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Doing so causing the gridlines to change colors.Once a grid tile is completely surrounded by colored lines, it flashes.The game board is completed when the player has successfully skated on every line of the grid.
The player must avoid various enemies on each game board including Space Phantoms, Rowdy Fingers, and Spilers, the latter of which removes colored lines the player had previously skated upon.Coming into contact with the enemies can cause the player to lose a life or otherwise be hindered, such as slowing the character's skating speed.Completing the level defeats all enemies on the game board.
However, the player can also use a limited about of rubber balls to defeat enemies as well.The player can also collect power ups in the game, including Ribbon Candy, which add additional game points, Bananas that slow certain game enemies, and an Hour Glass that freezes all enemies for a brief period as well as a Sun that provides the player with temporary invincibility.The Sega Genesis port of "Zoom!"
received a mostly negative response from gamers and critics upon its release.
"Electronic Gaming Monthly" gave the game an average of 3/10 with reviewers stating that the game looked 16-Bit, but delivered gameplay style similar to an Atari 2600 title.Commonly stated among reviewers were bad controls, repetitive sounds, and poor visual appeal.
Ruellia verbasciformis Ruellia verbasciformis (syn.
"Eurychanes verbasciformis" (Nees) Lindau) is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.
Ska-P (album) Ska-P is the first album by the Spanish ska punk band Ska-P, released in 1994.The song "Como un Rayo" is a tribute to the football club Rayo Vallecano.
KAAA KAAA (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format, licensed to Kingman, Arizona, United States.The station is currently owned by Cameron Broadcasting, Inc. and forms a full-time simulcast with KZZZ in Bullhead City.
The stations feature programming from Fox News, Talk Radio Network, Premiere Radio Networks, Dial Global and Salem Radio Network among others.KGAN signed on October 7, 1949.It broadcast with 250 watts on 1230 kHz.
The station, an ABC affiliate, was sold in early 1956 by original owner J. James Glancy to Wallace Stone and John F. Holbrook for $25,000; the new owners changed the call letters to the present KAAA on February 19, 1956.Stone bought out Holbrook two years later, and in 1963, the station was authorized to increase daytime power to 1,000 watts.Stone sold KAAA in 1971 for $225,000 to Sun Mountain Broadcasting, the principals of which included an FM station applicant in Lake Havasu City and a station salesman.
Under Sun Mountain, a companion FM station, KZZZ 92.7 (now KFLG-FM 94.7), was launched.By the time KAAA-KZZZ was sold to Mohave Sun Broadcasting in 1981, KAAA broadcast a mixed Top 40-country format.In 2001, KAAA was consolidated with KZZZ at that station's Bullhead City studio base.
Justin Fletcher Justin Fletcher MBE (born 15 June 1970) is an English comedian, children's television presenter and actor on the BBC pre-school television channel CBeebies.speaking and performing in various, often self-created, roles.
He specialises in slapstick comedy and works with children with special needs through his show "Something Special".Fletcher also appeared as the award-winning comedian, Mr Tumble.Born in Reading, Berkshire, he attended Theale Green School.
Fletcher is the son of songwriter Guy Fletcher.He has three sisters and one brother.He currently lives in Winnersh, Wokingham, Berkshire.
Justin worked for Sounds Good in Theale as a cassette duplicating machine operator and generally amused his co-workers with his characterisations.While in his final year studying drama at the Guildford School of Acting, Fletcher started to regularly watch Phillip Schofield in the BBC1 broom cupboard with Gordon the Gopher, and decided that a career in children's television was for him.He then met Phillip Schofield, who suggested that he should make a show reel to showcase to TV executives.
Having sketched out various comedic characters, he put together a show reel called "Justin Time", which encompassed two different characters
He was part of the "Tikkabilla" programme, out of which was spun "Higgledy House", a slapstick comedy for children with Sarah-Jane Honeywell, which progressed to the very popular Mr Tumble.Fletcher has also voiced the characters of Doodles and Jake in "Tweenies", Miguel in "Finley the Fire Engine", Sleeping Bear and Growling Tiger in CBeebies' "Boo!
", with additional voices in "Todd World", "Shaun the Sheep" and "Timmy Time".
In 2006 Fletcher became a presenter on CBeebies but left in 2007.Through his own production company, Fletcher developed "Something Special", which he presents while signing in Makaton, a type of sign language.In November 2008, CBeebies aired three different pilots made by Fletcher, with the possibility of one of them becoming a full-time series.
