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Philippine National Construction Corporation

The Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC) is a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) in the Philippines. It is the largest construction company in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.

It is usually tasked with major construction works, especially in the field of infrastructure.  The PNCC has extensive operations in the Philippines, and has also been involved in projects and has or had operations in various other countries, notably in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

History
The PNCC was established in 1966 by virtue of an executive order during the administration of the Former President Ferdinand Marcos as the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines (CDCP), with the corporation being led by Rodolfo Cuenca, a crony.  It was granted a 50-year franchise to commission and perform construction works throughout the Philippines.

In 1977, Presidential Decree No. 1113 was issued, granting the CDCP a 30-year franchise to operate and maintain the various limited-access toll highways in the Philippines.  The CDCP changed its name to its present name in 1983 after the infusion of additional equity from the government since 1981. The PNCC is now under the full supervision of the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry by virtue of the Executive Order 331, issued last July 16, 2004.

Projects
The PNCC has been involved in various projects over the years. Some of its most famous projects were the San Juanico Bridge, the Metro Manila Skyway, North and South Luzon Expressways, the Manila Light Rail Transit System, the Manila–Cavite Expressway and Bay City.

Ownership
Government of the Philippines: 49%
Government Service Insurance System: 29.35%
Universal Holdings Corporation: 15.32%
Others (includes public stock): 6.33%

Subsidiaries
PNCC is divided into the following subsidiaries:
 Dasmariñas Industrial and Steelworks Corporation
 Traffic Control Products Corporation
 South Metro Manila Skyway Project
 Manila North Tollways Corporation
 South Luzon Tollway Corporation

References

External links
Philippine National Construction Corporation Website
Department of Trade and Industry

Construction and civil engineering companies of the Philippines
Companies based in Parañaque
Government-owned and controlled corporations of the Philippines
Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines)
Companies listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1966
Philippine companies established in 1966
Establishments by Philippine executive order
Greers Ferry Dam

Greers Ferry Dam is located on the Little Red River in Cleburne County in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It impounds Greers Ferry Lake. The dam is located north of Little Rock.

Building the dam

Construction of the dam began in March 1959 and was completed in December 1962. The lake serves the Heber Springs area flood control, and is a site for recreation and power generation. When construction began on the dam in 1956, hundreds of workers showed up looking for work. The newly hired workers then rented empty houses next to the construction site, and workers were even building their own homes next to the soon-to-be lake. Once all the workers arrived, people and business owners saw an opportunity in this construction and built motels, shops, and stores next to the construction site so workers would have a place to shop and relax. Farmers also felt the benefit of the construction, as work on the lake created demand for livestock and agriculture.

Dedication
After completion, the lake was dedicated on October 3, 1963 by John F. Kennedy. The trip was his last major public appearance before his fateful trip to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, where he was assassinated. This event marks the only time a sitting president has visited Cleburne County. In his remarks in Heber Springs, Kennedy explained that the Greers Ferry project and others like it were investments in Arkansas and the nation's future. He was right - after the lake filled, tourism boomed, many businesses opened and reopened, and Greers Ferry Lake became one of Arkansas' leading destinations. Today, many resort communities dot the shores of Greers Ferry Lake.

Power plant
The dam supports a power plant with two generating units rated at 48,000 kilowatts per unit.

See also 
List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs

References

External links
Encyclopedia of Arkansas - Greers Ferry Dam and Lake
Encyclopedia of Arkansas - Greers Ferry Dam 
Greers Ferry Dam overview, United States Army Corps of Engineers
USACE - Greers Ferry Lake - Elevation Fact Sheet
USACE - Greers Ferry Dam 50th Anniversary Dedication Celebration Ceremony

Dams in Arkansas
Hydroelectric power plants in Arkansas
Dams completed in 1962
Buildings and structures in Cleburne County, Arkansas
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Little Red River (Arkansas)
1962 establishments in Arkansas
Judith Zeidler

Judith Ungemach ( Zeidler, born 11 May 1968) is a German-Australian world champion rower and Olympic gold and bronze medalist.

Early life and education
Zeidler was born in Beeskow, Brandenburg. She started rowing at the age of thirteen at the East German best rowing club Dynamo Berlin (later Sport Club Berlin).

Career
After three World Junior titles, Zeidler won gold in the women's eight at the 1988 Summer Olympics. A year later she won the world titles in Bled (Slovenia) in the coxless pair. At the 1992 Summer Olympics she won bronze in the women's eight with the unified German eight.

Zeidler lives with her husband, Matthias Ungemach, and two sons and one daughter on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Achievements

Junior world championships 
 1984: Jönköping (SWE) – 1st place (quadruple scull)
 1986: Roudnice (CZE) – 1st place (quadruple scull)

World championships
 1989: Bled (SLO) – 1st place (coxless pair)
 1990: Lake Barrington (AUS) – 3rd place (coxless four)
 1991: Vienna (AUT) – 3rd place (coxless four)

Olympics 
 1988: Seoul (KOR) – 1st place (eight)
 1992: Barcelona (SPA) – 3rd place (eight)

See also
 German Australian

References

External links
 Judith Zeidler dataOlympics profile

1968 births
Living people
People from Beeskow
People from Bezirk Frankfurt
East German female rowers
German female rowers
Sportspeople from Brandenburg
Olympic rowers for East Germany
Olympic rowers for Germany
Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany
World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold
Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
German emigrants to Australia
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
SC Dynamo Berlin athletes
Leo P. Carlin

Leo P. Carlin (August 12, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was the Democratic Mayor of Newark, New Jersey  from 1953 to 1962.

