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Kosmos, South Africa

Kosmos is a village in the North West Province of South Africa. It is situated on the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam.

History
The first homes were built in the 1920s shortly after the Dam was constructed. It is thought that the name derives from the Kosmos which grows wild in great drifts in many parts of the Highveld, and in particular on the roads from the nearby  major cities. More homes followed over the years, and the style moved steadily up market. Little development of commercial enterprises ever took place, although it is said that in earlier years the 'Sail Inn' on the waterfront was a favourite watering hole. Many Anglo–Boer War battles ranged around the area and the British built one of the blockhouses on the crest of the range above the village, in view of its strategic position.

In more recent years a restaurant immediately outside the original township, Stywe Lyne, (Tight Lines in Afrikaans) was a favourite destination for motorbike enthusiasts to gather on Sundays, and show off their bikes. This too has given way to the pressures of upmarket residential development.

Modern day Kosmos
The village has only one access road, and perhaps as a result has developed a strong sense of community. The residents fund an illegal security gate which maintains the access gate to 'Kosmos Proper', a reference to that area lying within the boundaries of the original township. The gate is designed to stop the public from accessing Kosmos freely, something that is illegal in South Africa. On the higher slopes of the village there is a Community Centre and Library, on municipal land. Next to it is a Garden Chapel, where non-denominational religious services are conducted regularly by the residents. On the waterfront near the entrance the residents have developed the Kosmos Marina Club. There are Post Boxes but no Post Office, and no shops or other commercial enterprises. Recently a number of Bed and Breakfast establishments have started up.

Outside Kosmos Proper, on the short road leading to the village, several resort and residential estates have been developed and new ones are being built. One of these has a nine-hole golf course, which skirts the waters of the dam in a challenging manner.

In amongst these estates lies Orange Farm, an 'informal settlement' (which elsewhere might be termed a 'squatter camp' or 'shanty town'). In these shacks, with no proper supplies of electricity, water or sanitation, live hundreds of people who depend for their meagre livelihood on work as servants and jobs with building and construction companies. Efforts to relocate them to other locations further away with proper amenities have been unsuccessful.

Geology
At this point the Magaliesberg range is displaced about 1 kilometre south by faulting and erosion.
Kosmos lies on the south, steep side of the monocline, and at its north eastern end, where the Crocodile River passes through the Dam, the cliffs become too steep to allow buildings or a road.

References

Populated places in the Madibeng Local Municipality
C. R. Narayan Rao

C.R. Narayan Rao  (15 August 1882 – 2 January 1960) was an Indian zoologist and herpetologist. He was among the founding editors of the journal Current Science. In recognition of his pioneering work on Indian amphibians, the genus Raorchestes was named after him.

Background
Born in Coimbatore, he studied in Bellary and at the Madras Christian College under Professor Henderson who headed the department of zoology. After obtaining his graduate and post-graduate degrees and a gold medal for proficiency, he obtained a diploma in teaching. He taught in Coimbatore and Ernakulam, before moving to the Central College in Bangalore where he organized the department of zoology and headed it until his retirement in 1937.

Contributions
His role in science and research is considered significant since he was involved in the integration of research into university education. Along with Sir Martin Onslow Forster and other Indian scientists he helped found the journal Current Science in July 1932 along the lines of the journal Nature. He was its first editor. In one of his first editorials, he pleaded for the coordination of scientific activities in India, a plea that helped create the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Rao specialized on frogs and their taxonomy. He named and described several frog species, and his work on the Archenteric and Segmentation Cavities of frogs are regarded as important contributions to our understanding of amphibian development. He described the new Microhylid genus Ramanella. The genus Raorchestes is named in his honour.

Professor Rao presided over the zoology section of the Indian Science Congress in 1938 at Lahore. His account of the ovarian ovum of the slender loris was presented to the Royal Society by James Peter Hill in the latter's Croonian Lecture.

Bibliography
Notes on some south Indian Batrachia. Records of the Indian Museum XII (1915)
Notes on the tadpoles of Indian Engystomatidae. Records of the Indian Museum XV (1918)
Some new species of cyprinoid fish from Mysore. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1920)
On the structure of the ovary and ovarian ovum of Loris lydekkerianus. Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science LXXI (1927)
Notes on the fresh water-fish of Mysore. Journal of Mysore University I (with Seshachar B. R., 1927)
Observations on the habits of the slow loris, Loris lydekkerianus. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society XXXII (1932) 
Tadpoles of a genus not recorded from India. Current Science 6(9):455–456. (1938)

References

External links
 Description of the Tadpoles of Gastrophryne pictiventris and Nelsonophryne aterrima

1882 births
1960 deaths
20th-century Indian zoologists
Indian herpetologists
People from Coimbatore
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
Najmuddin Shaikh

Najmuddin Shaikh () (born 4 September 1939) served as the Pakistani ambassador to United States (1990–1991) and later served as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan (1994–1997).

Education and family
He received his bachelor's degree from Sindh University.
He is a graduate of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1962). His wife, Raana Shaikh, has served as the Managing Director of Pakistan Television, and earlier as Secretary for the Ministry of Culture. He is the brother of Air Marshal Riazuddin Shaikh.

