Bat) died in 2005 and eventually remaining partner Bill Berry was required to settle with Pembrook. In the meantime Pembrook had their own problems. The poor economy coupled with some poor decisions put Pembrook into a financial position unable to complete the Bilbat Sale, so Berry shut down WHHO and sold WKPQ to Sound Communications in 2011 (Vision would buy much of the rest of Pembrook in 2014).  Sound, in turn, sold all its broadcast assets to Standard Media in late 2019.

On October 10, 2011, WKPQ changed its format to country, branded as "Kickin' Country 105.3". Current programming schedule: Morning show, "Wakin' Up Kickin'" hosted by TJ Sharp (who moved to WBEE-FM Rochester in 2015), followed by mid-day personality Aaron Jackson.  Lee Richey, (PD/MD), hosts a noon hour request show, and then back on for the afternoon drive show.

In July 2021 WKPQ rebranded as "Bigfoot Country", simulcasting WCBF 96.1 FM Elmira.

On August 24, 2023 WKPQ split from its simulcast with WCBF and rebranded as "Froggy 105.3".

Previous logo

References

External links

KPQ
Radio stations established in 1981
Hornell, New York


A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents. This concept is associated with negative connotations and has been described as "a dense web of overlapping intellectual property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology".

Origin of the expression
The expression may come from SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp., 645 F.2d 1195 (2d Cir. 1981), patent litigation case in the 1970s, wherein SCM's central charge had been that Xerox constructed a "patent thicket" to prevent competition.

Uses and alternative names
Patent thickets are used to defend against competitors designing around a single patent. It has been suggested by some that this is particularly true in fields such as software or pharmaceuticals, but Sir Robin Jacob has pointed out that "every patentee of a major invention is likely to come up with improvements and alleged improvements to his invention" and that "it is in the nature of the patent system itself that [patent thickets] should happen and it has always happened".

Patent thickets are also sometimes called patent floods, or patent clusters. According to a report by Professor Ian Hargreaves, published in May 2011, patent thickets "obstruct entry to some markets and so impede innovation." Patent thickets are said to have become common in fields like nanotechnology as more fundamental science is patented. Some authors have expressed concern that this could reduce technological development and innovation.

Economic effects
The economics of innovation literature suggests that patent thickets may have an ambiguous effect on patent transactions. On one hand, dispersion in the ownership of patents increases the number of patent owners with whom bargains have to be struck, and this may reduce the incentives to conduct patent transactions. But there is a second, countervailing effect: the presence of overlapping patent rights may reduce the value at stake in each individual patent licensing negotiation, and this may facilitate licensing deals.

Potential antitrust implications under U.S. law
Patent thickets also have potential antitrust implications. In In re Humira, 465 F.Supp.3d 811 (N.D. Ill. 2020), a class of third-party payors for Humira argued that pharmaceutical company AbbVie's patent thicket on Humira, consisting of over 100 patents, was in violation of antitrust laws. This patent thicket extended the term of AbbVie's monopoly past the twenty year limit and effectively prevented a generic version of the drug from entering the market keeping prices inflated to upwards of $72,000 a year. The district court ruled that the patents were protected from the allegations by the First Amendment regardless of anti-competitive effect. The case is currently on appeal at the Seventh Circuit.

See also
 Patent ambush
 Patent map
 Patent pool
 Patent portfolio
 Tragedy of the anticommons

References

Thicket, patent


Albert Parker (May 11, 1885 – August 10, 1974) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He directed 36 films between 1917 and 1938. In the early 1930s Parker left Hollywood for England where he continued to direct films and also opened an actors' agency office. One of his later clients in the 1960s was actress Helen Mirren. He was born in New York, USA, and died in London, England.

Selected filmography

 American Aristocracy (1916) (as actor)
 In Again, Out Again (1917) (as actor)
 For Valour (1917)
 Her Excellency, the Governor (1917)
 The Haunted House (1917)
 The Man Hater (1917)
 Shifting Sands (1918)
 The Secret Code (1918)
 Arizona (1918)
 Annexing Bill (1918)
 From Two to Six (1918)
 The Other Woman (1918)
 Waifs (1918)
 The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919)
 Eyes of Youth (1919)
 The Branded Woman (1920)
 Sherlock Holmes (1922)
 Second Youth (1924)
 The Rejected Woman (1924)
 The Black Pirate (1926)
 The Love of Sunya (1927)
 The Right to Live (1932)
 Rolling in Money (1934)
 The Third Clue (1934)
 The Riverside Murder (1935)
 The White Lilac (1935)
 Late Extra (1935)
 Blind Man's Bluff (1936)
 Troubled Waters (1936)
 There Was a Young Man (1937)
 The Five Pound Man (1937)
 Strange Experiment (1937)
 Second Thoughts (1938)
 Murder in the Family (1938)

