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# Alix Marie

Alix Marie (born 1989) is a French artist who works with photography and sculpture, based in London. In 2019 she received the Royal Photographic Society's Vic Odden Award.

## Life and work

Marie was born in Paris. She studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins, London from 2008 to 2011 and a Master of Fine Arts Photography at the Royal College of Art, London from 2012 to 2014.
She was a two-week long Speed Resident at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2014.

## Publications
### Publications by Marie

* Bleu. UK: Môrel, 2017. ISBN 978-1-907071-60-7. Edition of 300 copies.

### Publications with contributions by Marie

* Science and Fiction. London: Black Dog, 2014. RCA photography collective.
* MDAM. Joint publication with Mia Dudek. UK: Plantation Journal, 2017.
* Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity. Katherine Oktober Matthews. Netherlands: House Of Oktober, 2018.
* BodyFiction. Austria: European Month of Photography, 2019.
* Body. Nathalie Herschdorfer. London: Thames & Hudson, 2019.
* Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century. By Charlotte Jansen. London: Tate; Octopus, 2021. ISBN 9781781576205.

## Exhibitions

* Styx, National Center for Photography, Ballarat, 2021
* Sucer La Nuit, Musée Des Beaux Arts Le Locle, 2019
* Shredded, Roman Road, London, 2019

## Awards

* 2017: Winner, Portfolio Review Award, Duesseldorf Photo Weekend, Düsseldorf, Germany
* 2019: Vic Odden Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bristol
# Al-Jahra SC (basketball)

Al-Jahra SC, also written as Al Jahraa, is a Kuwaiti professional basketball team based in Jahra City. It is the basketball team of the multi-sports club with the same name. The team plays in the Kuwaiti Division 1, and has won the league in 1996 and 1997.

## Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
* Criteria
* To appear in this section a player must have either:
* Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
* Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
* Played at least one official NBA match at any time.
* Salah Mejri
* Wael Arakji
* Kalin Lucas
# Tromsbuss

Tromsbuss AS was a bus company with operations in Tromsø Municipality, Karlsøy Municipality, and Balsfjord Municipality, in Troms county, Norway. The company had a contract with Troms county municipality to provide transportation services. The company was a subsidiary of TIRB, that is controlled by Hurtigruten Group. In 2008, Tromsbuss was merged with TIRB and Ofotens Bilruter to form Cominor [no].

## History

Bus transport in Tromsø started in 1946 by the municipal owned ferry company Tromsøya Buss- og Ferjeselskap. After the Tromsø Bridge opened in 1960 the company withdrew from ferry transport and changed its name to Tromsbuss.
# Passenger (Mnemic album)

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Passenger is the third album by Danish industrial metal band Mnemic, and their first to feature vocalist Guillaume Bideau (formerly of Scarve).
Originally, mixing duties were to be handled by Andy Sneap, but the band later decided to have Tue Madsen (producer and mixer on both previous albums) mix instead. Christian Olde Wolbers from Fear Factory also did co-production work for this album. Since this album, the guitarists use downtuned 7-string guitars.
To promote the album, the band went on a tour of North America in January and February 2007 with God Forbid, Goatwhore, Arsis, The Human Abstract, and Byzantine and on a tour of the UK with the Deftones in March.

## Personnel

* Guillaume Bideau – vocals
* Mircea Gabriel Eftemie – guitar, keyboards
* Rune Stigart – guitar, keyboards
* Tomas Koefoed – bass
* Brian Rasmussen – drums

### Additional personnel

* Jeff Walker – vocals on "Psykorgasm"
* Shane Embury – vocals on "Psykorgasm"
* Roy Z – guitars on "Meaningless"
# Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian-born American physicist working in string theory. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1994.

## Early life and education

Distler was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he attended Herzliah High School (Snowdon) along with noted Pediatric Researcher Daniel Wechsler. He attended Harvard University, also with Dan Wechsler, for both his bachelors and doctorate in physics. His 1987 thesis Compactified String Theories was supervised by Sidney Coleman.

