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Firdos Square statue destruction

Flags

Before the statue was toppled, Marine Corporal Edward Chin of 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division (attached to 3rd Battalion 4th Marines) climbed the ladder and placed a U.S. flag over the statue's face. According to the book "Shooter", by Coughlin, Kuhlman, and Davis, other Marines of the 3/4 realized the PR disaster unfolding as the formerly cheering crowd became silent, with one woman shouting at the marines to remove the flag. Kuhlman had appropriated an Iraqi flag as a war trophy during a raid earlier in the war, and quickly unfurled it and headed for the statue. The crowd grabbed this flag and then placed it over the statue.

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Firdos Square statue destruction

Conflicting reports

The event was widely publicized, but allegations that it had been staged were soon published. One picture from the event, published in the "Evening Standard", was digitally altered to suggest a larger crowd. A report by the "Los Angeles Times" stated it was an unnamed Marine colonel, not Iraqi civilians who had decided to topple the statue; and that a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team then used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist and made it all appear spontaneous and Iraqi-inspired. According to Tim Brown at Globalsecurity.org: "It was not completely stage-managed from Washington, DC but it was not exactly a spontaneous Iraqi operation." The Marines present at the time, 3rd Battalion 4th Marines as well as 1st Tank Battalion, maintain that the scene was not staged other than the assistance they provided.

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Firdos Square statue destruction

Conflicting reports

Robert Fisk described the event as "the most staged photo opportunity since Iwo Jima."

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Firdos Square statue destruction

Regrets

Kadhim Sharif Hassan Al-Jabbouri said in 2016 that he regrets playing a part in the destruction of the statue and wants it replaced. Kadhim used to repair the motorcycles of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before falling out of favor and being jailed for a year and a half and says that 14–15 members of his family were killed by the Ba'athist regime. When the Americans reached the outskirts of Baghdad, he got a sledgehammer to aid in toppling the statue. After the Americans arrived in the square, they put an American flag over the face of the statue, but Kadhim "couldn't accept this" and insisted they used an Iraqi flag, which he gave them.

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Firdos Square statue destruction

Regrets

Khadhim says that after the invasion, "[things] started to get worse every year. There was infighting, corruption, killing, looting. Saddam has gone, but now in his place, we have 1,000 Saddams. I feel like Iraq has been stolen from us. Bush and Blair are definitely liars. They destroyed Iraq and took us back to zero and took us back to the Middle Ages or earlier. If I was a criminal I would kill them with my bare hands." He subsequently said "when I go past that statue, I feel pain and shame. I ask myself, "Why did I topple this statue?".

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Firdos Square statue destruction

Regrets

I'd like to put it back up, to rebuild it. I'd put it back up but I'm afraid I would be killed."

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Stefan Dercon

Introduction

Stefan Dercon, CMG, is a Belgian economist and a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. In 2011-2017, Dercon was the chief economist of the UK Department for International Development (DfID). Before DfID, Dercon was a Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University, and the lead academic for the Ethiopia country programme at the International Growth Centre, which is a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.

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Stefan Dercon

Introduction

Between 2000 and 2002 he was a Programme Director at the World Institute of Development Economics (WIDER), United Nations University, where he led their research programme on “Insurance against Poverty”. Prior to this, between 1993 and 2000, he was a tenured professor of development economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is a Fellow of BREAD, a Research Fellow of CEPR and of IZA, and an Affiliate of J-PAL. He studied economics and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and holds an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. In 2018, the Queen awarded him as an honorary Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to economics and international development.

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Stefan Dercon

Key themes

His research as focused on a range of subjects including:

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Stefan Dercon

Noted works

Together with political economist Chris Blattman he ran a randomized controlled trial in Ethiopia that investigated the impact of low-skill industrial jobs on the welfare of the workers. The research was covered by Our World in Data and the Financial Times.

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Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri

Introduction

Hajj Dr Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri (born 1 July 1944) is an Arabic journalist, author and academic based in the United Kingdom. His father was Sheikh Abbas of the Al-Juaber tribal confederation.

