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Csilla von Boeselager

Csilla von Boeselager (May 17, 1941 in Budapest – February 23, 1994, in Arnsberg-Voßwinkel) was a Baroness who founded the Hungarian Maltese Charity Organisation in Germany (), and initiated the foundation of the Magyar Máltai Szeretetszolgálat (MMSz) in Hungary. She was a Dame of Malta.

Biography
She was born Csilla Fényes de Dengelegh, in a Hungarian noble family. Her father was the engineer dr. Ivan Fényes de Dengelegh, and her mother was Marianna Zrobay de Zboró. After World War II she and her family escaped to Venezuela, South America from Hungary.  

She graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, in 1961, with a major in chemistry.  Following graduation, she worked at American Cyanamid in Connecticut marketing for a German chemical company.

After moving to Germany, she married the Baron Wolfhard von Boeselager.  

In August 1989 Csilla von Boeselager spontaneously proposed that the German Government care for thousands of refugees from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Budapest. The refugee-camps were in Zugliget and Csillebérc.

She was active in the Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD) from 1982 until her death at age 52 in 1994. Since her death her work is continued in the foundation "Csilla von Boeselager Stiftung - Osteuropahilfe", which brings help to six countries in Eastern Europe (Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Poland and Ukraine). www.boeselager-osteuropahilfe.de

Her sister, Ildikó Fényes is the president of the Federation of Latin American Hungarian Organizations (Latin-amerikai Magyar Szervezetek Országos Szövetsége), and has lived in Venezuela since the end of the Second World War.

1941 births
Nobility from Budapest
Hungarian Roman Catholics
Csilla
German baronesses
German people of Hungarian descent
Dames of Malta
1994 deaths
Miranshah

Mīrānshāh  ()()  is a small town that is the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Miranshah lies on the banks of the Tochi River in a wide valley surrounded by the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains. It is located at an elevation of about ,  from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border (Durand Line). The nearest city in Pakistan is Bannu, about  to the east, while the nearest city across the border in Afghanistan is Khost,  to the northwest.

The city has a shrinking population of only 4,361, and it has only 356 households. This makes it the least populous urban area in Bannu Division, but it is also the only urbanized area in the entire region of North Waziristan, and also the entire Waziristan region, a mountainous area that has 99% of its 1.22 million residents living in rural areas.

Administration

Miranshah is the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan District, in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan (FATA). In 2018, FATA was merged into the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

History

Miranshah was named after the Timurid ruler, Miran Shah, the son of Timur.  

In 1905, the British constructed Miranshah Fort to control North Waziristan.

In the early 1950s, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and the "Tochi Scouts" of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps carried out counter-insurgency operations from Miranshah Airfield and Miranshah Fort against the insurgency fomented by the rebellious General Shudikhel Dawar and Mirzali Khan (Faqir of Ipi). In the 1950s, Miranshah was also the site of a weapons firing range of the PAF, which was located next to the Miranshah Airfield.

After 9/11, Miranshah gained prominence in the United States-led War on Terror and has witnessed numerous drone strikes by the US Central Intelligence Agency targeting alleged militants hiding in the town and in the surrounding foothills. Miranshah and its surrounding areas have also witnessed fighting between militants and Pakistani military and paramilitary forces.

Notable places

Miranshah has a historical fort built by the British in 1905, which, since Pakistan's independence on 14 August 1947, has been used as a garrison by the "Tochi Scouts" of Pakistan's Frontier Corps. The town also has a 7,000 ft. long airfield, which is used for both civil and military purposes. 

Other notable places include a bazaar, a sports stadium, a primary school, a secondary school and a college.

See also

 Waziristan
 North Waziristan District
 Bannu Division
 Bannu

References

External links

 Waziristan and Mughal empire
 Nehru in Waziristan
 Sketch map of Waziristan
 Mehsuds and Wazirs, the King-makers in a game of thrones
 Lawrence of Arabia in Waziristan

Populated places in North Waziristan
Waziristan
Remember When the Music

Remember When the Music is a posthumously produced album by the American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1987. Produced on CD and cassette tape, it contained the same tracks as the album, Sequel, which was the last complete album released during Harry's lifetime, plus two previously unreleased tracks, "Hokey Pokey" and "Oh Man". The order of the first four tracks were changed, fitting in with the new name.

Track listing
"Remember When the Music"
"I Miss America"
"Story of a Life"
"Sequel"
"Up on the Shelf"
"Salt and Pepper"
"God Babe, You've Been Good for Me"
"Northwest 222"
"I Finally Found It Sandy"
"Remember When the Music – Reprise"
"Hokey Pokey"
"Oh Man"

Personnel
Harry Chapin – guitar, vocals, trumpet
Steve Chapin – keyboards
John Wallace – bass
Howie Fields – drums
Doug Walker – electric guitar
Tom Chapin – banjo, guitar
Yvonne Cable – cello
Joe Lala – percussion
Chuck Kirkpatrick – additional background vocals
Howard Albert – synthesizers

References

Harry Chapin albums
1987 albums
Albums published posthumously
Paul Elliott Martin

Paul Elliott Martin (31 December 1897 - 1975) was an American bishop of the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1944. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor and district superintendent, as well as by notable service to his denomination.

