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Ruth Metzler (born Arnold, 23 May 1964) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC), she headed the Federal Department of Justice and Police.

Biography

Political career
Educated at the University of Fribourg, Metzler served as the cantonal executive in charge of finance in Appenzell Innerrhoden from 1996 to 1999.

She was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 11 March 1999, as a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party. Metzler took office at the Federal Department of Justice and Police the following 1 May, succeeding Arnold Koller; she won 14 referendums during her time in office. On 1 January 2003, she assumed the vice presidency of the Swiss Confederation.

On 10 December 2003, she became the third Federal Councillor not to be reelected in the history of the Swiss Federal State. In the 2003 Federal Assembly election, her party lost many voters and the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) became the largest party of Switzerland. The Swiss People's Party then requested another seat in the Federal Council. In the elections for the Federal Council on 10 December, the Federal Assembly did not reelect Metzler and elected Christoph Blocher instead, by 121 votes to 116 on the third round of voting. She challenged her CVP colleague Joseph Deiss for his seat, but lost by 138 to 96. Metzler kept her seat until the end of the year and Christoph Blocher succeeded her on 1 January 2004.

After politics
She published the memories of those years under the title "Grissini & Alpenbitter", 2004, . She taught between February and July 2004 at the University of St. Gallen a class called "Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten in der Politik" which can be translated as "scope for design in politics". Since April 2005 she has been working for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis.

References

External links

www.ruthmetzler.ch – personal website

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1964 births
People from Sursee District
Living people
Members of the Federal Council (Switzerland)
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland politicians
University of Fribourg alumni
Swiss Roman Catholics
Swiss women lawyers
Women members of the Federal Council (Switzerland)
20th-century women rulers
20th-century Swiss women politicians
20th-century Swiss politicians
21st-century Swiss women politicians
21st-century Swiss politicians
20th-century Swiss lawyers
21st-century Swiss lawyers
20th-century women lawyers
21st-century women lawyers
Dale Hickey (born 1937) is an Australian artist.

Born in Melbourne, Hickey studied art at Swinburne College of Technology and then held various teaching positions including Senior Lecturer in painting at Phillip Institute of Technology (now Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) from 1973 to 1989, before devoting himself full-time to painting. His first solo exhibition was at Toorak Galleries, Melbourne, in 1964. In 1968 he was included in the National Gallery of Victoria exhibition of Australian minimalism, The Field, , together with Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Peter Booth, and Robert Rooney. Hickey has described this early work as being inspired by American critic Clement Greenberg and by pop art. His later work has explored a wide range of styles, constituting, according to critic Christopher Heathcote, "a sustained investigation into the nature of art.",  He is represented in all major public collections in Australia.

See also
Art of Australia

External links
Biography
Simplified like Matisse
Dale Hickey at Australian Art

Australian painters
Living people
1937 births
Richard Vincent (born 3 September 1969) is an English actor, playwright, theatre director and screenwriter from Croydon in London.

Life
Vincent trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London. His first play, "Off the Bone", was produced at the Courtyard Theatre in 1994. "Real Estate" was a selected play at the 1994 International Playwriting Festival at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon and was produced at the Teatro Colosseo, Rome and developed into a screenplay by Granada Film.

Theatre

Vincent enjoyed an ongoing relationship with the Warehouse Theatre: his plays "Skin Deep" and "Happy and Glorious" have been produced there and he is Associate Director and head of their writers' workshop.
Vincent also has a close relationship with the Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO), where he has been a tutor, director and artistic director.
Vincent met his wife, Kathryn, at CYTO. In 2005, CYTO celebrated its 40th birthday with a production of Vincent's specially written play, Ruby, which he also co-directed. In 2014 Vincent wrote an adaptation of Cinderella entitled Sparkling Ashes. The show was created again at CYTO and has since gone on tour with a professional cast. In December of 2015, Richard returned to mark 50 year of the organisation with another self-created production - Abi Understood. This production attracted the likes of TV presenter Matthew Wright and Actor Paul Bazely, who came to watch the show and join the 50th proceedings. On the night Matthew Wright spoke very highly of Vincent’s work.

