Quantum Theory (クウォンタム セオリー, Kuu~ontamu seorī) is a third-person shooter video game developed by Team Tachyon and published by Tecmo Koei for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released in September 2010.

The game centers on two characters named Syd and Filena who must fight through a "living tower". The game features a cover system that constantly adds and removes cover.

Gameplay
The game is a third-person shooter incorporating a cover system. Players can fire their weapon from the hip, aim down the weapon sight for precision, or blindfire from cover. Enemies explode upon death and a successful headshot is rewarded by a slow motion close up view of the head exploding. Syd can throw Filena as a projectile weapon. Syd can use his guns as melee weapons. Syd's initial melee attack can also result in a follow-up attack by Filena. Some levels feature environments that can change dynamically, including moving platforms that Syd must hang on to or jump off. Bosses make appearances throughout the campaign, requiring the player to identify and target their weak points.

Plot

Setting
Set in an organic sci-fi world, years have passed since a world war left the world in a catastrophic state, leaving only a few survivors. In a new community "Cocoon", life has been threatened by a black material called Erosion, creating a post-apocalyptic environment. Surviving humans form a militia to conquer the Erosion and set out to take down the "Living Tower". The main character, Syd, intends to destroy the Tower. He meets Filena along the way, as they both ascend to the top in their search for answers. The tower is constantly eroding, and intensifies as the game progresses.

Story
Most of the story takes place within the tower, beginning with Syd and a woman named Nyx trying to escape the tower as it begins to fall apart.  As they continue to fight their way out, Nyx suddenly collapses, dying. Syd reveals that because she is part of the tower, she will die with it. Syd leaves Nyx behind telling her to "die well". Syd then escapes the tower through unknown means. The story then flashes forward to where Syd and other soldiers fight through destroyed city streets against the Diablosis as they make their way into the "living tower". A poisonous growth called "the erosion" lives there, and their mission is to destroy the tower along with the erosion. The entire squad Syd is with is wiped out but he manages to enter the tower.

Syd meets Filena for the first time when he sees her fighting the Nosferatu and comes to her aid. After dispatching the enemy the two engage in a Mexican stand-off, after which they go their separate ways in the tower. Filena and Syd meet again later on and reveal to each other their opposing quests: Syd is out to destroy the tower while Filena wants to save it from the erosion.  The two battle to a stalemate as their fight is interrupted by the Diablosis, whom they must fight together in order to survive.  The two agree to join forces for the time being.  Filena tells Syd that her father created the tower, while throughout the story a voice speaks through the loud speaker in the tower, providing context.

Later in the game flashback levels show Syd as a rookie, donning a mask which is broken in a later flashback, resulting in the x-shaped scar on Syd's forehead. During this time he was part of a squad of exiled Gilskins, the leader carrying the Revenant weapon Syd now uses. The entire squad is wiped out during a battle with Diablosis, only Syd survives, now using the leader's Revenant.

Syd and Filena belong to warring factions, the Gilskins and the Nosferatu, respectively. Syd and Filena join together, but split up later on. Syd and Filena meet up again, and Filena discovers that she is not human, but the prototype of a new breed of humanoids that her father had engineered. She is also the missing component that would empower the Diablosis as they merge with the erosion.  Syd and Filena battle the main Diablosis, but the Diablosis eventually absorbs Filena. Syd kills it and frees Filena.

Filena and Syd make their way up to the top floor of the tower before confronting the brain of the tower, which instructs Filena to kill Syd. Filena points her weapon at Syd only to change her mind at the last second and open fire on the brain. This causes the entire tower to be destroyed. After the credits both Syd and Filena are seen going towards another tower.

Reception

Quantum Theory received mostly negative reviews, with a Metacritic aggregate score of 37/100 for the Xbox 360 version and 43/100 for the PlayStation 3 version.

References

External links

2010 video games
PlayStation 3 games
Science fiction video games
Tecmo games
Third-person shooters
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring non-playable protagonists
Xbox 360 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games


Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pictou, named for Pictou, Nova Scotia:

  was a 14-gun privateer or letter of marque that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. The  captured and burnt her off Barbados in February 1814.
  was a 14-gun schooner, previously the American privateer Zebra, which  captured on 20 April 1813. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1814 and sold her in 1818.

See also

References

Royal Navy ship names


The frill-necked monarch (Arses lorealis) is a species of songbird in the family Monarchidae. It is endemic to the rainforests of the northern Cape York Peninsula in Australia.

Taxonomy and systematics
The frill-necked monarch was first described in 1895 by English ornithologist and ex-clergyman Charles Walter De Vis, from a specimen collected by Kendall Broadbent that year. However, undescribed specimens had existed in the Macleay Museum in Sydney and the National Museum in Melbourne for twenty years beforehand. The first eggs were collected by H. G. Barnard the following year in Somerset, Cape York.

The frill-necked monarch is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers. This group is considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family  Dicruridae, or as a family Monarchidae in its own right. Molecular research in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed the monarchs belong to a large group of mainly Australasian birds known as the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines. More recently, the grouping has been refined somewhat as the monarchs have been classified in a 'Core corvine' group with the crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders.

Alternative common names include the frilled-necked monarch and frill-necked flycatcher.

Some authorities consider the frill-necked monarch as a subspecies of the frilled monarch.

Description
The frill-necked monarch measures around 14 cm (5.5 in) in length, and the neck feathers can become erect into a small frill; the male is predominantly black and white, and can be distinguished from the similar and more common pied monarch by its all-white breast-the latter species having a broad black breast band. The throat, nape, shoulders, and rump are white while the wings and head are black. It has an eye-ring of bare skin, and a bright blue wattle. The bill is pale blue-grey and the eyes are dark. The female is similar but has white lores and chin.

Distribution and habitat
The range is from the top of Australia's Cape York Peninsula southwest to Weipa, and southeast as far as the Iron Range and Coen. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and tropical moist montane forests.

Breeding
Breeding season is November to February with one brood raised. The nest is a shallow cup made of vines and sticks, woven together with spider webs and shredded plant material, and decorated with lichen. It is generally sited on a hanging loop of vine well away from the trunk or foliage of a sizeable tree about  above the ground. Two pink-tinged oval white eggs splotched with lavender and reddish-brown are laid measuring 19 mm x 14 mm.

References

frill-necked monarch
Birds of Cape York Peninsula
frill-necked monarch


The 1929–30 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 21st season. The team placed second in the Canadian Division and qualified for the playoffs. The team won three series to win the Stanley Cup, for the third time in team history, and the second time in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Regular season
To combat low scoring, a major rule change was implemented. Players were now allowed forward passing in the offensive zone, instead of only in the defensive and neutral zones. This led to abuse: players sat in front of the opposing net waiting for a pass. The rule was changed again mid-season in December 1929, and players were no longer allowed to enter the offensive zone before the puck. Hence the birth of the modern-day offside rule. The Canadiens doubled their scoring output compared to the previous season.

Highlights
On December 14, 1929, Alfred Lepine scored four goals and added one assist in the second period of a game versus Ottawa, won 6–4 by Montreal. As of 2009, this feat is still the Canadiens' record for goals and points in one period.

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs
The Canadiens, by placing second had to play in the first round series versus the Chicago Black Hawks. The Canadiens won the two-game total-goals series 3–2. Next, were the New York Rangers who had defeated the Ottawa Senators in their first round series. The Canadiens swept the Rangers two games to none in a best-of-three series. The teams played 68 minutes and 52 seconds of overtime in the first game before Gus Rivers scored to win the game for the Canadiens.

Finals

The Canadiens advanced to the final against the Boston Bruins. The Bruins were heavily favoured, after winning all meetings with the Canadiens during the regular season. However, it meant little as the Canadiens swept the Bruins in two straight (3–0, 4–3) to win the Stanley Cup.

Player statistics

Regular season
Scoring

Goaltending

† Worters was loaned from the New York Americans for one game on February 27, 1930, vs. Toronto.

Playoffs
Scoring

Goaltending

Transactions

See also
1929–30 NHL season

References

Montreal Canadiens seasons
Montreal
Montreal


Bridgeport, Oregon may refer to:
 Bridgeport, Baker County, Oregon
 Bridgeport, Polk County, Oregon


Minuscule 639 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering, α 169 Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. It is dated palaeographically to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labeled by 192a and 246p.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 237 parchment leaves (20.5 by 15.5 cm) with some lacunae (Acts 21:6-23; 1 Peter 5:10-14). Some leaves were supplied on paper by a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 22-24 lines per page in minuscule letters. The last folio, no. 237, is a palimpsest, the lower text was written in uncial letters, and belongs to the codex 0132.

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the  to the Catholic epistles, numbers of the  (chapters), lectionary markings at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each book, and numbers of . Some lacking leaves were supplied in the 14th century on a paper, by one Micheal (Acts 1:1-3:20; 7:27-10:26; 10:38-11:19; 12:2-15:25).

The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

The manuscript was described by Kitchin. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Formerly it was labeled by 192a and 246p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 639 to it.

The codex now is located in Christ Church College (Wake 37) at Oxford.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Textual criticism
 Biblical manuscript
 Minuscule 638

References

Greek New Testament minuscules
11th-century biblical manuscripts
Palimpsests


2009 Faroe Islands Premier League, also known as Vodafonedeildin for sponsoring reasons, was the sixty-seventh season of top-tier football on the Faroe Islands. It began on 4 April 2009 and ended on 3 October 2009. EB/Streymur were the defending champions. The league was won by HB Tórshavn.

