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Poplar Bluff Commercial Historic District
Poplar Bluff Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses 14 contributing commercial buildings in the central business district of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1930s, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Fraternal Building (1928) and Begley Building (1908).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
References
Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Category:Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Category:Italianate architecture in Missouri
Category:Colonial Revival architecture in Missouri
Category:Buildings and structures in Butler County, Missouri
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Butler County, Missouri
Category:1994 establishments in Missouri
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Juanita Molina de Fromen
Juanita Molina de Fromen (1893-1934) was a Nicaraguan educator and feminist. She was one of the delegates to the Inter-American Commission of Women in 1930.
Biography
Juanita Molina was born in 1893 in Managua, Nicaragua. After completing her primary and secondary education in Managua, she became Principal of the Municipal School. Continuing her education, she attended the College of the Holy Names in Oakland, California and went on to earn both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Columbia University. She returned to Nicaragua and in 1924 was appointed Assistant Secretary of Public Instruction.
She married fellow teacher Gunnar Fromen and returned to New York, where she was teaching Spanish classes in 1926 at such institutions as the Curtis Superior School and Hunter College High School in New York City. In 1929, she and her husband were both contracted to work for the government of Nicaragua studying schooling systems in the US. Molina was contracted as an educational advisor and her husband as an instructor.
In 1930, Molina was appointed by President José María Moncada as the Nicaraguan delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women. The purpose of the delegation was to compile a report indicating how laws in the various countries of the Americas effected women's nationality. The members for the 1930 Havana meeting were Flora de Oliveira Lima (Brazil), Aída Parada (Chile), Lydia Fernández (Costa Rica), Elena Mederos de González (Cuba), Gloria Moya de Jiménez (Dominican Republic), Irene de Peyré (Guatemala), Margarita Robles de Mendoza (Mexico), Juanita Molina de Fromen (Nicaragua), Clara González (Panama), Teresa Obregoso de Prevost (Peru), and Doris Stevens (USA). As their governments provided no funding for their attendance, only the women from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, the United States were able to attend. Molina was unable to attend the 1933 Montevideo Convention, because once again her government provided no funds; however, both she and her husband had contributed information on the laws of Nicaragua pertaining to women.
Molina and her husband were active suffragists and worked with President Molina on a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women, which was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate in 1930, but the effort failed. She continued to fight from New York for the right to vote for Nicaraguan women until her untimely death.
Molina suffered from a series of health issues in 1934. She underwent two appendix operations and had a mental break due to severe postpartum depression, which was revealed in a letter to Doris Stevens from Gunnar. As a result, she committed infanticide on her only child and died as a result of suicide on 22 December 1934 in the couple's New York City apartment.
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Category:Suffragists
Category:Nicaraguan academics
Category:Nicaraguan women's rights activists
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:People from Managua
Category:Suicides in New York City
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Category:Academics who committed suicide
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Cetrimonium
Cetrimonium, cetyl trimethylammonium, or hexadecyltrimethylammonium is a quaternary ammonium cation whose salts are used as antiseptics:
Cetrimonium bromide
Cetrimonium chloride
They have the ATC codes (as skin antiseptics) and (as throat antiseptics).
Category:Antiseptics
Category:Quaternary ammonium compounds
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Matt Garnaut
Matthew Stuart "Matt" Garnaut (born 7 November 1973) is a former Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for the East Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and cricket for Western Australia.
From Perth, a number of Garnaut's family had previously played top-level sports: his grandfather, Laurie (), father, John (East Perth), and brother, Graeme (East Perth, and ) all played WAFL senior football, and his sister, Kristin, played netball for the Perth Orioles. Garnaut played Teal Cup football for Western Australia, and later played one senior match for East Perth in the WAFL in 1994. He later concentrated on cricket, making his first-class debut against South Australia in November 1996. Overall, he played 16 matches for Western Australia in the 1996–97 and 1997–98 Sheffield Shield competitions, taking 37 wickets at an average of 42.00, with a best of 4/51. Garnaut also played grade cricket for the Bayswater-Morley District Cricket Club. He was involved in a notable incident during the 1998–99 WACA First Grade final against Midland-Guildford, when he and Bret Mulder, batting tenth and eleventh respectively, put on 177 for the tenth wicket to win the tournament for Bayswater-Morley, with Garnaut finishing on 127 not out.
See also
List of Australian rules footballers and cricketers
List of Western Australia first-class cricketers
References
Category:1973 births
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Category:Cricketers from Western Australia
Category:East Perth Football Club players
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia
Category:Western Australia cricketers
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Mosinee
Mosinee may refer to:
Mosinee, Wisconsin
Mosinee (town), Wisconsin
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Vera Faddeeva
Vera Faddeeva (; Vera Nikolaevna Faddeeva; 1906–1983) was a Soviet mathematician. Faddeeva published some of the earliest work in the field of numerical linear algebra. Her 1950 work, Computational methods of linear algebra was widely acclaimed and she won a USSR State Prize for it. Between 1962 and 1975, she wrote many research papers with her husband, Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev.
Biography
Vera Nikolaevna Zamyatina () was born 20 September 1906 in Tambov, Russia, to Nikolai Zamyatin. She began her higher education in 1927 at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute and then transferred in 1928 to Leningrad State University. She graduated in 1930, married Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev, a fellow mathematician, and began work at the Leningrad Board of Weights and Measures, all in the same year. Between 1930 and 1934, she worked at the Leningrad Hydraulic Engineering Institute and simultaneously between 1933 and 1934 served as a junior researcher at the Seismology Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Beginning in 1935, she conducted research under Boris Grigorievich Galerkin at the Leningrad Institute of Constructions for three years. She returned to the Pedagogical Institute to complete her graduate work in 1938, studying for the next three years. In 1942 Faddeeva was appointed as a junior researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Leningrad, but had to flee the city during the German invasion. She lived in Kazan with her family until the siege was over in 1944 and they were able to secure permits as academics to return. By 1946, she had completed her thesis entitled On One Problem and submitted it to the Department of Mathematical Physics of Leningrad State University. The thesis was accepted and she received the equivalent of a PhD in 1946.
In 1949 she published two papers: The method of lines applied to some boundary problems and On fundamental functions of the operator X{IV}. The following year, she published a book with a colleague, Mark Konstantinovich Gavurin, which was a series of Bessel function tables and her most famous work, Computational methods of linear algebra, which was one of the first of its kind in the field. The book described linear algebra, gave methods for solving linear equations and the inversion of matrices, and explained computing square roots and eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. Faddeeva had continued working at the Steklov Institute, she would work there until her retirement, and in 1951, became head of the Laboratory of Numerical Computations. This unit was based on a model unit set up at Leningrad State University by Gavurin with Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich in 1948. Computational methods was translated into English in 1959 and was widely influential. In 1960, the book was expanded and reprinted in Russian, she was awarded a USSR State Prize, and it also was translated into English, being published in 1963. Between 1962 and 1974, she worked with her husband compiling a summary of developments being made in linear algebra, which were published in 1975. Faddeeva's last paper, prepared in 1980 for a conference in Warsaw was entitled Numerical methods of linear algebra in computer formulation and was published posthumously in 1984.
Death and legacy
Faddeeva died 15 April 1983 in Leningrad, Russia. She is remembered as an important Russian mathematician, specializing in linear algebra, who worked in the 20th century.
Personal
Vera Nikolaevna Zamyatina married Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev in 1930.
Children: Maria (b. 6 October 1931), a chemist; Ludvig (10 March 1934-26 February 2017), a mathematician and theoretical physicist; and Michael (28 June 1937–30 September 1992), a mathematician.
Selected works
(original Russian published in 1950)
(original Russian published in 1965)
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
WorldCat publications
Category:1906 births
Category:1983 deaths
Category:Russian women scientists
Category:Russian mathematicians
Category:Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Category:Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Category:Women mathematicians
Category:Soviet mathematicians
Category:People from Tambov
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2017 World Taekwondo Championships – Women's welterweight
The women's welterweight is a competition featured at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, and was held at the Taekwondowon in Muju County, South Korea on June 26 and June 27. Welterweight were limited to a maximum of 67 kilograms in body mass.
Medalists
Results
Legend
DQ — Won by disqualification
P — Won by punitive declaration
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
Draw
External links
Official website
Women's 67
World
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Panduwasnuwara Raja Maha Vihara
Panduwasnuwara Raja Maha Vihara (Sinhalaː පඬුවස්නුවර රජ මහා විහාරය) is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Panduwasnuwara, Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka. The temple has been formally recognised by the Government as an archaeological site in Sri Lanka. The designation was declared on 13 March 1970 under the government Gazette number 14897.
Vihara inscriptions
The history of Panduwasnuwara Vihara is believed to be dated back to the period of Anuradhapura Kingdom. Inscriptions belong to the eras of King Sena II, King Kashyapa IV and King Udaya II have been found from the land of Panduwasnuwara Vihara.
The pillar inscription near the Bodhi tree
Gallery
References
External links
Panduwasnuwara and the untold tales
Category:Buddhist temples in Kurunegala District
Category:Archaeological protected monuments in Kurunegala District
Category:Sri Lanka inscriptions
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Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast
Oleksandrivka (, ) is an urban-type settlement in Voznesensk Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. Population:
The settlement is located on the left bank of the Southern Bug, between Yuzhnoukrainsk and Voznesensk (the raion center) approximately north of it.
History
In 1923, uyezds in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic were abolished, and the governorates were divided into okruhas. In 1923, Voznesensk Raion with the administrative center located in Voznesensk was established. It belonged to Mykolaiv Okruha of Odessa Governorate. Oleksandrivka was included in Voznesensk Raion. In 1925, the governorates were abolished, and okruhas were directly subordinated to Ukrainian SSR. In 1930, okruhas were abolished, and on 27 February 1932, Odessa Oblast was established, and Voznesensk Raion was included into Odessa Oblast. In 1968, Olexandrivka was granted urban-type settlement status.
Economy
The town has a dam which generates electricity (Oleksandrivka HES, operated by Energoatom). Along with the water reservoir created by the dam, Oleksandrivka HES is part of the South Ukraine Energy Complex which also includes the nuclear power station in Yuzhnoukrainsk. The Oleksandrivka water reservoir is part of the National nature park "Buh Gard" (formerly known as Granite-steppe lands of Buh).
Transportation
Olexandrivka railway station is located several kilometers south of the settlement, but the closest railway station to Oleksandrivka is in Trykratne, from Oleksandrivka. Both stations are on the railway line connecting Kudriavtsivka and Pomichna.
References
Category:Urban-type settlements in Mykolaiv Oblast
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Chamaita, Ilam
Chamaita is a town and village development committee in Ilam District in the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 5,229 people living in 863 individual households.
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Ilam District
Category:Populated places in Ilam District
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289 Commando Troop, Royal Artillery
The 289 Commando Troop originated as a Royal Artillery regiment of the Territorial Army that was formed in London in 1956. It was transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery in 1960 and reduced to a battery in 1967. In 1977 it was re-roled as a Commando battery before being reduced to a troop in 1999. It is now based in Plymouth as a detached part of 266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery where they perform the same Close Support Light Gun Role as part of 104 Regiment Royal Artillery, whilst also supporting 29 Commando Regiment in an unofficial role.
History
Regiment
The post-Second World War Territorial Army included a single airborne division 16th Airborne Division. The division was disbanded in 1956 with the remaining units forming the 44th Independent Parachute Group (TA). On 31 October 1956, the 289th Parachute Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) was formed by the amalgamation of the 285th (Essex) Parachute Field Regiment RA and 292nd (5th London) Parachute Field Regiment. Both regiments had served with the 16th Airborne Division before amalgamation. The new regiment's number was the median of 285 and 292. The regiment consisted of:
Headquarters at East Ham
P Battery at Stratford
Q Battery at Blackheath
R Battery at Plumstead
S Battery at Grays
Each battery was equipped with six 4.2" Mortars and supported one of the four parachute infantry battalions of 44th Independent Parachute Group. The regiment's armament was later augmented with 25 pounders.
On 10 September 1960, the regiment was transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery as 289th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (TA). It was amalgamated with 880th Locating Battery without change of title on 1 May 1961 and was redesignated as 289th Parachute Light Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (TA) on 18 March 1963.
Battery
The 1966 Defence White Paper announced a complete reorganisation of the Territorial Army as the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) and the former regimental and divisional structure was ended. As a result, the regiment was reduced to an independent battery in TAVR II (which had a NATO role, specifically support for the British Army of the Rhine) in London and adopted the title 289th Parachute Battery, Royal Horse Artillery (Volunteers) on 1 April 1967. It was the only independent battery in TAVR II and continued to be assigned to 44th Parachute Brigade (Volunteers).
The battery left the 44th Parachute Brigade shortly before it was disbanded and on 1 April 1977 it was reroled and redesignated as 289th Commando Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers). Now it was to provide support to the Plymouth based 29th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, equipped with L118 light guns.
Troop
On 30 June 1999, the battery was disbanded; a troop-sized sub-unit, 289th Parachute Troop, Royal Artillery (Volunteers), joined the Bristol based 266th (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers) in 100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery and provided support to 29th Commando Regiment, still equipped with L118 Light Guns.
In 2007, 289th Parachute Troop, by now located at Romford, was transferred to 201st (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Royal Artillery (still in 100th (Yeomanry) Regiment). 201st Battery was now made up of two troops (Luton and Romford) and Battery Headquarters in Luton. The battery provided support to the Colchester based 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, including deployments to Iraq.
Under Army 2020 plans, 201st Battery was placed in suspended animation. Luton elements formed part of 678th (The Rifles) Squadron, 6th Regiment, Army Air Corps in April 2014. 289th Parachute Troop was placed in suspended animation on 31 March 2014 but was subsequently transferred to Plymouth where they performed the UAV DH3 role until being re-equipped with 105mm Light Guns in 2017.
Honorary Colonels
The regiment's Honorary Colonel was Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma from formation in 1956, through to 1967. He had been Honorary Colonel of the predecessor 292nd (5th London) Parachute Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. The position seems to have been vacant from 1967 until 1970 when Brigadier W. F. K. "Sheriff" Thompson was appointed on 2 January 1970. Thompson held this position until his tenure expired and he was succeeded on 13 November 1978 by Lt-Gen Sir Terence D.H. McMeekin. He was succeeded on 13 November 1983 by Maj-Gen Arthur G.E. Stewart-Cox.
See also
16th Airborne Division
44th Parachute Brigade (V)
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
Category:Airborne units of the Royal Artillery
Category:Military units and formations established in 1999
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 2014
Category:Military units and formations in London
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List of Australian Aboriginal languages
There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language.
UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
A-F
G-K
L-M
N-U
W-Z
References
External links
Some of these sources conflict to some degree with one another.
Aboriginal Australia map, a guide to Aboriginal language, tribal and nation groups published by AIATSIS
AUSTLANG Australian Indigenous Languages Database at AIATSIS
Australian language family trees
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Editor: David Nathan
South Australian Museum
List
Aboriginal languages
Australian Aboriginal languages
Australian aboriginal
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Italy national korfball team
The Italy national korfball team is managed by the Federazione Italiana Korfball (FIK), representing Italy in korfball international competitions.
In 2005 Italy won the Mediterranean Cup, consisting in a double match with Greece, being their first matches ever.
Tournament History
Current squad
National team in the 2009 European Bowl
Coach: Massimo Cereda
References
Category:National korfball teams
Korfball
National team
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An Elephant Sitting Still
An Elephant Sitting Still (, "Dà Xiàng Xídì Érzuò") is a 2018 Chinese film written, directed and edited by Hu Bo. The first and last film of the novelist-turned-director Hu, who committed suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, it is based on a story with the same title from his 2017 novel Huge Crack. It made its world premiere in the Forum section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. The film had won acclaim from other established directors such as Bela Tarr, Wang Bing, Ang Lee and Gus Van Sant.
The film opened the FIRST International Film Festival in Xining. It was released in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2018 and in the United States on March 8, 2019. Critics' reviews were highly positive.
Plot
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, it is said that there is an elephant that simply sits still and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of the film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves (the film is set in Jingxing County, Hebei province). Among them is schoolboy Wei Bu (Peng Yuchang), on the run after accidentally pushing classmate Yu Shuai down the stairs, who was bullying him previously. Wei Bu's classmate Huang Ling (Wang Yuwen) has run away from her mother and fallen for the charms of the school's deputy dean. Yu Shuai's older brother, Yu Cheng (Zhang Yu), feels responsible for the suicide of a friend after sleeping with his wife. Wang Jin (Liu Congxi) is a sprightly pensioner whose daughter and son-in-law wants to offload him onto a nursing home. In virtuoso visual compositions, the film tells the story of one single suspenseful day from dawn to dusk, when the train to Manzhouli is set to depart.
Cast
Peng Yuchang as Wei Bu
Zhang Yu as Yu Cheng
Wang Yuwen as Huang Ling
Liu Congxi as Wang Jin
Xiang Rongdong as Deputy dean
Jing Guo as Deputy dean's wife
Guozhang Zhaoyan as Wei Bu's father
Li Suyun as Wei Bu's mother
Kong Wei as Wang Jin's son-in-law
Li Danyi as Wang Jin's daughter
Kong Yixin as Wang Jin's granddaughter
Ling Zhenghui as Li Kai
Zhang Xiaolong as Yu Shuai
Wang Ning as Huang Ling's mother
Reception
An Elephant Sitting Still was acclaimed by film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports 96% approval based on 46 critics, and the film also holds an 86/100 average on Metacritic. Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times wrote that although the film has "a soap opera season’s worth of romantic indiscretions, sudden deaths, unfortunate accidents, provoked and unprovoked attacks", the story "somehow never loses its sense of balance and modulation." Chang argued that the work had a consoling insight that the characters are all worth knowing despite their flaws, and lauded it as "a triumph of bold sociopolitical critique and intimate human portraiture, and a reminder that you rarely encounter the one without the other." David Ehrlich, who assigned the film an "A-" rating in IndieWire, argued that An Elephant Sitting Still "has little interest in the conventional drama of cause and effect, and its fractured structure is used to emphasize the distance between these people rather than the ties that bind them together." He characterized it as a searching film that avoids "[contriving] an empty solution for the demoralized".
Justine Smith, who awarded the film 3.5/4 stars, praised the film's portrayal of love in a system of inequality and oppression. She argued that Hu simultaneously suggests that love in a devastated system "means tethering yourself to people who have long been broken by mistreatment and inequality and who no longer have the capacity to return it", but also that love and beauty are "a constant source of minute, if not fleeting, pleasure." Smith referred to this as a "realistic" portrayal of love in such a system and billed the film's ending as "one of the greatest in contemporary film history", though also referred to the film as "overwhelmingly grey". In The New Yorker, Richard Brody lauded An Elephant Sitting Still as one of the greatest recent films, writing that Hu "builds an intricate grid of conflict-riddled connections among the movie’s main characters" and that the "volatile, roving long takes pursue the characters to the deepest corners of their explosive despair". Brody argued that Hu's "vision conveys a mighty, universal human despair." Matthew Thrift of Little White Lies praised the film as "without question one of the strongest debuts in recent memory", arguing that “the remarkable surety of Hu’s direction provides a restless momentum. It’s a film constantly in motion, tracking cat and mouse alike through the city streets. [...] Conflict is borne out of character and circumstance, rather than narrative contrivance or traditional dramatic structure.”
Conversely, Mike D'Angelo of The A.V. Club gave the work a "C+" rating. He stated that "Hu only has a couple of formal moves, which he just repeats over and over", and slammed the film's visuals as "Dardennes-style, minus the sense of bruising intimacy". D'Angelo also wrote, regarding the characters' pessimism, that "it’s hard to become emotionally invested in someone whose impossible dream is to no longer care".
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official website - United States
Category:2018 films
Category:2010s drama films
Category:Chinese films
Category:Chinese drama films
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French destroyer Glaive
Glaive was one of 10 s built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
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Bibliography
Category:Branlebas-class destroyers
Category:Ships built in France
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Rock Branch (Fivemile Creek)
Rock Branch (also called Rock Creek) is a stream in the U.S. states of Missouri and Oklahoma.
Rock Branch was so named on account of the rocky character of its creek bed.
See also
List of rivers of Missouri
List of rivers of Oklahoma
References
Category:Rivers of Newton County, Missouri
Category:Rivers of Ottawa County, Oklahoma
Category:Rivers of Missouri
Category:Rivers of Oklahoma
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USS LST-288
USS Berkshire County (LST-288) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Berkshire County, Massachusetts, she was the only U.S. naval vessel to bear the name.
LST-288 was laid down on 6 September 1943 at Ambridge, Pennsylvania by the American Bridge Company; launched on 7 November 1943; sponsored by Miss Virginia M. Plofchan; placed in reduced commission on 4 December 1943; ferried down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana; and placed in full commission at New Orleans on 20 December 1943 with Lieutenant Edwin L. McCloud, USNR, in command.
Service history
Invasion of France, 1944
LST-288 commenced her shakedown training on 19 January 1944 and returned to New Orleans for her post-shakedown availability on 4 February. On 14 February, the tank landing ship set sail for New York where she loaded ammunition. A week of preparation for a transatlantic passage at Boston ensued, and then she departed for Halifax, Nova Scotia on 10 March. She joined convoy SC-155 and departed for the United Kingdom on the 14th. The convoy reached Milford Haven, Wales on the 29th and two days later, LST-288 stood out for Plymouth.
She remained at Plymouth throughout April and May readying herself for "Operation Overlord", the long-awaited, cross-channel invasion of Europe. On 31 May she loaded 425 soldiers and 116 vehicles and "sealed up" in order prevent any news of the invasion preparations from leaking. The tense week of waiting that followed seemed to be at an end when she set sail on the 4th. However, abominable weather conditions obliged the Allied command to recall the invasion flotilla and postpone the operation for at least 24 hours. Fortunately, the weather cleared in the interim, and the 4,000 ships and landing craft assembled for the assault on the beaches of Normandy departed for the real thing on the 5th. LST-288 stood out of Plymouth as a unit of Western Naval Task Force's follow-up Force "B", to which the assignment of reinforcing the beachheads established during the early hours of the attack belonged. LST-288 anchored approximately 2,000 yards off Omaha Beach at 1830 on D-Day, 12 hours after the initial assault. By 8 June, the troops and vehicles on board had left the ship, and she joined a convoy returning to England. During the four weeks following the invasion, LST-288 completed seven cross-channel trips, transporting 1,534 Allied officers and men and 627 vehicles to France while returning 601 casualties to England. On 7 July she disembarked men and material at Normandy for the final time and returned to Falmouth, England.
