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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave%20All%20Fair
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Leave All Fair
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Leave All Fair is a 1985 New Zealand made film starring John Gielgud as John Middleton Murry the husband of Katherine Mansfield.
He is presented as a sanctimonious exploiter of her memory, who ill-treated her during their association. Jane Birkin plays both Mansfield in flashbacks and the fictitious Marie Taylor who finds a letter from the dying Mansfield to Murry in his papers.
The theme was developed by New Zealand director Stanley Harper, but he was fired two weeks before shooting, and John Reid took over the project, introducing the "ghost" element and the two time frames. Shot in France at Moulin d'Ande and St Pierre du Vauvray with finance raised by Pacific Films, the film had to be finished before the 1984 cut-off date for New Zealand tax breaks.
Plot
The film is set in France in 1956, 33 years after the death of Mansfield and a year before Murry’s own death.
Murry visits André de Sarry a (fictional) French publisher who is about to publish an edition of her collected letters and journals. Murry is presented as struggling with his conscience as he recalls the ill and alone Mansfield (seen in flashbacks), and decides to publish almost all of her work.
de Sarry’s New Zealand partner Marie Taylor reads Mansfield’s work and among Middleton Murry’s papers finds a letter to him from the dying Mansfield. She confronts him as "another exploitative male" who makes a sanctimonious speech at the book launch. The letter from Mansfield says (rather ambiguously):
I should like him to publish as little as possible …He will understand that I desire to leave as few traces of my camping ground as possible .... All my manuscripts I leave entirely to you to do what you like with .... Please destroy all letters you do not wish to keep and all papers .... Have a clean sweep.... and leave all fair, will you.
Cast
John Gielgud as John Middleton Murry
Jane Birkin as both Katherine Mansfield and Marie Taylor
Féodor Atkine as André de Sarry
Simon Ward as young John (John Jeune)
as Lisa
Maurice Chevit as Alain
Mireille Alcantara as Violetta
Leonard Pezzino as Alfredo
Film reception
Helen Martin says the film is "beautifully shot in the European tradition" and it was described at the London Film Festival as "arguably the best film to come out of New Zealand so far", but others criticised the portrayal of Middleton Murry as "simplifying the KM/Murry relationship into a cliché".
Variety said it was "an affecting experience".
References
External links
Leave All Fair at NZ On Screen (with video extracts)
1985 films
New Zealand drama films
Films set in France
1985 drama films
Films set in the 1950s
Films shot in France
1980s New Zealand films
1980s English-language films
Cultural depictions of Katherine Mansfield
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Vale%20%28Australian%20footballer%29
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Jack Vale (Australian footballer)
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Jack Vale (27 April 1905 – 12 April 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Jack Vale's profile at Blueseum
1905 births
1970 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Carlton Football Club players
Fitzroy Football Club players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katya%20Rubia
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Katya Rubia
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Katya Rubia is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP Centre) and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, both part of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
She is best known for her work in child cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychiatry, particularly on disorders of impulsiveness, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and conduct disorder. She uses techniques such as structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and fMRI-neurofeedback.
Education and Profession
Katya Rubia received her BA in Philosophy and Psychology in 1987 at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She obtained her PhD in neuropsychology (on the neuropsychology of timing functions in brain lesion patients) in 1994 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. After graduating, she was a post-doc research assistant for six months at the Technical University of Munich, in the Neurology Department. She was a post-doc research assistant in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam for one year from 1994-1995. Since 1995, she has been working at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry (Child Psychiatry Department) in London, England, where she became Professor in 2008. She teaches cognitive neuroscience, and is head of the section of developmental neuropsychology and neuroimaging.
Research career
Some of Katya Rubia's early contributions to the field are that children with ADHD have difficulties with timing functions, which are closely associated with impulsiveness. Her main contribution to the field has been her work in neuroimaging of the disorder. She was a pioneer in imaging the brains of ADHD children in the 90s, which she carries on researching till today, and has substantially contributed to dispel the view that ADHD is a "myth" of naughty children by showing that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by abnormalities in brain chemistry, brain structure and brain function.
She also has imaged a wide range of other child and adult psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, schizophrenia, child abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder and others with the aim to understand which brain abnormalities are specific to ADHD and which are shared with other childhood disorders.
Another line of research has been to investigate the effects of stimulant medication, the gold-standard treatment of ADHD, and of non-stimulant medications, on brain structure, function and chemistry in ADHD.
Recently her research is focusing on the clinical application of neuroimaging to help with diagnosis and treatment. She has used machine learning techniques to test whether we can diagnose ADHD patients based on structural and functional MRI scans. One other exciting direction Prof Rubia has taken with neuroimaging is using fMRI-Neurofeedback to teach children to self-regulate those brain regions that her research has shown to be underfunctioning. ADHD individuals have been found to have abnormalities in very specific regions of the brain, specifically the right prefrontal cortex. She does this by creating a video game that is connected to the brain activation the patients have to learn to increase, and in response a rocket ship moves higher in the sky within the game. </ref> . She also uses brain stimulation combined with cognitive training to modulate these brain regions that are not working well in ADHD patients. The hope is to develop brain therapies that have longer-term neuroplastic effects that can help to reduce the symptoms of ADHD.
Katya Rubia has over 200 publications in academic journals., an h factor of 98 and sits on the editorial board of the journals of "Biological Psychiatry", "Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging" and "ADHD".
She was awarded the Kramer-Pollnow prize in 2013 for her contribution to the research of child psychiatric disorders.
Katya Rubia is also a recipient of the 2019 and 2020 Highly Cited Researchers that recognises the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for the field and year in Web of Science
Other interests
Other interests are the research of the effects of Meditation on brain function and structure. She has also studied how meditation could be used as a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment in children with ADHD.
References
External links
Living people
British neuroscientists
British women neuroscientists
British women scientists
Academics of King's College London
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Obsessive–compulsive disorder researchers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike%20Schmidt
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Ulrike Schmidt
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Ulrike Schmidt is a British psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London in London, where she is Professor of Eating Disorders as well as the Head of the Section of Eating Disorders. Schmidt is a consultant at the Eating Disorders Service within the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Schmidt is known for her ground breaking work helping people with eating disorders and their clinicians.
Career
Schmidt undertook her medical studies at the University of Düsseldorf. After graduation she went on to train in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London and became a consultant in community and liaison psychiatry at St. Mary's Hospital. She has been a consultant in the Eating Disorders Service at the Maudsley Hospital since 1998 and a professor of eating disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London since 2006.
In her role as consultant at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Schmidt is in charge of the Maudsley Hospital eating disorders service out-patient program, which assesses and treats patients with eating disorders.
In her role as researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Schmidt's research into eating disorders focuses on brief psychological treatments and self-help, as well as treatment of self-harm and diabetes. Schmidt has also done extensive work on the use of new technologies in the treatment of eating disorders using online computer based interventions.
Dr Schmidt also fulfils a number of other roles, including chair of the Section of Eating Disorders at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and also chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders.
Recognition
Schmidt has won a National Health Service Innovation Award for the development of a computer based self-help intervention for people with anorexia nervosa and their carers. She was also a recipient of the King's College London Graduate School Supervisory Excellence Awards for 2012-13
Schmidt's work has also been highlighted in a Lancet profile on the King's College London Eating Disorders Unit in early 2013.
Publications
Schmidt is a prolific researcher and has published over 160 papers, all of which can be accessed using the King's College London Research Portal - PURE.
References
External links
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
Academics of King's College London
British psychiatrists
British women psychiatrists
NIHR Senior Investigators
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Stone%20%28Australian%20footballer%29
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Billy Stone (Australian footballer)
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Billy Stone (6 May 1901 – 14 December 1993) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Billy Stone's profile at Blueseum
1901 births
1993 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Camberwell Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt%20i%20ett%20%C3%A4ventyr
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Mitt i ett äventyr
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"Mitt i ett äventyr" is a song written by Stephan Berg, and performed by Carola Häggkvist at Melodifestivalen 1990, where the song ended up second, 15 points after Edin-Ådahl with "Som en vind". During Carola Häggkvist's the Nacka transmitter was knocked out. Urban rumors told about sabotage, since Carola Häggkvist had joined Christian denomination Livets ord.
The single peaked at number five on the Swedish Singles Chart. The song stayed at Svensktoppen for 10 weeks during the period of 21 April-25 August 1990, peaking at number three.
The song also entered Trackslistan.
In 1990, the song was also recorded by Curt Haagers for the album "Curt Haagers 10".
Charts
References
1990 singles
1990 songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 1990
Swedish-language songs
Carola Häggkvist songs
Curt Haagers songs
Mariann Grammofon singles
Songs written by Stephan Berg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20John%27s%20Wood%20Church
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St John's Wood Church
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St John's Wood Church is a Church of England parish church in St John's Wood, London. The church is located on Lord's Roundabout, between Lord's Cricket Ground and Regent's Park, and has a Grade II* listing. The parish is in the Archdeaconry of Charing Cross, in the deanery of Westminster St Marylebone.
History
St John's Wood Church started life as a chapel of ease to St Marylebone Parish Church, and was constructed in 1814 by Thomas Hardwick, who was simultaneously constructing the current St Marylebone Church. Although the church originally had extensive burial grounds, these were closed in 1855 and opened as a public garden, St. John's Wood Church Grounds, in 1886. In 1898 the building became a chapel of ease to Christ Church, Marylebone, and increasingly became the centre of administration for the parish.
After bomb damage during the Second World War rendered St Stephen's, Avenue Road unusable, St John's Wood Church became a parish church in its own right in 1952. As well as holding regular services for the community, the church has hosted the wedding of Peggy Cripps to Joe Appiah in June 1953, the blessing of the marriage of Paul and Linda McCartney in 1969, and the funeral of Ursula Vaughan Williams in 2007.
A Church Hall complex was constructed in the 1970s, the completion of which was marked with the erection of a statue of the church's patron, John the Baptist, by Hans Feibusch. Restoration of the church interior took place in 1991 under the supervision of Michael Reardon, when the chancel pavement was relaid in limestone and the present central altar replaced the high altar at the east end of the church.
Present day
The church has between 130 and 150 regular worshippers, with an electoral roll of 225. Services aim to maintain "a tradition of thoughtful and intelligent preaching and teaching", as well as the church's musical tradition; in addition to a professional octet of singers leading the worship at the main Sunday service, an amateur Chamber Choir made up of members of the congregation sings Evensong once a month. The organ is a three manual, 52 stop instrument by B. C. Shepherd and Sons. The building is also kept open from early morning to late afternoon every day as a place of prayer and stillness.
St John's Wood Church works closely with other local churches, who together hold a monthly service with letter-writing for Amnesty International. Clergy from St John's Wood Church also meet with representatives from the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and London Central Mosque to hold scriptural reasoning discussions.
During term-time the Church Hall complex is occupied by St John's Wood Pre-Preparatory School during the day, while a local youth club operates in the crypt on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. The hall is also occasionally hired out for local residency association meetings, and to charities such as ARC UK.
Incumbents
Incumbents of St John's Wood Chapel
Okey Belfour, 1814–18
Gilbert Parke, 1818–25
Thomas Wharton, 1825–55
Henry Sandham, 1855–95
William Ferrar, 1896–99
James Beaumont, 1900–15
Edward Adams, 1915–25
Brierley Kay, 1925–40
Oswin Gibbs-Smith, 1941–47
Noel Perry-Gore, 1947–52
Vicars of St John's Wood Church
Noel Perry-Gore, 1952–72
Tim Raphael, 1973–83
John Slater, 1983–2001
Anders Bergquist, 2002–present
See also
List of churches in London
References
External links
The church's website
Contact details for the church
The Church's Facebook page
Church of England church buildings in the City of Westminster
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Diocese of London
St John's Wood
Grade II* listed churches in the City of Westminster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned%20Kick
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Ned Kick
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Ned Kick (12 October 1904 – 24 February 1991) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Ned Kick's profile at Blueseum
1904 births
1991 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Fitzroy Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjut%20kayaranin%20kits
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Arjut kayaranin kits
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Arjut kayaranin kits () is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia.
References
Populated places in Lori Province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobogenesis%20centrota
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Lobogenesis centrota
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Lobogenesis centrota is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Peru.
References
Moths described in 1997
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Kunduri
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Al-Kunduri
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Amid al-Mulk Abu Nasr al-Kunduri (; 1024 – 29 November 1064), commonly known as al-Kunduri (; also spelled Kunduri), was a Persian bureaucrat, who served as the vizier of the first Seljuk Sultan Tughril () and his nephew Alp Arslan ().
Kunduri was born in Kundur. He was recruited into the Seljuk bureaucracy as a secretary, at the suggestion of his teacher, Imam al-Muwaffaq al-Nishapuri. A natural schemer, Kunduri sought to exploit the power and influence over the Seljuk sultan.
Kunduri's first scheme was during his early vizierate when Tughril had tasked him to arrange a marriage between Tughril and a princess from the family of the Khwarazmshah. Instead, Kunduri arranged the marriage for himself. Kunduri subsequently went to Tughril, where he absolved himself by shaving off his beard and castrating himself. While Tughril was preparing a march towards Mosul to fight the local contender al-Basasiri in 1057, Kunduri plotted to install the son of Tughril's wife Altun Jan Khatun, Anushirwan, on the throne. However, the conspirators, including Altun Jan Khatun, quickly dissociated themselves from the conspiracy. Nevertheless, Kunduri was kept as vizier.
Kunduri's third scheme was against the Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im (), whom he successfully convinced to accept a marriage between his daughter and Tughril. After the death of Tughril in 1063, Kunduri attempted to install his infant nephew Sulayman (a son of Chaghri Beg) on the throne. It was, however, Chaghri Beg's more competent and elder son Alp Arslan, who ruled Khurasan, that ultimately ascended the throne. Kunduri was initially kept as vizier, but at the instigation of his peer Nizam al-Mulk, Alp Arslan had Kunduri imprisoned on 31 December 1063, and executed the following year, on 29 November 1064. Kunduri was succeeded by Nizam al-Mulk.
Background
Kunduri was born in around 1024 as the son of a dehqan, possibly of Arab ancestry. His nisba suggests a connection to the profession of selling frankincense. The 12th-century Iranian author Sadr al-Din al-Husayni () says that Kunduri's place of birth is near Turaythith in Quhistan, the southern part of Khurasan. Kunduri has been referred to as a "Khurasani." Along with the poet Abu'l-Qasim Ali Bakharzi, Kunduri was educated in the Khurasanian principal city of Nishapur, by Imam al-Muwaffaq al-Nishapuri.
Career
Under Tughril
When the first Seljuk Sultan Tughril () conquered Nishapur in 1038, he told Imam al-Muwaffaq that he wanted a secretary who could speak both fluent Arabic and Persian. The latter recommended Kunduri, who was subsequently appointed a secretary of the chancery. In July or August 1055, Tughril appointed Kunduri as his vizier, thus succeeding Nizam al-Mulk Dihistani. During his vizierate, Kunduri began to assemble a standard Perso-Islamic state and this was continued under the following Seljuk sultans, Alp Arslan () and Malik-Shah I (). Kunduri also acted as an interpreter for Tughril, translating Arabic and Persian into Turkic for him. As part of the Seljuk propaganda, Kunduri instructed the poet and dabir (scribe) Ibn Hassul to write an article that criticized the Kitab al-Taji of Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sabi, which was composed in 978 as Buyid propaganda, and connected them with the Sasanian ruler Bahram V (). The work of Ibn Hassul, amongst other things, connected the Seljuk family with Tur, a son of the mythological Iranian king Fereydun.
Kunduri sought to exploit the power and influence over the sultan. During his early vizierate, Kunduri was tasked by Tughril to arrange a marriage between Tughril and a princess from the family of the Khwarazmshah. Instead, he arranged the marriage for himself. Kunduri subsequently went to Tughril, where he absolved himself by shaving off his beard and castrating himself. While Tughril was preparing a march towards Mosul to fight the local contender al-Basasiri in 1057, Kunduri plotted to install the son of Tughril's wife Altun Jan Khatun, Anushirwan, on the throne. Seeing that he only had 2,000 soldiers at his departure, Tughril reprimanded Kunduri; "Why did you not inform me so that I could wait until all the men were assembled?"
During the subsequent rebellion of Tughril's half-brother Ibrahim Inal, the sultan requested the aid of Kunduri. Altun Jan initially wanted to help, but was persuaded by Kunduri that their soldiers would desert to Inal and only bolster his forces, in return further weakening Altun Jan and Tughril's army. Kunduri once again attempted to place Anushirwan on the throne, now with the support of Altun Jan, the Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im (), as well as the merchants and the leading officials of Baghdad. This plot was opposed by two of Tughril's generals, Umar and Inanjil, who rejected Anushirwan. When Kunduri requested al-Qa'im to announce Anushirwan as sultan, he told him to postpone the plot and secure the city against al-Basasiri. Altun Jan also had a change of heart and instead rejoined Tughril. The following details regarding the plot are unclear. Kunduri and Anushirwan continued to serve under Tughril, fighting alongside him against al-Basasiri, who was killed by a clerk of Kunduri.
Kunduri was a key figure in the negotiations with the reluctant caliph al-Qa'im to arrange a marriage between his daughter and Tughril. According to the Arab scholar Ibn al-Jawzi (died 1201), Kunduri had incited Tughril with this idea to counterbalance the marriage already arranged between Tughril's niece Arslan Khatun and al-Qa'im. Tughril became somewhat obsessed with the idea of marrying an Abbasid princess, perhaps with the aspiration that one of his descendants one day might rule as caliph. Although Kunduri and al-Qa'im seemingly had a friendly relationship, they soon fell out due to the actions of the former. Between May and June 1061, Kunduri and al-Qa'im were in prolonged and resentful negotiations regarding the marriage, with Kunduri at some point even threatening to seize the iqta' (estates) of the caliph. Between February and March 1062, Kunduri finally convinced al-Qa'im to agree, in exchange for lucrative payment, and on the condition that his daughter was not to leave the caliphal palace. Kunduri ignored the latter term as the caliph's daughter was transported to Tughril's residence in Baghdad. Regardless, the marriage was only nominal and ended abruptly after six months and twenty-three days due to Tughril's death on 4 September 1063.
Downfall and death
Tughril had no children and thus had nominated his infant nephew Sulayman (a son of Chaghri Beg) as his successor. Kunduri supported this choice, and may have been the one to suggest it to Tughril to greatly expand his authority as the regent of the child. However, Chaghri Beg's more competent and elder son Alp Arslan, who ruled Khurasan, opposed this choice and had the support of the competent bureaucrat Nizam al-Mulk, as well as a powerful army in Khurasan. Kunduri quickly included the name of Sulayman in the khutba (Friday sermon) of the capital of Ray. He subsequently contacted Alp Arslan, threatening him and telling him to be satisfied with dominion over Khurasan. Tughril's cousin Qutalmish also emerged as a contestant for the throne, which led to peace and cooperation between Kunduri and Alp Arslan, who defeated and killed Qutalmish outside Ray. Alp Arslan thus succeeded to the sultanate, and retained Kunduri as vizier. However, at the instigation of Nizam al-Mulk, Alp Arslan had Kunduri imprisoned in Marw-Rud on 31 December 1063 and also had his property confiscated. Nizam al-Mulk was then made the vizier of the sultanate. After approximately a year in prison, Kunduri was murdered by two slave-soldiers sent by Alp Arslan on 29 November 1064. Kunduri's sister took his body to Kundur, where it was buried. Al-Kunduri was survived by a daughter.
Beliefs
A fervid adherent of the Sunni Islam madhhab (school) of Hanafi, Kunduri included the cursing of the Ash'ari school in the khutba of Nishapur in 1053, which led to distinguished scholars, such as al-Qushayri and al-Juwayni to seek refuge in the Arabian region of Hijaz. Both medieval and modern sources largely agree that the act was political, done so that the Hanafi could occupy high offices. Kunduri seems to have later abandoned his zealotry.
Legacy and assessment
A prominent figure in the Seljuk realm, Kunduri was praised by contemporary poets, such as Bakharzi. Kunduri composed Arabic poetry, supported the priests and poets of the realm, and was also an active builder. Kunduri was amongst the Iranian figures who helped the Seljuk rulers advance from that of tribal chieftains with limited power to that of "Most Exalted Sultans" (Salāṭīn-i A'ẓam) with a fully structured court, an Iranian administration, and an obedient partly slave army of multiple ethnicities. However, this transition also alienated the Seljuk sultans from the Turkmen, who, as a result, often rallied around rebellions led by disgruntled Seljuk family members, such as Inal and Qutalmish.
References
Sources
1024 births
1064 deaths
Viziers of the Seljuk Empire
11th-century Iranian people
People from Razavi Khorasan Province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20S.%20Sheshagiri%20Rao
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L. S. Sheshagiri Rao
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L. S. Sheshagiri Rao (Kannada:ಎಲ್. ಎಸ್. ಶೇಷಗಿರಿ ರಾವ್; 16 February 1925 – 20 December 2019), often referred to as LSS, was an Indian writer and academic specializing in Kannada literature. He wrote an English-Kannada dictionary that is a standard reference text for students. Rao worked for government colleges before gaining a position at Bangalore University's English department. He was the first president of the Kannada Book Trust.
Rao won the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award for his work English Sahitya Charitre. Rao was elected president of the 74th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana. Rao has also won the Rajyotsava Award, Masti Award, and the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award for his work.
He died on 20 December 2019 in Bengaluru, aged 94.
