alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Shenhua

Shenhua may refer to:

 Shenhua CTL, a planned coal liquefaction plant in Ningdong, Ningxia, China
 Shenhua Group, a state-owned coal mining and energy company in China
 China Shenhua Energy Company, subsidiary of Shenhua Group
 Ling Shenhua, a character from Sega's Shenmue video game series
 Shanghai Shenhua F.C., football team of Shanghai
 Shenhua (Black Lagoon), a character from the manga and anime series Black Lagoon
 The Myth (film) (), a 2005 Hong Kong action-fantasy-adventure film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan
 Shinhwa (신화/神話, Pinyin pronunciation), a popular South Korean boy band and hip hop group
WTJX-TV

WTJX-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 36), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas. Owned by the Virgin Islands Public Broadcasting System, it is sister to National Public Radio (NPR) member station WTJX-FM (93.1 MHz). The two stations share studios on Haypiece Hill in Charlotte Amalie; WTJX-TV's transmitter is located on Signal Hill.

WTJX-TV also operates a translator facility in Christiansted on Saint Croix: W05AW-D on VHF channel 5. In July 2007, WTJX St. Croix moved to a larger facility, with a full studio, control room, and editing bays.

The station has also created its own mascot, "Langford the Lizard", primarily displayed on their website.

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

References

External links

TJX-TV
PBS member stations
Television channels and stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in the United States Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
Public broadcasting in insular areas of the United States
Bolgary

Bolgary () is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
Bolgary, Mari El Republic, a village in Mariysky Rural Okrug of Mari-Tureksky District in the Mari El Republic
Bolgary, Oryol Oblast, a village in Alyabyevsky Selsoviet of Mtsensky District in Oryol Oblast
Bolgary, Okhansky District, Perm Krai, a village in Okhansky District of Perm Krai
Bolgary, Permsky District, Perm Krai, a village in Permsky District of Perm Krai
Bolgary, Republic of Tatarstan, a selo in Spassky District of the Republic of Tatarstan
Bolgary, Vladimir Oblast, a village in Sobinsky District of Vladimir Oblast
Johnson Valley, California



Johnson Valley is a small unincorporated community in San Bernardino County in Southern California between Victor Valley and Morongo Basin areas of the High Desert region of California. It is north of Highway 247 in the Mojave Desert, and north by northwest of Yucca Valley.  It is bordered by the San Bernardino Mountains to the south, Lucerne Valley to the west, and Landers to the east.

Geographically, Johnson Valley is the eastern portion of Lucerne Valley (referring to the geographical valley formation rather than the unincorporated town), opening up to the Homestead Valley in the southeast to the communities of Flamingo Heights, Landers, and Yucca Valley.

Population 
Defined as a ZCTA (ZIP-Code Tabulation Area, 92285), the combined population of Landers plus Johnson Valley (which share the zip code) is approximately 2,200 residents as of 2013.

Points of interest 
Johnson Valley, famous for the Chemihuevi Native Indian "Willie Boy" incident in 1909, is home to desert areas such as Rock Corral and a number of indigenous petroglyphic sites in the northernmost areas of Chaparral Desert landscapes south of Pisgah Crater. Johnson Valley is bordered by Landers to its south, and is the western gateway to Big Bear Lake, California.

Recreation 
Johnson Valley OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) area is a tract of BLM-managed land set aside for recreational use by residents and off-highway enthusiasts.  The OHV area is bordered by Interstate 40 at its northernmost point, at Highway 247's northern leg to Barstow at its western border, and at Emerson Dry Lake/US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at its easternmost border.  Off-Road Enthusiasts participate in a course known as "The Hammers", a triangular off-road track at Bessemer Mine Road at the southern point of Soggy Lake. King of the Hammers, an off-road desert race, utilizes trails found in "The Hammers". Expansion plans of the US Marine Corps AGCC Base include annexing parts of the OHV area, which may permanently close access to the track.

References

External links
 Official Johnson Valley Website
 Johnson Valley Weather Underground
 Johnson Valley Weather Webcam
 Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area - BLM

Populated places in the Mojave Desert
Valleys of the Mojave Desert
Unincorporated communities in San Bernardino County, California
Unincorporated communities in California
Valleys of California
Valleys of San Bernardino County, California
Dine

Dine may refer to:

People named Dine

Surname 

 Fiqri Dine (died 1960), Prime Minister of Albania's Quisling government under Nazi Germany and chieftain of the Dine clan from Debar
 Jim Dine (born 1935), American pop artist
 Nancy Dine (1937–2020), American filmmaker
 Spiro Dine (1846–1922), Albanian rilindas, writer and playwright; his most known work "Waves of the Sea" was at the time of its publication the longest book printed in Albanian
 S. S. Van Dine (1888–1939), American art critic and author
 Thomas Dine, chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

Given name 
 Dine Abduramanov (19th-century–1902), known as Dine Abduramana, was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a worker of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO)
 Dine Penger, a private Norwegian finance magazine, established in 1983 by Carl Johan Berg and Carsten O

Other uses
 "Dine Øjne", a single by Danish singer Jon Nørgaard, from his third studio album Uden dig, released in Denmark as a digital download on 7 March 2011 and peaked at number 14 on the Danish Singles Chart
 Beit ed-Dine, a town in Lebanon
 Diné, name for the Navajo in the Navajo language
 Dine Alone Records, an independent record label
 Dine and dash, failing to pay for a restaurant meal
 Diné College, a community college serving the Navajo Indian Reservation
 Dine's compensation, a principle in meteorology

See also
 Diné, an indigenous people in the Southwestern US
 Dyne, a unit of force
 Dyne (name)
Film Music (album)

Film Music (1985) is an album originally released on vinyl by the American trumpeter and synthesizer player, Mark Isham.