Mediterranean, 1944
On 18 July she departed England as part of a Mediterranean-bound convoy, arriving on the North African coast at Bizerte 10 days later. After a three-day stopover at the Tunisian port at the end of July, she moved on to Naples where she unloaded her cargo on 2 August. Except for a brief excursion on the 6th and 7th to carry troops, vehicles, and provisions down the Italian coast to Salerno, she remained at Naples readying herself for "Operation Dragoon", the invasion of southern France. On 9 August the tank landing ship embarked elements of the Army's 45th Division and awaited the order to depart for southern France. The order came on 12 August, and she left Castellamare Bay as a unit of Task Force (TF) 85, under the command of Rear Admiral Rogers. The task force reached Bougnon Bay during the early morning hours of 15 August. By 0742, LST-288 had dispatched her LCVPs and DUKWs, which brought her infantrymen to Delta Beach at 0930. Two hours later, she began transferring vehicles to attending LCTs by marrying the landing craft to her bow. The last vehicle rolled into an LCT at 1525, prompting the landing ship to raise the ramp, close the bow doors and join a convoy bound for Ajaccio, Corsica. Before she departed the area for Bizerte on 29 October, LST-288 made nine voyages to southern France and two to Livorno, Italy. During this period, she transported over 3,100 soldiers and 600 vehicles and removed 1,000 German POWs from France.
Return to the US, 1944–1945
On 31 October LST-288 put in at Bizerte for eight days of repairs and maintenance. In company with and , she set out for Oran, Algeria on 8 November. After pausing at La Maddalena, Sardinia to load cargo and soldiers, she reached Oran on the 18th and commenced six days of replenishment. On the 24th, she joined a convoy of 28 LSTs, 35 LCI(L)s, eight minesweepers, and two destroyer escorts and set course for the United States, reaching Norfolk, Virginia on 11 December. Three days later, the tank landing ship shifted north to the Navy's ammunition depot at Earle, New Jersey where the ship underwent a month of yard availability while most of her crew enjoyed leave. On 18 February 1945 she loaded construction supplies at Davisville, Rhode Island, then returned to New York to take on board, before steaming to Norfolk on 2 March.
Pacific, 1945–1950
On 7 March LST-288 departed for the Pacific, making a brief stop at Guantanamo Bay en route to Panama. A steering failure while transiting the canal necessitated two days of repairs before she left Panama on the 23rd. On 12 April, she entered Pearl Harbor and began 10 days of replenishment before embarking on a seven-week voyage to Okinawa that included visits to Eniwetok, Guam, and Saipan. When LST-288 anchored off Okinawa on 30 May, the Japanese defenders had just over three weeks of determined resistance left in them. The landing ship disembarked over 1000 officers and enlisted men on the 31st, but waited to unload the vehicles on board until 15 June. After that, she operated off Okinawa for two weeks and then headed for Saipan.
Arriving at Saipan on 6 July, she spent two days in drydock to repair hull damage suffered during the Okinawa beaching. In all, LST-288 stayed at Saipan nearly three weeks before setting out for the Philippines on the 24th in company with an LST convoy, The tank landing ship remained there beyond the Japanese surrender on 15 August into early September. On the 3rd, she set sail for Tokyo Bay where she disembarked elements of the 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion. She departed Tokyo on 19 September for Leyte where she took on board Japan-bound soldiers and supplies and arrived at Otaru on 19 October. After another six months of duty in the Far East, LST-288 was decommissioned at Yokohama on 6 March 1946 and transferred to the Shipping Control Administration, Japan (SCAJAP). She served with SCAJAP until the spring of 1950, at which time she sailed back to the United States to be returned to the Navy.
Decommissioning and transfer to South Korea, 1950–
Turned over to the Commandant, 13th Naval District at Bremerton, Washington on 14 June 1950 she remained under his cognizance until berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet's Bremerton Group on 15 November 1950. On 1 July 1955 the tank landing ship was named USS Berkshire County (LST-288), but never saw active service under the name. She was later transferred to the Republic of Korea on 5 March 1956 and commissioned as ROKS Ke Bong (LST-810). On 15 November 1974, while she was still on loan to South Korea, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Her final fate is unknown.
LST-288 received three battle stars for her World War II service.
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David Brown Ltd.
David Brown Engineering Limited is an English engineering company, principally engaged in the manufacture of gears and gearboxes. Their major gear manufacturing plant is in Swan Lane, Lockwood, Huddersfield, adjacent to Lockwood railway station. It is named after the company's founder, David Brown, though it is more closely associated with his grandson, Sir David Brown (1904–1993).
History
David Brown
Founded in 1860 as a pattern manufacturing company by 1873 David Brown had begun to concentrate on gear systems and by 1898 was specialising in machine-cut gears.
The company moved in 1902 to Park Works at Huddersfield, where the firm is based today.
David Brown & Sons, Huddersfield (the Huddersfield group)
When David Brown died in 1903, his sons Percy and Frank took over and began the manufacture of gears, complete gear units, gear cutting machines, tools and equipment, bearings and shafts and worm drive gears. Its foundry makes steel and non-ferrous castings.
Including motor vehicles, aircraft, ships as well as a wide range of British industry.
In 1951 the Huddersfield and Tractor groups freehold land and buildings at Huddersfield, Penistone and Meltham were on sites covering about 150 acres (61 ha). Another 260,000 sq ft of floor space were held under lease.
Gearing manufactured by David Brown Ltd. and powered by electric motors manufactured by Brook Crompton (Electric) Motors, whose factory was in Brockholes are used to rotate the top of the BT Tower in London.
From 1908 to 1915 David Brown and Sons designed and developed and made the Valveless car under engineer Frederick Tasker Burgess (1879–1929) later chief engineer at Humber and later still one of the team that developed the first 3-litre Bentley engine.
In 1913 they established a joint venture in America with Timken for Radicon worm drive units. By the end of World War I the workforce had increased from 200 to 1000 as they started building propulsion units for warships, and drive mechanisms for armaments. By 1921 the company was the largest worm gear manufacturer in the world.
In 1930 the company took over P.R. Jackson Ltd, another local firm of gear manufacturers and steel founders. Percy's eldest son (Sir David Brown) became managing director in 1931 following Percy's death in June that year. W S Roe was appointed joint managing director with David but he died in April 1933. Percy was appointed chairman. The firm formed another overseas joint venture with Richardson Gears (Pty) Ltd of Footscray, Victoria, Australia in 1934. In 1934 the company moved into an old Silk Mill on a site at Meltham, on the south side of Huddersfield. Brown started building tractors with Harry Ferguson there in 1936.
The company obtained a patent for a tank transmission using controlled differential steering system, known as the Merritt-Brown system, devised by Dr. H. E. Merritt, Director of Tank Design at Woolwich Arsenal, in 1935. The first vehicle to use this system was the Churchill tank, and it was subsequently used on the Centurion tank and the Conqueror tank, as well as the Tortoise heavy tank.
David Brown Tractors Group
Personally controlled since its inception by David Brown (1904–1993) the first venture into tractor production was in a joint project with Harry Ferguson in 1936 building the Ferguson-Brown tractor. David Brown became one of the biggest British tractor manufactures in the post war period, with a major manufacturing plant at Meltham, West Yorkshire England. The company broke new ground which others were only to follow later, but being a pioneering company ultimately led to its downfall. The Ferguson-Brown had many innovative features, including the use of cast alloy for many the components, which was light but prone to damage. The Ferguson-Brown used a Coventry Climax engine for the first 350 tractors. Browns developed their own engine which was fitted to subsequent production. Total production was 1350 + 1 built from parts in 1940 after production finished.
Brown and Ferguson disagreed over tractor design details in the late 30s, which led David Brown to design his own version, the VAK1, in secret. This was launched at the 1939 Royal Show. Ferguson split away from Brown and joined up with Henry Ford in 1938, after a 'handshake' agreement, to allow his 'Ferguson System' three-point linkage to be used on the Fordson N tractors. That agreement was eventually terminated by Ford's grandson in 1947 and Ferguson again split away to form Ferguson Tractors in 1948.
During the Second World War Brown's new heavier tractor, the VAK1, was produced, with over 7,700 units eventually sold, making Brown a wealthy man. It is said the David Brown Tractor is the only one to be built onto a sturdy cast iron chassis where other makers bolt components together to form a chassis-less construction which is weaker. Brown also built aircraft tugs (VIG) for the Royal Air Force and for pulling the bomb trolleys used to re-arm aircraft. These tugs are distinctive, with truck like tyres, wrap round body work and HD bumpers front and rear, some being fitted with winches. In 1942 Brown started building a tracklayer version, the DB4. The DB4 was built for the army engineers and solved some of the problems found with the VTK, and got round an embargo on imported machines for military use. It was powered by a 38 h.p. Dorman Diesel and a five-speed gearbox. The DB4 was replaced in 1950 by the Trackmaster 30.
The tractors division took over the Lancashire firm of Harrison, McGregor & Guest Ltd, who produced the Albion brand of agricultural machinery to complement the tractor product line. After the takeover the company's badge was modified to incorporate the white rose of Yorkshire and the red rose of Lancashire. The Tractors division had ten subsidiaries around the world. At one stage 80% of production was exported. Sales were handled by 2,508 agents in 100 countries. A worldwide recession saw tractor sales slump, and after braving the storm and with the debt of a brand new building and production line to finance, it was inevitable that the company was put up for sale, bought by Tenneco who also owned ji case company, all hope to see the factory prosper was dashed when it was announced that survival was a competition between Huddersfield and the international Tractor plant in Doncaster, with the odds stacked in the latter's favour, especially with access to the motorway network on the doorstep. The Meltham factory ended production and a respected British name was erased.
Tractor Group's Lagonda and Aston Martin
In 1947, Brown saw a classified advertisement in The Times, offering for sale a High Class Motor Business. Brown acquired Aston Martin for £20,500 and, in the following year, Lagonda for £52,500, followed by the coachbuilder Tickford in 1955. He subsequently concentrated all the Aston Martin manufacturing at the Tickford premises in Newport Pagnell. The David Brown years saw production of the legendary DB series of Aston Martins, which were featured in some James Bond films.
David Brown also had connections with Vosper shipbuilding, and Delapina and Radyne machinery.
Both car companies were sold in 1972 to Company Developments Limited, when Aston Martin was in financial trouble, for a nominal £100.
Sale of David Brown Tractors to Case 1972
In 1972 the tractor operations were sold to Tenneco Inc. of America, who owned the J.I. Case tractor company. The sale was due to a combination of a reduction in the UK tractor market, increased product development costs, the need to meet new regulations on health and safety, and increased competition from imported machinery. Case applied the David Brown name and branding to some of its own tractor models in the UK market until the early 1980s before abandoning it in favour of the Case IH brand.
Sale by David Brown family – management buyout 1990
In 1990 the David Brown family disposed of its stake to the business's management. It then floated David Brown as a public company in 1993. David Brown was acquired by Textron Inc. in October 1998.
This business, trading as David Brown Engineering Ltd and headquartered in Huddersfield, remains a supplier of heavy transmission systems for industrial, defense, railway and marine applications. These include transmissions for the British Challenger 2 tanks and American Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Railway transmissions are produced for their Chinese branch 'David Brown China', in a joint partnership called 'Jiangsu Shinri David Brown Gear Systems' at a factory in Changzhou near Shanghai.
Sale by Textron 2008
In September 2008 it was announced that David Brown Gear systems and associated companies, David Brown Hydraulics based in Poole in Dorset, Maag Pumps of Switzerland, and Union Pumps of the USA were to be sold to Clyde Blowers of Scotland — owned by entrepreneur Jim McColl — in a £368 million deal.
in 2016 David Brown was merged with Santasalo to form David Brown Santasalo. The joint company remains in the hands of Clyde Blowers Capital.
Products
Transmission systems
David Brown tractor range
VAK1 — 1939–1945
VTK1 & VIG1 — 1941–1949
VAK1A — 1945–1947
VAK1C Cropmaster — 1947–1954
DB4 — 1942–1949 (110 built)
Taskmaster — 1948–1965
50TD Trackmaster — 1950–1963
30TD Trackmaster — 1953– ?
DB25 & DB30 — 1953–1958
VAD 50D — 1953–1959
900 series 1955–1957
VAD 12 2D — 1956–1964 lightweight tool carrier
950 Implematic series — 1958–1961
850 Implematic series — 1961–1965
750 Farmatic series — 19??– ?
880 Implematic series — 1961–1965
990 Implematic series — 1961–1965
770 Selectamatic series — 1965–1970
880 Selectamatic series — 1965–1971
990 Selectamatic series — 1965–1971
1200 Selectamatic series — 1967–1971
780 Selectamatic series — 1965–1971
1210 Manual Gearbox 1971–1979
1212 Hydra-Shift 1971–1979
885 Synchromesh 1971–1979
990,995,996 Synchromesh 1971–1979
1410 Manual Gearbox first turbocharged David Brown 1974–1979
1412 Hydra-Shift first turbocharged David Brown 1974–1979
1190 series — 1979–1983
1290 series — 1979–1983
1390 series — 1979–1983
1490 series — 1979–1983
1690 series — 1979–1983
1690 Turbo series — 1979–1983
1194 series — 1983–1988
1294 series — 1983–1988
1394 series — 1983–1988
1494 series — 1983–1988
1594 series — 1983–1988
1694 series — 1983–1988
Export models
775 Selectamatic German market
3800 (780 petrol) American market
4600 (880 petrol) American market
Oliver 500–600 rebadged 850 and 950 American market
See also
Case Corporation
References
External links
Power Transmission Products – David Brown
David Brown history
The David Brown Ireland Forum
The David Brown Tractor Club, Spinks Mill, Meltham
The David Brown Tractor Specifications
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Local binary patterns
Local binary patterns (LBP) is a type of visual descriptor used for classification in computer vision. LBP is the particular case of the Texture Spectrum model proposed in 1990. LBP was first described in 1994. It has since been found to be a powerful feature for texture classification; it has further been determined that when LBP is combined with the Histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) descriptor, it improves the detection performance considerably on some datasets. A comparison of several improvements of the original LBP in the field of background subtraction was made in 2015 by Silva et al. A full survey of the different versions of LBP can be found in Bouwmans et al.
Concept
The LBP feature vector, in its simplest form, is created in the following manner:
Divide the examined window into cells (e.g. 16x16 pixels for each cell).
For each pixel in a cell, compare the pixel to each of its 8 neighbors (on its left-top, left-middle, left-bottom, right-top, etc.). Follow the pixels along a circle, i.e. clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Where the center pixel's value is greater than the neighbor's value, write "0". Otherwise, write "1". This gives an 8-digit binary number (which is usually converted to decimal for convenience).
Compute the histogram, over the cell, of the frequency of each "number" occurring (i.e., each combination of which pixels are smaller and which are greater than the center). This histogram can be seen as a 256-dimensional feature vector.
Optionally normalize the histogram.
Concatenate (normalized) histograms of all cells. This gives a feature vector for the entire window.
The feature vector can now be processed using the Support vector machine, extreme learning machines, or some other machine learning algorithm to classify images. Such classifiers can be used for face recognition or texture analysis.
A useful extension to the original operator is the so-called uniform pattern, which can be used to reduce the length of the feature vector and implement a simple rotation invariant descriptor. This idea is motivated by the fact that some binary patterns occur more commonly in texture images than others. A local binary pattern is called uniform if the binary pattern contains at most two 0-1 or 1-0 transitions. For example, 00010000 (2 transitions) is a uniform pattern, but 01010100 (6 transitions) is not. In the computation of the LBP histogram, the histogram has a separate bin for every uniform pattern, and all non-uniform patterns are assigned to a single bin. Using uniform patterns, the length of the feature vector for a single cell reduces from 256 to 59. The 58 uniform binary patterns correspond to the integers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 48, 56, 60, 62, 63, 64, 96, 112, 120, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 143, 159, 191, 192, 193, 195, 199, 207, 223, 224, 225, 227, 231, 239, 240, 241, 243, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254 and 255.
Extensions
Over-Complete Local Binary Patterns (OCLBP): OCLBP is a variant of LBP that has been shown to improve the overall performance on face verification. Unlike LBP, OCLBP adopts overlapping to adjacent blocks. Formally, the configuration of OCLBP is denoted as S : (a, b, v, h, p, r): an image is divided into a×b blocks with vertical overlap of v and horizontal overlap of h, and then uniform patterns LBP(u2,p,r) are extracted from all the blocks. Moreover, OCLBP is composed of several different configurations. For example, in their original paper, the authors used three configurations: S : (10,10,12,12,8,1),(14,14,12,12,8,2),(18,18,12,12,8,3). The three configurations consider three block sizes: 10×10, 14×14, 18×18, and half overlap rates along the vertical and horizontal directions. These configurations are concatenated to form a 40877 dimensional feature vector for an image of size 150x80.
Transition Local Binary Patterns(tLBP): binary value of transition coded LBP is composed of neighbor pixel comparisons clockwise direction for all pixels except the central.
Direction coded Local Binary Patterns(dLBP): the dLBP encodes the intensity variation along the four basic directions through the central pixel in two bits.
Modified Local Binary Patterns(mLBP): the mLBP compares the values of neighboring pixels to the average of the intensity values in the 3x3 window.
Multi-block LBP: the image is divided into many blocks, a LBP histogram is calculated for every block and concatenated as the final histogram.
Volume Local Binary Pattern(VLBP): VLBP looks at dynamic texture as a set of volumes in the (X,Y,T) space where X and Y denote the spatial coordinates and T denotes the frame index. The neighborhood of a pixel is thus defined in three dimensional space, and volume textons can be extracted into histograms.
RGB-LBP: This operator is obtained by computing LBP over all three channels of the RGB color space independently, and then concatenating the results together.
Implementations
CMV, includes the general LBP implementation and many further extensions over LBP histogram in MATLAB.
Python mahotas, an open source computer vision package which includes an implementation of LBPs.
OpenCV's Cascade Classifiers support LBPs as of version 2.
VLFeat, an open source computer vision library in C (with bindings to multiple languages including MATLAB) has an implementation.
LBPLibrary is a collection of eleven Local Binary Patterns (LBP) algorithms developed for background subtraction problem. The algorithms were implemented in C++ based on OpenCV. A CMake file is provided and the library is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The library was tested successfully with OpenCV 2.4.10.
BGSLibrary includes the original LBP implementation for motion detection as well as a new LBP operator variant combined with Markov Random Fields with improved recognition rates and robustness.
dlib, an open source C++ library: implementation.
scikit-image, an open source Python library. Provides a c-based python implementation for LBP
See also
Local ternary patterns
Local Binary Pattern (LBP) methodology in Scholarpedia
Census transform
References
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São Camilo State Park
São Camilo State Park (), formerly the São Camilo Biological Reserve (), is a state park in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
Location
The São Camilo Biological Reserve was created on 22 February 1990, with an area of in the municipality of Palotina, Paraná.
Responsibility for administration was given to the Paraná Institute of Lands, Cartography and Forests, with participation by the Paraná Agronomic Institute.
Soon after its establishment the area began to be visited by the local people for recreational purposes.
This is not legally allowed for a biological reserve.
To allow for visitors and environmental education while still preserving the local biodiversity, the status was changed to State Park.
Conservation
The purpose of the biological reserve is to preserve the fauna and flora.
Exploitation of the reserve and changes to the environment were originally prohibited.
The park contains vegetation in an advanced stage of recovery.
As one of the last fragments of forest of any size in the region it is a haven for wildlife.
It is included in the Caiuá – Ilha Grande Biodiversity Corridor.
Notes
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Paul Gardner (football administrator)
Paul Albert Gardner AM is the former president of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He held that position between 2003 and 2008, when he resigned and was succeeded by Jim Stynes.
Gardner is also the former chairman of the Malthouse Theatre, Chairman of advertising company Grey Global, former Director of open Family Australia and works with the Transport Accident Commission.
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Stigmella zelkoviella
Stigmella zelkoviella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Kyushu in Japan.
Adults are on wing from the end of April. There are probably two to three generations per year.
The larvae feed on Zelkova serrata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is linear, slender; highly contorted and pale brown. It includes brown granular frass in a longitudinal belt, which (in first half of the mine) occupies almost all width, but in last half of the mine becomes one third to one sixth of the width of the mine.
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Albert K. Aldinger
Albert Kerwin "Doc" Aldinger (July 4, 1873 – October 18, 1957) was an American football, basketball and baseball player and coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1905.
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Baqar Rizvi
Syed Baqar Rizvi Urdu: سید باقر رضوی (born 9 February 1968) is a former Pakistani cricketer. Rizvi was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Karachi, Sindh.
Rizvi made his first-class debut for Pakistan Universities against Sri Lanka B in 1989. From 1989 to 1997, he represented a number of the Karachi cricket teams in a combined total of 23 first-class matches, the last of which came for Karachi Whites against Bahawalpur. In his 23 first-class matches, he scored 306 runs at a batting average of 11.76, with a high score of 45. With the ball he took 55 wickets at a bowling average of 30.36, with 4 five wicket hauls and best figures of 6/75.
He also made his List A debut in Pakistani domestic cricket for Karachi Blues against Karachi Whites in 1989. From 1989 to 1997, he represented both the Karachi Whites and Karachi Blues in a combined total of 30 List A matches, the last of which in his domestic career in Pakistan came for Karachi Whites against Habib Bank Limited.
In 2002, Rizvi joined Wiltshire in English County Cricket. He made his Minor Counties Championship debut against Devon. From 2002 to 2006, he represented the county in 25 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came against Cornwall. Rizvi also represented Wiltshire in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. His debut in that competition for Wiltshire came against Devon in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he represented the county in 13 Trophy matches, the last of which came against Northumberland. Rizvi also represented Wiltshire in 3 List-A matches. His Wiltshire List A debut came against the Hampshire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, which was played in 2002. His second came against Nottinghamshire in the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, with his third and final career List A match coming against Kent in the 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In his total of 33 List A matches, he scored 239 runs at an average of 11.95, with a high score of 47. With the ball he took 25 wickets at an average of 35.88, with best figures of 3/41.
References
External links
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Daia (Secaș)
The Daia is a right tributary of the river Secaș in Romania. It flows into the Secaș near the city Sebeș. Its length is and its basin size is .
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Dale Dizzle Virgo
Dale Dizzle Virgo (born May 23, 1985, born Dale Antou Tonye Ian Virgo, also known as Dizzle), is a record producer, musician, engineer and a young entrepreneur.
Dale first started producing at age 17 in his home studio in Portmore, Jamaica. He was predominately involved in the Jamaican gospel music fraternity and produced many hit tracks for that industry itself. Later on in 2005, Dale Virgo was found and signed by Gussie Clarke leading his musical career to higher heights. In that same year, he did the track Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Rihanna on her début album A Girl Like Me. Dale is also known for producing the Reggae track 'Serious Times' by Gyptian.