External links

1885 births
1974 deaths
Film producers from New York (state)
American male screenwriters
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
Film directors from New York City
20th-century American male actors
Male actors from New York City
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
Screenwriters from New York (state)
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters


Shmuel Trigano (; born in 1948 in Blida, French Algeria) is a sociologist, philosopher, professor emeritus of sociology at Paris Nanterre University (Chair "Sociology of knowledge, religion and politics" ). He was Tikvah Fund Visiting Professor in Jewish Law and Thought at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (2009), and Templeton Fellow at the Herzl Institute (Jerusalem) program "Philosophy of the Tanakh, Midrash and Talmud" (2012-2013), (2015-2017). Elia Benamozegh European Chair of Sephardic Studies, Livorno, Italy (2002).

Trigano is Bachelor of Arts (at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Political Science, International Relations), M.A. in Political Science (Paris II University 1977), PhD in Political Sociology at Paris Nanterre University ("The religious genesis of the Political Modernity in Judaism" - 1981).

Trigano founded  two journals, the The Journal of Jewish Studies "Pardes, Revue européenne d'études juives", Ed. du Cerf, In-Press Editions (1985- today). Co-founded with Annie Kriegel (1926-1995), and the The Journal of Political Ideas "Controverses" Ed. De l’Eclat (2006- 2011).

Prizes
 Edmond Tenoudji Prize for Jewish Education, 1993.
 French Jewry Foundation, Francine and Antoine Bernheim Prize, Prize for the Sciences, 2011.
 The Impertinents 2013 Prize of the newspaper Le Figaro, for his book "La Nouvelle idéologie dominante"

Books

 Le récit de la disparue, essai sur l'identité juive (The tale of the disappeared-She, an essay about Jewish Identity); Gallimard Les Essais 1977, Folio-Gallimard, 2001
 La nouvelle question juive; Gallimard Idées 1982, Folio-Gallimard, 2002
 La république et les juifs; Les Presses d'aujourd'hui 1982
 La demeure oubliée, genèse religieuse du politique (The Forgotten Mansion, a Religious Genesis of Politics); Lieu Commun 1984, Tel- Gallimard 1994, Italian translation Alle radici della modernità, ECIG, 1999
 Philosophie de la loi, l'origine de la politique dans la Tora; Le Cerf 1991, English translation by Gila Walker, Philosophy of the Law. The Political in the Torah, Shalem Press,
 Un exil sans retour? lettres à un Juif égaré (Exile without return? Letters to a Perplexed Jew); Stock 1996
 La séparation d’amour, une éthique d’alliance (The separation of Love, a Covenantal Ethics); Arléa, 1998
 L’idéal démocratique a l’épreuve de la Shoah(The uniqueness of the Shoa and the democratic universal); Odile Jacob ed. Paris 1999, translation in English by Gila Walker, The Democratic Ideal, The Unthought in Political Modernity, SUNY Press, 2009. Translation in Hebrew by Avner Lahav, Haideal hademokrati bemivhan hashoah, Ben Gurion Institute, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2009.
 Le monothéisme est un humanisme (Monotheism is a humanism); Odile Jacob ed. 2000
 Le temps de l’exil (The time of exile); Manuels-Payot, 2001, Rivages poche/Petite Bibliothèque, 2005, translation in Italian, Il tempo dell’esilio, Giuntina, 2010
 Qu’est-ce que la religion? (What is religion?); Flammarion, 2001
 La memoria del popolo scomparso, Salomone Belforte & Co, 2003
 L’ébranlement d’Israël. Philosophie de l’histoire juive (The shaking of Israel, a Jewish Philosophy of History); Le Seuil, 2002, translation in Italian, Il Terremoto di Israele, Giuda Judaica, 2007.
 L’e(xc)lu, entre juifs et chrétiens (The Chosen-Expelled : Between Jews and Christians); Denoël, 2003
 La démission de la république, Juifs et Musulmans en France (The Republican Abdication : Jews and Muslims in France); P.U.F., 2003
 Les frontières d’Auschwitz. Les ravages du devoir de mémoire, (Auschwitz Frontiers, the Ravages of the « Duty of Memory »), Hachette-Livre de Poche, 2005, translated in Hebrew by Avner Lahav (Resling, 2016)
 L’avenir des Juifs de France (The Future of French Jewry), Grasset, 2006
 L’intention d’amour, Désir et sexualité dans Les maîtres de l’âme de R. Abraham Ben David de Posquières, (The Intent of Love, Desire and Sex in Rabad’s Baalei Hanefesh), Éditions de l’éclat, 2007.
 Le judaïsme et l’esprit du monde, (Judaism and the Spirit of the World), Grasset, 2011.
 La nouvelle idéologie dominante, (The New Dominant Ideology), Editions Hermann, 2012.
 Le peuple juif, sociologie et philosophie politiques (The Jewish People, Political Sociology and Philosophy), François Bourin ed. 2013.
 L'hébreu, une philosophie, (Hebrew as a Philosophy), Hermann-Philosophie, 2014
 Quinze ans de solitude. Juïfs de France: 2000–2015, (Fifteen Years of Loneliness. French Jews 2000-2015) Berg International, 2015
 Le nouvel état juif, (The New Jewish State), Berg International, 2015