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Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri

Biography

Born in Nasiriyah in 1944, al-Nasiri is an Arab scholar, author and journalist of Shiite descent. In his published works he has dealt with a range of subject areas, but particularly Arabic literature, language and history and Islamic studies. He is currently a member of the Islamic Dawa Party of Iraq in the United Kingdom and has worked for BBC, Al-jazeera, Sawt al-Iraq, International Colleges of Islamic Sciences. He completed first and secondary level education in Nasiriyah in Iraq. He then went on to study at the Al-Fiqh college in Najaf. In 1970 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Arabic language and Islamic sciences.

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Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri

Biography

After working as a secondary school teacher in both Algeria and Iraq for twenty years he went on to complete his Masters in the philosophy of Islamic Law in London in 1999 before completing his Doctorate in Islamic Studies in 2002.

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Monywa District

Introduction

Monywa District () (formerly Lower Chindwin District)

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Monywa District

Administrative divisions

Monywa District consists of the following townships: Monywa District also consisted of the following townships, which formed to become Yinmabin District: Also, it had a township that has recently annexed into Shwebo District:

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Argentina at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Introduction

Argentina participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore and competed with 59 athletes in 18 sports.

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Argentina at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Basketball

Boys Group Stage Quarterfinals 5th-8th Place

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Argentina at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Volleyball

Group Stage Semi-Finals Gold Medal Match

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Argentina at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Day-by-Day

15 August 16 August 17 August

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Belgium at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Introduction

Belgium participated in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. The Belgian squad consisted of 52 athletes competing in 16 sports: aquatics (swimming), archery, athletics, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, gymnastics, hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon and volleyball.

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The Flintstone Primetime Specials

Introduction

The Flintstone Primetime Specials (onscreen title: The Flintstone Special) is a four-episode limited-run prime time television revival of "The Flintstones" produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September 26, 1980 to October 11, 1981.

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The Flintstone Primetime Specials

Production

"The Flintstones' New Neighbors" and "Jogging Fever" were animated at Filman, an animation studio in Madrid, Spain (headed by Carlos Alfonso and Juan Pina) who did a lot of animation work for Hanna-Barbera between the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. Among their credits were such series as "Yogi's Space Race", "Buford and the Galloping Ghost", "The Little Rascals", "Paw Paws", "The Smurfs" and "The Jetsons" (1980s revival) as well as the specials "The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White" and "Yogi's First Christmas". This would explain why, artistically, the backgrounds in some of these specials look very much like pencil and charcoal drawings, very different from the original series and its spin-offs.

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The Flintstone Primetime Specials

Production

All specials utilized an inferior laugh track created by the studio, the last production to do so.

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The Flintstone Primetime Specials

Home media

On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released all four specials on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection in a release entitled The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 2.

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Intraretinal microvascular abnormalities

Introduction

Intraretinal microvascular abnormalities (IRMA) are abnormalities of the blood vessels that supply the retina of the eye, a sign of diabetic retinopathy. IRMA can be difficult to distinguish from and is likely a precursor to retinal neovascularization. One way to distinguish IRMA from retinal neovascularization is to perform fluorescein angiography. Since IRMA blood vessels are patent, unlike neovascular vessels, they do not leak, and therefore exhibit hyperfluorescence on fluorescein angiography. IRMA is deeper in the retina than neovascularization, has blurrier edges, is more of a burgundy than a red, does not appear on the optic disc, and is usually seen after a shorter period of poorly controlled diabetes than neovascularization.

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Mount Mercer, Victoria

Introduction

Mount Mercer is a locality in the Western District of the Australian state of Victoria. It is named after a nearby scoria cone with crater. The scoria cone was developed on a broad lava shield and the rim of the cone is asymmetric, being higher around the south and open towards the north. The scoria cone is approximately 400m in diameter and of circular shape. It is sufficiently enclosed to contain a swamp and has been partly excavated for a reservoir. It stands approximately 75m above the surrounding area. One of Victoria's larger wind farms, the Mount Mercer Wind Farm became fully operational in September 2014.

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Constenze Valenti

Introduction

Constenze "Stanley" Valenti (February 8, 1926 – February 23, 2001) was boss of the criminal organization known as the Rochester crime family in the 1950s. As the head of the organization he oversaw gambling, prostitution and extortion rackets operating in the city of Rochester, New York. Constenze and his brother Frank were among the 100 or more Mafiosi that attended the legendary Apalachin Meeting in 1957. At the time, Stanley was boss of the family. Joe Valachi identified the Valenti brothers as central figures in the Mafia when he became a government witness in 1963. Valenti was born in Rochester, New York.