Career
Shaikh joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1961. During his 38 years of service, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Canada (1987–1989), ambassador to West Germany (1989–1990), ambassador to the United States (1990–1991) and ambassador to Iran (1992–1994). He then served as Foreign Secretary from 1994 to 1997, later replaced by Shamshad Ahmad. He has also served as Pakistan's special envoy to Yemen, Sudan, Kenya and Bahrain (February 2005).

Other activities
Shaikh has been a member of the board of governors of the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad and senior vice president of the Karachi Council of Foreign Relations. He used to write a weekly column on foreign affairs for the Dawn newspaper and now writes for the Daily Pakistan newspaper.

References

External links
List of Najmuddin Shaikh columns in Daily Times newspaper
Najmuddin Shaikh as a columnist on Dawn newspaper

Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan
High Commissioners of Pakistan to Canada
Ambassadors of Pakistan to West Germany
Ambassadors of Pakistan to the United States
Ambassadors of Pakistan to Iran
1939 births
Living people
Sindhi people
University of Sindh alumni
The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni
Kunya (river)

The Kunya () is a river in Kunyinsky, Velikoluksky, and Loknyansky Districts of Pskov Oblast, Toropetsky District of Tver Oblast, and Kholmsky District of Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a major right tributary of the Lovat. It is  long, and the area of its basin . The town of Kholm is located in the mouth of the Kunya. The principal tributaries of the Kunya are the Oka, the Serezha, the Maly Tuder, and the Bolshoy Tuder (all from the right).

The source of the Kunya is in Lake Vsteselovo in the central part of Kunyinsky District, in the southeast of Pskov Oblast. It flows out of the lake in the southern direction and gradually makes a U-turn and turns north. Some stretches of the Kunya make the border between Kunyinsky and Velikoluksky Districts, and, more to the north, between Velikoluksky District and Tver Oblast. North of the village of Chaltsevo, the border between the oblasts turns west, and the Kunya continues north and enters Toropetsky District of Tver Oblast. The Kunya accepts the Serezha from the right and a short stretch of it forms the border between Pskov and Tver Oblasts again. North of this stretch, at the triple point, the Kunya enters Novgorod Oblast and turns northeast. The mouth of the Kunya is located in the town of Kholm.

The drainage basin of the Kunya includes areas around the triple point of Novgorod, Tver, and Pskov Oblasts: the northern part of Kunyinsky District, the northwestern part of Velikoluksky District, the southern part of Kholmsky District, as well as much of Toropetsky and Andreapolsky Districts. The urban-type settlement of Kunya lies within the drainage basin of the Kunya, but not on the banks of the river.

References

Rivers of Novgorod Oblast
Rivers of Pskov Oblast
Rivers of Tver Oblast
Linganna Pujari

Linganna "Anna" Puttal Pujari (19151999) was a political leader and social worker in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

References

Activists from Maharashtra
1915 births
1999 deaths
People from Nizamabad, Telangana
Maharashtra municipal councillors
Politicians from Mumbai
Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council
Marathi politicians
Brazilian Tennis Confederation

The Brazilian Tennis Confederation ( or CBT) is the governing body of tennis in Brazil. CBT is responsible for the organization of events such as the Brasil Open and for representing tennis players in Brazil.

External links
CBT Official site

National members of the South America Tennis Confederation
 
Tennis
1955 establishments in Brazil
Doppelgänger (The Grid album)

Doppelgänger is the fourth studio album by The Grid. It was released in March 2008, after a break of more than ten years. Guest artists include Robert Fripp on "Mighty Heroik" and Chris Braide on "Closer", "Be Here With You", "Fools Rush In" and "Feed Your Mind". The album was reissued by One Little Indian in 2017.

Track listing 
All tracks composed by The Grid (Dave Ball and Richard Norris); except where noted.
 "8 Miles from Memphis" – 4:49
 "Vibration" – 3:38
 "Pleasure Control" – 5:13
 "Put Your Hands Together" – 5:23
 "Slinker" (The Passions) – 4:48
 "Pure Statik" – 4:18
 "Mighty Heroic" – 4:58
 "Saturday" – 5:42
 "Closer" – 4:18
 "Three Floors Above You" – 3:42
 "Feed Your Mind" – 5:40
 "Fools Rush In" – 4:07
 "Be Here With You" – 4:35

External links 
 Doppelgänger at Discogs
 [ Allmusic entry]

2008 albums
The Grid albums
Some Bizzare Records albums
Quinceañera (disambiguation)

A quinceañera is a young Latina woman's celebration of her fifteenth birthday.

Quinceañera may also refer to:

Film 
 Quinceañera (film), a 2006 drama
 La Quinceañera (film), a 2007 documentary

Music 
 "Quinceañera", a song by Timbiriche written for the 1987 telenovela

Television 
 Quinceañera: Mama Quiero Ser Artista (singing competition), a reality TV show broadcast by Telemundo
 Quinceañera (1987 TV series), a Mexican telenovela
 Quinceañera (upcoming TV series), an upcoming Mexican telenovela

Episodes 
 "Quinceañera", an episode of the TV series Wizards of Waverly Place
 "Quinceañera", an episode of the TV series The Fosters
 "Quinceañera" (Superstore), an episode of the TV series Superstore
Cult (Apocalyptica album)

Cult is the third studio album by Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica, released in 2000, with a special edition issued in 2001 that includes an extra disc, mixed and mastered at Finnvox. Apocalyptica's first two albums consisted mostly of cover songs. Cult was their first album to feature mainly original compositions, along with using distortion effects much more boldly and frequently, which gave the album a more orchestral sound. The record also experimented with vocals and other instrumentation. There are some versions of the first release with "Path Vol. 2" as the first track and "Path" as the fourteenth. This is the last Apocalyptica album to feature Max Lilja on cello. The song "Hope Vol. 2" has a music video that features scenes from the film Vidocq. Cult, along with Inquisition Symphony and Live, were bundled together in a limited edition collectors box set, issued in 2003.