Main edited books
 Le second Israël; Les Temps Modernes, n° 394 bis, Mai 1979
 Penser Auschwitz; Pardès n°9-10, 1989 (THINK AUSCHWITZ)
 La société juive a travers l'histoire; Fayard, 1992-1993, 4 volumes: (JEWISH SOCIETY ACROSS HISTORY)
 La fabrique du peuple
 Les liens de l’alliance
 Le passage d’Israël
 Le peuple monde
 L'école de pensée juive de Paris; Pardès 23, 1997 (The School of Jewish thinking in Paris)
 Le sionisme face à ses détracteurs; Editions Raphaël, 2002
 L’exclusion des Juifs des pays arabes; Pardès 33, 2003 (The Expulsion of Jews from Arab Countries)
 L’identité des Juifs d’Algérie; Nadir, 2004 (The Identity of Algerian Jews)
 La Cité biblique, Pardès, 40, 2006 (The Biblical City)
 Le monde sépharade, en deux volumes aux Editions du Seuil (2007) (The Spheradic World))
 L’Histoire (History)
 La Civilisation (Civilization)
 Noirs et Juifs, mythes et réalités, Pardès (42/2007) (Blacks and Jews, myths and realities)
 La civilisation du judaïsme, L’Eclat, 2012. (The Civilization of Judaism)
 La mémoire sépharade (co-editor, Helene Trigano); In Press, 2000 (Spheradic Memory)
 Voulons-nous encore être humains ? Possibilités et limites d’un nouvel humanisme occidental; Diogene, 2001. (English version: "Do we still want to be Human?"

References

External links
 Personal website
 Bibliography

French sociologists
Sociologists of religion
Academic staff of the University of Paris
French essayists
French male essayists
Algerian Jews
Jewish writers
Algerian emigrants to France
People from Blida
Jewish philosophers
1948 births
Living people


Audiosurf is a puzzle rhythm game created by Invisible Handlebar, a company founded by Dylan Fitterer. Its track-style stages visually mimic the music the player chooses, while the player races across several lanes collecting colored blocks that appear in sync with the music. The game was released on February 15, 2008 over Steam, a few days after winning the Independent Games Festival 2008 Excellence in Audio Award, heavily influenced by the soundtrack composed by Pedro Macedo Camacho. The full version was for a long time only available for purchase through Steam, but was later released as a retail product in Europe, by Ascaron. Audiosurf was the first third-party game to use Valve's Steamworks technology. The Zune HD version was also released as Audiosurf: Tilt. The sequel, Audiosurf 2, was released to Steam Early Access in 2013 and was taken out of early access in 2015.

Gameplay

In Audiosurf, the player controls a levitating vehicle similar to those found in Wipeout or F-Zero. The player maneuvers it down a colorful multi-lane highway, collecting blocks in a manner similar to Klax.

The music used in the game is chosen from the user's own library, from almost any DRM-free format, as well as standard redbook CDs. In addition, Audiosurf includes the soundtrack to The Orange Box as part of the download. An "Audiosurf Radio" tab is included on the "Song Select" screen that allows the user to play the Audiosurf Overture, as well as a shifting selection of songs by featured independent artists.

