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Otago Central
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Otago Central or Central Otago was a parliamentary electorate in the Otago region of New Zealand, from 1911 to 1919 as Otago Central; from 1928 to 1957 as Central Otago; and from 1957 to 1978 as Otago Central. It was replaced by the Otago electorate. The electorate was represented by six Members of Parliament.
Population centres
In the 1911 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further seat from the South Island due to faster population growth. In addition, there were substantial population movements within each island, and significant changes resulted from this. Only four electorates were unaltered, five electorates were abolished, one former electorate was re-established, and four electorates, including Otago Central, were created for the first time. The Otago Central electorate mostly covered areas that previously belonged to the and electorates, which were both abolished through the 1911 electoral redistribution. Settlements that fell within the original Otago Central electorate included Roxburgh, Alexandra, and Ranfurly.
In the 1918 electoral redistribution, the Otago Central electorate was abolished. Most of its area went to an enlarged electorate, but smaller areas went to the , , and electorates.
In the 1927 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further electorate from the South Island due to faster population growth. Five electorates were abolished, two former electorates, including Central Otago, were re-established, and three electorates were created for the first time.HistoryThe first representative of the Otago Central electorate was Robert Scott, who was the incumbent from the Tuapeka electorate.
Members of Parliament
The Otago Central electorate was represented by six Members of Parliament:
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Election results
1975 election
1972 election
1969 election
1966 election
1963 election
1960 election
1957 election
1954 election
1951 election
1949 election
1946 election
1943 election
There were three candidates in 1943, with the election won by William Bodkin over James McIndoe Mackay.
1931 election
1928 election
Notes
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Category:Historical electorates of New Zealand
Category:1911 establishments in New Zealand
Category:1928 establishments in New Zealand
Category:1919 disestablishments in New Zealand
Category:1978 disestablishments in New Zealand
Category:Politics of Otago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otago_Central
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.714261
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Winson (cyclecar)
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The Winson was a short lived British cyclecar manufactured by J Winn in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1920 only.
The car could be ordered with an engine made by either Precision or Blackburne with a tax rating of 8 hp. Gearing was provided by a variable friction disk and then by single chain to the rear wheels.
See also
List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
References
Category:Cyclecars
Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Category:Companies based in Rochdale
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winson_(cyclecar)
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.715258
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Transport Act 1980
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The Transport Act 1980 (c. 34) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It introduced deregulation of coach services in the United Kingdom and allow authorities to deregulate bus services on a trial basis. It was introduced by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. The later Transport Act 1985 imposed bus deregulation of local buses.
External links
Hansard
Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database - Transport Act 1980
Category:United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1980
Category:1980 in transport
Category:Bus transport in the United Kingdom
Category:Transport policy in the United Kingdom
Category:History of transport in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Act_1980
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.717317
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Mannings Heath Golf & Wine Estate
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|course1 = Waterfall Course - 18 Hole
|designer1 = Harry Colt
|par1 = 72
|length1 = 6,683 yards
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|course2 = Kingfisher Course - 9 Hole
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Mannings Heath Golf & Wine Estate is located in Mannings Heath, Horsham in the south of England. The 500 acre parkland site includes two golf courses and a vineyard.
The estate was acquired by Penny Streeter OBE in 2016 and is a division of The Benguela Collection, a wine producer and hospitality group in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Mannings Heath hosts PGA EuroPro tours.HistoryThe land the course sits on was used in the 18th century as a meeting point for smugglers. In the late 1740s, its Hawkin's Pond was the scene of one of the Hawkhurst Gang's murders.
Mannings Heath was opened as a golf course in 1914, after having been designed by the English architect Harry Colt. Almost immediately after the course was laid, the land was seized for agricultural purposes to aid the war effort during World War I. The effects of war were felt again during World War II, when a Handley Page Halifax Bomber crashed on the golf course on 17 February 1945. The site has an official plaque memorial to commemorate the loss of life.
References
External links
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Category:Hotels in West Sussex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannings_Heath_Golf_&_Wine_Estate
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.720870
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Anders Daae (physician)
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Anders Daae (27 September 1852 – 14 June 1924) was a Norwegian-American physician.
Personal life
He was born at Fjeld in Hordaland, Norway. He was a son of vicar Jens Kobro Daae (1811–1897) and his wife Nicoline Friis Daae (1820–1895). His mother was his father's first cousin, as well as a sister of historian and politician Ludvig Kristensen Daa. Anders Daae was also a nephew of priest and politician Claus Nils Holtzrod Daae, and a second cousin of Norwegian customs director Iver Munthe Daae (1845–1924), prison director Anders Daae, jurist and politician Ludvig Daae, historian Ludvig Daae and Suzannah Daae Ibsen. Anders Daae's sister Dina married bishop Wilhelm Bugge, and as such Daae was an uncle of Fredrik Moltke Bugge.
In May 1890 in Chicago he married Ragnhild Blegen.
He was decorated as a Knight of the Order of St. Olav in October 1906. He died in June 1924 in Chicago of diabetes mellitus.
References
Category:1852 births
Category:1924 deaths
Category:Norwegian psychiatrists
Category:Norwegian emigrants to the United States
Category:Norwegian reporters and correspondents
Category:Physicians from Chicago
Category:Deaths from diabetes in the United States
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.723811
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Will Dixon
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|birth_place = Wood Green, England
|height
|position = Right-back
|youthyears1 |youthclubs1 Arsenal
|years1 = 1968–1969
|clubs1 = Arsenal
|caps1 = 0
|goals1 = 0
|years2 = 1969–1973
|clubs2 = Reading
|caps2 = 153
|goals2 = 0
|years3 = 1973
|clubs3 = Colchester United
|caps3 = 0
|goals3 = 0
|years4 = 1973–1977
|clubs4 = Swindon Town
|caps4 = 140
|goals4 = 10
|years5 = 1977–1980
|clubs5 = Aldershot
|caps5 = 120
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Wilfred Edward Dixon (born 20 February 1950) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back in the Football League for Reading, Swindon Town and Aldershot.
Career
Born in Wood Green,
Dixon briefly moved to Colchester United in 1973, but failed to make an appearance for the Essex club.<ref nameNB/> He signed for Swindon Town in September 1973 but didn't make his debut for the club until 1 January 1974 in a 3–1 win over Preston North End. He went on to make 162 appearances in all competitions and scored 13 goals prior to his release at the end of the 1976–77 season.<ref nameSTFC/>
After Swindon, Dixon moved to Aldershot where he made 120 league appearances and scored six goals, before moving into non-League football with Woking in 1980.<ref nameNB/>ReferencesExternal links
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Category:1950 births
Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from the London Borough of Haringey
Category:People from Wood Green
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football fullbacks
Category:Arsenal F.C. players
Category:Reading F.C. players
Category:Colchester United F.C. players
Category:Swindon Town F.C. players
Category:Aldershot F.C. players
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.726724
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Bara Shigri Glacier
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Bara Shigri (literally "Great Glacier", Bara "big" and Shigri "boulder covered ice") is a glacier located in Lahaul & Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is currently extending to 27.7 kilometres (17 miles) and covers over 126.45 square kilometres (51 square miles). It is the largest glacier in Himachal Pradesh.
Bara Shigri feeds the Chandra River which after its confluence at Tandi with the Bhaga River is known as Chandrabhaga or Chenab.
According to Hugh Whistler’s 1924 writing, "Shigri is applied par-excellence to one particular glacier that emerges from the mountains on the left bank of the Chenab. It is said to be several miles long, and the snout reaches right down to the river, lying athwart the customary road from Kulu to Spiti... In 1836 this glacier dammed the Chenab River, causing the formation of a large lake, which eventually broke loose and carried devastation down the valley."
Across the Bara Shigri is another glacier known as Chhota Shigri. It is, as the name suggests, a comparatively smaller glacier.
Geology
Bara Shigri glacier lies on the northern slopes of the main Pir Panjal Range of the Inner Himalayas. It is fed by various tributary glaciers with the main ones converging at about . The glacier debouches into the Chandra River through the Shigri stream which instead of joining the river directly from the south, detours to the west shortly after it leaves the ice cave and runs almost parallel to the course of the Chandra River up to Phuti Runi.
The glacierized area of Bara Shigri extends from at the snout to about at the headwall. The glacier has heterogenic surface characteristics, ranging from clean ice in the accumulation zone to extensive debris cover areas in the lower ablation zone.
Study History
The Bara Shigri glacier was first surveyed in 1906 by H. Walker and E.H. Pascoe of the Geological Survey of India. In 1955, the Geological Survey of India sponsored an expedition to this glacier as part of the Indian programme for the International Geophysical Year 1956–57, when a number of Himalayan glaciers were examined and their snout position fixed.
Retreat
Various studies shows that the Bara Shigri has been retreating continuously. According to one study, from 1965 to 2014 (49 years) the glacier lost a total frontal area of 1.1±0.01 sq. km, with an average terminus retreat of 1100.2±32.1 m (22.5±0.7 m per year).<ref name"ChandSharma2017"/>See also
* List of glaciers of India
* Chhota Shigri
References
Category:Glaciers of Himachal Pradesh
Category:Geography of Lahaul and Spiti district
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.733541
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W.W. (automobile)
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W.W. (Winter), was an early British car made by Winter and Company of Wandsworth, London. They made two models between 1913 and 1914.
The first car, the W.W. of 1913 was a light car powered by an 8 hp V-twin engine bought in from the Precision company. This drove the rear wheels through a gear box by Chater-Lea and shaft drive to a worm gear final drive on the rear axle.
For 1914 production changed to a cyclecar. This was sold as a Winter and had a Blumfield engine and friction drive with belt to the rear axle.
The number made is not known.
See also
List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
References
David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing plc, Dorchester 1997, .
Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag, München 2008, .
George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P–Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, . (englisch)
Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Category:Cyclecars
Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers based in London
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1913
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.W._(automobile)
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.734982
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25877275
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Maroubra Bay High School
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| motto_translation = Nothing Without Labour
| status = Closed
| established January 1955
| closed = December 1990
| type = Public, secondary, co-educational, day school
| principal = M. J. Carew B.A. Dip.Ed. (1955–1956, 1963–)<br/>Arthur James (1956–1963)
| grades = 7–12
| campus = Malabar Road
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| city = Maroubra
| state = New South Wales
| country = Australia
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Maroubra Bay High School is a closed high school in the south-eastern Sydney suburb of Maroubra. The school opened in 1955 as a junior boys school, and closed in 1990. The closed site was briefly used as a location site for the television series Heartbreak High. The former school site, adjacent to Maroubra Bay Public School, has now been redeveloped into town houses.
The school was originally opened as South Sydney Boys Junior High School but was upgraded to be South Sydney Boys High School in 1957. A further decision to make the school co-educational and transfer the school name to the Junior Technical High School also in Maroubra led to the name change to Maroubra Bay High School from January 1959.
The future professional golfer Vic Bennetts attended the school in the 1950s.
See also
* List of Government schools in New South Wales
References
Category:Maroubra, New South Wales
Category:Defunct schools in New South Wales
Category:Defunct public high schools in Sydney
Category:Educational institutions established in 1955
Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 1990
Category:1955 establishments in Australia
Category:1990 disestablishments in Australia
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.736993
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Security Studies (journal)
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Security Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal covering international relations published by Routledge. It was established in 1991. The current editor-in-chief is Ron Hassner (University of California, Berkeley). According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has a 2017 impact factor of 1.778.
Along with International Security, it is one of the most prominent journals dedicated to security studies.
See also
List of scholarly journals in international relations
References
External links
Category:International relations journals
Category:Academic journals established in 1991
Category:Security studies
Category:Taylor & Francis academic journals
Category:Quarterly journals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Studies_(journal)
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.738888
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25877283
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South Lodge Hotel
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| owner = Exclusive Hotels and Venues
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The South Lodge Hotel is a 19th-century five star country house hotel set near Horsham, West Sussex in the south of England.
The hotel has also been used in a number of feature films including the 2014 film A Dark Reflection.
History
In 1883, Frederick DuCane Godman began development on the original South Lodge modest dwelling in the same neo-Jacobean style as many other Sussex country houses of the period. Godman commenced the final substantial additions to the building in 1911 when the Drawing Room Wing was constructed. Winston Churchill was a regular guest to the house during his time in Parliament and to commemorate this the corridor through to the newly developed Sussex Wing from the Billiard Bar now marks the place where a lift used to take him up to the Elizabeth Le Bay room. During World War II South Lodge was used as a hospital and the country house opened as a hotel in 1985.
Grounds
The hotel is set in of woodland and has the largest single Rhododendron Arboreum in England. The record breaking plant is over 150 years old and currently measures tall.
Location
South Lodge is located southeast of Horsham, West Sussex in the south of England.
References
External links
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Category:Hotels in West Sussex
Category:Companies based in West Sussex
Category:Horsham
Category:Houses completed in 1883
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.741395
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25877300
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Menophra abruptaria
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Menophra abruptaria, the waved umber, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1792. It is found in south-western North Africa, southern Europe and Anatolia; in the north, it is found from England to Switzerland, south-western Germany, Bangladesh .
The wingspan is 36–42 mm. Adults are on wing from April to June. Normally, there is one generation per year, although there can be a partial second generation in summer.
The larvae feed on Ligustrum ovalifolium and Syringa vulgaris.
Buckler W The larvæ of the British butterflies and moths PlateCXI.jpg|Figs. 1,1a,1b Larvae in various stages
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External links
Waved umber at UKMoths
Lepidoptera of Belgium
Lepiforum e.V.
Category:Boarmiini
Category:Moths of Europe
Category:Moths of Asia
Category:Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.743720
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25877347
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Street Commission
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Cobblestone Commission (, often rendered in English as Street Commission) was a collegial body tasked with paving the streets of the city of Warsaw. It also financed expansion of city's infrastructure and creation of modern sewer system. It was formed in 1685, but it was not until 1740 that it actually started to function. The Polish parliament disbanded it in 1791 and passed its duties to the newly created Commission of Police and Good Order. The commission was one of the first bodies functioning in all parts of Warsaw, both the royal towns of Warsaw Old Town, Warsaw New Town, Praga and the jurydyka-type settlements, normally exempted from the city's laws.
The commission, officially styled the Cobblestone Commission of His Majesty the King and the Republic was initially created in 1685. At that time most of the city streets were unpaved and muddy. The city's infrastructure and sewers were also in a tragic condition. Headed by the Grand Marshal of the Court, the commission was tasked with paving the streets, creating sewers and wells, draining the swampy areas of Powiśle, building bridges and organising the daily functioning of municipal services. Its services were financed by both the state treasury and the burghers taxed with the so-called Cobblestone Tax, depending on the width of their building's façade (measured in Polish ells of ca. 79 centimetres).
Until 1693 the Commission existed mostly on paper. After that it hired a renowned architect Tylman van Gameren to build numerous municipal buildings. However, its main task remained unfulfilled. Despite initial successes, soon after its creation the Commission practically ceased to exist. It was not until 1740 that it was reformed by Franciszek Bieliński. Under his leadership in less than 20 years it managed to pave 222 roads, the vast majority of streets in Warsaw at the time. The commission also created infrastructure for city's expansion in late 18th and early 19th centuries. It created permanent market squares to empty the city streets of stalls, meliorated numerous swampy areas, and closed all breweries, pottery manufactures and distilleries functioning within densely built-up areas to limit the risk of fires. In 1768 the commission also hired five "Night Wardens", the predecessor of what later became the Warsaw Fire Brigade. The commission also issued numerous decrees, some of them later incorporated into modern Polish law. Among such decrees was a ban on dumping trash on the streets.
Category:Geographic history of Warsaw
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Commission
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.746841
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25877351
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Vee Gee
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The Vee Gee was an early British cyclecar made in 1913 only. It got its name from its maker Vernon Gash who was based in Leeds, Yorkshire.
The car seems to have been better engineered than most cyclecars with a tubular metal frame. The 8 hp V-twin JAP engine was air-cooled and had a conventional 3-speed transmission. This was connected to the worm gear final drive by a transmission shaft.
The open bodywork had a single bench seat that was claimed to be wide enough for three people. The selling price was 110 guineas (£115.50). A promised Sports model was probably never produced.
The number made is not known.
References
Category:Cyclecars
Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Category:Cars introduced in 1913
Category:Defunct companies based in Leeds
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vee_Gee
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.747897
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Hampden (New Zealand electorate)
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Hampden was a parliamentary electorate in the Otago region of New Zealand, from 1861 to 1870. The electorate was centred on the town of Hampden.
History
The electorate was formed for the 1860–1861 general election. Its first representative was Thomas Fraser, who was vacated for absence in 1862. John Richard Jones succeeded him in an 1862 by-election. He resigned the following year. Jones was succeeded by Frederick Wayne in an 1863 by-election. Wayne retired at the end of the term.
The 1866 general election was won by Charles Edward Haughton. He served until the end of the term in 1870, when the Hampden electorate was abolished. Haughton successfully contested the Wakatipu electorate in the 1871 general election.
Members of Parliament
Hampden was represented by four Members of Parliament:
Key
ElectionWinner 1861 election Thomas Fraser John Richard Jones Frederick Wayne Charles Edward Haughton
Notes
References
Category:Historical electorates of New Zealand
Category:1860 establishments in New Zealand
Category:1870 disestablishments in New Zealand
Category:Politics of Otago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampden_(New_Zealand_electorate)
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.752561
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Phtheochroa rugosana
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Phtheochroa rugosana is a small moth of the family Tortricidae.
It is found in western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, France and the British Isles) east to the Benelux, Switzerland and Italy, and further across the Balkans and Hungary to Asia Minor and Armenia. It also occurs in the Maghreb (possibly excluding Tunisia) and on the Canary Islands.
The wingspan is 18–23 mm. Adults are on wing from May to July. There is one generation per year.
The caterpillars feed on red bryony (Bryonia dioica) and probably also squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium). More unusually, they have been recorded eating rotting wood.
Synonyms
Obsolete scientific names for this species are:
Tortrix rugosana Hübner, [1799]
Commophila rugosana (Hübner, [1799])
Phalaena v-albana Donovan, 1806
Phalonia albana Kennel, 1913
Footnotes
References
(2009): Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae – Phtheochroa rugosana. Version 1.3.1. Retrieved 2009-APR-15.
(1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext
(2003): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Phtheochroa rugosana. Version of 2003-JAN-19. Retrieved 2010-APR-15.
External links
Phtheochroa rugosana on UKMoths
Phtheochroa rugosana on microlepidoptera.nl
Phtheochroa rugosana on Lepidoptera of Belgium
Category:Phtheochroa
Category:Moths described in 1799
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2025-04-06T15:55:12.755235
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Komaza
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Komaza is a distributed forestry company that partners with smallholder farmers in Kenya to plant trees for sale as sustainable wood products. They provide farmers with the support across the entire value chain, from supplying seedlings and other planting inputs to establish tree farms, up to harvesting, processing and selling mature trees to local markets. Komaza has planted nearly 7,000 tree farms and currently employs over 100 full-time staff.
With headquarters in Kilifi town, the company works with thousands of farmers throughout Kilifi County, and is actively expanding into Kwale County. The company has planted over 2 million trees with over 6,000 farmers in Kenya. Komaza has goals to plant 1 billion trees with 1 million farmers across 10+ countries by 2030.
History
Komaza was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard. Prior to starting Komaza, Howard had been pursuing a career in science from an early age. His high school science project on multiple sclerosis won Third Place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, culminating in being named on the Forbes ASAP list of "Top-10 Teenage All Stars." Howard then spent a gap year in Kenya, conducting malaria research at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Labs, a prominent medical research facility in Kilifi, Kenya. Howard then began his studies at Brown University, where we graduated with a degree in Neuroscience in 2007.
Howard started Komaza from his dorm room in 2005 while in his third year at college. Motivated by a desire to get rural dryland farmers out of poverty, he researched and developed several preliminary business plans, with trees emerging as the winner. Komaza started by planting a 5-acre demonstration tree farm on the Mombasa-Malindi highway on the outskirts of Kilifi town. After graduating university, Howard immediately returned to Kenya, hired an early team, and began planting with the first farmers in 2008. In that year, Howard was awarded fellowships from the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and the Mulago Foundation, two highly-selective social enterprise foundations in California. Howard has since won several awards for his work with Komaza, including the Social Venture Network's Innovation Award in 2010, an Ashoka Fellowship in 2011, and being named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2014. Howard has dedicated more than a decade to growing the organization to the point of planting 2,000 hectares over this time.
Micro-Forestry
Komaza's model is a combination of microfinance and sustainable forestry. Working through a village-based farmer extension network, Komaza identifies interested farmer groups under the advice and consent of community leadership and then provides them with appropriate agriculture inputs and tools on credit – such as improved seeds and fertilizer, on-farm training and support, and complete vertically integrated value chain services so that they can access markets and transform their previously unproductive land into valuable tree farms. Farmers can then reinvest this profit to start their own business, pay school fees for their children and receive improved healthcare.
Komaza supports farmers through a "Field Extension Network" of full-time field staff. Facilitators work in their villages to support farmers in their community. They are supervised by Field Officers who supervise hundreds of farmers in a location. Finally Field Managers provide training and management support.
Accomplishments
As of 2016, Komaza had partnered with nearly 7,000 farm families to plant more than 2,000,000 trees in Kenya's Kilifi County.
References
External links
Official website
Category:Social enterprises
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Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1860–1863
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This is a list of members of the 1st Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1860 to 1863, as elected at the inaugural 1860 colonial elections held between 27 April 1860 to 11 May 1860 (due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).
Name Electorate Term in office Joshua Peter Bell West Moreton 1862–1879 Charles Blakeney Town of Brisbane 1860–1865 Alfred Broughton West Moreton 1860 Henry Buckley East Moreton 1860 Henry Challinor West Moreton 1861–1868 Charles Coxen Northern Downs 1860–1867 Benjamin Cribb West Moreton 1861–1867; 1870–1873 Robert Cribb Town of Brisbane 1860–1867 John Douglas Port Curtis 1863–1866; 1867–1868;
1875–1880 George Edmondstone East Moreton 1860–1867; 1869–1877 Gilbert Eliott Wide Bay 1860–1870 John Ferrett Maranoa 1860–1863; 1870–1873 Charles Fitzsimmons Port Curtis 1860–1861, 1865–1868 Joseph Fleming West Moreton 1860–1862; 1866–1867 Frederick Forbes Town of Ipswich 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1868–1873 St. George Richard Gore Warwick 1860–1862 William Henry Groom Drayton and Toowoomba 1862–1901 Charles Haly Burnett 1860–1863; 1865–1867;1869–1871; 1876–1878 Hon Robert Herbert Leichhardt 1860–1866 John Gore Jones Warwick 1862–1863; 1865–1866 Henry Jordan Town of Brisbane 1860; 1868–1871;1883–1890 Charles Lilley Hamlet of Fortitude Valley 1860–1873 Arthur Macalister Town of Ipswich 1860–1871; 1872–1876 Robert Mackenzie Burnett 1860–1869 John Donald McLean Eastern Downs 1862–1866 Thomas DeLacy Moffat Western Downs 1860–1864 William Nelson West Moreton 1860 Patrick O'Sullivan Town of Ipswich 1860–1863; 1867–1868;1876–1883; 1888–1893 Ratcliffe Pring Eastern Downs 1860–1862; 1863–1866;1867–1872; 1873–1874;1878–1879 George Raff Town of Brisbane 1860–1864; 1865–1867 Henry Richards Town of South Brisbane 1860–1863 Charles Royds Leichhardt 1860–1864; 1868–1872 Alfred Sandeman Port Curtis 1861–1863 James Taylor Western Downs 1860–1870 George Thorn (senior) West Moreton 1860–1861 Thomas Warry East Moreton 1860–1863 John Watts Drayton and Toowoomba 1860–1862; 1864–1867
See also
Premier:
Robert Herbert (1859–1866)
Notes
On 22 June 1860, William Nelson, member for West Moreton, was unseated by petition. Joseph Fleming won the resulting by-election on 9 July 1860.
On 29 September 1860, Henry Buckley, member for East Moreton, resigned. Thomas Warry won the resulting by-election on 27 October 1860.
On 17 October 1860, Henry Jordan, member for Town of Brisbane, resigned. Robert Cribb won the resulting by-election on 8 December 1860.
On 21 December 1860, Alfred Broughton, member for West Moreton, resigned. Henry Challinor won the resulting by-election on 12 January 1861.
On 3 April 1861, George Thorn (senior), member for West Moreton, resigned. Benjamin Cribb won the resulting by-election on 26 April 1861.
On 16 May 1861, Henry Challinor, the member for West Moreton, resigned. He was re-elected at the resulting by-election on 31 May 1861.
On 3 September 1861, Charles Fitzsimmons, the member for Port Curtis, resigned. Alfred Sandeman won the resulting by-election on 15 October 1861.
On 14 January 1862, St. George Richard Gore, member for Warwick, resigned to contest a ministerial by-election after being made Secretary of Public Lands and Works. He was defeated by John Gore Jones at the resulting by-election on 4 February 1862.
On 22 April 1862, Ratcliffe Pring, the member for Eastern Downs, resigned. John Donald McLean won the resulting by-election on 2 May 1862.
On 26 July 1862, John Watts, the member for Drayton and Toowoomba, resigned. William Henry Groom won the resulting by-election on 11 August 1862.
On 3 November 1862, Joseph Fleming, the member for West Moreton, resigned. Joshua Peter Bell won the resulting by-election on 15 December 1862.
On 11 April 1863, Alfred Sandeman, the member for Port Curtis resigned due to complaints about his inactivity by his constituents. John Douglas won the resulting by-election on 12 May 1863.
References
Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860–1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
Alphabetical Register of Members (Queensland Parliament)
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Toyota concept vehicles (2010–2019)
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Toyota Concept Vehicles produced between 2010 and 2019 include:
T Sports (2010)
The Toyota T Sports is a concept car made by Toyota in 2010. It was shown at the Tokyo Motor Show.
FT-86 G Sports (2010)
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The Toyota FT-86 G Sports Concept is a modification of the Toyota FT-86 Concept manufactured jointly by Toyota and Subaru and shown at the January 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon as part of the Toyota G Sports range. The FT-86 G Sports Concept differs from the original FT-86 in the use of carbon fibre panels, a vented bonnet, a large rear spoiler, new 19 inch wheels and a custom exhaust. The interior features Recaro bucket seats and a rollcage. The horizontally opposed engine is upgraded with a turbocharger.
The FT-86 G Sports concept has reappeared at Toyota's showroom in Amlux, Ikebukuro. The production version of the FT-86 has been named as the Toyota 86.
GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept (2010)
The GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept is a concept sports car made by Toyota in 2010. It is made in partnership with Gazoo Racing.
MOB (2010)
The Toyota MOB is an all-electric open air race car made by Toyota in 2010. It uses reusable organic materials.
Prius Custom Plus Concept (2010)
The Prius Custom Plus Concept is a modification of the Toyota Prius and shown at the January 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon. The Custom Plus differs from the Prius by its aggressive body kit and new wheels.
FT-CH (2010)
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The Toyota FT-CH (Future Toyota Compact Hybrid) is a concept vehicle built by Toyota and first shown at the January 2010 North American International Auto Show. Compared to the Toyota Prius, the FT-CH is shorter in overall length and less than narrower in overall width. It is lighter in weight and more fuel efficient than the Prius. This concept is targeting a lower price range than the Prius line-up, thus "appealing to a younger, less-affluent buyer demographic."
The FT-CH was designed at Toyota European Design and Development. The NiMH batteries are made by Panasonic EV Energy Co - a joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic.
On 27 November 2010, the Sports EV participated in the classic car parade at the Toyota Automobile Museum Classic Car Festival in Tokyo.
Sports EV Twin (2010)
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The Toyota Sports EV Twin (Sports Electric Vehicle) was a concept vehicle built by the Toyota Technical College of Tokyo as an update to the Sports EV and first shown at the January 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon. The single electric motor of the Sports EV was replaced with twin copies of the same 28 kW electric motor wired in series. Each electric motor projects sideways from the central shaft in a similar manner to the sports 800's original flat twin petrol engine.
GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept II (2011)
A convertible version of the first sports hybrid concept. It came out in 2011.
Prius c Concept (2011)
The Toyota Prius c Concept is a small hybrid petrol-electric car which is the inspiration for the small Toyota hybrid that arrived to market in early 2012. It was first shown at the January 2011 North American International Auto Show. The 'c' in 'Prius c' stands for "city"-centric vehicle as it is much smaller than the normal Prius and is aimed at younger buyers without families who don't need lots of space."
Named the Toyota Aqua, the car was released in Japan in December 2011. Sales of the Prius c in several Asian markets began in January 2012. The Prius c was released in the U.S. and Canada in March 2012. Sales in Australia and New Zealand began in April 2012.
Yaris HSD Concept (2011)
The Toyota Yaris HSD Concept was introduced at the March 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The Yaris Hybrid is expected to go on sale in Europe in 2012. The concept car presented in Geneva had a solar panel located in the roof to contribute to powering the car's air-conditioning.
The production version of the 2012 Toyota Yaris Hybrid was presented at the March 2012 Geneva Motor Show. Sales of the Yaris Hybrid began in Europe in June 2012, The Yaris Hybrid shares the same powertrain as the Toyota Prius c sold in North America (Toyota Aqua in Japan).
FT-86 II (2011)
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On 1 March 2011, Toyota Europe presented Toyota FT-86 II Concept at the preview of the 2011 Geneva Motor Show as the successor to the Toyota FT-86 Concept. 'FT' stands for 'Future Toyota'. The vehicle was designed by the Toyota European Design and Development centre (ED<sup>2</sup>) with increased dimensions compared to its predecessor. It includes redesigned front bumper and headlights, rear bumper and tail lights, an added rear spoiler and side vents.
The production model will be known as the Toyota GT 86 (Toyota 86 in Japan) and was shown at the October 2011 Tokyo Motor Show.
European sales are expected in 2012.
Australian sales are expected in mid 2012 at
Prius+ (2011)
The Toyota Prius+ was introduced at the March 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The Prius+ is the first European hybrid seating seven passengers.
The Prius v went on sale in the United States in October 2011, and the Prius+ was released in Europe in June 2012. The 7-seater Prius v was launched in Australia in May 2012.
iQ EV Prototype (2011)
The Toyota iQ EV Prototype is the successor to the FT-EV II as an electric vehicle based on the iQ chassis. It was shown at the March 2011 Geneva Motor Show.
In September 2012 Toyota announced that due to customers' concerns about range and charging time, the production of the Scion iQ EV (Toyota eQ in Japan) will be limited to about 100 units for special fleet use in Japan and the U.S. only, down from 600 originally planned. The iQ EV/eQ is scheduled to be released in both countries in December 2012.
Scion FR-S Concept (2011)
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The Scion FR-S Sports Coupe Concept, where FR-S means Front-engine, Rear-wheel drive, Sport, was unveiled at the 2011 New York International Auto Show. According to Yahoo! Autos, sales are expected to start in the third quarter of 2012 as the Scion FR-S.
FT-EV III (2011)
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The Toyota FT-EV III was unveiled at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. The FT-EV III was the latest concept version of the scheduled Scion iQ EV electric car. Toyota produced three generations of FT-EV concept cars, and the iQ EV is the production version of those concepts, incorporating the technological and design strengths of all three models. The exterior of the production version is based on the FT-EV III concept. Sales of the Scion iQ (U.S.)/Toyota eQ (Japan) will be limited to about 100 units for special fleet use in Japan and the U.S. only, and are scheduled for December 2012.
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The Toyota Fun-vii (vehicle, interactive, Internet) was a 3-seat concept car unveiled at the October 2011 Tokyo Motor Show.
It was also shown at the January 2012 North American International Auto Show,
as the Toyota diji at the March 2012 Geneva Motor Show
and as the iiMo at the September/October 2012 Paris Motor Show
and the October 2012 São Paulo International Transport Industry Show.
It was shown as the Fun-vii at the March 2013 Bangkok International Motor Show.
The interior colours can be altered to suit the driver's mood and the entire exterior of the car can be used as a display. Navigation help is provided by a 3D avatar that is projected from the dashboard. The car can communicate by electronic network with other cars and the road that are similarly equipped. Most features can be controlled by smartphone: Toyota president Akio Toyoda called it a "smartphone on four wheels".
Initially the drive train was not known but it was revealed to be a pure electric vehicle with wireless recharging at the São Paulo show. Specifications were not given. The car is able to navigate by itself in "auto-pilot" lanes.
TES-ERA EV (2012)
The Toyota TES-ERA EV is a concept car made by Toyota in 2012. It was shown at the Tokyo Auto Salon. The TES-ERA EV has a top speed of .
NS4 (2012)
The Toyota NS4 is a plug-in hybrid concept car unveiled at the January 2012 North American International Auto Show.
The NS4 has similar looks to a lengthened Prius. Safety equipment includes pre-collision radar which alerts the driver and also guides the NS4 away from obstacles, headlights which self-adjust to avoid glare for other vehicles, cameras providing a complete wrap-around view instead of mirrors. A solar panel covers the roof to recharge the battery.
FT-Bh (2012)
The Toyota FT-Bh is a hybrid concept car unveiled at the March 2012 Geneva Motor Show.
Dear Qin (2012)
The Toyota Dear Qin is a concept vehicle made by Toyota in 2012. The Dear Qin was featured at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show as a Sedan and Hatchback. It is based on the Toyota Yaris and the Toyota Corolla Hatchback. The vehicle includes LED lights and sleek doors, making a striking concept car. However, the name Qin means "dear", so it is confused if the actual name is the Toyota Dear Dear.
Camatte Sora, Camatte Daichi, Camatte Takumi (2012)
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The Toyota Camatte is an electric concept car unveiled at the June 2012 Tokyo Toy Show instead of the more usual Tokyo Motor Show. The name 'Camatte' comes from the Japanese word 'kamau', meaning 'care'.
The Camatte's outer panels are removable, allowing the user to customise the body work. Two sets of panels have been shown - the Camatte Sora ('sky') has an aqua and white, rounded design with cycle guards over the front wheels and the Camatte Daichi ('earth') has a sandy brown, angular design with integrated front wheel guards. At the Tokyo Toy Show Toyota showed the body panels being swapped between a Sora and a Daichi.<!-- Having trouble finding refs for this one, maybe its Japanese name will help us find one トヨタ カマッテ たくみ --> A prototype of the front portion of the Takumi body was shown at the 2012 Tokyo Toy Show next to the completed Sora and Daichi bodies.
The sandy brown Camatte Daichi was made in a pale pink version for the 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition.
Camatte57s, Camatte57s Sport (2013)
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The Toyota Camatte57s and Toyota Camatte57s Sport are two new bodies for the Toyota Camatte electric chassis that were unveiled at the June 2013 Tokyo Toy Show. The Camatte57s is a roadster with cycle wheels with multiple selections of pastel colours for each panel. The Camatte57s Sport is a roadster with an enclosed wheel sports car style body with black, red and silver body panels.
Corolla Furia (2013)
The Toyota Corolla Furia is a concept car unveiled at the January 2013 North American International Auto Show. Stylistic elements of the next generation Corolla were previewed in the Furia concept car. Hints of the swept windshield and sloped roofline suggests the brand will follow the industry trend toward raked rear ends and more aerodynamic body shapes. It is also likely that the elements such as the LED lighting seen on the concept will make it into the Corolla (E170).
i-Road (2013)
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The Toyota i-Road is a concept car first shown at the March 2013 Geneva Motor Show. It has an electric drive-train and its two motors are powered by a lithium-ion battery that can be charged using a household outlet. One charge has a range of and a top speed of . It is designed for city use. It has no emissions at point of use. The vehicle is designed with 3 doors and 2 seats in tandem in a fully enclosed body.
Car and Driver describes the Toyota i-Road as "something of a cross between a car, a motorcycle, and a fancy golf cart". It is similar to the concept of a motorcycle but has three wheels. Toyota has developed what it calls "Active Lean", a new technology that helps provide the centripetal force to make the vehicle go around a corner and smooths the ride over rough ground.