In November 2008, the young producer went on to further his career even more when he began working with Jon Baker at the Geejam Studios as the in-house producer and technical director. Since then, Dale has worked on many albums including 'Thank Me Later' by Drake as assistant engineer for the song 'Over', and 'Great Expectations' by the Jolly Boys as the producer. Dale Virgo, since 2010, is now signed to Forward Recording, and is learning the business from top heads such as Tom Elmhirst, Mark Jones, and Jon Baker to name a few.
In addition to producing, Dale Dizzle Virgo is currently the percussionist for the legendary band Jolly Boys touring Europe, United States, China, and soon Australia.
Discography
Rihanna - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Def Jam)(2005)
Gyptian - Serious Times (2005)
Compilation - Spiritual War Riddim (2005
Gospel Fe Share - APS Production (2004)
Gospel Compilation - Main Frame Riddim (2005)
Gospel Compilation - Spirit Scription (2006)
Compilation - Consuming Fire Riddim (2006)
2nd Chance - Walk Gud (2007)
2nd Chance - Heavenly Highway (2007)
Glory to Glorian Film - Media Mix (2006)
Minister Blessed - Purpose (2007)
D'Angel - Dreams (2008)
Surf Rasta Movie - Geejam Film (2010)
Jolly Boys - Great Expectations UK Release (Geejam Recordings/Wall Of Sound/PIAS) (2010)
Jolly Boys - Great Expectations US and Caribbean Edition (2011)
Drake - Over (Thank Me Later)- (2010)
Divine Brown - Melody of My Heart (Perfect Key Riddim)(2011)
Nordia Witter - Hour Glass (2010)
I Eye - Fever Grass (2008)
''Queen Ifrica - Rise Ghetto Youth (2008)
References
External links
Jolly Boys website
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The JSB World
The JSB World (styled THE JSB WORLD) is a greatest hits album by Japanese pop boy-band Sandaime J Soul Brothers. It was released on March 29, 2017. It was number-one on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart on its release, selling 356,772 copies. It was also number-one on the Billboard Japan Weekly Top Albums Sales Chart. By the end of 2017 the album had sold a total of 467,005 copies.
Track listing
Charts
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Barrel processor
A barrel processor is a CPU that switches between threads of execution on every cycle. This CPU design technique is also known as "interleaved" or "fine-grained" temporal multithreading. Unlike simultaneous multithreading in modern superscalar architectures, it generally does not allow execution of multiple instructions in one cycle.
Like preemptive multitasking, each thread of execution is assigned its own program counter and other hardware registers (each thread's architectural state). A barrel processor can guarantee that each thread will execute one instruction every n cycles, unlike a preemptive multitasking machine, that typically runs one thread of execution for tens of millions of cycles, while all other threads wait their turn.
A technique called C-slowing can automatically generate a corresponding barrel processor design from a single-tasking processor design. An n-way barrel processor generated this way acts much like n separate multiprocessing copies of the original single-tasking processor, each one running at roughly 1/n the original speed.
History
One of the earliest examples of a barrel processor was the I/O processing system in the CDC 6000 series supercomputers. These executed one instruction (or a portion of an instruction) from each of 10 different virtual processors (called peripheral processors) before returning to the first processor.
One motivation for barrel processors was to reduce hardware costs. In the case of the CDC 6x00 PPUs, the digital logic of the processor was much faster than the core memory, so rather than having ten separate processors, there are ten separate core memory units for the PPUs, but they all share the single set of processor logic.
Another example is the Honeywell 800, which had 8 groups of registers, allowing up to 8 concurrent programs. After each instruction, the processor would (in most cases) switch to the next active program in sequence.
Barrel processors have also been used as large-scale central processors. The Tera MTA (1988) was a large-scale barrel processor design with 128 threads per core. The MTA architecture has seen continued development in successive products, such as the Cray Urika-GD, originally introduced in 2012 (as the YarcData uRiKA) and targeted at data-mining applications.
Barrel processors are also found in embedded systems, where they are particularly useful for their deterministic real-time thread performance. An example is the XMOS XCore XS1 (2007), a four-stage barrel processor with eight threads per core. The XS1 is found in Ethernet, USB, audio, and control devices, and other applications where I/O performance is critical. Barrel processors have also been used in specialized devices such as the eight-thread Ubicom IP3023 network I/O processor (2004).
Some 8-bit microcontrollers by Padauk Technology feature barrel processors with up to 8 threads per core.
Advantages compared to single-threaded processors
A single-tasking processor spends a lot of time idle, not doing anything useful whenever a cache miss or pipeline stall occurs. Advantages to employing barrel processors over single-tasking processors include:
The ability to do useful work on the other threads while the stalled thread is waiting.
Designing an n-way barrel processor with an n-deep pipeline is much simpler than designing a single-tasking processor because a barrel processor never has a pipeline stall and doesn't need feed-forward circuits.
For real-time applications, a barrel processor can guarantee that a "real-time" thread can execute with precise timing, no matter what happens to the other threads, even if some other thread locks up in an infinite loop or is continuously interrupted by hardware interrupts.
Disadvantages compared to single-threaded processors
There are a few disadvantages to barrel processors.
The state of each thread must be kept on-chip, typically in registers, to avoid costly off-chip context switches. This requires a large number of registers compared to typical processors.
Either all threads must share the same cache, which slows overall system performance, or there must be one unit of cache for each execution thread, which can significantly increase the transistor count and thus the cost of such a CPU. However, in hard real-time embedded systems where barrel processors are often found, memory access costs are typically calculated assuming worst-case cache behavior, so this is a minor concern. Some barrel processors such as the XMOS XS1 do not have a cache at all.
See also
Super-threading
Computer multitasking
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT)
Hyper-threading
Vector processor
Cray XMT
References
External links
Soft peripherals Embedded.com article examines Ubicom's IP3023 processor
An Evaluation of the Design of the Gamma 60
Histoire et architecture du Gamma 60 (French and English)
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Fletcherana insularis
Fletcherana insularis is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui. It has been found above the forest belt, high up on Haleakalā.
It is a variable species in size, color and pattern. It might be confused with Eupithecia monticolans which it somewhat resembles in color and markings, but the wing shape and course of the medial band and other markings are distinct.
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Budančevica
Budančevica is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D2 highway.
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Ronald L. Myren
Ronald Lloyd Myren (4 June 1937 – 10 Nov 2003) was a Canadian artist and landscape painter. He was a well known artist in Western Canada (Alberta and British Columbia) who painted mostly in the foothills and mountainous areas of those provinces. He was the Chief Preparator and Registrar, and was in charge of installations at the Edmonton Art Gallery (from 1966 to 1980), now known as the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA). He was not a religious man in the traditional church sense of the word, and was not baptized. He believed in nature and was often quoted as saying, "Nature is my church." He expressed his belief and feeling about nature through his art. He spent a great deal of time every summer out in the foothills of Alberta painting, taking photos and fishing. He said he was recording scenes of nature that were going to disappear because of logging and development, and in some respects this prediction has come true.
Education
He was born in Galloway, British Columbia in 1937 and attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary for two years in the early 1960s. Due to finances he did not graduate but continued a quest in the love of learning about art for his entire life.
Painting
Over the course of his career he had 11 solo exhibitions and participated in 23 group exhibitions. He has art in numerous public collections and his work has many private collectors.
Solo exhibitions:
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1975
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1976
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1977
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1979
Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto ON, 1981
Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto ON, 1982
Mira Goddard Gallery, Calgary AB, 1982
Mira Goddard Gallery, Calgary AB, 1983
Hett Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1983
Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1990
Bugara Kmet Gallery Edmonton AB, 1994
Group exhibitions:
Civic Centennial Exhibition, Edmonton AB, 1967
Alberta 1973, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1973
Summer '74, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1974
Alberta Realists, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1974
Prairie 74, Painters of The Prairies, Saidye Bonfmon Center, Montreal QB, 1974
Changing Visions Canadian Landscapes Traveling Exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery & Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976
Index 77, 1977
Ron Myren & Terry Fenton, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary AB, 1978
Alberta Collects Alberta Art, Beaver House, Edmonton AB, 1978
Art Works from the Alberta Art Foundation to Japan, 1979
The Alberta Landscape, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1979
Horizons West, Shell Travelling Exhibition, 1979
Painting in Alberta an Historical Survey, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB. 1980
Alberta Culture Exhibition, Beaver House, Edmonton AB. 1980
The Big Picture, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1981
Fall Opening, Hett Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1983
Fall Exhibition, Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1986
Selections from The Edmonton Art Gallery Permanent Collection, McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, 1987
An Alberta Sense of Place, Selections from the Alberta Arts Foundation at McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, 1987
Alberta Drawings, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1991
Masterful Drawings, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, 1993
The Works Visual Arts Festival, University of Alberta Exhibit, Edmonton AB, 2001
Work sold at Jasper Park Originals, Jasper Park Lodge AB, 1995–1998
Out On A Limb, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Sept. 2011 – Feb. 2012
Public collections
The following is a list of companies and government agencies that have Ron Myren's art in their collections:
Alberta Arts Foundation (eight paintings)
Art Gallery of Alberta (seven paintings)
University of Alberta (four paintings)
Northern Jubilee Auditorium Art Collection (three paintings)
Alberta Government Art Collections
Bank of Nova Scotia
Canada Council Art Bank
Canadian Department of External Affairs
Edmonton Public School Board
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Edmonton
Gulf Oil
Imperial Oil
Red Deer College
Richardson Securities
Seeal-Alcan Ltd.
Shell Oil
Trimac Corporation
Teaching
Edmonton Art Gallery
Drawing #1 and #2, 1970–1973
University of Alberta Extension Dept.
Painting #1 and #2, Barrhead, AB, 1981–1982
Landscape Painting, Westlock, AB, 1981–1982
Pen and Ink Drawing, Camrose, AB, 1981–1982
Edmonton Art Gallery
Painting, 1983–1987
Ottwell Community League, Friends of Ottwell
Painting, 1987–1989
References
External links
Search for "Myren" to see several paintings, at Alberta E-museum
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Category:Canadian landscape painters
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Lakshmipur-3
Lakshmipur-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by A.K.M. Shahjahan Kamal of Awami League.
Boundaries
The constituency encompasses Laxmipur Sadar except: 1. North Hamsadi, 2. South Hamsadi, 3. Dalal Bazar, 4. Char Ruhita, 5. Parbati Nagar, 6. Shakchar, 7. Tumchar, 8. Char Ramanimohan, and 9. Bakshipur.
History
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
A.K.M. Shahjahan Kamal from Bangladesh Awami League won uncontested.
Elections in the 2000s
References
Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh
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Krishna Leela (2015 film)
Krishna Leela () is a 2015 Indian Kannada romance film written directed by Shashank and produced by Ajay Rao, making his debut at production under the Shree Krishna Arts and Creations banner. Besides Rao, the film features Mayuri Kyatari, making her film debut and Rangayana Raghu in pivotal roles.
The film released on 20 March 2015 to positive reviews by critics. It completed the 100 days run successfully across Karnataka in cinema halls.
Cast
Ajai Rao as Smile Krishna
Mayuri Kyatari as Flower Leela
Rangayana Raghu as a police inspector
Shobhraj
Dharmendra Urs
Achyuth Kumar as Krishna's father
Tabla Nani
Bullet Prakash
Sadhu Kokila
Suchendra Prasad
Mico Nagaraj
Vijay Chendur
Sharada
Lakshmi Raj
Shwetha Srinivas
Anusha
Chikkahejjaji Mahadev
Shivakumar Aradhya
Umesh Thalya
Auto Nagaraj
Sindhu Lokanath in a cameo appearance as Sindhu
Soundtrack
Sridhar V. Sambhram scored the film's background music and composed for its soundtrack, who also wrote the lyrics for the track "Pesal Man". Shashank, Sri Harsha, Shiva Thejasvi and Sai Sarvesh penned lyrics for other tracks. The soundtrack album consisting of six tracks in total featured actors Upendra and Puneeth Rajkumar singing a track each. The track "Muttlilla Murililla" drew flack due to its controversial lyrics.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Category:2015 films
Category:2010s Kannada-language films
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S/2004 S 29
S/2004 S 29 is a natural satellite of Saturn and a member of the Inuit group. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 7, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and January 17, 2007.
S/2004 S 29 is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 16,981 Gm in 826.44 days, at an inclination of 45.1° to the ecliptic, with an eccentricity of 0.440.
References
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Carleton Stone
Carleton Stone is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. After recording three albums as a solo artist, Stone has most recently joined forces with musicians Dylan Guthro and Breagh Mackinnon to form the pop band Port Cities.
Life and career
Stone was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He had a musical family and grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, and Bob Dylan, among others.
He began his professional musical life fronting a band, and self-produced the group's debut album, entitled Carleton Stone Drives the Big Wheel, which was released in 2009. In 2011, he became a solo artist, releasing the eponymous Carleton Stone, produced by Hawksley Workman.
Stone's third album, Draws Blood, was co-produced by Jason Collett, of Broken Social Scene, and Howie Beck. It was released in 2014 and was dedicated to his friend and mentor Jay Smith, a well-known Canadian musician, who took his own life in 2013 after struggling with addiction and depression.
In 2015, Stone joined fellow singer-songwriters Dylan Guthro and Breagh Mackinnon to form the band Port Cities. Port Cities makes singer/songwriter-style pop music and takes advantage of all three voices with extensive use of vocal harmonies.
"We just thought, there's such a great chemistry between us, why not try to join forces and do something that's bigger that any of us could do on our own?" said Stone in 2015. In 2016, the band was signed to turtlemusik/Warner Music. Their debut album was released in 2017.
Discography
Albums
Singles
Songwriting credits (co-songwriter)
Awards and achievements
With Port Cities (band)
As Carleton Stone
References
External links
Carleton Stone on Spotify
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List of Greek restaurants
This is a list of notable Greek restaurants. Greek restaurants typically specialize in Greek cuisine. They may also offer dishes from other various cuisines on their menus.
Greek restaurants
Coney Island – in the northern United States
Daphne's Greek Cafe – a fast-casual Greek restaurant operating in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington
Greek Islands – in the U.S. state of Illinois
Jimmy the Greek – a Canadian quick service restaurant franchise serving Greek and Mediterranean cuisine
Komi – a Washington, D.C. restaurant that serves Italian- and Greek-influenced dishes
Little Greek – a chain of fast-casual Greek restaurants in the U.S.
Niko Niko's – located in Houston, Texas
Mr. Greek - a Canadian restaurant chain that originated in Toronto, Ontario, serving Greek and Mediterranean cuisine
Opa! Grill & Tavern - a Delaware, Ohio Greek restaurant near Ohio Wesleyan University, featuring traditional Mediterranean cuisine, including Saganaki and Spanakopita
Olga's Kitchen – a chain of Greek-based family restaurants located primarily in the Midwestern United States
OPA! Souvlaki – a Canadian chain of Greek restaurants
Papa Cristo's – a taverna-styled Greek restaurant and market located in Los Angeles
Pithari Taverna – located in Highland Park, New Jersey
Showmars – a Charlotte, North Carolina-based restaurant chain, serving a mix of American and Greek cuisines
See also
Lists of restaurants
References
Greek
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Yūko Andō (news anchor)
is a Japanese TV presenter and news anchor. She has headed Fuji Television's Super News evening news programme alongside Tetsuo Suda since April 2000.
Career
As a newscaster, Ando has presented the following Fuji TV evening news programmes since 1987.
FNN Super Time (October 1987 – March 1994)
News Japan (April 1994 – March 2000)
Super News (April 2000 – )
During her career, she has interviewed many heads of state, including Philippine President Corazon Aquino, US President Bill Clinton, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Polish President Lech Walesa.
Personal life
Ando first married in December 1989, to an advertising agency employee, but divorced in March 1993. She remarried on 26 December 2006, to , a Fuji TV producer with whom she had been in a relationship since 1996.
See also
Tarō Kimura (journalist), Super News commentator
References
External links
Fuji Television newscaster profile
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Wilfred Lawson (died 1632)
Sir Wilfrid Lawson or Lawsone (1545–1632) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1614.
Lawson was the son of Thomas Lawson of Little Usworth, County Durham and his wife Elizabeth Darrell, daughter of Constantine Darrell of Wiltshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1562 and at Gray's Inn in 1564. In 1591 the Earl of Northumberland made him Lieutenant of the Honour of Cockermouth (Grand Steward of all his estates) and the Conveyor of the Commissioners of the Marches. He was High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1583. In 1593 he was elected Member of Parliament for Cumberland. He was High Sheriff of Cumberland again in 1597. In 1604, he was elected MP for Cumberland again. He was knighted in 1604 and in 1605 was appointed convener to the royal commission set up to govern the borders. He was High Sheriff again in 1606 and in 1612. In 1614 he was elected MP for Cumberland again.
Lawson died childless at the age of 87 years.
Lawson married as his second wife in 1572, Maud (Matilda) Redmain, previously widow of Christopher Irton who died before 1567 and of Thomas Leigh of Isel, to whom she was heiress of his estates. When she died in 1624, she conveyed her inheritance from Thomas Leigh upon Lawson. In consequence, Lawson became the sole possessor of the Isel estates which he left to his nephew William Lawson son of his brother Gilfrid. This was challenged by Mary Irton, heir of Maud Redmain.
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John Buchanan (oil executive)
Sir John Gordon St Clair Buchanan (9 June 1943 – 13 July 2015) was a New Zealand-born scientist and director.
Buchanan was born in Auckland in 1943 and grew up in Papatoetoe. He received his education at Auckland Grammar School and at the University of Auckland (BSc, MSc, PhD in Chemistry), and at Oxford and Harvard Universities.
Buchanan joined oil and petrol company BP in 1970, where he progressed through the ranks and eventually was appointed by John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley as the group's top finance executive, which caused surprise given that his background is in science and not in accountancy. He retired from BP in 2002, as the company has a strict retirement policy set at 60 years. For the next 12 years, Buchanan was with BHP Billiton, where he was an independent director (1 February 2003 to July 2015). He was a director of Alliance Boots (December 1997 to 2003). He was deputy chairman of Vodafone (25 July 2006 to 24 July 2012). He was a director of ARM Holdings (3 May 2012 until 1 May 2014). He was a director of AstraZeneca (25 April 2002 to 29 April 2010).
Buchanan became chairman of Smith & Nephew in April 2006 and remained in that position until his death. He was chairman of the UK chapter of the International Cricket Council from May 2008 until his death. Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, he was founding chairman of the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust UK that he set up with the help of the New Zealand High Commission in London.
In the 2012 New Year Honours, Buchanan was knighted for or services to industry. Buchanan had cancer since about 2011. He became unwell in late 2014 and relinquished some of his roles.
Buchanan died on 13 July 2015 and was survived by his wife, his son, and his daughter.
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2007 Malian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Mali on 29 April 2007. Incumbent president Amadou Toumani Touré ran for re-election against seven other candidates and won in the first round with about 71% of the vote.
Background
Nominations
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the President of the National Assembly, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Rally for Mali on 28 January 2007. On 18 February former Foreign Minister Tiébilé Dramé was nominated as the candidate of the Party for National Rebirth (PARENA), and on 24 February Oumar Mariko was nominated as the candidate of African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence. Sidibé Aminata Diallo, a female professor, announced on 12 March that she intended to stand as the candidate of the Rally for Sustainable Education and Development. The former ruling party, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali (ADEMA), opted to support the incumbent president, Amadou Toumani Touré. Former Defense Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga, the Vice-President of ADEMA, was expelled from the party for opposing the decision as he intended to run for president himself. He was subsequently designated as the candidate of his movement, Convergences 2007, on 24 March. The National Union for the Republic (UNPR) nominated Modibo Sangaré as its candidate on 26 March. President Touré announced he would run for re-election in the town of Nioro du Sahel on 27 March. On the same day, the Social Democratic Convention nominated Mamadou Blaise Sangaré as its candidate.
On 1 April the Constitutional Court issued a provisional list of eight candidates who would contest the election; Touré, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Mamadou Blaise Sangaré, Tiébilé Dramé, Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga, Oumar Mariko, Sidibe Aminata Diallo, and Madiassa Maguiraga. Modibo Sangaré's candidacy was rejected by the court on the grounds that he had not paid the required bond of 10 million CFA francs. No requests were filed for the invalidation of any of the eight candidates on the provisional list, and therefore the Court confirmed the list as final on 3 April. Six of the eight approved candidates had contested the 2002 presidential elections, Maiga and Diallo being the exceptions. Diallo was also the first-ever woman to run for president in Mali; a woman had attempted to run in 2002, but her candidacy had been rejected.
In order to have their candidacies accepted by the court, candidates were required to be sponsored by at least ten members of the National Assembly or at least five communal advisors from each of the country's regions, as well as Bamako, the capital (a minimum of 45 combined). Touré was sponsored by 414 communal advisors, Keïta by 17 members of parliament, Mamadou Blaise Sangaré by 11 members of parliament, Dramé by 87 communal advisors, Maiga by 114 communal advisors, Mariko by 71 communal advisors, Diallo by 14 members of parliament and Maguiraga by 55 communal advisors. The introduction of sponsors, in addition to an increase in the guarantee that had to be paid, was considered responsible for the significant reduction in the number of candidates from the 2002 elections, when there were 24 candidates.
Voter registration
Voter registration cards began to be distributed in Bamako on 30 March. However, by 7 April less than 3% of the voter cards had been distributed. On 14 April the cards were made easier to obtain, but by 25 April fewer than 50% were thought to have been distributed. The latter date had been made a public holiday in order to encourage voters to get the cards prior to the deadline at midnight, after which it was reported that about 63.78% had been distributed. The best rate of distribution was in Mopti Region with 71.7%; it was worst in Bamako, with 30.6%. The total distribution percentage was subsequently raised to about 66.7%, apparently due to Malians abroad obtaining the cards.
Campaign
The campaign for the election began on 8 April and continued until midnight on 27 April, two days before the elections. Fodié Touré, the head of the electoral commission, said on 16 April that more than a thousand foreign observers had sought permission to monitor the election. He said later that 900 observers, from Mali and abroad, had been accredited.
On 24 April the Front for Democracy and the Republic (FDR), a coalition that included four of the opposition candidates (Keïta, Dramé, Maiga, and Sangaré) and 16 parties sharply criticized the way the election was being prepared. It alleged serious problems with the electoral list, which it said had been manipulated, and criticized the use of fingerprints on ballot papers and the failure to allow the presence of its representatives when the military votes. The coalition said that the election would not be transparent or credible. On 28 April local government minister Kafougouna Koné denied the accusation that the government manipulated the electoral list, saying that its problems were due to the lack of information available to the government.
Prior to the election, Touré was considered likely to win; he ran as an independent but was backed by a coalition, the Alliance for Democracy and Progress, composed of 43 parties. Keïta was considered the strongest opposition candidate. If no candidate won the election on 29 April, a second round was scheduled for 13 May.
