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# John Ash (writer)

John Ash (29 June 1948 – 3 December 2019) was an expatriate British poet and writer.
His lifelong interest in Byzantium (especially its architecture) was a major theme which ran through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family, friends and the three major cities he has lived in. As well as his books (largely published by Carcanet), his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and Paris Review.

## Life

John Ash was born in Manchester, England in 1948, the son of schoolteachers. With a brief break to attend the University of Birmingham (B.A. 1969) and to take a post-graduation year in Cyprus, he remained in the city of his birth until 1985. In the notes to his first book, a sequence titled Casino, Ash remarked that it had grown "out of several years of research for another project – a prose work which was to have been called "The Mauve Book: In Praise of Decadence". He also noted that titles of some sections and the over-all structure had a musical analogy. Musical references continued in the books he published while still in England.
Moving to New York City in 1985, Ash became associated with the New York School of poets and formed a strong and lasting friendship with its leading proponent, John Ashbery. After stints teaching at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Berkeley, he moved to Istanbul in 1996, where he lived thenceforth, first teaching at Boğaziçi University, before moving to Kadir Has University.
During this time several of his books, including Selected Works and To the City, have appeared in Turkish translations, published by Yapi Kredi Publications, who are affiliated with the bank of the same name. Deluxe editions of The Anatolikon, published in a side-by-side English and Turkish edition by Yapi Kredi, featured illustrations by Peter Hristoff, a noted Turkish artist of Bulgarian Christian origin living in New York.
In a review of To The City, Poetry Magazine said that John Ash "could be the best English poet of his generation". In 2007 he was profiled in The Economist in an article by Hugh Pope, himself an author and formerly the Wall Street Journal correspondent in Istanbul. Pope suggested that Ash was the leading light in a new "Istanbul School" of English-speaking poets taking their inspiration from the city.
Following Byzantine Journey, and other travel writing, Ash led tours of the relevant sites and in 2006 wrote the script for the documentary "Istanbul for Aficionados". He also appeared in a BBC guide to Istanbul, broadcast in 2005 on BBC Four's "Mediterranean Tales" strand.
# Chris O'Connor (diplomat)

Christopher Paul O'Connor OBE (born 18 December 1968 in Epsom, Surrey) is a British diplomat. He served as Consul-General in Los Angeles from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that he was Ambassador to Tunisia.
O'Connor studied at the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Durham University. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours.
Diplomatic posts :
| Preceded byAlan Goulty | British Ambassador to Tunisia 2008-2013 | Succeeded byHamish Cowell |

## Honours

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - 2012
# Roger Dion

Roger Dion (born 20 April 1938) is a Canadian gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
# Venia concionandi

Venia concionandi, also referred to as venia, is a special authorization for a lay person to preach and conduct the church service in Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It has been implemented at different times in different areas: the concept in Sweden dates back to the Church Law of 1686; in Alsace–Lorraine in the German Empire, it was put into place in 1855. It was intended as a role for theology students going into the ministry, as a form of preparation, according to scholar Hans Cnattingius [sv]. It has also been described as "having a dual function: that of acknowledging lay preachers derived from the many revivalist movements, whilst also controlling them." In one case in Savonlinna, Finland, one man was denied the position after it was discovered he was not even a member of the Church of Finland; he was a leader of the Russian Pentecostal movement. A person who holds venia is called a veniat.
Venia has traditionally been conferred by the bishop; in Sweden after the turn of the 21st century, the Church Order allows the vicar to as well without the approval of the bishop. As one scholar notes, "this order can be said to reflect Confessio Augustana (CA) XIV": "no one should publicly teach in the Church or administer the Sacraments unless he be regularly called." The preacher is not required to be confirmed or undergo any particular training. In Sweden since the turn of the 21st century, the role has been almost non-existent; however, some have been given the authorization.
Among those who have served in the role are Erland Carlsson and Carl Olof Rosenius.
# 520 West 41st Street

520 West 41st Street was a proposed 106-story supertall skyscraper in Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York City, near Midtown Manhattan. The building would have surpassed all other skyscrapers on the island by floor-count. Upon completion, it would either have been the fifth or sixth tallest building in New York City.

