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Limyra was a small city in ancient Lycia on the southern coast of Asia Minor, on the Limyrus River . Already flourishing in the second millennium BCE, the city was one of the oldest and most prosperous in Lycia; it gradually became one of the finest trade settlements in Greece. In the 4th century BCE Pericles adopted it as the capital of the Lycian League; subsequently it came under control of the Persian Empire. After Alexander the Great ended Persian rule, most of Lycia was ruled by Ptolemy I Soter; his son Ptolemy II Philadelphos supported the Limyrans against the invading Galatians and the inhabitants dedicated a monument, the Ptolemaion, to him in thanks. The five necropolises from this period demonstrate the city's importance. The mausoleum of Pericles is particularly notable for its fine reliefs and exquisite sculptures such as Perseus slaying Medusa and one of her sisters. Limyra is mentioned by Strabo XIV, 666, Ptolemy V, 3, 6 and several Latin authors. Gaius Caesar, adopted son of Augustus, died there Velleius Paterculus, II, 102. The Romans cut a theater into the hill which held 8000 spectators. It was commissioned in the second century AD by important Lycian benefactor named Opramoas of Rhodiapolis. Also from this period are a bathhouse with a complex heating system and the colonnaded streets. The Roman Bridge at Limyra, east of the city, is one of the oldest segmental arch bridges in the world. Ecclesiastical history Limyra is mentioned as a bishopric in Notitiæ Episcopatuum down to the 12th and 13th centuries as a suffragan of the metropolitan of Myra. Six bishops are known: Diotimus, mentioned by St. Basil ep. CCXVIII; Lupicinus, present at the First Council of Constantinople, 381; Stephen, at the Council of Chalcedon 451; Theodore, at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553; Leo, at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787; Nicephorus, at the Council of Constantinople 879-880. In the Annuario Pontificio it is listed as a titular see of the Roman province of Lycia. Gallery References Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia Category:Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey Category:Populated places in ancient Lycia Category:Roman towns and cities in Turkey Category:Former populated places in Turkey Category:Finike District

Christopher James Cox born 14 May 1962 is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer who played several games for Zimbabwe in 1986. He played as a left-arm orthodox bowler. Born in Umtali present-day Mutare, Cox debuted for Zimbabwe B during the 198081 season, appearing twice in three-day fixtures against Kenya. He made his senior debut for Zimbabwe in April 1986, playing one-day and first-class fixtures against New South Wales a touring Australian state team. The following month, Cox was named in Zimbabwe's squad for the 1986 ICC Trophy in England. He played only a single match at the tournament, against East Africa, but did feature in a one-day tour game against Northamptonshire. Cox's final appearance for Zimbabwe came in October 1986, against a touring West Indies B side. He remained in competition for national selection for at least another season, however, playing first-class matches for Zimbabwe B in March 1987 and March 1988 against Pakistan B and Sri Lanka B, respectively. References External links Player profile and statistics at Cricket Archive Player profile and statistics at ESPNcricinfo Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Mutare Category:Zimbabwean cricketers

This is a list of Estonian television related events from 1967. Events Debuts Television shows Ending this year Births 5 April - Kärt Tomingas, actress and singer 11 April - Liina Olmaru, actress 6 June - Astrid Kannel, television journalist 9 July - Indrek Taalmaa, actor 10 August - Mart Sander, singer, actor, director, author, and TV host Deaths

Al Rasheed Street or Al Rashid Street Arabic: شارع الرشيد is one of the main streets in downtown Baghdad. Its origin dates back to the Ottomans who ruled Iraq from 1534 to 1918. During that time, the only known public street in Baghdad was Al Naher Street Shari al-Naher. Al Naher means river - the street stretches a few kilometers along the east banks of the river Tigris, so this may be the reasoning behind its name. The British were defeated by the Ottomans on April 29, 1916 in Kut south of Baghdad, where tens of thousands of Anglo-Indian troops died or were wounded, and thousands more were taken prisoner, including their commander Sir Charles Townshend. The military governor of Baghdad, Khalil Pasha 18641923, decided to honor this victory by giving orders to build the first ever real street in Baghdad. Work began in May 1916, after the head of Baghdad's municipality, Ra'ouf Al Chadirchy, met with local landlords to pay them compensations for the demolition of their property. The street was first opened for the public on July 23, 1916. The first name given to the street was by Khalil Pasha who named the street Jadde Si. The name of the street was then inscribed on a ceramic plate and placed on the main wall of Sultan Ali Mosque. The sign lasted until the mid-1950s. In 1917, Al Rasheed Street was the first street to be electrically illuminated in Baghdad city. References Rasheed Rasheed

Marta Etura Palenzuela born 28 October 1978 is a Spanish film and television actress. Etura was born in San Sebastián, where she studied at the French Lyceum. She is known for La vida que te espera 2004, Cell 211 2009, Sleep Tight 2011, and The Invisible Guardian 2017. She studied acting with Cristina Rota. Filmography Cinema 2001: Sin vergüenza 2002: El caballero Don Quijote 2002: Trece campanadas 2002: La Vida de nadie 2003: Mariposas de fuego 2003: La Vida que te espera 2004: ¡Hay motivo!, segment Por tu propio bien 2004: Frío sol de invierno 2004: Entre vivir y soñar 2005: Para que no me olvides 2006: Remake 2006: Azuloscurocasinegro 2007: Desierto Sur 2007: Las Trece Rosas 2007: Casual Day 2008: Siete minutos 2009: Celda 211 2011: Sleep Tight 2011: Eva 2012: The Impossible 2013: Presentimientos 2013: Los Últimos Días 2014: Easy Sex, Sad Movies 2017: The Invisible Guardian 2019: The Legacy of the Bones Television 2013: Águila Roja 2006: Vientos de agua 2003: La vida de Rita 2000: Raquel busca su sitio Theatre 2012: Antígona 2008: Hamlet 2007: Despertares y celebraciones Awards Shooting Stars Award 2006 by European Film Promotion Goya Awards References External links Marta Etura at www.shooting-stars.eu Category:1978 births Category:Basque actresses Category:Living people Category:People from San Sebastián Category:Spanish film actresses

From 1896 known as The Clergy Endowments Canada Act 1791, the statute passed at Westminster in the 31st year of George III, and itemised as chapter 31 31 Geo 3 c 31, was commonly known as the Constitutional Act 1791 . It was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. History The Act reformed the government of the Province of Quebec 1763-1791 to accommodate, amongst other Loyalists, the 10,000 United Empire Loyalists who had arrived from the United States following the American Revolution. The Province of Quebec, with a population of 145,000 French-speaking Canadians, was divided in two when the Act took effect on 26 December 1791. The largely unpopulated western half became Upper Canada now southern Ontario and the eastern half became Lower Canada now southern Quebec. The names Upper and Lower Canada were given according to their location along the St. Lawrence River. Upper Canada received English law and institutions, while Lower Canada retained French civil law and institutions, including feudal land tenure and the privileges accorded to the Roman Catholic Church. The legislative Council for the Affairs of the Province of Quebec, with its subset Executive Council cabinet, was continued and reinforced by the establishment of freeholder-elected legislative assemblies. These elected assemblies led to a form of representative government in both colonies; the Province of Quebec had not previously had a legislative assembly. The Constitutional Act attempted to create an established church by forming the clergy reserves, that is, grants of land reserved for the support of the Protestant Church of England. Income from the lease or sale of these reserves, which constituted one-seventh of the territory of Upper and Lower Canada, from 1791 went exclusively to the Church of England and, from 1824 on in a complex ratio, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. These reserves created many difficulties in later years, making economic development difficult and creating resentment against the Anglican church, the Family Compact, and the Château Clique, although it did eventually lead to the growth of an Ottawa neighbourhood known as The Glebe. The act was problematic for both English and French speakers; the French Canadians and the Roman Catholic church in Quebec felt they might be overshadowed by Loyalist settlements and increased rights for Protestants, while the new English-speaking settlers felt the French still had too much power. However, both groups preferred the act and the institutions it created to the Quebec Act which it replaced. The Act of 1791 is often seen as a watershed in the development of French Canadian nationalism as it provided for a province Lower Canada which the French considered to be their own, separate from English-speaking Upper Canada. The disjuncture between this French-Canadian ideal of Lower Canada as a distinct, national homeland and the reality of continued Anglo-Canadian political and economic dominance of the province after 1791 led to discontent and a desire for reform among various segments of the French Canadian populace. The frustration of the French over the nature of Lower Canadian political and economic life in their province eventually helped fuel the Lower Canada Rebellion of 183738. Gallery See also Constitutional history of Canada Act of Union 1840 Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester References External links Constitutional Act of the Province of Lower Canada printed by R. Armour at Montreal, 1828 Category:Great Britain Acts of Parliament 1791 Category:Constitution of Canada Category:Political history of Ontario Category:Political history of Quebec Category:Lower Canada Category:Upper Canada Category:1791 in Canada Category:Constitutions of former British colonies

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console in 2017. It is the fifteenth entry in the Fire Emblem series and a remake of the second installment, the 1992 Famicom title Fire Emblem Gaiden. It follows dual protagonists Alm and Celica as they aim to bring an end to the war through opposite methods, with Alm fighting to resolve the war through battle, while Celica attempts to find a peaceful end through guidance from the Goddess Mila. Fire Emblem Echoes carries over the core gameplay mechanics of the Fire Emblem series while incorporating mechanics from Gaiden like dungeon crawling. Development of Fire Emblem Echoes began in 2015 following the completion of Fire Emblem Fates. Intended as the culmination of the Fire Emblem series on the 3DS platform, several staff members from both Fates and Fire Emblem Awakening were involved. The game carried over the unconventional mechanics of Gaiden while expanding and rebuilding the story and gameplay based on recent Fire Emblem games and the team's wishes for added role-playing elements. While Gaiden remains exclusive to Japan, Fire Emblem Echoes was localized by 8-4. The game released to strong sales worldwide, receiving positive reviews from critics. Gameplay Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is a tactical role-playing game in which players command two armies on opposite sides of a war on the continent of Valentia. There are two difficulty settings Normal and Hard and two modes that dictate the fate of characters that fall in battle. In Classic Mode, a fallen unit is subject to permanent death, a recurring mode in the Fire Emblem series that removes fallen characters from the rest of the game though it is possible in Echoes to revive fallen units a limited number of times. Casual Mode enables units to be revived at the end of a battle. The player navigates Valentia using a world map, going to different story-based and optional locations. Environments are split between battle maps similar to earlier Fire Emblem titles, towns which can be explored to find friendly non-playable characters NPCs which run shops, and dungeons the player can explore. Encountering enemies on the world map or in dungeons will trigger a battle. As with other Fire Emblem games, Fire Emblem Echoes uses a turn-based system where each unit on both sides is given their chance to move and act. Battles take place on a grid-based battlefield, with turns being given for players and enemies. During an attack, the view transitions from a top-down perspective to a third-person view. Unlike many other Fire Emblem titles, the Weapons Triangle a rockpaperscissors system where certain weapons have advantages over others and limited weapon durability are removed. Units instead have standard weapons that last the whole campaign, and can be given special weapons which replace their standard weapon and grant passive advantages. Each unit can only carry one weapon, which grows in power as its wielder gains experience points and levels up through battle. Each unit is assigned a unique character class, with the class dictating their weapon and consequently their actions; archers can attack at a distance, melee fighters are limited to close-range attacks, while mages must sacrifice a portion of their health to perform an action. Once a unit has reached a certain level, their class can be evolved into more powerful versions. Villager NPCs can also be recruited in towns; while initially weak, they can be strengthened and assigned any available character class. Each time a unit is used in a battle, their Fatigue meter is filled and their maximum health is decreased. The meter is depleted by either giving that unit gifts or purifying them at special statues. During battles, adjacent allied units can engage in Support conversations, dialogues which impact their relationship and gameplay performance. In dungeons, players can roam freely through a 3D environment with a party of ten, are able to avoid encounters if they wish, and can smash objects or open crates to obtain money and items. Upon engaging an enemy, the perspective switches to the standard top-down battle screen. An added function is Mila's Turnwheel, a mechanic whereby players can undo three turns to redo moves if something has gone wrong such as a unit falling in battle. In addition, Fire Emblem Echoes features Amiibo support, with compatible figurines being main protagonists Alm and Celica, in addition to characters from earlier Fire Emblem games: using an Amiibo summons a phantom unit for a single turn at the cost of a character's health. Amiibos not related to the Fire Emblem series summon allied monsters. Synopsis The main storyline remains the same as in Fire Emblem Gaiden. Long ago, the sibling gods Mila and Duma fought for control over the continent of Valentia. Eventually, they called a ceasefire and each took half of the continent. In the south, Mila's worshippers would form the Kingdom of Zofia, a land of plentiful bounty. Over time, however, it spoiled and corrupted its people through complacency. In the north, Duma's worshippers created the Empire of Rigel, a desolate land whose people grew in strength but also became numb to emotion. The game follows Alm and Celica, childhood friends who set off on their own journeys across Valentia in order to restore peace. After the completion of the game, a new post-game chapter can be started which allows Alm, Celica, and their allies to journey across the sea to Archanea, the setting of the original Fire Emblem. While there, a large labyrinth buried in the nearby desert can be discovered. Exploring its depths, various stone tables speak of an alchemist named Forneus who attempted to create the perfect life-form with divine dragon blood as well as reanimating the dead to be subservient, but was sealed within the labyrinth as punishment for his inhumane experiments. At the deepest level, Forneus' perfect life-form is encountered: a monstrous being dubbed The Creation which serves as the final boss of the labyrinth and is heavily implied to be Grima, the main antagonist of Fire Emblem Awakening. Development Shadows of Valentia is a full remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden. The second entry in the Fire Emblem series, Gaiden was released in 1992 for the Famicom. The game was notable for breaking away from the gameplay precedents set in its predecessor, Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light; while it retained that game's tactical turn-based battle system, it included new features, such as navigable towns and overworld akin to a traditional RPG, and simplified mechanics. Due to these changes, Gaiden came to be considered the black sheep of the series, with many of its new elements being dropped for subsequent entries. Gaiden did not receive a Western release. Development for Echoes began following the completion of Fire Emblem Fates for the Nintendo 3DS in 2015. Nintendo series producer Hitoshi Yamagami thought about developing a Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo Switch home console, but considered it was too early as the console's specifications were still being decided upon. Several Intelligent Systems staff said they wanted to implement features that had to be cut from Fates in a remake of Gaiden. As Gaiden has received little attention up to this point, Yamagami thought they could quickly develop a remake and release it before the Switch's release. An alternative plan was creating an all-new game, but early planning was already in place for the planned Fire Emblem title for Switch, so it was considered too late to begin a third original 3DS game. It was initially planned for release in September 2016, but they could not reach this deadline without compromising the game's quality, so the release was revised into 2017. Nintendo staff member Kenta Nakanishiwho was a fan of Gaidencame on board as the director of Fates, Genki Yokota, was busy with another project. The director for Intelligent Systems was Toshiyuki Kusakihara, who had acted as art director for Fates and its predecessor Fire Emblem Awakeninghe took up the role due to his sympathetic understanding Gaidens unconventional gameplay. Rather than calling it New Gaiden, the team chose the English word Echoes to give it worldwide appeal, enable its differentiation from the other side story projects within the Fire Emblem series, and as the potential branding for a new series of remakes. Echoes was intended to be the culmination of the Fire Emblem series on the 3DS. The characters were redesigned by Hidari. Hidari was chosen due to Kusakihara's frequent praising for his work. Kusakihara had tried to hire Hidari to work on both Awakening and the Fire Emblem trading card game, though he was too busy with other projects. For Echoes, however, a meeting was set up well in advance and Hidari was able to accept. Hidari's first character design was Alm; he underwent four redesigns, which enabled Hidari to get a handle on the game's artstyle and design the rest of the cast on his own. The game features animated cutscenes by Studio Khara. According to Nakanishi and Kusakihara, the original story had been underdeveloped compared to later Fire Emblem titles; the remake enabled them to redesign the narrative to suit the tastes of modern Fire Emblem players. The story of Gaiden was expanded significantly with the inclusion of the core conflict between the two nations that was previously confined to the original version's manual, and cast the character Saber in the role of narrator so as not to limit the scope of the story. Another issue they wanted to address was the original game's poor character writing. The theme of royalty and its impact on the characters was one of the story's new elements. To further emphasize the theme, the characters Berkut and Rinea were introduced, who expanded upon the original themes of duality by acting as opposites to Alm and Celica. Berkut was designed as a foil for Alm, with the latter's common roots contrasting with Berkut's royal lineage. The characters also underwent both subtle and grand alterations, such as Celica being made of royal blood. While the team decided to focus on original protagonists Alm and Celica rather than incorporating an avatar as had been done for Awakening and Fates. The sibling relationship and their positions in separate rebellious factions was what had originally drawn Nakanishi back towards the game. The gameplay was rebuilt from the ground up based on the technology developed for Fates and Awakening, with its redesign being seen as a necessity with remaking the story due to the original version's obtuse mechanics. Rather than bring the game more in line with the rest of the Fire Emblem series, they preserved the role-playing elements and combined them with more recent Fire Emblem mechanics. The free roaming ability had been developed for Fates, but quality concerns led it to being cut. As Gaiden had this feature originally, free roaming was considered by the staff of Echoes to be a perfect match. It was also decided to lower the difficulty when compared to the original, allowing both series veterans and newcomers to enjoy the game. While the team considered adding the Weapons Triangle, it would have required adding more characters or altering the original cast, going against the team's intentions. The Marriage systema mechanic from Awakening and Fates that allowed for the creation of child characters with new storylines and inherited statisticswas similarly not included as it would have disrupted established character relations too much. Despite this, the series' established Support system was added to properly flesh out characters. Music The game's music was composed and arranged primarily by Takeru Kanazaki, who had co-composed the music for Fates. Kanazaki had assistance from Intelligent Systems composers Yasuhisa Baba and Shoh Murakami; and anime composer Takafumi Wada of Dimension Cruise, who also handled mixing and editing. The composer for the past few entries, Hiroki Morishita, was not involved with the project due to his commitment to scoring Fire Emblem Heroes. The official soundtrack was released by Japanese music label Symphony No. 5 on October 25, 2017. It covered five discs of music, with the fifth being a data disc. The team used the original game's music, composed by Yuka Tsujiyoko, as a starting point for their work. The team attempted to incorporate as many live instruments as possible into the soundtrack. The lyrics for all songs were written by Kusakihara. The vocal ending theme was The Heritors of Arcadia. With lyrics written by Kusakihara, the song was performed by Japanese singer Janis Crunch. The song was written from the dragon Mila's point of view, describing the passing on of responsibilities to humanity. The English version was performed by Bonnie Gordon, who also voiced the character Silque. She became the singer purely by chance, and was worried by the number of high notes in the song due to her low singing voice. Release The title was first announced in January 2017 during a Nintendo Direct broadcast dedicated to the Fire Emblem series. In Japan, multiple versions of the game were released; in addition to the standard release, there was also a limited edition with a special soundtrack, and a Valentia Complete edition featuring the contents of the limited edition with added items, including an artbook. The game was released in Japan on April 20, 2017; in North America and Europe on May 19; and in Australasia on May 20. Amiibo figures of the game's protagonists Alm and Celica were released alongside the game. The game features full voice actinga first for the Fire Emblem seriesfor all but minor characters, but the English release does not include dual audio unlike Awakening. The game's localization was handled by 8-4, who previously worked on Awakening and the 2008 Nintendo DS title Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. Post-release, five downloadable content DLC packs were released over the following two months alongside smaller free DLC, with a Season Pass giving access to all five packs at a reduced price. The DLC packs were split between new dungeons and maps with exclusive character classes, a prologue to the main narrative, and a collaborative character pack with the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher. Reception Japanese gaming journal Famitsu praised the voice acting and more action-oriented story scenes, saying it made the story more entertaining and dramatic. Chris Carter, writing for Destructoid, enjoyed the grand scope and grounded nature of the narrative despite a weaker cast than previous Fire Emblem titles. Ray Carsillo of Electronic Gaming Monthly called the narrative your typical Fire Emblem tale of kings, queens, dragons, and magic, while Game Informers Javy Gwaltney said that the narrative and its leads Alm and Celica were the main reason he continued playing the game. Griffin Vacheron of Game Revolution praised the story's emulation of popular visual novel titles such as Danganronpa and enjoyed both the writing and localization. GameSpot's Heidi Kemps praised the balance between dialogue and combat when portraying the characters, and Chris Schilling of GamesRadar enjoyed the narrative and singled out Celica's storyline as the better part of the game. Meghan Sullivan of IGN, while noting the game's very familiar premise, said that the overall story makes for a good soap opera. Nintendo Lifes Morgan Sleeper enjoyed the simplified storyline after the complex structure of Fates, while Daan Koopman of Nintendo World Report admired its scope and the dynamic between the two protagonists' contrasting views on the war. Famitsu positively noted the general presentation and its impact on the experience, while Carsillo praised the full-motion cutscenes and character portraits. Gwaltney enjoyed cutscenes and battle animations while finding character models a bit fuzzy. Vacheron lauded the quality of cutscenes and its visual style, while he positively compared to visual novels. Schilling found the subdued color palate and felt that the graphics were created with a lower budget than earlier titles, while Sullivan cited the cutscenes as being well-made. Sleeper praised the graphical variety and the opportunities to see environmental details, and Koopman felt that its visuals were the game's greatest improvement over earlier 3DS titles. The voice acting also received general praise for its quality and scope, with the exception of Carter who found it uneven. Famitsu praised the gameplay for both introducing new elements and updating the mechanics of Gaiden, saying it helped elevate the game above its previous black sheep status. Carter enjoyed the gameplay flow despite finding some of the mechanics underdeveloped. while Carsillo enjoyed combat but noted a lack of variation in victory conditions. Gwaltney mentioned several points where the difficulty became unfair and compromised the more enjoyable elements of battles, and Vacheron found the older mechanics had been successfully retooled to feel satisfying to use. Kemps enjoyed the gameplay and new additions such as Mila's Turnwheel despite the requirement for grinding to progress past difficult battles, and Schilling praised the gameplay refinements while pointing out its weak map design. Sullivan adjusted to the old-fashioned mechanics and found them enjoyable after the initial shock, praising their implementation but noting several unfair difficulty spikes. Sleeper praised much of the map design and enjoyed how the additional systems expanded the game's combat and tactical options. Koopman positively noted the various key parts of the gameplay elements, calling the combat and exploration segments one of the reasons the game stood out in the Fire Emblem series as a whole. The new dungeon crawling segments were generally praised by critics, although Vacheron found them lacking in substance. The omission of the series' recurring Weapon Triangle mechanic also raised comments, with several noting that players would take time to get used to it after experiencing the likes of Awakening. Sales During its first week on sale in Japan, Fire Emblem Echoes sold 135,195 units, topping gaming charts and selling through 80 of its initial shipment. Not even a full week into its release Fire Emblem Echoes became number one on Japan's sale charts. Beating out its 2nd place competitor by 83,526 more copies sold. Upon its debut in the United Kingdom, the game was fifth in the all-format gaming charts. In Australia and New Zealand, the game was second in the all platform gaming charts, and topped 3DS charts. In North America, Shadows of Valentia reached seventh place in the all-format gaming charts. According to the NPD Group, the release of Shadows of Valentia prompted a rise in portable console sales. In their quarterly financial report, Nintendo stated that Fire Emblem Echoes had been a popular title during the period. Accolades The game was nominated for Best 3DS Game in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards. It was also nominated for Handheld Game of the Year at the 21st Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and for Original Dramatic Score, Franchise at the 17th Annual National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards. Notes References External links Category:2017 video games Category:Tactical role-playing video games Category:Fire Emblem video games Category:Nintendo 3DS eShop games Category:Nintendo 3DS games Category:Nintendo 3DS-only games Category:Video game remakes Category:Video games developed in Japan Category:Video games featuring female antagonists Category:Video games that use Amiibo figurines Category:Deicide in fiction Category:Patricide in fiction

Raymond Frech Mikesell 1913 September 12, 2006 was an economics professor at the University of Oregon and was believed to be the last surviving economist from the Bretton Woods conference. Mikesell was born in Eaton, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University OSU and, in 1939, received a doctorate in economics from OSU. From 1937 to 1941, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. During World War II, Mikesell became an adviser to Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White. Mikesell was a member of the technical staff at the Bretton Woods conference, which resulted in the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In his Bretton Woods Debates: A Memoir, Mikesell notes that he provided White with data that supported the United States' free trade position and calculated the initial quotas for the World Bank and IMF. He was a close friend of White, Frank Coe, and Sol Adler, and believed that they were not Communist sympathizers. Mikesell served the U.S. government in a number of capacities, including serving as representative of the United States Treasury Department in Cairo in 1943-44 and as the U.S. delegate to the Middle East Financial Conference in Cairo April, 1944; as a member of the United States Currency Mission to Saudi Arabia 1948; as member of the staff of the National Commission on Materials Policy; and Chief of the Foreign Resources Division 1951. He also served as an economic adviser to the Joint British-American Cabinet Committee on Palestine. He served as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations and the Organization of American States. He later argued for reform of the International Monetary Fund and abolishment of the World Bank, which he thought had become a useless and expensive bureaucracy. He was a member of the editorial board on the Middle East Journal from 1947. Mikesell joined the University of Virginia department of Economics as professor in 1946 and accepted the W.E. Miner Chair at the University of Oregon in 1957, where he taught until 1993. He was an avid tennis player and active outdoorsman, and he often took his doctoral students hiking before advising them on their dissertations as they sat around a campfire. Mikesell died at his home in Eugene, Oregon, aged 93, from natural causes. Selected publications The Key Currency Proposal, Quarterly Journal of Economics 59.4:563-576 August 1945 Negotiating at Bretton Woods, 1944, in R. Dennett and J.E. Johnson, edd., Negotiating With the Russians Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1951, pp. 10116 The Economics of Foreign Aid, Chicago, 1968 reprinted New Brunswick, N.J., 2007 The Bretton Woods Debates: A Memoir, Essays in International Finance 192 Princeton: International Finance Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 1994 A National Retail Sales Tax? Some Thoughts on Taxing Consumption the American way, State Tax Notes 11:105-09 July 8, 1996; cf. A National Sales Tax? Taxing Consumption the American Way, Tax Notes 72:523-27 July 22, 1996 Bretton Woods - Original Intentions and Current Problems, Contemporary Economic Policy 18.4:404-14 October 2000 The Meltzer Commission Report on International Institutions, Economic Development and Cultural Change 49.4:[883]-94 July 2001 Sources Nolan, Rebecca. 2006, September 14. UO professor, Bretton Woods economist, dies at age 93. The Register-Guard, Eugene Staff and Wire Reports. 2006, September 17. Raymond Mikesell, 93; Economist Helped in Postwar Rebuilding. The Los Angeles Times University of Oregon, Department of Economics Annual Newsletter, Fall 2006 Biography in R. Dennett and J.E. Johnson, edd., Negotiating With the Russians Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1951, p. 100. References Category:1913 births Category:2006 deaths Category:University of Oregon faculty Category:International Monetary Fund Category:Ohio State University alumni Category:People from Eugene, Oregon Category:People from Eaton, Ohio Category:World Bank people Mikewell, Raymond

Dzubukuá Dzubucua, or Kiriri, is an extinct Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical description is available. Phonology Phonology of the Dzubukua language: Consonants Vowels Vowel sounds are presented as [i, ɨ, u, e, o, a] and [œ] which is written out as a double vowel oe. Nasal vowels are pronounced as [ɐ̃, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ] along with nasalized double vowels oê and aê, not pronounced as diphthongs, but as nasalized monophthongs [œ̃, æ̃]. References Category:Kariri languages Category:Extinct languages of South America Category:Languages extinct in the 20th century

Cooch Behar is the district headquarters and the largest town of Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The name Cooch-Behar is derived from the name of the Koch tribe that is indigenous to this area. The word Behar is the Sanskrit word bihar to travel which means the land through which the Koch Kings used to travel or roam about bihar. The Historical Kamtapur comprises the total North Bengal maximum parts of Assam, some parts of present Bangladesh and few parts of Bhutan. Historical evidence In the olden days a greater part of the Kamrup made up the Koch state. The state of Kamrup was made up of four Pithas. Out of that Cooch Behar was a part of Ratna Pitha. In the beginning of the 16th Century, this state emerged as a powerful kingdom. In the beginning this state was known as Pragjyotish, Lohitya, Kamrup, Kamta, etc. In Bhaskar Vermas Tamralipi we found the name of Kamrup. In the travel logs of Xuanzang and Harischaritra we also discover the name of Kamrup. In 1586 British businessman Ralph Fich have stated the name Couch. In Akbarnama we also found the name of Koch. Stephen Casilla have stated the name Coch and the capital as Biar. In the 17th Century Von Dan Brookes map there is a place mentioned as Ragiawerra Cosbhaar. In one of the description by a Dutch Sailor we found the name Kosbia. In the Bishwakosh Bengali for Encyclopedia written by Nagendra Nath Bose, he stated that in the beginning the state of Cooch Behar was first stated as Bihar. Later to distinguish between Mughal occupied province of Bihar the name of the state was changed to Koch Bihar, but this theory have some doubts as well. The kings of Koch dynasty such as Biswa Singha, Nara Narayan, Pran Narayan, etc. have their title of Kamteshwar. The state of Cooch behar have been stated in various book, in different times as Bihar or Behar or Nijo Behar. Even in the Cooch Behar Royal Governments letters, Notices, records, deeds, etc. we can see these names. But there are many theories or stories behind the naming of Cooch Behar. Possible causes The word Cooch Behar means the area where Koch people move about or stay. The word may have been given for the area where Kochkumari and Mahadev moved about. To distinguish from the Mughal occupied province of Bihar. From the Bengali word Krore to Koch. In the fear of Parshuram the Khatriyas took shelter in the Krore or Koch of Bhagabati. From the Bengali word sankoch or fear to koch. To bring out the fearing condition of the Khatriyas from Parashuram. Many people say that due to the situation on the bank of the Sankosh River it had turn from kosh to koch. From Kochk to Kock. In Dhruvananda Mishras Kulkarika, the residents of Kochok have been named Koch.. The Buddhist monasteries are called Bihar. It is estimation that there was an influence of Buddhism in the area. Many Kings of Koch Bihar have been named Bihareshwar. In the Tantra Books the name of Cooch Behar is Kochbadhupur. It is told that this area is a favourite area of Mahadev to roam about or bihar. According to Buknan the name may have come from the Kush grass. The history of the official present name In the times of East India Company the following English spellings were used such as: Cooch-Bihar, Coss-Beyhar, Kuch Behar, Kutch-Behar, Cooch-Behaar, Cooch-Behar, Kooch-Behar, Koch-Bihar, Koch Vihar, Koosh-Beyhar, etc. The Bengali names are as follows: কোচবিহার, কুচবিহার, কঁুচবিহার, কোচবেহার, etc. The debate behind the names has still not stopped. Officially and non-officially in both Bengali and English various names are used. To stop these spelling doubts Maharaja Nipendra Narayan on 13 April 1896. published a notice in the Cooch Behar Gazette. The Notice was as below: Cooch Behar Gazette Page 28, Part I 1896 Dt. 13.4.1896 Notice by the superintendent of the State His Highness the Maharaja Bhup Bahadur having signified his approval of the use of the spelling Cooch Behar, all other spelling of the word should be dropped. D.R. Lyall Superintendent of the State Cooch Behar. Nowadays only the English spelling Cooch Behar and in Bengali কোচবিহার is used. But still the Cooch Behar Palace Tickets and the sign board displays the name Koch Bihar which is now maintained by Archaeological Survey of India. References Translation of Itikathai Kochbihar by Dr. Nripendranath Pal Category:History of Cooch Behar Cooch Behar Cooch Behar

