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Buayanyup River

The Buayanyup River is a river in the South West region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise in the Whicher Range and flow north crossing the Bussell Highway near Vasse before discharging into Geographe Bay near Abbey about west of Busselton. The river has three main tributaries of Dawson Gulley, Ironstone Gully and the other is not named. In total the river has a stream length of over . Flowing through agricultural land that is predominantly used for raising beef and dairy cattle and to a lesser degree plantation timber and viticulture, the area has been settled since 1834 when the Bussell family established a cattle station along the Vasse River. More farming families followed and now over 50% of the catchment is used for cattle farming. The name of the river was first recorded by a surveyor in 1839 and is Aboriginal in origin but its meaning is unknown. References Category:Rivers of Western Australia Category:South West (Western Australia)

Heron

The herons are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons. Members of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern, in the monotypic genus Zebrilus, form a monophyletic group within the Ardeidae. Egrets are not a biologically distinct group from the herons, and tend to be named differently because they are mainly white or have decorative plumes in breeding plumage. Herons, by evolutionary adaptation, have long beaks. The classification of the individual heron/egret species is fraught with difficulty, and no clear consensus exists about the correct placement of many species into either of the two major genera, Ardea and Egretta. Similarly, the relationships of the genera in the family are not completely resolved. However, one species formerly considered to constitute a separate monotypic family, the Cochlearidae or the boat-billed heron, is now regarded as a member of the Ardeidae. Although herons resemble birds in some other families, such as the storks, ibises, spoonbills, and cranes, they differ from these in flying with their necks retracted, not outstretched. They are also one of the bird groups that have powder down. Some members of this group nest colonially in trees, while others, notably the bitterns, use reed beds. A group of them is called a "siege." Description The herons are medium- to large-sized birds with long legs and necks. They exhibit very little sexual dimorphism in size. The smallest species is usually considered the dwarf bittern, which measures in length, although all the species in the genus Ixobrychus are small and many broadly overlap in size. The largest species of heron is the goliath heron, which stands up to tall. The necks are able to kink in an S-shape, due to the modified shape of the cervical vertebrae, of which they have 20–21. The neck is able to retract and extend and is retracted during flight, unlike most other long-necked birds. The neck is longer in the day herons than the night herons and bitterns. The legs are long and strong and in almost every species are unfeathered from the lower part of the tibia (the exception is the zigzag heron). In-flight, the legs and feet are held backwards. The feet of herons have long, thin toes, with three forward-pointing ones and one pointing backwards. The bill is generally long and harpoon-like. It can vary from extremely fine, as in the agami heron, to thick as in the grey heron. The most atypical bill is owned by the boat-billed heron, which has a broad, thick bill. The bill, as well as other bare parts of the body, is usually yellow, black, or brown in colour, although this can vary during the breeding season. The wings are broad and long, exhibiting 10 or 11 primary feathers (the boat-billed heron has only nine), 15–20 secondaries. and 12 rectrices (10 in the bitterns). The feathers of the herons are soft and the plumage is usually blue, black, brown, grey, or white, and can often be strikingly complex. Amongst the day herons, little sexual dimorphism in plumage is seen (except in the pond-herons); differences between the sexes are the rule for the night herons and smaller bitterns. Many species also have different colour morphs. In the Pacific reef heron, both dark and light colour morphs exist, and the percentage of each morph varies geographically. White morphs only occur in areas with coral beaches. Distribution and habitat The herons are a widespread family with a cosmopolitan distribution. They exist on all continents except Antarctica, and are present in most habitats except the coldest extremes of the Arctic, extremely high mountains, and the driest deserts. Almost all species are associated with water; they are essentially nonswimming waterbirds that feed on the margins of lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds, and the sea. They are predominantly found in lowland areas, although some species live in alpine areas, and the majority of species occurs in the tropics. The herons are a highly mobile family, with most species being at least partially migratory. Some species are partially migratory, for example, the grey heron, which is mostly sedentary in Britain, but mostly migratory in Scandinavia. Birds are particularly inclined to disperse widely after breeding, but before the annual migration, where the species is colonial, searching out new feeding areas and reducing the pressures on feeding grounds near the colony. The migration typically occurs at night, usually as individuals or in small groups. Behaviour and ecology Diet The herons and bitterns are carnivorous. The members of this family are mostly associated with wetlands and water, and feed on a variety of live aquatic prey. Their diet includes a wide variety of aquatic animals, including fish, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, molluscs, and aquatic insects. Individual species may be generalists or specialise in certain prey types, such as the yellow-crowned night heron, which specialises in crustaceans, particularly crabs. Many species also opportunistically take larger prey, including birds and bird eggs, rodents, and more rarely carrion. Even more rarely, herons eating acorns, peas, and grains have been reported, but most vegetable matter consumed is accidental. The most common hunting technique is for the bird to sit motionless on the edge of or standing in shallow water and to wait until prey comes within range. Birds may either do this from an upright posture, giving them a wider field of view for seeing prey, or from a crouched position, which is more cryptic and means the bill is closer to the prey when it is located. Having seen prey, the head is moved from side to side, so that the heron can calculate the position of the prey in the water and compensate for refraction, and then the bill is used to spear the prey. In addition to sitting and waiting, herons may feed more actively. They may walk slowly, around or less than 60 paces a minute, snatching prey when it is observed. Other active feeding behaviours include foot stirring and probing, where the feet are used to flush out hidden prey. The wings may be used to frighten prey (or possibly attract it to shade) or to reduce glare; the most extreme example of this is exhibited by the black heron, which forms a full canopy with its wings over its body. Some species of heron, such as the little egret and grey heron, have been documented using bait to lure prey to within striking distance. Herons may use items already in place, or actively add items to the water to attract fish such as the banded killifish. Items used may be man-made, such as bread; alternatively, striated herons in the Amazon have been watched repeatedly dropping seeds, insects, flowers, and leaves into the water to catch fish. Three species, the black-headed heron, whistling heron, and especially the cattle egret, are less tied to watery environments and may feed far away from water. Cattle egrets improve their foraging success by following large grazing animals, catching insects flushed by their movement. One study found that the success rate of prey capture increased 3.6 times over solitary foraging. Breeding While the family exhibits a range of breeding strategies, overall, the herons are monogamous and mostly colonial. Most day herons and night herons are colonial, or partly colonial depending on circumstances, whereas the bitterns and tiger herons are mostly solitary nesters. Colonies may contain several species, as well as other species of waterbirds. In a study of little egrets and cattle egrets in India, the majority of the colonies surveyed contained both species. Nesting is seasonal in temperate species; in tropical species, it may be seasonal (often coinciding with the rainy season) or year-round. Even in year-round breeders, nesting intensity varies throughout the year. Tropical herons typically have only one breeding season per year, unlike some other tropical birds which may raise up to three broods a year. Courtship usually takes part on the nest. Males arrive first and begin the building of the nest, where they display to attract females. During courtship, the male employs a stretch display and uses erectile neck feathers; the neck area may swell. The female risks an aggressive attack if she approaches too soon and may have to wait up to four days. In colonial species, displays involve visual cues, which can include adopting postures or ritual displays, whereas in solitary species, auditory cues, such as the deep booming of the bitterns, are important. The exception to this is the boat-billed heron, which pairs up away from the nesting site. Having paired, they continue to build the nest in almost all species, although in the little bittern and least bittern, only the male works on the nest. Some ornithologists have reported observing female herons attaching themselves to impotent mates, then seeking sexual gratification elsewhere. The nests of herons are usually found near or above water. They are typically placed in vegetation, although the nests of a few species have been found on the ground where suitable trees of shrubs are unavailable. Trees are used by many species, and here they may be placed high up from the ground, whereas species living in reed beds may nest very close to the ground. Generally, herons lay between three and seven eggs. Larger clutches are reported in the smaller bitterns and more rarely some of the larger day herons, and single-egg clutches are reported for some of the tiger herons. Clutch size varies by latitude within species, with individuals in temperate climates laying more eggs than tropical ones. On the whole, the eggs are glossy blue or white, with the exception being the large bitterns, which lay olive-brown eggs. Name The word heron first appeared in the English language around 1300, originating from Old French hairon, eron (12th century), earlier hairo (11th century), from Frankish haigiro or from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, *hraigrô. Herons are also known as shitepokes , or euphemistically as shikepokes or shypokes. Webster's Dictionary suggests that herons were given this name because of their habit of defecating when flushed. The 1971 Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary describes the use of shitepoke for the small green heron of North America (Butorides virescens) as originating in the United States, citing a published example from 1853. The OED also observes that shiterow or shederow are terms used for herons, and also applied as derogatory terms meaning a thin, weakly person. This name for a heron is found in a list of gamebirds in a royal decree of James VI (1566–1625) of Scotland. The OED speculates that shiterow is a corruption of shiteheron. Another former name was heronshaw or hernshaw, derived from Old French heronçeau. Corrupted to handsaw, this name appears in Shakespeare's Hamlet. A possible further corruption took place in the Norfolk Broads, where the heron is often referred to as a harnser. Taxonomy and systematics Analyses of the skeleton, mainly the skull, suggested that the Ardeidae could be split into a diurnal and a crepuscular/nocturnal group which included the bitterns. From DNA studies and skeletal analyses focusing more on bones of body and limbs, this grouping has been revealed as incorrect. Rather, the similarities in skull morphology reflect convergent evolution to cope with the different challenges of daytime and nighttime feeding. Today, it is believed that three major groups can be distinguished, which are (from the most primitive to the most advanced): tiger herons and the boatbill bitterns day herons and egrets, and night herons The night herons could warrant separation as subfamily Nycticoracinae, as it was traditionally done. However, the position of some genera (e.g. Butorides or Syrigma) is unclear at the moment, and molecular studies have until now suffered from a small number of studied taxa. Especially, the relationships among the subfamily Ardeinae are very badly resolved. The arrangement presented here should be considered provisional. A 2008 study suggests that this family belongs to the Pelecaniformes. In response to these findings, the International Ornithological Congress recently reclassified Ardeidae and their sister taxa Threskiornithidae under the order Pelecaniformes instead of the previous order of Ciconiiformes. Subfamily Tigriornithinae Genus Cochlearius – boat-billed heron Genus Taphophoyx (fossil, Late Miocene of Levy County, Florida) Genus Tigrisoma – typical tiger herons (three species) Genus Tigriornis – white-crested tiger heron Genus Zonerodius – forest bittern Subfamily Botaurinae Genus Zebrilus – zigzag heron Genus Ixobrychus – small bitterns (eight living species, one recently extinct) Genus Botaurus – large bitterns (four species) Genus Pikaihao - Saint Bathan's bittern (fossil, Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand) Subfamily Ardeinae Genus Zeltornis (fossil, Early Miocene of Djebel Zelten, Libya) Genus Nycticorax – typical night herons (two living species, four recently extinct; includes Nyctanassa) Genus Nyctanassa – American night herons (one living species, one recently extinct) Genus Gorsachius – Asian and African night herons (four species) Genus Butorides – green-backed herons (three species; sometimes included in Ardea) Genus Agamia – Agami heron Genus Pilherodius – capped heron Genus Ardeola – pond herons (six species) Genus Bubulcus – cattle egrets (one or two species, sometimes included in Ardea) Genus Proardea (fossil) Genus Ardea – typical herons (11–17 species) Genus Syrigma – whistling heron Genus Egretta – typical egrets (7–13 species) Genus undetermined Easter Island heron, Ardeidae gen. et sp. indet. (prehistoric) Fossil herons of unresolved affiliations "Anas" basaltica (Late Oligocene of Varnsdorf, Czech Republic) Ardeagradis Proardeola – possibly same as Proardea Matuku (Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand) Other prehistoric and fossil species are included in the respective genus accounts. In addition, Proherodius is a disputed fossil which was variously considered a heron or one of the extinct long-legged waterfowl, the Presbyornithidae. It is only known from a sternum; a tarsometatarsus assigned to it actually belongs to the paleognath Lithornis vulturinus. References Further reading Hancock, James & Elliott, Hugh (1978) The Herons of the World; with paintings by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, and drawings by Robert Gillmor. London: London Editions ; New York: Harper & Row External links HeronConservation Heron Specialist Group of IUCN Heron videos on the Internet Bird Collection * * Category:Extant Paleocene first appearances Category:Taxa named by William Elford Leach

Sebastian Harnisch

Sebastian Harnisch (born 3 February 1967 in Germany) is Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. Education 2004 Habilitation (Political Science), University of Trier 1998 Dr. Phil. (Political Science), University of Trier 1993 M.A. (Political Science, History), University of Trier 1990-1991 Graduate Studies (Diplomacy), Georgetown University, Washington DC, Exchange Year Career Harnisch is currently Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to International Politics at the University of Heidelberg and was previously Assistant and Junior Professor at the University of Trier, Germany. He has also held a visiting fellowship at the Seoul National University, South Korea. His research and publications encompass German and American Foreign Policy, European affairs, theories of International Relations, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and Korean Affairs. Sebastian Harnisch is also Co-Editor of the Online-Newsletter and E-Monograph series of www.deutsche-aussenpolitik.de. Books and edited volumes (selection) Außenpolitischer Strukturwandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag (in preparation). Internationale Politik und Verfassung. Zur Domestizierung des sicherheits- und europapolitischen Prozesses der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Baden-Baden: Nomos- Verlag, 2006. (ed.)Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik. Eine Bilanz der Regierung Schröder, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2004 (with Christos Katsioulis und Marco Overhaus). (ed.) Deutschland im Abseits? Rot-grüne Außenpolitik 1998-2003, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2003 (with Hanns W. Maull and Constantin Grund). (ed.) Germany as a Civilian Power. The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001 (with Hanns W. Maull). Außenpolitisches Lernen. Die US-Außenpolitik auf der koreanischen Halbinsel, Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2000. Kernwaffen in Nordkorea. Regionale Stabilität und Krisenmanagement durch das Genfer Rahmenabkommen (Forschungsinstitut der DGAP), Bonn: Europa Union Verlag, 2000 (with Hanns W. Maull). Europa und Amerika. Die US-amerikanische Haltung zur westeuropäischen Integration 1987-1994, Sinzheim: Pro Universitate Verlag 1996. Articles Das Proliferationsnetzwerk um A. Q. Khan, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Vol 48 (2005), S. 1-8. (K)ein Bluff wie jeder andere. Nordkoreas nukleares Bekenntnis muss ernst genommen werden, in: Internationale Politik 60 (2005) 3, pp. 104–107. German Non-Proliferation Policy and the Iraq Conflict, in: German Politics 13 (2004) 2, pp. 1–34. Die ZIB als Forum der deutschen IB? Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 11 (2004) 2, pp. 357–364 (with Hanns W. Maull and Siegfried Schieder). Transatlantische Kooperation tut Not. Europa, die USA und die Massenvernichtungswaffen, in: Internationale Politik 59 (2004) 1, pp. 19–25. US-DPRK Relations under the Bush Administration: From „go slow“ to „no go“, in: Asian Survey 42 (2002) 6, pp. 856–882. Embedding Korea’s Unification Multilaterally, in: Pacific Review 15 (2002) 1, pp. 29–62 (with Hanns W. Maull). Change and Continuity in Post-Unification German Foreign Policy'', in: German Politics 10 (2001) 1, pp. 35–60. References Category:German political scientists Category:Heidelberg University faculty Category:1967 births Category:Living people

Tontokrom

Tontokrom is a small town located in the Amansie South District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is mostly known for its gold and has recently been noted for the menace of illegal mining popularly called galamsey. References Category:Populated places in the Ashanti Region

Shropshire Hills

The Shropshire Hills is an upland area and one of the natural regions of England. They lie wholly within the county of Shropshire and encompass several distinctive and well-known landmarks, such as the Long Mynd, Wenlock Edge, The Wrekin and the Clees. The Shropshire Hills lie south of the county capital of Shrewsbury between the Welsh border and Much Wenlock, extending as far south as Ludlow. To the north they are bounded by the Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain, to the east by the Severn Valley and Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau, to the southeast by Knighton and the Teme Valley and to the southwest by the Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills. Environment The Shropshire Hills are listed as Natural Area No. 42 and also as National Character Area 65 by Natural England, the UK Government's advisor on the natural environment. The NCA covers an area of and measure around from west to east and north to south. The dominant pattern of the hills is a series of southwest to northeast ridges, scarps and valleys. They are characterized by steep, rounded 'whaleback' hills, often crowned with open moorland, with woodland dressing the steeper slopes. There are scattered farms in dales and sheltering in valleys; larger settlements being confined to the Stretton Valley and A49 corridor. Major summits Roughly a half of the NCA lies within the Shropshire Hills AONB. In addition, the region contains two Special Areas of Conservation (The Stiperstones & The Hollies SAC; Downton Gorge SAC) and a national nature reserve (The Stiperstones NNR) as well as 73 Sites of Special Scientific Interest, the latter totalling . Its major watercourses are the rivers Corve, Onny, Severn and Teme and the Ledwyche and Rea Brooks. The average elevation is ; the highest point is Brown Clee Hill at . Significant summits in the Shropshire Hills include: Brown Clee (540m), Stiperstones (536m), Titterstone Clee (533m), Long Mynd (Pole Bank) (516m), Caer Caradoc (459m), Heath Mynd (452m), Hope Bowdler (426m), The Wrekin (407m), Ragleth Hill (398m), Lawley (377m). References Category:Natural regions of England Category:Hills of Shropshire

Levi Hanssen

Levi Hanssen (born 24 February 1988) is a footballer who currently plays for HB Tórshavn. He usually plays as a left midfielder or up-front. Hanssen was born in New Zealand, but grew up in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Previously he played for EB/Streymur, B36 Tórshavn and Skála ÍF. He has been capped at full international level by the Faroe Islands with 3 matches. He has also played for Faroe Islands U21, U19 and U17. References https://www.thefinalball.com/player/levi_hanssen/2009_10/profile/139/default/74825 External links Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Association footballers from Wellington City Category:New Zealand association footballers Category:Faroe Islands international footballers Category:B36 Tórshavn players Category:EB/Streymur players Category:Havnar Bóltfelag players Category:Faroe Islands Premier League players Category:Faroe Islands under-21 international footballers Category:Association football forwards Category:Faroese footballers Category:Faroe Islands youth international footballers

External counterpulsation

External counterpulsation therapy (ECP) is a procedure that may be performed on individuals with angina, heart failure, or cardiomyopathy. Medical uses The FDA approved the CardiAssistTM ECP system for the treatment of angina, acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock under a 510(k) submission in 1980 (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPMN/pmn.cfm?ID=27812) (last accessed March 13, 2006). Since then, additional ECP devices have been cleared by the FDA for use in treating stable or unstable angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, and congestive heart failure. Some reviews did not find sufficient evidence that it was useful for either angina or heart failure. Other reviews found tentative benefit in those with angina that does not improve with medications. For stroke due to lack of blood flow a 2012 Cochrane review found insufficient evidence to make conclusions. Method While an individual is undergoing ECP, he/she has pneumatic cuffs on his or her legs and is connected to telemetry monitors that monitor heart rate and rhythm. The most common type in use involves three cuffs placed on each leg (on the calves, the lower thighs, and the upper thighs (or buttock)). The cuffs are timed to inflate and deflate based on the individual's electrocardiogram. The cuffs should ideally inflate at the beginning of diastole and deflate at the beginning of systole. During the inflation portion of the cycle, the calf cuffs inflate first, then the lower thigh cuffs and finally the upper thigh cuffs. Inflation is controlled by a pressure monitor, and the cuffs are inflated to about 200 mmHg. Physiological considerations One theory is that ECP exposes the coronary circulation to increased shear stress, and that this results in the production of a cascade of growth factors that result in new blood vessel formation in the heart (arteriogenesis and angiogenesis).. References Category:Cardiac procedures

