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# Verband deutscher Pfandbriefbanken

The Verband deutscher Pfandbriefbanken (vdp, in English Association of German Pfandbrief Banks) is the interest group of German banks which issue a form of property-backed covered bond known as Pfandbrief. vdp member institutions are also engaged in ship and aircraft finance. The vdp takes the judicial form of an Eingetragener Verein (registered association).

## History

The association was named Verband deutscher Hypothekenbanken (lit. 'association of German mortgage banks') until July 2005.

## Organization

The association represents 40 member institutions and it is one of the five members of the German Banking Industry Committee that is defining the standards of the German financing sector.
The bond banks association runs a number of subsidiaries for specialized task such as the "vdp Research GmbH" (vdpResearch), the "vdp Pfandbriefakademie GmbH" (Pfandbrief Academy), the "Hyp Real Estate Rating Services GmbH" (HypRating) and the "Hyp-Zert-Gesellschaft" that is certifying real estate agents to take part in the "Beleihungswertermittlungen mbH" (HypZert - mortgage estimates), with all of them located in Berlin.
# Veronica alpina

Veronica alpina, the alpine speedwell or alpine veronica, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Veronica, native to Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Svalbard, most of Europe, parts of Siberia, northern Pakistan, the western Himalayas, and Tibet. It is the namesake of the Veronica alpina species complex, which also includes V. bellidioides, V. copelandii, V. cusickii, V. nipponica, V. nutans, V. stelleri and V. wormskjoldii.
# Victor Tchetchet

Victor Tchetchet (June 19, 1891 – April 26, 1974) was a pioneering early modern multihull sailboat designer from Ukraine (at his birth part of the Russian Empire) who is thought to have coined the term 'trimaran', though Éric de Bisschop built a trimaran in France earlier. He was also a landscape and portrait painter.
Born in Kyiv, Victor was inspired by South Pacific outriggers to connect two 18 ft (5.5 m) canoes to make a catamaran and enter the Kyiv Imperial Yacht Club's local races. After winning, he was disqualified.
In 1923 Tchetchet emigrated to New York City and further experimented with catamarans and trimarans. In 1945 he launched his first trimaran, of 24 ft (7.3 m) length.
Tchetchet entered the Marblehead Race Week in 1946. Despite a poor performance, his participation helped to overcome the local prejudice against multihulls after Nathanael Herreshoff's 1876 win with the catamaran Amaryllis at the New York Yacht Club's Centennial Regatta. In the same year, he established the International Multihull Boat Racing Association.

## Designs

Victor Tchetchet's boat designs include the following:
* T26 (trimaran) - 26 ft (7.9 m) (circa 1949)
* Egg Nog (trimaran) - 24 ft (7.3 m) (circa 1955)
* Egg Nog II (trimaran)
# Victoria Johnson

Victoria Johnson (born 1969) is an American author and historian. She is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College.

## Early life and education

Johnson was born and raised in Ithaca, New York. She attended Yale University for her Bachelor of Arts degree and Columbia University for a PhD in Sociology. Her sister, Elizabeth Kostova, is also an author.

## Career

After earning her PhD, Johnson taught at the University of Michigan. While there, she published "Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime" through the University of Chicago Press. She was promoted from assistant to Associate Professor of Organizational Studies in 2011. Johnson eventually left the University of Michigan to join the faculty of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. During the 2015–16 academic term, she was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Johnson was a Mellon Visiting Scholar at The New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute in 2016, where she conducted research on David Hosack. After her first proposal was rejected for being "too academic," she published a biography of David Hosack in 2018 titled "American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic." Her book was subsequently nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize for History, and LA Times Book Prize. The following year, she received the 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize and was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.
# Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association

The Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association (VHPBA), is the oldest pipe band association in the world, having been established in 1924. It is separate from the state branch of the Australian Pipe Band Association (Pipe Bands Victoria) which is the organization coordinating Scottish Pipe band activities in Victoria, Australia.
Further information about the VHPBA can be found at its website vhpba.com.au

