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7646000 | "Matthew 3:3"
Matthew 3:3 Matthew 3:3 is the third verse of the third chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse occurs in the section introducing John the Baptist. This verse links John The Baptist to messianic prophecies. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: The quote in question comes from . It originally was part of the description of the escape from the Babylonian Captivity. This same verse is quoted in and . In Mark it is preceded by two other Old Testament quotes, Matthew |
7646001 | "2013–14 Momentum One Day Cup"
2013–14 Momentum One Day Cup The 2013–14 Momentum One Day Cup was a domestic one-day cricket championship in South Africa. It was the 33rd time the championship was contested. The competition started on 10 October 2013 and the final took place on 15 November 2013 at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town. The trophy was shared by the Cape Cobras and the Titans when the final was abandoned after fewer than 6 over were completed (and the reserve day was completely abandoned) due to rain. RESULT POINTS: Of the 6 participants, the following 3 teams qualified for the knockout stage: |
7646002 | "Matthew 3:3"
there are two main ways of punctuating this verse, which give somewhat different meanings. Traditionally the start of the quote was left as one phrase reading ""the voice of one crying in the wilderness..."" Based on the original Hebrew most modern scholars feel it should be two phrases reading ""the voice of one crying: ""In the wilderness..."" This second punctuation makes the link between John the [Baptist] and Isaiah somewhat less direct. Matthew 3:3 Matthew 3:3 is the third verse of the third chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse occurs in the section introducing |
7646003 | "Robert Ridsdale"
Lambton and operated on the fringes of the betting ring with some success. He became trusted as a betting man who would pay his debts promptly and in full. He also began acting as an agent to gentlemen gamblers such as Robert Edward Petre, youngest son of Robert Petre, 9th Baron Petre. Others that worked in this way included the former prize-fighter John Gully. He, like Ridsdale, owned race-horses and in 1827 he purchased The Derby winner ""Mameluke"" and entered the horse into the St Leger Stakes. The race was chaotic with several false starts and the eventual winner, ""Matilda"", |
7646004 | "Lena Philipsson"
included top hits ""Standing In My Rain"", ""Why,"" and ""Leave A Light"". In 1991, she recorded a concept album and show about a female secret agent, 'Agent 006'. In the early 1990s, her fame increased in Sweden, and she continued to release albums until 1997. In 2001, she had a stage comeback; the ""Lena Philipsson Show"" was sold out for two and a half years around Sweden. In 2004, she returned after a seven-year hiatus from the album charts. In 2004, she entered Melodifestivalen for the fourth time as a solo artist, with ""Det gör ont"". She made it through |
7646005 | "Lena Philipsson"
the semifinal process and emerged as the winner on 20 March 2004, going on to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the translated English language version ""It Hurts"". The song, composed by Thomas Eriksson, combined up-tempo and disco themes. Philipsson's stage appearance caused much controversy in the Swedish press and media because her performance, in a short fuchsia pink dress and high heels, consisted of dancing with the microphone stand in a fashion similar to Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Despite being the third favourite to win the competition, she finished in joint 5th place. The album, ""Det gör |
7646006 | "Lena Philipsson"
ont en stund på natten men inget på dan"", went gold in nine days, with ""Det gör ont"" as its lead single. It also spawned the singles ""Delirium"", ""Lena Anthem"" and ""På gatan där jag bor"". The Swedish radio show ""Tracks"" voted her best female artist, best Swedish artist, and artist of the year for 2004, and ""Det gör ont"" was voted best song. She released her new album ""Jag ångrar ingenting"" in 2005. After one day in the Swedish shops, it had sold over 30,000 copies. A one-hour TV special featuring new songs as well as old hits and |
7646007 | "Lena Philipsson"
some interviews aired in November the same year. In January 2006, Philipsson announced she was to host the 2006 Melodifestivalen. Because Melodifestivalen is a family show, her appearance as host was met with some controversy due to numerous jokes considered inappropriate for the audience. In early 2007, she released her new version of her greatest hits, ""Lena 20 år"". The album included hits from all her albums except ""Fantasy."" Also included was a new song ""Jag måste skynda mig på"". Lena and Orup set up their own show on China Teatern in Stockholm at the same time as the album |
7646008 | "Robert Ridsdale"
age of 17 the lad was killed in a shooting accident when the trigger on his gun becoming snagged on a branch; this event happened just months before Ridsdale's bankruptcy. His wife, Sophia, died in Doncaster in 1846 and Ridsdale died in Newmarket in October 1856. The newspaper reports immediately after his death said that he died in his lodgings after dining out with friends, however, nearly all stories about him since have said he was found dead in a stable with only three coins in his pocket. Robert Ridsdale Ridsdale came from humble beginnings, but stories about his early |
7646009 | "Sunday Holiday"
Sunday Holiday Sunday Holiday is a 2017 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Jis Joy. The film features an ensemble cast of Asif Ali, Sreenivasan, Lal Jose, Aparna Balamurali, Asha Sarath, Dharmajan, Siddique, Bhagath Manuel and Alencier. It was Produced by Sheen Helen Under the banner of Maqtro pictures and music composed by Deepak Dev. The film released on 14 July 2017 with highly positive reviews from Audience as well as the critics. The film is about a cinema tale, narrated by Unni Mukundan (Sreenivasan) to a famous director David Paul (Lal Jose). Unni is a college professor but |
7646010 | "Sunday Holiday"
he dreams to become a scriptwriter in films. Unni first gets rejected quite harshly, but then David regrets his actions and calls him back, asking for him to narrate the story. Unni narrates the story of Amal (Asif Ali) from Thalassery. Amal’s love life with Sithara (Shruthi Ramachandran) met with an unexpected ending as she accepted a marriage proposal. He decides to go to Ernakulam for a job so that he can stay away from his past. He shares a house with V.P.Vipeesh aka Rahul (Dharmajan), Vinu (Nirmal Palazhi) and Narayanankutty aka Nakkutty (Siddique). The movie shows the things that |
7646011 | "Sunday Holiday"
happen in Amal’s life during that phase. The director loves the story and accepts to make the film. Climax shows that Unni was narrating his own lifestory. The original soundtrack is composed, programmed, and arranged by Deepak Dev. Sunday Holiday released in India on 14 July 2017 in 110 Theatres across Kerala. Times Of India reviewer Deepa Soman rated it 3/5 and stated:'Sunday Holiday is a perceptive portrait of a film and that makes it quite unpretentious and feel-good too, which makes it worth your time'. Aswin Bharadwaj of Lensmen Says :'Sunday Holiday is not a patience tester for sure. |
7646012 | "Sunday Holiday"
With sporadic jokes and a little bit of excitement here and there, the film moves on with all its ups and downs'. Sunday Holiday Sunday Holiday is a 2017 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Jis Joy. The film features an ensemble cast of Asif Ali, Sreenivasan, Lal Jose, Aparna Balamurali, Asha Sarath, Dharmajan, Siddique, Bhagath Manuel and Alencier. It was Produced by Sheen Helen Under the banner of Maqtro pictures and music composed by Deepak Dev. The film released on 14 July 2017 with highly positive reviews from Audience as well as the critics. The film is about |