References
1925 births
Kannada-language writers
2019 deaths
Academic staff of Bangalore University
People from Bangalore
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A4r%20l%C3%B6ven%20faller
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När löven faller
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"När löven faller" is a song written by Carola Häggkvist (lyrics) and Ingemar Åberg (composer). Carola Häggkvist applied for Melodifestivalen 2003 with the song, where it was first accepted. But when Carola Häggkvist said she didn't want to perform it on stage herself, the song was rejected since rules require the one singing at the demo recording to be prepared to perform the song at Melodifestivalen.
Instead, the song became a major Svensktoppen hit, entering the chart on 11 May 2003, reaching number eight. The song peaked at third place. On 9 November 2003, the song had been knocked out from Svensktoppen after 26 rounds.
Carola Häggkvist originally performed the song on 9 March 2003 during the Swedish TV-show Söndagsöppet.
References
External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas
2003 singles
2003 songs
Carola Häggkvist songs
Swedish-language songs
Songs written by Carola Häggkvist
Universal Music Group singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Davis%20%28footballer%29
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Victor Davis (footballer)
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Victor Davis (2 November 1902 – 2 September 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Victor Davis's profile at Blueseum
1902 births
1981 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Bendigo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Asian%20Beach%20Volleyball%20Championships
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2013 Asian Beach Volleyball Championships
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The 2013 Asian Beach Volleyball Championship was a beach volleyball event, that was held from November 7 to 10, 2013 in Wuhan, China.
Medal summary
Participating nations
Men
(1)
(3)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(2)
Women
(1)
(3)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
Men's tournament
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Knockout round
Women's tournament
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Knockout round
References
Men's Results
Women's Results
External links
Asian Volleyball Confederation
Asian Championships
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Asian Beach Volleyball Championship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Brewis
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Ted Brewis
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Edward Gordon Brewis (13 October 1901 – 4 October 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played with Camberwell and Preston in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
Notes
External links
Ted Brewis's profile at Blueseum
1901 births
1994 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Maffra Football Club players
Camberwell Football Club players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
VFL/AFL players born in England
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aj%2C%20aj%2C%20aj
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Aj, aj, aj
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"Aj, aj, aj" or "Aj, aj, aj (det bultar och det bankar)" is a song written by Rune Wallebom, and originally recorded by Schytts who scored a Svensktoppen hit between the period of 9 September-9 December 1973. The song topped the chart. It was also recorded by Matz Bladhs and Roosarna.
The song's lyrics describe a love meeting during a party where the I person soon learns the you person is already married and has children, and describes his/her own feelings.
When Schytts recorded the song in 1976 on the album Änglalåtar Gert Lengstrand had written new lyrics, Aj, aj, aj (det rasslar uti nätet), turning it into a soccer song.
At Dansbandskampen 2008 the song was performed by Jonas Näslund and Jive. However, not live over Sveriges Television since the band was already knocked out in the previous moment, "Dansbandsklassikern". However the version became available for the official Dansbandskampen compilation album. One of the participating bands at Dansbandskampen, Bengt Hennings, released a version on the 2009 album Låt kärleken slå till. At Dansbandskampen 2009 the song was performed by Zekes, who also performed the song on the 2010 album En så'n natt. At Dansbandskampen 2010 the song was performed by Patrik's Combo.
The song is one of the titles in the book Tusen svenska klassiker (2009).
In the radio program Framåt fredag, where famous songs receive new lyrics parodying current events, the song was performed as "Oj, oj, oj".
References
External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas
1973 singles
Swedish songs
Swedish-language songs
Songs written by Rune Wallebom
IFK Göteborg songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Dunn%20Sr.
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Harvey Dunn Sr.
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Harvey Louis Dunn (6 August 1899 – 12 September 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). His son, Harvey Dunn Jr., also played for Carlton and was notably the first player recruited under the father–son rule.
Notes
External links
Harvey Dunn's profile at Blueseum
1899 births
1961 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
Carlton Football Club players
Box Hill Football Club coaches
People from Carlton North, Victoria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Appelbee
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Leonard Appelbee
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Leonard Appelbee, (13 November 1914 – 12 June 2000), was an English painter and printmaker, most notable for his portraits and still-life paintings.
Life and work
Appelbee was born in Fulham, the son of a coppersmith. He attended Goldsmiths College of Art from 1931 to 1934, before studying at the Royal College of Art until 1938. In 1939 he produced a poster design, Wimbledon Championships, for London Transport. Whilst at the RCA, Appelbee met his future wife, the artist Frances Macdonald. Appelbee served in the Army throughout World War II. Early in the war he was in charge of a mobile anti-aircraft battery before taking part in classified operations for the Special Operations Executive. At the end of the war Appelbee completed two short commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee, one on returning former prisoners of war and the other of a scientist.
After the war, Appelbee had works exhibited at the Royal Academy initially in 1947 and then on a regular basis thereafter. His first solo show was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1948.
In 1951, the Arts Council commissioned large paintings from both Appelbee and Macdonald for the exhibition 60 Paintings for '51, which was part of the Festival of Britain celebrations in London. Macdonald contributed a painting of Penrhyn Quarry, entitled The Welsh Singer, whilst Appelbee produced the painting One-man Band.
Appelbee taught at the Bournemouth College of Art but lost his job after the College implemented the recommendations of the Coldstream Report on the future teaching of art. He continued to paint and exhibit. He produced a number of fine portraits, notably for both Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, but was also well known for his still-life paintings of fish and other sea creatures. He also completed commissions for Sir Edward Marsh and for Essex County Council. In 1970, Appelbee won the Silver Medal at the Paris Salon and in 1977 he had a solo show at Plymouth. After 1977, a badly broken leg inhibited him from standing at an easel to paint and he turned to picture framing and then to writing verse. An illustrated volume of his poetry, That Voice was published by the Hillside Press in 1980. In 1989 Appelbee and Macdonald moved from the West Country to Kincardine-on-Forth and then to Aberdeen, to be near their only daughter.
Works by Appelbee are held in the Imperial War Museum, the Tate and several regional museums in the United Kingdom, including Aberdeen Art Gallery, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and the collection of Leeds University.
References
External links
1914 births
2000 deaths
20th-century English male artists
20th-century English painters
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
British Army personnel of World War II
British war artists
English male painters
Painters from London
Artists from Fulham
British Special Operations Executive personnel
World War II artists
Military personnel from Fulham
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20Sexton
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Norm Sexton
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Norman Charles Sexton (12 February 1903 – 21 October 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
Born Norman Charles Schroeter, Norm Sexton was the fourth child of John Godfrey Schroeter and Margaret Francis Hopgood. By the time he played football he had adopted the surname Sexton.
Football
Sexton started his career with Coburg when they were a junior club and then played the first three rounds with Carlton in 1924 before returning to Coburg.
He played with Coburg until he was forced to miss the second half of the 1928 VFA season with pneumonia.
In 1931 Sexton returned to VFL football, after serving a three-year suspension (commencing in 1928) for failing to gain a clearance from Carlton to Coburg. His ban was lifted by the VFL Permits Committee in July 1931.
Sexton was captain / coach of Eaglehawk Football Club in 1932, in the Bendigo Football League, where they were runners up to Sandhurst in the grand final.
Sexton was captain / coach of the Deniliquin Football Club to a premiership in 1933, their first year in the Echuca Football League.
Sexton coached the Imperials Football Club to the 1934 premiership in the Hay Football Association.
Sexton was captain / coach of Terang Football Club in 1939, in the Hampden Football League.
Notes
External links
Norm Sexton's profile at Blueseum
Norm Sexton action photo
1903 births
1952 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Western Bulldogs players
Coburg Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichar%20Nag
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Vichar Nag
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Located on the suburbs of Srinagar, Vichar Nag is a locality that gets its name from an ancient Shiva temple. Famous Anchar Lake is close to this. Vichar Nag is mentioned several times in the history of Kashmir, including the famous 'Rajtaragni' by Kalhan.
Vichar Nag Temple
Vichar Nag has spring and two old Shiva temples.
History
Vichar Nag was seat of discussion (hence the name, Vichar) and it was in this temple that Kashmiri Brahmins used to discuss Panchang. It is said Jagat Guru Shankaracharya also visited this temple for discussion.
Kashmir has been always a seat of learning and it is believed that The 2nd Fourth Buddhist Council (Sarvastivada tradition) is said to have been convened by the Kushan emperor Kanishka (r. 127-151 CE), perhaps in 78 CE at Vichar Nag in Kashmir.
Before 1990, on Chaitra Amavasiya, the last day of Kashmiri calendar, a festival was celebrated at this place. On this day, devotees used to take a bath in the holy spring and there after performed puja in the Shiva Temple known as ‘Vichar Saheb’.
Architecture
One temple is made of chiselled and dressed devri stones. There are two springs with the main big spring as the centre of attraction and sanctity. The spring has a length of 430 feet and breadth of 35 feet. Big sized ‘Devri’ stones have been used for construction of stairs to the spring on the west and south sides. There is no access on north and east sides.
In the middle of the spring there is a stone cylinder of about 3 feet height with a Shivalingam resting on it. Before the exodus of Kashmir Pandits in 1990 the water from the spring used to come out in the shape of a small brook, joining the other brook called ‘Mukhta Pukhri'. After covering a sizeable distance the water used to flow into Lake Anchar.
Current situation
Till early 1990s from the time immemorial, the spring water contained many fish. The other feature of the spring is that the water turns ice cold in summer and lukewarm in winter.
The 1990s saw the exodus of almost all the Hindus of Vicharnag and the temple went into disrepair due to lack of maintenance. In the vicinity of Vichar Nag, there were many springs earlier, which have been lost over the time, largely due to encroachments by the local population.
References
3.The Temple is not used for any burial mentioned by Wright, Colin. This information is baseless.
Srinagar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Robertson%20%28footballer%29
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Jim Robertson (footballer)
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James Stirton Robertson (4 March 1903 – 4 October 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Carlton Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
1903 births
1985 deaths
People from Carlton, Victoria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijrat%20%28film%29
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Hijrat (film)
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Hijrat () is a 2016 Pakistani romantic film directed by Farouq Mengal and produced by FM Productions, and starring Asad Zaman Khan and Rabia Butt. The plot revolves around people affected by the Afghan War.
The film was distributed by Hum Films and Eveready Pictures, and released on 22 April 2016 in cinemas across Pakistan. Its premier held at The Place, Nuplex Cinema, Karachi, Pakistan. The film opened with average reviews from critics and was declared a flop at the box-office.
Cast
Asad Zaman Khan as Murad
Rabia Butt as Jia (Protagonist)
Nadeem Baig as Dr. Sameer
Salma Agha as Feriha
Durdana Butt as Nani
Azra Aftab as Mehwish
Ayub Khoso
Rubab Ali as Mahi
Momina Iqbal as Investigation officer
Fahd Nur
Zaib Rehman
Jamal Shah
Sana Nawaz (special appearance in song ''Chali Re Chali'')
Filming
The film has shot its first spell in Quetta, shooting continued in Europe in spring of 2014 (Istanbul, Turkey). The film-making equipment has been imported from India. Farouq Mengal used all his mastery and filmed some of the best shots never practiced in Pakistani Films. Exotic locations of Quetta, Nashukai and Istanbul can be seen. Hijrat was filmed on 35 mm Camera and equipment has shown its class.
Music
The music has been composed by Sahir Ali Bagga and film will include songs by Ali Azmat, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Omer Nadeem, Sara Raza Khan, Imran Aziz, Abida Parveen, and Nandini Srikar. Nandini Srikar (an Indian singer) sang an item song (Chali Re Chali) for this movie.
Release
Box office
The film failed to recover its budget, grossing only Rs. 6 million across cinemas in Pakistan over the course of one week. It ran for maximum two to three weeks in cinemas of Pakistan. In response to its theatrical failure, an official of Hum Films told The Express Tribune, ''We never expected it to do this badly in cinemas. It was always going to be tough but it is very hard to point out what exactly went wrong.''
See also
List of Pakistani films of 2016
References
External links
2010s Urdu-language films
Lollywood films
2016 films
Afghanistan–Pakistan relations in popular culture
Films shot in Balochistan, Pakistan
Films scored by Sahir Ali Bagga
Pakistani romantic thriller films
2010s romantic thriller films
Films shot in Istanbul
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal%20tree%20index
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Fractal tree index
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In computer science, a fractal tree index is a tree data structure that keeps data sorted and allows searches and sequential access in the same time as a B-tree but with insertions and deletions that are asymptotically faster than a B-tree. Like a B-tree, a fractal tree index is a generalization of a binary search tree in that a node can have more than two children. Furthermore, unlike a B-tree, a fractal tree index has buffers at each node, which allow insertions, deletions and other changes to be stored in intermediate locations. The goal of the buffers is to schedule disk writes so that each write performs a large amount of useful work, thereby avoiding the worst-case performance of B-trees, in which each disk write may change a small amount of data on disk. Like a B-tree, fractal tree indexes are optimized for systems that read and write large blocks of data. The fractal tree index has been commercialized in databases by Tokutek. Originally, it was implemented as a cache-oblivious lookahead array, but the current implementation is an extension of the Bε tree. The Bε is related to the Buffered Repository Tree. The Buffered Repository Tree has degree 2, whereas the Bε tree has degree Bε. The fractal tree index has also been used in a prototype filesystem. An open source implementation of the fractal tree index is available, which demonstrates the implementation details outlined below.
Overview
In fractal tree indexes, internal (non-leaf) nodes can have a variable number of child nodes within some pre-defined range. When data is inserted or removed from a node, its number of child nodes changes. In order to maintain the pre-defined range, internal nodes may be joined or split. Each internal node of a B-tree will contain a number of keys that is one less than its branching factor. The keys act as separation values which divide its subtrees. Keys in subtrees are stored in search tree order, that is, all keys in a subtree are between the two bracketing values. In this regard, they are just like B-trees.
Fractal tree indexes and B-trees both exploit the fact that when a node is fetched from storage, a block of memory, whose size is denoted by , is fetched. Thus, nodes are tuned to be of size approximately . Since access to storage can dominate the running time of a data structure, the time-complexity of external memory algorithms is dominated by the number of read/writes a data structure induces. (See, e.g., for the following analyses.)
In a B-tree, this means that the number of keys in a node is targeted to be enough to fill the node, with some variability for node splits and merges. For the purposes of theoretical analysis, if keys fit in a node, then the tree has depth , and this is the I/O complexity of both searches and insertions.
Fractal trees nodes use a smaller branching factor, say, of . The depth of the tree is then , thereby matching the B-tree asymptotically. The remaining space in each node is used to buffer insertions, deletion and updates, which we refer to in aggregate as messages. When a buffer is full, it is flushed to the children in bulk. There are several choices for how the buffers are flushed, all leading to similar I/O complexity. Each message in a node buffer will be flushed to a particular child, as determined by its key. Suppose, for concreteness, that messages are flushed that are heading to the same child, and that among the children, we pick the one with the most messages. Then there are at least messages that can be flushed to the child. Each flush requires flushes, and therefore the per-message cost of a flush is .
Consider the cost of an insertion. Each message gets flushed times, and the cost of a flush is . Therefore, the cost of an insertion is . Finally, note that the branching factor can vary, but for any branching factor , the cost of a flush is , thereby providing a smooth tradeoff between search cost, which depends on the depth of the search tree, and therefore the branching factor, versus the insertion time, which depends on the depth of the tree but more sensitively on the size of the buffer flushes.
Comparisons with other external-memory indexes
This section compares fractal tree indexes with other external memory indexing data structures. The theoretical literature on this topic is very large, so this discussion is limited to a comparison with popular data structures that are in use in databases and file systems.
B-trees
The search time of a B-tree is asymptotically the same as that of a fractal tree index. However, a fractal tree index has deeper trees than a B-tree, and if each node were to require an I/O, say if the cache is cold, then a fractal tree index would induce more IO. However, for many workloads most or all internal nodes of both B-trees and fractal tree indexes are already cached in RAM. In this case, the cost of a search is dominated by the cost of fetching the leaf, which is the same in both cases. Thus, for many workloads, fractal tree indexes can match B-trees in terms of search time.
Where they differ is on insertions, deletions and updates. An insertion in a fractal tree index takes whereas B-trees require . Thus, fractal tree indexes are faster than B-trees by a factor of . Since can be quite large, this yields a potential two-order-of-magnitude improvement in worst-case insertion times, which is observed in practice. Both B-trees and fractal tree indexes can perform insertions faster in the best case. For example, if keys are inserted in sequential order, both data structures achieve a I/Os per insertion. Thus, because the best and worst cases of B-trees differ so widely, whereas fractal tree indexes are always near their best case, the actual speedup that fractal tree indexes achieve over B-trees depends on the details of the workload.
Log-structured merge-trees
Log-structured merge-trees (LSMs) refer to a class of data structures which consists of two or more index structures of exponentially growing capacities. When a tree at some level reaches its capacity, it is merged into the next bigger level. The IO-complexity of an LSM depends on parameters such as the growth factor between levels and the data structure chosen at each level, so in order to analyze the complexity of LSMs, we need to pick a specific version. For comparison purposes, we select the version of LSMs that match fractal tree indexes on insertion performance.
Suppose an LSM is implemented via B-trees, each of which has a capacity that is larger than its predecessor.
The merge time depends on three facts: The sorted order of keys in an -item B-tree can be produced in IOs; Two sorted lists of and items can be merged into a sorted list in IOs; and a B-tree of a sorted list of items can be built in IOs. When a tree overflows, it is merged into a tree whose size is larger, therefore a level that holds items requires IOs to merge. An item may be merged once per level, giving a total time of , which matches the fractal tree index.
The query time is simply the B-tree query time at each level. The query time into the th level is , since the th level has capacity . The total time is therefore . This is larger than both the B-tree and fractal tree indexes by a logarithmic factor. In fact, although B-trees and fractal tree indexes are both on the optimal tradeoff curve between insertions and queries, LSMs are not. They are incomparable with B-trees and are dominated by fractal tree indexes.
A few notes about LSMs: there are ways to make the queries faster. For example, if only membership queries are required and no successor/predecessor/range queries are, then Bloom filters can be used to speed up queries. Also, the growth factor between levels can be set to some other value, giving a range of insertion/query tradeoffs. However, for every choice of insertion rate, the corresponding fractal tree index has faster queries.
Bε trees
The fractal tree index is a refinement of the Bε tree. Like a Bε tree, it consists of nodes with keys and buffers and realizes the optimal insertion/query tradeoff. The fractal tree index differs in including performance optimization and in extending the functionality. Examples of improved functionality include ACID semantics. B-tree implementations of ACID semantics typically involve locking rows that are involved in an active transactions. Such a scheme works well in a B-tree because both insertions and queries involve fetching the same leaf into memory. Thus, locking an inserted row does not incur an IO penalty. However, in fractal tree indexes, insertions are messages, and a row may reside in more than one node at the same time. Fractal tree indexes therefore require a separate locking structure that is IO-efficient or resides in memory in order to implement the locking involved in implementing ACID semantics.
Fractal tree indexes also have several performance optimizations. First, buffers are themselves indexed in order to speed up searches. Second, leaves are much larger than in B-trees, which allows for greater compression. In fact, the leaves are chosen to be large enough that their access time is dominated by the bandwidth time, and therefore amortizes away the seek and rotational latency. Large leaves are an advantage with large range queries but slow down point queries, which require accessing a small portion of the leaf. The solution implemented in fractal tree indexes is to have large leaves that can be fetched as a whole for fast range queries but are broken into smaller pieces call basement nodes which can be fetched individually. Accessing a basement node is faster than accessing a leaf, because of the reduced bandwidth time. Thus the substructure of leaves in fractal tree indexes, as compared to Bε trees allows both range and point queries to be fast.
Messaging and fractal tree indexes
Insertions, deletions and updates are inserted as message into buffers that make their way towards the leaves. The messaging infrastructure can be exploited to implement a variety of other operations, some of which are discussed below.
Upserts
An upsert is a statement that inserts a row if it does not exist and updates it if it does. In a B-tree, an upsert is implemented by first searching for the row and then implementing an insertion or an update, depending on the result of the search. This requires fetching the row into memory if it is not already cached. A fractal tree index can implement an upsert by inserting a special upsert message. Such a message can, in theory, implement arbitrary pieces of code during the update. In practice, four update operations are supported:
(a generalized increment)
(a generalized decrement)
(a decrement with a floor at 0)
These correspond to the update operations used in LinkBench, a benchmark proposed by Facebook. By avoiding the initial search, upsert messages can improve the speed of upserts by orders of magnitude.
Schema changes
So far, all message types have modified single rows. However, broadcast messages, which are copied to all outgoing buffers, can modify all rows in a database. For example, broadcast messages can be used to change the format of all rows in a database. Although the total work required to change all rows is unchanged over the brute-force method of traversing the table, the latency is improved, since, once the message is injected into the root buffer, all subsequent queries will be able to apply the schema modification to any rows they encounter. The schema change is immediate and the work is deferred to such a time when buffers overflow and leaves would have gotten updated anyway.
Implementations
The fractal tree index has been implemented and commercialized by Tokutek. It is available as TokuDB as a storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, and as TokuMX, a more complete integration with MongoDB. Fractal tree indexes have also been used in prototype filesystems, TokuFS and BetrFS.
References
Trees (data structures)
Database index techniques
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina%20fr%C3%A5n%20Vilhelmina
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Kristina från Vilhelmina
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Kristina från Vilhelmina is a song written by Rune Wallebom, and originally recorded by Sven-Ingvars and released as a single in March 1966. The same month, the song was also included on the band's EP record Fyra hits. This version was tested for Svensktoppen, where it stayed for 12 weeks during the period 4 June-20 August 1966, and also topped the chart. Sven-Ingvars also did a 1990 re-recording for the album På begäran.
In 1967 the song was recorded by Anders Dahls orkester on the EP record Kristina från Vilhelmina.
