Stephen James Kahn (born, December 14, 1983 in Fullerton, California) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Kahn was drafted in the fifth round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft by the Seattle Mariners. Kahn attended Servite High School and then Loyola Marymount University prior to being drafted. He was signed by scouts Greg Whitworth, Dennis Gonsalves and Phil Pote.

Kahn was a member of the 2004 United States national baseball team. He was ranked as the ninth best prospect in the Mariners' organization by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in . Kahn's pitching repertoire includes a 93 to 96-mph four-seam fastball and a curveball.

Amateur career

High school
Kahn attended Servite High School in Anaheim, California. He earned three varsity letters and was voted Most Valuable Player his freshman year. In his senior season he served as the team's captain. He was drafted in the eight round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers but did not sign.

College
In 2003 with Loyola Marymount University, he went 5-4 with a 4.98 ERA in 25 games. He was the West Coast Conference pitcher of the year in 2004. In 2005 with them, he went 5-6 with a 5.60 ERA in 17 games.

He was named West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2004 and was selected to Team USA where he became a gold medalist at the World University Baseball Championship in Tainan, Taiwan. He was also named as an All-WCC first-team selection. Baseball America named him a top-ten college pitcher. He was also named a 2005 Pre-season All-American by Baseball America. On May 6, 2005 he was named the WCC Player of the Week.

Professional career

Seattle Mariners
He began his professional career in , playing for the AZL Mariners in one game and the Short-Season Everett AquaSox, appearing in 17 games. Kahn made his Short-Season debut on July 30 and gave-up three runs in one inning pitched. He finished fourth in the Northwest League with 14 saves and recorded saves in nine consecutive relief appearances from July 31 to August 17, allowing only one run in nine innings of work. He played in the post-season with the Class-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Midwest League.

In , he played for the Class-A Advanced Inland Empire 66ers and the Double-A San Antonio Missions. He made 20 appearances for the 66ers, going 2-0 with a 1.95 ERA. However, in 31 games for the Missions, he went 1-3 with a 6.23 ERA. He played for the Peoria Javelinas in the Arizona Fall League. He was named an Arizona Fall League Rising Star during his time in the AFL.  He played for the Cardenales de Lara in the 2007 Venezuelan Winter League.

He only played in one game since 2006, as he damaged an ACL in early 2007 and he damaged his other in 2008. He did however get an invitation to spring training in  but was reassigned in the first round of cuts. He also played for the Peoria Javelinas in the Arizona Fall League in at the end of the '08 going 0-1 with one save and an 8.79 ERA in 10 appearances. He was added to the 40-man roster on November 20, 2008.

Kahn was sidelined this season with right shoulder inflammation, and missed  and  with a pair of knee injuries. He was re-signed by the Mariners on February 21, . He was released by the Mariners on September 13, 2009. In early-November 2010, the Mariners re-signed Kahn.

References

External links
Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors) and The Baseball Cube

1983 births
Living people
Loyola Marymount University alumni
Baseball players from Fullerton, California
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Go Riteway Transportation Group is a motor coach, limo coach, black car, commuter coach, and school bus service provider based in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Go Riteway Transportation Group, founded in 1957, is now in its third generation of family management.

Go Riteway school bus division was started in 1957, by Rollie and Pearl Bast, with four school buses serving the Germantown School District. GO Riteway's 1,600 employees operate out of over 25 locations across the Midwest with a fleet of 1,300 vehicles that includes school buses, motor coaches, shuttle coaches, limo coaches, executive sedans and vans.

In July 2011 the company changed its name from Riteway Bus Service to Go Riteway Transportation Group.

Go Riteway offers daily commuter shuttle service to and from Milwaukee, West Bend, Richfield, and Germantown, Wisconsin as the Washington County Commuter Express (WCCE).

It also operates charter services in Wisconsin and Illinois.

References

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Bus transportation in Wisconsin
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Ohavi Zedek (Hebrew for "Lovers of Justice") is a Conservative synagogue in Burlington, Vermont, United States.

History
Founded in 1876, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Vermont. The synagogue's original building, a brick Gothic Revival structure erected in 1885 (Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue), is among the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States. The building, at the corner of Archibald and Hyde Streets in Burlington, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The congregation moved to its present home on North Prospect Street in 1952. The Archibald Street building is now occupied by Congregation Ahavath Gerim.

See also
 Oldest synagogues in the United States

References

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Flying syringe is a phrase that is used to refer to proposed, but not yet created, genetically modified mosquitoes that inject vaccines into people when they bite them.

History
In the 1990s, Bob Sinden of Imperial College, London, and Julian Crampton of the University of Liverpool, developed this idea and filled three related patents between 1997 and 2003.

In 2008, the Gates Foundation awarded $100,000 to Hiroyuki Matsuoka of Jichi Medical University in Japan to do research on them, with a condition that any discoveries that were funded by the grant must be made available at affordable prices in the developing world. If Matsuoka proves that his idea has merit, he will be eligible for an additional $1 million of funding. The Washington Post referred to flying syringes as a "bold idea".

See also

Hunter-seeker

References

Vaccination
Hypothetical technology
Culicidae


William James Grahame (July 22, 1884 – February 15, 1936), was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues in -. He would play for the St. Louis Browns.

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Borella is the largest suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka represented by divisional code 8.

Demographic

Borella is a multi-religious and multi-ethnic area. The major ethnic communities in Borella are Sinhalese and Tamils. There are also various other minorities, such as Burghers, Sri Lankan Moors and others. Religions include Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and various other religions and beliefs to a lesser extent.

History
The history of the settlement of Borella is dated from the 15th century as a village situated along a cart-track from the port of Colombo to Kotte. A Borella municipal market was built in 1910. Borella was also a terminus of the historical defunct Colombo tramway system. During the Black July riots in 1983, various properties in Borella were damaged.

Sports venues

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium also known as P. Sara Oval and Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club.
 Royal Colombo Golf Club (also known as Ridgeway Links). Founded in 1879 it is the oldest in the country and one of the oldest in Asia.

Schools
 Sunrise International Preschool
 Wesley College
 Bandaranayake Vidyalaya
 Carey College, Borella
 Devi Balika Vidyalaya
 C. W. W. Kannangara Vidyalaya
 Susamaya Wardana Maha Vidyalaya
 Rathnawali Balika Maha Vidyalaya
 Colombo Overseas School
 Gateway International School
 Oxford  Overseas School

Diplomatic missions

 Honorary Consulate of Zambia
 Embassy of Turkey
 Embassy of Afghanistan
 Honorary Consulate of Benin

Cemetery

Colombo's main burial ground and crematorium, Kanatte Cemetery, is located in Borella. It is situated at the intersection of Narahenpita Road (Elvitigala Mawatha), Bullers Road (Bauddhaloka Mawatha), and Baseline Road (D. S. Senanayake Mawtha) at a large traffic circle. The cemetery was established in 1840 and includes a section dedicated for those who died during World War I and II.

References

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In structural engineering, the P-Δ or P-delta effect refers to the abrupt changes in ground shear, overturning moment, and/or the axial force distribution at the base of a sufficiently tall structure or structural component when it is subject to a critical lateral displacement. A distinction can be made between P-delta effects on a multi-tiered building, written as P-Δ, and the effects on members deflecting within a tier, written as P-δ.

P-delta is a second-order effect on a structure which is loaded laterally.  One first-order effect is the initial deflection of the structure in reaction to the lateral load. The magnitude of the P-delta effect depends on the magnitude of this initial deflection. P-delta is a moment found by multiplying the force due to the weight of the structure and applied axial load, P, by the first-order deflection, Δ or δ.

NUMERICAL EXAMPLE OF P DELTA EFFECT ON A CALCULATOR
You have a 1 meter tall rigid vertical rod that rotates on a hinge at the bottom of the rod. There is a 1 newton load on the top of the rod. The rod has a hinge with a rotational stiffness of 0.8 newton meters per radian of rotation.
So you input any initial rotational angle on the rod. The following table shows that the rod  will iterate to 1.13 radians where the rod will be in stable equilibrium.
The formula for this table is        next radians rotation=sin(last radians rotation)/.8                                                              In the table from the formula you can see the rod starts at .1 radians and iterates to 1.13 radians where it is in stable equilibrium.
.1 .124 .156 .194 .241 .300 .367 .448 .542 .645 .751 .853 .942 1.01 1.06 1.09 1.11 1.12 1.12 1.13 1.13  and so on as it converges to 1.13 radians where the rod is stable.  The P DELTA effect finds the stable final deformed shape of a structure just like how the rod rotates to a final deformed position at 1.13 radians. The idea is that iteratively repeated linear structural analyses can solve a non linear structural analysis problem. It takes multiple iterations of a linear analysis to compute the final deformed shape of a structure where the P DELTA effect is significant.

