In geometry, an equilateral pentagon is a polygon in the Euclidean plane with five sides of equal length. Its five vertex angles can take a range of sets of values, thus permitting it to form a family of pentagons.  In contrast, the regular pentagon is unique, because it is equilateral and moreover it is equiangular (its five angles are equal; the measure is 108 degrees).

Four intersecting equal circles arranged in a closed chain are sufficient to determine a convex equilateral pentagon. Each circle's center is one of four vertices of the pentagon. The remaining vertex is determined by one of the intersection points of the first and the last circle of the chain.

Examples

Internal angles of a convex equilateral pentagon

When a convex equilateral pentagon is dissected into triangles, two of them appear as isosceles (triangles in orange and blue) while the other one is more general (triangle in green). We assume that we are given the adjacent angles  and .

According to the law of sines the length of the line dividing the green and blue triangles is:

The square of the length of the line dividing the orange and green triangles is:

According to the law of cosines, the cosine of δ can be seen from the figure:

Simplifying, δ is obtained as function of α and β:

The remaining angles of the pentagon can be found geometrically: The remaining angles of the orange and blue triangles are readily found by noting that two angles of an isosceles triangle are equal while all three angles sum to 180°. Then  and the two remaining angles of the green triangle can be found from four equations stating that the sum of the angles of the pentagon is 540°, the sum of the angles of the green triangle is 180°, the angle  is the sum of its three components, and the angle  is the sum of its two components.

A cyclic pentagon is equiangular if and only if it has equal sides and thus is regular. Likewise, a tangential pentagon is equilateral if and only if it has equal angles and thus is regular.

Tiling

There are two infinite families of equilateral convex pentagons that tile the plane, one having two adjacent supplementary angles and the other having two non-adjacent supplementary angles. Some of those pentagons can tile in more than one way, and there is one sporadic example of an equilateral pentagon that can tile the plane but does not belong to either of those two families; its angles are roughly 89°16', 144°32.5', 70°55', 135°22', and 99°54.5', no two supplementary.

A two-dimensional mapping

Equilateral pentagons can intersect themselves either not at all, once, twice, or five times.  The ones that don't intersect themselves are called simple, and they can be classified as either convex or concave.  We here use the term "stellated" to refer to the ones that intersect themselves either twice or five times.  We rule out, in this section, the equilateral pentagons that intersect themselves precisely once.

Given that we rule out the pentagons that intersect themselves once, we can plot the rest as a function of two variables in the two-dimensional plane. Each pair of values (α, β) maps to a single point of the plane and also maps to a single pentagon.

The periodicity of the values of α and β and the condition α ≥ β ≥ δ permit the size of the mapping to be limited. In the plane with coordinate axes α and β, the equation α = β is a line dividing the plane in two parts (south border shown in orange in the drawing). The equation δ = β as a curve divides the plane into different sections (north border shown in blue).

Both borders enclose a continuous region of the plane whose points map to unique equilateral pentagons. Points outside the region just map to repeated pentagons—that is, pentagons that when rotated or reflected can match others already described. Pentagons that map exactly onto those borders have a line of symmetry.

Inside the region of unique mappings there are three types of pentagons: stellated, concave and convex, separated by new borders.

Stellated

The stellated pentagons have sides intersected by others. A common example of this type of pentagon is the pentagram. A condition for a pentagon to be stellated, or self-intersecting, is to have 2α + β ≤ 180°. So, in the mapping, the line 2α + β = 180° (shown in orange at the north) is the border between the regions of stellated and non-stellated pentagons. Pentagons which map exactly to this border have a vertex touching another side.

Concave

The concave pentagons are non-stellated pentagons having at least one angle greater than 180°. The first angle which opens wider than 180° is γ, so the equation γ = 180° (border shown in green at right) is a curve which is the border of the regions of concave pentagons and others, called convex. Pentagons which map exactly to this border have at least two consecutive sides appearing as a double length side, which resembles a pentagon degenerated to a quadrilateral.

Convex

The convex pentagons have all of their five angles smaller than 180° and no sides intersecting others. A common example of this type of pentagon is the regular pentagon.

References

Types of polygons


In pragmatics, scalar implicature, or quantity implicature, is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning of an utterance, and which suggests that the utterer had a reason for not using a more informative or stronger term on the same scale.  The choice of the weaker characterization suggests that, as far as the speaker knows, none of the stronger characterizations in the scale holds. This is commonly seen in the use of 'some' to suggest the meaning 'not all', even though 'some' is logically consistent with 'all'.   If Bill says 'I have some of my money in cash', this utterance suggests to a hearer (though the sentence uttered does not logically imply it) that Bill does not have all his money in cash.

Origin
Scalar implicatures typically arise where the speaker qualifies or scales their statement with language that conveys to the listener an inference or implicature that indicates that the speaker had reasons not to use a stronger, more informative, term. For example, where a speaker uses the term "some" in the statement, "Some students can afford a new car.", the use of "some" gives rise to an inference or implicature that "Not all students can afford a new car."

As with pragmatic inference generally, such inferences are defeasible or cancellable – the inferred meaning may not be true, even though the literal meaning is true.  This distinguishes such inferences from entailment.  They are also non-detachable.  A conversational implicature is said to be non-detachable when, after the replacement of what is said with another expression with the same literal meaning, the same conversational implicature remains. This distinguishes them from conventional implicatures.

In a 2006 experiment with Greek-speaking five-year-olds' interpretation of aspectual expressions, the results revealed that children have limited success in deriving scalar implicatures from the use of aspectual verbs such as "start" (which implicates non-completion). However, the tested children succeed in deriving scalar implicatures with discrete degree modifiers such as "half" as in half finished. Their ability to spontaneously compute scalar implicatures was greater than their ability to judge the pragmatic appropriateness of scalar statements. In addition, the tested children were able to suspend scalar implicatures in environments where they were not supported.

Griceans attempt to explain these implicatures in terms of the maxim of quantity, according to which one is to be just as informative as required. The idea is that if the speaker were in a position to make the stronger statement, they would have. Since they did not, they must believe that the stronger statement is not true.

Examples
Some examples of scalar implicature are:

1a. Bill has got some of Chomsky's papers.
1b. The speaker believes that Bill hasn't got all of Chomsky's papers.

2a. There will be five of us for dinner tonight.
2b. There won't be more than five of us for dinner tonight.

3a. She won't necessarily get the job.
3b. She will possibly get the job.

4a. The Russians or the Americans have just landed on Mars.
4b. Not both of them have just landed on Mars.

Uttering the sentence (a) in most cases will communicate the assumption in (b).  This seems to be because the speaker did not use stronger terms such as 'there will be more than five people for dinner tonight' or 'she can't possibly get the job'.  For example, if Bill really did have all of Chomsky's papers, the speaker would have said so.  However, according to the maxim of quantity, a speaker will only be informative as is required, and will therefore not use any stronger terms unless required.  The hearer, knowing this, will assume that the stronger term does not apply.

See also
Cooperative principle
Downward entailing
Focus (linguistics)
Logical consequence
Entailment (pragmatics)
Indirect speech act
Subtrigging
Implicate and explicate order
Intrinsic and extrinsic properties

References
 Robyn Carston, "Informativeness, Relevance and Scalar Implicature" .
 Chierchia G., Guasti M. T., Gualmini A., Meroni L., Crain S., Foppolo F. (2004). Semantic and pragmatic competence in children and adults comprehension of or. In Experimental Pragmatics, Eds. I. Noveck and D. Sperber, pag. 283-300, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
 Laurence R. Horn. 1984. "A new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature."  In D. Schiffrin (ed.), Meaning, Form and Use in Context (GURT '84), 11-42. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
 Laurence R. Horn, 'A natural history of negation', 1989, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
 Kepa Korta, 'Implicitures: Cancelability and Non-detachability',
 Angelika Kratzer, Scalar Implicatures: Are There Any?  Workshop on Polarity, Scalar  Phenomena, and Implicatures. University of Milan-Bicocca June 18, 2003

 Ira Noveck, "When children are more logical than adults : experimental investigations of scalar implicature", Cognition 2001, vol. 78, no2, pp. 165–188.
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article "Implicature"
 Mante S. Nieuwland, Tali Ditman & Gina R. Kuperberg (2010).  On the incrementality of pragmatic processing: An ERP investigation of informativeness and pragmatic abilities. Journal of Memory and Language 63 (2010) 324–346.
Zondervan, A. Meroni, L & Gualmini, A.(2010)Experiments on the role of the Question under Discussion for Ambiguity Resolution and Implicature Computation in Adults. In SALT 18.

Endnotes

Pragmatics
Semantics
Inference
Formal semantics (natural language)


Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) is a private medical school associated with the Geisinger Health System in northeastern and north central Pennsylvania. GCSOM offers a community-based model of medical education with six regional campuses - North (Scranton, PA), South (Wilkes-Barre, PA), Central (Danville, PA), West (Lewistown, PA), Atlanticare (Atlantic City, NJ), and Guthrie (Sayre, PA). It offers a Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program and a Master of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) Program.

History
The foundation of GCSOM, formerly known as The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC), began with the establishment of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Medical Education Development Consortium (MEDC) in 2004. The consortium included business, medical, community, and government representatives. After acquiring funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and other state, federal and private philanthropic sources, the Commonwealth Medical Education Corporation was formed. In the spring of 2007, Robert M. D’Alessandri began his tenure as president and founding dean.

Commonwealth was awarded degree-granting authority by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2008 and received preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in 2008. D'Alessandri resigned from his position as dean and president in April 2011. In June 2011, the LCME placed GCSOM on probation due to financial stability concerns. Provisional accreditation was granted in 2012, with full accreditation granted in June 2014. In June 2014, GCSOM was also granted full accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). GCSOM accepted its first class of medical and master's students in 2009. GCSOM graduated its first MD and fourth MBS classes in May 2013.

