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47-458: [REDACTED] Look up whiting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whiting is the name of powdered and washed white chalk (calcium carbonate) Fish [ edit ] Merlangius merlangus , the original fish species to receive the name; a common food fish of the cod family found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean around Europe and

94-811: A United States Navy air base in Florida NAS Whiting Field – North , a section of Naval Air Station Whiting Field NAS Whiting Field – South , a section of Naval Air Station Whiting Field Buildings [ edit ] Whiting Homestead , a house in Connecticut in the United States Whiting House (disambiguation) , the name of many houses in the United States Whiting Refinery , an oil refinery operated by BP The Whiting (auditorium) , an auditorium in Michigan in

141-801: A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States Whiting Motor Car Company , an early American automobile manufacturer in Flint, Michigan , that operated from 1910 to 1912 Whiting reaction , an organic chemical reaction Whiting Awards , an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays See also [ edit ] Whitefish (disambiguation) Justice Whiting (disambiguation) Waiting (disambiguation) Weeting Weighting Whitening (disambiguation) Whitin (disambiguation) Whitting Topics referred to by

188-683: A family foundation supporting the Flint Cultural Center Corporation. In September 2013, the FCCC purchased the Sarvis Center and Central Kitchen from the Flint Community Schools for $ 150,000 despite some community opposition thinking that the price was too low and there was no other bidders. In 2018, the corporation started its public charter school, Flint Cultural Center Academy. Sloan-Longway , stylized as Sloan*Longway ,

235-480: A few are more recent. A mixture of chalk and mercury can be used as fingerprint powder . However, because of the toxicity of the mercury, the use of such mixtures for fingerprinting was abandoned in 1967. The Whiting (auditorium) The campus is 33 acres in size and is owned by the Flint Cultural Center Corporation. The Flint Public Library owns its own building. Flint Institute of Music (FIM) and Flint Institute of Arts are non-profits independent from

282-698: A mountain in British Columbia, Canada Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park , a hiking location near Lake Forest, California Whiting River , a river in Alaska and British Columbia Whiting River (Connecticut) , a stream in Massachusetts and Connecticut, US Whiting Township, North Dakota , in Bowman County, North Dakota, US Whiting Township, Jackson County, Kansas , US Elsewhere [ edit ] Whiting Bay , Isle of Arran, Scotland Mount Whiting ,

329-656: A pyramidal mountain in Antarctica Whiting Peak , a scattered group of peaks and nunataks in Antarctica Whiting Rocks , a group of three rocks off the coast of Antarctica Whitings Hill Open Space , a large public open space in Barnet, England People [ edit ] Whiting (surname) , people with the surname Whiting Whiting (given name) , people with the given name Whiting Aviation [ edit ] Naval Air Station Whiting Field ,

376-633: Is mined from chalk deposits both above ground and underground . Chalk mining boomed during the Industrial Revolution , due to the need for chalk products such as quicklime and bricks . Most people first encounter chalk in school where it refers to blackboard chalk , which was originally made of mineral chalk, since it readily crumbles and leaves particles that stick loosely to rough surfaces, allowing it to make writing that can be readily erased. Blackboard chalk manufacturers now may use mineral chalk, other mineral sources of calcium carbonate, or

423-610: Is a fine-textured, earthy type of limestone distinguished by its light colour, softness, and high porosity. It is composed mostly of tiny fragments of the calcite shells or skeletons of plankton , such as foraminifera or coccolithophores . These fragments mostly take the form of calcite plates ranging from 0.5 to 4 microns in size, though about 10% to 25% of a typical chalk is composed of fragments that are 10 to 100 microns in size. The larger fragments include intact plankton skeletons and skeletal fragments of larger organisms, such as molluscs , echinoderms , or bryozoans . Chalk

470-584: Is a non-profit corporation that manages the Flint Cultural Center. The FCCC is responsible for all aspects of governance and operation of Longway Planetarium, Sloan Museum, and The Whiting. The Flint Cultural Center Corporation established in 1992 after the Flint Board of Education and the Committee of Sponsors had done some strategic planning with community participation. At first, the corporation managed

517-508: Is also the only form of limestone that commonly shows signs of compaction. Flint (a type of chert ) is very common as bands parallel to the bedding or as nodules in seams , or linings to fractures , embedded in chalk. It is probably derived from sponge spicules or other siliceous organisms as water is expelled upwards during compaction. Flint is often deposited around larger fossils such as Echinoidea which may be silicified (i.e. replaced molecule by molecule by flint). Chalk

