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Playwin

Playwin is an online lottery run by the Essel Group through PAN India and sanctioned by the Sikkim government. It was one of the first such lotteries to be opened in India. Established in November 2001, it had sales throughout India both through retailers and online. It quickly became known as one of the most popular lotteries in India.

The Playwin lottery is temporarily paused as the Essel Group had to sell of parts of their operations to cover debts.

The biggest Playwin jackpot was from the Thursday Super Lotto game, amounting more than Rs.17crore rupees, and won by a resident of Kolkata Mr Jay Prakash Jaiswal. In 2006, Mid-Day reported  that there was no taker for a winning jackpot ticket in Pune with prize money of Rs 2 Crores. In August 2015, Playwin felicitated and handed over cheques worth over Rs 9 Crores to its jackpot winners at a grand ceremony held at hotel The Lalit in Santa Cruz, Mumbai.

Playwin can also be played with a card. These cards are sold in denominations of 200 rupees, 500 rupees, 1000 rupees and 5000 rupees.

In addition, Playwin previously had operations in the Indian states of Karnataka and Maharashtra.

Games
Throughout the years the Playwin lottery offered a total of 13 different games. Games prior to 2010 included Friday Easy Lotto, Lucky 3, Max 3, Keno,  Triple Ticket, E-Play, Joker and Joker 5.

When Playwin stopped operations it offered five lotto games:

Jaldi 5 - Draw every Friday between 22:00 and 22:30.
Jaldi 5 Double + - Draw every Wednesday between 21:30 and 22:00.
Thunderball Draw every Tuesday between 22:00 and 22:30.
Thursday Super Lotto Draw every Thursday between 22:00 and 22:30.
Saturday Super Lotto Draw every Saturday between 22:00 and 22:30.

Super Lotto Prize Structure
The table below shows the prizes and odds of winning for both Thursday and Saturday Super Lotto draws.

Insolvency
On the 14th October 2019 Pan India Network limited had an order for the commencement of Corporate Insolvency resolution Process ordered against it by the National Company Law Tribunal in India. Pan India Network limited was asked to submit all necessary claims to the Interim Resolution Professional and shut down its lottery draws. The final playwin draw that took place was the Jaldi 5 Double draw on 1 October 2019.

References

External links
Official Website

Lottery games
Sikkim
Companies based in Sikkim
Gambling in India
Essel Group
2001 establishments in India
Aberrant subclavian artery

Aberrant subclavian artery, or aberrant subclavian artery syndrome, is a rare anatomical variant of the origin of the right or left subclavian artery.  This abnormality is the most common congenital vascular anomaly of the aortic arch, occurring in approximately 1% of individuals.

Presentation
This condition is usually asymptomatic. The aberrant artery usually arises just distal to the left subclavian artery and crosses in the posterior part of the mediastinum on its way to the right upper extremity. In 80% of individuals it crosses behind the esophagus. Such course of this aberrant vessel may cause a vascular ring around the trachea and esophagus.
Dysphagia due to an aberrant right subclavian artery is termed dysphagia lusoria, although this is a rare complication. In addition to dysphagia, aberrant right subclavian artery may cause stridor, dyspnoea, chest pain, or fever. An aberrant right subclavian artery may compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve causing a palsy of that nerve, which is termed Ortner's syndrome.

The aberrant right subclavian artery frequently arises from a dilated segment of the proximal descending aorta, the so-called Diverticulum of Kommerell (which was named for the German radiologist Burkhard Friedrich Kommerell (1901–1990), who discovered it in 1936). It is alternatively known as a lusorian artery.

Pathophysiology

In the normal embryological development of the aortic arches, the right dorsal aorta regresses caudal to the origin of the 7th intersegmental artery which gives rise to the right subclavian artery. In formation of an aberrant right subclavian artery, the regression occurs instead between the 7th intersegmental artery and the right common carotid so that the right subclavian artery is then connected to the left dorsal aorta via the part of the right dorsal aorta which normally regresses. During growth, the origin of the right subclavian artery migrates until it is just distal to that of the left subclavian.

Diagnosis

Treatment
Surgery is occasionally used to treat the condition.

Images

See also
 Dysphagia lusoria

References

External links 

Anatomical pathology
Congenital vascular defects
Digestion (alchemy)

In alchemy, digestion is a process in which gentle heat is applied to a substance over a period of several weeks.

This was traditionally performed by sealing a sample of the substance in a flask, and keeping the flask in fresh horse dung or sometimes in direct sunlight. Today, practitioners of alchemy use thermostat-controlled incubators.

Digestion is considered one of the 12 core alchemical processes and is "ruled", or "dominated", by the zodiacal sign of Leo.

References 

Alchemical processes
GIJ

GIJ may refer to:
Generations In Jazz
 Gij, Iran
 G.I. Joe
 Gijima Group
 Ghana Institute of Journalism
 GNU Interpreter for Java
Tintinhull

Tintinhull is a village and civil parish near Yeovil,  south west of Ilchester, in Somerset, England. The village is close to the A303. It is on the Fosse Way.