Toyota refers to it as a "personal mobility vehicle". It seats two people in an enclosed cabin that protects the occupants from the environment. Its turning radius is about .
Currently, the Toyota i-Road is a concept car envisioned for urban use in the future, and there are no plans for general production at this time, The project will be managed within an existing car club. The i-Road will also be part of Toyota's similar ha:mo project in Toyota City, Japan.
JPN Taxi Concept (2013)
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The Toyota JPN Taxi Concept is a concept taxi unveiled at the January 2013 Tokyo Motor Show.
Me.We (2013)
The Toyota Me.We is a concept made by Toyota in 2013. It is covered in 100-percent recyclable polypropylene. The Me.We is a mix of a pickup, convertible, off-roader, and small city car.
RAV4 Adventure (2013)
The Toyota RAV4 Adventure is a concept car unveiled at the March 2013 Geneva Auto Show.
RAV4 Premium (2013)
The Toyota RAV4 Premium is a concept car unveiled at the March 2013 Geneva Auto Show. The vehicle was shown with only a single seat, while the rest is cargo space. There is room for an optional passenger seat. The interior is completely covered in plastic panels.
TE-Spyder 800 (2014)
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The Toyota TE-Spyder 800 is a concept vehicle made by Toyota in 2014. It was introduced at the 2014 Tokyo Auto Salon. It is based on the third generation MR2. The NZ engine generates at 6400rpm.
Camatte57s Sport LED (2014)
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The Toyota Camatte57s Sport LED was unveiled at the June 2014 Tokyo Toy Show as an updated body for the 2014 Toyota Camatte57s Sport electric chassis. The body is the same as the previous year except for an LED panel on the bonnet. Children can draw pictures on paper, which are scanned and then displayed on the bonnet. A Camatte chassis without body panels was also displayed at the same show booth to show children how a car works.
FT-1 (2014)
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The Toyota FT-1 is a concept car unveiled at the January 2014 North American International Auto Show. 'FT' stands for Future Toyota. While '1' means number one or the ultimate one. Little is known about this new concept car; other than that it has a front engine and rear wheel drive layout. Toyota did also state their new concept car draws inspiration from Toyota's past sports cars like the 2000GT, Supra, MR-2, and 2007 FT-HS concept car. Toyota did not state whether the FT-1 would use the Supra name, or if it was even bound for production. However, Toyota did say if the FT-1 is approved from production to expect a price tag of around .
Work on the FT-1 began nearly two years prior to the presentation. Kevin Hunter, the president of Calty Design Research in California stated that Lexus had the LFA and Scion has the FR-S, but Toyota has nothing. Mr. Hunter then pitched his idea to Toyota's CEO, Akio Toyoda for a halo flagship sports car for the Toyota brand. After receiving approval to build a concept, Calty designers began to sketch ideas and different concepts. In the end, a front engine rear wheel drive layout was chosen. Toyota has not disclosed the cost of building its FT-1 concept, but it is noted that concept cars usually cost around a to build. Hunter had stated that the FT-1 is still in the concept stage with no current production plans. He added that if the public's reaction is positive it would only help to move the FT-1 from concept to production and that anything is possible in the future. Alex Shen, the studio chief designer, also hinted at a price tag. He was quoted saying, "It's a Toyota, it ought to be affordable."
The FT-1's overall design was eventually incorporated into the fifth generation Toyota Supra (J29/DB), which launched in 2019 for the 2020 model year. However, much of the design had to have updated proportions and dimensions during co-development alongside BMW, due to being adapted around the significantly smaller BMW Z4 (G29) platform's shared hardpoints. Additionally, Toyota's goal of a price tag around US$60,000 for the production version of the FT-1 was achieved, with the fifth generation Supra being priced at US$49,990 starting MSRP along with a front engine rear wheel drive layout as proposed.
;FT-1 Graphite Concept
A second FT-1 was created and shown at the Monterey Jet Center in Monterey, California in August 2014. It was painted in a gray colour rather than the first car's red colour to shift perception of the vehicle.
;FT-1 Vision Gran Turismo
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the popular video game series, Gran Turismo 6 will feature a festival called "Vision Gran Turismo" (name reused from early GT5 trailer), featuring concept cars designed for the game by top automobile companies. Toyota created a unique design of the FT-1 concept called the FT-1 VGT, featuring more aggressive and race inspired body work similar to the GT500 machines from the Super GT series. A Gr.3 version, based on FIA GT3 regulations, was later created for the game's sequel, Gran Turismo Sport.
C-HR Concept (2014–2017)
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The Toyota C-HR Concept is a concept car unveiled at the October 2014 Paris Motor Show. It represents a styling exercise for a 2-door compact crossover SUV. An updated more production-intent version was shown at the September 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, now with additional rear doors and gray paint. A third version in red was shown at the November 2015 LA Auto Show as the Scion CH-R Concept, with styling closer to the original 2014 concept, but with rear doors like the 2015 Toyota concept. The Scion concept was also displayed at the 2016 Montreal International Auto Show and the New York International Auto Show, but as a Toyota due to the phase out of the Scion brand. The production model was launched in November 2016.
86 Tomica Concept (2015)
The 86 Tomica Concept is a concept car revealed in 2015. Takara Tomy sells a scale model police car based on the Toyota 86 under their Tomica brand, even though the police do not actually use the 86. It was built by Toyota Technocraft on behalf of Tomica as a full-size version of the scale model. The interior is mostly stock, except for the addition of a roof light switch, swapping the two-tone seat covers for plain black covers and no digital radio. The exterior uses the same paint scheme and roof lights as real police cars but adds a small, red Tomica logo on the rear.
UUV (2015)
The UUV is a concept car revealed at the 2015 SEMA Show. It is a Toyota Tacoma platform with a Toyota Sienna body. UUV stands for Ultimate Utility Vehicle. It includes Wi-Fi, internet, satellite TV, Skype capability, and a night vision camera.
Tacoma Back To The Future Concept (2015)
The Toyota Tacoma Back to the Future Concept is a pick-up truck made by Toyota in 2015. It has been shown at many auto shows in North America. The pick-up is based on the one showed in Back to the Future Part II, the second film in the franchise. The Tacoma is decked out with tubular bumpers, a roll bar, KC off-road lights, a black paint job, and a throwback TOYOTA graphic on the tailgate. With a V6 engine, the truck can go , with at 6,000 rpm and at 4,600 rpm. It has a towing capacity of .
Camatte Hajime (2015)
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The Toyota Camatte Hajime was unveiled at the June 2015 Tokyo Toy Show as an updated body for the Toyota Camatte electric chassis. The body is similar to a 1940 style Jeep. "Hajime" means "beginning" in Japanese.
A virtual reality version was also made with virtual bodies for an ambulances, fire truck, police car and hot dog stall. Children could design their vehicle and then drive it around a virtual reality track.
FCV Plus (2015)
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The Toyota S-FR Concept is a concept car unveiled at the October 2015 Tokyo Motor Show as an entry-level sports car. The design of the S-FR was inspired by the Toyota Sports 800.
Kikai Concept (2015)
The Toyota Kikai Concept is a concept car unveiled at the October 2015 Tokyo Motor Show in the style of a hot rod with exposed parts.
Yaris Legian (2015)
The Toyota Yaris Legian is a concept vehicle built by Toyota based on the XP150 Yaris. It was shown at the August 2015 Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show.
XTREME Corolla (2016)
The XTREME Corolla is a concept car shown at the 2016 SEMA. It was made for the Corolla's 50th anniversary.
Camatte Setsuna (2016)
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The Toyota Camatte Setsuna was unveiled at the April 2016 Milan Furniture Fair as a wooden roadster version of the Toyota Camatte electric chassis. The body has a similar shape to the Camatte57s but is made entire from Japanese cedar. The chassis is also similar to the Camatte57s but partially built using Japanese birch. The Camatte57s chassis provide 1+2 seating but the Setsuna is a more traditional 2-seater. The body panels are attached using traditional Japanese okuriari and kusabi joints, which don't require nails and allow the panels to be removed and reattached.
Extreme Sienna (2016)
The Toyota Extreme Sienna is a heavily modified version of the third generation Sienna, based on the SE trim. It was made by Rick Leos of Real Time Automotive in collaboration with Toyota. On the exterior, the Extreme Sienna features: a custom 4-stage process candy blue paint job, a custom wide-body fully-fabricated body kit, a custom anodized grille, tinted windows, anodized badges, LED foglamps, and a custom roof rack. For its suspension and brakes, it features: a custom lowered air lift performance system, Megan coil-over shocks, Stop Tech callipers, and a TRD big brake kit. Its wheels and tyres consist of Litespeed Racing two-piece forged concave wheels in a brushed-gold finish, 21x10 front, 21x10.5 rear, and wears Toyo Tires 255/30/21 front, 295/25/21 rear. Inside the minivan, it features: Euro Autolux leather (parchment as the main colour and cognac as the accent colour), reclining luxury heated chairs with built-in massage, Brazilian Pecan natural hardwood floors for the rear, an LED illuminated headliner panel, and embossed floor mats. It is equipped with the following technology: a 32" flat-screen smart TV, a JBL 5.1 home theatre system, built-in iPad controller, Apple TV, Apple-integrated Wi-Fi router, an inverter, and converter, and a custom 8-speaker audio system designed by JBL. Its 4-seater configuration and rear passenger setup appears to have been inspired by the Royal Lounge version of the Toyota Alphard, with the wood floors being unique to the Extreme Sienna. It was showcased at the 2016 SEMA show.
Land Speed Cruiser (2016)
The Toyota Land Speed Cruiser was unveiled at the November 2016 SEMA Show. Based on a J200 series Land Cruiser, the frame and suspension were modified to lower it substantially for added stability at high speed. The 5.7 litre 3UR-FE had two Garrett turbochargers (one per bank) added, along with unspecified internal modifications, to make a claimed . With a mild body kit, including front and rear spoilers and a flat under body, Toyota claims the top speed will be .
Prius G (2016)
The Toyota Prius G is a hybrid Toyota Prius upgraded as a race car. It was shown at the 2016 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show. It is based on the Prius GT300. It was tested on the Willow Springs International Raceway and performed 0.99 g on the skid pad.
Toyota-28 (2016)
The Toyota-28 is a luxury fibreglass boat, made in partnership with Yanmar. Shown at the March 2016 Japan International Boat Show, it entered production as the Ponam-28V. It featured a composite hull made from fibreglass, with supporting aluminium and carbon fibre stringers.
Toyota 86 Shooting Brake (2016)
The 86 Shooting Brake is a sports Hatchback made by Toyota in 2016. Subaru also made a similar looking BRZ variant.
S-FR Racing Concept (2016)
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The Toyota S-FR Racing Concept was unveiled at the 2016 Tokyo Auto Salon. The S-FR Racing Concept will have carbon-fiber spoilers, center-lock wheels, and a vented hood. Both the splitter and the canards on the car are made from carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP). The back of the car includes a massive diffuser, a center-mounted exhaust pipe, aerodynamic winglets on each side of the bumper, and a large wing. The sides were also revised for racing, now featuring aerodynamic side skirts, slender mirrors, and lightweight, black-painted wheels wrapped in racing rubber. The concept also switched from body-coloured to black door handles and had its fuel cap moved on the C-pillar. The interior features racing seats, plain door panels, and a flat-bottom steering wheel. It has an output of .
Setsuna (2016)
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The Toyota Setsuna is a concept car made by Toyota in 2016, and shown at the Milan Design Week festival. It is based on the Toyota Camatte. It is an open air, 97% cedar wood car. The car is planned to last up to the year 3000 before the wood is expected to be needed to replace. It has a top speed of , and a range of . It is not street-legal anywhere, but close to legal in Italy and Japan.
The special emblem on the cars hood shows a flower blooming, representing time evolving. The wood around the door mirrors, seats, steering wheel, and body banding lines have gotten a lacquer finish. The seats have been made to feel like a wooden park bench, but with leather. It also includes a "100 year meter", an always ticking timer counting the 100 years until the car will need a wood change.
Another main material is aluminum. Aluminum was used to make wheel caps, the steering wheel, and the seat frames, to bring some contrast to the car.
The car also gives the feeling of a boat on the water, enhancing the family-vacation vibe. The car can seat 2 people. Kenji Tsuji, the designer, said, "When we created the Setsuna, we envisaged a family pouring its love into it over generations so that the car gains an irreplaceable value. Continuous development is possible in the form of bonds between the car and the family, like the growth rings of a tree. To proceed with the development of a car utilizing the appeal of wood, we directly spoke with experts with wide-ranging knowledge, including carpenters specializing in temple and shrine construction and ship's carpenters. Furthermore, during this project, Sumitomo Forestry, a company that fully understands our concept, shared their knowledge of wood construction with us, and together we engaged in various types of joint development from the early stages, including wood selection and proposals for processing techniques and assembly methods. While we used wood as the main material, we also poured lots of time and passion into the car itself with our colleagues, creating a prototype and evaluating it so that the car would offer basic performance in the form of driving feel and comfort. By displaying the Setsuna, which was created with these hopes in mind and receiving a wide range of opinions, we believe that we can further improve this concept. One piece of feedback that we received in particular was the hope that we would incorporate this concept into car manufacturing in the future."
At the festival, Toyota build an exhibit using the same wood as the car, where visitors walk through a wooden "tunnel". A large neon sign saying Setsuna greets visitors as they approach the exhibit.
HiLux Tonka Concept (2017)
The HiLux Tonka Concept was a HiLux SR5 that was customised by Toyota Australia and shown in March 2017 to celebrate the 70th birthday of Tonka and the 80th birthday of Toyota. The yellow and black paint featured the Tonka logo in large letters.
The ride height was raised by 150 mm, with 17-inch wheels and 35-inch tyres. The bulged bonnet and the tailgate were made in carbon fibre. Roll-over bars and side bars were added.
Fine-Comfort Ride Concept (2017)
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The Toyota Concept-i first came out in 2017, at the Tokyo Motor Show. It includes 2 personalized robots that allow the car to communicate through lights, self-drive, and sense the drivers feelings.
Concept-愛i Ride (2017)
Toyota created the Concept-i Ride also in 2017. It is a mini-city car that allows people with wheelchairs to drive the car. The back can open, allowing wheelchairs inside the car.
Concept-愛i Walk (2017)
The Concept-i Walk is a mini-electric scooter for the use of pedestrians in crowded cities. Toyota wanted the concept to hit big in cities like New York City, Chicago, and Tokyo.
FT-AC (2017)
The Toyota FT-AC (Future Toyota Adventure Concept) is a concept car unveiled at the December 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. The vehicle is similar in size and form to the RAV4 but with bolder styling. Infrared cameras are mounted in the side mirrors and LED's in the roof rack can be used as a flash. Audience feedback at the show was strong enough that Jack Hollis of Toyota USA said there was a strong chance of the FT-AC going into production in a similar manner to the FJ Cruiser. The design was later adapted to fifth generation RAV4.
Fun (2017)
The Toyota Fun or Fengchao Fun is a concept car introduced at the 2017 Shanghai Motor Show. The sedan previews the 2018 Camry. The car uses sharply slanted LED headlights, similar to the Mirai's. Toyota increased the windshield's rake and lowered the roof. The ultra-skinny LED taillights are an attractive evolution of the parts on the Fun. It uses the TGNA platform, which is acknowledged as "the backbone of Toyota’s future global range." It uses a 3.5-litre V6 engine (or a 2.5-litre four-cylinder), but can also use a hybrid engine.
Hilux Bruiser (2017)
The Toyota Hilux Bruiser is a concept car built by Arctic Trucks for Toyota Great Britain to resemble the Tamiya Bruiser remote control scale model car. The road-legal vehicle includes a high-lift suspension, 17-inch wheels and 305/80 R17 tyres. Details from the scale model kit include blue paint, "Hog Heaven" graphics, white tubular all-round bumpers, a radio mast and a replica on/off switch built by Robert Selway.
i-TRIL (2017)
The Toyota i-TRIL is a concept car introduced by Toyota at the 2017 Geneva Auto Show. Designed for three people, the Toyota i-TRIL concept posits a new mode of transportation that is somewhere between a subcompact car and a motorcycle. A product of Toyota's European design studio in Nice, France, the i-TRIL is a podlike EV with a range of about . At long, it is longer than a Smart Fortwo. The car's rear track is half the width of the front, and the rear wheels do the driving. The connection between the rear wheels and the body is hinged, allowing the body and the front wheels to lean into turns by up to 10 degrees—an idea Toyota calls Active Lean technology, which it previously explored in the Toyota i-Road concept. The two butterfly doors take a section of the floor with them when they open, allowing for easier access to the central front seat, which swivels. The i-TRIL has a steering yoke but no pedals, and a head-up display replaces a traditional gauge cluster.
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The Toyota Tj Cruiser is a concept car built by Toyota and shown at the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show. It uses a monocoque chassis instead of a separate frame. The paint was specially designed to be non-slip and scratch proof. The three passenger seats can fold flat in order to hold more cargo. Production was expected to go ahead but as of September 2021, Toyota has made no further announcements.
Camatte Petta (2017)
The Toyota Camatte Petta is a remake of the Toyota Camatte, but is now equipped with a roadster body. It was introduced at the 2017 Tokyo Toy Show. its predecessor is the Toyota Camatte Takumi.
GR HV Sports Concept (2017)
The GR HV Sports Concept is made by Toyota in 2017, based on the 86. It features a targa-top, LMP1-inspired headlights and taillights, and a gas-electric hybrid drivetrain with a mid-mounted battery pack.
GR Supra Racing Concept (2018)
The GR Supra Racing Concept is a concept car that previews the racing version of the fifth generation Supra that was showcased at the March 2018 Geneva Motor Show. The design was inspired from the 2014 FT-1. It features a lowered suspension with Toyota OEM parts, BBS centre-lock racing wheels, Brembo racing callipers, a full roll cage and fire extinguisher system, a stripped out interior, Michelin track tyres and a centre exit racing exhaust. It also features carbon fibre for the bonnet, splitter, diffuser, mirror caps, side skirts, wing and bumpers. It is unknown what engine powered the concept.
GR Super Sport Concept (2018)
The GR Super Sport Concept is a two-seat concept sports car developed by Toyota Motorsport GmbH under the Gazoo Racing branding, loosely based on the TS050 Hybrid Le Mans Prototype.
e-Palette (2018)
The e-Palette is a concept automated battery electric minibus shown at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show. 20 vehicles were to offer SAE level 4 automated transportation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic villages, although the event was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Large doors and electric ramps were used to allow Paralympic athletes to board easily.
In August 2021, an e-Palette struck and injured an athlete walking on the pedestrian crossing in the Paralympic Village of the 2020 Summer Paralympics while under manual control by an operator.
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The FT-4X is a concept compact SUV shown at the March 2017 and March 2018 New York International Auto Shows. It was designed by Toyota's Calty Design Research Inc to be a compact off roader, and was equipped with 4WD as well as features such as a GoPro Hero 5 Session camera built into the driver's side rear view mirror, heated and refrigerated storage compartments, removable audio system, rear doorhandles that act as water bottles and a built in The North Face sleeping bag between the front seats. It is proposed to become a production model.
Noah MU (2018)
The Toyota Noah MU is a concept vehicle based on the third generation Toyota Noah. It was shown at the 2018 Tokyo Motor Show. MU stands for multi-utility.
Sonic Emotion C-HR Concept (2018)
The Toyota Sonic Emotion C-HR Concept was made by Toyota in 2018. It was shown at the Osaka Automesse.
GR Supra GT4 Concept (2019)
Based on the Toyota Supra released in 2019, the GR Supra GT4 Concept is a concept racing car that would be suitable for the European GT4 racing series. It was first shown at the March 2019 Geneva Motor Show. It has been lightened, the brakes and suspension have been upgraded, and a rear wing and roll cage have been added.
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The Toyota LQ Concept is a concept car made by Toyota in 2019, and is an evolution of the previous Toyota Concept-i, with a comparatively more production-like design. It was shown at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show. It includes an artificial intelligence agent "Yui", who delivers a personalized driving experience. Yui creates a unique mobility experience that builds the relationship between vehicle and driver by learning from and responding to individual preferences and needs. Yui can also select and play music based on the driving environment and provide real-time information on topics of interest to the driver. It also features Toyota-developed SAE Level 4 equivalent automated driving. Test drives have been available since September 2020 in Tokyo. Another robot in the car is Al. AI can engage with the driver using interactive voice communications, in-seat functions designed to increase alertness or reduce stress, in-vehicle illumination, air conditioning, fragrances and other human-machine interactions (HMI). Automated parking uses an on-vehicle system that identifies the current position of the vehicle using multiple cameras, sonar and radar, 2D road mapping, cameras installed in the parking lot and a control center. Vehicle sensors and parking lot cameras also monitor for other vehicles and pedestrians on the automated driving route, automatically stopping the vehicle when another vehicle or a pedestrian is detected. Driving information such as lane warnings, road signs, and route guidance can be displayed in a three-dimensional and easy-to-understand manner over the scenery seen through the windshield. The system helps keep the driver's eyes on the road thanks to a large 230 inch screen display.
In June 2020, the LQ Concept got a role in the Japanese tokusatsu drama Ultraman Z as a special military vehicle for the unit STORAGE<!--, and named Stig-->.
In August 2020, Toyota started road testing of the LQ Concept equipped with a solid-state battery.
In August 2021, an updated version of the LQ served in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay and as the lead vehicle for the men's marathon.
Moving-E (2019)
The Toyota Moving-E is a bus made by Toyota in partnership with Honda, introduced in 2019. It carries large amounts of hydrogen, external power output devices, and portable batteries. Its mission is to deliver electricity to communities who have suffered from disasters, such as earthquakes. They used Honda's Power Exporter 9000 portable external power output device, LiB-AID E500 batteries, Honda Mobile Power Pack (MPP), and Honda Mobile Power Pack Charge & Supply Concept charger/discharger for MPP. It can generate 454 kWh with maximum output of 18 kW. It was launched September 2020. The bus includes space for all the equipment, as well as seats for 10 people and 1 bed.
PieAce (2019)
The Toyota PieAce is a convertible Toyota HiAce with a built-in pie oven. It was not actually built but a press release with photoshopped images was released by Toyota Australia as an April Fool's Day joke. As part of the joke, it was claimed that they built 2,019 PieAce's, to match the year 2019.
It was claimed that the soft-top convertible option will be available across the entire new HiAce van range, including the two-seat long wheel base (LWB) and super-long wheelbase (SLWB) configurations, as well as the five-seat LWB crew vans and 12-seat SLWB Commuter buses. The PieAce includes a fan-forced oven and grill with four cooking racks and reaches a top temperature of . An alarm on the dash lets the driver know when the pie is cooked and ready to eat.
Unnamed Toyota electric concepts (2019)
During a media presentation in June 2019, Toyota revealed images of a 6 unnamed electric concept models, representing future electric models. This series of concepts is possibly named EV-e, as seen badged on some of the models.
* An SUV concept developed with Subaru, which showcased an unnamed concept with a very similar design during a technical meeting in January 2020. Design patents were discovered of both Toyota and Subaru concepts. The concepts would preview the designs of the Toyota bZ4X and the Subaru Solterra.
* A larger SUV concept that greatly resembles the previous concept, but with a longer roofline and a more upright rear. The physical model has the front Toyota badge moved up to the hood compared to the renderings and patents. The design patent of this concept was leaked out.
* A fastback estate or sedan concept.
* A smaller SUV concept which the design patent was also leaked out with the larger SUV concept.
* The Toyota e-Trans, a crew cab van concept that would be later be fully revealed at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show.
* A van concept that shares design similarities with the e-Trans.
APM (2019)
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The Accessible People Mover (APM) is a mobility vehicle designed expressly for use at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics, unveiled on 18 July 2019.
It has 3 rows of seats, and can hold up to 12 people. The APM has a maximum speed of 19 km/h, with a range of 100 km. Toyota provided 200 of the vehicle to move people at the Olympics. It has Level 4 autonomous driving skills.
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The is a concept electric kei car, unveiled on 17 October 2019, as a 2-seater urban EV. The range is estimated at and has a top speed of . It formally debuted at the November 2019 Tokyo Motor Show and would go on sale in Japan in 2020 under the C+pod name. Two versions were presented at launch, one envisioned for personal use and another for business purposes, the latter of which has a configurable interior and will not go into production. A 200 V charger can fully recharge the vehicle in 5 hours.
BEV For Business
Toyota also created a Ultra-Compact BEV For Business. It was designed for businesses that include repeated short-distance trips and parking, the Ultra-compact BEV Concept Model for Business serves as a "mobile office". It has 3 modes that the driver can set: travel mode, work mode, and break mode. It was introduced in 2020, and shown at the Tokyo Motor Show.
E-Racer (2019)
The E-Racer is an electric race car simulator made by Toyota in 2019. A driver can sit in the non-moving car and, with the use of digital glasses, experience a simulated race course.
Rhombus (2019)
The Toyota Rhombus is a rhombus-shaped concept vehicle presented at the 2019 Shanghai Auto Show. It has one driver's seat and room for three passengers behind, in a rhomboid overall layout. Toyota suggested it could be a taxicab in Europe by 2021. It was developed by Toyota's Chinese research and development branch, TMEC (Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (China) Co., Ltd.).
Yaris Adventure (2019)
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The Yaris Adventure is a concept subcompact pickup truck made in 2019. It was a vehicle for 2020 April Fools Day, similar to the PieAce which was launched as an April Fools' joke in 2019. The concept vehicle has 2 doors and 2 seats. It has a 1.5-liter inline-four engine that produces a claimed , as well as having a payload capacity.
See also
*Toyota concept vehicles (1935–1969)
*Toyota concept vehicles (1970–1979)
*Toyota concept vehicles (1980–1989)
*Toyota concept vehicles (1990–1999)
*Toyota concept vehicles (2000–2009)
*Toyota concept vehicles (2020–2029)
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Martin Woesler (born 29 September 1969 in Münster, West Germany) is a German sinologist, cultural scientist and translator of Chinese literature.
Sinologist, translator of Chinese literature
Woesler translated works from the Chinese authors Lǔ Xùn 魯迅, Zhōu Zuòrén 周作人, Xǔ Dìshān 許地山, Yù Dáfū 郁達夫, Zhū Zìqīng 朱自清, Bīng Xīn 冰心, Bā Jīn 巴金, Qián Zhōngshū 錢鍾書, Wáng Měng 王蒙, Zhāng Jié 張洁, Liú Zàifù 劉再復, Jiǎ Píngwā 賈平凹, and Hán Hán 韓寒 into English and German as well as of Cáo Xuěqín 曹雪芹 into German. Together with Rainer Schwarz he published the first complete translation of the Chinese novel The Dream of the Red Chamber into German. Woesler made available a lot of Chinese literature for the first time in a Western language.
In China, Woesler documented a critical campaign against the liberal Minister of Culture Wáng Měng 王蒙 and proved that this campaign was only superficially motivated by an interest in literature, whereas the actual motivation was political (Political literature in China 1991–1992, 1994). He turned the until then neglected genre of the Chinese essay into a modern tool to express the upcoming individualism in China before the eyes of the European and American China Studies (History of the Chinese essay, 3 vols., 1998). These short first-person narratives, which mostly appeared in newspapers between the May-4th-movement 1919 and the beginning of the 1930s, were a new form for the awaking civil society to express its views and feelings. From the 1930s until around 1979, the essay faced an ideological instrumentalization at the expense of its literary quality. Woesler drew attention to the essayistic work of Zhōu Zuòrén, the younger brother of Lu Xun, who was ostracized due to his positive attitude towards Japan and his independence from daily politics and propaganda. Woesler's re-evaluation of Zhou's work were confirmed by different scholars outside mainland China. In fact, Zhou's writing of intentionally unpolitical literature in a time when literature was instrumenalized, was a political statement by itself. Woeslers work in the tensional field between politics and literature stimulated further books on Zhou, mostly from North American sinologists, supporting the necessity to re-evaluate Zhou.
Since the 1980s, China sees the upcoming of a critical public again. Woesler sees here a parallel between the role of the internet since the 1990s and the newspapers between the 1910s and 1930s. In his books (China's digital dream 2002, and others), together with Chinese scholars, he came to the conclusion, that the internet in China has a more liberalizing impact on society than it has in more liberal countries.
Categorization and description of trends of contemporary Chinese literature
In preparation of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, when China was the guest of honor, Woesler categorized contemporary Chinese literature. He himself translated two very different novels for the Book Fair: The most uncontentious canonized classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, which has never been fully translated into German before, and one of the most contentious books of China today, Panda Sex by Mian Mian. As the main trend of Chinese literature, Woesler sees young authors describing their everyday life in a rapidly and excitingly changing reality. The main motivation force of this literature is the alienation, initiated by urbanization and loss of orientation. Young Chinese do not live in and for the traditional family clan anymore, but are on their own. This has added a more critical and independent view to Chinese literature. The stories are dealing with drugs abuse, alienation, singles and the world of dreams. This touches also Western readers of translations.
After the liberal 1980s, the 1990s saw a strong commercialization of literature due to an opening of the book market. Woesler sees the following trends: 'cult literature' such as Guo Jingming's Cry Me a River 悲伤逆流成河; vagabond literature such as Xu Zechen's Running Through Beijing 跑步穿过中关村 and Liu Zhenyun's The Pickpockets 我叫刘跃; underground literature such as Mian Mian's Panda Sex 声名狼籍; 'longing for something' literature, divided in historicizing literature such as Yu Dan's Confucius in Your Heart 《論語》心得 and Yi Zhongtian's Chinese History 易中天中華史; Tibetan literature with Alai; literature of the mega cities; women's literature with Bi Shumin; and master narratives by narrators like Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out.
However Chinese literature at the beginning of the 21st century shows signs of overcoming the commercialization of literature of the 1980s and 1990s. An example is Han Han's novel His Land 他的国, which was written in a social critical surrealistic style against the uncritical mainstream, but ranked 1st in 2009 Chinese bestseller list. The online literature plays a more important role.
Translations from Chinese into English
The Chinese Essay in the 20th Century, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 496 (xlii, 205, 229) pp., , incl. 42 essays, both in Chinese and English, and an introduction to the genre. It contains texts from Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Xu Dishan, Yu Dafu, Zu Ziqing, Bing Xin, Ba Jin, Qian Zhongshu, Yang Shuo, Sun Li, Wang Zengqi, Yu Guangzhong, Wang Meng, Zhang Jie, Liu Zaifu, Xue Erkang, Ye Meng, Jia Pingwa, and Si Yu.
Works on Chinese literature
in English
Martin Woesler, ed., The Modern Chinese Literary Essay - Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century - Conference Proceedings, Bochum, The University Press Bochum, 2000, 327 pp.,
Harvard lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, book series Scripta Sinica vol. 4
Yale lecture on the 20th century Chinese essay, Bochum 2nd ed. 2005, , 58 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 3
Comparing Chinese and German culture, Bochum 2006, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 2
in German
Chinese cultic literature 2008/2009 - authors, works, trends, Munich 2009, 127 pp., book series Sinica vol. 25
Chinese contemporary literature - authors, works, trends – A snap-shot 2007/2008, Munich 2008, 267 pp., book series Sinica vol. 23
Timeless Chinese poetry from the beginnings to the “China avant-garde”, Bochum 4th ed. 2007, 72 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 8
The history of the Chinese essay, Bochum, 2nd ed. 2009, xiii, 900 pp.
My Essays are my ‘Longing for Freedom’ - Wang Meng, Former Minister of Culture, as Essayist in the Period 1948-1992, ix, 394 pp, Frankfurt / Main, Peter Lang Press 1998
Political Literature in China 1991-92 - Wang Meng's 'Reform of Breakfast Habits'. A Translation of the Story “Hard Porridge” and the Documentation of an Absurd Debate, Bochum 2nd ed. 2003, 252 pp., book series Sinica vol. 13
Valuation criteria for literature – The Dream of the Red Chamber as the most important Chinese novel, Bochum 3rd ed. 2006, 66 pp., book series Scripta Sinica vol. 7
Works on the Chinese internet
Zhang Junhua, Martin Woesler, eds., China’s digital dream. The impact of the Internet on Chinese society, The University Press Bochum 2002.10, 274 pp.,
Literature
Wolf Baus, News on Chinese literature, in: East Asian Literature Bulletin (1994.11, issue 17), pp. 109 – 114
Wolfgang Kubin, Introduction: Prose, Essays, in: History of Chinese Literature, vol. 4, Bonn 2.2004, p. 3
European Science & Scholarship Association: Statement of the jury awarding Martin Woesler the prize 'Desideratum 2007'
Comparative cultural scientist
In the field of cultural comparison Woesler has advanced the existing models by contributing descriptive, high-contrast examples of distant cultures, like the Anglo-American and the Chinese. Here he has enriched the theory of cultureshocks with the term own culture shock, which describes the state of shock a person crossing cultures can suffer from when he returns to his own culture. Woesler has set different traditional models of comparison of cultures in the framework of a related system and further developed them in front of the background of globalization, mobility, and the internet. In 2006, he developed the model of culture maps, in which all cultural phenomena are positioned in a coordinate system and related with phenomena of other cultures. Applying the model, even mixed cultures can be described better than with traditional models.
Works on comparative cultural science
A new model of intercultural communication – critically reviewing, combining and further developing the basic models of Permutter, Yoshikawa, Hall, Hofstede, Thomas, Hallpike, and the social-constructivism, Bochum/Berlin 2009, book series Comparative Cultural Sciences vol. 1 [Introducing a model to compare distant cultures like the Chinese and the Anglo-American one.]
co-ed. of the book series 'Comparative Cultural Science' with Matthias Kettner
Sources
Interviews with Martin Woesler
Philipp Stelzner, "What do Chinese people read? About fast moving party literature and long novels" in: television channels N24/Pro7/Sat1, broadcast date 2009/10/15
Lisa Grant, Frankfurt/Washington D.C., American National Radio "Meeting of official and dissident authors at the Frankfurt Book Fair", background interview 2009/10/14
Angela Gutzeit, Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Rich Chinese Literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2009/10/13 4.10-4.30 pm
Henrik Schmitz, China for a long time was leading world literature, evangelisch.de, Frankfurt 2009/10/01
Nicole Stöcker, The Chinese culture has not yet shaken off its status of exotism, in: Buchreport, pp 54–55, Dortmund 2009/09/01, issue 9
Jennifer Minke, The hour of the young authors, weekly magazine "Börsenblatt", Frankfurt 2008/5
References
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Website of Martin Woesler with list of works
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Star Soccer was a weekly football highlights programme in the United Kingdom, which ran on Associated Television (ATV) from 1965 until 1983 when it was replaced by a networked The Big Match and spin-off The Big Match Live.
History
The programme's early years were from London but from August 1968 the show centred on Midlands teams. This coincided with the re-jigging of the ITV network. ATV was now a Midlands only broadcaster. The programme was hosted initially by Billy Wright and then Gary Newbon, occasionally joined by a guest in the studio. The main commentator was Hugh Johns, ITV's man at the microphone for the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final. Other commentators included Peter Lorenzo, Nick Owen and Peter Brackley.
Format
The programme's format was typical of the time, extended highlights of a London (1965–68) based match and a Midlands based match (from August 1968) was the main attraction and then shorter highlights of two other games from around the country, covered by other ITV regions. Where possible this would be a game involving a Midlands team as the visiting team. The programme was broadcast during a "glory" period for Midlands-based teams: Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa all won league championships during the show's run, the latter two adding European Cups as well. Wolves also had a successful spell, bagged a brace of League Cups and competed in Europe; Stoke City also won this competition in 1972. An entertaining West Bromwich Albion side broke new boundaries by including three black players, Coventry City gained a reputation as durable First Division battlers, and a young Trevor Francis dazzled all before him for Birmingham City before moving to Forest in the English game's first million-pound transfer.
All this was captured by the ATV cameras, but it wasn't just about the top division. Shrewsbury Town's promoted side were featured in Division 2 specials, and on FA Cup weekends many lower league sides were featured. ATV's links with ITC Entertainment enabled fans in the US and Canada to watch the best of Midlands football, with top Star Soccer matches repackaged and syndicated, as All-Star Soccer, to television stations across the Atlantic. By 1983 the appetite for live football was growing and the FA allowed games to be shown in a deal with the BBC and ITV. Match of the Day Live and The Big Match Live would become the banners for TV football for the rest of the decade. Both networks continued to show highlights, however, they were invariably shunted to late night slots at a weekend.
