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International Forestry Students’ Association or IFSA is a non-political, not for profit organisation of tertiary-level forestry students around the world. Approximately 10,000 forestry and related forest science students are either directly or indirectly represented, with about 120 Local Committees in over 50 countries. IFSA promotes global cooperation among students of forest sciences in order to broaden knowledge and understanding to achieve a sustainable future for forests, and provides a voice for youth in international forest policy processes. For this, IFSA provides a platform for students of forest sciences to enrich their formal education, promote cultural understanding by encouraging collaboration with international partner organisations and to gain practical experiences with a wider and more global perspective. Through its social network, IFSA encourages student meetings, enables participation in scientific debates, and supports the involvement of youth in decision making processes and international forest and environmental policy. IFSA is officially registered as a charity organisation, with its seat in Freiburg, Germany. == Activities == ===Youth representative during international decision making processes regarding environmental and forest policy=== As a Youth Non-Governmental Organization (YNGO), IFSA has the status of youth representative for the following events: United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF); focal point organisation United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (previously Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forest in Europe) ; focal point organisation The organisation promotes the involvement of professional foresters in decision making. In the organisation's opinion, forest scientists are, as a matter of principle, better qualified to evaluate questions of sustainable forest management than specialists from other sciences. For that reason, forestry students are offered the opportunity to understand and actively take part in these international forest policy processes. ===Commissions=== IFSA has various working groups (commissions) which allow students the chance to develop new skills, contribute to the running of the organisation and work to achieve the aims of IFSA. The International Processes Commission (IPC) coordinates and prepares the participation of IFSA in the policy processes outlined above. It is also a forum to discuss differing points of view on forest policy. The Exchange Program Commission (EP) facilitates student work placements and exchanges between forestry companies, NGOs, research institutions and universities around the world. The Publication and Communication Commission (P&C) develops other promotional material for the association such as posters and brochures, and is in charge of the maintenance and development of the IFSA website and the online forum. The IFSA News Commission is in charge of the publication of the IFSA News, IFSA's official newsletter. The Fundraising Commission is responsible for raising money for running the association and its activities, as well as providing fundraising packages and advice for members to travel to IFSA events. === International Forestry Students’ Meetings === The International Forestry Students’ Association forms a wide network of forestry students throughout the world, on which the Association bases its main activities — meetings of students at the regional and international levels. These meetings allow better communication between members and facilitate cultural exchange and the making of new friendships. Hosted by a different country each year, the International Forestry Students’ Symposium (IFSS) is the venue for the IFSA General Assembly, during which work from the previous year is reported, decisions are made regarding IFSA activities and new officials for the next year are elected and appointed. During the IFSS, numerous activities are planned to showcase the host country's culture and natural environment, in particular the forests. Lectures from guest speakers and field trips attempt to make the IFSS educational as well as fun. IFSA also holds very important regional meetings gathering students from the different regions where it is active. These meetings are the opportunity to discuss the problems in a geographical area. The interim meeting is attended by IFSA Officials and is held midway through the IFSA year. It allows officials to discuss their progress and whether they are meeting their aims set at the IFSS, discuss any problematic situations and work together to learn from each other and improve the work being carried out. IFSA 7 is attended by the Direction and Council, the main aim of preparing for the General Assembly at the IFSS. === Partnerships with professional organizations === IFSA has very strong partnerships with the International Union of Forest Research organizations (IUFRO) and the European Forest Institute (EFI), which permit student to join international scientific congresses, to have the opportunity to present their work during them and to meet some specialist in the different fields of forestry. Between 2005 and 2006, EFI and IFSA cooperated in the framework of the FOPER programme (Forest Policy and Economics Education and Research) IFSA has also recent partnership with the Commonwealth Forestry Association (CFA) which always offers new opportunities. Finally, IFSA is member of the International Partnership for Forestry Education (IPFE) and helps actively to improve the forestry education around the world. Such partnerships are very important in the preparation of students for their professional life. == Organisation == The main team responsible for running IFSA is known as the IFSA 7. This consists of the President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary, and a three-person Council. Below these positions are the Heads and Sub-Heads of the Commissions and Regional Representatives. Members fall within one of seven regions, defined by geographical area. These regions are Asia-Pacific, Northern America, Latin America, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Southern Africa. == History == The first annual meeting of forestry students, the International Forestry Students Symposium was held in London in 1973. The aim was to provide forestry students the opportunity to meet their counterparts from other countries, discuss ideas and views and create an atmosphere of solidarity and inspiration. The first accomplishment of these meetings was the creation of INFOCENTER; an office established to co-ordinate the exchange of information among forestry students. During the 18th IFSS in Lisbon, Portugal in 1988, the participants decided to expand the co-operation between forestry students beyond the annual symposium. At the constitutional assembly of IFSA, the founding member associations approved provisional statutes and elected the first representative organs. INFOCENTER was relocated and took on the official role as IFSA's communicative and informational organ. The following year, the 19th IFSS was organised in the Netherlands. This symposium turned out to be a great success with 112 participants from 38 countries; it was the first time that students from all continents were represented. The following symposium was organised in Italy (1992). Here the third General Assembly (GA) designated a central organ, the Secretariat, to be responsible for the association's bureaucratic tasks, internal communications and all INFOCENTER duties. The Secretariat, thus, fully assumed its role as IFSA headquarters. IFSA became a truly worldwide organisation when the new statutes were finally approved in 1994 at the fifth GA during the 22nd IFSS in Switzerland. The association was officially registered as a charity organisation with its seat in Göttingen, Germany. Five years later, with the adoption of the revised Statutes, Decrees and By-laws, the general assembly moved the seat to Freiburg, Germany. == See also == == References == == External links == Official web site IFSA Virtual Community Discussion paper by the Major Group "Youth" for UNFF-7, main author IFSA Statement by the Major Group "Youth" on MCPFE-5, main author IFSA Forest Policy Education Network, a project run by IFSA alumni Website of the 44. International Forestry Students Symposium 2016 in Austria and Bavaria Forestry societies Student organizations established in 1973 International student organizations International forestry organizations Forestry in Europe International organisations based in Germany

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Kőszeg (Kőszegi járás) is a district in north-western part of Vas County. Kőszeg is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Western Transdanubia Statistical Region. == Geography == Kőszeg District borders with Sopron District (Győr-Moson-Sopron County) to the northeast, Sárvár District to the east, Szombathely District to the south, the Austrian state of Burgenland to the west and north. The number of the inhabited places in Kőszeg District is 21. == Municipalities == The district has 3 towns and 18 villages. (ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013) The bolded municipalities are cities. ==Demographics== In 2011, it had a population of 25,090 and the population density was 88/km². ===Ethnicity=== Besides the Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the Croat and German (approx. 1,100) and Roma (200). Total population (2011 census): 25,090 Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 23,694 persons: Hungarians: 21,052 (88.85%) Croats: 1,108 (4.68%) Germans: 1,062 (4.48%) Others and indefinable: 472 (1.99%) Approx. 1,500 persons in Kőszeg District did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census. ===Religion=== Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:4.1.7.1 A népesség vallás, felekezet szerint, 2011, – 14,300 (

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Beira Lake (/bˈɐjɾɐ/; Sinhalese: බේරේ වැව, translit. Bērē væva; Tami: பேரே ஏரி, translit. Pērē ēri) is a lake in the center of the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka. The lake is surrounded by many large businesses in the city. It initially occupied approximately of land 100 years ago and this has since been reduced to today due to various reasons. During the colonial era of the Portuguese, Dutch and the English the lake was used for a wide variety of purposes. It still retains its Portuguese name. It is connected to many intricate canals which provided an easy way of transporting goods within the city and suburban cities. == Etymology == The derivation of the name is uncertain, yet it was as recent as 1927 that 'Beira Lake' first appeared on maps. Before that, it was called the 'Colombo Lake' or just 'The Lake'. One idea is that it got its name from a Portuguese Engineer called 'Beira' who worked in constructing the lake or from a Dutch Engineer called De Beer'. The idea of De Beer is supported by a granite plaque which was recovered from the sluice of the lake, inscribed "De Beer 1700". Other idea is that it got named from the word 'Beira', which in Portuguese meant the 'Bank or Edge of the Lake'. Another idea is that it got from 'De Beer', which in Portuguese meant the Anchoring Point'. ==History== The lake was built by the Portuguese to provide protection to Colombo from enemies, mainly local kings. By 1518 Portuguese ruled over Colombo, but the increasing threats against Portuguese rule by King Vijayabahu VII and Sinhalese forces made them to look for better solutions other than their modern weaponry. One of such begun ideas was making of a huge moat around the fort. The construction of the moat started by digging the marshy land which was around the fort in all direction other than west (west of fort was Indian Ocean). But these works were demotivated by the size of it and the small amount of water in the marsh which was not enough to fill a lake. But a stream which flowed between Mount of Dematagoda and Mount of St. Bastian was discovered in this situation by Portuguese Captain Lopo de Brito, while he was chasing away another invasion lead by King Vijayabahu VII. After informing the officials at the fort about this stream, it was connected to the moat they have dug, creating Beira Lake. Then the lake has been completely connected with the sea from both sides, separating the Colombo Fort from mainland. All means of transportation between mainland and the fort have been done using boats. Original area of the lake has been . Primary outflows then have been the Kayman Gates to the east and St. John's Canal to west. It has been bordered from Mount of St. Bastian, Mount of Wolfendal and from Mount of Kochchikade. To the north and west of the lake have been the Portuguese forts. The nature of the lake then has been described in Conquista Temporale Espiritual de Ceylão (1687) by Fr. Fernão de Queyroz:"The lake around the City of Colombo is having a complete length of 10 miles. It which had the Mount of Lawrence was surrounded by a lagoon. In some places at summer time it was deep only to the waist, and was a lake which gave access to City of Colombo"In 1578, Mayadunne of the Kingdom of Sitawaka attempted to cut off supplies to the invaders but failed to drain the lake. His son Rajasingha I (a.k.a. Sithawaka Rajasinghe) succeeded in 1587 to drain the crocodile infested lake by cutting off several canals but failed to defeat the Portuguese as they brought reinforcements from India through sea. After the Dutch laid siege and captured the lake it was expanded by reducing the fort by 1/3 of the previous and created several islands such as the Slave Island some of them were large enough to have a village and a plantation of 600 coconut trees. After the British took control they removed the crocodiles and developed the area surrounding the lake for recreational activities such as rowing and yachting. The area around the lake was popular for parties including a grand ball that was held to celebrate the news of British victory in Waterloo. Ceylon's first botanical garden the Kew Gardens was opened in Slave Island in 1810 to cultivate seedlings provided by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London to be planted in Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. By the 19th century land reclamation for development began and the land area of the lake was reduced, pollution also began to increase. == Basins and Canals Connected == Four main basins can be identified in the lake: The only canal the lake connected to is St. Bastian Canal from its northeast end. From the northwest, it outflows to the Indian Ocean via Mc. Callum Gates and via a semicircular spillway to the west (commonly known as "බේරේ බේසම" translit. Bērē bēsama =Beira Basin). ==Greater Beira== Lined with many large warehouses, reminiscent of its past when tea used to be transported to the port of Colombo on barges via the port access canal, the lake now is very quiet with many of the warehouses been abandoned. With maximum length of 1 mile, the lake has been home to Colombo Rowing Club for over 140 years. The Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre is located on the waterfront, further the People's Bank and the Inland Revenue Department headquarters are located in close to the . Joseph's college Colombo, the only school in Sri Lanka to have its very own Rowing pier is situated on the banks of the Beira lake. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited is housed in the nearby "Lake House" building. The lake with many government owned properties has been earmarked for development including a casino district on its McCullum road water front. == Flora and fauna == The lake is home to species of storks, pelicans, monitor lizards and various species of fish. ==Pollution== The lake gets its famous green color and unusually bad odour due to the result of pollution over hundreds of years and algae that is present in the water. The bad smell is mostly prominent during dry weather, due to the high rates evaporation and it fades off with the arrival of the rainy season. === Water Quality === Water of Beira Lake is polluted, from which it gets a bad odour and green colour. But contray to the canal system of Colombo, the lake contains water with a very alkaline pH value got by primary production and continuous bloom. In August it gets its maximum value, but becomes more neutral from top to bottom, pH value decreasing from 10 to 8. Lake water never gets acidic pH. Conductivity of the water retains fairly stable between 250 μS/cm and 300 μS/cm, with a slight increase from May to August. Full temperature ranges between 29.3 and 35.4 °C. Average temperature is 31 °C and August is the warmest month. The temperature decreases rapidly 2 or 3 °C, from the surface to 60–100 cm in-depth and remains stable after that. Dissolved Oxygen generally follows the same trend than temperature in August. Likewise the thermocline, an oxycline appears exclusively in August. Below 1 meter depth, DO is stable at 7 mg/l during May, June and July. Though it is decreased during August from 13 mg/l to 6 mg/l, shallow depth allows preserving a sufficient level of oxygen. But it would be more stressful during dry season. Salinity is very stable (around 0.12 g/l) over time and along the water column. ==Beira Lake Restoration== The Beira Lake plays a major role in the Western Region Megapolis Project. Under the project the Beira lake is expected to be cleaned and developed with Singaporean assistance and private sector involvement. Waterways will be cleared by blocking illegal water outlets and sewerage lines into the lake and relocating settlements that dump waste to the lake in the area to social housing units. Under the Megapolis plan after the restoration a Shopping district, an Enternainment district and a promenade will be created in the area around the Beira lake alongside many hotels and mixed development projects. ==References== == External links == Dutch Waterways in Sri Lanka Geography of Colombo Reservoirs in Sri Lanka Bodies of water of Colombo District Tourist attractions in Colombo Lakes of Sri Lanka

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Asiwa is a small town and is the capital of Bosome Freho, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Asiwa derives its name from activities of a settler from Kokofu. He nursed and planted cocoa seedlings for sale. Cocoa seedling is called NSIWAA. When people went there to buy cocoa nsiwaa (seedlings) they said they were going to Nsiwaa. This later changed to ASIWA. A new Guest house has been built. It is called PAKAS LODGE. There is a multipurpose hall for workshops and conferences. A recreational centre to be called E. W. ANANE Recreational Centre is also being built near the lodge. A new District Assembly Building has been inaugurated since 2016. ==References== Populated places in the Ashanti Region

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Basketball players in Serbia by club Players

BKK Radnički players

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== Musicians? == A very long list of people in the 'Personnel' section - including marketing people and the "on set music copyist" - but nothing that gives credit to any of the musicians that played the music?! JezGrove (talk) == Best Selling Album Claim == I would like to clarify that some sources like NME and Independent from UK put a generic title that can be quite misleading at a glance. Because upon reading the articles themselves, they quote the info from Official Charts Company, so the statement "Best-Selling Album" is only applicable to UK market for now. Forbes who reported the 5.3 million album sales made no mention of the soundtrack as "Best-Selling Album Worlwide" (yet). Feel free to add the Best-Selling Album Worldwide claim once official governing body like the IFPI finalized the numbers like their yearly report or here. SyFuelIgniteBurned == The Greatest Showman: Reimagined == Should content related to The Greatest Showman: Reimagined be forked out to Reimagined? ---Another Believer (Talk)