To illustrate the effect, consider a case in statics, a perfectly rigid body anchored on the ground subject to small lateral forces.  In this example, a concentrated vertical load applied to the top of the structure and the weight of the structure itself are used to compute the ground reaction force and moment.  Real structures are flexible and will bend to the side.  The amount of bending is found through a strength of materials analysis. During this side displacement, the top has changed position and the structure is experiencing an additional moment, P×Δ, or near the middle, P×δ.  This moment is not accounted for in a basic first-order analysis. By superposition, the structure responds to this moment by additional bending and displacement at the top.

In some sense, the P-delta effect is similar to the buckling load of an elastic, small-scale solid column given the boundary conditions of a free end on top and a completely restrained end at the bottom, with the exception that there may exist an invariant vertical load at the top of the column. A rod planted firmly into the ground, given a constant cross-section, can only extend so far up before it buckles under its own weight; in this case the lateral displacement for the solid is an infinitesimal quantity governed by Euler buckling. If the lateral displacement and/or the vertical axial loads through the structure are significant then a P-delta analysis should be performed to account for the non-linearities.

References
Lindeburg, M.R., Baradar, M. Seismic Design of Building Structures : A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details (8th ed.). Professional Publications, Inc. Belmont, CA (2001).
Comino, P. What is P-Delta Analysis? SkyCiv Engineering. Sydney, Australia (2016).

Statics


Judith Shea is an American sculptor and artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948. She received a degree in fashion design at Parsons School of Design in 1969 and a BFA in 1975. This dual education formed the basis for her figure based works. Her career has three distinct phases: The use of cloth and clothing forms from 1974 to 1981; Hollow cast metal clothing-figure forms from 1982 until 1991; and carved full-figure statues made of wood, cloth, clay, foam and hair beginning in 1990 to present.

About

Her first New York City presentation was at Alanna Heiss's CLOCKTOWER galleries Project Room in April 1976. In a performance based on color theory, she made a full spectrum of sheer silk shirts and pants. Dancer Juliette Shen, changing clothes at Shea's direction, added and subtracted layers, mixing new colors live in the transparent silk. There were five performances over three days. In the January 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms hung on the wall that evoked iconic clothes of her childhood years; a black overcoat, "I LIKE IKE", and 2 simple sheath dresses, "INAUGURAL BALL" and "EXEC. SEC'Y.". Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn’s Directions 83 survey. To Shea these works evoke a human presence through the clothes.

With the support of NEA grants in 1984 and 1986, Shea began casting her figures into iron and bronze, allowing her to work more three dimensionally. The 1986 fellowship also offered a French Exchange, and Shea went to Paris to study the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden 1986 (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd’s Muse 1988 (Oliver Ranch), Shield 1990 (Sheldon Museum of Art), Without Words 1988 (Walker Art Center), and "Post-Balzac" 1990 (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden).

In 1989 after a residency at Chesterwood—Daniel Chester French’s summer studio in Stockbridge, Mass. where he had worked on his Lincoln Memorial monument—Shea began to carve what she termed ironic monuments and statues in wood. A show of these works at Max Protetch Gallery, NY  in March 1993 was titled "All About Adam, and Eve". In an article in Art in America Magazine that Spring, author Brooks Adams referred to them as "Shea's Anti-Monuments". Included was a white northern pine equestrian statue of an over-sized, middle aged, white-stained male astride an undersized, over-worked white-stained farm horse. Signifying the end of the cultural tradition of who gets to be the hero in our celebratory monuments, Shea titled the work "No More Monument".

Following this in 1994 The Public Art Fund sponsored Shea's installation, The Other Monument. This wooden equestrian monument was of a free black man astride a black horse. It was sited at Doris Freedman Plaza at 60th St. and Central Park, directly north of the Civil War era Union Victory Monument of Augustus Saint-Gaudens - a gilded equestrian figure of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Two years previously Shea had been awarded the Saint Gaudens Fellowship. Influenced by her research into his Civil War works, Shea realized that at that time there were no figurative monuments to the other victory of the American Civil War - Emancipation. This was her offering of the missing monument.

Following several fellowships abroad, including a Rockefeller Foundation Residency Bellagio, Italy, The Rome Prize Fellowship the American Academy in Rome, and the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Artist’s Award Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, Shea began a group of works in 2000 that deal with the figure imagined as character and icon. This work set the stage for the evolution of her next major body of work, which she titled Judith Shea: Legacy Collection. The topic of the Legacy Collection was the artist’s first hand experience of 9/11: She lives very near what became Ground Zero of the World Trade Center site. In this very personal response, Shea fashioned a group of mannequin-like figures, as if placed in the windows of the Brooks Brothers store just across from the site on that Tuesday. They are looking skyward, elegant in gray felt, covered in dust and debris. About them Shea has written, "I was struck by this unique juxtaposition, the sleek image of Success - American Style, opposite this spectacular attempt to topple it, with just the unbroken shop window between themz'. Several works from the Legacy Collection series have been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven.

In 2012, Shea curated an exhibition at the invitation of The National Academy Museum. From their Collection she chose portraits and self-portraits of female members of the Academy from 1858 to 1971. In a video tour of the exhibit, titled "Her Own Style: An Artist's Eye With Judith Shea", Shea interpreted what she saw as the very personal self description that each woman made in her self-portrait. Telling what mattered to her as an artist and how she wanted to be viewed in history. Shea made additional sculptural portraits for the show of three of her favorite figurative sculptors - "Louise Monument" (Bourgeois), "Elizabeth Tribute" (Catlett) and "Marisol".

Awards
2013 ARTS AND LETTERS AWARD IN ART: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2013 AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE: The 2013 Annual Exhibition; National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2012 GUGGENHEIM FELLOW in Fine Arts; The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
2011 ANONYMOUS WAS A WOMAN AWARD; New York, NY
2011 ARTISTS’ LEGACY FOUNDATION 2011 ARTIST AWARD; Oakland, CA
2007 CHARLOTTE DUNWIDDIE PRIZE for SCULPTURE; National Academy Museum, New York, NY
1995 ARTS INTERNATIONAL-LILA WALLACE READER’S DIGEST: International Artist Award; Oaxaca, Mexico
1994 ROME PRIZE FELLOWSHIP: Trustees Award, American Academy in Rome
1993 FELLOW of the AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS MEMORIAL; National Historic Site; Home and studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1993 ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION RESIDENT FELLOWSHIP, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
1992 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE: For Outstanding Volunteer Service with the Artist-and-Homeless Collaborative; City of New York, Human Resources Administration
1989 The GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM SCULPTOR in RESIDENCE at CHESTERWOOD; A National Historic Trust Property; Stockbridge, MA
1986 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS: Individual Artist Fellowship in Sculpture; US/France Exchange
1984 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTS: Individual Artist Fellowship in Sculpture

Collections
Shea's work is included in the following public collections:
Yale University Art Gallery
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Museum of Modern Art in New York City
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
NATIONAL GALLERY in Washington, D.C. (Herbert & Dorothy Vogel Collection)
MCASD in San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE
Weatherspoon Art Museum UNC Greensboro in Greensboro, NC
Addison Gallery Phillips Academy in Andover, MA
Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY
Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, IA (John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park)
Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO

References

External links
Shea at the Hirshhorn
Shea at the Museum of Modern Art
Shea at the Walker

1948 births
Living people
American women sculptors
Artists from Philadelphia
20th-century American sculptors
21st-century American sculptors
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
Sculptors from Pennsylvania
20th-century American women sculptors


The Empire Shall Fall is an American metalcore band formed by Jesse Leach with friends in 2008. The band released their first independent album Awaken which was released on November 17, 2009, until Jesse and Nick left The Empire Shall Fall in 2019. Nick Sollecito also left The Empire Shall Fall to focus on his other band, The Dear Hunter. The Empire Shall Fall currently consists of singer Alan Feeney, guitarists Jake Davenport and Marcus de Lisle, bassist Dylan Nash, and drummer Jeff Pitts.