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Constenze Valenti

Introduction

He was married to the daughter of Antonio Ripepi, a very powerful capo in the Pittsburgh crime family. In 1958 Valenti refused to cooperate with law enforcement regarding questioning about the Apalachin Meeting. As a result, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison, during which time Jake Russo took the opportunity to seize control of the family.

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Government House, Saint Lucia

Introduction

Government House is the official residence of the Governor-General of Saint Lucia. The house is located on the crest of Morne Fortune, near Castries. The first Government House that was built on this site was destroyed by a hurricane in 1817, before its completion. A second house, built of timber, was completed on the same spot in 1819. This house fell into disrepair, and was abandoned by 1865. Government House then relocated to a nearby disused military barracks. Construction of the present brick-built Government House was started on the site of the previous house in 1894, and was completed a year later.

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Government House, Saint Lucia

Introduction

It was originally used as the home and office of the Commissioners of Saint Lucia until 1958, then for the Administratiors of the island. From 1967, Government House was used by the Governors of Saint Lucia, and since Saint Lucia became an independent state in 1979 it has been used by Governors-General.

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Lal Jayawardena

Introduction

Lal R. Jayawardena (Sinhala:ලාල් ජයවර්ධන) (1935–2004) was a noted Sri Lankan economist and diplomat. He was the first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) (1985–1993) and Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary in the 1970s. Jayawardena had served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (1978–82) and Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland (1999–2000). He was an Economic Adviser to the Sri Lankan President and Deputy Chairman of the Sri Lankan National Development Council. As the Treasury Secretary, he was also instrumental in the reform package that opened up the Sri Lanka economy in the mid-1970s and he chaired a study group on Indo-Sri Lanka Economic Cooperation, whose final report of formed the basis of the Indo-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement (1998).

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Lal Jayawardena

Introduction

He was also the Second Vice-Chairman of the Group of 24. Born to N. U. Jayawardena the former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon and Amybelle Millicent Jayawardena; he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, where he was a contemporary of Gamini Seneviratne and Chris Pinto. Jayawardena graduated from King's College, Cambridge in Economic Tripos and went on to gain his PhD from the University of Cambridge. During his time at Cambridge, his contemporaries were Amartya Sen, Richard Layard, Tam Dalyell, Mahbub ul Haque, Jagdish Bhagwati, Manmohan Singh and Geoff Harcourt; he was also a member of the Cambridge Apostles He was married to Dr.

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Lal Jayawardena

Introduction

Kumari Jayawardene.

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Alfred Hooke

Introduction

Alfred John "Alf" Hooke (February 25, 1905 – February 17, 1992) was a teacher, politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit Party. He held numerous cabinet portfolios in the government of Ernest Manning from 1943 to 1968. Of the original 1935 Socred caucus, Hooke was the only member to serve continuously in the legislature until the party's defeat in 1971.

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Alfred Hooke

Early life

Alfred John Hooke was born on February 25, 1905, in Whitecroft, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. His family moved to the province of Alberta in Canada in 1913. At the age of 13 Hooke left school and joined the work force as a hired hand. He returned to school and completed his studies three years later. He became a teacher in 1926 and remained one until his election to the Alberta legislature in 1935.

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Alfred Hooke

Political career

Hooke joined the Social Credit movement at its beginning; he was familiar with William Aberhart through his work as a school teacher and became involved with Aberhart as a speaker on Social Credit theory. Although reluctant at first, he was urged by people in the town of Rocky Mountain House to put his name up for the Social Credit nomination in the Red Deer electoral district. He faced nine other candidates for the nomination and headed the polls on the first ballot, upon which six were eliminated. The other four names went to the Social Credit advisory committee, which chose him to run in the 1935 Alberta general election.

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Alfred Hooke

Political career

Hooke defeated incumbent MLA William Payne and three other candidates with a large majority. Redistribution in 1940 created a separate electoral district for Rocky Mountain House. Hooke ran there in the election held that year and won a clear majority on the first ballot, defeating two other candidates.

