Sebastian Balthasar

Sebastian Balthasar in 2012

Sebastian Balthasar (Cologne, Germany, 30 August 1996) is a German racing driver.

Career

Karting

Balthasar started his racing career in the 2009 karting season. He became third in the Rotax Max Challenge Germany. A year later he entered the Ciao Thomas Knopper Memorial, the ADAC Kart Championship, the German Junior Kart Championship and the 21° Trofeo Andrea Margutti, with a tenth place as his best result. He continued karting throughout 2011 and '12, again entering the German Junior Karts, besides racing in the DMV Kart Championship and the Euro Wintercup.

Formula racing

Balthasar made the switch to formula racing in 2012, when he entered the ADAC Formel Masters, as the teammate of Alessio Picariello, which he would race again in 2014. With a best result of 4th, he finished 13th in the championship. He then entered the 2012-13 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship season, finishing 19th.

Things changed when he entered the 2013 German Formula Three season, finishing only 10th in the ATS Formel 3 Cup, but winning the ATS Formula 3 Trophy.FA1, part of Acceleration 2014.

Racing Record

Career Summary


Sebastian Balthasar

Racing Record

Career Summary

Year                    Series                                   Team                    Races  Wins  Poles  F/Laps  Podiums  Points  Position
2012                    ADAC Formel Masters                      G&J/Schiler Motorsport  23     0     0      0       0        37      13th
2012-13                 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship  MRF Racing              4      0     0      0       0        9       19th
2013                    German Formula 3 Championship            GU-Racing               28     0     0      0       0        54      10th
2014                    GP3 Series                               Hilmer Motorsport       8      0     0      0       0        0       32nd
Formula Acceleration 1  Acceleration Team Germany                10                      0      0     0      3       76       4th
2014-15                 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship  MRF Racing              4      0     1      0       0        8       20th
2015-16                 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship  MRF Racing              4      0     0      0       0        6       20th
2020                    Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe - Pro    Leipert Motorsport      ?      ?     ?      ?       ?        ?       ?
2021                    Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe - Pro    Leipert Motorsport      ?      ?     ?      ?       ?        ?       ?
24H GT Series - GT3     1                                        0                       0      0     0      0       NC
2022                    Italian GT Championship - GT3            Imperiale Racing
2023                    Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe - Pro    Oregon Team

Complete Formula Acceleration 1 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year  Team     1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Pos  Points
               ALG  ALG  NAV  NAV  NÜR  NÜR  MNZ  MNZ  ASS  ASS
2014  Germany  1    2    1    2    1    2    1    2    1    2    4th  76
               3    4    7    3    DNS  5    9    3    7    9

Complete GP3 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year  Entrant            1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   Pos   Points
                         CAT  CAT  RBR  RBR  SIL  SIL  HOC  HOC  HUN  HUN  SPA  SPA  MNZ  MNZ  SOC  SOC  YMC  YMC
2014  Hilmer Motorsport  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  FEA  SPR  32nd  0
                                             22   Ret  24   21   Ret  17   19†  DNS  Ret  DNS

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.


Sebastian Balthasar

* Official website (in German and English)
  * Sebastian Balthasar career summary at DriverDB.com


MAB21L3

Mab-21 like 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAB21L3 gene.


Tananam Tananam

Tananam Tananam is a 2006 Indian Kannada-language romantic musical film directed and written by Kavitha Lankesh. The film has Ramya and Rakshita teaming up together for the first time, and introduces Shaam, a Tamil actor, to Kannada cinema.Tamil short story written by Kalki.

The film released on 24 November 2006 to average and negative feedback from critics. The film eventually failed to live up to the initial hype and the director's reputation at the box-office. Despite the failure, the film won two Filmfare Awards in Best Actress and Best Lyricist categories. Noted violinist L. Subramaniam was hired to play violin bits in the film. The film premiered at International Film Festival of India upon release.

Plot

Vanaja (Ramya) loves Shankar (Shaam), but he loves Bhavani (Rakshita), an actress from a travelling theatre group. When Bhavani turns him down, Shankar turns to alcohol and becomes a victim of a tragedy.

Cast

  * Ramya as Vanaja
  * Rakshita as Bhavani
  * Shaam as Shankar
  * Girish Karnad as Krishnamurthy
  * Bharathi Vishnuvardhan as Vanaja's mother
  * Avinash as Gowda
  * Daisy Bopanna a Gowda's daughter
  * Sharan as Subbu
  * Harish Raj as Krishnamurthy's student
  * Mandeep Roy as Shankari's father
  * Baby Amulya

Production

Leading Kannada actresses Ramya and Rakshita co-starred in this film and Bangalore based Tamil actor Shaam was cast after other actors rejected the role.Kavitha Lankesh also admitted that the story was inspired from a Tamil short story penned by Kalki.L. Subramaniam.Girish Karnad was cast as Ramya's father.

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed and lyrics written by K. Kalyan. The title track won him the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist – Kannada for the year 2006.


Tananam Tananam

No.  Title                      Singer(s)                              Length
1.   "Kande Kande Govindana"    K. S. Chithra, Ajay Warrior
2.   "Cheluvantha Rajakumari"   Kunal Ganjawala, K. S. Chithra
3.   "Chapparisu"               Malgudi Subha, Hemanth Kumar
4.   "Koogalatheya Dooradalli"  S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra
5.   "Kalitha Hudugi"           Gururaj Hosakote
6.   "Preethi Endarenu"         Kunal Ganjawala
7.   "Tananam Tananam"          K. S. Chithra

Awards

  * Filmfare Awards South
 1. Best Actress – Ramya
 2. Best Lyricist – K. Kalyan
  * South Indian Cinematographers Association
 1. Best Actress – Ramya

Release and reception

A critic from Rediff gave the film a rating of one-and-half out of five stars and stated that "But halfway through Tananam Tananam, you realise Kavitha Lankesh has derailed the story, and nothing really works in favour of the film".The Hindu gave the film a negative review and cited that "nothing is right about Tananam Tananam".Sify opined that "Kavitha Lankesh, touted to be an intelligent director, this time falls flat with Thananam Thananam as the film lacks a new story and the film is lengthy and slow moving".

  * Tananam Tananam at IMDb


Piotrowice Małe

Piotrowice Małe may refer to the following places in Poland:

  * Piotrowice Małe, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
  * Piotrowice Małe, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (north Poland)


Mar Mar Khaing

In this Burmese name, the given name is Mar Mar Khaing. There is no family name.

Mar Mar Khaing (Burmese: မာမာခိုင်, also spelt Mar Mar Khine; born 20 April 1961) is a Burmese politician and lawyer who currently serves as a member of parliament in the House of Representatives for Thaton Township. In the 2015 Myanmar general election, she contested the Thaton Township constituency for a seat in the Pyithu Hluttaw MP, the country's lower house.

Early life and career

Mar Mar Khaing was on born 20 April 1961 in Thaton, Mon State, Myanmar. She is an ethnic Pa-O. She attended at Basic Education High School No. 2 Thaton and graduated with Law from Mawlamyine University of Distance Education.

In 1980 to 1985, she had worked at Thaton Construction Corporation. In 1989, she had worked Senior lawyer and became lawyer of the Supreme Court of Myanmar in 1999. In the 2015 Myanmar general election, she contested the Thaton Township constituency winning a majority of 48,283 (53% of the votes), won a Pyithu Hluttaw seat.

  * Pyidaungsu Hluttaw: Mar Mar Khaing's MP Profile


Shurwayne Winchester

Shurwayne Winchester is a Tobagonian soca musician from The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, who has twice won the Road March title.

Biography

He was born on 8 February 1974 and was raised in Tobago. When he was 12, he entered the competition arena, consistently making yearly contributions that impressed and propelled him to advanced stages. His ability to both pen lyrics he loved and sing them in tones far beyond what was expected of his age, gave him the fortitude to compete against some of the best in the industry, among them, veterans such as the calypso queen of the world, Denyse Plummer and Calypso Monarchs Cro Cro and Luta.

Winchester has won numerous Calypso Monarch and Road March titles. In 2004, having already made a name for himself with tracks such as "Baby Love" and "Under My Spell", he won the Road March title in 2004 with "The Band Coming". In 2005 he won again with "Dead or Alive".

In 2006 when he won both the Power and Groovy soca Monarch titles with "Can't Wait" and "Don't Stop". He won awards for "Songwriter of the Year", "Song of the Year" (for "Dead or Alive") and "Groovy Soca of the Year" (for "Don’t Stop", his collaboration with Shawn Noel) at the 8th annual Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT) awards in 2006.

In 2008 he formed his own band, Y.O.U. (Yes One Unit). Winchester collaborated with Maxi Priest on "Make It Yours" and with Serani on "All I Need".

Discography

  * Under My Spell (2002)
  * Press Play (2004)
  * Give Thanks (2005)
  * Evolution (2006)
  * Adrenaline (2007)
  * Renaissance (2008)
  * Y.O.U. (2009)

Collaborations


Shurwayne Winchester

Collaborations

  * "Rags Don't Care" (featuring Chinese Laundry and Bunji Garlin) (2003)
  * "Come Beta" (featuring Destra Garcia) (2004)
  * "Don’t Waste Water" (featuring Bunji Garlin) (2005)
  * "Give Thanks" (featuring Maximus Dan) (2005)
  * "Tempo" (featuring Calypso Rose) (2006)
  * "Move With Us" (featuring Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano) (2006)
  * "Woman By My Side" (featuring Peter Ram) (2007)
  * "Adrenaline" (featuring Elephant Man) (2007)
  * "Poody" (featuring JMC 3Veni) (2007)
  * "Give It To Me" (featuring Natalie Wilson (2007)
  * "Hard Work" (featuring Mr Slaughter) (2008)
  * "Whole Day" (featuring Johnny King) (2008)
  * "Loving Again" (featuring Nadia Batson) (2008)
  * "Allequa" (featuring Collie Buddz) (2008)
  * "Traffic" (featuring Berbice) (2008)
  * "Elevator" (featuring Shazelle) (2008)
  * "Make It Yours" (featuring Maxi Priest) (2009)
  * "All I Need" (featuring Serani)(2009)
  * "Rough Wine" (featuring Bad Gyal Ce'Cile) (2009)
  * "Road Calling" (featuring Skinny Fabulous) (2011)
  * Official website
  * Trini Jungle Juice profile
  * CDBaby profile


Thomas Kidd

Thomas Kidd may refer to:

  * Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), English dramatist
  * Thomas Kidd (British Columbia politician) (1846–1930), politician in British Columbia, Canada
  * Thomas Kidd (classical scholar) (1770–1850), English scholar and schoolmaster
  * Thomas Kidd (illustrator) (born 1955), American illustrator of children's books
  * Thomas Kidd (Ontario politician) (1889–1973), merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada
  * Thomas I. Kidd (1860–1941), Scottish-born American labor union leader
  * Thomas S. Kidd (born 1971), American historian
  * Tom Kidd (golfer) (died 1884), Scottish golfer
  * Tom Kidd (curler) (born 1945), Australian curler


Paramecus

Paramecus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:

  * Paramecus breviusculus Fairmaire, 1884
  * Paramecus cylindricus Dejean, 1829
  * Paramecus ellipticus (Cutris, 1839)
  * Paramecus laevigatus Dejean, 1829


MAATAC

MAATAC is a 1979 board game published by Superior Models, Inc.

