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Héctor Ortiz Ortiz

Héctor Israel Ortiz Ortiz (born 28 July 1950 in Oaxaca) is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Tlaxcala.

Professional career
Héctor Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in law. He has been a professor of law at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (UAT) since 1974. Ortiz also served as Rector of the UAT from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1999 to 2000. From 1990 to 1991 he served as Secretary of Education of the State of Tlaxcala. He served in the lower house of the Mexican Congress during the LV (1991 to 1994) and the LVIII Legislatures. In 2002 he was elected mayor of Tlaxcala.   
    
Ortiz joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1967 and was an active member until 2004, when he resigned from the PRI after losing the party's internal bid for the governorship of Tlaxcala. He then accepted the National Action Party (PAN) invitation to run for the governorship as the PAN candidate; he won the election held on November 14, 2004, and took office on January 14, 2005.

See also
List of Mexican state governors

References

External links
 Héctor Ortiz at the Tlaxcala.gob website

   
   

1950 births
Living people
Politicians from Oaxaca
20th-century Mexican lawyers
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Municipal presidents in Tlaxcala
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
Governors of Tlaxcala
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
20th-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala
Heads of universities and colleges in Mexico
People from Oaxaca City
Deputies of the LVIII Legislature of Mexico
Sternomancy

Sternomancy, from the Greek sternon (chest) is a divination practice involving reading the markings or bumps on the chest or breast bone (or the area "from the breast to the belly", according to some sources).  Sternomancy may have been commonly practiced on victims of sacrifice, including human sacrifice. Sternomancy may also include speaking through the chest (believed to be an early form of ventriloquism).

The size and shape of the sternum bone are taken into consideration, as well as the way in which the bone burns when placed into a fire. The old holiday custom of the breaking of a chicken's or turkey's wishbone by two persons is actually a remnant of this type of divination.

Sternomancy is related to phrenology (head-reading), palmistry (chiromancy) and scapulomancy (divination by observing animal shoulder-blades).

Sources 
 

Divination
Golden viscacha rat

The golden viscacha rat or golden vizcacha rat (Pipanacoctomys aureus) is the single species of the genus Pipanacoctomys of the rodent family Octodontidae.  It has 92 chromosomes and has been regarded as tetraploid (4x = 2n). This octodontid and its sister-species, the plains viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae) (2n = 102), may have arisen from the diploid mountain viscacha rat (Octomys mimax), (2x = 2n = 56) as a result of the doubling and subsequent loss of some chromosomes. However, some genetic studies have rejected any polyploidism in mammals as unlikely, and suggest that amplification and dispersion of repetitive sequences best explain the large genome size.

Description
The golden viscacha rat grows to a head-and-body length of about  with a tufted tail of about . The dorsal fur is golden-blond and the underparts are white.

Distribution and habitat
The species is known from Catamarca Province of northwestern Argentina, where specimens are known only from the Salar de Pipanaco, a salt flat. This habitat consists largely of low, salt-loving shrubs, and the soil consists of sand with high levels of salt. It feeds on the halophytic plants growing there. The genus is named after the locale, with “octo” being a reference to the figure-eight ridge on its cheek tooth.

Status
The golden viscacha rat is only found within a very restricted area totalling less than  and it actually occupies only about one tenth of that area. It lives among the salt-loving plants that live between the salt pans and the desert. 
It is threatened by conversion of its very restricted habitat to agricultural use, for the growing of olives, and its population trend is downwards. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "critically endangered".

References

Octodontidae
Mammals described in 2000
Mammals of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
High Monte
Getinge

Getinge is a locality situated in Halmstad Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 1,843 inhabitants in 2010.

Economy
Getinge Group had its headquarters in the village until 2014.

History
The local assembly, the Hallandic thing took place in Getinge.

References 

Populated places in Halmstad Municipality
Confluency

In cell culture biology, confluence refers to the percentage of the surface of a culture dish that is covered by adherent cells. For example, 50 percent confluence means roughly half of the surface is covered, while 100 percent confluence means the surface is completely covered by the cells, and no more room is left for the cells to grow as a monolayer. The cell number refers to, trivially, the number of cells in a given region.

Impact on research
Many cell lines exhibit differences in growth rate or gene expression depending on the degree of confluence. Cells are typically passaged before becoming fully confluent in order to maintain their proliferation phenotype. Some cell types are not limited by contact inhibition, such as immortalized cells, and may continue to divide and form layers on top of the parent cells. To achieve optimal and consistent results, experiments are usually performed using cells at a particular confluence, depending on the cell type. Extracellular export of cell free material is also dependent on the cell confluence .

Estimation

Rule of thumb 
Comparing the amount of space covered by cells with unoccupied space using the naked eye can provide a rough estimate of confluency.

Hemocytometer 
A hemocytometer can be used to count cells, giving the cell number.

References

Cell culture
I Love Rocky Road

"I Love Rocky Road" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic about a man's obsession with rocky road ice cream. It is a parody of the 1981 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' cover version of the British band Arrows' 1975 song, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", originally sung and written by Alan Merrill.