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Alfred Hooke

Late life

After leaving office in 1971 Hooke wrote the book "30+5 I Know, I was There" about his early life and his political career. In 1980 Hooke wrote ""Looking Backward to Go Forward" about economic activity in the 1930s and how the downfall of the economy is repeating itself in modern times. He died in 1992 from cancer at the age of 86.

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KZSO-LP

Introduction

KZSO-LP (94.9 FM) was a radio station broadcasting a variety music format. Licensed to Sisters, Oregon, United States, the station was owned by Sisters School District #6, Deschutes County. KZSO-LP was run by students at Sisters High School. The students ran a daily radio show that focused on news from all across the globe, weather, and sports. The school district surrendered the station's license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 18, 2016; the FCC cancelled the license on March 22, 2016.

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Lintgasse

Introduction

Lintgasse is an alley () in the Old town of Cologne, Germany between the two squares of "Alter Markt" and "Fischmarkt". It is a pedestrian zone and only some 130 metres long, nevertheless famous for its medieval history. The Lintgasse was first mentioned in the 12th century as »"in Lintgazzin"«, which may have derived from basketmakers described, weaving fish baskets out of Linden tree barks. These craftsmen were called »"Lindslizer"«, meaning "Linden splitter". During the Middle Ages, the area was also known as »platēa subri« or »platēa suberis«, meaning street of "Quercus suber". Lintgasse 8 to 14 used to be homes of medieval knights as still can be seen by signs like »"Zum Huynen"«, »"Zum Ritter"« or »"Zum Gir"«.

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Lintgasse

Introduction

At Lintgasse 15 once stood the Parish of St. Brigiden, which became an elementary school during the 19th century. During this time, the Lintgasse was called »Stink-Linkgaß«, as the alley was unpopular for its poor air quality.

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4-HO-αMT

Introduction

4-Hydroxy-α-methyltryptamine (4-HO-αMT) is a psychedelic drug of the tryptamine class. It is a close structural analogue of α-methyltryptamine (αMT) and produces similar effects to it, but with exacerbated side effects similarly to 5-MeO-αMT. Alexander Shulgin describes 4-HO-αMT briefly in his book "TiHKAL":

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MV Yasin C

Introduction

Yasin C is a Turkish bulk carrier, captured by Somali pirates on 7 April 2010 while on its way to Mombasa. The crew locked themselves in the engine room, and the ship was released without ransom on 10 April 2010.

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Bill Butler (outfielder)

Introduction

William J. Butler was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He later played minor league ball in the Texas League from 1902-1906.

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Festival de Beaune

Introduction

The Festival de Beaune: "Festival international d’opéra baroque" is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments. More recently the town has also become host, in a different week, to the "Festival international du film policier de Beaune" - a festival of detective films. Founded in 1982, the Baroque Music Festival of Beaune has presented over 80 operas, over 30 of them significant revivals and world, European or French premières; over 100 oratorio and sacred music concerts, including 5 revivals or premières.

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Festival de Beaune

Introduction

In addition to recitals by individual performers. The festival also runs classes and voice workshops, the "Académie de Chant baroque".

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Festival de Beaune

Venue

The concerts take place in the Hospices de Beaune, 15th century, and in the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Beaune, 12th century, over four weekends in July.

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Festival de Beaune

Notable opera revivals

The following includes only major revivals and premières: George Frideric Handel: "Flavio". dir. René Jacobs George Frideric Handel: "Scipione". dir. Christophe Rousset

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The Ryland Inn

Introduction

The Ryland Inn is a restaurant in Readington Township, New Jersey that won the James Beard Mid-Atlantic region top prize. It achieved great success, winning several awards and being visited during then-president Ronald Reagan.

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The Ryland Inn

History

The building was built sometime in the late 1700s by Colonel David Sanderson. Craig Shelton took over as chef and managing partner in 1991 at the age of 30. In 2000 Craig Shelton won the James Beard Mid-Atlantic region top prize for the restaurant. The restaurant, located at 111 Old Highway 28, Whitehouse Station, NJ, closed in 2007 after the discovery of a crack in the major load-bearing beam of the building and after a pipe burst in the basement causing flooding. Jeanne and Frank Cretella of Landmark Hospitality announced in August 2011 that they plan to reopen the Ryland Inn as a restaurant and banquet hall.

