Somethin' Smith and the Redheads

Somethin' Smith and the Redheads were an American vocal group, doing mostly pop standards in the 1950s. Their biggest hit single was "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" in 1955, which reached number seven in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The following year they reached number 27 with their cover version of "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town". Both releases were issued on the Epic Records label.

The group consisted of Smith (Robert H. (Red) Robinson; vocals, banjo, and guitar), Saul Striks (December 8, 1924 – c. December 1979; piano) and Major Short (June 22, 1924 – March 30, 2018;double bass).

Minor chart records included "Heartaches", "Ace in the Hole", and "You Always Hurt The One You Love". In 1961, they recorded their final album for the MGM label, which also resulted in one final single being released from the album.

The trio parted ways in 1966. Saul Striks began a new group called the Saloonatics with himself on piano and Ralph J. Guenther on bass and banjo.

Striks died from a heart attack in December 1979 at either 54 or 55 years old. Robinson is also dead.

Short lived in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina,


Regionalist Unity of Castile and León

The Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (Spanish: Unidad Regionalista de Castilla y León, URCL) is a "regionalist, democratic, modern and innovative political party that, focusing on the principles of freedom, justice and solidarity, assumes the uncompromising defense of the legitimate interests of Castile and León."

It grew out of the union of several parties from Salamanca, Palencia, Burgos, Zamora and Valladolid, such as the Democracia Regionalista (Regionalist Democracy) of Castile and León or the Unidad Palentina (Palentine Unit).

Castile and Leon regionalism

The URCL defines itself as a centrist, "regionalist, democratic, modern and innovative" constitutional political party that is founded on the principles of freedom, justice and solidarity. Its interest is in the protection of the legitimate interests that affect Castile and León.

The party rejects federalism and independence, but demands autonomous status with the same powers as the so-called historical communities, and decentralization of these powers to county councils and regions.

Political involvement

Since its founding in 1992 the URCL goes to Villalar de los Comuneros annually on April 23 to celebrate Castile and León Day. It has also participated in other events, rallies and conferences. It was in favor of the Salamanca - Madrid Highway.

Election results

Autonomous elections

  * 2011 Castile and León autonomous elections: 1 428 votes (0.10%) with 3 candidatures presented by the Palencia province (0.34%), Valladolid (0.24%) and Salamanca (0.18%).
  * 2007 Castile and León autonomous elections: 914 votes (0.06%);
  * 2003 Castile and León autonomous elections: 5 387 votes (0.35%);
  * 1999 Castile and León autonomous elections: 10 985 votes (0.76%);
  * 1995 Castile and León autonomous elections: 6 308 votes (0.41%).

Municipal elections


Regionalist Unity of Castile and León

Municipal elections

  * 2011 Municipal elections: 1 655 votes (0.11%), with 12 councilors, governing in Cevico de la Torre and Castromonte, in the final pact with the PSOE ruling for two years; representation in Bernuy de Zapardiel, Aldeamayor de San Martín, Brahojos de Medina, Membrillar and Ataquines.
  * 2007 Municipal elections: 1 772 votes (0.12%), with 18 councilors.Membrillar in Palencia, Bernuy-Zapardiel in ÁvilaAldeamayor de San Martín in Valladolid. The deputies were spread throughout the provinces of Ávila, Palencia, Salamanca and Valladolid.
  * 2003 Municipal elections: 7 452 votes (0.48%), 55 councilors and the mayoralties of Alcazarén, Aldeamayor de San Martín and Bustillo de Chaves in Valladolid, Villota del Páramo in Palencia and Horcajo Medianero, Palaciosrubios and San Pelayo de Guareña in Salamanca. The rest of the deputies were spread throughout the provinces of Salamanca, Valladolid, Palencia and Ávila: Santa Marta de Tormes, Cigales, Guijuelo, Mayorga, Ituero de Azaba, Fuente el Sol, Brahojos de Medina, Villarino de los Aires, Bernuy de Zapardiel, Santibáñez de Béjar... As a summary of the 2003 municipal elections, the party obtained a deputy in the province of Ávila, two in Palencia, 41 in Salamanca and 17 in Valladolid.
  * 1999 Municipal elections: 13 041 votes (0.90%) and 124 councilors.
  * 1995 Municipal elections: 10 004 votes (0.65%) and 98 councilors.

Congress of Deputies elections

  * 2011: 709 votes with candidacies for Valladolid and Palencia.
  * 2008: 423 votes with only one candidacy for Valladolid.
  * 2004: The candidacies were withdrawn at the last minute because of the March 11 terrorist attacks.
  * 2000: 5 537 votes (0.02%).
  * 1996: 4 061 votes (0.02%).
  * 1993: 2 715 votes (0.01%).


Regionalist Unity of Castile and León

Senate elections

  * 2011: 3 612 votes with candidacies in Palencia and Valladolid.
  * 2008: 2 563 votes with candidacies in Salamanca, Palencia and Valladolid.
  * 2004: The candidacies were withdrawn at the last minute because of the March 11 terrorist attacks.
  * 2000: 14 362 votes with candidacies in Ávila, Burgos, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora.
  * "Regionalismo y autonomía en Castilla y León". Junta de Castilla y León (2004). J.A. Blanco Rguez. (Coord.).
  * "Castilla y León en democracia. Partidos, elecciones y personal político 1977-2007". Junta de Castilla y León (2007). M. González, J.V. Pelaz y P. Pérez.
  * Official page of the Unidad Regionalista de Castilla y León


Sandown (ship)

Two vessels sailing in the 1790s have both borne the name Sandown. Only one appears in Lloyd's Register, and the apparent uniqueness of the name and the fact that the two vessels were sailing near Havana in 1794 has caused researchers possibly to conflate the two. Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.

  * Sandown (1786 ship) was foreign-built, and first appears in readily accessible records in 1786. A French privateer captured her in 1794 but the British Royal Navy recaptured her. A hurricane shortly thereafter drove her ashore and wrecked her.
  * Sandown (1788 ship) was built in France in 1781, purchased in England c.1788, conducted a notable slave trading voyage in 1793-1794, and is last listed in 1798.
  * HMS Sandown: one of three vessels by that name that served the British Royal Navy


The Mountain II

The Mountain II (Turkish: Dağ II), also known as Brothers in Arms, is a Turkish drama and action film directed by Alper Çağlar in 2016. It is a sequel to The Mountain, which was released in 2012. The film was first screened at theatres on November 4, 2016.

Plot

Ceyda, a journalist, is abducted by ISIS terrorists in northern Iraq while she is covering a story on Yezidi people and their story of long-suffering and abandonment. A Turkish special forces team of seven headed by Commander Veysel flies out to rescue her. We see the events through the eyes of Oğuz as the film begins in medias res. His flashbacks show us the life and memories of these men up until they came to the rescue mission. Oğuz and Bekir are best of friends and was saved by two Special Force commandos who laid their lives on the line for Oğuz and Bekir which is a determining factor in their joining the force.

Ceyda is rescued from her ISIS captors seconds before death by the special forces team after which they start moving along to the mountain to the LZ (landing zone), from where they will be airlifted. On their way, they encounter a group of rebels who are torturing the Yezidis and Iraqi Turks, they rescue a girl in her teens and a woman being tortured by ISIS terrorists. They continue on their journey to the LZ (landing zone) and upon reaching the last village near the LZ, they find out that the village would be attacked by a battalion of ISIS terrorists the next morning. Instead of abandoning the defenceless villagers to the invaders, and leaving when the air support reaches out to them, the commander sends the children of the village along with Ceyda to safety. Meanwhile, Commander Veysel and his six men stay back in the village to face hundreds of terrorists with their limited resources. After securing the villagers in a coal house, they hoist the Turkish flag over the building. The special forces team with their advanced abilities and peculiar set of skills, manage to bring the terrorist battalion down despite their lack of numbers. However, the strength of the team reduces to four with the deaths of the Commander himself, Mustafa and Ęsref. The commander before dying, orders his men to ask evacuation of all the villagers from the HQ and they call it in.

Cast


The Mountain II

Cast

Actor              Role
Çağlar Ertuğrul    First Lieutenant Oğuz Çağlar
Ufuk Bayraktar     Specialist Bekir Özbey
Murat Serezli      Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa
Ahu Türkpençe      Ceyda Balaban
Atılgan Gümüş      Master Sergeant Mustafa Şahin
Murat Arkın        Staff Sergeant Arif Sayar
Ahmet Pınar        Master Sergeant Eşref Çullu
Armağan Oğuz       Sergeant Baybars Yücel
Emir Benderlioğlu  Batur Altınbilek
Açelya Özcan       Nabat
Buse Varol         Ece
Ozan Ağaç          Çiya
Uğur Özarslan      Civan Hatipoğlu

  * 2016 in film
  * Turkish films of 2016
  * The Mountain II at IMDb
  * The Mountain II at Rotten Tomatoes


Pelophryne rhopophilia

Pelophryne rhopophilia, also known as lowland dwarf toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.endemic to Borneo and found in north-easternSarawak (Malaysia) and (likely) in adjacent West Kalimantan (Indonesia).

Description

Males measure 20–25 mm (0.79–0.98 in) in snout–vent length; females are larger. They have a slender body. The dorsal colour is dark brown with an X-shaped lighter area. There line between the darker dorsal parts and the white or cream-coloured belly is quite sharp. The belly has also black spots. The skin has warts bearing a small keratinized spine; the larger warts may be red. The fingers are truncate and have fleshy webbing.

Habitat and conservation

Males have been recorded in submontane and montane mossy forests at an elevation of about 800 m (2,600 ft) above sea level. Males call from low shrubs. The eggs are probably deposited in very small rain pools.

The known populations occur in well-protected areas, Gunung Mulu National Park and Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, where the species is not threatened. However, it is likely to occur more widely and be threatened by habitat loss caused by agriculture and logging.


Mike Jaros

Mike Jaros was a Democratic Farmer Labor Party member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing District 7B from 1984 to 2009. He had also previously served from 1972 to 1980. Jaros decided not to seek reelection on June 16, 2008.Liz Olson currently represents District 7B.

He wrote an article in the East European Genealogist in 2005 examining his own family tree, which consisted of Galician Poles.

  * Minnesota Legislative Reference Library - Mike Jaros
  * Minnesota Public Radio - Votetracker: Mike Jaros voting record
  * Project Vote Smart - Representative Mike Jaros (MN) profile
  * Follow the Money - Mike Jaros
      + 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1996 campaign contributions


Sir Joseph Pennington, 2nd Baronet

Sir Joseph Pennington, 2nd Baronet (4 October 1677 – 1744), of Muncaster, Cumberland, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1744.

Pennington was baptized at Waberthwaite on 16 October 1677, the eldest son of Sir William Pennington, 1st Baronet of Muncaster and his wife Isabella Stapleton, daughter of John Stapleton of Warter, Yorkshire.Queen’s College, Oxford on 4 June 1695, aged 17.John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, MP on 20 March 1706.

In 1720 Pennington was recommended to Walpole by his brother-in-law, Lord Lonsdale, and in 1723 he obtained a place as Comptroller of cash in the excise.baronetcy and Muncaster on the death of his father on 12 July 1730.1734 British general election, he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Cumberland on the recommendation of his brother-in-law, in succession to Gilfrid Lawson, who gave him his interest. He was returned unopposed again at the 1741 British general election and voted with the Government in all recorded divisions.

Pennington died on 3 December 1744 leaving four sons and a daughter. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son John.


Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism

Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism (Russian: Очерки по философии марксизма) was an account of a seminar held by Vladimir Bazarov, Alexander Bogdanov, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Jakov Berman, Osip Gelfond, Pavel Yushkevich and Sergey Suvorov published in St Petersburg in 1908.

Foundations of Social Philosophy

The last article was by Suvorov where he develops a Real-monistic philosophy:

“In the gradation of the laws that regulate the world process, the particular and complex become reduced to the general and simple, and all of them are subordinate to the universal law of development—the law of the economy of forces. The essence of this law is that every system of forces is the more capable of conservation and development the less its expenditure, the greater its accumulation and the more effectively expenditure serves accumulation. The forms of mobile equilibrium, which long ago evoked the idea of objective expediency (the solar system, the cycle of terrestrial phenomena, the process of life), arise and develop by virtue of the conservation and accumulation of the energy inherent in them—by virtue of their intrinsic economy. The law of economy of forces is the unifying and regulating principle of all development—inorganic, biological and social.”


Necmettin Karaduman

Necmettin Karaduman (1927, Trabzon – 22 June 2017, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician, who was the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.


List of business schools in Chile

There are more than 40 private and public universities in Chile that grant undergraduate and graduate degrees in business fields as administration, economics, finance, marketing and human resources.

The list below are the most popular national rankings based on business managers and recruiters surveys. All of the universities mentioned are accredited by the National Accreditation Commission (CNA) due to they have achieved the higher educational standards imposed by this government institution.

Top ranked Business Schools in Chile

  * Ranking top ten "Que Pasa Magazine" 2008 (All business schools)
Position  University                                     City        Private/Non-Private
1         Universidad de Chile                           Santiago    NP
2         Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez                      Santiago    P
3         Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile       Santiago    NP
4         Universidad Tecnico Federico Santa Maria       Santiago    NP
5         Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso  Valparaiso  NP
6         Universidad de Concepción                      Concepcion  NP
7         Universidad Diego Portales                     Santiago    P
8         Universidad de Santiago de Chile               Santiago    NP
9         Universidad de Los Andes                       Santiago    P
10        Universidad del Desarrollo                     Santiago    P

  * Ranking Top Ten Private Business Schools with more future. "Que Pasa Magazine" 2008.
Position  University                   City      Private/Non-Private
1         Universidad Adolfo Ibañez    Santiago  P
2         Universidad Diego Portales   Santiago  P
3         Universidad de Los Andes     Santiago  P
4         Universidad del Desarrollo   Santiago  P
5         Universidad Andres Bello     Santiago  P
6         Universidad Mayor            Santiago  P
7         Universidad Santo Tomas      Santiago  P
8         Universidad de Las Americas  Santiago  P
9         Universidad San Sebastián    Santiago  P
10        Universidad Central          Santiago  P

  * Top business schools according to school reputation and potential students preferences. El Mercurio Online (Journal), 2007.
Position  University                                City      Private/Non-Private
1         Universidad de Chile                      Santiago  NP
2         Pontificia Universidad Catolica           Santiago  NP
3         Universidad de Santiago de Chile          Santiago  NP
4         Universidad Adolfo Ibañez                 Santiago  P
5         Universidad Tecnico Federico Santa Maria  Santiago  NP
6         Universidad Diego Portales                Santiago  P
7         Universidad Mayor                         Santiago  P


Someshwara Temple, Kolar

For other uses, see Someshwara Temple (disambiguation).

A view from rear of the Someshwara temple at Kolar

The main gopura (tower over the entrance) of Someshwara temple at Kolar

The Someshwara temple (also spelt Someshvara or Somesvara), situated in Kolar town of Karnataka state, India, built by Tamil kings Chola.is an ornate 14th century Vijayanagara era Dravidian style construction. Someshwara, another name for the Hindu god Shiva is the presiding deity in the temple.Archaeological Survey of India as a monument of national importance.

Temple plan

According to art historian George Michel, the general plan of the temple resembles that of the Someshvara temple in Bangalore, except, this temple is more rich in finish and detail.gopuram) over the main entrance (mahadwara). The superstructure is built of brick and stucco. Though both temples have a large open pillared mukhamantapa (hall) leading to the sanctum (garbhagriha), in Kolar the open mantapa has a central hall surrounded by a raised floor. Several ornate pillars on the raised floor support the ceiling of the mantapa. The main shrine has a dravida (south Indian) style tower (shikhara), a vestibule (sukanasi) that connects the sanctum to a navaranga (closed hall) which leads to the large pillared mukhamandapa. The temple is enclosed by a cloistered wall (prakara).Yalis ("mythical beasts"). An ornate Kalyana mantapa ("marriage hall") built of granite, at the south-west corner of the complex, has pillars with decorative sculptures in relief.Vijayanagara Empire rule of the 14th century. The base of the temple outer wall (adhishthana) consists of decorative moldings, with friezes of elephants, dwarfs and lions embellishing the upper moldings . The outer wall of the temple has miniature decorative pilasters (kumbha) with turrets (aedicule).


Someshwara Temple, Kolar

* Michell, George (1995) [1995]. The New Cambridge History of India, Volumes 1-6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521 441102.
  * "Somesvara Temple". Archaeological Survey of India, Bengaluru Circle. ASI Bengaluru Circle
  * "Alphabetical List of Monuments - Karnataka -Bangalore, Bangalore Circle, Karnataka". Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India. Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts

Gallery

  * [Archaeological Survey of India sign board, describing details of the Someshwara temple]
    Archaeological Survey of India sign board, describing details of the Someshwara temple
  * [Open main mantapa (hall) leading to the sanctum in Someshwara temple at Kolar]
    Open main mantapa (hall) leading to the sanctum in Someshwara temple at Kolar
  * [A profile of the front of the Someshwara temple at Kolar]
    A profile of the front of the Someshwara temple at Kolar
  * [A view of the open mantapa in Someshwara temple at Kolar]
    A view of the open mantapa in Someshwara temple at Kolar
  * [A view of the open mantapa in the Someshwara temple at Kolar]
    A view of the open mantapa in the Someshwara temple at Kolar
  * [An ornate Kalyana mantapa at the rear of the complex in the Someshwara temple at Kolar]
    An ornate Kalyana mantapa at the rear of the complex in the Someshwara temple at Kolar
  * [Yali pillars of the open mantapa in Someshwara temple at Kolar]
    Yali pillars of the open mantapa in Someshwara temple at Kolar
  * [Decorative pillars of Kalyana mantapa with exquisite relief]
    Decorative pillars of Kalyana mantapa with exquisite relief
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Phragmipedium tetzlaffianum

Phragmipedium tetzlaffianum is a species of orchid endemic to Venezuela.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phragmipedium tetzlaffianum.
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Ryuko Sakurai

Ryuko Sakurai (桜井 龍子, Sakurai Ryūko, born January 16, 1947) was a member of the Supreme Court of Japan. She joined on September 11, 2008.

Sakurai, a former bureaucrat of the Ministry of Labor, replaced Kazuko Yokoo, who resigned. She was the third woman to take a post in the Supreme Court of Japan.


The White Sheik

For the 1928 film, see The White Sheik (1928 film).

The White Sheik (Italian: Lo sceicco bianco) is a 1952 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Brunella Bovo and Giulietta Masina. Written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Michelangelo Antonioni, the film is about a man who brings his new bride to Rome for their honeymoon, to have an audience with the Pope, and to present his wife to his family. When the young woman sneaks away to find the hero of her romance novels, the man is forced to spend hour after hour making excuses to his eager family who want to meet his missing bride.The White Sheik was filmed on location in Fregene, Rome, Spoleto and Vatican City.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Plot

Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), the Rudolph Valentino-like hero of a soap opera photo strip and sneaks off to find him, leaving her conventional, petit bourgeois husband in a quandary as he tries to hide his wife's disappearance from his strait-laced relatives who are waiting to go with them to visit the Pope.

Cast

  * Alberto Sordi as Fernando Rivoli, The White Sheik
  * Leopoldo Trieste as Ivan Cavalli
  * Brunella Bovo as Wanda Giardino Cavalli
  * Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, the prostitute
  * Lilia Landi as Felga, the photonovel's gipsy
  * Ernesto Almirante as Dottore Fortuna, the photonovel's director
  * Fanny Marchiò as Marilena Alba Vellardi
  * Gina Mascetti as Aida Rivoli, the wife of Fernando
  * Ugo Attanasio as Uncle of Ivan

Production


The White Sheik

Production

The White Sheik was Fellini's first solo effort as a director. He had previously co-directed Variety Lights in 1950 with Alberto Lattuada.

Originally the treatment for The White Sheik was written by Michelangelo Antonioni.Carlo Ponti commissioned Fellini and Tullio Pinelli to develop the treatment. It was satirical in nature, targeting the trashy fotoromanzi comic strips that were extremely popular in Italy when the film was made.

The male lead, Leopoldo Trieste, a playwright who did not consider himself an actor, reluctantly auditioned for Fellini. During the audition Fellini asked him to compose a sonnet that the lead character would have written to his wife. The poem which begins "She is graceful, sweet and teeny..." was included in the film.

Appearing briefly as the prostitute Cabiria, Giulietta Masina would later return to this role in Nights of Cabiria. Her short scene inspired Fellini to write the screenplay and also convinced producers that Giulietta was ready for the leading role.

Reception

Italian film critic Giulio Cesare Castello, writing for Cinema V, argued that Fellini's past as a successful strip cartoonist made him a natural choice as the film's director: "Fellini was undoubtedly the best qualified and for two reasons: firstly, his experience as a strip cartoonist and consequently his familiarity with the secrets and intrigues of the world he was about to bring to the screen; secondly, his gift for sarcastic comment and delight in satirizing tradition... The result is unusual and stimulating but derives more from the failure to establish a basic mood or tone rather than from any direct intention. Fellini should find this tone in future works if he is to avoid the discontinuity we found here."

Soundtrack

Nino Rota scored the film.


The White Sheik

Soundtrack

Nino Rota scored the film.

  * Aristarco, Guido. Lo sceicco bianco, in: "Cinema Nuovo", n° 1, Novembre 1952. (in Italian)
  * Burke, Frank M. "Variety Lights, The White Sheik, and Italian Neorealism". In Film Criticism, Winter 1978, Volume 3, no. 2, p. 53-66.
  * The White Sheik at IMDb
  * The White Sheik an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum at the Criterion Collection


Pelophylax fukienensis

Pelophylax fukienensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is found in Fujian (formerly romanized as "Fukien", hence the name), Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces of China as well as in Taiwan.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, swamps, freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN,

Pelophylax fukienensis is a medium to large-sized frog, with males reaching 47 mm (1.9 in) and females 65 mm (2.6 in) length.


Mike Johnson (1970s pitcher)

Michael Norton Johnson (born March 2, 1951) is former Major League Baseball pitcher. Johnson played for the San Diego Padres in 1974. He batted and threw right-handed.

  * Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)


MAAC Defensive Player of the Year

The MAAC Defensive Player of the Year was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season to the best defensive men's ice hockey player in the conference as voted by the coaches of each MAAC team.

The award was discontinued after 2002-03 when the MAAC ice hockey conference was dissolved and all remaining programs reformed in Atlantic Hockey.

Award winners

Year     Winner          Position    School
1998–99  Dan Ennis       Defenceman  Quinnipiac
1999–00  Paul Colontino  Defenceman  Mercyhurst
         Steve Tobio     Defenceman  Bentley
2000-00  Nathan Lutz     Defenceman  Iona
2001-02  Steve Tobio     Defenceman  Bentley
2002-03  Wade Winkler    Defenceman  Quinnipiac

Winners by school    Winners by position

School      Winners  Position    Winners
Bentley     2        Defenceman  6
Quinnipiac  2
Iona        1
Mercyhurst  1

  * Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year
  * MAAC Awards
  * 2001-02 MAAC Regular Season Award Winners


Syktyvkar constituency

The Syktyvkar Constituency (No.18 is a Russian legislative constituency in the Komi Republic. The constituency is the only one in Komi Republic, and occupies the whole of its territory. However, in 1993-1995 Komi had two constituencies but lost one of them due to population decline.

Members elected

Election  Member                                                     Party
          1993                                                       Valery Maksimov     Independent
          Nikolay Gen                                                Independent
          1995                                                       Rita Chistokhodova  Independent
          1999                                                       Valery Markov       Independent
          2003                                                       Yury Spiridonov     Independent
2007      Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
          2016                                                       Ivan Medvedev       United Russia
          2021                                                       Oleg Mikhailov      Communist Party

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Pechora constituency
Candidate  Party            Votes        %
           Valery Maksimov  Independent  54,701  32.01%
           Valery Nesterov  Independent  -       31.22%

Total      170,865          100%

Source:

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Syktyvkar constituency
Candidate  Party              Votes            %
           Nikolay Gen        Independent      45,124  21.22%
           Yekaterina Popova  Women of Russia  -       20.79%

Total      212,653            100%

Source:

1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Syktyvkar constituency
Candidate  Party               Votes                      %
           Rita Chistokhodova  Independent                109,408  24.57%
           Gennady Rassokhin   Our Home – Russia          97,487   21.89%
           Mikhail Gluzman     Forward, Russia!           53,846   12.09%
           Vera Skorobogatova  Ivan Rybkin Bloc           40,718   9.14%
           Sergey Borisov      Independent                38,595   8.67%
           Yevgeny Babusenko   Independent                37,102   8.33%
           Andrey Titarenko    Beer Lovers Party          8,411    1.89%
           Vitaly Mikulinsky   Party of Economic Freedom  4,151    0.93%
           against all         47,511                     10.67%

Total      445,307             100%

Source:

1999


Syktyvkar constituency

1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Syktyvkar constituency
Candidate  Party                  Votes            %
           Valery Markov          Independent      116,243  25.38%
           Ivan Mokhnachuk        Independent      57,953   12.66%
           Valentina Kotelnikova  Women of Russia  55,859   12.20%
           Nikolay Moiseev        Yabloko          54,191   11.83%
           Aleksandr Amonariev    Communist Party  51,494   11.24%
           Vladimir Lushnikov     Independent      28,920   6.32%
           Mikhail Zhilin         Independent      15,393   3.36%
           Valery Prokhorov       Independent      9,544    2.08%
           against all            59,866           13.07%

Total      457,929                100%

Source:

2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Syktyvkar constituency
Candidate  Party                Votes                     %
           Yury Spiridonov      Independent               108,832  26.86%
           Vikenty Kozlov       Independent               108,421  26.76%
           Leonid Musinov       Communist Party           30,419   7.51%
           Aleksandra Bushueva  Union of Right Forces     28,112   6.94%
           Mikhail Avdeev       Independent               27,262   6.73%
           Yevgeny Neznanov     Liberal Democratic Party  11,570   2.86%
           Pavel Sobotyuk       Creation                  4,244    1.05%
           against all          77,756                    19.19%

Total      405,527              100%

Source:

2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Syktyvkar constituency
Candidate  Party             Votes                     %
           Ivan Medvedev     United Russia             103,296  36.91%
           Tatyana Saladina  A Just Russia             49,496   17.69%
           Ivan Filipchenko  Liberal Democratic Party  43,914   15.69%
           Oleg Mikhailov    Communist Party           36,463   13.03%
           Leonid Litvak     Communists of Russia      26,820   9.58%

Total      279,834           100%

Source:

2021


Syktyvkar constituency

2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Syktyvkar constituency
Candidate  Party              Votes                      %
           Oleg Mikhailov     Communist Party            81,407  32.36%
           Olga Savastyanova  United Russia              67,531  26.84%
           Tatyana Saladina   A Just Russia — For Truth  23,257  9.24%
           Andrey Nikitin     Liberal Democratic Party   21,186  8.42%
           Viktor Filipchuk   New People                 19,060  7.58%
           Ivan Ruban         Communists of Russia       16,926  6.73%
           Viktor Betekhtin   Green Alternative          9,105   3.62%

Total      251,579            100%

Source:

  * 18. Сыктывкарский одномандатный избирательный округ


Necmettin Sadak

Sadık Necmettin Sadak (1890 in Isparta, Ottoman Empire – 21 September 1953 in New York City) was a Turkish politician, former minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.

Biography

After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1910, he studied humanities in the University of Lyon, France, until 1914. After his return to Turkey, he started to work in fields of sociology. In 1918 he was one of the co-founders of the newspaper Akşam.

In 1928 he was elected as member of national parliament from Sivas province . His political success continued and he was elected again for five consecutive times to parliament. He represented Turkey many times in international conferences. Between 1947 and 1950, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. Sadak also elected as the chairman of Galatasaray in 1928. Although there was no national football league established in Turkey in the 1920s, Galatasaray won an Istanbul League title, while Sadak was the president.

  * Portalistan.com – Necmettin Sadık Sadak
  * Biyografi.net – Biography of Necmettin Sadak
  * Galatasaray.org – Presidents of Galatasaray Sports Club
  * Works by or about Necmettin Sadak at Internet Archive


List of busiest railway stations in Belgium

This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Belgium sorted by the average number of passengers boarding daily on weekdays in 2014.province is also listed, unless the station lies within the Brussels-Capital Region and therefore does not belong to any province.

1 – Brussels-South

5 – Antwerpen-Centraal

11 – Liège-Guillemins

22 – Oostende

The figures include only passenger traffic on national rail services. Numbers for passengers on international trains like Eurostar, Thalys and other high-speed rail services are excluded.

Rank  Station                    Province                 Passengers
 1    Brussels-South             Brussels-Capital Region      61,941
 2    Brussels-Central           Brussels-Capital Region      61,234
 3    Brussels-North             Brussels-Capital Region      58,345
 4    Gent-Sint-Pieters          East Flanders                54,169
 5    Antwerpen-Centraal         Antwerp                      34,265
 6    Leuven                     Flemish Brabant              32,247
 7    Namur                      Namur                        18,704
 8    Mechelen                   Antwerp                      18,593
 9    Brugge                     West Flanders                18,122
 10   Ottignies                  Walloon Brabant              17,753
 11   Liège-Guillemins           Liège                        17,467
 12   Charleroi-Central          Hainaut                      13,223
 13   Antwerpen-Berchem          Antwerp                      12,212
 14   Kortrijk                   West Flanders                10,061
 15   Mons                       Hainaut                       9,434
 16   Denderleeuw                East Flanders                 8,748
 17   Sint-Niklaas               East Flanders                 7,259
 18   Aalst                      East Flanders                 7,112
 19   Tournai                    Hainaut                       7,001
 20   Hasselt                    Limburg                       6,977
 21   Brussels-Luxembourg        Brussels-Capital Region       6,942
 22   Oostende                   West Flanders                 6,939
 23   Gembloux                   Namur                         6,721
 24   Louvain-La-Neuve           Walloon Brabant               6,518
 25   Dendermonde                East Flanders                 6,487
 26   Brussels-Schuman           Brussels-Capital Region       6,441
 27   Zottegem                   East Flanders                 5,990
 28   Brussels National Airport  Flemish Brabant               5,663
 29   Vilvoorde                  Flemish Brabant               5,460
 30   Gent-Dampoort              East Flanders                 5,231


The Chief Cook

For the crewmember of a merchant ship, see chief cook.

The Chief Cook is a 1917 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

Cast

  * Billy West as The Star Boarder
  * Bud Ross as Boggs (as Budd Ross)
  * Oliver Hardy as Babe (as Babe Hardy)
  * Ellen Burford as Dolly
  * Joe Cohen
  * Leo White as Ham
  * List of American films of 1917
  * Oliver Hardy filmography
  * The Chief Cook at IMDb
  * Stills of censored scene of Ellen Burford in bathtub


Platynus lyratus

Platynus lyratus is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.

  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.


Lucas A. Powe Jr.

Lucas A. Powe Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as the Anne Green Regents Chair in Law at University of Texas at Austin. He is a Supreme Court historian of law.

Early years and education

Powe's father was from Los Angeles. Powe Sr. attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he ran the mile in track, and in 1941 was graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law. He married Nellie Sheafe, and moved near her family in Oakland, California.

Powe was born in 1943 in Oakland, California. After the war his parents moved to Seattle where he was raised. He majored in American history at Yale and graduated in 1965 and married Carolyn McKenny of Seattle, WA. He then went to the University of Washington School of Law where he graduated number one in his class and was Articles Editor of the Law Review. After two years teaching at the University of British Columbia he was selected as Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for the 1970 Term.

Teaching and scholarship

In 1971, he joined the University of Texas faculty. He holds the Anne Green Regents Chair and teaches in the Law School and Government Department. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, and Georgetown University Law Center.

Powe's scholarship has analyzed government regulation and the role of the Supreme Court in shaping society.

In Powe's 1987 book, American Broadcasting and the First Amendment, he urged deregulation of broadcast media, in contrast to the theory in favor of television regulation put forth by Lee C. Bollinger.Federal Communications Commission. No matter what politically sensitive stories a newspaper prints, the government cannot take away its presses. But a television station that offends the government can have its license revoked, a paradigm that can contribute to self-censorship, Powe argued.


Lucas A. Powe Jr.

In his 2000 book, The Warren Court and American Politics, Powe contended the flaw in the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren was an attempt at social engineering at the expense of fidelity to the Constitution. One scholar described Powe's criticism: "it was a result-oriented Court, less concerned with legal reasoning than with the outcome. Powe writes that 'it is difficult to speak of an overriding jurisprudence apart from the results reached.' But what were the right results? What drove the Court? For Powe, the answer is straightforward: 'From the justices' points of view, the Court's prime role was to facilitate the policies ordained by the elected branches.'"

Powe's second book on the Court, The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 was described by Princeton's Keith Whittington as "the best one volume history of the Supreme Court ever published."

His third book on the Court, "America’s Lone Star Constitution: How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape America" combines Texas history with that of the Court.

When Powe was selected by the alumni (or “Exes” as the University of Texas calls its alums) as one of the ten best teachers in the university in 2019, he became the only faculty member to hold that distinction along with the honor of having one of his books (The Warren Court and American Politics) selected by a faculty committee as the best book published by a Texas faculty member that year.

In Powe’s first oral argument before any court, he prevailed unanimously at the United States Supreme Court.

Powe is a member of the American Law Institute.

He was a reviewer for the History Book Club for almost thirty years.

Selected publications

  * American Broadcasting and the First Amendment (1987)
  * The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America (1991)
  * Regulating Broadcast Programming (1994)
  * The Warren Court and American Politics (2000)
  * The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 (2009)
  * List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4)
  * Appearances on C-SPAN


The Best Thing (Boom Crash Opera song)

"The Best Thing" is a song by Australian band Boom Crash Opera. It was released on 27 November 1989These Here Are Crazy Times! (1989). The song was featured in the 1991 film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and was included on its soundtrack album.

Track listing

  * 7" single
 1. "The Best Thing" – 4:13
 2. "Flying a Kite in the Rain" – 3:03
 3. "Safer in Cages" – 4:29

Charts

Chart (1989–90)   Peak
                  position
Australia (ARIA)     67

Listen!! mix

On 10 December 1990,The Best Thing (Listen!! mix)" as the first and only single from the band's remix album, Look! Listen!! (1990). It peaked at number 112 on the ARIA Singles Chart in February 1991.

Track listing

  * 12" single
 1. "The Best Thing" (Listen!! mix) – 7:27
 2. "The Best Thing" (Listen!! 7" edit) – 4:40
 3. "The Best Thing" (Smashin' Dub) – 5:36

Charts

Chart (1991)      Peak
                  position
Australia (ARIA)    112

Hook n Sling version

In 2008, "The Best Thing" was remixed by Australian DJ and producer Hook n Sling, and released under the title "The Best Thing (2008)", through Hussle Recordings. The vocals were re-recorded by Boom Crash Opera singer Dale Ryder for the release.ARIA Singles Chart, and spent eight weeks at number one on the ARIA Club Tracks Chart.

Track listings


The Best Thing (Boom Crash Opera song)

Track listings

  * Digital release
 1. "The Best Thing (2008)" (radio edit) – 4:02
 2. "The Best Thing (2008)" (club edit) – 7:30
 3. "The Best Thing (2008)" (Tonite Only remix) – 7:00
 4. "The Best Thing (2008)" (TV Rock remix) – 7:09
 5. "The Best Thing (2008)" (Noel Sinner remix) – 5:42
  * CD single
 1. "The Best Thing (2008)" (radio edit)
 2. "The Best Thing (2008)" (club edit)
 3. "The Best Thing (2008)" (TV Rock remix)

Charts

Weekly charts                           Year-end charts

Chart (2008)                  Peak      Chart (2008)                  Position
                              position  Australia Club Tracks (ARIA)     3
Australia (ARIA)              27        Australia Dance (ARIA)           26
Australia Club Tracks (ARIA)     1      Australian Artists (ARIA)        44
Australia Dance (ARIA)           6
Australian Artists (ARIA)        6

Release history

Region          Date          Format(s)         Label              Ref.
Australia       21 July 2008  Digital download  Hussle Recordings
9 August 2008
18 August 2008  CD single

  * Boom Crash Opera website


Pelophylax kl. grafi

Graf's hybrid frog (Pelophylax kl. grafi) is a hybridogenic species in the true frog family Ranidae. It is found in France and Spain.

Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Hybridogenesis in Graf's hybrid frog Pelophylax kl. grafi (P–G system).

  * Hybridogenesis in water frogs


The Complete Copenhagen Concert

The Complete Copenhagen Concert (also released as Complete 1961 Copenhagen Concert) is a live album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It was recorded on November 20, 1961, at the Falkonercentret in Copenhagen, Denmark during a European tour, and was released in 2009 by both Magnetic Records, a label based in Luxembourg, and Gambit Records, based in Spain. In 2013 it was reissued by 'In' Crowd Records. The album features Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophone, Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, alto saxophone, and flute, McCoy Tyner on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.

The music was reissued as part of the 2015 compilation So Many Things: The European Tour 1961.Live Trane: The European Tours.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source          Rating
All About Jazz

In a review for All About Jazz, Warren Allen called the album "a must-have for Coltrane or Dolphy completists," and noted that, despite the poor sound quality, "the music itself is transcendently good." He commented: "this would have been an astonishing performance to witness... part of the pleasure of hearing this band is in the seemingly telepathic give and take between all players."

Matthew Fiander of PopMatters stated that "the band stutters and rolls through a smoldering version of 'Delilah', with all the speed, nuance, and wild-eyed power at full throttle in Coltrane’s solos," while "Everytime We Say Goodbye" is "an excellent and bittersweet juxtaposition to the unpredictability of 'Delilah', perhaps a moment for the audience to catch its collective breath."

Track listing

 1. "Announcement By Norman Granz" — 2:23 (not on the Magnetic release)
 2. "Delilah" — 11:16
 3. "Everytime We Say Goodbye" — 4:43
 4. "Impressions" — 12:53
 5. "Naima" — 6:46
 6. "My Favorite Things [False Starts] Into Announcement By John Coltrane" 0:57 (not on the Magnetic release)
 7. "My Favorite Things" — 27:19

Personnel


The Complete Copenhagen Concert

Personnel

  * John Coltrane — tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone
  * Eric Dolphy — bass clarinet/alto saxophone/flute
  * McCoy Tyner — piano
  * Reggie Workman — bass
  * Elvin Jones — drums


MAAC Offensive Player of the Year

The MAAC Offensive Player of the Year was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season to the best offensive men's ice hockey player in the conference as voted by the coaches of each MAAC team.

The award was discontinued after 2002-03 when the MAAC ice hockey conference was dissolved and all remaining programs reformed in Atlantic Hockey.

Award winners

Year     Winner              Position   School
1998–99  Ryan Carter         Forward    Iona
1999–00  Shawn Mansoff       Forward    Quinnipiac
2000-01  Ryan Manitowich     Forward    Iona
2001-02  Patrick Rissmiller  Left wing  Holy Cross
2002-03  Brandon Doria       Forward    Holy Cross

Winners by school    Winners by position

School      Winners  Position   Winners
Holy Cross  2        Left wing  1
Iona        2        Forward    4
Quinnipiac  1

  * Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year
  * MAAC Awards


Sykkylvsbladet

Sykkylvsbladet (The Sykkylven Gazette) is a local Norwegian newspaper published in Sykkylven in Møre og Romsdal county.

The paper mostly covers the municipality of Sykkylven.Nynorsk. The paper is edited by Frank Kjøde

Circulation

According to the Norwegian Audit Bureau of Circulations and National Association of Local Newspapers, Sykkylvsbladet has had the following annual circulation:

  * 2004: 2,756
  * 2005: 2,792
  * 2006: 2,833
  * 2007: 2,937
  * 2008: 2,980
  * 2009: 3,017
  * 2010: 3,026
  * 2011: 2,971
  * 2012: 2,975
  * 2013: 2,927
  * 2014: 2,856
  * 2015: 2,797
  * 2016: 2,718
  * Sykkylvsbladet homepage


Łaniewo

Łaniewo may refer to:

  * Łaniewo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
  * Łaniewo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
  * Łaniewo-Leśniczówka, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship


Salvia lemmonii

Salvia lemmonii (Lemmon's sage) is an aromatic species of sage that is native to the United States and Mexico.

Description

Salvia lemmonii grows to a height of between 30 and 90 cm (12 and 35 in) and has ovate leaves which are between 2.5 and 5 cm (0.98 and 1.97 in) long.

Range and Habitat

Salvia lemmonii species occurs in mountains in dry woodland in Northwestern Mexico, southern Arizona and New Mexico, usually in canyons or on rocky slopes.


Susquehanna Valley (disambiguation)

The Susquehanna Valley is a region of low-lying lands in the U.S. states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland surrounding the Susquehanna River.

Susquehanna Valley may also refer to:

  * Binghamton metropolitan area
      + Susquehanna Valley Central School District (which includes Susquehanna Valley High School), commonly referred to as "Susquehanna Valley"
  * Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area
  * West Branch Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania


Platynus ovatulus

Platynus ovatulus is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae.

  * Bousquet, Yves, and André Larochelle (1993). "Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America North of Mexico". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, no. 167, 397.
  * Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys 147: 601–621.
  * Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9
  * Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  * Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


Lucas Acosta

Lucas Acosta may refer to:

  * Lucas Acosta (footballer, born 1988), Argentine currently playing for Racing Club de Montevideo
  * Lucas Acosta (footballer, born 1995), currently playing for Club Atlético Sarmiento


The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955 is a 1955 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by T. E. Dikty. Most of the stories had originally appeared in 1954 in the magazines Astounding, The Saturday Evening Post, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Science Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction, Imagination and Fantastic.

Contents

  * The Science-Fiction Year, by T. E. Dikty
  * The Cold Equations, by Tom Godwin
  * "Of Course", by Chad Oliver
  * "Dominions Beyond", by Ward Moore
  * "Guilty as Charged", by Arthur Porges
  * "Careless Love", by Albert C. Friborg
  * "Memento Homo", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  * "Mousetrap", by Andre Norton
  * "Christmas Trombone", by Raymond E. Banks
  * "One Thousand Miles Up", by Frank M. Robinson
  * "How-2", by Clifford D. Simak
  * "Heirs Apparent", by Robert Abernathy
  * "John’s Other Practice", by Winston K. Marks
  * "The Inner Worlds", by William Morrison
  * "The Will", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  * "Felony", by James Causey
  * "The Littlest People", by Raymond E. Banks
  * "One Way Street", by Jerome Bixby
  * "Axolotl", by Robert Abernathy
  * "Exile", by Everett B. Cole
  * "Nightmare Blues", by Frank Herbert
  * The Science-Fiction Book Index, by Earl Kemp
  * Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Archived from the original on 2008-01-07


Pelonides

Pelonides is a genus of checkered beetles in the family Cleridae. There are about seven described species in Pelonides.

Pelonides quadripunctata

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Pelonides:

  * Pelonides granulatipennis (Schaeffer, 1904)
  * Pelonides humeralis (Horn, 1868)
  * Pelonides quadrinotata
  * Pelonides quadripunctata (four-spotted checkered beetle)
  * Pelonides quadripunctatus (Say, 1823)
  * Pelonides scabripennis (LeConte, 1866)
  * Pelonides similis Knull, 1938
  * Opitz, W. (2015). "Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Enopliinae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 147 (5): 501–526. doi:10.4039/tce.2014.64.
  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
  * Media related to Pelonides at Wikimedia Commons


Magliophis exiguus

Magliophis exiguus, the Virgin Islands miniracer or ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the United States Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands.


MACC

Look up macc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

MACC may refer to:

  * M.A.C.C., a rock band consisting of Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Chris Cornell, and Matt Cameron
  * Master of Accountancy, a graduate professional degree designed to prepare students for professional accounting, such as the Certified Public Accountant
  * Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, a government agency in Malaysia that investigates corruption in the public and private sectors
  * Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, an anarchist group based in New York City
  * Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the chamber of commerce for metro Atlanta, US
  * Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center, a sports arena at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, US
  * Mississippian Art and Ceremonial Complex, a proposed renaming of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
  * Moberly Area Community College, a community college based in Moberly, Missouri, US
  * MACC (Multi Age Cluster Class), a gifted student program in Metro-Vancouver
  * Marginal Abatement Cost Curve, a method of data visualisation showing costs and the scale of emissions reductions


Mark Esposito

Mark Esposito is a Swiss economist, has been serving as a professor at universities and business schools such as Harvard University, Hult International Business School, and Arizona State University.Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai in 2017 and as a global expert for the World Economic Forum.

Early life and education

Esposito grew up between Italy, the United States and Canada. He returned to Italy to gain both his BA and MA in human and social studies from the University of Turin, before moving again to the United States, where he resides in Boston. He completed his education with a doctoral degree in business and economics from the International School of Management in Paris, on a joint program with St. John’s University in New York City. He received post-doctorate education at Harvard Business School. In 2015, Esposito became a candidate to the Executive Doctorate of Business Administration at the École des Ponts ParisTech and its business school, which he defended in February 2018.

Career

Esposito is a socio-economist who teaches systems thinking, business, government and society, modern dilemmas, and economic and strategic competitiveness at the Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School.

The Lab-Center for Competitiveness at Grenoble Ecole de Management,equality in society. Their work involves researching and analysing the nature of competition and its implications in a range of contexts, and applying their research through the production of case studies. The Lab Centre is a member of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness Affiliate Network,Michael E. Porter.

As an agenda contributor on the World Economic Forum, Esposito regularly contributes papers exploring the interplay between economics, business and society, the most recent of which offered a balanced perspective on the ongoing debate around artificial intelligence, the increasing automation of jobs, and the realistic implications for global employment.

In 2016, Esposito was appointed as research fellow at the Circular Economy Research Initiative at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Fast-expanding markets is a concept Esposito co-created with his long-term collaborators Terence Tse and Khaled Soufani (of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge).

Publications


Mark Esposito

Publications

  * Mark, Esposito (2007). Sustainable Future of Mankind. Boris Maraz. with Timi Ecimovic, Lloyd Williams, and Roger Haw
  * Mark, Esposito (2009). Put Your Corporate Social Responsibility Act Together!. Tate Publishing.
  * Mark, Esposito (2009). Sustainable Strategies in Travel & Tourism. IRDO, Institute for the Development of Social Responsibility.
  * Mark, Esposito (2011). The M3C Model of Cooperative Contextual Change. Tate Publishing. with Lloyd Williams and Alessandro Biscaccianti
  * Mark, Esposito (2010). Sustaining the (dis)Integrated Systems: Which Future for Mankind?: A Reflective Journey on Today's Sustainability Dilemmas. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. with Timi Ecimovic, Matjaz Mulej, and Roger Haw
  * Mark, Esposito (2010). Emotional Intelligence & Hospitality. Tate Publishing. with Alessandro Cavelzani
  * Mark, Esposito (2010). Sustainable Future of Mankind III. SEM Institute for Climate Change. with Timi Ecimovic, Matjaz Mulej, and Roger Haw
  * Mark, Esposito (2012). Business Ethics: A Critical Approach: Integrating Ethics Across the Business World. Routledge. with Patrick O'Sullivan and Mark Smith
  * Mark, Esposito (2015). The Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Finance in the 21st Century: From Hubris to Disgrace (Economics as Social Theory). Routledge. with Patrick O'Sullivan and Nigel F. B. Allington
  * Mark, Esposito (2017). Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends. Lioncrest Publishing. with Terence Tse
  * Mark, Esposito (2018). Africa’s Competitiveness in the Global Economy. Palgrave Macmillan. with Ifedapo Adeleye
  * Mark, Esposito (2019). The AI Republic: Building the Nexus between Humans and Intelligent Automation. Lioncrest Publishing. with Terence Tse and Danny Goh

Recognitions

Esposito was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award in 2017 (through the DRIVE framework he co-created with Terence Tse).

  * Official website
  * Harvard University profile


Łagów

Łagów is the name of several villages in Poland:

  * Łagów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
  * Łagów, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
  * Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)
  * Łagów, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
  * Łagów, Krosno Odrzańskie County in Lubusz Voivodeship (west Poland)
  * Łagów, Kielce County
  * Łagów, Krosno County
  * Łagów, Łowicz County
  * Łagów, Łódź County
  * Łagów, Świebodzin County
  * Łagów, Zwoleń County
  * Łagów Landscape Park


Salvia meiliensis

Salvia meiliensis (sparking danshen) is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui province in China, found growing on roadsides at 1,000 to 1,300 m (3,300 to 4,300 ft) elevation. S. meiliensis grows on erect stems 30 to 50 cm (12 to 20 in) tall. Inflorescences are widely spaced 8 to many-flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a yellowish corolla that is 1.5 to 1.6 cm (0.59 to 0.63 in).


Tata BlueScope Steel

Tata BlueScope Steel (TBSPL) is a joint venture between Tata Steel Limited and BlueScope Steel. It was established in 2005 with its headquartered in Pune.

History

Tata BlueScope Steel venture was established in 2005 with three major businesses: Coated Steel, Roof & Wall Cladding Products and Pre-engineered Building Solutions. Tata BlueScope Steel is headquartered in Pune and has its manufacturing units in Jamshedpur, Sriperumbudur, Bhiwadi and Pune.

Resources


Platyopsis

Platyopsis is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.Platyopsis maroccanus, from Morocco and Algeria. According to a cladistic analysis by Brooks (2005), the genus appears closely related to Stenopygium and Pelastoneurus.


Schizax

Schizax senex is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Schizax.


The Best Thing (Adam Rickitt song)

The Best Thing (also known as Best Thing) is the name of the third single by the British singer: Adam Rickitt. The single peaked at number 25 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the charts for three weeks.Tim Royes.

Track listing

Single (CD 1)
 1. "Best Thing (Single Mix)" - 3:24
 2. "Dreaming" - 3:11
 3. "I Breathe Again (Blade Radio Mix)" - 4:14
 4. "Best Thing (Video)" - 3:24
Single (CD 2)
 1. "Best Thing (Single Mix)" - 3:23
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Vinyl Promo 12"
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 2. "Best Thing (Jewels & Stone Extended Mix)"
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 4. "Best Thing (Single Mix)"

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Pelophryne penrissenensis

Pelophryne penrissenensis, also known as Penrissen dwarf toad,toad in the family Bufonidae.endemic to Borneo and only known from Mount PenrissenSarawak (East Malaysia),type locality that also gave this species its specific name.Kalimantan (Indonesia).sister taxon of Pelophryne signata.

Description

Two adult males in the type series measure 25–28 mm (1.0–1.1 in) and a single adult female 31 mm (1.2 in) in snout–vent length. The overall appearance is moderately slender. The snout is truncate. The tympanum is visible, oval in shape. The forelimbs are thin and long; the hindlimbs are slender and moderately long. Both the fingers and toes have fleshy webbing characteristic to all Pelophryne. The finger and toe tips bear small discs. Skin is dorsally and laterally scattered with tubercles of various sizes. Colouration is clay brown, with darker spots. There is a dark brown interorbital triangle and a dark brown triangle from the mid-trunk to above the cloaca; together, these form a light hourglass pattern. In some individuals, the dark dorsal pattern is reduced into scattered dots.

Habitat and conservation

Pelophryne penrissenensis occurs in primary, hilly lower montane tropical rainforest at elevations of 1,000–1,200 m (3,300–3,900 ft) above sea level.2 metres (7 ft) above ground.Pelophryne.sympatric with Pelophryne signata, but less abundant.

Although this species is only known from one locality, it is relatively common there, not facing known threats, and believed to have a stable population. Some habitat conversion has occurred at the lower end of its altitudinal range, but higher up its habitat is considered safe. Hence, it has been assessed as a species of "least concern" by IUCN.Important Bird Area but enjoys no formal protection.


Magli Elster

Magli Elster (née Raknes; 21 November 1912 – 11 May 1993) was a Norwegian psychoanalyst, literary critic, poet and translator. She received the Fritt Ord Award, jointly with her husband Torolf Elster.

Personal life

Elster was born in the neighborhood of Vålerenga in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of psychologist Ola Raknes (1887–1975) and poet-playwright Aslaug Vaa (1889–1965). She grew up partly in Vålerenga, Kviteseid and Paris. She was married to writer and Director-General of the NRK Torolf Elster (1911–2006) and was the mother of philosopher Jon Elster.

Career

Elster received psychoanalytic training in Prague from 1934 to 1937, and practiced as psychoanalyst from 1937 to 1943. From 1947 to 1985 she was assigned as literary critic for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet.

She made her literary debut in 1952 with the poetry collection Trikken går i engen,Oslo, the capital of Norway, over a year.Med hilsen fra natten from 1953,Den syngende flåten from 1955, En pike av tre (1959) and Sekundene (1971).

Being a literary critic, Elster chaired the association Norsk Litteraturkritikerlag from 1959 to 1969. She was a co-founder of the Association Internationale de Critiques Litteraires.Norwegian language.

In 1986 she and her husband Torolf were awarded the Fritt Ord Award,


Scarus festivus

Scarus festivus, the festive parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish in the family Scaridae. This species has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution and is found from the coast of East Africa east as far as the Tuamotu islands and north to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan and south to Lord Howe Island, Australia. This is an uncommon species which is found in clear lagoons and off seaward reefs where it grazes on benthic algae.


Mark Enger

Mark Enger (1963–2011) and Matt Enger (born 1963) are American artists. They were identical twins and frequently collaborated on projects until Mark's death from cancer in 2011.

From an Army family, Mark and Matt were born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and raised in various places around the world.

Matt and Mark Enger formed their punk band,The War Hippies in 1986 and produced music, posters and clothing as well as live shows. They reformed the band in 1989 in New York and were reviewed in Melody Maker Magazine in 1993 for their performance at Max Fish bar on Ludlow Street in NYC.

Enger began showing his work with his brother Matt Enger at the Universal Limited Art Editions Gallery in 1990. Together, the brothers formed Exploding Sky, a studio on Ave. B where they made silk screen editions of their work as well as paintings.Kiki Smith, Donald Baechler, Keith Haring, and other New York artists producing and collaborating on prints and paintings. They also worked with internet personality Josh Harris on various projects including his "Quiet".

Mark died of throat cancer in January 2011.

Matt's later projects include "Streets of Glory" the art of Mark and Matt Enger at the Christopher Henry Gallery in lower Manhattan, July 2012, and "Exploding Sky" solo show at Christopher Henry Gallery in 2014. As well as a pop-up art shop at the Amy Li Gallery in Chinatown in New York City in December 2014.


Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Łagów.

Łagów [ˈwaɡuf] is a town in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łagów. It lies approximately 35 km (22 mi) east of the regional capital Kielce.Swietokrzyskie Mountains, along National Road Nr. 74, which goes from Kielce to Zamość. Historically, Łagów belongs to Lesser Poland.

According to Jan Długosz, in the year 1085 Prince Władysław I Herman gave the settlement of Łagów to the bishops of Włocławek. The name of the village was first mentioned in documents from 1148 ("cum castro Lagow"), and it probably comes from a man named Łag or Łaga. Sometime before 1230, a church was erected here, together with a Roman Catholic parish. By 1340, the Parish of Łagów had an area of 174 km2., and was very sparsely populated, due to the poor quality of soil and extensive forests.

Lagow received Magdeburg rights on April 9, 1253, which makes it one of the oldest towns in Lesser Poland. This was due to the efforts of Prince of Kraków and Sandomierz, Boleslaw V the Chaste, as during his reign, several other locations in Lesser Poland were granted town charters in a short period of time (Bochnia and Łagów in 1253; Kraków in 1257; Skaryszew in 1264; Skała in 1267; Koprzywnica in 1268; Jędrzejów and Opatowiec in 1271; Mstow in 1278, Nowe Brzesko in 1279).


Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

In the 14th century, several villages were founded around Łagów (Piotrow, Wola Lagowska, Sadkow, Gesice, Lechowek). On July 28, 1375, Queen Elizabeth of Poland issued a privilege, which allowed the Bishop of Wloclawek to found a new town, located in the area of the village Stary Łagów. The town was named Nowy Łagów, and remained in the hands of the bishops of Wloclawek. In the early 16th century Łagów emerged as a local center of the glass industry, with three plants established here by bishops Maciej Drzewicki and Jan Karnkowski. The town had a voigt, hospital, town hall, and stone church. In the late 16th century, Lagow became famous for its pottery, which was sold as far away as Kraków and Biecz.

In September 1502 the town, which was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship, was burned in a Crimean Tatar raid, but it was quickly rebuilt, and exempted from all taxes for the period of 12 years. In 1534, three iron ore mines and a bloomery operated here. In 1581-1600, Bishop of Wloclawek Henryk Rozdrazewski founded a Gothic – style church. Łagów burned to the ground in ca. 1575, and in ca. 1630, its population was 1,150. Apart from iron ore, lead and lime were mined in the area of the town. Swedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660) brought widespread destruction, followed by an epidemic (1662), which decimated the population. By 1663, the population of Łagów shrank to 170 residents

After the Partitions of Poland, Łagów briefly belonged to the Habsburg Empire, and since 1815 it was part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland. In the 1820s, the government of Congress Poland, on the initiative of Stanisław Staszic, initiated the program of Old-Polish Industrial Region, together with the construction of blast furnaces in Łagów. The program was abandoned due to the November Uprising. The town declined, and following the failed January Uprising, the Russian government reduced it to the status of a village (1869), as a punishment for the support of Polish rebels. In 1884, the population of Łagów was 2,000.


Łagów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

The village, which in the Second Polish Republic belonged to Kielce Voivodeship, was seized by the Wehrmacht on September 7, 1939 (see Invasion of Poland). In late 1944, Łagów was located along front line, which resulted in almost complete destruction of the village, and the death of some 1,500 residents.

Among points of interest in Łagów there are:

  * 15th-century parish church, with a 17th-century nave and late Renaissance altar (ca. 1600). The church was partly destroyed in September 1944,
  * medieval layout of streets, together with a market square,
  * 19th-century cemetery, with a chapel,
  * Łagów is starting point of blue tourist trails to Chęciny, and green trail to Nowa Słupia.

In the Dule Gorge, near Łagów, there is the so-called Jaskinia Zbojecka (The Robber’s Cave), one of the earliest known caves in the region. Its length is 160 meters, and is located at the height of 312 meters above sea level. Inside there are stalactites and stalagmite, and several kinds of bats. Archaeologists found there pottery and bones of domesticated animals from the 11th or 12th century.

50°46′36″N 21°5′6″E / 50.77667°N 21.08500°E


Salvia nilotica

Salvia nilotica is a perennial shrub growing in the eastern African highlands from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe, between 900 and 3,600 m (3,000 and 11,800 ft) elevation. It has many creeping rhizomes and stems about 60–90 cm (24–35 in) tall. The small flowers, in whorls of 6–8, range from purple to rose to white.


Tata Airport

Tata Airport (IATA: LEK, ICAO: GULB) is an airport serving Labé in Guinea.

The airport was formerly paved, but is now entirely grass/dirt due to plans to repave the entire runway that never occurred.

The Labe non-directional beacon (Ident: LB) is located on the field.

There are currently no scheduled passenger flights to Labé, but the airport received passengers up until the mid-2000s through regional carriers: Air Guinee and Union des Transports Africains (West Coast Airways).

  * [flag] Guinea portal
  * Aviation portal
  * Transport in Guinea
  * List of airports in Guinea
  * OpenStreetMap - Labé Airport
  * SkyVector - Labe Tata Airport
  * OurAirports - Tata Airport
  * Accident history for LEK at Aviation Safety Network
  * Google Earth


Robin Harrison

For the British-born Canadian musician and composer, see Robin Harrison (pianist).

Alick Robin Walsham Harrison CBE (15 November 1900 – 18 May 1969)English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1963 until his death in 1969.

Life

Robin Harrison was born on 15 November 1900 in Hambledon, Surrey and was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford.Westminster School and returned to Merton in 1930.Sir David Ross.Sir Francis Younghusband and a cousin of Eileen Younghusband. At the start of the Second World War he entered government service in the Ministry of Food, where he became Deputy Director of Public Relations and Private Secretary to the minister Lord Woolton.OBE in 1943Wolfson and St. Cross. He was made an honorary fellow of both.

He was the author of various academic books mainly dealing with law in the ancient world, including The Law of Athens.

Harrison died on 18 May 1969Oxford.


Schizenterospermum

Schizenterospermum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.

Its native range is Madagascar.

Species:

  * Schizenterospermum analamerense Arènes
  * Schizenterospermum grevei Homolle ex Arènes
  * Schizenterospermum majungense Homolle ex Arènes
  * Schizenterospermum rotundifolium Homolle ex Arènes


The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952

The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952 is a 1952 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1953 under the title The Best Science Fiction Stories: Third Series. The stories had originally appeared in 1951 and 1952 in the magazines Super Science Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Worlds Beyond, Startling Stories, New Worlds, Marvel Science Fiction, Esquire, Man’s World and Suspense Magazine.

Contents

  * Introduction, by Everett F. Bleiler & T. E. Dikty
  * "The Other Side", by Walter Kubilius
  * "Of Time and Third Avenue", by Alfred Bester
  * "The Marching Morons", by Cyril Kornbluth
  * "A Peculiar People", by Betsy Curtis
  * "Extending the Holdings", by David Grinnell
  * "The Tourist Trade", by Wilson Tucker
  * "The Two Shadows", by William F. Temple
  * "Balance", by John Christopher
  * "Brightness Falls from the Air", by Idris Seabright
  * "Witch War", by Richard Matheson
  * "At No Extra Cost", by Peter Phillips
  * "Nine-Finger Jack", by Anthony Boucher
  * "Appointment in Tomorrow", by Fritz Leiber
  * "The Rats", by Arthur Porges
  * "Men of the Ten Books", by Jack Vance
  * "Generation of Noah", by William Tenn
  * "Dark Interlude", by Fredric Brown & Mack Reynolds
  * "The Pedestrian", by Ray Bradbury
  * About the Authors
  * Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections"


Pelonomites

Pelonomites is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are about five described species in Pelonomites.

Species

These five species belong to the genus Pelonomites:

  * Pelonomites celisi (Basilewsky, 1954) (the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda)
  * Pelonomites coiffaiti Bruneau de Miré, 1990 (the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  * Pelonomites leleupi (Basilewsky, 1953) (the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  * Pelonomites mahunkai Giachino, 2015 (Tanzania)
  * Pelonomites vignai Zaballos & Casale, 1998 (Kenya)


Magliano de' Marsi

Magliano de' Marsi is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of southern-central Italy. The town is in the historical region Marsica.

Main sights

  * Church of Santa Lucia, in late Gothic-Romanesque style, with Baroque elements.
  * 14th century church of Madonna di Loreto
  * Santa Maria in Valle Porclaneta
  * Monumental tomb of King Perseus, the last king of the Macedonians. Buried along the Via Valeria near Magliano de' Marsi (Aquila), as indicated on table II SE of the page 145 of the Military Geographical Institute's map.

Twin towns

  * [Italy] Villa Sant'Angelo, Italy


Scarus altipinnis

Scarus altipinnis, the filament-finned parrotfish, high-fin parrotfish or mini-fin parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae. It occurs in the tropical and subtropical Western Pacific Ocean.

Description

Scarus altipinnis is distinguished from its congeners in the genus Scarus by the possession of a slightly elongated middle ray in the dorsal fin of the terminal phase males.total length attained is 60 centimetres (24 in).

Distribution

Scarus altipinnis is found in the western Pacific Ocean from the Ryukyu Islands south to Lord Howe Island, throughout Micronesia to the Line Islands and Ducie Island.

Habitat and biology

Scarus altipinnis frequently occurs large groups. The adults are normally recorded along the reef margin of seaward reefs whereas the juveniles and subadults inhabit shallow protected reefs. This species grazes on algae at depths of between 1–50 metres (3.3–164.0 ft). The adults and subadults are sociable while the juveniles are usually solitary. This is an oviparous fish and the male and female form pairs to spawn.

Human usage

Scarus altipinnis is commercially exploited and may be exported in Micronesia. It is fished for elsewhere in its range on a smaller scale.

Threats

The biggest threat to Scarus altipinnis is commercial fishing, especially in Micronesia, and habitat destruction.

Naming

Scarus altipinnis was first formally described as Pseudoscarus altipinnis in 1879 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner (1834–1919) with the type locality given as the Gilbert Islands.


Mark Emke

Mark Emke (born 18 July 1959) is a Dutch rower. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

  * Mark Emke at World Rowing
  * Mark Emke at Olympedia


Zodi (village)

Zodi (ზოდი) is a village in Chiatura municipality, Imereti, Georgia. It is located on the Chiatura plateau, 630 m above the sea level. There is a sand quarry, mineral water springs and several archaeological sites in the village. From the north, Zodi is bounded by river Tsikhistskali (ციხისწყალი), running through deep limestone canyons.

  * Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, Pg. 525, 1979.


Salvia marashica

Salvia marashica is a rare perennial plant that is endemic to Ahır Mountain, near Kahramanmaraş in Turkey.850 to 1,700 m (2,790 to 5,580 ft) elevation.

S. marashica grows erect on many stems to 30 to 70 cm (12 to 28 in), with pinnatisect leaves that are 1.2 to 7 cm (0.47 to 2.76 in) long and .3 to 1.8 cm (0.12 to 0.71 in) wide. The inflorescence is unusual for Salvia species, being covered in black-headed glandular hairs. The corolla is pink, and 2 to 2.8 cm (0.79 to 1.10 in) long. The specific epithet comes from the name of the city, "Kahramanmaras", where the type specimen was collected.

Data related to Salvia marashica at Wikispecies


Southern Islands

For the GPU family, see Southern Islands (GPU family).

The Southern Islands is a planning area consisting of a collection of islets located within the Central Region of Singapore, once home to the native Malay islanders and sea nomads before they were relocated to the mainland for urban redevelopment and future use. The islands that form the planning area are Kusu Island, Lazarus Island, Pulau Seringat, Pulau Tekukor, Saint John's Island, Sentosa and the two Sisters' Islands. The islands encompass a total land area of about 5.58 square kilometres (2.15 sq mi). The Sentosa Development Corporation oversaw the development and maintenance of these offshore islands south of Singapore from 1976 to March 2017, when it handed it back to the Singapore Land Authority.

Southern Islands planning area is situated on the Singapore Straits, south of the mainland planning area of Bukit Merah. It also shares maritime boundary with the Western Islands planning area.

Development

As part of the Singapore Tourism Board's (STB) plan to develop the other Southern Islands after Sentosa, land reclamation was started in 2000 to link Pulau Seringat and Lazarus Island. The reclamation created a sand bank between the two islands, forming a lagoon that has an unobstructed seaview.

Pulau Seringat, photographed in February 2011

Pulau Seringat, which is now part of the extended Lazarus Island, now has an 800-metre stretch of beach. Thousands of cubic metres of sand, checked for sandfly eggs, was imported from Indonesia to make the beach. 1,000 mature coconut trees were also planted to add to the island feel of the place.

A causeway connecting Lazarus Island and Saint John's Island was also built to make the three islands more accessible and help attract more visitors.

Previously a shoal that was barely visible at high tide, Kias is now an island that houses an electricity generator with enough capacity to support the other three islands.


Southern Islands

The reclamation took six years to complete and cost S$60 million. Another S$120 million was spent to bring water, electricity, gas and telecommunication infrastructure from Sentosa to the islands. The submarine services link consists of a 1.2-kilometre trench holding utility lines that lie 17 metres underwater. It links Sentosa Cove to Kias Island, and is protected underneath 50,000 tonnes of rock. It holds two 12-inch (30 cm) gas pipelines, two 12-inch (30 cm) water pipelines, four 22 kV power cables and four 96 core fibre optic cables for telecommunications.

The entire project cost nearly S$300 million and took about 15 years of planning.

Plans

Aerial perspective of Kusu Island, Singapore. Shot in 2016.

In November 2006, the Singapore Tourism Board announced plans to develop the six islands off the southern tip of Sentosa into a tourist attraction. These islands include the Sisters' Island, Kusu Island, Lazarus Island and Saint John's Island, which draw at least 100,000 visitors a year. These are mainly pilgrims, campers, day-trippers and canoeists.

This, as STB's S$12 billion Sentosa master plan — which includes HarbourFront and the Southern Islands — is expected to be completed ahead of schedule in 2010. The STB intends to tap on the momentum of the Sentosa Integrated resort bid and extend investor interest to the islands nearby.

Over the years, there have been several suggestions on how to develop the islands, from turning them into a centre for water sports, to developing eco-tourism and promoting fishing. Even a retirement village was promoted. However, these plans did not materialise.

The STB reckoned that the time was ripe to attract investors to develop the islands, which lies about a 20-minute ferry ride from the Singapore Cruise Centre and 30 minutes from Marina South Pier.

Exploring the potential of developing land around the Marina Bay and Sentosa areas, the STB has concluded that enhancing the lush greenery and natural foliage of the Southern Islands will make them irresistible as a tourist destination. The Southern Islands currently has a Chinese temple, natural ecosystems and a resort-like atmosphere. Therefore, it is conceivable to turn some of them into a resort island, a cultural site or an interactive rainforest park.


Southern Islands

There is also some potential for the Southern Islands to become a themed destination, mixing education and entertainment, that leverages on its natural resources. It has been said that the potential is similar to Italy's Isle of Capri, a marine village, or Dubai's The Palm islands, a development for the ultra-wealthy. However, it may be difficult to develop the islands as a mass tourist destination because they lack a land link to the main island. Instead, a plan is being considered to turn them into a getaway for the well-heeled who can afford the luxury and those who want to explore the rustic surroundings for the islands' flora and fauna, including 300 species of native wildlife.

With the completion of land reclamation works to link Pulau Seringat, Lazarus Island and Saint John's Island, the STB is setting its sights to develop the cluster by 2015, the year they plan to hit its target of 17 million annual visitors and S$30 billion in tourism receipts. The STB expects to announce details for the development of the Southern Islands and seek requests for concepts as early as March 2007.

However, in April 2007, STB announced that the plans for the Southern Islands have been put on hold. Industry sources said that the Government is considering housing a casino on the six-island cluster. STB met potential investors in January 2006 to gauge their interests and listen to ideas, but the results were apparently not very encouraging. To date, no decision has been made yet on the development concept, including whether a request for concepts exercise will be launched. It is the second time in three years that the authorities are rethinking plans for the Southern Islands.

  * Western Islands

Notes and references

  * The Southern Islands at sentosa.com.sg
  * Aerial view of the Southern Islands
  * Transport to the Southern Islands
  * Ferry Services from Marina South Pier


Robin Henderson

Robin Neely Henderson is the Associate Director, Management, of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. She was named to become the center's Acting Director effective August 3, 2012, following the retirement of the previous director, Arthur E. Goldman, to take a private sector position. On September 25, 2012, NASA named Patrick Scheuermann as the center's new permanent director.

Career

Henderson joined the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in 1983.Hubble Space Telescope Project Planning & Control Office until 1986. In 1986, she accepted a one-year assignment to support the International Space Station Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

From 1988 to 1990, she was assistant to the manager of the Space Systems Project Office. Henderson was business manager for the Upper Stages Project Office from 1990 to 1993, "supervising all business aspects of the Marshall Center's development of expendable rocket stages and associated systems". From 1993 to 1995, Henderson was the business manager of NASA's Microgravity Projects Office and from 1995 to 1997 she served as that office's deputy project manager.

From 1998 to 2002, she was deputy manager of the Microgravity Research Program Office. From 2002 to 2004, Henderson was the chief operating officer of the National Space Science and Technology Center.

On July 9, 2012, Marshall's acting director, Arthur E. "Gene" Goldman, announced that he would be leaving NASA to become the executive director for Aerojet's Southeast Space Operations division.Patrick Scheuermann, then serving as director of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, as the new permanent director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Awards and honors

Over the course of Henderson's NASA career, she has been honored multiple times for her work with the agency.NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for "outstanding contributions in planning and developing multiple microgravity projects". In 2005, she received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for her "outstanding leadership, dedication and professionalism" during the Marshall Center's "realignment with NASA's initiative calling for new exploration of the moon, Mars and beyond".Presidential Rank Award for "outstanding leadership and service" with NASA.

Henderson has received several NASA Group Achievement Awards and Special Service Awards for her "exceptional contributions toward reaching NASA's space mission goals".


Robin Henderson

Education

Henderson is a graduate of Austin High School in Decatur, Alabama.University of Alabama in Huntsville as a business major but after working as a co-op student at Martin Marietta, Henderson shifted her course of studies.University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 1983. She was named a University of Alabama College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Fellow in 2010.

Personal life

Born Robin Neely, Henderson is a native of Decatur, Alabama.

  * Marshall Space Flight Center website


Schizaphis minuta

Schizaphis minuta, also known as Schizaphis (Schizaphis) minuta, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It was originally found from tropical Asian countries, but discovered from United States recently.

  * http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/539/
  * http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Schizaphis_minuta/classification/
  * http://aphid.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1166092


Thomas Hearne

Thomas Hearn or Hearne may refer to:

  * Thomas K. Hearn (1937–2008), American academic administrator
  * Thomas Hearne (antiquarian) (1678–1735), English scholar
  * Thomas Hearne (artist) (1744–1817), English landscape painter
  * Thomas Hearne (cricketer, born 1887) (1887–1947), English cricketer
  * Tom Hearne (1826–1900), English cricketer


Paidang

Paidang is a village development committee in the Himalayas of Taplejung District in the Province No. 1 of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 1701 people living in 344 individual households.

  * UN map of the municipalities of Taplejung District


Magliocca

Magliocca is a surname.

  * Gerard Magliocca (born 1973), American law professor
  * Joe Magliocca, Canadian politician
  * Magliocco


Shannon coding

In the field of data compression, Shannon coding, named after its creator, Claude Shannon, is a lossless data compression technique for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities (estimated or measured). It is suboptimal in the sense that it does not achieve the lowest possible expected code word length like Huffman coding does, and never better than but sometimes equal to the Shannon–Fano coding (Fano's method).

The method was the first of its type, the technique was used to prove Shannon's noiseless coding theorem in his 1948 article "A Mathematical Theory of Communication",

Shannon–Fano coding methods gave rise to the field of information theory and without its contributions, the world would not have any of the many successors; for example Huffman coding, or arithmetic coding. Much of our day-to-day lives are significantly influenced by digital data and this would not be possible without Shannon-Fano coding and the ongoing evolution of its methods.

In Shannon coding, the symbols are arranged in order from most probable to least probable, and assigned codewords by taking the first [{\displaystyle l_{i}=\left\lceil -\log _{2}p_{i}\right\rceil }] bits from the binary expansions of the cumulative probabilities [{\displaystyle \sum \limits _{k=1}^{i-1}p_{k}.}] Here [\lceil x\rceil ] denotes the ceiling function (which rounds [x] up to the next integer value).

Example

In the table below is an example of creating a code scheme for symbols a1 to a6. The value of li gives the number of bits used to represent the symbol ai. The last column is the bit code of each symbol.


Shannon coding

i  pi    li  [{\displaystyle \sum _{n=0}^{i-1}p_{n}}]  Previous value in binary  Codeword for ai
1  0.36  2   0.0                                       0.0000                    00
2  0.18  3   0.36                                      0.0101...                 010
3  0.18  3   0.54                                      0.1000...                 100
4  0.12  4   0.72                                      0.1011...                 1011
5  0.09  4   0.84                                      0.1101...                 1101
6  0.07  4   0.93                                      0.1110...                 1110

Shannon, Claude Elwood. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." ACM SIGMOBILE mobile computing and communications review 5.1 (2001): 3-55.


Tallinna Arte Gümnaasium

Tallinna Arte Gümnaasium (Tallinn Arte Gymnasium) is a school, located in the district of Mustamäe, Tallinn, Estonia. As of September 2008, the headmaster is the former headteacher, Sirje Ebral.

Early history

The school was founded in 1981 as Tallinn Secondary School No. 49 (Tallinna 49. keskkool). It was renamed in 2002. The school had already built an indoor swimming pool, which was also opened in 1981. In 1983, the famous junior football club, "Tallinna Lõvid" (Lions of Tallinn), was founded. Later that year, the school started with its first Mothers-Day concert "Orhidee Emale", which remains an annual tradition of the school. In 1991, the school opened a renovated library.

Later history

During 2001/2002, the school's bathrooms, gym, pool, library, cafeteria and the main lounge have been renovated. Later in 2021/2022, the school was entirely rebuilt.

Famous graduates

  * Mart Poom – Estonian football goalkeeper
  * Martin Müürsepp – Estonian basketballer
  * Martin Reim – Estonian footballer
  * Maret Maripuu – Estonian politician
  * Evelin Pang - Estonian actress

Awards

  * 2002 – "Well run school"
  * 2002 – "Best library"
  * 2004 – "Best learning environment"
  * Official website (in Estonian)

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William Knyvett (athlete)

William Alexander Knyvett (May 28, 1882 – February 13, 1929) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Jessore, British Raj, modern-day Bangladesh. He was the son of A. V. Knyvett CIE and he followed in his father's footsteps as a member of the Bengali Police.

Reaching the semi-finals of the 110 metre hurdles competition, he finished with the second fastest time overall of all the semi-final heats. Nevertheless, as he was second in his heat, he was eliminated. The winner of his heat, Forrest Smithson of the USA, went on to win the Olympic Gold Medal in the final.

  * William Alexander Knyvett. The Malvern Register (1865–1904), 1905, p. 390.


Sandown (1786 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Sandown (ship).

Sandown does not appear in Lloyd's Register. A Sandown does appear in Lloyd's Register between 1789 and 1798, but it is a different vessel from the Sandown of this article, though the two vessels are sometimes conflated.

In January 1786 Sandown, a foreign-built ship, had grounded at Sandown Bay on the back of the Isle of Wight. She had since been repaired.

The French privateer Guillotine captured Sandown, Apsey, master, on 28 July at 23°40′N 83°58′W / 23.667°N 83.967°W, about 100 miles WNW from Havana. The single ship action took about an hour before Sandown struck.

On 2 August, HMS Scorpion captured Guillotine,Sandown;Scorpion took them into Havana.Sandown, Apsey, master, was driven ashore at Havana in a hurricane and lost. At the time she was on her way from Jamaica and Havana to London.Sandown, and the Spanish warship Flor. Most of the cargoes were salvaged.

It is clear from the log of Captain Gamble, master of Sandown (1788) that this Sandown is not Gamble's Sandown. In his account Gamble reports that on 15 August 1794 he had spoken with Mano, which reported that a British sloop-of-war had brought into Havana a privateer and her prize, which had been bound from Jamaica to Liverpool. Gamble further remarked that the merchantman had sailed from Jamaica some 14 days before the fleet that Sandown (1788) was part of had left.Guillotine, and the salvage money notice for Sandown above support that the first account above in Lloyd's List is not a false report.


Sandown (1786 ship)

* Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-24-1.
  * Marx, Robert F. (1987). Shipwrecks in the Americas. New York: Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-25514-9.
  * Mouser, Bruce (2002). A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica: the log of the Sandown, 1793 - 1794. Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253340772.


Southsea Shakespeare Actors

The Southsea Shakespeare Actors are an amateur theatrical group in Southsea, Hampshire, England. It has produced nearly 200 plays, of which around two-thirds have been by William Shakespeare. It was the first amateur group in the world to perform the entire Shakespearean canon of plays, during the 1960s, for which it has won a Guinness World Record - it repeated this achievement in 1997. Members have included the naval historian Colin White.

It was formed in 1947 at St Peter's Hall in the town, with Donald Wolfit as its patron and K. Edmonds Gateley MBE as both its founder and its first main director. It moved to the South Parade Pier Theatre in the 1950s. When the Pier declined it moved again to the King's Theatre, performing there during the 1970s and early 1980s before becoming more multi-venue (albeit with the Portsmouth Arts Centre and New Theatre Royal as its main venues). It has also played at the Edinburgh Festival and has a youth wing, known as 'Upstage!'.

  * Official website


Pietà (Lotto)

Pietà (1538–1545) by Lorenzo Lotto

Pietà is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, signed "Laurentio Lotto".Dominican Church of San Paolo in Treviso. The account books also mention that the work was completed in 1545.Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, where it still hangs.


Lists of downloadable PlayStation games

Not to be confused with PlayStation Classic.

These are articles listing games previously released for the original PlayStation that were later made available for download from the PlayStation Store for play on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation TV, PlayStation 4, or PlayStation 5. For lists of the games available by market, see:

  * List of downloadable PlayStation games (Japan)
  * List of downloadable PlayStation games (North America)
  * List of downloadable PlayStation games (PAL region)


Thomas Heath (cricketer)

Thomas Heath (10 December 1806 – 16 October 1872) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1828 to 1848.

A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, he made 20 known appearances in first-class matches.North in the North v. South series.


Paidi (instrument)

Paidi (Chinese: 排笛) is an instrument that consists of two to four parallel dizis of different length bound together. It was invented by Zhao Songting at the beginning of 1960s. Compared with the conventional dizi, paidi has a wider range and can produce different timbres.

  * "Birds in Shade" by Du Rusong
  * "Busy Plucking Tea-Leaves" by Tsai Hsueh Jen


Maglia

Maglia may refer to:

  * Maglia (surname)
  * Maglia (river)


Shannonia

Shannonia is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

Species

  * Shannonia costalis (Walker, 1837)
  * Shannonia meridionalis Zuska, 1969