In addition to a school of around 100 pupils, Tintinhull has a church, park, swimming pool and other amenities.

History
The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.  The surrounding landscape shows evidence of 2000 years of farming.

The parish was headquarters and part of the Tintinhull Hundred.

Governance
The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates planning applications and works with the police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The village falls within the non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Yeovil Rural District. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and  fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

It is also part of the Yeovil county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Landmarks
Most of the buildings are of honey-coloured Ham stone. These include several 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century dwellings such as the 17th-century Tintinhull House  at Tintinhull Garden which is now National Trust property, and Tintinhull Court.

Religious sites
The Church of St Margaret has origins in the 13th century and has been designated by English Heritage a grade 1 listed building,  as has the old parsonage which is now called Tintinhull Court.

References

External links

 Tintinhull Local History Group
 Map of the village c. 1887
 Village website

Villages in South Somerset
Civil parishes in Somerset
Exiles Bookshop

Exiles Bookshop was a Sydney bookshop which hosted many poetry readings, and was something of a centre for the local poetry scene in the early 1980s.  It was established, at 207 Oxford Street, Taylor Square, by Susumu Hirayanagi and Nicholas Pounder in February 1979, and it closed in late 1982.  Poetry readings were held there frequently, where local poets such as John Tranter, John Forbes, Rae Desmond Jones, Gig Ryan, Dorothy Porter, Kerry Leves, Laurie Duggan, Martin Johnston, Grant Caldwell, Les Wicks, Alan Jefferies and S. K. Kelen read their work. Luke Davies, winner of the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, first read in public there as a 19-year-old in 1981. Poets from other countries, including Hans Magnus Enzensberger, also visited the bookshop. Gary Snyder read there on 17 September 1981.

References

 Excerpt from Laurie Duggan's diary — there are frequent references to Exiles

External links
 Essay on John Forbes by Philip Mead, mentioning "that lively group of younger writers associated with New Poetry magazine, Exiles bookshop and Watters Gallery"

Australian poetry
Independent bookstores of Australia
Patricia Keating

Patricia Ann Keating (born July 20, 1952) is an American linguist and noted phonetician.  She is distinguished research professor emeritus at UCLA.

Life
She received her PhD in Linguistics at Brown University in 1980. In 1980 she joined the faculty of the Linguistics Department at University of California, Los Angeles, where she remained until her retirement. She became a Full Professor and director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory in 1991. She also held a position as Distinguished Professor and served as Chair of UCLA Linguistics Department.

Keating is best known for two areas of research in phonetics.  She is, with Cécile Fougeron, the discoverer of the initial strengthening effect, wherein consonants receive more fortis articulations (greater degree of articulatory contact) to the extent that they occur at the beginnings of high-ranking phonological phrases.  On the theoretical side, she is the inventor of the "window model" of coarticulation, a theory of phonetic realization that specifies a particular range of legal values for each segment along each  phonetic parameter.

Keating is a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology and was President of the International Phonetic Association from 2015 to 2019.

Keating is married to linguist Bruce Hayes.

Selected publications
Fougeron, Cécile and Keating, Patricia A. (1997) Articulatory strengthening at edges of prosodic domains.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 101: 3728–3740.
Keating, Patricia A. (1990) The window model of coarticulation : articulatory evidence . In Papers in laboratory phonology I (John Kingston & Mary E. Beckman, eds.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 451–470.

References

External links 
Homepage at UCLA
UCLA Phonetics Laboratory

Living people
1952 births
Brown University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Women linguists
American phonologists
Phoneticians
Distinguished professors in the United States
Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
Bruce Hayes (linguist)

Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Life
He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from MIT, where his dissertation supervisor was Morris Halle.
Hayes works in phonology, and is well known for his book Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies, a typologically based theory of stress systems.  His research interests also include phonetically based phonology and learnability.
In 2009 Hayes was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
He is married to phonetician Patricia Keating.

Books
(1985) A Metrical Theory of Stress Rules, Garland Press, New York.
(1995) Metrical Stress Theory:  Principles and Case Studies, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 15 + 455 pp. .
(2004) Hayes, Bruce, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.   .
(2008) Introductory Phonology.  Malden, MA:  Blackwell.  .

References

External links
Homepage at UCLA

Living people
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Linguists from the United States
American phonologists
1955 births
Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Harvard University alumni
Distinguished professors in the United States
Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York) alumni
Narciso Rodriguez

Narciso Jesus Rodriguez III (; born January 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer.

Early life and education
Rodriguez was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest child and only son of Cuban parents. His parents, Narciso Rodríguez Sanchez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez. His paternal grandfather was born on the Canary Islands.

He graduated from St. Cecilias High School in 1979, a small Catholic school in Kearny, New Jersey.

He studied at the New School in New York City,  at their art and design college, Parsons The New School for Design.  His parents were against Narciso entering fashion.

