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Gert Bastian. from both Bastian's wife and Kelly's grandmother who reported that they hadn't heard from either Bastian or Kelly for a few weeks. The police asserted that Kelly was shot dead while sleeping by Bastian, who then killed himself. Police estimated the deaths had most likely occurred on 1 October but the exact time of death could not be pinpointed due to the delay in finding the bodies and their resultant state of decomposition. Neither Bastian nor Kelly left any written message or other evidence useful to explain the reason of the homicide-suicide. Theories have been put forward that Bastian was | 5141621 | 24853400 |
Gert Bastian. afraid of an imminent opening of Stasi files revealing his role as an agent of the East German secret police; anyway at present no such evidence has emerged. Bastian was buried in the Nordfriedhof in Schwabing, Munich. | 5141621 | 24853401 |
Splake. Splake The splake or slake ("Salvelinus namaycush x Salvelinus fontinalis") is a hybrid of two fish species resulting from the crossing of a male brook trout ("Salvelinus fontinalis") and a female lake trout ("Salvelinus namaycush"). The name itself is a portmanteau of speckled trout (another name for brook trout) and lake trout, and may have been used to describe such hybrids as early as the 1880s. Hybrids of the male lake trout with the female brook trout (the so-called "brookinaw") have also been produced, but are not as successful. The intrageneric hybrid is of the genus "Salvelinus" and, hence, is | 5141629 | 24853402 |
Splake. most properly known as a char or charr. In some locales, the fish is referred to as the wendigo. Although the hybrid is genetically stable and is, theoretically, capable of reproducing, splake reproduction is extremely rare, for behavioural reasons, outside the hatchery environment. The only known natural reproduction has occurred in five lakes in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada and, in each case, only a handful of progeny were produced. Because splake typically do not reproduce, they are used as a sport fish in many lakes across the US. Fishery managers are able to control populations numbers due to | 5141629 | 24853403 |
Splake. the extremely poor spawning success rate. The fish possesses characteristics of both parent species. Splake exhibit higher growth rates than either parent species and can attain 46 cm (18 in) in length only two years after being planted as fingerlings ("i.e.", at 2½ years of age). By way of contrast, lacustrine brook trout would approach 25 cm (10 in) in length at a similar age and similarly aged lake trout would be expected to be less than 40 cm (16 in) long. Splake are considered "easier to catch" than other salmonids and often live longer and fare better in certain | 5141629 | 24853404 |
Splake. situations. Hence, splake are well suited for stocking in a variety of coldwater lakes and ponds. The maximum size is about 9 kg (20 lb), but fish over 4 kg (9 lb) are rare and are considered trophies. An example would be in Ontario, where both F1 splake and the lake trout backcross have been planted for several years. The backcross is the result of an F1 splake male being crossed with a female lake trout ("i.e.", 75% lake trout and 25% brook trout). Although splake were first described in 1880, Ontario began experimenting with the hybrids in the 1960s | 5141629 | 24853405 |
Splake. in an effort to replace collapsed lake trout stocks in the Great Lakes. Due to mediocre results, the experiment never really progressed beyond Georgian Bay. The theory was that splake would grow more quickly and mature sooner than lake trout with the hope that they would be able to reproduce before being attacked by the invasive sea lamprey. Unfortunately, although splake are relatively unusual among hybrids in that they are fertile, fertility in nature is behaviourally problematic—very few natural progeny are produced by introduced splake populations. After some experimentation in the late 1970s, stocking in the Great Lakes and, especially, | 5141629 | 24853406 |
Splake. in Georgian Bay, was converted entirely to the so-called lake trout backcross in the early 1980s. Although the backcross program did succeed in creating some localised angling opportunities, it never achieved any degree of success in terms of natural reproduction—the backcross was only marginally better at reproducing than was the F1 splake. The F1 splake has proved to be a success, however, in providing angling opportunities in smaller lakes and most of the planting of splake in Ontario now goes to those situations. In the first of two cases, former brook trout waters which have become infested with spiny-rayed fish | 5141629 | 24853407 |
Splake. to the point where they no longer produce brook trout are stocked with splake. The splake grow more quickly than do wild-strain brook trout and become piscivorous at a younger age and, hence, are more tolerant of competitors than are brook trout. In the second case, relatively small lake trout lakes that experienced poor recruitment due to insufficient deep-water juvenile lake trout habitat will support fairly good splake fisheries, since splake are less dependent on extreme deep water than are the lake trout and they grow more quickly, providing a better return to anglers. In both cases, due to the | 5141629 | 24853408 |
Splake. behavioural sterility of splake, all such fisheries are entirely dependent on artificial propagation. Section:Literature. | 5141629 | 24853409 |
No-action letter. No-action letter A no-action letter is a letter written by the staff members of a government agency, requested by an entity subject to regulation by that agency, indicating that the staff will not recommend that the agency take legal action against the entity, should the entity engage in a course of action proposed by the entity through its request for a no-action letter. Often, a request is made because the legality of the course of action in question is uncertain, and in some cases a request may be granted when it is understood that the action is not technically legal, | 5141732 | 24853410 |
No-action letter. but is nonetheless acceptable according to a common sense approach to the situation. Section:Examples. | 5141732 | 24853411 |
Rabab Fetieh. Rabab Fetieh Dr. Rabab Mohammad Abdulqader Fetieh (Arabic: رباب محمد عبدالقادر مغيربى فتيح) is a Saudi academic, currently a Professor of Orthodontics at the Faculty of Dentistry in King Abdulaziz University (KAU). She was Vice-Dean of the same institution (1993–2003) and a member of the founding faculty. Dr. Fetieh was head of the Orthodontic division at KAU (1989–2004) and was the Assistant Dean for Research and Post-graduate Affairs. She received her BDS from Alexandria University in Egypt and her DMSc from Harvard University. She is a pioneer in her field, as she is Saudi Arabia's first female orthodontist. Her husband | 5141715 | 24853412 |
Rabab Fetieh. is the well known Saudi pediatrician Tarek Baghdady. She currently resides in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with her husband and 3 children. Section:See also. | 5141715 | 24853413 |
