Devil Girl is a 2007 thriller film, directed by Howie Askins and stars Jessica Graham, Tim Abell and Vanessa Kay.

Plot
Devil Girl follows the story of Fay on her trip across Route 66 after the death of her father, who happened to be a mechanic. Fay takes her father's muscle car and his wedding ring, and departs from her home after saying her farewells to her sister.

The story simultaneously follows the events of an overly medicated, nonsense-spewing young man in clown makeup, who appears to be dodging authorities whilst hopping from vehicle to vehicle along his travels. The clown stops at a gas station to steal a new ride; however, there is no vehicle to be found. The clown knocks out the cashier and steals the handy supply of drugs and junk food while a woman (the cowgirl) stops for gas. The clown then ties the woman up while Fay stops for gas. As Fay searches the station for a clerk the clown rummages through her car, stealing her wallet, and then leaves in the cowgirl's truck, which later breaks down.

After the clown takes a mysterious ride in the Devil Girl's flying vehicle, and Fay's car breaks down, both stop separately in an eerie, highly religious, nearby town. Fay takes a room in the local motel, using her father's ring as collateral, as her wallet was stolen earlier. The clown meets Fay and is speechlessly smitten by her. In an attempt to pay back her debts, Fay dances at the town's strip club. The local mechanic tells Fay that the part required to fix her car should be available after a week.

One night the clown decides to enter the strip joint and witnesses hallucinations, including a dance by the Devil Girl, before seeing Fay dance and being thrown out of the club. After being driven back to the motel by an interested young man, Fay is raped in her room by a masked man and assumes it was the clown, due to the fact that she saw him outside of her window. The next night, the clown is back at the strip club, only to be kicked in the face by Fay and once again thrown out. Fay leaves in a rage to be picked up by the Devil Girl, and the two partake in sexual activities.

The Devil Girl then confronts the local preacher and accuses him of being a pervert by nature, which is later revealed to be true when Fay attempts to retrieve her ring from the preacher, whom she was told by the motel owner was in possession of. Fay finds a young, naked man trapped in a cage below the church, and is then attacked from behind by the preacher, who is revealed to be her rapist, his identity betrayed by his mask. Fay stabs the preacher with a screwdriver and beats him with a two-by-four. She then frees the young man, and together they escape.

The motel owner is shown to have been in leagues with the preacher and takes off searching for Fay after discovering the preacher's body. The young man is picked up by a police officer while Fay takes off with the clown on a motorcycle. The clown brings Fay to her car, where she finds the keys in the ignition, and prepares to leave while the clown tries to explain his feelings, and the motel owner is gaining ground. Fay drives off with the motel owner in pursuit with a pistol in his hand. As the motel owner takes aim at Fay, the clown pulls up between the two and smacks the gun away.

As the vehicles are about to collide with a tractor trailer, it is revealed that all the events of the movie were actually a drug-induced hallucination, imagined by an overly medicated, soon to be released mental patient named Donald, who fantasized himself as the clown and his nurse Fay as his alter-ego's love interest. However, in the end the Devil Girl is shown to be real, and had actually killed the crooked preacher.

Cast

Notes
Devil Girl features Los Angeles-based punk band The UV's as the strip club band. In the movie, the band features original bassist Blare N. Bitch of Betty Blowtorch and Suckerstar as well as original drummer Kyle Justin of Skeleteen and The Studdogs.

Nominations
The movie was a finalist in 2007's Shriekfest, a Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival by Dark Romance.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack features songs by 400 Blows, The UV's, Sefton, Scum of the Earth, and Blare Bitch Project.

References

External links

2007 films
2007 horror films
American horror thriller films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


The Kosmos-1 (GRAU Index: 65S3, also known as Cosmos-1) was a Soviet carrier rocket (Kosmos (rocket family)), derived from the R-14 missile, which orbited satellites in 1964 and 1965. It served as an interim, and was quickly replaced by the Kosmos-3. Eight were flown, all launched from Site 41/15 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Initial development was authorised in October 1961, leading to a maiden flight on 18 August 1964, carrying three Strela satellites. Strela-1 satellites were flown on seven flights, three on each of the first four and five on the next three. The eighth and final  flight carried one. All flights were successful except the second.

Launch history

See also
Kosmos-2I
Kosmos-3M

References

Space launch vehicles of the Soviet Union
Vehicles introduced in 1964
1964 in spaceflight
1965 in spaceflight


The 1998 German Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 92nd edition of the Hamburg Masters (German Open), and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1998 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center in Hamburg, Germany, from through 4 May through 11 May 1998.

The men's field was headlined by ATP No. 1, Indian Wells, Miami, Auckland titlist, Australian Open finalist Marcelo Ríos, Antwerp winner, Indian Wells and 1997 U.S. Open runner-up Greg Rusedski and Marseille runner-up, 1994 Hamburg winner Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Other top seeds competing were Dubai titlist Àlex Corretja, Gustavo Kuerten, Karol Kučera, Richard Krajicek and Alberto Berasategui.

Finals

Singles

 Albert Costa defeated  Àlex Corretja 6–2, 6–0, 1–0, retired.
It was Albert Costa's 1st title of the year, and his 7th overall. It was his 1st Masters title of the year, and overall.

Doubles

 Donald Johnson /  Francisco Montana defeated  David Adams /  Brett Steven 6–4, 6–4

References

External links

 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile

German Open
ATP German Open
ATP German Open
Hamburg European Open


Hustler TV is a subscription based adult entertainment pay television channel distributed throughout Europe via digital cable as naxoo (in Switzerland) and satellite television. It is owned by the Dutch-based company Sapphire Media International BV.

Hustler TV and Hustler HD 3D offers hardcore pornography aimed at a straight male audience. It is the sister channel to Blue Hustler who specializes in softcore pornography.

See also
Blue Hustler
Hustler TV (US)
Hustler TV Canada

References

External links

British pornographic television channels
Pornographic television channels
Television pornography


Alexandra Mendès  (born November 3, 1963) is a Canadian Liberal politician, currently serving as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Brossard—Saint-Lambert since 2015. She previously served in the House of Commons from 2008 until 2011 as the MP for the riding of Brossard—La Prairie.

Biography
Mendès worked as a constituency assistant to Jacques Saada, who served as a Liberal MP for Brossard—La Prairie from 1997 to 2006. She also taught at the Brossard Portuguese School. Mendès was a Quebec assistant to Bob Rae for a period of eight months during his leadership campaign. She has worked for fifteen years at a settlement organization for new immigrants and refugees at Maison Internationale de la Rive-Sud.

She was elected to the House of Commons in 2008, defeating Bloc Quebecois MP Marcel Lussier, who had defeated her former boss Saada in the previous election. She initially came in second by 102 votes, but a recount ordered by Elections Canada resulted in her winning by a margin of 69 votes. She was defeated in the 2011 election by NDP candidate Hoang Mai.

In August 2011, Mendès announced her candidacy for the presidency of the Liberal Party of Canada. She was defeated in her race for the presidency by Mike Crawley, but remained a committed member of the party, making appearances on CTV and CBC's Power and Politics representing the party. In June 2012, Mendès became President of the Liberal Party's Quebec wing, the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec).

In the 2015 federal election, Mendès was the Liberal candidate in the newly created riding of Brossard—Saint-Lambert, again facing off against Mai. She defeated Mai, returning to the House of Commons.

On April 6, 2017, Mendès moved a motion "That the House do now proceed to Orders of the Day" during debate on a Question of Privilege of an instance of Members of Parliament having their Rights as Members denied. Such a motion during a debate on a Question of Privilege had never been made before in Canadian Parliamentary History. The Liberal majority voted in favour of Mendès's motion, preventing the issue from being reviewed by the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

On April 11, 2017, the Speaker of the House of Commons Geoff Regan said the motion was unprecedented and ruled that the Question of Privilege should be revived.

As a child, Mendès was a member of the Girl Guides of Canada and has spoken in the House of Commons about her view that "much of what (she is) today (she) owes to Guiding".

On February 28, 2019, Mendès created controversy when during an emergency debate on the SNC-Lavalin affair she said "I really do not understand why this is a big deal."

Mendès was re-elected in the 2019 Canadian federal election.

On December 10, 2019, Mendès was appointed Assistant Deputy Speaker and Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole

Mendes holds Dual-citizenship with Portugal.

Electoral record

References

External links

1963 births
Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
Francophone Quebec people
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Living people
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
People from Brossard
Politicians from Lisbon
Portuguese emigrants to Canada
Women in Quebec politics
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
Foreign-born Canadian politicians


Lily is an unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States, located within the town of Langlade. Lily is at the intersection of Wisconsin State Highway 52 and Wisconsin State Highway 55.

The Town of Langlade Town Hall, and the Town of Langlade Fire & Rescue Department are located in Lily.

The Wisconsin Central Ltd Railroad (Formerly Soo Line) operated a rail line through Lily up until 2001 when the tracks were removed. The railroad grade is now the Wolf River State Trail.

Lily is also a junction for many area snowmobile and ATV trails. The Lily Sno-Birds Clubhouse is located on Turtle Lake Road, and there is also a small racetrack located there where snowmobiles and ATVs have raced in the past.  The track is currently dormant.

Images

References

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Langlade County, Wisconsin


Parcani (; , Parkani; , Parkany; , Parkany) is a large commune and village in the Slobozia District of Transnistria, a de facto independent entity within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova. The village has a population of around 10,500, of whom 95% are ethnic Bulgarians (Bessarabian Bulgarians). The first Bulgarian colonists arrived in the village in the early 19th century. According to some sources, it is the largest Bulgarian-majority village outside the borders of Bulgaria. A monument to Bulgarian national hero Vasil Levski was unveiled in Parcani in September 2008.

The village lies between Tiraspol and Bender; it is serviced by the trolleybus line between the two cities.

Reports of an attack on a military unit of the Armed Forces of Transnistria near Parcani appeared on 25 April 2022. It was later clarified that these reports referred to an attack that had occurred on that day on the Tiraspol Airport. This incident was part of a series of attacks of unknown authorship that occurred in Transnistria in that year during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which may have been a false flag operation by Russia or Transnistria itself.