## History

The development was one of many allowed by rezoning of the Special Hudson Yards District in 2005. Other projects include the Hudson Yards redevelopment by Related.
Early reports indicated the site would host two distinct towers of differing heights. Later, the plans for the site were changed to two sixty-story towers connected horizontally at the roof, designed by Oppenheimer Architecture. Current plans, first released in July 2014, call for a single tower. Silverstein reportedly paid $100 million for the construction site, and entered into contract with a Mercedes-Benz dealership, then the owner, in 2011. As of July 2015, work appears to have begun on the project site, with the dealership undergoing demolition. However, despite the activity at the site, no plans for the building have been filed with the city.
Construction was tentatively scheduled to begin in 2017, and was expected to conclude in 2020. Although the development neighbors other structures such as the Silver Towers and Sky, the building faced some opposition from residents in the community, who requested the building's height be reduced.
New plans were filed for the site in 2017. The new plans include a residential tower and a commercial tower, with a total of 1.6 million square feet between the two.

## Usage

The building will include 300,000 square feet (28,000 m$^2$) of ground-level retail space, 175,000 square feet (16,300 m$^2$) of office space. It will also include hotel rooms and 1400 apartments. Of the 1400 planned apartments, 280 will be designated as affordable. If completed as planned, the building will contain more apartments than all other super tall buildings in New York City combined, as most super tall developments, such as One57, 111 West 57th Street, and 432 Park Avenue, tend to contain relatively few expensive apartments.
# Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh is an Iranian British academic who is a professor at University College London. She was awarded a senior research fellowship at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2022.

## Early life and education

Sadrzadeh is from Iran. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees at Sharif University of Technology. After earning her master's degree Sadrzadeh moved to Canada. She was a doctoral researcher first at the University of Ottawa, where she was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, a University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, and a Canada Female Doctoral Student Award, and then at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research considered epistemic logic. Alongside earning her doctorate, Sadrzadeh moved to the University of Oxford as an EPSRC postdoctoral fellow.

## Research and career

In 2011, Sadrzadeh was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Acceleration Fellowship. She was appointed to the faculty at Queen Mary University of London, where she combined statistical and logical methods to study how language works.
Whilst machine learning can improve reasoning about textual data, systems making use of machine learning cannot be translated to all applications. Sadrzadeh develops tensor-based mathematical models to improve these processes by combining logic, statistics and machine learning to strengthen the information from textual data. These models are based on the DisCoCat framework that she introduced with Bob Coecke and Stephen Clark. She was awarded two industrial fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering, which allowed her to build partnerships with the BBC. In particular she concentrated on the development of tensorial analysis for textual understanding of subtitles and news. At the time it was estimated that the average adult spends about one and a half years of their lives trying to device what to watch on broadcasting platforms. Sadrzadeh looks to improve the quality and accuracy of recommendation algorithms.
Sadrzadeh is involved in the conference SemSpace (Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science). In 2020, Sadrzadeh gave a talk "Gaussianity and typicality in matrix distributional semantics" and in 2021 she was co-organiser. In 2022, Sadrzadeh was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Fellowship.

## Selected publications

* Coecke, Bob; Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh; Clark, Stephen (2010-03-23). Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning. OCLC 691099628.
* Grefenstette, Edward; Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh (March 2015). "Concrete Models and Empirical Evaluations for the Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning". Computational Linguistics. 41 (1): 71–118. doi:10.1162/coli_a_00209. ISSN 0891-2017. S2CID 17075447.
* Marco, Grefenstette, Edward Dinu, Georgiana Zhang, Yao-Zhong Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh Baroni (2013-01-29). Multi-Step Regression Learning for Compositional Distributional Semantics. OCLC 1106182000.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
# The Dream Palace of the Arabs

The Dream Palace of the Arabs is a 1998 book written by Middle Eastern scholar Fouad Ajami.