Career
Rodriguez performed freelance design work in New York before becoming Women’s Design Director for the Anne Klein label, then later working for Calvin Klein. His first major attention came in 1996 when he designed the wedding dress of fellow Calvin Klein employee Carolyn Bessette for her wedding to John F. Kennedy Jr. In 1997 he launched his own label.

When George magazine collapsed after John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, Rodriguez hired Stephanie Mikesell, who had been an editorial assistant there, as his assistant.  He designed her wedding gown when she married Mark Madoff, eldest son of Bernie Madoff.

In 2003, he launched his first fragrance, Narciso Rodriguez for Her, inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oil he had been given in high school.

By 2006, Rodriguez, who had ended his partnership with his label's manufacturer, Aeffe, was over US$1 million in debt to his suppliers, and needed fabric donations for his spring collection.

On May 5, 2007, Liz Claiborne acquired a 50% interest in the Narciso Rodriguez label.  However, in 2008, Narciso Rodriguez bought the 50% interest back from Liz Claiborne for 12 million dollars. On November 4, 2008, Michelle Obama wore a dress from Narciso Rodriguez's spring 2009 collection when she joined her husband, Barack Obama, appearing for the first time as president-elect of the United States, on the stage at Grant Park in Chicago; it received substantial attention in the press. The dress, originally unveiled at New York City's Fashion Week in September 2008, came from Rodriguez's "stress-relief" design collection. Rodriguez was a strong supporter in the fashion world of Barack Obama's campaign; in August 2008, he blamed a slowdown in his business on "this Bush mess". Michelle Obama wore Narciso Rodriguez for her final State of the Union appearance as First Lady. The same year, Rodriguez' dresses were featured in a catwalk scene in the feature film The Women, as being the designs of the character Mary Haines (played by Meg Ryan).

References

External links
 NarcisoRodriguez.com
 
 

1961 births
Living people
People from Newark, New Jersey
High fashion brands
American fashion designers
Cuban people of Canarian descent
American people of Cuban descent
Parsons School of Design alumni
Kaifong associations

Kaifong associations (Chinese: 街坊會) or kaifong welfare associations (Chinese: 街坊福利會) are traditional mutual aid organisations which emerged in Hong Kong after the Second World War. They were set up with the help of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, particularly the Society Welfare Council, of the British colonial government, which had the intention of developing non-governmental civil society for the purpose of promoting moderate politics among the general public. The term kaifong is a Cantonese romanisation of the Chinese 街坊, which means people living in the same neighbourhood, and kaifong associations mainly aim at serving the residents of specific neighbourhoods.

The main purpose was to provide low cost or free services in areas such as education and health care for the many refugees from China. By 1958, there were twenty-one; by 1958, twenty-eight. After 1958, the government tried to use the kaifong associations to communicate with the local population. In 1960, kaifong associations extended their services to areas such as legal support or environmental protection.

After the introduction of the  in 1969, the importance of kaifong associations declined. Nevertheless, many kaifong associations remain active today.

List 

 Aberdeen Kai-fong Welfare Association
 Chai Wan Resettlement Kaifong Welfare Association
 Cheung Sha Wan Kaifong Welfare Association
 Chuk Yuen Cottage Area Kaifong Welfare Advancement Committee
 Mongkok Kaifong Association
 Sham Shui Po Kaifong Welfare Advancement Association
 Tai Hang Sai Kaifong Welfare Association
 Tsim Sha Tsui Kaifong Welfare Association
 Wang Tau Hom Resettlement Kaifong Welfare Association
 Yaumati Kaifong Welfare Advancement Association

See also
 Rural Representative elections

References

Further reading
 The Kaifong Associations and the Society of Hong Kong. Aline K. Wong (1972). Taipei: Orient Cultural Service. .
 Society and Politics in Hong Kong. Lau Siu-kai (1982). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. .

Politics of Hong Kong
Mutual organizations
Hyacinthoides italica

Hyacinthoides italica, the Italian bluebell or Italian squill, is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial plant belonging to the family Asparagaceae.

It is one of around 11 species in the genus Hyacinthoides, others including the common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in northwestern Europe, and the Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica) further west in the Iberian Peninsula.

Description
Hyacinthoides italica is up to  tall. The stem is leafless. It has 3-6 basal lance-shaped leaves,  wide and  long. The inflorescence is a dense, conical or pyramid-like raceme with 5-30 bright violet-blue star-like flowers. The flowers have two narrow bracts. Flowering period extends from February to May.

It is in some respects intermediate between the common and Spanish species in having slender leaves (as in H. non-scripta or even slenderer), but a dense raceme of flowers (as in H. hispanica; not sparse and one-sided as in H. non-scripta).

Hyacinthoides italica is used as an ornamental plant. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Distribution
This species is native to the central Mediterranean region, in northwestern Italy, in southern France, and in northeastern Spain.

Habitat
It can be found in olive groves, in dry and stony meadows and in clearings of forests at an elevation up to  above sea level.