On September 28, 2016, Geisinger Health System announced it had acquired the Commonwealth Medical College. The acquisition integrated aspects of the health system, such as residency training programs, into TCMC, and also introduced new Master's programs. Additionally, TCMC was renamed Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

On September 2021, Geisinger announced that Julie Byerley, M.D., M.P.H., will serve as the new president and dean of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, executive vice president and chief academic officer, effective January 1, 2022. She succeeds Steven Scheinman, M.D., who has served as the president and dean of the School of Medicine since 2012.

Admissions and academics
Entry into the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine is competitive, with 5,992 applications received for a class size of 111 in 2022. The MD Class of 2026 had an average MCAT score of 511.62 and GPA of 3.75 on admission. 12% of the class is from groups historically underrepresented in medicine, and 71% of the 108 students that comprise the class are from Pennsylvania. 29% of the class is specifically from Northeastern Pennsylvania and North Central Pennsylvania.

In 2021, the school launched the Total Health Curriculum, designed to align the medical school program with the Geisinger Health System.  Graduates complete objectives in 6 major categories (patients, families and communities, professional identity, health system science, critical thinking, clinical skills, and knowledge for practice).  The Total Health Curriculum is unique in that it includes 6 longitudinal themes (Social Justice and Health Equity, Health System Citizenship, Primary Care, Personal and Professional Development, Community Immersion and Population Health), intended to prepare graduates for 21st century practice.

References

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Stross is an uncommon British surname. It may refer to:

 Barnett Stross (1899–1967), British doctor and politician
 Charles Stross (born 1964), writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland; grandnephew of Barnett Stross
 Raymond Stross (1915–1988), British film producer


Carlos Jose Lugo is a baseball analyst in the Dominican Republic. Carlos Jose has more than 17 years of broadcasting experience in radio, television and print media. He is a field reporter for ESPN Deportes' telecasts of the Dominican Baseball League. Lugo launched his broadcasting career in 1987 as an MLB analyst on Radio Dial in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. He is a familiar voice on radio, known for his work as a sports commentator and MLB analyst for FM-103, Radio Continental and Radio Clarin, and Rumba FM (98.5).

Broadcast
On the Dominican baseball market, Carlos Jose started his TV career as a baseball analyst for the Estrellas Orientales telecast and has been doing the same duties for Tigres del Licey since 2006.

For the international markets, Carlos has been an analyst on Fox Sports En Espanol in the late 1990s and has been the field reporter for ESPN Deportes telecast since 2005. His professionalism and impartial analysis has made him a fan favorite.

Printed media and internet
Carlos Jose's writings have been seen in Los Ultimos Innings, a baseball blog with in depth analysis of MLB and Dominican Winter League Baseball. He is also a contributor for the sports pages of Listin Diario.

References

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Living people
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And God Said to Cain (, ) is a 1970 gothic horror Spaghetti Western film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Klaus Kinski.

The story is about Gary Hamilton, who is granted a free pardon from a prison work camp and heads out after the men who framed him. The film is set at a stormy night in town when Hamilton takes his revenge.

Film historian Howard Hughes noted that the film is a loose remake of Salvatore Rosso's A Stranger in Paso Bravo (1968), featuring many of the same plot points and character names. The film was shot in late 1969 in Italy, and following its release there on February 5, 1970, it was released in West Germany and France. It did not receive a theatrical release in either the United Kingdom or the United States.

Plot
Gary Hamilton, a former officer of the army, is in prison sentenced to forced labor, for an attempted robbery. In reality it was a friend of his, Acombar, who committed the crime and left Hamilton's water bottle at the scene of the crime as evidence. Ten years later, Hamilton is pardoned on the basis of his military record, leading Gary to return to his hometown, determined to take revenge on Acombar and his wife Mary (a former girlfriend of Hamilton, who betrayed him for Acombar). But, on the stagecoach that takes him to town, Gary meets Dick, son of Acombar, who is unaware of their situation in the past. Gary poses as Acombar's friend and instructs him, to tell his father of his upcoming arrival. Receiving the message, Acombar organizes the defense of the city and his mansion, to avoid at all costs that Gary manages to reach the village. Hamilton managed to avoid their ambush by using the intricate underground catacombs of the city which were an old cemetery. Hamilton also takes advantage of a tornado that greatly reduces visibility during the night, to massacre all of Acombar's men one by one. This includes the Santamaria brothers, a trio of his closest compatriots, who were killed in unique ways including being hung from a large bell and crushed by a falling bell.

Dick learns the truth about his father and mother, but decides to side with Acombar either way. When Hamilton reaches their mansion, he shows up with Acombar's wife. She runs off to warn her husband, but just at that moment Dick enters. Thinking its Hamilton, Acombar turns and accidentally shoots and kills Dick. Acombar accuses his wife of death and kills her. Left alone, he looks for Hamilton in the mansion and, finds him surrounded by mirrors which hides his position. During the gunfight, a fire breaks out in the mansion, while Hamilton manages to shoot and kill Acombar. His revenge completed, he leaves the city leaving all the gold accumulated by Acombar to the townsfolks to pay for the damages caused during his arrival.

Cast
Cast adapted from Filmportal.de.

Production
The story of And God Said to Cain is credited to producer Giovanni Addessi with a screenplay by Addessi and director Antonio Margheriti. Film historian Howard Hughes noted that the film's story was a remake of Salvatore Rosso's A Stranger in Paso Bravo (1968), with And God Said to Cain having the same basic structure, character names, while changing other minor plot elements.

The film was an Italian and West German co-production between Produzione D.C.7. from Rome and Peter Carsten Produktion from Munich. And God Said to Cain was shot in Italy in late 1969. The film was shot at Elios Studio for its Western stage set and at Villa Mussolini, an equestrian complex near Rome. The catacombs scenes were shot at Palazzolo in Manziana.

Releases
And God Said to Cain was released in Italy on 5 February 1970 and in West Germany as Satan der Rache on 5 February 1971.  The film was within the top ten highest grossing Westerns in Italy in 1970, with film historian Howard Hughes describing it as not in "They Call Me Trinity, Compañeros, or Adiós, Sabata league, but still a hit." The film was released outside Italy, including France but did not receive theatrical distribution in the United Kingdom or the United States.

The film was released by Market Video in the United Kingdom on VHS in 1984 as Fury at Sundown. Hughes stated that many VHS and DVD releases were released with parts of the film missing, the wrong aspect ratio or sourced from low-quality prints. Arrow Video released the film alongside Massacre Time, My Name Is Pecos and Bandidos as part of their Blu-ray box set Vengeance Trails: Four Classic Westerns on July 27, 2021.

See also
 Klaus Kinski filmography and discography
 List of Italian films of 1970

References

Sources

External links

1970 films
1970 Western (genre) films
West German films
Spaghetti Western films
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Films scored by Carlo Savina
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Films shot in Italy
1960s exploitation films
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Drasko Bogdanovic (or Draško Bogdanović, (Serbian Cyrillic: Драшко Богдановић, born in 1977) is a Canadian artist of Serb origin. He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. Bogdanovic is especially interested in portrait photography and homoeroticism. A classically trained musician and self-taught painter, he took up digital photography after emigrating to Canada in 1996.

An early fascination with Hollywood magazines and black & white photography influenced Bogdanovic to juxtapose classical posture with natural light in his male nude photography. Today his landscape and architecture photography capture cities’ geometry, immutable personalities and intrinsic emotions. His photography has appeared in domestic newspapers and magazines and has been featured in local and national advertising campaigns. Introspectre, one of Bogdanović's most prominent works, was given the Award of Merit at The Ontario Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition in May 2008.

Drasko Bogdanović is a regular columnist at Xtra!, Toronto's gay scene magazine.

References

External links
 Drasko Bogdanovic's official website

1977 births
Living people
Bosnia and Herzegovina refugees
Canadian photographers
Canadian erotic photographers
Canadian LGBT photographers
Naturalized citizens of Canada
Artists from Sarajevo
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Canada
21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina LGBT people
21st-century Canadian LGBT people


Tomas Löfgren (born 1977) is a world champion Swedish ski-orienteering competitor.

Ski orienteering
He competed at the 2004 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Åsarna/Östersund, where he received a gold medal in the middle distance, and a silver medal in the long course behind Eduard Khrennikov. He finished 6th in the sprint, and 4th in the relay event with the Swedish team.

At the World Cup in Ski Orienteering in 2006 Löfgren finished overall second, behind winner Eduard Khrennikov.

References

1977 births
Living people
Swedish orienteers
Male orienteers
Ski-orienteers


Sir Robert George Burgess DL, FAcSS (23 April 1947 – 21 February 2022) was a British sociologist and academic. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester in 1999, succeeding Ken Edwards. He was President of the British Sociological Association 1989–1991 and chair of the board of GSM London.

Early life
Burgess was born in Sturminster in Dorset on 23 April 1947. He grew up Somerset, and attended the King Arthur's School in Wincanton, from 1958. He taught for a year at Bennett Memorial Diocesan School, a church school, in Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

Burgess received his BA degree from the University of Durham in 1971 and his PhD degree from the University of Warwick in 1981.

Career
Burgess remained at Warwick as a lecturer and became Professor of Sociology in 1987. He then rose through the ranks, serving as Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1995–99. Burgess then moved to the University of Leicester as Vice-Chancellor, introducing sweeping changes that enhanced the university's reputation and saw it enter the top-20 institutions in many league tables.

Burgess was chair of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) 2005–11, the Research Information Network 2005–11, and is the chair of the UUK/Guild HE Teacher Education Advisory Group. In 2007, Burgess chaired the steering group that produced the Burgess Report, calling for sweeping changes in university degree classification that would replace the established system of first- and second class degrees.

