Bucknill

Bucknill may refer to:

  * Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill, KC British lawyer and colonial judge (and son of Thomas Townsend Bucknill).
  * Sir John Charles Bucknill, English psychiatrist and mental health reformer.
  * Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill MP QC was an English, Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor (and son of John Charles Bucknill).


Lifemapper

Lifemapper is building a species diversity map of the world. It is similar to the SETI@Home client, in that it uses a volunteer computing client running primarily on home user's computers to correlate georeferenced biological samples with environmental models of the Earth. It is an experimental GIS, or Geographic Information System, that uses a special genetic algorithm to see if predicted rules about where a species lives match up with the species' observed natural settings. It is hoped that this technique will be able to both represent a current "map" of all organisms habitats on Earth as well as predict where organisms may possibly thrive or face extinction due to climate change and other ecological transformations.

  * List of volunteer computing projects
  * Environmental niche modelling
  * Lifemapper website


Crazy Woman Crossing

Crazy Woman Crossing is a historic place on the Bozeman Trail, in Johnson County, Wyoming, United States, about twenty miles southeast of Buffalo. Crazy Woman Crossing was one of three major fords used by travelers across creeks and rivers in this area. It is significant as the site of the Battle of Crazy Woman, a skirmish during Red Cloud's War in 1866. The United States pulled out of this territory after negotiation with the Lakota and allies of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868.

In the 1870s, the US attempted to claim some control of the Bozeman Trail, and the number of emigrants increased on this route. In 1878, August Trabing opened a store nearby to serve travelers on the trail, which came to be known as the Trabing Station. His was the first store in Johnson County. Crazy Woman Crossing became known as the place where what became known as Trabing Road crosses Crazy Woman Creek.

Bozeman Trail

In the spring 1863, John Bozeman and his associates scouted for a direct route from the goldfields at Virginia City, Montana to central Wyoming in order to connect with the Oregon Trail, which was then the major passage in the continental United States to the West Coast. The Bozeman Trail followed many north–south trails which the American Indians had used since prehistoric times to travel through Powder River country. On July 6, 1863, forty-six wagons, eighty-nine men and an unspecified number of women and children crossed the North Platte at Deer Creek (present-day Glenrock, Wyoming) and became the first wagon train to try the new trail.

After travelers crossed the North Platte River, the first three major river crossings on the Bozeman Trail were Powder River Crossing, Crazy Woman Crossing, and Clear Creek Crossing (present-day Buffalo, Wyoming).

Between 1864 and 1868, the high risk of Lakota and allied attacks resulted in fewer than a thousand people using the Bozeman Trail. One Bozeman Trail emigrant was Ellen Fletcher. She recorded a series of diary and notes which described her experiences on trail during the summer of 1866. She wrote of the Crazy Woman Crossing:


Crazy Woman Crossing

Camped at "Crazy Woman's Fork." It was a beautiful spot near the stream, in a large grove of trees. The men built large campfires all around the wagons. It was a pretty sight, the circular correll (corral) of white topped wagons and tents scattered here and there, the blazing fires shining forth through the trees, the busy men and women hurrying to and fro, and the quiet moon looking down over it all. A large tree, bent over like an arch, crowns our wagon.

Crazy Woman Battle

The Powder River Expedition (1865) and Red Cloud's War (1866) were United States military actions intended to suppress resistance by the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho in the region and protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from attacks. On August 11, 1865, General Patrick Edward Connor's troops reached the Powder River Crossing, where they began building Fort Reno. After the Battle of the Tongue River on August 29, 1865, Connor was ordered to return to Salt Lake City. At about the same time, another group of soldiers under Colonel James Sawyer were ordered to build a military road for freighting supplies along the Bozeman Trail.

In 1866, a military force under Colonel Henry B. Carrington was ordered to secure the route of the Bozeman Trail. Carrington established Fort Phil Kearny on July 14, initiating a military struggle by the Lakota and their allies in the area known as Red Cloud's War. The Lakota struggled to expel US forces. The Crazy Woman Crossing, a ford across Crazy Woman Creek, was one of the Indians' favorite spots for attack, as its terrain was amenable to ambush. On July 20, 1866, a group of thirty men and women settlers, led by Lieutenant A. H. Wand, left Fort Reno to travel to Fort Phil Kearny.

Lieutenants Napoleon H. Daniels and George H. Templeton rode ahead to look for a suitable campsite at Crazy Woman Crossing. Unable to locate a suitable place, they turned back to join the larger group. Lieutenant Templeton described what happened next:


Crazy Woman Crossing

"Lieut. (Daniels) remarked "look there" and spurred his horse up, going way ahead. I looked over my right shoulder but could see nothing, but upon looking over my left, I saw between 50 and 60 Indians mounted and in full chase about 150 yards in the rear. I spurred up old Pegasus, punched his (flank) with my gun and did everything to increase speed, but the horse seemed to me to be moving very slowly. After Mr. Daniels had gone 200 yards he was shot with an arrow through the back and fell off his horse, the saddle turning. I could do nothing to help him and did not expect to get away myself."

Templeton, hotly pursued, reached the wagon train, which formed a defensive corral on a bluff overlooking Crazy Woman Creek. The battle continued for several hours, until a cavalry patrol traveling from Fort Phil Kearny to Fort Reno, under Captain George Burroughs' command, relieved the beleaguered party. During the fight, a second soldier, Lance Corporal Terrence Callary, was killed near the corralled wagons. The Americans' total casualties were two killed and several wounded.

Red Cloud's War was decisive with U.S. forces withdrawing. Two years later, the United States negotiated the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, ceding control of some territory to the Lakota and allies. This being the only treaty where the government accepted all terms offered by the Lakota and its allies. The army abandoned the Bozeman Trail, along with three forts in the Powder River country.

Trading Station

As a result of the Great Sioux War of 1876, American armed forces reclaimed the Bozeman Trail and established a series of forts (Cantonment Reno, Fort McKinney, and Fort Custer). The Bozeman Trail was developed by the United States as a military road and telegraph route to serve these forts. Within a few years, several stage coach lines were established that hauled freight and passengers along the trail.

In 1878, August Trabing established a trading post at the Crazy Woman Crossing. Trabing sold various goods including boots, hats, and liquor to local ranchers and travelers on the Bozeman Trail. In the fall of 1878, the store was robbed three times by a gang of about eight "road agents."Buffalo, Wyoming).


Crazy Woman Crossing

After Trabing left Crazy Woman Crossing, his building was used as a post office for ranchers and stockmen, and a stage station for the stagecoach lines. Local people described the Trabing building as a long, log structure paralleling the road, with three rooms. At the south end of the building were two small log outbuildings, one a schoolhouse, the other a blacksmith shop. To the east was another large log building served as the stable, with several corrals for livestock.

According to Post Office records, Trabing City was established as a post office on January 20, 1879, with Abraham M. Baumann as postmaster. The post office was renamed Trabing and Andrew King was named as postmaster on August 26, 1880. The Trabing post office closed on December 13, 1913, and mail service was moved to Buffalo.

Photo gallery

  * [Crazy Woman Battle Monument]
    Crazy Woman Battle Monument
  * [Monuments for Crazy Woman Battle]
    Monuments for Crazy Woman Battle
  * [Site of the Crazy Woman Battle]
    Site of the Crazy Woman Battle
  * [Ruins of Trabing Store]
    Ruins of Trabing Store


Charitable Irish Society of Halifax

Charitable Irish Society Monument, Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Charitable Irish Society of Halifax is a historic society in Halifax, Nova Scotia which was established in 1786. The Society assists those on low-income and holds other charitable events. Many of the most prominent members of Nova Scotia have been members of the Society.

Notable members

  * Robert Field (painter)
  * John Albro
  * Richard Bulkeley
  * Joseph Howe
  * Edward Kenny
  * John George Pyke - childhood survivor of the Raid on Dartmouth (1751)
  * John Sparrow David Thompson - Prime Minister of Canada
  * Richard John Uniacke
  * Charitable Irish Society of Boston
  * North British Society, Scots of Nova Scotia
  * Charitable Irish Society of Halifax - Official Website
  * Charitable Irish Society of Halifax - Nova Scotia Archives
  * Gallery of Presidents
  * Constitution of the Charitable Irish Society of Halifax, Nova Scotia, as revised and amended in 1892 (1893)


Michel Yachvili

Michel Yachvili (born 25 September 1946) is a former French rugby union footballer.

His father was a Georgian POW during the World War II in France, and his son Grégoire chose to play for the Georgian national team. He began his career playing as Hooker for SC Tulle. He was a part of the French national team which won the 1968 Grand Slam in the Five Nations. In 1970 he moved to CA Brive where he played flanker.

Yachvili's son, Dimitri Yachvili, is also a France rugby union international.

  * ESPN profile


Hypochaeris microcephala

Hypochaeris microcephala, the smallhead cat's ear,Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to South America (Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay) and naturalized in parts of North America (for example in the south-central United States (Texas, Louisiana, etc.)).

Hypochaeris microcephala is a perennial herb with a thick taproot and a woody caudex. Some of the leaves are clumped around the base of the stem, while others grow higher up. One plant will produce 1–13 flower heads, each head with 50–100 white ray flowers but no disc flowers.


Marisa Gonzalez

Marisa González (born July 18, 1943) is a Spanish multimedia artist. She is considered a pioneer in Spain for the use of the new technologies in contemporary art. She works in distinct disciplines like photography, installations, video-art or net-art.

Biography

Marisa González studied in her home town, Bilbao. In 1967 she moved to Madrid to study in the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Meanwhile, while studying in 1970, she organized the First Permanent Exhibition in the School of Fine Arts of Madrid where she participated with students and recognized professional artists of that period. She finished her studies in 1971.

That same year she moved to United States to study a Master's degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she specialized in the use of new technologies applied to the artistic practices in the department of Generative Systems where she studied with the founder, Sonia Landy Sheridan.

In 1974, she joined the program for professional artists at the education center of contemporary art in the Corcoran Gallery of Art of Washington DC, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. It is here where she developed her feminist project Violence Woman, together with her professor Mary Beth Edelson.

During her studies in the US, she participated in the demonstrations against the Vietnam War.

In 1977, she graduated with a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. The following year, she returned to Madrid to continue her artistic work and began her first individual exhibitions.

