"Sulfur" is the fourth single from American heavy metal band Slipknot's fourth album All Hope Is Gone. The single was released on June 15, 2009, after a video was released on April 18, 2009. This was the last Slipknot video to feature their full original lineup with both bassist Paul Gray, who died the next year, and also the final appearance from Joey Jordison who was fired from the band four years later, before his death in July 2021.

"Sulfur", "Duality" and "Psychosocial" became downloadable content in Rock Band on December 8, 2009.

Background

Music video
The video was filmed on March 9, 2009 (just two days before the end of the All Hope Is Gone World Tour) in the Los Angeles area. It was codirected by percussionist Shawn Crahan and P. R. Brown; the latter's third Slipknot video. On April 14, 2009, Slipknot released a thirty-second preview of the video through MTV and announced it would be premiered on Headbangers Ball on April 18, 2009.

The video depicts the nine members playing in groups of three as well as footage of each member submerged underwater. Crahan explained that when he writes treatments for their videos he thinks, "What has Slipknot not done? What can we embark upon that will be fun and knowledge-enhancing instead of the same old song and dance?", saying that the members themselves are the treatment for this video. This further shows that they always try to give their fans as much of themselves as they can even though they are tired of live performances; revealing that, to change things up, they shot the members performing in groups of three. The concept of the members appearing individually underwater was modeled after a video installation entitled "Ascension" by video artist Bill Viola.

Crahan explained that the smell of sulfur is "something people either love or hate, and if you hate it, then it can be suffocating", so they incorporated water as a visual representation of that. He revealed that the members felt uncomfortable when shooting in an eleven-foot glass tank; explaining, "You had to go up this really weird ladder and the water was dirty and it was a five-foot by five-foot tank and it looked like when you stepped into it you were gonna hit your head on the frame that holds the glass and it would just rip your nose off," but added that it was his favorite video so far "because it involved that fear". Chris Fehn expressed anxiety about the jump and Taylor was at one point "impaled" by one of Craig Jones' spikes. When Shawn comes up he does it with his baseball bat.

As of September 2021, the song has over 100 million views on YouTube.

Track listing
Radio Mix Digital Download
"Sulfur"  – 4:03

 Digital Download
 "Sulfur"  – 4:37
 "Sulfur"  – 5:03

US Promo CD
 "Sulfur"  – 3:59
 "Sulfur" – 4:37

EU Promo CD
 "Sulfur"  – 4:01
 "Sulfur"  – 4:37

Personnel

Slipknot
(#8) Corey Taylor – vocals
(#7) Mick Thomson – guitar
(#4) Jim Root – guitar
(#2) Paul Gray – bass
(#1) Joey Jordison – drums
(#6) Shawn Crahan – percussion, vocals, music video director
(#3) Chris Fehn – percussion, vocals
(#0) Sid Wilson – turntables, keyboards
(#5) Craig Jones – samples

Additional Personnel
 Dave Fortman – producer
 Jeremy Parker – engineer
 Colin Richardson – mixing
 Matt Hyde – mix engineer
 Oli Wright – assistant engineer
 Ted Jensen – mastering
 P. R. Brown – director

Charts

References

2009 singles
Slipknot (band) songs
2008 songs
Songs written by Corey Taylor
Songs written by Paul Gray (American musician)
Roadrunner Records singles
Songs written by Joey Jordison
Songs written by Jim Root
Thrash metal songs
American hard rock songs
Melodic metalcore songs

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In investment banking, PnL explained (also called P&L explain, P&L attribution or profit and loss explained) is an income statement with commentary that attributes or explains the daily fluctuation in the value of a portfolio of trades to the root causes of the changes.

The report is produced by product control; and is used by traders – especially desks dealing in derivatives (swaps and options) and interest rate products. See .

P&L is the day-over-day change in the value of a portfolio of trades typically calculated using the following formula:
PnL = Value today − Value from Prior Day

Report

A PnL explained report will usually contain one row per trade or group of trades and will have at a minimum these columns:

 Column 1: PnL – This is the PnL as calculated outside of the PnL Explained report
 Column 2: PnL explained – This is the sum of the explanatory columns
 Column 3: PnL unexplained – This is calculated as PnL minus PnL explained (i.e., column 1 minus column 2)
 Column 4: Impact of time – This is the PnL due to the change in time.
 Column 5: Impact of prices – This is the change in the value of a portfolio due to changes in commodity or equity/stock prices
 Column 6: Impact of interest rates – This is the PnL due to changes in interest rates
 Column 7: Impact of volatility – This is the PnL due to changes in volatilities. Volatilities are used to value option (finance) (i.e., calls and puts)
 Column 8: Impact of new trades – PnL from trades done on the current day
 Column 9: Impact of cancellation / amendment – PnL from trades cancelled or changed on the current day

Methodologies
There are two methodologies for calculating Pnl Explained, the 'sensitivities' method and the 'revaluation' method.

Sensitivities method
The sensitivities method  involves first calculating option sensitivities known as the Greeks because of the common practice of representing the sensitivities using Greek letters.  For example, the delta of an option is the value an option changes due to a $1 move in the underlying commodity or equity/stock.
See .

To calculate 'impact of prices' the formula is: Impact of prices = option delta × price move; so if the price moves $100 and the option's delta is 0.05% then the 'impact of prices' is $0.05. To generalize, then, for example to yield curves:
 Impact of prices = position sensitivity × move in the variable in question

Revaluation method
This method calculates the value of a trade based on the current and the prior day's prices.  The formula for price impact using the revaluation method is
 Impact of prices = (trade value using today's prices) − (trade value using prior day's prices)
for some small-value assets such as "loose tools".
 Depreciation = value at the beginning of the year (opening balance) + purchases in the year − value at the end of the year (closing balance)

PnL unexplained
PnL unexplained is a critical metric that regulators and product control within a bank alike pay attention to.

Any residual P&L left unexplained (PnL unexplained) would be expected to be small IF the identified risk factors are indeed sufficient to materially explain the expected value change of the position AND if the models used to calculate sensitivities to these risk factors are correct. PnL unexplained is thus a critical metric that when large may highlight instances where the risk factors classified for a risky position are incomplete or the models used for sensitivities calculations are incorrect or inconsistent.

External links
PnL Explained Professionals Information and examples from PnL Explained Professionals Association's home page
Pantz, Julien 2013 PnL prediction under extreme scenarios

References

Financial statements
Financial markets
Financial risk
Derivatives (finance)


The Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations of motion, jointly derived by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld and Banesh Hoffmann, are the differential equations describing the approximate dynamics of a system of point-like masses due to their mutual gravitational interactions, including general relativistic effects. It uses a first-order post-Newtonian expansion and thus is valid in the limit where the velocities of the bodies are small compared to the speed of light and where the gravitational fields affecting them are correspondingly weak.

Given a system of N bodies, labelled by indices A = 1, ..., N, the barycentric acceleration vector of body A is given by:

where:
 is the barycentric position vector of body A
 is the barycentric velocity vector of body A
 is the barycentric acceleration vector of body A
 is the coordinate distance between bodies A and B
 is the unit vector pointing from body B to body A
 is the mass of body A.
 is the speed of light
 is the gravitational constant
and the big O notation is used to indicate that terms of order c−4 or beyond have been omitted.

The coordinates used here are harmonic. The first term on the right hand side is the Newtonian gravitational acceleration at A; in the limit as c → ∞, one recovers Newton's law of motion.

The acceleration of a particular body depends on the accelerations of all the other bodies. Since the quantity on the left hand side also appears in the right hand side, this system of equations must be solved iteratively. In practice, using the Newtonian acceleration instead of the true acceleration provides sufficient accuracy.

References

Further reading

Differential equations
General relativity
Albert Einstein


Robert Gillespie (20 October 1904 – 1971) was an English footballer who played at inside-left.

Career
Gillespie played for Newton Heath Loco, Oldham Athletic and Luton Town, before joining Port Vale in May 1927. He hit 12 goals in 23 Second Division games in 1927–28, including braces against Southampton and Barnsley. He tore an elbow in December 1928, and could only find two goals in 14 games in 1928–29 as the club was relegated into the Third Division North. He featured just once in 1929–30, and was handed a free transfer to Wrexham. He later turned out for Northwich Victoria, Barrow, Boston United, Nelson, Brierley Hill Alliance and Ashton National Gas.

Career statistics
Source:

References

1904 births
1971 deaths
Footballers from Manchester
English men's footballers
Men's association football inside forwards
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Barrow A.F.C. players
Boston United F.C. players
Nelson F.C. players
Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. players
Ashton National F.C. players
English Football League players
Midland Football League players


This is a list of United States military installations in Panama, all of which fall within the former Canal zone. The U.S. military installations in Panama were turned over to local authorities by 1999.

Transition phases
In 1903, the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed between Panama and the United States. It created the Panama Canal Zone as a U.S. governed region, and allowed the U.S. to build the Panama Canal. In 1977, the Panama Canal Treaty (also called Torrijos–Carter Treaties) was signed by Commander of Panama's National Guard, General Omar Torrijos and U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Over time, it would replace and absolve the 1903 treaty.
 1 October 1979, the Panama Canal Zone was abolished. All unused area (mainly forest) was transferred to Panama. Also some non-military constructions, like hospitals and schools, were transferred to Panama.
 Between 1979 and 31 December 1999 U.S. transferred all military areas and constructions to Panama. Formal U.S. presence was ended by 2000. In total  with 5,237 buildings were handed over.  Their estimated value was some $4 billion USD.
 After the United States invasion of Panama in 1989, some installations were reactivated by the U.S. Still, these were disestablished by 2000.

