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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus%20cistoides
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Tribulus cistoides
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Tribulus cistoides, also called wanglo (in Aruba), the Jamaican feverplant or puncture vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, which is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
Habitat
Tribulus Cistoides, known locally in Mexico as “Abrojo de tierra caliente” (thistle of the hot country), grows in Central, South, and the southern part of North America. It survives well in arid low land close to the shore and where these is sand or loose soil is present. This is also why it may survive in urban environments in or by the gutters of roads, as there may be loose soil nearby.
References
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Flora of Mexico
cistoides
Flora of the Coral Sea Islands Territory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoon%20%28Korean%20name%29
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Hoon (Korean name)
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Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written.
Hanja
There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:
(가르칠 훈 garuchil hun): "to teach"
(공 훈 gong hun): "merit"
(variant of above)
(김 쐴 훈 gim ssoel hun): "to dry gim"
(불길 훈 bulgil hun): "blaze"
(향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"
(질나발 훈 jilnabal hun): a Korean wind instrument
(variant of above)
(연기낄 훈 yeongikkil hun): "smoke"
(금빛 투색할 훈 geumbit tusaekhal hun): "faded gold colour"
(무리 훈 muri hun): "faint"
(분홍빛 훈 bunhongbit hun): "afterglow"
: "weld"
(향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"
People
People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:
Sim Hun (born Sim Daeseop, 1901–1936), Korean novelist of the Japanese colonial period
Isao Harimoto (born Jang Hun, 1940), ethnic Korean baseball player in Japan
Kim Hoon (born 1948), South Korean novelist
Suh Hoon (born 1954), South Korean intelligence officer
Chung Hoon (born 1969), South Korean judo practitioner
Lee Hoon (actor) (born 1973), South Korean actor
Hoon Lee (born 1973), American television, theatre, and voice actor of Korean descent
Jang Hoon (born 1975), South Korean film director
Sung Hoon (singer) (born 1980), South Korean singer, member of R&B group Brown Eyed Soul
Jung Hoon (born 1985), South Korean football player
Lee Hun (footballer) (born 1986), South Korean football player
Fictional characters with this name include:
Jhun Hoon, character in 1990s and 2000s video game series The King of Fighters
As name element
From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea:
Ji-hoon, the only name among these which has remained in the top ten during the 1990s and 2000s
Jung-hoon (10th place in 1960, 1st place in 1970, 3rd place in 1980)
Sang-hoon (9th place in 1960 and 1970)
Sung-hoon (5th place in 1970, 6th place in 1980)
Given names containing this morpheme include:
Byung-hoon
Chang-hoon
Do-hun
Dong-hoon
Ji-hoon
Jong-hoon
Jung-hoon
Kwang-hoon
Myung-hoon
Sang-hoon
Seung-hoon
Se-hun
Sung-hoon
Young-hoon
See also
List of Korean given names
References
Korean masculine given names
Masculine given names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20school%20movement
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Free school movement
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The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.
Origins and influences
As disenchantment with social institutions spread with the 1960s counterculture, alternative schools sprouted outside the local public school system. Funded by tuition and philanthropic grants, they were created by parents, teachers, and students in opposition to contemporaneous schooling practices across the United States and organized without central organization, usually small and grassroots with alternative curricula. Their philosophical influence stemmed from the counterculture, A. S. Neill and Summerhill, child-centered progressive education of the Progressive Era, the Modern Schools, and Freedom Schools. Influential voices within the movement included Paul Goodman, Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Herb Kohl, Jonathan Kozol, and James Herndon, with titles such as A. S. Neill's 1960 Summerhill, George Dennison's 1969 The Lives of Children, and Jonathan Kozol's 1972 Free Schools. The movement's transference of ideas was tracked through the New Schools Exchange and American Summerhill Society.
The definition and scope of schools self-classified as "free schools" and their associated movement were never clearly delineated, and as such, there was a wide variation between schools. The movement did not subscribe to a single ideology, but its "free schools" tended to fall into the binaries of either utopian cultural withdrawal from external concerns, or built on the legacy of freedom schools with direct political address of social injustices. This dichotomy was also seen in the type of students the school attracted with the former usually white, middle class students and the latter usually poor, black, and inner-city. Some schools practiced participatory democracies for self-governance. The "free schools" movement was also known as the "new schools" or "alternative schools movement". Author Ron Miller defined the free school movement's principles as letting families choose for their children, and letting children learn at their own pace.
Growth
Allen Graubard charted the growth of the free schools from 25 in 1967 to around 600 in 1972, with estimates of 200 created between 1971 and 1972. These schools had an average enrollment of 33 students. Almost all of the first American free schools were based on Summerhill and its associated book. Many of the schools were started in nontraditional locations, including parks, churches, and abandoned buildings.
The movement peaked in 1972 with hundreds of schools opened and public interest in open education.
Decline and legacy
The movement subsided with the rise of 1970s conservatism, particularly due to the Nixon administration's education policies.
The Huffington Post wrote in 2012 that "the movement is revving up again", citing Education Revolution's listing of over 100 free schools in America. The schools are mostly private in America, and generally serve middle and upper-middle-class families. Author Ron Miller credits the rise of standardization with grassroots interest in alternative schools. CBS News reported in 2006 that the remaining free schools, while unknown in number, are "democratic", as the students share in the school's governance.
Education historian Diane Ravitch said in 2004 that these schools function best for students from educated families due to the free schools' emphasis on individual contribution. Victoria Goldman of The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools and E. D. Hirsch, Jr. echoed similar thoughts, with Hirsch adding that "it doesn't work for children who haven't had those advantages." Ravitch believed that the free schools' values would conflict with predominant student testing trends.
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Education reform
Alternative education
Democratic free schools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGSF%20Kaunas
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LGSF Kaunas
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LGSF Kaunas (English: Lithuanian gymnastics and sports federation) was a Lithuanian football club from Kaunas. It was one of the most successful football clubs from Kaunas during interbellum.
History
LGSF was founded on May 17, 1922, by physical education worker Karolis Dineika and professor Juozas Eretas. It was a club that was cultivated by Lithuanian Christian Democrats party. Its basis was Ateitininkai and Pavasarininkai sports sections and independent clubs. Organization had over 80 sections. Until 1930 it published newspaper "Jėga ir grožis" ("Power and Beauty"). LGSF had strong football, basketball and track and fields teams. It was dissolved in 1944.
Football department was established only in 1927, because this game was disliked by Dineika. In that year the team started playing in B class, in 1928 it was promoted to A class. Team visited Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Netherlands. In 1939 Vilnius department was founded (LGSF Vilnius).
International games
Achievements
Lithuanian Championship
Winners (1): 1938–1939
Runners-up (1): 1937–1938
Third places (4): 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936
Runner-up of Lithuanian National Olympics (1938)
External links
Statistics – futbolinis.lt
Defunct football clubs in Lithuania
Football clubs in Kaunas
1927 establishments in Lithuania
1944 disestablishments in Lithuania
Association football clubs established in 1927
Association football clubs disestablished in 1944
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurat%20%28clause%29
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Jurat (clause)
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A jurat (short for Latin , "it has been sworn", 3rd singular perfect passive of , "to swear") is a clause at the foot of an affidavit showing when, where, and before whom the actual oath was sworn or affirmation was made.
English and American law
In English and American law, a jurat is that part of an affidavit which contains the names of the parties swearing the affidavit, the actual statement that an oath or affirmation has been made, the person before whom it was sworn, the date, place and other necessary particulars. The jurat is usually located on the bottom of a document. A typical form would be Sworn to before me this Day of Month, 20__, with the signature of the witness, often a notary public, the venue, and sometimes other particulars. Old forms of jurats ran as Juratum... die... coram..., which then gave in English Sworn... this day... in front of....
Additionally, this term can be used for certain electronic forms, (such as electronically filed tax returns in certain states), where the taxpayer(s) attest to the truth of the information contained. In the case of an electronically filed tax return, the taxpayer has to provide certain specific information—a social security number for example—to "sign" the jurat. Having done this, the electronically submitted return is considered to have the same legal effect as if the taxpayer had actually and physically signed the return.
References
Legal documents
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belknap%20School
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Belknap School
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Belknap School (also known as the District No. 8 School House) is a historic former school house at 509 Greenville Avenue in the Belknap village of Johnston, Rhode Island.
The first school on the site was built in 1790 and was the first school in the town when it was founded. The current school building was built on the same site in 1892 and was used as a school until 1938. It was used as an American Legion building from the late 1940s until 1998. In 2002 the building was acquired by the Johnston Historical Society. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island
References
Former school buildings in the United States
Buildings and structures in Johnston, Rhode Island
School buildings completed in 1892
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Victorian architecture in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Liggins
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John Liggins
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Rev. John Liggins (11 May 1829 – 8 January 1912) was an English-born Episcopalian missionary to China and Japan. The first Protestant missionary and ordained representative of Anglican Communion to reach Japan, together with his seminary classmate Channing Moore Williams, he helped found the Nippon Sei Ko Kai.
Background and early life
Liggins was born in 1829 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. In 1841, following the death of his father, Liggins emigrated to the United States of America, initially residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was among 14 people confirmed at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's then-developing Holmesburg neighborhood by Alonzo Potter on April 4, 1848.
Missionary in China
In June 1855, Liggins graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) at Alexandria, Virginia, which had sent several missionaries to China to assist VTS graduate bishop William J. Boone after that country opened to foreigners following the First Opium War. Virginia bishop William Meade on July 1, 1855, ordained Liggins as a deacon, together with Williams and other classmates, and soon the Board of Foreign Missions in New York interviewed and accepted both Liggins and Williams as missionaries. In November of the same year they sailed for China around South America, the ship stopping in Rio de Janeiro to repair damage, and Sydney, Australia to reprovision.
Liggins arrived in Shanghai on June 28, 1856, and attended morning prayer in Chinese the next day (a Sunday) at the Church of Our Saviour, which Boone had established (together with a boarding school). Then they visited the city's other Episcopal Church, Christ Church in the city's Chinese section. They needed to learn the local dialect, as well as Mandarin (the main dialect) and the literary language Wen-li—although dictionaries were poor, textbooks unavailable, and most Chinese teachers focused on Confucian classics and memorizing thousands of characters. Boothe, Cleveland Keith (who had arrived in 1851) and local teachers helped the young missionaries, who studied nine hours daily. Soon, Liggins substituted for the British chaplain, John Hobson, who ministered to foreign sailors and the British settlement at Trinity Church. More seasoned VTS graduates (class of 1845) Robert Nelson and Edward Syle allowed the young missionaries to accompany them as they were able. Before Boone returned to the United States for health and furlough, he ordained both to the priesthood on January 11, 1857.
Soon, Liggins and the others began to preach, including on boat journeys outside Shanghai, especially after Keith and his wife returned to Hawaii for health reasons later in the year. Liggins and Williams realized that of the roughly 20 missionaries sent during the previous decade, half had left before their own arrival, due to fevers (Shanghai being in the delta of the Yangtze River and surrounded by rice fields), and rough conditions. The countryside was ambiguous about foreigners, and smarting from the defeat in the First Opium War. Many were curious about Western ways, but slavery, gambling, alcoholism, and opium addiction had also become problems that some Western merchants fostered (especially near Canton). The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) had begun and in 1853 captured Nanjing only 200 miles from Shanghai. Its leader proclaimed himself as the younger brother of Jesus Christ and fought the ruling Manchus (whom he portrayed as devils), and also preached about the equality of women, communal ownership and revitalized ethics.
On October 2, 1857, Liggins and Williams started on a missionary journey of about 12 days toward Suzhou, about 100 miles from Nanjing. Sometimes they preached jointly near temples and their pamphlets and books were well received; at other times the young missionaries (alone or jointly) faced hostile audiences which drove them back into their boat. Liggins suffered health problems as November began, so Williams proceeded alone on the next journey.
Nonetheless, they both traveled (together with their Chinese teacher Mr. Wong whom Nelson had converted) toward Changshu (Dzang Zok), a city of about 100,000 people, about 70 miles northwest of Shanghai in February 1858. They preached, including on Chinese New Year's Day, and confirmed Nelson's suggestion that it might be a good place to establish a mission, and accordingly wrote Boone for permission in May. However, a week after they received accommodation at a temple in February, a police officer advised the priest who gave them shelter not to harbor foreign devils. Before they returned in June, Britain's gunboat diplomacy had led to the Treaty of Tientsin. While Changshu's mayor was interested in their preaching (and became their new landlord), and many others also wanted the missionaries to stay, other Mandarin officials opposed them.
On April 5, 1859, Liggins was in Changshu during a festival known for disorder (which they had avoided the previous year), thinking locals had accepted them. A mob broke into their house, beat him and stole many items. Williams arrived five days later and took his incapacitated friend back to Shanghai for medical treatment. A medical missionary who had recently returned from Nagasaki, Japan (recently opening to Westerners after less-martial American gunboat diplomacy, a visit from Syle and appointment of active Episcopalian Townsend Harris as first American consul in 1856) recommended that Liggins go there to recover and teach English.
Missionary in Japan
Liggins arrived in the port of Nagasaki on May 2, 1859, two months before the official opening of the foreign settlement. By month-end he received a letter from the Foreign Missions Committee in New York officially sending him and Williams to Japan, as he later noted in the Spirit of Mission. Liggins thus became the first recorded Protestant missionary to arrive in Japan after the country ended over two centuries of self-imposed isolation. Williams arrived in Nagasaki on June 29. Liggins (and later Williams) was initially housed at Kotokuin within Shofukuji Temple since the official foreign settlement was not yet ready.
Liggins immediately began teaching English to Japanese interpreters. However, the new Nagasaki bugyo, in line with centuries of official government policy, forbad him to teach Christianity. His religious duties (and later Williams') were thus mainly limited to ministering to American and British residents of the foreign settlement and visiting sailors. Religious texts could not be openly distributed, but the sale of academic publications afforded Liggins and Williams some engagement with eager Japanese purchasers on matters relating to Christian teaching. While in Nagasaki, Liggins prepared a book entitled One Thousand Familiar Phrases in English and Japanese, one of the first books of its kind published in Japan.
However, a cholera epidemic struck fast-growing Nagasaki by September. In October 1859 Presbyterian missionaries Dr. and Mrs. James Curtis Hepburn also arrived in Nagasaki from Shanghai, but chose to continue by boat, eventually settling in Kanagawa. Liggins' health problems returned, so on February 24, 1860, he set sail from Nagasaki for the United States. Liggins never again set foot in Japan, although he only resigned his missionary post in 1869 due to continued ill health.
Later years and death
Returning to America, Liggins wrote, spoke and campaigned for the Temperance movement. He and Mary Liggins (either 1 or 2 years his senior) were recorded in New York City in the 1870 census and South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey in the 1880 census. At some point he became a naturalized American citizen. Liggins retired to Cape May, New Jersey where he spent the remaining years of his life, and was recorded in the 1900 and 1910 census as a bachelor living in a boarding house. He was a regular contributor to the letters page of the New York Times, such as his letter defending New York bishop Henry C. Potter (son of bishop Alonzo Potter who had confirmed him), who though abstaining from alcohol, recognized that the saloon had become a poor man's clubhouse because temperance societies did not provide attractive places where intoxicating drinks were not sold. Among Liggins' published works were: England's Opium Policy, A Missionary Picture Galler, and The Great Value and Success of Foreign Missions.
Liggins died on January 8, 1912, in Ocean City, New Jersey (a stronghold of the temperance movement). His will was admitted to probate in Cape May County, New Jersey on August 17, 1911
References
1829 births
1912 deaths
English Anglican missionaries
Anglican missionaries in Japan
Virginia Theological Seminary alumni
Anglican missionaries in China
British expatriates in China
British expatriates in Japan
English emigrants to the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Gasquet%20career%20statistics
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Richard Gasquet career statistics
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This page is a list of the main career statistics of French tennis player, Richard Gasquet. To date, he has won 16 ATP singles titles. He was also the runner-up at the 2005 Hamburg Masters and Canada Masters in 2006 and 2012, a semifinalist at the 2007 and 2015 Wimbledon Championships and 2013 US Open and a bronze medallist in men's doubles with Julien Benneteau at the 2012 London Olympics. On 9 July 2007, Gasquet achieved a career high singles ranking of world No. 7.
Significant finals
Grand Slam tournaments
Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)
Olympic Games
Doubles: 1 (1 bronze medal)
Masters 1000 tournaments
Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups)
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Tour career finals
Singles: 33 (16 titles, 17 runner-ups)
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
National representation
Team competition finals: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Exhibition Finals
Singles performance timeline
Current through the 2023 US Open.
1Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008, Madrid Masters (clay) 2009–present.
2Held as Madrid Masters (hardcourt) until 2008, and Shanghai Masters 2009–present.
*Gasquet withdrew from the 2007 US Open due to illness, having won his opening round.
Record against top 10 players
Gasquet's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:
Top 10 wins
He has a win-loss record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
ATP career earnings
* Statistics correct .
References
External links
Tennis career statistics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian%20Braille
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Estonian Braille
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Estonian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Estonian language.
Alphabet
Estonian Braille uses the international (read French) norms for the letters ä ö ü. Š and ž are mirror-images of s and z, a strategy found in other alphabets. Õ is the mirror-image of ä, as the mirror-image of o is used for ö.
{| class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.2"
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| u
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When c q w x y are used in foreign names, they have their normal values of .
Punctuation
Punctuation is nearly identical to that of Finnish Braille.
Formatting
References
French-ordered braille alphabets
Estonian language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers%20Lake
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Engineers Lake
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Engineers Lake, a small oval-shaped lake, has a surface area of . This lake is on the south side of Haines City, Florida, and is in a suburban area. It is bordered by residences, woods and grassland. It is north of Little Lake Hamilton.
Engineers Lake has no public access along its shores. Permission of property owners must be obtained to reach this lake. The Take Me Fishing website says this lake contains largemouth bass and bluegill.
References
Lakes of Polk County, Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyronie%20Rowe
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Tyronie Rowe
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Tyronie Rowe is a Jamaican rugby league player for the Washington DC Slayers in the USARL. His position is loose forward. He has previously played for Vauxhall Vultures in Jamaica and also the Hurricanes Rugby League. He is a Jamaican international. and has also played for the Jamaican Rugby 7s team. In 2015 Tyronie played for Jamaica in their 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifiers.
References
Living people
Hurricanes Rugby League players
Jamaica international rugby union players
Jamaica national rugby league team players
Jamaican rugby league players
Jamaican rugby union players
Vauxhall Vultures players
Washington DC Slayers players
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Motegi%20GT%20250km
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2013 Motegi GT 250km
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The 2013 Motegi GT 250km was the final round of the 2013 Super GT season, the 8th points scoring race for GT500 cars and the 9th for GT300 cars. It took place on November 3, 2013 at Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi, Tochigi, Japan.
Background
Kohei Hirate and Yuji Tachikawa led the championship for Team Cerumo, having scored 58 points. Following their win at the previous race, TOM'S drivers Kazuki Nakajima and James Rossiter were 2nd in the championship, four points behind Cerumo. Eight teams in GT500 had a theoretical chance at winning the championship entering the Motegi round. In GT300 Team Mugen had an eight-point lead over Goodsmile Racing's Tatsuya Kataoka and Nobuteru Taniguchi, while in GT300 only five teams had a possibility of winning the championship. The Balance of Performance was re-adjusted in GT300, the air restrictor sizes for the Honda CR-Z and Subaru BRZ were returned to their sizes that were at the Fuji 300km round.
Because Motegi was the final round of the championship, teams that competed in all rounds of the championship had their weight ballast removed, all cars with the exception of the #5 Team Mach Nissan GT-R GT3 ran without weight ballast. Unlike other rounds which are normally 300km in length, Motegi is only a 250km race. 38 cars entered the final round at Motegi, the #360 Tomei Sports Nissan GT-R GT3 not entering Motegi was the only change from the Autopolis entry list.
Report
Practice
The #38 Team Cerumo Lexus SC430 was fastest GT500 car in practice while the #100 Team Kunimitsu Honda HSV-010 GT was second fastest. In GT300 The #11 Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 set the fastest time from the #16 Team Mugen Honda CR-Z. The #37 TOM'S SC430 caused the first red flag 17 minutes into the session after spinning off at the final turn. A second red flag came out 40 minutes in after the car that was fastest at the end of the session, #38 Team Cerumo SC430 spun off at turn 2. The #19 Bandoh SC430 also had a problem and stopped on circuit with 20 minutes remaining.
Qualifying
Qualifying was held on November 2, 2013. In the first session for all GT300 cars the championship leader, the Team Mugen Honda CR-Z with Yuhki Nakayama was fastest from the #11 Gainer SLS. The session was red flagged as Takashi Kobayashi spun off at the hairpin and was unable to rejoin the circuit, and would have to start the race from the rear of the grid. The only championship-contending team eliminated in Q1 for GT300 was the #52 SLS with Hironori Takeuchi driving. In the first GT500 session Masataka Yanagida was fastest for NISMO, 2nd went to Takashi Kogure. Both Frédéric Makowiecki and James Rossiter, driving for teams that entered Motegi 3rd and 4th in the championship respectively failed to make the cutoff for the second session.
In the second GT300 session Kota Sasaki was fastest in the #61 Subaru BRZ, scoring the team's 5th pole position of the season and Sasaki's 10th in his career. Three of the 4 championship contending teams started in the top three, the GSR Hatsune Miku BMW that was 2nd in the championship would start 7th. Kazuya Oshima was fastest in the second GT500 qualifying session, setting a time a tenth faster than Koudai Tsukakoshi. The championship leading team would start 4th.
Race
The race was held on November 3, 2013. Oshima started the #6 SC430 from pole position and kept his lead while Tetsuya Yamano was able to lead from the start in GT300, but on lap 4, Björn Wirdheim had overtaken Yamano for the lead, Wirdheim in the #11 Gainer SLS being able to lap much faster than anyone else in the class. On lap 4 in GT500 Kohei Hirate in the #38 SC430 passed Toshihiro Kaneishi in the #17 HSV-010 for 2nd and was then under attack from multiple cars behind. Oshima and Wirdheim kept extending their leads in their respective classes throughout the first stint, Oshima building nearly 20 seconds over Hirate and Wirdheim had nearly 40 seconds on 2nd.
The first pitstops occurred as early as lap 19, Kaneishi in the #17 being the first of the lead group to pit with Tsugio Matsuda, Juichi Wakisaka and Naoki Yamamoto pitting as well. Cerumo pitted a lap after and Yuji Tachikawa managed to keep his position over the #17, now with Koudai Tsukakoshi driving. On lap 32 Hiroaki Ishiura passed Tsukakoshi for 3rd, but 3 laps later Tsukakoshi re-passed Ishiura and began closing on Tachikawa again. Andre Couto and Ralph Firman made contact on lap 38, sending Firman into the wall and Couto receiving a drive-through penalty for the incident. Tsukakoshi overtook Tachikawa for 2nd on lap 38 but Tachikawa still held a 2-point lead in the championship and with other Lexus SC430's behind there was no change in position for the rest of the race, giving Team Cerumo, Tachikawa and Hirate the championship. Yuji Kunimoto won his first GT500 race for Team LeMans and Oshima won his 3rd GT500 race.
Kota Sasaki was catching Yuhki Nakayama for 2nd in GT300 in the closing laps but with two laps to go Sasaki spun, which assured Nakayama would finish 2nd, which was enough for Team Mugen to win the GT300 championship by five points over the race winners of Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Björn Wirdheim, who were well ahead of anyone else in their class.
Results
Qualifying
Race
Race result is as follows.
GT500 Fastest Lap – Kazuya Oshima, #6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Lexus SC430 – 1:44.056
GT300 Fastest Lap – Kota Sasaki, #61 R&D Sport Subaru BRZ – 1:50.728
Point rankings after the event
GT500 Driver Point rankings
GT300 Driver Point rankings
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both GT500 and GT300 classes.
References
External links
Super GT official website
Motegi GT 250km
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwanziger
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Zwanziger
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Zwanziger is a German, Austrian, and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Anna Maria Zwanziger (1760–1811), German serial killer
Gustav Adolf Zwanziger (1837–1893), Austrian journalist, botanist, and paleobotanist
Daniel Zwanziger (German Wikipedia) (born 1935), American theoretical physicist
Theo Zwanziger (born 1945), German lawyer and sports official
Ron Zwanziger (born 1954), American entrepreneur
German-language surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamil%20Cupriak
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Kamil Cupriak
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Kamil Cupriak (born 11 November 1994) is a Polish footballer who plays as a centre forward for Zjednoczeni Stryków.
References
External links
1994 births
Footballers from Łódź
Living people
Polish men's footballers
Poland men's youth international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Górnik Zabrze players
ŁKS Łódź players
Radomiak Radom players
Siarka Tarnobrzeg players
Ekstraklasa players
I liga players
III liga players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20Soo-yeon%20%28novelist%29
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Oh Soo-yeon (novelist)
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Oh Soo-yeon (Hangul: 오수연) is a modern South Korean writer.