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564-548: Is an operational division of the Flint Cultural Center Corporation. The division operates three venues Alfred P. Sloan Museum, Robert T. Longway Planetarium and Buick Automotive Gallery and Research Center. The Sloan Museum Automotive Collection consist of 100 vehicles some of which rotate between being on display at the Sloan Museum and the Buick Automotive Gallery. In 2004, the Flint Cultural Center Corporation formed

611-428: Is applied to the hands and feet to remove perspiration and reduce slipping. Chalk may also be used as a house construction material instead of brick or wattle and daub : quarried chalk was cut into blocks and used as ashlar , or loose chalk was rammed into blocks and laid in mortar. There are still houses standing which have been constructed using chalk as the main building material. Most are pre- Victorian though

658-518: Is commonly used as a drying agent to obtain better grip by gymnasts and rock climbers. Glazing putty mainly contains chalk as a filler in linseed oil . Chalk and other forms of limestone may be used for their properties as a base . Chalk is a source of quicklime by thermal decomposition , or slaked lime following quenching of quicklime with water. In agriculture , chalk is used for raising pH in soils with high acidity . Small doses of chalk can also be used as an antacid . Additionally,

705-503: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous , sedimentary carbonate rock . It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor . Chalk is common throughout Western Europe , where deposits underlie parts of France, and steep cliffs are often seen where they meet

752-571: Is now usually made of talc (magnesium silicate). Chalk beds form important petroleum reservoirs in the North Sea and along the Gulf Coast of North America. In southeast England, deneholes are a notable example of ancient chalk pits. Such bell pits may also mark the sites of ancient flint mines, where the prime object was to remove flint nodules for stone tool manufacture. The surface remains at Cissbury are one such example, but perhaps

799-586: Is so common in Cretaceous marine beds that the Cretaceous Period was named for these deposits. The name Cretaceous was derived from Latin creta , meaning chalk . Some deposits of chalk were formed after the Cretaceous. The Chalk Group is a European stratigraphic unit deposited during the late Cretaceous Period. It forms the famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent , England, as well as their counterparts of

846-401: Is typically almost pure calcite, CaCO 3 , with just 2% to 4% of other minerals. These are usually quartz and clay minerals , though collophane (cryptocrystalline apatite , a phosphate mineral) is also sometimes present, as nodules or as small pellets interpreted as fecal pellets. In some chalk beds, the calcite has been converted to dolomite , CaMg(CO 3 ) 2 , and in a few cases

893-723: The Cap Blanc Nez on the other side of the Dover Strait . The Champagne region of France is mostly underlain by chalk deposits, which contain artificial caves used for wine storage . Some of the highest chalk cliffs in the world occur at Jasmund National Park in Germany and at Møns Klint in Denmark . Chalk deposits are also found in Cretaceous beds on other continents, such as the Austin Chalk , Selma Group , and Niobrara Formations of

940-443: The Flint Community Schools for $ 150,000 despite some community opposition thinking that the price was too low and there was no other bidders. For the 2018 Sloan Auto Fair, it was moved from the center campus to Genesee County Parks ' Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad given issue with Flint Institute of Arts' expansion. On May 14, 2018, the center corporation submitted a request to vacate parts of three public streets on

987-532: The Flint College and Cultural Development. Leadership of the Committee was: executive director Robert T. Robison, president Robert T. Longway , Buick vice president and assistant general manager from 1929–32, first vice president F.A. "Dutch" Bower, Buick's chief engineer from 1929–36 and executive committee chairman Gorman. Honorary chairman were Mott, GM president Harlow H. Curtice and retired (1929) Buick engineer Enos A. DeWaters. The Flint Board of Education

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1034-616: The Flint Cultural Center Corporation, but lease their buildings from the cultural center. FIM consists of the Flint School of Performing Arts, Flint Symphony Orchestra and Flint Repertory Theatre. The City of Flint School District in 1920 purchased the old Oak Grove sanitarium and 60 adjoining acres plus later added other private lots. In 1946, the College and Cultural Center campus was started by C.S. Mott after he learned of University of Michigan President Alexander Grant Ruthven indicated

1081-932: The Mediterranean regions Whiting (fish) , various other fish species in North America, Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific region Places [ edit ] In the United States and Canada [ edit ] Whiting, Indiana Whiting, Iowa Whiting, Kansas Whiting, Maine Whiting, Missouri Whiting, New Jersey Whiting, Vermont Whiting, Wisconsin Whiting, Wyoming Whiting Bay (Maine) , US Whiting Farms, Holyoke, Massachusetts , neighborhood Whiting Hill , mountain in Dukes County, Massachusetts, US Whiting Peak (British Columbia) ,