Botten stars recorded the song in 1983 for the album I gamla parken. The same year it was performed by Mats Olofsson as B-side for the single Rekordmagasinet.
In 1993 the song was performed by Eric Donell & Zamira Hedström as a B-side for the single "De gamla kära sångerna", where a recording of Violen från Flen acted as A-side. In 1997 it was recorded by James Last at In Scandinavia and in the year 2000 Nisse Eriksson recorded it as a B-side for the single Nisses musicbox.
At Dansbandskampen 2009 the song was performed by Black Ingvars.
In 2010 Scotts recorded the song on the album Vi gör det igen.
References
1966 singles
Swedish songs
Swedish-language songs
Sven-Ingvars songs
Scotts (band) songs
Songs written by Rune Wallebom
1966 songs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aub%20Charleston
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Aub Charleston
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Aubrey James Charleston (22 November 1901 – 5 August 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club and Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Notes
External links
Aub Charleston's profile at Blueseum
1901 births
Carlton Football Club players
Essendon Football Club players
Ulverstone Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Tasmania
1985 deaths
Coburg Football Club players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20McNeill
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Ann McNeill
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Professor Ann McNeill is a British academic and tobacco policy expert. She is currently a professor of Tobacco Addiction in the National Addictions Centre at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and deputy director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.
McNeill has devoted her career to reducing the harmfulness of smoking to individuals and society and has worked in prevention, cessation and harm reduction, in particular how to reduce the health inequalities caused by smoking. McNeill is a Council member of Action on Smoking and Health and is a trustee of the Society for the Study of Addiction and of Tobacco Free Futures.
Academic career
Having graduated from the University of Nottingham with a 1st class joint honours degree in Psychology and Zoology, McNeill began her career in addictions research with a PhD in the development of dependence in adolescent smokers at the University of London.
McNeill then worked in a quasi-governmental agency and as a freelance consultant whilst holding honorary academic positions at St George's Hospital Medical School and University College London. In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Health and Policy Promotion in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Nottingham.
McNeill is currently the Professor of Tobacco Addiction in the National Addictions Centre at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and deputy director for tobacco of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.
Having published extensively in the field of smoking and tobacco control, McNeill has authored over 250 publications including original research, editorials and commentaries; she has co-authored books, and acted as editor or guest editor on journal supplements. McNeill is a senior editor of the journal Addiction.
She is the lead author of a 2015 report E - cigarettes: an Evidence Update commissioned by Public Health England. Among many other things, this concluded that e-cigarettes are around 95% less harmful than smoking.
Policy influence
McNeill has worked to develop and evaluate tobacco control policy for a number of years, and has chaired a number of policy groups including the World Health Organization Europe Partnership Project Group to Reduce Tobacco Dependence (1999 - 2001) and the World Health Organization Scientific Advisory Committee on Tobacco Product Regulation (2000 - 2002). McNeill was also the Scientific Coordinator for the Analysis of the Science and Policy in Europe for the Control of Tobacco European Commission Project (2004 - 2006).
McNeill has been a member of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group since 1998 and was recently a member of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence: Harm Reduction Programme Development Group. She is currently the chair for the Reference Group for the Independent Evaluation of the Responsibility Deal and Principal Investigator for the UK arm of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project.
McNeill has acted as Management Advisor of the SRNT/UICC Tobacco Treatment Database since its inception .
Honours and awards
In 1998 McNeill was awarded the World Health Organization World No Tobacco Day Tobacco Control medal.
In 2019 McNeill was recognised as key leading female figure and role model in the addictions field, discussing her life and influences in a short film made about her for the Society for the Study of Addiction.
References
Academics of King's College London
NIHR Senior Investigators
Living people
Tobacco
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Alumni of the University of London
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonshaw%20Tower
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Bonshaw Tower
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Bonshaw Tower is an oblong tower house, probably dating from the mid-16th century, one mile south of Kirtlebridge, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, above the Kirtle Water. It is adjacent to a 19th-century mansion. The tower was one of a number of structures built along the Scottish border in the 1500s as protection against incursions by the English.
History
Bonshaw, one of the ancient Irving border towers, was owned for centuries by the Irvings of Bonshaw; it was the family seat in an unbroken succession. That ended in 1954, on the death of Sir Robert Beaufin Irving, a former captain of . Bonshaw passed to Sir Robert's nephew, Commander G. R. I. Irving RN, who sold it to a descendant of the Irvings of Wysebie. In subsequent years, it was purchased by "a junior line within the Irvings of Gribton & Dumfries, a distant branch of the Irvings of Bonshaw", according to the Clan Irving web site.
Historical summaries indicates that the tower was built ca. 1570 and was burned and then blown up by the English in the same century, but was later rebuilt. Records discuss several battles in and around the property during that century. The two-story house attached to the tower was built c.1770 but was increased in size starting in the 1840s, according to The Castles of Scotland. King James VI visited Bonshaw, in 1601 or 1602 when it was known as "Boneschaw".
Historical records also speak of an earlier Bonshaw Tower, in 1298, for example, when Robert the Bruce took refuge there; the owner at the time was shown as Sir William de Irving.
A travelogue from 1873 discusses the seat of the Clan, a very well preserved tower and a "plain, modern house, built during the last century".
After retiring as Commodore of the Cunard-White Star Line, Captain Sir Robert Beaufin Irving, Chief of Clan Irving, lived in the Tower from 1944 until his death in 1954.
The property has been Category-A listed since 1971, as a tower house with courtyard walls. The listing indicates that the tower was probably built in the mid 1500s, with additions in 1841/1842. In 1896 the tower was linked to the house with a "low corridor". The "crenellated low wall" was rebuilt in 1895, although earlier repairs were apparent, through the use of stones from the 16th and 17th century.
By the 21st century, the property was still owned by members of the Irving family and was the family home. However, the tower and/or the gardens were available as a venue for weddings and other events.
Structure
The castle, which is habitable, has three storeys, and a garret, with crow-stepped gables, within a parapet. The north-facing former attic light is now used as an open belfry.
Inside a modern porch is the entrance door, with the motto SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA above. There is a monogrammed pendant boss within the doorway. A vaulted entrance passage in the thickness of the wall leads to a vaulted basement. Each wall has a splayed shot-hole. The south-west angle contains a windowless dungeon, with a ventilation flue. There is a hatch in the vaulting to the first-floor Hall. From the north-east angle of the cellar a turnpike stair leads to all storeys of the tower.
The hall has a wide fireplace and four windows. There are two aumbries in the jambs while a third aumbry has an ogival lintel.
The bedroom, on the second floor, has a wall press and a garderobe. One of its four windows is high in the wall.
There is a machicolated opening about each embrasure of the parapet, which is drained by gargoyled cannon-spouts. The present pitched slate roof was installed in the early 19th century, as the flagstones of the original roof were removed to floor a farmhouse.
References
Castles in Dumfriesshire
Category A listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
Listed castles in Scotland
Tower houses in Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20McAlpine
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Ernie McAlpine
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Ernest Walter Gorton McAlpine (11 February 1902 – 1 June 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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External links
Ernie McAlpine's profile at Blueseum
1902 births
1984 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from New South Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarrie%20Uren
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Clarrie Uren
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Edward Clarence Uren (6 January 1900 – 3 July 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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External links
Clarrie Uren's profile at Blueseum
1900 births
1968 deaths
Carlton Football Club players
Kalgoorlie Railways Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Sportspeople from Boulder, Western Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation%20camps%20in%20Hong%20Kong
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Orientation camps in Hong Kong
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In Hong Kong's universities and higher education institutions, orientation camps (), also known as “Ocamp”, are held by different student organisations in order to welcome new students before their first academic year. There are different types of orientation camps. “Big ocamps” (大O) are organised by the students' union or constituent colleges, while “small ocamp” (細O) are usually organised by faculty or departmental societies with a view to welcome students who study in the same faculty. The duration of camps is usually two to seven days.
The aim of organising Ocamps is to enable freshmen in meeting new friends through getting along with a group of freshmen in the camp. Also, it aims to let freshmen understand and then adapt to the lifestyle and culture in university. It also boosts the sense of belonging of students to the university. Furthermore, some Ocamps like to spread messages to students, for example, standing up against injustice etc.
History
There is no accurate information about the first orientation camp in Hong Kong but the earliest camp recorded was in the 1970s, held by University of Hong Kong. Then other universities started organising it following Hong Kong University.
Group Mother and Father
In each group, there will be two to four group leaders, mostly voluntary senior students (Year 2 or above) and also some alumni. They are known as “Group Mother” () and “Group Father” () as their role in the groups is to take care of the freshmen, i.e. the “group sons” () and “group daughters” (). They also have to design and create some handy gifts to the freshmen such as bags, hand fans and bracelets, which represent their groups.
Dem Beat
Dem beat (demonstration of beat), also known as dem cheers in some universities, means shouting slogans with a certain beat or rhythm created by claps and steps. All groups (either as university houses or colleges) have their own beat. The aim of this activity is to promote team spirit and togetherness.
Campfire
“Campfire” is held at night in which house captains start a fire together with torches and then all participants form a circle surrounding the fire and dance with music. Some common songs are My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean, Dschinghis Khan (Cantonese version) and Pieces of Sea Wave and Spray. Before the activity ends, captains will share their feelings towards the camp.
Game
Situation Game
Situation Game, known as “Sit. Game”, in which committees of the camp first gather all participants in a venue, usually a sports centre. The committees deceive the participants by creating a situation that all group leaders have to leave the camp immediately. Group leaders sometimes cry in front of the participants to make the situation more convincing. They then ask freshmen to speak out if there is any solution towards the situation. Before the committees announce the truth, they let participant enjoy their “last moment” with their leaders. Situation Game aims to teach and encourage participants to stand out and give voice to unfairness. Besides, it consolidates the relationship in groups including participants and group leaders.
Hong Kong Hunt
Students are required to complete different tasks set by the committee as they run around in the city in limited time. By completing each task, students can get a certain score. At the end of the day, the team getting the highest score will be crowned with championship.
Water Game
Water game () is a common game in orientation camp. It is the game playing with water such as playing in the beach or playing with water guns. Participants will absolutely get wet.
Room Game
As a pastime after the conclusion of all planned activities in a day, “room games" (房 Game) are often played. Room games often last overnight. Participants will follow committees' instructions and play. Usually the games involve some penalties for the losers.
Popular room activities include "First Impression".
Controversy
In recent years, orientation camps have become associated with sexual misconduct, particularly involving the power difference between older and younger students.
For example, in 2004 Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Health and Social Sciences Faculty freshmen were asked to kiss strangers on the lips, some of whom might develop a bad feeling during such an activity.
Besides, games requiring close contact between the participants have been long described as being obscene and having too much intimacy. These include the “caterpillar game” as both the girls and boys in participation are required to wrap their legs around one another's waist. Another example is the ‘jumbo’ held by students at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2013, where the females were asked to lay down above the male's body.
Activities of cheers have also been condemned by some mass media for the inappropriate slogans used by students, which simply aim to verbally abuse the others. For example, in 2002, in the ocamp held by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), students from Shaw College slandered girls from New Asia College with the use of chants. Some wordings were said to be even discriminating the disabled. According to a daily news article, the Chairperson of Joint Committee on New Student Orientation of CUHK, Kenneth W.Y. Leung, responded that the committee will explain the problems instead of launching a censorship as they believe the self-discipline of students.
In 2023 the controversy reemerged when numerous sexual assaults, including rape, took place at multiple universities during their orientation camps.
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External links
Hong Kong
Social events
Students in China
Ceremonies in China
Parties
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James Simmons House
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The James Simmons House is a late 18th-century house at 37 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina which was, at one time, the most expensive house sold in Charleston. It was likely built for James Simmons, a lawyer. By 1782, it was home to Robert Gibbes, a planter. Louisa Cheves (later McCord), a prominent antebellum writer, was born at the house on December 3, 1810. In 1840, Otis Mills, the owner of the Mills House Hotel, bought the house for $9,000. In October 1862, during the Civil War, the house was loaned to Gen. Pierre Beauregard, who used the house as his headquarters until August 1863. In 1876, Michael P. O'Connor, later a member of Congress, bought the house.
The house is a traditional Charleston double house (i.e., four rooms per a floor at the corners with a central hall and staircase) but, unlike most, has matching two-story bay windows on the front façade, perhaps an early 19th-century alteration to an originally flat-faced building.
It was the most expensive house sold in Charleston when it sold for $7.37 million in May 2009, overtaking the previous record holder, the Patrick O'Donnell House. It remained the most expensive house sold in Charleston until August 2015, when the Col. John Ashe House at 32 South Battery sold for about $7.72 million. The house was bought by William and Nancy Longfellow from the founder of Blackbaud and majority owner of the Charleston Battery soccer team Anthony and Linda Bakker.
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Houses in Charleston, South Carolina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20Ballon%20d%27Or
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1996 Ballon d'Or
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The 1996 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Matthias Sammer on 24 December 1996.
Rankings
Additionally, 18 players were nominated but received no votes: Oliver Bierhoff, Laurent Blanc, Zvonimir Boban, Enrico Chiesa, Edgar Davids, Robbie Fowler, Thomas Helmer, Bernard Lama, Jari Litmanen, Andreas Möller, Pavel Nedvěd, Jay-Jay Okocha, Raí, Dejan Savićević, Mehmet Scholl, Diego Simeone, Gianluca Vialli and Javier Zanetti.
Notes
References
External links
France Football Official Ballon d'Or page
1996
1996–97 in European football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atilla%20Karaosmano%C4%9Flu
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Atilla Karaosmanoğlu
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Atilla Karaosmanoğlu (20 September 1932 – 11 November 2013) was a Turkish economist and politician.
Background
Karosmanoğlu was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1931. After graduating from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in 1954, he earned a doctorate at the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University. He later served as part-time lecturer at NYU and Harvard University.
Professional life
After returning to Turkey, Karosmanoğlu served as a manager of the State Planning Organization of Turkey. He also served as a senior advisor of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In 1966 he began working for the World Bank. In 1971, Prime Minister Nihat Erim invited him to Ankara and appointed him as deputy prime minister (responsible of the economy) in his technocratic government on 26 March 1971 (see 33rd cabinet of Turkey). However, on 3 December 1971, Karaosmanoğlu, together with 10 other ministers, resigned from his post, claiming that he was unable to carry on the reforms he had promised. According to journalist Metin Toker, Karaosmanoğlu cited disagreements within the cabinet and especially between his ministry and the Ministry of Finance.
In later years, Karosmanoğlu returned to his position in the World Bank. His second term in the bank continued for 22 years and he eventually rose to become the vice president of the bank. He retired on 30 November 1994.
Death
Karosmanoğlu died from respiratory failure on 11 November 2013. He was buried in Çengelköy cemetery in Istanbul.
A memorial fund was created in his name with Turkish Philanthropy Funds to give scholarships through Association for the Support of Contemporary Living (Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği).
References
World Bank Chief Economists
OECD officials
1932 births
2013 deaths
Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey
Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences alumni
Istanbul University alumni
Respiratory disease deaths in Turkey
Deaths from respiratory failure
Harvard University staff
Members of the 33rd government of Turkey
Turkish officials of the United Nations
New York University staff
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkenia%20basilinea
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Clarkenia basilinea
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Clarkenia basilinea is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Ecuador (Loja Province).
References
External links
Moths described in 2001
Endemic fauna of Ecuador
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland%20Theater
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Roseland Theater
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The Roseland Theater, sometimes called the Roseland Theater and Grill, is a music venue located at 8 Northwest Sixth Avenue in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The building was originally a church, constructed by the Apostolic Faith Church in 1922. In 1982, Larry Hurwitz converted the building to a music venue called Starry Night. In 1990, the club's 21-year-old publicity agent was murdered in one of the theater's hallways; Hurwitz was convicted for this murder ten years later. Hurwitz sold the club in 1991, claiming he had lost support from the local music industry. The venue was given its current name during the 1991 ownership transfer. During the 1990s, Double Tee acquired control of the hall's operations, then purchased and renovated the building.
The theater features a standing-only main floor and an upstairs balcony with an adjacent bar. Peter's Room, an intimate showcase venue with a 400-person capacity, includes a restaurant and bar. Roseland has been named "Best Haunted Venue" by one local publication, referring to the 1990 murder. The venue is known for hosting a variety of music acts and for its good acoustics.
History
Apostolic Faith Church
The Apostolic Faith Church bought the property at 8 Northwest Sixth Avenue from the A. Meier estate in 1922 and immediately began constructing a two-story building at the site. To make way for the new structure, church members first razed an older building that had housed a saloon at that address. The new building was finished in August 1922.
Made of brick and constructed entirely with donated labor, the structure had a footprint of next to a parking lot. The lower floor contained 11 storerooms, some of which were rented to others, a printing room, the church headquarters, and a small chapel with a seating capacity of 200. The upper floor consisted of a large meeting hall that could seat 1,150 people. The meeting hall was designed partly with music in mind. Its raised platform held up to 70 people, including a 40-piece orchestra and male and mixed quartets that performed during church services. The church sold the building in 1981. A neon sign reading "Jesus, the Light of the World", hung on the building but was removed in 1981.
Starry Night
Larry Hurwitz owned and operated the Starry Night nightclub in the building from 1982 through 1991. The venue had a capacity of less than 1,000 people. In the 1980s, the Starry Night hosted musical acts including Animotion, Nu Shooz, and the Crazy 8s. Hurwitz sold the Starry Night in February 1991, claiming he had "lost the support of the local music industry". The transfer in ownership resulted in a name change to Roseland Theater. In 1992, Roseland's manager for the new owners, Oregon Theater Management, said the name was changed to disassociate from Hurwitz's business and reputation.
Murder of Starry Night employee
In 2000, Hurwitz was convicted of the murder 10 years earlier of the Starry Night's 21-year-old publicity agent, Timothy Moreau, to keep Moreau from alerting authorities to a counterfeit ticket scam at the club. Another club employee, George Castagnola, pleaded guilty to helping Hurwitz kill Moreau. Moreau was strangled in the theater after a John Lee Hooker concert. After selling the club, Hurwitz moved to Vietnam, but in 1997 a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of tax evasion related to the scam. Extradited to the United States and pleading guilty to the tax evasion charges, he was sentenced to a year in federal prison. Publicity generated by the tax-evasion trial led to new information about the murder. Hurwitz was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading no contest to one count of murder in 2000, and released in 2008 after serving between 7 and 8 years. Meanwhile, to settle a civil wrongful-death suit filed against him by Moreau's parents, Hurwitz in 2001 stipulated to his part in the murder, agreed that a jury would have found him guilty if he had not pleaded "no contest", and agreed to pay the Moreau family 3 million in damages. The details of the case were reported in a 23-part series in the newspaper PDXS during the 1990s.
Roseland Theater
In 1991, Double Tee Promotions acquired control of Roseland's operations. In December 1995, The Oregonian reported that the company and its president, David Leiken, would be purchasing and renovating the building over several months. Leiken founded Double Tee, which produces events throughout the Pacific Northwest and continues to manage Roseland, in 1972. The project, which included purchase of the building, new lounges and restrooms, and a ventilation system, was estimated to cost between $1.75 million and $2 million. The size of the street-level floor would also increased to accommodate an additional 350–440 guests, replacing a small club called the Garden. The renovation project ended in 1997; Leiken updated the building's facade and opened a nightclub and sports bar on the lower level. Roseland remained open during the renovation, which reportedly cost around $2.5 million.
Roseland Theater has been called a "somewhat chaotic" Portland staple, hosting "multi-generational concerts every night of the week by everyone from small local bands to huge national icons". The all-ages venue is known for its smaller size, accommodating up to 1,400 people. It is a popular venue for touring rock acts, though it also hosts blues, comedy, dance, hip hop, indie, and rap artists. Performers have included Ray Charles, the Dan Reed Network, Bob Dylan, Medeski Martin & Wood, Miles Davis, the Misfits, the Pixies, Bonnie Raitt, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. During the 1990s, Phish performed at the venue four times, including once when it was still called Starry Night. In the 2010s, the venue has hosted Cut Copy, Metric, Prince, and Snoop Dogg.
Roseland features a standing-only main floor and an upstairs balcony for patrons aged 21 or older because of an adjacent bar, and can also host a variety of events, including cage fighting. Downstairs includes Roseland Grill, a narrow bar with a wall covered in posters. Peter's Room, an intimate showcase venue, includes a restaurant and bar and has a capacity of 400 people. Peter's Room is open during all Roseland events and streams activity from the theater's main stage on screens. The stage in Peter's Room is above the main floor. According to Double Tee, the theater and Peter's Room host between 150 and 180 events annually.
In 2023, Leiken sold the company which manages Roseland Theater to Mammoth Northwest. According to Willamette Week, he "retains ownership of the Roseland and will take on a 'coaching' role in the business through the end of the year".
Reception
In 2008, Willamette Week named Roseland the "Best Haunted Venue" in a retrospective "Best of Portland" list highlighting the best of 1988. Music journalist Martin Acaster wrote: "The Roseland has all the ambiance of a dank cave but boasts stellar acoustics." Travelogue writer Rachel Dresbeck noted the "eclectic mix" of music genres hosted by the venue, which she said has "great sound" and "good stage visibility".
See also
Music of Oregon
Reportedly haunted locations in Oregon
References
External links
1920s architecture in the United States
1922 establishments in Oregon
1982 establishments in Oregon
Churches completed in 1922
Former churches in Oregon
Music venues in Portland, Oregon
Nightclubs in Portland, Oregon
Northwest Portland, Oregon
Old Town Chinatown
Reportedly haunted locations in Portland, Oregon
Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Theatres in Portland, Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20H.%20Elsing
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Siegfried H. Elsing
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Siegfried H. Elsing (born 1950 in Essen, Germany) is a German business lawyer. He is senior partner Germany of the international law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and honorary professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Career
Siegfried H. Elsing studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Lausanne and Münster. Following that he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Labor and Business Law at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster. In 1976, he gained a doctorate of laws (Dr. iur.) for his thesis on the subject “Extended Liability of Limited Partners and Atypical Limited Partnership” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans Brox, the former Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In 1979 he acquired the academic degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Yale Law School
Siegfried H. Elsing was admitted as an attorney in Germany in 1979 and in New York in 1983. The main focus of his work lies in the fields of arbitration, M&A transactions, investments, energy law, corporate law, financing, joint ventures and German-US legal relations. Siegfried H. Elsing has served as counsel, chairman, sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator in more than 150 national and international arbitral proceedings (inter alia ICC, DIS, ICSID, SCC, VIAC, UNCITRAL, ad hoc). In addition, he appears as legal expert on US law matters before German courts and as legal expert on German law matters before US and UK courts. He also advises members of advisory and supervisory boards.
Siegfried H. Elsing founded the German law firm Hölters & Elsing in 1989 and initiated the firm’s merger with the US law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in 2009.
In 2011, the President of the World Bank appointed him as a member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators as recommended conciliator in international disputes.
Since 1999 he has been lecturing on international commercial arbitration and international civil procedure at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. In 2007, he was appointed Honorary Professor. He regularly lectures and appears as speaker at conferences in Germany and abroad and is author of numerous publications on arbitration and international business law.
He is chairman of the Supervisory Board of nobilia-Werke J. Stickling GmbH & Co. KG. On 15 May 2013, he took up office as Honorary Consul of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the State of North Rhine-Westfalia.
Memberships
Siegfried H. Elsing is a member of the supervisory board of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and of the German Association of Arbitration (DIS). From 1990 to 1991 he was president of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) and from 2007 to 2008 he chaired the mediation committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is also a member of various national and international associations (AAA, ABA, AIJA, ASA, Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V., DIS, IBA, ICCA, LCIA).
Publications
Die Kommanditgesellschaft, Heidelberger Musterverträge, 11. Auflage, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2010 (with Nicholas Kessler)
U.S.-amerikanisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Schriftenreihe Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft, 2. Auflage, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1999 (with Michael P. van Alstine)
Erweiterte Kommanditistenhaftung und atypische Kommanditgesellschaft, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977
Honors
"Best Lawyers 2013" - in the fields Corporate Law, M&A, Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation – Honored by the German business journal Handelsblatt.
Legal 500 2013: Dispute Resolution.
Chambers Global 2013: Arbitration (International): Most in Demand Arbitrators (Band 1), Europewide - Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators (Band 1), Germany - Dispute Resolution (Foreign Experts)(Spotlight Table), Germany - International Arbitration (Experts Based Abroad)(Spotlight Table), USA.
Lawyer of the Year 2012 - in the fields Arbitration and Mediation; "Best Lawyers 2012" - Honored by the German business journal Handelsblatt.
External links
Literature of and about Siegfried H. Elsing in the catalogue of the German National Library
Biography on the website of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
References
German Institution of Arbitration
Website of Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Global Arbitration Review
1950 births
20th-century German lawyers
Living people
People from Essen
Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe people
21st-century German lawyers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkenia%20miramundi
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Clarkenia miramundi
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Clarkenia miramundi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in El Salvador.
References
Moths described in 1988
Euliini
Moths of Central America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzland%20%28Palatinate%29
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Holzland is the name of a region in the western part of the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Location and structure
The Holzland is clearly bounded by surrounding streams: to the south and southeast by the Schwarzbach, and, to the west and north by its tributary, the Moosalb. Only in the extreme east, by the Steinberg, does the Holzland transition without any clearly defined features into the Frankenweide.
The valleys that border and cut through the Holzland are, in places, largely natural. Many, mighty sandstone rock formations outcrop on the valley sides. Hillsides and heights are covered by valuable mixed forest, except in the immediate vicinity of villages. The old sessile oaks harvested here, which are often several centuries old, earn the highest lumber prices overall.
History
The quality and density of its stands of trees gives the Holzland ("wood land") its name. Even during times when large areas of the Palatine Forest were depleted by wood pasture practices, charcoal burning and mining, valuable stands of woodland survived for centuries in this area.
Nevertheless, there were clearings here, mainly made in the 9th century in connection with the settlement arrangements of Hornbach Abbey, to whom the hitherto imperial estate had probably been gifted by the Count of Homburg. Lordship over the region was given to Electoral Palatinate. After the dissolution of Hornbach Abbey in 1558 in the wake of the Reformation these rights of ownership went to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, which, from then on, was in perpetual dispute with the Palatinate. As a result, in 1776 there was an exchange treaty, whereby Zweibrücken surrendered its rights in the Holzland to the Electorate.
Population and transport
The largest municipality and seat of the collective municipality of Waldfischbach-Burgalben lies on the southwestern edge of the area in the Moosalb valley. Upstream are the settlements of Steinalben and Schopp. In the middle of the Holzland, at a height of 430 m above sea level (NN) lies the tourist resort of Heltersberg, and the hill villages of Geiselberg and Schmalenberg. A total of about 11,500 people live in the Holzland.
The main transport axes are the B 270 federal highway from Pirmasens to Kaiserslautern, which runs through the Moosalb valley from south to north, and the parallel railway line. In the extreme southwest the Holzland reaches Pirmasens Nord station, where the railway line crosses the Queich Valley Railway from Landau to Saarbrücken.
Sights
In Waldfischbach-Burgalben there is a pilgrimage site, Maria Rosenberg, that goes back to the 12th century. An annual pilgrimage takes place every year on the Thursday after Pentecost.
The Heltersberg Local History Museum is especially interesting on account of its clogmaker's and shingler's workshop.
At the Hirschalber Mill near Schmalenberg there is one of the largest trout breeding centres in Germany.
Between Schopp and Steinalben there are the ruins of a powder mill that was destroyed in 1927 by a mighty explosion. Until then explosives made here were exported worldwide, particularly for the construction of railway lines.
Leisure and tourism
The Holzland communities are trying to regain a share of tourism in the Palatine Forest. The Friends of Nature and the Palatine Forest Club maintain several mountain huts. There are campsites by the Clausensee lake, at Hundsweiher and in the Schwarzbach valley.
An extensive network of hiking trails has been signed by the Palatine Forest Club. There are also several mountain bike routes. Especially popular are the ravine-like valleys with ponds and springs around the Heltersberg and the valley of the Hirschalb, which empties into the Moosalb at the power mill.
In Heltersberg is a mountain open-air pool that was completely renovated in 2001.
External links
Holzland information
Landscapes of Rhineland-Palatinate
Western Palatinate
Natural regions of the Palatinate Forest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkenia%20superba
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Clarkenia superba
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Clarkenia superba is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia.
References
Moths described in 1988
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzland%20%28disambiguation%29
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Holzland (disambiguation)
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Holzland (Palatinate) is a region in the Palatine Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Holzland may also refer to:
Holzland Railway, also known as Weimar–Gera railway, in Thuringia, Germany
Thuringian Holzland, an upland region in the state of Thuringia, Germany
Saale-Holzland-Kreis, a district in the east of Thuringia, Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20rebus%20monogram
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Japanese rebus monogram
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A Japanese rebus monogram is a monogram in a particular style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visual pun. Today they are most often seen in corporate logos or product logos.
These symbols are particularly common for traditional food brands, notably soy sauce. An example is the logo for Yamasa soy sauce, which is a ∧ with a under it. This is read as for (symbolized by the ∧) + .
Composition
The monogram is composed of two parts: one a Japanese character, most often kanji, but also katakana or hiragana; the other a simple symbol, such as a circle or square. The symbol is pronounced according to its name, and together (in either order, but generally symbol first) these form a Japanese name.
Japanese family names are generally two kanji characters, each usually of one or two morae – hence one or two hiragana or katakana if written that way – and thus can be represented as one symbol plus one kanji character, sometimes one hiragana or katakana. Only a few symbols are used, and thus only a few names can be written as a monogram this way.
A name may be represented by a symbol that does not correspond to it but is homophonous – further punning – which is aided by the large degree of homophony in Japanese. For example, in a name may be represented by the symbol ┐, though this actually corresponds to ; or in a name may be represented by the symbol ○, though this actually corresponds to .
Variations
There are many variations on the basic design of rebus monograms – only one character from the name may be used, the pronunciation need not correspond to an actual name, other typographical symbols can be used (like 〆, ), two symbols (and no characters) may be used – for example, can be spelt as ○∧ – and unpronounceable or unpronounced symbols may also be incorporated decoratively.
For example, the Yamasa symbol was created as a modification of the boat emblem of the Kishū branch of the Tokugawa clan, which was composed as ∧ + , with the katakana character used for the in Kishū, and the ∧ being purely decorative. The Yamasa variant turned the character on its side and reinterpreted it as ; the resulting reading does not correspond to an actual name (the family name is instead Hamaguchi), though it sounds like a family name and such a family name does exist (e.g., written in the form ).
These readings are used for other symbols as well. Most commonly, a circled symbol is pronounced + (symbol reading), for ; circling a symbol is common, dating to circular seals. A notable example is the of the National Tax Agency, which uses a circled as their symbol. They are thus known colloquially as the , from . This is notably present in the movie title . As katakana this would be written as ; see Enclosed CJK Letters and Months for Unicode standard circled symbols.
Rarer variants exist, like for Kikkoman soy sauce (tortoises are said to live for 10,000 years), which uses a hexagon to symbolize a tortoise shell (), with inside.
Common symbols
Only a handful of symbols are commonly used, though some have different readings; these are:
Terminology
There is no standard everyday Japanese term for rebus monograms. Rather, they are referred to by their use, such as , , etc., or generically as , , etc.
History
As designs and corporate symbols, rebus monograms date at least to the mid-17th century, and early on were featured on . They presumably come from the graphic tradition of the battlefield flags of the Warring States Period (Sengoku period, mid-15th to early 17th century), as seen in the simple clan name designs of Sashimono and Uma-jirushi. More broadly, these come from the same heraldic tradition as , where family emblems are pronounced according to the design, yielding the family name, as in . While many feature kanji taken from the family name, the as a whole is not pronounceable as the full name.
During the Edo period, pictorial rebuses known as were immensely popular, and involved similar wordplay; see Rebus#Japan. Today the most often seen of these pictorial symbols is a picture of a sickle, a circle, and the letter , read as , interpreted as , the old-fashioned form of . This is known as the , and dates to circa 1700, being used in kabuki since circa 1815.
Gallery
See also
Canting arms, the Western equivalent for coat of arms
Notes
References
Monograms
Japanese heraldry
Japanese language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reidar%20Dahl
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Reidar Dahl
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Reidar Dahl (27 October 1893 – 24 November 1977) was a Norwegian jurist and sports official.
Biography
Dahl was born in Halden on 27 October 1893, a son of factory owner Ole Dahl and Sofie Hjerperød. He married Else Syberg in 1920.
He chaired the sports club SFK Lyn in 1927 and 1930, and served as president of the Football Association of Norway from 1936 to 1949, and from 1953 to 1955. He was decorated Knight of the Order of the Polar Star, and was an honorary member of the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association.
He died on 24 November 1977.
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1893 births
1977 deaths
People from Halden
Norwegian resistance members
Norwegian jurists
Norwegian sports executives and administrators
Knights of the Order of the Polar Star
20th-century Norwegian people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkenia%20nivescens
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Clarkenia nivescens
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Clarkenia nivescens is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia.
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Moths described in 1926
Euliini
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20State%20Highway%20Loop%20250
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Texas State Highway Loop 250
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Texas State Highway Loop 250 (Loop 250) is a bypass of northern Midland. The highway runs along the western, northern and eastern edges of the city. From the western terminus at I-20/SH 158/SH 349 to Bus. SH 349, the highway is a freeway.
Route description
Loop 250 begins at an interchange with I-20/SH 158/SH 349 in southwest Midland, with SH 158 beginning at concurrency with Loop 250. The highway runs near many industrial parks with exits for Industrial Avenue and BL I-20 (W. Wall Street). Near Thomason Drive, the freeway passes near many subdivisions on the city's west side. The concurrency with SH 158 ends at an interchange with SH 191 near Grande Communications Stadium and Security Bank Ballpark. Near Wadley Avenue, the freeway turns from a more north direction towards the east. The corridor of Loop 250 from Midland Drive to Garfield Street is the sight of many restaurants and shopping centers, including Midland Park Mall. Between Garfield Street and Bus. SH 349 (Big Spring Street), the southern frontage road serves as the northern boundary for Midland Airpark. Just east of Fairgrounds Road, freeway status ends and Loop 250 continues as a divided highway. Phases of new projects are planned and/or underway to extend the highway's freeway status further east and to the south, following the planned and existing route. The highway leaves the city limits of Midland just east of County Road 1160. Loop 250 has an interchange with BL I-20 before a terminus at I-20, east of Midland.
History
Loop 250 was originally designated on March 31, 1952 and ran from US 183 near the Montopolis Bridge to US 81 in north Austin. This highway was cancelled on August 17, 1954 with the mileage being transferred to US 183. The Loop 250 designation was used again as Spur 250 on August 27, 1959 as a connector route between Interstate 45 and U.S. Route 75 in Texas near Mossy Grove. This route was cancelled on October 8, 1965 with the mileage being transferred to FM 2989. The current Loop 250 was designated on August 31, 1977. On July 24, 1984, it replaced FM 1369, which was decommissioned, and the section of FM 868 from Loop 250 to SH 349.
Junction list
References
250
Transportation in Midland County, Texas
Freeways in Texas
Midland, Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkenia%20pantherina
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Clarkenia pantherina
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Clarkenia pantherina is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic to Ecuador (Napo Province).
The wingspan is . The ground colour of the forewings is whitish cream with a slight yellowish admixture especially along the edges of the spots and in the apical area. The markings are brownish black. The hindwings are white cream, in the apical area tinged with brownish.
References
External links
Moths described in 2009
Endemic fauna of Ecuador
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance%20%28film%29
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Entrance (film)
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Entrance is a 2011 American independent film that mixes elements of mumblecore, psychological thrillers, and horror films. It was directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath and was written by Hallam, Horvath, Karen Gorham, and Michelle Margolis. Suziey Block stars as a barista who lives a repetitive and anxious life in Los Angeles. When her beloved dog disappears, she decides to give up and move back home, but first she invites all her friends to a going-away party.
Plot
Suziey, a young barista, lives in Los Angeles with her roommate Karen. Suziey's life has become repetitive, empty, and full of anxiety. She feels threatened by passers-by when she walks down the street, and a car following her movements causes her to panic. The sudden disappearance of her beloved dog pushes her to the breaking point, and she recruits Karen to help her search for him. Unable to find him, she posts notices around the neighborhood, but they are to no avail. Depressed and longing for a more fulfilling life, like that of her roommate, she agrees to hook up with a friend at a bar. During the night, an unrevealed person takes a picture of her as she sleeps, and her friend makes an empty apology as he sneaks out the door in the morning. When Karen returns from a fun vacation with her boyfriend, Suziey tells Karen that she's been unhappy for a long time and wishes to move back home. Karen convinces Suziey to first hold a dinner party, and they invite all their friends, including Josh and Liesel, Suziey's friends from back home; Morgan, Karen's boyfriend; and Jonathan, Karen's co-worker.
At the party, Suziey becomes uneasy due to the awkward attention of Jonathan, though Suziey dismisses Jonathan's concerns when he asks her if she's uncomfortable with his presence. After talking and drinking champagne throughout the night, the drunk revelers are interrupted by a power outage. The power briefly comes back on, only to flicker off again. Suziey goes to investigate and is quickly incapacitated by a masked man. When she regains consciousness, the masked man tells Suziey that he has been stalking her for a while, understands her pain, and says that they have something special, even though they do not love each other. He then states that he is going to kill all of her friends so that they can be alone together. In a nearly unbroken 20-minute shot, Suziey, who has been bound, stumbles through the house and discovers the grisly fate of each of her friends. After unsuccessfully trying several avenues of escape, she crawls through a pet door and ends up on her porch, a dead end. Cornered, she surrenders to her stalker, who cradles her head and comforts her as he forces her to share the view of the city with him.
Cast
Themes
In an interview with Bloody Disgusting, co-directors Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath stated that horror is about amplification of common issues, which makes themes and metaphors easy to film. The protagonist, Suziey, experiences an amplification of all her problems in the climax. The Dardenne brothers were a direct influence on Hallam and Horvath, and they attempted to blend that influence with mumblecore while introducing consequences through a horror element. The events of the first hour are designed to be ambiguous; whether Suziey is paranoid or not is not answered by the film, and only her perceptions and reactions are shown. Psychological thrillers from Dario Argento and Roman Polanski influenced the display of Suziey's mental state. Isolation and vulnerability in the big city, especially from a female perspective, were major themes. The filmmakers say that they did not initially realize that the themes were focused on female issues and perspectives.
Production
Hallam and Horvath had previously collaborated on Die-ner (Get It?). The house in which they shot belongs to Karen Gorham; Dallas Hallam and his wife live in the basement. For the long shot at the end, they rehearsed for a week and performed three takes. Suziey Block was actually bound for her performance, as she found it distracting to accidentally become free of her bonds. The film was shot in twelve days, split into two six-day weeks. The film's initial budget of $6000 necessitated certain restrictions, such as Suziey Block's character working at the same job as the actress, a barista. The idea to make a slasher film came from a failed project that Hallam had worked on; after successfully pitching the idea of a slasher to Horvath, the filmmakers decided to combine this idea with their love of European art films.
Release
Entrance premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 24, 2011. It was picked up for distribution by IFC Midnight and received both a limited theatrical release and video on demand premiere on May 18, 2012.
Reception
Heather Wixson of Dread Central rated the film 3.5/5 stars and called Entrance "a fascinating character study." Though she says that the film is not for everyone, she recommended it to fans of unconventional horror films and slow burn storytelling. Brad McHargue, also of Dread Central, rated the film 1/5 stars and wrote that the first hour is plodding and lacks character development, which fails to give the violent conclusion weight. Robert Koehler of Variety called the film "a textbook example of a movie that betrays its audience" because it "impulsively devolves into a manipulative slasher pic." Bloody Disgusting rated the film 3.5/5 and called the film "pretty great flick" on a technical level while criticizing the storytelling. In a positive review, Scott Weinberg of Fearnet stated that the shocking climax makes waiting through the sparse character study worthwhile. Weinberg described the film as "not the most exciting or eventful indie horror flick" but called it "novel" and compared it to Ti West's filmography. Writing in Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that he "was really astounded by how much the filmmakers (Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath) did with so little". Terek Puckett of Shock Till You Drop stated that the first hour, intended to be character-driven and tense, fails to establish any interesting characters and is "quite frankly very dull". He described the closing shot as "memorable and disturbing", but the film itself "comes off as a short film that's been padded out to feature length." Mark L. Miller of Ain't It Cool News wrote that the film requires patience but is a "horrifying experience" that "plays with the ultimate fear of being alone and twists it to the most terrifying of lengths." A. A. Dowd of Time Out Chicago rated the film 2/5 stars and criticized the film as another mumblecore production fixated on the existential angst of young, white, middle class protagonists.
References
External links
2011 horror films
2011 psychological thriller films
American independent films
American psychological horror films
American psychological thriller films
American slasher films
Mumblecore films
2011 independent films
2011 films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Harris%20%28basketball%29
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Alex Harris (basketball)
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Alexander Cory Harris (born January 30, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. He played eleven seasons in several European countries. Harris played collegiately for UC Santa Barbara where he was the 2008 Big West Conference co-Player of the Year.
College career
Harris played high school basketball for St. Joseph Notre Dame (Alameda, California), leading them to a California Division 4 championship as a senior.
He joined the University of California at Santa Barbara, playing in the Big West Conference of the NCAA Division I, in 2004.
In his junior season in 2006–07, Harris made a leap in his production, raised his scoring average from 8.3 points per game to a Conference 21.1.
In his senior season, Harris was named to the preseason All-Big West team and continued his strong play, averaging 20.2 points per game.
He led the Gauchos to the top seed in the 2008 Big West tournament and was named the Big West co-Player of the Year (with Cal State Fullerton's Scott Cutley).
The team went to the 2008 National Invitation Tournament and at the close of the season Harris gained national recognition as an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press.
Professional career
Following the close of his college career, Harris went undrafted in the 2008 NBA draft.
He signed with PGE Turów Zgorzelec of the Polish Basketball League, averaging 7.3 points per game in his first professional season.
He then moved to Energa Czarni Slupsk for the 2009–10 season.
Harris then moved to EnBW Ludwigsburg, and later Eisbären Bremerhaven in Germany's Bundesliga.
He averaged 12.4 points per game with EnBW Ludwigsburg in 2011–12 and 7.7 the following season for Bremerhaven.
He was selected for the 2011 Bundesliga All-Star game.
For the 2013–14 season he signed with WALTER Tigers Tübingen.
On December 21, 2014, he signed with Aries Trikala of Greece for the rest of the 2014–15 Greek Basket League season.
On July 22, 2015, Harris signed with Enel Brindisi of the Italian Serie A.
On December 5, 2018, Harris signed with the Israeli team Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim for the rest of the season. In 23 games played for Ramat Gan, he averaged 17.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2 assists per game, while shooting 38.7 percent from three-point range.