They were called "Humphrey the Painter", "Gigglebiz" and "Captain Adorable".In January 2009, an announcement by CBeebies was made that "Gigglebiz" would become the regular show, starting in September 2009, with the Humphrey and Captain Adorable characters being included, which was now a series of character-based comedy sketches linked by jokes told by children.His voice over work for CBBC includes voicing Harold from "Thomas the Tank Engine," which he has performed on BBC Radio 4, arena tour and pantomime.
Fletcher is a relief continuity presenter for CBeebies' presentation links and regularly performed on the CBeebies radio station on BBC Radio 7 until its change to BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011.Fletcher also appears as himself along with a range of animated characters in the "Bee Bright" series of award-winning educational DVDs.He also occasionally appears in a show called "The Hollies School".
In October 2011, CBeebies began broadcasting "Justin's House" starring Fletcher with Steven Kynman as "Robert the Robot" and Jane Deane as "Dee Livery".The show is based in Justin's fictional house, and recorded live in front of a studio audience.Episode ratings from BARB.
Starting in 1998 Fletcher presented the "Fun Song Factory" for the GMTV series for a year as his first full-time presenting role.He later returned to the show in 2004, as the voice of Ozzy.He owns a production company, Scrumptious House, which has released a DVD called "Let's Sing Nursery Rhymes with Justin Fletcher".
In the CITV channel programme "Jim Jam and Sunny", he is the voice of both Jim Jam and Slim the cowardly giraffe.His voice appears on the VTech Alphabet Desk, Turn and Learn Driver and the "Bob the Builder" phones, the children's train ride at Animal Farm Country Park near Burnham-on-Sea, and a number of Crick Software titles.From December 2009 to January 2010, Fletcher played the character Buttons in "Cinderella" at the Capitol Theatre in Horsham, West Sussex.
From December 2010 to January 2011, he played the character Josh the Jester in the pantomime "Sleeping Beauty" at The Hexagon theatre in Reading, Berkshire.From December 2011 to January 2012, he played the character Wishy Washy in the pantomime "Aladdin" at the Hexagon theatre in Reading.In recent years he has performed in 2 pantomimes in Woking, 7 pantomimes in Reading and returns in 2018 for the panto Aladdin again at the Hexagon.
In 2019 Fletcher will star as Buttons in Cinderella which he also wrote.He also attends festivals such as Camp Bestival in Dorset to entertain children.Justin is a patron for Bournemouth-based performing arts school Stagewise.
His debut album "Hands Up the Album" reached number 16 in the UK Albums Chart on 11 March 2012.In March 2013 he released his second album, "Best Friends".In January 2015 he released his third album, "Just Party".
On 12 September 2015 he appeared on "Pointless Celebrities", and got knocked out in the second round.Fletcher presented a daily radio show on Fun Kids weekdays from 9am to 10am called "Justin's Word".Fletcher was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to "children's broadcasting and the voluntary sector".
Tenth Presbyterian Church Tenth Presbyterian Church is a congregation of approximately 1,600 members located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.Tenth is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a denomination in the Reformed and Calvinist traditions.
It is located at the southwest corner of 17th & Spruce Streets in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, in the southwestern quadrant of Center City.The original Tenth Presbyterian Church, founded in 1829 as a congregation part of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, was located on the northeast corner of 12th & Walnut Streets.It established a daughter church in 1855–1856 called the West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church on the southwest corner of 17th & Spruce Streets.
The two churches worked together, with the ministers exchanging pulpits each week.Because of membership decline in the original Tenth Church caused by population shifts, the two churches merged in 1893 at the 17th & Spruce Streets location, taking the name of the older church (Tenth Presbyterian Church).West Spruce Street/Tenth Church was designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., who was a member of the congregation.
Its tower-and-spire was the tallest structure in Philadelphia from 1856 to the erection of the North American Building in 1900.McArthur later designed Philadelphia City Hall.In 1893, architect Frank Miles Day was hired to perform major alterations to the church's exterior and interior decoration.
The church's steeple and the 150-foot wooden spire, once the tallest structure in Philadelphia until the new City Hall (designed by McArthur as well) was built in 1901, was weakened due to structural decay of the timber frame, and was removed in 1912 due to fears that it would collapse.The Philadelphia Presbytery(PC-USA) was the headquarters of conservative Presbyterianism during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s and 1930s, and Tenth Presbyterian was no exception.The congregation became the conservative Presbyterian Church in Center City of Philly, and it has remained so until this day.