Results
A day after the elections, a presidential spokesman claimed victory for Touré, while Keïta's campaign director alleged fraud and the FDR claimed there were widespread irregularities. Results accounting for 18.2% of registered voters (including many who did not vote) showed Touré with 61.3% of the vote and Keïta as a distant second with 29.8%. In Bamako, Touré won 54.2% and Keïta won 38.8%; Touré's lead was bigger in rural areas, where he won about 71% against 18% for Keïta. Voter turnout was placed at 24% in Bamako and 38% in the countryside.
On 1 May the four FDR candidates, rejecting the official results, said that they would try to have the election annulled. In a statement, Keïta's campaign said that it would release different results. The FDR withdrew from participation in the national commission for the centralization of the results; it objected to the handling of Bamako's results, saying that it had not been included in part of the validation process and that the results had been released without its approval. Foreign observers, however, endorsed the election as free and fair. Results reported from 28 out of 49 areas showed Touré with 72% of the vote, while Keïta had 15%. On 2 May results accounting for 51% of registered voters (including many who did not vote) showed Touré still holding a large lead with 58.3% of the vote against 25% for Keïta.
According to full provisional results announced on 3 May Touré won the election with 68.31% of the vote (1,563,640 out of 2,288,993 votes) and Keïta took second place with 18.59% (425,609 votes). Dramé was in third place with 2.9% of the vote and Mariko was in fourth with 2.7%. Voter turnout was placed at 36.17%, with 2.3 million out of 6.9 million registered voters participating. On 4 May slightly different results were announced: 70.89% for Touré (1,622,579 votes), 19.08% for Keïta (436,781 votes), 3.04% for Dramé (69,584 votes) 2.74% for Mariko (62,709 votes), 1.57% for Sangaré (35,951 votes), 1.46% for Maïga (33,366 votes), 0.54% for Diallo (12,326 votes), and 0.30% for Maguiraga (6,857 votes).
Diallo and Maguiraga accepted Touré's victory on 4 May. The FDR, however, continued to call on the Constitutional Court to annul the election, describing it as a farce and rejecting the results.
Final results were announced by the Constitutional Court on 12 May, confirming Touré's victory and slightly raising his vote share to 71.20%. On 19 May Keïta said that the FDR would abide by the court's decision and would focus on the July 2007 parliamentary elections. Some observers argued that this concession by the FDR was due to the massive scale of the victory attributed to Touré, which made its own claims appear untenable. In a press conference on 29 May, Mariko denounced the electoral commission and the Constitutional Court for their handling of the election, saying that the former should be dissolved. He was also sharply critical of the FDR, in which he did not participate.
Aftermath
Touré was sworn in for his second term on 8 June 2007.
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2007
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Anglo Sikh War Memorial
The Punjab Government built Anglo Sikh war memorial at Ferozeshah, Ferozepur at Moga Road. The memorial was built to honor the soldiers who died fighting against British army at Chellianwala on 13 January 1849; Sabhraon on 10 February 1846; Mudki on 18 December 1845; and Ferozeshsh on 21–22 December 1845.
Architect
H S Chopra, the senior Architect of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana designed the three-storeyed Memorial near Sirhind feeder and on the banks of Rajasthan Canal of Ferozepur. HS Chopra was guided by Dr. MS Randhawa, who was then the Vice Chancellor of the Ferozeshah memorial Committee Made by Punjab Government.
LANDSCAPE design of the memorial was done by S Hari Singh Sandhu the then XEN Horticulture Punjab Agriculture University.
Memorial
The Memorial is in a plot of 2 hectares where one of the Anglo Sikh war happened. The Ground floor of the memorial is 2 meters above the surrounding area. The monument has collections of murals, portraits and paintings depicting battlefield made by renowned painters Jaswant Singh and Kirpal Singh. The bronze carved quotes on Cunningham's history; the wars of Shah Mohammad; the Anglo Sikh war weapons donated by the Punjab Gvernment from the Patiyala Museum, is displayed in the Memorial.
References
External links
ferozepur.nic.in
punjabtourism. org
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Category:Monuments and memorials in Punjab, India
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Quiers-sur-Bézonde
Quiers-sur-Bézonde is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
See also
Communes of the Loiret department
Quierssurbezonde
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Egodakanda
Egodakanda is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.
See also
List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka
External links
Department of Census and Statistics -Sri Lanka
Category:Populated places in Central Province, Sri Lanka
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Maalaqa - Bishlamon
Maalaqa - Bishlamon () is a Syrian village located in Jisr al-Shughur Nahiyah in Jisr al-Shughur District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maalaqa - Bishlamon had a population of 2841 in the 2004 census.
References
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Dutchman's pipe
Dutchman's pipe is a common name for some unrelated flowering plants, which have flowers, inflorescences or stems resembling a pipe:
Aristolochia species (birthworts or pipevines) from the Aristolochiaceae, particularly Aristolochia macrophylla
Epiphyllum oxypetalum ("night-blooming cereus") from the Cactaceae
Monotropa hypopitys (also known as yellow bird's-nest or pinesap) from the Ericaceae
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Gavin Fink
Gavin Gerald Fink (born September 19, 1992) is an American actor. He has been working since the age of four, when he was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency and hired for the first job he ever tried out for, a Pepsi ad. Fink has appeared in Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, and View from the Top, directed by Bruno Barreto.
Fink has also appeared on episodes of Family Law, The X-Files, Roswell, That's Life, Walker Texas Ranger, and 3rd Rock from the Sun. He also worked on a series in development for PAX TV called Happy Wife, Happy Life and also, Roswell and Lost at Home. In addition, he has been featured in theatrical productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Li'l Abner, and Bye Bye Birdie.
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Kathy Johnson (figure skating coach)
Kathy Johnson is a figure skating coach and modern dance instructor. She is known as a coach of Olympic Gold medalist Patrick Chan between 2012 and 2016.
Career
Kathy worked with Patrick Chan before his previous coach, Christy Krall, resigned in 2012. Since that, Patrick Chan became two-time Olympic silver medalist in 2014 and World Champion in 2013 during the partnership with Johnson. She resigned in August 2016. Kathy helped Patrick to create his programs. For example, Patrick told his short program ″Dust in the Wind″ was conceived during partnership with Johnson.
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Jon Wiener
Jon Wiener (born May 16, 1944) is an American historian and journalist based in Los Angeles. He successfully waged a 25-year legal battle to win the release of the FBI's files on John Lennon. Wiener played a key role in efforts to expose the surveillance as well as the behind-the-scenes battling between the government and the former Beatle, and is a recognized expert on the FBI-versus-Lennon controversy. A professor emeritus of United States history at the University of California, Irvine, he is also a contributing editor to the left-leaning political weekly magazine The Nation and host of The Nations weekly podcast, Start Making Sense. He also hosts a weekly radio program in Los Angeles.
In addition to being an advocate for liberal causes and transparency in government, he wrote two books about Lennon, and has described Lennon's song "Imagine" as being a "hymn to idealism" with relevance today. He has been criticized by reporters for having a left-oriented bias in his books, sometimes leading to a revisionism regarding Lennon's political orientation. Wiener interviewed Gore Vidal many times, and recently published a book of interviews with the late celebrity which spanned many years.
Early life
Wiener was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Gladys (née Aronsohn) and Dr. Daniel Wiener. He graduated from Central High School and then attended Princeton University where he founded a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society to protest the Vietnam War. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1966, and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he worked with Barrington Moore, Jr. and Michael Walzer, and also wrote for the underground paper The Old Mole.
Career
Academic career
At the University of California, Irvine, Wiener taught history courses on American politics and the Cold War. His scholarly works have been published in The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Radical History Review, and Past & Present. He led students on visits to the Nixon Library.
Journalism and political commentary
Since 1984, Wiener has been a contributing editor for The Nation magazine, where he has written about diverse topics including campus issues, intellectual controversies, and southern California politics. His writing has also appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times. On Wiener's radio program, a weekly public affairs interview show on Los Angeles radio station KPFK 90.7 FM., his guests have included Gail Collins, Jane Mayer, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frank Rich, Seymour Hersh, Amos Oz, Mike Davis, Elmore Leonard, John Dean, Julian Bond, Al Franken, and Terry Gross. In his writing Wiener has criticized government secrecy, American foreign policy, and corporations such as Wal-Mart.
Wiener is a political commentator, often advocating for left-leaning causes such as workers' rights, against plagiarism in academia by academics, and against corporations such as Walmart. He has written about domestic political subjects. Wiener has criticized American foreign policy in its dealings with Iraq and United States support for dictatorships. While Wiener is perhaps best known for his battling to expose the FBI's surveillance of John Lennon, he also was instrumental in getting the FBI to release documents about its surveillance of comedian Groucho Marx.
Wiener and the Lennon FBI files
Background
The legal battle between Wiener and the United States government was waged over two and a half decades, and has been examined by other historians. In the late sixties, many young Americans became opposed to the Vietnam War, and John Lennon became an antiwar advocate who made then-president Richard Nixon nervous about his reelection prospects in 1972. The consensus view is that Nixon asked the FBI to begin surveillance of Lennon, possibly after Lennon went to New York on a visa and met up with radical anti-war activists. Government surveillance of Lennon had been extensive, although there was no documentary evidence of wiretapping, and lasted about 11 months.
The attempt to deport Lennon
The Immigration and Naturalization Service, acting on a suggestion from Senator Strom Thurmond, and probably at the behest of Richard Nixon, ordered Lennon to be deported in the spring of 1972. According to Wiener's account, the key issue for the Nixon administration was that Lennon had been talking to anti-war leaders about a "tour that would combine rock music with anti-war organizing and voter registration," possibly as a way to court first-time eighteen-year-old voters, who were believed to have a tendency to vote for the Democratic party.
Reporter Adam Cohen writing in 2006 in the New York Times agreed that the FBI surveillance of Lennon had been motivated not only by antiwar concerns but by concerns of a political nature. According to Cohen, what was most revealing was that the timing of these events suggested there was an underlying political motivation behind the surveillance and deportation proceedings. Numerous friends, including folk singer Bob Dylan, wrote letters to the Immigration and Naturalization Service advocating that Lennon should be allowed to stay. On December 8, 1972, after Nixon's reelection in November, the FBI closed its investigation of Lennon, partially because Lennon has shown "inactivity in Revolutionary Activities." According to Wiener, the FBI had succeeded in "neutralizing" Lennon's opposition to Nixon's reelection. John Lennon was murdered in December 1980.
Wiener vs. the FBI
In 1981, while conducting research for a book about John Lennon, Wiener learned of the FBI surveillance, and that there were either 281 or 400 pages of files on the ex-Beatle. Wiener requested the release of the FBI's files on Lennon by citing the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI refused to release two-thirds or 199 pages of the files on the grounds that they contained "national security" information. The pages that were released were heavily blacked out with magic marker, or redacted.
In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act with assistance from the ACLU of Southern California, including attorneys Dan Marmalefsky of Morrison & Foerster and Mark Rosenbaum of the ACLU. In response, the FBI turned over some documents, but withheld others claiming they contained "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality" and added that releasing the documents could lead to "military retaliation against the United States."
Wiener chronicled much of his frustration with getting documents in his 1984 book Come Together including many "Orwellian moments" during the "tortoise-like progress" of the lawyers. While Wiener lost many of the early "skirmishes", a turning point came in 1991 when the 9th Circuit appeals court ruled in his favor, and declared that the FBI had failed to provide "adequate grounds" to keep the data secret. As a result, the FBI had to keep filing affidavits which had "sufficient detail" which allowed Wiener to keep advocating for their release, and for judges to "intelligently judge" the contest, according to several reports. Then justice department lawyer John Roberts, who later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, appealed the decision, but the Supreme Court at the time sided with Wiener and the ACLU.
The case of Wiener v FBI escalated over many years. A settlement with the FBI was reached in 1997 before the case could be heard before the Supreme Court, and most documents except ten were released to Wiener as part of the agreement. According to Wiener, the government paid $204,000 in court costs and attorney fees. The justice department lawyers retained ten documents under the national security proviso of the FOIA. In 2006, the final eight or ten documents of Lennon's file were released. According to Wiener, the ten pages revealed there had been contacts between Lennon and leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s but that there had been no signs that government officials saw Lennon as a serious threat, and only regarded solicitation of funds for a "left-wing bookshop and reading room in London" but that Lennon did not provide any funds for this purpose. Wiener wrote:
Wiener expressed amazement that so much of the information had been withheld:
Chronicling the case
Wiener wrote about his legal battles in his book, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, published by the University of California Press in 2000. The book includes copies of 100 key documents from the Lennon file, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges." He also wrote about the case and its significance for The Guardian, The Nation, the L.A. Times, and The New Republic.
Wiener's work provided the basis for the 2006 documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon. Wiener served as a historical consultant to the production and also appears in the film. He also appears in the documentary LENNONYC, which aired on the PBS show "American Masters" in 2010. He was interviewed about the Lennon FBI Files by Terry Gross on the NPR program "Fresh Air." ACLU attorney Mark Rosenbaum said that the Wiener v FBI case revealed "government paranoia at a pathological level and an attempt to shield executive branch abuse of civil liberties under the rubric of national security."
Books
Wiener is the author of six books. In Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud and Power in the Ivory Tower. he examined various academic scandals and concluded that media spectacles end careers only when powerful, usually right-leaning external groups demand punishment. He also edited and wrote the introduction to Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight which included an abridged transcript of the 1968 Chicago Conspiracy trial; in that trial, Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Dave Dellinger and others faced charges stemming from anti-war demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention, and witnesses included Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Arlo Guthrie, and Allen Ginsberg; the book includes an afterword by defendant Tom Hayden and drawings by Jules Feiffer. Wiener's latest book How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America, based on his visits to Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials, emphasizes popular skepticism about America's victory.
Critical reaction
Reactions by critics to Wiener's writings has been varied. The New York Times Book Review wrote that Wiener's book Come Together: John Lennon in His Time "stands out as one of the few books that don't want to deify, dish the dirt about or otherwise exploit the slain former Beatle." A second review of this book criticized Wiener's perspective for being "tunnel-visioned". He has been criticized by Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic. Wiener's Gimme Some Truth received positive reviews in The Washington Post, London Independent, and the Christian Science Monitor. A review of Wiener's book Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower criticized Wiener for having a left-leaning bias. One reviewer described Wiener's Gimme Some Truth book as "sobering".
Selected bibliography
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics—interviews with Gore Vidal
How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. .
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight. Edited with an introduction by Jon Wiener; afterword by Tom Hayden; drawings by Jules Feiffer. New York: The New Press, 2006.
Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower . New York: The New Press, 2005.
Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Professors, Politics and Pop. London and New York: Verso Books, 1991.
Come Together: John Lennon in his Time New York: Random House, 1984.
Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1865-1885. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
"The Footnote Fetish." Telos 31 (Spring 1977). New York: Telos Press.
See also
John Lennon
Give Peace a Chance
Federal Bureau of Investigation
References
External links
Jon Wiener website: On the radio and in print
Biography at The Nation
Faculty website at University of California, Irvine
The John Lennon FBI files website
"Probing the FBI's Files on John Lennon" Fresh Air with Terry Gross: interview with Jon Wiener
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Demas Akpore
Demas Akpore (August 4 1928 – December 28 1993) was the first elected Deputy Governor of Bendel State (1979–1983), the Principal of Government College, Ughelli, and the founder and principal of Orogun Grammar School.
Chief Demas Onoliobakpovba Akpore was born on 4 August 1928 at Warri, Nigeria into a Christian Family of Mr. Itedjere Akpore of Unukpo, Orogun in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State of Nigeria, and Mrs. Etawhota Akpore (née Agbomiyeri) of Kokori in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State. He was an only child of his mother and the first in a family of eight children.
Early life and education
At a young age, Demas lost his mother and he was brought up under the care of Mrs. Inaba Uyokpeyi.
He started his formal education at St. Andrew's Church Missionary Society School, Warri, Delta State, Nigeria from 1937 to 1944. He then proceeded to Government College, Ughelli where he was a pioneering student.
After completing his Secondary School Education in 1951, he proceeded to University College, Ibadan, Nigeria from 1951 to 1956. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Classics. Still in search of knowledge, he went to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from 1956 to 1958 where he got Master of Arts degree in Classics.
For his Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), he later attended the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria from 1974 to 1975.
Working career
While a student at the University College, Ibadan, he spent his long vacations teaching Latin at Urhobo College, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria.
On his return from Canada, he took up teaching appointment with United College of Commerce, Warri. From 1959 to 1962 he was the vice principal becoming the principal in 1962, a post he held until 1966.
The same year, he left to found Orogun Grammar School, Orogun, his home town. He doubled as proprietor and principal of the school until 1973.
On the take over of all privately owned schools in the then Bendel State, Chief Demas Akpore moved to Government College, Ughelli as the principal of his alma mater. He served in that capacity from 1973 to 1978.
He refused to take compensation from the government for his school affirming that he established it for his people and would therefore not make profit out of it.
In 1988 when government had lifted the ban on private ownership of schools, he again established Idise Institute, Warri.
Chief Demas Akpore was a council member of the College of Education, Abraka from 1973 to 1978.
Political career
He showed interest in politics in his university days at Ibadan. He was an active unionist and student leader. He later joined the NCNC where he rose to become the leader of the youth wing of the party.
He was an active member of the Zikist National Party Vanguard. And was also one of the Midwest Democratic Front in 1963.
He worked tirelessly with Elder Statesman, Chief Dennis Osadebay toward the creation of the then Midwest Region. Their yearnings were realised in 1963. He later devoted his energies to fighting for the creation of Delta State. He was in his hospital bed in the United States of America when Delta State was created.
When the ban on political activities was lifted in 1978, he joined the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) becoming an executive member of the state branch of the party. He was the running mate of his party's gubernatorial candidate Ambrose Folorunsho Alli in 1979. They won the election and were elected the first Governor and Deputy Governor, respectively of the then Bendel State and were sworn in October 1 1979. He, however resigned as Deputy Governor on 3 November 1982 over differences which he could not compromise. About a month later, he was attacked by assailants who left him for dead.
Socio-Cultural Life
Chief Akpore was a member, leader and patron of many clubs both locally and internationally.
In recognition of his contribution to his society, he was conferred the Onotu of Orogun; Orharharode of Ophorigbala; Orhokobaro of Ughelli, among others.
He was a selfless leader who gave scholarships to many students. He also spearheaded the building of many schools, roads, and water and electricity projects.
His Interests
He was a lover of sports and music. He could play many musical instruments including the saxophone and the piano. He also enjoyed swimming, reading, and travelling. He was a member of the Music Association of Nigeria. He was loyal to his friends and also lover of children. He was a devout Christian. He always stood for the truth irrespective of the consequences.
Family life
He married former Miss Grace Temisan Abobo in Ibadan in 1959. The marriage was blessed with six children; four boys and two girls and seven grand children.
His death occurred on 28 December 1993 in the United States of America.
He is survived by his wife, Grace Akpore; his children: Mrs. Stella Omu, Jomo Akpore, Kevwe Akpore, Enaite Akpore-Oba, and Newman Akpore, His grand children are Voke Omu, Jomo Akpore Jr., Ghenero Omu, Kiara Akpore, Sade Akpore, Oghale Omu, and Fejiro Omu.
Sources
Ahon, Festus Nigeria: "Immortalize Akpore, Activist Urges Delta Government" (Vanguard (Nigeria) 30 December 2008)
Akpore, Demas O. "The Question of the Falling Standard of Education: A Policy in Transition, The Nigerian Experience from An Educator's Viewpoint". (A lecture delivered on the occasion of the 1981 University of Ibadan Alumni Association Annual Lectures held at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 20 March 1981.
Akpoyibo, Marvel- Lagos State Police Commissioner "I never had a girlfriend in school because I was married to my books" (The Punch-Nigeria-By FRIDAY OLOKOR, Published: 20 December 2009)
Awhefeada, Sunny. "Remembering Demas Akpore" (National Daily, Nigeria- 27 December 2008)
Darra, G.G. "Urhobo and the Mowoe Legacy"(The Guardian, Nigeria-10 August 2005) Professor of English, Delta State University, Abraka/Special Adviser on Public Communications to the Governor of Delta State
Eromosele, Victor "Government College Ughelli at 60"(The Guardian, Nigeria 9 November 2005)
Olodu, Monn "Much Ado About Delta State Capital"
Omu, Stella "Demas Akpore" Administrator, Nigeria federal Ministry of Education.
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Cortactin
Cortactin (from "cortical actin binding protein") is a monomeric protein located in the cytoplasm of cells that can be activated by external stimuli to promote polymerization and rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton, especially the actin cortex around the cellular periphery. It is present in all cell types. When activated, it will recruit Arp2/3 complex proteins to existing actin microfilaments, facilitating and stabilizing nucleation sites for actin branching. Cortactin is important in promoting lamellipodia formation, invadopodia formation, cell migration, and endocytosis.
Gene
In humans, cortactin is encoded by the CTTN gene on chromosome 11.
Structure
Cortactin is a thin, elongated monomer that consists of an amino-terminal acidic (NTA) region; 37-residue-long segments that are highly conserved among cortactin proteins of all species and repeated up to 6.5 times in tandem (“cortactin repeats”); a proline-rich region; and an SH3 domain. This basic structure is highly conserved among all species that express cortactin.
Activation and binding
Cortactin is activated via phosphorylation, by tyrosine kinases or serine/threonine kinases, in response to extracellular signals like growth factors, adhesion sites, or pathogenic invasion of the epithelial layer.
The SH3 domain of certain tyrosine kinases, such as the oncogene Src kinase, binds to cortactin’s proline-rich region and phosphorylates it on Tyr421, Tyr466, and Tyr482. Once activated in this way, it can bind to filamentous actin (F-actin) with the fourth of its cortactin repeats. As the concentration of phosphorylated cortactin increases in specific regions within the cell, the monomers each begin to recruit an Arp2/3 complex to F-actin. It binds to Arp2/3 with an aspartic acid-aspartic acid-tryptophan (DDW) sequence in its NTA region, a motif that is often seen in other actin nucleation-promoting factors (NPFs).
Certain serine/threonine kinases, such as ERK, can phosphorylate cortactin on Ser405 and Ser418 in the SH3 domain. Activated like this, it still associates with Arp2/3 and F-actin, but will also allow other actin NPFs, most importantly N-WASp (Neuronal Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein), to bind to the complex as well; when phosphorylated by tyrosine kinases, other NPFs are excluded. The ability of these other NPFs to bind the Arp2/3 complex while cortactin is also bound could come from new interactions with cortactin’s SH3 domain, which is in a different conformation when phosphorylated by Ser/Thr kinases and thus may be more open to interactions with other NPFs. Having other NPFs bind to the Arp2/3 complex at the same time as cortactin may enhance nucleation site stability.
