Operation Chronicle

* Bureau of Yards and Docks (1947). Building the Navy's Bases in World War II. History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940–1964. Vol. II. Washington DC: Department of the Navy. OCLC 921920587.
  * Gill, G Herman (1968). Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Vol. Series 2 – Navy. Volume II. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 65475.
  * James, Karl (2013). "On Australia's Doorstep: Kokoda and Milne Bay". In Dean, Peter (ed.). Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. pp. 199–215. ISBN 978-1-10703-227-9.
  * James, Karl (2014). "The 'Salamaua Magnet'". In Dean, Peter (ed.). Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. pp. 186–209. ISBN 978-1-107-03799-1.
  * Miller, John Jr. (1959). "Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul". United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Department of the Army. OCLC 494892065
  * Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, vol. 6 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-1307-1.
  * Odgers, George (1968) [1957]. Air War Against Japan, 1943–1945. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Vol. Series 3 – Air. Volume II. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 1990609.
  * Powell, James Scott (2006). Learning Under Fire: A Combat Unit in the Southwest Pacific (PhD dissertation). College Station: Texas A&M University. hdl:1969.1/4237. OCLC 86115462.


Operation Chronicle

* Rottman, Gordon L. (2002a). World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-military Study. Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31395-4.
  * Rottman, Gordon L. (2002b). U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-31331-906-8.
  * Rottman, Gordon L. (2009). World War II US Cavalry Units: Pacific Theater. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-451-0.
  * Shaw, Henry I.; Douglas T. Kane (1963). "Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul". History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. OCLC 80151865


2001 Hamburg Masters

The 2001 Hamburg Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 95th edition of the Hamburg Masters and was part of the Tennis Masters Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg in Germany from 14 May through 20 May 2001.

The men's field was headlined by ATP No. 1, Buenos Aires, Acapulco, Monte Carlo and Hamburg defending champion Gustavo Kuerten, Paris and US Open champion and Dubai runner-up Marat Safin, and Australian Open, Indian Wells and Miami champion and San Jose runner-up Andre Agassi. Other top seeds competing were Wimbledon defending champion Pete Sampras, Sydney and Scottsdale finalist Magnus Norman, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Lleyton Hewitt and Juan Carlos Ferrero.

Finals

Singles

Main article: 2001 Hamburg Masters – Singles

[Spain] Albert Portas defeated [Spain] Juan Carlos Ferrero 4–6, 6–2, 0–6, 7–6(7–5), 7–5

  * It was Portas' only singles title of his career.

Doubles

Main article: 2001 Hamburg Masters – Doubles

[Sweden] Jonas Björkman / [Australia] Todd Woodbridge defeated [Canada] Daniel Nestor / [Australia] Sandon Stolle 7–6(7–2), 3–6, 6–3

  * It was Björkman's 4th title of the year and the 29th of his career. It was Woodbridge's 3rd title of the year and the 72nd of his career.
  * Official website (in German)
  * Official website
  * Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile


Parish of Narrawa

Narrawa, New South Wales is a civil parish of King County, New South Wales.

Narrawa is on the Lachlan River between Rugby and Crookwell, New South Wales.


Shrewsbury, Quebec

Shrewsbury is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the township of Gore in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality.

For a time its sole remaining structure was the so-called Shrewsbury ghost church,

  * Shrewsbury: The Vanished Village

45°47′25.3″N 74°17′32.0″W / 45.790361°N 74.292222°W


Artur Sarnat

Artur Sarnat (born 20 September 1970 in Kraków) is a retired Polish professional footballer who played for Wisła Kraków and Polonia Warsaw in the Polish Ekstraklasa. Besides Poland, he has played in Turkey.

Club career

Sarnat spent most of his professional career with Wisła Kraków, playing in 169 league matches over ten seasons.Super Lig with Diyarbakirspor.


Black Watch Armoury

The Black Watch Armoury (French: Caserne du Black Watch) is a Scottish baronial-style armoury in Montreal, completed in 1906 to house the 5th Regiment "Royal Highlanders of Canada" (now the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada). Designed by Samuel Arnold Finley and David Jerome SpenceNational Historic Site of Canada in 2008.

The armoury is home to the regiment's museum, which was opened on 8 November 1949 by the then-colonel of the Black Watch, Field Marshal Lord Wavell.

History

On May 9, 1963, the armoury's exterior was damaged as part of a campaign of terrorist bombings in Montreal by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ).Molotov cocktails were thrown at the building, with a communique issued to local media claiming to be on behalf of a group carrying on the revolutionary politics of the FLQ.Remembrance Day visit to the armoury by Charles, Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Museum

Opened in 1949, the regiment's museum includes uniforms, weapons, musical instruments, maps, medals, photographs and documents that focus on the history of the regiment, the city and the Canadian armed forces. The museum is open to members of the Regimental family as well as to the public on Tuesdays and by appointment. The museum and archives are located at the regiment's headquarters on rue de Bleury in Montreal. The museum portrays the history of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) through a collection of regimental uniforms, accoutrements, trophies of war, and mementos.

It is currently undergoing renovations and is closed for the time being.

45°30′28″N 73°34′11″W / 45.50778°N 73.56972°W


SnipSnap

SnipSnap is a mobile coupon app founded in Philadelphia that allows users to take a photograph of a printed coupon in order to find or create a mobile coupon, which can be redeemed in store.

Overview

The app scans the text, images, logos, and barcodes within the coupon photograph in order to parse out all of the structured coupon content dynamically. The app uses some of this information to power features such as expiration-date reminders, location-based notifications (utilizing the store name, as well as the location of the phone), and scanable barcodes.iOS (iPhone and iPod Touch only) and Android devices.

SnipSnap is a mobile coupon application that allows users to take a photograph of a printed coupon in order to find or create a mobile coupon, which can later be redeemed at the register. The app scans the images, logos, and barcodes of the original coupon in order to recreate a mobile coupon, similar to what consumers would find printed in a store advertisement. This app is currently available for Android and iOS devices (iPhone and iPod Touch only). SnipSnap also allows users to report if a coupon was accepted in store or not, which creates a success score rating for each stored coupon on the app. The vast majority of the coupons are shared by SnipSnap users. However, not every coupon can be redeemed successfully due to differing store coupon policies and/or the inability of a store’s point of sale hardware to scan the mobile barcode. SnipSnap does not currently work with manufacturer coupons, but the company is in the process of accepting those types coupons inside the app. SnipSnap surpassed 1 million users in June 2013 and saw over 20 million coupons snipped in its first year.

SnipSnap makes money through both targeted and affiliate offers. Depending on your past habits and SnipSnap’s partnerships, companies, like Babies ‘R Us, can push coupons that look just like any other user-clipped coupon. For every “snip” of one of these coupons that results in an actual purchase, SnipSnap will get a kickback.


SnipSnap

According to Mobile Commerce Daily, SnipSnap also works with retailers to manage location-based and "geo-conquesting" campaigns. The company has also begun promoting coupon content outside of its mobile apps, and via third-party social media sites, mobile aps, and ad networks.

Background

SnipSnap, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded by Ted Mann in September 2011, after Mann left his job at Gannett to start the company. It was incubated at DreamIt Ventures,Michael G. Rubin (co-founder of GSI Commerce).

Media coverage

SnipSnap won a MediaPost Appy award for the Best Finance App of 2013,Katie Couric and Dave Ramsey shows in May 2013.,

Awards and accolades

  * MediaPost Appy Award for the Best Finance App of 2013
  * About.com Best Shopping App of 2013
  * TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist
  * Winner of Switch 3 Startup demo competition.
  * Official website


Spanish Sign Language

Mónica speaking Spanish Sign Language

Spanish Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Signos Española, LSE) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Spain and the people who live with them. Although there are not many reliable statistics, it is estimated that there are over 100,000 speakers, 20-30% of whom use it as a second language.

From a strictly linguistic point of view, Spanish Sign Language refers to a sign language variety employed in an extensive central-interior area of the Iberian Peninsula, having Madrid as a cultural and linguistic epicenter, with other varieties used in regions such as Asturias, Aragon, Murcia, parts of western Andalusia and near the Province of Burgos.

Mutual intelligibility with the rest of the sign languages used in Spain is generally high due to a highly shared lexicon. However, Catalan Sign Language, Valencian Sign Language as well as the Spanish Sign Language dialects used in eastern Andalusia, Canary Islands, Galicia and Basque Country are the most distinctive lexically (between 10 and 30% difference in the use of nouns, depending on the case). Only the Catalan and Valencian Sign Languages share less than 75% of their vocabulary with the rest of the Spanish dialects, which makes them particularly marked, distinct dialects or even languages separate from Spanish Sign Language, depending on the methods used to determine language versus dialect. Some linguists consider both these and the Spanish Sign language three variants of a polymorphic sign language.

  * Signed Spanish
  * Alphabet


2011 Hong Kong Games

The 2011 Hong Kong Games, officially known as The 3rd Hong Kong Games (Chinese: 第三屆全港運動會), is a major biannual multi-sport event to be held in Hong Kong between the 18 Districts. The games will take place from 14 May to 5 June 2011.

Event

It total there are 83 events in the 8 sports. This includes 42 events for male and 41 events for female. Compare with 2009 Hong Kong Games, futsal and volleyball are the new event.

The 8 sports are:

  * Athletics
  * Basketball
  * Badminton
  * Swimming
  * Table Tennis
  * Tennis
  * Futsal
  * Volleyball

The 18 District Councils recruited athletes in an open selection process to represent their district in the event.

Venue

Here is the final venue of each events.

Athletics                    Badminton                   Basketball                               Swimming
Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground  Kowloon Park Sports Centre  Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Sports Centre  Kowloon Park Swimming Pool

Table Tennis                 Tennis                      Futsal                                   Volleyball
Harbour Road Sports Centre   Victoria Park Tennis Court  Ma On Shan Sports Centre                 Kowloon Bay Sports Centre

Awards

The District with the highest total scores will be crowned Overall Champion, followed by the first and second runners-up.