Birth and family
Martin was born in Blossom, Texas, the son of Dr. Charles Elliott and Annie Willie (née Black) Martin. He married Mildred Helen Fryar on June 29, 1920.

Education
Martin earned the A.B. degree in 1919 from Southern Methodist University. He also studied theology at S.M.U. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Military and educational service
Martin served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I. He also served for three years as Superintendent of Schools in his birthplace.

Ordained ministry
Martin joined the North Texas Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1922. He served the following appointments as a pastor: Cedar Hill, Texas; the Maple Avenue Methodist Church in Dallas; Henrietta, Texas; Iowa Park, Texas; and the Kavanaugh Methodist Church in Greenville, Texas. He then was appointed Superintendent of the Wichita Falls District. His final appointment before becoming a bishop was to First Methodist, Wichita Falls, Texas (1938–44).

Rev. Martin was elected a delegate to the last General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1938. He was a delegate to the 1939 Uniting Conference of the Methodist Church. He was also a delegate to Methodist general and jurisdictional conferences in 1940 and 1944. He served as the president of the Board of Education of the North Texas Annual Conference, and as a trustee of Southern Methodist University and of Centenary College.

Episcopal ministry
The Rev. Paul Elliott Martin was elected and consecrated a bishop of the Methodist Church by the 1944 South Central Jurisdictional Conference. He was assigned the Arkansas-Louisiana episcopal area. His offices were at 723 Center Street, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Honors
Martin was named to the honorary fraternities Theta Phi and Tau Kappa Alpha. He was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity in 1938 by Southwestern University.

Bishop Martin also was a member of the Masons and of the "Knife and Fork Club".

Selected writings
My Call to Preach, 1946

See also

List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

References
 Howell, Clinton T., Prominent Personalities in American Methodism. Birmingham, Alabama: Lowry Press, 1945
 Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops.  Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1948

United States Army personnel of World War I
American Methodist bishops
Bishops of The Methodist Church (USA)
1897 births
Year of death missing
United States Army officers
American autobiographers
People from Lamar County, Texas
All Things Betray Thee

All Things Betray Thee, by Gwyn Thomas, is a novel of early industrialism in South Wales. It was first published in 1949, and was republished in 1986, with an introduction by Raymond Williams. The book was later republished as part of the Library of Wales series by Parthian Books in 2011.

Set in 1835, this work is significantly different from most of Gwyn Thomas's work.  It is both a personal story and an account of the origin of the industrialised and mostly English-speaking society of the South Wales Valleys.

Plot summary
Set in the new town of Moonlea, a fictionalised version of Merthyr Tydfil, it is told from the viewpoint of a travelling harpist, Alan Hugh Leigh, who is looking for his friend, the singer John Simon Adams.  But his friend has become a populist leader among the ironworkers, who are involved in a bitter industrial conflict.

Rachel Trezise describes it as "an emblematic account of the 1831 Merthyr Rising".

Adaptation
All Things Betray Thee was adapted as a three-part radio drama by Alan Plater and directed by Alison Hindell, with Ian Hughes as Alan Hugh Leigh and Patrick Brennan as John Simon Adams. The drama was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 24 March - 7 April 1996 and later re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2019 and 2021.

References

1949 British novels
Anglo-Welsh novels
Fiction set in 1835
Novels set in the 1830s
Novels set in Wales
Merthyr Tydfil
Michael Joseph books
Store Styggedalstinden

Store Styggedalstind, is the fourth-highest summit in Norway, located within the Hurrungane mountains, which are part of the Jotunheimen mountain range.  The mountain is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway.  This mountain is directly between the mountains Sentraltind and Jervvasstind.

There are two summits on Store Styggedalstind:
 The eastern summit is , with a primary factor of 
 The western summit is  away from the eastern summit, and it is , with a primary factor of .

Name
The first element of the name is the genitive form of the valley name Styggedalen and the last element is the finite form of tind which means "mountain peak'. The name of the valley is a compound of stygg which means "ugly" or "bad" and the finite form of dal which means "dale" or "valley".

Climbing
The ascent is relatively challenging.  There are three possibilities, in increasing order of difficulty:
 Climb via Jervvasstind (Norway's 12th-highest peak), originating in Skogadalsbøen
 Traverse the Jervvassbreen glacier and climb from there
 Climb all the peaks from Store Skagastølstind (Norway's third highest peak at ) across to the summit—the so-called Styggedal traverse.  It is a multi-day trek across Store Skagastølstind, Vetle Skagastølstind (18th-highest peak at ), Sentraltind (13th-highest peak at ), the eastern and then western summits of Styggedalstind, and then descending from Jervvasstind (12th-highest peak at )—bagging 6 of Norway's 20 tallest peaks in one trip.

See also
List of mountains of Norway

References

Luster, Norway
Mountains of Vestland
Jotunheimen
1-Meg Modem

The 1-Meg Modem in telecommunications was a DSL modem created by Nortel which conforms to the ADSL Lite standard.  The 1-Meg Modem was the first xDSL modem to gain approval and registration under FCC Part 68 Rules.