History

Inception (2008–2009)
The Empire Shall Fall was formed in late 2008 by current Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach with a handful of instrumentalists: guitarists Jake Davenport and Marcus de Lisle, bassist Nick Sollecito, and drummer Jeff Pitts. The Empire Shall Fall is the first band vocalist Leach has used predominantly screamed vocals in since Killswitch Engage, although the band retains some of the singing elements of Seemless, which has since been put upon an indefinite hiatus.

In 2008 the band released a demo consisting of four songs on their Myspace page: "Voices Forming Weapons", "The Kingdom", "These Colors Bleed", and "We The People". The demo is currently available for download on their record label Angle Side Side Records' official website. The label has since stated that "The Empire Shall Fall enters HQ Sound Labs Studio (Dear Hunter, Receiving End of Sirens) in April to begin recording for their debut CD to be released Summer '09."

On September 11, 2009, The Empire Shall Fall announced through their Myspace page that their debut album Awaken would be released on November 17, 2009, with eight songs, including the previously recorded demo tracks re-recorded and reworked, and three new songs which had only been played live.

Awaken (2009–2011)
Awaken was released on November 17, 2009, through Angle Side Side Records, owned by The Empire Shall Fall's bassist, Nick Sollecito. The band cites its influences as At the Gates, Meshuggah, and Edge of Sanity. Awaken draws heavily on the band members' interests in jazz, punk, and experimental music. They are said to sound like Refused, At the Drive-In, Deftones, and Between the Buried and Me. The album reflects heavily on the themes of  politics and transcendentalism. Lyrically the album advocates positivity, unity, and empowerment. Inspirations for the album have been cited as Jello Biafra, Benjamin Franklin, and Ron Paul.

Volume 1: Solar Plexus (2011–present)
The band announced their intention to release a new EP via their social networks (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Hootsuite etc.) in early 2011.
In a recent tumblr post, the band revealed:
"we have been working on a series of concept EPs.  While we haven't yet released details on the concept linking the EPs, we can tell you that the first one deals with redemption and the "guts of emotion."  Lyrical content deals with "picking up the pieces of your life and starting over" and "finding a new perspective as a result of the changes and lessons learned in the past." The first EP, called "Volume 1: Solar Plexus" was released digitally December 6, 2011. In February 2014, the band posted on their tumblr page revealing that they have spent the past year working on the upcoming album Volume 2: Heart. As of November 2020, no such release has materialized.

Members
Jake Davenport – lead guitar (2008–present)
Marcus de Lisle – rhythm guitar (2008–present)
Jeff Pitts – drums, percussion (2008–present)
Alan Feeney – lead vocals (2019–present)
Dylan Nash – bass (2020–present)

Former members
Jesse Leach – lead vocals (2008–2019)
Nick Sollecito – bass (2008–2020)

Discography

References

Metalcore musical groups from Rhode Island
Musical groups established in 2008


Clarence Franklin Currie (December 30, 1878 – July 15, 1941), was a Canadian professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues in –. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, and Chicago Cubs.

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John Davis Stuart (April 27, 1901 – May 13, 1970), nicknamed "Stud," was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from  to  after pitching at Ohio State University. He coached Marshall University basketball and baseball, winning four straight West Virginia Athletic Conference titles for the Herd from 1928 to 1931, and had 11 players named to the All-West Virginia team and one, Johnny Watson, who signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1930. He was 67-21-1 at Marshall baseball. He was 46-29 as the Marshall basketball coach (1927–31), losing the WVIAC title to Glenville State late in his best season, 12–3 in 1929–30. He was an assistant coach for Marshall football from 1927 to 1931, helping the Herd to win WVIAC titles in 1928 and 1931, with Marshall going 27-15-3 during his time on the sidelines for the Herd.

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Brian Patrick Monahan (born 1960) is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. He previously served as the director of hematology and medical oncology at the National Naval Medical Center. He is a Master of The American College of Physicians and a Member of the Academy of Medicine.

Monahan is an internal medicine and hematology and medical oncology (HMO) doctor and researcher, and from 1987-1989 Monahan served as the battalion surgeon for the 3rd Battalion 6th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division prior to his training in internal medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. He served as professor and chairman of medicine at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, prior to his present assignment. He returned permanently in the spring of 2008 as the assistant attending physician.

In May 2003, Monahan was presented with the 18th Annual Clinical Investigation Program Award for his project entitled, A Pilot Study of Oxaliplatin and Capecitibine in Adult Patients with Refractory Solid Tumors. The three-year project tested the effectiveness of an anti-cancer drug on 100 patients with colon cancer. With the National Cancer Institute, Monahan served as the principal investigator on clinical trials of novel anti-cancer drugs and assisted heavily in the discovery of the unexpected sudden death associated with the first non-sedating antihistamines like Seldane. Monahan was Navy specialty leader for hematology and medical oncology from 2001-2008, chairman of the U. S. Military Cancer Institute Medical Oncology Program and associate director for federal compliance and human subjects protections from 2002-2008. His work with the American Society of Clinical Oncology was instrumental in the creation of the first national in-training competency examination in medical oncology in 2008.

Monahan is also a medical educator at the Uniformed Services University (USU) Department of Medicine where he has been selected Outstanding Teacher of the Year multiple times.  He became assistant professor of medicine at USU in 1991 and was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and professor of medicine and pathology in 2006. He was named the Outstanding Teacher of the Year of The National Cancer Institute in 2000.

Monahan was praised for his approach to advising members of Congress about Covid-19.

Education
Monahan received his B.S. summa cum laude from Fairfield University and M.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Medicine.  He trained in internal medicine and later hematology and medical oncology (HMO) at National Naval Medical Center (NNMC). He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology.

References

External links
Official US Navy Biography *

1960 births
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Georgetown University School of Medicine alumni
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Bike registries are databases of unique, identifying information about bicycles and their ownership. Most registration programs use the unique serial numbers which are permanently affixed to most bicycles during manufacture.

Bicycle registration programs generally aim to reduce the prevalence of bike theft. Bicycle theft is one of the major factors that slow the development of utility cycling since it discourages people from investing in a bicycle.

Bicycle registration may be a public service provided by a local, state or national government, or be provided by an independent organization.

Some registration programs are exclusively designed for spreading the word after a bike has been stolen, while others focus on registering bikes before they are stolen.

Purpose
Bike registration is intended to provide:
 An element of security (such as at schools and universities)
 A means of theft deterrence and a method of recovery in the event of theft

Bikes are stolen in large numbers in many parts of the world.
 In Copenhagen approximately 20,000 annually.
 In the United States an average of 230,000 annually, according to the FBI.
 In the United Kingdom according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales of the Office for National Statistics thefts peaked at 660,000 in 1995, and dropped to 290,000 in 2017, the latest year for which survey statistics were available in 2021; about one third of this number of thefts were reported to police. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic thefts dropped according to police figures, but were expected to rise afterwards. Only about 5% of stolen bikes are returned to their owners. About a quarter of people whose bicycle is stolen stop cycling, and 66% cycle less often. The UK BikeRegister database, used by the police to recover and return stolen bicycles, reached its millionth registration in January 2021.
 In the Czech Republic in 2012, there were almost 8000 bicycles reported stolen, 1260 of them in the Moravian-Silesian Region, 368 of them in the city of Ostrava. It is thought that most thefts are not reported because the rate of recovery is infinitesimal.

Globally the number is estimated at 1.5 million bikes reported stolen annually; perhaps another 2 to 3 million go unreported annually.

Procedure
At many schools and universities, all bikes brought onto campus are routinely required to be registered by their owners and to display prominently their annual school-provided registration decal.

Some states in the USA, such as California, have laws which allow cities and municipalities to require registration of bikes.  The registration period typically is in excess of one year. Building on existing law, California has passed a bill in 2014 that will allow cities, counties or regional park districts to impose an annual vehicle registration surcharge of up to $5 to pay for local bike lanes and trails, valid until Jan. 1, 2025.