Biography

He was born on August 12, 1908, in Newark, New Jersey to Hugh Carlin and Annie Duffy. He was one of 22 children that his father had with his two wives. He attended Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, but left before graduating, to go to work to help support his family. He first served on the New Jersey General Assembly. He was president of Newark's Board of Education and was the longtime president of Local 478 of the Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs.

The only or one of the few mayors since 1962 to leave office with a positive balance in Newark's budget.  One of the major contribution Carlin made was to call together the CEOs of Newark's 18 largest corporations in an effort to stem the outward movement of companies to the suburbs.  The Star-Ledger wrote:
The term New Newark came into existence in 1954, largely as a result of the recently elected Mayor Leo Carlin, who called together the CEOs of Newark's 18 largest corporations in an effort to stem the outward movement of companies to the suburbs. At first, the organization was composed exclusively of business leaders who met quarterly. One of its best-known chairs was David Yunich, president of Bamberger's. ... But as time passed, the organization expanded to encompass the Newark Economic Development Committee. It was made up of representatives not only from business, but also labor and government, and better represented the whole community. One of its recommendations called for the redevelopment of the area adjoining Pennsylvania Station.
He died on December 17, 1999, in Avon-by-Sea, New Jersey, aged 91.

See also
List of mayors of Newark, New Jersey

References

1908 births
1999 deaths
Mayors of Newark, New Jersey
People from Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey
New Jersey Democrats
20th-century American politicians
Morley Senior High School

Morley Senior High School is an Independent Public high school located in Noranda, a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The school provides an education to approximately 1,400 students from Year 7 to Year 12.

History
By the end of the 1960s, John Forrest Senior High School and Hampton Senior High School were desperately overcrowded. Morley High School was established in 1970, but without a campus of its own. At first, the school consisted of 9 demountable classrooms and 250 students on the grounds of John Forrest Senior High School. It had its own staff, principal and p&c association, but it used John Forrest's library, sports facilities and canteen. A campus of its own opened in 1972 to 830 students from the first 3 years. By 1975, Morley was a complete Senior High School.

In 2015, Morley Senior High School became an Independent Public School.

Notable alumni
 Tom Jervis, basketball player
 Tammy MacIntosh, actress
 Adrian Majstrovich, basketball player
 Andrew Supanz, actor
 Jeremy Fernandez, news presenter

See also

 List of schools in the Perth metropolitan area

References

External links 
 Morley Senior High School web site

Public high schools in Perth, Western Australia
Educational institutions established in 1971
1971 establishments in Australia
Noranda, Western Australia
Jonathan Partington

Jonathan Richard Partington (born 4 February 1955) is an English mathematician who is Emeritus Professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds.

Education
Professor Partington was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed his PhD thesis entitled "Numerical ranges and the Geometry of Banach Spaces" under the supervision of Béla Bollobás.

Career
Partington works in the area of functional analysis, sometimes applied to control theory, and is the author of several books in this area.  He was formerly editor-in-chief of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, a position he held jointly with his Leeds colleague John Truss.

Partington's extra-mathematical activities include the invention of the March March march, an annual walk starting at March, Cambridgeshire. He is also known as a writer or co-writer of some of the earliest British text-based computer games, including Acheton, Hamil, Murdac, Avon, Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal, and SpySnatcher, which started life on the Phoenix computer system at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. These are still available on the IF Archive.

Books

External links
Professor Jonathan R. Partington at the University of Leeds

1955 births
Living people
People from Holt, Norfolk
20th-century English mathematicians
21st-century English mathematicians
Mathematical analysts
People educated at Gresham's School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Leeds
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services is the justice minister in the government of South Africa. He is the political head of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJCD), the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), and the Office of the Chief Justice. DoJCD is responsible for administrative support to the courts, oversight of the National Prosecuting Authority, the provision of legal services to departments of state, and law reform; and DSC is responsible for prisons and community corrections programmes.

, the incumbent is Ronald Lamola, who was appointed to the position by President Cyril Ramaphosa in June 2019. His deputies are John Jeffery, who is responsible for the Justice portfolio, and Inkosi Patekile Holomisa, who is responsible for Correctional Services.

History of the portfolio 
Correctional services was a part of the Justice portfolio until 1990, when extensive prison reforms were announced and a separate department and ministerial portfolio were established. The Justice portfolio became Justice and Constitutional Development in 1999, at the beginning of the second Mbeki cabinet, when constitutional matters were detached from the Ministry of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development – which had itself previously been the Ministry of Constitutional Development, until a reorganisation under the Mandela cabinet of 1994 to 1999. In July 2014, at the beginning of the second Zuma cabinet, the portfolios were merged again, creating the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services. However, the Department of Correctional Services remains distinct from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development; although they share a political head or executive authority, they are operationally and legislatively distinct. They report to the same parliamentary body, the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, but separately.