Location and function in the cell
Inactive cortactin diffuses throughout the cytoplasm, but upon phosphorylation, the protein begins to target certain areas in the cell. Cortactin-assisted Arp2/3-nucleated actin branches are most prominent in the actin cortex, around the periphery of the cell. A phosphorylated cortactin monomer binds to, activates, and stabilizes an Arp2/3 complex on preexisting F-actin, which provides a nucleation site for a new actin branch to form from the “mother” filament. Branches formed from cortactin-assisted nucleation sites are very stable; cortactin has been shown to inhibit debranching. Thus, polymerization and branching of actin is promoted in areas of the cell where cortactin is localized.
Cortactin is very active in lamellipodia, protrusions of the cell membrane formed by actin polymerization and treadmilling that propel the cell along a surface as it migrates towards some target.
Cortactin acts as a link between extracellular signals and lamellipodial “steering.” When a receptor tyrosine kinase on the cell membrane binds to an adhesion site, for example, cortactin will be phosphorylated locally to the area of binding, activate and recruit Arp2/3 to the actin cortex in that region, and thus stimulate cortical actin polymerization and movement of the cell in that direction. Macrophages, highly motile immune cells that engulf cellular debris and pathogens, are propelled by lamellipodia and identify/migrate toward a target via chemotaxis; thus, cortactin must also be activated by receptor kinases that pick up a large variety of chemical signals.
Studies have implicated cortactin in both clathrin-mediated endocytosis and clathrin-independent endocytosis. In both kinds of endocytosis, it has long been known that actin localizes to sites of vesicle invagination and is a vital part of the endocytic pathway, but the actual mechanisms by which actin facilitates endocytosis are still unclear. Recently, however, it has been found that dynamin, the protein responsible for breaking the newly formed vesicular bud off the inside of the plasma membrane, can associate with the SH3 domain of cortactin. Since cortactin recruits the Arp2/3 complexes that lead to actin polymerization, this suggests that it may play an important part in linking vesicle formation to the as yet unknown functions actin has in endocytosis.
Clinical significance
Amplification of the genes encoding cortactin—in humans, EMS1—has been found to occur in certain tumors. Overexpression of cortactin can lead to highly-active lamellipodia in tumor cells, dubbed “invadopodia.” These cells are especially invasive and migratory, making them very dangerous, for they can easily spread cancer across the body into other tissues.
Interactions
Cortactin has been shown to interact with:
ACTR3
ARPC2,
CTNND1,
FER,
KCNA2,
SHANK2,
WASL, and
WIPF1.
See also
actin
gelsolin
transferrin
villin
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IITB-Monash Research Academy
The IITB-Monash Research Academy is a graduate research school located in Mumbai, India. It opened in 2008 as a joint venture between the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Monash University. Students of the Academy study for a dual PhD from both institutions, spending time in both Australia and India, with supervisors from both IITB and Monash. The establishment of the Academy marks the first time that an Australian university has set up an extensive physical presence in India.
History
In 2006, then Vice-Chancellor of Monash Richard Larkins went on a tour of India with senior Monash staff and an executive from BHP Billiton. The tour was led by Monash Dean of Engineering Tam Sridhar, an Indian-Australian professor. The team met with research institutions, public officials and industry research bodies around the country.
After extensive negotiations, Monash University and IITB signed an agreement to undertake joint research and establish a graduate research school together. The agreement was signed on 7 March 2006 in the presence of then Australian Prime Minister John Howard. The Academy attracted early industry support, with a commitment from BHP Billiton and Infosys to joint research and commercialisation.
The Academy was officially opened on 26 November 2008. 36 research projects began immediately, with several hundred further projects in the planning phase.
By June 2009, 41 PhD students were enrolled at the Academy. By 2012, that number had risen to 80. It is expected that the Academy will eventually house around 250-300 PhD students at any one time.
Research
The Academy's research encompasses a range of issues of concern to industry and government in Australia and India. This includes clean energy, water, biotechnology, infrastructure engineering, stem cells, advanced computational engineering and nanotechnology. The Academy has five Foundation Partners, each of whom will contribute around $1–2 million in research sponsorship in the early years of the Academy. The Foundation Partners are Infosys, BHP Billiton, Shell, the CSIRO and the Australian Stem Cell Centre.
Location
The Academy is located at IITB's Campus in Powai, Mumbai.
Governance
The IITB-Monash Research Academy is governed by a Board of Directors, Advisory Council (a consultative body) and Chief Executive Officer. The Board consists primarily of senior management figures from Monash and IITB. The Advisory Council is made up of leaders from scientific research and industry, including Narayana Murthy (founder of Indian software Company Infosys) and prominent Australian biologist Professor Gustav Nossal. Mohan Krishnamoorthy was the CEO of the Academy from 2008-2015. The current CEO is Professor Murali Sastry.
References
External links
Official IITB-Monash Research Academy Website
Official Monash University Website
Official IITB Website
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Paul Bergmann
Paul Bergmann was an American Football Tight-End for UCLA and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Early years
Bergmann's football career began on the receiving end of John Elway's passes under legendary coach Jack Neumeier at Granada Hills Charter High School. Bergmann was All-League, All-Valley, All-L.A. City receiver and linebacker. In the 1979 East vs. West Shriner All Star game Bergmann caught 9 passes and touchdowns from former teammate Elway and future UCLA Hall of Famer Tom Ramsey. Elway went on to Stanford, and Bergmann went to play locally at UCLA, on a full scholarship.
College
Bergmann lettered for the UCLA Bruins in 1982 and 1983. He was a 1st Team All-Pac-10 selection, UPI 1st Team All-West Coast, a 2nd Team AP, and a UPI All-American selection. In those seasons, UCLA's record was 10-1-1, 7-4-1.
Bergmann was a starting member of UCLA's 1983 Rose Bowl, where he led all receivers with 6 receptions, and the 1984 Rose Bowl Championship, where he caught the first touchdown pass of the game, thrown by Rick Neuheisel.
Professional career
Bergmann was drafted into the NFL in 1984, as the 8th pick in the 1st round of the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft of USFL and CFL Players by the Indianapolis Colts, playing with the USFL Jacksonville Bulls and was Off. M.V.P. and Oakland Invaders who went to the U.S.F.L. Championship in 1985, eventually moving on to the NFL to play with Kansas City Chiefs for two years, before a shoulder dislocation and operation ended his career in 1988. He resides in Ojai, California, with his wife and four children where he has serves Ojai Valley Community Church as a progressive pastor activist since 1998.
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Calosoma moniliatus
Calosoma moniliatus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Carabinae. It was described by John Lawrence LeConte in 1851.
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Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro
Jardim Botânico () is a residential neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, located north of Ipanema and Leblon, just across Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and east of Gávea. Jardim Botânico lies in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
The district got its name as it grew around the city's Botanical Garden. The residents are generally upper-middle to upper-class and do not live near a favela, which is rare in the city. It differs from most of Rio's neighbourhoods due to the large number of large detached houses, again not that common in the densely populated south zone. It is home to many Brazilian celebrities and the headquarters of the nationwide television network, Rede Globo. Many of Rede Globo's studios are in the neighbourhood.
The main road in the borough is the Rua Jardim Botanico (Jardim Botanico Street). The neighborhood leads to Rio de Janeiro's large Tijuca Forest, using a road that winds up through the mountainous forest.
One of Rio de Janeiro's most famous carnival blocs parades annually through the streets of Jardim Botanico. The bloc calls itself "Suvaco do Cristo", which translates to "Armpit of the Christ" because Jardim Botânico lies underneath the right armpit of Rio de Janeiro's most prominent landmark, Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue.
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Aboubakar Keita
Aboubakar Keita (born 5 November 1997) is an Ivorian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for OH Leuven in the Belgian First Division B.
Club career
F.C. Copenhagen
After having visited F.C. Copenhagen on multiple occasions, Keita signed a contract with the club shortly after his 18th birthday in November 2015, playing the remainder of the autumn with the under-19 team. On 11 January 2016 Keita was promoted to the first team squad.
On 13 March 2016, Keita debuted for the first team, when he substituted William Kvist in the Danish Superliga match against AaB. Three days later, he was in the starting eleven in the Danish Cup game against Randers FC.
Keita signed a loan deal with Norwegian club Stabæk to June 2019.
International career
He debuted for the Ivory Coast U23s in a 5–1 loss to France U21, scoring the only goal for his team in the game.
Honours
Club
Copenhagen
Danish Superliga: 2015–16
Danish Cup: 2015–16
References
External links
Profile at Football-Lineups.com
Category:1997 births
Category:Ivorian footballers
Category:Ivory Coast under-20 international footballers
Category:Ivorian expatriate footballers
Category:Danish Superliga players
Category:F.C. Copenhagen players
Category:Allsvenskan players
Category:Halmstads BK players
Category:Oud-Heverlee Leuven players
Category:Belgian Second Division/Belgian First Division B players
Category:Living people
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Category:Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Category:Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Category:Expatriate footballers in Denmark
Category:Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Category:Expatriate footballers in Sweden
Category:Association football midfielders
Category:Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Category:Expatriate footballers in Norway
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Liam Carroll (hurler)
Liam Carroll is an Irish retired hurler who played as a midfielder for the Offaly senior team.
Born in Kinnitty, County Offaly, Carroll first played competitive hurling in his youth. He made his senior debut with Offaly during the 1984 championship and immediately became a regular member of the team. During his career Carroll won one Leinster medal. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion.
At club level Carroll is a three-time championship medallist with Kinnitty.
His retirement came following the conclusion of the 1985-86 National League.
Honours
Team
Kinnitty
Offaly Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1983, 1984, 1985
Offaly
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1984
References
Category:Living people
Category:Kinnitty hurlers
Category:Offaly inter-county hurlers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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Northland, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Northland is an unincorporated community located in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, USA, within the town of Harrison.
Notes
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Pingshan County, Hebei
Pingshan County, Hebei () isa county of Hebei Province, North China, bordering Shanxi province to the west. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital.
Administrative divisions
Towns:
Pingshan (平山镇), Donghuishe (东回舍镇), Wentang (温塘镇), Nandian (南甸镇), Gangnan (岗南镇), Zhongguyue (中古月镇), Xiahuai (下槐镇), Mengjiazhuang (孟家庄镇), Xiaojue (小觉镇), Jiaotanzhuang (蛟潭庄镇), Xibaipo (西柏坡镇), Xiakou (下口镇)
Townships:
Xidawu Township (西大吾乡), Shangsanji Township (上三汲乡), Lianghe Township (两河乡), Dongwangpo Township (东王坡乡), Sujiazhuang Township (苏家庄乡), Zhaibei Township (宅北乡), Beiye Township (北冶乡), Shangguanyintang Township (上观音堂乡), Yangjiaqiao Township (杨家桥乡), Yingli Township (营里乡), Hehekou Township (合河口乡)
External links
Category:County-level divisions of Hebei
Category:Shijiazhuang
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DAMRI bus
DAMRI or Djawatan Angkoetan Motor Repoeblik Indonesia ("Motor Vehicles Board of the Republic of Indonesia") is an Indonesian state-owned public transit bus company. It offers transit routes to and from major airports in the country, including Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. It also operates intercity buses and some transborder routes into neighboring nations. It also operates three routes of the TransJakarta busway.
In June 2016, there were plans to have DAMRI operate routes directly to hotels in Jakarta, rather than only transit terminals.
History
DAMRI's history began in 1943, with the establishment of two enterprises during the Japanese administration: for freight logistics, and the for passenger transport. After Indonesia proclaimed independence in 1945, Java Transportation Enterprise changed its name to Djawatan Pengangkoetan (Transport Enterprise) and Automobile Board changed its name to Djawatan Angkoetan Darat (Land Transport Enterprise) as both enterprises were taken over by the Indonesian Department of Transportation.
By 25 November 1946, both enterprises were merged, through a Ministry of Transportation announcement (), into Djawatan Angkoetan Motor Repoeblik Indonesia (DAMRI). It was tasked to "operate land transportation by buses, trucks and other types of motor vehicles".
DAMRI played an active role during the Indonesian National Revolution, especially during the resistance against the Dutch military aggressions.
In 1961, DAMRI was reorganized as a General Director Board (). In 1965 the DAMRI BPU became a State Corporation (), and in 1982 it was reorganized as a public corporation.
Services
Mode integrator
DAMRI's Airport Transportation serves Greater Jakarta and several other airports in Indonesia.
Transjakarta
Damri operates corridors 1,8 and 11 of the TransJakarta bus service through its Strategic Business Unit (SBU).
City transportation
DAMRI serves route networks between cities, including provincial and district capitals. Service Network covers the cities of Medan, Batam, Palembang, Bandar Lampung, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Kendari and Manado.
Interstate
DAMRI pioneered cross-border transportation between Malaysia and Indonesia, serving routes from Pontianak (Indonesia) to Kuching (Malaysia). In addition, DAMRI has also opened new services from Pontianak to Brunei Darussalam.
DAMRI is also pioneering routes from Indonesia to Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea. DAMRI's inter-country transportation routes are:
Pontianak (Indonesia) - Kuching (East Malaysia)
Pontianak (Indonesia) - Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei Darussalam)
Kupang (Indonesia) - Dili (Timor Leste)
Jayapura (Indonesia) - Vanimo (Papua New Guinea)
Pioneering Bus
DAMRI serves some remote areas that have not been served by other transport companies. Pioneer Transport is an assignment from the government to meet the community's need for transportation so that children can go to school, logistics costs can be reduced, and produce can be distributed.
Logistics
DAMRI uses trucks to deliver goods in collaboration with PT Pos Indonesia in Medan, Dumai, Surabaya and Mataram in primary and secondary pathways. DAMRI also serves freight transportation as a canal service from Train logistics and other private parties such as Astra, Pharmacy, Carrefour, Unilever and others.
See also
List of bus operator companies in Indonesia
Ministry of State Owned Enterprises (Indonesia)
References
Category:Public transport in Indonesia
Category:Bus transport in Indonesia
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Susudata
Susudata was a placename pointed out in Ptolemy's atlas Geographia which is dated 150 AD. The word itself is a derivation from the Germanic term "Susutin". For a long time the place could not be positively identified, due to Ptolemy's variances. It was assumed to be in the vicinity of Berlin and could recently be located by an expedition led by Andreas Kleineberg, which confirmed the site at Fürstenwalde, Germany.
Literature
Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann: Germania und die Insel Thule.Die Entschlüsselung von Ptolemaios' "Atlas der Oikumene".Wissenschaftl. Buchgesell.,2010.
Claudius Ptolemäus: Geographia, Ed. C. F. A. Nobbe cum introd. Aubrey Diller, Hildesheim 1966.
Achim Leube: Die römische Kaiserzeit im Oder-Spree-Gebiet, Berlin(Ost) 1975.
Footnotes
External links
spiegel online
Category:Names of places in Europe
Category:Settlements in Germania Magna
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Scottish Pipe Band Association of South America
The Scottish Pipe Band Association of South America (SPBASA), is the pipe band association currently comprising Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. It approved its first constitution on December 20, 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and was officially inaugurated on April 17, 2004 at the First South American Pipe Band Gathering in Montevideo, Uruguay. Though it is as in line as possible with the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, the comparatively low number of pipe bands and the number of countries encompassed are the principal reasons behind this pipe band association being so unique.
Branches and Members
Argentina
St. Andrew's Society of the River Plate Pipe Band
Highland Thistle Pipe Band
South American Piping Association Pipe Band
Mendoza Highlanders Pipe Band (Recently Formed)
Bariloche Highlanders Pipe Band (Recently Formed)
Brazil
Brasil Caledonia Pipe Band
St. Andrew's Society of São Paulo Pipes and Drums
Wolney Highlanders
Chile
11th Fire Company Pipe Band
Andes Highlanders Pipe Band
Santiago Metropolitan Pipe Band
Uruguay
City of Montevideo Pipe Band (Disgregated)
Riverside Pipe Band (Disgregated)
Pipe Band Gatherings
The South American Pipe Band Gatherings have been the Association's most notable outcome so far. These Gatherings, hosted by member pipe bands themselves on a rotational basis, occur approximately every 18 months. The first took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, and was hosted by Riverside Pipe Band.
Gatherings are typically opened by a Massed Bands Parade along a major city avenue, including all participating pipe bands and guests. Then, at the core event, each pipe band has a 30-minute presentation.
Piping, drumming and highland dancing celebrities have been invited to each Gathering to act as instructors, conducting workshops and clinics, and/or as competition adjudicators.
The updated schedule of past and future Gatherings is published on the SPBASA website.
Management
SPBASA is run by an Executive Committee formed by representatives of each pipe band, and in some cases representatives of independent pipers and drummers of each country. So far only Argentina has a representative for the independent pipers and drummers.
Official translation of the Association's name
“Scottish Pipe Band Association of South America”, is officially translated into Spanish as “Asociación Sudamericana de Bandas Escocesas”, and into Portuguese as “Associação Sulamericana de Bandas Escocesas”.
Events
Recently made G7 in Santiago of Chile city, Next Gathering in Bariloche city (Argentina) organized for Bariloche Highlanders Pipe Band.
External links
Scottish Pipe Band Association of South America (SPBASA)
Facebook Group
River Plate Pipe Band History
Category:Pipe band associations
Category:Scottish Brazilian
Category:Scottish diaspora
Category:Music organisations based in Argentina
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Mitamura
Mitamura (written: 三田村) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese ice hockey player
, Japanese actor and singer
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Shinmeiaishinkai
is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Komatsu Shin'yō in 1976. Komatsu was born in Yokohama in 1928; her mother was the successor to a hereditary line of kannushi (Shinto priests). In 1976, an acquaintance of Komatsu's made a prophecy that a kami was about to descend to Earth. Shortly thereafter, Komatsu was visited in turn by a dragon god, Kannon and Amaterasu, the sun goddess. From that time forward, Komatsu dedicated herself to passing on knowledge from Amaterasu.
Faith and practices
The Shinmei Aishinkai movement became an official religious organization in 1983. The focus of the movement's practices are ritual purification (okiyome or osame) meant to give ascension to the spirits or jaki of departed people which are still bound to the earth. By doing so, the group hopes to ensure peace and prosperity throughout the world. To that end, rituals have been held following such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the September 11 attacks. The movement's main festival, Kamiyo Gyōretsu "Whole World Procession", is held in autumn at the main Tokyo shrine and includes a parade in which members dress in period clothing and proceed through the city.
The five main gods worshipped by followers are Amaterasu, Takemikazuchi, Ninigi-no-Mikoto, Kannō, and Ame-no-tajikarao. However, others such as Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto are also regularly worshipped.
The Shinmei movement, like many Shinto-derived new religious movements includes a strong emphasis on divination and Wu Xing practices, known as kigaku. This includes the study of kasō, the floor plan of one's house and the influences of energy drawn from various compass directions and shares some similarities with feng shui. The group also has strong ties to Ise Grand Shrine (Mie Prefecture), where the goddess Amaterasu is believed to reside.
As of 2008, the group has approximately 50,000 members nationwide. Branch shrines have been established in Hokkaido, Kyushu, Nasu (Tochigi Prefecture), and Hyōgo Prefecture. The main shrine is located in Tokyo.
References
"Female Founders and Shamanesses," Encyclopedia of Shinto website.
"Shinmei Aishinkai," Encyclopedia of Shinto website.
External links
Category:Japanese new religions
Category:1976 establishments in Japan
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Peter Courtenay (died 1552)
Sir Peter Courtenay (died 29 May 1552) of Ugbrooke in the parish of Chudleigh, Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1548/9.
Origins
He was the 2nd son of Sir William III Courtenay (1477–1535) "The Great", of Powderham, Devon) by his first wife Margaret Edgecombe, daughter of Sir Richard Edgecumbe (c. 1443-1489), Cotehele, Cornwall, and widow of Sir William St. Maure.
Marriage & progeny
He married Elizabeth Shilston (died 8th Nov. 1605, buried at Chudleigh), daughter of Robert Shilston of Bridestowe, Devon, by whom he had issue.
Death & burial
He was buried at Chudleigh, in which parish church survives his monument.
References
Category:1552 deaths
Category:High Sheriffs of Devon
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Sarreinsming
Sarreinsming (, Lorraine Franconian: Äänsminge) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
See also
Communes of the Moselle department
Category:Communes of Moselle (department)
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Strandvägen
Strandvägen is a boulevard on Östermalm in central Stockholm, Sweden. Completed just in time for the Stockholm World's Fair 1897, it quickly became known as one of the most prestigious addresses in town.
Stretching 1 km (3.500 ft) east from Nybroplan, Strandvägen is intercepted by (west to east) Arsenalsgatan, Nybrogatan, Sibyllegatan, Artillerigatan, Skeppargatan, Grevgatan, Styrmansgatan, Grev Magnigatan, Torstenssonsgatan, Banérgatan, Narvavägen, Djurgårdsbron, Storgatan, Ulrikagatan, and Oxenstiernsgatan. It has four parallel streets: Almlöfsgatan, Väpnargatan, Kaptensgatan, and Riddargatan. Hamngatan forms a continuation in its western end, as do Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen in its eastern end.
The Djurgården heritage tramway passes over Strandvägen. The waters south of the street are named Nybroviken, Ladugårdslandsviken, and Djurgårdsbrunnsviken.
History
The street is first mentioned as Ladugårdslands Strandgata and Strandvägen respectively in 1885. However, an outstanding quay along the present waterfront was first discussed in 1857, and within two years a proposal was produced for a combined harbour and an esplanade planted with trees — "a street unparalleled in Europe". Works were started in 1862, but by the mid-1870s walking along the water front was still practicable at best, as the area was still crowded with sheds and hovels. The first trees along the 79 m wide street were planted in 1879, and while construction work on the buildings along the street was started in the 1880s, 75% of the 24 buildings were built in the 1890s. However, in front of the World's Fair in 1897, the street was trafficable for both pedestrians and vehicles.
Bünsow House (Bünsowska huset) on number 29–33 constructed in 1886–88, set a standard, not only for the entire street but for architecture in Sweden during the 1890s. It is named after Friedrich Bünsow, who made a fortune on wood and also embellished central Sundsvall with the same kind of luxurious architecture. His architectural contest for the site at Strandvägen was won by the young architect Isak Gustaf Clason who during the contest was studying Renaissance architecture in the Loire Valley. From there he imported the towers, the dormers, and the "honest materials" (i.e. exposed bricks instead of plaster which dominated Swedish architecture during the preceding decades). In his 1895 novel Förvillelser, author Hjalmar Söderberg described the building as "a defiant and brilliant knight's poem in stone".