7646013 | "Francesco Nori"
Francesco Nori Francesco Nori (1565 – 30 December 1631) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of San Miniato (1624–1631). Francesco Nori was born in Florence, Italy in 1565 and ordained a priest in 1603. On 11 March 1624, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of San Miniato. On 27 May 1624, he was consecrated bishop by Ottavio Bandini, Cardinal-Bishop of ""Palestrina"", with Alessandro del Caccia, Bishop of Pistoia, and Tommaso Ximenes, Bishop of Fiesole, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of San Miniato until his death on 30 December 1631. |
7646014 | "Francesco Nori"
Francesco Nori Francesco Nori (1565 – 30 December 1631) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of San Miniato (1624–1631). Francesco Nori was born in Florence, Italy in 1565 and ordained a priest in 1603. On 11 March 1624, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of San Miniato. On 27 May 1624, he was consecrated bishop by Ottavio Bandini, Cardinal-Bishop of ""Palestrina"", with Alessandro del Caccia, Bishop of Pistoia, and Tommaso Ximenes, Bishop of Fiesole, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of San Miniato until his death on 30 December 1631. |
7646015 | "John IV of Ohrid"
John IV of Ohrid Adrianos Komnenos (; – 1163/64) was a Byzantine prince of the Komnenian dynasty, who became a monk and served as Archbishop of Ohrid as John IV (Ἰωάννης Δ΄) between 1139/42 and his death, sometime in 1163/64. He was born as the fourth son (and sixth child) of the ""sebastokrator"" Isaac Komnenos, brother of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (), and his wife, Irene of Alania. His life and career are mostly known from an encomium by the rhetorician Nikephoros Basilakes. He received a thorough education and training in military exercises, including riding, the javelin, and archery. His |
7646016 | "John IV of Ohrid"
uncle raised him to the rank of ""sebastos"" and appointed him military governor (""doux"") of Chaldia, a position in which he distinguished himself, according to Basilakes, by his honesty and incorruptibility, lack of ostentation, and his wise and compassionate stance towards the inhabitants of his province, shielding them from the usual rapaciousness of the imperial tax officials. Sometime before October 1136, after consulting with his wife, he became a monk, taking the monastic name John, but retaining his rank of ""sebastos"". In 1137, he accompanied his cousin John II Komnenos () in his campaign into Cilicia and Syria. After participating |
7646017 | "John IV of Ohrid"
in John II's triumphal entry into Antioch, he continued south and made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, before rejoining the imperial army on its return journey to Constantinople in May 1138. Sometime after 1139, he was elected and consecrated as Archbishop of Ohrid. A ""terminus ante quem"" is provided by his attendance as a judge in the imperial synods condemning two bishops for their adherence to Bogomilism in August and October 1143, but the date may be even earlier, if Paul Gautier's dating of a letter he received from the philosopher Michael Italikos to Christmas 1142 is |
7646018 | "John IV of Ohrid"
correct. Michael Italikos too, lavishes praise on John for his character, highlighting his clemency and generosity. He is next attested as attending a synod in January 1156 and the Council of Blachernae in May 1157, which condemned the newly elected Patriarch of Antioch Soterichos Panteugenos, and the rhetoricians Michael of Thessalonica and Nikephoros Basilakes. This is also the last reference to him in the Byzantine sources. However, according to Günter Prinzing, John is to be identified with a ""Bulgarian bishop Adrian"", mentioned in the ""Laurentian Codex"" as having disputed in summer 1163 with the deposed Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal, |
7646019 | "John IV of Ohrid"
Leo II, before Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (). He died sometime before 10 February 1164, when he is listed as deceased in a list of diplomas from the Theotokos Eleousa Monastery at Strumica. Of his works, only a nomocanon and a homily survive. John was the first archbishop of Ohrid to use the title of ""Archbishop of Justiniana Prima and all Bulgaria"", attested in his signature in 1157, thereby laying claim to the legacy of the short-lived and long defunct Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima, founded by Justinian I in the 6th century. This title apparently fell into disuse by his |
7646020 | "John IV of Ohrid"
immediate successors, possibly due to pressure from Constantinople, but in the early 13th century it was revived by the ambitious Demetrios Chomatenos to support his claims of quasi-patriarchal status in his clash over authority with the patriarchs of Constantinople, at the time in exile at the Empire of Nicaea. The designation finally became accepted by Constantinople after 1261, and a fixed part of the archbishops' titelature. In he married through the intercession of his uncle, but the identity of his wife is completely unknown. The couple had at least two daughters, Theodora, and an unnamed daughter. Theodora, born , married |
7646021 | "John IV of Ohrid"
Andronikos Kontostephanos, son of the ""megas doux"" Isaac Kontostephanos, and a distinguished commander during the early reign of Manuel I Komnenos. The couple had four children, of which two died in young age. Her anonymous sister, probably born , is only known for selling some of her family's land to Emperor John II, who dedicated it to the Pantokrator Monastery. She was alive in 1136, but nothing else is known of her. John IV of Ohrid Adrianos Komnenos (; – 1163/64) was a Byzantine prince of the Komnenian dynasty, who became a monk and served as Archbishop of Ohrid as |
7646022 | "Jay Heiler"
Jay Heiler Jay Helier is an American lawyer, political analyst, journalist, businessman, and a leader in the professional education community. Heiler currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of the Arizona Board of Regents and is a member of the Business and Finance Committee, Academic and Student Affairs Committee and the Regents Executive Committee. Heiler is also the co-founder and Board Chairman of Great Hearts Academies, a charter school network operating several K-12 campuses in Arizona and Texas. He also leads as the President of the Arizona Charter School Association. Heiler grew up in Phoenix, and graduated from Arizona State |
7646023 | "Jay Heiler"
University in 1983. While at ASU, he was a Pulliam Scholar, and editor-in-chief of The State Press, the campus daily newspaper. According to the Phoenix New Times, Heiler, along with future George W. Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, ""was one in a series of students who took over the paper and used its editorial pages to push their conservative bent-attacking liberal professors, homosexuals and others."" He then went to law school at ASU, graduating in 1986, and worked in the Arizona Attorney General's office from 1986 to 1989. In 1989, Heiler moved to Virginia to become editorial page editor of the |
7646024 | "Jay Heiler"
Richmond Times-Dispatch. In 1992, Heiler returned to Arizona to work for then-governor Fife Symington, eventually becoming his chief of staff. When Symington resigned in 1997 after being convicted of bank fraud, Heiler became a political and public-affairs consultant. Helier co-founded Great Hearts Academies in 2004. Great Hearts is a K-12 charter school that operates 28 campuses across Arizona and Texas. Great Hearts began with a single school in 2004 but has grown steadily. Great Hearts' curriculum is based on the Great Books of the Western World and promotes that its students receive a diverse liberal arts education. In 2016, Great |