Three prime ministers have been Minister of Justice, including two – Jan Smuts and B. J. Vorster – who held the position directly before being elected prime minister. In 2004, Brigitte Mabandla became the first woman to be appointed to the portfolio.

List of ministers

Justice (1910–1999)

Justice and constitutional development (1999–2014)

Justice and correctional services (2014–present)

Institutions overseen by the ministry
The following institutions are housed in the justice and correctional services portfolio, although most have a significant degree of operational and statutory independence:

 Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
 Department of Correctional Services
 Office of the Chief Justice
 Public Protector
 National Prosecuting Authority
 Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services
 Legal Aid South Africa
 South African Human Rights Commission
 Electoral Commission
 Judicial Service Commission

References

Justice
South Africa
Hutchinson Municipal Airport (Minnesota)

Hutchinson Municipal Airport , also known as Butler Field, is a public airport located two miles (3 km) south of the central business district of Hutchinson, a city in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. It is owned by the City of Hutchinson. The airport is home to the Civil Air Patrol. The FBO is operated by ASI JET.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Hutchinson Municipal Airport is assigned HCD by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft 
Hutchinson Municipal Airport covers an area of  which contains one asphalt paved runway (15/33) measuring 4,000 x 75 ft (1,219 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2007, the airport had 12,395 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military.

See also
List of airports in Minnesota

References

External links 
  at Minnesota DOT Airport Directory

Airports in Minnesota
Buildings and structures in McLeod County, Minnesota
Transportation in McLeod County, Minnesota
Tom Richards Cup

The Tom Richards Cup, also known as the Tom Richards Trophy, is an international rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of British & Irish Lions vs. Australia test series. It was commissioned for the 2001 British & Irish Lions tour series and the inaugural winner was Australia, who won the series 2–1. This was the first time that Australia had managed to defeat the Lions in a series. Twelve years later, the Lions won the 2013 tour to Australia 1–2, making them the current holders of the trophy. The two teams' first meeting was in Australia in 1899 where they played a four test series, won by the Lions 3–1.

Tom Richards is the only Australian-born player to have represented both the Wallabies and Lions. However, Blair Swannell, born in England, also represented the Lions (1899 & 1904) and Australia (1905). Richards took part in the Gallipoli campaign and for his efforts in France was awarded the Military Cross. In 1908 Richards played in the first Wallaby team to tour Britain and won the gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games. In 1910 he represented the Lions as a replacement on their tour to South Africa whilst living in the country. In 1912 he was selected for the Wallaby tour to the United States and Canada.

As per convention, the next Lions tour to Australia is scheduled for 2025 following the tours of New Zealand (2017) and South Africa (2021).

Results

See also

History of rugby union matches between Australia and the British & Irish Lions

References
 

History of rugby union matches between Australia and the British & Irish Lions
Rugby union international rivalry trophies
2001 establishments in Australia
International rugby union competitions hosted by Australia
Dragon Storm (astronomy)

The Dragon Storm is a giant thunderstorm located in Saturn's Southern hemisphere, which is labeled as the "storm alley" region. The storm could have a range of  or more, and can be compared to the electric thunderstorms of Earth. It acquires its energy in the deep layers of Saturn's atmosphere and produces radio waves that reflect during its burst of short static which helped Cassini detect it.

The Dragon Storm (named in September 2004 for its unusual shape) is a large, bright and complex convective storm in Saturn's southern hemisphere. It appears to be long-lived and periodically flares up to produce dramatic white cloudy plumes that then subside. This is similar to the extreme conditions on Jupiter at the site of its Great Red Spot, an anticyclonic storm that has been continuously observed since 1830. The Dragon Storm is a strong source of radio emissions, which are interpreted by Cassini scientists as electric events similar to lightning on Earth.

Cassini detected a burst of radio emissions when the Dragon Storm started rising over the horizon during the night time of the planet. The burst came to a stop when it hit the sunlight. During the night time of Saturn, the storm starts; as soon as it hits sunlight, it completely stops. This pattern repeats, seeming to go on and off for a few weeks as Saturn rotates.

See also 

Extraterrestrial cyclone 
Great Dark Spot 
Great White Spot
Oval BA
Small Dark Spot

References

External links
 

Saturn
Planetary spots
Constituencies of Luxembourg

Constituencies (; ; ) are used to elect representatives ('deputies') to Luxembourg's unicameral national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies.

Electoral law in Luxembourg is dictated by Articles 51, 52, and 53 of the Constitution. The number of deputies is set at sixty, and boundaries of the constituencies are based on administrative cantonal boundaries. As a result, the constituencies have greatly differing populations, so each elects a different number of deputies, dependent upon the share of the national population.

Suffrage is universal and compulsory amongst adult resident citizens not otherwise disqualified. Luxembourg's electoral system is a form of the Hagenbach-Bischoff system (a variant of the D'Hondt method), which allocates seats to party lists by proportion of the votes won in each constituency. Under Luxembourg's system, each citizen may vote for as many candidates as there are deputies elected from that constituency. As a result, the national popular vote has no significance, as it reflects only the number of votes cast, and not the number of voters or the number of deputies elected.

There are four constituencies in Luxembourg:

 Centre includes the cantons of Luxembourg and Mersch, both of which are in the former Luxembourg District. , Centre has an estimated population of 151,166 and elects 21 deputies.
 East is coterminous with the former Grevenmacher District, and includes the cantons of Echternach, Grevenmacher and Remich. , East has an estimated population of 53,842 and elects 7 deputies.
 North is coterminous with the former Diekirch District, and includes the cantons of Clervaux, Diekirch, Redange, Vianden, and Wiltz. , North has an estimated population of 70,826 and elects 9 deputies.
 South includes the cantons of Capellen and Esch-sur-Alzette, both of which are in the former Luxembourg District. , South has an estimated population of 184,256 and elects 23 deputies.

References

 
Luxembourg
Luxembourg politics-related lists
Fibre Channel network protocols

Communication between devices in a fibre channel network uses different elements of Fibre Channel standards.

Transmission words and ordered sets
All Fibre Channel communication is done in units of four 10-bit codes. This group of 4 codes is called a transmission word.

An ordered set is a transmission word that includes some combination of control (K) codes and data (D) codes.

AL_PAs
Each device has an Arbitrated Loop Physical Address (AL_PA).  These addresses are defined by an 8-bit field but must have neutral disparity as defined in the 8b/10b coding scheme. That reduces the number of possible values from 256 to 134. The 134 possible values have been divided between the fabric, FC_AL ports, and other special purposes as follows:

Meta-data
In addition to the transfer of data, it is necessary for Fibre Channel communication to include some metadata.  This allows for the setting up of links, sequence management, and other control functions.  The meta-data falls into two types, primitives which consist of a 4 character transmission word and non-data frames which are more complex structures.

Primitives
All primitives are four characters in length.  They begin with the control character K28.5, followed by three data characters.  In some primitives the three data characters are fixed, in others they can be varied to change the meaning or to act as parameters for the primitive.  In some cases the last two parameter characters are identical.

Parameters are shown in the table below in the form of their hexadecimal 8-bit values.  This is clearer than their full 10-bit (Dxx.x) form as shown in the Fibre Channel standards:

Note 1: The first parameter byte of the EOF primitive can have one of four different values (8A, 95, AA, or B5). This is done so that the EOF primitive can rebalance the disparity of the whole frame. The remaining two parameter bytes define whether the frame is ending normally, terminating the transfer, or is to be aborted due to an error.

Note 2: The Open selective replicate variant can be repeated a number of times in order to communicate with more than one destination port simultaneously.  The Open broadcast replicate variant will allow communication with all ports simultaneously.

Note 3: The SOF primitive contains a pair of control bytes (shown as cccc in the table) to designate the type of frame.

Frames
The Fibre Channel protocol transmits data in frames each of which can contain up to 2112 bytes of payload data.  The structure of a frame is shown in this table:

In addition to data frames, there are non-data frames that are used for setup and messaging purposes.  These fall into three categories: link control frames, link service frames, and extended link service frames.  The following table lists the most common ones:

Fibre Channel
Computing-related lists
Owly

Owly is an American children's graphic novel series created since 2004 by Andy Runton and published by Top Shelf Productions.

Series overview
The series, which is largely without standard text dialogue making it a pantomime comic, is about the adventures of a gentle owl named Owly who resolves to do good and make friends in his world with the help of his good companions, the clever worm, Wormy, and Scampy, the gluttonous but good hearted chipmunk.  While he faces obstacles in the pursuit of that goal, his faith in the goodness in the world is never disappointed.

Publication history

Collections

Single issues
Top Shelf has published several single issues of Owly, as part of Free Comic Book Day.  
Owly: Splashin' Around was published in 2005
Owly: Breakin' the Ice was published in 2006
Owly: Helping Hands was published in 2007.
Owly: In a Fix! was published in 2008.
Owly: and Friends! was published in 2009

Children's books
Runton has published two Owly & Wormy children's books.

Awards and recognition

Wins

The Way Home Mini received the 2004 Howard E. Day Prize for outstanding achievement in self-publishing.
 Andy Runton won the 2005 Harvey Award for Best New Talent for Owly.
 Andy Runton won the 2005 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for Owly.
 Owly: Flying Lessons received the 2006 Eisner Award in the category "Best Publication for a Younger Audience."
Owly won the 2006 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series.

Nominations
 2005 Harvey Award nominee for Best Graphic Novel
 2005 Harvey Award nominee for Best New Series
 2005 Eisner Award nominee for Best Publication for a Younger Audience

In other media
A computer-animated short featuring Owly and Wormy was produced by Sprite Animation Studios, and premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con in July 2009. The short was story boarded by Runton himself, and directed by Moto Sakakibara.

Runton contributed a story featuring Owly and Wormy for the 25th issue of Valiant Comics' X-O Manowar in May 2014.