Probainognathia. Probainognathia The probainognathians are members of one of the two major clades of the infraorder Eucynodontia, the other being Cynognathians. The earliest forms were carnivorous and insectivorous, though some species eventually also evolved herbivorous traits. The earliest and most basal Probainognathian is "Lumkuia", from South Africa. Three groups survived the extinction at the end of Triassic: the Tritheledontidae and Tritylodontidae, who both survived until the Jurassic—the latter possibly even into the Cretaceous (Xenocretosuchus)—and Mammaliaformes, who gave rise to the mammals. Section:Classification. Section:Classification.:Taxonomy. Section:Classification.:Phylogeny. Below is a cladogram from Ruta, Botha-Brink, Mitchell and Benton (2013) showing one hypothesis of cynodont relationships: | 5141754 | 24853414 |
Probainognathia. Section:See also. | 5141754 | 24853415 |
Reform (Anglican). Reform (Anglican) Reform is a conservative evangelical organisation within Evangelical Anglicanism, active in the Church of England and the Church of Ireland. Reform in England describes itself as a "network of churches and individuals within the Church of England, committed to the reform of ourselves, our congregation and our world by the gospel". Several large Anglican churches in England are members of Reform, such as Jesmond Parish Church (in Newcastle upon Tyne), St Ebbe's, Oxford and St Helen's Bishopsgate (located in the City of London). In May 2018, Reform merged with the Church Society. Section:History. Reform was started in 1993 | 5141691 | 24853416 |
Reform (Anglican). to oppose the ordination of women to the priesthood (like Forward in Faith in the Anglo-Catholic tradition) but has recently focused on advocating a conservative view of homosexuality. Reform has also been involved in encouraging people to be involved in the structures of the Church of England and to celebrate what is good about what the Church of England officially believes. Reform is keen to recognise the unique value of women's ministry within the church. Some Reform members support ordination of women to the priesthood, but not their appointment in charge of a parish or similar. Reform members are also | 5141691 | 24853417 |
Reform (Anglican). divided over the issue of the remarriage of divorced persons and the issue is left out of the definition of marriage found in the Reform Covenant. Reform stand firmly in the more Reformed tradition of the Church of England, but while they disagree of the interpretation placed upon Anglicanism by Forward in Faith (e.g. views about the Eucharist, the meaning of ordination, prayers for the dead and to the saints) they pledged at their 2006 conference their co-operation with that Anglo-Catholic grouping to oppose the acceptance of women as bishops within the Church of England. On 19 February 2018 it | 5141691 | 24853418 |
Reform (Anglican). was announced that Reform, along with another body, the Fellowship of Word and Spirit, was to merge into the organisation Church Society. In May 2018, Reform and the Fellowship of Word and Spirit merged with the Church Society to provide a united voice for conservative evangelicals within the Church of England. Section:Leadership. From 2007 to 2015, Rod Thomas has been chairman of Reform. In 2015, it was announced that he was to be the first dedicated conservative evangelical bishop, as the new Bishop of Maidstone: he took up the appointment upon his consecration as a bishop in September 2015. Thomas's | 5141691 | 24853419 |
Reform (Anglican). successor as chairman of Reform was Mark Burkill, the Vicar of Christ Church, Leyton. Section:List of associated churches. Section:See also. Section:External links. | 5141691 | 24853420 |
Good Hunting. Good Hunting Good Hunting may refer to: | 5141785 | 24853421 |
Bray (surname). Bray (surname) Bray is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: | 5141810 | 24853422 |
Country Life (film). Country Life (film) Country Life is a 1994 Australian drama film, adapted from the play "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov. The film was directed by Michael Blakemore. The cast included Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi and Googie Withers. It was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. Section:Plot. The film is set in Australia 1919, just a year after World War I. Australia begins to question the value of continuing as an outpost to the British Empire. Since his sister's death years ago, Jack Dickens has raised his niece Sally, aided by his sharp-tongued maid Hannah. Sally’s father, Alexander Voysey, | 5141818 | 24853423 |
Country Life (film). abandoned her after her mother's death and took off for the bright lights of the city, ostensibly making a name for himself as a literary critic and writer in London. Jack and Sally have sacrificed their own hopes and dreams to run the farm while Voysey disports himself in the city. Despite the claims of success, Voysey is a self-centered, self-aggrandizing, pompous windbag with no visible means of support beyond leeching off his brother-in-law's labor on the farm. Voysey has remarried a younger woman, Deborah, who has come to regret her marriage. Voysey subjects Deborah to cruel behavior from him, | 5141818 | 24853424 |
Country Life (film). such as fetching things he's dropped at his whim and making advances to other women right in front of her. Deborah is deeply unhappy, and feels that she has wasted her youth and squandered her life in marrying Voysey. Both Jack and the town doctor are soon smitten by Deborah, while Sally pines for the town doctor herself. The true natures, characters, and hopes and dreams within the family are revealed as things fall apart. Section:Cast. Section:Box office. "Country Life" grossed $360,957 at the box office in Australia. Section:Home media. "Country Life" was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in | 5141818 | 24853425 |
Country Life (film). May 2012. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes a behind-the-scenes special feature. Section:External links. | 5141818 | 24853426 |
Arkansas Highway 98. Arkansas Highway 98 Arkansas Highway 98 (AR 98 and Hwy. 98) is an east–west state highway in Columbia County, Arkansas. The route travels essentially in an incomplete loop with Magonlia at its center. The route begins at U.S. Route 82 (US 82) near Waldo and intersects US 371, US 79, US 82, and US 79 before terminating at AR 19. An officially designated exception over US 371 of occurs near the eastern terminus. Section:Route description. AR 98 begins at US 82 west of Waldo. An officially designated exception begins at US 371 (Olive Street) in Waldo, and a concurrency of | 5141764 | 24853427 |
Arkansas Highway 98. . Continuing east past the National Register of Historic Places-listed Waldo Water Tower, AR 98 intersects AR 98B (its only business route) in McNeil. The highway forms a concurrency with US 79 briefly north before turning east then south. AR 98 continues south through the community of Village before intersecting US 82 in east Columbia County. The route passes near the W. H. Allen House in rural Columbia County and the William H. Smith House in Atlanta. Now turning west the route passes through Emerson where it intersects US 79 and becomes Main Street. The highway continues west to Walkerville, | 5141764 | 24853428 |