Gallery

References

Notes

General references
Huxley, A. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening vol. 2: 604. Macmillan.

italics
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Gera (disambiguation)

Gera, Géra or GERA can refer to:

Places

Africa
 Gera (Egypt) (also Geras or Gerrha), former city and current Latin Catholic titular see
 Kingdom of Gera, a former realm in present-day Ethiopia
 Gera (woreda), district located in Ethiopia about the same place as the former kingdom

Europe
 Gera, a city in Thuringia, Germany
 Bezirk Gera former district of the German Democratic Republic centered on Gera
 Gera, former community on the Zahme Gera river, today Geraberg, Germany
 Gera (river), a river in Thuringia, Germany, and its sources and tributaries
 Wilde Gera, left tributary
 Wilde Gera (Erfurt), arm of the Gera at Erfurt, Germany
 Zahme Gera, right tributary 
 Gera, Greece, municipality on the island of Lesbos, Greece
 Gera (Pizzighettone) a locality in Lombardy, Italy
 Gera Lario, a town in Lombardy, Italy
 Sveta Gera, peak of the Žumberak hills in Croatia, named after St. Gertrude the Great

People 
 Gera, name of several minor characters in the Bible
Elida Gera, Israeli female film director, dancer and choreographer
Yash Gera (born 1986), Indian actor

Fictional characters
 Dagan Gera, a character in the 2023 action-adventure video game Star Wars: Jedi Survivor

Other uses
 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, a James Bond spin-off video game
 The Global Entertainment Retail Association, a trade association for entertainment retailers in Europe

See also
 Gera (surname)
 Ghera (disambiguation)
 Gerra (disambiguation)
 Geras (disambiguation)
 Gerah, an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency
St Aloysius' College

St Aloysius' College may refer to:

Asia
 St. Aloysius' College (Edathua), Alleppey, Kerala, India
St. Aloysius College, Thrissur, Thrissur, Kerala, India
 St. Aloysius' College (Galle), Sri Lanka
 St. Aloysius College (Mangalore), India
 St. Aloysius College (Ratnapura), Sri Lanka

Europe
 Gonzaga College, a Jesuit school in County Dublin, Ireland
 Aloisiuskolleg, a Jesuit school in Bad-Godesberg Bonn, Germany
 St. Aloysius College, Athlone, a secondary school in County Westmeath, Ireland
 St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, a Jesuit school in Scotland
 St Aloysius' College, Highgate, in London, England
 St Aloysius' College (Malta), a Jesuit secondary school in Birkirkara
 Sint-Aloysiuscollege, a Catholic secondary school in Geel, Belgium
 Sint-Aloysiuscollege, a Catholic secondary school in Menen, Belgium
 Sint-Aloysiuscollege, a Catholic primary and secondary school in Ninove, Belgium
 Sint-Aloysius College or Aloysius College, The Hague, Netherlands, a Catholic secondary school

North and South America
St. Aloysius College, Antofagasta, Chile
Gonzaga College High School, Washington, D.C.
Gonzaga University, a Jesuit university in Spokane, Washington
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga National University, a Peruvian University in Ica, Peru

Oceania
 St Aloysius' College (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia
 St Aloysius' College (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia
 St Aloysius College, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
 St Aloysius Catholic College, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
 St Aloysius College, Wakari, Dunedin, New Zealand

See also
 St Aloysius school (disambiguation)
 St Aloysius (disambiguation)

Educational organizations based in the United States
Vilho Tuulos

Vilho "Ville" Immanuel Tuulos (26 March 1895 – 2 September 1967) was a Finnish triple jumper and long jumper.

He won a gold medal in the triple jump at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The 14.50 meter jumps he made during the qualifying round was counted for the main event and were enough for the win. Tuulos also won bronze medals at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. In the long jump, his best result was a fourth place at the 1924 Olympics.

Tuulos improved the European record in triple jump twice: on 20 July 1919 in Tampere with a result of 15.30 meters and on 6 July 1923 in Borås with 15.48 metres. The latter result stayed as the European record for over sixteen years, until Kaare Strøm jumped 15.49 metres in 1939.

Tuulos was the uncle of the Olympic figure skater Kalle Tuulos. He died in Tampere, aged 72.

References

1895 births
1967 deaths
Sportspeople from Tampere
Finnish male triple jumpers
Finnish male long jumpers
Olympic athletes for Finland
Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Finland
Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
John Arthur Blaikie

John Arthur Blaikie (1849 – 25 December 1917) was an English poet and journalist, born in Poplar, Middlesex, and died in Kensington.