It consists of extended tracks from the soundtracks of three films. The first track is from the soundtrack of the film Mrs. Soffel (1984). The second track is from the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. This film won the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary. The material of the third track is from the Carroll Ballard film, Never Cry Wolf (1983).

Like Isham’s previous album, Vapor Drawings (1983), the material on this is deeply atmospheric and emphasizes the use of synthesizers often blended with acoustic instruments. Of the three films represented, Isham is only credited with performing trumpet on track two, "The Times of Harvey Milk".

Track listing
”Mrs. Soffel” – 13:59
”The Times of Harvey Milk” – 8:32
”Never Cry Wolf” – 24:48

Personnel
Mark Isham – synthesizers, penny whistle (track 1), piano (track 1), trumpet (track 2), production
Mark Alder – string arrangements and conducting (tracks 1 and 3), additional production (track 3)
Peter Maunu – violin (track 1)
Lyle Mays – piano (track 1)
Rufus Olivier – bassoon (track 3)
Bill Douglass – bamboo flutes (track 3)
George Marsh – percussion (tract 3)
Tucky Bailey – glass (track 3)
Natalie Cox – harp (track 3)
Annie Stocking – voice (track 3)
Stephanie Douglass – voice (track 3)
Kathy Hudnall – voice (track 3)
Jeanette Spartaine – voice (track 3)
Todd Boekelheide – engineer (tracks 1 and 3)
Gary Clayton – engineer (tracks 1 and 3)
Sam Lehmer – engineer (tracks 1 and 3)
Randy Selgrin – engineer (track 2)
Jack Leahy – engineer (track 3)
Jesse Osborne – engineer (track 3)
Bernie Grundman – (16 BIT digital mastering)
Anne Robinson – (graphic design)

Sources
Liner notes from the CD release

References

External links
Mark Isham’s official web site
[ Allmusic entry]

Mark Isham albums
Soundtrack compilation albums
1985 compilation albums
Windham Hill Records compilation albums
National Union of Public Workers

The National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) is a trade union in Barbados. It represents 10,000 workers, mainly in the public sector. It was established in 1944, and registered as a trade union in 1964. In 1971 it changed its name from the Barbados Civil Service Association (BSCSA).

References

Trade unions in Barbados
Caribbean Congress of Labour
UNI Global Union
Public Services International
Public sector trade unions
Trade unions established in 1944
List of compositions by Sergei Taneyev

Musical compositions of the Russian composer Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915)

Orchestral 
 Symphony (No. 1) in E minor (1873-4, published 1948) (edited by )
 Piano Concerto (1876, published 1957) in E flat (2 movements only. Completed by Pavel Lamm and Vissarion Shebalin)
 Symphony (No. 2) in B flat (unfinished - 3 movements only) (1877)
 Overture on Russian Themes in C (Song No. 10 from Rimsky-Korsakov's Song Collection, Op.24) (1882) (completed by Pavel Lamm, published in 1948) 
 Symphony (No. 3) in D minor (1884, published 1947)
 Oresteia, overture for orchestra, Op. 6 (1889, a symphonic poem based on themes from the opera)
 Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12 (1901) (the only numbered symphony Taneyev published)
 Concert Suite for violin & orchestra, Op. 28 (1909) (five movements: Prelude, Gavotte, Fairy Tale, Theme & Variations, Tarantella)

Chamber and instrumental music 
 String Trio in D major (1879/1880)
 Choral varié in A major for organ (1894?) 
 String Quintet No. 1 in G for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos, Op. 14 (1900-1901) 
 String Quintet No. 2 in C for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello, Op. 16 (1904) 
 Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 20 (1906)
 String Trio in D for 2 violins and viola, Op. 21 (1907)
 Piano Trio in D for violin, cello and piano, Op. 22 (1908)
 Prelude and Fugue for piano in G minor, Op. 29 (1910)
 Prelude in F major (1894-1895)
 Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30 (1911)
 String Trio in E major for violin, viola and viola-tenore, Op. 31 (1911); Viola-tenore is pitched one octave below the violin.
 Violin Sonata in A minor (1911)
 String Trio in B minor (1913)

String quartets 
(in chronological order)
 String Quartet, D minor, 1874–6 (2 movements completed)
 String Quartet (No. 7), E flat, 1880
 String Quartet (No. 8), C, 1882–3
 String Quartet (No. 9), A, 1883
 String Quartet No. 1, B flat minor, Op. 4, 1890
 String Quartet No. 2, C, Op. 5, 1894–5
 String Quartet No. 3, D minor, Op. 7, 1886, rev. 1896
 String Quartet No. 4, A minor, Op. 11, 1898–9
 String Quartet No. 5, A, Op. 13, 1902–3
 String Quartet No. 6, B flat, Op. 19, 1903–5
 String Quartet, C minor, 1911 (2 movements only)

