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"The Last Act" is a 1966 short story by Roald Dahl, described by its author as an attempt to write about "murder by fucking." It was first published in the January 1966 issue of Playboy, having been rejected by The New Yorker because of its disturbing content. It was later included in the collection Switch Bitch, published in 1974 by Michael Joseph Ltd.

Synopsis
Middle-aged New York widow Anna Cooper has been contemplating suicide after losing her beloved husband Ed in a car accident, but begins to feel life may be worth living again after helping out in a friend's adoption agency. While visiting Dallas, Texas alone on agency business, Anna starts to feel uneasy and vulnerable. She remembers that an old flame, Dr. Conrad Kreuger, lives in Dallas, and telephones him from her hotel. Anna and Conrad had been high school sweethearts, but Anna had left Conrad to marry Ed, and Conrad had married another woman soon afterwards. Conrad seems pleased to hear from Anna, and suggests they meet in her hotel's bar for a drink. When he arrives, Anna learns that Conrad is a gynecologist and is now divorced. While he appears sympathetic when Anna describes her emotional fragility, he reveals he still feels bitter about the way she had jilted him. Nevertheless, Conrad suggests that he and Anna might have "a bit of unfinished business." Anna has drunk several martinis, and lets Conrad take her to her hotel room. They prepare to make love, but Conrad suddenly becomes aggressive, pinning Anna down on the bed and "diagnosing" her as having menopausal symptoms. When Anna begins screaming, Conrad pushes her to the floor, and she staggers, sobbing, to the bathroom, shutting the door behind her. When Conrad – who has evidently planned revenge on Anna for breaking up with him – hears her open the bathroom cabinet, he quickly dresses and leaves the room. (The implication is that Anna will commit suicide by cutting her wrists with a razor blade.)

Reception
Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, states that "The Last Act" is a story that Dahl "would have done better to have scrapped... While the fiction is far from drawing readers into admiring Conrad, and its sympathies remain painfully with Anna, it has no purpose as a mechanism other than to lead to a crudely sensationalist conclusion." Philosophy professor Bert Olivier analysed the story in some depth in his book Philosophy and Communication.

References

1966 short stories
Short stories by Roald Dahl
Works originally published in Playboy
Robin V. Sears is a communications, marketing, and public affairs adviser with experience on three continents for public and private sector clients.  Sears joined the Earnscliffe Strategy Group in 2012 and was an NDP strategist for 20 years.

Bibliography 
Sears began his career as News Editor under Moses Znaimer at the launch of CITY-TV in Toronto in 1972. He attended Trent University, but dropped out to pursue his political career before graduation. He is married to Robin Harris and father to one son, Matthew. His father Val Sears was an editor of the Toronto Star. Colin Cameron, his maternal grandfather, was a founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party. 

Sears served as paid spokesman for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Sears had been a consultant at Navigator and Ensight Ltd. since 2004. As a lobbyist, Sears has worked on Merger and acquisition transactions in transportation, finance, and resources, and on reputation management projects in healthcare, retail, and in the film and television industries.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian businesspeople
Living people
This article details the fixtures and results of the Singapore national football team in 2009.

References

National Team
Results 2009
2009 national football team results
This is a list of airports in Malaysia, sorted by location.

Airports 

In total, Malaysia has 63 airports (39 in East Malaysia and 24 in Peninsular Malaysia). Among them, 38 airports have scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines (shown in bold). Other than that, Malaysia has 8 international airports.

Defunct

See also 

 Transport in Malaysia
 List of the busiest airports in Malaysia
 Malaysia Airports
 Royal Malaysian Air Force#Airbases
 List of airports by ICAO code: W#WM - Peninsular Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia)
 List of airports by ICAO code: W#WB - Brunei and East Malaysia (East Malaysia)
 Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Asia#Malaysia

References

 
Malaysia
Airports in Malaysia
Airports
Malaysia
The Sparkasse zu Lübeck AG, based in Lübeck, is one of five free public savings banks that still exist in Germany.

