Alliance of Women Directors

The Alliance of Women Directors (AWD) is an American 501c(3) nonprofit organization created to support education and advocacy for women directors in film, television, and new media.

Programs

The AWD works to support and promote the work, visibility, and professional development for female directors

The Alliance offers a "TV Shadowing Program" providing opportunities for new directors to learn from experienced directors at work.Fox Global Directors Initiative and an allied organization of the Women Filmmakers Initiative.

The AWD helps its members make professional connections. In 2014, Maria Burton was hired as director of A Sort of Homecoming Need for Speed, after being notified about the contest via the Alliance.

Views

According to their press kit, the Alliance believes in "foster[ing] a community of professionals to advance the art, craft and visibility of women directors in the world of film, television and new media" and promotes the idea that it is "vital that stories are told from all perspectives".Eleonore Dailly, co-chair of the AWD, in an interview with Elle magazine, described the group's goals as, "debunk[ing] this myth that there aren't enough female directors. There are highly trained female directors who can handle thrillers and action films just like male directors can handle romantic comedies."

Director Maria Burton was the co-chair of the Alliance for six years. Describing the problem to the LA Daily News, Burton said "through all the years, through all the genres, in front and behind the camera, women are vastly underrepresented."The Huffington Post on the lack of women-directed films at Cannes, "complex dramas [...] tend to be difficult to finance in the U.S. If they are complex, the only way to get them financed is to have a big-name director, because then the investors are assured it'll be a masterpiece. And many of the most talented female directors are still relatively unproven, so investors don't want to take a chance."Variety that it was important to demonstrate that "a woman director can deliver a commercially successful film that is outside the romantic comedy ghetto".

Membership and organization


Alliance of Women Directors

Membership and organization

Currently, AWD membership is over 250,Hilari Scarl,Alexis Krasilovsky, Jen McGowan, Debra Granik,Mimi Leder, Betty Thomas, Bethany Rooney, and Lesli Linka Glatter.dues to support the group's work.Jennifer Warren.

Awards

On April 28, 2016, the AWD held its first Alliance of Women Directors Awards ceremony at the Paley Center for Media (Beverly Hills). Television producers Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash) and Ilene Chaiken (Empire) were honored for expanding opportunities for women in directing and other behind the camera roles in the television industry.Chiara Tilesi and Albert Berger of the We Do It Together foundation were also honored, and director Jen McGowan (Kelly & Cal) was awarded the AWD Breakout Award.

  * List of female film and television directors
  * Official website


Mumtaz Rashidi

Begum Mumtaz Rashidi (Sindhi: بيگم ممتاز راشدي) (March 1934 - 1 November 2004) was a Pakistani Social Worker and writer. She served as Pakistan's first woman press attache in 1954. She also worked in Philippines, China and Hong Kong on various ambassadorial assignments. She was wife of Pir Ali Muhammad Rashidi, the renowned Scholar and Politician of Sindh, Pakistan

Childhood and education

Mumtaz Rashidi was born on 8 March 1934 in Kolkatta, India. She was grandniece of Sher- i-Bengal A.K. Fazalul Haq.Darjeeling. She received Degree of Art from Eden Girls College Dhakka and B.A. in English Literature from Dhakka University with first class first position. She also took Master of Arts degree from the same University again with first class first position. She got Diploma in Journalism from Notre Dame Indiana University USA in 1955-56.English, French, Bengali, Urdu and Sindhi languages.

Career

She became Pakistan's first woman press attache in 1954 and got posted in Paris.Pir Ali Mohammad Rashidi whom she married in 1955.Manchar Lake. She also worked in close collaboration with international welfare organizations. She founded a social welfare organization for the development of Children and Women. She served as a member of National Commission on the Status of Women under Cabinet Division of Government of Pakistan from 1983 to 1986. She also served as adviser and coordinator of National Pakistan Women Association. She represented Pakistan at a number of International forums, seminars and conferences.

She served as member of board of governors of Quaid-e-Azam Academy, Pakistan National Council of Arts and Pakistani Commission for cooperation with UNESCO. She was also member of Senate and Syndicate of Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam. She took an active part in Sindh Through Centuries Conference which was held in Karachi in 1975.

As a writer

Ms Rashidi wrote regularly for various newspapers, including Dawn, Morning News and The Sun. She wrote books on social issues of Sindh. Some of her books are listed below:

  * Sindh aur Nigah-i-Qadarshanas
  * Islamic Art and Culture of Sindh

Death


Mumtaz Rashidi

Death

She died on 1 November 2004 and was buried in Meva Shah graveyard of Karachi. She left behind two children: son Adil Rashidi and daughter Anadil Rashidi.


Raffaella Manieri

Raffaella Manieri (born 26 November 1986) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Milan. She previously played for ACF Brescia Femminile, Torres CF, ACF Torino and ASD Bardolino in Italy, and Bayern Munich in Germany.

International career

Manieri is a member of the Italian national team. As an Under-19 international she scored against Nigeria in the 2004 U-19 World Championship, earning Italy its only point in the competition.Mexico. She was included in the call-up for the 2009 European Championship as a reserve2011 World Cup qualifying.

Goals for the Italian WNT in official competitions
Competition          Stage       Date             Location   Opponent         Goals  Result  Overall
2013 UEFA Euro       Qualifiers  2012–06–16       Turin      North Macedonia  2      9–0     2
2015 FIFA World Cup  Qualifiers  2014–02–13       Novara     Czech Republic   1      6–1     4
2014–05–08           Skopje      North Macedonia  1          11–0
2014–06–14           Prague      Czech Republic   1          4–0
2014–09–13           Vercelli    Estonia          1          4–0
2017 UEFA Euro       Qualifiers  2015–09–18       La Spezia  Georgia          1      6–1     3
2015–10–27           Chomutov    Czech Republic   1          3–0
2016–06–07           Gori        Georgia          1          7–0

Honours and achievements

Club

Torres CF
  * Serie A: 2008, 2010, 2011
  * Italian Women's Cup: 2011
Bayern München
  * Bundesliga: 2014–15, 2015–16
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Wild Birds

Wild Birds (Swedish: Vildfåglar) is a 1955 Swedish drama film directed by Alf Sjöberg and starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Per Oscarsson and Ulf Palme.Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Gothenburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director P.A. Lundgren.

Cast

  * Maj-Britt Nilsson as Lena Hern
  * Per Oscarsson as Nisse Bortom
  * Ulf Palme as Harry
  * Ulla Sjöblom as Ulla
  * Gertrud Fridh as Lizzie
  * Jane Friedmann as Ester
  * Eva Stiberg as Mrs. Carlsson
  * Kolbjörn Knudsen as Captain Hern
  * Helge Hagerman as Åke Carlsson
  * Erik Strandmark as Furniture dealer
  * Allan Edwall as Fiorentino
  * Tommy Nilsson as Stickan
  * Gunnar Collin as Berra
  * Jan-Olof Strandberg as Moje
  * Bengt Blomgren as Gunnar
  * Aurore Palmgren as Mrs. Larsson
  * Olof Thunberg as Caretaker
  * Ernst Brunman as Caretaker
  * Carin SwenssonMother
  * Sten Mattsson as Spectator
  * Ivar Wahlgren as Tug Skipper
  * Per Olov Qvist & Peter von Bagh. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
  * Wild Birds at IMDb


USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker

USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker (LSV-4) is a General Frank S. Besson Jr.-class roll-on/roll-off of US Army.

Design

Main article: General Frank S. Besson-class support vessel

Named in honor of Gen. Frank S. Besson Jr., former Chief of Transportation, U.S. Army, these ships have bow and stern ramps and the ability to beach themselves, giving them the ability to discharge 900 short tons of vehicles and cargo over the shore in as little as four feet of water, or 2,000 short tons as an intra-theater line haul roll-on/roll-off cargo ship.M1 Abrams main battle tanks or 82 ISO standard containers.

Construction and career

She was acquired by the US Army on 18 March 1988 and commissioned in 1988 into the 1099th Transportation Detachment, 7th Expeditionary Transportation Brigade.

Gallery

  * [USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker and 359th Inland Cargo Transfer Company on 7 February 2012]
    USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker and 359th Inland Cargo Transfer Company on 7 February 2012
  * [General William M. Fraser III aboard USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker on 10 April 2012]
    General William M. Fraser III aboard USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker on 10 April 2012
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  * [USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker on 19 April 2013]
    USAV Lt. General William B. Bunker on 19 April 2013
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  * Navsource – Photo Gallery
  * Frank S Besson Class LSV Logistic Support Vessel
  * LSVs at globalsecurity.org
  * Photo gallery: Family tour aboard the LSV-7 Kuroda | The Honolulu Advertiser
  * LSV-8 USAV MG Roberts Smalls – a set on Flickr
  * Army Commissions Vessel Named after African-American Civil War Hero, S.C. Statesman
  * Robert Smalls Official Website


Wanrong (disambiguation)

Look up Wanrong in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wanrong (婉容; 1906–1946) was an empress of the Qing dynasty and the last Chinese empress.

Wanrong may also refer to:

  * Wanrong County (万荣县), a subdivision of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China
  * Wanrong, Hualien (萬榮鄉), a township in Hualien County, Taiwan


Three Tuns

Three Tuns is the name of:

  * Three Tuns Brewery, in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire
  * Three Tuns, Pennsylvania, a community in the United States
  * Three Tuns, Uxbridge, a pub in London
  * Three Tuns, Alcester, a pub in Warwickshire
  * The Three Tuns, a pub in York


Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien

Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien, PC, QC (29 June 1842 – 7 September 1914), known as Sir Peter O'Brien, Bt, between 1891 and 1900, was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland between 1889 and 1913. In his lifetime he was universally known as Peter the Packer, due to the skill he displayed as Attorney-General in securing verdicts by packed juries.

Background and education

O'Brien was born at Carnelly House, Clarecastle, County Clare,John O'Brien, Liberal Member of Parliament for Limerick, and his wife Ellen Murphy, daughter of Jeremiah Murphy of Hyde Park, County Cork. He was a nephew of Mr. Justice James O'Brien of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland).Clongowes Wood College and Trinity College Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1865.

Legal and judicial career

O'Brien joined the Munster circuit and built up a successful practice, and in 1880 became a Queen's Counsel. The following year he was appointed Junior Crown Counsel at Green Street, Dublin, becoming Senior in 1882, and was made a bencher of the King's Inns in 1884.