Track listing
 "I Love Rocky Road" – 2:35
 "Happy Birthday" – 2:26

Music video
The music video was the directorial debut of Dror Soref and parodies the "I Love Rock 'n Roll" music video, with these differences from the original:

It takes place in an ice cream parlor, rather than a tavern.
It was shot in color rather than black and white.
It was videotaped rather than filmed.
In "I Love Rock 'n Roll", Joan Jett says "Ow!" twice. In "I Love Rocky Road", Weird Al says "Ow!" in reaction to an ice cream-induced brain freeze; the second time, he says "Ow!" in reaction to a kid biting his leg.
Dr. Demento makes a cameo appearance as a cashier.
While Al is playing his accordion, the cover photo for the single can be seen.
Yankovic wears a black leather jacket with the I Love Lucy logo, referencing Yankovic's first music video, "Ricky".
When Yankovic sings the line "If I get fat and lose my teeth, that's fine with me," he smiles to reveal all his teeth appear to have either fallen out or are rotten.

The "ice cream" used in the video is actually mashed potatoes, since real ice cream would melt under stage lights.

Chart positions

Rerecording
In 2022, for the film WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, Yankovic rerecorded the track as well as four others. In the film, Yankovic first plays the song in a bar. Different from the album version, it starts out with just Yankovic and the accordion, and near the end of the first verse Jim Kimo West, Steve Jay, and Jon Bermuda Schwartz spontaneously join in on guitar, bass, and drums. After the song is finished, Dr. Demento, who was in the audience, comes up to Yankovic and asks to be his agent, to which Yankovic says yes.

See also
List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic

References

External links

1983 songs
1983 singles
"Weird Al" Yankovic songs
Songs with lyrics by "Weird Al" Yankovic
American hard rock songs
Ice cream
Argus Media

Argus (formerly known as Petroleum Argus Ltd) is an independent provider of price information, consultancy services, conferences, market data and business intelligence for the global petroleum, natural gas, electricity, emissions, biofuels, biomass, LPG, metals, chemicals, fertilizers, agriculture and coal industries.

Overview 
Argus is a privately held UK-registered company which produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets, and also offers consulting services and conferences.

Argus was the first price-reporting agency to apply an IOSCO audit for its energy benchmarks.

Argus was owned by the family of its founder Jan Nasmyth and its senior staff, but in September 2016 a majority-stake was sold to the equity firm General Atlantic valuing the company at $1.4 billion.

Argus's headquarters are in London, with major offices in Houston, Dubai, Singapore, Paris, Seoul, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Riga, Kyiv, Astana, Calgary, San Francisco, Mexico City, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, New York, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai, Sydney, Granada, Brussels, Lagos, and Cape Town. 

Prices assessed by Argus for energy, fertilizer, metals, petrochemicals and agriculture markets are widely used as benchmarks to settle futures contracts and as indexes for short or long term physical supply contracts.

History 
Argus was established in 1970 by former Daily Telegraph journalist Jan Nasmyth. In 1979, Argus became the first reporting agency to quote crude oil prices and published the first ever daily crude market wire.

In 2011, Argus bought FMB Consultants Ltd (FMB) - a price reporting agency for international fertilizer markets. FMB was founded in 1982 and focused on nitrogen, phosphate, sulphur, potash and ammonia.

In 2012, Argus also acquired US petrochemical market intelligence, pricing and consulting firm DeWitt & Co, and European power and gas fundamental data provider Fundalytics. In 2013, Argus bought petrochemical market specialists TABrewer Consulting and Jim Jordan & Associates.

Argus launched coverage of the global iron ore market with daily report Argus Steel Feedstocks in February 2013. Argus expanded its metals coverage further in 2015, after acquiring MetalPrices.com - a specialist pricing, news and analysis service focusing on speciality metals, rare earths and ferro-alloys.

In 2018, Argus purchased Integer Research a London-based market intelligence, conference and consulting firm.

In 2019, Argus acquired German oil reporting specialist O.M.R.

In 2020, Argus bought French agricultural intelligence company Agritel.

In 2021, Argus acquired the renewable chemicals specialist Oleochem Analytics.

In 2022, Argus acquired Pipe Logix, a US-based provider of pipe and tube market information.

In 2023, Argus acquired Mercaris, a US-based provider of organic and non-GMO commodity prices.

Awards 
Argus won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade (Export) in the UK in 2002, 2009 and 2015.

References

External links 
 

Mass media companies based in London
Business services companies established in 1970
1970 establishments in England
Simplicity Manufacturing Company

Simplicity Manufacturing Company is an American company based in Port Washington, Wisconsin that builds lawn and garden equipment under various brands.  The company was founded by William J. Niederkorn in 1922, and started building walk-behind two-wheeled tractors in 1939.  Between 1941 and 1945, due to World War II, Simplicity Manufacturing temporarily halted production of lawn and garden products, and manufactured electric fence controllers and external surface grinders to satisfy the War Production Board. Simplicity built is first riding tractor in 1957 which was the model  Wonderboy. The company rapidly expanded its product line in the sixties to meet the demands of the population shift to American suburbs. Allis-Chalmers purchased the company in 1965, and Simplicity's management bought it back in 1983.  Simplicity Manufacturing celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1997 with a special 75th anniversary tractor model. The tractor featured a special blue paint scheme with chrome Harley-Davidson lights and muffler.

