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Smash

Smash may refer to:

People
 Smash (wrestler) (born 1959), professional wrestler
 Moondog Rex, another professional wrestler who briefly wrestled as the original Smash, before being replaced by the above.
 DJ Smash, russian DJ and EDM-music producer
 DJ Smash aka Smash Hunter (born Wayne Allen Hunter, in Manhattan, New York) is a jazz-DJ, music producer, remixer and project consultant

Art, entertainment, and media
 Smash (novel), a 1980 novel by Garson Kanin
 Smash! (comics), a 1960s British comic
 smash., a Japanese video streaming service
 Super Smash Bros., a platform fighting video game series with characters from Nintendo and third-party franchises

Fictional entities
 SMASH (comics), a team of superheroes
 Smash Williams, fictional character in the television series Friday Night Lights

Film and television
 Smash (Swedish TV series), a 1990 Swedish miniseries
 Smash (TV series), a 2012 NBC drama series
 Attack on Tomorrow, a 1977 Japanese anime series known in Europe as Smash
 Smash Pictures, an adult film production company 
 Smash, a 1971 SRC variety series starring Patsy Gallant and others

Music

Bands and enterprises
 Smash (music promoters), a Japanese rock music concert and festival promoter
 Smash Records, a record label 
 Smash (British band), an English punk trio
 Smash (Indonesian band), a boy band from Indonesia
 Smash (Russian band), a Russian pop duo
 Smash (Spanish band), 1967–1973

Albums
 Smash (Jackson and His Computerband album)
 Smash (Martin Solveig album), 2011
 Smash: The Singles 1985–2020, a compilation album by Pet Shop Boys
 Smash (Switch album)
 Smash (The Offspring album)
 SMASH, an album by Cindy Alexander

Songs
 "Smash", song by the Norwegian singer Tone Damli
 "Smash", song by American band The Offspring from Smash
 "Smash", song by American rapper Rob Stone from Don't Wait For It
 "Smash", song by American band The Casualties
 "Smash", song by South Korean singer BoA from Kiss My Lips
 "Smash", song by American band Goo Goo Dolls from Gutterflower
 "Smash", song by American band Varsity
 "Smash!", song by the Dutch-Turkish Ummet Ozcan
 "Smash!", song from the TV series Smash
 "Smash!", song by American rapper XXXTentacion from ?
 "Smash!", song by American comedy group Starbomb from Player Select

Computing
 SMASH (hash), a cryptographic hash function
 Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware
 WebSphere sMash, a software environment

Events
 Smash! (comics), a 1960s British comic
 SMASH! (convention), an annual Japanese popular culture convention held in Sydney, Australia

Food and drink
 Smash (instant mashed potato), a brand of instant mashed potatoes
 Smash (chocolate), a Norwegian chocolate snack
 Smash (cocktail), a casual cocktail filled with hunks of fresh fruit

Mathematics
 Smash product, in algebraic topology

Sport
 Smash (professional wrestling), a Japanese promotion
 An overhead shot in some racket sports such as:
 Smash (tennis)
 Smash (pickleball)

Education
 Santa Monica Alternative School House (SMASH), an alternative school in Santa Monica, California, United States

Other uses
 Aselsan SMASH, a remote controlled weapon station
Council of Albi

The Roman Catholic Council of Albi was held in 1254 by Louis IX of France on his return from the Seventh Crusade, under the presidency of Zoen, Bishop of Avignon and Papal Legate for the final repression of the Albigenses, the reformation of clergy and people and the Church's relation to the Jewish people.

References

Albi
Albi
Felicity

Felicity may refer to:

Places 
 Felicity, California, United States, an unincorporated community
 Felicity, Ohio, United States, a village
 Felicity, Trinidad and Tobago, a community in Chaguanas

Entertainment 
 Felicity (TV series), an American drama
 Felicity (film), a 1978 Australian sexploitation film
 Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, a 2005 TV movie

Other uses 
 Felicity (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
 Felicity (pragmatics), a term used in formal semantics and pragmatics
 Felicity Party, an Islamist Turkish political party founded in 2001
 Felicity Plantation, a historic sugar plantation in Louisiana, United States
 , a Royal Navy Second World War minesweeper
 Felicity, an 18th-century British privateer which captured

See also 
 Felicitas (disambiguation)
 Santa Felicita di Firenze, the second-oldest church in Florence
 The 1982 single "Felicità" and an album of the same name by Italian duo Al Bano and Romina Power
Brandy Hill

There are several places called Brandy Hill:
Brandy Hill, South Wales, a hill
Brandy Hill, New South Wales, a residential area
Keiichi Sigsawa

is a Japanese light novel author. In 2000, his work Kino's Journey was a finalist for the 6th Dengeki Novel Prize, and was subsequently serialized in Dengeki hp magazine in March of the same year, marking his debut. Kino's Journey proved popular, and has continued in serialization (as well as collected bunko releases) since that time.

Sigsawa's name, a pen name, was derived from SIG Sauer, a firearms manufacturer, and "a manga hero", definitely Keiichi Morisato from Oh My Goddess!, according to the afterword in the second volume of Gakuen Kino. He loves to travel, ride his motorcycle, and is a self-professed "gun maniac". He mentions Galaxy Express 999 and the works of Hayao Miyazaki as some of his primary influences.