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Bronisław Kwiatkowski

Introduction

Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski (May 5, 1950 in Mazury – April 10, 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.

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Bronisław Kwiatkowski

Awards and honours

He was awarded numerous civil and military awards including the Order of Polonia Restituta.

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Marshall Locke

Introduction

Marshall Pinkney Wilder Locke (March 12, 1857 – March 6, 1940) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers.

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Kazimierz Gilarski

Introduction

Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski (7 May 1955 in Rudołowice – 10 April 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure and Commander of the Warsaw Garrison. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.

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Kazimierz Gilarski

Honours and awards

He was awarded several top Polish civil and military awards:

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Stickney, West Virginia

Introduction

Stickney is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Stickney is located on West Virginia Route 3 south of Whitesville.

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Challenger (1853 clipper)

Introduction

Challenger was an extreme clipper ship built in East Boston in 1853. She sailed in the San Francisco trade, and later in the guano trade in Peru.

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Challenger (1853 clipper)

Voyages

Between 1854 and 1863, "Challenger" made two voyages from Boston to San Francisco, in 112 and 134 days, and five voyages from New York to San Francisco, in 115 to 133 days. In 1861, she "collided with the ship "Roswell Sprague" in a gale in the roadstead of Bremerhaven".

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Challenger (1853 clipper)

Guano trade and shipwreck

In 1863, "Challenger" was sold to the Peruvian Government, and renamed "Camille Cavour". She was "used in the transport of Chinese coolies to the guano islands". In 1875, she was "damaged in a gale on voyage from Port Discovery to Peru and was abandoned off the coast of Mexico. The wreck drifted ashore at Manzanillo."

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Joanna Agacka-Indecka

Introduction

Joanna Agacka-Indecka (18 December 1964 in Łódź – 10 April 2010) was a Polish attorney, President of the Polish Bar Council from 2007 until 2010.

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Joanna Agacka-Indecka

Biography

Joanna Agacka-Indecka graduated from the University of Łódź and then was assistant professor at the Chair of Penal Procedure of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the same university (1988–2001). Between 1992 and 1993 she worked in law firms in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She received training for attorneys of the International Criminal Court at the Academy of European Law in Trier. In 1994 she was elected member of the Human Rights Commission at the Polish Bar Council, then served as member of the District Bar Council in Łódź.

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Joanna Agacka-Indecka

Biography

She was elected Vice President of the Polish Bar Council in 2004, and served as its President from 2007 until 2010. Joanna Agacka-Indecka was a legislation expert at the Sejm and was involved in lawmaking as representative of the Polish Bar.

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Frank Monroe (baseball)

Introduction

Frank W. Monroe (1855 – July 2, 1908) was a Major League Baseball player, who played in two games for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He played catcher in one game and outfielder in the other. He was hitless in eight at-bats in the two games. He played for the Chattanooga Lookouts in the Southern League in 1885.

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Naoma, West Virginia

Introduction

Naoma is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Naoma is located on West Virginia Route 3 south-southeast of Whitesville. Naoma has a post office with ZIP code 25140. The community was named after Naoma Pettry.

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Bowling at the 2010 South American Games – Men's all events teams

Introduction

The Men's all events team event at the 2010 South American Games was the sum of the four previous competitions.

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Eduardo López Banzo

Introduction

Eduardo López Banzo is a Spanish harpsichordist and conductor of baroque music. Banzo was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. In 1988 Banzo founded the group Al Ayre Español, which specialises in Spanish baroque music, of composers such as Literes. They were awarded Spain's "Premio Nacional de Música" in 2004.

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Jon Morrison (baseball)

Introduction

Jonathan W. Morrison was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers and the 1887 New York Metropolitans. In between his two majors stints, he played for the Toledo Avengers and the Toronto Canucks in the minor leagues.

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Jeff Hopgood

Introduction

Jeff Hopgood (14 January 1948 – 8 November 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Hopgood spent six season at North Melbourne without ever managing to cement his spot, although he did manage 16 games in 1972. After leaving North Melbourne, Hopgood played at Coburg and was a ruckman in their 1974 VFA premiership side. He later became influential in the Cairns sporting scene, serving as the president of AFL Cairns and the inaugural chairman of the Cairns Taipans basketball team, of which he was a co-founder. Affectionately known as Hoppy, he was killed in November 2006 when his four-wheel drive crashed into a tree near the Gold Coast.