Kiap

Kiaps, known formally as district officers and patrol officers, were travelling representatives of the British and Australian governments with wide-ranging authority, in pre-independence Papua New Guinea. Etymology 'Kiap' is a Papua New Guinean creole (Tok Pisin) word derived from the German word Kapitän (Captain). Role The role of the kiap changed as Papua New Guinea changed. The more primitive the conditions the more wide-ranging were the duties, and the more decision making power was granted. "The kiap, for example, is district administrator, commissioned policeman, magistrate, gaoler: if he is in a remote area he may well be engineer, surveyor, medical officer, dentist, lawyer, and agricultural adviser. The kiap system grew out of necessity and the demands made by poor communications in impossible country: the man on the spot had to have power to make the decision." Under Australian administration the kiap was a one-man representative of the government, taking on political education, policing and judicial roles as well as more mundane tasks such as completing censuses. The kiaps were commissioned as officers of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and as such, members of the overseas serving police. They were appointed as district magistrates. During the 1960s, some kiaps became more like a magistrate, moving away from law enforcement. Whilst others specialised in setting up local and provincial governments. History Soon after the establishment of British New Guinea in the 1880s, a system of patrols was established to expand the government's administrative control beyond the major towns. The system continued after the change from British to Australian administration in 1905. The kiaps patrolled at a time when cannibalism was still practised in parts of PNG. Violent intertribal conflict occurred frequently. When Patrol Officer (Kiap) Jim Taylor and prospector Mick Leahy, with eighty native police and carriers, first entered the Wahgi Valley in March 1933, the Australians were thought to be ghosts. Later in the same year, a number of indigenous people in the valley were killed, after a misunderstanding, and in 1935 there were further indigenous deaths, during an intervention between fighting groups, and the deaths of two white missionaries. First contacts were fraught with misunderstandings and the potential for violence. "In the early years, there were relatively few kiaps scattered across vast tracts of land. At the height of Australia's pre-war administration in 1938, a total field staff of 150 men existed to govern three-quarters of a million people, while a similar number of people lay beyond official government control." Before World War II kiaps had been required to attend Sydney University for lectures in law, anthropology and tropical medicine. During the 1950s, kiaps with field experience could qualify to become district officers by sitting for an examination at the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA), where they studied law, anthropology, Pacific history, comparative constitutional development, and administration. Kiaps provided "pacification, medical aid, and administration to some 11,920 villages" in rugged and almost impenetrable terrain. "The kiap system [...] appointed to each village a luluai, through whom control was administered, and in Papua a village constable. "The 'pay-back killing had to be stopped before peace could come". Before that every death was avenged by another death, in an unending vendetta. Gradually, revenge by the individual was replaced with punishment by the state, and compensation to the family of the victim. In 1954 Patrol Officer Gerald Leo Szarka was murdered with an axe by local people. Szarka had been trying to call people together to conduct a census. Other kiaps were also murdered while carrying out their duties. Kiaps were required to collect a poll tax in remote villages from people who mostly had no money. These taxes were much resented by the village people, who had always been self-sufficient. Only in 1963 were the last remote areas of PNG officially declared to be under government control. But by 1969, the wide-ranging powers of the kiap were being questioned, and petitions were being signed for the removal of individual kiaps. From 1949 until 1974, "the best estimate of how many men served in these roles [was] around 2,000." Papua New Guinea became an independent nation in 1975. In 1979, it would be stated "The kiap system has declined rapidly in influence since independence. This was perhaps inevitable, as the system was never meant to cope with free citizens in an independent democracy." A former World War II Field Marshal and Governor-General of Australia, Viscount Slim, said of the kiaps: "Your young chaps in New Guinea have gone out where I would never have gone without a battalion and they have done on their own by sheer force of character what I could only do with troops. I don't think there has been anything like it in the modern world". Indigenous perspective August Kituai August Ibrum K. Kituai, one of the early indigenous historians of PNG, has written "a study of the close encounters and entanglements which occurred when colonial regimes used indigenous people as agents of colonialism". Kituai "emphasises that orders and administration regulations were often not followed as native police did what they thought best, or to their own advantage" and "raises a number of unresolved issues about the pervasiveness of the Australian-led "civilising" administration, the extent of authority exercised by Kiaps over their men, and historiographically over the veracity of his informants' evidence". Kituai "[peels] back of the veneer of Kiap authority, hierarchical command and so-called peaceful penetration which has underlined much of the earlier patrolling history of Papua New Guinea. My gun, my brother reveals a history of opportunism, property destruction, sexual predation and personal tragedy that highlights how the unofficial and unregulated underside of colonialism affected people's lives and created today's new nations". Anyan of the Tairora people Virginia and James Watson, were anthropologists in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea during the 1950s and 1960s. A local woman, Anyan, became Virginia Watson's interpreter. Anyan had been chosen by her family "to go live in the government station of Kainantu in order to learn Tok Pisin and thus be able to act as a translator for her relatives and other villagers". Subsequently, Virginia Watson asked permission from Anyan to write her story, using her field notes, in the form of a book: Later "Anyan decided the benefits of the colonial administration outweighed many of her earlier fears." She married and lived in Kainantu, close to medical and educational facilities. Kiap courts "Very few Papua New Guineans were ever found innocent in a kiap's court—never as many as 10 percent in any year for which records... are available"..."the law has been administered only intermittently in most indigenous communities, and then in what has often seemed to be an arbitrary manner in the eyes of many villagers" (Wolfers, 1975) Recognition from the Australian government In July 2013, after eleven years of lobbying the Australian Government, forty-nine ex-Kiaps were presented with the Police Overseas Service Medal at Parliament House in Canberra by the Hon. Jason Clare MHR, Minister for Home Affairs and Justice and the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus APM. During the ceremony, which celebrated the work of the kiaps between 1949 and 1973, Minister Clare said, "Being a Kiap meant you were an ambassador, a police officer, an explorer, a farmer, an engineer and an anthropologist – all in one". He acknowledged that kiaps were often on call twenty-four hours, seven days a week, in remote areas in a role that "demanded perseverance, tenacity and commitment". He continued, "today we are righting a wrong. We are recognising men that should have properly recognised many years ago." Minister Clare, during an earlier parliamentary debate of the Bill, which enabled the award of medals for service, said, "The Kiaps were an extraordinary group of young Australians who performed a remarkable service for the people of PNG. They were some of our nation's finest." See also Papua New Guinea Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary References Further reading Scholarly works (The main focus is on the native police force.) Memoirs, reminiscences These works contain a wealth of first hand observations of life in PNG and the day-to-day work of kiaps. One of the most prolific writers among the kiaps. – A memoir of ten years spent as a Kiap in PNG, 1961-1971. "The Northumbrian Kiap". Robert Forster (1947). Published 2018. UK Book Publishing. . A detailed and revealing account of bush administration in self-governing PNG. PNG government spokespersons Albert Maori Kiki was a PNG politician and deputy Prime Minister from 1975 until 1977. Australian government spokespersons General External links Recognition of the kiaps for past services: Hansard Monday 16 November 2009, page 11824 and following– Motion by Scott Morrison MP A photographic collection from the National Archives of Australia The Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary a Pictorial History Web Page 1885-1975 Papua New Guinea Patrol Reports 1912-1976 Category:History of Papua New Guinea Category:Government of Papua New Guinea Category:Law enforcement in Papua New Guinea

Lovitură de pedeapsă

Lovitură de pedeapsă ("Penalty Kick") is the 11th studio album by Romanian rap group Paraziții. Track listing References Category:Paraziții albums Category:2016 albums

Novgorod Fourth Chronicle

The Novgorod Fourth Chronicle (Новгородская четвёртая летопись) is a Russian chronicle of 15th century. It is traditionally called "Fourth" according to the order of the modern publication of Novgorod chronicles, rather than chronologically. Together with the Sofia First Chronicle, it is believed that it is derived from a common source. Russian philologist Aleksey Shakhmatov tentatively called it the Novgorodsko-Sofiysky Svod (Novgorod-Sofia Corpus) and initially dated it by 1448, but later revised his opinion to 1430s. Some Russian philologists shared his opinion, while others attribute the common source to the 1418 Corpus of Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow. See also Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles References Category:East Slavic chronicles Category:Novgorod Republic Category:15th-century history books

Devin Gaines

Devin Thomas Gaines (July 16, 1984 – July 10, 2007) was a college student at the University of Connecticut who attracted media attention by earning five Bachelor's degrees simultaneously on May 6, 2007. Early life Gaines, from Stamford, Connecticut, was raised in childhood by his single mother in public housing after his father died of a heart attack when Gaines was nine years old. He attended both King Low Heywood Thomas School and Stamford High School, graduating from the latter. After high school graduation, Gaines was accepted at the University of Connecticut, where he was the recipient of a University of Connecticut leadership scholarship, and a scholarship from the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Life at the University of Connecticut Gaines then matriculated at the University of Connecticut in 2002, graduating five years later in May 2007 with five Bachelor's Degrees. During his time at Connecticut, Gaines completed 276 credits, earning Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Theater Studies, Linguistics, Psychology, and an individualized degree in Cinema, Culture and Cognition. While at Connecticut, Gaines was inducted as a member of the Psi Chi and Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Societies, and had been accepted for a Master's degree in Educational Communication and Technology at New York University. At the time of his death, Gaines was working his summer after graduation as an information technology associate for Pension Associates, a tax consulting firm. Death and memorials On July 10, 2007, Gaines, aged 22, drowned in Deep River, Connecticut, in Blakeslee Pond, a gravel pit quarry on private property, while swimming with friends in an area marked "No Trespassing". His death was ruled an accidental drowning. Gaines drowned because he did not know how to swim. After his death, the University of Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program established a scholarship program in Gaines's memory, and the University's Stamford Campus renamed its student activities center the Devin T. Gaines Student Involvement and Activities Center in his honor. References Category:1984 births Category:2007 deaths Category:University of Connecticut alumni Category:Deaths by drowning Category:Accidental deaths in Connecticut

Oung Ouen

Oung Ouen is a Cambodian politician. He is the governor of Banteay Meanchey province. In 2008 he expressed concerns about Thai deployments along 150 kilometers of his border, west of Preah Vihear Temple, the initial site of a military standoff that began on July 15. References Category:Cambodian politicians Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Guelord Mukadi Mbolela

Guelord Mukadi Mbolela commonly known as G'Sparks or DJ Spilulu is a Congolese actor, artist from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo He is famous for his movie Mangeurs de Cuivre (2016) and Machini (2019) . Early life and career Spilulu was born 19 April 1983 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo and began as a rapper. In 2001 flew to Johannesburg South Africa for studies where he felt in love with music. Spilulu started deejaying in Melville nightclubs In 2009, Mzilikazi wa Afrika signed Him to "Bomba Record" label. DJ Spilulu featured in Mzilikazi wa Afrika's album "Tamanini". In 2011, released his first song “Bakish”. In 2016 Spilulu ventured into movie and featured in Mangeurs de Cuivre (2016) and Machini (2019). Filmography Spilulu's films include: Music Studio albums Discography {| class="wikitable" |+Songs !Song Title !Year |- |Bakishi |2010 |- |Kimba Bwana Ft. Wasso |2011 |- |Mukubwa |2011 |- |Sodat Aza Na Kati feat Dacosta |2011 |- |Wa Kanyana ft Mzee Wa Afrika |2012 |- |À malin, malin, et demi |2012 |- |Tusha Kulewa feat Ivo |2013 |- |Dilolo |2014 |- |Twende |2015 |- |Kifwebe Katshokwe |2015 |- |Washala Washala ft Ceda |2015 |- |Babalaze |2015 |- |Tombosha Bantu |2015 |- |Mapi Mu Mashikiyo |2016 |- |Bass Apana |2016 |- |Iyi Mwaka ft H-Baraka & Karibiona |2016 |- |Shonta Mu Mbingu ft Mustache |2016 |- |Mapi Mu Mashikiyo Ft. DJ Alpha |2016 |- |Cruisse De Poulet Ft. Manseba, Cynthia Banze |2016 |- |Pasuka Nyama Ft. H Baraka & Karibiona |2016 |- |Morenita Ft. Lina Rojas |2016 |- |Kamindwa Ft. Cyclone Rouge |2016 |- |Palado Ft. Ivo & Da Joker |2017 |- |Ki Quartier Yetu Ft. Ted Smith |2017 |- |Maboko Kaka Boye Ft. Boyoma |2019 |- |Samarino ft. Armmee |2019 |- |Wakanda Ft. Ivan Afro5 |2019 |- |Tindika Burin Ft. Bookson |2020 References External links "En soirée africaine, si tu ne passes pas le coupé-décalé, le public te dit que tu as déconné" "Meet Kaysha and Boddhi Satva, The Collaborators Behind Afro House Hit 'Mama Kosa'" DJ Spilulu Biography DJ Spilulu at Music In Africa Category:Living people Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo male actors Category:People from Lubumbashi Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo songwriters Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo musicians Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo music

Pieter Godfried Maria van Meeuwen

Jonkheer Pieter Godfried Maria van Meeuwen (11 March 1899 in 's-Hertogenbosch – 9 February 1982 in Ulestraten) was a Dutch judge and a politician. Van Meeuwen studied law at Leiden University and obtained his degree in 1924. After working as a lawyer in 's-Hertogenbosch until 1927 he was a court clerk at the local arrondissement court until 1930. Van Meeuwen subsequently judge at the same court, which he remained until 1936. He then took up a similar position at The Hague court, which he kept until 1949. He then acquired a seat in the court of justice (Dutch:Gerechtshof) in the same city. He stayed on until 1951, and then took up a similar position at the court of justice of 's-Hertogenbosch. In 1955 he transferred to the canton court of Heerlen, where he served until April 1969. After World War II Van Meeuwen was Vice-President of the Bijzonder Gerechtshof of The Hague until 1 December 1946, and continued as President until 1 February 1949. During this period he sentenced Hanns Albin Rauter to death. Van Meeuwen was active in politics as well. He was a member of the Roman Catholic State Party and its successor party the Catholic People's Party. He was a member of the States of North Brabant (15 April 1931–January 1936) and the States of Limburg (6 July 1954 – 1 December 1956). Van Meeuwen was a member of the Senate of the Netherlands from 6 November 1956 to 16 September 1969. Private life Van Meeuwen married Louisa Augusta Johanna Maria van Lanschot; they had five children. Distinction Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1964) References Category:1899 births Category:1982 deaths Category:Catholic People's Party politicians Category:20th-century Dutch politicians Category:Dutch judges Category:Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Category:Leiden University alumni Category:Members of the Provincial-Council of Limburg Category:Members of the Provincial-Council of North Brabant Category:Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Category:People from 's-Hertogenbosch Category:Roman Catholic State Party politicians

79th Air Assault Brigade (Ukraine)

The 79th Air Assault Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces. The brigade is based in Mykolaiv. Soldiers from the Brigade have served as peacekeepers in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. In 2014 the Brigade took part in suppressing the 2014 insurgency in Donbass during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine. The brigade fought in the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport, where it and other Ukrainian military units became known as the "Cyborgs" due to their stubborn defense of the Donetsk Airport. History The Brigade's history began as 40th Air Assault Brigade in the fall of 1979, formed from elements of the 97th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 7th Guards Airborne Division. Later it was reorganized into the 40th Airborne Brigade between 6 December 1989 and 1 August 1990 (1 June 1990 according to Holm). That redesignation marked the transfer of the brigade from the Odessa Military District to the Soviet Airborne Troops. In September 1993 the Brigade was renamed 40th Separate Airmobile Brigade. The 40th Brigade was reorganized and reduced into the 79th Airmobile Regiment. On July 1, 2007 the Brigade was formed by combining the 79th Airmobile Regiment with 11th Army Aviation Regiment. In 2014 the Brigade took part in the fighting of the 2014 insurgency in Donbass during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine. 54 persons called up for mobilization (and thus serving in the Brigade) deserted. Crimean Crisis and War in Donbass Pro-Russian protesters blocked the unit's base in Voznesensk on 1 March 2014 and a platoon of soldiers was sent to reinforce and secure the military equipment located at the facility from looting. The protest was resolved without violent clashes. Other than Spetsnaz forces of Ukraine, the unit was one of the first to be mobilized during the Crimean Crisis and the War in Donbass by being deployed to the Crimean-Kherson border in order to prevent Russian forces from a possible advance into mainland Kherson Oblast on 13 March 2014. On March 26 Ukrainian forces secured the Russian Mars-75 naval navigation station located in Kherson Oblast. The unit was deployed to Donbass in May 2014 and fought in the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion where it held the objective of securing both the Russian border and the strategic Savur-Mohyla hill. The unit, along with the 72nd Guards Mechanized Brigade became trapped in southern Luhansk oblast as pro-Russian forces cut their supply lines from the bulk of Ukrainian force in July. Ukrainian forces attempted to keep the units resupplied delivering 15 tons of supplies through enemy lines to the unit. The 79th Airmobile Brigade was able to break through enemy lines on 7 August 2014 along with much of their equipment, however it was reported that the unit was severely short on ammunition and would likely not be able to continue holding its positions if it did not break through the encirclement. Due to spending a month surrounded by enemy forces the unit was sent back to its home station in order to regroup. The unit was redeployed after a month of R/R to hold the southern Donetsk Oblast in the Mariupol and Donetsk regions. In September the unit joined the 3rd Separate Spetsnaz Regiment along with National Guard units in the defense of Donetsk Airport. Due to their stubborn resistance during the defense of Donetsk Airport they were referred to as Cyborgs. In 2016, after brigade received a company of T-80 tanks, the 79th Airmobile Brigade became 79th Air Assault Brigade. Structure Until summer of 2007 the Brigade was a Regiment. In 2008 the Brigade is being manned by contract soldiers. Regiment 1992-2007 1st Battalion 2nd Battalion Current Structure As of 2017 the brigade's structure is as follows: 79th Air Assault Brigade, Mykolaiv Headquarters & Headquarters Company 1st Air Assault Battalion 2nd Air Assault Battalion 3rd Air Assault Battalion Brigade Artillery Group Headquarters & Target Acquisition Battery Self-propelled Artillery Battalion (2S1 Gvozdika) Howitzer Artillery Battalion (2A18 D-30) Rocket Artillery Battalion (BM-21 Grad) Anti-Aircraft Missile Artillery Battalion Tank Company Reconnaissance Company Engineer Company Landing Support Compant Maintenance Company Logistic Company Signal Company CBRN-defense Company Medical Company Sniper Platoon Past Commanders Lieutenant Colonel Atroshchenko - December 1992 Zeleniak - December 1992 - Colonel Kostiantyn Maslenikov - July 1, 2007 - unknown Colonel Oleksiy Shandr - unknown - References Sources Unofficial website of VDV http://www.ww2.dk/new/vdv/40odshbr.htm - 40th Independent Landing-Assault Brigade http://cyborgs.uatoday.tv/ Category:Brigades of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces Category:Airmobile brigades Category:Military units and formations established in 1979

På tro og love

På tro og love is a 1955 Danish family film directed by Torben Anton Svendsen and starring Poul Reichhardt. Cast Poul Reichhardt - Hans Astrid Villaume - Grete Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt - Georg Gunnar Lauring - Chefen Helle Virkner - Vera Gimmer Lis Løwert - Solveig Ove Sprogøe - Henry Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen - Fru Gimmer Louis Miehe-Renard - Frederiksen Einar Juhl - Revisor Carl Johan Hviid - Portieren Birgit Sadolin - Telefonpige Else Kornerup - Kontordame Mogens Lind - Speaker Edith Hermansen - Klinikassistent External links Category:1955 films Category:Danish films Category:Danish-language films Category:Danish black-and-white films

Emmett McLemore

Emmett "Red Fox" McLemore (September 12, 1899 – May 19, 1973) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1923 season. That season, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Emmett was a Cherokee. On December 2, 1923, McLemore recorded a touchdown to Arrowhead and made a field goal after a Joe Guyon interception. However, he missed two extra point kicks in a 22-19 loss to the Chicago Cardinals. During that same game a McLemore punt hit a Cardinals' player and was soon picked up by Ted Buffalo for a score. A week later on December 7, McLemore caught two passes from Guyon for touchdowns in a 19-0 victory over the Louisville Brecks. He spent the 1924 season playing in 4 NFL games with the Kansas City Blues. References Uniform Numbers of the NFL Notes Category:1899 births Category:1973 deaths Category:People from Adair County, Oklahoma Category:Native American sportspeople Category:Players of American football from Oklahoma Category:Oorang Indians players Category:Kansas City Blues (NFL) players Category:Haskell Indian Nations University alumni Category:Cherokee people Category:Pittsburg State Gorillas football players

Eurema desjardinsii

Eurema desjardinsii, the angled grass yellow, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found in Africa. The wingspan is 35–38 mm for males and 37–40 mm for females. Adults are on wing year-round, depending on rainfall. The larvae feed on Chamaecrista mimosoides and probably Hypericum aethiopicum. Subspecies Eurema desjardinsii desjardinsi (Madagascar, Comoro Islands) Eurema desjardinsii marshalli (Butler, 1898) (Kenya, South Africa) References Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate 22e Category:Butterflies described in 1833 Category:Eurema

Yōichi Komori

is a critic of Japanese Modern Literature and a social activist in Japan. He is currently a professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Early life Yoichi Komori was born into a family of a professional political activists on May 14, 1953, in Tokyo, Japan. His father Yoshio Komori (1926-2008, 小森良夫), had been the representative of Japanese Communist Party to the general headquarter of the World Federation of Trade Unions (Japanese: 世界労働組合連盟) in Praha, Czechoslovakia from 1961 to 1965 and Yoshio had been elected as the central member of Japanese Communist Party from 1977(1). Yoichi Komori’s mother Kyoko(b.1930, 小森香子), is a poet and a Communist social activist. Komori Yoichi’s grandfather， Shinobu Komori(1911-1962, 小森忍),was a well-known artist in sculpture and ceramics in modern Japanese art history. Education Komori had spent four years in Praha with his parents, where he received his elementary education in the Elementary School Attached to Russian Embassy and he returned to Japan in 1965. This experience had brought vexation on him after he returned from Praha to Tokyo in 1965 for his poor Japanese. Komori received his B.A. and master's degree in Japanese Literature at the national Hokkaido University, Japan. He finished his Ph.D. Course at the same university in 1982 and soon after that he got a tenured position as a lecturer at Seijo University in Tokyo, where he had been teaching till he moved to the University of Tokyo in 1988. He became full Professor of the University of Tokyo in 1998. Career Yōichi Komori made his debut with the following two influential books in the academia in Japan, which were published at the same time in March 1988, Kōzō toshiteno katari [Narrative as structure] and Buntai toshiteno monogatari [Stories as style]. With the new critical approaches and perspectives drawn from narratology and semiotics of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin and so on, he had made a totally new and convincing interpretation on the genealogy of Japanese modern novels in 1890s. He also has influenced by literary critic Ai Maeda (1931–87, 前田愛), the author of Kindai dokusha no seiritsu [The genealogy of modern readership] (1973), Toshi kūkan no bungaku [Text and the city: essays on Japanese modernity] (1982) and so on, As a literary historian, he is also known as a brilliant researcher for the literature of Soseki Natsume (1867-1916, 夏目漱石), the father of modern Japanese literature. Yōichi Komori is also very influential to the young Japanese literary historians for his theoretical and critical approaches in the research of modern novels. The critic Masaki Nakamasa (b.1963) points out that “a left turn” for Japanese postmodernism took place in 1992 or 1993, and can be seen in some postmodernist exponents like Tetsuya Takahashi, Yōichi Komori, Hidetaka Ishida, Tetsu Ukai (b.1955) and so on, who draw on modern European, and especially French, thoughts to criticize Japanese conservative power’s whitewashing of wartime crimes, the conservatives’ tendency to suppress historicity. Yōichi Komori represents the typical political application of postmodern theory, who draws on new methodology like semiotic theory, Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis and so forth to dig into historicity through consciousness and subconsciousness. In this sense Komori probably identifies himself as a historian in a broad sense. Yoichi Komori is also a well-known social activist in Japan. He had been the leading intellectual who protested against the injuring party’s toning down or deleting Japan’s history of invasion of East Asia in the “new Japanese history textbook controversies” from 1993 to early 2003. He is also one of the key founding members of the Article 9 Association (A9A), a nationwide civic movement against the conservative revision of the pacifist Japanese Constitution. A9A was established in June 2005 in the names of 9 famous senior intellectuals including Kenzaburō Ōe (b.1935，大江健三郎), the Noble Prize Laureate for Literature in 1968, the critic Shūichi Katō (1919-2008,加藤周一), Shunsuke Tsurumi (1922-2015, 鶴見俊輔), a well-known philosopher and an anti-war activist, and so on. As the chief of the Secretariat of A9A, Komori has been desperately attempting to expand further A9A groups irrespective of ideological or political differences and organize a majority of the public in defense of the peace constitution. References (1)Komori Yoshio, Shimin ha ikani senso ni doyin sareruka, (Tokyo:shinnihon shuppansha, 2008), 205. External links The Cultural History of Modern Japan [Iwanami Lecture Series] at iwanami.co.jp Category:1953 births Category:Japanese academics Category:Living people Category:Japanese literary critics Category:Hokkaido University alumni Category:Japanese poets Category:Japanese communists Category:Japanese activists