Notes

References

External links
 Website of Parcani

Communes of Transnistria
Bulgarian communities in Moldova
Tiraspolsky Uyezd
Slobozia District


Gaspar Jesús Melchor Flores Magón (6 January 1871 – 7 December 1930) was a Mexican politician, journalist, and jurist. The more moderate brother of Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón, he served in the cabinet of Francisco I. Madero.

Biography

Jesús Flores Magón was born in San Jerónimo Tecóatl in the state of Oaxaca in 1871,
to Margarita Magón and Teodoro Flores, a Nahua who had fought in Benito Juárez's Liberal Army.
At an early age the family relocated to Mexico City.

He graduated in law in 1897 and, in conjunction with his brother Ricardo, founded the newspaper Regeneración, the first edition of which appeared on 7 August 1900. As editor of the paper, he was jailed on several occasions for criticising the judicial system. He was later expelled from the country for his anti-Porfirio Díaz writings; he fled to the United States where his political differences with his brothers – also exiled, and now espousing anarchist beliefs – deepened.

He returned to Mexico in 1910 following the overthrow of Porfirio Díaz in the early days of the Mexican Revolution.
In 1911, alongside  Antonio Irineo Villarreal, he began publishing a moderate version of the newspaper Regeneración in Mexico City, while his brothers – still in their U.S. exile – published a more radical broadsheet under the same title in Los Angeles, California.

President Francisco I. Madero appointed him under-secretary for justice in his cabinet. He also served as secretary of the interior from February to November 1912 and, subsequently, as secretary for development. Following  Victoriano Huerta's coup d'état in February 1913, he again went into exile.
Upon returning, he resumed his law practice.

During the tumultuous years that followed, he remained in Mexico City. When  Venustiano Carranza assumed the presidency, he chose to leave the country on account of the fact that he had been the running mate of presidential candidate Manuel Calero y Sierra; he returned to Mexico following Carranza's assassination.

See also
Magonism
Regeneración

References

External links

Mexican journalists
Mexican male journalists
1871 births
1930 deaths
Politicians from Oaxaca
Mexican revolutionaries
Magonists
Mexican Secretaries of the Interior
Porfiriato


Basle is an alternative name for Basel, Switzerland's third most populous city.

Basle may also refer to:

Basle, 1969, a 1996 jazz album

People with the surname
Charles Basle (1885–1962), French racecar driver

See also
Basel III
Basel (disambiguation)


Karl Aage Rasmussen (born 13 December 1947 in Kolding, Denmark) is a Danish composer and writer.

Composition
Quotation and particularly collage played an important role in his music from the early 1970s, but increasingly he used pre-existing musical material in new connections and for new purposes, most often in a densely woven montage of small idioms which in themselves were too tiny to work as quotes, but were put together so closely as to create entirely new patterns. He continued to use montage technique, but the non-directional expression was gradually replaced by developmental forms. This is apparent in music for the stage and was later continued in works such as A Symphony in Time and the string quartets Solos and Shadows and Surrounded by Scales.

The chamber symphony Movements on a Moving Line marks the beginning of a long period dominated by an interest in time and tempo, here as a kind of time-travel where the same music seems to appear and disappear in different tempi. New conceptions of time, partly related to the self-similarity in fractal mathematics, has dominated his music since then. In more recent years psychological and dramatic dimensions have emerged in works such as the violin concerto, Scherzo with Bells, Webs in a stolen Dream and the violin concerto "Sinking through the Dream Mirror". 2015-18 composer in residence with the baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen resulting in several new works including "The Four Seasons After Vivaldi" (2016).

For more than two decades Rasmussen worked as full professor of composition at the Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. Among his students: Louis Aguirre Rovira, Anne Linnet, Kaj Aune, Peter Bruun, Anders Brødsgaard, Karsten Fundal, Michael Nyvang, Jesper Koch, Niels Rønsholdt and Simon Steen-Andersen.

Writing
Rasmussen is a prolific writer of essays, so far collected in three volumes. His books, among which several have been translated, on Glenn Gould, Robert Schumann, Sviatoslav Richter, Gustav Mahler, John Cage, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Gershwin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Prokofiev and music in the 20th century have reached a wide audience.

Reconstruction
Rasmussen has also been engaged in several large projects centered on the music of Franz Schubert. Schubert left his opera Sakontala unfinished and with only the parts for singers sketched out, but Rasmussen completed and orchestrated a performing version of the opera, first performed in Stuttgart 2006. He has further reconstructed what he believes to be Schubert's lost Gastein symphony and created an orchestral version of his melodrama Der Taucher commissioned by the Danish singer Bo Skovhus. He has also completed Robert Schumann's fourth piano sonata.

Selected works

Opera
 Jephta (1977)
 Majakovskij (1978)
 Jonah (radio opera 1983)
 Our Hoffmann (1986)
 The Sinking of the Titanic (1993)
 Sakontala (reconstruction of an unfinished opera by Franz Schubert, 2003)

Orchestral
 Recapitulations (1968)
 Symphonie Classique (1969)
 Anfang und Ende (1973)
 A Symphony in Time (1982)
 Movements on a Moving Line (1987)
 Three Friends (1995)
 The Lion, the Mouse, the big Elephant and Jens, the Ant (1997, tale for children after Asger Jorn)
 Scherzo with Bells (1996)
 A Tempo (2001)
 Postludes, for 23 solo strings (2007)
 Building (2007)

Concertante
 Contrafactum, cello concerto (1980)
 Violin concerto ("Sinking through the Dream Mirror", 1993)
 Double concerto for harp and guitar (1998)
 Invisible Mirrors, for guitar and chamber orchestra (1999)
 Concerto for baroque oboe and (period) stringe (2015)
 Concerto for baroque violin (2017)

Chamber music
 This moment (1966)
 Resonance (1972)
 Love is in the World (1975)
 A Ballad of Game and Dream (1975)
 Berio Mask (1977)
 Parts Apart (1978)
 Italian concerto (1981)
 Four, Five – for brass quintet (1982)
 Solos and Shadows (string quartet, 1983)
 Surrounded by Scales (string quartet, 1985)
 Movements on a Moving Line (chamber version, 1988)
 Webs in a Stolen Dream (1996)
 Twin Dream (1998)
 Trauergondol (1998)
 Camera oscura, saxophone quintet (2001)
 Liri for flute, clarinet, bassoon, strings and piano (2008)
 Scherzino - a homage to Brahms (2015) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
 Follia, follia ... for 2 oboes, bassoon, string quintet and harpsichord (2015)
 Græs for large unaccompanied choir (2018)
 Gleichwie das Gras, Cantata nach Bach (2019)

Piano solo
 13 Etudes and Postludes (1990)
 Contrary Dances (1992)
 Barcarole (1996)
 Sonata IV (completion of Robert Schumann's unfinished fourth piano sonata)

Arrangements, transcriptions etc.
 Carl Nielsen: Commotio, interpretation for full orchestra (2000)
 Franz Schubert: Symphony in E  (Gastein), reconstruction (2004)
 Robert Schumann: Five lieder (lyrics by Hans Christian Andersen), version for orchestra (2005)
 Franz Schubert: Der Taucher, version for orchestra (2006)
 Johannes Brahms: Serenade 1 in D major, version for 10 instruments
 Johannes Brahms: Serenade 2 in A major, version for 10 instruments
 Igor Stravinsky: Concertino, version for 9 instruments
 Erik Satie: Sports et divertissement, version for 7 instruments
 Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, a new reading for soloists, period strings and continuo
 Niels W. Gade: Piano trio in B-flat major, 1839, three unfinished movements completed

Honors
1987 Hakon Børresen prize
1991 Carl Nielsen prize
1997 Edition Wilhelm Hansen prize
2003 The Danish Academy, The Foundation's Prize
2012 Poul and Sylvia Schierbecks Memory Grant
2017 Grand Prize of the Frobenius Foundation

External links
Official website: http://www.karlaagerasmussen.com
 Edition Wilhelm Hansen
 Gyldendal publishers

1947 births
Living people
People from Kolding
Danish classical composers
Danish male classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
20th-century Danish male musicians
21st-century male musicians


Yaron Traub ( born 1964) is an Israeli conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv.

Traub was Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Valencia Orchestra from 2005 to 2017. Throughout the 1990s he served as Daniel Barenboim's assistant at the Bayreuth Festival and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since winning the 1998 Orchestral Prize at the IV Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam, Traub has conducted numerous symphonic orchestras worldwide.

Yaron Traub is the son of Chaim Taub, former concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

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||  || Chicago Symphony Orchestra || Assistant Conductor ||  || 1995 || 1998 ||
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||  || The Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba || Principal Conductor, Artistic Director ||  || 2002 || 2005 ||
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||  || Orquesta de Valencia || Principal Conductor, Artistic Director ||  || 2005 || 2017 ||
|-
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References

External links

Articles on Yaron Traub in El País

Israeli conductors (music)
1964 births
Living people
21st-century conductors (music)


Hexagon Theatre may refer to:

Hexagon Theatre (KwaZulu-Natal), theatre in South Africa
The Hexagon, theatre in Reading, England


Khairala is a village development committee in Kailali District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3382 living in 541 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Kailali District

Populated places in Kailali District


Mount Breakenridge, , is a mountain in the Lillooet Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of upper Harrison Lake in the angle of mountains formed by that lake and the Big Silver River.

Name

The name was conferred by Lieutenant Palmer RE for Archibald T. Breakenridge RE, a member of his party, during a reconnaissance survey by the Royal Engineers from the north end of Harrison Lake to Four Mile House in the Douglas Road along the Lillooet River in 1859.

In Ucwalmícwts, the language of the Lower Lillooet people, the mountain's name is mólkwcen (no translation given), which is also the name of a fishing camp located near the mouth of Stokke Creek, a creek feeding Harrison Lake from its origins on the flank of Breakenridge.