She was part of the first edition of the Contemporary Art Fair of ARCO in 1982 with the Gallery Aele.

In 1983 she became part of the Board of Directors of the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid until 1990.

She participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 1986) called Procesos: Culture and New Technologies together with her professor Sonia Landy Sheridan and other artists like Marina Abramović, John Cage, José María Yturralde, and Salvador Dalí, among others.


Marisa Gonzalez

In 1992, she directed in the Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid a workshop of Contemporary Art called The poetic of technology, along with the American artist Sonia Sheridan, John Dunn and Jamy Sheridan. The following year, together with her students, she made the Station Fax/Fax Station, an interactive installation that works through Fax machines. This same year she began the series, Clónicos, in which she uses dolls in reference to the human body. This full series were made with the photo-video-computer Lumena, invented by John Dunn and donated to Gonzalez by Sonia Sheridan.

With the arrival of the new millennium, she initiated a project on the decadence of the industrial buildings of the 20th century called La Fábrica, that documents the disassembly of an old flour factory in Bilbao. Later, she would also document the disassembly of the Lemóniz nuclear power plant, that was never active, she collected artefacts, documentation, and industrial objets that she uses to build some installations.

In 2014 she is one of the artist participating in the international exhibition Genealogías Feministas, a big history review at the MUSAC Museum in Leon, Spain.

Her last feminist projects show images of women from different cultures, following the same concept of her other projects, as a process of documentation. Between these projects are Ellas filipinas, El mensaje del Kanga and Burma.Venice Biennale of Architecture, in the exhibition Common Ground, curated by David Chipperfield, where she showed Ellas filipinas.enealogías Feministas in the MUSAC of León together with other artists like Pilar Aymerich, Eugenia Balcells, Carmen Calvo or Eva Lootz between others.

In 2015, she made a retrospective exhibition, Registros Domesticados, at the space of Tabacalera Promoción del Arte of Madrid.

In 2018 exhibit part of her project Ellas filipinas in the exhibition Hidden Workers at the Coreana Museum of Contemporary art y Seoul.

Exhibiting in the art Fair ARCO in the first edition in 1982

Exhibitions


Marisa Gonzalez

Exhibitions

  * Registros Domesticados. museum CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2016.
  * Registros Domesticados in La Principal Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, Madrid, 2015.
  * Nuclear Lemoniz CAB de Burgos, Spain 2004
  * La Fábrica. Sala Rekalde. Bilbao. 2001.
  * La Fábrica. Fundación Telefónica. Madrid. 2000.
  * Procesos. Cultura y Nuevas Tecnologías. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid. 1986.
  * ARCO 1982. Galería Evelyn Botella (Galería Aele) Madrid. 1982.
  * Electrografías. Galería Evelyn Botella (Galería Aele) Madrid. 1981. First individual exhibition in Madrid.
  * Web page http://www.marisagonzalez.com/home.htm
  * http://www.eumed.net/libros-gratis/ciencia/2013/17/marisa-gonzalez.htm
  * List of exhibitions http://www.artfacts.net/fr/artiste/marisa-gonzlez-54507/profil.html
  * Interview with Nekane Aramburu about Marisa's González works https://vimeo.com/24965421


Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream may refer to:

  * Islands in the Stream (novel), a novel by Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1970
  * Islands in the Stream (film), a 1977 film adaptation of the Hemingway novel starring George C. Scott
  * "Islands in the Stream" (song), a 1983 country and pop song, written by the Bee Gees and originally sung by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
  * "Islands in the Stream", a 2004 episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation
  * "Islanded in a Stream of Stars", an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica


Leuconostoc palmae

Leuconostoc palmae is a Gram-positive, non-spore-forming and facultatively anaerobic bacterium from the genus of Leuconostoc which has been isolated from palm wine from Senegal.


Cala Provincial Hospital

Cala Provincial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Sakhisizwe Local Municipality area in Cala, Eastern Cape, in South Africa.

The hospital departments include Emergency department, Paediatric ward, Maternity ward, Gynaecology Services, Out Patients Department, Surgical Services, Medical Services, Operating Theatre & CSSD Services, Pharmacy, Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV/AIDS, Post Trauma Counseling Services, Physiotherapy, Occupational Services, Laboratory Services, X-ray Services, Laundry Services, Kitchen Services and Mortuary.

  * Eastern Cape Department of Health website - Chris Hani District Hospitals


Hessville

Hessville may refer to:

  * Hessville, Indiana, a neighborhood in Hammond, Indiana
  * Hessville, New York, a hamlet in Montgomery County, New York
  * Hessville, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Sandusky County, New York


Lifesaving at the 2001 World Games – Men's 50 m manikin carry

The men's 50 m manikin carry in lifesaving at the 2001 World Games took place on 25 August 2001 at the Akita Prefectural Pool in Akita, Japan.

Competition format

A total of 25 athletes entered the competition. The best nine athletes from preliminary round qualifies to the final.

Results

Preliminary

Rank  Athlete                 Nation                          Time   Note
1     Jason O'Pray            [Australia] Australia           32.38  Q
2     Luke Turner             [Australia] Australia           33.02  Q
3     Pablo Terradillos       [Spain] Spain                   33.03  Q
4     Stephen Short           [Australia] Australia           33.29  Q
5     Francisco Jiménez       [Spain] Spain                   33.84  Q
6     Maik Hofmann            [Germany] Germany               33.86  Q
7     Matthias Löwenberg      [Germany] Germany               34.32  Q
8     Thorsten Laurent        [Germany] Germany               34.67  Q
9     Francisco Amat          [Spain] Spain                   35.12  Q
10    Renaat Dreesen          [Belgium] Belgium               35.60
11    Danilo Mollari          [Italy] Italy                   35.86
12    Federico De Marco       [Italy] Italy                   35.95
13    Ryan Butcher            [South Africa] South Africa     36.02
14    Federico Mastrostefano  [Italy] Italy                   36.07
15    Graeme Willcox          [South Africa] South Africa     36.57
16    Hans Vijge              [Netherlands] Netherlands       37.12
17    Nick Polkinghorne       [United Kingdom] Great Britain  37.87
18    Gary Kurth              [South Africa] South Africa     37.99
19    Takuya Iritani          [Japan] Japan                   38.07
20    Hugo Byman              [Netherlands] Netherlands       38.16
21    Bart Laumen             [Netherlands] Netherlands       38.64
22    Ryan Cox                [United Kingdom] Great Britain  39.16
23    Masahiro Hayashi        [Japan] Japan                   39.61
24    Ryan Brown              [United Kingdom] Great Britain  40.04
25    Futoshi Kikuchi         [Japan] Japan                   40.68

Final


Final

Rank                             Athlete             Nation                 Time
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    Pablo Terradillos   [Spain] Spain          32.51
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Jason O'Pray        [Australia] Australia  32.72
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Stephen Short       [Australia] Australia  32.76
4                                Luke Turner         [Australia] Australia  33.33
5                                Francisco Jiménez   [Spain] Spain          33.60
6                                Matthias Löwenberg  [Germany] Germany      33.76
7                                Maik Hofmann        [Germany] Germany      34.10
8                                Thorsten Laurent    [Germany] Germany      34.46
                                 Francisco Amat      [Spain] Spain          DSQ

  * Results on IWGA website


Crazy World (Aslan song)

"Crazy World" is a single by the Dublin group Aslan released in 1993. Taken from the album Goodbye Charlie Moonhead, the song reached number four on the Irish Singles Chart and stayed in the charts for three months, becoming one of the most played songs on Irish radio in 1993. The song also won "Single of The Year" at 1993's Hot Press Awards.

Chart positions

Chart (1993)    Peak
                position
Ireland (IRMA)  4

  * Youtube Video


Bye Baby

"Bye Baby" is a song by hip hop recording artist Nas, from his 2012 album Life Is Good. The song was produced by 40 and Nas's frequent collaborator Salaam Remi. Sampling "Goodbye Love" by Guy, the song recounts Nas's failed marriage with Kelis.

Background

"Bye Baby" was produced by Noah "40" Shebib and Salaam Remi, a regular collaborator who has been producing for Nas since his 2001 album Stillmatic. Remi and Nas were able to work with 40 through his manager, whom Remi had a close relationship with.GuyAaron Hall's vocals. 40 allowed Remi to lead the production credit, as the original sample was his idea.

Music Video

A music video for "Bye Baby" was released on August 30, 2012. Scenes include Nas rapping in an empty home, attending divorce proceedings, viewing old film of his wedding, and imagery that directly references the cover of Life Is Good.Aaron Hall of Guy, whose vocals are sampled from the 1988 song "Goodbye Love". The video was directed by Aristotle Torres.

Reception

The song was highlighted on multiple year-end lists. Billboard critics named "Bye Baby" the 14th best song of 2012.

Credits and personnel

The credits for "The Don" are adapted from the liner notes of Life Is Good.

Recording
  * Recorded at: Instrument Zoo Studios in Miami, Florida, and Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood, California.
Personnel
  * Nas – songwriting, vocals
  * Salaam Remi – songwriting, production, guitar
  * Noah "40" Shebib – songwriting, production, drums, keyboards, mixing
  * Gleyder Disla – recording
  * Brian Summer – recording
  * Chris Gehringer – mastering
Samples
  * Contains samples of "Goodbye Love", performed by Guy and written by Timmy Gatling, Gene Griffin, Aaron Hall, and Teddy Riley.


Michel Vuillermet

Michel Vuillermet (13 March 1950 – 16 February 2021) was a French film director.

Biography

After studying modern humanities and history, Vuillermet joined the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. Originally a cameraman, he first directed a film in 1980 with Le Règlement intérieur.Cannes Film Festival. He would also direct several documentaries for television.

Michel Vuillermet died on 16 February 2021, at the age of 70, twenty five days short from his 71st birthday.

Filmography

  * Le Règlement intérieur (1980)
  * Le Cahier bleu clair (1981)
  * Le piano des sondes (1981)
  * Le Trio en mi bémol (1990)
  * Rythme et mélodie de l'Océan Indien (1991)
  * Nous, enfants du rock (1992)
  * Le Grand méchant Zouc (1993)
  * Les Mille compagnons (1994)
  * Humanitaires face à a guerre (1995)
  * André Malraux (1996)
  * Afrique rouge (1997)
  * Lucien Bodard ou Lulu le Chinois (1998)
  * Superphenix ou Le Chaudron Magique (1999)
  * Zafair Kaya (2000)
  * Algérie, mémoires du raï (2001)
  * Saddam Hussein, le maître de Bagdad (2002)
  * Jean Malaurie, l'appel du Nord (2003)
  * Côte d'ivoire, gagnons la paix (2004)
  * Edouard VIII d’Angleterre, la faillite d'un roi (2004)
  * Edmond Charlot, éditeur algérois (2005)
  * Klimt ou le testament d'Adèle (2006)
  * Léopold III ou la chute d'un roi (2007)
  * Evian 38, la conférence de la peur (2009)
  * Marie-Curie, au-delà du mythe (2011)


Hypochilus gertschi

Hypochilus gertschi, or Gertsch's lampshade-web spider, is a species of lampshade weaver in the family Hypochilidae. It is found in the United States.


Marisa Maria Louise Micallef

Marisa Maria Louise Micallef was the Maltese Ambassador to the United States. She replaced Joseph Cole who was ambassador for less than a year.

In April 2015, Micallef presented her Letters of Credence as High Commissioner to the Bahamas.

Biography

Micallef attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in Malta before graduating from the University of Malta with a degree in French and English. For the ten years prior to her appointment, she was the chairperson of Malta's housing authority. Her cousin Mark Micallef was Malta's ambassador to Spain.


Islands of Shanghai

A false-color image of northeastern Shanghai: Chongming forms the northern bank of this channel of the Yangtze while Changxing (L) and Hengsha (R) lie midstream. The four shoals of Jiuduansha lie to the southeast, off the coast of Pudong.

The islands of Shanghai are those under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai municipal government. They comprise three large inhabited islands and a shifting number of smaller, uninhabited ones. Most are alluvial islands in the Yangtze River Delta in China, although a number of islands in Hangzhou Bay off Jinshan District are also administered by Shanghai. The alluvial islands are relatively young and their number varies over time. In 2006, the city's 19 uninhabited islands covered 226.27 square kilometers (87.36 sq mi), with a total coastline length of 309 kilometers (192 mi).

The Yangshan area of the Port of Shanghai is also located on two islands, Greater and Lesser Yangshan in Hangzhou Bay, but these are administered as part of Zhejiang's Shengsi County.

Chongming County

Main articles: Chongming Island and Hengsha Island

All three inhabited islands of Shanghai are alluvial islands in the Yangtze estuary between the Municipality of Shanghai and Jiangsu Province. They are administered as Chongming County, with its seat at Chengqiao on Chongming Island. The county was added to Shanghai from Jiangsu in 1958 and remains mostly rural: In 2008, its registered population of 693 000 included 450 300 farmers.

Chongming Island (崇明岛) (1,267 km2 or 489 sq miisland of mainland China (after Hainan). The natural expansion of the island has been greatly accelerated by reclamation projects, which doubled its size between 1950 and 2010. This growth caused it to absorb the former island of Yonglongsha, creating a long pene-exclave of Jiangsu on its northern shore administered as the townships of Haiyong and Qilong. The island was connected to Changxing by the Yangtze Bridge in 2009Qidong in Jiangsu by the Chongqi Bridge in 2011.Chonghai Bridge, to Haimen in Jiangsu, remains under constructionS7 (Huchong) Expressway call for the creation of a bridge directly from Baoshan District to Chengqiao.


Islands of Shanghai

Changxing Island (长兴岛) (88.54 km2 or 34.19 sq miHuangpu, the major river of central Shanghai. It is connected to Chongming by the Yangtze Bridge and Shanghai's Pudong New Area by the Yangtze Tunnel.

Hengsha Island (横沙岛) (55.74 km2 or 21.52 sq mi

Pudong New Area

Main article: Jiuduansha

Jiuduansha is an intertidal wetland. The 114.6 km2 (44.2 sq mi) area above sea level comprises four major shoals: Upper, Middle, Lower, and South Jiuduansha.6 meters or 20 feet (occupying an additional 308.6 km2 or 119.2 sq mi) form the Jiuduansha Wetland Nature Reserve, a nationally-protected area of Shanghai.Yangtze floods of the late 1940s and early 1950s,Pudong during the construction of Shanghai's international airport in the 1990s.cordgrass introduced in 1995 has succeeded in stabilizing the shoals but is now considered to be highly invasive, displacing the native reeds and bullrushes5 square kilometers (1.9 sq mi) of the island, are planned to increase public awareness and support.

Jinshan District

Dajinshan Island (t 大金山島, s 大金山岛, p Dàjīnshān Dǎo, lit. "Greater Gold Mountain Island"), Xiaojinshan Island ("Lesser Gold Mountain Island"), and Fushan Island in Jinshan District are nature reserves under city jurisdiction.Hangzhou Bay. Dajinshan has the highest point in Shanghai with an elevation of 103.4 meters (339 ft).

  * Islands of China
  * "Islands and Shoals of Shanghai" at the Office of Shanghai Chronicles (in Chinese)


Leucopeus

In Greek mythology, Leucopeus (Ancient Greek: Λευκωπεύς) was a Calydonian prince as the son of King Porthaon and Euryte. He was the brother of Oeneus (successor of their father as king of Calydon), Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, and Sterope.

Note

  * Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.


HD 175535

HD 175535 is a binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.92, light years away, as determined from its annual parallax shift of 10.8 mas.radial velocity of +8.5 km/s.

The binary nature of this system was announced by W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observatory in 1911. It is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 2.66 years (972.84 d) and an eccentricity of 0.342. The a sin i value for the visible component is 73.4±0.6 Gm, where a is the semimajor axis and i is the (unknown) orbital inclination.0.49 AU.

The visible component appears to be an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of G7 IIIa Fe−1,atmosphere. It is 320mass of the Sun and about 13Sun's radius. The star is radiating 219Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,024 K.


Hestad, Vestland

Hestad is a village in Sunnfjord Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the river Gaula (between the lakes Viksdalsvatnet and Hestadfjorden—the river runs through both lakes). The village is located just north of a very small peninsula that is about 20 metres (66 ft) wide by 400 metres (1,300 ft) long. The peninsula juts south into the river, separating the two lakes. The forested peninsula is the site of Hestad Chapel and it has been a church site for centuries. There was originally an old stave church on the site that was built in the 14th century.

There is a bridge from the peninsula to the south side of the river, part of the Fv.610 highway. Hestad is located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the municipal center, Sande and about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of the village of Vik.


Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013

The Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013 (previously referred to as the "Integrated action programme in the field of lifelong learning" or the "Integrated programme") was the European Union programme for education and training.

Introduction

The Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013 was established by Decision No.1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006.European Union's 2007–2013 financial perspective. The Programme continued the main actions launched under previous action programmes (in particular, it brings together the various actions financed under the Socrates programme and the Leonardo da Vinci programme). It had six sub-programmes:

  * The Comenius programme, supporting actions for schools (from pre-primary schools to upper secondary or equivalent)
  * The Erasmus programme, supporting exchanges of students in higher education, as well as cooperation between universities and colleges, etc.;
  * The Leonardo da Vinci programme, supporting actions in initial and continuing vocational education and training (including student and apprentice exchanges, cooperation between colleges, etc.)
  * The Grundtvig programme, supporting actions in the field of adult education
  * The Transversal programme covering activities in four themed areas across all sectors of education and training: policy cooperation and innovation in education and training; foreign language teaching; development of ICT-based content and services, such as Euroguidance and Ploteus;
  * The Jean Monnet Programme, supporting institutions and actions in favour of European integration.

Objectives

The Programme's objectiveslifelong learning (a reference to the first paragraphs of Articles 149 and 150 of the Treaty of Rome, which establish the European Union's duties in education and training in those terms); and thereafter to help member states of the European Union develop their own education and training systems. Although the objectives are expressed in somewhat abstract terms, they are underpinned by actions which concentrate on the creation of links between people, institutions and countries in education and training – what the programme describes as the "European Dimension" of education and training.

Actions supported

The programme supports exchanges and connections between people, institutions and countries within the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Exchanges between individuals

These include (for example):


Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013

Exchanges between individuals

These include (for example):

  * Erasmus Student exchanges of between 3 and 12 months, in which students leave their home university and follow an agreed part of their course at another university in another country. No additional fees are payable, and the course is recognised by the home institution as part of course-work for the degree. Over 150,000 students did Erasmus student exchanges in the academic year 2005/6, and the cumulative total since 1987 is over 1,500,000.
  * In-service training courses in school or adult education. The Comenius and Grundtvig programmes support participation in specific short

Exchanges between institutions

These include (for example):

  * Developing partnerships between schools in different countries ("Comenius partnerships") to run joint projects for and with their pupils.
  * Similar projects are supported in the field of adult education by the Grundtvig programme.
  * Joint projects run by universities in different countries to develop joint curricula, run short-term intensive programmes, or establish thematic networks in different disciplines

Connections between countries

These include (for example):

  * Study visits for regional and national administrators in education, training and guidance
  * Networks of national experts working together on issues of common interest.
  * Publication of comparable statistics indicating how the various education and training systems are progressing.

Programme mechanics

The management of the programme was very largely decentralised to a network of "national agencies", nominated by the participating countries.European Commission itself or through its Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency – a public agency funded by the Commission and operating on its behalf.

Funding

The Programme has an indicative total budget of €6.970 billion over the seven years 2007–2013. Minimum seven-year allocations for each of the four bigger programmes are laid down

 1. Erasmus programme: 40% (€2.788 billion)
 2. Leonardo da Vinci programme: 25% (€1.743 billion)
 3. Comenius programme: 13% (€0.906 billion)
 4. Grundtvig programme: 4% (€0.279 billion)


Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013

The remaining budget was to be spent on other actions and administrative costs. Experience of previous programmes suggests that the final seven-year budget will slightly exceed the current estimate

  * European Union — The Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013
  * EST, the database for Partnerships projects in Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig
  * European Union funded education project "PopuLLar – Music and Language Learning" (acronym PopuLLar)
  * CLIOH-WORLD CLIOH-WORLD: Network of Universities supported by the European Commission (LLP-Erasmus) for the researching, teaching and learning of the history of the EU, including History of EU Integration, EU-Turkey dialogue, and linking to world history.


Janot

Janot is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

  * Denis Janot (1529–1544), French printer and bookseller
  * Jérémie Janot (born 1977), French footballer
  * Raymond Janot (1917–2000), French politician
  * Rodrigo Janot (born 1956), former Prosecutor General of Brazil
  * Janota


Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)

Hohenfels Castle (German: Burg Hohenfels), also called Schloss Hohenfels or New Hohenfels (Neu-Hohenfels) is a mediaeval spur castle in which a boarding school was housed until July 2017. The castle stands within the parish of Kalkofen, over a kilometre north of the village itself, which is part of the municipality of Hohenfels in the county of Konstanz in Germany. The castle gave its name to the municipality of Hohenfels which was created in 1973.

Location

The castle is located around eight kilometres east of Stockach and twelve kilometres north of Lake Constance, on the spur of a south-tilting kuppe of a forested hill ridge.

History

Hohenfels Castle has more than 700 years of history. It was founded by the lords of Hohenfels and was the family seat of the Neu-Hohenfels, a branch of Alt-Hohenfels with its family seat at Hohenfels in Bonndorf in the county of Konstanz, who had settled here in the 12th century. Hohenfels Castle was first mentioned in 1292 as "Neuhohenfels".

The Neuhohenfels line died out in 1352, and the Barony of Neuhohenfels, including its castle, passed by marriage to the lords of Jungingen, who managed to largely reunite the two Hohenfels estates in the early 15th century through marriage. After flourishing for a short period, the family territory was divided again in 1441 into the Jungingen-Althohenfels and Jungingen-Neuhohenfels estates and fell into decay.

After the death in 1501 of the last male member of the Jungingen family, Ulrich of Jungingen, in 1506 his sister Anna sold the Barony of Neuhohenfels to the Teutonic Order.Landkomturei Altshausen of the Teutonic Order Bailiwick of Alsace and Burgundy. For exactly 300 years, from 1506 to 1806, the Teutonic Order dominated Altshausen influenced the Barony of Hohenfels. In 1553 and 1642 there were fires at the castle.


Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)

In 1806, the Teutonic Order estate of Hohenfels, which was managed by an Obervogtei (senior advocate's office), and which included Hohenfels Castle as well as the villages of Deutwang, Kalkofen, Liggersdorf, Mindersdorf and Selgetsweiler, together with the Teutonic Order estate of Achberg came under the sovereignty of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and was incorporated into the Obervogtei of Hohenfels.

The castle passed through the hands of the princely House of Hohenzollern to the School of Schloss Salem. The school sold the castle in 2018. The new owner transformed the castle into a convention centre.

Literature


Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)

* Christian H. Freitag: Hohenfelser Geschichten - erzählt nach Dokumenten der Zeit. In: Dr. Fredy Meyer (ed.): Römer Ritter Regenpfeifer. Streifzüge durch die Kulturlandschaft westlicher Bodensee, Konstanz, 1995, pp. 83–97
  * Christian H. Freitag: Von 'Hohenvels nova' zur Schule Burg Hohenfels. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat, 2/2000, pp. 17–20 and 3/2000, pp. 42–44
  * Christian H. Freitag: Des einen Leid, des andern Freud! - Die Umwidmung des Hohenfelser Burggefängnisses zu einem Hohenfels-Museum. In: Hegau Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Volkskunde und Naturgeschichte des Gebietes zwischen Rhein, Donau und Bodensee, 61/ 2004, pp. 179–184
  * Walther Genzmer (ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler Hohenzollerns. Band 2. Kreis Sigmaringen. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.
  * Otto Glaeser: Brief Walther's von Hohenfels an Konrad von Jungingen 1397. In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Band 5. 1938. pp. 360–361
  * Otto Glaeser: Die Herrschaften Alt- und Neu-Hohenfels und ihre Besitzer im Mittelalter. In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Band 1. 1934. pp. 65–112
  * Otto Glaeser: Die Herrschaften Alt- und Neu-Hohenfels und ihre Besitzer im Mittelalter. In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Band 2. 1935. pp. 67–112


Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)

* Otto Glaeser: Die Herrschaften Alt- und Neu-Hohenfels und ihre Besitzer im Mittelalter. In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Band 3. 1936. pp. 65–119
  * Otto Glaeser: Die Herrschaften Alt- und Neu-Hohenfels und ihre Besitzer im Mittelalter. In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte. Band 4. 1937. pp. 1–58
  * Eugen Gradmann: Kunsthistorischer Wanderführer. Württemberg und Hohenzollern. Chr. Belser AG. Stuttgart-Zürich, 1970. p. 489 ISBN 3-88199-137-9
  * Max Miller (ed.): Handbuch der historischen Stätten Deutschlands - Bd. 6: Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 1965
  * Otto Seydel:Rituale - Feier - Begehung. Das Beispiel der Schule Burg Hohenfels. pp. 140–151. In: Michael Wermke (ed.): Rituale und Inszenierungen in Schule und Unterricht. LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 1997. ISBN 3825832791
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels).


Hohenfels Castle (Hohenfels)

"Hohenfels (Neu-Hohenfels)". Alle Burgen (in German).


Michel Wintsch

Michel Wintsch (born 1964) is a Swiss avant-garde jazz composer and pianist who has worked with musicians such as Franz Koglmann and Gerry Hemingway.Monkey's Touch.

Discography

  * Yves Massy (1993). Nocturne Schématique. Unit.
  * The Michel Wintsch Sextet (1994). Autour de Bartók. Unit.
  * Michel Wintsch; Martin Schütz; Gerry Hemingway (1994). Wintsch/Schütz/Hemingway. Unit.
  * Rosetta (1995). Lune Rousse. Unit.
  * Michel Wintsch (1996). Minimum Wital/Yourcenar Echos. Unit.
  * Michel Wintsch (1999). Identity. Leo.
  * Michel Wintsch (1999). Michel Wintsch & Road Movie. Between the Lines.
  * Michel Wintsch (2001). Sharing the Thirst. Leo.
  * Christophe Berthet; Vinz Vonlanthen (2002). Effet Papillon. Unit.
  * Who Trio (2004). The Current Underneath. Leo.
  * WWW (2006). WWW. Leo.
  * Michel Wintsch. Waamat. Unit.
  * The Official Website of Michel Wintsch


Crisis (Ornette Coleman album)

Crisis is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded at New York University in 1969 and released on the Impulse! label.

In 2017, Real Gone Music reissued Crisis on CD as part of a compilation that also included Ornette at 12.

Reception

Brian Olewnick's AllMusic review awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "Crisis somehow lacks the reputation of the revolutionary Coleman albums from early in his career, but on purely musical grounds it ranks among his most satisfying works".

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source                               Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated
 1. "Broken Shadows" – 5:59
 2. "Comme Il Faut" – 14:26
 3. "Song for Ché" (Charlie Haden) – 11:32
 4. "Space Jungle" – 5:20
 5. "Trouble in the East" – 6:39
  * Recorded at New York University in New York City on March 22, 1969.

Personnel

  * Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone, trumpet, violin
  * Don Cherry – cornet, Indian flute
  * Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  * Charlie Haden – bass
  * Denardo Coleman – drums


Marisa Maresca

Marisa Maresca (17 July 1923 - 18 August 1988) was an Italian showgirl, soubrette,Lidia Martora, was the wife of Peppino De Filippo. In 1938, at the age of 15, Maresca joined the company of Erminio Macario, becoming one of the comedy performers in Turin. Over the next decade, she worked with Carlo Dapporto, where, in imitation of Josephine Baker, Maresca appeared on stage in a thong and bra of bananas. In other shows, she performed topless, while in still others, she wore only the heads of three black fox to cover the appropriate areas. In 1946, she created her own company, and a few months later, she took on a young novice comedian, Walter Chiari, with whom she began a relationship. In 1950, she retired from acting to marry Count Corrado Agusta, owner (with his brothers) of Agusta; they had a son Richard, nicknamed Rocky. Maresca's husband left her for Francesca Vacca Graffagni.

  * Autori vari (a cura di Felice Cappa e Piero Gelli), Dizionario dello Spettacolo del '900, Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore, 1998, ISBN 8880892959, scheda Maresca, Marisa (in Italian)
  * AA.VV. Sentimental il teatro di rivista italiano, Almanacco Bompiani 1975 (in Italian)


Charles Ludington

Charles Ludington may refer to:

  * Charles Cameron Ludington, professor and specialist in the history of the wine industry
  * Charles Townsend Ludington (1896–1968), businessman and socialite of Philadelphia


Leuconostoc rapi

Leuconostoc rapi is a Gram-positive bacterium from the genus of Leuconostoc which has been isolated from a rutabaga in Finland.


Bremer County Court House

The Bremer County Court House in Waverly, Iowa, United States, was built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as a part of the PWA-Era County Courthouses of IA Multiple Properties Submission.

History

Bremer County's first courthouse was a small frame building used from 1854-1857. It was replaced by a two-story brick structure measuring 63 by 43 feet (19 by 13 m) at a cost of $23,000.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s conversations were held at various times concerning a new courthouse to replace the 1857 structure, which had become too small. The county applied for funding from the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1935 to assist with construction costs and received approval of the request of $60,750. This is one of ten courthouses in Iowa that received PWA funds. County supervisors retained Waterloo architect Mortimer Cleveland to design the new building and a debate began about moving the county seat to Tripoli, the supervisors tabled it. In March 1936, voters approved a referendum to fund the rest of the construction costs. Drape Construction Co. of Tripoli received the contract to build the building, and work commenced in October 1936 and was completed the following summer. Final construction cost was $119,000. The June 6, 1937 dedication ceremony seen by 1,500 people.Iowa Supreme Court and P.P. Hopkins, the State PWA Director, were the featured speakers. After the new courthouse was dedicated the old courthouse, as well as an old music pavilion and a fountain, were taken down from the square.

Architecture

The architectural style of the building is known as Depression Modern or PWA Moderne. The building features a symmetrical façade with a central section of 3½ stories that is flanked by two lower sections of 2½ stories over a raised basement. The exterior is clad in brick and Kasota stone, a cream-colored limestone. A central corridor extends the length of the building on each floor and office spaces extend from the corridors.terrazzo floors, marble wainscoting, and acoustic tile.


Bremer County Court House

The building is located on the courthouse square on the east side of the central business district where the previous courthouse was also located. Two elements on the courthouse square, which itself is a contributing site, are contributing objects on the building's nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.Statue of Liberty (1950), which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

Media related to Bremer County Courthouse at Wikimedia Commons


Cala Pass

31°28′25.2″S 27°43′24.3″E / 31.473667°S 27.723417°E Cala Pass is a high-altitude mountain pass situated in the Eastern Cape, province of South Africa, on the R410 Regional road, between Elliot and Cala.

It is one of four passes between Queenstown and Elliot and has a gradient of 1:19, in places 1:9; the altitude differential is almost 300 metres (980 ft) over 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi).


Kitan Strait

The Kitan Strait, separating Awaji Island from Honshū

The Kitan Strait (紀淡海峡, Kitan kaikyō) or Tomogashima Channel (友ヶ島水道, Tomogashima suidō) separates Awaji Island from Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan and connects the Osaka Bay in the north to the Kii Channel in the south. The total width is 11 km, but the islands of Tomogashima reduce the distance to be spanned by a proposed bridge.strait forms part of the Setonaikai National Park.

  * Akashi Strait

34°16′32″N 135°00′38″E / 34.2756°N 135.01047°E


Janosch Dahmen

Janosch Dahmen (born 6 September 1981) is a German physician and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2020, representing the Hagen – Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I district.

Early life and education

Born in Berlin, Dahmen first studied political science at University of Innsbruck for a year before moving to medicine.

From 2018 until 2020, Dahmen worked as medical director of the Berlin Fire Brigade.

Political career

Dahmen joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 1998. From 2010 until 2018, he was part of the party's leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia, under co-chairs Sven Lehmann and Mona Neubaur.

Dahmen became a member of the Bundestag in 2020 when he replaced Katja Dörner who had resigned.rapporteur on digital health.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Dahmen was part of his party's delegation in the working group on health, co-chaired by Katja Pähle, Maria Klein-Schmeink and Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus.

Other activities

  * Witten/Herdecke University, Member of the Supervisory Board
  * German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), Member

Political positions

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Dahmen joined forces with six other parliamentarians – Dirk Wiese, Heike Baehrens, Dagmar Schmidt, Till Steffen, Katrin Helling-Plahr and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann – on a cross-party initiative in 2022 to support legislation that would have required all adults to be vaccinated.

Personal life

Dahmen is married and has three children. The family lives in Berlin's Kreuzberg district.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Janosch Dahmen.
  * Bundestag biography (in German)


Hohenfelde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Hohenfelde (German pronunciation: [hoːənˈfɛldə] (listen)) is a municipality in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.


Michel Zumkeller

Michel Zumkeller (born 21 January 1966 in Belfort) is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), part of the Radical Party,National Assembly of France,Territoire de Belfort department.

In parliament, Zumkeller serves on the Finance Committee. He was previously a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education (2017-2020) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2009-2020).

He lost his seat in the first round of the 2022 French legislative election.


Crisilla semistriata

Crisilla semistriata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

  * Little, C.; Morritt, D.; Seaward, D.R.; Williams, G.A. (1989). Distribution of intertidal molluscs in lagoonal shingle (The Fleet, Dorset, U.K.). J. Conch., Lond. 33: 225-232


Luke Booth

Luke Booth at Packaging Innovation show London 2011

Luke Booth is a product designer and inventor. Booth, and his uncle Christopher Eves, successfully participated in the BBC television show, Dragons' Den and received investment to launch their packaging solutions for the FMCG

Background

Booth studied Product Design at the Central Saint Martins (CSM) in London. He won a Starpack Gold star for the BevBax food and drink carrier that rips open into a tray.

Dragons Den

Co-founders of P4CK, Booth and Eves appeared on BBC's Dragons' Den Episode 11 Series 10.

The pair faced a grilling by the Dragons and originally pitched for £50,000 funding for 10% equity. Theo Paphitis liked the idea and said that he was willing to back the idea,

Products

Flexicarry- Food carrier, supplied flat. Internationally patented; uses 40% less raw material than a card carrier and balances with 1, 2, 3 or 4 pints. Health and safety accredited for stadia.

BevBax- Carry food and drink in one hand.

Bax- retail packaging employing cardboard sleeve and bag, reducing packaging weight, High visibility shelf presence, Can be used where foil wrap or vacuum pack are required.

Carrybar

Carrybar- P4CK launched its new drinks carrier, the CarryBar, at the Twickenham stadium on Saturday 17 November, at the QBE Internationals; England v. Australia match. Can carry four pints of beer. Some 100,000 carriers were produced by Benson Group with Guinness and Greene King IPA branding. The Carrybar employs a central bar mechanism, and uses 33% less material than a comparable product.

A 3-sided Christmas cracker.

3-Sided Christmas cracker

  *
  *
  *
  *
  *
  *


Château de Gironville

The Château de Gironville is a château in Macau, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

45°00′46″N 0°37′02″W / 45.01278°N 0.61722°W


Leucophlebia vietnamensis

Leucophlebia vietnamensis is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Vietnam.


Building at 1401–1407 Elmwood Avenue

The Building at 1401–1407 Elmwood Avenue is a historic rowhouse building at 1401–1407 Elmwood Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Built in 1890, the three-story building includes four rowhouse units. It was one of several rowhouses built in the late nineteenth century in Evanston; these rowhouses were a precursor to Evanston's many suburban apartments, which also offered house-like living in a multi-unit setting. Architect Stephen A. Jennings, a prominent Evanston architect who designed several of Evanston's large single-family homes, designed the building. The building's design includes a large central gable, enclosed porches supported by arches on the corner units, porches with shed roofs on the central units, and a bracketed wooden cornice.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.


Cala Foods

Cala Foods was a supermarket chain operating in San Francisco, California. Cala Foods was the sister chain to Bell Markets. The last Cala Foods store closed its doors on December 1, 2011.

History

Cala Foods was established in 1947 by the seven brothers of the Cala family. Cala Foods acquired the QFI supermarket chain in 1973. The company merged with Bell Markets in the mid-1970s. Bell Markets was founded in the 1940s when Dominick Bell and his two brothers opened a supermarket in San Francisco.

Cala Foods was the first supermarket chain in San Francisco to stay open 24 hours per day, and one of the first in the US to use checkout scanners.Santa Clara County and as far north as Marin County.

The Cala Foods chain was purchased by the Yucaipa Companies in 1988.Ralphs Grocery Company when Ralphs merged with Yucaipa. In August 2006, Ralphs reached an agreement to sell 11 of 13 Cala and Bell stores back to Harley DeLano, previous manager of the chain. While DeLano retains the right to use the Cala and Bell store names, Kroger retains ownership of the names themselves. In January 2007, DeLano Retail Partners took control of all but one Cala Foods stores and immediately rebranded the stores to DeLano's IGA. In late 2010, it was announced that Delano's was struggling financially and that the majority of DeLano's IGA locations would be closing.

The store at the intersection of California and Hyde streets on San Francisco's Nob Hill was operated by Kroger and represented the last Cala Foods store until its closure on December 1, 2011. It was originally slated to close at the end of 2010, but would remain open for another year.

Following concerns that the distinctive building would be torn down, Trader Joe's instead opened a branch within it in 2012.

  * The Kroger Company
  * Groceteria article on QFI


Kitandililo

Kitandililo is a town and ward in Njombe Rural District in the Njombe Region of the Tanzanian Southern Highlands. Kitandililo Ward was created since the 2002 Tanzanian census, so the first population reports for the ward will be for the 2012 census. The town lies on both the north and south banks of the Mlenga River, and there is a station there on the TAZARA Railway which passes through the town.

The ward consists of four towns, or large villages: Kitandililo, Ibatu, Nyamande and Mbugani. Each of these has rural areas or small villages under them.

Kitandililo    Ibatu     Nyamande       Mbugani
Uhuru          Ibatu     Uchachikile    Mbugani
Mwongozo       Isaula    Nyamande       Ilongo
Madaraka                                Mtenga
Ulinzi                                  Itulike
Mfumbi                                  Kichangani

  * "Topographic map of Kitandililo".
  * "Map of Kitandililo".

www.tansaniahilfe-ismaning.de


Janov (Bruntál District)

Janov (German: Johannesthal) is a town in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants, which makes it one of the least populated towns in the country.

Geography

Janov is located about 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Bruntál. It is situated in the Osoblažsko microregion, on the border with Poland. The town lies in the valley of the river Osoblaha in the Zlatohorská Highlands. The highest point of the municipal territory is on the slopes of Solný vrch Hill at 860 m (2,820 ft) above sea level.

History

Church of the Holy Trinity

Janov was probably founded in 1251 by Bishop Bruno von Schauenburg as an agricultural forest village. From its inception until 1588, Janov was part of the Osoblaha estate, owned by the bishops of Olomouc. In 1535, it was promoted to a free mining town by bishop Stanislav I Thurzo. It was assumed that there are rich deposits of precious metals around the town and its mining will bring prosperity and wealth. Although the assumptions were not met and the mining ended in 1581, the already granted privileges helped the development of Janov and gave the town an urban character.

The prosperity ended with the Thirty Years' War, when Janov was occupied by the Swedish army. In 1741 during the War of the Austrian Succession, the town was burned down by Prussians. However, the town recovered. In 1938, Janov was annexed by the Nazi Germany. After the war, the German population was expelled and the town depopulated.

Demographics


Janov (Bruntál District)

Demographics

Historical population
Year  Pop.   ±%     Year  Pop.   ±%      Year  Pop.  ±%
1869  1,625  —      1921  1,073  −20.0%  1980  443   −18.4%
1880  1,615  −0.6%  1930  1,146  +6.8%   1991  385   −13.1%
1890  1,517  −6.1%  1950  404    −64.7%  2001  346   −10.1%
1900  1,394  −8.1%  1961  613    +51.7%  2011  272   −21.4%
1910  1,341  −3.8%  1970  543    −11.4%  2021  261   −4.0%

Source: Censuses

Sights

The square is considered architecturally valuable.

A regional museum is located on the premises of the town hall.

On the right bank of the Osoblaha there is a linden tree that can be up to 1000 years old. It is one of the oldest and largest trees in the country.

Notable people

  * Rudolf Mildner (1902–?), Austrian-German SS officer
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Janov (Bruntál District).
  * Official website


C27H22O18

The molecular formula C27H22O18 (molar mass: 634,43 g/mol, exact mass: 634.08062 u) may refer to:

  * Corilagin, an ellagitannin
  * Punicacortein A, an ellagitannin
  * Punicacortein B, an ellagitannin
  * Strictinin, an ellagitannin


Meyna

For the village in Iran, see Meyna, Iran.

Meyna is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.

Distribution

The genus is found in tropical Asia, except for Meyna tetraphylla that occurs in northeastern tropical Africa and the Comoros.

Taxonomy

Based on morphology, Meyna has been suggested as likely candidate for inclusion in the Canthium subgenus Canthium.molecular phylogenetic study showed that Meyna tetraphylla is related to Canthium and the transfer to Canthium was suggested.

Species

  * Meyna grisea (King & Gamble) Robyns
  * Meyna laxiflora Robyns
  * Meyna parviflora Robyns
  * Meyna peltata Robyns
  * Meyna pierrei Robyns
  * Meyna pubescens (Kurz) Robyns
  * Meyna spinosa Roxb. ex Link
  * Meyna tetraphylla (Schweinf. ex Hiern) Robyns
  * Meyna velutina Robyns
  * World Checklist of Rubiaceae


Crisis (disambiguation)

Look up crisis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A crisis is a traumatic or stressful change for a person, or an unstable and dangerous situation for a society.

Crisis may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

  * Crisis (Fleetway), a British comic
  * Crisis on Infinite Earths, by DC Comics, often called in-universe as just "The Crisis"

Films

  * Crisis (1939 film), a documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis
  * Crisis (1946 film), a film directed by Ingmar Bergman
  * Crisis (1950 film), a film directed by Richard Brooks
  * Crisis (1972 film), a film directed by Robert Bruning
  * Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, a 1963 documentary directed by Robert Drew
  * Crisis (2021 film), a film directed by Nicholas Jarecki

Music

Groups and labels

  * Crisis (band), a defunct punk rock group

Albums

  * Crisis (Alexisonfire album), a 2006 album by Alexisonfire
  * Crisis (Ornette Coleman album), a 1969 album by Ornette Coleman
  * Crisis? What Crisis?, a 1975 album by Supertramp

Songs

  * "Crisis", a 1961 song by Freddie Hubbard from Mosaic (Art Blakey album) and from Ready for Freddie
  * "Crisis", a 1978 song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from the album Kaya
  * "Crisis", a 1992 song by Fear Factory from Soul of a New Machine
  * "Crisis", a 2016 song by Anohni from Hopelessness (album)
  * "Crisis", a 2020 song by In Hearts Wake from Kaliyuga

Periodicals

  * Crisis Magazine, a publication of Sophia Institute Press
  * The Crisis (newspaper), a newspaper published during the first half of the American Civil War by Samuel Medary
  * The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP

Television


Crisis (disambiguation)

Television

  * "Crisis" (M*A*S*H), a 1974 episode of the CBS television series
  * Crisis (TV series), 2014 television series produced for NBC
  * Crisis, the alternate title for Kraft Suspense Theatre in syndicated reruns
  * "Crisis", episode 3 of the 1964 Doctor Who serial Planet of Giants; may also refer to the original recorded version that never aired

Literature

  * Crisis (Majfud novel), a 2012 novel by Jorge Majfud
  * Crisis (Cook novel), a 2006 novel in the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook

Economics

  * Crisis theory, a theory generally associated with Marxian economics
  * Financial crisis, a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value

Psychology

  * Existential crisis, when a person doubts if his or her existence has a purpose
  * Identity crisis (psychology)
  * Midlife crisis, several issues that confront some people aged from 40 to 55
      + Quarter-life crisis, a recently coined similar term for 20- to 30-year-olds
  * Suicidal crisis

Other uses

  * Crisis (charity) (formerly Crisis at Christmas), a British charity
  * Crisis (dynamical systems), the sudden appearance or disappearance of a strange attractor as the parameters of a dynamical system are varied
  * Chinese translation of crisis, popular misconception that "crisis" is translated "danger"+"opportunity"
  * climax (disambiguation)
  * Critical (disambiguation)
  * Crysis, a video game
  * Khrysis, American music producer
  * Emergency
  * The Crisis (disambiguation)
  * Crises (disambiguation)


Luke Bowen

For the Kenyan long-distance runner, see Luke Kibet Bowen.

Luke Alex Bowen (born 26 January 1986 in Harlow, Essex)motorcycle speedway rider from England, who rode with the Rye House Rockets in the Premier League.

Luke was with the Hoddesdon-based club for much of his career, racing at first with the Rye House Raiders before progressing to the Rockets after overcoming some serious injuries, winning the Premier League Championship in 2007. In 2016, Luke joined Kent Kings, skippering this National League team.

His father Kevin also rode for the Rye House Rockets in the early 1980s.


Château de Grâne

The Château de Grâne is a ruined castle in the commune of Grâne in the Drôme département of France.

The castle stands above the village of Grâne and is largely in ruins. Remains include sections of the curtain wall and a tower. The mounting for an old mullioned window and a spiral staircase are visible, as well as vaulted cellars from the 13th century.

view of Grâne Castle towers

History

Grâne's castle was one of the preferred dwellings of the Counts of Poitiers, who stored their archives and treasures there. The last Count of Poitiers, Louis II, having no legitimate male heir, was taken hostage at Grâne's castle for 15 days on 2 August 1416 by his cousins, Charles, the lord of Saint-Vallier, Drôme and the Bishop of Valence, Jean de Poitiers. They forced him to sign a will in their favour. Once freed, the old count tried to annul the will by remarrying but failed to have any children. The Pope finally revoked the testament, signed under duress.

The Domaine de Plaisance, comprising the castle in the village, as well as agricultural lands and a fortified house (maison fort), was created at the start of the 16th century by Bertrand Rabot, a Noble of the Robe. During the Wars of Religion (1562–98), the castle and particularly the maison fort were badly damaged. The Rabots returned in 1644 and renovated the buildings

In 1792, Duchesne, a lawyer from Grenoble, bought the castle and estate. He was later a delegate under the Directory and president of the Tribunat under the Consulate.

The castle, as part of the Domaine de Plaisance, has been listed since 1999 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

  * List of castles in France
  * Base Mérimée: Domaine de Plaisance, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

44°43′56″N 4°55′21″E / 44.73222°N 4.92250°E


Leucophlebia frederkingi

Leucophlebia frederkingi is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Thailand.


Building at 1316 Maple Avenue

The Building at 1316 Maple Avenue is a historic apartment building at 1316 Maple Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The three-story cream brick building was built in 1928. Architect Edward M. Sieja designed the building in the Tudor Revival style. The building's design includes limestone quoins, projecting bays, casement windows, and a parapet at the roof. The building's lobby features wooden ceiling beams and a mosaic tile floor, giving it the appearance of a castle's great hall.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1984.


HD 170873

HD 170873, also known as HR 6954 or rarely 19 G. Telescopii, is a solitary orange-hued star located in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.20,naked eye visibility. Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 551 light yearsradial velocity of 23.8 km/s.magnitudes due to interstellar dust,absolute magnitude of −0.31.

HD 170873 is an evolved red giant with a stellar classification of K2 III.mass of the Sun but at the age of 318 million years,Sun's radius.luminosity of the Sunphotosphere at an effective temperature of 4,473 K.metallicity at [Fe/H] = −0.01projected rotational velocity to be measured accurately.


Kızık, Manyas

Kızık is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Manyas, Balıkesir Province in Turkey.


Janosch Brugger

Janosch Brugger (born 6 June 1997) is a German cross-country skier.

He participated at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

Year  Age  15 km       30 km      50 km       Sprint  4 × 10 km  Team
           individual  skiathlon  mass start          relay      sprint
2022  24   20          —          —           38      5          23

a Distance reduced to 30 km due to weather conditions.

World Championships

  * 1 medal – (1 bronze)
Year  Age  15 km       30 km      50 km       Sprint  4 × 10 km  Team
           individual  skiathlon  mass start          relay      sprint
2019  21   18          —          —           41      —          14
2021  23   —           —          39          29      7          12
2023  25   31          —          —           30      Bronze     7

World Cup

Season standings

Season   Age       Discipline standings  Ski Tour standings
Overall  Distance  Sprint                U23                 Nordic   Tour de  Ski Tour  World Cup
                                                             Opening  Ski      2020      Final
2017     19        NC                    —                   NC       NC       —         —          —  —
2018     20        133                   86                  NC       23       —         DNF        —  —
2019     21        61                    43                  86       10       17        DNF        —  47
2020     22        NC                    NC                  NC       NC       40        DNF        —  —
2021     23        43                    38                  43       —        —         30         —  —
2022     24        37                    35                  43       —        —         19         —  —
2023     25        68                    40                  93       —        —         DNF        —  —

Individual podiums

  * 1 victory – (1 SWC)
  * 1 podium – (1 SWC)
No.  Season   Date             Location                      Race             Level            Place
 1   2018–19  2 December 2018  [Norway] Lillehammer, Norway  15 km Pursuit C  Stage World Cup  1st

  * Janosch Brugger at FIS (cross-country)
  * Janosch Brugger at Olympedia


C26H44N7O17P3S

The molecular formula C26H44N7O17P3S (molar mass: 851.65 g/mol, exact mass: 851.1727 u) may refer to:

  * Isovaleryl-CoA
  * 2-Methylbutyryl-CoA


Meyomessala

Meyomessala is a town and commune in Cameroon.

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

2°43′13″N 11°42′24″E / 2.7203°N 11.7068°E


Comment spam

Comment spam is a term referencing a broad category of spambot or spammer postings which abuse web-based forms to post unsolicited advertisements as comments on forums, blogs, wikis and online guestbooks. Related topics include:

  * Forum spam, posts on Internet forums that contains related or unrelated advertisements, links to malicious websites, and abusive or otherwise unwanted information
  * Newsgroup spam, a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups
  * Social spam, unwanted spam content appearing on social networks and any website with user-generated content
  * Spam in blogs, a form of spamdexing done by posting random comments, copied material, or promotion of commercial services
  * Troll (Internet), a person who sows discord on the Internet
  * Hit-and-run posting, a tactic where a poster at an Internet forum enters, makes a post, only to disappear immediately after
  * Sockpuppet (Internet), an online identity used for purposes of deception
  * Astroturfing, the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization
  * Comment (disambiguation)
  * State-sponsored Internet sockpuppetry


María Chinchilla Recinos

María Chinchilla in 1940

María Chinchilla Recinos, commonly known as María Chinchilla, (2 September 1909 – 25 June 1944) was a Guatemalan schoolteacher who was assassinated by the cavalry of General Jorge Ubico while taking part in a peaceful anti-government demonstration. She is honoured as a national heroine.

Biography

Born in Asunción Mita in the Department of Jutiapa, Chinchilla qualified as a primary school teacher in Jalapa in 1927, the best student in her class. After teaching in Asunción Mita, she moved to Guatemala City in 1932 where she taught in several institutions.

In 1944, the schoolteachers submitted a request for an increase in salary to the country's dictator, General Ubico, while students from San Carlos University called for the university's independence. Discontent increased to such a point that on 25 June 1944, some 300 school teachers dressed in mourning embarked on a peaceful demonstration at the Church of St. Francis (five blocks from the National Palace) calling for freedom, democracy and the resignation of the dictator. Chinchilla, one of the demonstration's organizers, was among those who were killed when the government sent out troops and the cavalry to put an end to the protest. She was buried in the city's main cemetery where her tomb is known as the Panteón del Maestro (Teacher's Pantheon). Chincilla is now regarded as a martyr and national heroine, having brought about Ubico's resignation five days after the demonstration.

On 6 July 1944, the Guatemalan teachers' association Asociación Nacional de Maestros resolved that 25 June would be celebrated annually as the Dia del Maestro (The Schoolteacher's Day) in memory of María Chinchilla Recinos.

  * Móbil, José Antonio (2010). La Década Revolucionaria 1944-1954 (in Spanish). Serviprensa Centroamericana. ISBN 978-9929-554-42-9.
  * Ramírez Rodríguez, Oscar Enrique (2009). Profesora María Chinchilla Recinos: centenario de su nacimiento (2 de septiembre de 1909 2 de septiembre de 2009) (in Spanish). USAID.


Château de Gudanes

The Château de Gudanes is an 18th-century neoclassical château in the commune of Château-Verdun, in the southern French department of Ariège. It is built on the site of an older castle destroyed in 1580. The château has been a designated monument historique since 1994,

History

A sketch of the earlier Château de Gudanes as it looked in 1669

Ruins of the medieval Château Verdun

The commune of Château-Verdun takes its name from a medieval fort that once stood on the site. The first documented existence of a structure was in 1213 when it was counted among the fortifications in the County of Foix by Raymond-Roger, Count of Foix in his report to the Counts of Toulouse. At the beginning of the 14th century, Pierre Arnaud de Château-Verdun was recorded as Seneschal of the County of Foix.

Château Verdun came into the possession of the de Sales (or de Salles) de Lordat family, which came to prominence in the 10th century and amassed considerable wealth and power in Toulouse.

In the 1560s, during the French Wars of Religion, the barony of Gudanes (alternatively spelled Gudannes, Gudanne, Gudaigne and Guadagne) belonged to Fantillon de Sales, a prominent Huguenot. In 1567, the Huguenots of Pamiers fled to the village of Cabannes, where they were massacred by Catholic troops from Castelnau-Durban on 25 May 1567. On 27 September 1568, Fantillon de Sales led a retaliatory attack, slaughtering many Catholics in Tarascon. In 1580, the largely Catholic population of Gudanes launched an uprising against de Sales, plundering and ransacking the Château. Fantillon de Sales was forced to flee but was eventually massacred.

Fantillon's brother Jean-Paul de Sales, a Catholic, inherited the barony. The de Sales received a considerable expanse of land, consisting chiefly of immense forests covering the Pyrenees, in the barony of Gudanes, and were rewarded with a Marquisate de Gudanes. Records from 1671 describe the castle on the site as ruins.


Château de Gudanes

The final Marquis de Gudanes, Louis-Gaspard de Sales, also baron de Château-Verdun, d'Aston, and de Luzenac, was a commandant for the king for the province of Foix.Le Roi des Pyrénées ("The King of the Pyrenees").

Louis-Gaspard de Sales hired noted architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel to design the new Château de Gudanes,Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle, the mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu and Voltaire.

Louis-Gaspard de Sales died with only a daughter, Marie Thérèse Josephe, and upon his death bequeathed all his assets to his son-in-law, Louis-Guillaume-Antoine de Mengaud, Baron de la Hage. When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, the aristocracy were stripped of their titles and lands. Mengaud was arrested but died before he faced trial.

Property belonging to the aristocracy and the church was auctioned. Pierre Astrié, a wealthy businessman from the neighboring town of Ax-les-Thermes, purchased the Château de Gudanes. In 1811, Pierre's son Jérome-Stanislas d'Astrié was living at Château de Gudanes. The Astrié family were ennobled in 1824, becoming d'Astrié de Gudanes, during the Bourbon Restoration when the French monarchy was temporarily restored.

The château de Gudanes, taken prior to 1910.

New laws stripped the local population of their right to make use of the forest resources, such as collecting firewood and grazing their livestock. This led to a series of uprisings known as the "War of the Maidens", in which masked men, sometimes disguised as women, protested against the wealthy landowners. The protesters targeted Château de Gudanes, pillaging it on 7 and 10 August 1830.

Jérome-Stanislas d'Astrié de Gudanes died in 1843, and the Château de Gudanes passed to his eldest daughter, Charlotte, and her husband, the politician Charles de Limairac


Château de Gudanes

Charles de Limairac died in 1860 and Charlotte died in 1871, leaving the château to their eldest son, Adolphe de Limairac. He made more renovations between 1870 and 1875. He died childless in 1884, leaving the château to his sister, Marie Baudon de Mony, who died in 1922. It is believed Marie's sons and grandchildren lived in the château during World War II.Tarn-et-Garonne department for use as holiday vacation spot.

Development plans and restoration

The château as seen in 2009

In 1989, the estate was bought by an English consortium, SCI Château de Gudanes, with the purpose of turning it into a luxury hotel. However, the renovation was delayed, and in 1994 the château was designated a national historical monument, causing administrative delays in planning permission and preventing desired renovations. SCI Château de Gudanes continued to fight for the project until 2009, when it abandoned the idea and put the building on the market.

In 2011, an Australian couple, Craig and Karina Waters from Perth, were looking for a vacation home in France, when they came across the Château de Gudanes online. They traveled to see it in person, and after two years of negotiations, they purchased it and decided to begin renovations

By the time their renovations began, the house was in serious decay: several floors had collapsed, the roof had fallen through in four places, trees were growing inside, and the floor was covered in a rubble of dirt, rotten wood, fallen plaster and mushrooms, and green mold covered the walls. The house had never been wired for heat or electricity.stained glass, gilt-framed mirrors and ornamental plaster.

The Waters have documented the restoration of the building online via a blog and social media accounts, sharing their progress and finds, including a fresco painting behind wallpaper, secret tunnels and ancient artifacts.10 feet (3.0 m) deep, which lead to a previously unknown section of the basement, which they suspect may have been meant for safe passage during World War II.


Château de Gudanes

* List of castles in France
  * Waters, Karina (2018). Château de Gudanes: A True Love Story Never Ends. Château-Verdun: Château de Gudanes. ISBN 9780648250401.
  * Official website
  * Base Mérimée: Château de Gudanes, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  * Château de Gudanes on Instagram


Ernst Balser

Ernst Balser (21 August 1893 – 20 March 1964) was a German architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.


Building a Future

Building a Future (BAF) is an international, philanthropic nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished children in Latin America. BAF currently operates in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

History

In December 2007, Building a Future became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. BAF was started in 2004 by a group of Texas A&M University students. They were inspired to do something of social importance that would have an impact at an international level.

Jose Mahomar and Robert Furr (now BAF Directors) took a leap of faith by proposing a philanthropic idea that would seek to provide education to impoverished children in Honduras. The idea for BAFAcademy for Future International Leaders’ and then developed into an organized effort supported by Texas A&M University and is currently in process of forming a partnership with the Borlaug Institute. Jose and Robert decided to keep pursuing their vision and some of their closest friends at TAMU joined in.

Programs

Texaco Family Support Center

Since January 2006, Building A Future (BAF) has served a community of over 500 children with the construction the Texaco Family Support Center. This was BAF's first project initiative and its success has confirmed the desire to create a bigger impact in other communities in Honduras.

In June 2008, BAF secured another additional donation from Chevron Texaco to provide educational material, such as a computer, a projector, and a photocopier, to the center.

Junior Master Gardener Program

In February 2009, BAF in partnership with the Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M University will host the Junior Master Gardener Program. This program includes curriculum which educates children with a special focus on agriculture

1,000 Children are in Need Campaign

In July 2009, BAF began a campaign to keep eight family support centers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras from closing due to a lack of funding. As a result of the political turmoil, the centers did not receive subsidies that they depend on to remain operational. To prevent these centers from closing or reducing operations, BAF sought to raise at least US$12,000 to fill the gap.

Fun in the Park Event


Building a Future

Fun in the Park Event

As part of this campaign, BAF plans to host a fundraising event in Coconut Grove's Kennedy Park near Miami, FL on August 15, 2009.

  * Official Building a Future website


The Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC) is a trade union of mainly construction workers in Cambodia. The union was established in 2009 through a merger of two smaller unions and represents 2,250 members in ten local unions, among them restoration workers at Angkor Wat.Cambodian Confederation of Labour and has received funding from Building and Wood Workers International.

History

BWTUC was established in 2001 through a merger of CCTUF and CFBW unions.

In 2013, BWTUC criticised government construction inspectors for being corrupt and not doing their job, leading to unsafe buildings.

In January 2014, BWTUC took part in a protest of 10,000 workers in Phnom Penh, demanding the release of 23 people detained while taking part in garment workers' strikes. They also demanded a minimum monthly wage of $160 for all Cambodian workers.

BWTUC president Sok Kin stated in 2016 that female construction workers only earned half what their male colleagues earned.

Following a meeting between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and garment workers, BWTUC sent letters to Sen in August and November 2017, calling for a meeting where protections for construction workers could be discussed. While still waiting for a response, the union said that it would send another letter on Human Rights Day.

In 2019, a protest of BWTUC workers delivered a letter calling for better workplace safety for construction workers, especially their inclusion in the National Social Security Fund.Centre for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights called on authorities to ensure better safety standards on construction sites.


Kızılağaç, Karlıova

Kızılağaç (Kurdish: Qizilaxaç) is a village in the Karlıova District, Bingöl Province, Turkey.

The hamlet of Meşeli is attached to the village.


Hypocharassus pruinosus

Hypocharassus pruinosus is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.

Distribution

United States


C26 road (Namibia)

C26 is a secondary route in Namibia that runs from south-central Windhoek, at the B1 road junction, to the C14 road near Rostock.

When the C26 and B1 intersect in Windhoek, they are both referred to as Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue.


Meyong, Sikkim

Meyong is a village in Mangan subdivision, North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India. The Ministry of Home Affairs has given it a geographical code of 260869.


Jean-Baptiste Nicolet

Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (16 April 1728 – 27 December 1796) was an 18th-century French actor and manager. He was the eldest son of puppeteer, dance master and violinist Guillaume Nicolet. He set up the Grands-Danseurs du Roi, the predecessor of the Théâtre de la Gaîté.

  * Jean-Baptiste Nicolet on data.bnf.fr
  * Nicolet at Père Lachaise Cemetery


María Conde

María Conde Alcolado (born 14 January 1997) is a Spanish basketball player who currently plays for USK Praha (women's basketball) and who last played for the Polish team Wisła Can-Pack Kraków. Conde also plays for the Spanish national team.

She participated in the EuroBasket Women 2017.

Club career

Conde played in local club CB Estudiantes since the age of 10, soon developing into one of their best players and winning regional and state youth tournaments.Spanish second tier league, averaging 15.8 PPP and 6.7 RPP.Florida State University after talking to fellow Spaniard Leticia Romero. She played in Florida State for two years, averaging 15.6 MPP and 3.3PPG in her sophomore year.

Conde returned to Spain in 2017 to play for Spar CityLift Girona in the Spanish first-tier league and Europe's second-tier EuroCup.Polish team Wisła Can-Pack Kraków for the 2018-19 season.2019 WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky on April 10, 2019.

EuroCup and EuroLeague stats

Season              Team                          GP  MPP   PPP   RPP  APP
2017-18 EuroCup     [Spain] Spar CityLift Girona  12  12.6  2.4   2.6  1.0
2018-19 EuroCup     [Poland] Wisla Can-Pack       10  25.3  10.7  4.2  2.2
2019-20 EuroCup     [Poland] CCC Polkowice        9   31.8  17.2  7.4  2.2
2020-21 EuroLeague  [Czech Republic] USK Praha    3   21.9  9.7   4.7  2.7
2021-22 EuroLeague  [Czech Republic] USK Praha

National team

Conde started playing with Spain's youth teams at 16, winning a total of five medals from 2013 to 2017.2017 Eurobasket. Up to 2021, she had 46 caps, with 4.5 PPP:


María Conde

* 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
  * 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth)
  * 4th 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
  * 2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
  * 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
  * 2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
  * 2017 Eurobasket
  * 7th 2021 Eurobasket
  * 6th 2020 Summer Olympics
  * 2023 Eurobasket

Personal life

Conde's brother Diego is a professional footballer.

  * María Conde at FIBA
  * María Conde at Eurobasket.com
  * María Conde at Olympedia
  * María Conde at Olympics.com
  * María Conde at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)


Cock-and-bull story

Wikipedia does not currently have an article on "cock-and-bull story", but its sister project Wiktionary does:

Read the Wiktionary entry on "cock-and-bull story"

You can also:

  * Search for Cock-and-bull story in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.
  * Start the Cock-and-bull story article, using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary.


Limbri, New South Wales

Community hall, Limbri, NSW

Limbri is a small village on Swamp Oak Creek, about 30 km east northeast of Tamworth and about 8 km east southeast of Moonbi in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Some alluvial gold was found at Limbri. It is now an agricultural based village, with sheep and cattle breeding the main pursuits.

Limbri public school opened in 1900 to serve the surrounding grazing properties and celebrated its centenary, but it is now closed.Landcare Group and Limbri/Mulla Creek Rural Fire Service.

Limbri railway station

The station at Limbri on the Main North railway line to Armidale opened in 1885 as Farquarsons Siding. On 14 December 1893 it was renamed Limbri, but it has now been closed for a number of years. Limbri Tunnel is 300 m north east of the station site

Preceding station    Former Services  Following station
Danglemah                             Main North Line      Kootingal
towards Wallangarra                                        towards Sydney


Building at 142 Collins Street

142 Collins Street is an architecturally distinguished Queen Anne Victorian house in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1890, it is typical of houses that were once much more common the city's Asylum Hill neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979.

Description and history

142 Collins Street is located in Hartford's Asylum Hill area, on the north side of Collins Street east of its junction with Summer Street, opposite the main complex of The Hartford Insurance Group. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a truncated hip roof and numerous projecting gables and dormers. The front facade has porches on the first and second levels, the upper one occupying only the central bay; both have decorative spindled woodwork friezes and turned supports. A projecting gable section to the right is finished with scalloped shingles, and has a two-window angled bay.

The house was built in 1890, and is, with the neighboring house (built about 1870 in the Second Empire style, a study in architectural trends that took place during the development of Asylum Hill in the second half of the 19th century. This house is a particularly fine example of a Queen Anne Victorian executed in brick.

  * National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut


Hannover-Land II

Hannover-Land II is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 47. It is located in central Lower Saxony, comprising the southern part of the Hanover Region.

Hannover-Land II was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2005, it has been represented by Matthias Miersch of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography

Hannover-Land II is located in central Lower Saxony. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the northern part of the Hanover Region, specifically the municipalities of Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Lehrte, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Uetze, and Wennigsen.

History

Hannover-Land II was created in 1949, then known as Hannover-Land. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it was named Hannover III. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 20 in the numbering system. From 1953 through 1961, it was number 42. From 1965 through 1976, it was number 38. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 42. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was number 47. In the 2009 election, it was number 48. Since the 2013 election, it has been number 47.

Originally, the constituency comprised the entirety of the now-abolished Landkreis Hannover district, as well as the municipalities of Lehrte and Sehnde from the Burgdorf district. In the 1965 through 1976 elections, it comprised the Landkreis Hannover district and the quarters of Döhren, Wülfel, Kirchrode, Bemerode, and Wülferode from the independent city of Hanover. After administrative boundaries were redrawn, from the 1980 election the constituency comprised the municipalities of Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Wennigsen, and Wunstorf from the Landkreis Hannover district. In the 2002 election, it lost Wunstorf while gaining Uetze und Lehrte.


Hannover-Land II

Election  No.  Name                                                                                Borders
1949      20   Hannover-Land                                                                                * Landkreis Hannover district
                                                                                * Burgdorf district (only Lehrte and Sehnde municipalities)
1953      42
1957
1961
1965      38   Hannover III                                                                                * Landkreis Hannover district
                                                                                * Hanover city (only Döhren, Wülfel, Kirchrode, Bemerode, and Wülferode quarters)
1969
1972
1976
1980      42   Hannover-Land II                                                                                * Landkreis Hannover district (only Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Wennigsen, and Wunstorf municipalities)
1983
1987
1990
1994
1998
2002      47     * Hanover Region (only Barsinghausen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Laatzen, Lehrte, Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Wennigsen, and Uetze municipalities)
2005
2009      48
2013      47
2017
2021

Members

The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but three Bundestag terms since its creation. Its first representative was Hans Jahn of the SPD, who served from 1949 to 1961. He was succeeded by fellow SPD member Werner Marquardt, who served until 1976. The SPD's Günter Kiehm served a single term before the constituency was won by Herbert Lattmann of the CDU in 1983. Kiehm regained it in 1987, but Lattmann was elected in 1990 and again in 1994. In 1998, Horst Schild of the SPD won the constituency and served two terms as representative. He was succeeded in 2005 by Matthias Miersch, who was re-elected in 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2021.

Election  Member  Party             %
          1949    Hans Jahn         SPD  45.9
1953        43.6
1957        44.1
          1961    Werner Marquardt  SPD  49.0
1965        48.0
1969        51.9
1972        55.7
1976        49.2
          1980    Günter Kiehm      SPD  50.8
          1983    Herbert Lattmann  CDU  46.6
          1987    Günter Kiehm      SPD  45.1
          1990    Herbert Lattmann  CDU  44.9
1994        44.8
          1998    Horst Schild      SPD  55.2
2002        54.2
          2005    Matthias Miersch  SPD  51.5
2009        40.4
2013        43.4
2017        37.0
2021        40.7

Election results


Hannover-Land II

Election results

2021 election


Hannover-Land II

Federal election (2021): Hannover-Land II
Notes:                                     Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
                                           Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
                                           Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
                                           A [Green tick] or [Red X] denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party                                      Candidate                                                                             Votes                          %               ±%       Party votes      %       ±%
                                           SPD                                                                                [Green tick] Matthias Miersch  73,088          40.7     [Increase] 3.7   62,024  34.6  [Increase] 5.1
                                           CDU                                                                                Tilman Kuban                   45,721          25.5     [Decrease] 9.8   40,612  22.7  [Decrease] 8.9
                                           Greens                                                                                Simone Meyer                   22,283          12.4     [Increase] 6.7   29,201  16.3  [Increase] 7.6
                                           AfD                                                                                Dirk Brandes                   13,377          7.5      [Decrease] 2.0   13,850  7.7   [Decrease] 2.6
                                           FDP                                                                                Nadin Zaya                     11,883          6.6      [Increase] 1.2   18,320  10.2  [Increase] 0.6
                                           Left                                                                                Thorsten Kuhn                  4,095           2.3      [Decrease] 3.1   4,994   2.8   [Decrease] 3.8
                                           Tierschutzpartei                                                                      Claudia Klitz                  2,618           1.5                       2,535   1.4   [Increase] 0.6
                                           FW                                                                                Moritz Krienke                 1,978           1.1      [Increase] 0.2   1,672   0.9   [Increase] 0.5
                                           PARTEI                                                                                Lisa-Marie Rosien              1,701           0.9                       1,432   0.8   [Decrease] 0.1
                                           dieBasis                                                                              Eva-Maria Görres               1,635           0.9                       1,650   0.9
                                           Pirates                                                                               Uwe Kopec                      1,119           0.6      [Decrease] 0.3   867     0.5   [Steady] 0.0
                                           Team Todenhöfer                                                                                752             0.4
                                           Volt                                                                                421             0.2