Team changes from the previous season
B71 Sandoy and Skála ÍF were relegated to 1. deild after finishing 9th and 10th in the 2008 season. They were replaced by 1. deild champions 07 Vestur and runners-up AB Argir.

Overview

League table

Results
The schedule consisted of a total of 27 games. Each team played three games against every opponent in no particular order. At least one of the games was at home and one was away. The additional home game for every match-up was randomly assigned prior to the season.

Regular home games

Additional home games

Top goalscorers

Source: soccerandequipment.com

19 goals
 Finnur Justinussen (Víkingur Gøta)

17 goals
 Arnbjørn Hansen (EB/Streymur)

15 goals
 Ameth Keita (B68 Toftir)

14 goals
 Andrew av Fløtum (HB Tórshavn)
 Károly Potemkin (NSÍ Runavík)

12 goals
 Hjalgrím Elttør (KÍ Klaksvík (5) / NSÍ Runavík (7))

10 goals
 Fróði Benjaminsen (HB Tórshavn)
 Jens Erik Rasmussen (07 Vestur)

9 goals
 Christian Høgni Jacobsen (NSÍ Runavík)
 Bogi Løkin (NSÍ Runavík)
 Andy Olsen (ÍF Fuglafjørður)
 Rógvi Poulsen (HB Tórshavn)

See also
 2009 Faroe Islands Cup

External links
 Official website
 Faroe Islands soccer news, results and information

Faroe Islands Premier League seasons
1
Faroe
Faroe


Graham High School is a high school located in Graham, North Carolina.

About
Graham High School is a comprehensive, four-year high school serving the city of Graham. It is one of six traditional high schools in the Alamance-Burlington School System. Graham High School is accredited by The Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. Student enrollment in grades 9–12 is approximately 830. The mascot is the Red Devils. Joshua Brown is the principal and has served as principal since 2022. Kyle Ward is the athletic director.
Graham High School is located at 903 Trollinger Road. It opened its doors in the fall of 1968. The building was formerly known as Central High School from 1961 to 1968.

Notable alumni
 Jane Albright, former women's college basketball coach
 Jim Holt, former Major League Baseball player
 John Isley, radio host with comedic program The John Boy & Billy Big Show
 Jamie Newman, NFL player

References

External links
 Website

Public high schools in North Carolina
Schools in Alamance County, North Carolina


Bridgeport is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States.  Bridgeport is  southwest of Dallas and just west of Oregon Route 223.

References

Unincorporated communities in Polk County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon


The 69th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in southern Pennsylvania and has been represented by Carl Walker Metzgar since 2009.

District profile
The 69th District is located in Somerset County and includes the following areas:

Addison
Addison Township
 Allegheny Township
Benson
Berlin
 Black Township
Boswell
 Brothersvalley Township
 Callimont
 Casselman
Central City
Conemaugh Township
Confluence
Elk Lick Township
 Fairhope Township
Garrett
 Greenville Township
 Hooversville
 Indian Lake
 Jefferson Township
Jenner Township
Jennerstown
 Larimer Township
 Lincoln Township
Lower Turkeyfoot Township
Meyersdale
 Middlecreek Township
 Milford Township
 New Baltimore
 New Centerville
 Northampton Township
 Quemahoning Township
 Rockwood
Salisbury
 Seven Springs (Somerset County Portion)
 Shade Township
 Shanksville
 Somerset
 Somerset Township
 Southampton Township
 Stonycreek Township
 Stoystown
Summit Township
Upper Turkeyfoot Township
Ursina
 Wellersburg

Representatives

References

Government of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Government of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
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6 Cassiopeiae (6 Cas) is a white hypergiant in the constellation Cassiopeia, and a small-amplitude variable star.

System
6 Cassiopeiae A is a white A2.5 type hypergiant. It is about 25 times as massive as the Sun and 200,000 times as luminous.  The star is slightly and erratically variable, an Alpha Cygni variable.  Not all sources consider 6 Cas to be a hypergiant.  It is thought that the "+" in an early A3 Ia+ spectral classification referred to indications of additional spectral features from a possible companion rather than the more modern indication of a hypergiant luminosity class.  However, later publications have given more conventional hypergiant spectral types such as B9Ia+ and A3Ia+.

6 Cas A has a number of close companions, most notably an 8th magnitude O class bright giant at only . Its spectral type is O9.75 and its absolute magnitude is −5.8.  Both are considered to be members of the Cassiopeia OB5 stellar association at a distance of around 8,000 light-years, along with several other nearby stars.  Gaia parallaxes of the nearby stars suggest a mean distance to the association of about 9,000 light years.

Variability
6 Cas A is an α Cyg variable, pulsating erratically between 5.34 and 5.45.  The strongest period detected in one study was 37 days.  It has the variable star designation V566 Cassiopeiae.

References

External links
6 Cassiopeiae at Jim Kaler's Stars

A-type hypergiants
Cassiopeia (constellation)
Cassiopeiae, 06
9018
117447
117447
BD+61 2533
Cassiopeiae, V566
Alpha Cygni variables
Multiple stars
O-type bright giants


Henry Pierre Villierme (August 21, 1928 – March 13, 2013) was an American Californian painter associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme was considered one of the "Second Generation" members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme first rose to prominence with a series of successful exhibitions in the late 1950s. From the 1960s to the 1980s Villierme continued to paint and sculpt in his studio, and in the late 1980s returned to public exhibitions.

Biography

Henry Villierme was born in San Francisco in 1928. His father, Louis Justin Henri Faustin Villierme (Tahiti, 1904 – San Francisco, 1967), was member of a French family from Lorient, Brittany, which had settled in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and who later moved to San Francisco. After the premature death of his mother Emilia, he was, together with his two younger brothers, entrusted to an aunt to raise him in his father's French family in Tahiti, French Polynesia; he returned to the Bay Area for his higher education in 1939. Henry Villierme spoke French due his paternal family origin.

Villierme served in the United States Army in the Korean War, as a medic on the front line, and he was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States Army in 1951. Upon returning to the United States and discharge from the Army, he enrolled in the California College of Arts and Crafts under the G.I. Bill.

In Oakland, at the California College of Arts & Crafts, he met Barbara Albers in 1953, and they married in 1954. They raised four children, Frank, Julianne, Paul and Claudia. They moved to Southern California in the late fifties, where they stayed, living successively in Hermosa Beach, then in Ojai. Henry died on March 13, 2013.

Artwork

Villierme credited his initial interest in art to "working in a paint store and working out interior color schemes". He also credited his time in the Far East, where he was excited by the look of Japan, as well as "the concern for art values" that was part of the Japanese people's way of life."

At the California College of Arts and Crafts Villierme studied under David Park, Harry Krell, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn, the latter having commented on Henry Villierme's “instinctual understanding” of the art of painting.

Outside of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, one of Henry Villierme's early influences at CCAC was the Japanese American abstractionist and abstract calligrapher Saburo Hasegawa. Villierme graduated from CCAC with a Bachelor's Degree in Painting. Villierme also took several courses at the California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute), where his peers included Robert Downs, Manuel Neri, and Bruce McGaw.

Villierme's art showed promise early on. In August 1957 Villierme won Second Award at the Jack London Square Art Festival for his painting "Highway". In November, his painting "Lake View" took First Place at the 7th Annual Exhibition Oil and Sculpture at the Richmond Art Center, with honorable mentions going to Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, and David Park.

Villierme was invited to display in "The Next Direction", an exhibition sponsored by the Oakland Art Museum and which also featured works by McGaw, Park, Bischoff, and Diebenkorn. He later went on to win a prize aware at the Los Angeles County Museum 1958 Annual Exhibition – Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, for his piece "Landscape". Villierme's works were also featured in exhibitions at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Art.

Villierme's work is typically realistic, and his most frequent subjects are great rolling landscapes typical of California's Central Valley. He is also known for his portraits and still lifes, which are generally done on smaller, one-square-foot canvases. He worked from sketches he made on the spot, which he put aside for a month or more before he painted from them. His approach is often considered pointillist and cubist.  In 1992, Richard Diebenkorn said of Villierme, "(Villierme's) painting had, and still has, instinctual understanding of that universal human activity in which colors are applied to a surface."

In the late 1950s Henry Villierme and his wife left the Bay Area for Southern California to raise their family. Richard Diebenkorn later said, responding to Villierme's decision, "Of all the painting students at the California College of Arts and Crafts who might have abandoned his direction, Henry was one whose defection could hit me the hardest."

In the late 1980s Villierme began a comeback that culminated with the 2005 Bay Area Figurative 1950s and 1960s exhibit at the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, California.

Exhibitions

Jack London Square Art Festival. August 1957. Oakland, CA. "Highway" (Second Award).

California College of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco, CA.

7th Annual Exhibition Oil and Sculpture at the Richmond Art Center. November 1–30, 1957. Richmond, CA. "Lake View" (First Place).

Seventy Sixth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association. February 28 - March 31, 1957. San Francisco, CA. "House Tops"

The Next Direction. The Oakland Art Museum. June 8 – 30, 1957. Oakland, CA.

Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting Exhibition. The Oakland Art Museum. September 1957. Oakland, CA. "Highway Study".