Potential landslide and tsunami hazard

Mount Breakenridge is the subject of intensive study by government geologists due to the location of a fracture or shear zone on the mountainside above Harrison Lake. Researchers have identified the shear zone as a major risk for collapse into Harrison Lake, one of British Columbia's largest and deepest lakes, causing a large megatsunami. The fracture is a group of cracks caused by tension from a large and unstable piece of rock, and was most likely made more unstable by the abundant rain and seismic activity of the area. Supermarine landslides, which is what is feared in the case of Mount Breakenridge, disrupt the body of water from above when debris falls in, and then the energy from the debris travels into the water. If the unstable piece of rock fell, it would very quickly move and displace extremely large amounts of water. When a landslide generates a tsunami, it can produce waves that cause very severe damage, especially when the energy of the waves is amplified by being trapped in an inlet of the coast.

Potential destruction and the areas and industries at risk
The potential destruction that could be seen in the event of a landslide and accompanying tsunami would be devastating. These types of tsunamis have enough strength to cause a serious threat for any village nearby and have even been known to remove all the sand off a beach after moving through the area. Most at risk is the resort village of Harrison Hot Springs, which is located at the south end of the lake. Other towns that would be reached by the water are Port Douglas, which is at the head of the lake, Fraser Valley, and even Whatcom County, Washington. Any town along the Harrison River is potentially at risk. There are many industries that would take a serious hit if a tsunami were to come through the area. The roads would be destroyed or blocked, inhibiting transportation for the logging trucks, and fisheries would be destroyed or unable to function due to the disturbed lake. The aspects of the area that draw in tourists to the resort town, such as skiing and camping, would also be negatively affected.

Preparations in place
The areas that would potentially be affected do have some precautionary measures in place. There are defensive structures in place to help stop flowing debris that were constructed to protect the transportation routes. There is also a tsunami warning and alerting plan in place that notifies citizens of impending danger via sirens, phone calls, and door to door messages. There are also online precautionary and educational resources available such as suggested safety plans (most of which rely on getting to higher ground before the waves arrive) although in the event of the tsunami occurring, there would likely not be much warning time.

Resilience of the area
The expansion of development in the region is making the community more vulnerable to disaster. The area is a naturally forested landscape, and the intact forests may reduce the force of an incoming tsunami, lessening the damage and loss to life, although the exact level of destruction and disturbance regime is still dependent on local factors such as the shape or features of the coastline. After a destructive event such as the feared tsunami, there would most likely be secondary succession, which is a type of ecological recovery where the area is not totally destroyed and the species that once lived there can eventually return. However, this depends on how the community reacts to help the area recover, such as clearing trash and debris from the tsunami out of the landscape, etc. Depending on the level of destruction (and the level would be high in the expected scenario) the infrastructure, industrial facilities, and residential parts of the community would have to be rebuilt, either partially or completely.

Social, environmental, ecological, and economic significance
It is important that citizens of the area and also the rest of the world know about the danger that is possible due to the instability of the mountainside and the potential for a resulting megatsunami. Tsunamis are an unstoppable force but people need to be proactive, educated, and prepared to try to lessen the damage and loss through evacuation planning and be ready to assist in recovery after the fact.  People's lives, property, homeland, and financial livelihoods are at risk, as well as the species of the surrounding ecosystem and the landscape itself being in the path of danger. Depending on how common these species are and what roles they play in the ecosystem, their extinction caused by such a disaster would have a large impact on the way the area's systems functioned.  If nothing else, the economic hit that the tsunami would produce would be devastating due to the effects it could have on the logging, fishing, and tourism industries.

Area of Scientific Interest
Geoscientists of BC have a keen interest in this area and continue to study it with interest. More information can be found online, including geotechnical reports and studies.

https://www.sfu.ca/cnhr/news_events/newsletter/RiskyGround_News_2020-09-21_mobile.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343725592_Previously_undiscovered_landslide_deposits_in_Harrison_Lake_British_Columbia_Canada

Related historical events
In the past, there have been several tsunamis in the British Columbia area. Two, occurring in 1700 and 1946, were caused by earthquakes and never hit the shore.  Three tsunamis did make landfall. One struck in 1960, and was caused by a magnitude 9.5 quake. It affected the town of Tofino by damaging the local log booms. The next, in 1964, was caused by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake and produced a 4,2 meter (14-foot) wave that completely flooded parts of the towns Hot Springs Cove, Bamfield, and Port Alberni. The wave was traveling over 715 km/h (435 mph) and caused about 8 million dollars in damage. The last tsunami, in 1975, was caused by an undersea landslide and occurred in the Kitimat Inlet of the Douglas Channel.

References

External links

Lillooet Country
Natural hazards in British Columbia
Breakenridge
Breakenridge
Landslides in Canada
Yale Division Yale Land District


Kota Tulsipur is a village development committee in Kailali District in the Seti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6210 living in 839 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Kailali District

Populated places in Kailali District


Truviso (pronounced true-VEE-so) is a continuous analytics, venture-backed, startup headquartered in Foster City, California developing and supporting its solution leveraging PostgreSQL, to deliver a proprietary analytics solutions for net-centric customers.  Truviso was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on May 4, 2012.

History
Truviso was founded in 2006 by UC Berkeley professor Michael J. Franklin and his Ph.D. student Sailesh Krishnamurthy, advancing on the research of Berkeley's Telegraph project.

Truviso's TruCQ product leverages and extends the open source PostgreSQL database to enable analysis of streaming data, including queries that combine those streams with other streaming data or with historical/staged data.   One public example of Truviso's customers using continuous analytics is the dynamic tag cloud visualization of blog indexer Technorati.

Truviso is one of the pioneers in the continuous analytics space which seeks to alter how business intelligence is done—rather than accumulating data first and then running queries on the data set stored in a relational database or a data warehouse, Truviso has always-on queries which process streaming data as it arrives, continuously.  For many queries this approach yields results hundreds or thousands of times faster and more efficiently.

Truviso has received funding from ONSET Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures, and the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund.

Truviso was acquired by Cisco on May 4, 2012

Technology
Truviso's analytics approach is to have always-on queries analyzing streaming data. This strategy for handling continuously flowing data is different from traditional business intelligence approaches of first accumulating data and then running batch queries for reporting and analysis.

Truviso has developed a continuous analytics solution to solve the challenges of high-volume, always-on data analysis. Truviso's solution is based on a scalable PostgreSQL platform capable of concurrent query execution, utilizing standard SQL against live streams of data. Truviso's approach enables analysis of heterogeneous data regardless of whether the data is flowing, staged, or some combination of the two.

 Queries are continuous and always running so new results are delivered when the downstream application or use require them
 Data does not need to be stored or modified, so the system can keep up with enormous data volumes
 Thousands of concurrent queries can be run continuously and simultaneously on a single server
 Queries can be run over both real-time and historical data
 Incoming data can be optionally persisted for replay, backtesting, drill-down, or benchmarking

On May 4, 2010, Truviso announced that the company developed a specific application for web analytics called Visitor Insight & Analytics.

See also
 Streaming Media List of streaming media companies
 Event Stream Processing (ESP) is technology that focuses on processing streams of related data.
 Event Driven Architecture (EDA)  software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.
 Real-time business intelligence Application of business intelligence to dynamic, real-time business processes
 Real-time computing CEP systems are typically real-time systems
 Operational Intelligence Both CEP and ESP are technologies that underpin operational intelligence.

References

External links

 James Taylor's "First Look" on Truviso
 Continuous Analytics white paper

Business intelligence software
Business intelligence companies
Analytics companies
Data analysis software
PostgreSQL
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies established in 2006
Companies based in Foster City, California
Cisco Systems acquisitions
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States


"Madame" Marie Aioe Dorion Venier Toupin (ca. 1786 – September 5, 1850) was the only female member of an overland expedition sent by Pacific Fur Company to the Pacific Northwest in 1810. Like her first husband, Pierre Dorion Jr., she was Métis. Her mother was of the Iowa people and her father was French Canadian. She was also known as Marie Laguivoise, a name recorded in 1841 at the Willamette Mission and apparently a variation on Aiaouez, later rendered as Iowa.

Missouri
It is likely that Dorion and Sacajawea knew one another. Peter Stark notes the similarities between the two women in his book Astoria: both women were originally based in the then-small settlement of St. Louis, and they were both wives of interpreters in the burgeoning Missouri fur trade.

Pacific Northwest
Her first husband Pierre Dorion Jr. was hired by the Pacific Fur Company to join Wilson Price Hunt and a group on an overland expedition to Fort Astoria. Also present were their two young boys, approximately two and four years old. Dorion gave birth to another child near what is now North Powder, Oregon, who died several days later. After reaching Fort Astoria, Dorion and her family returned with a trapping party to the Snake River area. As the months became colder, some of the party stayed to build a cabin on the Snake River while the rest, including Giles Le Clarc and the Dorion family, continued to travel to a better trapping area.  Maria and the children stayed at a hut that the men had built processing the animals. It was one of these days when her husband and a small trapping party were attacked by a band of Bannocks and killed. Only Giles Le Clarc lived long enough to travel back to the hut and warn Dorion of the attack.

There were several horses left by the Bannock warriors and were promptly taken by Dorion back to the small fur trading post. However, upon reaching the post, she discovered the few staff had been killed and scalped. Attempting to reach another safe fur trading station in the Pacific Northwest, one of Dorion's two horses collapsed in the Blue Mountains. She supported her two infants for 50 days during winter. Dorion created snare traps out of the horse manes to provide a supply of mice and squirrels for her family. She additionally smoked the horseflesh, collected frozen berries, and later gathered the inner flesh of trees to prevent her family starving. Near the end of March, Dorion was able to progress west, eventually reaching a Walla Walla village, exhausted and short of food. The village leadership provided material support and aid while she waited for the arrival of the Astorians who would be in the region for spring trade. The Astorians would have missed Dorion and her children if her youngest had not spotted their canoes and called for them to stop.

Dorion married twice more and had three more children. Her second husband was Louis Venier. With her third husband, Jean Toupin, she settled near Saint Louis, Oregon, on the French Prairie. It was here that she began to be known as "Madame" or "Madame Iowa". One of her two eldest sons, Jean Baptiste, joined the Oregon Rifles and fought in the Cayuse War.