Track listing

Note
  Also Live at Muffatwerk, Munich, on 24 October 2000, and also from Inquisition Symphony

Reception

Credits

Apocalyptica
 Eicca Toppinen – cello, double bass, percussion, arrangements
 Max Lilja – cello
 Paavo Lötjönen – cello
 Perttu Kivilaakso – cello

Additional personnel

Path Vol.2
 Sandra Nasić – vocals
 Clemens Matzenik – engineering at Horus

Hope Vol.2
 Matthias Sayer – vocals
 Jeff Collier – lyrics

Other
 Kai "Hiili" Hiilesmaa – percussion
 Mika Jussila – mastering
 Niina Pasanen – styling
 Jyrki Tuovinen – engineering (10) and recording

Mixing
 Mikko Karmila – Disc 1
 T-T Oksala – Disc 2

Images
Cover art
 Eero Heikkinen
 Juri

Photographers
 Vertti Teräsvuori
 Olaf Heine

References

Apocalyptica albums
2000 albums
Classical albums
Mercury Records albums
Universal Music Group albums
Rory O'Moore (disambiguation)

Rory O'Moore (c. 1600–1655) was a leader of the 1641 Rebellion.

Rory O'Moore may refer to:
Rory O'More (died 1578), Irish rebel
Rory O'Moore, namesake of the O'Moore Medal
Rory O'More Bridge, a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland 
Rory O'More (film), a 1911 American silent film
Bourda

Bourda, or officially Georgetown Cricket Club Ground, is a cricket ground in Georgetown, Guyana, used by the Guyanese cricket team for matches with other nations in the Caribbean as well as some Test matches involving the West Indies. The ground is one of the two cricket stadiums in the South American mainland and is uniquely surrounded by a moat for flood-prevention and drainage reasons.

History
The stadium is located in Bourda in Georgetown, Guyana between Regent Street and North Road, and is home to the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC). The ground is reminiscent of old baseball stadiums, due to its cantilever stands. The Ladies stand is notable, but the more modern, such as the Rohan Kanhai stand, blend in well. The liveliest part of the ground with the ubiquitous music and DJs is at The Mound, an unprotected area. The ground was dubbed "The Cornerstone" in 1930 after a game against visiting England.

While the crowd are passionate about their cricket, they are also among the most volatile, with mini riots and pitch invasions not uncommon. The worst incident was in 1979 during a World Series Cricket SuperTest when the pavilion was ransacked and players hid in the changing rooms wearing their helmets for added protection. There would be a similar incident in 1999, when the West Indies, hosted Australia at the ground, with Australia needing 3 to tie and 4 to win off the last ball of the match, there was a full scale pitch invasion with Australian captain Steve Waugh's bat almost being stolen from his grasp and the match deemed a tie, after the West Indies, could not effect a run out, due to the stumps having been stolen after Shane Warne, had made his ground on the second run. Due to the volatile nature of the crowd, the result was not announced until after the players had left the venue.

It has hosted 30 Test matches and 10 One Day International. Four of the last five Tests at the ground have ended in draws. The ground, which has a capacity of around 10,000, opened in 1884, has seen Test cricket since 1930, and is the only cricket stadium in the world to be situated below sea level. The ground has a moat round it to protect the pitch from flooding. It is the oldest ground in the Caribbean.

Cricket matches between Trinidad and GCC were played there as early as 1883, and later between GCC and teams from Britain, in 1895 and 1897. It hosted its first Test in February 1930 against England, which the home side won by 289 runs and George Headley scored a century in each innings.  Clive Lloyd and Rohan Kanhai have stands named after them at Bourda.

The ground did not host matches for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, as a new stadium, the Providence Stadium, was built. The Guyanese authorities, however, insisted that the Bourda would still be used for first-class cricket.

See also
List of Test cricket grounds
List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at Bourda

References

External links 
 Cricinfo
 Cricketarchive

Houses completed in 1884
Test cricket grounds in the West Indies
Cricket grounds in Guyana
Georgetown, Guyana
Football venues in Georgetown, Guyana
Thai Sign Language

Thai Sign Language (TSL), or Modern Standard Thai Sign Language (MSTSL), is the national sign language of Thailand's deaf community and is used in most parts of the country by the 20 percent of the estimated 56,000 pre-linguistically deaf people who go to school.

