Hyde (surname)

* Samuel W. Hyde (b. 1985), American comedian, writer and actor
  * Thomas Hyde (1637–1703), English orientalist
  * Tyler Hyde, English musician
  * Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903–1991), English actor
  * William Hyde (journalist) (1835-1898)
  * Hide (disambiguation)


Kateryna Istomina

Kateryna Istomina (born 7 March 1994) is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine. She competes in S8 and SM8 (individual medley) events.


George Brown (Australian footballer)

George Brown (born 14 July 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

  * George Brown's playing statistics from AFL Tables
  * George Brown at AustralianFootball.com


Kitanagase Station

Kitanagase Station (北長瀬駅, Kitanagase-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Kita-ku of the city of Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Lines

Kitanagase Station is served by the San'yō Main Line, and is located 146.8 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kōbe and 3.4 kilometers from Okayama. It is also served by trains of the Hakubi Line, which continue past the nominal terminus of that line at Kurashiki to terminate at Okayama.

Station layout

The station consists of two opposed side platforms, connected by an elevated station building.The station building has a white-based appearance, and has a large roof over the wide south exit stairs. It is equipped with an elevator and a wheelchair-accessible restroom, making it barrier-free. The outbound platform is curved to match the tracks, and the train is tilting toward the platform Between the two passenger tracks lines, there is an outbound pull-up track for Okayama Freight Terminal, and freight train shunting work is often carried out. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

1                ■ W San'yō Main Line           for Fukuyama
■ V Hakubi Line  for Sōja and Bitchū-Takahashi
2                ■ W San'yō Main Line           for Okayama
■ V Hakubi Line  for Okayama

History

Kitanagase Station opened on October 1, 2005, on the site of the former Japan National Railways Okayama Switchyard.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 4715 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

  * Okayama Dome
  * Okayama Seibu General Park
  * Okayama Municipal Hospital
  * Okayama Prefectural Okayama Daianji Secondary School
  * List of railway stations in Japan

Media related to Kitanagase Station at Wikimedia Commons

  * Kitanagase Station Official Site


Karfiguéla

Karfiguéla is a village in Burkina Faso's Comoé Province. It has around 890 inhabitants and is home to the Cascades de Karfiguéla, a major tourism destination in Burkina Faso. The town is located about 12 km northwest of Banfora, the provincial capital and the farmers who live there mostly harvest sugar cane.


Neuerkirch

Neuerkirch is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern.

Neuerkirch seen from above, looking from the west; the Schinderhannes-Radweg is clearly visible

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück between Simmern and Kastellaun, right on the Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path) at a mean elevation of 360 m above sea level. Lands used for agriculture cover 250 ha, and those that are wooded 200 ha. The Külzbach flows through the village. This brook was once held to be the boundary between two originally separate villages, Neuerkirch diesseits and Neuerkirch jenseits (diesseits and jenseits meaning “on this side” and “on that side” respectively).

History

Archaeological finds from the New Stone Age bear witness to settlement on the site where the village now stands. In 1302, Neuerkirch had its first documentary mention. Neuerkirch “on that side” of the Külzbach long belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, while Neuerkirch “on this side” of the Külzbach belonged to Palatinate-Simmern and Electoral Palatinate. Beginning in 1794, Neuerkirch lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. After the First World War, Neuerkirch was temporarily occupied by the French once again. Until 1938, the two villages each side of the Külzbach remained administratively separate. Since 1946, Neuerkirch has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.


Neuerkirch

Since June 1989, the municipality has been running the Kulturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Cultural History). The museum is based on the Hunsrückmuseum’s collection in Simmern. After a three-year preparation phase it was opened to the public. The museum's goal is to document farming equipment and machines, old handicraft occupations along with their tools and village life as it was in days of yore. The museum underwent a considerable expansion owing to many Hunsrück inhabitants’ willingness to make certain objects relating to historical village culture available to the museum to be put on display. The dwelling and commercial buildings in which the museum is housed belong to the municipality of Neuerkirch.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Mayor

Neuerkirch's mayor is Volker Wichter.

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per pale sable a lion rampant sinister Or armed, langued and crowned gules and Or a bend sinister wavy, the top abased and the bottom enhanced, between a church, the tower to sinister, and a hammer and sledge per saltire, all azure.

In 1979, municipal council decided to introduce a municipal coat of arms. The charge on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side refers to Neuerkirch's former allegiance to the Duchy of Zweibrücken (at least in the case of the Neuerkirch “on that side”, which was part of the Amt of Kastellaun). The “bend sinister wavy” (wavy slanted stripe) stands for the Külzbach, the local brook that once marked the boundary between the two Neuerkirchs, the one “on this side” and the one “on that side”. The church is a canting charge, referring to the last syllable in the municipality's name (“church” in German is Kirche, but this often appears without the last vowel in placenames). The crossed mining tools refer to the silver smelter on the municipal limit.

Culture and sightseeing


Neuerkirch

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

Hauptstraße 2: Evangelical church

  * Evangelical church, Hauptstraße 2 – aisleless church, shortly after 1728, conversion after 1821; whole complex of buildings with graveyard
  * Alterkülzer Straße 2, 2a – timber-frame house, partly solid or slated, 19th century, stable-barn wing, marked 1738; whole complex of buildings
  * Alterkülzer Straße 7 – L-shaped estate, whole complex of buildings; timber-frame house, earlier half of the 18th century; former barn, 19th century
  * Hauptstraße 8 – bakehouse and municipal building; timber-frame building, partly solid, 1930s
  * Hauptstraße 5, 6, 6a, “Hauptstraße” (monumental zone) – three characteristic timber-frame buildings in the village centre: no. 5 timber-frame Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street) with knee wall, early 19th century; no. 6 former timber-frame barn, 19th century; no. 6a former barn (now museum); timber-frame building, partly solid or slated, 19th or 20th century
  * Külzbachstraße 6 – estate complex, whole complex of buildings, about 1910; building with half-hipped roof
  * Laubacher Straße 3 – former Quereinhaus, timber-frame, 19th century

Regular events

On the second Sunday in July, the traditional artistic craftsman's and farmer's market is held in the historic village centre. In the museum and on the square outside the sponsorship association, together with partner organizations, sees to it that there is a variety of cultural offerings with, among other things, the Oldtimer-Show and the Open-Air-Kino (cinema).

Economy and infrastructure

Until the 19th century, Neuerkirch's livelihood was characterized by ore, zinc, iron and silver mining, among others, as well as the processing of these metals, although the actual mining and smelting took place within neighbouring Alterkülz’s limits. Still remaining from the old Grube Eid mine are tailing heaps, a charge in the municipal arms and a few unique articles now in the local museum.


Neuerkirch

Neuerkirch lies on the old Hunsrückbahn (railway) right-of-way; the railway formerly linked Simmern and Boppard. The local railway station was Külz, which stood at the municipal boundary with Külz; it has now been torn down. The right-of-way is now part of the Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path), which is heavily used, notably by visitors to the area.

The once dominant industry of agriculture has all but disappeared. Remaining today is only one full-time farming operation, while there are also several worked as a sideline.

Jobs in the village are furnished by a carpentry and crane business, a metal construction business, a construction firm, a farmer's kitchen, a carpentry shop, a fabric shop, an insurance agency, an architectural office and a veterinary practice. All other workers commute to jobs elsewhere.

In planning at the moment by the municipality in collaboration with the project development firm juwi is a wind farm with up to ten Enercon type E-82 wind turbines on the rise northeast of Neuerkirch.

The municipality of Neuerkirch, in collaboration with four other municipalities, runs a kindergarten located in neighbouring Alterkülz.

  * Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Neuerkirch ein Dorf im Hunsrück – Vergangenheit und Gegenwart; Schriftenreihe des Hunsrücker Geschichtsvereins, 17; Neuerkirch 1986
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neuerkirch.
  * Kulturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Cultural History) (in German)
  * The cycle path running through Neuerkirch (in German)


John Middlemore

Sir John Throgmorton Middlemore, 1st Baronet (9 June 1844 – 17 October 1924) Liberal Unionist politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham North.

He was the son of William Middlemore, who had a leather business at Holloway Head, Birmingham. He gained a degree in medicine.

He was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in 1899 following the resignation of the sitting Birmingham North MP, William Kenrick.1918 General Election,

He served as a J.P. for Birmingham and Worcestershire. In 1872 he founded and managed for forty years the Middlemore Children's Emigration Homes for the training of destitute children in Agriculture in Canada. Between 1873 and 1952, some 6000 children suffering from neglect or poverty were sent via the city's Middlemore Emigration Home to work in Australia and Canada. The children were taken overseas in large groups and then distributed to families when they arrived.

He was made a Baronet on 27 May 1919, of Selly Oak, Worcestershire.

The Sir John Middlemore Charitable Trust managed and operated the Middlemore Family Centre in Bartley Green, Birmingham until July 2012. They now provide grants to organisations based in and working in the West Midlands who support those under the age of twenty-five (under 25s) who are "experiencing disadvantage".

  * Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Middlemore


Juan Carlos Oxoby

Juan Carlos Oxoby (17 December 1931 – 9 January 2010) was an Argentine sports shooter.25 metre pistol event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

  * Juan Carlos Oxoby at Olympedia


Lee Connell

Lee Anthony Connell (born 24 June 1981) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ramsbottom United. He played for Bury in the Football League.

  * Lee Connell at Soccerbase


Luis Zeballos

Luis Alberto Zeballos (born 3 March 1985) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Colegiales.

Career

Colegiales were Zeballos' first club, with the midfielder remaining with them from 2002 up until 2012 whilst making two hundred and fifty-four appearances and scoring seven goals; across seasons in Primera C Metropolitana and Primera B Metropolitana.third tier team Los Andes.Deportivo Morón on 5 August, which was one of thirty-six matches for the club in 2012–13; which he ended with goals versus Tristán Suárez and Atlanta.Primera B Nacional.

Zeballos spent the 2017–18 Primera B Metropolitana back with Colegiales, prior to subsequently returning to Los Andes in June 2018.Lomas de Zamora team on 25 August against Independiente Rivadavia.