Burgess retired from the post of Vice-Chancellor in September 2014, at age 67. He was succeeded by Professor Paul Boyle.

Personal life
Burgess was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours. He became an Academician of the Social Sciences in 2000. He received an Honorary DLitt degree from the University of Staffordshire in 1998 and a DUniv degree from the University of Northampton in 2007.

Burgess married Hilary Margaret Mary Joyce in 1974 and lists his recreations as walking, music and "some gardening". Sir Bob and Lady Burgess lived at Knighton Hall, the University of Leicester's traditional vice-chancellor's residence in Knighton, Leicester. Burgess's record in building both the university's academic reputation and its campus buildings earned him the nickname Bob the Builder among his university colleagues.

Burgess died on 21 February 2022, at the age of 74.

References

1947 births
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Academics of the University of Leicester
Alumni of the College of the Venerable Bede, Durham
Alumni of the University of Warwick
British sociologists
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UCAS
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WEC Le Mans, known as  in Japan, is a racing simulation video game released in arcades by Konami in 1986. It was the first racing video game to depict the 24 Hours of Le Mans World Endurance Championship (WEC). The Lap of Le Mans is split up into three sections, during which the time of day changes from day to dusk, dusk to night, and night to dawn.

Gameplay
The game attempted to realistically simulate car driving, with the car jumping up and down, turning back and forth, and spinning up to 180 degrees, with an emphasis on acceleration, braking, and gear shifting, along with the need for counter-steering to avoid spin-outs. It also featured accurately simulated courses approved by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, and used force feedback to simulate road vibration in the form of a vibrating steering wheel that reacts to the driver's acceleration and off-road bumps.

The game is known as being very difficult to complete: the track's width remains constant at three lanes of racing, and any slight contact with an opposing race car will result in either a spin, or a spectacular flip in the air. Going off the course and running wide at a corner will also end in a spin.

Play continues until timer is depleted and/or four successive laps are completed, which ends the game.

Arcade cabinet

Konami released three different video game arcade cabinet versions of the video arcade game, an upright machine, a 'mini' spin where the driver sat in a sit-down cockpit, and the 'big' spin version, the deluxe arcade version that would actually spin the gamer around a 360° spinning base, turning left or right depending on the corner. The front of the 'big' spin arcade machine looked like a real Prototype C Race car.

The arcade cabinet was expensive for its time, with a high price of £7000 in 1986, equivalent to £ or $ in .

Ports
The game had several ports by Imagine Software (as Imagine Studios) to Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. A rumored 16-bit port to the Amiga and Atari ST was mentioned, but never came to fruition.

Reception

The game was commercially successful in arcades. In Japan, Game Machine listed WEC Le Mans on their January 15, 1987 issue as being the most-successful upright arcade unit of the month. The spin cabinet went on to be the fourth highest-grossing upright/cockpit arcade game of 1987 in Japan, below Out Run, Super Hang-On and Darius. On the Coinslot dedicated arcade game charts in the United Kingdom, WEC Le Mans was number-three in July 1988, below Street Fighter and Continental Circus.

The arcade version was critically acclaimed upon release. Following its debut at the Preview '87 show in September 1986, Computer and Video Games gave it a positive review in its January 1987 issue, with Clare Edgeley declaring it her favourite game at show, describing it as a "fast and realistic racing simulation" and praising the rotating cockpit cabinet, concluding it to be the most " game" she played in months. She gave it "the edge" over Out Run, mainly for better "movement", but noted "many seem to prefer Out Run". At the ATEI (Amusement Trades Exhibition International) show in January 1987, both Out Run and WEC LE Mans "stole the January show" according to Computer and Video Games. Clare Edgeley reviewed it again in the February 1987 issue of Sinclair User, stating it "is far and way the most sophisticated and certainly the most thrilling game I've ever played", describing it as "like Hang-On" but "with a racing car which you actually sit inside" and a "movement system" that "is entirely different from anything experienced before" where "you really get thrown around" and "which simulates each action, even spinning" and "shakes the whole car" when going off track or skidding on the marked border lines. She stated "there are hazards to avoid, other cars bombing past you", "great graphics and high speed". Top Score newsletter called it a "superb driving simulator that was unfortunately overshadowed" by Out Run.

The Spectrum version of the game also earned critical acclaim. The Spectrum version was also commercially successful, reaching 4th place on the UK Spectrum chart in May 1989.

Konami's Tanaka Fumihaki cited WEC Le Mans as the chief inspiration for Konami's 1995 game Speed King.

The Spanish magazine Microhobby valued the game with the following scores: Originality: 30% Graphics: 70% Motion: 80% Sound: 50% Difficulty: 80% Addiction: 80%

Notes

References

See also
Hot Chase
Out Run

1986 video games
Works about 24 Hours of Le Mans
Amstrad CPC games
Arcade video games
Commodore 64 games
Konami games
Banpresto games
ADK (company) games
MSX games
Racing simulators
ZX Spectrum games
Konami arcade games
Video games developed in Japan
Imagine Software games


ImaginOn: The Joe and Joan Martin Center is a collaborative venture of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the Children's Theatre of Charlotte located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This  landmark learning center opened on October 8, 2005. ImaginOn was designed by Gantt Huberman Architects and Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, and is owned by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

ImaginOn hosts the Spangler Children's Library; the Teen Loft, a library for the teens of Mecklenburg County; Time Warner Tech Central; the Story Lab, a collection of interactive multimedia workstations exploring the arts of narrative; Studio I, an audio/video recording and animation studio; the Hugh McColl Family Theatre (seating capacity 570); and the Wells Fargo Playhouse (seating capacity 250), as well as administrative offices for the Children's Theatre of Charlotte and library staff.

ImaginOn is notable as the first LEED-certified public facility in Mecklenburg County.  ImaginOn is certified as a 'green' building at the silver level by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Tech Central, the Loft, and Studio I
The Loft is a  space on the third floor of ImaginOn dedicated to teens.  Also on the third floor is Studio I, an animation and sound studio that teens can use to produce stop-motion and computer-generated animations as well as accompanying sound tracks.  The national winners of the 2007 and the 2008 Young Adult Public Service Announcement contests sponsored by the Collaborative Summer Reading Program were produced by teens using Studio I.  The Loft also contains collaborative spaces for teens to work together on projects and a library with the latest in DVDs, books, graphic novels, and CDs of interest to teens.

Tech Central is a computer lab for teens with over thirty computers and a wide variety of activities for visitors under 19 years, and adults accompanied by a child.

Spangler Children's Library
The Spangler Children's Library is located on the first floor of ImaginOn and contains a large collection of books and materials appealing to children from birth through fifth grade.  The Spangler Library also hosts collections of special interest to teachers, parents, and caregivers.

McColl Family Theatre
The McColl Family Theatre is a proscenium theater with trapped stage and single purchase fly system. There are 420 seats in the orchestra and an additional 150 seats on the balcony level.
Children's Theatre of Charlotte uses the McColl Family Theatre (as well as the Wells Fargo Playhouse) to stage a full season of professional theatre for families.  "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" opened the 2005 season.

Wells Fargo Playhouse
The Wells Fargo Playhouse is designed as a theater with a modified thrust configuration and a reconfigurable proscenium.  Its 250 seats are regularly filled for performances by Children's Theatre of Charlotte, as well as film series and other programs sponsored by either the Library or the Children's Theatre of Charlotte.

References

External links
 ImaginOn
 Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
 Children's Theatre of Charlotte
 Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture

Buildings and structures in Charlotte, North Carolina
Children's theatre
Education in Charlotte, North Carolina
Libraries established in 2005
Libraries in North Carolina
Public libraries in North Carolina
Theatres in Charlotte, North Carolina
Uptown Charlotte


Rolf Gehring was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals this year.

Chris Lewis won the title, defeating Christophe Roger-Vasselin 4–6, 6–2, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1 in the final.

Seeds

  Eliot Teltscher (second round)
  Rolf Gehring (semifinals)
  Shlomo Glickstein (quarterfinals)
  Chris Lewis (champion)
  Butch Walts (quarterfinals)
  Pavel Složil (quarterfinals)
  Christophe Roger-Vasselin (final)
  Ulrich Pinner (semifinals)

Draw

Final

Section 1

Section 2

External links
 1981 Bavarian Tennis Championships Singles draw

Singles


Presentación Urán González (29 May 1956, Madrid) is a Spanish politician and former member of the Spanish Parliament.

Married, with two children, she worked as an administrator before being elected in 1993 as a United Left (IU) deputy for Valencia region and was re-elected again in 1996 and 2000. At the 2004 election, she stood down, although her name appeared on the IU list in fifteenth place  in a district where the party had never won more than two seats. In Congress she was fourth secretary and also served on the New Technologies commission in Congress.

References

External links
profile at the Spanish Congress website

1956 births
Living people
Politicians from Madrid
Members of the 5th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Politicians from the Valencian Community
United Left (Spain) politicians
21st-century Spanish women politicians
20th-century Spanish women politicians


The Confederation of Free Trade Unions (CMTU) is a national trade union center in Mongolia. It was the first alternative trade union centre in Mongolia, founded after the monopoly of the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions was broken in the late 1990s. The CFTU and other independent trade union have, however, not been able to challenge the dominance of CMTU in the Mongolian labour market.

References

Trade unions in Mongolia
Trade unions established in the 1990s


Nathaniel Bowman (1608–1682) was the first Bowman immigrant to be among the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He had the rank of gentlemen in the public records, indicating that he came from some distinguished English stock. On October 19, 1630, he applied to the general court, but his name doesn't appear on the list of applicants granted the oath of Freeman.  He was one of the original proprietors of Watertown, Massachusetts. Around 1650, he removed to the Parish of Cambridge Farms (Lexington) where many of his descendants have lived.