Gameplay

MAATAC is a game involving armored vehicles that the five empires which were introduced in Starfleet Wars utilize, and are the rules intended for the MAATAC miniatures line by Superior Models.

Reception

Alex R. Sabo reviewed MAATAC in The Space Gamer No. 34.MAATAC, at all times keeping in mind its simplicity."

Reviews

  * Dragon #29
  * Science Fiction Review #33


São Salvador do Tocantins

São Salvador do Tocantins is a municipality in the state of Tocantins in the Northern region of Brazil.

  * List of municipalities in Tocantins

12°47′S 48°14′W / 12.783°S 48.233°W


Riot Musik

Riot Musik is the second and final album by Junior M.A.F.I.A. It was released on April 19, 2005, by Mege Media Records.

Production

Guests on the album include Jadakiss, Blake C (formerly known as Trife), Boss Money, Prodigy and Aja. The audio production was by China Black, DJ Twinz, L.F. Daze, Sha Money XL and more.

Track listing

No.            Title                                      Length
1.             "Telephone" (skit)                         3:12
2.             "Just Us (Like I Thought It Would Be)"     4:14
3.             "Die Anyway" (feat. Jadakiss and Blake C)  5:12
4.             "Let's Get It On"                          3:02
5.             "Riot Musik"                               5:05
6.             "Telephone" (skit)                         2:18
7.             "Gaup" (feat. Boss Money)                  3:13
8.             "Yap-Yap" (feat. Prodigy)                  4:35
9.             "Throw Down Your Gun"                      3:08
10.            "Nothing Wrong"                            3:18
11.            "Telephone" (skit)                         2:18
12.            "Why You Wanna Be"                         4:12
13.            "Fall Back"                                3:44
14.            "Do da Damm Thing" (feat. Aja)             4:19
15.            "Damage Control"                           5:10
Total length:  57:00


MACET

MACET may refer to:

Engineering Colleges in India:

  * Marthandam College of Engineering and Technology, in Marthandam
  * Maulana Azad College of Engineering and Technology, in Patna, Bihar
  * Maharaja Agrasen College of Engineering and Technology, in J.P. Nagar, Uttar Pradesh


Tanaotrichia

Tanaotrichia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.

  * Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Geometridae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.


Piotrowo

Piotrowo (derived from the name Piotr, "Peter") may refer to the following places in Poland:

  * Piotrowo, part of the Nowe Miasto district of Poznań
  * Piotrowo, Oborniki County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Słupca County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Szamotuły County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Śrem County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Nakło County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Włocławek County in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Kartuzy County in Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Lębork County in Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Nowy Dwór Gdański County in Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
  * Piotrowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (north Poland)


Mar Isaac

Mar Isaac may refer to:

  * Mar Isaac (bishop), early bishop of Seleucia
  * Isaac the Syrian, d. ca. 700
  * Mar Isaac of Firuz Shapur, Gaon of the Jewish Yeshiva academy in Firuz Shapur, Babylon


Shush, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari

Shush (Persian: شوش, also Romanized as Shūsh)Sardasht Rural District, in the Central District of Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 122, in 24 families.


Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut

Metropolitan Mikhail (Arabic: نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط) (4 July 1921 – 23 November 2014), was the Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut (Lycopolis), (Hieracon, (Hierakonopolis) and (Apollonopolis Parva) of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and was the Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, in Scetes, Lower Egypt until early 2009, when he decided to resign this responsibility due to his failing health and also due to the demise of Matta El-Meskeen, the Chief Hegumen in-charge of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in 2008.

Metropolitan Mikhail was born "Matyas Hanna" in 1921, in the poor family of Egyptian Coptic Christians in the village of "Al-Rahmaniya", in the district of "Nag Hammadi" in "Qena" Governorate.monk of the Monastery of St. Macarius the Great on 19 February 1939, taking the name Matyas al-Maqari.priest on 17 November 1939.

He served as Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan of Asyut since 1946. His episcopal ordination took place on 25 August 1946.Oriental Orthodox bishop in the date of episcopal ordination in the world.

He died on 23 November 2014 in Asyut, Egypt.

  * List of Copts
  * The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church
  * Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great
  * https://web.archive.org/web/20080724094819/http://www.theholysynod.copticpope.org/m001.htm
  * Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (1920-2014) | Archive of Contemporary Coptic Orthodox Theology (St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological College)
  * The Holy Synod (in Arabic and English)
  * http://www.anbawissa.org/vb/showthread.php?t=11930 (in Arabic)
  * http://www.hierarchy.religare.ru/h-aincvost-monofiz.html (in Russian)


Parish of St Andrew

St Andrew Parish, Cumberland is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is one of the four small parishes in the Sydney city area (together with St Philip, St Lawrence and St James), and is named after the church of St Andrew's. The parish was named while the church was still in the planning stages. The parish includes Pyrmont and the Darling Harbour area. It is bounded by Wattle Street in the south west, George Street in the south and east, and King Street in the north-east.Town Hall railway station, which is on the eastern end of the parish.

Locations

Images of locations in the parish:

  * [St Andrew's Cathedral]
    St Andrew's Cathedral
  * [The Queen Victoria Building at the eastern end of the parish]
    The Queen Victoria Building at the eastern end of the parish
  * [Buildings in the Darling Harbour area; most of this land is in the Parish of St Andrew except for Wentworth Park and the land beyond it.]
    Buildings in the Darling Harbour area; most of this land is in the Parish of St Andrew except for Wentworth Park and the land beyond it.
  * [Australian National Maritime Museum]
    Australian National Maritime Museum
  * [Star City Casino]
    Star City Casino
  * [The University of Technology is located on the southern end of the parish.]
    The University of Technology is located on the southern end of the parish.
  * [Chinatown]
    Chinatown
  * [Sydney Town Hall]
    Sydney Town Hall

33°52′26″S 151°12′23″E / 33.87389°S 151.20639°E

  * "St Andrew". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  * Saint Andrew's cathedral site act 1935


MACBA

MACBA may refer to:

  * Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  * Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain


São Sebastião do Anta

São Sebastião do Anta is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.

  * List of municipalities in Minas Gerais


Riot Compensation Act 2016

The Riot Compensation Act 2016 (c. 8) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repeals the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 and modernizes the procedures for the payment of compensation to persons whose property has been injured, destroyed or stolen during a riot.

It arose as a ballot bill sponsored by Mike Wood MP,Home Office support to expedite its passage.

Background

As a result of the 2011 England riots, significant problems were exposed concerning the administration of claims intended to be indemnified under the scheme established under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886. An independent review of the Act reported in 2013 that:

  * the language of the Act needed to be modernized;
  * compensation payable to insurers should be capped;
  * it should be extended to cover other types of property such as motor vehicles;
  * it should be based on the replacement value of the property damaged, but not include any consequential loss;
  * the Home Office should work with the insurance industry to improve claims administration; and
  * interim payments should be made available with respect to claims.

Following a round of public consultations, the Government broadly accepted the reviewer's recommendations, including extending limited compensation for damage to motor vehicles whose policies do not have coverage for riot damages, and further specified that the statutory definition for a riot should be drawn from the Public Order Act 1986.

The implementing bill was introduced on 24 June 2015, and received royal assent on 23 March 2016.

Significant changes

The Act introduces several key changes, including:

  * allowing insurers who have met claims from people or businesses to claim compensation from the local policing body:
  * allowing people and businesses, which are not insured, to claim compensation from the local policing body;
  * requiring that the amount of compensation must reflect only the loss directly resulting from the damage, destruction or theft of the property, and in particular, must not reflect any consequential loss resulting from it;
  * ending unlimited compensation, setting a £1m cap on each claim;
  * allowing for claims on motor vehicles which are not insured for riot damage, but which are covered by an insurance policy at the time.

Coming into force

Authority for making necessary regulationsstatutory instrumentroyal assent. The remainder of the Act took effect on 6 April 2017.


Riot Compensation Act 2016

* Kinghan, Neil (September 2013). "Independent Review of the Riot (Damages) Act 1886: Report of the Review" (PDF).
  * "Riot Compensation Act 2016" (PDF). London: Kennedys Law LLP. 2016.
  * "Riot Compensation Bill: Explanatory Notes" (PDF). House of Lords. 23 February 2016.
  * The full text of Riot Compensation Act 2016 at Wikisource
  * "Consultation outcome: Reform of the Riot (Damages) Act". www.gov.uk. Home Office. 12 March 2015.


MABES

Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System (MABES), also known as Jindai (じんだい) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) satellite mission. It conducted experiments on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel in a zero-G environment, and tested the function of the launch lock mechanism.

On 12 August 1986, Jindai was launched from Tanegashima Space Center aboard the maiden flight of H-I rocket, along with Ajisai and Fuji.

Jindai is attached to the second stage of the H-1 rocket,low Earth orbit.


Tanaoctena pygmaeodes

Tanaoctena pygmaeodes is a moth in the family Galacticidae. It was described by Turner in 1926.Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania.

