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# Georgia B. Ridder

Georgia Ridder (December 5, 1914 – June 14, 2002) was an American thoroughbred racehorse owner and a member of the board of directors of the Oak Tree Racing Association.

## Biography

Born Georgia Buck in Baltimore, Maryland, she attended Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Connecticut. She married Bernard J. Ridder, co-founders and operators of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain. The couple made their home on Long Island, New York until 1955 when they moved to Pasadena, California where her husband took over as publisher of the Pasadena Independent & Star News.
Active in Pasadena culture, Georgia Ridder was a member of the board of directors of the Pasadena Art Museum and the Pasadena Symphony Association.

## Ridder Thoroughbred Stable

A few years after settling in California, Georgia and Ben Ridder became owners of Thoroughbred racehorses. Some of their notable runners included Flying Paster, the winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita and Hollywood Derbys and California Horse of the Year plus the 1977 Eclipse Award winner, Cascapedia.
Following her husband's death in 1983, Georgia Ridder continue to operate their stable. She owned the 165-acre (0.67 km$^2$) Hidden Springs Ranch in Mountain Center in the San Jacinto Mountains and enjoyed considerable further success highlighted by Cat's Cradle being voted California Horse of the Year in 1995 and Alphabet Soup's win in the 1996 Breeders' Cup Classic.
Georgia Ridder died at her Pasadena home in 2002 at age eighty-seven.
# Georgetown railway station (Scotland)

Georgetown railway station was a railway station serving the village of Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, originally as part of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and later owned by the Caledonian Railway.

## History

The station opened by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway on 29 March 1841, as Houston station. It was located just over 3 miles, (5 kilometres) from Houston, on the Houston Road.
On 1 May 1926 it was renamed Georgetown by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway who, as a result of the 1923 Grouping, took over ownership of the line from the Caledonian Railway.

### The private NFF station

There appears to have been another station of the same name located some 0.75 miles apart from the main station. The northernmost station existed for the duration of World War I, only. It was a private station built in 1915 to serve the Government-owned explosive Filling Factory, the Scottish Filling Factory (National Filling Factory No. 4), National Filling Factory, Georgetown. The factory employed over 4,600 employees in July 1916; and some 12,000 employees between December 1916 and August 1917, most of them being women. This station was linked by a covered walkway directly into the factory; which was also linked to the Caledonian Railway with interchange sidings, just north of the station. The factory was renamed the National Filling Factory, Georgetown to mark the visit on Christmas Eve 1915 of David Lloyd George, the first Minister of Munitions; he became prime minister a year later.
The factory had a township of wooden houses adjacent to both it and the public railway station. The factory closed on 11 November 1918, after the end of World War I. The private station, along with the contents of the factory, was sold in 1920.

### Georgetown station

The township of Georgetown survived the closure of the National Filling Factory, although the sub-post office was closed and much of the population removed in November 1939. The last of the wooden houses became uninhabitable in the 1970s and were later demolished.
Georgetown station was closed permanently by the British Transport Commission on 2 February 1959.

## The site today

Nothing remains of the wooden township of Georgetown, or the public railway station.
A fragment of the concrete western platform and adjoining steps survive from the private World War I station; with a matching platform in what was to become ROF Bishopton. A number of earthworks are also visible from the train, representing the embankments of the World War I interchange sidings. They appear to have been later used by the World War II ROF Bishopton. The track and the connection to the main line appears to have been lifted during the 1967 electrification of the Inverclyde Line.
# Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad

The Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad was a Southeastern railroad company that operated after Reconstruction.
The company was originally chartered as the Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1878.
The charter was amended in 1882 to strike "Narrow Gauge" from its name, and the line was renamed the Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad.
The original intent was to build a line from Georgetown, South Carolina, through Georgetown, Williamsburg, Clarendon, Sumter and Kershaw counties, to the North Carolina border.
Its In 1883, the line was to be rerouted so that it would be able to access Charleston Harbor.
In 1885, the S.C. General Assembly approved changing the name of the Georgetown and North Carolina to the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company.
# Gerald Ross (disambiguation)