Sometime after AGCO Corporation purchased Deutz-Allis from Deutz-Fahr and KHD, Simplicity took over building and selling the Deutz-Allis lawn equipment.  The name was later changed to Agco-Allis, and then to AGCO to reflect the changes within the AGCO Corporation.

After AGCO purchased Massey Ferguson, Simplicity began building and selling the Massey Ferguson lawn equipment. Simplicity bought the Snapper company in 2002. Snapper had built Massey Ferguson lawn tractors many years before.

Over the years, Simplicity has also built lawn and garden tractors for J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward, Viking (part of Stihl), Homelite Corporation and Rapid.  Hinomoto/Toyosha built some of the larger compact tractors sold as Simplicity, Deutz-Allis and Allis-Chalmers.

 1989, purchased the Middlesworth company of Greentown, Indiana, a manufacturer of zero-turn mowers
 2000 Simplicity announced that it had agreed to purchase Ferris Industries
 2000 purchased Giant-Vac
 2002, purchased the Snapper company
 2004, was purchased by Briggs & Stratton

References

External links
 Official website
 Fast Company: The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart

Lawn and garden tractors
Manufacturing companies based in Wisconsin
Agriculture companies of the United States
Agglomeration community of Cholet

The Agglomération du Choletais, also simply known as CAC, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Cholet and its suburbs.

It is located in the Maine-et-Loire département, in the Pays de la Loire région (France). It was formed on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération du Choletais, the Communauté de communes du Bocage and the Communauté de communes du Vihiersois-Haut-Layon. Its area is 788.0 km2. Its population was 104,382 in 2018, of which 54,186 in Cholet proper.

Composition
The Agglomération du Choletais gathers the following 26 communes:

Bégrolles-en-Mauges
Cernusson
Les Cerqueux
Chanteloup-les-Bois
Cholet
Cléré-sur-Layon
Coron
Lys-Haut-Layon
Maulévrier
Le May-sur-Èvre
Mazières-en-Mauges
Montilliers
Nuaillé
Passavant-sur-Layon
La Plaine
La Romagne
Saint-Christophe-du-Bois
Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet
Saint-Paul-du-Bois
La Séguinière
Somloire
La Tessoualle
Toutlemonde
Trémentines
Vezins
Yzernay

References

Choletais
Choletais
States and territories established in 2017
Cholet
WRIU

WRIU (90.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting a college radio format. Licensed to Kingston, Rhode Island, United States, the station serves the greater Rhode Island area.  The station is owned by University of Rhode Island. The broadcast area reaches almost all of Rhode Island, and portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Long Island.  WRIU began broadcasting on February 16, 1964 on 91.1 MHz (Channel 216) with a power of 10 watts.

Weekday programming includes student and community member DJs  shows featuring jazz, classical music, hip hop, folk, roots rock, indie rock, noise rock, electronica and experimental music, along with public affairs, sports, and news programming. A two-hour freeform block reserved for URI students also airs each weekday. Weekends have a less structured schedule, with an emphasis on world and electronic music, as well as children's, sports and specialty programming. WRIU has traditionally supported local and independent artists across its programming lineup.

WRIU also operates RIU2 (formerly Studio B), an internet-only station with an air staff composed exclusively of URI students and a freeform format.  The original purpose of RIU2 was to train and prepare DJs for the transition to FM, but the diversity and quality of shows on RIU2 have made it a significantly popular internet radio station in its own right.

When the station first signed on in 1964, WRIU's music format was mostly jazz, classical, some folk music, and easy listening. The station signal was 10 watts and coverage was generally just nearby to the Campus, sometimes reaching farther. When the station wished to expand in about 1971, installing a more powerful signal with updated facilities, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements included surveying the current and potential audience- mostly URI students- to show support for FCC approval of such expansion. A music listener survey was conducted by WRIU staff, collated, and results were published to help establish a new format based on the survey of listener preferences. This helped WRIU gain the support of URI students and the URI Student Senate, which voted to fund the purchase of equipment for expansion by about 1972. The new music format that was established in 1971 was unique in Rhode Island and continues, flexibly now inclusive of many new musical influences.

References

1965 Broadcasting Yearbook, page B-135.

External links 
 WRIU Homepage

RIU
WRIU
RIU
South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Radio stations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Rhode Island
NPY

NPY may refer to:

Neuropeptide Y, a 36 amino-acid neuropeptide that is involved in various physiological and homeostatic processes in both the central and peripheral nervous systems
NPY, the IATA airport code for Mpanda Airport, Tanzania
 *.npy files are binary files to store numpy arrays
Luigi Verderame

Luigi Verderame, usually known just as Luigi, is a Belgian singer,  popular internationally in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He sang mainly in French, but he also sang in Italian, Hebrew, Turkish and English. His most well known hits are Une Maman (1964) and Pitie (1967).

