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# Vaikasi Visakam

Vaikasi Visakam is a Tamil Hindu festival. It falls on the day the moon transits the Visaka nakshatram in Vaikasi (May-June), the second month of the Tamil Calendar. The festival is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Hindu god Murugan.

## Theology

According to the Kanda Puranam (the Tamil version of the Skanda Purana), three asuras (a race of celestial beings) Surapadman, Singamukhan and Tarakasuran performed austerities to propitiate the Hindu god Shiva. Shiva granted them various boons which gave them near-immortality and the ability to conquer the three worlds. They subsequently started a reign of tyranny and oppressed the living beings including the devas and other people. The devas pleaded Shiva for his assistance to put an end to the reign of Surapadman and the asuras. In response, Shiva manifested five additional heads and a divine spark emerged from each of the six heads. Initially, the wind-god Vayu carried the sparks, but the fire-god Agni took possession of them afterwards because of the unbearable heat. Agni deposited the sparks in the Ganga river. The water in the Ganga started evaporating due to intense heat, and so the goddess Ganga took them to the Saravana lake, where each of the sparks developed into a baby boy. The six boys were raised by handmaidens known as the Kṛttikās and they were later fused into one by Parvati, thus giving rise to the six-headed Murugan.

## Practices

On the day of the festival, special pujas and abhishekam are performed. Worshipers visit Murugan temples and chant mantras. People are offered Panchamirtham as prasad and sweets and other alms are donated to the poor. The god is taken on a procession in chariots or special mounts. Devotees of Murugan carry a kavadi, which itself is a physical burden as a fulfillment of vow made to the god.
# Vadims Vasiļevskis

Vadims Vasiļevskis (born 5 January 1982) is a retired Latvian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His personal best throw of 90.73 m, set in 2007, is the Latvian record. In 2008, Vasiļevskis was awarded the Latvian Order of the Three Stars for his achievements in athletics.

## Career

He has been coached by Valentīna Eiduka. In his early career he finished eighth at the 2000 World Junior Championships and competed at the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final.
Vasiļevskis was the Latvian flag bearer at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was the biggest surprise among Latvia's medal winners in 2004 Olympics. Latvia had three competitors in javelin throw: Vasiļevskis, Ēriks Rags and Voldemārs Lūsis, with Vasiļevskis being the youngest and the least known of the three. In Olympics, Vasiļevskis was the best of the three, throwing for 84.95 metres, two and a half meters further than his previous personal best and good enough to win a silver medal.
After the Olympic silver he finished eighth at the 2004 World Athletics Final. After an unsuccessful 2005 World Championships where he did not reach the final round, he stood fourth in the 2006 European Championships, the 2006 World Athletics Final and the 2007 World Championships. He won a gold medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade, and finished ninth at the 2008 Olympic Games. He was the Latvian flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics as well.

## Seasons bests by year

* 1999 – 63.82
* 2000 – 73.07
* 2001 – 73.25
* 2002 – 81.92
* 2003 – 77.81
* 2004 – 84.95
* 2005 – 81.30
* 2006 – 90.43
* 2007 – 90.73
* 2008 – 86.65
* 2009 – 90.71
* 2010 – 84.08
* 2011 – 88.22
* 2012 – 86.50
* 2013 – 82.79
* 2014 – 76.42
# Christopher Lane

Christopher Lane may refer to:
* Christopher Lane (novelist), American author
* Christopher J. Lane, British-American medical writer, researcher, and intellectual historian
* Christopher M. Lane, member of the Massachusetts Senate
* Chris Lane, American country music singer and songwriter
# Mbunda

Mbunda may refer to:
* Mbunda Kingdom (c. 1500–1917)
* Mbunda language
* Mbunda people
# Ueno (disambiguation)

Ueno is a neighborhood in Taito, Tokyo.
Ueno may also refer to:

## Places

* Ueno, Mie, a former city in Mie Prefecture, now part of the city of Iga
* Ueno, Gunma, a village in Gunma Prefecture
* Ueno, Okinawa, a village in Okinawa Prefecture

## Other uses

* Ueno (surname)
* Ueno, a creative technology services company founded by Icelandic businessman Haraldur Ingi Þorleifsson and sold to Twitter.
# Miquel Buch

Miquel Buch i Moya (born 3 August 1975) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia, Minister of the Interior of the autonomous community between 2018 and 2020. He was previously mayor of Premià de Mar, a municipality in north-eastern Spain.