References
External links
RealGM profile
FIBA game center profile
Tigers Tübingen profile
1986 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American men's basketball players
Aries Trikala B.C. players
Eisbären Bremerhaven players
New Basket Brindisi players
Shooting guards
Sportspeople from Mission Viejo, California
Basketball players from Orange County, California
Tigers Tübingen players
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's basketball players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkenia%20triangulifera
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Clarkenia triangulifera
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Clarkenia triangulifera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
The wingspan is 23 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is cream, irregularly suffused with cinnamon brownish. The hindwings are cream, in the distal part somewhat tinged with ferruginous. The strigulation (fine streaking) is brownish grey.
Etymology
The species name refers to the markings of the forewings and is derived from Latin triangulum (meaning triangle) and ferro (meaning I carry).
References
Moths described in 2008
Euliini
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20British%20Hard%20Court%20Championships
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1972 British Hard Court Championships
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The 1972 British Hard Court Championships, also known by its sponsored name Rothmans British Hard Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth, England. The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as B class. The tournament was held from 8 to 13 May 1972. Bob Hewitt and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.
Finals
Men's singles
Bob Hewitt defeated Pierre Barthès 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
Women's singles
Evonne Goolagong defeated Helga Niessen Masthoff 6–0, 6–4
Men's doubles
Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Ilie Năstase / Ion Țiriac 8–6, 6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4
Women's doubles
Evonne Goolagong / Helen Gourlay defeated Brenda Kirk / Betty Stöve 7–5, 6–1
References
External links
ITF Tournament details
British Hard Court Championships
British Hard Court Championships
Clay court tennis tournaments
British Hard Court Championships
British Hard Court Championships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological%20history%20of%20Typhoon%20Haiyan
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Meteorological history of Typhoon Haiyan
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Typhoon Haiyan's meteorological history began with its origins as a tropical disturbance east-southeast of Pohnpei and lasted until its degeneration as a tropical cyclone over southern China. The thirteenth typhoon of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season, Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2. Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5. By November 6, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed the system as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength.
Thereafter, it continued to intensify; at 12:00 UTC on November 7, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds to , the highest in relation to the cyclone. At 1800 UTC, the JTWC estimated the system's one-minute sustained winds to , unofficially making Haiyan the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever observed. Several hours later, the eye of the cyclone made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, with an intensity of . This ties it with Typhoon Meranti as the second strongest landfall on record by maximum sustained 1-minute wind speeds, after Typhoon Goni. Gradually weakening, the storm made five additional landfalls in the country before emerging over the South China Sea. Turning northwestward, the typhoon eventually struck northern Vietnam as a severe tropical storm on November 10. Haiyan was last noted as a tropical depression by the JMA the following day.
Origins and intensification
On November 2, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began monitoring a broad low-pressure area about east-southeast of Pohnpei, one of the states in the Federated States of Micronesia. The system featured broken banding features alongside steadily consolidating convection. Environmental conditions ahead of the disturbance favored tropical cyclogenesis and dynamic weather forecast models predicted that a well-defined tropical cyclone would form within 72 hours. Early on November 3, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) classified the system as a tropical depression. Owing to a consolidating low-level circulation center with building deep convection, the JTWC also classified the system as a tropical depression, shortly after issuing a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert. Subsequent intensification resulted in the JMA upgrading the system to a tropical storm and assigning it the name Haiyan () at 0000 UTC on November 4. Meanwhile, the JTWC also upgraded it to a tropical storm, when the expansive system was steadily consolidating in an area of weak to moderate vertical wind shear and tracking westward along the southern periphery of a subtropical ridge. By November 5, the storm began to undergo rapid intensification as a prominent central dense overcast (CDO) with an embedded eye began developing. This intensification was fueled by high sea surface temperatures, estimated at which extended to an unusually great depth. At below the surface, temperatures were above average. In light of the formation of an eye, the JTWC estimated Haiyan to have achieved typhoon status around 0000 UTC that day. The JMA followed suit 12 hours later, by which time the JTWC estimated one-minute sustained winds to have reached .
A small typhoon, with a core roughly across, rapid intensification continued through November 6 as an wide pin-hole eye formed. Upper-level outflow favored further strengthening of the system and was further enhanced by a tropical upper tropospheric trough to the northeast. Intense banding features along the southern periphery of Haiyan wrapped into the system as well. Early on November 6, the JTWC estimated the system to have achieved super typhoon status. That day, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigned the storm the local name Yolanda as it approached their area of responsibility. Intensification slowed somewhat during the day, though the JTWC estimated the storm to have attained Category 5-equivalent status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale around 1200 UTC. At this time, Haiyan displayed a wide eye surrounded by a ring of deep convection. Later, the eye of the typhoon passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau. Development continued throughout November 7, and at times, mesovortices were apparent in the typhoon's eye.
Peak intensity
Around 1200 UTC on November 7, Haiyan attained its peak intensity with ten-minute sustained winds of and a barometric pressure of 895 mbar (hPa; ). This made it the second-most intense tropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific Ocean on record, based on wind speeds alone, along with Bess in 1982 and Megi in 2010, only after Tip in 1979. Six hours later, the JTWC estimated Haiyan to have attained one-minute sustained winds of and gusts up to . This officially ties Haiyan with Typhoon Meranti in 2016 as the fifth-strongest tropical cyclone on record in terms of wind speed, only exceeded by Typhoon Ida (325 km/h) in 1958, Typhoon Violet (335 km/h) in 1961, Typhoon Nancy (345 km/h) in 1961 and Hurricane Patricia (345 km/h) in 2015. However, due to the fact the wind recordings in typhoons were erroneously high during the 1950s and 1960s, it can be said that Haiyan made its way as the second strongest tropical cyclone on record, second only to Hurricane Patricia in 2015. (It is important to note, however, that Patricia's winds were directly measured by hurricane hunters aircraft, observations which were not available for Haiyan, so the record is uncertain and comparing the intensities of the two storms is problematic.) The storm displayed some characteristics of an annular tropical cyclone, though a strong convective band remained present along the western side of the system.
Satellite estimates at the time, using the Dvorak technique, reached the maximum level on the scale: T#8.0. The storm's structure exceeded the maximum intensity on the scale as the "Dvorak technique makes no allowance for an eye embedded so deeply in cloud tops as cold as [cold dark gray]," as noted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) satellite analysis branch. Cloud tops surrounding the eye averaged , with some areas even deeper. Some automated models initialized its intensity at T#8.1, exceeding the scale's upper bounds. Through satellite estimates, NOAA also estimated that Haiyan may have achieved a minimum pressure as low as 858 mbar (hPa; ). This would have possibly made Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide, however due to lack of hurricane hunters in the West Pacific, this is hard to verify, so Typhoon Tip of 1979 holds the record.
Philippine landfalls
At 2040 UTC on November 7, Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Guiuan, Eastern Samar slightly past peak intensity with sustained winds. Upon doing so, it became one of the strongest landfalling tropical cyclones on record. In terms of one-minute sustained winds from the JTWC, Haiyan was the most powerful storm to strike land on record, later tied with Typhoon Meranti in 2016 and broken by Typhoon Goni in 2020. The mountainous terrain of the Philippines disrupted the cyclone's low-level inflow, slightly degrading the storm's structure, prompting slow weakening. Radar data indicates that at 2108 UTC, the northern eye was over the village of Guiuan. Around this time, the dome of the Guiuan radar station was blown into the sea. The storm crossed into Leyte Gulf shortly thereafter.
At 2300 UTC, the storm made another landfall on the island of Leyte. The northern eyewall, the most powerful part of the storm, hit Tacloban City. Despite continued land interaction, the storm remained exceptionally powerful as it hit Leyte. Shortly after the storm moved onshore, around 2320 UTC, a barometer deployed by storm chasers in Tacloban City ( north of the center of circulation) measured a pressure of 960.3 mbar (hPa; ). At 2315 UTC, a barometer at Tacloban Airport about south of the chasers measured a pressure of 955.6 mb (hPa; 28.22 inHg). Based on the gradient between these positions, Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground estimated that Haiyan may have had a central pressure of 888 mb (hPa; ) when it struck Leyte.
As Haiyan moved further into Leyte, it reached the Nacolod mountain range. As the core traversed the Nacolod, its 1500 m peaks significantly disrupted the storm's low- and mid-level circulation. This caused the northern half of Haiyan's central core to collapse. Convection shallowed somewhat, and the eye shrank from 20 nm to under 10 nm, also becoming cloud-filled. Despite this synoptic weakening, the shrinking eye kept windspeeds high due to conservation of angular momentum. At 0006 UTC, the eye crosses the Nacolod and hits Ormoc City, still at category 5 strength. Haiyan then crossed another mountain range to the west of Ormoc before emerging over the Cebu Strait. Marked orographic enhancement over this terrain is evident on radar imagery.
During Haiyan's passage over the Cebu Strait, the core reorganized somewhat. At 0133 UTC, the eyewall began to hit the island of Cebu, at Daanbantayan. This is the Cebu City radar station's last scan before it is disabled by the storm. After crossing the mountains, Haiyan made another landfall on Bantayan Island at 0240 UTC, then quickly emerging over the Visayan sea. At 0400 UTC, the storm makes another landfall at Concepcion, Iloilo. The storm weakens to category 4 strength shortly thereafter. After its lengthiest land crossing yet, Haiyan emerges over the Mindoro Strait. At 1200 UTC, the storm makes its last Philippine landfall at Coron, Palawan as a strong category 4 storm. Haiyan emerged over the South China Sea late on November 8. The storm's core had been substantially disrupted during its passage through the Philippines, with only a partial eyewall remaining intact around a ragged cloud-filled eye. In contrast to the appearance, the JTWC estimated it to have retained winds of at this time. Similarly the PAGASA maintained its strength as while the JMA estimated winds at .
South China Sea and dissipation
By November 9, some structural reorganization took place with banding features wrapping tightly around a developing eye. Environmental conditions ahead of the storm soon became less favorable, as cool stable air began wrapping into the western side of the circulation. This resulted in shallowing convecting over the center. Continuing across the South China Sea, Haiyan turned more northwesterly late on November 9 and through November 10 as it moved around the southwestern edge of the subtropical ridge previously steering it westward. Throughout November 10, interaction with Hainan Island and Vietnam further weakened the storm as it moved over the Gulf of Tonkin. Rapid weakening ensued as Haiyan approached its final landfall in Vietnam, with increasing wind shear displacing convection to the north of the center of circulation. The storm had also turned more northerly by this point as the subtropical ridge began to erode. Around 2100 UTC, Haiyan made landfall in Haiphong as a severe tropical storm with ten-minute sustained winds of . Once onshore, Haiyan turned more easterly as the mid-latitude westerlies became the primary steering factor. By 1200 UTC on November 11, Haiyan had dissipated as a tropical cyclone, as it moved over Guangxi Province, China.
See also
Meteorological history of Typhoon Durian
2013 Pacific typhoon season
Typhoons in the Philippines
Notes
References
External links
JMA General Information of Typhoon Haiyan (1330) from Digital Typhoon
JMA Best Track Data of Typhoon Haiyan (1330)
JTWC Best Track Data of Super Typhoon 31W (Haiyan)
31W.HAIYAN from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Super Typhoon Haiyan from the CIMSS Satellite Blog
The track of Typhoon Haiyan from YouTube
Haiyan timeline
Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan
Haiyan meteorological history
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMV%20%28song%29
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DMV (song)
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"DMV" is a song by the American rock band Primus. It was released as the second single from their third album Pork Soda (1993).
The video was featured in Beavis and Butt-head.
It has been played live on Lollapalooza '93 and some concerts of 2003 Tour de Fromage.
This song is also featured in Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People and in the compilation album They Can't All Be Zingers.
The song failed to chart.
Description
This song features bassist Les Claypool soulfully slapping and tapping his bass. In the video about 40 seconds of the outro were removed.
It appears to be about the pointlessness of mundane activities such as waiting in line at Department of Motor Vehicles, going to the dentist and sitting on cold toilet seats etc., and seeking relief through marijuana. The lyrics reference the previous album Sailing the Seas of Cheese.
Music video
The video for "DMV" features live and backstage footage from the 10/1/1993 show at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA and clips from a toilet, animation and artwork used for the "Tommy the Cat" video. Due to the length of the song the video was cut to 4:29.
See also
Primus discography
References
Primus (band) songs
1993 songs
1993 singles
Interscope Records singles
Songs written by Les Claypool
Songs written by Tim Alexander
Songs written by Larry LaLonde
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Pifarr%C3%A9
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Carlos Pifarré
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Carlos Pifarré Forner (born 5 May 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who played for Oxford City as a midfielder.
Football career
Born in La Vall d'Uixó, Castellón, Valencian Community, Pifarré finished his formation with Villarreal CF, making his senior debuts with UD Almansa in the 2009–10 season, in Tercera División. In 2011, he first arrived in Segunda División B, signing with CD Dénia.
In July 2012 Pifarré joined Real Murcia, initially assigned to the reserves in the fourth level. On 30 November he made his professional debut, coming on as a late substitute in a 0–0 home draw against Real Madrid Castilla in the Segunda División championship. He finished the season with only three first-team appearances, all from the bench.
On 7 July 2013 Pifarré moved to CD Olímpic de Xàtiva in division three.
During the summer of 2015 he moved to Oxford City of National League South, the 6th tier of English football, failing to impress as the club finished in a mid table position and being released at the end of his contract.
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Valencian Community
Men's association football midfielders
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Real Murcia CF players
CD Olímpic de Xàtiva footballers
Atlético Saguntino players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK%20Sloga%20Petrovac%20na%20Mlavi
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FK Sloga Petrovac na Mlavi
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FK Sloga Petrovac na Mlavi () is a football club based in Petrovac, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian League West, the third tier of the national league system.
History
The club took part in the 1951 Yugoslav Cup, defeating Radnički Beograd 4–1 in the opening round. They met Partizan in the next phase and were defeated 15–0, as Stjepan Bobek scored eight goals for the Belgrade side.
After winning the Podunavlje Zone League in 2007, the club spent six seasons in the Serbian League West. They would finish as champions in the 2012–13 season to earn promotion to the Serbian First League, reaching the second tier for the first time in their history. In July 2016, the club withdrew from the competition due to financial reasons.
In the summer of 2016, the club was reformed and started off in the Braničevo District League, the fifth tier of Serbian football. They reached the Serbian League West in 2018, but suffered relegation in 2021.
Honours
Podunavlje Zone League / Podunavlje-Šumadija Zone League (Tier 4)
2006–07 / 2022–23
Braničevo District League (Tier 5)
2016–17
Notable players
This is a list of players who have played at full international level.
Francis Bossman
Marjan Marković
For a list of all FK Sloga Petrovac na Mlavi players with a Wikipedia article, see :Category:FK Sloga Petrovac na Mlavi players.
Managerial history
References
External links
Club page at Srbijasport
1933 establishments in Serbia
2016 establishments in Serbia
Association football clubs established in 1933
Association football clubs established in 2016
Football clubs in Yugoslavia
Football clubs in Serbia
Phoenix clubs (association football)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Sheikh%20Abdullahi
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Ali Sheikh Abdullahi
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Ali Sheikh Abdullahi (, ) is a Somali diplomat. He is the ambassador of Somalia to Pakistan, based at the Somali embassy in Islamabad.
References
Living people
Ambassadors of Somalia to Pakistan
Somalian diplomats
Year of birth missing (living people)
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41058849
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s%20Kingman%20Riofr%C3%ADo
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Nicolás Kingman Riofrío
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Nicolás Kingman Riofrío (November 18, 1918, Loja – March 19, 2018, Quito) was an Ecuadorian journalist, writer and politician.
Biography
His father, Edward Kingman, moved from Newton, Connecticut, in the United States to coastal Cantón Portovelo in El Oro Province, Ecuador, while working for the "South America Development Company". Edward Kingman worked in the mines of Zaruma and was the second person to have an automobile in Quito (the first was Juan Isaac Navarro). Kingman was the younger brother of the renowned painter Eduardo Kingman. Kingman married Gloria Garcés.
Kingman completed his secondary studies at the Colegio Vicente Rocafuerte of Guayaquil. He has served as a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of 1944, and then in the National Congress of 1948 and 1956 during the presidency of Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy. He was the General Inspectorate of Ecuador between 1961-1963; the vice director of the Housing Bank between 1964-1968; director of the newspaper La Hora since 1985. He was a founding member of Writers and Artists Union, member of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, and a member of the editorial board of the Library of the Central Bank of Ecuador.
As a teenager he started the first student strike at the Colegio Vicente Rocafuerte, and at the same time began a close friendship with Pedro Jorge Vera and members of the Guayaquil Group, such as Joaquín Gallegos Lara, Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, José de la Cuadra and Enrique Gil Gilbert.
Kingman is the author of the short story book Comida para locos (Food for the Crazy) (1974), and the novels Dioses, semidioses y astronautas (Gods, Demigods and Astronauts) (1982) and La escoba de la bruja (The Witch's Broom) (2000). Kingman's works have not been translated into English yet.
Kingman was awarded Ecuador's highest honor, The National Prize of Culture "Premio Eugenio Espejo", in 1997.
Works
Comida para locos (1974)
Dioses, semidioses y astronautas (1982)
La escoba de la bruja (2000)
References
1918 births
2018 deaths
Ecuadorian journalists
Male journalists
Ecuadorian writers
Members of the National Congress (Ecuador)
Ecuadorian people of American descent
People from Loja, Ecuador
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossy%20Lawler
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Mossy Lawler
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Mossy Lawler (born 5 April 1980) is an Irish former rugby union player who currently works as a coach. He primarily played as a wing or fullback, but also covered fly-half and centre. Lawler spent most of his playing career with Munster, playing in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup, and also played three games on a trial period for English Premiership side London Wasps in 2008. After leaving the professional game, he continued to play at amateur level in Ireland for Shannon and UL Bohemians, before retiring fully in 2015.
Early life
Lawler grew up in Limerick. His father Pat died while playing rugby when Lawler was just three years old. His father had played for UL Bohemians from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, and Lawler started out in rugby with the same club. Lawler went to secondary school in Ardscoil Rís in the city, and played rugby for the school team. He was part of the first team from the school to reach the final of the Munster Schools Senior Cup, where they were beaten by PBC Cork. After leaving secondary school, Lawler went on to study at Limerick IT, completing a construction studies course.
Playing career
Early career with Shannon
Having played at youth level with UL Bohemians, Lawler moved to cross-city rivals Shannon at the age of 18, having been convinced to move by his cousin, Colm Tucker. He made his debut in the All-Ireland League for the club at that age, and played for them while studying in Limerick IT. Lawler was given a professional contract with Munster the summer after he finished his college course. Lawler remained associated with Shannon throughout his time with the province, playing for the side occasionally when available.
Munster
Lawler made his competitive debut for Munster on 11 September 2001, in a game against Welsh side Caerphilly. Munster reached the Heineken Cup final in his first season with the side, but he didn't feature in the competition. Lawler did however play the following season, featuring in the "Miracle Match" against Gloucester. Munster needed to win by 27 points, with four clear tries between the sides, to qualify from the pool stages of the 2002–03 Heineken Cup. Lawler started on the wing and scored a try as Munster won 33–6 in front of a delirious Thomond Park.
Lawler was part of the squad that won the province's first Heineken Cup in 2006. He had played for the team in the pool stages, but missed the quarter-final through injury and never regained his place in the team. In the 2006–07 season Lawler's playing time was limited, as he made ten Celtic League appearances, six of them coming as a replacement, and didn't feature in Europe. He then missed the entirety of the 2007–08 season through injury, as Munster won their second Heineken Cup. Lawler's contract wasn't renewed at the end of the season.
Wasps
Having left Munster at the end of the 2007–08 season, Lawler was without a club. In October 2008, English Premiership team London Wasps invited him to join the club on a three-month contract. His fellow Munster natives Jeremy Staunton, Eoin Reddan and Damien Varley were playing with the team at the time. After making two appearances in the Premiership for the side, Lawler tore his groin in a game against Sale Sharks, which brought his time with Wasps to an end.
Return to amateur rugby
After his disappointment with Wasps, Lawler gave up on a professional career, instead rejoining Shannon for the 2009–10 season, and he played for the side for three seasons. At the end of the 2011–12 season, he opted to rejoin UL Bohemians, the club where he had first played in his youth. Again Lawler's cousin Colm Tucker, who had first persuaded him to join Shannon in the 1990s, was key to the switch. Lawler joined Bohemians as a player, but also served as the club's director of rugby, with a focus on developing the club's academy. This added coaching role was key in his decision to move. Lawler retired from playing at the end of the 2014–15 campaign, having played at senior level for 17 seasons.
Coaching
After retiring from playing rugby, Lawler joined the Connacht Academy staff as an elite player development officer, with a focus on developing the backs. He also served as head coach of the province's under-20 side and the second tier team, the Connacht Eagles. Ahead of the 2021–22 season, Lawlor joined Connacht's senior staff as their attack and skills coach. Lawlor will return to Munster as their skills coach from the 2023–24 season.
References
External links
Munster Profile
1980 births
Living people
People educated at Ardscoil Rís, Limerick
Alumni of Limerick Institute of Technology
Rugby union players from Limerick (city)
Irish rugby union players
Irish expatriate rugby union players
Irish rugby union coaches
UL Bohemians R.F.C. players
Shannon RFC players
Munster Rugby players
Wasps RFC players
Connacht Rugby non-playing staff
Rugby union centres
Rugby union fullbacks
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union wings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry%20I%27m%20Late%20%28disambiguation%29
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Sorry I'm Late (disambiguation)
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Sorry I'm Late is a 2014 album by Cher Lloyd.