Several commercial and peer based bike registries exist for the purpose of theft deterrence and to improve the probability of recovery in the event of loss. The registration period typically is from 1 year to unlimited. Some commercial and peer-to-peer registries are typically preventive in nature and are performed prior to loss, while other registries perform their service only after a theft occurs.

The bike owner generally supplies detailed bike information to the registrar such as: manufacturer, model, frame style, frame material, wheel diameter, serial number, color, frame size, and accessory details.  Contact information pertaining to the owner is also included in the registration process.

Marking

The registrar may provide a decal or decal kit to the bike owner such that their bike can be easily identified as being registered.  Decals at academic institutions may have their color/design changed on an annual basis and can be fairly large such that they can be easily seen at a distance.  Decals issued by municipalities are typically of a design similar to academic decals, but not changed annually.

Decals provided by commercial and peer based registries vary in size. Tamper-resistant decals are made from specialty adhesives and/or construction so that they will be difficult to remove from the bike in the event of a theft and will be able to assist in the recovery and return effort.  Some registrars engrave a registration number on the bottom bracket or another part of the bike.

RFID (Radio-frequency identification) has been widely used for identification of such things as livestock, pets and industrial commodities.  There is a trend by some registrars to use RFID, in conjunction with decal identification, as a means of rapidly determining bike ownership by law enforcement agencies.

/*Bicycle DNA*/ is a free registration program that is offered by protechDNA, there are over 8,000 active law enforcement agencies that utilize this technology. Your bicycle registration also links your serial number and description into a law enforcement database that will cross match your details with pawn shop transactions, providing notification to bicycle owners even if the bicycle is not recovered by law enforcement. The registration is available on a free mobile app for both Apple and Android devices.

With your registration you can get a packet of adhesive gel, the adhesive packet includes thousands of microscopic dots, each dot is smaller than the size of a grain of sand, and etched with a PIN. That PIN is linked to the bicycle owners account and contact details. The program includes a bicycle marking template where the owner should apply the DNA adhesive so law enforcement can locate it.

In the Czech Republic, since 2013, a commercial register CEREK (Central Registration of Bicycles) uses classical imprinted numbering of the bicycle frames, lately supplemented by QR code stickers. This system claims about 100 partners among municipal police corps and tens among bicycle dealers. Similarly, the city of Ostrava started marking bicycles with an Australian synthetic-DNA DataDotDNA spraying technology (so-called "Forensic Marking") in 2013. Since 2013, other cities and towns have founded their own local registers and in 2015, a central register (known as REFIZ) operated by the Asociace forenzního identifikačního značení (AFIZ, Association of the Forensic Identification Marking) was created. The modern DNA marking system is widely supported by the Ministry of Interior by promotion as well as by grants which enable cities and municipal police corps to offer the marking for free. In May 2016, 17 cities were joined to the system, the largest of them are Ostrava and Plzeň, 12 of the cities are from the Moravian-Silesian Region. The activity has an ambition for cross-border pervasion to Slovakia and Poland. The DNA marking is used also for wheelchairs.

Fees charged
Fees can vary. Most peer based registries are free or charge a very nominal fee.  School and university bike registration fees range from $2 to $5 for a single-year registration.  Fees for commercial registrars typically range from $10 to $25 for multi-year registration, though Bike Index provides free registration forever.  For RFID there can be a surcharge of $15 onto the base registration fee.

Access to registry information
Access to school, university and municipality registry databases is typically limited to the law enforcement agency in charge of the registration program; commercial registrars make their registration information available to law enforcement agencies upon request; and peer-to-peer registries make their stolen bike information publicly available via the Internet.

See also
 List of bicycle registers
 Danish bicycle VIN-system, a bicycle marking system where a unique code is engraved into the bicycle frame.

References

 FBI UCR 2011, Table 23
 FBI_Year 2006 bike thefts in the USA
 UK Home Office_Yeak 2005 bike thefts in UK(xls file)
 Copenhagen bike theft

External links
 California bike registration code

Bicycles
Cycling infrastructure
Civil crime prevention
Online databases
Bicycle registry


Richard Merriwell Errickson (March 5, 1912 – November 28, 1999), nicknamed "Lief", was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues in 1938–42 playing for the Boston Bees/Braves and Chicago Cubs.

A native of Vineland, New Jersey, Errickson attended Vineland High School. He died in Vineland in 1999, aged 87.

References

External links

1912 births
1999 deaths
Major League Baseball pitchers
Boston Braves players
Chicago Cubs players
Baseball players from New Jersey
People from Vineland, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Cumberland County, New Jersey
Vineland High School alumni
Nazareth Barons players
Scranton Miners players
Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players


The 2004 Meteor Music Awards were held on Monday 1 March 2004, hosted by comedian Dara Ó Briain. It was the fourth edition of Ireland's national music awards.

At the ceremony Damien Dempsey was presented with two awards, Best Folk/Traditional Act and Best Irish Country/Roots Artist. Samantha Mumba made an appearance in a revealing see-through dress, Colin Farrell was pictured with both Bono and Chris Pontius whilst Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith posed with Sharon Corr after both collected awards.

Performers included Lionel Richie, Katie Melua, Counting Crows, The Corrs, Sugababes, Westlife, Hothouse Flowers, The Frames, The Dubliners, Snow Patrol, Paddy Casey and Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club. Award presenters included Dominic West, Bic Runga and Alex Zane, actors George McMahon and Patrick Bergin, No Frontiers presenter Kathryn Thomas alongside Kerry McFadden, Miss World Rosanna Davison, Keith Duffy, Niall Quinn, Deirdre O'Kane, Denis Hickie, Joe Elliott and Hector Ó hEochagáin. The event was broadcast on Network 2 on Wednesday 3 March at 21:00.

Winners
 Best Irish Radio DJ: Ryan Tubridy
 Ian Dempsey
 Donal Dineen
 Tom Dunne
 Dave Fanning
 John Kelly
 Best Irish Band: The Frames
 Bell X1
 Future Kings of Spain
 The Thrills
 Snow Patrol
 The Tycho Brahe
 Best Irish Pop Act: Westlife
 D-Side
 Hazel Kaneswaran
 Ronan Keating
 Simon Casey
 Best Irish Album: The Thrills, So Much for the City
 Paddy Casey, Living
 Bell X1, Music in Mouth
 Damien Dempsey, Seize the Day
 The Frames, Set List
 David Kitt, Square 1
 Best Irish Female: Cara Dillon
 Moya Brennan
 Carol Keogh
 Róisín Murphy
 Sinéad O'Connor
 Best Irish Male: Paddy Casey
 Damien Dempsey
 Glen Hansard
 Mickey Joe Harte
 David Kitt
 Best Folk/Traditional Act: Damien Dempsey
 Cara Dillon
 Kíla
 Lúnasa
 Sharon Shannon
 Best Irish Country/Roots Artist: Damien Dempsey
 Daniel O'Donnell
 Frank Lane
 Declan Nerney
 Finbar Furey
 Best Irish New Act: Future Kings of Spain
 D-Side
 Woodstar
 Laura Isibor
 Rosey
 Simple Kid
 Best Live Performance: Red Hot Chili Peppers
 David Bowie
 Coldplay
 The Rolling Stones
 Bruce Springsteen
 Justin Timberlake
 Best International Female: Beyoncé
 Britney Spears
 Dido
 Kylie Minogue
 Erin McKeown
 Missy Elliott
 Best International Male: Justin Timberlake
 David Bowie
 Nick Cave
 Justin Hawkins
 Josh Ritter
 Robbie Williams
 Best International Group: The Darkness
 The Black Eyed Peas
 Kings of Leon
 Outkast
 The Strokes
 The White Stripes
 Best International Album: The White Stripes, Elephant
 Radiohead, Hail to the Thief
 Kings of Leon, Youth & Young Manhood
 The Darkness, Permission to Land
 Outkast, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
 Blur, Think Tank
 Humanitarian Award: Sister Stanislaus Kennedy aka 'Sister Stan'
 Hope for 2004: Republic Of Loose
 Industry Award: Dave Fanning
 Lifetime Achievement Award: The Dubliners

References

External links
 Official site
 MCD Promotions
 List of winners through the years
 Photos

Meteor Music Awards
Meteor Awards
Meteor Awards


Timothy Augustine McNamara (November 20, 1898 in Millville, Massachusetts – November 5, 1994 in North Smithfield, Rhode Island) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from   through  for the Boston Braves and New York Giants.