References

External links
Comics section in Andy Runton's site

American comics
2004 comics debuts
Children's books about owls
Top Shelf Productions titles
Ignatz Award winners for Outstanding Series
Pantomime comics
Comics about owls
Comics characters introduced in 2004
Tsefal i Prokris

Cephalus and Prokris ( – Tsefal i Prokris), is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Francesco Araja. Dating to 1755, it was the first opera written in the Russian language.

Araja composed the opera to a Russian libretto by Alexander Sumarokov after the Metamorphoses of Ovid.

Performance history
It was staged at St. Petersburg in a wing of Zimniy Dvorets on March 7, [OS February 27], 1755 with effective sets by Giuseppe Valeriani. It was the first opera performed with Russian singers. The main roles were performed by Elisaveta Belogradskaya (Prokris) and Gavrilo Martsenkovich known as "Gavrilushka" (Cephalus). The other actors were "pevchie" (the singers) of Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky: Stefan Evstafiev (Aurora), Stefan Rzhevsky (Erechtheus, the King of Athens), Nikolay Ktitarev (Minos, the King of Crete), Ivan Tatishchev (Tester, the nobleman of Minos and magician). This opera had a great success, and the composer received a luxurious sable coat valued at 500 rubles as a gift from Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. This opera was re-staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on June 14, 2001.

Plot
The story of  Cephalus and Prokris, who were ready to destroy their matrimonial vows and later happily forgive each other, thus far random tragic finale does not separate them (hunting Cephalus mistakenly pierces his wife with the spear) was transformed by Sumarokov into something quite different.  His libretto is the story of devoted love and the tragic fate of two heroes. Being separated, they severely suffer and do not search for compromises. Cephalus, stolen directly from the wedding ceremony in the temple, rejects the love of the powerful goddess Aurora. But meanwhile Prokris, suffering from jealousy, is moving towards her inevitably death: Cephalus, aimed supposedly at the beast, mortally wounds his own wife.

Bibliography
Цефал и Прокрис. СПб., – Tsefal i Pokris, St. Petersburg, 1755
Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Brokgaus & Efron: Encyclopaedic Dictionary, (1890—1907)
Штелин Я. Музыка и балет в России XVIII века. // Музыкальное наследство. Вып. 1. М., 1935 
Старикова Л. М. Новые документы о деятельности итальянской труппы в России в 30-е годы XVIII века <...> // ПКНО. 1988. М., 1989
Сумароков А.П. Избранные произведения. Л., 1957 
Сумароков А. П. Полное собрание сочинений <...>.Ч. IX. СПб., 1787
Штелин Я. Музыка и балет в России XVIII века

External links
in Russian
in Russian
in German
in Italian

Russian-language operas
Operas by Francesco Araja
Operas
1755 operas
Operas based on classical mythology
Jacques Paganel

Jacques Eliacin François Marie Paganel is one of the main characters in Jules Verne's 1867-68 novel In Search of the Castaways (original title Les Enfants du capitaine Grant). Paganel represents the absent-minded professor stock character.

Verne gives a memorable characterisation of his hero:

In the novel, Paganel is the "Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies". After many years of being a cabinet professor, he decides to take a voyage to India, but by mistake boards the protagonists' yacht Duncan (which is going to Patagonia), the first of Paganel's absent-minded actions.

A further mistake was to learn the Portuguese language accidentally, rather than Spanish. Paganel studied The Lusiads of Camoens over six weeks, believing the poem to be written in Spanish.

Nevertheless, Paganel proves to be an important member of the search party. His interpretation of the documents is vital in the advancement of the novel; he also provides numerous geographical references and is a constant source of humor.

In film and television
Actors who have played Paganel on the screen include:
Nikolai Cherkasov, in The Children of Captain Grant (1936)
Maurice Chevalier, in In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Lembit Ulfsak, in In Search of Captain Grant (1985)

References

Jules Verne characters
Fictional French people in literature
Fictional scientists
Literary characters introduced in 1868
Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm

The Gerchberg–Saxton (GS) algorithm is an iterative phase retrieval algorithm for retrieving the phase of a complex-valued wavefront from two intensity measurements acquired in two different planes. Typically, the two planes are the image plane and the far field (diffraction) plane, and the wavefront propagation between these two planes is given by the Fourier transform. The original paper by Gerchberg and Saxton considered image and diffraction pattern of a sample acquired in an electron microscope.

It is often necessary to know only the phase distribution from one of the planes, since the phase distribution on the other plane can be obtained by performing a Fourier transform on the plane whose phase is known. Although often used for two-dimensional signals, the GS algorithm is also valid for one-dimensional signals.

The pseudocode below performs the GS algorithm to obtain a phase distribution for the plane "Source", such that its Fourier transform would have the amplitude distribution of the plane "Target".