Death and legacy

After Dorion Venier Toupin died on September 5, 1850, she was buried inside the original log Catholic church in Saint Louis. When the church burned down in 1880 and the current church built, the location of Dorion's grave was forgotten and remains unknown to this day. It was only when the church register was translated from French into English many years after the original church burned down that it was learned that Dorion had been buried there. There is no record of why she received this honor instead of being buried in the nearby cemetery, but church burial requires special dispensation and may have indicated that Dorion was especially devout.

Among the places memorializing Dorion are two parks: Madame Dorion Memorial Park at the mouth of the Walla Walla River near Wallula, Washington, and Marie Dorion Park, a Milton-Freewater, Oregon city park near the foothills of the Blue Mountains. The Dorion Complex residence hall at Eastern Oregon University is in La Grande. There is a plaque noting the place near North Powder where she likely gave birth. Her name is also one of the 158 names of people important to Oregon's history that are painted in the House and Senate chambers of the Oregon State Capitol. Her name is in the Senate chamber. St. Louis, Oregon, has a street named after her, Dorion Lane.

Oregon author Jane Kirkpatrick wrote the Tender Ties trilogy of historical novels based on Dorion's life. The individual titles in the series are A Name of Her Own, Every Fixed Star, and Hold Tight the Thread.

On May 10, 2014, the Daughters of the American Revolution held a service at Saint Louis Catholic Church dedicating a historical marker in Dorion's honor.

See also
Books and journalists that mention Dorion's survival story:
Astoria, by Washington Irving
Gabriel Franchère
Alexander Ross
Red Heroines of the Northwest, by Byron Defenbach, First Printing, August 1929, Caxton Printers, LTD, Caldwell, Idaho

Further reading
Boyer, P. S., James, J. W., James, E. T. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. United Kingdom: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Elliott, T. C. (1935). "The Grave of Madame Dorion". Oregon Historical Quarterly, 36(1), 102–104.
Kirkpatrick, J. (2002). A Name of Her Own. United States: WaterBrook Press.

References

Works cited

External links

"Marie's Descendents" from the Brooks Historical Society Newsletter April 2011
Biography of Jean Baptiste Dorion from Oregon Pioneers

1780s births
1850 deaths
19th-century Native Americans
Burials in Oregon
Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest
Iowa people
American Métis people
People from Marion County, Oregon
Year of birth uncertain


Feria () is a Spanish municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. It has a population of 1,369 (2007) and an area of .

References

External links
Official website
Profile

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Municipalities in the Province of Badajoz


Intrada is an American record company based in Oakland, California, owned and managed by Douglass Fake.  <div>The company specializes in movie and television soundtracks, notably those by the late Jerry Goldsmith.

Intrada was founded in 1985 by owner Douglass Fake in San Francisco, California. It relocated to Oakland, California at the turn of the millennium and expanded operations, increasing the volume of albums released and adding Roger Feigelson as Director of Business Operations. In addition to standard releases, Intrada features The Excalibur Collection, a series of world premiere re-recordings of film scores, reconstructed and performed by orchestras. Intrada has a series of limited edition soundtracks, produced in cooperation with film studios and the American Federation of Musicians. Intrada also operates as a retail store selling their own releases in addition to other labels. Combined, the Intrada record label and store is the largest independent business dedicated to the music of the movies, television and games.

CD releases

Current categories
Intrada Special Collection Series

Intrada MAF/INT (Mary Ann Fake)

Intrada Signature Editions

Disney/Intrada Series

Former categories

Intrada RVF (Regina Victoria Fake)

Intrada FMT (Film Music Treasures)

Intrada VJF (Veronica Jeanne Fake)

LP releases

External links
Intrada Records

Interview : Roger Feigelson, producer for Intrada Records

American record labels
Soundtrack record labels
1985 establishments in California
Record labels established in 1985
Companies based in Oakland, California
American companies established in 1985


Lisa Erin Goldstein (born July 30, 1981) is a retired American television, film and theatre actress.  She is most known for her role as Millicent Huxtable on One Tree Hill.

Personal life and education
Goldstein was born on Long Island, New York and lived in London, England until the age of 4. She also lived in Pennsylvania as a child and then New York, North Carolina, California and Florida where she worked and went to school. She graduated from Hingham High School (Hingham, Massachusetts) in 1999. Afterwards, Goldstein went to Elon University (Elon, NC) where she received her BFA in Music Theatre in 2003. She then interned at B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California.

Goldstein is currently married and lives in Florida with her husband sports coordinator; Brendan Kirsch. She met him on the One Tree Hill set where he was basketball coordinator.
On January 5, 2014, Goldstein and her husband announced via Twitter that the couple are expecting their first child. On July 11, 2014, Goldstein gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy whom they named Flynn Robert Kirsch. She is now retired from acting.

Career
After college, Goldstein worked at regional theaters in several musicals, including Smokey Joe's Cafe, Victor Victoria, and Anything Goes.

In early 2007, Goldstein signed a contract with Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida where she played Belle in Beauty and the Beast – The Musical, and Nemo, Pearl and Squirt in Finding Nemo – The Musical.

In July 2007, Goldstein was cast in The CW's popular drama series One Tree Hill as Millicent Huxtable. She was cast only for the first episode of season five. However, after seeing her performance in that episode, the writers decided to bring her character back for the remainder of the season. In season six she became a regular and was on the show until the final season.

In early 2008, Goldstein filmed an independent film Who Do You Love?, portraying Phil Chess's wife Sheva Chess. She also appeared in the music video for fellow One Tree Hill co-star Kate Voegele's song "Only Fooling Myself," which was directed by the show's creator and executive producer Mark Schwahn.

Goldstein's last acting credit was for the film Don't Know Yet before she left acting for good.

Filmography

References

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1981 births
21st-century American actresses
Living people
Actresses from New York (state)
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Elon University alumni
People from Long Island


The Panic of 1792 was a financial credit crisis that occurred during the months of March and April 1792, precipitated by the expansion of credit by the newly formed Bank of the United States as well as by rampant speculation on the part of William Duer, Alexander Macomb, and other prominent bankers. Duer, Macomb, and their colleagues attempted to drive up prices of United States (U.S) debt securities and bank stocks, but when they defaulted on loans, prices fell, causing a bank run. Simultaneous tightening of credit by the Bank of the United States served to heighten the initial panic. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was able to deftly manage the crisis by providing banks across the Northeast United States with hundreds of thousands of dollars to make open-market purchases of securities, which allowed the market to stabilize by May 1792.

Bank of the United States and the crisis of 1791
In December 1790, Hamilton called for the creation of the Bank of the United States, and in February 1791, President George Washington signed the charter allowing it to open. Investors paid $25 for a stock, called a scrip, and were required to make three additional payments in six-month intervals totaling $375. These payments were to be 25% in specie and 75% in US debt securities. Demand for stock in the newly formed Bank of the United States was significant, and prices for scrips increased dramatically for the first several weeks, reaching $280 in New York and reportedly over $300 in Philadelphia by mid-August. The market shifts were not sustainable, and within days prices began to fall rapidly. Hamilton stepped in by working with William Seton, the cashier of the Bank of New York, to authorize the purchase of $150,000 of public debt in New York to be covered by government revenues. By September 12, prices had recovered, and Hamilton's intervention had not only stabilized the market but also laid the groundwork for his cooperation with the Bank of New York, which would later be crucial in ending the Panic of 1792.

Causes of the Panic of 1792
In late December 1791, the price of securities began to increase once again, and the eventual crash in March 1792 caused many investors to panic and withdraw their money from the Bank of the United States. One of the primary causes of the sudden run on the bank was the failure of a scheme created by William Duer, Alexander Macomb and other bankers in the winter of 1791. Duer and Macomb's plan was to use large loans to gain control of the US debt securities market because other investors needed those securities to make payments on stocks in the Bank of the United States. Additionally, Duer and Macomb were able to create their own credit by endorsing one another's notes, and did so in hopes of creating a new bank in New York to overtake the existing Bank of New York. On March 9, 1792 Duer stopped making payments to his creditors and simultaneously faced a lawsuit for actions he had taken as Secretary of the Treasury Board in the 1780s. As Duer and Macomb defaulted on their contracts and found themselves in prison, the price of securities fell more than 20%, all in a matter of weeks.

The Panic of 1792 was further instigated by the sudden restriction of previously overextended credit by the Bank of the United States. When the Bank of the United States first began accepting deposits and making discounts in December 1791, it expanded credit extensively. By January 31, 1792, monetary liabilities exceeded $2.17 million, and discounts reached $2.68 million – a very large sum at the time. Speculators took advantage of this new credit source, using it to make withdrawals from the Bank of New York, which placed undue stress on the bank's reserves. From December 29 to March 9, cash reserves for the Bank of the United States decreased by 34%, prompting the bank to not renew nearly 25% of its outstanding 30-day loans. This forced many Bank of the United States borrowers to sell other securities they owned to satisfy the un-renewed loans, which caused prices for these other investments to fall sharply, aggravating the financial panic of 1792.

Crisis management
In mid-March 1792, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton began the political and economic maneuvering necessary to contain the credit crisis affecting markets across the country. The charter creating the Bank of the United States had also set up the Sinking Fund Commission composed of Vice President John Adams, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, Chief Justice John Jay, and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, charged with resolving financial crises. On March 21, 1792, with Jay absent from voting, the commission split on the decision to allow open-market purchases. Having received notice from William Seton that the Bank of New York was in trouble, Hamilton wished to have the government make purchases as it had in 1791, but was unable to do so while Jefferson and Randolph stood opposed. While still waiting for Jay's formal and deciding vote, Randolph began to side with Hamilton on March 26, and with only Jefferson dissenting, the commission authorized $100,000 in open-market purchases of securities.

