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The cover of Herb Albert's Whipped Cream & Other Delights.

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Portuairk

Portuairk (Port Uairce) is a crofting township, at the western end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland.

It is the most westerly settlement on the British mainland, although nearby Kilchoan is the most westerly village.

Overlooking Sanna Bay, the village is visited by walkers and scenery enthusiasts, with views of Skye and the Small Isles: Rùm, Eigg, and Muck.

Cuillin View is a traditional cottage at the end of the bay roughly 172 years old.

Climate
Like much of the British isles, Portuairk has an oceanic climate, with mild, somewhat dry summers and cold, wet winters. Temperatures usually range from 2.4 C to 16.8 C, but the all-time temperature range is between -5 C, which is mild for its latitude and 28 C, which is slightly cooler than expected for its latitude. There is an average of 15 snow days per year, with 23 air frosts and a wind speed reaching a peak of 28 km/h in February. The highest wind speed recorded was 120 km/h, unusually recorded in July.

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Nice Carnival

The Nice Carnival (Carnaval de Nice) is one of the world's major carnival events, alongside the Brazilian Carnival, Venetian Carnival, and Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It is held annually in February and sometimes early March (depending on the movable date of Carnival in the Christian calendar) in Nice on the French Riviera.

History
The earliest records establish the carnival's existence in 1294, when the Count of Provence, Charles Anjou, wrote that he had passed "the joyous days of carnival." This may make the Nice Carnival the original carnival celebration.

In 1873, a committee was created for the Carnival, headed by local artist Alexis Mossa, with later contributions from his son Gustav-Adolf Mossa. The Carnival was reinvented into a parade, adding masquerades, satirical floats, and competitions.

Today, the two-week event attracts over a million visitors to Nice every year.

Each year, a special theme is chosen, and artists create 18 floats and other figurines in traditional papier-mâché for the colorful parade. The parades take place day and night, while on the Promenade des Anglais, "flower battles" occur.

In 2017, the memorial to the 2016 Nice truck attack was dismantled in preparation for the carnival. Additionally, the route was moved from the Promenade des Anglais to the Promenade du Paillon.

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Sol Kyung-gu

Sol Kyung-gu (born May 14, 1967) is a South Korean actor. Sol studied Theater and Film at Hanyang University. Upon his graduation in 1994, he appeared in numerous theatrical productions, such as the hit Korean adaptation of the German rock musical Subway Line 1, and productions of Sam Shepard's True West and A. R. Gurney's Love Letters.

Sol is considered one of the troika of actors representing Chungmu-ro in the 2000s, alongside Choi Min-sik and Song Kang-ho. He is best known for his collaborations with director Lee Chang-dong in Peppermint Candy (1999) and Oasis (2002), Public Enemy film series (2002–2008) for which he won the Baeksang Arts Award Grand Prize, and Silmido (2003) which became the highest-grossing film in South Korea at the time of release. He also won Best Actor at the Baeksang Arts Awards for his performances in Hope (2013) and Kingmaker (2022).

His other notable credits include Jail Breakers (2002), Voice of a Murderer (2007), Tidal Wave (2009), The Tower (2012), Cold Eyes (2013), The Spy: Undercover Operation (2013), The Merciless (2017) and Memoir of a Murderer (2017).

Early years
Sol was born in Seocheon, South Chungcheong Province on May 1, 1968. He is the second son with one younger sister. He and his family moved to Dohwa-dong, Mapo District, Seoul when his father, who was a civil servant, transferred to the Mapo District Office. Sol attended and then enrolled in  and.

Sol's parents wanted him to go to an engineering college, thus guaranteeing him a stable job. However, Sol entered the Department of Theater and Film of Hanyang University with the idea of becoming a film director.

1993–1997: Early career
Sol studied Theater and Film at Hanyang University (Class of '86). In May 1993, When Sol was in his 4th year of college, he directed play for the 1st Young Theatre Festival . At that time, Seol planned to enter The 3rd KBS Talent Recruitment, but he had no choice but to give up the recruitment due to his professor's request. He was also active in Dongsung-dong since the second semester of his senior year, including guest directing play Bison, a performance for the drama class at, as a part-time job. Gradually, he naturally gave up his dream of becoming a film director, and debuted in 1993 with the play Simbasame as Sol joined Hanyang Theater Company, a theater company with alumni of the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University as majority of its members.

When Sol was in his 4th year of college, Sol received a full scholarship with straight A credits and went up to the department at once. Before graduating from Hanyang University, he received invitations from his advisor to study master at Hanyang University graduate school or Korea National University of Arts, but he refused. Sol continued his theatre activities in Hanyang Theater Company, however Sol didn't want to be under the shadow of his school. After graduating, Sol left the company.

In May 1994, Sol asked a college senior who was the head of the planning department at the theater company . At for a part-time job. He met Kim Min-ki and was cast in hit Korean adaptation of the German rock musical Subway Line 1 (Korean musical). Sol participated in this work from the premiere in 1994 to 1996, playing all but two of the 80 roles, accumulating various experiences and acting skills and earned big success. In addition, he has been active as a theater actor and musical actor in Daehakro, appearing in plays such as Korean productions of Sam Shepard's True West and musical .

Since 1988, Sol began taking taking on minor roles in television. In the play, he was a star-actor who played 14 roles, but in television dramas, he was just an aspiring actor. In the mid-1990s, Sol began taking on minor roles in feature films. In 1996, Sol made his screen debut in his first film A Petal, playing the role of Woo-ri, a college student who is chasing the whereabouts of the female lead girl (Lee Jung-hyun) at the recommendation of director Shim Kwang-jin, a college classmate who was taking directing lessons from director Jang Seon-woo.

1998–2002: Career Breakthrough
In 1997, Sol met Cha Seung-jae, the CEO of Sidus FNH, the producer of the film Girls' Night Out, which released in 1998. Sol had minor role and his name was post in credit as a film actor. Sol played a cartoonist who spends a night with Yeon (Jin Hee-kyung), a hotel employee in the play, and his acting was short but impressive. He then signed management contracts with Sidus HQ and made his breakthrough, with major roles in Rainbow Trout, Phantom: The Submarine, and The Bird That Stops in the Air (1999).

In early 1999, Sol was selected for the lead role through an audition in director Lee Chang-dong's film Peppermint Candy. Initially, Sol failed at the first audition, but the director's wife, known as the playwright of the play Confession, saw him in the audition film she saw in the living room by chance, and recommended him, saying, "Here's Kim Young-ho" he is famous.

In addition, director Lee Chang-dong revealed the reason for casting Seol Kyung-gu as follows."Unlike other actors, I rather liked that he hesitated and said that he had no confidence. He looked weak in charisma with an ordinary mask, but his face was different every time I saw him, and that seemed to enable him to express various colors as well as good and evil, so he was cast."In film Peppermint Candy, Sol played Kim Yeong-ho, a suicidal man devastated by the two-decades of historical change his country undergoes. After shooting for six months from mid-May to the end of September, the film debuted on October 14 of that year as the opening film at the 4th Busan International Film Festival. The film was acclaimed and Sol received rave reviews. He swept 10 New Actor Awards and Best Actor Awards at the Korean Film Critics Association Award, Chunsa Film Awards, Blue Dragon Film Awards, Daejong Awards, and Baeksang Arts Awards.

Sol next appeared in a romantic comedy I Wish I Had a Wife with Jeon Do-yeon in 2001, played the role of Bong-su, an ordinary old bachelor bank clerk who yearns for romance. Then acted in a Japanese TV drama produced by NHK.

In 2002, Sol starred in three major films. As a violent and unscrupulous police detective in Public Enemy, he won Best Actor at the Grand Bell Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards respectively. In August, he starred in Lee Chang-dong's acclaimed third film Oasis, which won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Sol's portrayal of mildly mentally disabled outcast with sociopathic inclinations won him Best Actor at the Chunsa Film Art Awards, Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, Korean Film Awards, Director's Cut Awards, and 29th Seattle International Film Festival. In November, he acted together with Cha Seung-won in a box office hit Jail Breakers by director Kim Sang-jin.

2003–2011: Success as a box-office actor
In 2003, Sol starred in Silmido directed by Cinema Service founder Kang Woo-suk, which became the first Korean film in history to gross 10 million admissions. His next role was as the title character in Rikidōzan, about the legendary ethnic Korean pro wrestler who became a national hero in Japan in the 1950s. Sol gained 20 kilograms for the role and also delivered 95% of his lines in Japanese. Although his performance was acclaimed, the film vastly underperformed on its local release.