Seventy-Seventh Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association. May 1958. San Francisco, CA. "Landscape" .

Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Paintings. Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, CA

1958 Annual Exhibition – Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity. Los Angeles County Museum. May 21 – June 29, 1958. Los Angeles, CA. "Landscape" (Prize Award)

Brookshire Square Invitational Art Exhibition. Downey Museum of Art, May, 1966. Donwey, CA.

Bay Area Figurative 1950s and 1960s. Bolinas Museum. April 29 – June 18, 2006. Bolinas, CA.

Galleries and Public Collections
 William A. Karges Fine Art
 Thomas Reynolds Gallery (California)

Notes

External links

 Henry Villierme (Official Site)
 AskArt: Henry Villierme

20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
1928 births
2013 deaths
20th-century American male artists


Luella Dayrell Bartley  (born 1974) is an English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist based in the UK.

Biography
A one-time journalist and fashion editor of British Vogue and Evening Standard newspaper, Bartley first attended the further education arts college, Warwickshire School of Arts, before gaining a place at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and launched her eponymous fashion label "Luella" in 1999 with a collection entitled "Daddy, I want a Pony" at a friend's (Steve Mackey – bassist from Pulp) apartment. Bartley is a former roommate of artists Justine Frischmann and Mathangi Arulpragasam (M.I.A.). A year after her first showcase, she was awarded Britain's Young Designer of the Year award. Her designs are influenced by the British music scene and have been acclaimed for her quirky, punk inspired, often distinctly English style. Her LFW debut in February 2000 was the show "Daddy, who were the Clash?"

In 2002, the "Gisele" bag she designed from the best selling "Luella for Mulberry" edition was an instant success and revived the ailing Mulberry brand. This, in turn led to Club21, the Singapore-based retail group, investing in a global licensing agreement for Luella Bartley ready-to-wear and accessories.

In January 2006, Bartley was selected to launch Target's Go International line.

She has showcased her work several times during London Fashion Week. She returned to London for Spring/Summer 2007, after six and a half years based in New York and previously Milan fashion weeks. During the same week she opened her first store, on London's Brook Street.

In 2008, she launched a limited edition bag collection "Friends of Luella" in Hong Kong. Later that year, the British Fashion Council named Luella 'Designer of the Year', having been nominated previously for two consecutive years.  Following on from this award, Luella was dubbed 'International Designer of the Year' by Elle Sweden in January 2009.

Wearers of her designs have included Kate Nash, Kelly Osbourne, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sienna Miller, Mischa Barton, Chloë Sevigny, Keira Knightley, Foxy Brown, Christina Aguilera, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Kate Bosworth, Alexa Chung, Pixie Geldof, Zooey Deschanel, and Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.

Bartley was announced to design the Liberty Christmas decor. Despite this, on 10 November 2009, it was reported that Luella had ceased trading.
Bartley works as a celebrated artist currently showing at the Kristin Hjellegjerdw gallery in London

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

Publications
Luella's Guide to English Style''' (2010)

References

Further reading
Luella's Guide to English Style  Fourth Estate, Harper Collins (Oct 2010)
Bartley, All dressaged up – Profiles, People – The Independent''
Designer Bio at Teen Vogue.com

External links

People from Stratford-upon-Avon
Living people
Alumni of Central Saint Martins
British Vogue
English fashion designers
British women fashion designers
English journalists
English magazine editors
Members of the Order of the British Empire
1974 births


Death by Chocolate is a dessert theme involving large amounts of chocolate.

Death by Chocolate may also refer to:

Death by Chocolate (album), a 2001 album by De Phazz
Death by Chocolate:The Last Word on a Consuming Passion, a 1992 dessert cookbook by Marcel Desaulniers
"Death By Chocolate", an episode of the TV series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
"Death By Chocolate", a short story from Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids, and its adaptation episode of the same name from Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids
Theobromine poisoning, also known as chocolate poisoning
Death by Chocolate, a band on Jetset Records
"Death by Chocolate", a song by Soccer Mommy from Collection
"Death by Chocolate", a song by Sia from Some People Have Real Problems


Lars (Laurentius, Lauritz, Lauriz) Andreas Oftedahl (19 May 1781 – 17 March 1843) was a Norwegian-Danish priest and a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll that wrote the Constitution of Norway on 17 May 1814.

Biography
Oftedahl was born in Copenhagen, his parents were Lars Larsen Oftedahl, later captain and arms manager, and Ellen Andersdatter (born Evetoft). He moved with his parents to Nyborg, and later to Christianssand, where he graduated as cand.theol. in 1801. From 1809 he was vicar at Rennesøy, Stavanger Amt. He became a renowned speaker, and was elected as one of three delegates from Stavanger Amt to the Eidsvoll Assembly in 1814, where he represented the unionist side. He was first deputy, representing the official class. Along with him from Stavanger Amt came merchant Christen Mølbach and farmer Asgaut Olsen Regelstad.

He served as a curate in Christianssand from 1817, and dean from 1825, and was vicar in Eker from 1831. He served as deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament for two terms. He was also engaged in social matters such as education and poor relief. He issued a catechism explanation in 1814, and a Latin grammar in 1923.

Claus Pavels' diaries
Oftedahl is mentioned twice in Claus Pavels' diaries. Pavels describes Oftedahl's University speech from 1813 as being "without doubt the most beautiful of them all".

The catechism explanation
Oftedahl's catechism explanation from 1814, Forklaring over Luthers Katekismus, consists of an introductory chapter with 27 questions on religion and moral, followed by five chapters (1. Om Troens Artikle, 2. Om Guds Lov eller de ti bud, 3. Om Bønnen, 4. Om Daabens Sakramente, and 5. Om Alterens Sakramente), containing 223 questions and answers.

References

1781 births
1843 deaths
Fathers of the Constitution of Norway
Rogaland politicians
Deputy members of the Storting
Norwegian priest-politicians
Danish emigrants to Norway


Elisabeth Subrin is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and visual artist. She is known for her interdisciplinary practice in the contemporary art and independent film worlds. She is a professor in Temple University's Department of Film and Media Arts. Her feature length narrative film A Woman, a Part; starring Maggie Siff, Cara Seymour, John Ortiz, and Khandi Alexander; premiered at The Rotterdam Film Festival in 2016. She is also the creator of the blog, Who Cares About Actresses, dedicated to actress Maria Schneider.

Biography
Subrin grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. In 2001 she received the Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Moving Image. In 2003 she was selected for the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Directing and Screenwriting Labs with her first feature screenplay, "Up". Her debut narrative feature film A Woman, A Part, premiered at The Rotterdam Film Festival in 2016.

Film and video work

Swallow (1995)
"Swallow" is an experimental video exploring early adolescence and eating disorders. Tina Wasserman wrote in The New Art Examiner (1996) that, "For Subrin, as the visual metaphor of silence or speechlessness---evidenced primarily by the repeated use of white-out on the body, text, and image---gains prominence in Swallow, it becomes clear that the fragility of female identity in post-feminist America appears, in part, as the failure of language itself."

Shulie (1997)
Subrin's best known work was inspired by her rediscovery of a little-seen documentary profiling Shulamith Firestone in her final year as a B.F.A. student at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The original 1967 film was part of a larger series made by four male graduate students at Northwestern University  and documents Firestone three years before she published The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution and became recognized as a key figure in the development of radical feminism. Filmed on Super-8 and transferred to video and back to 16mm, Subrin's piece is a shot-by-shot remake of the 1967 documentary with Kim Soss playing Firestone. On the occasion of her 2015 solo show at Lincoln Center's "Art of the Real" series, Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker about the film, praising its ingenuity of form.

Kate Haug wrote in a review of the film, "Given the late ‘80s art world trends of appropriation and the ever-growing experience of simulacrum, it is not so shocking that an innovative filmmaker would take on celluloid cloning" and continued to state that "by creating a replica film of the ‘60s she [Subrin] harnesses the remake's amorphous quality of time to deftly address contemporary politics." This film forces its viewers to reconnect to and become re-aware of the historical context – the individual and radical origins of U.S. feminism's Second Wave and how that course of events was subsumed and re-defined by the ensuing conservative political culture of the ‘80s. Haug continues, "The temporal gap between 1967 and 1997 grants the audience a chance to re-think the future of feminism. By not completing or adding to Firestone's biography, Subrin intentionally leaves the history of feminism incomplete – instead of following Firestone as she matures, Shulie (1967 and 1997) stops before feminism takes off."

B. Ruby Rich, author of the book Chick Flicks noted, "She has created a document within a document that makes us remember what we didn’t know, [and] makes us realize all over again how much we’ve lost."

The Fancy (2000)
The Fancy, is an experimental biography exploring the life, death, and legacy of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, who committed suicide at age 22. The film explores the young artist's lasting legacy by meditating on her absence. A.O.Scott, "Video Art in a World on Tape," The New York Times.

The Caretakers (2006)
A commission for The MacDowell Colony's Centennial Celebration, "The Caretakers" traces the unraveling of a writer as she begins a residency at the artist colony, haunted by the aura of former artists who worked there.
Featuring Cara Seymour (Adaptation, Dancer in the Dark, American Psycho), with an original score by video/performance artist Wynne Greenwood (Tracy and the Plastics).