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| years3 2005–2006 | clubs3 Al-Wakra | caps3 ? | goals3 5
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Fawzi Bashir Rajab Bait Doorbeen (; born 6 May 1984), commonly known as Fawzi Bashir, is an Omani former footballer who last played for Dhofar S.C.S.C. in Oman Professional League. He has also played for the Oman national team.
Club career
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He has previously played for various clubs in GCC countries like Ettifaq FC of KSA, Al-Wakrah Sport Club and Al-Gharafa Sports Club of Qatar, Qadsia SC and Kazma Sporting Club of Kuwait and Baniyas SC, Al-Dhafra Club and Ajman Club of UAE. On 1 October 2013, he signed a six-month contract with Dhofar S.C.S.C.
International career
He has been an active member of the senior national team since the early turn of the millennium. Fawzi has been a very key player for the Oman national team, as well as his clubs in play making and scoring. He joined the national team at a very young age of 17 and from the very beginning was a member of the starting line-up. Bashir had held the number 10 shirt since 2001 as well. He was part of the first team squad of the Oman national football team till 2013. Fawzi was selected for the national team for the first time in 2001.
Arabian Gulf Cup
Fawzi has made appearances in the 16th Arabian Gulf Cup, the 17th Arabian Gulf Cup, the 18th Arabian Gulf Cup, the 19th Arabian Gulf Cup, the 20th Arabian Gulf Cup and the 21st Arabian Gulf Cup.
He first showed his talent during the 16th Arabian Gulf Cup in 2003–04, scoring two goals, one in a 1-1 draw against Yemen and another in a 2-0 win over Qatar. In the tournament, Oman finished at the fourth place, hence reaching its best ever position in the Arabian Gulf Cup competition, reaching the final four round for the first time, with eight points from two wins and two draws.
In the 18th Arabian Gulf Cup in 2007, he scored one goal in a 2-1 win over the hosts the United Arab Emirates in the Group stage. This was the second time when Oman reached to the finals but again they lost to the hosts, the United Arab Emirates. Ismail Matar, the Emirati legend, scored the lone goal of the match as United Arab Emirates won their first ever Arabian Gulf Cup.
Finally in 2009, he helped his team to win their first ever Arabian Gulf Cup trophy. He scored one goal in the 19th Arabian Gulf Cup in a 2-0 win over Bahrain.
In the 21st Arabian Gulf Cup in 2013, he made two appearances as the captain of the team but failed to score a single goal. Oman again could score only one goal and this time it was from the spot by youngster Hussain Al-Hadhri against Qatar which Oman eventually lost 2-1. Oman failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
AFC Asian Cup
Fawzi has made appearances in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification, the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification, the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification and has also represented the national team in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification.
He scored six goals in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification, a brace in a 7-0 win over Nepal, a hat-trick in a 6-0 win over Nepal and another in a 3-1 win over South Korea hence helping his team to qualify for the 2004 AFC Asian Cup. In the tournament, Oman won four points in a 2-0 win over Thailand and a 2-2 draw against Iran and hence failed to qualify for the quarter-finals.
In the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification, he scored a brace in a 5-0 win over Pakistan. Badar Al-Maimani scored one and the only goal of Oman in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup in a 1-1 draw against Australia. In the tournament, Oman won two points in two points in a 1-1 draw against Australia and in a 0-0 draw against Iraq and hence failed to qualify for the quarter-finals.
In the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification, he scored one goal in a 2-1 win over Indonesia. Oman failed to qualify for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.
FIFA World Cup qualification
Fawzi has made thirteen appearances in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification, six in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, seven in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification and eleven in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.
His only goal for Oman in FIFA World Cup qualification matches came in the first round of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification in a 2-0 win over Nepal.RetirementIn February 2013, soon after the 21st Arabian Gulf Cup Bashir announced his retirement from national duty. Basheer and Oman's coach Paul Le Guen were reported to have started drifting apart nearly a year and a half ago when the Frenchman replaced the midfielder with Ali Al Habsi as captain during the World Cup qualifying match against Australia late in 2011. Media reports suggested fresh differences between the two after a friendly against Togo in late 2012 which Oman lost 0-1.
Career statistics
Club
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!colspan="2"|Cup
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|rowspan="2"|Al-Nasr
|2003–04
|rowspan="1"|Omani League
||-||1||-||0||0||0||-||0||-||1
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!colspan="2"|Total
!-!!1!!-!!0!!0!!0!!-!!0!!-!!1
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|rowspan="2"|Al-Ittifaq
|2004–05
|rowspan="1"|Saudi Premier League
||-||1||-||0||0||0||-||0||-||1
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!colspan="2"|Total
!-!!1!!-!!0!!0!!0!!-!!0!!-!!1
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|rowspan="2"|Al-Wakra
|2005–06
|rowspan="1"|Qatar Stars League
||-||5||-||0||0||0||-||0||-||5
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!colspan="2"|Total
!-!!5!!-!!0!!0!!0!!-!!0!!-!!5
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|rowspan="2"|Al-Qadisiya
|2006–07
|rowspan="1"|Kuwaiti Premier League
||-||2||-||1||-||2||-||0||-||3
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!colspan="2"|Total
!-!!2!!-!!1!!-!!2!!-!!0!!-!!3
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|rowspan="2"|Al-Gharafa
|2007–08
|rowspan="1"|Qatar Stars League
||-||5||-||1||0||0||-||0||-||6
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!colspan="2"|Total
!-!!5!!-!!1!!0!!0!!-!!0!!-!!6
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|rowspan="2"|Kazma
|2008–09
|rowspan="1"|Kuwaiti Premier League
||-||0||-||1||0||0||-||0||-||1
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!colspan="2"|Total
!-!!0!!-!!1!!0!!0!!-!!0!!-!!1
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|rowspan="4"|Baniyas
|2009–10
|rowspan="3"|UAE Pro League
||12||5||-||1||0||0||0||0||-||6
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|2010–11
||21||7||-||2||0||0||0||0||-||9
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|2011–12
||19||2||6||0||6||1||0||0||31||3
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!colspan="2"|Total
!52!!14!!-!!3!!6!!1!!0!!0!!-!!18
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|rowspan="2"|Al-Dhafra
|2012–13
|rowspan="1"|UAE Pro League
||10||3||0||0||0||0||0||0||10||3
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!colspan="2"|Total
!10!!3!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!10!!3
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|rowspan="2"|Ajman
|2013–14
|rowspan="1"|UAE Arabian Gulf League
||11||0||3||0||0||0||0||0||14||0
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!colspan="2"|Total
!11!!0!!3!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!14!!0
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|rowspan="2"|Dhofar
|2013–14
|rowspan="1"|Oman Professional League
||-||1||-||2||0||0||0||0||-||3
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!colspan="2"|Total
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!-!!32!!-!!8!!6!!3!!-!!0!!-!!41
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International
:''Scores and results list Oman's goal tally first.''
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| 3 || 29 July 2001 || Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman || || 1-0 || 1-0 || Friendly
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| 10 || 25 September 2003 || Incheon, Korea Republic || || 1-0 || 7-0 || 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| 11 || 25 September 2003 || Incheon, Korea Republic || || 5-0 || 7-0 || 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 19 December 2003 || Muscat, Oman || || 1-0 || 6-0 || 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 19 December 2003 || Muscat, Oman || || 4-0 || 6-0 || 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 19 December 2003 || Muscat, Oman || || 6-0 || 6-0 || 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 21 December 2003 || Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman || || 3-1 || 3-1 || 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 28 December 2003 || Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium, Adiliya, Kuwait City, Kuwait || || 1-1 || 1-1 || 16th Arabian Gulf Cup
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| || 11 January 2004 || Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium, Adiliya, Kuwait City, Kuwait || || 1-0 || 2-0 || 16th Arabian Gulf Cup
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| || 10 April 2005 || Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia || || 1-1 || 4-1 || 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games
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| || 12 April 2005 || Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia || || 1-0 || 3-0 || 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games
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| || 16 April 2005 || Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia || || 1-0 || 1-2 || 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games
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| || 6 September 2006 || Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman || || 2-0 || 5-0 || 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 6 September 2006 || Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman || || 4-0 || 5-0 || 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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| || 17 January 2007 || Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE || || 1-0 || 2-1 || 18th Arabian Gulf Cup
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| || 1 July 2007 || Singapore, Singapore || || 1-1 || (P)1-1 || Friendly
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| || 8 October 2008 || Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman || || 1-0 || 2-0 || 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
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| || 20 August 2008 || Muscat, Oman || || 1-0 || 2-0 || Friendly
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| || 17 December 2008 || Muscat, Oman || || 1-0 || 3-1 || Friendly
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| || 10 January 2009 || Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman || || 1-0 || 2-0 || 19th Arabian Gulf Cup
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| || 31 December 2009 || National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore || || 1–0 || 4–1 || Friendly
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| || 6 January 2010 || Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia || || 1-0 || 2-1 || 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
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Honours
*With Al-Nasr
:*Omani League (1): 2003-2004; Runner-up 1998–99, 1999–2000
:*Sultan Qaboos Cup (2): 2000, 2002; Runner-up 1999, 2001
:*Omani Super Cup (0): Runner-up 2002
*With Al-Qadisiya
:*Kuwait Crown Prince Cup (1): 2006
:*Kuwait Emir Cup (1): 2007; Runner-up 2006
*With Al-Gharrafa
:*Qatar Stars League (1): 2007–2008
:*Sheikh Jassem Cup (1): 2007
:*Qatar Crown Prince Cup (0): Runner-up 2007
*With Bani Yas
:*UAE President's Cup (0): Runner-up 2011–12
*With Ajman
:*Etisalat Emirates Cup (1): 2012–13
Oman
*Arabian Gulf Cup:
**Winners: 2009
**Runner-up: 2004, 2007
See also
*List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
References
External links
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* [http://www.goal.com/en-gb/people/oman/37062/fawzi-bashir/national Fawzi Bashir] at Goal.com
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Luffia ferchaultella is a moth of the Psychidae family. It is found in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
Only the self-fertile wingless female is known, (unless it is the same species as Luffia lapidella).Cased larvae feed, often in flocks, on lichen. They can often be found in large numbers on lichen-covered tree trunks and fences.
External links
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
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| director = Hideo Gosha
| producer | writer Kaneo Ikegami
| starring = Tatsuya Nakadai<br>Junko Miyashita
| music = Toshiaki Tsushima
| cinematography | editing
| studio = Shochiku
| distributor | released
| runtime = 160 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget | gross
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is a 1978 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha. Based on the novel Kumokiri Nizaemon written by Shōtarō Ikenami.
Cast
*Tatsuya Nakadai as Kumokiri Nizaemon
*Shima Iwashita as Chiyo
*Kōshirō Matsumoto as Shikubu Abe
*Takashi Yamaguchi as Tsugutomo Owari
*Isao Natsuyagi
*Hiroyuki Nagato
*Rinichi Yamamoto
*Kunie Tanaka
*Shingo Yamashiro
*Tatsuo Umemiya
*Takuzo Kawatani
*Hideo Takamatsu as Yamada Tobei
*Tappie Shimokawa as Jihei
*Tetsurō Tamba as Kichibei
*Keiko Matsuzaka as Shino
*Junko Miyashita as Menbiki Okyo
*Ryōhei Uchida as Yomohichi Chiaki
*Mitsuko Baishō as Omatsu
*Mikio Narita
*Go Kato
Production
* Yoshinobu Nishioka - Art direction
Reception
Jason Buchanan at AllMovie says that director Hideo Gosha makes a "triumphant return to the samurai genre with this plot twisting, nerve shredding tale", but critic Alexander Jacoby calls it "a bland chanbara".
Awards and nominations
21st Blue Ribbon Awards
* Won: Best Supporting Actress - Junko Miyashita
Other adaptation
*Kumokiri Nizaemon
References
External links
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Kenny Dorham Quintet is a jazz studio album by trumpeter Kenny Dorham. It was his debut album as a leader and was released in 1953, on the Debut label as DLP-9 and originally included only tracks 1 to 3 and 5 to 7. Tracks 4 and 8 were released as bonus tracks on 12-inch LP OJC-113, whilst the CD release featured the previously unreleased tracks 9, 10 and 11. According to the liner notes on the CD back cover "Label head Charles Mingus decided not to release them at the time and they languished in the tape vault for almost 40 years, until their fortuitous discovery in late 1992".
CD track listing
#"An Oscar for Oscar" [take 1] (Kenny Dorham) 2:48
#"Ruby, My Dear" [take 2] (Thelonious Monk) 3:05
#"Be My Love" [take 2] (Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn) 3:34
#"Ruby, My Dear" [take 1] 3:09
#"Osmosis" (Osie Johnson) 2:42
#"I Love You" (Cole Porter) 3:53
#"Darn That Dream" [Take 1] (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) 4:47
#"Darn That Dream" [Take 2] 4:54
#"I Love You" [Take 2] 3:54
#"Chicago Blues" (Paul Biese, James Altieri, S. Walter Williams) 2:54
#"Lonesome Lover Blues" (George Jackson, Jean Lenoir) 3:06
*Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ on December 15, 1953 (tracks 1-9)and in New York City on October 21, 1953 (tracks 10 & 11).
Personnel
*Kenny Dorham - trumpet, vocal (tracks 10, 11)
*Jimmy Heath - saxophones
*Walter Bishop - piano
*Percy Heath - bass
*Kenny Clarke - drums
References
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Mark Eberhart
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Mark Evan Eberhart is an author and a professor of chemistry and geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines.
Education and career
Eberhart holds a BS in chemistry and in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado, an MS in physical biochemistry from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Keith H. Johnson and earned in 1983. He became a scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory before moving to the Colorado School of Mines in 1992. At the School of Mines, he has been president of the faculty senate; he has also been a Jefferson Science Fellow.
Books
Eberhart has published two books: Why Things Break: Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart (Random House, 2003), an autobiographical book describing his education and his studies of stress and fracture and Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction (Random House, 2007).
References
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Dominik Gross
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| citizenship | nationality German
| ethnicity | fields Bioethicist,<br />Historian of medicine
| workplaces = RWTH Aachen
| alma_mater = Saarland University<br>University of Ulm
| doctoral_advisor | academic_advisors
| doctoral_students | notable_students
| known_for = Vice-Dean for Studies and Teaching at the Medical Faculty<br>Rector's Delegate for Antisemitism Prevention<br>Medicine in the 20th century (with a special focus on the Third Reich)<br>Research on National Socialism and its recent consequences
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| influences | influenced
| awards =Joseph Schneider Award of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg,<br />Scultetus Award of the Scultetus Society in Ulm (2004)<br /> the Dental Ethics Award of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
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| homepage = [https://www.ukaachen.de/kliniken-institute/institut-fuer-geschichte-theorie-und-ethik-der-medizin/institut/team/prof-gross Prof Gross at RTWH Aachen]
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Dominik Gross ((), born September 28, 1964 in St. Wendel/Saarland, (Germany)) is a German bioethicist and historian of medicine. He is Professor and Director of the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.EducationGross studied dentistry and medicine at Saarland University and the University of Ulm as well as history, philosophy and archaeology at Saarland University. He completed each of these courses with a doctorate (1990 Dr. med. dent., 1993 Dr. phil., 2001 Dr. med.). In 1998 he finished his habilitation with the venia legendi for "History, theory and ethics of medicine”. Until 2005, he worked as a private lecturer at the Universities of Würzburg, Ratisbon and Ulm. memorial books book series and series in specialist journals. Since 2014, he has also been a member of the jury for the ‘Herbert Lewin Prize’, a highly endowed research prize on the role of the medical profession during the Nazi era. Due to his research on National Socialism and its recent consequences, Gross is committed to the protection of Jewish fellow citizens and the promotion of Jewish culture in Germany. In Mai 2024, he was appointed “Rector's Delegate for Antisemitism Prevention” at RWTH Aachen University
Gross' philosophical thesis and his habilitation project were funded by grants from the “German Academic Scholarship Foundation” (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and the “German Research Foundation” (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)” He received several awards (Joseph Schneider Award of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg, Scultetus Award of the Scultetus Society in Ulm (2004) and the Dental Ethics Award of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK).
Since 2007, Gross has been a member of various expert commissions and advisory boards (Grünenthal Foundation for Palliative Medicine, “Zwanzig20” consortium of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, “European Foundation Aachener Dom”, National AIDS Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry of Health, German Medical Association [Bundesärztekammer], Geman Dental Association [Bundeszahnärztekammer], Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, etc.). He was a visiting professor at the Charité and at the University of Zurich.
Gross is the initiator and chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee (KEK) at Aachen University Hospital (founded in 2008), and the founding chairman of the “Ethics Working Group” of the “German Society of Dentistry and Oral Medicine (DGZMK)” (2010). Besides, he is a founding member of the Ethics Group of the IDEA League.
He is an appointed member of the “Acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering” (since 2021) and of the “European Academy of Sciences and Arts” in Salzburg (Austria) (since 2011).
Since 2021, Gross has been Vice-Dean for Studies and Teaching at the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen. In 2024, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the “German Academic Scholarship Foundation” (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
Bibliography
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Selected papers
* Mathias Schmidt, Jens Westemeier, Dominik Gross, The two lives of neurologist Helmut J. Bauer (1914-2008): Renowned MS specialist and National Socialist, Neurology 93/3 (2019), 109-113,
* Mathias Schmidt, Saskia Wilhelmy, Dominik Gross, Retrospective diagnosis of mental illness: past and present, The Lancet Psychiatry 7/1 (2020), 14-16,
* Christiane E. Rinnen, Jens Westemeier, Dominik Gross, Nazi dentists on trial. On the political complicity of a long-neglected professional community, Endeavour 44/1-2 (2020),
* Cynthia Bergmann, Jens Westemeier, Dominik Gross, Dental editors and their role in the Third Reich and after 1945. A sociodemographic study, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 76 (2021), jrab045,
* Hendrik Uhlendahl, Nico Biermanns, Janina Sziranyi, Dominik Groß, Success or failure? Pathologists persecuted under National Socialism and their careers after emigrating to the United States, Pathology – Research and Practice 218 (2021), 153315,
* Saskia Wilhelmy, Rebecca Ulrich, Dominik Gross, Just two sides of the same coin? Ethical issues and discourses on COVID-19 and Ebola. A comparative literature analysis, Historical Social Research 46/3 (2021), 247-284,
* Theresa Duckwitz, Dominik Gross, Searching for motives: Suicides of doctors and dentists in the Third Reich and the postwar period (1933-1949), Endeavour 46 (2022), 100800,
* Dominik Gross, Saskia Wilhelmy, The recent ethics boom in dentistry - moral fig leaf, fleeting trend or professional awakening? Clinical Oral Investigations 27/12 (2023), 7935-7940,
* Saskia Wilhelmy, Giancarlo Giupponi, Dominik Groß, Klaus Eisendle, Andreas Conca, A shift in psychiatry through AI? Ethical challenges, Annals of General Psychiatry 22 (2023), 43,
* Nataliya Sira, Marie Decker, Clara Lemke, Ann-Kristin Winkens, Carmen Leicht- Scholten, Dominik Gross, Teaching Scientific Integrity in Academia: What and How Students Want to Learn?. Journal of Academic Ethics 22 (2024),
References
External links
* [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB4.1/SET1/TTL11/CMD?ACTSRCHA&IKT1004&SRTYOP&TRM=Gro%C3%9F%2C+dominik Dominik Groß at Deutsche Nationalbibliothek]
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Sir Fulke Greville
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Sir Fulke Greville (1536 – 15 November 1606) of Beauchamp Court near Alcester in Warwickshire, was an English gentleman.
Origins
He was born in 1536, the son of Sir Fulke Greville (d. 10 November 1559) by his wife Elizabeth Willoughby, 3rd Baroness Willoughby de Broke (d.1562), grand daughter and heiress of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, the wealthiest heiress of her time.
Inheritance
His mother Elizabeth Willoughby survived her sisters, who had no children. By modern law, this would mean that she would have become suo jure'' Baroness Willoughby de Broke (and Baroness Latimer), both ancient titles created by writ and thus able to pass to females. Thus her son Fulk Greville would in turn have inherited from her as 4th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 12th Baron Latimer but this right was not established in law until 1696, by his great-grandson, the 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke.
Marriage and children
In 1553 he married Anne Neville (d.1583), a daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, a distant cousin. They had the following children:
*Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke
*Margaret Greville (1561–1631/2), who married Sir Richard Verney, High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1572.
Life, Death & succession
Educated at Shrewsbury, Greville was treasurer of the Navy until April 1604, and was keen on falconry. In 1602 one of the falcons was found at Seaton in Devonshire. Its silver rings were engraved with Greville's name and the device of the stern of a ship.
On his death on 15 November 1606 at Beauchamp Court near Alcester, his estate (including any claim to the titles) passed to his eldest son, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke. After the murder of his son in 1628, they passed to his daughter Margaret Greville, 6th Baroness Willoughby de Broke, wife of Sir Richard Verney of Compton Verney in Warwickshire.The modern day line of this family came through 4th Baron Greville Ronald Fulke Greville, born 1912, died 1987 with no issue. There was a second son Peter Charles Algernon Ascroft Greville, born 1916 at Ankerwycke Priory, died 2007 who should have gained the title 5th Baron Greville. His eldest son Christopher Brooke Fulke Greville born 1951 may become the 6th Baron Greville. Debretts & Burkes Peerage 2003.
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Gertrud Rask (167321 December 1735) was the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede and was the mother of the missionary and translator Paul Egede.
Life in Norway
Gertrud Rask (the parish register records her as Gjertrud Nilsdatter Rasch) was born on the island of Kveøya in Troms county, Norway, the third of six children of Niels Nielsen Rasch (1641–1704) and Nille Nilsdatter (d. 1716). Growing up in the harsh climate of northern Norway, she was 34 when she married Hans Egede, the 21-year-old pastor of Vågan Church in the Lofoten archipelago. They had four children : Sons- Poul (1709–1789) & Niels (1710–1782) ; Daughters- Kirstine Matthea (1715–1786) and Petronelle (1716–1805).
Her husband's determination to establish a Greenland mission had become firm by 1710 at the latest; Gertrud Rask Egede strongly resisted his plan initially, but eventually she bent to his will after he promised not to go to Greenland without her.
Mission to Greenland
In 1718, the couple and their children moved to Bergen, whence – at the conclusion of the Great Northern War – they set sail for Greenland on 12 May 1721, arriving at Baal's River (the modern Nuup Kangerlua) on the southwest coast on 3 July. Hope Colony (Haabets Koloni) was established on Kangeq Island at the mouth of the fjord; the remains of the house where the family lived together with (initially) about 25 other people are still preserved. The settlement was moved to the mainland and renamed Godthaab by the royal governor Claus Paarss in 1728.
Despite her strong Pietist bias, Gertrud supported her husband's missionary work among the Inuit, working among them as a nurse. In 1733, the Moravian missionaries Christian Stach, Matthias Stach, and Christian David arrived and began the settlement that would become first New Herrnhut and then Nuuk. Also with them, however, was one of Hans Egede's child converts who had been sent to Denmark to participate in the festivities around the coronation of Christian VI: the child had contracted smallpox and spread the disease to the defenseless Inuit, thousands of whom died over the next two years. Gertrud Egede worked among them, but finally succumbed herself in 1735.
In 1736, her husband left the island in the care of his son Poul and returned her body to Denmark for burial at the St. Nikolai Church in Copenhagen (now Kunsthallen Nikolaj) where Egede himself was buried upon his death in 1758.
Legacy
Gertrud Rask Land in Greenland, roads in both Greenland and Denmark, a church in Qaqortoq (then known as Julianehåb), a children's home and a restaurant in Nuuk have all been named after Gertrud Rask.
An icebreaking steamship, the Gertrude Rask, was launched in Nakskov, Denmark in 1923. The 47-metre ship was used for Greenlandic trade and for several exploration trips from Copenhagen to Greenland, but sank off Nova Scotia in 1942.
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Dark Void Zero
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Dark Void Zero is a platform video game developed by Other Ocean Interactive's Newfoundland studio and published by Capcom for DSiWare. It was made as an April Fools parody of the video game Dark Void and was later decided to make it an actual title; it was promoted as a game "found" in Capcom's vault. The game was released in April 2010 for iOS and on Microsoft Windows through Steam.
Capcom announced through the Steam page that on May 8, 2024 Dark Void Zero, Flock!, and Dark Void would be delisted, meaning no additional purchases could be made on the platform. Dark Void Zero never received a physical release making it permanently unavailable anywhere due to all other versions being discontinued as well.Plot
In an unspecified year, aliens, called Watchers, came from an extinct planet, searching for a new home. Then they found Earth. The military was able to hold them away from it, but then they built portals in an area in outer space, the Void. These portals linked to various locations on Earth, but they were unstable, and could not be used efficiently. But eventually, in the middle of the Void, they built a final, stable portal, which was still in the process of linking with Earth.
Many skilled soldiers were sent into the Void, all of them meeting their ends. Until finally, the military sent in experts: A soldier named Rusty, who was actually born in the Void, and Nikola Tesla. Once there, they began to charge through the Watchers' forces, stealing the portal control codes from two bases set up in the void, until finally moving onto a third facility, where the main portal was kept, and where the final code was also guarded, more closely than the previous two. There, Rusty and Tesla would finally attempt to shut down the portal and save mankind.
Development
Capcom-Unity manager Seth Killian stated that Dark Void Zero started as a joke after he had heard an 8-bit rendition of Dark Voids main theme in its end credits. This song, along with the soundtrack of Dark Void Zero, was composed by Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary.
At the beginning of the game, players must blow into the Nintendo DSi's microphone to clear the dust off of an in-game cartridge, similar to how NES cartridges would have to be blown into at times.Fictional development
The fictional story of the development of Dark Void Zero is given in the official trailer as:
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In the year 198X, the PlayChoice-10 was the first arcade cabinet to feature two interactive screens. Capcom soon began developing a game to make use of this advanced technology. This ground breaking title was called: Dark Void. Unfortunately, the PlayChoice-10 was discontinued and the project was cancelled. In the year 20XX, Capcom found the project buried deep inside its vault. Its concept inspired a new adventure of the same name. But... the original game... locked away for decades... is now back from the void...
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However, this story contradicts the one given in the DSiWare Shop summary, which states that Dark Void Zero was a "legendary 'lost project'" at Capcom, recreated for the DSi, rather than being forgotten until 2010 and being a port of the original.
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The DS and iOS versions received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. he later retracted his statement after playing it at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), commenting that it felt like a NES-era title. GamePro editor Dave Rudden called it one of the coolest games at the CES, comparing it to the "Metroidvania" genre, which is a combination of the styles of Metroid and Castlevania, as well as video games such as Contra. Kombo editor David Oxford commented that Dark Void Zero was better than its parent video game, comparing it to Bionic Commando Rearmed in how both promotional games surpassed the games they were promoting.
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Greater Poland (disambiguation)
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Greater Poland or Great Poland (Polish: Wielkopolska) is a historic region of west-central Poland.
Greater Poland may also refer to:
the Duchy of Greater Poland (1138–1320)
Greater Poland Voivodeship or Wielkopolska Province, reformed in 1999
Greater Poland Regional Assembly
Greater Poland (European Parliament constituency), formed after the 2004 enlargement of the European Union
Greater Poland National Park, a national park in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Greater Poland Park, an urban park in Warsaw, Poland
See also
Greater Poland Uprising (disambiguation)
Polish irredentism
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Heathrow Central bus station is a large bus station that serves terminals 2 and 3 of Heathrow Airport, in London, England. It provides urban bus and long-distance coach services to destinations in London and to regional destinations across Britain. It is the UK's busiest bus and coach station with over 1,600 services each day to over 1,000 destinations. An estimated 13% of air passengers using Heathrow Airport use bus and coach services from Heathrow Central bus station.ServicesLocal London Buses operate from stands 18 and 19 as far as Uxbridge, Ruislip, Harrow, Greenford, Hounslow, Kingston and Croydon. A night bus operates into Central London.
First Beeline, Arriva Herts & Essex, Carousel Buses and Diamond South East operate bus services from stand 20 to destinations including Maidenhead, Slough, High Wycombe, Whitley Village, Watford, St Albans and Harlow.Transport interchangeHeathrow Central bus station is situated directly above Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 tube station on the Piccadilly line of London Underground linked by escalators and lifts. It is also linked by underground walkways to Heathrow Central railway station, which is served by the Elizabeth line and Heathrow Express. Both these stations provide direct rail links with Central London.
Access to terminals
Heathrow Central bus station is open 24 hours a day and it is connected to Terminals 2 and 3 via underground walkways.
Air passengers travelling through Terminals 4 and 5 can use rail services free of charge within the Heathrow free travel zone to reach the bus station. A travel centre at the central bus station provides travel information.ReferencesExternal links
* [http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/heathrow-terminals-2-and-3-a4-071219.pdf Buses from Heathrow Central Bus Station - Transport for London]
* [http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/information/heathrow-airport/heathrow-central-bus-coach-station.htm Heathrow Central Bus and Coach Station] Milesfaster
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Pitcairnia atrorubens
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Pitcairnia atrorubens is a species of flowering plant in Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, and western Mexico as far north as Nayarit.
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Laira Bridge is a disused railway bridge that crosses the River Plym in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. In 2015, it was refurbished to carry a pedestrian and cycle path.
The name is also used to refer to the road bridge that runs alongside and carries the A379 road. History
The bridge carried the London and South Western Railway branch to Turnchapel over the River Plym in Devon. Later the Great Western Railway also had running powers over the bridge, providing access to their Yealmpton branch at . The bridge was built by Messrs Relf and Pethick after being authorised by an act of parliament in 1883. It was completed by 1887, and was opened in July 1892.
Passenger trains ceased to use it when the passenger services to Turnchapel and Yealmpton were terminated in the 1950s, but the bridge remained in use to serve the Associated Portland Cement works. It finally closed to traffic in the 1990s. Refurbishment In 2015, the bridge was restored at a cost of £3.5 million in order to turn it into a cycle and pedestrian pathway. The bridge reopened in May 2015, linking into existing footpaths and cycleways which join Devonport and Stonehouse in the west to Plymstock and Plympton in the east, including Route 27 of the National Cycle Network. and from the government's local sustainable transport fund.<ref name":0" />References
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Innovative financing
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Innovative financing refers to a range of non-traditional mechanisms to raise funds for development aid through "innovative" projects such as micro-contributions, taxes, public-private partnerships and market-based financial transactions.
As of the beginning of 2010, most of the existing innovative financing mechanisms were allocated for the health care sector in developing countries. By 2010, Innovative financing mechanisms had raised US$2 billion for health care systems.
Origin
The concept "innovative financing for development" was first mentioned and introduced at the International Conference on Financing for Development in 2002. The Conference led to what is now called the Monterrey Consensus where signatories acknowledged "…the value of exploring innovative sources of finance provided that those sources do not unduly burden developing countries."
Innovative financing mechanisms were born out of a need to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases such as Tuberculosis. So far, most donor states have failed to meet their 0.7% commitment from the Monterrey Consensus of their Gross National Income (GNI) dedicated to Official Development Assistance.
Furthermore, in most developing countries the budget allocated for the social, and especially the Health sector, has been insufficient as it fails to meet the 15% Gross National Product (GNP) requirement dedicated to the Health Sector stated in the Abuja declaration of African leaders in 2001.
Innovative financing mechanisms emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century as alternative mechanisms to help bridge the development financing gap.
Principles of innovative financing mechanisms
Innovative financing mechanisms can be assessed regarding the following principles:
Scaling-up: Innovative financing mechanisms should significantly increase funding in order to bridge the financing gap necessary to achieve the MDGs.
Additionality: Since these mechanisms were created to fill this gap, innovative financing mechanisms cannot replace Official Development Assistance nor will they be sufficient if certain countries decide to renounce the commitments that they have made.
Complementarity: The role of innovative financing mechanisms is to raise new funds for existing organizations and not to add new actors and complexities to the development landscape.
Sustainability: In order to have a significant and sustainable impact on the MDG's, innovative financing mechanisms should have the objective and ability to finance long-term programs in coordination with other countries.
Finally, innovative financing mechanisms should be designed to comply with the other principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action.
Existing innovative financing mechanisms for Health
Unitaid, an international facility for the purchase of drugs against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, is supported by a so-called "air ticket solidarity levy," or a tax on airline tickets. As of 2009, 13 countries apply such a domestic tax on airline tickets. UNITAID funds projects through implementing partners across the three diseases based on the market impact criteria (making medication prices affordable for developing countries).
The [http://www.iffim.org International Finance Facility for Immunisation] (IFFIm) issues bonds in the capital markets, converting long-term government pledges into immediately available cash resources. The pledges are used to repay IFFIm bondholders. So far, IFFIm has raised US$3.7 billion in the bonds markets backed by US$6.3 billion in government pledges. These funds are collected for the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation). Since IFFIm's founding in 2006, it has provided close to half of GAVI's overall funding.
The Pneumococcal Advance Market Commitment (AMC) is a mechanism that supports the work of the GAVI Alliance by providing a financial incentive to manufacturers to invest in R&D and expand manufacturing capacity for new vaccines. Governments or organizations commit to buy or subsidize the purchase of a certain number of vaccines at a given price. The AMC has been implemented for pneumococcal vaccines to demonstrate both the feasibility of the AMC mechanism and its impact on accelerating the introduction and mass-production of these vaccines. As of summer 2012, the AMC had supported the introduction of pneumococcal vaccine in 17 developing countries.
Product RED is a mechanism supporting The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Thanks to the mechanism, global companies contribute a share of their profits on goods from sales branded with the Product Red trademark.
Debt2Health is a mechanism supporting the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Through this mechanism, the Global Fund facilitates debt negotiation between creditors and debtors. Creditors agree to forgo part of the repayment of the money due to them against the commitment of the debtor to invest an agreed-upon amount on Global Fund-approved programs. So far, €200 million has been pledged by the end of 2009 and €50 million had been disbursed in October 2008.
Voluntary Contributions on travel and tourism products funds are collected by the Millennium Foundation through a donation to MASSIVEGOOD which lets travellers make an optional $2, £2 or €2 "micro-contribution" every time they purchase a travel services. All funds go to UNITAID in its fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Additional funding will go towards improving maternal and child health in the developing world.
De-Tax is a "proposal to earmark a share of VAT Taxes generated by participating businesses for health systems development". De-Tax is being discussed by the G20 countries.
Possible innovative financing mechanisms
Among some potential future innovative finance mechanisms:
Currency Transaction Levy (CTL) is a potential mechanism that would let governments apply a tax on foreign exchange transactions. An expert working group is underway to assess the feasibility of the proposed levy of 0.005%. The tax would be managed through computerized payments made in connection with the settlement of every trade.
Auctioning of permits to emit greenhouse gases could be one of the first innovative financing mechanisms earmarked for environmental purposes. Germany announced that it would allocate €225 million from the 2009 proceeds of these auctions to fund development activities.
The development process of new innovative financing mechanisms has been improved thanks to the contribution of various players. Interagency initiatives such as The High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems and The Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development have facilitated coordination processes between actors and is also a platform for introducing new innovative financing mechanisms.
LSL World Initiative is another company focusing on innovative financing. They assist governments to put in place micro-surcharges, taxes and public-private partnerships as mechanisms to raise additional funds and finance development projects. They focus specifically on the Information and communications technology (ICT) and telecoms sector, harnessing diaspora flows.
Another example of innovative (ocean) financing ″is the issuing of Blue Bonds by the Government of the Seychelles, an innovative approach to promote the African islands’ Blue Economy (The Blue Economy) investment strategy.″ The intention of the bond is to finance and enhance the local fishery management in order to secure the marine ecosystem.