In a series of letters to Seton at the Bank of New York, Hamilton introduced several measures to restore normalcy to the securities market. Hamilton encouraged the bank to continue offering loans collateralized by US debt securities, but at a slightly increased rate of interest – seven percent instead of six. In order to persuade the Bank of New York to lend during the panic, Hamilton also promised that the US Treasury would buy from the bank up to $500,000 of securities should the Bank of New York be stuck with excessive collateral. Similarly, Hamilton supported the Bank of Maryland's lending by offering to have the US Treasury cover loans made to merchants paying duties. By April 16, after Hamilton authorized an additional $150,000 of open-market purchases by the Bank of New York, Seton reported that market demand was returning to normal.

In just under a month, Hamilton was thus able to stabilize the securities market and prevent the panic from inducing a recession. By exerting his power as Secretary of Treasury and persuading a number of banks to continue offering credit throughout the crisis, Hamilton was able to limit the amount of Federal debt purchases by the Sinking Fund Commission to $243,000 – roughly $100,000 less than what was spent during the smaller panic in 1791.

Analysis
Economists and economic historians have noted that Hamilton's management of the Panic of 1792 appears to have anticipated Henry Thornton by ten years and "Bagehot's Dictum" by approximately 80 years. This prescription, that in a crisis central banks should "lend freely, against good collateral, at a penalty rate" is still considered the gold standard for managing a financial panic as the "lender of last resort".

See also
 List of banking crises

References

1792 in the United States
Economic crises in the United States
Financial crises
1792 in economics
Wall Street
History of banking in the United States
Fiscal policy
Real estate in the United States
Securities (finance)
Credit
Alexander Hamilton


Bruce Weinstein is an American ethicist who writes about ethics, character, and leadership for Fortune. He also writes for and is on the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) editorial board. Much of Weinstein's work focuses on business leaders, members of professional trade associations, and students who appreciate ethics' role in everyday life. This work often is through interactive keynote addresses to corporations, universities, and other organizations.

Early publications
Weinstein published his first book in 1985 at 25 while a graduate student at Georgetown University. Ethics in the Hospital Setting contains the papers presented at the first state conference devoted to the issue of what was then called hospital ethics committees, now known as institutional ethics committees. Weinstein is credited as the editor of the volume. Portions of Weinstein's doctoral dissertation, The Possibility of Ethical Expertise (Georgetown University, 1989), were edited and published as the articles What is an Expert? and The Possibility of Ethical Expertise.

Weinstein's second book as editor, Dental Ethics, is a collection of articles co-authored by ethicists and dentists. His third book as editor, Ethical Issues in Pharmacy, contains essays co-authored by ethicists and pharmacists.

Later publications

What Should I Do: 4 Simple Steps to Making Better Decisions in Everyday Life.
His first book in this project was, "What Should I Do: 4 Simple Steps to Making Better Decisions in Everyday Life."  He applied the four-step protocol used by institutional ethics committees to ethical issues that people outside of health care face.  This protocol is:

 Get the facts.
 Identify the values at stake.
 Find the options available to you.
 Test the options and choose the best one, based steps 1 and 2.

The book was a Finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award.

Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good
Weinstein's next book was published in 2005 by Emmis Books, a division of Emmis Communications. "Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good," was an application of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress's "Principles of Biomedical Ethics." The basis of the Beauchamp/Childress work is principlism, an ethical framework that uses principles as the foundation for ethical decision making.  The four principles that form the core of the Beauchamp/Childress work are:

 Respect for autonomy
 Nonmaleficence
 Beneficence (ethics)
 Justice

Weinstein's work simplifies the principles, so that, for example, the principle of nonmaleficence becomes "do no harm", and the principle of beneficence becomes "make things better."  Weinstein also applies the principles to areas beyond health care and biomedical research.

Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught?
The follow-up to "Life Principles" was a book for 10-14-year-olds entitled, "Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught?"  Published in 2009 by Roaring Brook Press (a division of Macmillan), The book is an application of "Life Principles" to the issues that young adults face with teachers, fellow students, parents, and friends.  It received the strongest reviews in Weinstein's career up to that point.

Ethical Intelligence: Five Principles for Untangling Your Toughest Problems at Work and Beyond.
In 2011, New World Library published Weinstein's "Ethical Intelligence: Five Principles for Untangling Your Toughest Problems at Work and Beyond."  The book expanded much of the work Weinstein had done in his columns for Bloomberg Businessweek on such topics as the outsourcing of customer service, the ethics of taking vacations, and how to give and receive criticism.  In 2012, ForeWord magazine selected "Ethical Intelligence" as a Silver Winner in its annual Book of the Year Awards in the self-help category.

Newspapers
Weinstein's letter to The New York Times calling for honesty in politics was chosen as the basis for its weekly Invitation to a Dialogue feature.  The letter was originally published on July 7, 2012, after which readers were invited to submit responses.  The letter was then republished on August 11, along with several reader responses and a rejoinder from Weinstein. The basis for the letter was Warren Beatty's 1998 film, Bulworth, a satire predicated on the idea that a politician telling the truth would be the stuff of comedy.

Books
As Editor
"Ethics in the Hospital Setting" (West Virginia University Press, 1985)
Dental Ethics (Lea & Febiger, 1993)
Ethical Issues in Pharmacy (Applied Therapeutics, 1998),
As Author
 "What Should I Do? 4 Simple Steps to Making Better Decisions in Everyday Life" (Perigee/Penguin, 2000)
 "Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good" (Emmis Books, 2005)
 "Is It Still Cheating If I Don't Get Caught?" (Roaring Brook, 2009)
 "Ethical Intelligence: Five Principles for Solving Your Toughest Problems at Work and Beyond" (New World Library, 2011),
 "The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character Employees" (New World Library, Oct 2015),

Media appearances as ethics analyst

 Weinstein has offered ethical analyses on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (on such issues as the Harvard cheating scandal of 2012)
 Anderson Cooper 360 (debating with David Gergen about the ethics of publishing kiss-and-tell books in politics)
 Issue #1 (an ethics quiz he developed)
 NBC's Today (the ethics of going to work sick)
 ABC's Good Morning America (the ethics of tipping and regifting)
 ABC News Now (ethical dilemmas in the workplace)
 WNBC's Today in New York (five principles for making ethical decisions)
 CNBC's "Surviving the Market" (scandals in business)
 WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show (the ethics of apologies)
 FOX News Channel's O'Reilly Factor (the ethics of producing and watching reality television shows)
 Weinstein promotes himself as "The Ethics Guy".

References

External links
Bruce Weinstein's official site: The Ethics Guy
Weinstein author page at Fortune online
Youtube channel

Living people
American business writers
American ethicists
Swarthmore College alumni
Philosophers from New Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people)
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs


Guareña is a Spanish municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. It has a population of 7,326 (2007) and an area of 283.3 km².

People from Guareña
 Luis Chamizo Trigueros (1894 – 1945) was a Spanish writer in Castilian and "Castúo", a dialect in Extremadura.

References

External links
Official website
Profile

Municipalities in the Province of Badajoz


The Bureau of Military Information (BMI) was the first formal and organized American intelligence agency, active during the American Civil War.

Predecessors
Allan Pinkerton was contracted by Federal and a number of state and local governments to solve cases such as train robberies. In early 1861, Pinkerton assumed responsibility for Abraham Lincoln's safety, including gaining wind of an alleged assassination attempt.

Shortly after the start of the Civil War, Pinkerton was contacted by George B. McClellan, a friend and former client, to provide intelligence for the Department of the Ohio.

Colonel Charles Pomeroy Stone also utilized a number of detectives. Starting in 1862, General Winfield Scott hired Lafayette C. Baker to provide him services similar to those Pinkerton provided McClellan. Lincoln hired William A. Lloyd to infiltrate the Confederacy and report directly to him at the cost of $200 a month plus expenses.

In all cases, the detectives and spies in question were civilians, despite the fact they reported to military heads and served in wartime (Pinkerton, however, created an alias that was a Union Army major). They also reported directly to and were paid at the leisure of their superiors, not to any military or government agency, and in fact, Pinkerton and Baker's organizations actively competed against one another, to the point of arresting each other's agents to maintain an upper hand. After the war, both Pinkerton and Baker claimed to have held the position of "Chief of the United States Secret Service". However, none of the above are considered to be a true intelligence agency.

Bureau of Military Information

On January 26, 1863, Major General Joseph Hooker was given command of the Army of the Potomac. One of his first orders was for his deputy provost marshal, Colonel George H. Sharpe, to establish an intelligence unit. Sharpe, a New Yorker and an attorney before the war, was assisted by John C. Babcock, a civilian and former employee of Pinkerton. On February 11, 1863, they established the Bureau of Military Information.

The BMI utilized around 70 field agents during the war, ten of whom were killed. In addition to field agents, information was gathered through interrogation of prisoners of war and refugees, newspapers, and documents left on the battlefield by Confederate officers who has retreated or been killed.

In July, 1864, Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant, in preparation of the campaign to capture Richmond, stationed Sharpe and the BMI staff into his command headquarters, in order to ensure he would have the most up to date knowledge of the battlefield. Sharpe and BMI continued to serve Grant up until the Battle of Appomattox Court House, where they were responsible for paroling the former members of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Robert E. Lee himself.

Aftermath
The BMI was disbanded in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. The United States would not create another formal intelligence agency until the Office of Naval Intelligence was established in 1882. The Army would create its Military Information Division in 1885, which would become the predecessor of the Military Intelligence Corps and United States Army Intelligence and Security Command.

Following Lincoln's assassination, Baker would be responsible for tracking down the conspirators, but would eventually be dismissed by Andrew Johnson due to allegedly spying on the President himself for Edwin M. Stanton. Baker would also hunt for Lincoln's conspirators, this time in Europe as a special agent of the United States Department of State. After being elected President of the United States, Grant appointed Sharpe as United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York where he helped root out corruption, including disbanding the Tweed Ring.

See also
American Civil War spies
Black Dispatches
Confederate Secret Service

References
Notes

Bibliography
Linedecker, Clifford L., ed. Civil War, A-Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
 United States Government, Intelligence in the Civil War. Washington, D.C., Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide

Military units and formations established in 1863
1865 disestablishments
American Civil War espionage
Military units and formations of the Union Army
Defunct United States intelligence agencies
Military intelligence agencies


Simon Cheffins is a British-American percussionist. Founding member of Crash Worship, Blood Lake, and the Extra Action Marching Band. He currently resides in San Francisco.

