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Callosa d'en Sarrià

Callosa d'en Sarrià ( is a Valencian town and municipality located in the comarca of Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, Spain, lying in the valley of the river Guadalest, 50 km from the city of Alicante. Callosa d'en Sarrià has an area of 24.8 km2 and according to the 2003 census, a total population of 8,060 inhabitants. The economy of Callosa is chiefly based on tourism and agriculture: it is the main producer of loquat in Spain. The most important monuments in the town are the Catholic archipresbyteral church of Sant Joan Baptista (Saint John), built in the 18th century, and the Fortress of Bèrnia, built in the 17th century at the top of a nearby mountain to defend the city from pirates and Moriscos.

Toponymy
The rivers Guadalest and Algar cross the town, which is surrounded by the mountains of Aitana, Bèrnia and Xortà. It has a Mediterranean climate with temperatures averaging 17 °C in January, with a high of 24 °C in summer and a low of 9.5 °C in winter.

Callosa is located 10 km from the coast at the intersection on the C-3318 that connects Benidorm with Pego and the road from Benidorm to Alcoi through Guadalest. From Alicante, Callosa may be reached via the AP-7 or the N-332 in Benidorm, then by the CV-70 and then by the CV-715 in La Nucia.

Bordering towns
Callosa borders the municipalities of Altea, Bolulla, Guadalest, Xaló, La Nucia, Polop and Tàrbena.

History
Deposits have been discovered belonging to the Neolithic (5,000 BC), Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iberian and Roman eras. These settlements formed the basis for the establishment of Muslim hamlets in different parts of the municipality.

The origin of Callosa (meaning probably "land hard, dry" in Latin) is an ancient Muslim farmhouse, after the Christian reconquest by the king James I of Aragon in the 13th century, the property was acquired by Admiral Bernat de Sarrià in 1290 during the reign of Alfonso III of Aragon, becoming its first feudal lord. Hence, since then the city was renamed Callosa d'en Sarrià and became the center of the manor, which extended over part of the current district of Marina Baixa.

Afterwards it was acquired by different noble families and other entities, among which were the Sarrià (1290–1335), the Crown of Aragon (1335–1445), the Bou (1445–1560), the Moncada (1560–1767) and the Count of Orgaz (1767). Today, the noble title of the people belongs to the family of Valldaura Crespí.

The city retains the old town part of its medieval urban structure, bounded by a line of walls of the intramural Callosa, which still can be entered by one of its original gates: El Portal.

Demography
Callosa has 7.888 residents (INE 2010). A 30.4% of the census are foreigners, mainly from Latin America (mainly Ecuador and Bolivia) and the European continent.

Economy
Callosa has a highly competitive agriculture based on loquats and medlars, introduced in Spain in the 19th century by the Callosan Juan Bautista Berenguer y Ronda. Farmers are partners in a cooperative that handles the marketing of fruits, intended mostly for exporting; their main destinations are France and Italy.

Recently the City Council managed the "denominación de origen" (DO) and thus, the Council of the Designation of Origin of loquats from Callosa d'en Sarrià, with a view to establish quality standards for the loquat produced in Callosa and its region.

The tourism sector has experienced a significant rise in recent years.

Fonts de l’Algar
The Fonts de l’Algar (Algar Waterfalls) are at 3 km from the centre of Callosa, heading towards Bolulla, and Tàrbena. The Algar waterfalls form a natural park with an elevated grade of conservation of the ecological richness, and at the same time it has tourism and environment education services.

Fortalesa de Bèrnia
The Fortalesa de Bèrnia (Fortress of Bèrnia) was built in 1562 by the royal engineer Giovanni Battista Antonelli. It was a magnificent and clear exponent of the military architecture in the Renaissance epoch. King Philip II of Spain ordered its construction to face the Ottoman incursions on the coast. In 1612, because of its inefficiency and because it was far from the coast, it was demolished by order of Philip III of Spain. At the Fort you can still see the arches, the fosse, the bastion, the well and the wall remains. The wall measured 100 meters long and 100 meters wide. It has been considered as a Property of Culture Interest since 1997. The explanatory panels show the ancient running and use of the Fort.

El Poador de la Font Major
This is the old washing place and a water trough built in 1786 by the Town Council of Callosa d'en Sarrià. It used to have twelve spouts and the washing place was able to provide space for over seventy people. In 1910 the washing place was covered with a roof. Nowadays it is restored and it represents one of the most charismatic images of the town.

Sant Joan Baptista Church
The first data about the present church is from 1574, when the Parish Church was built. In 1578 it was inaugurated by Francisco de Mesa. An extension of the Church was considered during the second half of the 18th century. The construction of the crossing started in 1765 and ended in 178. In 1819 some works on the façade were made, the material used was marble from the local quarries, and they were finished in 1865. The upper part of the façade was made in 1917, but this time the material used was painted concrete emulating the marble.

Remains of the Castle wall
The first information about the castle dates from 1322, when Infant Don Pedro was given it by Bernat de Sarrià, Lord of Callosa, who might be the builder. It was successively owned by several Lords of Callosa such as the Moncada and the Bou Family until the late 17th century. At this point, it started to get ruined, and it finally disappeared in the early 18th century. Nowadays some remains of the castle wall can be admired by visitors.

Fiestas

 * Festes de Sant Jaume. Les Danses de Sant Jaume, also known as La Festa del Fadrí are the oldest fiestas in the festivities of Callosa d'en Sarrià, as well as in the region. The historian Adolf Salvà dates the fiestas in 1819, when is the first written reference. Its origin, like many other celebrations, is pagan: possibly the dances were in honor of some god of the fertility. The festival is in honor of a saint, in this case Saint James. The festivals of Sant Jaume are not limited exclusively to the dances, they are also a few  days of celebration in the streets, like: cucanyes  (popular games), games of Calitx (a popular game with coins) of Valencian pilota, loquat, cake tasting, correguda del gall (Rooster race), etc.
 * Moors and Christians. As a people with historical roots, since 1860 are held the second weekend in October, the celebrations of "Moors and Christians", are declared National Tourist Interest since 1985. They are celebrated in honor of the Virgen of injuries. Among the most spectacular acts, are the colorful parades Entrada Mora and Entrada Cristiana old dances preceded by Nanos, which accompany the Virgin during the procession.

 * The dance of the Nanos precedes the parade and represent the pagan festival.

Gastronomy
The typical dishes of Callosa include:

 * Crosta. A typical Carnival dish. It's made with dry rice and contains among other ingredients, sausages, covered with beaten egg, baked in clay pot.
 * Minxos. Cover patties of chopped vegetables and fish.
 * Putxero (or olla) amb pilotas. Typical dish from the festivities of Moros i Cristians. It's similar to Spanish stew, incorporating some balls stuffed with meat and blood and wrapped in cabbage leaves.
 * Desserts, Referring to desserts, we highlight the pastissets d’aguardent i a l’aire, tiny cakes with liquor. And of course, the loquat in all its varieties (natural, in syrup, cakes and so on).

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Thomas Day Seymour

Thomas Day Seymour (April 1, 1848 – December 31, 1907) was an American classical scholar. He spent most of his career as a Professor of Greek at Yale University and published primarily on the works of Homer.

Life
Born in Hudson, Ohio, Seymour graduated with a B.A. in 1870 at Western Reserve College, present day Case Western Reserve University, where his father, Nathan Perkins Seymour, was for many years Professor of Greek and Latin. He received an ad eundem degree from Yale in 1870, and honorary LL.D. degrees from Western Reserve in 1894, from Glasgow University in 1901, and from Harvard University in 1906. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900 and the American Philosophical Society in 1906.

After studying in Berlin and Leipzig and making many visits to Greece, Seymour returned to Western Reserve College as professor of Greek from 1872 to 1880 before becoming professor of Greek at Yale University in 1880, holding his position until his death in New Haven.

From 1887 to 1901 Seymour was chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and was president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903. He was one of the American editors of the Classical Review.

He was the father of Yale President Charles Seymour, and the great-nephew of Yale President Jeremiah Day.

He married Sarah Melissa Hitchcock (b. Sep. 27, 1846) of Burton, Ohio on July 2, 1874, daughter of Western Reserve College president Rev. Henry L. Hitchcock and granddaughter of Justice Peter Hitchcock. They had three children; Elizabeth Day Seymour (b. Jan 21, 1876) was his eldest daughter, and she married John Angel (sculptor) in 1942. Clara Hitchcock Seymour was born on March 28, 1880, and his youngest child Charles Seymour was born on Jan. 1, 1885.