See also
 Thirteen Colonies
 Richard Saltonstall (1586–1661), led the settlement of Watertown in 1630
 New England Confederation (1643–1684)
 New World

Notes

References
 Crane, E (1907). "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity", The Lewis Publishing Company.
 Morris, T (1894). "Ephraim and Pamela (Converse) Morris Their Ancestors and Descendants", S.N.

People from Watertown, Massachusetts
People of colonial Massachusetts
1608 births
1682 deaths


The Lionheart School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit independent school for children ages 5 to 21 with autism or other disorders of relating and communicating. The school was established in 2000 and is located in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States. Lionheart was awarded SACS/SAIS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools/ Southern Association of Independent Schools) Accreditation in 2008. Lionheart is a member of GISA (Georgia Independent Schools Association). Currently serving 30 students, Lionheart is starting a capital campaign in order to expand and take on more pupils. The school was featured in an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on August 17, 2008.

References

External links

Schools for people on the autistic spectrum
Schools in Fulton County, Georgia
Special schools in the United States
2000 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
501(c)(3) organizations
Georgia (U.S. state) school stubs
Educational institutions established in 2000
Private elementary schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Private middle schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Private high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Autism-related organizations in the United States
Mental health organizations in Georgia (U.S. state)


The Mavericks is the first album by the American country music band The Mavericks. It was released in 1990 on the Miami, Florida-based Y&T Music label. Written entirely by the lead singer, Raul Malo, it is their only album with the guitarist Ben Peeler. "This Broken Heart", the only official single from this album, failed to chart. "I Don't Care If You Love Me Anymore" was later released on the soundtrack to the 1996 film Michael, and was a low-charting country single that year. "Mr. Jones", "The End of the Line (Jim Baker)", "This Broken Heart" and "A Better Way" were re-recorded in 1992 on the band's first major-label album From Hell to Paradise.

Track listing
All songs written by Raul Malo.
"You'll Never Know" – 2:54
"The End of the Line (Jim Baker)" – 3:34
"This Broken Heart" – 4:16
"Mr. Jones" – 3:25
"Tomorrow Never Comes" – 3:18
"The Lonely Waltz" – 4:27
"Watch Over Me" – 2:47
"A Better Way" – 4:10
"Another Lonely Life (Paul's Song)" – 4:23
"I Don't Care If You Love Me Anymore" – 4:18
"Keep Moving On" – 3:18
"I'll Give You Back (When You Belong to Me)" – 4:14
"Strength to Say Goodbye" – 2:46

Personnel

The Mavericks
Paul Deakin- drums
Raul Malo- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, lead vocals
Ben Peeler- banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin
Robert Reynolds- bass guitar, screams, sound effects, background vocals

Additional Personnel
Dennis Hetzendorfer- accordion
Steve Newton- bass guitar
Froilan Sossa- background vocals
Debbie Spring- fiddle
Homer Willis- harmonica

References

External links
 http://www.discogs.com/Mavericks-The-Mavericks/master/455585

1990 debut albums
The Mavericks albums


Andrew Otten (born 15 May 1989) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Otten was Adelaide’s second selection in the 2007 National Draft, pick 27 overall, having recorded strong results at the 2007 NAB AFL Draft Camp ranking in the top 2% for the vertical leap (92 cm), top ten for agility and the top 20% for the beep test (14.2).

Early life
Otten attended Whitefriars College in Donvale, graduating in 2007. He played junior football for the Whitehorse Colts, located in Box Hill North. Otten played basketball in his teen years.

AFL career

Otten made his debut in round 12 against eventual premiers , and played one more game for the 2008 season. The next season, he exploded onto the AFL scene, playing a consistent role as Adelaide's third tall in defence and being likened to former defender Nathan Bassett. Otten won an AFL Rising Star nomination in round 9 for his performance against , in which he collected 23 possessions and kicked a goal, and at the end of the season was voted the runner-up in the ward to Daniel Rich. Otten also scored three votes in the 2009 Brownlow Medal count.

In his 2010 pre-season training, Otten ruptured his left ACL and missed the entire 2010 season as a result. He returned successfully in 2011, playing 15 games in defence and in the midfield. In 2012, however, he struggled with injuries and form, playing six games for the season including the Preliminary Final loss to .

Otten re-established himself in the side in 2013, playing every game and spending time up forward, where he kicked 15 goals, and in the ruck as well as his usual defence position. He was rewarded with the Coach's Award for his willingness to fill any role in the team as needed, and also finished in the top five in the Malcolm Blight Medal for the club's best and fairest player. He also signed a new two-year deal with the Crows at the end of the season. After hyper-extending his left knee in a 2014 pre-season trial game, Otten missed the first nine games of the 2014 season, then played eleven consecutive games before tearing his right ACL in round 20 against the , the opposite knee compared to the one he had reconstructed in 2010. This ruled him out of the game for another 12 months.

Otten made his return in Adelaide's SANFL reserves side in July 2015. He played out the year there, often featuring in the side's best players. At the end of the season he signed another two-year contract keeping him at the club until 2017.

Otten returned to AFL football for the first time in 960 days in Round 1, 2017 against . In the next match, when teammate Josh Jenkins was taken from the ground in the first quarter due to a rib injury, Otten had to take over his role as a part-time ruckman and a key forward, kicking one goal. His stint in the forward line was extended when teammate Mitch McGovern suffered a hamstring injury in the last quarter of the Round 3 Showdown. This enabled him to become a key player in the Crows side as a third tall forward, and he kicked a career-high four goals in the Crows' Round 10 match against , where they won by 100 points.

His brother, Max, was rookie listed with  in 2010, but did not play an AFL game.

Statistics
 Statistics are correct to end of 2016 season

|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008
| style="text-align:center" |
| 22 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 7 || 6 || 13 || 4 || 3 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 3.5 || 3.0 || 6.5 || 2.0 || 1.5
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2009
| style="text-align:center" |
| 22 || 24 || 1 || 1 || 160 || 293 || 453 || 139 || 45 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 6.7 || 12.2 || 18.9 || 5.8 || 1.9
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2011
| style="text-align:center" |
| 22 || 15 || 2 || 2 || 115 || 152 || 267 || 74 || 46 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 7.7 || 10.1 || 17.8 || 4.9 || 3.1
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2012
| style="text-align:center" |
| 22 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 44 || 34 || 78 || 30 || 15 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 7.3 || 5.7 || 13.0 || 5.0 || 2.5
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2013
| style="text-align:center" |
| 22 || 22 || 15 || 4 || 166 || 147 || 313 || 102 || 50 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 7.6 || 6.7 || 14.2 || 4.6 || 2.3
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2014
| style="text-align:center" |
| 22 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 63 || 56 || 119 || 33 || 20 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 6.3 || 5.6 || 11.9 || 3.3 || 2.0
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 79
! 18
! 9
! 555
! 688
! 1243
! 382
! 179
! 0.2
! 0.1
! 7.0
! 8.7
! 15.7
! 4.8
! 2.3
|}

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Adelaide Football Club players
Australian people of Dutch descent
Oakleigh Chargers players
Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players


The Old Flagler County Courthouse is an historic two-story redbrick courthouse building located at 200 East Moody Boulevard in Bunnell, Florida. Designed by Wilbur Talley in the Classical Revival style, it was built in 1924 by O. P. Woodcock to serve Flagler County which had been created in 1917. It was the county's second courthouse building and its first purpose-built one. In 1985 a three-story addition was attached to its rear. In January 2007 the 1924 building was closed due to safety problems with its roof. By January 2008, the 1985 addition had also been vacated due to structural problems. Courthouse operations are now housed at the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 East Moody Boulevard.

In 1989, the Old Flagler County Courthouse was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.

References

External links
 Florida's Historic Courthouses

Buildings and structures in Flagler County, Florida
Flagler


Dave Reeves (born 19 November 1967) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward from 1986 to 2009.

He played in the Football League for many clubs, including making more than 100 appearances for each of Chesterfield, Bolton Wanderers and Carlisle United. He briefly held the assistant manager's position at Gainsborough Trinity prior to retiring from playing.

Playing career
Reeves was drafted into the first team squad at Sheffield Wednesday in 1986 aged 18. He played just under 20 first team games for The Owls while at the club between 1986 and 1989 and while at Hillsborough he spent time on loan with Scunthorpe United.

He transferred to non-league side Heswall F.C., where he stayed for one season, while there he re-joined Scunthorpe on loan and also spent time at Turf Moor with Burnley before joining Bolton Wanderers in 1989 for £80,000. Reeves stayed at Burnden Park until 1993 when he moved briefly to Notts County before a move to Carlisle United. Reeves went on to play for Preston North End, Chesterfield, Oldham Athletic and Scarborough before ending his career playing for Gainsborough Trinity.

Coaching career
Upon retiring from the game Reeves took up a position on the coaching staff at former club Gainsborough Trinity. He has since took up the position of Assistant Manager. Reeves remained the club's Assistant Manager until late August 2009. Following the dismissal of manager Steve Charles, Reeves and coach Steve Blatherwick were given temporary charge of first team affairs in a caretaker role. But after 1 game in charge, Reeves along with Blatherwick departed the club.

Personal life
His twin brother Alan was also a professional footballer, most notably with Rochdale, Wimbledon and Swindon Town. Dave was encouraged by his auntie Mary Burgess and uncle David Burgess to keep his football up from the young age of 7 when they placed him in a local football club. He is married to Julie and has a daughter Jessica.