Life
Oh Soo-yeon was born in 1964 in Korea and began her literary career in 1994 with National Holiday in the Land of Dwarves which portrays the lives of two college friends Min-cheol and Mi-seon ten years after their participation in the student democracy movement of the 1980s. After she published Vacant House in 1997, she lived in India for two years. Oh is actively involved in supporting Third World countries, and in 2003 visited Iraq and Palestine as a literary representative of the anti-war movement.
Work
In her debut work, National Holiday in the Land of Dwarves, Lee combines the theme of nihilism that swept over the young people after the post-democracy movement with her interest in feminist issues in a patriarchal society. Vacant House places greater emphasis on feminist perspective. The author's broader concern, however, is “peripheral lives” or the struggles of those people who remain outside the spheres of power and acceptance by the mainstream. The characters in National Holiday in the Land of Dwarves represent such people: as political dissidents in the 1980s, they are alienated from the establishment and the mainstream and once again in 1990's they find themselves ostracized by their own friends who have adapted all too readily to the societal changes and new value system. In her feminist works, O focuses on women as outsiders and outcasts of a male-centered society.
With India as its background, Kitchen, a collection of linked stories published after the author returned from India, features foreigners as central characters who meet and interact in the communal space of kitchen. The protagonist, a woman from Korea, matures through the clash of different value systems In 1994, Oh won the New Artist Award, in 2001 the Hanguk Ilbo Literature award, and in 2006 the Beautiful Artist Award.
Works in Korean (Partial)
Novel
National Holiday in the Land of Dwarves (1994)
Short story collection
Vacant House (1997)
Essay collection
Don't Die, Abu Ali(2004)
Awards
New Artist Award (1994)
Hanguk Ilbo Literature Award (2001)
The Beautiful Artist Award (2006)
References
1964 births
Living people
20th-century South Korean writers
21st-century South Korean writers
20th-century South Korean women writers
21st-century South Korean women writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statyba%20Panev%C4%97%C5%BEys
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Statyba Panevėžys
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Statyba Panevėžys was a Lithuanian football club from Panevėžys.
History
It was founded as Maisto sporto klubas (MSK) (English: Food Sports Club). In 1962 it was taken over by Panevėžio statybos trestas (English: Panevėžys Construction Trust), and because of that it was renamed "Statyba" (English: Construction). It was dissolved in 1977.
Name history
1935 – MSK Panevėžys
1946 – Lokomotyvas Panevėžys
1947 – Žalgiris Panevėžys
1954 – MSK (Maistas) Panevėžys
1962 – Statyba Panevėžys
Achievements
Lithuanian Championship/LSSR Top League
Winners (2): 1962–1963, 1968
Runners-up (3): 1942, 1942–1943, 1964
Third places (3): 1946, 1956, 1965
Lithuanian Cup (Tiesa Cup):
Runners-up (3): 1957, 1967, 1971
External links
Statistics – futbolinis.lt
Defunct football clubs in Lithuania
1935 establishments in Lithuania
1977 disestablishments in Lithuania
Association football clubs established in 1935
Association football clubs disestablished in 1977
Football clubs in Panevėžys
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20D.%20Peterson
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James D. Peterson
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James Donald Peterson (born August 18, 1957) is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Biography
Peterson was born on August 18, 1957. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1979, Master of Arts degree in 1984 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After graduation, he was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught film and television history. He received his Juris Doctor in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating Order of the Coif. He served as a law clerk for Judge David G. Deininger of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals from 1998 to 1999. From 1999 to 2014, he had been a shareholder at the Wisconsin law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., where he was a member of the litigation and intellectual property practice groups and led the firm's intellectual property litigation working group. Additionally, he served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he taught copyright law.
Federal judicial service
On November 7, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Peterson to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, to the seat vacated by Judge John C. Shabaz, who assumed senior status on January 20, 2009. On February 6, 2014, his nomination was reported out of committee by a voice vote, with 2 senators recorded as “no”. Cloture was filed on his nomination on May 6, 2014. On May 8, 2014, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 56–40 vote. Later the day, his nomination was confirmed by a 70–24 vote. He received his judicial commission on May 12, 2014. He became Chief Judge on April 26, 2017.
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
21st-century American judges
Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
People from Lake Charles, Louisiana
United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama
University of Notre Dame faculty
University of Wisconsin Law School alumni
University of Wisconsin Law School faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Wisconsin lawyers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harden%20Askenasy
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Harden Askenasy
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Harden Askenasy (3 July 1908 - 19 July 1975) was a Romanian Jewish scientist and professor of neurosurgery, notable for pioneering neurosurgery in Israel and much of the Middle East. He was responsible for making the Israel Neurosurgical Society a member of both the European Neurosurgical Association and the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. During his career, he served as a neurosurgeon, researcher, and professor in many areas of science and medicine including anatomy and neurosurgery. His scientific contributions laid the foundation for old and new generations of neurosurgical students who achieved high honors at the top of their profession, both in Israel and abroad.
Early life
Professor Harden M. Askenasy was born in Bucharest, Romania to Mihail Askenasy, a merchant, and Buca née Leibovici, an art teacher. His parents only had one other child, a younger boy named Henry. During his early years, Askenasy was sent to a Christian primary school. Later, he was sent to the Realgymnasium Der Evangelischen Gemeide Zu Bukarest, from which he graduated in 1926.
After graduation, Askenasy continued his education at the University of Montpellier in France. After Montpellier, he attended the University of Paris, where he received his Diplome de Docteur de Medicine in 1934.
Medical training
From 1933 to 1937, Askenasy worked on his neurosurgical residency at the Hospital de la Pitie. He had the luxury of working under the direction of Professor Clovis Vincent, a legendary French neurosurgeon. He had the chance to work amongst many other renowned scientists and physicians during his residency, such as Gerard Guiot, P. Puech, Jean Talairach, Marcel David, and Count Thierry De Martel. All were heralded as neurosurgical leaders throughout France and the world for their scientific contributions.
The field of neurosurgery began to grow during Askenasy's tenure in France, with many neurologists and neurosurgeons paving the way in the development of surgical practices. During his residency, Askenasy discovered the use of sulphur amides followed by cystic lesion puncture to treat brain abscesses. This therapy avoided the need of an early surgical procedure to remove infected areas of the brain. It was considered the first minimally invasive surgical therapy technique used to treat brain abscesses, replacing the need of craniotomies to treat acute cerebrates. Sulfur amides revolutionized brain abscess therapy, and their use along with modern antibiotics is still being practiced today. Along with Professor Clovis Vincent and Marcel David, Askenasy described the association of brain tumors with psychiatric disease, and the associations of the vascular brain stem lesion with ataxia and astereognosis.
In 1937 he continued his studies at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA, with the famed American neurosurgeon Walter Dandy. During the following year, Askenasy had the opportunity to travel around the United States and Canada, visiting and working in some of the most prominent centers for neurosurgery. He even had the opportunity to meet Harvey Cushing, the pioneer and father of American neurosurgery. During his tenure, Askenasy completed additional neurosurgical training as a fellow in the US and Canada at Lahey Clinic with Gilbert Horrax (Boston, MA), Mayo Clinic with Alfred Adson (Rochester, MN), University of Illinois at Chicago with Paul Bucy (Chicago, IL), University of Chicago with Percival Bailey (Chicago, IL), McGill University with Wilder Penfield (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), University of Michigan with Max M. Peet (Ann Arbor, MI), and the University of Pennsylvania with Charles Frazier (Philadelphia, PA). During his training with Walter Dandy, Dr. Askenasy learned trigeminal nerve vascular decompression of the cranial nerve entry zone. It was after his visit with Charles Frazier that he became convinced that the resection of the Gasserian Ganglion was a better technique than vascular decompression.
Professional career
In 1939, Dr. Askenasy arrived in Romania and took a position as a neurosurgeon at the Jewish Hospital in Bucharest. Life soon became very difficult for Askenasy as a Jewish man during World War II. Anti-Semitism, including the infamous Iron Guard, began to take a more sinister form. There was widespread persecution that included dismissing Jews from their jobs, non-hiring of Jews, beatings, and public hanging of Jews. Dr. Askenasy could not escape the atrocities surrounding him. In 1940, Askenasy became a professor of Anatomy and studied the nervous system at the College for Jewish Students in Bucharest. Not long after, he was exiled to Transnistria on the Ukrainian border, together with hundreds of thousands of Romanian Jews. They were all sent there to die from disease and hunger. While they were in the camp, Askenasy was obligated to clean the extremely dirty community bathroom (latrine), creating a traumatizing memory for him.
In 1943 he returned to the Neurological Department at the Hospital of the Red Cross in Bucharest because of the need for neurologists. In 1946, after World War II, he returned to his academic endeavors that had been previously interrupted. He decided that it was best for him and his family to go to Palestine, the historic land of the Jewish people. When Jewish citizens were selected to leave Romania on Christmas Eve, his and his wife's names were not called on the list. This was because Dr. Askenasy was a precious asset to the post-war government due to his medical expertise. However, after a meeting with the interior minister of Romania, Teohari Giorgescu, he was granted permission to leave with his wife and family.
Professor Askenasy departed Bucharest, Romania by boat, the “Pan-York”, where he was able to smuggle his neurosurgical instruments. After departing from Bulgaria, the English Royal Navy diverted the ship to a refugee camp in Famagusta, Cyprus on January 2, 1948. However, the Haganah organization granted him and his wife English immigration certificates under the false names of Mr. Jacob and Mrs. Rivka Schwartz so that they could leave the camp. The Mossad Le’Aliya Bet managed to arrange false documents from allies that helped them to arrive in Haifa, Palestine aboard the “Kedma Haganah Ship” on February 19, 1948. After the Second World War, England had organized chaos in order to destroy all Jewish institutions and promote tension amongst them and the Arab community. Deception, delays, and misinformation were common factors of post-World War II British mandates over Jerusalem. Chaos and inter-religion fighting between the Jewish and Arabs were promoted in other to divide and conquer. British Prime minister Clement Attlee, who was the leader of the Labor Party (1945–1951) can be blamed for the inhumane care of the Jewish inmate concentration camps in Europe, which included food and water blockades and especially blockades for foot entry to Jerusalem. Permit certificate was required to enter into Palestine. Abuse of authority led England to detain members of the Jewish community.
Dr. Askenasy arrived in Israel two years after the departure of the only neurosurgeon at the time, Dr. Henry Wigderson (Montefiore Medical Center, New York). He was heavily recruited at Beilinson Hospital by Dr. Chaim Sheba. Soon after arriving in Palestine, he accepted the offer to work at the hospital on March 24, 1948. For the next 27 years, he would work as a neurosurgeon under the Kupat Holim Clalit health service organization, providing the best modern neurosurgery and all of its sub-specialties relating to brain and spinal cord disorders. The treatments that he provided during the next decade increased as a result of soldiers injured in the war, civilians harmed in auto accidents, and victims injured during Arab terrorist attacks.
In 1950 he became head of the Department of Neurosurgery within Beilinson Hospital's new building, serving as the largest of its kind in Israel. The surplus in head trauma caused an influx of patients in a limited amount of space. Therefore, the Pediatric Department would also host neurosurgical cases when needed. Various articles about the successful Neurosurgery Department were frequently published in Israeli Newspapers.
In addition to leading the Neurosurgical Department, he also began teaching students in 1950 and officially became a professor of neurosurgery at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1959. Askenasy also became a professor of neurosurgery at Tel Aviv University in 1963. In 1964, he was rewarded as a permanent member of the Tel Aviv University Senate.
Personal life
Professor Harden Askenasy married Nina née Sussmann before departing to Palestine. They remained married for 31 years until his death on July 19, 1975. Together, they gave birth to one child, a daughter named Karin Askenasy-Taub. Karin resides in Israel and is an advocate in establishing and maintaining her father's legacy. She has two children, a daughter named Dana Bensimon, born February 9, 1982, and a son named Tom Harden Mihail Askenasy Taub, born September 8, 1989.
Professor Harden Askenasy dedicated much of his life to improving the scope of neurosurgery not only in Israel and the Middle East, but also internationally. He often came to the aid of other countries when his medical expertise was needed. Askenasy was also very generous, and even donated his precious neurosurgical instruments to Beilinson Hospital on two different occasions so that the department would be supplied with modern equipment. At that time, Palestine, like many other parts of the world, lacked modern medical instruments. Askenasy worked very hard to save lives during a destructive part of history in Israel, and he committed his practice to improving medical and neurosurgical science.
Legacy
In 1962 Professor Askenasy, together with Professor Ephraim Frei from the Weizmann Institute, developed a magnetic catheter (POD) for intra-arterial endovascular navigation to brain circulation. This approach was an early development for endovascular therapy and treatment of occlusion, cerebral arterial aneurysms, thrombolysis, and arterial venous malformations.
Professor Askenasy researched the interaction between the 100 watt laser and brain tissue. This served as an analysis for its use to remove brain tumors. Professor Askenasy also studied the outcome of low level radiation on the development of intracranial meningiomas along the scalp to search for parasites in the heads of Jewish immigrants on their way to Palestine in the early 1920s-1930. It was discovered that application of low level radiation led to epilepsy. He also established a relationship between meningiomas, extrapyramidal disorder, and Parkinson's disease.
The legacy of Professor Askenasy lingers on in the form of new generations of Israeli excellence in medicine and the reputation that Israeli surgeons have gained around the world. To this day, Israeli neurosurgeons are sought after in medical centers across the world as leaders and teachers, thanks to the foundation laid out by Professor Askenasy and many others during his generation. In spite of hardships experienced during the Holocaust, wars, and prevalent anti-Semitism, they rose from the ashes. Professor Askenasy was a neurosurgical pioneer in the Middle East. Along with his predecessors and successors, he provided an everlasting contribution to the fields of cutting-edge science and medicine.
Professor Askenasy also played a major role in the research and development of the following:
Minimally invasive therapy for brain abscesses, Endovascular Magnetic Catheter for cerebral artery catheterization, Minimally invasive Trans nasal esphynoidal Stereotactic radioactive Isotope selective implantation (Iridium, Gold, Yttrium); FL-18 Isotope for the detection of brain tumors; INDPTA (intravascular) for the detection of giant aneurysms; Stereotactic Singulectomy for intractable cancer pain; Radioactive Iodine 131 Serum Albumin early detection of cerebral hydrocephalus in mielomeningocele; Sulfonamides early treatment later followed by evacuation of the brain abscess.
References
Romanian neurosurgeons
1908 births
1975 deaths
Israeli neurosurgeons
20th-century surgeons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varand%2C%20Iran
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Varand, Iran
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Varand () is a village in Tangeh Soleyman Rural District, Kolijan Rostaq District, Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 219, in 68 families.
References
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takam%2C%20Iran
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Takam, Iran
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Takam (, also Romanized as Tākām) is a village in Tangeh Soleyman Rural District, Kolijan Rostaq District, Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 171, in 53 families.
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Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet%20Master%20%28Glee%29
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Puppet Master (Glee)
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"Puppet Master" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the American musical television series Glee, and the ninety-fifth episode overall. Written by Matthew Hodgson and directed by Paul McCrane, it aired on Fox in the United States on November 28, 2013. The episode features the return of special guest star Demi Lovato as Dani, and of Adam Lambert as Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert. The reason why Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) always wears tracksuits is finally revealed.
Plot
Glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) is caught up with the school board's upcoming inspection of McKinley High and instructs the New Directions to brainstorm ideas for Nationals while he is unavailable. Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) makes several suggestions that highlight him, and becomes offended when the others, aside from Jake Puckerman (Jacob Artist), reject his ideas and accuse him of being controlling. Angry and frustrated, Blaine storms out of the choir room and calls Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), who warns Blaine not to force his ideas upon the others and become a "puppet master". Kurt also reveals he booked Pamela Lansbury's first gig at Callbacks, which Blaine promises to attend. Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera), Dani (Demi Lovato) and Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert (Adam Lambert) disagree over the choice of venue, but are convinced by how Kurt envisions their first performance, in which they sing "Into the Groove".
The school board visits McKinley ahead of the inspection to discuss with Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) the possibility of becoming full-time Principal, to which she agrees. She develops a crush on Superintendent Bob Harris (Christopher Cousins), and is disappointed to find out he thinks she is a man. Sue confides in Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter) that she changed her more feminine appearance and adopted her trademark tracksuits when she started working at McKinley, in order to be respected by the students. Becky then encourages Sue to embrace her femininity.
Blaine refuses to perform due to the New Directions' treatment of him and sits in the back of the choir room. Due to a gas leak, he hallucinates that his friends are puppets who idolize him, and leads them in a rendition of "You're My Best Friend". Blaine later thanks Jake for supporting him and mentions his experience at the back of the choir room that he is unable to explain. Jake continues to choreograph the Cheerios' dance routines, and upsets Bree (Erinn Westbrook) by bragging about having sex with the entire cheerleading squad. Will wants Jake to create a dance number for Nationals, but he refuses, claiming the glee club is not up to par with his talents. Sitting at the back of the choir room at Blaine's suggestion, he then hallucinates performing a mash-up of "Nasty" and "Rhythm Nation". Like Blaine, he is later unable to explain his hallucination. Shortly afterwards, Bree tells Jake she is pregnant and wants him to accompany her to the doctor's appointment.
Will offers to help Sue in exchange for additional money for the New Directions' Nationals wardrobe, but Sue refuses. While sitting in the back of the choir room, she hallucinates performing "Cheek to Cheek" with Will. Sue also confiscates a puppet of Kurt that Blaine made in crafts class due to him being unable to get over being called a "puppet master", and sends him to detention after he breaks into her office after hours to retrieve it, which prevents Blaine from attending Kurt's performance. He and Kurt get into a brief argument over the phone when Kurt finds out about the puppet, and Pamela Lansbury is later disappointed to discover the only person in their audience is a misguided old man hoping to meet Angela Lansbury.
Blaine, Jake and Becky meet in detention, and Blaine has another hallucination that helps him realise his need to try to control the situation due to stress is the reason he is hallucinating about puppets. Blaine then covers for Jake while he prepares to take Bree to the hospital. Bree, however, announces she just had a pregnancy scare. Jake is relieved, but Bree warns him that his narcissism and promiscuous ways will have unwanted consequences and he is more or less doomed to repeat his father and older brother's mistakes if he doesn't change soon, and cuts ties with him due to his bad influence. Moved by her words, Jake apologizes to Marley Rose (Melissa Benoist) for his selfish behavior and tries to make amends with her. Though Marley harbors no ill feelings for him, she confesses she now only views him as a friend and leaves him heartbroken.
Sue recruits Wade "Unique" Adams (Alex Newell) to help her, and impresses the school board, even fixing the gas leak. They promote her to full-time principal, and Sue asks Harris out on a date, but he still refuses. Simultaneously, Kurt announces that the old man from their audience happened to be the uncle of a scout, who has booked them a second gig at a popular nightclub. As an apology for his behaviour, Blaine crafts puppets of all of his friends and presents them. To end this episode, The New Directions and Pamela Lansbury then simultaneously sing "The Fox".
Production
The episode was in production around the end of October, when co-creator Ryan Murphy tweeted pictures of the puppets being featured in the episode, including a picture of Criss as Blaine surrounded by puppets.
Recurring characters in this episode include Santana's girlfriend and member of Kurt's band, Dani (special guest star Lovato), band member Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert (Lambert), McKinley cheerleaders Becky Jackson (Potter) and Bree (Westbrook), Lima schools superintendent Bob Harris (Cousins) and McKinley janitor and former principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba).
Six songs from the episode are being released as five singles: Queen's "You're My Best Friend" sung by Criss; "Cheek to Cheek" from Top Hat performed by Morrison and Lynch; the Janet Jackson mashup "Nasty / Rhythm Nation" performed by Artist, Benoist and Westbrook; Madonna's "Into the Groove" sung by Colfer, Lambert, Michele, Rivera and Lovato; and Ylvis's "The Fox" sung by the members of New Directions and Pamela Lansbury.
Reception
Ratings
The episode, which aired on Thanksgiving in the United States, was watched by 2.84 million viewers and received an 18-49 rating/share of 0.9/3, making it the lowest rated episode of the series to date.
Critical reception
The episode received mixed reviews from critics. Rae Votta of Billboard gave the episode a positive review, saying it "is pretty straight-forward in that it’s about control -- characters who want to control the world around them, characters who can't control the image thrust on them by others, and characters who want to control themselves. It’s clean, and relatively linear for all its wackiness. And it actually works. If only all of Glee could be this good." She did, however, criticize the casts' performance of "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)," saying "it's absolutely batshit and nonsensical and yet somehow the perfect ending to an hour of gas-induced puppet, Janet Jackson and Fred Astaire related hallucinations." Brandon Nowalk of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−, saying "Clearly there's new life in these characters—hell, old life in half of the New Directions—and low-key episodes like 'Puppet Master' make great opportunities to explore and define them. Artists are certainly allowed to fail. Hopefully Glee starts failing bigger."
Miranda Wicker of TV Fanatic gave the episode a more negative review, rating it a 1.5 out of 5, saying "The good news is that they buried an otherwise ridiculous and silly episode on a night when (probably) no one was watching, what with all the tryptophan comas and shopping. The bad news is that Glee Season 5 Episode 7 was 45 minutes of my life I can never get back and very little about it was redeeming." Samantha Highfill of Entertainment Weekly also received the episode negatively, saying "Overall, I think the episode was trying just a little too hard, and what maybe could have been cute (but probably not) forced me to watch most of the hour through squinted eyes, and not because I was tired from eating turkey."
References
External links
"Puppet Master" at Fox.com
2013 American television episodes
Glee (season 5) episodes
American television shows featuring puppetry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mula%2C%20Iran
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Mula, Iran
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Mula (, also Romanized as Mūlā and Mowlā) is a village in Farim Rural District, Dodangeh District, Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 65, in 23 families.
References
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esfivard-e%20Shurab%20Rural%20District
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Esfivard-e Shurab Rural District
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Esfivard-e Shurab Rural District () is in the Central District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 25,400 in 6,603 households. There were 26,172 inhabitants in 7,966 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 27,291 in 8,638 households. The largest of its 34 villages was Tir Kola, with 2,488 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%20University%20William%20Beaumont%20School%20of%20Medicine
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Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
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Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) is the allopathic (MD) medical school for Oakland University (OU). The campus is located north of Detroit in central Oakland County, Michigan and spans the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, but has the mailing address of nearby but not adjacent Rochester. OUWB is named for OU which was named for Oakland County and William Beaumont Hospital (WBH) which was named for US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion started at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, Michigan. WBH's original name was "Oakland Hospital" (as it was being built) named for the county. But to distinguish itself from nearby Oakwood Hospital, Oakland Hospital changed its name just before officially opening for business.
History
This allopathic (MD) medical school was first planned for with founding partner William Beaumont Health System (WBHS) in 2007. OUWB was later founded in 2008 with the first class starting in the fall of 2011. OUWB is the fourth medical school in the US State of Michigan and the first new medical school in the state in 47 years. Over 3,000 prospective students applied for the 50 seats in the first class. In 2012, OUWB added 75 new students, with 100 more joining in 2013 and 2014 each for a total of 325 students. In 2015, OUWB received full accreditation from the LCME. In March 2015, OUWB's Charter Class achieved a 100% match rate when matching to their residency positions.
Future
The school currently graduates approximately 125 MD physicians each year. New dedicated buildings for OUWB are being planned on both OU and WBHS's various campuses.
Beaumont Health
Beaumont Health was founded 2 years earlier than Oakland University in 1955. System-wide WBHS operates 1,738 beds at 3 hospital locations (1,070 beds at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, 418 beds at William Beaumont Hospital, Troy, 250 beds at William Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe) and many clinics, rehabilitation centers, and affiliated doctor offices in Metro Detroit. William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak is nationally ranked in 9 adult specialties and is the 3rd largest provider of Medicare in the US and one of the largest hospitals in the country. Beaumont operates the only Level I Trauma Center in Oakland or Macomb Counties, an area of about 2 million people. WBHS also has air medical transportation service called Beaumont One.
In addition to OUWBSM, WBHS is also a teaching hospital for Wayne State University School of Nursing, and Michigan State University School of Nursing.
References
External links
William Beaumont Health System
Oakland University
Oakland University campus
Medical schools in Michigan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolijan%20Rostaq-e%20Sofla%20Rural%20District
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Kolijan Rostaq-e Sofla Rural District
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Kolijan Rostaq-e Sofla Rural District () is in the Central District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 16,953 in 4,301 households. There were 21,579 inhabitants in 6,306 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 21,813 in 6,777 households. The largest of its 13 villages was Mahdasht, with 4,220 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate%20of%20Higher%20Secondary%20Education
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Directorate of Higher Secondary Education
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The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education is the regulatory body of higher secondary schools in Kerala. It was formed in 1990 to reorganize secondary and collegiate education in the Indian state of Kerala. The board provides Higher Secondary Examination and offers courses in science, humanities and commerce.
See also
Department of General and Higher Education (Kerala)
Education in Kerala
List of institutions of higher education in Kerala
SSLC
References
External links
Education Department, Government of Kerala
Department of General Education, Government of Kerala
Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, Government of Kerala
Kerala Examination Results
Education in Kerala
School examinations in India
Secondary school qualifications
State secondary education boards of India
High schools and secondary schools in Kerala
Government agencies established in 1990
1990 establishments in Kerala
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazkureh%20Rural%20District
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Mazkureh Rural District
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Mazkureh Rural District () is in the Central District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 25,883 in 6,904 households. There were 27,302 inhabitants in 8,231 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 33,310 in 10,825 households. The largest of its 32 villages was Qoroq, with 10,704 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miandorud-e%20Kuchak%20Rural%20District
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Miandorud-e Kuchak Rural District
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Miandorud-e Kuchak Rural District () is in the Central District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 33,905 in 8,876 households. There were 34,380 inhabitants in 10,303 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 37,386 in 12,320 households. The largest of its 42 villages was Zoghal Chal, with 3,964 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudpey-ye%20Jonubi%20Rural%20District
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Rudpey-ye Jonubi Rural District
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Rudpey-ye Jonubi Rural District () is a former administrative division of Rudpey District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 20,548 in 5,480 households, when it was in the Central District. There were 21,830 inhabitants in 6,488 households at the following census of 2011, by which time it had joined the former Rudpey-ye Shomali Rural District in the formation of Rudpey District.
By the time of the 2016 census, Rudpey-ye Jonubi Rural District was split into two parts within the district: Rudpey-ye Gharbi Rural District and Rudpey-ye Sharqi Rural District. Rudpey-ye Shomali Rural District had been elevated to the status of a district and split into two rural districts: Farahabad-e Jonubi Rural District and Farahabad-e Shomali Rural District.
References
Sari County
Former Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudpey-ye%20Shomali%20Rural%20District
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Rudpey-ye Shomali Rural District
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Rudpey-ye Shomali Rural District () is a former administrative division of Rudpey District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 13,943 in 3,692 households, when it was in the Central District. There were 15,457 inhabitants in 4,070 households at the following census of 2011, by which time it had joined the former Rudpey-ye Jonubi Rural District in the formation of Rudpey District.
By the time of the 2016 census, Rudpey-ye Jonubi Rural District was split into two parts within the district: Rudpey-ye Gharbi Rural District and Rudpey-ye Sharqi Rural District. Rudpey-ye Shomali Rural District had been elevated to the status of a district and split into two rural districts: Farahabad-e Jonubi Rural District and Farahabad-e Shomali Rural District.
References
Sari County
Former Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th%20National%20Congress%20of%20the%20Kuomintang
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18th National Congress of the Kuomintang
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The 18th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the eighteenth national congress of the Kuomintang political party, held on 17 October 2009 at Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan.
History
The 18th congress was originally planned to be held earlier on 12 September 2013 but was postponed to address the relief efforts of Typhoon Morakot.
Results
The 18th congress saw the inauguration of Ma Ying-jeou to become Chairman of the Kuomintang for the second time after winning the chairmanship election held on 29 July 2009, succeeding the incumbent KMT Chairman Wu Po-hsiung who was retiring. Former Chairman Wu and Lien Chan were appointed as Honorary Chairmen to assist Chairman Ma in Taiwan's external affairs and cross-strait relations, respectively. Chan Chun-po, the Secretary-General to the President was inaugurated as the Secretary-General of the Kuomintang.
Reactions outside Taiwan
- CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao sent a congratulatory message to Chairman Ma. In response, Ma also gave a warm reply.
See also
Kuomintang
References
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of Taiwan
2009 conferences
2009 in Taiwan
October 2009 events in Asia
2000s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmab%20Rural%20District
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Garmab Rural District
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Garmab Rural District () is in Chahardangeh District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 6,610 in 1,554 households. There were 5,533 inhabitants in 1,638 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 5,804 in 1,971 households. The largest of its 35 villages was Churet, with 1,008 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chahardangeh%20Rural%20District%20%28Sari%20County%29
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Chahardangeh Rural District (Sari County)
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Chahardangeh Rural District () is in Chahardangeh District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 5,884 in 1,711 households. There were 4,081 inhabitants in 1,382 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 4,864 in 1,810 households. The largest of its 53 villages was Chalu, with 340 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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41019676
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poshtkuh%20Rural%20District%20%28Sari%20County%29
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Poshtkuh Rural District (Sari County)
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Poshtkuh Rural District () is in Chahardangeh District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 3,885 in 971 households. There were 3,345 inhabitants in 1,051 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 3,324 in 1,170 households. The largest of its 21 villages was Orost, with 709 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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41019695
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banaft%20Rural%20District
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Banaft Rural District
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Banaft Rural District () is in Dodangeh District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 3,209 in 901 households. There were 2,979 inhabitants in 963 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 2,759 in 1,000 households. The largest of its 11 villages was Sang Deh, with 1,227 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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41019705
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farim%20Rural%20District
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Farim Rural District
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Farim Rural District () is in Dodangeh District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 4,751 in 1,410 households. There were 4,454 inhabitants in 1,501 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 4,525 in 1,743 households. The largest of its 47 villages was Maji, with 279 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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41019717
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus%20Robyn%20van%20der%20Goes
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Marinus Robyn van der Goes
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Marinus Robyn van der Goes or Marinus van der Goes (Goes or London?, 1599 - Antwerp, 1639) was a Flemish engraver. He was active as a reproductive engraver after the works of Flemish and Dutch designers.
Life
Historical data about van der Goes’ life are scarce. He was together with Hans Witdoeck a pupil of Lucas Vorsterman during the years 1630–31. He was admitted as a master of the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp in 1632–1633. He had three pupils: Alexander Goubau, Antonius Coolberger and Gaspard Leemans.
He died on 27 April 1639 in Antwerp and was buried in the local St. James' Church. In the burial register of the parish he was referred to as 'Marin van der Goes'.
Works
He worked as an engraver for the leading Flemish painters of his age. In Rubens' studio he belonged to the 'new generation' of engravers with the likes of Hans Witdoeck. There are 18 engravings made by van der Goes on the basis of Rubens’ designs. The technique of van der Goes was more free than that of Vorsterman and was thus extremely well suited to the Rubens’ style. The burin is applied with great finesse and fairly tightly and preserves across the plate a transparency and lightness that allows van der Goes to achieve the correct effect through relatively tempered black tones.
He also made engravings after designs of prominent painters of his time such as Jacob Jordaens, Adriaen Brouwer, Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh and Theodoor van Thulden. He signed all his engravings with Marinus.
References
Bibliography
H. HYMANS, Histoire de la gravure dans l’école de Rubens, Brussel, 1879, pp. 204, 408–13.
J. R. JUDSON, C. VAN DE VELDE, Book Illustrations and Title-pages (1977), xxi of Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Brussel, 1968–, pp. 296–9.
K. RENGER, G. UNVERFEHRT (eds.), Rubens in der Grafik, Göttingen, 1977, pp. 60–61.
I. POHLEN, Untersuchungen zur Reproduction-Graphik der Rubens-Werkst., M. 1985.
E. MAI en H. VLIEGHE (eds.), Von Bruegel bis Rubens, Keulen, 1993.
N. VAN HOUT (red.), Copyright Rubens. Rubens en de grafiek, Gent/Antwerpen, 2004.
External links
Flemish engravers
17th-century engravers
Painters from Antwerp
16th-century births
1639 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangeh%20Soleyman%20Rural%20District
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Tangeh Soleyman Rural District
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Tangeh Soleyman Rural District () is in Kolijan Rostaq District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 3,600 in 1,164 households. There were 2,549 inhabitants in 955 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 2,607 in 1,008 households. The largest of its 26 villages was Ajarostaq, with 226 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolijan%20Rostaq-e%20Olya%20Rural%20District
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Kolijan Rostaq-e Olya Rural District
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Kolijan Rostaq-e Olya Rural District () is in Kolijan Rostaq District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 9,543 in 2,643 households. There were 9,183 inhabitants in 2,877 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 8,461 in 2,955 households. The largest of its 28 villages was Amreh, with 2,206 people.
References
Sari County
Rural Districts of Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Mazandaran Province
Populated places in Sari County
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41019774
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdi%20Warsame
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Abdi Warsame
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Abdi Warsame (, ) (born 1978) is a Somali-American politician in Minnesota's Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. After moving to London as an asylum-seeker, he immigrated to Minnesota in 2006. In November 2013, he was elected to the Minneapolis City Council, becoming the first Somali official to be elected to the position. Warsame was reelected for a second term in 2017. He resigned from the position in 2020 to become the head of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority.
Early life and education
Warsame was born on March 5, 1978, in Mogadishu, Somalia. In the late 1980s, and his family sought asylum in London. Warsame earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from the Middlesex University. He also holds a master's degree in International Business from the University of Greenwich. In 2006, Warsame immigrated to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Career
Early career
Warsame first entered politics in 2011, while working on Mohamud Noor's campaign for a state Senate seat on a DFL ticket.
Warsame was the founder and spokesperson for the Citizen's Committee for Fair Redistricting, which took part in the Minneapolis redistricting process. The group lobbied the Minneapolis Charter Commission to redraw the municipality's political districts so as to maximize the East African community's vote. The commission concurred and established a number of new precincts in Ward 6.
Warsame chaired the Cedar Riverside-Neighborhood Revitalization Program and served as executive director of the Riverside Plaza Tenants Association, which represents the tenants of Riverside Plaza.
Minneapolis City Council
2013 election
Warsame ran in the 2013 Minneapolis municipal elections to represent Ward 6 on the Minneapolis City Council.
Somali-American professionals contributed significantly to Warsame's election campaign. His campaign finance filings put him among the top tier of successful fundraisers in Minneapolis' 13 wards. Lawyer and political operative Brian Rice was Warsame's strategist for the campaign.
Warsame's campaign was criticized by DFLer Robert Lilligren's caucus captain Maryam Marne Zafar, who alleged that Warsame supporters tried to turn voters away from Lilligren by highlighting the fact that Lilligren was openly gay. Lilligren also charged that Warsame supporters had capitalized on language barriers to win votes. Warsame dismissed the claims as sour grapes stemming from a lack of support for Lilligren's campaign, and added that he specifically told members of his political team not to use Lilligren's sexual orientation as a talking point. A DFL committee also rejected the Lilligren team's allegations.
Just before the election, the political action committee of Palestinian real estate developer Basim Sabri, who had a personal feud with Lilligren, produced controversial fliers smearing Lilligren and asserting that he discriminated against minorities, the elderly, and the poor. The fliers urged voters instead to cast their ballots for Warsame. Warsame's campaign team emailed a statement denouncing the Sabri committee's pamphlets and their use of Warsame's name. It also indicated that Sabri and his action group were unaffiliated with the Vote Warsame For Ward 6 campaign and were instead acting out of their own volition.
On November 5, 2013, Warsame was elected to represent the predominantly East-African Ward 6 on the Minneapolis City Council. He was the first-choice preference of 64% of voters, and received 40% of second-choice votes, and 20% of third-choice votes. The incumbent, Robert Lilligren, received 32% of first-choice votes, almost 27% of second-choice votes, and 13% of third-choice votes. The victory makes Warsame the first Somali American to hold the position. Warsame and Ahmed M. Hassan, who was elected to the Clarkston, Georgia City Council on the same day, are the first Somali Americans to be elected to municipal offices in the United States and were the highest elected Somali Americans in the country at the time. Warsame's election set civic precedence in the Somali American community of Minneapolis, in which his campaign energized and mobilized this sub-community's powerful voting bloc.
Warsame was reelected in 2017 by about 4%, around 240 votes. In early 2020, partway through his term, he was appointed head of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority. He resigned from his City Council seat on March 30 of that year to take the new position, the first Somali person to lead one of Minnesota's public agencies. Jamal Osman was elected in August to fill Warsame's seat.
Personal life
Warsame is married and has four children. He is a resident of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, which is home to the largest concentration of Somalis outside of East Africa.
Electoral history
References
External links
Campaign website
1978 births
American politicians of Somalian descent
Living people
Alumni of Middlesex University
Alumni of the University of Greenwich
Somalian emigrants to the United States
Minneapolis City Council members
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41019777
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese%20Braille
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Faroese Braille
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Faroese Braille is the braille alphabet of the Faroese language. It has the same basic letter assignments as the Scandinavian Braille and is quite similar to the Icelandic Braille.
All base letters are as in International Braille (meaning the French Braille alphabet, as that was the first one created). The letters are also the same as the other Nordic Braille alphabets, just as they are in the normal printed Nordic alphabets. For example, å/á, ö/ø and ä/æ are the same letters not only in Braille between, say, Faroese and Swedish Braille, but also recognized as the same characters between, for example, ink-printed Norwegian and Swedish (it is merely a stylistic choice in which language uses which). That is to say, all letter assignments in the Swedish and Icelandic Braille alphabets are the same in the Faroese one.
For example, ð is the same letter in both Faroese and Icelandic ink-print characters, and their Braille alphabets. The difference in the alphabets comes only in the Faroese diphthongs (ei being 26, ey 356, oy 24 – that is to say, "ei" is represented by one dot filled in, in the second row of the first column and the third row of the second column of a Braille character). These diphthongs are also considered single sounds when spelling Faroese in general, as in, it always would be spelled "ey" instead of "e-y" and the two letters cannot be separated. These assignments conveniently do not exist in the Icelandic Braille alphabet, so they are an easy way to tell if the Braille is Faroese or Icelandic. Likewise, the Icelandic letter þ (which no longer exists in Faroese) is assigned to 1246, which is a character that does not exist already in the Faroese Braille alphabet. Summarized, it is just as easy to read Icelandic Braille if one is a Faroese-speaker, as it is to read Icelandic ink-printed text if one can read Faroese.
Punctuation
The apostrophe, , is also used as the mark of abbreviations, while is used as a period / full stop.
Formatting
References
French-ordered braille alphabets
Faroese language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20MacGregor%20%28Australian%20politician%29
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John MacGregor (Australian politician)
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John MacGregor (1828 – 27 March 1884) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), and Minister of Mines.
MacGregor was the son of John Macgregor, and was born in the island of Skye, Scotland. He arrived in Victoria in 1840, was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1855, and practised in Melbourne, in what was latterly the firm of MacGregor, Ramsay, & Brahe.
MacGregor unsuccessfully contested East Bourke in 1856 and 1861, but after the retirement of Wilson Gray in September 1862 MacGregor was returned for Rodney, for which district he sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly till March 1874, when he retired from Parliament.
MacGregor joined the first James McCulloch Government, and was Minister of Mines from July 1866 to May 1868. On the defeat of the John Alexander MacPherson Ministry in April 1870 MacGregor was asked by the Governor to form a Government, but he recommended that Sir James McCulloch should be sent for. MacGregor brought in, and for the first time carried, a Payment of Members Bill. He had long retired from public life when he died on 27 March 1884 at his home in Gipps street, East Melbourne, Victoria.
He built up a substantial collection of books during his lifetime. His library contained around 10,000 volumes and when it was sold in 1884 it was described as the, “largest private library which has yet been brought to the hammer in this colony.”
References
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works
1828 births
1884 deaths
Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia
People from the Isle of Skye
19th-century Australian politicians
Australian book and manuscript collectors
Ministers of Railways (Victoria)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella%20Hermon
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Gabriella Hermon
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Gabriella Hermon is an American linguist, professor emerita at the University of Delaware.
Career
Hermon received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1981, and has taught at San Diego State University, and the University of Illinois, as well as the University of Delaware.
Hermon is one of the leading experts in the syntax of the Austronesian languages of Indonesia and Malaysia. She is especially well known for her work on voice and question formation in the Malay spoken in rural Sumatra, but an additional important contribution is her participation in a large scale study of language acquisition by children in Jakarta. This study documents how children acquire Indonesian, and is one of the few such studies of language acquisition in major Asian languages.
She has published numerous articles in such major journals as Language, Linguistic Inquiry and Lingua.
She was married to fellow linguist Peter Cole (1941-2023), with whom she regularly conducted joint research.
Publications
Among Dr. Hermon's best known works are her 1985 book, "Syntactic Modularity", published by Foris; her 2002 article "The Typology of Wh-Movement, Wh-Questions in Malay" published in Syntax; her 1994 book (edited) Language in the Andes, published by the Latin American Studies Program of the University of Delaware; and her 2008 article, "Voice in Malay/Indonesian", published in Lingua.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Linguists from the United States
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Women linguists
University of Delaware faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%20Pitaevskii
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Lev Pitaevskii
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Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii ( ; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics. Together with his PhD supervisor Evgeny Lifshitz and with Vladimir Berestetskii, he was also the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifschitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status was professor.
Education
Pitaevskii was born in Saratov on 18 January 1933.
He graduated from Saratov State University in 1955. In 1958 he joined the staff of the Institute of Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1971 he became a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Research
Collaborating with Vitaly Ginzburg, Pitaevskii developed a theory of superfluidity in the neighbourhood of a transition point. He showed that, at sufficiently low temperatures, liquid helium-3 should undergo a transition to the superfluid state.
Lev Pitaevskii was educated at the Landau school in Moscow. He was a PhD student of Lev Landau and during the first years of his scientific activity at the Institute for Physical Problems (now Kapitza Institute), he made contributions to the theory of condensed matter physics, including the most celebrated paper on quantized vortices where he developed what is now called the Gross–Pitaevskii theory of Bose–Einstein condensates, one of the theories more systematically used to describe the physics of ultracold atomic gases nowadays. Another famous paper was written in collaboration with Igor E. Dzyaloshinsky and Evgeny Lifshitz on the van der Waals forces where the theory of the thermal and quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field was developed in a systematic way with important implications on modern applications to solid state physics and atomic physics.
Lev Pitaevskii started collaborating with the University of Trento at the end of the 1980s through a series of long term visits. After a few years spent at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa he eventually became professor of Trento University in 1998. After that, he worked at the Bose-Einstein Condensation Center (BEC Center) in Trento, a joint initiative of the Italian National Institute of Optics (part of CNR) in Italy and of the Physics Department of the University of Trento.
Since November 2022, the Bose-Einstein Condensation Center in Trento has been renamed after him as "Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation", in honour of his outstanding achievements and in acknowledgement for his long time contributions.
Honours and awards
1987 – Landau Prize in recognition of his research in plasma physics,
1997 – Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal, "for his seminal contributions to the theory of Bose superfluids and the helium liquids, specifically for his studies of fluctuations close to the lambda transition and of elementary excitations and vorticity in a superfluid, which have provided a cornerstone of our understanding of key aspects of superfluid 4He and that has now expanded to the field of cold bosonic atoms"
2003 – Aquila di San Venceslao Highest Honour from the city of Trento
2008 – Landau Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to modern theoretical physics, including the theory of Bose condensation of the Gross–Pitaevskii and for his contribution to the writing of new and previously unreleased update parts of the world-famous course in theoretical physics Landau–Lifshitz.
2012 - PhD Honoris Causa at the Université Montpellier (France)
2013 - PhD Honoris Causa at the University of Innsbruck (Austria)
2013 - PhD Honoris Causa at Texas AM University (USA)
2018 - Pomeranchuk Prize awarded together with Giorgio Parisi
2018 - Enrico Fermi Prize Italian Physical Society, awarded together with Federico Capasso and Erio Tosatti)
2019 - BEC Senior Award awarded together with Sandro Stringari
2021 - Lars Onsager Prize for originating the Gross-Pitaevskii theory of non-uniform Bose-Einstein condensates and subsequent extensive contributions to the theory of quantum fluids, especially as applied to ultracold atomic gases.
Works
Books and monographs
See Course of Theoretical Physics for his contributions to that series.
Papers
References
External links
1933 births
2022 deaths
Theoretical physicists
Russian physicists
Condensed matter physicists
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Saratov State University alumni
Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Scientists from Saratov
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra%20Mess
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Andhra Mess
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Andhra Mess is 2018 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Jai and produced by Nirmal K. Bala. The film stars Raj Bharath, Thejaswini, Pooja Devariya, A. P. Shreethar, Mathivanan Rajendran, and Balaji Mohan while Vinoth, R. Amarendran, and Mithra Kurian play supporting roles. The film has music scored by Prashant Pillai. The film was released on 22 June 2018 after being delayed in production for three years.
Plot
Devaraj (Vinod), a gangster, is hired to steal a bag from a house. He delegates this task to his underlings Varadhu (AP Shreethar), Rathna (Raj Bharath), Ritchie (Mathivanan Rajendran), and Sethu (Balaji Mohan). Varadhu, who has just broken up with his girlfriend (who has insulted him for being a nobody), finds out that the bag has crores of cash and decides that this could be his moment to get rich. The criminals scoot away with the bag to a remote village, where they take refuge under Janardhanan (R. Amarendran), an elderly man whose family were once zamindars, along with his wife and Bala (Tejaswini). During their stay, Rathna and Bala begin an affair, and Ritchie's girlfriend Arasi (Pooja Devariya) also enters the scene. She causes a problem between Richie and his gang, causing the couple to break up. Devaraj tracks them down and in a freak accident, becomes paralyzed. Janardhanan dies in a hunting trip, and Bala is united with Rathna. They all start a hotel by the name of Andhra Mess in Janadhanan's property.
Cast
Raj Bharath as Rathna
Thejaswini as Bala
Pooja Devariya as Arasi
AP Shreethar as Varadhu
Mathivanan Rajendran as Ritchie
Balaji Mohan as Sethu
Vinoth as Devaraj
R. Amarendran as Janardhanan
Aadhira Pandilakshmi as Geetha
Production
Noted artist, AP Shreethar, made his film debut with the venture portraying a negative role. To train him, director Jai arranged a 15-day acting workshop for Sreethar with koothu-p-pattarai. Mathivannan Rajendran made his lead debut with this film although it ended up releasing after Sawaari.
Release
The Times of India gave the film two out of five stars and wrote that " In the end, despite looking colourful, this Andhra Mess ends up serving us fare that lacks spice". The New Indian Express gave the film a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote that "A lot of interesting bits that add up to nothing". Deccan Chronicle gave a similar rating and noted that "Andhra Mess tries to provide a uniquely flavorful experience but comes out forced and undercooked. Directed by ad-filmmaker turned director Jai, this movie is technically all sound, but lacks the synergy to make it work".
References
2010s Tamil-language films
Indian black comedy films
Indian comedy thriller films
2018 action thriller films
2018 films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal%20cases%20against%20supporters%20of%20Yulia%20Tymoshenko
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Criminal cases against supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko
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Criminal cases against supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko — numerous criminal cases against supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko, which have been launched in Ukraine since May 2010, after the arrival to power of Viktor Yanukovych. In all those cases, the General Procurator's Office does not charge Tymoshenko's associates with «stealing or appropriating funds», none of them were charged with taking or paying bribes — mainly, they are accused of «abuse of office» and «exceeding official powers» (Articles 364 and 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), see paragraph 2 of the PACE resolution of 27 January 2012. As for those cases, there exist several statements by the EU, the US, the Human Right organizations, public organizations both within Ukraine and from Diaspora which indicate the political constituency of all those cases. Nevertheless, representatives of the Party of Regions insist that «the political constituency» is absent.
In 2011, Vaclav Havel said about the regime of Yanukovych: «Ukraine "a dictatorship in gloves"».
Tymoshenko's associates who have been under prosecution since 2010
Since April 2010, a number of criminal cases have been initiated against Yulia Tymoshenko and her associates.
Political persecutions in Ukraine over «members of government and Tymoshenko's associates» were widely discussed in mass media of Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the USA.
How many supporters of Tymoshenko were in prison?
On 22 April 2010, Yanukovych announced that the General Prosecutor of Ukraine had opened more than 30 criminal cases against members of the previous government. As for October 2011, more than fifteen associates from the Tymoshenko's Cabinet of Ministers have been under prosecution; half of them being on detention for 8–12 months. All of them were, basically, convicted in exceeding office authorities:
1) Prime-Minister Yulia Tymoshenko : «Tymoshenko herself was called in for questioning by authorities on at least nine occasions in December 2010».
2) Minister of Internal Affairs (4 February 2005 — 1 December 2006 and 18 December 2007 — 28 January 2010) — Yuriy Lutsenko.
3) Acting Minister of Defense (June 2009 — March 2010) — Valeriy Ivaschenko.
4) Minister of Finance (18 December 2007 — 11 March 2010) — Bohdan Danylyshyn (Russian pronunciation: «Danilishin»).
5) Minister of Environment Protection (December 2007 — March 2010) — Heorhiy Filipchuk.
6) First Deputy Head of the Minister for Justice (December 2007 — March 2010) — Yevgen Korniychuk.
7–8) Head of the Ukrainian Customs (28 January 2009 — 24 March 2010) — Anatoliy Makarenko.
Deputy Head of the Energy Regional Customs — Taras Shepitko.
9–10) Head of the State Treasury of Ukraine (December 2007 — March 2010) — Tetyana Slyuz.
First Deputy Head of the State Treasury (September 2009 — April 2010) — Tetyana Gritzun.
11–12) First Deputy Head of «Naftogaz» (state monopoly for oil and gas trading) (6 February 2008 — 24 March 2010) — Igor Didenko,
Maria Kushnir — Deputy Chief Accountant of Naftogaz.
13) Minister of Construction (former Mayor of Lviv) — Vasyl Kuybida.
14) Governor (Head of State Administration) of Dnipropetrovsk region (a former Minister for Transport and Communications) — Viktor Bondar.
15) Governor of Kharkiv region — Arsen Avakov.
16–18) Also, several former officials were repeatedly interrogated to start a criminal case, against, namely, First Deputy Prime Oleksandr Turchynov but the cases have not been opened : «Former First Deputy Prime Oleksandr Turchynov was also called in for questioning at least six times in the last four months of the year (2010)».
Because of the threat of criminal prosecution against their relatives, such known politicians as the leader of Kyiv ByuT branch Anatoliy Semynoga and the leader of «Prosvita» organization Pavlo Movchan had to leave BYuT.
19) Head of the State Committee on the Material Reserve (a deputy minister of economy), former Mayor of Mariupol in 1994–1998 (Donetsk region) — Mykhailo Pozhyvanov. Mykhailo Pozhyvanov has received a permit to live in Austria and has applied for political asylum.
20–27) Suing, also, started against the activists of the «Tax Maidan — 2010» which was held, in close co-operation, by the organization of small-size manufacturers and Tymoshenko's BYuT.
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, detained were eight representatives of the «Spilna Sparava» (Common Cause) — entrepreneurs who (with the support of Tymoshenko's party) organized a «Tax Maidan».
28–32) On 12 October 2011, the General Procurator's Office of Ukraine announced the intention to resume the criminal cases (closed in 2003–2005 years) against Tymoshenko's relatives (Olexander Tymoshenko, Gennady Tymoshenko) as well as the employees of the UESU corporation Yevgen Shago, Antonina Bolyura, Lydia Sokolchenko (under the UESU case on supply of construction materials to Russia in 1996–1997).
In January 2011, Oleksandr Tymoshenko requested asylum in the Czech Republic due to «increasing pressure being put on the opposition leader through her family» and 6 January 2011 Oleksandr Tymoshenko granted Czech asylum.
33) In November 2012, the Procurator's Office informed about the criminal cases opened against the well-known ex-Deputy from the BYuT faction Andriy Shkil (a supporter of Ukrainian nationalist organizations UNA-UNSO and, also, one of the organizers of the protest action «Ukraine without Kuchma» held in March 2001. In December 2012, Shkil had to leave Ukraine for the Czech Republic.
34–36) The criminal cases were also started against a number of candidates for city mayors from the Batkivschina Party at the local elections in 2010. After the local election 2010, the Mayors of the cities of Zaporizhia, Kremenchuk, Novomoskovsk (and others) who had been elected from the «Batkivshchyna», were so heavily pressed that they had to leave the Party and claim their non-party belonging, otherwise they could not be given possibility to do their jobs.
February 2011, Yulia Tymoshenko: we demand the immediate release of all political prisoners
Yulia Tymoshenko said that to date (16 February 2011), the following people were arrested or forced into hiding :
1) former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko,
2) former Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashcheko,
3) former Environment Minister Heorhiy Filipchuk,
4) former Head of the State Customs Service Anatoliy Makarenko,
5) former First Deputy Chairman of Naftohaz of Ukraine Ihor Didenko,
6) former Deputy Head of the State Committee of State Material Reserves Mykola Synkovsky,
7) former Acting Head of the State Committee of State Material Reserves Vitaliy Nikitin,
8) former Deputy Head of the Regional Customs Energy Department Taras Shepitko,
9) former First Deputy Head of the State Treasury Tetyana Hrytsun,
10) Director of UkrMedPostach Mykola Petrenko,
11) former First Deputy Justice Minister Yevhen Korniychuk,
12) former Transport Minister Viktor Bondar,
13) former Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn was detained in Prague,
14) former Head of the State Committee of State Material Reserves Mykhailo Pozhyvanov has announced he plans to seek political asylum in Austria,
15) former Chief Accountant at Naftohaz Maria Kushnir is in Russia awaiting extradition,
16) an arrest warrant has been issued for former Head of the State Treasury Tetyana Slyuz for violating a travel ban,
17–23) as well as representatives of organizations that have been accused of destroying the Stalin statue in Zaporizhia, and others.
Assessment in Russia
The President and the Prime Minister of Russia also made a number of statements concerning the «politically motivated trial on Yulia Tymoshenko»; also, on 11 October 2011 the Russian Foreign Ministry officially said (see the site of the Foreign Ministry of Russia): «We cannot ignore the fact that leaders of many countries as well as world public take the whole of the judicial process as initiated, exclusively, by political motives».
Director of the Ukrainian affiliate of the Institute of CIS states (The Russian national institution for investigation of the CIS problems) Vladymir Kornilov pointed out that if Kyiv continue to ignore the EU, Russia and the US concerns about the "case of Yulia Tymoshenko « it could happen that Brussels would treat Ukraine like yet another Belarus».
Assessment in USA
On 5 October 2010, in Kyiv, Drago Kos, the president of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), stated he saw no improvements in the country's anticorruption efforts since the Yanukovych government took office.
On 30 December 2010, the US State Department notified the Ukrainian authorities on its concern about the cases against the Tymoshenko's team pointing out that «prosecution should not be either selective or politically motivated».
On 24 June 2011, the US State Department stated that the trial on Tymoshenko was a politically grounded process as for the figures from opposition.
Responses as for Tymoshenko sentence (after 11 October 2011)
On 11 October 2011 (on the day of Tymoshenko verdict), the US President Administration called on «to release Yu. Tymoshenko as well as other political leaders and former government officials».
On 13 October 2011, Co-Head of the US Congress group of support for Ukraine Marcy Kaptur registered the draft resolution on «persecution of the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and her associates».
«The U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee passed the draft of the resolution authored by James Inhofe (R-OK) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) on 19 September… The resolution suggested that the State Department introduce a visa ban on those responsible for her imprisonment and that the State Department and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) apply pressure on Yanukovych to release Tymoshenko… Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded Tymoshenko's release early this year, so the resolution reflects the views of the Obama administration and not only the views of its authors».
22 January 2013 in a letter to Tymoshenko U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said : «I … want to reaffirm that the United States supports your immediate release. I hope the New year brings new prospects for your release and wish you a return to good health».
Overall assessment of the situation in Ukraine in 2010–2013
1 February 2013 former U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine (William Green Miller — 1993–1998, Steven Pifer — 1998–2000, John Herbst — 2003–2006) recommend the new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry not to meet with Viktor Yanukovych and insist on Kyiv's compliance with democratic standards.
Ukraine is «slipping into authoritarianism», are contained in the new report «Assessment of risks around the world», which the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper presented to the U.S. Senate.
Media have repeatedly reported that «Yanukovych regime» is actively using lobbyists in the EU-USA, probably why, to date, to the regime of Yanukovych did not apply any sanctions by the EU and the U.S. «The Economist» wrote about the political situation in Ukraine (April 2013):
«With Viktor Yanukovych, a thuggish president, in charge and his arch-rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, in jail, Ukraine is clearly not a democracy. But it is not a dictatorship either… Oligarchs treat Ukraine as a cash cow… According to the Ukrainian edition of Forbes, companies linked to ten beneficiaries win 60% of all government contracts. The leader of the Forbes list is Alexander Yanukovych, the president's elder son… But politically Mr Yanukovych is not as strong as he seems… His defeat was most striking in Kyiv where the ruling party (Party of Regions) got under 13% of the vote (in October's parliamentary elections-2012)».
Assessment of criminal cases of Tymoshenko's associates in EU
On 13 January 2011, the Czech Republic «granted an asylum» to ex-Minister for economics Bohdan Danylyshyn.
Assessment in the United Kingdom
On 22 June 2010 (just before the beginning of the trial on Tymoshenko), British Ambassador in Uklraine Leigh Tuner gave an interview to Day newspaper in which he warned the Ukrainian authorities against persecution of the opposition:
«We are carefully watching the development of criminal prosecution of the former government officials…we are concerned about the allegedly political grounds lying these criminal cases…. By presently, we have clearly defined to the Ukrainian authorities that whatever selectivity and inadequacy in exercising legal prosecutions might significantly, and for a long term, spoil the international image of Ukraine».
Six Resolution of Europarliament on cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and other officials of former government
Within the period of 2010–2012, the European Parliament adopted six
resolutions as regards the criminal cases of Tymoshenko and her associates.
On June, 9th 2011, the European Parliament approved a very important resolution on Ukraine — «Cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and other officials of the former government»:
«having regard to its previous resolutions on Ukraine and particularly that of 25 November 2010… having regard to the Statement of its President on the detention of Yulia Tymoshenko on 26 may 2011, having regard to the Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the case of Yulia Tymoshenko on 26 May 2011, having regard to the Statement by Commissioner Stefan Fule following his meeting with Yu. Tymoshenko on 24 March 2011… : 2. Expresses concern about the increased selective prosecution of figures from the political opposition in Ukraine».
On 25 October 2011 the European Parliament approved (by majority of 5 factions out of six) the resolution on Ukraine (the third during a year) in which having regard to the statements of the EU member-states, declared :
«whereas a growing number of officials are being held criminally accountable for their actions including former government ministries, but mostly (deputy) heads of state departments and inspectorates, heads of sub-units of law-enforcement agencies, district court judges and heads of local authorities… the Parliament deplores the sentencing of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko (Par. 2 of the Resolution)… insists that all judicial proceedings against former and current senior government officials should be conducted in accordance with European standards» (Par.6 of the Resolution).
On 13 December 2012, the European Parliament approved the sixth resolution to show concerns about political arrests of «Tymoshenko's associates»:
The European Parliament «expresses regret at the fact that according to the OSCE, PACE, NATO Parliamentary Assembly and European Parliament observers, the electoral campaign, electoral process and post-electoral process failed to meet major international standards». In particular, it concerns such aspect as «the arrest of opposition political leaders» The Resolution calls on Ukrainian authorities «to free and rehabilitate politically persecuted opponents, including Yulia Tymoshenko , Yury Lutsenko and others» (European Parliament Resolution of 13 December 2012 on the situation in Ukraine 2012/2889 (RSP), Human Rights Committee, European Parliament, Brussels).
PACE, OSCE resolutions
On 26 January, PACE adopted the resolution on «The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Ukraine». It points out the political character of criminal cases against the ministers of Tymoshenko's government (including those of Jurij Luzenko, Valeriy Ivashchenko, Bohdan Danylyschyn, Georgy Filipchuk, general Anatoliy Makarenko, Eugene Korniychuk).
The resolution, also, calls on the Ukrainian government «to consider all legal means available to release these members of the former government and to allow them to stand for the upcoming parliamentary elections» in autumn of 2012. For the first time, it mentions the possibility of introducing «sanctions» against some of the Ukrainian top officials now in power. However the Ukrainian government has, actually, ignored the key requirements of the resolution and no «sanctions» were applied (during, at least, the year 2012).
On 11 July 2012, OSCE resolution was adopted on Ukraine, which declared that «there should not be any political prisoners» and called on Ukraine «to free all political prisoners».
European Court of Human Rights
On 3 July 2012, the European Court of Human Rights recognized Lutsenko's arrest «arbitrary» and his human rights «breached». As Jean-Claude Mignon, president of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly said, the trial «had been politically motivated» and «charges were absolutely no justification for a prison sentence».
The case of ex-minister for economics Bohdan Danylyshyn
On 5 August 2010 Bohdan Danylyshyn flew to Germany.
On 12 August 2010 the General Procurator's Office of Ukraine started a criminal case against minister for economics in Tymoshenko government (2007–2010) Bohdan Danylyshyn convicted in abusing his power and exceeding his office authorities under Part 2 Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Danylyshyn was announced for international search. On 18 October 2010 Danylyshyn came from Germany to the «Ukrainian Embassy in the Czech Republic» where his lawyer allegedly had agreed about a «meeting for the sake of reconciliation» but after that meeting Danylyshyn was detained on 18 October 2010 by Czech Police (at Interpol request) when he was leaving the Ukrainian Embassy in Prague.
Being imprisoned, Danylyshyn applied for a «political asylum» and was granted a political asylum in the Czech Republic on 12 January 2011.
26 September 2013 all criminal cases against Danylyshyn were closed, and he was questioned as a witness. Danylyshyn said :
«Interrogation touched my cases, completion of airport "Borispol" and others. But all the prosecution was ceased. Currently I have not got any problems with the Ukrainian authorities».
Media indicate that these criminal cases are closed only with a view to preparing the Association Agreement EU and Ukraine. This unexpected termination of criminal cases has shown that the prosecutor's office of Ukraine may unnecessarily open criminal cases against innocent people, and can unexpectedly close criminal cases without explanation or apology.
The case of ex-minister for defense Ivaschenko
On 24 August 2010, ex-minister for defense Valery Ivaschenko was arrested, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against Ivaschenko under Part 2, Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or office). He was charged with adoption of an illicit decision as for sale of the property belonging to the Feodosia ship-mechanical plant.
On 20 June 2011, V. Ivaschenko announced a hungry strike as a protest against his detention, however because of sudden deterioration of his health he had to terminate his action.
On 12 April 2012, Pechersky District Court of Kyiv has sentenced former Acting Defense Minister of Ukraine Valeriy Ivaschenko to five years in prison and barred him from fulfillment of organizational and administrative activities in state agencies for three years. He was accused of abuse of power. Ivashchenko called the Prosecutor General of Ukraine «criminal organization» and warned judges and prosecutors on criminal liability for illegal, unlawful actions and decisions. According to him, «it's only a matter of time». Last week, the District Court of Kyiv Solomensky sentenced to three years imprisonment of former Environment Minister Georgy Filipchuk.
In August 2012 year the Appeal court of Kyiv has reduced the sentence, replacing the real term for identification. The European Union Delegation has issued the statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in Ukraine :
«The Delegation takes note of the release of Mr Ivaschenko after nearly two years in detention, during which his health condition deteriorated», «a now suspended sentence due to be appealed by the defence».
In January 2013 Ivashchenko went abroad. 14 January 2013 Valery Ivaschenko was granted political asylum in Denmark.
The case of ex-minister for environment protection Georgy Philipchuk
On 14 December 2010, ex-minister for Ukrainian environment protection Georgy Filipchuk was taken under arrest:
«The General Procurator's Office of Ukraine, on 13 December 2010, opened a criminal case against former minister for Ukrainian environment protection Georgy Philipchuk for the evidence of crime specified by p.2 art.364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (an office abuse) which resulted in ill consequences». Filipchuk was incriminated co-acting as for the case on Kyoto money (see Legal proceedings against Yulia Tymoshenko since 2010 year).
On 8 April 2011 the procurators informed about Georgy Filipchuk release from jail «for the reason of terminating the process of investigation on the case materials».
5 April 2012, the Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv sentenced former Environment Minister Heorhiy Filipchuk to three years in prison, finding him guilty under Part 3, Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Filipchuk was convicted for abuse of office and power over the signing of an agreement with the AstapovLawyers law firm on the provision of consultations to the Environment Ministry during the consideration of a dispute at international law institutes regarding the cancellation of an agreement signed between the Ukrainian government and Vanco International Ltd. on the development of the Black Sea shelf.
In accordance with the decree of 7 April 2013 (under the proposal of the Presidential Commission on Pardons) president Yanukovych pardoned six prisoners: in particular, ex-Minister of Environmental Protection Heorhiy Filipchuk was released from the principal and additional sentences.
The case of former first deputy minister for Justice Korniychuk
On 22 December 2010 procurators arrested former first deputy minister for justice (in Tymoshenko's Cabinet of Ministers) Yevgen (Eugene) Korniychuk; he is a son-in-law of Vasyl Onopenko, head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Korniychuk was detained on the day when his wife gave birth to their baby — two days after, the newly born baby got in a reanimation. Just several weeks later, Yevgen Korniychuk was released under condition of «travel limitation» (after Vasyl Onopenko had seen President Yanukovich).
On 15 February 2011 the Procurators Office changed the measure of suppression for a recognizance not to leave.
The case of Arsen Avakov, ex-governor of Kharkiv region
Governor of Kharkiv region Arsen Avakov — had to stay in Italy for almost a year where he was given an asylum. In November 2012 Avakov was elected to parliament and returned to Ukraine.
The case of ex-minister for regional development and construction Vasyl Kuybida
In June 2010 the criminal case was started against Vasyl Kuybida (the minister of regional development and construction in Tymoshenko's government in 2007–2010; the Mayor of Lviv in 1994–2002; a doctor of sciences in the field of state administration). The Office of State Security (SBU) convicted Kuybeda in that he had appointed, without announcing a contest, a head of the state office for architectural — and -construction monitoring in the Rivnenska region. The trial started in August 2010 but was over and over postponed — for September, October, November.
Kuybida witnessed that according to the regulation, in case if an applicant for the position of the regional head for architectural and construction monitoring was approved by the Minister and agreed on with the Governor, a contest should not be conducted. Ex-governor of the Rivnenska region Victor Matchuk confirmed Kuybida's witnessing.
On 13 December 2010 the a. m. case was suspended following the decision of the Shevchenkovsky District Court of the city of Kyiv. The prosecutor made a protest against closing the case, but on 14 January 2011 the Kyiv Appeal Court confirmed the decision on terminating the case.
Vasyl Kuybida said that the case was initiated with the aim not to let him take part in the election for the position of Mayor of Lviv:
«They started "to hook" me as soon as I had conducted consultations as for my might-be participation in balloting for the position of a city Mayor. After that, I was enforced to spend lots of time in Kyiv and, hence, to give up the idea of taking part in the elections. Therefore, finally they managed to get that I was not on balloting».
True, the local elections in Ukraine were held on 31 October 2010 — and soon after «the case of Kuybida» was closed. It is worth mentioning that prior to the local elections in Ukraine, criminal cases were launched against mayors of a number of locations".[37][36]
After the final fall of Yushchenko's rating, since 2010 Kuibida stands firmly on the side of Tymoshenko. In June 2013, he said:
«Tymoshenko has proven to the world that it is possible to set the tone and manage complex political processes even behind bars, meaning that her neutralization from the political arena has failed once again».
The case of Victor Bondar, ex-governor of Dnipropetrovsk region
16 June 2010 Viktor Bondar said : «I left the policy».
On 24 December 2010, ex-minister for transport, ex-governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Victor Bondar was detained by the procurators. Strictly speaking, Bondar joined the team of Prime-Minister Tymoshenko in the months on the very eve of presidential election-2010, nevertheless his support (as governor of one of the largest regions of Ukraine) was very important in the course of election campaign.
V. Bondar's case was opened in relation to his work as acting minister for transport in the year 2006 in Yekhanurov's government (after the previous minister for transport Ye. Chervonenko had been sacked) at the time of construction of the bus station Teremki in Kyiv — losses were estimated at 5 mln grn (about $950 thousand). Viktor Bondar was charged under Part 5 Article 27, Part 2 Article 194, Article 353 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — complicity in intentional elimination of stranger property resulting in heavy losses, combined with willful appropriation of office duties.
After his release from prison Viktor Bondar was not involved in politics in 2011–2012. However, in autumn 2012 Viktor Bondar took part in the parliamentary elections as «independent candidate» — in the electoral district No. 191 in western Ukraine. He won the election because he was perceived as an opponent of «Party of Regions», but in parliament joined the faction «Party of Regions». Although in January 2013 Viktor Bondar voted for the «Law for the release of Tymoshenko and Lutsenko».
The criminal cases on the gas crisis RosUkrEnergo and Gazprom (January 2009)
Chronology of events as for the RosUkrEnergo claim to the Stockholm Arbitral Court
For the first time RosUkrEnergo put a suit against NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine in April 2008 (to the Arbitrary Court under the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce), but in January 2009, RosUkrEnergo claimed on Naftogas another three suits. Naftogaz filed four counter-claims as for RosUkrEnergo. All the claims on the issue were combined under one case.
On 2 April 2010, The Stockholm Arbitrary Court approved the interim decision (concerning the claims of RosUkrEnergo towards NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine as for $2 bln) and obliged Naftogaz to pay back the borrowed $19 mln.
On 8 July 2010, The Stockholm Arbitrary Court adopted a decision (based on «amicable settlement» under which Naftogaz of Ukraine had admitted all the RosUkrEnergo claims) according to which NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine was bound to return to RosUkrEnergo «11 bln cub.m of gas plus 10% of compensation».
Those 11 bln cun. m. of Russian gas were destined, in January 2009, to RosUkrEnergo (RUE), but RosUkrEnergo did not pay to Gazprom for it. Therefore, in 2009:
Naftogaz paid off the debt of RosUkrEnergo to Gazprom in the amount of $1.7 bln, and in return, Gazprom transferred Naftogaz the a.m. 11 bln of gas as compensation (that is, at the price of $156 per 1000 cub.m.).
Also, RosUkrEnergo was expelled from the gas supply scheme (within Ukraine and beyond its boundaries); the Gas Agreement was concluded directly between the state-owned companies Naftogaz and Gazprom. Prior to April 2010, Gazprom owned 50% of RosUkrEnergo shares, but in April 2010, Gazprom withdrew as co-founder of RosUkrEnergo — RosUkrEnergo became a fully private company with a controlling block of shares at Firtash's hands.
During the period from November 2010 to April 2011, Nagtogaz transferred to the Swiss company RosUkrEnergo 12.1 bln cub.m of gas (11 bln + 10% of compensation); the RUE paid Nagtogaz back $1.7 bln. As for the year 2011 (at the gas price for the EU being $490 per 1000 cub.m.), the total value of the transferred gas should have been no less than $5.4 bln.
The Firtash's point of view can be seen from his interview to the Focus magazine.
The case of Igor Didenko, Anatoly Makarenko
On 23 June 2010 Anatoly Makarenko, ex-head of the Ukrainian Customs was jailed.
On 8 July 2010, arrested was Igor Didenko, former first deputy head of Naftogaz.
On 22 July 2010 first deputy procurator general Victor Pshonka (half a year later he has already become a procurator general) informed: «Taras Shepitko, a deputy head of a department of the Energy Regional Customs was taken under guard» (21 July 2010). Pshonka emphasized that the decisions of the Stockholm Court could not be taken as ground to launch a criminal case.
All the three people were blamed for that they, within the terms of the Ukrainian-Russian interstate Agreement of 19 January 2009 (aimed at overcoming Ukrainian-Russian gas crisis−2009), had cleared and placed into a balance account of the state-owned company NAK Naftogaz 11 bln cub.m. of gas from the Gazprom company (supplied originally for the Swiss company Rosukrenergo but not paid by it); exactly that Rosukrenergo indebtedness of 1.7 bln USD, was the principal reason why Russia stopped, for 20 days, gas transition to Ukraine and Europe in January 2009).
The case of Taras Sheptko in March 2009
Yet under president Yushchenko, on 2 March 2009, the Office of Ukrainian Security, SBU (head — Nalivaichenko, first deputy head — Khoroshkovsky) started the criminal case as for the fact, allegedly, of appropriation by Naftogaz « of 6.3 bln cub.m. of transited natural gas for the amount of more that 7.4 bln. Grn (nearly 1 bln. USD)». Under this case, detained was deputy head of a Department of Energy Regional Customs Taras Shepitko. However Igor Didenko acting as head of the Naftogaz Managing Board appealed against the decision to open the case in «the Shevchenkovsky District Court of the city of Kyiv». On 24 March 2009 the Shevchenkovsky District Court recognized as unlawful the SBU particular actions and rejected the SBU decision to open the a.m. case.
The case of Maria Kushnir — Deputy Chief Accountant of Naftogaz
Maria Kushnir was the fourth convict in the «gas case of RosUkrEnergo» (under which Didenko, Makarenko, Shepitko were arrested).
On 23 July 2010, the Office of Ukrainian Security (SBU) initiated a criminal case against «deputy chief accountant of Naftogaz» Maria Kushnir. On 26 July 2010, the Pechersky District Court of the city of Kyiv sanctioned the detention of Kushnir. Head of SBU Valery Khoroshkovsky claimed that Kushnir had been appointed to that job in the Naftogaz of Ukraine specially to take part in customs clearance of the gas belonging to RosUkrEnergo; « Her only duty was just to fix the needed signature. It was exactly she who gave orders to place the gas into the balance account of the Naftogaz, and who signed the origin of the document».
At first, Kushnir was incriminated «p.2 art.367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine» (duty negligence resulted in ill losses) pursuant which it might be up to a three-year sentence. However, on 9 September 2010, the criminal case was opened against Kushnir under p. 2 art.364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine («abuse of office duties» causing ill consequences).
On 10 September 2010 due to mutual actions with the law-enforcement bodies of the Russian Federation, Kushnir was detained in the Volgograd region (the Russian Federation)" and a month later was extradited to Ukraine. Since then, (and until October 2011) M. Kushnir had been in a detained centre (SIZO), there was not any information on further developments round her case in mass media.
Release of Makarenko and Shepitko after a year of being kept in detention centre (SIZO)
On 5 July 2011, Makarenko and Shepitko were unexpectedly released from detention but their criminal cases were not terminated and there still existed «restrictions to travel». The press saw the connections between Makarenko's freeing and the coming meeting (on 6 July 2011) of the Russian Prime Minister Putin and President Yanukovich in the Crimea. Yet in the summer of 2010, «commanders of the Russian Navy» (who have known Makarenko since his years in the Russian navy) applied to V.Putin and V. Yanukovich with the request to release Makarenko from detention. Putin expressed his support for the request in his speech on the Day of Russian Navy, 2010.
In response to Makarenko release, in the Ukrainian mass media there appeared «information leaked from deputies representing radically opposed factions of the Verkhovna Rada that, presumably, Russia advised Ukraine to "stop persecutions of Tymoshenko"». Also, at the press-conference in Moscow on 7 July 2011 on the results of Putin-Azarov talks, Prime Minister Putin said that Russia was against re-consideration of «the gas agreement of 19 January 2009» and, as he thought, criticism of that agreement by Ukrainian government had a «political constituent; an intention to impose the opinion that the predecessors had everything done badly».
20 July 2012 Kyiv's Pechersky district court returned a verdict under former head of Ukraine's Customs Anatoly Makarenko, he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment with a delay of penalty.
Heads of State Treasury's Office: Tetyana Slyuz and Tetyana Hrytzun
Tetyana Slyuz
On 24 December 2010 Tetyana Yaroslavivna (Head of Ukrainian State Treasury's Office) was declared to be on search; she was incriminated in relation to the case of Kyoto money (see Legal proceedings against Yulia Tymoshenko since 2010). The prosecutors affirmed that Slyuz was staying abroad.
21 February 2011, Yulia Tymoshenko said about Tetyana Slyuz :
«The police are visiting her 77-year-old mother. Oleksiy Sytnykiv is threatening her with some strange things, telling her that her daughter was killed by opposition forces… Tetyana Slyuz's son, Andriy, is also being dragged to questionings».
In the parliamentary elections of 2012 Tatiana Sliuz was elected member of parliament, and received parliamentary immunity.
Tetyana Hrytzun, first deputy head of the Ukrainian State Treasury's Office
On 19 July, detained was Tetyana Hrytzun (former first deputy head of the Ukrainian State Treasury's Office). On 22 July 2010, The Pechersky District Court gave sanction to her arrest — she was charged with «abuse of power or official authorities that led to serious consequences» (Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine foresees 3–6 years in jail):
«According to investigators, from September 2009 through April 2010 she gave instructions to her subordinates not to transfer UAH 800 million ($100 million) of competition guarantees to bidder companies in a tender for the privatization of the Odesa Port-Side Plant (OPSP), Nortima Ltd. and to Frunze-Flora, in spite of an order on the return of the funds issued by the State Property Fund».
As of October, 11th, 2011, Tetyana Hrytzun was kept at the detention centre (SIZO).
The main point of the conflict around the Odesa Port-Side Plant is as follows:— Prime Minister Tymoshenko is intention was, via privatization of the strategic enterprise OPSP, to substantially inject into the state budget in «the crisis 2009 year». It was, also, the time, when Ukraine was preparing to the presidential election. President Yushchenko fought against Tymoshenko, and he vetoed privatization of the Odesa Port-Side Plant. Due to that, «the most affluent investors» did not take part in the auction; the claims for participation were presented by just three companies. At the auction, the price, practically, remained at its basic level. The auction was won by the firm «Nortima» (owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi), but Tymoshenko informed that the plant would not be sold off so as «the participants had agreed about the minimal price». In response, Kolomoyskyi promised to start suing while Tymoshenko stopped discharging pledges deposited by the firms «Nortima» and «Frunze-Flora». But the third member of the auction — the Russian company «Azot-Service» (which represented the interests of Gazprom) immediately received the money that previously made a pledge at the auction. Tymoshenko explained that at the moment the state has no money to spend (the crisis 2009 year), but promised to immediately repay the full amount as soon as the plant will be privatized.
The case of ex-minister for internal affairs Yury Lutsenko
On 26 December 2010, ex-minister for internal affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko was detained. Three criminal cases were initiated against Lutsenko :
For overrated pension for his driver (by almost 100 euro per month and, also, 2.5 thousand euros were paid at one installment, when retired).
For money spent on celebration of the Militia Day in the Ukraina Palace in 2008–2009 [52] — during two years, it was spent, all in all, about 600,000 grn (about 60,000 euros).
For unlawful pursuing the figures involved into the case of Yushchenko poisoning (p. 3 art. 364 of the Criminal Code — abuse of power duties by an officer of law-enforcement body).
Starvation by Yuriy Lutsenko — 30 days, and 25 kg of weight loss
As a protest against his unlawful detention, on 23 April 2011 Yuriy Lutsenko started a hunger strike (during his starvation, he fully stopped eating, but drank coffee with sugar). On 28 April he signed his formal letter addressed to the SIZO authorities with which he informed about «his will to stop eating». Before May the 10th he had already lost 19.5 kg of weight and was placed into the medical unit of the Lukyanovsky SIZO (a detention centre) because of worsening of his physical state. That same day, he was sent to the Kyiv Emergency hospital in 3, Bratislavska street. On 19 May, his condition was so bad, that «his veins were dripped with glucose solution». The 23 May 2011 was the day of a trial which had to settle the question on «measures of suppression» (that is, Lutsenko might have been released). Lutsenko ceased starvation only after the trial, on 23 May (thus, having sustained a 30-day hunger strike and lost nearly 25 kg of weight). He said:
"I think, it is not expedient to go on with starvation. I started it to bring to the knowledge that in our Ukraine there are no procurators. Due to today's trial I"ve managed to let everyone know that we do not have a justified court; however, further on, I need to be in good health to break all that down".
After the hunger strike Lutsenko has deteriorated state of health. In January 2013, Yuri Lutsenko had surgery on his intestines.
Letters from jail
From a jail Lutsenko had written (by June 2011) six letters — publicist articles on actual political issues.
Lutsenko refused to plead guilty and ask for pardon
Lutsenko and his family had repeatedly stated that they would not seek a pardon, because they believe the charges where groundless and political punishment.
On 3 July 2012, the European Court of Human Rights recognized Lutsenko's arrest «arbitrary» and his human rights «breached».
On 21 July 2012, Lutsenko was supported by head of the Committee of Parliamentary Co-Operation of EC-Ukraine in the European Parliament Marek Sivec (a former head of the Bureau for the National Security of Poland). He officially applied to the Ukrainian authorities with the request to release Yu. Lutsenko until the beginning of a trial under his personal guarantee:
«I have made a decision to apply to the fully authoritative legal bodies of Ukraine with the request to take into consideration my personal guarantee as for Lutsenko's release and to make it possible for him to feel free when responding before the court». Sivec reminded of the Resolution of the Europarliament which established «growing persecutions of the previous cabinet officials and opposition».
Pardon Lutsenko
7 April 2013 a decree by Yanukovych pardoned Lutsenko (under the proposal of the Presidential Commission on Pardons) for health reasons and «to decriminalize and humanize Ukrainian legislation».
Tax Maidan-2010
In the autumn 2010, Ukraine saw the wave of mass protests from the entrepreneurs of small-size and medium-size businesses; they protested against a number of steps by Yanukovich officials towards cuts in «social standards» through a number of oligarch reforms :
The new «Pension Code» and «Labour Code» tended to essentially deteriorate the lives of ordinary people.
The new «Tax Code» significantly (several times more) increased taxes for «small business» («the smallest business» that was under a simplified tax system before, suffered mostly); The medium-size business also suffered losses. Natural persons were not permitted (at the cost of surcharge introduction) to execute work for legal persons; besides, the Code allowed to carry out «inspection of an entrepreneur's living place by Tax Inspection without any sanction by the Procurator's Office».
The Tax Maidan became the culmination point in the protest movement (the All-Ukrainian rallies of small and medium-size entrepreneurs against «the Azarov-Tigipko Tax Code» took place on 22 November 2010 — 3 December 2010). Maidan-2010 achieved that «the heaviest tax provisions of the Azarov-Tigipko Tax Code» were abolished. Those protests of «small and medium businesses» were supported by, almost exclusively, Tymoshenko's BYuT (on 22 November 2010 Tymoshenko made a program speech at the Maidan in Kyiv).
Repressions against Tax Maidan−2010, activists arrests
On 27 November 2010, President Yanukovich and Prime Minister Azarov came up to the tents of protesters. They promised business people «to hear all their requests and intentions». Really, a part of the most odious provisions of the Tax Code was removed in the new edition of the Code of 29 November 2010, Nevertheless:
On 3 December 2010, at 5:00 am, the Maidan was surrounded by four rows of «special police». Policemen demolished the tents of the Tax Maidan activists.
On 28 December 2010, the three activists of the Tax Maidan : Garkavenko I., Zaplatkin O., and Gruzyniv V. were arrested; the fourth detained (co-organiser of the action O. Mandich) was soon released. As for January, the 14th, the criminal cases were launched against seven activists of the Tax Maidan, among them being entrepreneurs : Okhtyrsky, Mandich, Kavenko, Gruzynov, Zaplatkin, Melnichenko, Fedchuk. They were incriminated with «the damage of the tiled cover at the Independence Maidan to the money amount of 230, 000 grn (21,000 euros)».
In December 2010 detained was, also, an activist of the Tax Maidan Sergey Kostak (as for July 2010, he was kept in the SIZO (a detention centre)).
Therefore, «peaceful protests against the Tax Code» (which had been afterwards considerably changed and amended due to the agreement with the President and Prime-Minister) resulted in detentions eight people were being kept, without a trial, at the detention centre for more than 7 months and released only in July 2011. Leader of the Tax Maidan-2010 Olexander Danilyuk and his «organization of small business undertakers Spilna Sprava (Common Cause)» have joined the protest actions against the trials on Tymoshenko and her associates.
Collaboration of President Yanukovich with the part of the opposition who do not recognize Tymoshenko as a leader
Yet, there exists a part of the opposition who do not consider Tymoshenko as their leader and, hence, can not be seen as «Tymoshenko associates», though they are also a certain subdivision of oppositionists.
V. Yushchenko's political team
After Victor Yanukovich had taken the office (February 2010), persecutions were executed almost exclusively against the Tymoshenko's political team as well as the ministers of her Cabinet. Victor Yanukovich collaborates with the part of the opposition — Victor Yushchenko's closest associates have been offered top positions :
Viktor Baloha — minister for emergency (2010-2012) (his brother Ivan Baloga was head of the Trans-Carpathian region in 2010).
Petro Poroshenko — head of the Supervisory Council at the National Bank (2007-2012), later on, he was appointed minister for economic development and trade of Ukraine (2012) in Azarov's Cabinet.
Roman Bezsmertnyi — ambassador in Belarus (2010).
Eugen Chervonenko — head of the department for aviation in the Ministry for Emergency.
Vladislav Kaskiv (who was a leader of the organization «Pora» until October 2006) — head of the State agency for investments and management of national projects.
Marina Stavniychuk (a member of the Venice commission) — for some time (2010), a deputy head at President's Administration.
Yuriy Pavlenko (a minister under Yushchenko) was appointed a Representative of Ukrainian President for children's rights just on the days of his witnessing at the Tymoshenko's trial.
Other political opposition forces
Also, prosecution processes did not touch the leaders and political groups of the «non-united opposition» (non-united opposition oppose themselves both to Yanukovich and Tymoshenko): ex-speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Sergiy Tigipko, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, Oleh Tyahnybok.
There are the examples of Yanukovich collaboration even with former BYuT politicians, but only with those who have completely torn off their ties with BYuT. Two of them have significant positions in government:
Olexandr Feldman (No. 43 in the BYuT passing lists at the election-2007, ex-head of the BYuT branch in the Kharkiv region, an owner of the biggest market place in Kharkiv) — 25 June 2010 was expelled from BYuT-Batkivshchyna, yet he refused to give back his deputy mandate from BYuT; on 16 March 2011 he joined the Party of Regions. On 8 July 2011 he was elected a member of the political council of the Party of Regions.
Andrey Portnov (No. 58 in the BYuT passing lists at the election-2007, a known lawyer of the PrivatBank group (headed a team of Tymoshenko's lawyers at the trial following presidential election-2010). On 2 April 2010 he was appointed a deputy head of the Presidential administration (PA head had 9 deputy heads). That same time, he was expelled from BYuT-Batkivshchyna; on 16 April 2010 he gave his BYuT deputy mandate back, on 5 April 2011 he was dismissed as deputy head of presidential administration.
Both Feldman and Portnov were, in the past, the deputies of «certain significance» for BYuT, but not at all the close associates of Tymoshenko (No. 43 and No. 58, respectively, in the BYuT lists). As a total, during 2010–2012 years, the BYuT faction expelled (basically, for voting against faction decisions) more than a third of deputies — out of 156, remained «slightly more than 100 deputies» (October 2012).
See also
«The Instrumentalisation of the judiciary in Ukraine: authoritarian excesses of one man or an approach to political development?» Foundation Robert Shuman. 23 July 2012.
Courtroom Drama. Valentyna Telychenko: «Dependent courts are a bigger problem for Ukraine than the imperfect Criminal Code». Site «The Ukrainian Week», January 27, 2012.
«The Party of Regions monopolises power in Ukraine». OSW Commentary. September 29, 2010.
«From stabilisation to stagnation. Viktor Yanukovych's reforms». March 12, 2013.
Political repression in Ukraine. Ukrainian Helsinki Committee
«Report on Political Persecution in Ukraine in 2011». Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. Site «helsinki.org.ua», 21 November 2011.
Some thoughts regarding criminal cases against Tax Code Protesters (in «Political Persecution in modern Ukraine 2010–2011»). Yevhen Zakharov. Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. 18 January 2011.
Six resolutions of the European Parliament (2010–2012 year) on the issue of repression against Tymoshenko and her associates:
European Parliament resolution of 25 February 2010 on the situation in Ukraine. Thursday, 25 February 2010 — Brussels.
European Parliament resolution of 9 June 2011 on Ukraine: the cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government. Thursday, 9 June 2011 — Strasbourg.
European Parliament resolution of 27 October 2011 on the current developments in Ukraine. Thursday, 27 October 2011 — Strasbourg.
European Parliament resolution of 1 December 2011 containing the European Parliament's recommendations to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the negotiations of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (2011/2132(INI)). Thursday, 1 December 2011 — Brussels.
European Parliament resolution of 24 May 2012 on Ukraine (2012/2658(RSP)). Thursday, 24 May 2012 — Strasbourg.
European Parliament resolution of 13 December 2012 on the situation in Ukraine 2012/2889(RSP)). Thursday, 13 December 2012 — Strasbourg.
Multimedia materials
2011 — Canada, «Debate on Democracy in Ukraine», House of Commons, Ottawa. October 18, 2011..
2011 — EU concerned by Tymoshenko appeal failure. August 29, 2012.
2011 — Interview with Eugenia Tymoshenko at the EPP Congress in Marseille, France. December 16, 2011.
2010 — Speech of the repressed leader of Ukrainian opposition Yulia Tymoshenko. August 6, 2011.; 5,000 police officers block the center of Kyiv. October 11, 2011.
2011 — (Ukrainian language) General Makarenko and Taras Shepitko released from detention (after a year of being in SIZO without trial) 05 July 2011.
2012 — Bohdan Danylyschyn. Czech Republic: The Fate of the Tymoshenkos. European Journal. April 6, 2012.
2011 — Vitali Klitschko about Yulia Tymoshenko. October 11, 2011.
2012 — In Kyiv Madonna asks about Tymoshenko (Madonna asks the crowd if they are upset that Yulia Tymoshenko is in jail, but why they are not protesting to get her released?). August 4, 2012.
Yanukovych and Azarov answer the question of political repressions in Ukraine
2011 — Euronews interview : Ukraine's president Yanukovych defends Tymoshenko trial. October 31, 2011.
2012 — Euronews interview : No dictatorship in Ukraine — says prime-minister Azarov. May 12, 2012.
References
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2010 controversies
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2010 in case law
2011 controversies
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2012 controversies
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2013 controversies
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Ukraine–European Union relations
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European Court of Human Rights cases involving Ukraine
Ukrainian prisoners and detainees
Ukrainian politicians convicted of abuse of office
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The 2013–14 Toledo Rockets men's basketball team represented the University of Toledo during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Rockets, led by fourth year head coach Tod Kowalczyk, played their home games at the Savage Arena as members of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. After sitting out the postseason in 2012–13 due to low APR scores, the Rockets became eligible for the MAC and NCAA Tournaments in 2013–14. They finished the season 27–7, 14–4 in MAC play to finish in a share for the West Division championship and the #1 overall seed in the MAC tournament. They advanced to the MAC championship game where they lost to Western Michigan. As the MAC #1 seed who failed to win the conference tournament, the received an automatic bid to the National Invitation Tournament where they lost in the first round to Southern Miss.
Season
Preseason
The Rockets announced their complete season schedule on September 3, 2013. The Rockets' non-conference schedule was highlighted by a trip to Detroit for a 2K Sports Classic subregional. Trips to Boston College, Robert Morris, and Kansas also were scheduled. For the conference slate, the Rockets scheduled home-and-home series with Ball State, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan, Ohio, and Bowling Green, while hosting Buffalo and Kent State and visiting Akron and Miami.
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Toledo Rockets men's basketball seasons
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The 3rd National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the third national congress of the Kuomintang, held on 15–28 March 1929 at Nanking, Republic of China. This was the first KMT national congress after the Chinese reunification in 1928 after the northern expedition, thus it was located in the unified ROC capital Nanking.
Results
The congress adopted the Program for a Phase of Political Tutelage.
See also
Kuomintang
References
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1929 in China
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of the Republic of China (1912–1949)
March 1929 events
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Glycyrrhiza echinata is a species of flowering plant in the genus Glycyrrhiza, with various common names that include Chinese licorice, German licorice, and hedgehog licorice, Eastern European licorice, Hungarian licorice, Prickly licorice, and Roman licorice. It is used as a flavoring and medicinally, and to produce Russian and German licorice.
Distribution
Glycyrrhiza echinata is native to Southeastern Europe, adjacent parts of West Asia and East Asia.
Taxonomy
Glycyrrhiza echinata was one of the species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work , the starting point for botanical nomenclature.
The Latin specific epithet of echinata refers to hedgehog, from echinus, meaning 'prickly'.
References
echinata
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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G̃ / g̃ is a letter which combines the common letter G with a tilde.
The letter does not exist in many alphabets. Examples of alphabets with this letter are:
Guarani alphabet – where the tilde marks nasalization of , representing the sound
Filipino alphabet – during the Spanish colonial period and up to the mid-20th century, adopting Spanish orthography for the Tagalog language
Sumerian language – an extinct language, where it is used to transcribe the cuneiform script.
Northern Sámi orthography – g̃ appears in the Sámi alphabet used by Rask in Ræsonneret lappisk sproglære in 1832
The letter is also occasionally used as a (stylistic) substitute for Ğ in languages such as Turkish.
Computer encoding
Unicode encodes g with tilde with a combining diacritical mark (), rather than a precomposed character. As such, the tilde may not align properly with some typefaces and systems. Additionally, owing to the difficulties in inputting this character, Guarani speakers often replace it with g with circumflex (ĝ) or omit the diacritic altogether.
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The 4th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the fourth national congress of the Kuomintang, held on 12–23 November 1931 at Nanking, Republic of China.
Results
Motions were passed in the congress to organize a conference on national calamities and set up measures to present united resistance against aggression.
See also
Kuomintang
References
1931 in China
1931 conferences
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
November 1931 events
Politics of the Republic of China (1912–1949)
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Renato Fabrizio Tapia Cortijo (born 28 July 1995) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Celta Vigo and the Peru national team as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Youth career
Born in Lima, Peru, Tapia started his football career at Sporting Cristal's youth team before joining Esther Grande academy at twelve years old, where he quickly established himself as a youth player. While at the Esther Grande academy, he helped the academy win the Copa Federación with the 1995 category, also winning the Best Player in the 'Night of Stars' awards. His progression at Esther Grande academy attracted interest from Premier League sides Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. Tapia revealed that he almost joined Liverpool, but was rejected, due to his height.
Twente
In the summer transfer of 2013, Tapia moved to Europe for the first time in his career, signing a four-year contract with Eredivisie side Twente. Immediately after joining the club, he was sent to the Jong FC Twente, the club's reserves, to develop.
Tapia made his Jong FC Twente debut in a 3–3 draw against De Graafschap on 20 September 2013, coming on as a substitute in the second half for Robbert Schilder. Two weeks later, on 4 October 2013, he was an unused substitute in the first team's match against Cambuur Tapia continued to develop at Jong FC Twente and scored his first goal on 22 November 2013, in a 2–1 win over Willem II. He went on to make 19 appearances, scoring once for Twente's reserves in the 2013–14 season.
Following a season at Jong FC Twente, Tapia was promoted to the first team at Twente. He made his first-team debut at Twente in the opening game of the season, a 0–0 draw against Cambuur, coming on as a substitute in the 80th minute for Darryl Lachman. A week later he suffered an ankle injury that kept him out for three months. He made his return to the first team as a late substitute in a 2–1 win over PEC Zwolle on 23 November 2014. In a match against Willem II on 21 December 2014, Tapia was sent-off, just 8 minutes after coming on as a substitute, for a foul on Samuel Armenteros. Following a one match suspension, he scored his first goal for the club on 31 January 2015, in a 2–1 win over Cambuur. He later scored four more goals later in the season against PEC Zwolle, Groningen and a brace against Go Ahead Eagles. His season ended when he suffered a knee injury and finished the season making 22 appearances and scoring five times in all competitions.
Shortly after the end of the 2014–15 season, Tapia underwent surgery on his knee and it was expected that he would be sidelined for the start of the 2015–16 season, costing his place in the Perú squad for the 2015 Copa América. But in mid-July, he made a recovery from a knee injury after training with the first team. He then scored in the opening game of the season, in a 1–1 draw against Groningen. He again suffered a knee injury and was substituted in the second half as a result. Having recovered he appeared in a number of appearance, playing the first five matches of the season, before suffering a knee injury against Ajax on 12 September 2015. He suffered a knee injury in early November and missed one Twente match, but recovered in time for his international duty. By the end of the first half of the season, Tapia had made 14 appearances and scored once in all competitions.
Feyenoord
In December 2015, Feyenoord confirmed their interest in signing Tapia after learning about FC Twente's financial situation and he was reported among three players at Twente to be sold. The transfer was finalised on 27 January 2016, for a reported transfer fee of €2.4 million. After three years at FC Twente, Tapia signed a 4.5-year contract with Feyenoord.
Tapia made his Feyenoord debut in a rivalry match against Ajax on 7 February 2016, starting in a 2–1 loss. His first team opportunities was restricted to three appearances and being an unused substitute. Instead, he played in the reserve for most of the season. He later stated that in order to earn a first team chance, he needed to improve by acting faster and simpler to suit the club's tactics.
Ahead of the 2016–17 season, Tapia hoped he could establish himself in the first team. He continued to be in the substitutes. On 22 September 2016, he made his first appearance in the second round of KNVB Cup, playing 7 minutes after coming on as a substitute in a 4–1 win over Oss. On 2 October 2016, he scored in his first league appearance of the season, just 13 minutes after coming on as a substitute, in a 2–0 win over Willem II.
Celta de Vigo
On 20 July 2020, La Liga side Celta de Vigo announced the free signing of Tapia under a four-year contract.
International career
Tapia was selected by the Peru U17 for the South American Under-17 Football Championship and by the Peru U20 for the South American Youth Football Championship.
In March 2015, Tapia was called up by the Peru's senior team for the first time. He made his debut on 1 April 2015, in a 2–2 draw against Venezuela. He was expected to be in the Copa América for the Peru squad, but an injury prevented him from doing so. Despite this, he was included in the squad for the Copa América Centenario and played all of the four matches in the campaign. Tapia scored his first Peru goal on 7 September 2016, in a 2–1 win over Ecuador.
In May 2018, he was named in Peru's provisional 24 man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Personal life
Tapia is of African and Quechua origin and alongside teammate Edison Flores, campaigned to promote and protect the Quechua people during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
Scores and results list Peru's goal tally first.
Honours
Feyenoord
Eredivisie: 2016–17
KNVB Cup: 2015–16, 2017–18
Johan Cruijff Shield: 2017, 2018
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Lima
Peruvian men's footballers
Peruvian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Eredivisie players
La Liga players
FC Twente players
Feyenoord players
Willem II (football club) players
RC Celta de Vigo players
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Peru men's under-20 international footballers
Peru men's international footballers
Copa América Centenario players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
2019 Copa América players
2021 Copa América players
Peruvian people of African descent
Peruvian people of Quechua descent
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
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The 5th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was held from 12–23 November 1935, in Nanjing, China.
Members of the Central Executive Committee
Chiang Kai-shek (zh: 蔣中正) (elected by General Assembly), Wang Jingwei (zh: 汪精卫), Hu Hanmin (zh: 胡汉民), Dai Jitao (zh: 戴季陶), Yan Xishan (zh: 阎锡山), Feng Yuxiang (zh: 冯玉祥), Yu Youren (zh: 于右任), Sun Fo (zh: 孙科), Wu Tieh-cheng (zh: 吴铁城), Ye Chucang (zh: 叶楚伧), He Yingqin (zh: 何应钦), Zhu Peide (zh: 朱培德), Zou Lu (zh: 邹鲁), Ju Zheng (zh: 居正), Chen Guofu (zh: 陈果夫), He Chengjun (zh: 何成浚), Chen Lifu (zh: 陈立夫), Shi Ying (zh: 石瑛), H. H. Kung (zh: 孔祥熙), Ding Weifen (zh: 丁惟汾), Zhang Xueliang (zh: 张学良), T. V. Soong (zh: 宋子文), Bai Chongxi (zh: 白崇禧), Liu Zhi (zh: 刘峙), Gu Zhutong (zh: 顾祝同), Zhu Jiahua (zh: 朱家骅), Yang Jie (zh: 杨杰), Ma Chao-chun (zh: 马超俊), Zhang Zhizhong (zh: 张治中), Ceng Kuoqing (zh: 曾扩情), He Zhonghan (zh: 贺衷寒), Jiang Dingwen (zh: 蒋鼎文), Fang Juehui (zh: 方觉慧), Chen Jitang (zh: 陈济棠), Huang Musong (zh: 黄慕松), Qian Dajun (zh: 钱大钧), Han Fuju (zh: 韩复榘), He Jian (zh: 何健), Ceng Yangfu (zh: 曾养甫), Liu Luyin (zh: 刘芦隐), Chen Cheng (zh: 陈诚), Zhou Fohai (zh: 周佛海), Xu Enzeng (zh: 徐恩曾), Hong Lanyou (zh: 洪兰友), Yu Ching-tang (zh: 余井塘), Chen Ce (zh: 陈策), Shao Yuanchong (zh: 邵元冲), Chang Tao-fan (zh: 张道藩), Chen Bulei (zh: 陈布雷), Fang Chih (zh: 方治), Chen Gongbo (zh: 陈公博), Liang Hancao (zh: 梁寒操), Li Zonghuang (zh: 李宗黄), Liu Jiwen (zh: 刘纪文), Xu Yuanquan (zh: 徐源泉), Pang Gongzhan (zh: 潘公展), Wang Faqin (zh: 王法勤), Bai Wenwei (zh: 柏文蔚), Wang Luyi (zh: 王陆一), Zhang Qun (zh: 张群), Liu Weichi (zh: 刘维炽), Wu Xingya (zh: 吴醒亚), Ding Chaowu (zh: 丁超五), Zhao Daiwen (zh: 赵戴文), Jiang Bocheng (zh: 蒋伯诚), Ku Meng-yu (zh: 顾孟余), Gan Naiguang (zh: 甘乃光), Chen Jicheng (zh: 陈继承), Xiao Jishan (zh: 萧吉珊), Wang Yizhe (zh: 王以哲), Li Wenfan (zh: 李文范), Chang Li-sheng (zh: 张厉生), Zhong Bomin (zh: 周伯敏), Wang Bailing (zh: 王柏龄), Miao Peicheng (zh: 苗培成), Liu Jianqun (zh: 刘健群), Gu Zhenggang (zh: 谷正纲), Mei Gongren (zh: 梅公任), Yu Hanmou (zh: 余汉谋), Zheng Zhannan (zh: 郑占南), Wang Shufang (zh: 王漱芳), Zhu Shaoliang (zh: 朱绍良), Li Yizhong (zh: 林翼中), Gu Zhenglun (zh: 谷正伦), Fu Zuoyi (zh: 傅作义), Wu Zhongxin (zh: 吴忠信), Wang Qi (zh: 王祺), Huang Xuchu (zh: 黄旭初), Dai Kuisheng (zh: 戴愧生), Yu Xuezhong (zh: 于学忠), Chen Zhaoying (zh: 陈肇英), Zhang Chong (zh: 张冲), Xiao Tongzi (zh: 萧同兹), Zhou Qigang (zh: 周启刚), Masud Sabri (zh: 麦斯武德), Wei Lihuang (zh: 卫立煌), Hong Ludong (zh: 洪陆东), Jiao Yitang (zh: 焦易堂), Li Shengda (zh: 李生达), Tian Kunshan (zh: 田昆山), Liu Xiang (zh: 刘湘), Chen Shaokuan (zh: 陈绍宽), Chen Yi (zh: 陈仪), Peng Xeupei (zh: 彭学沛), Mao Zuquan (zh: 茅祖权), Shen Honglie (zh: 沈鸿烈), Xiong Shihui (zh: 熊式辉), Xia Douyin (zh: 夏斗寅), Lu Zhonglin (zh: 鹿钟麟), Wang Boqun (zh: 王伯群), Xu Kan (zh: 徐堪), Fu Bingchang (zh: 傅秉常), Le Jingtao (zh: 乐景涛), Li Yangjing (zh: 李杨敬), Tang Youren (zh: 唐有壬), Wang Quansheng (zh: 王泉笙), Miao Peinan (zh: 缪培南), Wang Jun (zh: 王均), Luosang Jianzan (zh: 罗桑坚赞). (total 120 members)
Results
Twelve Articles () Rules for members of the Kuomintang were adopted, and also a motion calling for a revision of the constitution to be drafted.
Institutional Reform
The congress adopted the Outline of the Central Executive Committee on Organization (zh: 中央执行委员会组织大纲), the Organic Law of the Central Commission (zh: 中央监察委员会组织法), and the Central Political Council was renamed as the Central Political Committee, which underwent restructuring.
The following ministers were installed:
Minister of Organization: Chang Li-sheng (zh: 张厉生); Deputy Minister: Ku Cheng-kang (zh: 谷正綱)
Minister of Propaganda/Publicity: Liu Luyin (zh: 刘芦隐); Deputy Minister: Fang Chih (zh: 方治)
Minister of Training: Zhou Fohai (zh: 周佛海); Deputy: Wang Luyi (zh: 王陆一)
Chairman of Overseas Party Planning Commission: Zhou Qigang (zh: 周启刚); Deputies: Xiao Jishan (zh: 萧吉珊), Chen Yaoyuan (zh: 陈耀垣)
Chairman of the Local Autonomy Committee: Fang Juehui(zh: 方覺慧); Deputies: Li Zonghuang (zh: 李宗黄), Huang Jilu (zh: 黃季陸)
Chairman of the National Economic Development Committee: Zeng Yangfu (zh: 曾养甫); Deputies: Deng Qingyang (zh: 鄧青陽), Xu Enzeng (zh: 徐恩曾)
Chairman of the Culture Committee: Chen Guofu (zh: 陈果夫); Deputies: Zhe Minyi (zh: 禇民谊), Chang Tao-fan (zh: 張道藩)
Chairman of the Historiography Committee: Shao Yuan-chong (zh: 邵元沖); Deputies: Luo Jialun (zh: 羅家倫), Mei Gongren (zh: 梅公任)
Chairman of the Pension Committee: Wang Faqin (zh: 王法勤); Deputies: Li Wenfa (zh: 李文範), Hu Ludong (zh: 洪陆东)
Chairman of the Finance Committee: Ju Zheng (zh: 居正); Deputies: Mai Huanzhang (zh: 麦焕章), Miao Peicheng (zh: 苗培成)
Constitutional Reform
On 5 May 1936, the General Assembly decided to announce the Draft Constitution of the Republic of China (zh: 中华民国宪法草案), confirmed by the National Assembly on 12 November.
See also
Kuomintang
References
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of the Republic of China (1912–1949)
1935 in China
1935 conferences
November 1935 events
1930s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BChlenpfordt
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Mühlenpfordt
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Mühlenpfordt is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Justus Mühlenpfordt (1911–2000), German nuclear physicist
Philipp August Friedrich Mühlenpfordt (1803–1891), German botanist
German-language surnames
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Guarani Braille
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Guarani Braille is the braille alphabet of the Paraguayan Guarani language. Letter assignments are those of Spanish Braille (except for the accented vowels): that is, the basic braille alphabet plus for ñ. An additional letter, , is used for glottal stop, written as an apostrophe in the Guarani print alphabet. Print digraphs such as ch and rr are digraphs in braille as well. In addition, the tilde in print is written as the letter in braille, and comes before the letter it appears on in print. Thus the Guarani letters outside the basic Latin alphabet are:
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References
French-ordered braille alphabets
Guarani languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20National%20Congress%20of%20the%20Kuomintang
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6th National Congress of the Kuomintang
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The 6th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the sixth national congress of the Kuomintang, held on 5 May 1945 at Chungking, Republic of China. This congress saw the first participation of Taiwan Province in the congress, represented by Hsieh Tung-min, despite Taiwan being under Japanese rule.
Results
The congress outlined keynotes for national reconstruction and constitutional matters after the Pacific War. It also established the framework for a democratic government.
See also
Kuomintang
References
1945 conferences
1945 in China
May 1945 events in Asia
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of the Republic of China (1912–1949)
1940s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th%20National%20Congress%20of%20the%20Kuomintang
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7th National Congress of the Kuomintang
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The 7th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the seventh national congress of the Kuomintang (KMT), held on 10–20 October 1952 at Taipei, Taiwan. This was the first KMT National Congress in Taiwan, formerly a Japanese territory until 1952, after KMT lost Mainland China to the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War.
Results
The congress announced the completion of the 2 years party reform.
See also
Kuomintang
References
1952 conferences
1952 in Taiwan
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
October 1952 events in Asia
Politics of Taiwan
1950s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20%281980%20film%29
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Action (1980 film)
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Action is a 1980 Italian black comedy directed by Tinto Brass. The film is reminiscent of the director's earlier avant-garde low-budget works such as The Howl and Nerosubianco.
Brass faced many difficulties in Italy due to lawsuits concerning the production of Caligula, so he filmed Action in London in 1979.
In the film, an actor with hero syndrome has a nervous breakdown. He flees the town with an actress obsessed with the role of Ophelia, but they end up locked at an mental asylum. Following the suicide of "Ophelia", the actor flees the asylum with an anarchist patient.
Plot
Bruno Martel (Luc Merenda) is a "Z movie" actor with hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets Doris (Susanna Javicoli) an actress who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings.
One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno "rescues" Doris from the set, leaving the town to encounter various absurd situations. They meet an old anarchist (Alberto Sorrentino) who thinks he is Giuseppe Garibaldi and the three are locked at a mental asylum where Doris commits suicide. Bruno and "Garibaldi" escape and take refuge at an awkward petrol station run by Florence (Adriana Asti) and her invalid husband Joe (Alberto Lupo).
Cast
Luc Merenda: Bruno Martel
Adriana Asti: Florence
Susanna Javicoli: Doris / Ofelia
Paola Senatore: Ann Shimpton
Alberto Sorrentino: Garibaldi
Alberto Lupo: Joe
John Steiner: the manager
Franco Fabrizi: the producer
Tinto Brass: the director (cameo)
: the director
Giancarlo Badessi
Edoardo Florio
Luciano Crovato
: leader of the thugs
Alina De Simone
Beatrice Brass
Hélène Chauvin
Gigi D'Ecclesia
Release
In Germany, the film was released as Sodom 2000.
Reception
According to Italian film critic Marco Giusti, Action is for many the cult film among Tinto Brass' films. Giusti praises the finale with the dream of Luc Merenda, who sees four knights who have sexes in place of their noses and four women who have sexes in place of their mouthes.
Bibliography
References
External links
1980 films
1980 black comedy films
Italian black comedy films
Films shot in London
Films directed by Tinto Brass
Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Cultural depictions of Giuseppe Garibaldi
1980s Italian-language films
1980s Italian films
Films about actors
Films based on Hamlet
Ophelia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior%20imaging
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Behavior imaging
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Behavior imaging is a technique used in behavioral health to diagnose, treat and monitor behavioral disorders, most commonly autism. It involves capturing short video clips of problem behaviors in natural environments on smartphones or other devices.
References
Behavioural sciences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Risman
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Barbara Risman
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Barbara Risman is Professor and Head of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Early life and education
Barbara J. Risman was born on 20 July 1956 in Lynn, Massachusetts to an immigrant Jewish family. Risman's grandparents fled antisemitism in Europe and immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century. She grew up in a multi-generational extended family home with grandparents, aunts, and cousins as well as her parents and three siblings. An early experience of sexual discrimination occurred at her bat mitzvah in 1968. At that time, only boys were permitted to read from the Torah. Professor Risman has been interested in gender inequality ever since that first “click.” She earned her bachelor's degree in Sociology and Women's Studies from Northwestern University in 1976, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 1983.
Academic career
Professor Risman joined the Department of Sociology at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 1984. She was also the founding director of the NCSU Women's Studies program from 1989 to 1993. In 2006, she became Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Trento in Italy, and the Free University in Amsterdam. Professor Risman was elected as vice-president of the American Sociological Association. From January - March 2018 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study based at Durham University, and affiliated with St Mary's College.
Organizations
Currently, she is president of the Board of the Council of Contemporary Families, a non-profit, non-partisan organization of family scholars and practitioners dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about families. She has also served as co-chair and executive director of the Council on Contemporary Families, president of Sociologists for Women in Society, and a member of the Executive Council of the American Sociological Association. She was the president (2015-2016) of the Southern Sociological Society.
Gender as a social structure
A major career contribution is Risman's theory of gender as a social structure. Her book, Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition (1998, Yale University Press) is an early presentation of this theory. In this monograph, Risman introduces a theoretical framework that conceptualizes gender as a social structure, comprising three distinct but interlocking levels – individual, interactional, and institutional. Risman argues that it is the recursive relationship between all three levels that constructs and perpetuates gender inequalities in society. The monograph includes research on single fathers as parents, how baby boom women balance work and family, and egalitarian couples.
In her forthcoming book, Professor Risman traces the history of ideas and development of the use of gender in sociological theory and analysis. She then offers her own feminist theory of gender as a social structure. This is a major revision of her argument about how social change towards gender equality might effectively occur with far more attention to cultural issues. The book provides elaboration of how gender is constructed and sometimes deconstructed at the individual, interactional and institutional levels. She illustrates the use of efficacy of her theoretical argument with three different research studies: The first study is based on life history interviews with young people ages 18 and 30 about the meaning of gender in their lives. The second study is based on a major national survey of college students, as well as nearly 100 interviews with University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) students about sexuality. The third study is an analysis of the effectiveness of major federal grants to universities to do "gender transformation" projects; the data are based on a meta-analysis of new research and an analysis of both quantitative climate surveys and interviews with people involved in the project at the UIC. The book concludes with a utopian vision for a society that has moved beyond gender.
Influence on gender studies
Numerous studies have drawn on Professor Risman's theoretical framework of gender as a social structure. These include, but are not limited to, analyses of double standards in hooking up, men's talk about home cooking, involvement in gay and lesbian rights activism, sexual violence on college campuses, the “ex-gay” movement, gendered migration, the division of housework and child care, and how society can move toward greater gender equality.
Awards
Barbara Risman's numerous awards include the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Feminist Lecturer Award in 2003, the Southern Sociological Society Katherine Belle-Boone Jocher Award for lifetime contributions to the study of gender in 2005, the SWS Feminist Mentoring Award in 2007, and the American Sociological Association Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology in 2011. Most recently, she was named among the "100 Women that Mattered" at North Carolina State University.
Selected bibliography
Books
Second edition forthcoming in 2014.
Journal articles
References
1956 births
American sociologists
American women academics
Living people
North Carolina State University faculty
Northwestern University alumni
People from Lynn, Massachusetts
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American women sociologists
20th-century American Jews
Jewish feminists
Fellows of the Institute of Advanced Study (Durham)
21st-century American Jews
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Higginson
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Graeme Higginson
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Graeme Higginson (born 14 December 1954) is a New Zealand former rugby union player. A lock, Higginson represented Canterbury and Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1980 to 1983. He played 20 matches for the All Blacks including six internationals. He captained the All Blacks in one match, against Australian Universities in 1980.
References
1954 births
Living people
Canterbury rugby union players
Dalzell-Whitelock family
Hawke's Bay rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
New Zealand rugby union players
People educated at Rangiora High School
Rugby union locks
Rugby union players from Rangiora
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Davies
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Dorothy Davies
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Dorothy Davies may refer to:
Dorothy Davies (pianist), New Zealand pianist and piano teacher
Dorothy Davies, American film actress in Night Fright
Dorothy Davies, Canadian television actress in The Manipulators
See also
Dorothy Davis (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20break
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Voice break
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Voice break generally refers to transitions between different vocal registers of the human voice. Although singing is mostly done using the modal register, it is important for more professional singers to be able to smoothly move between different vocal registers.
Professional singers refer to this break as the Passaggio.
Unintentional voice breaks are called a voice crack.
Voice break may also refer to the deepening of the male voice during puberty, known as the voice change.
See also
Voice change
Puberty
Human voice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller%20Wildlife%20Refuge
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Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
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The Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge is a large area of marshland in Cameron Parish and Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was donated to the state with certain provisions as to its management as a wildlife sanctuary. It is a biodiverse habitat and is visited annually by many migratory birds. Much research is undertaken into marshland management and alligator ranching, and the income from the sale of alligators contributes to conservation of the marshland.
History
On July 12, 1913, naturalist and businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny bought about 86,000 acres of marshland in Louisiana with the help of donated money. The following year, on May 20, 1914, the land was sold to the Rockefeller Foundation for the preservation and protection of migratory birds. The Rockefeller Foundation entrusted control of the land to the Conservation Commission of Louisiana for a period of five years. After this was successfully completed, the land was donated to the state, and in 1920 became the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge. During the early years the marsh was patrolled to prevent poaching and the land was periodically burnt to encourage the growth of suitable fodder for muskrats and geese. The expenses of the Refuge were at least partly met by the sale of muskrat pelts.
The primary aim of the project was to conserve the wetlands habitat, particularly water fowl. The provisions of the bequest stipulated that all revenue must be ploughed back into the project. Fur–bearing mammals, waterfowl and alligators could be cropped on a sustainable basis and these and the oil available underground have been carefully harvested and have provided a steady source of income. In the 1960s, the commission used these funds for a pioneering program of alligator management with the whole area becoming, in effect, a vast alligator ranch.
The refuge
The Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge occupies a strip of low-lying flat treeless land adjoining the Gulf of Mexico for and extending inland for about to the Grand Chenier Ridge, a marine terrace. The original 86,000 acres of the site have been reduced to about 76,000 by coastal erosion along the gulf. It is one of the most biodiverse wildlife areas in the United States.
When the Rockfeller Foundation donated the land it stipulated that:
The property must be maintained as a wildlife refuge.
The boundaries must be posted.
Enforcement agents must protect the area from trespassers and poachers.
No public taking of fish or animals to be allowed.
The refuge staff must study and manage the property for wildlife.
Mineral revenues must be used on behalf of the refuge with any surplus going towards education or public health.
Animals resident in the refuge all year round include mottled ducks, rails, nutria, muskrat, raccoon, mink, otter, opossum, white-tailed deer and alligators. Large numbers of migratory birds including about 160,000 waterfowl visit it each year including geese, ducks, coots, shorebirds and wading birds. Fish present include redfish, speckled trout, black drum and largemouth bass. Some recreational fishing is permitted but no hunting is allowed, although some animals are trapped if their populations seem to be getting out of control.
There are eleven impoundments on the site with some method of water control. Levees and sluice gates are built and maintained so as to divide the land into areas with varying degrees of salinity. The land is managed so as to stabilise water levels as far as possible. A reduction in the level of salinity in some areas encourages the growth of submerged aquatic and annual plants which provide suitable habitat for wildfowl. Some mineral developments have been allowed to produce revenue but these have been managed so as to minimise their impact on the environment. The research centre employs biologists, conservation officers and maintenance staff.
Management
The Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge is best known for its pioneering research into alligators, their natural history, their requirements and ranching. Some aspects covered include penning, stocking rates, egg incubation, hatching, rearing and diet. This information has been used by other crocodilian farms and ranches around the world. Brown pelican and bald eagle restoration projects are managed from here and striped bass are raised for distribution to river systems in the west of the state. Other research studies include wildfowl habitat management, marsh management, various wildlife projects, alligator snapping turtles and how to reduce the impact of mineral extraction in wetlands.
The refuge is visited each year by more than 100,000 people. Many are students and members of organisations who come to learn about wildlife conservation at the study centre which can provide lodging and laboratory facilities. Others are attracted by the opportunities for bird watching and recreational fishing, shrimping and crabbing. Each year, the refuge holds a controlled alligator harvest for alligator hunters with specific permits, tags, and licenses.
References
Nature reserves in Louisiana
Protected areas of Cameron Parish, Louisiana
Protected areas of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Four%20National%20Figure%20Skating%20Championships
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2014 Four National Figure Skating Championships
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The 2014 Four National Figure Skating Championships included the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. The event was hosted by the Slovak association in Bratislava from 20 to 22 December 2013. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level. Some junior and novice-level events were also held.
The results were split by country; the three highest-placing skaters from each country in each discipline formed their national podiums. The results were among the criteria used to determine international assignments. It was the sixth consecutive season that the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland held their national championships together and the first season that Hungary participated.
Medals summary
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Poland
Hungary
Junior medalists
Czech Republic
Poland
Hungary
Senior results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
References
External links
2014 Four National Championships results
Slovak Figure Skating Association
Czech Figure Skating Association
Polish Figure Skating Association
Hungarian Skating Association
Four Nationals Figure Skating Championships, 2014
Czech Figure Skating Championships
Slovak Figure Skating Championships
Polish Figure Skating Championships
Hungarian Figure Skating Championships
Four Nationals Figure Skating Championships
Four Nationals Figure Skating Championships
Four Nationals Figure Skating Championships
Four Nationals Figure Skating Championships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th%20National%20Congress%20of%20the%20Kuomintang
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8th National Congress of the Kuomintang
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The 8th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the eight national congress of the Kuomintang, held on 10–23 October 1957 at Taipei, Taiwan.
Results
During the congress, Chen Cheng was elected as Chiang Kai-shek's deputy, as the Deputy Director-General of the Kuomintang.
See also
Kuomintang
References
1957 conferences
1957 in Taiwan
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of Taiwan
October 1957 events in Asia
1950s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th%20National%20Congress%20of%20the%20Kuomintang
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9th National Congress of the Kuomintang
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The 9th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the ninth national congress of the Kuomintang (KMT), held on 12 to 22 November 1963 in Taipei, Taiwan Province, Nationalist China.
See also
Kuomintang
References
1963 conferences
1963 in Taiwan
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of Taiwan
November 1963 events in Asia
1960s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20Renouf
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Émile Renouf
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Émile Renouf (23 June 1845 – 4 May 1894) was a French painter and draughtsman of the realism-impressionism school.
He studied at the Académie Julian and was a pupil of Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre and Charles Duran, and first exhibited his works at the Salon de peinture et de sculpture in Paris between 1877 and 1881. He received a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris.
He painted marine and peasant themes especially after a trip to the Île de Sein. Because of the state of his Paris studio, he built a new atelier in Le Havre where he died. His works are in museums in France, Amiens, Le Havre, Rouen, Liège and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Major works
Environs de Honfleur, printemps, 1870
Environs de Honfleur, le soir, 1875
Aux environs de Honfleur, l'hiver, 1877
Maison du Haut-du-Vent, à l'embouchure de la Seine, 1878
Lit de rivière dans un vallon, 1878, oil on canvas
La veuve de l'Île de Sein, 1880, Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper
Un coup de main or La main tendue (The Helping Hand), 1881
Après un orage, 1881
Soleil couchant, 1884
Un loup de mer, 1885
En dérive, 1886
Fin du jour, 1886
Les guetteurs, 1889
Le pont de Brookling, 1889
Pique-nique dans un parc
Bord de rivière, oil on canvas transferred to wood
, oil on canvas
Bord de plage, oil on canvas
Sur la montre (between 1880 and 1890) (inspired a work by George Emerick Essig)
Après la pluie, 1876
Soleil couchant, 1876
Une vallée dans le Finistère, 1877
Un sauvetage, 1883
Le pilote (Der Looste), 1883
Paysage (ruisseau) (Musée des beaux-arts de Liège)
Le canal d'Harfleur, 1892
Dernier radoub, gravure, 1885
La partie de pêche, 1892
Chutes du Niagara, 1893
Examples of his work
References
1845 births
1894 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
French draughtsmen
Académie Julian alumni
19th-century French male artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%B6rke
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Flörke
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Flörke is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heinrich Gustav Flörke (1764–1835), German botanist and lichenologist
Hermann Flörke (1893–1979), German Wehrmacht army general
Randy Florke, American real estate and design executive
German-language surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy%20Ladd
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Troy Ladd
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Troy Ladd (born April 4 in Newport Beach, CA) is an American designer and builder of custom cars and hot rods from Burbank, CA known for building traditional styled vehicles. After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Business from Vanguard University, Troy formulated a business plan for Hollywood Hot Rods, taking into account location, size of the building and equipment. In 2002 Headquarters for Hollywood Hot Rods were set up in Burbank, CA. Industry magazines took notice of the cars being built at Hollywood Hot Rods and titles such as Street Rodder Magazine, Hot Rod Magazine and Rod & Custom were responsible for getting the word out about Troy Ladd’s shop.
Car builder
Starting at an early age, Troy Ladd began working on vintage vehicles with the desire to create unique cars. Troy developed his building skills on his own cars and transferred them into a business building specialty cars for customers of his Hollywood Hot Rods, the business he established in 2002. Troy Ladd builds vehicles in a style inspired by hot rodding’s past that “Respects Tradition” at the same time looking forward into the future of specialty car building.
Building award winning vehicles for over a decade Troy Ladd has been recognized as the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association/SEMA 2007 Trendsetter Award Recipient, Grand National Roadster Show 2010 Builder of the Year and L.A. Roadsters 2012 Builder of the Year. Troy Ladd builds vehicles that range from hot rods like the “Respect Tradition” 1932 Ford Roadster to customs like the “Ruby Deluxe” 1935 Ford Coupe.
Troy Ladd has produced a series of noted hot rods including: The Mulholland Speedster 1936 Custom Coachbuilt Packard, The Long Beach Legend 1936 Ford Roadster, Full Metal Jacket 2014 Ford Mustang GT Convertble, the Street Rodder Road Tour ’40 Ford Coupe, the Zulu T 1927 Ford Tall Model T Coupe, The Brooklands Special 1932 Ford Roadster, Coyote Comet 1963 Mercury Comet Convertible, the Raybestos Coyote-powered 1932 Ford Roadster Pickup, the Platinum Bomb 1932 Ford Roadster, Ruby Deluxe 1935 Ford Coupe, El Correcaminos 1931 Ford Roadster Pickup, The Black Widow 1926 Ford Roadster Pickup, Respect Tradition Hemi-powered and sectioned 1932 Ford Roadster
Awards
2017 SEMA "Battle of the Builders", for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Hot August Nights, Reno - "Hot August Nights Cup" for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Goodguys Del Mar Street Rod D' Elegance Award for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Chicago World of Wheels Legend's Cup Award for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Sacramento Autorama Sam Barris for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Sacramento Autorama Custom D' Elegance Award for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Sacramento Autorama World's Most Beautiful Custom for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2017 Grand National Roadster Show America's Most Beautiful Roadster for the "Mulholland Speedster"
2016 Grand National Roadster Show America's Most Beautiful Roadster finalist for "The Long Beach Legend" 36 Ford and 32 Ford Roadster pickup
2015 Grand National Roadster Show America's Most Beautiful Roadster finalist for "Black" 32 Ford Roadster
2012 L.A. Roadsters “Builder of the Year" - Troy Ladd.
2011 “SAR Mark of Excellence in Metalworking Award”, awarded to Troy Ladd.
2011 Grand National Roadster Show “Best Roadster” winner to Troy Ladd for “Brooklands Roadster”.
2010 Grand National Roadster Show “Builder of the Year- Troy Ladd”.
2010 SEMA “Showstopper Award” to Troy Ladd for 1932 Ford “Raybestos” Roadster Pickup.
2010 Goodguys “Kustom of the Year” awarded to Troy Ladd for “Ruby Deluxe” 1935 Ford.
2009 Grand National Roadster Show Troy Ladd’s “Black Widow” 1927 Ford Roadster Pickup finalist for America's Most Beautiful Roadster, “Best Display”.
2007 Goodguys Rod & Custom Association Trendsetter Award Recipient: Troy Ladd.
2007 Troy Ladd’s “Respect Tradition" 1932 Ford hi-boy roadster finalist for America's Most Beautiful Roadster.
2007 “Outstanding Elegance Award” for Troy Ladd’s “Respect Tradition” 1932 Roadster at Blackie's Invite-Only Autorama.
2007 Del Mar Car Show, Best 1932 Roadster Award to Troy Ladd.
2005 Troy Ladd SEMA Feature Vehicle Award in Hot Rod Alley.
2005 Troy Ladd Goodguys “Rodders Pick”.
References
External links
Website Hollywood Hot Rods (http://www.hollywoodhotrods.com)
1969 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th%20National%20Congress%20of%20the%20Kuomintang
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10th National Congress of the Kuomintang
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The 10th National Congress of the Kuomintang () was the tenth national congress of the Kuomintang, held between 29 March to 9 April, 1969 in Chung-Shan Building, Beitou District, Taipei, Nationalist China.
Results
KMT Director-General Chiang Kai-shek spoke to more than 1,200 delegates and observers from Taiwan, Mainland China and overseas communities around the world. He provided guidance of discussion and debate. KMT made final plans for the last stage of struggle against Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to liberate the 700 million Chinese in the mainland and to assure peace in Asia and the world.
KMT Secretary-General Chang Pao-shu said that the congress came at a time when the Republic of China was intensifying preparations for the retaking back of the Mainland as the CCP government stood at the brink of collapse due to Great Leap Forward.
A party reform charter was also adopted and a provision providing for a Vice Chairman was scrapped.
See also
Kuomintang
References
1969 conferences
1969 in Taiwan
National Congresses of the Kuomintang
Politics of Taiwan
March 1969 events in Asia
April 1969 events in Asia
1960s political conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20S%C3%A1mi%20Braille
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Northern Sámi Braille
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Northern Sámi Braille is the braille alphabet of the Northern Sámi language. It was developed in the 1980s based on the Scandinavian Braille alphabet but with the addition of seven new letters (á, č, đ, ŋ, š, ŧ, ž) required for writing in Northern Sámi.
Chart
Northern Sámi Braille uses (French à) for á, dot 6 is added to c and d for č and đ, while the other accented letters are the mirror-images in braille of the base form in print.
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Punctuation is the same as in Norwegian Braille.
References
French-ordered braille alphabets
Northern Sámi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan%20Masood
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Hasan Masood
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Hasan Masood (born December 16, 1962) is a Bangladeshi actor. He is also a former journalist and military officer.
Early life
Masood was born in Barisal, but he was brought up in the city of Dhaka. He completed his SSC from BAF Shaheen College Dhaka and his HSC from the Government Titumir College in Dhaka.
Career
Hasan has been singing from an early age and he had completed a 5-year course on Nazrul Sangeet from Chhayanaut. Hasan joined the Bangladesh Army in 1983 and commissioned from 11 BMA long course on 21 December 1984 in the corps of infantry and retired as a captain in 1992. He then worked as a sports correspondent at The New Nation and later in 1995, at The Daily Star, and was also a correspondent of world service in the Bengali affiliate of the British Broadcasting Corporation from February 2004 to 2008.
Hasan was approached by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki to play a role in his film Bachelor in February 2003. Hasan took a leave from his position at The Daily Star and started his acting career. The film was released in February 2004. He later acted in the film Made in Bangladesh. His acted television drama plays include 69, "House Full," "Taxi Driver," "FDC", "Bou","Khunshuti", "Graduate", "Ranger Duniya", "Amader Shangshar", " Gani Shaheber Shesh Kichhudin" and "Batasher Ghor".
Hasan also voiced the soundtrack Ajke Na Hoy Valobasho in the film Bachelor, which is originally a song by Khurshid Alam, written by Dewan Nazrul and composed by Alam Khan. His first music album, Hridoy Ghotito released on the Valentine's Day 2006. Marzuk Russell wrote all of 10 songs on the album, and Sanjeeb Choudhury composed the tunes with Bappa Mazumdar as the arranger of the music.
Filmography
Films
Television
Playback
Web series
Discography
Solo
Film scores
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Bangladeshi male film actors
Bangladeshi journalists
Bangladeshi film directors
21st-century Bangladeshi male singers
21st-century Bangladeshi singers
21st-century Bangladeshi male actors
People from Barisal
People from Dhaka
Bangladesh Army officers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting%20in%20Australia
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Hunting in Australia
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Australia has a population of about 25 million, with the Commonwealth Government's 2019 survey estimating there are 640,000 recreational hunters in the country. There are around 5.8 million legally owned guns in Australia, ranging from airguns to single-shot, bolt-action, pump-action, lever-action or semi-automatic firearms.
A survey of recreational hunters identified the following usage rates of particular hunting methods: rifle, 92.3%; bow and arrows, 16.4%; black powder muzzleloader, 3.4%; shotgun, 56.1%; dogs only, 8.6%; and others, 3.3%
Game species
Many species of game animals in Australia have been introduced by European settlers since the 18th century. Among these are traditional game species such as deers, red foxes and upland birds (quails, pheasants and partridges), as well as other invasive species including rabbits/hares, cats, dogs, goats, pigs, donkeys, horses, feral cattle (including banteng), water buffaloes and camels. Native waterfowls are also targeted, and the commercial harvest of kangaroos by professional hunters was recorded as 1,560,586 in 2012.
The most commonly hunted animals by recreational hunters are rabbits, foxes, ducks, feral pigs, feral cats and feral goats. Hunting of rabbits, in particular, is encouraged across all of Australia, as they are considered a highly invasive pest, and the most common form of hunting is ground shooting.
The recreational hunting of foxes is also commonly done by shooting. However, this usually requires other techniques to lure the animal (e.g. using a fox whistle, which makes a sound mimicking a distressed prey) and then spotlighting the eyeshine to locate and shoot the animal.
Six species of deer can be found in Australia.
The chital deer (Axis axis) is also known as the Indian spotted deer; they are light to dark brown with permanent white spots which appear as broken lines running along the body. They typically have three tined antlers.
The hog deer (Axis porcinus) is a close relative of the chital; they range from a uniform dark brown during winter to a rich reddish-brown in summer, at which time light-coloured spots along the sides and on either side of the dark dorsal stripe are visible in individuals. Typically, they have three tined antlers, but extra points are not unheard of.
The sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) is the largest deer species to be found in Australia. They are normally brown, but individuals of grey to almost black are seen. Typically, they have three tined antlers, but they often sported with a wide variety of styles.
The rusa deer (Rusa timorensis) is a close relative of the sambar but smaller in size; they are a uniform grey-brown, variable between individuals and season. It typically has three tined antlers.
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) ranges from a dull brown in winter coat to a rich reddish brown in summer; a permanent straw-coloured rump or caudal patch is retained throughout the year
The fallow deer (Dama dama) is the most common species of deer in the world. In the summer, they are light to reddish brown with white spots. In the winter, this changes to a greyish brown.
Legislation
Laws related to hunting vary between each state or territory. Except where otherwise stated, most states and territories allow the hunting of pest species – feral dogs, feral goats, feral pigs, foxes, hares, and rabbits – at any time of year with the landowner's permission. Every state and territory requires those carrying firearms to be licensed to do so.
Australian Capital Territory
All that is required to hunt in Australian Capital Territory is a valid firearms licence. Individuals between the ages of 12 – 17 can hold a minor's firearms licence, allowing them to hunt under adult supervision. However, hunting is restricted to pest animals on private property and may only be carried out with the landowner's permission.
New South Wales
New South Wales allows the hunting of deer.
In NSW game species include ducks, which may be hunted under the New South Wales Game Bird Management Program, as well as wild deer, California quails, partridges, pheasants, peafowl and turkeys.
Dogs, cats and hares are classified as both feral and game.
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory freely allows the hunting of feral animals on private land with the landowner's permission as long as the hunter holds a valid firearms licence. This excepts feral pigs and waterfowl, for which a permit is required to hunt on certain reserves.
As well as species that can be hunted anywhere in Australia, the Northern Territory considers many animals to be feral: Arabian camels, buffaloes, banteng, cane toads, donkeys, feral cats, horses, wild dogs, feral cattle, house sparrows, pigeons, sambar deer, rusa deer, chital and turtle doves.
All waterfowl hunters require a permit to hunt and may only do so during the declared open season. Waterfowl includes the following species: magpie geese, Pacific black duck, wandering whistling duck, plumed whistling duck, grey teal, pink-eared duck, hardhead duck, maned duck.
Queensland
In Queensland, some native species (with a permit) and all pest species may be hunted at any time of the year with the landowner's permission. A weapons licence is required to carry firearms.
No species are declared as game animals. Many animals are declared pests in Queensland. Species commonly hunted include red deer, chital, fallow deer, rusa, dingo, feral dog, rabbits, hares, cats, foxes, goats, pigs, dogs, donkeys, horses and feral cattle.
South Australia
South Australia allows the hunting of game species during open season. Species listed as game are the stubble quail, Pacific black duck, grey teal, chestnut teal, Australian shelduck, pink-eared duck and maned duck.
Some native species and all introduced species may be hunted at any time of the year. Namely camels, deer, starling, domestic pigeon, European blackbird and the spotted turtle-dove.
Tasmania
A game licence is required to hunt in Tasmania, pests and feral creatures are eligible to be hunted on private, state and crown land.
Pests can be hunted on crown land at any time, however on private and state land hunts are only carried out with explicit permission from the owner of the private land.
Minor permits in both firearms and hunting can be applied for if under the age of 18 years. There are two different grades of minor permits available to those between 12 – 16 and 16 – 18 years.
Tasmania classifies as game species: deer, wild duck, brown quail and pheasant. For non-commercial purposes, muttonbirds and wallabies may also be hunted.
Victoria
Victoria makes no restrictions on the hunting of pest or feral animals in state forests, or on private lands as long as the hunter has permission from the landowner. Both hares and feral dogs are classified as pests, and can be hunted at any time throughout the year.
Hunting of game species is allowed during open seasons under a state licence scheme. Game licence numbers in Victoria:
Duck — 26,200
Quail — 29,000
Deer — 32,000
Victoria allows the hunting of many native and introduced species, including stubble quail, pheasants, partridges, European quail, California quail, Pacific black duck, grey teal, hardhead, Australian shelduck, pink-eared duck, Australian wood duck, chestnut teal, Australasian shoveller, hog deer, red deer, sambar deer and fallow deer.
Western Australia
In Western Australia, only feral species may be hunted on private land with the landowner's permission, subject to holding a valid firearms licence. These species include camels, donkeys, feral cattle, wood ducks, feral dogs, feral horse, hares and starling.
Aboriginal hunting
Aboriginal Australians lived on the Australian continent for thousands of years before Europeans settlement in the late 1700s. They had a wealth of animals to hunt and had very refined and sometimes ingenious ways of hunting them.
Hunting techniques
Boomerang
Boomerangs have been used as a hunting tool by Aborigines for tens of thousands of years. The way a hunter tends to use a boomerang is to rustle tree branches, causing the birds inside to be startled and fly into nets that the hunter had already set up between trees. Contrary to popular belief, Aboriginal hunting boomerangs are not designed to return to the thrower.
Throwing sticks
Related to the boomerang, a throwing stick is bigger and heavier. These heftier weapons are used to hunt bigger animals such as kangaroos. They were thrown straight at their target and could even break bones on impact. This made it a lethal tool in the hands of an experienced hunter.
Fire
Aboriginals use fire to clear vegetation from patches of land to make it easier to hunt game. Among the animals hunted are monitor lizards. Surprisingly in areas where the technique is used, the lizard population increases by as much as 100%. This is thought to be because burning established vegetation clears land for the growth of new plant species, increasing biodiversity thus improving the lizards' habitat.
Legal framework
The National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 (Cth) mandates Aboriginal people are not subject to general conservation restrictions so long as they engage in hunting only for food, ceremonial or religious purposes (in all cases must be non-commercial). However, restrictions may be put in place to protect wildlife and must specifically state that such restrictions apply to Aboriginal people. This section does not give an Aboriginal person right of entry onto land. Entry onto private land, state forests, national parks or other kinds of crown land is regulated under State or Territory Legislation and is variable.
Controversy
There has been a number of controversies surrounding indigenous Australians and the Australian government regarding their hunting rights.
In 1993, the Australian Government brought in legislation called the Native Title Act. This act meant that the Australian Government recognised that the Aboriginal Australians have rights to and interests to their land that come from their traditional laws and customs. One of the activities that are covered by the Native Title is the right for Aboriginal peoples to hunt otherwise endangered species for food or ceremonial purposes. The killing of endangered is a wide source of outrage with many calling for a rewrite of the legislation to protect the endangered species.
See also
Invasive species in Australia
References
External links
NSW DPI Hunting
Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment
Game Management Authority of Victoria
Animal culling
Animal rights
Cruelty to animals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Emerick%20Essig
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George Emerick Essig
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George Emerick Essig (September 2, 1838 – December 15, 1923) was an American painter, watercolorist, and etcher from Philadelphia. He specialized in marine scenes, particularly of the New Jersey coast.
Biography
George Emerick Essig was born in Philadelphia in 1838, the son of Christian and Mathilde Esig. He was a member of the Gray Reserves. His brother, Charles J. Essig, founded the University of Pennsylvania Dental School.
George Emerick Essig died in Ventnor City, New Jersey on December 15, 1923, and was interred in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
References
Quiet, Charming Scenes Of The Delaware As It Used To Be, Edward J. Sozanski, INQUIRER ART CRITIC, January 21, 1994
External links
1838 births
1923 deaths
19th-century American painters
American male painters
20th-century American painters
Burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery
19th-century American male artists
20th-century American male artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Dale%20Cooper
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Max Dale Cooper
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Max Dale Cooper (born August 31, 1933), is an American immunologist and a professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Emory Vaccine Center of Emory University School of Medicine. He is known for characterizing T cells and B cells.
Early life and education
Cooper was born and raised in rural Mississippi. His father was the Superintendent of Education of a 12-grade school in Bentonia and his mother a teacher. He lived with his family on the campus. He was interested in becoming a physician at a young age, and his father, who wanted to study medicine but could not due to financial reasons, encouraged him to do so. Cooper went to Holmes Junior College (now Holmes Community College) on an American football scholarship from 1951 to 1952, then entered the University of Mississippi for pre-medical studies.
In 1954, Cooper started studying medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. Since the school at that time was a two-year medical school and was becoming a four-year one, Cooper was offered the option of staying or transferring elsewhere. He chose to move to the Tulane University School of Medicine, and obtained his MD in 1957.
Career
After graduating from medical school, Cooper interned at a hospital in Saginaw, Michigan for a year, and then returned to Tulane University School of Medicine for a residency. In 1960, Cooper went to Hospital for Sick Children, London as pre-registration house officer and then research assistant until 1961. From 1961 to 1962, he was a pediatric allergy and immunology fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Cooper briefly returned to Tulane as an instructor, then moved to the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota in 1963 to as a medical fellow and instructor, working with Robert A. Good and conducting research. He became an assistant professor in 1966.
One year later he joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as a professor at the Division of Immunology and Allergy of the Department of Pediatrics and an associate professor at the Department of Microbiology. Over the next few years, Cooper also became a professor at the Department of Microbiology, of Pathology and of Medicine. During this period, he was also involved with the Comprehensive Cancer Center (since 1971), the Multipurpose Arthritis Center (since 1979), and the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center (since 1981), all at UAB, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute between 1988 and 2006.
In 2008, convinced by the Georgia Research Alliance, where Emory University is a partner institution, Cooper moved to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the School of Medicine of Emory University in Georgia, US. He is also a professor at the Winship Cancer Institute and the Emory Vaccine Center, and an Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Research Alliance.
Cooper remains a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at UAB.
Cooper was the president of the American Association of Immunologists between 1988 and 1989 and a member of their Council from 1983 to 1988.
Research
Cooper's research focus is the adaptive immune system, particularly T cells and B cells. Following Jacques Miller's discovery in 1961 of the immunological role of the thymus, the scientific community believed that there is only one lineage of lymphocytes (the T cells), that produced by the thymus. As a pediatrician, Cooper was studying patients of the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome, who have few lymphocytes but high levels of plasma cells and antibodies, which were thought to derive from T cells.
Inspired by a report that the bursa of Fabricius (or the bursa) in chickens may be responsible for producing antibodies, he conducted experiments in 1964 on chickens to determine the roles of the thymus and the bursa. He removed the thymus or the bursa from chicks and irradiated them with X-ray to kill lymphocytes that may have been produced earlier by the thymus and bursa.
The experiments showed irradiated chicks with the bursa removed did not have plasma cells, antibodies, and germinal centers, despite their intact thymus. Conversely, irradiated chickens with the thymus removed had low lymphocyte levels, but had normal antibodies, plasma cells, and germinal centers. The lymphocytes produced by the bursa are known as B cells.
Again working on chickens, Cooper also made a contribution to deducing how B cells produce different types of antibodies at different stages of embryonic development, in the sequence of IgM, IgG, and IgA. His experiments indicated a single lineage of B cells switch from IgM to producing other immunoglobulin isotypes, as opposed to multiple B cell subtypes each producing one immunoglobulin isotype. This process is known as immunoglobulin class switching.
Collaborating with John Owen from the UK, Cooper used a series of experiments to determine the mammalian organ equivalent to the bursa and found that B cells are produced in the liver of fetal mice. Together with independent reports by Pierre Vassalli and Gustav Nossal in 1974 that B cells were produced in the bone marrow of fetal mice, these discoveries show haematopoietic tissues generate B cells in mammals.
More recently, Cooper studied the adaptive immune system in jawless vertebrates, including lampreys and hagfish. Working with Jan Klein, he confirmed these animals have cells functionally similar to mammalian T cells and B cells. Cooper's group also found that instead of antibodies, lampreys have a family of immune receptors. They named it variable lymphocyte receptor. Owing to the unique specificity of these antibody-counterparts and their distinction from human antibodies, they may be used in treating cancers such as multiple myeloma and brain cancer.
Awards and honors
Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (1972)
President's Medal, University of Alabama at Birmingham (1988)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1988)
Sandoz Prize for Immunology (1990)
Member of the Alabama Academy of Honor (1990)
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (1990)
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994)
American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award (2000)
Robert Koch Award (2010)
Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Sciences (2015)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2017)
Japan Prize (2018)
Distinguished Fellow of American Association of Immunologists (2019)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2019)
References
American immunologists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine faculty
University of Mississippi alumni
Tulane University School of Medicine alumni
University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
University of California, San Francisco faculty
1933 births
Living people
People from Hazlehurst, Mississippi
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngrapha%20devergens
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Syngrapha devergens
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Syngrapha devergens is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Alps, the Tian Shan Mountains and the Altai Mountains
The wingspan is 29–31 mm. Adults are on wing from July to August in one generation per year. Adults have been recorded feeding on the flowers of Silene species.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Silene, Plantago, Viola and Geum species. They are red-brown with yellow stripes. The larvae overwinter twice.
References
Literature
Walter Forster, Theodor A. Wohlfahrt: Die Schmetterlinge Mitteleuropas, Band IV, Eulen. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1971
Barry Goater, Lázló Ronkay und Michael Fibiger: Catocalinae & Plusiinae Noctuidae Europaeae, Volume 10., Sorø 2003
External links
www.nic.funet.fi
Lepiforum.de
Euroleps.ch
Moths described in 1871
Plusiinae
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Network%20Intelligence
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Digital Network Intelligence
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Digital Network Intelligence or DNI is a term used in the United States Intelligence Community that refers to "intelligence from intercepted digital data communications transmitted between, or resident on, networked computers."
Programs and units gathering DNI
Pinwale, an NSA collection and retrieval system for DNI, including internet e-mail
STORMBREW, a secret NSA internet surveillance program
659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of the United States Air Force, an intelligence unit located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
BLARNEY, an NSA communications surveillance program started in 1978
PRISM, an NSA program, part of the PRISM program, for collecting internet communications from various U.S. internet companies
OAKSTAR, an upstream collection program of the NSA for secret internet surveillance
Fairview, a secret NSA program in cooperation with American telecommunications company AT&T
XKeyscore, a secret NSA computer system for searching and analyzing global Internet data
See also
signals intelligence (SIGINT)
References
United States intelligence agencies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigoriy%20Gruzinsky
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Grigoriy Gruzinsky
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Grigoriy Ilyich Gruzinsky (; ) (1833–1899) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty.
Grigoriy was son of Prince Ilia of Georgia and grandson of King George XII of Georgia.
He was aide to the Emperor of Russia from 1860 to 1863.
Family
In 1867 he married Olga Frolova (1844-1902) and had 7 children:
Aleksandre (1866-1917)
Ilia (1867-1947)
Petre (1868-1922)
Anastasia (1871-1956)
Elizabeth (1873-1901)
Tamar (1874-1898)
Nino (1876-1895)
Ancestry
References
1833 births
1899 deaths
Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Georgian princes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek%20Picnic
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Geek Picnic
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Geek Picnic is the largest European open air festival dedicated to popular science, modern technology, science and art.
The first festival was held in St. Petersburg in 2011. Since 2014, Geek Picnic has been held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2016, the first Geek Picnic was held in Israel.
Festivals
2011
The first Geek Picnic took place, at the New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg, on August 6, 2011. It presented several scientific shows, including 3D printing and robotics, as well as indoor and outdoor activities like modern game consoles, monocycles, jumping stilts, gaming zone and sports ground. The festival attracted more than 1500 visitors.