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The Souvenir Jacques Goddet is an award and cash prize in the Tour de France bicycle race that began in 2001. The Souvenir is named in honour of the historically second Tour de France director and French sports journalist Jacques Goddet. It is awarded to the first rider to reach the summit of the -high Col du Tourmalet mountain pass in the Pyrenees, apart from the 2002 Tour when the Col d'Aubisque was used. A monument to Goddet was erected at the summit soon after his death in 2000. Since 2003, the cash prize is €5,000. In 2019, Thibaut Pinot became the first repeat winner of the prize. == List of winners == ==Notes== ==References== Tour de France classifications and awards

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Alumni by high school in Turkey

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Out of the approximately 11,154 known bird species, 159 (1.4%) have become extinct, 226 (2%) are critically endangered, 461 (4.1%) are endangered, 800 (7.2%) are vulnerable and 1018 (9.1%) are near threatened. There is a general consensus among scientists who study these trends that if continues as it has one-third of all bird species and an even greater proportion of bird populations will be gone by the end of this century. Since 1500, 150 species of birds have become extinct. Historically, the majority of bird extinctions have occurred on islands, particularly those in the Pacific. These include countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea. Some species are not extinct and seem numerous, but exist in highly reduced numbers from previous years. For example, the Wood Thrush population in North America has declined 50% in the last 50 years. According to the American Bird Conservatory, in the Western Hemisphere 12% of bird species are declining at a rate such that they will be extinct within the next century. == Causes of bird extinction == Human activity is the greatest cause of bird extinction around the world. The top human causes of bird extinction involve: the increased human population, destruction of habitat (through development for habitation, logging, animal and single-crop agriculture, and invasive plants), bird trafficking, egg collecting, pollution (in fertilizers impacting native plants and diversity, pesticides, herbicides directly impacting them as well as the plant and animal food birds eat, including the food for their food source further down along the food chain), and climate change and global warming. Due to the increasing human population, people seek additional space from what was once wild. This is a major contributor to extinction. == Natural == As climate change is caused by a variety of activities, the effect that climate change has on bird extinction is immense. Due to the rapid changes in temperature and climate the bio diverse earth can not progress with these factors. Severe weather conditions and long seasons, as well as a chemical atmosphere within their surroundings, makes it difficult for many species of birds to keep up with. In Hawai'i, climate change is responsible for the decline in the population in Hawaiian forest birds and is resulting in an increase of avian malaria (plasmodium relictum). Because the dynamics of malaria are influenced by ambient temperature and participation patterns, the predicted climate changes are expected to increase the occurrence of avian malaria. Sea level rise may flood islands killing the birds and other animals native to islands causing extinction. == Disease == Each species of birds carries defense mechanisms like resistances and the ability to fight disease. With the changing climate and atmosphere, many species are losing their ability to fight particular diseases. These bird species are becoming more susceptible to disease, which results to the downfall of extinction. The most common disease affecting birds is Salmonellosis, which originates from the Latin name of salmonella. Infected birds pass bacteria in their fecal droppings, and other birds then become ill when they eat food contaminated by the droppings. ==By region== ===Australia=== In June 2020 the Royal Society of South Australia published a list of 95 Australian bird fossils. The list includes three species of huge flamingos from the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and Lake Frome areas of South Australia, which were estimated to inhabit the area for 25 million years before becoming extinct about 140,000 years ago, most likely from drought. There were also penguins measuring about tall, which lived between about 60 million and 30 million years ago, dying out in the Oligocene. Researcher Trevor Worthy said that little was known about the evolution of birds in Australia, which stands at about 1,000 species. ==See also== List of recently extinct bird species List of bird extinctions by year ==References== Extinction events Extinct birds Human impact on the environment

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The Hiddens () is a Hong Kong thriller television series created and produced by Gary Tang. The series debuted on Astro Wah Lai Toi in Malaysia and on MyTV SUPER in Hong Kong on September 22, 2016. Many of the cast members previously acted in the File of Justice franchise, which was also produced by Gary Tang. ==Premise== A convicted prisoner has his death faked for him and is recruited to perform dangerous missions throughout Asia by a mysterious organization. ==Cast== ===Main=== Lawrence Ng as Gong Ning A convicted prisoner who is presumed dead after the van transporting him to prison is hijacked en route. In reality, he had been scouted and recruited into a covert operation group. He accepts the recruitment on the condition that he will be able to see his wife and son again. He is the strategist and unofficial leader of the group, but is also skilled in physical combat. Jessica Hester Hsuan as Wai Ming A mysterious and ruthless woman working for a clandestine organization, she forcefully recruited Gong Ning and his team members to carry out covert operations on behalf of her organization. William So as Yau Jung-tai A master of disguise who is part of Gong Ning's covert operation team. Michael Tao as Cheong Soon-on A Hong Kong Police Force officer who is after the covert operations group. Duncan Chow as Chen Chi-keung A weapons expert and assassin who joins the covert operations group. ===Supporting=== Felix Lok portrays Ma Kai-ming, Cheong Soon-on's superior. The parts filmed in Malaysia also features local talents from Astro, including Miss Astro Chinese Denise Camillia Tan, Vivienne Onn, Shian Ter, Kevin Soo, Nicholas King, Chung Lai Chan and Thang Hoo Ley. ==References== ==External links== 2016 Hong Kong television series debuts 2010s Hong Kong television series Television shows set in Hong Kong Television shows set in Japan Television shows set in Malaysia Television shows set in Macau

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==The Bits About Browning == The stuff at the end of this article seems a little too close to weighing in on the whole "Functionalism versus Intentionalism" debate and - correct me if I'm wrong - but isn't that something with which Wikipedia shouldn't choose sides? It literally just says "Most historians" and that seems a little ridiculous, considering it's such a huge schism within the serious historiography of the holocaust, a schism in which both schools of thought conceded to the other just to get some sort of consensus. Basically saying "yeah, both sides have their merits and their evidence." That hardly seems like MOST HISTORIANS disagree with Browning. (Additionally, the source the suspect statement cites is none other than Browning themself, maybe Browning's just the most humble person around, or maybe those were just ham-fisted in because whomever wrote those jabs wanted to choose sides and did so around the already-extant sources). As you can tell, I have picked a side - the side that doesn't think wikipedia should pick a side in an on-going scholarly debate which doesn't seem to be meeting its conclusion anytime soon. 2601:87:4400:AF2:B17D:88BD:BBE9:6B58 (talk) ==Untitled== also known as Nisko - Nisko or not?Xx236 (talk) Christopher Browning is not a revisionist historian and the Holocaust was not agreed on at the Wannsee conference. I suspect that more is wrong with the article, but I'm not an expert on the subject. 83.77.26.190 (talk) Agree absolutely on both the above points and have removed the word revisionist, which was highly misleading in the context. Browning's claim that the SS experimented with various possible solutions is not revisionist. Norvo (talk) == Another Error == the intentionalist/functionalist historiography debate which historian Christopher Browning has tried to initiate The debate on intentionalism/functionalism (and these terms) goes back to 1980 or earlier. It was not 'initiated' by Christopher Browning. Norvo (talk) There's someone who's been editing this article that's dancing around the ole' F vs I debate but that's obviously biased in their portrayal. Now it says "MOST HISTORIANS" disagree with Browning and whenever I see a "MOST HISTORIANS/MAINSTREAM HISTORIANS" statement my eyes roll so fast it gives my brain whiplash. You might be able to get away with that when countering Climate Change deniers but not this particular debate which is still very much alive and contentious. (If it weren't, I wouldn't be complaining about the obvious bias right now.) 2601:87:4400:AF2:B17D:88BD:BBE9:6B58 (talk) == geographically unclear == (mostly)because the last paragraph of the first piece in the article is unsourced it is giving a few wrong impressions , at first because the suggestion is lublin and nisko are neigbouring towns, for that reason it is not obvious if the german wiki is unclear about the prepared use of the facility, or if this article refers to a, the and many burggraben projects, possibly only in the area of lublin, perhaps it is confusing the burggraben project with the nisko plan?62.195.7.176 (talk) ==Article name== Per Article titles, the town of Nisko – although named in the SS planning stage of the so-called Nisko-Aktion for the creation of Judenreservaten or Judenreservat in occupied Poland – was (and still is) insignificant in terms of size in comparison to the provincial capital of Lublin in Poland, former location of the Lublin Ghetto and the massive Majdanek concentration camp system of subcamps. This article is not about the plan per se, but about its successful implementation in the form of the Lublin Reservation (Browning) a.k.a. Lublin-Reservat (Gutman, Jäckel, Longerich, Schoeps) which best identifies the actual subject of this article. "Nisko Plan" search in Google Books: 296 results. "Lublin Plan" search in Google Books 367 results. "Lublin Reservation" search in Google Books 1,110 results. Renamed accordingly. Thanks, Poeticbent talk == External links modified == Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have just modified one external link on Lublin Reservation. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes: Added archive to When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs. 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Paul Afeaki Khoury (born April 27, 1968 in Tonga) is Tonga born Lebanese former professional basketball player of American descent. He played most of his career in Japan and Lebanon. He was born in Tonga from American parents, he went to the United States and graduated from University of Utah in 1992. He joined Utah Jazz summer league camp in 1992. He selected with the 9th overall selection in the 1992 CBA Draft. ==Career== He played his first pro season in Turkey before heading to Japan (played for Saitama Broncos, Sumitomo Metal Sparks, Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix) for 5 years. In 2001, he signed a contract with the Lebanese team Al Ryadi the top team in the country and three years later he joined Sagesse. His Lebanese years were the best of his career and he was granted by a Lebanese passport by the government. 1994-95 Fenerbahçe 1995 Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi 1996-01 in Japan Saitama Broncos Sumitomo Metal Sparks Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix 2001-04 Al Ryadi 2004-06 Sagesse ==Lebanon National Team== With the Lebanon National Team, he played the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis. The team didn't manage to win a single game and got the last rank after a 70-100 loss to Algeria in the classification game despite a 16 pts 9 rbs effort from him. During the tournament, he averaged 6.4 pts 56.5 %FG 6.0 rbs in 19 min per game including a 7 pts 10 rbs game against Turkey. Last year, Lebanon secured the silver medal in the Asian Championship with a loss in the final game against Yao Ming's China and Paul was one of the best post player in the tournament. ==References== ==External links== Player Profile @ 1968 births Living people Centers (basketball) Lebanese men's basketball players Lebanese people of American descent Lebanese people of Tongan descent American people of Tongan descent American expatriate basketball people in Turkey Fenerbahçe men's basketball players Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi players Saitama Broncos players San-en NeoPhoenix players Utah Utes men's basketball players 2002 FIBA World Championship players American men's basketball players

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The Central Local Court House or Police Law Courts or Central Police Court is a building located at 98 Liverpool Street, in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales in Australia. Constructed in the Federation Free Classical style based on original designs by Colonial Architect, James Barnet, the building structure was completed in 1892 under the supervision of Barnet's successor, Government Architect, Walter Liberty Vernon. It is also known as Sydney Central Local Court House, Police Law Courts and Central Police Court. The property is owned by the Department of Justice, a department of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The court house is located in a precinct that includes the Downing Centre, and buildings housing the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court in Sydney. Adjacent to the court house is Brickfield Place, a brick paved courtyard with seating and planter boxes, constructed in 1892, assessed as a good example of urban design for public open space. == History == The Central Local Court House was designed by the Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon in 1892. Historical period; 1876 - 1900. == Description == ===Site & Forecourt=== The Court has a large terraced forecourt facing south to Liverpool Street. The parcel of land on which the court sits runs north to Central Street. The terraced outdoor areas to the street frontage feature carved sandstone balustrades and grand entrance staircase. ===Court House=== The Central Local Court House is a robust and highly decorated public building designed in the Federation Free Classical Style. The use of a formal symmetrical floor plan and massing with classically delivered carved sandstone details including a Coat of Arms, which communicates the authoritative status of the legal system in the late 19th century. Other accommodation include Associate's accommodation, prisoner holding facilities, foyer, four majestic Court Chambers, three legal rooms, general office, Chamber Magistrate's office, and Sheriffs office. The Central Local Court House is constructed in smooth dressed sandstone blocks. It is embellished with carved sandstone decorative elements. Much internal timber joinery and furniture remains intact. The site comprises a number of auxiliary buildings associated with the court house, including a small caretaker's cottage. ===Caretaker's Cottage=== on the eastern boundary of the site. Two storey rendered brick structure, with two chimneys and windows and outlook directed over the central forecourt of the court house. ==Heritage listing== As at 29 October 2008, the Central Local Courthouse is of State historical significance as the first purpose built Police Court with the State Justice system and first petty Sessions Court. The building is a fine and intact example of a classically inspired public building designed in the Federation Free Classical style by James Barnet, the last Colonial Architect with construction supervised by Walter Liberty Vernon, the first Government Architect. The building is an example of a Court that operated in association with a Police Station and significantly has continued to operate with attached Holding Cells complex to present day. The Central Local Courthouse and holding Cells are good examples of late nineteenth century Courthouse and prison environment that despite alterations and modification demonstrate certain design philosophies and standards of that time. The form and relationship of the Holding Cells are functional and reflect Barnet's preference to relate each building to its site and context. The design of the Courthouse and its principle façade connotes typical characteristics of this type of building. The buildings remain as a good and intact example of a Courthouse and associated facilities designed by the Colonial Architects Office and that demonstrate the growing affluence and prosperity of the time. Central Local Courts and Holding Cells are of social significance for their on-going association with the police, Attorney General's Department, Department of Corrective Services, NSW Sherriff's office and all associated parties who have used the building for over 100 years. 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== Player seeding == Do you think you can find the original seeding order for the players in the various ranking class tournaments? I believe the JSA did list the players in a tablular format at the very beginning of the tournament, but switched to a bracket format once the individual leagues finished and the main tournament began. The JSA website is also updated to reflect recent results, so it's kind of hard to find out how each player was originally seeded from just looking at it. Also, "Class 6" tends to include some women professionals, apprentice professionals and amatuer champions players as well, but I'm not sure how to find that info and add it to the table you created. If there's no way to verify the seed of each player, then maybe listing them alphabetically would work for the regular pros and then list the women, apprentice and amateur players to the end of the list. I didnt know that a seed order was used actually. When i made the tables, i just looked at their performance during the preceding year – so more wins put the player higher on the list and less wins lower. Then, i moved the folks that were demoted to the lower class at the top of the lower class and folks that were promoted at the bottom of the higher class. Besides that, folks with the same number of wins are essentially unordered. So, it's just an ad hoc ordering that only somewhat reflects their performance in the most recent tournament with some ordering residue of their performance in preceding years. I didnt know what to do otherwise. For class 6, i only put the regular pro players since the JSA indicates this on each player's profile page (as a kind of gauge of their strength i guess). It's an easy thing to do. Would have to dig into the specific tournament pages to include the other members – they are indicated with the usual joryuu and ama suffixes after their name. I was using this page to show which players still needed new pages on wikipedia (since we dont have any other list of all players), which was my primary concern at the time. However, that's done now (except for brand new pros), and it arguably misrepresents the tournament here by excluding them. For the amateur players, if their name is usual, we could transliterate them into roman letters without issue, but sometimes names are unpredictable and we could get it wrong without knowing for sure their pronunciation. – ishwar  (speak) I might be wrong about the seeding. For some reason, I thought the JSA listed each class as a table like it does for the Ōi where the position in the table (i.e. the seed) of some players is based up their performance in previous year's Ōi; however, I might have been mixing up the formats of the two titles. This is a bit of OR, but looking at some of the class 1 brackets from pervious Ryūō (32, 31, 30, 29, 28), it appears the loser of the title match is always placed in the first bracket position at the far right, but not sure how it works after that. The remaining players are probably then alternately added from left to right based upon their placing in the previous year's class tournament, with those promoted in class being added last to their new class and those demoted in class added first to their new class. As for the women and amateur players, the women most likely have Japanese Wikipedia articles, so using seems fine until their English Wikipedia articles are created. It seems unlikely, however, that the amateurs would be notable enough for a Wikipedia article so just listing them by name seems fine. "W" in parathesis could be used to indicate a women's pro while "A" could be used for amateurs; for example, Kana Satomi (W 4-crown), or Daiki Yokoyama (A). As you point out though, some of the names of the amateurs can be tricky, which means it might take some digging to find the proper readings. There were five amateurs in Class 6 of the 32nd Ryūō, but only two won their Rd. 1 game and only Yokoyama made it past Rd. 2. There were three women pros (Satomi, Itō and Watanabe) and then Nishikawa (she's technically not a women's pro, but an apprentice pro 3d who is a women's title holder). There was also one other apprentice pro 3d. -- Marchjuly (talk)