Organizational structure
The Sparkasse zu Lübeck AG has been registered in the commercial register since 1 November 2004 as a stock corporation. The legal basis for the bank is essentially the Kreditwesengesetz (KWG) and the Sparkassengesetz for Schleswig-Holstein. The bodies of the savings bank are the Annual General Meeting, the Supervisory Board and the Management Board.

History
The savings bank was founded in 1817 under the name "Spar- und Anleih-Kasse" as a dependent Gesellschaft zur Beförderung gemeinnütziger Tätigkeit (institution of the society for the promotion of charitable activity). The first business day was June 12, 1817. It was held in the now-defunct orphanage near the Lübeck Cathedral. The core task of the new bank was to give the city, which was devastated by the Napoleonic occupation and the following wars of liberation, and its inhabitants an opportunity "to secure the return on their savings or their purchases safely and affordably", thus at the same time to act as a capital collection point. The deposits were lent mostly as mortgage loans.

As a result of the recently introduced Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (Civil Code), the savings bank obtained in 1905 legal independence in the legal form of a foundation.

As early as 1825, the savings bank moved from the orphanage to a new premise at Breite Straße 16. In 1912, the bank moved into the newly built commercial building Breite Straße 18 next-door. At this point, in the 1965 built house, the seat of the Sparkasse is still today. In 1937 the Sparkasse zu Lübeck, which at that time still carried the name Spar- und Anleihe-Kasse zu Lübeck , took over the Sparkasse in Travemünde. The name Sparkasse zu Lübeck was adopted by the bank in 1958. In 2004, the bank's banking operations were spun off the foundation and transferred to a public limited company, today's Sparkasse zu Lübeck AG. The foundation that had once supported the Sparkasse became a nonprofit organization, the Gemeinnützige Sparkassenstiftung zu Lübeck, holding the majority in the Sparkasse zu Lübeck AG with 74%. From its interest and dividends, the foundation supports charitable and benevolent projects in Lübeck with millions each year. The remaining shares are held by Haspa Finanzholding in Hamburg.

Business focus
The Sparkasse zu Lübeck AG operates in its business area as a savings bank in the universal banking business. Among others, it cooperates with LBS Bausparkasse Schleswig-Holstein-Hamburg AG, Provinzial NordWest, insurer neue leben in Hamburg, HSH Nordbank, LGS Leasinggesellschaft Deutsche Leasing AG and DekaBank. Not infrequently, the Sparkasse zu Lübeck was a pioneer in the introduction of new products. In 1985, for example, the Sparkasse zu Lübeck was the first savings bank in Schleswig-Holstein to issue listed bearer bonds and, since 2004, the first savings bank in the federal territory to issue debentures.

References

External links
 Official Website

Banks of Germany
German companies established in 1817
Banks established in 1817
The Impulse is an Australian sailing dinghy that was designed by Arthur Caldwell as a one-design racer and first built in 1975.

Production
The design was originally intended as a wooden boat for amateur construction, but has more recently been manufactured of fibreglass. In the past it was built by Tim Wilson Yacht Design, but that company is out of business. Today it is built by Formula Sailcraft (now known as the Dinghy Shop) in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia. Production started in 1975 and the type remains in production.

Design
The Impulse is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of wood or fibreglass. It has a catboat rig, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centreboard. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the centreboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack.

Operational history
The boat is supported by a class club, the Australian Impulse Sailing Association, which organizes racing events.

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Laser (dinghy)

References

External links

Dinghies
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Arthur Caldwell
Sailboat types built by Formula Sailcraft
Sailboat types built by Tim Wilson Yacht Design
Sophie Blanc (born 20 February 1968) is a French lawyer and politician from National Rally (RN) who has represented the 1st constituency of Pyrénées-Orientales in the National Assembly since 2022.

Blanc holds a PhD in law and was a lawyer at the bar of Perpignan for over twenty years. She was elected as a regional councilor in 2015 and was a community advisor to the mayor's office in Perpignan.

See also 

 List of deputies of the 16th National Assembly of France

References 

1968 births
Living people
Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
21st-century French women politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (France)
Members of Parliament for Pyrénées-Orientales
National Rally (France) politicians
Politicians from Toulouse
Antoine Ghonda Mangalibi (born February 19, 1965) was the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from June 30, 2003, until July 23, 2004.

Ghonda was born in Leuven, Belgium, and grew up in the Bas Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was then known as Zaire. He did university studies in the United States, and earned a B.A. degree in International Relations from Florida International University in 1992.  From 1992 to 2000, he worked in his family's businesses, and developed a lucrative career in international trade.  He took a keen interest in politics during these years, but did not align himself politically during the late years of the Mobutu Sese Seko presidency, nor during the early part of the presidency of Laurent-Désiré Kabila.

In 2000, however, he plunged into politics, joining the Congolese Liberation Movement, a rebel group led by Jean-Pierre Bemba. In 2003, the Congolese Liberation Movement made peace with the national government led by Joseph Kabila and joined a transitional government in which there were four vice-presidents, including two heading major rebel groups. Bemba became one of the vice-presidents and was given the power to appoint the foreign minister. Ghonda was given the post.

In July 2004 Bemba demanded that Ghonda be sacked, and President Kabila was forced to oblige. Although there was active speculation in Kinshasa's newspapers about the reasons for Bemba's demand, there was not a consensus, and several reasons were advanced. They included Ghonda's criticism of troops from Rwanda and Uganda operating on Congolese soil, Ghonda's friendship with Joseph Kabila, and the mentioning of Ghonda by George W. Bush as one of the three pillars of the new Congo, with Bemba not being mentioned.

After losing the confidence of Bemba, however, Ghonda became more influential with President Kabila.  In the cabinet reshuffle of March 7, 2005, Ghonda was named as one of two roving ambassadors (ambassadeurs itinérants) for the Congolese President.  In the 2006 legislative elections, Ghonda was elected to a seat in National Assembly, representing a district in Bas-Congo province whose main town is Kisantu. The Foundation Antoine Ghonda in this town is a leading source of socio-economic development in the area.

References

1965 births
Living people
Government ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Movement for the Liberation of the Congo politicians
People from Kongo Central
Florida International University alumni
Democratic Republic of the Congo businesspeople
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
Moutere Mahue / Antipodes Island Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering an area of  around the Antipodes Islands south of New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura. It was established in 2014 and is administered by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.

The Māori name of the marine reserve and island group, Moutere Mahue, translates as “abandoned” or “deserted” island, referring to its isolation and remoteness. The English name, Antipodes Islands, refers to the main island being antipodal to London.

Geography

The marine reserve extends in a circular boundary up to 12 nautical miles around the Antipodes Islands group, New Zealand’s most remote subantarctic islands,  southeast of the South Island.

The island group is made up of volcanic cones and vents, with sheer cliffs rising to a tussock-strewn plateau. Below water, the cliff supports large numbers of sessile (stationary) marine invertebrates and a diverse range of seaweeds.

To the south of the island group the ocean reaches a depth of , one of the deepest areas of New Zealand's marine reserves.

History

The marine reserve was established on 2 March 2014.

Moutere Ihupuku / Campbell Island Marine Reserve and Moutere Hauriri / Bounty Islands Marine Reserve were established at the same time under the same law.

Flora and fauna

The island group may have the highest underwater species diversity of any of New Zealand's subantarctic islands due to its clear water and proximity to the edge of an undersea plateau. Many of these species are found nowhere else in the world.

The animals provide a crucial food source for onshore species, including the Antipodean albatross, large colonies of erect-crested and eastern rockhopper penguins, southern elephant seals and New Zealand fur seals.

The extensive underwater rock walls are covered in bright pink layers of rare coralline algae seaweeds, and many invertebrates like sea sponges, anemones and bryozoans cling densely to the walls. Hundreds of seaweed species have been identified including some that are yet to be discovered. Endemic bull kelp beds down to over 20 metres deep, reaching up to four metres long.

There are some near-shore fish including the Antarctic cod (small-scaled notothenid). Species like ling and the Patagonian toothfish have been recorded further from the shore.