Works
Kino's Journey
Gakuen Kino
Tale of a Single Continent series
Allison
Lillia and Treize
Meg and Seron
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan desu (collective writing)
Ocha ga Hakobaretekuru Made ni: A Book At Cafe (January 2010, )
Yoru ga Hakobaretekuru Made ni: A Book in A Bed (December 2010, )
Kotae ga Hakobaretekuru Made ni: A Book without Answers (December 2011, )
Danshi Kōkōsei de Urekko Light Novel Sakka o Shiteiru Keredo, Toshishita no Classmate de Seiyū no Onnanoko ni Kubi o Shimerareteiru (January 2014, )
Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online

See also 
 Kouhaku Kuroboshi
 ASCII Media Works

References

External links 
  
 

1972 births
20th-century Japanese novelists
21st-century Japanese novelists
Living people
Light novelists
Writers from Kanagawa Prefecture
KSMB (band)

KSMB (Kurt-Sunes med Berit) was a Swedish punk rock band from 1977 to 1982. The young band members grew up and lived in the suburb Skärholmen outside Stockholm.

History
Johan Johansson, Mats Nilsson and Pekka Kangas had a band called "Ingenting" (Swedish for "nothing"). Their first and only gig was at Österholmsskolan in Skärholmen.
In the autumn  of 1977 most of the band members went to Skärholmens Gymnasium and discovered that if one worked with a project, like a band, one would not have to go to all the lessons. "Skärholmens Gymnasiums Punkensemble" was started and, as a lot of people did not want to go to the lessons, the band got a lot of members. After a chaotic gig in the aula in Skärholmens Gymnasium with 15 band members, of which 5 were singers, the project "Skärholmens Gymnasiums Punkensemble" was over, but the singers Steppan and Alonzo, drummer Johan Johansson and bassist Matte Nilsson continued and became the only constant members of "KSMB," as the new band was called. This abbreviation stood for "Kurt-Sunes med Berit".

Band members

Discography

1979 - Bakverk 80 (Page on Swedish Wikipedia)
1980 - Aktion (Page on Swedish Wikipedia)
1981 - Rika Barn Leka Bäst (Page on Swedish Wikipedia)
1983 - Dé é För Mycké (Live) (Page on Swedish Wikipedia)
1989 - Sardjentpepper (Page on Swedish Wikipedia)
1993 - En gång till
2017 - Ond saga

References

External links
 - pictures from concert in 1981. (in Swedish)

Swedish punk rock groups
Coula

Coula is a monotypic genus of trees native to tropical Africa, containing the sole species Coula edulis Baill. Currently placed in the family Olacaceae, recent genetic evidence suggests this family is paraphyletic, and that Coula and related genera should be transferred to a new family Strombosiaceae.

References

Olacaceae
Monotypic Santalales genera
Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon
National Science Summer School Inc.

The National Science Summer School Inc. is the council that reviews and appoints staff that run the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF).  It is a nonprofit organisation charged with overseeing the operation of the National Youth Science Forum in Australia

See also
National Youth Science Forum
Prof Rod Jory

External links
official NSSS Inc website

Educational organisations based in Australia
Summer schools
House of Schaumburg

The House of Schaumburg was a dynasty of German rulers. Until , it was also known as the House of Schauenburg. Together with its ancestral possession, the County of Schaumburg, the family also ruled the County of Holstein and its partitions Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel, Holstein-Pinneberg (till 1640), Holstein-Plön, Holstein-Segeberg and Holstein-Rendsburg (till 1460) and through the latter at times also the Duchy of Schleswig.

History
 The Schaumburgs were named after Schauenburg Castle, near Rinteln on the Weser, where the owners started calling themselves Lords (from 1295 Counts) of Schauenburg. Adolf I probably became the first Lord of Schauenburg in 1106.

In 1110, Adolf I, Lord of Schauenburg was appointed by Lothair, Duke of Saxony to hold Holstein and Stormarn, including Hamburg, as fiefs.

Holstein was occupied by Denmark after the Battle of Stellau (1201), but was reconquered by the Count of Schauenburg and his allies in the Battle of Bornhöved (1227).

After the death in 1640 of Count Otto V without children, the House of Schaumburg became extinct. The County of Holstein-Pinneberg was merged with the Duchy of Holstein. The County of Schaumburg proper was partitioned among the Schaumburg heirs into three parts, one incorporated into the ducal Brunswick and Lunenburgian Principality of Lüneburg, the second becoming the County of Schaumburg-Lippe and the third continuing the name County of Schaumburg, ruled in personal union by Hesse-Cassel.

List of states ruled by the House of Schaumburg

 County of Schaumburg: –1640 (with Holstein, then with Holstein-Itzehoe and then with Holstein-Pinneberg)
 County of Holstein with Schaumburg: 1110-1137; 1142-1203; 1227-1261
 County of Holstein-Kiel: 1261–1390
 County of Holstein-Itzehoe with Schaumburg: 1261–1290
 County of Holstein-Segeberg: 1273–1315, and again 1397–1403 
 County of Holstein-Pinneberg with Schaumburg: 1290–1640
 County of Holstein-Rendsburg: 1290–1459
 Duchy of Schleswig: 1326-1330; 1375-1459

See also

Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein

References

House of Schauenburg
Taiping War Cemetery

The Taiping War Cemetery () is the final resting place for Allied personnel who were killed during World War II, particularly the Malayan Campaign and the Japanese occupation of Malaya following the British occupation and colonization of Malaya. Servicemen who died after the war or during their posting in northern Malaya prior to the Malayan Emergency are also interred here. The cemetery is located in Bukit Larut, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia and was erected and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

There are more than 850 World War II casualties commemorated in this cemetery, including more than 500 who remain unidentified.