## Physics career

Before going to Texas, he was assistant professor at Princeton University.
According to citation counts, his most influential publication is his 1989 paper on conformal field theory in two dimensions. His earliest paper is Gauge Invariant Superstring Field Theory, co-authored with André LeClair and published in 1986 in Nuclear Physics B.
He has studied the "landscape" of metastable vacua in string theory. In July 2005, he released a paper on this topic. Professor Distler was a member of arXiv's physics advisory board.
He has a blog Musings: Thoughts on Science, Computing, and Life on Earth, one of the first theoretical physics blogs in the world.

## Personal life

Distler maintains a webpage dedicated to his father, who was born in Poland and escaped the German slave camps of World War II.
# Evan Copley

Robert Evan Copley (March 22, 1930 – September 13, 2018) was an American academic and musician who has published several theory textbooks, including Harmony: Baroque to Contemporary.
Copley's numerous compositions include symphonic, choral, band, keyboard, and chamber music works. In February 1990, his Ninth Symphony was premiered, and in 1986, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast Copley's motet, "In Thee, O God, Do I Put My Trust" to 350 radio stations and 40 television stations. His Third Piano Concerto was premiered in 1988 by Daniel Graham and the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra. Also in 1988, Copley was named UNC's Distinguished Scholar of the Year. In the summer of 1991, Copley was named composer-in-residence at the Breckenridge Music Institute. Copley received his MM and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University.
# Carmelo Candreva

Carmelo Candreva (1931–1982) was an Arbëresh writer and poet.
He was born in Cerzeto (Qanë) in Calabria, Italy. Among his published works is a study Didactic test in a bilingual Arberesh environment, about the right of the Arberesh people to cultivate their own language and to have it taught at schools.
He also published several poetical volumes.
# Bagh-e Mohammad Ali

Bagh-e Mohammad Ali (Persian: باغ محمدعلي, also Romanized as Bāgh-e Moḩammad ‘Alī) is a village in Poshtkuh Rural District, Falard District, Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 356, in 80 families. The village is populated by Lurs.
# Gauri Gill

Gauri Gill (born 1970) is an Indian contemporary photographer who lives in New Delhi. She has been called "one of India's most respected photographers" by the New York Times and one of "the most thoughtful photographers active in India today" in The Wire. In 2011 Gill was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada's most prestigious contemporary photography award. The jury said her works "often address ordinary heroism within challenging environments depicting the artist's often-intimate relationships with her subjects with a documentary spirit and a human concern over issues of survival."

## Education and early life

Born in Chandigarh, India, Gauri Gill received her BFA in Applied Art at the Delhi College of Arts in New Delhi, India. She earned her BFA in Photography at the Parsons School of Design, New York in 1994, and MFA in Photography at Stanford University in 2002.

## Work and career

In The Americans (2000–2007) she photographed her family and friends across the Indian diaspora in America.
A decade-long study of marginalized communities in rural Rajasthan called Notes from the Desert (1999 –ongoing) has resulted in individual exhibitions and projects such as The Mark on the Wall, Jannat, Balika Mela, Birth Series and Ruined Rainbow. Of this work, she says, "The girls who come to the fair have an urge to know. Those who stepped into my photo tend also wished to portray themselves, as they are, or as they see themselves, or to invent new selves for the camera. Their attempts may have been tentative or bold, but this book may be seen as a catalogue of that desire."
The 1984 notebook (2005–2014) is an example of collaboration and 'active listening', and of using photography as a memory practice.
In January 2007, along with Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, she co-founded and edited Camerawork Delhi a free newsletter about independent photography from New Delhi and elsewhere.
In 2011 she won the Grange Prize, Canada's most prestigious contemporary photography award.
In 2012, she curated a major exhibition called Transportraits: Women and Mobility in the City investigating safety and experiences of women on the streets.
Since 2013, she has collaborated with Rajesh Vangad, a renowned Warli artist, on Fields of Sight, combining the contemporary language of photography with the ancient one of Warli drawing to co-create new narratives. .

## Selected Exhibitions

* RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2023.
* Prix Pictet Exhibition: Human, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2023.
# USCT Port

USCT Port, also known as USCT PAD, is a Senegalese basketball team based in Dakar. It currently plays in the Nationale 1, after being promoted from second division in 2021. It is the basketball team of the Autonomous Port of Dakar.