Gerald Ross is a musician.
Gerald Ross may also refer to:
* Jerry Ross (painter) (Gerald)
* Jerold Ross, composer
# Newte

Newte is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Henry Newte (1609–1670), English politician
* Horace Newte (1870–1949), English playwright, author, and journalist
* John Newte (1656–1716), Anglican cleric
* Richard Newte (1613–1678), Anglican cleric
# Gerard Mitchell (priest)

Gerard Mitchell was a senior Irish Catholic priest, a priest of the Archdiocese of Tuam and President of Maynooth College from 1959–1967. Thereafter he became parish priest of Ballinrobe until his death in 1990.
Mitchell was appointed Professor of Dogmatic and Moral Theology at Maynooth in 1932, and served as Vice-President from 1958 until his appointment as president in 1959 following the death of Edward Kissane.
His time as President of the National Seminary was marked by the Second Vatican Council and an opening up the College to wider Irish life, including the introduction of lay i.e. non-seminarians to the College. In 1966 he welcome veterans of the 1916 Easter Rising to the College.
Academic offices :
| Preceded byRev. Edward Kissane | President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth 1959–1967 | Succeeded byRev. Patrick Corish |
| Preceded byRev. William J Conway | Vice-president of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth 1958–1959 | Succeeded byRev. Patrick J. Hamell |
# Gerd Uecker

Gerd Uecker (15 September 1946 – 17 January 2024) was a German music teacher and a music and opera manager. From 1993 to 2000 he was artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and from 2003 to 2010 he directed in the same position the Semperoper in Dresden.

## Life and career

Uecker was born in Munich on 15 September 1946, the son of a physician. After his Abitur at the Gisela Gymnasium in 1964 he studied piano, music education and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. At the beginning of his career, Uecker worked as a solo repetiteur at the Cologne Opera from 1969, where he met the director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. In 1970 he received a teaching assignment for opera at the Rheinisches Musikkonservatorium in Cologne for musical theatre. In 1973 Uecker was appointed music director and head of the opera department of the Südostbayerischen Städtetheater in Passau.
In 1979 Uecker came to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he held the position of a director if the department of music. In 1988 he became artistic director, and from September 1993 opera director, responsible for the management of the opera house in the Bavarian capital. He served to 2000.
In January 2000, Uecker was given the task by the Minister of State for Science and the Arts in Saxony, Hans Joachim Meyer, of managing the Semperoper from the 2003/04 season. He managed the house in a period of recovery after flood damage in 2002. He had counted on Giuseppe Sinopoli becoming musical director in 2003 and Herbert Wernicke active as director and stage designer, but both died unexpectedly before his tenure began. His focus was on the works by Richard Strauss who had enjoyed several world premieres there and other works related to Dresden, including Hasse's Cleofide, Weber's Euryanthe, Schoeck's Penthesilea and Hindemith's Cardillac. He programmed contemporary works such as Henze's L'Upupa and Heggie's Dead Man Walking, promoted productions of new operas, and opened possibilities for young singers.
From 2005 Uecker was chairman of the German-speaking Opera Conference, succeeding Sir Peter Jonas, the artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera, and holding the position to 2010. He was chairman of the University Council of the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 2007.
Uecker taught in Venice, Beijing and Stuttgart and was honorary professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. He was also a guest lecturer at the European Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Montepulciano and at the Dresden Academy of Music, among others. From 2011 he was Honorary Chairman of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin.
Uecker died on 17 January 2024, at the age of 77.