History

The Malayan Campaign
Taiping was on the British line of retreat during the Japanese attempt to overtake the control of Malay Peninsula from the British along the West Coast of the peninsular. Normally hosting a garrison of one Indian Army infantry battalion, the forces in Taiping had been augmented with a casualty receiving station set up and the Indian 20th Combined General Hospital had been posted there.

The town was also used as a rest and refitting centre for the 6th and 15th Indian Infantry Brigade during the ongoing battles in northern Malaya with numerous medical units being stationed there before retreating towards Singapore.

Erection of the cemetery
After the surrender of Japan and the ending of World War II, the task of identifying of British and Commonwealth war dead in the area was assigned to Major J. H. Ingram who led a War Graves Registration Unit. He designed and supervised the erection of the cemetery for the reception of graves brought from the battlefields, from numerous temporary burial grounds, and from village and other civil cemeteries where permanent maintenance would not be possible.

Layout
The cemetery is divided into two parts with Christian graves located on the southeastern side of the road while non-Christian graves being located on the opposite side. On the Christian section, a Cross of Sacrifice stands on the southeastern boundary while on the non-Christian section, a Stone of Remembrance stands on the northwestern boundary.

A stone dwarf wall flanks both sides of Jalan Bukit Larut, a road which forms the boundary between the Christian and non-Christian sections of the cemetery.

The graves are marked with an upright white granite headstone depicting the deceased's regimental insignia, if known. Muslim graves are aligned facing Mecca as required by their religious convictions.

Notable graves
 Royal Air Force Squadron Leader, Arthur Stewart King Scarf VC (1913–1941). He was one of the first RAF fatalities in Malaya and was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously.

See also 

 Cheras War Cemetery
 Kranji War Cemetery
 Labuan War Cemetery
 Terendak Garrison Cemetery

References

External links

 
 Taiping War Cemetery at Find a Grave

Cemeteries in Malaysia
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Malaysia
Buildings and structures in Perak
Tourist attractions in Perak
Geography of Perak
World War II sites in British Malaya
Kouhaku Kuroboshi

, also known as , is a Japanese illustrator and character designer. He is from the Kanagawa Prefecture and lives in the Fukuoka Prefecture. He is probably best known for his frequent collaborations with writer Keiichi Sigsawa as the illustrator/character designer for the Kino's Journey, Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online and Tale of a Single Continent series as well as with several other authors and game developers.

Works

Illustration 
Tale of a Single Continent series
Allison
Lillia and Treize
Meg and Seron
Aquarian Age Novel
Cosmos no Sora ni Drama CD 
Danshi Kōkōsei de Urekko Light Novel Sakka o Shiteiru Keredo, Toshishita no Classmate de Seiyū no Onnanoko ni Kubi o Shimerareteiru.
Heisa no System
Hokago Taima Roku
Kino's Journey
Gakuen Kino
Ocha ga Hakobarete Kuru Made ni 〜A Book At Cafe〜 (January 2010, )
Yoru ga Hakobarete Kuru Made ni 〜A Book in A Bed〜 (December 2010, )
Album cover and booklet for Yoru ga Hakobarete Kuru Made ni 〜A Song in A Bed〜 by angela (January 2011)
Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online

Character design 
Fate/Grand Order (Original Character Design for Katsushika Hokusai, Abigail Williams, Yang Guifei and Jacques de Molay)
22/7 (Original Character Design for Mikami Kamiki)
One Off
Princess Principal
Sacred Blaze
Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed
Sky Girls 
Summon Night series
World Conquest Zvezda Plot
Hololive English (Original Character Design for Ninomae Ina'nis)
Azur Lane (Original Character Design for Shimakaze)

Artbooks 
Kuroboshi Kouhaku, The Beautiful World (March 2003, )
Coadventure (December 2005, )
Kuroboshi Kouhaku Gashu noir (April 2015, )
Kuroboshi Kouhaku Gashu blanc (January 2021, )

See also 
Keiichi Sigsawa

References

External links
 GRANADA LEVEL9 (Kouhaku Kuroboshi's blog)
 

1974 births
Living people
Japanese illustrators
Labuan War Cemetery

Labuan War Cemetery () is a Commonwealth World War II graveyard in Labuan, Malaysia.

The cemetery
Many of the personnel buried in this cemetery, including Indian and Australian troops, were killed during the Japanese invasion of Borneo or the Borneo campaign of 1945. Others were prisoners of war in the region, including a number of those who perished on the infamous Sandakan Death Marches, and many hundreds of Allied POWs (mostly British and Australian) who died during their imprisonment by the Japanese at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching were also reburied here.

This graveyard was erected by Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Among those buried are Jack Mackey (1922–1945) and Tom Derrick (1914–1945), each of whom received the Victoria Cross.

Gallery

See also 
 Cheras War Cemetery
 Taiping War Cemetery
 Kranji War Cemetery
 Terendak Garrison Cemetery

References

External links

 
 

Buildings and structures in Labuan
Cemeteries in Malaysia
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Malaysia
World War II cemeteries
Tourist attractions in Labuan
Elis & Tom

Elis & Tom is a bossa nova album, released in 1974, recorded by Brazilian singer Elis Regina and singer-songwriter Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Recorded over a 16-day period at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, California, the album was an old wish of Regina, who always wanted to record a full album of Jobim's songs with him. This finally came true in 1974, when Elis was celebrating her 10th anniversary as an artist of Philips Records. The label approved the project as a gift for her.