Senior pastors such as Donald Barnhouse (1927–1960) and James Montgomery Boice (1968–2000), the congregation embraced conservative Reformed theology.Tenth membership continued to grow after World War II, and ministry efforts to college students gave the congregation a metropolitan focus.Under James Montgomery Boice pastorate Tenth Pres grew from 350 members to a congregation over 1,200.
In 1979, following a denominational ruling by the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America requiring congregations to elect both men and women to the office in ruling elder, Tenth Presbyterian left the UPCUSA in 1980, aligning itself with the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod.Three years afterward, that denomination in turn merged with the Presbyterian Church in America, bringing Tenth Church with it.After a lengthy property battle the congregation was allowed to leave the denomination while keeping its Byzantine style property.
Tenth Presbyterian remains the "big-steeple" PCA congregation in the northeast United States.The church sponsors an extensive global missions program, an outreach to the neighborhood includes a strong connection to the rising generation of doctors attending the medical schools in the neighborhood.Some notable staff members of the church from its founding include
Tösstal railway line The Tösstal railway line (Töss Valley Railway, " or "TTB) is a railway in the Swiss canton of Zürich, which serves the communities of the Töss Valley.Passenger service on the line now forms part of the Zürich S-Bahn, branded as the S26, and the standard Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) zonal fare tariffs apply to the line.
It is one of the network's less-heavily traveled lines, and most of the route is single-tracked.The Tösstalbahn (TTB) opened between Winterthur Grüze and Bauma was on 4 May 1875, and its continuation to Wald opened on 15 October 1876.At Wald the line connected with the independently owned Wald-Rüti-Bahn (WR) from Rüti ZH, which had itself opened on 29 September 1876.
The two lines remained in separate ownership until they both became part of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) on 10 June 1918, although the TTB had operated the WB from 1902.In 1901, the Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn (UeBB) opened, providing a third access point to the Tösstal line at Bauma.This line was never a great success, and in 1948 much of it was abandoned, but the stretch from Hinwil to Bauma was acquired by the SBB, retained and electrified.
However passenger services ceased by 1979, and the Hinwil to Bauma section is now operated as a preserved railway by the Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (DVZO).In 1990, the passenger service on the Tösstalbahn became part of the Zürich S-Bahn network.Operation remained the responsibility of the SBB, with service provided using RBDe 560, with occasional RBe 540 supplements.
Einheitswagen ("standard coaches") I or II as well as a BDt or Bt control car made up the rest of the consist, all of which were generally in the NPZ (blue over white) livery.In December 2006, THURBO, a regional railway partly owned by the SBB, took over the operation of the S26 passenger service and provided new rolling stock.The line remains in the ownership of the SBB.
Since December 2018, the S 11 Aarau - Lenzburg - Dietikon - Zurich HB - Stettbach - Winterthur - Seuzach/Sennhof-Kyburg (- Wila) has been operating on a section of the Tösstalbahn.During rush hours, the upgrades that have taken effect enable the S-Bahn to run an hourly service to Wila, but without stopping in Rämismühle-Zell.In 2019, the continuous half-hourly interval of the S26 between Winterthur and Rüti ZH has been introduced.
The line runs from a northern terminus in Winterthur Hauptbahnhof, the main station of the city of Winterthur, to a southern terminus at Rüti ZH station, on the railway line from Zürich to Rapperswil via Uster.In so doing it passes through the Zürcher Oberland following the valleys of the Töss river and Jona river.Along its route, the line serves the following stations
It provides an hourly service between Winterthur and Rüti, with additional trains giving two trains per hour on the section between Winterthur and Bauma.A journey along the full route takes 64 minutes.The stations in the Winterthur suburbs are also served by other S-Bahn services, with the S12 serving Winterthur Seen and Winterthur Grüze stations, and the S35 serving Winterthur Grüze only.
The Astronomer (Vermeer) The Astronomer (Dutch
Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th-century Dutch painting and Vermeer's oeuvre includes both this astronomer and the slightly later "The Geographer".Both are believed to portray the same man, possibly Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.A 2017 study indicated that the canvas for the two works came from the same bolt of material, confirming their close relationship.
The astronomer's profession is shown by the celestial globe (version by Jodocus Hondius) and the book on the table, the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's "Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae".Symbolically, the volume is open to Book III, a section advising the astronomer to seek "inspiration from God" and the painting on the wall shows the Finding of Moses—Moses may represent knowledge and science ("learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians").The provenance of "The Astronomer" can be traced back to 27 April 1713, when it was sold at the Rotterdam sale of an unknown collector (possibly or his father, of Rotterdam) together with "The Geographer".