Technical details
The 1-Meg Modem can be deployed up to  from the central office providing a downstream bit rate of 960 kilobits per second (kbit/s) and a maximum upstream rate of 120 kbit/s over 24 gauge wire.  The second generation could achieve a transfer rate of 1280 kbit/s downstream and 320 kbit/s upstream.  Unlike most ADSL modems which use Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) virtual circuits to carry data, the 1-Meg Modem used Ethernet which makes the product easy for most residential users to install themselves but ill-suited for applications that require quality of service to be enforced.  At the telephone company switch the installation was relatively simple when the switch was a Nortel DMS Switch. The customer's line card must be swapped with a line card that supported the 1-Meg Modem, and also a card must be added to the drawer that would manage all data from the 1-Meg Modem cards in the drawer.

History
At the time the modem was released on August 8, 1997, telephone companies were fearing competition from cable modems. However, early DSL technology was too costly for wide deployment.
By October 1998 Nortel claimed more than $1 billion in sales which, in their words, had "the potential for more than one million end-user lines."  The modems were originally tested at Northern Illinois University dormitories and worked well even though the school's wiring was relatively old.

References

External links
 Product Overview
 NORTEL NETWORKS: Nortel Networks' 1-Meg Modem re receives FCC Part 68 Rules approval and registration.
 Nortel (Northern Telecom) 1-Meg Modem Declared the Most Practical High-Speed Access Solution by Computer Reseller News

Digital subscriber line
Modems
Nortel products
Mitford, Northumberland

Mitford is a village in Northumberland, England, located  west of Morpeth.

History 
Although the foundation of Mitford is unknown, it was a barony during the Anglo-Saxon era.  At the time of the Norman Conquest, the lord of the manor was John, labelled John de Mitford.  He died in 1070 leaving a daughter, Sybilla, as his sole heir.  William the Conqueror gave the heiress as bride to one of his knights, Sir Richard Bertram, who thus acquired the barony.  At that time the territory stretched from Chopwell south of the River Tyne to an area in the Coquet Valley west of Rothbury.   

Around 1110 Mitford was granted a Market Charter, one of the first granted north of the River Tyne.  It was earlier, and at one time a far greater market place for local people, than the market at Morpeth which did not receive a charter until 1199.  Morpeth's market soon grew in prominence and Mitford fell from grace. This historic status of the two market town led to a folk rhyme: 
Mitforde was Mitforde when Morpeth was none, 
and Mitforde shall be Mitforde when Morpeth is gone. Governance 
The village lies within the Longhorsley Division of Northumberland County Council, represented since May 2013 by Cllr Glen Sanderson (Conservative) (2008–13 by Cllr David Towns, also Conservative) and the Wansbeck parliamentary constituency (Ian Lavery MP, Labour). The Boundary Commission unveiled proposals to transfer the village into the Hexham parliamentary constituency but the plans were abandoned when the reorganisation of constituency boundaries was halted by the government.

 Landmarks 
Mitford Castle was built in timber in the 11th century by William Bertram, and his son Roger was given permission to rebuild in stone in 1166.  By 1323 was no longer used. Today it is in ruins, and has recently undergone a major programme of structural support works.

 Religious sites 

The ancient church of St Mary Magdalene was rebuilt in 1875, but has preserved its Norman south arcade and 13th-century chancel. The church is believed to have the oldest bell in the Diocese of Newcastle cast no later than about 1150.

 Fiction 
In Light from Heaven'', the last instalment of American author Jan Karon's contemporary Christian "Mitford Years" novel series (which is set in a fictional town in western North Carolina bearing the same name), the series' setting and the Mitford of this article become "sister Ovillages."

Notable people 
The Mitford family held the Manor from Norman times. The ruins of their Manor House stand on the eastern side of the River Wansbeck. In about 1823 they abandoned the old Manor House for a new mansion house, Mitford Hall, which was designed by the famous Northern architect, John Dobson, and which was built on the opposite bank of the river and surrounded by woodland and a small deer park. The engraver James Thomson (1788–1850) was born in the village.

See also 
Mitford Castle
Mitford Old Manor House

References

External links

GENUKI (accessed: 21 November 2008)

Villages in Northumberland
Dissimulate (album)

Dissimulate is the second album, released in 2002, by the death metal band The Berzerker. This is the only full-length album the band has released that features an actual drummer instead of a drum machine.

The album is characterized by some quotes from the Italian film "Africa Addio".

Reception 

Allmusic    [ link]
Terrorizer  (Nov 2008)

Track listing 
"Disregard" – 1:20
"Failure" – 2:26
"The Principles and Practices of Embalming" – 3:25
"No One Wins" – 1:50
"Death Reveals" – 1:56
"Compromise" – 2:43
"Betrayal" – 2:30
"Last Mistake" – 3:20
"Painless" – 3:16
"Pure Hatred" – 1:24
"Paradox" – 2:06
"Abandonment" – 1:36
"Corporal Jigsore Quandary" (Carcass cover) – 5:34

Personnel 
 Luke Kenny – vocals, samples, drum programming
 Matt Wilcock – guitar
 Sam Bean – bass, vocals
 Gary Thomas – drums

2002 albums
The Berzerker albums
Earache Records albums
Oulu International School

Oulu International School (OIS) is a public, not-for-profit, co-educational international school in the Myllytulli district in Oulu, Finland. The school was founded in 2001. It is one of nine English-speaking schools in Finland that offer basic education.

The school is part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) network. It offers the IB Primary Years Programme and Middle Years Programme in English, but the IB Diploma Programme is offered by Oulun Lyseon Lukio.