In 2004, the 30th anniversary of the initial release, a remastered special edition was released on DVD Audio which included a 5.1 multi-channel surround mix from the original master tapes.

The production and recording of this album are depicted in the 2022 documentary film Elis & Tom, Só Tinha de Ser com Você, by Roberto de Oliveira and Nelson Motta.

Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awards the album 4.5 stars and states that "This beautiful — and now legendary — recording date between iconic Brazilian vocalist Elis Regina and composer, conductor, and arranger Tom Jobim is widely regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian pop recordings."

It was ranked 11th on Rolling Stone'''s Top 100 Brazilian albums of all time. The album was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007. On September 2012 it was voted by the audience of Radio Eldorado FM, of Estadao.com and of Caderno C2+Música (both the latter belong to newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo'') as the fourth-best Brazilian album ever.

Track listing

Personnel 
Elis Regina - vocals
Antônio Carlos Jobim - vocals (1, 6, 12, 14), piano (4, 6-8, 11-14), arrangement (4), guitar (6)
César Camargo Mariano - piano (1, 2, 5), electric piano (3, 9, 11, 13), arrangements (except 4)
Hélio Delmiro - guitar (1, 3, 9), electric guitar (2, 5, 11)
Oscar Castro-Neves - guitar (1-3, 5, 9, 13)
Luizão Maia - bass (1-3, 5, 9, 11, 13)
Paulo Braga - drums (1-3, 5, 9, 11, 13)
Bill Hitchcock - conductor of string section (1, 6, 8, 10,12)
Hubert Laws and Jerome Richardson - flute (1, 5, 6, 13; uncredited)
Chico Batera - percussion (11)

References

1974 albums
Antônio Carlos Jobim albums
Elis Regina albums
Bossa nova albums
Verve Records albums
Latin Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
Philips Records albums
Lugg

Lugg may refer to:

Geographical names 
 Lugg Island, Antarctica
 Moreton-on-Lugg, village in Herefordshire, England
 River Lugg, Wales and England

People 
 Milton DeLugg (born 1918), American composer and arranger
 Rheanne Lugg (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
 Sheila Tracy (1934–2014), née Lugg, British broadcaster, writer, musician, and singer
 William Lugg (1852–1939), a British actor and singer

Fiction 
 Lugg Brothers, two villains in the fantasy animated series The Pirates of Dark Water
 Magersfontein Lugg, character in the Albert Campion novels by Margery Allingham
Samuel Sherwood (Canadian politician)

Samuel Sherwood ( 1777 – c. 1821) was a lawyer and political figure in early Canada.

He was born in the Thirteen Colonies, the son of Justus Sherwood, a United Empire Loyalist who settled in Augusta Township in Upper Canada. He studied law in Montreal and was admitted to the Upper Canada bar. He served as a scout with Edward Jessup's Loyal Rangers during the American Revolution. In 1790, he was appointed justice of the peace in the Mecklenburg District. He represented Grenville in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1800 to 1808.

In 1812, he moved to Lower Canada. He was elected in 1814 to represent Effingham in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and re-elected in 1816. He was admitted to the Lower Canada bar in 1817 and practised law in Montreal in 1821. He died some time during or after 1821.

His brother, Levius Peters Sherwood, served as a member of the legislative assembly in Upper Canada.

Further reading 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)

External links

Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
Canadian lawyers
18th-century births
1820s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
Narrownecked oceanic eel

The narrownecked oceanic eel, Derichthys serpentinus, is a longneck eel, the only species in the genus Derichthys, found in all oceans in depths between 500 and 2,000 m.  Their length is up to .

The skin is scaleless and red-brown.  It lives on the bottom at great depths.

References

 
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Derichthyidae

Fish described in 1884
OGLE-2005-BLG-169L

OGLE-2005-BLG-169L is a dim and distant magnitude 20 galactic bulge star located about 2,700 parsecs away in the constellation Sagittarius. If it is a main sequence star, then it is most likely a red dwarf with about half of the mass of the Sun. Other possibilities are a white dwarf star, or (less likely) a neutron star or black hole.

Planetary system 
In 2006, an Uranus-mass extrasolar planet was detected by gravitational microlensing around this star.

See also 
 List of extrasolar planets
 OGLE-2005-BLG-390L
 Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment or OGLE

References

External links 
 

M-type main-sequence stars
Planetary systems with one confirmed planet
Sagittarius (constellation)
Gravitational lensing
Samuel Sherwood

Samuel Sherwood may refer to:
 Samuel Sherwood (New York politician), American Congressman
 Samuel Sherwood (Canadian politician), Canadian lawyer and member of the legislative assemblies of Upper and Lower Canada
 Samuel B. Sherwood, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
 Samuel Sherwood (high constable), chief constable of Toronto
Romance on Lushan Mountain

Romance on Lushan Mountain () is a 1980 colour film produced in China.  It was in its entirety shot at Lushan Mountain in Jiujiang, China and was directed by Huang Zumo (). It is alternatively known as A Love Story at Lushan Mountain and Love on Lushan Mountain.

The film sold more than 140 million tickets and grossed more than  in China. It holds the Guinness World Record for "the longest first run of a film in one cinema" for having been shown continuously since 1980.