## Content

Ajami first describes the history of Lebanon from 1920-1982 through the story of poet Khalil Hawi, who committed suicide following the 1982 Lebanon War.
The second chapter follows the careers of the Syrian poets Nizar Qabbani and Adunis, focusing on the socio-political developments in Syria that mirror the lives of Qabbani and Adonis.
Chapter three follows the rise of Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the war with Iran during the 1980s, and the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Chapter four, "In the land of Egypt", focuses on socio-political life in Egypt post Sadat. In particular, Ajami follows the at-risk secularists in Egyptian society, such as Naguib Mahfouz, who was almost killed in 1994 by an Islamist assassin.
The last chapter, "An Orphaned Peace", focuses on the peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In particular, Ajami focuses on the response of Arab intellectuals and their united opposition to the peace process.
Published by Vintage Books 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-70474-1.
# Xıdırlı, Salyan

Xıdırlı (also, Chidirly, Khidirly, Khidyrly, Khydyrly, and Kochev’ye) is a village and municipality in the Salyan Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,977.
# Zucker

Zucker is a German word meaning "sugar" and may refer to:
* Zucker (surname)
* Zücker, an album by the Fastbacks
* Zucker (Rosenstolz album), an album by Rosenstolz
* Zucker laboratory rat breed
# Mordellistena bavarica

Mordellistena bavarica is a beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1963 by Ermisch.
# Tony O'Dowd

Tony O'Dowd (born 6 July 1970 in Dublin, Ireland), is a retired goalkeeper.

## Career

O'Dowd made his League of Ireland debut for Shelbourne on the opening day of the 1990-91 League of Ireland season.
The 2007 season marked O'Dowd's second spell with Shelbourne, having started his league career with where he won his first under 21 international cap before being signed by Leeds United. He returned from Leeds and played with Kilkenny City, St. Patrick's Athletic, Derry City, Shamrock Rovers, Drogheda United and Malahide United before returning to the Reds. In the 2007 Season with Shelbourne, O'Dowd made 25 league appearances and delivered many impressive displays. Despite impressing in his second spell at Tolka Park, O'Dowd was released by Shelbourne at the end of the 2007 season.
At Derry O'Dowd was sent off against PFC Lokomotiv Sofia in the 1995-96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
O'Dowd made his Rovers debut keeping a clean sheet against his old club in September 1998.
He signed for Drogheda in January 2004.
Tony played one game for his work team, Pfizer Pfootball Pfive, in a 5-a-side tournament in Tallaght. After not conceding during the game, he then again retired.

## Personal life

O'Dowd's father also Tony played in goal for St Patrick's Athletic and Dundalk F.C. in the 1960s.
His brother Greg played for Rovers in the late 90s. He also played for Coleraine F.C. where he scored in the 1997-98 UEFA Cup.
In May 1997 tragedy hit the O'Dowd family when Tony's 18-year-old brother Conor died while training with his two brothers. O'Dowd did not play in the 1997 FAI Cup Final.

## Honours

* League of Ireland: 1
** 1996–97 League of Ireland - Derry City
* SRFC Player of the Year:
** Shamrock Rovers – 1998/99
* Yorkshire Regional Masters Football Champion:
** Leeds United Masters - 2011
# Beaucarnea olsonii

Beaucarnea olsonii is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Mexico. The species is named for the botanist Mark E. Olson.

## Description

Beaucarnea olsonii grows as a tree-like plant up to 5 metres (16 ft) tall. The trunk is greatly swollen at the base, with a diameter of up to 4 m (13 ft). Its gray bark is scaly. The sword-shaped leaves measure up to 85 cm (30 in) long. Its inflorescences bear whitish flowers.

## Distribution and habitat

Beaucarnea olsonii is endemic to Mexico, where it is found in Puebla and Oaxaca. Its habitat is in deciduous forests, on hillsides at altitudes of 1,200–1,500 m (4,000–5,000 ft).