Publications
Other than his Selected Odes of Pindar (1882), Seymour's published work was largely confined to the study of the Homeric poems, viz:

 * "On the Date of the Prometheus of Aeschylus" (1879)
 * An Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer (1885)
 * Homer's Iliad, i.-iv. (1887–1890)
 * Homeric Vocabulary (1889)
 * "Carroll Cutler" (1894)
 * Introduction and Vocabulary to School Odyssey (1897)
 * The College Series of Greek Authors, editor with Lewis R Packard and John W White.
 * Plato: Apology of Socrates and Crito (1885) Ginn & Co.
 * "The First Twenty Years of the School At Athens" (1902)
 * Life in the Homeric Age (1907)

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Cleveland Magazine

Cleveland Magazine is a monthly magazine focused on Northeastern Ohio, USA. It was founded in 1972. The inaugural April 1972 issue featured a young Dennis Kucinich, a frequent profile subject of the magazine. Published monthly by the Great Lakes Publishing Company, it features articles on dining, travel & leisure and arts & entertainment in Northeast Ohio. Its editor is Dillon Stewart, and its publisher is Denise Polverine. It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA).

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Its most popular issue is the annual "Rating the Suburbs," which examines which communities in Greater Cleveland are best suited to live in based on values such as quality of schools, proximity to hospitals, crime rankings and home values. Critics say the rankings are biased towards newer, outer ring suburbs. Neighborhoods in the city of Cleveland proper are not ranked at all, which critics suggest perpetuates the stereotype that Cleveland is not livable. The top-ranked suburb for 2017 was Richfield Village, Ohio.

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Grimsel Pass

The Grimsel Pass (Grimselpass; Col du Grimsel; Passo del Grimsel) is a mountain pass in Switzerland, crossing the Bernese Alps at an elevation of 2164 m. The pass connects the Haslital, the upper valley of the river Aare, with the upper valley of the Rhône. In so doing, and as the Aare is a tributary of the Rhine, the pass crosses the continental divide between the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

A paved road follows the pass, running 38 km from Gletsch to Meiringen. The road is normally closed between October and May, due to the high snowfall on the pass. As it is the only direct road pass between the cantons of Bern and Valais across the Bernese Alps, attempts are made to keep the road open as long as possible with snow ploughs. A PostBus Switzerland service uses the pass several times a day, connecting Meiringen and Oberwald.

The Grimsel Pass road is part of the Aare Route, which is national cycle route 8 of Switzerland. It has been used on several occasions by the Tour de Suisse.

History
The first fully documented use of the Grimsel Pass dates back to the 14th century, although it has been suggested that the pass was used in Roman times and also, in 1211, by troops of Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen. In 1397, the Landschaften of Pomat, Goms and Hasli, and the cities of Interlaken, Thun and Bern, signed an agreement in which it was agreed to provide for free and secure trade by the mule track over the Grimsel. In 1400, the hospice on the pass is mentioned for the first time.

The Grimsel Pass formed, along with the Nufenen and Gries passes, a regional trade route between the Haslital and Domodossola and the Lombardy plain. Cheese and cattle were sent south, whilst wine, rice, corn and olive oil came north. This trade continued until the opening of the Gotthard railway in 1882.

The track over the pass was not upgraded to a paved road until 1894. Between the 1920s and the 1950s, several hydro-electric power plants were constructed in the area around the pass by Kraftwerke Oberhasli (KWO), which resulted in the expansion and diversion of the pass road. The KWO now promotes the pass and surrounding area as a visitor attraction, as part of its Grimselwelt tourism brand.

Geography
The Grimsel Pass connects the cantons of Bern, to the north, and Valais, to the south, with the summit of the pass lying on the cantonal boundary. The northern slopes of the pass are in the Bernese municipality of Guttannen, whilst the southern slopes are within the Valais municipality of Obergoms.

The approach to the Grimsel Pass from the north commences in the small town of Meiringen (595 m), from where access is possible down the Aare valley to Interlaken and Bern, and across the Brünig Pass to Obwalden and Lucerne. The approach passes the village of Innertkirchen (625 m), where the road to the Susten Pass diverges, and continues alongside the Aare to Guttannen (1057 m).

Beyond Guttannen, and still following the river, the road passes a pair of short tunnels to Handegg (1378 m), where the lower station of the Gelmerbahn funicular, the steepest in Switzerland, is located. After Handegg the road climbs through several hairpin bends and an 850 m tunnel to the Räterichsbodensee reservoir. A further climb brings the road to the Grimselsee reservoir and the Grimsel Hospice (1980 m). Here the final climb to the summit commences, with several more sweeping hairpin bends.

At the summit are several hotels and an extensive area of parking. Here the road runs alongside the Totesee (2160 m), a natural lake that has been enlarged into a reservoir. To the west of the pass and lake is the peak of the Sidelhorn (2764 m), whilst to the east is the mountain range Schafberg (2481 m).

From the Totesee the pass road descends steeply through more hairpin bends to Gletsch (1759 m) in the most upper valley of the Rhône, the Obergoms. Here connection is made with the Furka Pass, connecting with the canton of Uri, as well as the lower level route down the Rhône valley towards Brig through the Goms. A short distance down the Goms are Oberwald (1377 m) and Ulrichen (1346 m). At the latter, a junction is made with Nufenen Pass, into the canton of Ticino, and the Gries Pass, to Domodossola in Italy.

Climate
Due to the high altitude of the pass, and its continental location, the climate is cool or cold all year round, and receives a fair amount of precipitation year-round (the majority of which is snow). Snow usually falls from late September until late June, although during cool spells, it can snow at the height of summer. Most years, permanent snow fields remain at the pass, due to the temperature rarely rising above 15 °C. This area has a long winter season, with little precipitation mostly in the form of snow, and low humidity. The Köppen climate classification classifies the climate here as subarctic, and abbreviates this as Dfc.

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Alice Coltrane

Alice Lucille Coltrane (' McLeod; August 27, 1937 –January 12, 2007), also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya''', was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader.

An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels. She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967. One of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz, her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz.

Coltrane's career slowed from the mid 1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam ashram in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director. On July 3, 1994, she rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram. During the 1980s and 1990s, she recorded several albums of Hindu devotional songs before returning to spiritual jazz in the 2000s and releasing her final album Translinear Light in 2004.

Early life and career (1937–1965)
Coltrane was born Alice Lucille McLeod on August 27, 1937, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in a musical household. Her mother, Anna McLeod, was a member of the choir at her church; her half-brother, Ernest Farrow, became a jazz drummer; and her younger sister, Marilyn McLeod, became a songwriter at Motown.

With the encouragement of her father, Alice McLeod pursued music and started to perform in various clubs around Detroit, until moving to Paris in the late 1950s. She studied classical music, and also jazz with Bud Powell in Paris, where she worked as the intermission pianist at the Blue Note Jazz Club in 1960. It was there that McLeod appeared on French television in a performance with Lucky Thompson, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke. She married Kenny "Pancho" Hagood in 1960 and had a daughter with him. The marriage ended soon after, on account of Hagood's developing heroin addiction, and McLeod was forced to return to Detroit with her daughter. She continued playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, with her own trio and as a duo with vibraphonist Terry Pollard. In 1962–63, she played with Terry Gibbs' quartet, during which time she met John Coltrane. In 1965, they married in Juárez, Mexico. John Coltrane became stepfather to Alice Coltrane's daughter Michelle, and the couple had three children together: John Jr. (1964, a drummer who died in a car accident in 1982); Ravi (b. 1965, a saxophonist); and Oranyan (b. 1967, a DJ). Oranyan later played saxophone with Santana for a period of time.

Solo work (1967–1978)
Alice and John's growing involvement in spirituality influenced some of John's compositions and projects, such as A Love Supreme. In January 1966, Alice Coltrane replaced McCoy Tyner as pianist with John Coltrane's group. She subsequently recorded with him and continued playing with the band until John's death on July 17, 1967. After her husband's death, she continued to forward the musical and spiritual vision, and started to release records as a composer and bandleader. One day, when she was struggling with her health and caring for her young family of four children, there was a knock at the door and to her immense surprise a full-sized Lyon and Healy concert harp was delivered, having been ordered by her husband for her before his unexpected death. Her first album, A Monastic Trio, was recorded in 1967. From 1968 to 1977, she released thirteen full-length records. As the years passed, her musical direction moved further from standard jazz into the more cosmic, spiritual world. Albums like Universal Consciousness (1971), and World Galaxy (1972), show a progression from a four-piece line-up to a more orchestral approach, with lush string arrangements and cascading harp glissandos. Until 1973, she released music with Impulse! Records, the jazz label for which her husband recorded. From 1973 to 1978, she released primarily on Warner Bros. Records until she stepped away from the public eye.

