The Damara Woolly Bat (Kerivoula argentata) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family found in Africa. Its natural habitat is moist savanna.
References
Jacobs, D., Cotterill, F.W. & Taylor, P. 2004. Kerivoula argentata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
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The Seminole are a Native American people formed in Florida in the 18th century.
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Plutus (Greek: ??????? / Ploutos, meaning “wealth”)is an Ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Aristophanes, first produced c. 388 BC. A political satire on contemporary Athens, it features the personified god of wealth Plutus. Reflecting the development of Old Comedy towards New Comedy, it uses such familiar character types as the stupid master and the insubordinate slave to attack the morals of the time.
Plot
The play features an elderly Athenian citizen, Chremylos, and his slave Cario or Carion. Chremylos presents himself and his family as virtuous but poor, and has accordingly gone to seek advice from an oracle. The play begins as he returns to Athens from Delphi, having been instructed by Apollo to follow the first man he meets and persuade him to come home with him. That man turns out to be the god Plutus — who is, contrary to all expectations, a blind beggar. After much argument, Plutus is convinced to enter Chremylus’ house, where he will have his vision restored, meaning that “wealth” will now go only to those who deserve it in one way or another.
The first part of the play examines the idea that wealth is not distributed to the virtuous, or necessarily to the non-virtuous, but instead it is distributed randomly. Chremylos is convinced that if Plutus’ eyesight can be restored, these wrongs can be righted, making the world a better place.
The second part introduces the goddess Poverty. She counters Chremylos’ arguments that it is better to be rich by arguing that without poverty there would be no slaves (as every slave would buy his freedom) and no fine goods or luxury foods (as nobody would work if everyone were rich).
After Plutus’ eyesight is restored at the Temple of Asclepius, he formally becomes a member of Chremylus’ household. At the same time, the entire world is turned upside-down economically and socially. Unsurprisingly, this gives rise to rancorous comments and claims of unfairness from those who have been deprived of their riches.
In the end, the messenger god Hermes arrives to inform Chremylus and his family of the gods’ anger. As in Aristophanes’ The Birds, the gods have been starved of sacrifices, since human beings have all directed their attention to Plutus, and they no longer pay homage to the traditional Olympian gods. Hermes, worried about his own predicament, actually offers to work for the mortals and enters Chremylus’ house as a servant on those conditions.
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The Spike Guys’ Choice Awards is an awards show, patterned after the MTV Movie Awards (Also owned by Viacom) It was first shown on June 13, 2007. The awards are based on international voting by fans and viewers of Spike. Spike announced on their website in July 2007 that this show will become an annual awards show, to be broadcast each summer. Casey Patterson, Spike TV’s senior vice president, event production & talent development, Carol Donovan and Beth McCarthy-Miller are executive producers.
The first show was hosted by Tracy Morgan who, according to USA Today had to wear an ankle monitor during the ceremony as part of his court required monitoring.
Minka Kelly was reported in Men’s Fitness magazine to have been extremely excited when she won her award, declaring “Anyone can win an Emmy, but not everyone can say they’ve won an award from the network responsible for Ultimate Fighter 5 and Late Night Strip.”
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12009 Guys Choice Awards
2Previous awards
2.12008 Awards
2.22007 Awards
3References
4External links
2009 Guys Choice Awards
Event was held at Sony Studios on May 30, 2009 and aired June 21, 2009.
Guy Movie Hall of Fame Award: Fight Club
Biggest Ass Kicker: Jason Statham
Hottest “Mila”: Mila Kunis defeated Milla Jovovich
Funniest M.F.: Sacha Baron Cohen
Hot ‘n’ Fresh: Malin Akerman
Outstanding Literary Achievement: Russell Brand - My Booky Wook
The 2008 Guys’ Choice Awards were held May 31, 2008 at Sony Studios in Los Angeles. Hosted by stars John Cho and Kal Penn, the show was aired on Sunday, June 22.