## Early life

Buch was born on 3 August 1975 in Premià de Mar, Catalonia. He joined the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia (Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya, JNC) and Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) in 1996. He was national counsellor for JNC from 1997 to 2006 and for CDC since 2004. He was a doorman in Titus discotheque in Badalona.

## Career

Buch worked for the family business and the Red Cross before entering local politics. Buch contested the 1999 local elections as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in Premià de Mar but failed to get elected. However, following the death of Lluís Cerdà he was appointed to the municipal council. He was re-elected at the 2003 local elections. After the election CiU formed an administration and Buch was appointed Deputy Mayor. He became Mayor of Premià de Mar following the death of Jaume Batlle i Garriga in February 2007. He was re-elected at the 2007, 2011 and 2015 local elections.
Buch has served as president of the Catalan Association of Municipalities and Counties (ACMC), president of the Council of Local Government of Catalonia and vice-president of the Association of Municipalities for Independence. He was also a member of the provincial deputation for Barcelona.
Buch resigned as mayor in December 2017. At the 2017 regional election Buch was placed 22nd on the Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat) list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win 17 seats in the province and as a result he was not elected to the Parliament of Catalonia. At the election Catalan secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan Parliament. On 19 May 2018 newly elected President Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Buch was to be Minister of the Interior. He was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
In July 2020 Buch joined the newly formed Together for Catalonia political party.

## Personal life

Buch is married to Cesca and has three children - Oriol, Biel and Clara. At 21 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

## Electoral history

Electoral history of Miquel Buch :
| Election | Constituency | Party | Alliance | No. | Result |
| 1999 local | Premià de Mar | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia | Convergence and Union | | Not elected |
| 2003 local | Premià de Mar | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia | Convergence and Union | 3 | Elected |
| 2007 local | Premià de Mar | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia | Convergence and Union | 1 | Elected |
| 2011 local | Premià de Mar | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia | Convergence and Union | 1 | Elected |
| 2015 local | Premià de Mar | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia | Convergence and Union | 1 | Elected |
| 2017 regional | Province of Barcelona | Catalan European Democratic Party | Together for Catalonia | 22 | Not elected |
# Vakon

Vakon is an arrondissement in the Ouémé department of Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Akpro-Missérété. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 20,541.
# John Smith (bishop of Llandaff)

John Smith or Smyth (died 1479) was bishop of Llandaff from 1476 to 1479.
He had previously held positions as vicar of Tenby, and archdeacon of St David's. These posts are known from an inscription on the Tenby chancel wainscotting presumably erected on Smith's initiative and (in default of evidence from St. David's Cathedral registers) personally examined by Edward Yardley. He was buried in the church of the Grey Friars in London.
He supplied William Worcestre with a list of Welsh saints included in Worcestre's 1478 Journeys.

## Sources

* Edward Yardley, Menevia Sacra (circa 1739-1761), ed. Francis Green (Cambrian Archaeological Association), 1927, p. .
* A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, Volume III P to Z, Oxford, 1959; 1716.
* William Worcestre, Itineraries, ed. by John H. Harvey, Clarendon Press, 1969, p. 75.
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# Christine Larson-Mason

Christine "Chris" Larson-Mason (born May 21, 1956, in Darby, Pennsylvania) is a former field hockey player from the United States, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She had previously qualified for the 1980 Olympic team but did not compete due to the Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. As consolation, she was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal many years later.
# USS Pinnacle

USS Pinnacle is the name of two ships of the U.S. Navy:
* USS Pinnacle (AM-274), a minesweeper in naval service 1944–46
* USS Pinnacle (MSO-462), an ocean minesweeper in service 1955–1977
# John Seyre

John Seyre (or Feyre) was a pre-Reformation cleric who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the 15th century.
He was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Sodor and Man by papal provision on 10 October 1435 and consecrated on 11 November 1435. It is not known when his episcopate ended, but his successor Thomas Burton was appointed on 25 September 1455.
# John Seymour Chaloner

Major John Seymour Chaloner (5 November 1924 – 9 February 2007) was a British journalist, author and military officer who co-founded the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.
Chaloner has been called the "father of the freedom of press." He died in his sleep on 9 February 2007, aged 82.