Plot
In the 1970s, after the establishment of diplomat relation between the People's Republic of China and the United States, Zhou Jun, the daughter of a retired Kuomintang general, Zhou Zhenwu, who now lives in America, visits mainland China for sightseeing. In Mount Lu, she meets Geng Hua, a young man who is preparing his college entrance exams, and they fall in love. Geng's father, a CPC officer, is now under political investigation by Gang of Four. The junior Geng is accompanying his unwell mother to the mountain for rehabilitation. Due to his frequent contacts with Zhou, Geng is summoned for interrogation. Zhou returns to the States with regrets.

After the fall of Gang of Four, Zhou, still keeping her feelings for Geng in her heart, visited Lu Mountain again. While Geng, now a postgraduate student of Tsinghua University, happens to come to Mount Lu for academic colloquium. Fortunately, these two reunite and decide to marry each other. Geng Hua asks his father, Geng Feng, for his agreement, and shows him the photo of Miss Zhou's family. The senior Geng recognizes that the girl's father, Zhou Zhenwu, was his classmate back in Whampoa Military Academy. Because they followed different political parties, they became the rivals in the battlefield during Chinese Civil War. Thus, he immediately rejects this marriage. After some difficulties, the two seniors, both with the intention of reunification of China, meet on Mount Lu. The hostility is thawed, and they become relatives by marriage when the junior Zhou and Geng finally get together.

World record

According to Guinness World Records, this film has the Longest First-Run of a Film in One Cinema (Love Story in Lushan Cinema). It premiered at the Jiangxi Movie Circulation and Screening Company in Lushan, China, on July 12, 1980, and has been shown daily up to now. Watching the film at the said cinema has become a tourist attraction.

References

External links
Love on Lushan Mountain at the Chinese Movie Database
Romance on Lushan Mountain at the BFI Film & TV Database

1980 films
Chinese romantic drama films
1980s romance films
Films set in Jiangxi
Films about the Cultural Revolution
Films directed by Huang Zumo
BGK

BGK may refer to:

Businesses and organizations
Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, a Polish bank

Music
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, an American singer

Science
 Bernstein–Greene–Kruskal modes, a type of nonlinear electrostatic wave that propagates in a collisionless plasma
 Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator, a collision operator used in Lattice Boltzmann methods
 BgK, a neurotoxin found within the mucous secretions of sea anemones

Sports
 Barangay Ginebra Kings, a professional Philippine basketball team
George Wigram Allen

Sir George Wigram Allen  (16 May 1824 – 23 July 1885) was an Australian politician and philanthropist. He was Speaker in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1875–1883. Allen was held in high esteem. As speaker he showed dignity, courtesy and ability; it was said of him: 'A man of calm judgment and much practical wisdom'.

Early life
Allen was born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, the eldest son of George Allen (attorney and solicitor) and his wife Jane, née Bowden. He was educated under William Cape and at Sydney College, where he showed ability in classics and mathematics. In 1841, Allen was articled to his father and he became a solicitor in 1846.

Legal career
The following year Allen entered a partnership with his father as a solicitor and today that firm is known as Allens and is the oldest in Australia. He was also a director of many public companies including the Bank of New South Wales.

Public office
In 1859 Allen became the first chairman and mayor of the Municipality of The Glebe, a position he held until 1877. He was appointed a commissioner of national education in 1853 and held the position until 1867 and was nominated to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1860 and remained there until May 1861. In 1869 Allen was elected a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Glebe, and from December 1873 to February 1875 was Minister of Justice and Public Instruction in the first ministry of Henry Parkes. In the following March he was elected Speaker and remained in that position until January 1883. Allen retired from politics in August 1883 and died suddenly on 23 July 1885.

Marriage

Allen married Marian Boyce (1835–1914), eldest daughter of the Rev. William Boyce, in July 1851 and they lived at Strathmore, opposite his father's home Toxteth Park. In 1881 they moved to Toxteth Park having added a third storey, a tower and various embellishments such as a ballroom. The Allens entertained there on a grand scale. Lady Allen was an active charitable worker. She was involved with the boarding out of orphan children from the Benevolent Asylum and was a co-founder of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. The marriage produced six sons and four daughters.

Honours
He was knighted in 1877.

In 1884 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).

References

 

1824 births
1885 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Members of Newington College Council
Australian Methodists
Speakers of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Lawyers from Sydney
19th-century Australian politicians
Mayors of The Glebe
Belgian Socialist Party

The Belgian Socialist Party  (, PSB; , BSP) was a social-democratic political party which existed in Belgium from 1945 to 1978. During its time in office, a number of progressive social reforms were introduced.

The BSP was founded by activists from the Belgian Labour Party (1885–1940), which was the first Belgian socialist party. It ceased to function during the Second World War, while Belgium was under Nazi occupation. Its main support bases were the co-operative and trade union movements, and it won relatively more support in Wallonia. Like most Belgian political organisations, the party supported greater integration with the European Economic Community, albeit in a socialist context.

As linguistic and community issues became more divisive, the Belgian Socialist Party split into two new entities: the Flemish Socialist Party for the Flemish community and the Parti Socialiste (PS) for the Francophone community.

Presidents

Election Results 

 From the 1971 general election, the Belgian Socialist Party ran separate lists for Flanders and Wallonia; however, they still existed under a single party. The letters in bold thus show the results of the combined lists and consequently the true result of the Belgian Socialist Party in each election
 Whilst the Belgian Socialist Party also ran separate lists for Flanders and Wallonia in the 1974 general election, there is no information on the results of separate lists, hence only the result for the combined lists is shown.