Arkansas Highway 98. where it ends at AR 19. Section:McNeil business route. Highway 98 Business (AR 98B, Ark. 98B, and Hwy. 98B) is a business route in McNeil. It is in length. Prior to designation as AR 98B in 1970, the route was designated as US 79 City. | 5141764 | 24853429 |
Vengeful. Vengeful Vengeful may refer to: | 5141859 | 24853430 |
Finally Found. Finally Found "Finally Found" is the debut single by British girl group Honeyz. It was released on 24 August 1998 as the lead single from their debut album "Wonder No. 8" (1998). The song was their most successful single in the UK and worldwide, peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart and earning platinum status in Australia, where it peaked at number three. It reached the top 20 in Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden. The song was given a slightly different mix for single release, titled the "Rude Boy Mix". This mix adds background instrumentation and | 5141840 | 24853431 |
Finally Found. more backing vocals during the song while omitting the instrumental intro and spoken French towards the end of the album version. The group performed the song in 2005 for the ITV series "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time", performed with the original lineup (Celena Cherry, Heavenli Denton and Naima Belkhiati). Section:Track listing. Dutch CD UK CD 1, Australia CD 2 UK CD 2 (limited), Australia CD 1 Promo | 5141840 | 24853432 |
FASA Studio. FASA Studio FASA Studio (formerly FASA Interactive Technologies Inc) was a video game developer that was founded in 1995 by the tabletop game company FASA Corporation, Spectrum HoloByte and Denny Thorley, Morton Weisman, Jordan Weisman, and L. Ross Babcock. In 1996, FASA Interactive and Virtual World Entertainment, another company created by FASA Corp founders Jordan Weisman and L. Ross Babcock, became wholly owned subsidiaries of Virtual World Entertainment Group (VWEG). In 1999, Microsoft Corporation purchased VWEG to acquire the talent at FIT and the intellectual properties of FASA Corp. The VWE component of VWEG was sold to a group headed | 5141828 | 24853433 |
FASA Studio. by VWEG's former CFO, James Garbarini. FASA Interactive then became a FASA Studio, a component of Microsoft Studios. As such, the company developed games exclusive to the Windows and Xbox platforms. Its headquarters were located in Redmond, Washington, only a few miles from Microsoft Corporation's main campus. FASA was officially shut down on September 12, 2007 with only the Community Manager and Technical Support Manager positions remaining active to support their games. Microsoft subsequently licensed the rights to produce electronic adaptations of FASA games back to Weisman, who directed a venture called Smith & Tinker. Smith & Tinker closed down | 5141828 | 24853434 |
FASA Studio. November 8, 2012. Section:Games developed. Section:External links. | 5141828 | 24853435 |
Chris Cimino. Chris Cimino Chris Cimino was the meteorologist on WNBC television's early-morning news program, "Today in New York" in New York City, New York, and was a substitute meteorologist for the NBC network's "Today" program. He joined WNBC in December 1995 from WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was the weekend meteorologist since January 1995. Before that, Cimino worked as a meteorologist in the Cincinnati, Ohio, television market and on the radio with Compu-Weather and Metro Weather Service. and WROC-TV in Rochester, New York. On September 20, 2004, Cimino was part of an incident in which he had to give a | 5141824 | 24853436 |
Chris Cimino. weather report dressed in a New York Yankees baseball costume (he is a lifelong New York Mets baseball fan). The idea came after Cimino lost a bet to his eleven-year-old neighbor in which the Mets would have to win at least seventy-five games; the Mets were unsuccessful. The report ended with Cimino's colleague, sportscaster Otis Livingston, interrupting while dressed as the Mr. Met mascot, "beating up" Cimino. During his time at WNBC he filled in for Al Roker on the Today Show, His quote to go to the local weather update was, "That was the look of the National Weather, | 5141824 | 24853437 |
Chris Cimino. Now here is your Local Forecast." Cimino is a resident of East Brunswick Township, New Jersey. His final day at WNBC was July 2, 2019. His replacement, Maria LaRosa started on July 29, 2019. | 5141824 | 24853438 |
Ralph Penza. Ralph Penza Ralph Penza (November 22, 1932 – February 16, 2007) was a senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC in New York City. He first joined WNBC in 1980, left the station in 1995 and rejoined it in October 1997. Among his many honors are six Emmy Awards and two New York Press Club "Gold Typewriter" awards. Penza had done reporting in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and Waterloo, Iowa. Prior to joining WNBC, Penza worked as news director at WSAV radio in Savannah, Georgia, anchor and reporter at WDVM in Washington, D.C., an anchor at WCAU in Philadelphia, a producer, reporter | 5141809 | 24853439 |
Ralph Penza. and anchor at WCBS, and a producer at WABC. While in high school Penza served as a copy boy for Walter Winchell. Penza graduated from New York University, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Delta, with a bachelor's degree in radio and television. Previous to that he had graduated from Valley Stream Central High School in Valley Stream, New York. He lived most of his adult life in Malverne, immediately adjacent to his boyhood hometown in Valley Stream. In February 1998, while covering Pope John Paul II's trip to Cuba, Penza located Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of | 5141809 | 24853440 |
Ralph Penza. killing New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster 24 years earlier. She was sentenced to life in prison but escaped in 1979 and fled to Cuba for political asylum. She spoke to Penza in an interview where she maintained her innocence and recounted the night of the shooting. Penza's coverage of the Pope's visit to the Holy Land earned him an Emmy award in 2000. Section:Personal life and death. Penza died from an undisclosed sickness at the age of 74 in 2007. He was survived by his wife Lucille and two children. Penza's daughter Christina is a reporter at New York | 5141809 | 24853441 |
Ralph Penza. station WPIX. | 5141809 | 24853442 |
John Koukouzelis. John Koukouzelis John Koukouzelis or Jan Kukuzeli (; , "Yoan Kukuzel"; , "Ioannis Koukouzelis"; 1280 – 1360) was a Byzantine medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music. He was recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church after his death. Section:Early life. Koukouzelis was born in Durazzo, at the time part of the Angevin Kingdom of Albania in the late 13th century to an Albanian father and a Bulgarian mother. He was orphaned in childhood. According to some sources he was born in Džerminci, near Debar, which is presently uninhabited. Koukouzelis' last name is allegedly | 5141628 | 24853443 |