7646025 | "Jay Heiler"
Hearts announced plans to add to its charter school network and will build a new $17 million campus in north Phoenix. In 2017, Great Hearts was awarded a $20 million in bond funding to support ongoing campus development. In 2011, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced the appointment of Heiler to the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) citing his leadership and creativity as a co-founder of Great Hearts Academies. Heiler's term began in 2012 and expires in 2020. In October 2017, Heiler said he was considering running in the Arizona Republican primary for U.S. Senate against incumbent Jeff Flake after Flake's |
7646026 | "Jay Heiler"
criticism of President Donald Trump. ""'The president’s agenda is one which I wholeheartedly endorse,' Mr. Heiler said. 'I have not seen the president advance anything which I don’t think is in the best interest of the country.'"" In 2012 during Heiler's confirmation to the Arizona Board of Regents, Democrats were troubled by homophobic statements Heiler had made in the past. In an editorial for The State Press at ASU, Heiler wrote: It is my impression that by `coming out of the closet,' as their emergence has come to be called, homosexuals hope to make the rest of us less uncomfortable |
7646027 | "Jay Heiler"
about their aberration-and despite one's feelings about it, it is most definitely an aberration. Supportive Republicans noted the comments were made many years ago and Heiler ought to be judged by his current position on gays. Heiler said that his position has changed and that all Arizonans ""ought to live in harmony together."" During his time at The State Press at ASU, Heiler wrote editorials critical of immigrants to the United States maintaining their native language and cultures:The immigrants come here to start a new life, then try to cling to their own language and customs. This tendency leads to |
7646028 | "Jay Heiler"
all sorts of societal problems, ranging from interracial unrest to unexplained disappearances of dogs. The former difficulty crops up wherever aliens are to be found; the latter arose in California when the Vietnamese arrived.Heiler has since stated that he has arrived at a ""different set of policy judgements"" with respect to ""Dreamers."" Heiler was a signatory to a letter to President Trump in December 2016 urging him to support DACA students. However, as a voting member of the Arizona Board of Regents, Heiler cast the only dissenting vote against providing in-state tuition for students protected under DACA. As Board Chairman |
7646029 | "Jay Heiler"
for Great Hearts Academies, a large charter school network based in Phoenix, Arizona, Heiler was part of the team that oversaw the passage of the ""Biological Sex and Gender Policy"" across all 25 Great Hearts campuses in Arizona and Texas affecting more than 10,000 students. The policy, which defines a person's gender identity by their biological sex, is seen by local LGBT organizations as targeting and discriminating against transgender students at all Great Hearts schools. Jay Heiler Jay Helier is an American lawyer, political analyst, journalist, businessman, and a leader in the professional education community. Heiler currently serves as Treasurer |
7646030 | "2016 US Chess Championship"
2016 US Chess Championship The 2016 US Chess Championship was played between April 13 and 30, 2016 in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Saint Louis, Missouri. The main tournament consisted of the top-3 US players in terms of FIDE ranking, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, and Fabiano Caruana. The other tournament participants included Gata Kamsky, Varuzhan Akobian, Alexander Shabalov, Alexander Onischuk, Aleksandr Lenderman, Samuel Shankland, Ray Robson, and juniors Akshat Chandra and Jeffery Xiong. Fabiano Caruana won the championship with 8.5 points out of a maximum 11 (+6-0=5). Final results as of 25 April 2016. In |
7646031 | "2016 US Chess Championship"
addition to the main tournament the 2016 U.S. Chess Championship also hosted an Ultimate Blitz Challenge, a special exhibition blitz tournament. Former world champion Garry Kasparov played against the top three finishers of the 2016 U.S. Chess Championship. The top three finishers turned out to be the top three seeds, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura. All three were ranked among the top 10 in the world at the time, so this tournament represents the first time Kasparov played against top chess players since his retirement in 2005. The total prize fund for the tournament was 50,000 USD, with |
7646032 | "2016 US Chess Championship"
individual prize breakdowns of $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 depending on final score. 2016 US Chess Championship The 2016 US Chess Championship was played between April 13 and 30, 2016 in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Saint Louis, Missouri. The main tournament consisted of the top-3 US players in terms of FIDE ranking, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, and Fabiano Caruana. The other tournament participants included Gata Kamsky, Varuzhan Akobian, Alexander Shabalov, Alexander Onischuk, Aleksandr Lenderman, Samuel Shankland, Ray Robson, and juniors Akshat Chandra and Jeffery Xiong. Fabiano Caruana won the championship with 8.5 points out |
7646033 | "William C. Mayville Jr."
William C. Mayville Jr. William Charles Mayville Jr. is a retired American Army lieutenant general who last served as one of two Deputy Commanders, United States Cyber Command Operation Just Cause - Iraqi Campaign, Syrian Campaign. Mayville graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1982, branched Infantry and began his career as a Weapons Platoon Leader, Rifle Platoon Leader, and Company Executive Officer with the 1st Battalion, 75th Rangers at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia. Following attendance at the Infantry Officers Advance Course, LTG Mayville served as a Maintenance Officer and Company Commander in 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 7th |
7646034 | "William C. Mayville Jr."
Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. He served as the Brigade Adjutant for the 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division and later, the Battalion Operations Officer for 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He subsequently served in the 75th Ranger Regiment as the Logistics Officer (S‐4) and Regimental Executive Officer before taking command of 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. Following Battalion Command, he was assigned as Chief of Plans and Training, J3 Operations, at the Joint Special Operations Command. In June 2002, LTG Mayville assumed command of the 173d Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, Italy and commanded the Brigade |
7646035 | "William C. Mayville Jr."
during its airborne assault in northern Iraq as part of OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM in March, 2003. Following Brigade Command, he served as Chief of Staff for US Army Southern European Command and the Combined Joint Task Force 76, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. His assignments as a General Officer include Director of the Joint Staff, Director for Operations, J-3 for the Joint Staff; Deputy Director for Operations, J‐3 and Deputy Director for Plans and Policy, J‐5, for United States European Command; Deputy Commanding General for Support, 82d Airborne Division and Combined Joint Task Force 82, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, and the Director of |
7646036 | "William C. Mayville Jr."