Over five seasons (1922-26) and 98 appearances including 42 starts, McNamara posted a 14-29 won-loss record with a 4.78 ERA in 395.2 innings pitched with 88 strikeouts and four shutouts.

External links
 Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (MLB) and Baseball Reference (MiLB)

1898 births
1994 deaths
Baseball players from Worcester County, Massachusetts
Boston Braves players
New York Giants (NL) players
Fordham Rams baseball players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Millville, Massachusetts
People from North Smithfield, Rhode Island
Reading Keystones players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Sportspeople from Providence County, Rhode Island


F. Dow Smith was president of the Optical Society of America in 1974.

See also

References

External links
 Articles Published by early OSA Presidents  Journal of the Optical Society of America

Presidents of Optica (society)
21st-century American physicists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Mansar Lake is a lake located  from the city of Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is fringed by forest-covered hills, and is over a mile () in length and half-a-mile () in width. Surinsar-Mansar Lakes are designated as Ramsar Convention in November 2005. Mansar is primarily fed by surface run-off and partially by mineralised water through paddy fields. The lake supports CITES and IUCN redlisted Lissemys punctuata, Aspideretes gangeticus and Mansariella lacustris. The composite lake is high in micro nutrients for which it is an attractive habitat, breeding and nursery ground for migratory waterfolks like Fulica atra, Gallinula chloropus, Podiceps nigricollis, Aythya fuligula and various Anas species.

About
Besides being a popular excursion destination in Jammu, it is also a holy site, sharing the legend and sanctity of Lake Manasarovar. On the Eastern Bank of the Lake there is a shrine to Shesha (the serpent-mount of Vishnu). The shrine comprises a big boulder on which are placed a number of iron chains perhaps representing the small serpents waiting on the tutelary deity of Shesha. Two ancient temples of Shiva, Narasimha, as well as a temple of Durga are situated in the vicinity of the Mansar lake. People take a holy dip in the water of the lake on festive occasions.

Newlyweds consider it auspicious to perform three circumambulations (parikrama) around the lake to seek the blessings of Shesha, the lord of serpents, whose shrine is located on its eastern bank.

Certain communities of Hindus perform the mundana ceremony (First hair cut) of their male children here.

There are also some ancient temples on the lake's shores, which are visited by devotees in large numbers. Mansar is also ideal for boating for which the Tourism Department provides adequate facilities.

This Mansar lake road joins to another important road that directly links Pathankot (Punjab) to Udhampur (Jammu & Kashmir, Jammu Province. Udhampur is a Town of strategic importance, again on National Highway No. 1A. The shortcut road from Mansar or Samba to Udhampur by-passes the Jammu town. Surinsar Lake, a smaller lake that is linked to Mansar, is  from Jammu (via a bypass road).

Flora and fauna
Areas around Mansar lake are rich in forests. Many types of trees such as Scrub, Peepal and Acacia are found here. The lake is bordered with Pine trees and provides shelter to a number of Birds and Animals. There is also a wildlife sentury near the lake which provides home to a number of Birds and Animals such as Spotted Deer, Nilgai, Cranes and Ducks. Many types of Fishes and Tortoises are also found in the Lake. Some types of Snakes are also found in the lake.

Legend
According to local tradition based on the Mahabharata, Babruvahana, the son of Arjuna and Ulupi, was the ruler of this area during that time. After the war, Arjuna performed a ritual called the ashvamedha yajna to prove his mettle and vantage over the land. Babruvahana captured the horse which was the power symbol of the yajna at Khoon village near Dhar Udhampur road where later on Babruvahana killed Arjuna. After the victory, Babruvahana shared his success with his mother by presenting the head of Arjuna to her. After knowing that Arjuna was his father, Babruvahana wanted to get Arjuna back. Therefore, he had to procure Mani from Shesha. For that, Babruvahana made a tunnel with his arrow which was known as Surangsar. After defeating Shesha and capturing the mani, he came out of Manisar (Mansar), that was the other end of the tunnel.

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References

Lakes of Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu Division
Ramsar sites in India

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Theo Green is a British composer and sound designer. He is known for his music for The Gambler,  House at the End of the Street, his Academy Award nominated sound design for Blade Runner 2049. and his Academy Award winning sound design for Dune.

Early life
Green was in the New College Choir as a chorister of New College School in Oxford and later studied at Abingdon School and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Film and TV
2008's BAFTA and BIFA-winning The Escapist was Green's first feature, as sound designer and additional composer, having collaborated with director Rupert Wyatt previously on the short film, "Get The Picture".

In 2009 Theo Green wrote the score for Warp Films' thriller Hush, directed by Mark Tonderai. In 2012 he teamed up with Mark Tonderai a second time for the Jennifer Lawrence-starring suspense thriller, House at the End of the Street, creating a score that was awarded the ASCAP PRS Film Award. The film occupied the top position at the US Box Office on its opening weekend, going on to make over $45m from a budget under $7m. Since then, Green has composed the scores for Kidulthood director Menhaj Huda's Comedown, Steve Barker's follow up to his film "Outpost" - Outpost: Black Sun and Shan Khan's Honour starring Paddy Considine.

In 2014 Green teamed up with director Rupert Wyatt for a third time with Paramount Pictures' The Gambler, starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson and Jessica Lange.  Theo Green composed original music for the film.
In 2017, Green was the Sound Designer for Denis Villeneuve's film Blade Runner 2049.

Theo Green is represented by Incite Talent Management.

Awards and nominations

In 2022 Theo Green won an Academy Award for Best Sound and a BAFTA for Dune. In 2018 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, as Sound Designer for Blade Runner 2049 and a BAFTA for Best Sound, Blade Runner 2049, and won the MPSE Golden Reel Award

Green's score for House at the End of the Street was awarded the ASCAP PRS Film Award in 2013.

Film credits
 Dune (2021)
 Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
 The Gambler (2014)
 Honour (2013)
 House at the End of the Street (2012)
 Comedown (2012)
 Lemon (2011)
 Outpost: Black Sun (2011)
 Blue Moon Rising (2010)
 Prowl (2010)
 Dread (2009)
 Hush (2009)
 The Escapist (2008)
 Get the Picture (2004, Short)

References

External links

British composers
British film score composers
British male film score composers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Abingdon School
Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
Best Sound BAFTA Award winners


The 2009 Toronto FC season was the third season in Toronto FC's existence. The club narrowly missed their first appearance for the MLS playoffs, losing the last game of the season when a win would have meant qualification.

Club

Management

Kits

Squad
As of September 9, 2009.

Transfers

In

Out

Competitions
Updated to games played October 24, 2009.

Regular season

Standings

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Pre-season

Carolina Challenge Cup 2009

2009 Major League Soccer season

Canadian Championship

CONCACAF Champions League 2009-10

Preliminary round

Mid-season friendlies

Squad statistics
Competitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate appearances as a substitute.
Updated to games played October 24, 2009.

Players

Goalkeepers

Disciplinary record
Only players with at least one card included.

1Player is no longer with team

References

2009
Toronto Fc
Toronto Fc
Toronto FC


Michael Greenberg (born 1952) is the author of the best-selling memoir Hurry Down Sunshine  (Other Press, 2008),  which depicts his daughter's battle with bipolar disorder, and Beg, Borrow, Steal (Other Press, 2009), a New York writer's memoir.

Greenberg is a columnist for The Times Literary Supplement, where he has cultivated a distinctive "quirky New York Jewish voice." He is also a contributor to The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Bomb, and The Boston Review.

Greenberg lives in New York City.

References

External links

Other Press author page for Michael Greenberg
Michael Greenberg homepage
Seattle Times review of Hurry Down Sunshine by Barbara Lloyd McMichael
RainTaxi review of Hurry Down Sunshine by Jacob Appel.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch review of Hurry Down Sunshine by Theresa Tighe.

Living people
American essayists
Memoirists from New York (state)
1952 births


Francis Dudley Williams (April 12, 1912 – December 2, 2004) was an American physicist. He served as president of the Optical Society of America from 1976 to 1980.