Honours
Individual
 PFA Team of the Year: 1993–94 Third Division, 1994–95 Third Division

References

External links

Living people
1967 births
Footballers from Birkenhead
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Chesterfield F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Preston North End F.C. players
Scarborough F.C. players
Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Ards F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Gainsborough Trinity F.C. managers
English twins
English football managers


Kathleen H. Wilber (born  1948) is a professor of gerontology and policy planning and development at the University of Southern California. At the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, she holds the title of Mary Pickford Foundation Professor of Gerontology. Wilber also holds an appointment in Health Services Administration in the School of Planning, Policy, and Development. She has dedicated her career to improving the quality of life of people with chronic physical and mental health conditions, by improving the formal health and long term care delivery system. The collaborative relationships among health care providers, cost effectiveness and health outcomes of different service delivery structures are more specific examples of her research.

References

External links
University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology
Kathleen Wilber's research group: A Secure Old Age
Kathleen Wilber's publications
University of Southern California

American gerontologists
Manhattanville College alumni
University of Southern California faculty
1948 births
Living people
Women medical researchers


Panelház (Short: panel) is a Hungarian term for a type of concrete block of flats (panel buildings), built in the People's Republic of Hungary and other Eastern Bloc countries.

It was the main urban housing type in the Socialist-era, which still dominates the Hungarian cityscape.

According to the 2011 census, there were 829,177 panel apartments in Hungary (18.9% of the dwellings) that were home to 1,741,577 people (17.5% of the total population). Panelház are not the only type of block of flats in Hungary; as of 2014, 31.6% of Hungarians lived in flats (according to data from Eurostat).

History

After World War II a serious housing crisis developed in Hungary due to rapid population growth and urbanization. The exodus of the rural population after the collectivization in the late 1940s and the early 1950s from rural areas was particularly important as a source of migration. Budapest and other cities became overcrowded, and the Communist government eventually responded. After several study visits and conventions, in the early 1960s Hungary bought the large-panel system (LPS) from the Soviet Union and Denmark. The Danish technology was known as Larsen-Nielsen system and was a common housing method in Western Europe, Turkey, and Hong Kong. By the late 1960s, Hungarian engineers developed the country's own large-panel system (mostly based on the Soviet LPS), adapted to the Hungarian situation. The large-panel system permitted rapid construction that was not constrained by Hungary's relatively cold winters. After the 1968 Ronan Point explosion (a Larsen-Nielsen-type tower block partially collapsed in London) Hungarian engineers modified the original system, made the structure more compact and the joints stronger. The Larsen-Nielsen system was retired in Hungary in 1970.

The first, experimental panel residential building was built in Dunaújváros (new industrial city) in 1961, followed by other blocks in Pécs and Debrecen in 1963. The first precast concrete panel work was finished in 1962 in Dunaújváros, while the first large-panel system (LPS) housing factory (these works produced near all parts of these buildings, including the built-up kitchen units and the built-up wardrobes), was built in 1965 in Óbuda, Budapest. The first LPS building also was built in Óbuda in 1965.

The structure of Hungarian cities in the immediate post-war period consisted of a historic core surrounded by mostly single-story buildings and workers' houses, predominantly on unpaved streets. The nationwide public housing program of the 1960s changed this. The Communist government demolished the single-story buildings, replacing them with panel blocks. It also created new neighbourhoods on former farmland around the cities.

Panel apartments provided their inhabitants with a real improvement in living conditions. Two and three-bedroom sunny apartments with district heating, piped hot water, and flush toilets replaced what had been predominantly one-bedroom dwellings without modern conveniences. According to the 1960 census, one-bedroom flats made up 60% of the dwellings in Budapest; this had decreased to 25% in 1990. During this period, the share of dwellings with three or more bedrooms rose from 9% to 35%. The last panel building was finished in 1993.

The Hungarian government and local municipalities started renovation programs during the 2000s. These programs insulated the panel buildings, replaced the old doors and windows with multi-layer thermo glass, renovated the heating system, and gave the buildings more attractive exterior colours.

These buildings still dominate the Hungarian cityscape. The share of panel dwellings is 31% in Budapest, 39% in Debrecen, 52% in Miskolc, 38% in Szeged, 42% in Pécs, 41% in Győr, 50% in Székesfehérvár and 60% in Dunaújváros.

Former housing factories

Former panel works

Statistics

According to the 2011 census, there were 829,177 panel flats in Hungary (777,263 inhabited, 51,914 tenantless, 18.9% of the dwellings overall), of whom there were 548,464 flats (66.1%) in large-panel system buildings (LPS) and 280,713 (33.9%) in precast concrete (PC) buildings (the LPS is originally unplastered, while the PC is plastered and painted). 7,423 (0.9%) flats were built before 1960, 115,471 (13.9%) in the 1960s, 396,158 (47.8%) in the 1970s, 262,004 (31.6%) in the 1980s, while 48,121 (5.8%) flats were built after 1990.  These flats were home to 1,741,577 people (17.5% of the total population). There were 58,698 (7.1% of the total) one-bedroom, 421,274 (50.8%) two-bedroom, 271,422 (32.7%) three-bedroom flat, while 77,783 panel flats (9.4%) had four or more bedroom in 2011.

Average floor space was 54 m² for an LPS flat and 69 m² for a PC flat in 2011, lower than the national average (78 m²). The average floor space for a state-built flat (mostly panel flats) was 48 m² in the 1960s, 53 m² in the 1970s and 55 m² in the 1980s, significantly smaller than a privately built one (panel blocks also were built by non-governmental organizations, mostly housing cooperatives). Despite economic hardship, flats got even bigger in the late 1980s (before the fall of the Communism), the largest panel flats were built in the Káposztásmegyer housing estate of Budapest with 124 m².

The society of panel housing estates was heterogeneous until the privatization in the early 1990s (after the fall of the Communism), when the poor and the rich fled from these buildings, made them middle class characteristic. The residents of panel buildings predominantly have an above-average level of education, according to the 2011 census, 19.1% of the residents over 25 had Bachelor's degree or higher, while the national average was 17.3%.

Largest panel housing estates

Other countries
Khrushchyovka (Former Soviet Union)
Panelák and Sídlisko (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Plattenbau (Germany)
Systematization (Romania)
Ugsarmal bair (Mongolian People's Republic)

In popular culture
Béla Tarr's film Panelkapcsolat tells a doomed love story set in a housing project in Hungary. Special Mention at the 1982 Locarno Film Festival.

See also
Housing estate

 Public housing

 Affordable housing

Subsidized housing
Urban planning in communist countries

References

Architecture in Hungary
Hungary–Soviet Union relations
Denmark–Hungary relations
Urban planning in Hungary
Hungarian People's Republic
Prefabricated buildings
Concrete buildings and structures
Public housing


Magdalena Cielecka (born 20 February 1972) is a Polish actress.

Life and career
Cielecka spent her childhood in the small town of Żarki-Letnisko. In 1995, she graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna in Kraków. Soon after, she joined the Teatr Stary Theatre Company in Kraków, where she stayed until 2001, when she moved to Warsaw and joined the Teatr Rozmaitości Theatre Company.

Although she made her first cinema appearance quite early in a film by Barbara Sass called Pokuszenie (1995), she initially was known mainly for her work in theatre. A few years later she became widely recognized as an actress and she gained popularity with her cinematic roles such as Samotność w sieci or the TV series Magda M.

At the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival she played the leading role in a critically acclaimed adaptation of Kane's 4.48 Psychosis by the Polish theatre company Teatr Rozmaitości.

Filmography
 Pokuszenie (1995)
 L'Élève (1996)
 Sława i chwała (1998) TV mini-series
 Amok (1998)
 Jak narkotyk (1999)
 Zakochani (2000)
 Egoiści (2000)
 Weiser (2001)
 Listy miłosne (2001)
 Faithful (2002)
 Powiedz to, Gabi (2003)
 Trzeci (2004)
 Po sezonie (2005)
 Boża podszewka. Cześć druga (2005) TV series
 S@motność w sieci (2006)
 Palimpsest (2006)
 Chaos (2006)
 Oficerowie (2006) TV mini-series
 Kolekcja (2006) (TV)
 Magda M. (TV series)
 Droga wewnętrzna (2006) (TV)
 Katyń (2007)
 The Lure (2015)
 United States of Love (2016)
 Blind Love (2015 film) (2016)
 Breaking the Limits (2017)
 Ciemno, prawie noc (2019)
 A Girl and an Astronaut (2023)

References

External links

 Interview with Magdalena Cielecka, Scotland on Sunday, 3 August 2008
 Magdalena Cielecka at culture.pl

1972 births
Polish actresses
Living people


Björn Lans is a Swedish ski-orienteering competitor and world champion.

Ski orienteering
He competed at the 1996 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Lillehammer, where he received a gold medal in the short distance, and also a gold medal in the relay event, together with Per-Ove Bergqvist, Mikael Lindmark and Bertil Nordqvist.

At the World Cup in Ski Orienteering in 1999 Lans finished overall second, behind winner Raino Pesu.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Swedish orienteers
Male orienteers
Ski-orienteers


Per Ragnar, Per-Erik Ragnar (born 29 May 1941), is a Swedish actor, director and author.

Biography
Ragnar was born in Kalmar, Sweden and is the son of district manager Hans Ragnar and the postal clerk Karin, née Pettersson. Ragnar trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1962-65. The following year he got a job as director's assistant to Ingmar Bergman (on his stage production of Peter Weiss' play The Investigation), where Ragnar states he learned a lot on the art of acting and directing from "the master", just by watching and listening when Bergman worked with his actors and the script. In 1968 Per Ragnar had his breakthrough as an actor, earning much critical acclaim and audience praise for his performances in the Arnold Wesker "trilogy" staged that year in Sweden: Hönssoppa med korngryn (Chicken Soup with Barley), Rötter (Roots) and Jag talar om Jerusalem (I'm talking about Jerusalem). The same year he also made his film-breakthrough with Korridoren (The Corridor), Jan Haldoff's social commenting film on hospitals and the health care system in Sweden, where Ragnar plays a young doctor, new on the job, facing the dilemmas of prioritizing patients.