Key publications have helped shaping the Innovative Financing framework. Among these key publications are: the Landau report, the report of Working Group 2 from the Task Force for Innovative Financing in Health Systems, a report by Brookings Institution and the World Bank.
Innovative Financing has received support from the United Nations through international conferences on Financing for Development and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development.
References
External links
*[http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/en/about-ihp/past-events/high-level-taskforce-for-innovative-international-financing-of-health-systems/ The High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100301173114/http://www.leadinggroup.org/rubrique20.html The Leading Group on Innovative Financing For Development]
*[https://www.un.org/esa/ffd/monterrey/MonterreyConsensus.pdf/ Monterrey Consensus in 2002]
*[http://www.millennium-foundation.org/ The Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health]
*[http://www.unitaid.eu/ UNITAID]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090927162302/http://www.massivegood.org/ MASSIVEGOOD]
*[https://www.un.org/ga/aids/pdf/abuja_declaration.pdf Abuja declaration of African leaders in 2001 ]
*[http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/pdf/IHP%20Update%2013/Taskforce/Johansbourg/Working%20Group%201%20Report%20%20Final.pdf Constraints to scaling Up and costs” Working Group 1 Report, Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems]
*[http://www.internationalhealthpartnership.net/CMS_files/userfiles/090817%20WORKING_GROUP_2%281%29.pdf Raising and Channeling Funds” Working Group 2 Report, Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems]
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Rithal
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Rithal is a village in Rohtak district of Haryana, India. It is located 22 km from Rohtak. Initially it was a part of Sonipat district, however for a long time it has been in the Rohtak District. This is one of the very few villages which has two panchayats (Rithal Phogat and Rithal Narwal). Villagers work in various fields such as agriculture, armed forces, information technology, banking, business and in various government departments.
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Bionic (disambiguation)
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Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems to engineering systems and technology.
Bionic(s) may also refer to:
Technology
Medical
Bionic contact lens, being developed to provide a virtual display
Visual prosthesis, often referred to as a bionic eye, an experimental device intended to restore functional vision
Cochlear implant, often referred to as a bionic ear, provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing
Other technology
Bionic (software), a standard C library developed for the Android embedded system
Droid Bionic, a cell phone running the Android operating system
Mercedes-Benz Bionic, a concept car first introduced in 2005
name used in Apple silicon models (A11 to A16)
code name of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) OS
Film and television
Bionics, a fictionalized cybernetic augmentation science in a television franchise based on the 1972 novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin:
The Six Million Dollar Man, a 1973 television series starring Lee Majors
The Bionic Woman, a 1976 series starring Lindsay Wagner
The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, a 1987 television movie
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, a 1989 television movie
Bionic Ever After?, a 1994 television movie
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series), a reboot of the 1976 series
Music
Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)
"Bionic" (Christina Aguilera song)
Bionic (Sandbox album)
"Bionic" (King Adora song)
Architecture
Bionic architecture, a design movement
Bionic Tower, an imagined vertical city
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No More Easy Life
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is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Yōichi Higashi.Cast
* Kaori Momoi
* Eiji Okuda
* Juzo Itami
* Junkichi Orimoto
* Hiroaki Murakami
Awards and nominations
22nd Blue Ribbon Awards
* Won: Best Actress - Kaori Momoi
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Church of St Peter-le-Bailey
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The Church of St Peter-le-Bailey is a church on New Inn Hall Street in central Oxford, England. It was formerly next to Bonn Square, which was originally the churchyard. Now it is located halfway up New Inn Hall Street to the north.
Several churches have existed on or close to the site.
The current church is now the chapel of St Peter's College, Oxford.
History
The church of "St Peter at the Castle", subsequently known as "St Peter-in the-West" or "St Peter-le-Bailey", was granted to St Frideswide's Priory in 1122.
The Church has existed in or near the area now known as Bonn Square, since the twelfth century The suffix "le-Bailey" was due to its position close to Oxford Castle. It also distinguished it from Oxford's other church dedicated to St Peter, namely St Peter-in-the-East, near the original east gate of the city, now the library of St Edmund Hall.
Since the inception of the parish, there have been three different church buildings. The first church was built in the 12th century. It had a single, pitched-roofed nave with a low tower at the southwest corner.
A second church was built on the site of the original church, opening in 1740. It was a flat roofed rectangular building with a tower at the northwest corner. The churchyard remained in its original position since there was no room to expand it. The church remained in use until the middle of the 19th century, when in 1848 Holywell Cemetery, Osney Cemetery, and St Sepulchre's Cemetery opened. In 1855, new burials were forbidden at all city churches, apart from existing vaults. This church was demolished in 1873 as part of a road widening scheme.
The third church was built to the north of the old church, approximately halfway along New Inn Hall Street, to designs by Basil Champneys. It was opened in 1874 and was photographed by Henry Taunt. When St Peter's Hall was founded in 1928, this church took on the combined role of the parish church and a college chapel. In 1961, St Peter's Hall became a full Oxford University college. In the same year, with a decreasing number of residents in the parish, it was merged with St Ebbe's and the church building was solely used as the college chapel.
The original churchyard was retained as a memorial garden when the church was moved in 1874. Many of the gravestones were moved at that time.
Excavations
Bonn Square was redeveloped in 2008 and this made it possible to inspect and record a number of gravestones which had been buried since the church on the site was demolished in 1873. During the redevelopment, Oxford Archaeology undertook the archaeological investigations on behalf of Oxford City Council.
See also
St Peter-in-the-East at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Tirah Memorial, a war memorial erected in 1900
References
Further reading
External links
Richard Cox Hales, Six sermons preached at St. Peter-le-Bailey church, Oxford, to which are added, prayers for particular occasions. J, Vincent, 1852. (Google Books)
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Buddhism in the Himachal Pradesh state of India of has been a long-recorded practice. The spread of Buddhism in the region has occurred intermediately throughout its history. Starting in the 3rd century BCE, Buddhism was propagated by the Maurya Empire under the reign of Ashoka. The region would remain an important center for Buddhism under the Kushan Empire and its vassals. Over the centuries the following of Buddhism has greatly fluctuated. Yet by experiencing revivals and migrations, Buddhism continued to be rooted in the region, particularly in the Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur valleys.
After the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, escaped from Tibet with his followers in 1959 and took refuge in India, the focus on Tibetan Buddhism spread further and attracted immense international sympathy and support. The Dalai Lama found Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh as an ideal place to establish his "capital in exile" at McLeod Ganj in close vicinity to Dharamshala, and is called the Little Lhasa and also as Dhasa (a combination of Dharamshala and Lhasa in Tibet). This situation has given the state a unique status in the global firmament of Buddhist traditions. It is now the cradle of Tibetan Buddhism, with its undeniable link to the past activities initiated in the 8th century (in 747 AD) by Guru Padmasambhava (who went to Tibet from Rewalsar in Himachal Pradesh in North India to spread Buddhism), who was known as the "Guru Rinpoche" and the "Second Buddha".
The influence of Buddhism is strong throughout the Trans-Himalayan region or Western Himalayas, formed by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh and bounded by the Indus River on the extreme west and the Tons-Yamuna River gorge on the east. With the influx of Tibetan refugees into India, in the last over 50 years (since 1959), popularity and practice of Tibetan Buddhism has been notable. Apart from the original practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in ancient and medieval India, it is now seriously pursued by Tibetans re-settled at Dharamshala (the nodal centre and the 'capital in exile' of the Dalai Lama were initially re-settled) in Himachal Pradesh, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Kushalnagar (Karnataka), Darjeeling (West Bengal), Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Ladakh.HistoryThe very earliest influence of Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh is traced to the Ashokan period in the 3rd century BC. He had established many stupas, and one of them was traced to the state in the Kulu valley, as cited in the chronicles of the Chinese travellers. Mention is also made of a much earlier propagation during Buddha's time itself by Sthavira Angira and Stavira Kanakavatsa, in the Kailash area and Kashmir respectively. In the 7th century, King Songtsen Gampo of Tibet had deputed Thomi Sambota to visit Buddhist Viharas in India to imbibe more of Indian Buddhist knowledge. It was in 749 AD that Padmasambhava (hailed as the second Buddha) with his compatriot Shantarakshita established the Vajrayana Buddhism in the Western Himalayan region.
Archaeological evidence in Himachal Pradesh offers strong evidence of Buddhist influence. Numismatic evidence has established the presence of Buddhism in the Kuluta region (upper Beas region of the Kuluta Kingdom) of the state in the 1st century BC and 2nd century AD. On the Palampur-Malan- Dadh-Dharamshala road, from Malan rock inscriptions in Brahmi and Kharoshti scripts of 3rd and 2nd century BC have been discovered on a single granite rock known as Lakhina pathar, which are supported by the Buddhist monuments at Chahri; inscribed pedestals of Vajravarahi (Buddhist tantric goddess) is dated to 5th or early 6th century. Handa's archaeological explorations have also unearthed a headless stone image of Buddha (now in the Kangra Museum) at sites of Chetru and Kanhiara villages; Chetru in local lingua is interpreted as Chaitya in Sanskrit. Names such as Matth and Trilokinath and one dozen maths in Kangra and Mandi districts further point to Buddhist establishments between the 3rd century BC and 6th century AD. Cave type (guha type) Buddhist monastery at Gandhala has been inferred from a copper lot (pot), chased with Jataka episode discovered in a monastic cell in Kullu subdivision of the Kangra division which is dated to the 2nd century AD. Trilokinath and Gandhala (also known as Guru Ghantal), beyond Rohtang la pass are considered classical Buddhist shrines of Indian Buddhism (inferred to predate Padmasmbhava's times by many centuries). Discovery of marble head (7th or 8th century AD) of Avalokiteshvara at the confluence of Chandra and Bhagha Rivers support evidence of monastic activities in these remote regions.
Archaeological evidence also supports the influence of Vajrayana Buddhism influence prior to the 8th century in the region east of Sutlej river. Cult powers of Padmasambhava, before he went to Tibet (before 747 AD), are also deciphered from legends at Nako in Kinnaur, Trilokinath and Gandhala in Lahaul, and Rewalsar in Mandi district. From the mid 8th century (after 747 AD) evidence of Buddhist activities remain obscure till Tibetan Buddhism penetrated the region in the 10th century.
Rinchen Zangpo was urged by Buddhist Guru Shantarakshita from Kashmir, who had already established a monastic order in Tibet, to travel around to spread Buddhism in the trans-Himalayan region. At that time, Zangpo was teaching in Kashmir. He embarked on his campaign to teach Buddhism in the trans-Himalayan region by travelling through Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur valleys of the Sutlej River valley, in Himachal Pradesh, then to Ladakh and further on to Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. He established Buddhist Dharma in all these regions. This period was called the "Second Coming" of Buddhism in the region since earlier efforts made had not progressed much.
Thus, from the 14th century onwards, the monasteries had adopted a fort-like design for its buildings from logistic considerations and built them as "religio-military strongholds"; many of them have disappeared due to invasions but some have survived in Ladakh and Spiti valleys in India. Zangpo's "Classical monasteries" in Western Tibet, in Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, and in Ladakh have survived and are fairly well preserved for posterity. However, instances of greed and neglect have been reported in some monasteries.
The 14th Dalai Lama established his "Government in exile", in 1960 at Mcleod Ganj in the upper part of the town of Dharamshala. This has since become the nerve centre of Tibetan Buddhism with the Tibetan refugees establishing monasteries of their sects, such as the Gelukpa, Sakyapa, Kargyupa, Nyingmapa, Chonangpa and Dragung-Kargyupa; Non-Buddhist of Bön religion also have established their monastery here. Over 40 monasteries (unofficial records) of these sects have been reported.
In order to educate ethnic Tibetan youths in Dharamshala and the Himalayan border students of India, the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS) was established at Varanasi by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru in consultation with the Dalai Lama. The institute, a Deemed University since 1988, is currently headed by Prof. Ngawang Samten, assisted by faculty members of the institute.
Earliest lake and monasteries
The earliest reverential link according to Padmasmabhava's legend is to the Rewalsar lake at Rewalsar in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh where Padmasambhava is said to have meditated. There are three monasteries located here namely, the ancient Nyingmapa Monastery on periphery of the Rewalsar lake and two new monasteries (of modern construction) namely, the Drigung Kagyu Monastery (a multistoreyed complex behind the ancient monastery) of the Kagyu order and Tso-Pema Ogyen Heru-kai Nyingmapa Gompa.
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Rewalsar has an ancient divine link for the Buddhists as it is believed that Guru Padmasambhava set out from here on his journey to Tibet to propagate Buddhist dharma. The Rewalsar Lake ('Tso Pema' or 'Pad-ma-can' to Tibetans) has a legend that started the belief that on the islands of floating reeds of the lake the spirit of Padmasambhava's resides. According to folk legend, Padmasmabhava tried to teach Buddhist dharma to the daughter (Mandarava) of the King of Mandi, Arshadhara of Sahor, which was seriously resented by the King. It is also mentioned that Mandarva was enamoured of Padmasambhava of Nalanda. The King, therefore, ordered Padmasambhava to be burnt alive. However, the pyre burned for a full week, with great clouds of black smoke arising from it and a lake appeared there after a week at the spot where he was supposed to have been burnt. Then, Padmasambhava (also known as Vajracharya), unscathed by the fire, is said to have appeared seated on a full-blown lotus from within a lotus in the middle of the lake. One version states that the King, as a repentance for his wrong actions, married his daughter with Padmasambhava. Another version states that Mandarava (stated to be the sister of Shantarakshita) as repentance, left her parents' house, and meditated near a well, which has now become a shrine (worshipped by Tibetan Buddhists as a manifestation of Shakthi). It was from this lake that Padmasambhava travelled to Tibet to spread the Vajrayana Buddhism. Rawalsar has two monasteries, namely, the Drikung Kagyu Gompa and Tso-Pema Ogyen Heru-kai Nyingmapa Gompa.
To commemorate Padmasmabahava (so named after he emerged from the Padmacan lake or lotus lake), a monastery was built on the western shore of the lake, called the Nyingmapa Monastery (built in Central Tibetan fashion), which has been expanded manifold into a multistoreyed pagoda type structure, with several renovations done till the late 19th century. A large gilded statue of Padmasambahava in the formal attire as the manifestation of Guru Rinpoche is deified here. There are two other new monasteries built around the ancient monastery; these are the Drigung Kagyu Monastery of the Kagyupa order and the other monastery called the Tso-Pema Ogyen Heru-kai Nyingmapa Gompa of the Nyingma sect; though of modern construction these two have retained the aesthetic Tibetan architectural ambience.Rinchen Zangpo's monasteriesRinchen Zangpo, the famous scholar-translator, established 108 monasteries during his mission undertaken in the 10th century to propagate Buddhist Dharma in the Trans-Himalayan region. A few of them, which have survived in Himachal Pradesh, present exquisite monasteries of artistic and architectural excellence in Lahaul, Spiti and Kinnaur valleys of the Sutlej River valley, such as the Tabo monastery, Lhalung monastery and Nako monastery.Tabo monastery
Tabo Monastery (or Tabo Chos-Khor Monastery) was founded in 996 AD (and refurbished in 1042 AD) by Rinchen Zangpo; it is considered the oldest monastery in Himachal Pradesh. It located at the southern edge of the Trans Himalayan plateau in the Spiti Valley on the banks of the Spiti River, in the very arid, cold and rocky area at an altitude of . The sprawling monastery, spread over an area of , has nine temples – the Temple of the Enlightened Gods (gTug-Lha-khang), the Golden Temple (gSer-khang), the Initiation Temple (dKyil-kHor- khang), the Bodhisattva Maitreya Temple (Byams-Pa Chen-po Lha-khang), the Temple of Dromton (Brom-ston Lha khang), the Chamber of Picture Treasures (Z'al-ma), the Large Temple of Dromton (Brom-ston Lha khang), the Mahakala Vajra Bhairava Temple (Gon-khang) and the White Temple (dKar-abyum Lha-Khang) (out of these nine, the first four are considered the oldest temples while the others were later additions) – 23 chortens, monks' residences and an extension that houses the nuns' residence. It was initially an important centre of learning of the Kadampa order, which later developed into the Gelukpa order. It was severely damaged in the 1975 Kinnaur earthquake and has since been re-built with a new Dukhang (assembly hall). The Dalai Lama held the Kalachakra ceremonies here in 1983 and 1996. The year 1996 marked 1000 years of Tabo Monastery's existence. A number of caves carved into the cliff face are located above the monastery, which are used by monks for meditation. The monastery is studded with large collection of precious Thangka (scroll paintings), manuscripts, well-preserved statues, frescos and extensive murals that cover almost every wall. The monastery is a national historic treasure of India and preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India.Lhalung monastery
Lhalung Monastery, Lhalun Monastery or Lalung Monastery (also known as the Sarkhang or Golden Temple), one of the earliest monasteries (considered second to Tabo monastery in importance) founded in Spiti valley, near the Lingti river. It is dated to the late 10th century and credited to Rinchen Zangpo. Village of Lhalung ( meaning: 'land of the gods') in the vicinity of the monastery, at an altitude of , has 45 homes. A few chortens are located on the way to the monastery. It is said that the Lhalung Devta is head of all the Devtas of the valley and emerges from the Tangmar mountain beyond the village. It was a complex of nine shrines enclosed within a dilapidated wall with the main chapel richly decorated. The monastery is inferred as an ancient centre of learning and debate (local name: Choshore) on the basis of old ruins of several temples seen around the five buildings of the monastery, apart from an equally ancient sacred tree. Serkhang, the golden hall of the temple complex has is studded with images (most of them gilded) of deities (51 deities) – mounted on walls or erected on a central altar.Nako monastery
The Nako monastery is located () near the India-China border in the trans-Himalayan region in Nako village in Kinnaur district at its western edge. The monastery complex in the village has four temples in an enclosure built with mud walls. It is also dated to the second coming of Buddhism to the region and is credited to Rinchen Zangpo. The area is known for the Nako Lake, which forms part of the border of the village.
Though the monastery complex looks simple from outside, in the interiors of the complex, the wall paintings in the monastery are delicately executed. Influence of the Ajanta style of painting, is distinct "in the tonal variation of body hues to produce an effect of light and shade". The elegant divine figures have placid expressions, a reflection of the finest classical art of India. In a nearby village called Tashigang, several caves are found where it is said Guru Padmasambhava meditated and gave discourse to his disciples. An image is stated to grow hair.Dhankar Monastery
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Dhankar Monastery also spelt Drangkhar or Dhangkar Gompa; Brang-mkhar or Grang-mkhar, situated in the Spiti Valley between the towns of Kaza and Tabo at an elevation of is a fort monastery similar to the Key Monastery and Tangyud Monastery in Spiti built in the Central Tibetan pattern. Dhankar was the traditional capital of the Spiti Valley Kingdom during the 17th century. The complex is built on a high spur overlooking the confluence of the Spiti River and Pin River – one of the world's most spectacular settings for a gompa. Dhang or dang means cliff, and kar or khar means fort. Hence, Dhangkar means fort on a cliff. It belongs to the Gelukpa order but claims to its earlier founding in the 12th century has put forth by the local monks. Below this Gompa is the small village of Shichilling where the new Dhankar Monastery has been built. It is home to about 150 monks belonging to the Gelukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Dhankar is approachable by a road, good for small vehicles only, that branches off for Dhankar from the main Kaza-Samdu road at a point around from Kaza.
In 2006, World Monuments Fund selected Dhankar gompa as one of the 100 most endangered sites in the world. A non-profit group, Dhangkar Initiative, is attempting to organize its conservation.
Key Monastery
The earliest history of Key Monastery is traced to Dromtön (Brom-ston, 1008–1064 CE), a pupil of the famous teacher, Atisha, in the 11th century. This however, refers to destroyed Kadampa monastery at the nearby village of Rangrik, which was probably destroyed in the 14th century when the Sakya sect rose to power with Mongol assistance. In the wake of the Chinese influence, it was rebuilt during the 14th century as an outstanding example of the monastic architecture.
In the 17th century, during the reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama, Key was attacked again by the Mongols and later became a Gelugpa establishment. In 1820, it was sacked again during the wars between Ladakh and Kullu. In 1841, it was severely damaged by the Dogra army under Ghulam Khan and Rahim Khan. Later that same year it suffered more damage from a Sikh army. In the 1840s, it was also ravaged by fire and in 1975 a violent earthquake caused more damage, which was repaired with the help of the Archaeological Survey of India and the State Public Works Department. The successive trails of destruction and patch-up jobs have resulted in a haphazard growth of box-like structures, and so the monastery looks like a fort, where temples are built on top of one another. The walls of the monastery are covered by paintings and murals. It is an outstanding example of the monastic architecture, which developed during the 14th century in the wake of the Chinese influence.
Key monastery has a collection of ancient murals and books of high aesthetic value and it enshrines Buddha images and idols, in the position of Dhyana.Monasteries in Dharamshala
Subsequent to the 14th Dalai Lama establishing his Tibetan exile government at Mcleod Ganj (a former colonial British summer picnic spot) near upper Dharamshala, the ancient Namgyal Monastery, which was first established by the third Dalai Lama in 1579 in Tibet, was relocated to Dharamshala (the district headquarters of the Kangra district), in 1959. It is now the personal monastery of the Dalai Lama. Two hundred monks and young trainee monks reside here. They pursue studies of the major texts of Buddhist Sutras and Tantras, as also the Tibetan and English Languages.TsuglagkhangAn important Buddhist shrine (located opposite to the Namgyal Monastery in the same courtyard) in the town is the Tsuglagkhang or Tsuglag Khang, known as the Dalai Lama's temple. It houses the statues, in sitting postures, of Shakyamuni (gilded)- the central image, Avalokiteśvara (the deity of compassion sculpted in silver with eleven faces and thousand arms and eyes -linked to a legend), and Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) – both facing the direction of Tibet – and also the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. Dalai Lama's residence is opposite to this temple. A festival is held here every year, during April and May, when traditional dances and plays are enacted. away from Dharamshala, at Sidhpur, a small monastery called the Gompa Dip Tse-Chok Ling, the Gangchen Kyishong (called Gangkyi in short by Tibetans and Library by Indians is the premises of the Tibetan government-in-exile), Mani Lakhang Stupa, Nechung Monastery, Norbulingka Institute, Sidhpur are located. The Karmapa (who was in Norbulinga in Tibet before taking refuge in India) is now living in Gyato monastery.Kalachakra TempleKalachakra Temple is located adjoining the Tsulagkhang which is dedicated to the Kalachakra. The temple has fresco decorations of 722 deities of the mandala, Shakayamuni Buddha, and the central Kalachakra image. Dalai Lama personally directed the painting of the frescos done by three master painters over a period of three years. The walls and columns here have many traditional Tibetan Thangka paintings.
Norbulingka Institute
The Norbulingka Institute founded in 1988, by the present Dalai Lama has the primary objective of preserving the Tibetan language and cultural heritage. This institute has been patterned on the same lines as Norbulingka, the traditional summer residence of the Dalai Lamas, in Lhasa, amidst a well-maintained garden setting, and the emphasis here is more on traditional art. A temple named as the "Seat of Happiness Temple" (Deden Tsuglakhang) is located here. Around this temple, craft centres are located, which specialise in traditional forms of Thanka painting to Metal art that are considered integral to Tibetan Monastery architecture. 300 artisans work here and also impart training to their wards.
The Losel Doll Museum here has diorama displays of traditional Tibetan scenes, using miniature Tibetan dolls in traditional costumes.
A short distance from the institute lies the Dolma Ling Buddhist nunnery and the Gyato Monastery, temporary residence of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.FestivalsBuddhist festivals held in Himachal Pradesh are predominantly connected with their religious identity. They relate to the seasons (New Year as per Lunar and Solar calendars), Buddha's birth and death anniversaries, and also the sacred days such as the birthdays of the Bodhistavas. The annual calendar is filled with festivals and some the popular ones starting with January are the following.
In January, in the Lahaul region, a carnival called the Halda Festival is held when people carry twigs of cedar tree to a location specified by the lamas and then throw it into a bonfire accompanied by various dances.
During February/March, the Tibetan New Year is observed as Losar festival by all Tibetan Buddhists in the state with processions, music and dancing; mask dances or chaam dances are popular on this occasion. The Dalai Lama holds teaching discourses at Dharmashala during this festival.
Ki Cham festival held in June/July is specific to Ki monastery. On this occasion, whirling mask dances are held in the monastery, which is watched by people from many villages of Spiti.
An ancient practice of a trade fair called the La Darcha is held in August in Spiti. Buddhist dances and Buddhist sports are popular and held along with rural marketing fair. Its social, economic and cultural significance relates to ancient ties with Tibet. Instead of La Darch ground near the Chicham village, the festival is now held at Kaza, headquarters of Spiti subdivision.
In November, the Guktor festival is held in Dhankar monastery in Spiti when processions and mask dances are the set festive practices.
In December, the International Himalayan Festival (a three-day event) is held in Mcleod Ganj, the exile capital of Tibet to celebrate the Dalai Lama getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Dance and music mark the day with resolve to promote peace and cultural amity. On this occasion, the Dalai Lama blesses Mcleod Ganj.See also
* Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India
* Buddhism in India
* Buddhism in Kashmir
Notes
References
*Kapadia, Harish. (1999). [https://books.google.com/books?id=lOzHDG7NfooC Spiti: Adventures in the Trans-Himalaya]. Second Edition. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi.
*Handa, O. C. (1987). Buddhist Monasteries in Himachal Pradesh. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi. .
*Janet Rizvi. (1996). Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. Second Edition. Oxford University Press, Delhi. .
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*Francke, A. H. (1914). Antiquities of Indian Tibet. Vol. I, Calcutta. 1972 reprint: S. Chand, New Delhi.
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Elizabeth Field is a public use airport located on Fishers Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is owned by the Town of Southold.
Located on the western end of Fishers Island, the airfield saw military use during World War II as part of Fort H. G. Wright.
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Elizabeth Field covers an area of at an elevation of 9 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 12/30 is 2,328 by 100 feet (710 x 30 m) and 7/25 is 1,792 by 75 feet (546 x 23 m).<ref name="FAA" />
For the 12-month period ending September 27, 2007, the airport had 2,125 aircraft operations, an average of 177 per month: 52% air taxi, 47% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 6 aircraft based at this airport: 67% single-engine and 33% multi-engine.<ref name"FAA" />See also* List of airports in New York References <references /> External links * Videos of landings at Elizabeth Field (0B8): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?vCAzJvQKW8bY July 2005] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wgADyOpEIU September 2005]
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Sekolah Menengah Sains Kuala Selangor (; abbreviated KUSESS) is a Fully Residential School, also known as Sekolah Berasrama Penuh (SBP) in Malaysia. KUSESS was then built under the Sixth Malaysia Plan. It is located near Bandar Melawati, Kuala Selangor which is about 70 kilometres from the nation's capital, Kuala Lumpur. The construction works on the school began on 24 April 1994 and finally completed in 1996.
The school started operating on 8 September 1996; with a first intake of 210 students,19 teaching staff and 4 support staff. The following year saw a sharp increase in the number of students that were admitted to the school. 187 students gained entry to Form 1 while 165 students were admitted into Form 4. The teaching staff almost tripled from 19 to 53. On 27 May 1997 the school was officiated then by the Deputy Prime Minister; Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
By 1998, the number of students had grown to 810 and the teaching staff had a strength of 63 people. The year also saw the retirement of the school's first principal Tuan Haji Khamis bin Maarof. He was replaced by Tuan Haji Ariffin bin Abdul Rahaman, who left his post at Sekolah Menengah Kadok, Kota Bahru, Kelantan to take the seat as the principal. It was also the year which saw the students of the school sit for Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) and Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations for the first time. The results were an overwhelming success as for PMR as the school was ranked as one of the top 5 Sekolah Berasrama Penuh (SBP); while with the total of 147 students out of 148 students obtained first rank in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM).
Today the school has 783 students in 25 classes, taught by 75 teachers.
School logo and flag
Logo
* The Book represents knowledge obtain by the students in KUSESS,
* The Three Circles represent academic and co-curricular activities,
* Berilmu Beramal Berbakti is the school's motto, which translates to being knowledgeable, doing good deeds and having a level of devotion in all courses that been dedicated by each and every student in KUSESS.
* Gear and Conical Flask represent outstanding students achievement in science and technology.
Flag
* Yellow represents incredible achievement that has been achieved by the student in KUSESS.
* Red represents bravery, persistence, and spirit that was implanted in KUSESS' student.
* The merging triangles of red and yellow represent unity between the passion the students in KUSESS in achieving success.
Tradition
The school hosts the "Hari Penganugerahan Kecemerlangan", an annual weekend event celebrating the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia result achievers. It is modelled after the convocation ceremony of universities. The graduation robe is maroon.
The school has a lot of dress codes for each student to solidified their standing as a outstanding student based on the day of the week and time. On Mondays, students would wear a white shirt with long sleeves for boys; Baju Kurung with black skirt for girls. While on Wednesdays, they would usually wear the uniform of their respective uniform units. On Thursdays, they will wear their sport attire based on their houses whether it is Waja, Perdana, Wira and Satria; while they will wear an exclusive design of traditional batik clothes specifically on the first week of the month. Fridays on the other hand, they will wear a white Baju Melayu completed with a beautiful blue samping for the boys while Baju Kurung is worn by the girls.
The school stages an assembly every weekday morning in which started with shouting out 'KUSESS SUKSES' prayers are recited was then followed by the singing of Malaysia's national anthem (Negaraku), the Selangor State song and the school songs. The national pledge (Rukun Negara) is also recited during the assembly. It was then closed with sending regards to the teachers. During the days of Puan Rosida; the school's third principle, 'spot talk' was held during the assembly. A student is chosen at random and given a topic to talk about in English.
While in much more recent days, a speech or presentation regarding other language being taught at KUSESS during assembly such as Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and German every Wednesday. This is so the student at KUSESS can learn other language than English, Malay and the language they've taken.
The School Songs
The school song is a symbol of incredible identity the school imprinted on the student not only to succeed in school, but also in society and will later on committed towards serving the country.
Berilmu, beramal, berbakti,
Itulah pegangan sekolah kami,
Kebanggan putera dan puteri sejati,
Harapan ibu pertiwi,
Bersumpah taat dan setia,
Kepada agama, bangsa dan negara,
Bersama mendukung cita-cita mulia,
Semoga cemerlang sentiasa,
Kami berdoa kepada Yang Esa,
Diiring restu ayah dan bonda,
Dengan bimbingan guru yang tercinta,
Doakan kami terus berjaya,
SMS Kuala Selangor,
Pusat ilmu idaman kita,
Bagai permata indah bersinar,
Untuk mencapai wawasan negara.
Student Vows
Maka kami, murid SMS KUALA SELANGOR, berikrar, akan menumpukan seluruh tenaga dan usaha kami untuk mencapai cita-cita tersebut
Co-curriculum
Clubs and societies
* Language & Cultural Society
* English Language & Drama Society
* Guidance & Counseling Club
* Mathematics & Science Club
* Islamic Student Society
* History Club
* Music Club
* STEM Club
* Consumers Club
* Protune Club
* Media Centre Club
* Nature Club
* Stamps & Philately Club
* Doktor Muda Club
Uniform units
* Malaysia School Youth Cadet Corps
* Police Cadet
* Malaysian Red Crescent Society
* Fire Brigade Cadet (Boys Exclusive)
* Boy Scouts (Boys Exclusive)
*Puteri Islam (Girls Exclusive)
* Girl Guides (Girls Exclusive)
* Silat Gayung Fatani
* Taekwondo
Games
* Chess Club
* Archery Club
* Bowling Club
* Netball Club
* Basketball Club
* Softball Club
* Petanque Club
* Cricket Club
* Handball Club
* Takraw & Volleyball Club
* Ping Pong & Badminton Club
* Soccer & Rugby Club
* Hockey & Tennis Club
Principals
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! Beginning
! Ended
! Name
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| 1996
| 1998
| Allahyarham Tuan Haji Khamis B. Maarof
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| 1998
| 2002
| Tuan Haji Ariffin B. Abdul Rahman
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| 2002
| 2006
| Puan Rosida Bt. Mohd. Zain
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| 2006
| 2008
| Puan Che Kamaliah bt. Endud
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| 2008
| 2011
| Puan Hajjah Rossminah Bt Yamin
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| 2011
| 2014
| Dr. Hajah Rosnah Bt Selamat
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| 2014
| 2020
| Tuan Mohd Shahadan B. Abd Rahman
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| 2020
| 2021
| Puan Monarazmah Binti Abdul Razak
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|2021
|2023
|Tuan Haji Hassan Abrar bin Haji Halidi
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|2023
|Present
|Puan Hajah Feizatul Akmar Nor Binti Nurbi
|}
<gallery>
File:01_Puan_Hajah_Rossminah_s.jpg|Puan Hajah Rossminah Bt. Yamin
File:Pengetua_Che_kamaliah.jpg|Puan Che Kamaliah Bt. Endud
File:Pn_Rosida.JPG|Puan Rosida Bt. Mohd. Zain
</gallery>
Senior Administrative Teacher (PK Pentadbiran)
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Beginning
!Ended
!Name
|-
|1996
|2000
|Tuan Haji Mohd Shafiebin Syed Mansor
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|2001
|2006
|Puan Marpuaton binti Sastero
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|2006
|2010
|Tuan Haji Hasan Abrar bin Haji Halidi
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|2011
|2015
|Tuan Haji Kamarularipin bin Jaffar
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|2015
|2017
|Tuan Hamzani bin Suien
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|2017
|2025
|Puan Hajah Normidza binti Md Kamel
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|2025
|Present
|Puan Hajah Hani Azita binti Ahmad
|}
Senior Student Affairs Teacher (PK HEM)
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Beginning
!Ended
!Name
|-
|1996
|2000
|Tuan Haji Rezazali bin Ahmad Ansar
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|2000
|2003
|Tn Hj Wan Mohd Tahir bin Wan Ibrahim
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|2003
|2009
|Tn Hj Kamarularipin bin Jaffar
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|2010
|2014
|En Mukharita bin Shaharom
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|2014
|2019
|En Husni bin Ahmad Dahlan
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|2020
|2022
|Pn Faridah binti Husin
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|2022
|Present
|En. Mohd Fairol Anuar bin Hasan
|}
Association of Parents and Teachers (PIBG)
The Association of Parents and Teachers are an association being created to create an harmony relationship between parents and student in order for students in KUSESS to succeed. Usually, they are the one who gives out donation for a better life of the students at KUSESS.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Beginning
! Ended
! Chairman
|-
| 1996
| 2000
| YM Raja Razman Raja Rome
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| 2001
| 2007
| no records
|-
| 2008
| no records
| Tuan Haji Ishak bin Samsudin
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| 2017
| 2023
| Prof. Dato` Dr. Ir. Mohd Dali b. Isa
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| 2023
| Present
| En. Muhammad Nazri bin Mat Akim
|}
Head Students
The Head Students is selected amongst the ranks of the Student Representative Council (MPP) to assist in commanding, running and managing school affairs. He is assisted by a committee (Majlis Tertinggi) and primarily follow the guidance and orders of the current Senior Student Affairs Teacher (PK HEM).