Operations for HQ, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). LTG Mayville commanded the First Infantry Division—""The Big Red One""—deploying to OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM and commanding coalition operations in Regional Command East. His military and civilian education includes the Command and General Staff College, the Naval War College, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. William C. Mayville Jr. William Charles Mayville Jr. is a retired American Army lieutenant general who last served as one of two Deputy Commanders, United States Cyber Command Operation Just Cause - Iraqi Campaign, Syrian Campaign. Mayville graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1982, branched Infantry |
7646037 | "Puducherry - New Delhi Express"
Puducherry - New Delhi Express The 22403 /04 Puducherry-New Delhi Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways - Northern Railway zone that runs between and in India. It operates as train number 22403 from to and as train number 22404in the reverse direction serving the states of Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana & Delhi. The 22403 / 04 Puducherry-New Delhi Express has one AC 2 tier, two AC 3 tier, nine Sleeper Class, seven General Unreserved & 2 SLR (Seating cum Luggage Rake) Coaches. It does not carry a |
7646038 | "Puducherry - New Delhi Express"
Pantry car coach. As is customary with most train services in India, Coach Composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand. The 22403 - Express covers the distance of in 42 hours 10 mins (57 km/hr) & in 42 hours 20 mins as 22404 - Express (56 km/hr). As the average speed of the train is slightly above than , as per Indian Railway rules, its fare includes a Superfast surcharge. The 22403 / 04 Puducherry-New Delhi Express runs from via , , , , , , , 22403- Starts form Puducherry every Wednesday at |
7646039 | "Puducherry - New Delhi Express"
Morning 9:15 AM and reach New Delhi on Friday afternoon 2:10 PM IST 22404 - Starts for New Delhi on every Sunday at Night 23:45 Hrs IST and reach Puducherry on Tuesday at 17:55 Hrs IST As this route is electrified, a based WAP-4 powers the train up to its destination. The coach composition of the 22403 / 22404 train is: Puducherry - New Delhi Express The 22403 /04 Puducherry-New Delhi Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways - Northern Railway zone that runs between and in India. It operates as train number 22403 from to and |
7646040 | "Solution Tree"
Solution Tree Solution Tree is a professional development company and publisher of educational material for K–12 educators. Founded in 1998, the company provides services and products that include books, videos, conferences, workshops, consultation, and online courses. Solution Tree authors and consultants provide guidance to schools and districts on topics such as professional learning communities, response to intervention, educational assessment, and Common Core State Standards. Solution Tree provides training, consultation, and resources to help schools and districts implement the PLC at Work™ process. The process focuses on three concepts: ensuring that students learn, creating a culture of collaboration, and producing results. |
7646041 | "Solution Tree"
It was first introduced in 1998 with Professional Learning Communities at Work™ by Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker. The implementation handbook, Learning by Doing by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many, was released in 2006 and provides strategies for building and sustaining PLCs. Solution Tree also operates allthingsPLC.info, an online resource that provides helps educators in PLCs collaborate in an online global learning community. Through the website, schools and districts can apply to become model PLCs, which requires that applicants meet a set of criteria and reapply annually. Four times per year, Solution Tree publishes the |
7646042 | "Solution Tree"
AllThingsPLC Magazine, which features information about PLCs and personal commentaries from educators. Solution Tree collaborates with thought-leaders in education topics, such as Richard DuFour (PLCs), Robert J. Marzano (evidence-based education), James Bellanca (deeper learning), Timothy Kanold (mathematics), Kurt W. Fischer (educational neuroscience), and Will Richardson (technology in education). The company often publishes and partners with professionals currently in the education industry to provide their expertise in education. This has raised questions in transparency in private earning by school officials. Proponents argue that it represents a shift toward educational materials being written by educators and is driven by the desire to |
7646043 | "Solution Tree"
produce the best results. Solution Tree provides various forms of professional development for educators. Working at the school or district level, Solution Tree offers short or long-term PD, from one-day events or workshops to in-depth, long term arrangements. In 2014, Solution Tree launched Global PD, an online tool designed to help schools and districts facilitate the work of PLCs. In 2017, Solution Tree acquired Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning Solutions (HBPLS). Solution Tree Solution Tree is a professional development company and publisher of educational material for K–12 educators. Founded in 1998, the company provides services and products that include books, videos, |
7646044 | "Mather Homestead (Hartford, Connecticut)"
Mather Homestead (Hartford, Connecticut) The Mather Homestead is a historic house at 2 Mahl Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835, it is a rare surviving example of a 19th-century farmstead in the city. Its adaptive reuse over time is also indicative of the transformation of its surrounds by increasing urbanization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is now home to a chapter of Masons. The Mather Homestead is located in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood on Hartford's north side, on the north side of Mahl Avenue just west of Main Street, the historic main |
7646045 | "Mather Homestead (Hartford, Connecticut)"
road between downtown Hartford and Windsor. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a low-pitch hip roof. Its main facade faces south, and is asymmetrically arranged, with three closely spaced windows at the center of the second floor and one at the left end. The first floor is sheltered by a full-width porch with six Doric columns, and has a center entrance. An ell extends to the left side at a recess. The house was built sometime between 1835 and 1843 by William Mather. It remained an agricultural property until 1893, when the farm was subdivided for residential development. |
7646046 | "Mather Homestead (Hartford, Connecticut)"
The house originally had a Main Street address, which changed when Mahl Avenue was opened in that year. After a period of domestic use, it was converted into a synagogue in 1926, and was acquired by what is now known as the Esp Masonic Lodge in 1954. The lodge, chartered in 1859, is one of the oldest African-American civic organizations in the city. Mather Homestead (Hartford, Connecticut) The Mather Homestead is a historic house at 2 Mahl Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835, it is a rare surviving example of a 19th-century farmstead in the city. Its adaptive reuse |
7646047 | Electromyrmex
Electromyrmex Electromyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus contains a single described species, Electromyrmex klebsi and is known from a group of Middle Eocene fossils which were found in Europe. ""Electromyrmex"" is known from several fossil specimens of adult workers. A worker was first discovered preserved as an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Baltic amber, and additional workers have been identified from Baltic amber found in Lithuania. Workers of an undescribed species labeled as """"Electromyrmex"" sp A"" have been found in Bitterfeld amber. Baltic amber is approximately forty six million years old, |
7646048 | Electromyrmex