Choral 
 John of Damascus ("A Russian Requiem"), Op. 1, for 4 part mixed chorus and orchestra (1884)
 Choruses, Op. 35, to words by Konstantin Balmont 
 At the Reading of a Psalm, cantata, Op. 36 (1915)
about 25 collections of religious and folk choruses

Opera 
 Oresteia (opera), (1887–1894)

Vocal 
 10 Romances, Op. 17
 (more than 60 other songs)

External links 
 
  - Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, cdr. Vasily Petrenko

References 
 David Brown, "Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed February 10, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
 David Brown, Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 1980, 
 Sleeve notes, Complete String Quartets of Sergei Taneyev, 5 CDs, Northern Flowers, St. Petersburg 

Taneyev, Sergei
NUPW

NUPW may refer to:

 National Union of Plantation Workers of Malaysia.
 National Union of Public Workers of Barbados.
BWU

BWU may mean:
 "BWU" (song), by Tegan and Sara
 Baldwin Wallace University, in Berea, Ohio
 BoyWithUke, an acronym commonly used by the BoyWithUke fandom
 Bankstown Airport, IATA airport code "BWU"
 Barbados Workers' Union
 Big Willy Unleashed, a side game in the Destroy All Humans franchise
 Blind Workers' Union of Victoria, a trade union in Australia
 Blue Whale Unit, a unit of measurement in whaling
Larm

Larm may refer to:
 Lärm, Dutch band
 Larm, Susan, Khuzestan Province, Iran
Svecia

Svecia (or Sveciaost, ost meaning cheese) is a Swedish cheese. It is a semi-hard cow's-milk cheese, with a creamy consistency, light yellow colour, small irregular holes, and a mildly acidic taste. It is produced in wax-covered cylinders weighing  each.

The cheese is similar to other Swedish hard cheeses whose manufacturing methods date back to perhaps the 13th century, but the name Svecia  — from the Latin Suecia meaning "Sweden" — is a 20th-century invention, dating to 1920.

Svecia is produced in a fashion typical to many semi-hard cheeses. Milk is pasteurized to  then cooled to around . Rennet is added to coagulate the milk into curds and lactic acid enzymes are added to replace enzymes and bacteria killed during pasteurization. The curd is cut, stirred, and slowly drained, then heated back up to a temperature near  to drive off more moisture. After salt is added, the curds are packed into moulds, loosely enough to leave the air pockets which make up Svecia's tiny holes. After a soak in brine, bringing the total salt content of the cheese to 1.0–1.5 percent by weight, the cheese is aged in a dry environment for at least two months — sometimes up to more than a year.

References

Swedish cheeses
Swedish products with protected designation of origin
Cheeses with designation of origin protected in the European Union
Cow's-milk cheeses
Grainy cheeses
Defensor

Defensor (Latin, 'one who defends') may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media
 Defensor (comics), a character in Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions
 Defensor (Transformers), a character in the media franchise

People
Defensor, a monk, compiler of the early medieval anthology Liber Scintillarum
Arthur Defensor Sr. (born 1941), a Filipino politician
Arthur Defensor Jr. (born 1969), a Filipino politician
Matias Defensor Jr. (born 1943), a Filipino politician
Mike Defensor (born 1969), a Filipino politician
Miriam Defensor Santiago (1945–2016), a Filipino academic, lawyer and statesman

Sports
 Defensor Arica, a Peruvian football club 
 Defensor Casablanca, a Chilean Football club
 Defensores de Belgrano, an Argentine sports club
 Defensores de Belgrano de Villa Ramallo, an Argentine sports club 
 Defensores de Cambaceres, an Argentine football club
 Defensor La Bocana, a Peruvian football club
 Defensor Lima, a Peruvian football club
 Defensor San Alejandro, a Peruvian football club
 Defensor San José, a Peruvian football club
 Defensor Sporting, a sports club in Uruguay
 Defensores Unidos, an Argentine football club
 Defensor Villa del Mar, a Peruvian football club
 Defensor Zarumilla, a Peruvian football club

Other uses
El Defensor de Granada ('The Defender of Granada'), 19th/early 20th century Spanish newspaper
El Defensor del Obrero ('The Defender of the Worker'), Uruguayan newspaper 1895–1896

See also 

 Defender (disambiguation)
 Protector (disambiguation)
 Defensor matrimonii ('defender of the bond') a Catholic Church official 
 Defensor pacis ('defender of peace'), a 1324 tract by Marsilius of Padua about popular sovereignty
 Defensor minor, written around 1342
 Defensor Fortis, motto of United States Air Force Security Forces
 Fidei defensor ('defender of the faith'), a phrase used as part of the full style of many monarchs and heads of state
Janica

Janica is a Slavic female given name, generally used in Croatia, the diminutive form of the name Jana. The English equivalent of the name is Janice or Janie.

People
Notable women named Janica:
 Janica Kostelić, Croatian female alpine skier

Fictional characters
The female protagonist of Slavko Kolar's Breza, and Ante Babaja's movie Breza, is called Janica.