## Publications

* Traumberuf Opernsänger: Von der Ausbildung zum Engagement, Leipzig, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89487-746-0
# Avaz (music)

Avaz, or Awaz (Persian: آواز) is an unmetered vocal section of a mode in Persian music.
In the years 1965 and 1966, Mahmud Karimi (maestro of Persian vocal music) performed the whole Avazs which were recorded and transcribed by Mohammad-Taghi Massoudieh. This version was published in 1997 in Tehran.
# Avondance

Avondance (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

## Geography

A tiny village situated some 15 miles (24 km) east of Montreuil-sur-Mer, on the D154 road, the source of the small river Planquette.
# Awake in the Brain Chamber

Awake in the Brain Chamber is the fourth full-length studio album by American indie rock band Secret Machines, released by TSM Recordings on August 8, 2020. The album has received positive reviews from critics and is a comeback recording after the band had been dormant for several years and features some posthumous recordings from former frontman Benjamin Curtis.

## Reception

Professional ratings :
| Aggregate scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81 (6 reviews) |
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.8⁄10 |
| Under the Radar | 8⁄10 |
Awake in the Brain received positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on six reviews. Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Matt Collar writing that the band shows many influences beyond the space rock that they had been known for earlier, including "ambient music, psych-pop, and kinetic, '70s-style Krautrock", ending that "it's a fitting aesthetic for a band that has returned to earth after a long journey through their inner emotional cosmos". In Glide Magazine, Shawn Donohue calls this "a comeback album that sounds right at home with their past releases while painting a way forward if the band continues to explore their rock cosmos". Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media rated this album a 6.8 out of 10, criticizing the music as "the modest charm of fan service, intended for an audience that’s actively rooting for Secret Machines to succeed". Editors of The Quietus chose this as Album of the Week, with Patrick Clarke writing that it "achieves something transcendent" and sums up his review by calling this "a comeback record that overcomes the fractures and scars of its creation without trying to ignore them, a near-complete revival of the band’s former powers, and a bold delve into epic new territory". In Under the Radar, Dom Gourlay gave this release an 8 out of 10, calling the album "a stylish return for one of the underground’s most cherished acts".

## Track listing

All songs written by Brandon Curtis.
* "3, 4, 5, Let’s Stay Alive" – 3:25
* "Dreaming Is Alright" – 3:47
* "Talos’ Corpse" – 3:20
* "Everything’s Under" – 4:29
* "Everything Starts" – 5:03
* "Angel Come" – 3:23
* "A New Disaster" – 4:23
* "So Far Down" – 3:34

## Personnel

Secret Machines
* Benjamin Curtis – guitar
* Brandon Curtis – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, vocals, engineering, production
* Josh Garza – drums
Additional personnel
* Bryan Bisordi – percussion
* Chris Kyle – guitar
* Joe Lambert – mastering
* Claudius Mittendorfer – mixing
* Sarah Pedinotti – keyboards, vocals
# Avellanita

Avellanita is a monotypic plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. The sole species is Avellanita bustillosii, endemic to Chile. A specific locus of occurrence is in the La Campana National Park of central Chile and amid the adjoining Cerro La Campana and in the Laguna Aculeo area and its southern distribution is located in Chancon, close to Rancagua. Regarding the use of its seeds, it has been pointed out that its "small hazelnuts" are edible.
# Ayot Park

Ayot Park is a grade II listed park and garden at Ayot St Lawrence in Hertfordshire, England. It contains the grade II* listed Ayot House along with an earlier manor house and a walled kitchen garden which are also listed.
The estate was acquired in 1723 by Cornelius Lyde and after his death it passed to Sir Lionel Lyde who was both his nephew and son-in-law. Sir Lionel built the grade I listed St Lawrence Church which faces the house across the park. It was consecrated in 1779.

## Ayot House

The red-brick house, located at 51°50′20″N 0°16′03″W﻿ / ﻿51.8388°N 0.2674°W﻿ / 51.8388; -0.2674﻿ (Ayot House), is described by Historic England as dating from the early-mid 18th century. It appears to be an early 18th-century house extended in the mid 18th century.
In the 1950s the house was used by Zoe Dyke's silk farming business, which relocated from Lullingstone Castle. Later it was divided into apartments.

## Access

There is a path across the park to St Lawrence Church.
The walled garden and other gardens associated with the manor house are sometimes opened to the public under the auspices of the National Gardens Scheme.
# Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1

Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1 is a live CD/DVD by various artists in support of the Axis of Justice organization.