References

British percussionists
American percussionists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)


The politics of the Western Cape differs from that of most other provinces in South Africa, because, unlike the other provinces, the African National Congress (ANC) does not dominate the political landscape. The Western Cape's political landscape is also notable for the presence of a relatively strong local devolution and  independence movement.

Election history
In the election of 2004, no party achieved an absolute majority in the province, with the ANC having a plurality of 45% of the votes. However, the ANC was in an alliance with the New National Party (NNP), which had 11% of the votes, which allowed the ANC-NNP coalition to form a provincial government. During the 2005 floor crossing period all of the NNP members of the Provincial Parliament moved to the ANC, giving the ANC an absolute majority in the province. The ANC chose Ebrahim Rasool as Premier; in 2008 he was replaced by Lynne Brown. The provincial leader of the ANC was Mcebisi Skwatsha.

The official opposition in the Western Cape after the 2004 elections was the Democratic Alliance (DA), which received 27% of the vote in the provincial ballot. The City of Cape Town, the most populous municipality in the province, was governed by a multi-party coalition led by the DA after the 2006 municipal elections. The DA increased its share of the vote during the 2011 municipal elections to 61.09%, giving them a firm majority and allowing them to govern the City of Cape Town without their former coalition partners

In the election of 22 April 2009 the ANC was unseated by the DA, which took 51.46% of the vote. This election marked the first time since the end of apartheid that a party scored an overall majority in the province. The DA leader Helen Zille replaced Lynne Brown as Premier on 6 May 2009.

In the election of 7 May 2014 the DA maintained its hold on the province, increasing its majority to 59.4%.

In the election of 8 May 2019 the DA won a reduced majority of 55.45%.

Election results

References

See also
 Cape Independence
 Politics of South Africa
 Government of the Western Cape

Western Cape
Politics of South Africa by province


I am à l'ancienne is the debut and first solo album from R&B singer/rapper K.Maro. The album is produced by DJ Short Cut, and includes "Le clan chill" featuring Corneille. Also very notable is "Symphonie pour un dingue" in two versions (original and remix) and written by Louis Côté who later on composed K. Maro's most successful song "Femme Like U". The remix version of "Symphonie pour un dingue"  was done on a Sonny Black beat used in Corneille et Kulcha Connexion hits.

Track listing
"Symphonie pour un dingue"
"I am a l'ancienne"
"Le clan chill"
"La maline"
"C'est mon commerce"
"La peste"
"So hot"
"Balbec dansant"
"Bouge tes fesses"
"Lady's night"
"Le thon, la brute et le puant"
"Mon vibe"
"More than music"
"Symphonie pour un dingue (remix)"

2002 debut albums
K.Maro albums
French-language albums


First Cabinet of Edward Szczepanik (Pierwszy rząd Edwarda Szczepanika) was the second-to-last of cabinets of the Polish Government in Exile, preceding Cabinet of Kazimierz Sabbat (who became President) and second Szczepanik Cabinet.

 Prime Minister: Edward Szczepanik
 Minister of Education: Czesław Czapliński
 Minister of the Treasury: Stanisław Borczyk
 Minister of the Emigrees Affairs: Zbigniew Scholtz
 Minister of Home Affairs: Ryszard Kaczorowski
 Minister of the Military Affairs: Lt. Col. Jerzy Morawicz
 Minister of Foreign Affairs: Zygmunt Szkopiak
 Minister of Justice: Stanisław Wiszniewski
 Minister of Information: Andrzej Czyżewski
 Minister of the Ordered Matters: Tadeusz Drzewiecki
 Minister of the Relations with USSR-occupied nations: Aleksander Snastin
 Secretary of the Council of Ministers: Jerzy Zaleski

Szczepanik, Edward


Illinois is an American indie rock band from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, fronted by Chris Archibald (vocals, guitar, banjo, keyboard). The other members of the band are Martin Hoeger (bass guitar, vocals), John Paul Kuyper (drums), Jason Buzolits (keyboard, synthesizer, guitar), and Andrew Lee (guitar). The band is occasionally accompanied on stage by Dee Jay Skipmode (turntables). The band has released four albums and two EPs.

History
Illinois self-released their first EP, Revenge of Some Kid in 2006. and, in early 2007, Ace Fu Records signed the group after hearing it. Illinois released What the Hell Do I Know? on Ace Fu later that year, attracting comparisons with The White Stripes, The Arcade Fire, Coconut Records, The Morning Benders and Wilco. The group toured and played at SXSW following the release of the EP. Following this, the group toured with The Kooks.  After signing with +1 Records in 2009, Illinois released The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe and subsequently embarked on nationwide tours with Menomena and The Builders and the Butchers.

In July 2011, a new album titled Lemonade Stand was released and was made available to stream on SoundCloud and the band's official website. Some time in 2011, the band left +1 Records and created Rockhampton Records with the band Eastern Conference Champions.

Illinois released their third album, Shine, in February 2015.  This was followed by the release of their fourth album, Shady Lane, in September 2021.

The group's song "Nosebleed" was used in the season three episode of Weeds, called, "The Brick Dance." "Hang On" was used on the soundtrack for the video game, NBA 2K10. "Mama-a-Mine" was used in the closing credits for the Comedy Central web series, Delco Proper, which began in July 2015. "Mama-a-Mine" was also featured in the season two episode of Kingdom (American TV series), titled "Living Down."

Members
Current
Chris Archibald - vocals, guitar, keyboards, banjo
Martin Hoeger - bass guitar, vocals
John-Paul Kuyper - drums
Jason Buzolits - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Andrew Lee - guitar, keyboards, vocals, dancing, magic

Previous
Daniel Pawlovich - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Matt Thieroff - guitar, percussion

Discography
Revenge of Some Kid EP (2006)
What the Hell Do I Know? EP (Ace Fu Records, 2007)
We Were Wrong Single (Ace Fu Records, 2008)
The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe deluxe edition LP (+1 Records, May 5, 2009)
Lemonade Stand LP (self-released, July 21, 2011)
Shine LP (self-released, February 24, 2015)
Shady Lane LP (self-released, September 10, 2021)

References

External links
Official website

2006 establishments in Pennsylvania
Indie rock musical groups from Pennsylvania
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Jeff Mattson (born July 3, 1958) is an American musician. He was raised on Long Island, NY.

Mattson is founding member of the jam band, the Zen Tricksters, and guitarist in the Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson, which features the Grateful Dead’s Donna Jean Godchaux. Mattson was named the permanent lead guitarist for Dark Star Orchestra in November of 2009. A veteran of 30 years on the road, Mattson is a guitar player whose style ranges from rock & roll to blues, bluegrass, country, jazz, folk and psychedelia. Jeff is also a strong original songwriter and his work is prominently featured on five albums, including several pieces co-written with bandmate Donna Jean. He is a co-writer of “Leave Me Out of This,” a track on Phil Lesh and Friends Sony CD, "There and Back Again." Jeff was asked to audition for Phil Lesh & Friends in the fall of 1999 and in October 1999. Jeff and then Zen Trickster keyboard player, Rob Barraco, played three shows with Phil Lesh and Friends at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. 1999.

Discography

with the Zen Tricksters
 1996 The Holy Fool
 1998 A Love Surreal
 2003 Shaking Off the Weirdness
 2006 For Rex: The Black Tie Dye Ball –  The Zen Tricksters w/ Donna Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Tom Constanten, David Nelson, Michael Falzarano, Rob Barraco 2006
with Donna Jean and the Tricksters
 2008 Donna Jean and the Tricksters
with Donna Jean Godchaux Band
 2014 Back Around
song Leave Me Out of This, co-written with Rob Barraco
 2002 Phil Lesh and Friends "There and Back Again"

References

External links
Jeff Mattson official website
Dark Star Orchestra official website
Zen Tricksters official website
Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson official website
[ Jeff Mattson] on Allmusic.
Jeff Mattson sits down with Ira Haberman of The Sound Podcast for a feature interview

Living people
1958 births
Guitarists from New York (state)
American male guitarists
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
Dark Star Orchestra members


The Military Information Division (MID) was the first military intelligence branch of the United States Army and the United States Department of War, operating from 1885 to 1903.

History
The MID was established by Brigadier General Richard C. Drum, the then Adjutant General of the United States Army in October 1885 under his office in Washington, DC. Thus becoming the de facto first standing military intelligence agency of the United States. While the Union Army had a Bureau of Military Information, it reported to the Commanding General for less than a year prior to being disbanded at the end of the Civil War in 1865.

The original duties of the MID consisted of collecting military data on foreign nations. Drum also asked senior Army commanders to have their officers to submit intelligence reports from their travels to foreign nations. "Initially, the division acted as a relatively passive repository for military related information." In 1889, the MID saw the formation of, directed and controlled what became the Defense Attaché System, with United States Armed Forces officers being dispatched to London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. The Secretary of War, Redfield Proctor, required all information from the attachés to be analysed by the MID. "By 1898, the MID had 16 attaché posts in Europe, Mexico, and Japan. Until the early 1940s, the attaché system constituted the foundation of the Army’s strategic collection effort."

Spanish–American War
With the beginning of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, the United States Army entered a conflict with existing military intelligence preparation for the first time. Since 1882, the MID had been collecting terrain and order of battle intelligence on the Spanish in Cuba and the Caribbean and had consequently produced detailed maps of likely theaters of operation. Such intelligence was assisted by the reports of the United States Army attaché in Madrid, Captain Tasker H. Bliss who became the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, on Spanish deployments in the region. In April 1898, the Chief of MID, Major Arthur L. Wagner ordered two experienced military observers of MID to be deployed to the region to collect specific information on Spanish defence capabilities before the deployment of American forces. First Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan was deployed to Cuba and First Lieutenant Henry H. Whitney was deployed to Puerto Rico. "As the war progressed, the MID published comprehensive handbooks for both Caribbean countries." The Spanish–American War ended in August 1898 with an American victory.