Cheryl Studer

Cheryl Studer (born October 24, 1955) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung at many of the world's foremost opera houses. Studer has performed more than eighty roles ranging from the dramatic repertoire to roles more commonly associated with lyric sopranos and coloratura sopranos, and, in her late stage, mezzo-sopranos. She is particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner. Early life and education Studer was born in Midland, Michigan, to Carl W. Studer and Elizabeth (born Smith) Studer, as one of three children. She studied piano and viola as a child, and began voice lessons at age 12 with Gwendolyn Pike, a local opera singer and voice teacher. She attended Herbert Henry Dow High School, then transferred to the Interlochen Arts Academy for her junior and senior years and graduated from there in 1974. Following high school, Studer studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music but left the program after a year, deciding to move with her family to Tennessee. She continued her studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance in 1979. Studer won several awards and competitions during this time, including the High Fidelity/Musical America Award in 1977 and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1978. In the summer of 1979, Studer attended a course for foreign students on the art of the German Lied at the Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria. In this program, Studer's teachers included Irmgard Seefried, Brigitte Fassbaender, and Hans Hotter. Hotter convinced Studer to remain in Europe to study further with him at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna. Studer studied with Hotter for one year before launching out on her professional career. In 1979, she won the Franz-Schubert-Institut-Preis for excellence in Lied interpretation. Vocation 1980s In 1981, Studer was hired as a permanent member of the Bavarian State Opera by Wolfgang Sawallisch. She remained with the company for two consecutive seasons, singing mostly minor roles in their productions. Her lead roles at the Bavarian State Opera included the title role in Carl Maria von Weber's Euryanthe and Mařenka The Bartered Bride. It was while working with the Bavarian State Opera that Studer was first encouraged to study the works of Richard Wagner and the dramatic soprano repertoire. Up to this point she had focused mostly on the bel canto repertoire, with her only foray into German repertoire up to that point being through Lieder. She made her professional opera debut with the company as Helmwige in Wagner's Die Walküre. At the end of the 1981-82 season, she left the Munich ensemble to join the Staatstheater Darmstadt for two seasons. In the spring of 1983, Studer took her first major role as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata with the Staatstheater Braunschweig. This was followed by two more important roles the following summer: Irene in Wagner's Rienzi and Drola in Wagner's Die Feen, under the direction of Wolfgang Sawallisch at the Bavarian State Opera's Summer Music Festival. In 1984, Studer left the Staatstheater Darmstadt to become a permanent member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble. She stayed with the company for two full seasons. She made her US opera debut the same year with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Micaëla in Carmen. In 1985, Studer performed as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser under Giuseppe Sinopoli at the Bayreuth Festival. Positive reviews of this performance quickly led Studer to more prominent leading roles. In 1986, Studer made her debut at the Liceu as Freia in Wagner's Das Rheingold and her debut at Opéra de Paris as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. That same year, she made her debut with the San Francisco Opera as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. In 1987, Studer made her debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser and her debut at La Scala as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. In 1988, Studer made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen. That same year she returned to La Scala to perform the role of Mathilde in Rossini's William Tell. She sang Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz at the Théâtre Musical de Paris. In 1989, she made her Vienna State Opera and Salzburg Festival debuts playing the same role, Chrysothemis in Richard Strauss' Elektra. That same year, Studer received the Grand Prix du Disque – Prix Maria Callas. Also in 1989, she returned to La Scala to perform the role of La Duchesse Hélène in Verdi's I vespri siciliani and made her debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. 1990s In 1990, Studer returned to the Metropolitan Opera to sing the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. That same year, Studer sang the role of Elsa in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at the Vienna State Opera. In 1991, Studer performed two more roles at the Met, Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo and Violetta in Verdi's La traviata. She sang the role of Gilda in act 3 of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera's 25th Anniversary Gala, opposite Luciano Pavarotti and Leo Nucci. In 1990, she also sang Odabella in Verdi's Attila at La Scala and Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Vienna State Opera. In 1995, she sang the role of Princess von Werdenberg in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier for the first time at the Salzburg Festival. Also in 1995, Studer appeared in concert with her hometown orchestra, the Midland Symphony Orchestra, in Midland, Michigan, during the orchestra's 60th anniversary season. In 1996, Studer sang the same role at the Vienna State Opera. That same year, Studer returned to the Royal Opera to sing the title role of Richard Strauss' Arabella and revisited the title role in Aïda opposite Waltraud Meier as Amneris in performances at the Bavarian State Opera. She sang Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio at the Salzburg Festival in 1997 conducted by Sir Georg Solti. In 1998, she sang Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Sieglinde in Die Walküre at the Bavarian State Opera. That same year she also sang Primadonna/Ariadne in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the Munich Nationaltheater. In July 1998, she sang a for the Richard Wagner Society at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus (Margravial or Margrave's Opera House) in Bayreuth celebrating the 250th anniversary of the house. During the late 1990s, Studer had a period of vocal problems that led to the Bavarian State Opera canceling her contracts in 1998, but after a brief time off the stage, her performances indicated a return to form and the Bavarian State Opera renewed her contract for fourteen more performances. 2000s In 2000 Studer returned to the Metropolitan Opera to sing the role of Princess von Werdenberg (the Marschallin) in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. That same year, Studer sang the title role of Richard Strauss' Arabella at the Zürich Opera. She also filled in as a last minute Sieglinde in Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival substituting for an ailing Waltraud Meier. In 2000, she also sang Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by David Zinman substituting for an ailing Claudio Abbado. She also sang the Walküre Brünnhilde' in concert in Budapest with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Iván Fischer. In February 2001, Studer sang the role of the Kaiserin (Empress) in Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Dresden Semperoper conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli. She revisited the role at the Vienna State Opera in 2002 in the Robert Carsen production. Around this time, Studer also sang back-to-back performances of the Kaiserin and the Marschallin at the Semperoper conducted by . In June 2001, Studer sang Elisabeth in performances of Werner Herzog's production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Studer can be heard singing the "Ave Maria" from Verdi's Otello in the soundtrack to the 2001 Hollywood film, O. In February 2002 she made a rare U.S. appearance singing Isolde's "Liebestod" with the Indianapolis Symphony. In January 2003, Studer sang the soprano part in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Berlin during UNESCO's official designation of the symphony's manuscript as Memory of the World. Also in 2003, she gave a "In Memoriam Maria Callas" in Athens, Greece, with pianist Charles Spencer, featuring songs and Lieder by Verdi, Wagner, Barber, Richard Strauss, and Copland. In March 2004, Studer sang her first complete Isolde in three concert performances of the work, in Münster, Germany. Before these complete Isoldes, she had sung excerpts from all three acts of Tristan und Isolde in Gießen, Germany (in 1999). In October 2005, Studer sang the role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's first-ever Ring Cycle in China, at Beijing's Poly Theatre. The cycle was produced by Stephen Lawless for the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the performances were conducted by Philippe Auguin. In November 2005 it was reported, but never confirmed, that Studer had suffered a mild heart attack, forcing her to cancel a number of scheduled concerts in Spain. In June 2007, Studer gave a series of Masterclasses and an all-Richard Strauss Lieder recital with pianist Semyon Skigin in St. Petersburg, Russia. In August 2007, also with pianist Semyon Skigin, she sang an all-Richard Strauss Lieder recital at Villa Wahnfried, Bayreuth. In February 2008, Studer gave a Lieder recital at Teatro Villamarta in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain with pianist Jonathan Alder, featuring Lieder by Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. Later that year in October 2008, Studer gave another Lieder recital at Drake University with pianist Nicholas Roth, featuring songs and Lieder by Rossini, Ravel, Massenet, Albéniz, Brahms, Barber, and Richard Strauss. In November 2008, she gave another recital in Germany with Dutch pianist featuring Lieder by Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. In August 2009, Studer sang Richard Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder in Berlin, Germany as part of the short-lived Berlin International Music Festival. conducted the Festival orchestra. 2010–present On 9 July 2010, Studer made her directorial debut in a new production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the in Würzburg, Germany. In May 2011, she won the Terras sam Sombra International Prize. Later that year, in November 2011, she appeared in concert in Nuremberg and Antwerp, Belgium, with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Music Director, Alexander Shelley. The all-Wagner concerts, also featuring Belgian bass-baritone Wilfried Van den Brande, were recorded and will be released as part of the orchestra's "Nürnberger Symphoniker Live" series. Studer has begun a transition into a lower voice range. In December 2011 she appeared as Gertrud in performances of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel at the Hamburg State Opera. She revisited the role in 2013, also in Hamburg. In 2012 she was a recipient of the Ovation Award by the Interlochen Center for the Arts. In 2014, she played Adelaide in Richard Strauss' Arabella at the Hamburg State Opera. Also in 2014, she presided over the 38th International Maria Callas Grand Prix for Opera to be held in Athens, Greece. In October 2016 Studer sang the Overseer/Confidant (Die Vertraute/Die Aufseherin) in the late Patrice Chéreau's production of Richard Strauss' Elektra at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In December 2016, she sang the role of Nettie Fowler in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Carousel at Theater Basel in Switzerland, in a run of performances through April 2017. In September 2018, Studer sang the contralto role of Mamma Lucia in a new production of Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria rusticana at Oper Graz in Austria. The performances were recorded and released by the Oehms Classics label. Masterclasses, opera workshops, adjudication Since October 2003, Studer teaches at the University of Music in Würzburg. She is also honorary professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Studer conducts a yearly series of master classes and opera workshops at her own North Aegean Music Festival in the island of Lesbos, Greece. She conducts Master Classes internationally (USA, Greece, South Korea, China, Spain, Italy and Germany). Personal life Studer is married to Greek tenor Michalis Doukakis and has lived in Germany for most of her life. From previous marriages, Studer has two daughters, Elsa and Senta, named after characters from Richard Wagner operas. The elder, Senta, is a pop music singer. Her first solo album, Happy, was released in January 2014. Discography Complete opera recordings Aida in Verdi's Aida, recorded 6/94, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Edward Downes, Pioneer Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, recorded 5/91, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Sony Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, recorded 1–2/94, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Chrysothemis in Richard Strauss' Elektra, recorded 6/89, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Pioneer Chrysothemis in Strauss' Elektra, recorded 1/90, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, EMI Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, recorded 5/93, Opéra Bastille, Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, recorded 9/90, Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti, EMI Drolla in Wagner's Die Feen, recorded 7/83, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Orfeo Elena in Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, recorded 12/89–1/90, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Fonit Cetra Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded '88, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Grammophon Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded '89, Bayreuth Festival, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Philips Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, recorded 6/90, Bayreuth Festival, Peter Schneider, Philips Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, recorded '90, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, recorded 4/93, Bavarian State Opera, Wolfgang Sawallisch, EMI Florinda in Schubert's Fierrabras, recorded 5/88, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto act 3, recorded 9/91, Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, recorded 6/93, Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon Giulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, recorded 87/88/89, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Jeffrey Tate, Philips Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, recorded 5/89, Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon Hanna Glawari in Lehár's Die Lustige Witwe, recorded 1/94, Wiener Philharmoniker, John Eliot Gardiner, Deutsche Grammophon Irene in Wagner's Rienzi, recorded 7/83, Bavarian State Opera, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Orfeo Jessonda in Spohr's Jessonda, recorded '84, Austrian Radio Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht, Voce Kaiserin (Empress) in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, recorded 2–12/87, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, EMI Kaiserin (Empress) in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, recorded '92, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti, Salzburg Festival, DECCA/London Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, recorded 4/91, Wiener Symphoniker, Bruno Weil, Sony Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, recorded 8/90, London Symphony Orchestra, Ion Marin, Deutsche Grammmophon Madama Cortese in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims, recorded 10/92, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Sony Mamma Lucia in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, recorded 2018/2019, Oper Graz/Graz Philharmonic, Oksana Lyniv, Oehms Classics Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, recorded 2/91, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson, EMI Matilde in Rossini's Guglielmo Tell, recorded 12/88, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, EMI Odabella in Verdi's Attila, recorded 6–7/89, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, EMI Odabella in Verdi's Attila, recorded 6/90, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Home Vision Ortlinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, recorded 8/81, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Marek Janowski, Eurodisc Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, recorded 7/89, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Philips Salomé in Massenet's Hérodiade, recorded 11–12/94, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson, EMI Salome in Strauss' Salome, recorded 12/90, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Grammophon Semiramide in Rossini's Semiramide, recorded 7/92, London Symphony Orchestra, Ion Marin, Deutsche Grammophon Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, recorded 1/91, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Grammophon Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, recorded 2–3/88, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, EMI Susannah in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, recorded 3/94, Opéra de Lyon, Kent Nagano, Virgin Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, recorded 1/91, Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg, recorded 1983, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht, Koch-Schwann Concert recordings Samuel Barber Complete Songs, recorded 9/92, John Browning, Thomas Hampson, Emerson String Quartet, Deutsche Grammophon Beethoven's Missa solemnis, recorded 8/91, Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg Festival, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon Beethoven in Berlin ("Ah! perfido"/Choral Fantasy/Egmont), recorded 12/91, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, recorded 4/89, Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, EMI Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, recorded 10/92, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Bruckner's Mass in F minor / Mozart's Vespers, recorded 3/77, MIT Choral Society, John Oliver, private issue LP Donizetti's Messa da Requiem, recorded 1/84, Bamberger Symphoniker, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Orfeo Mahler's Das klagende Lied, recorded 11/90, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Grammophon Mahler's Symphony No. 2, recorded 11/92, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Mahler's Symphony No. 8, recorded 11–12/90, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Grammophon Mahler's Symphony No. 8, recorded 1/94, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Schubert Lieder, recorded 1/90, Irwin Gage, Deutsche Grammophon von Schweinitz's Messe, Op. 21, recorded 7/84, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht, Wergo Strauss Choral Works, recorded 9/84, RIAS Kammerchor, Uwe Gronostay, Marcus Creed, Deutsche Schallplatten Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder/Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Isolde's "Liebestod", recorded 1/93, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Grammophon Verdi's Messa da Requiem, recorded 6/87, Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, EMI Verdi's Messa da Requiem, recorded 11/91, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Wagner, Isolde's "Liebestod", recorded 1/88, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate, EMI Wagner Gala (Tannhäuser/Lohengrin/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg/Die Walküre), recorded 12/93, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Deutsche Grammophon Covent Garden Gala (Otello/La traviata/Die Fledermaus), recorded 7/88, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Barker, EMI First Europakonzert in Prague (Mozart: Non mi dir/Ch'io mi scordi di te? – Non temer, amato bene), recorded 5/91, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Sony The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991, recorded 9/91, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, Deutsche Grammophon DVD Salzburg Recital (Strauss/Schubert/Debussy), recorded 8/92, Irwin Gage, Deutsche Grammophon Johan Botha Wiener Staatsoper Live: Beethoven | Wagner | Strauss (Atmest du nicht, from act 3 of Lohengrin), recorded 2/97, Wiener Staatsoper, Simone Young, Orfeo International Solo recordings Coloratura Arias by Bellini (La sonnambula/Norma), Verdi (La traviata/Il trovatore), Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor/Lucrezia Borgia), Rossini (Il barbiere di Seviglia/Semiramide), recorded 4/89, Munich Radio Orchestra, Gabriele Ferro, EMI Sacred Works (J. S. Bach/Schubert/Mendelssohn/Handel/Mozart/Gounod/Fauré/Poulenc/Bernstein/Bruch), recorded 3/91, London Symphony Orchestra, Ion Marin, Deutsche Grammophon Mozart Arias (Die Entführung aus dem Serail/Die Zauberflöte/Idomeneo/Le nozze di Figaro/Don Giovanni/La clemenza di Tito/Così fan tutte), recorded 9/89, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Philips Schubert Lieder, recorded 6/90, Irwin Gage, piano, Deutsche Grammophon References External links Category:1955 births Category:People from Midland, Michigan Category:Living people Category:American operatic sopranos Category:Singers from Michigan Category:Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni Category:Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni Category:University of Tennessee alumni Category:American expatriates in Germany Category:Classical musicians from Michigan

R. Andrew Lee

R. Andrew Lee (born 1982, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri) is an American pianist of contemporary classical music, with a particular emphasis on Minimal music and music of the Wandelweiser collective. He has recorded ten albums for Irritable Hedgehog Music. Education R. Andrew Lee received a BM in piano performance from Truman State University in 2004, where he studied under Dr. David McKamie. He continued his education in piano performance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he met David McIntire, with whom he would eventually help launch Irritable Hedgehog Music. Lee cites McIntire as having introduced him to William Duckworth's The Time Curve Preludes, which sparked his interest in minimalist music. Lee received his MM in 2006 and his DMA in 2011 from UMKC. Career R. Andrew Lee began his career as Artist-in-Residence at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri in January 2009. On 30 October 2010, he released his first album with Irritable Hedgehog Music, Tom Johnson: An Hour for Piano. This album, the first recording of An Hour for Piano to be exactly one hour, also marked the first release for Irritable Hedgehog. In August 2011, Lee took a position at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, becoming the Associate University Minister for Liturgical & Sacred Music. There he oversees music for liturgical celebrations while also teaching in the music department. Lee continued to record for Irritable Hedgehog, garnering increasing attention from critics. His third album, William Duckworth: The Time Curve Preludes was named by a 2012 Critics' Choice by Gramophone Magazine. His fifth album, Dennis Johnson: November was named by Steve Smith of Time Out NY as the best classical album of 2013, and his sixth album, Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music was selected by Alex Ross of The New Yorker as one of ten notable classical recordings of 2013. Lee has performed across the United States, including cities such as Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Chicago, Boston and New York. He has also performed abroad in Canada, England, France, Belgium, and Italy. As a performer, Lee has taken an interest in music of an extended duration, performing and commissioning works that are often multiple hours long. Writing The intersection of temporality is a primary research avenue for R. Andrew Lee, having published work with the CeReNeM Journal. Lee also writes reviews and opinion pieces for NewMusicBox and I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Personal life Lee currently resides in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and three children. He takes "grilling and drinking seriously" and also notes a "penchant for interesting socks." Discography Adrian Knight: Obsessions - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2016 Paul A. Epstein: Piano Music - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2015 Jay Batzner: as if to each other - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2015 Jürg Frey: Pianist, Alone - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2014 Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2013 Dennis Johnson: November - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2013 Jürg Frey: Piano Music - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2012 William Duckworth: The Time Curve Preludes - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2011 Ann Southam: Soundings for a New Piano - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2011 Tom Johnson: An Hour for Piano - Irritable Hedgehog Music, 2010 References External links Official Website Irritable Hedgehog Label Interview on The Next Track podcast Category:1982 births Category:21st-century classical pianists Category:American classical pianists Category:Avant-garde pianists Category:Living people Category:Avila University faculty Category:21st-century American musicians Category:American male pianists Category:21st-century American male musicians Category:21st-century American pianists

2012–13 AC Ajaccio season

The 2012-13 season was AC Ajaccio's 95th season. Transfers In Out Current squad and statistics |} Friendly matches Ligue 1 League table Results summary Results by round Matches Coupe de France Coupe de la Ligue Statistics Top scorers References 2012-13 season Ajaccio

Anthony O'Sullivan (hurler)

Anthony O'Sullivan (born 24 November 1966) is an Irish retired hurler who played for Cork Championship club Bishopstown. He played for the Cork senior hurling team for one season, during which time he usually lined out as a right wing-forward. Honours University College Cork Fitzgibbon Cup (2): 1988, 1990 Bishopstown Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 1992 Cork All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1990 Munster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1990 References Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of University College Cork Category:Bishopstown hurlers Category:UCC hurlers Category:Cork inter-county hurlers

Viburnum carlesii

Viburnum carlesii (common names arrowwood, Korean spice viburnum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae (formerly Caprifoliaceae), native to Korea and Japan (Tsushima Island) and naturalised in Ohio, USA. Growing to tall and broad, it is a bushy deciduous shrub with oval leaves which are copper-coloured when young. Round clusters of red buds open to strongly scented, pale pink flowers in late spring. These are followed in late summer by oval red fruits ripening to black in autumn. The Latin specific epithet carlesii refers to William Richard Carles (1848–1929), a plant collector in Korea. The cultivars 'Aurora' and ‘Diana’ have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. References Category:Flora of Japan Category:Flora of Korea carlesii

Kanpur railway station

Kanpur Junction (also known as Kanpur Purana) was a former station in Kanpur on the Kanpur-Allahabad railway line opened in 1859 and closed after the opening of Kanpur Central, the present station. History After the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bombay and Thane, this was the fourth railway line in India opened from Allahabad to Kanpur (180 km) on 3 March 1859, which was the first passenger railway line in North India. This was followed in 1889, by the Delhi - Ambala - Kalka line. References Category:Railway stations in Kanpur Category:Railway junction stations in India Category:Railway stations opened in 1859 Category:Allahabad railway division Category:Defunct railway stations in India