He was one of the principal prosecutors in the Phoenix Park murders, and it is said that his life was threatened as a result. He unsuccessfully stood for the House of Commons as the Liberal candidate for County Clare in 1879: his defeat is said to have been due to his opposition to Irish Home Rule.

In 1887 O'Brien was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, becoming Attorney-General for Ireland and an Irish Privy Counsellor the following year. He was finally appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1889, holding the office for 24 years. As Attorney General he was considered to be a highly efficient civil servant; even Arthur Balfour, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who thought poorly of most of the Irish Law Officers who served under him, praised O'Brien for his hard work. He showed great skill in "packing" juries in politically sensitive cases with jurors who could be trusted to convict, thus earning the nickname "Peter the Packer", which stuck to him all his life.


Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien

Opinions on his judicial ability vary. A. M. Sullivan wrote that as a pupil of the great Chief Baron Christopher Palles he must have learned the principles of common law but, though intelligent, he was generally too lazy to apply them. Palles himself is said to have remarked of one of O'Brien's judgments "you never learned that law from me!". However, his judgement in R. (Bridgeman) v. Drury [1894] 2 I.R. 489 where he refused to allow the members of Dublin Corporation to charge the ratepayers of Dublin for a particularly lavish picnic, is still often quoted both for its legal principle and its remarkable wit and humour. His judgment in Ussher v Ussher (1912), on whether a marriage conducted according to the Roman Catholic rite can be valid if there is only one witness to it, has also been praised as "careful and erudite." Hr was notoriously susceptible to female charms: it was said that a pretty young lady was generally treated as a conclusive witness for whichever side she appeared.

He was created a Baronet, of Merrion Square in the County of the City of Dublin, on 28 September 1891,Baron O'Brien, of Kilfenora in the County of Clare, in 1900.

Personal life

Lord O'Brien married Annie Clarke, daughter of Robert Hare Clarke of Bansha Castle, County Tipperary, and his second wife Anne Butler in 1867 and had three children: James, who died young, Ellen (who died in 1930) and Anne Georgina.

Lord O'Brien also had an Irish mistress, based in London, called Mary McNally with whom he separately had 4 children, who went by the name of Blake.

His only legitimate son having predeceased him, he died without male heirs at Airfield, Stillorgan, County Dublin, on 7 September 1914, his barony and baronetcy thus becoming extinct.

His daughter, Annie Georgina O'Brien, published an affectionate memoir of her father a few years after his death.wig, and a lisp so pronounced that it often made his remarks from the Bench difficult to follow.


Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien

Maurice Healy in his own memoir The Old Munster Circuit described O'Brien as a man of considerable legal ability and great natural kindness, who was deservedly very popular. On the other hand, he was rather vain and self-important, and inclined to stand on the dignity of his office.

Arms

Coat of arms of Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien
  Notes Confirmed 1 September 1891 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. Crest An arm embowed vested Azure brandishing a sword Argent hilt and pommel Or and charged with a fasces in pale Proper. Escutcheon Gules three lions passant guardant in pale per pale Or and Argent a chief of the second. Motto Vigueur De Dessus


Vincenzino Culicchia

Vincenzino Culicchia (9 October 1932 – 17 October 2016) was an Italian politician. He was the mayor of his hometown, Partanna, from 1962 to 1992, when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Culicchia served one term as a national deputy, representing Sicily until 1994.

He died at the age of 83 in 2016.

Mannix Vincenzino is related to this Italian politician.


San Vito Wetland

San Vito Wetland (Spanish: Humedal San Vito), is a protected area in Costa Rica, managed under the Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area, it was created in 1994 by decree 22879.


Politics of Moldova

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The Alliance of the Christian Democratic Popular Front (Romanian: Alianța Frontului Popular Creștin Democrat, AFPCD) was a political alliance in Moldova.

History

The alliance was formed to contest the February 1994 elections, and consisted of the Christian Democratic Popular Front (FPCD), the Christian Democratic Youth Organisation (OTCD) and the Moldovan Volunteers' Movement (MVM).

Prior to the 1998 elections the alliance broke up, with the FPCD joining the Democratic Convention of Moldova.


Mumu (2010 film)

Mumu is a French film directed by Joël Séria, released in 2010.

The screenplay, of a largely autobiographical nature, was written by the director from 1993 - a long planned project for Séria who had not directed a full-length film since 1987.

Plot

In 1947, Roger Lantier, 11 years old, is expelled, again, from his school - to the despair and anger of his father. He goes next to a new school where 'Mumu' holds sway, "the meanest teacher in the department". This meeting is one that will leave its mark on the young student forever.

Cast

  * Sylvie Testud as Mlle. Mulard ("Mumu"), teacher
  * Balthazar Dejean de la Bâtie as Roger Lantier
  * Jean-François Balmer as priest
  * Bruno Lochet as 'Saucisse', the supervisor
  * Dominique Pinon as father of Roger
  * Prune Lichtle as mother of Roger
  * Michel Galabru as Gâtineau, an old actor
  * Valentin Ferey as Perchard, best friend of Roger
  * Helena Noguerra as Madame Rotaillot
  * Antoine de Caunes as the blind colonel
  * Mumu at IMDb


Raffaele Soprani

Raffaele Soprani (1612-1672) was an Italian aristocrat known mainly as an art historian for his volume of biographies of Genoese artists, published posthumously in 1674.

Biography

He was born to a senatorial family in Genoa, and himself served twice as a Senator. Educated in the humanities, he also dabbled in painting, studying under Giulio Benso and Pellegro Piola. He confessed being attracted to the styles of Sinibaldo Scorza and Goffredo Waals. His friendship with Benso, and the popularity of Vasari's biographies, led Soprani to collect the information about Ligurian painters, sculptors, and architects. His first synthesis was complete by about 1657, but he continued to revise the manuscript.Carlo Giuseppe Ratti.

He also published books on the writers of Liguria and select biographies.

  * Delle vite de' Pittori, scultori ed Architetti Genovesi
  * Li Scrittori della Liguria, e particolarmente della maritima (1667)
  * Vita della Venerabile Suor Tomasa Fiesca
  * Trattato delle Antiche medaglie
  * Vite della Veneatile Donna Anna Soprani


Wild Bird (film)

Wild Bird (German: Wildvogel) is a 1943 German romance film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Leny Marenbach, Volker von Collande and Werner Hinz.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Arthur Schwarz. Filming took place in Berlin and the Tyrol.

Cast

  * Leny Marenbach as Vika von Demnitz
  * Volker von Collande as Wolff
  * Werner Hinz as Professor Lossen
  * Käthe Haack as Tante Argate
  * Herbert Hübner as Herr von Demnitz
  * Roma Bahn as Britta von Dermnitz
  * Reinhold Pasch as Dr. Schütte
  * Heinrich Marlow as Präsident Weichbrodt
  * Ellen Hille as Resi
  * Beppo Brem as Franzl
  * Josef Eichheim as Joseph
  * Vera Complojer as Josefa
  * Ernst Waldow as Reisender
  * Hertha von Walther as Bergsteigerin
  * Hanns Waschatko as Hotelportier
  * Greta Schröder as Jutta Lossen
  * Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
  * Wild Bird at IMDb


USAV Major General Charles P. Gross

USAV Major General Charles P. Gross (LSV-5) is a General Frank S. Besson Jr.-class roll-on/roll-off of US Army.

Design

Main article: General Frank S. Besson-class support vessel

Named in honor of Gen. Frank S. Besson Jr., former Chief of Transportation, U.S. Army, these ships have bow and stern ramps and the ability to beach themselves, giving them the ability to discharge 900 short tons of vehicles and cargo over the shore in as little as four feet of water, or 2,000 short tons as an intra-theater line haul roll-on/roll-off cargo ship.M1 Abrams main battle tanks or 82 ISO standard containers.

Construction and career

She was acquired by the US Army on 30 April 1991 and commissioned in 1991 into the 411th Transportation Detachment, 1st Theater Sustainment Command.

Gallery

  * [USAV Major General Charles P. Gross and USAV Major General Robert Smalls on 9 November 2012]
    USAV Major General Charles P. Gross and USAV Major General Robert Smalls on 9 November 2012
  * Navsource – Photo Gallery
  * Frank S Besson Class LSV Logistic Support Vessel
  * LSVs at globalsecurity.org
  * Photo gallery: Family tour aboard the LSV-7 Kuroda | The Honolulu Advertiser
  * LSV-8 USAV MG Roberts Smalls – a set on Flickr
  * Army Commissions Vessel Named after African-American Civil War Hero, S.C. Statesman
  * Robert Smalls Official Website


Wanquan, Zhejiang

Wanquan (simplified Chinese: 万全; traditional Chinese: 萬全; pinyin: Wànquán) is a town under the administration of Pingyang County, Zhejiang, China.As of 2018, it has four residential communities, 62 villages, and two special farming communities under its administration.


The Servant's Magazine

The Servant's Magazine was published monthly in England from 1838 until 1869. Priced at one penny, its mission was to provide "improving reading for servant girls". Probably bought more by the mistress of the house for distribution to her servants than by the servants themselves, its tone was "patronizing and austerely evangelical". Among the advice contained within its pages was that servants should never read novels, should study the Bible regularly, and should be faithful to their employers, not seeking employment elsewhere "unless the Lord tells you it will be for your soul's good".

  * Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa, eds. (2009), "Servant's Magazine (1838–1869)", Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, Academia Press, ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8


Peter Nzioki

Peter King Nzioki Mwania (born 25 May 1978), popularly known as Peter King, is a Kenyan actor.The Constant Gardener, The Fifth Estate and Sense8.

Personal life

Nzioki was born on 25 May 1978 in Nairobi, Kenya. His father Michael David Mwania, served in the Kenyan Army and his mother worked at the military hospital. At the age of six, he joined church productions at the Lang’ata Barracks. He completed his education from Lang’ata High School in Nairobi.

He is married to fellow actress Tess King.