List

See also
 :Category:Panama Canal Zone Townships
Naval Base Panama Canal Zone

References

External links
 http://william_h_ormsbee.tripod.com/

Military, List of former United States military installations in Panama


Roger W. Brown (October 12, 1940 – March 23, 2009) was an American lawyer and Judge on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City.

Background
Brown was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 1940. Orphaned at 13, he moved in with an older married sister in Cherry Hill and attended Baltimore City public schools. Brown graduated from the Douglass High School in 1959.  He graduated from Morgan State College, with a B.A. (political science) in 1965 and the University of Baltimore School of Law,  with a J.D. in 1973. Brown was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1974. His first major job was as a caseworker, with the Baltimore City Department of Juvenile Services from 1965 to 1970.  He was promoted to personnel officer in 1970 and served as same until 1974. During law school, Brown clerked for the law firm Mitchell and Lee, P.A. Brown's first job as an attorney came in 1974 when he was hired as an Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City. In 1975 he left the prosecutor's office to start a law firm with Ronald Owens. He later joined Mitchell and Lee as an associate attorney in 1978. He left that firm to become an Assistant Public Defender in Baltimore City from 1979 to 1985.

Judicial career
Brown was first appointed as an Associate Judge of the District Court of Maryland, District 1, Baltimore City by Harry R. Hughes in 1985 and remained there until 1987.  He was a member of the Court's Commissioner Education Committee, 1985–87; Mental Health and Alcoholism Committee, 1986-87.   He was appointed Associate Judge, Baltimore City Circuit Court, 8th Judicial Circuit on September 16, 1987 by William Donald Schaefer and served until his retirement on November 12, 2002. During that time he was a member of the Juvenile and Family Law Committee, the Conference of Circuit Judges, 1987, the Board of Directors, Judicial Institute of Maryland, 1988–89 and a Member of the Criminal Law and Procedure Committee, Maryland Judicial Conference, 1997-2000. Brown also served as the Circuit representative to the Conference of Circuit Judges from 1999 to 2002. Member, Circuit Court Libraries Study Committee, 2000-01.

References

Lawyers from Baltimore
1940 births
2009 deaths
Maryland state court judges
University of Baltimore School of Law alumni
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
Public defenders


Nanayam (or Naanayam) () is a 1983 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by I. V. Sasi and written by T. Damodaran. The film stars Madhu, Mammootty, Mohanlal, Seema, Poornima Jayaram, and Srividya. It is the story of two step brothers, Babu and Raju, who takes over the business of their parents, and the problems they encounter while running it. The music was composed by Shyam.

Cast
 Madhu as Vishwanathan
 Mammootty as Raju
 Mohanlal as Babu
 Seema as Sindhu
 Poornima Bhagyaraj as Maya
 Srividya as Sumathi
 V D Rajappan
 Sukumari
Poornima Jayaram as Maya
Adoor Bhasi
Janardanan
K. P. Ummer as Krishnapuram Thamby
Paravoor Bharathan as Bharagavan

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Yusufali Kechery and Poovachal Khader.

References

External links

 http://www.insomniacmania.com/index_default.php?id=212179
 http://www.spicebrisbane.org/showMovie.php?m=22727

1983 films
1980s Malayalam-language films
Films with screenplays by T. Damodaran
Films directed by I. V. Sasi


Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of Nevada enjoy the same rights as non-LGBT Nevadans. Same-sex marriage has been legal since October 8, 2014, due to the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Sevcik v. Sandoval. Same-sex couples may also enter a domestic partnership status that provides many of the same rights and responsibilities as marriage. However, domestic partners lack the same rights to medical coverage as their married counterparts and their parental rights are not as well defined. Same-sex couples are also allowed to adopt, and state law prohibits unfair discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, among other categories, in employment, housing and public accommodations. In addition, conversion therapy on minors is outlawed in the state.

Nevada is frequently referred to as one of the most LGBT-friendly states in the Mountain West. The LGBT think tank Movement Advancement Project ranks Nevada first in the region for LGBT rights legislation. 2017 polling from the Public Religion Research Institute showed that 70% of Nevada residents supported same-sex marriage. In November 2022, Nevada also made history in becoming the first US state by 58% of voters to formally legally add the words "sexual orientation and gender identity or expression" - to the state-based Nevada Constitution.

History
Among the Native Americans, perceptions towards gender and sexuality were very different from those of the Western world. The Northern Paiute people, for instance, recognize individuals assigned male at birth but who act, behave and live as women, known as tüdayapi. Such individuals are known as tüwasawuts among the Southern Paiute.

Nevada adopted a criminal code in 1861 establishing a sentence of five years' to life imprisonment for sodomy. In 1912, the Supreme Court of Nevada held that fellatio constituted a criminal offense. As was the case for such laws around the United States, Nevada's sodomy law criminalized both heterosexual and homosexual oral sex and anal intercourse. It did not, however, criminalize lesbian acts. In 1951, the minimum penalty of sodomy was reduced to one year imprisonment, but the maximum penalty of life imprisonment was retained. This was changed again in 1967 when it was reduced to one to six years. Furthermore, under a 1961 sex offender registration law, those convicted of sodomy had to register with the local sheriff or chief of police and report any change in address. Over the years, the courts convicted multiple people of sodomy, almost consistently upheld by higher courts, and a challenge to the sodomy law on the grounds of vagueness and unconstitutionality was rejected in 1969. In 1973, 1976 and 1978, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that cunnilingus, masturbation in front of a witness and licking a penis were violations of the sodomy statute.

In 1977, the Nevada Legislature amended the state's sodomy law, redefining the act as "anal intercourse, cunnilingus or fellatio between consenting adults of the same sex", thus legalizing heterosexual activity but also making sexual activity between women illegal for the first time in Nevada's history. The penalty of one to six years' imprisonment remained.

Legality of same-sex sexual activity
Nevada decriminalized sodomy in 1993, ten years before the U.S. Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas struck down laws that criminalized private consensual sexual activity. Senator Lori Lipman Brown introduced Senate Bill 466 on May 13, 1993 to decriminalize what the statutes called "infamous crime against nature". At hearings, two doctors linked repealing the sodomy laws with a public health measure to combat the stigma and spread of HIV. Other supporters included Reno Rabbi Myra Soifer, former senators Helen Foley and Jean Ford, gay rights advocate Lee Plotkin, and progressive activist Bob Fulkerson. Opponents included Janine Hansen of the Nevada Eagle Forum and Independent American Party of Nevada and Lynn Chapman who said that repealing the sodomy laws would increase the spread of HIV/AIDS and would "open the floodgate ... in legalizing, condoning and recognizing homosexuality to be on an equal footing with heterosexuality" and lead to "such things as homosexual marriage and adoption of children." In the course of the legislative process, the words "infamous crime against nature" were replaced by "anal intercourse, cunnilingus or fellatio in public". Other amendments, including one to require sex education in schools to provide "factual information regarding the dangers of such activities" of "a homosexual lifestyle or the infamous crime against nature" were defeated. Democratic Governor Bob Miller signed the legislation on June 16, 1993 and it went into effect on October 1, 1993. However, the age of consent for same-sex sexual activity was unequal and set 2 years higher at 18. It was finally equalized at 16 in line with heterosexuals 20 years later on October 1, 2013.

Recognition of same-sex relationships

Nevada voters approved Question 2, an amendment to the Constitution of Nevada that banned same-sex marriage, by 69.6% in 2000 and 67.1% in 2002.

On May 21, 2009, the Nevada Legislature passed the Nevada Domestic Partnership Act to grant both opposite-sex and same-sex couples many of the responsibilities, obligations, rights, entitlements and benefits of marriage under the designation "domestic partnership" rather than "marriage". Governor Jim Gibbons vetoed the legislation, saying he did not personally oppose rights for domestic partners but felt he needed to respect the voters' wishes on the question. On May 30 and 31, both the Assembly and Senate overrode his veto. The law went into effect on October 1, 2009. It exempted both private and public employers from having to provide medical coverage for the domestic partners of their employees even if they did so for their employees' married spouses. Whether other jurisdictions will recognize a Nevada domestic partnership is uncertain, as are some parental rights normally held by married couples. Even in Arizona, the status of domestic partner can be misunderstood and is not always recognized as the equivalent of marriage.

On April 10, 2012, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit, Sevcik v. Sandoval, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada on behalf of eight same-sex couples, claiming that Nevada's categorization of same-sex domestic partnerships consigns same-sex couples to "a lesser, second-class status" and constitutes a violation of the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. Chief Judge Robert Jones ruled on November 29 that Nevada's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. Lambda Legal said it would appeal the decision. On October 7, 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Question 2, explicitly reversing Judge Robert Jones' district court ruling, thus making same-sex marriages legal.

Since July 1, 2017, Nevada's marriage statute has incorporated gender-neutral language, thereby explicitly recognizing same-sex marriage in state law. On November 3, 2020, Nevada voters amended the Nevada Constitution to remove the 2002 language banning same-sex marriage. The measure, known as Question 2, was approved with 62% in favor.

In December 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court concluded that the state must retroactively recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions before the Sevcik decision in 2014.

Federal income tax
The Internal Revenue Service ruled in 2013, based on the Supreme Court DOMA ruling, that same-sex individuals who have been married in any state where same-sex marriage is legal may file their federal returns as married filing jointly regardless of state of residency.