TV and radio

Vincent's play "The Lost" was produced on BBC Radio 4 starring Bob Peck. He has also written for the BBC drama, "Casualty", and several screenplays for the UK Film Council, including a feature-length animated movie, "Fizzle".
His play "Skin Deep" was given its first performance at the Warehouse Theatre Croydon on 17 May 2002.
It was directed by Ted Craig and designed by Isla Shaw, with the following cast: Rae Baker [Chloe Smith], Frank Ellis [Sgt. Bill Cowgate], Colin Wells [Michael], Natasha Gordon [Dr. Amanda Holland], Simon Greiff [PC Gibbons/Simon Cairns], Penelope Woodman [Steph Cowgate].

Works
A small selection of Vincent´s work.

References

English dramatists and playwrights
Living people
1969 births
English male dramatists and playwrights
Zgărdești is a commune in Teleneşti District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Bondareuca, Ciofu and Zgărdești.

Personalities
 Emanoil Catelli

References

Communes of Telenești District
Petit suisse, Petit Suisse or Petit-Suisse is a French cheese.

It may also refer to:

Little Switzerland (Luxembourg) in Luxembourg
Villa Petite Suisse, Nazareth (Maastricht), South Limburg (Netherlands)
Dompierre-les-Ormes, a commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, known locally as la petite Suisse du Mâconnais
Miss Cavandish (foaled 1961) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Robert J. Kleberg Jr. of the renowned King Ranch, she was sired by the 1958 Belmont Stakes winner, Cavan. Her mare was New weapon, a daughter of the 1936 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, Bold Venture.

Considered unlikely to be successful in racing due to a severe "toeing in" problem, she was put up for auction at the September Keeneland Sales. Purchased by Harry S. Nichols for just $1,500, he handed her over to trainer Roger Laurin to see what he could do.

Under Laurin's care, Miss Cavandish raced at age 2, showing her ability when she narrowly lost the Gardenia Stakes. In  1964 the then 3-year-old became one of the top filles racing in the United States with wins in four of the top racers for her age and class.

Miss Cavandish finished second in the balloting for 1964 American Champion 3-Year-Old Filly honors behind future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Tosmah.

Miss Cavandish was not successful as a broodmare.

References

1961 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 4-m
Racehorses trained in the United States
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Gonks are novelty toys and collectibles originating from the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

Created by English inventor Robert Benson, the toys gained popularity and were owned by celebrities including Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers. The Gonks' signature features include a small, spherical body, a furry texture and two googly eyes. Some Gonks had outfits such as those of Merseybeat rockers and were marketed as collectibles. They were popular with children and their success was attributed to how they "can be made from almost any material and of any size." The appearance of some of these toys has been compared to the op art movement.

Redesigned (cyclinders rather than spheres) gonks were introduced into Australia by Tony Bell in the 1970s. They were sold in skill testers and fairgrounds across New South Wales and Queensland.

History
Londoner Robert Benson invented the original toys that achieved popularity in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. The sale of the toys expanded to nations such as Canada and the United States, where Gund began to sell Gonks at a large scale, including inflatable vinyl versions.

Gonks are featured in the title sequence of Gonks Go Beat, a 1965 science-fiction film created by exploitation film director Robert Hartford-Davis. The film features a Romeo and Juliet-style love story with celebrity appearances by Ginger Baker and Lulu.

See also
 Gonks Go Beat
 Googly eyes
 Troll doll
 Weepul
 Squirmles

References

External links
 
 

Novelty items
Stuffed toys
1960s toys
1970s toys
Mardyan () is a district situated in the central eastern part of the Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan. It borders Mingajik District to the west, Qarqin District to north, Balkh Province and Fayzabad District to the east and Aqcha District to the south. The population is 34,200 (2006). The district center is the village of Mardyan, located in the central part of the district.

