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James W. Bates

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

James Woodson Bates (August 25, 1788– December 26, 1846) was an American lawyer and statesman from Sebastian County, Arkansas. He represented the Arkansas Territory as a delegate to the U.S. Congress. He was the brother of Edward Bates, who served in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, and of Frederick Bates, a governor of Missouri.

James was born in Goochland County, Virginia at his father’s plantation known as ‘Belmont. He was the ninth child of Thomas and Caroline (Woodson) Bates. He started his advanced education at Yale but soon transferred to Princeton where he graduated in 1807. He read law and then went west. His older brother Frederick had been appointed the Secretary to the Missouri Territory in 1807. James and his younger brother Edward moved to St. Louis where he began the practice of law.

In 1819 the Arkansas Territory was created and Bates moved to its capital, Arkansas Post, to become one of the first lawyers in the new territory. That fall he was elected to be the non-voting delegate for the territory in the United States House of Representatives. He served two terms, from December 21, 1819 until March 3, 1823, and chose not to stand for re-election in 1822. While serving in Congress, he had moved to the small settlement called Poke Bayou. When the town plat was laid out in 1821, it was renamed Batesville in his honor.

But Bates was not a candidate for re-election in 1822, and when his Congressional term ended he returned to Batesville and resumed practicing law. He became a local judge in 1824, riding the fourth circuit through the western part of the territory. Then in 1828 John Quincy Adams appointed him to the superior court of the territory. He served until 1828 when President Jackson named judge Charles S. Bibb to the post.

While serving as a circuit judge he met and then married a wealthy widow, Elizabeth Moore. He moved to the Moore Farm near Van Buren in Crawford County. He later served as a probate court judge and a registrar in the land office.

In 1835 Bates was a delegate to the state convention the drew up the first constitution of the new State of Arkansas. He died in 1846, and was buried in the family plot on the Moore farm near Van Buren, Arkansas.

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Bogota Public Schools

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Bogota Public Schools
Web site: http://www.bogotaschools.com
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending
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K-12
Avg.
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Avg.
1 Comparative Cost $10,998 17 $12,180 -9.7%
2 Classroom Instruction 6,814 24 7,194 -5.3%
6 Support Services 1,222 7 1,913 -36.1%
8 Administrative Cost 1,568 41 1,275 23.0%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,170 16 1,477 -20.8%
16 Median Teacher Salary 49,608 14 53,549
Data from NJDoE 2007 Comparative Spending Guide.
*Within K-12 districts with 0-1,800 students. Low=1; High=44

The Bogota Public Schools are comprehensive community public school district serving students in Kindergarten through 12th grade from the Borough of Bogota in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2004-05 school enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

  • E. Roy Bixby School with 305 students in grades K - 6
  • Lillian M. Steen School which serves 294 students in grades K - 6
  • Bogota High School with an enrollment of 516 students on grades 7 through 12.
    • Arnold T. Oftedal - Principal
    • Lydia Suarez - Vice Principal

Administration

  • Dr.Charles R. Smith - Interim Superintendent of Schools

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HMCS Champlain

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HMCS Champlain

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HMCS Champlain unit crest

Several Canadian naval units have carried the name HMCS Champlain:

  • HMCS Champlain (1919), a S class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1928-1936. Formerly HMS Torbay (1919) that served the Royal Navy from 1919-1928.
  • HMCS Champlain, a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve division based in Chicoutimi, Quebec since activation in 1985.
Disambiguation notice This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.



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Hackney Road

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

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Hackney Road is a London arterial route running from Shoreditch Church to Cambridge Heath. It occupies a no mans land in between Bethnal Green and Haggerston. For half of its course it forms the boundary between the London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

It has yet to experience the gentrification of nearby Columbia Road or Broadway Market and presents a spectacle of inner city urban dereliction (Harrison 1985). Derelict buildings include many defunct pubs - such as the curiously named ‘Flying Scud’ - and the empty Children’s Hospital. Completing the picture are striptease venues such as Browns, The Olde Axe and Images (Clifton 2002), bingo halls, fast-food outlets and building sites. However, there is a city farm, which brings a touch of the pastoral to this particularly urban area. Hackney City Farm is located at the junction of (intersection with) Goldsmith’s Row on the northern (Hackney) side of the road.