Lujhu District is a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. History After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Lujhu was organized as a rural township of Kaohsiung County. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City and Lujhu was upgraded to a district of the city. Administrative divisions The district consists of Zhuhu, Dingliao, Xinda, Houxiang, Beiling, Shexi, Jiabei, Jianan, Xiakeng, Zhuyuan, Zhutung, Zhuxi, Wenbei, Wennan, SanyevYaliao, Shetung, Shezhong, Zhunan and Shenan Village. Politics The district is part of Kaohsiung City Constituency II electoral district for Legislative Yuan. Education Kao Yuan University Shu Zen College of Medicine and Management Transportation TRA Dahu Station TRA Luzhu Station Notable natives Wang Jin-pyng, President of Legislative Yuan 1999-2016 See also Kaohsiung References External links Lujhu District Office, Kaohsiung City Lujhu Township Government Website Category:Districts of Kaohsiung

Arandu Arakuaa is a Brazilian folk metal band formed in the country's capital, Brasília. It is noted for blending extreme heavy metal with Brazilian folk music, specifically indigenous tunes. Their lyrics also reflect indigenous cultures, referring to their myths and rites. With bands Aclla, Armahda, Cangaço, Hate Embrace, MorrigaM, Tamuya Thrash Tribe and Voodoopriest, they form the Levante do Metal Nativo Native Metal Uprising, a movement gathering bands that mix heavy metal with typical musical elements from that country and/or write lyrics about it. Guitarist and founder Zhândio Aquino claims to have been born and raised until the age of 24 near a Xerente territory, in the state of Tocantins, where he came in contact with indigenous music and Brazilian regional music namely baião, catira, cantiga de roda, vaquejada, etc.. He cites Metallica and Black Sabbath as his influences from the metal side. History Arandu Arakuaa means knowledge of the sky cycles or cosmos knowledge in Tupi-Guarani. They began in April 2008 when Zândhio Aquino started to compose songs in Ancient Tupi. After a few unsuccessful attempts with some musicians, the band finally established its final lineup between October 2010 and February 2011 as members Nájila Cristina, Adriano Ferreira and Saulo Lucena became part of the group. In August 2011, the band performed its first show and released its first demo album in June 2012. Between February and April 2013, they recorded their debut album, Kó Yby Oré this is our land, released later that year, in September. Discography EP 2012 - Arandu Arakuaa Studio albums 2013 - Kó Yby Oré 2015 - Wdê Nnãkrda 2018 - Mrã Waze Singles 2020 - Waptokwa Zawré Videos 2013 - Gûyrá 2014 - Aruanãs 2015 - Hêwaka Waktû 2016 - Ipredu Members Nájila Cristina vocals, maracá Zândhio Aquino guitar, viola caipira, tribal vocals, keyboards, maracá Saulo Lucena bass, backing vocals, maracá Adriano Ferreira drums, percussion References Category:Brazilian folk metal musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 2008

The Sweet also known as Sweet are a British bubblegum and glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Their best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker. The group was originally called Sweetshop. The band was formed in London in 1968 and achieved their first hit, Funny Funny, in 1971 after teaming up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and record producer Phil Wainman. During 1971 and 1972, their musical style followed a marked progression from the Archies-like bubblegum style of Funny Funny to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals. The band first achieved success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with Block Buster! 1973 topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in Hell Raiser 1973, The Ballroom Blitz 1973 and Teenage Rampage 1974. The band turned to a more hard rock style with their mid-career singles, like 1974's Turn It Down. Fox on the Run 1975 also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries on the European mainland. They also achieved success and popularity in the US with the top ten hits Little Willy, The Ballroom Blitz, Fox on the Run and Love is Like Oxygen. Sweet had their last international success in 1978 with Love Is Like Oxygen. Connolly left the group in 1979 to start a solo career and the remaining members continued as a trio until disbanding in 1981. From the mid-1980s, Scott, Connolly and Priest each played with their own versions of Sweet at different times. Connolly died in 1997 and Tucker in 2002. The two surviving members are still active in their respective versions of the band; Scott's is based in the UK and Priest's in the US. History Origins Sweet's origins can be traced back to British soul band Wainwright's Gentlemen. Mark Lay's history of that band states they formed around 1962 and were initially known as Unit 4. Founding members included Chris Wright vocals, Jan Frewer bass, with Jim Searle and Alfred Fripp on guitars. Phil Kenton joined on drums as the band changed its name to Wainwright's Gentlemen due to there being another band known as Unit 4. Managed by Frewer's father, the band performed in the Hayes, Harrow and Wembley area. By 1964 the group was also playing in London, including at the Saint Germain Club in Poland Street. In January 1964 the band came fifth in a national beat group contest, with finals held at the Lyceum Strand on 4 May 1964. Highlights of the show were presented on BBC1 by Alan Freeman. Chris Wright left the line-up in late 1964 and was replaced by Ian Gillan. A female vocalist named Ann Cully joined the band soon after. Mick Tucker, from Ruislip, joined on drums replacing Phil Kenton. The band recorded a number of tracks including a cover of the Coasters-the Hollies' hit Ain't That Just Like Me, which was probably recorded at Jackson Sound Studios in Rickmansworth. The track includes Gillan on vocals, Tucker on drums and, according to band bassist Jan Frewer, is thought to have been recorded in 1965. Gillan quit in May 1965 to join Episode Six, and later, Deep Purple. Cully remained on as vocalist before departing some time later. Gillan's and Cully's eventual replacement, in late 1966, was Scots-born vocalist Brian Connolly, who hailed more recently from Harefield. Tony Hall had joined on saxophone and vocals and when Fripp left he was replaced by Gordon Fairminer. Fairminer's position was eventually assumed by Frank Torpey - a schoolfriend of Tucker's who had just left West London group The Tribe aka The Dream. Torpey only lasted a few months, and in late 1967 Robin Box took his place. Searle, regarded by many as the most talented musically, disappeared from the scene. Tucker and Connolly remained with Wainwright's Gentlemen until January 1968. Tucker was replaced by Roger Hills. When the Gentlemen eventually broke up, Hills and Box joined White Plains who eventually scored a big hit with My Baby Loves Lovin'. Early years In January 1968 Connolly and Tucker formed a new band calling themselves The Sweetshop. They recruited bass guitarist and vocalist Steve Priest from a local band called The Army. Priest had previously played with mid-60's band the Countdowns who had been produced and recorded by Joe Meek. Frank Torpey was again recruited to play guitar. The quartet made its public debut at the Pavilion in Hemel Hempstead on 9 March 1968 and soon developed a following on the pub circuit, which led to a contract with Fontana Records. At the time, another UK band released a single under the same name Sweetshop, so the band abbreviated their moniker to The Sweet. The band was managed by Paul Nicholas, who later went on to star in Hair. Nicholas worked with record producer Phil Wainman at Mellin Music Publishing and recommended the band to him. Their debut single Slow Motion July 1968, produced by Wainman, and released on Fontana, failed to chart and owing to its rarity now sells for several hundred pounds when auctioned. Sweet were released from the recording contract and Frank Torpey left. In his autobiography Are You Ready Steve, Priest said that Gordon Fairminer was approached to play for them when Torpey decided to leave Sweet after a gig at Playhouse Theatre Walton-on-Thames on 5 July 1969 but turned the job down as he wanted to concentrate on other interests. New line-up and new record deal Guitarist Mick Stewart joined in 1969. Stewart had some rock pedigree, having previously worked with The Ealing Redcaps and Simon Scott & The All-Nite Workers in the mid-1960s. In late 1965, that band became The Phil Wainman Set when the future Sweet producer joined on drums and the group cut some singles with Errol Dixon. In early 1966, Stewart left and later worked with Johnny Kidd & The Pirates. The Sweet signed a new record contract with EMI's Parlophone label. Three bubblegum pop singles were released: Lollipop Man September 1969, All You'll Ever Get from Me January 1970, and a cover version of the Archies' Get on the Line June 1970, all of which failed to chart. Stewart then quit, and was not replaced for some time. Connolly and Tucker had a chance meeting with Wainman, who was now producing, and knew of two aspiring songwriters, Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, who were looking for a group to sing over some demos they had written together. Connolly, Priest and Tucker provided the vocals on a track called Funny Funny which featured Pip Williams on guitar, John Roberts on bass and Wainman on drums. The latter began offering the track to various recording companies. The band held auditions for a replacement guitarist and settled on Welsh-born Andy Scott. He had most recently been playing with Mike McCartney brother of Paul in the Scaffold. As a member of the Elastic Band, he had played guitar on two singles for Decca, Think of You Baby and Do Unto Others. He also appeared on the band's lone album release, Expansions on Life, and on some recordings by the Scaffold. The band rehearsed for a number of weeks before Scott made his live debut with Sweet on 26 September 1970 at the Windsor Ballroom in Redcar. The Sweet initially attempted to combine diverse musical influences, including the Monkees and 1960s bubblegum pop groups such as the Archies, with more heavy rock-oriented groups such as the Who. The Sweet adopted the rich vocal harmony style of the Hollies, with distorted guitars and a heavy rhythm section. This fusion of pop and hard rock would remain a central trademark of Sweet's music and prefigured the glam metal of a few years later. The Sweet's initial album appearance was on the budget label Music for Pleasure as part of a compilation called Gimme Dat Ding, released in December 1970. The Sweet had one side of the record; the Pipkins whose sole hit, Gimme Dat Ding, gave the LP its name had the other. The Sweet side consisted of the A- and B-sides of the band's three Parlophone singles. Andy Scott appears in the album cover shot, even though he did not play on any of the recordings. First album The Sweet made their UK television debut in December 1970 on a pop show called Lift Off, performing the song Funny Funny. A management deal was signed with the aforementioned songwriting team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Phil Wainman resumed his collaboration with Sweet, as executive producer. This management deal also included a worldwide the U.S. excepted record contract with RCA Records in the United States and Canada Bell Records issued the group's music until late 1973; followed by Capitol Records. In March 1971 RCA issued Funny Funny, written by Chinn and Chapman, which became the group's first international hit, climbing to the Top 20 on many of the world's charts. EMI reissued their 1970 single All You'll Ever Get from Me May 1971 and it again failed to chart. Their next RCA release Co-Co June 1971 went to number two in the U.K. and their follow up single, Alexander Graham Bell October 1971, only went to No. 33. These tracks still featured session musicians on the instruments with the quartet providing only the vocals. The Sweet's first full LP album, Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be, was released in November 1971. A collection of the band's recent singles supplemented by some new Chinn/Chapman tunes including Chop Chop and Tom Tom Turnaround and pop covers such as the Lovin' Spoonful's Daydream and the Supremes' Reflections, the album, recorded at Nova Studios in London, was produced by Phil Wainman and engineered by Richard Dodd and Eric Holland. It was not a serious contender on the charts. Their albums' failure to match the success of their singles was a problem that would plague the band throughout their career. Initial success and rise to fame February 1972 saw the release of Poppa Joe, which reached number 1 in Finland and peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The next two singles of that year, Little Willy and Wig-Wam Bam, both reached No. 4 in the UK, and Little Willy peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a re-issue in 1973, thus becoming the group's biggest American hit. Although Wig-Wam Bam remained largely true to the style of the Sweet's previous recordings, the vocals and guitars had a harder, more rock-oriented sound, largely because it was the first Chinn-Chapman single on which only members of Sweet played the instruments. In January 1973 Block Buster! became the Sweet's first single to reach number 1 on the UK chart, remaining there for five consecutive weeks. After their next single Hell Raiser was released in May and reached number 2 in the U.K., the Sweet's U.S. label, Bell, released the group's first American album The Sweet in July 1973. To promote their singles, the Sweet made numerous appearances on U.K. and European TV shows such as Top of the Pops and Supersonic. In one performance of Block Buster! on Top of the Pops Christmas edition, Priest aroused complaints after he appeared replete in a German military uniform, Hitler moustache and displaying a swastika armband. The band also capitalised on the glam rock explosion, rivalling Gary Glitter, T. Rex, Queen, Slade, and Wizzard for outrageous stage clothing. Despite the Sweet's success, the relationship with their management was becoming increasingly tense. While they had developed a large fan-base among teenagers, the Sweet were not happy with their 'bubblegum' image. The Sweet had always composed their own heavy-rock songs on the B-sides of their singles to contrast with the bubblegum A-sides which were composed by Chinn and Chapman. During this time, Sweet's live performances consisted of B-sides, album tracks, and various medleys of rock and roll classics; they avoided older 'novelty' hits like Funny Funny and Poppa Joe. A 1973 performance at the Palace Theatre and Grand Hall in Kilmarnock ended in the Sweet being bottled off stage; the disorder was attributed by some including Steve Priest to the Sweet's lipstick and eye-shadow look, and by others to the audience being unfamiliar with the concert set the 1999 CD release Live at the Rainbow 1973 documents a live show from this period. The incident would be immortalised in the hit The Ballroom Blitz September 1973. In the meantime, the Sweet's chart success continued, showing particular strength in the UK, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Australia. At the end of 1973, the band's name evolved from The Sweet to Sweet. The change would be reflected in all of their releases from 1974 onward. Forming a new image By 1974, Sweet had grown tired of the management team of Chinn and Chapman, who wrote the group's major hits and cultivated the band's glam rock image. The group and producer Phil Wainman, assisted by engineer Peter Coleman, recorded the album Sweet Fanny Adams, which was released in April 1974. Sweet's technical proficiency was demonstrated for the first time on self-penned hard rock tracks such as Sweet F.A. and Set Me Free. Sweet also adopted a more conventional hard rock sound and appearance. Sweet Fanny Adams also featured compressed high-pitched backing vocal harmonies, which was a trend that continued on all of Sweet's albums. During sessions for the album, Brian Connolly was injured in a fight in Staines High Street. His throat was badly injured and his ability to sing severely limited. Priest and Scott filled in on lead vocals on some tracks No You Don't, Into The Night and Restless and Connolly, under treatment from a Harley Street specialist, managed to complete the album. The band did not publicise the incident and told the press that subsequent cancelled shows were due to Connolly having a throat infection. This incident reportedly permanently compromised Connolly's singing ability, with his range diminished. No previous singles appeared on the album, and none were released, except in Japan, New Zealand and Australia, where Peppermint Twist/Rebel Rouser, apparently released by their record company without their knowledge, gained a No. 1 chart position in the latter. Sweet Fanny Adams would be Sweet's only non-compilation release to break the UK Albums Chart Top 40. Sweet were invited by Pete Townshend to support the Who, who were playing at Charlton Athletic's football ground, The Valley in June 1974. However, Connolly's badly bruised throat kept them from fulfilling the role. Sweet had frequently cited the Who as being one of their main influences and played a medley of their tracks in their live set for many years. Desolation Boulevard Their third album, Desolation Boulevard, was released later in 1974, six months after Sweet Fanny Adams. By that stage, producer Phil Wainman had moved on and the album was produced by Mike Chapman. It was recorded in a mere six days and featured a rawer live sound. One track, The Man with the Golden Arm, written by Elmer Bernstein and Sylvia Fine for the 1955 Frank Sinatra movie of the same name, featured drummer Mick Tucker performing an 8 and half minute solo although this was not included in the U.S. release. This had been a staple of the band's live performance for years. The first single from the LP, the heavy-melodic The Six Teens July 1974, was a Top 10 hit in the U.K. and still part of the amazing unbroken string of No. 1's in Denmark. However, the subsequent single release, Turn It Down November 1974, reached only No. 41 on the U.K. chart and No. 2 in Denmark. Turn It Down received minimal airplay on UK radio and was banned by some radio stations because of certain lyrical content - God-awful sound and For God sakes, turn it down - which were deemed unsuitable for family listening. The band resumed playing live shows nearly a full six months after Connolly's throat injury, with band and critics noting a rougher edge to his voice and a reduced range. The album also featured a group composition, Fox On The Run, which was to be re-recorded months later. The U.S. version of Desolation Boulevard was different from the U.K. version and included several songs from Sweet Fanny Adams in addition to the Ballroom Blitz and Fox on the Run singles both of which peaked at No. 5 in the US. Side One of the album contained all Chapman-Chinn penned songs, while Side Two featured songs written and produced by Sweet. Writing and producing their own material In 1975 Sweet went back into the studio to re-arrange and record a more pop-oriented version of the track Fox on the Run. Sweet's first self-written and produced single, Fox on the Run was released worldwide in March 1975 and became their biggest selling hit, reaching number one in Germany, Denmark, and South Africa, number two in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands and number three in Austria and Switzerland. In Australia it not only made it to the top of the charts, it also became the biggest selling single of that year. The song reached number two in Canada and number five in the U.S. The release of this track marked the end of the formal Chinn-Chapman working relationship and the band stressed it was now fully self-sufficient as writers and producers. The following single release, Action July 1975, peaked at number 15 in the UK. Now confident in their own songwriting and production abilities, Sweet spent the latter half of 1975 in Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany, where they recorded the Give Us A Wink album with German sound engineer Reinhold Mack, who later recorded with Electric Light Orchestra and co-produced Queen. The new album release was deferred until 1976 so as not to stifle the chart success Desolation Boulevard was enjoying, peaking at number 25 in the US and number 5 in Canada. With Give Us a Wink being held over, RCA issued a double album in Europe, Strung Up, in November. It contained one live disc, recorded in London in December 1973, and one disc compiling previously released single tracks plus an unused track by Chinn and Chapman I Wanna Be Committed. At the end of the year, Andy Scott released his first solo single, Lady Starlight b/w Where D'Ya Go. Tucker played drums on both tracks. Decline in popularity January 1976 saw the release of the single The Lies In Your Eyes, which made the Top 10 in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Australia, but only reached No. 35 on the U.K. charts. Sweet's first album to be fully produced and written by themselves, Give Us A Wink, was released in March 1976. A third single from the album, 4th Of July, was issued in Australia. By this time, Sweet strove to build on their growing popularity in America with a schedule of more than fifty headline concert dates. Even though Give Us A Winks release was imminent, the band's set essentially promoted the US version of Desolation Boulevard plus the new US hit single Action. During an appearance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California on 24 March, Sweet played All Right Now with Ritchie Blackmore as a tribute to mark the death of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff, who was to have supported Sweet with his band Back Street Crawler. The US tour was not financially successful, with small audiences at many venues leading to the final half-dozen or so dates to be cancelled. Following the end of the tour, the band went on to Scandinavia and Germany. The band also spent a week at the Who's Ramport Studios in Battersea demoing material for a new album before abandoning that project and playing eight dates in Japan. By the end of the Japanese shows Connolly's extremely hoarse singing voice was manifest evidence of the demands of constant touring and the enduring after-effects of his 1974 assault. Between October 1976 and January 1977, Sweet wrote and recorded new material at Kingsway Recorders and Audio International London studios for their next album. An advance single from the album, Lost Angels, was only a hit in Germany, Austria and Sweden. A new album, Off the Record, was released in April. The next single from the album, Fever of Love, represented the band heading in a somewhat more Europop hard rock direction, once again charting in Germany, Austria and Sweden, while reaching number 10 in South Africa. On this album, Sweet again worked with Give Us A Wink engineer Louis Austin, who would later engineer Def Leppard's On Through The Night 1980 début album. The band cancelled a US tour with emerging US rockers Aerosmith, did not play any live dates in support of the album and, in fact, did not play a single concert for the whole of 1977. Level Headed and a change in style Sweet left RCA in 1977 and signed a new deal with Polydor though it would not come into force until later in the year. Sweet's manager David Walker, from Handle Artists, negotiated the move which was reputed to be worth around £750,000. In the United States, Canada and Japan Capitol had issued Sweet's albums since 1974 and would continue to do so through 1980. The first Polydor album, Level Headed January 1978, found Sweet experimenting by combining rock and classical sounds a-la clavesin, an approach similar to Electric Light Orchestra's, and featured the single Love Is Like Oxygen. Largely recorded during 1977 at Château d'Hérouville near Paris, France after a 30 day writing session at Clearwell Castle in the Forest Of Dean UK, the album represented a new musical direction, largely abandoning hard-rock for a more melodic pop style, interspersed with ballads accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra. The ballad, Lettres D'Amour, featured a duet between Connolly and Stevie Lange who would emerge as lead singer with the group Night in 1979. With the addition of session and touring musicians keyboardist Gary Moberley and guitarist Nico Ramsden, Sweet undertook a short European and Scandinavian tour followed by a single British concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 24 February 1978. However, Love Is Like Oxygen January 1978 was their last U.K., U.S., and German Top 10 hit. Scott was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for co-composing the song. One more single from the album, California Nights May 1978, featuring Steve Priest as the lead vocalist, peaked at number 23 on the German charts. Departure of Brian Connolly Between March and May 1978 Sweet extensively toured the US, as a support act for Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. The tour included a disastrous date in Birmingham, Alabama on 3 May, during which visiting Capitol Records executives in the audience saw Brian Connolly give a drunken and incoherent performance that terminated early in the set with his collapse on stage, leaving the rest of the group to play on without him. The band returned briefly to Britain before resuming the second leg of their US tour in late May supporting other acts, including Foghat and Alice Cooper. Concluding the US tour in early July 1978, Brian's alcoholism and estrangement from the group was steadily becoming a greater issue. In late October, having spent further time at Clearwell Castle to write for their next album, Sweet arrived at The Town House studio in Shepherds Bush, London to complete and record, Cut Above the Rest April 1979. Due to tensions between various members attributed to Connolly's health and diminishing status with the group, his long-time friend and fellow founding member, Mick Tucker, was tasked to produce Connolly's vocals. It was felt Tucker would extract a better performance than Scott from Connolly. A number of tracks were recorded featuring Connolly. However, these efforts were deemed unsatisfactory and Brian left the band on 2 November 1978. On 23 February 1979, Brian Connolly's departure from Sweet was formally announced by manager David Walker. Publicly, Connolly was said to be pursuing a solo career with an interest in recording country rock. Three piece Sweet Sweet continued as a trio with Priest assuming the lion's share of lead vocals, though Scott and Tucker were also active in that role. The first single release for the trio was Call Me. Guest keyboard player Gary Moberley continued to augment the group on stage. Guitarist Ray McRiner joined their touring line-up in 1979, with a small tour with Journey in the eastern United States and Cheap Trick in Texas in the spring and summer of '79 to support Cut Above The Rest which was released in April 1979. McRiner would also contribute the songs Too Much Talking and the single Give The Lady Some Respect to the next Sweet album, Waters Edge August 1980, which was recorded in Canada. In the US, Waters Edge was titled Sweet VI. It featured the singles Sixties Man and Give The Lady Some Respect. Tragedy befell Mick Tucker when his wife Pauline drowned in the bath at their home on 26 December 1979. The band withdrew from live work for all of 1980. One more studio album, Identity Crisis, was recorded during 198081 but was only released in West Germany and Mexico. Sweet undertook a short tour of the UK and performed their last live show at Glasgow University on 20 March 1981. Steve Priest then returned to the United States, where he had been living since late 1979. When Polydor released Identity Crisis in October 1982, the original Sweet had been disbanded for almost a year. Re-formed versions 1984present Andy Scott's Sweet 1985present Andy Scott and Mick Tucker organised their own version of Sweet with Paul Mario Day ex-Iron Maiden, More, Wildfire on lead vocals, Phil Lanzon ex-Grand Prix on keyboards and Mal McNulty on bass. The band performed at the Marquee Club in London in February 1986, with the shows recorded and gaining release a few years later, bolstered by four new studio tracks including a cover of the Motown standard Reach Out I'll Be There. This line-up also toured Australian and New Zealand pubs and clubs for more than three months in 1985 and for a similar period again in 1986. Singer Paul Mario Day ended up marrying the band's Australian tour guide and relocating downunder. He continued with Sweet commuting back and forth to Europe for the group's tours until this proved to be too cumbersome. He departed in late 1988. As McNulty moved into the front man spot, Jeff Brown came in to take over bass early in 1989. Lanzon too went back and forth between Sweet and Uriah Heep during 1986-1988 before Heep's schedule grew too busy. Malcolm Pearson and then Ian Gibbons who had played with The Kinks and The Records both filled in for Lanzon until Steve Mann Liar, Lionheart, McAuley Schenker Group arrived in December 1989. Tucker departed after a show in Lochau, Austria, on 5 May 1991. He later was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Three drummers, Andy Hoyler, Bobby Andersen and Bruce Bisland Weapon, Wildfire, Praying Mantis, provided short-term relief before Bodo Schopf McAuley Schenker Group took over. They recorded an album during this period, simply titled A. Before the band embarked on the supporting tour for A in 1992, Bodo left and Bisland returned as permanent percussionist. Scott changed the band's name to 'Andy Scott's Sweet' after Tucker's departure but truncated it to simply 'The Sweet' once again after Tucker's death in 2002. Mal McNulty, now lead vocalist, departed in 1994, though he would return briefly that year to fill in for Jeff Brown on bass as he would again in 1995 as lead singer for a few dates while Rocky Newton subbed on bass. Sweet's former keyboard men Gary Moberley and Ian Gibbons also did fill-in jaunts with the group that year, as did Chris Goulstone. Chad Brown ex-Lionheart; no relation to Jeff was the new front man. Glitz Blitz and Hitz, a new studio album of re-recorded Sweet hits, was released during this period. In 1996 Mann left to take a job in television and Gibbons came back for a short time before Steve Grant ex-The Animals became the permanent keyboardist. When Chad Brown quit in 1998 after developing a throat infection, Jeff Brown assumed lead vocals and bass duties. After this, the band was stable again for the next five years. The mid-2000s would bring further confusing shake-ups and rotations. Tony O'Hora ex-Onslaught, Praying Mantis replaced Brown as lead vocalist in 2003. Ian Gibbons came back for a third stint as fill-in keyboardist in June 2005 for a gig in the Faroe Islands. O'Hora decided to split to take a teaching job in late 2005. Grant then jumped from keyboards to lead vocals and bass as Phil Lanzon returned on keyboards for a tour of Russia and Germany in October/November. New singer Mark Thompson Smith ex-Praying Mantis joined in November 2005 for some Swedish gigs, while Jo Burt ex-Black Sabbath was temporary bass player. Tony Mills ex-Shy was slated to be Sweet's new singer in early 2006 but failed to work out and left after six shows in Denmark. At this point, O'Hora came back as fill in front man and then Grant did another turn himself as the singer/bassist Steve Mann depped on keyboards until the group finally landed a new permanent front man when Peter Lincoln ex-Sailor arrived in July 2006. The line-up then consisted of Scott, Bisland, Grant and Lincoln. Scott produced the Suzi Quatro album Back to the Drive, released in February 2006. March 2006 saw the U.S. release of his band's album Sweetlife. In 2007 the group played in Germany, Belgium, Austria and Italy. In May of that year, the band played in Porto Alegre and Curitiba, Brazil, their first and only South American shows. The tour was called the 'Sweet Fanny Adams Tour'. The band toured again in March 2008 under the name 'Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited Tour'. In May and June, Scott's Sweet were part of the Glitz Blitz & 70s Hitz tour of the UK alongside The Rubettes and Showaddywaddy. In March and April 2010, Scott was absent from a couple of gigs due to ill health and Martin Mickels stood in. Scott revealed later that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and was treated at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. After a course of treatment and rest, he was back to full touring fitness. In 2010 the band played at venues in Europe and back at Bilston in October. In March 2011 there was a short tour of Australia, Regal Theatre - Perth, and Clipsal 500, Adelaide with the Doobie Brothers. Also in 2011, Tony O'Hora came back to the group, this time as keyboardist, after Grant departed. In March 2012 the band released a new album New York Connection. Recorded in England, it comprised 11 cover versions, including the 2011 single Join Together and one revamped original recording; the 1972 B-side New York Connection. All the covers either featured 'bits and pieces' of Sweet hits or other artist songs, such as a new version of the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop [which] shared space with samples from Ballroom Blitz, and a take on Hellos New York Groove made famous in the US by Ace Frehley featured a sample from Jay-Zs Empire State Of Mind along with other Sweet references. On the eve of their March 2012 Join Together tour of Australia, the band undertook an acoustic performance of three tracks, New York Groove-Empire State of Mind, Blockbuster and Peppermint Twist, in front of a live audience at ABC Radio Studios in East Perth. Shows in Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Geelong, Melbourne and Sydney featured tracks from the new album for the first time. Paul Manzi joined Sweet on their 2014 Australian tour, replacing Tony O'Hora who was absent for personal reasons. Manzi played guitar, keyboard and undertook lead vocals on Set Me Free and AC-DC as the band performed shows in regional centres, including outback Western Australia, Darwin and far-north Queensland, NSW and Victoria during February and March. The band, with O'Hora back in the ranks, returned to Australia in September 2014 as the headlining act for Rock The Boat 4. This was a cruise aboard the ship Rhapsody of the Seas which departed Sydney and took in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. The band played two gigs and various members guested with Australian veteran performers including Brian Cadd and Russell Morris and members of AC/DC, The Angels, Rose Tattoo and Skyhooks. In June 2015 it was revealed that the band were going on an extensive tour of the UK in late 2015 and that this tour would probably be their last. For the 2015 summer tour dates, Paul Manzi returned to sub for Peter Lincoln who left this online message to the fans: There have been a few rumours going around this weekend, so . . . just to say that I am alive and well! The short explanation for my absence is that I need to rest my voice for a few weeks. We are lucky that our good friend Paul Manzi is able to step in, and Tony knows the role of bass player/singer, so the shows can go ahead, and they will be great! I look forward to being back on stage very soon. Pete Lincoln duly resumed his role in the band and they continued with extensive live dates, known as the Finale tour in Germany. In 2017 after Andy undertook a successful Australian visit with Suzi Quatro and Don Powell in the side outfit known as QSP, Sweet was again booked for an extensive European tour. New Sweet, Brian Connolly's Sweet 19841997 In 1984 Brian Connolly formed a new version of the Sweet without any of the other original members. Despite recurring ill health, Connolly toured the UK and Europe with his band, Brian Connolly's Sweet, which was then renamed to New Sweet. His most successful concerts were in West Germany, before and after reunification. During 1987, Connolly met up again with Frank Torpey. Torpey later explained in interviews Connolly was trying to get a German recording deal. The two got on very well and Torpey subsequently invited Connolly to go into the recording studio with him, as an informal project. After much trepidation, Connolly turned up and the track Sharontina was recorded. This recording would not be released until 1998, appearing on Frank Torpey's album Sweeter. By July 1990, plans were made for Connolly and his band to tour Australia in November. During the long flight to Australia, Connolly's health had suffered and he was hospitalised in Adelaide Hospital, allegedly for dehydration and related problems. The rest of the band played a show in Adelaide without him. After being released from the hospital, Connolly joined the other band members in Melbourne for a gig at the Pier Hotel, in Frankston. After several other shows, including one at the Dingley Powerhouse, Connolly and his band played a final date at Melbourne's Greek Theatre. It was felt Connolly's health was sufficient reason for the tour not to be extended, and some of the planned dates were abandoned. Connolly went back to England and his band appeared on The Bob Downe Christmas show on 18 December 1990. During the early 1990s, Connolly played the European oldies circuit and occasional outdoor festivals in Europe with his band. On 22 March 1992, a heavy duty tape recorder was stolen from the band's van whilst at a gig in the Bristol Hippodrome with Mud. It contained demos of four new songs, totalling about 20 mixes. Legal problems were going on in the background over the use of the Sweet name between Connolly and Andy Scott. Both parties agreed to distinguish their group's names to help promoters and fans. The New Sweet went back to being called Brian Connolly's Sweet and Andy Scott's version became Andy Scott's Sweet. In 1994, Connolly and his band played in Dubai. He appeared at the Galleria Theatre, Hyatt Regency. He also performed in Bahrain. By this time Connolly had healed the differences with Steve Priest and Mick Tucker, and was invited to the wedding of Priest's eldest daughter, Lisa. At the private function, for which Priest specially flew back to England, Priest and Connolly performed together. In 1995, Connolly released a new album entitled Let's Go. His partner Jean, whom he had met a few years earlier, gave birth to a son. Connolly also performed in Switzerland that year. On 2 November 1996 British TV Network Channel 4 aired a programme Don't Leave Me This Way, which examined Connolly's time as a pop star with the Sweet, the subsequent decline in the band's popularity, and its impact on Connolly and the other band members. The show revealed Connolly's ill health but also that he was continuing with his concert dates at Butlins. Connolly and his band had appeared at Butlins a number of times on tour during the early 1990s. Connolly's final concert was at the Bristol Hippodrome on 5 December 1996, with Slade II and John Rossall's Glitter Band Experience. Steve Priest's Sweet 2008present In January 2008 Steve Priest assembled his own version of the Sweet in Los Angeles. He enlisted a guitarist Stuart Smith and L.A. native Richie Onori, Smith's bandmate in Heaven & Earth, was brought in on drums. The keyboard spot was manned by ex-Crow and World Classic Rockers alumni Stevie Stewart. Front-man and vocalist Joe Retta was brought in to round out the line-up. After an initial appearance on L.A. rock station 95.5 KLOS's popular Mark & Brian radio program, the Are You Ready Steve? tour kicked off at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood on 12 June 2008. The band spent the next several months playing festivals and gigs throughout the U.S. and Canada, including Moondance Jam in Walker, Minnesota; headlining at the Rock N Resort Music Festival in North Lawrence, Ohio near Canal Fulton; London, Ontario's Rock the Park; another headlining gig at Peterborough's Festival of Lights; the Common Ground Festival in Lansing, Michigan; and a benefit concert for victims of California's wildfires at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. In January 2009 the Sweet presented at the concert industry's Pollstar Awards, and also played a short set at the Nokia Theatre where the event was held, marking the first time in the ceremony's history that a band performed at the show. In addition to local gigs at the House of Blues on L.A.'s Sunset Strip and Universal CityWalk, 2009 saw the band return to Canada for sold-out shows at the Mae Wilson Theater and Casino Regina, as well as the Nakusp Music Fest and Rockin' the Fields of Minnedosa in Minnedosa, Manitoba. U.S. festivals have included Minnesota's Halfway Jam, Rockin' the Rivers in Montana with Pat Travers and Peter Frampton, and two late-summer shows at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The new band recorded a cover version of the Beatles' Ticket to Ride, which was included on Cleopatra Records' Abbey Road, a Fab Four tribute CD that was released on 24 March 2009. A preview of the band's new CD Live in America, which was recorded live at the Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California on 30 August 2008, was featured on KLOS's Front Row program on 12 April 2009. The CD, which was first sold at shows and via the band's on-line store, was released worldwide in an exclusive deal with Amazon.com on 21 July 2009. The release has garnered favourable reviews from The Rock n Roll Report, Classic Rock Revisited and Hard Rock Haven, among others. In April 2010 the band released its first single on iTunes: an updated, hard rock version of the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There. Performances on the 2010 summer tour included the Wildflower! Arts and Music Festival in Richardson, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada's Fremont Street Experience; Rock N' America in Oklahoma City, OK; Summer Jam in Des Moines, Iowa; Jack FM's Fifth Show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Los Angeles; an appearance at the Hard Rock Hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi; and the inaugural edition of the Thunder Mountain Rock Festival in Sawyer, North Dakota. On 11 November 2010 it was announced that in May 2011 Steve Priest's Sweet had been booked to perform at a handful of European dates, but the gigs ultimately had to be cancelled in late January 2011 after it was learned that one of the promoters was a suspected swindler wanted by British law enforcement officials. As of February 2011, fans who purchased pre-sale tickets were still in the process of working through the administrative channels with PayPal and various banks and credit card issuers in order to try to reclaim their funds. The band toured South America along with Journey during March 2011. The band and their European fans then also got re-united quicker than thought, when the band got booked by a befriended female Belgian promoter. Two east German gigs, 27 and 28 May 2011, so in Borna and in Schwarzenberg Steve Priest's Sweet hit the European grounds. After more than 30 years, Steve Priest got a warm welcome back in Europe. As of 12 August 2012, Stuart Smith resigned from the guitar post in order to dedicate more time to his Heaven & Earth project. Beginning with the band's October 2012 appearance at the Festival Internacional Chihuahua in Mexico, Los Angeles-based guitarist Ricky Z. teamed up with Steve Priest and company for their live performances. In February 2013, this lineup returned to Casino Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Tour dates played in summer 2013 included Riverfest in Watertown, Wisconsin, the St. Clair, MI Riverfest, several additional dates in Canada, and a reprise of their appearances at both Moondance Jam in Walker, MN and Rockin' the Rivers in Three Forks, Montana. The band made some rare appearances on the U.S. east coast in July 2013, including a performance with David Johansen of the New York Dolls at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey. Singer Joe Retta was unavailable for these dates due to a scheduling conflict, so Tribe of Gypsies frontman Chas West, who has played with Jason Bonham's band and has experience subbing in such well-known bands as Foreigner, Lynch Mob and Diamond Head, stepped in to man the microphone for a series of shows in New York, New Jersey and Maryland. On 27 August 2014, Steve Priest announced on the band's Facebook page that guitarist Mitch Perry had been tapped for the guitar slot. Most recently on tour with Lita Ford, Mitch's other credentials included his work with Michael Schenker Group, Asia Featuring John Payne, Edgar Winter, Billy Sheehan and David Lee Roth His first live appearance with Sweet was at the Rock the River festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 23 August 2014. 22 December 2017 saw the launch of the 50th anniversary tour at the Whisky a Go Go on L.A.'s Sunset Strip and the introduction of new singer Paul Zablidowski AKA Paulie Z former lead singer and guitarist of ZO2, children's band The Z Brothers and star of IFC show Z-Rock. Recently known as the host for local show Ultimate Jam Night. Z replaced Joe Retta, who had served as the frontman for the Los Angeles incarnation of Sweet since its formation in 2008. Brief reunions and the deaths of Brian Connolly and Mick Tucker Steve Priest was asked to join Tucker and Scott for the 1985 Australian tour, but declined at the last moment. Mike Chapman contacted Connolly, Priest, Scott, and Tucker in 1988, offering to finance a recording session in Los Angeles. As he remembers: I met them at the airport and Andy and Mick came off the plane. I said, 'Where's Brian?' They said, 'Oh, he's coming.' All the people had come off the plane by now. Then this little old man hobbled towards us. He was shaking, and had a ghostly white face. I thought, 'Oh, Jesus Christ.' It was horrifying. Reworked studio versions of Action and The Ballroom Blitz were recorded, but it became clear that Connolly's voice and physical health had made Sweet's original member comeback too difficult to promote commercially. Consequently, the reunion attempt was aborted. In 1990 this line-up was again reunited for the promotion of a music documentary entitled Sweet's Ballroom Blitz. This UK video release, which contained UK television performances from the 1970s and current-day interviews, was released at Tower Records, London. Sweet was interviewed by Power Hour, Super Channel, and spoke of a possible reunion. Brian Connolly died at the age of 51 on 9 February 1997 from liver failure and repeated heart attacks, attributed to his abuse of alcohol in the 1970s and early 1980s. Mick Tucker subsequently died on 14 February 2002 from leukemia, at the age of 54. Later years Today, two versions of The Sweet are still active with original members: Andy Scott's Sweet, who frequently tour across Europe as Sweet and makes occasional sojourns to other markets including regular visits to Australia and Steve Priest's Sweet who tour the US and Canada. On 28 April 2009, Shout! Factory released a two-disc, career-spanning greatest hits album called Action: The Sweet Anthology. It received a four-star out of five rating in Rolling Stone. In September 2009 Ace Frehley released his version of Fox On The Run on his album Anomaly In an October 2012 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Axl Rose, lead singer of Guns N' Roses, referenced Sweet as one of his favorite bands growing up along with fellow British band Queen. In April 2016, the chart topping song 1973, The Ballroom Blitz was featured in a trailer for Suicide Squad. In December 2016, their single Fox on the Run 1975 was featured in a trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. In 2019, the songs Fox On The Run and Set Me Free were featured in an episode of Jamie Johnson. Personnel Classic lineup Mick Tucker - drums, backing and lead vocals, percussion 19681981, 19851991; died 2002 Steve Priest - bass, backing and lead vocals 19681981 Brian Connolly - lead vocals 19681979; died 1997 Andy Scott - guitars, backing and lead vocals, keyboards, synthesizers 19701982, 19851991 Other members Frank Torpey - guitars 19681969 Mick Stewart - guitars 19691970 Touring musicians Gary Moberley - keyboards, synthesizers 19781981 Nico Ramsden - guitar 1978 Ray McRiner - guitar 1979 Andy Scotts Sweet Andy Scott - guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals 1985-present Mick Tucker - drums, backing vocals 1985-1991; died 2002 Bodo Schopf - drums, backing vocals 1991-1992 Bruce Bisland - drums, backing vocals 1992-present Paul Mario Day - lead vocals 1985-1989 Mal McNulty - bass, lead vocals, backing vocals 1985-1995 Jeff Brown - bass, lead vocals, backing vocals 1989-2003 Peter Lincoln - lead vocals 2006-2019 Paul Manzi - lead vocals 2014-fill in, 2015-fill in, 2019-present Tony OHora - bass, vocals 2003-2005, 2006, 2011-2014, 2014-2019 Lee Small - bass, backing vocals 2019-present Timeline Discography Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be 1971 Sweet Fanny Adams 1974 Desolation Boulevard 1974 Give Us a Wink 1976 Off the Record 1977 Level Headed 1978 Cut Above the Rest 1979 Waters Edge titled Sweet VI with a different cover in the U.S. 1980 Identity Crisis 1982 References Bibliography External links Category:English hard rock musical groups Category:English glam rock groups Category:Musical groups established in 1968 Category:Capitol Records artists Category:Polydor Records artists Category:RCA Records artists Category:1968 establishments in the United Kingdom Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1982 Category:1982 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Category:Musical groups reestablished in 1985 Category:1985 establishments in the United Kingdom