1128-648: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 2003, and previously in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1963 to 1970 as USC&GS Whiting (CSS 29) USS  Kenneth Whiting  (AV-14) , a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1951 to 1958 USS  Whiting  (SS-433) , a proposed United States Navy submarine cancelled in 1944 prior to construction Other uses [ edit ] Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting ,

1175-549: The New McCree Theatre. The Greater Flint Arts Council grants out the remaining funds to other Genesee County art organizations through Share Art Genesee. The Flint Institute of Music's Flint Youth Theatre changed its name to Flint Repertory Theatre ("The Rep") on August 13, 2018 to become a regional theatre while Flint Youth Theatre would become a program of the Rep's education department. Flint Cultural Center Corporation (FCCC)

1222-698: The North American interior. Chalk is also found in western Egypt (Khoman Formation) and western Australia ( Miria Formation ). Chalk of Oligocene to Neogene age has been found in drill cores of rock under the Pacific Ocean at Stewart Arch in the Solomon Islands . There are layers of chalk, containing Globorotalia , in the Nicosia Formation of Cyprus , which formed during the Pliocene . Chalk

1269-668: The Portable Dome Theater was purchased. Its first year (2013/2014 school year) of travel cost were partially covered by a grant from Community Foundation of Greater Flint's Flint Community Fund, Sarah E. Warner Endowment for the Arts Fund and Jean Simi Fund for the Arts to the Flint Classroom Support Fund. The Whiting is an operational division of the Flint Cultural Center Corporation that operates The Whiting auditorium and

1316-617: The Sloan-Longway division from the operation of Sloan Museum, Longway Planetarium and Buick Automotive Gallery. On November 16 and 19, 2012, the Flint Journal donated and transferred its archive to the Sloan Museum. The papers' records were placed in the museum's Sloan Archives at the Buick Gallery building. In 2010, fundraising began for a portable dome theater so that planetarium style presentations can be taken to local schools. By 2013,

1363-763: The United States Education [ edit ] School City of Whiting , a school district headquartered in Whiting, Indiana, in the United States Whiting School of Engineering , a division of The Johns Hopkins University Ships [ edit ] HMS  Whiting , the name of several ships of the Royal Navy, including: HMS Whiting , the previous name of the Royal Navy torpedo gunboat HMS  Boomerang  (1889) NOAAS Whiting (S 329) , an American survey ship in commission in

1410-473: The campus in 1955. In the early 1950s, Flint Journal editor Michael A. Gorman felt that educational and cultural opportunities should be available to residents given its status as a factory town. Gorman was involved with an informal group that met at his home on Calumet to play cards and discussion Flint's future. This group was thus called the Calumet Club. The club changed into the Committee of Sponsors for

1457-633: The campus. This a preliminary move to make way for a possible arts and science focused charter school. Grounding breaking on the K-8 charter school, Flint Cultural Center Academy, took place on June 26, 2018 with expectations that the school be open for the 2019-2020 school year. At the August 2018 primary election, Genesee County voters approved a 10-year arts millage that the bulk of the proceeds would go to Flint Cultural Center institutes. Additional Flint groups receiving fixed funding are Friends of Berston Fieldhouse and

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1504-548: The chalk came mostly form low-magnesium calcite skeletons, so the sediments were already in the form of highly stable low-magnesium calcite when deposited. This is in contrast with most other limestones, which formed from high-magnesium calcite or aragonite that rapidly converted to the more stable low-magnesium calcite after deposition, resulting in the early cementation of such limestones. In chalk, absence of this calcium carbonate conversion process prevented early cementation, which partially accounts for chalk's high porosity. Chalk

1551-446: The corporation managed the grounds on behalf of the school district, under a lease management agreement, and was governing body for Longway Planetarium, Sloan Museum and Whiting Auditorium. A major capital and endowment campaign to support the FCCC, the FIA and FIM was started in 1995 and raised over $ 33 million. While $ 7.1 million was used to renovate The Whiting, a project completed in 1999,

1598-485: The dolomitized chalk has been dedolomitized back to calcite. Chalk is highly porous, with typical values of porosity ranging from 35 to 47 per cent. While it is similar in appearance to both gypsum and diatomite , chalk is identifiable by its hardness, fossil content, and its reaction to acid (it produces effervescence on contact). In Western Europe, chalk was formed in the Late Cretaceous Epoch and

1645-602: The downtown Capitol Theatre . In 1993-94, the corporation launched the Showcase Series at the Whiting Auditorium with five shows in the lineup. The Spotlight Series, formerly the Showcase Series, had 27 shows in 2008. A major capital and endowment campaign to support the FCCC allocated $ 7.1 million to renovate The Whiting, a project completed in 1999. In April 2015, the Uptown Reinvestment Corp. purchased