See also
 Agusta scandal
 Charter of Quaregnon
 Socialist Party (francophone Belgium), also known as the Parti Socialiste or PS of Belgium, a French-speaking social democratic political party
 Vooruit, the Flemish social-democratic party in Belgium. It was formerly known as SP, then as SP.a

References

Defunct socialist parties in Belgium
Political parties established in 1945
1945 establishments in Belgium
Defunct social democratic parties
Social democratic parties in Europe
1978 disestablishments in Belgium
Political parties disestablished in 1978
Gadopentetic acid

Gadopentetic acid, sold under the brand name Magnevist, is a gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent.

It is usually administered as a salt of a complex of gadolinium with DTPA (diethylenetriaminepentacetate) with the chemical formula A2[Gd(DTPA)(H2O)]; when cation A is the protonated form of the amino sugar meglumine the salt goes under the name "gadopentetate dimeglumine". It was described in 1981 by Hanns-Joachim Weinmann and colleagues  and introduced as the first MRI contrast agent in 1987 by the Schering AG. It is used to assist imaging of blood vessels and of inflamed or diseased tissue where the blood vessels become "leaky".  It is often used when viewing intracranial lesions with abnormal vascularity or abnormalities in the blood–brain barrier.  It is usually injected intravenously. Gd-DTPA is classed as an acyclic, ionic gadolinium contrast medium.  Its paramagnetic property reduces the T1 relaxation time (and to some extent the T2 and T2* relaxation times) in NMR, which is the source of its clinical utility.

Gadolinium based agents may cause a toxic reaction known as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with severe kidney problems.

Compared to other gadolinium-based MRI contrast agents, Gadopentetate dimeglumine (Gd-DTPA2-) chelates allow delayed Gadolinium-enhanced Magnetic Resonance of Cartilage (dGEMRIC). The unique charge characteristic of this complex allows researchers to inversely measure spin-lattice relaxation times as they are related to the concentration of proteoglycan aggregates and charged glycosaminoglycan side chains in articular cartilage.

Chemical structure and mode of action
In the complex of Gd3+ and DTPA5− the gadolinium ion is 9-coordinate, surrounded by the 3 nitrogen atoms and 5 oxygen atoms from the carboxylate groups. The ninth coordination site is occupied by a water molecule. This water molecule is labile and exchanges rapidly with water molecules in the immediate vicinity of the gadolinium complex. The gadolinium ion has 7 unpaired electrons with parallel spins and is strongly paramagnetic with an 8S electronic ground state. The relaxation time of the water molecules is affected by their intermittent binding to the paramagnetic centre. This alters their MRI properties and enables contrast enhancement to be achieved.

Concerns 
Gadolinium is highly toxic and the accumulation of gadolinium in the brain has become a concern. The EU banned linear chelates in 2017.

References

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MRI contrast agents
Organogadolinium compounds
Withdrawn drugs
Entdecker

Entdecker (, German for "Discoverer") is a German-style board game designed by Klaus Teuber and published in 1996 by Goldsieber in German.  Although the game won 2nd prize in the Deutscher Spiele Preis, many gamers were disappointed with the game after the success of Teuber's previous game, The Settlers of Catan.  An updated version, Die Neuen Entdecker, was published in 2001 by Kosmos; this version was published in English by Mayfair Games under the title Entdecker - Exploring New Horizons.  This version of the game won the Essen Feather for that year.

Gameplay 

The game begins with an empty grid.  As players move their ship counters to explore the grid, they place tiles which determine the shape of islands.  When islands are completed, they have the chance to explore those islands.

External links 
Entdecker - Exploring New Horizons page at Mayfair Games

Board games introduced in 1996
German games
Klaus Teuber games
Kosmos (publisher) games
Mayfair Games games
House of Assembly of Saint Lucia

The House of Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Saint Lucia, elected by popular vote. The upper house is the Senate. It has 17 or 18 members: 17 members elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and a speaker elected by the 17 members, who may be one of their number or a person chosen from outside the House. To be elected to the house, a person must be at least 21 years old.

History
House of Assembly was established in 1967 when associated statehood was attained. It replaced the legislative council.

Relationship with the government
Section 60 of the constitution of Saint Lucia requires the prime minister of Saint Lucia to be a member of the House of Assembly. It provides for the governor-general to "appoint a member of the House who appears to him likely to command the support of the majority of the members of the House" and for the office to fall vacant if the prime minister ceases to be a member of the House of Assembly for any reason other than the dissolution of parliament.

Latest general election

Current composition
Following the election of 26 July 2021, the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia comprises the following members:

Constituencies 

Saint Lucia has 17 electoral segments, each of which elects one Parliamentary Representative to the House of Assembly:

See also
List of speakers of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia
Districts of Saint Lucia

References

External links
 

Politics of Saint Lucia
Political organisations based in Saint Lucia
Government of Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
1967 establishments in the British Empire
Rock Never Stops Tour

Rock Never Stops was a U.S. rock tour that featured various rock groups of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The tour started in 1997.

Tour lineup

The tour's lineup has shifted from year to year.