## Track listing

Audio: (Excerpts from The Axis Of Justice radio network)
* Interview with Michael Moore
* Interview with Janeane Garofalo
* Rants and raves with Serj And Tom

## Personnel
### CD

* Tracks 1, 3-7, 9-14 Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, by Howard Karp and assisted by Ronny Mikkelsen on 7/19/04
* Track 2 Recorded live @ Lollapalooza, Seattle, WA, on 8/23/03
* Track 8 Recorded live @ The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Troubadour, Hollywood, CA on 3/31/04 by Bobby Crown
* Track 15 Recorded at Serjical Strike Studios, 2004
* Produced By Serj Tankian
* All Audio Mixed by David Bianco
* Street Audio Mixed at Scream Studios, Studio City, CA except Tracks 2, 15 (Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA)
* Assistant Engineer at Scream Studios: Alex "Odd Jobs" Uychocde
* 5.1 Audio Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA
* Assistant Engineer at Mad Dog Studios: Rafael Serrano
* Mastered at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, CA
* Mastered by Eddy Schreyer
* Art Direction and Design by Brandy Flower
* Photograph by Jim Wright, Kevin Estrada, Hampig Koulayan, George Tonikian, Darren Doane

### DVD

* Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, on 7/19/04
* Bonus Footage Recorded Live at The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at the Troubadour, Hollywood on 3/31/04
* An XDOANEX Production
* Directed by J. Graf
* Produced by Darren Doane
* Executive Producers: Serj Tankian and Tom Morello
* DVD Design Billy Maddox II
# Nge Mangsham Taktsab

Nge Mangsham Taktsab (Tibetan: རྔེགས་མང་ཞམ་སྟག་ཚབ, Wylie: rngegs mang zham stag tshap, died 727) was a general of Tibetan Empire.
According to Tibetan Annals, Mangsham was appointed as the Lönchen in 725 after Shang Trisumje's death. He was ordered to convene a spring coalition in 726, and levied taxes on people who were directly subordinate to the emperor. He died in the next year and succeeded by another general, We Tadra Khonglo.
# Gerhard Braun

Gerhard Braun (December 28, 1923 – October 23, 2015) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

## Life

Braun joined the CDU in 1945, joined the Junge Union (JU) and was state secretary of the JU Rhineland from 1947 to 1955. From 1957 to 1960, he was deputy managing director of the Rhineland CDU, and from 1961 to 1966 he was state managing director. In 1979 he was elected to the Federal Executive Committee of the Kommunalpolitische Vereinigung. From 1985 to 1988 he was the CDU's senior citizens' representative. From 1988 to 1990 he was the first federal chairman of the Senioren-Union. Braun was a member of the city council of Wermelskirchen from 1961 to 1989. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1987. From 1976 to 1980 he represented the constituency of Remscheid in parliament. In all other electoral periods he entered the Bundestag via the state list of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia.

## Literature

Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.
# Nick Kaldas

Naguib "Nick" Kaldas APM (born 1958) is a former Australian police officer and former deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. Though considered to be a possible future Commissioner, in March 2016 Kaldas announced his decision to leave the Police Force and currently works for the United Nations.

## Early life

Kaldas was born in Egypt in 1958 to Coptic Australian parents. The family emigrated to Australia in 1969.

## Policing career

In 1981 Kaldas graduated from the New South Wales Police Force's academy. He worked for more than ten years as a hostage negotiator.
While the head of the New South Wales homicide squad, Kaldas was responsible for a number of high-profile murder investigations, including the death of Samantha Knight, the murder of John Newman and the investigation into the murders committed by Sef Gonzales.
In 2004 Kaldas spent eight months in Iraq where he trained the local police.
In March 2009 Kaldas was seconded to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri. Kaldas chose not to renew his one-year contract in March 2010.
On 4 March 2016 Kaldas announced his decision to leave the Police Force. At the time he was considered to be a possible future Police Commissioner, notably due to his unique background, and counter-terrorism experience.
In 2017 there were serious calls by many, notably the NSW Opposition and crossbenchers, for Kaldas to be considered to replace Andrew Scipione as Commissioner despite his medical discharge the previous year. This followed wide public dissatisfaction with the most senior contender for the role, Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn, over her decisions made during the Lindt Cafe Siege, and additionally, her involvement in the now infamous Operation Prospect, which targeted many senior police officers, including Kaldas.