Biography
Williams was born to Ethel Turner and Arthur Dudley Williams in Covington, Georgia on April 12, 1912. In 1927 he entered Oxford College of Emory University, at Oxford, Georgia. A family move prompted him to transfer to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1933. He pursued graduate studies at several institutions, but settled on UNC, where he received his MA in 1934 and his PhD in physics in 1936 for a thesis on IR spectroscopy.

In 1937 Williams married Loraine Decherd, a graduate physics student whom he met while teaching at University of Texas in 1934. They had a son and a daughter. She died in 1988. He later married Marie Sovereign, who survived him.

Francis Dudley Williams died on December 2, 2004 at Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was 92 years old.

Professional career
In 1936 Williams was employed by the physics faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville; he taught there until 1941. From 1941 through 1943 he participated in radar development at MIT’s radiation laboratory, then was moved to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to work on the atomic bomb. The galvanometers he designed were used to measure the thermal radiation produced during the Trinity test in July 1945. He remained with Los Alamos until 1946.

In 1946 Williams joined Ohio State University, where he gained an international reputation in IR physics. He and another OSU physics professor (George Shortley) co-wrote an engineering-physics textbook that remained in print for 30 years. In 1963 Williams joined North Carolina State University as head of its physics department. In 1964 he accepted a position as Regents Distinguished Professor of Physics at Kansas State University in Manhattan, where he remained until his retirement in 1982.

While at KSU, Williams continued his research in IR spectroscopy of gases, liquids, and solids, and investigated transmission and reflection spectra. He also continued teaching, and loved to do lecture demonstrations.

Honors
President of the Optical Society of American (1976–1980)
Received Emory Medal in 2000 (awarded to notable Emory alumni)
Named Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1955
Named Fellow of Oxford, United Kingdom (1956)
Named Fellow of universities and institutions in Belgium and the Netherlands
Named National Science Foundation's senior post-doctoral fellow at University for Astrophysics at the University of Liege in Belgium and at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington in the United Kingdom (1961-1962)

See also
Optical Society of America#Past Presidents of the OSA

References

External links
 Articles Published by early OSA Presidents  Journal of the Optical Society of America

1912 births
2004 deaths
Presidents of Optica (society)
20th-century American physicists
People from Covington, Georgia
Lincoln Memorial University alumni
Emory University alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of Florida faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff
Kansas State University faculty
Ohio State University faculty
North Carolina State University faculty
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Fellows of the American Physical Society


In Australia, pilot licences are issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. Licences are issued for different categories of aircraft, including aeroplanes and helicopters.

Recreational pilot licence
The recreational pilot licence (RPL) is unique to Australia, and is not a standard ICAO licence. It replaced the General Flight Progress Test (GFPT).

The minimum age for an RPL is 16. It requires 25 hours experience, a written exam and a basic flight test.

The RPL is equivalent to the RA-Aus pilot certificate, which is issued by Recreational Aviation Australia. It can be converted to a CASA-issued RPL.

Private pilot licence

Requirements
In order to gain a Private Pilot Licence (PPL) in Australia, the minimum requirements are:

 Obtain a mark of 70% or more in the CASA aeroplane or helicopter exam, which tests all seven subjects listed in the Day VFR Syllabus.
 Hold at least a Class 2 medical certificate
 Have a minimum of 40 hours total flight time, of which 10 must be pilot in command, of which 5 must be solo cross country. 2 hours instrument flying is also required.

For an integrated course, only 35 hours flight experience is required.

Privileges
The PPL allows private pilots to operate single engine aircraft in VFR conditions throughout all Australian airspace classes in daylight. For students upgrading from a Recreational Pilot Licence (RPL), it removes the 1500kg Maximum Takeoff Weight limitation, allowing pilots to fly any Australian registered aircraft as pilot in command, providing they hold appropriate endorsements for that specific type.

PPL holders may go on to gain a night VFR rating, Private Instrument Rating (PIFR) to fly under the Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), including at night and in adverse weather, Multi Engine Aeroplane (MEA) Class Ratings, and other operational privileges and endorsements such as aerobatics and aircraft design features.

PPL holders may operate Australian registered aircraft in foreign airspace, subject to the regulations of the relevant government aviation authorities.

Under a PPL, Australian pilots are limited to 5 passengers onboard their aircraft, regardless of aircraft seating capacity.

Commercial pilot licence
The minimum experience required for a commercial pilot licence (CPL) is 200 hours for a non-integrated course, or 150 hours for an integrated course.

Air transport pilot licence
The minimum experience required for an air transport pilot licence (ATPL) is 1500 hours for aeroplanes, or 1000 hours for helicopters.

Military pilot licences

Members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) with a military flight crew qualification and sufficient experience can convert it into an Air Transport Pilot Licence by completing a flight test.

Conversion

Holders of a foreign (ICAO) pilot licence may fly temporarily in Australia for up to 12 months using a Certificate of Validation.

To gain a permanent Australian licence on the basis of an ICAO licence, the applicant must demonstrate English language proficiency. For licences more advanced than the PPL, the applicant must pass a conversion exam and sometimes a flight test.

Australia and New Zealand recognise each other's licences.

References

External links
 Private pilot licence

Aviation licenses and certifications
Civil aviation in Australia
Pilot licensing by country


Imitation is a 2007 Canadian film by directed by Federico Hidalgo and starring Vanessa Bauche, Jesse Aaron Dwyre and Conrad Pla and distributed by Atopia.

Plot
When Teresa (played by Vanessa Bauche) was left in Mexico by a husband who hiked it up to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she followed in search of him with the help of Fenton (played by Jesse Aaron Dwyre), a grocery-store stock boy, but little does her new companion know of the mystery surrounding this mistress and her equally enigmatic ex-suitor. This emotionally ambitious and frequently comedic feature follows the two as they travel across Montreal, often encountering colorful characters who lead them to the final denouement, where Teresa will have more explaining to do than she ever expected.

External links

2007 films
English-language Canadian films
Canadian drama films
Films shot in Montreal
Films directed by Federico Hidalgo
2007 drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films


This article is the discography of the Scottish pop and rock singer-songwriter Annie Lennox. After a decade of major international success as part of Eurythmics, Lennox began her solo career in earnest in 1992 with the release of her first album Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". The same year, she performed "Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Following the multi-platinum success of Diva, she released her 1995 studio album, Medusa, which includes cover versions of songs such as "No More 'I Love You's and "A Whiter Shade of Pale". To date, she has released six solo studio albums, three of them being covers albums (including a Christmas-themed album) and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard. In 2004, she received the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Lennox has earned the distinction of 'most successful female British artist in UK music history' due to her global commercial success since the 1980s. Including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 80 million records worldwide.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

EPs

Singles

Video albums

Music videos

Other appearances

References

External links
Official Annie Lennox website

Discography
Pop music discographies
Discographies of British artists
Rock music discographies


Fremont High School is a public high school located in Fremont, Indiana, United States. Fremont High School is the high school for the Fremont Community Schools Independent School District

Academics
Fremont High School currently uses block scheduling, meaning students have four 85 minute classes per day. The school year is divided into 4 quarters, much like American universities. Courses offered meet all of the requirements for Academic Honors Diploma, Technical Honors Diploma, and Core 40 Diploma. The school is able to keep its graduation rate high through Steuben County's Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), an alternative high school, which "meets the needs of discouraged and defeated students" and allows students to graduate with diplomas from their original school district.
Fremont HS students are 70% proficient in English and 73% in algebra, generating a college readiness score of 17.5.

In the fall of 2009, Fremont High School entered into an agreement with Trine University to offer 12 different dual credit concurrent enrollment courses on the high school campus along with Advanced Placement Biology.
Microeconomics
Principles of Sociology
Introduction to Government
Psychology
American History II
English Composition I
Introduction to Literature
English Composition II
College Algebra
Pre-calculus
Calculus I
Advanced Computer Applications

In 2010, approximately 40 students earned at least 3 dual credits or scored a 3 or above on an AP exam.  These 40 students took nearly 100 dual credit or AP courses for a potential total of 300 semester hours. In 2011, only 12.2% of the 22 students sitting for AP exams passed.

Schools in Indiana are assessed by their ISTEP+ scores. In 2010-2011, 97.8% of Fremont High School students passed the mathematics assessment. Meanwhile, 90% of students passed the English/language arts assessment. Fremont High School scores above the state average for students achieving College and Career Readiness (ccr)at 67.8%. In general, academics are secondary to athletics at high schools in this area of Indiana.

Fremont High School graduates, who pursue collegiate studies, primarily attend schools in Indiana, such as Huntington University (United States), Bethel College (Indiana), IUPUI, and IPFW. A number of current Fremont High School teachers are also Fremont graduates.

Performing Arts
Fremont High School has a music program consisting of a concert band, jazz band, concert chorus, and show chorus.

Athletics
FHS teams compete in the Northeast Corner Conference of Indiana (NECC) against Angola, Central Noble, Churubusco, Eastside, Fairfield, Hamilton, Lakeland, Prairie Heights, West Noble, and Westview.
Fremont High School has teams for
boys' & girls' golf
boys' baseball
boys' & girls' tennis
boys' & girls' basketball
boys' football
boys' & girls' cross-country and track
boys' wrestling
girls' volleyball
girls' softball

Facilities
The current Fremont High School building (adjacent to the elementary school) was opened in the fall of 1980. Fremont High School consists of one building attached to Fremont Elementary School by a hallway. The elementary and high schools share a cafeteria. The high school is two levels with a small elevator for physically disabled students' use. It consists of an upper and lower hallway wrapped around the gymnasium. There is one auditorium, eight restrooms, an auto repair shop, an industrial tech facility, a weight-lifting room, two music rooms, and 20 classrooms. A new Max Mitchell Athletic Complex building which includes an auxiliary gymnasium and related facilities was completed in the fall of 2006.

See also
 List of high schools in Indiana

References

External links
Official site

Public high schools in Indiana
Education in Steuben County, Indiana


Lawrence Francis Katz (born 1959) is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Education and career
Katz graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.

He served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1993 to 1994 under Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's then Secretary of Labor.

Katz and his fellow Harvard colleague Claudia Goldin, who is his "personal as well as research partner", wrote The Race Between Education and Technology in 2008, which argued that the United States became the world's richest nation thanks to its schools. It was praised as "a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the twentieth century", and Alan Krueger of Princeton University said that it "represent[ed] the best of what economics has to offer".

Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991. He also serves as the Principal Investigator for the long-term evaluation of the "Moving to Opportunity", a randomized housing mobility experiment.

He is the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, past President of the Society of Labor Economists, and has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists. Katz serves on the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office as well as on the Boards of the Russell Sage Foundation and the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

References

1959 births
20th-century American economists
21st-century American economists
Chief Economists of the United States Department of Labor
Economics journal editors
Education economists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Labor economists
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Harvard University faculty


Davis McCombs (born 1969) is an American poet. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, the University of Virginia as a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow.  He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas.

McCombs' work appeared in The Best American Poetry 1996, The Missouri Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other magazines and journals.

McCombs grew up in Munfordville, Kentucky. From 1991 to 2001, he worked as a Park Ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park. He is married to the poet and photographer Carolyn Guinzio.

Awards
 2005 Larry Levis Editor's Prize by The Missouri Review for a sixteen-part sequence of poems called "Tobacco Mosaic"
 2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award from Willow Springs for his poem "Rossetti in 1869"
 2005 Joy Bale Boone award from Wind magazine's for a poem called "Noodling."
 2005 Dorset Prize, chosen by Linda Gregerson
 2015 Porter Prize

Bibliography

Poetry collections

List of poems

References

External links
Interview Project #3: Davis McCombs , dislocate blog, November 22, 2006
Davis McCombs, Mixed Media, KET

Living people
American male poets
Harvard University alumni
University of Virginia alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Arkansas faculty
Yale Younger Poets winners
People from Munfordville, Kentucky
The New Yorker people
1969 births
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers
Poets from Kentucky


Lewis Campbell (April 1864 – 1938) was a Scottish footballer. He was pacey and difficult to defend against.

Career
Campbell played for Dumbarton, Helensburgh, Glasgow United, and Hibernian, before moving to England to play for Aston Villa in January 1890; at the time of the 1891 census he was a boarder in Birmingham along with compatriot and teammate John Baird. At Villa he earned an FA Cup runner-up medal in 1892 as he was unable to prevent West Bromwich Albion romping to victory 3–0 at The Oval. In August 1893, he joined Port Vale. He claimed 13 goals in 27 Second Division in the 1893–94 season, and became the first "Valiant" to score a hat-trick (he actually scored four goals) in the Football League in a 5–0 win over Walsall Town Swifts on 9 September. However, he left the Athletic Ground in 1894 because his wife did not like the Potteries area. He moved on to Walsall Town Swifts and then Burton Swifts.

Career statistics
Source:

Honours
Aston Villa
FA Cup runner-up: 1892

References

Footballers from Edinburgh
Scottish men's footballers
Men's association football outside forwards
Dumbarton F.C. players
Helensburgh F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. players
Aston Villa F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Walsall F.C. players
Burton Swifts F.C. players
English Football League players
1864 births
1938 deaths


Dematagoda is in Colombo, Sri Lanka represented by divisional code 9 (Colombo 09). It is surrounded by Borella, Maradana and Kolonnawa. The Baseline Road passes through Dematagoda. The only city in Sri Lanka to have 2 railway stations and the first city to have a flyover.

Schools
 Mukarramah International school
 Anurudhdha Balika Maha Vidyalaya
 JMC College International
 Al-manaar School
 Readway College
 Sivalee Vidyalaya
 St. John's College
 St. Matthew's College
 Veluwana College
 Vipulanantha Tamil Maha Vidyalayam
 Wesley College
 Zahira College, Colombo

Transport
 Dematagoda Railway Station
 Dematagada - Bambalapitiya (Kiribathgoda-Angulana) buses.
The railway signal and telecommunication engineer's office is situated in Dematagoda.

References

Populated places in Western Province, Sri Lanka


Kelly Eisenhour (April 17, 1960, Tucscon, Arizona) is a jazz vocalist.

Early life and career
Eisenhour heard jazz at an early age from listening to her father's record collection.  In 1986 she graduated from Berklee School of Music. She performed in Las Vegas shows, then was hired on tour to backup Gladys Knight. As assistant choir director for Knight, she assembled the Saints Unified Choir and recorded with the choir on the album One Voice (1986). In 1997 she moved to Utah and was later guest soloist with the Utah Symphony and the Boston Pops. She has performed at the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival and has taught vocal jazz at Brigham Young University.

Her album Seek and Find, which featured Bob Mintzer, went high on the jazz charts. The album includes vocalese treatments of solos by J. J. Johnson and Lester Young.

Eisenhour teaches at Green River College in Auburn, Washington.

Discography
 Now You Know (2000)
 Seek and Find (Blujazz, 2007)
 Invitation (Pony Boy, 2016)
 I Just Found Out About Love (Blujazz, 2020)

References

Sources
 Official site

Living people
Berklee College of Music alumni
Brigham Young University faculty
American women jazz singers
1960 births


iBond (; , SEHK:4214, SEHK:4218, SEHK:4222, SEHK:4228, SEHK:4231) is a Hong Kong dollar retail inflation-indexed bond issued by the Hong Kong Government. There have been four series issued and the fifth series will be issued in 2015. The first issuance was announced in the 2011–2012 Hong Kong budget John Tsang, the fourth by the Financial Secretary since the Hong Kong handover.

The rate for each interest payment will be determined by the year-on-year inflation rate of Hong Kong, which according to the Hong Kong Composite Consumer Price Index, with the lower limit of 1% return. The first iBonds were listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange to listing on 29 July 2011. The offered issue amount is HK$10,000,000,000.

References
 iBond subscription to start – Hong Kong Information Services Department
 Issue Circulars – Retail Bond Issuance Programme – Hong Kong Government
 iBond – Budget Speech – The 2011–12 Budget
 HKGB IBOND 1407 - Yahoo! Finance

2011 in Hong Kong
Inflation


Peter Michael McKinley (born January 1954) is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer, McKinley served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru (2007–2010), Colombia (2010–2013), Afghanistan (2015–2016), and Brazil (2017–2018), and then as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State (2018–2019).

Early life and education
McKinley was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and grew up in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. McKinley earned a B.A. from Southampton University and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He was a member of Linacre College, Oxford.