Hackney Road is served by the 55, 48 and 26 buses.

On 21 July 2005 at 13:30 BST a small explosion occurred on the Number 26 bus travelling from Waterloo to Hackney Wick, on Hackney Road at the corner with Columbia Road. There were no fatalities in the explosion.

References

  • Clifton, L. (2002) Baby Oil and Ice: Striptease in East London. The Do-Not Press Limited: London.
  • Harrison, P. (1985) Inside the Inner City: Life Under the Cutting Edge. Penguin: Harmondsworth.

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Disraeli (film)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Disraeli
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Written by Julien Josephson
De Leon Anthony
Starring George Arliss
Doris Lloyd
David Torrence
Joan Bennett
Music by Louis Silvers
Cinematography Lee Garmes
Editing by Hugh Wynn
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) 1929
Running time 90 min.
Country USA
Language English
IMDb profile

Disraeli (1929) is a film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green.

Synopsis

The story is a highly fictionalized episode in the life of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and stars George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett, and Florence Arliss. It revolves around the British plan to buy the Suez Canal and the efforts of two spies to stop it.

Production

Arliss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The Green Goddess, was filmed in 1929 and completed before Disraeli (1929), but was held out of release until 1930 at the request of George Arliss because he felt the other film was a better vehicle for his talkie debut. Silent films with the title Disraeli were released in 1916 and 1921, with the 1921 version also starring George Arliss.

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IPHT Jena

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT — German: Institut für Photonische Technologien) is a non-university research facility in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Focused on applications for various physical systems, the Institute’s mandate is to find solutions to challenges in high technology systems. IPHT carries out research in the following areas: magnetics, quantum electronics, optics, microsystems and laser technology. The Institute works with both universities and companies.

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Llyn Peris

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Llyn Peris is a lake in Snowdonia, Wales, approximately 1.8 km long and situated close to the villages of Llanberis and Nant Peris. The lake was formed glacially and is an example of a moraine-dammed lake. Llyn Peris is named after Saint Peris, an early Christian saint of whom little is known. The lake is flanked on one side by the mountain Elidir Fawr and the former slate quarry of Dinorwig. Above the opposite bank are the hills of Derlwyn and Clogwyn Mawr and a rock formation known as the Lady of Snowdon, due to its resemblance to a human face. The ruins of Dolbadarn Castle are also located on a mound above the lake.

The lake now forms the lower reservoir of Dinorwig power station, and the administrative buildings for the station are situated on the lake shore. Water is released into the lake from Marchlyn Mawr (the upper reservoir) to produce electricity during periods of peak demand. This water is, in turn, pumped back to the upper reservoir using electricity purchased at off-peak periods. The water level of the lake therefore varies considerably, depending on UK electricity demand. Excess water from the lake drains into Llyn Padarn.

During construction of the power station, when the capacity of the lake was increased considerably at this time, with the removal of a large quantity of slate waste, rare Welsh Arctic char were removed to four other lakes in the neighbouring Carneddau mountains, namely Ffynnon Llugwy, Llyn Cowlyd, Llyn Melynllyn and Llyn Dulyn, where they are still to be found. Although Llyn Peris itself was not restocked, some char have found their way back to the lake.

Parts of the lake shore are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest for Glacial Geology.

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Plasmodium colombiense

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Plasmodium colombiense is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium.

Like all Plasmodium species P. colombiense has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are reptiles.

Plasmodium colombiense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Aconoidasida
Order: Haemosporida
Family: Plasmodiidae
Genus: Plasmodium
Species: P. colombiense
Binomial name
Plasmodium colombiense

Contents

  • 1 Description
  • 2 Geographical occurrence
  • 3 Clinical features and host pathology
  • 4 References

Description

The parasite was first described by Ayala and Spain in 1976.

Geographical occurrence

This species is found in Venezuela.

Clinical features and host pathology

The only known host of this parasite is the iguanid lizard Anolis auratus.

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RMS Carmania (1905)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Shipyard: John Brown & Co., Ltd., Glasgow
Launched: February 21, 1905
Maiden voyage: December 2, 1905
Name: RMS Carmania
Flags: United Kingdom
Fate: scrapped in 1932 at Blyth
General characteristics
Length: 650 feet
Beam: 72 feet
Tonnage: 19,524 gross tons
Propulsion: Steam turbines turning three propellers
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 2,650, reduced to 1,440 in 1923

The RMS Carmania (I) was a British passenger liner of the Cunard Line, which in World War I was converted to an armed merchant cruiser.