In 2005, Sol starred in the sequel Another Public Enemy, which ended up outgrossing the original. This was followed by a second sequel, Public Enemy Returns in 2008. His other films Haeundae (2009), The Tower (2012) and Cold Eyes (2013) have also been box office hits. For his performance in Haeundae, he won Grand Prize at the 2009 Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards, followed by Best Actor award at the 18th Chunsa Film Art Awards for his performance in 2010 film No Mercy.

In October 2005, Seol Kyung-gu played the role of the male protagonist Andy in A. R. Gurney's Love Letters by the theatre company Hanyang Repertory. It was directed Professor, his acting teacher. It was his comeback onstage for the first time in years since his latest the musical Subway Line 1.

2012–2015: Career resurgence
Seol Kyung-gu returned to the movie after about a year and a half with the disaster movie The Tower in December 2012. In 2013, Seol appeared in three movies Cold Eyes, The Spy: Undercover Operation, and Hope and mobilised a total of 1681 million viewers in 2013. He ranked 2nd after Song Kang-ho in the box office actor. In director Lee Jun-ik's family drama Hope, which is based on the child sexual assault case, also called the 'Cho Doo-soon case', Seol played the role of Dong-hoon, expressing the desperate need of a father to watch his daughter's pain and suffering, and resonating with the audience. He received favorable reviews for his excellent acting, and won the Best Actor at the 50th Baeksang Arts Awards.

In a media interview, director Lee Jun-ik commented on Seol Kyung-gu as follows."He was a very respectable actor. Before filming, he came to the scene with a lot of emotion and only looked at the wall, but when the filming started, she poured out her emotions terribly. Because of Sol Kyung-gu, he was able to complete 'Wish'. he is a great learner."The following year, Sol starred in My Dictator, as an aspiring actor who is forced to impersonate North Korean leader. For his performance in My Dictator, he won Best Actor at the 35th Golden Cinematography Awards.

Sol began teaching acting in 2014, at his alma mater Hanyang University, as an adjunct professor in the College of Performing Arts.

In 2015, Sol starred in the war drama film The Long Way Home alongside Yeo Jin-goo. Seol played the role of Jang Nam-bok, a farmer who is suddenly dragged to the battlefield with a newborn baby in the war film Western Front, the directorial debut of playwright Cheon Seong-il. The film depicts the story of the confrontation between Jang Nam-bok of the South Korean Army and Kim Yeong-gwang (Yeo Jin-goo) of the North Korean Army ahead of the armistice agreement in July 1953. With this film, he took on the role of a soldier for the third time following the previous films Peppermint Candy and Silmido.

2017–present
In 2017, Sol starred opposite Im Si-wan in The Merciless. It was shown out of competition in the Midnight Screenings section at the 70th Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2017. The film brought Sol to win Best Actor awards at the 54th Grand Bell Awards and 37th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards. He next starred in thriller film Memoir of a Murderer, as a retired serial killer with Alzheimer's disease. For his performance in Memoir of a Murderer, Sol received Best Actor awards at the 17th Director's Cut Awards in 2017 and the 9th Korea Film Reporters Association Film Awards (KOFRA) in 2018. The release of Sol's third film in 2017, I Want to Know Your Parents, has been postponed indefinitely following the scandal of actor Oh Dal-su.

Sol next starred in a 2019 film Idol opposite Han Suk-kyu and Chun Woo-hee, which opened in March. Despite the solid acting by three senior actors, Idol received mix reviews. In April 2019, Sol reunited with Jeon Do-yeon, eighteen years after I Wish I Had a Wife, in the film Birthday. The film, inspired by the Sinking of MV Sewol tragedy, deals with the struggles faced by a couple who lose their son in a tragic accident. The film had its international premiere at the 2019 Far East Film Festival in Udine. The same year, Sol starred in the human comedy film Man to Men with Cho Jin-woong.

Sol has reunited with The Merciless director Byun Sung-hyun for the film Kingmaker. It was released in December 2021.

In 2022 Sol will be honoured by 26th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival by hosting an actor special exhibition 'The Actor, Sol Kyung-gu' focusing on actor Sol Kyung-gu's 29-year acting career along with various events such as the publication of a commemorative booklet entitled 'Sol Kyung-gu is Snow Gyeong-gu', and mega talk during the festival.

Personal life
Sol married the younger sister of actor Ahn Nae-sang in 1996. They have one daughter together. After being separated for four years, Sol and his wife divorced on July 21, 2006.

On May 28, 2009, Sol married actress Song Yoon-ah. They have one son together. Sol and Song previously worked together in the films Jail Breakers (2002) and Lost in Love (2006).

Philanthropy
Seol and his wife Song Yoon-ah supported the entire cost of surgery for Ha-jin, who was suffering from congenital heart disease. In July 2010, they visited Seoul St. Mary's Hospital.

In April 2014, Seol Kyung-gu, along with Song Yoon-ah, said through the Korean Committee for UNICEF, "I felt pain that is difficult to express in words while watching the Sewol ferry disaster. I sincerely hope for recovery," and donated to the victims of the sinking of MV Sewol.

On February 13, 2023, Sol donated to help 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, by donating money through Korea's UNICEF Committee with participation in the Emergency Relief for Children Victims of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria' programme along with Song Yoon-ah.

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Sergei Gerasimov (film director)

Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (Серге́й Апполина́риевич Гера́симов; 21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. The oldest film school in the world, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), bears his name.

Early life and education
Gerasimov was born on 21 May 1906.

Career
Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary.

During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. He also taught acclaimed actor Georgiy Zhzhonov at the Leningrad Theatrical School.

In his last film Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow.

A rare glimpse of Sergei Gerasimov can be found in a one and a half minute behind the scenes documentary featured as part of the Coming From The Movies Set series of Soviet film promos. In this piece Gerasimov can be seen in Norilsk on the set of his film Town Planners. It's a story of two young architects struggling to build a new town in the Polar Regions. The film stars Ivan Negonov as the director of an Iron and Steel Works, Anatoly Solonitsyn as architect Kolmykov, Lyubov Virolainen as architect Arkhipova; and can be found as an extra on the 2003 DVD release of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1974 film The Mirror.

Moscow Film Festival
Gerasimov was the president of the jury at the 1959, 1965, 1969 and the 1985 Moscow International Film Festival. He was a member of the jury in 1961 and 1971.

In 1967 his film The Journalist won the Grand Prix at the 1967 festival.

Awards and honours
and political activities
 * Hero of Socialist Labour (1974)
 * Four Orders of Lenin
 * Order of the October Revolution
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1940, 1950)
 * Order of the Red Star (1944)
 * People's Artist of the USSR, 1948
 * Stalin Prize;
 * 1941 2nd class – for the film Master (1939)
 * 1949 1st class – for the film Young Guard (1948)
 * 1951 1st class – for the film Liberated China (1950)
 * Lenin Komsomol Prize (1970) – the creation of films about young people, and the Lenin Komsomol a big public
 * USSR State Prize (1971) – for the film The Lake  (1969)
 * Lenin Prize (1984) – for the movies in recent years
 * Order of the White Lion, 3rd class (Czechoslovakia)
 * Professor of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (1946)
 * Member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (1978)
 * Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1950–1958)
 * Doktor nauk (1967)
 * Member of the Presidium of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1950)
 * Secretary of the Composers' Union
 * Member of the USSR Writers' Union
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Director

 * Seven Brave Men (1936)
 * City of Youth (1938)
 * ''Komsomolsk (1938)
 * The New Teacher (1939)
 * Masquerade (1941)
 * The Mainland (1944)
 * The Young Guard (1948)
 * The Village Doctor (1951)
 * The New China (1952)
 * Great Mourning (1953)
 * And Quiet Flows the Don (1958)
 * Men and Beasts (1962)
 * The Journalist (1967)
 * By the Lake (1969)
 * The Love of Mankind (1972)
 * Daughters-Mothers (1974)
 * Red and Black (1976)
 * The Youth of Peter the Great (1980)
 * At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980)
 * Lev Tolstoy (1984)

Actor

 * Mishki versus Yudenich (1925)
 * The Devil's Wheel (1926)
 * The Overcoat (1926)
 * The Club of the Big Deed (1927)
 * Somebody Else's Coat (1927)
 * Little Brother (1927)
 * Fragment of an Empire (1929)
 * The New Babylon (1929)
 * Alone (1931)
 * The Deserter (1933)
 * Masquerade (1941)
 * Daughters-Mothers (1974)
 * Lev Tolstoy (1984)

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Hamlet Gonashvili

Hamlet Dimitris dze Gonashvili (ჰამლეტ დიმიტრის ძე გონაშვილი, (b. 20 June 1928 – d. 25 July 1985), sometimes referred to as "the voice of Georgia", was a Georgian singer (baritone), influential teacher and performer of Georgian folk music.