Sweet Ruin (2008)
"Sweet Ruin" is an experimental adaptation starring Gaby Hoffmann of Michelangelo Antonioni's script, Technically Sweet, written in the late '60s, but never produced. Set in the Amazon and Sardinia, Technically Sweet was to star Jack Nicholson as T., a disillusioned journalist obsessed with guns, and Maria Schneider as "The Girl."

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands (2010)
A split screen projection created in response to the after-effects of the 9/11 attacks. Shot on 16mm, the footage documents memorials set up around Subrin's neighborhood immediately following the attacks, and revisits the same locations eight years later. Nick Stillman, Artforum 2010. Following the installation, Subrin was featured on The New York Times homepage in an interview about the work.

A Woman, a Part (2016)
A full-length feature film, written and directed by Subrin, starring Maggie Siff, Cara Seymour, and John Ortiz.

Lectures and academic career

Subrin has taught at Harvard University, Yale University School of Art, Cooper Union, Amherst College, Bennington College, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

She has led panel discussions with feminist icons such as filmmaker, Agnès Varda, legal scholar and activist, Anita Hill and fellow feminist artists such as K8 Hardy and Johanna Fateman.

Other work

Subrin has worked in collaboration with many artists and producers, such as on Crisis in Woodlawn (1994). Other projects include The Judy Spots (1995) five television spots produced with Sadie Benning for MTV, and The File Room (1994), an interactive electronic archives produced by Antonio Muntadas. In 2002 she directed the music video well, well, well for New York-based feminist electronic band Le Tigre and worked as a creative consultant and videographer for the historical documentary Slumming It: Myth and Culture on the Bowery (2002), directed by Scott Elliott.

She is an associate producer on David Shapiro's 2015 documentary "Missing People," and the creator and editor of the feminist blog, "Who Cares About Actresses".

Notes

References
Haug, Kate (Nov/Dec, 1998). "Shulie. – Review – video recording reviews", Afterimage.
Creative Capital (2001): Project Page | UP - Essay "Elisabeth Subrin: Up" (essay), Creative Capital.
Firestone, Shulamith (1970). "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution", New York: William Morrow and Co.
Rich, B. Ruby (1998). Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Armour, Nicole (Nov/Dec 2000). "Disappearing Acts", Film Comment 36:6.
Jensen, Jytte (Winter, 2006). "The Colony Gets Its Close-Up", MacDowell, Vol.35, No.2: p. 5.
Freeman, Elizabeth (2000). "Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations", New Literary History 31:727-744.
Liehm, Mira (1986). "Passion and Defiance: Italian Film from 1942 to the Present", University of California Press: 230.

External links
 Shulie: Film and Stills by Elisabeth Subrin

Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni
Harvard University faculty
Amherst College faculty
Living people
Artists from Brooklyn
American women video artists
American video artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women


The Newcastle Wildcats are a university ice hockey team representing Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. NUIHC are a member club of the British Universities Ice Hockey Association (BUIHA) and ice three teams across all three tiers of UK university competition.

The club is notable for now being the 3rd oldest amongst modern British university ice hockey programmes (having been founded in 1994) and for the fact that it was the first to introduce mixed gender participation into a full-contact university sport.

The Wildcats operate a successful beginners' training programme to develop new players. Partially as a result of this, Newcastle University was the most represented institution in terms of player registration within the BUIHA for three seasons with the Wildcats preferring to ice teams consisting almost totally of Newcastle students and mostly shunning the popular practice of pooling players from the maximum possible number of institutions. Since their inception, the Wildcats have mainly been based at Whitley Bay Ice Rink, alongside the semi-professional Whitley Warriors, rivals Northumbria Flames and, at one time, the Newcastle Vipers of the Elite Ice Hockey League. Both Newcastle University and Northumbria Clubs often played at the Metro Radio Arena during hockey evenings hosted by the Vipers, indeed the Vipers included the game between the two University teams as part of their 'farewell evening' when they left the city centre rink.

History

The Wildcats have a storied history, claiming the first two university National Championships in 2001 and 2002. They have been less successful, however, in the BUIHA era of British university hockey. After winning the Division Two (North) title in 2004, a long trophy drought was ended by a rampant first team, who won the Division One (North) title for the 2009/10 season and advanced to the national playoff finals. In 2013 the Club's C-Team won the BUIHA Tier IV Nationals - a remarkable achievement as the squad had struggled throughout the year in the Cup competition.

The Newcastle Wildcats were officially formed in 1994 by Ian Pitcher, having existed as a loose collection of Newcastle University students in previous years. One of the original coaches & players for the team was ex NHL Pittsburgh Penguins and Whitley Warriors stalwart Mike Rowe - who was studying for a postgraduate degree at the time. The newly created Wildcats would play out of Whitley Bay Ice Rink, situated on the coast just outside the city centre and represented the city of Newcastle upon Tyne as a whole by pooling players from both Newcastle University and the newly incorporated Northumbria University. This collaboration was the reason for the choice of the neutral Wildcats name, as opposed to Royals, which is the traditional nickname used by Newcastle University's sports teams. Throughout their early existence, the club iced only one team almost exclusively in challenge games against recreational ice hockey sides in the North East, rather than other higher education institutions.

This partnership lasted until 2001, when Northumbria University students formed a new side to call their own, the Flames. This was the same year of the first national championships contested by British university sides, which was won by the Wildcats in their final appearance as a dual-university club. The success of this inaugural university tournament led to its repeat the following year, and it was again claimed by now single-institution Wildcats. With the National Championships a huge success and a growing number of institutions expressing interest in entering teams into competition, the Wildcats became a founding member of the British Universities Ice Hockey Association (BUIHA) upon its formation the following year in 2003.

With the creation of the BUIHA and, with it, properly organised divisions and regular competition against other universities (not least local rivals Northumbria Flames) the level of interest swelled and the Wildcats launched a new team, under the guidance of Andrew Miller, and whilst not held in the same regard as the club founder, Uncle Ian, Andrew Miller's name is known by all club members and is etched into history.  Especially when he founded the 'B' team, in 2004 to ice in the new third tier of university competition. The first team exceeded expectations this academic year of competition, claiming the top spot in Division Two's northern section to take the number of trophies lifted by the Wildcats to three in four years.

Two years later, another groundswell of interest in university ice hockey - particularly from students with little previous experience - led the club to set up a beginners' training programme and enter a development team, named the 'C' team, into the new third tier of BUIHA competition. With the aim of training and developing new players, the club continues to produce players who are able to compete at intermediate level competition with the 'B' team as little as twelve months after beginning to skate.

Stan Calvert Cup

Ice Hockey is one of the sports involved in the Annual Stan Calvert Cup Competition between Newcastle and Northumbria Universities. The games used to be played at the Metro Radio Arena (in the days when it had an ice pad) in front of crowds numbering in the hundreds (and occasionally, the thousands) and often in the same programme as the Newcastle Vipers professional ice hockey team.

Ball/Dek/Floor Hockey
For many years the Club ran a 'Stick Training' session in the University Sports Centre. The aim of the session was to enhance the stick handling and fitness skills of players without the expense of valuable ice time. In the 2011-12 season Joy Craighead developed these sessions further and created the Club's Dek Squad. Dek, or 'Street & Ball Hockey', uses much of the same equipment as ice hockey but is played in a normal sports centre gym, rather than an ice rink, so players run rather than skate.

External Ball Hockey Competitions

In February 2012 members of the Squad competed in the Fantastic Fours Dek Tournament in Gateshead Leisure Centre earning themselves a fleeting appearance on BSkyB.

For the 2012-2013 season the Squad finished fourth in the UKBH Northern Conference  and once again competed in the NEDekStars 'Fantastic Fours' Competition against 15 other teams

In May 2013 the squad competed in the Ball Hockey UK National Championships and finished in second place to the South Notts Outlaws in the Tier III Final.

Internal  Ball Hockey Competitions

Each year the Club holds a mini 3v3 tournament and competes for the 'Craighead Cup' (named after the tournament's founder, Joy Craighead). This is a chance for all members to have a bit of fun before the Annual Dinner and there are other awards including the 'Best-Dressed' for the team with the most outstanding uniform and the 'Wooden Spoons' for the 'best losers'.

Notable former players

Retired jerseys

Other notable players

References

External links
Newcastle Wildcats
Newcastle Wildcats at Eurohockey.com

Ice hockey teams in England
Sport in Newcastle upon Tyne
Wildcats
University ice hockey teams in England


Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal (1 February 1954 – 29 July 2010) was a Mexican suspected drug lord and a founder  of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa. He worked alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted drug lord. His stronghold was Jalisco.

Biography
In the 1980s, Coronel began his criminal career as the leader of the Juarez Cartel in the state of Nayarit. He worked at that time under the shadow of Amado Carrillo Fuentes "the Lord of The Skies" and Eduardo González Quitarte "El Flaco". After the death of Carrillo Fuentes, Coronel, Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno "El Azul" and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada broke away from the Juarez cartel and joined the Sinaloa cartel, which regained its status as Mexico's top cartel in 2001 after El Chapo Guzman's escape from prison in Puente Grande, Jalisco. At that time Coronel was associated with Luis Valencia Valencia, head of the cartel del Milenio and the Beltran Leyva brothers. Years later, when the Beltran Leyva brothers broke away from Guzman, Coronel stood firmly with the Sinaloa cartel. Coronel was responsible for moving multi-ton quantities of cocaine via fishing vessels from Colombia to Mexico and on to the United States states of Texas and Arizona during the early 2000s. His influence and operations penetrated throughout the United States, Mexico, and several other European, Central American, and South American countries. In Mexico, he was known as the "King of Crystal" for his domination of crystal methamphetamine production and trafficking.