The goal of the game is to score points by collecting colored blocks (called 'cars') and forming clusters of 3 or more of the same color. The more blocks one accumulates in a cluster, the more points are scored. In the default color setting of the game, blocks that appear in hot colors such as red and yellow are worth more points, while cool colors such as blue and magenta are worth less. Players are also awarded bonus points at the end of each track based on the feats they achieved. These include finishing the song with no blocks left in the grid or collecting all the blocks of a certain color. Each track for each difficulty level has three medals: bronze, silver, and gold. These are awarded upon reaching the point total required for them. There are also additional game modes in the game where the goal of the game changes. There are three different high score lists for each song, for casual, pro, and elite characters respectively.

Audiosurf synchronizes the environment, traffic patterns, and scenery with the events in the current song. Each music file imported to the game by the user is first analyzed by the game engine, and an ASH file (containing the dynamics of the sounds and how the track and blocks are arranged) associated with the music is created and saved. The game loads the environment from the ASH files, with the track's elevation, surface, and layout reflected in the dynamics of the music being played.

The player can choose between 14 different characters to play in the game. The characters are divided between three difficulty levels and each has its own unique ability. An "Ironmode" option is also available during character selection, which makes the game more difficult.

Development

The game was the brainchild of Dylan Fitterer who worked for a majority of the project alone, only bringing in outside help near the end. Flitterer wanted to create a game that would fuse gameplay with a music visualizer. Fitterer has cited the game Rez as his biggest influence. Flitterer also cited a music visualizer from WildTangent, which got him thinking about music in a 3D space.

Pedro Camacho created the soundtrack and was the sound effects supervisor on Audiosurf. "Audiosurf Overture" was a track previously done by Camacho as the main demo track for a virtual synthesizer called Predator from Rob Papen. The IGF awarded composer stated on his website that "this award would have never been possible to achieve if not coupled with such an amazing game by Dylan Fitterer".

Release

Audiosurf: Tilt
A portable version of the game called Audiosurf: Tilt was released on November 11, 2009 for the Zune HD. It was available to download for free from the Zune Marketplace. The gameplay is largely simplified, though it retains the same basic principles. There are no characters to choose from in this version, nor is there an Ironmode. The game follows one basic formula, in which the player tries to collect all the blocks while dodging roadblocks (it can be played at "normal" and "turbo" speeds). In addition, there is a "Watch Lightshow" mode, in which the player does not collect blocks at all. Simply put, it is similar to a full-screen display that matches up to music in many popular music player applications (Windows Media Player, Xbox 360, etc.).

Reception

Audiosurf was positively received with the broad majority of critics. On Metacritic, the title holds an average of 85 out of 100, suggesting favorable reviews. 1Up.com awarded Audiosurf an "A" rating citing the massive replay value. IGN gave the title an 8.6 out of 10, and stated that "[Audiosurf is] one of those games that offers something for everyone". Eurogamer were slightly less impressed, giving the game a 7 out of 10, criticizing its rough edges, yet remained convinced that the title had enough potential to become "a bite-sized obsession".

See also
Amplitude
Audiosurf 2 – the sequel to Audiosurf

References

External links

Developer's blog

2008 video games
Cooperative video games
Indie games
Mobile games
Music generated games
Puzzle-music video games
Video games with custom soundtrack support
Video games using procedural generation
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Pedro Camacho
Visual music
Windows games
Independent Games Festival winners
Multiplayer and single-player video games


Joseph Ventaja (4 February 1930 – 11 August 2003) was a French boxer who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco.

1952 Olympic results
Below are the results of Joseph Ventaja who competed for France as a featherweight at the 1952 Olympic boxing tournament in Helsinki:

 Round of 32: defeated Yuri Sokolov (Soviet Union) on points, 2-1
 Round of 16: defeated Sydney Greave (Pakistan) on points, 3-0
 Quarterfinal: defeated Edson Brown (United States) on points, 3-0
 Semifinal: lost to Sergio Caprari (Italy) on points, 1-2 (was awarded bronze medal)

Pro career
Ventaja began his career as a professional in 1956 and won his first 11 fights.  He retired in 1958 after a loss to Epiphane Akono.

External links
Joseph Ventaja's profile at databaseOlympics

Joseph Ventaja's profile at Sports Reference.com

1930 births
2003 deaths
Sportspeople from Casablanca
Featherweight boxers
Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in boxing
French male boxers
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics


William Mosforth (2 January 1859 – 11 July 1929) was an English footballer who played either as an inside or outside left. Born in Sheffield he played for several Sheffield clubs but the majority of his career was spent at The Wednesday. He later joined Sheffield United, playing in their first season in existence before retiring in 1890. He won nine caps for England between 1877 and 1882, which was a record at the time, scoring three goals for his country.