1240 AM

The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1240 kHz: 1240 AM is a regional (Class B) frequency outside the coterminous 48 United States (AK, HI, PR & U.S. VI), and a local frequency (Class C) within the coterminous 48 United States. In Argentina Cadena Uno in Argentina LRI218 Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires In Canada In Mexico XEBQ-AM in Guaymas, Sonora XECG-AM in Nogales, Sonora XERD-AM in Pachuca, Hidalgo XES-AM in Tampico, Tamaulipas (moved to FM) XEWG-AM in Cd.Juarez, Chihuahua In the United States See also CONELRAD References Category:Lists of radio stations by frequency

Isaac Rosefelt

Isaac Daniel "Ike" Rosefelt (; born May 3, 1985) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. He played college basketball for Bowling Green Falcons and St. Thomas Tommies before playing professionally in Spain, Portugal, France and Israel, where he was named four-time Israeli League All-Star. Early life and college career Rosefelt was born on May 3, 1985, in Washington, D.C. He was adopted at the age of two months by a Jewish family and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rosefelt attended Saint Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. He played college basketball for Bowling Green State University's Falcons and University of St. Thomas's Tommies. In his senior year at St. Thomas, Rosefelt averaged 17.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game. Rosefelt was a two-time D3hoops.com All-America selection. On March 21, 2006, Rosefelt was named NABC All-American. On September 17, 2013, Rosefelt was inducted into the University of St. Thomas Athletic Hall of Fame. Professional career On July 31, 2007, Rosefelt started his professional career in Spain, signing a one-year deal with Córdoba of the LEB Bronce. On November 28, 2008, Rosefelt signed with the Portuguese team Académica de Coimbra for the 2008–09 season. However, in March 2009, Rosefelt parted ways with Académica and joined the French team Denek for the rest of the season. On November 23, 2009, Rosefelt signed with the Israeli team Bnei Hasharon for the 2009–10 season. On October 5, 2010, Rosefelt signed with Ironi Ramat Gan of the Liga Leumit for the 2010–11 season. On December 13, 2011, Rosefelt returned to Bnei Hasharon for a second stint, signing for the rest of the season. On April 1, 2012, Rosefelt recorded a career-high 28 points, shooting 11-of-14 from the field, along with 15 rebounds in an 84-81 win over Barak Netanya. He was subsequently named Israeli League Player of the Week. Rosefelt finished the season as the Israeli League second leading player in rebounds (9.2 per game), just behind Bryant Dunston. On June 1, 2012, Rosefelt signed a one-year contract extension with Bnei Hasharon. On June 30, 2013, Rosefelt signed a two-year deal with Hapoel Holon. On October 13, 2014, Rosefelt recorded 13 points and sets an Israeli Premier League single-game record with 26 rebounds in an 89-72 win over Hapoel Gilboa Galil. On October 31, 2014, Rosefelt was named Israeli League Player of the Month for games played in October. On July 3, 2016, Rosefelt signed with Hapoel Jerusalem for the 2016–17 season. Roseflet went on to win the 2016 Israeli League Cup and the 2017 Israeli League Championship with Jerusalem. On July 12, 2017, Rosefelt signed with Hapoel Eilat for the 2017–18 season. On June 5, 2018, Rosefelt recorded a season-high 22 points, shooting 10-of-16 from the field, along with 7 rebounds in an 87–70 win over his former team Hapoel Holon. Rosefelt helped Eilat to reach the 2018 Israeli League Playoffs, where they eventually lost to Hapoel Holon. On July 18, 2018, Rosefelt signed a one-year deal with Maccabi Ashdod. On July 17, 2019, Rosefelt signed with Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli National League, joining his former head coach Elad Hasin. On September 9, 2019, Rosefelt parted ways with Hapoel Haifa due to personal reasons. Career statistics Domestic Leagues Source: Basket.co.il & RealGM.com References External links RealGM profile Basket.co.il profile Agent website Category:1985 births Category:Living people Category:American expatriate basketball people in France Category:American expatriate basketball people in Israel Category:American expatriate basketball people in Portugal Category:American expatriate basketball people in Spain Category:Sportspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Basketball players from Minnesota Category:Bnei HaSharon players Category:Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball players Category:Centers (basketball) Category:Hapoel Eilat basketball players Category:Hapoel Holon players Category:Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. players Category:Ironi Ramat Gan players Category:Israeli men's basketball players Category:Maccabi Ashdod B.C. players Category:St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies men's basketball players Category:Sportspeople from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Euthalia amanda

Euthalia amanda, the Sulawesi gaudy baron, is butterfly endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. Subspecies E. a. amanda (Sulawesi, Buton) E. a. selayarensis Tsukada, 1991 (Selayar) E. a. periya Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Banggai) E. a. irauana Jumalon, 1975 (Palawan) External links Butterflies of Southeastern Sulawesi amanda Category:Butterflies of Indonesia Category:Butterflies described in 1862

Fuyu no Amaoto / Night Parade

"Fuyu no Amaoto / Night Parade" is FLOW's thirteenth single. "Night Parade" is a collaboration between FLOW and Home Made Kazoku. The single has two editions: regular and limited. The limited edition includes a bonus DVD. It reached #19 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 4 weeks. * Track listing Bonus DVD Track listing References Category:2007 singles Category:Ki/oon Music singles Category:Flow (band) songs Category:2007 songs

Thick as Thieves (Spiegelman novel)

Thick as Thieves is a 2011 novel by American author Peter Spiegelman. The book is the fifth novel by Spiegelman and was released on July 26, 2011 in the United States through Knopf. The story surrounds a group of thieves following their reluctant leader Carr as he plans a million-dollar heist of a criminals compound. The novel was well received. Plot Thick as Thieves follows a group of high-end criminals and their reluctant leader Carr. Carr was inducted as a thief by the group's previous leader, Declan (aka "Deke") who died during the getaway from their previous job, and feels that he is not the right person to take over the role, despite this having been Declans overall intention for him. The group plan to steal millions of dollars from a former hedge fund manager named Curtis Prager, who is now engaging in large amounts of illegal activity. Publication history 2011, USA, Knopf , pub date July 26, 2011, Hardback 2011, Dreamscape Media , pub date July 26, 2011, Audiobook 2011, UK, Quercus , pub date September 1, 2011, Hardback Reception The book was well received, with reviewers praising Spiegelman's prose and ability to create an interesting story using a clichéd premise. Tom Nolan, for the Wall Street Journal, stated that "there's no dearth of heart-pounding, pulse-racing, stomach-dropping moments" in the novel. He also praised the prose, stating that "Mr. Spiegelman describes things with flair", finding that "Such prose creates a special tension and pictorial vividness, to add to the book's intelligently structured thriller plot", concluding that "readers may find themselves lingering over many of these well-wrought phrases before racing to the final exciting page." Kirkus Reviews also praised Speigelmans writing, finding the novel to be "Character-driven with a protagonist as enigmatic as he is compelling. But what really sets this apart is the quality of Spiegelman's writing"; "it's not every day genre prose gets that kind of polish." Bruce Tierney, for BookPage, called the story a "genre-defining heist novel", concluding that "Thick as Thieves is a superbly crafted tale, pulsing with tension, twisty as a corkscrew and positively demanding to be read in one sitting." Rob Brunner, for Entertainment Weekly, awarded the novel a score of "B+", stating that while the novel features "some stock characters and a premise as clichéd as its title", it is also a "well-constructed crime thriller". Brunner goes on to state that he found the novel to be "a complex, satisfying tale" and praised "Spiegelman's sharp prose and deft plotting". Awards and nominations The novel was recognised Kirkus Reviews editor Elaine Szewczyk as one of the "Best Fiction novels of 2011". References Category:2011 American novels Category:Novels by Peter Spiegelman

1906–07 Ethnikos G.S. Athens season

1905-06 was Ethnikos' second season of organised football, competing in the second Panhellenic Championship, in which the club came first. Panhellenic Championship All Matches Squad References Empros Newspaper, 19 February 1907 issue (Page 2, Greek) Empros Newspaper, 25 February 1907 issue (Page 2, Greek) Category:1906–07 in Greek football

Rhodacarus marksae

Rhodacarus marksae is a species of mite in the family Rhodacaridae. References Category:Arachnids Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Animals described in 1957

Vuk Vrčević

Vuk Vrčević (, Risan, 26 February 1811 – Dubrovnik, 13 August 1882) was a Montenegrin Serb collector of lyric poetry and companion of Vuk Karadžić, the famed linguist and reformer of the Serbian language. He also translated into Serbian the poetical work of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapessi, better known by his pseudonym Metastasio (1698–1782). Biography Vuk Vrčević was born at Risan in Bay of Kotor, then under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy, on 26 February 1811. His family was of Serbian origin, and was settled in Boka Kotorska from time immemorial. His parents were in poor circumstances, and he owed his education to his own perseverance. He early developed a gift for languages, becoming familiar not only with Old Slavonic, Russian and Greek, but also Turkish, Latin, Italian, French and German (thus mastering all the languages spoken by the foreign invaders of his Serbian homeland during the early stages of the 19th century). When he was twenty years old Vrčević's father, a well-respected clerk and schoolteacher who was battling tuberculosis, died suddenly in 1831, leaving his mother and 13 siblings in his care. That same year they all moved to Budva, where Vrčević's first job was in a merchant's office as an agent of a trading company, thanks to his uncle's connections. In 1835 Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was living in nearby Kotor at the time. It was there that Vrčević first made an acquaintance with the great man who had already started to reform and standardize the Serbian language, and became his lifelong collaborator in collecting national folk-songs and tales. Together with Vuk Popović he collected srbulje in Herzegovina and Montenegro. Three Vuks (Karadžić, Popović and Vrčević) with support of Russian scholars collected almost all remaining srbulje from Montenegro. Europe had scarcely found respite from the campaigns of Napoleon when Karadžić first reduced Serbian national poems to writing, rescuing these pesme from that state of oral tradition in which they had remained for ages. For the next six years Vrčević continued to work for the Budva traders and collaborated with Karadżić as well. In 1841 he decided to become a civil servant in Budva and married a girl from Kotor. The revolutionary movement of 1848 had marked Boka Kotorska to a degree. Vrčević was obliged to quit his post and he became a translator at a Kotor tribunal. Vrečević's career as a man of letters appears to have turned almost by accident; his fine voice gained him a place in the Cetinje household of Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro in 1852, and by-and-by, having already some reputation as a Latinist, he was chosen to teach Danilo, the nephew of Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Italian, then an important language in the Venetian-occupied, Serbian-speaking Adriatic region. The prince immediately took him and his wife and children under his protection. But this idyllic situation did not remain for long. In 1855 an Austria invasion of Montenegro became imminent and Vrčević decided to leave Cetinje for Zadar, the capital of Dalmatia. Before he left, the prince showed Vrčević further favour by bestowing on him the habit of the military order of the Independence of Montenegro (Order of Prince Danilo I). Upon his arrival at Zadar he received an appointment in the City Hall, a clerkship that offered more solid prospects, in the Dalmatian revenue administration. For the next five years he worked hard and his eyesight began to fail. Through the influence of Austrian Baron Lazar Mamula (1795–1878), then Governor of Dalmatia (1850–1868), Vrčević was in 1861 appointed Austrian vice-consul at Trebinje in Herzegovina, considered one of the most volatile regions in Europe. No sooner had he entered on his new duties than his great capacity for arduous work was put to a test. Besides events in the Serbian Vojvodina and the new repercussions from the Magyars, to which he had to devote much attention, the Herzegovinian insurrection, led by Luka Vukalović in 1852, had broken-out once again (1861–1862), and Vrčević could perceive from secret official dispatches and from his own personal contacts that the incident was bound to have far-reaching ramifications sooner or later. Vrčević passed the remainder of his life in the vice-consular office in Trebinje. He died at Dubrovnik on 13 August 1882. He was honoured with special recognition from the Serbian Learned Society (inducted on 21 January 1868), and was a particular favourite of Milan I of Serbia and Nicholas I of Montenegro, who made him historiographer royal. Work and legacy Vrčević began his literary career by publishing translations from the poetic work of Italian poet Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym Metastasio in 1839. In Montenegro he wrote Moralno zabavne i saljivo poučno zagonetke. Ascension songs (Spasovske pesme) disappeared quite early. Vuk Vrčević managed to record the surviving remnants of the ancient tradition while in Montenegro (Budva) and sent them to Vuk Karadžić, who included them in the already completed text of his first volume of folk songs on the basis of their aesthetic quality and unique character. At the time comic tales were neglected for the sole reason that such tales did not enhance the evolution of mythological subjects, and often referred as refuse of golden tradition. With Vrčević, however, an exception was made. He supplied the first classification of comic tales. In Herzegovina Vrčević came in touch with the Serb Moslem folk at Trebinje in 1861. (After the Turks overran the Serb lands, namely Herzegovina and Bosnia in the 15th century, the people found it to their temporal advantage to become Moslems). Vrčević wrote to Vuk Karadžić that he had heard of Stolac a place which excels in "Turks who are most skilled in singing folk songs in Herzegovina, but I do not know how to bring one to Trebinje, or how to get there myself both things being equally hard." With an almost modern realism Vrčević reproduced the motley world of the old, oral tradition of the guslars, at the same time not losing sight of their literary value. After all, they came to express the deep heart of a Serbian nation, through centuries of tempest and travail. In 1866 in Trebinje, Herzegovina, he wrote Srpske Narodne Pesme u Herzegovini (Serbian National Poems) and Tužbalice (Laments). Two books of his were published in 1868 by the Srpsko naučno društvo (Serbian Learned Society) in Belgrade: Srpske narodne pripovetke, kratke i šaljive (Serbian Folk Tales, Short and Humorous) and Narodne igre (National Dances). In 1870 two more books were published in Belgrade by the same society: Junačke pesme (Heroic Poems), and Narodne poslovice (National Proverbs). He published in Belgrade many Serbian translations of foreign works, but his chief glory was the collection of national songs which he sent to Vuk Karadžić for publication in Vienna. References Sources Jovan Skerlić, Istorije nove srpske kniževnosti (Belgrade, 1921), pages 239–275 Hrvatska Lipa Magazine, Vol. I, No. 28, 1875, pages 228 and 233. Милићевић, Милан Ђ. (1888). Поменик знаменитих људи у српског народа новијега доба. Гавриловић, Андра (2008). Знаменити Срби XIX вијека. Београд: Научна КМД. 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2008 Cerezo Osaka season

2008 Cerezo Osaka season Competitions Domestic results J. League 2 Emperor's Cup Player statistics Other pages J. League official site Cerezo Osaka Category:Cerezo Osaka seasons

Pannella List

The Pannella List (, LP) is a liberal and libertarian association, which was also the electoral list of the Italian Radicals between 1992 and 1999, when it was replaced by the Bonino List. Its standard-bearer was Marco Pannella (who died in 2016), who had been the main leader of the Radical Party (PR) from 1963 to 1989, and later of the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals. The List still functions as an association in charge of some of the Radical assets, notably including the party's headquarters and Radio Radicale. History In 1989 the PR was transformed into the Transnational Radical Party, an NGO working at the UN-level and coordinating the efforts of several national parties and groupings mainly in support of human rights. Individual Radicals, who always had the right to "double membership" (i.e. being members of another party), joined different parties, while remaining committed members of the PR/PRT. In that year's European Parliament election, Pannella ran in the Liberal–Republican joint list, Marco Taradash launched the "Anti-prohibition List on Drugs", several joined the Rainbow Greens (Francesco Rutelli, Adelaide Aglietta, etc.), and Giovanni Negri was a candidate for the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. In the run-up of the 1992 general election the Rainbow Greens joined forces with the Federation of Green Lists to form a full-fledged party named Federation of the Greens, and other Radicals (Marcello Pera, Massimo Teodori, etc.) launched the "Yes Referendum" list, while the bulk of the former PR joined Pannella and organised themselves in the Pannella Clubs' Movement (which would field lists for Italian elections from 1992 to 1999). In the election the LP won 1.2% of the vote, while Yes Referendum stopped at 0.8% and the newly formed Federation of the Greens 2.8%. The PR had historically been considered a left-libertarian party and often proposed itself as the most extreme opposition to the Italian political establishment, thus, when Silvio Berlusconi entered the political arena in 1994, Pannella decided to form an alliance with him in order to start an (economically) "liberal revolution", as opposed to the conservative and statist political establishment. The LP's alliance with Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) was, however, controversial and temporary. In the 1994 general election the LP won 3.5% of the vote (despite not being present in some key regions), below the required threshold, but still had six deputies elected from FI lists, plus two senators. The Radicals were not involved in Berlusconi's first government (1994–1999), but the elected Radical deputies and senators sat with FI and Emma Bonino, the Radicals' number two, was appointed to the European Commission. The twisted relationship between Pannella and Berlusconi, whose allies included socially conservative parties opposed to the Radicals (notably including National Alliance), soon ended. Following the 1994 European Parliament election, the two Radical MEPs formed the European Radical Alliance group with MEPs from the French Radical Energy and some of the European Free Alliance's regionalist member parties. For the 1996 general election Pannella teamed up with Vittorio Sgarbi. In the election, during which most of the protest and libertarian votes were attracted by Lega Nord, the Pannella–Sgarbi List won a mere 1.9%, resulting in the election of only a senator, Pietro Milio. In the run-up of the 1999 European Parliament election, the LP was replaced by the Bonino List. The new list was named after Bonino because of the popularity that the European Commissioner had acquired during her term (1995–1999) and the subsequent "Emma for President" campaign. In 2001 the LP was replaced by the newly formed Italian Radicals as the main Radical political outfit in Italy. After that, the List continued to be active only as an association sponsoring Radical campaigns (including Bonino List's electoral campaigns) and managing Radical assets, notably including the PR/PRT's headquarters and Radio Radicale, the party's FM radio. After Pannella's death in May 2016, Maurizio Turco and Laura Arconti were elected president and secretary of the association, respectively. Electoral results Italian Parliament European Parliament Leadership President: Marco Pannella (1992–2016), Maurizio Turco (2016–present) Secretary: Maurizio Turco (1992–1995), Danilo Quinto (1995–2005), Maurizio Turco (2005–2016), Laura Arconti (2016–present) References Category:Liberal parties in Italy Category:Radical parties in Italy Category:Federalist parties in Italy Category:Libertarianism in Italy Category:Libertarian parties

2005–06 Sheffield United F.C. season

During the 2005–06 English football season, Sheffield United competed in the Football League Championship. Season summary The 2005–06 season was Sheffield United's twelfth straight season at the second level of the English football pyramid – a period longer than any other team currently in the Championship, and their longest spell in any Division since 1934. After beating Cardiff City 1–0 on Good Friday and never being outside of the top two places all season, the Blades required only one point from their final three games to secure their promotion. A day later, however, Leeds United failed to beat Reading at Elland Road, which saw Sheffield United promoted back to the Premiership after many disappointments in the previous few seasons. Kit United's kit was manufactured by French company Le Coq Sportif and sponsored by HFS Loans. Players First-team squad Squad at end of season Left club during season } Reserve squad The following players did not appear for the first-team this season. Transfers In Summer Winter Final league table Results Sheffield United's score comes first Legend Football League Championship FA Cup League Cup References Notes Sheffield United 2005-06

Mujibul Huq

Mujibul Huq was a Bangladesh civil servant and recipient of the Independence Day Award of Bangladesh. Early life Huq was born in Banaripara, Barisal. He studied in Dhaka University and was involved in the Language Movement of 1952. He taught in University of Dhaka for a while. Career Huq joined the Pakistan civil service in 1954. After the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, he served as the secretary in a number of ministries including the defense ministry. He was the chairman of the National Pay Commission. He retired in 1988 as the cabinet secretary. In 1993 he was awarded the Atishdipankar Gold Medal. In 2005 he was awarded the Independence Day Award. He was a member of the Nagorik Committee in 2006. Death Huq died on 12 January 2014. References Category:2014 deaths Category:People from Barisal District Category:University of Dhaka alumni Category:University of Dhaka faculty

Dyschirius assegaaicus

Dyschirius assegaaicus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was described by Fedorenko in 2000. References Category:Dyschirius Category:Beetles described in 2000

Filippo Bubbico

Filippo Bubbico (born 26 February 1954) is an Italian politician and the president of Basilicata from 2000 to 2005. Biography After graduating with a degree in architecture in 1979 at the Sapienza University in Rome, Bubbico joined the Italian Communist Party, with which he held the office of mayor of his hometown Montescaglioso from 1980 to 1985. In 1985, Bubbico entered for the first time in the Regional Council of Basilicata and in 1987 he became provincial secretary of the Italian Communist Party in Matera. He later joined the Democratic Party of the Left and then the Democrats of the Left. President of Basilicata At the regional elections in Basilicata in 2000 Bubbico candidates for the Presidency of Basilicata at the head of a centre-left coalition of The Olive Tree. Bubbico was elected President with 63% of the votes. He remained in office until 2005, when he was succeeded by Vito De Filippo. Senator, Undersecretary and Deputy Minister At the 2006 general election, Bubbico is elected Senator, supported by The Union coalition, leaving the office once he is appointed Undersecretary to the Ministry of Economic Development, under the guidance of Pier Luigi Bersani, in the Prodi II Cabinet. Bubbico is re-elected Senator at the 2008 election and the 2013 election with the Democratic Party. From 2013 to 2017, Bubbico has been appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Interior in the Letta, Renzi and Gentiloni cabinets. Bubbico ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies at the 2018 election with Free and Equal, but failed the election. References External links Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): XV, XVI, XVII legislature. Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:Italian Communist Party politicians Category:Article One (political party) politicians Category:Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Category:Democrats of the Left politicians Category:Democratic Party of the Left politicians Category:Presidents of Basilicata Category:21st-century Italian politicians

Uchuraccay

Uchuraccay is a village in the Peruvian province of Huanta, Ayacucho Region. It is located 4,000 metres above sea level. The population as of the census of 1981 was 470 inhabitants. In 1983, eight Peruvian journalists were murdered in Uchuraccay, resulting in a presidential commission headed by Mario Vargas Llosa to find the facts of the case. Uchuraccay community members (comuneros) were put on trial for the murders. The town was deserted in 1984 due to the Peruvian government's struggle against Sendero Luminoso, but some families eventually returned. References External links Final report by the Comisión de la Verdad (Truth commission) Category:Populated places in the Ayacucho Region