Career statistics

As of 18 February 2019. Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club          Season              League                   Cup   Continental  Other  Total
Division      Apps                Goals                    Apps  Goals        Apps   Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Los Andes     2012–13             Primera B Metropolitana  36    2            0      0      —     0      0     36     2
2013–14       32                  2                        3     0            —      0      0     35     2
2014          18                  0                        0     0            —      0      0     18     0
2015          Primera B Nacional  40                       1     4            0      —      0     0      44    1
2016          16                  0                        0     0            —      0      0     16     0
2016–17       7                   0                        1     0            —      0      0     8      0
Total         149                 5                        8     0            —      0      0     157    5
Colegiales    2017–18             Primera B Metropolitana  19    0            0      0      —     0      0     19     0
Los Andes     2018–19             Primera B Nacional       5     0            0      0      —     0      0     5      0
Career total  173                 5                        8     0            —      0      0     181    5

Honours

Colegiales
  * Primera C Metropolitana: 2007–08
  * Luis Zeballos at Soccerway


Non-governmental organisations in Georgia

The last session of EaP&V4 Countries Countering Disinformation forum hosted by the Europe-Georgia Institute titled Disinformation and the Youth Resilience: Forging a New Generation of Leaders. from left to right: Eto Buziashvili, International Security Expert, (Georgia); Polad Muradli, Baku-based Independent Expert (Azerbaijan); George Melashvili, President of the Europe-Georgia Institute (Georgia).

Georgia's 2017–2018 Parliamentary Openness Action Plan created by the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information.

Young Georgians holding the Kmara flags during the Rose Revolution in November 2003

Non-governmental organizations in Georgia, nongovernmental, or nongovernment organizations in Georgia,NGOs in Georgia,

List of NGOs in Georgia


Name                                                   Formation         Description                                                                                Official Website
Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians  1879              The Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians was the first non-governmental organisation in Georgia founded by Ilia Chavchavadze. The Society was a charity founded by a group of leading Georgian intellectuals in May 1879 in order to promote a cultural renaissance among the peasantry of Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire. It survived into the early Soviet period and operated until 1926/7.
Liberty Institute                                      1996              Liberty Institute is a Georgian research and advocacy organization affiliated with Ilia Chavchavadze State University. Liberty Institute played an important role in the Rose Revolution. After the revolution, most of its founders were elected to the Parliament of Georgia.
New Economic School – Georgia                          2001              The New Economic School – Georgia (NESG) (in Georgian: ახალი ეკონომიკური სკოლა საქართველო) is a free market think-tank, non-profit organisation, NGO based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Its main mission is education of young people in free market ideas. It organizes seminars, workshops and conferences for education and exchanges of ideas.
Institute for Development of Freedom of Information    2009              Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) – is a Georgian non-governmental organization which tends to support the development of an informed and empowered society for democratic governance. IDFI promotes human rights and good governance by raising civic awareness through sound informational reports, research and recommendations; Advocates for initiating & implementing reforms of policies, laws and practices to enhance democratic governance.
Europe-Georgia Institute                               June 1, 2015      Europe-Georgia Institute (EGI) – is a hybrid non-governmental organization in Georgia. The Europe-Georgia Institute was founded by George Melashvili, Shalva Chkheidze and Revaz Topuria in 2015. The EGI states its goal is to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world. The EGI is an independent civil society organization and focuses its campaigning on issues such as human rights, peacebuilding, promotion of good governance and support the involvement of youth in democratic process. The EGI emphasizes "independence and impartiality", and explicitly precludes political, economic, or religious factors in its decision making. EGI's principles and operational guidelines are highlighted in its Charter.


Caritas Georgia                                        November 4, 1994  Caritas Georgia – is a non-governmental organization in Georgia. The charitable foundation “Caritas Georgia”, is actively working in the fields of emergency response, humanitarian, social, health, and development. Caritas Georgia has been serving the indigent population of Georgia since its establishment. It has been working on creating such a Georgian society that protects each individual's dignity and fundamental rights. Peace, justice, mercy, and solidarity are established, and public interests prevail over individual interests. Based on the preceding, Caritas Georgia aims to promote human development and social justice, bring relief to vulnerable and disadvantaged people, and encourage self-responsibility and dignity.


* Cso.ge – Relevant information to non-profit legal entities, groups, and individuals interested in civil society activities


Edwin Hughes (footballer)

Edwin Hughes (1885–1949) was a Welsh international footballer who also played for Wrexham, Nottingham Forest and Manchester City.


George Brown (bishop of Liverpool)

George Hilary Brown (1784 – 1856) was an English prelate who served as the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool from 1850 to 1856.

Early life

George Hilary Brown was born in Clifton, Lancashire on 15 January 1784,Robert Gradwell, Vicar Apostolic of the London District. George entered St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw on 25 September 1799, and received the Tonsure, the four Minor Orders, and the sub-diaconate, at Ushaw, on 2 April 1808, from Bishop William Gibson, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District. By the same bishop, he was ordained, at Ushaw, a deacon on 14 December 1809 and a priest on 13 June 1810.mission at Lancaster until he was nominated to the Lancashire Vicariate.

Episcopal career

He was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Lancashire District and Titular Bishop of Bugia on 5 June 1840, and consecrated to the Episcopate at Vauxhall, Liverpool on 24 August 1840.consecrator was Bishop John Briggs, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Thomas Griffiths and Bishop Thomas Walsh.titular see was translated from Bugia to Tlos on 22 April 1842.

On 29 September 1850, the hierarchy was restored in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX. On that same day, the Lancashire Vicariate was replaced by the dioceses of LiverpoolSalford.Bishop of Liverpool,

He died at Litherland near Liverpool on 25 January 1856, aged 72, and was buried at St Oswald's Church, Old Swan, Liverpool.

  * Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Vol. 3. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace.
  * Cooper, Thompson (1886). "Brown, George Hilary" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.


Kitamoto, Saitama

"Kitamoto" redirects here. For the surname, see Kitamoto (surname).

Kitamoto City Hall

Kitamoto (北本市, Kitamoto-shi) is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2021, the city had an estimated population of 66,022 and a population density of 3300 persons per km2.19.82 square kilometres (7.65 sq mi).

Geography

In east-central Saitama Prefecture, Kitamoto is on the central reaches of the Arakawa River, and is within commuting distance of downtown Tokyo.

Surrounding municipalities

Saitama Prefecture

  * Okegawa
  * Kōnosu
  * Kawajima
  * Yoshimi

Climate

Kitamoto has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kitamoto is 14.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1353 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.6 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,

Historical population
Year  Pop.    ±%
1920  7,633   —
1930  8,054   +5.5%
1940  8,366   +3.9%
1950  13,457  +60.9%
1960  15,483  +15.1%
1970  31,699  +104.7%
1980  50,888  +60.5%
1990  63,929  +25.6%
2000  69,524  +8.8%
2010  68,888  −0.9%
2020  65,201  −5.4%

History


Kitamoto, Saitama

History

Kōnosu-shuku was one of the post stations on the Nakasendō highway until 1602, when it was relocated north; the original location was renamed Motojuku, and later, Kitamotojuku, which is the origin of the name of the modern city. With the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889, Kitamotojuku was merged with several neighboring hamlets to form the village of Ishito within Kitaadachi District, Saitama. On February 11, 1943, Ishito was merged with neighboring Nakamaru to form Kitamotojuku Village. On November 3, 1959, the village was elevated to town status, becoming Kitamoto Town. Kitamoto attained city status on November 3, 1971.

Government

Kitamoto has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 20 members. Kitamoto contributes one member to the Saitama Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Saitama 6th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Economy

Due to this location, Kitamoto is primarily a bedroom community with a high percentage of its population commuting to either Saitama City or the Tokyo metropolis for work.

Education

Kitamoto has eight public elementary schools and four public middle schools operated by the city government, and one public high school operated by the Saitama Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railway

JR East – Takasaki Line

  * Kitamoto

Highway

  * National Route 17

Noted people from Kitamoto

  * Atsushi Oshima, politician

Media related to Kitamoto, Saitama at Wikimedia Commons

  * Official Website (in Japanese)


Karfaleh-ye Lavan

Karfaleh-ye Lavan (Persian: كرفله لاون, also Romanized as Kerfeleh-ye Lāvan; also known as Kerfeleh-ye Lāvand and Karfaleh)Shurab Rural District, Veysian District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 108, in 27 families.


Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum

Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum (NBCM, New Bach's Collegium Musicum) is a German chamber orchestra, founded in Leipzig, Saxony. It follows the tradition of collegia musica, developed by Johann Sebastian Bach, also in Leipzig. The orchestra is dedicated to historically informed performances, based on the latest research.

History

Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum was founded in 1979 by Max Pommer and Walter Heinz Bernstein.Gewandhausorchester.Bach Archive in applying historical research to performances with modern instruments.

The name refers to the Collegium MusicumGeorg Philipp Telemann founded in 1701 at the Leipzig University, and which Bach directed from 1729. The ensemble, subsequently called Bachisches Collegium, played Bach's works regularly at Zimmermannsches Kaffeehaus, including secular cantatas and instrumental works such as the Coffee Cantata, which Bach had composed for the ensemble.

Pommer was the first musical director of the NBCM. They produced many recordings and won international recognition and awards such as the 1985 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for a recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.Ludwig Güttler, the harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim and the Thomanerchor, among others.

Pommer was succeeded in 1988 by the oboist Burkhard Glaetzner. He added to the repertory, including works of the Classical period. From 2003 to 2013, the violinist and academic Albrecht Winter directed the NBCM, returning to the Baroque repertory, including works by Vivaldi, Corelli, Telemann, Bach's sons, and composers from the early days of the Gewandhaus. In a concert series from 2009 to 2011, the NBCM played the Gewandhaus programs which had been given 225 years earlier in the same hall, based on historic Programmzettel.

From 2013, the NBCM has had no single artistic director, but has worked with conductors such as Georg Kallweit and Stephan Mai (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin) and Nadja ZwienerThe English Concert). They perform the series Bachische Abend-Musicken, in collaboration with the town's historic museum Stadtgeschichtliches Museum LeipzigFestsaal) of the Old Town Hall


Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum

* Official website
  * Literature by and about Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum in the German National Library catalogue
  * Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum discogs
  * Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig AllMusic
  * Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig (Instrumental Ensemble) Bach Cantatas Website
  * Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig / Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat Es-dur BWV 243a / Leipziger Universitätschor / Max Pommer on YouTube


Pernaska

Pernaska is an Albanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Ilir Përnaska (born 1951), Albanian football player
  * Lajla Pernaska (born 1961), Albanian politician


Juan Carlos Pugliese

Juan Carlos Pugliese (1985)

Juan Carlos Pugliese (1915–1994) was an Argentine politician. He served as minister of interior and minister of economy during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín.