Works
Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets (1870), co-author Edmund Gosse
Love's Victory (1890)
A Sextet of Singers (1895)

References

Citations

Sources 

 1881 British Census / Middlesex. URL accessed 2006-03-12.
 
 Cousin, John W. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. 1910. - via Project Gutenberg

External links 
 

1849 births
1917 deaths
English male journalists
English male poets
Wiregrass

Wiregrass is a common name for several plants

Wiregrass may refer to:

 Poaceae grasses
 Aristida (three-awns), especially Aristida stricta (Pineland Three-awn), Aristida junciformis and Aristida purpurea (Purple Three-awn), of subfamily Arundinoideae
 Eleusine indica (Indian Goosegrass) of subfamily Eragrostideae
 Sporobolus indicus (Smutgrass) of subfamily Chloridoideae
 Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda Grass) of subfamily Chloridoideae
 Ventenata dubia of subfamily Pooideae, native to the Mediterranean and naturalized in western North America
 Other plants
 Juncus tenuis (Slender Rush) of the rush family
 Polygonum arenastrum (Common Knotweed) of the knotweed family

See also
 Wiregrass Region, an area of the Southern United States encompassing parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, and named for its abundance of Aristida stricta
Elspet Gray

Elspet Jean Gray, Baroness Rix (née Gray; 12 April 1929 – 18 February 2013) was a Scottish actress, who first became known for her partnership with her husband, Brian Rix, and later was cast in many television roles in the 1970s and 1980s. She played Lady Collingford in the television series Catweazle and Mrs. Palmer in the television series Solo, alongside Felicity Kendal.

Career
Gray had a long stage career, particularly known for her appearances in the Whitehall farces, the company being managed by her husband Brian Rix, which were originally performed at the Whitehall Theatre and later at the Garrick.

Gray appeared in many films and television programmes, her earliest being The Blind Goddess (1948). She had several roles in the 1970s including parts in Fawlty Towers, as the paediatrician wife of a psychiatrist baffled by Basil Fawlty’s behaviour, The Crezz, Catweazle, and in the 1980s with Doctor Who story Arc of Infinity and the World War Two drama Tenko. She appeared as the Queen in the BBC sitcom The Black Adder (1983), with Rowan Atkinson as her son in the title role, and as Mrs. Palmer in Solo (1981–82), another comedy, this time with Felicity Kendal in the lead as her daughter.

Gray continued her acting career until the late 1990s, appearing in Agatha Christie's Poirot, the films The Girl in a Swing (1988) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and as Hilary in the British television comedy Dinnerladies.

Personal life and death
Gray married Brian Rix in 1949. The couple had four children – two sons and two daughters. Their eldest child, daughter Shelley (born 1951) had Down syndrome. The experience of caring for her led the couple to become active campaigners for the disabled. Rix later became Mencap chairman and president. He became a life peer in 1992. Shelley died in July 2005, aged 53.

Their younger daughter Louisa (born 1955) was formerly an actress, and is now an interior designer. Their elder son Jamie (born 1959) is a children's author who has produced television programmes such as My Hero. Their younger son Jonathan (born 1960) is Professor of Participation and Learning Support at the Open University.

Gray served on the Council of the Actors' Charitable Trust for many years, particularly giving her time to the management committee of the actors' care home, Denville Hall.

Gray died in hospital on 18 February 2013, aged 83.

Filmography

References

External links

1929 births
2013 deaths
Rix
People from Inverness
Scottish film actresses
Scottish television actresses
Spouses of life peers
Alumni of RADA
Eryaman, Etimesgut

Eryaman is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Etimesgut, Ankara Province, Turkey. Its population is 30,275 (2022). It is located 28 km west of the city centre of Ankara.

Göksu Park located here is a public park and neighborhood that surrounds the small natural lake

See also
 Güzelkent, Etimesgut

Image gallery

References

External links
 
 Local news portal of Eryaman 

Neighbourhoods in Etimesgut District
Güzelkent, Etimesgut

Güzelkent (literally "beautiful city" in Turkish) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Akyurt, Ankara Province, Turkey. Its population is 15,384 (2022). It is located near the Eryaman neighbourhood, 25 km far from the city centre of Ankara, and is bordered by Eryaman, Sincan, Fatih and Etimesgut.

Even though the neighbourhood is populated mostly by towers, the villas region is dominated by detached and semi-detached houses.

The Ankara underground reaches the district and the Masal Dünyası (Fairy Tale Land) and Göksu Park Lake near the district.

Güzelkent photos

References

External links
 

Neighbourhoods in Etimesgut District
Rotary Scholarships

Rotary International offers a number of scholarships worldwide for periods of 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and 2 years.

Ambassadorial Mission 
The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarship was to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries. The scholarship was replaced by the Global Grant Scholarship in 2013.

General Scholarship Statistics 
Since 1947, more than 30,000 men and women from 100 nations have studied abroad thanks to Rotary.  The Ambassadorial Scholarship program was the world's largest privately funded international scholarships program.  More than 1,100 scholarships were awarded for study in 2002-03.  Grants totaled US$26 million.  Recipients from 69 countries studied in more than 64 nations.

Types of Scholarships 
1. Global Grant Scholarship

The Global Grant Scholarship replaced the former prestigious Academic-year Ambassadorial Scholarship in 2013. Scholarship funding is extremely competitive. The differences between Global Grant Scholars and the previous Ambassadorial Scholarships are that Global Grant Scholars must pursue study and research that align with Rotary's worldwide causes and six areas of focus; Peace and Conflict Resolution, Economic Development, Education and Literacy, Disease prevention and Management, Water and Sanitation, and Maternal and Child Health. All Global Grant Scholars were funded to "advance Rotary's International mission to promote service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace."