## History

After nearly seventy years of Highland musical contests in Australia in 1924, there were moves towards coordinating Victorian pipe band affairs. In a meeting at Geelong on 12 April that year, the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association was formed. It was the first of its kind, anywhere in the world - predating even the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association.
Initial efforts were focused on ensuring fair competition, including the election of knowledgeable, impartial judges and creating the competition rules. Unintentionally, the VHPBA had also become the national leader on all pipe band issues, and not long after its inception, had members from New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, in addition to the many Victorians present.
However, as the pipe band scene in Australia grew in the 1950-60s, associations were formed in other states. Toward the end of this period, it was realised that a national identity to oversee the organisations and coordination of a standardized ruling system was needed. Though only representatives from New South Wales and Victoria attended the meeting that formed the Australian Federation of Pipe Band Associations, all six states joined shortly after its founding.
Though the national body was responsible for communicating between the organizations, each individual member, including the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association, retained control over its own state. This worked well for the next thirty years, until in the 1990s it was felt that the state associations needed to become branches of an amalgamated entity. In 1997 the Australian Pipe Band Association (Pipe Bands Australia) was created with a Victorian Branch (Pipe Bands Victoria). The Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association was retained as a separate legal entity (as applied to its counterparts in other States such as New South Wales and Queensland) and remains supportive of Victorian pipe bands.
# Vidya Academy of Science and Technology Technical Campus

Vidya Academy of Science and Technology Technical Campus (VAST TC), is a privately financed engineering college in Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala situated at Kilimanoor.The college offers a degree in Bachelor of Technology and courses in five branches of engineering - Civil, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical. The college was established and is administered by Vidya International Charitable Trust (VICT), a body formed by more than a thousand non-resident Keralites mostly based in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.
Vidya Academy of Science and Technology Technical Campus is accredited by NAAC with "B++" Grade in 2022.
# Vienna Convention

Vienna Convention can mean any of a number of treaties signed in Vienna. Most are related to the harmonization or formalization of the procedures of international diplomacy, but some are not.
* several treaties and conventions resulted from the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) which redrew the map of Europe, only partially restoring the pre-Napoleonic situation, and drafted new rules for international relations
* Vienna Convention on Money (1857)
* Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)
* Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (1963)
* Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963)
* Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968)
* Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals (1968)
* Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969)
* Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks, on intellectual property law (1972)
* Convention on the Issue of Multilingual Extracts from Civil Status Records (1976)
* Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties (1978)
* United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980), a uniform international sales law
* Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985)
* Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations (1986)
* United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)
* Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, on the Nuclear Program of Iran (2015)
# Vigo (comarca)

Vigo is a comarca in the Galician province of Pontevedra, Spain. It covers an area of 613.4 km$^2$, centred on the city of Vigo, and the overall population of this comarca was 423,825 at the 2011 Census; the latest official estimate (for the start of 2019) was 424,765.
The comarca is formed from the following 11 municipalities:
| Name of municipality | Population (2001) | Population (2011) | Population (2019) |
| Baiona | 10,931 | 11,940 | 12,122 |
| Fornelos de Montes | 2,066 | 1,900 | 1,616 |
| Gondomar | 12,176 | 14,086 | 14,286 |
| Mos | 14,127 | 15,194 | 15,078 |
| Nigrán | 16,110 | 17,870 | 17,675 |
| Pazos de Borbén | 3,052 | 3,148 | 2,999 |
| O Porriño | 15,960 | 18,033 | 19,848 |
| Redondela | 29,003 | 29,947 | 29,218 |
| Salceda de Caselas | 6,335 | 8,810 | 9,164 |
| Soutomaior | 5,405 | 7,274 | 7,395 |
| Vigo | 280,186 | 295,623 | 295,364 |
| Totals | 395,351 | 423,825 | 424,765 |
# Village Québécois d'Antan

The site of the Village Québécois d'Antan is a historical village and living museum depicting life in Québec during the 19th century. The tourist attraction is located in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada.
The Village Québécois d'Antan was conceived in 1977 by historian Claude Verrier, by the Chamber of commerce of the county of Drummond.