Le Mesnil-Bacley

Le Mesnil-Bacley (French pronunciation: [lə menil baklɛ] (listen)) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.

Population

Historical population
Year  Pop.  ±%
1962  217   —
1968  229   +5.5%
1975  216   −5.7%
1982  220   +1.9%
1990  220   +0.0%
1999  177   −19.5%
2008  218   +23.2%

  * Communes of the Calvados department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mesnil-Bacley.


Luis Yanza

Luis Yanza (born 1962 in Gualaceo) is an environmental activist from Ecuador, of Cofán descent.Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia (Amazon Defense Front), an NGO representing the interests of the campesinos and indigenous peoples in Ecuador.

Honors

Yanza received the Goldman Environment Prize in 2008, along with Pablo Fajardo Mendoza.

Yanza and Fajardo's publication of the environmental effects from oil production has led to stronger environmental protection laws in Ecuador.

Legal action

As president of the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia, Yanza has spearheaded a multibillion-dollar class action lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco for its environmental damage in Ecuador.Steven Donziger and others, he represented 30,000 indigenous people and farmers affected by the Lago Agrio oil field. Yanza stated that the "trial is not about accidental damages. We´re talking about harm to people and the environment that was done in a deliberate manner."

The Ecuadorian courts, which were originally requested by Chevron, ruled in favour of the plaintiffs on three occasions. After being ordered to pay $9.5 billion, Chevron refused and presented a defence that Ecuadorian judge Nicolás Zambrano accepted a $500,000 bribe in exchange for ruling against them.

  * Handler, Marisa. Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57675-974-5.
  * Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanza, profile and video


Ozone Falls State Natural Area

Ozone Falls State Natural Area is a state natural area in Cumberland County, Tennessee in the southeastern United States. It consists of 43 acres (0.17 km2) centered on Ozone Falls, a 110-foot (34 m) plunge waterfall, and its immediate gorge along Fall Creek. Because of its picturesque beauty and easy access, Disney selected Ozone Falls for scenes for their live-action film "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book".Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and maintained by Cumberland Mountain State Park. It is also part of Cumberland Trail State Park.

Geographical setting

Gambler's Den, just above the gorge

Ozone Falls is situated along Fall Creek, which drains a short section of the Cumberland Plateau between the Crab Orchard Mountains to the west and Walden Ridge to the east. The creek flows down from its source high in the Crab Orchard Mountains for a mile or so before steadying briefly as it enters the community of Ozone. it then enters the state natural area just after passing under U.S. Route 70, which runs perpendicular to it. It spills over Ozone Falls a few hundred meters south of US-70.

Beyond Ozone Falls, the creek slices through a small gorge and proceeds southward for several more miles before emptying into Piney Creek. The confluence of the creeks occurs at a point where Roane County, Cumberland County and Rhea County all meet. Fall Creek is part of the Tennessee River watershed.

The Fall Creek that spills over Ozone Falls is not the same stream as the Fall Creek that spills over Fall Creek Falls in Van Buren County; the latter is part of the Cumberland River watershed.

Features

The Ozone Falls State Natural Area consists of Ozone Falls and the gorge immediately downstream. The gorge area around the waterfall's plungepool slopes inward from the top edge, creating a half-dome shape along the gorge's walls. Short hiking trails allow access to the waterfall's overhang and plungepool, as well as the cliffs above the gorge. The trailhead is located along US-70.

History

Ozone Falls, viewed from the base of the gorge


Ozone Falls State Natural Area

Ozone Falls, viewed from the base of the gorge

Migrants crossing the Cumberland Plateau en route to the Nashville area in the early 19th century wrote of Ozone Falls in journals and letters sent to relatives back home. The waterfall was located adjacent to the Walton Road, which was part of the stage route connecting East and Middle Tennessee (the road closely paralleled what is now US-70). One traveler along this road, Elijah Haley, died while passing through the area in 1806. His widow established a tavern at what is now the community of Ozone shortly thereafter, and later helped operate the Crab Orchard Inn at Crab Orchard, a few miles to the west.

The waterfall was known as McNair Falls throughout the 19th century, named after a local miller who operated a grist mill at the waterfall in the 1860s. In 1896, the community of Mammy, which had grown up around the Haley tavern, changed its name to Ozone, and the name was subsequently applied to the waterfall.

The Ozone Falls State Natural Area was established in 1973, and originally consisted of 14 acres (57,000 m2). In 1996, it was expanded to 43 acres (170,000 m2).

  * Burgess Falls State Park
  * Cummins Falls State Park
  * Ozone Falls State Natural Area — official site


Edwin Hodgeman

Edwin Hodgeman (born 26 June 1935)Adelaide, South Australia. He is known for playing Dr Dealgood in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in (1985).

Selected filmography

  * Love and War: L'Flaherty, VC as part of Wednesday Theatre (1967)
  * The Fourth Wish (1976) .... Simms
  * Money Movers (1978) .... Nacker
  * The Survivor (1981) .... Bain
  * Eureka Stockade (1984, TV Mini-Series) .... Commissioner Rede
  * Robbery Under Arms (1985) .... Jack Benson
  * Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) .... Dr. Dealgood
  * Playing Beatie Bow (1986) .... Sir
  * Call me Mr Brown (film) playing Bill Harding (1986)
  * A Sting in the Tale (1989) .... Roger Monroe
  * Ebbtide (1994) .... Doctor
  * Shine (1996) .... Soviet Society Secretary
  * Sun on the Stubble (1996, TV Mini-Series) .... Mr. Taylor
  * Cut (2000) .... Mr. Drivett
  * Black and White (2002) .... Govt. Prosecutor
  * Human Touch (2004) .... Mr. Thompson
  * Look Both Ways (2005) .... Jim
  * Modern Love (2006) .... Old Man in motel
  * Lucky Miles (2007) .... Coote
  * Twin Rivers (2007) .... Old William (voice)
  * Rain Shadow (2007, TV Mini-Series) .... Steve Willis
  * Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008) .... Rabbi
  * Codgers (2011) .... Les Weston
  * Tracks (2013) .... Mr. Ward
  * Edwin Hodgeman at IMDb


George Broun

George Broun may refer to:

Baronets

  * Sir George Broun, 2nd Baronet (died 1718), of the Broun baronets
  * Sir George Broun, 3rd Baronet (died 1734), of the Broun baronets

Others

  * George Broun-Lindsay (1888–1964), Scottish MP
  * George Broun, Lord Coalston, see David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
  * George Brown (disambiguation)
  * Broun (surname)


Kızıklı, Burhaniye

Kızıklı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Burhaniye, Balıkesir Province in Turkey.


Kargacı, Yenice

Kargacı is a village in the Yenice District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey.


Neues Budapester Abendblatt

Neues Budapester Abendblatt was a liberal German-language daily newspaper, published from Budapest. The last issue of the newspaper was published on January 7, 1922.


Pernastela charon

Pernastela charon, also known as the lowland forest pinhead snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.

Description

The trochoidal shell of the mature snail is 2.1–2.5 mm in height, with a diameter of 3.2–3.5 mm, and a raised spire. It is cream to pale golden-brown in colour. The whorls are rounded and flattened below an angular periphery, with moderately spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture, flattened on the upper side by a reflected lip, and a moderately wide umbilicus.

Distribution and habitat

The snail is commonest in the settlement area of the island's lowlands, inhabiting plant litter in mixed forest.

  * MolluscaBase eds (2021). "Pernastela charon Iredale, 1944". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)


Josh Vitters

Joshua Warren Vitters (born August 27, 1989) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs in 2012.

Amateur career

Vitters was an AFLAC All-American Prep Third Baseman for Cypress High School in Cypress, California.Arizona State University on a scholarship, to play for the Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team.

Professional career

Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs drafted Vitters with the third overall selection of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft.Rookie-level Arizona Cubs of the Arizona League.Boise Hawks and the Single-A Peoria Chiefs, logging a .322/.357/.495 slash line with 5 home runs and 38 RBI in 65 games.

Vitters was selected to appear in the 2009 All-Star Futures Game.Peoria Chiefs of the Single-A Midwest League to the Daytona Cubs of the High-A Florida State League.Tennessee Smokies of the Double-A Southern League.

The Cubs promoted Vitters and fellow prospect Brett Jackson from the Iowa Cubs of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League on August 5, 2012.Los Angeles DodgersJeff Beliveau and collected his first MLB hit, a double against the San Diego Padres in the seventh inning, scoring both Steve Clevenger and Darwin Barney. His first major league home run was on August 20, 2012, in the fifth inning against Mark Rogers of the Milwaukee Brewers.Venezuelan Professional Baseball League with the Leones del Caracas and appeared 2 games. Vitters split the 2013 season between Iowa and the AZL Cubs, slashing .267/.368/.475 in 33 games between the two teams. He spent the entire 2014 season in Iowa as well, batting .213/.268/.339 with 11 home runs and 38 RBI in 112 games. On October 29, 2014, Vitters was outrighted off of the 40-man roster.

Bridgeport Bluefish

On March 15, 2016, Vitters signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. In 80 games with Bridgeport, Vitters batted .226/.302/.343 with 5 home runs and 25 RBI.

Sioux City Explorers


Josh Vitters

Sioux City Explorers

On March 16, 2017, Vitters signed with the Sioux City Explorers of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. He was released on June 21, 2017 after posting a slash line of .185/.220/.254 in 50 games.

Québec Capitales

On April 12, 2018, Vitters signed with the Québec Capitales of the Can-Am League. He was released on June 24 after hitting .247/.326/.346 with 1 home run and 6 RBI in 25 games.

York Revolution

On March 10, 2020, Vitters signed with the York Revolution of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.COVID-19 pandemic and became a free agent after the year. On April 26, 2021, Vitters re-signed with the Revolution for the 2021 season.

Personal

Josh's brother, Christian, played minor league baseball.

  * Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
  * Rotoworld report


Le Mesnil-Patry

Le Mesnil-Patry (French pronunciation: [lə mɛnil patʁi] (listen)) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Thue et Mue.

History

World War II

On 11 June 1944 the Battle of Le Mesnil-Patry was fought to the east of the town, involving units of the 12th SS Panzer Division, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade.

Population

Historical population
Year  Pop.  ±%
1962  107   —
1968  116   +8.4%
1975  122   +5.2%
1982  102   −16.4%
1990  160   +56.9%
1999  217   +35.6%
2008  284   +30.9%

  * Communes of the Calvados department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mesnil-Patry.