District Map 
AIMS District Map

Districts of Jowzjan Province
54 Aurigae is a multiple star system located around  away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, blue-white hued star with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 6.02. The system is moving further from the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of around +19 km/s. 

54 Aurigae is resolved into two visible components, of magnitudes 6.22 and 7.82, separated by .  The double was discovered in 1843 when the separation was only .  There is no separate measure of the parallax of the secondary, but it shares a common proper motion with the brighter star and they are assumed to form a binary.  The spectral class B7 III is assigned to the brighter of the pair, indicating a hot giant star, although it has also been given as B7/8 III/V, suggesting it may be a main sequence star.  Most sources can't give a separate spectral classification for the fainter star, but it has been listed as DA1/K4V, indicating it is either a white dwarf or red dwarf.

The brighter component of the visible pair is an eclipsing binary with a period of 1.8797 days, and a primary eclipse depth of 0.03 magnitudes.   It is radiating 315 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of , and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of .

References

B-type giants
Suspected variables
Binary stars
Auriga (constellation)
Durchmusterung objects
Aurigae, 54
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Percy Hoven (born 20 February 1965 in Munich) is a former German broadcast and television show host and actor. He was the presenter of the first Big Brother Germany season on German commercial television RTL.

Career 
After completing high school diploma at the College of St. Blasien, Hoven finished a banker apprenticeship at Bayerische Hypotheken und Wechselbank, then studied philosophy and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich as well as media marketing at the Bavarian Academy of Advertising in Munich and journalistic training at the Bavarian public radio (BR).

Percy Hoven has already been in touch with the entertainment industry by his father, the actor, director and filmmaker Adrian Hoven. He acted in his two films witch films Mark of the Devil and Mark of the Devil Part II in 1970 and 1973. After graduating, he worked as TV, radio and event show host and dubbing actor for various broadcasters and companies. In 2000 he became known in Germany as a presenter of the first Big Brother season on German television. In late 2004, Hoven left the television business and opened a studio for portraits in Munich.

In 2014 he presented the Augsburg Presseball, a charity event of the news industry.

Percy Hoven was married to presenter Silvia Laubenbacher. He lives with their two children in Bobingen.

Character "Dr. Alfons Proebstl" 
Without revealing his identity, Percy Hoven, entered the role of "Dr. Alfons Proebstl" on his own YouTube channel. According to the opinion of the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine, in this role he represented "right-wing extremist positions" in allegedly satirical forms, the show host disc jockey Matthias Matuschik assigns his utterances to the "brown swamp". On 9 September 2015, Matuschik had identified Hoven as Dr. Alfons Proebstl. Newspaper Die Zeit claimed Hoven had spread "xenophobic resentments".

In November 2014 Hoven also appeared as Proebstl at the Russia conference which was hosted by right wing magazine eigentümlich frei, and in 2015 on an event hosted by PEGIDA.

The identity behind Dr. Alfons Proebstl was a secret until early October 2015, the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine published an article about Percy Hoven, who had become unrecognizable behind a rubber mask. He admitted to the newspaper he was the actor behind the character of Dr. Alfons Proebstl, and announced the end of the character.

According to n-tv, Hoven showed that the character of Dr. Alfons Proebstl was a collaborative project with Munich-based producer Alfred Schropp and his editorial team.

A character called Dr. Proebstl can also be found in the earlier repertoire of Gerhard Polt.

External links 
 Website
 Percy Hoven at a.tv

References 

German television presenters
1965 births
German male voice actors
Living people
RTL Group people
Cathie Beck (born August 3, 1955) is an American journalist and creative writer based in Denver, Colorado. Her memoir Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, which she self-published in October 2009, was published by Hyperion Books in July 2010.

Her short stories have been published in Riverrun Literary Magazine, Glimmer Train Literary Collective, Red Dirt Publications, and Zoetrope Stories, to name a few, and in innumerable university literary periodicals and publications.

Graduate of the Louisiana Tech University Journalism Department, and the Creative Writing Graduate Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Beck has written for the Daily Camera (Boulder), the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Business Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Writer's Digest. She presently contributes to a number of major publications, including The Denver Post, and is “The Wine Wench” columnist for ColoradoBiz magazine and KUVO in Denver, Colorado.