List of songs recorded by Tori Kelly

Tori Kelly is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress who slowly gained recognition after starting to post videos on YouTube at the age of 14. When she was 16, Kelly auditioned for the singing competition television series American Idol. After being eliminated from the show, Kelly began to work on her own music. In 2012, she independently released her first EP that she produced, wrote, and mixed herself, titled Handmade Songs By Tori Kelly. The following year, Scooter Braun became her manager after seeing her videos on YouTube and introduced her to Capitol Records, with whom she signed in September. Kelly's second EP Foreword came out in October 2013 as her first major label release. On June 23, 2015, Kelly's debut album, Unbreakable Smile, was released. The lead single, "Nobody Love", was released in the spring and became her first US Billboard Hot 100 appearance. Kelly was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Grammy Awards. She voiced a shy teenage elephant named Meena in the 2016 movie, Sing. Her second studio album Hiding Place (2018) peaked at number 35 on the Billboard 200 chart and received two Grammy Awards, for Best Gospel Album and Best Gospel Performance/Song, respectively. In 2019, Kelly released her third studio album Inspired By True Events. Released songs References Kelly, Tori

Conus nelsonandradoi

Conus nelsonandradoi (or Africonus nelsonandradoi), is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans. Description Distribution This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Sal Island, the Cape Verdes. References nelsonandradoi Category:Gastropods of Cape Verde Category:Fauna of Sal, Cape Verde Category:Gastropods described in 2015

Five Senses (EP)

Five Senses is the second extended play from South Korean boy band Pentagon. It was released on December 7, 2016, by Cube Entertainment. The album consists of five tracks, including the title track, "Can You Feel It". Commercial performance The EP sold 22,589+ copies in South Korea. It peaked at number 5 on the Korean Gaon Chart. Track listing References Category:K-pop EPs Category:2016 EPs Category:Cube Entertainment EPs Category:Pentagon (South Korean band) EPs Category:Kakao M EPs Category:Korean-language albums Category:Korean-language EPs

Examples of data mining

Data mining, the process of discovering patterns in large data sets, has been used in many applications. Games Since the early 1960s, with the availability of oracles for certain combinatorial games, also called tablebases (e.g. for 3x3-chess) with any beginning configuration, small-board dots-and-boxes, small-board-hex, and certain endgames in chess, dots-and-boxes, and hex; a new area for data mining has been opened. This is the extraction of human-usable strategies from these oracles. Current pattern recognition approaches do not seem to fully acquire the high level of abstraction required to be applied successfully. Instead, extensive experimentation with the tablebases – combined with an intensive study of tablebase-answers to well designed problems, and with knowledge of prior art (i.e., pre-tablebase knowledge) – is used to yield insightful patterns. Berlekamp (in dots-and-boxes, etc.) and John Nunn (in chess endgames) are notable examples of researchers doing this work, though they were not – and are not – involved in tablebase generation. Business In business, data mining is the analysis of historical business activities, stored as static data in data warehouse databases. The goal is to reveal hidden patterns and trends. Data mining software uses advanced pattern recognition algorithms to sift through large amounts of data to assist in discovering previously unknown strategic business information. Examples of what businesses use data mining for is to include performing market analysis to identify new product bundles, finding the root cause of manufacturing problems, to prevent customer attrition and acquire new customers, cross-selling to existing customers, and profiling customers with more accuracy. In today's world raw data is being collected by companies at an exploding rate. For example, Walmart processes over 20 million point-of-sale transactions every day. This information is stored in a centralized database, but would be useless without some type of data mining software to analyze it. If Walmart analyzed their point-of-sale data with data mining techniques they would be able to determine sales trends, develop marketing campaigns, and more accurately predict customer loyalty. One such example for Walmart would be that of diapers and beer sales, discovered through data mining. Categorization of the items available in the e-commerce site is a fundamental problem. A correct item categorization system is essential for user experience as it helps determine the items relevant to him for search and browsing. Item categorization can be formulated as a supervised classification problem in data mining where the categories are the target classes and the features are the words composing some textual description of the items. One of the approaches is to find groups initially which are similar and place them together in a latent group. Now given a new item, first classify into a latent group which is called coarse level classification. Then, do a second round of classification to find the category to which the item belongs to. Every time a credit card or a store loyalty card is being used, or a warranty card is being filled, data is being collected about the user's behavior. Many people find the amount of information stored about us from companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, disturbing and are concerned about privacy. Although there is the potential for our personal data to be used in harmful, or unwanted, ways it is also being used to make our lives better. For example, Ford and Audi hope to one day collect information about customer driving patterns so they can recommend safer routes and warn drivers about dangerous road conditions. Data mining in customer relationship management applications can contribute significantly to the bottom line. Rather than randomly contacting a prospect or customer through a call center or sending mail, a company can concentrate its efforts on prospects that are predicted to have a high likelihood of responding to an offer. More sophisticated methods may be used to optimize resources across campaigns so that one may predict to which channel and to which offer an individual is most likely to respond (across all potential offers). Additionally, sophisticated applications could be used to automate mailing. Once the results from data mining (potential prospect/customer and channel/offer) are determined, this "sophisticated application" can either automatically send an e-mail or a regular mail. Finally, in cases where many people will take an action without an offer, "uplift modeling" can be used to determine which people have the greatest increase in response if given an offer. Uplift modeling thereby enables marketers to focus mailings and offers on persuadable people, and not to send offers to people who will buy the product without an offer. Data clustering can also be used to automatically discover the segments or groups within a customer data set. Businesses employing data mining may see a return on investment, but also they recognize that the number of predictive models can quickly become very large. For example, rather than using one model to predict how many customers will churn, a business may choose to build a separate model for each region and customer type. In situations where a large number of models need to be maintained, some businesses turn to more automated data mining methodologies. Data mining can be helpful to human resources (HR) departments in identifying the characteristics of their most successful employees. Information obtained – such as universities attended by highly successful employees – can help HR focus recruiting efforts accordingly. Additionally, Strategic Enterprise Management applications help a company translate corporate-level goals, such as profit and margin share targets, into operational decisions, such as production plans and workforce levels. Market basket analysis has been used to identify the purchase patterns of the Alpha Consumer. Analyzing the data collected on this type of user has allowed companies to predict future buying trends and forecast supply demands. Data mining is a highly effective tool in the catalog marketing industry. Catalogers have a rich database of history of their customer transactions for millions of customers dating back a number of years. Data mining tools can identify patterns among customers and help identify the most likely customers to respond to upcoming mailing campaigns. Data mining for business applications can be integrated into a complex modeling and decision making process. LIONsolver uses Reactive business intelligence (RBI) to advocate a "holistic" approach that integrates data mining, modeling, and interactive visualization into an end-to-end discovery and continuous innovation process powered by human and automated learning. In the area of decision making, the RBI approach has been used to mine knowledge that is progressively acquired from the decision maker, and then self-tune the decision method accordingly. The relation between the quality of a data mining system and the amount of investment that the decision maker is willing to make was formalized by providing an economic perspective on the value of “extracted knowledge” in terms of its payoff to the organization This decision-theoretic classification framework was applied to a real-world semiconductor wafer manufacturing line, where decision rules for effectively monitoring and controlling the semiconductor wafer fabrication line were developed. An example of data mining related to an integrated-circuit (IC) production line is described in the paper "Mining IC Test Data to Optimize VLSI Testing." In this paper, the application of data mining and decision analysis to the problem of die-level functional testing is described. Experiments mentioned demonstrate the ability to apply a system of mining historical die-test data to create a probabilistic model of patterns of die failure. These patterns are then utilized to decide, in real time, which die to test next and when to stop testing. This system has been shown, based on experiments with historical test data, to have the potential to improve profits on mature IC products. Other examples of the application of data mining methodologies in semiconductor manufacturing environments suggest that data mining methodologies may be particularly useful when data is scarce, and the various physical and chemical parameters that affect the process exhibit highly complex interactions. Another implication is that on-line monitoring of the semiconductor manufacturing process using data mining may be highly effective. Science and engineering In recent years, data mining has been used widely in the areas of science and engineering, such as bioinformatics, genetics, medicine, education and electrical power engineering. In the study of human genetics, sequence mining helps address the important goal of understanding the mapping relationship between the inter-individual variations in human DNA sequence and the variability in disease susceptibility. In simple terms, it aims to find out how the changes in an individual's DNA sequence affects the risks of developing common diseases such as cancer, which is of great importance to improving methods of diagnosing, preventing, and treating these diseases. One data mining method that is used to perform this task is known as multifactor dimensionality reduction. In the area of electrical power engineering, data mining methods have been widely used for condition monitoring of high voltage electrical equipment. The purpose of condition monitoring is to obtain valuable information on, for example, the status of the insulation (or other important safety-related parameters). Data clustering techniques – such as the self-organizing map (SOM), have been applied to vibration monitoring and analysis of transformer on-load tap-changers (OLTCS). Using vibration monitoring, it can be observed that each tap change operation generates a signal that contains information about the condition of the tap changer contacts and the drive mechanisms. Obviously, different tap positions will generate different signals. However, there was considerable variability amongst normal condition signals for exactly the same tap position. SOM has been applied to detect abnormal conditions and to hypothesize about the nature of the abnormalities. Data mining methods have been applied to dissolved gas analysis (DGA) in power transformers. DGA, as a diagnostics for power transformers, has been available for many years. Methods such as SOM has been applied to analyze generated data and to determine trends which are not obvious to the standard DGA ratio methods (such as Duval Triangle). In educational research, where data mining has been used to study the factors leading students to choose to engage in behaviors which reduce their learning, and to understand factors influencing university student retention. A similar example of social application of data mining is its use in expertise finding systems, whereby descriptors of human expertise are extracted, normalized, and classified so as to facilitate the finding of experts, particularly in scientific and technical fields. In this way, data mining can facilitate institutional memory. Data mining methods of biomedical data facilitated by domain ontologies, mining clinical trial data, and traffic analysis using SOM. In adverse drug reaction surveillance, the Uppsala Monitoring Centre has, since 1998, used data mining methods to routinely screen for reporting patterns indicative of emerging drug safety issues in the WHO global database of 4.6 million suspected adverse drug reaction incidents. Recently, similar methodology has been developed to mine large collections of electronic health records for temporal patterns associating drug prescriptions to medical diagnoses. Data mining has been applied to software artifacts within the realm of software engineering: Mining Software Repositories. Human rights Data mining of government records – particularly records of the justice system (i.e., courts, prisons) – enables the discovery of systemic human rights violations in connection to generation and publication of invalid or fraudulent legal records by various government agencies. Medical data mining Some machine learning algorithms can be applied in medical field as second-opinion diagnostic tools and as tools for the knowledge extraction phase in the process of knowledge discovery in databases. One of these classifiers (called Prototype exemplar learning classifier (PEL-C) is able to discover syndromes as well as atypical clinical cases. A current medical field that utilizes the process of data mining is Metabolomics, which is the investigation and study of biological molecules and how their interaction with bodily fluids, cells, tissues, etc. is characterized. Metabolomics is a very data heavy subject, and often involves sifting through massive amounts of irrelevant data before finding any conclusions. Data mining has allowed this relatively new field of medical research to grow considerably within the last decade, and will likely be the method of which new research is found within the subject. In 2011, the case of Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, ruled that pharmacies may share information with outside companies. This practice was authorized under the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, protecting the "freedom of speech." However, the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) helped to initiate the adoption of the electronic health record (EHR) and supporting technology in the United States. The HITECH Act was signed into law on February 17, 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and helped to open the door to medical data mining. Prior to the signing of this law, estimates of only 20% of United States-based physicians were utilizing electronic patient records. Søren Brunak notes that “the patient record becomes as information-rich as possible” and thereby “maximizes the data mining opportunities.” Hence, electronic patient records further expands the possibilities regarding medical data mining thereby opening the door to a vast source of medical data analysis. Spatial data mining Spatial data mining is the application of data mining methods to spatial data. The end objective of spatial data mining is to find patterns in data with respect to geography. So far, data mining and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have existed as two separate technologies, each with its own methods, traditions, and approaches to visualization and data analysis. Particularly, most contemporary GIS have only very basic spatial analysis functionality. The immense explosion in geographically referenced data occasioned by developments in IT, digital mapping, remote sensing, and the global diffusion of GIS emphasizes the importance of developing data-driven inductive approaches to geographical analysis and modeling. Data mining offers great potential benefits for GIS-based applied decision-making. Recently, the task of integrating these two technologies has become of critical importance, especially as various public and private sector organizations possessing huge databases with thematic and geographically referenced data begin to realize the huge potential of the information contained therein. Among those organizations are: offices requiring analysis or dissemination of geo-referenced statistical data public health services searching for explanations of disease clustering environmental agencies assessing the impact of changing land-use patterns on climate change geo-marketing companies doing customer segmentation based on spatial location. Challenges in Spatial mining: Geospatial data repositories tend to be very large. Moreover, existing GIS datasets are often splintered into feature and attribute components that are conventionally archived in hybrid data management systems. Algorithmic requirements differ substantially for relational (attribute) data management and for topological (feature) data management. Related to this is the range and diversity of geographic data formats, which present unique challenges. The digital geographic data revolution is creating new types of data formats beyond the traditional "vector" and "raster" formats. Geographic data repositories increasingly include ill-structured data, such as imagery and geo-referenced multi-media. There are several critical research challenges in geographic knowledge discovery and data mining. Miller and Han offer the following list of emerging research topics in the field: Developing and supporting geographic data warehouses (GDW's): Spatial properties are often reduced to simple aspatial attributes in mainstream data warehouses. Creating an integrated GDW requires solving issues of spatial and temporal data interoperability – including differences in semantics, referencing systems, geometry, accuracy, and position. Better spatio-temporal representations in geographic knowledge discovery: Current geographic knowledge discovery (GKD) methods generally use very simple representations of geographic objects and spatial relationships. Geographic data mining methods should recognize more complex geographic objects (i.e., lines and polygons) and relationships (i.e., non-Euclidean distances, direction, connectivity, and interaction through attributed geographic space such as terrain). Furthermore, the time dimension needs to be more fully integrated into these geographic representations and relationships. Geographic knowledge discovery using diverse data types: GKD methods should be developed that can handle diverse data types beyond the traditional raster and vector models, including imagery and geo-referenced multimedia, as well as dynamic data types (video streams, animation). Temporal data mining Data may contain attributes generated and recorded at different times. In this case finding meaningful relationships in the data may require considering the temporal order of the attributes. A temporal relationship may indicate a causal relationship, or simply an association. Sensor data mining Wireless sensor networks can be used for facilitating the collection of data for spatial data mining for a variety of applications such as air pollution monitoring. A characteristic of such networks is that nearby sensor nodes monitoring an environmental feature typically register similar values. This kind of data redundancy due to the spatial correlation between sensor observations inspires the techniques for in-network data aggregation and mining. By measuring the spatial correlation between data sampled by different sensors, a wide class of specialized algorithms can be developed to develop more efficient spatial data mining algorithms. Visual data mining In the process of turning from analog into digital, large data sets have been generated, collected, and stored discovering statistical patterns, trends and information which is hidden in data, in order to build predictive patterns. Studies suggest visual data mining is faster and much more intuitive than is traditional data mining. See also Computer vision. Music data mining Data mining techniques, and in particular co-occurrence analysis, has been used to discover relevant similarities among music corpora (radio lists, CD databases) for purposes including classifying music into genres in a more objective manner. Surveillance Data mining has been used by the U.S. government. Programs include the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, Secure Flight (formerly known as Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II)), Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), and the Multi-state Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX). These programs have been discontinued due to controversy over whether they violate the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution, although many programs that were formed under them continue to be funded by different organizations or under different names. In the context of combating terrorism, two particularly plausible methods of data mining are "pattern mining" and "subject-based data mining". Pattern mining "Pattern mining" is a data mining method that involves finding existing patterns in data. In this context patterns often means association rules. The original motivation for searching association rules came from the desire to analyze supermarket transaction data, that is, to examine customer behavior in terms of the purchased products. For example, an association rule "beer ⇒ potato chips (80%)" states that four out of five customers that bought beer also bought potato chips. In the context of pattern mining as a tool to identify terrorist activity, the National Research Council provides the following definition: "Pattern-based data mining looks for patterns (including anomalous data patterns) that might be associated with terrorist activity — these patterns might be regarded as small signals in a large ocean of noise." Pattern Mining includes new areas such a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) where patterns seen both in the temporal and non temporal domains are imported to classical knowledge discovery search methods. Subject-based data mining "Subject-based data mining" is a data mining method involving the search for associations between individuals in data. In the context of combating terrorism, the National Research Council provides the following definition: "Subject-based data mining uses an initiating individual or other datum that is considered, based on other information, to be of high interest, and the goal is to determine what other persons or financial transactions or movements, etc., are related to that initiating datum." Knowledge grid Knowledge discovery "On the Grid" generally refers to conducting knowledge discovery in an open environment using grid computing concepts, allowing users to integrate data from various online data sources, as well make use of remote resources, for executing their data mining tasks. The earliest example was the Discovery Net, developed at Imperial College London, which won the "Most Innovative Data-Intensive Application Award" at the ACM SC02 (Supercomputing 2002) conference and exhibition, based on a demonstration of a fully interactive distributed knowledge discovery application for a bioinformatics application. Other examples include work conducted by researchers at the University of Calabria, who developed a Knowledge Grid architecture for distributed knowledge discovery, based on grid computing. References External links Wikipedia:Data mining Wikipedia *

List of Sejm members (2005–07)

The fifth term of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland lasted from 19 October 2005 to 7 September 2007. Elections had been held on 25 September 2005 of the Sejm, with all 460 members being elected. Officers Members 2005-2007)

Dexter Reid

Dexter Devon Reid Jr. (born March 18, 1981) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft after playing his college football at the University of North Carolina. Reid is a two-time Super Bowl champion, having won a trophy with the Patriots and Indianapolis Colts in 2005 and 2007 respectively. High school career Reid attended Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia where he was an honorable mention All-USA Today selection, the district Player of the Year and first-team all-state selection as a senior making 62 tackles, 3 interceptions and 5 blocked field goals. He also played quarterback on offense and had 1,400 yards total offense. In his career, he passed for 2,000 yards and 20 touchdowns along with 960 yards rushing and 12 scores. In addition, he competed in track and basketball, winning the state triple jump title as a senior and earning a two-time all-district selection in basketball. College career After being redshirted in 1999 as a freshman, Reid served as a backup safety, playing primarily special teams in 2000. He finished the season fifth on the team with 69 tackles (35 solo) and recorded a fumble recovery, an interception and 6 pass deflections. In 2001, he started all 13 games and ended the season third on the team with 99 tackles (67 solo), 5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, 2 interceptions—one of which he returned for a touchdown-5 pass break-ups and a fumble recovery. As a junior in 2002, Reid started all 12 games at free safety and earned first-team All-ACC honors as he finished second in the nation with 13.8 tackles per game. He recorded a total of 166 tackles, just five shy of the school record of 171 set by linebacker Buddy Curry in 1979 and also set a school record for tackles by a defensive back with his 119th stop against the University of Maryland. In addition, Reid also had 6 tackles for loss, a sack, 2 forced fumbles and 4 pass break-ups. As a senior in 2003, Reid first-team All-ACC honors for the second straight season, compiling 132 tackles (95 solo), 3.5 tackles for loss loss and 3 pass break-ups. He majored in management and information systems. Professional career New England Patriots Reid was drafted in the 4th round (113th overall) by the New England Patriots in 2004. Starting two games his rookie season appearing in 13 regular season games, he recorded 23 tackles (15 solo), 2 pass break-ups and a forced fumble. He also played in three play-off games and won a Super Bowl ring despite blowing a coverage that resulted in a Greg Lewis touchdown in Super Bowl XXXIX. On August 29, 2005, Reid was released by the Patriots. Indianapolis Colts He was promptly signed by the Indianapolis Colts three days later. Playing for the Colts in 2005, Reid was active for 16 games, recording 10 tackles (8 solo) and a forced fumble. In 2006, he was active for 10 regular season games, starting one and finished the season with 11 tackles (all solo) and 2 pass break-ups. He was also active throughout the playoffs and won his second ring in Super Bowl XLI. NFL Career Statistics Games Defensive Interceptions Fumbles Sacks amd tackles Drug charges After pleading guilty in January 2008 to drug charges in Virginia Beach, VA stemming from a March 2007 incident, Reid was initially sentenced to two years in prison for possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute but had the sentence suspended with the agreement he would stay out of trouble for two years. His license was also suspended for six months and ordered to attend drug treatment and counseling. Personal life Reid's father, Dexter Reid Sr., played basketball at Virginia Tech. References External links Reid's stats page at ESPN.com Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Norfolk, Virginia Category:African-American players of American football Category:American football safeties Category:North Carolina Tar Heels football players Category:New England Patriots players Category:Indianapolis Colts players Category:Super Bowl champions

Simone Balsamino

Simone Balsamino (fl. 1590s in Venice) was an Italian composer, poet and dramatist. He was the first to set texts from Tasso's Aminta as Aminta musicale. He is also credited with the invention of the bass cittern. Works, editions and recordings Perla a tragicomedia in music dedicated to the marchese De La Rovere. Venice 1596. Le novellette a sei voci ed. Chegai, Andrea Le novelette a sei voci di Simone Balsamino. Prime musiche di „Aminta " di Torquato Tasso, Firenze: Olschki 1993 (Historiae Musicae Cultores Biblioteca 69) Balsamino & Monteverdi: Novellette e Madrigali - dir. Diego Fasolis, Vanitas Ensemble, and Guido Morini (Audio CD - 2002) References Category:Italian composers Category:Italian male composers