Other
JAniCA initialism for Japanese Animation Creators Association.

See also
 
 Janika

Feminine given names
Croatian feminine given names
Czech feminine given names
Triveneto

The Triveneto () or  (; ; "Three Venetias"; ), also often referred to as North-Eastern Italy or simply North-East ( or ), is a historical region of Italy. The area is made up of the three smaller historical regions of  ("Euganean Venetia"),  ("Julian Venetia") and  ("Tridentine Venetia"). This territory was named after the Roman region of . 

Nowadays the name Triveneto is more commonly used in the Northern Italian languages, while its original title is still in use in the Southern Italian languages, and it includes the three administrative regions of Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: that is to say, the provinces of Belluno, Bolzano, Gorizia, Padua, Pordenone, Rovigo, Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Udine, Venice, Verona, and Vicenza. This area also corresponds to the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Region of Triveneto.

History 

The entire area was under Austrian rule in 1863; Italy annexed Venezia Euganea in 1866, following the Third Italian War of Independence and a controversial plebiscite (see Venetian nationalism); Venezia Giulia and Venezia Tridentina passed under the Italian rule in 1919, following the end of World War I.

After World War II, Italy retained the most part of Tre Venezie, but lost Slovenian and Croatian majority areas of the upper Isonzo valley (together with the eastern part of Gorizia, today called Nova Gorica), the city of Fiume, most part of Carso region and most part of Istria to Yugoslavia. The areas of Trieste (Zone A) and north-west Istria (Zone B) were formed in the Free Territory of Trieste: in 1954, Italy reannexed Zone A, while Zone B was ceded to Yugoslavia.

Heritage and culture 

This territory [specifically Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Fruli-Venezia Giulia] is known well for its close ties with the German and Slavic worlds. Its cultural history dates back to the people who inhabited the area before and during the Roman Empire (Euganei, ancient Veneti, Raeti, Carni, and Cenomani); to the Medieval duchies of Bavaria and Carinthia, Patriarchate of Aquileia and ; to the Republic of Venice and the Austrian Empire.

Currently, Italian is used as the official language in all the regions, but other local languages are spoken by the population: Venetian, Friulian, German, Ladin, and Slovene, in their several dialects.  German is a co-official language in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol; Friulian is co-official language in Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Slovene (Friuli-Venezia Giulia) and Ladin (Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol) are co-official languages in some municipalities.

See also 
Austrian Empire
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Italy
Northeast Italy
Padania
Venetia
Venetian nationalism

Notes

References

Further reading
 

Geographic history of Italy
Power Macintosh 4400

The Power Macintosh 4400 (sold as the Power Macintosh 7220 in some markets) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from November 1996 to February 1998. It differs from prior desktop Macintosh models in that it was built with industry-standard components such as an IDE hard drive and an ATX-like power supply.

The 4400 was introduced to the market at a time when several Macintosh clones were available on the market, often at prices lower than Apple's.  The "Tanzania" logic board in the 4400 was an Apple design but had only been used in clones up to this point.  MacWEEK's review described the case as "Strange in the Apple brood; when compared with PCs it fits right in with the flock. It is contained in a stock desktop PC case fitted with Apple's distinctive curved nose piece. The back is industrial-looking, while bent sheet metal fills the case's insides, sharp edges and all. The IDE drive sits on end, while the Comm II slot (occupied with an Ethernet card) and two PCI slots reside in a riser card. For the first time, Apple has abandoned automatic switching in the power supply, a small cost savings at the expense of international users' convenience."

This was the only Power Macintosh to be designed with the goal of using low-cost manufacturing techniques; the 4400 was removed from Apple's lineup a few months after the Power Macintosh G3 Desktop went on sale, which was priced comparably to the 4400 but used Apple's Power Macintosh 7300 form factor instead.

Models 

The initial 4400/160 model was only sold to the European market.  Some of Apple's online literature referred to the machine as the "Performa 4400", owing to its entry-level position in the market, but no machine sold was labelled as such.  (The Performa brand was formally retired a few months later.)

An updated 200 MHz 603e model was released in the United States in February 1997 as the Power Macintosh 4400/200. It was also available as a "PC Compatible" system with a 166 MHz DOS card containing 16 MB of RAM and a Cyrix 6x86 processor.

The Power Macintosh 4400 was sold as the Power Macintosh 7220 in Australia and Asia, where the number 4 is considered unlucky.  

Introduced November 7, 1996:
 Power Macintosh 4400/160: Sold in Europe; no L2 cache or Ethernet.

Introduced February 17, 1997:
The 200 MHz versions support a maximum RAM capacity of 160 MB, and have an updated PCI adapter card has two PCI slots and one Comm II slot, instead of three PCI slots.
 Power Macintosh 4400/200: Sold worldwide, except the Far East.
 Power Macintosh 7220/200: Sold in Far East countries, e.g. Japan and Australia.

Introduced April 4, 1997:
 Power Macintosh 4400/200 PC Compatible: Same as the 4400/200 with the addition of the PC Compatibility card, which enables running MS-DOS and Windows 95.  
 Power Macintosh 7220/200 PC Compatible: Same as the 4400/200 PC Compatible, sold in Far East countries and Europe.