Thai Sign Language is related to American Sign Language (ASL), and belongs to the same language family as ASL. This relatedness is due to language contact and creolisation that has occurred between ASL, which was introduced into deaf schools in Thailand in the 1950s by American-trained Thai educators, and at least two indigenous sign languages that were in use at the time: Old Bangkok Sign Language and Chiangmai Sign Language. These original sign languages probably developed in market towns and urban areas where deaf people had opportunities to meet. They are now considered moribund languages, remembered by older signers but no longer used for daily conversation. These older varieties may be related to the sign languages of Vietnam and Laos.

Thai Sign Language was acknowledged as "the national language of deaf people in Thailand" in August 1999, in a resolution signed by the Minister of Education on behalf of the Royal Thai Government. As with many sign languages, the means of transmission to children occurs within families with signing deaf parents and in schools for the deaf. A robust process of language teaching and acculturation among deaf children has been documented and photographed in the Thai residential schools for the deaf.

There are other moribund sign languages in the country such as Ban Khor Sign Language.

See also 

 Deafness in Thailand

References

Further reading
 Nonaka, Angela M. (2004). The forgotten endangered languages: Lessons on the importance of remembering from Thailand's Ban Khor Sign Language. In: Language in Society 33:5 (2004) pp. 737–768
 Suwanarat, M., C. Reilly, O. Wrigley, A. Ratanasint, and L. Anderson (1986). The Thai Sign Language dictionary. Bangkok: National Association of the Deaf in Thailand.
 Suwanarat, M., O. Wrigley, and L. Anderson.(1990). The Thai Sign Language dictionary, Revised and expanded ed. Bangkok: National Association of the Deaf in Thailand.
 Wallace, Cassie. 2019. "Spatial Relations along the In-On Continuum in Thai Sign Language." Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 12.1:163-178. Online access

External links
Survey report of Thai sign languages 

Thai culture
American Sign Language family
Thailand Sign Language family
Languages of Thailand
Sign languages of Thailand
St-Jérôme Panthers

Les Panthères de St-Jérome are a junior ice hockey team from Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada.  They are a part of the Quebec Junior Hockey League.

History
The franchise was founded in 1988 as the Saint-Antoine Rapidos.  A season later they were known as the Laval-Laurentides Panthers.  In 1992, the team moved to Saint-Jerome.

The Panthers won the Fred Page Cup in 2001, earning the right to compete at the 2001 Royal Bank Cup, the Canadian Junior "A" National Championship.

The Panthers have been, in recent years, continually in the upper echelon of the QJAAAHL and were awarded hosting duties for the 2007 Fred Page Cup.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

External links
Panthers Webpage

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Saint-Jérôme
Bonfinópolis

Bonfinópolis is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil.  It is located a short distance east of Goiânia and is part of the Goiânia metropolitan area.

The distance to Goiânia is 33 km. and connections are made by BR-457 / GO-010.

Neighboring municipalities are:
north: Goianápolis 
south: Senador Canedo and Caldazinha 
east:  Leopoldo de Bulhões
west:  Goiânia

Population and political data
Population density in 2007: 55.16 inhabitants/km2 
Population growth rate from 2001 to 2007: 3.35.%
Population in 1980: 3,324
Population in 1991: 4,303
Urban population in 2007: 6,167
Rural population in 2007: 577
Eligible voters in 12/2007:  5,764
City government: mayor (Antônio das Graças Filho), vice-mayor (Lázaro da Silva Borges), and 09 councilpersons

Economy
The economy is based on cattle raising (11800 head in 2006), milk production, agriculture, commerce, public administration, and small transformation industries.  There was modest production of oranges, coffee, manioc, rice, and tomatoes. 
(IBGE 2006)

Health
infant mortality in 2000: 27.7
infant mortality in 1990: 28.5
hospitals: 01 (2007)
hospital beds: 20
doctors / nurses / dentists in the public system: 08 / 01 / 0 (2002)

Education
literacy rate in 2000: 85.5
literacy rate in 1991: 74.0
school enrollment in 2006:  2,016 in 4 schools
(IBGE 2006)

HDI: 0.723
State ranking:  163 out of 242 municipalities
National ranking: 2,557 out of 5,507 municipalities

For the complete list see

See also 
 List of municipalities in Goiás

References

Frigoletto

Municipalities in Goiás
Aksharaslokam

Akshara Slokam (അക്ഷര ശ്ലോകം) is a traditional way of Sloka chanting, a poetic entertainment developed in the Malayalam (മലയാളം) language of Kerala, India. It is in a classical format with strict rules on the meter of quatrains called slokas or mukthaka. A number of scholars sit to recite either Sanskrit or Malayalam slokas ( with more than eight letters in a line ). Once the recitation is started the next one in the turn has to recite a sloka having the first letter of the third line of the previous sloka. This resembles the north Indian Beit bazi.

It is mostly unused, but is active as the forerunner of the present day Anthakshari (അന്താക്ഷരി). Kairali Solaka Rangam Palai, Kundoor Smaraka Sadas and Amritabharathi Aksharashloka Samiti Chunangad are some of the famous Aksharasloka institutions in Kerala. Koonammoochi aksharaslokavedi and Ariyannur aksharaslokakalakshethram are worth mentioning for their contribution in the field of publishing many books related to aksharaslokam like aksharasloka directory (the first ever and the only one till date) containing names and addresses of aksharasloka artists. There are many active groups in Kerala from Kozhikode to Thiruvananthapuram with Trichur as the hub of the revival. There is a magazine dedicated for slokam called Kavana Kauthukam published from Trichur. Akhila Kerala Aksharasloka Parishath and Kerala Aksharasloka Federation are two organisations for propagating aksharaslokam. Aksharaslokam is an item in the prestigious school youth festival of Kerala.