Both the governments of the United States and Mexico had an outstanding arrest warrant for Coronel; in addition, the United States Department of State was offering a reward of up to $5 million USD for information leading to his capture.

Kingpin Act sanction
On 1 June 2005, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Coronel under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with seven other international criminals and one entity. The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any kind of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.

Death
Coronel was killed on 29 July 2010 in Zapopan, Jalisco, during a shootout with the Mexican Army. During the raid, Coronel killed a soldier and wounded another. Sometime during the shootout, Coronel was fatally shot in the head, which killed him instantly. A statement from the federal Attorney General's Office says soldiers found jewelry, luxury watches, guns, two hand grenades and three vehicles and US$7 million in cash in the house where Coronel was killed.

Personal life
On 3 April 2010, alleged gunmen of Los Zetas abducted and killed Coronel's son, Alejandro Coronel (aged 16), in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit. Coronel sought vengeance and responded three days later by sending over 100 of his henchmen to kidnap and kill 14 people.

A few days after Coronel was killed on 29 July 2010, his nephew Mario Carrasco Coronel ("El Gallo") was killed by the special forces of the Mexican Army in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mario reportedly aided his uncle Ignacio directly in the cartel activities and was his alleged successor.

His niece, Emma Coronel, is married to Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted drug lord. Emma is the third or fourth wife of Guzmán, who at one time was a partner of Coronel.

In January 2010, several members of the Coronel clan were arrested: Ernesto Coronel Peña, Juan Jaime Coronel, Juan Ernesto Coronel Herrera, and Gael Carbel Aldana. His cousin José Ángel Coronel Carrasco ("El Changel") was arrested by Mexican soldiers in Culiacán on 20 January 2013. He was the successor of Coronel Villarreal and top leader of La Corona Cartel, a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated gang founded between late 2012 and early 2013.

His nephew and regional cartel leader in Durango, Humberto Rodríguez Coronel ("El Canelo"), was arrested by the Navy on 24 March 2013. His nephew Martín Beltrán Coronel (alias "El Águila") was released from prison on 24 September 2014.

See also
 Mexican drug war
 Mérida Initiative
 List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords

References

External links
 Ex-rivals' merge to 'megacartel' intensifies brutality in Mexico (17 June 2008)

1954 births
2010 deaths
People from Durango
Sinaloa Cartel traffickers
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Mexico
People sanctioned under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act


China has seen double-digit growth in its biotechnology industry and has gone from being one of the slowest to one of the fastest nations in the adoption of new biotechnologies. The biotech sector is seen in China and internationally as a core area of national scientific and economic development. The main national biotech body in the country is the China National Center for Biotechnology Development. The CNCBD is an organization established on November 3, 1983, under the Ministry of Science and Technology with the approval of the State Council. CNCBD is the sole national center to coordinate and implement the national S&T program in Biotechnology and Health.

Industry
The biotech industry in China started in 1984. By 1997, the number of Chinese biotech companies was about 200. In 2000 it was estimated that the number of Chinese biotech companies tripled to 600. In 2005 China's biotechnology industry increased to 900 modern biotech companies. China's biotech industry registered sales totaling US$2.4 billion in 2000, compared with US$31 million in 1986.

Development factors
China's biopharmaceutical industry is gradually expanding due to such favorable factors as China's rapid economic growth, people's higher income, and increasing understanding of and demand for biopharmaceuticals. The biopharmaceutical industry has begun to play a more important role in the national economy, drawing more attention from investors - both private and public.

Healthcare
With the improvement of the healthcare system and people's rising awareness of disease treatment, more non-conservative treatment methods are used in clinical treatment, which has promoted the development of blood products. Currently, blood products frequently used in clinical treatment include over 20 types, belonging to such 3 sub-catalogues as human serum albumin, immunoglobulin and coagulation factors.

Vaccine
The demand of charged vaccine has increased dramatically with the rising consumption power and health awareness of people so that charged vaccine market is expanding rapidly. Charged vaccine as a supplement to free vaccine program has promoted the rapid growth of domestic vaccine market, the external diagnostic reagent is becoming familiar with people owing to people's deeper understanding of catalogues and curative effect of biological drugs. Nowadays genetic drugs and antibody drugs are replacing the chemical drugs which have many side effects to cure the cancer patients, and this will bring more opportunities for cancer patients to survive.

Import and export
The import and export volume of China's biopharmaceutical products was 377 million dollars in 2007, increased by 48% as compared with last year. The import volume reached 336 million dollars, which increased by 51% as compared with 2006, and the export volume was 41 million dollars.

The growth rate of export volume in 2007 had declined from the level of 58% in 2006 to 26% in 2007. Although the export of China's biopharmaceutical industry constantly kept a high growth rate, the volume is very small compared with the import volume.

The export volume was only 41 million dollars in 2007 whereas the import volume added up to US$336 million. This sharp contrast indicated that China's biopharmaceutical products accounted for a very low market ratio in the international market.

Agricultural biotechnology
China's Minister of Agriculture Du Qinglin stated in July 2006 that science and technology should contribute up to 63% of the growth of Chinese agriculture sector by 2020. The minister outlined five areas that will be the focus of China in attempt to take advantage of biotechnology in agriculture, including GM cotton and rice, safe farm products, agricultural equipment, and research institutions.

Organizations

R&D
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS)
Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)

Ministries
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
Ministry of Health (MOH)
Ministry of Agriculture (MOA)
Ministry of Education (MOE)

Agencies
State Food and Drug Administration (SDA)
State Environment Protection Administration (SEPA)
State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
China Science and Technology Exchange Center (CSTEC)

State programs
National Key Technologies R&D Program (NKTRDP)
Approved in 1982 and implemented for three Five-year Plans, the program includes three major issues: agriculture, new and high technologies and social development. The research on biological technologies is focused on agricultural breeding, gene medicine, marine biological products and the industrialization on key technologies.

National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 program)
The program was approved in March 1986 (because of that date it is simply called "863"). Its objective was to develop frontier high technology to narrow the gap between China and developed countries. The program lists biotechnology as one of seven targeted areas. '863' is China's biggest S&T development program. The budget for the 863 program has been raised from RMB 5.9 billion in the past 15 years to RMB 15 billion for the 10th 5-Year-Plan (2001–2005).

Torch Program
Established in 1988, the Torch Program aims to commercialize China's new and high technologies. The program encourages to invest in China's high technology zones.

Spark Program
Established in 1986, the Spark Program was the first program to promote the development of rural economy by relying on science and technology. One of the main contents of the program is the development of high yield, high quality and high effective agricultural products.

Science parks and incubators
Since the start of China's Torch Program in August 1988, 53 "National Science and Technology Industrial Parks" (STIPs) have been approved by the State Council (State-Level Hi-Tech and New Technology Zones). By 2000, there were altogether 20,796 enterprises in the STIPs.

Biotech initiatives
:Category:Biotechnology

See also

Pharmaceutical industry in China
Biotechnology industrial park
Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, a peer-reviewed journal
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions Directive 98/44/EC

Further reading
Plant Biotechnology in China Science
Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Origins and Prospects (2007) By Valerie J. Karplus, Xing Wang Deng, Norman E. Borlaug
Life sciences and biotechnology in China Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2007 June 29; 362(1482): 947–957.
Cautious Optimism Prevails for Chinese Biotechnology Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Journals
Journal of Chinese Biotechnology
Chinese Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology

References

Citations

Sources
Biotechnology Industry in China OECD
Chinese biotechnology industry
An Emerging Biotech Giant?
Growth In China's Biotech Industry
Recommendations for biotech development in China
Five Year Forecasts for the Biotechnology Industry in China
The development of China's medical biotech industry needs to be driven by innovation
The Role of Hong Kong SAR in the Development of Biotechnology Industry in China Albert Yen Chang
Integrating China's Biotechnology Industry into Global Knowledge Creation
Industrial biotechnology in China
Regulations 'hinder' China biotech investment
European Focus on Biotechnology in China
Is Biotechnology in China's Future

External links
China Medicinal Biotech Association
ChinaBio Today
bionews.com.cn
BIOTECH CHINA
Biotechnology Statistics - China OECD
The Emergence of Modern Biotechnology in China
Biotechnology in China (1989)
China's leap forward in biotechnology
Overview of Chinese Regulatory Framework

Industry in China
Science and technology in the People's Republic of China
Pharmaceutical industry in China
Pharmaceuticals policy
Manufacturing in China
Life sciences industry
Biotechnology in China


Benzylbutylbarbiturate (5-benzyl-5-n-butylbarbituric acid) is a rare example of a barbiturate designer drug, possibly the only such compound encountered in recent years.

It was confiscated by police in Japan in 2000, and presumably was a product of clandestine manufacture as this compound has never previously been sold as a legal pharmaceutical. As with all designer drugs, this compound was produced in an attempt to circumvent drug laws prohibiting the use of most known barbiturate drugs, however as the drug laws in many jurisdictions (including Japan) prohibit "any 5,5-disubstituted derivative of barbituric acid", this compound was deemed to be already illegal, despite being a novel compound which had not previously been encountered.

This compound was known from the scientific literature and so was not a new chemical entity.