Philippine–American War
After the American naval victory in the Battle of Manila Bay of May 1898, the American troops were deployed to the Philippines in July 1898. With American victory in the Spanish–American War in August 1898, fighting broke out as the Filipinos sought independence. This led to the Philippine–American War in June 1899. Consequently, the American Military Governor of the Philippines formed the Bureau of Insurgent Records (BIR) to translate and collate captured documents and to provide information about the Filipino forces beyond tactical reconnaissance. In December 1900, the bureau became the Division of Military Information (DMI) under the United States Military Government of the Philippines and was responsible for military intelligence and counterinsurgency capabilities. The Chief of DMI, Captain Ralph Van Deman who had served on the staff of the Chief of MID Major Arthur L. Wagner and was later called the "Father of American Military Intelligence", expanded the capabilities of the DMI to include a mapping section, improved liaison with other agencies, relayed intelligence to the field commanders, provided photographs and descriptions of known Filipino insurgents, and coordinated localised intelligence officers to gather information on the surrounding terrain, attitudes of local villagers, and the dispositions of Filipino insurgent groups. In 1902, the DMI became a branch the MID with the end of the Philippine–American War in July 1902.

Reorganisation into Army General Staff
In 1903, Secretary of War Elihu Root reorganised the United States Department of War and also established the United States Army General Staff to coordinate and perform administrative, planning and intelligence functions. The Second Division of the United States Army General Staff consequently acquired the MID from the Adjutant General's Office. The Second Division was given four major duties: collecting and disseminating information on foreign countries; directing the work of the attaché system; supervising mapping, and maintaining a reference collection. "For the moment, the intelligence function had achieved equal standing with other staff missions."

See also
Cuban Pacification
United States Army Military Intelligence Corps
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
Office of Naval Intelligence
Military Intelligence Division (United States Army)
G-2 (intelligence)

References

Further reading
 Government, Intelligence in the Civil War. Washington, D.C., Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.

 Records of the Military Intelligence Division
 Army Lineage Series: Military Intelligence

Military units and formations established in 1885
Defunct United States intelligence agencies
Military intelligence agencies


The NIST RBAC model is a standardized definition of role-based access control.  Although originally developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the standard was adopted and is copyrighted and distributed as INCITS 359-2004 by the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS).
The latest version is INCITS 359-2012.
It is managed by INCITS committee CS1.

History
In 2000, NIST called for a unified standard for RBAC, integrating the RBAC model published in 1992 by Ferraiolo and Kuhn  with the RBAC framework introduced by Sandhu, Coyne, Feinstein, and Youman (1996).  This proposal was published by Sandhu, Ferraiolo, and Kuhn
and presented at the ACM 5th Workshop on Role Based Access Control. Following debate and comment within the RBAC and security communities, NIST made revisions and proposed a U.S. national standard for RBAC through the INCITS.  In 2004, the standard received ballot approval and was adopted as INCITS 359-2004.  Sandhu, Ferraiolo, and Kuhn later published an explanation of the design choices in the model.
In 2010, NIST announced a revision to RBAC, incorporating features of attribute-based access control (ABAC).

See also
 Role-based access control

References

External links
 NIST RBAC web site
 INCITS web site

Computer access control
Computer security models
Data security
Firewall software
Packets (information technology)


The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (or VORTEX) are field experiments that study tornadoes. VORTEX1 was the first time scientists completely researched the entire evolution of a tornado with an array of instrumentation, enabling a greater understanding of the processes involved with tornadogenesis. A violent tornado near Union City, Oklahoma was documented in its entirety by chasers of the Tornado Intercept Project (TIP) in 1973. Their visual observations led to advancement in understanding of tornado structure and life cycles.

VORTEX2 used enhanced technology that allowed scientists to improve forecasting capabilities and improve lead time on advanced warnings to residents. VORTEX2 sought to reveal how tornadoes form, how long they last and why they last that long, and what causes them to dissipate.

VORTEX1 and VORTEX2 was based on the use of large fleets of instrumented vehicles that ran on land, as well as aircraft and mobile radars. Important work on developing and coordinating mobile mesonets came from these field projects. Analysis of data collected in subsequent years led to significant advancement in understanding of supercell and tornado morphology and dynamics. The field research phase of the VORTEX2 project concluded on July 6, 2010.

VORTEX1

The VORTEX1 project sought to understand how a tornado is produced by deploying tornado experts in around 18 vehicles that were equipped with customized instruments used to measure and analyze the weather around a tornado. As noted aircraft and radar resources were also deployed for such measurements. The project directors were also interested in why some supercells, or mesocyclones within such storms, produce tornadoes while others do not. It also sought to determine why some supercells form violent tornadoes versus weak tornadoes.

The original project took place in 1994 and 1995. Several smaller studies, such as SUB-VORTEX and VORTEX-99, were conducted from 1996 to 2008. VORTEX1 documented the entire life cycle of a tornado, for the first time measuring it by significant instrumentation for the entire event. . Severe weather warnings improved after the research collected from VORTEX1, and many believe that VORTEX1 contributed to this improvement.
“An important finding from the original VORTEX experiment was that the factors responsible for causing tornadoes happen on smaller time and space scales than scientists had thought. New advances will allow for a more detailed sampling of a storm's wind, temperature, and moisture environment, and lead to a better understanding of why tornadoes form –-and how they can be more accurately predicted,” said Stephan Nelson, NSF program director for physical and dynamic meteorology.

VORTEX had the capability to fly Doppler weather radar above the tornado approximately every five minutes.

VORTEX research helped the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide tornado warnings to residents with a lead time of 13 minutes. A federal research meteorologist, Don Burgess, estimates that the "false alarms" pertaining to severe weather by the National Weather Service have declined by 10 percent.

The movie Twister was at least partially inspired by the VORTEX project.

VORTEX2
VORTEX2 was an expanded second VORTEX project, with field phases from 10 May until 13 June 2009 and 1 May until 15 June 2010. VORTEX2's goals were studying why some thunderstorms produce tornadoes while others do not, and learning about tornado structure, in order to make more accurate tornado forecasts and warnings with longer lead time. VORTEX2 was by far the largest and most ambitious tornado study ever with over 100 scientific participants from many different universities and research laboratories.

"We still do not completely understand the processes that lead to tornado formation and shape its development. We hope that VORTEX2 will provide the data we need to learn more about the development of tornadoes and in time help forecasters give people more advance warning before a tornado strikes," said Roger Wakimoto, director of the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a principal investigator for VORTEX2.

"Then you can get first responders to be better prepared—police, fire, medical personnel, even power companies. Now, that's not even remotely possible," said Stephan P. Nelson, a program director in the atmospheric sciences division of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Joshua Wurman, president of the Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) in Boulder, Colorado proposes, "if we can increase that lead time from 13 minutes to half an hour, then the average person at home could do something different. Maybe they can seek a community shelter instead of just going into their bathtub. Maybe they can get their family to better safety if we can give them a longer warning and a more precise warning."

VORTEX2 deployed 50 vehicles customized with mobile radar, including the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) radars, SMART radars, the NOXP radar, a fleet of instrumented vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), deployable instrument arrays called Sticknet and Podnet, and mobile weather balloon launching equipment. More than 100 scientists and crew researched tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms in the "Tornado Alley" region of the United States' Great Plains between Texas and Minnesota. A number of institutions and countries were involved in the US$11.9 million project, including: the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) therein, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Environment Canada, and universities across the United States and elsewhere.

The project included DOW3, DOW6, DOW7, Rapid-Scan DOW, SMART-RADARs, NOXP, UMASS-X, UMASS-W, CIRPAS and TIV 2 for their mobile radar contingent. The Doppler on Wheels were supplied by the Center for Severe Weather Research, and the SMART-Radars from the University of Oklahoma (OU). The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) supplied the NOXP radar, as well as several other radar units from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Texas Tech University (TTU). NSSL and CSWR supplied mobile mesonet fleets. Mobile radiosonde launching vehicles were provided by NSSL, NCAR, and the State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego). There were quite a few other deployable state-of-the-art instrumentation, such as Sticknets from TTU, tornado PODS from CSWR, and four disdrometers from University of Colorado CU, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

VORTEX2 technology allowed trucks with radar to be placed in and near tornadic storms and allowed continuous observations of the tornadic activity. Howard Bluestein, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma said, "We will be able to distinguish between rain, hail, dust, debris, flying cows."

Additionally, photogrammetry teams, damage survey teams, unmanned aircraft, and weather balloon launching vans helped to surround the tornadoes and thunderstorms. The equipment amassed enabled three-dimensional data sets of the storms to be collected with radars and other instruments every 75 seconds (more frequently for some individual instruments), and resolution of the tornado and tornadic storm cells as close as .

Scientists met May 10 and held a class to teach the crews how to launch the tornado pods, which would have to be released within 45 seconds of notification. VORTEX2 was equipped with 12 tornado PODS, instruments mounted onto  towers that measure wind velocity (i.e. speed and direction). The aim was that some of the measurements would be taken in the center of the tornado. Once the pods are deployed, the teams repeat the process at the next location until finally the teams return to the south of the tornado to retrieve the pods with the recorded data. The process is repeated. This takes place within , or 4 minutes away from the tornado itself.

The team had 24  high portable Sticknets, which can be set up at various locations around tornado storm cells to measure wind fields, provide atmospheric readings, and record acoustically the hail and precipitation.

Scientists are still seeking to refine understanding of which supercell thunderstorms that form mesocyclones will eventually produce tornadoes, and by which processes, storm-scale interactions, and within which atmospheric environments.

Updates on the progress of the project were posted on the VORTEX2 home page. The scientists also started a blog of live reports.

"Even though this field phase seems to be the most spectacular and seems like it's a lot of work, by far the majority of what we're doing is when we go back to our labs, when we work with each other, when we work with our students to try to figure out just what is it that we've collected," Wurman said. "It's going to take years to digest this data and to really get the benefit of this."Penn State University featured the public release of the initial scientific findings in the fall.