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Name
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|2015
|Muhammad Hazzim bin Muhammad Hamdan
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|2016
|Muzaffar bin Mustaffar
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|2017
|Muhammad Haziq Haiqal bin Nazrie
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|2018
|Mior Daniel Hakeem bin Mior Md Salleh
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|2019
|Anas bin Zahari
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|2020
|Muhammad Fazrul Bin Muhammad Dali
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|2022
| Firhad Iydaniel bin Faidrul Iqmar
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|2023
| Mohammad Amar bin Mohammad Ali
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|2024
|Muhammad Nazif bin Othman
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|2025
|Nurhan Naqish bin Mohamad Shahrian
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Full Colours Award (SBP) recipient
The Full Colours award is awarded by the Fully Residential School (Sekolah Berasrama Penuh; SBP) body for the students with incredible academic and co-curricular achievements as well as their contributions not only to their school but basically to the SBPs as a whole. The students from KUSESS have received the award in the following years:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Award recipient
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| 2001
| Tursina binti Abd Rashid
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| 2003
| Junaidah binti Mohd Yusof
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| 2004
| Aini Hanan binti Azmi
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| 2005
| Kamal Hakim bin Kamaruzzaman
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| 2006
| Hanan binti Othman
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| 2007
| Basirah Anati binti Basaruddin
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|2008
|Muhammad Al-Jundi bin Abdullah
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|2009
|Fawwaz bin Nik Abdul Aziz
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|2012
|Muhammad Aidil bin Kashry
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|2016
|Vynson Kuan Zhi-Rong
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|2018
|Mior Danial Hakeem bin Mior Md Salleh
|}
Gold Award recipient
The student who receive gold award in SPM
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Gold Achievement student
|-
| 1998
|Ahmad Fedtri bin Yahya
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|1999
|Khairil Raezwan bin Rashidi
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| 2000
| Tursina bin Abdul Rashid
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|2001
|Norzafry bin Norhalim
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| 2002
|Shahrin bin Samsuddin
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|2003
|Aini Hanan binti Azmi
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| 2004
|Kamal Hakim bin Kamaruzaman
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|2005
|Hanan bin Othman
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| 2006
| Basirah Anati bt Basarudin
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|2007
|Muhammad Al-Jundi bin Abdullah
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| 2008
| Megat Syazwan Shah bin Megat Shahridan Nahar
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|2009
|Nur Hazirah 'Aqilah binti Salim Musa
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|2010
|Qani'ah binti Abdul Rahman
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|2011
|Ern Suci Cahyani binti Imam Sunaryo
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|2012
|Muhammad Aidil bin Kashry
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|2013
|Siti Nabilah binti Shamsudin
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|2014
|Muhammad Ali bin Md Aliman
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|2015
|Vynson Kuan Zhi-Rong
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|2016
|Muhammad Syafiq bin Mohd Rozi
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|2017
|Ahmad Ehsan Hafizi bin Ahmad Latiffi
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|2018
|Mior Danial Hakeem bin Mior Md Salleh
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|2020
|Sara Sofea binti Muhammad Illaham
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|2022
|Umar Asyraf bin Mohd Khair
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|2023
|Mohammad Amar bin Mohammad Ali
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List of Full Colours students
Full Colours students are excentiantly student who are exceptional not only in academic but also in co-curricular activities. They are the people who stays excellent even after going
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Full Colours student
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| 1996
|
|-
| 1998
|
|-
| 2000
|
|-
| 2002
|
|-
| 2004
|
|-
| 2006
| Basirah Anati b Basarudin
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| 2008
| Fawwaz b Nik Abdul Aziz
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Co-Curricular Achievement 2008/2009
{| class="wikitable"
! Achievements
! Level
! Championships/Competitions
! Year
|-
|Champion
|National
|Merdeka Open Chess Championship
|2008
|-
| Champion
|National
|Scout girl navigation competition
|2008
|-
|Champion
|National
|Piala Perdana Menteri English Debate
|2008
|-
|Champion
|National
|YTL Green Ribbon Award Project
|2008
|-
|Second place
|National
|Arabic Language Carnival
|2008
|-
|Second place
|National
|National Interschool Engineering Challenge
|2008
|-
|1 Silver
|National
|UUM Open Archery Championship
|2008
|-
|4 Gold 1 Silver
|National
|Karnival Pendidikan dan Kerjaya
|2017
|-
|1 Silver
|International
|Fully Residential School International Symposium
|2017
|-
|Second place
|State
|English Drama Competition
|2008
|-
|Second place
|State
|Career Education Carnival
|2008
|-
|Second place
|State
|Teen forum competition
|2008
|-
|Second place
|State
|Selangor Police Cadet Camping
|2008
|-
|11 Silver
|State
|MSS Selangor Archery Competition
|2008
|-
|Second place
|State
|NGO March competition (scout)
|2008
|-
|Champion
|National
|MSSM Chess Championship
|2009
|-
|Champion
|State
|MSS Selangor Sepak Takraw Championship
|2009
|-
|Gold
|State
|MSS Selangor Sailing Championship
|2009
|-
|Second place
|State
|MSS Selangor Chess Championship
|2009
|-
|Second place
|SBP Middle Zone
|English Drama Competition
|2009
|-
|Champion
|State
|Selangor Petanque Angkasa Championship
|2009
|-
|}
Notable Alumni
* Ahmad Fedtri bin Yahya, a famous Malaysian speaker, television personality and radio presenter
Batches
A batch is a set of students that is classified by age, most commonly when they enter. E.g: Batch 1923 is a batch from the year 2019 to 2023. Each batch is led by a selected student amongst the batchmates and by a teacher appointed to them.
{| class="wikitable"
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!Year of entrance
!Year of SPM
!Batch Name
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|No Records
| -
| -
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|2010
|2014
|Sovereign
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|2011
|2015
|Exuberant
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|2012
|2016
|Krenoviantz
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|2013
|2017
|Xanthrons
|-
|2014
|2018
|Meritorious
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|2015
|2019
|Extrovert
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|2016
|2020
|Dextrous
|-
|2017
|2021
|Erudite
|-
|2018
|2022
|Exquisite
|-
|2019
|2023
|Exultant
|-
|2020
|2024
|Eximious
|-
|2021
|2025
|Ethereal
|-
|2022
|2026
|Dexterity
|-
|2023
|2027
|Astrum
|-
|2024
|2028
|Exypnos
|-
|}
References
External links
* [http://www.kusess.edu.my http://www.kusess.edu.my ]
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Category:1996 establishments in Malaysia
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Wide and narrow data
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Wide and narrow (sometimes un-stacked and stacked, or wide and tall) are terms used to describe two different presentations for tabular data.
Wide
Wide, or unstacked data is presented with each different data variable in a separate column.
Person Age WeightHeight Bob 32 168180 Alice 24 150175 Steve 64 144165
Narrow
Narrow, stacked, or long data is presented with one column containing all the values and another column listing the context of the value
Person Variable Value Bob Age 32 Bob Weight 168BobHeight180 Alice Age 24 Alice Weight 150AliceHeight175 Steve Age 64 Steve Weight 144SteveHeight165
This is often easier to implement; addition of a new field does not require any changes to the structure of the table, however it can be harder for people to understand.
Implementations
Many statistical and data processing systems have functions to convert between these two presentations, for instance the R programming language has several packages such as the tidyr package. The pandas package in Python implements this operation as "melt" function which converts a wide table to a narrow one. The process of converting a narrow table to wide table is generally referred to as "pivoting" in the context of data transformations. The "pandas" python package provides a "pivot" method which provides for a narrow to wide transformation.
See also
Abstract data type
Pivot table
Table (information)
Information graphics
Row (database)
Table (database)
Table (HTML)
References
External links
https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/articles/pivot.html
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reshape
Category:Statistical data types
Category:Descriptive statistics
Category:Data modeling
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István Vásáry
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| birth_place =Debrecen, Austria-Hungary
| death_date
| death_place =Debrecen, People's Republic of Hungary
| profession =politician, economist
| party =FKGP
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István Vásáry (29 January 1887 – 25 August 1955) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 1944 and 1945 in the Interim National Government. He studied law in his birthplace. He was the mayor of Debrecen between 1928 and 1935. He became representative as member of the Smallholders Party in 1939. After 1945 he led the party's right-wing side. On 12 March 1946 he was excluded from the party due to the pressure of the Hungarian Communist Party. Vásáry retired from the politics in 1947.
References
* [http://mek.niif.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon]
* [http://www.linksite.hu/lapok/vasary.istvan/ Vásáry István /linksite.hu/]
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Category:1887 births
Category:1955 deaths
Category:People from Debrecen
Category:Finance ministers of Hungary
Category:Speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary
Category:Mayors of Debrecen
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Flavius Avitus Marinianus ( 423–448) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire during the reign of Honorius.
Biography
Avitus was praetorian prefect and consul in 423 He is mentioned in the Gesta de purgatione Xysti III episcopi in a list of aristocrats involved in the investigations against Pope Sixtus III. Although the Gesta has been long recognized as a later forgery, B.L. Twyman argued in 1970 that the list of aristocrats was taken from a later papal investigation concerning the deposition of bishop Celidonius by archbishop Hilarius of Arles. T.D. Barnes subsequently showed that the list was best explained as the product of "a writer of the sixth century [who] has deliberately mixed genuine and fictitious persons."
He had a wife, Anastasia, and a son, Rufius Praetextatus Postumianus (consul in 448); it is possible that Rufius Viventius Gallus was another son. Marinianus and his wife were Christians; at Pope Leo I's request, they restored the mosaic on the façade of the Old St. Peter's Basilica, as recorded by an inscription on the mosaic itself.
Notes
Further reading
Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , pp. 723–724.
Category:5th-century western Roman consuls
Category:Praetorian prefects
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Bin Air
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{{ infobox airline
| airline = Bin Air
| image = Bin Air logo.png
| image_size = 150px
| IATA = -
| ICAO BID
| callsign BINAIR
| founded 1996 is As of 29 October 2018, Bin Air's air operator's certificate had been revoked by the Luftfahrtbundesamt forcing the airline to cease all operations. It eventually regained its license in December 2020.Fleet
]]
As of November 2024, the BinAir Fleet consists of the following aircraft:
{| class"wikitable" style"margin:0.5em auto; text-align:center"
|+ Bin Air fleet
|-
! Aircraft
! In service
! Notes
|-
|Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
|5
|various subtypes
|-
!Total
!5
!colspan="6" |
|}
Accidents and incidents
* On 19 January 2010, a Bin Air Swearingen SA-227-DC Metro was damaged when the right main undercarriage collapsed on landing at Stuttgart Airport.
*
* On 7 March 2013, a Bin Air metroliner was responsible for the closure of Dublin Airport's main runway for around 35 minutes when its forward retracting nose wheel collapsed during landing.
References
External links
* [http://www.binair.eu/ Official website]
Category:Airlines of Germany
Category:Airlines established in 1996
Category:German companies disestablished in 2018
Category:German companies established in 1996
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Bundesstraße 243
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(2012)
}}
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The B 243 runs from Hildesheim over Seesen and Herzberg am Harz to Nordhausen.
Route
Districts and municipalities
* Lower Saxony
** Hildesheim (district)
*** Hildesheim
*** Diekholzen: Egenstedt
*** Bad Salzdetfurth: Groß Düngen, Wesseln
*** Bockenem: Nette, Bönnien, Bockenem, Bornum
** Goslar (district)
*** Seesen: Rhüden, Bornhausen, Seesen, Engelade, Münchehof
** Osterode am Harz (district)
*** Samtgemeinde Bad Grund: Gittelde, Windhausen, Badenhausen
*** Osterode am Harz: Katzenstein, Lasfelde, Petershütte, Osterode, Osterode-Leege
*** Hörden am Harz: Aschenhütte
*** Herzberg am Harz: Herzberg, Scharzfeld
*** Bad Lauterberg im Harz: Barbis, Bartolfelde, Osterhagen
*** Bad Sachsa: Nüxei
* Thuringia
** Nordhausen (district)
*** Hohenstein: Mackenrode, Holbach
*** Werther: Günzerode
Combined routing
* From Seesen to AS Engelade combined with the B 248
* Between AS Münchehof and Bad Grund combined with the B 242
* In Osterode between Osterode Mitte and Osterode Süd combined with the B 241
* Between Herzberg and Barbis combined with the B 27
Rivers crossed
* Beuster, near Hildesheim-Marienburg
* Lamme, near Wesseln
* Nette, near Bockenem and Engelade
* Söse, in Osterode
* Sieber, in Herzberg
* Oder, in Barbis – village in borough of Bad Lauterberg
* Steina, in Nüxei – village in borough of Bad Sachsa
* Klettenberger Mühlgraben, near Holbach
History
Origins
The metalled artificial road (Chaussee) between Seesen and Osterode was built between 1785 and 1795 as an extension of the Frankfurt Road and known as the Thuringian Road (Thüringer Straße).
It was established as Reichsstraße 243 between Hildesheim and Nordhausen in 1937.
This federal road was interrupted by the division of Germany and was only opened again from end to end on 18 November 1989 when the border crossing between Nüxei and Mackenrode was installed.<!--
Frühere Strecken und Bezeichnungen
Bei der ursprünglichen Nummerierung 1932 führte die Reichsstraße XXX über den heutigen Streckenverlauf hinaus nach Stadt im heutigen Polen. Während der Besetzungszeit des Sudetenlandes von 1938 bis 1945 wurde die R XXX über Stadt nach Stadt im heutigen Tschechien verlängert.
In der DDR hatte die Teilstrecke zwischen XXXXX und XXXXX die Bezeichnung F XXX.
Ersetzungen
Die Teilstrecke zwischen Seesen und Barbis wurde 1979 4 Spurig ausgebaut, und davon das Stück zwischen Osterode und Herzberg autobahnähnlich.
Tourismus
Ferienstraßen
Zwischen XXXXX und XXXXX führt die Deutsche Beispielstraße entlang der B XXX.
Sehenswürdigkeiten
Aussichtspunkte
Landschaftlich reizvolle Strecken
Ausbauplanungen
Die B 243 soll zwischen den Knotenpunkt mit der B 27 und der AS Großwechsungen (A 38) verlegt bzw. vierspurig ausgebaut werden. Dies geschieht damit die Orte von den Ortsdurchfahrten entlastet werden.
Verkehrseinheit II (Ortsumgehung Barbis)
Die VKE II ist eine 8,6 km lange Ortsumgehung. Sie beginnt am Knotenpunkt mit der B 27 in Barbis (AS Bad Lauterberg West) und endet an der AS Bad Sachsa West. Wichtige Teile dieses Abschnittes sind unter anderem die Winketalbrücke (650 m) sowie die Odertalbrücke (528 m).
Neben den oben genannten Talbrücken entstehen noch sechs Unterführungen sowie eine Überführung und eine Geh- und Radwegbrücke.
Zu den oben genannten Maßnahmen werden noch 2,2 km lange Anschlüsse gebaut.
Der Planfeststellungsbeschluss ist am 30. Dezember 2005 ergangen. Am 30. Oktober 2008 war der Baubeginn. Die Fertigung ist für Herbst 2012 geplant. Der Bau dieser Verkehrseinheit kostet 60,2 Millionen Euro.
Verkehrseinheit III (niedersächsischer Teil der Ortsumgehung Mackenrode)
Die VKE III beginnt am Baukilometer 19,350 (Ende VKE II) und endet südlich von Tettenborn an der Grenze zwischen Niedersachsen und Thüringen (Baukilometer 22,985). Sie hat eine Länge von 3,655 km. Die Einleitung des Planfeststellungsverfahren war am 12.September 2008. Der Planfeststellungsbeschluss erging am 20. November 2009. Man rechnet damit, dass der Bau nach der Fertigung der VKE II startet. Sie wird ausser in einem FFH-Gebiet (hier RQ 10,5) in dem RQ 15,5 (2-1 System) gebaut. In Zuge dieser Verkehrseinheit müssen außerdem 1,239 km Anschlüsse, 5 Unterführungen (Gesamtlänge: 40,5 m), eine Überführung (Länge: 20,5 m) und eine PWC-Anlage. Ebenfalls muss die L 604 auf einem kurzen Abschnitt verlegt werden, hier wird eine Grünbrücke errichtet werden.
Verkehrseinheit IV (thüringescher Teil der Ortsumgehung Mackenrode)
Die VKE IV beginnt an der Grenze von Niedersachsen und Thüringen und endet an der AS Mackenrode. Dieser kurzer Abschnitt bildet zusammen mit der VKE III die Ortsumgehung Mackenrode. Die Einleitung des Planfeststellungsverfahren war am selben Tag wie bei VKE III (12. September 2008)
Verkehrseinheit V (Anschluss an die A 38)
Die VKE V beginnt an der jetzigen B 243 nord-östlich von Großwechsungen. In dieser Verkehrseinheit liegen fünf Brücken (Gesamtlänge: 109,76 m)
Sie wird östlich von Großwechsungen in Richtung A 38 laufen. Dort wird sie in einem Dreieck (linksliegende Trompete) auf die A 38 treffen. Sie wird vierspurig (Straßenquerschnitt RQ20) ausgeführt werden. Diese 3,5 km lange Verkehrseinheit kostet 19 Mio Euro.
Der Planfeststellungsbeschluss war am 18. Oktober 2005. Baubeginn war am 21. August 2009.
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See also
* List of federal highways in Germany
References
243
Category:Transport in the Harz
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thumb|Samuel Hafenreffer
Samuel Hafenreffer (26 April 1587 – 26 September 1660) was a German physician, who in 1660 introduced the definition of pruritus. Pruritus is the "unpleasant sensation" the body produces that provokes a person to scratch themselves. Hafenreffer is also credited as being the author of the first textbook in German speaking countries on the subject of dermatology.
References
Category:1587 births
Category:1660 deaths
Category:16th-century German physicians
Category:17th-century German physicians
Category:17th-century German writers
Category:17th-century German male writers
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Marco Monti
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| birth_place = Monza, Italy
| height
| position = Defender
| currentclub = Internazionale (Technical Director/Youth coach/Scout)
| youthyears1 1985–1996 |youthclubs1 Internazionale
| years1 1985–1986 |clubs1 Internazionale |caps1 0 |goals1 0
| years2 1986–1988 |clubs2 Alzano Virescit |caps2 54 |goals2 1
| years3 1988–1990 |clubs3 Lazio |caps3 39 |goals3 0
| years4 1990–1991 |clubs4 Atalanta |caps4 6 |goals4 0
| years5 1991–1993 |clubs5 Reggiana |caps5 48 |goals5 0
| years6 1993–1994 |clubs6 Ravenna |caps6 11 |goals6 0
| years7 1994–1995 |clubs7 Lecco |caps7 10 |goals7 0
| nationalyears1 = 1981–1983
| nationalteam1 = Italy U16
| nationalcaps1 = 5
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1983–1984
| nationalteam2 = Italy U17
| nationalcaps2 = 6
| nationalgoals2 = 0
| nationalyears3 = 1984–1985
| nationalteam3 = Italy U18
| nationalcaps3 | nationalgoals3
| nationalyears4 = 1985–1988
| nationalteam4 = Italy U21
| nationalcaps4 | nationalgoals4
| pcupdate = 12:07, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
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Marco Angelo Monti (born 2 July 1967) is an Italian former footballer who played for his country Italy in the Italy U21, Italy U18, Italy U17, Italy U16 and numerous clubs, including Inter Milan, Lazio, Atalanta, Reggiana, Ravenna and Lecco.
Monti is currently working at Internazionale-Inter Milan FC as a Technical Director-Academy alongside youth team coach role (Under-12, Under-14, Under-16, Under-18). He was also featured in the television programme ''Football's Next Star'', a football reality show aimed at British and Irish youth players competing to win a contract with Internazionale. Monti has played alongside some very big names in the world of football such as Maradona while Maradona was playing for Napoli and Marco Monti played for Lazio.Marco also played against the likes of Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, Marco van Basten, Paolo Maldini and many more such great legends.
Players coached
o Mario Balotelli
o Davide Santon
o Obafemi Martins
o Leonardo Bonucci
o Jonathan Biabiany
o Mattia Destro
o Luca Siligardi
o Andrej Beleckij
o Rene Krhin
o Francesco Bolzoni
o Lorenzo Crisetig
o Marco Andreolli
References
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*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/Inter-Milan-team-coming-to-Chennai-in-search-of-talent/articleshow/31703298.cms timesofindia.indiatimes.com]
*[http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/calcio-comes-calling/954326/ archive.indianexpress.com]
*[http://www.inter.it/en/news/45180 inter.it]
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Category:Living people
Category:Italian men's footballers
Category:Italy men's youth international footballers
Category:Men's association football defenders
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Category:Inter Milan players
Category:SS Lazio players
Category:Atalanta BC players
Category:AS Reggina 1914 players
Category:Ravenna FC players
Category:Calcio Lecco 1912 players
Category:SSD Virtus CiseranoBergamo 1909 players
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Pseudomyrmex ferruginea
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The acacia ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) is a species of ant of the genus Pseudomyrmex. These arboreal, wasp-like ants have an orange-brown body around 3 mm in length and very large eyes. The acacia ant is best known and named for living in symbiosis with the bullhorn acacia (Acacia cornigera) throughout Central America.
The ant and the acacia exemplify a coevolution of a mutualistic system, as described by evolutionary ecologist Daniel Janzen.
Description
P. ferruginea is an obligate plant ant that occupies at least five species of acacia (A. chiapensis, A. collinsii, A. cornigera, A. hindsii and A. sphaerocephala). Its life cycle conforms to the claustral pattern of ants in general.
Mutualistic symbiosis
To repel herbivorous animals, various acacias protect their succulent leaves with one of several methods, including vicious-looking spines, repellent, noxious chemicals, andas is the case with the bullhorn acaciaby developing a mutualism with the acacia ant. and as little as an unfamiliar odour can cause the ants to swarm toward the potential threat. Additionally, the ants scout the ground around the tree for seedlings and destroy any competitors they find. In compensation, special glands at the base of the tree's leaves produce a nectar rich in sugar and amino acids, and the tips of the leaves sprout Beltian bodies, small nutritious packets of oils and proteins. However, not all is mutually beneficial: the ants relish the sweet honeydew produced by scale insects which suck the sap of the acacia and therefore protect them as well, effectively providing entry to diseases. that without the ants, Acacia cornigera suffer greater damage from attacking insects and tend to be overgrown by competing plant species. The ants can also be crushed to form an oil which is applied to the chest to treat asthma.<ref name"Saqui"/>See also
* List of symbiotic relationships
* Acacia collinsii
* Myrmelachista schumanni
* Myrmecodia
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Skindergade
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Skindergade is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Running roughly parallel to Strøget, to which it is connected through Jorcks Passage, it extends for approximately 400 metres from Gammeltorv to Købmagergade.
History
Its name dates back to the 15th century when it was a venue for leather craftsmen (skinder- derives from Danish "Skind", meaning skin) such as skinners, glovers, purse-, saddle- and shoemakers.
Notable buildings and residents
thumb|200px|left|The old part of Pressens Hus
thumb|200px|No. 8 Skindergade
Pressens Hus at No. 5–7 is home to the Danish Media Association. It is a former commerce house from 1902, expanded with a glazed extension by Erik Korshagen in 1976.
Kunstnerkollegiet is located at No. 34. N. 45-47 was built for Georg Bestle's wine trading house. The rounded pediment features a relief of Neptune and Mercury.
Memorial plaque
The facade of no. 44 bears a memorial stone over six named members of Holger Danske who in 1945 were arrested there by Gestapo and subsequently executed in Ryvangen.
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Norfolk Nelson Museum
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thumb|The Nelson Museum in 2012
The Nelson Museum was a small museum housed in a Grade II listed Georgian Merchant's house on South Quay in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It was formed from the collection of local agriculturalist Ben Burgess, who was a lifelong collector of Nelson related artefacts. Opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 2002, the museum celebrated the life and times of Admiral Horatio Nelson. There were galleries, a new temporary exhibition every two years, and interactive exhibits and games for children.
The museum was forced to close in October 2019 due to declining visitor numbers and the withdrawal of funding by Great Yarmouth Borough Council. The collection, comprising over 2,000 items including an oil portrait of Nelson and some of his original letters, was put into storage.
See also
National Maritime Museum
References
External links
Category:Museums in Norfolk
Category:Great Yarmouth
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Maghi
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Maghi is the regional name of the Hindu festival of Makar Sankranti celebrated in Nepal, Punjab, Haryana Jammu division and Himachal Pradesh. In Himachal, the festival is also known as Maghi Saaji or Magha Ra Saza. In Bihar and Nepal it is also referred to as Maghi Parva or Maghi Sankranti. whereas it is known as Maghi Sangrand or Uttarain (Uttarayana) in Jammu and Sakrat in Haryana, Maghi is celebrated on first day of the month of Magha of Hindu Calendar. It follows on the heels of the mid-winter festival of Lohri which is marked by bonfires in North Indian fields and yards. The next morning Hindus see as an auspicious occasion for ritual bathing in ponds and rivers.
In Hinduism
Makar Sankranti (or Pongal) is celebrated in other parts of Indian subcontinent by Hindus, and is always on the first day of the month of Magha in Bikrami calendar. On Maghi, when the sun takes its northern journey on entering the sign of Makara or Capricorn, the Hindus take bath in the River Ganga or if that is not possible, in some other river, rivulet, canal or pond.
It follows the festival of Lohri in north India, particularly popular in the Punjab region.
Himachal Pradesh
Maghi is popularly referred to as Magha Ra Saza in some parts of Himachal Pradesh. As Magh is the coldest month in the hills when agriculture comes to stand still, this month is dedicated to worship of Agni Devta. In villages of Himachal, Lohri night is part of Maghi celebrations and is referred to as Masant. Another ritual associated with Maghi is Madraison Puja when the houses are cleaned and decorated.
In Sikhism
For Sikhs it is a community gathering to commemorate martyrdom of forty Sikhs (Chalis Mukte) who once had deserted the tenth and last human Guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh at Anandpur Sahib, but later rejoined the Guru and died while fighting the Mughal Empire army led by Wazir Khan in 1705. Sikhs make a pilgrimage to the site of the war, and take a holy dip in the sacred water pond of Gurdwara Sri Tootti Ganddi Sahib in Muktsar.
A fair (mela) is held at Muktsar Sahib every year and called the Mela Maghi is held in memory of the forty Sikh martyrs. Before this tradition started to commemorate the Sikh martyrs who gave their lives to protect the tenth Guru, the festival was observed and mentioned by Guru Amar Das, the third Guru of Sikhism.
Cultural celebration
In Punjab, Maghi is celebrated by people eating kheer such as Rauh di kheer which is an old dish where rice is cooked in sugarcane juice. The dish is prepared in the evening before Maghi and is kept to cool. It is served cold next morning on Maghi with red-chili mixed curd. In some parts of Punjab, India, it is also traditional practice to eat Khichdi mixed with lentils, consume raw sugarcane and jaggery, Fairs are held at many places in Punjab on Maghi.
See also
Makar Sankranti
Sankranti
Thai Pongal
Winter Solstice
Lohri
Maghe Sankranti
References
Category:Religious festivals in India
Category:Hindu festivals
Category:Folk festivals in India
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Acosmeryx shervillii
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Acosmeryx shervillii, the dull forest hawkmoth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875. It is found from the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, to Sundaland, the Philippines and Sulawesi. Acosmeryx pseudonaga is sometimes treated as a valid species. Description
The colour varieties of the species have been described as separate species many times. However, they are classified as colour morphs of the single species A. shervillii.
According to The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I by G. F. Hampson:
Biology
There are three or more generations in Hong Kong, occurring from early March until early October. The larvae have been recorded on Saurauia, Dillenia, Leea, Cayratia, Cissus and Vitis species.
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Acosmeryx shervillii MHNT CUT 2010 0 23 Ban Kheum Laos Male Dorsal.jpg|Male
Acosmeryx shervillii MHNT CUT 2010 0 23 Ban Kheum Laos Male Ventral.jpg|Male underside
Acosmeryx shervillii MHNT CUT 2010 0 24 Taiping Perak Malaisia female dorsal.jpg|Female
Acosmeryx shervillii MHNT CUT 2010 0 24 Taiping Perak Malaisia female ventral.jpg|Female underside
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Heavy-chain antibody
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A heavy-chain antibody is an antibody which consists only of two heavy chains and lacks the two light chains usually found in antibodies.
In common antibodies, the antigen binding region consists of the variable domains of the heavy and light chains (VH and VL). Heavy-chain antibodies can bind antigens despite having only VH domains. This observation has led to the development of a new type of antibody fragments with potential use as drugs, so-called single-domain antibodies.
Discovery
In 1989 a group of biologists led by Raymond Hamers at the Free University Brussels investigated the immune system of dromedaries. In addition to the expected four-chain antibodies, they identified simpler antibodies consisting only of two heavy chains. This discovery was published in Nature in 1993.
In cartilaginous fishes
thumb|260px|A heavy-chain shark antibody (left) and a heavy-chain camelid antibody (middle) in comparison to a common antibody (right). Heavy chains are shown in a darker shade, light chains in a lighter shade.
The immunoglobulin new antigen receptor (IgNAR) of cartilaginous fishes (for example sharks) is a heavy-chain antibody. IgNAR shows significant structural differences to other antibodies. It has five constant domains (CH) per chain instead of the usual three, several disulfide bonds in unusual positions, and the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) forms an extended loop covering the site which binds to a light chain in other antibodies. These differences, in combination with the phylogenetic age of the cartilaginous fishes, have led to the hypothesis that IgNAR could be more closely related to a primordial antigen-binding protein than the mammalian immunoglobulins. To test this hypothesis, it would be necessary to discover IgNAR or similar antibodies in vertebrates that are phylogenetically still older, like the jawless fish lamprey and hagfish. Non-vertebrates do not have antibodies at all.
Sharks, and possibly other cartilaginous fishes, have immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin W (IgW) as well, both types with two heavy and two light chains.
In camelids
The only mammals with heavy-chain (IgG-like) antibodies are camelids such as dromedaries, camels, llamas and alpacas. This is a secondary development: The heavy chains of these antibodies have lost one of their constant domains (CH1) and undergone modifications in the variable domain (VH), both structural elements necessary for the binding of light chains. In one subgroup, the missing CH1 seems to be replaced by an extended hinge region, as shown in the image. Despite their different overall structure, camelid heavy-chain antibodies share several properties with IgNAR, for example the extended CDR3 loop and the conformation of the CDR1. It has been reasoned that these similarities are caused by functional requirements, or convergent evolution, rather than a genuine relationship. It is not known whether any type of animal has only heavy-chain antibodies and completely lacks the common type with two heavy and two light chains.
Heavy-chain camelid antibodies have been found to be just as specific as a regular antibody and in some cases they are more robust. As well, they are easily isolated using the same phage panning procedure used for traditional antibodies, allowing them to be cultured ex vivo in large concentrations. Phage-displayed dromedary camel VHH libraries have been made for isolating single-domain antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and other virus infections. The smaller size and single domain make these antibodies easier to transform into bacterial cells for bulk production, making them ideal for research purposes.
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Wikilite: Biology of immunoglobulin light chains
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André Calisir
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| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
| height = 1.80 m
| position = Centre-back
| currentclub = Brommapojkarna
| clubnumber = 26
| youthyears1 | youthclubs1 Djurgårdens IF
| years1 2007–2011 | clubs1 Djurgården | caps1 7 | goals1 0
| years2 2009 | clubs2 → Skellefteå (loan) | caps2 21 | goals2 0
| years3 2011 | clubs3 → Jönköpings Södra (loan) | caps3 17 | goals3 0
| years4 2012–2017 | clubs4 Jönköpings Södra | caps4 168 | goals4 5
| years5 2018–2020 | clubs5 IFK Göteborg | caps5 67 | goals5 2
| years6 2021 | clubs6 Apollon Smyrnis | caps6 8 | goals6 0
| years7 2021–2023 | clubs7 Silkeborg | caps7 21 | goals7 0
| years8 2023– | clubs8 Brommapojkarna | caps8 38 | goals8 0
| nationalyears1 = 2010
| nationalteam1 = Sweden U19
| nationalcaps1 = 2
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 2018–
| nationalteam2 = Armenia
| nationalcaps2 = 34
| nationalgoals2 = 0
| club-update = 13 November 2024
| nationalteam-update = 17 November 2024
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André Jack Calisir (, ; born 13 June 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Swedish club IF Brommapojkarna. Born in Sweden, he represents the Armenia national team.
Club career
Calisir began playing football in Djurgården's youth organization. He made his Allsvenskan debut on 9 May 2010, away against Örebro SK. Calisir's contract with Djurgården expired in December 2011 and was not extended. He joined second division side Jönköping with whom he won the Superettan in 2015 and secured promotion to the first division.
Calisir joined IFK Göteborg in 2018 following Jönköping's relegation from the Allsvenskan. He came on as an extra-time substitute in IFK's defeat of Malmö FF in the 2020 Svenska Cupen Final on 30 July 2020.International career
As a Swedish citizen of Armenian and Assyrian descent, Calisir was eligible to play for the Sweden or Armenia national team in international football. He played for the Swedish youth teams, but opted to accept the call-up to the Armenia in May 2018.
He debuted with the Armenia national team in a friendly 0–0 draw to Moldova on 4 June 2018.Personal lifeCalisir was born in Sweden and is of Armenian and Assyrian descent. His father is an Assyrian born in Turkey, and his mother, who is of Armenian descent, made him eligible to represent the Armenia national team.
Career statistics
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|2023||5||0
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|2024||6||0
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Honours
Jönköping
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IFK Göteborg
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Samantha Kerkman
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|education = University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (BA)
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Samantha Kerkman ( Starzyk; born March 6, 1974) is an American politician. She is the county executive of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, serving since April 2022. She previously represented Kenosha County in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2001 through 2022.
Early life and career
Samantha Kerkman was born Samantha Starzyk in Burlington, Wisconsin. She graduated from Wilmot Union High School and attended the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1996. Political career While in college, Kerkman began working as an intern and legislative assistant in the office of State Representative Cloyd A. Porter, and, after graduating, was named his chief of staff. She also began volunteering with the Randall, Wisconsin, Fire Department Auxiliary.
When Porter announced in 2000 that he would not seek reelection to a 15th term, Kerkman chose to enter the race to replace him. Porter quickly endorsed his former legislative aide, saying, "I think Samantha has made an excellent decision. I am confident that Samantha has the strength, energy, and the dedication to serve the people of the 66th to her full potential." Kerkman was subsequently reelected five times in the 66th assembly district, and, after redistricting in 2013, Kerkman has been serving in what is now the 61st assembly district. On April 5, 2022, Kerkman was elected Kenosha County Executive. She assumed office on April 18, 2022. Personal life and family Samantha Starzyk took the last name Kerkman in 2001, when she married attorney Chad Kerkman. They have two children and divorced in 2013.<ref name"about" /> References External links
* https://www.kenoshacounty.org/144/County-Executive
* https://www.votesamanthakerkman.com/
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-kerkman-5561656
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South Apennine mixed montane forests
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The South Apennine mixed montane forests is an ecoregion in the southern Apennine Mountains of southern Italy and Sicily. It has a Mediterranean climate, and is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.
This ecoregion is restricted to the high mountain massifs of the regions of Basilicata, Calabria and the island of Sicily.
Climate
The climate of the ecoregion changes with altitude. The lower mountain slopes have a warm and sub-humid climate, with an average annual temperature of 14 to 17º C. High elevations are cooler and more humid, with annual average temperatures of 9 to 13º C and over 2000 mm of precipitation annually. The mountain summits in southern Calabria and northeastern Sicily are frequently covered in dense fog. Winters at high elevation are cold, with abundant snowfall.
Flora
The ecoregion's wide altitudinal range results in several forest zones.
Lowest elevations
At lowest elevations the forests are characterized by the sclerophyllous evergreen holm oak (Quercus ilex) and cork oak (Quercus suber), coniferous stone pine (Pinus pinea), and the deciduous trees Quercus pubescens, Fraxinus ornus, and Ostrya carpinifolia.
Medium elevations
At medium elevations the mixed deciduous forests of Quercus cerris, Quercus pubescens, Quercus frainetto, sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), and Ostrya carpinifolia predominate.
High elevations
At high elevation altitudes there is a north-south slopes gradient of plant communities:
South-facing plant communities: On south-facing slopes with cold and dry climate European black pine (Pinus nigra subsp. larico) is the dominant species. Pinus nigra subsp. larico is also found on Mount Etna up to the timberline along with the Etna birch (Betula aetniensis). Pinus heldreichii leucodermis is found only Pollino Mountains.
North-facing plant communities: On north-facing slopes Silver fir (Abies alba) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica) mix with Pinus nigra subsp. larico. Relict stands of the endemic Nebrodi fir (Abies nebrodensis) appear in the Madonie Mountains. The Etna summits is characterized by a shrub community of Astragalus siculus, Berberis aetnensis, Juniperus communis alpina and the Etna tree-broom (Genista aetnensis).