Childhood 
Luigi was born on July 9, 1950, in a small town near Liège, Belgium to parents that immigrated from Sicily. Luigi had three older brothers, and three sisters, and all of them were taught to enjoy singing and music. At the age of 8 Luigi learned to read sheet-music, and to play the clarinet and guitar. His three older brothers formed a band that played in cinemas, weddings and parties in their vicinity. In 1963, little Luigi (then only 13) joined his brothers' band as the lead singer to sing in a band competition.

Fame
In 1964, when Luigi was only 14, he recorded the song Une Maman (a mother, in French), which became a huge hit in Belgium and the rest of Europe, as well as in Turkey and in the Middle East. Because his surname was considered long and hard to remember, he became famous as just Luigi.

In the following two years, Luigi released several other songs to the hit parades:  (When I bought my guitar), L'automne (The autumn), Apres tant d'annees (After many years), Main dans la main (Hand in hand), Suzy et Jo (Suzy and Jo), and Nadine. In 1966, he toured Turkey's major cities, with a big success. He recorded  his hit Nadine in Turkish as "Sensiz"  i.e. without you.

In 1967, he recorded his second huge hit, Pitie (Pity). By then a mega-star in several countries, he went on long performance tours in Romania, Lebanon, Syria, and, at December 1968, Israel.

The 18-year-old Luigi toured Israel with his three brothers, and received the treatment of a mega-star, performing in packed halls in front of ecstatic crowds, and fussed over by the media, which called him "the new teenage idol". He received such a warm welcome that he decided to return to Israel a few months later (after another tour of Lebanon and Syria). The publisher of his albums in Israel raised the idea that Luigi record Hebrew versions of his hit songs; Luigi, who did not know that language but had an extraordinary talent for languages, enthusiastically took up the offer, and in February 1969 he released an album with four of his biggest hits in Hebrew, and later recorded more of his hits in Hebrew. He continued to tour Europe, but returned to Israel often and started learning the Hebrew language. In December 1969, he topped the Israeli charts with an original hit in Hebrew 12 שעות  written by Nurit Hirsh and Ehud Manor. In 1970, he also recorded English versions of a few popular Israeli songs.

References

Living people
1950 births
Belgian pop singers
Belgian people of Italian descent
French-language singers of Belgium
20th-century Belgian male singers
20th-century Belgian singers
Kevin Shine

Kevin James Shine (born 22 February 1969) is a former first-class cricketer and former coach of Somerset County Cricket Club, and was the fast-bowling coach for the England cricket team from 2006 until 2019. In November 2019 he joined Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club as an Assistant Coach.

His first-class career ran from 1989 to 1998, during which he played for Hampshire, Middlesex and Somerset. He took 249 first-class wickets at an average of 36.09, including 55 in the 1997 season. His best innings figures were 8 for 47 for Hampshire against Lancashire in 1992.

Coaching career
After retiring as a player due to injury, he served as coach of Somerset from 2001 to 2004. The team won the C&G Trophy in his first year in charge. He subsequently served as the director of the Somerset academy, and was appointed England's fast-bowling coach from March 2006 in succession to Troy Cooley. In 2019 he left the ECB and became assistant head coach at Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.

References

 Shine appointed as England bowling coach from Cricinfo
 Shine gets England coaching role from BBC News Online

External links 
 

English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Somerset cricketers
English cricket coaches
1969 births
Living people
Berkshire cricketers
People from Bracknell
Cricketers from Berkshire
Chicora

Chicora was a legendary Native American kingdom or tribe sought during the 16th century by various European explorers in present-day South Carolina. The legend originated after Spanish slave traders captured an Indian they called Francisco de Chicora in 1521; afterward, they came to treat Francisco's home country as a land of abundant wealth and natural resources. The "Chicora Legend" influenced both the Spanish and the French in their attempts to colonize North America for the next 60 years.

History
In 1521, Spanish slavers Pedro de Quexo and Francisco Gordillo embarked on an expedition from the Caribbean to the little-explored mainland of what is now the Southeastern United States. On June 24, they sighted what is thought to be the area around the mouth of the Santee River; they named their discovery the Land of St. John the Baptist. For the next 22 days they explored the river and nearby Winyah Bay and made contact with the locals, including, they claimed, a town or people called Chicora. Ultimately, the slavers compelled around 60 Indians to board their ships and then sailed off without warning, intending to sell the captives into slavery in Hispaniola. Among the captives was an Indian who the Spanish eventually named Francisco de Chicora.