Even though Bünsow House set the standard for the street, it was an exception in that it was commissioned by one of the prospected residents. The builders of the remaining buildings on Strandvägen were well aware of the value of the prestigious location, and therefore commissioned some of the best architects of the era to design both the façades and the 5–10 room apartments to appeal to their exclusive audience. From the beginning, the rental cost for most of the apartments behind the prestigious façades exceeded average salaries. The smaller apartments on the backyards, however, were intended for low-income earners.
Since 2005 works to develop Strandvägen into a more attractive area for both pedestrians and ships have been progressing: Footways are being paved in granite and lampposts, benches, and litter bins are given a uniform design, while parked cars are confined to available underground carparks.
See also
Geography of Stockholm
Diplomatstaden
Notes
External links
Walk on the Strandvägen
Read about Strandvägens history, architecture and the businesses located on Strandvägen
References
Category:Streets in Stockholm
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Voo Nocturno
Voo Nocturno is the thirteenth album by Jorge Palma.
Track listing
"Encosta-te a Mim" - 4:17
"Voo Nocturno" - 4:03
"Rosa Branca" - 2:16
"O Centro Comercial Fechou" - 2:56
"Olá (Cá Estamos Nós Outra Vez)" - 4:14
"Abrir o Sinal" - 3:21
"Gaivota a poraa
dos Alteirinhos" - 3:27
"Casa do Capitão" - 3:18
"Quarteto da Corda" - 3:56
"Vermelho Redundante" - 3:06
"Finalmente a Sós" - 3:54
"A Velhice" (including Hidden Track "Sunset Break")
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Rangan
Rangan may refer to:
Rangan, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province
Rangan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province
Venkat Rangan, Indian computer scientist
Gumbok Rangan, a mountain of India
Rangan Chakraborty (b. 1957), Indian filmmaker
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Buh
Buh is an alternative transliteration of Bug in Ukrainian and some other Slavic languages. Buh may refer to
Novyi Buh, a city in Ukraine
Southern Bug, a river in Ukraine
Buh Cossacks
Buh Township, Morrison County, Minnesota, United States
Buh, Kapurthala, a village in India
Buh Gujran, a village in India
El Buh, a town in Somalia
El Buh District in Somalia
Saad Buh, a Sufi from Mauritania
Truchlivý Bůh, a 2000 novel by Jiří Kratochvil
See also
BUH (disambiguation)
Bug (disambiguation)
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Coptotriche kenyensis
Coptotriche kenyensis is a moth of the family Tischeriidae. It is found in Kenya.
References
Mey, 2010. Two new species of Tischeriidae from East Africa (Lepidoptera, Tischerioidea). Esperiana Memoir 5: 337
Category:Moths described in 2010
Category:Tischeriidae
Category:Moths of Africa
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Prague 4
Prague 4, formally the Prague 4 Municipal District (Městská čast Praha 4), is a second-tier municipality in Prague. The administrative district (správní obvod) of the same name consists of municipal districts Prague 4 and Kunratice.
Prague 4 is located just south of Prague 2 and is the biggest municipality in Prague. Most of this district consists of large estates of panelaks. The district is also well connected to the motorway to Brno.
Government and infrastructure
The Prison Service of the Czech Republic is headquartered in this district.
Education
Two campuses of the Prague British International School are in Prague 4: Kamýk and Libuš. Kamýk belonged to the pre-merger Prague British School, while Libuš belonged to the pre-merger English International School Prague and opened in 2007.
References
External links
Prague 4 official site
Census statistics for Czech municipalities (in Czech)
Category:Districts of Prague
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James McDermott (baseball)
James McDermott (1846 - September 4, 1882) was an American baseball player in the first professional league. He played two games in the outfield for the 1871 Fort Wayne Kekiongas and seven as pitcher for the 1872 Brooklyn Eckfords.
McDermott previously played for the Eckfords in the second of that club's professional seasons, 1870. While the team won 2, tied 1, and lost 12 pro matches, he was the regular pitcher. Overall, he appeared in 20 games on record, one behind the team leaders, and he was an ordinary batter in the company of his teammates.
References
External links
Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Brooklyn Eckfords (NABBP) players
Category:Fort Wayne Kekiongas players
Category:Brooklyn Eckfords players
Category:19th-century baseball players
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List of Canadian exchange-traded funds
This is a list of notable Canadian exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. This is not an exhaustive list.
AGFiQ
AGFiQ is a subsidiary of AGF Management Inc offering factor-based ETFs to manage volatility.
– AGFiQ Enhanced Core Canadian Equity ETF
– AGFiQ Enhanced Core US Equity ETF
– AGFiQ Enhanced Core International Equity ETF
– AGFiQ Enhanced Core Emerging Markets Equity ETF
– AGFiQ Enhanced Global Infrastructure ETF
– AGFiQ Enhanced Global ESG Factors ETF
– AGFiQ Global Equity Rotation ETF
– AGFiQ MultiAsset Allocation ETF
– AGFiQ MultiAsset Income Allocation ETF
BlackRock Inc
In Canada, BlackRock Inc. is the largest ETF provider, offering ETFs under the RBC iShares brand name
– tracks the S&P/TSX 60 Total Return Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Composite Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX MidCap Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX SmallCap Index
– tracks the Core MSCI EAFE IMI Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Information Technology Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Gold Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Financials Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Materials Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Capped Real Estate Investment Trust Index
– tracks the S&P/TSX Income Trust Index
– tracks the Dow Jones Canada Select Dividend Index
– tracks the Dow Jones Canada Select Growth Index
– tracks the Dow Jones Canada Select Value Index
– tracks the Jantzi Social Index
– tracks the Scotia Short-term bond Index
– tracks the Scotia Capital Bond Index
– tracks the Scotia Capital Real Return Bond Index
– tracks the Scotia Capital All Corporate Bond Index
– tracks the Scotia Capital All Government Bond Index
– tracks the Scotia Capital Long Term Bond Index
– tracks the S&P 500 Index (currency hedged)
– tracks the Russell 2000 Index (currency hedged)
– tracks the MSCI EAFE 100% Hedged to CAD Dollars Index (currency hedged)
– tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund Index
– tracks the MSCI World Index Fund Index
BMO Asset Management
BMO Asset Management offers the following ETFs available in Canada
– BMO Dow Jones Canada Titans 60 Index ETF
– BMO Dow Jones Industrial Average Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO US Equity Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO International Equity Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Emerging Markets Equity Index ETF
– BMO China Equity Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO India Equity Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Banks Index ETF
– BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Oil & Gas Index ETF
– BMO Equal Weight Utilities Index ETF
– BMO Equal Weight REITs Index ETF
– BMO NASDAQ 100 Equity Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Equal Weight U.S. Health Care Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Equal Weight U.S. Banks Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Global Infrastructure Index ETF
– BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Global Base Metals Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Junior Gold Index ETF
– BMO Junior Oil Index ETF
– BMO Junior Gas Index ETF
– BMO Aggregate Bond Index ETF
– BMO Short Federal Bond Index ETF
– BMO Mid Federal Bond Index ETF
– BMO Long Federal Bond Index ETF
– BMO Real Return Bond Index ETF
– BMO Short Provincial Bond Index ETF
– BMO Short Corporate Bond Index ETF
– BMO Mid Corporate Bond Index ETF
– BMO Long Corporate Bond Index ETF
– BMO High Yield US Corporate Bond Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Emerging Markets Bond Hedged to CAD Index ETF
– BMO Canadian Dividend ETF
– BMO S&P/TSX Laddered Preferred Share Index ETF
– BMO Europe High Dividend Covered Call Hedged to CAD ETF
– BMO S&P/TSX Equal Weight Global Gold Index ETF
– BMO S&P 500 Index ETF
– BMO US Dividend ETF
Claymore Investments
Claymore Investments also offers a series of ETFs available in Canada (Claymore has been acquired by BlackRock - iShares Canada so please refer to iShares Canada for any of these funds).
– Claymore BRIC ETF tracks the BNY BRIC Select ADR Index (Brazil, Russia India and China)
– Claymore CDN Dividend & Income Achievers ETF tracks Mergent's Canadian Dividend & Income Achievers Index.
– Claymore Oil Sands Sector ETF tracks the Sustainable Oil Sands Sector Index
– Claymore US Fundamental ETF (Canadian Dollar Hedged) tracks the FTSE RAFI US 1000 Canadian Dollar Hedged Index
– Claymore Canadian Fundamental Index ETF tracks the FTSE RAFI Canada Index
– Claymore S&P Global Water ETF tracks the S&P Global Water Index
– Claymore International Fundamental Index ETF tracks the FTSE RAFI Developed ex US 1000 Index
– Claymore Japan Fundamental Index ETF tracks the FTSE RAFI Japan Canadian Dollar Hedged Index
– Claymore S&P/TSX Preferred Share ETF tracks the S&P/TSX Preferred Share Index
Hamilton ETFs (Hamilton Capital Partners Inc.)
Hamilton ETFs is an ETF manager headquartered in Toronto, Ontario offering actively managed, financial services-oriented ETFs.
– Hamilton Global Bank ETF
– Hamilton Global Bank ETF (U.S. dollar version)
– Hamilton Global Financials Yield ETF
– Hamilton Global Financials Yield ETF (U.S. dollar version)
– Hamilton U.S. Mid-Cap Financials ETF (USD)
– Hamilton U.S. Mid-Cap Financials ETF (USD) (Canadian dollar version)
– Hamilton Canadian Bank Variable-Weight ETF
– Hamilton Australian Financials Yield ETF
Horizons ETFs Management
Horizons Betapro also offers a series of ETFs available in Canada:
– the Horizons U.S. Dollar Currency ETF
– the Horizons U.S. Dollar Currency ETF listed in USD
– the "HBP 60 Bull + ETF" tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of the S&P/TSX 60 Total Return Index
– the "HBP 60 Bear + ETF" tracks two times (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the S&P/TSX 60 Total Return Index
– the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX Capped Energy Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index.
– the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX Capped Energy Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index
– the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX Capped Financial Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of the S&P/TSX Capped Financials Index.
– the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX Capped Financials Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of the S&P/TSX Capped Financials Index.
– the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX Global Mining Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index.
– the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX Global Mining Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index.
– the Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Crude Oil Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of NYMEX Crude Oil.
– the Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Crude Oil Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of NYMEX Crude Oil.
– the Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Natural Gas Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of NYMEX Natural Gas.
– the Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Natural Gas Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of NYMEX Natural Gas.
– the Horizons BetaPro COMEX Gold Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of COMEX Gold.
– the Horizons BetaPro COMEX Gold Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of COMEX Gold.
– the Horizons BetaPro DJ-AIG Agricultural Grains Bull Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) the daily performance of the DJ-AIG Grains Sub-Index.
– the Horizons BetaPro DG-AIG Agricultural Grains Bear Plus ETF tracks two times (200%) inverse the daily performance of the DJ-AIG Grains Sub-Index.
– the Horizons CDN Select Universe Bond ETF seeks to replicate the performance of the Solactive Canadian Select Universe Bond Index (Total Return).
First Asset
– First Asset European Bank ETF
– First Asset MSCI Canada Low Risk Weighted ETF
– First Asset MSCI Europe Low Risk Weighted ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset MSCI Europe Low Risk Weighted ETF (Unhedged)
– First Asset MSCI USA Low Risk Weighted ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset MSCI USA Low Risk Weighted ETF (Unhedged)
– First Asset MSCI World Low Risk Weighted ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset MSCI World Low Risk Weighted ETF (Unhedged)
– First Asset Morningstar Canada Dividend Target 30 Index ETF
– First Asset Morningstar Canada Momentum Index ETF
– First Asset Morningstar Canada Value Index ETF
– First Asset Morningstar National Bank Québec Index ETF
– First Asset Morningstar US Dividend Target 50 Index ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset Morningstar US Dividend Target 50 Index ETF (Unhedged)
– First Asset Morningstar US Momentum Index ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset Morningstar US Momentum Index ETF (Unhedged)
– First Asset Morningstar US Value Index ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset Morningstar US Value Index ETF (Unhedged)
– First Asset Can-60 Covered Call ETF
– First Asset Can-Energy Covered Call ETF
– First Asset Can-Financials Covered Call ETF
– First Asset Can-Materials Covered Call ETF
– First Asset Tech Giants Covered Call ETF (CAD Hedged)
– First Asset DEX 1-5 Year Laddered Government Strip Bond Index ETF
– First Asset DEX All Canada Bond Barbell Index ETF
– First Asset DEX Corporate Bond Barbell Index ETF
– First Asset DEX Government Bond Barbell Index ETF
– First Asset DEX Provincial Bond Index ETF
– First Asset Morningstar Emerging Markets Composite Bond Index ETF
Purpose Investments Inc.
Purpose Investments Inc. is a division of Purpose Financial, a technology-driven financial services company. Purpose Investments offers the following 51 ETFs listed on the TSX and NEO exchanges:
- Purpose High Interest Savings ETF
NEO: MJJ - Purpose Marijuana Opportunities Fund
- Purpose US Cash ETF
- Purpose Global Bond Fund
- Purpose Floating Rate Income Fund— FX Hedged
- Purpose Floating Rate Income Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Floating Rate Income Fund— USD
- Purpose Managed Duration Investment Grade Bond Fund
- Purpose Total Return Bond Fund
NEO: PCF - Purpose Energy Credit Fund— FX Hedged
NEO: PCF.U - Purpose Energy Credit Fund — USD
NEO: RPS - Purpose Canadian Preferred Share Fund
NEO: RPU - Purpose US Preferred Share Fund— FX Hedged
NEO: RPU.B - Purpose US Preferred Share Fund— Non-FX Hedged
NEO: RPU.U - Purpose US Preferred Share Fund— USD
- Purpose Short Duration Tactical Bond Fund
- Purpose Strategic Yield Fund— FX Hedged
- Purpose Canadian Financial Income Fund
- Purpose Core Dividend Fund
- Purpose Enhanced Dividend Fund
- Purpose Global Financials Income Fund
- Purpose International Dividend Fund
- Purpose US Dividend Fund — FX Hedged
- Purpose US Dividend Fund— Non-FX Hedged
NEO: RDE - Purpose Core Equity Income Fund
NEO: REM - Purpose Emerging Markets Dividend Fund
- Purpose Monthly Income Fund
- Purpose Multi-Asset Income Fund
- Purpose Conservative Income Fund
NEO: RTA - Purpose Tactical Asset Allocation Fund
NEO: BHAV - Purpose Behavioural Opportunities Fund
- Purpose Best Ideas Fund — FX Hedged
- Purpose Best Ideas Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Global Innovators Fund
- Purpose Gold Bullion Fund — FX Hedged
- Purpose Gold Bullion Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Gold Bullion Fund — USD
- Purpose Enhanced US Equity Fund— FX Hedged
- Purpose Enhanced US Equity Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Tactical Hedged Equity Fund— FX Hedged
- Purpose Tactical Hedged Equity Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Duration Hedged Real Estate Fund
- Purpose International Tactical Hedged Equity Fund
- Purpose Multi-Strategy Market Neutral Fund
- Purpose Diversified Real Asset Fund
- Purpose Premium Yield Fund— FX Hedged
- Purpose Premium Yield Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Premium Yield Fund — USD
- Purpose Silver Bullion Fund— FX Hedged
- Purpose Silver Bullion Fund— Non-FX Hedged
- Purpose Silver Bullion Fund — USD
Vanguard Investments Canada Inc.
Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. offers the following 21 ETFs listed on the TSX:
– Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Canada All Cap Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Canadian Capped REIT Index ETF
– Vanguard U.S. Total Market Index ETF
– Vanguard U.S. Total Market Index ETF (CAD-hedged)
– Vanguard S&P 500 Index
– Vanguard S&P 500 Index (CAD-hedged)
– Vanguard U.S. Dividend Appreciation Index ETF
– Vanguard U.S. Dividend Appreciation Index ETF (CAD-hedged)
– Vanguard FTSE All-World ex Canada Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Developed ex North America Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Developed ex North America Index ETF (CAD-hedged)
– Vanguard FTSE Developed Europe Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Asia Pacific Index ETF
– Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index ETF
– Vanguard Canadian Aggregate Bond Index ETF
– Vanguard Canadian Short-Term Bond Index ETF
– Vanguard Canadian Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF
– Vanguard U.S. Aggregate Bond Index ETF (CAD-hedged)
– Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Aggregate Bond Index ETF (CAD-hedged)
– Vanguard Global Momentum Factor ETF (VMO)
– Vanguard Global Value Factor ETF (VVL)
– Vanguard Balanced ETF Portfolio (VBAL)
– Vanguard Conservative ETF Portfolio (VCNS)
– Vanguard Growth ETF Portfolio (VGRO)
– Vanguard All Equity ETF (VEQT)
WisdomTree Canada
– WisdomTree Yield Enhanced Canada Short-Term Aggregate Bond Index ETF.
– WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Index ETF.
– WisdomTree Yield Enhanced Canada Aggregate Bond Index ETF.
– ONE Global Equity ETF.
– WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Index ETF.
– WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Index ETF.
– WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Index ETF.
– WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Index ETF.
– WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Variably Hedged Index ETF™.
– WisdomTree International Quality Dividend Growth Index ETF.
– WisdomTree International Quality Dividend Growth Index ETF.
– WisdomTree International Quality Dividend Growth Variably Hedged Index ETF™.
– WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Index ETF.
– WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Index ETF.
– WisdomTree Canada Quality Dividend Growth Index ETF.
– WisdomTree Emerging Markets Dividend Index ETF.
– WisdomTreee U.S. MidCap Dividend Index ETF.
Invesco
- PowerShares Low Volatility Portfolio ETF - CAD, May 6, 2015
- PowerShares Tactical Bond ETF, Aug 24 2012
- PowerShares 1-3 Year Laddered Floating Rate Note Index ETF,Jul 21 2014
- PowerShares 1-5 Year Laddered Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index ETF, Jun 15 2011
- PowerShares LadderRite U.S. 0-5 Year Corporate Bond Index ETF - CAD,Jul 21 2014
- PowerShares LadderRite U.S. 0-5 Year Corporate Bond Index ETF - USD,Jul 21 2014
- PowerShares Ultra Liquid Long Term Government Bond Index ETF,Jun 15 2011
- PowerShares Senior Loan (CAD Hedged) Index ETF,Apr 16 2012
- PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond (CAD Hedged) Index ETF Jun 21 2011
- PowerShares Canadian Preferred Share Index ETF, Jun 16 2011
- PowerShares Canadian Dividend Index ETF, Jun 16 2011
- PowerShares Global Shareholder Yield ETF - CAD,May 6, 2015
- PowerShares Global Shareholder Yield ETF - USD,May 6, 2015
- PowerShares S&P/TSX Composite Low Volatility Index ETF, Apr 24 2012
- PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility (CAD Hedged) Index ETF, Jan 24 2012
- PowerShares S&P International Developed Low Volatility Index ETF,Sep 08 2014
- PowerShares S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index ETF,Sep 08 2014
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI Canadian Fundamental Index ETF, Jan 26 2012
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI Canadian Small-Mid Fundamental Index ETF,Apr 14 2015
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI U.S. Fundamental Index ETF - CAD,Apr 14 2015
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI U.S. Fundamental Index ETF - USD,Apr 14 2015
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI US Fundamental (CAD Hedged) Index ETF, Jan 26 2012
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI Global+ Fundamental Index ETF - CAD,Apr 14 2015
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI Global+ Fundamental Index ETF - USD,Apr 14 2015
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI Global Small-Mid Fundamental ETF - CAD,May 6, 2015
- PowerShares FTSE RAFI Global Small-Mid Fundamental ETF - USD,May 6, 2015
- PowerShares QQQ (CAD Hedged) Index ETF,Jun 16 2011
First Trust
- First Trust Canadian Capital Strength ETF
- First Trust Canadian Capital Strength ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ Emerging Market Dividend ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ Emerging Market Dividend ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ European Dividend Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ European Dividend Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Dividend ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Dividend ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Consumer Discretionary Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Consumer Staples Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Energy Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Financial Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Health Care Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Industrials Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Materials Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Technology Sector Index ETF
- First Trust AlphaDEX™ U.S. Utilities Sector Index ETF
- First Trust Senior Loan ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust Senior Loan ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust Short Duration High Yield Bond ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust Short Duration High Yield Bond ETF (CAD-Hedged)
- First Trust Global Risk Managed Income Index ETF
- First Trust Global Risk Managed Income Index ETF
- First Trust Tactical Bond Index ETF
- First Trust Dorsey Wright U.S. Sector Rotation Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)
ETF Table
See also
List of exchange-traded funds
List of American exchange-traded funds
References
*Canadian
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Santiago Moyano
Antoliano Santiago Moyano (born 23 September 1997) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Villa Dálmine, on loan from Talleres.
Career
Moyano made his bow in senior football aged fifteen with Juventud Sportiva Totoral in Liga Colón, a competition he also featured for Deportivo Colón in. 2014 saw Moyano move to Talleres, initially featuring for their academy before being an unused substitute on one occasion in both the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons in the Primera División. On 26 June 2018, Moyano was loaned to Primera B Nacional's Instituto. He made his professional bow during a 3–0 loss to Villa Dálmine in August.
Career statistics
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References
External links
Category:1997 births
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Córdoba Province, Argentina
Category:Argentine footballers
Category:Association football midfielders
Category:Primera B Nacional players
Category:Talleres de Córdoba footballers
Category:Instituto footballers
Category:Villa Dálmine footballers
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God's Law and Man's
God's Law and Man's is a lost 1917 silent film drama direct by John H. Collins and distributed by Metro Pictures. It starred Collins's wife Viola Dana. The story comes from a novel by Paul Trent, A Wife by Purchase.
Cast
Viola Dana - Ameia
Robert Walker - Dr. Claude Drummond
Augustus Phillips - Jack Aston
Henry Hallam - Kunda Ram
Frank Currier - Major General Dennison
Marie Adell - Olive Dennison
George A. Wright - Earl of Hetherington
Floyd Buckley - Lord Charles Drummond
References
External links
Category:1917 films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Lost American films
Category:Films based on British novels
Category:American films
Category:1910s drama films
Category:American drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Metro Pictures films
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Tackett Mountain
Tackett Mountain may refer to:
Tackett Mountain (Texas) is a summit near Graham, Texas, USA
Tackett Mountain (Arkansas) is a summit in the Ozarks, Arkansas, USA
See also
Tackitt (disambiguation)
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Radiophobia
Radiophobia is a fear of ionizing radiation. Given that significant doses of radiation are harmful, even deadly (i.e. radiation-induced cancer, and acute radiation syndrome), every threat of the radiation exposure may cause significant fear. The term is also used to describe the opposition to the use of nuclear technology (i.e. nuclear power) arising from concerns disproportionately greater than actual risks would merit.