Luis de Almeida, 1st Count of Avintes

D. Luis de Almeida, Count of Avintes (d 22 December 1671), was a Portuguese nobleman and military man, Governor of Rio de Janeiro and, later (in 1661-1662) the last Portuguese Governor of Tangier.

  * Marquesses of Lavradio
  * The information in this article is based on that in its Portuguese equivalent.


Ian Dyer

Ian Dyer (born 22 August 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

  * Ian Dyer's playing statistics from AFL Tables
  * Ian Dyer at AustralianFootball.com


Kontikia

Kontikia is a genus of land planarians native from islands in the Indo-Pacific region, but several species have been introduced elsewhere.

Description

The genus Kontikia includes planarians of elongate body, with a creeping sole that occupies one to two thirds of the body width. The mesenchymal musculature includes well-developed longitudinal muscles forming a ring zone around the intestine.copulatory apparatus may or may not have a distinct penis papilla, depending on the degree of contraction of the reproductive structures.Parakontikia.

Genetics

The complete mitochondrial genome of Kontikia ventrolineata (= Parakontikia ventrolineata) was described in 2020. It displays common unusual characteristics shared with Platydemus manokwari, such as its colinearity, an overlap between ND4L and ND4 genes and an unusually long cox2 gene.

Species

The genus Kontikia includes the following species:


Kontikia

The genus Kontikia includes the following species:

  * Kontikia andersoni Jones, 1981
  * Kontikia ashleyi (Fyfe, 1953)
  * Kontikia assimilis (von Graff, 1899)
  * Kontikia atrata (Steel, 1887)
  * Kontikia bulbosa Sluys, 1983
  * Kontikia canaliculata (von Graff, 1899)
  * Kontikia chapmani (Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1988)
  * Kontikia circularis (Fyfe, 1956)
  * Kontikia cookiana (Schröder, 1924)
  * Kontikia coxii (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888)
  * Kontikia cyanea (Fyfe, 1956)
  * Kontikia forsterorum (Schröder, 1924)
  * Kontikia insularis (Prudhore, 1949)
  * Kontikia kenneli (von Graff, 1899)
  * Kontikia lyra (Steel, 1901)
  * Kontikia marrineri (Dendy, 1911)
  * Kontikia melanochroa (Steel, 1901)
  * Kontikia nasuta (Loman, 1890)
  * Kontikia orana Froehlich, 1955
  * Kontikia pelewensis (von Graff, 1899)
  * Kontikia quadrilineata (Haslauer-Gamish, 1982)
  * Kontikia ranuii (Fyfe, 1953)
  * Kontikia renschi (Haslauer-Gamish, 1982)
  * Kontikia traversii (Moseley, 1877)
  * Kontikia ventrolineata (Dendy, 1892)
  * Kontikia whartoni (Gulliver, 1879)


George Brouse

George Brouse (1790 – February 12, 1860) was a farmer, businessperson, and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Matilda Township, Dundas County, Upper Canada, in 1790, the son of Peter Brouse, a United Empire Loyalist from Stone Arabia, Montgomery County, New York. He opened a general store on his property some time after 1814. A small community originally known as Matilda and later Iroquois, Ontario, developed in the area.

In 1810 Peter Brouse had converted George and his brother Peter to Methodism but he did not continue in this faith until the great revival in 1822, when he was restored, and became a lifelong steward of the church.

During the 1820s, he built a gristmill, sawmill, shingle factory, and woollen mill. From 1828 to 1876, he was postmaster in the area. In 1829 he was elected to the 10th Parliament of Upper Canada, Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Dundas. In 1846, he became a captain in the 2nd Regiment of the Dundas County Militia. In 1857, Iroquois was incorporated as a village and Brouse became its first reeve. He died in Iroquois in 1860.

He was the uncle of William Henry Brouse, a Canadian MP.

  * Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online


Kızılaliler, Korkuteli

Kızılaliler is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Korkuteli, Antalya Province, Turkey.


Karfelah, Kermanshah

Karfelah (Persian: كرفله)Cheshmeh Kabud Rural District, in the Central District of Harsin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 81, in 15 families.


Neufahrn bei Freising

Neufahrn bei Freising (German pronunciation: [ˈnɔʏfaːɐ̯n baɪ ˈfʁaɪzɪŋ]) is a municipality in the district of Freising, in Bavaria, Germany. It has about 20,000 inhabitants and is located near the river Isar, 12 km southwest of Freising and 20 km northeast of Munich.

It is a stop on the Munich–Regensburg line and is served by S1 trains, running from Munich to Freising.

Gallery

  * [War memorial in front of town hall]
    War memorial in front of town hall
  * Media related to Neufahrn bei Freising at Wikimedia Commons
  * Official website [Edit this at Wikidata] (in German)


Oded, father of Azariah

This article is about the biblical father of the prophet Azariah. For the biblical prophet, see Oded (prophet).

Oded is a figure in the Hebrew Bible mentioned in 2 Chronicles 15. He is mentioned in verse 1 as the father of Azariah the prophet, whose speech to King Asa initiates reforms in the religious life of the kingdom of Judah. The Masoretic Text omits Azariah's name in verse 8, suggesting that the prophecy is from Oded himself, but the Syriac version, the Latin Vulgate and modern translations like the New International Version refer to "Azariah the son of Oded" in this verse.

The third century BCE Septuagint translation has Ὠδήδ (Oded) in verse 1 but Ἀδὰδ (Adad) in verse 8.

In the Talmud, Oded is also listed as a prophet.

A different Oded is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 28.


Josh Walker

Josh Walker may refer to:

  * Josh Walker (American football) (born 1991), American football guard
  * Josh Walker (Australian footballer) (born 1992), Australian football player
  * Josh Walker (baseball) (born 1994), American baseball player
  * Josh Walker (footballer, born 1989), English footballer
  * Josh Walker (footballer, born 1997), English footballer
  * Joshua Walker (disambiguation)


Le Mesnil-Simon

Le Mesnil-Simon can refer to:

  * Le Mesnil-Simon, Calvados
  * Le Mesnil-Simon, Eure-et-Loir


Gaoyikou station

Gaoyikou Station is a station on International Expo branch of Line 6 of Chongqing Rail Transit in Chongqing municipality, China,Yubei District.


Howley

Look up howley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Howley or Howly may refer to:

People

  * Chuck Howley (born 1936), former American football player
  * Dan Howley (1885-1944), American baseball player nicknamed "Dapper Dan"
  * Frank L. Howley (1903–1993), American general and former commandant, U.S. sector of Berlin
  * James Patrick Howley (1847–1918), Canadian naturalist
  * Joe Howley (fl. 1916–1920), Sinn Féin captain
  * Kerry Howley (born 1981), American magazine editor
  * Kevin Howley (1924–1997), English football referee
  * Michael Francis Howley (184–-1914), Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of St. John's, Newfoundland
  * Orlando Martínez Howley (1944–1975), Dominican Republic journalist
  * Paul Howley (born 1955), founder and owner of That's Entertainment comics and collectible
  * Richard Howly (1740–1784), American planter and lawyer
  * Rob Howley (born 1970), Welsh rugby player
  * William Howley (1766–1848), Archbishop of Canterbury

Places

  * Howley, Gloucestershire, England, UK
  * Howley, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  * Howley, Somerset, a location in England, UK
  * Howley, Warrington, near Latchford, England, UK
  * Howly, Barpeta district, Assam, India

Other

  * Howley Hall, Batley, West Yorkshire, England


Kontcha

Kontcha is a town and commune in Cameroon.

  * Communes of Cameroon
  * Site de la primature - Élections municipales 2002 (in French)
  * Contrôle de gestion et performance des services publics communaux des villes camerounaises - Thèse de Donation Avele, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV (in French)
  * Charles Nanga, La réforme de l’administration territoriale au Cameroun à la lumière de la loi constitutionnelle n° 96/06 du 18 janvier 1996, Mémoire ENA. (in French)

7°58′N 12°14′E / 7.967°N 12.233°E


List of governors of Kanagawa Prefecture

* Higashikuze Michitomi April–November 1868
  * Terashima Munenori 1868–1869
  * Mutsu Munemitsu 1871–1872
  * Ōe Taku 1872–1874
  * Nomura Yasushi 1876–1881
  * Asada Tokunori (1st term) 1889–1891
  * Utsumi Tadakatsu 1891–1893
  * Asada Tokunori 2nd term 1898–1900
  * Chūichi Ariyoshi 1915–1919
  * Yasukouchi Asakichi 1922–1924
  * Seino Chotarno 1924-1925
  * Zenjirō Horikiri 1925–1926
  * Ikeda Hiroshi 1926-1929
  * Jiro Yamagata 1929–1931
  * Sukenari Yokoyama 1932–1935
  * Seiichi Ōmura 1938–1939
  * Ichisho Inuma 1939–1940
  * Mitsuma Matsumura 1940–1942
  * Iwataro Uchiyama 1947-1967
  * Bungo Tsuda 1967–1975
  * Kazuji Nagasu 1975-1995
  * Hiroshi Okazaki 1995-2003
  * Shigefumi Matsuzawa 2003–2011
  * Yuji Kuroiwa 2011–present


Kızılca, Çubuk

Kızılca is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çubuk, Ankara Province, Turkey.


Douglas Kalembo

Douglas Kalembo (born 24 July 1960) is a Zambian sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.


Neues Volksblatt

Neues Volksblatt is a daily newspaper published in Linz, Austria. The paper is the official organ of the Austrian People's Party. It has been in circulation since 1869. From September 2018 the paper has been renamed as Oberösterreichische Volksblatt.

History and profile

Neues Volksblatt was established in 1869.Christian socialist stance.

As of 2017 Neues Volksblatt was not part of the Media-Analysis or the Austrian Circulation Survey which are the leading circulation reports for Austrians print publications.

  * Official website
  * Media related to Neues Volksblatt at Wikimedia Commons


José María Alfaro Zamora

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alfaro and the second or maternal family name is Zamora.

José María Alfaro Zamora (March 20, 1799 – June 12, 1856) was the Costa Rican Head of State between the periods of 1842 and 1844 as well as 1846 and 1847 and President of Costa Rica between May 1 and May 8, 1847.

Early life and family

Alfaro was born in Alajuela, Costa Rica on March 20, 1799, to his parents Juan Antonio Alfaro y Arias and María Damiana Zamora y Flores. On May 19, 1825, he married María Josefa Sandoval y Jiménez. With her he fathered José Joaquín Alfaro Sandoval, a daughter who died early in her childhood, and Calixto Alfaro Sandoval.