## Honours and awards

In 1997 Kaldas was awarded the National Medal. In 2008 he received the Australian Police Medal.[10]
* Australian Police Medal (APM)
* Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal
* National Police Service Medal
* National Medal & 1 Bars
In addition to awards under the Australian Honours and Awards framework, he also holds a range of internal New South Wales Police Force awards, namely: NSW Police Commissioners Commendation and 3 clasps, NSW Police Medal with 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th clasps; NSWPF Commissioners Unit Citation & star, NSWPF Commissioners Olympic Citation and NSWPF Commissioners Sesquicenten±ary Citation.

## Operation Prospect

In 2012 a controversy developed involving Kaldas and his fellow Special Operations Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn. This became known as Operation Prospect. The controversy raised concerns regarding the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW). An Ombudsman's report on Prospect was announced in October 2012, and was expected to be completed in six months. As of June 2015 the investigation was still ongoing, though the final hearings were completed on 31 March 2015. The Acting NSW Ombudsman, John McMillan's, report to Parliament was tabled on 20 December 2016.
# Germany–Slovenia relations

Germany–Slovenia relations are the foreign relations between Germany and Slovenia. Germany–Slovenia state relations are good and harmonious. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 15 January 1992. Germany has an embassy in Ljubljana and Slovenia has an embassy in Berlin and a general consulate in Munich. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the European Union and NATO.

## Establishment of relations

Germany officially recognized Slovenia, along with Croatia, on December 23, 1991. Germany's unilateral recognition of Slovenia, which came earlier than from the other members of the European Community, was the subject of much controversy and debate.
During the first years of Slovenian independence, Germany was a strong advocate for the self-determination of Slovenes, and instituted a comprehensive consulting and support program for the promotion of democratization and market reform process in Slovenia. It also supported Slovenian accession to the EU and NATO.

## Bilateral visits

There are more than 50,000 Slovenes living in Germany and more than 50,000 Germans living in Slovenia. A number of high-level visits have strengthened the friendly relations, e.g. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visited Ljubljana on 26 June 2001, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Slovenian independence; from 25 until 27 March 2003, Wolfgang Thierse, the Bundestag President, visited Ljubljana, Celje and Koper, and Federal President Johannes Rau was in advance of the meeting of the Central and Eastern European Presidents from 29 May until 1 June 2002 in Bled, Ljubljana and Maribor. Since Slovenian accession to the NATO and the EU in spring 2004, the partnership of the two countries has reached a new level. More highlights of the two nations' diplomatic relations include the visit of the CSU group to the German Bundestag with the Federal Economics Minister Glos and Federal Agriculture Minister Seehofer on 11 July 2006 in Ljubljana and the participation of Chancellor Angela Merkel at the official ceremony of the Slovenian government to adopt the euro on 15 January 2007 in the Slovenian capital.

## Resident diplomatic missions

* Germany has an embassy in Ljubljana.
* Slovenia has an embassy in Berlin and an consulate-general in Munich.
* Embassy of Germany in Ljubljana
* Embassy of Slovenia in Berlin
# Nakagi Dam

Nakagi Dam is a dam near Annaki, in the Gunma Prefecture of Japan.
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# Pachycreadium

Pachycreadium is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

## Species

* Pachycreadium angolense Aleshkina & Gaevskaya, 1985
* Pachycreadium carnosum (Rudolphi, 1819) Cortini & Ferretti, 1959
* Pachycreadium gastrocotylum (Manter, 1940) Manter, 1954
* Pachycreadium lerneri Sogandares-Bernal, 1959
* Pachycreadium lethrini Hassanine, 2006