Sorry I'm Late may also refer to:
Sorry I'm Late (John Regan album), 2010
Sorry I'm Late (Mae Muller album), 2023
Sorry I'm Late, a 2021 EP by Bnxn
"Sorry I'm Late", song by Fink from Biscuits for Breakfast
"Sorry I'm Late", 2011 KBS2 Korean drama with Yoon Joo-sang
Sorry I'm Late, an art exhibition by Anthea Hamilton at Firstsite
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20X%20Haren
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Project X Haren
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Project X Haren was an event that started out as a public invitation to a birthday party by a girl on Facebook, but ended up as a gathering of thousands of youths causing riots on 21 September 2012 in the town of Haren, Groningen, Netherlands.
The event was unprecedented in the Netherlands, but in June 2011, a German girl had posted similar birthday invitations on the internet. Hundreds of mostly drunk youths gathered in Hamburg, Germany, causing a great deal of damage and rioting against the police.
Background
On 6 September 2012, a 15-year-old girl from Haren, sent 78 friends a public invitation to her 16th birthday via the social network site Facebook. She deliberately chose the option 'public', so that her friends could bring other friends. This way, the girl hoped to obtain a head count. One of her friends' friends misused the invitation and invited 500 people himself. Through the notorious snowball effect thousands of people were added to that number in a matter of days. In just two days, 16,000 people were invited. The girl then deleted the event after consulting her parents. However, others took command and quickly Twitter and Facebook were filled with terms like Project X Merthe (the name of the girl), Project X Stationsweg (the street where she lived), and Project X Haren. Project X is a reference to the 2012 film Project X, directed by Nima Nourizadeh.
Project X Haren was run by a 21-year-old man from Christchurch, New Zealand, and an unknown individual from Berlin calling himself "Ibe Der Fuhrer". The 21-year-old claims he accepted the request from a Dutch person to host the Facebook event. The father of the birthday girl asked the two men to cancel the event, but they did not comply.
After the invitation, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other weblogs and internet forums were quickly filled with conversations regarding Project X. Within a week, 24,000 people were invited and 2,400 had accepted. On 14 September, the girl's parents distributed a letter in their neighborhood to warn residents of their rising concerns. This letter quickly appeared on the internet.
On 18 September, the municipality of Haren and the local police force agreed to act strongly if the party escalated. By then, the rumours had spread to the national media. Fifty-five thousand people had been invited, and 6,000 of them accepted. Local entrepreneurs took advantage of the situation and organised afterparties in Groningen. Between 19 and 21 September, the expected attendance grew from 8,000 to 30,000. On the 21st alone, around 400,000 tweets were sent regarding Project X Haren.
As a precaution, the girl and her family were moved to an undisclosed location and the neighbourhood was closed off on 21 September. Rob Bats, mayor of Haren at the time, and the municipal council decided not to organise a party to accommodate the visitors and called on people not to come to Haren. A nearby football field was designed as a shelter in case of attendance overload and the local police conversed with German police because an equivalent Project X event had earlier taken place there.
Events
In the morning and afternoon a few hundred people had traveled to Haren, but the number of visitors appeared to be diminishing towards the beginning of the evening. However, around 7:30 p.m. thousands of youths poured in and around 9:00 p.m. the riots started. It has been suggested by Job Cohen and several columnists that the presence of journalists in the village reporting on the lack of people present and the lack of 'something happening' triggered the riots in the evening. Rioters from all around the country commenced destroying cars, bicycles, windows and street furniture. According to the police, the destruction of property was extremely violent and well-planned, and the rioters deliberately sought confrontation.
At 9:30 riot control was commissioned to control the crowd. At 11:00 back up police officers arrived from the provinces Friesland and Drenthe. 36 rioters and 15 policemen were injured. Nearby hospitals reported cuts, head injuries and bruises. An elderly man was assaulted in his home and was badly injured. In total, 500 policemen were commissioned, of which 250 were riot control.
Buses were sent to get people out of Haren and move them to Groningen. 12 of the 24 buses were damaged by bystanders.
Aftermath
Project Clean X
After the riots, Facebook was used to gather people on 22 September to help clean up Haren.
Accusations and arrests
On 21 September 34 rioters were arrested. On 22 September two teenagers gave themselves up guided by their parents. According to the Public Prosecutor, most rioters were 18 or 19 years old, but 11 suspects were under aged.
One person was released on 22 September, but was still a suspect. 25 of the 35 remaining arrested rioters were released on 24 September with a summons. Six individuals accused of serious criminal offences were summoned on 25 September. One of them was released. All 35 suspects were sentenced in October 2012.
In October 2012, hundreds of new leads were sent to the police and 50 reports of destruction were made. This led to another 19 arrests.
Two journalists reporting from Haren for local television networks RTV Noord and RTV Drenthe made a statement to the police that they were hit by riot control, while they were clearly doing their job.
On 30 October 2012 the police showed recognisable photographs of a dozen rioters in a national television program. Seven of them were quickly identified.
On 25 July 2013 12 rioters were sentenced to imprisonment and community services. They also had to make a financial contribution to a fund for compensation for harmed citizens of Haren.
Other Project X parties
After Project X Haren various other Project X invitations were sent out for, among others, Gouda, Alkmaar and Amersfoort. On 22 September 2012, a group of youths was arrested in Schiedam for instigation after having gathered for a Project X party. The municipality of Arnhem closed off all entrances to the city after an announcement regarding a Project X party, but everything remained calm. In Uden, a 15-year-old boy was deprived of his liberty for announcing a Project X party on Twitter.
Investigations
Shortly after the events in Haren investigations were announced. These would be led by a commission composed of:
Chairman: Job Cohen, former leader of the Labour Party, Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid (abbr. PvdA), and former mayor of Amsterdam;
Gabriël van den Brink, professor in public administration at Tilburg University;
Otto Adang, lecturer Openbare orde en Gevaarbeheersing at a police academy.
Jan van Dijk, professor in communication sciences and new media at Twente University;
Thomas Boeschoten, student of new media at Utrecht University
The evaluation had several goals. First of all, the commission set out to account the government for its relation to the events. Also was tried to gain a clearer insight in this phenomenon to prevent future escalating violence. The principal investigator was the municipality Haren, but the investigations were also monitored on a national level.
On 8 March 2013, the commission announced its results:
The visitors in Haren were mainly youths.
Hooligans did not play an important role.
Alcohol was the main cause of the arising of the riots.
The government had no control over the events from the start and did not have a clear strategy, causing policemen to be unsure of their tasks.
Mayor Rob Bats exerted his power too little and waited far too long before calling in extra help.
As a result of the published report Rob Bats laid down his function as mayor on 1 April 2013.
References
2012 in the Netherlands
2012 riots
Facebook
History of Groningen (city)
Riots and civil disorder in the Netherlands
Senseless Violence riots
September 2012 crimes
September 2012 events in Europe
Events in Groningen (city)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Barrett%20Miles
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Samuel Barrett Miles
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Samuel Barrett Miles (2 October 1838 – 28 August 1914) was a British Army officer who served as a diplomat in various Arabic-speaking countries, notably Oman, which he came to know better than any other European of the time. The notes that he made were published after his death as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf.
Early years
Samuel Barrett Miles was born on 2 October 1838, the son of Major-General Miles.
His father was in the military service of the East India Company.
Miles was educated at Harrow. He joined the British Indian Army in 1857, the year of the Indian Mutiny. He entered the 7th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry as an ensign, was promoted to lieutenant in 1860 and became regimental quarter-master in 1864. In November 1866 he moved with his regiment to Aden. The next year he was appointed Cantonment Magistrate and Assistant Resident at Aden.
Political agent in the Gulf region
The regiment returned to India in March 1869. Soon after, Miles applied for a transfer to the Political Service.
His first appointment was to Balochistan, where he stayed on the Makran coast.
Miles was appointed Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, in Oman, in October 1872.
He spent most of his subsequent career as a political agent in Oman.
Other appointments included Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Consul-General of Baghdad (1879), Political Agent and Consul-General of Zanzibar (1881), Political Agent in the North West Province and Oudh (1885) and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Miles came to Oman during the reign of Turki bin Said (1871–1888), whom the British had assisted in ending the conservative religious revolution of Azzan bin Qais.
Miles made several journeys from Muscat into the interior of the country to gain a better understanding of the people for diplomatic purposes. He was an Arabist and Orientalist, and developed a deep knowledge of the history and the people of the region, recording his findings in copious notes.
He described the country, architecture, local customs, social conditions, agriculture and fishing.
His erudition allowed him to detect echoes of the distant past in modern times.
He noted that India and Arabia still used a measure of weight that had been used in ancient Nineveh.
Later career
Miles was acting Political Resident in the Gulf from 1885 until October 1886.
In 1887 he returned to India where he was promoted to Colonel. He was Political Resident at Mewar from 1887 to 1893, when he retired from the army and returned to England.
Miles wrote several papers that were published by the Royal Geographical Society.
He married Ellen Marie Kay in 1877. They had one son, Harry William Miles, who was killed during World War I (1914–1918).
Samuel Barrett Miles died on 28 August 1914 aged 75.
He had intended to work up his notes into a book, but went blind several years before he died.
Five years later his widow published the work he had completed as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf.
Bibliography
Published work by Samuel Barrett Miles include:
Tenets of the Ibadhi sect
Outlines of the history of Oman, 1728–1883
Note on the tribes of Oman
Note on the sect of Ibadhiyah of Oman
References
Citations
Sources
1838 births
1914 deaths
British Indian Army officers
People educated at Harrow School
British Arabists
British orientalists
History of Oman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensword%3A%20Shadowlands
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Ravensword: Shadowlands
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Ravensword: Shadowlands is a role-playing game created by American indie studio Crescent Moon Games. It is the successor of Ravensword: The Fallen King. It was released originally only for iOS and Android compatible devices, but later was also released to Windows, due to it being greenlit on Steam.
Gameplay
The game has received many comparison to open world role-playing games in the Elder Scrolls series of games, such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Combat has three main types, with exceptions. Two, melee and ranged, are equipment based. There are various melee and ranged combat styles. Each style has separate skills and equipment, that are individually trained. Magic also has different spells, but all are trained similarly using similar equipment and the same skills.
Speedrunning
In 2022 the game received some notoriety when it was featured in the charity speedrunning live stream ESA 2022.
The 4th fastest speedrunner is TharBeFungus with a time of 41 minutes and 21 seconds.
Reception
Ravensword: Shadowlands has been generally well received by critics. It has received a 76 out of 100 rating on review aggregator Metacritic based on 12 reviews. TouchArcade strongly praised the game, giving it a perfect 5 out of 5 score and stating that "its hard to believe I'm playing a game of this caliber on iOS...Other than a few minor glitches, Ravensword: Shadowlands is the real deal, and is an excellent open-world RPG with a decent story, ample content, deep character customization and beautiful visuals". Slide to Play awarded the game a 3 out of 4 rating, stating that the game was "...a beautiful game that stumbles often, but only because it reaches so high" and concluded that it was ultimately "not as polished as a game like Skyrim, but there’s plenty here for an action RPG fan to love." Gamezebo also compared it favorably to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, stating "If you're going to borrow, you may as well borrow from the best...The open world aspect of Ravensword: Shadowlands is one of its big selling points, and it is fun to explore some non-linear adventures on your iOS device. It does have some limitations though, as there are physical barriers out in the world that prevent you from reaching certain parts of the map as freely as you might think." Pocket Gamer described it as "...as big and open an RPG as you're likely to get on iOS" but cited uneven combat as a major weakness of the game, describing it as both "frustratingly punishing and ridiculously easy" at certain points.
AppSpy was more negative towards the game, stating that the difficulty and glitches overshadowed the game's technical feats.
References
2013 video games
Android (operating system) games
IOS games
Linux games
MacOS games
Ouya games
Role-playing video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Crescent Moon Games games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20regulation
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Radio regulation
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Radio regulation refers to the regulation and licensing of radio in international law, by individual governments, and by municipalities.
International regulation
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is responsible for issues that concern information and communication technologies. ITU Radio Regulations are the set of ITU's regulations governing electromagnetic spectrum from 9 kHz to 275 GHz.
The reasons are that the radio waves spectrum is on the one hand considered to be a limited natural resource, on the other side some radio waves are able to propagate on considerable distances and interfere with radio services abroad.
Government regulation
United States
In the United States, radio is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NITA).
References
External links
National and Regional Radio Regulatory Agencies
European Radiocommunications Office
Federal Communications Commission (USA)
IFT (Mexico)
Ofcom (UK)
Traficom (Finland)
Agence Nationale des Fréquences (France)
Bakom/Ofcom (Switzerland)
Bundesnetzagentur (Germany)
UKE (Poland)
KKDI (Indonesia)
IRRS (India)
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (UAE)
Australian Communications and Media Authority (Australia)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy%20First
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Italy First
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Italy First may refer to:
Italy First (airline)
Italy First (political alliance)
Italy First (political party)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ting%20Kok
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Ting Kok
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Ting Kok is the name of an area and a village in the northeastern part of Hong Kong. It is located on the northern shore of Plover Cove and west of Tai Mei Tuk. Administratively, it is part of Tai Po District.
Administration
Ting Kok is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. For electoral purposes, Ting Kok is part of the Shuen Wan constituency of the Tai Po District Council. It was formerly represented by So Tat-leung, who was elected in the local elections until October 2021.
History
Ting Kok Village, originally called Ting Kai (), was historically a multi-surname Punti village founded before 1688.
Historically, Ting Kok, together with the nearby Hakka villages of Shan Liu, Lai Pik Shan, Lo Tsz Tin, Lung Mei and Tai Mei Tuk belonged to the Ting Kok Yeuk () alliance.
In the 19th century, Ting Kok was the centre of the wider San On () Roman Catholic missionary district. It was also an established transit point used by missionaries on their way into mainland China. The mission was set up in 1866, and 19 residents were baptised as the first batch of local Catholics.
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Ting Kok was 669. The number of males was 301.
Built heritage
Built heritage in Ting Kok include:
Mo Tai Temple (). Built before 1785. Dedicated to Kwan Tai aka. Mo Tai (). A Grade III historic building since 2010.
Lee Ancestral Hall (). Built in the late 19th century. Not graded. There are more than 10 ancestral halls in the village. Most of them have been modernized.
Flora and fauna
A mangrove covers a coastal area of about seven hectares near Ting Kok Village. It is one of the few sites in Hong Kong where a large population of Lumnitzera racemosa can be found.
Conservation
A part of Ting Kok is within the Pat Sin Leng Country Park, and the Ting Kok wetlands have been declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1985.
References
Further reading
(A previous version of this paper was presented at a Seminar 'Hong Kong: its people, culture and traditions, the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. 15-16 April 1983)
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Ting Kok (Tai Po) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Press release: "Comprehensive coastal conservation plan introduced for Ting Kok ", October 25, 2012
Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Mo Tai Temple, Ting Kok. Pictures
Antiquities Advisory Board. Historic Building Appraisal. Lee Ancestral Hall, Ting Kok. Pictures
Tai Po District
Populated places in Hong Kong
Restricted areas of Hong Kong red public minibus
Villages in Tai Po District, Hong Kong
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20Dynamics%20%28global%20asset%20manager%29
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Capital Dynamics (global asset manager)
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Capital Dynamics is an independent global asset management firm focusing on private assets, including private equity (primaries, secondaries co-investments), private credit, and clean energy. Created in 1988, the firm has offices in Zug, New York, Miami, San Francisco, London, Birmingham, Munich, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, Milan, Paris, and Seoul . As of Q3 2021, Capital Dynamics oversees more than USD 13 billion in assets under management and advisement1, and employs approximately 160 workers globally across 14 offices in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia.
1As of September 30, 2021. Assets Under Management are calculated based on the total commitments as of the final closing date for all funds currently managed by Capital Dynamics, including amounts that have been distributed. Assets Under Advisement includes assets for which Capital Dynamics provides services such as reporting, monitoring and risk management.
Key people
Hina Ahmad – Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the Executive Committee
Andrew Bernstein – Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Private Equity and member of the Private Equity Investment Committee as well as the Executive Committee
Dario Bertagna, Managing Director, Co-Head of Clean Energy, and member of the Executive Committee
Barney Coles, Managing Director, Co-Head of Clean Energy, and member of the Executive Committee
Simon Eaves, Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Clean Energy, and member of the Executive Committee
Jens Ernberg – Managing Director, Co-head of Private Credit, member of the Private Credit Investment Committee as well as the Executive Committee
Bryn Gostin – Managing Director, Head of Product Development & Strategy, and member of the Executive Committee
Martin Hahn – current Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Head of Business Development and Chairman of the Executive Committee
Thomas Hall – Managing Director, Co-head of Private Credit, member of the Private Credit Investment Committee as well as the Executive Committee
Carolin Hirschbiel, Managing Director, Head of marketing & Communications, and member of the Executive Committee
George Georgiou – Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee
Thomas Kubr – founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Chairman of the Board
Harald Zeiter – Senior Managing Director, Group General Counsel, Head of Legal and Compliance and member of the Executive Committee
Joe Marks – Senior Managing Director, Head of Secondaries and member of Executive Committee
References
Another Firm Jumps Into Private Credit(Institutional Investor, September 2017)
The 100 Most Influential of the Decade, Tom Kubr (Private Equity International, Page 6, 2011)
Major Firms Join Forces to Form the AltExchange Alliance for the Private Equity Industry (AltExchange, May 2013)
FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Private Equity (Financial News, April 2014)
Method and system for modeling and benchmarking private equity and applications of same US 7698196 B1 (Google Patents, April 2012)
FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Private Equity (Financial News, May 2013)
Industry heavy hitters strike again (Financial News, September 2011)
Capital Dynamics’ emulated methods help deliver prize (Private Equity News, October 2008)
2013 Sandro Buttaci Memorial Award for the Young Compliance Officer of the Year Traci Pham, Vice President, Capital Dynamics (Thomson Reuters, November 2013)
Value Creation in Private Equity - New joint research findings from the Technical University of Munich and Capital Dynamics (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2014)
New Strategies for Risk Management in Private Equity (Private Equity International, May 2014)
Team Stability and Performance in Private Equity (London Business School’s Coller Institute of Private Equity, October 2013)
Value Creation in Danish Private Equity (Danish Venture Capital Association, May 2011)
Value Creation in Private Equity, New CEFS study on value creation drivers in private equity transactions (Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies at the Technical University of Munich, October 2009)
Private equity’s love affair with leverage (Financial Times Fund Management, October 2009)
Responsible Investment: A guide for private equity and venture capital firms, Page 1 (British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, 2012)
Europe’s Most Influential PE Fund Managers (Deal Market Digest on Private Equity News’ Survey Results, September 2012)
Companies based in Zug
Financial services companies established in 1988
Private equity firms of Switzerland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ke%C3%A7i%C3%B6ren%20Gondola
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Keçiören Gondola
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The Keçiören Gondola () is a two-station gondola-type line of aerial lift passenger transport system situated in Keçiören district of Ankara, Turkey. Opened in April 2008, the long line connects Kavacık Subayevleri neighborhood (Atatürk station) in the south with Tepebaşı neighborhood (Cumhuriyet station) in the north within Keçiören. It is operated by Keçiören Municipality.
The line was designed and the system was delivered by the Turkish ropeway producing company STM Sistem Teleferik from İzmir. The construction works completed in November 2007, and following the test runs, the line went in service in April 2008. It is the longest urban gondola lift line in Turkey.
Sixteen detachable cabins each capable of eight passengers transport hourly 384 people between the two stations. The ride lasts 20 minutes. The municipality dropped the fare from initially 5.00 to 1.00 in April 2013.
Specifications
Line length:
Height distance:
Number of stations: 2
Number of cabins: 16 each eight-seater
Trip duration: 20 minutes
Operating speed: max.
Hourly ridership: 384
Cable diameter =
Engine power: 160 kW
Operational hours: 12:00 - 21:00 (Workdays), 12:00 - 22:00 (Weekends)
Fare: 1.00
Terminals:
Cumhuriyet (Tepebaşı)
Atatürk (Kavacık Subayevleri)
See also
List of gondola lifts in Turkey
References
External links
Images at Keçiören Belediyesi website
Public transport in Ankara
Gondola lifts in Turkey
Keçiören
2008 establishments in Turkey
Transport infrastructure completed in 2008
Tourist attractions in Ankara
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41058933
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20aerumnosa
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Clarkeulia aerumnosa
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Clarkeulia aerumnosa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41058950
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuentepec
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Cuentepec
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San Sebastian Cuentepec is a community in the municipality of Temixco in the state of Morelos, Mexico. The community is the only community in Morelos where Nahuatl is still spoken as the everyday language of the majority of the inhabitants.
References
Populated places in Morelos
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41058952
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehadete%20Mekuli
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Sehadete Mekuli
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Sehadete Mekuli (16 October 1928 – 12 November 2013), also spelled Sadete Mekuli, was a Yugoslavian-born Albanian gynecologist, professor, and public figure. She became known for tending to the injured students of the 1981 protests in Kosovo, when Albanians demanded more autonomy within the Yugoslav federation. As a result of her actions, she was denied a full professorship at the University of Pristina School of Medicine and was forced into early retirement in 1988. She is the inspiration for the character of Teuta Shkreli in Ismail Kadare's 1985 novel The Wedding Procession Turned to Ice ().
Biography
She was born Sehadete Doko on 16 October 1928 in Ohrid, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in North Macedonia). She pursued secondary studies in 1947 in her native city and then studied medicine in the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, graduating on 7 January 1954. On 1 April 1954, she started to work in the Hospital of Pristina as a gynecologist and obstetrician. Mekuli specialized in gynecology in March 1960 in Belgrade. From 1960 until 1962 she was the Chief of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Pavilion of the Pristina Hospital. In 1963, for political reasons, she left the hospital and became Chief of the Dispensary (a public dispensary), within the House of Health of Pristina. In January 1968, she returned to her position as Chief of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Pavilion in the Pristina Hospital. She also developed a lecture series for schools and dormitories to improve the health education of girls.