Upon their return, Gordillo's backer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón petitioned the Spanish Real Audiencia for the right to conquer and settle the land. The next year he took his case to the crown in Spain, promoting his claim with evidently exaggerated tales about the bounty that awaited in Chicora. By this time Francisco de Chicora (or Francisco Chicorano) had been baptized and learned Spanish, and started working as Ayllón's personal servant. He joined Ayllón in Spain, and contributed to his master's accounts of the wealth of his homeland. Ayllón moved the coordinates of the land from the 33.5 degrees north recorded by Gordillo to 35–37 degrees. Evidently, this was an effort to sell Chicora as a "new Andalusia" by giving it parallel coordinates to the famously fertile area of Spain. The Crown granted Ayllón's request. Peter Martyr d'Anghiera also met with Ayllón and Francisco and recorded notes about "Chicora", which spread awareness of the territory, particularly after they were published in Martyr's chronicle Decade in 1530.

See also 

Francisco de Chicora
Cape Fear Indians
Waccamaw

Notes

References

French colonization of the Americas
Mythological kingdoms, empires, and countries
Native American tribes in South Carolina
Spanish colonization of the Americas
UMLet

UMLet is an open-source Java-based UML tool designed for teaching the Unified Modeling Language and for quickly creating UML diagrams.  It is a drawing tool rather than a modelling tool as there is no underlying dictionary or directory of reusable design objects. UMLet is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

UMLet has a simple user interface that uses text-formatting codes to modify the basic shapes with decorations and annotations, so there is no forest of icons or parameter list dialogs in the user's way. This does require the user to learn yet another text markup language, but the effort is small and the markup obvious to the experienced UML designer.

UMLet can export diagrams to pictures (eps, jpg), drawing formats (SVG), document formats (PDF). The clipboard can be used to copy-paste diagrams as pictures into other applications. It is possible to create custom UML elements.

The basic drawing objects can be modified and used as templates which allows users to customize the app to their needs. This requires programming of the elements in Java.

The most important UML diagram types are supported: class, use case, sequence, state, deployment, activity.
Support for UML 2.0 features is not yet available, though the customization feature could be used to do this. It supports concepts like Martin Fowler's UmlAsSketch. Its design goals are described in the paper "Flyweight UML Modelling Tool for Software Development". Another paper compares UMLet to Rational Rose.

The app's native file format is UXF, an extension of XML intended for exchanging UML models.

UMLet runs stand-alone or as Eclipse plug-in on Windows, OS X and Linux.

Releases
version 15.0: Web: zoom, lasso, export, dark mode; hi-res export; startup
version 14.3: Improved OS integration, improved Eclipse integration, XML security fix, many additional fixes
version 14.1.1: New custom elements, new sequence all-in-one, bug fixes
version 13.3: opaque elements, bug fixes
version 13.2: improved relations
version 13.1: bug fixes
version 13.0: internal refactoring, context-sensitive-help
version 11.3: modified security manager behaviour, new options, batch mode improved, new relation types
version 11.2: word wrap for custom elements, improved anti-aliasing, better Eclipse support
version 11.1: stability fixes
version 11.0: list of recently opened files, drag and drop of uxf-files, updated file format
version 10.4: palette drag and drop, enhanced clipboard and improved keyboard support
version 10.3: updates to the user interface

Limitations
No direct support for templates (parameterised classes) nor design patterns, though both can be shown with workarounds
No code generation - this is a design choice to keep the drawing tool fast and light.

See also
List of UML tools
UXF UML eXchange Format for exchanging UML designs as files.

References

External links
UMLet website
UMLet on Eclipse Marketplace

Free UML tools
Amy Records

Amy Records was a record label formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Bell Records. Artists who had success on Amy included Al Brown's Tunetoppers with "The Madison" (Amy 804 charted #23), a dance tune in 1960, Joey Powers with "Midnight Mary" (Amy 892 charted #10 in 1964), Del Shannon's 1964 recordings of "Handy Man" (Amy 905 charted #22) and "Keep Searchin'" (Amy 915 charted #9). Lee Dorsey hit with "Ride Your Pony" in 1965 (Amy 927 charted #28) and "Working in the Coal Mine" in 1966 (Amy 958 charted #8). Paul Simon, (pre-dating Simon & Garfunkel), together with the children's music producer and songwriter Bobby Susser, released records in 1961 and 1962 under the names Tico and the Triumphs with "Motorcycle" (Amy 835 charted #97) and Jerry Landis with "Lone Teen Ranger" (Amy 875 charted #99") with little success as did garage band Kinetic Energy with their version of Dale Hawkins' 1957 hit "Susie Q" (Amy 11,028) in 1969.  Beginning in 1967, albums by Amy recording artists were issued on the Bell label, and in 1969, Amy was folded into Bell.

In 1961, some of the assets from Madison Records were given to Amy Records. Shortly aafterward the label released "Play Me a Sad Song", and "It Means a Lot to Them", which were sung by Paul Simon.

See also 
 List of record labels

References

External links 
 The Amy Records story and album discography from Both Sides Now Publications
 Discography of Amy label singles.