1692-437: The early Palaeocene Epoch (between 100 and 61 million years ago). It was deposited on extensive continental shelves at depths between 100 and 600 metres (330 and 1,970 ft), during a time of nonseasonal (likely arid) climate that reduced the amount of erosion from nearby exposed rock. The lack of nearby erosion explains the high purity of chalk. The coccolithophores, foraminifera, and other microscopic organisms from which

1739-751: The grounds on behalf of the school district, under a lease management agreement, and was governing body for Longway Planetarium, Sloan Museum and Whiting Auditorium. The Flint City School district transferred in July 2003 the Flint Youth Theatre program to the FCCC. Except for the Flint Public Library and the Sarvis Center, the Cultural Center campus was deeded over to the corporation in October 2004. In 2005, former Citizens Bank president Howard Gay established

1786-493: The last of the original buildings finished in 1967 and were named after automotive pioneers. In 1973, the Sloan Museum started hold its annual Sloan Auto Fair. The Committee of Sponsors continued fundraising until the 1990s, but did the bulk of their fundraising in its first ten years. The Flint Cultural Center Corporation was established in 1992 after the Flint Board of Education and the Committee of Sponsors had done some strategic planning with community participation. At first,

1833-528: The mineral gypsum ( calcium sulfate ). While gypsum-based blackboard chalk is the lowest cost to produce, and thus widely used in the developing world , use of carbonate-based chalk produces larger particles and thus less dust, and it is marketed as "dustless chalk". Coloured chalks, pastel chalks, and sidewalk chalk (shaped into larger sticks and often coloured), used to draw on sidewalks , streets, and driveways , are primarily made of gypsum rather than calcium carbonate chalk. Magnesium carbonate chalk

1880-557: The most famous is the extensive complex at Grimes Graves in Norfolk . Chalk was traditionally used in recreation. In field sports, such as tennis played on grass, powdered chalk was used to mark the boundary lines of the playing field or court. If a ball hits the line, a cloud of chalk or pigment dust will be visible. In recent years, powdered chalk has been replaced with titanium dioxide . In gymnastics, rock-climbing, weightlifting and tug of war , chalk — now usually magnesium carbonate —

1927-467: The possibility of forming university branches in other areas of Michigan. Mott pledged a match towards developing a four-year college if Flint city voters pass a $ 7-million bond issue, which they did. Plus Mott donated land, 32 acres in the early 1950s and additional 6.25 acres in 1955 for a new campus. The first building constructed in 1954 for the new college campus was Ballenger Field House. With UM talks dragging on, Flint Community Junior College moved to

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1974-558: The remained where placed into endowment funds. Longway and Bower were connect via a $ 2.65-million 2000 addition consisting of classroom and rehearsal space. Beginning in 2010, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation made annual grants over $ 3 million, of split between the Corporation and the two other private Cultural Center organizations. In September 2013, the FCCC purchased the Sarvis Center and Central Kitchen from

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2068-551: The sea in places such as the Dover cliffs on the Kent coast of the English Channel . Chalk is mined for use in industry, such as for quicklime , bricks and builder's putty , and in agriculture , for raising pH in soils with high acidity . It is also used for " blackboard chalk " for writing and drawing on various types of surfaces, although these can also be manufactured from other carbonate-based minerals, or gypsum . Chalk

2115-436: The small particles of chalk make it a substance ideal for cleaning and polishing. For example, toothpaste commonly contains small amounts of chalk, which serves as a mild abrasive . Polishing chalk is chalk prepared with a carefully controlled grain size, for very fine polishing of metals. French chalk (also known as tailor's chalk) is traditionally a hard chalk used to make temporary markings on cloth, mainly by tailors . It

2162-446: Was chosen by the founders to oversee the cultural campus and its reserve funds. The reserve funds were raised to go towards annual operational and maintenance costs. However, these funds were insufficient to upgrade buildings or fund new programs. The committee set a goal of $ 25 million for their initial fundraising goal. In honor of its 50-millionth car, General Motors contributed $ 3 million in starter funds. Starting in 1954, donation

2209-498: Was open to the public but in $ 25,000 increments. 400 individuals and 100 corporations, businesses and organizations donated at this sponsor level with most giving over the minimum. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation shifted its annual gift, started in 1928, from the Flint Institute of Arts to the Flint Cultural Center. In 1958, Gorman died before the campus was finished. Cultural center buildings did start to open that year while

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