Peter Novick is an American scientist who holds the George Palade Endowed Chair in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests focus on the biology of cell membranes, particularly the secretory pathway and other aspects of membrane trafficking and intracellular transport. Early life and education Novick was born in 1954 and raised in New York. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Novick attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was among the first graduate students in the laboratory of future Nobel Prize winner Randy Schekman, and from which he received his PhD in 1981. Novick's work focused on the molecular genetics of the secretory pathway in yeast. Academic career and honors In 1985, Novick began his independent faculty career at Yale University. He moved to UCSD in 2008 as the first holder of the George Palade Endowed Chair. Novick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. Personal life Novick is married to fellow scientist and UCSD professor Susan Ferro-Novick. References Category:American molecular biologists Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:1954 births Category:Living people

Willis S. Arnold March 2, 1851 January 17, 1899 was an American professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in two games of the 1872 season for the Middletown Mansfields in the National Association. He later served as president of the New York State League and managed the Albany Senators for part of the 1885 season. References External links Category:1851 births Category:1899 deaths Category:Major League Baseball outfielders Category:19th-century baseball players Category:Middletown Mansfields players Category:Baseball players from Connecticut Category:Minor league baseball managers Category:Auburn minor league baseball players Category:Sportspeople from Middletown, Connecticut

Events in the year 2007 in China. Incumbents Party General Secretary - Hu Jintao President Hu Jintao Premier Wen Jiabao Vice President Zeng Qinghong Vice Premier Huang Ju to June 2, Wu Yi Congress Chairman - Wu Bangguo Conference Chairman - Jia Qinglin Events January January 1 CITIC, a state-owned investment enterprise of the Chinese government, buys Nations Energy Company, a Canadian petroleum extraction company, giving it a majority stake in KazMunayGas, the state-owned oil and gas company in Kazakhstan, for USD $1.91 billion. The deal is highly controversial because of the amount of control China now has over Kazakhstan's natural resources. Kazakh Oil Minister Baktykozha Izmukhambetov has criticized the deal since it was first considered in October 2006. January 11 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test: The Second Artillery Battalion of the People's Liberation Army of China tests a missile destroying one of its own satellites 535 miles above Earth. January 12 China and Russia veto a United States drafted United Nations Security Council Resolution that would have urged the government of Myanmar to stop human rights abuses and the repression of political opposition. January 18 The United States government reports that the People's Republic of China successfully tested a missile that destroyed an orbiting satellite of the Dong Fang Hong program. January 23 Qiu Xiaohua, former head of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, is expelled from the Communist Party of China for corruption charges. February February 16 The G8 countries, plus China, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa, approve the 'Washington Declaration,' proposing a global Carbon emissions trading system to replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2009. February 27 Drought in southwestern China is threatening the drinking water supply of 1.5 million people. February 28 Strong wind blows a passenger train off the tracks near Turpan, Xinjiang, China, killing four and injuring 30 more. March March 1 A human case of bird flu is confirmed in China. March 7 The People's Republic of China announces that its first probe to the Moon, Chang'e 1, will be launched later in 2007, with the eventual goal of landing a man on the moon by 2022. The probe is supposed to orbit the Moon at least three times. March 10 Twenty people die and 9 are missing after a flood in a coal mine in Fushun, a city near Shenyang in the province of Liaoning in China. March 16 The Property Law of the People's Republic of China is adopted at the 2007 National People's Congress. March 18 A gas explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi province in northern China traps 21 miners. March 18 Two cargo ships collide in the East China Sea. 23 crew members are missing. March 30 The United States Food and Drug Administration identifies the chemical melamine in tainted wheat-gluten shipped from China and used by Menu Foods and an unnamed second company to manufacture pet food. April April 12 Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao urges Japan to admit to their actions in World War II during a landmark address to the Diet of Japan. April 16 At least 33 coal miners are trapped in a mine in Baofeng county, Henan province, China. April 16 The largest bank robbery in Chinese history is uncovered, when managers of the Agricultural Bank of China discover nearly 51 million yuan c. US$6.7 million is missing from the vaults of the Handan branch. April 18 The People's Republic of China begins a new service of high-speed trains capable of reaching speeds of 200 km/h 124 mph. April 18 Thirty-two steel workers are killed and two more injured in China after a ladle full of liquid steel failed, engulfing an adjacent room full of workers. April 20 India and the People's Republic of China resume talks to resolve border disputes. May May 4 International delegates reach agreement at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the summary report on mitigating climate change despite some concerns raised by China. May 13 Two cargo ships collide in heavy fog near Dalian, China. 16 sailors are missing. May 18 Rioting breaks out in Guangxi province, China, in protest at the government imposing fines for breaches of its strict one-child policy. May 26 At least 21 people die in western China in landslides caused by heavy rain. May 29 Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the China's State Food and Drug Administration, is sentenced to death for taking bribes to approve untested medicines as Chinese authorities introduce a recall system for unsafe food products. June June 3 A 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes southern China near the Myanmar and Laos borders causing casualties. June 4 China publishes its first National Action Plan on Climate Change, expected to cut national carbon emissions by up to 1.5 million metric tons annually by 2010. June 6 Dozens of people are trapped in a collapsed hall in Leshan in the southwestern province of Sichuan in China. June 8 Chinese police rescue 31 workers kept as slaves at a brickworks in Linfen in Shanxi province run by the son of a local official of the Communist Party of China. June 28 UNESCO designates 22 new World Heritage Sites, including the fortified multi-storey tower houses of Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. June 30 Hong Kong celebrates the tenth anniversary of the handover from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China. July July 4 A tornado kills 14 people and injures at least 146 near Tianchang, Anhui Province, in eastern China. July 5 Twenty-five people died and 33 are injured in an explosion in a karaoke bar in Tianshifu in northeast China. An investigation conducted the next day concludes that the explosion was caused by improperly stored explosives. July 10 China executes the former head of the State Food and Drug Association Zheng Xiaoyu for corruption. July 16 China punishes 95 officials for allowing workers and children to labour in slave-like conditions in brick kilns. July 18 the city of Chongqing is hit with the largest rainstorm in the city's meteorological records, killing 32. 12 people are reported missing. July 20 China shuts down a chemical plant associated with deaths in Panama from tainted medicine and two petfood plants associated with the deaths of pets in the United States. July 22 More than 100 people die in floods and landslides in China. July 30 Sixty-nine miners are trapped in a flooded coal mine in Henan province in central China. August August 5 Thirty-four rail workers building a tunnel in Hubei province China are trapped 200 metres underground following a landslide. August 8 China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region celebrates its 60th Anniversary. Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong visits its capital, Hohhot, and participates in a series of large celebration events. August 9 China temporarily bans exports from two toy manufacturers whose products were banned or recalled in the United States and other countries. August 13 Flooding caused by Tropical Storm Pabuk causes widespread flooding in Guangdong Province in southern China affecting up to 1.2 million people. August 14 A bridge under construction completely collapses in Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, China, killing at least 47 people. 21 workers are injured, 13 are still missing. August 14 Mattel recalls over 18 million toys made in China that may potentially be harmful to children. August 14 China establishes a minimum living standard system to cover all rural residents in 2007. The system is designed to pull poor villagers out of poverty. August 17 172 coal miners are trapped in a flooded mine in Shandong province in eastern China. August 17 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Southeast China and Taiwan prepare for typhoon Sepat. August 19 Typhoon Sepat spawns a tornado that kills nine people in Zhejiang Province, China. More than a million people have been evacuated as a result of the typhoon. August 20 A China Airlines Boeing 737 airplane explodes less than a minute after all passengers and crew are evacuated shortly after landing at Naha, Japan. August 22 Typhoon Sepat has killed at least 36 people in southeast China in the past week. September September 1 New laws come into effect giving China more control over the selection of the Dalai Lama. September 3 Four cargo ships carrying methanol sink on the Hanjiang River, the source of the water supply for Wuhan, China, with environmental authorities monitoring water quality. September 12 Thousands of ex-soldiers are rioting in the People's Republic of China in the cities of Baotou, Wuhan, and Baoji, breaking into cars, destroying classrooms, and setting fires. The riot is the largest protest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. September 18 China confirms a bird flu outbreak in Guangzhou. September 18 2007 Pacific typhoon season: Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from Shanghai, China as Typhoon Wipha approaches. September 19 Typhoon Wipha Goring makes landfall in eastern China before weakening to a Category 2 typhoon as it heads inland. October October 2 At least 27 people are killed when a bus catches fire in Chongqing, southwest China. October 6 Typhoon Krosa later heads for the People's Republic of China, where 730,000 people are evacuated from Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. October 21 A fire in an illegal shoe factory kills at least 34 people in Putian in Fujian province, China. October 21 Three of the People's Republic of China's top politicians, namely, Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, anti-corruption chief Wu Guanzheng, and Luo Gan, are dropped from the Communist Party of China's Central Committee. Also retiring are Vice-Premier Wu Yi, Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan, and Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan. Hu's Scientific Development Concept is enshrined in the Party Constitution. October 24 China launches its first lunar orbiter, Chang'e 1, on an exploration mission to the moon. October 29 The Chinese government announces that it has arrested 774 people as part of a crackdown on the production of tainted drugs, food and agricultural products. November November 5 Chang'e 1 entered lunar orbit. November 8 At least 29 miners are killed in a gas leak in a colliery in China's Guizhou province. November 24 An explosion at a petrol station kills four people and hurts at least 30 in Shanghai, China. December December 6 The death toll rises to 104 in a northern China coal mine gas blast. December 6 France begins construction on the third unit of the Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant, which will be the world's second European Pressurized Reactor following a week after a record breaking deal with China for new nuclear power. December 8 A second human case of H5N1 bird flu is confirmed in eastern China. Sports May 27 China claims all gold and silver medals in the Table Tennis World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. September 30 - October 2 - 2007 Euroleague Challenge in Kunshan. October 2 2007 Summer Special Olympics opens in Shanghai, China. Deaths January 5: Chih Ree Sun, 83, physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer. January 15: Bo Yibo, 98, politician known for urging crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. February 8: Ismail Semed, Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad. March 18: Jim Fung, 62, martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. March 23: Mao Anqing, 83, author and son of Mao Zedong. March 28: Cha Chi Ming, 93, Hong Kong businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International. April 20: Michael Fu Tieshan, 75, Patriotic Catholic Association bishop of Beijing, cancer. May 13: Chen Xiaoxu, 41, actress Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Mansion, later becoming a Buddhist nun, breast cancer. May 25: Sun Yuanliang, 103, General with the Kuomintang, exiled in Taiwan. June 2: Huang Ju, 68, Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai. June 9: Elias Wen, 110, Protopresbyter senior clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church. June 18: Tung Hua Lin, 96, engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure. June 23: Hou Yaowen, 59, xiangsheng cross-talk actor, heart attack. July 10: Zheng Xiaoyu, 62, official, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, executed. July 17: Cheng Shifa, 86, painter, cartoonist and calligrapher. August 11: Zhang Shuhong, 50, company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging. September 5: Duan Yihe, 61, congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution. September 9: Han Dingxiang, 71, Roman Catholic archbishop detained for loyalty to the Vatican. October 4: Chen Chi-li, 64, gangster, killer of dissident journalist Henry Liu, pancreatic cancer. October 7: Sisi Chen, 68, actress, pancreatic cancer. October 23: Lim Goh Tong, 90, billionaire, founder of the Genting Group. October 28: Bao Zunxin, 70, intellectual and jailed Tiananmen Square democracy activist, brain hemorrhage. November 12: Ying Hope, 84, politician. December 11: Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest. December 21: Ken Lee, 75, owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer. December 28: Sun Daolin, 86, actor. References See also List of Chinese films of 2007 Chinese Super League 2007 Hong Kong League Cup 200708 Category:Years of the 21st century in China

Troy Taylor b. 12 September 1991 is an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the Australian Football League AFL. Originally from Central Australian Football League CAFL club South Alice Springs, Taylor was a talented junior footballer who had piqued the interest of Gold Coast Suns Football Club, who sought to name Taylor in their training squad in the lead up to their debut in the 2011 AFL season. Taylor declines and instead nominated for the 2009 AFL Draft, where Richmond drafted him with their fourth round pick number 51 overall. Taylor made his senior AFL debut against Melbourne in round 4 of the 2010 season but continually suffered homesickness, twice walking out on Richmond and their Victorian Football League VFL affiliate Coburg Football Club. Taylor did not return to Richmond for the 2011 season and was delisted by the club at the end of the year. Taylor was recruited for the 2012 season by Walla Walla Football Club in the southern New South Wales based Hume Football League but after starring in the first few rounds, did not return to the club after a trip back to Alice Springs to visit his family. References External links Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Richmond Football Club players Category:Coburg Football Club players Category:Australian rules footballers from the Northern Territory Category:Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football Category:Northern Territory Football Club players Category:Southern Districts Football Club players Category:Darwin Football Club players Category:Wanderers Football Club players

A Man with a Quilted Sleeve is a painting of about 1510 by the Venetian painter Titian in the National Gallery, London, measuring . Though the quality of the painting has always been praised, there has been much discussion as to the identity of the sitter. It was long thought to be a portrait of Ariosto, then a self-portrait, but in 2017 is called Portrait of Gerolamo ? Barbarigo by the gallery, having also been called merely Portrait of a Man, the title used here, The Man with the Blue Sleeve, and no doubt other variants. Placing a parapet, a low wood or stone sill or ledge, between the subject and the viewer is a common feature of early Renaissance Italian portraits, as a useful way of solving the principal compositional problem of portraits at less than full-length, how to justify the cutting of the figure. By having the large sleeve project slightly beyond the parapet, Titian subverts the usual barrier effect, bringing the picture space into our space as viewers. The turning pose, with the head slightly atilt and an eyebrow appearing raised, exactly halfway across the composition, adds life and drama. The broad spiral motion in depth of the head and arm suggests that Titian had some awareness of contemporary developments in painting in Florence. The sleeve is brilliantly painted, and the merging of the shadowed portions of the figure with the grey atmospheric background ... is one of the most innovative and influential aspects of the painting. The painting comes from a crucial period in the development of the Italian Renaissance portrait, which was then being led by Venice. According to John Steer, Titian retains the mood of generalized inner mystery that Giorgione had brought to his portraits which may not represent individuals who commissioned the painting but shows the personality and physical assurance of his sitter with new force and realism. To some extent the ardent gaze of this and other figures is adopted from paintings of religious subjects. The pose was borrowed in two self-portraits by Rembrandt, who saw the painting or a copy in Amsterdam. Soon after it apparently moved to England via France. It entered the National Gallery in 1904 as NG1944, and in 2017 was on display in Room 2. Attribution, date and condition The work's attribution and dating are based on its style, its ambiguous signature, and comparison with other Titian works, such as La Schiavona. The dates assigned have all been in the period of about 15091512; a painting in the Hermitage Museum that is obviously inspired by it is dated 1512. According to Nicholas Penny, the Man with a Quilted Sleeve may be Titian's earliest portrait, apart from a Knight of Malta in the Uffizi. The widely-spaced letters T V appear as though carved into the stone parapet either side of the sleeve, with triangular dots around them. They are usually taken as Titian's initials his name was Tiziano Vecellio, though there is a second V visible in infra-red reflectography, so the painting once might have carried the mysterious abbreviation VV. This appears on various Venetian portraits of around this date, including several works attributed to Giorgione, such as the Giustiniani Portrait or the Gentleman with a book, as well as Titian's La Schiavona. Various moral mottos, such as virtus vincit omnia virtue conquers all have been proposed as the meaning. VV is not usually regarded as a signature, but TV might be Titian's. Before cleaning and restoration the signature had been added to by a later hand, so that it read TITIANUS and a monogram with the overlapping letters TV. Like many others, the painting was at times attributed to Giorgione, well into the 20th century. The painting was cleaned in 1949, when the later parts of the signature were painted over. The blue sleeve is well preserved, parts of the face and the area around the hand are rubbed, and the sill is extensively restored. Fine red lines representing threads in the fabric of the sleeve have now faded, and the effect of the hollows and dimples on its surface is somewhat reduced by blanching that reduces their contrast to the rest of the sleeve. Scientific imaging reveals only a little very confident underdrawing. Identity of sitter From at least the 1630s until the late 19th century it was thought to be a portrait of the poet Ludovico Ariosto, but this is dismissed by all modern critics. Even when it entered the National Gallery in 1904 it was only tentatively so identified, as it does not resemble other portraits of Ariosto, such as probably one by Palma Vecchio also in the Gallery. It was first suggested in 1895 by Jean Paul Richter that it portrays a man from the Barbarigo family, as a Titian portrait of a gentleman from the House of Barbarigo, [the artist's] friend, who he held in high esteem, in a doublet of silvered satin was described by Vasari in his Life of Titian. The family was then at the height of its power, and had supplied two Doges of Venice in succession from 14851501. The Barberigo identification has met with some resistance. Charles Hope, reviewing an exhibition including the piece in the National Gallery in the London Review of Books concluded that claims on early Titian are still too speculative, asking Why not admit that we still dont know very much about Venetian painting in the first decade of the 16th century, instead of pretending to a knowledge that we do not possess? Nonetheless this theory was supported by the National Gallery in the title they used in 2017; Gerolamo Barberigo, who became thirty in 1509 at the time the portrait was painted, has been chosen as the most likely member of the family to be represented. Thirty was the age at which patrician Venetian men became qualified for significant political roles, and perhaps a good moment to commission a portrait. There is another portrait, in Alnwick Castle and usually attributed to Palma Vecchio, which might show the same sitter and also be by Titian. Cecil Gould and Kenneth Clark thought that the painting might be a self-portrait by Titian; there are no other certain ones from before his old age with which to compare the likeness. The pose is convenient for a right-handed artist painting himself in a mirror, and the convex mirrors of the day may have lengthened the face slightly, and account for the slightly supercilious air of the subject, seeming to look down his nose at the viewer. At this point in his career Titian was becoming known as a portrait painter, and might have wished to advertise his skill to future clients by having a self-portrait to show them. Rembrandt saw the painting in Amsterdam and the next year copied the pose in his Self-portrait at the age of 34 also National Gallery as well as a self-portrait etching of 1639, Self-portrait leaning on a Sill Bartsch number B21. In both of these, as in many others of his self-portraits, his costume is in many ways more from Titian's period than his own. Provenance The work, or possibly a copy of it, was part of the collection of Alfonso Lopez, an art dealer in Amsterdam in 1639, where Rembrandt would have seen it, and it was engraved, with an inscribed identification as Ariosto. Still identified as Ariosto, it was apparently sold in Paris in December 1641, and a letter survives written to a friend to advise Anthony van Dyck it was up for sale, and praising it. Van Dyck may have arranged to buy it, though he would have been dead before it arrived, as he died in London on 9 December 1641. But a Titian portrait of Ariosto is mentioned in the inventory of his estate. It was possibly bought by Charles I a Titian portrait of Ariosto was listed in a catalogue of his goods in 1644, perhaps from Van Dyck's estate. The first certain appearance of the present picture was in the collection of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley at Cobham Hall by 1824; he and his successors exhibited it several times, at the British Institution, the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857, and the Royal Academy, and it became well-known, as did a version once at Mentmore Towers that is now regarded as a copy. It was sold to Sir George Donaldson in 1904. After some negotiation, the National Gallery acquired it from Donaldson for £30,000, the price he had paid for it, with contributions from Lord Iveagh, Waldorf Astor, John Pierpont Morgan, Alfred Beit, the government, and others. The sale marked something of a turning-point, after two decades or more when outstanding works from aristocratic British collections had been allowed to cross the Atlantic, though there was a precedent in 1890, with a government grant of £25,000 for a group bought from the Earl of Radnor, including Holbein's The Ambassadors. Similar arrangements would bring Holbein's Portrait of Christina of Denmark 1909, £72,000 and Jan Gossaert's Adoration of the Kings 1911, £40,000 to the National Gallery. Notes References Campbell, Lorne, Renaissance Portraits, European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries, 1990, Yale, Cavendish, Richard, A Titian for the National Gallery, History Today, Volume 54 Issue 8, August 2004 Clark, Kenneth, An Introduction to Rembrandt, 1978, London, John Murray Gould, Cecil, The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools, National Gallery Catalogues, London 1975, Hartt, Frederick, History of Italian Renaissance Art, 2nd edn.1987, Thames & Hudson US Harry N Abrams, Langmuir, Erika, The National Gallery companion guide, 1997 revised edition, National Gallery, London, NG Key facts, National Gallery page, accessed 24 February 2017 NG Tech, Jill Dunkerton, Marika Spring, et al., Titians Painting Technique to c.1540, National Gallery Technical Bulletin, volume 34, 2013, pp. 431. Available as pdf. Catalogue part I pp. 5255 is Cat #5. Available as pdf. Penny, Nicholas, in David Jaffé ed, Titian, The National Gallery Company/Yale, London 2003, Reitlinger, Gerald; The Economics of Taste, Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 17601960, 1961, Barrie and Rockliffe, London Steer, John, Venetian painting: A concise history, 1970, London: Thames and Hudson World of Art, White, Christopher, Buvelot, Quentin eds, Rembrandt by himself, 1999, National Gallery, London/Mauritshuis, The Hague, Category:1510 paintings Category:Collections of the National Gallery, London Category:Titian portraits