Alfaro was a farmer and a businessman. He owned lands devoted to coffee plantation and a sawmill in Itiquís near Alajuela. He also participated in a lumber company in Jinotepe, Nicaragua.

Public activities

He served as supply deputy for Alajuela (1825-1827), second mayor of Alajuela (1828), deputy for Alajuela (1829-1831), deputy for Heredia (1834-1836), political leader of the western department (1841) and magistrate of the Judicial Chamber (1841-1842).

On September 27, 1842, in a junta convocated by then Head of State Antonio Pinto Soares, José María Alfaro Zamora was designated Provisional Head of State. During his administration he built the road that connects San José to Puntarenas, founded Universidad de Santo Tomás, emitted the 1844 Constitution, and founded the newspaper "Mentor Costarricense". He lost the 1844 elections to Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla. On November 29, 1844, he gave Oreamuno his office which was meant to last until 1848.


José María Alfaro Zamora

On June 7, 1846, after a coup d'état Alfaro was again declared Provisional Head of State. During this administration Puntarenas was declared a free port, the 1847 Constitution was emitted and a failed diplomatic mission with Nicaragua was launched in a second attempt to sign a border agreement with this country (a previous attempt by Braulio Carrillo in 1838 had also failed). Although he lost the 1847 elections to José María Castro Madriz he won the office of Vice President for the next term.

In order to comply with the new Constitution, from May 1 to May 8, 1847, he used the title President of the State. On May 8, 1847, he was succeeded by Castro. In May 1847, he became Vice President of the State, but he had to quit months after. Accused of corruption, he was confined to Térraba and later moved to Panama.

Aftermath and death

He later returned to Costa Rica but refused to participate in politics. He died in Alajuela on June 11, 1856, due to cholera.


Kagarmanovo

Kagarmanovo (Russian: Кагарманово; Bashkir: Ҡаһарман, Qaharman) is a rural locality (a village) in Uzyansky Selsoviet, Beloretsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 432 as of 2010.

Geography

Kagarmanovo is located 62 km southwest of Beloretsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Uzyan is the nearest rural locality.


Le Mesnil-Tôve

Le Mesnil-Tôve (French pronunciation: [lə mɛnil tov]) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Juvigny les Vallées.

  * Communes of the Manche department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mesnil-Tôve.
  * Satellite view of Le Mesnil-Tôve


Gaoyi Town

Gaoyi (Chinese: 高邑; pinyin: Gāoyì) is a town in and the seat of Gaoyi County, in southwestern Hebei province, China,48 km (30 mi) south of the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang. As of 2018, it has 24 villages under its administration.China National Highway 107 and just off of G4 Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway.

  * List of township-level divisions of Hebei


Howland (CDP), Maine

Howland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,096 at the 2010 census.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.7 square miles (20.0 km2), of which 7.5 square miles (19.3 km2) is land and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), or 3.65%, is water.

Demographics

Historical population
Census                 Pop.  Note  %±
2020                   947         —
U.S. Decennial Census

As of the census161.4 inhabitants per square mile (62.3/km2). There were 544 housing units at an average density of 28.0 persons/km2 (72.6 persons/sq mi). The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.26% White, 0.25% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.17% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.17% of the population.

There were 500 households, out of which 28.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.4% were non-families. 30.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.87.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 23.1% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.7 males.


Howland (CDP), Maine

The median income for a household in the CDP was $28,261, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $32,333 versus $19,792 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,875. About 6.1% of families and 11.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.7% of those under the age of 18 and 25.6% ages 65 or older.


Konthe Road

Konthe Road in 2013

Merchant Road in 1890s

Konthe Road (Burmese: ကုန်သည်လမ်း, formerly Merchant Road) is an east–west road in downtown Yangon, Burma. It runs past Maha Bandula Park.


Mansoor Ali Khan (politician)

This article is about the politician. For other people with the same name, see Mansoor Ali Khan.

Mansoor Ali Khan was an Indian politician and is Member of Parliament of India. He was a member of the 13th Lok Sabha representing the Saharanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh. He comes from an old aristocratic family.

Early life and education

Khan was born in Mussoorie in the (then) state of Uttar Pradesh (Mussoorie is now a part of Uttarakhand). He attended the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar and attained Bachelor of Engineering degree. Khan worked as an Engineer and Agriculturist prior to joining politics.

Political career

Khan has been active in politics since 1980s. However, as Member of Parliament, he has served only one term. Prior to this, he was also a member of the Zila Parishad.

Posts held

#   From  To    Position                      Comments
01  1999  2004  Member, 13th Lok Sabha        -
02  1999  2000  Member, Committee on Defence  -

  * 13th Lok Sabha
  * Bahujan Samaj Party
  * Government of India
  * Lok Sabha
  * Parliament of India
  * Politics of India
  * Saharanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)
  * Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly


Kosagovo

Kosagovo (Russian: Косагово) is a rural locality (a selo) in Nebylovskoye Rural Settlement, Yuryev-Polsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010.

Geography

Kosagovo is located 32 km southeast of Yuryev-Polsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lykovo is the nearest rural locality.


Douglas Johnston

Douglas Johnston may refer to:

  * Douglas Johnston, Lord Johnston (1907–1985), Scottish politician and judge
  * Douglas H. Johnston (1856–1939), Governor of the Chickasaw Nation
  * Doug Johnston, curler, see 2012 The Dominion Tankard
  * Douglas Johnstone (disambiguation)
  * Douglas Johnson (disambiguation)


Hiwi

Hiwi refer to:

  * Hiwi (volunteer), POWs of occupied nations who volunteered to help the Nazis
  * Hiwi al-Balkhi, 9th century exegete and critic of Bible
  * Hiwi people, a people of Colombia and Venezuela
  * Guahibo language, the Cuahiban language spoken by them
  * Waia language, a Trans-Fly language of Papua New Guinea
  * Waboda language, a Trans–New-Guinea language spoken in the Fly River delta, Papua New Guinea


José Martínez (volleyball)

Jose Martinez (born 23 January 1993) is a Mexican volleyball player. He is part of Mexico men's national volleyball team, and represented Mexico at the Olympic Games 2016 Rio. At club level he currently plays for the WA Steel, who play in the Australian Volleyball League

Early life

Martínez was born in Tijuana, Baja California. He attended Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, California, where he started playing volleyball and graduated in 2011. A four-year varsity starter, he was named to the second All-Metro League team.

Career

During the summer of 2016, Martínez along with Mexico men's national volleyball team, ended their 48-year absence in the Olympic Games, when they secured the final place at stake for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games through the World Olympic Qualification Tournament, which took place in their home turf in Mexico City.

  * profile at FIVB.org


Kagare language

Kagare (KwagereKainji language of Nigeria belonging to the Kamuku language complex. There is partial intelligibility with Cinda, Regi and Səgəmuk (Zubazuba).Ethnologue or Glottolog.


Le Mesnil-Germain

Le Mesnil-Germain (French pronunciation: [lə menil ʒɛʁmɛ̃] (listen)) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.

Population

Historical population
Year  Pop.  ±%
1962  258   —
1968  193   −25.2%
1975  168   −13.0%
1982  240   +42.9%
1990  216   −10.0%
1999  218   +0.9%
2008  250   +14.7%

  * Communes of the Calvados department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mesnil-Germain.


Gaoyi Township

Gaoyi Township (simplified Chinese: 高椅乡; traditional Chinese: 高椅鄉; pinyin: Gāoyǐ Xiāng is a rural township in Huitong County, Hunan, China. It is surrounded by Ruoshui Town on the northwest, Tuanhe Town on the southwest, Jinziyan Township on the south, Matang Township on the southeast, and Longchuantang Township on the northeast. As of the 2016 census it had a population of 8,865 and an area of 99 square kilometres (38 sq mi).

Administrative division

As of 2016, it has 17 villages: Sanzhou Village (三洲村), Tangzhou Village (唐洲村), Wangtang Village (网塘村), Shuangtan Village (双滩村), Lingtou Village (岭头村), Shanggao Village (上高村), Wengjiang Village (翁江村), Shangdashi Village (上大市村), Hongguang Village (红光村), Hongpo Village (红坡村), Xuefeng Village (雪峰村), Gaolian Village (高联村), Huaijian Village (槐枧村), Wengtao Village (翁桃村), Wenggao Village (翁高村), Dengjia Village (邓家村) and Gaoyi Village (高椅村).

Economy

Gaoyi Township's economy is dominated by tourism and special local products, such as vivipara, fish, orange, peach, bacon, chili sauce, embroidery, and bamboo weaving.

Geography

The Wu River flows through the township.

Culture

Nuo opera is the most influence local theater.

Transportation

Provincial Highway S222 runs through the township.

Attractions

Gaoyi Village, also known as "Gaoyi Ancient Village", is a famous scenic spot in Hunan. The village has been designated as a "Major National Historical and Cultural Site in Hunan" by the State Council of China.


Howland, Missouri

Howland is an extinct town in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.

Howland was platted in 1873.

40°32′05″N 92°57′27″W / 40.53472°N 92.95750°W


Kollam Development Authority

Kollam Development Authority (KDA) was an autonomous statutory body overseeing the development of the City of Kollam in the state of Kerala, India. KDA was the responsible body for the planning and development of the major parts of Kollam urban area which consists of the City corporation of Kollam and its surrounding areas like Eravipuram, Sakthikulangara, Neendakara, Uliyakovil, Anchalumoodu, Kottiyam etc.Kerala which gained in significance because of the importance of the City of Kollam as the emerging 'Port City of Kerala'.

History

Government of Kerala constituted Kollam Development Authority (KDA) in 1981, under Town Planning Act. In 2007, the Government of Kerala wound up the Kollam Development Authority, along with the Kozhikode, Thrissur, Idukki and Varkala development authorities.Kerala reconstituted KDA along with Kozhikode and Thrissur development authorities.Government of Kerala has appointed A.K Hafees as the Chairman of Kollam Development Authority(KDA).

Proposals from Kollam Development Authority

Government of Kerala have organized an urban development meet in the name 'Partner Kerala' during the month February, 2014.Kollam Urban Area.