American record labels
Record labels established in 1960
Record labels disestablished in 1969
I Belong to You (Il Ritmo della Passione)

"I Belong to You (Il Ritmo della Passione)" () is a duet by Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti and American singer Anastacia, released as the second single from Ramazzotti's eleventh studio album, Calma apparente (2005), and the third from Anastacia's first greatest hits album, Pieces of a Dream (2005). It was met with commercial success in mainland Europe, particularly Germany, peaking at number one and becoming the ninth-biggest-selling song of 2006. It also topped the singles charts in Italy and Switzerland and peaked within the top five in several other countries.

The song is a ballad in which Anastacia sings in English and Ramazzotti in Italian or Spanish. As Ramazzotti records his songs in both Italian and Spanish, there are two versions of this song as well: the original one with Italian lyrics and the other with Spanish lyrics, entitled "I Belong to You (El ritmo de la pasión)", which is available on the Spanish versions of both Ramazzotti's and Anastacia's albums.

Critical reception
While reviewing Anastacia's Pieces of a Dream compilation, Lisa Haines of BBC Music referred to the song as "a gorgeous duet with Eros Ramazzotti which reveals a silkier side to the hard edge normally so distinctive in her voice, and ends with the kind of lung excess that would put Celine Dion to shame."

Music video
The music video was directed by Don Allan and was filmed in Rome, Italy, on 21–22 November 2005. In the video, Ramazzotti and Anastacia play a romantic couple.

Track listings
European CD single
 "I Belong to You (Il Ritmo della Passione)"
 "I Belong to You (El Ritmo de la Pasión)"

European maxi-CD single
 "I Belong to You (Il Ritmo della Passione)"
 "I Belong to You (El Ritmo de la Pasión)"
 "I Belong to You (Il Ritmo della Passione)" (video)
 "I Belong to You (El Ritmo de la Pasión)" (video)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2000s ballads
2005 songs
2006 singles
Anastacia songs
Eros Ramazzotti songs
Macaronic songs
Male–female vocal duets
Number-one singles in Germany
Number-one singles in Italy
Number-one singles in Switzerland
Songs written by Anastacia
Songs written by Claudio Guidetti
Songs written by Eros Ramazzotti
Songs written by Kara DioGuardi
Médée

Médée is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille in 1635.

Summary 

The heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée.  After Médée gives Jason twin boys, Jason leaves her for Creusa. Médée exacts her revenge on her husband by burning his new spouse and slitting the throats of her two children.  The final act of the play ends with Médée's escape in a chariot pulled by two dragons, and Jason's suicide.

Médée (1635) in Pierre Corneille's career 

Médée was Corneille's first tragedy.  This tragedy was performed for the first time in 1635 by the Marais troupe, the rival of the hôtel de Bourgogne. During its installation at the Théâtre du Marais, the play's reception was lukewarm.  Furthermore, the performances of Médée followed Corneille's expulsion from the prestigious group of five authors.  The playwright no longer had the protection of Richelieu, who, resentful, greeted Corneille's first tragedy with disapproval. Médée was published in 1639,  four years after it was first performed.

Seneca : both example and source of inspiration for Corneille 

Corneille, inspired by the play by Seneca and by the play by Euripides, also brought numerous personal modifications to his interpretations.

1635 plays
Adaptations of works by Seneca the Younger
Plays based on ancient Greek and Roman plays
Plays based on Medea (Euripides play)
Plays by Pierre Corneille
Tragedy plays
Ministry of Justice (Greece)

The Ministry of Justice () is the government department entrusted with the supervision of the legal and judicial system of Greece. The incumbent minister is Giorgos Floridis independent, formely member of PASOK and Prefector of Kilkis.

It was founded as the State Secretariat for Justice () on 25 January 1833, and later known as the Ministry of Justice (Katharevousa: , Demotic: ). It was renamed the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights () in October 2009 under George Papandreou, but was restored to its previous name in July 2019 by Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

List of ministers

Justice (1974–2009)

Justice, transparency and human rights (2009–2019)

Justice (since July 2019)

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Government ministries of Greece
Lists of government ministers of Greece
Greece

1833 establishments in Greece
Ministries established in 1833
Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace

The deputy minister for Macedonia and Thrace () is the government minister in charge of Greece's Sub-Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, part of the Ministry of the Interior.

The department originated in the old Ministry of Northern Greece, which was renamed the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace on 19 August 1988.

The ministry was abolished on 7 October 2009 and downgraded to a general secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior, but was re-established on 21 June 2012. On 27 January 2015, it was again demoted to a sub-ministry within the Ministry of the Interior.

List of ministers

Northern Greece (1974–1988)

Macedonia and Thrace (1988–2009)

Macedonia and Thrace (2012–2015)

List of deputy ministers for Macedonia and Thrace (since 2015)

References

External links
Webpage of the Ministry (in Greek)

Government of Greece
Lists of government ministers of Greece
Black River and St. Lawrence Railway

The Black River and St. Lawrence Railway was a historic railroad in New York.