Other awards include:

  * The Best Local Characteristics Award
  * District with the Greatest Participation
  * The Best Performance Award (for cheering)

The 2011 event will see the addition of awards for "District with the Most Gold Medals" and "District with the Best Progress".

Medal Tally

Hong Kong is a relatively small Special Administrative Region, so it is impossible for districts take turn to host the event. The event is held regionwide.


2011 Hong Kong Games

Rank                 Districts                     Gold  Silver  Bronze  Total
1                    Yuen Long District            12    6       15      33
2                    Sha Tin District              11    11      12      34
3                    Kowloon City District         7     12      3       22
4                    Sai Kung District             7     6       2       15
5                    Tuen Mun District             6     7       6       19
6                    Eastern District              6     6       6       18
7                    Kwai Tsing District           5     3       1       9
8                    Central and Western District  4     6       8       18
9                    Wong Tai Sin District         4     5       7       16
10                   North District                4     3       4       11
11                   Wan Chai District             4     1       2       7
12                   Kwun Tong District            3     7       3       13
13                   Tai Po District               3     1       6       10
14                   Yau Tsim Mong District        3     1       2       6
15                   Islands District              2     2       1       5
16                   Southern District             1     4       3       8
17                   Sham Shui Po District         1     3       1       5
18                   Tsuen Wan District            0     1       1       2
Totals (18 entries)  83                            85    83      251

2015 Hong Kong Games

Rank  Districts              Gold  Silver  Bronze  Total
1     Yuen Long District     10    10      8       28
2     Sha Tin District       10    8       8       26
3     Kowloon City District  9     8       4       21
4     Eastern District       8     2       7       17
5     Wong Tai Sin District  7     12      3       22

  * 2009 Hong Kong Games


Physical year

Physical year may refer to:

  * Fiscal year, used for calculating annual financial reports in businesses
  * International Geophysical Year, an international scientific effort in 1957-1958
  * International Heliophysical year, an international scientific effort in 2007-2008


Parish of Petersham

Petersham Parish is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales,cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is located to the south of Iron Cove, Rozelle Bay and the Parramatta River, and to the north of Cooks River.Balmain, Leichhardt, Petersham, Newtown, Marrickville, Tempe, Glebe and St Peters.Inner West region, with the neighbouring Parish of Concord making up the western half.

33°51′54″S 151°10′04″E / 33.86500°S 151.16778°E


2001 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Doubles

Paul Haarhuis and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but only Stolle competed that year with Sjeng Schalken.

Schalken and Stolle lost in the first round to Pablo Albano and David Macpherson.

Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić won in the final 6–1, 6–2 against Arnaud Clément and Sébastien Grosjean.

Seeds

 1. [Canada] Daniel Nestor / [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] Nenad Zimonjić (champions)
 2. [Netherlands] Sjeng Schalken / [Australia] Sandon Stolle (first round)
 3. [The Bahamas] Mark Knowles / [United States] Brian MacPhie (first round)
 4. [United States] Bob Bryan / [United States] Mike Bryan (first round)

Draw

Key


* Q = Qualifier
  * WC = Wild card
  * LL = Lucky loser
  * Alt = Alternate
  * SE = Special exempt
  * PR = Protected ranking
  * ITF = ITF entry
  * JE = Junior exempt
  * w/o = Walkover
  * r = Retired
  * d = Defaulted
  * SR = Special ranking
  First round                                                   Quarterfinals        Semifinals                                                   Final

  1            [Canada] D Nestor                            6   6
               [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] N Zimonjić
               [Argentina] L Arnold                         3   2                                1   [Canada] D Nestor                            77                                           6
               [Spain] T Carbonell                                                                   [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] N Zimonjić
  WC           [Morocco] H Arazi                            63  6              77                WC  [Morocco] H Arazi                            62                                           4
               [Brazil] G Kuerten                                                                    [Brazil] G Kuerten
  WC           [France] M Llodra                            77  3              63                                                                                1                          [Canada] D Nestor                            6   77
               [France] N Mahut                                                                                [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] N Zimonjić
  4            [United States] B Bryan                      65  6              3                                                                                [Ecuador] N Lapentti       1                                            61
               [United States] M Bryan                                                                                [United States] J Tarango
               [Ecuador] N Lapentti                         77  4              6                     [Ecuador] N Lapentti                         6                                            6
               [United States] J Tarango                                                             [United States] J Tarango
  WC           [Germany] N Kiefer                           3   65                                   [South Africa] J-L de Jager                  3                                            4
               [Russia] M Safin                                                                      [South Africa] R Koenig
               [South Africa] J-L de Jager                  6   77                                   1                                            [Canada] D Nestor                            6                          6
               [South Africa] R Koenig                                                                                [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] N Zimonjić
               [Russia] A Olhovskiy                         1   2                                                                                WC                         [France] A Clément                           1   2
               [Spain] A Portas                                                                                [France] S Grosjean
               [South Africa] M Barnard                     6   6                                    [South Africa] M Barnard                     77                                           6


[United States] J Thomas                                                              [United States] J Thomas
               [Sweden] S Aspelin                           6   3              6                     [Sweden] S Aspelin                           65                                           4
               [Australia] A Kratzmann                                                               [Australia] A Kratzmann
  3            [The Bahamas] M Knowles                      3   6              4                                                                                [South Africa] M Barnard                     2   2
               [United States] B MacPhie                                                                                [United States] J Thomas
               [Australia] W Arthurs                        6   5              65                                                                 WC                                           [France] A Clément         6                                            6
               [Australia] M Hill                                                                                [France] S Grosjean
  WC           [France] A Clément                           3   7              77                WC  [France] A Clément                           6                                            6
               [France] S Grosjean                                                                   [France] S Grosjean
               [Argentina] P Albano                         7   7                                    [Argentina] P Albano                         3                                            4
               [Australia] D Macpherson                                                              [Australia] D Macpherson
  2            [Netherlands] S Schalken                     5   5
               [Australia] S Stolle


* Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon Main Doubles Draw


Parish of Pialligo

Pialligo Parish is a parish of Murray County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is now a very tiny piece of land to the north-east of the Australian Capital Territory after most of the land in the parish was transferred to the ACT in 1911. It once included the area to the east of Mount Ainslie and the north of the Molonglo River, including Mount Majura and what is now Canberra Airport, and the suburb of Pialligo.

  * Map showing proposed Federal Capital Territory and tenures of land within same, Charles Robt. Scrivener, 22 May 1909
  * "Pialligo". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales

35°13′22″S 149°12′29″E / 35.22278°S 149.20806°E


Shrew gymnure

The shrew gymnure, or shrew hedgehog (Neotetracus sinensis), is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae and is the only extant species in the genus Neotetracus. It is found in China, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

Description

The shrew gymnure's coat is soft, dense, and quite long. The back coat color ranges from olive-brown, cinnamon-brown, and a mixed cream/black color. On the underside of the body, the coat color is usually red, grey, or cream-colored. In some shrew gymnures, the sides of the neck and head are tinged with red. A faint black dorsal stripe may also be present. Its tail is lightly covered with tiny hairs. In comparison to other members of its family, the shrew gymnure has a longer tail, shorter snout, and fewer teeth.

Behavior

Shrew gymnures reside in cool, damp forests between 300 and 2700 m altitude. Within their range, shrew gymnures can be found beneath logs and rocks and also dwell in burrows characterized by moss and fern cover. They are strictly terrestrial, as well as nocturnal. Breeding season for the shrew gymnure extends throughout the year, with a probable limit of two litters per year.

Diet

This mammal's diet consists mostly of invertebrates.


Arcadia (daughter of Arcadius)

Arcadia (Greek: Άρκαδία; 3 April 400 – 444) was the third daughter of the Roman emperor Arcadius (r. 383–408) and Aelia Eudoxia and a member of the Theodosian dynasty.

Life

Her next sibling was the male heir and future emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450). Following the example of her older sister Aelia Pulcheria she took a vow of virginity, but unlike her, she never married, devoting herself to religion. Arcadia died in 444.

Constructions

In Constantinople, she ordered the construction, near the Gate of Saturninus,monastery dedicated to Saint Andrew. The building, named also Rodophylion (Greek: Ροδοφύλιον) lay about 600 m. west of the gate.Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque of Istanbul.bath in Constantinople.

  * «Arcadia 1», PLRE I, p. 129.
  * Janin, Raymond (1953). La Géographie Ecclésiastique de l'Empire Byzantin. 1. Part: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. 3rd Vol. : Les Églises et les Monastères (in French). Paris: Institut Français d'Etudes Byzantines.
  * Müller-Wiener, Wolfgang (1977). Bildlexikon Zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul Bis Zum Beginn D. 17 Jh (in German). Tübingen: Wasmuth. ISBN 978-3-8030-1022-3.


Buriram Pittayakhom School

The school sign

Buriram Pittayakhom School (Thai: โรงเรียนบุรีรัมย์พิทยาคม) is a secondary school located in downtown Buriram Province, Thailand. It admits secondary students (mathayom 1–6, equivalent to grades 7–12). Founded in 1904, it then became the first coeducational school in Buriram. The school's former names were "Buriram Witthayalai School" and "Satree Si Buriram School". The first school principal was Mr. Jake Sukpanya.

Campus

Buriram Pittayakhom School is located at 15 Niwas Rd., Muang District, Buriram Province.

The school has more fifteen buildings, ten of which hold classrooms. Each of which is located separately in the school area.

Building 1 for social studies, is violet three-floors building. It has just been renovated in April 2013. There are 18 classrooms, include Guidance room and ASEAN Study Center room.

Building 2 for English and Chinese language, is yellow three-floors building. It is next to Building 1. It has just been renovated in August 2013. There are 18 classrooms. The building architecture is same to Building 1.