Ashram years (1975–1995)
After the death of her husband, Coltrane experienced a period of trial. She suffered from severe weight loss and sleepless nights, as well as hallucinations, which she would later describe as her undergoing tapas (a Sanskrit term for austere spiritual practices). Seeing Coltrane in a state of emotional turmoil and wanting to help, a musical colleague of hers introduced her to the Yoga guru Swami Satchidananda, under whom she would take mantra diksha and study Hinduism during the early 1970s. By 1972, she had abandoned her secular life and moved to California, where she established the Vedantic Center in 1975. During the mid 1970s, she underwent a mystical experience wherein she believed God had initiated her directly into sannyasa, giving her the monastic name Turiyasangitananda, which she translated as "the Transcendental Lord's Highest Song of Bliss." She became the spiritual director or guru of the Shanti Anantam Ashram, which the Vedantic Center established in 1983 near Malibu, California. Alice would perform formal and informal Vedic ceremonies at the ashram and lead them in congregational chanting or kirtan. She developed original melodies from the traditional chants and started to experiment by including synthesizers, sophisticated song structures and aspects of Gospel music in her compositions. During the late 1970s to early 1980s, Coltrane would become progressively more influenced by the ecstatic devotionalism of the Sathya Sai Baba movement and ISKCON communities present on the West Coast, incorporating their bhajans into her artistic milieu. The album Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana (Lit. 'chanting the names of Radha and Krishna') was released by Warner Bros in 1977, featuring gospel-inflected renditions of popular bhajans and mantras within both movements. She sent a copy of the record to A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder and leader of ISKCON, who replied to her in a letter dated March 12, 1977, commending her for her chanting. Coltrane would eventually meet Bhaktivedanta Swami in person while on a pilgrimage to Vrindavan, India on July 1, 1977, after being invited by ISKCON leaders to perform at various Ratha-yatra festivals across the United States. Despite her various spiritual affiliations, Coltrane primarily sought spiritual guidance not from external gurus but instead from God himself, with whom she believed herself able to communicate as a result of the spiritual merit acquired through her tapas. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Coltrane would release books, available through her private publishing company, the Avatar Book Institute, which detailed these alleged divine communications. The first of these, Endless Wisdom I, was released in 1982 with an accompanying spiritual cassette, Turiya Sings. Coltrane would go on to release three more cassettes, Divine Songs in 1987, Infinite Chants in 1990, and Glorious Chants in 1995, alongside the books Divine Revelations in 1995 and Endless Wisdom II in 1999. In 2017, the tenth anniversary of Coltrane's death, New York-based label Luaka Bop released World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, a compilation of tracks from her ashram cassettes. In 2021, Impulse! Records re-released Turiya Sings under the title Kirtan: Turiya Sings, using a mix containing Coltrane's vocals and Wurlitzer organ without the overdubbed synthesizers and strings.

During the late 1980s, Coltrane received a revelation during her meditations that allegedly confirmed the South Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba to be "the Avatar of this age", leading her in 1994 to rename her ashram the 'Sai Anantam Ashram' in his honor. Until her death, she remained an ardent devotee of Sai Baba and undertook frequent pilgrimages with her students to his residence in Puttaparthi, India to acquire his blessings. Following Coltrane's death in 2007, the ashram's attendance dwindled, and it was eventually permanently closed in 2017, the site later being destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey Fire.

Later years and death (1995–2007)
The 1990s saw renewed interest in her work, which led to the release of the compilation Astral Meditations, and in 2004 she released her comeback album Translinear Light. Following a 25-year break from major public performances, she returned to the stage for three U.S. appearances in the fall of 2006, including a concert at Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium presented by University Musical Society of the University of Michigan on September 23, which would have been John Coltrane's 80th birthday, and culminating on November 4 with a concert for the San Francisco Jazz Festival with her son Ravi, drummer Roy Haynes, and bassist Charlie Haden.

Alice Coltrane died of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in suburban Los Angeles in 2007, aged 69. She is buried alongside John Coltrane in Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York.

Impact
Coltrane is an influence on the English rock band Radiohead, such as on the song "Dollars and Cents", from their 2001 album Amnesiac. Paul Weller dedicated his song "Song for Alice (Dedicated to the Beautiful Legacy of Mrs. Coltrane)", from his 2008 album 22 Dreams, to Coltrane; the track titled "Alice" on Sunn O)))'s 2009 album Monoliths & Dimensions was similarly inspired. Electronic musician Steve "Flying Lotus" Ellison is the grandnephew of Alice Coltrane. On his 2010 album Cosmogramma, he paid tribute to Coltrane in the form of a song titled "Drips//Auntie's Harp", in which he sampled her harp from the track "Blue Nile", featured on the album Ptah, the El Daoud (1970). The song "That Alice" on Laura Veirs' album Warp and Weft is about Coltrane. Orange Cake Mix included a song entitled "Alice Coltrane" on their 1997 LP Silver Lining Underwater. Poet giovanni singleton's book Ascension includes 49 poems written daily after Alice Coltrane's death.

Cauleen Smith's conceptual art exhibition Give It or Leave It featured two films, "Pilgrim" (2017) and "Sojourner" (2018), exploring Alice Coltrane's music and ashram.

As leader
Studio and live albums
 * A Monastic Trio (Impulse!, 1968)
 * Huntington Ashram Monastery (Impulse!, 1969)
 * Ptah, the El Daoud (Impulse!, 1970)
 * Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse!, 1971)
 * Universal Consciousness (Impulse!, 1971)
 * World Galaxy (Impulse!, 1972)
 * Lord of Lords (Impulse!, 1973)
 * Illuminations (Columbia, 1974) with Carlos Santana
 * Eternity (Warner Bros, 1976)
 * Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana (Warner Bros., 1977)
 * Transcendence (Warner Bros., 1977)
 * Transfiguration (Warner Bros., 1978)
 * Turiya Sings (Avatar Book Institute, 1982; reissued by Impulse!/Verve/UMe/Universal, 2021)
 * Divine Songs (Avatar, 1987)
 * Infinite Chants (Avatar, 1990)
 * Glorious Chants (Avatar, 1995)
 * Translinear Light (Impulse!, 2004)
 * Carnegie Hall '71 (Hi Hat, 2018) also released as Live at Carnegie Hall, 1971
 * Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972 (BCT, 2019)
 * Kirtan: Turiya Sings (Impulse!/Verve/UMe/Universal, 2021; different mixes of Turiya Sings discovered by Ravi Coltrane in 2004)
 * The Carnegie Hall Concert (Impulse!, 2024)

Compilations
 * Reflection on Creation and Space (a Five Year View) (Impulse!, 1973)
 * Priceless Jazz Collection (GRP, 1998)
 * Astral Meditations (Impulse!, 1999)
 * The Impulse Story (Impulse!, 2006)
 * Universal Consciousness / Lord of Lords (Impulse!, 2011)
 * Huntington Ashram Monastery/World Galaxy (Impulse!, 2011)
 * World Spiritual Classics: Volume I: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop, 2017)
 * Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings (Real Gone Music 2018)

As co-leader

 * Cosmic Music (Impulse!, 1966–1968) with John Coltrane

As sidewoman
With John Coltrane
 * Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse!, 1966)
 * Live in Japan (Impulse!, 1966; released 1973)
 * Offering: Live at Temple University (Resonance, 1966; released 2014)
 * Stellar Regions (Impulse!, 1967; released 1995)
 * Expression (Impulse!, 1967)
 * The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording (Impulse!, 1967; released 2001)
 * Infinity (Impulse!, 1972)

With Terry Gibbs With Roland Kirk With McCoy Tyner With Joe Henderson With Charlie Haden With Various Artists
 * Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime (Mercury, 1963)
 * Hootenanny My Way (Mercury, 1963)
 * El Nutto (Limelight, 1964)
 * Left & Right (Atlantic, 1968)
 * Extensions (Blue Note, 1970)
 * The Elements (Milestone, 1973)
 * Closeness (Horizon, 1976)
 * Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (GRP, 1994)

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Nova TV (Croatia)

Nova TV is a Croatian free-to-air television network launched on 28 May 2000. It was the first commercial television network with national concession in the country and from 2004 until 2018 it was fully owned by the Central European Media Enterprises. In 2018, Direct Media purchased Nova TV and Doma TV.