The forecasters were determining the best probability of sighting a tornado. As the trucks traveled to Clinton, Oklahoma from Childress, Texas, they found mammatus clouds, and lightning at sundown on May 13, 2009.

The project encountered its first tornado on the afternoon of June 5 when they successfully intercepted a tornado in southern Goshen County, Wyoming, which lasted for approximately 25 minutes. One of their vehicles, Probe 1, suffered hail damage during the intercept. Later that evening, embedded Weather Channel (TWC) reporter Mike Bettes reported that elements of VORTEX2 had intercepted a second tornado in Nebraska. Placement of the armada for this tornado was nearly ideal. It was surrounded for its entire life cycle, making it the most thoroughly observed tornado in history.

Partial list of scientists and crew

The complete team comprises about 50 scientists and is supplemented by students. A complete listing of principal investigators (PIs) is at http://vortex2.org/. An alphabetical partial listing of VORTEX2 scientists and crew:

 Nolan Atkins, Scientific PI, Professor Lyndon State College.
 Michael Biggerstaff, Scientific PI, Professor, University of Oklahoma, expertise is in polarimetric radars, mobile radars, cloud physics and electrification, tropical cyclones (hurricanes), severe local storms, and storm dynamics. He is the Director of the SMART radar program at OU.
 Howard Bluestein, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Professor University of Oklahoma specializes in violent weather phenomena and provides expertise with Doppler weather radar. He is a professor in meteorology.
 Donald W. Burgess, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Scientist at CIMMS.
 David Dowell, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
 Jeffrey Frame, Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expert in severe convection.
 Katja Friedrich, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, University of Colorado.
 Karen Kosiba, Scientific PI, is a senior research meteorologist at the Center for Severe Weather Research.
 Timothy P. Marshall, P.E. is a damage analyst with a background in civil/structural engineering and meteorology.
 Paul Markowski, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, associate professor in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in severe storm dynamics.
 Matthew Parker, Scientific PI, Mobile Soundings Coordinator, Associate Professor of meteorology at North Carolina State University. Specializes in the dynamics of convective storms, including tornadic supercells and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs).
 Erik N. Rasmussen, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, VORTEX2 co-PI, Atmospheric Scientist and VORTEX1 field director, Rasmussen Systems.
 Yvette Richardson, Steering Committee, Scientific PI, associate professor in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, specializes in severe storm dynamics.
 Glen Romine, Scientific PI, Project Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
 Paul Robinson is a senior research meteorologist at the Center for Severe Weather Research.
 Roger Wakimoto, Scientific PI, Director National Center for Atmospheric Research.
 Chris Weiss, Scientific PI, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University.
 Louis Wicker is a research scientist with a specialty in modeling of severe storm dynamics. He was also a co-team leader in VORTEX1. National Severe Storms Laboratory.
 Joshua Wurman Steering Committee, Scientific PI, VORTEX2 PI, president at the Center for Severe Weather Research with a specialty in mobile Doppler weather radar, invented and leads the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) program.

Smaller projects
Other smaller field projects include the previously mentioned SUB-VORTEX (1997–98) and VORTEX-99 (1999), and VORTEX-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) (2016-2019).

See also
 TOtable Tornado Observatory (TOTO)
 TWISTEX

References

External links

  – Scientific Program and Experimental Design overviews
 NSF press release for VORTEX2
 Information on the VORTEX1 project
 VORTEX-99
 NSSL VORTEX2 profile
 Earth Observing Lab project profile (NCAR)
 VORTEX1 by David O. Blanchard
 Tornado Alley, a documentary featuring VORTEX2 researchers

Severe weather and convection
Meteorology research and field projects
Tornado
Tornadogenesis
Storm chasing


Vaidehi or Vaidehi – Ek Aur Agni Pareeksha is an Indian Hindi-language television series that aired on Sony Entertainment Television. The show premiered on 5 June 2006. It was produced by Aruna Irani.

Plot

The story revolves around Vaidehi, a sweet 21-year-old middle-class girl, who dreams of marrying her Prince Charming and having a supportive family. Being born in a poor family made Vaidehi believe that her dream may never come true. However, Vaidehi's parents receive a marriage proposal for her from one of the richest families in the town — the Jaisinghs.

Vaidehi's family finds it hard to believe that the Jaisinghs want Vaidehi to marry their son Aryavardhan. Vaidehi is also sceptical and wonders about the reason behind this proposal and refuses the offer. After major pressure from her parents, Vaidehi marries Aryavardhan. A few days after her marriage, Vaidehi feels trapped in the relationship, and her life comes to a standstill. The question remains — what is the secret that lurks in the corridors of the Jaisingh mansion and what will happen when the truth is finally unveiled?

Cast
 Pallavi Kulkarni as Vaidehi Aryavardhan Jaisingh, a spirited 21-year-old young woman.
 Sachin Sharma as Aryavardhan "Aryan" Jaisingh, Vaidehi's sophisticated yet possessive husband.
 Manav Gohil as Neel Agnihotri, Aryan's adopted brother, who falls in love with Vaidehi and eventually becomes her protector.
 Kiran Kumar as Harshvardhan "Harsh" Jaisingh, Aryan's father, the richest man in town.
 Aruna Irani as Sitadevi "Sita" Harshvardhan Jaisingh, Harsh's wife whom he's married since 35 years, who shares a motherly bond with Vaidehi.
 Vineet Raina as Yashvardhan "Yash" Jaisingh, Aryan's younger brother.
 Gulrez Khan as Maithili Yashvardhan Jaisingh, Yash's wife.
 Ashlesha Sawant as Bhumija Jaisingh / Bhumija Siddharth Singhania, Aryan's younger sister and Siddharth's wife.
 Sushmita Daan as Arundhati, a journalist whose only purpose is to unmask the Jaisingh family.
 Neetha Shetty as Natasha Jaisingh, Aryan's younger sister.
 Snigdha Akolkar as Janki Aryavardhan Jaisingh, Aryan's first wife, who faked her death to escape from him and the torture inflicted upon her by Aryan.
 Vishal Watwani as Sameer, Janki's second husband and Yuvika's father.
 Vivan Bhatena as Inspector Akash Jaisingh, Aryan's youngest brother.
 Sachin Shroff as Siddharth Singhania, Bhumija's husband.
 Namrata Thapa as Maithili Yashvardhan Jaisingh, Yash's wife.
 Siddharth Dhawan as Karan, Bhumija's ex-boyfriend.
 Amrapali Gupta as Varsha, Vaidehi's younger sister
 Sonia Singh as Anita, Vaidehi's friend and Yashvardhan's girlfriend
 Adita Wahi as Tara
 Baby Barbie as Yuvika, Sameer and Janki's daughter; Aryan's adopted daughter.
 Lira Williams as Priya
 Adi Irani
 Dinesh Kaushik
 Kulbir Baderson
 Rushita Singh
 Nasir Sheikh as Mr. Singhania

Reception
Rediff.com stated the plot as interesting which makes viewers hooked to the series.

References

External links
 Vaidehi Official Site

2006 Indian television series debuts
2006 Indian television series endings
Indian drama television series
Indian television soap operas
Sony Entertainment Television original programming


The Mechanicville Bridge (also known as the Hemstreet Park Bridge) carries New York State Route 67 across the Hudson River in New York connecting Mechanicville with Hemstreet Park in the Town of Schaghticoke. The bridge was built in 1950 as a replacement for a structure privately built as a toll bridge in 1888, and is referred to by some as the Champlain Canal Bridge.

See also
List of fixed crossings of the Hudson River

References

External links

Bridges over the Hudson River
Road bridges in New York (state)
Former toll bridges in New York (state)


White Light Riot was an American indie rock group based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Members included brothers Mike Schwandt (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Mark Schwandt (drums), Dan Larsen (bass), Randy Tomes (keyboards) and Zack Caroll (guitar). White Light Riot is sometimes abbreviated as WLR.

History
In early 2005, brothers Mike and Mark Schwandt formed the band. During their junior year in high school at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, Mike was studying abroad in England and Mark took on the task of finding additional band members.  He recruited Dan Larsen, a bassist in their jazz band and invited another classmate, guitarist Joe Christenson to join the ensemble.

White Light Riot was formerly named ‘The Evening Glow’ but changed their name almost immediately.

Early Years
In late 2005, White Light Riot released their first EP “The Dark Is Light Enough”, produced by Erik Appelwick (Tapes 'n Tapes) on October 30, 2005. In early 2010, "Bitter Beginning" and "Out of Sight" were featured in the Destineer Games title Triple Crown Snowboarding for Nintendo Wii.

Atomism
In 2006, the band signed with 50 Records, a Minneapolis-based independent record label.  “Atomism,"  the sole album they released on 50 Records, was recorded at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN; produced/co-engineered by Brent Sigmeth (Grant Hart, They Might Be Giants, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott), co-engineered by Paul Marino (The New Congress, Desdemona) and mastered by Bob Ludwig.  It was released  nationally on August 21, 2007 by  RED Distribution.  The CD release party was held on June 23, 2007 at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis, MN.

In 2007, they were hired for a benefit show that raised $15,000.

In 2009 lead singer Mike Schwandt posted on the band's Myspace and Facebook Pages that they ended their contract with 50 Records. Schwandt explains we "finally broke free from their grasp.". Around this time, guitarist Joe Christenson left the group and was replaced by Zack Carroll, who previously played with This World Fair and Catchpenny.

In January 2010, the song "Forever in the West" was featured on the season finale of the VH1 program Secrets of Aspen.

In 2012 they did a reunion show in Minneapolis.

Self-Titled LP
After parting ways with their record label, the band spent 2010 recording their self-titled follow-up album with Paul Marino at Urness Hall at St. Olaf College, Fuzzy Slippers Studio, and The Terrarium. The album was released on May 2, 2011.

Discography

Albums

External links
 WLR's Official Website
 WLR's Official MySpace
 WLR's Facebook Page
 WLR's official YouTube channel

References

Indie rock musical groups from Minnesota
Musical groups from the Twin Cities
Musical groups established in 2005