## Conservation

Beaucarnea olsonii has been assessed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. It is threatened by conversion of its habitat for agriculture and human settlement and by fires. The species does not occur in any protected areas.
# Yamagata, Iwate

Yamagata (山形村, Yamagata-mura) was a village located in Kunohe District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
The village of Yamagata was created on April 1, 1889 within Kita-Kunohe District with the establishment of the municipality system. Kita-Kunohe District and Minami-Kunohe Districts merged to form Kunohe District on April 1, 1897. The mountainous area was formerly known for a number of mines, especially ironsand. On March 6, 2006, Yamagata was merged into the expanded city of Kuji.
As of March 1, 2006, the village had an estimated population of 3,121 and a population density of 7.89 persons per km$^2$. The total area was 295.49 km$^2$.

## Climate

Climate data for Yamagata, Iwate (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1977−present) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) | 17.0 (62.6) | 20.9 (69.6) | 28.5 (83.3) | 34.1 (93.4) | 33.7 (92.7) | 35.6 (96.1) | 36.4 (97.5) | 33.9 (93.0) | 28.7 (83.7) | 24.4 (75.9) | 20.4 (68.7) | 36.4 (97.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.2 (34.2) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.3 (43.3) | 13.3 (55.9) | 19.2 (66.6) | 21.9 (71.4) | 25.3 (77.5) | 26.4 (79.5) | 22.7 (72.9) | 17.1 (62.8) | 10.8 (51.4) | 4.0 (39.2) | 14.2 (57.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.7 (27.1) | −2.2 (28.0) | 1.3 (34.3) | 7.3 (45.1) | 12.9 (55.2) | 16.4 (61.5) | 20.3 (68.5) | 21.3 (70.3) | 17.3 (63.1) | 10.9 (51.6) | 5.2 (41.4) | −0.2 (31.6) | 9.0 (48.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −7.2 (19.0) | −7.0 (19.4) | −3.9 (25.0) | 1.1 (34.0) | 6.4 (43.5) | 11.1 (52.0) | 16.2 (61.2) | 17.1 (62.8) | 12.6 (54.7) | 5.3 (41.5) | −0.2 (31.6) | −4.5 (23.9) | 3.9 (39.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −17.8 (0.0) | −21.7 (−7.1) | −18.1 (−0.6) | −11.6 (11.1) | −3.7 (25.3) | −1.0 (30.2) | 4.9 (40.8) | 4.4 (39.9) | 0.8 (33.4) | −4.9 (23.2) | −10.0 (14.0) | −15.0 (5.0) | −21.7 (−7.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 52.5 (2.07) | 47.5 (1.87) | 66.2 (2.61) | 64.5 (2.54) | 79.1 (3.11) | 92.0 (3.62) | 164.5 (6.48) | 172.0 (6.77) | 160.9 (6.33) | 125.0 (4.92) | 58.7 (2.31) | 62.2 (2.45) | 1,133 (44.61) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 10.7 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 10.7 | 14.2 | 12.9 | 12.3 | 11.0 | 10.4 | 11.1 | 137 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 111.9 | 121.3 | 167.7 | 191.1 | 207.1 | 171.8 | 138.2 | 157.6 | 140.1 | 153.8 | 131.4 | 109.9 | 1,801.9 |
| Source: Japan Meteorological Agency ||||||||||||||
# Witz

Witz may refer to:

## People

* Bob Witz (1934–2021), American artist
* Chaim Witz (born 1949), birth name of Gene Simmons, American musician, band member of Kiss
* Dan Witz (born 1957), Brooklyn-based street artist and realist painter
* Emanuel Witz (1717–1797), Swiss painter
* Konrad Witz, (c. 1400–1445), German painter
* Laurent Witz, filmmaker
* Sergio Witz Rodríguez (born 1962), Mexican poet

## Geography

* Saint-Witz, commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France
* Stadion in der Witz, stadium in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany

## Other uses

* Witz (novel), novel by Joshua Cohen
* Kwik Witz, syndicated comedy program
* Witz (וויץ) is Yiddish for "joke"
* WITZ (AM), a radio station (990 AM) licensed to Jasper, Indiana, United States
* WITZ-FM, a radio station (104.7 FM) licensed to Jasper, Indiana, United States
* Wake Island Time Zone, a time zone (UTC+12) in the U.S. territory of Wake Island
# Consulate General of the Philippines, Houston

The Consulate General of the Philippines in Houston is a diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines in the United States, representing the country's interests in Texas. It is located at the first floor of 9990 Richmond Avenue in the Westchase neighborhood of west Houston.