John Koukouzelis. derived from the Greek word for broad beans (κουκιά, "koukia") and a Slavic word for cabbage (зеле, "zele"). Most scholars, including David Marshall Lang, state that his mother was simply of Bulgarian origin, while Robert Elsie generalizes her as being of Macedonian Slav descent. However, according to Raymond Detrez, despite that his mother may have been a Bulgarian, her Slavic origin is obscure. At a young age, he was noted and accepted into the school at the imperial court at Constantinople. Section:His contribution as a master of psaltic art. Koukouzelis received his education at the Constantinople court vocal school and | 5141628 | 24853444 |
John Koukouzelis. established himself as one of the leading authorities in his field during the time. A favourite of the Byzantine emperor and a principal choir chanter, he moved to Mount Athos and led a monastic way of life in the Great Lavra. Because of his singing abilities, he was called "Angel-voiced". Koukouzelis established a new melodious ("kalophonic") style of singing out of the sticherarion. Some years after the fall of Constantinople Manuel Chrysaphes characterised the sticheron kalophonikon and the anagrammatismos as new genres of psaltic art which were once created by John Koukouzelis. Despite his innovations, Manuel assured that John Koukouzelis | 5141628 | 24853445 |
John Koukouzelis. never contradicted the traditional method of the old sticherarion, not even in his anagrammatismoi. But, O my friend, do not think that the manner of the whole musical art and its practice is so simple and uniform that the composer of a kalophonic sticheron [the soloistic sticheron kalophonikon ()] with appropriate theseis who does not adhere to the manner of old sticheron [the conventional simple way to perform a sticheron with two choirs] can think that he has done well and that which he has written quite good and free from every condemnation – since, if what he has composed | 5141628 | 24853446 |
John Koukouzelis. does not include the method of the old sticheron, it is not correct. Do not think therefore, that the performance of chant is simple, but rather that it is complex and of many forms. [...] Thus even in the kalophonic stichera the composers of these do not depart from their original melodies [] but follow them accurately, step by step, and retain them. Therefore, they take over some melodies unchanged from tradition and from the music thus preserved (as it is recorded in the old Sticherarion [the simple sticherarion according to the redaction and its variants since the 14th century]), | 5141628 | 24853447 |
John Koukouzelis. and they all follow the path unaltered throughout the entire composition. The second composer always follows his predecessor and his successor follows him and, to put it simply, everyone retains the technique of the art. [...] Ioannes Koukouzeles, the maistor, does not alter the stichera in his anagrammatismoi [the more deliberate compositions of a sticheron kalophonikon about the final section of a certain sticheron which usually also changed its text and reworked its melodic structure], but follows them step by step, although, like composers now, he was entirely able (indeed he was much more able) to create his own original | 5141628 | 24853448 |
John Koukouzelis. chants which had nothing in common with their prototype stichera [the simple sticheron as it was traditionally notated in the books of the sticherarion]. But, had he acted thus, he would neither acted correctly nor would he have thought that he had interpreted the science of composition befittingly. Therefore, he follows the path of the old stichera precisely and does not alter them at all, obeying the rules of the science. The school of John Glykys and his followers like John and Xenos Korones created the "Late Byzantine" system of round notation. But the use of just one notation system | 5141628 | 24853449 |
John Koukouzelis. could seduce to the conclusion, that every chant genre has to be performed in the same way. Instead a huge number of different methods had to be observed, which were part of an oral tradition, sometimes even of a particular one which depended on a certain local school. However, the notation itself is sometimes not regarded as one system of its own, since it simply continued an already existing synthesis of many different notations (like the one of the asmatikon) within the notation developed in the monastic books of the sticherarion and the heirmologion. John Koukouzelis is also regarded as | 5141628 | 24853450 |
John Koukouzelis. the creator of a new chant book which replaced the former books of the cathedral rite, the book of the choir (asmatikon), and the book of the lampadarios or monophonaris who sometimes replaced the left choir. The latter book was called "psaltikon" or "kontakarion", while the new book which combined the content of the older books, was called "order of services" () and these manuscripts are conventionally ascribed to John Koukouzelis. The Constantinopolitan redaction of the sticherarion and the heirmologion during the fourteenth century were often ascribed to John as well, but it was obviously neither the redaction of just | 5141628 | 24853451 |
John Koukouzelis. one scribe, nor did the new kalophonic method intend any changes which contradicted the traditional ways. John Koukouzelis was obviously just one among a group of very talented musicians and reformers. Nevertheless, his legendary reputation caused that he is often identified with the reform itself. This identification is a common phenomenon in many Oriental and Andalusian traditions whose orally based transmission had never been completely abandoned. The kalophonic method of John Koukouzelis can be studied by means of a vocal exercise "Mega Ison" which offered 60 designations of vocal signs. Also this didactic chant was a redaction of a similar | 5141628 | 24853452 |
John Koukouzelis. one by John Glykys which probably developed from a simple list of notation signs as an essential part of a treatise genre called Papadike. The "exercise" (mathema) Mega Ison instead is a complex composition whose melos changes between all the echoi of the Papadic octoechos. Section:Reception history of Koukouzelian compositions. In general it is useful to make a distinction between compositions which can be verified as the compositions by John Koukouzelis, and those which are simply based on the method which he taught (as a stylistic category based on the kalophonic melos as exemplified by Mega Ison). Even concerning famous | 5141628 | 24853453 |
John Koukouzelis. compositions, their authorship is often a subject of scholarly debates whose concern is not always the talent of one individual composer—like the "Polyeleoi of the Bulgarian Woman" dedicated to his mother that, according to some researchers, contains elements of traditional Bulgarian mourning songs. Greek editions of the same Polyeleos are different and especially the authorship of the Kratema used in the Bulgarian edition has been a controversial issue. Concerning stichera kalophonika, there are numerous compositions made up in his name, but his authorship must be regarded as a certain school which had a lot of followers and imitators. Modern print | 5141628 | 24853454 |