2. Peace Scholarship

To pursue a two-year master's degree or certificate in international relations, peace, and conflict resolution at one of the Rotary Centers for International Studies.  Locations: Duke University (North Carolina, USA), University of Uppsala (Sweden), Japan, England, Australia.

3. Faculty Scholarship

To teach in a low-income country.  $12,500 for 3–5 months or $22,500 for 6–10 months of service. Must have been a university professor for three or more years

4. Group Study Exchange

A team of business and professional people (4 members of ages 25–40 and one Rotarian leader) for four to six weeks visits farms, schools, industrial plants, professional offices, and government establishments.  Funds range from $1,000 to $11,000.

References

External links
 Official scholarship information

Rotary International
Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics

The Netherlands competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 149 competitors, 115 men and 34 women, took part in 74 events in 18 sports.

Medalists

Athletics

Men's competition
 Hans Houtzager
 Jan Kleyn
 Jan Lammers
 Jef Lataster
 Nico Lutkeveld
 Jan Meijer
 Frits de Ruijter
 Gabe Scholten
 Wim Slijkhuis
 Jan Zwaan
 Jo Zwaan

Women's competition
 Fanny Blankers-Koen
 Elly Dammers
 Grietje de Jongh
 Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs
 Neeltje Karelse
 Ans Koning  
 Ans Panhorst-Niesink
 Nel Roos-Lodder
 Xenia Stad-de Jong
 Jo Teunissen-Waalboer
 Netty Witziers-Timmer

Boxing

 Herman Corman
 Moos Linneman
 Hennie Quentemeijer
 Jan Remie
 Jan Schubart
 Frits Wijngaard

Canoeing

Cycling

Nine cyclists, all men, represented the Netherlands in 1948.

Individual road race
 Henk Faanhof
 Evert Grift
 Piet Peters
 Gerrit Voorting

Team road race
 Henk Faanhof
 Evert Grift
 Piet Peters
 Gerrit Voorting

Sprint
 Jan Hijzelendoorn

Time trial
 Theo Blankenauw

Tandem
 Klaas Buchly
 Tinus van Gelder

Team pursuit
 Theo Blankenauw
 Henk Faanhof
 Joop Harmans
 Gerrit Voorting

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

Nine fencers, seven men and two women, represented the Netherlands in 1948.

Men's foil
 Henny ter Weer
 Johannes Zoet
 Eddy Kuijpers

Men's team foil
 Willem van den Berg, Henny ter Weer, Frans Mosman, Eddy Kuijpers

Men's épée
 Roelof Hordijk

Men's sabre
 Frans Mosman
 Willem van den Berg
 Eddy Kuijpers

Men's team sabre
 Henny ter Weer, Antoon Hoevers, Willem van den Berg, Frans Mosman, Eddy Kuijpers

Women's foil
 Mary Meyer-van der Sluis
 Anja Secrève

Football

Gymnastics

Hockey

Men's team competition

Group C

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Team roster
André BoerstraHenk BouwmanPiet BrombergHarry DerckxHan DrijverDick EsserRoepie KruizeJenne LanghoutDick LoggereTon RichterEddy TielWim van Heel

Rowing

The Netherlands had six male rowers participate in two out of seven rowing events in 1948.

 Men's double sculls
 Tom Neumeier
 Henk van der Meer

 Men's coxless four
 Hein van Suylekom
 Sietze Haarsma
 Han Dekker
 Han van den Berg

Sailing

Shooting

Four shooters represented the Netherlands in 1948.

25 metre pistol
 Paulus Kessels

50 metre rifle
 Jan Hendrik Brussaard
 Geurt Schoonman
 Christiaan Both

Swimming

Water polo

Men's team competition
Preliminary round (Group C)
 Defeated India (12-1)
 Defeated Chile (14-0)
Second round (Group C)
 Defeated Spain (5-2)
Semi final round (Group A)
 Drew with Belgium (3-3)
 Defeated Sweden (5-3)
Final round
 Drew with Hungary (4-4)
 Lost to Italy (2-4) →  Bronze medal
Team roster
 Cor Braasem
 Ruud van Feggelen
 Hennie Keetelaar
 Nijs Korevaar
 Joop Rohner
 Frits Ruimschotel
 Piet Salomons
 Frits Smol
 Hans Stam

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Art competitions

References

External links
  Dutch Olympic Committee

Nations at the 1948 Summer Olympics
1948
Olympics
Gera (river)

The Gera is a river in Thuringia, Germany.

The Gera is a right tributary of the Unstrut. It originates in the Thuringian Forest, west of Ilmenau. The Gera is formed in Plaue, by the confluence of the Wilde Gera and the Zahme Gera. It empties into the Unstrut in Straußfurt. The total length of the Gera (including Wilde Gera) is . The largest towns along the Gera are Arnstadt and Erfurt. The city Gera is not situated along the River Gera.