Discrimination protections and anti-bullying laws
During the 1999 legislative session, the Nevada Legislature added prohibition of discrimination based on a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation in public and private employment and public accommodations to state law. In the 2011 legislative session, Governor Brian Sandoval approved and signed into law three bills; A.B. 211, S.B. 331, and S.B. 368 which prohibit discrimination in areas of employment, housing and public accommodation on the basis of "gender identity or expression". S.B. 331 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in public accommodations, and S.B. 368 prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. All three laws took effect on October 1, 2011.

In January 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it is illegal to discriminate against LGBT people in jury selections, holding that such dismissals "deprive individuals of the opportunity to participate in perfecting democracy and guarding our ideals of justice on account of a characteristic that has nothing to do with their fitness to serve".

In May 2015, an anti-bullying bill, SB 504, passed the Nevada Legislature. Governor Brian Sandoval signed the bill into law days later. The bill went into full effect on July 1, 2015. It explicitly includes "actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability of a person, sex or any other distinguishing characteristic or background of a person" as protected grounds. The law directs the Department of Education to prescribe policies for schools to address bullying and cyberbullying, procedures for reporting and investigating, requirements for parent notification and provisions to train teachers and staff to properly address bullying.

In May 2017, the Nevada Legislature passed a bill adding sexual orientation and gender identity or expression throughout the rest of Nevada's statutes, alongside race, disability, creed, sex, religion, marital status, domestic partnership status, age, etc. The law went into effect on July 1, 2017.

In 2019, the Nevada Legislature passed SJR8A to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the equal protection clause of the Nevada Constitution. As a constitutional amendment, the legislation required approval in the 2021 legislative session, which happened in March 2021. The measure Question 1 formally appeared on the ballot within November 2022, and was given 58% approval from voters - making Nevada the first US state in history to approve adding the words "sexual orientation and gender identity or expression" to its state-based Constitution.

Hate crime law
Nevada law provides additional penalties for the commission of a crime because of certain actual or perceived characteristics of the victim. In 2001, Nevada amended its hate crime law to include sexual orientation, without addressing gender identity or expression. In 2011, Senator David Parks introduced S.B. 180 to add "gender identity or expression" to Nevada's hate crime law. One Democrat, John Lee, voted with the Republicans and the bill failed. In 2013, S.B. 139, which would add "gender identity or expression" to Nevada's hate crime law, was introduced by a bipartisan group and passed the Senate on a vote of 20–1. Senator Joe Hardy, the only vote against the legislation, later said that he should have voted in favor after talking with Senator Pat Spearman, the legislature's first out person of color, a pastor and military veteran. The legislation passed the Assembly on a vote of 30–11 on May 14. Governor Brian Sandoval signed the legislation on May 21, 2013, and the new law took effect on October 1, 2013.

In May 2023, the Governor of Nevada vetoed a bill (SB171) that passed the Nevada Legislature - to explicitly ban individuals with criminal records “convicted of hate crimes, intimidation, harassment and/or similar acts” from purchasing and possessing firearms, explosives, weapons and/or guns.

Adoption and parenting
Same-sex relationships have not been a legal barrier to adoption or parenting in the state, though only since 2017 has state law reflected that same-sex couples have the same parental rights as heterosexual couples.

Lesbian couples are allowed to access assisted reproduction services, such as in vitro fertilisation. State law recognizes the non-genetic, non-gestational mother as a legal parent to a child born via donor insemination, irrespective of the marital status of the parents. In addition, Nevada permits and recognizes gestational surrogacy arrangements. The state treats same-sex couples and different-sex couples equally under the same terms and conditions. Traditional surrogacy contracts are illegal regardless of sex or sexual orientation.

In June 2021, a bill (AB115) passed the Nevada Legislature and the Governor of Nevada signed it into law effective immediately - to legally recognise more than two parents on birth certificates by a court order, allowing for example a surrogate and both intended parents to be listed or a couple and an ex-partner (regardless of marital status). Similar laws were implemented within California in 2013.

Gay panic defense
In May 2019, the Nevada Legislature passed a bill, by a vote of 36–3 in the Assembly and 19–2 in the Senate, to repeal the gay panic defense. On May 14, Governor Steve Sisolak signed the bill into law, and it went into effect on October 1, 2019. Nevada joined several other states in doing so, including California and Illinois.

Conversion therapy

In April 2017, the Nevada Senate passed a bill to ban conversion therapy on minors, by a vote of 15 to 5. The bill was voted on by the Nevada Assembly on May 9, where it passed 31–8 with some amendments. The Nevada Senate concurred to the amended version on the same day. The bill was signed by Governor Brian Sandoval on May 17, and went into effect on January 1, 2018.

Transgender rights

Since 2016, the Nevada Vital Records will issue a new birth certificate with a corrected gender marked upon receipt of two affidavits reflecting an individual's preferred gender. Sex reassignment surgery is not required to change gender on birth certificates. Similar changes to driver's licenses and state IDs are also permitted. In May 2017, legislation unanimously passed the Nevada Legislature to abolish the 1988 requirement for transgender people to publish their names in newspapers before they can undergo legal changes of sex on government documents.

On June 22, 2017, Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed a bill that would have required insurance companies in Nevada to cover all sex reassignment surgery costs, among other things. In March 2018, the state's Medicaid agency announced it would cover costs related to sex reassignment surgeries for transgender individuals. In addition, under state law, health insurance providers are banned from discriminating against transgender patients.

The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Office of Vital Records provide a "third gender" designation (known as "X") on driver's licenses, birth certificates and state ID cards. No medical documentation is required.

In May 2023, the Governor of Nevada (who happens to be a former Sheriff) approved a bill that recently passed the Nevada Legislature which explicitly legally protects and shields transgender and/or intersex individuals as inmates within state-based Correctional facilities. Similar laws are implemented in California, Connecticut and Massachusetts. In the same month, the Nevada Legislature passed an "extensive and broadbased omnibus bill" (SB302) to - (1) protect and defend gender-affirming healthcare services within Nevada; (2) reform healthcare itself within Nevada; (3) protect and defend abortion within Nevada and (4) mandate compulsory sexual reassignment surgery coverage within Medicaid (state-based insurance) within Nevada. The Governor of Nevada vetoed the bill.

A bill requiring health insurers including Medicaid to cover all medically necessary gender-affirming treatments and prohibiting insurance companies from discriminating against transgender people on the basis of their gender identity was passed by the Nevada Legislature in June 2023. The bill was subsequently signed into law by the governor - effective from January 1, 2024.

In June 2023, the Governor of Nevada signed a "compahensive budget bill" (despite going against his own party the GOP) for insurers of insurance companies mandating sexual reassignment surgery purposes - so state funding could be secured for a proposed stadium within Las Vegas. The Governor of Nevada has no "item line veto power".

HIV laws
In May 2019, the Nevada Legislature passed a bill to establish a HIV taskforce in Nevada and other related HIV legal reforms. The legislation passed the Assembly by 37 votes to 3, and the Senate by 21 votes to 0. The Governor of Nevada signed the bill into law and it went into effect immediately. In May 2021, the Nevada Legislature passed a bill (SB275) to repeal archaic bias HIV crimes from the Nevada Penal Code - that date back to 1983 during the HIV pandemic. The Governor of Nevada signed the bill into law effective immediately.

COVID data collection
In August 2020, Nevada became the fourth jurisdiction in the US (after California, New York and Pennsylvania) to include sexual orientation and gender identity in its COVID-19 investigation module. Data collection will allow health officials to cross-reference different indicators to identify what groups are most at-risk of contracting the virus. Julia Peek, a deputy administrator at the State Public Health Department, said, "If I wanted to know how many people reported they were homeless, and also reported that they were transgender, you could make those two variables match", adding that the data will help officials make more informed decisions concerning direct resources and locate testing sites.

LGBT education curriculum bill
In May 2021, the Nevada Legislature passed a bill to implement LGBT education curriculum (e.g. LGBT history) within Nevada public schools. The Governor of Nevada signed the bill into law and goes into effect on July 1, 2022. Both California and Oregon next door have similar laws.

Public opinion
A July 2011 Public Policy Polling survey found that a plurality of voters in the state supported same-sex marriage. 45% of Nevada voters thought that same-sex marriage should be legal, while 44% thought it should be illegal and 11% were not sure. A separate question on the same survey found that 77% of Nevada voters supported the legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 39% supporting same-sex marriage, 38% supporting civil unions but not marriage, 22% favoring no legal recognition and 2% not sure.

An August 2012 Public Policy Polling survey found that a plurality of voters in the state supported same-sex marriage. 47% of Nevada voters thought that same-sex marriage should be legal, while 42% thought it should be illegal and 11% were not sure. A separate question on the same survey found that 80% of Nevada voters supported the legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 40% supporting same-sex marriage, 40% supporting civil unions but not marriage, 17% favoring no legal recognition and 2% not sure.

A February 2013 poll found majority support for same-sex marriage among Nevada voters. The Retail Association of Nevada poll found that 54% were in favor of it, 43% were opposed, and 3% had no opinion on the matter.

A September 2013 Retail Association of Nevada poll found that 57% of Nevada voters favored same-sex marriage, while 36% were opposed. 6% were unsure.

A 2017 Public Religion Research Institute poll found that 70% of Nevada residents supported same-sex marriage, while 23% were opposed and 7% were unsure.

Summary table

See also

 Politics of Nevada
 LGBT rights in the United States
 Rights and responsibilities of marriages in the United States
 Same-sex marriage in Nevada

Notes

References

LGBT rights in Nevada


Severian Stefan Baranyk (; 18 July 1889 - June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.

Baranyk was born in Uhniv, Austrian Galicia (today Western Ukraine).  He entered the monastery of the Order of St Basil the Great in Krekhiv in 1904.  On May 16 he took his first monastic vows and then on 24 September 1910 he took his perpetual vows. He was ordained to the priesthood on 14 February 1915.  Baranyk was known for his preaching, and his life was noted for his special kindness to youth and orphans. In 1932 he was made the prior (hegumen) of the Basilian monastery in Drohobych.

On 26 June 1941 the NKVD (KGB) arrested him. He was taken to Drohobych prison and never seen alive again. After the Soviets withdrew from the city his mutilated body was found in the prison with signs of torture, including cross shaped knife slashes across his chest.

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 27 June 2001.

Yasyf Lastoviak, in a testimony, recounted finding Stefan Baranyk's corpse. "Behind the prison I saw a big hole which has been covered up, filled with sand. when the Bolsheviks retreated, the Germans came and people rushed to the prison to find their relatives. The Germans allowed people into the area of the prison in small groups to claim their murdered relatives, but most people stood by the gates, so I went to the side and climbed a tree. there was a terrible stink... I saw how the Germans sent people to uncover the hole which was filled with sand. The hole was new because the people uncovered it with their hands. They dragged out the murdered bodies. there was little covering near the hole, and under it I saw the body of Father Severian Baranyk. Basilian, with visible marks of his prison tortures; his body had unnaturally swelled black, his face terrible. Dad later said that on his chest the sign of the cross had been slashed."

References

Biographies of twenty five Greek-Catholic Servants of God at the website of the Vatican
Beatification of the Servants of God on June 27, 2001 at the website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Basilian Martyrs and Confessors. St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, Winnipeg Canada.
Francisco Radecki.  Tumultuous Times: The Twenty General Councils of the Catholic Church and Vatican II and Its Aftermath. St. Joseph's Media, 2004.

1889 births
1941 deaths
Catholic people executed by the Soviet Union
Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Ukrainian beatified people
Order of Saint Basil the Great
Ukrainian people executed by the Soviet Union
Beatifications by Pope John Paul II


The 1995 Total Petroleum 200 took place on July 15 at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colorado.

This event was 200 laps long and it was the eleventh race (first season) of the series where it held the closest margin of victory in the history of the NASCAR SuperTruck Series. As Butch Miller and Mike Skinner were side by side on the last lap of the race, as Miller won the race by 0.001 of a second, it was Miller's only victory.

The closest margin of victory since then was in the 2010 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, as Kyle Busch beat Aric Almirola by 0.002 of a second. It was the closest margin of victory among NASCAR's three national series until February 17, 2018 when Tyler Reddick beat Elliott Sadler by 0.0004 of a second in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona.

Results
 98-Butch Miller
 3-Mike Skinner
 16-Ron Hornaday Jr. (pole sitter)
 75-Bill Sedgwick
 7-Dave Rezendes
 84-Joe Ruttman
 6-Rick Carelli
 31-Jack Sprague
 83-Steve Portenga
 20-Walker Evans
 1-P. J. Jones
 30-Dennis Setzer
 21-Tobey Butler
 24-Scott Lagasse
 87-John Nemechek
 11-Mike Hurlbert
 79-Jimmy Dick
 81-Jerry Glanville
 10-Dennis Wooldridge
 64-Kenny Allen
 23-T. J. Clark
 37-Bob Strait
 51-Kerry Teague
 4-Bob Brevak
 34-Raymond Daniels
 38-Sammy Swindell
 08-Mike Bliss
 14-John Kinder

Notes
Time of race: 1 hour 20 minutes and 14 seconds
Average speed: 56.086 mph
Pole speed: 78.566 mph set by Ron Hornaday Jr.
Cautions: 9 for 43 laps
Margin of victory: .001 sec (closest in Truck Series history)

Quotes
"Too close to call"-Ken Squier instated about the finish during the CBS Sports coverage of the race.

References

External links
Racing-Reference Race Results

Total Petroleum 200
Total Petroleum 200
NASCAR races at Colorado National Speedway


Zhenan Min (), is a Min Nan Chinese language spoken in the vicinity of Wenzhou, in the southeast of Zhejiang province.

The Zhenan Min people had settled in areas such as Cangnan County, Pingyang County, Yuhuan County and Dongtou County from Fujian Province as early as the Tang dynasty period (618–907) and new waves of immigrants continued during the Southern Song dynasty, Ming dynasty and the Qing dynasty periods.

Zhenan Min has in the past been influenced by Eastern Min and the Northern Min, due to its close geographical proximity with those areas. It has limited intelligibility with other Min Nan dialects, such as Teochew and Hokkien–Taiwanese. Zhenan Min, in proximity to the Wenzhou dialect and Jinxiang dialect, has also borrowed some influences from Wu Chinese, such as voiced initials (z) and noun suffixes unique to Wu Chinese (such as ).

Notes

References

See also
Varieties of Chinese

Hokkien-language dialects
Zhejiang
Southern Min


86 Wing or 86th Wing may refer to:

 No. 86 Wing RAAF, a formation of the Royal Australian Air Force
 86th Airlift Wing, a formation of the United States Air Force
 86th Fighter Wing (World War II), a formation of the United States Army Air Corps

See also
 86th Division (disambiguation)
 86th Brigade (disambiguation)
 86th Regiment (disambiguation)


In the area of mathematics known as functional analysis, a semi-reflexive space is a locally convex topological vector space (TVS) X such that the canonical evaluation map from X into its bidual (which is the strong dual of the strong dual of X) is bijective.
If this map is also an isomorphism of TVSs then it is called reflexive.

Semi-reflexive spaces play an important role in the general theory of locally convex TVSs.
Since a normable TVS is semi-reflexive if and only if it is reflexive, the concept of semi-reflexivity is primarily used with TVSs that are not normable.

Definition and notation

Brief definition

Suppose that  is a topological vector space (TVS) over the field  (which is either the real or complex numbers) whose continuous dual space, , separates points on  (i.e. for any  there exists some  such that ).
Let  and  both denote the strong dual of , which is the vector space  of continuous linear functionals on  endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on bounded subsets of ;
this topology is also called the strong dual topology and it is the "default" topology placed on a continuous dual space (unless another topology is specified).
If  is a normed space, then the strong dual of  is the continuous dual space  with its usual norm topology.
The bidual of , denoted by , is the strong dual of ; that is, it is the space .

For any  let  be defined by , where  is called the evaluation map at ;
since  is necessarily continuous, it follows that .
Since  separates points on , the map  defined by  is injective where this map is called the evaluation map or the canonical map.
This map was introduced by Hans Hahn in 1927.

We call  semireflexive if  is bijective (or equivalently, surjective) and we call  reflexive if in addition  is an isomorphism of TVSs.
If  is a normed space then  is a TVS-embedding as well as an isometry onto its range;
furthermore, by Goldstine's theorem (proved in 1938), the range of  is a dense subset of the bidual .
A normable space is reflexive if and only if it is semi-reflexive.
A Banach space is reflexive if and only if its closed unit ball is -compact.

Detailed definition

Let  be a topological vector space over a number field  (of real numbers  or complex numbers ).
Consider its strong dual space , which consists of all continuous linear functionals  and is equipped with the strong topology , that is, the topology of uniform convergence on bounded subsets in .
The space  is a topological vector space (to be more precise, a locally convex space), so one can consider its strong dual space , which is called the strong bidual space for .
It consists of all
continuous linear functionals  and is equipped with the strong topology .
Each vector  generates a map  by the following formula:

This is a continuous linear functional on , that is, .
One obtains a map called the evaluation map or the canonical injection:

which is a linear map.
If  is locally convex, from the Hahn–Banach theorem it follows that  is injective and open (that is, for each neighbourhood of zero  in  there is a neighbourhood of zero  in  such that ).
But it can be non-surjective and/or discontinuous.

A locally convex space  is called semi-reflexive if the evaluation map   is surjective (hence bijective); it is called reflexive if the evaluation map   is surjective and continuous, in which case   will be an isomorphism of TVSs).

Characterizations of semi-reflexive spaces

If  is a Hausdorff locally convex space then the following are equivalent:
  is semireflexive;
 the weak topology on  had the Heine-Borel property (that is, for the weak topology , every closed and bounded subset of  is weakly compact).
 If linear form on  that continuous when  has the strong dual topology, then it is continuous when  has the weak topology;
  is barrelled, where the  indicates the Mackey topology on ;
  weak the weak topology  is quasi-complete.

Sufficient conditions

Every semi-Montel space is semi-reflexive and every Montel space is reflexive.

Properties

If  is a Hausdorff locally convex space then the canonical injection from  into its bidual is a topological embedding if and only if  is infrabarrelled.

The strong dual of a semireflexive space is barrelled.
Every semi-reflexive space is quasi-complete.
Every semi-reflexive normed space is a reflexive Banach space.
The strong dual of a semireflexive space is barrelled.

Reflexive spaces

If  is a Hausdorff locally convex space then the following are equivalent:
  is reflexive;
  is semireflexive and barrelled;
  is barrelled and the weak topology on  had the Heine-Borel property (which means that for the weak topology , every closed and bounded subset of  is weakly compact).
  is semireflexive and quasibarrelled.

If  is a normed space then the following are equivalent:
  is reflexive;
 the closed unit ball is compact when  has the weak topology .
  is a Banach space and  is reflexive.