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The Sakhalin taimen (Parahucho perryi, syn. Hucho perryi), also known as the Japanese huchen or Stringfish, is a large, East Asian species of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae). It is found in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk regions of eastern Russia, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido, Japan and inhabits lakes and large rivers. The population has been in general decline for a century at least. Contributory factors include degradation of the environment by logging, oil exploration and change of land use to agriculture. The fish is caught by commercial fishing as bycatch, by recreational anglers and illegally by poaching, and present populations are estimated to be less than 5% of their historic levels. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the fish as being critically endangered. Although often placed in the genus Hucho, molecular phylogenetic and other evidence has shown that it belongs in its own monotypic genus Parahucho sister to Salmo. ==Description== Parahucho perryi is one of largest, most ancient salmon species and primarily inhabits the lower to middle reaches of lakes and rivers. Fish over long are almost exclusively piscivores, while the young feed mostly on aquatic insects. Females typically lay between 2,000 and 10,000 eggs in the spring on the sandy or gravelly river bottom. The average specimens caught have weighed around . The largest fish caught was recorded at (IGFA world record). According to an unverified record from Japan, a fish with length of was captured in 1937 from the Tokachi River, Hokkaidō. ==Distribution== Parahucho perryi are found in the Northwest Pacific: Sakhalin Island (Russia), the Island of Hokkaidō (Japan), and parts of the far eastern Russian mainland. Some populations spend all their lives in freshwater while others are anadromous. The fish take about eight years to mature and can spawn several times during their lifetime which is estimated to be about fourteen years. ==Threats== The global population of the species has dwindled in recent years for a variety of reasons. The loss of more than 50% of their original habitat due to agriculture, urbanization, and more recently, oil and gas development, is a major factor. Other considerable pressures include bycatch in the commercial salmon fisheries of Russia and Japan, as well as illegal fishing practices in Russia. The fish are also prized as trophies by Japanese recreational anglers. In Japan, this species is bred for game-fishing at managed fishing sites, and raised fish are available for purchase. However, the species remains critically endangered. ==Status== Since 2006, the IUCN has listed Parahucho perryi as critically endangered based on the assessment completed by the Salmonid Specialist Group. This designation represents the highest potential risk of global extinction to the species. The assessment revealed that the range-wide population has dropped in size to less than 5% of historic levels. ==References== Sakhalin taimen Sakhalin Freshwater fish of Japan Sakhalin taimen Sakhalin taimen

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Victoria Montgomery was a theatrical performer on Broadway and off Broadway in the early 20th century. The Passing of the Idle Rich was produced by the Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan, in April 1913. The play, a work by Frederic Townsend Martin, showed scenes from a private car, the RMS Olympic, a millionaire's residence on Fifth Avenue, and a Mexican mine with an operative cage. R.A. Roberts staged the entertainment which included Montgomery, Beverley Sitgreaves, and Beatrice Prentice, in its cast. Julius Hopp put together a cast for The World Aflame which included Montgomery and Ernest Milton. The war pageant drama went into rehearsal in May 1916. The Fulton Theatre (Helen Hayes Theatre) presented the three-act comedy, Her Honor the Mayor, in May 1918. Montgomery was among many actors associated with the play-producing group, The Actors and Authors Theatre, which staged this adaptation of a work by Arline Van Ness Hines. Montgomery played with Kenneth Burton and Jean Ellyn in Under Cover, written by Jene French. It was produced by the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1930. The theme was a new angle to the sex angle. Montgomery was hit by a truck just before the scheduled debut of Green Stick at the Provincetown Playhouse in October 1934. The play was postponed indefinitely when she was hospitalized at St. Vincent's Hospital following the accident, which occurred at Sixth Avenue and Fourth Street. ==References== American stage actresses American musical theatre actresses Year of birth missing Year of death missing Place of birth missing 20th-century American actresses

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This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Montenegro Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Montenegro have taken part in the competition since 2007. ==Players== This table is current through the end of the 2019 Davis Cup Euro/Africa Zone Group III matches (September 14, 2019). {|class="wikitable sortable" style=font-size:97% !width=200|Player !width=100|W-L(Total) !width=100|W-L(Singles) !width=100|W-L(Doubles) !width=50|Ties !width=100|Debut !width=50|Years Played |- | Mario Aleksić ||2–2 ||0–0 ||2–2 ||4 ||2017 ||2 |- | Marko Begović ||5–1 ||2–0 ||3–1 ||6 ||2007 ||2 |- | Matija Bulatovic ||0–2 ||0–1 ||0–1 ||2 ||2016 ||1 |- | Ljubomir Čelebić ||33–12 ||21–9 ||12–3 ||33 ||2010 ||10 |- | Rrezart Cungu ||10–11 ||8–7 ||2–4 ||17 ||2015 ||5 |- | Daniel Danilović ||15–9 ||9–5 ||6–4 ||16 ||2007 ||4 |- | Stefan Dragović ||1–2 ||0–0 ||1–2 ||3 ||2018 ||1 |- | Nemanja Kontić ||10–3 ||2–1 ||8–2 ||12 ||2007 ||4 |- | Pavle Rogan ||8–8 ||2–4 ||6–4 ||17 ||2012 ||6 |- | Igor Saveljić ||9–10 ||5–4 ||4–6 ||15 ||2012 ||5 |- | Ivan Saveljić ||3–5 ||0–1 ||3–4 ||9 ||2012 ||4 |- | Goran Tošić ||17–10 ||12–7 ||5–3 ||17 ||2007 ||5 |- |} ==References== Lists of Davis Cup tennis players Tennis in Montenegro Montenegro sport-related lists

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Carham or Carham on Tweed is a village in Northumberland, England. The village lies on the south side of the River Tweed about west of Coldstream. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, it is the place in England with greatest proportion of Scottish-born people, at approximately 33%. ==Etymology== Carham has generally been etymologised as an Old English place-name. The first syllable would be from carr 'rock', and the second either a dative plural ending (the whole name having been carrum '(at the) rocks') or the word hām ('homestead'). However, the twelfth-century chronicler Richard of Hexham appears not to have considered the name an English one, so it may actually come from Cumbric *kair 'fortification'. == History == Near to Carham are the extensive remains of Early British camps and a bronze sword, now in the British Museum, discovered in the nearby Tweed. Carham on the Tweed, where a stream divides Northumberland from Scotland, was the scene of two battles in Anglo-Saxon times. In 833 the Danes fought the English, and the English were routed. Leland tells us that in the 33rd year of Ecbright the Danes arrived at Lindisfarne and fought with the English at Carham where Eleven Bishops and two English Countes were slayne, and a great numbre of people. A field between the glebe and Dunstan Wood, where bones have been from time to time disinterred, is probably the site of the battle. In 1018 the Battle of Carham between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Northumbrians resulted in a Scottish victory. The fact that the Tweed is the border between Scotland and England can be traced to the outcome of this battle. James VI of Scotland crossed the border on 26 April 1588 and visited Carham. == Governance == Carham is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. == Religious sites == The church is dedicated to St Cuthbert. ==References== ==External links== The Official Carham Parish Website GENUKI (accessed: 19 November 2008) Villages in Northumberland

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was merge to Phantasm IV Oblivion. MBisanz talk ===Phantasm V=== () – (View AfD)(View log) Explicitly fails future film notability guidelines. No prejudice towards recreation when reliable sources indicate that shooting has already begun. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) Merge/redirect (create) to a Phantasm (film series) article. 76.66.195.63 (talk) Merge but not into non-existent articles. I have already merged the gist of the "footage" section into Phantasm IV which has a section on the sequel. And the article here should be deleted, not redirected. If that movie is ever made, it can be recreated. Str1977 (talk) Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Merge/Redirect The most recent news about this movie, seems to indicate that it's on hold, so it definitely seems premature for an article about it. I agree with Str1977; any truly verifiable content can go to the

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Kaif Ghaury (born 13 March 1964) is a Pakistani born Emirati cricketer. He made his only First-class appearance in a First-class cricket match against Malaysia during the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup. == References == == External links == Profile at PCB 1964 births Living people Emirati cricketers Pakistani expatriates in the United Arab Emirates

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Atluri Poornachandra Rao (4 April 1925 – 29 October 2017) was an Indian film producer and communist leader. He was influenced by left ideology and participated in the rationalist movement led by Gora. He was a member of united Communist Party and was arrested multiple times. As a film producer he produced several films between 1950 and 1970. Aadabaduchu (1967), Mathrudevata (1969), Sthree were some of his notable films. Aunanna Kadanna (2005) starring Uday Kiran was his last film as a producer. == Early life == Purnachandra Rao was born in a middle-class family on 4 April 1925 in Vanapamula village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. He moved to Hyderabad in late 1950s and shifted to Chennai later to pursue a career in films. He married Marudwati and the couple has two sons. == Filmography == Aadabaduchu Mathrudevatha Sthree Aakhree Raasta Andha Kanoon Venky Avunanna Kadanna == Death == He died on 29 October 2017 because of liver cancer in Hyderabad. == References == 1925 births 2017 deaths Film producers from Andhra Pradesh Communist Party of India politicians

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The Maryland Terrapins men's soccer team represents the University of Maryland in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college soccer competition. The program has won four NCAA Division I College Cup national championships (1968, 2005, 2008, 2018). Maryland won nineteen Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season championships (1953–68, 1971, 2012, 2013) and six ACC tournament championships (1996, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013) before joining the Big Ten Conference on July 1, 2014. The Terps won the 2014 and 2016 Big Ten Conference men's soccer championships and the 2014 and 2015 men's soccer tournament titles. == History == Maryland fielded its first varsity soccer team in 1946. It was coached by Doyle Royal, who remained in that position through 1973. In 1948, Royal led the Terrapins to an undefeated record, including an upset that ended Temple's 19-game winning streak. The only blemish on the season was a 4–4 tie against Loyola of Maryland, and the team had one of the strongest cases in the nation for the title of the mythical national championship. The NCAA did not sponsor a championship until 1959. In 1968, Maryland defeated San Jose State, 4–3, to advance to the NCAA National Championship game. There, they tied Michigan State, 2–2, in order to take a share of their first national title. In 1974, Bud Beardmore, a future National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, took over as men's soccer coach for one season. Sasho Cirovski was hired as head coach in 1993. He led the Terrapins to capture three more national championships in 2005, 2008, and 2018. == 2019 roster == As of August 7, 2019 ==Year-by-year record== ==Professional players== ===English Premier League=== Zack Steffen (Manchester City F.C.) * ===Major League Soccer=== Mikey Ambrose (Inter Miami CF) A. J. DeLaGarza (Inter Miami CF) * Tsubasa Endoh (Toronto FC) Chase Gasper (Minnesota United FC) Zac MacMath (Real Salt Lake) Omar Gonzalez (Toronto FC) * Patrick Mullins (Toronto FC) Chris Odoi-Atsem (D.C. United) Donovan Pines (D.C. United) Chris Seitz (D.C. United) Amar Sejdič (Montreal Impact) Dayne St. Clair (Minnesota United FC) Gordon Wild (LA Galaxy) Eryk Williamson (Portland Timbers) Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City) * ===USL Championship=== Marc Burch (Memphis 901 FC) Alex Crognale (Birmingham Legion FC) Eli Crognale (Birmingham Legion FC) Sebastian Elney (New York Red Bulls II) Christiano François (Reno 1868 FC) Sunny Jane (Louisville City FC) * Dan Metzger (Memphis 901 FC) Andrew Samuels (RGVFC) ===USL League One=== Ivan Magalhães (Richmond Kickers) ===Eerste divisie=== Mael Corboz (Go Ahead Eagles) ===Jamaica National Premier League=== John Luca Levee (Harbour View F.C.) ===Liga Alef South=== Jake Rozhansky (Maccabi Herzliya F.C.) ===Retired professionals=== Keith Beach Danny Califf * Judah Cooks Rich Costanzo Leo Cullen Michael Dellorusso Maurice Edu * Jeremy Hall * Jason Garey Clarence Goodson * Jason Herrick Sumed Ibrahim Taylor Kemp Stephen King Chris Lancos Alex Lee * Domenic Mediate Robbie Rogers * Philip Salyer Abe Thompson Taylor Twellman * Rodney Wallace London Woodberry Drew Yates – Player has represented their country at the senior national team level == See also == Maryland–Virginia men's soccer rivalry ==References== ==External links== Official site Soccer clubs in Maryland 1946 establishments in Maryland