References

Barbiturates
Designer drugs
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Benzyl compounds


Operation Top Hat was a "local field exercise" conducted by the United States Army Chemical Corps in 1953. The exercise involved the use of Chemical Corps personnel to test biological and chemical warfare decontamination methods.  These personnel were deliberately exposed to these contaminants, so as to test decontamination.

Background
In June 1953 the United States Army formally adopted guidelines regarding the use of human subjects in chemical, biological, or radiological testing and research. The guidelines were adopted per an Army Chief of Staff memo (MM 385) and closely mirrored the Nuremberg Code. These guidelines also required that all research projects involving human subjects receive approval from the Secretary of the Army. The guidelines, however, left a loophole; they did not define what types of experiments and tests required such approval from the secretary, thus encouraging "selective compliance" with the guidelines.

Tests
Under the guidelines, seven research projects involving chemical weapons and human subjects were submitted by the Chemical Corps for Secretary of the Army approval in August 1953. One project involved vesicants, one involved phosgene, and five were experiments which involved nerve agents; all seven were approved. Operation Top Hat, however, was not among the projects submitted to the Secretary of the Army for approval.

Operation Top Hat was termed a "local field exercise" by the Army and took place from September 15–19, 1953, at the Army Chemical School at Fort McClellan, Alabama. In a 1975 Pentagon Inspector General's report, the  military maintained Top Hat was not subject to the guidelines requiring approval because it was a "line of duty" exercise in the Chemical Corps. The experiments used Chemical Corps personnel to test decontamination methods for biological and chemical weapons, including mustard gas and nerve agents. Chemical Corps personnel participating in the tests were not volunteers and were not informed of the tests.

See also
Human experimentation in the United States

References

Further reading
Taylor, James R. and Johnson, William N. Research Report Concerning the Use of Volunteers in Chemical Agent Research, DAIG-IN 21-75, 1975, Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, Office of the Inspector General and Auditor General

Human subject research in the United States
Chemical warfare
Non-combat military operations involving the United States
1953 in Alabama
Experimental medical treatments
Human rights abuses in the United States


Shoeburyness High School is a coeducational secondary academy school in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The school is larger than the average sized secondary academy, with almost 1800 students on roll. 275 of the enrolled students are in the sixth form.

History
Shoeburyness High School gained Technology College status in September 1999. As part of the plan, a CAD/CAM Centre was developed.

The school gained Leading Space Education School status in September 2008, and has since implemented a number of space-themed projects in Science, including the Year 8 Space Academy course and outreach work with local primary schools.

The school became an academy in December 2011.

The school is part of a local academy trust, SECAT, based at SECAT House, Caulfield Road, Shoeburyness.

Academics
In Key Stage 3 pupils are taught Art, Design and Technology, Drama, English, French, Geography, History, ICT, Maths, Music, Physical Education, Religious Education, Science and SCOPE (PSHE). In Key Stage 4 pupils then study English, Maths and Science as their three core GCSE subjects and others which can be chosen as their options (GCSEs and BTECs are available).

The school has a Sixth Form with a curriculum including both A-Level and vocational courses. The Sixth Form offers a range of subjects including Business Studies, Film Studies, Performing Arts, Media Studies, History, Geography, English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, IT, Music Technology among others.

Demographics
In its 2013 report, Ofsted noted that the "majority of students are of White British heritage. A small proportion are from minority ethnic backgrounds." Additionally, they noted that "proportion of students supported by the pupil premium is above average. This additional funding is for students who are known to be eligible for free school meals, in local authority care, or from a family with a parent in the armed forces. The proportion of disabled students and those who have special educational needs supported at school action is below average, but the proportion supported at school action plus or through a statement of special educational needs is above average."

Ofsted
Shoeburyness High School was regarded as "Good with outstanding features" by Ofsted in 2013. As of 2022, its most recent inspection was in 2017, when it was again judged Good.

Rats
In late 2019, rats were found at the school. This sent shockwaves through the community, and Shoeburyness High School was featured in multiple news outlets up and down the country as a result. The rats were spotted in the toilets, and it is believed they were using the school as a feasting ground, picking up any crumbs dropped by children during the day. There were also odd smells present around the school, as the school made an attempt to clear the air vents of the rats.

References

External links
Shoeburyness High School Website

Academies in Southend-on-Sea
Secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea
Bilateral schools in England


Ruth Marshall (born June 7, 1965) is a Canadian actress from Toronto, Ontario. She is known for her role in the hit television series Flashpoint. She graduated with a degree in English from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and then returned to Toronto to pursue a career in acting.

She has appeared the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation and Doc, for which she earned a Gemini Award nomination in 2003 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series.  She played herself in the television movie The Path to 9/11.  She was also in the films Dolores Claiborne and Love and Human Remains. Her first screen appearance was in The Myth of the Male Orgasm.

Marshall released her first book, Walk It Off in 2017. The book chronicles Marshall's experience after being diagnosed with a non-malignant tumour, and details her journey back to health.

Ruth Marshall lives in Toronto. She and her husband have two sons.

Filmography

Film

Television

Books

References

1964 births
Actresses from Toronto
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian voice actresses
Living people
McGill University alumni


The 70th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in southeast Pennsylvania and has been represented by Matthew Bradford since 2009.

District profile
The 70th District is located in Montgomery County and includes the following areas:

 East Norriton Township
Perkiomen Township
Schwenksville
Skippack Township
West Norriton Township (part)
District 01
District 02
District 04
Whitpain Township (part)
District 08
District 09
District 10
District 11
 Worcester Township

Representatives

References

Government of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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(born Mikio Tōma, 當眞 美喜男, Tōma Mikio, July 21, 1961) is a Japanese television personality, actor and businessman. Haga was born in USCAR to an American father and a Japanese mother.

On June 30, 2007, Haga was arrested along with four others including former world champion professional boxer Jiro Watanabe, actor Ginji Yoshikawa[jp], and two affiliates of the Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate; one Toshikazu Kawakita and the other unidentified.
The group were arrested over allegedly blackmailing a real estate agent in Osaka into forgiving 400 million yen's worth of Haga's debt.

Roles

Variety
Kuniko Touch
The Night of Hit Parade
Zōjiroshi Quiz Hint zo Pint

Television drama
Food Fight (xxxx)
Handsome Man (xxxx) (Namihiko Kubō)
Hasadai Shōgun Yoshimune (xxxx) (Tokugawa Tsugutomo)
Hōjyō Tokimune (xxxx) (Rokuhara Tandai Hōjyō Tokishige)
Kirawane Matsuko no Isshō (xxxx) (Detective Shiomi)
Kodoku no Kake ~Itoshikihitoyo~ (xxxx) (Samuel Miyate)
Kurama Tengu (xxxx) (Okita Sōji)
Ryūkyū no Kaze: Dragon Spirit' (xxxx)' (Tomonaga Arakaki)Street Fighter II V (xxxx) (Ken Masters)The Kindaichi Case Files (1995)

 Film Aladdin (Aladdin (speaking voice in 1993))Les Sous-doués (Julien)Seito Shokun (Shun Togishima)Sorekara (Kadono)Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (Ken Masters)

 Video The Return of Jafar (Aladdin (speaking voice in 1995))Sagi Shiippei series

 Stage
 My Fair Lady The Sound of Music''

External links

 Japan Times: Actor Haga arrested over blackmail

References

1961 births
Japanese businesspeople
Japanese male film actors
Japanese people of American descent
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male voice actors
Living people
People from Okinawa Island
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors


Novel Romance is a 2006 art-house romantic comedy film directed by Emily Skopov in her feature film directorial debut. It stars Traci Lords, Paul Johansson and Sherilyn Fenn. The film was shot in 2004 in Venice, Los Angeles, and premiered on October 8, 2006, at the 2nd Annual LA Femme Film Festival.

Plot summary
The film follows Max Normane, a successful literary editor, who wants to have a child alone. She offers to publish Jake Buckley  (Paul Johansson), a struggling writer, in exchange for his sperm for artificial insemination.

Cast
 Traci Lords as Max Normane
 Paul Johansson as Jake Buckley
 Sherilyn Fenn as Liza Normane Stewart
 Mariette Hartley as Marty McCall
Jacqueline Piñol as Isabelle
 Mikaila Baumel as Four-Year-Old Emma
 Pia Artesona as Rita Ramirez
 Tony Lee as Todd

Festivals
Novel Romance was selected to screen at the following film festivals:
2006 LA Femme Film Festival (October 8, 2006)
2007 Other Venice Film Festival (March 17, 2007)
2007 Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers Series (June 27, 2007)

Awards
LA Femme Film Festival
2007: won Honorable Mention for Outstanding Achievement – Emily Skopov

External links
 Official site

2006 films
2006 romantic comedy films
Films set in California
Films shot in Venice, Los Angeles
American independent films
American romantic comedy films
2006 independent films
2006 directorial debut films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
English-language romantic comedy films


Resurrection Macabre is the fifth studio album by Dutch death metal band Pestilence, which was released on 16 March 2009. It is the band's first album of original material in 16 years, since 1993's Spheres and this fact is referenced in the album's title; hence resurrection. Re-recordings of earlier Pestilence songs make appearances as bonus tracks on the record.