History 
Its history can be traced to 1866 when George Gilbert of Carthage, New York received a charter to build a railroad from Carthage in Jefferson County to the Oswegatchie River, at or near Harrisville, in Lewis County.  Preliminary surveys began in the fall of 1866.  It was incorporated on June 30, 1868.

The company was organized as the Black River and St. Lawrence Railway.
Construction was contracted to the Row, Fields & Co., of Brockville, Ontario.
Construction began on April 29, 1869 and continued through October, and resumed in 1870.
Iron was quite expensive at the time, and the railroad was constructed with wooden rails.
In 1882, The New York state Railway Commission report noted that the railway was not in operation, and that the original wooden rails had been removed.

Its locomotive was a 16-ton 0-4-0 w/4 wheel tender built September 1869 by the Smith & Porter Locomotive Works in Pittsburgh, Penna. c/n 50.
It burned wood and had fancy (possibly gold & white) striping around the red tender tank which carried the name "PIONEER" on its sides.
"B.R.& St.L.R.R." was lettered in the fancy elongated oval panel under the cab window.
The stack was of a funnel shape.
The tender had a 120" frame with a 112" tank and 33" wheels for wood rails, and arrived in August 1869.
There is a builder photo in the Harold K. Vollrath Collection.

The company was reorganized as the Carthage and Adirondack Railway in the spring of 1883 after a mine owner in Jayville acquired the Black River and St. Lawrence Railway.
He planned to extend the rails from Little River in St. Lawrence County to Jayville.
Construction of the extension was completed in 1889.

References

External links
 train.spottingworld.com Train Wiki

Defunct New York (state) railroads
Predecessors of the New York Central Railroad
Railway companies established in 1868
Railway companies disestablished in 1872
Mangammal

Rani Mangammal (Mangamma)(died 1705) was a queen regent of the Madurai Nayak kingdom (in present-day Madurai, India) during the minority of her grandson Vijaya Ranga Chokkanatha in 1689—1704. She was a popular administrator and is still widely remembered as a maker of roads and avenues, and a builder of temples, tanks and choultries with many of her public works still in use. She is also known for her diplomatic and political skills and successful military campaigns. The capital of Madurai Kingdom during her times was Tiruchy.

Life 

Mangammal was the daughter of Tupakula Lingama Nayaka,and was the wife of a general of Madurai ruler Chokkanatha Nayak (1659–1682). She married Chokkanatha Nayak and became the mother of Rangakrishna Muthu Virappa Nayak (1682—1689). 

When her husband died in 1682, he was succeeded by her son Rangakrishna Muthu Virappa Nayak. Upon the death of her son in 1689, her son's widow was pregnant. Her son was succeeded by her grandson in 1689. Her daughter-in-law committed sati, and Mangammal became regent during the minority of her grandson Vijaya Ranga Chokkanatha.

Regency
During Mangammal's regency, many irrigation channels were repaired, new roads were constructed, avenue trees were planted, and several municipal buildings were completed, including temples and her "Spring Palace" at TumKum. The "Spring Palace" now houses the Gandhi Memorial Museum in Madurai. The highway from Cape Comorin was originally built during the time of Mangammal and it was known as Rani Mangammal Salai.

She played a key role in assisting the Mughal Army during the Siege of Jinji (Gingee). Queen Mangammal had realized that the renegade Rajaram had entrenched himself within Jinji and had been bent upon attacking Thanjavur and Madurai if the Mughal Army were to withdraw. Mangammal soon recognized Aurangzeb as her suzerain and began to assist Zulfiqar Khan in attacking the Jinji fort. When the fort was captured by both Zulfiqar Khan and Mangammal after 8 years, she and her family had control over the fort under the leadership of the Mughals.

When her grandson, Vijayaranga Chokkanatha Nayaka, came of age in 1704, she and her prime minister, Achayya, refused to relinquish power. They were seized by the army commander and executed.

Rani Mangammal first celebrated the Unjal festival in Meenakshi temple during the Tamil month of Ani. During the festivities, all the royal families visit the temple and pay tribute to Meenakshi Amman. Even today, we can see her contemporary portrait in the Unjal Mandapam.

Gallery

References

External links

 
 Madurai
 Meenakshi Temple
 Madurai.com - Rani Mangammal
 
 Tamukkam Palace at Madurai, Now Gandhi Memorial Museum

17th-century women rulers
Queens consort of India
1706 deaths
Telugu people
Regents of India
Madurai Nayak dynasty
17th-century births
18th-century women rulers
17th-century Indian women
17th-century Indian people
18th-century Indian women
18th-century Indian people
Female regents
David Mier

David Mauricio Mier y Terán Cuevas (born 7 August 1978) is a windsurfer from Mexico.

Mier was born in Mérida, Yucatán. He began practicing windsurfing at the age of 14, and participated in his first competition at age 15. He has participated at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Mier finished 17th in the men's sailboard event at the 2008 Olympics. In his previous Olympic appearances, he finished 25th in 2000 and 16th in 2004.  At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished in 32nd place.