## Biography

Chaloner came from a family of journalists. His father was editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper; his mother published the magazines Parents, Ideal Home, and Woman's Magazine. As early as 1939, Chaloner himself began working for the magazine Boy's Own Paper. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army and in 1945 became a member of the Westminster Dragoons at the rank of major.
At the end of the war, Chaloner was assigned to the Public Relations and Information Services Control (PRISC), a unit that was to rebuild press, theatre, radio and cinema in Germany on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, While supervising the press in Hanover, he joined forces with two other British officers, Czech emigrant Harry Bohrer and German Emigrant Henry Ormond to build a political weekly magazine modelled after Time magazine. The magazine was published in 1946 under the title Diese Woche (This Week) with Bohrer as acting editor-in-chief. When the Foreign Office ordered the magazine's cessation based on critical articles, Chaloner and Bohrer handed over the magazine to one of their editors and protégés, Rudolf Augstein, who re-edited it as editor and chief editor under the title Der Spiegel (The Mirror).
Chaloner then worked initially in the public relations of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Back in the UK he founded his own publishing house Seymour Press (now Seymour Distribution), which mainly distributed publications from abroad.
In 1956, Chaloner published his first novel, and between 1958 and 1975 he wrote and illustrated six children's books. He bought a farm in Sussex, where he bred dairy cows and planted a vineyard. When he actually wanted to retire, he was hired as editor for various business magazines such as Director.
In 1990, Chaloner received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services to German–British relations.
# Christmas EP (Mary Margaret O'Hara EP)

Mary Margaret O'Hara's Christmas EP was released in 1991. It collects three covers of classic Christmas standards, as well as an original Christmas-themed song written by O'Hara.

## Track listing

* "Blue Christmas" (4:59)
* "Silent Night" (3:57)
* "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (3:13)
* "Christmas Evermore" (4:16)
# John Uzzell

John Edward Uzzell (born 31 March 1959) is an English retired footballer who played as a full-back.
Uzzell spent the majority of his playing career with hometown club Plymouth Argyle, between July 1977 and April 1989.
He also played for Torquay United, between 1989 and 1992, before moving into coaching. In later life, he also worked as a postman.
On 14 December 1991, while playing in a Third Division game for Torquay United at Plainmoor, he suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket in a collision with Brentford striker Gary Blissett, who was subsequently charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. However, Blissett was cleared of the charge at Salisbury Crown Court on 3 December 1992.
He now lives in Ivybridge, South Devon.
# Minnesota Golden Gophers women's gymnastics

The Minnesota Golden Gophers represent the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in women's gymnastics. They are coached by Jenny Hansen. The Gophers have 6 Big Ten Conference titles, most recently in 2021. In 1990 Marie Roethlisberger won the NCAA Championship in uneven bars, the Gophers' only NCAA champion to date.

## History

Head coaches :
| | Name | Seasons |
| 1 | Katalin Deli | 1974 – 1992 |
| 2 | Jim Stephenson | 1993 – 2010 |
| 3 | Meg Stephenson | 1998 – 2014 |
| 4 | Jenny Hansen | 2015 – Present |
The Minnesota gymnastics program competed its first season in 1974 in AIAW competition, joining the NCAA for the 1983 season. Katalin Deli was hired as the first coach in 1973 and quickly established the team as a contender for regional and conference titles; she was named Big Ten Coach of the Year for the 1989 and 1991 seasons. During her tenure Minnesota won three Big Ten conference titles as a team and Minnesota gymnasts won 21 individual event titles. Deli was fired following the 1992 season after gymnasts accidentally saw a sex tape of Deli and her husband, then-assistant coach Gabor Deli.
Jim Stephenson took over the program in 1993 and added his wife Meg Stephenson as co-head coach in 1998. Under the Stephensons, Minnesota advanced to the NCAA National Championships three times, finishing 10th in 1997, 9th in 2002, and 8th in 2013. Minnesota also added more Big Ten team titles, winning in 1998 and 2006. Jim stepped down as head coach in 2010, continuing to assist the team in a volunteer position.
In 2014, Meg Stephenson resigned due to controversy over her siding with her husband in a sexual harassment allegation, and allegedly retaliating against the student who made the claims. Assistant coach Jenny Hansen served as interim head coach for the 2015 season, before being officially promoted to the position.
The highest score ever recorded by the Minnesota gymnastics team is 197.750, at the 2021 conference championships.