## Details

The houses of the Village Québécois d'Antan are authentic houses of the 19th century, which were brought to the site, to create the village which reproduces the characteristics of the Québécois society between the years 1810 and 1930. On the site are:
* 70 houses of the 19th century (including a cabane à sucre, a school, the doctor's house, etc.)
* 22 homes have guides which are dressed as the people were in those days and which reproduce the activities of artisans
* 18 economuseums on traditional trades
* a 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) site situated within a natural landscape
* more than 100 employees on the site

## Holiday themes

The Village has annual events for certain major holidays:
* Le Village Hanté is the Halloween-themed version of the Village, which offers a haunted tour and takes place from late September through the end of October.
* Le Village Illuminé Desjardins is the Christmas-themed version of the Village, which involves Christmas food, shops, and lights, and lasts from late November through early January.
# Villers-sur-le-Mont

Villers-sur-le-Mont (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.
# Villers-sous-Prény

Villers-sous-Prény (French pronunciation:, literally Villers under Prény) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
# Vilém Závada

Vilém Závada (2 May 1905 – 30 November 1982) was a Czech poet, translator and journalist.

## Biography

Závada was born in to the family of a metal worker, his father died during the First World War, an event which left a huge impression on his future works. His mother raised Vilém and his two brothers in impoverished circumstances. Závada graduated from his doctorate in philosophy at the Charles University and started his literary career.
Initially a representative of Poetism, he broke with the literary style in favor of a more gloomy and pessimistic romanticism. In 1927 Závada wrote his most famous work, Panychida, a work which was for the commoderation of the fallen of the First World War as well as a melancholic meditation on life itself.
In the 30s Závada mostly worked as a magazine editor. After the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, he became more reclusive and wrote Hradní věž, which was about his coming to terms with the fate of his country.
After the German surrender Závada joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia however was not involved in party politics. After a period of simplistic acceptance of the optimism of post-war conditions, at the end of his life he returned to the poetry of existential depth and tragedy of life.
In 1948 he was appointed the director of the National Library of Czechoslovakia, a position from which he resigned in 1949. In 1958 he was again temporarily appointed head of the library.
in 1966 he was awarded the position of National Artist. In 1969, he was awarded in the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of Otokar Březina's birthday.
Závada died in 1982 in Prague at the age of 77 and was buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery.
His son Jan Závada (1933–2024) was a Czech molecular oncologist, expert in virus genetics.
# Vilmundarson

Vilmundarson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Karl Vilmundarson (1909–1983), Icelandic athlete
* Vilhjálmur Vilmundarson (1929–2020), Icelandic athlete
# Vincent Friell

Vincent Friell (7 January 1960 – 14 April 2024) was a Scottish actor, whose most memorable role was that of Will Bryce in the Scottish crime comedy film Restless Natives (1985).

## Life and career

Vincent Friell was born on 7 January 1960 in Glasgow.
Friell's other film appearances included roles in other Scottish films such as Trainspotting (1996) and The Angels' Share (2012). He also appeared in a variety of television shows including Rab C. Nesbitt, Taggart, Still Game and Being Victor.
Friell died on 14 April 2024, at the age of 64.