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Charlie Reising

Introduction

Charles Reising (August 28, 1861 – July 26, 1915), nicknamed "Pop", was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He appeared in two games for the Hoosiers and was hitless in eight at-bats.

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Pakokku District

Introduction

Pakokku District (; also Pagukku District) is a district of the Magway Division in central Burma (Myanmar). It is situated in northern part of Magwe Region. The administrative centre is the city of Pakokku.Pakokku is a largest city of Magway Division.It is also the 13th largest city of Burma (Myanmar).The townships of Pakokku District are Pakokku, Yesagyo, Pauk, Seikphyu, Myaing, Htilin, Saw and Gangaw.

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Pakokku District

Geography

Pakokku district is located between north latitude 20 ° 45 ' and 21 ° 50 ' and east longitudes 94 ° 15 ' and 95 ° 20 ' . It lies in central Dry Zone of Myanmar and is situated on the western bank of Ayeyarwady River and Chindwin River .

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Pakokku District

Transportation

Transportation systems are fundamental factors for all-round development of any regions. Movement of people and flow of commodities are mostly dependent upon the transportation infrastructures, Pakokku District located at the western part of Ayeyarwady River is poor in transportation system although it has two good waterways: Ayeyarwady and Chindwin. Pakokku District is one of the economic centers of Central Myanmar, for all-round development of the district planning and managing for the development of transportation infrastructures will urgently needed.

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Pakokku District

History

By 1947 Construction of the union of Burma,Pakokku province was established with two districts in 1948. They are Pakokku District and Kanpetlet District (Pakokku Hill Tacts) with 11 townships. Townships are Pakokku, Mindat, Yesagyo, Pauk, Seikphyu, Myaing, Gangaw, Htilin, Saw, Kanpetlet and Matupi. Capital city is Pakokku. In 1958, the name of Kanpetlet District was changed into Mindat District and Kanpetlet District's capital was moved to Mindat from Kanpetlet. On 2 March 1962, the military led by General Ne Win took control of Burma through a coup d'état, and the government has been under direct or indirect control by the military.A new constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma was adopted in 1974.

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Pakokku District

History

By 1974 construction,Pakokku province was abolished and Pakokku District was added to the Magway Division and Mindat District was added to the Chin State until now. In 4th April 1996,Pakokku District was divided into two districts.Pakokku, Pauk, Yesagyo, Myaing and Seikphyu became Pakokku District and Gangaw, Saw and Htilin became Gangaw District.

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Pakokku District

Townships

The district contains the following eight townships:

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Vampire Village

Introduction

Vampire Village is a 1983 video game published by Terminal Software.

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Vampire Village

Gameplay

The game was described as "a real-time graphic adventure" by the publisher. Players assume the role of the Mayor of Vladsdorf, a fictional village on the bank of the River Ripple. Over the river from the village lies the Red Cliffs, above which stands a castle in which a vampire has taken up residence. The farmsteads at the base of the cliff are threatened by the vampire. As the Mayor, the player is tasked with using limited funds to hire volunteers, who must be guided around the village in order to obtain supplies before attempting to cross the river and attack the vampire.

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Vampire Village

Gameplay

Trying to ford the River Ripple without a canoe will result in the volunteer drowning. The playing screen depicts an overhead view of the village, river and castle. Volunteers are directly controlled and moved into different shops within the village to purchase equipment.

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TOT Stadium Chaeng Watthana

Introduction

TOT Stadium Chaeng Watthana () is a football stadium in Lak Si, Bangkok, Thailand. It is used for football matches at several competitions and levels and was the home stadium of TOT Sport Club, which was dissolved in 2016. The stadium holds 5,000 spectators.

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Rice moth

Introduction

The rice moth ("Corcyra cephalonica") is a moth of the family Pyralidae. This small moth can become a significant pest. Its caterpillars feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds, including cereals (e.g. rice). Other recorded foods are flour and dried fruits.