Walsrode Abbey German: Kloster Walsrode in Walsrode, Germany, is one of the historic monasteries of Benedictine nuns on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany which are collectively known as the Lüneklöster. Today it is a Lutheran women's convent that is maintained by the Hanover monastic chamber Klosterkammer Hannover. History The monastery was founded in 986 by Count Wale and his wife Odelint according to a decree by King Otto III and is by far the oldest in the former Principality of Lüneburg. Its patron saint is John the Baptist. In 1482 a large part of the monastery was burned down following a lightning strike. Part of the brick walls and stained glass windows of the chapel are products of the subsequent late Gothic restoration. In 1626, during the Thirty Years War, it was plundered by Tilly's troops. During the period 1812-1815 the convent was closed and the monastery occupied by Napoleon for 3 years. Its chequered history ensured that many art treasures and the original structure of the building were destroyed, so that today it mainly comprises buildings from the 18th century, like the well-known Long House Lange Haus of 1720. The impressive refectory was an endowment from the last German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his empress. The introduction of the Lutheran Reformation in the 16th century into all six Lüneburg communities of nuns took several decades. External links Official website of Walsrode Convent Description of the monastery by the town of Walsrode Churches and monasteries on the Lüneburg Heath Category:Benedictine nunneries in Germany Category:Heidekreis Category:Lüneburg Heath Category:Heidmark Category:Monasteries in Lower Saxony Category:Benedictine monasteries in Germany Category:Lutheran women's convents

Eumitra suduirauti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails. Distribution This species occurs in Philippines. References suduirauti Category:Gastropods described in 1997

929 West Grace Street has been a live music venue in the City of Richmond, Virginia since 1970. Over the years, it has operated under various names. Since the 1980s, it was the hub of Richmond's punk and hardcore scene, and is credited with helping Richmond bands Gwar, Lamb of God, Avail, and Four Walls Falling develop. History Before becoming a music venue, the building was home to R.L. Christian, a local grocery store known for manufacturing its own whisky. After the closing of Christian's, the building became a music venue known as 'The Back Door'. It was this incarnation that musician Bruce Springsteen played the club, with an early version of the E Street Band. In the 1980s, it became club called 'The Wooden Plate', and skewed towards heavy metal music. In the mid 1980s the club became known as 'Twisters', and saw performances from bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day. In late 2002, the club became '929', then in 2003, 'Nanci Raygun'. In 2009, the club became 'Strange Matter', and operated until closing in December 2018. Notable performances Against Me Agnostic Front Avail The Business Bruce Springsteen Dinosaur Jr. Good Riddance Gwar Death Piggy Lagwagon Lamb of God Smashing Pumpkins White Cross References Category:Music of Richmond, Virginia Category:History of Richmond, Virginia

Apotome may refer to: Apotome mathematics a mathematical term used by Euclid. Apotome music Apotome optics used for increasing axial resolution of fluorescence microscopy of thick specimens by structured illumination.

DBA - The Barge Association is a waterway society in the United Kingdom with a special interest in barges and other broad beam inland craft. The association has over 1,400 members from many countries, with almost 1000 boats between them. DBA enables members to share information and experiences and represents them to waterway authorities to promote the preservation and maintenance of the canals. See also List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom External links Website of DBA - the Barge Association Category:Clubs and societies in the United Kingdom

South Muskham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, close to the border with Lincolnshire. It is located west of the River Trent and the A1 road, north of Newark-upon-Trent. The parish includes the hamlet of Little Carlton. The population of the parish was 494 in the 2011 census. The village lies on the historic route of the A1 Great North Road. When the Newark Bypass was built in 1964, the old Great North Road through the village became the A6065. In 1989 the road south of the village became part of the A616, and the road through the village became the B6325. South of the village the old Great North Road passes over a causeway built in 1770 by John Smeaton, and then crosses the River Trent at Muskham Bridge. St Wilfrid's Church is a Grade I listed building. Parts of the church date back to the 13th century. See also North Muskham References External links Category:Villages in Nottinghamshire Category:Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Category:Newark and Sherwood

Niels Hansen Jacobsen September 10, 1861 November 26, 1941 was a Danish sculptor and ceramist. He is most famous for creating the once controversial sculpture, Trold, der vejrer kristenblod. The name of the statue is taken from a story in Norse folklore where the hero hides in the troll's castle. Thereafter, whenever the troll enters the castle, he cries: I smell a Christian man's blood! Biography Niels Hansen Jacobsen was born and grew up on a farm in Vejen. He was the son of Carl Peter Jacobsen 1819-1903 and Anna Kirstine Hansen 1822-91. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen between the years 1884-1888. At the Academy of Art, he received drawing lessons from Frederik Vermehren and Carl Bloch, while the sculptor Theobald Stein taught anatomy and Vilhelm Bissen in modeling. He debuted at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1889. He was awarded the Eckersberg Medal and a grant which led him to travel to Germany, Italy and France during 1891. In 1892, Hansen Jacobsen settled in Paris. From the mid-1890s, Hansen Jacobsen had also started working with ceramics. In 1902, Hansen Jacobsen returned to Denmark. In the years following his return to Denmark, a new field of work came to fill much in his production: cutting grave and memorial stones. In 1908, he returned to work on sculpture. In 1913, Hansen Jacobsen erected a studio at Skibelund Krat near Askov. Between 1923-24, a museum was built for the works of Hansen Jacobsen at the site of his birthplace. The museum was inaugurated on July 1, 1924 and is today the Vejen Art Museum Vejen Kunstmuseum. Work Existential themes such as freedom and time affect Niels Hansen Jacobsen throughout much of his sculptures. With his imaginative and strangely symbolic sculptures, Hansen Jacobsen gave form to abstract phenomena such as death, night and shadow. Personal life In 1891, he married Anna Gabriele Rohde 1862-1902. In 1908, he married Kaja Jørgensen 1882-1928. In 1936, he was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal. He died during 1941 and was buried at Vejen Church. Gallery See also Danish sculpture References Other sources Teresa Nielsen 2011 NHJ : Niels Hansen Jacobsen Vejen Kunstmuseum Herman Madsen; Niels Th. Mortensen 1990 Dansk Skulptur Odense: Skandinavisk Bogforlag External links Category:1861 births Category:1941 deaths Category:People from Vejen Municipality Category:Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni Category:Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal Category:Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal Category:20th-century Danish sculptors Category:19th-century sculptors Category:Danish ceramists Category:Danish sculptors

Weiler bei Bingen is an Ortsgemeinde a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The winegrowing centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds. Geography Location Weiler bei Bingen lies between Koblenz and Bad Kreuznach southeast of Bingen Forest Binger Wald and borders in the east on Bingen. Indeed, its name is German for Hamlet near Bingen. History In 823, Weiler bei Bingen had its first documentary mention in one of Louis the Piouss documents. However, the late Weiler citizen Heinrich Bell's collecting and researching mind is to be thanked for the knowledge that there has been human life in what is now the Weiler municipal area since the earliest times. On an ancient trail, already used by the Celts, the Romans 52 BC to AD 405 built a modern army and trade road linking Mainz with Trier and running right by Weiler the Via Ausonia. In the part of Bingen Forest lying within Weiler's limits, the remnants of a Roman villa rustica have been being unearthed since 1994. Weiler was always very tightly bound with Bingen even from the earliest times. The Weiler municipal area was part of the Binger Mark. The Bishops and Archbishops of Mainz held the lordship over both centres. Weiler passed to the Mainz Cathedral Chapter in 1438 and remained in its hands until French Revolutionary troops occupied the Rhines left bank in 1792 to 1794. The Treaty of Campo Formio ended this arrangement when in 1797 the river Nahe became the boundary between the French departments of Mont-Tonnerre Donnersberg and Rhin-et-Moselle Rhein-Mosel. The Congress of Vienna eventually assigned Weiler to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816, Bingen passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. Now the Nahe had become an international border. With the building of the railway lines on the Rhine and Nahe, Weilers outlying centre of Rupertsberg earned greater importance. In 1892, through a decree from the Kingdom of Prussia, it became self-administering under the name Bingerbrück and was split off from Weilers municipal area. In 1969, it was amalgamated with the town of Bingen. Weilers history, however, cannot be split away from its Catholic churchs history. On the spot where once stood the little old church, which was being mentioned in documents as early as 1128, the new hall church, built in Gothic Revival style, was consecrated in 1866. It still dominates Weiler bei Bingens skyline today. On 1 January 1973, the municipalitys name was changed from the former Weiler bei Bingerbrück to Weiler bei Bingen. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 21 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004 Coat of arms The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess gules and argent, a wheel spoked of six counterchanged. Economy and infrastructure Transport The Autobahn A 61 can be reached through the Stromberg interchange about 7 km away, while the Autobahn A 60 can be reached over Bundesstraße 9 in Bingerbrück going towards Mainz after about 9 km. Education Grundschule Heilig-Kreuz primary school References Category:Mainz-Bingen

Nitrogen dioxide poisoning is the illness resulting from the toxic effect of nitrogen dioxide . It usually occurs after the inhalation of the gas beyond the threshold limit value. Nitrogen dioxide is reddish-brown with a very harsh smell at high concentrations, at lower concentrations it is colorless but may still have a harsh odour. Nitrogen dioxide poisoning depends on the duration, frequency, and intensity of exposure. Nitrogen dioxide is an irritant of the mucous membrane linked with another air pollutant that causes pulmonary diseases such as OLD, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sometimes acute exacerbation of COPD and in fatal cases, deaths. Its poor solubility in water enhances its passage and its ability to pass through the moist oral mucosa of the respiratory tract. Like most toxic gases, the dose inhaled determines the toxicity on the respiratory tract. Occupational exposures constitute the highest risk of toxicity and domestic exposure is uncommon. Prolonged exposure to low concentration of the gas may have lethal effects, as can short-term exposure to high concentrations like chlorine gas poisoning. It is one of the major air pollutant capable of causing severe health hazards such as coronary artery disease as well as stroke. Nitrogen dioxide is often released into the environment as a byproduct of fuel combustion but rarely released by spontaneous combustion. Known sources of nitrogen dioxide gas poisoning include automobile exhaust and power stations. The toxicity may also result from non-combustible sources such as the one released from anaerobic fermentation of food grains and anaerobic digestion of biodegradable waste. The World Health Organization WHO developed a global recommendation limiting exposures to less than 20 parts per billion for chronic exposure and value less 100 ppb for one hour for acute exposure, using nitrogen dioxide as a marker for other pollutants from fuel combustion. The standards also based on the concentration of nitrogen dioxide that show a significant and profound effects on the function of the pulmonary of asthmatic patients. Historically, some cities in the United States including Chicago and Los Angeles have high levels of nitrogen dioxide but the EPA set a standard values less than 100 ppb for a one-hour exposure and less than 53 ppb for chronic exposure. Signs and symptoms Nitrogen dioxide poisoning is harmful to all forms of life just like chlorine gas poisoning and carbon monoxide poisoning. It is easily absorbed through the lungs and its inhalation can result in heart failure and sometimes death in severe cases. Individuals and races may differ in nitrogen dioxide tolerance level and individual tolerance level for the gas may be altered by several factors, such as metabolic rate, barometric pressure, and hematological disorders but significant exposure may result in fatal conditions that could lead to shorter lifespan due to heart failure. Acute poisoning Exposure to high level of nitrogen dioxide may lead to inflammation of the mucous membrane and the lower and upper respiratory tracts. The symptoms of acute nitrogen dioxide poisoning is non-specific and have a semblance with ammonia gas poisoning, chlorine gas poisoning, and carbon monoxide poisoning. The symptoms also resembles that of pneumonia or viral infection and other inhalational injuries but common symptoms includes rhinitis wheezing or coughing, conjunctivitis, headache, throat irritation and dyspnea which may progress to nasal fissures, ulcerations, or perforation. The patient is usually ill-appearing and presents with hypoxemia coupled with shallow rapid breathing. Therapy is supportive and includes removal from further nitrogen dioxide exposure. Systemic symptoms include fever and anorexia. Electrocardiography and chest radiography can help in revealing diffuse, bilateral alveolar infiltrates. Chest radiography may be used in diagnosis and the baseline could be established with pulmonary function testing. There is no specific laboratory diagnostic test for acute nitrogen dioxide poisoning but analysis of arterial blood gas level, methemoglobin level, complete blood count, glucose test, lactate threshold measurement and r peripheral blood smear may be helpful in the diagnosis of nitrogen dioxide poisoning. The determination of nitrogen dioxide in urine or tissue does not establish the diagnosis, and there are technical and interpretive problems with these tests. Chronic poisoning Prolonged exposure to a very high level of nitrogen dioxide in micro meter-size range, may have an inflammatory effect that principally targets the respiratory tracts leading to chronic nitrogen dioxide poisoning which can occur within days or weeks after the threshold limit value is excessively exceeded. This condition causes fever, rapid breathing coupled with rapid heart rate, labored breathing and severe shortness of breath. Other effects include diaphoresis, chest pain, and persistent dry cough, all of which may result in weight loss, anorexia and may also lead to right-side heart enlargement and heart disease in advanced cases. Prolonged exposure to relatively low levels of nitrogen II oxide may cause persistent headaches and nausea. Like chlorine gas poisoning, symptoms usually resolve themselves upon removal from further nitrogen dioxide exposure, unless there had been an episode of severe acute poisoning. Treatment and management vary with symptoms. Patients are often observed for hypoxemia for a minimum of 12 hours if there are no initial symptoms and if the patient is hypoxemic, oxygen may be administered but high-dose steroids are recommended for patients with pulmonary manifestations. Patients may also be hospitalized for 12 to 24 hours or longer for observation if the gaseous exchange is impaired. In a case where gaseous exchange is impaired, mechanical ventilation and intubation may be necessary and if bronchiolitis obliterans develop within 2 to 6 weeks of nitrogen dioxide exposure, corticosteroid therapy or anticholinergic medications may be required for 6 to 12 months to lower the body overreaction to nitrogen dioxide gas. Cause Occupational exposures constitute the highest risk of toxicity and it is often high for farmers especially those that deal with food grains. It is equally high for firefighters and military personnel, especially those officers that deal in explosives. The risk is also high for arc welders, traffic officers, aerospace staffs and miners as well as those people whose occupations are connected with the nitric acid. Silo-filler's disease is a consequence of exposure to nitrogen dioxide poisoning by farmers dealing with silos. Food grains such as corn and millet, as well as grasses such as alfalfa and some other plant material, produces nitrogen dioxide within hours due to anaerobic fermentation. The threshold concentrations of nitrogen dioxide are often attained within 1 to 2 days and begin to decline gradually after 10 to 14 days but if the silos is well sealed, the gas may remain in there for weeks. Heavily fertilized silage, particularly the ones produced from immature plants, generate a higher concentration of the gas within the silo. Nitrogen dioxide is about 1.5 times heavier than air and during silage storage, nitrogen dioxide remains in the silage material. Improper ventilation may result in exposure during the leveling of the silage. Pathophysiology Nitrogen dioxide is sparingly soluble in water and on inhalation, it diffuses into the lung and slowly hydrolyzes to nitrous and nitric acid which causes pulmonary edema and pneumonitis leading to the inflammation of the bronchioles and pulmonary alveolus resulting from lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress. Mucous membrane is primarily affected alongside with type I pneumocyte and the respiratory epithelium. The generation of free radicals from lipid peroxidation results in irritation of the bronchioles and alveoli that causes rapid destruction of the respiratory epithelial cells. The overall reaction results in the release of fluid that causes pulmonary edema. Nitrogen dioxide poisoning may alter macrophage activity and immune function leading to susceptibility of the body to a wide range of infections, and overexposure to the gas may also lead to methemoglobinemia, a disorder characterized by a higher than normal level of methemoglobin metHb, i.e., ferric [Fe3+] rather than ferrous [Fe2+] haemoglobin in the blood. Methemoglobinemia prevents the binding of oxygen to haemoglobin causing oxygen depletion that could lead to severe hypoxia. If nitrogen dioxide poisoning is untreated, fibrous granulation tissue is likely to develop within the alveolar ducts, tiny ducts that connect the respiratory bronchioles to alveolar sacs, each of which contains a collection of alveoli small mucus-lined pouches made of flattened epithelial cells. The overall reaction may cause an obstructive lung disease. Meanwhile, proliferative bronchiolitis is a secondary effect of nitrogen dioxide poisoning. Epidemiology The EPA have some regulations and guidelines for monitoring nitrogen dioxide levels. Historically, some states in the U.S including Chicago, Northeast corridor and L.A have had high levels of nitrogen dioxide. In 2006, the WHO estimated that over 2 million deaths result annually from air pollution in which nitrogen dioxide constitute one of the pollutants. While over 50 of the disease that results from these pollutants are common in developing countries and the effects in developed countries is also significant. An EPA survey in the U.S. suggests that 16 percent of United States' housing units are sited close to an airport, highway or railroad increasing in the United States the exposure risk of approximately 48 million people. A feasibility study of the ozone formed from the oxidation of nitrogen dioxide in ambient air reported by the WHO suggested that daily deaths of 1 to 2 is attributed to exposure to ozone concentration above 47.3 ppb and exposure above 75.7ppb is attributed to 3 to 5 increase in daily mortality. A level of 114 ppb was attributed to 5 to 9 increase daily mortality. Silo filler's disease is pervasive during the harvest seasons of food grains. In May 2015, the National Green Tribunal directed Delhi and other states in India to ban diesel vehicles over 10 years old as a measure to reduce nitrogen dioxide emission that may result in nitrogen dioxide poisoning. In 2008, the report of United Kingdom committee on the medical effects of air pollutants COMEAP suggested that air pollution is the cause of about 29,000 deaths in UK. The WHO urban air quality database estimated Delhi's mean annual PM 10 levels in 2010 as 286 μg /m3 and London as 23 μg /m3. In 2014, the database estimated Delhi's annual mean PM 2.5 particulate matter levels in 2013 as 156 μg /m3 whereas, London have only 8 μg /m3 in 2010 but the nitrogen dioxide in London breach the European Union's standard. In 2013, the annual mean nitrogen dioxide level in London was estimated as 58 μg /m3 but the save and threshold limit value is 40 μg /m3. On March 2015, Brussels took the United Kingdom into court for breaching emissions limits of nitrogen dioxide at its coal-fired Aberthaw power stations in Wales. The plant operated under a permit allowing emissions of 0.0012 μg/m3, which is more than twice the 0.000 5μg /m3 limit specified in the EU's large combustion plant directive. Prognosis Generally, long-term prognosis is helpful to survival of initial exposure to nitrogen dioxide. Some cases of nitrogen dioxide poisoning resolves with no observable symptoms and patient may be determined by pulmonary function testing. If chronic exposure causes lung damage, it could take several days or months for the pulmonary function to improve. Meanwhile, permanent mild dysfunction may result from bronchiolitis obliterans and could manifest as abnormal flow at 50 to 70 percent of vital capacity. It may also manifest as mild hyperinflammation, airway obstruction and in that case, patient may be subject to steroid treatment to treat deconditioning. Complications from prolong exposure includes bronchiolitis obliterans and other secondary infections such as pneumonia due to injuries on the mucous membrane from pulmonary edema and inhibition of immune system by nitrogen dioxide. Nitrogen dioxide inhalation can result in short and long-term morbidity or death depending on the extent of exposure and inhaled concentration and the exposure time. Illness resulting from acute exposure is usually not fatal although some exposure may cause bronchiolitis obliterans, pulmonary edema as well as rapid asphyxiation. If the concentration of exposure is excessively high, the gas may displace oxygen resulting in fatal asphyxiation. Generally, patients and workers should be educated by medical personnel on how to identify the signs and symptoms of Nitrogen dioxide poisoning. Farmers and other farm workers should be educated on the proper way of food grain storage to prevent silo filler's disease. Biochemical effects Chronic exposure to high level of nitrogen dioxide results in the allosteric inhibition of glutathione peroxidase and glutathione S-transferase, both of which are important enzymes found in the mucous membrane antioxidant defense system, that catalyse nucleophilic attack by reduced glutathione GSH on non-polar compounds that contain an electrophillic carbon and nitrogen. These inhibition mechanisms generates free radicals that causes peroxidation from the lipids in the mucous membrane leading to increased peroxidized erythrocyte lipids, a reaction that proceeds by a free radical chain reaction mechanism that result in oxidative stress. The oxidative stress on the mucous membrane causes the dissociation of the GSTp-JNK complex, oligomerization of GSTP and induction of the JNK pathway, resulting in apoptosis or inflammation of the bronchioles and pulmonary alveolus in mild cases. On migrating to the bloodstream, nitrogen dioxide poisoning results in an irreversible inhibition of the erythrocite membrane acetylcholinesterase which may lead to muscular paralysis, convulsions, bronchoconstriction, the narrowing of the airways in the lungs bronchi and bronchioles and death by asphyxiation. It also causes a decrease in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase which may results in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency known as favism, a condition that predisposes to hemolysis spontaneous destruction of red blood cells. Acute and chronic exposure also reduces glutathione reductase, an enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of glutathione disulfide GSSG to the sulfhydryl form glutathione GSH, which is a critical molecule in resisting oxidative stress and maintaining the reducing environment of the cell. Reproductive effects Exposure to nitrogen dioxide has a significant effect on the male reproductive system by inhibiting the production of Sertoli cells, the nurse cells of the testicles that are part of a seminiferous tubule and help in the process of spermatogenesis. These effects consequently retard the production of sperm cells. The effects of nitrogen dioxide poisoning on female reproduction may be linked with the effects of oxidative stress on female reproduction. Nitrogen dioxide poisoning disrupts the balance of reactive oxygen species ROS, which results in oxidative stress, leading to significant effects on the female reproductive lifespan. ROS play a significant role in body physiology, from oocyte production, development and maturation to fertilization, development of the embryo and gestation. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide causes ovulation-induced oxidative damage to the DNA of ovarian epithelium. There is a growing body of literature on the pathological effects of ROS on female reproduction as evidenced by free-radical-induced birth defects, abortions, hydatidiform moles and pre-eclampsia. ROS also play a significant role in the etiopathogenesis of endometriosis, a disease in which tissue that normally grows inside the uterus grows outside of it. Oxidative stress causes defective placentation, which is likely to lead to placental hypoxia, shortage of oxygen in the placental as well as reperfusion injury resulting from ischemia, which may lead to endothelial cell dysfunction. Increased oxidative stress caused by nitrogen dioxide poisoning may result in ovarian epithelium inflammation and potentially to cancer in the most severe cases. References External links Category:Inorganic nitrogen compounds Category:Oxides Category:Hazardous air pollutants Category:Smog Category:Free radicals Category:Food additives Category:Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source Category:Gases Category:Medical emergencies Category:Suicide methods Category:Industrial hygiene

Vandaravu Malayalam:വണ്ടറാവു,Tamil: வண்டறாவு is the highest peak in the Palani hills Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, India. It shares border between Devikulam taluk in Idukki district and Kodaikanal taluk in Dindigul district. It is situated in the western edge of upper Palani hills bordering Pambadum Shola National Park Idukki in Kerala. It stands at a height of 2,533 m above sea level. It is the highest point in Dindigul district. It has an older and higher motorable road in South India from Munnar Top Station to Kodaikanal. Other prominent peaks are Vembadi shola 2,505m and Karumkadu 2,150m. References Category:Mountains of Tamil Nadu Category:Mountains of the Western Ghats Category:Two-thousanders of Asia

Grand Cinemas may refer to: Cinema Complex Grand Cinemas, otherwise known as The Movie Masters Cinema Group, operating in Western Australia Grand Cinemas operating in the Middle East.