  * Organized park and open space, Thirumullavaram
  * Organized park and open space, Thangassery
  * Re-development of Payikkada commercial area in the city.
  * Beautification of TS Canal – Kollam Boat Jetty to Eravipuram Thottumugham
  * Junction Improvement Project – Kadappakada Junction
  * Junction Improvement Project – High School Junction
  * Mobility Hub Opposite to Public Library, Kollam
  * Oceanarium at Kollam Beach
  * Road Development Project – From new SP office Railway Over Bridge to Vellayittambalam
  * Shopping Mall, Office Complex and Exhibition cum – Trading Centre for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises at Thamarakulam

Commercial Complex cum Convention Centre Project at Thamarakulam


Kollam Development Authority

Commercial Complex cum Convention Centre Project at Thamarakulam

On 31 December 2015, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy laid foundation stone for Kollam Development Authority's Commercial Complex cum convention centre project at Thamarakulam in Kollam city. The project would be constructed and operated on the private-public partnership basis on a 2.35 acres of land. The aim of this Commercial Complex project is to expand the commercial hub of the city of Kollam towards west from the traditional Chinnakada-Chamakada hubs.

  * Kollam
  * Kollam Beach
  * Kollam Port
  * Kollam Pooram
  * Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Kollam


Liu Wu (general)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liu.

Liu Wu (Chinese: 劉悟) (died September 25, 825Prince of Pengcheng (彭城王), was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician during the Tang Dynasty, whose killing of his superior, the warlord Li Shidao, and subsequent submission to the imperial government, were the high point of Emperor Xianzong's campaign to end warlordism. During the subsequent reign of Emperor Muzong, however, Liu, angered by a conspiracy between an imperial eunuch and one of his subordinates, drifted away from the imperial government and ruled Zhaoyi Circuit (昭義, headquartered in modern Changzhi, Shanxi) semi-independently.

Background

It is not known when Liu Wu was born. His grandfather Liu Zhengchen (劉正臣) had served as the Tang military governor (Jiedushi) of Pinglu Circuit (平盧, then headquartered in modern Chaoyang, Liaoning) during the Anshi Rebellion and combatted the army of the rebel Yan, but was unable to capture the Yan northern capital Fanyang before being poisoned by his own subordinate Wang Xuanzhi (王玄志).劉全諒) served as the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan),Changzhi, Shanxi), where the military governor of Zhaoyi, Wang Qianxiu (王虔休), made him an officer. Liu Wu soon became ill and resigned, and he went to the eastern capital Luoyang. Liu Quanliang had a storage of money at Luoyang, and Liu Wu broke into it and spent it. Liu Wu also associated with violent young men who killed people and dogs. As a result, Liu Wu was arrested and held at the jail of Henan Municipality (河南, i.e., the Luoyang region), but the defender of Luoyang Wei Xiaqing (韋夏卿) released him.

Service under Li Shigu and Li Shidao


Liu Wu (general)

Service under Li Shigu and Li Shidao

Liu Wu subsequently fled to Pinglu Circuit (by this point headquartered in modern Tai'an, Shandong) to serve under the military governor Li Shigu,de facto independence from the imperial government.polo, his horse charged Li Shigu's horse, causing Li Shigu's horse to fall. Li Shigu, in anger, was set to execute him. Liu responded with proud words without fear. Li Shigu was amazed and pardoned him, and found a wife for him. He thereafter was promoted several times, until he became army commander (兵馬使, Bingmashi).

In 818, after Emperor Xianzong declared a general campaign against Li Shigu's brother and successor Li Shidao,Heze, Shandong). It was said that Liu was lenient and simplified the military laws, and as a result the soldiers were happy to be under his command — such that he was referred to as "Father Liu."Tian Hongzheng the military governor of Weibo Circuit (魏博, headquartered in modern Handan, Hebei) crossed the Yellow River and pressured Pinglu's capital Yun Prefecture (鄆州) directly in winter 818,Liaocheng, Shandong) to defend against Tian. Tian's army repeatedly prevailed over Liu's, and there were accusations by some of Li Shidao's associates that Liu was plotting against him. Li Shidao thus summoned Liu back to Yun Prefecture under the guise of a strategic meeting but planned to execute him. Yet other associates of Li Shidao's counseled that if he put Liu to death without proof of treachery, no one would remain faithful to him. After keeping Liu at Yun Prefecture for 10 days, Li Shidao ordered him to return to Yanggu and gave him gifts to try to secure his loyalty. However, because Liu Wu's son Liu Congjian served in Li Shidao's guard corps, he found out about what Li Shidao had originally intended and reported it to Liu Wu, so Liu Wu secretly took precautions.


Liu Wu (general)

In spring 819, Li Shidao became resolved to kill Liu Wu. He sent two messengers to Liu's deputy Zhang Xian (張暹), ordering Zhang to execute Liu and take over the army. When the messengers informed Zhang, Zhang, who was friendly with Liu, secretly informed Liu, who immediately put the two messengers to death. Liu then called a meeting with all of his officers, declaring that he was set to turn against Li Shidao and follow imperial orders. When some officers hesitated, he executed them, as well as a number of others that soldiers had resented. The other officers were intimidated into submission. At night, they launched a surprise attack on Yun Prefecture, and the Yun Prefecture defenders, believing that Liu was returning on Li Shidao's orders, allowed them in. Liu Wu controlled the city and arrested Li Shidao and his two sons, putting them to death. He then sent messengers to surrender to Tian, but continued to maintain control over Yun Prefecture.

As Jiedushi


Liu Wu (general)

As Jiedushi

Because Emperor Xianzong had previously issued an edict stating that whoever killed Li Shidao would be conferred all of Li Shidao's titles, Liu Wu believed that he would be given Pinglu's 12 prefectures, and therefore started making personnel changes for the entire circuit. Meanwhile, though, Emperor Xianzong was secretly planning to divide Pinglu into three circuits and transferring Liu elsewhere, but was concerned that Liu might resist. He ordered Tian to evaluate the situation, and Tian thus sent messengers to Liu, ostensibly to befriend Liu, but secretly to observe Liu. As Liu was strong and liked arm wrestling, within three days, he was encouraging soldiers to arm wrestle and watching them doing so in excitement. When the Weibo messengers reported this back to Tian, Tian opined to Emperor Xianzong that Liu, if transferred elsewhere, would not resist. Soon thereafter, Emperor Xianzong issued an edict commissioning Liu as the military governor of Yicheng Circuit (義成, headquartered in modern Anyang, Henan). Liu was surprised and decided to submit — and, as soon as he left the city, Tian, approaching with Weibo and other circuits' troops, met him and gave him the seals of the Yicheng governorship. Liu took with him several colleagues who had unsuccessfully counseled Li Shidao not to resist imperial authority — Li Gongdu (李公度), Li Cun (李存), Guo Hu (郭昈), and Jia Zhiyan (賈直言) — with him, and invited them to serve under him at Yicheng.Yuanhe being Emperor Xianzong's era name).


Liu Wu (general)

Late in 820, by which time Emperor Xianzong had died and been succeeded by his son Emperor Muzong, Wang Chengzong the military governor of Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei) died. His brother Wang Chengyuan, fearing the fate of Li Shidao, offered to surrender the circuit's control to the imperial government. Emperor Muzong, as a result, made a number of transfers of military governors around Chengde — transferring Tian to Chengde, Wang Chengyuan to Yicheng, Liu to Zhaoyi Circuit, and Li Su the military governor of Wuning Circuit (武寧, headquartered in modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and also making Tian's son Tian Bu the military governor of Heyang Circuit (河陽, headquartered in modern Jiaozuo, Henan).Beijing) mutinied and put the imperially-commissioned military governor Zhang Hongjing under house arrest and supported the officer Zhu Kerong to take over the circuit, Emperor Muzong made Liu the military governor of Lulong, intending to have him suppress the mutiny, but Liu, fearing the strength of Zhu's troops, declined, suggesting that Zhu be commissioned. Emperor Muzong thus allowed Liu to remain at Zhaoyi.

Meanwhile, the eunuch monitor of the army that Emperor Muzong stationed at Zhaoyi, Liu Chengjie (劉承偕), because of the favor that both Emperor Muzong and the emperor's mother Empress Dowager Guo showed him, was arrogant and often insulted Liu Wu, and allowed his subordinates to disobey the law. He also conspired with Liu Wu's subordinate Zhang Wen (張汶) the prefect of Ci Prefecture (磁州, in modern Handan) to arrest Liu Wu and let Zhang replace him. When Liu Wu found out about this, he encouraged his subordinates to act against Liu Chengjie and Zhang, and in a subsequent mutiny, soldiers killed Zhang and arrested Liu Chengjie, intending to kill him as well. Jia, however, warned Liu Wu:

What are you doing, Lord? Are you following the example of Sikong Li [(Sikong (司空) being one of the honorary titles that Li Shidao carried)]? How do you know that there are not those in the army who will follow your example, Lord? If Sikong Li still is aware of this underground, I think he would laugh at you.


Liu Wu (general)

Liu Wu thanked Jia for his honest advice and did not kill Liu Chengjie, but instead only kept him under arrest. Emperor Muzong ordered Liu Wu to deliver Liu Chengjie to Chang'an, and Liu Wu refused, claiming that if he did, the soldiers would mutiny again. At the advice of the chancellor Pei Du, who was also aware of Liu Chengjie's arrogance and improper activities, suggested to Emperor Muzong that he ordered that Liu Chengjie be executed, to maintain the faith of not only Liu Wu but other military governors who resented eunuch monitors' interference with them. Emperor Muzong, however, declined to do so, but at Pei's further advice ordered Liu Chengjie exiled. Only after receiving such an order did Liu Wu release Liu Chengjie back into imperial custody. Emperor Muzong subsequently gave Liu Wu the honorary title of acting Situ (司徒, one of the Three Excellencies, as Sikong was). It was said that after this incident, Liu Wu became arrogant and no longer obedient of the imperial government, often gathering bandits to serve under his command.Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事).

Liu Wu died suddenly in 825. A final request to then-reigning Emperor Jingzong (Emperor Muzong's son) in Liu Wu's name requested that Liu Congjian be allowed to inherit the command. The officials in the imperial government argued among each other about whether Liu Wu's son Liu Congjian should be allowed to do so, but finally, with the chancellor Li Fengji and the powerful eunuch Wang Shoucheng in favor, Liu Congjian was allowed to inherit the circuit.

Notes and references

  * Old Book of Tang, vol. 161.
  * New Book of Tang, vol. 214.
  * Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 241, 242, 243.