Building 3 for Thai language, is very old three-floors building. It hasn't been renovated. It's in front of Building 2. There are about 20 classrooms, include a few science rooms.

Building 4 for science, is very old orange three-floors building. It's in front of Building 3. There are about 20 classrooms. The building architecture is same to Building 3.

Building 5 for mathematics, is blue three-floors building. It has been renovated in April 2012. It's in front of Building 1 and next to Building 3. There are 16 classrooms. The first floor is the headquarters.

Building 6 or Panya Wiwat Building is a 4-storey building organized as a classroom for art learning subjects. and special international classrooms.

Building 7 is a temporary one-story building. Organized as a group classroom for learning art Currently closed.

Building 8 is a temporary one-story building. Organized as a group classroom for learning about careers.


Buriram Pittayakhom School

Building 9 or Buriram Wittayalai School Building is a 2-storey wooden building that is classified as a classroom for learning health education and physical education. It is a building that received an award for outstanding conservation of art and architecture of the year 2013 in the category of institutional and public buildings.

Building 10 is a 5-storey building classified as a special group classroom, including a special science classroom. computer classroom English-English special classroom and cafeteria 3.


Snip (horse)

For the facial marking, see Horse markings.

Snip (1736 – 8 May 1757) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He only won one race, but later became a successful sire. His son Snap was undefeated in his four races and became a multiple-time Champion sire. Snip was bred and owned by William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire.

Background

Snip was a brown colt bred by the 3rd Duke of Devonshire and foaled in 1736.Champion sire Flying Childers, who also sired Blaze.dam was a daughter of Basto.

Racing career

Snip's first race was in 1741 at Beccles in Suffolk, where he beat Thirkleby, Fancy and three others in a £50 race of two heats. He later raced at Newmarket, but was unsuccessful.

Stud career

Despite his race record he apparently appealed to breeders due to his good conformation. He stood as a stallion at Kenton in Northumberland. He sired the undefeated Snap, who later became Champion sire four times. He also sired Prince T'Quassaw, Judgement, Fribble, Swiss and Havannah. Snip died on 8 May 1757 and was replaced at Kenton by his son Snap.Goldfiner, Juniper and Latham's Snap. He was also the damsire of Sir Peter Teazle.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Snip, brown stallion, 1736
Sire
Flying Childers (GB)            Darley Arabian     (unknown)     (unknown)
1715
(unknown)
(unknown)                       (unknown)
(unknown)
Betty Leedes                    Careless           Spanker
Barb mare
Leedes Arabian mare             Leedes Arabian*
Spanker mare
Dam                             Basto              Byerley Turk  (unknown)
Basto mare (GB)
(unknown)
Bay Peg                         Leedes Arabian*
Spanker mare
Curwen Bay Barb mare            Curwen's Bay Barb  (unknown)
(unknown)
Curwen Spot mare                Curwen Spot
White-legged Lowther Barb mare

Note: b. = Bay, br. = Brown, ch. = Chestnut

* Snip is inbred 4S × 4D to the stallion Leedes Arabian, meaning that he appears fourth generation on the sire side of his pedigree and fourth generation on the dam side of his pedigree.


Spanish Society of Vexillology

The Sociedad Española de Vexilología (SEV or Spanish Society of Vexillology) is an association devoted to the study of flags. Based in Spain, most of its members are Spanish-speaking vexillologists. Founded on 31 October 1977, the Spanish Society of Vexillology is a member of the Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques (FIAV) since 1979. In 1985 the Spanish Society of Vexillology hosted the XI International Congress of Vexillology with Madrid as the venue.

The Spanish Society of Vexillology distributes among its members a publication every month: 4 times a year the publication is the magazine Banderas, and 8 times a year, the bulletin Gaceta de banderas.

The Society also organizes every year, since 1986, a national congress of vexillology in Spain.

  * SEV Home page


2011 Historic Formula One Championship

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The 2011 Historic Formula One Championship (also known as Thoroughbred Grand Prix) was the seventeenth season of the Historic Formula One Championship. It began at Hockenheim on April 17 and ended at Jarama on October 30.

It was won by John Delane from The United States driving a Tyrrell 002 despite not winning any of the ten races.

Calendar

Round  Circuit                        Dates         Race winner                        Car
1      [Germany] Hockenheim           17 April      [United Kingdom] Bobby Verdon-Roe  McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
2      [Austria] A1-Ring              14 May        [United Kingdom] Bobby Verdon-Roe  McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
3      [Austria] A1-Ring              15 May        [United Kingdom] Bobby Verdon-Roe  McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
4      [Italy] Monza                  5 June        [France] Patrick d’Aubreby         Tyrrell-Cosworth 012
5      [United Kingdom] Brands Hatch  3 July        [Japan] Hideki Yamauchi            March-Cosworth 761
6      [Germany] Nürburgring          11 September  [United Kingdom] Rob Austin        Surtees-Cosworth TS16
7      [Portugal] Algarve             22 October    [Japan] Hideki Yamauchi            March-Cosworth 761
8      [Portugal] Algarve             23 October    [United Kingdom] Nathan Kinch      McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
9      [Spain] Jarama                 29 October    [United Kingdom] Bobby Verdon-Roe  McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
10     [Spain] Jarama                 30 October    [United Kingdom] Bobby Verdon-Roe  McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B

Drivers


2011 Historic Formula One Championship

Drivers

No  Driver                             Chassis/Engine
1   [United States] John Delane        Tyrrell-Cosworth 002
2   [United Kingdom] Bobby Verdon-Roe  McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
4   [Australia] Brendon Cook           Tyrrell-Cosworth 012
6   [United Kingdom] Richard Eyre      Williams-Cosworth FW8
7   [Spain] Joaquin Folch              Brabham-Cosworth BT49
10  [Japan] Katsu Kubota               March-Cosworth 761
18  [Japan] Hideki Yamauchi            March-Cosworth 761
19  [United Kingdom] Rob Austin        Surtees-Cosworth TS16
20  [Germany] Peter Wuensch            Wolf-Cosworth WR1
27  [United Kingdom] Tony Smith        Williams-Cosworth FW6
28  [United Kingdom] Nathan Kinch      McLaren-Cosworth MP4/1B
30  [United Kingdom] David Abbott      Arrows-Cosworth A4
32  [United Kingdom] Terry Sayers      Osella-Cosworth FW1
36  [Italy] Luciano Quaggia            Theodore-Cosworth TR 1-2
69  [United Kingdom] Roland Kinch      Arrows-Cosworth A4


Physical modelling synthesis

Physical modelling synthesis refers to sound synthesis methods in which the waveform of the sound to be generated is computed using a mathematical model, a set of equations and algorithms to simulate a physical source of sound, usually a musical instrument.

General methodology

Modelling attempts to replicate laws of physics that govern sound production, and will typically have several parameters, some of which are constants that describe the physical materials and dimensions of the instrument, while others are time-dependent functions describing the player's interaction with the instrument, such as plucking a string, or covering toneholes.

For example, to model the sound of a drum, there would be a mathematical model of how striking the drumhead injects energy into a two-dimensional membrane. Incorporating this, a larger model would simulate the properties of the membrane (mass density, stiffness, etc.), its coupling with the resonance of the cylindrical body of the drum, and the conditions at its boundaries (a rigid termination to the drum's body), describing its movement over time and thus its generation of sound.

Similar stages to be modelled can be found in instruments such as a violin, though the energy excitation in this case is provided by the slip-stick behavior of the bow against the string, the width of the bow, the resonance and damping behavior of the strings, the transfer of string vibrations through the bridge, and finally, the resonance of the soundboard in response to those vibrations.

In addition, the same concept has been applied to simulate voice and speech sounds.vocal fold oscillation and associated laryngeal airflow, and the consequent acoustic wave propagation along the vocal tract. Further, it may also contain an articulatory model to control the vocal tract shape in terms of the position of the lips, tongue and other organs.

Although physical modelling was not a new concept in acoustics and synthesis, having been implemented using finite difference approximations of the wave equation by Hiller and Ruiz in 1971Karplus-Strong algorithm, the subsequent refinement and generalization of the algorithm into the extremely efficient digital waveguide synthesis by Julius O. Smith III and others,DSP power in the late 1980s

Yamaha contracted with Stanford University in 1989

The first commercially available physical modelling synthesizer made using waveguide synthesis was the Yamaha VL1 in 1994.


Physical modelling synthesis

While the efficiency of digital waveguide synthesis made physical modelling feasible on common DSP hardware and native processors, the convincing emulation of physical instruments often requires the introduction of non-linear elements, scattering junctions, etc. In these cases, digital waveguides are often combined with FDTD,

Technologies associated with physical modelling

Examples of physical modelling synthesis:

  * Karplus-Strong string synthesis
  * Digital waveguide synthesis
  * Mass-interaction networks
  * Formant synthesis
  * Articulatory synthesis
  * Hiller, L.; Ruiz, P. (1971). "Synthesizing Musical Sounds by Solving the Wave Equation for Vibrating Objects". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.
  * Karplus, K.; Strong, A. (1983). "Digital synthesis of plucked string and drum timbres". Computer Music Journal. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2. 7 (2): 43–55. doi:10.2307/3680062. JSTOR 3680062.
  * Julius O. Smith III (December 2010). Physical Audio Signal Processing.
  * Cadoz, C.; Luciani A; Florens JL (1993). "CORDIS-ANIMA : a Modeling and Simulation System for Sound and Image Synthesis: The General Formalism". Computer Music Journal. Computer Music Journal, MIT Press 1993, Vol. 17, No. 1. 17/1 (1).
  * "The next generation, part 1". Future Music. No. 32. Future Publishing. June 1995. p. 80. ISSN 0967-0378. OCLC 1032779031.
  * Julius. O Smith III's A Basic Introduction to Digital Waveguide Synthesis
  * Music synthesis approaches sound quality of real instruments — Stanford University's 1994 news release


Parish of Morotherie

Ularara County NSW.