having been deposited during Lutetian stage of the Middle Eocene. There is debate on what plant family the amber was produced by, with macrofossil and microfossil evidence suggesting a ""Pinus"" relative, while chemical and spectroscopic evidence suggests ""Agathis"" or ""Sciadopitys"". The paleoenvironment of the Eocene Baltic forests where the ""P. eocenicum"" lived was that of humid temperate to subtropical islands. The forests were composed of mostly ""Quercus"" and ""Pinus"" species, while the lower sections of the forests had paratropical plant elements, such as palms. The genus and species were first mentioned by entomologist William Morton Wheeler in 1908 and again |
7646049 | Electromyrmex
in 1910. However neither the 1908 or 1910 publications were accompanied by a description of the genus or species, rather they were noted as to be described later. Wheeler published a formal description for ""Electromyrmex"" in his 1915 work ""The ants of the Baltic amber"", seven years after first publishing the name. When first examined and described, the type worker was in the private collection of Professor Richard Klebs of Königsberg University, who first interested Wheeler on working with Baltic amber ant specimens. Sometime after the 1910 type description, the specimen, along with parts of the Klebs collection, was moved |
7646050 | Electromyrmex
to the Georg-August University Geoscientific Center. An additional two fossils in the University of Rennes 1 collections have been identified as ""E. klebsi"" workers. Wheeler placed the genus into the Myrmicinae tribe Myrmicini, and this placement was unchanged until 1988. In a paper discussing the early evolution of ants, the genus was treated as ""incertae sedis"" in Myrmicinae, with no tribal assignment. Based on the slender nature of the body and appendages, combined with large forward placed eyes, Wheeler suggested an arboreal habit similar to the living genera ""Pseudomyrma"" and """"Sima"""" (now called ""Tetraponera""). The worker described by Wheeler is |
7646051 | Electromyrmex
estimated to be about . The exoskeleton is a mix of smooth and ridged textures, with longitudinal ridges on the head, petiole and postpetiol, while the mesopleurae and epinotum have transverse ridges. In contrast the gaster, pronotum and mandibles plus clypeus are shining and smooth. The overall coloration of the workers is black, with a silvery luster present on most of the body. The large head is rectangular, narrowing to a prominent concave rear margin. The eyes are large and positioned near the front of the head, while there are no ocelli visible on the head. The mandibles are elongated, |
7646052 | Electromyrmex
slightly curved near the bases, and narrow. They are separated into distinct base and masticatory areas, with very small uniform teeth populating the whole length of the chewing edge. The thorax forms a slender neck from the prothorax, on which the head is connected, and the remainder of the thorax is narrower in width than the head. The upper surface of the thorax is divided by a distinct constriction between the mesonotum and epinotum. Two small spines rise from the rear edge of the epinotum. The petiole is thin with no teeth on the underside and only a slight thickening |
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into a node on the upper surface. The abdominal segment connected to the petiole is modified into a postpetiole that is thicker and a little shorter than the petiole, and which has a distinct convex curve to the upper surface. Of similar size as the head, the gaster has a notably enlarged first segment and in the holotype specimen the remaining abdominal segments are withdrawn into it. Electromyrmex Electromyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus contains a single described species, Electromyrmex klebsi and is known from a group of Middle Eocene fossils which |
7646054 | "Afril Bernardino"
Afril Bernardino Afril Bernardino (born February 22, 1991 in Cainta, Rizal, Philippines) is a Filipina basketball player, who plays as a forward. She played for the women's team of the National University (NU). In 2015, Bernardino was named as the Most Valuable Player at the UAAP Season 78 women's basketball tournament. She has consumed all her playing years in UAAP by 2017 after competing at UAAP Season 79 She has represented the Philippines in international basketball competitions such as the 2015 FIBA Asia Women's Championship, the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, and the 2016 SEABA Championship. Bernardino is also part of |
7646055 | "Afril Bernardino"
the national 3x3 team which will be competing for the Philippines at the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup. Afril Bernardino Afril Bernardino (born February 22, 1991 in Cainta, Rizal, Philippines) is a Filipina basketball player, who plays as a forward. She played for the women's team of the National University (NU). In 2015, Bernardino was named as the Most Valuable Player at the UAAP Season 78 women's basketball tournament. She has consumed all her playing years in UAAP by 2017 after competing at UAAP Season 79 She has represented the Philippines in international basketball competitions such as the 2015 FIBA |
7646056 | "Alan Weiss (entrepreneur)"
Alan Weiss (entrepreneur) Alan Weiss (born 1946) is an American entrepreneur, author, and public speaker. Alan Weiss was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1946. He spent his childhood in Union City, New Jersey, and graduated from Emerson High School in 1964. He received degrees in political science from Rutgers, where he was elected to the National Political Science Association Honor Society, and from Montclair University. He was an award-winning editor-in-chief at Rutgers' newspaper, The Observer, winning eight awards including first place in editorial writing in the New Jersey Collegiate Press Association competition. Weiss joined Prudential Insurance in 1968 and |
7646057 | "Alan Weiss (entrepreneur)"
was recruited by the Princeton consulting firm, Kepner-Tregoe, in 1972. In his 11-year career with the consulting firm, he went on to run the Asian, Latin American, and North American Divisions. He was recruited in 1983 to become president of Walter V. Clarke Associates, a behavioral consulting firm in Providence, Rhode Island. Weiss formed the Summit Consulting Group, Inc. in 1985, specializing in human and organizational performance. Clients for the consulting group include Merck, Hewlett-Packard, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Allianz Insurance, The New York Times, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota. Additionally, Weiss launched a professional speaking career that has taken |
7646058 | "Alan Weiss (entrepreneur)"
him to 60 countries. Weiss has held a position as an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island on strategy and consulting, and has been a visiting lecturer at Georgia University's Graduate School of Business, Case Western Reserve, Boston College, Tufts, the Institute of Management Studies, and the University of Illinois. Weiss has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Press Institute, one of only seven people in their history and the sole non-journalist honored. The Institute of Management Consultants has recognized him as a Certified Management Consultant and has named him a Fellow of the Institute. The |
7646059 | "Alan Weiss (entrepreneur)"
National Speakers Association has recognized him as a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and has elected him to their Speakers Hall of Fame, making him one of only two people in history to be honored by both the IMC as a Fellow and NSA as a Hall of Fame member. Weiss has a non-traditional Ph.D. in organizational psychology from California Coast University. He has served as Chair of the Newport International Film Festival, and on the boards of Trinity Repertory Company, Festival Ballet, and Harvard University's Center for Mental Health and the Media. He is a recipient of the Axiem Award |
7646060 | "Alan Weiss (entrepreneur)"
for excellence in audio presentation. As of April 2017, Weiss has published 64 books on consulting. His books have appeared on the curricula of the Wharton School of Business, Temple University, and Villanova University. His best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (McGraw-Hill) has been through five editions over 25 years. His books currently appear in 12 languages. Alan Weiss (entrepreneur) Alan Weiss (born 1946) is an American entrepreneur, author, and public speaker. Alan Weiss was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1946. He spent his childhood in Union City, New Jersey, and graduated from Emerson High School in 1964. He received degrees |