Timeline

References

External links 

 Lowendmac.com - Power Macintosh 4400
 Apple-history.com - Power Macintosh 4400 information

4400
4400
Macintosh desktops
Macintosh case designs
Computer-related introductions in 1996
Sigmoid sinus

The sigmoid sinuses (sigma- or s-shaped hollow curve), also known as the , are paired dural venous sinuses within the skull that receive blood from posterior transverse sinuses.

Structure
The sigmoid sinus is a dural venous sinus situated within the dura mater. The sigmoid sinus receives blood from the transverse sinuses, which track the posterior wall of the cranial cavity, travels inferiorly along the parietal bone, temporal bone and occipital bone, and converges with the inferior petrosal sinuses to form the internal jugular vein. 

Each sigmoid sinus begins beneath the temporal bone and follows a tortuous course to the jugular foramen, at which point the sinus becomes continuous with the internal jugular vein.

Function
The sigmoid sinus receives blood from the transverse sinuses, which receive blood from the posterior aspect of the skull. Along its course, the sigmoid sinus also receives blood from the cerebral veins, cerebellar veins, diploic veins, and emissary veins.

References

External links
 http://neuroangio.org/venous-brain-anatomy/venous-sinuses/

Veins of the head and neck
John Kelley

John, Jack, or Johnny Kelley may refer to:

Sports
Jack Kelley (ice hockey) (1927–2020), American ice hockey coach
John Kelley (ice hockey) (1907–1986), American ice hockey player
John J. Kelley (1930–2011), American runner, winner of the 1957 Boston Marathon; "Kelley the Younger"
Johnny Kelley (1907–2004), American runner, winner of the 1935 and 1945 Boston Marathons; "Kelley the Elder"

Other
John Kelley (criminal), reputed mobster who was an associate of the Patriarca crime family
John C. Kelley, American television writer and producer
John Edward Kelley (1853–1941), U.S. Representative from South Dakota
John L. Kelley (1916–1999), American mathematician
John William Kelley (born 1963), American serial killer
Jack Kelley (journalist), USA Today reporter
John Kelley (Medal of Honor), Irish-born recipient of the Medal of Honor

See also
 Jon Kelley (born 1965), American sports journalist, author, producer, and television personality
 John Kelly (disambiguation)
 John Calley (1930–2011), American film studio executive and producer
 John Calley (engineer) (1663–1725), British
Westerstede

Westerstede  (; Low German: Westerstäe) is the capital of the Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km northwest of Oldenburg.

It is known for hosting the Rhodo Festival, the biggest exhibition of rhododendrons in Europe. The festival is hosted every four years (next time in 2023).

The villages of Burgforde, Eggeloge, Felde, Fikensolt, Garnholt, Gießelhorst, Halsbek, Halstrup, Hollriede, Hollwege, Hollwegerfeld, Hüllstede, Ihausen, Ihorst, Karlshof, Linswege, Linswegerfeld, Mansie, Lindern, Moorburg, Neuengland, Ocholt, Ocholterfeld, Ollenharde, Petersfeld, Tarbarg, Torsholt, Westerloy, Westerloyerfeld and Westerstederfeld are part of Westerstede.

The railway station of Westerstede is located in the village of Ocholt, 6 km south of the town. Trains from and to Leer and Oldenburg halt there every hour.

The community (and the whole Ammerland region) is famous for its tree nurseries. They grow rhododendrons that are sold outside Germany as well. The slightly acid peat soil is very suitable for this type of horticulture.

Near Linswege village,  7 km north-east of Westerstede, a Rhododendron Park has been established next to a beautiful wooded area. The park is open to visitors in May and June every year.

Mayor
The current mayor of Westerstede is Michael Rösner (UWG), who has been in office since 2019.

Notable people

 Wolfgang Hackbusch (born 1948), mathematician
 Eilhardus Lubinus (1565–1621), professor of poetics, theology, mathematics, geography, and Rector of the University of Rostock
 Bruno Steinhoff (born 1937), billionaire businessman, founder of Steinhoff International
 Friedrich Tietjen (1834–1895), astronomer

External links
 Pictures from spring festival in Westerstede
 Rhodo Festival

References

Ammerland
Breed to Breathe

Breed to Breathe is an EP by English extreme metal band Napalm Death, released in 1997 through Earache on CD.

Release
The album is printed as CD Extra and contains a data track which features the video clip for the song "Breed to Breathe" and other band-related content such as a discography and a band history. Due to the depiction of graphic material the video clip prompted the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft, the German motion picture rating system organization, to ban it in Germany and even to obtain a court decision that declared the clip illegal. Many media around the world also refused to feature the clip.

Both bands that deliver a Napalm Death song on the sixth track are winners of a demo cover version competition that Napalm Death had launched in summer 1997 and limited to bands without a recording contract.