Morotherie is a cadastral parish of Ularara County New South Wales.


Whitewash (2013 film)

Whitewash is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and written by Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin.Thomas Haden Church as Bruce, an unemployed snowplow driver in rural Quebec who develops a pseudo-friendship with Paul, a man who hides his deep disturbances behind a facade of warm demeanor which is slowly revealed through a series of sporadic flashbacks. The film's cast also includes Anie Pascale, Marc Labrèche, Isabelle Nélisse, Geneviève Laroche, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais.

Plot

Bruce is a snowplow driver in a small remote town in Quebec. While driving drunk during a snowstorm, Bruce fatally strikes a pedestrian. After Bruce panics and hides the body in a snowbank, he drives deep into the woods in a stupor and falls asleep. When he wakes, he finds that the vehicle has become stuck. Stranded in the freezing cold without supplies, he initially sets off to find help but returns to the snowplow when he sees no nearby signs of civilization. Left with nothing but his own thoughts, Bruce practices his statement to the police. During the imaginary conversations, he becomes overcome with emotion when told that his victim had children.

As Bruce wrestles with his guilty conscience, flashbacks reveal that the dead man, Paul, was Bruce's houseguest. Leaving a convenience store and coming across Paul in his vehicle attempting to commit suicide by inhaling vehicle exhaust fumes, unplugging the hose, Bruce starts conversation with Paul, admiring his vehicle and eventually commandeers the vehicle, driving around casually with Paul, developing a casual friendship, though Bruce becomes frustrated when Paul takes advantage of his hospitality and requests a loan. Bruce, a widower who has fallen on hard times after he lost his job due to drunkenly crashing his snowplow into a restaurant, explains that he can not help Paul. When Paul notices Bruce's collection of highly realistic ocular prostheses, Paul claims his proficiency with web design to Bruce and offers to set up an online presence to sell the collection. Bruce declines the offer and says that he can not bring himself to sell his wife's crafts.


Whitewash (2013 film)

In the present, Bruce leaves his snowplow once again after he runs out of gas. After a long trek, he finds a restaurant, where he learns from the newspaper that both he and Paul have been reported missing. After stocking up on supplies, he returns to his snowplow. When his supplies run out again, he investigates the area further and finds a large house near a frozen lake. He breaks into the shed and steals supplies, then hides there overnight when the owners return. In the morning, Simone, the owner's daughter, discovers him, and he frightens her. He apologizes to her father, Eric, and retreats into the woods.

Later, when Eric and his friend go into the woods to look for him, Bruce injures his ankle while he hides. Frustrated and unable to hobble back to civilization, he camps out on Eric's land and engages in more imaginary conversations with the police. Further flashbacks reveal that Bruce caught Paul stealing; he was pursuing Paul when he accidentally struck him. Paul seemingly smiles as the snowplow hits him, which causes Bruce to wonder if it was a second suicide attempt. Bruce also implicates the snowplow itself in the accident and becomes increasingly hostile toward it. This culminates as Bruce dumps his remaining gasoline on the snowplow and lights it on fire.

When Bruce's ankle heals, he breaks into Eric's shed again and steals a snowmobile. He digs up Paul's body and disposes of it in a frozen lake, but he is caught in the act. The witnesses flee, and Bruce returns to his own home, where he becomes increasingly paranoid. When he realises that two men are looking for him either the police or accomplices of Eric, Bruce attempts to hide in the snowplow banging his boot and attracting attention but they pass away. Bruce attempts to repair the snowplow but his expertise is limited. Bruce is obviously beginning to starve as he attempts to eat tree bark and is numbingly bored as the area around the snowplow becomes increasingly worn down. In the last moments, the winter gets milder but the cold quickly returns. The film's epilogue is Bruce voice of thought; with two life observances: "every guilty person is his own hangman", "...and each new day will be better"; concluding with, "Goddamn, it's freezing."


Whitewash (2013 film)

Cast

  * Thomas Haden Church as Bruce
  * Marc Labrèche as Paul
  * Anie Pascale as Waitress
  * Isabelle Nélisse as Simone
  * Geneviève Laroche as Julie
  * Vincent Hoss-Desmarais as Eric

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 83% of 24 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 6.84/10.Metacritic rated it 63/100 based on five reviews.The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Thomas Haden Church hits the exact balance of desperation and resignation demanded by the peculiar story".Toronto Star wrote, "Despite Church's solid performance, Whitewash feels so leaden in its gravity, it borders on dull."The Globe and Mail, Geoff Fevre called it "a small but sparking gem on ice".

Awards

The film premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival,Directors Guild of Canada awards.Canadian Screen Award for the year's best feature by a first-time film director,Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Labrèche) and Best Original Screenplay (Hoss-Desmarais and Tulin).

  * Whitewash at IMDb
  * Whitewash at Rotten Tomatoes
  * Whitewash at Metacritic


Parish of Rabnor

Rabnor Parish is a civil parish of King County, New South Wales.

Rabnor is located on the Lachlan River at 34°28′54″S 149°04′04″E / 34.48167°S 149.06778°E and the only town of the parish is Bevendale.


Sunny Singh

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  * Sunny Singh, fictional character in the 1993 Hindi sitcom Dekh Bhai Dekh
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Alan Garner

For other people with the same name, see Alan Garner (disambiguation).

Alan Garner OBE FRSL (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.

Born in Congleton, Garner grew up around the nearby town of Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as "The Edge", where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region. Studying at Manchester Grammar School and then briefly at Oxford University, in 1957 he moved to the village of Blackden, where he bought and renovated an Early Modern Period (circa 1590) building known as Toad Hall. His first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, was published in 1960. A children's fantasy novel set on the Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters. Garner wrote a sequel, The Moon of Gomrath (1963), and a third book, Boneland (2012). He wrote several fantasy novels, including Elidor (1965), The Owl Service (1967) and Red Shift (1973).

Turning away from fantasy as a genre, Garner produced The Stone Book Quartet (1979), a series of four short novellas detailing a day in the life of four generations of his family. He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold (1979), Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales (1984) and A Bag of Moonshine (1986). In his subsequent novels, Strandloper (1996) and Thursbitch (2003), he continued writing tales revolving around Cheshire, although without the fantasy elements which had characterised his earlier work.

Biography

Early life: 1934–56


Alan Garner

Biography

Early life: 1934–56

"I had to get aback [to familial ways of doing things], by using skills that had been denied to my ancestors; but I had nothing that they would have called worthwhile. My ability was in language and languages. I had to use that, somehow. And writing was a manual craft. But what did I know that I could write about? I knew the land."

Alan Garner, 2010

Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in Congleton, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934.Alderley Edge, a well-to-do village that had effectively become a suburb of Manchester.

Robert Garner and his other relatives had all been craftsmen, and, according to Garner, each successive generation had tried to "improve on, or do something different from, the previous generation".

Garner faced several life-threatening childhood illnesses, which left him bed ridden for much of the time.Cheshire dialect;Manchester Grammar School, where he received his secondary education; entry was means-tested, resulting in his school fees being waived.sprinting.Alan Turing, who shared his fascination for the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.national service, serving for a time with the Royal Artillery while posted to Woolwich in Southeast London.

At school, Garner had developed a keen interest in the work of Aeschylus and Homer, as well as the Ancient Greek language.Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, passing his entrance exams in January 1953; at the time he had thoughts of becoming a professional academic.Mark Antony in a performance of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra where he co-starred alongside Dudley Moore and where Kenneth Baker was the stage manager.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath: 1957–64

Aged 22, Garner was out cycling when he came across a hand-painted sign announcing that an agricultural cottage in Toad Hall – a late medieval building situated in Blackden, seven miles from Alderley Edge – was on sale for £510. Although he personally could not afford it, he was lent the money by the local Oddfellow lodge, enabling him to purchase and move into the cottage in June 1957.

In 1957, Garner purchased and began renovating Toad Hall at Blackden, Cheshire


Alan Garner

Garner had begun writing his first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley, in September 1956.svart alfar, who dwell in the Edge's abandoned mines and who seem intent on capturing them. They are rescued by the wizard Cadellin, who reveals that the forces of darkness are massing at the Edge in search of a powerful magical talisman, the eponymous "weirdstone of Brisingamen".

Whilst writing in his spare time Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that "I couldn't write and teach; the energies were too similar." Instead, he worked off and on as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.

Garner sent his debut novel to the publishing company Collins, where it was picked up by the company's head, Sir William Collins, who was on the lookout for new fantasy novels following the recent commercial and critical success of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a critical and commercial success,

With his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, which would be known as The Moon of Gomrath. The Moon of Gomrath also revolves around the adventures of Colin and Susan, with the latter being possessed by a malevolent creature called the Brollachan who has recently re-entered the world, having been freed from its underground prison by workmen. With the help of the wizard Cadellin, the Brollachan is exorcised, but Susan's soul also leaves her body, being sent to another dimension, leaving Colin to find a way to bring it back.Boneland, the conclusion to the sequence, was belatedly published in August 2012.

Elidor, The Owl Service and Red Shift: 1964–73


Alan Garner

Elidor, The Owl Service and Red Shift: 1964–73

In 1962, Garner began work on a radio play entitled Elidor, which eventually became a novel of the same name.Elidor tells the story of four children who enter a derelict Victorian church and find a portal to the magical realm of Elidor. In Elidor, they are entrusted by King Malebron to help rescue four treasures which have been stolen by the forces of evil, who are attempting to take control of the kingdom. The children succeed and return to Manchester with the treasures, but are pursued by the malevolent forces who need the items to seal their victory.

"As I turned toward writing, which is partially intellectual in its function, but is primarily intuitive and emotional in its execution, I turned towards that which was numinous and emotional in me, and that was the legend of King Arthur Asleep Under the Hill. It stood for all that I'd had to give up in order to understand what I'd had to give up. And so my first two books, which are very poor on characterization because I was somehow numbed in that area, are very strong on imagery and landscape, because the landscape I had inherited along with the legend."

Alan Garner, 1989

Before writing Elidor, Garner had seen a dinner service set which could be arranged to make pictures of either flowers or owls. Inspired by this design, he produced his fourth novel, The Owl Service.Math fab Mathonwy from the Mabinogion,Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

It took Garner six years to write his next novel, Red Shift.English Civil War, and the third in the second century CE.Maria Nikolajeva characterised Red Shift as "a difficult book" for an unprepared reader, identifying its main themes as those of "loneliness and failure to communicate".

The Stone Book series and folkloric collections: 1974–94


Alan Garner

The Stone Book series and folkloric collections: 1974–94

From 1976 to 1978, Garner published a series of four novellas, which have come to be collectively known as The Stone Book quartet: The Stone Book, Granny Reardun, The Aimer Gate, and Tom Fobble's Day.The Stone Book Quartet had been "exhausting", it had been "the most rewarding of everything" he'd done to date.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the footnotes would not have been needed by his father.

In 1981, the literary critic Neil Philip published an analysis of Garner's novels as A Fine Anger, which was based on his doctoral thesis, produced for the University of London in 1980.The Stone Book quartet marks a watershed in Garner's writing career, and provides a suitable moment for an evaluation of his work thus far."

Strandloper, Thursbitch, Boneland, Where Shall We Run To? and Treacle Walker: 1996–present

Garner at his home in Blackden, 2011

In 1996, Garner's novel Strandloper was published.

In 1997, he next wrote The Voice That Thunders, a collection of essays and public talks that contains much autobiographical material (including an account of his life with bipolar disorder), as well as critical reflection upon folklore and language, literature and education, the nature of myth and time. In The Voice That Thunders, he reveals the commercial pressure placed upon him during the decade-long drought which preceded Strandloper to 'forsake "literature", and become instead a "popular" writer, cashing in on my established name by producing sequels to, and making series of, the earlier books'.

Garner's novel Thursbitch was published in 2003.

The novel Boneland was published in 2012, nominally completing a trilogy begun some 50 years earlier with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

In August 2018, Garner published his only set of memoirs, Where Shall We Run To?, which describes his childhood during the Second World War.

The novel Treacle Walker was published in October 2021 and nominated to the shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize.

Personal life


Alan Garner

Personal life

With his first wife Ann Cook he had three children.Mike Pitts for British Archaeology magazine, Garner stated that "I don't have anything to do with the literary world. I avoid writers. I don't like them. Most of my close personal friends are professional archaeologists."

Literary style

"I have four filing cabinets of correspondence from readers, and over the years the message is clear and unwavering. Readers under the age of eighteen read what I write with more passion, understanding, and clarity of perception than do adults. Adults bog down, claim that I'm difficult, obscurantist, wilful, and sometimes simply trying to confuse. I'm not; I'm just trying to get the simple story simply told... I didn't consciously set out to write for children, but somehow I connect with them. I think that's something to do with my psychopathology, and I'm not equipped to evaluate it."

Alan Garner, 1989

Although Garner's early work is often labelled as "children's literature", Garner himself rejects such a description, informing one interviewer that "I certainly have never written for children" but that instead, he has always written purely for himself.

Philip offered the opinion that the "essence of his work" was "the struggle to render the complex in simple, bare terms; to couch the abstract in the concrete and communicate it directly to the reader".

The English author and academic Catherine Butler noted that Garner was attentive to the "geological, archaeological and cultural history of his settings, and careful to integrate his fiction with the physical reality beyond the page."The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath.Times Literary Supplement in 1968, Garner commented that in preparation for writing his book Elidor:

I had to read extensively textbooks on physics, Celtic symbolism, unicorns, medieval watermarks, megalithic archaeology; study the writings of Jung; brush up my Plato; visit Avebury, Silbury and Coventry Cathedral; spend a lot of time with demolition gangs on slum clearance sites; and listen to the whole of Britten's War Requiem nearly every day.

Recognition and legacy

The Medicine House, an Early Modern building that was moved to Blackden by Garner.


Alan Garner

In a paper published in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Maria Nikolajeva characterised Garner as "one of the most controversial" authors of modern children's literature.

In the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, published by HarperCollins in 2010, several notable British fantasists praised Garner and his work. Susan Cooper wrote that "The power and range of Alan Garner's astounding talent has grown with every book he's written", and David Almond called him one of Britain's "greatest writers" whose works "really matter".Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, went further:

Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names. But that's the way with us: our greatest prophets go unnoticed by the politicians and the owners of media empires. I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration.

Another British fantasy writer, Neil Gaiman, claimed that "Garner's fiction is something special" in that it was "smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth."HarperCollins Children's Books, who proclaimed that "Garner is, quite simply, one of the greatest and most influential writers this country has ever produced."Emma Donoghue recalls reading Red Shift as a teenager: "It looked like other Garners I had read: a children's fantasy. But Red Shift, with its passionately bickering adolescent lovers and vertiginous plunges through the wormhole of time, shook me to my core every time I read it, and still does... Garner makes the past numinous, terrifyingly real: anything but passed."

Awards

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Garner was the sole runner-up for the writing award in 1978.


Alan Garner

Garner was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in the 2001 New Year's Honours list. He received the British Fantasy Society's occasional Karl Edward Wagner Award in 2003 and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2012.University of Warwick awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa).

He has been recognised several times for particular works.

  * The Owl Service (1967) won both the Carnegie MedalGuardian Children's Fiction Prize,
  * The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education in 1970, denoting that it "belongs on the same shelf" with the 1865 classic Alice in Wonderland and its sequel.
  * The Stone Book (1976), first in the Stone Book series,Phoenix Award as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.
  * The 1981 film Images won First Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival
  * Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, making Garner the oldest writer nominated at the time.

Television, radio, and other adaptations


Alan Garner

Television, radio, and other adaptations

  * The Weirdstone of Brisingamen was dramatised in 6 30-minute parts by Nan Macdonald for the BBC's Home Service broadcast in November 1963.
  * Elidor was read in instalments by John Stride for the BBC's Jackanory programme in June 1968.
  * The Owl Service (1969), a British TV series transmitted by Granada Television based on Garner's novel of the same name.
  * A second adaptation of Elidor was read on a BBC Radio 4 in July 1972.
  * Red Shift (BBC, transmitted 17 January 1978); directed by John Mackenzie; part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
  * To Kill a King (1980), part of the BBC series of plays on supernatural themes, Leap in the Dark: an atmospheric story about a writer overcoming depression and writer's block. The hero's home appears to be Garner's own house.
  * The Keeper (ITV, transmitted 13 June 1983), an episode of the ITV children's series Dramarama: Spooky series
  * Garner and Don Webb adapted Elidor as a BBC children's television series shown in 1995, comprising six half-hour episodes, starring Damian Zuk as Roland and Suzanne Shaw as Helen.
  * The Owl Service was adapted for the stage in 2004 by The Drum Theatre in Plymouth.
  * Elidor was dramatised as a radio play in four-parts by Don Webb, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011.

Works


Alan Garner

Works

Novels                                   Short story collections                                                 Other books

  * The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, 1960    * The Hamish Hamilton Book of Goblins, 1969                             * Holly from the Bongs: A Nativity Play, 1966
  * The Moon of Gomrath, 1963              * The Guizer: A Book of Fools, 1975                                     * The Old Man of Mow, 1967
  * Elidor, 1965                           * The Stone Book Quartet, 1979                                          * The Breadhorse, 1975
  * The Owl Service, 1967                  * The Lad of the Gad, 1980                                              * Jack and the Beanstalk, 1992, (Illustrated by Julek Heller).
  * Red Shift, 1973                        * Fairytales of Gold, 1980, (Illustrated by Michael Foreman).           * The Little Red Hen, 1997
  * Strandloper, 1996                      * Book of British Fairy Tales, 1984, (Illustrated by Derek Collard).    * The Well of the Wind, 1998
  * Thursbitch, 2003                       * A Bag of Moonshine, 1986, (Illustrated by P. J. Lynch).               * Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird, 1998
  * Boneland, 2012                         * Once Upon a Time, 1993                                                * The Voice That Thunders, 1997
  * Treacle Walker, 2021                   * Collected Folk Tales, 2011                                            * Where Shall We Run To?, 2018

  * Butler, Charles (2006). Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. Lanham MD: Scarecrow. ISBN 978-0-8108-5242-6.
  * Alan Garner coverage by The Guardian
  * Alan Garner at IMDb
  * Alan Garner at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  * Alan Garner at Library of Congress, with 48 library catalogue records
  * Alan Garner papers at the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives


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Tamlichha

Tamlichha is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal.

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2528 people living in 458 individual households.

  * UN map of the municipalities of Udayapur District

27°06′21″N 86°39′06″E / 27.10583°N 86.65167°E


2017 World Baseball Classic – Qualifier 3

Qualifier 3 of the Qualifying Round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic was held at Rod Carew Stadium, Panama City, Panama from March 17 to 20, 2016.

Qualifier 3 was a modified double-elimination tournament. The winners for the first games matched up in the second game, while the losers faced each other in an elimination game. The winners of the elimination game then played the losers of the non-elimination game in another elimination game. The remaining two teams then played each other to determine the winners of the Qualifier 3.

Bracket

  Preliminaries                    Semifinals          Qualifier

  –              Colombia  9

  –              Spain     2
                           W1      Colombia     6

                           W2      Panama       3
  –              France    2

  –              Panama    9
                           W4      Colombia     2

                           W5      Panama       1
  Lower round 1                    Lower final

                 W3        France  4

  L1             Spain     3                       L4  Panama     7

  L2             France    5

Results

  * All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00).