Competitions 

 
One of the prominent Aksharaslokam competitions is the one held in connection with the Thrissur Pooram.  Traditionally this competition was called the "Chakolas Gold Medal".  Eventually it has been renamed now as "V. Kamalakara Menon Suvarna Mudra". The first winner of the Chakolas Gold Medal was late U.P. Raghava Warrier, popularly known as UPR. That was in 1955. The second position was won by Late Chengamanad Damodaran Nambiar. The four artists who survived till the end included late N.D.Krishnan Unni and Late Kamalakara Menon. The judges were Sri.Puthezhath Raman Menon, 
Kunjunni Raja and K. Vasudevan Moosad.  As per tradition, participants who have won the Gold Medal once do not participate in the competitions again. Currently, separate competitions are held for groups separated as per their age. The Government of Kerala conducts prestigious competitions for children in connection with school yuvajanotsavams (youth festivals). The Guruvayoor Devaswam conducts two prominent competitions with gold medal as first prize. One is Sree Guruvayoorappan suvarna mudra on Guruvayoor Ekadasi day. The other is in connection with Narayaneeyam day. Slokas from Narayaneeyam alone can be chanted in the latter.

External links
 Link to aksharaSlOkasadass  
 To read Akshara slokams in Malayalam 
 Link to Malayalam Aksharaslokam 
 Link to Yahoo group  for Akshara slokam  
 To view/ listen video/audio on aksharaslokam 
 Akshara Slokam Competitions in Kerala  

www.aksharaslokam.com
Kerala Aksharasloka Federation

Culture of Kerala
Indian poetics
Valleyfield Braves (2014–)

Les Braves de Valleyfield or the Valleyfield Braves are a Canadian junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Junior Hockey League (LHJQ). They play in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec at the Aréna Salaberry.

History
As part of the College St. Lawrence, the team went by the name "St. Lawrence College of Québec Lions" during its first three seasons. After a modest first season, the Lions reached the playoffs in their second season. The 2005–06 season saw them reach the quarterfinals in the playoffs and achieve a winning regular season record.

In 2007, the team was renamed the Quebec AssurExperts.

In 2008, the team was purchased and moved to Thetford Mines and rebranded as the Thetford Mines Filons.

In 2010, the franchise was moved to La Tuque, Quebec and the team rebranded as the Loups de La Tuque (La Tuque Wolves).

In 2014, the team relocated to Valleyfield and regained the rights to the name and logo of the previous Valleyfield Braves franchise that left the  (LHJAAAQ; Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League, QJAAAHL) after the 2012–13 season to join the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH). Eleven games into the LNAH season, the original Valleyfield Braves franchise moved to Laval, Quebec and became the Laval Braves.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

References

External links
  
  at Elite Prospects

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Colin Hanton

Colin Leo Hanton (born 12 December 1938) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the 1950s skiffle band the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon. He currently plays for the reformed version of the Quarrymen.

Early life 
Hanton was born in Bootle and moved to Woolton, Liverpool when he was eight in 1946. Hanton's mother died of Tuberculosis, when Colin was a child, and he and his siblings moved into their grandparents house. Colin left school and worked trained as a carpenter, before moving to working as an upholster in Speke.

The Quarrymen

1956-1959 
In the summer of 1956, Hanton helped form the Quarrymen along with John Lennon, Eric Griffiths, Pete Shotton and Rod Davis. He was asked to join the nascent band, largely because he had recently purchased a new drum kit. Hanton played drums on the Quarrymen's first recordings, a cover of The Crickets' That'll Be the Day and an original In Spite of All the Danger, in 1958.

He left the Quarrymen after an argument with the rest of the band following a disastrous performance at the Speke Bus Depot Social Club in Wavertree on 1 January 1959. The band had gone through several line-up changes until January 1959 (by then, the group's members were Lennon, Hanton, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John "Duff" Lowe):

1994-present 
In 1997, Hanton reunited with the then-surviving members of The Quarrymen to perform a concert, to commemorate 40 years since the group's formation. Shortly after, they embarked on a tour which took place in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and Japan, among many others. Hanton has participated on all Quarrymen releases since; including their three albums; Get Back – Together (1997), Songs We Remember (2004), and Grey Album (2012). Their recent material primarily consists of rock and roll and skiffle songs from the 1950s.

Hanton was portrayed by actor Sam Wilmott in the 2009 biopic Nowhere Boy.

The Quarrymen performed in New York City, for what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday in 2010.

As of 2016, Hanton still tours with Len Garry and Rod Davis.

Later life 
Hanton married his wife, Joan, in 1965. Together, they had two children. Hanton continued to work for the Guy Rogers carpentry company until it shut down in 1979. Afterwards, Colin opened his own upholstery business, which he still runs today. Colin still lives in Liverpool.