Early use
The term was used in a paper entitled "Radio-phobia and radio-mania" presented by Dr Albert Soiland of Los Angeles in 1903. In the 1920s, the term was used to describe people who were afraid of radio broadcasting and receiving technology. In 1931, radiophobia was referred to in The Salt Lake Tribune as a "fear of loudspeakers", an affliction that Joan Crawford was reported as suffering. The term "radiophobia" was also printed in Australian newspapers in the 1930s and 1940s, assuming a similar meaning. The 1949 poem by Margarent Mercia Baker entitled "Radiophobia" laments the intrusion of advertising into radio broadcasts. The term remained in use with its original association with radios and radio broadcasting during the 1940s and 1950s.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Science Service associated the term with fear of gamma radiation and the medical use of x-rays. A Science Service article published in several American newspapers proposed that "radiophobia" could be attributed to the publication of information regarding the "genetic hazards" of exposure to ionising radiation by the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.
In a newspaper column published in 1970, Dr Harold Pettit MD wrote:"A healthy respect for the hazards of radiation is desirable. When atomic testing began in the early 1950s, these hazards were grossly exaggerated, producing a new psychological disorder which has been called "radiophobia" or "nuclear neurosis".
Castle Bravo and its influence on public perception
March 1, 1954, the operation Castle Bravo testing of a then, first of its kind, experimental thermonuclear Shrimp device, overshot its predicted yield of 4–6 megatons and instead produced 15 megatons; this resulted in an unanticipated amount of Bikini snow or visible particles of nuclear fallout being produced, fallout which caught the Japanese fishing boat the Daigo Fukuryū Maru or Lucky Dragon in its plume, even though it was fishing outside the initially predicted ~5 megaton fallout area which had been cordoned off for the Castle Bravo test. Approximately 2 weeks after the test and fallout exposure, the 23-member fishing crew began to fall ill, with acute radiation sickness, largely brought on by beta burns which were caused by direct contact between the Bikini snow fallout and their skin, through their practice of scooping the "Bikini snow" into bags with their bare hands. One member of the crew, Kuboyama Aikichi the boat's chief radioman, died 7 months later, on September 23, 1954. It was later estimated that about a hundred fishing boats were contaminated to some degree by fallout from the test. Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands were also exposed to fallout, and a number of islands had to be evacuated.
This incident, due to the era of secrecy around nuclear weapons, created widespread fear of uncontrolled and unpredictable nuclear weapons, and also of radioactively contaminated fish affecting the Japanese food supply. With the publication of Joseph Rotblat's findings that the contamination caused by the fallout from the Castle Bravo test was nearly a thousand times greater than that stated officially, outcry in Japan reached such a level that the incident was dubbed by some as "a second Hiroshima". To prevent the subsequent strong anti-nuclear movement from turning into an anti-American movement, the Japanese and U.S. governments agreed on compensation of 2 million dollars for the contaminated fishery, with the surviving 22 crew men receiving about ¥ 2 million each, ($5,556 in 1954, $ in )
The surviving crew members, and their family, would later experience prejudice and discrimination, as local people thought that radiation was contagious.
Radiophobia in popular culture
The Castle Bravo test and the new fears of radioactive fallout inspired a new direction in art and cinema. The Godzilla films, beginning with Ishirō Honda's landmark 1954 film Gojira, are strong metaphors for post-war radiophobia. The opening scene of Gojira echoes the story of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, from the initial distant flash of light to survivors being found with radiation burns. Although he found the special effects unconvincing, Roger Ebert stated that the film was "an important one" and "properly decoded, was the Fahrenheit 9/11 of its time."
A year after the Castle Bravo test, Akira Kurosawa examined one person's unreasoning terror of radiation and nuclear war in his 1955 film I Live in Fear. At the end of the film, the foundry worker who lives in fear has been declared incompetent by his family, but the possible partial validity of his fears has transferred over to his doctor.
Nevil Shute's 1957 novel On the Beach depicts a future just six years later, based on the premise that a nuclear war has released so much radioactive fallout that all life in the Northern Hemisphere has been killed. The novel is set in Australia, which, along with the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, awaits a similar and inevitable fate. Helen Caldicott describes reading the novel in adolescence as 'a formative event' in her becoming part of the anti-nuclear movement.
Radiophobia and Chernobyl
In the former Soviet Union many patients with negligible radioactive exposure after the Chernobyl disaster displayed extreme anxiety about low level radiation exposure, and therefore developed many psychosomatic problems, with an increase in fatalistic alcoholism also being observed. As Japanese health and radiation specialist Shunichi Yamashita noted:
The term "radiation phobia syndrome" was introduced in 1987. by L. A. Ilyin and O. A. Pavlovsky in their report "Radiological consequences of the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union and measures taken to mitigate their impact".
The author of Chernobyl Poems Lyubov Sirota wrote in her poem "Radiophobia":
Is this only—a fear of radiation?
Perhaps rather—a fear of wars?
Perhaps—the dread of betrayal,
Cowardice, stupidity, lawlessness?
The term has been criticized by Adolph Kharash, Science Director at the Moscow State University because, he writes, It treats the normal impulse to self-protection, natural to everything living, your moral suffering, your anguish and your concern about the fate of your children, relatives and friends, and your own physical suffering and sickness as a result of delirium, of pathological perversion
However, the psychological phobia of radiation in sufferers may not coincide with an actual life-threatening exposure to an individual or their children. Radiophobia refers only to a display of anxiety disproportionate to the actual quantity of radiation one is exposed to, with, in many cases, radiation exposure values equal to, or not much higher than, that which individuals are naturally exposed to every day from background radiation. Anxiety following a response to an actual life-threatening level of exposure to radiation is not considered to be radiophobia, nor misplaced anxiety, but a normal, appropriate response.
Marvin Goldman is an American doctor who provided commentary to newspapers claiming that radiophobia had taken a larger toll than the fallout itself had, and that radiophobia was to blame.
Chernobyl abortions
Following the accident, journalists mistrusted many medical professionals (such as the spokesman from the UK National Radiological Protection Board), and in turn encouraged the public to mistrust them.
Throughout the European continent, in nations where abortion is legal, many requests for induced abortions, of otherwise normal pregnancies, were obtained out of fears of radiation from Chernobyl; including an excess number of abortions of healthy human fetuses in Denmark in the months following the accident.
In Greece, following the accident there was panic and false rumors which led to many obstetricians initially thinking it prudent to interrupt otherwise wanted pregnancies and/or were unable to resist requests from worried pregnant mothers over fears of radiation, within a few weeks misconceptions within the medical profession were largely cleared up, although worries persisted in the general population. Although it was determined that the effective dose to Greeks would not exceed 1 mSv (0.1 rem), a dose much lower than that which could induce embryonic abnormalities or other non-stochastic effects, there was an observed 2500 excess of otherwise wanted pregnancies being terminated, probably out of fear in the mother of some kind of perceived radiation risk.
A "slightly" above the expected number of requested induced abortions occurred in Italy, where upon request, "a week of reflection" and then a 2 to 3 week "health system" delay usually occur before the procedure.
Radiophobia and health effects
The term "radiophobia" is also sometimes used in the arguments against proponents of the conservative LNT concept (Linear no-threshold response model for ionizing radiation) of radiation security proposed by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) in 1949. The "no-threshold" position effectively assumes, from data extrapolated from the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that even negligible doses of radiation increase ones risk of cancer linearly as the exposure increases from a value of 0 up to high dose rates. The LNT model therefore suggests that radiation exposure from naturally occurring background radiation may be harmful. However, the biological and health effects of low doses of radiation remains a controversial issue.
After the Fukushima disaster, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that Japanese residents were suffering from radiophobia. British medical scientist Geraldine Thomas has also attributed suffering of the Japanese to radiophobia in interviews and formal presentations. Four years after the event The New York Times reported that ″about 1,600 people died from the stress of the evacuation″. The forced evacuation of 154,000 people ″was not justified by the relatively moderate radiation levels″, but it was ordered because ″the government basically panicked″.
Radiophobia and Industrial and Healthcare Use
Radiation, most commonly in the form of X-rays, is used frequently in society in order to produce positive outcomes. The primary use of radiation in healthcare is in the use of radiography for radiographic examination or procedure, and in the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancerous conditions. Radiophobia can be a fear which patients experience before and after either of these procedures, it is therefore the responsibility of the healthcare professional at the time, often a Radiographer or Radiation Therapist, to reassure the patients about the stochastic and deterministic effects of radiation on human physiology. Advising patients and other irradiated persons of the various radiation protection measures that are enforced, including the use of lead-rubber aprons, dosimetry and Automatic Exposure Control (AEC) is a common method of informing and reassuring radiophobia sufferers.
Similarly, in industrial radiography there is the possibility of persons to experience radiophobia when radiophobia sufferers are near industrial radiographic equipment.
See also
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Atomic Age
Background radiation
Backscatter X-ray
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
Dirty bomb
Electromagnetic radiation and health
Fear mongering
Nuclear power debate
References
External links
Category:Phobias
Category:Radiation
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Col de Pelouse
The Col de Pelouse () is a mountain pass in the Alps on the border between France and Italy. It lies at an elevation of and has a north–south orientation. On the northern (French) side, the pass leads into the valley of the Maurienne; on the southern (Italian) side, the Val di Susa. To its west rises the summit of Gardoria and to its east that of Aiguille de Scolette. It connects Avrieux in France with Bardonecchia in Italy.
A small barracks, Bivacco LXIII, lies in ruins on the Italian side. It was built in 1939 to house twenty soldiers. In 1940, during the Italian invasion of France, Italian troops passed through the Col de Pelouse. There was fighting just north of the pass on the French side.
For mountaineers, the Col de Pelouse is the easiest start point for climbing the Aiguille de Scolette or the Pointe de Paumont to the west.
Category:Mountain passes of the Alps
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Abablemma
Abablemma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.
Taxonomy
The genus was previously classified in the subfamily Acontiinae of the family Noctuidae.
Species
In alphabetical order:
Abablemma bilineata (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916)
Abablemma brimleyana (Dyar, 1914)
Abablemma discipuncta (Hampson, 1910)
Abablemma grandimacula (Schaus, 1911)
Abablemma ulopus (Dyar, 1914)
References
Adams, J.K. Moths and Butterflies of Georgia and the Southeastern United States
Hodges, R. W. (ed.) (1983) Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico
Category:Scolecocampinae
Category:Noctuoidea genera
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Glenaubyn, Queensland
Glenaubyn is a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
References
Category:Western Downs Region
Category:Localities in Queensland
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Mirpur Khas railway station
Mirpur Khas railway station (,) is junction located in middle of the Mirpur Khas, Sindh, Pakistan on Hyderabad - Khokhrapar branch railway line. The station is staffed and has booking office.
History
Before 1965, the Hyderabad-Khokhrapar Branch Line was metre gauge and Mirpur Khas railway station was the junction of Mirpur Khas - Nawabshah railway line. In 1965 Hyderabad - Mirpur Khas railway section converted to broad gauge and the rail link between the Pakistan and India via Khokhrapar and Munabao closed. In 2006 the train service between Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah closed. In February 2006 Mirpur Khas - Khokhrapar metre gauge railway line converted to broad gauge and railway link between Pakistan and India via Khokhrapar and Munabao restored again.
Train routes
The routes are Mirpur Khas from linked to Karachi, Hyderabad, Kotri, Tando Allahyar, Chhor, Pithoro, Landhi, Tajpur Nasarpur Road, Khokhrapar and Tando Jam.
Train services from Mirpur Khas
See also
Pakistan Railways
List of railway stations in Pakistan
Rawalpindi Railway Station
Lahore Railway Station
Quetta Railway Station
Peshawar Railway Station
Larkana Railway Station
References
External links
Pakistan Railways official site
Category:Railway stations in Mirpur Khas District
Category:Railway stations on Hyderabad–Khokhrapar Branch Line
Category:Railway stations on Mirpur Khas–Nawabshah Branch Line
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Remah Cemetery
The Remah Cemetery, or Remuh Cemetery, also known as the Old Jewish Cemetery of Kraków, in Kraków, Poland, is an inactive Jewish historic cemetery established in 1535. It is in the Renaissance Kazimierz district of the city beside the 16th-century Remah Synagogue, at 40 Szeroka Street. In 1800, the cemetery was closed and the nearby New Jewish Cemetery was built at 55 Miodowa Street. The cemetery gets its name from Rabbi Moses Isserles, whose name is abbreviated as Remah, who is buried there. Izaak Jakubowicz, donor of the Izaak Synagogue is buried there.
During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis destroyed the cemetery tearing down the walls and hauling away tombstones to be used as paving stones in the camps, or selling them for profit. The tombstone of the Remah (Rabbi Moses Isserles) is one of the few that remained intact. The cemetery has undergone a series of post-war restorations. As is common in contemporary Poland, all tombstones unearthed as paving stones have been returned and re-erected, although they represent a small fraction of the monuments that once stood in the cemetery.
Notable gravesites
The cemetery holds the gravesites of many notable Polish Jews, including:
Rabbi Moses Isserles, whose name is abbreviated as Remah, (ca. 1525-1572), buried there along with his family;
Mordechaj Saba (called Singer), head of the Kraków Talmudic Academy from 1572 to 1576;
Joseph Kac, head of the Academy from 1576 to 1591.
Nathan Nata Spira (1583-1633), Kraków rabbi and head of the Academy from 1617 to 1633;
Jozue ben Joseph (1590-1648), also head of the Academy;
Joel Sirkes Bach, (1561-1640), rabbi of the Kraków Jewish community and head of the Academy;
Isaac Landau Lewita, rabbi of Kraków's Jewish community from 1754 to 1768;
Isaac Halewi, Kraków's rabbi and head of the Academy from 1776 to 1799.
Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, (1578-1654), a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosafot Yom-Tov.
Yossele the Holy Miser, central figure in a well-known tale of Jewish folklore.
Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, Chief Rabbi of Kraków.
See also
Synagogues of Kraków
New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków
Notes and references
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RMS Empress of India (1890)
RMS Empress of India was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armaments Co, Barrow-in-Furness, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships. This ship would be the first of two CP vessels to be named Empress of India, and on 28 April 1891, she was the very first of many ships named Empress arriving at Vancouver harbor.
Empress of India regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the Far East until she was sold to the Maharajah of Gwalior in 1914 and renamed in 1915.
In 1891, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the British government reached agreement on a contract for subsidized mail service between Britain and Hong Kong via Canada; and the route began to be serviced by three specially designed ocean liners. Each of these three vessels was given an Imperial name.
Empress of India and her two running mates—[[RMS Empress of China (1891)|RMS Empress of China]] and RMS Empress of Japan—created a flexible foundation for the CPR trans-Pacific fleet which would ply this route for the next half century.
HistoryEmpress of India was built by Naval Construction & Armaments Co. (now absorbed into Vickers Armstrongs) at Barrow, England. The keel was laid in 1890. She was launched on 30 August 1890 by Lady Louise Egerton, sister of Lord Harrington.
The 5,905-ton vessel had a length of 455.6 feet, and her beam was 51.2 feet. The graceful white-painted, clipper-bowed ship had two buff-colored funnels with a band of black paint at the top, three lightweight schooner-type masts, and an average speed of 16-knots. Empress of India and her running mate Empresses were the first vessels in the Pacific to have twin propellers with reciprocating engines. The ship was designed to provide accommodation for 770 passengers (120 first class, 50 second class and 600 steerage).Empress of India left Liverpool on 8 February 1891 on her maiden voyage via Suez to Hong Kong and Vancouver. Thereafter, she regularly sailed back and forth along the Hong Kong - Shanghai - Nagasaki - Kobe - Yokohama - Vancouver route. In the early days of wireless telegraphy, the call sign established for Empress of India was "MPI."
Much of what would have been construed as ordinary, even unremarkable during this period was an inextricable part of the ship's history. In the conventional course of trans-Pacific traffic, the ship was sometimes held in quarantine, as when it was discovered that a passenger from Hong Kong to Kobe showed signs of smallpox, and the vessel was held in Yokohama port until the incubation period for the disease had passed. The cargo holds of the Empress would have been routinely examined in the normal course of harbor-master's business in Hong Kong, Yokohama or Vancouver.
On 17 August 1903, Empress of India collided with and sank the Chinese cruiser Huang Tai.The vessel was reported sold on 19 December 1914, to Geakwar of Baroda (also known as the Maharajah of Gwalior). The former Empress was re-fitted as a hospital ship for Indian troops. On 19 January 1915, the ship was renamed Loyalty. In March 1919, she was sold to The Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Company in Bombay (now Mumbai). In February 1923, the ship was sold for scrapping at Bombay.
CP Empresses of India
In 1921, Canadian Pacific added two German-built vessels to Empress fleet; and initially, both were confusingly renamed Empress of China. Within months, one of these ships will be renamed Empress of India and the other will be renamed the Empress of Australia. A quick explanation will help distinguish these quite different ships which each sailed with the same name.
The first SS Empress of India was a 5,905-ton vessel, launched in 1890 from Barrow, England. The Empress would be sold in 1914, renamed SS Loyalty in 1915, and scrapped in Bombay in 1919.
A CP sister-ship, the first SS Empress of China, was also a Barrow-built, 5,905-ton vessel; but was launched a few months later, in 1891. The ship was later wrecked on a reef at Tokyo Bay in 1911, and subsequently scrapped in 1912.
The second SS Empress of India was a 16,992-ton vessel launched in 1907 from Geestemunde, Germany as the SS Prince Freidrich Wilhelm. The ship was purchased in 1921 by Canadian Pacific and then immediately, the ship was renamed Empress of China for only a short time.
This second SS Empress of China and of India would be renamed several more times—as SS Montlaurier in 1922; and as SS Montnairn in 1925. The ship was scrapped 1929.
This vessel from Barrow is the first of two CP ships named Empress of India.
See also
CP Ships
List of ocean liners
List of ships in British Columbia
Notes
References
Dept. of Agriculture, Canada. (1907). Report of the Minister of Agriculture for Canada. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson (King's Printer).
Miller, William H. (1984). The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs.'' New York: Dover Publications.
Musk, George. (1981). Canadian Pacific: The Story of the Famous Shipping Line. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles.
Parliament, Canada. (1892) Sessional Papers. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson (King's Printer).
Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986) Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the Far East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941. Cranbury, New Jersey : Cornwall Books/Associated University Presses. (cloth)
Trevent, Edward. (1911) The A B C of Wireless Telegraphy: A Plain Treatise on Hertzian Wave Signalling. Lynne, Massachusetts: Bubier Publishing.
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The Ships List: Passenger ships web site
Simplon Postcards: Canadian Pacific postcard images
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Pasi Saarela
Pasi Saarela (born August 24, 1973 in Finland) is a professional Finnish ice hockey player. Pasi Saarela won the Aarne Honkavaara trophy for best goal scorer in 2005 with the team, Lukko and in 1999 with Jokerit. He has won Sm-liiga championships with Jokerit in 1996 and 1997. He has also played in Switzerland's and Sweden's highest league levels. He now plays for Rauman Lukko.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
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Thisizima bovina
Thisizima bovina is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is found on the Andaman Islands.
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List of Irish ambassadors
This is a list of Ambassadors born in or representing Ireland.
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a highest ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to state, or to an international organization as the representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment
Ambassadors
Anne Anderson
Frederick Boland
Geraldine Byrne Nason
Charles Bewley
William Carlos (Uganda)
David J. Cooney
Con Cremin
Bernard Davenport
Denis Devlin
David Donoghue
Noel Dorr
John Whelan Dulanty
Justin Harman
Mahon Hayes
John Hearne
Timothy Joseph Horan (Spain, Sweden)
Sean Hoy
Valentin Iremonger
Alison Kelly
Declan Kelly
Leopold H. Kerney
Seán Lester
Emma Madigan
Bob McDonagh
Bobby McDonagh
Philip McDonagh
Eamonn McKee
Pádraig MacKernan
Josephine McNeill
Michael MacWhite
Daniel Mulhall
Patricia O'Brien
Dáithí O'Ceallaigh
James O'Mara
Breffni O’Reilly (Switzerland)
Sean G. Ronan
Richard Ryan
James A. Sharkey
Mary Catherine Tinney (Sweden, Belgium, Kenya)
Joseph Walshe
Patrick Walsh
Mary Whelan
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Imran Nazir (cricketer)
Imran Nazir () (born 16 December 1981) is a Pakistani cricketer. He is primarily an Opening batsman who plays in the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket formats.He was best known for his big hitting. He was also Fakhr e Pir Mahal.
Domestic career
In 2008, Nazir signed for the Indian Cricket League and played for the Lahore Badshahs. He scored 111 runs not out, off just 44 deliveries, against the Hyderabad Heroes in the third of the best of three finals of the tournament and helped his team achieve victory. After signing up for the Indian Cricket League, his chances of ever playing again for Pakistan looked slim. However, on 2 February 2009, a Pakistani court suspended the ban on Indian Cricket League players, which paved the way for Nazir to make a return to the One Day International and Twenty20 squad during their tour of Sri Lanka in August 2009.
Since then, he has played two National T20 cups. He was selected for the Hong Kong Sixes tournament 2010 in Hong Kong as a member of Pakistani squad. The final match, which was in Pakistan's favour, was lost due to Imran Nazir's bowling. 46 runs was required from the last 8-ball over but Imran Nazir gave away 48 runs in 7 balls.
In Twenty20 games he has a bowling average of 1.00 and in his 8 deliveries he has 3 wickets a strike rate of less than 3. He has also played for Dhaka Dynamites in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Bangladesh.
He has played for Dhaka Gladiators in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). He has played 7 matches in BPL and has scored 207 runs with an average of 41.4 runs per game. He has a Strike Rate of 150. His highest score is 58 and he has scored 2 half centuries in this tournament and has hit twenty one 4s and nine 6s. He has played for Lahore Qalandars in 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy.
International career
Nazir made his debut in Test cricket in March 1999 against Sri Lanka at Lahore in Pakistan, and his One Day International debut against the same opposition at Visakhapatnam in India. He played in 8 Test matches between 1999–2002 and secured a spot in the Pakistan squad since 2002. He also played in One Day International arena, but he could never cement his place in the squad. The emergence of several Pakistan opening batsmen such as Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Taufeeq Umar, and Salman Butt kept him out of the national side. However, he displayed excellent cricketing performances in first-class cricket.
Nazir made his return to the national team in the second One Day International against South Africa in February 2007 during Pakistan's tour of South Africa. He impressed the Pakistan national selectors with his innings of 57 runs from just 39 deliveries, though he struggled to score runs during the rest of the tournament.
Nazir was named in Pakistan's squad for the 2007 World Cup. He scored 160 runs against Zimbabwe in Pakistan's last match during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, after being knocked out by Ireland.
It was the second highest score by a Pakistani batsman and the eighth highest score by any batsman in World Cup history and his 8 sixes equalled the World Cup record of Australian batsman, Ricky Ponting. It was also the highest runs he scored in List A cricket. He now remains a regular member of Pakistan's Twenty20 squads.