Angelo Spina

Angelo Spina (born 13 November 1954) is an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and the current Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo since his appointment in 2017. Spina served prior to this as the Bishop of Sulmona-Valva since being raised to the episcopate in 2007. He has served in various capacities throughout his priesthood and episcopate: religious education teacher and instructor for new teachers as well as a parish priest and vicar. Life Angelo Spina was born on 13 November 1954 in Colle d'Anchise in the Campobasso province. Spina began his theological studies in 1974 Benevento after his initial ecclesial studies from 1968 in Campobasso under the supervision of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He first received his ordination into the diaconate from Alberto Carinci in 1977 prior to Pietro Santoro ordaining him to the priesthood in Colle d'Anchise on 5 January 1980. From 1980 until 1999 he served as a parish priest for the Campochiaro and San Paolo Matese parishes while from 1980 to 1985 serving as a religious education teacher at a high school in Boiano. Spina later oversaw the formation of religious education teachers for schools in Molise from 1985 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000 he served as an episcopal vicar for the Great Jubilee of 2000 that Pope John Paul II had convoked. In 1999 he was named as the pastor for the Boiano Cathedral. In 2003 he was named as the episcopal vicar for diocesan missions and then from 2004 to 2007 for the Santuario dell'Addolorata. He received his episcopal consecration in the Santuario dell'Addolorata in Castelpetroso on 9 June 2007 from Armando Dini with Antonio Nuzzi and Giuseppe Di Falco serving as the co-consecrators. Spina was then installed in his new see that 23 June. On 17 January 2013 he attended the "ad limina apostolorum" visit to Pope Benedict XVI. On 14 July 2017 he was appointed as the newest Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo to succeed the retiring Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli. Spina was installed in his new archdiocese on 1 October. References External links Catholic Hierarchy Category:1954 births Category:20th-century Italian people Category:20th-century Roman Catholic priests Category:21st-century Italian people Category:21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops Category:21st-century Roman Catholic priests Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI Category:Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Category:Living people Category:People from the Province of Campobasso

Comedy Central Films

Comedy Central Films is the motion picture production arm of the adult-oriented comedy television cable channel Comedy Central. The studio produces comedy films aimed at a mature audience and based on Comedy Central shows. Many of which were distributed by Paramount Pictures. These are films that were theatrically released and based on Comedy Central properties. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (with Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Scott Rudin Productions and Braniff Productions) The Hebrew Hammer (2003) (with ContentFilm and Strand Releasing) Strangers with Candy (2006) (with THINKFilm) Reno 911!: Miami (2007) (with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Jersey Films) The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (2010) New Kids Turbo (2010) (Netherlands) New Kids Nitro (2011) (Netherlands) Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (2011) Jason Nash is Married (2014) External links Category:Film production companies of the United States Films Category:Companies established in 1995 Category:1995 establishments in the United States

The Husband of the Rat's Daughter

The Husband of the Rat's Daughter is a Japanese fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C, a chain tale or cumulative tale. Another story of this type is The Mouse Turned into a Maid. Synopsis Two rats had a remarkably beautiful daughter. In some variants, the father would have been happy to marry her to a rat of finer family, but the mother did not want her daughter to marry a mere rat; in others, they both agreed that she must marry the greatest being in the world. They offered her to the sun, telling him they wanted a son-in-law who was greater than all. The sun told them that he could not take advantage of their ignorance: the cloud, which blotted out his face, was greater. So they asked the cloud instead. The cloud told them that the wind freely blew it about. They asked the wind. The wind told them that the wall could easily stop it. They asked the wall. The wall told them that a rat could reduce it to powder with its teeth. So they married her to a rat. See also The Stonecutter References External links The Husband of the Rat's Daughter "The Mouse Who Was to Marry the Sun: fables of Aarne-Thompson type 2031C -- variants Category:Japanese fairy tales Category:Literature featuring anthropomorphic characters Category:Fictional mice and rats Category:Animal tales Category:Works about marriage

Yamaha CS-60

The Yamaha CS-60 is a polyphonic analog synthesizer manufactured in Japan. It was released in 1977 and is the smaller and cheaper version of the popular Yamaha CS-80. The CS-60 lacks the polyphonic aftertouch of the CS-80. Preset Sounds String 1, String 2, Brass 1, Brass 2, Flute, Electric Piano, Clavicord, Harpsichord, Guitar 1, Guitar 2, Funky 1, Funky 2, Memory, Panel. Notable users Air Jean-Michel Jarre Oshe Bob Marley and the Wailers Page McConnell See also CS-15 CS-80 List of Yamaha Synthesizers & Samplers References External links CS-60 Category:Polyphonic synthesizers Category:Analog synthesizers

The Good Old Days (film)

The Good Old Days is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Roy William Neill. Written by Austin Melford and John Dighton based on a story by Ralph Smart, it stars Max Miller, Hal Walters and Kathleen Gibson. The film tells the story of group of entertainers struggling to obtain permission to perform at a tavern in 1840. It is on the British Film Institute's BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. Cast Max Miller as Alexander the Greatest Hal Walters as Titch Kathleen Gibson as Polly H.F. Maltby as Randolph Macaulay Martita Hunt as Sara Macaulay Anthony Shaw as Lovelace Allan Jeayes as Shadwell Sam Wilkinson as Croker Roy Emerton as Grimes Phyllis Monkman as Mrs. Bennett Ian Fleming as Lord Wakely See also List of lost films References External links BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes Category:1930s comedy films Category:British films Category:British comedy films Category:British black-and-white films Category:English-language films Category:Films directed by Roy William Neill Category:Lost British films Category:Films set in 1840 Category:Lost comedy films Category:1930s lost films

Larry Sloan

Lloyd Lawrence "Larry" Sloan (1922 – October 14, 2012) was an American publisher of Mad Libs and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing company, Price Stern Sloan, which opened in the early 1960s. Biography Sloan was born Lloyd Lawrence Solomon to a Jewish family in New York City in 1922, the son of Joseph Solomon and Freida Lewis Solomon. His mother opened a clothing business and his father was a graduate of Columbia Law School 1908lawyer. Sloan and his parents moved to Los Angeles after his only sibling, Grenna Sloan, moved to California to pursue an acting career. Larry Sloan initially studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but soon left college to enlist in the United States Army following the outbreak of World War II. He later attended Stanford University, where he studied Chinese language. He returned to Los Angeles after the war. Sloan became a columnist for the Hollywood Citizen News and a reporter for several magazines covering Hollywood's entertainment and gossip industries. Sloan's connections led to a career transition as a press agent and publicist representing Carol Channing, Mae West, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. In 1958, television writer Leonard B. Stern and comedian Roger Price launched Mad Libs, a word game book series which the duo had first invented in 1953. Stern and Price had named the game "Mad Libs" after overhearing an argument between an actor and talent agent at a New York City restaurant. In the 1960s, Price and Stern partnered with Larry Sloan, a friend from high school, to found Price Stern Sloan, a publishing company based in Los Angeles which published Mad Libs. Sloan served as the company's first CEO. Stern later noted in a 1994 Washington Post interview that Sloan "eventually became the business man behind Mad Libs." The company headquartered on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood. Under Sloan, Price Stern Sloan became the one of the largest publishing houses on the West Coast of the United States. In addition to releasing more than 70 editions of Mad Libs under Sloan, the company also published 150 softcover books under Sloan by 1973. While simultaneously serving as CEO, Sloan also edited manuscripts submitted for publication. He personally edited a series of joke books called, World's Worst Jokes. Sloan created and published the successful book, "The VIP Desk Diary, after asking himself "What would somebody's desk diary look like if they were the richest man in the world?" Other successful titles, many of which were humorous, released under Sloan was How to Be a Jewish Mother, written by Dan Greenburg and first released in 1965 and Droodles, which was also created by Roger Price. Still, Mad Libs proved to be one of the company's most successful products, with 110 million copies sold as of 2012. Larry Sloan further launched Price Stern Sloan's "Wee Sing" product line in the late 1970s. Sloan had found a handmade children's book of the same name, which led to a successful line of books, videos, and audio releases, including Wee Sing Video Series and Wee Sing in Sillyville. Price Stern Sloan partner and Mad Libs co-creator Roger Price died in 1990. In 1993, Leonard Stern and Larry Sloan sold Price Stern Sloan to Putnam Berkley Group, which is now known as Penguin Group. Sloan and Stern later co-founded Tallfellow Press, a publishing company specializing in business books based in Beverly Hills. Sloan's daughter, Claudia Sloan, continues to head Tallfellow, as of 2012. Larry Sloan died from a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on October 14, 2012, at the age of 89. He was the last surviving founder of Price Stern Sloan, as Leonard Stern had died in 2011. Sloan was survived by his wife of thirty-nine years, Eleanor; five children - Claudia Sloan, Bonnie Smigel-Derin, Liz Fallert, Amy Harrison and Scott Harrison; and six grandchildren. He had been a longtime resident of Malibu, California. References Category:1922 births Category:2012 deaths Category:American publishers (people) Category:American publicists Category:American Jews Category:American military personnel of World War II Category:People from Malibu, California Category:Journalists from California Category:Journalists from New York City

List of Olympic medalists in football

This is the complete list of Olympic medallists in football. Men Women Individual multiple gold medallists Women Two Golds (2008, 2012) (2008, 2012) (1996, 2004) (2008, 2012) (1996, 2004) (1996, 2004) (2004, 2008) (1996, 2004) (2008, 2012) (1996, 2004) (2008, 2012) (2004, 2008) (1996, 2004) (2008, 2012) (1996, 2004) (2008, 2012) (2004, 2008) (2004, 2008) (2004, 2012) Three Golds (2004, 2008, 2012) (2004, 2008, 2012) (2004, 2008, 2012) (2004, 2008, 2012) Men Two Golds (2004, 2008) (1964, 1968) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1924, 1928) (1908, 1912) (1908, 1912) Notes References International Olympic Committee results database Football Olympics * Category:Association football player non-biographical articles

Order of Saint Vladimir

The Order of Saint Vladimir () was an Imperial Russian order established in 1782 by Empress Catherine II in memory of the deeds of Saint Vladimir, the Grand Prince and the Baptizer of the Kievan Rus'. Grades The order had four degrees and was awarded for continuous civil and military service. People who had been awarded with the St. Vladimir Order for military merits bore it with a special fold on the ribbon – "with a bow". There was a certain hierarchy of Russian Orders. According to this, the First Class Order of Saint Vladimir was the second one—the first was the Saint George Order—by its significance. According to Russian laws on nobility, people who were awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir had the rights of hereditary nobility until the Emperor's decree of 1900 was issued. After this, only three first classes of the order gave such a right. Today, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, pretender to the Russian throne, and Head of the Russian Imperial House continues to award the Russian Imperial Order of Saint Vladimir as a dynastic order of knighthood. This is disputed by some historians and by some members of the Romanov Family Association. Styles First class A red cross with black and golden borders; the badge of the order depended from a sash worn over the right shoulder, and a gold-and-silver eight-rayed star was fastened over the left chest Second class The red cross on the neck and the star over the left chest Third class The red cross of a smaller size on the neck Fourth class The red cross over the left chest Insignia A red enamelled cross pattée with black enamelled borders, and a black enamelled central disc bearing a crowned red and ermine mantle with the monogram of Saint Vladimir. Worn on a sash by the first degree, on a necklet by the second and third degrees, and on a chest ribbon by the fourth degree. A four-pointed star superimposed upon a four-pointed gold star, with a golden cross pattée and the letters "CPKB" between the arms of the cross on a black enamel background at the centre surrounded by the motto of the order "Benefit, Honour and Glory". Worn on the left chest by the first and second degrees. This motto was transferred to present-day star of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, which was established in 1992 by President Boris Yeltsin and is today the second highest ranking decoration of that country. Order of Saint Vladimir of the Russian Orthodox Church In 1957, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Patriarch of Moscow's restoration in Russia, an Order of Saint Vladimir was created by the Russian Orthodox Church. The order is to be awarded to priests and nuns of the Orthodox church for their service to the Soviet Union and later Russia. There are three degrees of the order. It has no relation to the imperial order. Select recipients Abbasgulu Bakikhanov Alexander Kolchak Angus Buchanan Anto Gvozdenović August Ludwig von Schlözer Charles Broke Vere Charles Esmond de Wolff Fyodor Matisen Hugo W. Koehler Igor Sikorsky Ilya Ulyanov Ivan Gannibal Jacob van Deventer Jovan Sundečić Louis-Mathieu Langlès Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mitrofan Lodyzhensky Nikolai Yudenich Nićifor Dučić Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Paulos Gregorios Pyotr Stolypin Robert Henry Dick William Munro Kerr Hugh Henry Mitchell Petar Bojović References Category:1782 establishments in the Russian Empire Category:Russian Orthodox Church Saint Vladimir, Order of Saint Vladimir, Order of Category:Orders of chivalry of Russia Category:Vladimir the Great

Made (band)

Made (stylized as MAdE) was a lo-fi pop band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, active during the 1990s. Its members were Jason Taylor (lead vocals and guitar), Simon Bedford-James (guitar), Alison McLean (drums), and three different successive bass guitarists: John Bowker, later replaced by Scott Fairbrother, who was in turn replaced by Frank Guidoccio. History Made began performing at clubs in Toronto in 1994, and recorded two independent albums—Rumball and Big Brother. The first of these was released in late 1993 and cost about $300 to record. In 1995, they landed a deal with MCA Records. This resulted in MCA releasing their third album and major-label debut, Bedazzler, on January 28, 1997 in Canada. The album was re-released on January 29, 1997 on Universal Music Canada, and on May 20, 1997 on MCA in the United States. Writing for the Sun-Sentinel, Toni Birghenthal described the album as "fabulously put together and simply presented." References Category:Musical groups from Toronto Category:MCA Records artists Category:Lo-fi music groups

EP 2000

Ep 2000 is the second EP by Quebec hard rock group GrimSkunk released in 2000. Tracks 1 and 4 would later appear on the album Seventh Wave. Track listing Check-moé ben aller (Bring Me Down) Misfit Right On (Rock 'n' Roll Dream) My Girlfriend References Bande à part profile Category:GrimSkunk albums Category:2000 EPs Category:Indica Records albums

Brunkebergsåsen

Brunkebergsåsen was an esker that once reached over much of Stockholm's Norrmalm district. Geologically, it is a part of the much larger Stockholmsåsen. It formed a considerable obstacle to traffic, effectively dividing Norrmalm into a western and an eastern part. Consequently, most of it has been dug away over the centuries to make room for the development of that district. The pedestrian tunnel Brunkebergstunneln and, since the 1910s, the eastern part of Kungsgatan cut through Brunkebergsåsen's southern part. Conspicuous remnants of the esker can be seen in the vicinity of Johannes kyrka, at Observatorielunden, and Vanadislunden. See also Battle of Brunkeberg Further reading Essay, with several maps, on the city's development in Stockholm City Museum's publication CITY, Del I Byggnadsinventering 1974-75, pp 9–37 (Swedish) Category:Geography of Stockholm Category:Eskers of Sweden

Troissy

Troissy is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. Sights and monuments Château de Troissy, 12th century castle. Its crypt was classified monument historique in 1924. Saint-Martin church, classified monument historique in 1911. Monument to the dead See also Communes of the Marne department References Category:Communes of Marne (department)

Skirö

Skirö () is a small village in Vetlanda Municipality in Sweden. It lies 25 km from the town of Vetlanda in the southeastern part of Jönköping County and has a population of about 70 (2010). Situated in a beautiful setting around Lake Skirö, it was dubbed ("The Garden of Småland") by Carolus Linnaeus. It was also the birthplace of botanist Eric Ragnar Sventenius (1910–1973). From 1952 to 1970 Skirö was part of Nye Municipality. Since 1971 it has been in Vetlanda Municipality. The village is about 12 km across and 7 km wide with a total area of ca 44 hectares. There are some large mansions such as Wallby and Gölberga not far from the village. References External links Skirö homepage Category:Populated places in Jönköping County

Buford, Alberta

Buford is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Leduc County. It is located south of Highway 39, west of Leduc. The hamlet takes its name from Buford, North Dakota. Demographics As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Buford recorded a population of 47 living in 18 of its 18 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 28. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. The population of Buford according to Leduc County's 2005 municipal census is 32. See also List of communities in Alberta List of hamlets in Alberta References Category:Designated places in Alberta Category:Hamlets in Alberta Category:Leduc County

Mallavaram

Mallavaram may refer to: Places Mallavaram, Prakasam district, a village in Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, India A. Mallavaram, a village in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India P. Mallavaram, a village in Thallarevu mandal, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India

Kopil Bora

Kopil Bora () is an Assamese actor, anchor and All India Radio voice artist. He debuted in Bidyut Chakravarty's 2002 Assamese film Gun Gun Gane Gane and known for his performance in Mon (2002), Ahir Bhairav (2008), Jetuka Pator Dore (2011) and Dwaar (2013). Early life Kopil Bora was born on 30 March. He went to high school at Don Bosco High School, Guwahati and later attended college at Cotton College, Guwahati. He currently lives in Hengerabari area of Guwahati with his brother and his parents. Career Feature films Kopil has acted in a host of Assamese films. He debuted in Bidyut Chakravarty's Gun Gun Gane Gane, released in 2002. Later in the same year his another film Bani Das' Mon got released. His other film credit includes Bidhata (2003), Kadambari, Ahir Bhairav (2008), Jeevan Baator Logori (2009), Jetuka Pator Dore (2011), Dwaar (2013), Raag: The Rhythm of Love (2014) etc. Critics praised his acting in 2013 film Dwaar. In that film he portrayed a mentally unstable character older to his actual age, named Dwijen Bhattacharya. Stage and television Kopil Bora has acted in many plays. One of the notable ones is Narakor Gopan Kakhyat with Zerifa Wahid, staged in Rabindra Bhawan, Guwahati. It was an adaptation of the French play "In Camera" by Jean-Paul Sartre. In another play with Zerifa Wahid, Pancharatna, staged in Rabindra Bhawan, he played a bold theme of gay boy troubled by his alternate sexuality. He was also associate director of a play called Agnibristi where he plays the lead role too, under Zerifa Wahid production, staged in Rabindra Bhawan. It was an adaptation of Girish Karnad's play The Fire and the Rain. In television, Kopil acted in an eight-episode Hindi mini-series titled Manushi (with seven stories by Sahitya Akademi award winner Sneha Devi), directed by Sanjib Hazarika for Doordarshan. His other television credit includes Niyoror Phool on News Live. He also hosted a spelling contest for children on Rang. Mobile theatre He debuted in Assam's roaming theatre with Ashirbad Theatre. He also acted in Rajmahal Theatre. The list of plays includes "Surongor Xekhot", a drama which was aired in the All India Radio in the 1980s, "Surjyo" and "Bhai". Other interests Compering and social causes Kapil had compered for Axom Idol - a Musical Talent search programme hosted in NE TV, Sur-Taal-Loy another Musical talent programme impressively anchored by Kapil Bora in association with Barsha Rani Bishaya and Surajit Malakar Guwahati - and various News years eve celebrations hosted in DD NE and participated in the cultural extravaganza in the closing function of the 33rd National games, held at Guwahati. Kapil Bora and Nishita Goswami, co-hosted the 3rd Darpan Mrs India North East title, the highly coveted beauty pageant for the married women in the North East, during a glittering function at the Pragjyotika ITA Centre auditorium for performing Arts. In 2010, Kapil Bora provided the background narration for a 21-minute documentary film, Friends of Kaziranga, which pays tribute to the forest guards of the Kaziranga National Park. Bora also inaugurated a clothes bank at a function held at Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok, Guwahati. The bank, which redistributes discarded clothes to the poor and needy, was launched by a city-based NGO, Xavier’s Foundation, with the support of North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Limited (NEDFi), which is a financial and development institution formed under the DoNER ministry. Endorsements Kapil Bora is the brand ambassador of CEC - an educational trust based in Guwahati. He has also done modelling for different assignments. Filmography films Music videos and television Jan Oi Joubon Doi Moromjaan (2007) Ure Pakhi Meli Ajanite Tumak Moromi Priya Rato Rani (Nepali) Nargis (On the Assamese Muslim culture, by Biju Phukan) Tora (produced by Nayan Nirban) Rongpuror Nasonir Bihu Niyoror Phool (Assamese serial) Video Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4Li1xKT3wzgIwA8y36CZA References External links Category:Assamese actors Category:Assamese-language actors Category:Living people Category:People from Kamrup Metropolitan district Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Don Bosco schools alumni Category:Cotton College, Guwahati alumni

Damir Krupalija

Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian-American professional basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Early years Krupalija fled his war-torn country in 1992, living in the Czech Republic for three years before coming to the United States in 1995. His parents, Sead and Zora Krupalija, joined him a year later. Career After arriving in the United States, Krupalija attended Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, Illinois, where he led the Titan basketball team to a fourth-place finish in the 1997 Illinois state tournament. In 1998, he was named an all-state selection by the Chicago Tribune and Associated Press. He was also named to the 1996 and 1997 State Farm Holiday Classic All-Tournament teams, and in 2003 was named to the Holiday Classic All-Quarter Century Team voted on by the fans. After graduating from high school, Krupalija played basketball for the University of Illinois. Although his career at Illinois was often hampered by injuries, the 6'9" forward was well regarded for his rebounding ability and fiery attitude on the court. In his senior year (2001–2002), Krupalija, coming off the bench, was named as the Most Valuable Player at the Las Vegas Invitational Tournament. In 2002, Krupalija moved to Poland, where he played forward for Anwil Wloclawek and won the 2002-03 Polish National Championship. The following season, he relocated to Belgium and joined Spirou Charleroi. They won the 2003-04 Belgian National Championship. He played for Spirou Charleroi until end of 2007 season. For the 2010–11 season Krupalija signed for Hyères-Toulon Var Basket. In November 2011, he signs with Bilbao Basket for a month and a half. At the start of the 2013–14 season, he played for the Cypriot team Apollon Limassol BC. On March 3, 2014 he returned to Spirou Charleroi, signing a contract for the rest of the season. On June 5, 2014, he signed with SLUC Nancy Basket of the LNB Pro A for the 2014–15 season. In January 2015, he left Nancy and signed with KK Bosna Royal. He left Bosna after only three games and signed with Keravnos of Cyprus. References External links Eurobasket.com profile FIBA.com profile Illinois Fighting Bio Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:American expatriate basketball people in Belgium Category:American expatriate basketball people in Cyprus Category:American expatriate basketball people in France Category:American expatriate basketball people in Poland Category:American expatriate basketball people in Spain Category:American men's basketball players Category:Apollon Limassol BC players Category:Bilbao Basket players Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to the United States Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate basketball people in Spain Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina men's basketball players Category:HTV Basket players Category:Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball players Category:JDA Dijon Basket players Category:Keravnos B.C. players Category:KK Bosna Royal players Category:KK Włocławek players Category:Liga ACB players Category:SLUC Nancy Basket players Category:Small forwards Category:Spirou Charleroi players Category:Sportspeople from Sarajevo