Background
Pestilence were broken up between 1994 and early 2008. In January 2008, frontman Patrick Mameli revealed to Blabbermouth.net that the band was planning on making a return because "people/fans keep asking me for this. The time is right now and Mascot is giving me the opportunity to do so. As you know, I have always been the driving force behind Pestilence, writing all the music and so forth, so that I can state: I will bring back Pestilence to life. More tech and way more brutal than ever before."

In October 2008, Mameli revealed to UK's Terrorizer magazine that Pestilence would enter a studio in Denmark on 17 October with both the producers. By 31 October Mameli states, "everything will have to be recorded and mixed. Then the album will come out somewhere around March 2009. And by April, we'll do a three-week European tour before doing as much shows as possible on the summer festivals circuit."

Track listing

Personnel

Pestilence
Patrick Mameli – vocals, all guitars
Tony Choy – bass
Peter Wildoer – drums

Production
Jacob Hansen - mixing, mastering
Jeppe Anderson - production
Marko Saarelainen - design, artwork, layout

References

Pestilence (band) albums
2009 albums
Albums produced by Jacob Hansen
Mascot Records albums


The Gibson Citation was a top-of-the-line archtop guitar, introduced in 1969 by Gibson and still available (as of 27 July 2017) from the Gibson Custom Shop on special order. It had a 17" full-depth body with figured maple back and sides and a carved maple or spruce top with fancy inlays. The neck was made of figured maple or mahogany.

The Citation was typically equipped with a gold-covered floating BJB pickup, and was available in natural and sunburst finishes. Only about eight to ten Citation guitars were shipped during the original production run, which ended in 1971.

Gibson reissued the Citation with the same specifications and features in 1979, and again discontinued it in 1983. In 1993, Gibson introduced another reissue of the Citation. It is now part of Gibson's Historic Collection.

Notes

C
Semi-acoustic guitars


Slov-Air (also styled Slov Air or Slovair) was an airline from Czechoslovakia (Slovakia following the country's dissolution), which provided services for agriculture, civil engineering, helicopter emergency medical service and industry.

History
The roots of the airline can be traced back to 1924, when the Bata Shoe Company began building an in-house airline for its corporate travel, operating small aircraft or gyrocopters like the Cierva C.30. Following the establishment of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Bata Shoes was nationalised and the airline was re-organized as Svitlet.

In 1950, ČSA was established as the state airline of Czechoslovakia and Svitlet was transformed into a ČSA department, operating as Agrolet. In 1955, Agrolet once more became an independent entity as a utility airline, principally for agricultural flights. It operated out of Prague Ruzyně Airport, using the following aircraft types:
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik, Antonov An-2, L-60 Brigadýr and Z-37 Čmelák for agricultural services
L-200 Morava for medical and corporate passenger transport
Mi-1 and Mi-4 helicopters for civil engineering projects

On 1 January 1969, Agrolet was renamed Slov-Air and moved its headquarters to Bratislava, catering to demand in the Slovak half of the country. Starting in 1972, the helicopter fleet was modernised with the acquisition of Mil Mi-8s.

Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, plans were made to make Slov-Air the flag carrier of Slovakia. The plans were dropped when Slovak Airlines, an all-new state airline, was created in 1995. Slov-Air was dismantled over the following years and split into several companies providing agricultural, medical, military and passenger services, most notably Aero Slovakia. But Slov-Air's airline license was only officially revoked in 2001.

Accidents and incidents
 On 31 July 1969, a Slov-Air Antonov An-2 (registered OK-KHD) crashed near Drogomyśl, Poland.
 On 18 April 1972, a Slov-Air Let L-410 Turbolet was hijacked during a scheduled flight from Prague to Mariánské Lázně by two of the nine passengers on board, who demanded to be taken to non-communist West Germany. The aircraft diverted to Nuremberg, where, in accordance with West German procedure at the time, all who wished to do so could claim political asylum.
 On 8 June 1972, a similar situation occurred during a Slov-Air flight from Mariánské Lázně to Prague (operated by a Let L-410, registered OK-ADN, and carrying two pilots and fifteen passengers). An armed hijacker entered the cockpit and demanded to be taken to West Germany. In the ensuing fracas, one of the pilots was shot dead. The aircraft did not have enough fuel to fly to Munich as the hijacker intended, so an off-airport landing in a field near Weiding was performed. The perpetrator as well as nine passengers fled the scene.
 In September 1981, a Slov-Air An-2 (registered OK-KIM) crashed near Znojmo following another hijacking attempt.
 On 25 August 1982, another Slov-Air An-2 (registered OK-JIK) crashed near Smedava.
 On 26 August 1985, a Slov-Air Mil Mi-2 Hoplite (registered OK-GIT) struck a hill in dense fog and crashed near Lubon Wielki in the Island Beskids Mountain Range in Poland.
 On 13 March 1992, a Slov-Air Let L-410 (registered OK-PDI) carrying nine passengers was damaged beyond repair in a crash landing at Žilina Airport.

Notes

External links
 History of Agrolet (in Czech)
 History of Slovair (focused on helicopters, in Czech)

Defunct airlines of Slovakia
Airlines established in 1924
Airlines disestablished in 2001
Airlines of Czechoslovakia


Bad Sister is the debut album by Roxanne Shanté, released in 1989 on Cold Chillin' Records. The album peaked at No. 52 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Production
Bad Sister was produced by Marley Marl. Big Daddy Kane contributed lyrics to a couple of the album's songs.

Critical reception
The New York Times wrote that the songs "combine humor and raw rhythmic power with Ms. Shante's sturdy sense of identity ... [they] proves she's tougher and wittier than the competition." Trouser Press thought that "Shanté has a cute, coy voice that takes on an authoritative edge when she kicks into high gear." The Spin Alternative Record Guide called Bad Sister "a true hip-hop masterpiece" and a "definitive Cold Chillin' album." USA Today praised the "hilarious, sometimes risque stories."

Track listing
"Bad Sister" (D. Clear, M. Williams)—5:00
"Live on Stage" (N. Wilson, M. Williams)—6:57
"Independent Woman" (D. Clear, M. Williams)—4:35
"Knockin' Hiney" (L. Gooden, C. Curry, K. Coaxum, M. Williams)—3:36
"My Groove Gets Better" (K. Coaxum, M. Williams)—3:30
"Feelin' Kinda Horny" (J. Loving, P. Bourke)—4:10
"Have a Nice Day" (remix) (A. Hardy, M. Williams)—3:21
"Let's Rock, Y'all" (L. Gooden, M. Williams)—4:17
"Fatal Attraction" (D. Clear, M. Williams)—4:28
"Wack Itt (Remix)" (L. Gooden, M. Williams, A. Booth)—6:00
"Skeezer" (A. Hardy, M. Williams)—2:45
"What's on Your Mind" (R. Diggs Hamlian, M. Williams)—3:20
"Go on, Girl (Remix)" (A. Hardy, M. Williams)—5:01
"Gotta Get Paid" (featuring Craig G) (L. Gooden, M. Williams)—1:52

Personnel
 Producer: Marley Marl except "Feelin' Kinda Horny" produced by Jae Supreme & Q. Neighbor
 Mixing: Marley Marl except "Feelin' Kinda Horny" mixed by Jae Supreme & Q. Neighbor
 Assistant engineers: Leon Lee, Thomas on Time, and Clash
 Engineer: Jae Supreme and Richard Joseph on "Feelin' Kinda Horny"
 Remixing: C.J. Mackintosh and David Dorrell on "Live on Stage"
 Art Direction and Design: JoDee Stringham
 Photography: George DuBose
 Album Coordinator: Kelly Haley

Charts

References

1989 debut albums
Roxanne Shanté albums
Albums produced by Marley Marl
Cold Chillin' Records albums
A&M Records albums


This is a list of past and present regional animation festivals. These festivals include only animation and generally limit their submissions to a particular region of the world, or even a single country. They often show a program of independent, student, and commercial work.

See also
 List of anime conventions
 List of international animation festivals

Animation


Daniel Smith is an American painter who resides in Bozeman, Montana. He is known best for his realistic wildlife portrayals.

Biography
In 1988, Smith won the US Federal Duck Stamp with a painting of a snow goose.

Legacy
Painting full-time for over twenty years, the artist's works are in collections including The Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and The Wildlife Experience. Smith is in the annual Western Visions exhibit at the National Museum of Wildlife Art and Masters of the American West exhibit at the Autry National Center. He has been awarded by the Society of Animal Artists. Through his art, the artist endorses and aids many conservation efforts. Nature is the sole inspiration for his fruitful career.

References

External links
 Official website

20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
People from Bozeman, Montana
Artists from Montana
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American bird artists
20th-century American male artists


EWS may refer to:

Education
 East Woods School, in Oyster Bay Cove, New York
 Elizabeth Woodville School, in Northamptonshire, England
 The Emery/Weiner School, in Houston, Texas

Other uses
 DB Cargo UK, a British rail freight company formerly named English, Welsh & Scottish Railway
 Early warning score
 Early warning system
 Earthquake warning system, a network of seismometers that detect an earthquake already in progress to provide notice of incoming shaking to people further away from the epicenter.
 Economically Weaker Section, in India
 Environmental Waste Solutions, an American business consulting firm
 Ewing sarcoma breakpoint region 1, a protein
 EWS Arena, in  Göppingen, Germany
 Exchange Web Services, a protocol introduced in Microsoft Exchange Server


Providence Airport was an airfield operational in the mid-20th century in Seekonk, Massachusetts.