Fauna
Large mammals include roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), European wildcat (Felis silvestris), and crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata). The Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus) lives in the peninsular portion of the ecoregion, and Sila and Pollino national parks are home to Italy's largest wolf population. Wolves are absent from Sicily.
Sicily's forests are home to the Sicilian shrew (Crocidura sicula), which is endemic to Sicily and Malta.
Protected areas
A 2017 assessment found that 6,008 km2, or 46%, of the ecoregion is in protected areas. Protected areas include Aspromonte National Park, Sila National Park, and Pollino National Park, Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese National Park, and Monte Piacentini Regional Park, Nebrodi Park, and Etna Park.
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Arnold Sodeman
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| birth_place = Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
| death_date
| death_place = HM Prison Pentridge, Coburg, Victoria, Australia
| alias = The School-Girl Strangler
| conviction = Murder
| conviction_penalty = Death
| conviction_status = Executed
| occupation | spouse Bernice (née Pope)
| parents = Karl and Violet (née Wood)
| children = Joan
| death_cause = Execution by hanging
| beginyear = 1930
| endyear = 1935
| country = Australia
| states = Victoria
| victims = 4
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Arnold Karl Sodeman ( – ), also known as the School-girl Strangler, was an Australian serial killer who targeted children. He confessed to four killings, and was executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1936. Sodeman was the second of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne Gaol in 1924.
Early life
Arnold Karl Sodeman was born in Victoria in 1899. His mother suffered from bouts of amnesia and both his father and grandfather died in mental institutions. At 18, Sodeman was sent to a reformatory prison for larceny. Shortly after his release from the reformatory, he was charged with armed robbery and wounding the station master at Surrey Hills railway station. Sodeman was sent to prison to serve three years hard labour. Sodeman escaped from prison and was sentenced to a further 12 months imprisonment with hard labour.
Upon release Sodeman settled down to various labouring jobs, first in Melbourne and later in Gippsland. He married Bernice Pope at Collingwood and their daughter Joan was born in 1928. The marriage was considered a happy one. Although Sodeman seemed to suffer from occasional bouts of depression and frequent drunkenness, he was never violent towards his family. He was reported to be hard-working, mild and amiable with a generous disposition.Murders and arrestOn 9 November 1930 Sodeman abducted a 12-year-old schoolgirl, Mena Griffiths. He came upon his victim at the local playground playing with a group of friends. He gave the other girls some money and told them to go to the shop to get some ice-creams; meanwhile, he told his victim that he had a different errand for her to run. By the time the little girl's friends returned to the playground, there was no sign of Griffiths or the man. Griffiths' body was discovered two days later at Ormond, in an abandoned building. She had been strangled to death, then gagged and bound post-mortem with her own clothing.
Sodeman struck for the third time on 1 January 1935. His victim Ethel Belshaw was a 12-year-old girl whom he strangled then bound at the sea-side town of Inverloch. Belshaw was intending to buy an ice cream when she disappeared.
On 1 December 1935 Sodeman killed his fourth victim, a 6-year-old girl named June Rushmer, the daughter of a coworker who was taken from a local park. Her body was found the following day less than from her Leongatha home. She had also been bound, gagged and strangled. Witnesses stated that they had seen the child with a man on a bicycle shortly before her disappearance. In February 1936, at the conclusion of a two-day trial, the jury found him guilty of murder. The Government medical officer Dr. A. J. W. Philpott, his assistant, Dr. R. T. Allan, and a psychiatrist Dr Reginald Ellery, all gave evidence that Sodeman was suffering from a disorder of the mind which created an 'obsessional impulse' of such power that—under the influence of alcohol—he was no longer responsible for his behaviour. Since Sodeman was intoxicated on all four occasions, the doctors concluded that he was insane at the times of the murders. Their conclusion was reinforced not only by Sodeman's repetitive behaviour but also by his family's medical history: both his father and grandfather had died insane. Judge Charles Gavan Duffy then sentenced him to death for the murder of Rushmer having advised the jury to distinguish between opinions given by expert medical witnesses on matters relating to the physical body, which could be proved by surgery, and those concerning the mind. The jury, in making their decision, rejected Sodeman's defence of insanity.</blockquote>ExecutionSodeman had not wanted a reprieve because of the fear that if he lived he might commit more murders. Sodeman spent a good deal of his time playing draughts with Edward Cornelius, who was under sentence of death for the murder of Reverend Cecil in Fitzroy in November of the previous year. He was hanged and buried at Pentridge Prison, Coburg, on 1 June 1936. An autopsy disclosed that he was suffering from leptomeningitis, a degenerative disease that could cause serious inflammation of the brain when aggravated by alcohol.Media
In 1965 the Australian television series Homicide based episode 39 "A Lonely Place" on the case. The episode first went to air in November 1965 and was introduced by actor John Fegan, warning of the importance of protecting children. Unlike many episodes, the episode ended without a voice over stating what the legal results of the case had been (for example, whether the offender was sentenced to death but later reprieved).
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the murder of Ethel Belshaw, Leongatha newspaper ‘’’The Great Southern Star’’’ published an interview with Maureen Lewis (née Keighery) who was the Sodeman's neighbour in 1935. Lewis was with the Sodeman family on the day he murdered Belshaw. Lewis had travelled with the Sodemans from Leongatha for a fun day in the sun. She was friends with the Sodemans’ child Joan, a girl of similar age. “On the day Ethel was murdered. He wanted to take me for an ice cream. It could have been me that day,” she said. “I went down there with them to Inverloch on that day with the Sodemans. ... He wanted to take me for an ice cream, and Mrs Sodeman wouldn’t let him take me, unless he also took Joan, his daughter.” (which Sodeman refused to do).See also*List of serial killers by countryReferencesFurther reading
*Bourke, John Peter & Sonenberg, David Shoburn (1969). Insanity and injustice. Jacaranda.
*Sartain, Bob & Inverloch Historical Society (1999). Anderson Inlet Inverloch : murder in Inverloch : the Sodeman murders. Norman R. Deacon for Inverloch Historical Society.
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| parents = Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (father)
| spouse = Elizabeth Calvert
| children = 13, including:<br/>Eleanor Calvert<br/>George Calvert
| alma_mater | residence Mount Airy Mansion
| occupation = planter, politician
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Benedict Swingate Calvert (January 27, 1722 – January 9, 1788) was a planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699–1751). His mother's identity is not known, though one source speculates that she was Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham. As he was illegitimate, he was not able to inherit his father's title or estates, which passed instead to his half brother Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731–1771). Benedict Calvert spent most of his life as a politician, judge and planter in Maryland, though Frederick, by contrast, never visited the colony. Calvert became wealthy through proprietarial patronage and became an important colonial official, but he would lose his offices and his political power, though not his land and wealth, during the American Revolution.
Early life
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Calvert was born Benedict Swinket in England on January 27, 1722,
His mother's identity is not known. H. S. Lee Washington, writing in the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register in July 1950, speculates that she was Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, the daughter of George I of Great Britain and his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal.
According to a letter of Benedict's daughter-in-law Rosalie Stier Calvert dated 10 June 1814, Calvert's mother had been a woman "of the highest rank in England".
Arrival in Maryland
in 1876]]
In around 1736 or 1737, The population of colony was 120,000 at the time.
According to the letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, Benedict was personally escorted to Annapolis on a frigate commanded by Admiral Edward Vernon, though this seems unlikely.
On arrival, the boy was placed in the care of Dr George Steuart (1700–1784), an Edinburgh-trained physician and a political ally of the ruling Calvert family. Steuart provided the boy with a tutor, the Italian Onorio Razzolini, the first immigrant of Italian descent to hold public office in the North American colonies.
Benedict Calvert grew up at Steuart's "old-fashioned house" on Francis St in Annapolis, just off State Circle and a short walk from the Maryland State House. At least once he was beaten by a town bully; his attacker was brought before the County Court and whipped.
Benedict Calvert would never return to England; nor would he meet his father again. Some time before his death in 1751, Lord Baltimore wrote to his son, offering advice on marriage:
<blockquote>Pray do not think of Marrying until you hear from me having some things to Propose for you, much for your advantage, and believe me I will never force Your Inclination, Only Propose what I think will make you most Happy, Afterwards Leave it to Your own Determination. The couple, aged 18 and 17 years respectively, moved into Elizabeth's house at 58 State Circle, Annapolis.
The marriage was announced in the Maryland Gazette on April 27, 1748:
<blockquote>Last Thursday the Honourable Benedict Calvert, Esq., Collector of His Majesty's customs for Patuxent District, etc., was married to Miss Elizabeth Calvert, only surviving Daughter of the late Honourable Charles Calvert, Esq., deceased, former Governor of this province.</blockquote>
In 1751 Calvert's father Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore died, leaving his illegitimate son the estate of Anne Arundel Manor in Anne Arundel County. Unfortunately, Lord Baltimore's legitimate son and heir, Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, successfully challenged the will and invalidated Benedict's bequest, apparently worth £288 per annum.
Despite the loss of his father's bequest, Calvert's career progressed steadily. In 1755 he became a Judge of the Land Office, sitting alongside his former guardian Dr. George H. Steuart. The Land Office had been created in 1715 to resolve disputes over title to land in the colony.
By 1761 Calvert was wealthy enough to commission formal portraits of his four children: Rebecca, Charles and the twins Eleanor and Elizabeth, by the Maryland portrait painter John Hesselius, three of which are today a part of the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
In 1769 his half-sister Caroline Calvert married Robert Eden (the last royal governor and ancestor of Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister) who in the same year succeeded Governor Horatio Sharpe as Governor of Maryland. Eden and Calvert shared a love of horse racing and Benedict Swingate Calvert would soon find himself appointed to the Governor's Council.
Mount Airy Plantation
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In 1751 Calvert inherited a plantation known as Mount Airy, originally a hunting lodge for his great-grandfather Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he grew tobacco. Mount Airy was most likely a gift from his father, Lord Baltimore, who had ensured that Calvert would be provided with lands and revenues. Calvert began construction on the house at Mount Airy in 1751, expanding it considerably, to create the house which still survives today.
By the 1770s Benedict Swingate Calvert controlled a large and profitable estate of around , with upwards of 150 slaves. He was also an enthusiastic horse breeder, training thoroughbreds and running them in competitions in Maryland and Virginia. and was present at the wedding celebrations, which took place at Mount Airy.
On May 13, 1777, Calvert was forced to resign his position as Judge of the Land Office. As the conflict grew, Calvert became fearful of his family's safety, writing in late 1777 that his family "has been made so uneasy by these frequent outrages" that he wished to "remove my family and property where I can get protection".
Calvert did not leave Maryland, nor did he involve himself in the fighting, even though many other Maryland Loyalists went on to form a Maryland Loyalists Battalion. On occasion Calvert supplied the Continental Army with food and provisions.
In spite of the war, on June 15, 1780, Calvert's daughter Elizabeth was married to Charles Steuart, son of Calvert's benefactor George H. Steuart, at Mount Airy Mansion.After the warAfter the war's end, Calvert had to pay triple taxes as did other Loyalists, but he was never forced to sign the loyalty oath and his lands and property remained unconfiscated.
Calvert's Loyalism does not appear to have affected his cordial relations with the leader of the Revolution, George Washington. Most likely this was because of the marriage in 1774 of Washington's stepson to Calvert's daughter. In 1783, after the war was over, Washington stayed with the Calverts at their Mount Airy plantation, shortly after resigning his commission in Annapolis on December 23. Because Calvert was a known Loyalist, the visit drew much criticism from Washington's political enemies.
Family life
by John Wollaston, 1754]]
Benedict and Elizabeth Calvert had thirteen children, many of whom died in childhood:
* Rebecca Calvert (born December 25, 1749)
* Charles Calvert (1756–1777), who was sent to be educated in England at Eton College and died young and unmarried.
* Eleanor Calvert (1757/1758–1811), who on February 3, 1774, married John Parke Custis (1754–1781), son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Washington and the stepson of George Washington. Washington himself did not approve of the match owing to the couple's youth.
* Philip Calvert, died young
* Leonard Calvert, died young
* Cecilius Calvert, died young
* John Calvert (died after 1788)
* William Calvert (died after 1788)
* Robert Calvert, died young
* Ariana Calvert (1763–1788)
* Edward Henry Calvert (November 7, 1766 – July 12, 1846), who inherited Calvert's plantation at Mount Airy
Gallery
<gallery>
File:Charles Calvert and his Slave.jpg|Charles Calvert, eldest son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by John Hesselius in 1761
File:EleanorCalvert.png|Painting of Eleanor Calvert by John Hesselius, 1728–1778,
File:Eleanor Calvert.jpg|Miniature of Eleanor Calvert (1758–1811), eldest surviving daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, .
File:Elizabeth_Calvert.png|Miniature of Elizabeth Calvert (1760–1814), youngest daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by Benjamin West.
File:George Calvert.jpg|George Calvert (1768–1838) by Gilbert Stuart 1804
File:ElizabethCalvert1761byJohnHesselius.jpg|Elizabeth Calvert, daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by John Hesselius
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Ancestry
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| rowspan8 align"center"| Benedict Swingate Calvert<br /> (–1798)
| rowspan4 align"center"| Father: <br /> Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore<br />
| rowspan2 align"center"| Paternal Grandfather:<br />Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
| align="center"| Paternal Great-grandfather:<br />Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
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| align="center"| Paternal Great-grandmother:<br />Jane Lowe
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| rowspan2 align"center"| Paternal Grandmother:<br />Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore
| align="center"| Paternal Great-grandfather:<br />Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield
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| align="center"| Paternal Great-grandmother:<br />Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
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| rowspan4 align"center"| Mother:<br />Unknown. Speculatively, Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham<br />
(1693–1778)
| rowspan2 align"center"| Maternal Grandfather:<br />George I of Great Britain
| align="center"| Maternal Great-grandfather:<br />Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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| align="center"| Maternal Great-grandmother:<br />Sophia of Hanover
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| rowspan2 align"center"| Maternal Grandmother:<br />Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal
| align="center"| Maternal Great-grandfather:<br />Gustavus Adolphus Baron von der Schulenberg
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| align="center"| Maternal Great-grandmother:'''<br />Petronella Ottilie Baroness von Schwencken
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Modern archeology
The Calverts' house at 58 State Circle, Annapolis, was the subject of an archaeological dig in the 1980s and early 1990s. The results of the dig, along with much other research, were published in 1994 by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch in her book A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves, published by Cambridge University Press. The excavation of the Calvert House was financed by Historic Annapolis Inc, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other institutions.
See also
*Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
*Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
*History of Maryland in the American Revolution
*Loyalist (American Revolution)
*Province of Maryland
*Proprietary colony
Notes
References
* [https://books.google.com/books?idm9rxARyL5hcC&dqcharles+steuart+calvert&pg=PA390 Callcott, Margaret Law, p.390, Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert] Retrieved August 17, 2010
* [https://books.google.com/books?idAOzHicpTID0C&dqelizabeth+calvert&pg=PA187 Hammond, John Martin, Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware] Retrieved September 2010
* Nelker, Gladys P., The Clan Steuart, Genealogical Publishing (1970).
* [https://books.google.com/books?idmq5sidFiyHUC&dqfrederick+calvert+baltimore&pg=PA9 Russell, George, p.8, The Ark and the Dove Adventurers] Retrieved Jan 28 2010
* Washington, George Sydney Horace Lee, p. 176, "The Royal Stuarts in America" New England Historical and Genealogical Register (July 1950).
* [https://books.google.com/books?idjJX672KW8TMC&dqcharles+calvert+governor&pgPA55 Yentsch, Anne E, p.55, A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves: a Study in Historical Archaeology, Cambridge University Press (1994)] Retrieved Jan 28 2010External links
* [http://www.lib.umd.edu/binaries/content/assets/public/special/projects/riversdale/calvertfamilytree.pdf Calvert Family Tree] Retrieved Jul 10 2013
* [http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurlhttp://theojanssen.ca/documents/Janssen/Mary%2520Janssen/george1england.jpg&imgrefurlhttp://theojanssen.ca/documents/Janssen/Mary%2520Janssen/Mary_Janssen.htm&usg__uQWUS4Oq_Y7lKfTJ14wjVxcMsTI&h439&w361&sz54&hlen&start17&um1&tbnid9BvAfhl3E_U_5M:&tbnh127&tbnw104&prev/images%3Fq%3Delizabeth%2Bcalvert%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1 Benedict Swingate Calvert at http://theojanssen.ca] Retrieved Jan 23 2010
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200056/http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/2006-01/msg00271.html webpage exploring possible maternity of Benedict Swingate Calvert] Retrieved Jan 23 2010
*[http://www.wargs.com/royal/kendal.html Discussion at Wargs.com of Benedict Swingate Calvert's ancestry] Retrieved September 2010
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171030181749/http://www.prairieghosts.com/mtairy.html Mount Airy Plantation website] Retrieved Jan 31 2010
* [http://www.wildernet.com/pages/area.cfm?areaIDMDSPRV&CU_ID1 Mount Airy Plantation at wildnet.com] Retrieved Jan 31 2010
* [http://genealogytrails.com/mary/princegeorges/mansions.html Letters from Lord Baltimore to Benedict Swingate Calvert] Retrieved August 10, 2010
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170924001705/http://www.mountairymansion.org/history.html Mount Airy Official Website] Retrieved September 2010
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Bye Bye Blackbird is a studio album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded on October 12, 1991 in tribute to Miles Davis, who had died two weeks earlier, and released on ECM in April 1993—the first and last studio recording by Jarrett's "Standards Trio", featuring rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette since their 1983 debut.
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In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell wrote: "The lonely figure in shadow with a horn on the cover contrasts with the joyous spirit of many of the tracks on this CD, yet there is still a ghostly presence to deal with—and in keeping with Miles' credo, Jarrett's choice of notes is often more purposefully spare than usual. There is symmetry in the organization of the album, with 'Bye Bye Blackbird' opening and the trio's equally jaunty 'Blackbird, Bye Bye' closing the album, and the interior tracks immediately following the former and preceding the latter are 'You Won't Forget Me' and 'I Thought About You'... As an immediate response to a traumatic event, Jarrett and his colleagues strike the right emotional balance to create one of their more meaningful albums." Track listing
#"Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) – 11:13
#"You Won't Forget Me" (Kermit Goell, Fred Spielman) – 10:46
#"Butch and Butch" (Oliver Nelson) – 6:37
#"Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 6:42
#"For Miles" (Jarrett, Peacock, DeJohnette) – 18:43
#"Straight No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:46
#"I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:02
#"Blackbird, Bye Bye" (Jarrett, Peacock, DeJohnette) – 3:02
Personnel
Keith Jarrett Trio
* Keith Jarrett – piano
* Gary Peacock – bass
* Jack DeJohnette – drums
Technical personnel
* Manfred Eicher – executive producer
* Jan Erik Kongshaug – mastering engineer
* Jay Newland – recording engineer
* Dieter Rehm – cover design
* Catherine Pichonnier – cover photography
References
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Jordan David Lifshitz (born October 13, 1992) is an American film producer.
Early life
Jordan David Lifshitz was born in Great Neck, New York, on October 13, 1992.
Career
In 2012, Lifshitz and Raphael Margules co-founded the production company BoulderLight Pictures, through which they became known for their horror and thriller work. They have produced films such as Contracted (2013), Pledge (2018), The Vigil (2019), Barbarian (2022), and Woman of the Hour (2023). BoulderLight signed a first-look feature film development deal with New Line Cinema in 2022, and a first-look television development deal with A+E Studios in 2024.Filmography
* Contracted (2013)
* Contracted: Phase II (2015)
* Bad Match (2017)
* Pledge (2018)
* The Vigil (2019)
* Becky (2020)
* Doors (2021)
* Wild Indian (2021)
* Barbarian (2022)
* Gone in the Night (2022)
* Woman of the Hour (2023)
* The Wrath of Becky (2023)
* Friendship (2024)
* Companion (2025)
* Weapons (2025)
Awards and nominations
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Franziska Gottwald (born in Marburg) is a German mezzo-soprano singer in opera and concert.
Career
Franziska Gottwald received her first voice training at the age of 16 with Eugen Rabine and studied voice at the Academies of Music in Saarbrücken, Hannover and Weimar. She has appeared at the Staatsoper Hannover as a guest artist and has been a member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar from 1998 for four years, singing parts such as Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Frau Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. In 2004, she appeared at the Komische Oper Berlin in Don Quijote de la Mancha of Hans Zender. In 2006, she sang at La Fenice the role of Licida in L'Olimpiade of Baldassare Galuppi, conducted by Andrea Marcon. In 2007, she sang the role of Fernando (Hernán Cortés) in Ferrara (and later on tour) in the first modern live staging of Vivaldi's opera seria Motezuma, at that time just rediscovered and partly reconstructed. In this production Alan Curtis conducted his orchestra Il Complesso Barocco.
She has performed as a concert singer since 2001, notably in the field of historically informed performance. She collaborated with Reinhard Goebel and the ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln and took part in the project of Ton Koopman to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.
In 2002, she was awarded first prize in the category voice at the XIII International Bach Competition of Leipzig.
References
External links
Franziska Gottwald website (in German)
Franziska Gottwald on the agent's website
Franziska Gottwald on Bachwoche Ansbach 2009 (in German)
Franziska Gottwald at Theater Basel, 2009 (in German)
Entries for recordings by Franziska Gottwald on WorldCat
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Margaret Howell CBE, RDI (born 5 September 1946, in Tadworth, Surrey, England) is a British fashion designer. Her career, in both men's and women's wear, spans over five decades.
Early career
“I had always made my own clothes, so the enjoyment of choosing the fabric and adapting the pattern to what I wanted was my training. [But] The 4 Year Dip Ad course [in Art and Design at Goldsmiths College, London] was an invaluable training in colour, proportion and design." Graduating in 1969, Howell made accessories while job-hunting. In 1970 her hand-made beads were taken up by Vogue and, spotted in the window of Browns, led to a commission by costume designer Beatrice Dawson for a beaded vest for Elizabeth Taylor, then shooting 'Zee and Co' in London.
In 1972 Howell began to design, make and sell shirts from a flat in Blackheath, south-east London, and was soon encouraged by orders from Joseph in London as well as US retailers, including Tommy Perse, Alan Bilzerian and Howard Partman.
Growth
With her then husband Paul Renshaw as business partner Howell opened her first independent shop in St Christopher's Place, London in 1980. Recognition followed and the label grew.
A profile in French Elle in 1977 noted: “In her precise and meticulous working methods, Margaret Howell is more a craftsman than an industrialist.” Jack Nicholson was a fan and insisted on wearing his own Margaret Howell corduroy jacket for his role in 1980s The Shining, prompting an order for 12 duplicates from Stanley Kubrick.
1982 saw Grace Coddington choose a Howell piece as Dress of the Year. However, this rapid expansion caused both business and personal difficulties. The couple divorced in 1987 and Renshaw left the company. It was restructured in 1990 with the help of Sam Sugure, responsible for Japanese licensing, and Richard Craig, who remains as managing director. The new management proved successful and steady growth followed. The company set up its own shirt factory in Edmonton, north London, in 2000 and opened the flagship Wigmore Street, London shop in 2002, designed collaboratively with Will Russell of Pentagram.
The Wigmore Street shop accommodates a design studio but and is spacious enough for Howell to mount exhibitions, host events, and retail products that complements her own work, such as Poole Pottery, Ercol, Anglepoise, and items selected from designers such as Robert Welch and David Mellor. The MHL clothing line was introduced in 2004, and the first of a series of collaborations to produce a shirt with other designers – Margaret Howell Plus – began in 2010 with Kenneth Grange, followed by Sam Hecht, Dan Pearson and Georgina von Etzdorf. Today Margaret Howell employs some 500 people in more than 80 locations, including Paris, Florence and Tokyo.
Howell continues to live in south-east London.
Character as a Designer
Howell's influences and interests – architecture, fine art, modern design, photography, swimming, swimming pools and coastal landscapes, traditional crafts of the British Isles – are reflected in the series of calendars she has produced since 1995.
Keynote designs are her variations on the well-tailored shirt, gymslip, lace-up shoe, duffel coat and trench coat. With their androgynous quality, and sympathetically shot by photographers such as Bruce Weber, Koto Bolofo, and Alasdair McLellan, her clothes have been described as 'marrying traditional styles with modern appeal... [so] all her work... has a stylish timelessness.' She herself says, "My style could be described as understated quality, updated modern classics." "I am often inspired by the method by which something is made... Good design has to work. Clothes have to work for people just as a chair has to...”
A short film made with Emily Richardson celebrates the empiricism and inspirations of her approach to clothes.
Recognition
2007 - appointed a CBE for services to the retail industry
2007 - made a Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts.
2010 – Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London.
2013 – Honorary Professor of the University for the Creative Arts.
2015 – Honorary Fellowship of Goldsmiths College, London.
References
External links
* [http://www.margarethowell.co.uk Official UK website]
* [http://www.margarethowell.jp Official Japanese website]
* [http://www.margarethowell.fr Official French website]
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| static_image_caption = St. Mary's Church, Thornthwaite
| population | unitary_england Cumberland
| lieutenancy_england = Cumbria
| region = North West England
| constituency_westminster = Penrith and Solway
| post_town = KESWICK
| postcode_district = CA12
| postcode_area = CA
| dial_code = 017687
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Thornthwaite is a village in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it is just off the A66 road, south of Bassenthwaite Lake and within the Lake District National Park. It is by road from Keswick. In 1861 the township had a population of 153.
The place-name contains thwaite ("clearing").
For administrative purposes, Stair lies within the civil parish of Above Derwent, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria. It is within the Penrith and Solway constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament. The Church is a Grade II listed building. References
External links
*[http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/above-derwent Cumbria County History Trust: Above Derwent] (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
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Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées
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The Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (IPSA), () is a French private grande école in aerospace engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine, Lyon and Toulouse, recognized by the French state since 2010, whose diploma has been accredited by the French Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur since 2011.
It was founded in 1961 and has been part of IONIS Education Group since 1998. History From creation to integration into IONIS Education group IPSA was founded in 1961 in Paris by Michel Cazin, the private secretary of Louis de Broglie and a teacher at the mechanical department of CNAM, Maurice Pradier and Paul Lefort. Twenty students started the training. In 1982, the first scholar trip was organized to the European Space Agency center in Guyana. In 1987 the school was bought by Henri Hertert, an airline pilot at Air France and an IPSA alumnus. In 1989 the institute moved into the towers Les Mercuriales at Bagnolet, where it stayed for ten years. Beset by financial difficulties, the university was bought by IONIS Education Group in 1998 and moved to Le Kremlin-Bicetre close to the university EPITA. Gradual recognition of the university <div style"float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 1.5em">
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The Master issued by IPSA was recognized by the French state at level 1 (higher level) in 2005, after accreditation by the Commission Nationale de la Certification Professionnelle. In 2007, IPSA opened a second campus in Toulouse, joined the Erasmus Programme and concluded double degree agreements with foreign universities. Following its establishment in Toulouse, the university joined the Institut au service du spatial, de ses applications et technologies in 2008. The next year, IPSA joined Aerospace Valley and moved to Ivry-sur-Seine close to the university ESME-Sudria before being accredited by the French state in 2010. The CTI also asks for a new recruitment process which has been done rapidly by the creation of a competitive examination called Concours Advance. In January 2013, IPSA joined the Conference of the Directors of French Engineering Schools. The CTI agreement is extended in May 2013. In 2018, the university gets the EUR-ACE label. Since 1 January 2021, the College is member of the Union of Independent Grandes Écoles. and since the 20st of June 2023 of the Conférence des Grandes écoles.
The College organizes the yearly air show IPS’AIR. The last edition took place in February 2023.
200px|thumb|right|IPSA Toulouse campus
History of directors
The current director is Anne-Ségolène Abscheidt, who is also the Vice-President of Ingénieurs et scientifiques de France. She is the tenth person to hold that function since 1961. She was appointed director of IPSA in June 2023.
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| Michel Cazin
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| Maurice Pradier
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| Paul Lefort
| 1961 to 1987
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| Henri Herter (IPSA 1976)
| 1987 to 1998
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| Guy Robin
| 1998 to 1999
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| Aimé Merran
| 1999 to 2009
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| Hervé Renaudeau
| 2009 to 2016
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|Francis Pollet
| 2017 to 2022
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| Valérie Cornetet
| 2022 to 2023
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| Anne-Ségolène Abscheidt
| Since 2023
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Governance
Campus]]
The school is owned by IONIS Education Group, and its president is the president of the group, Marc Sellam.
Training and research
Curriculum
IPSA aims to be close to other postgraduate engineering schools with a strong theoretical training for research and development jobs in order to graduate engineers specializing in aerospace engineering with a good general aerospace knowledge.
It offers a five-year course with five possibilities in the fourth year: "energy, spacecraft propulsion and engine", "mechanics and aircraft structure", "telecommunications, radar and radio navigation", "embedded systems", or "mechatronics". The students also choose one of ten minors: "Entrepreneurship", "business marketing", "association management", "Research Management", "Conduct of an international project", "project personnel development", "Board and consulting", " human resource management", "cultural management", "financial management".
In the fifth year, four options are available independently of the choice made in the fourth year: "Avionics", "Aeronautical Systems Design", "Space Systems Design" and "Management and Industrial Logistics".
From the first year on the school offers lessons relating to aeronautics in addition to basic scientific education, and a large part of the teaching throughout the curriculum is project-based.
Students also have the opportunity to attend a technical and managerial course sanctioned by an MBA in "business and international negotiation" of the Institut supérieur de gestion in addition to the diploma of the school, or to make the last year of studies in a foreign university in partnership with IPSA. Eleven months of internship are planned in the curriculum.
After graduation, graduates are represented by the association AAEIPSA (IPSA Alumni association). 70% of them work in the aerospace industry, mainly in research and development (46%) and in the Île-de-France region (57%).
Admission to the school is possible after a baccalauréat by succeeding at the competition "Advance" organized in partnership with EPITA and ESME-Sudria. In total, the three schools offer approximately 900 places. It is also possible to enter the school in the second, third or fourth year of studies for students coming from classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Bachelor or Master.
Since 2017, the school also offers Bachelors in aeronautics in addition to the Master's degree program describe above.
International relations
Partnerships allowing students to obtain a Master of Science in addition to the degree of IPSA exist with Shenyang Aerospace University in China, Cranfield University in the UK, Moscow State University in Russia, the Université Laval in Canada and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
Students also have access to the Erasmus Programme.
The university has bilateral agreements with The University of Arizona, University of California, San Diego.
Research activities
In 2011, IPSA features three research laboratories: 3D computer graphics and calculation, mechatronics, and fluid mechanics applied to aerodynamics.
The laboratory of 3D computer graphics and calculation investigates new algorithms to solve problems of processing and analysis of signals and images. An agreement of partnership with the laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S) (signals and systems laboratory), a laboratory of CNRS based at Supélec, was signed in 2010.
In 2006, ''IPS'action'' association launched the UNIV'air challenge in order to present students with research projects in partnership with the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France and other universities such as SUPAERO or EPF.
In 2008, a UAVs project named "Hélitronix" and realized by students and researchers of the mechatronics laboratory was selected during the Minidrone challenge funded by DGA and organized by ONERA. The same laboratory works on the "Perseus project" which consists of the development of rockets for CNES, in partnership with the AéroIPSAstudent association.
Moreover, IPSA participates in the cluster ASTech Paris Région. It contributes to its development in many sectors: aircraft engine, onboard energy, aircraft design, material, training and research, and maintenance.
In November 2011, the laboratory of fluid mechanics applied to aerodynamics adopted a new calculation tool allowing for the commissioning of a digital wind tunnel by the end of 2011.
A team from the university has received the 2011 GIFAS award for the student aerospace challenge.
Notable students
The College counts among its students the French synchronized swimmers Charlotte and Laura Tremble (class of 2025).
Notable alumni
200px|thumb|right|IPSA Class of 2013
Bibliography
* Lucien Robineau (dir.), Les Français du ciel : Dictionnaire historique, Paris, le cherche midi, 2005, 782 p. (), p. 628
* Mehdi. D, ''[http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/04/06/369086-saint-agne-epitech-ipsa-misent-ville-rose.html Saint-Agne. Epitech et l'Ipsa misent sur la Ville rose], La Dépêche du Midi, 6 April 2007
* André Turcat, Pilote d'essais : Mémoires II, Paris, le cherche midi, 2009, 199 p. (), p. 197
* Ginibrière Gaëlle, [http://www.lexpress.fr/emploi-carriere/ipsa-50-ans-avec-l-aeronautique_767601.html IPSA : 50 ans avec l'aéronautique], L'Express Emploi, 15 June 2009
* GIFAS, Une formation pour un métier dans l'industrie aéronautique et spatiale, Paris, 2013, 65 p., p. 46
* Mariama Diallo, [http://www.journal-aviation.com/actualites/16357-l-ipsa-ecole-d-ingenieurs-aeronautique-depuis-1961 L'IPSA, école d'ingénieurs aéronautique depuis 1961], Le Journal de l'aviation, 24 April 2012
* Le futur de l'avion : Les prochains défis de l’industrie aéronautique'', Ivry-sur-Seine, FYP Éditions, 2020, 160 p. ()
References
External links
*
* [https://alumni.ipsa.fr IPSA Alumni]
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Beuda () is a municipality located in the comarca of Garrotxa, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the slopes near the Mont massif, to the north of Besalú.
Places of interest
*Església de Sant Feliu - Romanesque; 11th century
*Monestir de Sant Sepulcre de Palera - Romanesque; 11th century
*Església Santa Maria de Palera
*Església de Santa Llúcia de Beuda
References
External links
* [http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?pageconsulta&mostraEns1702160009 Government data pages]
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Saranga (1994 film)
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| image | caption
| director = Mohammad Masood Asghar<br/>Ali Akbar
| producer = Rai Mohammad Yousuf
| writer = Saleem Murad
| screenplay = Saleem Murad
| story = Saleem Murad
| based_on | narrator Sheikh Abdul Qayyum<br/>Chaudhary Waseem
| starring = Sultan Rahi<br/>Gori<br/>Saima<br/>Ghulam Mohayuddin<br/>Sabiha Khanum<br/>Badar Munir<br/>Humayun Qureshi<br/>Tariq Shah<br/>Ilyas Kashmiri
| music Zulfiqar Ali<br/>Film song lyrics by Saeed Gillani
| runtime = 150 minutes
| country = Pakistan
| language = Punjabi
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Saranga (Punjabi: ) is a 1994 Pakistani Action film, directed by Mohammad Aslam Murad and produced by Rai Mohammad Yousuf.<ref name=PAKfilms/>
* Sultan Rahi as Saranga<ref namecitwf/><ref namePAKfilms/>
* Ghulam Mohayuddin as Deputy Inspector Police Mansoor<ref namecitwf/><ref namePAKfilms/>
* Gori as Shukhaan
* Sabiha Khanum as Chiragh Khan's wife
* Badar Munir as Subaydar Qamar Khan
* Tanzeem Hassan as Maloo
* Humayun Qureshi as Siyana<ref name=citwf/>
* Zahir Shah as Majoo
* Tariq Shah as Jalad Khan
* Ilyas Kashmiri as Khan Baba
* Ladla
* Saleem Hassan
* Nasrullah Butt as Chiragh Khan (Guest appearance)
* Altaf Khan as Inspector Police (Guest appearance)
Track list
The music of the film was composed by Zulfiqar Ali.<ref name=citwf/> Song lyrics were penned by Saeed Gillani, and the singers were Noor Jehan and Masood Rana.
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| "Shukhaan Mera Naa"
| Noor Jehan
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| "Challa Dil Da Gehna"
| Noor Jehan, Sultan Rahi
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| 3
| "Jadaun Paindi Ay Sajna Raat"
| Noor Jehan
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| 4
| "Tip Tip Kothay Uttay Saun Da Mahina"
| Noor Jehan<ref name=PAKfilms/>
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| 5
| "Uth Majhe Dya Sher Jawana"
| Masood Rana
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References
External links
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Category:1994 action films
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William Pell (minister)
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William Pell (1634–1698) was an English nonconformist minister, ejected in 1662, a tutor of Durham College subsequently imprisoned for illegal preaching.