7646061 | Kirrae
Kirrae The Kirrae, according to Norman Tindale, were an indigenous Australian people of the State of Victoria. The historian Ian D. Clark has reclassified much of the material regarding them in Tindale under the Djargurd Wurrung, a term reflecting the assumed pre-eminence of one of their clans, the Jacoort/Djargurd. This article gives Tindale's account, and should be checked against the Djagurd wurrung article. The Kirrae lands comprised 1,900 sq. miles of territory from Warrnambool and Hopkins River down to the coast at Princetown. The northern boundary was at Lake Bolac and Darlington. To the east their land extended beyond Camperdown. |
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There are names of twelve hordes speaking slight dialects. In early 1839, Frederick Taylor, the manager at George McKillop and James Smith's station at Glenormiston, on being informed that around 50 members of the Jarcoort horde were camped in a gully at Mount Emu creek (the site was known as Tampirr), not far from Camperdown. Taylor rounded up a squatter vigilante band and virtually wiped out the whole horde, men, women and children. Ian D. Clark states the estimated deaths at 35-40. A few survived, one w woman called Bareetch Chuumeen, managed to swim to safety across Lake Bullen with |
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her child on her shoulders. The place thereafter was called 'Murdering Gully.' places this within Djargurd wurrung country. Kirrae The Kirrae, according to Norman Tindale, were an indigenous Australian people of the State of Victoria. The historian Ian D. Clark has reclassified much of the material regarding them in Tindale under the Djargurd Wurrung, a term reflecting the assumed pre-eminence of one of their clans, the Jacoort/Djargurd. This article gives Tindale's account, and should be checked against the Djagurd wurrung article. The Kirrae lands comprised 1,900 sq. miles of territory from Warrnambool and Hopkins River down to the coast at |
7646064 | "Alte Röder Nature Reserve"
Alte Röder Nature Reserve The Alte Röder Nature Reserve () lies on the left bank of the Black Elster river between the village of Prieschka in the municipality of Bad Liebenwerda and the village of Würdenhain which belongs to Röderland. It is located within the Lower Lusatian Heath Nature Park (""Naturpark Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft""), which covers an area of 484 km². The lowland valley of the Röder stream has been protected since 1981 and contains one of the most settled colonies of the Elbe Beaver, a species of beaver threatened by extinction. One of its main conservation aims is the preservation |
7646065 | "Alte Röder Nature Reserve"
and development of this area as a habitat for the Elbe Beaver and other endangered species. The roughly 80-hectare nature reserve extends along the river course of the Alte Röder (""Old Röder"") which was originally an old riverbed of the Black Elster between Würdenhain and Prieschka and, during the period of Elster Regulation (1852 to 1864) to the First World War was used to channel the Große Röder river. The area of the old confluence of the Alte Röder with the Black Elster is known as the ""Gänsewinkel"" (""Goose Corner""). It is located northeast of Prieschka in the immediate vicinity |
7646066 | "Alte Röder Nature Reserve"
of the point where the ""Landesstraße"" 593 crosses the Black Elster. Alte Röder Nature Reserve The Alte Röder Nature Reserve () lies on the left bank of the Black Elster river between the village of Prieschka in the municipality of Bad Liebenwerda and the village of Würdenhain which belongs to Röderland. It is located within the Lower Lusatian Heath Nature Park (""Naturpark Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft""), which covers an area of 484 km². The lowland valley of the Röder stream has been protected since 1981 and contains one of the most settled colonies of the Elbe Beaver, a species of beaver threatened |
7646067 | "Dreams for Sale (2012 film)"
Dreams for Sale (2012 film) Dreams for Sale (Nihongo |夢売るふたり| Yume Uru Futari) is a 2012 Japanese comedy film, directed and written by Miwa Nishikawa. The film stars Sadao Abe, Takako Matsu as the husband and wife, with Teruyuki Kagawa Tamae Ando, Sawa Suzuki, Kana Kurashina, Tae Kimura, Yûsuke Iseya, Katsuya Kobayashi,Rena Tanaka, Kyôsuke Yabe, Shōfukutei_Tsurube_II, Teruyuki Kagawa and Takako Matsu. Kan and Sato, husband and wife who have just bought a restaurant as their lifelong dream, lose it overnight when it is burnt down by accident. Following the loss of their restaurant, the couple take jobs at a high |
7646068 | "Dreams for Sale (2012 film)"
class established eatery to start saving their money again for a new establishment. In a drunken state, Kan spends the night with a woman who happens to have just been paid off as the mistress of a man that dies. The woman feels sorry for Kan after hearing about his story, and gives him the money. The wife, though disturbed by hearing of her husband being unfaithful, is inspired to hatch a plan, through desperation, to pimp out the husband to obtain money to buy a new restaurant. The couple use their new work place, frequented by single women looking |
7646069 | "Dreams for Sale (2012 film)"
for partners, as a base to meet prospective victims. Their first victim is prim and proper Satsuki (Lena Tanaka), who still lives in the family home and is under enormous pressure from the family to marry, but the couple don't stop with her. The film follows the drama of the couple’s misadventures and tragedy, as the couple plan to marry the husband off to a series of women, conning a series of lonely, vulnerable and weak women out of their hard earned cash, with a range of sympathy stories, with the wife often befriending the victims by posing as a |
7646070 | "Dreams for Sale (2012 film)"
sister of the husband. The couple focus on weightlifter, Hitomi (Yuka Ebara), prostitute Kana (Tamae Ando) 31-year-old office lady Satsuki Tanahashi (Rena Tanaka) who lives with her parents, lonely office lady Reiko Mutsushima (Sawa Suzuki) and single mom Takiko Kinoshita (Tae Kimura). However, cracks appear in the plan as the husband starts to fall for some of the victims, and starts to get involved in their lives. He also starts to resents the wife's role in the plan, and the fact she doesn't care about the women, even though he himself is defrauding them. Though the couple accumulate money and |
7646071 | "Dreams for Sale (2012 film)"
start to put their dream kitchen together, the couple’s own relationship starts to unravel due to the pressure. The husband starts to extricate himself from their lives, while sympathetic, he still takes their money. However, while removing himself from most of the victims’ lives, he starts to eventually fall for one victim in particular who has a son who he takes to, and starts to integrate himself into their life. Eventually, one of the women hires an investigator (played by Shōfukutei_Tsurube_II), who finds and confronts him. The husband's fraud is found out, while the wife flees and the restaurant is |
7646072 | "Dreams for Sale (2012 film)"
finished but never used. Dreams for Sale (2012 film) Dreams for Sale (Nihongo |夢売るふたり| Yume Uru Futari) is a 2012 Japanese comedy film, directed and written by Miwa Nishikawa. The film stars Sadao Abe, Takako Matsu as the husband and wife, with Teruyuki Kagawa Tamae Ando, Sawa Suzuki, Kana Kurashina, Tae Kimura, Yûsuke Iseya, Katsuya Kobayashi,Rena Tanaka, Kyôsuke Yabe, Shōfukutei_Tsurube_II, Teruyuki Kagawa and Takako Matsu. Kan and Sato, husband and wife who have just bought a restaurant as their lifelong dream, lose it overnight when it is burnt down by accident. Following the loss of their restaurant, the couple take |
7646073 | "Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium"
Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium off Sandhill Road, in Killehenny, Ballybunion, County Kerry. The west coast seaside town of Ballybunion in County Kerry had previously hosted greyhound racing from 1933-1939. In 1958 the president of the Irish Coursing Club, Matt O'Sullivan applied for a licence as the proprietor of a new Ballybunion track but the Bord na gCon headed by Seamus Flanagan refused the licence due to objections lodged by the nearby Tralee track. At the time any track within the same area could object to another hoping to become licensed. The licence was |