He was given another chance against New Zealand int two T20I's held in Dubai which Pakistan won 2–0. Next time, he was given a chance against Australia in only T20I in Australia but could not bat much. He showed the same form against England in February 2010 in two T2OI's and was consequently dropped from the Pakistani side.
Nazir was recalled to the Pakistan team in September 2012 for the Twenty20 series against Australia and the following ICC World Twenty20 which was held in Sri Lanka. He scored 153 runs in 6 matches with a reasonable average of 25.50 and with a marvelous strike rate of 150.00 which included a match winning innings of 72 against Bangladesh. Nazir has not played international cricket since October 2012.
Charity work
In May 2011 Nazir made a surprise guest appearance at a charity cricket match at Luton Town Football Club between a football legends team and Luton Pakistanis CC. The event was staged to promote community cohesion in the town, as well as raise money for a cancer charity.
Personal life
Imran Nazir has one brother (Mushtaq Nazir) and one sister (Maha Nazir). He is married to Amber Hafeez. His wedding was held in 2009. Imran Nazir has told that his elder brother was his cricketing idol during his childhood.
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Puerto Rico Highway 201
Puerto Rico Highway 201 (PR-201) is a road located in Vieques, Puerto Rico. This highway extends from its intersection with PR-200 in Florida and continues to the southwest, where it intersects with PR-996 (km 3.7), PR-995 (km 4.5) and again with PR-996 (km 6.9) in Puerto Real, and then continues west through Llave until km 8.9 at the ROTH radar installations.
Major intersections
See also
List of highways in Puerto Rico
List of highways numbered 201
References
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Ages and Ages
Ages and Ages is an American rock band from Portland, Oregon. Every member of the band sings accompanied by handclaps, shakers and noise-makers.
The group was voted as a top Portland band by Willamette Week. In 2011, they signed a record deal with Partisan Records and have since undertaken several national U.S. tours. In 2013 the band changed their name from AgesandAges to Ages and Ages. The rechristened band played their first European dates in the winter of 2014.
Career
Ages and Ages was formed in 2009, founded by Tim Perry (vocals, guitar), Rob Oberdorfer (bass, percussion, vocals), Graham Arthur Mackenzie (percussion, vocals), Kate O'Brien-Clarke (violin, percussion, vocals), Lisa Stringfield (vocals, percussion), Liz Robins (vocals, percussion) and Daniel Hunt (drums, percussion, vocals), alongside others from Portland's music community.
Alright You Restless arrived two years later and immediately proved a critical favorite. An ardent audience also surfaced, a committed cohort that included President Barack Obama who included the album's "No Nostalgia," a song "about transcending "the way things can get dark and you can feel claustrophobic, unsatisfied with the status quo" on his 2012 campaign playlist.
Ages and Ages performed at South by Southwest in Austin in March 2011. Their song "No Nostalgia" from their first album, Alright You Restless, was previewed on NPR. The album was recorded "almost entirely live" with seven voices singing into a single microphone, according to one account. It sounds like "a group of friends who drive around in a van singing songs wherever anyone will let them sing," according to critic Ryan White of The Oregonian.
The group draws "significant sonic influence from his religious upbringing" and that having seven members helps achieve a "congregation sound" even though the lyrics are basically secular thematically. Perry said the sound was achieved by "all the voices chiming in, that swell and spontaneous movement that grabs you," in an interview. In 2011, they released a video for the song "Navy Parade," which was directed by Alicia J. Rose Alright You Restless was produced by Kevin Robinson.
In 2014 the band released the album Divisionary which was produced by Tony Lash.
In August 2016, Ages and Ages released their third record Something to Ruin on Partisan Records. The album was recorded at Isaac Brock's, Ice Cream Party Studios with the Modest Mouse front-man adding guitar to the track "So Hazy". The first single "They Want More" premiered on the June 7, 2016 episode of the NPR Podcast All Songs Considered. Ages and Age's emphasis on featuring electronic and synthetic sounds makes Something to Ruin sonic departure from their previous albums. The band members cite a trip to Central America and the observation of their community being exploited by gentrification as the catalyst for the record.
Discography
Alright You Restless, 2011, Knitting Factory
Divisionary, 2014, Partisan
Something to Ruin, 2016, Partisan
Me You They We, 2019, Needle and Thread Records
References
External links
Official website
Ages and Ages on Partisan Records website
NPR Tiny Desk Set via YouTube
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I Need a House
"I Need a House" is the second single by Swedish pop music singer Marie Serneholt released from her debut album Enjoy the Ride. The single was released on 6 June 2006 in Sweden.
"I Need a House" spent 3 weeks in the Swedish Top 60. Despite its low chart position, the song peaked at No. 2 on the Digital Sales in early May, when the video was released. Delays of the physical single skewed sales towards internet downloads.
The single has been released throughout Europe with a different cover and track listing.
Marie promoted her new single in (Germany), where it debuted at No. 49 on the German Top 100, but failed to make an impact on the charts and fell to No. 76 in its second week. The single charted on the German Top 100 for 5 weeks before falling off the charts.
In the United Kingdom, finalists of The X Factor, Same Difference recorded a version of the song for their debut album, Pop.
Music video
The video for "I Need a House" was filmed in Sweden in April 2006, and was premiered in May with strong response on the Swedish music channels.
The video shows Marie in different facets of herself doing what she does in her house, Cooking, Working out, Talking on the phone, Taking a bath and other situations.
Track listing
Swedish CD Single
"I Need a House" Radio Version – 3:00
"I Need a House" Instrumental – 3:00
Swedish Digital Download
"I Need a House" Instrumental – 3:00
European 2-Track CD Single
"I Need a House" Radio Edit – 3:02
"I Need a House" Instrumental – 3:02
European CD Maxi
"I Need a House" Radio Edit – 3:02
"I Need a House" Michael Feiner Remix – 6:53
"I Need a House" Instrumental – 3:02
"Calling All Detectives" – 3:56
Video: I Need a House [New Video Edit]
Charts
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Arcillera
Arcillera is a small village in the province of Zamora, Spain, close to the border with Portugal.
A Celtic hoard of silver jewellery and denarii dating to approximately 20 BC was found in Arcillera in the early twentieth century. It is now mostly preserved in the collections of the British Museum.
See also
Cordoba Treasure for similar Celtic hoard
References
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Lord Ruthven of Freeland
Lord Ruthven of Freeland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1651 for Thomas Ruthven. He was the grandson of Alexander Ruthven, younger son of William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven (see the Earl of Gowrie, 1581 creation, for earlier history of the family). The letters patent creating the peerage is said to have been burnt with the House of Freeland in 1750, and the remainder to the peerage is not accurately known. However, as the dignity was retained on the Union Roll, it has been presumed that the honour was to heirs-general. Lord Ruthven of Freeland was succeeded by his son, the second Lord. He never married and on his death in 1722 the title and estates devolved by entail upon his youngest sister, Jean. On her death the estates passed to her nephew Sir William Cunningham, 3rd Baronet, of Cunninghamhead. He was the only son of Anne, elder sister of the third Lady Ruthven and also heir of line. He assumed the surname of Ruthven upon the death of his aunt, but lived only six months after his accession to the estates and never assumed the title.
As he was childless the title was passed on to his cousin Isabella Ruthven, the fourth holder. She was the daughter of the Hon. Elizabeth Ruthven, second daughter of first Lord, by her marriage with Sir Francis Ruthven, 1st Baronet, of Redcastle. She married James Johnston of Graitney, who along with his wife assumed the surname of Ruthven in lieu of Johnston. Isabella was summoned as a Lady to the Coronation of King George II and recognised in the lordship of Ruthven of Freeland. Her great-grandson (the title having descended in the direct line), the seventh Lord, died childless. He was succeeded by his younger sister Mary Elizabeth, the eighth holder of the titles. She was the wife of Walter Hore and they later assumed the additional family surname of Ruthven after that of Hore. Her grandson, the ninth Lord, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade and fought at an early age in the Crimean War as well as in the First World War (although then in his seventies). In 1919 he was created Baron Ruthven of Gowrie, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
His second son the Hon. Alexander Hore-Ruthven served as Governor-General of Australia and was created Earl of Gowrie in 1945. Lord Ruthven of Freeland was succeeded by his eldest son, the tenth Lord. He was a Major-General in the Scots Guards. He died without male issue and was succeeded in the barony of Ruthven of Gowrie by his great-nephew Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie (see the Earl of Gowrie for further history of the barony). The lordship of Ruthven of Freeland, which could be passed on through female lines, was inherited by his eldest daughter Bridget, the eleventh holder. Her petition as heir of line and heir tailzie of the first Lord was allowed in the Lyon Court in 1967. She married firstly George Josslyn L'Estrange Howard, 11th Earl of Carlisle, and secondly Sir Walter Monckton. On her death in 1982 the title passed to her son from her first marriage, the twelfth Lord, who had already succeeded his father as twelfth Earl of Carlisle. For further history of the lordship, see the Earl of Carlisle.
Lords Ruthven of Freeland (1651)
Thomas Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven of Freeland (d. 1673)
David Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven of Freeland (d. 1701)
The Complete Peerage considers that on the death of the 2nd Lord Ruthven, unmarried, the peerage became extinct, but notes that nonetheless it was assumed, first by the heir of entail of his estates, and later by the heirs of line. It traces these soi-disant barons in an appendix. Thus the first person in the list below which it recognizes as a peer is Walter Hore-Ruthven, who was created 1st Baron Ruthven of Gowrie in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Jean Ruthven, 3rd Lady Ruthven of Freeland (d. 1722)
Isobel Ruthven, 4th Lady Ruthven of Freeland (d. 1783)
James Ruthven, 5th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (d. 1783)
James Ruthven, 6th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1733–1789)
James Ruthven, 7th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1777–1853)
Mary Elizabeth Thornton Hore-Ruthven, 8th Lady Ruthven of Freeland (c. 1784–1864)
Walter James Hore-Ruthven, 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1838–1921)
Walter Patrick Hore-Ruthven, 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1870–1956)
Bridget Helen Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland (1896–1982)
Charles James Ruthven Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle, 12th Lord Ruthven of Freeland (1923–1994)
George William Beaumont Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle (b. 1949)
The heir presumptive is the present Earl's younger brother, The Hon Philip Charles Wentworth Howard (b. 1963).
See also
Earl of Gowrie
Notes
References
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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Zivanna Letisha Siregar
Zivanna Letisha Siregar (called Zizi, born in Jakarta, February 16, 1989) is an Indonesian model, presenter and beauty queen titleholder who won Puteri Indonesia 2008 on August 15, 2008 succeeding her predecessor, Putri Raemawasti. She has a chance to compete at Miss Universe 2009 Pageant in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, as the representative of Indonesia. Even though she was one of the favorites to enter the semi-finals by many pageant sites, she did not make it to the Top 15.
Born with Batak and Sundanese background, She is the former winner of Elite Model Look Indonesia, and competed in Elite Model Look Asia Pacific 2006 in China. She is a student at University of Indonesia, majoring in economics. She hopes to be an economist in the future. She is currently working as a news presenter on Indonesian TV station NET. and she eager to become a movie star. There have been some offers, but she has rejected them because she doesn't like the roles.
She was made "Ambassador for Orangutans", visiting the Orangutan Foundation International’s Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine in Pasir Panjang as well as Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park to publicize the plight of wild orangutan populations and their habitat, tropical rain forest, in Sumatra and Borneo. During her visit she interviewed Dr. Birute Galdikas, President of OFI, for television.
Zivanna is fluent in both Indonesian and English.
Education
Al-Izhar Pondok Labu High School Jakarta (Graduated in 2007)
University of Indonesia - Faculty of Economics (2007–2012)
Famous Relatives
Alexander Siregar, physicist working on Cabal theory.
References
External links
Puteri Indonesia
Profil in KapanLagi.com
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Hermann Lutz
Hermann Lutz (1881-1965) was a German civil servant and writer.
From 1919 to 1937, Lutz worked for the Kriegsschuldreferat (War Guilt Section) within the German Foreign Ministry. He contributed the section on 'The German Case' to the 'War Guilt' article in the 1929 Encyclopædia Britannica, and wrote Die europäische Politik in der Julikrise 1914 (1930) for the Reichstag Commission investigating the cause of the First World War and the German defeat. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution archives at Stanford University.
Works
An appeal to British fair play. Berlin: Deutsche Verlags Gesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1924.
'E.D. Morel; eine Biographie', in Hermann Lutz, ed., E.D. Morel. Der Mann und sein Werk; ein Gedenkbuch, Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte m.b.H., 1925.
(ed. with G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley) Die Britischen Amtlichen Dokumente über den Ursprung des Weltkrieges, 1898-1914, Berlin: Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1926-1928. 11 vol. in 24.
Lord Grey und der Weltkrieg, ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis der britischen amtlichen Aktenpublikation über den Kriegsausbruch 1914, 1927. Translated by E. W. Dickes as Lord Grey and the World War, 1928.
German-French unity, basis for European peace, Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1957
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Avalanche (1994 film)
Avalanche is a 1994 CTV Fox made-for-television disaster action thriller film directed by Paul Shapiro and starring Michael Gross, Deanna Milligan, Myles Ferguson and David Hasselhoff. The film was shot in British Columbia, Canada.
Premise
A father (Gross) and his two children (Milligan, Ferguson) take a trip up to a log cabin in the mountains. Duncan (Hasselhoff) is a diamonds smuggler who unintentionally crashes his plane causing an avalanche that traps the family inside their cabin. He is rescued by the family. While they are trying to dig their way out to freedom, he instead aggressively forces them to search for the diamonds he had smuggled from Russia.
Critical reception
In his Variety review, critic Tony Scott called Avalanche "a solid thriller", highlighting the "stunning" camerawork, editing and the musical score. However, AllMovie's Bernadette McCallion was less enthusiastic and only gave the film 2 out of 5 stars.
Cast
Michael Gross as Brian Kemp
Deanna Milligan as Deidre Kemp
Myles Ferguson as Max Kemp
David Hasselhoff as Duncan Snyder
Don S. Davis as Whitney
George Josef as Major
Ben Cardinal as Hunter
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Without You (Johnny Tillotson song)
"Without You" is a song written and sung by Johnny Tillotson, which he released in 1961. The song spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart peaking at No. 7, while reaching No. 15 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, and No. 5 in Hong Kong.
The song was ranked No. 37 on Billboards end of year "Hot 100 for 1961 - Top Sides of the Year".
Chart performance
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Martin Kupper
Martin Kupper (born 31 May 1989, in Tallinn) is an Estonian track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He has a personal best of , set in 2015. He is a member of the Audentese SK sports club.
He competed in the discus as a teenager and began to improve in 2010, setting a best of and coming seventh at the Nordic Under-23 Athletics Championships. He cleared the sixty-metre mark for the first time in 2011 with a new best of and made his debut at continental level at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships (competing in the qualifiers only). He improved for a third successive season in 2012, having a best of at the Kohila leg of the BIGBANK Kuldliiga series. He threw beyond sixty metres to finish eighth at the 2013 European Cup Winter Throwing then had a throw of in August, which ranked him 22nd on the global seasonal lists.
He made his debut at the European Championships in 2014 and finished the competition in ninth place. His best that year was , putting him 26th globally. He put himself at the top of the seasonal lists at the start of the following year with a win at the 2015 European Cup Winter Throwing – his first international medal. He began to compete on the 2015 IAAF Diamond League circuit and had fourth-place finishes in Shanghai and Eugene. Further fourth places came at the FBK Games, the 2015 European Team Championships (1st League) and the 2016 Summer Olympics, with a throw at .
International competitions
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Fraser Mansion
The Fraser Mansion is a building at 1701 20th Street NW, at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue, 20th Street, and R Street in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Since its construction in 1890, the mansion has served as a private residence, a restaurant, a boarding house, and most recently as home to the Founding Church of Scientology. The building is currently the location of Scientology's National Affairs office.
The mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Design, construction, and early use
The mansion was designed by the architectural firm of Hornblower and Marshall in an early eclectic beaux arts style to serve as the home of New York merchant George S. Fraser. The building is three stories tall with two basement levels and an attic. It is constructed of red brick and pink granite with a colonnaded entrance porch with balustraded deck, and a tiled, hipped roof. The interior was planned around a central open stair, with large, central halls on each floor. It was constructed in 1890 at a cost of $75,000, more than ten times the cost of a typical Washington home at that time.
The building served as Fraser's residence until his death in 1896. In 1901, Fraser's widow sold the mansion to Pennsylvania Congressman Joseph Earlston Thropp, where he took up residence beginning on March 3, 1901. The Thropps made exterior alterations, enlarging dormer windows and adding an oriel window in 1901. In 1905, architects Totten and Rogers designed a terrace with an entrance to the house near the oriel window, and also redesigned the garden wall.
The mansion remained in the ownership of Thropp and his wife, Miriam Scott-Thropp, until Scott-Thropp's death in 1930.
Restaurant
In 1932, the lower floor of the mansion began operation as the Parrot Tea Room, a tea house, with a boarding house located on the upper levels. In 1950, upon leasing to John Goldstein, the facility was converted to a restaurant and renamed the Golden Parrot. The mansion was sold in 1974, and the restaurant was renamed the Golden Booeymonger. Later, the mansion became home to nightclubs Larry Brown's and Sagittarius.
The mansion was again sold in 1981 to Walter Sommer for $2 million. In 1982, following a $3 million restoration/renovation, the Fourways fine dining restaurant on the first floor and the Bermuda Bar and Grill below it were opened. The Fourways served Continental European and American dishes under the leadership of chef Jacques Barre.
By 1988, Sommer opened the Bermuda Bar and Grill patio-cafe alongside the Fourways. According to the Nation's Restaurant News, the restaurant seated 40 people inside and 60 outside, and was modeled after the Fourways Restaurant and Inn of Bermuda. Among other things, the restaurant featured an all-you-can-eat salad bar, an unlimited Sunday brunch, and "traditional Bermuda drink, Dark & Stormy, made with Bermuda's Goslings Black Seal rum and Ginger Beer. Another Bermudian tradition, Bermuda Fish Chowder with Outerbridge's Sherry Peppers Sauce was always on the menu.
Proposed apartment building
In 1987, Sommer proposed to construct a seven-story, 29-unit apartment building in its parking lot behind the mansion. At the time, the property was zoned residential, with variances permitting a restaurant on the property. Then-owner Walter Sommer claimed that the variances restricted him unfairly, requiring him to go to the zoning board multiple times for changes to his business, in a process that he considered costly and time consuming. Additionally, Sommer claimed that without commercial zoning, he was unable to obtain a "realistic commercial loan" to fund maintenance costs. Between 1982 and 1987, the D.C. Board of Zoning Appeals granted Sommer variances to expand the commercial use of the building above the first floor permitting a private business club on the second floor. The club never opened. The third floor was an apartment for the General Manager.
While the proposed design for the building was approved by the D.C. Office of Planning and the Historic Preservation Review Board, and the Department of Public Works had determined that the plans, which would have included underground parking for both the apartments and the restaurant, would not cause an increase in parking or traffic problems in the area, the community opposed the building's construction. Nearby resident Duff Gilfont described the proposed apartment building as "such a blight to this area," and that "there would have been so many people inconvenienced by it." Several neighborhood associations opposed rezoning the building, expressing concern that the new building would be used as a hotel. Sommer denied that there were plans to use the building as a hotel or an office building.
Several covenants were proposed. One would require that the new building only be used for residential purposes. A second would have required that any future owners of the Fraser Mansion would be required to submit their plans for the building for review by the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board. A third proposed covenant would have split the zoning of the property, allowing only residential use of the building, but requiring variances for any changes in the parking for the restaurant or the apartment building.
Despite the proposed covenants, however, community groups vowed to continue to fight the proposal.
Bankruptcy and attempted sale
During the fight over the building's zoning, Sommer claimed that he would go bankrupt if he was unable to develop the property. Fourways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, and by October 1989, the Fourways restaurant had closed.
Trying to pay creditors, Sommer attempted to sell the mansion. Sommer's initial asking price was $7 million, which he later reduced to $3 million. A number of embassies and chanceries looked at the mansion, but none purchased. According to real estate broker Stanley Holland, Sommer "thought it was worth more than it was."
Church of Scientology
In 1994, the Church of Scientology purchased the property with the intention of using the building as a church facility. In purchasing the building, Scientology first purchased mortgages on the building in 1993 from the FDIC, which had assumed the loans after the 1990 failure of the National Bank of Washington. Following the purchase of the loans, Scientology foreclosed on the building. In the subsequent foreclosure auction, Scientology purchased the building for $2.7 million.
Following $1 million in renovations, the building was dedicated as the new Founding Church of Scientology on October 21, 1995 by Religious Technology Center chairman David Miscavige.
The Founding Church of Scientology relocated from the Fraser Mansion to the nearby Embassy Building on 16th Street NW on October 31, 2009. Fraser Mansion now serves as the National Affairs office for the Church of Scientology.
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Bottom Dollar (album)
Bottom Dollar is the debut solo album by Canadian recording artist Nathan Wiley, released in 2002.
Track listing
Bottom Dollar Baby
Comeback
Black Bones
Home
I Come Down
Renegade
Long Gone
Till I'm Better
Straight and Sober
Betty, Betty (ride that hog)
Long Live Sin
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NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Tournament
The NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Tournament is the annual event that decides the championship contested by the NCAA. It determines the national champion of Division II women's collegiate volleyball. It has been held annually since 1981, typically played in December after the fall regular season (the men's championship, conversely, is held in the spring).
The 2019 champion is Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes, winning their first. The most successful team has been Concordia–Saint Paul with nine titles, winning their ninth, in 2017, in a time-span of only eleven years.
History
From 1970 through 1980, before the NCAA governed women's collegiate athletics, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women alone conducted the women's collegiate volleyball championships.
Volleyball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the AIAW for sole governance of women's collegiate sports. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same twelve (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the NCAA conquered the AIAW and usurped its authority and membership.
There is also an NCAA Men's National Collegiate Volleyball Championship for men's volleyball teams in Division I and Division II seeing as there are far fewer men's programs than women's.
Champions
Note: See Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Champions for the Division II volleyball champions from 1975 to 1981. NOTE: In 1981 there were both NCAA and AIAW champions.
Records
Most championships: Concordia–St. Paul (9)
Undefeated Seasons: Hawaii Pacific (2000), Concordia–St. Paul (2009), Cal State San Bernardino (2019)
Summary
Schools in italics no longer compete in NCAA Division II. Of these schools, all are now NCAA Division I members except for BYU–Hawaii, which completely dropped intercollegiate athletics.
See also
NCAA Women's Volleyball Championships (Division I, Division III)
AIAW Intercollegiate Women's Volleyball Champions
NCAA Men's Volleyball Championships (Divisions I and II, Division III)
NAIA Volleyball Championship
AVCA
References
External links
NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball
Volleyball, Women's
NCAA Women's Vol
USA
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