Oulu International School has about 430 students, ages 7 to 16 years. More than half are from Finland, but approximately 20 different nationalities are represented. Enrolment is free of charge for both Finnish people and expatriates. The principal is Jenni Alaniemi.

References

External links

 Official site

International schools in Finland
Educational institutions established in 2001
International Baccalaureate schools in Finland
Schools in Oulu
Myllytulli
2001 establishments in Finland
Inspection of Emigrants Convention, 1926 (shelved)

Inspection of Emigrants Convention, 1926 (shelved) is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1926:

Ratifications
Prior to its being shelved, the convention had been ratified by 33 states.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications.

Migrant workers
Shelved International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1926
Treaties entered into force in 1927
Admiralty law treaties
Health treaties
Emigration policy
Frank Beddor

Frank Beddor (July 31, 1958) is a former American world champion freestyle skier, film producer, actor, stuntman, and author. He worked as a producer on There's Something About Mary and Wicked, and wrote the book The Looking Glass Wars.

Life and career

Beddor grew up in Excelsior, Minnesota. His parents often traveled and by age twelve, Beddor already knew how to barefoot-ski. After winning nationals, Beddor was invited to join the Olympic ski team. He went on tour in Europe for competitive skiing. Beddor was World Champion freestyler skier in 1981 and 1982.

In 1985 Beddor played John Cusack's skiing stunt double in Better Off Dead. Beddor moved to Los Angeles during this period and studied with acting coach Stella Adler. Part of Adler's method was encouraging her students to write the scene the character is in before stepping onstage.

Later, Beddor started his career in producing. He worked as a producer on the 1998 film There's Something About Mary starring Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller.

Beddor then turned to write, spending five years writing The Looking Glass Wars. The book was rejected by every major publisher in the US, and ultimately published by Egmont Books in the UK.

The Looking Glass Wars made it on The New York Times weekly list in 2006. The books are based on a re-imagination of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland. The premise of the novel is that the main character Alice in Alice in Wonderland is real, as is the world of Wonderland, but that Carroll misrepresented the events and made Wonderland seem childlike instead of reflecting the reality of Wonderland.

Beddor has written two more books in The Looking Glass Wars series: Seeing Redd and ArchEnemy. A spin-off comic book of this serie called Hatter Madigan was later written by Beddor and Liz Cavalier, with artwork by Ben Templesmith. The spin-off focuses on Hatter Madigan, a character in The Looking Glass Wars.

Beddor was involved in the development of two video games: Card Soldiers Wars in 2008 and The Looking Glass Wars Card Game in 2009.

References

External links

 
 

American children's writers
American fantasy writers
American film producers
American male freestyle skiers
American male novelists
21st-century American novelists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male writers
1958 births
ThaiURL

ThaiURL (Thai Uniform Resource Locator) is a technology enabling the use of Thai domain names in applications that have been modified to support this technology. It is one of several such systems that were marketed before the advent of IDNA.

Traditionally, the Domain Name System (DNS), does not allow domain names with Thai characters. The only characters allowed in DNS names, as specified in RFC 1034 “Domain names - concepts and facilities” and RFC 1035 “Domain names - implementation and specification”, are

 Letter: “a” through “z” (case insensitive)
 Digit: “0” through “9”
 Hyphen (-)

The ThaiURL domain naming standard is based on Thai characters and symbols as specified in TIS 620-2533: Standard for Thai Character Codes for Computers. Since these are non-ASCII characters, Row-based ASCII Compatible Encoding is used. The encoding process is as follows:

 Begin with a Thai domain name as input:ชื่อไทย.คอม
 Convert the Thai characters into their Unicode code points in hexadecimal:0e0a 0e37 0e48 0e2d 0e44 0e17 0e22 . 0e04 0e2d 0e21 (spaces are added here to show individual code points)0e0a0e370e480e2d0e440e170e22.0e040e2d0e21 (actual hex string)
 Convert the hex characters to binary:0000 1110 0000 1010 0011 0111 0100 1000 0010 1101 0100 0100 0001 0111 0010 0010 . 0000 1110 0000 0100 0010 1101 0010 0001 (spaces added to show individual hex characters)
 Perform a Base32 conversion:00001 11000 00101 00011 01110 10010 00001 01101 01000 10000 01011 10010 00100 . 00001 11000 00010 00010 11010 01000 01000 (binary representation)byfdosbniqlse.bycc2ii (ASCII representation)
 Append TLD:byfdosbniqlse.bycc2ii.net

This kind of URL encoding is not a national standard, but rather a system used by the domain name registrar ThaiURL.com. It is one of many localized naming schemes that predate standardisation of Internationalized domain names (IDNA); at the moment the two systems appear to coexist. The ccTLD name registrar for .th, thnic.net , supports IDNA; ThaiURL registers .com names.

However, because this is not an ICANN-sanctioned IDN encoding method, support is limited. Most browsers will use still default to punycode for encoding Thai domain names, so the only way to reach ThaiURL-registered domains is by typing in or linking to the ASCII-encoded domain name.