Luckiest Bastard: Brian Austin Green (For being engaged to Megan Fox)
Killer Quote: “Don’t Taze Me, Bro”
Foxiest Presidential Groupie: Hillary Hottie
2007 Awards
The 2007 Guys’ Choice Awards were held June 10, 2007 while the television premiere aired June 13, 2007. Hosted by Tracy Morgan, the show featured performances by Carmen Electra and Tricia Helfer, ZZ Top and appearances by Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler, who won the Guy’s Guy award, voted for by Spike viewers. Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn were also present to accept the Guy Movie Hall of Fame Award for their cult bachelor movie Swingers.
Guy Movie Hall of Fame Award: Swingers
Biggest Ass Kicker: Gerard Butler in 300
Ballsiest Band: Disturbed
Hottest Girl on the Planet: Adriana Lima
Luckiest Bastard: Cash Warren (then boyfriend and now husband of Jessica Alba)
Funniest M.F.: Will Ferrell
Gift from the Gods: Minka Kelly
Most Unstoppable Jock: LaDainian Tomlinson
Naughtiest Cybervixen: Christine Dolce
Most Dangerous Man: Chuck Liddell
Femme Fatale: Rose McGowan
Kingpin (Guy of the Year): James Gandolfini
Cockiest Crew: Jackass 2 Crew
Gutsiest Move: Stephen Colbert
Sickest Rhymes: Jay-Z
Sexiest Import: Bar Rafaeli
Coolest Geek: Masi Oka
Best Gangstertainment: The Departed
Hottest Jessica: Jessica Alba defeated Jessica Biel
^Jake Coyle (2007-05-31). “Tracy Morgan talks drinking and sobriety”. USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/2007-05-31-3151869022_x.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
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Stitch (Jodi Furman) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. Her first appearance was in Alpha Flight Special #1.
Fictional character biography
Jodi Furman was an extremely withdrawn young woman when she was found by James Hudson, who recruits her into Department H.
She became a member of the original Alpha Flight team named The Flight. While training, she is attacked by the then-feral Wild Child. Wolverine saves her from further injury.
Later, Wolverine notes that Stitch’s first friendly gesture since arriving is a friendly hug for fellow team member Groundhog.
The Flight is sent to confront Egghead and his associates, who have claimed Canadian territory in order to aim a nuclear missile at New York City. During the battle, Stitch uses her powers to control the Swordsman. Despite this, the battle goes poorly. Flight member Saint Elmo sacrifices his life to destroy the missile.
After the mission, Stitch stayed with Department H for a time, but eventually she left for parts unknown.
Powers and personality
Diagnosed as an “egophobe” (someone who is scared of his/her own self and in her case, powers), Jodi is a mutant with the ability to control small pieces of metal with amazing precision, most commonly a needle which earned her the codename Stitch.
External links
AlphaFlight.Net Alphanex Entry on Stitch
Marvel Appendix entry on Stitch
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Çekerek is a town and district of Yozgat Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 40,689 of which 12,339 live in the town of Çekerek.
Notes
^ abTurkish Statistical Institute. “Census 2000, Key statistics for urban areas of Turkey” (in Turkish) (XLS). http://www.die.gov.tr/nufus_sayimi/2000tablo5.xls. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
^GeoHive. “Statistical information on Turkey’s administrative units” (in English). http://www.xist.org/cntry/turkey.aspx?levels=Ic%20Anadolu. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
References
Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. “Geographical information on Çekerek, Turkey” (in English). http://www.fallingrain.com/world/TU/66/Cekerek.html. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
External links
District governor’s official website (Turkish)
General information on Çekerek (Turkish)
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Amasya - Artvin - Bart?n - Bayburt - Bolu - Çorum - Düzce - Giresun - Gümü?hane - Karabük - Kastamonu - Ordu - Rize - Samsun - Sinop - Tokat - Trabzon - Zonguldak
Central Anatolia
Aksaray - Ankara - Çank?r? - Eski?ehir - Karaman - Kayseri - K?r?kkale - K?r?ehir - Konya - Nev?ehir - Ni?de - Sivas - Yozgat
Eastern Anatolia
A?r? - Ardahan -Bingöl - Bitlis - Elâz?? - Erzincan - Erzurum - Hakkâri - I?d?r - Kars - Malatya - Mu? - Siirt - Tunceli - Van
Marmara
Bal?kesir - Bilecik - Bursa - Çanakkale - Edirne - Istanbul - K?rklareli - Kocaeli - Sakarya - Tekirda? - Yalova
Angelo Braxton Herndon ( May 6, 1913, Wyoming, Ohio – December 9, 1997, Sweet Home, Arkansas). Angelo Herndon was an African American communist organizer arrested and convicted for insurrection after attempting to organize black industrial workers in 1932 in Atlanta, Georgia. (The prosecution case heavily rested on Herndon’s possession of “communist literature.”)