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Company | Director | Notes |
| 1987 | The Jungle Book | Kaa | Brunton Theatre Company, Musselburgh | Charles Nowosielski | adaptation by Stephen MacDonald |
| 1987 | The Knicht o the Riddils | Prince Alasdair | Brunton Theatre Company, Musselburgh | Charles Nowosielski | play by David Purves |
# Vinny McCarthy

Vinny McCarthy (born 27 September 1955 ) is a Scottish former soccer player.
Having had a spell at Partick Thistle in Scotland, McCarthy was signed by Manchester United although injury restricted his opportunities at Old Trafford. After a short stay in Manchester, McCarthy was signed by Waterford United on the same day as Bobby Charlton. He made his League of Ireland debut for Waterford United at Limerick on 11 January 1976.
McCarthy signed for Shamrock Rovers in July 1987.
He made a scoring debut in a League Cup game in Longford on 23 August.
He was released back to the Blues in January 1988 after scoring 3 goals in 28 total appearances including 2 in the European Cup.
McCarthy represented the League of Ireland at Inter-League level.

## Honours

* FAI Cup: 1
** Waterford United 1980
* League of Ireland First Division: 1
** Waterford United 1989/90
# Vilamar e Corticeiro de Cima

Vilamar e Corticeiro de Cima is a civil parish in the municipality of Cantanhede, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Vilamar and Corticeiro de Cima. The population in 2011 was 1,501, in an area of 11.05 km². The civil parish is composed of four census designated villages, Vilamar being the seat and main town.

## Location

The parish is about 10 kilometers northwest of the city of Cantanhede, and 13 kilometers from the Atlantic coast.

## Economy

Economic activity is largely based on agriculture and jewellery, for which it is known throughout Portugal and beyond since the 19th century.
# Vinea (soft drink)

Vinea is a carbonated grape-based soft drink invented in Czechoslovakia in 1973 by Slovak Ján Farkaš, a biochemist working for the Research Institute for Viticulture and Wine-making in Bratislava. Production of the drink began in 1974. After years of trademark ownership disputes, Vinea was sold to Kofola in January 2008.
# Remalle

Remalle is a village in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Bapulapadu mandal of Gannavaram revenue division. It is one of the villages in the mandal to be a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region. Remalle is further divided into two parts, New Remalle (Kotha Remalle) and Old Remalle (Patha Remalle).

## Kotha

Kotha Remalle is a small village which is located in Bapulapadu Mandal. The village has 100 houses and a population of 1000 people.
# Hongxin Road station

Hongxin Road (Chinese: 虹莘路; pinyin: Hóngxīn Lù) is a station on the Shanghai Metro, which services Line 12 and opened on December 19, 2015.
# Russell Celyn Jones

Russell Celyn Jones is a British writer and Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck, University of London. Jones was born in London and brought up in Swansea, Wales. He has written novels, mostly focused on crime and issues of guilt and morality, and also teaches creative writing. He may be best known for Ten Seconds from the Sun about the rehabilitation of a child murderer. Jones received his B.A. degree from University College London and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He has three children: Rebecca, Rachel, and Benjamin.

## Books
### Soldiers and Innocents

His first novel, Soldiers and Innocents (1990) is about a father and son who both pursued military careers, the former in North Africa in World War II, the latter in the more morally complex setting of the Northern Irish Troubles. The novel was made into a six-part series for BBC Radio 4 and won the David Higham Prize.

### The Eros Hunter

The Eros Hunter is a 1998 crime novel about police investigating paedophilia in London. The Independent found its oblique, subtle approach to be impressive, while conceding that some crime fans may prefer more direct thrills.

### Surface Tension

His novel Surface Tension (2001) has central characters Mark and Geena, brother and sister, whose parents fled Apartheid-era South Africa. After finding out that Geena was adopted they return to South Africa to uncover their family secrets. The Guardian praised it for both its style and its themes of identity, morality, and power.

### Ten Seconds from the Sun

Ten Seconds from the Sun (2005) is a novel about a Thames river tug boat captain who as a 12-year-old was sent to jail for murder but on completing his sentence was released and allowed to rejoin society, until a car accident brings him together with a figure from his past, his former partner in crime and half-sister Celestine. The Observer found it at once a "clever psychological thriller" and a deeper reflection on guilt, memory, truth, and other issues. The Telegraph found it slightly overburdened by research but a "tightly written" exploration of a societal taboo. The novel won the Weishanhu Prize in China for the best foreign novel.