The 2006 WNBA season was the 7th for the Indiana Fever. The Fever matched their record from 2005, but lost in the first round to eventual champion Detroit Shock. Offseason Deanna Jackson was selected by the Chicago Sky in the 2006 WNBA Expansion Draft. WNBA Draft Regular season Season standings Season schedule Playoffs Player stats Awards and honors Tamika Catchings, WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award References External links Fever on Basketball Reference Category:Indiana Fever seasons Indiana Indiana Fever

Donald Frederick Robinson c. 1919 January 9, 1997 was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1956 to 1966, as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Lilloet. He died in Calgary, Alberta in 1997. References Category:British Columbia Social Credit Party MLAs Category:Politicians from Calgary Category:1910s births Category:1997 deaths

Miles James Storey born 4 January 1994 is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Championship. Originally from the West Midlands, Storey began his professional career at Swindon Town. Although he did not become a main part of Swindon's set-up at the time, Storey was sent on loan to numerous clubs such as Portsmouth, Newport County and Inverness Caledonian Thistle. His goal-scoring form in the Scottish Premiership attracted more interest and in May 2016 Storey signed for Aberdeen, before moving to Partick Thistle in August 2017. Career Swindon Town Storey was born in West Bromwich and started his football education with Wolverhampton Wanderers but was released and whilst playing for Sedgley Lions under 15s in Division 3  was spotted by Mick Elliott MBE who was the head of recruitment at Coventry City. He signed for Coventry City but after one full season was not offered a scholarship and was released. Again without a club, Elliott took Storey to Swindon Town for a trial game where he impressed the coaches and was handed a two-year scholarship. During his first season as a scholar at Swindon, he impressed and helped Paul Bodin's youth side to win their third successive season. After Swindon Town manager Paul Hart was dismissed as manager in April 2011, Bodin was installed as caretaker boss. Bodin brought Storey into the first team set-up for the club's home fixture against Oldham Athletic. He made his debut as a 78th minute substitute, replacing on-loan forward Calvin Andrew in a 02 loss. On 30 October 2012, Storey scored twice against Premier League side Aston Villa in the League Cup, to level the score at 22, before Christian Benteke scored a late winner to send Aston Villa through 32. On 6 May 2013, Storey missed a penalty in a shoot-out in the play-off semi-final against Brentford, as Swindon lost 54 on penalties, after the tie had finished 44 on aggregate. He was handed his first start on 10 August, and provided an assist for the game's winner against Stevenage. On 5 October 2013, it was announced that Storey had joined Conference Premier side Salisbury City on a month's loan deal. He made his debut on the same day in a 21 win against Wrexham. On 21 December, Storey returned to first team action for Swindon, and after coming off the bench in the 71st minute to replace Ryan Harley in a Football League One home clash against his former side Coventry City, he scored the winner 15 minutes later. On 14 February 2014, Storey joined fellow League One side Shrewsbury Town in a one-month loan. On 10 July, he moved to League Two side Portsmouth, also in a temporary deal. On 30 January 2015, Storey joined Newport County on an initial one-month loan. He made his debut for Newport on 31 January versus Shrewsbury Town as a second-half substitute. The loan was subsequently extended to the end of the 201415 season. He scored his first goal for Newport on 28 February 2015 in a 10 win against Burton Albion. Inverness Caledonian Thistle loan Storey joined Scottish Premiership club Inverness Caledonian Thistle during the 201516 summer transfer window on loan until January. He scored his first goal for the club on his debut against Heart of Midlothian in a 20 victory. In January 2016, his loan was extended until the end of the season. Aberdeen On 17 May 2016, Storey agreed to join Aberdeen when his contract with Swindon expired in the summer of 2016. He scored his first goal for Aberdeen on 20 August 2016, in a 21 win against Partick Thistle. Partick Thistle Storey moved to Partick Thistle for an undisclosed fee on 11 August 2017, signing a two-year contract. Storey scored his first goal for Partick thistle, scoring a 92nd-minute winner in a 21 home win over Dundee. In May 2018, it was apparent that his contract would not be renewed with the club. However, in July 2018, Alan Archibald extended Storey's contract with the Maryhill side with a revised one-year contract. Storey was released by the club in May 2019 after a disappointing season in the Championship. Return to Inverness Caledonian Thistle For the start of the 2019/20 season, Storey rejoined Inverness on a permanent contract. Storey netted his first goal back at the club in a 2-1 win against Arbroath. International career On 13 November 2012, Storey made his England under-19 debut in a 10 win against Finland. 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Mary Ann Neeley died 29 August 2018 was an author and official historian for the city of Montgomery, Alabama. She served as executive director of Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, a non-profit organization dedicated to historic preservation, from 1979 until 2003. Mrs. Neely's walking tours of downtown Montgomery and Oakwood Cemetery were a very popular activity for locals and tourists alike. She developed an annual conference that brought together academics, writers, and other historians, which explored numerous historical topics and drew together attendants from across the region. Along with being an author and a local historian, Neeley also taught courses at both Auburn University and Huntingdon College. Education After graduating high-school in Clanton, Neeley earned her bachelor's degrees in English and History from Huntingdon College in 1954, then a master's degree in History from Auburn University. She then became an adjunct instructor at Auburn University and Huntingdon. Personal life Neeley was born on November 5, 1932. She was married to Aubrey Neeley and together had three children, six grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. She was frequently interviewed by news outlets for her advanced knowledge of local history. Neeley died on August 29, 2018, at the age of 85. Following her death, the Montgomery City Council unanimously voted to honor her by renaming College Street Park in Cloverdale, to Mary Ann Neeley Park. Career Neeley was an adjunct instructor at her both of her alma maters, Huntingdon College and Auburn University, the latter where she received her master's degree in history. Neeley also worked at the Alabama Department of Archives as a researcher for decades. She served as the executive director of The Landmarks Foundation, a non-profit organization started in 1967, from 1979 to 2003. Much of her time as executive director was spent on Montgomery's Old Alabama Town, which is four blocks of 19th-century buildings that have been restored display life as it was lived in Alabama from the 1830s through the 1890s. Throughout her career as Montgomery's official historian, she authored and co-authored several books on the local history of Montgomery. Bibliography The Way It Was/1850-1930: Photographs of Montgomery and Her Central Alabama Neighbors 1985, Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery Old Alabama Town: An Illustrated Guide 1987, Montgomery Montgomery: Capital City Corners 1997, Images of America Montgomery and the River Region Sketchbook 2005, Indigo Publishing Montgomery and the River Region:  Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 2007, Beers & Associates The Works of Matthew Blue: Montgomery's First Historian 2010, with Edwin C. Bridges Montgomery in the 20th Century: Tradition & Change, 1880-2010 2013, HPN Books References Category:2018 deaths Category:People from Montgomery, Alabama Category:American historians Category:Montgomery, Alabama

Vasnevo is a rural locality a village in Spasskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography The distance to Vologda is 27 km, to Nepotyagovo is 17 km. Beloye, Lyamtsyno, Kolokolovo, Zaprudka are the nearest rural localities. References Category:Rural localities in Vologda Oblast Category:Rural localities in Vologodsky District

Megachile lanata is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. References External links Lanata Category:Insects described in 1775

Shaokao Chinese: , shāo kǎo, also romanized as shao kao, is the Chinese translation of barbecue. Chinese variants of the practice constitute a significant aspect of Chinese cuisine. In China, it is predominantly found on busy Chinese streets and night markets as a street food sold in food stalls and is a type of xiaochi. In China and elsewhere, such as in the United States, diners sometimes also order beer as an accompaniment. Shaokao typically consists of heavily spiced, barbecued foods on skewers. It is available in almost all of the cities in China, and is a prominent dish in Beijing, China, where some restaurants set up food stalls outdoors to purvey the product. Concerns about food safety associated with shaokao and air pollution generated from outdoor shaokao vendors associated with increased smog levels in Beijing have prompted complaints about the vendor kaochuan or Yangrouchuan The main part of shaokao are Yangrouchuan or kaochuan. Yangrouchuan typically consists of heavily spiced, barbecued foods on skewers.In China, mutton skewers Chinese pinyin: kǎochuàn; Uighur: كاۋاپ, kawap, or grilled skewers, skewers, have a long history, from April to July 2012, Ningxia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology When the fourth archaeological excavation was carried out in the Lehan cemetery, meat skewers were found in the M17 tomb. In the archaeological finds of the Liao Dynasty, it was found that an unearthed mural on the Aohan Banner in Inner Mongolia was painted with three Khitan people in the coffin, sitting around the hot pot and eating skewers and clams. But in modern times, the popularity of skewers spread from Xinjiang to various places around 1980. In China, skewers often sell other types of grilled foods at the same time, so skewers are often referred to as grills, and kebabs are often used as a synonym for skewers as the most common skewer. The behavior of eating skewers is called eating barbecues, skewers, and the like. Due to the different eating habits of different localities and ethnic groups, the style of skewers varies from region to region. History The origin of the kebabs or shaokao is generally considered to be related to the nomadic people, but when it appears and flourishes, the text is unknown. As early as 1800 years ago, there was a kebab in China. The Portrait of the Han Dynasty has a stone carving image of the kebab. The Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb also unearthed a barbecue fan. In the 1980s, archaeologists discovered two stone carvings of kebabs in a tomb of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which was unearthed in Wulibao Village, Linyi City, Lunan. The study found the two paintings. The characters are Han Chinese, and the skewers they grilled are beef and mutton. These two kitchen drawings reflect the folk customs of Lunan in 1800 years. Both of these stone sculptures have the image of kebabs. In addition to that, both of them have special tools for using two forks. They are placed on the diners and grilled, and the fans are bonfired like the kebabs of Xinjiang today. The characters in both paintings are Han Chinese. Therefore, these two kitchen drawings reflect the folk customs of the South Han Lunan. This shows that the statement that the kebabs originated in Xinjiang can be denied. Most people only believe that the Xinjiang kebabs are authentic. However, according to the situation above, the folk food of the Eastern Han Lunan is the source of the kebab. In the early Ming Dynasty, the beef was cut into cubes, soaked with chopped green onion, salt and tartar sauce for a while. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Mongolian people cooked the large pieces of beef and mutton for a while, then cooked them with cow dung. Later, after continuous improvement and development, the barbecue technology became more and more perfect. In the twenty-five years of Qing Daoguang AD 1845, the poet Yang Jingting praised in the Department Department: The harsh winter barbecue tastes great. The front of the wine cellar is awkward. Fire moxibustion is best for tenderness and tenderness. This barbecue has almost reached a fascinating situation. Harmful effects 1. Increase the risk of cancer: when we baking meat such as mutton, beef, heterocyclic amines HCAs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs will be formed. Based on research, these two chemicals will change DNA, so that increasing the risk of cancer. 2, Carcinogenic: The Maillard reaction occurs. As the fragrance is emitted, the vitamins are destroyed, the protein is denatured, and the amino acids are also destroyed, seriously affecting human body. Therefore, eating barbecue will affect the availability of the above substances. the nucleic acid in the meat in the Maillard reaction, and most amino acids in the heat decomposition of the gene mutations, these substances may cause cancer. In addition, in the environment of barbecue, some carcinogens may enter the human body through the skin, respiratory tract, digestive tract and the like to induce cancer. It is understood that because the meat is directly grilled at high temperature, the decomposed fat drops on the charcoal fire, and the thermal polymerization reaction of the food fat coking combines with the protein in the meat to produce a highly carcinogenic substance called benzopyrene. Attached to the surface of the food. It has been determined that the amount of benzoquinone in the coke sticks attached to the iron for barbecue is as high as 125 micrograms per kilogram. At the peak of the flow of people, not only harm the consumers, but also harm the people crossing the road. Preparation in specific places Shaokao is prepared with meats, fish and seafood, and vegetables on bamboo skewers that are flame grilled on a barbecue after being heavily seasoned with various spices, including both cumin and Chinese five-spice powder. The skewers can be cooked to order. Barbecue chicken legs and spare ribs are also some of the dishes in shaokao cuisine. In Sichuan The five mainstream types of Chinese Shao Kao in Sichuan Province 1.Yi Bin Group Ba Ba Shao Features: They do not clean the ingredients in advance and they usually roast the ingredients when they are in the very fresh condition. They usually spices when they are roasting the ingredients but some people also prefer to put the ingredients into a bucket witch is full of barbecue sauces. For the fire, it must be strong and the food can be toasted well soon. The food which is roasted by the high flame of the fire will be very easy to chew. It's not the end until now, the restaurant always prepares the dipping sauce for the barbecue. They mix soybean power, chili powder, coriander leaves and also a little bit preserved Szechuan pickle together which makes the roasted meat or vegetables more delicious. Specialty: Cocktail sausages, the pig nose-bar, Beef Sashimi 2.Asbestos group Features: This group of Chinese barbecue can be derived from the early 80s, the tool for cooking this kind of food is a tin pot with several small holes which can reach the ingredients. All of the ingredients should be sliced into very thin slices and be brushed with oil. This kind of way of cooking barbecue is in order to keep the original flavor of the ingredients. They do not use that much of spices and they never use cumin power. There are two dipping sauce: sweet and sour sauce; a mixture of chili powder, peanut powder, soybean powder, and sesame powder. Specialty: fish slices, cicada pupa, rice cold jelly. 3.Xi Chang Group Features: Grilled fish and shrimp: XiChang city is located very near to the Qiong Hai and the fishery resources are very abundant. Therefore, fish, shrimps and shells are a very unique scene in the area of Xi Chang Group's barbecue. Brazier Barbecue: The Yi nationality is one of the main inhabitants who live in Xi Chang city and they have the habit to keep a Huo Tang Bar. They always roast the little pig, native chicken which are marinated in advance on the Huo Tang Bar when they celebrate their important festivals. That was the original form of Brazier Barbecue. Now it is developed to another from-Da Qian Barbecue. The big pieces of meat are skewered and put on the border part of the fire bar. Wang-Wang Barbecue: There is no skewers and the steel net is prepared for customers. The customers can roast meat or vegetables by themselves. Specialty: Roasted suckling pig, drunken prawns, and baked fish. 4.Le Shan Group Features: Why Le Shan Barbecue is very delicious? It is because of its variation. In order to maintain the special flavor of the food, different ingredients need to be coped with different spices. There are two ways to cook it. The first method is that they roast the raw ingredients which are skewered on the fire directly and put oil and any other spices during the roasting process. The second way is that they fry the ingredients first which can make the food more delicious and then roast them. Specialty: Baked streaky pork, baked duck tongue, and baked dunk rice. 5.E Mei Group Features: It has the same origin as Le Shan Group. One of its uniqueness is that the ingredients are toasted with honey. The second feature is that the barbecue is covered with a layer of oil sauce. Comparing to the Le Shan Group, E Mei Group is more focusing on the replete sauce and the flavor is not that strong. The taboos of E Mei Group barbecue are salty, spicy, and dry. The ingredients are skewered with sauces before they are roasted and the cook will not put anything when ingredients are baking on the fire. Finally the cook will brush a layer of oil when it's been cooked well. Specialty: Roasted pork kidney slices, baked little potato, E Mei Snow. In Beijing Most people in Beijing enjoy their lamb skewers or Kao Chuan in roadside grill joints. To make this lamb skewers, it would be required to have lamb shoulder chops, cumin seeds, dried chili flakes, salt, oil, and soaked bamboo skewers. The bamboo skewers are soaked in order to prevent it from burning. Lamb shoulder chops are chosen because of its marbled meat, this will make the Kao Chuan or lamb skewers its special taste. Then, cumin seeds, chili flakes, and salt are grounded. Separate the grounded ingredients into two parts, first part is for the lamb skewers when it is grilling, Second part is to be sprinkled on the cooked lamb skewers. In Xinjiang Xinjiang is one of the main places to make kaochuan in China. Sheep is the important meat for the mdiet of local people. Sheep in XinJiang eat in natural grasslands and grow up in the Mountains, the sheep is not likely to get sick. Sheep drink spring water comes out from cleft which is sweet and without pollution. In addition, the lamb selected from the skewers of roast lamb is about 2 years old. The lamb's meat quality is more tender with more moisture content. Ingredients: Lamb leg 300g, cooking wine 5g, salt 5g, pepper 5g, soy sauce 5g, vegetable oil appropriate, cumin 5g, chilli powder 5g, white sesame 5g Cooking steps: 1. Fascia-remove the leg of lamb, wash it and cut it into medium-sized pieces 2. Put into the crisper box, add wine, salt, soy sauce and pepper, mix them evenly, marinate for more than half an hour, pour in appropriate amount of oil before making 3. Mix well, try to coat each piece of meat with a thin layer of oil, and dress the mutton on the bamboo skewer 4. Preheat the air frypan to 200c and fry the lamb kebabs for 5 to 10 minutes. Prominence Shaokao can be found in almost all of the cities in China. They are often located along streets that have a strip of bars. In China, some shaokao food stalls also purvey other goods such as produce that are displayed hanging on sticks. In China and the United States, some restaurants specialize in shaokao dishes. In Beijing In Beijing, shaokao is a very common and popular food, and some restaurants in Beijing set-up shaokao barbecues outside of the restaurants to purvey them to people walking on the streets. Shaokao stands are sometimes operated by migrant workers in Beijing. Shaokao stand operators are sometimes reported to the police in Beijing by neighbors who complain about the smoke and aroma that gets into homes, as well as about concerns about food poisoning that can occur from improper meat handling and cooking. In 2013, outdoor barbecue stands were banned due to heavy smog conditions. Chinese authorities have stated that shaokao operations and Chunjie fireworks are a significant cause of smog in Beijing. See also Brochette Kebab List of Chinese dishes List of street foods Mixed grill Chuan food References Further reading Category:Barbecue Category:Chinese cuisine Category:Street food Category:Meat dishes

John Jock Drummond 13 April 1870 24 January 1935 was a Scottish footballer who played for Falkirk, Rangers and the Scotland national team. Career Drummond joined Rangers in 1892 from Falkirk. He went on to win five Scottish Cup medals 1894, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1903 and four consecutive league titles 189899, 18991900, 190001 and 190102 - the first of which Rangers won all 18 of their Scottish league matches. Drummond was inducted into the Rangers F.C. Hall of Fame in 2011. Drummond was also capped 14 times by Scotland between 1892 and 1903. He also captained his country on four occasions. He finished his playing career with first club Falkirk, latterly becoming their coach then, eventually, a director. He is notable for being the last outfield player in Scottish football to wear a cap while playing. References Category:1870 births Category:1935 deaths Category:Association football defenders Category:Falkirk F.C. non-playing staff Category:Falkirk F.C. players Category:Sportspeople from Clackmannanshire Category:Rangers F.C. players Category:Scotland international footballers Category:Scottish Football League players Category:Scottish Football League representative players Category:Scottish footballers Category:Place of death missing

Romo Lampkin is a fictional character in Battlestar Galactica. He is portrayed by Mark Sheppard. Character arc Before the Cylon attacks on the Colonies, Lampkin was an attorney with the Caprica City Public Defender's Office; earlier in his career, he had worked for the same office under Joseph Adama, father of Bill and grandfather of Lee. On the morning of the attacks, he was about to board a shuttle leaving Gemenon, having retrieved Lance, his wife's cat, from a vet there, and thence escaped with the ragtag fleet. After former President Gaius Baltar is recaptured by Colonial forces halfway through season three, the government decides to try him for crimes against humanity. Lampkin accepts appointment as Baltar's attorney after the first attorney is murdered by bomb. An attempt on Lampkin's life follows, again by bomb. A hospitalized and drugged Lampkin admits kleptomaniacal habits to Lee, and in the collection of items that he has borrowed during his time on Galactica is what Lee recognizes as a military-issue explosive detonator. Lampkin borrowed it not knowing what it was from Aaron Kelly, who is thus revealed as the bomber. Lampkin is portrayed as ethically sketchy, using deceit and manipulation to learn useful information. During Baltar's trial, a few weeks after the bombing, he makes exaggerated use of a walking-stick, discarded as soon as the verdict comes in. He typically wears dark sunglasses, implicitly for purposes of reading and observing those around him without giving anything away himself. Nevertheless, he risks his life for the good of others; for example, helping Starbuck get Samuel Anders to the infirmary during Felix Gaeta's mutiny. In Sine Qua Non, when Lee again enlists Lampkin's help, he is revealed to have had a wife Faye and daughters Jennifer and Katie, who were killed in the attacks. Despite his complaints about Lance, the cat has been his last link to his family, and when his shipmates kill Lance for unexplained reasons, he suffers a brief psychotic break and considers murdering Lee. Lee talks him down, and to replace Lance, gives him wardship of Jake, a dog who is regarded tongue-in-cheek as a hero of the New Caprica resistance. During the attack on the Cylon Colony, with Roslin incapacitated and Lee a part of the strike force, Lampkin is made President of the Colonies in their stead. After the planet the Colonials dub Earth is found, Lampkin is shown presumably still acting as President planning for the future and is last seen leading a group of survivors. References Romo Lampkin at the Battlestar Wiki Romo Lampkin at Syfy Category:Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV series characters Category:Fictional lawyers Category:Fictional presidents Category:Television characters introduced in 2007

Comptella devia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution This marine species is endemic to New Zealand. References Suter, H. 1908a Descriptions of new species of New Zealand marine shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 8, 178191, pl. 7 Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009. Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. ed. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch Maxwell, P.A. 2009. Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. ed. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch Category:Muricidae Category:Gastropods of New Zealand Category:Gastropods described in 1908

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Costume Make Up Design is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards for a film with the best costume and makeup design. As of 2016 the current winner is Yee Chung-Man for his work on Monster Hunt. References External links Hong Kong Film Awards Official Site Category:Hong Kong Film Awards

Breathe is a song by Australian recording artist Ricki-Lee Coulter, taken from her self-titled debut album Ricki-Lee. It was released both physically and digitally on 9 January 2006, as the third and final single from the album. Breathe peaked at number 14 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Bart Borghesi and filmed in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Background and release Breathe was written by Russ Ballard, Christian Ballard, Sara Eker, Lucy Abbott, Dawn Joseph and Andrew Murray, while the production was helmed by Audius. The song was released as a CD single and digital extended play EP on 9 January 2006, as the third and final single from Coulter's self-titled debut album, Ricki-Lee. Breathe debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at number 17 on 16 January 2006, and peaked at number 14 the following week. Track listing CD single Breathe Radio Edit 3:32 Sunshine Cabin Crew Remix Radio Edit 3:34 Sunshine Cabin Crew Remix Extended Mix 5:19 Breathe Instrumental 3:32 Digital EP Breathe Radio Edit 3:32 Sunshine Cabin Crew Remix Radio Edit 3:34 Sunshine Cabin Crew Remix Extended Mix 5:19 Breathe Instrumental 3:32 Breathe Killer Kitty Remix 3:41 Digital EP Limited Edition Breathe Radio Edit 3:32 Sunshine Acoustic 3:43 Hell No! Acoustic 3:36 Breathe Acoustic 3:50 Credits and personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Ricki-Lee: The Singles. Locations Mixed at Sing Sing Studios. Mastered at Crystal Mastering. Personnel Songwriting Russ Ballard, Christian Ballard, Sara Eker, Lucy Abbott, Dawn Joseph, Andrew Murray Production Audius Mixing Andy Baldwin Mastering John Ruberto Charts Weekly chart Year-end chart Release history References Category:2005 songs Category:2006 singles Category:Ricki-Lee Coulter songs Category:Songs written by Russ Ballard Category:Song recordings produced by Audius Mtawarira Category:Shock Records singles Category:Songs written by Christian Ballard songwriter

Ifi Amadiume born 23 April 1947 is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist. She joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US, in 1993. Biography Born in Kaduna to Igbo parents, Ife Amadiume was educated in Nigeria before moving to Britain in 1971. She studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, gaining a BA 1978 and PhD 1983 in social anthropology respectively. She was a research fellow for a year at the University of Nigeria, Enugu, and taught and lectured in the UK, Canada, US and Senegal. Her fieldwork in Africa resulted in two ethnographic monographs relating to the Igbo: African Matriarchal Foundations 1987, and the award-winning Male Daughters, Female Husband Zed Press, 1987. The latter is considered groundbreaking owing to the fact that more than a decade before the articulation of queer theory, it argued that gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference. Her book of theoretical essays, Reinventing Africa, appeared in 1998. Extracts from her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa 1992. As a poet she participated in Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, and her 1985 collection, Passion Waves, was nominated for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She won the Flora Nwapa Society Award for her 2006 book of poetry, Circles of Love. She is on the advisory board of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a non-governmental organisation that aims to promote the values of democracy, peace and human rights in Africa, particularly in the West African sub-region. Amadiume is widely regarded for her pioneering work in feminist discourse: her work made tremendous contributions to new ways of thinking about sex and gender, the question of power, and women's place in history and culture. She has nevertheless attracted criticism for her assumption that [the] female is necessarily equated with peace and love. Works Poetry Passion Waves, London: Karnak House, 1985, . Ecstasy, Longman Nigeria, 1995. Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Literary Award for Poetry. Returning Circles of Love, Africa World Press, 2006, Voices Draped in Black, Africa World Press, 2008, Anthropology African Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case, London: Karnak House, 1987, Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, London: Zed Press, 1987, . St. Martins Press, 1990. Re-inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture, Interlink Publishing Group, 1997, The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing, and Social Justice edited, with Abdullahi A. An-Naim, London: Zed Books, 2000. Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy, London: Zed Books, 2000. References External links Biography Centre for Democracy and Development Category:1947 births Category:Igbo writers Category:Nigerian writers Category:Dartmouth College faculty Category:Living people Category:21st-century Nigerian writers Category:20th-century essayists Category:People from Kaduna Category:Nigerian feminists Category:Nigerian expatriates in the United States

The Cane Beetles March was a snowball march in April 1916 in North Queensland, Australia, to recruit men into the Australian Imperial Force during World War I at a time when enthusiasm to enlist had waned after the loss of life in the Gallipoli campaign. The march began at Mooliba on 20 April 1916 with 4 men and ended in Cairns 60 kilometers later with 29 recruits. Background Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, Australia and the other members of the British Empire were also at war. The first Australian to perish on the Western Front was Lieutenant William Malcolm Chisholm of the Lancashire Regiment, who died in the Battle of Le Cateau in France on 26 August 1914. Closer to home, Australian troops secured German New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago in SeptemberOctober 1914. Australians landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April 1915. By October 1915, Australia had lost 7,279 men in the Gallipoli Campaign and thousands more were wounded. Although Australian troops were withdrawn from Galipolli by 20 December 1915, more recruits were needed in the Middle East and on the Western Front. The March The Cane Beetles March appears to have been the initiative of the Cairns Recruiting Committee. The origin of the name is not clear, but the Gordonvale Recruiting Committee disliked the name given that the cane beetle was the greatest pest to the local sugar industry. However, they were prepared to overlook the name in order to focus on the brave fellows who have responded to the call of duty and are going forth to fight the battles of the Empire and to uphold liberty, freedom and justice. The route for the march was from Mooliba via Babinda, Aloomba, Gordonvale, and Edmonton to Cairns. At Mooliba on Thursday 20 April, there were four volunteers to commence the march under the leadership of Sergeant Bloom. There was an enthusiastic send-off with many speeches made. The party reached Babinda at 5.25 p.m. and were greeted there by the townspeople and school children. After speeches of welcome, the party were entertained at Mrs Whittaker's boarding house, followed by a social gathering at the Babinda Hall. Nine more volunteers joined The Beetles at Babinda. On Friday 21 April Good Friday, the volunteers left Babinda and marched for four miles through heavy rain Babinda is known as one of the wettest places in Australia. At Bellenden Ker, the Beetles were served with milk and cake by Mr and Mr Healy, followed by lavish refreshments at Mr J. Hill's place. Lunch was served in a large pavilion at Ross's farm including 75 pounds of fresh fish from the Russell River followed by the usual toasts. On arrival at McDonald's Creek, the Kerrs provided refreshment and the volunteers saluted a Union Jack that had been through the Boer War. Arriving at Fishery Creek, local residents welcomed them with entertainment at Mr Thompson's place with Mr Booker making a fine speech, followed by cheers for the King and Empire. There was another large reception at Mount Sophia where the Beetles were entertained at Mrs O'Byrne's place with speeches and patriotic songs. At arrival at Aloomba at 5.20pm, the volunteers were escorted by the townspeople to a public reception. That night the Beetles were the guests of Mrs O'Reagan at her Aloomba Hotel. Four volunteers joined at Aloomba. The Beetles left Aloomba at noon on Saturday 22 April and reached Gordonvale Bridge in the mid-afternoon where they were met by the townspeople including the rifle club, cadets, school children and Gordonvale band. The volunteers had a swim in the Mulgrave River. Then an arge procession was formed to march to Gordonvale Park, where members of the Gordonvale Recruiting Committee delivered speeches. A Red Cross social was held in the evening and the volunteers were presented with cigarettes and tobacco. Later that evening the Beetles were entertained at the Nelson Hotel and at the movies. On Sunday 23 April Easter Sunday, the Beetles spent the day in Gordonvale. In the morning the volunteers conducted a drill and in the afternoon paid visits by motorcar to the farms of the Messrs Cannon, Bastin and Alley, where they were royally entertained at each place. Then there was a parade to the Presbyterian Church. Six volunteers joined at Gordonvale. On Monday 24 April, the Beetles marched out of Gordonvale, accompanied by the Gordonvale band to the outskirts of the town, where they were farewelled with more speeces. They left with a gift of a case of beer from Mr Lancester of the Queen's Hotel. Arriving at McKinnon's Bridge at 12.20pm, the volunteers were escorted into Edmonton with musical accompaniment. A public reception was held at the Edmonton Hall followed by a splendid repast, completed with toasts and a stirring speech by Mr C Butler. In the afternoon, there was a rugby match between the Beetles and the Edmonton team, ending in a nil-all draw. In the evening the Beetles were entertained at both of Edmonton's hotels. Two recruits joined from Green Hill and three recruits joined from Edmonton. On Tuesday 25 April Anzac Day the Beetles were presented with tobacco and cigarettes before departing Edmonton at 9.35am. The volunteers were met on arrival at Woree by Mr G R Mayers, the chairman of the Cairns Shire Council, where one final recruit joined the marchers. The Beetles arrived in Cairns by 2pm with a total of 29 recruits. The volunteers then marched in the Anzac Day parade in Cairns. Aftermath Only 9 of the recruits were declared fit for military duty. References Category:Military recruitment in Queensland in World War I Category:Cairns, Queensland

Darya Tkachenko born 21 December 1983 is a Russian since 2016, formerly Ukrainian until 2015, draughts player holding the FMJD titles of FMJD Master MF and Women's International Grandmaster GMIF. She is four-time women's world champion 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011 and twice women's European champion 2004, 2006 in international draughts. In 2016, she also won the women's world championship of Turkish draughts. Biography and career Darya Tkachenko was born in Torez, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. She has finished high school in Snizhne, Donetsk Oblast, and then started her biology studies in Kiev University. She graduated in 2004 and proceeded to post-graduate studies in the same university which she successfully finished in 2007. In 2008 she started working on her Doctoral thesis. Darya started playing draughts when she was 10 years old. In November 1996, being less than 13 years old, she won a bronze medal at the Ukrainian Under 19 championships. In 1999 she became a European Under 19 champion. The next year she won this tournament again and also won a bronze medal at the World Under 19 championships. In 2001 she became a World Under 19 champion and won a seniors Ukrainian championship. In 2003 she once again won the Ukrainian championships, in 2004 the senior European championships and in 2005 the World championships in Latronico. The next year she once again became a European and World champion, having won the World championship match again the Russian competitor Tamara Tansykkuzhina. She also won the European team cup with the Pleso team. In 2007 Tkachenko lost her World title, letting Tansykkuzhina to the first place in the tournament held in Jakutsk, Russia, but the next year she was able to regain the championship after winning the match again her Russian counterpart. In 2007 and 2008, she won the European team cup twice more with the Motor Sich Zaporizhia. In 2010 Tkachenko lost both European and World championships, placing as low as 19th in Europe and 4th out of 6 participants in the World championship but in the next year returned the world title after defeating Zoja Golubeva in a three-set match. World and European seniors championships record References External links Darya Tkachenko profile at FMJD Darya Tkachenko at the Netherlands draughts federation Website Darya Tkachenko at the Ukrshashki portal Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:People from Torez Category:Ukrainian draughts players Category:International draughts players Category:Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Category:Russian draughts players Category:Ukrainian emigrants to Russia Category:Naturalised citizens of Russia