Discography

With The Quarrymen

Singles

Studio albums

Live albums

References

External links
Original Quarrymen: Colin Hanton

1938 births
Living people
English rock drummers
Musicians from Liverpool
The Quarrymen members
Skiffle musicians
People from Bootle
Terrebonne Cobras

The Terrebonne Cobras are a junior ice hockey team from Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada, part of the Quebec Junior Hockey League.

Since relocating to Terrebonne, the Cobras are two time Quebec Junior League Champions winning in 2010 and again last year in 2017.  Both championships advance the organization to the Fred Page Cup to determine an eastern Canada champion to compete in the National Championships. The Cobras efforts in 2010 were stopped in the Fred Page Cup by eventual National Champions Pembroke Lumber Kings.  The second opportunity the Cobras won their first Fred Page Cup and made it to the semifinals at the National finals.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Fred Page Cup
Eastern Canada Championships
MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host
Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.

Royal Bank Cup
CANADIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Dudley Hewitt Champions - Central, Fred Page Champions - Eastern, Western Canada Cup Champions - Western, Trenton Golden HawksWestern Canada Cup - Runners Up and Host
Round robin play with top 4 in semi-final and winners to finals.

External links
Cobras Webpage
RDS Webpage

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Terrebonne, Quebec
List of districts of Punjab, India

A district of the Punjab state of India is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate or Deputy Commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner is assisted by a number of officers belonging to Punjab Civil Service and other state services. There are 23 Districts in Punjab, after Malerkotla district bifurcated from Sangrur district as the 23rd district on 14 May 2021

Overview
Senior Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues in the districts of the state. He is assisted by the officers of the Punjab Police and other services.

Division Forest Officer, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service is responsible for managing the forests, environment and wildlife related issues of the districts. He is assisted by the officers of the Department of Forest and Wildlife.

Sectoral development is looked after by the district head of each development sector such as Irrigation, PwD (Public works department), Agriculture, Health, Education,  Animal husbandry, etc. These offices belong to various state services.

List

References

 
District
Punjab, India
Pacific Jazz Records

Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded in 1952 by producer Richard Bock (1927–1988) and drummer Roy Harte (1924–2003). Harte, in 1954, also co-founded Nocturne Records with jazz bassist Harry Babasin (1921–1988).

Some of the musicians who recorded for Pacific Jazz included Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Pass, Gerald Wilson, the Jazz Crusaders, Don Ellis, Clare Fischer, Jim Hall, Groove Holmes, Les McCann, Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper.

In 1957, Pacific Jazz Records changed its name to World Pacific Records to expand into a full-line label, with the Pacific Jazz label retained for jazz releases.

In 1958 Richard Bock and World Pacific were instrumental in introducing Indian traditional music to the West via Ravi Shankar, who also recorded for World Pacific.

Bock sold the label to Liberty Records in 1965, although he remained as an adviser until 1970. Liberty was merged into and discontinued by United Artists Records in 1971; UA in turn was bought by EMI in 1979. Mosaic reissued some Pacific Jazz material in the late 1980s, as did Blue Note when it gained control of the catalog in the 1990s.

Partial discography

Pacific Jazz Ten Inch LP series
Pacific Jazz released 20 10-inch LPs between 1953 and 1954 before the label moved to 12-inch albums in 1955

Pacific Jazz/World Pacific 1200 Twelve Inch LP Series
Commencing in 1955 a total of thirty-one 12 inch albums were released on the Pacific Jazz label before the name was changed to World Pacific.

Mark Four SeriesPacific Jazz Records Catalog: Mark IV seriest  accessed February 21, 2017
From 1956 to 1958 the Mark Four Series released twelve albums with the PJM prefix.

Pacific Jazz 10000/20000 Series
In 1960 a new series of Pacific Jazz was launched with the PJ prefix with initial catalogue numbers increasing numerically for the first 91 releases before the 10000 numbering system was put into effect.

World Pacific 1400 Twelve Inch LP Series
Commencing in 1960 the World Pacific label began releasing a range of world music recordings on the 1400 Series.

World Pacific 1800 Twelve Inch LP Series
From 1962 until 1970 the World Pacific label released a range of popular music recordings on their 1800 Series.

See also
 List of record labels

References

External links
 Pacific Jazz and World Pacific label discographies
 Pacific Jazz singles labels
 World Pacific singles labels
 World Pacific Jazz singles labels
 Pacific Jazz on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project

Jazz record labels
Record labels based in California
Defunct record labels of the United States
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Blue Note Records
EMI
Record labels established in 1952
Record labels disestablished in 1972
1952 establishments in California
1970s disestablishments in California
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West Coast jazz
Treaty of Basel

There were several Treaties of Basel:

Treaty of Basel (1499)
Peace of Basel (1795)
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989)
Granby Inouk

Les Inouk de Granby are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Granby, Quebec, Canada.  They are a part of the Quebec Junior Hockey League.

History
The Frontaliers were Quebec champions in 1998 and 2000.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Fred Page Cup
Eastern Canada Championships
MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host
Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.

External links
Inouk Webpage

Sport in Granby, Quebec
Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
John Robarts (disambiguation)

John Robarts (1917–1982) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman.