Nova TV is, along with HRT and RTL, one of the three Croatian television channels that air the largest amount of original programming in Croatia. The channel has its own everyday news programming, as well as various scripted television series. A smaller quantity of original reality and game show series is also aired by the channel. The channel also airs acquired foreign programming, both television series (mostly English or Turkish) and movies.

Currently, Nova TV's programming schedule usually consists of children's programming (mostly acquired animated series) airing in the morning, followed by re-runs of original and acquired television series during the day. The prime time is generally reserved for news and other original programming.

News programming
Dnevnik Nove TV is the main news program of Nova TV. It is broadcast daily at 19:00 UTC. , and it was the second most popular news program in Croatia, closing in on Dnevnik HRT, its main competitor. Dnevnik Nove TV overtook Dnevnik HRT in 2010, becoming the most watched news programme in Croatia. Since its launch in 2005, the style of the broadcast has changed little.

A minor incident occurred in 2015, when Milorad Pupovac, a vice-president of Independent Democratic Serb Party, was forced out of the programme for his speech on the removal of Cyrillic tables in Vukovar by an amendment of the City Statute, due to "being in 2015". Both sides, Serbian and Croatian, apparently condemned the incident, some likening it with the forced takeaway of the right to free speech. However, Nova TV soon issued a response in which they said that:

"Nova TV's news anchor sought to focus the guest on the issue for which he was invited to the show. Given the fact that our guest continuously kept digressing off the topic, the host had to end the conversation at certain moment because [...] it was a live interview, within a show which also deals with other topics [...]. Just like many times before, Mr. Pupovac will continue being relevant and respected guest in our studios."

Dramas and telenovelas
• Zakon ljubavi (2008)

• Najbolje godine (2009–2011)

• Larin izbor (2011–2013)

• Pod sretnom zvijezdom (2011)

• Stella (2013)

• Zora dubrovačka (2013–2014)

• Kud puklo da puklo (2014–2016)

• Zlatni dvori (2016–2017)

• Čista ljubav (2017–2018)

• Na granici (2018–2019)

• Drugo ime ljubavi (2019–2020)

• Dar mar (2020–2021)

• Bogu iza nogu (2021–)

• Kumovi (2022–)

• U dobru i zlu (2024)

Comedy series
The station also became notable for showing one of the first Croatian sitcoms called Naša mala klinika, which started to air in November 2004, and in early June 2005 the channel started airing another locally produced sitcom called Bumerang.

• Naša mala klinika (2004–2007)

• Bumerang (2005–2006)

• Cimmer fraj (2006–2007)

• Večernja škola - EU (2007–2008)

• Zauvijek susjedi (2007–2008)

• Bračne vode (2008–2009)

• Periferija city (2009–2010)

• Ah, taj Ivo! (2012)

• Samo ti pričaj (2015–2016)

• Kad susjedi polude (2018)

Reality series
In 2003, Nova TV premiered the first Croatia iteration of American Idol titled Story Supernova Music Talents, which was then followed by the Croatian version of Pop Idol called Hrvatski idol in 2004.

Supertalent, the Croatian entry in the Got Talent franchise, is a part of Nova TV's staple programming, airing since September 2009. It is one of Nova TV's longest-running original series, set to enter its eleventh season in Fall 2024. Nova TV rebooted Ples sa zvijezdama, which previously aired 8 seasons on HRT 1. A reboot of Survivor, which previously aired a season on HRT 2 in 2005 and another one on RTL in 2012, premiered on Nova TV in March 2022.

Other notable programming
• Laku noć, Hrvatska (2005–2008, adult animated parody series)

• Red Carpet (2003–2012, a showbiz magazine programme)

• Provjereno (2007–, an investigative journalism news magazine)

• Istraga (2005–2009, a crime documentary series)

• Nad lipom 35 (2006–2021, a mixture of a sitcom and a musical performance series, also the channel's New Year's special from 2010 to 2021)

• Ne zaboravi stihove (2008–2009, a musical game show)

• IN magazin (2009–, a celebrity gossip magazine)

• Startaj Hrvatska (2020–, a competition series promoting various original Croatian products)

• I godina nova (2022–, a new Year special comedy and musical performance series)

• Joker (2024–, a game show series based on the Turkish series of the same name)

• Tko to tamo pjeva? (2024–, based on I Can See Your Voice)

Acquired programming
As the first Croatian commercial television network, Nova TV made the Croatian TV viewers familiar with reality shows when first airing the American shows such as Survivor and Temptation Island. Nova TV was also the first television network to show The Jerry Springer Show in Croatia, which ran until 2022. In 2005, the channel also introduced popular American TV series such as Lost (2004–2010) and Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) as well as reality show The Apprentice (2004–2017) to the Croatian audience. Nova TV is also known for broadcasting newer blockbusters first released in the 1990s and the 2000s as well as some less popular television or cinema movies that are quite hard to find anywhere else in Croatia.

Sports programming
Nova TV is also notable for live broadcasts of various sporting events such as alpine skiing and Mirko Filipović's fights. For many years, they have also been broadcasting FA Premier League matches, as well as some of the English cup matches. However, they stopped showing English football following the end of the 2006–07 season, with the Premier League now available in Croatia through RTL Televizija. In 2009, Nova TV bought the rights to show the UEFA Champions League matches played on Tuesdays until 2012. Their Champions League coverage consists of one live broadcast and the highlights of all the remaining matches of the night, but not the final, which is broadcast by HRT. In 2018, Nova TV bought all Croatia national football team fixtures live until 2028.

The channel aired UEFA, UEFA Nations League and UEFA European Qualifiers road to Euro and World Cup.

Turkish series
Nova TV is known for acquiring numerous Turkish drama series, which have been popular on the channel since 2010s.

Animated series
Nova TV features Croatian dubs of various popular animated series for children, which mostly air in the mornings. In the late 2000s, it was the first channel to air Croatian dubs of popular series such as Dora the Explorer, Bratz, Peppa Pig and Winx Club. Nova TV's children programming also airs on Mini TV, a specialized channel launched on 1 October 2008.

• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!

• Johnny Bravo

• Dexter's Laboratory

• Digimon

• Pokémon

• The Harveytoons Show

• Transformers

• Sailor Moon

• Dragon Ball Z

• Sgt. Frog

• The Powerpuff Girls

• Mon Colle Knights

• Action Man

• Teletubbies

• Yu-Gi-Oh

• South Park

• Eon Kid

• Dora the Explorer

• Shaman King

• Bob the Builder

• Thomas and Friends

• PopPixie

• Winx Club

• Elena of Avalor

• The Tom and Jerry Show

• Timon & Pumbaa

• Tom and Jerry Kids

• Aladdin

• Animaniacs

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User talk:Starky

Welcome!
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Czech-geo-stub
STOP!!!! Please do not continue to change czechia-geo-stubs to czech-geo-stubs! The name of the stub and category was carefully chosen after a long debate. To call them "Czech geo stubs" is aginst the wishes of those people who are actively working on articles relating to the Czech Republic. You have created a great deal of work which will need to be cleared up. Please do not continue to do this! If you wish to become involved in the debating process that goes on before the creation of geo-stubs (and any other stub category, for that matter), please become involved in WikiProject Stub sorting - don't just start changing stub categories without warning. Grutness|hello? 22:57, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re:Ahoy-hoy
Hi Starky - you wrote: ''Hello his Grutness! I am not sockpuppet of User:NoPuzzleStranger. NoPuzzleStranger is Wik. I am not Wik. Hope this clears things up so you can sleep better at night.''
 * :) Okay, I'll take your word for it! It was just a bit peculiar that you suddenly appeared and immediately started reverting the same sort of things as NoPuzzleStranger during a period he would normally have been online online but wasn't. It just ooked a bit suspicious. Seems like the Czech(ia) situation has largely calmed down, at least as far as the stubs are concerned now, so I'm not going to investigate further anyway. Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 23:05, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

 * What is your evidence that NoPuzzleStranger is a sockpuppet of a banned user? Susvolans (pigs can fly) 16:50, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

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Jérémie

Jérémie (Jeremi) is a commune and capital city of the Grand'Anse department in Haiti. It had a population of about 31,000 at the 2003 census. It is relatively isolated from the rest of the country. The Grande-Anse River flows near the city.