Track listing

Personnel

Napalm Death
 Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals
 Jesse Pintado – guitar
 Mitch Harris – guitar
 Shane Embury – bass
 Danny Herrera – drums

Technical personnel
 Colin Richardson – production
 Paul Siddens – recording
 Andy Sneap – mixing
 Tony Wooliscroft – band photograph
 Antz White – design, layout
 Graham Humphreys – design, layout
 Scalp – multimedia construction

References

1997 EPs
Napalm Death EPs
Earache Records EPs
Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions

The Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (, ) was a confederation and center of trade unions in Belarus. It had 15,000 members in 4 affiliated unions and its headquarters were located in Minsk.

Affiliates

The following trade unions are currently affiliated to BKDP:

 
 Belarus Free Trade Union

History

BKDP was founded in 1993.

In September 2020, during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, the Belarusian government arrested workers striking at Belaruskali. Some of the workers were members of BKDP affiliate Belarusian Independent Trade Union, including its vice-president.

On April 7, 2022, the KGB declared the BKDP affiliate Belarusian Radio-Electrical Manufacturing Workers' Trade Union to be an extremist formation. This was the first time that Belarusian authorities had designated a registered trade union as extremist. On April 19, law enforcement agencies raided the offices of BKDP and several affiliate unions. They confiscated computers, paperwork and union flags. BKDP president Aliaksandr Yarashuk, vice-president Siarhei Antusevich and other officials from BKDP and affiliated unions were also arrested. The European Trade Union Confederation and the International Labour Organization condemned the arrests of the officials and demanded they be set free.

In July 2022, the Supreme court of Belarus forcibly dissolved all the affiliated unions and the Congress itself, ostensibly for taking part in 'destructive activity' and 'disseminating extremist content'.

In late 2022 and early 2023, Belarusian courts sentenced the leaders of the independent unions to several years in prison.

References

International Trade Union Confederation
National trade union centers of Belarus
Fumiko Kometani

is a Japanese author and artist (painter) and a longtime resident of the United States. Kometani moved to the US in 1960 when she was working as an abstract painter, spending time at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire where she met her husband, Josh Greenfeld (now living in California). She changed her focus to writing when her developmentally disabled son Noah became too hard to handle when he was around the art supplies in her studio. Her older son, Karl Taro Greenfeld, is also a writer.

Kometani is also noted for her expressed displeasure of what she terms the fascist mentality of the World War II Japanese Army. She regularly participates in anti-war and anti-nuclear protests.

Her first book, Passover, received the distinguished Akutagawa Prize. It was subsequently described in The New York Times as "anti-Semitic" and an example of Japan's "widespread anti-Semitism", although Kometani's husband is Jewish, and the novel was an adaption of a visit to his parents' house. A judge for the Akutagawa Prize claimed that the Times had misinterpreted the sardonic and self-ridiculing tone of the novel.

Awards 
 Bungakkai shinjinshoo (1985)
 Shinchoo shinjinshoo (1985)
 Akutagawashoo (1985) (One of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan)
 Murasaki Shikibu Prize (1998)

References

External links
 Fumiko Kometani at J'Lit Books from Japan 
 Synopsis of Wasabi for Breakfast (Famiri bijinesu) at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) 

American artists of Japanese descent
Akutagawa Prize winners
Writers from Osaka
Converts to Judaism
Japanese Jews
1930 births
Living people
Japanese emigrants to the United States
American anti-fascists
Japanese anti-fascists
Jewish anti-fascists
Edewecht

Edewecht (Low German: Erwech) is a municipality in the Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately  west of Oldenburg.

Villages in the municipality and their population

Friedrichsfehn Nord	1,747
Friedrichsfehn Süd	3,185
Husbäke	1,005 (known for the bog bodies found there; see: List of bog bodies)
Jeddeloh I	1,101
Jeddeloh II	1,333
Kleefeld	439
Klein Scharrel	1,229
Nord Edewecht I 2,246
Nord Edewecht II 2,548
Osterscheps	1,604
Portsloge	1,962
Süddorf	          608
Süd Edewecht	2,256
Westerscheps	554
Wildenloh	805
Wittenberge	386

total:	23,008

Edewecht only	7,050
Friedrichsfehn only	4,932

Source: website of the Edewecht Municipality.

Date: June 30, 2020.

The population figures include people, who have a second home in Edewecht besides to a dwelling elsewhere, and legally residing foreigners.

History
Edewecht was the scene of severe fights during the last weeks of the Second World War. Coming from Friesoythe in the south, on April 17, 1945, Canadian troops had to conquer Edewecht in fierce house-by-house fighting against fanatic German paratroopers and other soldiers. The famous German artist Joseph Beuys, who was a young man in these days, was one of the Wehrmacht paratroopers defending Edewecht, and got injured on April, 27 during battle.

This battle was the fifth time that Edewecht was destroyed in a war. The first four times were in the 15th and 16th centuries. Edewecht had been a border watch location between Eastern Frisia and the County of Oldenburg for many centuries.