Il carabiniere a cavallo is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Lizzani. Plot A couple of women nomads in Rome steal a horse named Rutilio. The horse belongs to a mounted carabiniere, a member of the Italian national police force. The officer must look throughout the capitol on the same day that he is to wed his fianceè Letizia. Cast Peppino De Filippo: Brigadiere Tarquinio Nino Manfredi: Franco Bartolomucci Maurizio Arena: Renato Annette Stroyberg: Letizia, Franco's fianceè Luciano Salce: prete Clelia Matania: madre di Letizia Eubenio Maggi: padre di Letizia Anthea Nocera: Rita Guido Celano: padre di Rita Lamberto Antinori: barbiere Silvio Anselmo: Lazzaro Aldo Giuffré: tenente References External links Category:1962 films Category:Italian films Category:Films directed by Carlo Lizzani Category:Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Category:Italian comedy films Category:Films shot in Rome Category:Commedia all'italiana Category:1960s comedy films

Malcolm William Broomhead born 11 September 1952 is an Australian businessman who has held various directorships and senior positions in the Australian engineering, industrial and resources sectors. As of 2018, he is a director of BHP Ltd and BHP Plc and Chairman of Orica Limited. Journalist Andrew Crook wrote of Broomhead in 2012 that nobody is more connected in Australian business. Career Broomhead attained a BE and an MBA at the University of Queensland in the 1980s. During his career in the engineering, industrial and resources sectors, Broomhead held senior management positions with Halcrow UK, MIM Holdings, Peko Wallsend, Industrial Equity and North Limited. At North Limited, he acted as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Broomhead was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive of Orica Limited in 2001; a position he held until September 2005. He left Orica in 2005 to undertake treatment for cancer. In the late 2000s, he acted as Chairman of Asciano Limited 2009-2016 and a Director of Coates Group Holdings Pty. Ltd. 2008-2013 . Broomhead joined BHP Billiton as a non-executive director in 2010, and was appointed chairman of the company's sustainability committee in 2017. In December 2015 he returned to Orica as a non-executive director and in 2016 was appointed Chairman. Other roles Broomhead was appointed Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in July 2014, Chairman of the Australia China One Belt One Road Advisory Board in August 2016, and is a council member of Opportunity International Australia. Broomhead made a $3 million philanthropic contribution to the University of Queensland to establish its first Chair of Finance. He is a member of Australia's Greenhouse Mafia. Awards and recognition In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Broomhead was made an Officer of the Order of Australia AO for distinguished service to business and mining, and through financial support for education and medical research. Personal life Broomhead is a cancer survivor. References Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:BHP people Category:Australian business executives Category:Officers of the Order of Australia Category:University of Queensland alumni

The Right Reverend Stephen McGill PSS 4 January 1912 9 November 2005 was the sixth Bishop of Argyll and the Isles and second Bishop of Paisley. Early life Stephen McGill was born on 4 January 1912 to Peter McGill and Charlotte Connolly in Glasgow, Scotland where he was educated at Holy Cross primary school and St Aloysius' College before entering the national junior seminary at St Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeen. Priesthood In October 1931 he entered Le Grand Séminaire at Coutances in France and was ordained priest of the Archdiocese of Glasgow at St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow by Bishop Henry Grey Graham on 29 June 1936. Following his ordination he returned to France where he entered the novitiate of the Sulpicians at Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris and was incardinated priest of St Sulpice PSS in July of the following year. Further studies were undertaken at the Institut Catholique in Paris where he gained his licentiate in sacred theology STL in 1939. Thereafter he was appointed to the staff of Le Grand Séminaire at Bordeaux in October 1939 and transferred to Le Grand Séminaire at Aix-en-Provence in January 1940. At this point the Second World War was under way in Europe so, following the fall of France to the Germans in June 1940, Father McGill, as a British citizen, had to make his escape via Marseille and Spain to avoid internment as an enemy alien. On his return to Scotland he was appointed to the staff of St Mary's in Blairs where he remained as spiritual director until he was appointed rector in 1951. In 1952 he was made an honorary canon of the Glasgow cathedral chapter. Episcopate When Bishop Kenneth Grant of Argyll and the Isles died suddenly in 1959 Canon McGill was appointed to succeed him by Pope John XXIII and was consecrated bishop in St Columba's Cathedral, Oban on 22 June 1960. During his time in Argyll and the Isles Bishop McGill attended sessions of the Second Vatican Council 1962 - 1965 and oversaw translation of the liturgy into Gaelic. On the death of Bishop James Black in March 1968 Bishop McGill was translated by Pope Paul VI to the see of Paisley as his successor. There he remained until his retirement in March 1988. Final years In retirement Stephen McGill maintained his interest in priestly formation and was a prolific letter writer. He died peacefully in his ninety fourth year on 9 November 2005 at Nazareth House, Cardonald, Glasgow. His motto was, in Latin, Per Tuas Semitas By Your Ways taken from the hymn 'Panis angelicus' by St Thomas Aquinas. References Paisley Daily Express Sources The Catholic Directory for Scotland 2006 Glasgow, 2006 Category:People from Glasgow Category:Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops in Scotland Category:Bishops of Paisley Category:Scottish Roman Catholic bishops Category:Scottish Roman Catholic priests Category:Scottish Roman Catholics Category:People from Renfrewshire Category:1912 births Category:2005 deaths Category:People educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops

The Weißwurstäquator , white sausage equator is a humorous term describing the supposed cultural boundary separating Southern Germany from the North, especially Bavaria from Central Germany. It is named for the Weißwurst sausage of Bavaria, and has no precise definition. A popular one is the linguistic boundary known as the Speyer line separating Upper German from Central German dialects, roughly following the Main River; another is a line running further south, more or less along the Danube, or between the Main and the Danube, roughly along the 49th parallel north circle of latitude. See also Bavarians Röstigraben References Duden Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, 6th edition, External links definition on Indigo Magazine, p.57 Interview with Oktoberfest innkeeper Wiggerl Hagn at Deutschlandradio Kultur Category:Cultural boundaries Category:German cuisine Category:German culture

The 2018 World Rowing Championships were the World Rowing Championships held at the regatta course in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The event was held from 9 to 16 September. Events held were men and women's open class, lightweight class, and para-rowing. Prior FISA regattas that had been held in Plovdiv include the 1999 and 2012 World Rowing Junior Championships, and the 2011 European Rowing Championships. The 2018 World Rowing Championships were the first world rowing championships where the number of mens and womens events was equal. The world governing body made that decision in 2017. Host selection During 2013, Plovdiv and Sarasota, Florida both applied to host the 2017 World Rowing Championships. In April 2013, a committee of International Rowing Federation FISA officials visited the city in Florida and they went to Plovdiv the following month. It was then noted that Plovdiv had hosted the 2012 World Rowing Championships and that the bid documentation for 2017 had not been finalised. Before the next FISA congress, the bid from Plovdiv was changed to apply for the 2018 hosting rights. At the FISA congress held on 2 September 2013, hosting rights were assigned by unanimous decision for World Rowing Championships to Sarasota for 2017, Plovdiv for 2018, and Plovdiv for the 2015 World Rowing U23 Championships. Medal summary Medal table Non-Olympic/Paralympic classes Men's events Women's events Mixed para-rowing events References External links Official website Category:World Rowing Championships World Rowing Championships 2018 World Rowing Championships World Rowing Championships 2018 Category:2018 in Bulgarian sport Category:Sport in Plovdiv Category:September 2018 sports events in Europe

Rachna David born 22 October 1985 is a Norwegian professional darts player who currently plays in British Darts Organisation events. She has qualified for the 2014 and 2018 BDO World Darts Championship. Career David qualified for the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship as a qualifier, facing Julie Gore in the last 16, she lost 20. She qualified for the 2018 BDO World Darts Championship as one of the Playoff Qualifiers, facing Deta Hedman in the last 16, she lost 20. World Championship results BDO 2014: Last 16 lost to Julie Gore 02 2018: Last 16 lost to Deta Hedman 02 External links Profile and stats on Darts Database Category:Living people Category:Norwegian darts players Category:1977 births Category:British Darts Organisation players Category:Female darts players

Tricotaje Ineu was a Romanian professional football club from Ineu, Arad County, Romania. Club was founded in 1920, and was dissolved in 2005. Best results of Tricotaje was when it played in 200405 Divizia B and 200304 Divizia B, finishing in both seasons on 9th positions. After dissolution of Tricotaje, in 2005 in Ineu appeared another club, CS Ineu, which has no relation with defunct Tricotaje Ineu. References External links Tricotaje Ineu on soccerway.com Category:Association football clubs established in 1920 Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 2005 Category:Defunct football clubs in Romania Category:Football clubs in Arad County Category:Liga II clubs Category:Liga III clubs Category:1920 establishments in Romania Category:2005 disestablishments in Romania

Wharfedale Technologies Inc WFT is a technology consulting firm specializing in SAP infrastructure integration and private/public/hybrid Cloud solutions for small and medium level enterprises. It was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, New Jersey with operations in the United States and India. Wharfedale Technologies is a SAP-certified cloud services partner. WFT Cloud WFT Cloud was developed by Wharfedale Technologies, Inc. in 2009 as a SAP Infrastructure and SAP to Cloud consulting firm. Wharfedale Technologies WFT Cloud provides Cloud based SAP infrastructure solutions like SAP OSDB migration, SAP network optimization, SAP landscape solutions, high availability solutions, disaster recovery and backup solutions, and managed services. The company serves around 200 clients in 5 major markets namely United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina & Brazil Key Milestones Since its founding in 2000 to the present, Wharfedale Technologies Inc. has had some key milestones. In 2004, Wharfedale sold patent to Multi-National Infrastructure Company. In 2006, Wharfedale launches Mozhi, the first SAP automated appliance. In 2009, Wharfedale launches SAP Cost Reduction Program. In 2009, Wharfedale launches WFT Cloud. In 2010, Wharfedale becomes the first SAP Certified Cloud services Partner in U.S. In 2011, Wharfedale launches WFT Cloud. In 2013, Wharfedale opens its India Office. In 2013, Wharfedale becomes a HANA TDI Partner. In 2013, Wharfedale was named Company of the month by CIO review. In 2013, Wharfedale launches Decommissioned Legacy ERP Service. In 2014, Wharfedale introduces its Software Defined Data Center. In 2014, Wharfedale launches its first intensive career program in designing and architecting Cloud Infrastructure. In 2017, CIO review names Wharfedale one of the 20 Most Promising Cloud Companies. In 2017, Wharfedale launches Cloud Monitoring Dashboard tool. In 2017, Wharfedale launches his Zero Dollar Down Migration Program. In 2018, Wharfedale wins the MSUS Partner Award for Apps and Infrastructure- SAP on Azure. References Category:Companies based in Mercer County, New Jersey Category:Companies established in 2000

Białobrzezie German: Rothschloss is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kondratowice, within Strzelin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Kondratowice, west of Strzelin, and south of the regional capital Wrocław. In Białobrzezie there is a historic manor house of the Piast dynasty and a park dating back to the 16th century. Before 1945 the village was German-settled and part of the German state of Prussia, Province of Lower Silesia. References Category:Villages in Strzelin County

Efraín David Fines Nevares born October 5, 1981 known professionally as Tito El Bambino is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter. He rose to fame as Tito of the duo Héctor & Tito. In 2010, his song, El Amor, written with Joan Ortiz Espada, was awarded Latin Song of the Year by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ASCAP. He was awarded Songwriter of the Year at the 2011 ASCAP. Musical career 19962004: Héctor & Tito Tito and his partner released a number of hit songs in their native Puerto Rico, including Amor de Colegio ft. Don Omar, Felina, Baila Morena ft. Glory, and No Le Temas a Él, a song which not only raised their popularity, it helped raise popularity for the then up-and-coming Trebol Clan. After years of working together, they separated, but not before releasing a final album, Season Finale, which featured some of their greatest hits. The duo broke up due to Tito's belief of disloyalty from Hector. Héctor & Tito released their first album in 1998. Together they became reggaeton stars after releasing several successful albums and making appearances in several compilations. They became one of the most sought-out duos in the genre. Both became the first reggaeton artists to sell out a massive concert in Puerto Rico, opening the path to other artists such as Tego Calderón, Daddy Yankee and others. 20042006: Solo career and Top of the Line After much delay, his first solo album was released, Top of the Line. The album was a hit, reaching No. 1 in Puerto Rico. Top of the Line featured 20 new songs, with collaboration from artists such as Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and Beenie Man. It featured quite a number of hits, such as Caile, Mía ft. Daddy Yankee, Tu Cintura ft. Don Omar, Flow Natural ft. Beenie Man and Deevani Secreto, Máximo, Tuve Que Morir and Me Da Miedo among others. Top of the Line/El Internacional is a limited edition of Tito's first album Top of the Line. It features five bonus new songs that were not included in the original version: Siente El Boom Remix, Enamorado, Calentándote, Bailarlo and Voy a Mí. The first single of the album is Siente El Boom Remix that is a big hit in Argentina. Siente El Boom is also on Chosen Few II: El Documental featuring Randy. In Top of The Line: El Internacional, the remix features Randy, along with his partner Jowell, & De La Ghetto. The second single recently released, Enamorado, did not get a lot of airplay as Siente El Boom was still a hit on Puerto Rico's radio stations. Siente El Boom expanded throughout Latin America, peaking at No. 14 in the Billboard Hot Latin charts. Apparently Enamorado got cancelled and now the third single is Bailarlo that's starting to get airplay on the radio and a video has already been released. 20072008: It's My Time It's My Time is the second album by Tito El Bambino released on October 2, 2007. The first single Solo Dime que Sí received notable airplay on the radio. The artists featured on It's My Time are R.K.M & Ken-Y in Fans, Pharrell in Booty, Toby Love in La Busco, Jadiel in Sol, Playa y Arena with Arcangel and Franco El Gorila on the remix and with many other hits like En La Disco Olga Tañón on the remix and El Tra. 20092010: El Patrón El Patrón is Tito El Bambino's third solo CD. The hit, Vamos Pa'l Agua, was released before the CD to let fans know what lay ahead, but was ultimately not included in the album. The CD includes his fellow reggaeton artists Zion y Lennox and Plan B. Some chart toppers of this album include El Amor and Under, which also have chart topping videos. El Amor was officially remixed four times with four different artists: Yolandita Monge, Jenni Rivera, Chiky Flow, and La India. In February 2011, Tito El Bambino's label, On Fire Music approached producer duo group GrüvStar to create the official dance remix of the song Llueve El Amor to support the record during mix show play at Latin Urban radio stations. Tito is also trying his hand as a producer, with his label On Fire Music. 2011-2012: El Patrón: Invencible His younger brother now known in his disc, Invencible, by his artist name, Emanuel El Bambi. Tito has said that he will still be doing this type of music 10 years from now. 2012-2013: Invicto On May 26, 2012, Tito released the first promotional single of the album called Dame La Ola, and a month after, he released the video of this single. In October, Tito released Por Qué Les Mientes, a duet with Marc Anthony, as the single for his new album. On November 19, 2012, he released his new album Invicto, and on the same day, Tito also released the music video for Por Qué Les Mientes. 2014-present: Alta Jerarquía On November 24, 2014, Tito released his sixth studio album titled Alta Jerarquía, of which three singles were released: A Que No Te Atreves, Controlando and Adicto a Tus Redes. On March 13, 2015, performed a successful concert at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico, along with numerous singers, intended to promote his album. Discography Top of the Line 2006 It's My Time 2007 El Patrón 2009 Invencible 2011 Invicto 2012 Alta Jerarquía 2014 La sociedad secreta 2017 Reviews and controversies In Chile on February 3, 2012, after participating in the Festival of Iquique, Tito has been harshly criticized by social networks, following his statements in support of the controversial SOPA. Group music Hector & Tito 1995-2004 References External links Official Website: English/Spanish Official MySpace Official Youtube Channel Tito El Bambino, Artista Destacado - Billboard En Español Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Puerto Rican male singers Category:Puerto Rican singers Category:Puerto Rican reggaeton artists Category:Latin Grammy Award winners Category:EMI Televisa Music artists Category:Latin music songwriters Category:21st-century American singers Category:21st-century male singers

Bharthari, also known as Bhartrahari, or Bhartrihari, is a 1944 Indian Bollywood film. It was the fifth-highest-grossing Indian film of 1944. References External links Category:1944 films Category:1940s Hindi-language films Category:Indian films Category:Indian black-and-white films

Axelson Point is a small cape along the shore of the East Bay in Navarre, Florida. The point is named after the Axelson Family, one of the first families permanently residing in Navarre. The point only extends less than a hundred meters into the bay. However, the point is historically significant, not only due to it being the home of the previously mentioned Axelson family, but also due it being one of the first landing spots for exploration in the area. Some of the Pensacola homes of the original Axelson family still stand today; however, none of the homes on Axelson Point are from the original family. References Category:Headlands of Florida Category:Navarre, Florida

Belizario Iram Herrera Solís born 12 July 1962 is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chiapas. References Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:People from Chiapas Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies Mexico Category:Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians

Punganur dwarf cattle which originated from the Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh in southern India is among the world's smallest humped cattle breeds. The Punganur breed's milk has a high fat content. While cow milk normally has a fat content of 3 to 3.5 per cent, the Punganur breed's milk contains 8 per cent. Description The breed is named after the town of its origin, Punganur, in Chittoor district situated in the south-eastern tip of the Deccan Plateau. Animals are white and light grey in colour with a broad forehead and short horns. Its average height is 7090 cm and its weight is 115200 kg. The cow has an average milk yield of 3 to 5 litres/day and has a daily feed intake of 5 kg. It is highly drought resistant, and able to survive exclusively on dry fodder. Some of the breed characteristics are: Back sloping downwards from front to hind quarters. Tail touching the ground. Slight mobile horns, almost flat along the back and normally at different heights from each other. Nearly Extinct The Punganur is on the verge of extinction, with some 60 odd animals remaining. This decline is mainly due to the Indian Government's 2013 objective of 'bettering' Indian cattle breeds with Holstein-Friesian and Jersey cattle traits from developed countries, and banning the rearing of native bull breeds. The remaining Punganur cattle are being reared mainly on the Livestock Research Station, Palamaner, Chittoor district, attached to SV Veterinary University. A small informal group of private breeders are also working on reviving the breed. It is not officially recognised as a breed since there are only a few animals remaining. References Category:Cattle breeds originating in India Category:Cattle breeds Category:Animal husbandry in Andhra Pradesh

Christos Patsalides is a Cypriot Lawyer, politician and a former Minister of Health of the Republic of Cyprus. He was also the president of the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly. References Category:Year of birth missing living people Category:Living people Category:Cypriot physicians Category:Health ministers of Cyprus Category:Cypriot politicians Category:Cyprus Ministers of the Interior

Allen or Allen/College is a freeway-median light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is located above North Allen Avenue in the median of the 210 Freeway in Pasadena, California. The station is served by the Gold Line. This station features an architectural design called Rider's Dream, created by artist Michael Amescua. Students and faculty from Pasadena City College PCC can board shuttles to the PCC main campus or Community Education Center from Allen Station. It is one of the Gold Line stations near the Rose Parade route on Colorado Boulevard and is heavily used by people coming to see the parade. Station layout Metro Rail service Gold Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:15 AM daily. Landmarks California Institute of Technology Huntington Library & Gardens Pasadena City College Pasadena Conservatory of Music Bus connections Metro Local: 256, 686 Pasadena Transit: 10 Pasadena City College Shuttle Students and Faculty only See also Los Angeles County Metro Rail Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Los Angeles Metro Rail rolling stock References External links Station home page Category:Los Angeles Metro Rail stations Category:Gold Line Los Angeles Metro Category:Transportation in Pasadena, California Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 2003

DuPage may refer to: DuPage County, Illinois DuPage Township, Will County, Illinois DuPage River DuPage Airport College of DuPage USS DuPage

Wad Madani Airport was an airport formerly serving Wad Madani, a city in Sudan. Google Maps shows the runway area is built over. See also Transport in Sudan List of airports in Sudan References Category:Airports in Sudan

A gel is a semi-solid that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gels are defined as a substantially dilute cross-linked system, which exhibits no flow when in the steady-state. By weight, gels are mostly liquid, yet they behave like solids due to a three-dimensional cross-linked network within the liquid. It is the crosslinking within the fluid that gives a gel its structure hardness and contributes to the adhesive stick tack. In this way, gels are a dispersion of molecules of a liquid within a solid medium. The word gel was coined by 19th-century Scottish chemist Thomas Graham by clipping from gelatine. IUPAC definition Composition Gels consist of a solid three-dimensional network that spans the volume of a liquid medium and ensnares it through surface tension effects. This internal network structure may result from physical bonds physical gels or chemical bonds chemical gels, as well as crystallites or other junctions that remain intact within the extending fluid. Virtually any fluid can be used as an extender including water hydrogels, oil, and air aerogel. Both by weight and volume, gels are mostly fluid in composition and thus exhibit densities similar to those of their constituent liquids. Edible jelly is a common example of a hydrogel and has approximately the density of water. Polyionic polymers Polyionic polymers are polymers with an ionic functional group. The ionic charges prevent the formation of tightly coiled polymer chains. This allows them to contribute more to viscosity in their stretched state, because the stretched-out polymer takes up more space. This is also the reason gel hardens. See polyelectrolyte for more information. Types Hydrogels A hydrogel is a network of polymer chains that are hydrophilic, sometimes found as a colloidal gel in which water is the dispersion medium. A three-dimensional solid results from the hydrophilic polymer chains being held together by cross-links. Because of the inherent cross-links, the structural integrity of the hydrogel network does not dissolve from the high concentration of water. Hydrogels are highly absorbent they can contain over 90 water natural or synthetic polymeric networks. Hydrogels also possess a degree of flexibility very similar to natural tissue, due to their significant water content. As responsive smart materials, hydrogels can encapsulate chemical systems which upon stimulation by external factors such as a change of pH may cause specific compounds such as glucose to be liberated to the environment, in most cases by a gel-sol transition to the liquid state. Chemomechanical polymers are mostly also hydrogels, which upon stimulation change their volume and can serve as actuators or sensors. The first appearance of the term 'hydrogel' in the literature was in 1894. Organogels An organogel is a non-crystalline, non-glassy thermoreversible thermoplastic solid material composed of a liquid organic phase entrapped in a three-dimensionally cross-linked network. The liquid can be, for example, an organic solvent, mineral oil, or vegetable oil. The solubility and particle dimensions of the structurant are important characteristics for the elastic properties and firmness of the organogel. Often, these systems are based on self-assembly of the structurant molecules. An example of formation of an undesired thermoreversible network is the occurrence of wax crystallization in petroleum. Organogels have potential for use in a number of applications, such as in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, art conservation, and food. Xerogels A xerogel is a solid formed from a gel by drying with unhindered shrinkage. Xerogels usually retain high porosity 1550 and enormous surface area 150900 m2/g, along with very small pore size 110 nm. When solvent removal occurs under supercritical conditions, the network does not shrink and a highly porous, low-density material known as an aerogel is produced. Heat treatment of a xerogel at elevated temperature produces viscous sintering shrinkage of the xerogel due to a small amount of viscous flow and effectively transforms the porous gel into a dense glass. Nanocomposite hydrogels Nanocomposite hydrogels or hybrid hydrogels, are highly hydrated polymeric networks, either physically or covalently crosslinked with each other and/or with nanoparticles or nanostructures. Nanocomposite hydrogels can mimic native tissue properties, structure and microenvironment due to their hydrated and interconnected porous structure. A wide range of nanoparticles, such as carbon-based, polymeric, ceramic, and metallic nanomaterials can be incorporated within the hydrogel structure to obtain nanocomposites with tailored functionality. Nanocomposite hydrogels can be engineered to possess superior physical, chemical, electrical, and biological properties. Properties Many gels display thixotropy they become fluid when agitated, but resolidify when resting. In general, gels are apparently solid, jelly-like materials. It is a type of non-Newtonian fluid. By replacing the liquid with gas it is possible to prepare aerogels, materials with exceptional properties including very low density, high specific surface areas, and excellent thermal insulation properties. Animal-produced gels Some species secrete gels that are effective in parasite control. For example, the long-finned pilot whale secretes an enzymatic gel that rests on the outer surface of this animal and helps prevent other organisms from establishing colonies on the surface of these whales' bodies. Hydrogels existing naturally in the body include mucus, the vitreous humor of the eye, cartilage, tendons and blood clots. Their viscoelastic nature results in the soft tissue component of the body, disparate from the mineral-based hard tissue of the skeletal system. Researchers are actively developing synthetically derived tissue replacement technologies derived from hydrogels, for both temporary implants degradable and permanent implants non-degradable. A review article on the subject discusses the use of hydrogels for nucleus pulposus replacement, cartilage replacement, and synthetic tissue models. Applications Many substances can form gels when a suitable thickener or gelling agent is added to their formula. This approach is common in manufacture of wide range of products, from foods to paints and adhesives. In fiber optics communications, a soft gel resembling hair gel in viscosity is used to fill the plastic tubes containing the fibers. The main purpose of the gel is to prevent water intrusion if the buffer tube is breached, but the gel also buffers the fibers against mechanical damage when the tube is bent around corners during installation, or flexed. Additionally, the gel acts as a processing aid when the cable is being constructed, keeping the fibers central whilst the tube material is extruded around it. See also 2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid Agarose gel electrophoresis Food rheology Gel electrophoresis Gel filtration chromatography Gel pack Gel permeation chromatography Hydrocolloid Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion Paste rheology Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis Radial immunodiffusion Silicone gel Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis Void composites References External links Category:Physical chemistry Category:Drug delivery devices Category:Dosage forms Category:Colloids Category:Articles containing video clips

Zahid Cheema born 4 December 1990 is an Italian cricketer. He was named in Italy's squad for the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Four tournament in Los Angeles, playing in one match. In November 2019, he was named in Italy's squad for the Cricket World Cup Challenge League B tournament in Oman. He made his List A debut, for Italy against Kenya, on 3 December 2019. References External links Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:Italian cricketers Category:Place of birth missing living people

Pamela Cooper-White is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was previously the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA and Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's ThD program in Pastoral Counseling. She is an ordained Priest in the Episcopal Church 1992present previously an ordained Minister in The United Church of Christ, 1984-1988. She was the Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria 2013-14. Education Cooper-White holds two PhD degrees: from Harvard University, and The Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago a psychoanalytic clinical and research degree; an MA in Pastoral Counseling with distinction from Holy Names University, Oakland, CA; a Master of Divinity degree with honors from Harvard Divinity School; and a Bachelor of Music Magna cum Laude from Boston University where she studied art, voice performance, and music history and education. Career Cooper-White is a certified clinical Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors AAPC, a National Board Certified Counselor NBCC, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Illinois, a member of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion IAPR, and a Research Associate of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She serves on the Board of the International Association for Spiritual Care, the Steering Committee of the Psychology, Culture & Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion AAR, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology. She has taught at UCLA; the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California; Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL; and was Professor of Pastoral Theology for 9 years at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia now part of United Lutheran Seminary. In 2008 she was appointed the Ben G and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, where she also co-directed the Atlanta Theological Association's ThD in Pastoral Counseling a joint program of Columbia Seminary, Candler School of Theology/Emory University, and the Interdenominational Theological Centre the largest consortium of African American theological seminaries in the U.S.. In 2015 she moved to New York to become the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, teaching psychoanalytic theory, pastoral theology, and spiritual care. Scholarship Cooper-White is the author of seven books and has also published over 70 scholarly articles and anthology chapters in pastoral theology - especially in the areas of postmodern, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory/ethics in dialogue with theology and clinical practice. Her works have delved into multiplicity of God and persons; intersubjectivity and the use of the therapists self as an instrument for pastoral/spiritual care and psychotherapy; sacred space, architecture, and the psyche; advocacy in faith communities to end violence against women; and most recently the history of psychoanalysis and religion. This latest project has brought her full circle to her early scholarly work in the field of historical musicology on the composer Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron and fin-de-siecle Vienna. She continues to be involved in the visual and performing arts in Pennsylvania and New York, and her photography has been exhibited in a number of solo and group shows and galleries in Boston, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Fort Lauderdale, and New York City. Works Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis Routledge, 2017 Exploring Practices of Ministry with Michael Cooper-White, 2013Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons 2011Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective 2006Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling 2004The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response 1995; 2nd ed. 2012Schoenberg and the God-Idea: The Opera Moses und Aron 1985 Awards and recognition Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis, Fulbright scholar grant at the Sigmund Freud Museum and the University of Vienna, Austria, 2013-2014. Arnold Schoenberg Center residential scholar grant, Vienna, Austria, Spring 2019. Helen Flanders Dunbar Award for Significant Contributions to the Clinical Pastoral Field, College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, March 17, 2018. Featured Panelist, Our Humanity: Past, Present, and Future, Lincoln Center White Lights Festival, New York, Nov. 5, 2016. Samaritan Spirit Award for individuals who through their sensitive, empathic and creative service, enhance the lives of individuals, encourage growth in relationships, and promote healthy community, Samaritan Counseling Center of Philadelphia, Oct. 12, 2007. National AAPC Distinguished Achievement in Research and Writing Award, for book Shared Wisdom, and scholarly excellence and pastoral praxis, extensive writings and dedication and years of consistent leadership, presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Fort Worth, TX, April 16, 2005. Faculty Writing Prize, Spring 2000, Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago. Episcopal Church Foundation Fellowship for doctoral study, 1995, 1996, 1997. Top Ten Books award for The Cry of Tamar from the Association of Parish Clergy, 1995. Annual Response Award for Practitioner Article, Peer vs. Clinical Counseling, in Response: to the Victimization of Women and Children 14/1 January 1991. Nomination by The Christian Century'' for 1991 annual award for best full-length article, National Association of Church Publishers, for article Soul Stealing. VIDA award to Mid-Peninsula Support Network for Battered Women, for excellence in multi-cultural human services, United Way of Santa Clara County, 1989. Family Violence Project award, to Refugee Women's Program, for outstanding work in addressing the problem of domestic violence, September, 1985. Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 1982. References Category:Columbia Theological Seminary faculty Category:Living people Category:Holy Names University alumni Category:Harvard Divinity School alumni Category:Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni Category:Feminist studies scholars Category:American Episcopal priests Category:Fulbright Scholars Category:Year of birth missing living people