7646074 | "Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium"
refused again in 1964. In January 1965, O'Sullivan (the owner of the Central Hotel in the town) finally won the right to host greyhound racing after taking the Bord na gCon to court. The court ruled that he should be granted a licence. The re-opening was on 18 May 1966 when the Ballybunion Greyhound Racing Club Ltd ran the venue until 1973. It hosted a valuable Smirnoff Gold Collar race from 1966-1970 worth a record £1,340 in 1967. The event was sponsored by Gilbeys of Ireland and saw two new track records set, first by Coolowen Pride in 29.66 followed |
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by Sandy Lee in 29.52. Racing was held on Monday & Wednesday evenings at 8.30pm. The winners of the Gold Collar were - 1966 Dogstown Star, 1967 Seneca, 1968 Pools Punter and 1969 West Park Una. The site of the track was where the Green Valley caravan park is situated today. Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium off Sandhill Road, in Killehenny, Ballybunion, County Kerry. The west coast seaside town of Ballybunion in County Kerry had previously hosted greyhound racing from 1933-1939. In 1958 the president of the Irish Coursing Club, Matt O'Sullivan applied for |
7646076 | "Shadow Fight 2"
Shadow Fight 2 Shadow Fight 2 is a role-playing martial arts fighting game developed by Nekki. The first version of the game was soft launched on October 9, 2013 while the game was later released worldwide on May 1, 2014, on both Android and iOS platforms, and on January 27, 2015 it was released on Windows 8 and 8.1. The game was later ported to the Nintendo Switch as a downloadable Nintendo eShop title on September 13, 2018. This installment introduces the game's events with an animated prologue. In this introduction, the narrator (who is the main character) reveals that |
7646077 | "Shadow Fight 2"
he was a legendary combatant. On his travels to find a worthy opponent, he came across and opened the Gates of Shadows, releasing the demons and effectively reducing himself to a shadow. He defeats six shadow demons including- Lynx, Hermit, Butcher, Wasp, Widow, Shogun, and Titan, with the seven eternal demons including- Volcano, Megalith, Fungus, Vortex, Fatum, Arkhos and Hoaxen, and with many other warriors including the demon's bodyguards and other fighters in his journey of his shadow life. Continuing the theme of its predecessor, players begin the game as an unarmed silhouette. They are then given simple tutorials which |
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familiarize them with the game. In this game's introduction, Shadow (who is the main character) reveals that he was a legendary combatant. He defeated and humiliated everyone he ever faced. On his travels to find a worthy opponent, he came across the Gates of Shadows, a pathway to another world. His arrogance led to the Gates being opened and so, the demons inside were released. They tore his flesh and turned him into a shadow. Now, Shadow is forced to defeat all the demons and take their ancient seals to send them back and lock the Gates again. After a |
7646079 | "1958 Manitoba general election"
Springfield: Swan River: The Pas: Turtle Mountain: Virden: Wellington: Winnipeg Centre: Wolseley: 1958 Manitoba general election Manitoba's general election of June 16, 1958 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. This election was the first in Manitoba after a comprehensive electoral redistribution in 1956. The redistribution saw the city of Winnipeg abandon its multi-member ridings for single-member constituencies, and gain increased representation in the legislature. It resulted in a minority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin. Roblin's Tories won twenty-six seats, while Premier Douglas Campbell's Liberal-Progressives |
7646080 | "Launch loop"
Launch loop A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a proposed system for launching objects into orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached to the Earth at two ends and suspended above the atmosphere in the middle. The design concept was published by Keith Lofstrom and describes an active structure maglev cable transport system that would be around 2,000 km (1,240 mi) long and maintained at an altitude of up to 80 km (50 mi). A launch loop would be held up at this altitude by the momentum of a belt that circulates around the structure. |
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This circulation, in effect, transfers the weight of the structure onto a pair of magnetic bearings, one at each end, which support it. Launch loops are intended to achieve non-rocket spacelaunch of vehicles weighing 5 metric tons by electromagnetically accelerating them so that they are projected into Earth orbit or even beyond. This would be achieved by the flat part of the cable which forms an acceleration track above the atmosphere. The system is designed to be suitable for launching humans for space tourism, space exploration and space colonization, and provides a relatively low 3""g"" acceleration. Launch loops were described |
7646082 | "Launch loop"
by Keith Lofstrom in November 1981 Reader's Forum of the American Astronautical Society News Letter, and in the August 1982 L5 News. In 1982, Paul Birch published a series of papers in ""Journal of the British Interplanetary Society"" which described orbital rings and described a form which he called Partial Orbital Ring System (PORS). The launch loop idea was worked on in more detail around 1983–1985 by Lofstrom. It is a fleshed-out version of PORS specifically arranged to form a mag-lev acceleration track suitable for launching humans into space; but whereas the orbital ring used superconducting magnetic levitation, launch loops |
7646083 | "Launch loop"
use electromagnetic suspension (EMS). A launch loop is proposed to be a structure 2,000 km long and 80 km high. The loop runs along at 80 km above the earth for 2000 km then descends to earth before looping back on itself rising back to 80 km above the earth to follow the reverse path then looping back to the starting point. The loop would be in the form of a tube, known as the ""sheath"". Floating within the sheath is another continuous tube, known as the ""rotor"" which is a sort of belt or chain. The rotor is an |
7646084 | "Launch loop"
iron tube approximately 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter, moving around the loop at 14 km/s (31,000 miles per hour). When at rest, the loop is at ground level. The rotor is then accelerated up to speed. As the rotor speed increases, it curves to form an arc. The structure is held up by the force from the rotor, which attempts to follow a parabolic trajectory. The ground anchors force it to go parallel to the earth upon reaching the height of 80 kilometers. Once raised, the structure requires continuous power to overcome the energy dissipated. Additional energy would be |
7646085 | "Launch loop"
needed to power any vehicles that are launched. To launch, vehicles are raised up on an 'elevator' cable that hangs down from the West station loading dock at 80 km, and placed on the track. The payload applies a magnetic field which generates eddy currents in the fast-moving rotor. This both lifts the payload away from the cable, as well as pulls the payload along with 3""g"" (30 m/s²) acceleration. The payload then rides the rotor until it reaches the required orbital velocity, and leaves the track. If a stable or circular orbit is needed, once the payload reaches the |
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highest part of its trajectory then an on-board rocket engine (""kick motor"") or other means is needed to circularize the trajectory to the appropriate Earth orbit. The eddy current technique is compact, lightweight and powerful, but inefficient. With each launch the rotor temperature increases by 80 kelvins due to power dissipation. If launches are spaced too close together, the rotor temperature can approach 770 °C (1043 K), at which point the iron rotor loses its ferromagnetic properties and rotor containment is lost. Closed orbits with a perigee of 80 km quite quickly decay and re-enter, but in addition to such |