The presumed buyer was Hendrik Sorgh, whose estate sale held in Amsterdam on 28 March 1720 included both "The Astronomer" and "The Geographer", which were described as ‘Een Astrologist
A small swastika was stamped on the back in black ink.The painting was returned to the Rothschilds after the war, and was acquired by the French state as giving in payment of inheritance taxes in 1983 and then exhibited at the Louvre since 1983.Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae by Adriaan Metius
Ceropegia stapeliiformis Ceropegia stapeliiformis is a flowering plant in the genus "Ceropegia" (Apocynaceae), native to South Africa and Swaziland.Common names include serpent ceropegia, snake creeper, and slangkambro.
"Ceropegia stapeliiformis" is a prostrate, creeping, trailing or climbing succulent creeper with fibrous roots (which develop where the stems touch the ground) and has clear sap.The leaves are minute and rudimentary, soon falling off the stems.The flowers are 5–7 cm long and have a distinctive funnel-shape with a greenish white colour that is spotted or streaked with maroon.
The petals surrounding the mouth are free-spreading, reflexed and fringed with hairs.The fruit a follicle with tubercles.This species is usually found rooted in leaf mould under the protection of shrubs.
Two subspecies have been described
Road to Singapore Road to Singapore is a 1940 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope.Based on a story by Harry Hervey, the film is about two playboys trying to forget previous romances in the Colony of Singapore, where they meet a beautiful woman.
Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film marked the debut of the long-running and popular ""Road to ..."" series of pictures spotlighting the trio, seven in all.The supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Anthony Quinn, and Jerry Colonna.It takes place in Singapore under British Rule.
Josh Mallon (Bing Crosby) and Ace Lannigan (Bob Hope) are best friends and work aboard the same ship.As their ship returns to the US after a long voyage, they see all the other sailors being mistreated by their wives and girlfriends, and the two friends pledge never to get involved with women again.Unfortunately, this vow is tested almost immediately.
First, Ace is confronted by the family of a former lover, Cherry, who insist he marry her.Then Josh, who is the son of rich shipping magnate (Charles Coburn), has to fend off his fiancée, Gloria (Judith Barrett), and his father's wishes that he settle down and take over the family business.Things get worse when Josh and Ace get caught up fishing and turn up late for a party to celebrate Josh's engagement.
Gloria's hostile drunken brother starts a fistfight and a news reporter takes photographs that cause a scandal.Josh and Ace flee to Hawaii and then head for Singapore.However, the pair only get as far as the island of Kaigoon before their money runs out.
They rescue Mima (Dorothy Lamour), a local (but not native) woman, from her abusive dance-partner, Caesar (Anthony Quinn), and she moves into their hut.Soon Mima is running the two men's lives, much to their chagrin.The trio try to make money in several different ways, including trying to sell a spot remover that is so bad it dissolves clothes.
When Josh's father finally locates his wayward son, he and Gloria fly out to bring Josh back to face his responsibilities.The resentful Caesar leads them to where Ace, Josh and Mima are enjoying a local feast.By this point, both Josh and Ace have fallen in love with Mima.
She is heartbroken to learn that Gloria is Josh's fiancée.Ace proposes to Mima, but before she can accept, Josh returns.The two friends almost come to blows over Mima, but then decide that she should choose between them.
Mima picks Ace.Josh boards an ocean liner with Gloria and his father.Meanwhile, Caesar informs the local police that Ace is on the island illegally.
Ace is arrested when he cannot produce a passport, but manages to escape.He and Mima flee aboard a ship, but Ace comes to realize that Mima really loves Josh.When Josh's ship docks at a tropical port, a passenger complains about a terrible spot remover that disintegrated his suit jacket.
Josh realizes that Ace and Mima must be on the island.When he finds them, Ace tells his best friend that Mima really loves him.The ""Road to …"" series of films had several running gags that appeared in nearly every movie.
Most of these originated in "Road to Singapore".These include
(Burns is quoted as saying that Gracie "thought the whole thing was silly.
")At this point, Paramount decided to pair Crosby with Hope, taking advantage of their friendly feud on their radio shows, and to take advantage of the screen popularity of Lamour, who had already made several lucrative pictures with a "South Seas" theme.Crosby and Hope had recently appeared live together at Del Mar (Crosby's racetrack) beforehand, amazing onlookers with how smoothly they worked together, but their audience didn't realize that they'd briefly performed together on the vaudeville stage years earlier, getting a few routines down pat.