Life
The son of William Pell, he was born at Sheffield in 1634. After passing through the grammar school at Rotherham, Yorkshire, he was admitted as sizar at the age of seventeen on 29 March 1651 to Magdalene College, Cambridge. There his tutor was Joseph Hill. He graduated M.A., was elected scholar 2 June 1654 and fellow 3 November 1656.
He received orders from Ralph Brownrig, bishop of Exeter, probably at Sunning, Berkshire. He held the sequestered rectory of Easington, County Durham, and a tutorship in the college at Durham recently founded by Oliver Cromwell. At the Restoration Durham College collapsed, and Clark, the sequestered rector of Easington, was restored. Pell was appointed to the rectory of Great Stainton, Durham, which he held until ejected in 1662.
After ejection he preached in conventicles, and was imprisoned at Durham for nonconformity. Taken to London by habeas corpus, he was discharged by Sir Matthew Hale. He then went to the North Riding of Yorkshire, and practised medicine.
He had a reputation as an orientalist, though he published nothing, leaving unfinished collections including rabbinical studies. Friends asked him to resume the work of teaching at university level. He considered himself constrained: by the terms of his graduation oath, as he understood it, he should not lecture outside the ancient universities. The project of instituting a new ‘northern academy’ passed into the hands of Richard Frankland, who founded in Rathmell Academy one of the first dissenting academies.
After the indulgence of 1672 he preached in public at Tattershall, Lincolnshire, and was protected by holding the office of domestic steward to Edward Clinton, 5th Earl of Lincoln. A London merchant of the same surname, but not a kinsman, became his benefactor. On James II's declaration for liberty of conscience (1687), he became pastor to the nonconformists at Boston, Lincolnshire.
He moved in 1694 to become the assistant of Richard Gilpin, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Here he died on 2 December 1698, in his sixty-third year. He was buried on 6 December at St. Nicholas's Church, Newcastle. He married Elizabeth (buried 30 January 1708), daughter of George Lilburn of Sunderland.
Notes
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Category:Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Category:English Presbyterian ministers of the Interregnum (England)
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91st Operations Group
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|size|command_structureGlobal Strike Command
|current_commander|garrisonMinot Air Force Base, ND
|nicknameThe Ragged Irregulars (World War II)
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|battlesEuropean Theater of Operations
|notable_commanders|anniversaries
|decorationsDistinguished Unit Citation<br/>Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
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The 91st Operations Group is the operational component of the 91st Missile Wing, assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command Twentieth Air Force. It is stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.
The group is one of three USAF operational missile units, equipped with the LGM-30G Minuteman-III. Its mission is to defend the United States with safe and secure Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs); ready to immediately put bombs on target.
Activated as the World War II 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress unit assigned to England, it was one of the first USAAF heavy bomb groups deployed to Europe in 1942. The 91st Bomb Group was stationed at RAF Bassingbourn and is most noted as the unit in which the bomber Memphis Belle flew, and for having suffered the greatest number of losses of any heavy bomb group in World War II.
As part of Strategic Air Command in the early years of the Cold War, the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Group provided worldwide surveillance. Inactivated in 1952, the group was reactivated as the 91 OG in 1991. Its three missile squadrons, however, have no traditional link to the 91st Bombardment Group and were previously part of the 455th Strategic Missile Wing and 455th Bomb Group.
Units
Through its four squadrons, the group remains a key facet of our nation's deterrent force. The four squadrons assigned to the group are the:
* 740th Missile Squadron
* 741st Missile Squadron
* 742d Missile Squadron
* 91st Operations Support Squadron
The missile squadrons include missile crewmembers, alert facility chefs and facility managers. These squadrons vigilantly maintain the missile force around-the-clock. Each squadron controls 50 launch facilities and five missile alert facilities. Missile squadrons are divided into missile operations flights and an operation support flight.
The missile operations flights are staffed by officer crewmembers who, when on alert, are responsible for day-to-day operations, maintenance and security of the missiles within their control and are prepared to launch their missiles at all times. Facility managers are responsible for and ensure the readiness of the missile alert facilities. The alert facility chefs are responsible for providing meals to missile alert facility personnel.
History
: For related lineage and history, see 91st Missile Wing
World War II
Trained with B-17s before moving to England, August–October 1942. Entered combat in November 1942, bombing such targets as submarine pens, airdromes, factories, communication targets, shipbuilding yards, harbors, and dock facilities until mid-1943. When Eighth Air Force heavy bombers first penetrated Germany on 27 January 1943, the group attacked the navy yard at Wilhelmshaven. Earned a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for bombing marshalling yards at Hamm on 4 March 1943, despite adverse weather and heavy opposition. From the middle of 1943 until the war ended, attacked aircraft factories, airfields, oil facilities, chemical industries and ball-bearing factories. Earned a second DUC for attacking vital aircraft factories in central Germany on 11 January 1944 despite inadequate fighter cover, heavy enemy opposition, and bad weather. In June 1944, contributed to the Allied invasion of Normandy by bombing gun emplacements and troop concentrations near the beachhead area. Supported the St. Lo breakthrough by attacking enemy troop positions, 24–25 July 1944. In December 1944 – January 1945, participated in the Battle of the Bulge by attacking enemy communication targets. The group supported the Allied crossing of the Rhine River in the spring of 1945 by striking airfields, bridges, and railroads near the front lines.
After the war ended, evacuated prisoners from German camps. Returned to the United States, June–July 1945
Cold War
It was activated as a long-range photographic reconnaissance group under Strategic Air Command in July 1947, but was not fully manned until after July 1948. It saw combat in Korea from November 1950 until inactivating in May 1952 and conducted surveillance over Sea of Japan. During the Korean War, the 91st SRG eventually flew the largest number of different airframes in the Korean War and had more assigned personnel than any other flying unit in the Korean War. With over 800 assigned personnel, they had six different types of aircraft assigned: the RB-29, RB-50, RB-45, WB-26, KB-29 and RB-36. Throughout the conflict though, the RB-29 and RB-50s were the workhorses of the unit. The RB-50 was a modification of the high-altitude bomber built towards the end of World War II to bomb Japan.
The 91st worked a number of different missions during the Korean War. In addition to bomb damage assessment, targeting and aerial photography for the Bomber Command and FEAF, the 91st conducted ELINT and "ferret" missions in theater. It conducted the first ferret missions ever conducted by the USAF. Overflights of Soviet-controlled Far East islands began in 1951. An example of this type of work was reconnaissance missions which were conducted over Karafuto following reports that the Soviets had built extensive underground installations and missile-launching facilities on the island. In Project 51, 91st SRW RB-45s took off from Yokota AB, Japan to conduct reconnaissance over the southern portions of Sakhalin Island. Photographic and radar reconnaissance overflight missions were also flown over the Murmansk-Kola inlet and Siberia.
The unit was also called upon to conduct psychological leaflet drops with its assigned RB-29 aircraft. Not only did the 91st drop Korean "Psyops" leaflets throughout the Korean peninsula and into Manchuria and China but Russian-language leaflets were also committed to air bases in the Far East where Russian pilots were suspected of flying from.
91st aircraft also provided the Air Force's first air-to-air refueling capability and is credited with the first refueling conducted in combat. In February 1951, it lost most of its personnel when assigned to the parent wing, and was inactivated in May 1952 as part of the Tri-Deputation reorganization.
A new era
Between September 1991 and July 1994, and since February 1996, maintained intercontinental ballistic missiles on alert at Minot AFB, ND.
Lineage
* Established as the 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 28 January 1942
: Activated on 15 April 1942
: Redesignated 91st Bombardment Group, Heavy' on 20 August 1943
: Inactivated on 7 November 1945
* Redesignated 91st Reconnaissance Group on 11 June 1947
: Activated on 1 July 1947
: Redesignated: 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Group on 10 November 1948
: Redesignated: 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Group, Medium on 6 July 1950
: Inactivated on 28 May 1952
* Redesignated 91st Operations Group on 29 August 1991
: Activated on 1 September 1991
: Inactivated on 1 July 1994
* Activated on 1 February 1996<ref name91OGfacts/>Assignments
* III Bomber Command, 15 April 1942
* II Bomber Command, c. 28 June 1942
* VIII Bomber Command, c. 12 September 1942
* 1st Bombardment Wing (later 1st Combat Bombardment Wing), September 1942 (attached to 101st Provisional Heavy Bombardment Combat Wing after 22 May 1943)
* 1st Bombardment Division (later 1st Air Division), 13 September 1943 – June 1945 (under operational control of 1st Bombardment Wing (later 1st Bombardment Wing))
* Third Air Force, 3 July-7 November 1945
* Strategic Air Command, 1 July 1947
* 311th Reconnaissance Wing (later 311th Air Division), 1 October 1947
* 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, 10 November 1948 – 28 May 1952 (not operational after 10 February 1951)
* 91st Missile Wing (later 91st Space Wing), 1 September 1991 – 1 July 1994
* 91st Space Wing (later 1st Missile Wing), 1 February 1996–present<ref name=91OGfacts/>
Components
* 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron: attached 20 August-9 November 1948
* 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron: 25 March 1949 – 16 November 1950
* 91st Air Refueling Squadron 16 April 1950 – 28 May 1952. (detached 10 February 1951 – 28 May 1952)
* 322d Bombardment Squadron (later 322d Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron): 15 April 1942 – 7 November 1945; 6 July 1950 – 28 May 1952 (attached to 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing after 10 February 1951)
* 323d Bombardment Squadron (later 323d Reconnaissance Squadron, 323d Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron): 15 April 1942 – 7 November 1945; 1 July 1947 – 10 November 1948; 1 June 1949 – 28 May 1952 (detached 19 September-10 October 1949 and attached to 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing after 10 February 1951)
* 324th Bombardment (later, 324th Reconnaissance, 324th Strategic Reconnaissance) Squadron: 15 April 1942 – 7 November 1945; 1 July 1947 – 28 May 1952 (attached to 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing after 10 February 1951)
* 11th Reconnaissance Squadron (later 401st Bombardment Squadron): 15 April 1942 – 7 November 1945
* 740th Missile Squadron: 1 September 1991 – 1 July 1994; 1 February 1996–present
* 741st Missile Squadron: 1 September 1991 – 1 July 1994; 1 February 1996–present
* 742d Missile Squadron: 1 September 1991 – 1 July 1994; 1 February 1996–present<ref name91OGfacts/>Stations
* Harding Field, Louisiana, 15 April 1942
* MacDill Field, Florida, 16 May 1942
* Walla Walla Army Air Base, Washington, c. 28 June-24 August 1942
* RAF Kimbolton (AAF-117), England, 13 September 1942 (ground echelon), early October 1942 (air echelon)
* RAF Bassingbourn (AAF-121), England, 14 October 1942 – 23 June 1945
* Drew Field, Florida, 3 July-7 November 1945
* Andrews Field (later Andrews Air Force Base), Maryland, 1 July 1947
* McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, 20 July 1948
* Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 1 October 1949
: Elements deployed to Johnson Air Base and Yokota Air Base, Japan July 1950, remaining until group's inactivation in 1952.
* Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, 11 September 1951 – 28 May 1952
* Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, 1 September 1991 – 1 July 1994
* Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, 1 February 1996–present<ref name=91OGfacts/>
Aircraft and missiles
* B-17 Flying Fortress, 1942–1945; (RB-17) 1949
* B/RB-29 Superfortress, 1949–1950
* B-50 Superfortress, 1949–1950; KB-29 (Tanker), 1950–1952
* B/RB-45 Tornado, 1950–1952
* LGM-30G Minuteman III, 1991–1994; 1996–present
References
Notes
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Bibliography
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150504225208/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=9838 91st Operations Group Factsheet]
* [http://www.rb-29.net Notations on the History of the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron]
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The Catch (1983 film)
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| producer | screenplay Yōzō Tanaka
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| music = Shigeaki Saegusa
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is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Shinji Sōmai.
Awards and nominations
26th Blue Ribbon Awards
* Won: Best Actor - Ken Ogata
References
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Acacia-ant symbiosis is the interaction between myrmecophilous Vachellia trees (ant acacias) and ants that nest on them (acacia ants). Obligate acacia ants dwell in the gall-like domatia within the swollen stipular spines of African or Central American ant acacia species, and they also take the food (nectar or Beltian bodies) offered by the tree. Some of them protect ant acacias from herbivores in return, hence mutualism; the others provide inadequate protection or none at all, hence weaker or non-mutualism. Facultative (non-obligate) acacia ants often nest on stems instead of in gall-like domatia, and tend to be non-mutualistic.
Africa
thumb|Acacia ants living in the gall-like domatia of Vachellia drepanolobium
Four acacia ant species are symbiotic with Vachellia drepanolobium: Crematogaster mimosae, C. nigriceps, and Tetraponera penzigi are obligate and mustualistic symbionts, whereas C. sjostedti is facultative and the least mustualistic, and it even facilitates attack on the tree by beetles. but their symbiotic ants are yet to be studied.
Central America
thumb|Pseudomyrmex ferruginea feeding on nectar produced by Vachellia cornigera (or V. sphaerocephala)
The following are 10 obligate and mutualistic acacia ants and their reported host plants in Central America:
Some swollen-spine acacias in Central America are less dependent on acacia-ant mutualism and often unocuppied by obligate acacia ants without being significantly damaged by herbivores, e.g. V. cookii, V. globulifera, and V. ruddiae.
References
Category:Symbiosis
Category:Mutualism (biology)
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Mary Williams (Wisconsin politician)
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Mary Williams (born July 8, 1949) is a Wisconsin politician and legislator.
Born in Phillips, Wisconsin, Williams graduated from University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. Williams served in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2003. Williams and her husband owned Cougar Enterprises, which operates fast food restaurants in Medford, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. They have sold their restaurant properties.
She was appointed to the Wisconsin state technical college system board by Scott Walker. When her term expired in May 2021, she refused to leave the board while continuing to vote and make motions.References
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.252392
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Kew Bridge Ecovillage
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thumb|The Ecovillage in 2009
Kew Bridge Ecovillage was an ecovillage and social centre in Brentford on squatted land overlooking the River Thames at the north end of Kew Bridge in west London.
Activists inspired by the land rights campaign group The Land is Ours occupied the long derelict site on 6 June 2009. The Royal Botanic Gardens, the world's largest collection of living plants and a pioneer of horticultural preservation, faced the ecovillage site on the opposite side of the river. The community was reported as saying it wished to demonstrate the practicality of permaculture principles, living in simple bender structures, growing its own vegetables and recycling its waste. On 27 May 2010 police evicted the ecovillage inhabitants.
The site
The approximately one-acre brownfield site, formerly occupied by the Scottish Widows insurance company, was reported to have been vacant for more than 20 years. The property development company St George were given planning permission by Hounslow Council for 164 flats, a business centre, a gym and a pub. St George PLC were granted a possession order for the land in Brentford County Court on 7 May 2010.
The residents
In December 2009 the ecovillage had 32 permanent residents. Structures included a shower, compost toilet, and kitchen, mostly bender tents made from tree branches and recycled materials. Consensus decision making was the basis for community organisation, informed by an intention to live a more simple and eco-friendly existence. Food supply was augmented by regular trips to local grocery bins and skips, some residents describing themselves as freegans. The community included some previously homeless people; others left houses and jobs in order to apply on a daily basis principles of anti-consumerism.
After the village was disbanded, some of its residents joined the Hounslow Community Land Project, which squatted a derelict piece of land for six months in 2010, and Parliament Square's Democracy Village, set up in May 2010.
Community events
The ecovillage conducted a programme of events that have included arts and crafts workshops, film shows, yoga and face-painting classes, pagan festivals, live poetry and music. It also commenced an annual seed swap. Kew Gardens itself (see above) houses one of the world's largest seedbanks.
Documentary film
Documentary filmmaker Dean Puckett, a resident of the Kew Bridge Ecovillage from its inception, documented the daily lives of its inhabitants of the village as it evolved over the year of its life. The film, Grasp the Nettle, was released in 2013 after showing at documentary festivals around the world such as DOK Leipzig and London's Open City Docs Fest.
In 2014 Puckett put the film up online for free viewing on his Vimeo page.
See also
Guerrilla gardening
Diggers
Squatting
Umoja Village
Take Back the Land
Hounslow community land project
References
External links
YouTube report on the ecovillage
Kew Ecovillage Facebook page
Green Dragon Lane, local website
The Land is Ours
The Grow Your Own Village network website
Grasp the Nettle follows the exploits of a ragtag band of land rights activists in London - Ecovillage film by Dean Puckett
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.257007
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Mohammed Mubarek
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Mohammed Mubarek or Mohammed bin Mubarek or Muhammad Mubarek is an Arabic patronymic name, means Mohammed, Son of Mubarek:
Mohammed Mubarek Al Hinai (born 1984), Omani footballer
Mohammed Mubarek Salah Al Qurbi (born 1975), Saudi citizen who suspected as terrorist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mubarek
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.258010
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HMS Detroit
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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Detroit, after Fort Detroit. Both served on Lake Erie during the War of 1812:
was a 6-gun brig, previously the American army vessel Adams. She was captured in 1812, but was retaken and burnt later that year.
was a 20-gun sloop launched in 1813 and captured by the Americans later that year, becoming USS Detroit (1813).
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.258813
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Kraton-3
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#REDIRECT Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy#Problems
Category:Soviet nuclear weapons testing
Category:1978 in the Soviet Union
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.259034
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John Reinhard Goodman
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John Reinhard Goodman (died July 8, 1865) was an Episcopal clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate (1836–1837).
Early life
Goodman was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Arts, 1813, Master of Arts 1817).
Ministry
John R. Goodman became pastor of the Episcopal congregation in Brunswick, New York, in April 1821 and continued there until 1828. He then served as rector of Christ Church, New Bern, North Carolina, from 1828 to 1834 Thereafter, until 1837, he was rector of St. John's Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He served as Chaplain of the Senate (1836–1837). In later years he lived in Philadelphia and remained active in denominational gatherings up until the year of his death. He died in Philadelphia on July 8, 1865.
He was the author of ‘’Pennsylvania Biography, or Memoirs of Eminent Pennsylvanians’’ (1840).
Personal life
Goodman married Julia W (Woodbridge) Rodman, They had three children: Catherine Goodman, Charlotte Goodman and Julia M. Goodman, who married. Byron Pomeroy.
References
Category:Chaplains of the United States Senate
Category:1865 deaths
Category:People from New Bern, North Carolina
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.260533
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Globus-1
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#REDIRECT Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy#Problems
Category:Soviet nuclear weapons testing
Category:1971 in the Soviet Union
Category:Underground nuclear weapons testing
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.261063
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Patricia Strachota
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|birth_place = Cuyahoga County, Ohio, U.S.
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|spouse |children 4
|alma_mater = St. Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana
|occupation = Politician
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Patricia "Pat" Strachota (born June 29, 1955) is an American government administrator and Republican politician from West Bend, Wisconsin. She is the chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, since June 2022. She has been a member of the commission since its creation in 2016, appointed by Wisconsin Assembly speaker Robin Vos and reappointed by him in 2021. She previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, and was majority leader from March 2014 to January 2015.
Biography
Born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Strachota graduated from St. Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana. She served on the Washington County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors from 1986 to 2002. She worked for the Washington County Department of Human Resources as a personnel/safety analyst. She served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2005 to 2015.
In February 2014, Strachota announced she would not seek reelection. A few weeks later, Republican Assembly majority leader Bill Kramer was accused of harassing two women during a trip to Washington, D.C. The Republican caucus held an emergency meeting and voted to remove him from leadership and replace him with Strachota for the remainder of the term.
While serving in the legislature, she was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council.
References
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Category:Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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Category:Saint Mary's College (Indiana) alumni
Category:Women state legislators in Wisconsin
Category:21st-century American women politicians
Category:21st-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.264376
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John Campbell (missionary)
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John Campbell (born March 1766 in Edinburgh, Scotland – 4 April 1840 Kingsland, London), was a Scottish missionary and traveller.
Life
He attended the Royal High School and was at one time apprenticed to a goldsmith. Campbell helped found the Magdalene Society, a Religious Tract Society of Scotland in 1793, and the Missionary Magazine in Edinburgh in 1796. His consuming interest in Christian philanthropy led him to preach widely in neglected villages and hamlets, promote the establishing of numerous Sunday schools and found societies like the Magdalene asylum to help prostitutes in Edinburgh and Glasgow. His opposition to the slave trade led to his involvement in the foundation of the Society for the Education of Africans. He collaborated with James Alexander Haldane in bringing some 30-40 African children to be educated in England. Following the Haldane Revival, Campbell became a Congregational Church minister. He was minister at Kingsland, an independent chapel he had founded, from 1802. He was instrumental in founding the British and Foreign Bible Society and became a director of the London Missionary Society.
The London Missionary Society sent him to the Cape in June 1812 to inspect the mission stations there. He set off from Cape Town in February 1813, calling in at Bethelsdorp and Grahamstown, then the military headquarters. Heading north he visited Graaff-Reinet and Klaarwater (later Griquatown), and then travelled further north to Litakun, the kraal of the Batlhaping kgosi (chief) Mothibi. His return trip went via Klaarwater, Pella and the Kamiesberge, arriving in Cape Town at the end of October. He wrote an account of this trip as "Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society" and it was published on his return to London in 1815. The town of Campbell, east of Griquatown, was named in his honour.
Campbell returned to the Cape in February 1819 in the company of John Philip. His orders were to inspect and improve the mission stations which had fallen into a neglected state. On this visit he instructed the missionary Robert Moffat to start a mission among the Bechuana tribe. Campbell once more ventured into the interior, leaving Cape Town in January 1820 and travelling as far north as Mosega in Barotseland, on which journey he also came across the large settlement of Kaditshwene near the Limpopo River. He left for England in February 1821, publishing two further volumes covering his second journey. He subsequently delivered a series of lectures on his missionary work.
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Category:Clergy from Edinburgh
Category:Scottish Congregationalist missionaries
Category:Congregationalist missionaries in South Africa
Category:18th-century Scottish people
Category:19th-century Scottish people
Category:Scottish goldsmiths
Category:People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
Category:Scottish explorers
Category:Scottish magazine publishers (people)
Category:Scottish philanthropists
Category:Christianity and slavery
Category:Scottish abolitionists
Category:Scottish Congregationalist ministers
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.267428
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The Spirit Engine 2
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The Spirit Engine 2 is a two-dimensional, side-scrolling indie RPG drawn, programmed and written by Mark Pay with music by Josh Whelchel. The title is an improved spiritual sequel to The Spirit Engine, a freeware 2D RPG released in 2003.
Gameplay
Outside of combat, the player can move the party along sidescrolling levels, speaking to NPCs and obtaining missions, purchasing or selling items to equip on characters, and moving between areas. Enemy encounters are not random, although enemy type is sometimes randomized. Special statues function as save points.
The Spirit Engine 2's battle system takes place in real time, and characters attack automatically. Battle speed may be sped up, slowed down, or paused. The game removes the mana mechanic of The Spirit Engine that allowed for a limited number of attacks before needing to recharge, and players' actions can be paused to build up extra attack power or wait for an opening. The two teams form lines on either side of the screen. On one side is the player's three characters, on the other side are the enemies currently being fought. The player can rotate the three party members: changing who is in front, in the middle, and in the back. Melee attacks cause characters to change positions, potentially becoming vulnerable, while ranged attacks can strike back row, or multiple characters. Party members have "damage multipliers" which rise as the number of continuous hits sustained increases and vice versa. Characters, both player and enemy, are automatically revived after a certain amount of time with decreased health. All health is restored between battles.ReceptionThe Spirit Engine 2 won the GameTunnel "Top Independent RPG of 2008" and "#2 Independent Game of 2008" awards. GameTunnel's Michael Scarpelli praised the two-dimensional game as "a side-scrolling, pixel graphic, content-heavy piece of awesome." It received an 89/100 from RPGFan's Patrick Gann, who called it "tons of fun" and "so far removed from the quality of its predecessor that it deserves to be paid for. Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Kieron Gillen called the game "delectable and novel", believing that the game would attract "non-traditional jRPG fans" despite the "linear story" due to the different character permutations. Gillen called the game's literalization of linearity "appealing", expressing his disappointment that Pay did not attempt to market the game more.
References
External links
*[http://thespiritengine.com/ Official website]
*[http://www.natomic.com Original developer's website]
*[http://music.jwmusic.org/ Composer's website]
Category:2008 video games
Category:Fantasy video games
Category:Freeware games
Category:Indie games
Category:Side-scrolling role-playing video games
Category:Single-player video games
Category:Windows games
Category:Windows-only games
Category:Natomic Studios games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Engine_2
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.271270
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Pencaer
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Pencaer is a community which covers an area of dispersed settlement in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the peninsula of Pen Caer and comprises the village of Llanwnda and the smaller settlements of Granston, Llangloffan, St Nicholas (Tremarchog) and Trefasser. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 474.
Features
Rocky coastline
Strumble Head lies within the community, as does part of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and a stretch of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Much of the community lies at above sea level, and the coastline is largely rock cliff with caves and inshore islands. There are numerous sites indicating prehistoric occupation.Pwll Deri
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Pwll Deri is on the west Pencaer coast about from Goodwick () along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It sits on cliffs overlooking the bay (Pwll Deri in English is Pool of Oaks) to the west and has views of the Pembrokeshire Coast to as far away as St. David's. There is a Youth Hostel at Pwll Deri and a memorial to the poet Dewi Emrys who was inspired by Pwll Deri.Listed buildingsThere are 46 listed buildings in the community, three Grade II* and the remainder Grade II. Tregwynt Woollen Mill (Grade II) is in the southwest of the community; dating from 1819, its original purpose was to mill corn.EconomyLivestock farming predominates, particularly sheep, and cattle for milk production, as well as some cereals and potatoes, though production of early potatoes has all but ceased.
Governance
Pencaer has a community council with six elected councillors: three for Llanwnda Ward (in the north) and three for St Nicholas Ward (in the south). The latter includes Granston. There are 11 monthly meetings (August excluded). These parish councils became communities, and in 1987 the two were combined to form Pencaer community.
References
External links
*[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Llanwnda Further historical information and sources on GENUKI]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencaer
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Institut aéronautique et spatial
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Institut aéronautique et spatial (IAS) is the French aeronautical industry's education coordinator. IAS was created in 1980 and is located in Toulouse. It is directly under the supervision of GIFAS (French Aerospace Industries Association) international committee. IAS’members are the major aeronautics & space companies such as EADS Group, Safran Group, Thales Group, Dassault Aviation, Airbus, Eurocopter, and the aerospace equipment group, including SME’s. IAS is member of Institut au service du spatial, de ses applications et technologies.
Aim
The aim of IAS is to develop a network of international partners, major players in the aeronautical space field in their countries, using 3 main vectors:
Academic training with graduation;
Continuing education and professional trainings;
Support for research cooperation.
See also
IAS (disambiguation)
References
External links
IAS website
Category:Aviation organizations
Category:Trade associations based in France
Category:Technology trade associations
Category:Companies established in 1980
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_aéronautique_et_spatial
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.277427
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Gomukhasana
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Gomukhasana (; IAST: Gomukhāsana) or Cow Face Pose is a seated asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, sometimes used for meditation.
Etymology and origins
The name comes from the Sanskrit गौ go meaning "cow", मुख mukha meaning "face" or "mouth", and आसन āsana meaning "posture" or "seat". The crossed legs are said to look like a cow's mouth, while the bent elbows supposedly look like a cow's ears. It is described within the 84 asanas in the 17th-century Haṭha Ratnāvalī (3.7–20). However, the current form of Gomukhasana with the hands behind the back is mentioned only in such ancient tantric texts as the Ahirbudhnya Samhita.
Description
The pose is entered from kneeling by crossing the legs; the heel of the upper leg is tucked in under the lower thigh near the buttock. The arm on the lower leg side is raised, the forearm bent down, while the other arm reaches down behind the back, the forearm bent up, so the hands can clasp between the shoulder blades.
The sitting position can be modified either by putting a folded blanket on the heels, and if need be also one beneath them.
Preparatory poses for Gomukhasana include Baddha Konasana and Garudasana. Counter poses include Dandasana, Paschimottanasana, and Purvottanasana.
See also
List of asanas
References
Further reading
Category:Sitting asanas
Category:Buddhist meditation
Category:Meditation asanas
Category:Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.282709
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2010 Appomattox shootings
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The 2010 Appomattox shootings was a mass murder in Appomattox, Virginia, United States, that occurred on January 19, 2010. 40-year-old Christopher Bryan Speight fatally shot his sister, her husband, and her son and daughter at their home, as well as four other people. He then escaped into a forest and shot at a police helicopter searching for him, but eventually surrendered himself to authorities. On February 15, 2013, Speight was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Shooting
The incident began on January 19, 2010, when police were called to a road outside Appomattox due to a neighbour reporting of a man requiring medical attention. When police arrived, they were fired on by the suspect, Christopher Bryan Speight, who also fired on a police helicopter, forcing it to make an emergency landing. Shortly afterwards, the suspect fled to a wooded area, where a force of more than a hundred police officers surrounded him. Police found three people dead in a house co-owned by the gunman (his sister and the house's co-owner, Lauralee Sipe, and her husband, Dwayne Sipe, both 38, and their four-year-old son, Joshua), and four others dead outside the house, with the last victim dying on the road.
He surrendered on January 20, near the same wooded area where police thought he had been surrounded. He was wearing a bulletproof vest, but was not carrying the high-powered rifle believed to be the weapon used.
Prior to his surrender, police put a school and local businesses on lockdown, and advised residents to lock their houses and not go outside. Police were concerned that Speight's house had been rigged with explosives, and a bomb squad searched the building the morning after the attack. Explosives were found both inside and around the building, and were detonated safely.
*Lauralee Sipe, 38, Speight's sister, found in living room, shot eleven times
*Dwayne S. Sipe, 38, husband of Lauralee Sipe, found in living room, shot nine or ten times
*Joshua Sipe, 4, son of Lauralee and Dwayne Sipe, found at the top of the house staircase, shot four times
*Morgan L. Dobyns, 15, daughter of Lauralee Sipe, found on porch, shot twice
*Emily A. Quarles, 15, friend of Morgan Dobyns, found in a vehicle in driveway, shot once
*Jonathan L. Quarles, 43, father of Emily Quarles, found in road/driveway, shot four times
*Karen Quarles, 43, mother of Emily Quarles, found on porch, shot thrice
*Ronald I. Scruggs, 16, boyfriend of Emily Quarles, found in driveway, shot once in back
Aftermath
On June 24, 2010, Appomattox County Circuit Court Judge Richard Blanton signed an order declaring Speight incompetent to stand trial. He was ordered to be sent to a state psychiatric hospital until such a time when he is able to assist his attorneys with his defense.
Two years after the shootings, police revealed that the three Sipes in the house were likely killed two days before Speight fatally shot the other five victims.
The case remained on hold for years as attorneys dealt with pretrial motions and awaited additional mental evaluations. According to investigators Speight told them that he had been ordered by an Egyptian goddess named Jennifer to shoot his family, because they were possessed by demons. The others were killed, he said, so they could not help his first victims, since Jennifer demanded that their bodies had to rot.
On February 15, 2013, Speight was sentenced in a plea deal to five life terms plus 18 years on three counts of capital murder, one count of attempted capital murder of a police officer (presumably because of the shots fired at the state police helicopter), and five firearms counts. The Commonwealth's Attorney Darrel Puckett said mental health experts for both the defense and the state had found Speight insane at the time, "rendering a death sentence highly unlikely" had the case gone to trial.
References
External links
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/us/20virginia.html Police Surround Gunman After He Kills 8 in Virginia], The New York Times (January 19, 2010)
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012000375.html Suspect in 8 Va. deaths may have left explosives], The Washington Post (January 20, 2010)
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012100244.html Uncle: No sign of trouble from Va. killing suspect], The Washington Post (January 21, 2010)
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Category:2010 mass shootings in the United States
Category:2010 murders in the United States
Category:Mass murder in the United States in the 2010s
Category:Mass murder in Virginia
Category:Deaths by firearm in Virginia
Category:Familicides in the United States
Category:January 2010 crimes in the United States
Category:Mass murder in 2010
Category:Appomattox County, Virginia
Category:Mass shootings in Virginia
Category:2010s crimes in Virginia
Category:Sororicides
Category:Spree shootings in the United States
Category:Attacks on residential buildings in the United States
Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Appomattox_shootings
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Rocket Club
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Rocket Club is an American country music band composed of Joel Sayles (bass, vocals), Brian Kroening (guitars), Don Smithmier (vocals, keyboards), Chris Hawkey (vocals), Matt Kirkwold (guitars), and Walter Powell (drums).
History
The band's first national single, "One More Day," was written by Joel Sayles, Don Smithmier, and Twin Cities native Mark Lacek after Lacek's daughter died in the womb. The song got viral exposure via Facebook and YouTube, as well as airplay on Minneapolis radio station KEEY-FM. It is also included on a multi-artist album entitled Hope Rocks Volume II, the benefits of which go to a nonprofit organization that Mark and his wife, Susan, founded. "One More Day" debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week of November 21, 2009.
The band's second single, "One Thing Beautiful," written by Joel Sayles and Don Smithmier, spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts beginning July 12, 2010.
Rocket Club's debut self-titled CD was released in 2008. Their second record, American Serenade, was released in October 2010.
In 2010, the band coined the term "North Country" to describe its more guitar oriented, non-Southern form of country music. They later turned the concept into a northern anthem with the release of their 3rd single, "North Country," which debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs on June 14, 2011. An album of the same name was released in 2012.
The band released its fourth studio album on March 13, 2014, titled Lucky and produced by Joel Sayles. The album was named after the project that created it. In 2013, the band completed a project dubbed "Lucky 13" in which it wrote, recorded and released one new song each month for a year.
After a nearly 8-year hiatus, the band released the single, “Easy,” in February 2022. This collaboration led to a full reunion and the release of their fifth album, “Come On Home” in 2023.
Other information
Smithmier is a Minnesota tech entrepreneur.
Guitarist Luke Kramer was a band member from 2011 to 2014 and performed on the “North Country” and “Lucky” albums. Billy Thommes (drums) was a founding band member and performed all every album. Founding guitarist Matt Kirkwold re-joined the band in 2022. Walter Powell (drums) joined the band in 2023.
Discography
Albums
Title Details Rocket Club
Release date: October 21, 2008
Label: Feather Moon American Serenade
Release date: October 1, 2010
Label: Feather Moon North Country
Release date: April 9, 2012
Label: Feather Moon Lucky
Release date: March 13, 2014
Label: Feather Moon Come On Home
Release date: February 1st, 2023
Label: Feather Moon
Singles
Year Single Peak positions Album US Country 2009 "One More Day" 49 American Serenade 2010 "One Thing Beautiful" 51 2011 "North Country" 52 North Country
Music videos
Year Video 2009 "One More Day" 2011 "North Country" 2012 "Four Letter World"
References
Category:American country music groups
Category:Musical groups from Minnesota
Category:Musical groups established in 2008
Category:2008 establishments in Minnesota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Club
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Dinesh Thakur
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| death_place | nationality
| education | alma_mater Kirori Mal College
| years_active = 1971–2012
| known_for = Ank Theatre Company
| occupation = theatre director, actor
| children = Mahesh Thakur
| awards | website [https://web.archive.org/web/20100221082747/http://www.anktheatregroup.com/ Ank Theatre Group]
}}
Dinesh Thakur (1947 – 20 September 2012) was an Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in Rajnigandha 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. Dinesh Thakur was born in 1947 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He was the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976.
Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is known for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award.
He died on 20 September 2012 due to kidney failure.CareerDinesh Thakur did his graduation from Kirori Mal College (KMC), Delhi University, where was also part of the KMC dramatic society.
He made his film debut in 1971, with Mere Apne, written and directed by Gulzar, and followed it up with Basu Bhattacharya's Anubhav (1971) and later in Griha Pravesh (1979). 1974 saw him appearing in Basu Chatterjee's landmark in middle cinema, Rajnigandha (1974), alongside Amol Palekar and Vidya Sinha, which won the Filmfare Best Film Award, and went on appear in several films with both the directors in the coming years.