References

External links 
 ThaiURL.com

Internet in Thailand 
Telecommunications in Thailand 
Domain Name System
American Football Association (1884–1924)

The American Football Association (AFA) was the first attempt in the United States to form an organizing soccer body. It was the second oldest sports league to form, behind the National League of baseball in 1876, as well as being the oldest soccer league in the United States. The Association was formed in 1884 in an attempt to standardize rules and procedures. It was allied with The Football Association, becoming a member on February 22, 1909, at an FA meeting chaired by Charles Clegg, and drew on that organization's approach to the game. As part of its efforts, the AFA directly organized both league and cup competitions as well as overseeing the operations of member leagues. In 1884, it established the American Cup, which for several decades was the highest competitive soccer competition in the United States. The weakness of the AFA lay in its refusal to expand outside the southern New England region. When a movement began to create a national governing body in 1911, the AFA found itself confronting the newly established American Amateur Football Association (AAFA), a body which quickly became national. The AFA argued that it should be recognized by FIFA. However, several member organizations defected from the AFA to the AAFA in 1912. The AAFA quickly moved to reform itself as the United States Football Association, receiving FIFA recognition in 1913. The AFA continued to run the American Cup until 1925, but by that time it had been superseded by the National Challenge Cup and National Amateur Cup.

References

Soccer governing bodies in the United States
1884 establishments in the United States
1925 disestablishments in the United States
Defunct association football governing bodies
Sports organizations established in 1884
Defunct sports governing bodies in the United States
Organizations disestablished in 1925
Culture and Society

Culture and Society is a book published in 1958 by Welsh progressive writer Raymond Williams, exploring how the notion of culture developed in Great Britain, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

When first published, the book was regarded as having overturned conventional social and historical thinking about culture.  It argues that the notion of culture developed in response to the Industrial Revolution and the social and political changes it brought in its wake. This is done through a series of studies of famous British writers and essayists, beginning with Edmund Burke and William Cobbett, also looking at William Blake, William Wordsworth, etc., and continuing as far as F. R. Leavis, George Orwell and  Christopher Caudwell.

The book is still in print, in several editions.  It has also been translated into many languages.

Further reading

By Williams
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Croom Helm, 1976). Originally intended as an appendix to Culture and Society.

About Williams
  E-book.

See also
 Information culture

1958 non-fiction books
Chatto & Windus books
Pristane

Pristane is a natural saturated terpenoid alkane obtained primarily from shark liver oil, from which its name is derived (Latin pristis, "shark"). It is also found in the stomach oil of birds in the order Procellariiformes and in mineral oil and some foods. Pristane and phytane are used in the fields of geology and environmental science as biomarkers to characterize origins and evolution of petroleum hydrocarbons and coal.

It is a transparent oily liquid that is immiscible with water, but soluble in diethyl ether, benzene, chloroform and carbon tetrachloride.

Pristane is known to induce autoimmune diseases in rodents. It is used in research to understand the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

It is used as a lubricant, a transformer oil, an immunologic adjuvant, and an anti-corrosion agent, biological marker, plasmocytomas inducer and in production of monoclonal antibodies.

Biosynthetically, pristane is derived from phytol and is used as a biomarker in petroleum studies. Tocopherols represent an alternate sedimentary source of pristane in sediments and petroleum.

Toxicity of pristane is alleviated by aconitine.

References 

Alkanes
Diterpenes
Fast Breeder Test Reactor

The Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is a breeder reactor located at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India. The Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) jointly designed, constructed, and operate the reactor.

History
It first reached criticality in , making India the seventh nation to have the technology to build and operate a breeder reactor after United States, UK, France, Japan, Germany, and Russia.  The reactor was designed to produce 40 MW of thermal power and 13.2 MW of electrical power. The initial nuclear fuel core used in the FBTR consisted of approximately  of weapons-grade plutonium. 

The FBTR has rarely operated at its designed capacity and had to be shut down between 1987 and 1989 due to technical problems. From 1989 to 1992, the reactor operated at 1 MW. 

In 1993, the reactor's power level was raised to 10.5 MW. In September 2002, fuel burn-up in the FBTR for the first time reached the 100,000 megawatt-days per metric ton uranium (MWd/MTU) mark. This is considered an important milestone in breeder reactor technology. On March 7, 2022 it attained the design power level of 40 MWt.

Using the experience gained from the operation of the FBTR, a 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is in advanced stage of construction at Kalpakkam.

Technical details
The reactor uses a plutonium-uranium mixed carbide fuel and liquid sodium as a coolant. The fuel is an indigenous mix of 70 percent plutonium carbide and 30 percent uranium carbide. Plutonium for the fuel is extracted from irradiated fuel in the Madras power reactors and reprocessed in Tarapur.

Some of the uranium is created from the transmutation of thorium bundles that are also placed in the core.

References

Liquid metal fast reactors
Nuclear technology in India
1985 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Seamen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1926

Seamen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1926 was an International Labour Organization Convention, established in 1926, having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to seamen's articles of agreement.

Ratifications
As of 2023, the convention has been ratified by 60 states, 44 of whom have denounced it.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications and denunciations.

International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1926
Treaties entered into force in 1928
Treaties of Argentina
Treaties of Bangladesh
Treaties of Barbados
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Belize
Treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Treaties of the military dictatorship in Brazil
Treaties of Chile
Treaties of the Republic of China (1912–1949)
Treaties of Colombia
Treaties of Cuba
Treaties of Djibouti
Treaties of Dominica
Treaties of Egypt
Treaties of Estonia
Treaties of the French Third Republic
Treaties of the Weimar Republic
Treaties of Ghana
Treaties of British India
Treaties of the Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)
Treaties of the Irish Free State
Treaties of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
Treaties of Japan
Treaties of Mauritania
Treaties of Mexico
Treaties of Montenegro
Treaties of Myanmar
Treaties of New Zealand
Treaties of Nicaragua
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Papua New Guinea
Treaties of Peru
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Romania
Treaties of Serbia and Montenegro
Treaties of Seychelles
Treaties of Sierra Leone
Treaties of Slovenia
Treaties of the Somali Republic
Treaties of North Macedonia
Treaties of Tunisia
Treaties of the United Kingdom
Treaties of Uruguay
Treaties of Venezuela
Admiralty law treaties
Treaties extended to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Treaties extended to Italian Somaliland
Treaties extended to Curaçao and Dependencies
Treaties extended to the Territory of Papua and New Guinea
Treaties extended to Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
Treaties extended to the Colony of the Bahamas
Treaties extended to the Colony of Barbados
Treaties extended to British Honduras
Treaties extended to British Dominica
Treaties extended to the Falkland Islands
Treaties extended to Gibraltar
Treaties extended to Guernsey
Treaties extended to Jersey
Treaties extended to the Crown Colony of Malta
Treaties extended to the Isle of Man
Treaties extended to the Crown Colony of Seychelles
Treaties extended to the Crown Colony of Singapore
1926 in labor relations
GoForce

The Nvidia GoForce was a line of chipsets that was used mainly in handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. Nvidia acquired graphics display processor firm MediaQ in 2003, and rebranded the division as GoForce. It has since been replaced by the Nvidia Tegra series of SoCs.

Features

GoForce 2100 
Featuring VGA image capture, 2D graphics acceleration, JPEG support, and MJPEG acceleration. Used in the Samsung SCH-M500 Palm OS based flip-phone.

GoForce 2150
Featuring 1.3-megapixel camera support, JPEG support, and 2D graphics acceleration.
Supports 3-megapixel images with the upgrade.

GoForce 3000/GoForce 4000
The GoForce 4000 supports 3.0-megapixel camera and MPEG-4/H.263 codec, whilst GoForce 3000 is a low-cost version of the GoForce 4000 with limited features.

GoForce 4500
Features 3D graphics support with a geometry processor and programmable pixel shaders, used in the Gizmondo device.

GoForce 4800
Supports 3.0-megapixel camera and a 3D graphics engine.

GoForce 5500
The GoForce 5500 is a multimedia processor, incorporates Tensilica Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine (based on the Xtensa LX processor licensed in 2005). It can decode video and audio formats, such as WMV, WMA, MP3, MP4, MPEG, JPEG and supports H.264. Also including a 24-bit 64-voice sound processor with supports up to 32 MB of external memory, 10-megapixel camera support, and 3D graphics engine version 2.

GoForce 5300
Equipped with 2.25 MiB embedded DRAM (eDRAM) on TSMC's 65 nm process, being the first in the GoForce product line. Its multimedia technology is claimed to be similar to the 5500's, but it does not sport a 3D engine and only supports much smaller screens.

GoForce 6100
The latest chipset in the series, the GoForce 6100 (showcased in 2007), claiming the first applications processor by NVIDIA, adds 10-megapixel camera support and integrated 802.11b/g support (with external RF), based on a 130 nm process. It contains a 250 MHz ARM1176JZ-S core.

Implementations

Acer N300 PDA
HTC Foreseer
Gizmondo
iMate Ultimate 6150
iMate Ultimate 8150
iRiver G10
Kyocera W41K
Kyocera W51K
Kyocera W52k
LG KC 8100
Mitsubishi M900
Motorola E770v
Motorola E1000
Motorola RAZR V3x
Motorola RAZR V3xx
Motorola RAZR2 V9
Motorola RAZR maxx V6
O2 Xda Flame
Samsung i310
Samsung SGH-P910
Samsung SGH-P940
Samsung Sync SGH-A707
Sandisk Sansa View
Sendo X
Sharp EM-ONE S01SH
SimCom S788
Sony Ericsson W900
Toshiba Portege G900

See also
Imageon
Nvidia Tegra

References

External links
 Nvidia's GoForce Product Page

Graphics cards
Nvidia products
Sestri Ponente

Sestri Ponente is an industrial suburb of Genoa in northwest Italy. It is part of the Medio Ponente municipio of Genoa.

Geography

It is situated on the Ligurian Sea four miles to the west of the city, between Pegli and Cornigliano. Its population is currently about 50,000, but in the 1970s it was as high as 80,000.

History

The name is derived from the Latin Sextum, a small village that was likely founded in the second century A.D., where stones were assembled for the Roman road that left from Genoa. No physical records exist about the population of Sestri before the fifteenth century.

Around 1911, the town had iron-works saw-mills, shipbuilding yards and tanneries and factories for macaroni, matches and tobacco.

Economy
The links to the transport sector continue to this day; Sestri Ponente is home to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport. Another major source of employment are the shipyards, part of the Fincantieri. They are currently enjoying the benefits of the current ship construction boom after the blows felt from the 1970s to the 1990s.

References

External links
Satellite image of Sestri Ponente

Quartieri of Genoa
Former municipalities of the Province of Genoa
Mediterranean port cities and towns in Italy
Helicopter support team

A helicopter support team (HST) is a unit of organization within the United States Marine Corps that manages the activities of a helicopter landing zone (LZ). It consists of a team of eight Landing Support Marines who are trained to hook up external loads to the hooks of primarily military helicopters. All kinds of gear can be lifted by helicopter and taken to locations with terrain that is not suited for other kinds of vehicles. For example communications equipment can be placed on top of a mountain within a few minutes of flight instead of a few hours of driving, if one could even drive the equipment to the designated location. The HST is a valuable resource to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), as it provides an expedient manner of transportation for gear and supplies.
 
Within the HST there is the HST commander whose job is to co-ordinate the mission between the airwing, the supporting unit and the Marine Logistics Group who provides the HST. The HST commander is usually a sergeant and sometimes a staff sergeant. Subordinate to the HST commander is the HST Safety NCO, whose job is to ensure that the gear or supplies are rigged properly, and to ensure that everyone underneath the helicopter is doing their job in a safe manner. The safety NCO is normally a corporal or sergeant. The primary members of the HST are the "leg-men" and the inside and outside directors along with the hookman and the static man. The inside and outside directors direct the pilot of the aircraft as he centers his helicopter over the load that is being lifted. The leg-men ensure that the slings used to lift the gear do not catch on anything and lift in a straight manner as to not disturb the load being lifted. The job of the static man is to use a grounding rod to attach to the hook so that the static electricity conducted by the helicopter is grounded and does not end up killing a marine. The hook man then hooks up the load to the hook of the aircraft in a safe manner.

External links
 
 
United States Marine Corps aviation
Business International (TV programme)

Business International is a news television programme which aired on CNN International. It was anchored by Adrian Finighan and Becky Anderson from CNN's London studios.

Business International was launched in 2000.  As the title implies, it covered international business news.  During the programme, market reports would come from the London Stock Exchange.  However, in later years, the programme devoted more air time to breaking world news.

The European evening edition of the programme, presented by Anderson, also had sports updates and a preview of the following day's newspaper headlines.

Show-times
Business International aired up to three live one-hour editions on weekdays.  The show aired at 8.00, 11.00 and 22.00 GMT on weekdays.

Cancellation
Business International was cancelled in 2009 and replaced by World Business Today and Quest Means Business.

British television news shows
Business-related television series
CNN original programming
Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926

Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1926.

Ratifications
As of 2023, the convention has been ratified by 47 states. Subsequently, 34 ratifying states have automatically denounced the treaty.

Revision
The principles found in the convention were revised in a later ILO treaty, the Repatriation of Seafarers Convention (Revised), 1987.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications.

International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1926
Treaties entered into force in 1928
Treaties of Argentina
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1926 in labor relations
Richard Ramirez (musician)

Richard Ramirez is an American noise music artist originally from Houston, Texas, recording and performing both as a solo artist and as part of several groups, including Black Leather Jesus, Priest in Shit, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, House of the Black Death, Martyr of Sores, Last Rape and the "static noise" solo project Werewolf Jerusalem. He is notable for being one of the earliest American harsh noise artists.

Ramirez draws a distinction between his relatively few professionally printed CDs and LPs and the many CD-Rs and tapes he produces for smaller record labels.  He has done collaborations and split releases with many important figures in the noise field, including Merzbow, Emil Beaulieau, Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, Skin Crime, The Haters, Prurient, Smell & Quim, Macronympha, Stabat Mors, Kenji Siratori, Sudden Infant, and MSBR.

Ramirez's work tends to consist of long, slowly changing or static tracks of heavily distorted low- to mid-range noise, with a gradual move over the last several years toward more drone-influenced sounds in addition to his harsh noise work. Parallel to this evolution has been a shift in thematic concerns, with album covers, titles, and general themes changing from more typical noise music concerns such as violence and war (largely borrowed from industrial culture) to a focus on homosexual themes and gay pornography artwork. In addition to his musical work, Ramirez also runs the noise and experimental music label Deadline Recordings. Ramirez is also an "avant-garde" fashion designer under the alias, Richard Saenz.
He recently collaborated with Giovanni Mori, musician power noise, mind of the project L.C.B., his album Born (Old Europa Cafe in 2015) and has also made with L.C.B. an album on cassette entitled "Homo Sense" (Black Leather Jesus - Le Cose Bianche, Signora Ward Records).

In late 2016, Ramirez started a new noise label with his husband, Sean E. Matzus, called Next Halloween. The two are now based near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

References

External links
An interview with Richard Ramirez 
Deadline Recordings official site
Next Halloween

American noise musicians
Musicians from Houston
Living people
American gay musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
LGBT people from Texas
Power electronics musicians
Grafschaft, Rhineland

Grafschaft is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km south of Bonn.

Grafschaft is famous for its Rheinischer Zuckerrübensirup, a PGI-protected sugar-beet syrup.

The following 17 villages belong to Grafschaft:

Alteheck
Beller
Bengen
Birresdorf
Bölingen
Eckendorf
Esch
Gelsdorf
Holzweiler
Karweiler
Lantershofen
Leimersdorf
Niederich
Nierendorf
Oeverich
Ringen
Vettelhoven

The total population is 10,900 inhabitants (2020).

It has been used as a special stage for the Rallye Deutschland.

It contains the headquarters for Haribo.

References

External links
Website

Ahrweiler (district)
Rallye Deutschland
James Loudon

James Loudon  (May 24, 1841 – December 29, 1916) was a Canadian professor of mathematics and physics and President of the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1906. He was the first Canadian-born professor at the University of Toronto.

Biography
Loudon was educated at the Toronto Grammar School, Upper Canada College, and the University of Toronto, where he received a B.A. in 1862 and an M.A. in 1864. Initially a tutor in classics, he soon moved to mathematics, eventually becoming the professor of mathematics and physics at University College in 1875, succeeding his teacher John Bradford Cherriman. In 1887 he became professor of physics only, and became president of the University in 1892.

He visited the United Kingdom to attend the 450th jubilee of the University of Glasgow in June 1901, and received an honorary doctorate (LL.D) from the university.

References

External links
 
 
 
 
 James Loudon archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

1841 births
1916 deaths
Canadian physicists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Presidents of the University of Toronto
José Suárez Carreño

José Suárez Carreño (1915–2002) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was born in Guadalupe, Mexico, but lived in Madrid from an early age.

Awards
He was awarded the Adonais Prize in 1945 for his book Edad del hombre (age of man), the Nadal Prize in 1949 for his book Las últimas horas (the last hours) and the Lope de Vega theatre prize for his drama Condenados (the condemned).

Filmography (as screenwriter)
Name Of Wiki Mohammad Nasir Ahmed

Full Name: Md.Nasir Ahmed

Born: 8 Oct, 1997 

Sakhipur Tangail

Singer, Author & Musical Artist 
 Proceso à la conciencia (1964)
 A las diez y media (1962) (was based on his novel Las últimas horas)
 Llovidos del cielo (1962)
 Juicio final (1960)
 Fulano y Mengano (1959)
 Juanillo, papá y mamá (1957)
 Condenados (1953)
 Cabaret (1953)
(All films listed here were based on his novels, with the exception of Condenados, which was a play)

See also
 Café Gijón (Madrid)

External links

1915 births
2002 deaths
Spanish male writers
Drudenhaus

Drudenhaus is the second studio album by the French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa. The album received very positive reviews from critics, and it meant a European breakthrough for the band.

Track listing
 "A Doleful Night in Thelema" - 4:57
 "The Drudenhaus Anthem" - 5:13
 "God Bless the Hustler" - 4:35
 "Enter the Church of Fornication" - 5:33
 "Tragedia Dekadencia" - 6:30
 "Divine White Light of a Cumming Decadence" - 4:32
 "Dirge & Requiem for My Sister Whore" - 4:17
 "Das Ist Zum Erschiessen Schön" - 5:00
 "The Red Archromance" - 5:59

References 

Anorexia Nervosa (band) albums
2000 albums
Otto II, Duke of Swabia

Otto II ( 995 – 7 September 1047), a member of the Ezzonid dynasty, was Count Palatine of Lotharingia from 1034 until 1045 and Duke of Swabia from 1045 until his death.

Life
Otto was the son of the Lotharingian count palatine Ezzo (955–1034) and his wife Matilda (979–1025), a daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consort Theophanu. He was a member of the Ezzonian dynasty. Otto's elder brother Herman became Archbishop of Cologne in 1036; his sister Richeza married the Polish king Mieszko II Lambert in 1013.

Upon the death of his father in 1034, Otto succeeded him as count palatine as well as count in Deutz and in the Rhenish Auelgau, as his elder brother Liudolf had died already in 1031. He also served as protector (Vogt) of Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, which had been founded by his parents.

In the conflict with Duke Godfrey III of Lower Lorraine, Otto remained a loyal supporter of the Salian king Henry III. In turn Henry vested him with the princeless Duchy of Swabia, which he had seized upon the early death of Duke Herman IV. At Easter on 7 April 1045 in Goslar, the ducal title was awarded to Otto; in exchange, he gave up the office of count palatine, which was bestowed on his cousin Henry I. Also, his territories in Kaiserswerth and Duisburg devolved onto the crown.

Marriage and children
Otto married a daughter of Count Hugh IV of Nordgau. He had a daughter, Richenza ( 1025 – 1083), who married, firstly, Herman, Count of Werl, and, secondly, Otto of Nordheim. Another daughter, Hildegarde, married Frederick of Büren, and they were the parents of Duke Frederick I of Swabia. Recently, any matrimonial alliance of Otto has been disputed.

On 7 September 1047, Otto died unexpectedly at his castle, the Tomburg, while preparing an imperial campaign against the invading forces of Count Baldwin V of Flanders and Count Dirk IV of Holland. He was buried in Brauweiler Abbey; the ceremony was held by his brother-in-law, Bishop Bruno of Toul, the later Pope Leo IX. In 1048, Emperor Henry III appointed Otto of Schweinfurt his successor as Duke of Swabia.

References

Sources

1047 deaths
Dukes of Swabia
Counts Palatine of Lotharingia
People of Byzantine descent
11th-century German nobility
Year of birth unknown
Burials at Brauweiler Abbey