Jérémie is called the city of the poets because of the numerous writers, poets, and historians born there.

History
During 1762, Creole General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was born here. He is mostly known for fighting under Napoleon in Italy and Egypt and for being the father of writer Alexandre Dumas.

In 1964, during the Jérémie Vespers, the Haitian army and the Tonton Macoutes massacred 27 people in Jérémie.

In the early 2000s, archaeologists uncovered an ancient synagogue of Crypto-Jews in the city, the only one found on the island. Jérémie has historically been inhabited by many mixed-race families of Jewish descent.

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a food aid convoy transporting aid delivered to Jérémie Airport through Jérémie encountered a hijacking attempt by 20 men, on 30 January 2010. Medical supplies have also been airlifted through the airport, due to the increase in medical needs from injured refugees arriving in the wake of the quake. In October 2016, Jérémie was almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Matthew as it went past Haiti.

Roughly 40 nmi west of the city lies Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti and the United States.

Facilities
The city has an airport, Jérémie Airport. The area of the airport of Jérémie is known as "Numero Deux". Mission Aviation Fellowship conducts charter flights into the airport. Agape Flights, based in Venice, Florida, provides weekly mail and cargo service for several missionaries in the area.

Locations in Jérémie
Beaudrouin, Campagne, Carrefour Sanon, Dayere, Duranton, La Forêt, Leopold, Lori, Marche Leon, Previle, Rampe des Lions and Sassier.

Notable natives and residents

 * Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a general of the French Revolutionary Wars, was born in Jérémie as the son of a French nobleman and his African slave, before independence. Dumas lived most of his life in France, where his father took him at age 18. He married and was the father of Alexandre Dumas, who became a noted and prolific author in the nineteenth century.
 * Joseph Serge Miot, was born there. He was the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, and was killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
 * Emile Roumer (1903–1988), a poet.
 * Modeste Testas (1765 - 1870), formerly enslaved Ethiopian woman, whose statues stands in Bordeaux commemorating the transatlantic slave trade.
 * Etzer Vilaire (1872–1951), a poet
 * Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (1798-1883) free colored businesswoman
 * Joseph Raoul Cédras (1949) former Haitian military officer.

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Controller

Controller may refer to:

Occupations

 * Controller or financial controller, or in government accounting comptroller, a senior accounting position
 * Controller, someone who performs agent handling in espionage
 * Air traffic controller, a person who directs aircraft

Computing and electronics

 * Model–view–controller, an architectural pattern used in software engineering
 * Controller (computing) (disambiguation)
 * Microcontroller, a small computer on a single integrated circuit
 * Game controller, an input device used for playing video games

Control engineering

 * Control theory, control of continuously operating dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines
 * Irrigation controller, a device to automate irrigation systems
 * PID controller, a control loop feedback mechanism
 * Control loop, contains all the control elements for controlling a process variable
 * Anti-lock brake controller, in an anti-lock braking system
 * Industrial control system, a general term used in industrial process control
 * Proportional control, a type of linear feedback control system

Biomedical

 * Elite controllers, individuals who do not develop AIDS after exposure to HIV

Fiction

 * Controller (comics), multiple characters
 * Controller (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in Marvel Comics
 * Controllers (DC Comics), a fictional extraterrestrial race in the DC Universe
 * The Fat Controller (Sir Topham Hatt), the head of the railway in The Railway Series of books written by the Reverend W.V. Awdry, also The Thin Controller and The Small Controller on other railway lines in those books
 * Controller, a being controlled by a Yeerk in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
 * The Controller, an AI system in the Armored Core 3 video game

Music

 * The Controllers (Los Angeles band), a punk rock band
 * The Controllers (R&B band), a 1980s rhythm-and-blues band
 * Controller (Misery Signals album), 2008
 * Controller (British India album), 2013
 * "Controller" (song), a 2017 song by New Zealand L.A.B.
 * MIDI controller, a device which generates MIDI data
 * Nick Rhodes (born 1962), English keyboardist and producer
 * "Controller", a song from the 1981 album Only a Lad by the new-wave band Oingo Boingo

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Talk:Nicos Poulantzas

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"In particular, he focused on how an inherently divisive system such as capitalism could co-exist with the social stability necessary for it to reproduce itself - looking in particular to nationalism as a means to overcome the class divisions within capitalism."

I agree with everything up to the "looking in particular to nationalism"....Poulantzas doesn't have much in the way of discussion about nationalism. Perhaps, the contributor meant in terms of the role ideology plays in maintaining social cohesion, e.g. in Political Power and Social Classes, circa page 200, he he writes that ideology acts' as a 'social cement'. (it does bear a strong resemblance to Durkheim's account of religion.)

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I'd like to urge the writer to clear up somewhat the last paragraph. I changed 'them suppose to bracket' to 'that they suppose themselves to bracket' with the intention of using 'suppose' as a present tense verb to give the sense that these standpoints falsely (ideologically) imagine or suppose themselves to 'neutrally' 'bracket' the content matter of their theoretization when, in fact, their own ideological presuppositions are inseparable from their standpoint

also, there's an incomplete sentence earlier on in the same paragraph, which I am tempted to complete with 'globalization' but am not sure that would be correct to the earlier contributor's meaning

I have hardcopies of all of Poulantzas' works, but am not expert enough to really contribute, but would urge someone who is (such as the writer of the brilliant Louis Althusser article), to add to this Poulantzas article with a fuller explanation of his structural theory of the state, similarly to how the Althusser article discusses 'practices' 'wholes' 'totalities' and 'instances' which I believe Poulantzas to share

66.81.21.94 20:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC) (HAP)

Death
It may seem crass, but shouldn't a biography of a deceased person mention how they passed? Anyone seeking any form of personal biography of Poulantzas would assume that he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Steffaction (talk) 03:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't know a lot about the circumstances of Poulantzas's suicide, and a moment of searching has not turned up any good sources, though some are surely out there. I'd prefer to wait until a well-referenced bio can be assembled, but anything factual is a welcome addition to the article.  Feel free to contribute! -- Rbellin|Talk 16:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Birthday
According to Bob Jessop's monograph from 1985, Poulantzas's birthday is on Sep 21st (pg. 6). I haven't found any reliable online sources indicating that Jessop is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.78.37.186 (talk) 13:07, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

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James Renner

James Renner (born March 30, 1978) is an American author, investigative journalist, producer, and director. He worked as a reporter for Cleveland Scene and was editor of the alternative newspaper The Cleveland Independent. He is known for his work in the thriller, science fiction, and true crime genres. In 2019, Renner founded The Porchlight Project, a nonprofit dedicated to offering support for the families of the missing and murdered.

Early life and education
Renner is from Akron, Ohio, and is a 2000 graduate of Kent State University. He worked as a reporter for Cleveland Scene and was the editor of the alternative newspaper The Cleveland Independent. He was also a founding member of Last Call Cleveland, a sketch comedy troupe.

Journalism and nonfiction
In 2003, Renner began working as a reporter for Cleveland Scene and was editor of the alternative newspaper, The Cleveland Independent. At Cleveland Scene, he investigated the cases of Tina Harmon and Amy Mihaljevic.

Harmon was a 12-year-old girl who disappeared from Creston, Ohio in 1981. After pressure from her family, authorities tested DNA evidence found on Harmon's body with new technology in 2008. In 2010, the tests linked Harmon's death to Robert Anthony Buell, a convicted murderer sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of Krista Lea Harrison. Although he was executed for Harrison's death in 2002, Buell was never tried or convicted of Harmon's murder.

In 2005, Renner published a Cleveland Scene cover story revisiting the 1989 abduction and death of 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic from Bay Village, Ohio. Renner credits Mihaljevic's death for his work in true crime; he became dedicated to finding her killer.

On August 8, 2006, Renner began a blog chronicling his investigation of Mihaljevic's murder. Later that year, he published Amy: My Search for her Killer. In 2007, Renner donated his materials related to his search to Kent State University's Special Collections Archive.