History
On July 21, 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh visited Quonset, Rhode Island as the first stop on his national tour after his famous transatlantic flight. Lindbergh, a hugely popular figure, stressed the importance of building an airport to serve the Providence area.

In 1928, the Providence Airport Corporation was formed to build the city's first airport. World War I flying hero Clifton Badlam Thompson was chosen as the chief pilot, but Thompson died in an air crash before the airport was complete.

The field, located in Seekonk at Route 6 and what is now Industrial Way, featured two crossed, unpaved runways. Later, a single hangar was built, with the name “Providence Airport” painted on the roof.

Providence Airport was closed sometime between 1951 and 1954. At some point between 1963 and 1995 the land was built over as an industrial park, and no trace of the airport remained.

References

Seekonk, Massachusetts
Defunct airports in Massachusetts
Airports in Bristol County, Massachusetts


Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi is an Iraqi politician from the religious Shia Arab-led Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, and the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs since May 2006.

In June 2007, he strongly criticised the United States Army for publishing pictures of severely malnourished children in a Baghdad orphanage. He accused the soldiers of setting up the photographs and using tricks to "show the Americans as the humanitarian party". He said it was "a media fabrication exploited by forces opposed to the government".

In October 2008 he was attacked in a suicide car bombing which killed eight passers by.

References

Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq politicians
Government ministers of Iraq
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Whole Travel is a travel search engine website based in United States. Launched in 2008, it aggregates information from thousands of other travel sites and evaluates each destination's sustainability in order to help users find and book sustainable vacations. Whole Travel combines search results from hotel websites, online travel agencies, local consolidators and other sources such as larger hotel chains.

Whole Travel does not sell directly to the consumer; rather, it aggregates results from other sites then redirects the visitor to one of these sites to complete their bookings. Thus, Whole Travel makes money from pay per click advertising, when the consumer clicks-through to one  of the supplier websites. In addition, Whole Travel offers hotels and resorts the option to use a subscription model that provides entry into the online travel market.

The company was established in September 2006 by a group of recent college graduates from Stanford University. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and works with partners in every region of the world. It received a warm welcome at launch, with articles in media sources including the Los Angeles Times and TechCrunch.

Whole Ranking
Whole Ranking is a metric for comparing the sustainability of multiple hotels. The system was developed by Whole Travel in conjunction with non-profit organizations such as Rainforest Alliance and academics at Stanford University. Each hotel receives a Level 1-5 ranking based on their sustainability practices in four key areas:

 Environmental Management.
 Economic Management.
 Customer Interaction.
 Social and Cultural Support.

Whole Travel Foundation
During the summer of 2008, Whole Travel Foundation was formed in order to actively improve sustainability in travel and tourism worldwide. Instead of being constrained by Whole Travel's growth, the foundation was set up as a 501(c)(3) organization and actively seeks funds in order to complete sustainability projects around the world.

References

External links
 WholeTravel.com official website
 World Travel
 SellOffVacations
 Two new websites join the greenscape - USA Today
 Whole Travel launches good site at bad time - CNET

Travel ticket search engines
Internet properties established in 2008


José Martí MAST 6-12 Academy, also known as JMMA 6-12 or MAST 3, is a magnet school incorporating grades 6 through 12 in Hialeah, Florida. Established in 1987 as José Martí Middle School, it introduced its magnet program with a high school expansion in 2011.

History

As a middle school (1987–2011)
The school was established in 1987 as José Martí Middle School, by José Enriquez Sr., the school's first principal. Eventually, Enriquez's son became the principal of the school.

Prior to its transition to a magnet school, José Martí Middle experienced troubling events such as the intentional setting of a fire in 1999. In November 2010, the school earned over $6,000 by saving energy, which they used to help tutor students.

As a magnet school (since 2011)
After the superintendent of M-DCPS opened a MAST in Homestead, he decided to "franchise" MAST Academy. Following this, José Martí was converted to a magnet high school in August 2011, with 6th through 9th grades present in the 2011–12 school year.

In November 2011,  an incident involving pepper spray being sprayed in a stairwell caused 20 students to go to a hospital for non-life-threatening concerns. That November, the school also became one of three schools—the other two being EA and Hialeah Middle—to be enrolled into the Afterschool Nutrition Program.

In May 2012, the school received a grant from the National Wildlife Federation, which was used to initialize the planting of the school's native arboretum.

In May 2013, the Committee for Economic Development visited MAST.

In 2013–14, the middle and high schools were both fully converted into a magnet school. The school has maintained a relatively small population since this transition, in order to offer its students a richer one-on-one learning experience. In April 2014, The Miami Laker wrote, "the founding class for José Martí MAST Academy contains 50 students scheduled to graduate in 2015." During that school year, the school's Green Club hosted an Earth Day celebration which involved planting trees, mulching grass, and collecting trash. Maintenance of an aquaponics lab also began. The lab and the arboretum are used for research.

The school was selected and featured by the local NBC station's "Brag About Your School" Initiative in 2014. During that school year, a Silver Knight mascot was introduced. The school was also granted an AP Capstone program, set to begin during the 2015–16 school year.

The Green Club at the school has planted and maintained a native arboretum, which includes 38 species of trees, shrubs, and grasses. The Fairchild Challenge is also a component of the school's Green Club. On occasion, QR codes and digital devices have been utilized for research in the arboretum. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden also partnered with the school in order to conduct the Million Orchid Project. The project is meant to re-establish the Cyrtopodium punctatum, commonly known as the Florida Cowhorn orchid. In 2017, NBC Miami reported that a botany class continued working on the Million Orchid Project, and wrote, "the kids are learning real science, aided by technology. They use iPads with Google Sheets to keep track of and share data with each other. It's invaluable experience for the students."

Academics
As the MAST (Mathematics and Science Technology) name implies, the school centers its focus around mathematics and science classes, or STEM classes. Martí MAST integrates and combines its middle and high schools into one building. The high school has three academies for its students to choose from: the Life Science Academy, the Physical Science Academy, and Mathematics/Computer Science. The school connects with its students through social media outlets such as Twitter, Edmodo, and teachers' personal websites.

The school collaborates with several organizations, universities, and partners, such as Florida International University, Zoo Miami, and the LARC Technical Institute. As a "No Excuses University" school, visiting Florida International University as part of a joint FIU and McDonald's initiative.

School grades

Martí Middle
Since the 2001–02 school year, José Martí Middle was consistent in scoring a "C" grade, achieving the grade 8 out of 12 years. It became a "B" school under Lorenzo Ladaga's administration in the 2002–03 school year. It became an "A" school in 2005–06 under Principal Jose Bueno.

Martí MAST
In the short history of the MAST Academy, the school has never ever achieved a school grade lower than an "A
".

Extracurricular activities

Clubs
The school offers a wide range of clubs, including science, mathematics, nature, and art-related clubs. Although not officially listed as a club, the school's aquaponics lab has also been used for research. The effect of tilapia waste on the fertilization of plants has been one research topic in the lab. The following is a full list of the extracurricular clubs offered for students at the school.

Athletics
In the 2014–15 school year, the school introduced middle school athletics. Among the sports offered are:

Awards and honors
In the 2012–13 school year and again in 2013–14, MAST was named a Merit School of Excellence. This award placed Jose Martí MAST in the top 1% of magnet schools in the country.

In 2013, seven Jose Martí MAST students placed 1st to 3rd in several categories for the
Youth Crime Watch of Miami-Dade County Poster and Essay Contests. Several of the school's students were recognized through the same competition in 2015. Also in 2013, student Yenny Dieguez was given the Innovative Engineering Second Award by the National Society of Professional Engineers at the State Science and Engineering Fair. He also placed second at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona.

In 2013–14, several students earned perfect scores on the statewide FCAT exam.

During the 2014–15 school year, two of the school's middle schools were selected by Local 10 as finalists in their Eco-Hero Contest. Students at the school were selected as the contest's winner in 2015 and 2022.

Rankings
JMMA has ranked within U.S. News & World Reports top 100 best high schools in the United States list on multiple occasions. USN&WR also gave the school a score of 85.4 on their College Readiness Index.

JMMA ranked 19th out of 2,323 schools in a 2017 Washington Post study of "America's Most Challenging High Schools". Additionally, JMMA was the highest-ranking South Florida school on the list.

Notable people associated with Martí MAST
 Tombi Bell, physical education teacher, former WNBA player

Notes

References

1987 establishments in Florida
Educational institutions established in 1987
Education in Hialeah, Florida
Magnet schools in Florida
Miami-Dade County Public Schools high schools
Miami-Dade County Public Schools schools
Middle schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Public middle schools in Florida


Second to None is an album by the Japanese R&B duo Chemistry, released on January 8, 2003 by Sony Music Japan.

Track listing
 "Intro-lude~You're My Second to None~"
 "It Takes Two"
 "STILL ECHO"
 "My Gift to You"
 "Running Away"
 "BACK TOGETHER AGAIN Interlude~@Electric Lady Studio, NYC~"
 "No Color Line"
 "FLOATIN'"
 "SOLID DREAM"
 "Let's Get Together Now (Tokyo Calling) Interlude~@Yuigahama, KAMAKURA~"
 "RIPTIDE"
 "月夜"
 "マイウェイ"
 "君をさがしてた～New Jersey United~(BONUS TRACK)"

External links
 Official Site: Track downloads

Chemistry (band) albums
2003 albums