Colombia 9, Spain 2

March 17 13:00 at Rod Carew Stadium
Team                                                                                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  R  H  E
Colombia                                                                                1  0  1  0  3  0  0  4  0  9  9  2
Spain                                                                                0  0  0  0  0  2  0  0  0  2  7  3
WP: William Cuevas (1−0) LP: Sergio Pérez (0−1)
Attendance: 2,145 (7.9%)
Umpires: HP − Jorge Nieblas, 1B − Shane Livensparger, 2B − Max Guyll, 3B − Hua-wen Chi
Boxscore

Panama 9, France 2

March 17 20:00 at Rod Carew Stadium
Team                                                                                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  R  H   E
France                                                                                0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  1  2  5   3
Panama                                                                                1  2  1  0  4  1  0  0  X  9  10  2
WP: Paolo Espino (1−0) LP: Owen Ozanich (0−1)
Home runs:
FRA: None
PAN: Carlos Ruiz 2 (2), Javier Guerra (1)
Attendance: 11,744 (43.5%)
Umpires: HP − Jairo Mendoza, 1B − Max Guyll, 2B − Hua-wen Chi, 3B − Shane Livensparger
Boxscore

France 5, Spain 3


France 5, Spain 3

March 18 13:00 at Rod Carew Stadium
Team                                                                            1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  R  H   E
France                                                                          3  0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  5  12  1
Spain                                                                           0  0  0  0  1  1  0  1  0  3  9   2
WP: Leonel Cespedes (1−0) LP: Richard Salazar (0−1) Sv: Pierrick Le Mestre (1)
Attendance: 852 (3.2%)
Umpires: HP − Hua-wen Chi, 1B − Jorge Nieblas, 2B − Max Guyll, 3B − Alex Ortiz
Boxscore

Colombia 6, Panama 3

March 18 20:00 at Rod Carew Stadium
Team                                                                                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  R  H   E
Colombia                                                                                0  0  4  0  0  0  2  0  0  6  12  2
Panama                                                                                0  0  1  0  0  0  1  0  1  3  3   0
WP: Karl Triana (1−0) LP: Davis Romero (0−1)
Home runs:
COL: Reynaldo Rodriguez (1)
PAN: Javier Guerra (2)
Attendance: 12,559 (46.5%)
Umpires: HP − Shane Livensparger, 1B − Alex Ortiz, 2B − Jorge Nieblas, 3B − Jairo Mendoza
Boxscore

Panama 7, France 4

March 19 20:00 at Rod Carew Stadium
Team                                                                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  R  H   E
Panama                                                                            0  0  0  0  4  0  1  2  0  7  10  1
France                                                                            2  0  0  1  1  0  0  0  0  4  7   3
WP: Angel Cuan (1−0) LP: Jonathan Mottay (0−1) Sv: Manny Corpas (1)
Home runs:
PAN: None
FRA: Rene Leveret (1)
Attendance: 2,016 (7.5%)
Umpires: HP − Max Guyll, 1B − Jairo Mendoza, 2B − Alex Ortiz, 3B − Jorge Nieblas
Boxscore

Colombia 2, Panama 1


Colombia 2, Panama 1

March 20 18:00 at Rod Carew Stadium
Team                                                                                1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  R  H  E
Panama                                                                                0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  1  5  0
Colombia                                                                                0  0  0  0  0  1  0  1  X  2  7  0
WP: Carlos Díaz (1−0) LP: Manny Corpas (0−1) Sv: Horacio Acosta (1)
Home runs:
PAN: None
COL: Dilson Herrera (1)
Attendance: 6,204 (23.0%)
Umpires: HP − Alex Ortiz, 1B − Hua-wen Chi, 2B − Shane Livensparger, 3B − Jairo Mendoza
Boxscore

  * Official website


Physical proximity doctrine

The physical proximity doctrine is a standard in criminal law for distinguishing between preparation and attempt.actus reus), as distinguished from the mental element of a guilty mind (mens rea). When a person makes preparation to commit a crime, and one of the preparatory acts is close or proximate to the completed crime, the preparation is considered to have merged into being an actual attempt.jury to determine.


Parish of Ossory

Kennedy County NSW.

Ossory Parish located at 32°26′54″S 147°44′04″ is a cadastral parish of Kennedy County New South Wales.

The Parish is on the Bogan River between Tullymore and Albert, New South Wales.


Whitewater Brewery

Whitewater Brewery is a craft brewery in Castlewellan, County Down. It is the largest microbrewery in Northern Ireland. The brewery produces a number of cask beers, a key lager, and three bottled beers. The brewery was founded by Bernard Sloan with his wife Kerry in 1996 on the family farm.

Beers

Several beers are produced at Whitewater Brewery and the production changes over time. Frequently recurring bottled beers include:

  * Bee's Endeavour, 4.8% alcohol by volume (ABV)
  * Belfast Ale, 4.5% ABV
  * Belfast Lager, 4.5% ABV
  * Belfast Black, 4.5% ABV
  * Clotworthy Dobbin, 5.0% ABV
  * Copperhead, 3.7% ABV
  * Ewe Rebel 7.0% ABV
  * Hallion 4.2% ABV
  * Hen, Cock and Pigeon Rock 4.8% ABV
  * Hoppel Hammer, 6.0% ABV
  * Maggies Leap 4.7% ABV

Awards

The Whitewater Brewery has won numerous awards for its beers. Among them are:

  * 2011 - Great Taste Award, Single Star, for Clotworthy Dobbin bottled beer.
  * 2007 - International Beer Challenge, included in the World's Top 50 beers.
  * Official website


People's Progressive Alliance

People's Progressive Alliance may refer to:

  * People's Progressive Alliance (Mauritania), a political party in Mauritania
  * People's Progressive Alliance (Montserrat), a defunct political party in Montserrat
  * People's Progressive Alliance (Sint Maarten), a defunct political party in Sint Maarten


Sunny Odogwu

Sonny Odogwu (March 20, 1925 - Nov 5, 2018)

Odogwu was the publisher of the defunct Post Express Newspapers that was published both in Port Harcourt and Lagos, he tried to use the paper to support the interest of Igbos in Southeastern Nigeria,

Life

Odogwu was born in Cross River State to parents from Delta State, he is a brother to Violet Odogwu. He completed his senior secondary education at Ilesha Grammar School, Ilesha in 1946 and after studies, he joined an insurance firm to work as a trainee. In 1952, he branched out on his own to establish Robert Dyson and Diket, an insurance brokerage firm, in addition, he established trading store as a side business in Lagos Island. Between 1954 and 1958, Odogwu traveled abroad for further studies. Upon his return to Nigeria in 1958, he took up a position of assistant director with C.T. Bowring.

In 2012, Robert Dyson and Diket, Ltd, a firm largely owned by Odogwu signed a financing agreement with a group of creditors including Diamond Bank to finance the construction of Le Meridien Grand Towers Hotel in Lagos.

Sunny Odogwu died on the 6th of November, 2018.


Alan Gardner

Alan Gardner may refer to:

  * Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (1742–1809), British Royal Navy officer and politician
  * Alan Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner (1770–1815), British Royal Navy officer
  * Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner (1810–1883), British Whig politician
  * Alan Coulstoun Gardner, British Member of Parliament for Ross, 1906–1908


Burgener

Burgener is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Alexander Burgener (1845–1910), Swiss mountain guide, first ascentionist of many mountains in the western Alps
  * Casey Burgener (born 1982), American weightlifter
  * Clair Burgener (1921–2006), American Republican politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1973–1983
  * Erich Burgener (born 1951), football goalkeeper
  * Hans Burgener (born 1964), Swiss wheelchair curler
  * Jocelyn Burgenern (born 1949), Canadian politician


Senecio sanmarcosensis

Senecio sanmarcosensis is a perennial Senecio native to high elevation wetlands in Polylepis racemosa forests in the Callejón de Huaylas in Peru.


The Stinsons

This article is about the How I Met Your Mother episode. For people with the surname, see Stinson (surname).

"The Stinsons" is the 15th episode in the fourth season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 79th overall. It originally aired on March 2, 2009.

Plot

At the beginning of the episode, Barney is seen skipping out hitting on a hot girl because he tells everyone he has to go somewhere, but he is secretive about where. The gang becomes suspicious that Barney might have a secret girlfriend, so they follow him to what turns out to be the house of his mother, Loretta. Barney then reveals that he has a wife, Betty, and a son, Tyler. Barney then tells the gang that their real names are Margaret and Grant and that they are both actors he hired because his mother was dying and he thought it would make her happy to think he was married. When his mother recovered, Barney was stuck with the fake family. Marshall at first argues that Barney should tell his mother the truth because there should not be secrets within families. After he discovers that Lily hates his mother, who insulted her at their wedding, Marshall starts to think that some things are better left unsaid. Meanwhile, Robin bonds with Grant because of their shared lack of passion in their careers; Robin being unsure about starting her morning show near the beginning of her thirties and Grant being frustrated about the lack of freedom in his acting roles.

Ted and Margaret begin to develop a connection, since they are both fascinated by theatre. Margaret gives Ted some acting tips, after he reveals becoming an actor has always been a secret ambition of his. After dinner, Ted is caught kissing Margaret, and Barney is forced to confront him in front of his mother, with Grant doing a tearful and moving performance of a kid who does not want his parents to divorce. However, the tables are turned when Ted starts using Margaret's acting tips to improvise a story that Barney long ago stole his fiancée. Robin later congratulates Grant on his passionate performance and he assures her that she will find some passion in her new job. She is appreciative but is left horrified when he tries to kiss her.


The Stinsons

Barney then finally tells his mother the truth, and she is relieved because she admits she hates Margaret and Grant, particularly Grant's catchphrase "Tyler no likey!". After that moment, they share a hug and she tells him to make sure to go for it when he does meet the right girl. At that moment, Robin walks in and Barney looks at her as he tells his mother he will try. On the ride home, Ted and Margaret are in one cab while Barney, Robin, Marshall and Lily are in another. Lily then fakes a conversation on her cell phone with Margaret pretending to be Marshall's mother in order to make him think she is on good terms with his mother.