Examples

Every non-reflexive infinite-dimensional Banach space is a distinguished space that is not semi-reflexive.
If  is a dense proper vector subspace of a reflexive Banach space then  is a normed space that not semi-reflexive but its strong dual space is a reflexive Banach space.
There exists a semi-reflexive countably barrelled space that is not barrelled.

See also
 Grothendieck space - A generalization which has some of the properties of reflexive spaces and includes many spaces of practical importance.
 Reflexive operator algebra
 Reflexive space

Citations

Bibliography

 John B. Conway, A Course in Functional Analysis, Springer, 1985.
 .

 .

Banach spaces
Duality theories


The Amazonian red-sided opossum (Monodelphis glirina) is a South American opossum species of the family Didelphidae, formerly viewed as part of M. brevicaudata. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal.

References

Opossums
Marsupials of South America
Fauna of the Amazon
Mammals of Brazil
Mammals of Peru
Mammals of Bolivia
Mammals described in 1842


Sérgio Paulo Vieira Pinto (born 8 January 1973) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a right midfielder.

Club career
After unsuccessfully emerging through local Boavista FC's youth system, Porto-born Pinto played almost exclusively in the lower leagues of his country, representing Ermesinde SC, F.C. Marco, Gondomar SC, C.D. Fátima, S.C. Lamego, C.D. Portosantense, Leça FC, F.C. Maia, F.C. Felgueiras and F.C. Lixa. From 1999 to December 2004 he made 143 Segunda Liga appearances, scoring ten goals.

In a 13-year senior career, Pinto also played one season with Football League First Division club Bradford City, featuring in less than half of the matches as the West Yorkshire side finished just one place above the relegation zone. He retired in June 2005, aged 32.

Personal life
Pinto's older brother, João, was also a footballer. A forward, he played with team and individual success for S.L. Benfica and Sporting CP, also winning more than 80 caps for the Portugal national team. His nephew, Tiago, notably represented Rio Ave F.C.

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Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
Footballers from Porto
Men's association football midfielders
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Ermesinde S.C. players
F.C. Marco players
Gondomar S.C. players
C.D. Fátima players
S.C. Lamego players
Leça F.C. players
F.C. Maia players
F.C. Felgueiras players
F.C. Lixa players
English Football League players
Bradford City A.F.C. players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England


Ian Gilfillan (born 7 June 1932) is a former Australian politician. He was educated in Adelaide and was based on Kangaroo Island. He contested the 1974 federal election as a member of the Australia Party, but joined the Australian Democrats in 1977. In 1982, he was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council as a Democrat, holding the position until 1993. He returned to the Council in 1997 and served until his retirement in 2006.

References

1932 births
Living people
Australian Democrats members of the Parliament of South Australia
Members of the South Australian Legislative Council
21st-century Australian politicians


Irwin was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1950.

Based in the state's Mid West agricultural region and centred on the town of Dongara, the district was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 election. In 1898, it included Port Denison and a number of towns along the Midland railway, including Dongara, Irwin, Mingenew, Arrino, Carnamah, Coorow, Marchagee, and Watheroo. The district was renamed Irwin-Moore with the abolition of Moore at the 1930 election.

Irwin-Moore was abolished at the 1950 election and the seat of Moore recreated. Sitting member John Ackland of the Country Party successfully transferred to the new seat.

Members

Election results

References

Irwin


"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" is a song by Eurodance group ATC. It was released in July 2001 as the lead single from their second album Touch the Sky. The single charted in the Top 40's in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Romania.

Music video
The music video starts out with a group of people looking up onto the night sky and spotting a luminous beam of light. It later zooms into a barren foreign planet where ATC are sitting and looking up into the sky. The group then stands up and walks through a grasslands, ending up in front of a tree full of bubbles instead of leaves, which they all later get trapped inside of. They all start floating up high into the sky inside of their respective bubbles, hence the album's name, Touch the Sky. They all then manage to escape the bubbles and land back onto the grasslands. The group then arrives in a winter setting where they ride unicorns and later spout angel wings, then proceed to fly up into outer space. Whilst flying through outer space, they land on a flying stingray and dance on top of it. They are later sent back to the grasslands from earlier, and now continue to dance with the group of people seen at the very beginning. Later, only the group of people are warped back to planet Earth, dubbed as "wonderland", leaving ATC in outer space, with one girl having a necklace that glows up as a gift from ATC.

Track listing
CD maxi - Europe (2001)
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (Radio Edit 5 Inch-Version) - 3:47
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (Radio Edit 12 Inch-Version) - 4:36
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (Record Rescue @ Blue PM Mix) - 4:16
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (BKA 2 Blue PM Mix) - 3:55
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (Disco Mix) - 3:50
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (Trance Ibiza Space Mix) - 5:51
"I'm in Heaven (When You Kiss Me)" (Club Pop Mix) - 4:26

Charts

References

2001 songs
2001 singles
A Touch of Class (band) songs
Sony BMG singles
Songs written by Alex Christensen
Songs about kissing


Multiphoton lithography (also known as direct laser lithography or direct laser writing) of polymer templates has been known for years by the photonic crystal community. Similar to standard photolithography techniques, structuring is accomplished by illuminating negative-tone or positive-tone photoresists via light of a well-defined wavelength. The fundamental difference is, however, the avoidance of reticles. Instead, two-photon absorption is utilized to induce a dramatic change in the solubility of the resist for appropriate developers.

Hence, multiphoton lithography is a technique for creating small features in a photosensitive material, without the use of complex optical systems or photomasks. This method relies on a multi-photon absorption process in a material that is transparent at the wavelength of the laser used for creating the pattern. By scanning and properly modulating the laser, a chemical change (usually polymerization) occurs at the focal spot of the laser and can be controlled to create an arbitrary three-dimensional periodic or non-periodic pattern. This method has been used for rapid prototyping of structures with fine features.

Two-photon absorption is a third-order with respect to the third-order optical susceptibility  and a second-order process with respect to light intensity. For this reason it is a non-linear process several orders of magnitude weaker than linear absorption, thus very high light intensities are required to increase the number of such rare events. For example, tightly-focused laser beams provide the needed intensities. Here, pulsed laser sources are preferred as they deliver high-intensity pulses while depositing a relatively low average energy. To enable 3D structuring, the light source must be adequately adapted to the photoresist in that single-photon absorption is highly suppressed while two-photon absorption is favoured. This condition is met if and only if the resist is highly transparent for the laser light's output wavelength λ and, simultaneously, absorbing at λ/2. As a result, a given sample relative to the focused laser beam can be scanned while changing the resist's solubility only in a confined volume. The geometry of the latter mainly depends on the iso-intensity surfaces of the focus. Concretely, those regions of the laser beam which exceed a given exposure threshold of the photosensitive medium define the basic building block, the so-called voxel. Other parameters which influence the actual shape of the voxel are the laser mode and the refractive-index mismatch between the resist and the immersion system leading to spherical aberration.

It was found that polarization effects in laser 3D nanolithography can be employed to fine-tune the feature sizes (and corresponding aspect ratio) in the structuring of photoresists. This proves polarization to be a variable parameter next to laser power (intensity), scanning speed (exposure duration), accumulated dose, etc.

In addition, a plant-derived renewable pure bioresins without additional photosensitization can be employed for the optical rapid prototyping.

Materials for multiphoton polymerization
The materials employed in multiphoton lithography are those normally used in conventional photolithography techniques. They can be found in liquid-viscous, gel or solid state, in relation to the fabrication need. Liquid resists imply more complex sample fixing processes, during the fabrication step, while the preparation of the resins themselves may be easier and faster. In contrast, solid resists can be handled in an easier way, but they require complex and time-consuming processes. The photopolymers always include a prepolymer (the monomer) and, considering the final application, a photoinitiator, as a catalyzer for the polymerization reaction. In addition, we can find such polymerization inhibitors (useful to stabilize resins both reducing the obtained voxel), solvents (which may simplify casting procedures), thickens (so called "fillers") and other additives (as pigments and so on) which aim to functionalize the photopolymer.

Acrylates
The acrylates are the most diffused resin components. They can be found in many traditional photolithography processes which imply a radical reaction. They are largely diffused and commercially available in a wide range of products, having different properties and composition. The main advantages of this kind of resists are found in the excellent mechanical properties and in a reduced shrinkage capacity. Finally the polymerization steps are faster than other kind of photopolymers. Acrylic hybrid organic/inorganic resists are largely diffused due to their biocompatible and structural behavior, the most famous ones are the ceramic based OMOCERs material family and the silicon-ceramic based SZ2080. The latter, has encountered a wide use in the biological and photonic field, thanks to the tunable optical capability (such as the refractive index), just by changing the inorganic phase ratio.

Epoxy resins
These are the most employed resins into the MEMS and microfluidic fields. They exploit cationic polymerization. One of the best known epoxy resin is SU-8, which allows thin film deposition (up to 500 µm) and polymerization of structures with a high aspect ratio. We can find many others epoxy resins such as: SCR-701, largely employed in micro moving objects, and the SCR-500.

Inorganic glass/ceramics
Inorganic glass and ceramics have better thermal and chemical stabilities than photopolymers do, and they also offer improved durability due to their high resistance to corrosion, degradation, and wear. Therefore, there has been continuous interest in the development of resins and techniques that allow using multiphoton lithography for 3D printing of glasses and ceramics in recent years. It has been demonstrated that using hybrid inorganic-organic resins and high-temperature thermal treatments, one can achieve 3D printing of glass-ceramics with sub-micrometer resolution. Recently, multiphoton lithography of an entirely inorganic resin for 3D printing of glasses without involving thermal treatments has also been shown.