1997
 Alice Cooper
 Dokken
 Slaughter
 Warrant

1998
 Quiet Riot
 Warrant
 L.A. Guns
 Slaughter
 FireHouse
Hosted by Dee Snider

1999
 Ted Nugent
 Night Ranger
 Quiet Riot
 Slaughter

2000
 Sebastian Bach

2001
Sebastian Bach

2002
 Tesla
 Vince Neil
 Jackyl
 Skid Row

2003
 Whitesnake
 Warrant
 Kip Winger
 Slaughter

2004
 Vince Neil
 Ratt
 Slaughter

2005
 Cinderella
 Quiet Riot
 Ratt
 FireHouse

2012
 Dokken
 Quiet Riot
 Firehouse
 Y&T
 Trixter
 Tour was planned but never took place

See also
 Concert tour

References

External links
 Rock Never Stops 2005: Cinderella, Ratt, Quiet Riot & FireHouse interviewed by C.C. Banana

Concert tours
Farnesina

Farnesina may refer to:

Architecture 
 Casa della Farnesina, an historic building of the ancient Rome, in the neighborhood of Trastevere, Rome
 Palazzo della Farnesina, the headquarters of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of the Republic of Italy
 Villa Farnesina, a Renaissance suburban villa in the neighborhood of Trastevere, Rome

Art collections 
 The Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection, a contemporary Italian art collection exhibited at the Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome, Italy
 The Collezione Farnesina, a 20th-century Italian art collection exhibited at the Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome, Italy

Places 
 Farnesina (district of Rome) a district of Rome, Italy

Institutions 
 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), also known as the Farnesina, as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina in Rome
Earl Levine

Earl Levine was one of the technical leaders in the fields of streaming media, data compression, and audio watermarking technologies during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and onward, winning the prestigious Capocelli Prize for data compression in 1997. 

His PhD work at Stanford University was early in the field of artificial intelligence, creating vector quantized autoencoder convolutional neural networks.  He then invented the lossless audio codec method used in Apple Lossless Codec and FLAC, used to create the largest collection of lossless audio at the time.  He worked at VXtreme until its acquisition by Microsoft. Following that he worked for Liquid Audio. Liquid Audio's patent portfolio,  almost all of which he invented or co-invented, was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. Since his departure from Liquid Audio, he has been involved with numerous Silicon Valley start-up companies.

He is also known for his successful hobby of training race horses including Fleet Crossing who won the Churchill Downs, MSW 

He established one of the first shared neighborhood wi-fi systems in 2002 

He graduated from Richardson High School in the same class as Carla Overbeck.

His son, Gabrael Levine, is the inventor of the Blackbird bipedal robot and the preeminent developer of the OpenTorque actuator.

References

External links
 MOUSE.MOVE
 Neural network data compression paper

21st-century American inventors
Computer programmers
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Richardson High School alumni
Jon Odlum

Stanley Nicholas Jon Odlum (9 May 1936 – 19 February 2013) was a Saint Lucian politician. Originated from the Saint Lucia Labour Party. Was also a member of the now defunct Progressive Labor Party, led by his brother George Odlum, he was the party's sole successful Parliamentary candidate in 1982.
He was made a Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Human Services and Family Affairs on 10 December 2001.

In the early 1970s he wrote sports reports for the "Voice of St Lucia" newspaper, and also gave weekly sports summaries on television. Later he became the Minister for Sport.

References

2013 deaths
Members of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia Labour Party politicians
1936 births
Progressive Labour Party (Saint Lucia) politicians
Kim van Kooten

Kim van Kooten (born 26 January 1974 in Purmerend, North Holland) is a Dutch actress and screenwriter. In international cinema, she is best known for the 2003 Dutch/US co-production Phileine Says Sorry, filmed partly in New York City, in which she plays the lead. She is the author of the script of the very successful Dutch movie Alles is Liefde (Everything is Love), and won a Golden Calf for Best Actress in Phileine Says Sorry (2003), and for Best Scenario with Met grote blijdschap (2001).

Life and work 
Van Kooten grew up in Zuidoostbeemster. She is the daughter of Kees van Kooten and Barbara Kits. Her brother is the actor and singer Kasper van Kooten.

She studied screenwriting at the Film Academy in Holland, but dropped out in the first year. After a chance meeting with director Robert Jan Westdijk, van Kooten made her acting debut in the film Zusje (Little Sister). These were followed by films such as Jesus is een Palestijn (Jesus is a Palestinian) (with her then boyfriend Hans Teeuwen), Mariken and Phileine Zegt Sorry (for which she won a Golden Calf for Best Actress).

She is also a screenwriter and was asked by Theo van Gogh to do the script for the film Blind Date. She now specialises in working with characters and real-life dialogue.

Besides being an actress and writer, van Kooten worked as an editor and presenter for the cinema programme Stardust for the Dutch television network VPRO. She now is the star of a new dramedy show called Evelien, shown on Net 5.

She has written the script of the successful Dutch movie Alles is Liefde (Everything is Love). The movie has been seen over a million times, which resulted in a Diamanten film award. Later, it received a Dutch Golden Calves award for best Dutch movie. She is married to actor Jacob Derwig, with whom she has two children, Roman and Kee Molly (born 17 December 2007). They met on the set of the TV-series De acteurs (The actors), where various actors played different roles written by Van Kooten.

Filmography

As an actress
 1995: Zusje as Daantje Zuidewind
 1996: Red Rain
 1998: Een Hoertje en haar broertje as Elena
 1999: Jezus is een Palestijn as Natasja
 2000: Mariken as Isabella
 2001: Olivetti 82
 2002: Snapshots
 2002: Bella Bettien as Monique
 2003: Phileine zegt sorry as Phileine
 2006: Evelien (TV-series) as Evelien
 2010: Loft
 2012: Black Out
 2013: The Dinner

She also voices one of the characters in the movie Undercover Kitty (2001).