City Academy Bristol

The City Academy Bristol is a mixed gender secondary school with Academy status, located in the Easton area of Bristol, England. History The school opened in September 2003. It formed part of the Labour government's scheme for schools in deprived areas, and was the first Academy in South West England. Built on the site of St George Community College which closed in 2003, it is housed in buildings within a new £25 million complex designed by architects Fielden Clegg Bradley. The school also provides adult education to about 1,200 people. Both the University of the West of England and Bristol City Football Club are partners with the school and helped fund the school's buildings and equipment. The school operates a house system for pupils, with four houses: Leopards, Lions, Panthers and Tigers. The school is designated as a specialist Sports College, and runs a Performance Sport programme for netball, basketball, football, boxing and cricket. In October 2013 One World Learning Trust, the academy's operator, was issued with a "pre-warning notice letter" by the Department for Education because the academic performance of the academy was unacceptably low. In 2014 the school lost a racial discrimination employment tribunal case for repeatedly overlooking a black employee for promotion. Investigation showed that other black staff had been overlooked when appointing three white managers. The academy said "We are deeply sorry and extending our sense of sorrow to those involved". During 2014 the school had two incidents of losing or failing to submit coursework required for external exams, causing pupils to have to retake a year of their education. In March 2015 the school announced a partnership with the Cabot Learning Federation, a major operator of Academies in Bristol, after Ofsted had issued an inadequate rating in an inspection report in January 2015, and the school was placed into special measures status. In 2016 the Cabot Learning Federation, a multi-academy trust, took over as the operator of the school. The school remained in special measures. Following an inspection in April 2019, the school is now rated as 'Good' in all areas, with Ofsted noting that "strong leadership" had "led to rapid improvement over the past three years". Academic achievement The table below shows the percentage of students hitting the key measure of 5+ A*-C GCSEs including English and Mathematics. References External links The City Academy Bristol - Performance Sport The City Academy Bristol - Sports Centre Category:Academies in Bristol Category:Sports venues in Bristol Category:Secondary schools in Bristol Category:Educational institutions established in 2003 Category:2003 establishments in England

Amaya (Burgos)

There are other meanings for Amaya. Amaya is the name of a village (pop. 67 ()) in the municipality of Sotresgudo, Burgos, in Castile-Leon, Spain. The name of the village has Indo-European roots and means "am (ma)" or "mother". The suffix io-ia is also used to form action names or toponyms, implying that the meaning of Amaya or Amaia is "mother city", as it will be called later, "the capital". Other hypothesis is that the name derives from the Proto-Basque or Basque word Amaia, meaning "the end". Amaya was one of the main villages of the Cantabri Celtic tribes, and played a key role in the Cantabrian wars during the Roman conquest of Hispania, and later, during the Visigothic Kingdom, as the capital of the Duchy of Cantabria. Amaya is mentioned in the Chronicle of John of Biclaro, as a town captured by the Visigothic king Liuvigild in 574. According to the Muslim chroniclers, in the year 714, Musa ibn Nusair sacked Amaya for the second time after Tariq did the year before. Peter, the provincial dux, led his people into refuge in the mountains, and after the local noble Pelayo of Asturias in the neighbor region of Asturias started a rebellion against the Berber garrison, Dux Peter as other western Galician nobles supported the election of him as new King or Princeps in the lead against the common enemy. In the first stages of the Reconquista, the city was part of the repopulating efforts of the Kingdom of Asturias in the border region of Bardulia, the primitive territories of Castile. After the campaigns of Alfonso I of Asturias (739-757) against the Moors, the city lay an abandoned in the largely empty buffer zone between Moors and Christians known at the time as "The Desert of the Duero" and was part of the repopulation campaign carried out a century later, during the reign of Ordoño I of Asturias (850-866). At that time it was an important and significant place, as a very old saying states: "Harto era Castilla pequeño rincón, cuando Amaya era la cabeza y Fitero el mojón" (A very small corner was Castile, when Amaya was the head and Fitero the boundary stone). Amaya seems to have been a short-lived bishopric, which, no longer being a residential diocese, is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see. References Category:Archaeological sites in Spain Category:Populated places in the Province of Burgos Category:Towns in Spain

2015–16 Lithuanian Football Cup

The 2015–16 Lithuanian Football Cup is the twenty-seven season of the Lithuanian annual football knock-out tournament. The competition started on 2 June 2015 with the matches of the first round and ended in May 2016. Žalgiris are the defending champions. The winners will qualify for the first qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. First round The matches started on 2 June 2015 and ended on 26 June 2015. !colspan="3" align="center"|2 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|9 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|11 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|12 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|13 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|14 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|16 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|21 June |- !colspan="3" align="center"|26 June |} Second round !colspan="3" align="center"|11 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|12 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|17 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|22 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|23 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|24 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|25 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|30 July 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|3 August 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|5 August 2015 |} Third round !colspan="3" align="center"|23 August 2015 |- |- !colspan="3" align="center"|25 August 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|2 September 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|3 September 2015 |- !colspan="3" align="center"|5 September 2015 |} Fourth round !colspan="3" align="center"|22 September 2015 |- |} Round of 16 !colspan="3" align="center"|29 September 2015 |- |- !colspan="3" align="center"|30 September 2015 |} Quarter-finals |} Semi-finals |} Final The final took place on 15 May 2016, in the new stadium that has been built in Telšiai. |} References External links Cup Cup Category:2015–16 European domestic association football cups 2015-16

Manuel A. Roxas High School

Manuel A. Roxas High School is a secondary (high) school located in Paco, Manila. It is one of the six schools in Manila to provide the Special Science course for selected students. The first building of Roxas High School was situated in Quezon Boulevard near Feati University. It was established in 1948 and is the first high school to be named after a former president, Manuel Acuna Roxas. Special Science The establishment of the Special Science curriculum was spearheaded by the Department of Science and Technology- Science Education Institute in the 1980s. For the moment, support form DOST has been withdrawn and Special Science classes are maintained by the Division of City Schools in the implementing schools namely Manuel A. Roxas High School, Ramon Magsaysay High School, Victorino Mapa High School, Cayetano Arellano High School and Manuel Araullo High School, with the exception of Manila Science High School which is a recognized science high school. To be eligible for the Special Science sections, applicants must have final elementary grades no lower than 85 in Science, Math and English and 83 in other subjects. They are subjected to examination which includes knowledge of Sciences and use of Abstract Reasoning. They are provided with elective subjects to fulfill the aim of the program; that is to give the students good grounding in Science, as well as in other subject areas. There are three Special Science sections in Roxas per year level. The student body is headed by the Supreme Student Government with officers elected yearly. Facilities The School has seven buildings - the Main (L-Shaped), Vocational, Maceda, Hizon, Home Economics, SEDP and Administration buildings and three makeshift structures, two of which are temporary. The Main, Vocational, Macaeda and Hizon buildings house the academic subject classes. The H.E. building is now used by the Science and Technology Department. The SEDP building is where H.E. classes are held. One of the two Guidance offices, the Museum, and EMIS office occupy the Administration, Marcos-type, building. As of June 2006, the Main building, which is the most used, was declared "condemned" and unfit for use. This was explained by the impact of the 1990 earthquake that hit Manila. After the declaration, the school was forced to squeeze schedules and rooms. This called for 13 makeshift rooms. On February 22, 2008 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led the groundbreaking for the PHP 220 million 4-storey building to replace the old structure. Also present in the event were Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim, Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abante and 5th District Rep. Amado Bagatsing and Education Secretary Jesli Lapus. The new building is now in use. Martsa Roxas (Roxas March) Music and Lyrics by: Filipino translation by: Sama-sama tayong tumulong; Itaguyod paaralang mahal; Igalang siyang batis ng dunong; "Paaralan nating Roxas Highschool;" Batiin natin siya ng "Mabuhay"; Umawit nang taimtim at dingal; Ipagbunyi ka, Roxas Highschool, Alma Mater naming hirang." "CHORUS:"Roxas Highschool, ang aming hangadDemokrasya magpakailanman;Ipagpatuloy ang kadakilaan mo.Gumawa nang tapat at nang buong puso.Aming Roxas, kami'y nagagalak,Para sa iyo'y pag-ibig na wagas;Maglilingkod tayo sa Inang BayanIpanalangin sa Maykapal." Notes Department Of Education School Information- https://web.archive.org/web/20110716155351/http://www.deped.gov.ph/public/public.asp?sec=&action=edit&iID=458&type=Public Office of the Presidential Assistant for Education- http://www.opae.gov.ph/news28.html Science Education Institute- https://web.archive.org/web/20090206225533/http://www.sei.dost.gov.ph/simula.html Sinfuego, Roy: Manila Bulletin- http://www.mb.com.ph/node/86214 PGMA breaks ground for construction of P220-M Roxas High School building in Paco: Gov. Ph News- http://www.gov.ph/news/default.asp?i=20176 Category:Educational institutions established in 1948 Category:High schools in Manila Category:Education in Paco, Manila Category:1948 establishments in the Philippines Category:Public schools in Metro Manila

Jinki

Jinki may refer to: , a Japanese era, a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Yōrō and before Tenpyō. This period spanned the years from February 724 through August 729. The reigning emperor was Shōmu-tennō (聖武天皇?) , an item used in Shinto ceremonies to worship kami Jinki (robot), the form of mecha that exists in the 2005 anime series Jinki: Extend Jinki (weapon), an anti-Gear divine weapon set in the Guilty Gear video game series Jinkies, a catchphrase from Scooby-Doo Lee Jinki (born 1989), leader of the boy band Shinee Jinki, an Aboriginal Australian, AKA Kerrianne Cox a musician

Good 'n' Groovy

Good 'n' Groovy is an album by trumpeter Joe Newman with saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1961 and originally released on the Swingville label. Reception AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "This was the second of Joe Newman's three dates he led under the Swingville banner". Track listing All compositions by Joe Newman except as indicated "A.M. Romp" - 6:56 "Li'l Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) - 5:39 "Mo-Lasses" - 6:26 "To Rigmor" - 5:15 "Just Squeeze Me" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines) - 7:03 "Loop-D-Loop" - 6:51 Personnel Joe Newman - trumpet Frank Foster - tenor saxophone Tommy Flanagan - piano Eddie Jones - bass Bill English - drums References Category:1961 albums Category:Joe Newman (trumpeter) albums Category:Swingville Records albums Category:Albums produced by Esmond Edwards Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio

Jamie Burchell

Jamie Burchell (born 15 November 1979 in Worcester, England) is a retired British professional basketball player, who most notably played for the Plymouth Raiders in the British Basketball League. The 6ft5 Forward was educated at The Royal Grammar School, Worcester and later at Marjon's, where he won a BUCS National Championship and represented England Universities. Burchell ended his career at Plymouth Raiders in the Summer of 2013 after representing the club for nearly 15 years. An Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury in February 2011 essentially ended his career, although he would take part in the BBL 2012/2013 campaign. He had previously donned the green vest from 1999–2002, before returning in 2003 following a spell at Chester Jets. Jamie also played for Solihull Chiefs during the 1998/99 season. Burchell now works as a primary school Class Teacher at Stoke Climsland School in south-east Cornwall. He is married to Catherine Burchell (m. 2011) and together they have two boys, Ashley (b. 2012) and Bobby (b. 2015) References Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:Cheshire Jets players Category:English men's basketball players Category:People from Worcester Category:Plymouth Raiders players

Nakh Bar

Nakh Bar () is a village in Beyhaq Rural District, Sheshtomad District, Sabzevar County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported. References Category:Populated places in Sabzevar County

Zumalai

Zumalai is a city and subdistrict (former Mape-Zumalai) in East Timor. The subdistrict has been part of Cova Lima District since 2003. Before that, it was part of Ainaro District. The Zumalai subdistrict has six main villages: Fatuleto, Raimea, Zulo, Mape, Lour, and Taisilin. Language There are three main local languages in Zumalai subdistrict, Bunak, Kemak, and Tetun-Terik. Notes Category:Populated places in East Timor Category:Cova Lima Municipality

John Laurence Tann

John Laurence Tann (born 1890) was an English rower who won the Wingfield Sculls, the amateur single sculling championship of the River Thames, in 1914. Tann was born at Holborn, the son of Edward Tann. The Tann family were the first in the business of manufacturing iron safes. Tann studied engineering at London University and entered the family safe business. He joined Thames Rowing Club and in 1914 won the Wingfield Sculls and the London Cup at the Metropolitan Regatta. Tann was an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and obtained patents relating to safes. Tann was the last member of the family to run the safe making company, and having no male heir, sold the business in 1965. Tann married Christine X Bevan at Wandsworth in 1916. His grandson Tim Crooks was an Olympic rower who also won the Wingfield Sculls. References Category:1890 births Category:British male rowers Category:Year of death missing

Tüvshrüülekh

'Tüvshrüülekh () is a sum (district) of Arkhangai Province in central Mongolia. The Sum (1200 km²) had 3438 inhabitants in 2009, 1869 of whom lived in the town of Tüvshrüülekh which is the second largest town of the province. The distance to Tsetserleg, the capital of the province, amounts to 44 km to the southeast. Tuvshruulekh is situated about 10 km to northeast of the Tsenkher hot springs, a popular tourist destination. The town of Tüvshrüülekh is the seat of various local authorities and schools. There are some shops and a gas station as well. Karakorum, the former capital of Mongolia, is about 30 km to the southeast. References Category:Populated places in Mongolia Category:Districts of Arkhangai Province

Märta Norberg

Märta Norberg (born 19 September 1922) is a former Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. She won two bronze medals in the 3 × 5 km relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1954, 1958). She was born in Örnsköldsvik, Ångermanland. Norberg also finished fourth in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Cross-country skiing results Olympic Games World Championships 2 medals – (2 bronze) External links World Championship results Category:1922 births Category:Living people Category:People from Örnsköldsvik Municipality Category:Cross-country skiers from Västernorrland County Category:Swedish female cross-country skiers Category:Olympic cross-country skiers of Sweden Category:Cross-country skiers at the 1952 Winter Olympics Category:FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing

Moulhoule

Moulhoule () is a town in the northern Obock region of Djibouti. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea, at its southern entrance. It is situated about 70 kilometres (43 miles) North of Obock and 15 km (9 mi) South of the border with Eritrea. Overview Moulhoule is located beside the Bab el Mandeb Strait in the north-east of the Republic of Djibouti, (by road) from Djibouti City. Nearby towns and villages include Khôr ‘Angar (27 km), Rahayta (22 km), Assab (95 km). History On 26 May 1991, the Ethiopian soldiers of the garrison of Assab crossed into Djibouti with 10,000 men in arms, women, children, tanks and artillery. References Moulhoule, Djibouti Category:Populated places in Djibouti

Wayne Scot Lukas

Wayne Scot Lukas is an American fashion consultant, best known as the former co-host of the makeover reality television program What Not to Wear which was broadcast on TLC in the United States and Canada. Clinton Kelly took over as co-host in 2003. Lukas featured his costume designs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Rock Style" exhibit. He also styled Justin Timberlake's wardrobe on the 2003 Justified and Stripped Tour. Lukas served as the spokesperson to promote "What To Wear" in photographs with Kodak Perfect Touch. For several years he has been resident stylist and has provided style tips to Der Spiegel magazine. On March 28, 2007, Lukas designed a fashion line for Home Shopping Network called Lukastyle. References External links TLC's page about Lukas Category:American television personalities Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

São Clemente (Loulé)

São Clemente is a Portuguese civil parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Loulé. The church of St. Clemente (Portuguese: Igreja Matriz de São Clemente) is the oldest and most important church in Loulé. It dates back to the second half of 13th century and was built on the site of a former mosque The Church built in Gothic style consists of three naves, divided by Gothic arches supported by narrow columns. In the 16th century, several side chapels were added and five altarpieces were built. Located across the church is Jardim dos Amuados which is an old Arab Muslim cemetery. The St. Clemente Church bell tower is the oldest part of the church. It dates to the period of Muslim Moor rule in Portugal. It was the original minaret of a former mosque and used for issuing the Islamic call to prayer (Adhaan) five times a day for faithful to come to the mosque for congregation. It is one of the very few remaining Moorish minarets and mosque structures in Portugal. On 20 June 1924, the church was classified as a national monument by Decree No. 9842. Gallery Historical buildings Castle of Loulé, National Monument of Portugal See also List of former mosques in Portugal References Category:Parishes of Loulé Category:Former mosques in Portugal

Dilawar

Dilawar () is a Persian name that means "one who has heart", suggesting "brave" or "courageous". The word has two syllables "dil" (meaning "heart") and "awar", a common Persian suffix which means "to have" or "to come to". Dilawar can also refer to: People Dilawar (torture victim) (1979–2002), Afghan tortured to death by American forces Dilawar Figar (1926–1998), a famous Urdu poet, known for his poetry and style of presentation Dilawar Khan Ghauri (reigned 1401), a sultan of Malwa Dilawar Mani, Pakistani cricket administrator Places (Dilawar ,Maharashtra ,Dapoli village in the Ratnagiri province Dilawar, Punjab, a village in the Punjab province of Pakistan Dilawar Cheema, a town in Gujranwala, Pakistan Dilawar MDH, a town in Vehari, Pakistan Category:Persian masculine given names

Papuengraulis micropinna

Papuengraulis micropinna, the littlefin anchovy, is a species of marine/brackish water anchovy that is only found in the Gulf of Papua, the mouths of rivers that drain into it and the Arafura Sea. It is the only species in its genus. References Category:Anchovies Category:Fish described in 1964 Category:Fish of Papua New Guinea

Domenico Lovisato

Domenico Lovisato (12 August 1842 – 23 February 1916) was an Italian geologist. He was a very early proponent of the theory of continental drift. Education Domenico Lovisato was born in Isola, in Istria on 12 August 1842, then under Austrian rule. He was the third of five children. His father died when he was very young, leaving the family extremely poor. However, with the help of relatives and family friends he was able to complete his primary and secondary education, enrolling in the University of Padua in 1862 to study mathematics. He was vocal in seeking independence, and was arrested eight times. In 1864 he was tried for high treason, but acquitted for lack of evidence. In 1865 he was banned from all schools in the Habsburg Empire, but this was changed to suspension and period of confinement. When war broke out against Austria in 1866 he fought as a volunteer in Trentino, and was noticed by Giuseppe Garibaldi. Returning to university. he graduated in January 1867. Career Lovisato began assisting at the university and then teaching mathematics and physics in the secondary school in Sondrio. While at Sondrio he formed a working relationship with the geologist Torquato Taramelli and with the mining engineer and mountaineer Felice Giordano. A manuscript recording a speech that he made in Sondrio in 1874 is interesting, since it proposes a theory of continental drift forty years before Alfred Wegener formally proposed his theory. Lovisato pointed out the extraordinary similarity between the coast of South America and Africa, and suggested that the two continents could once have been linked. His manuscript was, however, never published, perhaps because of lack of a scientific framework for such a theory at the time. He moved on to teach at schools in Sassari in 1874, Girgenti (now Agrigento) in 1875 and Catanzaro in 1876. At Catanzaro he undertook significant research into geology and paleontology. Based on this work, in 1878 he was appointed professor of mineralogy at the University of Sassari. Felice Giordano recommended that Lovisato be asked to join an expedition to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego sponsored by the Italian Geographical Society and funded by the Argentine government. The expedition, led by Giacomo Bove, took place between December 1881 and September 1882. On this trip Decio Vinciguerra was officially both zoologist and botanist, but in fact Carlos Luigi Spegazzini from Buenos Aires handled the botanical work. The hydrographer Giovanni Roncagli made up the scientific party. Lovisato's diaries of the expedition cover a range of subjects other than geology, including paleontology, botany and ethnography. The government of Argentina invited him to continue his work in Argentina, but he declined and returned to Italy. In 1884 Lovisato was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Cagliari in Cagliari, Sardinia, a position that he held for the next thirty years. During that period he taught, conducted research, and published over 100 titles, many on the geology of Sardinia. He died in Cagliari on 23 February 1916. References Citations Sources Category:1842 births Category:1916 deaths Category:Italian geologists Category:People from Izola Category:University of Sassari faculty Category:University of Cagliari faculty

The Explosive Freddy Cannon

The Explosive Freddy Cannon is the debut album of Freddy Cannon. Released in 1960, it spent one week at number one in the United Kingdom. It was Cannon's only number one album, and the first number one album of the 1960s. Track listing "Boston (My Home Town)" (Bob Crewe, Frank Slay, Jr.) – 2:02 "Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller) – 2:14 "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 2:16 "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 2:29 "St Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:38 "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) – 1:46 "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (Harry Stone, Jack Stapp) – 2:17 "Deep in the Heart of Texas" (Don Swander, June Hershey) – 1:42 "California Here I Come" (Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva, Joseph Meyer) – 2:04 "Okefenokee" (Crewe, Slay, Jr.) – 2:30 "Carolina In The Morning" (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson) – 2:30 "Tallahassee Lassie" (Crewe, Slay, Jr., Frederick A. Picariello) – 2:34 Personnel Technical Bob Crewe, Frank Slay, Jr. – producers, arrangements Sid Bass – arrangements George Schowerer – engineer Otto Fern – photography Charts Singles References Category:1960 albums Category:Freddy Cannon albums Category:Philips Records albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Crewe