Besides participating in the Olympics four times, he has also won bronze medals at the world raceboard championships in 2003 and the 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games. He won gold medals at the Central American championships in 2002, 2006 and 2011, and was the North American champion in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2011. He has also been

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1978 births
Living people
Mexican windsurfers
Mexican male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Mexico
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
Pan American Games medalists in sailing
Sailors at the 1999 Pan American Games
Sailors at the 2003 Pan American Games
Sailors at the 2007 Pan American Games
Sailors at the 2011 Pan American Games
Sailors at the 2015 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Mexican people of Spanish descent
Sportspeople from Mérida, Yucatán
Struggling People's Organization

The Struggling People's Organization (, ), called until 1996 Lavalas Political Organization (, OPL), is a Haitian political party originating from the Lavalas political movement. Formed in 1995, the pro-Aristide Lavalas split from the party in 1996 forming their own Fanmi Lavalas party, at this time the OPL's name was changed from Organisation Politique Lavalas to its present appellation. This split meant that few of the intelligentsia that had previously supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide ended up in the new Lavalas (or Fanmi Lavalas).

The OPL formed a majority of the Haitian Parliament from 1995 to 1997, and named Rosny Smarth as Prime Minister. The OPL was an important supporter of privatization and economic austerity measures, looking to lay off thousands of public sector workers to please international financial institutions. After being declared the losers of the 1997 legislative elections, the OPL denounced the results as fraudulent.  OPL has been heavily financed by foreign governmental agencies and took part in the destabilization campaign against Haiti's constitutional government (2001–2004). In the presidential elections of 7 February2006, its candidate Paul Denis won 2.62% of the popular vote. The party won in the 7 February 2006 Senate elections 6.0% of the popular vote and 3 out of 31 Senators. In the 7 February and 21 April 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections, the party won 10 out of 102 seats. It then formed part of the governing coalition under Jacques-Édouard Alexis.

References

External links
Party website

Political parties in Haiti
São Paulo Forum
Socialism in Haiti
ICL Group Ltd.

ICL Group Ltd. (Hebrew: איי.סי. אל. גרופ בע"מ) (formerly Israel Chemicals Ltd., ICL) is a multi-national manufacturing concern that develops, produces and markets fertilizers, metals and other special-purpose chemical products. ICL serves primarily three markets: agriculture, food and engineered materials. ICL produces approximately a third of the world's bromine, and is the world's sixth-largest potash producer.  It is a manufacturer of specialty fertilizers and specialty phosphates, flame retardants and water treatment solutions.

ICL is majority controlled by the Israel Corporation, one of the largest Israeli conglomerates. In addition to the Dead Sea Works, Israel Chemicals mines phosphates in the Negev desert.

ICL Group serves customers in Asia.

Operations and business
90% of ICL's sales are exports. Through its subsidiaries, ICL produces 35% of world's bromine, 13% of the world's potash (excluding US-Canada cross-border trade), 9% of the western world's magnesium and 3% of the world's phosphate rock, (excluding US-Canada cross-border trade).

ICL exports fertilizers to Europe and to numerous specialty chemical market segments. In Israel, ICL is the largest supplier of fertilizers and chemicals, as well as one of Israel's largest companies.

60% of ICL's raw products (minerals) are excavated in Israel. ICL also owns and operates underground mines in Spain, United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), China, the United States and South America. Also, in Ethiopia at Danakil mine, Afar Regional State, purchased from Allana Potash Corporation.

Polysulphate
Polysulphate is a brand name for a variety of polyhalite-based fertilizer products, used in farming. Polysulphate is derived from a polyhalite seam that lies  beneath the potash seam at Boulby Mine, England.

Food business 
ICL is active in the market for plant-based meat alternatives and invested $20 million in October 2019 to expand its manufacturing capacity and R&D base.

In December 2021, ICL announced the grand opening of a 10,000 square foot alternative protein production facility in St. Louis, Missouri.

Financials 
In April 2009, the company was said to be considering a bond offering to raise 500 million shekels ($122 million).

ICL announced in September 2018 that it was launching a tender to buy back $800 million worth of 4.5 percent debt due in 2024 sold to bondholders in 2014. The bonds of the new offer are running for 20 to 30 years.

References

External links

 Israel Chemicals acquires Allana Potash for $150m

Fertilizer companies of Israel
Companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Chemical companies of Israel
Ofer family
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Manufacturing companies based in Tel Aviv
Formerly government-owned companies of Israel
Lila Rajiva

Lila Rajiva  is an American writer. She has undergraduate degrees in economics and English as well as a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University, where she did doctoral work in international relations and political philosophy. She has taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

In 2005, Rajiva authored The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media, a study of propaganda which examines the place of Iraqi prisoner torture in U.S. culture and politics. Rajiva co-authored Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets with Bill Bonner, which details mass delusions in the markets and politics and explains why they continually arise. The book was awarded the GetAbstract International Book Award for 2008.

References

External links 
  
 Schema-root.org archive

American women journalists
American libertarians
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Writers from Baltimore
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women