She is the recipient of the Louisiana Press Women's and Denver Press Woman's Writing Awards, the Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the University of Colorado’s Dean's Award for Writing.

Biography 
Born in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Beck has called Indianapolis, Indiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Boulder, Colorado home. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

Literary Influences 
Beck's literary influences include Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Raymond Carver, Barbara Kingsolver, Frank McCourt, and David Sedaris.

References

The Denver Post people
1955 births
Living people
Pygmaeothamnus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Walter Robyns in 1928 and originally held four species. It is found in central and southern Africa.

Species
 Pygmaeothamnus zeyheri (Sond.) Robyns

References

External links
 World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae genera
Vanguerieae
Fraudulent concealment is a common law doctrine that may be invoked to toll a statute of limitations. Under this doctrine, if a defendant has concealed his misconduct, then the limitations period shall start from the point when the plaintiff discovers his claim, or should have discovered it with due diligence. It is similar to the equitable estoppel doctrine.

The United States Supreme Court first adopted the fraudulent concealment doctrine as a federal common law matter in the 1874 case Bailey v. Glover. The doctrine was notably raised in cases related to the Watergate scandal; E. Howard Hunt unsuccessfully invoked it in a malpractice suit against his defense lawyer, and journalist Hedrick Smith successfully used it in an illegal wiretapping case against Richard Nixon and others. Since then, it has increased in popularity.

References

Common law
The monuments list is taken from the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, according to their description "legal custodian of Ghana's material cultural heritage (movable and immovable heritage)" GMMB classifies the monuments:

The ID used on this page in reference to the Regions of Ghana are based on the ISO Regional ID standards.

A. Western Region

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B. Central Region

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C. Greater Accra Region

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E. Volta Region

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F. Ashanti Region

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G. Northern Region

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H. Upper East

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Archeological Sites
The Museum of Archeology, University of Ghana is listed on the QMMB site.

References

Heritage registers in Ghana
Wiki Loves Monuments
Project: Funk da World is the debut studio album by rapper Craig Mack, released in 1994. The album was the second release on Bad Boy Records, following the Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die by one week. Propelled by the success of the platinum RIAA-selling hit single "Flava in Ya Ear," the album reached gold-RIAA sales status on February 22, 1995. "Flava in Ya Ear" also featured a successful remix (not included on the album), featuring guest verses from the Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Rampage and LL Cool J. The album's second single, "Get Down," was the rapper's second top 40 hit in 1994 and achieved gold sales status in the United States in April 1995.

Though commercially successful and acclaimed at the time of its release, the album was overshadowed by the massive success of Ready to Die, and Craig Mack quickly lost public image, releasing only one other album, the commercially unsuccessful Operation: Get Down, in 1997.

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called Project: Funk da World "a laid back party record." Robert Christgau deemed the album "Biz Markie as postgangsta." Trouser Press called the album "a likable blend of non-gangsta words and unleaded modern grooves buoyed by the late-summer success of 'Flava in Ya Ear,' an upbeat anthem vague enough to suit a broad range of funk fans."

Track listing

Album singles

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles chart positions

Certifications

References

1994 debut albums
Craig Mack albums
Bad Boy Records albums
Arista Records albums
Albums produced by Easy Mo Bee
Albums produced by Rashad Smith
Samuel W. Frank (May 30, 1904 – April 17, 1973) was a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Formative years
Born on May 30, 1904, in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Samuel W. Frank was the owner of the Frank Trouser Co. and a district manager for Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Political and public service
A Democrat, Frank served as president of the Allentown Recreation Commission from 1950 to 1970, and as State Democratic Committeeman for Lehigh County from 1952 to 1954. Elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for its 1955 and 1957 terms, he was unsuccessful in reelection campaigns during 1956, 1960, and 1962, but was reelected to the House for its 1965 term. He then served four consecutive terms, but did not complete his final term.