Along its way, Gera River splits up and reunites multiple times. Branches of the Gera are:
 Converging Tributaries: Wilde Gera, Zahme Gera
 Erfurt Area: Flutgraben (constructed after 1873 in order to protect Erfurt from flooding, this was successful), Bergstrom, Breitstrom, Zahme Gera
 Between Erfurt and the Unstrut: Gera, Schmale Gera, Mahlgera

The original name of Gera River was Erphes River (Latin for brown, muddy water), which survived in the name of Erfurt coming from “ford at Erphes River”.

See also
List of rivers of Thuringia

Rivers of Thuringia
 
Rivers of Germany
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1469)

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke KG (c. 142327 July 1469), known as "Black William", was a Welsh nobleman, soldier, politician, and courtier.

Life
He was the son of William ap Thomas, founder of Raglan Castle, and Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, and grandson of Dafydd Gam, an adherent of King Henry V of England. His father had been an ally of Richard of York, and Herbert supported the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses. In 1461 Herbert was rewarded by King Edward IV with the title Baron Herbert of Raglan (having assumed an English-style surname in place of the Welsh patronymic), and was invested as a Knight of the Garter.

Soon after the decisive Yorkist victory at the Battle of Towton in 1461, Herbert replaced Jasper Tudor as Earl of Pembroke which gave him control of Pembroke Castle – and with it, he gained the wardship of young Henry Tudor. However, he fell out with Lord Warwick "the Kingmaker" in 1469, when Warwick turned against the King. Herbert was denounced by Warwick and the Duke of Clarence as one of the king's "evil advisers". William and his brother Richard were executed by Warwick in Northampton, after the Battle of Edgcote, which took place in South Northamptonshire, near Banbury.

Herbert was succeeded by his son, William, but the earldom was surrendered in 1479. It was later revived for a grandson, another William Herbert, the son of Black William's illegitimate son, Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas.

Marriage and children
He married Anne Devereux, daughter of Walter Devereux, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Elizabeth Merbury. They had at least ten children:

William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (5 March 145116 July 1491).
Sir Walter Herbert. (c. 1452d. 16 September 1507) Married Lady Anne Stafford, sister to the Duke of Buckingham.
Sir George Herbert of St. Julians.
Philip Herbert of Lanyhangel.
Cecilie Herbert.
Maud Herbert. Married Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.
Katherine Herbert. Married George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Anne Herbert. Married John Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Powis, 9th Lord of Powys (died 1497).
Isabel Herbert. Married Sir Thomas Cokesey.
Margaret Herbert. Married first Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle and secondly Sir Henry Bodringham.

William had three illegitimate sons but the identities of their mothers are unconfirmed:

Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas. Father of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (10th Creation). Probably son of Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt (Gwynn).
Sir George Herbert. The son of Frond verch Hoesgyn. Married Sybil Croft.
Sir William Herbert of Troye. Son of Frond verch Hoesgyn. Married, second, Blanche Whitney (née Milborne) see Blanche Milborne. They had two sons.

See also
The White Queen (miniseries)

References

1420s births
1469 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
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Executed Welsh people
William Herbert, 01st Earl of Pembroke (1468 creation)
Knights of the Garter
People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation
People executed under the Yorkists
People of the Wars of the Roses
Torsten Wustlich

Torsten Wustlich (born 2 February 1977 in Annaberg-Buchholz, Saxony) is a German former luger who competed from 1998 to 2010. Together with André Florschütz, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Wustlich also won nine medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with six golds (Men's doubles: 2001, 2005, 2008; Mixed team: 2005, 2008, 2009) and three silvers (Men's doubles: 2004, 2009; Mixed team: 1999).

His best overall finish at the FIL European Luge Championships was fifth in the men's doubles event twice (2004, 2008).

Wustlich's best overall finish in the men's doubles Luge World Cup was second three times (2000-1, 2003-4, 2004-5).

References
 After Leitner/Resch and Grimette/Martin. at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (30 March 2010 article accessed 30 March 2010.)

External links
 
 
 

1977 births
Living people
People from Annaberg-Buchholz
German male lugers
Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic lugers for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in luge
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Saxony
People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
Scarnagh

Scarnagh Cross or Scarnagh () is a small hamlet in north County Wexford in Ireland. It is located four miles from the sea, on the R772 regional road between Gorey and Arklow. The village of Coolgreany is nearby. The townlands of Scarnagh Lower () and Scarnagh Upper (Scearnach Uachtarach) lie in the historic barony of Gorey.

See also
 List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

Townlands of County Wexford
Bern University of Applied Sciences

The Bern University of Applied Sciences (BUAS, German: Berner Fachhochschule BFH, French: Haute école spécialisée bernoise HESB) is a public vocational university with a strong national and international profile.  It comprises six departments and also incorporates the Higher Technical School of Wood, which is affiliated to the Department of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering.

Locations
BFH is currently spread across 26 locations in Bern, Biel, Burgdorf, Magglingen and Zollikofen. In 2012, the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern decided to bring together the Department of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering and the Department of Engineering and Information Technology onto a single campus in Biel. The launch of the Biel/Bienne campus is scheduled for autumn 2023. The Health Professions, Social Work and Business departments and Bern University of the Arts will likely move to a shared campus in Bern in autumn 2026.