The wingspan is 14–16 mm. The forewings are fuscous with variably developed white transverse strigulae. These combine to form two fasciae, the first antemedian, moderately broad, outwardly curved, its outer edge angled above the middle. The second is ill-defined and broad on the costa from the middle to three-fourths, narrowing to a point at the tornus. There is some irregular ochreous irroration and there are two dark fuscous discal dots in the fasciae, the first beyond one-third, the second at two-thirds. There are also some ochreous-whitish terminal dots. The hindwings are fuscous.


Our Lady of Light

Our Lady of Light may refer to:

  * "Our Lady of Light" (Portuguese), Nossa Senhora da Luz (disambiguation), a list of places in Cape Verde
  * "Our Lady of Light" (Spanish), Nuestra Señora de la Luz (disambiguation), a list of places and churches
  * "Our Lady of Light", another name for Our Lady of Zeitoun, a mass Marian apparition that occurred in Cairo, Egypt, for 2 to 3 years beginning in 1968
  * Our Lady of Light Cathedral, Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil
  * Our Lady of Light Parish Church, Rizal, Philippines
  * Titles of Mary


Miriam Kantorková

Miriam Kantorková (born 13 March 1935, in Prague) is a Czech actress. She starred in the 1970 film Witchhammer under director Otakar Vávra.

Selected filmography

  * První parta (1959)
  * Romance for Bugle (1967)
  * Witchhammer (1970)
  * Miriam Kantorková at IMDb


ShushaChess (2022)

Shusha Chess 2022 - The international chess tournament “Shusha Chess 2022” dedicated to the 190th anniversary of prominent poet and philanthropist Khurshidbanu Natavan was held in Shusha, Azerbaijan on September 21–25, 2022.

About tournament

The organizers of the Tournament are the Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Azerbaijan Republic and Azerbaijan Chess Federation. The playing venue of the Tournament is “Karabakh” hotel in Shusha, Azerbaijan. The tournament will be held in two categories – men and women. In each category, 10 players will be invited by the Organizing Committee. The winner of each category of “Shusha Chess 2022” is determined by the total points scored in the rapid and blitz tournaments. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Arabidze Meri won the tournament in their categories.

Competitors

Men

  * Mamedyarov Shakhriyar
  * Maghsoodloo Parham
  * Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
  * Radjabov Teimour
  * Durarbayli Vasif
  * Wang Hao
  * Mamedov Rauf
  * Kasimdzhanov Rustam
  * Mustafa Yilmaz
  * Guseinov Gadir

Women

  * Arabidze Meri
  * Dzagnidze Nana
  * Ozturk Orenli Kubra
  * Mammadova Gulnar
  * Beydullayeva Govhar
  * Efroimski Marsel
  * Balajayeva Khanim
  * Mammadzada Gunay
  * Fataliyeva Ulviyya
  * Zawadzka Jolanta

Logo of tournament

Shusha gate

The logo for the “Shusha Chess 2022” international chess tournament, which will be co-organized by the Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Ministry, the Azerbaijan Chess Federation and the Shusha City State Reserve, has been revealed.

According to the Azerbaijan Chess Federation, the official logo takes inspiration from various historical and cultural elements and depicts a combination of such elements as the Shusha Fortress, the Karabakh horse, and the rook – a major piece in chess.

  * Official web-site


Matthew C. Keller

Matthew C. Keller is an American behavioral and psychiatric geneticist. He is the Director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics and a professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder.candidate gene approach quantitative genetics.

  * Official website
  * Faculty page
  * Matthew C. Keller publications indexed by Google Scholar


Parish of Monkwearmouth

54°54′54″N 1°22′59″W / 54.915°N 1.383°W The Parish of Monkwearmouth is a Church of England parish in Monkwearmouth, England, served by the churches of St Peter's, All Saints' and St Andrew's.

History

The parish was originally only served by St Peter's, but new parishes of All Saints and St Andrew were split off from it in 1844 and 1906 respectively owing to urban expansion in the area. These parishes were later reunited to the parish of Monkwearmouth, which now includes all three churches. St Peter's was founded in AD 674–5 as one of the two churches of the Benedictine double monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey.

  * Parish website


MAC-Forced Forwarding

MAC-Forced Forwarding (MACFF) is used to control unwanted broadcast traffic and host-to-host communication. This is achieved by directing network traffic from hosts located on the same subnet but at different locations to an upstream gateway device. This provides security at Layer 2 since no traffic is able to pass directly between the hosts.

MACFF is suitable for Ethernet networks where a layer 2 bridging device, known as an Ethernet Access Node (EAN), connects Access Routers to their clients. MACFF is configured on the EANs.

MACFF is described in RFC 4562, MAC-Forced Forwarding: A Method for Subscriber Separation on an Ethernet Access Network.

Allied Telesis switches implement MACFFDHCP snooping to maintain a database of the hosts that appear on each switch port. When a host tries to access the network through a switch port, DHCP snooping checks the host’s IP address against the database to ensure that the host is valid.

MACFF then uses DHCP snooping to check whether the host has a gateway Access Router. If it does, MACFF uses a form of Proxy ARP to reply to any ARP requests, giving the router's MAC address. This forces the host to send all traffic to the router, even traffic destined to a host in the same subnet as the source. The router receives the traffic and makes forwarding decisions based on a set of forwarding rules, typically a QoS policy or a set of filters.


Tisséo

A Tisséo subway station

Tisséo bus serigraphy (2013-2016), now replaced by grey design

Tisséo tramway system

Tisséo is the brand adopted in 2002 for the transport network of Toulouse, under the authority of the Syndicat mixte des transports en commun (SMTC).

Tisséo operates two metro lines, two tramway lines, a hundred buses, and shuttle services (bus, mobibus, TAD), with a unified magnetic ticketing and RFID card system.

The position and live schedules of all buses, subway trains, and trams are available on the website and Tisséo app.

Subway

Opened in 1993, the Tisséo metro has two lines, fully automated.

Subway access requires a magnetic ticket or an RFID card, usable both on metro networks, bus, tramway and TAD (on-demand bus).

  * List of Toulouse metro stations
  * Toulouse tramway
  * (in French) Tisséo Official Website


Savage Messiah (2002 film)

Savage Messiah (French: Moïse, l’affaire Roch Thériault) is a Canadian thriller-drama film, released in 2002. The film dramatizes the real-life story of Roch "Moïse" Thériault, a cult leader who was arrested in Burnt River, Ontario, in 1989.

The film stars Luc Picard as Thériault and Polly Walker as Paula Jackson, the social worker whose investigation revealed Thériault's crimes.

Synopsis

Inspired by real-life events, Roch Thériault (Luc Picard), the head of a strange commune, lives with 2 men, his 10 wives, and his 23 children. While visiting Burnt River, Ontario, a social worker (Polly Walker) suspects that the women of Thériault's commune are being abused. Despite the indifference of her co-workers, she undertakes an investigation that leads to terrible discoveries; a dead child, bizarre rituals, and serious cases of physical and psychological torture. In doing so, she puts her career and her life on the line. However, she is ready to overcome all obstacles to free the members of the community from Thériault's grip. She must also confront Thériault, who manipulates people and the system with astonishing ease, including court-appointed investigators.

  * Savage Messiah at IMDb
  * Savage Messiah at Rotten Tomatoes


MAAC

MAAC may refer to:

  * Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics, an institute related to the Indian animation industry
  * Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division-I affiliated athletic conference
  * Model Aeronautics Association of Canada
  * Movimiento Auténtico Autónomo Costeño


Methiodide

In organic chemistry, a methiodide is a chemical derivative produced by the reaction of a compound with methyl iodide. Methiodides are often formed through the methylation of tertiary amines:

R3N + CH3I → (CH3)R3N+I−

Whereas the parent amines are hydrophobic and often oily, methiodides, being salts, are somewhat hydrophilic and exhibit high melting points. Methiodides exhibit altered pharmacological properties as well.

Examples include:

  * Cocaine methiodide, a charged cocaine analog which cannot pass the blood brain barrier and enter the brain
  * Bicuculline methiodide, a water-soluble form of bicuculline

Tertiary phosphines and phosphite esters also form methiodides.


Premios 40 Principales for Best Spanish Video

The Premio 40 Principales for Best Spanish Video is an honor presented annually at Los Premios 40 Principales.


Year  Artist                                   Work                      Nominees
                                                                           * Nena Daconte– Idiota
2006  David Bisbal                             ¿Quién Me Iba a Decir?      * Dover – Let Me Out
                                                                           * Estopa – Vacaciones
                                                                           * La Oreja de Van Gogh – Muñeca de Trapo
                                                                           * La Quinta Estación– Me Muero
2007  Melendi                                  Calle La Pantomima          * Pereza – Aproximación
                                                                           * Dover – Keep On Moving
                                                                           * Hanna – Como la vida
                                                                           * Nena Daconte– Tenía tanto que darte
2008  El Canto del Loco                        Eres tonto                  * Beatriz Luengo – Pretendo hablarte
                                                                           * Amaral – Kamikaze
                                                                           * Pignoise – Súbete a mi cohete
                                                                           * Nena Daconte– El Aleph
2009  Macaco                                   Moving                      * Zenttric – Solo quiero bailar
                                                                           * Second – Rincón exquisito
                                                                           * Fito & Fitipaldis – Antes de que cuente diez
                                                                           * Alejandro Sanz – Nuestro amor será leyenda
2010  Carlos Jean                              Ay Haití                    * Dani Martín – 16 añitos
                                                                           * Miguel Bosé – Estuve a punto de
                                                                           * Maldita Nerea – El secreto de las tortugas
                                                                           * Ragdog – Tú y yo
2011  Enrique Iglesias, Ludacris & DJ Frank E  Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)    * Huecco – Dame vida
                                                                           * Labuat – The time is now
                                                                           * Pignoise – Cama vacía
                                                                           * Carlos Jean – BlackStar
2012  Alejandro Sanz                           No me compares              * La Oreja de Van Gogh – Cometas por el cielo
                                                                           * Macaco – Love is the only way
                                                                           * Pablo Alborán – Te he echado de menos
                                                                           * Dani Martín – Cero
2013  Auryn                                    Make my day                 * Soraya – Con fuego