Henderson Hall Historic District

Henderson Hall Historic District, is a historic home and national historic district located near Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginia. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object. The primary building is "Henderson Hall," a three-story, Italianate mansion built between 1856 and 1859. Attached to the dwelling is a rear block, constructed in 1836. The remaining buildings are part of the associated farm complex. They include a log smokehouse (c. 1836), carriage barn and schoolroom (c. 1860), log corn crib (c. 1836), corncrib (c. 1856), scale house (c. 1856), cow barn (c. 1850), barn (c. 1895), tenant house (c. 1895-1900), "Woodhaven" (the Henry Clay Henderson House) (c. 1877), Henderson Cemetery, stone terrace wall, stone mounting block, and three prehistoric Indian mounds. It was listed to the National Register of Historical Places in 1986. References Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Category:Italianate architecture in West Virginia Category:Historic districts in Wood County, West Virginia Category:National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia Category:Houses in Wood County, West Virginia

Voice of Democracy

Voice of Democracy (VOD) is an annual nationwide scholarship program sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). It is an audio-essay contest for high school students in grades 9-12. The program annually provides more than $2.3 million in scholarships. The first-place winner, who competes with all the first-place VFW Department (state) winners, receives a $30,000 scholarship that is paid directly to the recipient's American university, college or vocational/technical school. Besides competing for the top scholarship prize, as well as other national scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $16,000, each Department's first-place winner receives an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. in March (annually). The Voice of Democracy Program began in 1946 and was originally sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters. Initially, there were four winners selected, representing the North, South, East and West regions of the country. Each winner received a $500 savings bond and a wristwatch. The second year of the program, a student by the name of Charles Kuralt, the late television news broadcaster and author, was one of the winners. It is endorsed by the contest criteria of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and is designed to foster patriotism by allowing students the opportunity to voice their opinion in a three- to five-minute essay based on an annual theme. Historically, the Voice of Democracy theme (chosen by the VFW Commander-in-Chief annually) is purposely kept broad in scope to allow the participant flexibility in interpretation, and thus, encourage originality. The new theme is posted on the website by May of each year. The audiotape or audio CD (with the typed essay recited word-for-word), the actual typed essay, and completed official student entry form must be delivered to a local, participating VFW Post by the student entry deadline of October 31. External links Veterans of Foreign Wars official website Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy official website Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Scholarships Category:Scholarships in the United States Category:Veterans of Foreign Wars

Sean Rowe

Sean Rowe (born in Troy, New York) is an alternative folk singer-songwriter and musician. Early life Born and raised in Troy, New York, Rowe started playing music at an early age. He received a bass guitar from his father on his 12th birthday and performed in a local band. After receiving an acoustic guitar as a gift from his uncle, Rowe began playing solo. He wrote his first song at the age of seven on a Fisher-Price typewriter after listening to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." Rowe started seriously writing songs when he was 18. The first complete song that he wrote was called "Turtle," which was inspired by his friend and singer-songwriter Jeanne French. At the age of 17, Rowe discovered Otis Redding and his song "Open The Door", which inspired him to begin singing. Nature An avid naturalist, Rowe often speaks of his fascination with the woods and his connection to the land. After reading The Tracker by Tom Brown at the age of 18, Rowe started a blog about his experiences in the wilderness. He later took courses at Tom Brown's Wilderness Survival School in Asbury, NJ. In 2006, Rowe studied for a year at Hawk Circle Wilderness Education in Cherry Valley, NY, and completed a 24-day solo survival quest after his training. Rowe also studied under wild food author and expert, Samuel Thayer, and has partnered with Kawing Crow Awareness Center as a guest instructor for wilderness survival workshops and wild edible plant foraging. Since 2009, Rowe has contributed as a blogger to the Albany Times Union on topics concerning nature, wildlife and his music career. Career Since 2003, Rowe played locally in his hometown at open mics, bars and cafes. He began playing with percussionist Marco Haber, who played on a few tracks on his first album "27". Shortly thereafter they began playing under the name Mudfunk and recorded a live album, Live at the Grind, as well as a single of "Wrong Side of the Bed" at Studio Zoot in Albany. The latter would be re-recorded for Sean's solo album, Magic, without Haber and with different instrumentation. He recorded his album, Magic, at Collar City Sound and released it through Collar City Records on April 21, 2009. In 2009, Rowe was asked to open for Noah and the Whale in the United Kingdom. Soon after, Sean signed with ANTI- Records, which re-released Magic on February 22, 2011, and released The Salesman and the Shark on August 28, 2012. On March 4, Sean played his new release, "Downwind", on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The movie The Accountant with actor Ben Affleck (2016) features Sean Rowe's song "To Leave Something Behind". Sean was a featured performer at The Red Jacket Jamboree performance/recording on October 14, 2017. Sean launched a Kickstarter in 2017 and raised over $40,000 to pay for the production of his album, "New Lore." "New Lore" was released on his new label, Three Rivers Records, with his former label ANTI- Records handling distribution. Personal Life Rowe is married and has children He sometimes goes on tour with his family. Discography Albums Mudfunk 2006: Live at the Grind Solo 2004: 27 2009: Magic 2011: Magic re-release 2012: The Salesman and the Shark 2014: Madman 2017: New Lore Live 2011: Live Morning Becomes Eclectic – KCRW 2012: Live Mercury Lounge, NYC, NY USA EPs 2015: Her Songs 2016: All We Can Do 2019: Used Songs Singles 2006: Mudfunk – "Wrong Side of the Bed" 2007: "Old Black Dodge" 2012: "Downwind" 2013: "To Leave Something Behind" References External links Sean Rowe Website Sean Rowe Facebook Sean Rowe Blog Sean Rowe Twitter ANTI- Sean Rowe YouTube Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:American folk singers Category:Singers from New York (state) Category:American folk guitarists Category:American male guitarists Category:American male singer-songwriters Category:American singer-songwriters Category:Musicians from Troy, New York Category:Songwriters from New York (state) Category:Guitarists from New York (state) Category:21st-century American singers Category:21st-century American guitarists Category:21st-century male singers

Northern Provincial Council

Northern Provincial Council ( Vaṭa Mākāṇa Capai; NPC) is the provincial council for the Northern Province in Sri Lanka. In accordance with the Sri Lankan constitution, NPC has legislative power over a variety of matters including agriculture, education, health, housing, local government, planning, road transport and social services. The constitution also gives it powers over police and land but successive central governments have refused to devolve these powers to the provinces. NPC has 38 members elected using the open list proportional representation system. History In an attempt to end the Sri Lankan Civil War the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed on 29 July 1987. One of the requirements of the accord was that the Sri Lankan government should devolve powers to the provinces. Accordingly, on 14 November 1987 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987. On 3 February 1988 nine provincial councils were created by order. The first elections for provincial councils took place on 28 April 1988 in North Central, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, and Uva provinces. On 2 June 1988 elections were held for provincial councils for Central, Southern and Western provinces. The Indo-Lanka Accord also required the merger of the Eastern and Northern provinces into one administrative unit. The accord required a referendum to be held by 31 December 1988 in the Eastern Province to decide whether the merger should be permanent. Crucially, the accord allowed the Sri Lankan president to postpone the referendum at his discretion. On September 2 and 8 1988 President Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Eastern and Northern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. Elections in the newly merged North Eastern Province were held on 19 November 1988. The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, an Indian backed paramilitary group, won control of the North Eastern provincial council. On 1 March 1990, just as the Indian Peace Keeping Force were preparing to withdraw from Sri Lanka, Annamalai Varatharajah Perumal, Chief Minister of the North Eastern Province, moved a motion in the North Eastern Provincial Council declaring an independent Eelam. President Premadasa reacted to Permual's UDI by dissolving the provincial council and imposing direct rule on the province. The proclamations issued by President Jayewardene in September 1988 merging the Northern and Eastern provinces were only meant to be a temporary measure until a referendum was held in the Eastern Province on a permanent merger between the two provinces. However, the referendum was never held and successive Sri Lankan presidents issued proclamations annually extending the life of the "temporary" entity. The merger was bitterly opposed by Sri Lankan nationalists. The combined North Eastern Province occupied one third of Sri Lanka. The thought of the rebel Tamil Tigers controlling this province, directly or indirectly, alarmed them greatly. On 14 July 2006, after a long campaign against the merger, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna filed three separate petitions with the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka requesting a separate Provincial Council for the East. On 16 October 2006 the Supreme Court ruled that the proclamations issued by President Jayewardene were null and void and had no legal effect. The North Eastern Province was formally de-merged into the Eastern and Northern provinces on 1 January 2007. The Northern province was ruled directly from Colombo until 21 September 2013 when elections were held. Chairmen, deputy chairmen, chief ministers, leaders of the opposition and chief secretaries Election results 2013 provincial council election Results of the 1st Northern Provincial Council election held on 21 September 2013: References

Monom language

Monom (Monam), not to be confused with Bonam (a Bahnar subgroup), is an Austro-Asiatic language of Vietnam. Speakers are officially classified by the Vietnamese government as Sedang people. Monom is spoken mostly in Kon Plông District, Kon Tum Province (Le et al. 2014:175) References Category:Languages of Vietnam Category:Bahnaric languages

Deixa-me sonhar (só mais uma vez)

"Deixa-me sonhar (só mais uma vez)" ("Let me dream (just once more)") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga, Latvia, performed in Portuguese and English (although this bilingual version was never recorded) by Rita Guerra. The song was composed by Paulo Martins. This was the first time that the Portuguese entry was not fully sung in Portuguese. The song peaked at #7 in the Portuguese singles chart. The song is a ballad, with Guerra telling her lover that he can take almost everything else when he goes, as long as he leaves her the ability to "dream one more time" and imagine that she is still in a relationship with him. The song was performed seventh on the night, following Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mija Martina with "Ne brini" and preceding Croatia's Claudia Beni with "Više nisam tvoja". At the close of voting, it had received 13 points, placing 22nd in a field of 26. It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 2004 Contest by Sofia Vitória with "Foi magia". Category:Rita Guerra songs Category:Eurovision songs of Portugal Category:Eurovision songs of 2003 Category:Portuguese-language songs Category:English-language Portuguese songs Category:2003 songs

Ahmad Hijazi

Ahmad Hijazi (, ; born 22 August 1994) is a Lebanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Ansar, on loan from Akhaa Ahli Aley, and the Lebanon national team. Club career After spending three seasons on loan from Ahed, Hijazi signed a permanent deal with Akhaa Ahli Aley in summer 2019. He was sent on loan to Ansar on 23 January 2020, to compete at the 2020 AFC Cup. International career Hijazi made his debut for the senior team on 5 August 2019, in a 0–0 draw against Palestine at the 2019 WAFF Championship. References External links Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:Lebanese footballers Category:Lebanon international footballers Category:Association football forwards Category:Lebanese Premier League players Category:Racing Club Beirut players Category:Al Nabi Chit SC players Category:Akhaa Ahli Aley FC players Category:Al Ahed FC players Category:Al Ansar FC players Category:People from Sidon

Siraj Nagar Halt railway station

Siraj Nagar Halt railway station or Sirajnagar Halt is a rural Indian railway station of the Sealdah–Ranaghat–Lalgola branch lines in the Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways. The station is situated at Sirajnagar, under Rejinagar police station in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Sirajnagar, Andhulberia and nearby villages. Lalogola Passengers and EMU pass through the station. Electrification The Krishnanagar–Lalgola Section, including Rejinagar railway station was electrified in 2004. In 2010 the line became double tracked. References Category:Railway stations in Murshidabad district Category:Sealdah railway division

David Moule-Evans

David Moule-Evans (21 November 1905 – 18 May 1988) was an English composer, conductor and academic. Moule-Evans was born in Ashford, Kent, and was educated at the Judd School in Tonbridge before studying at the Royal College of Music in London with Malcolm Sargent and Herbert Howells. While at the Royal College he became friendly with his contemporary Michael Tippett, beating him to gain the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1928 and continuing studies at Queen's College, Oxford. Tippett asked him to conduct the first full concert of his own music at the Barn Theatre in Oxted on 5 April 1930. From 1945 to 1974 Moule-Evans returned to the RCM to teach harmony, counterpoint and composition. As a composer Moule-Evans has been largely forgotten today, but during his lifetime he achieved a measure of success. His Concerto for String Orchestra won the Carnegie British Music award in 1928. The Dance Suite, scored for full orchestra with piano, five percussion players and timpani, was completed in December 1930 and received its first performance at a Royal College of Music Patrons' Fund Concert in March, 1931. He was one of several composer contributors (alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Cole, Julian Gardiner and John Tilehurst) to the 1938 Dorking pageant play England's Pleasant Land, written by E.M. Forster. His Symphony in G (1944) was the controversial £1,000 prizewinner of the Australian International Jubilee Symphony Competition of 1951 with The Musical Times and others claiming that the runner up, a symphony by Robert Hughes, was "definitely superior". (Malcolm Sargent revived the work in the UK for a Royal Festival Hall performance by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1952, but to mixed reviews, the Musical Times dismissing it as "conventional, banal and boring"). The orchestral poem September Dusk was premiered at the BBC Proms on 25 August 1945. Moule-Evans mostly wrote in a popular, straightforward "light music" style, although the composer Michael Hurd has commented that his later chamber works, including the Violin Sonata in F-sharp minor (1956) and the Piano Sonata (1966) are more adventurous in style. The only music currently available in recorded form are the soundtracks to a series of British Council documentary films commissioned by Muir Mathieson, including Health of a Nation and London 1942. Moule-Evans married Monica Warden Evans in March 1935 and the couple lived at Claremont, 10 Rose Hill, Dorking in Surrey. Illness cut short his composing career from 1968, although he continued to teach until his death in 1988. His archive and manuscripts are housed in the National Library of Wales. Selected Works Orchestral 1926 Rhapsody No 2 1928 Concerto for String Orchestra 1930 Dance Suite 1935 Cliff Castle, symphonic poem 1935 Polka for Cello and Orchestra (dedicated to cellist Maurice Hardy) 1938 Divertimento for strings (first performance, Bristol 1939 under Reginald Redman) 1942 The Spirit of London, overture 1943 September Dusk, symphonic poem 1944 Symphony in G Major (awarded 1st prize at the Australian Jubilee Competition) 1948 Vienna Rhapsody, waltz 1949 The Haunted Place, miniature for string orchestra 1951 Old Tupper's Dance 1952 Sussex Downs, suite for small orchestra Choral and Vocal 1945 Two Celtic Songs, soprano and piano (text: Fiona Macleod) (published Stainer & Bell) 1947 Duncton Hill, unaccompanied part song for mixed choir (text: Hilaire Belloc) (published Joseph Williams) 1948 The Ploughboy in Luck, two part song 1949 Bed in Summer, Hayloft, The Swing, songs (text: R.L Stevenson) 1949 O Mistress Mine, two part song (published Stainer & Bell) 1951 My Own Country and Twelfth Night, songs for middle voice and piano (text: Hilaire Belloc) 1951 Twilight, song for middle voice and piano (text: John Masefield) Chamber music 1925 Sonata in E major for violin and piano 1938 Moto perpetuo for viola and piano 1956 Sonata in F sharp minor for violin and piano 1966 Piano Sonata Trio for flute, oboe and piano (dedicated to The Sylvan Trio) Film music 1942 London, 1942 1943 Health of a Nation 1945 Make Fruitful the Land References Category:1905 births Category:1988 deaths Category:English composers Category:English conductors (music) Category:British male conductors (music) Category:20th-century conductors (music) Category:20th-century British male musicians Category:Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music

Seget, Croatia

Seget is a municipality in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County. It has a population of 4,854 (2011 census), 97.4% of whom are Croats. References External links Category:Populated places in Split-Dalmatia County Category:Municipalities of Croatia

Overrun Countries series

The Overrun Countries series was a series of thirteen commemorative postage stamps, each of five-cent denomination, issued by the United States over a fifteen-month period in 1943 and 1944 as a tribute to thirteen nations overrun, occupied, and/or annexed by the Axis Powers during or shortly before World War II. The stamps depict, in full color, the national flags of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria, Denmark, and Korea, with the names of the respective countries underneath. To the left of each flag appears the symbol of a phoenix, symbolizing the renewal of life, and to its right appears a kneeling female figure with arms raised, breaking the shackles of servitude. The stamps with flags of European countries were released at intervals from June to December 1943, while the Korea flag stamp was released in November 1944. The dates on which these stamps were issued are: Poland, 22 June 1943; Czechoslovakia, 12 July 1943; Norway, 27 July 1943; Luxembourg, 10 August 1943; the Netherlands, 23 August 1943; Belgium, 14 September 1943; France, 28 September 1943; Greece, 12 October 1943; Yugoslavia, 26 October 1943; Albania, 9 November 1943; Austria, 23 November 1943; Denmark, 7 December 1943; and Korea, 2 November 1944. Because of the elaborate process necessary for the full-color printing, the United States government's Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C., contracted with a private firm, the American Bank Note Company in New York City, to produce the stamps. The Scott number for this series of stamps is from 909 to 921. See also Postage stamps and postal history of the United States References Category:Postage stamps of the United States Category:1943 works Category:1944 works

Sona Modern Public School

Sona Modern Public School (SMPS) is located in Khanpur, Delhi. It was started in 1973. The name of the trust is "Sona Modern Education Society". Balraj Singh is the principal and Harvinder Chaudhary is the chairman. References External links Category:Schools in Delhi Category:1973 establishments in India Category:Educational institutions established in 1973

Samea figuralis

Samea figuralis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1869. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. References Category:Spilomelinae Category:Moths described in 1869

JP Rameau

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Mara Mattuschka

Mara Mattuschka (born 22 May 1959) is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker. Life Mattuschka was born in Sofia in Bulgaria in 1959. At the age of 17, in 1976, she moved to Vienna to study Ethnology and Linguistics. In 1983, she entered Maria Lassnig's masterclass in animation and painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and started making her first short films. Her graduation film Der Einzug des Rokoko ins Inselreich der Huzis caused a small scandal at the university in 1989, because it mixed animation, theatre, performance, music and fine arts. She graduated in 1990. From 1997 until 2001 she taught arts at Braunschweig University of Art in Germany. She also taught at University of Art and Design Linz. In the 2000s she started working with the dance ensemble Liquid Loft and Chris Haring. Her first feature film was made in 2012. In 2006, the film festival Vienna Independent Shorts dedicated a retrospective to her work. Filmarchiv Austria showed a retrospective of her work for her 60th birthday in 2019. She lives in Vienna. Style In most of her films, she appears herself as her alter ego "Mimi Minus" and in various other identities. Filmography Nabelfabel (1984) Kugelkopf (1985) Der Untergang der Titania (1985) Cerolax II (1985) Die Schule der Ausschweifung (1986) Parasympathica (1986) Pascal - Gödel (1986) Kaiser Schnitt (1986) Es hat mich sehr gefreut (1987) Les Miserables (1987) Der Einzug des Rokoko ins Inselreich der Huzis (1989) Loading Ludwig (1989, with Michael Petrov) Der Schöne, die Biest (1993) S. O. S. Extraterrestria (1993) Suvlaki ist Babylon: Komm, iss mit mir (1995) Unternehmen Arschmaschine (1997, with Gabriele Szekatsch) Plasma (2004) Legal Errorist (2005, with Chris Haring) Königin der Nacht (Mozart Minute 20) (2006) Part Time Heroes (2007, with Chris Haring) Running Sushi (2008, with Chris Haring) Burning Palace (2009, with Chris Haring) Ovid Tum (2012, with Reinhard Jud) Perfect Garden (2013) Phaidros (2018) External links References Category:1959 births Category:Animated film directors Category:Austrian women film directors Category:Austrian experimental filmmakers Category:Living people Category:People from Sofia

The Wilton Arms

The Wilton Arms is a Grade II listed public house located on Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London and built in 1825–26. Owned by Shepherd Neame, the pub closed in July 2019. References Category:Grade II listed pubs in the City of Westminster Category:Belgravia

The Prodigal Son (Britten)

The Prodigal Son is an opera by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer. Based on the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, this was Britten's third "parable for church performance", after Curlew River and The Burning Fiery Furnace. Britten dedicated the score to Dmitri Shostakovich. The first performance took place on 10 June 1968 in St Bartholomew's Church, Orford, Suffolk. The instrumentalists included the horn player Neill Sanders and the percussionist James Blades. Colin Graham was the stage director. The United States premiere was presented at the Caramoor Summer Music Festival on 29 June 1969 with Andrea Velis as the Tempter/Abbot. As with the other church parables, the instrumental forces are very modest: flute, horn, viola, double bass, harp, organ and percussion, with the use of the alto flute and small trumpet in D marking changes compared to the other works. The percussion also incorporates a gourd rattle. Roles Synopsis The story centers on a farm family, which consists of a father and his two sons. Servants also help with working the land. The elder son and the servants leave to work the fields for the day. The younger son hears a voice that tempts him to indulge his "most secret longings". The younger son asks his father for his inheritance, which the father grants. The younger son makes his way to the city. There, he is deprived of his fortune and left penniless. The younger son then returns home and asks his father's forgiveness. His father receives his younger son with rejoicing, but the elder son is initially angry at his father's reaction, after he himself has loyally worked the fields. The father rebukes his elder son, and asks him to be reconciled to his younger brother, who has returned to restore the family. Recordings Britten and Viola Tunnard directed the first recording of the work, for the Decca label (original listing, Decca SET 438) with the premiere's cast and players. The full cast of singers is: Tempter/Abbot: Peter Pears The Father: John Shirley-Quirk The Younger Son: Robert Tear The Elder Son: Bryan Drake Chorus of Servants, Parasites and Beggars: Paschal Allen, Carl Duggan, David Hartley, Philip Hooper, Peter Leeming, John McKenzie, Clive Molloy, Paul Wade Young Servants and Distant Voices: Gerald Beauchamp, Michael Butler, Jonathan Fox, Richard Hopkins, David Rookwood References Notes Sources Holden, Amanda (Ed.), Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (Viking, 1993) External links Britten-Pears Foundation page on The Prodigal Son Recordings of The Prodigal Son on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk Category:Operas by Benjamin Britten Category:Chamber operas Category:Operas Category:One-act operas Category:1968 operas