Career

He made acting debut in 2000 at the Kenya National Theatre for three years under the guidance of Joab Kanuka. In theater, he played 'Iago' in the Phoenix Players production of the Shakespeare tragedy Othello. In 2005, he made his film debut with a minor role in The Constant Gardener directed by Fernando Meirelles.Transit. In 2016, he appeared in the thriller film The CEO where he played the role of 'Jomo'. The film had its premier 10 July 2016, at the Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos

He made some notable appearances as 'Mkwajo' in award-winning musical Mo Faya directed by Eric Wainaina; scheming spouse in FaceBook and corrupt politician 'Mzito' in Ni Sisi. After several villainous roles, he received the role as stepfather in MTV series Shuga 2, then as an inspiring soccer coach in The Inside Story aired in Discovery Channel; and a preacher in The Knife Grinder’s Tale.

In 2016, he was selected for the role as Kenyan crime lord 'Silas Kabaka' in the Netflix series Sense8.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8

Filmography

Year  Film                      Role                 Genre       Ref.
2005  The Constant Gardener     Policeman 1          Film
2005  Transit                   Barman               TV movie
2007  The Knife Grinder's Tale  Preacher             Short film
2007  Makutano Junction         Albert Mukara        TV series
2010  Ndoto Za Elibidi          Policeman 1          Film
2013  The Fifth Estate          Oscar Kamau Kingara  Film
2016  The CEO                   Jomo                 Film
2016  Kati Kati                 King                 Film
2016  Sense8                    Silas Kabaka         TV series
2018  Poacher                   Kennedy              Short film

  * List of Black Sails characters
  * Peter Nzioki at IMDb


Vincentio Reinieri

Vincentio (Vincenzio, Vincenzo) Reinieri (Renieri, Reiner) (30 March 1606 – 5 November 1647) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He was a friend and disciple of Galileo Galilei.

Biography

Born at Genoa, he was a member of the Olivetan order. His order sent him to Rome in 1623. He met Galileo at Siena in 1633. Galileo had Reinieri update and attempt to improve his astronomical tables of the motions of Jupiter's moons, revising these tables for prediction of the positions of these satellites.

Reinieri's work led him to Arcetri, where he befriended Vincenzo Viviani. Reinieri enjoyed the same spirit of inquiry and love of debate as his mentor. On 5 February 1641 Reinieri wrote to Galileo from Pisa: "Not infrequently I am in some battle with the Peripatetic gentlemen, particularly when I note that those fattest with ignorance least appreciate your worth, and I have just given the head of one of those a good scrubbing." (Drake, p. 413-4)

Reinieri became professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa on the death of Dino Peri. He also taught Greek there. His astronomical work consisted of adding new observations of Jupiter's moons to Galileo's. To some degree, Reinieri improved the Galilean tables on the motions of these satellites. Before his death, Galileo decided to place all of the papers containing his observations and calculations in the hands of Reinieri. Reinieri was to finish and revise them.

Reinieri's observations of Jupiter's moons remained unpublished at the time of his premature death at Pisa in 1647. He was succeeded to the chair of mathematics by Famiano Michelini (c. 1600-1666).

Legacy

On Reinieri's death, papers concerning longitude entrusted to him by Galileo are said to have been stolen by a man named Giuseppe Agostini (Fahie, p. 374). However, scholars such as Antonio Favaro doubt whether this theft actually occurred (see Antonio Favaro, Documenti inediti per la Storia dei MSS. Galileiani, Rome, 1886, pp. 8–14).

The crater Reiner on the Moon is named after him.

Latin works


Vincentio Reinieri

Latin works

Tabulae Mediceae secundorum mobilium uniuersales, 1639

  * Expugnata Hierusalem, poema, Publisher: Maceratae, Apud Petrum Salvionum (1628)
  * Tabulae mediceae secundorum mobilium universales quibus per unicum prosthaphaereseon orbis canonem planetarum calculus exhibetur. Non solum tychonicè iuxta Rudolphinas Danicas & Lansbergianas, sed etiam iuxta Prutenicas Alphonsinas & Ptolemaicas, Publisher: Florentiae, typis nouis Amatoris Massae & Laurentij de Landis (1639)
  * Tabulae Mediceae secundorum mobilium uniuersales (in Latin). Firenze: Amadore Massi & Lorenzo Landi. 1639.
  * Tabulæ motuum cælestium universales : serenissimi magni ducis etruriæ Ferdinandi II. auspicijs primo editæ, & Mediceæ nuncupati, nunc vero auctæ, recognitæ, atque... Bernardini Fernandez de Velasco... iussu, ac sumptibus recusæ...Publisher: Florentiæ : typis Amatoris Massæ Foroliuien., 1647
  * Drake, Stillman, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 464. ISBN 0-226-16226-5
  * Fahie, J.J., Galileo: His Life and Work (London: John Murray, 1903), 374-5. - Google Books
  * A Selection from Italian Prose Writers: with a double translation: for the use of students of the Italian language on the Hamiltonian system, London, Hunt and Clark, 1828 - Google Books. Letters of Galileo to Renieri: pp. 142–147 (no images for remainder of letter), and pp. 242–253 (no images pp, 246-250).


San Vincenti

San Vincenti is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Gaiole in Chianti, province of Siena. In the 2001 census, its population was 10.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to San Vincenti.


The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Woman Screenwriter is an annual award given by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. The award is often referred to as an EDA as a tribute to AWFJ founder Jennifer Merin's mother, actress Eda Reiss Merin. EDA is also an acronym for Excellent Dynamic Activism.

Winners

  * "†" indicates Academy Award-winning screenplay.
  * "‡" indicates Academy Award-nominated screenplay.

2000s

Year             Screenwriter(s)                 Film
2007             Tamara Jenkins                  The Savages
Diablo Cody      Juno
Sarah Polley     Away from Her
Adrienne Shelly  Waitress
2008             Jenny Lumet                     Rachel Getting Married
Courtney Hunt    Frozen River
Kelly Reichardt  Wendy and Lucy
2009             Jane Campion                    Bright Star
Nora Ephron      Julie & Julia
Rebecca Miller   The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2010s

Year                           Screenwriter(s)                 Film
2010                           Lisa Cholodenko                 The Kids Are All Right
Andrea Arnold                  Fish Tank
Sofia Coppola                  Somewhere
Debra Granik                   Winter's Bone
Nicole Holofcener              Please Give
Laeta Kalogridis               Shutter Island
2011                           Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo   Bridesmaids
Diablo Cody                    Young Adult
Abi Morgan                     The Iron Lady
Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear  We Need to Talk About Kevin
Dee Rees                       Pariah
2012                           Lucy Alibar (and Benh Zeitlin)  Beasts of the Southern Wild
Zoe Kazan                      Ruby Sparks
Ava DuVernay                   Middle of Nowhere
Sarah Polley                   Take This Waltz
2013                           Nicole Holofcener               Enough Said
Lake Bell                      In a World...
Julie Delpy                    Before Midnight
Jennifer Lee                   Frozen
Sarah Polley                   Stories We Tell
2014                           Gillian Flynn                   Gone Girl
Jennifer Kent                  The Babadook
Gillian Robespierre            Obvious Child
2015                           Emma Donoghue                   Room
Marielle Heller                The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Phyllis Nagy                   Carol
Amy Schumer                    Trainwreck
2016                           Kelly Reichardt                 Certain Women
Andrea Arnold                  American Honey
Rebecca Miller                 Maggie's Plan
Lorene Scafaria                The Meddler
Laura Terruso                  Hello, My Name Is Doris
2017                           Greta Gerwig                    Lady Bird
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer     The Post
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams   Mudbound

  * List of media awards honoring women
  * Alliance of Women Film Journalists official website


Mumu

Look up mumu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mumu may refer to:

  * Mumu, a pork dish in Papua New Guinean cuisine, can also refer to the cooking method or the feast at which the dish is eaten
  * Muumuu, a loose dress of Hawaiian origin
  * Mumu, a nickname of Hindi film actress Mumtaz (actress)
  * "Mumu" (short story), a short story by Ivan Turgenev published in 1854
  * Mumu (1959 film), a Soviet drama film
  * Samuel Archambault
  * Mumu (2010 film), a French film
  * Mumu (computer worm) (or Muma), isolated in 2003
  * Mumu (or momo), a ghost or monster in Philippine mythology
  * The UK band The KLF were previously known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
  * Moo-Moo, a chain of buffet restaurants in Moscow, Russia
  * Mumu or Muma is the Old Irish for the province of Munster
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  * Mu (disambiguation)
  * Mum (disambiguation)
  * Muumuu (disambiguation)
  * Moo moo (disambiguation)


Petros I

Petros I may refer to:

  * Pope Peter I of Alexandria, ruled in 300–311
  * Petros I, Caucasian Albanian Catholicos in 971–987
  * Abraham Petros I Ardzivian, ruled in 1740–1749


Morchard, South Australia

Morchard is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Wilmington-Ucolta Road in the state's Mid North region.

The Morchard Hotel, which is still standing today, was opened in 1878. The licensee was George Dowdy.


Vanderhaeghe

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

  * Guy Vanderhaeghe (born 1951), Canadian writer
  * Margaret Elizabeth Vanderhaeghe (1950–2012), Canadian artist
  * Yves Vanderhaeghe (born 1970), Belgian footballer and manager


3rd Signal Regiment (United Kingdom)

3rd (UK) Division Signal Regiment is a regiment of the Royal Corps of Signals within the British Army. The regiment is based at Bulford.

History

The regiment can trace its history back to "The Telegraph Battalion, Royal Engineers". In 1903, it was designated as the 'telegraph battalion' for 3rd Division. In 1945, the regiment was re-titled as the "3rd Infantry Division Signal Regiment".

In 1947 upon returning from British Palestine the regiment disbanded, but re-formed in 1951 as part of the new Army Strategic Command and later deployed during the Suez Crisis in 1956.

In early 1993, as a result of Options for Change, the regiment moved to Bulford where it was re-titled as "3rd (UK) Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment".Army 2020 reforms, the regiment has fallen under the command of the 7 Signal group, 11th Signal Brigade.

Current Organisation

The current organisation of the regiment is:

  * Regimental Headquarters, at Kiwi Barracks, Bulford Garrison
  * 202 Signal Squadron (High Readiness, 5 days notice)
  * 228 Signal Squadron (Armoured HQ support)
  * 249 (Gurkha) Signal Squadron (HQ support)
  * Support (The Somme) Squadron

Alliances and affiliations

United Kingdom - Oxford University Officer Training Corps

United Kingdom - Southampton University Officer Training Corps

  * 3RD (UK) Division Signal Regiment


The Sessions

The Sessions may refer to:

  * The Sessions (2012 film), a film by Ben Lewin
  * The Sessions (2020 film), a Nigerian romantic drama film
  * The Sessions (album), an album by The Stranglers
  * The Sessions (band), a Canadian band
  * The Sessions Band, an American musical group
  * Sessions (disambiguation)


Operation Chopper

Operation Chopper may refer to:

  * Operation Chopper (commando raid), a British Commando raid in the Second World War
  * Operation Chopper (Vietnam), a United States operation in the Vietnam War


Vincentio Bastini

Vincentio Bastini (c.1529 – 1591), also known as Vincenzo di Pasquino Bastini, was an Italian cornettist and composer who lived his entire life in Lucca. On 27 December 1543, he was hired by the city of Lucca as a cornettist. He was paid a monthly salary of three scudi, which was considerably less than the salaries of the city's four other cornet players. His low salary was probably due to his young age and the tendency of the government to pay more for musicians who hailed from outside of Lucca. He published two books of madrigals: the 1567 Primo libro de madrigali a cinque et a sei voci contained 29 pieces; the 1578 Secondo libro de madrigali a cinque et a sei voci contained 34.

  * Myers, Patricia Ann. "Bastini, Vincentio". Grove Music Online (subscription required). ed. L. Macy. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.


SFCA Lignel 16

The SFCA Lignel 16 was a French trainer aircraft built in the early 1940s.

Specifications

Data from

General characteristics

  * Crew: Two
  * Length: 8.01 m (26 ft 3 in)
  * Wingspan: 10.30 m (33 ft 10 in)
  * Height: 3.18 m (10 ft 5 in)
  * Wing area: 15 m2 (160 sq ft)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Béarn 6C-01 six cylinder, air-cooled, inverted, supercharged inline, 270 kW (360 hp)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed variable pitch propeller

Performance

  * Maximum speed: 340 km/h (210 mph, 180 kn)
  * Range: 1,000 km (620 mi, 540 nmi)
  * Service ceiling: 7,000 m (23,000 ft)


Anna Johansson

Anna Johansson may refer to:

  * Anna Johansson (dancer), Russian ballet dancer
  * Anna Johansson (politician)
  * Anna Johansson (ice hockey)
  * Anna Johansson (swimmer), diver and swimmer commonly known as Greta Johansson
  * Anna Johansson-Visborg, Swedish trade union leader, women's rights activist and politician
  * Annie Johansson, Swedish politician


Mumtazabad

Mumtazabad is one of the oldest housing areas in east Multan in Punjab, Pakistan.

It is a well-developed and heavily populated area. The layout of the area is symmetrical, with a playground and Masjid

Notable places

BCG Chowk

Chowk where British Cotton Ginners were located, with their cotton ginning unit in the early 1940s. This is also the location of a Muslim public high school.

Several shops can be found in this area, as well as schools, polytechnics and other educational institutions.

Mian Faisal Mukhtar Park

The park is next to Mumtazabad Colony along Vehairi Road.

New Central Jail

Central jail multan is second big jail of Punjab & biggest jail of southern Punjab. it is situated behind Coca-Cola factory & 1 kilo meter from vehari road multan.

Post Office

Mumtazabad post office is located in the heart of Mumtazabad market Multan & the post code is 60600.

  * Multan's Best Information Portal! The biggest portal for Multani peoples,
  * MultanToday.com Infotainment Portal of Multan, PK

30°10′33″N 71°29′15″E / 30.17583°N 71.48750°E


Pieter Aldrich

Pieter ("Piet") Aldrich (born 7 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won two Grand Slam men's doubles titles (Australian Open and US Open)

Career

Aldrich won the first of nine career doubles titles in 1988 at Charleston, South Carolina.

In 1990, Aldrich won the men's doubles titles at both the Australian Open and the US Open, partnering his fellow South African player Danie Visser. The pair were also doubles runners-up at Wimbledon that year.

1990 also saw Aldrich win his first (and only) top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island.

Aldrich won the final doubles title of his career in 1992 in Johannesburg.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 wins, 1 loss)

Result  Year  Championship     Surface  Partner                      Opponents                      Score
Win     1990  Australian Open  Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Canada] Grant Connell         6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
                                                                     [Canada] Glenn Michibata
Loss    1990  Wimbledon        Grass    [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Rick Leach     6–7(5–7), 6–7(4–7), 6–7(5–7)
                                                                     [United States] Jim Pugh
Win     1990  US Open          Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Paul Annacone  6–2, 7–6(7–3), 6–2
                                                                     [United States] David Wheaton

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Legend                         Finals by surface
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)   Hard (0–0)         Finals by setting
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)    Clay (0–0)         Outdoors (1–0)
ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–0)  Grass (1–0)        Indoors (0–0)
ATP 500 Series (0–0)           Carpet (0–0)
ATP 250 Series (1–0)

Result  W–L  Date      Tournament              Tier          Surface  Opponent                   Score
Win     1–0  Jul 1990  Newport, United States  World Series  Grass    [Australia] Darren Cahill  7–6(12–10), 1–6, 6–1


Pieter Aldrich

Doubles: 19 (9 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Legend                         Finals by surface
Grand Slam Tournaments (2–1)   Hard (5–6)         Finals by setting
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)    Clay (2–2)         Outdoors (6–9)
ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–1)  Grass (0–2)        Indoors (3–1)
ATP 500 Series (1–0)           Carpet (2–0)
ATP 250 Series (6–8)


Pieter Aldrich

Result  W–L   Date      Tournament                        Tier                 Surface  Partner                      Opponents                            Score
Win     1–0   May 1988  Charleston, United States         Grand Prix           Clay     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Mexico] Jorge Lozano                7–6, 6–3
                                                                                [United States] Todd Witsken
Loss    1–1   May 1988  Forest Hills, United States       Grand Prix           Clay     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Mexico] Jorge Lozano                3–6, 6–7
                                                                                [United States] Todd Witsken
Loss    1–2   Jun 1988  Queen's, United Kingdom           Grand Prix           Grass    [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Ken Flach            2–6, 6–7
                                                                                [United States] Robert Seguso
Loss    1–3   Aug 1988  Stratton Mountain, United States  Grand Prix           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Mexico] Jorge Lozano                3–6, 6–7
                                                                                [United States] Todd Witsken
Loss    1–4   Jan 1989  Sydney, Australia                 Grand Prix           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Australia] Darren Cahill            4–6, 3–6
                                                                                [Australia] Wally Masur
Loss    1–5   Aug 1989  Stratton Mountain, United States  Grand Prix           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Australia] Mark Kratzmann           3–6, 6–4, 6–7
                                                                                [Australia] Wally Masur
Win     2–5   Aug 1989  Indianapolis, United States       Grand Prix           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Australia] Peter Doohan             7–6, 7–6
                                                                                [Australia] Laurie Warder
Loss    2–6   Aug 1989  Cincinnati, United States         Grand Prix           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Ken Flach            4–6, 4–6
                                                                                [United States] Robert Seguso
Win     3–6   Oct 1989  San Francisco, United States      Grand Prix           Carpet   [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Paul Annacone        6–4, 6–3
                                                                                [South Africa] Christo van Rensburg


Pieter Aldrich

[South Africa] Christo van Rensburg
Win     4–6   Nov 1989  Frankfurt, Germany                Grand Prix           Carpet   [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Australia] Kevin Curren             7–6, 6–7, 6–3
                                                                                [Germany] Eric Jelen
Loss    4–7   Jan 1990  Sydney, Australia                 World Series         Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Australia] Pat Cash                 4–6, 5–7
                                                                                [Australia] Mark Kratzmann
Win     5–7   Jan 1990  Melbourne, Australia              Grand Slam           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Canada] Grant Connell               6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
                                                                                [Canada] Glenn Michibata
Loss    5–8   Jul 1990  Wimbledon, United Kingdom         Grand Slam           Grass    [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Rick Leach           6–7, 6–7, 6–7
                                                                                [United States] Jim Pugh
Win     6–8   Jul 1990  Stuttgart, Germany                Championship Series  Clay     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [Sweden] Per Henricsson              6–3, 6–4
                                                                                [Sweden] Nicklas Utgren
Win     7–8   Sep 1990  Flushing Meadows, United States   Grand Slam           Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Paul Annacone        6–2, 7–6, 6–2
                                                                                [United States] David Wheaton
Win     8–8   Oct 1990  Berlin, Germany                   World Series         Carpet   [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Kevin Curren         7–6, 7–6
                                                                                [United States] Patrick Galbraith
Loss    8–9   Feb 1992  San Francisco, United States      World Series         Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Jim Grabb            4–6, 5–7
                                                                                [United States] Richey Reneberg
Win     9–9   Apr 1992  Johannesburg, South Africa        World Series         Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [South Africa] Wayne Ferreira        6–4, 6–4
                                                                                [South Africa] Piet Norval


Pieter Aldrich

[South Africa] Piet Norval
Loss    9–10  Apr 1992  Nice, France                      World Series         Clay     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Patrick Galbraith    1–6, 6–3, 4–6
                                                                                [United States] Scott Melville


Pieter Aldrich

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

                      Finals by surface
Legend                Hard (0–1)
ATP Challenger (1–1)  Clay (0–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)     Grass (1–0)
                      Carpet (0–0)

Result  W–L  Date      Tournament                  Tier        Surface  Opponent                             Score
Loss    0–1  Apr 1989  Cape Town, South Africa     Challenger  Hard     [South Africa] Christo Van Rensburg  3–6, 1–6
Win     1–1  Jul 1989  Johannesburg, South Africa  Challenger  Grass    [South Africa] Wayne Ferreira        6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

                      Finals by surface
Legend                Hard (1–0)
ATP Challenger (2–0)  Clay (0–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)     Grass (1–0)
                      Carpet (0–0)

Result  W–L  Date      Tournament                   Tier        Surface  Partner                      Opponents                         Score
Win     1–0  Jul 1989  Johannesburg, South Africa   Challenger  Grass    [South Africa] Danie Visser  [South Africa] David Adams        7–6, 6–4
                                                                                [South Africa] Dean Botha
Win     2–0  Mar 1992  Indian Wells, United States  Challenger  Hard     [South Africa] Danie Visser  [United States] Mike Briggs       7–6, 2–6, 7–5
                                                                                [United States] Trevor Kronemann

Performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF  QF  #R  RR  Q#  DNQ  A  NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles


Pieter Aldrich

Singles

Tournament              1987  1988  1989  1990  1991  1992  SR     W–L  Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open         A     1R    1R    A     Q3    Q1    0 / 2  0–2  0%
French Open             A     A     A     A     A     A     0 / 0  0–0  –
Wimbledon               Q2    2R    2R    Q2    A     A     0 / 2  2–2  50%
US Open                 A     3R    3R    A     A     A     0 / 2  4–2  67%
Win–loss                0–0   3–3   3–3   0–0   0–0   0–0   0 / 6  6–6  50%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells            A     1R    A     A     A     A     0 / 1  0–1  0%
Miami                   A     2R    2R    1R    A     A     0 / 3  2–3  40%
Cincinnati              A     2R    2R    A     A     A     0 / 2  2–2  50%
Win–loss                0–0   2–3   2–2   0–1   0–0   0–0   0 / 6  4–6  40%

Doubles


Pieter Aldrich

Doubles

Tournament              1987  1988  1989             1990   1991  1992  1993  1994  1995  SR      W–L    Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open         A     A     3R               W      1R    3R    A     A     A     1 / 4   10–3   77%
French Open             A     1R    A                QF     A     2R    A     A     A     0 / 3   4–3    57%
Wimbledon               3R    QF    QF               F      A     1R    A     A     A     0 / 5   13–5   72%
US Open                 1R    1R    2R               W      A     A     A     A     A     1 / 4   7–3    70%
Win–loss                2–2   3–3   6–3              20–2   0–1   3–3   0–0   0–0   0–0   2 / 16  34–14  71%
Year-end Championships
ATP Finals              DNQ   RR    Did not qualify  0 / 1  1–2   33%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells            A     A     SF               2R     1R    1R    A     A     Q1    0 / 4   3–4    43%
Miami                   A     2R    SF               2R     QF    2R    A     A     A     0 / 5   8–5    62%
Monte Carlo             A     A     A                A      2R    2R    A     A     A     0 / 2   1–2    33%
Hamburg                 A     A     SF               A      A     2R    A     A     A     0 / 2   3–2    60%
Rome                    A     A     1R               A      A     A     A     A     A     0 / 1   0–1    0%
Cincinnati              A     1R    F                QF     A     A     A     A     A     0 / 3   5–3    63%
Paris                   A     QF    SF               2R     A     A     A     A     A     0 / 3   3–3    50%
Win–loss                0–0   2–3   15–6             1–4    2–3   3–4   0–0   0–0   0–0   0 / 20  23–20  53%

Mixed Doubles

Tournament              1988  1989  1990  1991  1992  SR     W–L   Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open         A     A     A     A     1R    0 / 1  0–1   0%
French Open             A     A     3R    A     2R    0 / 2  3–2   60%
Wimbledon               2R    1R    QF    A     1R    0 / 4  4–4   50%
US Open                 A     SF    QF    A     A     0 / 2  5–2   71%
Win–loss                1–1   3–2   7–3   0–0   1–3   0 / 9  12–9  57%

  * Pieter Aldrich at the Association of Tennis Professionals
  * Pieter Aldrich at the International Tennis Federation


Veronica Ljosnes

Mako Veronica Ljosnes (born November 20, 1988, in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian circus performer, currently working as an entertainer in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ljosnes has worked in circuses all over Europe since she was a child, known as the circus artist from Norway, performing in Cirkus Agora as an aerialist and contortionist.America's Got Talent and several big events and concerts, as well as from the TV program Norway's Got Talent Miss Norway contest. Ljosnes also performed for the King and the Queen of Norway.

Ljosnes moved to Hollywood, got a partThe Cloth, and is a model and actress while still performing as a contortionist.

  * Gjerald, Frode M. (9 January 2008). "Sykler OVER Torget" [Bicycles OVER Market]. Rogalands Avis (in Norwegian)
  * Kristoffersen, Randi (19 January 2009). "Sirkusprinsessen" [Circus Princess]. Fredriksstad Blad (in Norwegian)
  * Johansen, Stein H. (29 May 2009). "Sirkus med lokal artist" [Circus by local artist]. Demokraten (in Norwegian)
  * Mako Veronica official website


Vanderheyden

For the mountain in Antarctica, see Mount Vanderheyden. For the place in New York, see Troy, New York.

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

  * Barbara Vanderhyden, Canadian researcher of ovarian cancer
  * Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712), Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker
  * Jan Vanderheyden (1890–1961), Belgian film producer and director
  * JCJ Vanderheyden (1928–2012), Dutch painter and photographer
  * Kris Vanderheyden or Insider, Belgian techno and electronic music pioneer
  * Sandra Vander-Heyden (born 1964), American Olympic field hockey player
  * Van der Heijden, a Dutch toponymic surname
  * William H. VanderHeyden House, a historic house in Ionia, Michigan
  * Vanderheyden, a non-profit organization based in Wynantskill, New York


2007 Finlandia Trophy

The 2007 Finlandia Trophy is an annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Finland. It was held in Vantaa on October 12–14, 2007. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating. It was one of the competitions that helped choose the Finnish team for the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships.

Results

Men

Rank  Name                  Nation          Total points  SP  FS
 1    Tomáš Verner          Czech Republic  189.06        1   67.90  2   121.16
 2    Parker Pennington     United States   185.08        4   55.70  1   129.38
 3    Kevin van der Perren  Belgium         168.64        6   52.98  3   115.66
4     Pavel Kaška           Czech Republic  160.73        3   57.30  6   103.43
5     Konstantin Menshov    Russia          160.48        5   55.60  5   104.88
6     Jamal Othman          Switzerland     158.8         9   51.25  4   107.55
7     Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari  Finland         156.08        7   52.67  7   103.41
8     Gregor Urbas          Slovenia        145.03        8   51.32  8   93.71
9     Konstantin Tupikov    Poland          137.04        10  45.89  10  91.15
10    Valtter Virtanen      Finland         133.35        12  41.40  9   91.95
11    Franz Streubel        Germany         118.31        13  39.40  11  78.91
12    Mikko Minkkinen       Finland         112.33        11  44.15  12  68.18
13    Adrian Alvarado       Mexico          88.36         14  27.29  13  61.07
WD    Anton Kovalevski      Ukraine                       2   61.30

Ladies


2007 Finlandia Trophy

Ladies

Rank  Name                 Nation          Total points  SP  FS
 1    Jenni Vähämaa        Finland         163.29        6   51.22  1   112.07
 2    Susanna Pöykiö       Finland         162.26        3   54.40  2   107.86
 3    Carolina Kostner     Italy           155.87        1   58.54  4   97.33
4     Laura Lepistö        Finland         152.15        4   52.62  3   99.53
5     Kiira Korpi          Finland         149.71        2   57.06  5   92.65
6     Alisa Drei           Finland         139.30        5   52.34  7   86.96
7     Taylor Firth         United States   138.31        7   50.72  6   87.59
8     Arina Martinova      Russia          132.58        8   48.24  8   84.34
9     Jenna McCorkell      United Kingdom  126.19        10  43.42  9   82.77
10    Annette Dytrt        Germany         113.69        14  34.56  10  79.13
11    Viktoria Helgesson   Sweden          107.93        9   45.62  14  62.31
12    Valentina Marchei    Italy           106.03        11  40.02  12  66.01
13    Irina Movchan        Ukraine         102.54        13  35.34  11  67.20
14    Kristin Wieczorek    Germany         97.95         15  33.76  13  64.19
15    Malin Hållberg-Leuf  Sweden          93.99         12  36.78  16  57.21
16    Michele Cantu        Mexico          90.45         16  29.20  15  61.25

Pairs

Rank  Name                              Nation         Total points  SP  FS
 1    Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov  Russia         168.34        1   55.76  1  112.58
 2    Andrea Best / Trevor Young        United States  115.99        2   41.64  2  74.35
 3    Mari Vartmann / Florian Just      Germany        112.19        3   41.60  3  70.59

  * 2007 Finlandia Trophy results


The Sesame Street Dictionary

The Sesame Street Dictionary is an illustrated children's dictionary featuring Muppet characters from the popular television show Sesame Street. First published in 1980, it contains short definitions and sample sentences for around 1300 words, each accompanied by an illustration featuring a character from Sesame Street. In 1986, the dictionary was also issued as an 8-volume set under the title Big Bird's Sesame Street Dictionary. Kermit the Frog's nephew, Robin the Frog makes a cameo in this book on the page "frogs", also Miss Piggy makes a cameo in the book on the page "magazines" on a book called "Stars".

Overview

The Sesame Street Dictionary contains definitions for around 1300 words, with each definition being accompanied by a sample sentence and relevant illustration depicting a character from Sesame Street.Grover flying an aeroplane above some trees, which leads into an illustration for the next word, "accident", which depicts Grover parachuting to the ground, his plane having crashed into the tree.Homonyms are highlighted by The Amazing Mumford, the Muppet magician, who draws them out of a hat.

The book is designed for children between the ages of 3 and 8,reading readiness" and function as a first dictionary.

Publishing history

The dictionary was first published in 1980 by Random House, in conjunction with Sesame Street producers Children's Television Workshop, in both a hardback edition and a special library binding.Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation under the title Big Bird's Sesame Street Dictionary. This edition featured an additional 100 pages of illustrations, and was packaged as an 8-volume set, with 45 pages per volume.Sesame Street franchise's 35th anniversary.

Reception


The Sesame Street Dictionary

Reception

When it was first published, the dictionary received praise from reviewers, and became a standard work in school libraries.School Library Journal, Daisy Kouzel described it as "exploding with good fun", adding that "youngsters will find unending entertainment in its big, colorful pages and will enrich their vocabulary in the process."Guide to Reference Materials for School Library Media Centers listed it as "highly recommended".Kenneth Kister, in his reference source guide Kister's Best Dictionaries for Adults and Young People, was also positive about the work, although he was critical of the fact that the 8-volume edition published in 1986 retailed at a significantly higher price without adding much worthwhile new material.

The Sesame Street Dictionary on Muppet Wiki


Operation Chenla II

Operation Chenla II or Chenla Two was a major military operation conducted by the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) during the Cambodian Civil War from 20 August until 3 December 1971.

Background

During the days of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule in Cambodia in the 1960s, the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and their Viet Cong (VC) allies were able to use base areas in Cambodian territory in order to provide logistical support for their combat troops within South Vietnam. Following the March 1970 coup led by the pro-U.S. General Lon Nol, the PAVN aggressively expanded their control over the provinces of northeastern Cambodia, coming dangerously close to the capital Phnom Penh.

Initially, the small, largely untrained and poorly-equipped FANK was not up to the challenge, especially against the larger and more experienced PAVN/VC forces. However, by the summer of 1971, and with massive American and South Vietnamese assistance, the FANK grew into a force of more than one-hundred thousand men.

During the period between September 1970 and June 1971, the FANK won its first victories after they successfully dislodged elements of the PAVN 9th Division along Route 13 and in some parts of the Mekong Delta.

By April 1971, Marshal Lon Nol decided to renew the offensive against the PAVN/VC forces, taking advantage of the high morale among the FANK troops following the partial success of Operation Chenla I. For the FANK everything was at stake, as many reserves and prestige were invested in the operation. The FANK High Command's main objective was to reopen all of Route 6 and to secure the road between Kampong Cham and the isolated garrison at Kampong Thom. A FANK task-force of ten infantry battalions – again including a large percentage of Khmer Krom troops – gathered into three brigade groups supported by armour and artillery was assembled for the operation, which relied heavily on U.S. air support to soften an estimated two PAVN divisions in the region.

Operation


Operation Chenla II

Operation

Operation Chenla II was launched on 20 August 1971, again catching the PAVN/VC by surprise. Initially, the FANK task-force commanded by Brigadier-General Hou Hang Sin achieved their objective, as the FANK were able to retake Barai on 26 August and Kompong Thmar on 1 September. But as FANK formations were advancing towards PAVN/VC-held territory along Route 6, they were heavily exposed to attacks without adequate protection from their flanks. There was heavy fighting as the FANK 5th Brigade Group advanced towards Phnom Santuk while Tang Krasang was retaken on 20 September. On 5 October, three FANK brigades were committed to capture the areas around Phnom Santuk. The fighting there grew in intensity as the Cambodians and the PAVN engaged in heavy hand-to-hand combat. Phnom Santuk was eventually retaken, and the first phase of Chenla II was declared officially concluded on 25 October, although real military success had not yet been secured.

Victory celebrations had hardly started at Phnom Penh when on the night of 26 October, barely hours upon the conclusion of the consolidation efforts of the second phase of the operation, the PAVN 9th Division, reinforced by the VC 205th and 207th Regional Regiments, launched an all-out assault on the Cambodian positions located along Route 6 from the Chamkar Andong rubber plantation.

The FANK launched an unsuccessful counter-attack on 27 October, and the Cambodian corridor along Route 6 was crushed by PAVN/VC troops after weeks of heavy fighting. Elements of the PAVN 9th Division then launched a final attack which ripped apart several FANK and Khmer Krom battalions, causing the disorganized Cambodian troops to abandon several key positions on 1 December. The operation was terminated two days later.

Aftermath


Operation Chenla II

Aftermath

For the PAVN/VC forces the battle ended with a decisive victory, as they were able to secure their strongholds in northeastern Cambodia without having to expand their control inside Cambodian territory. On 8 December 1971, North Vietnamese propaganda boasted that "By October, that is, in two months, the operation was stalemated and 4,500 enemy troops were annihilated and hundreds more captured. The 2nd and 43d Brigades were badly battered. Ten battalions and seven companies of infantry and a tank company were mauled, 39 combat vessels were sunk or set afire, nine aircraft were downed and seven 105mm artillery pieces, many vehicles and large quantities of military equipment were destroyed".2 The official PAVN history claims that 10,000 enemy troops were killed or dispersed and 4,700 weapons captured.

Indeed, the final attack on FANK positions during the month of December virtually wiped out ten infantry battalions (including the sacrifice of the best Khmer Krom battalions) and resulted in the loss of another ten battalions-worth of equipment, which included two howitzers, four tanks, five armoured personnel carriers, one scout car, ten jeeps, and about two dozen other vehicles.Khmer Rouge recruiting drives.

  * Battle of Kampot
  * Cambodian Civil War
  * Khmer National Armed Forces
  * Khmer Rouge
  * Weapons of the Cambodian Civil War
  * John S. Bowman, The Vietnam War, Day by Day, Mallard Books, New York 1989. ISBN 0-7924-5087-6
  * Sak Sutsakhan, The Khmer Republic at War and the Final Collapse, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington D.C. 1980. – available online at Part 1Part 2Part 3 Part 4.
  * Royal College Of Defence Studies 1975 Course – The War in Cambodia Its Causes And Military Development And The Political History Of The Khmer Republic 1970 – 1975.
  * 1-FANK Order of the Day, 5 October 1971
  * 2-Quan Doi Nhan Dan On Blows to Nixon's Khmerization Scheme


Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli

Vincenza (or Vincenzina) Viganò-Mombelli (1760–1814) was an Italian ballerina and librettist. She is remembered today as the librettist of Rossini's first opera Demetrio e Polibio. Her husband was the tenor Domenico Mombelli.

Life and career

Viganò-Mombelli was born in Naples to an artistic family. Both her father Onorato Viganò (1739-1811) and her brother Salvatore Viganò were prominent dancers and choreographers. Her mother Maria Ester Boccherini was a ballerina and the sister of composer Luigi Boccherini. In 1791 Vincenza was dancing with Onorato Viganò's company in Venice when she met the recently widowed tenor Domenico Mombelli. They married that same year and went on to have twelve children, three of whom became prominent opera singers: Ester born 1792, Anna born 1795, and Alessandro born 1796 (a tenor like his father). She continued her dancing career for some time after her marriage, appearing in the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice only a few months before the birth of her fourth child in 1798.

Although primarily based in Bologna by 1805, the Mombelli family also travelled from 1806 to 1811 to Lisbon and various theatres in Italy with their own opera company which included their daughters Ester and Anna and the bass Lodovico Olivieri. According to an account in Stendhal's Vie de Rossini, Olivieri was an old friend of Vincenza who not only sang "utility roles" in their company but also served as the family's cook and major domo. It was in Bologna that Vincenza and Domenico made the acquaintance of the young Rossini who was still a student at the Accademia Filarmonica. Vincenza wrote the libretto for Rossini's first opera Demetrio e Polibio. It was premiered privately in 1809 and had its official premiere on 18 May 1812 at Rome's Teatro Valle with three of its four roles sung by Domenico and their daughters Ester and Anna.

Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli died in 1814. Domenico Mombelli married for a third time in 1819.


SFCC

SFCC is an acronym for:

Colleges

  * St. Francis' Canossian College, in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
  * Santa Fe College, in Gainesville, Florida, U.S. (formerly Santa Fe Community College)
  * Santa Fe Community College, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
  * Spokane Falls Community College, in Spokane, Washington, U.S.
  * State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri, U.S.

Other uses

  * "SFCC", a song by The Mentors from the 1986 album Up the Dose
  * Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud, an Ecommerce platform formerly known as Demandware
  * Sisters for Christian Community


Abe Mizet II

The Abe Mizet II is a simple single seat ultralight of pusher configuration, built in Japan just after World War II. First flown in 1948, the sole example remained active twenty five years later.

Design and development

Designed during World War II by K. Abe, a Japanese schoolteacher, the Mizet II flew for the first time on 9 December 1948. It has constant chord, square tipped wings mounted onto a single, central girder which runs from just ahead of the leading edge back to the empennage. The pilot sits on an unenclosed seat below the leading edge, suspended from the central girder by a vertical strut and within an open, continuous frame defined by a second vertical girder from near the trailing edge, a horizontal keel girder which carries the lower seat mountings, rudder pedals and the simple tricycle undercarriage and completed by a sloping member ahead of the pilot on which simple instruments are mounted. A 25 hp (18.6 kW) motor car engine is mounted immediately behind the pilot in pusher configuration on an extension of the seat struttage.

Aft of the trailing edge the central girder is supplemented with a second, lower horizontal member, braced to the rear vertical part of the seating frame and covered to form a tail boom. The rectangular, wire braced horizontal tail is mounted on top of this, with a straight edged, largely rectangular rudder behind. This surface extends both above and below the boom, where there is a small ventral fin.

The sole Mizet remained in use until at least 1973.

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1974-75

General characteristics

  * Crew: One
  * Length: 5.50 m (18 ft 1 in)
  * Wingspan: 7.60 m (24 ft 11 in)
  * Height: 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in) over til
  * Wing area: 9.00 m2 (96.9 sq ft)
  * Aspect ratio: 6.5
  * Airfoil: Göttingen 387
  * Empty weight: 165 kg (364 lb)
  * Max takeoff weight: 255 kg (562 lb)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Paburica 800 cc two cylinder four stroke car engine, 19 kW (25 hp)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed, 1.10 m (3 ft 7 in) diameter wooden pusher


Abe Mizet II

Performance

  * Wing loading: 28.2 kg/m2 (5.8 lb/sq ft)
  * Power/mass: 73 W/kg (0.044 hp/lb)

  * Göttingen 387 airfoil


Mumtaz Hasan Kizilbash

Mirza Mumtaz Hasan Kizilbash was the chief-minister of Khairpur state after its accession into Pakistan, from 1947 to 1955.Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in December, 1949.


Pieter Brattinga

Pieter Dirk Brattinga

Pieter Dirk Brattinga (January 31, 1931, Hilversum – July 8, 2004, Barneveld) was a Dutch graphic designer.

From 1951 until 1974 he was director of design at Steendrukkerij De Jong & Co in Hilversum.

Between 1960 and 1964 he was professor and chairman at the visual communications faculty at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

He and Dick Dooijes wrote the book 'History of the Dutch Poster 1890–1960' (1968)

Prizes

1998 - Grafische Cultuurprijs


Veronica Lazăr

Veronica Lazăr (6 October 1938 – 8 June 2014) was a Romanian-born Italian actress.

Biography

Lazăr was born in Bucharest in 1938. She graduated from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography (where she also obtained a degree in psychology, which she practiced until 1994, dealing mainly in couples therapy) and subsequently played roles in Romanian theatre [notably a run of Right You Are (if you think so) in 1963-64]. She fled her home country to escape communism and eventually settled in Italy in 1965. She managed to learn the Italian language in only a few weeks and had planned to move on to the United States or Israel, but became entranced with Rome. There, she met and married Italian actor Adolfo Celi with whom she had two children, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi.