In the 1970s his collaborating with TV director Bengt Lagerkvist led to notable performances on TV, first as Arvid Falk in Lagerkvist's TV adaption of Strindberg's play The Red Room) (Röda rummet), and in the popular Swedish TV-series Någonstans i Sverige (~Somewhere In Sweden), a series covering the years in Sweden during the time of World War II in Europe, where Ragnar played the character of fänrik Ancker.

For a young audience today, in Sweden, he became unforgettable when playing the religious psycho Sten Frisk in the popular and long-running 1990s TV series Tre Kronor (1994) on Swedish channel TV4, a role that followed him for long and for more than a decade led to him often being typecast as evil characters and crazy psychos in various roles on film and TV. Even though being cast in a Swedish vampire film, his character of Håkan was this time a bit more complex than just "evil"; in director Tomas Alfredson's popular success feature Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) in 2008. Previously he had worked with Tomas Alfredson and his "Killinggänget" group in their film En liten film.. (A Little Film..) in 1999, where he had a small key part as an absent-minded boss.

Being versatile in the entertainment field, Per Ragnar has also worked as a TV presenter and host for the Swedish morning show Gomorron Sverige! (Good Morning Sweden!). He has also written a number of books, including a book on Hitler and his closed community of friends and party members, and one on Martin Luther's Christian philosophy. His most recent book is called Om bland tusen stjärnor: en tankebok om döden (~Among Thousand Stars: A Book On Death), which deals with how differently all of us deals with – and approaches – the subject of death; children and adults, different religions; scientifically, spiritually and logically.

Per Ragnar is also an appreciated lecturer and gives many lectures and public readings around Sweden, in various assembly halls; both on acting and around the subjects from his books and research. He is a longtime vegetarian and an outspoken pacifist, inspired by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's non-violence philosophy. He is also attracted to the ideas and concept of Martinus cosmology.

In 2009 he will play the character of Emperor Zing, Master of The Universe, in the Swedish children's sci-fi film feature Kenny Begins, a film adaption of the popular Swedish children's TV-series Kenny Starfighter; about the space super hero Kenny Starfighter.

Per Ragnar was married to Veronica Tigerhjärta from October 2000 to 2014. He has one daughter (born 2001).

Selected filmography
Korridoren (1968)
Tre Kronor (1994) (TV-series)
Under ytan (1997)
The Last Contract (1998)
Storm (2005)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Psalm 21 (2009)
Kenny Begins (2009)
Faust 2.0 (2014)

Books
Om bland tusen stjärnor: en tankebok om döden (2009)
Så tänker mitt hjärta (2006)
Hitler: Hans folk (2006)
Till min älskade dotter (2002)
Luther: död eller levande (2000)
Du som är: meditationer och dikter (1999)
När ska jag ha tid att leva (1996)
Hitler (1994)
Datorer - herrar eller tjänare (1980)
Sommar vid Bråviken: Dikter (1980)
Därför är jag vegetarian (1976)
Julresan (1973)
Brevet till mormor (1972)

References

The biography at perragnar.se (The Official Per Ragnar Website - Swedish)

External links
Official site

Interview with Per Ragnar

1941 births
Living people
Swedish male film actors
Swedish male stage actors
Swedish male television actors
Swedish male writers
Swedish-language writers
People from Kalmar


From Hell to Paradise is the second album by the American country music band the Mavericks. It was released in 1992 on MCA Nashville Records. The only album to feature David Lee Holt on lead guitar comprises ten songs, including re-recordings of four from their first album, The Mavericks (1991): "Mr. Jones", "The End of the Line (Jim Baker)", "This Broken Heart" and "A Better Way".

Two cover songs appear on the album: "Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" and "Hey Good Lookin'", which were previously recorded by Buck Owens and Hank Williams, respectively. The latter cover was one of two singles released, and it peaked at #74 on the Billboard country charts in 1992. The other, "I Got You" b/w "A Better Way", failed to chart.

Critical reception

The Austin American-Statesman wrote that Raul Malo "sings like the reincarnation of Del Shannon, and the Texas twang of guitarist David Holt ... helps offset the production's tendency toward slickness."

Track listing
All songs written by Raul Malo except where noted.
"Mr. Jones" – 3:24
"The End of the Line" – 3:33
"Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" (Buck Owens, Harlan Howard) – 2:38
"This Broken Heart" – 3:45
"I Got You" (Malo, Radney Foster) – 3:11
"From Hell to Paradise" – 4:46
"A Better Way" – 3:49
"Forever Blue" – 3:26
"Hey Good Lookin'" (Hank Williams) – 2:37
"Children" – 5:04

Personnel

The Mavericks
Paul Deakin- drums, vibraphone
David Lee Holt- electric guitar
Raul Malo- bass guitar, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
Robert Reynolds- bass guitar, background vocals

Additional musicians
The Arvida Middle School Choir- background vocals
Eddie Bayers- drums
Richard Bennett- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, requinto, tiple
Steve Fishell- dobro, steel guitar
David Hungate- bass guitar
John Barlow Jarvis- piano, organ
John Leventhal- bass guitar, organ
Debbie Spring- fiddle, viola
Martin Stewart- electric guitar, mandolin
Harry Stinson- background vocals
Marty Stuart- mandolin
Cindy Richardson-Walker- background vocals
Dennis Walker- background vocals
Pete Wasner- piano
Roger White- organ
Homer Willis- harmonica
Dennis Wilson- background vocals

References

The Mavericks albums
1992 albums
MCA Records albums
Albums produced by Richard Bennett (guitarist)


Nan Wood Graham (July 26, 1899 – December 14, 1990) was an American artist and art teacher. She was the sister of painter Grant Wood. She is best known as the model for the woman in her brother's most famous painting, American Gothic (1930).

Personal life

Graham was born on July 26, 1899, on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa. Her parents were Francis M. and Hattie Wood and she had three older brothers, including painter Grant Wood. She was 16 months of age when her father, who was a farmer, died. She then moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with her mother and brothers, moving six times within Iowa in all during her mother's life. As a child, Graham enjoyed painting, including on glass. Once the money earned from the farm was depleted, her brother Grant supported Graham and their mother financially. Graham attended high school in Cedar Rapids and then business college. Upon graduation, she attended nightly art school classes and was an art supervisor assistant within Cedar Rapids public schools.

She married real estate broker and investor Edward Graham in 1924. Her own artwork included sewing, making collages out of tissues, and painting glass. In 1938, Graham was featured in a Cedar Rapids Gazette story about her designs and painted glass. She exhibited her artwork in Iowa art salons and New York. The animal pictures that she painted and showed in New York were often used on ornaments, screens, decorative panels, play-rooms, and more. Graham wrote a story about herself in an issue of the magazine Coronet.

Graham traveled throughout the United States with her husband and then they later traveled worldwide. They decided to live in Riverside, California, and Edward entered the real estate business there. After her husband died in 1967, Graham moved into a house that was close to their old one. She later made around 20 scrapbooks of Grant's life which were microfilmed by the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution. In 1984, she was nearing blindness and moved to a nursing home, later dying there on December 14, 1990. In 1993, her memoir, My Brother, Grant Wood, was posthumously published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.

American Gothic

In 1928, Graham's brother Grant Wood returned after a working trip to Munich, Germany, and he felt inspired to paint a picture of a cottage that was in Eldon, Iowa. Graham posed as the woman and their dentist, Byron McKeeby, posed as the male. People who saw the painting assumed that the portrayed couple was married, but Graham said that her brother intended it to be a picture of a farmer and his daughter. Grant stretched out Graham's face in the picture so that no one would be able to recognize her. Shortly after the painting was finished, the farmers and their wives nearby thought that they were being ridiculed. Those people became fans when they realized that Graham posed for the painting.

In 1977, the magazine Hustler showed a topless version of the painting. Graham was afraid that people would think that she authorized it.

References

Further reading

External links
 Nan Wood Graham's scrapbooks, Iowa Digital Library

1899 births
1990 deaths
People from Anamosa, Iowa
American artists' models
People from Riverside, California
People from Menlo Park, California


Surface movement radar (SMR) is used to detect aircraft and vehicles on the surface of an airport.  It is used by air traffic controllers to supplement visual observations.  It may also be used at night time and during low visibility to monitor the movement of aircraft and vehicles. Surface movement radar is the term accepted by ICAO, but it has historically been known by other names such as ground movement radar, airport surface detection equipment (ASDE) and airfield surface movement indicator.

SMR is typically presented as a video blip, overlaid onto a plan view map of the airport showing features such as the runways and taxiways, grass areas and buildings. The SMR may be augmented by callsigns to identify each target, and provide warnings in the event of potential conflicts between aircraft on the runway (see AMASS). SMR also forms a key element of A-SMGCS.

SMR is required to provide high accuracy (typically 7.5 m), high update rate (1 per second), high resolution (less than 20 m) detection of airfield targets. To achieve this, SMR uses very short transmitter's pulse length of typically 40 nanoseconds. It uses a carrier-frequency in X-band (9 GHz) or Ku-band (15 to 17 GHz), and antennas with a very narrow beam (about 0.25 degrees in azimuth).

References

External links
 "Surface Movement Radar" at radartutorial.eu
 "Airfield Super-vision" a 1951 Flight article

Air traffic control
Radar


David L. Prychitko (born June 22, 1962) is an American economist of the Austrian School. Prychitko is a critic of Marxism, but defends the idea of workers' self-managed firms in a freed market system. Prychitko is a tenured professor at Northern Michigan University.