After the opening of the University of Pristina, Mekuli was elected primarius of the School of Medicine which opened in 1970. She earned her doctorate at the University of Belgrade in 1973 and became an associate professor at the University of Pristina in 1976. Mekuli participated in the founding of the Association of Kosovo's Physicians and directed the publishing of Praxis medica, a medicine journal. Beginning in 1972, she was director of the Gynecology Clinic within the School of Medicine of the University of Pristina. Mekuli published 31 articles in medical journals.
1981 protests in Kosovo
In 1981 Mekuli tended to the Albanian students injured by the police during the 1981 protests in Kosovo, when the Albanians were demanding more autonomy within Yugoslavia. She was accused of "showing too much zeal" in treating the wounded and siding with the students in their demands as well. Because of her actions, the University of Pristina refused to promote her to full professor, and she was forced into early retirement in October 1988. Following the dissolution of Kosovo in 1989, all health workers in the clinic were expelled. In 1996 Mekuli opened a gynecology and obstetrics clinic in conjunction with the Mother Teresa charity organization, which brought in gynecologists from around Kosovo to treat women.
Her work and figure inspired the character of Teuta Shkreli in Ismail Kadare's novel The Wedding Procession Turned to Ice ().
Personal life
Mekuli was the wife of Albanian poet Esad Mekuli (1916–1993). She died in Pristina in November 12, 2013 and was survived by her two children.
References
1928 births
2013 deaths
People from Ohrid
Albanian gynecologists
Academic staff of the University of Pristina
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni
University of Belgrade alumni
Women gynaecologists
Albanian educators
Albanian academics
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41058954
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Megan%20Mullally
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List of awards and nominations received by Megan Mullally
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by actress Megan Mullally.
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Miscelleanous awards
References
Mullally, Megan
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41058955
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20ardalio
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Clarkeulia ardalio
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Clarkeulia ardalio is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Brazil (Parana).
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
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41058959
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20aulon
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Clarkeulia aulon
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Clarkeulia aulon is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41058961
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Hastings
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John A. Hastings
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John Ambrose Hastings (April 21, 1900 – December 8, 1964) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was born on April 21, 1900. He was Secretary and Treasurer of the All-American Brokers' Insurance Company. He married Margaret M. Crowley, and they had four children: John Barry Hastings, Warren T. Hastings, Marjorie Hastings and Virginia M. Hastings.
Hastings was elected to the New York State Senate (7th D.) in 1922, then the youngest New York state senator in history. He remained in the State Senate from 1923 to 1932, sitting in the 146th, 147th, 148th, 149th, 150th, 151st, 152nd, 153rd, 154th and 155th New York State Legislatures; and was Chairman of the Committee on Printed and Engrossed Bills from 1923 to 1924.
Early in 1923, he sponsored anti-Ku Klux Klan legislation. On March 27, 1923, a parcel with a large quantity of drugs was left for him at the Ten Eyck Hotel in Albany, and Hastings suspected that it was a frame-up by the Klan or some other enemies. On April 25, he accused Philip Francis and Samuel Woodrow, two New York City newspaper editorial writers, of having planted the drug package.
In October 1930, he suffered from acute appendicitis, was operated, and survived. Less than a year previously, the Democratic State Assembly minority leaders Maurice Bloch and Peter J. Hamill had died from appendicitis.
In November 1931, he accompanied Mayor Jimmy Walker on his visit to imprisoned labor leader Thomas Mooney in San Francisco.
During the Seabury Commission's investigation of corruption in New York City, Hastings was subpoenaed to testify before the Hofstadter Committee, but did not appear on January 4, 1932. Hastings was held in contempt, and was sentenced on January 29 by Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hatting to 30 days in jail. On February 5, the Appellate Division upheld the jail sentence. On March 3, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the Appellate Division and, citing faulty procedure, voided the jail sentence. Haggling over how to proceed to get Hastings to testify ensued for the following weeks. On March 21, Hastings appeared before the committee, but refused to answer any questions. Subsequently, Hastings himself was investigated, and was accused of having received money and stock for his lobbying on behalf of private bus companies. On May 19, Hastings finally appeared before the Hofstadter Committee, answered questions to defend himself, and denied all charges. Testimony before the Hofstadter Committee showed that Hastings was heavily involved in the corrupt proceedings which led to Mayor Walker's resignation on September 1. Nevertheless, Hastings was nominated to run for re-election to his Senate seat. He was defeated in November 1932 by Republican George Blumberg although a Democratic U.S. president, New York Governor and New York Senate majority were elected at that time. Afterwards he became a public transport expert.
On September 3, 1933, after a row at his Summer home in Kensington, New York, Hastings was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Later he pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence.
In 1936, he ran on a "Loyal Party" ticket for Congress in New York's 16th congressional district, but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat John J. O'Connor.
He died on December 8, 1964, in Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan.
References
1900 births
1964 deaths
Politicians from Brooklyn
Democratic Party New York (state) state senators
20th-century American politicians
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41058976
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20bourquini
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Clarkeulia bourquini
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Clarkeulia bourquini is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1949
Clarkeulia
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41058978
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Thompson
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Jean Thompson
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Jean Thompson may refer to:
Jean Kasem (, born 1954), American actress
Jean Thompson (author) (born 1950), American author
C. Jean Thompson (born 1940), New Zealand statistician
Jean Thompson (athlete) (1910–1976), Canadian middle-distance runner
Jean Helen Thompson (1926–1992), British statistician and demographer
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41058980
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumnitzera%20racemosa
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Lumnitzera racemosa
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Lumnitzera racemosa, commonly known as the white-flowered black mangrove, is a species of mangrove in the family Combretaceae. It is found on the eastern coast of Africa and other places in the western Indo-Pacific region. It has one accepted variety from the noniminate species, Lumnitzera racemosa var. lutea (Gaudich.) Exell.
Description
Lumnitzera racemosa is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing to a maximum height of . It develops pneumatophores and often has stilt roots. The leaves are arranged spirally at the tips of the shoots; they are simple and obovate, with slightly toothed margins. The inflorescences grow in short spikes in the axils of the leaves or at the tips of the shoots. The flowers are small and white, and are followed by woody, flattened fruits containing a single seed.
Distribution and habitat
This species is native from KwaZulu-Natal to southeast Kenya in the western Indian Ocean, tropical & subtropical Asia to the western Pacific. Its range includes KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar, Aldabra, Seychelles, Chagos Archipelago, Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, southeast China, Hainan, Taiwan, Nansei-shoto, Korea, South China Sea, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, and New Caledonia. In Mozambique it is one of only ten mangrove species. It grows in the higher part of the intertidal zone and is found both on beaches and lining the banks of creeks. It is a fast-growing, pioneering species.
Uses
The timber of Lumnitzera racemosa is strong and durable and has many uses, including bridge construction. The wood is highly favoured for charcoal making in Cambodia. The bark is harvested for the tannins it contains.
Status
Mangroves in general are under threat from coastal development, and this species, which grows on the landward edge of the mangrove area, may be more threatened by rising sea levels than are other species because it may be unable to move further inland. There may be a decline in populations of this species due to habitat loss or harvesting, but it is a common species of mangrove with a very wide range, and is not declining at a sufficient rate to be included in any threatened category, so it is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being of "least concern".
Common names
The plant is known by a variety of common names. These include krâ:nhob sâ: (sâ:=white< Khmer)
References
Mangroves
Combretaceae
Flora of Aldabra
Flora of Bangladesh
Flora of Cambodia
Flora of Hainan
Flora of India (region)
Flora of Java
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Korea
Flora of KwaZulu-Natal
Flora of Madagascar
Flora of the Maldives
Flora of Mozambique
Flora of Myanmar
Flora of New Caledonia
Flora of New Guinea
Flora of Peninsular Malaysia
Flora of Seychelles
Flora of Southeast China
Flora of Sri Lanka
Flora of Taiwan
Flora of Thailand
Flora of the Andaman Islands
Flora of the Chagos Archipelago
Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands
Flora of the Nicobar Islands
Flora of the Philippines
Flora of the Ryukyu Islands
Flora of Tanzania
Flora of Vietnam
Trees of Seychelles
Trees of Africa
Plants described in 1803
Western Indo-Pacific flora
Central Indo-Pacific flora
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41058985
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20conistra
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Clarkeulia conistra
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Clarkeulia conistra is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41058992
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Hoda%C4%8D
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Jiří Hodač
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Jiří Hodač is a Czech media manager, best known for his short tenure as Director General of Česká televize between December 2000 and January 2001, which spanned the start of the Czech TV crisis. Hodač took up his position as Director General on 20 December 2000 and resigned on 12 January 2001, citing poor health.
Hodač studied journalism at Charles University in Prague. He started working for BBC Radio in 1989. He worked as News Director at Česká televize, but his term lasted for less than four months; he resigned on 14 August 2000. Hodač became the fourth Director General of Česká televize on 20 December 2000, taking over from outgoing director Dušan Chmelíček. After being taken ill in early January 2001, Hodač announced his resignation for medical reasons just a few days later.
References
Living people
BBC people
Charles University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Czech Television people
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41058998
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20craterosema
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Clarkeulia craterosema
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Clarkeulia craterosema is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in São Paulo, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1912
Clarkeulia
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41059002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R.%202871%20%28113th%20Congress%29
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H.R. 2871 (113th Congress)
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, long title "to amend title 28, United States Code, to modify the composition of the southern judicial district of Mississippi to improve judicial efficiency, and for other purposes", is a bill that would change the southern judicial district in Mississippi from five divisions to four. The bill passed the United States House of Representatives 401–0 during the 113th United States Congress.
Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.
H.R. 2871 would amend the federal judicial code to realign the southern judicial district of Mississippi into four (currently, five) divisions. The four divisions would be: the Northern Division at Jackson, the Southern Division at Gulfport, the Eastern Division at Hattiesburg, and the Western Division at Natchez. The bill would also set forth the Mississippi counties comprising each realigned division.
Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 11, 2013. This is a public domain source.
H.R. 2871 would consolidate the southern judicial district in the state of Mississippi from five divisions to four. Based on information provided by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the United States Department of Justice, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that implementing the bill would have no significant impact on the federal budget. The courthouse in Meridian, Mississippi, is the sole courthouse for the existing eastern division and is scheduled to close under current law.
The CBO estimated that the cost of consolidation and any potential savings from operating fewer courthouses would not be significantly different from the costs to the district under the scheduled closing of the Meridian courthouse. Enacting H.R. 2871 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
H.R. 2871 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.
Procedural history
H.R. 2871 was introduced by Rep. Howard Coble (R, NC-6) on July 31, 2013. It was referred to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary and the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet. On November 8, 2013, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced that H.R. 2871 would be considered under a suspension of the rules on the House floor on November 12, 2013. The bill would be considered along with five other bills, starting after the House opened for the day at 2pm. The House voted on November 12, 2013, to pass the bill 401–0.
See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress
Notes/References
External links
Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 2871
beta.congress.gov H.R. 2871
GovTrack.us H.R. 2871
OpenCongress.org H.R. 2871
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 2871
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 2871
Acts of the 113th United States Congress
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41059015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirna-class%20patrol%20boat
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Mirna-class patrol boat
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The Mirna class (referred to as the Type 171 in some sources) is a class of eleven patrol boats built for the Yugoslav Navy ( - JRM) by the Tito's Kraljevica Shipyard. Intended as a replacement for the earlier Type 131 boats, the new class was completed during the early 1980s and commissioned in the JRM Maritime Border Brigade.
Following the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, two boats were damaged and subsequently captured by Croatian forces, while another two were captured in the Šibenik Shipyard during the Battle of the Barracks. All four were commissioned in the Croatian Navy and are in active service as of 2017. The remaining seven boats were relocated to Boka Kotorska where they became part of the Navy of FR Yugoslavia. All seven were decommissioned during the early 2000s: two were handed over to the Ministry of Interior and scrapped in 2012 after seeing little service, while the remaining five were sold off to civilian owners.
Boats
References
Patrol boat classes
Ships of the Yugoslav Navy
Croatian Navy
Montenegrin Navy
Ships built in Yugoslavia
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41059024
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20deceptiva
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Clarkeulia deceptiva
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Clarkeulia deceptiva is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1949
Clarkeulia
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41059031
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20dimorpha
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Clarkeulia dimorpha
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Clarkeulia dimorpha is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1949
Clarkeulia
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41059040
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20dubia
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Clarkeulia dubia
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Clarkeulia dubia is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41059046
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20egena
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Clarkeulia egena
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Clarkeulia egena is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41059071
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Ballon%20d%27Or
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1995 Ballon d'Or
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The 1995 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to George Weah on 24 December 1995. It was the first edition of this award where players born outside Europe were allowed to receive votes.
Rankings
Additionally, 16 players were nominated but received no votes: Daniel Amokachi, Dino Baggio, Abel Balbo, Mario Basler, Júlio César, Didier Deschamps, Donato Gama, Stefan Effenberg, Vincent Guérin, Christian Karembeu, Bernard Lama, Japhet N'Doram, Jay-Jay Okocha, Fernando Redondo, Peter Schmeichel and Clarence Seedorf.
References
External links
France Football Official Ballon d'Or page
1995
1995–96 in European football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyde
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Eyde
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Eyde is a Norwegian surname.
Notable people
Notable people with this surname include:
Edith Eyde (born 1921), American author that uses the pen name Lisa Ben
Joakim Eyde (born 1991), Norwegian footballer (no) (it)
Sam Eyde (1866–1940), Norwegian engineer and industrialist
References
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41059076
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20Cenotaph
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Liverpool Cenotaph
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Liverpool Cenotaph stands on St George's Plateau, to the east of St George's Hall in Liverpool, England. It was erected as a memorial to those who had fallen in the First World War. The dates of the Second World War were subsequently added. The cenotaph consists of a rectangular block of stone on a stone platform, with bronze, low-relief sculptures on the sides depicting marching troops and mourners. It was designed by Lionel Budden, with carving by Herbert Tyson Smith. Initially designated as a Grade II listed building, its status was raised to Grade I in 2013.
History
In 1926, a competition was held to create a memorial using public funds, with Charles Reilly, professor of architecture at the University of Liverpool, as assessor. There were 257 entrants; the winning, anonymised entry was by Reilly's assistant, Lionel Budden. The building contractors appointed were A. E. Bradley and Company, the sculptor was Herbert Tyson Smith, and his bronze sculptures were made at the foundry of the Morris-Singer Company. The cenotaph was unveiled at 11 am on 11 November 1930 by the 17th Earl of Derby.
Following the end of the Second World War, the dates 1939 and 1945 were added. These were unveiled on Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 1946, by William G. Gregson, Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
Description
The cenotaph consists of a rectangular block of Stancliffe stone, with bronze relief statues on the sides, standing on a platform of Yorkshire Silex stone. The rectangular block is long and high, the length of the bronze panels is , and the platform is long and deep. It is orientated northeast–southwest, in parallel with St George's Hall. The bronze relief on the northwest face, opposite the hall, depicts a stream of marching troops in the uniforms of the various armed forces. Above the panel is an inscription reading AS UNKNOWN AND YET WELL KNOWN AS DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE, and below, the inscription reads OUT OF THE NORTH PARTS A GREAT COMPANY AND A MIGHTY ARMY. On the southeast face, facing Lime Street station, the panel depicts mourners laying flowers and wreaths on a Stone of Remembrance, with rows of graves in a military cemetery behind them. Above the panel the inscription reads TO THE MEN OF LIVERPOOL WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR with an added inscription below it reads AND ALL WHO HAVE FALLEN IN CONFLICT SINCE. Under the panel is an inscription reading AND THE VICTORY THAT DAY WAS TURNED INTO MOURNING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE. On the shorter northeast and southwest faces are circular bronze shields with the coat of arms of Liverpool and festoons, and the dates of the two wars.
Appraisal
The cenotaph was designated as a Grade II listed building on 28 June 1952. On 8 November 2013, the designation was raised to Grade I. The reasons given for the designation include its design context with its "impressive location" adjacent to St George's Hall. Also noted is the architectural interest of the cenotaph, with its horizontal lines forming a foil to the vertical columns of the hall. Referring to its sculptural interest, the citation states that the "sculptural work is exceptional and is arguably Tyson Smith's finest and most powerful work". The design is considered to have contemporary significance in that rather than using "allegory and heroic idealisation", it employs "powerful and modern realist portrayals". The quality of its craftsmanship is praised, and it is also to have group value in its location near other listed buildings. In the Pevsner Architectural Guides, Sharples expresses the opinion that "it is one of the most remarkable war memorials in the country".
See also
Grade I listed buildings in Liverpool
Grade I listed war memorials in England
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
Grade I listed buildings in Liverpool
World War I memorials in England
World War II memorials in England
Outdoor sculptures in England
Monuments and memorials in Liverpool
Buildings and structures completed in 1930
Bronze sculptures in England
Cenotaphs in the United Kingdom
Grade I listed monuments and memorials
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Brenan%20House
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Richard Brenan House
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The Richard Brenan House is an early 19th-century house at 207 Calhoun St., Charleston, South Carolina. The house was built for Richard Brenan, a merchant, in 1817 and originally included the adjacent land to the west (a parking lot today). The house is a three-story Charleston single house with quoins and fine cornice. The house was a two-story piazza on the west side.
In 1835, the house was bought by Nathaniel Russell Middleton, a president of the College of Charleston, for his widowed sister-in-law. In 1881, the house became the parsonage for Bethel Methodist located across Pitt St. from the house. The church put the house up for sale in 1965. It was restored as a private house by Mr. and Mrs. G.A.Z. Johnson.
References
Houses in Charleston, South Carolina
Houses completed in 1817
College of Charleston
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41059128
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20epistica
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Clarkeulia epistica
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Clarkeulia epistica is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1949
Clarkeulia
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41059137
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wagner%20Conservatory
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Richard Wagner Conservatory
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The Richard Wagner Conservatory of Music in Vienna first began as a music school in 2009. Following extensive preparation the music school was then expanded to include a university level conservatory. As of 1 September 2013 the conservatory has been officially recognized by the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. It is based at two separate locations in the 12th district of Vienna.
The curriculum of each respective field of study at Richard Wagner Conservatory is structured according to semesters, equal to the structure of academic studies as implemented at Austrian universities. The fields of study include: various instruments and voice; music education in instruments and voice, all of which lead to an internationally recognized diploma.
There is a music school connected to the conservatory where students can practice implementing their teaching skills.
There are students from various different countries, studying the piano, organ, voice, violin, cello, viola, contrabass, transverse flute, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tuba, guitar, and accordion. Lessons are held in German. Students must pass an entrance examination to be accepted to the conservatory. Students must be at least 16 years of age, there is no maximum age limit.
The principal of the conservatory is Mirza Kapetanovic. The body of academic staff consists of approx. 30 professors and instructors, all of which either teach at other universities, or are members of renowned opera houses, orchestras and ensembles.
Research done by the Austrian Magazine Dossier showed dubious doings concerning the conservatory. Teachers who were mentioned on the home page denied working there. The location turned out to be in an office block. International partners denied cooperations.
References
External links
http://www.richard-wagner-konservatorium.at/
Music in Vienna
Richard Wagner
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41059158
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20exstinctrix
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Clarkeulia exstinctrix
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Clarkeulia exstinctrix is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in São Paulo, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1931
Clarkeulia
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41059181
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy%20First%20%28political%20party%29
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Italy First (political party)
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Italy First (Prima l'Italia) was a national-conservative political party in Italy, which was briefly a faction of Brothers of Italy (FdI) and then joined into National Action (AN).
The party was supported by the New Italy foundation, previously active within The People of Freedom (PdL) as Alemanno's factional think tank.
History
Italy First was launched as a "political association" in October 2013 by Gianni Alemanno, a former mayor of Rome (2008–2013) for the PdL. A long-time politician of the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and National Alliance (AN), within which he led the Social Right faction, Alemanno had left the PdL a few days earlier.
The founding manifesto of Italy First included criticism of the PdL, its participation in the European People's Party and its compliance to Europeanism and economic liberalism. One of the first political campaigns of the new party was against the euro currency.
Soon after its foundation, Italy First participated in the process of enlargement of FdI, a party led by Giorgia Meloni, through the "Workshop for Italy" and was finally integrated into FdI in March 2014. Italy First thus became a faction within FdI and Alemanno was one of the party's leading candidates in the 2014 European Parliament election: he obtained almost 45,000 personal votes in the South, but was not elected to the European Parliament as FdI was below the 4% national threshold.
In December 2014 Alemanno, who was mired in a scandal related to his tenure as mayor of Rome, and, consequently, Italy First left FdI.
In October 2015, during an assembly of the "National Alliance Foundation" (the association in charge of administering the assets of the defunct party), Alemanno and his supporters, who wanted to form a larger right-wing party (including FdI), lost a vote on the entitlement of AN's symbol over the representatives of FdI, supported by former AN heavyweights who had remained in the PdL. As a result, Alemanno announced that he would create a "Movement for the United Right". That "movement" is National Action (AN), which was formed on 9 November 2015 by a group of former AN members, who had joined forces with Alemanno during the Foundation's assembly.
Leadership
President: Gianni Alemanno (2013–2015)
Secretary: Francesco Biava (2013–2015)
References
External links
Official website (since January 2016 the website redirects to National Action's official website)
Defunct political parties in Italy
Political parties established in 2013
National conservative parties
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20excerptana
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Clarkeulia excerptana
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Clarkeulia excerptana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1963
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Briggs
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Isaac Briggs
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Isaac Briggs (1763– January 5, 1825) was an American engineer, surveyor and manufacturer. He lived much of his adult life with his family in Brookeville, Maryland.