History

When launched, the Carmania and her sister ship, the Caronia, were the largest ships in the Cunard fleet and two of the fastest in the world, since they had been designed to compete with the Germans for the Blue Riband. The Carmania had steam turbines, and the Caronia had quadruple-expansion engines. The Carmania traveled the New York-Liverpool route from 1905 to 1910, suffering one major fire in June 1910. In October 1913, while eastward bound, she responded to an SOS from the Volturno to pick up survivors in a storm, resulting in many awards for gallantry being presented to various members of her crew.

Following the outbreak of World War I, the Carmania was converted into an armed merchant cruiser, under the command of Captain Noel Grant. She sailed from Liverpool to Shell Bay in Bermuda. She subsequently engaged and sank the German merchant cruiser SMS Cap Trafalgar near the Brazilian island of Trindade, suffering extensive damage herself and several casualties to her crew. After repairs in Gibraltar she patrolled the coast of Portugal and the Atlantic islands for the next two years. In 1916 she was summoned to assist in the Gallipoli campaign. From May 1916 she was used as a troop ship and after the War to transport Canadian troops back from Europe.

In early 1920, she returned to passenger liner service, being refitted in 1923. In 1932, she was sold to Hughes Bocklow & Co., and scrapped at Blyth.

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Photocathode

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

In a photomultiplier or Phototube, a photocathode is a negatively charged electrode coated with a photosensitive compound. When this is struck by light, electrons are emitted due to the photoelectric effect.

Although a plain metallic cathode will exhibit photoelectric properties, the specialized coating greatly increases the effect. A photocathode usually consists of alkali metals with very low work functions.

The coating releases electrons much more readily than the underlying metal, allowing it to detect the low-energy photons in infrared radiation. The lens transmits the radiation from the object being viewed to a layer of coated glass. The photons strike the metal surface and transfer electrons to its rear side. The freed electrons are then collected to produce the final image.

Photocathode materials

  1. Ag-O-Cs, also called S-1. This was the first compound photocathode material, developed in 1929. Sensitivity from 300 mm to 1200 nm. Since Ag-O-Cs has a higher dark current than more modern materials photomultiplier tubes with this photocathode material are nowadays used only in the infrared region with cooling.
  2. Sb-Cs (antimony-caesium) has a spectral response from UV to visible and is mainly used in reflection-mode photocathodes.
  3. Bialkali (antimony-rubidium-caesium Sb-Rb-Cs, antimony-potassium-caesium Sb-K-Cs). Spectral response range similar to the Sb-Cs photocathode, but with higher sensitivity and lower dark current than Sb-Cs. They have sensitivity well matched to the most common scintillator materials and so are frequently used for ionizing radiation measurement in scintillation counters.
  4. High temperature bialkali or low noise bialkali (sodium-potassium-antimony, Na-K-Sb). This material is often used in oil well logging since it can withstand temperatures up to 175 °C. At room temperatures, this photocathode operates with very low dark current, making it ideal for use in photon counting applications.
  5. Multialkali (sodium-potassium-antimony-caesium, Na-K-Sb-Cs). The multialkali photocathode has a wide spectral response from the ultraviolet to near infrared region. It is widely used for broad-band spectrophotometers and photon counting applications. The long wavelength response can be extended to 930 nm by a special photocathode activation processing.
  6. GaAs (gallium(II) arsenide). This photocathode material covers a wider spectral response range than multialkali, from ultraviolet to 930 nm.
  7. InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide). Extended sensitivity in the infrared range compared to GaAs. Moreover, in the range between 900 mm and 1000 nm, InGaAs has a much better signal to noise ratio than Ag-O-Cs. With special manufacturing techniques this photocathode can operate up to 1700 nm.
  8. Cs-Te, Cs-I (caesium-telluride, caesium-iodide). These materials are sensitive to vacuum UV and UV rays but not to visible light and are therefore referred to as solar blind. Cs-Te is insensitive to wavelengths longer than 320 nm, and Cs-I to those longer than 200 nm.

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