## Roster

2024–25 Roster :
| Name | Year | Hometown |
| Anahit Assadourian | R-JR | Burbank, CA |
| Teryn Crump | FR | Pflugerville, TX |
| Marisa Fisher | R-FR | Valparaiso, IN |
| Leah Gonsiorowski | SO | Milton, WI |
| McCauley Harrington | FR | Plano, TX |
| Mya Hooten | GS | Woodbury, MN |
| Marissa Jencks | SR | Madison, SD |
| Seria Johnson | JR | Woodstock, GA |
| Emily Koch | GS | Bloomington, MN |
| Kendall Landry | R-FR | Frisco, TX |
| Jayda Lewter | FR | Savage, MN |
| Jordyn Lyden | SO | Stillwater, MN |
| Sarah Moraw | JR | Holland, MI |
| Sophia Nguyen | SO | Minnetonka, MN |
| Jenna Olshefski | R-FR | Grove City, OH |
| Lauren Pearl | SR | Milford, MA |
| Brooklyn Rowray | R-SO | Carlisle, IA |
| Samantha Schneider | FR | Fairfield, CT |
| Megan Steensland | JR | Eden Prairie, MN |
| Ava Stewart | FR | Bowmanville, ON |
| Sophie Swartzmiller | R-FR | Madison, WI |
| Lilly Timmerman | FR | Rochester, MN |
| Morgan Walsh | FR | Orono, MN |
* Head coach: Jenny Hansen
* Assistant coach: Geralen Stack-Eaton
* Assistant coach: Rich Stenger
* Assistant coach: Kiki Parenteau

## Past Olympians

* Ava Stewart (2020, 2024)
# McConnel Islands

The McConnel Islands (66°29′S 65°51′W﻿ / ﻿66.483°S 65.850°W﻿ / -66.483; -65.850) are islands lying in Darbel Bay southeast of the Kidd Islands, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. They were photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956–57, and were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for James C. McConnel (1860–1890), an English physicist who, along with Dudley Kidd, made pioneer experiments on the plastic deformation of ice, both single and polycrystals, 1881–90.
# Christopher Haydock

Christopher Haydock (by 1499 – 1566 or later) was an English politician.
He was the son of Gilbert Haydock of Cottam, near Preston, Lancashire. He was elected Mayor of Preston from 1528 to 1531. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Preston in 1529.
Haydock was married with at least two sons.
# Christopher Hawthorne (journalist)

Christopher Hawthorne is an American journalist and television director who served as the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to 2018. In 2018, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed him as the city's first Chief Design Officer.
In 2018, he directed the documentary That Far Corner for the KCET series Artbound about architect Frank Lloyd Wright's work in Los Angeles. He also directed another Artbound episode titled Third Los Angeles. In 2020, in his role as Chief Design Officer he launched the Low-Rise design challenge, aiming to promote housing affordability, new paths to homeownership, and innovative models of sustainable residential architecture. In 2021, his office announced the creation of standard Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) plans to help address the housing shortage facing the City of Los Angeles.
# Valborg Borchsenius

Valborg Bodil Emilie Borchsenius née Jørgensen, also Valborg Guldbrandsen, (1872–1949) was a Danish ballet dancer and instructor who performed in Bournonville's productions at the Royal Danish Theatre from 1888. As a soloist she is also remembered as Swanhilda in Coppélia, a role she performed 128 times to wide acclaim. She became the company's star ballerina until her retirement in 1918.