### The Ninth Wave

The Welsh collection of tales the Mabinogion provides the raw material for The Ninth Wave (2009), part of a series in which publisher Seren asked writers to reinterpret the classic Welsh stories. Celyn Jones updates "Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed" to an alternate reality where modern consumerism and recreational drugs exist alongside mounted knights.

## Selected bibliography

* Soldiers and Innocents (1990)
* Small Times (1992)
* An Interference of the Light (1995)
* The Eros Hunter (1998)
* Surface Tension (2001)
* Second Nature (2005)
* Ten Seconds from the Sun (2005)
* The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) (2009)
* Writing Fiction (2010)
# White Wilderness

White Wilderness may refer to:
* Puszcza Biała, the White Wilderness in Poland
* White Wilderness (film), a 1958 Disney documentary noted for its propagation of the myth of lemming suicide
* White Mountain Wilderness, a protected wilderness area within the Lincoln National Forest
# Check-In (album)

Check-In is an album by jazz pianist Roberto Magris released on the Soul Note label in 2005, and including performances by the Roberto Magris Europlane featuring saxophonist Tony Lakatos.

## Reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| All About Jazz | |
| All About Jazz | |
| All About Jazz | |
| All About Jazz | |
| All About Jazz | |
| The Irish Times | |
| Concerto | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
The AllMusic review by Alain Drouot awarded the album 4 stars and simply states: "For some years, Europlane has been an important vehicle for Italian pianist Roberto Magris. The version featured on Check-In delivers some straight-ahead jazz of the finest order -- inventive, yet accessible."

## Track listing

* I Remember You (Schertzinger/Mercer) – 7:19
* Blues for my Sleeping Baby (Roberto Magris) - 12:29
* African Mood (Roberto Magris) - 9:35
* Luci Lontane (Roberto Magris) - 6:20
* What Blues? (Roberto Magris) - 5:26
* Why Did I Choose You (Martin/Leonard) - 6:00
* I Concentrate on You (Cole Porter) - 7:26
* Che Cosa C’è (Gino Paoli) - 3:26

## Personnel
### Musicians

* Tony Lakatos – tenor sax and soprano sax
* Michael Erian – tenor sax and soprano sax
* Roberto Magris – piano
* Robert Balzar – bass
* Gabriele Centis – drums
* Fulvio Zafret – congas (on # 3)

### Production

* Roberto Magris and Gabriele Centis – co-producers
* Flavio Bonandrini – executive producer
* Fulvio Zafret – engineering
* Maria Bonandrini – design
# Check-Up

Check-Up was a Canadian television series about medical information that aired on CBC Television in 1963.

## Premise

The series was produced by the CBC in collaboration with the Canadian Medical Association. Each episode focused on a particular medical condition and featured doctors conducting a diagnosis and treatment of a patient. This was followed by interviews conducted by the host Lloyd Robertson and a guest panel of the physician, who discussed how the treatment plan was developed. The program concluded with a follow-up to the patient.

## Production

Norrie Swanson of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Association served as a consultant for Check-Up. Denny Spence produced the series with Eric Koch as supervising producer.

## Scheduling

The half-hour series aired Mondays at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 8 July to 23 September 1963.
# XHPNOC-FM

XHPNOC-FM is a radio station on 96.5 FM in Asunción Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, known as Hits 96.5 FM.

## History

XHPNOC was awarded in the IFT-4 radio auction of 2017. The station began operations in February 2019.
# Svea Glacier

Svea Glacier (72°8′S 1°53′E﻿ / ﻿72.133°S 1.883°E﻿ / -72.133; 1.883) is a broad glacier flowing north between the Sverdrup and Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39). Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949–52) and air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958–59) and named Sveabreen (the glacier of the Swedes).