John Koukouzelis. editions of chant books have only a very few compositions (different melismatic echos varys realisations of , several Polyeleos compositions, the cherubikon palatinon, the Mega Ison, the Anoixantaria) which are almost never sung, except the short Sunday koinonikon, for the very practical reason that most of John Koukouzelis' compositions, at least based on the exegetic transcriptions by Chourmouzios Chartophylakos (GR-An Ms. ΜΠΤ 703), are simply too long. Section:Sainthood and legacy. Koukouzelis is regarded as the most influential figure in the music of his period. He was later recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, his feast day being | 5141628 | 24853455 |
John Koukouzelis. on 1 October. He is known as Saint John Koukouzelis (, "Hagios Ioannis Koukouzelis", , "Sveti Yoan Kukuzel", , , ). A musical school in his native Durrës bears his name. Kukuzel Cove in Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Koukouzelis, using the Slavic form of his name. Section:References. Section:References.:Papadikai and their editions. | 5141628 | 24853456 |
Llangain. Llangain Llangain is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, in the south-west of Wales. Located to the west of the River Towy, the community contains three standing stones, and two chambered tombs as well as the ruins of 15th century great house, Castell Moel. In 2001 the community's population was recorded at 574, decreasing slightly to 573 at the 2011 census. Section:Location. Situated near the bank of the Afon Tywi, the parish extends from near Johnstown to Llansteffan in one direction and from Llangynog to the river in another and consists of very pleasant countryside with gentle hills reaching 350 | 5141849 | 24853457 |
Llangain. ft/105m (Trig Point) and stretches of woodlands. The parish encloses an area of almost . Prehistory There are a few cromlechs or dolmens, the best examples being Meini Llwydion (Greystones) and Merlin's Quoits. They were communal burial places for family groups dating back to the Neolithic period (c.3000 BC). The community is bordered by the communities of: Carmarthen; Llandyfaelog; Llansteffan; and Llangynog, all being in Carmarthenshire. Section:Education. In 1846 the only school was a Sunday School. Llangain Board School was built in 1875 and officially opened in 1876, and was in use until superseded by the new school in 1977, | 5141849 | 24853458 |
Llangain. to which only about 30-35 children go. There was an after school club but it closed down because not enough children went. Section:Religion. The present church of St Cain was built in 1871. There is a tiled mural on either side of the altar in memory of the Gwyn family of Pilroath and Plas Cwrthir. An Elizabethan chalice is dated 1576. Capel Smyrna, a congregational chapel, is a prominent landmark within the parish. Originally built in 1835, it was rebuilt in 1865 and restored in 1915. The white building provided stabling for horses during chapel services. The loft served as | 5141849 | 24853459 |
Llangain. the vestry. Section:Notable buildings. Castell Moel (Green Castle) is a local landmark at the sharp bend on the B4312. The ruins of the impressive, late medieval residence still stand. It was never a castle but a residence built for the Reed family in the early 15th century and was in ruin in Elizabethan times. It is possible there had been some earthen fortification there at one time. Some believe this to be at Old Castle. Doubtless this would have been a motte and bailey. Until recent times ships used to lie at anchor below to off load onto lighter vessels | 5141849 | 24853460 |
Llangain. for transport to Carmarthen. Coedmor was built in 1968 for Mr and Mrs E.J.Williams, retired farmers of Penycoed. Coedmor Avenue is named in recognition of their ownership of the land and the family's continuing local connection. Bwthyn-y-Felin is an old woollen mill which employed four full-time workers in its heyday. Llangain Mill closed in the 1940s. Llwyndu mansion, a Grade II listed building, was built in the early 19th century. In 1821-1823 Captain Henry Harding lived there and it was afterwards the home of Frederick Philipps, JP. In 1906 the owner was Charles Bankes Davies. It has an upper and | 5141849 | 24853461 |
Llangain. lower lodge. The original name for the upper lodge The Beeches, was Chweched meaning Sixth, indicating the six lanes. The main mansion building was largely destroyed by fire in June 2015 with only the front and side elevations remaining. Pilroath mansion is situated at the southern end of the parish above the confluence of the Rhoth Brook and the Afon Tywi. In 1902 the property was purchased by T J Harries, Esq. who built the present mansion. The property was occupied by the Harries family for three generations and owned until 1994 by County Councillor Arthur Harries. The courtyard and | 5141849 | 24853462 |
Llangain. outbuildings are now being adapted into a production base where films and TV programmes reflecting local life can be made. Fernhill, a small gentry house dating back to 1723 and listed as a grade II building for its architectural and cultural connections. Famous as a frequent childhood holiday retreat of the world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), it became immortalised in one of his best-known poems, Fern Hill. Fernhill is also known for its association with the notorious county hangman, Robert Rickets Evans who lived there at the turn of the 20th century. His daughter was heiress to a fortune. He | 5141849 | 24853463 |
Llangain. imprisoned her in a cell in the courtyard (which can still be seen today) to gain her fortune, but her lover helped her to escape, according to folklore. The story has been confirmed in more recent research, which has also described Thomas' stays at Fernhill and the extent of his family connections in the Llangain area. Pantydderwen was a small cottage originally and once housed the Post Office and local sweet shop. It became a public house c.1979. The golf course opened in 1993. Pantyrathro mansion was built by James Richards in the early 19th century. It was developed as | 5141849 | 24853464 |
Llangain. a direct result of selling local milk products to London with the coming of the railway to Carmarthen. It became a local hotel in 1970. Section:External links. | 5141849 | 24853465 |
Grand Tour (novel series). Grand Tour (novel series) The Grand Tour is a series of novels written by American science fiction author Ben Bova. The novels present a theme of exploration and colonization of the Solar System by humans in the late 21st century. Most of the books focus on the exploration of one particular planet or planetary moon. Several recurring themes are presented throughout the series. In particular, most of the Solar System bodies whose exploration is the focus of a particular novel are presented as having life, either past or present. Many of the expeditions which explore the planets run into serious | 5141865 | 24853466 |