Early life and education
Prychitko was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to Harry and Joanne Prychitko. He is of Ukrainian and Italian descent. He was raised in Worth, Illinois, and is a 1980 graduate of Alan Shepard High School in Palos Heights, Illinois. He remained in Worth until he moved to Michigan to attend Northern Michigan University in Marquette, a small city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. After completing his B.S. in Economics (1984), Prychitko attended George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he earned an M.A. (1987) and a Ph.D. (1989) in economics. At George Mason he was a student of Kenneth Boulding, James Buchanan, Don Lavoie, and Thelma Z. Lavine. Lavoie chaired Prychitko's dissertation committee. Michael Alexeev, Jack High, and Karen I. Vaughn served as the economists on the committee, and Tom Burns, a sociologist, served as the "outside the discipline" committee member.

Before completing his Ph.D., Prychitko was also a junior fellow in the program on participation and labor-managed systems in the department of economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1988). He finished writing his dissertation research there, with some influence under the program's director, Jaroslav Vaněk.

Professional history
After receiving his doctorate, Prychitko conducted post-doctoral research on a Fulbright Grant in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zagreb, in Zagreb, Croatia (1989). While there he had also participated in several courses at the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Croatia, including Political Theory and Political Education—Anarchism: Community and Utopia. That course was celebrated as the first gathering in Yugoslavia of scholars of anarchism in forty or more years. During his stay at the Inter-University Centre, Prychitko also critically discussed the theory and practice of workers' self-managed socialism with several members of the Yugoslav Praxis School, including Zagorka Golubovic, Mihailo Markovic, Svetozar Stojanovic, and Rudi Supek.

After his return from Yugoslavia, Prychitko served as a faculty member in the department of economics at the State University of New York at Oswego, in Oswego, New York (1989–1997). During that time, he participated as a summer fellow in the faculty seminar on economy, values, and culture, at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts (1992), a program directed by the noted sociologist, Peter Berger.

Prychitko was also a faculty affiliate in the program in philosophy, politics, and economics of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University (2001–2004). Additionally, he held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Economics at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas (2003–2004). Prychitko has been a faculty member in the department of economics at Northern Michigan University since 1997.

Non-professionally, Prychitko was a college-radio blues disc jockey for several years, a volunteer position he held at radio stations WNYO in Oswego, New York and WUPX in Marquette, Michigan. He has since become a devotee of old-time fiddle music, and is one of a handful of Appalachian-style fiddlers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

He lives in Marquette, Michigan with his wife Julie.  They have four children, Sonja, Emily, Anthony, and Anna.

Bibliography

As author or co-author
 Marxism and Workers' Self-Management: The Essential Tension (Greenwood Press, 1991) .
 Markets, Planning and Democracy: Essays after the Collapse of Communism (Elgar, 2002) .
 The Economic Way of Thinking co-authored with Paul Heyne and Peter Boettke (Pearson 2014) . This textbook has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese, and Russian.

As editor or co-editor
 Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics co-edited and introduced with Peter Boettke (Elgar, 1994) .
 Individuals, Institutions, Interpretations: Hermeneutics Applied to Economics (Avebury, 1995) .
 Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. III with Peter Boettke (JAI Press, 1996) .
 Producer Cooperatives and Labor-Managed Systems two volumes co-edited and introduced with Jaroslav Vaněk (#62 in the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Mark Blaug, series editor, Elgar, 1996) .
 Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek, "O Slobodnom Trzistu: Klesicni Eseji ("The Free Market: Classic Essays"). Croatian translations co-edited and introduced with Nevenka Cuckovic (MATE, 1998)
 Why Economists Disagree: An Introduction to the Alternative Schools of Thought (State University of New York Press, 1998 )  (hardcover) and  (paperback)
 Market Process Theories two volumes co-edited and introduced with Peter Boettke (Elgar Publishing, 1998)

Selected articles

As author or co-author
 "Beyond Equilibrium Economics: Reflections on the Uniqueness of the Austrian Tradition" (with Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz), Market Process, 4 (2), Fall 1986
 "The Welfare State: What is Left?," Critical Review, 4 (2), 1990
 "Ludwig Lachmann and the Interpretive Turn in Economics: A Critical Inquiry into the Hermeneutics of the Plan," Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol I (1994)
 "Expanding the Anarchist Range: A Critical Reappraisal of Rothbard's Contribution to the Contemporary Theory of Anarchism," Review of Political Economy, 9 (4), 1997
 "Hayekian Socialism: Rethinking Burczak, Ellerman, and Kirzner," Rethinking Marxism, 10 (2) Summer 1998
 "Is an Independent Nonprofit Sector Prone to Failure? Toward an Austrian School Interpretation of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action" (with Peter Boettke), Conversations on Philanthropy Vol. I: Conceptual Foundations, 2004, Lenore Ealy ed.
 "Communicative Action and the Radical Constitution: The Habermasian Challenge to Hayek, Mises, and their Descendants" (with Virgil Storr), Cambridge Journal of Economics 31 (2) March 2007
 "Competing Explanations of the Minsky Moment: The Financial Instability Hypothesis in Light of Austrian Theory," Review of Austrian Economics, 23 September 2010

References

External links
 Prychitko's ResearchGate page
 Prychitko's Academia.edu page

1962 births
Living people
American bloggers
American book editors
American economics writers
21st-century American economists
American libertarians
American male non-fiction writers
American political philosophers
Austrian School economists
Historians of economic thought
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male bloggers


Ustyanovo may refer to:
Ustyanovo, Moscow Oblast, a village in Moscow Oblast, Russia
Ustyanovo, Vologda Oblast, a village (selo) in Vologda Oblast, Russia


Michelle Galdenzi (born January 2, 1987) is an American model and reality television actress.

Early life
Galdenzi is from Spring, Texas and graduated from Klein High School in 2005. While in high school, she was also involved in various theater productions including Beauty and the Beast, Noises Off, and The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.

Galdenzi attended St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas for two years prior to attending a two-year conservatory for dramatic arts (SFT) in New York City. She was crowned the winner of Miss Junior Teen Texas (South) in 2001.

Career
Galdenzi was one of ten actresses on the VH1 series Scream Queens where she was Runner-Up in the competition. The first episode aired on Monday, October 20, 2008.

Galdenzi appears in an advertisement in the magazine MAQ: Men's Athletic Quarterly in May 2008. She modeled for Dana-Maxx Pomerantz Spring/Summer line 2009. Galdenzi was in the Summer 2010 campaign for Koral Swimwear. She has modeled for Roar Clothing in 2009  and was featured in billboards in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Galdenzi has modeled in Aruba for Wema Home and Hardware  and was in an ad for Underground Clothing in the Winter 2010 edition of Island Temptations. She was also the featured cover story in Rush Magazine volume 14.

She was featured as a Young Democrat in TruthThroughAction.org's debut political short film, "Blue Balled," released June 2008. She has also appeared as an extra in Entourage and a small role in the movie Date Night, she is set to appear in the upcoming movie Thorns from a Rose as Sam.

References

External links

1987 births
Actresses from Texas
Female models from Texas
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
People from Spring, Texas
St. Edward's University alumni
21st-century American women


Bertil Nordqvist is a Swedish ski-orienteering competitor and world champion.

Ski orienteering
He competed at the 1996 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Lillehammer, where he won a gold medal in the relay event, together with Per-Ove Bergqvist, Mikael Lindmark and Björn Lans. He has received one individual silver medal and two bronze medals in the world championships.

At the World Cup in Ski Orienteering in 2003 Nordqvist finished overall second, behind winner Eduard Khrennikov. He finished overall third in 1997 and in 1999.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Swedish orienteers
Male orienteers
Ski-orienteers


This is a list of ski areas and resorts in Africa.

Despite the general perception that Africa is too warm for snow, there are several ski areas that exist across the continent.

Algeria
Chréa
Tikjda

Lesotho
Afriski

Morocco
Ifrane
Mischliffen
Oukaimeden

South Africa
Tiffindell

Africa
Skiing in Africa
Ski
Ski


Mara Mather is a professor of gerontology and psychology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology. Her research deals with aging and affective neuroscience, focusing on how emotion and stress affect memory and decisions. She is the daughter of mathematician John N. Mather.

Career

Mather is best known for her contributions to research on emotion and memory. Her work with Laura Carstensen and Susan Charles revealed a positivity effect in older adults’ attention and memory, in which older adults favor positive information more and negative information less in their attention and memory than younger adults do. Perhaps the most intuitive explanation for this effect is that it is related to some sort of age-related decline in neural processes that detect and encode negative information. However, her research indicates that this is not the case; her findings suggest that older adults’ positivity effect is the result of strategic processes that help maintain well-being.

She has also been investigating how emotional arousal shapes memory. Mather first outlined an arousal-biased competition (ABC) model that they argue can account for a disparate array of emotional memory effects, including some effects that initially appear contradictory (e.g., emotion-induced retrograde amnesia vs. emotion-induced retrograde enhancement). The ABC model posits that arousal leads to both "winner-take-more" and "loser-take-less" effects in memory by biasing competition to enhance high priority information and suppress low priority information. Priority is determined by both bottom-up salience and top-down goal relevance. Previous theories fail to account for the broad array of selective emotional memory effects in the literature, and so the ABC model fills a key theoretical hole in the field of emotional memory. With colleagues, Mather then outlined a theory to account for how the locus coeruleus-noadrenaline system could simultaneously enhance brain processing of high priority or salient information while impairing processing of low priority/salience information.

Mather's research projects have included work on how older adults interpret positive stimuli as well as how stress influences older adults' decision making processes and the differences between men and women's decision-making processes under stress.