Kosal Kranti Dal

Kosal Kranti Dal (KKD) is a regional political outfit of Odisha with particular focus on western Odisha which is known for its separatist movement for a separate Koshal state as per article 2 & 3 of Indian Constitution. KKD is mainly focusing on the creation of a separate Kosal state by the bifurcation of Odisha.The KKD was formed in the year 2007 with veteran Koshalbadi leader and potential advocate Pramod Mishra became its first president. Later on Bunde Dharua of Jharsuguda became the president. Now KKD central office is located at Jharsuguda and Narayana Mohapatra is the president.

History

As reported by various news agencies KKD was floated in Odisha in 2007.Athmallik sub-division of Angul district as he alleged that the area remained neglected by successive governments during the past 60 years."

As of 2013, it is quite active conducting strikes in the proposed 10 Western Odisha districts, which is widely being supported by the local public. It has intensified its demand in the wake of Telangana being granted statehood.

Main demands

  * Separate Kosal state comprising Western Odisha districts and Athmallik subdivision.
  * Recognition of Kosli language and culture.
  * Development of Western Odisha with regards to education, agriculture, infrastructure and health services.
  * Recognition of history of Kosal.
  * Demand for second State reorganisation panel.
  * Kosal state movement
  * Kosli language movement
  * Kosalananda Kavya
  * Prem Ram Dubey
  * Kosal Kranti Dal will hold a national seminar on smaller states on July 8 at Sambalpur
  * Demand of Kosal state
  * Kosal Kranti Dal observes Utkal Divas as ‘black day’
  * Many stage rally for a separate Kosal state
  * Cry for Kosal state


Drift (2017 film)

Drift is a 2017 German drama film directed by Helena Wittmann. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.

Cast

  * Theresa George
  * Josefina Gill
  * Drift at IMDb


OASIS SOA Reference Model

The OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented ArchitectureSOA-RM) is an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and relationships between them within a service-oriented environment, and for the development of consistent standards or specifications supporting that environment. It is based on unifying concepts of SOA and may be used by architects developing specific service oriented architectures or in training and explaining SOA.

In this context, a reference model is seen as a venue to provide a common semantics that can be used unambiguously across and between different SOA implementations. The relationship between the Reference Model and particular architectures, technologies and other aspects of SOA is illustrated below from the specification.

Description

History

The OASIS SOA Reference Model, is a product of the OASIS SOA Reference Model (SOA-RM) Technical Committee (TC).Reference Model to guide and foster the creation of specific service-oriented architectures, and to publish a reference model for SOA, as well as one or more reference architectures based on the Reference Model.

The OASIS SOA-RM TC began work on a companion Reference Architecture during the final approval period for the Reference Model, and the OASIS Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA-RAF)

While the OASIS SOA Reference model has been welcomed in some quarters,OASIS, The Open Group, and the Object Management Group (OMG) during the 2008-2009 period. While discussions found obvious commonality, harmonization was beyond reach at that time, and the final product was a joint paper Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture

Current status

The SOA-RM TC remains active and continues discussions on topics such as service and interface granularity. Additional Committee Notes may result from those discussions.

Principal Concepts

OASIS definition of SOA

According to the SOA-RM specification, SOA is a paradigm for organizing and utilizing distributed capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains. It provides a uniform means to offer, discover, interact with and use capabilities to produce desired effects consistent with measurable preconditions and expectations. The SOA-RM specification bases its definition of SOA around the concept of “needs and capabilities”, where SOA provides a mechanism for matching needs of service consumers with capabilities provided by service providers.

Service


OASIS SOA Reference Model

Service

The central concept of the Reference Model is that of service, which the Reference Model defines as follows: A mechanism to enable access to one or more capabilities, where the access is provided using a prescribed interface and is exercised consistent with constraints and policies as specified by the service description.

The following are the principal concepts that the Reference Model defines around services. Visibility, Interaction, and Real World Effect address the dynamic aspects of services (interactions with services), while the remaining concepts address static aspects:

  * Service Description: The information needed in order to use, or consider using, a service. The purpose of description is to facilitate interaction and visibility between participants in service interactions, particularly when the participants are in different ownership domains.
  * Visibility: The capacity for those with needs and those with capabilities to be able to interact with each other. Visibility includes not only that a service exists but also that there is sufficient consumer knowledge of the provider and provider knowledge of the consumer that willingness has been established between the parties to initiate or continue the interaction. This is typically done by providing descriptions for such aspects as functions and technical requirements, related constraints and policies, and mechanisms for access or response.
  * Interaction: Refers to the interaction between service providers and consumers. Typically mediated by the exchange of messages, an interaction proceeds through a series of information exchanges and invoked actions. The result of an interaction is a real world effect.
  * Real World Effect: The actual result of using a service. This may be the return of information or the change in the state of entities (known or unknown) that are involved in the interaction.
  * Execution Context: The set of technical and business elements that form a path between those with needs and those with capabilities and that establish the conditions under which service providers and consumers will interact. All interactions are grounded in a particular execution context, which permits service providers and consumers to interact and provides a decision point for any policies and contracts that may be in force.
  * Contract & Policy: A policy represents some constraint or condition on the use, deployment or description of an owned entity as defined by any participant, while a contract represents an agreement by two or more parties. The Reference Model is focused primarily on the concept of policies and contracts as they apply to services.

SOA Example

The following example is taken from the SOA-RM specification and includes the principal concepts described above as well as other concepts that the Reference Model defines, in parentheses and italics:


OASIS SOA Reference Model

* An electric utility has the capacity to generate and distribute electricity (the underlying capability). The wiring from the electric company’s distribution grid (the service) provides the means to supply electricity to support typical usage for a residential consumer’s house (service functionality), and a consumer accesses electricity generated (the output of invoking the service) via a wall outlet (service interface).
  * In order to use the electricity, a consumer needs to understand what type of plug to use, what is the voltage of the supply, and possible limits to the load; the utility presumes that the customer will only connect devices that are compatible with the voltage provided and load supported; and the consumer in turn assumes that compatible consumer devices can be connected without damage or harm (service technical assumptions).
  * A residential or business user will need to open an account with the utility in order to use the supply (service constraint) and the utility will meter usage and expects the consumer to pay for use at the rate prescribed (service policy). When the consumer and utility agree on constraints and policies (service contract), the consumer can receive electricity using the service as long as the electricity distribution grid and house connection remain intact (e.g., a storm knocking down power lines would disrupt distribution) and the consumer can have payment sent (e.g., a check by mail or electronic funds transfer) to the utility (reachability).
  * Another person (for example, a visitor to someone else's house) may use a contracted supply without any relationship with the utility or any requirement to also satisfy the initial service constraint (e.g., reachability only requires intact electricity distribution) but would nonetheless be expected to be compatible with the service interface.
  * In certain situations (for example, excessive demand), a utility may limit supply or institute rolling blackouts (service policy). A consumer might lodge a formal complaint if this occurred frequently (consumer's implied policy).
  * If the utility required every device to be hardwired to its equipment, the underlying capability would still be there but this would be a very different service and have a very different service interface.

SOA and Processes


OASIS SOA Reference Model

SOA and Processes

While the Reference Model incorporates the notion of processes through its Process Model concept, the extent of this aspect of the Reference Model is intentionally not completely defined. For example, the Reference Model does not address the orchestration of multiple services, although orchestration and choreography may be part of the process model. This is because the focus of the Reference Model is on modeling what services are and what key relationships are involved in modeling services. It is envisioned that there may be future work in this area, though the source of that work has yet to be defined.

Secondary Concepts

OASIS definition of Reference Model

According to the SOA-RM specification, a reference model is an abstract framework for understanding significant relationships among the entities of some environment. It enables the development of specific reference or concrete architectures using consistent standards or specifications supporting that environment. A reference model consists of a minimal set of unifying concepts, axioms and relationships within a particular problem domain, and is independent of specific standards, technologies, implementations, or other concrete details. A reference model for SOA, therefore, is an abstract framework for understanding significant relationships among the entities of SOA.

Reference Model vs. Reference Architecture

The SOA-RM specification provides a clear distinction between a reference model and a reference architecture, and describes the relationship between them. A reference architecture is an architectural design pattern that indicates how an abstract set of mechanisms and relationships realizes a predetermined set of requirements. One or more reference architectures may be derived from a common reference model, to address different purposes/usages to which the Reference Model may be targeted. The SOA-RM specification provides an analogy involving the design of housing to illustrate the relationship between a reference model and a reference architecture, as well as how reference architectures may be used to derive concrete architectures.


Physica Status Solidi

Physica Status Solidi, often stylized physica status solidi or pss,peer-reviewed, scientific journals, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and materials science. It is owned and published by Wiley–VCH. These journals publish over 2000 articles per year,condensed matter physics. The current editor in chief is Stefan Hildebrandt at the Editorial Office based in Berlin.

History

Physica Status Solidi was founded by Karl Wolfgang Böer (then at Humboldt University of Berlin) in East Berlin and published its first issue in July 1961. Shortly after the journal was founded, the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 exacerbated the distances between scientists from the Eastern and Western blocs. Throughout the cold war Physica Status Solidi maintained political independence and English as publication language and, as such, it became a major platform for the scientists behind the Iron Curtain to disseminate their results in the Western world (and vice versa) and thus a forum of international exchange for scientists from the East and the West.

In 1970 the journal was divided into series A (Applications and Materials Science) and B (Basic Solid State Physics).Current Topics in Solid State Physics) was created to accommodate the publication of conference proceedings.

Following the reunification of Germany in 1990 the journal's original publisher Akademie Verlag became part of the VCH Publishing group, which again was merged into John Wiley & Sons, leading to the formation of Wiley-VCH Verlag in 1997.

A fourth series, RRL (Rapid Research Letters), was launched in 2007 to publish short articles of broader and immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Publication times are typically two weeks from submission to online publication.