Grand Tour (novel series). difficulty. The protagonists of most of these books are presented as initially weak and/or lacking in ability or confidence, and as part of surviving the trials of the story become heroic. The future humanity as depicted in the "Grand Tour" novel series is divided between "Greens" (environmentalists) and wealthy industrialists, as well as between secularists/scientists and religious fundamentalists. These conflicts generally are presented as part of the background and often set up the initial conflicts of each of the books. In addition, several of the books reference, or indeed directly deal with, conflicts between wealthy industrialists and small, independent operators | 5141865 | 24853467 |
Grand Tour (novel series). seeking to exploit the Solar System's vast untapped mineral wealth. A major theme of the series, which takes center stage in several of the novels, is the search for life on other planets in the Solar System. "Mars", "Mars Life", "Jupiter", "Venus", "Mercury", "Saturn", "Titan", and "Leviathans of Jupiter" all deal with this issue. The discovery of life in the Solar System often leads to conflicts between religious fundamentalists and scientists, with the former seeing the existence of such life as conflicting with their religious doctrines. While each novel can be read independent of the others, and they can be | 5141865 | 24853468 |
Grand Tour (novel series). read in any order, there are distinct story arcs within the series. The Moonbase arc (which may also include the Asteroid Wars arc), the Mars books, and the Saturn books, for instance, comprise various sagas within the series. Section:List of novels, in chronological order. According to Ben Bova's official site, the Grand Tour novels take place in an approximate time sequence with many of the novels overlapping. However, the 'official' internal chronology of the series is not entirely consistent; for instance, "Empire Builders" clearly talks about Selene and the grand plaza in Selene, yet in "Moonwar", Selene is still called | 5141865 | 24853469 |
Grand Tour (novel series). Moonbase and the great plaza is still a hole in the ground. Also, Bova himself lists "Venus" after "Mercury", but details in the two books clearly indicate that "Mercury" takes place after "Venus", as specific events from Venus are mentioned. "Privateers" can also be considered part of the series although as a kind of alternate history (see the Privateers entry below for more details). There are also consistency problems between the stories of Dan Randolf and Douglas Stavenger. In "The Precipice", Randolf (who is in his 60s) states that Stavenger is older than him. Stavenger was 18 in "Moonrise" and | 5141865 | 24853470 |
Grand Tour (novel series). 25 in "Moonwar". Yet somehow Randolf is in his 40s in "Powersat", a book which clearly takes place before the invention of the clipper ship; which are newly invented at the beginning of book one of "Moonrise". Book one of" Moonrise" takes place before Douglas Stavenger was born. In all, at least 35 years needs pass between "Powersat" and" The Precipice". The chronological reading order as suggested by readers of the series is: "Tales of the Grand Tour" (2004) (short story collection. This work contains stories that span much of the timeline of the Grand Tour) Official Grand Tour Chronology: | 5141865 | 24853471 |
Grand Tour (novel series). Section:Prominent/recurring characters. Due to the overlapping and chronological connection of these books, certain characters appear several times throughout the Grand Tour, becoming main characters in books that are seemingly unrelated. Section:Recurring organizations. A number of groups and organizations appear multiple times in the series, particularly the large corporations that often serve as antagonists. Section:Recurring organizations.:Corporations. Section:Recurring organizations.:Government, political and economic organizations. Section:Recurring organizations.:Religious movements. | 5141865 | 24853472 |
Torsti Lehtinen. Torsti Lehtinen Torsti Lehtinen, Finnish writer and philosopher, was born in Helsinki in 1942. He studied philosophy, theology and literature at the University of Helsinki. In 1959 he made his first trip abroad, to Copenhagen, a city that became and has remained a foreign focal point for him. The years 1979-1982 he lived in Stockholm before returning to Finland, first to Central Finland and then, in 1999, to his native Helsinki. Since his youth he tried his hand in some 40 different professions, the more serious of which were working as a teacher for the socially handicapped for five years | 5141871 | 24853473 |
Torsti Lehtinen. and as a software consultant for Nokia computers for nine years. In 1982 he published his first novel, "Kun päättyy Pitkäsilta / Where ends the Longbridge" (second edition 1992, third 1997). With the publication of his second novel, "Kuin unta ja varjoa / Like dream and shadow", in 1983, he became a full-time writer. Since then he has written more than 20 works, including novels, aphorisms, poems, essays, plays and non-fiction. He has also edited several books and been a co-writer of around 50 books. Parts of his production have been translated into Danish, Swedish, German, Estonian and Russian. Torsti | 5141871 | 24853474 |
Torsti Lehtinen. Lehtinen has also been active as a translator. His translations include the main works of Søren Kierkegaard, as well as works from Swedish and English. Torsti Lehtinen has taught philosophy and creative writing at many Finnish universities and academic institutions, and has held seminars and given lectures at, amongst others, the universities of Helsinki, Tartu and Reykjavik, and the Nordens folkliga akademi in Gothenburg. He has been awarded several literature prizes, e.g. The WSOY Literature Award, and he won The National Biennial Championships in Essayism in 1995. Torsti Lehtinen served on the board of the Central Finland Writers’ Association, and, | 5141871 | 24853475 |
Torsti Lehtinen. after moving back to Helsinki, was invited to become president of the Helsinki Writers’ Guild in 2003. He also served as vice-president of the Finnish Writers’ Association (2000–2005) and was created an honorary member of The Central-Finland Writers’ Association in 1995. His latest novel "Kainin Merkki" or "The Mark of Cain" was published by Arktinen Banaani in September 2013. | 5141871 | 24853476 |
Mongabay. Mongabay Mongabay.com is a web site that publishes news on environmental science, energy, and green design, and features extensive information on tropical rainforests, including pictures and deforestation statistics for countries of the world. It was founded in 1999 by economist Rhett Ayers Butler in order to increase "interest in and appreciation of wildlands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging local and global trends in technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development". In recent years to complement its US-based team, Mongabay has opened bureaus in Indonesia, Latin America, and India, reporting daily in Bahasa, Spanish, and English respectively. | 5141786 | 24853477 |
Mongabay. Mongabay's reporting is available in nine languages. Section:History. In an interview with Conjour, Butler said his passion for rainforests drove him to start Mongabay: "I was intrigued by the complexity of these ecosystems and how every species seemed to play a part. As I became more passionate about rainforests, I grew more concerned about their fate, including the threats they face." Section:History.:Etymology. Rhett Ayers Butler, the founder of the website, explains that "mongabay" originated from an anglicized spelling and pronunciation of Nosy Mangabe, an island off the coast of Madagascar. He goes on to note that it is best known | 5141786 | 24853478 |