Career
McKinley joined the Foreign Service in 1982. He was based in Bolivia from 1983 until 1985 and had three tours of duty at the State Department's headquarters in Washington from 1985 until 1990. He then served in the U.S. Embassy in London from 1990 until 1994 and as deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires at U.S. Embassies in Mozambique, Uganda, and Belgium from 1994 until 2001. He was chargé d'affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique from July 1996 to December 1997.

From 2001 until 2004, McKinley served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. He then was deputy chief of mission and chargé d' affaires at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels from 2004 to 2007.

McKinley served as the U.S. Ambassador to Peru from 2007 to 2010 and United States Ambassador to Colombia from 2010 to 2013. The United States Senate confirmed McKinley's nomination to both posts by voice vote. As ambassador to Colombia, McKinley demanded the release of an American man who had been abducted by the militant group FARC; the man was later released. McKinley was U.S. Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2013 to 2014.

On December 9, 2014, the Senate confirmed McKinley to be the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan by voice vote. He presented his credentials in Kabul on January 6, 2015. During a tense period of political instability in 2016, McKinley met nearly daily between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his coalition partner, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah; McKinley acted as a mediator and engaged in shuttle diplomacy to try to preserve the fragile national coalition government and stymie an upsurge in Taliban activity in Afghanistan. As U.S. Ambassador, McKinley called upon the Afghan government to conduct a full, transparent investigation into the allegations of Ahmad Ishchi of Jowzjan Province, who in 2016 accused General Abdul Rashid Dostum of abducting and torturing him.

McKinley served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan until December 18, 2016, upon being appointed U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. On September 8, 2016 the Senate confirmed McKinley to be the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil by a vote of 92–0. He presented his credentials on January 20, 2017 and served until November 3, 2018, when he took up the post of Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State.

On October 10, 2019, McKinley resigned from the State Department in protest of the failure of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to support department employees, including U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, in connection with the Trump–Ukraine scandal. On October 16, 2019, McKinley gave deposition testimony to the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight committees in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. McKinley's testimony was publicly released on November 4, 2019. McKinley testified that his resignation was prompted in part by the Trump administration's attempted use of U.S. diplomatic missions "to procure negative political information for domestic purposes, combined with the failure I saw in the building to provide support for our professional cadre in a particularly trying time." McKinley testified: "I was disturbed by the implication that foreign governments were being approached to procure negative information on political opponents." McKinley testified that another senior official, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs George P. Kent, had told him that he felt bullied by the department, that the department's legal advisor was seeking to "shut him up," and that State Department leadership was failing to timely provide document requests from Congress to him. Kent provided a memo to McKinley detailing his concerns, which McKinley forwarded to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, acting legal adviser Marik String, and Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, but received no response. McKinley's testimony, and that of other high-ranking U.S. diplomats, revealed deep discontent among the U.S. diplomatic corps with Pompeo's leadership.

In 2020, McKinley, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."

Published works
McKinley's Pre-revolutionary Caracas: Politics, Economy and Society 1777-1811 (1985), a history of colonial Venezuela, was published by Cambridge University Press and also appeared in a Spanish edition. A 1988 book review in the American Historical Review described it as "the first English-language monograph to appear on colonial Venezuela in over ten years and ... the first in language to provide a broad synthesis of the late colonial period."

Personal life
He is married to Fatima Salces Arce; they have three children. In addition to English, McKinley speaks Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

See also

List of current ambassadors of the United States
Trump–Ukraine scandal

References

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1954 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Alumni of Linacre College, Oxford
Ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan
Ambassadors of the United States to Brazil
Ambassadors of the United States to Colombia
Ambassadors of the United States to Peru
United States Department of State officials
Venezuelan emigrants to the United States
United States Foreign Service personnel
20th-century American diplomats
21st-century American diplomats


Batman 1 may refer to:

Batman (1989 film), the 1989 film Batman
Batman Begins, the first installment of The Dark Knight trilogy
Bruce Wayne's Batman, the first iteration of DC Comics' "Batman"


Wu Pau-hsien (; born February 6, 1980, in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese baseball player who currently plays for Brother Elephants of Chinese Professional Baseball League. He played as short relief pitcher for the Elephants.  In 2009, he admitted to match-fixing and were expelled from the team.

Career statistics

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
Brother Elephants players
Baseball players from Kaohsiung


Ciaotou () is a railway station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan served by the TRA and Kaohsiung MRT; it can also be transliterated as Qiaotou Station.

This three-level station serves the TRA and Kaohsiung MRT. TRA services operate at ground-level platforms, while KMRT services operate on an elevated platform. The KMRT station is elevated with an island platform. It is located on Zhanqian St. and has two exits. The station is 185 meters long.

History

TRA Station
 1901-05-15: Opened for service.

KMRT Station
 2008-03-09 : Red Line between Ciaotou and Siaogang opened.

Around the station
 Qiaotou Township Office
 Taiwan Sugar Kaohsiung Factory
 Qiaotou Junior High School
Qiaotou Junior High School Swimming Pool
 Qiaotou Elementary School
 Qiaotou Old Street
 Station Front Retail Building
 Hongren Hospital
 Taiwan Power Company Service Office
 Taiwan Sugar Museum (Kaohsiung)

See also
 List of railway stations in Taiwan

References

External links

TRA Ciaotou Station
Taiwan Railways Administration
KRTC Ciaotou Station

1901 establishments in Taiwan
Kaohsiung Metro Red line stations
Railway stations in Kaohsiung
Railway stations opened in 1901
Railway stations served by Taiwan Railways Administration
Railway stations in Taiwan opened in the 1900s
Railway stations in Taiwan opened in 2008


West River    is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  Pictou County .

It was formerly served by the Hopewell Subdivision of Canadian National Railway, which had a station in West River.

References

Communities in Pictou County


Johan Frederik van Oordt; name sometimes spelled as Joan Frederik van Oordt (23 November 1794 – 11 December 1852) was a Dutch theologian born in Rotterdam.

In 1821 he earned his doctorate at University of Utrecht, where one of his instructors was Philip Willem van Heusde (1778-1839). While still a student he served as pastor in Lower Langbroek. Following graduation he served as a minister in Alkmaar, and in 1823 returned to Utrecht, where he worked as a minister and teacher.

In 1829 van Oordt was appointed professor of theology at the University of Groningen, where he conducted classes in dogmatics, practical theology, homiletics, et al. With Louis Gerlach Pareau (1800-1866) and Petrus Hofstede de Groot (1802-1886), he formed the nucleus of an influential theological movement known as the Groningen School.

At Groningen he was co-founder of the journal Waarheid in Liefde (Truth and Love). In 1839 he relocated to the University of Leiden as a professor of theology.

 Note: He is not to be confused with Johan Frederik van Oordt (1856-1918), a Dutch relation (who later immigrated to South Africa to participate in the Boer War), known for his work as a writer, explorer and wildlife conservationist, where he eventually established what was to become South Africa’s National Parks, an accomplishment highly commended by President Kruger.

References
 DBNL auteur- Joan Frederik van Oordt

1794 births
1852 deaths
Dutch Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Writers from Rotterdam
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
Academic staff of Leiden University
Utrecht University alumni


Tuberculous pericarditis is a form of pericarditis.

Pericarditis caused by tuberculosis is difficult to diagnose, because definitive diagnosis requires culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis from aspirated pericardial fluid or pericardial biopsy, which requires high technical skill and is often not diagnostic (the yield from culture is low even with optimum specimens).  The Tygerberg scoring system helps the clinician to decide whether pericarditis is due to tuberculosis or whether it is due to another cause: night sweats (1 point), weight loss (1 point), fever (2 point), serum globulin > 40g/L (3 points), blood total leucocyte count <10 x 109/l (3 points); a total score of 6 or more is highly suggestive of tuberculous pericarditis.  Pericardial fluid with an interferon-γ level greater than 50pg/mL is highly specific for tuberculous pericarditis.

There are no randomized trials which evaluate the length of anti-tuberculosis treatment required for tuberculous pericarditis. There is a small but not conclusive benefit for treatment with a schedule of steroids with anti-tuberculosis drugs. Open surgical drainage of fluid  though effective in preventing cardiac tamponade was associated with more deaths.

References

External links

Pericardial disorders