In April 2009, a story written by James Renner about then-gubernatorial candidate Kevin Coughlin's use of campaign funds to purchase private hotel rooms, which appeared in Cleveland Scene, was spiked by the CEO of Times Shamrock who claimed it "did not meet management’s basic standards of journalism." Renner was fired after sending an email to the CEO refuting these claims and the article was circulated among other journos and the statehouse. Renner sued Cleveland Scene for wrongful termination and the company settled out of court. Renner returned to Scene in 2014 after Times Shamrock sold the company.

In January 2011, Renner announced his plans to delve into the disappearance of Maura Murray, a nursing student who went missing after a car accident in Haverhill, New Hampshire. His book on the case, True Crime Addict, was published in May 2016.

In May, 2018, Renner released the first season of a new podcast, The Philosophy of Crime.

Currently, Renner is writing an authorized sequel to American author Byron Preiss's book The Secret: A Treasure Hunt, which contains clues to the locations of twelve casques buried in unknown locations across the United States. Each casque contains a key redeemable for precious gems, some worth up to $10,000. He produced a documentary about his search for the keys and plans to create new puzzles, clues, and treasures.

Renner is currently the host of the ID Discovery series, Lake Erie's Coldest Cases.

In August 2019, Renner announced the launch of his nonprofit, The Porchlight Project, which provide funding for forensic genealogy testing for cold cases in Ohio. Its first case would be the 1987 unsolved murder of 17-year-old Barbara Blatnik in Cuyahoga Falls. On May 6, 2020, Cuyahoga Falls police announced the arrest of 67-year-old James Zastawnik of Cleveland for her murder. The Porchlight Project paid for the testing of DNA samples taken from under Blatnik's fingernails and the forensic genealogy research provided by Colleen M. Fitzpatrick and her team at Identifinders International.

Fiction
Renner's first novel, The Man From Primrose Lane, was published by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in March 2012. The novel follows a best-selling author as he investigates the murder of a mysterious recluse known as "the man with a thousand mittens." In 2013, Warner Bros. optioned the rights to adapt The Man From Primrose Lane as a film starring Bradley Cooper. When the deal failed to proceed, Renner worked with Working Title Films to pitch a television series pilot that was picked up by Fox in 2017. Feature director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, The 9th Life of Louis Drax) will direct and produce the series.

His second novel, The Great Forgetting, was released November 10, 2015. The sci-fi thriller, set in the fictional town of Franklin Mills, Ohio tells the story of history teacher Jack Felter as he returns to his pastoral childhood home to care for his ailing father and is pulled into a grand conspiracy involving the rewriting of American history.

Renner is a regular contributor to the short horror story series Dark Screams.

Film
In 2004, Renner directed an adaptation of Stephen King's short story "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away". King granted Renner the rights to adapt this story as part of his Dollar Baby program for aspiring filmmakers. It was an official selection at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival.

In 2005, Renner visited reclusive author J.D. Salinger at the author's home in New Hampshire. Renner released a documentary about The Catcher in the Rye and his road trip to visit Salinger in 2009. It is available online, in serialized form.

Currently Renner is filming a documentary following his pursuit of the remaining casques and keys presented in Byron Preiss’s The Secret: A Treasure Hunt.

Renner led a forensic genealogy-based effort to find the killer of Barbara Blatnik, a 17-year-old girl from Ohio who was killed in 1987.

Personal life
Renner resides in Akron, Ohio, with his wife and their two children, son Casey and daughter Laine.

Honors and awards
In the December 2005 issue of Cleveland Magazine, Renner was named one of the city's 30 most interesting people.

Renner's stories have been published in The Best American Crime Reporting and The Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies.

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Meersburg

Meersburg is a town in Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany. It is on Lake Constance. It is known for its medieval city. The lower town ("Unterstadt") and upper town ("Oberstadt") are reserved for pedestrians only, and connected by two stairways and a steep street ("Steigstrasse").

History
The name of the town means "Castle on the Sea", referring to a castle which, according to a tradition from 1548, was built here in 630 by the Merovingian king Dagobert I.

The commune obtained the status of free city in 1299, though nominally still under the Bishop of Constance. In 1803 it was annexed to the Electorate of Baden.

After World War II, Meersburg was in the French military occupation area in Germany.

Main sights
The town is home to two castles, the Old Castle and the New Castle. The Old Castle, built by Merovingian King Dagobert I in the seventh century, is one of the oldest surviving castles in Germany. It is in private ownership. A self-guided tour is available. German poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff lived there for eight years and purchased the Prince's House. The New Castle was built in the eighteenth century. Originally the residence of the bishop of Constance, it was used for various purposes after the Secularization of 1803. It is now a museum. There is also an expanse of half-timbered houses, and two medieval town gates, which are the remains of the fortification.

Transport
Meersburg is the northern terminus of a car ferry service to Constance. On the opposite side Meersburg is connected to the region by the B 31, a major road that leads from Breisach (on the French border) to Lindau (on the Austrian border), largely bypassing all parts of Meersburg. To exit to Meersburg and to get to the car ferry, one takes B 33 to Meersburg and Constance.

Meersburg is also reachable by pleasure boat services from Lake Constance to Überlingen (to the west), to Lindau, Bregenz (to the east) and to Constance opposite.

Famous people
One of Germany's most celebrated poets, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, lived her final years at Meersburg Castle, from 1841–1848. She also owned the small vine-covered villa known as Fürstenhäusle.

The famous eighteenth-century doctor Franz Anton Mesmer (from whose name the verb "to mesmerize" derives) died in 1815 in Meersburg and is buried near the old wall of the graveyard about 0.5 km northeast of the upper town-gate "Obertor" (see picture beneath).

others

 * Stefan Lochner (c.1410–1451) German painter working in the late "soft style" of the International Gothic.
 * Hugo von Hohenlandenberg (c.1457–1532 in Meersburg) Bishop of Konstanz.
 * Hieronymus Harder (1523–1607) German botanist and teacher of Latin.
 * Baron Joseph Maria Christoph von Lassberg (1770–1855) German antiquary, lived at Meersburg Castle from 1838.
 * Friedrich August Walchner (1799–1865) German geologist, chemist and mineralogist.
 * Levin Schücking (1814–1883) German novelist, lived at Meersburg Castle 1841/1843.
 * Robert Eberle (1815–1862), German animal painter
 * Fritz Mauthner (1849–1923 in Meersburg) Austro-Hungarian novelist, theatre critic, satirist, and exponent of philosophical skepticism.
 * Markus Baur (born 1971) former German handball player now turned trainer

Viticulture
The Meersburg vineyards at the northern banks of Lake Constance are famous within Germany. The rosée "Weissherbst" wine is a specialty of the region.

International relations
Meersburg is twinned with:

 * Flag of Germany.svg Hohnstein, Saxony, Germany – since 1991
 * Flag of France.svg Louveciennes, France – since 1991
 * Flag of Italy.svg San Gimignano, Italy – since 2002

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Talk:Network planning and design

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I'm reviewing these pages in response to Deletion policy/Teletraffic Engineering. I have not found an equivalent page in Wikipedia, so I believe this should be kept. A redirect should be made from Network planning to this page.

Having said that, talking as a person who has been directly involved in network planning in several instances, there are several comments to this page.

 * too technical - some more care is needed to not rely on technical terms too much
 * too much theoretical - practical examples would help
 * a bit academic - more relation to commercial realities would be useful.
 * some pictures would help.

On the factual side, your rule of thumb is a little difficult to apply directly. For example most datacom networks (including CCS7 networks) should be dimensioned at 20% utilisation, but using that base, then the rule of thumb would be reasonable (actually build out for 10% utilisation).

An important aspect to cover is the level of investment and effort involved in network planning. Many telecomms companies have large departments devoted to it.

Finally, the aspect of radio network planning which is related, should be linked to.

Again, I'd like to say that this page is probably a valuable contribution, if I am right that no other page duplicates it, and should be kept. twin africa--[[Special:Contributions/213.55.67.53|213.55.67.53 (talk) 12:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)]] 15:43, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)

Network optimisation
Should this redirect here?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 12:21, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Topology
A mathemtician wouldn't include "distances" between things are relevant to topology. Is this really what the network planners call it? Seems a bit of abuse of the term. I've started copyediting to get rid of biz-speak here; there's no need to proactively leverage our in our ceaseless quest for vaugeness. --Wtshymanski (talk) 16:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

 * Nice job with extraction of proactive leveraging paradigms. As to your question, I don't see any mention of "distances" in the article. --Kvng (talk) 16:40, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

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Romanshorn

Romanshorn is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

History
Romanshorn was probably settled in the 7th century, and is first mentioned in 779 as Rumanishorn in a land grant from Waldrata to the Abbey of St. Gall. During the Late Middle Ages and until 1367, the bailiwick of Romanshorn was partially owned by the Landsberg family. In 1455 Abbot Kaspar Landsberg sold the Romanshorn estate to the city of St. Gallen, but his religious superiors forced the courts to repeal the sale. Until 1798, the Abbey of St. Gall owned the taxation, appellate court and the homage rights (mostly in Täschlishusen at Häggenschwil) with the remaining sovereignty owned by the County of Thurgau.

In 779 a church was mentioned in Romanshorn. In 1275, the records of the church indicate that the Provost was paid 16 pounds. In 1480 St. Gallen incorporated a church in Romanshorn. The church was expanded in 1504. Then, in 1525 the Protestant Reformation entered Romanshorn and much of the population converted. The federally. In 1588, the Reformed priest in Salmsach was appointed to care for Romanshorn as well. The church remained a filial church until the creation of the Romanshorn-Salmsach parish. It wasn't until 1567 that the abbot appointed a Roman Catholic priest to Romanshorn. The next year, a rectory was built and a sinecure was granted. The number of Catholics slowly grew (1588 there were 2 families and in 1711 there were 36 families). The church was renovated in 1829. It remained a shared church until 1911 when a Protestant church was completed. Two years later a Catholic church was also completed.

The local economy was dominated by cereal grains, horticulture and fruit growing as well as some forestry and fishing. By 1902, some wine was being produced as well. The steamboats, which had operated out of Uttwil since 1824, moved to Romanshorn in 1832. However, the village didn't begin to grow until 1844 when the Canton of Thurgau built a port and the postal route to Swabia ran through Romanshorn. In 1855 the railway line Zurich-Romanshorn opened, and in 1856 a telegraph cable was laid across the lake. The rail line (rail ferry) from Lindau to Romanshorn opened in 1869, was expanded in 1945 and in 1976 was replaced by car ferries. Between 1869 and 1871, the Northeastern Railway line Rorschach-Romanshorn-Constance opened. Then, in 1910 a railway line to St. Gallen was added.

Romanshorn's strategic position after 1850 attracted commercial and industrial businesses. The Fatzer company, founded in 1836, initially produced cords and ropes. In 1895 it moved to the cable production. By 1985, the company produced 2,000 tonnes of steel wire and had 85 employees. From the pharmacy of Max Zeller, which opened in 1864 and sold the famous Zeller balm, the company Max Zeller & Sons developed. In 2008, this pharmaceutical company employed just under 100 employees. Opened in 1892, by 1980 the Swiss Alcohol Board possessed a capacity of 30 million liters of alcohol. In 1904, the Voigt Pharmaceutical company was founded in Romanshorn, which grew to be a world-wide pharmaceutical shipping company, and employ about 250 people in 2008. Other well-known companies include Biro (Plastics), the engineering Hydrel (including hydraulic, pneumatic) and the Asco Kohlensäure AG.

On 30 August 1912 an ex-soldier and local resident named Hermann Schwarz went on a shooting spree that left seven people dead and several others wounded. After the shooting he was examined by several psychiatrists and was found to suffer from mental illness, resulting in his acquittal due to insanity. He was ordered to be institutionalized for the rest of his life.

Geography
Romanshorn has an area,, of 8.75 km2. Of this area, 3.61 km2 or 41.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.11 km2 or 24.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.92 km2 or 33.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km2 or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km2 or 0.2% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 17.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 3.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 7.3%. Out of the forested land, 21.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 32.6% is used for growing crops, while 8.7% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality is located in the Arbon district, on Lake Constance. It consists of the village of Romanshorn and the hamlets of Holzenstein, Hotterdingen, Reckholdern, Riedern and Spitz. Most of the surrounding hamlets have grown together with Romanshorn.

Demographics
Romanshorn has a population of. , 27.3% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 0.8%. Most of the population speaks German (83.7%), with Albanian being second most common ( 3.3%) and Italian being third ( 2.9%).

, the gender distribution of the population was 48.6% male and 51.4% female. The population was made up of 3,231 Swiss men (34.0% of the population), and 1,383 (14.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 3,669 Swiss women (38.7%), and 1,207 (12.7%) non-Swiss women.

In there were 48 live births to Swiss citizens and 27 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 89 deaths of Swiss citizens and 6 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 41 while the foreign population increased by 21. There were 14 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country, 6 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country, 65 non-Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 60 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources) was an increase of 56 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 114 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.8%.

The age distribution,, in Romanshorn is; 837 children or 8.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1,158 teenagers or 12.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 1,272 people or 13.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 1,109 people or 11.5% are between 30 and 39, 1,486 people or 15.5% are between 40 and 49, and 1,339 people or 13.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 1,035 people or 10.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 768 people or 8.0% are between 70 and 79, there are 499 people or 5.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 103 people or 1.1% who are 90 and older.

, there were 3,858 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 942 single family homes (or 64.8% of the total) out of a total of 1,454 inhabited buildings. There were 160 two family buildings (11.0%), 137 three family buildings (9.4%) and 215 multi-family buildings (or 14.8%). There were 2,232 (or 24.6%) persons who were part of a couple without children, and 4,585 (or 50.5%) who were part of a couple with children. There were 473 (or 5.2%) people who lived in single parent home, while there are 44 persons who were adult children living with one or both parents, 46 persons who lived in a household made up of relatives, 55 who lived in a household made up of unrelated persons, and 277 who are either institutionalized or live in another type of collective housing.

The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 2.63%. , the construction rate of new housing units was 12.3 new units per 1000 residents. there were 4,442 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was the 4 room apartment of which there were 1,448. There were 171 single room apartments and 495 apartments with six or more rooms.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.31% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (16.03%), the CVP (14.78%) and the FDP (13.58%). In the federal election, a total of 2,450 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.9%.

The historical population is given in the following table:

Heritage sites of national significance
The Old Paritätische Church, Harbor, Catholic Church of St Johannes der Täufer are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Romanshorn is listed in the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Economy
, Romanshorn had an unemployment rate of 3.13%. , there were 81 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 29 businesses involved in this sector. 2,137 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 90 businesses in this sector. 3,085 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 345 businesses in this sector.

there were 5,805 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 2,038 or about 35.1% of the residents worked outside Romanshorn while 2,820 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 6,587 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 12% used public transportation to get to work, and 40.4% used a private car.

Companies in Romanshorn

 * Eftec AG
 * Fatzer AG
 * Geobrugg AG
 * Eugster/Frismag AG

Transportation
Romanshorn railway station, opened in 1855, forms the junction between the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway, the Schaffhausen–Rorschach railway and the Romanshorn–Nesslau Neu St. Johann railway.

A car ferry connects Romanshorn with Friedrichshafen across the lake in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Between 1869 and 1976, there used to be train ferries.

Religion
From the, 3,220 or 35.5% are Roman Catholic, while 3,297 or 36.3% belong to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there are 6 Old Catholics (or about 0.07% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland, there are 171 individuals (or about 1.88% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 292 individuals (or about 3.22% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There are 1,002 (or about 11.04% of the population) who are Islamic. There are 87 individuals (or about 0.96% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 679 (or about 7.48% of the population) belong to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 322 individuals (or about 3.55% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Romanshorn about 61.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Romanshorn is home to the Romanshorn primary school district. It is also home to the Romanshorn-Salmsach secondary school district. In the 2008/2009 school year there are 731 students in the primary school district. There are 185 children in the kindergarten, and the average class size is 18.5 kindergartners. Of the children in kindergarten, 80 or 43.2% are female, 84 or 45.4% are not Swiss citizens and 86 or 46.5% do not speak German natively. The lower and upper primary levels begin at about age 5-6 and lasts for 6 years. There are 272 children in who are at the lower primary level and 274 children in the upper primary level. The average class size in the primary school is 19.52 students. At the lower primary level, there are 118 children or 43.4% of the total population who are female, 116 or 42.6% are not Swiss citizens and 117 or 43.0% do not speak German natively. In the upper primary level, there are 146 or 53.3% who are female, 98 or 35.8% are not Swiss citizens and 102 or 37.2% do not speak German natively.