Mongabay. as "a preserve for the Aye-aye, a rare and unusual lemur famous for its bizarre appearance". Section:History.:Recognition. In 2008 Mongabay was named one of the top fifteen environmental websites by "Time". It was also the winner of the 2018 Science Seeker Awards in the environment category. Section:Business model. Mongabay.com is independent and unaffiliated with any organization. The site has been used as an information source by CNN, CBS, the Discovery Channel, NBC, UPI, Yahoo!, and other such outlets. Section:Business model.:Revenue. All of mongabay.com's content is free thanks to the 1.3 million unique visitors per month (as of January 2008: that | 5141786 | 24853479 |
Mongabay. number was 2.5 million in 2018). In 2008 Butler said that the traffic brought the site $15,000 to $18,000 a month from AdSense., but the decline in advertising revenue across the environmental media sector after the financial crisis, sharply reduced the site's income. In 2012, Butler launched mongabay.org, a 501(c)(3) organization, to support Mongabay's education program and non-English reporting initiatives as well as expand its environmental reporting initiatives, including grants for journalists. Mongabay phased out advertising on its news content in 2017. Section:Publications. Section:Publications.:Academic journals. Mongabay.com formerly published "Tropical Conservation Science", a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal on the conservation of | 5141786 | 24853480 |
Mongabay. tropical forests and of other tropical ecosystems. Since its inception in 2008, it has four issues a year, in March, June, September, and December. It used to provide opportunities for scientists in developing countries to publish their research in their native languages, but as of September 2012, "Tropical Conservation Science" publishes papers only in English. It has been published by SAGE Publications since August 2016. Section:Publications.:Other websites. On May 19, 2012, Mongabay.com launched an Indonesian language affiliate at mongabay.co.id. In June 2016, Mongabay launched a Spanish-language news service in Latin America at Mongabay-Latam. And in January 2018, Mongabay-India was launched. | 5141786 | 24853481 |
Mongabay. Section:Non-profit. Mongabayorg Corporation (Mongabay.org) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California that raises awareness about social and environmental issues relating to forests and other ecosystems. Founded in 2012 by Rhett Ayers Butler, Mongabay.org was established as the non-profit arm of Mongabay.com, an environmental science and conservation news web site launched in 1999. In 2014, Mongabay.com's news production was shifted under Mongabay.org. By November 2015, Mongabay.org had three main program areas: environmental news production in English, Indonesian, and Spanish; Tropical Conservation Science (), an open-access academic journal that was acquired by SAGE Publications in August 2016; and | 5141786 | 24853482 |
Mongabay. K-8 education. The Bay Area Tropical Forest Network, a social network in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an additional project under Mongabay.org. Mongabay.org depends on grants and donations for nearly all of its revenue. Advertising revenue provides a small source of additional income. Mongabay.org is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Section:Non-profit.:History. Mongabay.org was founded in 2012 by conservation journalist Rhett Ayers Butler. Butler established the non-profit due to his desire to expand the scope of Mongabay's environmental science and conservation news service. By 2018, the site was receiving 2.5 million unique visitors a month at its | 5141786 | 24853483 |
Mongabay. news pages. The first project under Mongabay.org was Mongabay-Indonesia, an Indonesian-language environmental news service run by a team of journalists in Indonesia. Within a year of launch, Mongabay-Indonesia was the most widely read Indonesian-language environmental news service. By 2015, the site was drawing more than 500,000 unique visitors per month and had correspondents in more than 30 cities and towns across the archipelago. Butler applied the Mongabay-Indonesia model to Mongabay's global operation in 2014, launching a network-based approach to covering environmental stories in English. The pilot project focused on using data from Global Forest Watch to develop stories about what | 5141786 | 24853484 |
Mongabay. was happening on the ground the world's forests, including deforestation, conversion to plantations, and conservation. After the nine-month pilot produced over 180 stories in more than 40 countries, including articles that generated significant interest in policy circles, the project was expanded to a range of other topics. The network of paid English-language correspondents reached 50 by mid-2015. Mongabay.org also provides small grants to journalists to help with travel and reporting costs for stories published in high-profile third party media. Section:Non-profit.:Acknowledgements and awards. In 2008, Mongabay was named by "Time" magazine as one of the best "green websites". In 2014, Mongabay.org | 5141786 | 24853485 |
Mongabay. Founder Rhett Ayers Butler became the first journalist to win the Field Museum's Parker-Gentry Award for contributions "in the field of conservation biology whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world's natural heritage and whose actions and approach can serve as a model to others". Section:Non-profit.:Finances. Mongabay.org relies primary on grants and donations to fund its activities. Most grants come from philanthropic organizations like the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Less than one percent of the organization's revenue comes from advertising. Mongabay.org's network-based approach allows it to run a lean operation | 5141786 | 24853486 |
Mongabay. with a small staff relative to its volume of content production. In 2013, Mongabay.org reported total revenue of $528,128, a five-fold increase from its 2012 revenue of $92,319. Overhead costs amounted to 2.9 percent in 2013, while fundraising costs came in at 2.2 percent. Revenue in 2014 reached $910,569, while in 2015 it hit $1.3 million. In 2017, total revenue eclipsed $2 million. Section:Non-profit.:Leadership. Mongabay.org is governed by its board of directors, which consists of several members. Anthropologist Brodie David Ferguson is chairman of the board. Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler is a member of the board. Mongabay.org also has | 5141786 | 24853487 |
Mongabay. a non-governing advisory board, which includes biologist Peter H. Raven, primatologist Jane Goodall, and William F. Laurance. Operationally, Mongabay.org is run by Butler, who serves as CEO and executive director. Butler started Mongabay.com, an environmental science and conservation news web site that today serves as the distribution platform for content produced under Mongabay.org, out of his passion for nature Section:External links. | 5141786 | 24853488 |