Early life
Isaac Briggs was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1763 to Samuel and Mary Briggs, two Quakers. He studied at the College of Pennsylvania (the University of Pennsylvania today), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1783 and a Master of Arts in engineering in 1786.
Personal life
After his graduation, Briggs traveled, moving to Georgia and Georgetown, Washington, D.C. He married Hannah Brooke on August 27, 1794 and settled near Brookeville in Montgomery County, Maryland in their home Sharon, a estate inherited from Hannah's father, Roger Brooke IV. Together, they had eight children, including Margaret, who married William Henry Farquhar.
Additionally, Briggs was a devout Quaker and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was close friends with both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In keeping with his Quaker beliefs, Briggs was an avid abolitionist and never owned slaves. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery as well as an abolitonist society in Wilmington, Delaware, through which he was active in supporting free black members of his community who were at risk of being kidnapped and sold back into enslavement.
Career
On February 1, 1788, the Georgia legislature awarded Augusta inventor William Longstreet and his associate Isaac Briggs a patent for a steam engine. It is the only patent issued by the state because this was before the adoption of the Federal Constitution. In 1807 their engine was used to power a boat on a 5-mile journey against the current on the Savannah River. Only days before, Robert Fulton had sailed his new steamboat, the Clermont, from New York City up the Hudson River to Albany.)
Briggs was a renowned surveyor and engineer. During 1791-1792, he assisted Andrew Ellicott in the survey of the boundaries of the original District of Columbia (see Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia). In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson appointed him to be the Surveyor General of the Mississippi Territory. In 1814, he relocated to Wilmington, Delaware to work as a superintendent of Thomas Little & Company, a textile mill. In 1818, New York Governor DeWitt Clinton appointed Briggs as one of the chief engineers of the Erie Canal. He returned home in January 1819 and was appointed by Thomas Moore in March 1819 as a chief engineer in Virginia on the James River and Kanawha Canal. He would be promoted to principal engineer after Moore's death in 1822, but did not complete any major portion of the canal.
Additionally, he was devoted to developing domestic agriculture and manufacturing. He co-founded the American Board of Agriculture and a cotton mill and manufacturing town at Triadelphia in Montgomery County, Maryland in 1809.
Death
Briggs became ill while working on the James River and Kanawha Canal in Virginia. He died at home at Sharon near Brookeville on January 5, 1825.
References
External links
Isaac Briggs, Biography Maryland State Archives
Brookeville 1814 Maryland State Archives
Briggs-Stabler Papers, 1793-1910 Maryland Historical Society, MS 147
1763 births
1825 deaths
American abolitionists
American Quakers
American manufacturing businesspeople
American surveyors
American engineers
People from Brookeville, Maryland
Quaker abolitionists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20expedita
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Clarkeulia expedita
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Clarkeulia expedita is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41059378
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20fortuita
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Clarkeulia fortuita
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Clarkeulia fortuita is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20lacrimosa
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Clarkeulia lacrimosa
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Clarkeulia lacrimosa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41059413
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkeulia%20licea
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Clarkeulia licea
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Clarkeulia licea is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Paraná, Brazil.
References
Moths described in 1984
Clarkeulia
Moths of South America
Taxa named by Józef Razowski
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41059434
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomeric%20repeat%E2%80%93containing%20RNA
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Telomeric repeat–containing RNA
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Telomeric repeat–containing RNA (TERRA) is a long non-coding RNA transcribed from telomeres - repetitive nucleotide regions found on the ends of chromosomes that function to protect DNA from deterioration or fusion with neighboring chromosomes. TERRA has been shown to be ubiquitously expressed in almost all cell types containing linear chromosomes - including humans, mice, and yeasts. While the exact function of TERRA is still an active area of research, it is generally believed to play a role in regulating telomerase activity as well as maintaining the heterochromatic state at the ends of chromosomes. TERRA interaction with other associated telomeric proteins has also been shown to help regulate telomere integrity in a length-dependent manner.
Due to the breadth of roles in which TERRA is implicated for maintaining the genomic integrity at the ends of chromosomes, TERRA dysfunction has also been shown to be associated with a number of disease states, including a number of syndromes related to inappropriate telomere shortening and cellular aging, and the progression of cancer. As such, pharmacologic compounds modulating TERRA transcription as well as its other direct/indirect interactions may be a viable method for the development of new therapeutic strategies.
Structure & Biogenesis
Transcription From DNA
TERRA is an evolutionarily conserved long-non-coding RNA found in many nucleus-containing eukaryotic cells such as humans (Homo sapiens), budding yeast (Schizosaccharomyces cerevisiae), fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), mice (Mus musculus), zebrafish (Danio rerio), and various plants (Arabidopsis thaliana, et cetera). TERRA is transcribed from DNA as a continuous sequence in most tissues from the subtelomeric and telomeric regions at the end of linear chromosomes. Transcription occurs in the 5' to 3' direction (from the centromere to telomere) and TERRA transcripts are heterogeneous in length, ranging anywhere from 100-bases up to 9-kilobases in length for human cells. The majority of TERRA transcription has been shown to be carried out by RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII), although RNA Polymerase I and III may also have functions in TERRA transcription for mammals.
While the exact transcription start site is still a matter of debate, it is widely held that TERRA transcription begins in the subtelomeric region at the end of chromosomes, just before the tandem repeats of the telomere begin. In humans, at least 20 of 23 chromosome ends have been shown to contain CpG islands, which are generally found at or near transcription start sites in the subtelomeric region. Within these CpG island are three repetitive DNA tracts occurring in sequence: a centromere-proximal tract of repeated 61-base-pair (bp) units; second, a more distal tract of 29-bp units; and a third 37-bp unit tract. These highly conserved repetitive elements are known as 61-29-37 Repeats. Additionally, the chromatin organization factors CTCF (CCCTC-Binding Factor), Cohesin, and Rad21 - which are known to aid in the recruitment of RNAPII - have also been shown to bind within 1-2 kilobases of the telomeric tracks just upstream of these CpG islands. While not definitely known, the proximity of these factors immediately upstream of the proposed TERRA transcription start site suggest that they may function as promoter elements for the start of TERRA transcription.
Heterogeneity of Transcript Length
The wide range in length of TERRA transcripts is believed to primarily stem from either different sites of transcription termination within the telomere tract or variation in 3'-end processing. As telomeres do not contain a canonical stop codon signaling the end of RNA transcription, it remains unclear exactly where transcription ceases along the telomere tracks. Similarly to most mRNAs transcribed in the nucleus, nearly all TERRA transcripts contain a 7-methylguanosine (m7G) cap structure at their 5' end. Therefore, the vast majority of post-transcriptional variation occurs at the 3' end of the transcript; however this has been shown to vary between species, as well as within individual cells. In humans, approximately 7 to 10% of TERRA transcripts have been shown to be post-transcriptionally polyadenylated, whereas almost all TERRA transcribed in yeast contains a poly(A) tail added by the polyadenylation polymerases Pap1 (in S. cerevisiae) or Cid12/Cid14 (in S. pombe). Both of these post-transcriptional modifications contribute to stabilizing TERRA within the cell (half-life ~8 hours) compared to non-modified transcripts (half-life ~3 hours). Additionally, the presence of a polyadenylated tail also appears to act as a determinant of TERRA localization within the nucleus. TERRA transcripts containing a poly(A) tail are generally found "free" within the nucleoplasm while transcripts lacking a polyadenylated tail are divided between the nucleoplasm (60%) and a chromatin-bound state (40%).
Factors Regulating Transcription
A number of proteins shown to associate with the ends of telomeres are involved in modulating TERRA transcription levels within cells. Factors involved in modulating the heterochromatic state at telomeres, such as histone deacetylase, SUV39H1 H3K9 histone methyltransferase, and DNA methyltransferase 3b (DNMT3B) in human cells, play an important role in regulating total TERRA expression. Additionally, the Shelterin component TRF1 has been shown to support TERRA transcription. As part of the six-protein complex involved with protecting the ends of telomeres, TRF1 has been shown to promote progression of TERRA's primary transcription polymerase RNAPII through telomere tracts, although it has not been shown to promote direct recruitment of the polymerase.
In yeast cells, TERRA stability has been shown to be tightly regulated within the nucleus by the 5' to 3' exonuclease Rat1 (human ortholog Xrn2) through interaction with the proteins Rap1 and Rif1/2. It remains unclear whether TERRA transcripts remain tethered to the telomeres from which they are transcribed, acting in cis, or whether they may move from one telomere to another by some unknown mechanism to regulate their functions (acting in trans).
Other Telomeric RNA Transcripts
While TERRA currently represents the primary subject of study for RNA transcripts originating from telomeres, a wide variety of alternative transcripts have also been identified as part of the yeast telomeric transcriptome: a transcript complementary to the 5' subtelomeric sequence known as ARRET; a subtelomeric transcript complementary to ARRET known as αARRET; and a C-rich telomeric repeat-containing transcript known as ARIA.
Functions of TERRA
Interaction with Telomerase
Telomerase is the ribonucleoprotein responsible for adding species-dependent tandem repeat sequences (TTAGGG in humans) to the ends of telomeres. These telomeric repeats function to protect the ends of the chromosome from DNA damage or end-to-end fusion with adjacent chromosomes. Since evidence has also shown that TERRA expression is regulated in a telomere-length-dependent manner, it is believed that TERRA may play an important role along with telomerase to modulate the length of telomere repeats on chromosome ends. Generally speaking, cells with long telomeres exhibit greater TERRA expression while short telomeres have relatively lower TERRA expression. At the same time, telomerase activity is known to be at its greatest when telomeres are short and at its lowest activity when telomeres are long. It can therefore be proposed that TERRA acts as a negative regulator of telomerase activity in cells with long telomeres, while functioning as a positive regulator of telomerase activity at short telomeres - in conjunction with relative TERRA expression for each telomeric state.
TERRA & Telomerase at Long Telomeres
At cells with long telomeres, TERRA is proposed to act as a negative regulator of telomerase activity. This direct inhibitor function acts through base-pairing of the tandem repeats found throughout TERRA's 3'-end to the complementary RNA template region of telomerase. The complementary base pairing of the TERRA transcript may work to compete with telomerase's DNA substrate when TERRA expression is at its highest, preventing telomerase from further lengthening telomeres. TERRA may also interact with the catalytic reverse transcriptase subunit (TERT) of telomerase, thereby acting as an allosteric inhibitor of telomerase function and preventing the addition of further telomeric repeats. This model of TERRA-telomerase interaction is supported by experimental evidence where TERRA-mimicking (UUAGGG)3 oligonucleotides have been shown to lead to complete inhibition of telomerase activity in vitro; however evidence of this relationship in vivo remains elusive.
TERRA & Telomerase at Short Telomeres
In seemingly contradictory fashion, it is believed that TERRA may instead coordinate the recruitment of telomerase and encourage subsequent telomere elongation for cells containing short telomeres. Specifically in short telomeres of yeast, evidence suggests that TERRA molecules help to form clusters with the yeast telomerase RNA TLC1. These clusters, known as T-Recs, have been shown to preferentially localize to short telomeres and may therefore encourage telomerase-based elongation. Furthermore, proteins that preferentially bind the UUAGGG repeats within TERRA molecules, such as the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein hnRNP1A, have been shown to prevent the direct TERRA-telomerase inhibition found at short telomeres, thus promoting telomerase-mediated elongation.
The true nature of TERRA's interaction with telomerase remains incompletely described. However, it remains clear that the ability of telomerase to add telomeric repeats to the ends of chromosomes is intricately intertwined with its interaction with TERRA.
Heterochromatin Regulation
In general, long non-coding RNAs are known to mediate epigenetic changes on chromatin by functioning as recruiters for chromatin-modifying enzymes to genomic loci. TERRA is thought to play a similar role, recruiting both heterochromatic proteins and associated chromatin-remodeling complexes to telomeres, helping to establish or maintain heterochromatin formation.
One manner in which chromatin maintains its condensed hetererochromatic state at the telomere is through the enzymes DNA methyltransferases 1 and 3b (DNMT1/3b). Experiments where these factors have been depleted result in increased TERRA expression levels, suggesting that methylation status of the subtelomeric region may help to regulate the expression of TERRA. Further post-translational modifications of telomeric histones may also play a pivotal role in TERRA regulation. Decreased density of trimethylated histones H3K9me3 and H4K30me3 have been shown to correlate with increased TERRA levels. RNA pulldown experiments have also shown that TERRA associates with heterochromatin proteins, including HP1α, HP1β, and the origin recognition complex (ORC). These factors are known to play a role in establishment of heterochromatin and subsequent transcriptional silencing. TERRA-mimicking oligonucleotides have also been shown to associate with other chromatin remodeling complexes such as the NuA Histone Acetyltransferase Complex, BAF-Type SWI/SNF Nucleosome Remodeling Complex, and the NoRC Chromatin Remodeling Complex. It is believed that TERRA may work to stabilize the interaction of these factors with chromatin to promote heterochromatin formation.
Overall, evidence has shown a complex relationship whereby TERRA can both regulate the heterochromatic state and be regulated by the heterochromatic state. Increased density of repressive histone marks that cause chromatin to become more condensed correlate with observed decreases in TERRA expression. Concurrently, epigenetic changes that result in chromatin becoming more euchromatic or "open" in nature correlates with increased TERRA expression. Listed above are factors shown to contribute to modulating TERRA expression, but this is by no means an exhaustive list.
Regulation of Telomere Length
TERRA has been shown to exist exclusively within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells where it specifically associates with the ends of chromosomes at the telomere. While TERRA has not been shown to be an essential or permanent component of telomere chromatin, it is believed that TERRA's primary function is to transiently maintain the structural integrity at telomeres, either through direct interaction with telomeric DNA or by the binding of associated telomeric proteins.
Direct Telomeric Interactions
Data has shown that TERRA interacts with telomeric DNA to form G-Quadruplex structures both in vitro and in vivo. These structures form due to the abundance of guanine found in the TERRA transcript and their ability to associate through Hoogsteen hydrogen bonding. The resulting square planar structure is known as a guanine tetrad (also known as a G-tetrad or G-quartet) and when two or more guanine tetrads stack on top of each other, they form a G-quadruplex. These complex structures have been shown help to modulate telomere length through inhibition telomerase's ability to add tandem TTAGGG repeats, specifically in cells with long telomeres. This inhibitive effect seems to function in a telomere length-dependent manner; that is, TERRA levels inversely correlate with increased activity of telomere elongation. In general, TERRA has been shown to be most abundant in cells with long telomeres, while cells with short telomeres express comparatively lower levels of transcript expression. There is also evidence that overexpression of TERRA in human cells can help promote telomere processing by inhibiting the 5'-3' exonuclease Exo1 through the Ku70/80 dimer.
TERRA expression has also been shown to be cell cycle regulated via the chromatin-remodeling protein ATRX, with the highest expression of TERRA being present at the G1 phase following mitosis and before progressively declining to its lowest in S phase. Therefore, TERRA expression may play an important role in the proper orchestration of DNA replication, as TERRA may hybridize with single-stranded DNA during replication. In cells with long telomeres and high TERRA expression, this could potentially lead to replicative arrest and the eventual collapse of the replication fork, resulting in double-stranded breaks at the telomere. This model is supported by evidence in other regions of the genome where persistent DNA-RNA hybrids lead to increased DNA damage.
TERRA has also been indicated to be involved with the stabilization of the telomere-protecting Shelterin complex at the ends of telomeres. Evidence shows that TERRA functions together with hnRNPA1 to displace RPA from single-stranded DNA following replication and promotes the loading of the Shelterin component POT1 onto telomere ends. This helps to stabilize the Shelterin complex so that it can properly cap the ends of chromosomes and protect them from recognition by DNA damage signaling pathways.
TERRA and the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) Pathway
In cells that lack telomerase expression, it is well-established that most cells instead maintain the ends of their telomeres through the recombination-based Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) pathway. It is proposed that TERRA may work to delay the onset of cellular senescence in these cells and instead promote mechanisms of homologous recombination, thereby driving the ALT phenotype as an alternative means of maintaining telomere ends. In support of this model, TERRA expression has also been shown relate to cellular ALT-status. Cells that have been experimentally confirmed to utilize the ALT pathway have markedly higher levels of TERRA expression compared to non-ALT cells. The specific nature of the complex interactions involved in this proposed model remain an area of active research.
Indirect Telomeric Interactions
TERRA has further been shown to play a role in a number of interactions with proteins functioning at the ends of telomeres. Association with nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) machinery such as UPF1, SMG1 and EST1A/SMG6 and members of the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) family have also been shown to regulate the displacement of TERRA from the ends of telomeres. The ability of these mechanisms to actively coordinate the displacement of TERRA provides evidence that TERRA is not a stable constituent of the telomeric chromatin, but not necessarily unstable itself. Instead, the regulated control of TERRA displacement suggests a link between TERRA localization at the telomere and overall genome integrity. For example, in short telomeres with low TERRA expression, UPF1 and other SMG factors may work in concordance with DNA Polymerase δ to remove TERRA from the telomere during replication and alleviate fork stalling to allow for progression of replicative machinery. Additionally, replication fork stalling and SMG factor recruitment may also aid in telomerase localization to the telomeres where de novo repeats may be added to promote elongation of short chromosomes.
Proposed Role in Human Disease
While there are no diseases directly attributed to TERRA dysfunction, a number of diseases related to inappropriate telomere shortening and cellular aging may have dysfunctional TERRA expression as one of their causative factors. Such examples include cancer development and progression, Dyskeratosis Congenita (DC), Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), Aplastic Anemia (AA), Astrocytoma, and Cryptogenic Liver Cirrhosis.
Immunodeficiency, Centromeric Region Instability, Facial Anomalies (ICF Syndrome)
ICF is a rare autosomal recessive disease arising from deficiencies or mutations in DNA Methyltransferase 3b (DNMT3b), which acts as a key modulator in maintaining heterochromatin at telomeres. As a result, many ICF patients experience spontaneous genomic instability in various tissues and systemic immunodeficiency. Contrary to traditionally low TERRA levels at short telomeres it has recently been shown that ICF patients display increased TERRA transcription at critically shortened telomeres. However, this is likely the result DNMT3b deficiencies or mutations causing hypomethylation of the CpG islands within the subtelomeric region, allowing for increased TERRA transcription. Further evidence also shows a decrease in trimethylated histone H3K9 at the telomeres and loss of binding of the Shelerin-component TRF2 at the subtelomeres. As a result, the increased TERRA expression further contributes to abnormal shorting of the telomere, leading to the spontaneous genomic instability and systemic immunodeficiency. At the minimum, there appears to be a causal link between DNA methylation, TERRA regulation, and telomere length - although the relationship is currently not well understood.
In Cancer
One of the most distinct differences in TERRA expression exists between cancer cells, which exhibit significantly increased TERRA levels, and normal somatic tissues. This observation suggests that high levels of TERRA expression must evolutionarily benefit cancer progression in some way, possibly in their ability to promote unchecked cellular proliferation and induce cellular transformation. Even within subtypes of cancer cells, there exist differences in TERRA expression based on the mechanism by which cells maintain the length of their telomeres; TERRA levels have been shown to be consistently lower in telomerase positive cells compared to cells that utilize the homologous recombination-based Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) mechanism. TERRA may give ALT-positive cancer cells a means to promote genomic instability at telomeres and allow for this recombination-based method of elongation. It remains unclear in this model if TERRA is a cause or consequence of the ALT pathway. Methylation status of the subtelomeric histones may also play an important role in TERRA expression in cancer cells. Many cancer cell subtypes are known to be heavily methylated at the CpG islands of the subtelomeric promoter region, resulting in increased transcription of TERRA.
As a Target for Small Molecules
There are currently no known inhibitors that specifically target TERRA in cells. However, relating to many of the diseases and syndromes listed above, it is believed that targeted transcriptional silencing of TERRA may potentially provide a viable mechanism for treatment of cells with high levels of TERRA expression.
Increasing the activity of TERRA-repressive histone deacetylases such as SIRT1 and SIRT6 through the use of allosteric activators may be prime candidates for the active repression of TERRA transcription. Commercially available sirtuin-activating compounds (STACs) such as Resveratrol, Butein, Piceatannol, Isoliquiritigenin, Fisetin, and Quercetin are examples of small molecules that may target this axis. Targeting TERRA with antisense RNA or RNAi technology may also be a way to promote proper telomere function and preserve telomere length. However it is important to note that complete abolishment of TERRA transcription must be avoided, as TERRA's association with the shelterin component POT1 plays a key role in recruitment of the complex to the ends of telomeres. As a further consideration, decreased TERRA expression on an organismal level may increase the replicative capacity of all actively dividing cells, thus potentially promoting tumorigenesis. Only a therapy targeted to cells with high levels of TERRA expression should be considered in these cases.
Since TERRA is also proposed to have a role in telomerase inhibition, factors increasing TERRA transcription may also be useful in select cases where aberrant telomerase activity is a contributing factor of disease. General HDAC inhibitors or specific sirtuin inhibitors such as Nicotinamide or Cambinol may prove to be viable treatment options in these cases. Trichostatin A (a HDAC1/2 inhibitor) has already been shown to significantly increase TERRA levels in human cancer cells. It is important to note that TERRA upregulation alone has not been shown to be sufficient to induce telomere loss, so these drugs may need to be given in combination with other therapies, such as telomerase inhibitors.
See also
Telomere
Shelterin Complex
Long Non-Coding RNAs
Histone Methylation
Chromatin Remodeling
Telomerase
References
Non-coding RNA
Telomere-related genes
Telomere-related proteins
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