As a screenwriter
 1994: Nighthawks
 1996: Blind Date (dialogs)
 2000: Mariken (with role for her brother Kasper van Kooten)
 2001: Met grote blijdschap
 2001: Acteurs, De (television series)
 2002/2003: musical: Na de zomer (in cooperation with songwriter Niek Barendsen)
 2007: Alles is Liefde
 2012: "Entertainment Experience"

External links

References

1974 births
Living people
People from Purmerend
Dutch film actresses
Dutch television actresses
Golden Calf winners
20th-century Dutch actresses
21st-century Dutch actresses
Divorcing Jack (novel)

Divorcing Jack is the debut novel and first of the Dan Starkey series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, released on 28 January 1995 through HarperCollins. The novel was recognised as one of the San Francisco Review of Books favourite "First books" of 1995–1996.

Plot
Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the novel's events follow a turbulent period in the life of married, cynical and usually drunk journalist Dan Starkey. Dan's wife Patricia leaves him after a drunken party in which he kisses a student called Margaret. What follows is a darkly comical tale of murder and mystery.

Film adaptation
The novel was adapted by Bateman himself. Directed by David Caffrey the 1998 film stars David Thewlis.

Reception

The novel was generally well received by critics, with praise going to Bateman's humour and wit and his creation of a likeable "anti-hero" and most criticism concerning the novel's plot.

Kirkus Reviews stated that while "there's nothing special about the story", "Bateman ... has struck gold the first time out with his mordant, loquacious hero and his ruined landscape", stating in conclusion that "the promised sequel can't arrive too soon". Publishers Weekly took a similar stance, stating "the plot machinations are formulaic", yet tempering this by stating that "what makes this tale stand out, however, is the wit and charm of its protagonist", and that "the intricate Irish politics are gracefully rendered, and Bateman's wry take on the gritty Belfast landscape adds an appealingly light touch", concluding again that "the author apparently has another Dan Starkey novel in the works; that's very good news indeed". The novel was well received by Christina Hardyment of The Independent, who stated that "James Nesbitt's almost edible Irish voice enhances the wit and wizardry of a story that is as much a mystery novel as a romance, and which deservedly won the Betty Trask Award in 1994".

In a review for RTÉ, reviewer Tom Grealis was a little more critical of the novel, stating "plot-wise, Divorcing Jack is far from impressive. Over-stretched and under-thought, the improbable story-line limps from chapter to chapter looking for a thread which will haul it to safety". Grealis does state, however, that "in Dan Starkey, Bateman has created a gloriously irreverent and amusing (anti) hero" and concludes "if you can forgive the hopelessly improbable plot, 'Divorcing Jack' remains a solid and humorous debut".

Awards and nominations
The novel was awarded the 1994 Betty Trask Prize by the Society of Authors, for the best debut by a writer under the age of 35.

References

Novels from Northern Ireland
Novels set in Belfast
Novels by Colin Bateman
1995 British novels
British crime novels
HarperCollins books
British novels adapted into films
1995 debut novels
Kamisaka Sekka

was an important artistic figure in early twentieth-century Japan. Born in Kyoto to a samurai family, his talents for art and design were recognized early. He eventually allied himself with the traditional Rinpa school of art. He is considered the last great proponent of this artistic tradition. Sekka also worked in lacquer and in a variety of other media.

As traditional Japanese styles became unfashionable (such as Rinpa style), Japan implemented policies to promote the country's unique artistic style by upgrading the status of traditional artists who infused their craft with a dose of modernism. In 1901, Sekka was sent by the Japanese government to Glasgow where he was heavily influenced by Art Nouveau. He sought to learn more about the Western attraction to Japonism, and which elements or facets of Japanese art would be more attractive to the West. Returning to Japan, he taught at the newly opened Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, experimented with Western tastes, styles, and methods, and incorporated them into his otherwise traditional Japanese-style works. While he sticks to traditional Japanese subject matter, and some elements of Rinpa painting, the overall effect is very Western and modern. He uses bright colors in large swaths, his images seeming on the verge of being patterns rather than proper pictures of a subject; the colors and patterns seem almost to "pop", giving the paintings an almost three-dimensional quality.

Momoyogusa

Momoyogusa (A World of Things) is considered Sekka's woodblock-print masterpiece. The three-volume set was commissioned between 1909 and 1910 by the publishing firm Unsōdō of Kyoto. The Japanese name of the series can first be found in the eighth-century poetic text Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves (Man'yōshū), which refers to a multi-leaved autumnal herb (momoyogusa), possibly a chrysanthemum or wormwood. The sixty image work displays a variety of landscapes, figures, classical themes, and innovative subjects, captured in a small space. They show Sekka's complete mastery of traditional Rimpa style, as well as combining his own approach and understanding of the innovations influencing Japan at the time.

See also

 The pamphlet of the exhibition of Kamisaka(2007.9.22)(pdf)

References

External links

'Birds, flowers and figures on scattered fans'  Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

1866 births
1942 deaths
19th-century Japanese artists
19th-century Japanese painters
20th-century Japanese painters
Artists from Kyoto
19th-century Japanese people
20th-century Japanese people
People of Meiji-period Japan
Rinpa school
Art Nouveau painters