In the secondary school district there are 366 students. At the secondary level, students are divided according to performance. The secondary level begins at about age 12 and usually lasts 3 years. There are 181 teenagers who are in the advanced school, of which 108 or 59.7% are female, 29 or 16.0% are not Swiss citizens and 33 or 18.2% do not speak German natively. There are 163 teenagers who are in the standard school, of which 74 or 45.4% are female, 70 or 42.9% are not Swiss citizens and 76 or 46.6% do not speak German natively. Finally, there are 22 teenagers who are in special or remedial classes, of which 11 or 50.0% are female, 12 or 54.5% are not Swiss citizens and 16 or 72.7% do not speak German natively. The average class size for all classes at the secondary level is 19.11 students.

Festivals
Since 1999 the annual Festival of Nations has taken place every June.

Moc Moc
In 2004 there was erected a statue of Moc moc by Swiss artist group Com&Com (de).

Notable People

 * Johann Georg Birnstiel (1858 – 1927), Swiss minister and writer, died in Romanshorn
 * Émile Taddéoli (1879 – 1920 in Romanshorn) a Swiss aviation pioneer, instructor and test pilot
 * Antonio Ligabue (1899-1965) an Italian painter
 * Maria Stader (1911-1999) a Hungarian-born Swiss lyric soprano, known particularly for her Mozart interpretations; brought up in Romanshorn
 * Christoph Sutter (born 1962), teacher, poet, presenter, musical and theater author
 * Sport
 * Peter Lüscher (born 1956 in Romanshorn) a former World Cup alpine ski racer
 * Daniel Lopar (born 1985) a Swiss football goalkeeper

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Doctor Akakia

Doctor Akakia (French: Histoire du Docteur Akakia et du Natif de St Malo, 1752–1753) is a satirical book of a very biting nature by Voltaire, directed against pretentious pedants of science in the person of Maupertuis, the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. It so excited the anger of Frederick the Great, the patron of the Academy, that "[t]he Akakia was officially condemned in Prussia and burned by the public executioner on Christmas Eve of 1752".

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Catheter ablation

Catheter ablation is a procedure that uses radio-frequency energy or other sources to terminate or modify a faulty electrical pathway from sections of the heart of those who are prone to developing cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. If not controlled, such arrhythmias increase the risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac arrest. The ablation procedure can be classified by energy source: radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation.

Medical uses
Catheter ablation may be recommended for a recurrent or persistent arrhythmia resulting in symptoms or other dysfunction. Atrial fibrillation frequently results from bursts of tachycardia that originate in muscle bundles extending from the atrium to the pulmonary veins. Pulmonary vein isolation by transcatheter ablation can restore sinus rhythm.

Effectiveness
Catheter ablation of most arrhythmias has a high success rate. Success rates for WPW syndrome have been as high as 95% For Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), single procedure success is 91% to 96% (95% Confidence Interval) and multiple procedure success is 92% to 97% (95% Confidence Interval). For atrial flutter, single procedure success is 88% to 95% (95% Confidence Interval) and multiple procedure success is 95% to 99% (95% Confidence Interval). For automatic atrial tachycardias, the success rates are 70–90%. The potential complications include bleeding, blood clots, pericardial tamponade, and heart block, but these risks are very low, ranging from 2.6 to 3.2%.

For non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, a 2016 systematic review compared catheter ablation to heart rhythm drugs. After 12 months, participants receiving catheter ablation were more likely to be free of atrial fibrillation, and less likely to need cardioversion. However, the evidence quality ranged from moderate to very low A 2006 study, including both paroxysmal and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, found that the success rates are 28% for single procedures. Often, several procedures are needed to raise the success rate to a 70–80% range. One reason for this may be that once the heart has undergone atrial remodeling as in the case of chronic atrial fibrillation patients, largely 50 and older, it is much more difficult to correct the 'bad' electrical pathways. Young people with AF with paroxysmal, or intermittent, AF therefore have an increased chance of success with an ablation since their heart has not undergone atrial remodeling yet. Several experienced teams of electrophysiologists in US heart centers claim they can achieve up to a 75% success rate.

Pulmonary vein isolation has been found to be more effective than optimized antiarrhythmic drug therapy for improving quality of life at 12 months after treatment.

Catheter ablation has been found to improve mental health outcomes in individuals with symptomatic atrial fibrillation.

A 2018 study showed efficacy of cardiac ablation for treatment of Premature Ventricular Contraction as 94.1%.

Technique
Catheter ablation is usually performed by an electrophysiologist (a specially trained cardiologist) in a cath lab.

Catheter ablation procedure involves advancing several flexible catheters into the patient's blood vessels, usually either in the femoral vein, internal jugular vein, or subclavian vein. The catheters are then advanced towards the heart. The catheters have electrodes at the tips that can measure the electrical signals from the heart. These electrodes create a map of the abnormal pathways causing arrhythmias. Then, the electrophysiologist uses the map to identify areas that abnormal heart rhythms originate.

Once the abnormal areas are located, catheters are used to deliver energy via local heating or freezing to ablate (destroy) the abnormal tissue that is causing the arrhythmia. The energy is applied cautiously to avoid damaging healthy heart tissue. Originally, a DC impulse was used to create lesions in the intra-cardiac conduction system. However, due to a high incidence of complications, widespread use was never achieved. Electroporation is being used and evaluated as a means of killing very small areas of heart muscle. The cardiac catheter delivers trains of high-voltage ultra-rapid electrical pulses that form irreversible pores in cell membranes, resulting in cell death. It is thought to allow better selectivity than the previous thermal techniques, which used heat or cold to kill larger volumes of muscle.

One type of catheter ablation is pulmonary vein isolation, where the ablation is done in the left atrium in the area where the 4 pulmonary veins connect. Radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation can be unipolar (one electrode) or bipolar (two electrodes). Although bipolar can be more successful, it is technically more difficult, resulting in unipolar being used more often. But bipolar is more effective in preventing recurrent atrial arrhythmias.

During the procedure, the patient's heart rhythm is monitored continuously. The electrophysiologist can observe changes to the patient's cardiac electrical activity to determine the success of the ablation. If the cardiac rhythm shows no abnormal signals or arrhythmias, the catheters are withdrawn from the heart and the incision is closed.

Recovery or rehabilitation
After catheter ablation the patients are moved to a cardiac recovery unit, intensive care unit, or cardiovascular intensive care unit where they are not allowed to move for 4–6 hours. Minimizing movement helps prevent bleeding from the site of catheter insertion. Some people have to stay overnight for observation, some need to stay much longer and others are able to go home on the same day. This all depends on the problem, the length of the operation and whether or not general anaesthetic was used.

Recurrence of atrial fibrillation with three months of an ablation is seen in most patients, but many of those patients become free of atrial fibrillation in the long term. For this reason the first three months after an ablation are described as the "blanking period," during which no further intervention is to be attempted. Recurrence during the nine months following the blanking period, occurs in 25% to 40% of patients, the variability greatly affected by obesity and the severity of atrial fibrillation before the ablation.

Complications
Some potential complications associated with the procedure include:

 * Bleeding - catheter insertion into arteries or veins can cause bleeding at the insertion site.
 * Blood vessel damage - insertion of the catheter can also damage the blood vessels and lead to hematoma, which is a collection of blood outside the blood vessels, or vessel perforation.
 * Infection - infections can occur at the catheter insertion site or in the heart tissue. Patients require additional treatment if infection is a complication.
 * Blood clots - catheterization can cause blood clots to form in the vessels. These clots can be thrombotic, possibly causing embolism in major organs.
 * Pericardial effusion - the ablation procedure can irritate the heart tissue and lead to accumulation of fluid under the pericardium (lining of the heart).
 * Cardiac tamponade - Similarly, if greater amounts of fluid accumulate around the heart due to irritation of the heart tissue, it can put pressure on the heart leading to tamponade. This is a serious condition as it affects the heart's ability to pump blood to the body and thus requires immediate intervention.
 * Arrhythmia - the ablation procedure can result in a new rhythm disturbance in the heart.

Patients may also experience a return of the arrhythmia after the procedure, requiring them to undergo further treatment. However, in general this procedure is considered a safe, effective, and minimally invasive method to treat arrhythmias. Studies have shown that the overall complication rate of cardiac ablation procedures is about 6%.

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