Applications
Nowadays there are several application fields for microstructured devices, made by multiphoton polymerization, such as: regenerative medicine, biomedical engineering, micromechanic, microfluidic, atomic force microscopy, optics and telecommunication science.

Regenerative medicine and biomedical engineering
By the arrival of biocompatible photopolymers (as SZ2080 and OMOCERs) many scaffolds have been realized by multiphoton lithography, to date. They vary in key parameters as geometry, porosity and dimension to control and condition, in a mechanical and chemical fashion, fundamental cues in in vitro cell cultures: migration, adhesion, proliferation and differentiation. The capability to fabricate structures having a feature size smaller than the cells' one, have dramatically improved the mechanobiology field, giving the possibility to combine mechanical cues directly into cells microenvironment. Their final application range from stemness maintenance in adult mesenchymal stem cells, such as into the NICHOID scaffold which mimics in vitro a physiological niche, to the generation of migration engineered scaffolds.

Micromechanic and microfluidic
The multiphoton polymerization can be suitable to realize microsized active (as pumps) or passive (as filters) devices that can be combined with Lab-on-a-chip. These devices can be widely used coupled to microchannels with the advantage to polymerize in pre-sealed channels. Considering filters, they can be used to separate the plasma from the red blood cells, to separate cell populations (in relation to the single cell dimension) or basically to filter solutions from impurity and debris. A porous 3D filter, which can only be fabricated by 2PP technology, offers two key advantages compared to filters based on 2D pillars. First, the 3D filter has increased mechanical resistance to shear stresses, enabling a higher void ratio and hence more efficient operation. Second, the 3D porous filter can efficiently filter disk-shaped elements without reducing the pore size to the minimum dimension of the cell.  Considering the integrated micropumps, they can be polymerized as two-lobed independent rotors, confined into the channel by their own shaft, to avoid unwanted rotations. Such systems are simply activated by using focalized CW laser system.

Atomic force microscopy
To date, atomic force microscopy microtips are realized with standard photolithographic techniques on hard materials, such as gold, silicon, and its derivatives. Nonetheless, the mechanical properties of such materials require time-consuming and expensive production processes to create or bend the tips. Multiphoton lithography can be used to prototype and modify, thus avoiding the complex fabrication protocol.

Optics
With the ability to create 3D planar structures, multiphoton polymerization can build optical components for optical waveguides, resonators, photonic crystals, and lens.

References

External links
Nano sculptures, the first nano-scale human form. Sculpture made by artist Jonty Hurwitz using multiphoton lithography, November 2014.

Nonlinear optics
Lithography (microfabrication)
Computer printing
Printing processes


The Underneath is a children's book by Kathi Appelt. It tells the story of an abandoned cat who goes to live with a maltreated hound dog underneath a crooked old house in a bayou on the border between Louisiana and Texas. Published in 2008, The Underneath is a John Newbery Honor book, ALA Notable Children's Book and a National Book Award Finalist.

Concept and development
The novel originally started as a short story about a boy, a cat, and a shard of Caddo pottery. Her agent encouraged Appelt to expand the story to a novel instead. The plot soon changed to focus on the cat instead and the boy disappeared from the plot. Appelt ended up drawing inspiration from the setting of the bayou itself, as well as some inspiration from Caddo legends, who lived in that region. She admitted that the creation of the character Grandmother Moccasin may have been driven by her fear of snakes. Appelt also stated that she drew inspiration from The Jungle Book, not for its plot but for its themes and how it tackled ideas that you wouldn't expect from a children's book.

Plot
The story takes place underneath a ramshackle house, in the bayou near the Texas-Louisiana border. The hound dog, Ranger, is chained under the porch. Ever since his leg was shot accidentally by his evil owner, Gar Face, Ranger has been chained up to serve only as a warning system. Ranger meets a calico cat who has kittens, and he names the kittens "Sabine" and "Puck". The kittens are told to never leave the underside of the porch, otherwise Gar Face might use them as alligator bait. One day, Puck accidentally leaves the safety of the porch and is caught by Gar Face. While trying to protect Puck, the calico is also caught. Gar Face throws the two into a bag, which he then throws into the river. Although Puck is saved, the mother drowns trying to help him.  She encounters a hummingbird, who are known to accompany the spirits of the dead to the other side. Puck later wanders off and ends up lost.

The book also introduces Grandmother Moccasin, who in this story is portrayed as a water moccasin lamia. When her daughter Night Song changes form to marry Hawk Man, Grandmother feels betrayed and tricks her daughter into changing back into a serpent, since magical creatures who return to their original forms are stuck that way forever. Hawk Man then traps Grandmother in a clay jar for what she did, where she stews in her bitterness and anger. The Alligator King is an alligator who was friends with Grandmother Moccasin before her imprisonment, who also happens to be the alligator that Gar Face is trying to lure using Ranger. When storms release Grandmother, she decides to do something unexpected. She sees the love between the kittens and the hound, and frees Ranger from where he is chained. However, she is hit by a stray bullet from Gar Face. As she lays dying, she is at last reunited by her granddaughter Rainbow Bird, who took the form of a hummingbird. The Alligator King eventually eats Gar Face.

Characters
Ranger  An old hound dog who is chained up underneath the house
Gar Face  Ranger's owner whose goal is to catch the alligator living in the bayou
Calico cat mother  The nameless cat who gives birth to Sabine and Puck
Sabine  the kitten who stays with Ranger under the house (girl)
Puck  the kitten who left to explore and lost his way(boy)
Grandmother Moccasin - a lamia who is trapped in a clay jar
Night Song  Grandmother Moccasin's daughter who is also a lamia
Rainbow Bird  a hummingbird with the ability to accompany spirits to the other side, who is also searching for someone, who is also Night Song's daughter
Hawk Man Night Songs husband
Alligator King the oldest alligator known to man also  friends with Grandmother Moccasin

Critical reception
Horn Book Magazine called it a "lyrical, circling narrative" that stands out because of "the originality of the story and the fresh beauty of its author’s voice". Kirkus Reviews called it a "magical tale of betrayal, revenge, love and the importance of keeping promises". Scholastic said "this harrowing yet sweet story is a tale about the power of love and hate". Booklist admitted that some readers "may struggle with Appelt’s repeated phrases and poetic fragments" but that most "will be pulled forward by the vulnerable pets’ survival adventure". However the School Library Journal gave a more lukewarm review, stating that "the pace of this book is meandering" and calls the book "a leisurely, often discouraging journey to what is ultimately an appropriate ending".

Awards
John Newbery Honor Book 2009
2009 ALA Notable Children's Book
National Book Award Finalist 2008

References

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2008 American novels
2008 children's books
American children's novels
Newbery Honor-winning works
Children's novels about animals
Children's novels about cats
Children's novels about dogs
Novels set in Texas
Children's books set in Texas
Children's books about snakes
Children's books about birds
Lamia


Sniffles and the Bookworm is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on December 2, 1939, and stars Sniffles the mouse.

This is the third cartoon with Sniffles, although the plot is more in line with the "books come to life" entries from around this period.

Plot
Mother Goose characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse, and his bookworm friend (in his first appearance) with the swing song "Mutiny in the Nursery" by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.

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1939 films
1939 animated films
Short films directed by Chuck Jones
Merrie Melodies short films
Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
Animated films about animals
Animated films about mice
Animated films about insects
1930s Warner Bros. animated short films
Frankenstein films


Kumbulak is a village in the Tuzluca District of the Iğdır Province in Turkey. Its population is 34 (2022). The village is populated by Azerbaijanis.

References

Villages in Tuzluca District


Howard Roscoe Driggs (August 8, 1873 – February 17, 1963) was an English professor at the University of Utah and New York University. He also was the author or editor of more than 50 books, including at least seven novels.

Driggs was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah. His parents had come to Utah with the Mormon pioneers. Driggs studied at Brigham Young Academy, the University of Utah, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees, the University of Chicago, and New York University where he received his Ph.D. in 1926.

Driggs first began teaching in a small school in Pleasant Grove just after graduating from Brigham Young Academy. He later was on the faculty of what is now Southern Utah University when it opened in 1897. From 1907 to 1923, he was a member of the University of Utah faculty, serving for part of that time as the principal of the university's teacher training school. From 1927 until his retirement in 1942 Driggs was an English professor at New York University. He made his home, for many decades, in Bayside, New York.

In 1897, Driggs married Eva Frampton in the Salt Lake Temple. They had two sons, H. Wayne Driggs (1902–1951) and H. Perry Driggs. Wayne studied at the University of Utah and New York University as his father had. He was serving as president of what is now Southern Utah University at the time of his death. Perry was an artist and advertising executive, he illustrated at least one of his father's books.

Driggs was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was heavily involved with the church's Sunday School, serving as a member of the organization's general board from 1910 to 1930. He was also involved in starting the first LDS Church Sunday Schools in New York City and Washington, D.C. Also in New York City, Driggs served for a time as the branch president. When the New York Stake was organized in 1934, Driggs was made a member of the stake high council.

From 1908 to 1911 Driggs was the president of the Utah Library and Gymnasium Association. In this capacity he supported the building of joint Library-gymnasiums with the goal of getting those who came for recreation to also read books.  In 1919 he served as vice president of the National Education Association. In 1928 he was the president of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association.

In 1948, Driggs married Margaret Brazier Quarrier, who had three children from a previous marriage. She died in 2008.