Recreation

The marine reserve can only be accessed by boat and visitors require a permit. Guided tours are available.

See also
 Marine reserves of New Zealand

References

Marine reserves of New Zealand
Protected areas of New Zealand
2014 establishments in New Zealand
Protected areas established in 2014
Antipodes Islands
In Greek mythology, Pericastor (Ancient Greek: Περικάστωρ) was the father of Androthoe who married Peristhenes and became the mother of the fisherman Dictys and Polydectes, king of Seriphos. Otherwise, nothing is known about him.

Note 

Characters in Greek mythology
Tethyidae is a family of sea sponges belonging to the order Tethyida.

References
Tethyidae at Encyclopedia of Life

Hadromerida
The 2012 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council election was held on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands, England, as part of the 2012 United Kingdom local elections. 26 seats were up for election, and the results saw the Conservatives losing to a majority of 11 seats to Labour.

Election Result

Ward Results

Amblecote

Belle Vale

Brierley Hill

Brockmore and Pensnett

Castle & Priory

Coseley East

Cradley & Wollescote

Gornal

Halesowen North

Halesowen South

Hayley Green & Cradley South

Kingswinford North & Wall Heath

Kingswinford South

Lye & Stourbridge North

Netherton, Woodside & St. Andrew's

Norton

Pedmore & Stourbridge East

Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood

Sedgley

St. James's

St. Thomas's

Upper Gornal & Woodsetton

Wollaston & Stourbridge Town

Wordsley

References

2012 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council election (BBC)

2012 English local elections
2012
2010s in the West Midlands (county)
Michael Dickinson may refer to:

 Michael Dickinson (artist) (born 1950), English artist 
 Michael Dickinson (biologist) (born 1963), American fly bioengineer
 Michael Dickinson (horseman) (born 1950), English racehorse trainer
Rothenburg Station railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Rothenburg, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Olten–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways. Until the December 2022 timetable change, the station was named Rothenburg. It is located south-west of the village of Rothenburg.

Services 
 the following services stop at Rothenburg Station:

 Lucerne S-Bahn : half-hourly service between  and .

References

External links 
 
 

Railway stations in the canton of Lucerne
Swiss Federal Railways stations
Sidi Abou Abdallah Mohammed ben Mohammed ben Abdelwahed al-Alami al-Moussaoui al-Harraq () was a well-known Moroccan Sufi poet and teacher. He was born in 1772 in Chefchaouen and died 25 August 1845 in Tétouan. He was buried in his Zawiya near Bab Almaqabir. Sidi Al-Harraq was a pupil of Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi, whom he met in 1814. He wrote three diwans (collections of poetry).

References
 Al-sagir et Abdelmagid, Ishkaliyat islah al-fikr al-Sufi fi Al-qarayn (Al-Abbas Ahmed Ibn Muhammad Almahdi Ibn Ajiba et Muhammad Al-Harâq), 1994, édition Al Bayda Dar Al-Afaq Aljadida Al-Maghrib
 Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Harrâq, 1992, publication Al Shabab
 Burckhardt T., Introduction aux doctrines ésotériques de l’Islam, Lyon 1955
 Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam, OU Press, 1971

Bibliography
 Al-sagir et Abdelmagid, Ishkaliyat islah al-fikr al-Sufi fi Al-qarayn (Al-Abbas Ahmed Ibn Muhammad Almahdi Ibn Ajiba et Muhammad Al-Harâq), 1994, édition: Al-Bayda, Dar Al-Afaq, Aljadida, Al-Maghrib
Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Harrâq, 1992, publication Al-Shabab
Thèse: Le Soufi Marocain Al-Harraq : la Réforme Soufie au 19é Siècle (incl. the biography of Sidi Muhammad Al Haraq  and his diwan containing songs, muwash-shah-style poems, and short poems)
CD (Misticismo) with poems by Mohammed al-Harraq, sung by Omar Metioui 

Darqawi
18th-century Moroccan poets
1772 births
1845 deaths
Moroccan Sufi writers
Moroccan Islamic religious leaders
People from Chefchaouen
18th-century Moroccan people
19th-century Moroccan people
19th-century Moroccan writers
19th-century Moroccan poets
Metergoline (, ), also known as methergoline and sold under the brand names Contralac (veterinary) and Liserdol (clinical), is a monoaminergic medication of the ergoline group which is used as a prolactin inhibitor in the treatment of hyperprolactinemia (high prolactin levels) and to suppress lactation.

Pharmacology

Pharmacodynamics
Metergoline is a ligand of various serotonin and dopamine receptors.

References

External links
 

Antipsychotics
Carbamates
Dopamine agonists
Ergolines
Prolactin inhibitors
Serotonin receptor antagonists
The Assembly of Independent Democrats was an electoral coalition that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq. It was led by Adnan Pachachi (a Sunni Arab former foreign minister who was on the Iraqi Governing Council until January 2004) and his party, the Democratic Centrist Tendency. The assembly included also Dr Mahdi al-Hafez, who was the minister of planning, Dr Ayham al-Samarie, former minister of electricity, Maysun al-Damluji, deputy minister of culture, Omar al-Farouq al-Damaluji, former minister of reconstruction, Atta Abdul-Wahab, ambassador of Iraq in Jordan, Mishkat al-Mumin, former minister of environment, Leila Abdul Latif, former minister of Labor & Social Affairs, Saad Abdul-Razzaq Hussain, and some other Iraqi politicians.

In the December 2005 elections the list joined the Iraqi National List coalition headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.

The list was represented in National Assembly by Dr Adnan Pachachi and Maysun al-Damluji. 

2005 establishments in Iraq
Defunct political party alliances in Iraq
Electoral lists for Iraqi elections
Iraqi democracy movements
Liberal parties in Iraq
Political parties established in 2005
Riverside School District 96 (D96) is a school district headquartered in Riverside, Illinois.

It includes Riverside, most of North Riverside, and parts of Brookfield.

Martha Ryan-Toye became superintendent in 2016. She was previously employed by the River Forest District 90. In 2020 the D96 board gave her a five-year renewal.

Schools
Schools are in Riverside unless otherwise stated.
 Junior high school
 Hauser Junior High School

 Elementary schools
 Ames Elementary School
 Blythe Park Elementary School
 Central Elementary School
 Hollywood Elementary School (Brookfield)

References

External links
 Riverside School District 96

School districts in Cook County, Illinois
Brookfield, Illinois
Falepipi he Mafola ("House of Peace") is a Niuean handicrafts group based in New Zealand.

The organisation's members first came together on 1 April 1993, and Falepipi he Mafola was formally incorporated on 19 August 1994. It was founded with the aim of empowering older Niueans and bringing them together as a community, as well as sustaining their connection to their home island. Its members meet weekly in the Auckland suburb of Ōtāhuhu.

Its founding members included Molima Molly Pihigia, who migrated from Niue to New Zealand in 1970, and her husband Fataiki Pihigia. Other notable members have included Tiresa Fasi, Foufili Halagigie, and Mokahele Halagigie. Although its mission centres older craftspeople, members range in age from their 30s to their 90s; they are primarily women.

Falepipi he Mafola primarily produces Niuean woven handicrafts such as lili (wall hangings), iliili (hand fans), trays, and baskets. Other handicrafts produced include carvings and netting. Its members generally use materials that are easier to source in Auckland, such as raffia, kaniu (coconut leaf ribs), and recycled plastic, rather than the traditional laufa (pandanus leaves). The group has also released recordings of Niuean songs and hymns, including 2005's Niue Haku Motu Volume 1 and 2010's Fanogonogo Ke He Leo Volume 2, and worked to promote the Niuean language.

In 2009, the organisation was awarded the Pacific Heritage Art Award as part of the Arts Pasifika Awards for its "active community engagement with promotion of Niuean heritage arts." Pieces produced by the group are included in the collection of Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum.

References 

New Zealand artist groups and collectives
Niuean artists
Organisations based in Auckland
1993 establishments in New Zealand