He established 'Ank Theatre Group' in 1976, dedicated solely to Hindi theatre in Mumbai; though it started flourishing in a big way with the advent on Jennifer Kapoor's Prithvi Theatre in 1978.
Filmography
* Mere Apne (1971)
* Anubhav (1971)
* Jalte Badan (1973)
* Rajnigandha (10 Sep 1974) as Naveen Ad Filmmaker
* Parinay (1974)
* Faslah (1974)
* Kalicharan (1976)
* Karm (1977)
* Madhu Malti (1978)
* Ghar (1978)
* Naiyya (1979)
* Meera (1979) as Jaimal Rathod
* Griha Pravesh (1979)
* Khwab (1980)
* The Burning Train (1980) as Ticket Checker (TC)
* La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981) TV mini-series
* Sitara (1980)
* Agni Pareeksha (1981)
* Baghavat (1982)
* Aamne Samne (1982)
* Manju (1983)
* Kanoon Kya Karenga (1983)
* Aaj Ki Awaz (1984)
* Sanjhi (1985)
* Ulta Seedha (1985)
* Surkhiyaan 1985)
* Palay Khan (1986)
* Raj Dulari (1988)
* Aakhri Baazi (1989) as Durjan
* Panchvati (1990)
* Hum Se Na Takrana (1990)
* Zakhmi Rooh (1993)
* Geetanjali (1993)
* Shanti (1994) TV series
* Aastha(1997)
* Aakhri Sanghursh (1997)
* Fiza (2000)
* Nyaay TV series (2000-2001)
* Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi TV series (2000)
* Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya (2003)
* Nigehbaan: The Third Eye (2005)
Plays
* Hai Mera Dil, adaption of Broadway play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, also made into 1964 American comedy film, Send Me No Flowers with starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall.
* Jin Lahore Nai Dekhya, Asghar Wajahat
* Tughlaq, Girish Karnad, (translated into Hindustani by B.V. Karanth
* Baki Itihas and Pagla Ghora, by Badal Sircar
* Suno Janmejaya by Shri Ranga
* Jaat Hi Poochho Sadhu Ki, Vijay Tendulkar
* Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai, Vijay Tendulkar
* Kamala, Vijay Tendulkar
* Adhe Adhure, Mohan Rakesh
* Rakt-Beej, Shankar Shesh
* Mahabhoj, Manu Bhandari
* Atamkatha, Mahesh Elkunchwar
* Gaganbhedi, Vasant Kanetkar
* Hangamakhez, Agha Hashar Kashmiri
* Sheh Ye Maat, B.M. Shah<ref namedi/>ReferencesExternal links
*
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100221082747/http://www.anktheatregroup.com/ Ank Theatre Group, Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090918180405/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/celebrities/filmography/7810/index.html Dinesh Thakur Filmography] Bollywood Hungama
Category:Indian male stage actors
Category:Indian male film actors
Category:Male actors in Hindi cinema
Category:Indian theatre directors
Category:Filmfare Awards winners
Category:Deaths from kidney failure
Category:2012 deaths
Category:Kirori Mal College alumni
Category:Hindi theatre
Category:1947 births
Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Category:Actors in Hindi theatre
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2004 Finlandia Trophy
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Frédéric Dambier
| championladies = Kiira Korpi
| championpairs | championdance
| championsynchro | previouscomp 2003 Finlandia Trophy
| nextcomp = 2006 Finlandia Trophy
}}
The 2004 Finlandia Trophy is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Finland. It was held in Helsinki on October 9–10, 2004. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles.
Results
Men
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Rank
! Name
! Nation
! TFP
! SP
! FS
|- bgcolor="gold"
| align="center" | 1
| Frédéric Dambier || || 1.5 || 1 || 1
|- bgcolor="silver"
| align="center" | 2
| Roman Serov || || 3.5 || 3 || 2
|- bgcolor="cc9966"
| align="center" |3
| Marc-André Craig || || 4.0 || 2 || 3
|-
! 4
| Scott Smith || || 6.5 || 5 || 4
|-
! 5
| Gregor Urbas || || 7.0 || 4 || 5
|-
! 6
| Tomáš Verner || || 7.5 || 9 || 6
|-
! 7
| Silvio Smalun || || 10.5 || 7 || 7
|-
! 8
| Parker Pennington || || 11.0 || 6 || 8
|-
! 9
| Vitali Danilchenko || || 13.0 || 8 || 9
|-
! 10
| Andrei Lutai || || 15.0 || 10 || 10
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! 11
| Radomir Soumar || || 17.0 || 12 || 11
|-
! 12
| Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari || || 17.5 || 11 || 12
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! 13
| David Hartley || || 19.5 || 13 || 13
|-
! 14
| Maciej Kuś || || 21.0 || 14 || 14
|}
Ladies
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Rank
! Name
! Nation
! TFP
! SP
! FS
|- bgcolor="gold"
| align="center" | 1
| Susanna Pöykiö || || 2.0 || 2 || 1
|- bgcolor="silver"
| align="center" | 2
| Alisa Drei || || 2.5 || 1 || 2
|- bgcolor="cc9966"
| align="center" | 3
| Elina Kettunen || || 5.0 || 4 || 3
|-
! 4
| Elena Sokolova || || 5.5 || 3 || 4
|-
! 5
| Tatiana Basova || || 7.5 || 5 || 5
|-
! 6
| Joanne Carter || || 9.0 || 6 || 6
|-
! 7
| Lina Johansson || || 10.5 || 7 || 7
|-
! 8
| Tytti Tervonen || || 12.0 || 8 || 8
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! 9
| Zuzana Babiaková || || 14.5 || 11 || 9
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! 10
| Jenna McCorkell || || 14.5 || 9 || 10
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! 11
| Miia Marttinen || || 17.0 || 12 || 11
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! 12
| Annette Dytrt || || 17.0 || 10 || 12
|}
External links
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110728150341/http://usfsa.org/event_details.asp?id=25883 2004 Finlandia Trophy results]
Category:Finlandia Trophy
Finlandia Trophy, 2004
Finlandia Trophy, 2004
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Finlandia_Trophy
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Raúl Paz
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Raúl Paz (born 1969) in the province of Pinar del Río, in the west of Cuba. Commonly nicknamed the "French Cuban", he is known for having revolutionized the 21st century Cuban music.
Biography
Raúl Paz learned to sing listening to guajira – country music made in Cuba. He spent ten years studying music at the
Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), a renowned arts academy in Havana : violin, musical theory, wind instruments, singing, counterpoint, and conducting.
After his very classical training, he discovered Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Bob Marley, tuning into American radio stations – rock being banned on government radio stations at that time.
Raúl Paz left Cuba in 1993, went to South America and then wound up in Paris, France, to study at the Schola Cantorum. He met there his wife, Rachelle, and later had two sons, Rocco his eldest, and Raphael. In the mid-1990s, Paris was a melting pot for music. Raul hung out on the Latino scene, playing in the clubs New Morning, Hot Brass and Bataclan. He became one of the pioneers of the new Cuban wave.
He was then spotted by Ralph Mercado, founder of the RMM label, and recorded his first album, Cuba Libre, in Gloria Estefan's studio in Miami. Renamed Imaginate for the American market, the record was a hit, selling some 100,000 copies and earning him the accolade "Best new male artist" in the US music press.
1998 he released a duet single of Besame Mucho with Viktor Lazlo for her album Amour(s). The song was also on the official soundtrack album of the German film Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit.
After having played live in the US, Raúl Paz returned to Paris and settled down. He took an apartment close to Place du Colonel Fabien in the 20th district, and signed with Patrick Zelnik's label Naïve. The first fruit of this relationship was Mulata in 2003.
Raúl Paz reinterpreted Cuban music, weaving in hip-hop beats, dub, rock riffs and a groove all of his own. Mulata sold 60,000 copies. Revolución takes up where Mulata left off. Raúl Paz recorded the new album in Havana, last November, at the Egrem studios, where the albums of the famous Buena Vista Social Club were cut.
In 2001, he had his first son, Rocco. Years later came Raphael.
In 2005, Alfredo Arias gave Raúl Paz a leading part in Mambo Mystico, his last musical at the Théâtre national de Chaillot.
In 2007, Raúl Paz recorded the album called En Vivo on the label Naïve.
In 2010, Raúl Paz recorded the album called Havanization on the label Naïve.
Discography
Vidas (Bis music, 2018)
La otra esquina (Egrem, 2015)
Ven Ven (Naïve, 2014)
Havanization (Naïve, 2010)
Amigos por Paz (2008)
En Vivo (Naïve, 2007)
En Casa (Naïve, 2006)
Revolución (Naïve, 2005)
Mulata (Naïve, 2003)
Blanco y Negro (RMM, 2001)
Contigo (Kontor Records, 2000)
Imaginate (RMM, 1999)
Cuba Libre (Rue Bleu, 1999)
References
External links
Raul Paz at Suena Cubano
Raul Paz on Havana cultura
Live recording
own website
Category:1969 births
Category:Living people
Category:Cuban musicians
Category:People from Pinar del Río Province
Category:Naïve Records artists
Category:RMM Records artists
Category:Instituto Superior de Arte alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raúl_Paz
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Little Town, Cumbria
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| os_grid_reference = NY233196
| civil_parish = Above Derwent
| unitary_england = Cumberland
| lieutenancy_england = Cumbria
| region = North West England
| constituency_westminster = Penrith and Solway
| country = England
| post_town = Keswick
| postcode_district = CA15
| postcode_area = CA
| dial_code = 01768
| website = [http://www.abovederwent.org.uk/ Above Derwent]
| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Allerdale
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Allerdale, Cumbria
}}
Little Town is a hamlet in the civil parish of Above Derwent, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is in the Penrith and Solway constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament.
Little Town is in the Lake District National Park. It is in the Newlands Valley, separated from Derwent Water to the east by the summit of Catbells. The hamlet is about by road from Keswick.
History
The tiny 16th-century Newlands Church is about west of Little Town. William Wordsworth visited this church in 1826 while on a walking tour of the fells, and that he was so impressed by his first glimpse of the church through half-opened leaves that he wrote a stanza in his poem To May.
Children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter set The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905) in and around Little Town.References
Category:Hamlets in Cumbria
Category:Cumberland (unitary authority)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Town,_Cumbria
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2025-04-06T15:55:13.315009
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UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
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The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP – UNESCO) is an arm of UNESCO created in 1963 in Paris, France, with Headquarters in Paris, and Regional Offices in Buenos Aires and Dakar. It develops the capacities of education actors to plan and manage their education systems through its programmes of training, technical assistance, policy research and knowledge sharing.
Origins
A Committee chaired by Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders with Guy Benveniste as Rapporteur met in June 1962 and recommended the creation of the institute. The UNESCO General Conference adopted their recommendations in the fall of 1962 and the French Government provided a building to house this new institution. Philip Hall Coombs who had been the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Kennedy administration, was appointed as its first director in 1963.
The institute, while an arm of UNESCO, was established as a semi-independent institution with its own board headed by a chair appointed by the Director General of UNESCO. Originally, the institute was financed jointly by UNESCO and the World Bank (IBRD) since that second institution was just beginning to finance educational projects in developing countries. Help was also provided in those first years by the Ford Foundation. Later, it was integrated more closely with, and financed mainly by, UNESCO. The institute organized its first major seminar in the spring of 1964 when 80 participants from Latin America attended meetings in Paris. The first publication from this encounter was issued in 1965.
Mission
As the only specialized organization with the mandate to support educational policy, planning and management, IIEP plays a unique role within the United Nations system. IIEP's mission is to strengthen the capacity of countries. It helps UNESCO's Member States to manage their educational system and to achieve the Education 2030 Agenda.
The International Institute for Educational Planning offers training in educational planning and management, but also explores fields such as statistical tools for educational planning, strategies and policy options, projects, budgets, monitoring and evaluating educational quality and access. Its programs are designed for planners, policy-makers and researchers. IIEP targets both institutions and individuals, and works in both the national and international arenas.
IIEP's research projects identify new approaches that planners could adopt to improve equity, access and quality in the various educational sectors. Costs and financing, along with governance and management, are also important research fields at IIEP.
IIEP's technical assistance projects offer on-site coaching to ministry planning departments, so that they can quickly become autonomous in the performance of their basic duties. By building the capacity of individuals and of local, regional and national institutions, IIEP's technical assistance enables countries to make the most of their own expertise and to minimize their use of outside consultants. For instance, IIEP has created tailored programs to help governments in emergencies and fragile contexts, to maintain or rebuild their educational system.
IIEP and Education Sector Planning
IIEP supports ministries of education to plan and prepare their education sector plans through long-term technical involvement or more focused interventions.
Making progress in education demands that countries have a clear vision of their priorities and how to achieve these. Many ministries therefore prepare strategic plans, which reflect this vision and help mobilize people and resources. Strategic planning guides educational development by giving a common vision and shared priorities. Educational planning is both visionary and pragmatic, engaging a wide range of actors in defining education's future and mobilizing resources to reach its goals. A wide range of ministries worked in partnership with IIEP to develop their plans.
In some countries, the institute supports the whole process of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of these plans; in others, it offers advice and assistance in specific areas as requested by the ministry. In all cases, the joint efforts is aimed at strengthening the capacity and autonomy of ministries and their staff.
IIEP gives special attention to working with countries faced with the challenges of emergencies and reconstruction (sometimes referred to as ‘fragile’ contexts) which are farthest away from achieving the EFA and the MDG goals.
References
External links
IIEP Paris
IIEP Buenos Aires
IIEP Pôle de Dakar
Category:UNESCO
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_International_Institute_for_Educational_Planning
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AmD Essex
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AmD Technik Essex (also known as Automotive Developments) is a British car tuning company and auto racing team. The team
competed in the British Touring Car Championship under the MB Motorsport accelerated by Blue Square banner.
History
The company was formed in 1987, specialising in the Volkswagen-Audi marque, forming their own VW-backed race team in 1990. They went on to win many championships with AmD-built and tuned Volkswagen Golfs. The company now offers tuning parts for most European cars.
For the 2008 & 2009 seasons, AmD ran SEAT Leóns in the Dunlop Sportmaxx Cup and won the championship in 2009, with Simon Shaw driving.
BTCC
In 2010, AmD Essex, under the name AmD Milltek Racing, raced in the British Touring Car Championship running a Volkswagen Golf Mk5, driven by their managing director, Shaun Hollamby. The car was previously run in the Baltic Touring Car Championship.
The team remained in the series in 2011, with Tom Onslow-Cole campaigning the Golf for the first four rounds of the season, running with a Lehmann built NGTC engine.
On Sunday 5 June, following Race 2 of round four at Oulton Park, Onslow-Cole announced he would be leaving the team following the final race of the day. Given the sudden circumstances, AmD Milltek took the decision not to field the car for the final round of the day. A day later, it emerged that Onslow-Cole was to return to his previous team, Aon Ford, to run a third car.
In the following week, it was announced that managing director Shaun Hollamby would pilot the car at round five at Croft, to give the team longer to find an appropriate replacement for Onslow-Cole. After Croft, Hollamby announced his retirement from high-level motorsport.
For the remainder of the 2011 season, the team signed former Renault Clio Cup champion, Martin Byford to drive the car.
At the Autosport International show, AmD announced that Ollie Jackson would be driving for the team during the 2012 season.
In 2013, AmD ran James Kaye in a Honda Civic for one round of the BTCC and four rounds in a Volkswagen Golf, which was also piloted by Hollamby and Aaron Mason for one round each. They sat out the Knockhill, Rockingham and Silverstone rounds of the championship.
Dave Newsham joined the team in 2014 and drove a Ford Focus ST for the season, picking up the team's first podium in race 3 at Newsham's home round at Knockhill and finished 17th in the championship.
For 2015, the team stuck with the Ford Focus ST with Mike Bushall piloting, and introduced the Audi S3 purchased from Rotek Racing to run Nicolas Hamilton for four rounds and Jake Hill at the final round at Brands Hatch.
Ollie Jackson returned to the squad in 2016 opting to run the Audi S3 and ditching the focus. Jackson completed the season in 26th place in the championship.
2017 saw AmD build a second Audi S3 for Ant Whorton-Eales to partner Jackson for the season with the two becoming regular points scorers on the way to 22nd and 23rd in the final standings.
AmD significantly expanded for the 2018 BTCC season with the purchase from the defunct Triple 8 team of a pair of race winning MG 6s. To drive the two machines, the services of young Scotsman Rory Butcher who debuted in 2017 and previous BTCC race winner Tom Boardman were called upon. AmD also retained the two Audi S3s with Jackson remaining in one for the 3rd consecutive season and youngster Sam Smelt called up to the sister car. They recorded their best season to date with Butcher regularly troubling the top points scorers. Boardman was replaced half way through the season by Ant Whorton-Eales for Snetterton, Glyn Geddie for Rockingham and Knockhill and Josh Caygill for Silverstone and Brands Hatch. Ollie Jackson also took a 3rd place finish at Brands Hatch in changeable conditions.
For 2019, AmD sold the MG 6s to new squad Exceler8 and bought a pair of Honda Civic FK2 from Eurotech, who left the series at the end of 2018. Butcher was retained for one of the new Honda seats and race-winner Sam Tordoff was brought in to partner him. Sam Tordoff was replaced after 7 rounds by Mike Bushall. The three of them secured the Independent Teams Championship with a combined 4 wins and 3 pole positions whilst Rory won both Independent Drivers title and the Jack Sears Trophy rounding off the team's most successful season to date.
TradePriceCars.com
Also in 2019, the Audi S3s were sold to Trade Price Racing but are still to be run for the team in a two-year deal by AmD, with Jake Hill taking one of the Audi seats and ex F1 driver, Le Mans & Indy Car race winner Mark Blundell taking the other. Jake took the Audis 1st ever victory at Knockhill.
Jake was promoted to the AmD side of the team for 2020 and will be partnered by Sam Osborne, whilst the Trade Price Cars arm will be piloted by Bobby Thompson and ex British GT Champion James Gornall.
MB Motorsport
For 2020, a partnership with ex-F1 racer Mark Blundell was formed, taking over the running of the Honda Civics. Mark Blundell will act as sporting director of the two-car Honda programme featuring new BRDC Superstar Jake Hill and Sam Osborne, with AmD founder Shaun Hollamby retaining the position of team principal. The team merged with Motorbase Performance for 2021.
BTCC results
British Touring Car Championship results Year Team name Car Drivers Wins Poles Fast laps Points 2010 AmD Milltek Racing.com Volkswagen Golf Shaun Hollamby 0 0 0 0 28th 16th N/A 22nd 13th 2011 AmD Milltek Racing.com Volkswagen Golf Tom Onslow-Cole † 0 0 0 61 13th 12th N/A 7th 10th Shaun Hollamby 0 0 0 0 29th 24th Martin Byford 0 0 0 0 30th 25th 2012 AmD Tuning.com Volkswagen Golf Ollie Jackson 0 0 0 61 18th 13th N/A 13th 11th 2013 AmD Tuning.com Honda Civic James Kaye 0 0 0 5 27th 18th N/A 26th 15th Volkswagen Golf Shaun Hollamby 0 0 0 1 33rd 29th Aaron Mason 0 0 0 0 29th 34th 2014 AmD Tuning.com Ford Focus ST Dave Newsham 0 0 0 70 17th 10th N/A 13th 8th 2015 AmD Tuning Ford Focus ST Mike Bushell 0 0 0 22 23rd 5th N/A 15th 9th Audi S3 Saloon Nicolas Hamilton 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A Jake Hill 0 0 0 0 35th 28th 2016 AmD Tuning Audi S3 Saloon Ollie Jackson 0 0 0 14 26th 16th N/A 13th 10th 2017 AmD Tuning Audi S3 Saloon Ant Whorton-Eales 0 0 0 34 23rd 14th N/A 12th 7th Ollie Jackson 0 0 0 42 22nd 9th 2018 AmDTuning.com with Cobra Exhausts Audi S3 Saloon Sam Smelt 0 0 0 0 34th 17th N/A 21st 13th Ollie Jackson 0 0 0 59 23rd 15th AmDTuning.com with AutoAid/RCIB Insurance Racing MG6 GT Rory Butcher 0 0 0 99 17th 12th N/A 10th 7th Ant Whorton-Eales 0 0 0 6 30th 23rd Tom Boardman 0 0 0 4 29th 20th Glynn Geddie 0 0 0 1 33rd 25th Josh Caygill 0 0 0 0 40th 29th 2019 Cobra Sport AmD with AutoAid/RCIB Insurance Racing Honda Civic Type R (FK2) Rory Butcher 3 1 3 266 5th 3rd N/A 1st 1st Sam Tordoff 1 2 0 147 13th 6th Mike Bushell 0 0 1 27 24th 17th TradePriceCars.com Audi S3 Saloon Jake Hill 1 0 0 131 15th 11th N/A 4th 4th Mark Blundell 0 0 0 5 27th 18th Year Team name Car Drivers Wins Poles Fast laps Points
Notes
* Season still in progress
† Swapped teams mid season
References
External links
http://www.amdessex.com/btcc.blog.cfm
http://www.btccpages.com/news/1/1678/New-team-brings-VW-Golf-to-2010-BTCC/
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/cars/438063/volkswagen-joins-btcc-grid.html
http://www.crash.net/btcc/news/155825/1/amd_reveals_volkswagen_btcc_plans.html
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80796
Category:British auto racing teams
Category:British Touring Car Championship teams
Category:British GT Championship teams
Category:International GT Open teams
Category:Auto racing teams established in 1990
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmD_Essex
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Emily Chang (journalist)
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| birth_place = Kailua, Hawaii, U.S.
| death_date | death_place
| alma_mater = Harvard University (BA)
| occupation = Broadcast journalist
| notable_works = Brotopia (2018)
| spouse
| children 4
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Emily Chang (traditional Chinese: 張秀春; born August 11, 1980) is an American journalist, television host, executive producer, and author. Chang was the anchor and executive producer of Bloomberg Technology for over a decade, a daily TV show focused on global technology, and Studio 1.0, where she regularly spoke with top executives, investors, and entrepreneurs.
In 2023, Chang launched a new show with Bloomberg Originals called The Circuit where she interviews influencers in technology, business, entertainment and culture. She is the author of ''Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley'', which explores gender inequality in the tech industry.Early life and educationChang was born to a Taiwanese American family as Emily Hsiu-Ching Chang in Honolulu, Hawaii. Chang's mother is Sandra Galeone Chang. Chang's father, Laban Lee Bun Chang (died 2003), was a lawyer from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Chang has a sister Sara. Chang grew up in Kailua, Hawaii, and graduated from Punahou School in 1998.
In 2002, Chang graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in social studies. Career
Prior to joining CNN in 2007, Chang served as a reporter at KNSD, NBC's affiliate in San Diego, California. There, she filed reports for MSNBC and won five Emmy Awards. She started her career as a news producer at NBC in New York.
From 2007 to 2010, Chang served as an international correspondent for CNN, based in Beijing and London.
In Beijing, she reported on a wide range of stories, including the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's economic transformation and its environmental consequences, the 2008 South China floods, the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, North Korea's nuclear ambitions and President Obama's historic visit to Asia. During Obama's visit to Shanghai, Chang was briefly detained by the police for her coverage of the banned Oba-mao T-shirt, which depicted the American President dressed in iconic Red Army attire.
In London, she covered international news for CNN's American Morning. There, she covered European and international events including the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. She had a one-on-one interview with Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, weeks before her assassination.
Bloomberg Technology
In 2010, Chang joined Bloomberg Television. On February 28, 2011, Chang became the anchor of Bloomberg West, the only network or cable TV show based in San Francisco, California at the time. The daily show features original reporting and interviews with tech newsmakers including venture capitalists, CEOs, start-up entrepreneurs, and analysts. In October 2016, the show was renamed Bloomberg Technology. Chang has interviewed top executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, former Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey, Disney CEO Bob Iger, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Alibaba Founder Jack Ma. She was the first journalist to interview Amazon founder Jeff Bezos when he landed after an historic Blue Origin flight to space. Chang left Bloomberg Technology on November 10, 2022, after 12 years anchoring the show to launch The Circuit.Studio 1.0Chang also hosted Bloomberg Television's long-form interview series, Studio 1.0, where she interviewed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, and Mega upload founder Kim Dotcom while he was under house arrest at his New Zealand mansion, among others.''Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
Chang is the author of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley'', published in February 2018 by Portfolio Books, a division of Penguin Random House. The book investigates alleged sexism and gender inequality in Silicon Valley. It was an instant national bestseller and received significant media attention and critical acclaim.
Vanity Fair magazine ran an excerpt from the book in their January 2018 issue titled "Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up": Inside Silicon Valley's Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side." Bloomberg Businessweek ran an excerpt titled "Women Once Ruled the Computer World; When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia?"
The PBS "NewsHour"-New York Times book club selected Brotopia as their April 2019 book club read.
HBO's Silicon Valley
Chang appeared as herself in the HBO show Silicon Valley, in which she interviewed various characters. She appeared in six episodes across three seasons.
The Circuit
In 2023, Chang launched The Circuit, a premium Bloomberg Originals series, where she interviews influencers at the center of technology, business, entertainment and culture. When she set off to produce the new show, Variety Magazine reported she “may be able to do for technology what Anthony Bourdain did for cuisine.”
On The Circuit, Chang has interviewed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at his home in Lake Tahoe, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, actress Natalie Portman, entrepreneur and model Hailey Bieber, GM CEO Mary Barra and more.
Awards and recognitions
* Emmy Awards
* 2014 Business Insider The 100 Most Influential Tech People on Twitter - Ranked #91.
* 2018 Rational360 Influencer Index - Top 50 journalists followed by CEOs on Twitter - Ranked #6.
* 2019 11th Shorty Awards - Best Journalist (finalist).
* 2022 Rational360 Influencer Index - Top 50 journalists followed by CEOs on Twitter - Ranked #3
* 2024 The Society of Professional Journalists, 1st Place for a TV/Video interview for the Circuit with Emily Chang
* 2024 San Francisco Press Club Award, 1st Place for Videography for the Circuit with Emily Chang
While reporting for KNSD in San Diego, Chang won five Emmy Awards for her coverage of topics including drug smuggling across the US-Mexico border.
Filmography
Television series
* Silicon Valley - Playing herself.
* 2018 PBS Newshour - As a guest
* 2018 CBS This Morning - As a guest
* 2018 Good Morning America - As a guest
* 2018 Morning Joe - As a guest.
Personal life
In 2010, Chang married Jonathan DeWees Stull, president of the career services startup Handshake, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. The pair have four children and reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.
References
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| education = University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Edward A. Brooks (July 1, 1942April 23, 2019) was an American politician and farmer from the state of Wisconsin. He served ten years in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Juneau County and parts of northern Richland and Sauk counties.
Background
Brooks was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and attended Webb High School in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. He served in the United States Army Reserve. Brooks has received his bachelor's degree in agricultural economics, in 1985, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brooks served on the Reedsburg Town Board and served as chair of the town board. Brooks served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2008 to 2019 and was a Republican. Brooks died from leukemia on April 23, 2019.Wisconsin LegislatureBrooks served on the Wisconsin Assembly agriculture and criminal justice legislative committees. He also served on the urban and local affairs legislative committee and served as the chair of the committee.<ref nameed />
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K. Rupel Boom F.C.
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| manager = Urbain Spaenhoven
| league = Belgian Division 2
| season = 2022–23
| position = National Division 1, 19th of 20 (relegated)
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Koninklijke Rupel Boom FC is a Belgian association football club based in Boom, Antwerp province currently playing in the Belgian Division 2, the fourth tier of Belgian football. They play at the Gemeentelijk Parkstadion in Boom.
History
K. Rupel Boom FC was founded in 1998, a result of a merger between K. Boom F.C. and Rupel SK. The club started playing in the regional third division of the Belgian provincial leagues. In 1999 they were promoted to the regional second division and in 2001 to the regional first division.
In 2004 the club reached the Nationwide Fourth Division. In its first season they reached the playoffs and won promotion to the Belgian Third Division. But, after only one season, K. Rupel Boom FC were relegated back to Fourth Division.
In 2008 the club again won promotion to the Belgian Third Division, and in 2009 they narrowly missed a ticket for the promotion playoffs.
After being on top of the league since mid September 2009, the club fell back and were beaten to the title by K.S.K. Heist with only one match to play. As runner-up of the regular season, they played the promotion playoffs in which they defeated Eendracht Aalst in the first round (4–0:3–4) and R.O.C. de Charleroi-Marchienne in the second round (2–2:0–2). The final was played against U.R.S. du Centre (1–0: 4:4). And so, at the end of the 2009–2010 season, Rupel Boom were promoted to the Belgian Second Division.
In November 2010, Peter Van Wambeke was fired as head coach after a string of bad results. He became the first trainer in Rupel Boom history to be prematurely released off his contract.
In December 2010, Rupel Boom appointed Yves Cloots as the new head coach of the club. Cloots was Technical Manager with KV Mechelen and head coach of Rapid Leest. This change in head coach did not have the desired effect, and after the 2010–2011 season, Rupel Boom were relegated back to the Third Division.
For the 2011–12 season, Johan Houben was appointed as the new manager. During this season, Rupel Boom had a very successful cup run, beating Acrenoise (Belgian Promotion), Boussu Dour (2nd Division), Oud-Heverlee Leuven (1st Division) and Belgian record champion Anderlecht against all odds. For Anderlecht, it was the first time since 1954 (against VV Terhagen) that they were eliminated by a Third Division team. Rupel Boom eventually lost the quarter finals against Mons with 2–0 in the first leg and 2–2 draw at home.
In May 2013 player Alexander Bell was selected for Scotland u20 for an international youth tournament in Den Haag, Netherlands.
The 2013–14 season started well, with a first place after 5 games. But after a series of heavy losses, trainer Johan Houben stepped down as manager. Club captain and icon Jerry Poorters also resigned from the club. Frank Staes was appointed new manager in September 2013. In his first game in charge, Rupel Boom won against KSV Standaard Wetteren with 2–0, after being reduced to 9 men after 40 minutes of play, with a 0–0 on the board. The team ended a disappointing season in 13th place, just 3 points above the relegation places.
Halfway through the 2014–15 season, head coach Frank Staes resigned and was replaced by his assistant Serge Van Den Stock, who eventually signed a two-year contract with the club. With Van Den Stock, Rupel Boom won 6 of its last 11 matches, and drew 2, finishing the season in 5th place.
In October 2015 Serge Van Den Stockt was fired and replaced by his assistant Robbie Grauwloos. Former K. Boom FC player and Belgian international Glenn De Boeck was appointed as Technical Advisor. De Boeck left the club in January 2016 to become head coach of First Division club Mouscron Péruwelz. Rupel Boom finished the season in 9th place.
For the new season 2016–17, former coach Urbain Spaenhoven was appointed as the new coach. It's his second stint as head coach after leaving the club for KV Mechelen in 2010.
Rupel Boom was crowned as champions of the 2nd Amateur league after the 2017–18 season. They will be playing in the highest Amateur League for the 2018–19 season.
Take over by Beerschot
In March 2019 it was announced the club would be taken over by Beerschot Wilrijk, with the Rupel Boom senior team continuing in the highest amateur league. Former Olympic athlete Tia Hellebaut joined the club to become an advisor at the club's academy with former referee Frans Van Den Wijngaert in charge of the set-up.
Seasons
{| class="wikitable"
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! Season
! colspan=7 |Division
! Division
! Points
! Remarks
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| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| I
| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| II
| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| III
| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| IV
| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| P.I
| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| P.II
| style="width:20px; text-align:center;"| P.III
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| 1998–99
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 2
| Regional Third Division
| align=center|65
| promotion
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| 1999–00
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|
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 3
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| Regional Second Division
| align=center|54
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|-
| 2000–01
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 1
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| Regional Second Division
| align=center|73
| champion
|-
| 2001–02
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|
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 6
|
|
| Regional First Division
| align=center|53
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|-
| 2002–03
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|
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 3
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| Regional First Division
| align=center|63
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|-
| 2003–04
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 2
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| Regional First Division
| align=center|64
| promotion
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| 2004–05
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 2
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|
| Fourth Division B
| align=center|53
| promotion
|-
| 2005–06
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 15
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|
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| Third Division A
| align=center|19
| relegation
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| 2006–07
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 3
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|
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| Fourth Division B
| align=center|55
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|-
| 2007–08
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 3
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|
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| Fourth Division B
| align=center|64
| promotion
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| 2008–09
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 6
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|
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| Third Division B
| align=center|49
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| 2009–10
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 2
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| Third Division A
| align=center|71
| promotion, final against U.R.S. du Centre 1–0: 4:4
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| 2010–11
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 17
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| Second Division
| align=center|36
| relegation
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| 2011–12
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 5
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| Third Division
| align=center|58
| ¼ Final Belgian Cup after eliminating RSC Anderlecht
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| 2012–13
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 4
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| Third Division
| align=center|56
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| 2013–14
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 13
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| Third Division
| align=center| 36
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| 2014–15
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"| 5
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| Third Division
| align=center| 54
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| 2015–16
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| style="text-align:center; background:#ffffe0;"|9
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| Third Division
| align=center|51
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|2016–17
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|3
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|Second Amateur League
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|2017–18
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|1
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|Second Amateur League
|61
|Champion
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|2018–19
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|First Amateur League
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|}
Club honours
* Belgian Cup
** ¼ Finale 2012
*Second Amateur League
** winner: 2018
* Third Division
** promotion 2010
* Fourth Division
** promotion: 2005 & 2008
* Regional First Division
** promotion: 2004
* Regional Second Division
** winner: 2001
* Regional Third Division
** promotion: 1999
Individual honours
* Top Goal Scorer Third Division
** Stavros Glouftsis: 28 goals in 2009–2010
Current squad
Supporters Player of the Year
This is an election organised by supportersclub Blue Corner/De Steenbakkers.
{|
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|valign="top"|
*1998–99: Mohamed El Makrimi
*1999–00: Chris Delhaye
*2000–01: Chris Delhaye
*2001–02: Tommy Meire
*2002–03: Jo Engelborghs
*2003–04: Branko Stojanovic
|valign="top"|
*2004–05: Bart Verdijck
*2005–06: Jo Engelborghs
*2006–07: Jerry Poorters
*2007–08: Kenny Laevaert
*2008–09: Jerry Poorters
*2009–10: Frank Magerman
|valign="top"|
*2010–11: Jerry Poorters
*2011–12: Ruben Smet
*2012–13: Nick Vanderwesterlaeken
*2013–14: Jeff Vogels
*2014–15: Seppe Kill
*2015–16: Jasper Otte
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* 2016–17 Jeroen Van den Driesche
* 2017–18 Jonas Laureys
* 2018–19
|}
Previous trainers
* Gregoire Vanderidt (2018–....)
* Urbain Spaenhoven (2016–2018)
* Robbie Grauwloos (2015–2016)
* Serge Van Den Stock (2014–2015)
* Frank Staes (2014)
* Johan Houben (2011–2014)
* Yves Cloots (2010–2011)
* Peter Van Wambeke (2010)
* Urbain Spaenhoven (2006–2010)
* Raoul Peeters (2003–2006)
* Pierre Brits (2000–2003)
References
External links
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"Manchester United" was a single released by the English football team Manchester United in 1976. It reached number 50 in the UK Singles Chart.
References
Category:1976 singles
Category:Manchester United F.C. songs
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| prev_title | prev_year
| next_title | next_year
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"Feel It in My Bones" is a song recorded by Dutch DJ and record producer Tiësto, featuring Canadian band Tegan and Sara. It was released as the third single from Tiësto's fourth studio album, Kaleidoscope, on 7 September 2009. It was given a full single release on 4 June 2010.
The song came about after the twins received a number of tracks from Tiësto and they "honed in on something that we liked".
They have called it their first true collaboration, with Tegan saying that "it was a true collaboration; there's like two sections that Sara wrote, and three that I wrote."
The music video for "Feel It in My Bones" premiered on Tiësto's official YouTube channel on 13 January 2010.
Track listing
* Digital download (1)
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Year-end charts
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| 94
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Certifications
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