John Robartsor Robartes may also refer to:

John Robarts (Baháʼí) (1901-1991), Canadian Bahá'í appointed a Hand of the Cause of God
John Robarts (VC) (1818-1888), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606–1685), English politician and soldier during the English Civil War English and English Restoration
John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor (1686–1757)

See also
John Roberts (disambiguation)
Lachine Maroons

Les Maroons de Lachine were a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Lachine, Quebec, Canada.  It started as a franchise in the Metropolitaine leagues in 1953 in both the Junior A and Junior B divisions.  Later, in 1995, the Pierrefonds Lions of the Quebec Junior A league moved to Lachine and resumed use of the name.

Following the 2014–15 season the Maroon franchise was sold to investors of the Gatineau Mustangs. The Mustangs were former members of the Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League. This league re-organized and re-branded itself as the Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2 and eliminated 6 teams, one of which was the Gatineau Mustangs. The re-located Maroons became known as the Gatineau Flames.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

External links
Maroons Webpage

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Ice hockey teams in Montreal
Lachine, Quebec
Longueuil Collège Français

Longueuil Collège Français are a junior "A" ice hockey team from Longueuil, Quebec, and a member of the Quebec Junior Hockey League. The Collège Français headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, while the team plays at Colisée Jean Béliveau.

History
Longueuil won the NAPA Cup as league championship in 1989–90, 1996–97, 2010–11, 2012–13, and 2014–15. Two Longueuil alumni have played in the National Hockey League. Daniel Shank played for the Longueuil Sieurs in 1983–84, and Wally Weir played for the Longueuil Rebels in 1973–74.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Fred Page Cup
Eastern Canada Championships
MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host
Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.

 - Terrebonne league champs but also Fred Page hosts.  Therefore Longuiel is LQHL rep.

External links
Collège_Français de Longueuil

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Sport in Longueuil
Arca

ARCA or Arca may refer to:

Companies 
 Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH, the German film production company of Gero Wecker
 Arca Fondi SGR, Italian asset management company
 Arca South, an industrial estate in the Philippines
 ARCAspace, an aerospace company based in Las Cruces, New Mexico
 NYSE Arca, an online stock exchange previously known as Archipelago

Equipment 
 Arca-Swiss style tripod head (camera equipment)
 arca (document store), alternately spelled archa
 Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss, part of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope

Organizations 
 The American Russian Cultural Association, founded by Nicholas Roerich in 1942
 Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit organization based in Rome
 Automobile Racing Club of America, a stock car racing sanctioning formed in 1953 by John Marcum
 ARCA Menards Series, the premier division of ARCA
 Automobile Racing Club of America, a sports car racing organization formed by the Collier Brothers in 1933 that was a forerunner of the Sports Car Club of America
 Associate of the Royal College of Art

People

Arts and entertainment 
 Arca (musician) (born 1989), a Venezuelan musician
 Arca (album), the eponymous 2017 album by Arca

Sports 
 Julio Arca (born 1981), an Argentine football (soccer) player

Places 
 Arça or Arsk, a townlet in Tatarstan, Russia
 Arca Caesarea, former bishopric became a double Catholic titular see (Latin and Maronite), present-day Arqa

Other uses 
 Arca (bivalve), a genus of ark clams

See also

 Arcas (disambiguation)
 Arka (disambiguation)
 Arc (disambiguation)
 Arqa, a village in Lebanon
Sherbrooke Cougars

The Sherbrooke Cougars of Collège Champlain are a junior ice hockey team from Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. They were part of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League from 2002 to 2015.

History
The Champlain Cougars were founded in the 1970s, and played in collegiate leagues until 2002, when they joined the QJAAAHL in 2002.

The team played its first season as the Lennoxville Cougars, using the W.B. Scott Arena on the Bishop's University campus as their home arena, before moving to Sherbrooke in 2003 to fill in for the departed Sherbrooke Castors who relocated to Lewiston, Maine. In 2012, the Cougars moved out of the Palais des Sports to make way for the Sherbrooke Phoenix. The team now plays in the Thibault GM Complex.

In 2002–03, the Cougars won the Napa Cup as LHJAAAQ champions. They defeated the Longueuil Collège Français in the finals. Lennoxville won the Fred Page Cup by defeating the CJHL's Nepean Raiders in the final and traveled to Charlottetown for the Royal Bank Cup, where they bowed out of the semi-finals to the Camrose Kodiaks of the AJHL.

In 2008 and 2009, the Cougars returned to the Fred Page Cup, but did not make the finals. In 2014, the Cougars played a close series with the Granby Inouk, who lost the series in 7 games. Sherbrooke came close again, against the Longueuil Collège Français in the 2015 Napa Cup finals losing in 7 games, despite leading the series 2-0 and 3–2.

In  2015 the hockey team made a request to return to the re-established collegiate league for the 2016–2017 season. Following acceptance, the Sherbrooke Cougars were expelled by the QJAAAHL, so they would not be able to participate in the draft or play in the 2015–2016 season. The Sherbrooke Cougars were one of the most-dominant teams in the QJAAAHL.  The Director of Athletics at Champlain College Lennoxville then made a special request to rejoin the collegiate league for the 2015–2016 season (not the required two-year wait), and it was accepted.

The Champlain Cougars will play all home games at the new arena in the recently renovated John H. Price Sports Complex on campus.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

External links
Cougars Webpage

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Cougars
Bahawal Stadium

The Bahawal Stadium is a cricket ground in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. Locally known as Dring Stadium, it is a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for cricket games. Situated on Stadium Road, opposite Bahawalpur Zoo, the stadium has a capacity of 15,000 people.