Sir Charles Marston, FSA, KStJ 6 April 1867 21 May 1946 was a successful businessman who funded several major archaeological excavations across Palestine between 19291938. Life Born in Wolverhampton, Charles was the son of John Marston the founder of Sunbeam. He entered into the family business in 1885 and through its success managed to fund his various interests, many archaeological based. From 1942 to his death Charles was President of the Victoria Institute. Archaeology Charles was deeply interested in archaeology and became President of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, financially supporting its excavations across Palestine from 1929. Charles financially supported John Garstang's excavations at Jericho, followed by further excavations during the 1930s, by which time he was a leading financial supporter of the Palestine Exploration Fund. He also authored two popular works on Biblical archaeology, The Bible is True 1934 followed by The Bible is Alive 1937. Although not a professional archaeologist himself, Marston was a member of various academic societies, including the Society of Antiquaries of London where he self-taught himself archaeology and ancient history. He also participated in some of John Garstang's digs at Jericho, alongside financially supporting the excavations. Religious views Neither a fundamentalist nor liberal Christian, Marston saw himself as somewhere in the middle, having strong faith but more interested in the historical accuracy of the Old Testament, he was an early notable critic of Higher Criticism: Charles was also a proponent of British Israelism. Speaking at a meeting of lay churchmen at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Saturday, 2 February 1929, he declared: Marston was a creationist, he succeeded John Ambrose Fleming as president of the Evolution Protest Movement.</blockquote> References Category:1867 births Category:1946 deaths Category:British Christian creationists Category:British Israelism Category:English businesspeople Category:English archaeologists Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Category:People from Wolverhampton

Hugh Julian Boyd 24 April 1886 8 August 1960 was a dental surgeon, and a former Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League VFL. He served in the First AIF, and was awarded a Military Cross in 1917. Family The son of Hugh Boyd, 1843-1916 M.D., and Julia Elizabeth Boyd 1855-1927, née Maddox, Hugh Julian Boyd was born in Bendigo on 24 April 1886. His brother, Erle Alwin Greglach Boyd 1892-1970 served in the Royal Australian Navy for 35 years. He married Doris Norah Gosewinckel 1894-1952 on 8 August 1935. He died on 8 August 1960. Education Educated at St. Andrew's College , Bendigo, at Caulfield Grammar School, and at the University of Melbourne. He commenced his dental surgery studies in 1905, and was awarded a Licentiate of Dental Surgery LDS in 1911. He graduated Bachelor of Dental Science BDSc in December 1928. Football He played one match for the University team in the Victorian Football League VFL competition. He played with the South Bendigo Football Club. He also played for the Australian Training Units Team, in the 28 October 1916 exhibition match against the Third Australian Divisional Team in London. Military Service He enlisted in the First AIF in September 1915. He was awarded a Military Cross MC in 1917: At Polygon Wood on 25/9/17 this officer was in charge of A Coy the right company in the line. He was on the extreme right of the 15 Bde Sector. At 5:30 AM his line was heavily attacked by the enemy. By the vigorous resistance of his Coy the enemy was beaten back and the front line held intact. The enemy penetrated the front & support lines of the 1st Middlesex and enfiladed him by Machine Gun fire. This officer formed a defensive flank & foiled repeated attempts by the enemy to roll up his line. His personal work was magnificent & his courage inspired his men to hold out in a desperate situation. Had he failed to hold his line the success of the attack on the following morning would have been in jeopardy. It was largely owing to his celerity in appreciating the situation that the Brigade front was held intact. 29 September 1917 See also List of Caulfield Grammar School people Pioneer Exhibition Game in London 1916 Footnotes References First World War Service Record: Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd, National Archives of Australia. First World War Nominal Roll: Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd, Australian War Museum. Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim 2007. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing. Australian WWI Acts of Valour: Military Cross: Boyd, Hugh Julian, ww1valour.weebly.com. External links Category:1886 births Category:1960 deaths Category:People educated at Caulfield Grammar School Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria Australia Category:University Football Club players Category:Recipients of the Military Cross Category:Australian dentists Category:Australian military personnel of World War I

__NOTOC__ Lackawanna ; from a Lenni Lenape word meaning stream that forks is the name of various places and later businesses in the mid-Atlantic United States: Places Inhabited places Lackawanna, New York, a city in Erie County, New York, just south of Buffalo Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a county in northeast Pennsylvania, of which the county seat is Scranton Natural formations Lackawanna River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania Lake Lackawanna, Sussex County, NJ, a man-made lake circa 1911 and golf course Other places Lackawanna Coal Mine, a former mine redeveloped as a museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania Lackawanna College, a college in Scranton, Pennsylvania Lackawanna State Park, in northeastern Pennsylvania Lackawanna State Forest, former name of Pinchot State Forest Railroads Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, an extant shortline railroad operating in Northeastern Pennsylvania Erie Lackawanna Railroad 19601968 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad 18531960, also known as the Lackawanna Railroad Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad 18521873, 19th century railroad that ran between Scranton and Northumberland Lackawanna and Western Railroad 18531960 Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad 19031976, third rail electric interurban streetcar line from 1903 to 1976 Arts The Lackawanna Valley, a circa 1855 painting by George Inness Lackawanna Blues, a 2001 Ruben Santiago-Hudson play that was adapted as a 2005 television movie Other uses , two ships in the U.S. navy Lackawanna Front Royal, Virginia, a historic home in Front Royal, Warren County, Virginia Lackawanna Steel Company, a former steel company that started in Scranton then moved to western New York See also Buffalo Six or the Lackawanna Six, American citizens accused of aiding terrorism Lackawanna Cut-Off Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project Lackawanna Old Road Lackawanna Terminal disambiguation

Policy-based management is a technology that can simplify the complex task of managing networks and distributed systems. Under this paradigm, an administrator can manage different aspects of a network or distributed system in a flexible and simplified manner by deploying a set of policies that govern its behaviour. Policies are technology independent rules aiming to enhance the hard-coded functionality of managed devices by introducing interpreted logic that can be dynamically changed without modifying the underlying implementation. This allows for a certain degree of programmability without the need to interrupt the operation of either the managed system or of the management system itself. Policy-based management can increase significantly the self-managing aspects of any distributed system or network, leading to more autonomic behaviour demonstrated by Autonomic computing systems. Frameworks and languages The most well known policy-based management architecture was specified jointly by the IETF and the DMTF. This consists of four main functional elements: the Policy Management Tool PMT, Policy Repository, Policy Decision Point PDP, and Policy Enforcement Point PEP. The PMT is used by an administrator to define or update the policies to be enforced in the managed network. Resulting policies are stored in a repository in a form that must correspond to an information model so as to ensure interoperability across products from different vendors. When new policies have been added in the repository, or existing ones have been changed, the PMT issues the relevant PDP with notifications, which in turn interprets the policies and communicates them to the PEP. The latter is a component that runs on a policy-aware node and can execute enforce the different policies. The components of the architecture can communicate with each other using a variety of protocols. The preferred choice for communicating policy decisions between a PDP and network devices PEPs is the Common Open Policy Service COPS or SNMP, and LDAP for the PMT/PDPrepository communication. The simplest approach for policy specification is through a sequence of rules, in which each rule is the form of a simple condition-action pair. The IETF policy framework adopts this approach and considers policies as rules that specify actions to be performed in response to defined conditions: if <conditions> then <actions> The conditional part of the rule can be a simple or compound expression specified in either conjunctive or disjunctive normal form. The action part of the rule can be a set of actions that must be executed when the conditions are true. The IETF does not define a specific language to express network policies but rather a generic object-oriented information model for representing policy information. This model is a generic one, specifying the structure of abstract policy classes by means of association, thus allowing vendors to implement their own set of conditions and actions to be used by the policy rules. Policy conflicts As with any programmable system, a policy-driven one can suffer from inconsistencies incurred by contradicting rules governing its behaviour. These are known as policy conflicts and come about as a result of specification errors, omissions, or contradictory management operations and, in some cases, can have catastrophic effects on the operation of the managed system. They have also been described as being analogous to software bugs that occur when two or more policies are activated simultaneously enforcing contradictory management operations on the system. Classification of policy conflicts Policy conflicts are broadly classified into domain-independent and application-specific, where the former, as the names suggest, are independent of the policy application, and the latter are bound by the constraints of the application domain. Example application domains that have been considered in the literature include quality of service QoS in IP networks, distributed systems, firewall security, and call control in telecommunication networks. Policy conflicts can also be classified according to the time-frame at which they can be detected: static conflicts can be detected through off-line analysis at policy specification time, whereas dynamic conflicts can only be detected when policies are enforced as they depend on the current state of the managed system. For example, conflicts can occur between policies for dynamically allocating resources and those setting quotas for users or classes of service. As such, automation should be a key aspect of dynamic analysis mechanisms so that the operational impact of a conflict can be kept to a minimum. Detection and resolution of policy conflicts To effectively use policies and drive the functionality of a managed system in a consistent manner, it is necessary to check that newly created policies do not conflict with each other or with policies already deployed in the system. To achieve this, detection processes utilise information regarding the conditions under which conflicts can arise to search policy spaces and identify policies that meet the conflict criteria. Based on the types of conflicts identified in the literature and the different application domains in which they occur, research has concentrated in the development of mechanisms and techniques for their effective detection. Although simple conflicts e.g. modality conflicts can be detected by syntactic analysis, more specialised inconsistencies require a precise definition of the conditions for a conflict, which sometimes include domain-specific knowledge, and processes that utilise such information to signal the occurrence of a conflict. Popular approaches for the detection of conflicts have been based on: meta-policies detection rules, policy relationships, applicability spaces, and information models. Resolution is the latter part of policy analysis, which aims at handling detected inconsistencies, preferably in an automated manner, so that consistency among policies can be restored. The process of resolving conflicts may involve retracting, suppressing, prioritising, or amending policies, and in some cases, enforcing a new policy altogether so that consistency among policy rules can be restored. The methodology in doing so depends heavily on the type of policies involved and the domain in which conflicts occur. Although human intervention is unavoidable in some situations, several research efforts focussed on techniques to automate the resolution process where possible. Popular approaches for the resolution of conflicts have been based on: meta-policies resolution rules, precedence, policy ordering, and conflict prevention. The time-frame at which conflicts can be detected influences the analysis methodology and requirements for dealing with them. Static conflicts are typically detected through analysis initiated manually by the system administrator; conflicts represent inconsistencies between policies and are typically resolved by amending the policies. In contrast, run-time conflicts must be detected by a process that monitors policy enforcement and detects inconsistent situations in the systems execution. Resolution must be achieved automatically, for example through enforcing resolution rules. Lack of automation in the handling of run-time conflicts may have catastrophic consequences on the correct system operation, especially when managing QoS for delay sensitive applications. Policy refinement Ideally, a policy-based management system should facilitate the definition of high-level administrative goals, which are easy for humans to express and understand, enable their translation into low-level policies and map them into commands that configure the managed devices accordingly. While the high-level goals reflect the business objectives of the network administrator, the low-level policies are responsible for device-level configurations. Policy refinement is the process of transforming a high-level goal or abstract policy specification into low-level, concrete policies that can be enforced on the managed system. The main tasks of the refinement process are the following: Determine the resources that are needed to satisfy the requirements of the policy Translate high-level goals into operational policies that the system can enforce Verify that the low-level policies actually meet the requirements specified by the high-level goal Several policy refinement approaches have been developed. The most notable ones are based on linear temporal logic, event calculus, and utility computing. See also In-network management Network and Service Management Taxonomy Network management Network management system Network performance management Network and Service Management Taxonomy Systems management The SimpleWeb References Category:Network management Category:Configuration management Category:Computer networking

__NOTOC__ The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1966. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. January Judy Tyler born December 24, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, died June 18, 2013 was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Tyler went into sales following her Playboy days. February Melinda Windsor born June 25, 1944 in Akron, Ohio was the pseudonym used by a 21-year-old student at the University of California at Los Angeles who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Tony Marco. Since she used a pseudonym to protect her true identity the biographical data on her Playmate Data Sheet published by Playboy and repeated in this article may not be accurate. Windsor was photographed by Maynard Frank Wolfe for the January 1967 issue of Playboy and by Morton Tadder for the Fall 1967 issue of VIP magazine. March Priscilla Wright born November 20, 1943 is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. April Karla Conway born July 5, 1946 in Pasadena, California was the name used by American model and artist Karla Jo Musacchia for her appearance as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Paul Morton Smith and R. Charleton Wilson. She has started going by the name Sachi and became an artist. Due to her concern for the environment, she created a turtle logo for companies to use for bags that they make that are both biodegradable and compostable. May Dolly Martin born Dolly Read on September 13, 1944 in Bristol, England is an English pinup model and actress. She is best remembered for her appearance in Playboy magazine and as the lead character in the motion picture Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. She is sometimes credited as Margaret Read, Dolly Read Martin, or Dolly Martin. In 1971, Read married American comedian Dick Martin. They divorced in 1974 and were remarried in 1978 and remained married up to Dick Martin's death on May 24, 2008. June Kelli Burke born December 31, 1944 is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge. Burke was born in Los Angeles, California. According to The Playmate Book, Kelli was pregnant while she was shooting her Playmate centerfold. She also was at the time the sister-in-law of 1966 Playmate of the Year Allison Parks. July Tish Howard born July 4, 1946 in New York City was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong. She was a finalist for the title of 1967's Playmate of the Year, along with Susan Denberg and the winner, Lisa Baker. August Susan Denberg born August 2, 1944 in Bad Polzin, Germany now Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland is the stage name of an Austrian model and actress, born Dietlinde Zechner. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. She also was one of the finalists for the title of 1967's Playmate of the Year along with Tish Howard and the eventual winner, Lisa Baker. She was married to Tony Scotti 19651968 divorced. September Dianne Chandler born December 31, 1946 in Berwyn, Illinois is an American model who served as both a Playboy Playmate of the Month and as a Playboy Bunny. She was Miss September 1966; her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. October Linda Moon born September 24, 1948 in Michigan was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham, Stan Malinowski, and Gene Trindl. November Lisa Baker born March 19, 1944 in Detroit, Texas is Playboy 's Playmate of the Month for November 1966, and Playmate of the Year for 1967. Her original pictorial for photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong. She was also able to get some work on television, on The Jonathan Winters Show and as the Budweiser girl on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She posed nude for the December 1979 Playboy pictorial Playmates Forever! December Susan Bernard born February 11, 1948 was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli and her father Bruno Bernard. Bernard had a sporadic film and television career, appearing for one season of General Hospital in the late 1960s and in small parts in series television. In most of her work, she was credited as Sue Bernard. She posed for Playboy while working on the Russ Meyer film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. She was believed to be the first Jewish Playmate of the month, though in recent years Cindy Fuller, Miss May 1959, has claimed that she was the first Jewish Playmate. In an interview in the August 1998 issue of Femme Fatales, Bernard revealed, I was the first under-18 Jewish virgin who was in the centerfold placed in front of a Christmas tree and that she'd never been nude in front of anyone other than her mother prior to posing for Cassili, who had been one of her father's apprentices. Her father was photographer Bruno Bernard. As of November 2008, Bernard was working on three books about her father. References See also List of people in Playboy 1960-1969 Category:1966-related lists Category:1960s Playboy Playmates Category:Playboy lists

The Honourable Phillip Paulwell born 14 January 1962 is a Jamaican politician. Paulwell is the current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kingston East and Port Royal and former Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining STEM in the People's National Party administration, which has formed the Government of Jamaica following the party's electoral victory in the December 2011 General Elections. Paulwell is also the sitting President of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union CTU and the Chairman of the PNP's Region 3, a position he has held since 2006. Political career An attorney-at-law by profession, Paulwell started his political career in 1995 as a Senator and Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry Investment and Commerce under the then governing PNP administration. Representational Politics In the 1997 General Elections he was elected to the House of Representatives as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kingston East and Port Royal and was appointed to the executive as Minister of Commerce and Technology under the PJ Patterson-led administration. Paulwell again successfully contested the Kingston East and Port Royal constituency in the October 2002 General Elections, and was named Minister of Industry, Commerce and Technology. Although Paulwell was one of 28 PNP candidates to retain a seat in the House of Representatives in the General Elections of 2007, the Jamaica Labour Party JLP, with its 32 seat majority, won the elections and formed the government for the first time in 18 years. In the December 2011 General Elections, the PNP, led by Portia Simpson Miller, won a majority 42 of 62 Parliamentary seats, one of those being the Kingston East and Port Royal seat, which Paulwell won by a landslide, tallying a majority of 8,050 votes to his opponent's 1,530. When the Government was formed on 6 January 2012, Paulwell was named Minister of Energy, Mining, Science and Technology. PNP Elections In 2006, Paulwell successfully contested an internal PNP election, for the position of Chairman of the party's Region 3, which encompasses electoral constituencies in the country's capital, Kingston and St Andrew. Controversies OUR and Digicel In April 2001, Paulwell, who was at the time the Jamaican Minister of Industry, Commerce and Technology, instructed the Jamaican Office of Utilities Regulation OUR to refrain from interfering with the rates charged for fixed to mobile FTM calls. Paulwell personally intervened in March 2002 by calling the OUR Director General, Winston Hay, telling him that a fourth telecommunications provider was interested in investing in Jamaica, but would only do so if the FTM rates stayed the same. After Hay refused, Paulwell issued a Direction which restricted the role of the OUR in setting the rates and tariffs on interconnection. It was later reported that Paulwell had only demanded the OUR forgo changing the FTM rates following a complaint from Digicel, after the OUR had directed Digicel to alter its fees. Following a judicial review, it was ruled that Paulwell had no power to issue the Direction to the OUR, and although Digicel successfully appealed at the Supreme Court, that ruling was overturned after the Court of Appeal ruled that Paulwell's Direction fell outside his ministerial authority and was invalid, and the OUR did not have to comply with it. Digicel's last attempt appeal to the Privy Council was also unsuccessful: the Privy Council again ruled that Paulwells Direction was outside his ministerial powers. Wikileaks Leaked United States Government cables sent from the US Embassy in Kingston on 19 March 2008 linked Paulwell to a number of scandals. According to one cable, Paulwell has been behind the scenes of numerous imbroglios, including the NetServ scandal, the Cement Fiasco, and the Cuban light bulb scandal. The cable goes on to state that despite all the innuendos, and accusations, Paulwell has never been charged with a crime. Solutrea Paulwell was at the centre of a telecoms scandal in 2007, after he noted that the sale of Jamaica's fourth cellular licence would go to a company known as Solutrea Jamaica Limited. Solutrea was to pay approximately US$7.5million for the licence. However, when it became unclear whether Solutrea had paid in the full sum, it emerged that Paulwell had issued the licence without all the required public agencies agreeing to the sale. It was further uncovered that Minnette Palmer, an advisor to Paulwell, owned a company which was a shareholder of Solutrea. Cuban light bulb scandal According to a US diplomatic cable, Paulwell was at the centre of a scandal after it emerged that the Jamaican government had accrued a bill of more the US$3.95 million for the distribution of some four million energy saving fluorescent light bulbs donated by the Government of Cuba to the people of Jamaica. The matter was turned over to the Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions and the Fraud Squad following allegations that Paulwell, the then-Minister of Energy, Industry and Commerce, and Kern Spencer, then-Minister of State within the Energy Ministry, awarded lucrative contracts for nationwide distribution of the bulbs to two companies which only recently had been incorporated by personal friend or relatives. A government investigation into the affair absolved Paulwell of any wrongdoing. Cement fiasco In 2006, the Jamaica Labour Party moved to censure Paulwell in Parliament over the defective cement fiasco. The fiasco began when the Caribbean Cement Company CCC recalled 500 tonnes of faulty product it had released into the market. Paulwell, at the time the industry and commerce minister, was accused of negligence and gross dereliction of duty, and there were calls from the opposition on him to tender his resignation as Minister. One accusation levelled at Paulwell was that, despite recommendations from the Jamaican Bureau of Standards, he had failed to exercise his Ministerial authority to declare that the production of cement must conform to the Bureau's certification programme. Prior to its privatisation in 2003, the CCC was under a certification programme. He was also accused of providing false information and misleading Parliament. A US cable stated that the fiasco nearly crippled the booming construction industry because of severe shortages. NetServ According to a US cable, in 2001, Paulwell was at the centre of a controversial loan to NetServ, an IT firm which subsequently collapsed. Paulwell approved a J$180 million loan of public funds to NetServ without matching equity and after a due diligence report raised serious questions about the business conduct of the company's principal, Paul Pereira. NetServ received a J$90 million cheque in 2000 to enable it to carry out start-up operations. In February 2001, just before a second payment was due, JAMPRO, the government's investment promotion agency, sent two reports to Paulwell's Ministry and the NIBJ raising concerns about the operations of NetServ and Paul Pereira. However, the Ministry's loan committee still decided to go through with the second payment to the company. Paulwell later admitted that it was an error not to insist that the company put up US$6 million in equity before the National Investment Bank of Jamaica granted it the original loan. References Category:Members of the House of Representatives of Jamaica Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Government ministers of Jamaica

Kreis Hohensalza [ˌhoːənˈzalt͡sa], 1904-1920, named most of the time of its existence Kreis Inowrazlaw 1772-1807, and again 1818-1904 was a district in Prussia, with the district territory belonging to Germany from 1871 on. It first formed part of the governmental Netze District within the Prussian province of West Prussia 1772-1807 and was then a district within the governmental Bromberg Region, first in the Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1848, in personal union with Prussia and then in the Prussian Province of Posen 1848-1920. The district's capital was Inowrazlaw renamed as Hohensalza in December 1904. On 1 July 1886 southern areas of the district territory were disentangled and became part of the new district of Strelno. In the course of the Greater Poland uprising 191819 southern parts of the remaining district territory came under Polish control, the northern part with Argenau/Gniewkowo remained under German civil administration. Following the Versailles Treaty of July 1919 Germany gradually handed over the northern part of the district territory between 17 January and 4 February 1920. It then became the Powiat Inowrocławski i.e. Inowrocław District/County. Table of Standesämter Standesamt were the German names of the local civil registration offices which were established in October 1874 soon after the German Empire was formed. Births, marriages and deaths were recorded. Previously, only the church records were used for Christians. Table of all communities Navigation Bar This article is part of the project Wikipedia:WikiProject Prussian Kreise. Please refer to the project page, before making changes. Category:Districts of the Province of Posen

Ukraine participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine. On 2 August 2013 a national selection was held, out of which Sofia Tarasova and her song We Are One were later declared the winners and represented Ukraine. Before Junior Eurovision National final The final took place on 2 August 2013, which saw twenty competing acts participating in a televised production where the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of both public telephone vote and the votes of jury members made up of music professionals. After a four-way tie for the first place, Sofia Tarasova was selected to represent Ukraine with the song We Are One. At Junior Eurovision Voting The voting during the final consisted of 50 percent public televoting and 50 percent from a jury deliberation. The jury consisted of five music industry professionals who were citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury was asked to judge each contestant based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury could be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member were released one month after the final. During the allocation draw on 25 November 2013, Ukraine was drawn to perform 6th, following Macedonia and preceding Belarus. Ukraine placed 2nd, scoring 121 points. Points awarded to Ukraine Points awarded by Ukraine See also Junior Eurovision Song Contest Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest References Category:2013 in Ukraine Category:Countries in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Junior

John Milner Barry 17681822, was an Irish doctor. Life Barry was the eldest son of James Barry of Kilgobbin near Bandon, County Cork. In 1792 he graduated with and MD from the University of Edinburgh, and practised medicine at Cork until his death. He introduced vaccination into Cork in 1800, and thus was the first to make it known to any Irish city. In 1802 he founded the Cork Fever Hospital and House of Recovery and was its first physician. He held the lectureship on agriculture in the Royal Cork Institution for many years, and resigned the post in 1815. He married Mary, eldest daughter of William Phair of Brooklodge near Cork in 1808, and died in 1822. In 1824 a monument with a long laudatory inscription was erected to his memory in the grounds of the Fever Hospital by his fellow-townsmen. Dr. Barry contributed many papers on vaccination, fever, and similar subjects to the London Medical and Physical Journal, 18001 vols. iii., iv., and vi.; to Dr. Harty's History of the Contagious Fever Epidemics in Ireland in 1817, 1818, and 1819, Dublin, 1820; to Barker and Cheyne's Fever in Ireland, Dublin, 1821; and to the Transactions of the Irish College of Physicians, vol. ii. He also published several pamphlets, and wrote many annual reports of the Cork Fever Hospital. In his essays he forcibly described the physical dangers of drunkenness, and the necessity of coercing habitual drunkards by law. He also strongly advocated the development of female education. Barry's second son, John O'Brien Milner Barry, 18151881, was also a physician. He studied medicine at Paris from 1883 to 1836, and graduated with an MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1837. He practised for some years at Laugharne, at Totnes, and finally, from 1852 till his death in 1881, at Tunbridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians shortly before his death in 1822. References Category:1768 births Category:1822 deaths Category:18th-century Irish medical doctors Category:19th-century Irish medical doctors Category:People from County Cork Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Category:Irish writers

D. formosa may refer to: Derwentia formosa, a plant endemic to Tasmania Dicentra formosa, a plant native to North America Dryandra formosa, a shrub endemic to Western Australia Dryomyza formosa, an Asian fly Dysstroma formosa, a geometer moth

2017 Thai League 4 Northern Region is the 9th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the 4th tier of the Thai football league system. Changes from last season Promoted clubs Promoted to the 2017 Thai League 2 Nong Bua Pitchaya Four club was promoted to the 2017 Thai League 3 Upper Region. Kamphaeng Phet Phrae United Phayao Lamphun Warrior Promoted from the 2016 Thai Division 3 Tournament Northern Region Changphueak Chiangmai Relegated clubs Phetchabun were relegated to the 2016 Thai Division 3 Tournament Northern Region. Relocated clubs Nakhon Sawan and Paknampho NSRU were moved from Central Region 2016 Renamed clubs Changphueak Chiangmai was renamed to JL Chiangmai United Reserving clubs Chiangrai United B is Chiangrai United Reserving this team which join Northern Region first time. Teams Stadium and locations League table Results 1st and 2nd match for each team Results 3rd match for each team In the third leg, the winner on head-to-head result of the first and the second leg will be home team. If head-to-head result are tie, must to find the home team from head-to-head goals different. If all of head-to-head still tie, must to find the home team from penalty kickoff on the end of each second leg match This penalty kickoff don't bring to calculate points on league table, it's only the process to find the home team on third leg. Season statistics Top scorers As of 9 September 2017. Attendance See also 2017 Thai League 2017 Thai League 2 2017 Thai League 3 2017 Thai League 4 2017 Thailand Amateur League 2017 Thai FA Cup 2017 Thai League Cup 2017 Thailand Champions Cup References External links Thai League 4 http://fathailand.org/news/97 http://www.thailandsusu.com/webboard/index.php?topic=379288.0 4

In mathematical modeling, a guess value is more commonly called a starting value or initial value. These are necessary for most optimization problems which use search algorithms, because those algorithms are mainly deterministic and iterative, and they need to start somewhere. One common type of application is nonlinear regression. Use The quality of the initial values can have a considerable impact on the success or lack of such of the search algorithm. This is because the fitness function or objective function in many cases a sum of squared errors SSE can have difficult shapes. In some parts of the search region, the function may increase exponentially, in others quadratically, and there may be regions where the function asymptotes to a plateau. Starting values that fall in an exponential region can lead to algorithm failure because of arithmetic overflow. Starting values that fall in the asymptotic plateau region can lead to algorithm failure because of dithering. Deterministic search algorithms may use a slope function to go to a minimum. If the slope is very small, then underflow errors can cause the algorithm to wander, seemingly aimlessly; this is dithering. Finding value Guess values can be determined a number of ways. Guessing is one of them. If one is familiar with the type of problem, then this is an educated guess or guesstimate. Other techniques include linearization, solving simultaneous equations, reducing dimensions, treating the problem as a time series, converting the problem to a hopefully linear differential equation, and using mean values. Further methods for determining starting values and optimal values in their own right come from stochastic methods, the most commonly known of these being evolutionary algorithms and particularly genetic algorithms. Category:Mathematical optimization Category:Regression analysis Category:Computational statistics

Yalga may refer to: Yalga, Burkina Faso, a town in Bam Province of Burkina Faso Yalga, Russia, name of several inhabited localities in Russia

Jackson Township is one of the seventeen townships of Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 40,608 people in the township, 4,073 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Geography Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships and city Parts of Franklin Township north Columbus northeast Hamilton Township southeast Scioto Township, Pickaway County south Pleasant Township west Prairie Township northwest Much of Jackson Township has been annexed into one of three municipalities: The city of Columbus, the county seat of Franklin County, in the northeast The city of Grove City, in the center The village of Urbancrest, in the northwest Name and history It is one of thirty-seven Jackson Townships statewide. Government The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. Gallery References External links Township website County website Category:Townships in Franklin County, Ohio Category:Townships in Ohio

Pieter Cornelis Johannes Bevelander, born 13 October 1963, is Director of the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity, and Welfare MIM and Professor in international migration and ethnic relations at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University in Sweden. His research interest includes naturalization and labour market integration in the Netherlands, economic integration of refugees arriving via family reunification in Canada and Sweden, and attitudes toward these groups. He has provided reviews for several international journals. He obtained a PhD in economic history from the University of Lund 2000, writing on the integration of Swedish immigrants between 1970 and 1995. References Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:Malmö University faculty

Andrew Andy Gardner 1888 2 June 1934 was a Scottish professional footballer who made 151 appearances in the Football League for Lincoln City either side of the First World War. He played as a centre half. Before moving to England he played for junior club Petershill. References Category:1888 births Category:1934 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire Category:Scottish footballers Category:Association football defenders Category:Lincoln City F.C. players Category:English Football League players Category:Date of birth missing Category:Place of death missing Category:Association football midfielders

The Omulyakh Bay , Omulyakhskaya Guba is a bay in the East Siberian Sea. Geography This bay is located west of the Sundrun River region and east of the Yana Bay. Omulyakh Bay is open to the east through a narrow and straight channel and is 115 km in length. Starting from its mouth the bay widens inside, until it reaches a width of 25 km. It has a curved inlet at its end. The Khromskaya Bay is very similar to this bay and lies only 40 km south. Both bays share the same mouth. This bay is in an area of wetlands; lakes and marshes dot the whole landscape. Owing to is northerly location the Omullyakh Bay is covered with ice most of the year. The Omulyakh Bay and the area surrounding it belong to the Sakha Republic Yakutia administrative division of the Russian Federation. References External links Location YakutiaToday.Com - Geography of the Sakha Republic Yakutia Category:Bays of the Sakha Republic Category:Bays of the East Siberian Sea