Pseudocode algorithm

 Let:
  FT – forward Fourier transform
  IFT – inverse Fourier transform
  i – the imaginary unit, √−1 (square root of −1)
  exp – exponential function (exp(x) = ex)
  Target and Source be the Target and Source Amplitude planes respectively
  A, B, C & D be complex planes with the same dimension as Target and Source
  Amplitude – Amplitude-extracting function:
    e.g. for complex z = x + iy, amplitude(z) = sqrt(x·x + y·y)
        for real x, amplitude(x) = |x|
  Phase – Phase extracting function:
    e.g. Phase(z) = arctan(y / x)
 end Let
 
 algorithm Gerchberg–Saxton(Source, Target, Retrieved_Phase) is
     A := IFT(Target)
     while error criterion is not satisfied
         B := Amplitude(Source) × exp(i × Phase(A))
         C := FT(B)
         D := Amplitude(Target) × exp(i × Phase(C))
         A := IFT(D)
     end while
     Retrieved_Phase = Phase(A)

This is just one of the many ways to implement the GS algorithm.  Aside from optimizations, others may start by performing a forward Fourier transform to the source distribution.

See also
 Phase retrieval
 Fourier optics
 Holography
 Computer-generated holography
 Adaptive-additive algorithm

References

External links
 Dr W. Owen Saxton's pages  , 
 Applications and publications on phase retrieval from the University of Rochester, Institute of Optics
 A Python-Script of the GS by Dominik Doellerer
 MATLAB GS algorithms , 
  

Digital signal processing
Physical optics
Articles with example pseudocode
Santolan station

Santolan station is an elevated Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) station situated on Line 2. It is located in along the Marikina–Infanta Highway in Calumpag, Marikina, near its boundary with Pasig.

From 2003 to 2021, this station was the eastern terminus of the line. The station became an intermediate station when the Line 2 East Extension opened on July 5, 2021. This station currently serves as the eleventh station for trains headed to Antipolo and the third station for trains headed to Recto. The Santolan Depot, where the trains of the line are cleaned and maintained, is also near the station, as well as the line's Operations Control Center (OCC), all are located in Pasig.

This is the only station on this line with an island platform.

Santolan station was temporarily closed due to a fire on October 3, 2019 which affected two rectifiers along the line: one between Katipunan and Anonas stations, and the other in the Santolan Depot. The station was reopened on January 22, 2021 after repairs to the rectifiers were completed.

Nearby landmarks
The station is near the Marikina River, BFCT East Metro Manila Transport Terminal, SM City Marikina, and Riverbanks Center connecting via footbridge. It is also near Bali Oasis and College of Arts and Sciences of Asia and the Pacific in Marikina.

Transportation links
Taxis, shuttle services, and jeepneys can be used to navigate the area around the station and along Marcos Highway, Marikina. It is also easily accessible to C-5 via Diosdado Macapagal Bridge going to Eastwood City, Ortigas Center, Makati Central Business District, Bonifacio Global City, as well as NAIA and SLEX.

Gallery

References

Manila Light Rail Transit System stations
Railway stations opened in 2003
Buildings and structures in Marikina
Colonial exhibition

A colonial exhibition was a type of international exhibition that was held to boost trade. During the 1880s and beyond, colonial exhibitions had the additional aim of bolstering popular support for the various colonial empires during the New Imperialism period, which included the scramble for Africa.

The first colonial exhibition, in Victoria, Australia, in 1866, was the progeny of 25 years of similar exhibitions, also held in Melbourne, in which other colonies within the Australian continent participated.

Perhaps the most notable colonial exhibition was the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, which lasted six months and sold 33 million tickets. Paris's Colonial Exhibition opened on 6 May 1931 on 110 hectares (272 acres) of the Bois de Vincennes. The exhibition included dozens of temporary museums and façades representing the various colonies of the European nations, as well as several permanent buildings. Among these were the Palais de la Porte Dorée, designed by architect Albert Laprode, which then housed the Musée permanent des Colonies, and serves today as the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration.

The French Communist Party held an anti-colonial counter-exhibition near the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, titled The Truth About the Colonies. The first section was dedicated to crimes during the colonial conquests, and quoted Albert Londres and André Gide's criticisms of forced labour. The second one contrasted the Soviet Union's "nationalities policy" with "imperialist colonialism".

Germany and Portugal also staged colonial exhibitions. Human zoos were featured in some of the exhibitions, such as in the Parisian 1931 exhibition.

The Empire of Japan hosted colonial showcases in exhibitions within the Home Islands, but also held several full-scale expositions inside its colonies of Korea and Taiwan. These exhibitions did however have objectives comparable to that of their European counterparts, in that they highlighted economic achievements and social progress under Japanese colonial rule to Japanese and colonial subjects alike. 

Brussels was the venue for the last colonial exhibition: the Belgian Foire coloniale, held in 1948.

Colonial exhibitions
Exhibitions that may be described as colonial exhibitions include the following.

Notes

References

Bibliography 
 Alexander C.T. Geppert, Fleeting Cities. Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

See also 
Colonialism
Human zoo
List of world's fairs
Impact of Western European colonialism and colonisation

External links
Exposition Coloniale of Paris 1931 photographs
  

 
History of colonialism
World's fairs
Welcome to the Drama Club

Welcome to the Drama Club is the seventh studio album from rock band Everclear. It was released on September 12, 2006 by Eleven Seven Music. It was the first album to include the new line-up of Everclear, established following the departure of Craig Montoya and Greg Eklund after Everclear's previous album, Slow Motion Daydream.  It was also the first album since Everclear's departure from Capitol Records.