Gonashvili was born in eastern Georgia and is considered the best interpreter of songs from the Kartli and Kakheti regions. He was a recipient of many national honours and prizes. The Third Symphony of the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli drew inspiration from Gonashvili's singing, and he was himself the soloist in the first recording of the work (Olympia Records, 1979). He died in 1985, at the height of his fame, as the result of a fall from an apple tree. Hamlet (JARO, 1996) is a collection of his most impressive songs.

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Talk:Tetrad (index notation)

what's T?
What the heck is T ? It looks as though it's a tetrad, but that's not exactly clear. ---Mpatel (talk) 12:14, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

T is the tangent space. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okelekci (talk • contribs) 12:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Definition?
This article doesn't even attempt to define its topic; that would be a significant addition to the lede, if someone understands the topic well enough to define it clearly. The article also needs to be edited for tone (encyclopedia articles shouldn't contain the word "let's"), but that's a more involved fix.-Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 15:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

 * Its also bizarrely misnamed. tetrad=vierbein the tetra/vier refers to the four dimensions of space-time. I do not believe that geometers actually use this term, so it sounds like OR to me. Not sure. Certainly my books on Riemannian geometry do not mention it. This article should be a redirect to Tetrad formalism or to Frame fields in general relativity. Yucko.  67.198.37.16 (talk) 22:41, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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User talk:Rcaetano

A belated welcome!
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on, consult Questions, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there.

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Japanese words of Portuguese origin
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National Association for Bikers with a Disability

The National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD) is a Registered Charity (No. 1040907) in the United Kingdom and (No. SC039897) in Scotland. The NABD gives technical advice and financial grants to help to adapt motorcycles, sidecars and trikes for use by disabled riders. It also gives advice on training and rider assessments. It owns a fleet of learner-legal motorcycles adapted for various disabilities, which it loans free of charge for training and tests.

The NABD is routinely consulted on issues relating to disabled motorcycling by the DVLA, DfT, VOSA, DSA, and MAVIS (the Mobility Advice and Vehicle Information Service).

History
The NABD was set up in April 1991 by six motorcyclists in Stockport and Manchester who would not accept the idea that disabled people could not ride motorcycles, scooters, or trikes.

The initial project was to find a way to adapt a motorcycle for a rider who had suffered the amputation of his lower left leg in an accident. A fund raising party was organised and publicised locally and this prompted several other disabled people to contact the group asking whether it was possible for them also to ride motorcycles. Within 12 months the NABD had just over 100 members and had helped three disabled people to adapt motorcycles and ride independently. Each adaption had to be designed from scratch, the money raised and the engineering problems solved, but from this small beginning the NABD was later to become the World leader in motorcycling for disabled people.

The membership of the NABD has now grown to more than 8,000 individual members and has more than 130 affiliated clubs and businesses. Since its foundation the NABD has directly helped over ten thousand disabled people to enjoy the freedom and independence of motorcycling.

The NABD has been instrumental in the founding of similar groups in Norway, Sweden, France, the US, South Africa and Japan.

Throughout its history the NABD has been organised and managed by motorcyclists who work on a voluntary unpaid basis.

The NABD have two paid employees, these are in the administrative rolls of Office Manager and Administrative Assistant. Neither of these employees takes a direct part in decisions the relating to the governance of the NABD.

Personal membership is open to everyone (regardless of whether they have a disability or not) and members receive various benefits including a copy of the NABD's quarterly magazine Open House

Clubs can also affiliate to the NABD, any club is able to affiliate whether they are motorcycle related or not. There are two tiers for club affiliation, Standard and Premium and there are various benefits depending on which affiliation is chosen.

Business affiliation is also available for any business. There are four different business affiliation choices, each with their own series of benefits.

All of these membership and affiliation schemes go towards the running and support of the charity.

The NABD also have a quarterly magazine called Open House which is sent out to all members and affiliates. It includes details about the charity, event reviews, adaptations and grants as well as other news about the motorcycling scene.

Expenses
The NABD ensures that 100% of all financial donations from individuals, clubs or companies are used 100% for the benefit of, and services for, disabled riders.

The administration costs of the association are met from membership contributions and direct fundraising events such as the annual You've Been Nabbed rally which attracts more than 3,000 motorcyclists from throughout the British Isles and Northern Europe. The NABD does not spend donated money on wages and office accommodation. The NABD has two full-time office administrators. The first post was initially financed by a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, and both posts are now wholly financed by the proceeds of the NABD's You've Been Nabbed rally. Everyone else who works for the NABD is an unpaid volunteer.

Fundraising
The NABD holds a rally at The Cheshire Showground, Tabley, Knutsford, Cheshire. one weekend in May each year. This is both a social and a fundraising event that raises thousands of pounds for the charity. The NABD holds a number of smaller rallies in different parts of Britain during the course of each year for the same purpose. A number of motorcycle clubs also donate profits from their rallies, custom motorcycle shows and other events to the NABD.

Patrons
The NABD currently has nine patrons:

 * Billy Connolly, CBE, comedian and actor
 * Gary Havelock, motorcycle speedway rider
 * Neil Hodgson, 2003 Superbike World Champion
 * David Holding, OBE, Paralympics gold medallist
 * Sammy Miller, OBE, former international motorcycle trials champion and grass track rider
 * Mark O'Shea, herpetologist and television presenter
 * Suzi Perry, sports television presenter
 * Lord Rotherwick, member of the House of Lords
 * Mik Scarlet, TV presenter and disc jockey
 * Stevie Simpson, Singer/Songwriter


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Moanin' in the Moonlight

Moanin' in the Moonlight is a compilation album and the first album by American blues artist Howlin' Wolf, released by Chess Records in 1959. It contains songs previously issued as singles, including one of his best-known, "Smokestack Lightning". Rolling Stone ranked it number 477 on its 2020 list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Recording and production
The two earliest songs on Moanin' in the Moonlight were "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years". These two songs and 'All Night Boogie', were recorded in Memphis, the first two at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, Tennessee in July 1951, and, 'All Night Boogie', the last track on side one, in Memphis in 1953. These songs were sold to the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil, who released them on two singles (Chess 1479 and Chess 1557), the first two titles being released on August 15, 1951. The rest of the songs on the album were recorded in Chicago, Illinois and were produced by either the Chess brothers and/or Willie Dixon.

Artwork, packaging, and promotion
The original version of Moanin' in the Moonlight featured cover artwork by Don S. Bronstein and sleeve notes by Billboard editor Paul Ackerman. The label pressings from the original series have different colors on it because several pressing plants were used.

The album was featured on an advertisement in Billboard magazine on August 10, 1959, which misprinted the album's title as Howlin' at Midnite.

Accolades
In 1987, Moanin' in the Moonlight was given a W.C. Handy Award in the "Vintage/Reissue Album (US)" category. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 477 on its 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Robert Palmer has cited "How Many More Years" (recorded May 1951) as the first record to feature a distorted power chord, played by Willie Johnson on the electric guitar.

Track listing
All songs written by Chester Burnett, except where noted. (Although the original 1959 LP, and the UK Chess 1965 issue credited all compositions to 'C. Burnett' [Howlin' Wolf].)