She made her screen debut as Marlon Brando's deceased wife in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, La Luna (1979), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and Besieged (1998).

Lazăr is probably best known internationally for her role as the demonic Mater Tenebrarum in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980),Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981). She later appeared in Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) in a role that was removed from the North American version (though she is still billed in the end credits). Her other films included Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), My Sister and I (1987), Towards Evening (1990), The Prince's Manuscript (2000) and Ginostra (2002).The Elective Affinities, Giacinta (1980) and was a big part of the 1989 BBC miniseries Summer's Lease. Her last role was that of the main character Lorenzo's loving grandmother in Bertolucci's Me and You (2012).


Veronica Lazăr

Veronica Lazăr was a renowned woman of culture and a cultural ambassador between Italian and Romanian cinema (the latter, a position she began in 1989). She was a linguistic interpreter and was seen as a symbolic figure with a protective aura by her countrymen in both Italy and Romania.Teatro Valle and often would cook meals for them at her home and bring them to the theatre. The students there nicknamed her "Nonna Veronica."

Lazăr also coordinated the construction of a hospital in Mali over the course of a year, on orders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When she returned to Italy, she brought with her African fabrics, statues, and carpets, many of which were still in her home when she died. Lazăr loved to play cards, share with her friends, and had a special affinity for the sea. At her funeral, she wanted her 18-year-old niece, a career musician already, to play the theme from Schindler's List throughout the Jewish cemetery in Prima Porta where she was laid to rest.

  * Veronica Lazăr at IMDb


Vanderhall Carmel

The Vanderhall Carmel is a three-wheeled roadster produced by the American vehicle manufacturer Vanderhall Motor Works.

History

The two-seater was introduced in 2019 and is priced above Vanderhall Venice. From 2020, Vanderhall models will also be launched in Germany. The basic model is the Blackjack with a shortened windshield and black trim. The more expensive models can have, among other things, leather interiors, paddle shifters and a standard cap shade.

The model is named after the small town of Carmel-by-the-Sea in California.


The 2007 Finnish Figure Skating Championships took place between December 8 and 10, 2006 in Mikkeli. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and women's singles on the senior and junior levels. The event was used to help determine the Finnish team to the 2007 European Championships.

Senior results

Men

Rank  Name                  Total points  SP  FS
 1    Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari  165.22        1   1
 2    Valtter Virtanen      144.62        3   2
 3    Tommi Piiroinen       131.62        2   3
4     Samuli Kiskola        94.60         5   4
5     Matias Piispanen      90.78         4   5

Ladies

Rank  Name                  Total points  SP  FS
 1    Susanna Pöykiö        156.36        1   1
 2    Laura Lepistö         142.71        2   3
 3    Alisa Drei            140.32        4   2
4     Kiira Korpi           134.88        3   4
5     Niina Laksola         112.58        5   6
6     Henriikka Hietaniemi  111.35        7   5
7     Krista Suhonen        110.22        6   7
8     Elina Vesamäki        97.97         8   9
9     Melisa Lähdeoja       92.13         10  8
10    Salla Joukanen        79.15         11  10
WD    Henna Hietala         27.21         9

  * results


The Sesame Street Monsters!

The Sesame Street Monsters! A Musical Monster-OsitySesame Street in 1975.

Track listing

Side One

 1. The Lovable Monsters of Sesame Street — The Monsters of Sesame Street (featuring Grover, Herry Monster, Frazzle and Cookie Monster)
 2. I, Grover — Grover
 3. Five Monsters in My Family — The Monsters of Sesame Street
 4. I Can't Help It — Herry Monster
 5. I Want a Monster to Be My Friend — A Little Girl
 6. Frazzle — Frazzle and the Frazzletones

Side Two

 1. We'll Do It Together — Cookie Monster, Herry Monster and Grover
 2. Fur — A Maroon-and-Yellow Monster
 3. Cookie's Rhyming Song — Cookie Monster
 4. Monster Lullaby — A Monster and Her Monster Son
 5. Games Monsters Play — Herry Monster and Grover
 6. Be Kind to Your Neighborhood Monsters — Grover and the Monsters of Sesame Street

Cast

  * Frank Oz as Cookie Monster and Grover
  * Jerry Nelson as Herry Monster, Frazzle and Monster Son
  * Richard Hunt as A Maroon-and-Yellow Monster, Monster Son and Monster Sister
  * Marilyn Sokol as A Little Girl and A Mommy Monster
  * Fran Brill as Monster Sister
  * Jim Henson as Monster Father
  * Christopher Cerf, Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson as The Frazzletones


Operation Clean Government

Operation Clean Government is a nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens' lobby and advocacy organization.Bruce R. Lang and others through the union of three Rhode Island good government groups (Operation Clean Sweep, Rhode Island Taxpayers Association (RITA), and UsPAC) that had formed in response to the credit union crisis in 1991 (45 banks and credit unions in the state closed due to the collapse of the Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation (RISDIC), a state level deposit scheme that was privately owned by state chartered).

Operation Clean Government's current President is Margaret Kane, a former OCG Board member. Kane replaces Marie Sorman, who stepped down in December 2010.

Mission and issues

Operation Clean Government’s mission: “Operation Clean Government (OCG) is a group dedicated to promoting honest, responsible, and responsive state government in Rhode Island.”.

Operation Clean Government focuses on several issues, including:

  * Candidate and Voter Education
  * Ethics in Government
  * Government Accountability

OCG also weighs in on economic and judicial topics.

Candidate and Voter Education

Operation Clean Government’s most well known candidate education effort is known as OCG Candidate School.Donald Carcieri and former Cranston mayor Steve Laffey. The next Candidate School is scheduled for Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Since 2001, OCG has been the sponsor of a weekly political talk show, State of the State (TV show).

OCG also sponsors forums intended to bring citizens and legislators together to discuss ways to improve state government, most recently a forum on corruption in 2009.

Ethics in Government

Operation Clean Government representatives monitor Rhode Island Ethics Commission proceedings and testify when appropriate.

OCG has filed ethics complaints with the Rhode Island Ethics Commission that have resulted in fines (former State Senate President Joseph Montalbano) and House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox, and former State Senator John Celona who was sent to jail.


Operation Clean Government

Another OCG complaint (filed in 2004) against Senate President William Irons was in the probable cause stage at the Rhode Island Ethics Commission sanctions when Mr. Irons appealed the Rhode Island Superior Court. Irons was accused of not disclosing his clients, and voting on legislation that was favorable to these clients (CVS/pharmacy, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of RI). The Superior Court, under Judge Darrigan, eventually ruled in Mr. Irons favor. By 2009 by the Ethics Commission made it to the Rhode Island Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court decision; this effectively stripped the Rhode Island Ethics Commission of its ability to pursue conflict-of-interest cases against legislators due to the "speech-in-debate" clause of the Rhode Island Constitution. OCG is pushing for a ballot question in 2010 to amend the Constitution to re-empower the Ethics Commission to pursue these kinds of conflicts.

Government Accountability

OCG uses a team of volunteer lobbyists to persuade Rhode Island legislators to support good government ideas such as Voter Initiative; greater transparency (the publishing of committee votes, for example); creation of an Inspector General's office to root out waste and fraud; elimination of straight ticket voting; and legislation for public financing of elections.

Operation Clean Government Newsletter

Since 1993 Operation Clean Government has published a newsletter. The first two years the banner was Operation Clean Government. In 1995, the newsletter was renamed RI Focus and it later changed to the Citizen Alert.

Golden Broom Awards

Since 1993 OCG has awarded its Golden Broom Awards to Rhode Island citizens for outstanding contributions to keeping state government more honest, responsible, and responsive.

Award winners since 1993:

Treasurer Nancy Mayer, November 1993
State Senator J. Michael Lenihan, March 1994
Bruce R. Lang, November 1994
Thomas McHugh and Barbara McHugh August 1995
Richard Morsilli, October 1997
Secretary of State James R. Langevin, February 1998
Senator Marc A. Cote, February 1999
Arlene Violet, September 2000
Representative Nicholas Gorham, January 2003
Robert G. Flanders, Jr., October 2004
Jim Hummel, November 2008
James Lynch, Jr., November 2008

  * Operation Clean Government web site.


Tusen eldar

Tusen eldar is a 1988 studio album by Freda', released to LP,cassette tape.CD.

For the album, the band was given a Grammis Award in the category "Religious Music of the Year", but Freda' stated that they didn't play any such music, even if the bandmembers earlier in their career had described themselves as religious.

Track listing

All songs written by Uno Svenningsson & Arne Johansson (except track 1: U. Svenningsson/ A. Johansson/M. Johansson) and (track 2: U. Svenningsson/ A. Johansson/D. Sundqvist)

 1. Jag vill se dig lycklig
 2. I en annan del av världen
 3. Nu är stormen över
 4. Dansar i natten
 5. Tusen eldar
 6. Jag kan se dig
 7. Det måste gå
 8. Månen i min spegel
 9. Bara ett barn
10. Alltid där
11. Skrattet mitt i gråten (CD only)
12. Glädjetåg (CD only)

Contributors

  * Uno Svenningsson - vocals, guitar
  * Arne Johansson - guitar
  * Sam Johansson - keyboard
  * Mats Johansson - drums
  * guest bassists

Charts

Chart (1988-1989)                   Peak
                                    position
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)     3


SFCG

SFCG may refer to:

  * Search for Common Ground, an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions
  * SFCG Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of KE Holdings and engaged in money-lending in Japan


Abe Masatō

In this Japanese name, the surname is Abe.

Abe Masatō (阿部正外, February 15, 1828 – April 20, 1887) was the 7th Abe daimyō of Shirakawa Domain, and an important official in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate.

Early life as a hatamoto

Masatō was born the younger son of Abe Shōzō, a 3000 koku hatamoto retainer of Shirakawa Domain, and inherited this post when his elder brother Abe Masada was selected to become daimyō of Shirakawa. In 1859, he was selected by the Tairō Ii Naosuke as a secret agent to arrange for the wedding between Princess Kazunomiya and Shōgun Tokugawa Iemochi as part of Ii's Kōbu gattai strategy. In 1861, he became Kanagawa bugyō, where he had to work with the various foreign diplomats and oversee the delicate relations between Japan and the various Western powers, including the diplomatic crisis caused by the 1862 Namamugi incident. The same year, he was promoted to Gaikoku bugyō, and the following year was advanced to the post of Edo Kita Machi-bugyō.