2013  Auryn                                    Make my day                 * Soraya – Con fuego
                                                                           * Pablo Alborán – Quién
                                                                           * Malú – A prueba de ti
                                                                           * Maldita Nerea - Mira dentro
2014  Enrique Iglesias                         Bailando                    * Dani Martín - Emocional
                                                                           * Dvicio - Paraíso
                                                                           * Auryn - Puppeteer
                                                                           * Pablo Alborán - Pasos de cero
2015  Macaco                                   Hijos de un mismo dios      * Efecto Pasillo - Cuando me siento bien
                                                                           * Alejandro Sanz - Un zombie a la intemperie
                                                                           * Sweet California - Wonderwoman
                                                                           * Enrique Iglesias ft. Wisin - Duele el corazón
2016  Dani Martín                              Las ganas                   * Miss Caffeina - Mira cómo vuelo
                                                                           * Juan Magan ft. Luciana - Baila conmigo
                                                                           * Leiva - Sincericidio
                                                                           * David Bisbal - Antes que no
2017  Leiva                                    La lluvia en los zapatos    * C. Tangana - Mala mujer
                                                                           * Blas Cantó - In Your Bed
                                                                           * Various artists. Tribute to Alejandro Sanz - Y, ¿si fuera ella?
                                                                           * Pablo Alborán - No vaya a ser
2018  Melendi feat. Alejandro Sanz and Arkano  Déjala que baile            * Pablo López - El patio
                                                                           * Blas Cantó - Él no soy yo
                                                                           * Álvaro Soler - La cintura
                                                                           * Leiva - No te preocupes por mí
2019  Vanesa Martín                            De tus ojos                 * Rosalía, J Balvin & El Guincho - Con altura
                                                                           * Macaco - Bailo la pena
                                                                           * Aitana & Lola Indigo - Me quedo


Tongxing, Lengshuijiang

Tongxing Township (simplified Chinese: 同兴乡; traditional Chinese: 同興鄉; pinyin: Tongxing Xiang) is a rural township in Lengshuijiang, Loudi City, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China.

Administrative division

The township is divided into 6 villages and 3 communities, the following areas: Chongbei Community, Xinqiao Community, Liatang Community, Baishi Village, Baiyang Village, Tanjia Village, Tongxin Village, Yanli Village, and Yongxing Village (崇北社区、新桥社区、俩塘社区、白石村、白杨村、谭家村、同心村、岩里村、永兴村)


Shanghai Affairs

Shanghai Affairs is a 1998 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by and starring Donnie Yen.

Plot

Tong Shan (Donnie Yen) is a doctor who returns from Britain to Shanghai after graduating from medical school. Tong opens a clinic in a poor village in Shanghai to help sick people who cannot afford medical care. However, the Axe Gang, led by Yue Lo-chat, arrives and plans to tear apart the village and build a casino there. Tong and his assistant, Bond (Ruco Chan), protect the village and drive the gang away, angering Yue. One day, Tong meets Yue's younger sister, Yue Siu-sin (Athena Chu), who is mute due to an illness. Tong cures Siu-sin and their relationship grows closer, which angers Yue Siu-sin even more since he is against western medicine. Later, some kids are kidnapped and found dead without internal organs. Tong investigates and discovers that his mentor, Lui Mung, and Yue are the masterminds behind this. Lui and Yue frames Tong and Yue starts a persecution on Tong.

Cast

  * Donnie Yen as Tong Shan, the main protagonist, a charitable doctor who studied in Great Britain and returned to Shanghai to cure poor people.
  * Athena Chu as Yue Siu-sin, Yue Lo-chat's younger sister, a young girl who is mute due to an illness. She is later cured by Tong Shan and becomes his love interest.
  * Yu Rongguang as Yue Lo-chat, the main antagonist, the leader of the Axe Gang
  * Cheung Hung as Yip Ling, Yue Siu-sin's friend
  * Ruco Chan as Bond Lau, Tong Shan's assistant
  * Yan Yee-shek as Lung, Yue Lo-chat's henchmen who mistakenly killed Siu-sin during his mission to kill Tong Shan.
  * Sing Cheung-ban
  * Man Cho-han
  * Lam Yiu-san
  * Lee Qui
  * Lam Man-ying
  * {} Shanghai Affairs at HKMDB.com
  * Shanghai Affairs at Hong Kong Cinemagic
  * Shanghai Affairs at IMDb
  * Shanghai Affairs film review at LoveHKFilm.com


Matthew Carew

Sir Matthew Carew (died 1618) was an English lawyer.

Life

He was a younger son, the tenth of either 16 or 19 children, of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, Cornwall, treasurer of the first-fruits and tenths, by Martha Denny, sister of Sir Anthony Denny. He was educated at Westminster School, under Alexander Nowell. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar in 1548. He graduated B.A. in 1551, became a fellow the same year, and remained in residence for ten years. He was ordained as subdeacon in 1558, and had at least a nominal connection with the archdeaconry of Norfolk, although he was deprived of any office under Queen Elizabeth I.

Deciding to adopt the law as profession, Carew studied at Leuven, and was there and at other universities on the continent for twelve years. He accompanied Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel into Italy as interpreter, and returned with him to England. Carew then entered on practice in the court of arches, and ultimately became master in chancery, a position which he held for many years, being knighted on 23 July 1603, before the coronation of James I.

His wife was Alice, eldest daughter of Sir John Rivers, knight, Lord Mayor of London, and widow of one Ingpenny; by her Carew had numerous children. The end of his life was troubled. There was a rumour in January 1613 that he would be cheated of eight or nine thousand pounds through the fraud of a person in whom he had placed confidence, and a little later his eldest son was engaged in a quarrel with one Captain Osborne, who was then killed. Thomas Carew was another son, and Carew managed to find him a place with Sir Dudley Carleton.

He was buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West on 2 August 1618, his career being described in a memorial tablet in the church, and his name being kept in remembrance by a bequest for the poor of the parish.

  * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Carew, Matthew". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.


Parish of North Colah

Map showing the Parish of Cowan, 1886.

Parish of North Colah.

The Parish of North Colah is a civil parish of the County of Cumberland.

The Parish is in the Hundred of Dundas and Hornsby Shire Council. Much of the parish is National Park, the main town of the parish is Mount Colah, and the Sydney to Newcastle Freeway and Central Coast and Sydney to Newcastle Railway Lines pass through the Parish.


MAAA

MAAA can mean:

  * Middle Atlantic Athletic Association, college football conference in the 1930s
  * Model Aeronautical Association of Australia, Australia's governing body for aeromodelling and model aircraft.
  * Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, Canada's oldest athletic association.
  * Montserrat Amateur Athletic Association, the governing body for the sport of athletics in Montserrat
  * Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, an art gallery in Venezuela
  * A Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.


The Daughter Of King Under-Waves

The Daughter Of King Under-Waves (Nighean Righ Fo Thuinn) is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands.

It is a version of the tale of the loathly lady. This form of the tale appears in Hrólfr Kraki's saga and also in Child ballad 32, King Henry.

Synopsis

Drawing of the Daughter of King Under-waves by John Duncan

The Fhinn were on the side of Beinn Eudainn, during a wild night. An uncouth woman, with hair down to her heels, appeared to them. She appealed to Fionn for shelter and was rejected; she screamed and went to Oisean, who also rejected her; she screamed and went to Diarmaid, who sheltered her. She turned into the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She asked Diarmaid where he would have the finest castle built, and he said above Beinn Eudainn. It appeared, and they lived there. Three times, she gave a greyhound pup to one of the Fhinn who asked for it, and Diarmaid angrily said that she would not have done it if she remembered what he had saved her from and then begged her pardon, but the third time, despite his apology, she and the castle vanished.


The Daughter Of King Under-Waves

He set out in search and found his way under the sea; there, he found three gulps of blood. There he met a woman gathering rushes, who told him that the king's daughter had just returned and was ill; no doctor could help her, and a bed of rushes was the most wholesome. The woman carried him to her in the bundle of rushes, and they were glad to see each other. She told him she had lost three gulps of blood; when he told her he had them, she told him she needed the cup of Righ Magh an Ioghnaidh, the King of Plain of Wonder, to drink from to recover. He set out and came to a rivulet he could not cross. A little russet man brought him over, and he reached the castle. There he shouted that he wanted either the cup or battle, and the king three times sent out forces against him, and Diarmaid killed them all. The king asked who he was, and said that if he had known that he would have given him the cup, because he would have known he would kill all his men. The little russet man bore him back and told him how to cure the woman, and warned him that he would take a great dislike to her when he did, and should say so and accept only a return to his own land from the king. He gave her the drinks as the man had said, and she recovered, but he took a dislike to her and admitted it. He accepted nothing but a ship back to his home.

Motifs

The loathly lady is a common motif, appearing in such tales as The Marriage of Sir Gawain.


Savage Love (book)

For the advice column by the same author, see Savage Love.

Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist is a non-fiction book by sex columnist Dan Savage. It was first published in 1998 by Plume.

In Savage Love, the author recounts his early sexual education and experiences, as well as his initial impetus to begin a sex advice column of the same title as the book. Savage Love includes a collection of pieces from the author's column. The book received a favorable reception in reviews from Library Journal,Mademoiselle,POZ,Gay and Lesbian Humanist.

Contents

In the introduction to Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, the author gives the reader some background to his early sexual education and experiences.Madison, Wisconsin.Seattle, Washington to form a weekly publication, The Stranger.

Savage writes that communication is a key part of a good sexual experience: "After all, nothing makes a person better at sex than good communication. All sex therapists, advice columnists, and marriage counselors, serious, mainstream, pop culture, religious – are all in agreement on this point".

The book includes a collection of writings from the author's column, Savage Love.Savage Love column was six years old, and syndicated to 16 newspapers,

Publication history

The book was first published by Plume in 1998,e-book format was also released in 1998.

Reception

Martha Cornog of the American College of Physicians reviewed the book for Library Journal, writing, "Sex advice columns provide enlightenment for the erotically challenged as well as voyeuristic entertainment, and the aptonymic Savage delivers on both counts."Mademoiselle commented, "Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, by Dan Savage, smartly tackles topics from blowing someone off to just blowing someone."POZ, Xaviera Hollander commented, "His flip, funny, no-holds-barred tone has an edge that his 3.5 million readers either adore or abhor-- and keep coming back for more."Gay and Lesbian Humanist noted, "For the uninitiated ... this book is a wonderful introduction to one of America’s best-known sex-advice columnists."


Savage Love (book)

* Advice column
  * Savage Love
  * Sex columnist
  * Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
  * Gudelunas, David (2007). Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-0688-6.
  * Mucciaroni, Gary (2008). Same Sex, Different Politics: Success and Failure in the Struggles over Gay Rights. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-54409-0.
  * Pories, Kathy (2004). The "M" Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-454-7.
  * Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, preview of the book, Good Reads


MAAC Offensive Rookie of the Year

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

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

Award winners

Year     Winner           Position    School
1998–99  Ryan Carter      Forward     Iona
1999–00  Martin Paquet    Left wing   Sacred Heart
2000-00  Adam Tackaberry  Center      Mercyhurst
2001-02  Chris Casey      Forward     Army
2002-03  Tyler McGregor   Right wing  Holy Cross
         Scott Reynolds   Forward     Mercyhurst

Winners by school      Winners by position

School        Winners  Position    Winners
Mercyhurst    2        Center      1
Army          1        Left wing   1
Holy Cross    1        Right wing  1
Iona          1        Forward     3
Sacred Heart  1

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


Methiini

Methiini is an obsolete tribe of beetles in the subfamily Cerambycinae, now placed in the Xystrocerini.

It contained the following genera:

  * Coleomethia
  * Cyanomethia
  * Methia
  * Methicula
  * Paratessaropa
  * Pseudomethia
  * Styloxus
  * Tessaropa


The Premios 40 Principales for Best Mexican Act was an honor presented annually at Los Premios 40 Principales between 2007 and 2011, later reemerging in 2014 as part of Los Premios 40 Principales América.

Year                                Winner    Other nominees
Los Premios 40 Principales España
                                                * Belinda
2007                                Camila      * Alejandro Fernández
                                                * Belanova
                                                * Aleks Syntek
                                                * Maná
2008                                Belanova    * Julieta Venegas
                                                * Café Tacuba
                                                * Ximena Sariñana
                                                * Jotdog
2009                                Zoé         * Paulina Rubio
                                                * Gloria Trevi
                                                * Ximena Sariñana
                                                * Alejandro Fernández
2010                                Camila      * Belanova
                                                * Panteon Rococo
                                                * Moenia
                                                * Paty Cantú
2011                                Zoé         * Belanova
                                                * Maná
                                                * Ximena Sariñana
Los Premios 40 Principales América
                                                * Camila
2014                                Zoé         * Molotov
                                                * Café Tacuba
                                                * Jenny and the Mexicats


Tongxi Temple

Tongxi Temple (Chinese: 桐溪寺; pinyin: Tóngxī Sì) is a Buddhist temple located in Pingtang Subdistrict of Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan, China.

History

The temple was built in 791 by Chan master Zhenlang (振郎禅师), a disciple of Qingyuan Xingsi, under the Tang dynasty (618–907).兴国寺).Emperor Wuzong (814-846) believed in Taoism, he ordered to demolish Buddhist temples, confiscate temple lands and force monks to return to secular life.Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution.

The temple was built in the Song dynasty (960–1279) and renamed "Fulong Temple" (伏龙庵; 'Taming Dragon Temple'), and was smashed during wars in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Chan master Tianyan Yingshi (天岩应适) led his disciples to rebuild the temple and changed its name to "Tongxi Temple".Zeng Guofan was buried at Fulong Mountain (伏龙山; 'Taming Dragon Mountain') behind the temple.

During the Republic of China, Tongxi Temple, Lushan Temple, Kaifu Temple, Gaoshan Temple (杲山寺), Shanglin Temple (上林寺), Baoning Temple, Hualin Temple (华林寺), and Lingyun Temple (灵云寺) were collectively known as the "Eight Temples of Changsha" (长沙八大丛林).万休) died at Tongxi Temple.

During the ten-year Cultural Revolution the Red Guards had attacked the temple in 1966. Volumes of scriptures, historical documents, and other works of art were either removed, damaged or destroyed in the massive socialist movement.Buddhist Annals of Changsha (长沙市佛教志), Shi Rongchan (释容禅) saw the records of Tongxi Temple and wanted to visit the temple, but found that only two old Podocarpus macrophyllus and a Ginkgo biloba were left in front of the temple gate.Podocarpus macrophyllus.

Architecture


Tongxi Temple

Architecture

In the 1960s, Tongxi Temple still had 108 rooms and houses, from the mountainside to the foot of Fulong Mountain, but during the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards razed it to the ground.

After the reconstruction, now the extant buildings include the Free Life Pond, Four Heavenly Kings Hall, Mahavira Hall, Guanyin Hall, Buddhist texts library, Bell tower, Drum tower and other ring-rooms.

Gallery

Mahavira Hall
Shrine of Guan Yu
Four Heavenly Kings Hall

Neighbouring area

  * Tomb of Zeng Guofan


ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival

ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF) (Chinese: 上海骄傲电影节), is an annual LGBT film festival held in Shanghai, China. It was first established in 2015.

ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival is one of three unconnected LGBT film festivals in the city. Shanghai Queer Film Festival, launched in September 2017, is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit event, and aims to help facilitate and promote the work of filmmakers from Chinese and other Asian backgrounds.CINEMQ, launched in 2015, is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collective, focused on queer short film from Asia and around the world.

Other Chinese-language LGBT film festivals in the region, which also feature international LGBT films with Chinese subtitles, include Beijing Queer Film Festival, Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and Taiwan International Queer Film Festival.

Background

ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival was established by filmmakers and people involved in the Shanghai arts scene, in conjunction with ShanghaiPRIDE, an LGBT group itself established to highlight a range of LGBT issues. ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival was, in turn, established to create awareness and promote tolerance for the LGBT community through film.

History

ShanghaiPRIDE festival, launched in 2008, has always featured film screenings. PRIDE director Raymond Phang states: “screenings were very secretive – very small-scale, with 20 or 30 people at most. You wouldn’t know the venue until a few hours before.” According to Variety, foreign consulates provided financial support for the screening fees of certain titles, venues, and often their own cultural section’s libraries of LGBT-related titles from 2010.

A formal, fully fledged film festival was founded in 2015 by Matthew Baren and Alvin Li.

ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival first opened from June 12–21, 2015. The first festival was themed, 'Queer Family,' and featured film screenings, including live Q & A sessions and workshops. It also featured short films from around the world, and invited submissions from Chinese LGBT filmmakers.Lilting (2014) and opening night was attended by the film's star, actress Cheng Pei Pei.


ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival

The 2016 festival was held June 17–26, with the theme 'gender,' with a program of films on gender minorities. The 10 day event featured 40 films, a short film competition, workshops and panel discussions. The festival opened with the Mainland Chinese premiere of Tangerine (2015)Sir Ian McKellen,East Palace West Palace, attended by director Zhang Yuan.

The festival includes a short film competition, for films which 'tell stories of Chinese LGBTQ experience.' According to festival director and programmer Matthew Baren, "Film is very important to the LGBT movement in China. So much of [LGBTQ cinema] is dominated by the West. We wanted to support Chinese stories, Chinese faces."Hong Khaou, Quentin Lee and Kit Hung, as well as musicians Erica Lee and MIIIA.Iris Prize and a chance for film producers to win funding for their forthcoming production.

Baren departed the festival in 2016, and was succeeded by Wing Shen for its 2017 edition. The 2017 festival will be a much smaller event, taking place on two non-consecutive days. It will be held on 11 and 18 June 2017.

  * List of LGBT film festivals


Matthew C. Keifer

Matthew C. Keifer (born 1954) is the director of the VA Occupational Health and the Specialty Medicine Service Line at the VA Puget Sound, Seattle, WA.National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC) from 2012 to 2016,National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety.Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin during his time as the director of NFMC.University of Washington School of Public Health, where he was on the active faculty and served as founding co-director of the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center until 2010.

Early life and education

Keifer grew up in the Chicago area, spending summers working on the family-owned farm in Edgewood, Iowa. He majored in anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and completed his medical degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign after studying medicine for two years in the Dominican Republic.

Awards and honors

  * 1980 - Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society
  * 1981 - The Otto Saphir Award in Pathology
  * 1982 - Valedictorian Address, University of Illinois School of Medicine
  * 1982 - Merck Manual Award
  * 1982 - The Dr. Charles Spencer Williamson Award in Medicine
  * 2000-2001 - Department of Environmental Health Faculty Outreach Award
  * 2004 - University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine Outstanding Mentor Award
  * 2007 - University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Outreach Award
  * 2009 - Health Sciences/UW Medical Center Community Service Award
  * 2013 - Convocation address, University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
  * 2015 - National Safety Council Stakeholder Collaboration Award


Parish of Narumerpy

Narumerpy, New South Wales is a Parish of Ularara County in north west New South Wales.Milparinka, New South Wales and Wilcannia and west of Wanaaring.

The main economic activity of the parish is agriculture, with the Ardoo and the Salisbury Downs Station and the parish is at 30°02′03″S 143°24′02″E / 30.034167°S 143.400556°E.

History

The Parish is in the traditional lands of the Bandjigali and Karenggapa people. The Burke and Wills expedition were the first Europeans to the area.

Geography

The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).


Sampo Karjalainen

Sampo Karjalainen (born May 2, 1977) is one of the original founders of Sulake and Habbo Hotel,Bobba Bar for iPhone.Moves fitness tracker app for iOS.

Projects

  * 1994: To the Point
  * 1998: Satama Interactive
  * 2000: Ego Taivas media lab
  * 2000: Sulake


The Love Dare

The Love Dare is a non-fiction marriage-related book written by Alex and Stephen Kendrick. It is a 40-day Christian devotional designed to strengthen marriages. Each daily devotion includes scripture, a statement of principle, the day's "dare," (such as "Resolve to say nothing negative to your spouse at all") and a journaling area and check box to chart progress. It is used in the storyline for the 2008 film, Fireproof,Valentine's Day, Day 1 and Day 2 of The Love Dare were published on the Baptist Press' website, with permission of B & H Publishing Group.

The Love Dare has sold over 3.5 million copies,The New York Times Paperback Advice & Misc. Best Seller list,Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (EPCA) in April 2009.

Charts

  * #1 twice on the New York Times Best Seller list.
  * #7 non-fiction on Amazon.ca (Canadian).
  * The Love Dare Book – official book website


Small Inlet Marine Provincial Park

Small Inlet Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada on the northwest side of Quadra Island, near the city of Campbell River.

It is named after Squadron Leader Norville Small, a decorated officer who was referred to as a leader, tactician, and innovator.

50°15′10″N 125°17′00″W / 50.25278°N 125.28333°W


MAATAC (miniatures)

MAATAC is a line of miniatures published in 1979 by Superior Models, Inc.

Contents

MAATAC Miniatures were released as packs of 2 to 4 miniature models of 1:285 scale tanks and robots, intended for the MAATAC science fiction game rules.

Reception

Steve Jackson reviewed MAATAC in The Space Gamer No. 34.

  * List of lines of miniatures


Methil power station

Methil Power Station was a small base load coal slurry-fired power station in the town of Methil, Fife, Scotland. It was situated on the south side of the mouth of the River Leven, where the river enters the Firth of Forth.

It was a local landmark, with the chimney visible for some distance.

Design

East Fife F.C. play against Berwick Rangers F.C. overlooked by Methil Power Station

The power station consisted of two 30-megawatt (MW) generation unitsMWe.South of Scotland Electricity Board. Built on the site of a golf course, it was designed to utilise low-grade coal slurry supplied from the washeries of the nearby Fife coalfield.

History

This station was built as a sister to Barony Power Station on the West Coast of Scotland, in Ayrshire. Although the design of Methil was based on that of Barony, it incorporated many improvements. As the Scottish coalfields were exhausted or abandoned in the mid-1980s, waste accumulated in coal tips, and this waste was used as a fuel in the Methil and Barony power stations.

This station ceased generating in 2000 and was put into standby as a strategic reserve.

  * Shannon, Paul. Railfreight since 1968; Coal. Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK: Silver Link Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-85794-263-9.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Methil power station.
  * YouTube – footage of demolition
  * YouTube – footage of demolition
  * YouTube – footage of chimney demolition


P24

P24 or P-24 may refer to:

Aviation

  * Fairey P.24 Monarch, a British aircraft engine
  * Lockheed YP-24, an American prototype fighter aircraft
  * PZL P.24, a Polish fighter aircraft

Molecular biology

  * P24 capsid protein, a protein of HIV
  * P24 protein family, a group of transmembrane proteins
  * Pseudomonas sRNA P24

Other uses

  * Maltese patrol boat P24, of the Armed Forces of Malta
  * Ndonde language
  * P24 road (Ukraine)
  * Papyrus 24, a biblical manuscript


An automaton exhibited at CIMA

Musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique is a museum located in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland. It specialises in musical boxes and automatons. The museum is owned by the Centre International de la Mécanique d'Art (CIMA, "International Centre for Art Mechanics").

  * List of music museums
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Musée d'Automates et de Boîtes à musique.
  * CIMA

46°49′15″N 6°30′11″E / 46.82071°N 6.50311°E


Shanghai Auto Museum

Shanghai Auto Museum is an automobile museum located in Anting, Jiading District, Shanghai, China, in the Auto Expo Park of Shanghai International Automobile City. Designed by the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tongji University and IFB from Germany,

The museum is the first specialist museum of its kind in China. With a gross floor area of 28,000 square meters (300,000 sq ft) and an exhibition area of approximately 10,000 square meters (110,000 sq ft), it is divided into four sections: history, collection, exploration and temporary exhibitions respectively. The museum houses a collection of over 100 classic automobiles, representing nearly 50 brands from China and abroad, spanning 100 years of automobile history and development.Fords,Fiat 500, Austin 7, Rover P5, Jaguar E-TypeGM EV1.

  * List of automobile museums

Media related to Shanghai Auto Museum at Wikimedia Commons

  * Shanghai Auto Museum website (in Chinese)
  * Shanghai Auto Museum website (in English)
  * Shanghai Automobile website (in English)
  * Shanghai Auto Museum at Automuseums


Matthew C. Weinzierl

Matthew C. Weinzierl is an American academic. He is a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has published research on taxation. He worked at McKinsey & Company after he attended Harvard University.

Education

Weinzierl earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2008.

Career

Weinzierl worked as an economist for McKinsey & Company and the Council of Economic Advisers.National Bureau of Economic Research.

Weinzierl has published research on taxation.value-added tax.University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, Weinzierl won the Richard Musgrave Prize from the National Tax Association in 2016.

Personal life

Matthew Weinzierl is married to Coventry Edwards-Pitt.


Parish of Neon

Ularara County NSW.

Neon Parish, New South Wales is a rural locality and a cadastral parish of Ularara County New South Wales.

The parish is located at 29°23′41″S 143°33′37″E / 29.39460°S 143.56040°E and sits on Possum Creek, a Tributary of the Paroo River. The climate is semi-arid, featuring low rainfall, very hot summer temperatures and cool nights in winter.

History

The parish is on the traditional lands of the Paaruntyi people.

The Burke and Wills expedition were the first Europeans to the area, passing a few miles to the west.

Geography

The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).

Map of Ularara County in North west New South Wales


Sampli

Sampli (Saimply Sahib) is a small village in the Bassi Pathana block of Fatehgarh Sahib district, in the Indian state of Punjab.Chandigarh-the capital of Punjab, 45 km from Patiala-academic city of Punjab, and about 75 km from Ludhiana-industrial city of Punjab.

Demographics

As of 2001 it had a population of in households.

It is a religious village and known for popular Gurudwara Saimply Sahib. Brahm Giani Sant Baba Jaimal Singh Ji built this Gurudwara Sahib. Sant Baba Banta is now in charge of Gurughar. Prominent figures Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Giani Jail Singh (Ex President of India) were frequent visitors to this village.


The Love Brand

The Love Brand is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Stuart Paton and written by Raymond L. Schrock and Adrian Johnson. The film stars Roy Stewart, Wilfrid North, Margaret Landis, Arthur Stuart Hull, Sidney De Gray, and Marie Wells. The film was released on August 13, 1923, by Universal Pictures.

Cast

  * Roy Stewart as Don José O'Neil
  * Wilfrid North as Peter Collier
  * Margaret Landis as Frances Collier
  * Arthur Stuart Hull as Charles Mortimer
  * Sidney De Gray as Miguel Salvador
  * Marie Wells as Teresa
  * The Love Brand at IMDb
  * Synopsis at AllMovie


Small Holy Family

The Small Holy Family (c. 1518–1519) is an oil-on-panel painting by Raphael and assistants, now in the Louvre in Paris. Its name distinguishes it from his Great Holy Family, also in the Louvre. It is signed and dated "RAPHAEL VRBINAS S[anti] PINGEBAT MDXVIII" on the hem of the Madonna's garment.

Abundance

According to the 17th century writer André Félibién two further Louvre works Abundance and Ceres, both in monochrome, formed a cover to the Small Holy Family. Abundance has a signature "Raphael Uvrbinas", though this is usually considered a later addition. It may relate to cardinal Bibbiena, whose surname was "Dovizi[a]" (i.e. Abundance). It is a rare survival of a painting for so small a painting. It shows a figure in a niche on a base between marble mirrors, with a mask under the base, referring to an Aphrodite (Kunsthistorisches Museum) originally in the Loggia dei Marmi in the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova.

The work and its cover may have been commissioned from Raphael around 1519 by Pope Leo X as thanks for the services of Adrien Gouffier de Boissy, papal legate to France. de Boissy also owned John the Baptist as a Young Man in the Desert (Louvre), another work by Raphael and assistants, as well as a preparatory drawing for the Small Holy Family now in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. In 1622 it was recorded in the collection of the Count of Brienne, who then left it to Louis XIV.

Elizabeth's face and the cradle in the shape of an inverted tree trunk are reminiscent of other works by Raphael from that era such as Holy Family under an Oak Tree (Prado) and La Perla (Prado), both with assistance from Giulio Romano. The background landscape is influenced by the Danubian School.


MAATS1

AMY-1-associating protein expressed in testis 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAATS1 (formerly known as C3orf15) gene.

Interactions

C3orf15 has been shown to interact with MYCBPAKAP1.

  * Human MAATS1 genome location and MAATS1 gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.


Tony Koester

J. Anthony Koester, more commonly known as Tony Koester, is a well-known member of the United States model railroading community. Along with his friend Allen McClelland and his Virginian & Ohio, Koester popularized the idea of proto-freelancing with his HO scale model railroad, the Allegheny Midland. At Purdue University in the early 1960s, he studied electrical engineering, communication, and art. While at Purdue, he was also a member and president of the Purdue Railroad Club. In 1966, with Glenn Pizer he co-founded the Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society to preserve the memory of his favorite railroad.

In 1969, Koester and his wife and children relocated from Indiana to northeastern New Jersey to take a position with Carstens Publications as editor of Railroad Model Craftsman. In 1973, the company relocated to Newton in northwestern New Jersey, and the Koesters built a new home that housed his last two model railroads. He had previously developed a close friendship with Jim Boyd, who joined Carstens in 1971 and in 1975 became the editor of Railfan & Railroad. It was Koester's exposure to the V&O and eastern mountain coal railroading in the Appalachians that led him to develop the concept of the Allegheny Midland. Blending elements of Nickel Plate and some C&O equipment and operation with Chesapeake & Ohio structures and scenery, the Allegheny Midland became the Nickel Plate's plausible West Virginia coal-hauler.Railroad Model Craftsman made the Allegheny Midland known to modelers across America and beyond.

Koester left Carstens in 1981 and took a job with Bell Laboratories, editing their publications for two decades. In November 1985, he also began writing a monthly column called "Trains of Thought" in the pages of Model Railroader, published by Kalmbach. In 1995, he became the founding editor of the annual Model Railroad Planning. After 20 years editing telecommunication journals and the corporate science magazine and anchoring the corporate TV network, Koester retired and took on more work with Kalmbach. He became a contributing editor and continued as the "Trains of Thought" columnist for Model Railroader. In addition, he has written many books for Kalmbach (at least one per year since 2003):


Tony Koester

* Realistic Model Railroad Operation (2003)
  * Realistic Model Railroad Design (2004)
  * Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks (2005)
  * The Model Railroader's Guide to Coal Railroading (2006)
  * Planning Scenery for your Model Railroad (2007)
  * Designing & Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads (2008)
  * The Allegheny Midland: Lessons Learned (2009)
  * Model Railroading from Prototype to Layout (2010)
  * The Model Railroader's Guide to Mountain Railroading (2011)
  * "Allen McClelland and His Virginian & Ohio" (2022)
  * More to be added to list.

His latest book, a tribute to the many contributions Allen McClelland and his V&O ("The Man Who Changed Everything") has made to the hobby, will be published in the fall of 2022.

In 2000, the Allegheny Midland was decommissioned, and construction began on a complex multi-deck version of the Nickel Plate's Third Subdivision of the St. Louis Division, also in HO scale. Concentrating on timetable and train-order operations, this layout replicates the Nickel Plate Koester grew up with in Cayuga, his hometown in Indiana during the 1950s following his family's move from Iowa, where he was born.

  * Video interview with Tony Koester
  * List of authors published by Kalmbach
  * Biography at The Allegheny Midland Historical Society


Rae Bryant

Rae Bryant is an American writer most known for experimental prose styles with a focus on magic realism, surrealism, satire and postfeminism. Her story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, was nominated for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and Pushcart Prize.

Bryant has received fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches creative writing and multimedia and is the founding editor of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, a literary and arts journal housed at Johns Hopkins. Bryant has also taught creative writing and multimedia at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.

Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and multimedia have published in numerous literary magazines including StoryQuarterly, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Gargoyle Magazine, Blip Magazine, and Redivider, among others.

Bryant lives in the DC/Baltimore area with her husband and two children.

Selected works

  * The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, 2011)
  * "Good Girl" (2012) StoryQuarterly/
  * "An Open Letter to a Suicidal Friend, a Bulimic Friend, a Long Lost Aunt, and Stephanie, Your New Linked In Connection" (2012) McSweeney's Internet Tendency
  * "A Love Letter to Steven Tyler's Lips" (2012) Gargoyle
  * "The Cutting Down Is a Conceit" Redivider
  * The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, 2011)
  * Quarterly West
  * Poets and Writers
  * The Johns Hopkins University
  * Rae Bryant's Website
  * The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review


Musée de l'Arles antique

The Musée de l'Arles antique or Musée départemental Arles antique or Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques is an archeological museum housed in a modern building designed and built in 1995 by the architect Henri Ciriani, at Arles in the Bouches-du-Rhône département of France.

Exhibits

The museum houses a large collection of antiquities, including monumental Roman sculptures from the local region. Among the exhibits is a model of the multiple overshot water mills which existed at Barbegal, and have been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".

The Arles Rhône 3, an ancient Roman boat discovered in 2011, is on display since 2013.

  * Arles bust
  * Head of Arles
  * Musée Réattu
  * Museon Arlaten
  * List of museums in France
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Shanghai-style papercutting

Shanghai-style papercutting is a variety of papercutting practiced in south China, and in particular in Shanghai.

The making of papercuts is a popular folk art in China. In the hands of an artisan, and with the help of a knife or a pair of scissors, a piece of paper can be turned into any of a wide variety of patterns – landscapes, flowers, birds, animals and human figures. These simple works of art may be displayed in wall frames or pressed under glass and displayed to decorate a room.

Traditional North Chinese papercut works are mostly patterns of auspicious symbols, patterns, with strong traditional features. While Shanghai-style papercutting, based on applied arts such as Chuanghua (papercut for window decoration, Chinese: 窗花), or embroidery, does not adhere to the traditional symbols. Its subjects and designs are relatively more simple and modern. More uniquely, Shanghai-style papercuts, regardless of their size and complexity, are all cut at one time and the cut flowers, grasses and animals, are all attached together.

Different from the traditional red papercut, the most obvious feature of Shanghai-style papercut is its colors and patterns. Waste paper such as flyer paper, newspapers, envelopes are all used as the materials for creating these works. Shanghai-style artists make use of the original colors of the paper to conceive the design, the colors and patterns of their works.

Shanghai culture and arts is an important part of Chinese arts and craft. Shanghai since its inception in 1843, Started from the closed Wuyue regional smallholder city to become a coastal modern cities, called "The Jianghai Tongjin, southeast of the city". It is in such an open and emerging cities, breeding and the formation of The Shanghai Arts and Crafts, the Beijing School of Arts and Crafts Arts and Crafts of Guangdong faction formed with distinct regional characteristics.


Lúcio Costa

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Ferreira and the second or paternal family name is Ribeiro.

Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa /ˈkɒstə/architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.

Career

Costa was born in Toulon, France, the son of Brazilian parents.Salvador, was a naval engineer, and his mother Alina Ferreira da Costa, was from Manaus.Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and at the Collège National in Montreux, Switzerland, until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. After some early works in the eclectic manner, he adopted Modernism in 1929.

In 1930 Costa established a partnership with Russian-born Brazilian architect Gregori Warchavchik, and also became the Director of the National School of Fine Arts where he had studied. Even though he found students eager to be taught in the "new style," his ruthless administration won him the opposition of the faculty and student body, and Costa eventually had to resign after a year in office. He joined the newly created SPHAN (Servico do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – National Service of Historic and Artistic Heritage) in 1937 under Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade. He remained at the National Heritage Service until retirement, acceding to the top post of director, where he was followed by his granddaughter Maria Elisa Costa. During his tenure as regional and then national director, he became involved in numerous controversial decisions (see Controversies).

Costa became a figure associated with reconciling traditional Brazilian forms and construction techniques with international modernism, particularly the work of Le Corbusier. His works include the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939 (designed with Oscar Niemeyer),Nova Friburgo of 1948. In the 1950s, Costa was invited to advise on the UNESCO building in Paris and to lecture at the Conference of Venice.

Among his major works are also the Ministry of Education and Health, in Rio (1936–43), designed with Niemeyer, Roberto Burle Marx, among others, and consulted by Le Corbusier, and the Pilot Plan of Brasília, a competition winner designed in 1957 and built mostly in 1958–1960.


Lúcio Costa

Costa taught geometry and drawing at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios of Rio de Janeiro from 1938–1954. The Liceu was affiliated with the Associação Académica de Coimbra where Costa also taught until 1966, and received a Medal of Merit from the Portuguese government.

Controversies

During his long tenure as regional, later national chief of the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – IPHAN), Costa pushed for systematic documentation of existing architectural and urbanistic heritage, but his critics allege that he let his personal preferences and political opinions interfere with the bases of his decisions

In 1975, he created a public controversy by refusing to sign the landmarking act of the Monroe Palace, the former seat of the Brazilian Congress and later of the Brazilian Senate, built in 1906. The building was slated for demolition due to the construction of the Rio de Janeiro Metro, but in the face of public and media outcry, the construction company shifted the metro line to preserve the building. This effort, however, was in vain, because on October 11, 1975, Brazilian president Ernesto Geisel authorized the building's demolition and a developer razed the building in March 1976. The decision was contrary to the State of Rio de Janeiro's decision declaring the building an Official Landmark in 1974.Cinelândia Station was opened as one of the first five stations of the then-new metro network, on the site of the demolished palace.

Costa preferred the Portuguese colonial architecture of Colonial Brazil over that of any other time or ethnic group (except for Brazilian Modernism). Because of that attitude, inculcated also on younger preservationists thanks to Costa's influence in the architecture schools, much of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture, including the architecture of German, Japanese and Italian immigrants, was lost to urban renewal in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1936, when the competition to design the new Ministry of Education and Health was held, the winner was an eclectic design by architect Arquimedes Memória. Costa used his political connections within the government to scrap the competition result and instead form a new design team headed by himself, the Roberto Brothers and a young architect who had been Costa's intern, Niemeyer.

Design of Brasília

Summary


Lúcio Costa

Design of Brasília

Summary

Costa is best known for his urban plan for the city of Brasília, located in Brazil's hinterland. Costa won the job in a 1957 public competition in order to replace Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil. His Plano Piloto (Pilot Plan) for Brasília, is in the shape of an irregular cross, suggesting an airplane or dragonfly. While the majority of the project's architecture was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, Costa's own Parque Guinle project was the model for Brasília's many residential tower-in-a-park superblocks. The new city was inaugurated on 21 April 1960 and represents one of the largest adoptions of Modernism in a singular project to the present day.

Although named as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987,mercury-vapor lamps, and World Heritage Site designation has prevented remediation. Overall, despite the city's positive features, the concept and execution have sparked controversy which is explored in The Modernist City. Brasilia has been expressed as an attempt at a utopian city or in the nickname ilha da fantasia (fantasy island), indicating the sharp contrast between the city and the surrounding regions, marked by poverty and disorganization.

Background and Concept

The middle of the 20th century saw urban struggles for Brazil. Brazilian cities, particularly Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo had seen an increase of problems regarding transportation, sufficient housing, public utilities, and distribution of essential goods such as food. By the 1950s, the frustration of the upper class residents of these locations had convinced the political elite that a long term solution was necessary, making the idea of constructing a new capital city a compelling idea.

There was no consensus on the project from the Brazilian people. Many thought that the new capital would be a "monumental urbanistic and social disaster", believing that a project of that magnitude and cost would cause massive inflation in the Brazilian economy.


Lúcio Costa

Despite the criticism, the idea of a new capital received widespread backing. To the supporters, Brasília would symbolize Brazil's coming of age. The Brazilian coastal cities were remnants of the colonial era and the center for agricultural trade. Despite Brazil's imposing geographic presence in South America, the country was largely a coastal country. There had been several publicists calling for a marcha para oeste, or westward march, in order to utilize the bountiful excess of land to the west. Also, it was felt that due to the current capital's location at Rio, the government's views of the nation was distorted. To be placed in a central location for these reasons, Brasília could become a new source for new growth for the country, a springboard for modernization and industrial production.

The new capital would be the diverging point for a series of new infrastructure development, such as long-range highways. It would be an optimistic step towards a unified, modern, and prosperous Brazil; towards fulfilling Brazil's "continental destiny" while also relieving the pressure on the existing urban centers.José Osvaldo de Meira Penna in 1958: "A centrally located capital…might make Brazil more conscious of her role in the Americas, her terrestrial frontiers with Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. When the attention of the elites turns from their nearly exclusive interest in Europea, the 'splendid isolation' will be broken which has until now separated, in spirit and in fact, Brazil from continental neighbors".

The idea to establish a new Brazilian capital was adopted, and the location for Brasília would be within the Brazilian State of Goiás. The search for the site had been calculated, based on factors such as the favorability of the climate, water supply, land quality for agriculture, a suitable power source within 100 kilometers, and access to ground and air transportation.

Costa's Design

Once it had been determined that there would be a new capital and the location had been established, the project entered into the design process. The plan was to be selected among competing plans from various Brazilian architects and city planners by an international jury. The participating designers were given the necessary information to make suitable plans for the space. Each participant was to submit two pieces in their proposal, a basic layout of the city and a supporting report that exhibited logistical details.


Lúcio Costa

The design of Lucio Costa was selected for Brasilia. Although the design had not been as detailed as some of the other plans submitted, the jurors found it favorable due its features that would complement future population growth. The plan, called Costa's Plano Piloto, conceptually demanded four components: (1) the government buildings, (2) the residential zones or superblocks, (3) the vehicular circulation and transportation infrastructure, (4) and the city center.

The plan essentially divided the new capital into two parts, the Monumental Axis and the Residential Axis. The Monumental Axis, which points east to west, would serve as the home for the new civic buildings. This wide mall was intended to create a feeling of grandeur and significance, and is the location of the ministries, national congress, supreme court and other administrative buildings. The two "wings" of the Residential Axis, which runs north to south, would contain the residential and commercial developments. Costa envisioned these as the most important aspect of the design, as they would be home to a majority of the city's daily operations, such as local commerce, schools, recreation and churches. The Residential Axis consisted of 96 superblocks, which were limited to six-storey buildings, and 12 additional superblocks limited to three-storey buildings.

Each of the individual super blocks was supposed to have a distinct style for each superblock and a uniform paint scheme that set it apart from the surrounding superblocks. Costa's goal for the superblocks was to create neighborhoods and communities that were small self-contained and self-sufficient. He envisioned that they would have apartment buildings of a consistent modern style that housed both upper and middle classes, making integration a key theme of the city's design. The Residential Axis's two wings were meant to have a character that was intimate and peaceful, rather than the Monumental Axis that was designed to be imposing.

One of the unique aspects about the plan was how it was designed to handle expansion and growth. Unlike most cities, which add to a grid or expand the urban plan with growth, Costa's design provided the complete and large-scale plan.

Construction and Establishment


Lúcio Costa

Construction and Establishment

The President of Brazil, Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-1961), approved Costa's plan and construction of Brasília, fulfilling the promise of the Brazilian constitution and some of his own personal political campaign promises. Construction started in 1956, using the urban design of Costa and the services of chief architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Labor for the project required the migration of workers into the area and construction camps were built to house workers with the permission of the authorities. These temporary settlements, also called Cidade Livre, were eventually slated for removal. However, these efforts were ineffective, and the settlements grew into self-sustaining communities, and were eventually adopted as satellite cities (suburbs). Gradually over the decades to come, the satellite communities continued to form on the outskirts of Brasilia, serving a valuable function towards battling low-cost housing issues that arose in the city. While alterations have been made to the design since the city's construction, the original plan by Costa prominently survives.

Following the opening of Brasilia, the modern design attracted the interest of artists, theater and musical groups, and younger generations of Brazilian citizens. One reason for this particular crowd was a coordinated effort to make Brasilia the new cultural center of the country. There were venues during the city's first years to help encourage artistic activities, such as the International Congress of Art Critics in 1959, an annual National Salon for several years in the early 1960s, and the establishment of several musical and theatrical groups.

Since its initial completion, Brasilia has gone through several stages of population changes. After initial interest following the opening, population numbers decreased before recovering in the late 1960s. Brasilia is now estimated to be Brazil's 3rd most populous city.

Works


Lúcio Costa

Works

  * 1920 – Castelo de Itaipava, with Fernando Valentim
  * 1934 – Vila Operária da Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro
  * 1934 – Vila Operária de João Monlevade, Minas Gerais;
  * 1936 – Gustavo Capanema Palace, Rio de Janeiro, with Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Roberto Burle Marx, Oscar Niemeyer, et al.
  * 1937 – Mission Museum, Rio Grande do Sul
  * 1939 – Brazil Pavilion, 1939 New York World's Fair
  * Residência Hungria Machado, Rio de Janeiro
  * Summer Home of Barão de Saavedra, Petrópolis
  * 1944 – Park Hotel São Clemente, Nova Friburgo
  * Parque Guinle, Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro
  * 1952 – Design of Casa do Brasil, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris
  * 1956 – Offices of Jockey Club do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
  * 1957 – Master plan for Brasília
  * 1967 – Master plan for Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
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Parish of Nattung

Nattung, New South Wales is a civil parish of Cowley County, New South Wales.Snowy Monaro Regional Council at 35°44′54″S 148°36′04″E / 35.74833°S 148.60111°E. It lies in the headwaters of the Murrumbidgee River and in the Kosciuszko National Park. It is uninhabited.


Sampling

Look up sampling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Sampling may refer to:

  * Sampling (signal processing), converting a continuous signal into a discrete signal
  * Sampling (graphics), converting continuous colors into discrete color components
  * Sampling (music), the reuse of a sound recording in another recording
      + Sampler (musical instrument), an electronic musical instrument used to record and play back samples
  * Sampling (statistics), selection of observations to acquire some knowledge of a statistical population
  * Sampling (case studies), selection of cases for single or multiple case studies
  * Sampling (audit), application of audit procedures to less than 100% of population to be audited
  * Sampling (medicine), gathering of matter from the body to aid in the process of a medical diagnosis and/or evaluation of an indication for treatment, further medical tests or other procedures.
  * Sampling (occupational hygiene), detection of hazardous materials in the workplace
  * Sampling (for testing or analysis), taking a representative portion of a material or product to test (e.g. by physical measurements, chemical analysis, microbiological examination), typically for the purposes of identification, quality control, or regulatory assessment. See Sample (material).

Specific types of sampling include:

  * Chorionic villus sampling, a method of detecting fetal abnormalities
  * Food sampling, the process of taking a representative portion of a food for analysis, usually to test for quality, safety or compositional compliance. (Not to be confused with Food, free samples, a method of promoting food items to consumers)
  * Oil sampling, the process of collecting samples of oil from machinery for analysis
  * Theoretical sampling, the process of selecting comparison cases or sites in qualitative research
  * Water sampling, the process of taking a portion of water for analysis or other testing, e.g. drinking water to check that it complies with relevant water quality standards, or river water to check for pollutants, or bathing water to check that it is safe for bathing, or intrusive water in a building to identify its source.
  * Work sampling, a method of estimating the standard time for manufacturing operations.
  * Sample (disambiguation)
  * Sampler (disambiguation)


Tofazzal Hossain

Tofazzal Hossain may refer to:

  * Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah (1911–1969), Bengali journalist and politician
  * Tofazzal Hossain (civil servant) (1935–2015), Bangladeshi language activist, civil servant and writer


Selang

Selang is a village in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2356 and had 443 houses in the village.


Shannon Watt

Shannon Watt (born 26 November 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

From Cavendish in rural Victoria, Watt, a key defender, was drafted at number 14 in the 1997 National AFL Draft from the North Ballarat Rebels. Watt completed year 12 (final year of school) at University High School whilst in his first year at the club (1998). He played as a fullback until Jonathan Hay came to the club in 2006 who unsuccessfully filled the role of centre half-back.

Despite playing 155 AFL games, Watt never polled a single vote in the Brownlow Medal. Watt was one of the last individuals to have played every minute of every game for an entire season on the ground (no interchange time) in 2003, a feat practically unheard of in the modern era.

He announced his retirement from the game on 20 August 2009.

  * Shannon Watt's player profile
  * Shannon Watt's playing statistics from AFL Tables


Tony L. Cothron

Rear Admiral Tony Lee CothronChief of Naval Operations and the 62nd Director of Naval Intelligence. He is currently a professor at Liberty University.

Biography

Early years

A native of Greenbrier, Tennessee, Cothron graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1977 and was commissioned through Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1978.

Tours

His operational tours include positions of increasing responsibility in intelligence aboard the USS America, Patron Squadron Special Projects Unit One (VPU-1), Carrier Airwing Eight (CVW-8) aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt for combat operations during Operation Desert Storm and Kurdish relief operations in northern Iraq during Operation Provide Comfort, Command Cruiser Destroyer Group Two aboard the USS George Washington, and as Assistant Chief of Staff of Intelligence for Commander, Sixth Fleet in Gaeta, Italy where he participated in Operation Allied Force combat operations against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

His tours ashore have included duty as a submarine analyst and watch stander at Fleet Ocean Surveillance Intelligence Center Detachment (FOSIC Det), Atlantic Fleet; as an instructor at the Fleet Intelligence Training Center Atlantic and member of the Soviet Seapower Education Program; as Senior Watch Analyst, Pacific and Strategic Forces Division Head at the Navy Operational Intelligence Command (NAVOPINTCEN), Chief of the Atlantic Intelligence Command's Current Intelligence Division and Functional Manager for Imagery and ELINT during Operation Uphold Democracy, the US intervention in Haiti; as the Targeting Requirements Branch Head on the Navy staff for CNO N2; and as the Director, Fleet Intelligence for Commander, Fleet Forces Command.

2001 - 2003

Cothron commanded the U.S. European Command's Joint Analysis Center at RAF Molesworth, UK from August 2001 to July 2003, transforming the command in response to the Global War on Terrorism and supporting combat operations against Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He also commanded the Navy's national level, operational intelligence and scientific and intelligence analysis center, the Office of Naval Intelligence from September 2004 to January 2006. Upon his promotion to flag rank, Rear Admiral Cothron was assigned to the National Security Agency as the Deputy Director of Signals Intelligence for Customer Relationships.

Professional Military Education and Qualifications