Although the "Road to Singapore" script was written by established screenwriters Frank Butler and Don Hartman and directed by Victor Schertzinger, some of the material was ad libbed by Hope and Crosby or surreptitiously contributed by their own writing staffs (including Sid Kuller and Ray Golden).Filming began in Hollywood on October 2, 1939 and continued until December.The jungle scenes were filmed at the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
This was the only installment of the series in which Hope was billed third, under Dorothy Lamour.After this picture, the billing order remained Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour until "The Road to Hong Kong" more than two decades later, in which Lamour was replaced with Joan Collins and relegated to a smaller role when Crosby insisted on a younger leading lady.Hope fought to get her into the picture, albeit in a reduced capacity.
"Road to Singapore" premiered March 13, 1940, at the Paramount Theatre in New York City.Tommy Dorsey's orchestra (with Frank Sinatra) highlighted the accompanying stage show.The film was an immediate box office success, helped in large measure by good reviews and by Hope's promotion of it on his weekly radio show.
The film was placed at No.17 in the list of 1940s top-grossing movies in the United States.A review in "Variety" wrote, "Much of the humor is whacky and nonsensical, but made palatable in the manner of presentation by the Crosby-Hope team and crackerjack direction of Victor Schertizinger."
"Harrison's Reports" wrote that the story made "little sense", but that this "does not matter much, for the entertaining qualities of the picture are the gags, the songs, and the clowning on the part of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope", who were called "excellent as a team.
""Film Daily" agreed, reporting that "Bing and Bob make up a swell team, with a resulting heavy bundle of laughs.
"John Mosher of "The New Yorker" found the film trivial but wrote that it "saunters along as easily as any of the collection" of comedies playing that week.
Frank S. Nugent of "The New York Times" wrote a dissenting negative review, saying the film squandered its possibilities.He metaphorically called the road "cobbled with good intentions", but "altogether too uneven for regular use.
"Bing Crosby recorded three of the songs for Decca Records.
"Too Romantic" was a big hit reaching the No.3 position in the charts during a 12-week stay.
"Sweet Potato Piper" also reached the top 20.
Irakleia, Arta Irakleia () is a former municipality in the Arta regional unit, Epirus, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Georgios Karaiskakis, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 129.887 km2.It had a population of 1,239 in 2011.The seat of the municipality was in Ano Kalentini.
G-factor (physics) A g"-factor (also called g" value or dimensionless magnetic moment) is a dimensionless quantity that characterizes the magnetic moment and angular momentum of an atom, a particle or nucleus.It is essentially a proportionality constant that relates the observed magnetic moment "μ" of a particle to its angular momentum quantum number and a unit of magnetic moment (to make it dimensionless), usually the Bohr magneton or nuclear magneton.
The spin magnetic moment of a charged, spin-1/2 particle that does not possess any internal structure (a Dirac particle) is given by where μ is the spin magnetic moment of the particle, "g" is the "g"-factor of the particle, "e" is the elementary charge, "m" is the mass of the particle, and S is the spin angular momentum of the particle (with magnitude "ħ"/2 for Dirac particles).Protons, neutrons, nuclei and other composite baryonic particles have magnetic moments arising from their spin (both the spin and magnetic moment may be zero, in which case the "g"-factor is undefined).Conventionally, the associated "g"-factors are defined using the nuclear magneton, and thus implicitly using the proton's mass rather than the particle's mass as for a Dirac particle.
The formula used under this convention is where μ is the magnetic moment of the nucleon or nucleus resulting from its spin, "g" is the effective "g"-factor, I is its spin angular momentum, "μ"N is the nuclear magneton, "e" is the elementary charge and "m"p is the proton rest mass.There are three magnetic moments associated with an electron
In atomic physics, the electron spin "g"-factor is often defined as the "absolute value" or "negative" of "g"e
For an infinite-mass nucleus, the value of "g""L" is exactly equal to one, by a quantum-mechanical argument analogous to the derivation of the classical magnetogyric ratio.For an electron in an orbital with a magnetic quantum number ml, the "z"-component of the orbital angular momentum is which, since "g""L" = 1, is "μ"B"m"l For a finite-mass nucleus, there is an effective "g" value where "M" is the ratio of the nuclear mass to the electron mass.Thirdly, the "Landé g-factor", "g""J", is defined by where μ is the total magnetic moment resulting from both spin and orbital angular momentum of an electron, is its total angular momentum, and "μ"B is the Bohr magneton.