 * Side one
 * 1) "Moanin' at Midnight" – 2:58
 * 2) "How Many More Years" – 2:42
 * 3) "Smokestack Lightnin'" – 3:07
 * 4) "Baby How Long" – 2:56
 * 5) "No Place to Go" – 2:59
 * 6) "All Night Boogie" – 2:12

 * Side two
 * 1) "Evil" – 2:55 (Willie Dixon)
 * 2) "I'm Leavin' You" – 3:01
 * 3) "Moanin' for My Baby" – 2:47
 * 4) "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" – 2:53
 * 5) "Forty-Four" – 2:51 (Roosevelt Sykes, credited to Burnett)
 * 6) "Somebody in My Home" – 2:27
 * Recorded in Memphis 1951 (tracks 1 & 2), 1953 (track 6) and 1954 (tracks 4, 5, 7 & 11)
 * Recorded in Chicago 1956 (tracks 3 & 10), 1957 (track 12), 1958 (track 9) and 1959 (track 8)

Personnel
The following people contributed to Moanin' in the Moonlight:
 * Howlin' Wolf – vocals, harmonica
 * Willie Johnson – guitar on 'Moanin at Midnight," "How Many More Years," "All Night Boogie," "Smokestack Lightnin," and "Somebody's in My Home"
 * Willie Steele – drums on "Moaning at Midnight" and "How Many More Years,"
 * Ike Turner – piano on "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years"
 * Hubert Sumlin – guitar on "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Baby How Long," "No Place to Go," " Evil," "I'm Leaving You," "Moaning for My Baby," and "Forty Four"
 * Hosea Lee Kennard – piano on "Smokestack Lightnin'," "I Asked for Water," "Somebody's in My Home," and "I'm Leavin' You"
 * Willie Dixon – double bass, producer on "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Baby How Long," "Evil," "No Place to Go," "Forty Four," and "I Asked Her for Water"
 * Earl Phillips – drums on "Baby How Long," "Evil," "Forty Four," "Smokestack Lightnin'," "I Asked For Water," "Somebody's in My Home," and "Moaning for My Baby"
 * Jody Williams – guitar on "Baby How Long," "Evil," and "Forty Four"
 * Otis Spann – piano on "No Place to Go," "Baby How Long," "Evil," and "Forty Four"
 * Lee Cooper – guitar on "No Place to Go"
 * Fred Below – drums on "All Night Boogie"
 * S. P. Leary – drums on "I'm leaving You"
 * L. D. McGhee - guitar on "I'm Leaving You"
 * Alfred Elkins - bass on "Somebody's in My Home," "Moaning for My Baby," and "I'm Leaving You"
 * Adolph "Billy" Dockins – tenor saxophone on "Moanin' for My Baby" and "Somebody in My Home"
 * Otis "Smokey" Smothers – guitar on "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)" and "Somebody in My Home"
 * Sam Phillips – producer on "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years"
 * Leonard Chess – producer
 * Phil Chess – producer

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Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov

Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov (Серге́й Васи́льевич Гера́симов; 26 September 1885 – 20 April 1964) was a Soviet and Russian painter.

Gerasimov was a student of artist Konstantin Korovin, and as a young artist he later went on to join the Makovets group. His early watercolors are considered masterpieces and show a tendency toward modernism that is less pronounced in his later work. In the 1920s and 1930s, he taught at the state art school Vkhutemas, and designed posters and painted works sympathetic to the new Communist government in a style later known as Socialist realism.

Despite this he was known throughout the Russian art world to be a liberal thinker whose paintings showed the influences of Impressionism and other modern movements. Under Joseph Stalin these tendencies placed him in aesthetic opposition to his nemesis (and ironic namesake) Aleksandr Gerasimov.

During the Stalin era, Sergey Gerasimov was demoted from his position of director of the Russian Artists' Union and replaced by Aleksandr Gerasimov. During the period of World War II, Sergey Gerasimov, along with most of the faculty and student body of the Surikov Art Institute were moved from Moscow to the ancient caravan city of Samarkand.

Some of Gerasimov's most famous works were painted during this period and show scenes of the old oriental city of Samarkand. Many of these paintings are on display to this day at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. With the death of Stalin and the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, Sergey Gerasimov was re-instated as the head of the Russian Artists' Union, a position he held until his death in 1964.

Some of Gerasimov's most famous students that he came in contact with and taught at the Surikov Art Institute include; Fedor Z. Zakharov, Vladimir Stozharov, Alexey and Sergey Tkachyov, Yury P. Kugach, Aleksei Gritsai, Gely Korzhev, and many other important Soviet artists.

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Werner Peiner

Werner Peiner (20 July 1897 - 19 August 1984) was a German painter. He was first influenced by realism, and later by New Objectivity, but he would become known as one of the most talented official painters of the Third Reich.

Life and career
Peiner was born in Düsseldorf, the son of the merchant Joseph Peiner (1867-1945) and his wife Sophia, née Maintz (1871-1951). Peiner grew up in Düsseldorf, where his father had risen to become the managing director of a wood wholesaler. He attended school up to the Oberprima. When the First World War broke out, he volunteered for the army with a Uhlan regiment. He was promoted to lieutenant and served on the western front.

After the war, Peiner studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, since 1919, after initially taking private lessons from Wilhelm Döringer, a friend of his father. In the 1920s he guested and painted with Katharina "Nette" Faymonville in the Burghotel zu Kronenburg in the Eifel. During this time he joined forces with Fritz Burmann and Richard Gessner to form the "Dreimann-Bund". In 1923 Peiner married Marie Therese "Resi" Lauffs and moved to Bonn to live with his in-laws. The couple had no children; in 1950 they adopted the orphaned daughter of a cousin. In mid-1925 Peiner set up a studio in Düsseldorf. During this time, through the mediation of his friends, the architect Emil Fahrenkamp and the entrepreneur Walter Kruspig (since 1930 general director of Rhenania-Ossag), Peiner accepted artistic commissions for the design of church, insurance and industrial buildings.

In 1931, Peiner settled in Kronenburg and began converting several houses in the historic town center into a studio. Today, one of them is used as a hotel. Peiner played a key role in the construction of the sewage system in Kronenburg (but not in the valley settlement of Kronenburgerhütte), as the sewage running across the street bothered him. Street lamps designed by him can still be found in Kronenburg today.

Peiner style was closer to the New Objectivity during the Weimar Republic, but he would accept the Third Reich, and would become one of his official artists. In 1933 he was appointed professor of monumental painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He succeeded Heinrich Campendonk, who had been dismissed shortly before. Peiner owed his appointment not only to his acquaintance with the provisional director of the art academy, Julius Paul Junghanns, but probably also to his painting Deutsche Erde, or German Land, with which he supported the emerging Nazi ideology of blood and soil. The painting was donated by the town of Mechernich to Schleiden district administrator Josef Schramm. Schleiden NSDAP district leader Franz Binz handed it personally to Adolf Hitler. According to Rolf Dettmann, a student of Peiner's, Peiner's friendship with Kruspig could also have played a role in the appointment.

Peiner had a tense relationship with Peter Grund, the director of the Düsseldorf Academy since 1933/1934. With the consent of Hermann Göring, Peiner undertook a study trip to East Africa from February 1935, which Kruspig had organized and financed. Through Kruspig's mediation, Peiner had personal access to Göring. In a talk with Göring on January 24, 1936, Peiner succeeded in getting his wish to found his own academy. On March 23, 1936, the minister for art, science and popular education issued a decree establishing the “Landakademie Kronenburg der Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf”. As the Hermann Göring Master School for Painting, it became independent under the direction of Peiner, in 1938. Peiner's students in Kronenburg included Rolf Dettmann, Heinz Hindorf, Hans Lohbeck, Willi Sitte and Willi Wewer. Among other things, Peiner designed monumental tapestries for the New Reich Chancellery. A nude of his even hung over Göring's bed at Carinhall. Peiner applied for admission to the NSDAP on July 13, 1937, and was admitted retrospectively to May 1 (membership number 4,913,473). In the same year he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. Nevertheless, one of his paintings was confiscated as "degenerate art". In 1940 he was appointed to the Prussian State Council. In 1944, in the final phase of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler included him in the special list of the God-gifted list of the twelve most important visual artists.

In 1944, Peiner moved with his wife to Gimborn in Oberbergisches Land. After the war he was interned and all his property was confiscated. In 1948 he acquired the dilapidated Haus Vorst castle in Leichlingen, which he restored over the years. He lived and worked there until his death, in 1984.

Like other German painters favored during the Third Reich, such as Conrad Hommel and Adolf Wissel, his reputation in Germany and in the Western world, was tainted after World War II. In the post-war period, Peiner was mainly a landscape painter. He also, among other works, created tapestries for the Gerling Group and for the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.

Art work
Peiner was mostly inspired by the old masters, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder. In 1928, he still created a series of Impressionist-inspired landscapes. He had an realistic style, which made him successful with his private clients. In the 1920s, when he painted in the New Objectivity style, he was a sought-after portrait painter in the Rhineland.