Track listing
All songs written by Art Alexakis.

Personnel
 Art Alexakis: vocals, guitar
 Josh Crawley: keyboards, vocals
 Davey French: guitar, vocals
 Sam Hudson: bass, vocals
 Brett Snyder: drums, percussion, vocals

References

External links

Everclear (band) albums
2006 albums
Eleven Seven Label Group albums
Albums produced by Art Alexakis
Tussle

Tussle is an American four-piece band from San Francisco, United States, formed in 2001 by Nathan Burazer, Jonathan Holland, Alexis Georgopoulos and Andy Cabic. The band released its first album, Kling Klang, in 2004 on Troubleman Unlimited. Their fourth album, Tempest was released in September 2012.

Discography
 Frisco Styles, compilation (Jack Hanley/Rainbow Records), (2003)
 "Eye Contact", 12" (Troubleman Unlimited), (2003)
 Don't Stop, EP (Troubleman Unlimited), (2004)
 Kling Klang (Troubleman Unlimited), 2004
 "Here It Comes", 12" (Troubleman Unlimited), (2005)
 "Disco d'Oro", 12" (Rong Music), (2005)
 "Disco d'Oro II", 12" (Rong Music), (2005)
 "I Am an Indian Too", 12" (Rong), (2005)
 Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound), (2006)
 "White Columns", 12" (White Columns Gallery), (2006)
 "Warning", 12" (Smalltown Supersound), (2007)
 Worried Noodles, compilation (Tomlab), (2007)
 "Meh-Teh", 7" (Tomlab), (2007)
 Notwave Compilation (Rong/DFA), (2008)
 "Notwave Sampler", 12" (Rong/DFA), (2008)
 "Animal Cop", 7" (Geographic North), (2008)
 Cream Cuts (Smalltown Supersound), (2008)
 Colett Xpress, compilation (Colett Express), (2008)
 "Titan", 12" (FrequeNC), (2009)
 Tussle / AM444, Split Ends, 12" (Smalltown Supersound / Pause Music / Genjing Records / Uptown Records), (2012)
 Tempest (Smalltown Supersound), (2012)

References

External links
 Tussle's official website
  77 Boadrum Site Profile Viva Radio, September 2007. (Flash)

Musical groups established in 2001
Musical groups from San Francisco
American freestyle music groups
Smalltown Supersound artists
Jumeirah (hotel chain)

Jumeirah Hotels and Resorts is an Emirati state-owned luxury hotel chain. The Jumeirah Group was created in 1997 and became part of the Dubai Holding in 2004, which is Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's personal corporate portfolio. Professional golfer Rory McIlroy was the company's global ambassador from 2007 to 2012. 

While the hotel chain operated facilities exclusively in Dubai in the early years, it has also been striving abroad for several years. In Europe, Jumeirah operated only two hotels in London, the Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel and the Jumeirah Carlton Tower. In February 2011, the third project opened in London on Park Lane, the Grosvenor House Suites by Jumeirah Living. The Group's first hotel in Germany opened in August 2011 in Frankfurt am Main as part of the major Palaisquartier development project.

Jumeirah properties 
Jumeirah's activities include management of Wild Wadi Waterpark, spa brand Talise, Jumeirah Restaurants (the company's restaurant division) and runs both The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management and Jumeirah Hospitality.

Middle East 

Burj Al Arab - Dubai
Madinat Jumeirah - Dubai
Includes Jumeirah Al Qasr, Jumeirah Dar Al Masyaf, Jumeirah Mina A'Salam and Jumeirah Al Naseem
Jumeirah Beach Hotel - Dubai
Jumeirah Zabeel Saray - Palm Jumeirah - Dubai
Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab
Jumeirah Creekside Hotel - Dubai
Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel - Dubai
Jumeirah Living Marina Gate - Marina, Dubai
Jumeirah Living World Trade Centre Residences - Dubai
Zabeel House The Greens
Jumeirah at Saadiyat Island Resort - Abu Dhabi
Jumeirah Gulf of Bahrain Resort & Spa - Bahrain
Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa - Kuwait
Jumeirah Muscat Bay - Oman
Jabal Omar Jumeirah - Saudi Arabia

Asia 

Jumeirah Bali
Jumeirah Guangzhou
Jumeirah Maldives Olhahali Island  - Maldives
Jumeirah Nanjing
Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel - Shanghai

Europe 

Capri Palace - Capri
The Carlton Tower - London
Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel - London
Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa - Mallorca
Le Richemond - Geneva

References

External links 

Companies based in Dubai
Hotel chains in the United Arab Emirates
Hotels in Dubai
Emirati brands
Hotels established in 1997
Mawnan

Mawnan (, meaning St Maunan) is a village and civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the former administrative district of Kerrier and is bounded to the south by the Helford River, to the east by the sea, and to the west by Constantine parish. The population was 1,454 in the 2001 census, rising slightly to 1,476 at the 2011 census. The church town of the parish is Mawnan Church, also known simply as Mawnan, and the only large village in the parish is Mawnan Smith, approximately three miles south of Falmouth.