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2Political activism
3Notes
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Early life
Angelo Herndon was born into aor the Unemployment Council. His involvement with the Communist Party brought him national prominence.
Political activism
Herndon campaigned to organize Blacks to become politically active. He travelled from Kentucky to Georgia. In July, 1932, Herndon organized a hunger march and demonstration at the courthouse in Atlanta. On July 11, Herndon checked on his mail at the Post Office and was arrested by two Atlanta detectives. A few days later his hotel room was searched and Communist Party publications were found. Herndon was charged under a Reconstruction era law of insurrection in the state of Georgia.
He was held close to six months in jail and was released on Christmas Eve after his bail of $7,000 was paid by the International Labor Defense organization. His freedom was short lived as an all white jury found Herndon guilty. He was sentenced to 18–20 years in prison.
Herndon served two years of his sentence and was released in 1934. Upon his release from prison Herndon was greeted as a hero by a crowd of 6,000 well-wishers at Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Several leading Communist Party officials were on hand to welcome him. His case was appealed, and Herndon was convicted for the second time by the Supreme Court of Georgia. It was not until 1937 that the decision was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
He avoided publicity in the later part of his life, but founded the Negro Publication Society of America in the 1940s, which published the radical African-American newspaper The People’s Advocate in San Francisco, California, among other works.
Notes
^ “Black Red Freed”, Time, 3 May 1937
^ Angelo Herndon Comes Back from Georgia August 1937
Writings
The case of Angelo Herndon New York: Joint Committee To Aid the Herndon Defense 1935.
Let Me Live New York: Random House 1937.
“You cannot kill the working class,” New York: International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights 1937.
The Scottsboro boys: four freed! five to go! New York: Workers Library Publishers 1937.
The road to liberation for the Negro people (with others) New York, Workers Library Publishers 1939
External links
Angelo Herndon comes back from Georgia
Black Red Freed, Time, May 03, 1937
Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Case of Angelo Herndon
The Angelo Herndon Indictment
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Ishin S?den(??,1569-1633?) also known as Konchiin S?den, was a Zen Rinzai monk and advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and later to Tokugawa Hidetada and Iemitsu on religious matters and foreign affairs. He played a significant role in the initial development of the Tokugawa shogunate.
S?den oversaw the administration of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in the country alongside Itakura Katsushige, and was involved in a great many diplomatic affairs along with advisors Hayashi Razan and Honda Masazumi. S?den made his home at the Konchi-in temple he founded in Sunpu, and founded another one by the same name in Edo in 1618. He was abbot of Nanzen-ji in Kyoto.
S?den played an important role in negotiations with the Chinese Ming court over the reopening of trade and the problem of piracy.
S?den was also involved in communications with the Spanish authorities in Manila and with the Kingdom of Siam. He was instrumental in organizing and receiving Korean embassies to Japan.
He drafted a great many communications during this period, some of the more notable ones being rejections of the notion that the shogun should be referred to as a “king” (?, ?), as this would imply subordination to the Emperor of China and tributary status within the Sinocentric world order.