Critical response

Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club rated the episode A−.

Michelle Zoromski of IGN gave it 8.6 out of 10.

Cindy McLennan of Television Without Pity rated the episode with a grade B.

  * "The Stinsons" at IMDb


2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Video on YouTube
Official Video

Events at the
2017 World Championships

Track events
100 m                     men  women
200 m                     men  women
400 m                     men  women
800 m                     men  women
1500 m                    men  women
5000 m                    men  women
10,000 m                  men  women
100 m hurdles                  women
110 m hurdles             men
400 m hurdles             men  women
3000 m                    men  women
steeplechase
4 × 100 m relay           men  women
4 × 400 m relay           men  women
Road events
Marathon                  men  women
20 km walk                men  women
50 km walk                men  women
Field events
High jump                 men  women
Pole vault                men  women
Long jump                 men  women
Triple jump               men  women
Shot put                  men  women
Discus throw              men  women
Hammer throw              men  women
Javelin throw             men  women
Combined events
Heptathlon                     women
Decathlon                 men
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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.

After a temporary retirement announced immediately after the Olympic race, 4-time champion, seven time medalist Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya), once known for his flamboyant frohawk hairstyles was back, now as a 35-year-old without a hair on his head. His historic record was well known, but his semi-final was his fastest race of the year making him an unknown quantity. In fact, the entire 2015 podium and the 2016 Olympic podium were in this event, though 2008 Olympic champion and 2015 bronze medalist Brimin Kipruto (Kenya) at age 33 didn't make the final.

Summary

In the final Conseslus Kipruto (Kenya) went to the front, but he didn't set a blistering pace to burn off the competition, instead he kept control of the race. Jairus Birech (Kenya) and Evan Jager (USA) stayed close behind. After a leisurely 2:51.81 first kilometre, after which entire Ethiopian team of Tesfaye Deriba, Tafese Seboka and Getnet Wale moved ahead to push the pace. Kemboi was biding his time along the rail. Jacob Araptany (Uganda) lost his shoe and stopped in the middle of the track to fix it, taking him completely out of contention.


After four laps, Jager moved to the front and increased the pace, with only Kipruto, Birech, Ezekiel Kemboi and Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco) staying in the front group with him. Birech, and later Kemboi, dropped away, and Jager led the remaining trio until they reached the beginning of the final backstretch, where Kipruto accelerated past Jager, followed by El Bakkali. By the water jump, El Bakkali had pulled even, but Kipruto had more speed down the final straightaway. Jager held third place despite a late run from Mahiedine Mekhissi.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:

Record          Perf.    Athlete                      Nat.  Date         Location
World           7:53.63  Saif Saaeed Shaheen          BHR    3 Sep 2004  Brussels, Belgium
Championship    8:00.43  Ezekiel Kemboi               KEN   18 Aug 2009  Berlin, Germany
World leading   8:01.29  Evan Jager                   USA   21 Jul 2017  Monaco
African         7:53.64  Brimin Kiprop Kipruto|       KEN   22 Jul 2011  Monaco
Asian           7:53.63  Saif Saaeed Shaheen          BHR    3 Sep 2004  Brussels, Belgium
NACAC           8:00.45  Evan Jager                   USA    4 Jul 2015  Saint-Denis, France
South American  8:14.41  Wander do Prado Moura        BRA   22 Mar 1995  Mar del Plata, Argentina
European        8:00.09  Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  FRA    6 Jul 2013  Saint-Denis, France
Oceanian        8:14.05  Peter Renner                 NZL   29 Aug 1984  Koblenz, West Germany

The following records were set at the competition:

Record   Perf.    Athlete          Nat.  Date
Iranian  8:33.76  Hossein Keyhani  IRI   6 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 8:32.00.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows:

Date      Time   Round
6 August  10:05  Heats
8 August  21:10  Final

Results

Heats

The first round took place on 6 August in three heats as follows:


The first round took place on 6 August in three heats as follows:

Heat          1      2      3
Start time    10:04  10:22  10:38
Photo finish  link   link   link

The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next six fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:


Rank  Heat  Order  Name                         Nationality                 Time     Notes
1     2     9      Evan Jager                   United States (USA)         8:20.36  Q
2     2     4      Tafese Seboka                Ethiopia (ETH)              8:20.48  Q
3     2     5      Yoann Kowal                  France (FRA)                8:20.60  Q
4     2     11     Ezekiel Kemboi               Kenya (KEN)                 8:20.61  q, SB
5     1     15     Soufiane El Bakkali          Morocco (MAR)               8:22.60  Q
6     1     12     Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  France (FRA)                8:22.83  Q
7     1     13     Getnet Wale                  Ethiopia (ETH)              8:23.00  Q
8     2     15     Albert Chemutai              Uganda (UGA)                8:23.18  q, PB
9     1     6      Bilal Tabti                  Algeria (ALG)               8:23.28  q
10    3     4      Conseslus Kipruto            Kenya (KEN)                 8:23.80  Q
11    1     4      Jairus Birech                Kenya (KEN)                 8:23.84  q
12    3     3      Stanley Kebenei              United States (USA)         8:24.19  Q
13    3     12     Matthew Hughes               Canada (CAN)                8:24.79  Q, SB
14    3     10     Tesfaye Deriba               Ethiopia (ETH)              8:25.33  q
15    1     9      Jacob Araptany               Uganda (UGA)                8:25.86  q
16    1     2      Ala Zoghlami                 Italy (ITA)                 8:26.18  PB
17    3     13     Hillary Bor                  United States (USA)         8:27.53
18    1     10     Ole Hesselbjerg              Denmark (DEN)               8:27.86  PB
19    1     1      Krystian Zalewski            Poland (POL)                8:28.41
20    2     1      Hicham Bouchicha             Algeria (ALG)               8:30.01
21    3     2      Altobeli da Silva            Brazil (BRA)                8:31.82


22    1     3      Zak Seddon                   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)  8:32.84
23    3     1      Brimin Kipruto               Kenya (KEN)                 8:33.33
24    1     7      Hossein Keyhani              Iran (IRI)                  8:33.76  NR
25    2     10     Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim       Djibouti (DJI)              8:33.77
26    2     2      Abdoullah Bamoussa           Italy (ITA)                 8:34.86
27    3     11     Jakob Ingebrigtsen           Norway (NOR)                8:34.88
28    2     8      Yemane Haileselassie         Eritrea (ERI)               8:35.73
29    3     14     Napoleon Solomon             Sweden (SWE)                8:35.95
30    3     8      Yohanes Chiappinelli         Italy (ITA)                 8:36.48
31    1     5      José Peña                    Venezuela (VEN)             8:37.15
32    3     6      Jonathan Romeo               Spain (ESP)                 8:38.05
33    2     12     Fernando Carro               Spain (ESP)                 8:38.42
34    3     9      Mohamed Tindouft             Morocco (MAR)               8:40.99
35    3     5      Boniface Sikowo              Uganda (UGA)                8:43.86
36    2     7      Hicham Sigueni               Morocco (MAR)               8:44.74
37    2     6      Mitko Tsenov                 Bulgaria (BUL)              8:45.21
38    2     3      Hironori Tsuetaki            Japan (JPN)                 8:45.81
39    2     13     Raouf Boubaker               Tunisia (TUN)               8:46.25
40    3     7      Stewart McSweyn              Australia (AUS)             8:47.53
41    3     15     Rob Mullett                  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)  8:47.99
42    1     8      Sebastián Martos             Spain (ESP)                 8:51.57
43    2     14     Ieuan Thomas                 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)  8:52.96


44    1     14     Tarık Langat Akdağ           Turkey (TUR)                8:53.42
      1     11     Emil Blomberg                Sweden (SWE)                DNF


Final

The final took place on 8 August at 21:11. The results were as follows (photo finish):

Rank                             Name                         Nationality          Time     Notes
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    Conseslus Kipruto            Kenya (KEN)          8:14.12
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Soufiane El Bakkali          Morocco (MAR)        8:14.49
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Evan Jager                   United States (USA)  8:15.53
4                                Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  France (FRA)         8:15.80
5                                Stanley Kebenei              United States (USA)  8:21.09
6                                Matthew Hughes               Canada (CAN)         8:21.84  SB
7                                Tesfaye Deriba               Ethiopia (ETH)       8:22.12
8                                Tafese Seboka                Ethiopia (ETH)       8:23.02
9                                Getnet Wale                  Ethiopia (ETH)       8:25.28
10                               Albert Chemutai              Uganda (UGA)         8:25.94
11                               Ezekiel Kemboi               Kenya (KEN)          8:29.38
12                               Jairus Birech                Kenya (KEN)          8:32.90
13                               Yoann Kowal                  France (FRA)         8:34.53
14                               Jacob Araptany               Uganda (UGA)         8:49.18
                                 Bilal Tabti                  Algeria (ALG)        DQ


Parish of Nelson (Cumberland County)

Parish of Nelson, is a civil parish of the County of Cumberland,Sydney, Australia.

It is in the Land District of Windsor, and the parish is centered on the suburbs of Nelson, New South Wales, and Box Hill, New South Wales.

The parish is one of the oldest cadasteral divisions in Australia.

The dominant land use of the area is rural allotments; however, in 2017 the district was released of residential purposes and it is expected the within a few years the parish will be added to the urban sprawl of Western Sydney.

  * [Map of the Parish of Nelson, 1822.]
    Map of the Parish of Nelson, 1822.
  * [Nelson Parish Cumberland county.]
    Nelson Parish Cumberland county.
  * [Map of the Parish in Windsor.]
    Map of the Parish in Windsor.


Parish of Molonglo

The abandoned Captains Flat railway line in Hoskinstown

Molonglo Parish, New South Wales is a civil parish of Murray County.

The parish is located at 35°24′54″S 149°29′04″E / 35.41500°S 149.48444°E, on the Molongolo River upstream from Queanbeyan. It includes Hoskinstown and Forbes Creek.