Club career
Playing in his home town of Sheffield for his entire career Mosforth was known as the 'Little Wonder' or 'The Sheffield Dodger' due to his small stature. He was often considered the best local player during his era with outstanding ball control, crossing ability and long dribbles, sometimes taking it the entire length of the pitch!  He was also a leading exponent of the "screw shot" that allowed him to bend the ball in the air, a technique that was developed in Sheffield at the time and is now commonplace in the game.

Mosforth began his career at Sheffield Albion and made his debut at 14 but was famous for swapping sides and profiteering from his play. As an amateur player he was allowed to play for more than one club under FA rules at that time, although like many players Mosforth probably received some sort of payment for his services. One anecdotal story says that when he ran onto the pitch in Hallam colours someone in the crowd shouted "10 bob and free drinks, Billy, if you'll change your shirt". He promptly ran back to the dressing room and returned in a Sheffield Wednesday shirt. Despite this he was selected to play for the Sheffield Football Association in 1876 at the age of 18.

Signing for The Wednesday in 1878 Mosforth would remain with the club for almost a decade, scoring their first ever goal at their Olive Grove ground, but continued to play for a number of other local teams during that period. In 1879 he played for The Zulus a touring side created to aid families of casualties of the Zulu War. The side became embroiled in controversy when it was revealed that the players were to make money themselves (a practice illegal at the time). Like many of the Wednesday players who were involved in the Zulu team, Mosforth was also one of the players who pushed them into becoming professional team. He played for the break-away team (Sheffield Rovers) that intended to become Sheffield's first professional side, but he returned to the Wednesday fold after professionalism was agreed upon.

After leaving The Wednesday he was amongst the first players to answer the advertisement asking for players to form the new Sheffield United team that were placed in the local press. He duly signed for the new club and remained at Bramall Lane for one season (prior to their entry into The Football League), having the distinction of scoring United's first ever goal at the ground and of being one of the first players to play for both leading sides in the city. Mosforth was also the first Blades player to be 'substituted' during a match (before substitutes were permitted) when a teammate was late arriving for a game against Bolton Wanderers, coincidentally the first game to be played under floodlights, meaning that Mosforth was asked to fill in until his teammate arrived.

International career
Mosforth made his debut for England in March 1877, appearing in a friendly against Scotland. He went on to play nine times for his country and scored three goals.

International goals

Records
Billy Mosforth holds a number of records in the game, these are as follows:

First player to play for both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United.

First player to score for both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United.

Scored the first goal at Sheffield United's ground Bramall Lane.

First Sheffield United player to be 'substituted'.

Record England Cap holder at the time.

Played in the first professional game to be played under floodlights.

Scored Sheffield Wednesday's first ever goal at the Olive Grove

Personal life
Mosforth was an engraver by trade and was an all round athlete, competing in both flat and hurdle races and playing for Hallam Cricket Club.  After he retired from playing Mosforth became a licensee in Sheffield.

References

1859 births
1929 deaths
English men's footballers
England men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Hallam F.C. players
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Footballers from Sheffield


, known as the "Wild Tiger of Kai", was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Takeda clan. He was known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen". His younger brother was Yamagata Masakage.

He was the tutor of Takeda Shingen's younger brother Takeda Nobushige. He later betrayed Shingen with Shingen's eldest child, the rebellious Takeda Yoshinobu. A historically accurate account of his life is in the novel The Samurai's Tale written by Erik Christian Haugaard.

References

External links
  "Legendary Takeda's 24 Generals" at Yamanashi-kankou.jp

Takeda retainers
Samurai
1504 births
1565 deaths


These are the official results of the Women's marathon at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece. The race was held on 12 September 1982. This was the first time that women's marathon was featured at a major athletics competition.

Medalists

Abbreviations
All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Startlist

Intermediates

Final ranking

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

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See also
 1982 Marathon Year Ranking
 1983 Women's World Championships Marathon (Helsinki)
 1984 Women's Olympic Marathon (Los Angeles)
 1987 Women's World Championships Marathon (Rome)
 1988 Women's Olympic Marathon (Seoul)

References

 Results
 marathonspiegel

Marathon
Marathons at the European Athletics Championships
1982 marathons
Women's marathons
European Athletics Championships marathon
1982 Athletics
Women in Athens


Marco Filippini (born 19 September 1988) is an Italian footballer.