Twin towns
Edewecht is twinned with
  Krosno in Poland  (since 1996) 
  Wusterhausen/Dosse in Brandenburg  Germany

Sons and daughters 
 Hein ten Hoff (1919-2003),  German boxer

References
Notes

Ammerland
John O'Keefe

John O'Keefe or O'Keeffe may refer to:

Politicians, diplomats and judges
 John O'Keefe (Irish politician) (1827–1877), Member of Parliament for Dungarvan, 1874–1877
 John O'Keefe (Australian politician) (1880–1942), Queensland state MP
 John Martin O'Keefe (born 1946), U.S. diplomat

Scientists
 John A. O'Keefe (astronomer) (1916–2000), American planetary scientist
 John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) (born 1939), American British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Sportspeople
 John O'Keeffe (Cork hurler) (1894–1973), Irish hurler in the 1910s and 1920s
 John O'Keeffe (Gaelic footballer) (born 1951), Irish footballer who played for Kerry
 John O'Keeffe (Tipperary hurler) (born 1988), Irish hurler in the 2000s
 John O'Keeffe (Australian rules footballer) (born 1943), Australian rules footballer with Fitzroy
 John R. O'Keefe (born 1936), Australian rules footballer with Carlton
 Jack O'Keefe (1915–2000), Australian rules footballer

Other people
 John O'Keeffe (writer) (1747–1833), sometimes O'Keefe, Irish playwright
 John O'Keeffe (painter) ( 1797–1838), Irish painter
 John O'Keefe (playwright) (born 1940), American playwright
 Johnny O'Keefe (1935–1978), Australian rock and roll singer
Olds Grizzlys

The Olds Grizzlys are a junior A ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League.  They play in Olds, Alberta, Canada with home games at the Olds & District Sports Complex.

History
The Olds Grizzlys joined the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) after the Taber Golden Suns franchise relocated to Olds following the 1980–81 season. The Grizzlys were a dominant team in the AJHL in the early 1990s with three straight league championships and a Centennial Cup title as Junior A national champions, won on home ice, in 1994.

On June 30, 2017, the league announced that the franchise had been transferred to new ownership called the "Friends of the Grizzlys."

Season-by-season records
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T/OTL = Ties/Overtime losses, SOL = Shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Junior A National Championship
The National Junior A Championship, known as the Centennial Cup and formerly as the Royal Bank Cup or RBC Cup, is the postseason tournament for the Canadian national championship for Junior A hockey teams that are members of the Canadian Junior Hockey League since 1971. Since 1986, the tournament has consisted of the regional Junior A champions and a previously selected host team. Since 1990, the national championship has used a five-team tournament format when the regional qualifiers were designated as the ANAVET Cup (Western), Doyle Cup (Pacific), Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), and Fred Page Cup (Eastern). From 2013 to 2017, the qualifiers were the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), Fred Page Cup (Eastern), and the Western Canada Cup champions and runners-up (Western #1 and #2).

The tournament begins with round-robin play between the five teams followed by the top four teams playing a semifinal game, with the top seed facing the fourth seed and the second facing the third. The winners of the semifinals then face each other in final game for the national championship. In some years, the losers of the semifinal games face each other for a third place game.

NHL alumni
The following former Grizzlys have gone on to play in the National Hockey League (NHL):
Darcy Campbell
Phil Crowe
Kevin Haller
Nathan Lawson
Jay Rosehill
Matthew Yeats

See also
 List of ice hockey teams in Alberta

References

External links
Olds Grizzlys website
Alberta Junior Hockey League website

Alberta Junior Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Alberta
Ice hockey clubs established in 1981
1981 establishments in Alberta
Drymarchon melanurus erebennus

Drymarchon melanurus erebennus, commonly known as the Texas indigo snake, is a subspecies of large, nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The subspecies is native to Texas in the United States and adjacent Mexico.

Geographic range
D. m. erebennus is found from southern Texas south into Mexico as far as Veracruz.

Description
Dorsally, the Texas indigo snake is predominantly black in color, with a high sheen which gives its smooth scales a remarkable iridescent hue. The underside is often a salmon pink color. It is a large snake, regularly attaining a total length (including tail) beyond . Specimens  long are not unheard of.

Habitat
The Texas indigo snake prefers lightly vegetated areas not far from permanent water sources, but is also found in mesquite savannah, open grassland areas, and coastal sand dunes. It dens in burrows left by other animals.

Behavior and diet
D. m. erebennus is diurnal, and spend most of its time actively hiding. It will consume almost anything it can overpower and swallow, including mammals, birds, lizards, frogs, turtles, eggs, and even other snakes, including rattlesnakes. Because of its aggressive attacks on rattlesnakes, many farmers in southern Texas consider it a useful ally. Hence the adage, "If it's an indigo, let it go."  It is not a typically aggressive snake, but may bite or release a foul smelling musk from its cloaca if handled or harassed. Like many colubrid snakes, it will often shake its tail as a warning – even though it does not possess a rattle.

Reproduction
Breeding of D. m. erebennus takes place, generally yearly, in the winter. Clutches that average 10–12 eggs are laid in the spring, and hatch around 80 days later. Hatchlings can be up to  long. Maturity is reached in 2–3 years.

Conservation
The Texas indigo snake is listed as a threatened species by the state of Texas. Its primary threat is from habitat loss due to human development. Each snake requires a large home range to forage, and urban sprawl is shrinking its usable habitat. Roads bisect its territory, and many snakes each year are run over by cars.

References

Further reading

Werler, John E.; Dixon, James R. (2000). Texas snakes: Identification, Distribution, and Natural History. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 522 pp. . (Texas indigo snake, pp. 98–102).
Crother BI, Boundy J, Campbell JA, de Quieroz K, Frost D, Green DM, Highton R, et al. (2003). "Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico: Update". Herpetological Review 34: 196–203.