Whitewater Center

Whitewater Center may refer to:

  * U.S. National Whitewater Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
  * Ocoee Whitewater Center, near Ducktown, Tennessee, the canoe slalom venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta


People's Progressive Party

There are several parties named People's Progressive Party:

  * People's Progressive Party (Anguilla)
  * People's Progressive Party (Gambia)
  * People's Progressive Party (Guyana) (and previously British Guiana)
  * People's Progressive Party (Malaysia)
  * People's Progressive Party (Nepal)
  * People's Progress Party (Papua New Guinea)
  * People's Progressive Party (Saint Lucia)
  * People's Progressive Party (Solomon Islands)
  * People's Progressive Party (Uganda)
  * People's Progress Party (Vanuatu)
  * United People's Progressive Party, Bulgaria
  * Croatian People's Progressive Party from the Croatian parliamentary election, 1906
  * Progressive People's Party (disambiguation)
  *


SmartFrog

SmartFrog (Smart Framework for Object Groups) is a Java based open-source framework for helping host large-scale applications across component-based distributed system. It is proposed to make the design, configuration, deployment and management of distributed systems easier, correct and automatic. SmartFrog mainly consists of three aspects: SmartFrog Language, a runtime system, and a library of SmartFrog components that implement the SmartFrog component model.

History

SmartFrog was originally developed in Hewlett-Packard's European Research Labs. It has been used in HP research on infrastructure automation and service automation as well as in a variety of HP products.GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) licence hosted on SourceForge. As a result, users and developers outside the lab can also make their contributions by using, extending the framework or reporting bugs.Hewlett-Packard's corporate split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, whilst under Hewlett Packard Enterprise's ownership, SmartFrog was relicensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Technologies

SmartFrog Language

SmartFrog Language is a configuration description language used for describing component collections and system configurations, such as which software components belong to the system, what the configuration parameters are, how the components are bound to other components in the system, and in what sequence the components work.

Component model

In SmartFrog, component is the most important and basic part. A system is considered to be a collection of applications, each of which are composed by a collection of components. Every component is written in a SmartFrog file in Java, which represents the existence and default attributes of components.

Runtime system

The runtime system interprets the descriptions written in SmartFrog Language and manages the components based on the interpretation results. It also provides users with tools to interact with components.

Features

As a framework

Instead of a package or library, SmartFrog is a framework, a building block to help build software systems. SmartFrog can be extended by adding new components into the framework, which means it has much wider applicability and could acquire new functionality.

Template mechanism


SmartFrog

Template mechanism

In SmartFrog, every component is defined as a template. Typically for every new service, new components are created and activated. However, some general purpose components can be reused in different service. For the template mechanism, system configuration is easy to adapt to different requirements and the default configuration can be kept. Prototyping also allows keeping all the transformation and history of configurations of the system. Using SmartFrog to build large-scale distributed system, one can reuse some components and does not need to completely rewrite the whole application. Users can easily write or create simple SmartFrog components to install, uninstall, configure, start, and stop the system using the configuration description notation.

Cross-client model

There are many software system similar to SmartFrog, but few of them uses the same model as what is used in SmartFrog. The largest category of systems is based on client-server model, where the configuration data for all clients are held in a server and each client is designed to match the configuration data stored in the server. However, in SmartFrog, cross-client model is used so that each client is treated as an independent entity. This provides SmartFrog with the ability to coordinate across large range of nodes, carry out autonomic actions and result in higher scalability.

Security

SmartFrog has two running modes: secure and insecure.plain-text communication can be eavesdropped and intercepted. In this mode, the system is vulnerable to malign attacks.

SmartFrog needs to protect against malign deployment or other management action. In secure mode, SmartFrog uses public key infrastructure (PKI) system. Only clients that are certificated by specified certificate authority (CA) can connect to the SmartFrog Daemon. In addition, SmartFrog signs all components and descriptions with a certificate and only the signed ones can be deployed. Communications are encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols.

Related projects

The GridWeaver Project


SmartFrog

Related projects

The GridWeaver Project

The GridWeaver project started at 2002 and lasted a year. The project collaborators were the School of Informatics of Edinburgh University, HP Laboratories, and Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC).This project was aimed to find solutions to the problems of automating the configuration and management of the next generation of Grid computing fabrics.

The project compared SmartFrog and Local ConFiGuration system (LCFG) in terms of strengths and weaknesses, as well as investigating how these tools are utilized to solve problems.

SFJS

SFJS is a configuration language, runtime and component library developed by Configured Things, a company co-founded by Patrick Goldsack, one of the SmartFrog project's lead authors. SFJS is a spiritual successor to SmartFrog, built on Node.js.

  * Comparison of open source configuration management software
  * LCFG - an established configuration framework for managing large numbers of systems
  * Official Website
  * HP Labs SmartFrog project Website at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2019)
  * Project pages on SourceForge
  * Referenced by a Google Usenix Paper.


Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty

The Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty (Japanese: 日英和親条約, Hepburn: Nichi-Ei Washin Jōyaku, The Anglo Japanese Convention of 1854) was the first treaty between Great Britain and Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate. Signed on October 14, 1854, it paralleled the Convention of Kanagawa, a similar agreement between Japan and the United States six months earlier which effectively ended Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku). As a result of the treaty, the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate were opened to British vessels, and Britain was granted most favored nation status with other western powers.

The isolation of Japan

Anglo-Japanese relations began in 1600 at the start of the Tokugawa shogunate with the arrival of William Adams, a seaman from Gillingham, Kent, who became an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu. He facilitated the creation of a British trading post at Hirado in 1613, led by English captain John Saris, who obtained a Red Seal permit giving "free licence to abide, buy, sell and barter" in Japan.Clove in 1613), only three other English ships brought cargoes directly from London to Japan. The British withdrew in 1623 without seeking permission from the Japanese, and in 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate announced a policy of isolating the country from outside influences with foreign trade to be maintained only with the Dutch and the Chinese exclusively at Nagasaki under a strict government monopoly.HMS Phaeton entered Nagasaki during the Napoleonic War to attack Dutch shipping and threatened to destroy the town unless it was provided with supplies.


Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty

By the early nineteenth century, the policy of isolation was increasingly under challenge. In 1844, King William II of the Netherlands sent a letter urging Japan to end the isolation policy on its own before change would be forced from the outside.United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry was sent with a fleet of warships by American President Millard Fillmore to force the opening of Japanese ports to American trade, through the use of gunboat diplomacy if necessary.Edo, the nation's capital and to burn it to the ground if necessary, he was allowed to land at nearby Kurihama on July 14 and to deliver his letter.Convention of Kanagawa signed on March 31, 1854, which opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels, ensured the safety of American castaways and established the position of an American consul in Japan.

The Stirling expedition

In early August 1853, Russian admiral Yevfimy Putyatin arrived at Nagasaki with a fleet of four vessels, just one month after the visit to Perry to Uraga in an attempt to force the opening of Japan. At the time, Russia was at war with Great Britain (the Crimean War), and alarmed at the possibility that Russia would obtain the upper hand in Japan, Royal Navy vice admiral Sir James Stirling, commander of the East Indies and China Station led a fleet of British warships to Nagasaki on September 7, 1854. Stirling's flagship was the sail frigate Winchester, accompanied by screw corvette Encounter and paddle sloops Barracouta and Styx.

Stirling was not actually authorized to negotiate a treaty, and the signing of the convention came about due to a series of miscommunications.neutrality in the conflict. To this end, he carried a copy of the British declaration of war on Russia, signed by Queen Victoria. However, the Tokugawa shogunate, already cautious of the British in light of the Opium War and recent negotiations with the Americans, assumed that the British were in Nagasaki to demand similar concessions. Stirling brought his own interpreter, Yamamoto Otokichi a Japanese castaway of limited education, and also relied on the assistance of Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius, the senior Dutch East Indies Company factor at Nagasaki. The Japanese were served by Nishi Kichibei, a Dutch language interpreter who had a predilection for altering the tone or content of what he was interpreting.


Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty

Specifically, Sterling sought confirmation that Japanese ports would continue to be denied to Russian vessels, at least for the duration of the war, even if this meant that damaged British ships would also be denied permission to dock in Japan for repairs and re-provision.

Assuming that Stirling was in Nagasaki to demand the same concessions as Perry, during discussions in Edo, officials in the Tokugawa shogunate agreed that forming an agreement with the British was not only unavoidable, but that the British could be a powerful force to offset Russian designs on the Kuril islands. Consequently, Stirling was received by the Nagasaki bugyō, Mizuno Tadanori, who had originally been sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to Nagasaki to negotiate with Perry, and who was familiar with the treaty which had already been signed with the Americans. Mizuno's preconceptions on the British intentions were bolstered by Nishi's mistranslations, and over the course of three sessions of negotiations (October 4, October 9 and October 14) the outline of a treaty was drafted, which Mizuno, together with metsuke Nagai Naoyuki signed on October 14.

Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty (1854)

The "Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty" has seven articles:

Article  Summary
I        Opening of the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodate to British ships for provisioning and repairs
II       Setting dates for opening of Nagasaki and Hakodate, with the British agreeing to follow local regulations
III      Other ports to be used by British ships only when in distress
IV       Agreement to abide by local laws
V        Most favored nation agreement for any future port openings; equal treatment with Dutch and Chinese
VI       Treaty to be ratified within twelve months
VII      Once the treaty is ratified, it will not be later modified by future British visits

Article Six, stipulated that the terms of the treaty were to be ratified by Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain and the "His Highness the Emperor of Japan" within 12 months. At the time, shōgun Tokugawa Iesada was the de facto ruler of Japan; for the Emperor to interact in any way with foreigners was out of the question. Stirling concluded the treaty with representatives of the shogun, and the text was endorsed subsequently, albeit reluctantly, by Emperor Kōmei.

Consequences of the treaty