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Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Prague's bid was considered a trial bid to warm up for future Olympic campaigns. Prague's bid came to an end on June 4, 2008, when it failed to make the Candidate city shortlist. After initial enthusiasm, Prague's bid became troubled, and the city considered canceling their bid. Nevertheless, the government went forward with its bid to become an applicant city on January 14, 2008. If it had been chosen, Prague would have staged the Games between July 29 and August 14. The subsequent Paralympics were to be held between September 1 and 13. ==Bid Details== On March 22, 2007, Prague confirmed its bid when the Prague Assembly voted 53-10-3 in support of launching an official bid. Tomas Petera was the head of the Praha Olympijska (Olympic Prague) company. This was the third try by Prague and the Czech Republic to host the Olympic Games. Previously Prague placed a bid for 1924 Summer Olympics which was won by Paris and planned a bid for 1980 Summer Olympics but Warsaw Pact invasion and normalization put an end to these plans; the Olympics were hosted by Moscow. Useful recent experience includes the recent hosting the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. The Czech Republic (including Moravia, Silesia and Bohemia) has a strong sports legacy, which appeals to the IOC. They have attended every games except the Athens 1896 Games and the Los Angeles 1984 Games. The Czechs have been especially proficient in gymnastics, and for winter sports, ice hockey. The current decathlon world champion is Czech Roman Šebrle, who as tradition dictates, holds the title of "World's Greatest Athlete" and who was identified to be a potential face of the Games. Prague is known as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, and as a popular tourist destination, it holds many of the cultural aspects that appeal to the IOC. The bid book indicates around 38,000 hotel rooms are planned by 2016, but this amount is short of IOC expectations and is far behind competing bids. Prague allocated 45 million crowns to the Olympic movement for studies, advertisements, and opinion polls. The bid budget of US$22 million allotted for the application and candidacy phase was roughly half that of other bids. ===Venues=== The motto of the third nomination is Olympic Games for the Czech Republic as it should take place in other cities across the country as well. The IOC has tended to prefer, however, more compact bids. The Czech Olympic Committee plans to develop 130 sport centres in 75 cities in the process of Olympic Games candidature. When Prague revealed its bid book, it moved to a more compact concept to hold the Games in the heart of the city with venues close together - most not more than 20 minutes from each other or from the Old Town Centre of Prague. Three main clusters were organized with the Olympic park at the center. Five venues are already built and ready, 12 would need upgrades and nine permanent new venues would have been constructed with an additional seven venues being temporary for the Games only. Specifically, three sport centers were to be built – a velodrome for cyclists in Prague or Brno; a natatorium that would be constructed from the existing Prague-Šutka Aquapark; and the major Olympic complex to be built on the outskirts of Prague in Letňany. Five circular children's pools were to be built to symbolically represent the Olympic rings. As Prague is land-locked, yachting will be in Lipno, rowing and canoeing in Racice, and slalom in Troja. One major stadium already in place is the modern Sazka Arena, which would host gymnastics. There are plans to rebuild the area around the huge and underutilized Strahov Stadium as an Olympic village. In response to presidential concerns over white elephant venues after the Games (such as Athens' unused baseball stadium), officials stressed the Games would not bring dozens of new sporting facilities to Prague. Many existing facilities would be refurbished, most Olympic sites would be just temporary, with “only about 30 percent remain permanent.” Even the possible main Olympic stadium in Letňany would be developed in such a way that it could later be transformed into part of a convention center. ===Funding and political support=== The center of the bid was planned to use a new $348 million Olympic Stadium and the Olympic village to be financed with both private and public funds. Revenues from the Games were projected at US$969 million, down from the 2004 estimates. Per a 2004 study, the budget for the games was estimated to reach 136 billion crowns (US$7.5 billion) and profit 25 billion crowns (US$1.3 billion). An additional 490 billion crowns (US$27 billion) would need to be invested in infrastructure. A newer study indicates the government will spend US$5.03 billion for the Games, of which $1.4 billion would be expected to come from the national budget. Infrastructure costs will require another $28 billion. Politically, Prague's bid failed to garner widespread support from mayors of smaller towns who fear that the infrastructure investment in Prague will hamper investment in their regions. Czech President Václav Klaus questioned the bid, doubting the ability to bring profit to the country. A public opinion poll in October 2007 mustered a quite low 50% support. This was up 8% from an earlier poll in May 2007. Other bid cities have support in the 70s-80s percent range except Tokyo which is around 60% and Baku which is over 90%. In December 2007, Tomas Petera suggested the possibility of Prague cancelling its bid, citing uncertainty over political guarantees because of a vacancy in the Sports and Education ministry linked to a government reshuffle. Government officials later confirmed stated legal guarantees to protect foreign athletes’ safety. However, no ties to financial obligations were confirmed which is a requirement of a successful bid. In February 2008, Czech Premier Mirek Topolánek emphatically stated Prague's bid will not get financial guarantees from the government, even if the city makes the short list of contenders, effectively ending the campaign. Even then, Prague was still officially in the running for the games. In March 2008, the item was still under contention when local press highlighted that the official questionnaire claims it would receive the equivalent of $5.2 million from the Czech government, but failed to mention that the government provided only legal guarantees. A spokesman for the Olympic promotion company said the figures are based on a financial study and are nothing but a possibility under consideration. He said the costs of the candidacy would be covered by Prague. ===Logo=== The Prague logo represents a branch from a laurel wreath, both a traditional sign of victory and celebration as well as a reward in the ancient Olympic Games (and featured in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece) and ribbons in the Olympic colors. Initially, the number "2016" formed the actual leaves. However, the IOC asked them to modify the design for reading clarity. ==Conclusion of bid== As expected, Prague did not make the shortlist of Candidate cities in June 2008. Prague was considered to be a long-shot given several factors, such as Prague's lack of stadia and other important Olympic sports infrastructure, wavering political support, funding issues, and as London is already hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics, the IOC is unlikely to award back-to-back Summer Olympic Games to the same continent, (although Madrid, Spain did advance to the shortlist). Prague acknowledged outright that this bid was a preparation for future bids. == References == == External links == Prague 2016 Czech Olympic Committee Prague Mini-Bid book 2016 Summer Olympics bids Sport in Prague

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C.T. Ali Fletcher (born June 8, 1959) is an American vlogger, media personality, actor, personal trainer, and former powerlifter and bodybuilder. He is a three-time World Bench Press Champion and three-time World Strict Curl Champion. == Early life == Fletcher was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on June 8, 1959, the son of Ogie Rea and Walter Fletcher. He has an older brother named Walt. At the time of his birth, his mother was a housewife and his father was a field worker. When he was one year old, he and his family moved to Los Angeles County, California, where they settled in Watts and later Compton. He grew up with an abusive father who, at the time, was preaching in a four-car garage. When he began junior high, they had moved to nearby Lakewood, where his father invested in his own church. At age 12, Fletcher acquired a job at a gas station. In 1977, aged 18, he joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. While there, he became interested in martial arts. In 1979, he started to take Karate classes and earned a second degree black belt. In 1980, he began weightlifting and bodybuilding. At first, he was interested in bodybuilding, but then powerlifting caught his interest. ==Career== In 2013, Fletcher started his YouTube channel. In 2016, he opened his own gym called Iron Addicts Gym. ==Personal life== Fletcher resides in Signal Hill, California. He was previously married to his high school sweetheart, with whom he had children. The marriage ended in the early 1990s, and he later married a woman he had met while working at the post office. In 1995, they had a child named Samson. In total, he and his wife have seven children. In 2001, Fletcher received a phone call from his doctor regarding his hypertension and how it could be life-threatening. His body had taken a major hit and he was disabled at age 42. In 2004, his mother died from congestive heart failure. The following year, he was admitted to a hospital in Long Beach, California; from there, he was transported to UCI Medical Center for open-heart surgery. He inherited a heart condition from his mother that has heavily impacted his life; his mother and all nine of her siblings died from heart problems. In 2005, he underwent life-saving open heart surgery. On an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, he revealed that he had suffered another heart attack in June 2017, and was hoping to get on the waiting list for a heart transplant. On May 5, 2018, he announced via Twitter that a heart had been found for him. The next day, he underwent a heart transplant surgery that lasted for over 11 hours. == Filmography == 2002 — Gangster Party as Sam 2004 — I Accidentally Domed Your Son as Ray Ray 2004 — Bank Brothers as Clarence's Father 2007 — The Hit as Big G Rock 2013 — Just Kidding Films as CT 2015 — CT Fletcher: My Magnificent Obsession as CT Fletcher 2016 — Dawn of Justice as Inmate Thug 2017 — Maxx Yeager: Black Ops as Big Rich ==See also== List of world championships medalists in powerlifting (men) Powerlifting at the World Games ==Bibliography== American powerlifters American Internet celebrities American bodybuilders American actor-athletes American male film actors Video bloggers Living people 1959 births Male bloggers

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Dimethyldiethoxysilane, sometimes abbreviated DMDEOS or DMDES, is an organosilicon compound. DMDEOS is a precursor in the production of the silicone polymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). DMDEOS is an intermediate silane useful for blocking hydroxyl and amino groups in organic synthesis reactions. This silylating step allows subsequent reactions to be carried out which would be adversely affected by the presence of active hydrogen in the hydroxyl or amine groups. Following the reaction step, hydroxyl or amine groups blocked with DMDEOS may be recovered by a hydrolysis procedure. DMDEOS is also used for preparing hydrophobic and release materials as well as enhancing flow of powders. ==References== Silanes Monomers Organosilicon compounds

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The 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the New York Air Defense Sector at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where it was inactivated on 31 August 1967. ==History== ===World War II=== The 539th Fighter Squadron was activated in October 1943 at Westover Field, Chicopee, Massachusetts in October 1943. Shortly after activation, the squadron moved to Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, North Carolina to become part of the 402d Fighter Group where it operated under the Replacement Training Unit Program of the advanced phase of pilot training. In December 1943, the squadron again moved, this time to Bluethenthal Field, Wilmington, North Carolina, and was assigned to the 326th Fighter Group where it remained until disbanded in April 1944. ===Air Defense Command=== It was reactivated as part of the United States Air Force Air Defense Command. In January 1955 it received F-86D's and in August 1955 the unit designation was transferred to McGuire Air Force Base as the 539th Fighter Interceptor Squadron where it received F-86L's. In May 1959 the squadron transitioned to F-106A becoming the first squadron in the United States Air Force to be equipped with the F-106's. On 22 October 1962, before President John F. Kennedy told Americans that missiles were in place in Cuba, the squadron dispersed one third of its force, equipped with nuclear tipped missiles to Olmsted Air Force Base at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. These planes returned to McGuire after the crisis. The 539th was inactivated 31 August 1967 as part of the phasedown of the ADC interceptor force. ==Lineage== Constituted as the 539th Fighter Squadron on 24 September 1943 Activated on 1 October 1943 Disbanded on 10 April 1944 Reconstituted and redesignated 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 23 March 1953 Activated on 18 April 1954 Inactivated on 23 August 1967 ===Assignments=== 402d Fighter Group, October 1943 326th Fighter Group, 25 November 1943 – 10 April 1944 4709th Defense (later Air Defense) Wing, 18 April 1954 4700th Air Defense Group, 20 September 1954 4709th Air Defense Wing, 18 August 1955 4621st Air Defense Wing (later New York Air Defense Sector), 1 October 1956 4730th Air Defense Group, 8 February 1957 New York Air Defense Sector, 1 August 1959 – 23 August 1967 ===Stations=== Westover Field, Massachusetts, 1 October 1943 Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina, 13 October 1943 Bluethenthal Field, North Carolina, 8 December 1943 – 10 April 1944 Stewart Air Force Base, New York, 18 April 1954 McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, 18 August 1955 – 23 August 1967 ===Aircraft=== Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1944 North American F-86D Sabre, 1954–1959 Convair F-106 Delta Dart, 1959–1967 ==See also== ==References== ===Notes=== ===Bibliography=== McMullen, Richard F. (1964) "The Fighter Interceptor Force 1962-1964" ADC Historical Study No. 27, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, CO (Confidential, declassified 22 Mar 2000) NORAD/CONAD Participation in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Historical Reference Paper No. 8, Directorate of Command History Continental Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, 1 Feb 63 (Top Secret NOFORN declassified 9 March 1996) "ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons". The Interceptor (January 1979) Aerospace Defense Command, (Volume 21, Number 1) ==External links== Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force Military units and formations established in 1953 Aerospace Defense Command units

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was delete. MBisanz talk ===Key Party (film)=== () – (View AfD)(View log) Explicitly fails future film notability guidelines. No prejudice towards recreation when reliable sources indicate that shooting has already begun. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) Delete The only information I can find is that the script has (possibly?) been finalized. Filming seems to be scheduled for 2010, which means it is much too early for there to be an article on this film yet. It can be rewritten once principal photography begins, per NFF. Raven1977 (talk) Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Delete as this article is a tad premature... Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