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Rice moth

Synonyms

Other scientific names, now invalid, for the rice moth are: When describing his "T. theobromae" in 1913, Dyar established the genus "Tineopsis". He overlooked, however, that this had already been proposed by Cajetan Freiherr von Felder for a (presumed) arctiid moth in 1861. Nonwithstanding that Felder's species is somewhat dubious and has not been identified in recent lists, Dyar's "Tineopsis" is a junior homonym and thus invalid in any case. The species of the genus "Corcyra" have recently been considered members of the genus "Aphomia" by some researchers.

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Haas Wheat & Partners

Introduction

Haas Wheat & Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions. The firm targets specialty middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies, particularly family-controlled companies and corporate spin-outs. The firm is based in Dallas, Texas and was founded in 1992.

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Haas Wheat & Partners

Hicks & Haas

Robert (Bobby) Haas formed "Hicks & Haas" together with Tom Hicks in 1984. Prior to 1984, Haas was a principal of a venture capital firm and a partner in a Midwest law firm specializing in corporate and securities law. The next year Hicks & Haas firm bought Hicks Communications, a radio outfit run by Hicks' brother Steven. Hicks & Haas' biggest coup was its mid-1980s acquisition of several soft drink makers, including Dr Pepper and 7 Up. The firm took Dr Pepper/7 Up public just 18 months after merging the two companies. In all, Hicks & Haas turned $88 million of investor funding into $1.3 billion.

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Haas Wheat & Partners

Hicks & Haas

The pair split up in 1989; Hicks wanted to raise a large pool to invest, but Haas preferred to work deal by deal. Tom Hicks went on to form Hicks Muse, which in the late 1990s was one of the largest private equity firms in the US.

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Haas Wheat & Partners

1992-2006

In 1992, Robert Haas founded Haas Wheat & Harrison to focus on middle-market transactions. Among his co-founders were Thomas Harrison, who had previously worked with Haas at Hicks & Haas and Douglas Wheat, a former investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. From 1984 through 1989, Doug Wheat was a member of DLJ Merchant Banking and in 1989, Wheat left DLJ to co-found an investment firm, Grauer & Wheat. Tom Harrison left the firm in 1996 to join Hoak Communications Partners, the predecessor of what is today, Hoak & Co.

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Haas Wheat & Partners

Since 2006

In October 2006, Douglas Wheat announced that he was leaving Haas Wheat to found a new private equity firm, Foxbridge Partners. In 2007, Foxbridge merged with Challenger Capital Group, founded by Mark Stephens.

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Wenceslao Retana

Introduction

Wenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (1862–1924), also known as W.E. Retana or Wenceslao E. Retana, was a 19th-century Spanish civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biographer, political commentator, publisher, bibliophile, bibliographer, Filipiniana collector, Spanish filipinologist, and Philippine scholar. Retana was a "onetime adversary" of Philippine national hero José Rizal who later became an "admirer" who wrote the first biographical account of the life of Rizal entitled "Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal" or "Life and Writings of Dr. José Rizal". Rosa M. Vallejo described Retana as the "foremost" non-Filipino filipinologist.

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Flying Fifty-Five

Introduction

Flying Fifty-Five is a 1939 British sports-drama film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Derrick De Marney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring, John Warwick and Peter Gawthorne. It was made by Admiral Films at Welwyn Studios. The film is based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace which had previously been made into a 1924 silent film "The Flying Fifty-Five".

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Flying Fifty-Five

Synopsis

After being disinherited by his wealthy father, an amateur jockey, Bill Urquhart goes to work under an assumed name (Bill Hart) at a rural racing stables owned and run by Stella Barrington and her drunken brother, Charles, who is an old friend of Bill's. Confusion arises when Bill is mistakenly reported to have been murdered.

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Ebrotidine

Introduction

Ebrotidine is an H receptor antagonist with gastroprotective activity against ethanol-, aspirin- or stress-induced gastric mucosal damage. The antisecretory properties of ebrotidine are similar to those of ranitidine, and approximately 10-fold greater than those of cimetidine. Ebrotidine has anti-"Helicobacter pylori" activity via inhibition of the urease enzyme and the proteolytic and mucolytic activities of the bacterium. However, its activity is synergistic with a number of antibacterial agents. Ebrotidine counteracts the inhibitory effects of "H. pylori" lipopolysaccharides. Ebrotidine was withdrawn from the market due to risks of hepatotoxicity. Ebrotidine has been shown to be as effective as ranitidine for the treatment of gastric or duodenal ulcers or erosive reflux oesophagitis, with significantly better ulcer healing rates (albeit inexplicably) in those who smoke.