Peiner most important works during the Third Reich where his tapestries. His Nazi commissioned works included the cycle of the German Battles of Fate for the Marble Gallery, also known as the Long Hall, of the New Reich Chancellery, in Berlin, the drafts of which are now exhibited in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. He created drafts, and the theme of a seventh tapestry, measuring 5.40 by 10 meters, related to battles of Germany's history, namely The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Heinrich I in the Battle of Hungary, The Siege of Marienburg, The Battle of the Turks near Vienna, Frederick the Great near Kunersdorf, The Battle of Leipzig, and Tank Battle of Cambrai. The eighth tapestry was intended to depict a decisive battle from World War II. Peiner also created the cartoon for the monumental tapestry Die Erdkugel, begun but not completed at the Paris Manufacture des Gobelins and destined for Hermann Göring's monumental Carinhall estate. It was exhibited at the Munich Hypo-Kunsthalle in the exhibition "The Threads of Modernity", from December 2019 to March 2020. Since the post-war period, his works have rarely been exhibited in public because of his involvement with Nazism.

He was represented with 33 works at the Great German Art Exhibitions, in the Munich House of German Art, from 1937 to 1944.

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Bruray

Bruray is one of the three Out Skerries islands of Shetland, and contains Scotland's most easterly settlement.

It is separated from Housay by North Mouth and South Mouth.

Infrastructure
The Skerries Bridge was built in 1957 to provide a fixed link from Bruray to the neighbouring and larger island of Housay.

Bruray is home to Scotland's smallest school.

The island occasionally suffers from water shortages. There is little peat on the Out Skerries, so the residents have been granted rights to cut in on Whalsay.

A ferry connects the Out Skerries with Vidlin and Lerwick on the Shetland Mainland. Bruray also has a small airstrip, with flights from Tingwall by Loganair.

History
At the autumn 2010, the islands of Housay and Bruray were on sale for £250,000. "The main islands are held under crofting tenure. The crofting community have been offered the opportunity to register their interest in acquiring the property but have formally declined from doing so."

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Marina Carr

Marina Carr is an Irish playwright, known for By the Bog of Cats (1998).

Early life and education
Carr was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1964, but spent most of her childhood in Pallas Lake, County Offaly, adjacent to the town of Tullamore. Carr's father, Hugh Carr, was a playwright and her mother, Maura Eibhlín Breathnach, was an Irish poet. As a child, Carr and her siblings, John and Deirdre, built a theatre in their shed.

Carr attended University College Dublin, studying English and philosophy. In 2011, she received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from her alma mater.

Career
Carr has held posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and has lectured at Trinity College Dublin, Princeton University, and Villanova University. She lectured in the English department at Dublin City University in 2016. Carr is a member of Aosdána.

Awards
The Mai won the Dublin Theatre Festival's Best New Irish Play award (1994–1995), and Portia Coughlan won the nineteenth Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (1996–1997). Other awards include The Irish Times Playwright award 1998, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The American Ireland Fund Award, the Macaulay Fellowship, and The Hennessy Award. Carr was named a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Award in September 2017, administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. She was the second Irish author to receive the prize, following playwright Abbie Spallen in 2016.

Works
Original Plays

 * Ullaloo (1989)
 * The Deer's Surrender (1990)
 * This Love Thing (1991)
 * Low in the Dark (1991)
 * The Mai (1994)
 * Portia Coughlan (1996)
 * By the Bog of Cats (1998)
 * Ariel (2000)
 * On Raftery's Hill (2000)
 * Meat and Salt (2003)
 * Woman and Scarecrow (2004)
 * The Cordelia Dream (2006)
 * The Giant Blue Hand (2007)
 * Marble (2007)
 * 16 Possible Glimpses (2009)
 * Hecuba (2015)
 * iGirl (2021)
 * Girl on an Altar (2022)
 * The Map of Argentina
 * Phaedra Backwards
 * Audrey or Sorrow (2024)

Adaptations

 * Blood Wedding
 * Anna Karenina

By the Bog of Cats
The original production of By the Bog of Cats took place at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The play opened on 7 October 1998 and ran until 14 November 1998. The production, totalling 45 performances, was directed by Patrick Mason and designed by Monica Frawley. Other members of the production team included lighting designer Nick Chelton, with sound by Dave Nolan. The lead roles were played by Siobhán Cullen (Josie Kilbride), Olwen Fouéré (Hester Swane), and Conor McDermottroe (Carthage Kilbride). Other characters were played by Joan O’Hara (Catwoman), Fionnuala Murphy (Carline Cassidy), and Tom Hickey (Xavier Cassidy).

Irish writer Frank McGuinness wrote the programme note for the Abbey production of By the Bog of Cats in 1998. His description of the play analyses Carr's style of writing, which he likens to Greek writing: By the Bog of Cats... is a play about sorrow. Therefore it must be funny. A play about death, so a wedding shall be at the centre of it. A play about saying the things that need to be said, so there will be silence at the end of it. A play about hatred, so love is at its heart. A play whose philosophy is that Carthage must be destroyed, but what happens to the destroyers? This is what By the Bog of Cats... tells us.

Woman and Scarecrow
Woman and Scarecrow centres on a dying woman's last stretch of time on earth, reflecting on her life. We are told very little of the setting, but presume she resides in a domestic space, as the stage directions in the first act indicate she is lying in bed 'gaunt and ill'. Apart from the bed, the only furniture indicated is a wardrobe, which has an ominous presence in the play. The mysterious thing that lurks inside the wardrobe signifies death and its imminent approach. For a good part of the play, the only other character present is Scarecrow. It is unclear what Scarecrow represents, perhaps the woman's subconscious. It is significant to note that all of the characters in the play "are referred to by either pronouns or titles - Woman, Him, Scarecrow, Auntie Ah, placing a universal slant on who they are and what they represent." The woman is largely defined in her role as mother and wife throughout the play. She is the mother of eight children, with a ninth having died. As the play progresses, we learn that her husband has been unfaithful. Despite being aware of this, a Woman at times is still dependent on Him, 'I've missed you in bed beside me. On other occasions she redeems herself, asserting her independence by insisting she will not wear her wedding ring to the grave and places value on herself, 'save you were not worthy of my love'. Her independence is consolidated by the fact that she dies when he is absent from the room. The play runs for approximately 2 hours 20 minutes.

Woman and Scarecrow was staged for the first time at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre in London in 2006, directed by Ramin Gray and starring Fiona Shaw and Bríd Brennan as Woman and Scarecrow, respectively. Lizzie Clachan designed the set for this production, alongside lighting designer, Mischa Twitchin, and sound designer, Emma Laxton. Later, it was produced in the Peacock Theatre, where it was directed by Selina Cartmell and starred Olwen Fouéré (Woman) and Barbara Brennan (Scarecrow).

The play opened at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York in May 2018. Directed by Ciarán O'Reilly, the cast included Stephanie Roth Haberle (the woman), Pamela Gray (Scarecrow), Aidan Redmond (the husband), and Dale Soules (the aunt).

The Mai
The Mai is about a woman in her late 30s, whose husband (and absentee father to their children) returns from having abandoned them, and wants to give their relationship another chance. The play is divided into two acts. The setting for act one is the summer of 1979 (Robert's return from a long time away) and the setting for act two is a year later, as we check in on the state of the precarious relationships established in the first half of the play. Throughout the play, the eponymous The Mai grapples with struggling to keep her marriage alive despite Robert's frequent cheating and conceding to the opinions of her family and leaving him. In the end, she confesses to her daughter Millie, who has served as the narrator of this piece, that she cannot imagine a life without Robert where she would be happy nor a life with him where they could co-exist peaceably together.

The original production of The Mai took place at and was produced by, the Abbey Theatre on 5 October 1994. It was directed by Brian Brady and designed by Kathy Strachan. The lead roles were played by Olwen Fouere (The Mai), Derbhle Crotty (Millie), Joan O'Hara (Grandma Fraochlan) Owen Roe (Robert), Brid Ni Neachtain (Beck), Stella McCusker (Julie), and Maire Hastings (Agnes)

The Mai is thematically in keeping with the main themes of Carr's other work. These characters are all grappling with their roles as mothers and their roles as wives. It is clear that most of them prioritize their husbands over their children and if they didn't, they end up regretting it like Beck, who after pouring herself into her marriage still had to watch it dissolve. Even Grandmother Froachlan, the matriarch of the family says that she would have gladly thrown all of her children into "the slopes of hell" to be reunited with the nine-fingered fisherman. Throughout the play, Carr weaves these characters' relationships in and out of each other to the rhythm of nearby ecology. Millie takes particular interest in the folklore of Owl Lake. In discussing the marital failures alongside the professional triumphs of these women, Carr uses them as vessels to discuss the role of marriage in capitalism and its discriminating patriarchal practices towards unmarried women and single mothers. The Mai is said to have built a sturdy home for her and her children in the years that Robert was gone. This kind of upward mobility is revered by most around her apart from Robert who dismissed her success as having come directly from his generosity. The Mai immediately corrects him reminding him that she was a cellist in the college orchestra and that after he left her to raise their kids alone, she was also teaching full-time. Discourse on marriage and its link to capital is apparent here as the characters talk about how when they lost their husbands, they lost everything, referring to their current socioeconomic status as spinsters.

Marble
Marble opened in Dublin in 2009 at The Abbey Theatre. The four characters are husband and wife Ben and Catherine and a second couple Anne and Art. The play runs for approximately 1 hour 40 minutes.

Translated into Spanish as Mármol the play opened in Madrid in November 2016 at the Teatro Valle-Inclán, home to the National Drama Centre. It was directed by Antonio C. Guijosa and translated into Spanish by Antonio C. Guijosa and Marta I. Moreno. The cast included José Luis Alcobendas (Ben), Elena González (Catherine), Susana Hernández (Anne) and Pepe Viyuela (Art).

Publications

 * The Mai. London: Dufour Editions, 1995.
 * By the Bog of Cats. The Abbey, Dublin, and Wyndham's Theater, London. 1998
 * Plays One. London: Faber and Faber, 1999.
 * On Raftery's Hill. London: Faber and Faber, 2000.
 * Ariel. Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Books, 2002.
 * Woman and Scarecrow. London: Faber and Faber, 2006
 * Marble. Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Books, 2009
 * Plays Two. London: Faber and Faber, 2009
 * 16 Possible Glimpses. The Abbey Theatre, 2011
 * Plays Three. London: Faber and Faber, 2015
 * 1 in 5. Roe Valley Hospital, 2011

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California bearing ratio

The California Bearing Ratio (CBR) is a measure of the strength of the subgrade of a road or other paved area, and of the materials used in its construction.

The ratio is measured using a standardized penetration test first developed by the California Division of Highways for highway engineering. Empirical tests measure the strength of the material and are not a true representation of the resilient modulus.

Definition
The CBR is the ratio of the bearing load that penetrates a material to a specific depth compared with the load giving the same penetration into crushed stone. The test measures neither Stiffness Modulus nor Shear Strength directly, but gives a combined measure of both.

Penetration is measured by applying the bearing load on the sample using a standard plunger of diameter 50 mm at the rate of 1.25 mm/min. The CBR is expressed as a percentage of the actual load causing the penetrations of 2.5 mm or 5.0 mm to the standard loads on crushed stone. A load penetration curve is drawn. The load values on standard crushed stones are 1370 kgf and 2055 kgf at 2.5 mm and 5.0 mm penetrations respectively.

The CBR can be mathematically expressed as:

$$CBR=\frac {p}{p_s} \cdot 100%$$

Test procedure
The CBR test is a penetration test in which a standard piston, with a diameter of 50 mm, is used to penetrate the soil at a standard rate of 1.25 mm/minute.

Although the force increases with the depth of penetration, in most cases, it does not increase as quickly as it does for the standard crushed rock, so the ratio decreases. In some cases, the ratio at 5 mm may be greater than that at 2.5 mm. If this occurs, the ratio at 5 mm should be used. The CBR is a measure of resistance of a material to penetration of a standard plunger under controlled density and moisture conditions. The test procedure should be strictly adhered to if a high degree of reproducibility is desired. The CBR test may be conducted on a remolded or undisturbed specimen in the laboratory. The test is simple and has been extensively investigated for field correlations of flexible pavement thickness requirement.

The laboratory CBR apparatus consists of a mould of 150 mm diameter with a base plate and a collar, a loading frame and dial gauges for measuring the penetration values and the expansion on soaking. If a soaked (wet) measurement is desired, the specimen in the mould is soaked in water for four days and the swelling and water absorption values are noted. The surcharge weight is placed on the top of the specimen in the mould and the assembly is placed under the plunger of the loading frame.

Example values
CBR values for common soil subgrades can be estimated according to the USC soil types, for example: clay around 2%, sand from 7% (poorly graded) to 10% (well graded), well graded sandy gravel 15%, clayey sand 5-20%, silty gravel 20-60%, gravel from 30-60% poorly-graded to 40-80% if well-graded.

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Sergey Gerasimov

Sergey Gerasimov may refer to:
 * Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov (1885–1964), Russian painter
 * Sergei Gerasimov (film director) (1906–1985), Russian actor, film director and screenwriter
 * Sergei Gerasimov (swimmer), Russian gold medalist in swimming at the 2003 Summer Universiade
 * Sergey Gerasimovich Mitin, politician
 * Sergey Gerasimovich Mikaelyan, film director

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Jay Semko

John Peter "Jay" Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful Canadian television series Due South. Semko has been nominated for a Juno Award eight times as a member of the Northern Pikes, and also been nominated twice for a Gemini Award, and once for a Canadian Screen Award, and received two awards from the Canadian Music Publishers Association for his songwriting. His hometown is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Category:Evangelicals

 * For preachers of Christianity, see Category:Christian missionaries
 * See also Category:Evangelists

Persons who self-identify or are generally recognized as identified with an evangelical Christian denomination or faith.

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Smash Your Head Against the Wall

Smash Your Head Against the Wall is the debut solo studio album by the English rock musician John Entwistle, released in May 1971 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US. Smash Your Head Against the Wall was the first solo album by any member of rock band the Who, born out of Entwistle's frustrations within the band, namely not having as many of his songs featured on their albums as he would've liked, and it features a guest appearance by the Who's drummer Keith Moon on one track ("No. 29 (External Youth)"), as well as strong musical influences from the band's work.

Entwistle self-produced the album and it was recorded at Trident Studios in Soho, London over 2 weeks, with a young Roy Thomas Baker engineering the album (his first work). Baker would later become known for his work as a producer for the rock band Queen, and the same studio piano that was used by Entwistle during the sessions for this album was later used by Freddie Mercury on "Bohemian Rhapsody". The album peaked at No. 126 on the US Billboard 200 but it failed to chart in his home country.

The album was initially remastered and re-issued in 1996 by Repertoire Records, featuring one bonus track, a cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl", that was only previously available as a bootleg. The album was later remastered and re-issued again in 2005 by Sanctuary Records but this time featuring more extensive rare bonus content; the bonus content this time consists of three unreleased demos of songs that didn't make it onto the album (amongst them is "It's Hard to Write a Love Song" which would later be reworked into the song "Drowning" for his 1975 studio album Mad Dog) as well as four demos of songs featured on the album, an early take of "My Size", and "Cinnamon Girl" from the previous re-issue. However, all versions of the album remain out of print, and CD copies of this album are especially hard to come by.

Packaging
The macabre cover artwork was concocted by Entwistle and photographer Graham Hughes, cousin of the Who's lead vocalist Roger Daltrey. It depicts Entwistle's face whilst wearing a death mask, transposed against an X-ray picture of the lungs of a terminal heart patient, obtained from Entwistle's doctor at the time. It has been compared to the cover of the studio album Vintage Violence (1970) by the Welsh rock musician John Cale. The gatefold cover features the X-ray of a pregnancy test, maintaining the "life vs. death" theme. And the back cover features one of Entwistle's Irish Wolfhounds lying down with a human skull.

Background
The album features a remake of Entwistle's Who live classic "Heaven and Hell" with the band's on and off roadie Dave "Cyrano" Langston, who had encouraged Entwistle to make the album and provided some acid-drenched guitar. Langston was even thought to be the Who's guitarist Pete Townshend under a pseudonym. Cyrano would later explain that he had been more influenced by Joe Walsh than anybody else, especially by his work with the James Gang, who had themselves actually been influenced by the Who, and had also been a opening act for the band. Walsh himself would later play guitar on all of the tracks to Entwistle's fifth solo studio album, Too Late the Hero (1981).

When Entwistle was asked about his first single, "I Believe in Everything", in comparison with the tone of rest of the album, he said: I've been saying a lot of stuff that I didn't really believe in. I sort of wrote it for the heads, really, the people thinking, "ah, so that's where Entwistle's brain's at, he really sort of believes in the devil and hell and all that sort of business." So I wrote a number that touches on reincarnation, then goes into the absurd, with Father Christmas and the whole bit and right at the end just to prevent the heads from thinking that I did believe in everything like I was saying, 'cause they always seem to believe that you actually believe in your own words. I believe in some of them but not all of them, so I just wrote the joke in to throw them off, and it's done it.

Pete Townshend went onto say that "We learned more from John making his album than we had in all the years he'd played bass with us. Because he did it and it spoke to us.

The UK album differs from the US version. Entwistle remixed "What Are We Doing Here?" and the vocals sound quite different. Entwistle had not been fully satisfied with his initial vocal track, so in early 1971, he re-recorded his lead vocals, while leaving the original harmony vocals untouched. This version was originally released on the US version of the album in 1971, and later appeared as a bonus track on the 1996 Repertoire Records remaster of the album.

Critical reception
Writing for The Village Voice, music journalist Robert Christgau gave the album a B, and described Entwistle as "an important source of the fucked-up Calvinism that has always added that peculiar note of constraint to the Who", while adding that "These paeans of resentment and frustration climax thematically in songs called "Heaven and Hell" and "You're Mine" (starring John as Satan). But the music—not the melodies, the singing and playing—adds some not-so-peculiar constraints of its own."

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Cub Koda wrote of the album, "Musically, it has much of a Who flavor to it, with the strong guitar work, lumbering drums and basslines that define the music. But Entwistle's many talents (he contributes an entire horn section to "Pick Me Up") surface on this debut disc, and his preoccupation with darker subject matter ("Heaven and Hell," "My Size," and "You're Mine") is well to the fore", adding that "Compared to this, Townshend's grimmest Who material sounds like a romp in the park. Potent stuff."

Track listing
All tracks written and composed by John Entwistle, except where indicated.

Side one
 * 1) "My Size" – 3:43
 * 2) "Pick Me Up (Big Chicken)" – 3:43
 * 3) "What Are We Doing Here?" – 3:49
 * 4) "What Kind of People Are They?" – 2:44
 * 5) "Heaven and Hell" – 4:50

Side two
 * 1) "Ted End" – 2:33
 * 2) "You're Mine" – 4:39
 * 3) "No. 29 (Eternal Youth)" – 5:25
 * 4) "I Believe in Everything" – 3:07

1997 bonus tracks
 * 1) "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young)
 * 2) "What Are We Doing Here?" (alternative mix)

2005 bonus tracks
 * 1) "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young)
 * 2) "It's Hard to Write a Love Song" (demo)
 * 3) "The Haunted Can Be Free" (demo)
 * 4) "World Behind My Face" (demo)
 * 5) "My Size" (early take)
 * 6) "What Kind of People Are They?" (demo)
 * 7) "Pick Me Up (Big Chicken)" (demo)
 * 8) "No. 29 (External Youth)" (demo)
 * 9) "Ted End" (demo)

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Smash Your Head Against the Wall liner notes.

Musicians
 * John Entwistle – lead vocals; bass guitar; piano; keyboards; flugelhorn; trumpet; trombone
 * Dave "Cyrano" Langston – electric and acoustic guitars; backing vocals
 * Jerry Shirley – drums
 * Vivian Stanshall – Latin American percussion (8)
 * Keith Moon – Latin American percussion (8) ; backing vocals
 * Neil Innes – Latin American percussion (8) ; backing vocals

Production and artwork
 * John Entwistle – producer
 * Roy Thomas – engineer
 * Graham Hughes – cover artwork; design; photography
 * Bob Irwin of Sundazed – mastering on 1997 edition

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Jessamine (band)

Jessamine was an American post-rock band, that recorded three albums for Kranky records between 1994 and 1998, and a number of singles for other record labels. These singles were later collected by the band on a self-released compilation album in 1997 entitled Another Fictionalized History.

Their single "Cellophane" was a minor college radio hit in the band's native Seattle, getting frequent airplay on KCMU (now KEXP).

The band's sound was influenced by the works of Krautrock bands such as Can and Neu!, and their first album also bore some sonic resemblance to the sounds of early 1990s bands from the UK shoegaze scene. This mesh of krautrock, shoegaze, drone, space-rock, and experimental electronica helped the band forge a unique sound, which helped them stand apart from other active bands in the Seattle scene that were more grunge, metal, or indie-rock based. Their success in solidifying a unique sound however did not translate to album sales, and the band remained a relatively obscure act, with a small cult following.

The band split in 1998, and Ritter and Brown recorded together as Fontanelle for a couple more years.

Musicians

 * Andy Brown – keyboards
 * Michael Faeth – drums
 * Rex Ritter – electric guitar, vocals
 * Dawn Smithson – vocals, bass

Albums

 * Jessamine [1995]
 * Long Arm of Coincidence [1996]
 * Another Fictionalized History [1997]
 * Don't Stay Too Long [1998]

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Industrial mineral

Industrial resources (minerals) are geological materials that are mined for their commercial value, which are not fuel (fuel minerals or mineral fuels) and are not sources of metals (metallic minerals) but are used in the industries based on their physical and/or chemical properties. They are used in their natural state or after beneficiation either as raw materials or as additives in a wide range of applications.

Examples and applications
Typical examples of industrial rocks and minerals are limestone, clays, sand, gravel, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite, silica, barite, gypsum, and talc. Some examples of applications for industrial minerals are construction, ceramics, paints, electronics, filtration, plastics, glass, detergents and paper.

In some cases, even organic materials (peat) and industrial products or by-products (cement, slag, silica fume) are categorized under industrial minerals, as well as metallic compounds mainly utilized in non-metallic form (as an example most titanium is utilized as an oxide TiO2 rather than Ti metal).

The evaluation of raw materials to determine their suitability for use as industrial minerals requires technical test-work, mineral processing trials and end-product evaluation; free to download evaluation manuals are available for the following industrial minerals: limestone, flake graphite, diatomite, kaolin, bentonite and construction materials. These are available from the British Geological Survey external link 'Industrial Minerals in BGS' with regular industry news and reports published in Industrial Minerals magazine.

List of industrial minerals by name

 * Aggregates
 * Alunite
 * Asbestos
 * Asphalt, Natural
 * Ball clays
 * Baryte
 * Bentonite / Diatomite / Fuller's earth
 * Borates
 * Brines
 * Carbonatites
 * Corundum
 * Diamond
 * Dimension stone
 * Feldspar and Nepheline - Syenite
 * Fluorspar
 * Garnet
 * Gem mineral
 * Granite
 * Graphite
 * Gypsum
 * Halite
 * Kaolin
 * Kyanite / Sillimanite / Andalusite
 * Limestone / Dolomite
 * Marble
 * Mica
 * Mirabilite
 * Natron
 * Nahcolite
 * Novaculite
 * Olivine
 * Perlite
 * Phosphate
 * Potash –Potassium minerals
 * Pumice
 * Quartz
 * Slate
 * Silica sand / Tripoli
 * Sulfur
 * Talc
 * Vermiculite
 * Wollastonite
 * Zeolites

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Birstall

Birstall may refer to:

 * Birstall, Leicestershire, a large village and civil parish
 * Birstall, West Yorkshire, a large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees

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Talk:Peter Schoomaker

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What about the fact this guy ordered the planting of the tear gas that ignited and burned the women and children alive at Waco in the siege on Koresh's compound?

He also expanded the Army's occult activities to include the war on terror. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.216.128.110 (talk • contribs) 12:27, 12 October 2005.

Officer
I'm curious on how he became an officer. Was it OCS or ROTC? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.185.84.246 (talk • contribs) 02:49, 7 April 2006.

According to GOMO on AKO, his source was ROTC. Hal06 21:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Odd, that the top Army post is held by a non-Vietnam vet in time of war, when there are plenty of vets to go around ...

 * Not so odd when you consider that 2003, when he was recalled to active duy and appointed to Chief of Staff, was 30 years after the 1973 last US Army involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. I would think that there were very few Vietnam vets still on active duty in 2003.--TGC55 (talk) 01:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Army Transformation
Perhaps the Army Transformation section should be its own article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gibblet (talk • contribs) 12:57, 7 June 2006.