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{| cellpadding="0" align="right" |- align="right" style="vertical-align: top" | | {| cellpadding="1" width="275px" style="font-size: 90%; border: 1px solid gray;" |- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd" |colspan=2| Metro Junior "A" Hockey League |- align="center" |colspan=2| |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || Membership || Ontario Hockey Association |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || Founded || 1950 |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || Ceased || 1998 |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || Sutherland Cups || 13 |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || Regional Champions || 0 |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || National Champions || 0 |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || First Champion || Weston Dukes (1951) |- align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeee" || Last Champion || Wexford Raiders (1998) |} |} The Metro Junior "A" Hockey League was a junior level ice hockey league based out of Southern Ontario. The league originated in 1956 as the Metro Junior "B" Hockey League, which lasted until 1991, when it changed its designation from Junior B to Junior A. It remained a Jr. A league from 1991 until 1998 when it was absorbed by the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. ==History== The teams that formed the Metropolitan league played in the Big Six Junior B league in 1950 until 1953, when a new, nine-member OHA Jr.B league was formed. The league officially took on the Metropolitan Toronto junior hockey league name in 1956. For some time, was a part of the Ontario Hockey Association and the Canadian Junior A Hockey League. As the name suggests, the league originally consisted of Junior B teams in the Toronto area. However, over time, with the defection of teams to the Junior A league, the Metro league accepted teams from wider regions. The league featured many future NHL stars, including Brad Park (Toronto Westclairs), Wayne Gretzky (Toronto Nationals), Eric Lindros (St. Michael's Buzzers), Dale Hawerchuk (Oshawa Legionaires), Ken Dryden (Etobicoke Indians), and Curtis Joseph (King City Dukes). During the early years, the "Junior B" league was essentially the minor league feeder for the "Junior A" Ontario Hockey Association. Almost all of the Metro players eventually moved on to play in the OHA. Following the NCAA's 1980 rule change that deemed any OHL players to be professionals, amateur leagues such as the Junior B leagues grew. The Metro league became a key feeder to college hockey programs during the 1980s and 1990s, producing more than 200 future NCAA players. ===The early Junior B years === The early years featured Toronto-based teams such as the 's Buzzers, Dixie Beehives, Toronto Lakeshore Bruins, Toronto Marlies/Weston Dukes, Unionville Jets, Aurora Tigers, Whitby Dunlops, Leaside Rangers, Brampton 7Ups and the Woodbridge Dodgers. For the most part, the teams served as farm teams at the Junior B level for the Junior A OHA teams. The 1964–65 season starred a 17-year-old Ken Dryden in net for the Etobicoke Indians. With Dryden in net, the Indians won the Metro league title and made it all the way to the Sutherland Cup final where they lost 4-games-to-2 to the Kitchener Greenshirts. Ken Dryden moved on to become one of the most famous NHL goaltenders of all-time. He played in the 1972 Summit Series, won the 1971 Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP a season before he was officially a rookie (which he won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1972 as Rookie of the Year), he won six Stanley Cups, and is a Hockey Hall of Fameer. ===Exodus 1972 === In 1972 the Metro B league was reshaped substantially when six members left to join the new Ontario Provincial Junior A league. Metro members Ajax Steelers, Aurora Tigers, Dixie Beehives, Downsview Bees, North York Rangers, and the Richmond Hill Rams left. A year later the Markham Waxers also left. To make up for the losses, the Metro league took in new members Belleville Bobcats and the Peterborough Lions from the folded Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League, and expanded with the Oshawa Legionaires, Bramalea Blues, Pickering Panthers, and Wexford Warriors. The Etobicoke Selects, Toronto Red Wings, and Markham Waxers joined in 1973. The Kingston Voyageurs entered the league in 1974. In 1974, the Metro Champion Bramalea Blues defeated the Owen Sound Greys 4-games-to-3 to reach the Sutherland Cup All-Ontario Final. Upon reaching the final, the Blues defeated the Hamilton Red Wings of the Niagara & District Junior B Hockey League in Game 1, only to have a brawl involving the teams, officials, and fans breakout to the point that police were called to break up the incident. Due to the brawl, the Blues withdrew from the final and became the only team in Ontario Hockey Association history to forfeit the Sutherland Cup. The 1975 season marked the first junior appearance by a 14-year-old "underage" Wayne Gretzky for the Toronto Nationals. In September, Walter Gretzky had Wayne moved to the City of Vaughan to play midget hockey for the Toronto Young Nats instead of playing in his hometown of Brantford, Ontario. In October, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association declared Gretzky and 15-year-old Brian Rorabek ineligible because they had established residency too late. Gretzky sued in the Canadian Courts and lost Because Gretzky could remain in Toronto to play junior (rather than midget hockey), Gretzky tried out for the Junior B team, and made the team. In 28 games, Gretzky scored 27 goals and 33 assists to win Metro Rookie of the Year honours. The next year the team moved to

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The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. Its first settlement and capital was St. Mary's City, in the southern end of St. Mary's County, which is a peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay and is also bordered by four tidal rivers. The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wished to create a haven for English Catholics in the new world at the time of the European wars of religion. Although Maryland was an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province. In 1689, the year following the Glorious Revolution, John Coode led a rebellion that removed Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, from power in Maryland. Power in the colony was restored to the Baltimore family in 1715 when Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, insisted in public that he was a Protestant. Despite early competition with the colony of Virginia to its south, and the Dutch colony of New Netherland to its north, the Province of Maryland developed along very similar lines to Virginia. Its early settlements and population centers tended to cluster around the rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay and, like Virginia, Maryland's economy quickly became centered on the cultivation of tobacco, for sale in Europe. The need for cheap labor, and later with the mixed farming economy that developed when tobacco prices collapsed, led to a rapid expansion of indentured servitude, penal transportation, and forcible immigration and enslavement of Africans. Maryland received a larger felon quota than any other province. The Province of Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution, and echoed events in New England by establishing committees of correspondence and hosting its own tea party similar to the one that took place in Boston. By 1776 the old order had been overthrown as Maryland citizens signed the Declaration of Independence, forcing the end of British colonial rule. ==Origins in the 17th Century== ===Founding charter=== The Catholic George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, (1579–1632), former Secretary of State to His Majesty, King Charles I, wished to create a haven for English Catholics in the New World. After having visited the Americas and founded a colony in the future Canadian province of Newfoundland called "Avalon", he convinced the King to grant him a second territory in more southern, temperate climes. Upon Baltimore's death in 1632 the grant was transferred to his eldest son Cecil, the 2nd Baron Baltimore. On 20 June 1632, Charles granted the original charter for Maryland, a proprietary colony of about twelve million acres (49,000 km²), to the 2nd Baron Baltimore. Some historians view this grant as a form of compensation for the 2nd Lord Baltimore's father's having been stripped of his title of Secretary of State upon announcing his Roman Catholicism in 1625. The charter offered no guidelines on religion, although it was assumed that Catholics would not be molested in the new colony. Whatever the reason for granting the colony specifically to Lord Baltimore, however, the King had practical reasons to create a colony north of the Potomac in 1632. The colony of New Netherland begun by England's great imperial rival in this era, the United Provinces, specifically claimed the Delaware River valley and was vague about its border with Virginia. Charles rejected all the Dutch claims on the Atlantic seaboard, but was anxious to bolster English claims by formally occupying the territory. The new colony was named after the devoutly Catholic Henrietta Maria of France, the Queen Consort, by an agreement between the 1st Lord Baltimore and King Charles I. Colonial Maryland was considerably larger than Maryland. The original charter granted the Calverts a province with a boundary line that started "from the promontory or headland, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the bay aforesaid near the river Wighco on the West, unto the main ocean on the east; and between that boundary on the south, unto that part of the bay of Delaware on the north, which lyeth under the 40th degree of north latitude from the aequinoctial, where New England is terminated."p. 116 The boundary line would then continue westward along the fortieth parallel "unto the true meridian of the first fountain of the river Pattowmack". From there, the boundary continued south to the southern bank of the Potomac River, continue along the southern river bank to the Chesapeake Bay, and "thence by the shortest line unto the aforesaid promontory, or place, called Watkin's Point."p. 38. Based on this deceptively imprecise description of the boundary, the land may have comprised up to , 50% larger than today’s State. ===Early settlement=== In Maryland, Baltimore sought to create a haven for English Catholics and to demonstrate that Catholics and Protestants could live together peacefully, even issuing the Act Concerning Religion in matters of religion. The 1st Lord Baltimore was himself a convert to Catholicism, a considerable political setback for a nobleman in 17th century England, where Roman Catholics could easily be considered enemies of the crown and potential traitors to their country. Like other aristocratic proprietors, he also hoped to turn a profit on the new colony. The Calvert family recruited Catholic aristocrats and Protestant settlers for Maryland, luring them with generous land grants and a policy of religious toleration. To try to gain settlers, Maryland used what is known as the , which originated in Jamestown. Settlers were given of land for each person they brought into the colony, whether as settler, indentured servant, or slave. Of the 200 or so initial settlers who traveled to Maryland on the ships Ark and Dove, the majority were Protestant. On November 22, 1633, Lord Baltimore sent the first settlers to the new colony, and after a long voyage with a stopover to resupply in Barbados, the Ark and the Dove landed on 25 March 1634 (thereafter celebrated as "Maryland Day"), at Blackistone Island, thereafter known as St. Clement's Island, off the northern shore of the Potomac River, upstream from its confluence with the Chesapeake Bay and Point Lookout. The new settlers were led by Lord Baltimore's younger brother the Honorable Leonard Calvert, whom Baltimore had delegated to serve as governor of the new colony. The Native Americans in Maryland were a peaceful people who welcomed the English. At the time of the founding of the Maryland colony, approximately forty tribes consisting of 8,000 – 10,000 people lived in the area. They were fearful of the colonists’ guns, but welcomed trade for metal tools. The Native Americans who were living in the location where the colonists first settled were called the Yaocomico Indians. The colonists gave the Yaocomico Indians cloth, hatchets, and hoes in exchange for the right to settle on the land. The Yaocomico Indians allowed the English settlers to live in their houses, a type of longhouse called a witchott. The Indians also taught the colonists how to plant corn, beans, and squash, as well as where to find food such as clams and oysters. Here at St. Clement's Island they raised a large cross, and led by Jesuit Father Andrew White celebrated Mass. The new settlement was called "St. Mary's City" and it became the first capitol of Maryland. It remained so for sixty years until 1695 when the colony's capital was moved north to the more central, newly established "Anne Arundel's Town (also briefly known as "Providence") and later renamed as "Annapolis". More settlers soon followed. The tobacco crops that they had planted from the outset were very successful and quickly made the new colony profitable. However, given the incidence of malaria and typhoid, life expectancy in Maryland was about 10 years less than in New England. "Historic St. Mary's City" (a historic preservationist/tourism agency) has been established to protect what is left of the ruins of the original 17th century village, and several reconstructed, government buildings, little of which remained intact. With the exception of several periods of rebellion by early Protestants and later colonists, the colony/province remained under the control of the several Lords Baltimore until 1775–1776, when it joined with other colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and eventually became the independent and sovereign U.S. State of Maryland. ===Relations with the Susquehannock=== In 1642, the Province of Maryland declared war on the indigenous Susquehannock nation (Conestoga peoples). The Susquehannock (with the help of the colony of New Sweden) defeated Maryland in 1644. As a result, the Conestoga traded almost exclusively with New Sweden to the north while the colony was young. The Susquehannocks remained in an intermittent state of war with Maryland until a peace treaty was concluded in 1652, but would become allies in the following decades. Records from this era are poor and accounts of these early conflicts are incomplete. In the peace treaty of 1652 the Susquehannock ceded to Maryland large territories on both shores of the Chesapeake Bay in return for arms and for safety on their southern flank. This decision was also related to the unrest among Native Americans caused by the Beaver Wars of the late 1650s, in which the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) swept south and west against other tribes and territories to expand their hunting grounds for the fur trade. With the help of Maryland's arms, the Susquehannock fought off the Iroquois Confederacy effectively, and a brief peace followed. In 1666 the Susquehannock decisively defeated two tribes of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, recasting the power relationships in the upper Susquehanna Valley and those into the lower parts of New York. This kept the colony free of incursions by the warlike Iroquois. However, the buffer of the Susquehannock nation soon failed to protect the colony from the threat of the powerful Iroquois: the Susquehannock tribe became decimated by an epidemic. They went from being a regional power to nearly extinct in the first years of the 1870s. In a later peace with the colonial governments of Virginia and Maryland, the Iroquois agreed in a treaty to absorb their remaining distant cousins, and the remaining Susquehannock people became a mere shadow of their former power. By 1878 only 300 or so remained in the Wyoming Valley. ===Border disputes=== ====With Virginia==== In 1629, George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore "driven by 'the sacred duty of finding a refuge for his Roman Catholic brethren," applied to Charles I for a royal charter to establish a colony south of Virginia. He also wanted a share of the fortunes being made in tobacco in Virginia, and hoped to recoup some of the financial losses he had sustained in his earlier colonial venture in Newfoundland. In 1631, William Claiborne a Puritan from Virginia received a royal trading commission granting him the right to trade with the natives on all lands in the mid-Atlantic where there was not already a patent in effect. Claiborne established a trading post on Kent Island on 28 May 1631. Meanwhile, back in London, the Privy Council persuaded the 1st Lord Baltimore that he be granted a charter for lands north of the Virginia colony, in order to put pressure on the Dutch settlements further north along the Delaware and Hudson Rivers. Calvert agreed, but died in 1632 before the charter was formally signed by King Charles I. The Royal Grant and Charter for the new colony of Maryland was then granted to his son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on 20 June 1632. This placed Claiborne on Calvert land. Claiborne refused to recognize Lord Baltimore's charter and rights. Following the arrest of one of his agents for trading in Maryland waters without a license in 1635, Claiborne fitted out an armed ship, and there ensued a naval battle on April 23, 1635 by the mouth of the Pocomoke River during which 3 Virginians were killed. Following this battle, Leonard Calvert captured Kent Island by force in February 1638. In 1644, during the English Civil War Claiborne led an uprising of Protestants in what came to be called the Plundering Time, also known as "Claiborne and Ingle's Rebellion" and retook Kent Island. Meanwhile, privateer Captain Richard Ingle (Claiborne's co-commander) seized control of St. Mary's City, the capital of the Maryland colony. Catholic Governor Calvert escaped to the Virginia Colony which remained nominally loyal to the crown until 1652. The Protestant pirates began plundering the property of anyone who did not swear allegiance to the English Parliament, mainly Catholics. The rebellion was put down in 1647 by Governor Calvert. A Parliamentary victory in England renewed old tensions leading to the Battle of the Severn, now present-day Annapolis, in 1655 between moderate Protestants and Catholics loyal to Lord Baltimore under the command of William Stone and Puritans loyal to the Commonwealth of England from the settlement of "Providence" under the command of Captain William Fuller. 17 of Stones men and two Puritans were killed, resulting in victory for the Puritans. The issue of the ongoing Claiborne grievance was finally settled by an agreement reached in 1657. Lord Baltimore provided Claiborne amnesty for all of his offenses, Virginia laid aside any claim it had to Maryland territory, and Claiborne was indemnified with extensive land grants in Virginia for his loss of Kent Island. "Multiple colonial charters, two negotiated settlements by the states in 1785 and 1958, an arbitrated agreement in 1877, and several Supreme Court decisions have defined how Maryland and Virginia would deal with the Potomac River as a boundary line, and shaped the boundary on the Eastern Shore (separating Accomack County in Virginia from Worcester/Somerset counties in Maryland)." ====With Pennsylvania==== The border dispute with Pennsylvania continued and led to Cresap's War, a conflict between settlers from Pennsylvania and Maryland fought in the 1730s. Hostilities erupted in 1730 with a series of violent incidents prompted by disputes over property rights and law enforcement, and escalated through the first half of the decade, culminating in the deployment of military forces by Maryland in 1736 and by Pennsylvania in 1737. The armed phase of the conflict ended in May 1738 with the intervention of King George II, who compelled the negotiation of a cease-fire. A provisional agreement had been established in 1732. Maryland lost some of its original territory to Pennsylvania in the 1660s when King Charles II granted the Penn family, owners of Pennsylvania, a tract that overlapped the Calvert family's Maryland grant. For 80 years the powerful Penn and Calvert families had feuded over overlapping Royal grants. Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon mapped the Maryland-Pennsylvania border in 1767, setting out the Mason–Dixon line. ====With New York==== In 1672, Lord Baltimore declared that Maryland included the settlement of Whorekills on the west shore of the Delaware Bay, an area under the jurisdiction of the Province of New York (as the British had renamed New Netherland after taking possession in 1664). A force was dispatched which attacked and captured this settlement. New York could not immediately respond because New York was soon recaptured by the Dutch. This settlement was restored to the Province of New York when New York was recaptured from the Dutch in November, 1674. ==Government== ===The Lords Baltimore=== George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1579–1631), Secretary of State under King James I, applied in 1629 for charter to establish a colony in the Mid-Atlantic area of North America, but died five weeks before it was issued. Caecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), inherited both his father's title and his charter, which was granted in 1632. He was named for Sir Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, principal Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, whom Calvert had met during an extended trip to Europe between 1601 and 1603. Rather than go to the colony himself, Baltimore stayed behind in England to deal with the political opposition raised by supporters of the Virginia Colony and sent his next younger brother Leonard in his stead. Caecilius never travelled to Maryland. Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), sailed to Maryland in 1661 as a young man of 24, becoming the first member of the Calvert family to take personal charge of the colony. He was appointed deputy governor by his father and, when the 2nd Lord Baltimore died in 1675, Charles inherited Maryland, becoming governor in his own right. During his tenure the price of tobacco began to decline, causing economic hardship especially among the poor. A hurricane in 1667 devastated the tobacco crop. In 1684, the 3rd Lord Baltimore travelled to England in regard to a border dispute with William Penn. He never returned to Maryland. In his absence the Protestant Revolution of 1689 took control of the colony. That year the family's royal charter was also withdrawn, and Maryland became a Royal Colony. Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (1679–1715) understood that the chief impediment to the restoration of his family's title to Maryland was the question of religion. In 1713 he converted to Anglicanism, despite his father cutting off his support. He also withdrew his son Charles from a Jesuit school, largely for political reasons. Henceforth father and son would worship within the Church of England, much to the disgust of his father Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, who maintained his Catholic faith despite the political drawbacks, until his death in February 1715. Benedict became the Fourth Lord Baltimore upon his father's death in February 1715 and immediately petitioned King George I to reinstate the family's charter. However, the 4th Lord Baltimore survived his father by only two months, dying himself in April 1715. Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751) was the great-grandson of Charles II of England through his maternal grandmother, Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, the illegitimate daughter of the king's mistress, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. The Province of Maryland was restored to the control of the Calvert family by King George I when around 1715 Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, swore publicly that he was a Protestant and had embraced the Anglican faith. Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731–1771) inherited from his father the title Baron Baltimore and the Proprietary Governorship of the Province of Maryland in 1751. The 6th Lord Baltimore wielded immense power in Maryland, which was then a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, administered directly by the Calverts. Frederick's inheritance coincided with a period of rising discontent in Maryland, amid growing demands by the legislative assembly for an end to his family's authoritarian rule. Frederick, however, remained aloof from the colony and never set foot in it in his lifetime. He lived a life of leisure, writing verse and regarding the Province of Maryland as little more than a source of revenue. The colony was ruled through governors appointed by the 6th Lord Baltimore. His frequent travels made him difficult to contact and meant that Maryland was largely ruled without him. His personal life was extremely scandalous by the standards of the time, and this contributed to growing unrest in his colony. In 1758, his wife "died from a hurt she received by a fall out of a Phaeton carriage" while accompanied by her husband. Although Frederick was suspected of foul play, no charges were ever brought. Frederick died in 1771, by which time relations between Britain and her American colonies were fast deteriorating. In his will, Frederick left his proprietary Palatinate of Maryland to his eldest illegitimate son, Henry Harford, then aged just 13. The colony, perhaps grateful to be rid of Frederick at last, recognized Harford as Calvert's heir. However, the will was challenged by the family of Frederick's sister, Louisa Calvert Browning, who did not recognize Harford's inheritance. Before the case could grind its way through the Court of Chancery, Maryland had become engulfed by the American Revolution and by 1776 was at war with Britain. Henry Harford would ultimately lose almost all his colonial possessions. ===Proprietarial rule=== Lord Baltimore held all the land directly from the King for the payment of "two Indian arrowheads annually and one fifth of all gold and silver found in the colony." Maryland's foundation charter was drafted in feudal terms and based on the practices of the ancient County Palatine of Durham, which existed until 1646. He was given the rights and privileges of a Palatine lord, and the extensive authority that went with it. The Proprietor had the right and power to establish courts and appoint judges and magistrates, to enforce all laws, to grant titles, to erect towns, to pardon all offenses, to found churches, to call out the fighting population and wage war, to impose martial law, to convey or lease the land, and to levy duties and tolls. However, as elsewhere in English North America, English political institutions were re-created in the colonies, and the Maryland General Assembly fulfilled much the same function as the House of Commons of England. An act was passed providing that: "from henceforth and for ever everyone being of the council of the Province and any other gentleman of able judgement summoned by writ (and the Lord of every Manor within this Province after Manors be erected) shall and may have his voice, seat, and place in every General Assembly. together with two or more able and sufficient men for the hundred as the said freedmen or the major part of them ... shall think good". In addition, the Lord Proprietor could summon any delegates whom he was pleased to select. In some ways the General Assembly was an improvement upon the institutions of the mother country. In 1639, noting that Parliament had not been summoned in England for a decade, the free men of Maryland passed an act to the effect that "assemblies were to be called once in every three years at the least," ensuring that their voices would be regularly heard. Due to immigration, by 1660 the population of the Province had gradually become predominantly Protestant. Political power remained concentrated in the hands of the largely Catholic elite. Most councilors were Catholics and many were related by blood or marriage to the Calverts, enjoying political patronage and often lucrative offices such as commands in the militia or sinecures in the Land Office. ==Religious conflict== Although Maryland was an early pioneer of religious toleration in the British colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Roman Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province. In 1644 the dispute with William Claiborne led to armed conflict. Claiborne seized Kent Island while his associate, the pro-Parliament Puritan Richard Ingle, took over St. Mary's. Both used religion as a tool to gain popular support. From 1644 to 1646, the so-called "Plundering Time" was a period of civil unrest aggravated by the tensions of the English Civil War (1641–1651). Leonard Calvert returned from exile with troops, recaptured St. Mary's City, and eventually restored order. In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. Passed on 21 September 1649 by the assembly of the Maryland Colony, it was the first law requiring religious tolerance in the English North American colonies. In 1654, after the Third English Civil War (1649–1651), Parliamentary (Puritan) forces assumed control of Maryland for a time. When dissidents pressed for an established church, Caecilius Calvert's noted that Maryland settlers were "Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, and Quakers, those of the Church of England as well as the Romish being the fewest ... it would be a most difficult task to draw such persons to consent unto a Law which shall compel them to maintaine ministers of a contrary perswasion to themselves." ==The Protestant Revolution of 1689== In 1689, Maryland Puritans, by now a substantial majority in the colony, revolted against the proprietary government, in part because of the apparent preferment of Catholics like Colonel Henry Darnall to official positions of power. Led by Colonel John Coode, an army of 700 Puritans defeated a proprietarial army led by Colonel Darnall. Darnall later wrote: "Wee being in this condition and no hope left of quieting the people thus enraged, to prevent effusion of blood, capitulated and surrendered." The victorious Coode and his Puritans set up a new government that outlawed Catholicism, and Darnall was deprived of all his official roles. Coode's government was, however, unpopular; and William III installed a Crown-appointed governor in 1692. This was Lionel Copley who governed Maryland until his death in 1694 and was replaced by Francis Nicholson. After this "Protestant Revolution" in Maryland, Darnall was forced, like many other Catholics, to maintain a secret chapel in his home in order to celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass. In 1704, an Act was passed "to prevent the growth of Popery in this Province", preventing Catholics from holding political office. Full religious toleration would not be restored in Maryland until the American Revolution, when Darnall's great-grandson Charles Carroll of Carrollton, arguably the wealthiest Catholic in Maryland, signed the American Declaration of Independence. ==Plantations and economy== Early settlements and population centers tended to cluster around the rivers and other waterways that empty into Chesapeake Bay. In the 17th century, most Marylanders lived in rough conditions on small farms. While they raised a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and livestock, the main cash crop was tobacco, which soon dominated the province's economy. The Province of Maryland developed along lines very similar to those of Virginia. Tobacco was used as money, and the colonial legislature was obliged to pass a law requiring tobacco planters to raise a certain amount of corn as well, in order to ensure that the colonists would not go hungry. Like Virginia, Maryland's economy quickly became centered around the farming of tobacco for sale in Europe. The need for cheap labor to help with the growth of tobacco, and later with the mixed farming economy that developed when tobacco prices collapsed, led to a rapid expansion of indentured servitude and, later, forcible immigration and enslavement of Africans. By 1730 there were public tobacco warehouses every fourteen miles. Bonded at £1,000 sterling, each inspector received from £25 to £60 as annual salary. Four hogsheads of 950 pounds were considered a ton for London shipment. Ships from English ports did not need port cities; they called at the wharves of warehouses or plantations along the rivers for tobacco and the next year returned with goods the planters had ordered from the shops of London. Outside the plantations, much land was operated by independent farmers who rented from the proprietors, or owned it outright. They emphasized subsistence farming to grow food for their large families. Many of the Irish and Scottish immigrants specialized in rye-whiskey making, which they sold to obtain cash. ==The 18th century== Maryland developed into a plantation colony by the 18th century. In 1700 there were about 25,000 people and by 1750 that had grown more than 5 times to 130,000. By 1755, about 40% of Maryland's population was black. Maryland planters also made extensive use of indentured servants and penal labor. An extensive system of rivers facilitated the movement of produce from inland plantations and farms to the Atlantic coast for export. Baltimore, on the Patapsco River, leading to the Chesapeake Bay, was the second-most important port in the 18th-century South, after Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712–1756) was a Scottish-born doctor and writer who lived and worked in Annapolis. Leo Lemay says his 1744 travel diary Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is "the best single portrait of men and manners, of rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America." The Abbé Claude C. Robin, a chaplain in the army of General Rochambeau, who travelled through Maryland during the Revolutionary War, described the lifestyle enjoyed by families of wealth and status in the colony: are large and spacious habitations, widely separated, composed of a number of buildings and surrounded by plantations extending farther than the eye can reach, cultivated ... by unhappy black men whom European avarice brings hither. ...Their furniture is of the most costly wood, and rarest marbles, enriched by skilful and artistic work. Their elegant and light carriages are drawn by finely bred horses, and driven by richly apparelled slaves." In the late colonial period, the southern and eastern portions of the Province continued in their tobacco economy, but as the American Revolution approached, northern and central Maryland increasingly became centers of wheat production. This helped drive the expansion of interior farming towns like Frederick and Maryland's major port city of Baltimore. ===The American Revolution=== Up to the time of the American Revolution, the Province of Maryland was one of two colonies that remained an English proprietary colony, Pennsylvania being the other. Maryland declared independence from Britain in 1776, with Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton signing the Declaration of Independence for the colony. In the 1776–77 debates over the Articles of Confederation, Maryland delegates led the party that insisted that states with western land claims cede them to the Confederation government, and in 1781 Maryland became the last state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. It accepted the United States Constitution more readily, ratifying it on 28 April 1788. Maryland also gave up some territory to create the new District of Columbia after the American Revolution. ==See also== List of colonial governors of Maryland Colonial families of Maryland History of Maryland History of slavery in Maryland Thomas Cresap Lord Baltimore penny Economic history of Colonial Maryland ==Notes== ==Sources== Andrews, Matthew Page, History of Maryland, Doubleday, New York (1929) Everstine, Carl N. "The Establishment of Legislative Power in Maryland", 12 Maryland Law Review 99 (1951) ==External links== Colonial history of Maryland History of USA, 1904, Maryland George Alsop on the condition of indentured servants in Maryland, 1663 1632 establishments in the British Empire Pre-statehood history of Maryland Thirteen Colonies Former English colonies States and territories established in 1632 1776 disestablishments in the British Empire Colonial United States (British) Former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas

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Jean Christophe Iseux, Baron von Pfetten zu St. Mariakirchen (born November 11, 1967 in Lyon) is a diplomat, academic and landowner. Referred by the press as the "Red Baron", Pfetten served as a specially invited member of the upper house of the Chinese parliament between 2001 and 2012, first European ever to hold such a position in China. Pfetten hosted a series of private meetings on Iran's nuclear program attended by top military commanders from Iran and Israel as well as senior officials from the P5 nations which strongly contributed to the success of the Nuclear Interim Deal achieved in Geneva on November 11, 2013. ==Early life and education== Pfetten received his BSc and MSc (Physics and Chemistry) from the University of Strasbourg, and, his Dipl. Eng. Geophysicist from the Institut de Physique du Globe (admissible to the Ecole Normale Supérieure). In 1989 he patented two inventions in the fields of nuclear submarine and of hydraulic fracturing which he presented at the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Production Operations Symposium on April 7–9, 1991 in Oklahoma, USA. He has also a Master degree in management studies from Templeton College, Oxford University, graduating in 1991. In the same time he also read for an MPhil in International Relations at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. ==Diplomacy== Pfetten was Chargé de Mission at the French embassy in Bonn, Germany, from 1991 to 1992. Aged 28 he became the youngest ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva as Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Disarmament between 1996 and 1997. Pfetten hosted a breakthrough three days meeting at his French chateau in 2011 bringing a ministerial delegation from the Vatican together with senior Chinese officials for the first time since WWII which kickstarted diplomatic negotiations leading to the 2019 MOU signature between the two nations, the Financial Times reported. On July 11, 2018 Pfetten was invited to give evidence on foreign policy in a shifting world order to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on International Relations. ==Academic career== Pfetten is currently Chairman of the Institute for East West Strategic Studies which has a strong association with the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at People's University of China (since 2006). He is also a Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (since November 2015). Previously Pfetten was a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, Oxford University from 1992 to 1994 and served as Vice-president of the Think-Tank Oxford Analytica from 1994 to 1996. He then worked as Visiting Scholar teaching Leadership Management at the International MBA program of Tsinghua University from 1999 to 2000 and became Professor of International Political Economics at the School of Economics of Renmin University starting in September 2000 for a six years tenure. In the same time, he was Director of China Studies at the Regulatory Policy Institute which used to be called the Regulatory Policy Research Center affiliated with Hertford College, Oxford University, from 1998 to 2005. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris, Honorary Professor at the Assumption University of Thailand, Member of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, China Advisor to the US Coalition of Services Industries as well as to the Asian Strategic and Leadership Institute, and, Honorary Representative of the Vancouver Board of Trade. ==China== Pfetten was a specially invited member of the People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the upper house of China's parliament (representative for Changchun 2001-2005 and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of CPPCC Shanghai 2009-2012). He was Special Advisor on Foreign Economic and Trade Cooperation to the International Department of the CCCPC from 2005 to 2009. He was investment advisor to 34 local governments in China including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Nanjing, Qingdao, and Shenzhen. He was also an adviser to the Investment Research Institute of National Development and Reform Commission, the China National School of Administration, the MOFCOM Transnational Institute, the All-China Chamber of Commerce, the Society of Environmental Sciences of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Chinese National Economic Research Institute. Pfetten currently holds non-executive positions on the boards of several multinationals. Pfetten has been credited with attracting around 2% of total foreign direct investment into China since 2002. ==Iran nuclear meetings== The Financial Times, Newsweek and The Spectator reported that between June and October 2013 Pfetten organized two rounds of back-channel diplomatic meetings on the issue of Iran's nuclear program. The first round, hosted by the Institute for East West Strategic Studies and held at Green Templeton College, Oxford, brought together senior Chinese and Israeli officials. A second, more confidential round of talks, hosted by Pfetten in his French chateau, was moderated by former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie. Attendees included Major General Huang Baifu, vice chairman of the China Institute for International Strategic Studies and minister of Chinese military intelligence; a senior leader of Iran Revolutionary Guards; as well as General Doron Avital, chairman of the Israeli Knesset's Security and Defense Committee. Pfetten told The Financial Times that the "Track II" meeting was "aimed at persuading Beijing to take a more pro-active involvement in the Middle East" and emphasized 'the willingness of China and the US to work hand-in-hand in resolving the Iranian nuclear issue.' ==Awards and family== Prof. von Pfetten was named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2003. Pfetten received the Chinese government's Confucius Medal in 1998 and the Lei Feng Award for Merit in 1999 for his humanitarian work following the 1997 earthquake and 1998 flood in China (he is the first and only foreigner ever to receive this award). On August 8, 2009, Pfetten got married with two children: Charlotte and Maximilian. ==Hound breeding== Pfetten was a joint master of the New Forest Foxhounds in Hampshire after Oxford and Junior master of the Equipage de Vens et Venaille for ten seasons from 1990 to 2000. Since 2000 he is Senior Master and Amateur Huntsman of the Equipage de Selore (Baron von Pfetten's Hunt) his family secular private pack of hounds based at the in St. Yan, Saone-et-Loire, France. One of Pfetten's English foxhounds, Colonel, was named "Meilleur de Race" (Best of Breed) at the French National Hound Show (Fontainebleau June 2011). He was made a Champion at the World Dog Show (Paris July 2011) and became Champion of Champions at Bruxelles final show in October 2011, the first ever foxhound to win the title. Pfetten was elected President of the International Foxhound Association in 2012. ==Apethorpe Palace== In December 2014, English Heritage announced that Baron Pfetten had bought Apethorpe Palace, a Jacobean stately home near Oundle in Northamptonshire. Simon Thurley, English Heritage's chief executive, welcomed the purchase, saying, "Since 2000 English Heritage has consistently said that the best solution for Apethorpe is for it to be taken on by a single owner, who wants to continue to restore the house and to live in it; especially one who has experience of restoring historic buildings and is prepared to share its joys with a wide public, as Baron Pfetten will do. Apethorpe is certainly on a par with Hatfield and Knole and is by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s." Baron Pfetten has agreed to an 80-year commitment of 50 days' public opening a year, a far more extensive undertaking than the normal period of 10 years in the case of English Heritage grant-aided properties. Apethorpe Palace was a favourite residence of King James I and is now undergoing major renovation works. ==References== Living people French diplomats University of Strasbourg alumni 1967 births Alumni of Green Templeton College, Oxford French expatriates in China Permanent Representatives to the World Trade Organization Renmin University of China faculty