Departments
The Departments of the Bern University of Applied Sciences include:
 Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering
 Health Professions
 Business
 School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
 Bern University of the Arts
 Social Work
 Engineering and Information Technology
 Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM

As well as Bachelor and master's degree programmes, BFH offers continuing education, applied research and development and other services.

The sports, agriculture, forest science, automotive engineering, nutrition and dietetics, literary writing and medical informatics degree programmes are unique in German-speaking Switzerland or throughout the whole of Switzerland.

Persons
 1898–1938: Johann Friedrich Jungen (1873–1952), drawing teacher
 1953–1993: Marc-André Houmard (1928–2014), Director of the wood technical school in Biel
 2005–2017: Maurus Schifferli (* 1973), Lecturer for Urban Open Spaces
 Jonas Ulmer (* 1983), Architecture student
 2006: Raphael Zuber (* 1973), Guest Lecturer in Architecture

Growth 
The following table shows how student numbers at the Bern University of Applied Sciences have grown since the university was founded in 1997.

1 Figures as of 31 December
2 Degree programmes prior to the Bologna Reform (which introduced Bachelor/Master's degree programmes)
3 Only MAS/EMBA students (not including CAS/DAS students). From 2014 onwards, non-matriculated MAS/EMBA students are also included in the statistics for BFH's areas of activity.

See also
 List of largest universities by enrollment in Switzerland

Notes and references

External links
 Bern University of Applied Sciences website

Bern University of Applied Sciences
Schools in Bern
Universities and colleges established in 1997
1997 establishments in Switzerland
André Florschütz

André Florschütz (born 6 August 1976 in Sonneberg) is a German luger who competed from 1993 to 2010. Together with Torsten Wustlich, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Florschütz also won nine medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with six golds (Men's doubles: 2001, 2005, 2008; Mixed team: 2005, 2008, 2009) and three silvers (Men's doubles: 2004, 2009; Mixed team: 1999).

His best overall finish at the FIL European Luge Championships was fifth in the men's doubles event twice (2004, 2008).

Florschütz's best overall finish in the men's doubles Luge World Cup was second three times (2000-1, 2003-4, 2004-5). His younger brother Thomas competes for Germany in bobsleigh.

References
 After Leitner/Resch and Grimette/Martin. at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (30 March 2010 article accessed 30 March 2010.)

External links
 

1976 births
Living people
People from Sonneberg
People from Bezirk Suhl
German male lugers
Sportspeople from Thuringia
Olympic lugers for Germany
Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in luge
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
Güzelyalı, Çanakkale

Güzelyalı is a seaside village in the Çanakkale District of Çanakkale Province of western Turkey. Its population is 1,641 (2021). It is 15 km from the Çanakkale city centre. Güzelyalı is surrounded by pine woods in the east and by the Çanakkale Strait (the Dardanelles) in the west.

Distances from Güzelyalı: Bozcaada (island) 40 km, Assos/Behramkale 50 km, Gelibolu (Gallipoli) 30 km, Truva (Troy) 10 km, Istanbul Atatürk Airport 300 km.

The population of the town is about 500 in winter, and about 5,000 in the spring and summer seasons. It has a post office, mosque, parking area, restaurants, three big markets and a few small shops.

References

Villages in Çanakkale District
Dardanelles
Gerhard Plankensteiner

Gerhard Plankensteiner (born 8 April 1971 in Sterzing, South Tyrol) is an Italian former luger who competed from 1986 to 2010. Together with Oswald Haselrieder he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Plankensteiner also won six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with two golds (Men's doubles: 2009, Mixed team: 1989) and four bronzes (Men's doubles: 1996, Mixed team: 1991, 1996, 1997). At the FIL European Luge Championships, he won six medals with one silver (Men's doubles: 1996) and five bronzes (Men's doubles: 2002, 2008 (tied with Germany); Mixed team: 1996, 2000, 2008).

Plankensteiner's best overall Luge World Cup finish was second in men's doubles in 1996-97.

References

External links 
 
 
 

1971 births
Living people
Italian male lugers
Lugers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic lugers for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in luge
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Sterzing
Germanophone Italian people
Albert Profumo

Alberto Pier Anthony Profumo, 4th Baron Profumo, KC (20 April 1879 – 27 March 1940), was an English barrister.

The Profumo family is of Italian origin. Albert Profumo held the title of 4th Baron Profumo in the nobility of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Profumo was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1879.
His family made their fortune in insurance. He owned much of the Provident Life of London. He died in 1940 in Avon Dassett, Warwickshire aged 60. He was succeeded as Baron by his son, politician John Profumo. His grandson is David, 6th Baron Profumo.

His daughter Mary Ainslie Profumo married The 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye.

References

1879 births
1940 deaths
English barristers
Barons in the Peerage of Sardinia
English people of Italian descent