Previous Assignments
Was 73rd Armor ever assigned to Korea? I know that 72nd Armor has been here in Korea with 2ID for a while. I believe GEN Schoomaker's bio for his previous assignments needs to be changed to 72nd Armor, unless 73rd actually was assigned to Korea in that timeframe. Mike 12:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Transformation
Theme referred from here to Transformation of the United States Army, because it should have it's own lemma.(MARK S. 09:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC))

Date of first retirement?
What was the date of his first retirement form active duty -- 2000?--TGC55 18:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Worth including?
Military capitalization. 86.139.249.89 12:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

 * No. Not only is that not a good source in the first place (it's an opinion article from some person's blog), but the subject of the article itself is pretty silly.  So he wants to capitalize "soldier."  Who cares?  If he engineered a new uniform for the Army made of fuchsia leather, fringe, and thigh-high boots, then yeah, I could see that being added because it would be on the somewhat extraordinary side of things and may even suggest a possible mental breakdown on his part.  But just asking people to capitalize soldier?  Meh.  No.  --ScreaminEagle 18:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry - I didn't mean the blog entry itself, but the Stars and Stripes piece. It is actually pretty old news, that tracks back to a December 2003 issue . 86.141.83.8 21:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. Point is, it's still pretty minor news, you know?  I still wouldn't include such a trivial thing. --ScreaminEagle 22:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
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Delta/CAG
Wasn't GEN Schoomaker a member of Delta Force? I saw this in the Wikipedia entry some time ago, but it has been taken out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.25.8.200 (talk) 17:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

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File:Andreas Kurt 1983.jpg

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Andreas Floer and Kurt Heim one summer evening 1983, Bochum

Attribution "Kurt Heim and Rolf Kaiser, Bochum, Germany"

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Corpus

Corpus is Latin for "body". It may refer to:

Linguistics

 * Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts
 * Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files
 * Corpus linguistics, a branch of linguistics

Music

 * Corpus (album), by Sebastian Santa Maria
 * Corpus Delicti (band), also known simply as Corpus

Medicine

 * Corpus callosum, a structure in the brain
 * Corpus cavernosum (disambiguation), a pair of structures in human genitals
 * Corpus luteum, a temporary endocrine structure in mammals
 * Corpus gastricum, the Latin term referring to the body of the stomach
 * Corpus alienum, a foreign object originating outside the body
 * Corpus albicans
 * Corpora amylacea
 * Corpora arenacea

Surname

 * Victor Corpus (1944–2024), Filipino military officer and public official

Other uses

 * Corpus (Bernini), a 1650 sculpture of Christ by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
 * Corpus (museum), a human body themed museum in the Netherlands
 * Corpus Clock, a large sculptural clock
 * Corpus (dance troupe), a Canadian dance troupe
 * Corpus (typography), another name for long primer-size type
 * Corpus, the figure of Christ on a crucifix
 * Corpus, the colloquial term mostly used for Corpus Christi, Texas
 * Corpus fund, the capital generated for the continued sustenance of an organization
 * Corpus, total amount of money invested by all investors in a mutual fund scheme
 * The Corpus, a faction in the online game Warframe, organized as a cult that worships profit
 * CORPUS, a dissident Catholic organisation
 * Enron Corpus, a database of emails from the disgraced American energy company Enron

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Hyporheic zone

The hyporheic zone is the region of sediment and porous space beneath and alongside a stream bed, where there is mixing of shallow groundwater and surface water. The flow dynamics and behavior in this zone (termed hyporheic flow or underflow) is recognized to be important for surface water/groundwater interactions, as well as fish spawning, among other processes. As an innovative urban water management practice, the hyporheic zone can be designed by engineers and actively managed for improvements in both water quality and riparian habitat.

The assemblages of organisms that inhabits this zone are called hyporheos.

The term hyporheic was originally coined by Traian Orghidan in 1959 by combining two Greek words: hypo (below) and rheos (flow).

Hyporheic zone and hydrology

The hyporheic zone is the area of rapid exchange, where water is moved into and out of the stream bed and carries dissolved gas and solutes, contaminants, microorganisms and particles with it. Depending on the underlying geology and topography, the hyporheic zone can be only several centimeters deep, or extend up to tens of meters laterally or deep.

The conceptual framework of the hyporheic zone as both a mixing and storage zone are integral to the study of hydrology. The first key concept related to the hyporheic zone is that of residence time; water in the channel moves at a much faster rate compared to the hyporheic zone, so this flow of slower water effectively increases the water residence time within the stream channel. Water residence times influence nutrient and carbon processing rates. Longer residence times promote dissolved solute retention, which can be later released back into the channel, delaying or attenuating the signals produced by the stream channel.

The other key concept is that of hyporheic exchange, or the speed at which water enters or leaves the subsurface zone. Stream water enters the hyporheic zone temporarily, but eventually the stream water reenters the surface channel or contributes to groundwater storage. The rate of hyporheic exchange is influenced by streambed structure, with shorter water flow paths created by streambed roughness. Longer flowpaths are induced by geomorphic features, such as stream meander patterns, pool-riffle sequences, large woody debris dams, and other features.

The hyporheic zone and its interactions influence the volume of stream water that is moved downstream. Gaining reaches indicate that groundwater is discharged into the stream as water moves downstream, so that the volume of water in the main channel increases from upstream to downstream. Conversely, when surface water infiltrates into the groundwater zone (thereby resulting in a net loss of surface water), then that stream reach is considered to be "losing" water.

The hyporheic zone provides a variety of ecological benefits. Examples include:
 * Habitat and shelter for different species of fish, aquatic plants and interstitial organisms;
 * Reduction of the concentration of pollutants dissolved in the stream water;
 * Control on the water and solute exchange between the main stream and the groundwater;
 * Mitigation of river water temperature.

Studying the hyporheic zone
A stream or river ecosystem is more than just the flowing water that can be seen on the surface: rivers are connected to the adjacent riparian areas. Therefore, streams and rivers include the dynamic hyporheic zone that lies below and lateral to the main channel. Because the hyporheic zone lies underneath the surface water, it can be difficult to identify, quantify, and observe. However, the hyporheic zone is a zone of biological and physical activity, and therefore has functional significance for stream and river ecosystems. Researchers use tools such as wells and piezometers, conservative and reactive tracers, and transport models that account for advection and dispersion of water in both the stream channel and the subsurface. These tools can be used independently to study water movement through the hyporheic zone and to the stream channel, but are often complementary for a more accurate picture of water dynamics in the channel as a whole.

Biogeochemical significance
The hyporheic zone is an ecotone between the stream and subsurface: it is a dynamic area of mixing between surface water and groundwater at the sediment-water interface. From a biogeochemical perspective, groundwater is often low in dissolved oxygen but carries dissolved nutrients. Conversely, stream water from the main channel contains higher dissolved oxygen and lower nutrients. This creates a biogeochemical gradient, which can exist at varying depths depending on the extent of the hyporheic zone. Often, the hyporheic zone is dominated by heterotrophic microorganisms that process the dissolved nutrients exchanged at this interface.

Hyporheic zone: main characteristics and causes of the hyporheic exchange
The main differences between the surface water and groundwater concern the oxygen concentration, the temperature and the pH. As interface region between the main stream and the groundwater the hyporheic zone is subjected to physic-chemical gradients generating biochemical reactions able to regulate the behavior of the chemical compounds and the aquatic organisms within the exchange area. The hyporheic zone provides an important contribution to the attenuation of contaminants dissolved in the channel water and to the cycle of energy, nutrients and organic compounds. Moreover, it exhibits a significant control on the transport of pollutants across the river basin.

The main factors affecting the hyporheic exchange are:
 * Underlying aquifer geometry and hydraulic properties
 * Temporal variation in water table height
 * Topographic characteristics and permeability of the streambed
 * Horizontal gradients generated by changes in the stream channel's shape

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Diocese of Raphoe

Diocese of Raphoe can refer to:

 * The Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe
 * The former Church of Ireland (Anglican) diocese of Raphoe is now incorporated within the united Diocese of Derry and Raphoe

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JO Tankers

Jo Tankers, based in Norway, was one of the world's main providers of deep-sea transportation services for chemicals and other high value liquids.

Since 1915 Odfjell family in Bergen were involved in shipping. They started with the transport of timber. As a consequence the Jo Tankers' vessels named after trees. In the 1930s the first tanker was built and in the 1950s they entered the chemical tanker trade. Jo Tankers have operated a fleet with chemical tankers up to.

Jo Tankers has been acquired by Stolt-Nielsen in 2016. Stolt-Nielsen has over time painted the ships from the orange color into the Stolt-Nielsen colors. As the Jo Tankers fleet consisted out of a number of early 1990s tankers, a number of Jo Tankers ships have been beached and dismantled. Ships aging above 25 years are considered too old for most major oil compagnies to be accepted as charter.

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