It is one of the stadiums in Asia that hold all games at one place. The stadium includes cricket, hockey, football, swimming, squash, judo, karate, swimming, gym, volleyball, tennis courts in it.

History 
The stadium was originally called Dring Stadium and was named after the second Prime Minister of Bahawalpur, Sir John Dring. Dring was Prime Minister under Nawab Sadiq V and served in this role from 1948 to 1952. Dring Stadium was ahead of its time and was the only complete stadium in Pakistan at the time.

International venue
It was the first cricket ground in West Pakistan to host a Test match, when it hosted the second Test of Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 1954–55, India's inaugural tour of Pakistan. However, this was the only Test match to be held at this ground. As of 2002, 155 first class matches and 23 List A matches have been played at this ground.

Present
As Bahawalpur's cricket team has been without first-class status since 2002–03, there was only one first-class match and one List A match here for the three seasons following that, but the ground still hosts Under-19 matches. Bahawal stadium was a war place before.

This stadium also ranked in Asia's second largest stadium by area.

International centuries
One Test century has been scored at the venue.

International five-wicket hauls
Two five-wicket hauls in Test matches have been taken at the venue.

See also
List of Test cricket grounds
 One-Test wonder
 List of stadiums in Pakistan
 List of cricket grounds in Pakistan
 List of sports venues in Karachi
 List of sports venues in Lahore
 List of sports venues in Faisalabad
 List of stadiums by capacity

References

Further references
 Bahawal Stadium, from cricinfo.com, Retrieved 16 March 2006.

Test cricket grounds in Pakistan
Buildings and structures in Bahawalpur
Pakistan
Stadiums in Pakistan
Football venues in Pakistan
Cricket grounds in Pakistan
Tourist attractions in Bahawalpur
Year of establishment missing
Valleyfield Braves (defunct)

Les Braves de Valleyfield are a Junior ice hockey team from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada.  They were a part of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League for 25 seasons. Another franchise relocated and took over their market and former moniker in 2014.

History

The Valleyfield Braves is the second team to bear this name. The first Braves team was formed in 1944 as a Senior Amateur hockey team in the Quebec Provincial Hockey League, then moved to the Quebec Senior Hockey League in 1945 and finally as a Minor League team with the Quebec Hockey League from 1953 to 1955.

The current Valleyfield team won their first league championship in 1999. The Braves advanced to the Fred Page Cup in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The tournament was won by the Charlottetown Abbies. In 2002, the Braves returned to the Fred Page Cup in Truro, Nova Scotia. The Valleyfield Braves playing a semi-final games against the CJHL's Ottawa Jr. Senators in a must-win game between both teams. The Halifax Oland Exports got a bye to the final and were hosting the Royal Bank Cup and the Central representative was to be decided between Valleyfield and Ottawa. Ottawa won 7-2 and advanced to the Royal Bank Cup, while Valleyfield returned home. The town of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and the Valleyfield Braves were chosen to host the Fred Page Cup in 2004. The Valleyfield Braves out-powered 5th ranked St-Eustance Gladiateurs 4 games 1 in the finals. The tournament was eventually won by the CJHL's Nepean Raiders.

In 1999-00, the Valleyfield Braves played the CJHL's Brockville Braves in an inter-locking home and home series.

The Braves dissolved their QJAAAHL franchise in the Summer of 2013 to seek a membership with the semi-professional Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey.  The LNAH team was also known as the Valleyfield Braves. Eleven games into the 2013-14 LNAH season, the franchise relocated to Laval and became the Laval Braves.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

References

External links
Braves Webpage

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Ice hockey clubs established in 1988
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 2013
1988 establishments in Quebec
2013 disestablishments in Quebec
List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations

This is a list of the current permanent representatives to the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters, New York City. The list includes the country that they represent and the date that they presented their credentials to the UN Secretary-General. The list is sorted by the official order in which the flags are flown in front of UN buildings. This is also the seating arrangement in the General Assembly. Permanent representatives are also appointed to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi; and permanent delegates to specialized agencies of the UN, such as FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy and UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.

United Nations member states

United Nations General Assembly observers

Non-member observer states
(as of 3 September 2020)

Intergovernmental organizations

Other entities
Listed below are representatives from organizations, not sovereign states, described by the United Nations as "Other entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters." (as of 28 July 2019)

See also 

 Outline of the United Nations
 List of United Nations organizations by location
 List of current foreign ministers
 List of female foreign ministers

References 

United Nations
 

Diplomatic missions in the United States
permanent representatives to the United Nations
West Island Shamrocks

The West Island Shamrocks (Les Shamrocks du West Island in French) Are an ice hockey team based in Pierrefonds Quebec, Canada.  They are a part of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League. The franchise was founded in 2003 as the Île Perrot Mustangs but re-located to Vaudreuil-Dorion in 2004, and then relocated to Lac Saint Louis, known as the Revolution in 2017. The franchise has a new look in 2019 as the West Island Shamrocks.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points

External links
Shamrocks Webpage
Shamrocks Facebook page

References 

Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams