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Jussy, Switzerland

Jussy is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The historical Chateau Du Crest is located here.

History
Jussy is first mentioned in 1180 as Jussiacum Episcopi.

Geography
Jussy has an area,, of 11.35 km2. Of this area, 6.24 km2 or 55.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.17 km2 or 36.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.92 km2 or 8.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 45.8% is used for growing crops and 3.6% is pastures, while 5.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

The municipality is located on the left bank of the Rhone river and on the Swiss-French border. It is one of the largest municipalities in the entire canton. The highest point of the canton of Geneva Les Arales (516 m) is located at the far east side of the municipality, near Monniaz. It consists of the village of Jussy and the hamlets of Sionnet and Monniaz. The municipality of Jussy consists of the sub-sections or villages of Sionnet, Château-du-Crest, Jussy - village, Lullier, Jussy - Les Meurets, Jussy - Grands-Bois and Monniaz.

Demographics
Jussy has a population of. , 20.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16.7%. It has changed at a rate of 10.2% due to migration and at a rate of 5.6% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks French (995 or 89.9%), with German being second most common (35 or 3.2%) and English being third (21 or 1.9%). There are 14 people who speak Italian.

, the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female. The population was made up of 494 Swiss men (40.7% of the population) and 130 (10.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 481 Swiss women (39.6%) and 109 (9.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 261 or about 23.6% were born in Jussy and lived there in 2000. There were 319 or 28.8% who were born in the same canton, while 233 or 21.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 252 or 22.8% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 9 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 5 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 8 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland and 2 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 4 and the non-Swiss population increased by 16 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.0%.

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 30.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.8%.

, there were 506 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 494 married individuals, 42 widows or widowers and 65 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 388 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 102 households that consist of only one person and 31 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 405 households that answered this question, 25.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 107 married couples without children, 138 married couples with children There were 33 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 17 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 135 single family homes (or 53.6% of the total) out of a total of 252 inhabited buildings. There were 63 multi-family buildings (25.0%), along with 44 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (17.5%) and 10 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.0%). Of the single family homes 65 were built before 1919, while 8 were built between 1990 and 2000.

there were 436 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 100. There were 28 single room apartments and 175 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 379 apartments (86.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 39 apartments (8.9%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (4.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0.41%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Heritage sites of national significance
The Crest Castle and outbuildings are listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Jussy and the hamlet of Sionnet at part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.08% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (24.2%), the Green Party (16.67%) and the FDP (10.95%). In the federal election, a total of 414 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 57.1%.

In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 723 registered voters of which 340 (47.0%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 29.3% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 14.1%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the MCG (with 13.2%), they were also third in the canton-wide election.

For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 726 registered voters of which 426 (58.7%) voted.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Jussy there were 13 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 826 registered voters of which 545 (66.0%) voted. Out of the 545 votes, there were 10 blank votes, 47 votes with a name that was not on the list.

Economy
, Jussy had an unemployment rate of 2.5%. , there were 69 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 12 businesses in this sector. 279 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 37 businesses in this sector. There were 517 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.6% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 325. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 46, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 33 of which 13 or (39.4%) were in manufacturing and 20 (60.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 246. In the tertiary sector; 48 or 19.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 15 or 6.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.8% were in the information industry, 6 or 2.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 158 or 64.2% were in education and 3 or 1.2% were in health care.

, there were 212 workers who commuted into the municipality and 368 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 16.0% of the workforce coming into Jussy are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 11.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.2% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 383 or 34.6% were Roman Catholic, while 411 or 37.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 9 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.81% of the population), and there were 9 individuals (or about 0.81% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 7 individuals (or about 0.63% of the population) who were Jewish, and 5 (or about 0.45% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 220 (or about 19.87% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 60 individuals (or about 5.42% of the population) did not answer the question.

Weather
Jussy has an average of 118 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives 953 mm of precipitation. The wettest month is June during which time Jussy receives an average of 97 mm of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 10.1 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 11.8, but with only 93 mm of rain or snow. The driest month of the year is July with an average of 69 mm of precipitation over 8.1 days.

Education
In Jussy about 320 or (28.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 262 or (23.7%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 262 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.5% were Swiss men, 35.5% were Swiss women, 13.7% were non-Swiss men and 10.3% were non-Swiss women.

During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 278 students in the Jussy school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 23 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Jussy there were 22 students in kindergarten or primary school and 4 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 22 lower secondary students who attended school in Jussy. There were 54 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 22 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 48 students attended a private school.

, there were 201 students in Jussy who came from another municipality, while 95 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Jussy is home to the Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Lullier (EIL) library. The library has 12,615 books or other media, and loaned out 11,124 items in the same year. It was open a total of 355 days with average of 49 hours per week during that year.

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Walter Trump

Walter Trump (born 1952 or 1953 ) is a German mathematician and retired high school teacher. He is known for his work in recreational mathematics.

He has made contributions working on both the square packing problem and the magic tile problem. In 1979 he discovered the optimal known packing of 11 equal squares in a larger square, and in 2003, along with Christian Boyer, developed the first known magic cube of order 5. In 2012, Trump et al. described a model for retention of liquid on random surfaces. In 2014, he and Francis Gaspalou were able to calculate all 8 × 8 bimagic squares.

Until he retired in 2016, Trump worked as a teacher for mathematics and physics at the Gymnasium in Stein, Bavaria.

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Incidentally, it is for Wikt to clean up its own articles. -Splash talk 23:55, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Off the schnide

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 * Rewrite/Cleanup then move to Wiktionary. Term has some usage according to google; however, it's meaning appears to be somewhat different than indicated. Cool3 23:52, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:DEC Professional (computer)

TODO: check out the release years of the various models. Qwertyus 19:58, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Dead link: the one to the Xhomer emulator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.40.8 (talk) 12:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Could you explain this one? "DEC's corporate culture and business model, which were ill-suited to the rapidly developing consumer market for computers." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.185.6.171 (talk) 10:49, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

This is just factually not true
"BYTE in 1984 reported that Venix on the PC outperformed the same operating system on the DEC Professional and PDP-11/23." The article, BYTE pg 134 says: No. 9 IBM PC XT version VENIX/86 9.0 Seconds. No. 8 PDP-11/23 Version VEXIX 5.5 Seconds. No. 14 DEC Pro/350 Version VENIX 6.3 seconds.

They did not add "Smaller is better" in those days because they thought that people would know better.

I must explain! Since a PDP-11/23 ran the benchmark in 5.5 seconds vs 9.0 seconds, it was FASTER. Less time = faster. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.254.26.9 (talk) 23:39, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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Alassio

Alassio (Arasce ) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Savona situated in the western coast of Liguria, Northern Italy, approximately 80 km from the French border.

Alassio is known for its natural and scenic views. The town centre is crossed by a pedestrianised cobbled road known as the Budello.

The town has sandy beaches, blue sea and many bars and restaurants on the sea front. Alassio has also a pier known as "Molo di Alassio" or "Pontile Bestoso" which offers views of the town. The town is famous for its "Muretto di Alassio", a wall with signatures onto coloured ceramic tiles.

Alassio is situated on the Riviera di Ponente coast, and it has a small tourist port (porticciolo) named "Luca Ferrari". It was also known as a health resort in winter and a bathing place in summer, and has many hotels.

Alasssio was the start of stage 7 of the 2023 Giro Donne won by Annemiek van Vleuten.

Heritage
The English composer Edward Elgar wrote a concert-overture called In the South (Alassio) whilst staying on holiday in Alassio in the winter of 1903–04.

Alassio is featured as the location for a holiday in the 1944 film The Children Are Watching Us.

The painter Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944) stayed in Alassio in 1934 and it appears on many of his lighter paintings. The painters Helen Frankenthaler and her husband Robert Motherwell summered and worked there in 1960.

Lisa Gastoni, born Alassio, 28th. July, 1935.

Twin towns – Sister cities
Alassio is twinned with:
 * 🇮🇹 La Thuile, Italy (2013)

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Welcome to Sarajevo

Welcome to Sarajevo is a 1997 war drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson. The film stars Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nušević, Kerry Fox, Goran Višnjić, James Nesbitt, and Emily Lloyd.

Welcome to Sarajevo had its world premieres at Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival in May and September 1997, and was released in the United Kingdom on 21 November 1997, by FilmFour, and in the United States on 26 November 1997, by Miramax.

Plot
In 1992, ITN reporter Michael Henderson travels to Sarajevo, the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the ongoing war. There, he meets American star journalist Jimmy Flynn on the chase for the most exciting stories and pictures.

Henderson and Flynn have friendly discussions and differences in the intervals between reporting. They stay at the Holiday Inn, which was the primary hotel for the press in Sarajevo during the siege. After a previous translator proves corrupt and inept, ITN hires Risto Bavić to be Henderson's translator.

Their work permits them harrowing and unobstructed views of the suffering of the people of Sarajevo. The situation changes when Henderson makes a report from Ljubica Ivezic, an orphanage located on the front lines, in which two hundred children live in desperate conditions. After increasingly indiscriminate attacks fail to make the lead story in the United Kingdom, Henderson makes the orphanage his lead story to try to bring full attention to the war and encourage the evacuation of the children to safety.

When American aid worker Nina organizes a UN-sanctioned bus-borne evacuation of Sarajevan children to Italy, Henderson convinces her to include Emira, a Bosniak girl from the orphanage, to whom Henderson had made a promise to evacuate. Nina knows this is an illegal act, only transfers to relatives abroad have been authorised, but the orphanage director allows it because of the desperate circumstances. Henderson and his cameraman accompany the evacuation under the pretense of covering it as a news story. However, Bosnian Serbs hinder the evacuation at several points along its route. In the final harassment, armed Chetniks halt the bus, select and forcibly disembark the Bosnian Serb orphans, identifying them through their first names, and take them away on their lorry, as they refuse to let them go to the West.

Henderson makes it home to London with Emira, adopting her into his family. After several months, Henderson receives word from a former producer in Sarajevo that Emira's estranged mother wants her back. Henderson, who didn't know that her mother was living, returns to Sarajevo, now driven not only by the siege but also by organised crime, and seeks out Risto, who has become a Bosnian soldier.

Henderson asks him to help find Emira's mother. They discover from a relative that Emira was put into the orphanage as an infant by her mother under familial pressure. When Risto is killed in his home by a sniper, Henderson asks for help from Zeljko, a concierge at the Holiday Inn, who Henderson had helped in the past. Zeljko negotiates the streets and road-blocks that lead to Emira's mother, who is desperate for the girl to live with her. However, she is persuaded that Emira is happy in England and so signs the adoption papers.

A running joke in the movie is the designation by a UN official that Sarajevo was only the 14th worst crisis in the world. In the middle of the movie, Harun, a cellist friend of Risto, says that he would play a concert on the streets of Sarajevo once it is designated the worst place on Earth. Though he acknowledges the danger, he claims that "the people will die happily listening to my music." The movie ends with Harun holding a "concert of peace" on a hill overlooking Sarajevo, playing his cello to hundreds of Sarajevans. Among the attendees are Henderson, Flynn and several children from the orphanage. Henderson gives Harun a sad smile; the concert is beautiful, but it also means that Sarajevo had, indeed, become the worst place on Earth.

The closing credits say that Emira still lives in England.

Cast

 * Stephen Dillane as Michael Henderson
 * Woody Harrelson as Jimmy Flynn
 * Marisa Tomei as Nina
 * Emira Nušević as herself
 * Kerry Fox as Jane Carson
 * Goran Višnjić as Risto Bavić
 * James Nesbitt as Gregg
 * Emily Lloyd as Annie McGee
 * Igor Džambazov as Jacket
 * Gordana Gadžić as Mrs. Savić
 * Juliet Aubrey as Helen Henderson
 * Drazen Šivak as Željko
 * Vesna Orel as Munira Hodžić
 * Davor Janjić as Dragan
 * Labina Mitevska as Sonja

Style
Michael Winterbottom portrays the events with brutality. In the opening sequence, there is a sniper attack on a wedding procession. Other shocking sequences include Henderson stumbling upon a massacre at a farm-house, a Bosnian-Serb officer nonchalantly executing groups of Bosniaks and Henderson's arrival in the immediate aftermath of the first of the Markale Massacres.

Shot just a few months after the war on locations in Sarajevo and Croatia, the film uses real ruins and war debris to give the film a feeling of authenticity. Many scenes of the characters witnessing and reporting on street carnage were intercut with video footage of the historic events.

Soundtrack
Two widely known pieces of music were among those used in the film. "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin is played against scenes of the siege of Sarajevo, with people being wounded by bombs, blood everywhere on the streets, etc. The second piece is "Adagio in G minor" by Remo Giazotto, based on a fragment from Sonata in G minor by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. The House of Love's "Shine On" (Creation, 1987) and Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored" (Silvertone, 1989) are among the English independent rock classics featured in contrast to the dark barbarism affecting the people of Sarajevo.

Rock anthems from the 1960s were used as part of the soundtracks in such Vietnam War-era movies as Apocalypse Now and Platoon. The anthems used in Welcome to Sarajevo were popular closer to the era of the film.

Release
The film made its world premiere on May 9 at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 78% approval rating based on 36 reviews, with an average ranking of 6.8/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of a 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave Welcome to Sarajevo an "A−". Time Out commended the film's choice of a "crisp [and] rigorously unsentimental director". Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle praised the film for "[b]ring[ing] up some hard questions about the sheer impossibility of foreign correspondents remaining true to their journalistic neutrality in a war zone". Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film "a compelling but jumbled film that examines the line between journalistic detachment and passion".

In a more negative review, Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "However closely they mirror the real experience of Mr. Nicholson and others, some of the shocks here are too sadly predictable". A similar opinion was shared by Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who wrote that "Too often we sense that the actors are drifting and the story is at sea", in an "air of improvisation" that "combines fact and fiction", giving the film a two-star review.

Box office
The film opened on 108 screens in the United Kingdom and grossed $199,659 in its opening weekend, finishing in tenth place at the UK box office. It halved the number of screens in its second weekend finishing with a total gross of $395,710 after 10 days. In the United States it opened on 5 screens and grossed $89,274 over the Thanksgiving holiday and went on to gross $334,319. It grossed $344,000 in Japan, $230,000 in Australia and $300,000 in Germany, Italy and France for a worldwide total of over $1.6 million.

Awards and nominations
It was nominated for the Golden Palm and for the Golden Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. It was awarded a "Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking" by the National Board of Review (USA) during the 69th National Board of Review Awards (1997).

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IIPM (disambiguation)

The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) was an unaccredited institute that was based in New Delhi.

IIPM may also refer to:

 * Indian Institute of Personnel Management, an institute focused on human resources management
 * International Institute of Political Murder, a theatre and film production company founded by Milo Rau

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Bias in Article
is it me or does this page seem a bit bias? Swedishdave 16:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

It did seem a little biased at the end of the article, but appears more due to the way the sentence was written rather than any actual planned bias. But this article could also use some sources. --AeroKnight 18:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I added a bunch of material to round out the biography and reduce bias, but sources on Gray are difficult to find. Google hits seem to be citing each other. Each of the references already cited: Evenson, Baker, and Coe has a section on Elisha Gray. Greensburger 15:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

 * It's probably bias because it is a huge and powerful company (AT&T) that have profited from Alexander Bell's thievery. That kind of crookery changes history.(Sasquatchuk 12:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)}

 * In Evenson's book, which describes the dishonesty of Bell's lawyers and examiner Wilber, Bell is not described as a thief or crook, but merely naive about the hidden activities of the lawyers Pollok and Bailey and other people who founded the telephone company in Bell's name. The lawyers were not working for Bell, they were being paid by Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard.  Bell received only a few shares of stock in the telephone company.  The pro-Bell bias in biographies of Bell and telephone histories was partly do to the Bell company requiring in contracts that the parties agreed that Bell was the inventor of the telephone.  Although years later AT&T became a very powerful company, in early 1879 the Bell Telephone Company nearly went bankrupt.  It was only because Thomas Edison or one of his workers invented the carbon microphone/transmitter that saved the Bell company from extinction.  Greensburger 04:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Patent Dispute Unclear
I am sorry, but I find the section about the patent dispute very unclear as to who did exactly what first. Can somebody clear this up a bit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.52.88.64 (talk) 18:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I rewrote this section to clarify the unclear parts, add additional references, and to rearrange things in chronological sequence. Greensburger (talk) 00:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Liquid Microphone
This struck me as interesting. I'm not sure how one would work, but it would seem (to me) to involve mercury. Thoughts?RSido 04:08, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Acid. Users sometimes burnt their clothing; occasionally their skin, until the carbon button came along.  I guess it belongs in one of the articles; maybe this one.  Jim.henderson 17:08, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Your question inspired me to create a new page for Water microphone. Greensburger 18:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Elisha Gray and the telephone
This section begins:

Because of Samuel White's opposition to Gray working on the telephone...

Unfortuneately there is no mention of who Samuel White is and why he would have any influence over Gray's work. Should this opening sentence be removed or more information added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcconkeyb (talk • contribs) 17:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I added a footnote to explain who Dr. Samuel White was. This is explained on page 14 of Evenson's book, already cited. Greensburger (talk) 20:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

In the graphic of Bell's notebook, I changed 'March 8' to 'March 9', as both the notebook and the body text use the latter date. So my reason is consistency rather than actual knowledge. Also wondering (from an editorial standpoint) whether the Gray item would be an 'excerpt' rather than 'excerpts'. An excerpt would be a single passage, right? Curious: where did the card come from? It looks as though prepared by a graphic artist, and isn't dated or authenticated at the same level as the notebook. (Oh, wait...I see now that it's a facsimile from Gray's caveat...maybe add this to caption?) Mvsmith (talk) 21:58, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Telautograph
I think they worked best using 3 wires. There was practically no delay time, just the time it took electricity to travel through wires. Unlike modern fax machines or email. I wonder if they are still being used somewhere. As recently as 15 years ago, I saw Telautograph systems in parking garages, and at a control tower at large Air Force base near the west coast. I am not sure why the AF used it, but it probably had something to do with security. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcmpvernon (talk • contribs) 02:27, 23 June 2009 (UTC) I think they were for weather reports Rcmpvernon (talk) 01:56, 24 June 2009 (UTC) It looks as though prepared by a graphic artist, and isn't dated or authenticated at the same level as the notebook.

Re: Underwater Signaling Device
Gray's invention of a underwater signaling device is addressed in two sections of the article, "biography and early inventions" (next to last paragraph,last 3 sentences) , and also "Gray's further inventions" (next to last paragraph). Both seem to be unsourced and contain conflicting information about testing the device.

Could an editor please take a look at this and hopefully make some sense of it ?

Also the part about officers investigating his house and giving the invention to Oberlin College just raises questions that can't easily be explained since the information is unsourced.Jonel469 (talk) 21:41, 14 July 2011 (UTC) It looks as though prepared by a graphic artist, and isn't dated or authenticated at the same level as the notebook.

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Lack of information on the Synthesizer
The article mentions that 'Gray is also considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer' The citation provides no more information or evidence for this. I would suggest using a more comprehensive citation like this: https://120years.net/the-musical-telegraphelisha-greyusa1876/ or even (less detailed) this: https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/musical-telegraph/

I have not yet got to grips with editing and would not want to edit something erroneously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.1.178 (talk) 10:25, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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Electoral district of Ashgrove

Ashgrove was a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia from 1960 to 2017.

It was located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Alderley, Ashgrove, Enoggera, The Gap and Newmarket. The electorate also contained the Enoggera Army Barracks and the Enoggera Reservoir, a state forest.

In the 2012 state election LNP leader Campbell Newman won the seat, and following his party's success in that election became Premier. In the 2015 election, Kate Jones, who had held the seat for Labor from 2006 to 2012, reclaimed the seat. In losing his seat and the Premiership, Newman became just the second Premier in Queensland history to be defeated in his electorate.

Ashgrove was abolished in the 2017 electoral redistribution, mostly being replaced by Cooper.

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Category:Totonac sites

This category is for archaeological sites of the pre-Columbian Totonac civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Dennis Lyxzén

Sven Olov Dennis Lyxzén (born June 19, 1972) is a Swedish singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for influential Swedish hardcore punk band Refused, as well as the bands INVSN and Fake Names. He is also a former member of bands including AC4, Step Forward, Final Exit, and The (International) Noise Conspiracy, and co-founded the Swedish record labels Ny Våg and Desperate Fight Records.

Refused
Following a stint in the short-lived hardcore band Step Forward, Lyxzén formed Refused in 1991 with drummer David Sandström, guitarist Pär Hansson, and bassist Jonas Lindgren. They released three studio albums, This Just Might Be... the Truth (1994), Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent (1996), and The Shape of Punk to Come (1998), the latter of which was heavily influential on later bands but a commercial and critical failure upon release, and the group disbanded that same year.

In March 2010, there were rumours that Refused would be reuniting after a 12 years hiatus, although Lyxzén dismissed the notion as he and Sandström were busy with the band AC4. However, Refused unexpectedly reunited in 2012 for the Refused Reunion Tour, including appearances at Coachella, the Way Out West Festival, the Fun Fun Fun Fest, and Groezrock in Meerhout, Belgium. While the reunion was intended to be temporary, in 2015 the band released a fourth studio album, Freedom, via Epitaph Records. Speaking on the band's future in 2017, Lyxzén said, "We're not breaking up or anything, we're taking a break to write a new record... But the Australian tour will be the last tour for a while... We'll take some time off, and then we'll start writing some songs but we're not breaking up, no."

On 13 June 2024, Lyxzén suffered a heart attack, leading to cancellation of Refused shows in the following weeks.

Other work
Outside of Refused, Lyxzén has been involved in a number of bands, most notably The (International) Noise Conspiracy, INVSN (previously called The Lost Patrol Band), and Fake Names, the latter a supergroup formed with guitarists Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Bad Religion) and Michael Hampton (Embrace), drummer Matt Schulz (Enon), and bassist Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys). He also revealed in December 2021 that he had formed a new punk band with INVSN bandmate Sara Almgren, with him on rhythm guitar and Almgren on bass and vocals.

Lyxzén also runs Ny Våg, an independent punk record label he co-founded with former Refused bassist Inge Johansson, and produced the 2005 self-titled album by label signee Regulations. He also co-founded the now-defunct labels Desperate Fight Records and Umeå Hardcore Records.

In 2011, Lyxzén joined Italian electronic act The Bloody Beetroots for their "Church of Noise" tour as a guest vocalist, and was featured on the act's single of the same name.

Lyxzén provided the singing vocals for the character Johnny Silverhand (with Refused portraying the character's band Samurai) in the 2020 video game Cyberpunk 2077. He also provided vocals for the track "Silent No More" from the 2022 game Metal: Hellsinger.

Public image and personal life
As a punk rock frontman, Lyxzén's songs are often of a counterculture nature, in line with his socialist politics, although he has explored a variety of topics in his music.

Lyxzén was voted "Sexiest Man in Sweden" in 2004 by Elle Magazine. He is a vegan, having discovered animal rights around 1989 and adopted the lifestyle in the early 1990s.

Current bands

 * Refused – lead vocals (1991–1998, 2012–present)
 * INVSN – lead vocals, guitar (1999–present)
 * Fake Names – lead vocals (2018–present)

Former bands

 * AC4 – lead vocals (2008–2013)
 * Instängd – drums, percussion (2008–2011)
 * The (International) Noise Conspiracy – lead vocals (1998–2009)
 * 93 Million Miles From the Sun – lead vocals, guitar (1997–1998)
 * Final Exit (credited in the band as D-Rp) – bass (1994–1997)
 * By No Means – guitar (1992)
 * Step Forward – lead vocals (1989–1991)
 * Garbage Pailkids – bass (1989–1991)
 * Afro Jetz – lead vocals, bass (1987–1989)
 * Yonderboy

Refused

 * This Just Might Be... the Truth (1994)
 * Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent (1996)
 * The Shape of Punk to Come (1998)
 * Freedom (2015)
 * War Music (2019)

INVSN
As The Lost Patrol:

 * Songs in the Key of Resistance (1999)
 * Songs About Running Away (2003)

As The Lost Patrol Band:

 * The Lost Patrol Band (2005)
 * Automatic (2006)

As Invasionen:

 * Hela Världen Brinner (2010)
 * Saker Som Jag Sagt Till Natten (2011)

As INVSN:

 * INVSN (2013)
 * The Beautiful Stories (2017)
 * Let The Night Love You (2022)

AC4

 * AC4 (2009)
 * Burn the World (2013)

The (International) Noise Conspiracy

 * The First Conspiracy (1999)
 * Survival Sickness (2000)
 * A New Morning, Changing Weather (2001)
 * Armed Love (2004)
 * The Cross of My Calling (2008)

Final Exit

 * Teg (1995)
 * Umeå (1997)

Step Forward

 * I Am Me (1990)
 * Does It Make A Difference (1990)
 * It Did Make a Difference (1996)

Fake Names

 * Fake Names (2020)
 * Fake Names EP (2021)
 * Expendables (2023)

Instängd

 * Mitt Svar På Ingenting EP (2007)
 * Konkret Och Brutal EP (2008)
 * Drag Utan Drog EP (2011)

93 Million Miles

 * 93 Million Miles (2003)

By No Means

 * Straight (1992)

Garbage Pailkids

 * Garbage Pailkids (1990)
 * Pailkids on the Block (1991)

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Archaeology (disambiguation)

Archaeology is the study of ancient cultures through examination of the artifacts they left behind.

Archaeology may also refer to:
 * Archaeology, an 1879 book by Alfred Percival Maudslay (part of Biologia Centrali-Americana)
 * Archaeology (magazine)
 * Archaeology (album), a 1996 album by The Rutles

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Talk:Twinkling

Comments
I think someone was confused by the phrase "atmospheric Schlieren measurements". This means Schlieren measurements of the atmosphere. There is no such thing as an "atmospheric Schlieren" as far as I know. Rnt20 20:00, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Planets don't twinkle
Worth mentioning why?RayJohnstone (talk) 14:48, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Planets don't twinkle (someone's replacement article)
This article on the appearance of stars and planets, replaces one I had written earlier. It relies on the false statement that the eye can form images of the planets which are circular discs. The eye has a scotopic resolution of approximately 3 arcminutes. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Visual_acuity). Apparent planetary size varies (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html) but is mostly about 0.5 arcminutes. The absolute largest is the crescent Venus at 1.1 arcminute. So the image of a planet is unresolved and is not a disc. I have replaced the article with the original.RayJohnstone (talk) 12:15, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

 * I somewhat doubt that the matter is as black and white as you perceive it. First of all, the difference between 3 arcminutes and 0.5 arcminutes (assumimg you did not mistype) is not so huge that the latter falling within the range of human variation implausible. Second, there is the question of how resolution is defined. Anyone that has ever read an eye chart is aware that there is no clear line that distinguishes the "resolvable" verses the "unresolvable"; and furthermore, the range in twinkle what is resolvable and what can be perceived as being something that is larger in 2 dimensions than a dimensionless POINT (such as a star) goes well beyond only what is resolvable. Only the ability to perceive planets as the latter would be needed for this to be the cause of the planets' lack of twinkle. Firejuggler86 (talk) 19:42, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Merger Proposal (2014)

 * The following discussion is closed. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

I'm proposing merging the Twinkling article into Astronomical seeing, as the former is an effect of the latter. The discussion can be found here -- Primefac (talk) 23:15, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

There is no "denser layer" toward the horizon
The article has this statement that I think is misleading: "light rays near the horizon must penetrate a denser layer of and have longer paths through the atmosphere before reaching the observer". What is the "penetrate a denser layer" part based on?

Consider an observer standing at sea level: they can view something near the horizon and something near the zenith. If they could send a barometer along each light path that measures air density along the way, the way this article reads now seems to imply that the barometer going toward the horizon would measure absolute values that are higher (more dense) than the barometer going toward the zenith. Why would that be true? Why would we not expect both light paths to pass through exactly the same layers of air with the same densities, but the path toward the horizon would simply take a longer path through those same layers?

I propose removing the words "must penetrate a denser layer of and". The rest of the sentence makes it clear that a path toward the horizon is longer.

Mhrivnak (talk) 15:31, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Vrahovice

Dejte tam někdo obrázek Vrahovic! Na internetu je jich spousty, třeba na stránkách Vrahovic nebo SZSV...

I think that after my last edits, the article about Vrahovice is not the "stub". 109.80.37.237 (talk) 22:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Why is the article is still clasified as Stub-Class? Maybe there are still some issues, but it is not stub no more. --Wrahowitz (talk) 20:24, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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Laconnex

Laconnex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

History
Laconnex is first mentioned in 1225 as Laconay. In 1231 it was mentioned as Lacunay.

Geography
Laconnex has an area,, of 3.83 km2. Of this area, 3.06 km2 or 79.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.34 km2 or 8.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.4 km2 or 10.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.03 km2 or 0.8% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 6.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 67.1% is used for growing crops and 5.2% is pastures, while 7.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality is located in the Swiss Champagne valley. The municipality of Laconnex consists of the sub-sections or villages of Les Allues, La Grenouillère and Laconnex - village.

Demographics
Laconnex has a population of. , 17.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.5%. It has changed at a rate of 10% due to migration and at a rate of 5.5% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks French (465 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (26 or 4.8%) and English being third (16 or 3.0%). There are 6 people who speak Italian.

, the gender distribution of the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female. The population was made up of 249 Swiss men (40.2% of the population) and 55 (8.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 270 Swiss women (43.6%) and 45 (7.3%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 134 or about 24.8% were born in Laconnex and lived there in 2000. There were 178 or 33.0% who were born in the same canton, while 75 or 13.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 139 or 25.7% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 5 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 2. There was 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 5 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 2 and the non-Swiss population increased by 6 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.6%.

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10.6%.

, there were 218 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 283 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 23 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 198 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 47 households that consist of only one person and 21 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 205 households that answered this question, 22.9% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 48 married couples without children, 89 married couples with children There were 10 single parents with a child or children. There were 4 households that were made up of unrelated people and 7 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 107 single family homes (or 74.3% of the total) out of a total of 144 inhabited buildings. There were 14 multi-family buildings (9.7%), along with 18 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.5%) and 5 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.5%). Of the single family homes 38 were built before 1919, while 12 were built between 1990 and 2000.

there were 183 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 48. There were 4 single room apartments and 92 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 172 apartments (94.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (5.5%) were seasonally occupied and 1 apartments (0.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0.44%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 22.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (17.21%), the SVP (15.81%) and the SVP (15.81%). In the federal election, a total of 255 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 63.1%.

In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 401 registered voters of which 219 (54.6%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the PDC with 22.1% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the fifth highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 18.8%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Libéral (with 17.8%), they were first in the canton-wide election.

For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 402 registered voters of which 264 (65.7%) voted.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Laconnex there were 11 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 448 registered voters of which 255 (56.9%) voted. Out of the 255 votes, there were 6 blank votes, 8 votes with a name that was not on the list.

Economy
, Laconnex had an unemployment rate of 3%. , there were 33 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 21 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 38 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 14 businesses in this sector. There were 275 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.1% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 74. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 19, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 21 of which 5 or (23.8%) were in manufacturing and 16 (76.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 34. In the tertiary sector; 5 or 14.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 8 or 23.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 5.9% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 2 or 5.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 8.8% were in education and 1 was in health care.

, there were 39 workers who commuted into the municipality and 229 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 28.2% of the workforce coming into Laconnex are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 9.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 73.5% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 241 or 44.6% were Roman Catholic, while 107 or 19.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.56% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.37% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 8 individuals (or about 1.48% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.37% of the population) who were Jewish, and  There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist. 151 (or about 27.96% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 24 individuals (or about 4.44% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Laconnex about 184 or (34.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 136 or (25.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 136 who completed tertiary schooling, 39.7% were Swiss men, 34.6% were Swiss women, 15.4% were non-Swiss men and 10.3% were non-Swiss women.

During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 137 students in the Laconnex school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 8 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Laconnex there were 24 students in kindergarten or primary school and 2 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 24 lower secondary students who attended school in Laconnex. There were 39 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 6 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 14 students attended a private school.

, there were 28 students in Laconnex who came from another municipality, while 90 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

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159 (number)

159 (one hundred [and] fifty-nine) is a natural number following 158 and preceding 160.

In mathematics
159 is:

 * the sum of 3 consecutive prime numbers: 47 + 53 + 59.
 * a Woodall number.
 * equal to the sum of the squares of the digits of its own square in base 15.
 * Only 5 numbers (greater than 1) have this property in base 15, none in base 10.

 * written CLIX in Roman numeral, which spells a proper noun with multiple meanings.

Given 159, the Mertens function returns 0.

In astronomy

 * 159 Aemilia is a large Main belt asteroid
 * NGC 159 is a galaxy in the constellation of Phoenix
 * The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which will begin on May 23, 2134 and end June 17, 3378. The duration of Saros series 159 is 1244.0 years, and it will contain 70 solar eclipses
 * The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series, which will begin on September 9, 2147 and end November 7, 3445. The duration of Saros series 159 is 1298.1 years, and it will contain 73 lunar eclipses
 * 159P/LONEOS is a periodic comet in the Solar System

In geography

 * The state of Georgia has 159 counties
 * Sherwood No. 159, Saskatchewan is a rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada

In the military

 * Aero L-159 ALCA (Advanced Light Combat Aircraft) is a Czechoslovakian-built multi-role combat aircraft in service with the Czech Air Force
 * USS Antrim (AK-159) was a United States Navy Alamosa-class cargo ship during World War II
 * USS Change (AM-159) was a United States Navy Admirable-class minesweeper during World War II
 * USS Darke (APA-159) was a United States Navy Haskell-class attack transport during World War II
 * USS Feldspar (IX-159) was a United States Navy concrete barge during World War II
 * USS General Stuart Heintzelman (AP-159) was a United States Navy concrete barge following World War II
 * USS Laning (DE-159) was a United States Navy Buckley-class destroyer escort during World War II
 * USS Schenck (DD-159) was a United States Navy Wickes-class destroyer during World War II

In sports

 * In professional darts, 159 is the lowest score a player can achieve with no available checkout.

In transportation

 * The Alfa Romeo 159 compact executive car produced from 2005 to 2011
 * The Ferrari 159 S racecar
 * The Peugeot Type 159 was produced in 1919
 * The British Rail Class 159, a member of the Sprinter family), is a diesel multiple unit, produced from 1989 to 1993
 * London Buses route 159
 * TWA Flight 159, a Boeing 707, while on its takeoff roll from Greater Cincinnati Airport, passed Delta Flight 379, a DC-9 on the runway on November 6, 1967

In other fields
159 is also:
 * The year AD 159 or 159 BC
 * 159 AH is a year in the Islamic calendar that corresponds to 775 – 776 CE
 * The atomic number of an element temporarily called Unpentennium.
 * The chemical element terbium has a stable Isotope of 159 nucleons
 * Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Number 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities
 * 159 can be dialled to contact a variety of banks in the United Kingdom directly. This has been implemented as a method of preventing financial scams.

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Lac du Bonnet Airport

Lac du Bonnet Airport, also known as Lac du Bonnet Regional Airport, is a registered aerodrome located 3 NM northeast of Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada.

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Venix

Venix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for low-end computers, developed by VenturCom, a "company that specialises in the skinniest implementations of Unix".

Overview
A working version of Venix/86 for the IBM PC XT was demoed at COMDEX in May 1983. It was based on Version 7 Unix with some enhancements from BSD (notably vi, more and csh) and custom inter-process communication mechanisms. It was the first licensed UNIX operating system available for the IBM PC and its compatibles, supported read/write access to a separate DOS/FAT-partition and could run in as little as 128 KB (256 KB - 512 KB recommended).

In September 1984, Venix/86 Encore was released; it supported a number of early PC-compatibles, including the AT&T 6300, the Zenith 150, the (first) NCR PC, and the Texas Instruments Professional Computer.

Venix Encore, which then became Venix 2.0, was still based on Version 7 Unix, and ran on the DEC Rainbow 100 (Venix/86R) as well as PCs (Venix/86 and /286). The system contained a number of enhancements, notably tools to access DOS files directly on a DOS/FAT-partition, and an updated ADB debugger. The system came in two flavors: a 2-user version priced at $800, and an 8-user version at $1,000. There were no technical differences between the two.

Confusingly, Venix 2.0 for the DEC PRO-380 microcomputer (Venix/PRO) was based "essentially" on System III. It no longer ran on the PRO-350. This is made clear in the ckermit 4E build instructions, which has a special target for Pro running Venix 1.0, but instructs the user to use the  target for the Pro running Venix 2.0. These same sources also make it clear that Venix had an enhanced TTY interface relative to a pure V7 Unix System.

Venix 2.1 was released for at least the PC. Like the original Venix/86, it included a C compiler, a BASIC interpreter and added a Fortran 77 compiler as an option. An optional driver kit made it possible to develop hardware drivers for the system and generate new kernels. In November 1985, Unisource Software Corp., a Venix retailer, announced the availability of RM/Cobol for Venix.

From version 3.0, Venix was based on System V. A real-time version based on System V.3.2 was released for the 386 in 1990.

The last version, Venix 4.2.1, based on UNIX System V Release 4.2 (UnixWare), was released in 1994. The workstation system included the real-time operating system, NFS and TCP/IP networking, X, OpenLook and Motif GUIs, and the Veritas journaling File System (vxfs). A development system included additionally an ANSI C compiler, a library of real-time functions, GUI development software, real-time development utilities, and selected industrial I/O device drivers.

Reception
In its 1984 review PC Magazine found Venix functional, despite some bugs in the initial versions. Its use of the BIOS for accessing devices made it more portable than its competitor PC/IX, but slowed down its display processing; the disk access speed was found to be similar. BYTE stated that Venix on the DEC Professional and IBM PC "performed adequately," but criticized its limit on background processes.

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Trojan Nuclear Power Plant

Trojan Nuclear Power Plant was a pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant (Westinghouse design) in the northwest United States, located southeast of Rainier, Oregon, and so far, the only commercial nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. There was much public opposition to the plant from the design stage. The three main opposition groups were the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance, Forelaws on the Board, and Mothers for Peace. There were largely non-violent protests from 1977, and subsequent arrests of participants.

The plant was connected to the grid in December 1975.

After 16 years of irregular service, the plant was closed permanently in 1992 by its operator, Portland General Electric (PGE), after cracks were discovered in the steam-generator tubing. Decommissioning and demolition of the plant began the following year and was largely completed in 2006.

While operating, Trojan represented more than 12% of the electrical generation capacity of Oregon. The site lies about 12 mi north of St. Helens, on the west (south) bank of the Columbia River.

History
The Trojan Powder Company had formerly manufactured gunpowder and dynamite on a 634 acre site on the banks of the Columbia River, 4 mi from the town of Rainier, Oregon. In 1967, Portland General Electric chose the site for a new nuclear power plant. Construction began on February 1, 1970;  first criticality was achieved on December 15, 1975, and grid connection eight days later on December 23. Commercial operation began on May 20, 1976, under a 35-year license to expire in 2011. At the time, the single 1,130 megawatt unit at Trojan was the world's largest pressurized water reactor; it cost $460 million to build the plant.

Environmental opposition dogged Trojan from its inception, and the opposition included non-violent protests organized by the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance. Direct action protests were held at the plant in 1977 and 1978, resulting in hundreds of arrests.

In 1978, the plant went offline on March 17 for routine refueling and was idle for nine months while modifications were made to improve its resistance to earthquakes. This followed the discovery of both major building construction errors and the close proximity of a previously unknown fault. The operators sued the builders, and an undisclosed out-of-court settlement was eventually reached.

The Trojan steam generators were designed to last the life of the plant, but it was only four years before premature cracking of the steam tubes was observed. In October 1979, the plant was shut down through the end of the year for repairs. The plant had an extended shutdown in 1984, with difficulty restarting.

In the 1980 election, a ballot measure to ban construction of further nuclear power plants in the state without federally approved waste facilities was approved by the voters 608,412 (53.2%) to 535,049 (46.8%). In 1986, a ballot measure initiated by Lloyd Marbet for immediate closure of the Trojan plant failed 35.7% yes to 64.3% no. This proposal was resubmitted in 1990, and again in 1992 when a similar proposal (by Jerry and Marilyn Wilson) to close the plant was also included. Each measure was soundly defeated by vote margins over 210,000 votes. Although all closure proposals were defeated, the plant operators committed to successively earlier closure dates for the plant.

In 1992, PGE spent $4.5 million to successfully defeat ballot measures seeking to close Trojan immediately, rather than within four years, as PGE had planned. At the time, it was the most expensive ballot measure campaign in Oregon history. A week after the election, the Trojan plant suffered another steam generator tube leak of radioactive water, and was shut down. It was announced that replacement of the steam generators would be necessary. In December 1992, documents were leaked from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission showing that staff scientists believed that Trojan might be unsafe to operate. In early January 1993, PGE chief executive Ken Harrison announced the company would not try to restart Trojan.

After 1993 decision not to restart
The spent fuel was transferred from cooling pools to 34 concrete and steel storage casks in 2003.

In 2005, the reactor vessel and other radioactive equipment were removed from the Trojan plant, encased in concrete foam, shrink-wrapped, and transported intact by barge along the Columbia River to Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, where it was buried in a pit and covered with 45 ft of gravel, which made it the first commercial reactor to be moved and buried whole. It was awaiting transport to the Yucca Mountain Repository until that project was canceled in 2009.

The iconic 499 ft cooling tower, visible from Interstate 5 in Washington and U.S. Route 30 in Oregon, was demolished in 2006 via dynamite implosion at 7:00 a.m. PDT on Sunday, May 21. This event marked the first implosion of a cooling tower at a nuclear plant in the United States. Additional demolition work on the remaining structures continued through 2008. The central office building and the reactor building were demolished by Northwest Demolition and Dismantling in 2008. Remaining are five buildings: two warehouses, a small building on the river side, a guard shack, and offices outside the secured facility. It is expected that demolition of the plant will cost approximately $230 million, which includes the termination of the plant possession-only license, conventional demolition of the building and continuing cost for storage of used nuclear fuel.

A number of the civil defence sirens that were originally installed within a 10 mi radius of Trojan, to warn of an incident at the plant that could endanger the general public, continue to stand in the Washington cities of Longview, Kelso, and Kalama. Some of the other sirens, which have been removed, have been repurposed as tsunami warning sirens along the Oregon coast. While there are no plans to remove the remaining sirens, the city of Longview has removed a few of the sirens on an as-needed basis to make way for other projects.

Heliport
Trojan Heliport was a 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m) private turf heliport located at the power plant. It is no longer listed in the FAA website.

In Popular Culture

 * The China Syndrome: According to behind the scenes interviews, producer Michael Douglas and production designer George C. Jenkins toured the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant and were allowed to take extensive photographs of the control room. The iconic control room set built at Sunset Gower Studios was largely based on these photographs.

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Alexisbad

Alexisbad is a small spa town, part of Harzgerode in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Geography
Alexisbad is located about 2 km northwest of the Harzgerode town centre on the Bundesstrasse 185 road to Ballenstedt. It is situated in the valley of the Selke river and its Schwefelbach and Friedenstalbach tributaries, in the lower eastern outskirts of the Harz mountain range, about 310 m above sea level. The settlement is surrounded by the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park.

In earlier years, the spa town was known for its medicinal waters, of which the Alexisbrunnen, an iron-rich spring, is used for drinking water, while the Selkebrunnen supplies the baths. It has its own station on the narrow gauge steam railway section from Gernrode to Harzgerode, which is part of the historic Selke Valley Railway network operated by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways company.

History
The Selke valley is the site of the former Benedictine Hagenenrod Abbey, a filial monastery of Nienburg Abbey founded in 975. The Nienburg monks obtained market, minting and customs rights by King Otto III in 993. About 1000, the local Schwabengau counts of Ballenstedt, progenitors of the noble House of Ascania, served as Vogt protectors. Though the estates were placed under protection by Pope Alexander III in 1179, the monks later resettled to Naumburg and the premises, devastated during the German Peasants' War in 1525, decayed.

When the Ascanian Princes of Anhalt had the region developed as a mining area, a gallery was excavated for pyrite in 1692. Mining was resumed under Prince Frederick Albert of Anhalt-Bernburg from 1759 onwards, and sulfur was produced by destillation. The healing properties of the waters were first examined in 1766, however, initial attempts to establish a medical care and spa business were not successful. In 1809 Prince Frederick Albert's successor Duke Alexius Frederick Christian Anhalt-Bernburg had the waters again analyzed by the physician Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, who stressed the content of iodine, fluorine, and iron. A spa town including a casino was laid out according to plans by Carl Friedrich Schinkel, who also designed a tea house for Alexius' consort Marie Friederike, which later was turned into a Protestant chapel at the behest of Duchess Friederike of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Alexisbad soon became a fashionable health resort. Among the first guests was the composer Carl Maria von Weber in 1820. On 12 May 1856, the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Association of German Engineers, VDI) was founded here during a vacation of several academics.

Tourism
The economy of the village is dominated by tourism. There are several hotels, pensions and restaurants. Hiking trails lead into the attractive local countryside. Typical destinations are:

 * The Betrothal Urn (Verlobungsurne) - a monument at a good viewing point above the town (checkpoint 177 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking system).
 * The Luisentempel, a monopteros built in 1823 on a prominent rock above Alexisbad and named after Princess Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg (1799–1882)
 * The Köthen Hut (Köthener Hütte), checkpoint 195 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking system. The hut may be reached on a steep zigzag path that runs from the B 185 road below where there is a small, unsigned, parking bay. Otherwise walkers need to start from Alexisbad, Harzgerode or Mägdesprung.

Notable people
The author Walter Kempowski (1929–2007) spent his summer holidays in Alexisbad in 1939. He perpetuated the resort as Sophienbad in his 1971 autobiographic novel Tadellöser & Wolff.

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Curfew (song)

"Curfew" is a song by Drive, released as their first and only single in 1993. Drive consisted of Julienne Davis and Melanie Guillaume, who later became known as a member of All Saints, as Melanie Blatt. The single was released both in the United Kingdom and Germany.

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Philo Wallace

Philo Alphonso Wallace (born 2 August 1970) is a Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies.

Having first attempted to get into cricket in 1990, he made the big time in 1997–98 after hitting 198 runs in two Test matches. He formed an opening partnership with Guyanese batsman Clayton Lambert that for a brief period was hailed as a possible successor to the legendary Greenidge/Haynes partnership that dominated the 1980s. It was not to be, though, and by the end of the West Indies' ill-fated tour to South Africa in late 1998, both Wallace and Lambert had been discarded from future selection. Unusually, Wallace was able to take a catch in all 7 of the Test matches that he played in.

At one point in his career he played as captain, but he was omitted from the squad in the 2003–04 season.

Philo Wallace was the first player to score an ODI century in the finals of the ICC Knockout Trophy history when he scored his only ODI hundred in the inaugural ICC Knockout Trophy final against South Africa in 1998. West Indies managed to post only 245 runs and lost the finals to South Africa in a thriller.

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Richard A. White

Richard A. White is an American public transportation official who served as the CEO and General Manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority during 1996–2006. Prior to joining WMATA as CEO, he served as the general manager at Bay Area Rapid Transit in the San Francisco area. White also spent six years with the federal Urban Mass Transit Administration, which is now the Federal Transit Administration. White is from Massachusetts.

New Jersey Transit
From 1981 to 1991, White worked for New Jersey Transit.

BART
In 1991, White was hired as BART's deputy general manager under Frank Wilson. In April 1994, he became the General Manager of BART after Wilson was appointed Secretary of Transportation for the state of New Jersey. Dorothy Dugger succeeded White as Deputy General Manager.

When White left BART, his annual salary was about $141,000 per year, not including benefits that increased his total compensation per year to about $180,000.

White inherited an agency with fractious labor relations. Union officials often criticized White's predecessor, Frank Wilson, as autocratic, arrogant, and distrustful of the rank-and-file.

Just months after he assumed the helm in 1994, union members threatened to strike. Governor Pete Wilson imposed a 30-day cooling-off period in July, and the period was later extended to sixty days by a Contra Costa County Superior Court order. Management and members of the unions, which included the Service Employees International Union Local 790 and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, disagreed over a proposed contract provision that would have allowed management to transfer workers anywhere within the system. The two sides also disagreed over pay provisions.

During the dispute White revealed his temper in public: "BART's top administrator yesterday angrily told union negotiators, 'It's time for a reality check.'" White asserted that "The issue is money" and that the members of ATU Local 1555 were engaged in "a campaign of misinformation and a lack of honesty" designed to make people believe the primary root of the dispute was work rules. "We have been as flexible and creative as we can...but this hardly resembles a good faith effort," White said. A strike was averted in late September when workers approved new contracts. The handling of the negotiations by SEIU Local 790 director Paul Varacalli met with mixed responses from BART workers, with some praise for him getting a good deal for workers, and some criticism for major givebacks to BART management.

White pushed through a three-year, 45-percent fare increase, the largest cumulative increase in the agency's history. The increase was part of a 10-year, $1-billion renovation program that included restoration of BART's original fleet and major improvements to stations, ticket machines, lighting and communications equipment. White was also a proponent of the BART SFO extension (extending BART to the San Francisco International Airport station and Millbrae Intermodal Terminal), which would be completed in 2003 under his successor Thomas Margro.

On June 1, 1996, it was announced that White was leaving BART to become general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, with July 26 being his last day at BART. Potential successor candidates mentioned at the time of his departure were Deputy General Manager Dorothy Dugger (who would become General Manager in 2007), Jim Gallagher (assistant general manager of operations), Larry Williams (assistant general manager of operations), and John Haley (former deputy general manager at BART, at the time deputy general manager of the port authority in New York). White was succeeded by Thomas Margro who began as General Manager on September 30, 1996.

WMATA
White became general manager at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority after Lawrence G. Reuter left to take the top job at the MTA New York City transit system. White was chosen from a field of over 60 candidates, and three other finalists, when he became general manager at WMATA. WMATA was a much larger agency than BART: when White assumed the job, WMATA had over 7,000 employees and a $750 million operating budget. In contrast, BART had about 3,000 workers and a $270 million budget. When WMATA hired White, his total compensation was about $200,000 per year.

A string of incidents in 2004–2005 and complaints of mismanagement at WMATA, however, eventually led to his dismissal on January 11, 2006. White stepped down on February 16, 2006 and was replaced by Dan Tangherlini, as interim CEO.

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