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Stephen Barr

Introduction

Stephen Matthew Barr (born November 28, 1953) is an American physicist who is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Delaware. A member of its Bartol Research Institute, Barr does research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the citation reading "for original contributions to grand unified theories, CP violation, and baryogenesis."

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Stephen Barr

Career

His notable work includes co-discovering the much studied flipped SU(5) scheme of unification, identifying the Barr–Zee diagram as an important source of electric dipole moment for basic particles such as the electron and neutron in many theories, and proposing the so-called Nelson–Barr mechanism as a solution to the strong CP problem. He is the author of the article on "Grand Unified Theories" for the "Encyclopedia of Physics". Barr received his PhD in theoretical particle physics from Princeton University in 1978. Princeton awarded him the Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship "for distinguished research." He went on to do research at the University of Pennsylvania as a post-doctoral fellow (1978–80), the University of Washington as a research assistant professor (1980–85), and Brookhaven National Laboratory as an associate scientist (1985–87), before joining the faculty of the University of Delaware in 1987.

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Stephen Barr

Career

He was elected director of the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware in 2011. Barr, a practicing Catholic, writes and lectures frequently on the relation of science and religion. Since 2000 he has served on the editorial advisory board (now the advisory council) of the ecumenical religious intellectual journal "First Things", in which many of his articles and book reviews have appeared since 1995. His writing has also appeared in "Commonweal", "National Review", "Modern Age", "The Public Interest", "America", "The Wall Street Journal", and other publications. In 2002 he gave the Erasmus Lecture, sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Public Life.

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Stephen Barr

Career

In 2007 he was awarded the Benemerenti Medal by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is also president of the Society of Catholic Scientists.

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Stephen Barr

Personal life

He is married to Kathleen Whitney Barr. They have five children. Barr is the younger brother of William Barr, the current Attorney General of the United States, and the son of Donald Barr, an educator who served as headmaster of Dalton School and Hackley School. He graduated from Columbia College in 1974.

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2000 Altazor Awards

Introduction

The first annual Altazor Awards 2000 took place on March 30, 2000, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. The nominees were announced on March 20.

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Kay Lohrasp

Introduction

Kay Lohrasp () was a legendary Iranian king who ruled Iran after Kay Khosrow. He had two brave sons Vishtaspa (also known as Gushtasp) and the younger Zarir. Vishtaspa ruled Iran after his father. One of Kay Lohrasp most notable works is the construction of Fire temple that has never It had no record until then.

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Kay Lohrasp

Lohrasp in the Shahnameh

Lohrasp was not really the king of Iran; he ruled only part of Iran and was the head of his great tribes. The land he occupied is called Arzan or Arzāniān, and his whereabouts are still unknown. In fact, his son Goshtāsep and his grandson Esfandiyār are very famous. The character of the Lohraspian dynasty is God-worshiping, and it was by his son that the Zoroastrian religion was adopted in Iran. Lohrasp was involved in the Kay Khosrow war but was not very famous. Zāl in his argument describes a weak and powerless person. Kay Khosrow was great during the war, but after all his victories, he broke once and closed all the doors of the palace and worshiped all the time.

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Kay Lohrasp

Lohrasp in the Shahnameh

Shahnameh reports that Kay Khosrow chose Lohrasp but is not very trusted. Lohrasp is the other land and is very far from the Kay Khosrow . In the reign, Lohrasp only quarreled with his son Gushtasp, and Gushtasp intended to take his father's place, but the father would not allow it. Finally, Gushtasp goes to Rûm.

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Elevated alpha-fetoprotein

Introduction

Elevated alpha-fetoprotein refers to a state where alpha-fetoprotein levels are outside of the reference range. There are two categories of AFP tests: tests performed on serum (blood plasma), and tests performed on amniotic fluid. Tests performed on serum are further categorized by the reason for performing the test: maternal serum, adult tumor marker, and pediatric tumor marker.

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