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orbits, a launch loop by itself would also be capable of directly injecting payloads into escape orbits, gravity assist trajectories past the Moon, and other non closed orbits such as close to the Trojan points. To access circular orbits using a launch loop a relatively small 'kick motor' would need to be launched with the payload which would fire at apogee and would circularise the orbit. For GEO insertion this would need to provide a delta-v of about 1.6 km/s, for LEO to circularise at 500 km would require a delta-v of just 120 m/s. Conventional rockets require delta-vs of |
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roughly 14 and 10 km/s to reach GEO and LEO respectively. Launch loops in Lofstrom's design are placed close to the equator and can only directly access equatorial orbits. However other orbital planes might be reached via high altitude plane changes, lunar perturbations or aerodynamic techniques. Launch rate capacity of a launch loop is ultimately limited by the temperature and cooling rate of the rotor to 80 per hour, but that would require a 17 GW power station; a more modest 500 MW power station is sufficient for 35 launches per day. For a launch loop to be economically viable |
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it would require customers with sufficiently large payload launch requirements. Lofstrom estimates that an initial loop costing roughly $10 billion with a one-year payback could launch 40,000 metric tons per year, and cut launch costs to $300/kg. For $30 billion, with a larger power generation capacity, the loop would be capable of launching 6 million metric tons per year, and given a five-year payback period, the costs for accessing space with a launch loop could be as low as $3/kg. Compared to space elevators, no new high-tensile strength materials have to be developed, since the structure resists Earth's gravity by |
7646090 | "Launch loop"
supporting its own weight with the kinetic energy of the moving loop, and not by tensile strength. Lofstrom's launch loops are expected to launch at high rates (many launches per hour, independent of weather), and are not inherently polluting. Rockets create pollution such as nitrates in their exhausts due to high exhaust temperature, and can create greenhouse gases depending on propellant choices. Launch loops as a form of electric propulsion can be clean, and can be run on geothermal, nuclear, wind, solar or any other power source, even intermittent ones, as the system has huge built-in power storage capacity. Unlike |
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space elevators which would have to travel through the Van Allen belts over several days, launch loop passengers can be launched to low earth orbit, which is below the belts, or through them in a few hours. This would be a similar situation to that faced by the Apollo astronauts, who had radiation doses 200 times lower than the space elevator would give. Unlike space elevators which are subjected to the risks of space debris and meteorites along their whole length, launch loops are to be situated at an altitude where orbits are unstable due to air drag. Since debris |
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does not persist, it only has one chance to impact the structure. Whereas the collapse period of space elevators is expected to be of the order of years, damage or collapse of loops in this way is expected to be rare. In addition, launch loops themselves are not a significant source of space debris, even in an accident. All debris generated has a perigee that intersects the atmosphere or is at escape velocity. Launch loops are intended for human transportation, to give a safe 3""g"" acceleration which the vast majority of people would be capable of tolerating well, and would |
7646093 | "Launch loop"
be a much faster way of reaching space than space elevators. Launch loops would be quiet in operation, and would not cause any sound pollution, unlike rockets. Finally, their low payload costs are compatible with large-scale commercial space tourism and even space colonisation. A running loop would have an extremely large amount of energy in its linear momentum. While the magnetic suspension system would be highly redundant, with failures of small sections having essentially no effect, if a major failure did occur the energy in the loop (1.5×10 joules or 1.5 petajoules) would be approaching the same total ""energy"" release |
7646094 | "Launch loop"
as a nuclear bomb explosion (350 kilotons of TNT equivalent), although not emitting nuclear radiation. While this is a large amount of energy, it is unlikely that this would destroy very much of the structure due to its very large size, and because most of the energy would be deliberately dumped at preselected places when the failure is detected. Steps might need to be taken to lower the cable down from 80 km altitude with minimal damage, such as parachutes. Therefore, for safety and astrodynamic reasons, launch loops are intended to be installed over an ocean near the equator, well |
7646095 | "Launch loop"
away from habitation. The published design of a launch loop requires electronic control of the magnetic levitation to minimise power dissipation and to stabilise the otherwise under-damped cable. The two main points of instability are the turnaround sections and the cable. The turnaround sections are potentially unstable, since movement of the rotor away from the magnets gives reduced magnetic attraction, whereas movements closer gives increased attraction. In either case, instability occurs. This problem is routinely solved with existing servo control systems that vary the strength of the magnets. Although servo reliability is a potential issue, at the high speed of |
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the rotor, very many consecutive sections would need to fail for the rotor containment to be lost. The cable sections also share this potential issue, although the forces are much lower. However, an additional instability is present in that the cable/sheath/rotor may undergo meandering modes (similar to a Lariat chain) that grow in amplitude without limit. Lofstrom believes that this instability also can be controlled in real time by servo mechanisms, although this has never been attempted. In works by Alexander Bolonkin it is suggested that Lofstrom's project has many non-solved problems and that it is very far from a |
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current technology. For example, the Lofstrom project has expansion joints between 1.5 meter iron plates. Their speeds (under gravitation, friction) can be different and Bolonkin claims that they could wedge in the tube; and the force and friction in the ground 28 km diameter turnaround sections are gigantic. In 2008, Bolonkin proposed a simple rotated close-loop cable to launch the space apparatus in a way suitable for current technology. Another project, the space cable, is a smaller design by John Knapman that is intended for launch assist for conventional rockets and suborbital tourism. The space cable design uses discrete bolts |
7646098 | "Shadow Fight 2"
Sphere back. Shadow Fight was a Facebook-based fighting game developed by Nekki. It was released on February 12, 2011. They could play against other players in online battles. Shadow Fight was available on Facebook in English, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish. On August 16, 2017, Nekki announced on their official twitter page that Shadow Fight servers would be permanently shut down on September 29, 2017.Following this announcement, online transactions in the game were discontinued. Due to requests received from the players, the closing of the game's servers was postponed to the following month. On October 27, 2017, Nekki |
7646099 | "Launch loop"
the bottom end of the rotating skyhook which makes for an even larger payload and a lower launch cost. The two disadvantages of this are: the greatly reduced time available for the arriving launch vehicle to hook up at the lower end of the rotating skyhook (approximately 3 to 5 seconds), and the lack of choice regarding the destination orbit. Launch loop A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a proposed system for launching objects into orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached to the Earth at two ends and suspended above the atmosphere in the |
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