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Saint Castulus (died 286) is venerated as a martyr. According to tradition, he was the chamberlain (or officer, valet) of Emperor Diocletian and the husband of Saint Irene of Rome. ==Biography== A convert to the Christian religion, he sheltered Christians in his home and arranged for religious services inside the palace of the emperor. Among those he sheltered were Mark and Marcellian. He is one of the saints associated with the life and legend of Saint Sebastian. With his friend Saint Tiburtius, he converted many men and woman to Christianity and brought them to Pope Saint Caius to be baptized. He was betrayed by an apostate named Torquatus and taken before Fabian, prefect of the city. Castulus was tortured and executed by being buried alive in a sand pit on the Via Labicana. According to tradition, Irene subsequently buried the body of the martyred Saint Sebastian. She was later martyred herself, around 288 AD. ==Veneration of St. Castulus== A church dedicated to him at Rome, built on the site of his martyrdom, existed from at least the seventh century. Castulus was venerated in Bavaria after relics of his were taken to Moosburg. Duke Heinrich der Löwe started the construction of the Kastulus Minster in 1171. In 1604, relics were also brought to Landshut. His relics still rest in Landshut's church of St. Martin's and Kostel Sv. Haštala (Church of ), Prague. ==References== ==External links== St. Castulus Castulus (Kastulus) SV. HAŠTAL (KASTUL) San Castulo, Mártir 286 deaths Converts to Christianity from pagan religions Culture of Bavaria Premature burials 3rd-century Romans 3rd-century Christian martyrs Deaths by live burial Year of birth unknown

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Nathaniel Jocelyn (January 31, 1796 – January 13, 1881) was an American painter and engraver best known for his portraits of abolitionists and of the slave revolt leader Joseph Cinqué. ==Family and education== Nathaniel Jocelyn was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of clockmaker and engraver Simeon Jocelin and Luceanah Smith. He trained under his father as a watchmaker, later taking up drawing, engraving, and oil painting. He studied engraving with George Munger around 1813; they published at least one print together under the name Jocelin & Munger. In 1817, Munger painted one of the few known portraits of Jocelyn. The inventor Eli Whitney also helped to foster his career, and in 1820 he briefly worked in the studio of Samuel F. B. Morse. Later, in 1829–30, he furthered his education by touring Europe with Morse and the architect Ithiel Town. During the War of 1812, at the age of 16, he volunteered for the Governor's Foot Guard, which defended the city of Madison, Connecticut. In 1818, he married Sarah Atwater Plant of New Haven. They had six daughters and a son, Isaac, who died at the age of six. ==Career== In 1817, Jocelyn moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where helped set up the Hartford Graphic and Bank Note Engraving Company. From 1820 to 1822 he lived in Savannah, Georgia, where he established himself as a painter of portraits and miniatures. On returning to New Haven in 1822, he continued as a portraitist. He was an abolitionist, and among his sitters were several notable abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison declared that Jocelyn's portrait was a "tolerable likeness," but remarked that "those who imagine that I am a monster, on seeing it will... deny its accuracy, seeing no horns about the head." Another of Jocelyn's well-known works is his 1839 portrait of Joseph Cinqué, leader of a revolt on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad. Jocelyn and his brother Simeon were also active in seeking legal counsel for Cinqué's defense. In 1827 he was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design, and he became a full Academician in 1846. Throughout his career, he often showed work at the academy's annual exhibitions. Jocelyn continued as an engraver alongside his portrait business. In the 1830s, he and his brother Simeon Smith Jocelyn founded and ran an engraving company under the name N. & S. S. Jocelyn. From 1843 to 1847, Jocelyn had a second portrait studio in New York City. His New Haven studio burned in 1849, and for a time he gave up painting for engraving, initially with the firm of Toppan, Carpenter & Co. He went on to found the National Bank Note Engraving Company, where he served as head of the art department through to the end of the Civil War. After the war, he returned to painting, working out of a studio provided for him at the recently founded Yale School of Art, where he served as curator of Italian art. He retired in 1864 and died in New Haven. ==Legacy== In 1858, Jocely and his brother gave a piece of land to the city of New Haven to be used as public park and playground. It is now known as Jocelyn Square. Many of Jocelyn's portraits are in the collection of Yale University. == References == American portrait painters 19th-century American painters American male painters Artists from New Haven, Connecticut 1796 births 1881 deaths Burials at Grove Street Cemetery

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MicroRNA 4727 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MIR4727 gene. ==Function== microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) that can be either protein-coding or non-coding. The primary transcript is cleaved by the Drosha ribonuclease III enzyme to produce an approximately 70-nt stem-loop precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA), which is further cleaved by the cytoplasmic Dicer ribonuclease to generate the mature miRNA and antisense miRNA star (miRNA*) products. The mature miRNA is incorporated into a RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which recognizes target mRNAs through imperfect base pairing with the miRNA and most commonly results in translational inhibition or destabilization of the target mRNA. The RefSeq represents the predicted microRNA stem-loop. . == References == == Further reading ==

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Maryam ( مريم, ; arabic synonym of "Mary") is the 19th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an with 98 verses (āyāt). The 114 chapters in the Quran are roughly ordered by size. The Quranic chapter is named after Mary, mother of Jesus (Isa), and the Virgin Mary in Christian belief. It recounts the events leading up to the birth of Jesus, subject matter covered in Luke 1 of the Christian Bible. The text of the surah refers to many known prophetic figures, including Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Ishmael, Enoch aka Idris, Adam, and Noah. The Birmingham Quran manuscript preserves the final eight verses (Q19:91–98), on parchment radiocarbon dated to between 568ce/56bh and 645/25ah. The Sanaa manuscript, dated between 578ce/44 bh and 669/49ah includes verses 2–28. From the perspective of Islamic tradition, (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is an earlier "Meccan Surah", believed to have been revealed sooner than later in Medina. Theodor Nöldeke's chronology identifies this Surah as the 58th Surah delivered. Traditional Egyptian chronology places it as the 44th. ==Summary== 1-6 Zacharias prays for offspring 7-8 Gabriel is sent with an answer promising a son 9-12 Zacharias asks a sign which is given 13-15 John the Baptist’s mission and character described 16-22 Story of Mary’s miraculous conception 22-23 The birth of Jesus 23-27 Mary in distress is comforted by Jesus 28-29 Mary brings her child to her people, who reproach her 30-34 Jesus (speaking in infancy) vindicates his mother and describes his own prophetic character 35 Jesus the Word of Truth 36 God has no son 37 God alone to be worshipped 38-41 The miserable fate of Jewish and Christian sectaries The story of Abraham: 42-46 He reproaches his father for idolatry 47 His father threatens to stone him 48-50 Abraham prays for his father, but separates himself from him 50-51 God gives him Isaac and Jacob, who were notable prophets 52 Moses—an apostle and prophet 53 Discourses with God privately 54 Aaron given him for an assistant 55-56 Ismaíl was a prophet acceptable to his Lord 57 ۩ 58 Idrís was taken up to heaven 59 God is bounteous to all true prophets 59, 60 The followers of former prophets compared with those of Muhammad 61-64 The reward of the faithful in Paradise 65 Gabriel comes down from heaven only when commanded 66 God is the only Lord—no name like his 67-68 The dead shall surely rise 69-73 The dead shall be judged on their knees 74-75 Believers and unbelievers compared 76-77 The prosperity of infidels a sign of God’s reprobation 78-79 Good works better than riches 80-83 The doom of the wicked certain 84-85 Even the false gods will desert idolaters in the judgment 86-87 God sends devils to incite infidels to sin 88 The pious to be honoured before God 89-90 The wicked to be driven into hell 91-93 Attributing children to God a great sin 94-95 God the only Lord—all creatures his servants 96 Believers to be rewarded with love 97 The Quran made easy for Muhammad 98 Miserable doom of all God’s enemies == 1 The "mysterious letters" == The chapter opens with the Bismillah and the "mysterious letters": Kaf; Ha; Ya; 'Ayn; and Sad. The remaining 97 verses may be divided many ways. Muslims believe these letters to be the peculiar marks of the Quran, and to conceal several profound mysteries, the certain understanding of which has not been communicated to any mortal, their prophet only excepted. == 16–30 Story of Maryam == Q19:16–30 Translator George Sale was a solicitor and early member of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. His verse structure differs slightly from that of the later Arabic King Faud I Edition. He interpretes al-kitab as "the book of the Koran" when he translates the Story of Mary in the Quran And remember in the book of the Koran the story of Mary; when she retired from her family to a place towards the east, and took a veil to conceal herself from them; and we sent our spirit Gabriel unto her, and he appeared unto her in the shape of a perfect man. ۝ 20 She said, I fly for refuge unto the merciful God, that he may defend me from thee: if thou fearest him, thou wilt not approach me. He answered, Verily I am the messenger of thy LORD, and am sent to give thee a holy son. She said, How shall I have a son, seeing a man hath not touched me, and I am no harlot? Gabriel replied, So shall it be: thy LORD saith, This is easy with me; and we will perform it, that we may ordain him for a sign unto men, and a mercy from us: for it is a thing which is decreed. ۞ Wherefore she conceived him; and she retired aside with him in her womb to a distant place; and the pains of child-birth came upon her near the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, Would to GOD I had died :before this, and had become a thing forgotten, and lost in oblivion. And he who was beneath her called to her, saying, be not grieved; now hath GOD provided a stream under thee; and do thou shake the body of the palm-tree, and it shall let fall ripe dates upon thee ready gathered. And eat, and drink, and calm thy mind. Moreover, if thou see any man, and he question thee, say, Verily I have vowed a fast unto the Merciful: wherefore I will by no means speak to a man this day. So she brought the child to her people, carrying him in her arms. And they said unto her, O Mary, now hast thou done a strange thing: O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a bad man, neither was thy mother a harlot. ۝30 But she made signs unto the child to answer them; and they said, How shall we speak to him, who is an infant in the cradle? Whereupon the child said, Verily I am the servant of GOD; he hath given me the book of the gospel, and hath appointed me a prophet. ==2–40 Jesus== The first section, verses 2–40, begins with the story of the prophet Zachariah and the birth of his son John, the story of Mary and the birth of her son Jesus, and a commentary on Jesus' identity according to Islam which rejects the Christian claim that he is God's son. ===28 Sister of Aaron=== In Q19:28, she is referred to as 'Sister of Aaron'. Translator George Sale writes "Several Christian writers think the Quran stands convicted of a manifest falsehood in this particular, but I am afraid the Muslims may avoid the charge; as they do by several answers. Some say the Virgin Mary had really a brother named Aaron, who had the same father, but a different mother; others suppose Aaron the brother of Moses is here meant, but say Mary is called his sister, either because she was of the Levitical race (as by her being related to Elizabeth, it should seem she was), or by way of comparison; others say that it was a different person of that name who was contemporary with her, and conspicuous for his good or bad qualities, and that they likened her to him either by way of commendation or of reproach." === Rhyme structures === In its original Arabic, the text of chapter 19 progresses through a series of varying rhyme structures that correspond to the content being discussed. Throughout the initial narration of the stories of Zachariah and John, Mary and Jesus, and other prophets, verses rhyme based on the syllable 'ya'. When the text moves on to a commentary on the true identity of Jesus, words rhyme due to a long 'ee' or 'oo' preceding a nasal 'm' or 'n', which is considered to give an air of settledness or finality to the subjects being discussed. The first rhyme scheme is then resumed during further accounts of earlier prophets and changes to a rhyme based on a medium 'a' following a voiced 'd' when the Surah discusses punishments for those who reject truth and the prophets. The strength of this vocalization is exchanged for the stronger still double 'd' sound when denouncing unbelievers for their criticism. ===2–28 Sanaa 1=== The sequence of the Sanaa manuscript (Sanaa 1) chapters do not follow any other known quranic order and folio 22 is shared with Chapter 9 (al-Tawbah) (122-129). ====Recto==== ====Verso==== === 34 Significance of Mary === Chapter 19 is the only surah in the Qur'an that is named after a woman. Mary, the figure from whom this Surah takes its name. Jesus is referred to by his familial connection to her in Q19:34, the identifying title 'son of Mary' places startling emphasis on Mary's motherhood in a culture in which individuals were identified by their descent from male family member. This emphasis draws attention to the unique circumstances of Jesus's birth; it was not a biological process, and no father was involved, but it rejects the Christian belief that he was begotten by God. The text describes the agony of Mary's childbirth in great detail, including her wish that she had died long ago in order to avoid such pain. Despite this great hardship, God is portrayed as compassionate and attentive to Mary's needs; He urges her not to worry and provides her with food. Feminist reading of the text points to this treatment of childbirth as verification of the process's special significance. Other scholars point to the interaction between Mary and the angel Gabriel as indicative of traditional gender roles at the time; when Mary, a solitary female, encounters the male angel, her first reaction is fear of the impropriety of the situation and uncertainty regarding the angel's intentions. She can hear the angel's message and question him only after he assures her that he has come as a messenger from God. Maryam in Syriac (ܡܪܝܡ) is a common adjective connoting blessing and perhaps the verb " exalts her". ===35–37 Dome of the Rock=== The verses from Maryam 19:35–37, which are seen by Muslims as strongly reaffirming Jesus' prophethood to God, are quoted in inscriptions in the oldest extant Islamic monument, The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. == 41–65 Abraham == The second section, verses 41–65, tells of Abraham's departure from his family's idolatrous ways and then refers to many other prophets. The text discusses the various responses of those who heard their prophecy and the fates those hearers met; throughout these descriptions, the oneness of God is emphasized. == 66–98 Islamic view of the Trinity == The third section, verses 66–98, confirms the reality of resurrection and offers depictions of the Day of Judgment alongside depictions of this life. ===91–98 Birmingham manuscript=== The Birmingham Quran manuscript preserves the final eight verses (Q19:91–98) of Chapter 19, Mayryam (plus parts of Chapter 18, Al-Kahf; and Chapter 20, "Taha"). Located in the Cadbury Research Library, It is written in the Arabic language in Hijazi script by unknown scribe(s). The Manuscript has been radiocarbon dated to between 568 and 645 CE (in the Islamic calendar, between 56 BH and 25 AH). Saud al-Sarhan, Director of Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, considers that the parchment might in fact have been reused as a palimpsest. Saud's perspective has been backed by a number of Saudi-based experts in Quranic history who deny that the Birmingham/Paris Quran could have been written during the lifetime of Muhammad. They emphasize that while Muhammad was alive, Quranic texts were written without any chapter decoration, marked verse endings or use of coloured inks, and did not follow any standard sequence of surahs. They maintain that those features were introduced into Quranic practice in the time of the Caliph Uthman, and so it would be entirely possible that the Birmingham leaves could have been written then, but not earlier. Q19:91–92 dissents from the Trinitarian Christian practice of calling upon God in the name of his ‘son’. 91That they attribute to the Most Merciful a son. 92And it is not appropriate for the Most Merciful that He should take a son. Q19:96 supports a requirement for "Faith and deeds" 96Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds – the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection. ==Notes== The notes are mostly by Sale who in turn relied heavily on Lewis Maracci's Latin translation. Maracci was a Roman Catholic cleric regular of the Mother of God of Lucca: == References == == External links == Quran 19 Clear Quran translation Quran 19 Electronic Quran Project. King Saud University XIX MARY A.J. Arberry translation 19. Maryam (Mary) Muhammad Asad translation Quran 19 Ali Ünal translation Quran 19 E. H. Palmer translation 19. Entitled, Mary; containing 80 verses George Sale translation Quran 19 J. M. Rodwell translation Quran 19 Rashad Khalifa translation Quran 19 translation Maryam Mary, mother of Jesus Jesus in Islam John the Baptist