Geography
The parish is entirely rural and, as well as Mawnan Smith, includes the hamlets of Carlidnack, Bareppa, Penwarne, Helford Passage, Maenporth and Durgan. The parish also contains several Victorian gardens, now open to the public: Glendurgan, Trebah, Carwinion, and Penjerrick.

The coastline and cliffs south-east of the church town from Toll Point to Rosemullion Head forms the Rosemullion SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), noted for its geological and biological interest. Marine species found here include Mytilus mussels, various seaweeds and sea sponges, such as Botryllus schlosseri.

Mawnan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the South West Coast Path follows the coast of the parish.

Etymology
It is suggested that Mawnan takes its name from a 6th-century Saint Maunanus, who was probably a Breton monk who landed here about AD 520.

Churches

There are two Anglican churches: the 13th century parish church, the Church of St Mawnan and St Stephen in Mawnan Church and the 19th century Church of St Michael in Mawnan Smith village. The land for St Michael's Church was given by the Rogers family of Carwinion and the building was completed in 1874. John Rogers was rector here from 1807 to 1838.

The village of Mawnan Smith also has a Methodist chapel. There is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Edward the Confessor in Old Church Road, which was completed in 1965.

Notable houses and gardens
Notable country houses in the parish include Bosloe, Bosveal, Carwinion, Penwarne, Nansidwell (c. 1905 by Leonard Stokes), Heyle and Bareppa. At Glendurgan and Trebah are fine 19th-century houses developed by the Fox family of Falmouth.

References

External links
 Mawnan Parish website
 Mawnan Smith Community website
 Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Mawnan

 
Villages in Cornwall
Civil parishes in Cornwall
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall
South African Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association

The South African Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (SAHPA) is a membership-based organisation which represents the interests of pilots partaking in Paragliding, Hang-Gliding and related air-sports.

All pilots that part take in these sports must be licensed by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), as required by the Civil Aviation Act.

SAHPA is also a section of the Aero Club of South Africa, therefore SAHPA members are also required to be Aero Club Members.

Scope 
SAHPA focuses on the following sports:

 paragliding
 hang gliding
 powered paragliding
 powered hang gliding
 and para-trikes.

Mandate 
SAHPA has been mandated by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (see “South African Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011, as amended, Regulation 149.01.1) to:

 To oversee and develop the safe operation of its members and continuously evaluate compliance with the condition of its approved MOP, the SACAR and standards as determined by RAASA
 To advise CAASA on regulatory amendments applicable to its operation
 To notify CAASA of any-non-compliance by its members of its MOP
 Approval subject to regular review and audits as required by CAASA from time to time”

All pilots that take part in these sports in South Africa must do so with a valid pilot licence. Foreign pilots may obtain a Foreign Pilot Permit from SAHPA by providing their IPPI Card for validation.

Site Guide 
The SAHPA Site Guide is an ongoing project supported by volunteers who contribute their insight and experience. It is based on, and includes original content from Greg Hamerton’s Fresh Air Site Guide (5th edition, 2006).

See also
 Sport in South Africa

References

External links
Official Website
List of CAA approved DTO schools
SAHPA Site Guide
South African Civil Aviation Authority

Hang Gliding and Paragliding
Paragliding
Ishan (disambiguation)

Īshān is an honorific title given to Sufi leaders in Central Asia.

Ishan may also refer to:
 Ishan, Iran (disambiguation)
 Esan people
 Ishana
Guelmim-Es Semara

Guelmim-Es Semara () was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of  and had a population of 501,921 (2014 census). The regional capital was Guelmim.

Geography
The southern half of Guelmin-Es Semara formed part of the Western Sahara. The region was bordered to the north by Souss-Massa-Drâa and to the west by Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra, with the Algerian province of Tindouf to the east. Its disputed territory in the Western Sahara bordered the Mauritanian Tiris Zemmour Region. Guelmin-Es Semara had a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, with the Spanish Canary Islands lying off it. The Draa River, at 1,100 km the longest in Morocco, flowed through the region into the Atlantic Ocean near Tan-Tan.

The region was made up of the following provinces:

 Assa-Zag Province
 Es Smara Province
 Guelmim Province
 Tan-Tan Province
 Tata Province

Municipalities by population (2004 census)

Guelmin, Guelmim Province: 95,599
Tan-Tan, Tan-Tan Province: 60,560
Es Semara, Es Smara Province: 33,910
Tata, Tata Province: 15,192
Bouizakarne, Guelmim Province: 11,982
Assa, Assa-Zag Province: 11,667
Foum Zguid, Tata Province: 9,611
Zag, Assa-Zag Province: 7,751
El Ouatia, Tan-Tan Province: 6,294
Akka, Tata Province: 6,312
Fam El Hisn, Tata Province: 6,183

References

Former regions of Morocco
Geography of Western Sahara
States and territories established in 1997
States and territories disestablished in 2015