Career
Filippini started his career at Montichiari of Serie C2. He was signed by Internazionale in July 2007.  He made his debut on 17 January 2008, a Coppa Italia match that won Reggina 3–0. In that match, he replaced Nicolás Burdisso in 83rd minute. In 2008, he returned to Montichiari and followed the team relegated to Serie D in 2009. He won promotion back to professional league in 2010. That season he played 20 times in Serie D.

References

External links
 gazzetta.it
http://aic.football.it/scheda/15994/filippini-marco.htm
http://laseried.com/giocatori-cnd/Difensore/marco-filippini-417.php

Italian men's footballers
Inter Milan players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from the Province of Brescia
1988 births
Living people
AC Montichiari players


William Herbert Perry Faunce (January 15, 1859 – January 31, 1930) was an American Baptist clergyman and educator.

Biography
William Faunce was born at Worcester, Massachusetts. His father was clergyman Daniel Faunce. He graduated in 1880 at Brown University (where he then taught mathematics for a year), and at 1884 at Newton Theological Seminary, and from 1884 to 1889 was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church of Springfield, Massachusetts. From 1889 to 1899 he was pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of New York City, New York, in 1896-97 he lectured in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and in 1898-99 he was a member of the board of resident preachers of Harvard University. In 1899 he became president of Brown University; during his administration the endowment of the university was largely increased. He was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University in 1907-08 and was prominent in the work of the Religious Education Association. His writings include numerous contributions, chiefly to religious periodicals, and the volumes The Educational Ideal in the Ministry (1909) and What Does Christianity Mean? (1912).

Faunce died on January 31, 1930, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 71. Later that year, Brown's student center was renamed Faunce House in his honor, at the request of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who contributed $600,000 toward its renovation.

Works
 The Educational Ideal in the Ministry (1908)
 What Does Christianity Mean? (1912)
 The Social Aspects of Foreign Missions (1914)
 The New Horizon of State and Church (1918)
 Religion and War (1918)
 Facing Life (1928)

References

Attribution

Further reading
 William H. P. Faunce article, in Martha Mitchell's Encyclopedia Brunoniana

External links

1859 births
1930 deaths
American educational theorists
American religious writers
Baptist ministers from the United States
Brown University alumni
Harvard University people
Clergy from Worcester, Massachusetts
Clergy from New York City
Presidents of Brown University
Baptists from New York (state)
Burials at Swan Point Cemetery


The Open Build Service (formerly called openSUSE Build Service) is an open and complete distribution development platform designed to encourage developers to compile packages for multiple Linux distributions including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, openSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. It typically simplifies the packaging process, so developers can more easily package a single program for many distributions, and many openSUSE releases, making more packages available to users regardless of what distribution they use. Also, product and appliance building is supported by OBS.

The Build Service software is published under the GPL. In an acknowledgement of its usefulness to the wider Linux community, the Linux Foundation has announced that the project will be added to the Linux Developer Network (LDN). Also, various companies, MeeGo project and Tizen are using it for developing their distribution.

It also delivers a collaboration environment, allowing developer groups to build and submit changes to other projects.

Workflow and usage
One can either run the Open Build Service as a private installation, or utilize public instances such as the openSUSE Build Service located at build.opensuse.org, hosted by SUSE. The latter offers up to 400 build slots, but external services may impose limitations as to what packages are allowed to be hosted, so private installations are usually chosen when proprietary or legally problematic software is to be hosted.

Each packager has a "home" project by default where they can upload sources and definitions on how to build RPM or Debian packages. Commits outside the home space is possible given permissions have been granted to a developer. After each upload, the Build Service schedules the changed packages to be rebuilt. On completion, the resulting binary packages are published instantaneously to the download server, which makes them available to the public.

The Build Service provides a public API which is implemented in several user interfaces:
 a web interface at build.opensuse.org
 a command line interface called
Furthermore, a plug-in for integrating the Build Service into Eclipse is developed as a Google Summer of Code project, as well as a plugin for Qt Creator.

Instances can be linked, such that sources and packages from a remote host can be reused, thereby eliminating the need to bootstrap/import dependencies manually for preexisting projects.

See also
 openSUSE
 mer

References

External links

 openSUSE Build Service source code
 openSUSE Build Service tutorial
 openSUSE Build Service presentation at FOSDEM 2006 (Slides)
 openSUSE Build Service presentation at FOSDEM 2008 (Slides)
 (Video)

Build automation
SUSE Linux