## History

The current Philippine Consulate General in Houston was opened on September 24, 2018, 25 years after the first consulate was closed in September 1993. That first consulate was closed ostensibly due to budget issues, as well as the low number of Filipinos in the area at the time. Closing the first consulate was ordered during the administration of President Corazon Aquino, with holdover consuls heading the post until it was finally closed by her successor, Fidel V. Ramos.
During the existence of the first consulate, Consul General Rodolfo Severino Jr. and other officers called on President Ferdinand Marcos to resign in the run-up to the People Power Revolution that would lead to his ouster. After that consulate was closed, relations were conducted through an honorary consulate, led most recently by Ethel R. Mercado. However, the city's rapidly-growing Filipino community continued to pressure for its reopening, and in January 2018, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano announced that the Consulate would reopen, alongside the future opening of three other missions. Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez, writing in The Philippine Star, particularly credited Senator Loren Legarda with pushing to allocate more funds for the opening of new Philippine diplomatic missions, including in Houston.
The Consulate reopened out of a temporary space until finally moving to its permanent location, one floor below in the same building, on March 21, 2019.

## Staff and activities

The Philippine Consulate General in Houston is headed by Consul General Gunther Emil M. Sales, who assumed the position on July 30, 2024. Prior to his current post, he served as Assistant Secretary for American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, and before that was posted at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. as minister and consul. There are also eleven other staffers deployed to the Consulate.
Currently, the consulate general's jurisdiction covers Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, and also exercises jurisdiction over the honorary consulates in Dallas and New Orleans, with former honorary consul Ethel R. Mercado being appointed to head the Dallas consulate. Prior to its reopening the various states were under the jurisdiction of other missions: Texas and New Mexico were under the jurisdiction of the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, which in partnership with local organizations conducted monthly outreach visits in Houston, while Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma were under the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago. Since its reopening, the consulate general has conducted outreach missions in major cities within its jurisdiction, including in Little Rock, Albuquerque, Jackson, and Oklahoma City, as well as within Texas.
# Sound on tape

SOT is an acronym for the phrase sound on tape. It refers to any audio recorded on analog or digital video formats. It is used in scriptwriting for television productions and filmmaking to indicate the portions of the production that will use room tone or other audio from the time of recording, as opposed to audio recorded later (studio voice-over, Foley, etc.).
In broadcast journalism, SOT is generally considered to be audio captured from an individual who is on camera, like an interviewee and may also be referred to as a soundbite.
# Lancashire Steel Corporation

The Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd was a United Kingdom steel producer. The company was formed in 1930 by amalgamating the iron and steel interests of the Pearson & Knowles Coal & Iron Co, the Partington Steel & Iron Co, and the Wigan Coal & Iron Co. The company was nationalised in 1951, becoming part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, but de-nationalised shortly afterwards. It was renationalised in 1967, becoming part of the British Steel Corporation.
The main works were at Irlam.

## Sources

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# Sessions (Descendents EP)

Sessions is an EP by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1997 through Sessions Records and consisting of two tracks from the recording of their 1996 album Everything Sucks. "Gotta" was written by and features the band's original bassist Tony Lombardo; it was left off of the album and used as a B-side for the "When I Get Old" single. "Grand Theme" is an instrumental track that was included on the album as a hidden track following "Thank You".

## Personnel
### Band

* Milo Aukerman – vocals
* Stephen Egerton – guitar, producer, engineer
* Karl Alvarez – bass guitar
* Bill Stevenson – drums, producer, engineer

### Additional musicians

* Tony Lombardo – bass guitar on "Gotta"
* Chad Price – backing vocals

### Production

* Jason Livermore – additional engineering
* Andy Wallace – mix engineer
* Steve Sisco – assistant mix engineer
* Howie Weinberg – mastering