## Honours

Nationale 2
* Champions (1): 2021

## Season by season

| Season | League | Group | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs |
| Season | League | Group | Finish | Wins | Losses | Pct. | Playoffs |
| USCT Port ||||||||
| 2020 | | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 | Nationale 2 | Promoted as champions | Promoted as champions | Promoted as champions | Promoted as champions | Promoted as champions | Promoted as champions |
| 2022 | Nationale 1 | Group A | 7th | 3 | 11 | .214 | 4th in Play-down (6–2) |
| 2023 | Nationale 1 | Group A | 5th | 6 | 8 | .429 | 4th in Play-down (6–2) |
| 2024 | Nationale 1 | Group A | 7th | 3 | 11 | .214 | Will play in play-down |
| Regular season record | Regular season record | Regular season record | Regular season record | 12 | 30 | .286 | |
| Play-down record | Play-down record | Play-down record | Play-down record | 12 | 4 | .750 | |
# Marjaree Mason Center

The Marjaree Mason Center is a non-profit, shelter-based, domestic violence program headquartered in Fresno, California, which serves the whole of Fresno County. Named for an Easton, California woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, the center was founded in 1979 and operates one of the largest shelters in California. As of 2024, it is the only full-time service providing shelters for those affected by domestic violence in the county, which has a population over a million and the highest rate of reported domestic violence per person in the state.

## History

The non-profit was founded in 1979, after the murder, the previous November, of a 36-year-old local woman for whom it was named; Mason had been fatally shot by a former boyfriend who was a sheriff's bailiff. By 1984, its Fresno shelter could house 24 women and it was beginning to extend its reach beyond the city to cover other towns in the county, including Kingsburg, as well as rural areas.
In 2004 the Fresno emergency shelter had 101 places, and the charity was estimated to help 5,400 women and children a year. That year the charity was planning to open its second center, a 18-bed center in Reedley, in the south of the county, also intended to serve Selma, Sanger and Fowler, which was described in the Selma Enterprise as "Fresno County's first rural domestic violence shelter." In 2006 the Marjaree Mason Center was organizing one of four established programs across the United States assisting prostitutes with homelessness and drug addiction. In 2013, a third 28-bed shelter opened in Clovis.
In July 2024, Fresno City Council provided $300,000 in funding to the Marjaree Mason Center to supplement federal funding via the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Crime Victim's Fund, after substantial cuts threatened services.

## Services

Marjaree Mason Center serves Fresno County. The main emergency shelter in Fresno houses 140 people (as of 2024); the charity also provides a drop-in center and a telephone hotline offering advice to women it is unable to accommodate.
# Kazimierz Sikorski

Kazimierz Sikorski (June 28, 1895 – July 23, 1986) was a Polish composer. His arrangement of the "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" is currently used as the Polish national anthem.

## Biography

Sikorski was born in Zurich, but studied in Warsaw, first music at the Warsaw Conservatory and then philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He then studied in Lwów, which was Polish at the time, where he was a student of Adolf Chybiński, and Paris under Nadia Boulanger. In 1926, he became a teacher of composition at the Conservatory of Poznań. From 1927 to 1945, he taught at the Warsaw Conservatory. He was rector of the State Higher School of Music in Łódź. From 1951 to 1966, he taught music theory and composition at the Music Academy Warsaw. See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Kazimierz Sikorski. During this time, he was president of the Polish Composers' Union.
He received many awards and honours, including: the National Music Award (1935), the Order of Polonia Restituta (1937), State Award first and second degree (1951, 1955, 1964, 1966), the Award of the Polish Composers’ Union (1951, 1975), the Gold Cross of Merit (1952), Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1955), the Banner of Labour Order, First Class (1960), the Jurzykowski Foundation Award (1981). He died in Warsaw, aged 91.
He was the father of the composer, Tomasz Sikorski.

## Composition

Sikorski composed six symphonies, a symphonic allegro, two overtures (1945, 1954), some instrumental concertos, of which the clarinet concerto (1947) is the most important, a string sextet, three string quartets, choral and film music, including the music for the film Warsaw Premiere (Polish: Warszawska premiera), for which he won a State Award.

## Selected works

* Symphony No. 2 (1922)
* Stabat Mater, Oratorio for 4 Solo Voices, Mixed Choir and Orchestra (1948, 1950)
* Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (1957)
* Concerto for Trumpet, String Orchestra, 4 Kettledrums, Xylophone and Tam-tam (1960)
* Poliphonic Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (1965)
* Symphony No. 4 (1969)
* Four Polonaises of Versailles for Strings (after Manuscripts from the 18th and 19th c.) (1974)

## Selected filmography

* Warsaw Premiere (1951)
# Miliarium

A miliarium (Classical Latin:) was a cylindrical, oval or parallelepiped column placed on the edge of Roman roads to mark the distances every thousand passus (double Roman steps), that is, every mile. Today, this is equivalent to a distance of approximately 1480 meters. The stone known as the Milliarium Aureum was the point used to indicate the distance to Rome from any point in the Roman Empire.

## Background

The columns were made of granite, marble or whatever local stone was available. Each had a cubic or square pedestal and measured between 6.6 to 13.1 feet (2.0 to 4.0 m), with a diameter of 19.5 to 31.5 inches (50 to 80 cm). Miliarium were widely used by Roman road builders and were an important part of any road network. In those times, the distance that could be travelled each day was sometimes only a few miles. Many miliaria only record the name of the reigning emperor without giving any placenames or distances. The first known miliaria appeared on the Appian Way during the final period of the Roman Republic, but the vast majority of that still exist were made during the High Empire and, to a lesser extent, in the 3rd and 4th centuries.
Most of the milestones carried directly engraved inscriptions, depending on the importance of the road or the proximity or distance from Rome, or the cities of origin and destination. The inscription always consisted of a series of well-defined parts:
* The full title of the emperor under whose rule the road was built or modified.
* The distance to Rome or the most important town on the route.
* The governor and/or the military unit responsible for the works on the road.
* The expression refecit or reparavit if it was a road maintenance work
In the 4th century, the milestones lost their usefulness as mileposts, becoming an element of political propaganda for the emperors.
In the Western Roman Empire, the last miliaria were made at the time of the emperors Theodosius I and Honorius. With the barbarian invasions and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, they ceased to be carved when the maintenance of the roads disappeared. In the Eastern Roman Empire, the roads continued to be maintained until the 6th century, although the miliaria became increasingly rare until they were no longer erected. Being written in Latin, they lost their functionality among a population that spoke mainly Greek.

## Gallery

* Roman milestone of Emperor Trajan Decius, found in Borriol, Spain
* Nero's miliarium on the Vía de la Plata in the Municipium Capara, in the northern part of the Province of Cáceres.
* Milliarium Aureum in the Roman Forum
# Sri Srinivasa Kalyana (1952 film)

Sri Srinivasa Kalyana (pronunciation) is a 1952 Indian Kannada-language Hindu mythological film directed by D. Shankar Singh and B. Vittalacharya. Dr. Rajkumar played Agastya, one of the seven Saptarshis. It was the only Kannada film to be released in 1952.

## Cast

* Vimalananda Das as Srinivasa
* Prathima Devi as Padmavati
* Dr. Rajkumar as Agastya
* M. N. Lakshmi Devi

## Production

Dr. Rajkumar was reportedly paid ₹30 for his role that "he remembered [...] was over before he recognized himself in the scene". He bought a shawl for his mother using the money.
# Just an Old Fashioned Girl

"Just An Old Fashioned Girl" is a popular song written by Marve A. Fisher and best known in its 1956 recording by Eartha Kitt.
The song was recorded with Henri René and his orchestra, and was included on Kitt's RCA album Thursday's Child which she recorded between December 1955 and April 1956. Reviewer William Ruhlmann refers to the song as a "novelty... to exploit Kitt's promiscuous gold-digger image, as she wooed millionaires and their money." In 1958 the song was issued as a single in the UK, but failed to chart. It became a minor chart hit in Australia in 1963.
"Just An Old Fashioned Girl" became a cornerstone of Eartha Kitt's stage act, as her popularity developed around the world at the same time as her novel and provocative image became less of an attraction to US audiences. It became her signature tune in Britain, so much so that it is prominently mentioned in "The Cycling Tour," a Series 3 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Some of the song's lyrics have been included in directories of quotations:
   I'm just an old fashioned girl with an old fashioned mind Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence And an old fashioned millionaire.
The song's lyricist and composer, Marvin A. "Marve" Fisher (June 21, 1907 – September 1, 1957), was an Illinois-born and Los Angeles–based writer of comic and novelty songs, including "Ring Those Christmas Bells", recorded by Peggy Lee and others, which Fisher co-wrote with Gus Levene. He is sometimes confused with another songwriter, Marvin Fisher (1916–1993), who wrote "When Sunny Gets Blue" and "Destination Moon", and was the son of Fred Fisher.
# Ouroube SC (women's basketball)

Ouroube Sports Club (Arabic: نادي العروبة الرياضي) (Armenian: Ուրուբե) is a Syrian women's professional basketball club based in Aleppo. It is part of the Antranik Youth Association.

## Honours

* Syrian Women Basketball League
** Eighth place (2): 2009 – 2021
* Syrian Women Basketball League 2
** Runners-up (1): 2020

## Current roster

Player line-up for the 2021–2022 season:
Betty Minasian - Nancy Begon - Marya Minasian - Rita Nahy - Naveer Narcis - Lucy Bodagian - Carla Barsumian - Mirna Akmkijan - Anna Aslanian - Patel Kirgizska - Natalie Nagar - Karen Chejo
Head Coach: Nazu Qayumji
Assistant Coach: Lucy Amirkhanian
# Australian Paraguayans

Australian Paraguayans are citizens of Paraguay of Australian background. Most of them are descendants of a group of radical socialist Australians who voluntarily went to Paraguay to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva (New) Australia.

## History

In 1893, a group of Australian shearers fed up with the lack of job opportunities and security were persuaded by a controversial journalist, William Lane, to form the New Australia movement and over 2,000 prospective colonists signed up immediately. Paraguay was eager to offer the Australian colonists 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) of fertile land. Having lost 90% of its male population only 20 years before in the Paraguayan War the country was desperate for manpower to work the land and re-populate the diminished nation.
The first group, almost entirely men, was meant to set everything up for the thousands who would follow, and create the world’s first great communist city. They secured a ship to Buenos Aires in Argentina and from there the 238 adults and children travelled across the grasslands in the heart of South America to Paraguay, where the national government had granted them land to start their own colony. For a few years, new colonists continued to trickle into both communities from Australia and the UK, but the majority of settlers left, heading back to Australia or to farm work on Patagonian estancias. But, around eight families did remain and to this day 2,000 descendants of those colonists still call Paraguay home.

## Notable people

* León Cadogan - Paraguayan ethnologist
* Gilbert Casey - Australian trade unionist
* Mary Gilmore - Australian socialist poet and journalist.
* William Lane - Pioneer of the Australian labour movement and utopian.
* Rose Summerfield - Australian feminist and labour activist.
* Robin Wood - Paraguayan comic book writer
* Alex Sharman - Former rugby union player for Paraguay national rugby union team.
# Israel–Seychelles relations

Israel–Seychelles relations refer to the bilateral relationship between the State of Israel and the Republic of Seychelles. The Israeli embassy in Nairobi, Kenya is accredited to Seychelles. Seychelles has an honorary consul in Tel Aviv, named Arie Goldstein. Seychelles supports a two-state solution and condemned Israel's "indiscriminate killing" of Palestinians during the Gaza war.

## History

Relations between the State of Israel and the Republic of Seychelles were officially established in 1992, after the end of the boycott of the Sub-Saharan African countries.
The economic relations between Israel and Seychelles are small and modest, with tourism as the most important co-operation between the countries. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Seychelles opened the country for Israelis and set aside an island exclusively for them, since during the first wave, Israel had a low rate of infection.

## Diplomatic missions

Israel is not represented in Seychelles at either the embassy or consular level, but through the embassy it maintains in Nairobi.
Seychelles is not represented in Israel at embassy level. Seychelles is represented in Israel at a consular level through a consulate it maintains in Tel Aviv. The Honorary Consul of Seychelles in Israel is Aryeh Goldstein.
In January 2024, both countries signed visa-free accord.