Namus , meaning honor is a 1925 silent drama film by Hamo Beknazarian, based on Alexander Shirvanzade's 1885 novel of the same name, which denounces the despotic rites and customs of Caucasian families. It is widely recognized as the first Armenian feature film. History Background The Armenfilm studio was founded two years later, on April 16, 1923 as the State Cinema Organisation. Hamo Beknazarian, who was an actor prior to the 1917 Revolution, became actively involved in directing films after the Bolsheviks took over. Namus became his first notable work as a director. Production and reaction Namus was first premiered in Yerevan's Nairi Theatre on April 13, 1926. On October 3 of the same year, the film was presented in Moscow. A poster in Leningrad in 1926 called Namus the biggest blockbuster of the season. When asked about the film, Hamo Beknazarian said I wanted to set the power of custom in the pillory, that stupid force of the concept of father's honor. The film had incredible success and brought Beknazarian to fame in the Soviet Union, which helped him in his later works, making him the founder of Armenian cinematography. Restoration The first attempt to restore the film was made in the 1960s, when it was voiced. In 2005 Namus was digitally restored by Franco-German network Arte. This version was first shown in Cinéma Le Balzac in Paris in November 2005 and then in Moscow Cinema in Yerevan in April 2010. Plot The story is set in the Caucasian city of Shemakh, which was a provincial town in pre-revolutionary Russia. The love story involves Seyran, a son of a potter, who secretly meets with Susan, to whom he is engaged. The Armenian customs didn't tolerate this and strictly prohibited such behavior. When a neighbor catches them during one of their secret meetings, rumors of their actions spread around the neighborhood and her family decides to marry her to another man, in order to restore the family's honor. They choose Rustam, a rich merchant, for Susan to marry. Seyran slanders Susan by saying that he owns her. Rustam kills Susan, considered himself disgraced by Seyran's actions. And the end Syeran commits suicide upon hearing about his lover's death. Cast Hovhannes Abelian as Barkhudar Hasmik as Mariam Olga Maysurian hy as Gyulnaz Hrachia Nersisyan as Rustam Avet Avetisian hy, ru as Hayrapet Nina Manucharyan as Shpanik Samvel Mkhrtchian hy as Seyran Maria Shahbutian-Tatieva as Susan Hambartsum Khachanyan as Badal Levon Aleksanian as Susambar Hripsime Melikian hy as Sanam Amasi Martirosyan as Smbat Mikayel Garagash hy as shopkeeper Husik Muradian hy as dancing child Elizaveta Adamian as Mariam's friend Tigran Shamirkhanian hy as a Zurna blower Armen Gulakian hy in episodes Pahare hy as pub owner See also Namus the concept Cinema of Armenia References External links Category:1925 films Category:Armenian films Category:Soviet silent feature films Category:Armenian black-and-white films Category:Soviet black-and-white films Category:Soviet films Category:Films based on Armenian novels Category:Films set in Azerbaijan Category:Soviet-era Armenian films Category:Armenfilm films Category:Soviet drama films Category:1920s drama films

The DRC Mapping Exercise Report, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1993-2003 UN Mapping Report, was a report by the United Nations within the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the wake of the armed aggressions and war which took place between March 1993 and June 2003. Its aim was to map the most serious violations of human rights, together with violations of international humanitarian law, committed within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In doing this it was to assess the capacities within the national justice system to deal appropriately with such human rights violations and to formulate a series of options aimed at assisting the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in identifying appropriate transitional justice mechanisms to deal with the legacy of these violations. It contained 550 pages and contained descriptions of 617 alleged violent incidents. The mapping exercise began in 2008, with 33 staff working on the project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including Congolese and international human rights experts. The report was submitted to the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in 2009. The report contains a detailed accounting of the breakup of Hutu refugee camps in eastern Congo at the start of the First Congo War in October 1996, followed by the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees and Hutu population across the countrys vast hinterland by teams of Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda soldiers and their Congolese rebel surrogates, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo. Context In the wake of the discovery of three mass graves in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC in late 2005, the United Nations first announced its intention to send a human rights team to conduct a mapping exercise in DRC in a June 2006 report to the Security Council. In May 2007, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon approved the terms of reference of the mapping exercise following a series of consultations among relevant UN agencies and partners and with the Congolese government. The mapping exercise began officially on 17 July 2008, with the arrival of the team's chief in Kinshasa. Between October 2008 and May 2009, a total of 33 staff worked on the project in the DRC, including Congolese and international human rights experts. Of these, some 20 human rights officers were deployed across the country, operating out of five field offices, to gather documents and information from witnesses to meet the three objectives defined in the terms of reference. The report was submitted to the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on 15 June 2009 for review, comments and finalisation. Research methodology The mapping team's 550-page report contains descriptions of 617 alleged violent incidents occurring in the DRC between March 1993 and June 2003. Each of these incidents points to the possible commission of gross violations of human rights and/or international humanitarian law. Each of the incidents listed is backed up by at least two independent sources identified in the report. As serious as they may be, uncorroborated incidents claimed by one single source are not included. Over 1,500 documents relating to human rights violations committed during this period were gathered and analysed with a view to establishing an initial chronology by region of the main violent incidents reported. Only incidents meeting a 'gravity threshold' set out in the methodology were considered. Field mapping teams met with over 1,280 witnesses to corroborate or invalidate the violations listed in the chronology. Information was also collected on previously undocumented crimes. The 1,500 documents reviewed, some of them confidential, were obtained from many sources, including the United Nations, the Congolese government, Congolese and major international human rights organisations, national and international media and various unions, religious groups, aid agencies and victims associations. Lastly, various sources, individuals and experts, national and international, were also consulted to open up new avenues of research, corroborate information and streamline the overall analysis. Mandate and Objectives The report states that the mapping team was not concerned with pursuing in-depth investigations or gathering evidence of sufficient admissibility to stand in court but rather with providing the basis for the formulation of initial hypothesis of investigation by giving a sense of the scale of violations, detecting patterns and identifying potential leads or sources of evidence. The mapping exercise, led by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR with some US$ 3 million in funding, had three objectives: Conduct a mapping exercise of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the DRC between March 1993 and June 2003. Assess the existing capacities within the national justice system to deal appropriately with such human rights violations that may be uncovered. Formulate a series of options aimed at assisting the Government of the DRC in identifying appropriate transitional justice mechanisms to deal with the legacy of these violations, in terms of truth, justice, reparation and reform, taking into account ongoing efforts by the DRC authorities, as well as the support of the international community. Unlike some commissions of inquiry with a specific mandate to identify the perpetrators of violations and make them accountable for their actions, the objective of the Mapping Exercise was not to establish or to try to establish individual criminal responsibility. Instead, its aim was to expose in a transparent way the seriousness of the violations committed, with the aim of encouraging an approach aimed at breaking the cycle of impunity. The report does, however, identify the armed groups to which the alleged perpetrators belonged, since it was essential to identify the groups allegedly involved in order to suggest proper legal characterisations for the conduct in question. Consequently, information on the identity of the alleged perpetrators of some of the crimes listed does not appear in the report but is held in a confidential project database submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. However, the identities of alleged perpetrators under warrant of arrest and those already sentenced for crimes listed in the report have been disclosed. Names have also been cited where political officials have assumed public positions encouraging or provoking the violations listed. Period covered The report is presented chronologically, reflecting four key periods in the DRC's recent history: March 1993June 1996: The first period covers violations committed in the final years of the regime of President Mobutu Sese Seko and is marked by the failure of the democratisation process and the devastating consequences of the Rwandan genocide on the declining Zairian state, in particular in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu. During this period, 40 incidents were listed. July 1996July 1998: The second period concerns violations committed during the First Congo War and the first year of the regime established by President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. This period has the greatest number of listed incidents 238 in the whole of the decade under examination. August 1998January 2000: The third period concerns the inventory of violations committed between the start of the Second Congo War in August 1998, and the death of President Kabila. This period includes 200 incidents and is characterised by the intervention on the territory of the DRC of the government armed forces of several countries. January 2001June 2003: The final period lists 139 incidents of violations committed in spite of the gradual establishment of a ceasefire along the front line and the speeding up of peace negotiations in preparation for the start of the transition period on 30 June 2003. 16-21 Report recommendations Justice The UN Mapping Report recommended the creation of a mixed judicial mechanism made up of national and international personnel as one of various transitional justice measures to be considered to address the numerous international crimes committed in the DRC. It did not make firm proposals on the national or international character of such mechanism, or its precise form or function. The operating methods and exact form of such a court should be decided on and specified in detail by consulting the actors concerned, as well as the victims affected... A mechanism of this kind should also among many other things apply international criminal law in relation to international crimes, including the responsibility of superiors for the acts committed by their subordinates; it should exclude the jurisdiction of the military courts in this area; and should have jurisdiction over anyone who has committed these crimes, whether they are nationals or non-nationals, civilians or military personnel. Paragraph 1052 / 1054 Truth-seeking and reparations Declaring that the Congolese people have a right to the truth on all the serious violations of human rights, the report suggests the establishment of a new, non-judicial truth commission that can help to determine institutional, political, military and other responsibilities; preserve evidence; identify the perpetrators of atrocities; recommend compensation measures and institutional reforms; and provide individual victims with a broader platform in which to air their grievances and concerns. Paragraph 1057 / 1060-1061. Given the huge number of victims, the report says a comprehensive and creative approach to the issue of reparation is clearly required, and notes that the Congolese government should be the first to contribute. But it also points to the responsibilities of other countries involved in the conflict and notes that individuals and corporate entities such as multinationals which exploited the DRC's natural resources during the conflict could also be ordered to pay compensation if found criminally responsible. Paragraph 1074-75 Crime of genocide The report notes, it is important that a full judicial investigation take place, in order to shed light on the reported incidents in 1996-97. Only such an investigation and judicial determination would be in a position to resolve whether these incidents amount to the crime of genocide. Paragraph 522 The mapping report team noted that The question of whether the numerous serious acts of violence committed against the Hutus refugees and others constitute crimes of genocide has attracted a significant degree of comment and to date remains unresolved. The report repeatedly stresses that this question can only be decided by a court decision on the basis of evidence beyond all reasonable doubt. However, the apparent systematic and widespread attacks described in this report reveal a number of inculpatory elements that, if proven before a competent court, could be characterised as crimes of genocide. Certain elements could cause a court to hesitate to decide on the existence of a genocidal plan, such as the fact that as of 15 November 1996, several tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, many of whom had survived previous attacks, were repatriated to Rwanda with the help of the AFDL/APR authorities and that hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees were able to return to Rwanda with the consent of the Rwandan authorities prior to the start of the first war. Whilst, in general, the killings did not spare women and children, in some places, at the beginning of the first war, Hutu women and children were in fact separated from the men, and only the men were subsequently killed. Leaked draft report An earlier draft of the report was leaked by French newspaper Le Monde on 27 August, creating intense controversies as it reported that several Congolese rebel groups, Ugandan troops along with Burundian, Angolan and other armed groups had committed grave human rights violations. The most contentious aspect of the report referred to the possibility that the armed forces of Rwanda and their local allies may have committed acts, which could constitute crimes of genocide against ethnic Hutu civilians fleeing the country in fear of reprisal. There was concern in the United Nations that Rwanda might end its participation in peacekeeping operations in reaction to the official release for the report. The authors of the report indicated that they were concerned that the language of genocide may be watered down before the official publishing of the document, therefore they felt it necessary to leak the report to safeguard the integrity of the report. Report Key Findings The apparently systematic nature of these violations suggests that the numerous deaths cannot be attributed to the hazards of both first and second congo wars or seen as equating to collateral damage. The majority of the victims were children, women, elderly people and the sick, who posed no threat to the attacking forces. Numerous serious attacks on the physical or psychological integrity of members of the group were also committed, with a very high number of Hutus shot, raped, burnt or beaten. Very large numbers of victims were forced to flee and travel long distances to escape their pursuers, who were trying to kill them. The hunt lasted for months, resulting in the deaths of an unknown number of people subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading living conditions, without access to food or medication. On several occasions, the humanitarian aid intended for them was deliberately blocked, in particular in Orientale Province, depriving them of assistance essential to their survival. Here are some of the draft report's key findings:. Paragraph 512. The systematic attacks, in particular killings and massacres perpetrated against members of the Hutu ethnic group, are described extensively in section I of the report. These attacks resulted in a very large number of victims, probably tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group, all nationalities combined. In the vast majority of case reported, it was not a question of people killed unintentionally in the course of combat, but people targeted primarily by AFDL [Congolese rebels led by Laurent Kabila, who became president in 1997]/APR [Rwandan army]/FAB [Burundi's army] forces and executed in their hundreds, often with edged weapons. Paragraph 513. At the time of the incidents covered by this report, the Hutu population in Zaire, including refugees from Rwanda, constituted an ethnic group as defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Moreover, as shown previously, the intention to destroy a group in part is sufficient to be classified as a crime of genocide. Finally, the courts have also confirmed that the destruction of a group can be limited to a particular geographical area. It is therefore possible to assert that, even if only a part of the Hutu population in Zaire was targeted and destroyed, it could nonetheless constitute a crime of genocide, if this was the intention of the perpetrators. Finally, several incidents listed also seem to confirm that the numerous attacks were targeted at members of the Hutu ethnic group as such. Although, at certain times, the aggressors said they were looking for the criminals responsible for the genocide committed against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, the majority of the incidents reported indicate that the Hutus were targeted as such, with no discrimination between them. The numerous attacks against the Hutus in Zaire, who were not part of the refugees, seem to confirm that it was all Hutus, as such, who were targeted. The crimes committed in particular in Rutshuru 30 October 1996 and Mugogo 18 November 1996, in North Kivu, highlight the specific targeting of the Hutus, since people who were able to persuade the aggressors that they belonged to another ethnic group were released just before the massacres. The systematic use of barriers by the AFDL/APR/FAB, particularly in South Kivu, enabled them to identify people of Hutu origin by their name or village of origin and thus to eliminate them. Hundreds of people of Hutu origin are thus thought to have been arrested at a barrier erected in November 1996 in Ngwenda, in the Rutshuru territory, and subsequently executed by being beaten with sticks in a place called Kabaraza. In South Kivu, AFDL/APR/FAB soldiers erected numerous barriers on the Ruzizi plain to stop Rwandan and Burundian refugees who had been dispersed after their camps had been dismantled. Paragraph 514: Several incidents listed in this report point to circumstances and facts from which a court could infer the intention to destroy the Hutu ethnic group in the DRC in part, if these were established beyond all reasonable doubt. Firstly, the scale of the crimes and the large number of victims are illustrated by the numerous incidents described above. The extensive use of edged weapons primarily hammers and the systematic massacre of survivors, including women and children, after the camps had been taken show that the numerous deaths cannot be attributed to the hazards of war or seen as equating to collateral damage. The systematic nature of the attacks listed against the Hutus also emerges: These attacks took place in each location where refugees had been identified by the AFDL/APR, over a vast area of the country. Particularly in North Kivu and South Kivu but also in other provinces, the massacres often began with a trick by elements of the AFDL/APR, who summoned the victims to meetings on the pretext either of discussing their repatriation to Rwanda in the case of the refugees, or of introducing them to the new authorities in the case of Hutus settled in the region, or of distributing food. Afterwards, those present were systematically killed. Cases of this kind were confirmed in the province of North Kivu in Musekera, Rutshuru and Kiringa October 1996, Mugogo and Kabaraza November 1996, Hombo, Katoyi, Kausa, Kifuruka, Kinigi, Musenge, Mutiko and Nyakariba December 1996, Kibumba and Kabizo April 1997 and Mushangwe around August 1997; in the province of South Kivu in Rushima and Luberizi October 1996, Cotonco and Chimanga November 1996 and Mpwe February 1997 and on the Shabunda-Kigulube road FebruaryApril 1997; in Orientale Province in Kisangani and Bengamisa May and June 1997; in Maniema in Kalima March 1997 and in Équateur in Boende April 1997. Such acts certainly suggest premeditation and a precise methodology. In the region south of the town of Walikale, in North Kivu January 1997, Rwandan Hutus were subjected to daily killings in areas already under the control of the AFDL/APR as part of a campaign that seemed to target any Hutus living in the area in question. Paragraph 515: Several of the massacres listed were committed regardless of the age or gender of the victims. This is particularly true of the crimes committed in Kibumba October 1996, Mugunga and Osso November 1996, Hombo and Biriko December 1996 in the province of North Kivu, Kashusha and Shanje November 1996 in the province of South Kivu, Tingi-Tingi and Lubutu March 1997 in Maniema Province, and Boende April 1997 in Equateur Province, where the vast majority of victims were women and children. Furthermore, no effort was made to make a distinction between Hutus who were members of the ex-FAR/Interahamwe [militia behind Rwanda's 1994 genocide] and Hutu civilians, whether or not they were refugees. This tendency to put all Hutus together and tar them with the same brush is also illustrated by the declarations made during the awareness-raising speeches made by the AFDL/APR in certain places, according to which any Hutu still present in Zaire must necessarily be a perpetrator of genocide, since the real refugees had already returned to Rwanda. These awareness-raising speeches made in North Kivu also incited the population to look for, kill or help to kill Rwandan Hutu refugees, whom they called pigs. This type of language would have been in widespread use during the operations in this region. Paragraph 516: The massacres in Mbandaka and Wendji, committed on 13 May 1997 in Équateur Province, over 2,000 kilometres west of Rwanda, were the final stage in the hunt for Hutu refugees that had begun in eastern Zaire, in North and South Kivu, in October 1996. Among the refugees were elements of the ex-FAR/Interahamwe, who were disarmed by the local police force as soon as they arrived. In spite of everything, the AFDL/APR opened fire on hundreds of defenceless Hutu refugees, resulting in large numbers of victims. Paragraph 517: The systematic and widespread attacks described in this report, which targeted very large numbers of Rwandan Hutu refugees and members of the Hutu civilian population, resulting in their death, reveal a number of damning elements that, if they were proven before a competent court, could be classified as crimes of genocide. The behaviour of certain elements of the AFDL/APR in respect of the Hutu refugees and Hutu populations settled in Zaire at this time seems to equate to a manifest pattern of similar conduct directed against that group, from which a court could even deduce the existence of a genocidal plan. Whilst the existence of such a plan may contribute to establishing the required genocidal intention, it is nonetheless only an element of proof used to deduce such an intention and not a legal element of genocide. Paragraph 518. Nonetheless, neither the fact that only men were targeted during the massacres, nor the fact that part of the group were allowed to leave the country or that their movement was facilitated for various reasons, are sufficient in themselves to entirely remove the intention of certain people to partially destroy an ethnic group as such. In this respect it seems possible to infer a specific intention on the part of certain AFDL/APR commanders to partially destroy the Hutus in the DRC, and therefore to commit a crime of genocide, based on their conduct, words and the damning circumstances of the acts of violence committed by the men under their command. It will be for a court with proper jurisdiction to rule on this question. Conclusion Paragraph 1139. In light of the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, and the repetition of crimes within the territory of the DRC, there is a manifest urgency for justice and security service reform. The members of the Mapping Team were able to observe the constant fear on the part of affected populations that history would repeat itself, especially when yesterday's attackers are returning in positions that enable them to commit new crimes with complete impunity. Reactions The Government of Rwanda stated that The Draft Mapping Report addresses only a fraction of a complex history, and ignores publicly available information that seriously undermines its findings. The reader is left with a onedsided account, and provided no context with which to understand who each of these Rwandan actors were, and how they found themselves in the Congolese forests from 1994 to 2003. The office of the government of Rwanda, in its press statement found that It is immoral and unacceptable that the United Nations, an organization that failed outright to prevent genocide in Rwanda and the subsequent refugees crisis, a direct cause for so much suffering in Congo and Rwanda, now accuses the army that stopped the genocide of committing atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a fact that Rwandas intervention in the D.R.C. was a matter of survival and the direct consequence of the irresponsible and insensitive management of the refugee camps by the U.N. and the international community subsequent to the genocide. Ugandan government rejected the report as a compendium of rumors deeply flawed in methodology, sourcing and standard of proof. Its timing, scope, motive and subsequent leakage to the media were all made in bad taste. References See also First Congo War Second Congo War Gersony Report Great Lakes refugee crisis Category:Human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kevin Downes born September 21, 1972 is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and co-founder and Chief of Production and Distribution of Kingdom Story Company. Downes grew up in Visalia, three hours north of Los Angeles. Many of the Christian films he participated in were shot there. Life and career He has over 15 years' writing, directing, acting and producing experience, much of it in the faith-based market. His vision is to produce high quality motion pictures to share strong messages of hope, faith and love that come through a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The movie Mercy Streets which he produced was nominated for the Best Family Film Award. Kevin lives in Visalia, California with his wife Catherine and dog Darby. Kevin Downes is the younger brother of producer Bobby Downes who is the founder and CEO of ChristianCinema.com. In 2003, Kevin wrote, produced, directed and starred in Six: The Mark Unleashed opposite Stephen Baldwin, Eric Roberts, David A. R. White and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The movie was released wide in June 2004. In 2011, Kevin starred in the movie Courageous, directed by Alex Kendrick. In 2018, he started Kingdom Story Company along with the Erwin Brothers. Filmography Actor Producer Writer Director References External links Six: The Mark Unleashed Official Site Downes Brothers Entertainment Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:American male film actors Category:American film directors Category:American male screenwriters

Oxygaster is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in Southeast Asia. There are currently two described species in this genus. Species Oxygaster anomalura van Hasselt, 1823 Oxygaster pointoni Fowler, 1934 References Category:Cyprinid fish of Asia Category:Cyprinidae genera

Qoli Laleh-ye Olya , also Romanized as Qolī Lāleh-ye Olyā; also known as Qolī Lāleh Bālā and Qolī Lāleh-ye Bālā is a village in Qolqol Rud Rural District, Qolqol Rud District, Tuyserkan County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 42, in 10 families. References Category:Populated places in Tuyserkan County

Edward Latham Ormerod, FRS, MD 27 August 1819 18 March 1873 was an English physician and amateur entomologist. He was born in London, the seventh of ten children of George Ormerod, the Cheshire historian and his wife Sarah Latham, eldest daughter of the physician, John Latham. His younger sister was Eleanor Anne Ormerod. He was educated at Rugby School until 1838, was a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London until October 1841, and then went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he was awarded a classical scholarship, and afterwards scholarships in anatomy and chemistry and graduated M.B. in 1846 and M.D. in 1851. He returned to St Bartholomew's in 1846 to work in the post-mortem room as a demonstrator until health problems obliged him to move to Brighton in 1847 to practise as a physician. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1851 delivered their Gulstonian Lectures on the subject of Valvular disease of the heart. In 1853 he was appointed physician to the Sussex County Hospital. During this time he published a number of papers on medicine and natural history. His publication of British Social Wasps in 1868 secured his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 June 1872. He died in 1873 of disease of the bladder. He had married in 1853 Mary Olivia Porter, who died later the same year and in 1856 Maria Millett, with whom he had six children. One of his sons was the physician Sir Arthur Latham Ormerod, Oxford's first Medical Officer for Health. Works Clinical Observations on Continued Fever''', 1848 On Fatty degeneration of the Heart, 1849 On non-rheumatic Pericarditis, 1853 Degeneration of the Bones, in St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vols vi. and vii. Pathology of Fatty Degeneration, St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vol. iv, 1868 The Natural History of British Social Wasps'', 8vo 1868 References Category:1819 births Category:Medical doctors from London Category:People educated at Rugby School Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Category:19th-century English medical doctors Category:English anatomists Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:1873 deaths

Fuyang is a town under the administration of and in the south of Chao'an District, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, located south-southwest of downtown Chaozhou. Fuyang has an area of 38.5 square kilometers and a population of 97,000. , it has four residential communities and 35 villages under its administration. Notes External links Official website of Fuyang Town Government Category:Chaozhou Category:Township-level divisions of Guangdong

The European Union maintains delegations with the rank of embassy in many third countries, but there are delegations that are accredited to more than one foreign state. In some cases the accreditation country also hosts a consulate rank EU diplomatic office. Accreditations Similarly to ambassadors there are heads of delegations accredited to additional countries, besides their country of residence. Countries with accredited head of delegation resident elsewhere, that are hosts to an office subordinate to another delegation are marked with *. * from Ukraine delegation from Switzerland delegation from the delegation to the UN organisations in Rome from the delegation to the UN organisations in Rome from Kazakhstan delegation * from China delegation China SAR from Hong Kong office from India delegation from Indonesia delegation from Thailand delegation * from Thailand delegation * from Thailand delegation * from Papua New Guinea delegation * from Papua New Guinea delegation * from Australia delegation from Tunisia delegation * from Senegal delegation from Gabon delegation from Gabon delegation from Sri Lanka delegation * from Lesotho delegation from Mauritius delegation from Mauritius delegation from Saudi Arabia delegation from Saudi Arabia delegation from Saudi Arabia delegation from Saudi Arabia delegation * from Uruguay delegation * from Colombia delegation * from Nicaragua delegation * from Nicaragua delegation * from Nicaragua delegation * from Nicaragua delegation * from Nicaragua delegation * from Dominican Republic delegation from Jamaica delegation from Jamaica delegation * from Guyana delegation * from Guyana delegation from Barbados delegation from Barbados delegation from Barbados delegation from Barbados delegation from Barbados delegation from Barbados delegation from Fiji delegation from Fiji delegation from Fiji delegation from Fiji delegation from Fiji delegation from Fiji delegation * from Fiji delegation from Fiji delegation NZ associated state from Fiji delegation Responsibilities Some delegations are responsible for European Union activities and relations with third countries that have not established diplomatic relations with the EU and for special territories of EU member states, including some that are part of the EU itself OMR. Territories that host office subordinate to such delegation are marked with *. Kenya delegation NZ associated state Fiji delegation UK OCT Jamaica delegation UK OCT Jamaica delegation Netherlands OCT Guyana delegation Netherlands OCT Guyana delegation UK OCT Barbados delegation UK OCT Barbados delegation UK OCT Barbados delegation France OMR Barbados delegation France OMR Barbados delegation France OMR Barbados delegation France OCT Mauritius delegation France OMR Mauritius delegation France OCT* Fiji delegation France OCT Fiji delegation France OCT Fiji delegation UK OCT Fiji delegation See also List of diplomatic missions of the European Union Ambassadors of the European Union List of diplomatic missions to the European Union Foreign relations of the European Union European External Action Service References External links EU Delegations worldwide External Relations Directorate of the European Commission External Service Directory - accreditations and responsibilities Diplomatic missions Category:Diplomatic missions of the European Union

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Chak Imam Ali is a census town in Allahabad district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Demographics India census, Chak Imam Ali had a population of 4,124. Males constitute 54 of the population and females 46. Chak Imam Ali has an average literacy rate of 82, higher than the national average of 59.5; with male literacy of 87 and female literacy of 76. 9 of the population is under 6 years of age. References Category:Cities and towns in Allahabad district

Kórinn is an indoor multipurpose auditorium located in Kopavogur and built in 2007. It includes an indoor football stadium which meets all the international standards set by the International Football Association FIFA. The auditorium covers an area of 14,457 m2 and has a seating capacity of 2000 spectators plus an additional 50 honor places. The auditorium is designed to accommodate concert acoustics and has a total standing capacity of up to 19,000 visitors. Canadian recording artist, singer-songwriter Justin Bieber performed 2 sold-out shows at the arena on September 8 and 9, 2016 as a part of his Purpose World Tour. References Kórinn heitir nýtt hús í Kópavogi tekur 2.000 áhorfendur á fótboltaleiki og 19.000 tónleikagesti Kórinn Category:Football venues in Iceland Category:Sport in Kópavogur Category:Buildings and structures in Capital Region Iceland Category:Event venues established in 2007

Thornton-Cleveleys is an unparished area in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England. It contains ten buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish has an agricultural background, and is now largely residential. The listed buildings consist of former farmhouses, other houses and cottages, a windmill, and two churches. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources Category:Lists of listed buildings in Lancashire Category:Buildings and structures in the Borough of Wyre

Bada is a rural locality a selo in Khiloksky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located along the Khilok River. Population: History Bada was founded in 1895 as a railway station of the Trans-Siberian Railway. During the Russian Civil War in Transbaikal in 1920, the Japanese Expeditionary Troops and military formations of the Far Eastern Republic met at the Bada and Gongota stations to ensure a secure evacuation of the Japanese forces home. Prompted by the Japanese withdrawal from Eastern Siberia during summer of 1920, the Soviet troops launched a series of operations which ended in liberation of Chita and Transbaikal from the troops of ataman Grigory Semyonov in October 1920. In the following decades Bada developed quickly and its population increased significantly in the 1960s because of the nearby construction of Bada air base. Since the 1990s, there has been a permanent population decrease in Bada and nearby villages. The railroad is currently the only provider of employment. References Category:Rural localities in Zabaykalsky Krai

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Chen Qunqing ; born March 22, 1983 in Chenghai, Shantou, Guangdong is a female Chinese field hockey player who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She finished fourth with the Chinese team in the women's competition, and played all six matches. External links Athens 2004 profile at Yahoo Sports Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic field hockey players of China Category:Chinese female field hockey players Category:People from Chenghai Category:Sportspeople from Guangdong

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Mitch Anderson is a Romanian-born American film director, producer, writer, researcher and editor. He is the only son of former political dissidents of the Stalinist era. His first film, The World Without US, explores what might happen if the United States were to leave the international arena, rescind its global reach and return to being a non-interventionist nation. His second film, China's Century of Humiliation, examines how both Chinese and Western societies evolved based on their Confucian and Christian ideologies, respectively. His third documentary, The Men Who Lost China, explores how China's current foreign policy can be traced back to US involvement in the 1911 Chinese Revolution and the Western attitude to China after the First World War. Filmography The World Without US 2008 China's Century of Humiliation 2011 The Men Who Lost China 2013 References External links Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:Romanian emigrants to the United States Category:American documentary filmmakers Category:American film directors Category:American film producers Category:American male screenwriters Category:Romanian film directors Category:Romanian film producers Category:Romanian screenwriters Category:Place of birth missing living people Category:Date of birth missing living people