Death and interment
A sitting member of the Pennsylvania House, Frank died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1973.

References

Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
1973 deaths
1904 births
20th-century American politicians
Samrajyam () is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language gangster film directed by Jomon. The film stars Mammootty as Alexander, a powerful underworld don. The film narrates the story of his rise and fall. The film features Madhu, Srividya, Ashokan, Captain Raju and Vijayaraghavan in supporting roles. The film features original music composed by Ilaiyaraaja, while the cinematography was handled by Jaynan Vincent. The film was a major commercial success and ran for more than 200 days in Kerala. The film found greater success in Andhra Pradesh. The film brought by distributor for about 10 prints went on to play in 400 prints due to the huge demand in theatres. This movie sequel of 2015 movie Samrajyam II: Son of Alexander

Premise
Alexander, a powerful mafia leader, faces several trials and tribulations while trying to juggle his estranged relationship with his policeman father Balakrishnan and rule the underworld.

Cast

Production 
Speaking on an interview with Mathrubhumi in 2020, on how he developed the story for Samrajyam, Jomon said he had always wanted make a film on organized crime and mafia, based on real-life incidents. He had always been fasicinated in it from his childhood. He began working as an associate director to I. V. Sasi in the late 1980s. He was the sixth assistant director to Sasi in 1921 (1988). During shooting breaks, he narrated a thread he had in mind to Mammootty. Impressed, Mammootty asked him to develop it into a story. He then devoleped a story which he narrated to Mammootty and Joshiy on the sets of Mahayanam (1989). Joshiy felt the story was "interesting" and asked him to develop a script. In an interview he said: After that I started screenwriting while staying at the lodge in Madras. A month later, when Mammooka arrived at the Woodlands Hotel in Madras, I went and met him with the written script. After reading it in one sitting, Mammootty said, “It lacks an experienced screenwriter. Let me introduce someone. Let him write the script."

Release

Reception 
The film received highly positive reviews from critics and was praised for its direction and effects.

Box office
The film was a major commercial success at the Kerala and Andhra Pradesh box office. The film ran over 200 days in Kerala and 600 days in Andhra Pradesh box office. The film remains to be the longest running Malayalam film in Andhra Pradesh, It ran for more than 400 days in multiple centers in AP and even crossed the 600 day mark in some theatres.

Sequel
Samrajyam II: Son of Alexander starring Unni Mukundan in the lead was released in 2015. The movie was the debut Malayalam venture of Tamil director Perarasu. Twenty five years from the original, this sequel tells the story of Alexander's son.

References

External links
 

1990 films
1990s Malayalam-language films
Indian gangster films
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Jyam1
1990 directorial debut films
Reginald William Horne (19 July 1908 – 5 January 1984) was an English professional golfer whose most notable success came in winning the News of the World Match Play shortly after World War II had ended in 1945.

Horne won other important events on the British circuit. He nearly won the 1947 Open Championship at Hoylake, scoring a 71 in the final round to catch and overtake players like Henry Cotton and Norman Von Nida as the third round leaders all struggled, but in the end Irishman Fred Daly beat him by one shot. Horne regularly finished in the top thirty of the Open, over the following decade, without ever again coming as close to victory.

Professional wins
1945 News of the World Matchplay
1948 News Chronicle Tournament (tie with Allan Dailey)
1949 Daily Telegraph Foursomes Tournament (with Ronnie White)
1952 Silver King Tournament
1960 PGA Seniors Championship

Results in major championships

Note: Horne only played in The Open Championship.

NT = No tournament
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances
Ryder Cup: 1947

References

English male golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for Europe
1908 births
1984 deaths
Mosaic Select 23: Andrew Hill is a 3-disc box set of solo recordings by American pianist Andrew Hill for Fantasy Records in 1978. All tracks, with the exception of two, were previously unreleased.

Track listing
All tracks previously unreleased unless otherwise noted.
All compositions by Andrew Hill unless otherwise noted.

References

Andrew Hill albums
2007 compilation albums
Solo piano jazz albums