Normandie-class battleship. Normandie-class battleship The "Normandie" class of dreadnought battleships was a group of five ships ordered for the French Navy in 1912–1913. The class comprised "Normandie", the lead ship, "Flandre", "Gascogne", "Languedoc", and . The design incorporated a radical arrangement for the twelve 34 cm (13.4 in) main battery guns: three quadruple-gun turrets, as opposed to the twin-gun turrets used by most other navies. The first four ships were also equipped with an unusual hybrid propulsion system that used both steam turbines and triple-expansion steam engines to increase fuel efficiency. The ships, named after provinces of France, were never completed due | 5141642 | 24853489 |
Normandie-class battleship. to shifting production requirements after the beginning of World War I in 1914. The first four ships were sufficiently advanced in construction to permit their launching to clear the slipways for other, more important work. Many of the guns built for the ships were instead converted for use by the Army. After the war, the French Navy considered several proposals to complete the ships, either as originally designed or modernized to account for lessons from the war. The weak French post-war economy forestalled these plans and the first four ships were broken up. The last ship, "Béarn", which was not | 5141642 | 24853490 |
Normandie-class battleship. significantly advanced at the time work halted, was converted into an aircraft carrier in the 1920s. She remained in service in various capacities until the 1960s and was ultimately scrapped in 1967. Section:Development. In December 1911, the French Navy's Technical Committee () issued a report that examined the design of the that had been ordered for 1912. They concluded that the amidships gun turret was an unsatisfactory choice, based on previous experiences with blast damage on battleships from the 1880s. This position influenced the construction of the next class of dreadnought battleships, for which design work began shortly thereafter. The | 5141642 | 24853491 |
Normandie-class battleship. French Navy's design staff () submitted the first draft of the new dreadnought design in February 1912. The size of French shipyard facilities significantly affected the design. Length was limited to , beam to , and draft to approximately . These dimensions limited the design to a displacement of around and a speed of , depending on the armament arrangement. The design staff presented three alternatives, all armed with twenty guns in a new twin-gun casemate mounting as the secondary armament. The first was a design with the same number of guns as the "Bretagne"s, but with a top speed | 5141642 | 24853492 |
Normandie-class battleship. greater than 21 knots. The second was for a ship with a dozen 34 cm guns arranged in two quadruple-gun turrets with superfiring twin-gun turrets and a speed of 20 knots. The last proposal was a ship that was armed with sixteen guns in four quadruple turrets and a speed of 20 knots. The staff also prepared two different designs for the propulsion system. Two sets of direct-drive steam turbines were proposed, as in the "Bretagne" class; the other option was a hybrid system that used one set of direct-drive turbines on the two inner propeller shafts, and two vertical | 5141642 | 24853493 |
Normandie-class battleship. triple-expansion steam engines (VTE) on the outer shafts for low-speed cruising. This was intended to reduce coal consumption at cruising speed as direct-drive turbines are very inefficient at moderate to low speeds. The fifth ship, "Béarn", was instead equipped with two sets of turbines to allow her to operate with the "Bretagne" class. The next issue to be addressed was the main armament. The General Staff decided in March 1912 to retain the 34 cm gun of the "Bretagne" class. They chose the new quadruple turret and preferred an armament of twelve guns in two quadruple and two double turrets. | 5141642 | 24853494 |
Normandie-class battleship. They favored the all-turbine design, but wished to retain the twenty-two 138.6 mm guns of the "Bretagne"s. The following month, the Naval Supreme Council () could not reach a decision on the quadruple turret as it was still being developed, but wished to revisit the issue once it was further along. The council rejected the twin mounting proposed for the secondary armament and proposed a mixture of eighteen 138.6 mm and a dozen guns. It did accept the hybrid propulsion system and the armor layout of the "Bretagne" class was to be retained, though an increase in the thickness of | 5141642 | 24853495 |
Normandie-class battleship. the main belt was to be effected if possible. Théophile Delcassé, the Naval Minister (), accepted the council's recommendations with the proviso that the arrangement of five twin turrets as in the "Bretagne"-class battleships would be substituted if the quadruple turrets were not ready in time. The Technical Department prepared two new designs, A7, which incorporated the five twin turrets, and A7bis, which was armed with three quadruple turrets. The A7bis design was some lighter than the A7 design, and on 6 April, the Navy accepted a quadruple-gun-turret design submitted by Saint-Chamond. On 22 May it realized that the 100 | 5141642 | 24853496 |
Normandie-class battleship. mm gun would not ready by the time construction was scheduled to begin, so the design reverted to the 138.6 mm gun. Further work revealed that two additional guns could be accommodated and the Naval Supreme Council accepted the design with twenty-four 138.6 mm guns on 8 July. Section:Description. The "Normandie"-class ships were long at the waterline, and long overall. They had a beam of and a mean draft of at full load. They were intended to displace at normal load and at deep load. The ships were subdivided by transverse bulkheads into 21 watertight compartments. The first four ships | 5141642 | 24853497 |
Normandie-class battleship. were equipped with one set of steam turbines driving the inner pair of four-bladed, propellers. "Normandie" and "Flandre" had license-built Parsons turbines, "Gascogne" had turbines by Rateau-Bretagne, and "Languedoc"s turbines were built by Schneider-Zoelly. The four ships had a pair of four-cylinder vertical triple-expansion engines that drove the two outer three-bladed, propellers for steaming astern or cruising at low speed. The last ship, "Béarn", was equipped with two sets of Parsons turbines, each driving a pair of three-bladed, 3.34 m propellers. "Normandie" and "Gascogne" were fitted with 21 Guyot-du Temple-Normand small-tube boilers, "Flandre" and "Languedoc" were equipped with 28 Belleville | 5141642 | 24853498 |
Normandie-class battleship. large-tube boilers, while "Béarn" had 28 Niclausse boilers. All of the boilers operated at a pressure of . The ships' engines were rated at and were designed to give them a speed of , although use of forced draft was intended to increase their output to and the maximum speed to . The ships were designed to carry of coal and of fuel oil, but up to of coal could be stored in the hull. At a cruising speed of , the ships could steam for ; at , the range fell to , and at top speed, it dropped | 5141642 | 24853499 |