## Biography

Born on 19 November 1872, Valborg Bodil Emilie Jørgensen was the daughter of Jørgen Adolf Jørgensen (1822–1900), an instrument maker, and Christiane Pouline Engelund (1835–1890). She married twice, first in 1896 with the actor Johannes Norden Guldbrandsen (1871–1922), then in 1908 with the actor and later theatre director Kaare Guldbrand Borchsenius (1874–1960).
Valborg Jørgensen attended the ballet school of the Royal Danish Theatre from 1879. As a child, she appeared in the first performances of Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre. After her ballet début in 1888 as the eskimo girl in Bournonville's Far from Denmark, in 1891 she danced the title role in his La Sylphide, marking her development as a soloist. She went on to take the leading roles in Bournonville's repertoire, often partnering Hans Beck. She played Astrid in Valdemar, Hilda in Et Folkesagn, Sigyn in Thrymskviden, Ragnhild and Kirsti in Brudefærden i Hardanger, Svava in Valkyrien and Celeste in Toreadoren.
In June 1918, she retired as a dancer, performing two of her most successful roles: Swinilda in Coppélia and Teresina in Napoli. She continued as a teacher at the theatre's ballet school, ensuring that the children were brought up in the true Bournonville style in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. One of her lasting achievements was that she described in writing the choreographic details of Bournonville's ballets, ensuring that later generations would be able to draw on an authentic record.
Valborg Borchsenius died in Copenhagen on 5 January 1949 and is buried in Garnison's Cemetery.
# Valdeón cheese

Queso de Valdeón (Queisu de Valdión, in Leonese language) is a Spanish blue cheese from León. The cheese is made in Posada de Valdeón, in the northeast of the province of León, and is wrapped in sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), or chestnut leaves before being sent to market. The cheese has a very intense blue flavor, but is not as yellowed or as biting as its cousin Cabrales.
Queso de Valdeón has PGI status.
The production of cheese in the Valdeón valley dates back to pre-Roman times, being made at that time with goat's milk as raw material. During the 19th century, cheese production was one of the main occupations in the area, since the production of milk from the cattle that grazed on the high-altitude sheepfolds during the summer was transformed into cheese in the cabins at the top or was transported to the villages of the valley. Due to the important natural barriers that delimit the valley, it has a microclimate that favors the development of the microbial flora that characterizes these cheeses.
# McClintock House

McClintock House may refer to:

## in the United States

(by state)
* James H. McClintock House, Phoenix, Arizona, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Phoenix, Arizona
* McClintock House (43 Magnolia, Marianna, Arkansas), NRHP-listed in Lee County, also known as J.M. McClintock House
* McClintock House (82 W. Main St., Marianna, Arkansas), NRHP-listed in Lee County, also known as W.S. McClintock House
* John and Amelia McClintock House, Grafton, Illinois, NRHP-listed in Jersey County
* McClintock Hall, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, NRHP-listed in Luzerne County
# Chrysobothris pusilla

Chrysobothris pusilla is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in North America.
# Christmas Lights Etc

Christmas Lights, Etc. is an American company that specialises in Christmas holiday decorations. The company was founded in 2000 and provides lighting, Christmas Trees and holiday decorations across North America.
In 2006 and 2007, the company featured on the list of Inc Magazines Inc 5000 list.

## History

Christmas Lights, Etc. was founded in 2000 and began providing Christmas lights via mail order across the United States. A number of years after their foundation, the company first received mentions in the national press in 2005, when their products featured on the CBS News' The Early Show. The products featured as part of a News feature on how to decorate a home with Christmas decorations.
In 2006 they featured on Inc Magazines Inc 5000 list, which summarised the fastest growing 5000 companies in the United States. At the time, the company had achieved a growth figure of 241% over the previous 3 years. While the company at the time had only 10 full-time employees, the company was achieving a turnover figure of $5.8 million. During that year the company was ranked the 184th fastest growing company in America and remained on the list in 2007.
Following the company's early growth, the company began to offer more LED lighting. These at the time were seen as a greener lighting than traditional Christmas lights, which weren't as energy efficient. This was following a partnership between Christmas Lights, Etc. and Energy Star, which is a joint program of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy. This move led the company to feature on a number of News Channels, including FOX News discussing the move from traditional Christmas lights to LED.
Despite a downturn in the economy in 2009, the company announced record sales of LED lights a year after the partnership agreement with Energy Star. The LED solution was seen as cost saving by some in the industry and Christmas Lights, Etc. featured in ABC News, Businessweek and FOX Business.

## Products

Christmas Lights, Etc. operates as an online retailer, providing and selling Christmas styled products. The company's product line is broken down into 3 main categories, Christmas Lights, Christmas Trees and Christmas Decorations.