Driggs first novel Wild Roses: A Tale of the Rockies was published in 1916. Among the novels Driggs wrote were Ben the Wagon Boy (1944) based on the story of his father, Benjamin Driggs. He also wrote George, the Handcart Pioneer (1952). He wrote a history of Pleasant Grove, Utah and also co-edited with Ezra Meeker Ox-Team days on the Oregon Trail. He also wrote many English text books.

He is honored by later historians for his work in collecting the memories of the Oregon Trail and the Pony Express, while there were still surviving people to give first-hand accounts. His book The Old West Speaks came out in October 1956, just as television popularized Westerns for a whole new generation. He spent many years collecting information about and promoting preservation of the pioneer trails in the west, and worked closely with artist and photographer William Henry Jackson(1843–1942).

Howard R. Driggs Elementary School, in Holladay, Utah is named in honor of him, and an annual lecture series at Southern Utah University bears his name.

Notes

External links

biography connected with the Driggs collection at SUU
Andrew Jenson. Latter-day Saints Biographical Encyclopedia. vol. 4, p. 210.

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Dylan Casey (born April 13, 1971, in Walnut Creek, California) is a retired American professional cyclist, who rode for  alongside Lance Armstrong.  His career began in 1990 and ended  in 2003.  Over that time, Casey won 12 major races with a team or on his own. He also competed in the Sydney Olympics and won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. He is a 2 time Professional National Time Trial Champion and in 1999 won National Championships for both the Time Trial and Individual Pursuit; one of only 3 Americans to ever do so. Casey served as a Product Manager at Google, (2003-2011) during which time he helped design their social offering Google+ as well as their famous black bar. Casey left Google for Path in early December 2011. He joined Yahoo! as a Senior Director of Consumer Platforms in May, 2013.

In 2000, Casey became an Olympian when he went to the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.  Unfortunately, an injury kept him out of actually competing. The year before he won a gold medal in individual pursuit at the 1999 Pan Am Games.

Casey has stage wins from the 1997 Tour of Ohio and 89er Stage Race and the 1998 Tour of Tucson, which he also won overall. In 1999, Casey came in third overall at the Tour of the Netherlands, sixth at the First Union Invitational and competed at the Tour of Spain. Stage wins in 2000 included one each at the Redlands Classic, the Tour of Luxembourg, and the Four Days of Dunkerque.

Born and raised in California, Casey graduated from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, CA in 1989. He then went on graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.S. in communications information systems in 1994

Major results

References

American male cyclists
1971 births
Living people
Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games
Sportspeople from Walnut Creek, California
Google employees
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Olympic cyclists for the United States
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Yahoo! employees
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
American business executives
Pan American Games medalists in cycling


This is a list of venues used for professional or NCAA baseball in Portland, Oregon. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.

Name and location of ballpark(s) unknown
Portland Gladiators - Pacific Northwest League (1890-1892)
Portland - New Pacific League (1896 - disbanded mid-season)
Portland Gladiators - Pacific Northwest League (1898)

National Park
Home of: Portland Greengages - Pacific National League (formerly Pacific Northwest League) (1903 only to mid-season)
Location: E 8th Street [SE 8th Ave] (west); Hawthorne Avenue [SE Hawthorne Blvd] (south) in East Portland
Currently: Commercial businesses

Vaughn Street Park a.k.a. Lucky Beavers Stadium, originally Recreation Park
Home of:
Portland Webfoots - Pacific Northwest League (1901-02)
Portland Browns/Giants/Beavers - Pacific Coast League (1903-1917)
Buckaroos - Pacific Coast International League (1918)
Portland Beavers - Pacific Coast League (1919-55)
Portland Pippins/Colts - Northwest League (1911-1914)
Location: 2409 Northwest Vaughn Street (south, third base); Northwest 24th Avenue (east, first base); Northwest 25th Avenue (west, left field)
Currently: ESCO plant

Providence Park formerly Jeld-Wen Field, PGE Park, Civic Stadium, Multnomah Stadium, Multnomah Field
Home of:
Portland Giants - Pacific Coast League (part of 1905 season)
Portland Beavers - Pacific Coast League (1956-1972)
Portland Mavericks - Northwest League (1973-1977)
Portland Beavers - Pacific Coast League (1978-93)
Portland Rockies - Northwest League (1995-2000)
Portland Beavers - Pacific Coast League (2001-2010)
Location: 1844 Southwest Morrison Street (north, third base); Southwest 18th Avenue (east, left field); Multnomah Athletic Club building and Southwest Salmon Street (south, right field); Southwest 20th Avenue (west, first base)
Currently: Converted into a soccer-specific stadium from 2009–2011, and now known as Providence Park

Joe Etzel Field formerly Pilot Stadium
Home of:
Portland Pilots - NCAA (1988-present)
Location: Adjacent to the Chiles Center; North Portsmouth Street (south, first base); North Willamette Boulevard (west, third base).

See also
New Portland Ballpark, a planned stadium that was to be used by the Portland Beavers beginning in 2011, but ultimately never built
Lists of baseball parks
Charles B. Walker Stadium at Lents Park

Sources
Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
Phil Lowry, Green Cathedrals,  several editions.
Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland, 1989.

P
Portland

Baseball
Baseball parks
Baseball in Portland, Oregon


...In Shallow Seas We Sail is the fourth studio album from post-hardcore band Emery that was released on June 2, 2009, through Tooth & Nail Records. The tracks "The Smile, The Face" and "Edge of the World" were previously released on Emery's 2008 EP, While Broken Hearts Prevail. The first track off of the record, "Cutthroat Collapse", was released as a digital download on April 7, 2009. The album debuted at number 50 on the Billboard 200.  On June 20, 2009, the album hit number 1 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel
Emery
Toby Morell – co-lead vocals, unclean vocals, bass
Matt Carter – guitar, backing vocals
Josh Head – keyboards, unclean vocals, electronics
Devin Shelton – co-lead vocals, bass
Dave Powell – drums, percussion

Production
Produced and recorded by Aaron Sprinkle and Matt Carter
Recorded at The Compound and Tigertown Studios
Tracks 1, 3 and 4 mixed by Dan Korneff at House of Loud
Tracks 2 and 5 mixed by David Bendeth at House of Loud
Tracks 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 mixed by JR McNeely at Elm Studios South
Tracks 8 and 11 mixed by David Bendeth and Dan Korneff at House of Loud
Mastered by Troy Glessner at Spectre South
Executive producer: Brandon Ebel

Art
Art direction by Emery and Jordan Butcher
Design by Jordan Butcher
Illustrations by Marc Johns
Photography by Dave Hill

References

Emery (band) albums
2009 albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
Albums produced by Aaron Sprinkle


Petrokemija is a Croatian chemical company which specializes in manufacturing agricultural fertilizers. It was founded in 1968 as a branch of the state-owned oil company INA with its headquarters in Kutina. In the late 1990s it was privatised and in 1998 it was incorporated as an independent joint stock company and listed at the Zagreb Stock Exchange. Petrokemija is, after INA, the second-largest exporter in the country. It is one of 24 companies included in the CROBEX share index.

History
Explored oil and gas deposits in Moslavina and Western Slavonia led to the construction in 1926 of a carbon black plant in Brezina near Lipik, which used gas from neighboring Bujavica. Production of soot in Kutina, which is still intended mainly for the rubber industry, began in 1938 with gas from neighboring Goyle. In 1940 a lime factory was put into operation, which operated until 1982, and in 1955 a clay factory was built, which still offers a wide range of goods for many industries: from oil and food to foundry, construction and agriculture, especially livestock (feed additives). These plants operated under the name "Methane" and for a short time as the "Chemical Products Plant". Since 1943, there has been a project to build a low-capacity mineral fertilizer plant. In 1968, within the petrochemical plant in the eastern part of Kutina, a fertilizer plant was built, the largest in the production system of the Kutina petrochemical industry. In the same year, the plant with a capacity of 750,000 tons entered the top ten in the world. On June 1, 1968, the plant of mineral fertilizers merged with the plant of chemical products (carbon black, limestone, alumina). Since 1970, the plant called INA-Petrokemija has become one of the four newly created technological and functional divisions of INA. The company was privatised in the late 1990s, and in 1998 was registered as an independent joint stock company and listed on the Zagreb Stock Exchange, becoming one of 24 companies included in the CROBEX stock index.

References

External links

Companies of Croatia
Companies listed on the Zagreb Stock Exchange
Chemical companies established in 1968
Government-owned companies of Croatia
1968 establishments in Yugoslavia


Plantagenet was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia from 1890 to 1904.

The district, located in the Great Southern area of the state, was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 election. In 1900, the seat included a number of towns along the Great Southern Railway, including Broomehill, Tambellup, Cranbrook, Tenterden, Kendenup, and Mount Barker, as well as Kojonup, Denmark, and Jerramungup. It excluded Albany which had its own seat. Plantagenet existed for four terms of parliament, electing the same member, Albert Hassell, on each occasion.

Members for Plantagenet

Election results

References

Plantagenet


The 2001 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the Asian Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA). The tournament was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from 23 to 30 September 2001.

Pools composition
The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 1999 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.

''* Withdrew

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Classification 5th–8th

Semifinals

7th place

5th place

Final round

Semifinals

3rd place

Final

Final standing

References
Results (Archived 2009-05-14)

International volleyball competitions hosted by Thailand
2001 in women's volleyball
2001
Volleyball,Asian Women's Championship


The Cairns Bulletin was an independent newspaper in circulation in Cairns. It covered the Cairns area from Palm Cove in the north to Gordonvale in the south with a distribution of 38,000 copies, reaching a population of 90,000+ residents. It was available in a print edition and online.