Later career as a daimyō and Shogunate official

In 1864, on the sudden death of Abe Masahisa, he was ordered by the shōgunate to become daimyō of Shirakawa, and a couple of months later was appointed both sōshaban and Jisha-bugyō, and only days later was appointed a rōjū. In this role, he played a leading role in the negotiations involving the creation of the port and foreign settlement at Yokohama. He also ordered the modernisation of Shirakawa's military forces along western lines and its rearmament with modern rifles.


Abe Masatō

In early 1865, Abe went to Kyoto at the head of an army of 4000 troops to arrange for the meeting between Shōgun Tokugawa Iemochi and Emperor Kōmei and to suppress pro-sonnō jōi rōnin in the area. He returned again three months later as part of the train of Shōgun Tokugawa Iemochi, and was joined by 1200 troops from Shirakawa, who arrived by sea and were garrisoned in Osaka. Although it was widely expected that he would led these forces in the Second Chōshū expedition, Abe came under pressure from the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands for the opening of a port and foreign settlement at Hyōgo, as per the terms of treaties already signed. The opening of Hyōgō was vehemently opposed by Emperor Kōmei and the anti-treaty faction within the shogunate, and after Abe gave in to the foreign demands, he was fired from his office by Iemochi under pressure from Emperor Kōmei.Edo and from there to Shirakawa, where he was placed under house arrest and order to turn the post of daimyō to his son, Abe Masakiyo. The following year, he was punished further when the Abe clan was ordered to relocate to Tanagura Domain. The clan stalled for a year, and even after moving to Tanagura, managed to recover Shirakawa for a month before the start of the Boshin War. Both Shirakawa and Tanagura were members of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, but both domains were quickly overrun by the troops of the new Meiji government. Abe died in Tokyo in 1887 and his grave is at the Tama Cemetery in Fuchū, Tokyo.


Mumtaz Jajja

Chaudhry Mumtaz Ahmed Jajja (15 June 1948 – 30 September 2011) was a Pakistani politician affiliated with the Pakistan Muslim League (N) political party who served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (MNA) from 1985 to 1988 and as an elected member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab (MPA) following the 2008 general elections.

An agriculturist by profession and a resident of the Yazman tehsil in the Bahawalpur District of Punjab whose father migrated from Mohri Kay Jajja near Qila Kallar Wala. Mr. Jajja worked for two terms (1979–83 and 1983–87) as a member of the Bahawalpur district government in his early political career. He was a graduate of the Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan.

He died on 30 September 2011 in the Jinnah Hospital of Lahore after being infected with dengue fever.


Pieter Bast

Part 1 of a 4-part map of Amsterdam by Pieter Bast, 1599

Pieter Bast (ca 1550 – 17 March 1605) was a Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman.

Early life

Bast was born in Antwerp, and was the child of Josyntje Plantin, who was part of the famous printer Plantin family. On 31 August 1601 he married Aryaentje Geryt Schaecken in Leiden. The following year he bought a house next to the Latin School.

Career

Pieter Bast engraved maps and cityscapes of Dutch cities. He worked on a map of Emden. He also worked as a surveyor. The most famous of his works was the map of Amsterdam that he drew and engraved in 1599. It covered a total of four blades and is titled Amstelodamum, Hollandiae urbs primaria, emporium Totius Europae celeberrimum. Since 1544 there was no accurate city map of Amsterdam, so this work has historical significance. The map was published on 1 October 1599 by bookseller-publisher Harmen Allartz or Alardi. The card was signed Petr. Bast Au (ie auctor) et sculp (sit) et excudebat, 1599, which indicates that Pieter Bast was also editor.

Later career

Pieter Bast made further engravings of Middelburg, Dordrecht, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Leiden, and Utrecht. He also made engravings of historical events such as the siege and the capture of Nijmegen as part of the Dutch Revolt by Maurice, Prince of Orange on 14 October 1591, the Battle of Nieuwpoort. Other artists he collaborated with include Floris Balthasar and Johan Sems. He was buried in St. Peter's Church in Leiden.

  * Marijke Donkersloot-de Vrij: Register of Dutch cartographers 1500-1900, Utrecht 2003
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Veronica Mafolo

Mapule Veronica Mafolo is a South African former politician and convicted criminal who served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from 2009 to 2019, representing the African National Congress.

Mafolo and her co-accused Thabo Freddy Phutiyagae were arrested on 12 January 2018 for the theft of two Bonsmara calves from a farm in Schweizer-Reneke. She was released on a warning after a court appearance on 15 January 2018. She and Phutiyagae were convicted of the theft and sentenced to three years in prison each by the Schweizer-Reneke Regional Court on 8 May 2023.

Parliamentary career

A member of the African National Congress, Mafolo was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2009 general election on the party's North West regional to national list.2014 general election, she was named to the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services.2019 general election and left parliament as a result.

Stock theft and criminal conviction

On 12 January 2018, Mafolo and Thabo Freddy Phutiyagae were arrested by the Vryburg Stock Theft Unit for the alleged stock theft of two Bonsmara calves from a farm in Schweizer-Reneke.

She and Phutiyagae with an unidentified male appeared in the Schweizer-Reneke Magistrate's Court on 15 January 2018 where she was released on a warning while Phutiyagae and the other man were released on R800 bail. The matter was postponed to 15 February 2018.

Mafolo and Phutiyagae were sentenced to three years in prison in the Schweizer-Reneke Regional Court on 8 May 2023 for the theft of the two calves.


Niederdorf, Basel-Landschaft

Niederdorf is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

History

Niederdorf is first mentioned around 1345-89 as Onoltzwil in dem [...] nidern dorff. In 1453 it was mentioned as Niderndorff. Like Oberdorf it was part of the village of Onoldswil, until that village was dissolved in the 13th Century.

Geography

Aerial view (1953)

Niederdorf has an area, as of 2009, of 4.41 square kilometers (1.70 sq mi). Of this area, 2.57 km2 (0.99 sq mi) or 58.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.17 km2 (0.45 sq mi) or 26.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.66 km2 (0.25 sq mi) or 15.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. Out of the forested land, 24.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 27.2% is used for growing crops and 25.4% is pastures, while 5.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

The municipality is located in the Waldenburg district, in the Waldenburger and Vorderen Frenken valleys on the old road over the Oberen Hauenstein Pass. It consists of the village of Niederdorf along with 14 scattered farming settlements (from the 19th Century) and the former church-owned farm of Arxhof (established in 1585, acquired by the Canton in 1960).

Coat of arms


Niederdorf, Basel-Landschaft

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend Argent and Gules, overall a Key palewise counterchanged.

Demographics

Niederdorf has a population (as of June 2021) of 1,818.As of 2008, 20.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.

Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,640 or 84.8%), with Italian language being second most common (105 or 5.4%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (62 or 3.2%). There are 11 people who speak French and 3 people who speak Romansh.

As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 1,380 Swiss citizens (76.6% of the population), and 421 non-Swiss residents (23.4%)

In 2008 there were 9 live births to Swiss citizens and 5 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 15 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 6 while the foreign population increased by 4. There were 3 Swiss men and 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men and 6 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 7 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 9 people. This represents a population growth rate of -0.9%.


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The age distribution, as of 2010, in Niederdorf is; 114 children or 6.3% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 303 teenagers or 16.8% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 193 people or 10.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 203 people or 11.3% are between 30 and 39, 266 people or 14.8% are between 40 and 49, and 419 people or 23.3% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 230 people or 12.8% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 73 people or 4.1% who are over 80.

As of 2000, there were 791 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 943 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 87 individuals who are divorced.

As of 2000 the average number of residents per living room was 0.58 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.56 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m2 (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics.mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).

As of 2000, there were 696 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.

In 2000 there were 291 single family homes (or 68.1% of the total) out of a total of 427 inhabited buildings. There were 73 multi-family buildings (17.1%), along with 45 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (10.5%) and 18 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.2%). Of the single family homes 16 were built before 1919, while 54 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (60) were built between 1946 and 1960.


Niederdorf, Basel-Landschaft

In 2000 there were 703 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 217. There were 11 single room apartments and 271 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 658 apartments (93.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (3.0%) were seasonally occupied and 24 apartments (3.4%) were empty.As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.7 new units per 1000 residents.As of 2000 the average price to rent a two-room apartment was about 684.00 CHF (US$550, £310, €440), a three-room apartment was about 905.00 CHF (US$720, £410, €580) and a four-room apartment cost an average of 1055.00 CHF (US$840, £470, €680).in 2010, was 0.54%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.15% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (20.66%), the SP (16.25%) and the Green Party (11.06%). In the federal election, a total of 570 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.1%.

Economy

As of 2010, Niederdorf had an unemployment rate of 3.7%. As of 2008, there were 40 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 170 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 24 businesses in this sector. 506 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 55 businesses in this sector.


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In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 571. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 29, of which23 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 155 of which 122 or (78.7%) were in manufacturing and 33 (21.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 387. In the tertiary sector; 85 or 22.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 1.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 6 or 1.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 12 or 3.1% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 21 or 5.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 35 or 9.0% were in education and 135 or 34.9% were in health care.

In 2000, there were 512 workers who commuted into the municipality and 676 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 7.0% of the workforce coming into Niederdorf are coming from outside Switzerland.

Religion

From the 2000 census, 464 or 24.0% were Roman Catholic, while 976 or 50.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 40 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.07% of the population), there were 8 individuals (or about 0.41% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 43 individuals (or about 2.22% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 113 (or about 5.85% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 3 individuals who were Buddhist, 2 individuals who were Hindu and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 172 (or about 8.90% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 111 individuals (or about 5.74% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education


Niederdorf, Basel-Landschaft

Education

In Niederdorf about 673 or (34.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 188 or (9.7%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 188 who completed tertiary schooling, 73.9% were Swiss men, 19.1% were Swiss women, 6.4% were non-Swiss men.

As of 2000, there were 53 students in Niederdorf who came from another municipality, while 130 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Transport

Niederdorf is served by the Waldenburg narrow gauge railway, which operates a half-hourly train service to the town of Liestal. At Liestal railway station, onward connection is made with the Swiss Federal Railway's services to Basel, Bern, Lucerne and Zürich.

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