Among his other works was the drafting in 1615 of the Buke shohatto, which he then read at an assembly of daimy? at Fushimi, and the drafting of the edict banning Christianity in the previous year. In 1616, he oversaw the funeral services for Tokugawa Ieyasu, along with priests Tenkai and Bonshun.
S?den compiled all the diplomatic records of his period of service into the Ikoku nikki (Chronicle of Foreign Countries). He authored the Honk? kokushi nikki (Chronicles of Master Honk?), both of which remain valuable primary sources on the nature of diplomacy of the time, and on specific events.
^ abc Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 381.
^Ensh? Honk? Kokushi was a title bestowed upon him by Emperor Go-Mizunoo in 1626.
References
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
Toby, Ronald. (1984). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 10-ISBN 0-691-05401-0/13-ISBN 978-0-691-05401-8; OCLC 9557347
Integral attack on 7 round NXT-64 with time complexity of 2237.4 and on 5 round NXT-128 with time complexity of 2205.6 by Wu Wenling, Zhang Wentao, and Feng Dengguo.
In cryptography, the IDEA NXT algorithm (previously known as FOX) is a block cipher designed by Pascal Junod and Serge Vaudenay of EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). It was conceived between 2001 and 2003, the project was originally named FOX and was published in 2003. In May 2005 it was announced by MediaCrypt under the name IDEA NXT. IDEA NXT is the successor of the IDEA algorithm and it uses an extended Lai-Massey scheme known for its robustness to cryptanalysis. It was mandated by MediaCrypt, a Swiss company owner of the distribution rights on IDEA and the patents of IDEA NXT. The IDEA NXT cipher is a family of different sub-ciphers with various blocks and keys size : Standard NXT64 (block of 64 bits, key of 128 bits, 16 rounds) and Standard NXT128 (block of 128 bits, key of 256 bits, 16 rounds). Variations of the Standard versions can be built (key of 0-256 bits, round numbers from 2-255). Also individual tables (sbox, permutation matrix) can be loaded, replacing the Standard table.
Mediacrypt states that IDEA NXT has two U.S. patent applications pending. (See links below.). The applications appear directed to key generation for the cipher.
The fact that IDEA NXT is patented and requires a license may influence the extent of its adoption, particularly given that there are viable alternatives (eg AES, Serpent and the Twofish algorithm) in the public domain which have no restrictions on them whatsoever.
External links
Mediacrypt homepage — IDEA licensor
Technical description of IDEA NXT.
FOX: a new family of block ciphers
FOX algorithm implementation - a hardware design approach
Wu Wenling, Zhang Wentao, and Feng Dengguo - Improved Integral Cryptanalysis of FOX Block Cipher
BSD licensed C Software implementation of IDEA NXT
U.S. Patent Application Pub. No. 2004/0247117
U.S. Patent Application Pub. No. 2005/0053233
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The Clair – Fort Kent Bridge is a steel truss bridge crossing the Saint John River between Clair, New Brunswick in Canada and Fort Kent, Maine in the United States. The American portion of the bridge forms the northern terminus of US Route 1.
The bridge handles approximately 279,490 vehicle crossings per year and forms a border crossing on the International Boundary.
Since it is an international bridge, the Canadian portion of the structure is the responsibility of the Province of New Brunswick, while the American portion is operated by the State of Maine.
The bridge was built in 1929–30 as a replacement for an existing cable ferry and a cable suspension footbridge.
There are three steel trough truss spans of 73.15 m (239.99 ft) each for a total length of 221.93 m (728.11 ft).
In 1995, the 1st pier from the New Brunswick end had major repairs done.
In 1997, the steel members under the deck in the first 1.5 spans from the New Brunswick end were sandblasted then painted with a primer of inorganic zinc. In the same year the downstream exterior stringers in these 1.5 spans was replaced.
In 1998, the downstream concrete curb in the first 1.5 spans from the New Brunswick end was replaced.
In 2000, the New Brunswick end concrete abutment underwent a major restoration.
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