References

External links
 Official web site

Cairns, Queensland
Defunct newspapers published in Queensland


The Longyan dialect (), also known as Longyan Minnan () or Liong11l11334, is a dialect of Hokkien spoken in the urban city area of Longyan (eastern Longyan) in the province of Fujian, China while Hakka is spoken in rural villages of Longyan (western part). The Longyan Min people had settled in the region from southern part of Fujian Province as early as the Tang dynasty period (618–907). Although Longyan Min has some Hakka influence to a limited extent by the peasant Hakka Chinese language due to close distance of rural village Hakka peasants of the region, Longyan Min is a close dialect of the Minnan language and has more number of tones than Hakka (eight as compared to six). The Longyan dialect has a high but limited intelligibility with Southern Min dialects such as Hokkien–Taiwanese. Today, Longyan Minnan is predominantly spoken in Longyan's urban district Xinluo District while Zhangzhou Minnan is spoken in Zhangping City excluding Chishui and Shuangyang towns where Longyan Minnan is spoken. Hakka on the other hand is spoken in the non-urban rest of the rural areas of Longyan prefecture: Changting County, Liancheng County, Shanghang County, Wuping County, and Yongding District.

Branner suggests that the Xinluo and Zhangping dialects should be grouped with the Datian dialect as a coastal Min group separate from both Southern Min and Eastern Min.
However, he argues that the dialect of Wan'an township, in the northern part of Xinluo district, is a coastal Min variety separate from all of these.

Phonology
The Longyan dialect has 14 initials, 65 rimes, and 8 tones.

Initials
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Rimes
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Tones

Tone sandhi
The Longyan dialect has extremely extensive tone sandhi rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.

The two-syllable tonal sandhi rules are shown in the table below (the rows give the first syllable's original citation tone, while the columns give the citation tone of the second syllable):

Notes

References

Further reading

Fujian
Southern Min
Hokkien-language dialects


David Arthur Haycock (September 4, 1916 – February 25, 1994) was a personal secretary to several twentieth-century presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), including George Albert Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson.

As secretary, Haycock handled most of the correspondence and scheduled meetings for the church's president. Haycock also accompanied these leaders on their many trips throughout the world where he aided in the planning and note taking of meetings.

Biography

Haycock was born the oldest of four children to David Haycock and Lily Edith Crane in Farmington, Utah. He lived in various locations in Idaho and Utah growing up. He served as a missionary,  for the church in Hawaii. Following his return from missionary service, he married Maureen McCellen, took a job at the Deseret News, and was later appointed as George Albert Smith's personal secretary.

When McKay became the church's president, he retained his personal secretary, Clare Middlemiss, and Haycock was appointed as an assistant secretary to Joseph Anderson. He later served as an assistant to Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, as well as a mission president in Hawaii from 1954 to 1958.

Upon his return from Hawaii, Haycock again took employment with the Deseret News. Upon McKay's death, he became personal secretary to Joseph Fielding Smith and aided in his travels. Upon Smith's death, Haycock assisted Lee in his travels. Haycock took Lee to LDS Hospital when he collapsed from exhaustion and he was there when Lee's death was imminent.  Haycock notified the other members of the church's First Presidency and Kimball, who as President of the Twelve would become church president upon Lee's death.

When Kimball's health made it impossible for him to travel frequently or leave his apartment, Haycock accompanied Kimball's counselor, Gordon B. Hinckley, when Hinckley would visit Kimball in his apartment. Haycock also read several of Kimball's talks when he was unable to address general conference sessions himself. Haycock was a speaker at Kimball's funeral.

Upon Kimball's death, Haycock served briefly as personal secretary to Benson before Haycock's appointment as president of the Laie Hawaii Temple. He retired prior to his return to Hawaii in 1986. He died at the age of 77 following complications from heart surgery in February 1994.

References

External links
Jack Walsh, "D. Arthur Haycock: Aide to Four Prophets", Ensign, August 1984
Speech by Haycock in 1980 at BYU
Photograph of Haycock as Joseph Fielding Smith's secretary
Photograph of Haycock on the first Board of Trustees of the Church College of Hawaii

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East Coolgardie was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1897 to 1901.

In 1898, the district included Kalgoorlie, Boulder, and the lucrative East Coolgardie goldfield. It existed for one term of parliament, and was represented in that time by Charles Moran (the former member for Yilgarn). Moran would later become the member for West Perth.

Members for East Coolgardie

References

East Coolgardie
City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder


Student Volunteer Campus Community (abbreviated SVCC, and formerly SVCC Language Schools) is a non-profit organization run by volunteers located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and operates at the University of Alberta as a student volunteer group.

History
Originally located at St. Joseph's College on the campus of The University of Alberta, operations moved to the Education Building in 1984 to facilitate expansion of the "Cantonese Language Group"

SVCC Language Schools was founded in 1980 under the name "Student Volunteer Campus Community," by the late Father Firth and Rita Chow.  Originally, SVCC was an English Language School intended for new immigrants from Vietnam and the Orient learning English as a second language.

Those English as a Second Language classes were held at St. Joseph's College, a small college also located on the University of Alberta Campus. When the English Language Group hosted five classes, SVCC relocated to the Education Building on the University Campus, where it continues to operate today.

In 1984, SVCC opened their second language program as the "Cantonese Language Group" for children.

As time went on, SVCC became more well known as its popularity came with the establishment of a Mandarin Language Group (2005), French Language Group (2007), Japanese Language Group (2008) and Korean Language Group (2009), and most recently, a Spanish program in 2013

In the Fall semester of 2013, SVCC marked its 100th session in operation.

Basic structure
SVCC Language Schools comprises six language schools as well as three operational departments listed as the following:

 Operations (Internal Department)
 Finance
 Marketing (External Department)
 English Language Group
 Cantonese Language Group
 Mandarin Language Group
 French Language Group
 Japanese Language Group
 Korean Language Group
 Spanish Language Group

Mission statement
The objectives of SVCC are:

 To provide participants with an opportunity to experience language in a discussion-like setting
 To integrate volunteer activities as a part of everyday student life at the University
 To develop cooperative learning between participants through peer-education
 To introduce members of the international community to Canadian culture through language education
 To promote multiculturalism and the respect of the variety of cultures in Canada

External links
SVCC Language Schools Website on University of Alberta
SVCC Wiki
SVCC FaceBook Page
University of Alberta

References

Non-profit organizations based in Canada
Organizations based in Edmonton
Educational institutions established in 1980


Goodfellas is the debut studio album by hip hop group, 504 Boyz, released on May 2, 2000, on No Limit Records and Priority Records. 504 Boyz consisted  of Master P, Silkk The Shocker, Mystikal, C-Murder, Mac, Krazy and Magic. It featured production from The Neptunes, Carlos Stephens and Donald XL Robertson.  The album features label mates Snoop Dogg, Mercedes, Erica Foxx, Samm, Black Felon/X-Con, Ms Peaches, Mr Marcelo, Jamo, Traci/Baby Girl, D.I.G. and Ghetto Commission, as well as Pusha T (who, at the time, went by the name Terrar), Pharrell and RBX.

Goodfellas was a huge success debuting at #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #2 on the Billboard 200, behind only NSYNC's No Strings Attached, with first-week sales of 139,000 copies in the US.  The album featured 2 singles: "Wobble Wobble", which made it #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Hot Rap Singles . The other single/video release was Whodi. Planning of this album dates back to 1997, as ads for it can be found in the liner notes of many of the 1997 No Limit releases. The album received a Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America by August 29, 2000.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

See also
List of number-one R&B albums of 2000 (U.S.)

References

2000 debut albums
504 Boyz albums
Albums produced by Fredwreck
Albums produced by the Neptunes
No Limit Records albums
Priority Records albums
Gangsta rap albums by American artists


José Manuel Gomes de Andrade (born 1 June 1970), also known as Zé de Angola, is a  Cape Verdean retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He also held Portuguese nationality, due to the many years he spent in the country.

Football career
Born in São Vicente, Cape Verde, Andrade spent most of his early career in the second and third divisions of Portuguese football, never appearing in the top level and mainly representing Académico de Viseu FC. Also in the 90s, he had two spells in England with Stoke City, one on loan, making a total of 16 league appearances for the Potters.

A player of slight build, Andrade broke his leg during a second division game at Swindon Town in April 1995, and returned to Portugal during the summer to regain fitness. He returned to Stoke two years later but, although he was a big hit with the supporters, he failed to settle in England and was released after five months.

After two unassuming years in the Portuguese second level, with only 21 games combined for F.C. Maia and Gil Vicente FC, Andrade – known as Zé de Angola (Angola's Zé – short for Joseph) during his spell in the country – spent four seasons in Angola with Atlético Sport Aviação. He would retire at the age of 40, after eight years with three clubs in Luxembourg.

Personal life
Andrade's son Bruno, also became a professional footballer.

Career statistics

Club
Source:

International
Source:

References

External links

1970 births
Living people
People from São Vicente, Cape Verde
Portuguese sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent
Portuguese men's footballers
Cape Verdean men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Académica de Coimbra (football) players
Académico de Viseu F.C. players
Gil Vicente F.C. players
F.C. Maia players
English Football League players
Stoke City F.C. players
FC Avenir Beggen players
Cape Verde men's international footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Cape Verdean expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Angola
Expatriate men's footballers in Luxembourg