The value of "g""J" is related to "g""L" and "g"s by a quantum-mechanical argument; see the article Landé "g"-factor.The muon, like the electron, has a "g"-factor associated with its spin, given by the equation where μ is the magnetic moment resulting from the muon’s spin, S is the spin angular momentum, and "m"μ is the muon mass.That the muon "g"-factor is not quite the same as the electron "g"-factor is mostly explained by quantum electrodynamics and its calculation of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment.
Almost all of the small difference between the two values (99.96% of it) is due to a well-understood lack of a heavy-particle diagrams contributing to the probability for emission of a photon representing the magnetic dipole field, which are present for muons, but not electrons, in QED theory.These are entirely a result of the mass difference between the particles.However, not all of the difference between the "g"-factors for electrons and muons is exactly explained by the Standard Model.
The muon "g"-factor can, in theory, be affected by physics beyond the Standard Model, so it has been measured very precisely, in particular at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.In the E821 collaboration final report in November 2006, the experimental measured value is , compared to the theoretical prediction of .This is a difference of 3.4 standard deviations, suggesting that beyond-the-Standard-Model physics may be having an effect.
Passaic-class monitor The "Passaic"-class ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy saw service in the U.S. Civil War and the Spanish–American War.This highly successful class was an improved version of equipped with a 15-inch Dahlgren gun in place of one of the 11-inch rifles.
Naval architect and engineer John Ericsson designed the "Passaic"-class warships, drawing upon lessons learned from the first , which he also designed.The "Passaic" monitors were larger than the original "Monitor" and had their pilothouses atop the turret, rather than near the bow.This allowed a wider field of view and easier communications between captain, pilot and crew.
The shape of the hull was an improvement with a less pronounced overhang than "Monitor".The "Passaic" class featured an funnel and improved ventilation.Having observed the new 15-inch Rodman cannon in fortifications and disappointed with the performance of the 11-inch Dahlgren versus , Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox required the new monitors to be equipped with at least one gun of 15-inch caliber, resulting in rush production of a new 15-inch Dahlgren.
The turret was in diameter inside with the gun mounted flush because the muzzle diameter was too large for the turret opening.The large volume of propellant gases released inside the turret required the addition of a "smoke box" at the muzzle in the interior of the turret.As a result, the 15 in gunners could not see their targets and had to aim with the or guns.
"Lehigh" had her 11-inch smoothbore replaced with an 8-inch Parrot.
"Passaic" also had this modification by July 1863, and, eventually, all surviving members of this class had an additional 15-inch smoothbore added.Later improvements included an additional 50 tons of deck plating over the magazines and machinery spaces as well as rings fitted around the turret and pilot houses to prevent their pivoting machinery from being jammed by shot.
Lake Burdur Lake Burdur () is a large saline lake of tectonic origin, positioned at the frontier between Burdur and Isparta provinces, in southwestern Turkey.It has an area of 250 km2 and maximum depth variously reported at between 50 and 110 m. Water level in the lake fluctuates.
Lake Burdur is also an important wetland site for many bird species and is designated a Ramsar site.Lake Burdur is among the largest and deepest lakes of Turkey, located at the Lake District Region in south-western Anatolia (37°43′351′′ N, 30°10′878′′ E), within a closed basin.Catchment area is 6150 km2.
The average depth is 40 m and maximum depth 68 m. Maximum surface area is 140 km2 at 854 m elevation.It is salty and highly alkaline (pH 9.5) and it never freezes.Lake Burdur is one of the deepest lakes of Turkey.
The aquatic plants are not observed in the lake because of the amount of sodium sulphate and chlorine content.Since the lake does not freeze in winter, it serves as a winter refuge for the birds.The ecosystem of the lake is threatened by the presence of an industrial complex and an airport close to the northern shore.
The decrease of water levels (because of construction of upstream dams and unknown causes), increasing of sedimentation (from catchment erosion), organic pollution (from food processing and Burdur City raw sewage waste) and inorganic effluent (from a sulphur mine) represent long-term threats to the integrity of the lake.The water level has decreased from 1975 to 2002 due to construction of dams and ponds in catchment basin, resulting in the loss of 27% of the lake area during the period of 27 years.Nowadays the estimated lake area ranges between 140 km2 or 153 km2.