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Metro Junior Hockey League may refer to: Metro Junior A League, a Junior 'A' hockey league from 1961 to 1963 that operated in association with the Ontario Hockey Association Metro Junior A Hockey League, a Junior 'A' hockey league from 1991 to 1998 that was later absorbed by the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League ==See also== Metropolitan Junior Hockey League, an American Tier III Junior ice hockey league with teams in the eastern USA, renamed as North American 3 Atlantic Hockey League (NA3AHL) for the 2016–17 season

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Pecka is a market town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. ==References== ==External links== Official website Market towns in the Czech Republic Populated places in Jičín District

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East Ord is a village in Northumberland, England about south west of Berwick Upon Tweed. It lies on the south bank of the River Tweed adjacent to the A1 Road. == History == The village was originally called Ord, with Middle Ord and West Ord being built at a later date. It gave its name to the family of Ord and was the family's seat. The Ords of Ord owned the village until the early fifteenth century. To the east of the village is Ord House. Ord House manor was originally built for Admiral Godolfin Osborne in 1789; noted in 1828 as belonging to James Grieve Esq; and an Osborne lived there until 1954. The manor house and grounds are now part of Ord House Country park, a quiet landscaped caravan park. Ord is widely scattered, and was confirmed by a Local Government Order in 1891 to be a separate parish for civil purposes, which included East, Middle and West Ord. The village itself is small, built in a rectangular form enclosing a green. In Kelly's Directory of 1897 the Kelso branch of the North Eastern railway passed through the township. == Governance == East Ord is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. ==References== ==External links== Northumberland Communities (accessed: 27 November 2008) Villages in Northumberland

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MX vs. ATV Supercross is a racing video game developed by Rainbow Studios and published by Nordic Games for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This is the fifth game of the MX vs. ATV franchise and it is the first game developed after the original creator of the franchise, Rainbow Studios, separated from their most recent publisher THQ due to bankruptcy. An updated version, known as MX vs. ATV Supercross Encore, was released for Microsoft Windows on 5 March 2015, PlayStation 4 on 27 October 2015 and Xbox One on 15 July 2016. ==Gameplay== The core focus of the game allows for the player to race supercross on motocross bikes or ATVs, similar to Reflex and Alive. Nordic Games also promised to bring back as many features from the original game as possible. The game features 17 Supercross Tracks for both MX and ATV riding and a career mode with 5 series (250 East, 250 West, 450 MX, 450 ATV, 450 MX vs. ATV). There are also more than 80 motocross companies in the game to ensure authenticity and 40 riders to race against. New physics and control system including reinterpreting the "pre-load" from the original MX vs ATV games is also introduced in the new game. The game received regular content updates. As for the multiplayer, it can with up to 12 players. Split-screen is also available for two local players. ==Development== During THQ's bankruptcy. Nordic Games purchased the rights to MX vs. ATV, along with Red Faction and Darksiders as well as rights to THQ's other owned software and licensed software for $4.9 million in total during an assets auction. The game is announced by Nordic Games in December 2013 and was set as the fifth entry in the series. It was later set for release on 9 September 2014. However, the game was pushed back and was released on 28 October 2014. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of the game was announced on 25 June 2015. Titled MX vs. ATV Supercross Encore, the game will bundled together with MX vs. ATV Alive and will be released worldwide in late 2015. New features would also be introduced. The Edition will also be released for Microsoft Windows and entered Steam's early access on the day of announcement. ==Reception== MX vs. ATV: Supercross received mixed reviews from critics. The Xbox 360 version received an aggregated score of 55.00% from GameRankings and 57/100 from Metacritic. Jeremy Peeples from Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 6/10, praising the soundtracks but had a mixed opinion about the graphics as he described it "a perplexing blend of impressive and sub-par". He summarized the game by saying that, "MX vs. ATV Supercross doesn’t reinvent the wheel. Those who enjoyed past entries will enjoy this one and get a kick out of the new right-stick jumping and aiming mechanic. It is easy to like, but hard to feel passionate about." Devin Charles from Game Revolution gave the game a 4/10, praising the customization options, but criticizing the uninventive gameplay, poor control and handling, unnatural turning mechanics, as well as the poor graphics. == References == 2014 video games Multiplayer and single-player video games MX vs. ATV Open world video games PlayStation 3 games PlayStation 4 games Racing video games Split-screen multiplayer games THQ Nordic games Video games developed in the United States Windows games Xbox 360 games Xbox One games

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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards is a 2015 American anthology film based on the book by Robert Boswell. It consists of seven vignettes. It premiered at the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival. ==Vignettes== ===A Walk In Winter=== The first is A Walk In Winter directed by Ryan Moody, written by Jessica Nikkel: Conrad comes back to his small town to learn they have located the bones of his missing mother. He is asked to watch the police station and he discovers that the body is that of his father and not his mother. Cast: James Franco as Conrad Abigail Spencer as Abigail Jack Kehler as Sheriff ===Guests=== The second is Guests directed by Mark Columbus, written by Neville Kiser: Charlie attends his first day of class at his new school only to be bullied by Bobby. Dad is at home dying of cancer so Charlie tells Mom and Dad that all went well at school. As time passes Dad eventually dies. The next day Charlie goes to school and beats up Bobby. Cast: Rico Rodriguez as Charlie Foster - New student Matthew Modine as Theodore Foster - Father Priscilla Garita as Maricelle Foster - Mother Tanner Buchaman as Bobby Bell - Bully ===Almost Not Beautiful=== The third is Almost Not Beautiful directed by Sarah Kruchowski, written by Jacqueline Vleck: Lisa comes home to find her dysfunctional family unchanged. Mom still tolerates step-dad, Sydney who like to play pocket pool with his hand in his pocket. Sister Amanda is drunk and has attempted suicide twice. Lisa tells Amanda that "you're prettier than I am" and that is to make everything ok. Cast: Kate Mara as Lisa - Sister Amber Tamblyn as Amanda - Sister ===Miss Famous=== The fourth is Miss Famous directed by Shadae Lamar Smith, written by Roxanne Beck: Monica is a maid who has a young daughter Sally. As Monica meets people and cleans their houses, she is going to use their life experiences to write a book and become famous. Cast: Kristen Wiig as Monica - Maid Tony Cox as Mr. Chub - Customer Jimmy Kimmel as Lunchtime creeper in park Maya Zapata as Babysitter ===Lacunae=== The fifth is Lacunae directed by Vanita Shastry, written by Mona Nahm: Son Paul comes home to visit his parents because Dad recently had a stroke. At dinner both Mom and Dad encourage Paul to visit his former wife who has had a son since the divorce. Despite Paul's assurances that he is not the father, they tell him that Cliff, the "grandchild", sure looks like him. Taking Dad for a ride, he drives by Laura's house. Later he goes back, meets Cliff and talks to Laura. He gives the boy a carved wooden horse. Laura tells Paul she had dated a guy that sure looked like him. Paul goes home and asks his parents whether they think Paul should start seeing Laura again? Cast: Natalie Portman as Laura Jim Parrack as Paul ===Smoke=== Sixth is Smoke directed by Simon Savelyev, written by Nicole Riegel: Three teen boys smoke cigarettes and each tell their own real or imagined first sexual experience. Cast: Keir Gilchrist as Michael Thomas Mann as Lee Bo Mitchell as Greg ===The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards=== Seventh is The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards directed by Jeremy David White, written by Marissa Matteo: Keen comes home from college and attends a pool party with much alcohol and drugs. Keen and Lila are sitting next to the pool and drunk Barnett throws-up in Lila's lap. Keen gives him a hard punch and told to get away. Later they notice Barnett hasn't moved and Keen pisses on his face. He still is not awake so they throw him in the pool. Barnett is dead. Lila agrees to have sex with Keen if he tells no one. He agrees and they have sex. Keen gives the dog some mushrooms, but it too dies. They bury the dog. Keen asks Lila to marry him and she decides to call the police about Barnett. Cast: Jacob Loeb as Keen Kelsey Ford as Lila Tyler Labine as Clete Wilmer Calderon as Barnett Robert Dubois as Stu ==References== ==External links== 2015 films English-language films Anthology films

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Halosaurs are eel-shaped fishes found only at great ocean depths. As the family Halosauridae, halosaurs are one of two families within the order Notacanthiformes; the other being the deep-sea spiny eels, Notacanthidae. Halosaurs are thought to have a worldwide distribution, with some 17 species in three genera represented. Only a handful of specimens have been observed alive, all in chance encounters with Remotely operated underwater vehicles. The term "halosaur" refers to the type genus, Halosaurus, which is a Greek compound word, hals meaning "sea" and sauros meaning "lizard". Halosaurs have a spotty fossil record, the oldest known genus being Echidnocephalus from the Late Cretaceous strata of Westphalia, Germany, and the second-oldest known genus, Laytonia, from Miocene strata of California and Oregon. The fossil specimens already bear strong resemblance to the modern genera. The halosaurs' greatly elongated bodies end in whip-like tails; their scales are large. One small dorsal fin is close to the sharply pointed, mostly scaleless head. The tail fin is greatly reduced, with the anal fin being the largest fin. Their pectoral fins are slender and greatly elongated. Their mouths are somewhat large, with the lower jaw shorter than the upper jaw. The swim bladder is absent. The largest species, the 90-cm (3-ft) long abyssal halosaur (Halosauropsis macrochir) is also one of the most deep-living fish, recorded at depths of 3,300 m (11,000&nbsp;ft). Halosaurs have developed certain adaptations to life at these extreme depths, where no light penetrates. Their lateral line system enabling the detection of vibrations in the water is highly developed; the pores run the length of the fish's body. Some species are also known to hold their elongated pectorals erect and forward, possibly providing a further means of detection. Halosaurs are benthic fish, spending their time cruising over or resting on the sea floor, where temperatures may be just 2-4&nbsp;°C. They propel themselves with rhythmic, lateral undulations of their bodies, not unlike sea snakes. Halosaurs are thought to prey mainly on benthic invertebrates, such as polychaete worms, echinoderms, and crustaceans such as copepods, but they may also consume small fishes and cephalopods. In life, most halosaurs are grey to bluish-black in colour. Like other notacanthiform fish, halosaurs are able to regenerate their tails easily if lost. This adaptation can be likened to certain terrestrial reptiles, such as the glass lizard, which sacrifices its tail to evade predators. == References == == External links == Video footage of a halosaur from NOAA's Ocean Explorer Halosauridae Deep sea fish

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was keep. ‑Scottywong ===The First Intimate Contact=== – (View AfDView log Stats) () () Can't find any reviews to demonstrate notability; seems to fail NBOOKS. Mikeblas (talk) Note: This debate has been included in the list of Taiwan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) Comment The book is mentioned in multiple sources (as one of the earliest web novels in China and has been adapted as a film. It is also reviewed in multiple research papers ([ seems to pass

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