2012
The second Geek Picnic was held at the same location on August, 3rd. It featured a wide variety of events including robot exhibition, a number of lectures in the format of TEDx and masterclasses by recognized experts from Russian IT companies (Gaidar Magdanurov, Grachik Adzhamian, Alexey Voinov, Filipp Katz, Kirill Shichanov and Yury Lifshits), a job fair for programmers and a dedicated Windarium Windows education site. The recreational zone offered open library, gaming space, sports and a picnic. Around 7000 people have visited the event.
2013
In 2013, Geek Picnic was a two-day festival held at Yelagin Island. The territory was divided into 4 zones dedicated to technology, science, art and picnic. The festival featured a display of most recent inventions in robotics and 3d printing, interactive science museum, meteorite exhibition and Fab lab. Event schedule included lectures by cosmonaut Alexander Volkov, historian Lev Lurie, a known polyglot, language teacher and television presenter Dmitry Petrov, engineer Anatoly Wasserman, and Nigel Ackland, known to be the world’s first person to receive a bionic prosthetic arm, and numerous entrepreneurs, scientists and academics. The Russian quadcopter racing championship took place during the festival. Recreational areas included food court, playground and open-air exhibitions. Visitor count exceeded 15000 through 2 days.
2014
The winter session of 2014 Geek Picnic took place in VDNKh , Moscow, on January 25–26. Theme zones dedicated to technology, science and art, entertainment, lectorium and a playground for children were set up in a 15 thousand square meters pavilion. A number of speakers including Anatoly Wasserman and futurologist Dmitry Gluchovskiy gave lectures, and the founder of the Venus project Jacque Fresco held a skype conference call. The festival featured musical performance by Alexander Robotnick and the Desert Planet band. The displays included the world’s biggest Tesla coil, 3D bioprinter prototype, quadcopter show, sculptures of Transformers characters and a robot show featuring Exoatlet hauler and InMoove android. The event had 30000 visitors.
The summer Geek Picnic was held at Yelagin Island, Saint-Petersburg, in August. The event schedule included over 60 lectures and 30 masterclasses and workshops, drone and robot operation competitions, programming contest. Festival featured DIY-zones, robotics and 3D printing exhibition as well as 3D printed fashion show by Larisa Katz, Pia Hinze and Joshua Harker and had a total of 18000 visitors.
2015
That year, both Moscow and Saint Petersburg festivals took place in summer. The Geek Picnic in Moscow was held in Krasnaya Presnya park and featured 6 theme zones named 'Technology', 'Science', 'Art', 'Picnic', 'Expo' and 'Market'. A huge convention of people with bionic implants and prosthetics was the core event of the festival. Bebionic pioneer [Nigel Ackland], Actress [Angel Giuffria],'cyborg' activist Neil Harbisson, Jens Naumann whose vision is partially restored by brain implant, drummer Jason Barnes with robotic arm, Christian Ristow with large-scale robotic arm 'The Hand of Man,' and model and singer Viktoria Modesta, were among the participants. The musicians who played on the 3D-printed instruments also performed on the Picnic. 2015 Moscow Geek Picnic schedule also included music show performed on 3D printed instruments, fireworks, drone championship, lectures by Anatoly Wasserman, space test pilot Sergey Ryazansky and painter Boryana Rossa, and a communication session with Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko from aboard the ISS. The festival in Moscow had 22000 visitors.
The Saint Petersburg 2015 Geek Picnic was held at Yelagin Island on June, 20th and 21st and had an event schedule similar to earlier Moscow festival. The visitors were greeted by Ristow's 6-ton robotic arm. The educational part of festival featured talks by the head of the Pushkin Museum Marina Loshak, artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater Andrey Moguchy, musician Oleg Nesterov, ‘Mediaculture’ laboratory head Andrey Svibovich and other science and art workers joined by ‘cyborgs’ Nicolas Huchet and Viktoria Modesta. Pecha Kucha took place during the events. The festival had approximately 25000 visitors.
2016
The first Israeli Geek Picnic, attended by more than 35 thousand people, took place in the Sacher Park in the center of Jerusalem on April 25–27. There were about 150 exhibition stands, of which about 75% were represented by Israeli teams.
The Moscow festival was held on June 18–19 in the Kolomenskoye Museum, in St. Petersburg – on June 25–26 on Elagin Island. Jamie Hyneman, the MythBusters presenter, became the headliner of Russian festivals. More than 40 people gave lectures, including scientific journalist Asya Kazantseva, sculptor Andrey Bartenev, political analyst Anatoly Vasserman, space exploration popularizer Vitaly Egorov, space pilot and hero of the Russian Federation Anton Shkaplerov and others. Traditionally the festival was divided into zones "Science", "Technology", "Art" and "Picnic". ITMO University had its own section at the Petersburg festival, the Polytechnic University – at the Moscow festival. There was a Mars rover presented by St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications and a five-meter high robot "Dragon", created in Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry.
In 2016 Geek Picnic beat the record for attendance: 29,000 people visited the St. Petersburg festival, the Moscow event attracted 27,000 spectators.
2017
In 2017, Moscow's Geek Picnic is scheduled for June 17–18 and will be held on the territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum. The festival in St. Petersburg will be held on June 24–25, in Pulkovo Park in the south of the city. The main theme of the festivals in 2017, co-organized by Kaspersky Lab, is "mind games". Among more than 20 invited researchers are Alexander Panchin, Petr Levich, Ilya Zakharov, Daniel Laman and Vasily Klyucharev. The key speaker of the St. Petersburg festival is the science popularizer Richard Dawkins, the astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss will be the main guest at the Moscow festival.
References
External links
Festivals in Russia
Festivals in Israel
Science festivals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Morgan
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Anthony Morgan
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Anthony Morgan may refer to:
Sir Anthony Morgan of Kilflgin (died 1665), Royalist officer during the English Civil War
Sir Anthony Morgan (politician) (1621–1668), fought on both sides in the English Civil War, represented parliament during the Interregnum after the Restoration an original F.R.S.
Anthony Morgan of Marshfield and Casebuchan (1627–?), Royalist officer during the English Civil War
Anthony Morgan of Freshwater (died 1729), English army officer, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, and Member of Parliament
Anthony Morgan (American football) (born 1967), retired American football player
Anthony Morgan (comedian), Australian comedian
See also
Tony Morgan (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20at%20the%202013%20Bolivarian%20Games
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Bowling at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
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Bowling (Spanish: Boliche), for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place from 23 November to 28 November 2013.
Medal table
Medalists
References
Events at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
2013 in bowling
2013 Bolivarian Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TanzaniteOne
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TanzaniteOne
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TanzaniteOne (TanzaniteOne Mining Ltd) is a gemstone mining company which exclusively mines the blue gemstone, tanzanite. TanzaniteOne Mining Ltd is located in Block C, Merelani, Tanzania. Merelani is the world's only known source of tanzanite.
TanzaniteOne Mining Ltd was founded by Richland Resources, a gemstone development and mining company who were listed on the London Stock Exchanges AIM market (AIM:RLD) in 1994 . In 2014 TanzaniteOne was sold to a private company, Sky Associates, who are now the current owners.
The tanzanite resource is a long narrow area, divided into four blocks: named " A" to "D". TanzaniteOne Mining own the licence to mine the largest area Block C. Medium scale mining is undertaken by Kilimanjaro Mining in Block A and Tanzanite Africa in Block D-extension. The Company’s neighbouring Blocks B and D are mined largely by thousands of artisanal miners who use non mechanised methods which do not allow them to mine as deep or as efficiently as Tanzanite One in C block. This poses a challenge for TanzaniteOne, notably in terms of undermining, whereby, the artisanal miners are mining into TanzaniteOne’s designated licence area to access deeper and better ventilated tunnels than their own. Ongoing security issues from the illegal mining and the lack of support from the local police and government agencies were stated as the major factor in the sale of TanzaniteOne by Richland Resources in 2015.
TanzaniteOne traditionally sell only rough gemstones to wholesale customers called "Sightholders", adopting a sales strategy which is based on the Debeers style of distribution where the sightholder companies are guaranteed a consistent bulk supply of the gemstone, but must purchase all quality grades of the gem as opposed to selecting the goods they require for production.
The role of the sightholders is to process rough tanzanite and to manufacture jewellery. They have the ability to purchase large amounts of rough and have wholesale and retail distribution networks in place to facilitate the sale of loose tanzanite and finished jewellery.
In August 2013 TanzaniteOne announced they had opened an online boutique, www.tananiteoneonline, which sold tanzanite gemstones and tanzanite set gold jewellery. This is the first time the mining company has offered its gemstones to retail customers. In 2015 the website was renamed as richlandgemstones.com after Richland Resources sold TanzaniteOne.
References
Mining in Tanzania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox%20Church%2C%20Christchurch
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Knox Church, Christchurch
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Knox Church is a Presbyterian church in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The original church was built in 1880 to a design by Samuel Farr. When the attendance increased beyond the capacity of the building, a new church was built in 1902 alongside the first one to a design by Robert England. Located on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street, it was one of Christchurch's historic buildings that was badly damaged during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, but which has been repaired to a design by Wilkie and Bruce Architects using the remaining wooden frame. Other buildings in the Knox complex remained functional.
References
Presbyterian churches in New Zealand
Religious buildings and structures in Christchurch
Christianity in Christchurch
Heritage New Zealand Category 2 historic places in Canterbury, New Zealand
2011 Christchurch earthquake
Listed churches in New Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisanitsa%20Island
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Pisanitsa Island
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Pisanitsa Island (, ) is the rocky island in the Meade group off Archar Peninsula, the northwest extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 270 m in southwest-northeast direction and 60 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The island is named after the settlement of Pisanitsa in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Pisanitsa Island is located 1.26 km west by north of Duff Point, 120 m northeast of Cave Island and 3.6 km southeast of Pyramid Island. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Maps
Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Second edition 2010, )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Pisanitsa Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Pisanitsa Island. Copernix satellite image
Islands of the South Shetland Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadegma%20auranticolor
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Diadegma auranticolor
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Diadegma auranticolor is a wasp first described by Aubert in 1979. No subspecies are listed.
References
auranticolor
Insects described in 1979
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaltransstroy
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Yamaltransstroy
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Yamaltransstroy JSC (Russian: Ямалтрансстрой) is a Russian construction company, general contractor of Gazprom for construction and operation of the railway line on Yamal to Bovanenkovo, Kharasavey and Novoport deposits. The head office is in Moscow with a company branch in Labytnangi.
History
In 1985, the construction and installation union Yamaltransstroy was founded with the aim of constructing railways in the far north of Western Siberia.
In 1986, construction started on the Obskaya-Bovanenkovo railway line with a length of 509 km to the gas condensate deposits at Kharasavey Cape. The track is located completely beyond the Arctic Circle in permafrost conditions, and is one of the most difficult railway tracks due to geological, climatological and natural conditions.
In 1992, the enterprise became a joint-stock company.
In 2009, the company completed the construction of a 4-kilometre bridge crossing the River Yuribey (334th km of the track), one of the most difficult engineering facilities beyond the Arctic Circle.
By 2010–2011, the track was practically completed and revenues of the company fell by half, reduced to 9.4 billion roubles in 2010.
Owners and management
In 1992, head of the production construction and installation union (PSMO) Vladimir Nak was elected General Director of PSMO Yamaltransstroy. In April 1997, his son Igor Nak became General Director of Yamaltransstroy JSC.
As of the end of 2011, around 82% of the company is controlled by organisations of Igor Nak, and negotiations were conducted about the sale of Nak's share to Stroygazconsulting of Ziyad Manasir.
References
External links
Company website (in Russian)
Construction and civil engineering companies of Russia
Companies based in Moscow
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1985
Russian companies established in 1985
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuminulia%20buscki
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Accuminulia buscki
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Accuminulia buscki is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae described by John W. Brown in 2000. It is found in Chile. The species was first recorded as an interception at the Port of New York in a shipment of grapes from Chile.
The length of the forewings is 6.5–8 mm for males and 6–7 mm for females. The forewings are whitish tan, with irregular gray, brown and cream overscaling and irrorations (speckling). The hindwings are dingy white, with pale gray overscaling and mottling. Adults have been recorded on wing from October to April.
Larvae have been reared from the fruit of grape Vitis species, Prunus domestica, Prunus armeniaca and Prunus persica. They bore into the fruit of their host plant. It is not thought to be an introduced pest in Chile, but a native species that has expanded its food plant range to include agricultural plants.
Etymology
The species is named in honour of microlepidopterist August Busck.
References
Moths described in 2000
Euliini
Fauna of Chile
Moths of South America
Endemic fauna of Chile
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20at%20the%202013%20Bolivarian%20Games
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Boxing at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
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Boxing, for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place from 24 November to 29 November 2013.
Medal table
Key:
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
References
Events at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
2013 in boxing
2013 Bolivarian Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuminulia%20longiphallus
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Accuminulia longiphallus
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Accuminulia longiphallus is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It was first described by John W. Brown in 1999 and is found in Chile.
The length of the forewings is 6.5–7.8 mm for males and about 6.1 mm for females. The forewings are grey, with irregular tan, black and cream overscaling and irrorations (speckles). The basal area of the hindwings is covered by modified cream-white sex scaling. The distal part is pale grey brown.
Etymology
The species name refers to the comparatively long aedeagus of the species.
References
Moths described in 1999
Euliini
Fauna of Chile
Moths of South America
Endemic fauna of Chile
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%B1upiaq%20Braille
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Iñupiaq Braille
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Iñupiaq Braille is a braille alphabet of the Inupiat language maintained by the Alaskan Department of Education.
Chart
The print digraphs ch and sr are digraphs in braille as well. The alphabet is,
{| class="wikitable Unicode" style="line-height: 1.2"
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|colspan=2| ch
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| k
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| ŋ
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for ñ is from Spanish Braille. ŋ and ṭ are the mirror-image of n and t. Ł is from English Braille th, the English sound which is closest to it. Ḳ and ṭ are only found in older texts. Punctuation is the same as in English Braille.
References
See also
Inuktitut Braille
French-ordered braille alphabets
Inupiat language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elnias%20%C5%A0iauliai
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Elnias Šiauliai
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Elnias Šiauliai was a Lithuanian football club from Šiauliai.
History
It was founded by Elnias leather and shoes factory. It was the most accomplished football club from Šiauliai during Soviet times. Elnias had the most wins (7) in Lithuanian SSR Top League (1945–1989).
Achievements
Lithuanian SSR Top League
Winners (7): 1948, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959–1960, 1960–1961
Runners-up (3): 1950, 1951, 1956
Third places (3): 1952, 1954, 1958–1959
Lithuanian Cup (Tiesa Cup):
Winners (3): 1950, 1957, 1959
Runners-up (1): 1951
3rd place in Baltic Radio Cup Tournament (1958)
Managers
Voldemaras Jaškevičius, 1948–1953
A. Sipavičius, 1955–1958
I. Urbonas, 1958–1959
V. Šambaris, 1959–1960
S. Rostkauskas, 1961–1965
H. Jakimavičius, 1966–1968
R. Jankauskas, 1969–1986
External links
Statistics – futbolinis.lt
Defunct football clubs in Lithuania
Sport in Šiauliai
1947 establishments in Lithuania
1986 disestablishments in Lithuania
Association football clubs established in 1947
Association football clubs disestablished in 1986
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornstein
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Bornstein
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Bornstein is a German and Ashkenazi surname. It may refer to:
David Bornstein (author) (born ?), Canadian-born U.S. business writer and journalist
David Bornstein (politician) (born 1940), Australian politician
Ernst Israel Bornstein (1922 - 1978), Polish-born Jewish holocaust survivor, author of 'Die Lange Nacht'
Harold Bornstein, American gastroenterologist
Jonathan Bornstein (born 1984), American-Israeli soccer player
Kate Bornstein (born 1948), U.S. author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Marc H. Bornstein (born ?), U.S. biologist and psychologist
Murray Bornstein (1917–1995), U.S. neuroscientist, biologist, and educator
Sam Bornstein (1920-1990), British historian and activist
Steve Bornstein (born 1952), U.S. sports television executive
Stefan R. Bornstein (born 1961), German physician and University Professor
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (born 1964), German philosopher
See also
Neudorf-Bornstein, German municipality
Landolt–Börnstein, online science and engineering database
de:Bornstein
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold%20Sekongo
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Leopold Sekongo
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Leopold Sekongo (born 25 September 1969) is a Dutch draughts player of Ivorian origin. He was once Champion de Côte d'Ivoire.
References
1969 births
Living people
Dutch draughts players
Players of international draughts
Ivorian expatriates in the Netherlands
Ivorian sportspeople
Ivorian sportsmen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Robertson
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Kay Robertson
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Marsha Kay Carroway Robertson (born December 21, 1947) is an American television personality, best known for her appearances on the A&E reality series Duck Dynasty.
Robertson is the wife of entrepreneur and Duck Dynasty co-star Phil Robertson, and mother of Duck Dynasty personality and current Duck Commander CEO Willie Robertson.
She has a passion for cooking, and often has her entire family over for a home-cooked meal after a long day's work. She is the author of the cookbook Miss Kay's Duck Commander Kitchen: Faith, Family, and Food--Bringing Our Home to Your Table.
Personal life
In high school, Kay was a cheerleader and a debutante.
Kay and Phil Robertson began dating in 1964 and married two years later. Some sources claim she was 16 at the time of her marriage; others indicate she was 17 when she gave birth to her first son, Alan. On an episode of their podcast, Unashamed, Alan said she was born in 1950 and was 15 years old when she had him. They have four sons: Alan, Jase, Willie, and Jep, as well as 16 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
In June 2021, Robertson was attacked by her pet dog, Bobo, resulting in damage to her mouth and lips. She reported that she was on a liquid diet and that she would need reconstructive surgery to repair her lips in the future.
Bibliography
Miss Kay's Duck Commander Kitchen: Faith, Family, and Food – Bringing Our Home to Your Table (co-written with Chrys Howard). Simon & Schuster. (2013);
References
1947 births
Living people
American cookbook writers
American debutantes
Participants in American reality television series
American members of the Churches of Christ
Louisiana Republicans
Robertson family
Women cookbook writers
Age controversies
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glogovo%20Passage
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Glogovo Passage
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Glogovo Passage (, ‘Protok Glogovo’ \'pro-tok 'glo-go-vo\) is the 110 metre wide passage between Zverino Island on the west-southwest and Cave Island on the east-northeast in the Meade group off Archar Peninsula, the northwest extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The passage is named after the settlement of Glogovo in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Glogovo Passage is located at . British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Maps
Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Second edition 2010, )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Glogovo Passage. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Glogovo Passage. Copernix satellite image
Bodies of water of Greenwich Island
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Straits of the South Shetland Islands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahuparak
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Bahuparak
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Bahuparak is a 2014 Indian Kannada language drama film written, directed and co-produced by Simple Suni of Simple Agi Ondh Love Story fame. The movie was released in the month of July 2014. The film features Srinagar Kitty and Meghana Raj in the lead roles. This film marks the 25th venture for the actor Srinagar Kitty.
The film commenced its shooting in July 2013 and released its first trailer soon after the shooting began. Mahohar Joshi is the cinematographer and Bharath B. J., who also composed the music for the movie Simple Agi Ondh Love Story, has composed the score for this film as well.
Plot
The movie opens with a call for a play titled 'Bahuparak'. The play opens with a character, which is portrayed by well known thinker and stand up comedian Richard Louis, expounding tenets of life and the principles of Karma. The story moves into a scene where the three main characters namely Manas, Mani, and Mauni, all played by Srinagar Kitty are introduced and each one starts narrating their life experiences.
Manas kicks off the story where he is shown as a handsome hunk who is on his way to meet the love of his life. However, his joy soon turns into gloom when he learns of a tragic news. The story, now being told in three distinct tracks, switches to the point where Mani is introduced. Mani is found unconscious on the road. He meets a friend named Mohan, who takes him in and helps him to etch out a living. However, Mani fails to make a living in the mainstream way, and he and Mohan soon take the shortcut and start robbing unsuspecting people, which soon enough to their bad luck ends in a murder. They are picked up by the police, where an inspector offers them a choice. Either go to jail for a long time or take the blame for a murder they didn't commit, and get out on bail. Mani and Mohan accept the offer.
The story then moves to a village, somewhere in North Karnataka. Mauni, a limping middle aged aspiring politician is frustrated because the person he helped to win an election has deserted him. To further exacerbate his feelings, he suffers a humiliating defeat in the next election. At this point, one of his friend's, also acting as his trusted adviser, leads Mauni to adopt the tried and tested method to win an election i.e. through money and muscle power.
The story ever revolving around Manas, Mani, and Mauni switches back to Manas, where it is revealed that his childhood friend Sneha played by Meghana Raj has stepped into his life. Just when Manas decides to propose Sneha, her twin sister, Preethi, enters their lives causing further turmoil in Manas's life.
Meanwhile, Mani, now slowly making his way as a big rowdy, soon establishes himself as a strong underworld don. Whereas Mauni reaches the highest echelons of power, however, his greed for power soon reaches unfathomable positions.
The story takes a critical turn at the point where, Manas, caught in the love triangle between Sneha and Preethi. Mani, caught in the cross fire of becoming the biggest don in the country. Mauni, who wants to become a top notch politician.
Will Manas come out unscathed? Will Mani reach his goal of becoming the biggest don? Will Mauni be able to quench his insatiable thirst for power? But, above all of this, who is Manas, Mani, and Mauni?. How their lives are linked forms the rest of the story.
Production
Bahuparak features Kitty in three different roles spanning three different generations. The film began the shoot in a 73-year-old house in North Karnataka. The film dialogues are written by one of the leading Kannada daily journalist, Hari.
Cast
Srinagar Kitty as Manas / Mani / Mouni (Three stage of life)
Meghana Raj as Sneha / Preethi (Dual roles)
Naveen Sagar as Virus
Manasa Rao as Samanvaya
Sukrutha Wagle as Prathibimba
Rakshit Shetty in guest appearance as Richie
Pawan Wadeyar in guest appearance as Director Pawan
Sundar Raj
Pramila Joshai
Bhavana Rao (Special appearance)
Vijeth as Mohana
Naveen Shankar as a salesman
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film was composed by Bharath B. J., making his second successive collaboration with the director Suni after Simple Agi Ondh Love Story. While the major part of the songs are penned by director Suni himself, the soundtrack also features a popular folk song written by Shishunala Sharif. The soundtrack consists of 10 songs.
Track list
Release
The film was released on 25 July 2014 across Karnataka. Majestic, known as the heart of Kannada Cinema theaters, featured this movie in the renovated Menaka theater.
Reception
The movie has received mixed to positive reviews. The three track storytelling style has been hailed as an experiment hitherto unknown in the Kannada Industry. Suni's style of narration, dialogues, and songs especially the melodious "Usiraaguve" track has heads swaying.
References
External links
Bahuparak Starts
Muhurat of Bahuparak Movie Held in Metro
2014 films
2010s Kannada-language films
Indian drama films
2014 drama films
Films directed by Suni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Up%20For%20Ever
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Make Up For Ever
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Make Up For Ever is a French cosmetics brand owned by LVMH. It was created in 1984 by make-up artist Dany Sanz.
History
Make Up For Ever was founded in 1984 by make-up artist Dany Sanz. It provides cosmetics to many people, including professional make-up artists. LVMH acquired the brand in 1999 to expand its make-up services and developed the services to appeal to its customer base. In 2004, Nicolas Cordier was named CEO and formed a manager/creator team with Sanz. Gabrielle Rodriguez, the current CEO, was appointed in 2019.
In 2002, Make Up For Ever Academy started in Paris, and has since expanded to New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Brussels, Helsinki and Nice.
References
LVMH brands
French brands
Cosmetics companies of France
Cosmetics brands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoeing%20at%20the%202013%20Bolivarian%20Games
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Canoeing at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
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Canoeing (Spanish: Canotaje), for the 2013 Bolivarian Games, took place from 17 November to 19 November 2013.
Medal table
Key:
Men's events
Women's events
References
Events at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
2013 in canoeing
2013 Bolivarian Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acmanthina%20acmanthes
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Acmanthina acmanthes
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Acmanthina acmanthes is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae in tribe Euliini. It is found in Chile and Argentina.
Taxonomy
The species was first described in 1931 by Edward Meyrick as Peronea acmanthes. It was subsequently transferred to genus Acleris in 1958, from where it was transferred in 1995 to "Eulia", then in 1999 to Haemateulia, and transferred once more in 2000 to its current genus, Acmanthina, of which it is the namesake and type species.
Distribution and habitat
Acmanthina acmanthes occurs in Argentina and Chile, where it has been found in the Valparaiso Region (Quillota Province), the O'Higgins Region (Cachapoal Province), the Maule Region (in the Talca and Curico provinces), the Bio-Bio Region (Bio-Bio Province), the Ñuble Region, the Araucania Region (Cautín Province) and the Los Lagos Region (Llanquihue Province). It has been found at elevations from 300 to 1400 m.
Appearance
Acmanthina acmanthes has dark black and brown forewings with a white patch and a forewing length of 6.2–7.2 mm. Antennae are serrated in male specimens only.
Notes
References
Moths described in 1931
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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