Honors
 National Institute on Aging K02 Career Development Award
 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association
 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America
 Excellence in Teaching Award from the UC Santa Cruz Committee on Teaching
 Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging
 Margret Baltes Dissertation Award in the Psychology of Aging from APA Division 20
 American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship

Selected publications
 Mather, M. (2007). Emotional arousal and memory binding: An object-based framework. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 33-52.
 Mather, M., Gorlick, M. A., & Lighthall, N.R. (2009). To brake or accelerate when the light turns yellow? Stress reduces older adults' risk taking in a driving game. Psychological Science, 20, 174-176.
 Mather, M., & Sutherland, M.R. (2011). Arousal-biased competition in perception and memory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 114-133.
 Nashiro, K., Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2011). Age differences in brain activity during emotion processing: Reflections of age-related decline or increased emotion regulation? Gerontology.
 Sakaki, M., Niki, K., & Mather, M. (2011). Updating existing emotional memories involves the frontopolar/orbitofrontal cortex in ways that acquiring new emotional memories does not. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3498-3514.
 Mather, M, & Lighthall, N.R. (in press). Both risk and reward are processed differently in decisions made under stress. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

References

External links
University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology

American women psychologists
American gerontologists
American cognitive neuroscientists
American women neuroscientists
Memory researchers
Women medical researchers
University of Southern California faculty
Princeton University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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21st-century American women scientists


The Van Vleck House was built in Jackson, Wyoming in 1910–1011.  The log house and barn are the only remaining residential structures in the vicinity of the Town Square.

The Van Vleck House was built by Roy Van Vleck, operator of the first "mercantile", or general store, in Jackson. Roy and his new wife, Genevieve Lawton Van Vleck lived in the cabin from 1911 to 1960. The Van Vleck house was notable at the time for possessing its own well, which served much of the surrounding population. In 1920 Genevieve became one of the members of the first all-female town council in the United States, serving until 1923. Roy Van Vleck was the local land commissioner and served on the hospital and school boards. Van Vleck was also a leader of the opposition to the creation and expansion of Grand Teton National Park in the 1930s.

The house is a one-story log cabin. The approximately  by  L-shaped house was moved  after a 1988 fire and set on a new foundation. It retains its orientation and context. The interior did not survive the fire and has been reconstructed. The barn, which is a few years newer than the house, stands nearby. The barn includes a central brick chimney and is used for storage. The barn was the location for the final fight scene featuring Clint Eastwood in the 1980 movie Every Which Way But Loose.

In 1980 the house became a restaurant. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, and is the only authentic historical structure in the central area of Jackson.

Barn removal
In August 2009 work began to dismantle the barn for removal and reconstruction at a new site south of Jackson.  The removal of the barn was approved by the town of Jackson, but the town requested that demolition be stopped to allow a review when it was revealed that the town's list of historic properties did not include the barn, despite its inclusion on the National Register. The owners of the site did not have immediate plans for the property and stated that they wished to "clean up the block."

References

External links
 at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Van Vleck House and Barn at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Houses in Teton County, Wyoming
Log cabins in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Teton County, Wyoming
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming


Poliana Okimoto (born March 8, 1983) is a Brazilian long-distance swimmer.

Career
She was at the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Moscow, where she finished 18th in the 800-metre freestyle.

She won the Travessia dos Fortes in 2005.

Okimoto competed in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, in the first appearance of the marathon swimming, where she received the silver medal in the Women's 10K, the first Brazilian medal at this edition.

Okimoto finished 7th in the inaugural aquatic marathon (10 km race) at the 2008 Olympics.

She also swam at the 2008 Open Water World Championships in Seville, Spain.

In 2009, Okimoto won the marathon swimming World Cup, winning 9 of 11 stages held, becoming the first Brazilian champion of the sport.

At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, obtained the bronze medal. With that, she broke a 15 years-fast for Brazil in the World Championships, and became the first Brazilian woman to win a medal in the competition's history. She was considered by Época magazine one of the 100 most influential Brazilians in 2009.

She was at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, where she finished 20th in the 400-metre freestyle.

In 2010, she broke the short-course Brazilian records of the 800-metre freestyle (8:27.77)  and 1500-metre freestyle (16:09.04).

At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Okimoto repeated the 2007 result, and again won the silver.

In the 2012 Olympics in London Okimoto was unable to complete the race due to the water temperature, being disqualified. The frustration that followed led Okimoto to clinical depression and thoughts of abandoning the sport, before being convinced otherwise by among others her husband-coach Ricardo Cintra.

At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, Poliana had a historical participation. She won the silver medal in the Women's 5K race, and, some days later, became the World Champion in the 10K race. Finishing, in the team event, she won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team, along with Samuel de Bona and Allan do Carmo.

On August 12, 2013, Okimoto broke the Brazilian record in the 1500-metre freestyle, with a time of 16:26.90.

At the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Okimoto finished 6th in the 10 km marathon.

Okimoto initially finished fourth at the 10 km race at the 2016 Olympics hosted by Brazil. A disqualification of second placed Aurélie Muller upgraded her to the bronze, making Okimoto the first Brazilian woman to win a swimming Olympic medal.

The following year, Okimoto wound up absent of the 2017 World Championships, finishing third in the national 10 km qualifiers and skipping the 5 km ones.

See also
List of Brazilian records in swimming

References

External links

 2008 Olympics profile

1983 births
Living people
Brazilian female long-distance swimmers
Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Olympic swimmers for Brazil
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Swimmers from São Paulo
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Brazilian people of Japanese descent
World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
21st-century Brazilian women


Max Lewis Ehrich is an American actor, singer, and dancer.

Life and career
Ehrich was raised in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, in a Jewish family with mother Rhonda Ehrich and father Bruce Ehrich. He made his film debut starring in One Easy Job (2004), then had a supporting role as principal dancer in High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Breaking into television, Ehrich played Randy in two episodes of Ugly Betty. He then played 16-year-old jock Jesse Moretti in the 2009 Lifetime TV-movie The Pregnancy Pact, starring Thora Birch, Camryn Manheim, and Nancy Travis. He filmed two pilots for CBS in 2010, and has since shot another pilot as a recurring guest star for the new Country Music Television sitcom Working Class, starring Melissa Peterman. He played Adam in iStart A Fan War, a TV-movie for the Nickelodeon show iCarly.

In 2012, Ehrich joined the American CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless as Fenmore Baldwin. The following year he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal. Ehrich chose a scene where Fenmore tells Jamie that Summer is the one cyberbullying him. From 2014 through 2015, he appeared in a recurring role throughout CBS' Under the Dome, as Hunter May. He additionally has appeared on series including  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He had a recurring role on the Nickelodeon show 100 Things to Do Before High School, and appeared as Quinn in six episodes of Embeds. In 2019, Ehrich appeared in the Netflix film Walk. Ride. Rodeo.

Personal life
Ehrich and singer-songwriter Demi Lovato began dating in March 2020 and became engaged in July 2020. Two months later, the couple called off their engagement.

By November 2020, he was reported to be dating singer Mariah Angeliq.

Filmography and discography

Discography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

21st-century American male actors
American male dancers
American male film actors
American male television actors
Jewish American male actors
Living people
Male actors from New Jersey
People from Marlboro Township, New Jersey
1991 births
21st-century American Jews


Saving Milly is a 2005 American made-for-television drama film that stars Madeleine Stowe and Bruce Greenwood, which first aired on CBS on March 13, 2005.  It is an adaptation of Morton Kondracke's nonfiction book of the same name.

Plot
Madeleine Stowe and Bruce Greenwood star in this drama based on the best-selling book and real-life journey of political journalist Mort Kondracke. The movie recounts his inspiring love story with his activist wife, Milly, and the dramatic change in their lives in the years after she is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

As a young journalist in Chicago in the '60s, Mort Kondracke envisioned marrying a Vassar graduate whose status would facilitate his goal of becoming a top Washington journalist. His calculated plans go awry when he meets and marries Milly Martinez, a brash part-Mexican, part-Catholic, part-Jewish liberal activist who captures his heart. In Washington, D.C., the loving, strong-willed partners build a passionate and volatile marriage while debating everything from politics to how to raise their two daughters as well as her insatiable, all-consuming desire to save the world by championing a never-ending list of causes—all overshadowed by Mort's struggle with alcoholism.

In 1987, their lives take a dramatic turn when Milly notices a change in her handwriting and a numbness in her fingers. After a series of tests, her worst fears are confirmed and, at the age of 47, Milly is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Holding to his promise of "in sickness and in health," Mort changes his focus from being a die-hard careerist to becoming a devoted caregiver and Parkinson's advocate and the love between the couple grows stronger. As her illness progresses, his life becomes committed to saving Milly."

Cast
 Madeleine Stowe as Milly
 Bruce Greenwood as Mort Kondracke
 Robert Wisden as  	Fred Barnes
 Claudia Ferri	as	Norma Alvarado
 Rob LaBelle	as	Mark
 Brenda Campbell	as	Joan Samuelson
 Kyla Wise		as 	Andrea Kondracke (as Kyla Anderson)
 Erica Carroll	as 	Alexandra Kondracke
 Kylee Dubois	as 	Alexandra Kondracke (Age 16) (as Kyle Dubois)
 Jessica Lowndes	as	Andrea Kondracke (Age 15)
 Jose Del Buey	as	Carlos
 Dan Joffre		as 	Tony Hot Dog (as David 'Dan' Joffre)
 Leah Cairns	as 	Senator's Aide
 Susan Hogan	as	Senator Bates
 Michael J. Fox as Himself (Uncredited)
Allison Hossack

Reception
The film received a positive review from The New York Times.

Awards and nominations
 2005 Humanitas Prize -  Nominated - Jeff Arch for 90 Minute or Longer Category
 2005 Imagen Award - Won - Madeleine Stowe for Best Actress - Television

References

External links

2005 drama films
2005 television films
2005 films
CBS network films
Films scored by Lee Holdridge
Films directed by Dan Curtis
American drama television films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
English-language drama films