Journals


Physica Status Solidi

Journals

Journal                                                          Abbreviation                          Scope                                                                                Frequency (issues/year)  Publication History  Impact factor (2022)                                  Page
Physica Status Solidi                                            Phys. Status Solidi                   Initial journal, predecessor of the later (b) series                                                                                varying                  1961–1970
Physica Status Solidi A – Applications and Materials Science     Phys. Status Solidi A                 Preparation, structure and simulation of advanced materials, nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces, as well as properties of such materials and structures relevant for device applications (magnetic, electromechanical, or electronic devices, photonics, spintronics, sensors, etc.). It does not, however, publish materials engineering and electrical engineering topics.  12                       1970–present         2.0
Physica Status Solidi B – Basic Solid State Physics              Phys. Status Solidi B                 Theoretical and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure of solids in general, phase transitions, electronic, optical, magnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric or other properties of solids, low-dimensional, nanoscale, strongly correlated or disordered systems etc.                                                                             12                       1971–present         1.6
Physica Status Solidi C – Current Topics in Solid State Physics  Phys. Status Solidi C                 Conference Proceedings in the area of solid state physics and materials science.                                                                                12                       2003–2017            Indexed in ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Physica Status Solidi – Rapid Research Letters                   Phys. Status Solidi Rapid Res. Lett.  Rapid Research Letters on important findings with a high degree of novelty and need for express publication, as well as other results of immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Rapid Research Letters particularly invites papers from interdisciplinary and emerging new areas of research.                                              12                       2007–present         2.8

  * Physica Status Solidi A
  * Physica Status Solidi B
  * Physica Status Solidi C
  * Physica Status Solidi RRL


Kagarchi-Bulyak

Kagarchi-Bulyak (Russian: Кугарчи-Буляк; Bashkir: Күгәрсен-Бүләк, Kügärsen-Büläk) is a rural locality (a selo) in Nizhnezaitovsky Selsoviet, Sharansky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 200 as of 2010.

Geography

Kagarchi-Bulyak is located 36 km northwest of Sharan (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bukhara is the nearest rural locality.


Le Mesnil-Auzouf

Le Mesnil-Auzouf (French pronunciation: [lə menil ozuf] (listen)) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Dialan sur Chaîne.

Population

Historical population
Year  Pop.  ±%
1962  351   —
1968  351   +0.0%
1975  312   −11.1%
1982  283   −9.3%
1990  253   −10.6%
1999  252   −0.4%
2008  313   +24.2%

  * Communes of the Calvados department
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Mesnil-Auzouf.


Gaoyi railway station

Gaoyi railway station (Chinese: 高邑站) is a station on Beijing–Guangzhou railway in Gaoyi County, Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

History

The station was opened in 1903.

  * Gaoyi West railway station


Iyo-Tachibana Station

Iyo-Tachibana Station (いよ立花駅, Iyo-Tachibana-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Iyotetsu.

Lines

The station is served by the Yokogawara Line and is located 1.4 km from the terminus of the line at Matsuyama City. During most of the day, trains arrive every fifteen minutes. Trains continue from Matsuyama City Station on the Takahama Line to Takahama Station.

Layout

The station consists of one island platform with the station building located on the end of the platform, so that passengers must first exit the ticket gates before crossing the track via a level crossing. The station is attended.

History

Iyo-Tachibana Station was opened on 7 May 1893 as Tachibana Station (立花駅). It was renamed Iyo-Tachibana Station (伊予立花駅) on 1 March 1927; however, the kanji for "Iyo" in its name was changed to hiragana in 1981.

Surrounding area

  * Matsuyama Kyowa Hospital
  * Minamimatsuyama Hospital
  * List of railway stations in Japan

Media related to Iyo-Tachibana Station at Wikimedia Commons

  * Iyotetsu Station Information


Kollam G. K. Pillai

Not to be confused with G. K. Pillai (actor).

Kollam G. K. Pillai was an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema.

Career

He was a theater artist turned movie actor. He entered into the field of dramas in 1950 through school festivals. He became active in theater with the famous drama Dahajalam in 1962. He has performed many famous plays on more than 4000 stages; these include Dahajalam, Neethipeedam, Rajadoothu, Ayiram Arakkilam, and Accident. Masappady Mathupillai (1973), directed by A. N. Thampi, was his debut movie. He worked as a conductor at Kerala State Road Transport Corporation. He acted in many television serials as well. He was not active in movies for a long time since the loss of his eyesight.

Personal life

He was born to Ammachiveedu Radhabhavan K.P. Gopalapillai and Kunjiyamma on 29 August 1934 at Kollam. He was married to Madhavikuttiyamma and the couple had four children, Jayasree, Ushakumari, Vijayasree and Bindusree. He was settled at Sankaramangalam in Chavara, Kollam.Oyoor in Kollam due to age-related ailments. He was 82.

Partial filmography


Kollam G. K. Pillai

Partial filmography

  * Masappady Mathupillai (1973)
  * Mucheettukalikkaarante Makal (1975)
  * Pushpasharam (1976)
  * Mukkuvane Snehicha Bhootham (1978)
  * Choola (1979)
  * Sayoojyam (1979)
  * Lajjavathi (1979)
  * Chandrahasam (1980)
  * Deepam (1980)
  * Vedikkettu (1980)
  * Ithikkara Pakki (1980)
  * Ivar
  * Sooryan (1982)
  * Justice Raja as Rajasekharan's father (1983)
  * Kurishuyudham as Paappi (1984) as Paappi
  * Swanthamevide Bandhamevide (1984)
  * Ivide Thudangunnu as PC Pasu Villa (1984)
  * Aa Neram Alppa Dooram (1985)
  * Ulsavappittennu (1988)
  * Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam (1990) as Karyasthan
  * Arabikkadaloram (1995)

As a singer

  * Kothikkothi as Pushpasharam (1976)

Television serials

  * Manasaputhri (Asianet)
  * Pakida Pakida Pambaram (Doordarshan)
  * Nilavilakku (Surya Tv)
  * Hallo Kuttichathan (Asianet)
  * Autograph (Asianet)
  * കൊല്ലം ജി.കെ. പിള്ള in Malayalam Wikipedia
  * Kollam G. K. Pillai at IMDb
  * Kollam G. K. Pillai at MSI


Liu Wen-chung

Liu Wen-chung (Chinese: 劉文忠) is a Taiwanese scientist and public official serving as a deputy minister of the Atomic Energy Council.

Liu was a student of the Department of Applied Chemistry at Feng Chia University, completing his degree in 1981. He subsequently obtained a doctorate within the Institute of Atomic Science at National Tsing Hua University in 1991.Atomic Energy Council,


Kosaku Shima

Kosaku Shima (Japanese: 島耕作, Hepburn: Shima Kōsaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane. It depicts the growth and career of a fictional salaryman named Kōsaku Shima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Morning, starting with the first series Kachō Shima Kōsaku in 1983 and has currently been divided into eight parts. The current part, Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku, began in 2022.

The manga has also been published as 7 bilingual volumes (Japanese-English) called Division Chief Kosaku Shima and President Kosaku Shima, and in French and German. In addition to various manga there has also been one comedic ONA, and two comedic anime adaptations lasting 11 episodes each, a live action film, and a single episode TV drama. The character also acts as the "host" or framing device for a business documentary series on NHK World, Shima Kosaku's Asian Entrepreneurs.

As of February 2022, the series had over 47 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 1991, the manga won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.

Summary

At the start of the long-running series, Shima Kōsaku is a kachō, or section chief, of a huge conglomerate, Hatsushiba Electric. He is later promoted to buchō (division chief) and eventually promoted to manager and executive-director, and with each promotion the title of the series changed as well. He was promoted to the president of Hatsushiba Electric, and the title changed to "Shachō" Shima Kōsaku, which means "President Kōsaku Shima". The fictional conglomerate is modeled after Panasonic, or Matsushita Electric, where Hirokane worked before and is highly accurate in its portrayal of Japanese corporate culture.

Series


Kosaku Shima

Series

  * Kachō Shima Kōsaku (課長島耕作, "Section Chief Kōsaku Shima"), 1983–1992: 17 volumes
  * Buchō Shima Kōsaku (部長島耕作, "Division Chief Kōsaku Shima"), 1992–2002: 13 volumes
  * Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku (取締役島耕作, "Assistant Director Kōsaku Shima"), 2002–2005: 8 volumes
  * Jōmu Shima Kōsaku (常務島耕作, "Director Kōsaku Shima"), 2005–2006: 6 volumes
  * Senmu Shima Kōsaku (専務島耕作, "Executive Director Kōsaku Shima"), 2006–2008: 5 volumes
  * Shachō Shima Kōsaku (社長島耕作, "President Kōsaku Shima"), 2008–2013: 16 volumes
  * Kaichō Shima Kōsaku (会長島耕作, "Chairman Kōsaku Shima"), 2013–2019: 13 volumes
  * Sōdan'yaku Shima Kōsaku (相談役島耕作, "Senior Advisor Kōsaku Shima"), 2019–2022: 6 volumes
  * Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku (社外取締役島耕作, "Outside Director Kōsaku Shima"), 2022–present: 1 volume

Spin-offs


Kosaku Shima

Spin-offs

  * Young Shima Kōsaku (ヤング島耕作, "Young Kōsaku Shima"), 2001–2006, Evening: 4 volumes
      + Young Shima Kōsaku Shunin-hen (ヤング島耕作 主任編, "Young Kōsaku Shima Chief Arc"), 2006–2010, Evening: 4 volumes
  * Kakarichou Shima Kōsaku (係長島耕作, "Subsection Chief Kōsaku Shima"), 2010–2013, Evening: 4 volumes
  * Gakusei Shima Kōsaku (学生島耕作, "Student Kōsaku Shima"), 2014–2017, Evening: 6 volumes
      + Gakusei Shima Kōsaku: Shūkatsu-hen (学生島耕作～就活編～, "Student Kōsaku Shima: Job Hunting Arc"), 2017–2018, Evening: 3 volumes
  * Shima Kōsaku no Jiken-bo (島耕作の事件簿, "Kōsaku Shima Case Files"), 2017 (written by Shin Kibayashi), Morning: 1 volume
  * Tensei Shitara Shima Kōsaku Datta Ken (転生したら島耕作だった件, "The Time I Got Reincarnated… as Kōsaku Shima"), 2019
    (crossover with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime; co-written by Fuse and Taiki Kawakami; character design: Mittsubā), Evening: 1 volume
  * Kishi Danchō Shima (騎士団長 島耕作, "The Knight Head Kōsaku Shima"), 2019–present (illustrated by Fusuke Miyamoto), Monthly Comic Zero Sum: 1 volume

Video games

  * Kachō Kōsaku Shima: Super Business Adventure (Super Famicom) 1993 (published by Yutaka)
  * CR Kachō Kōsaku Shima (Pachinko) 2006 (published by Newgin)
  * Kachō Shima Kōsaku DS: Dekiru Otoko no Love & Success (Nintendo DS) 2008 (published by Konami)

Reception

As of February 2022, the series had over 47 million copies in circulation.Kachō Shima Kōsaku won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.


Kosaku Shima

* A question of character, The Economist, 7 August 2008
  * Section Chief Kosaku Shima at Anime News Network's encyclopedia