Drymarchon
Snakes of North America
Reptiles of Mexico
Reptiles of the United States
Fauna of the Rio Grande valleys
Reptiles described in 1860
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
Rastede

Rastede  (Low German: Raastäe/Raas) is a municipality in the Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km north of Oldenburg. It is the site of the Schloss Rastede.

The Rastede railway station is located at the Oldenburg–Wilhelmshaven railway.

Sons and daughters 
 Hermann Schussler (1842-1919), German water-systems engineer and architect of dams 
 Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1783-1853), Grand Duke of Oldenburg
 Christian, Duke of Oldenburg (born 1955), Duke of Oldenburg
 Lenn Kuck (born 2001)
 Uwe Stahmer (born 1960), famous motorcycle restorer

References

Ammerland
John Andrew Pearson

John Andrew Pearson may refer to:

 John A. Pearson, Canadian architect
 John Andrew Pearson (Royal Navy officer)
Wiefelstede

Wiefelstede  (Low German: Wiefelstä) is a municipality in the Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km northwest of Oldenburg.

It is home to Brötje Automation GmbH, an automated aircraft assembly manufacturer.

The St. Johannes Evangelical Lutheran church located in Wiefelstede is the oldest stone church in the Ammerland Region.  The church opened in 1057.

Sons and daughters 
 Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976), German lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg

References

Ammerland
Antonio Pinto

Antonio Pinto may refer to:

 António Pinto (runner) (born 1966), Portuguese long-distance runner 
 Antônio Pinto (composer) (born 1967), Brazilian composer of film music
 António Costa Pinto (born 1953), Portuguese professor of politics and history
 Antonio Augusto Ferreira Pinto Júnior (born 1986), Brazilian defensive midfielder
 António Marinho e Pinto (born 1950), Portuguese lawyer and former journalist

See also
Antonio Vico y Pintos (1840–1940), Spanish stage actor
Pinto, a list of people whose given name or surname is Pinto
Pinto (disambiguation)
Schraderia mardeni

Schraderia mardeni is a species of amphipod in the family Pontogeneiidae. It was originally described as Dolobrotus mardeni, and was the only species in the genus Dolobrotus, but that genus is now considered a synonym of Schraderia. Discovered by Luis Marden, after whom it is named, Schraderia mardeni is a deep-water Atlantic lobster-bait scavenger or parasite.

References

Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean
Gammaridea
Crustaceans described in 1974
Architectural Association of Kenya

The Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) is a corporate body for professionals in the built and natural environments in Kenya. It draws its membership from eight major disciplines:
Architects (Arch.)
Quantity Surveyors (QS)
Town Planners (Plan.)
Engineers (Eng.)
Landscape Architects (LArch.)
Construction Project Managers (CPM)
Environmental Design Consultants (EDC)
Interior Designers (ID)

Landscape architecture is a new practice in Kenya, first inaugurated in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. It deals with design of open spaces ranging from residential to public space. It entails design of plazas (foyers, street plazas, mixed and pedestrian malls), squares, parks (neighbourhood, mini, public parks), golf courses, town aesthetics.

AAK Co-operative Sacco Ltd

Licensed under the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives, AAK Co-operative Sacco Ltd (The Architectural Association of Kenya Co-operative Savings and Credit Society Limited) (also dubbed The Built Environment Sacco) is the premier Sacco serving professionals in the built environment industry. They include architects, quantity surveyors, engineers, town planners, environmental design consultants, landscape architects, and construction project managers. Membership to the Sacco is also open to immediate family members of the said professionals and staff of firm members of AAK and affiliated associations. The Sacco undertakes Back Office Savings Activity (BOSA) activities for its members.

References

Architecture-related professional associations
Commonwealth Association of Architects
Professional associations based in Kenya
Mount Paran Christian School

Mount Paran Christian School is a coventantal private Christian school located in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States. It includes pre-K through twelfth grade.

Organization 

Mount Paran Christian School opened in 1976 as a private independent school.

Academics 
MPCS (Mount Paran Christian School) is accredited through Cognia and the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS). Mount Paran Christian School offers a full college-preparatory program with Honors and Advanced Placement classes. MPCS incorporates art, music, computer, foreign language, and physical education as regular components of the instructional program, beginning in preschool and extending through high school.

Mount Paran Christian School offers a program for gifted students in lower school called ENCORE. Entrance into this program is based on testing and teacher recommendations. Advanced classes are offered in math and language arts for grades 5-8 and accelerated classes starting in seventh grade.

Admission 
Mount Paran Christian School's admissions department makes admission decisions for prospective students with the following general criteria in mind: faith commitment of the family and applicant, readiness to learn, relevant academic skills, behavioral history, self-motivation, and leadership potential.

Sports 
Mount Paran competes in Georgia High School Association's Region 2-A.
 Baseball
 Basketball
 Cheerleading
 Cross country
 Dance Team
 Esports
 Fishing
 Football
 Golf
 Lacrosse
 Soccer
 Softball
 Swimming
 Tennis
 Track and field
 Volleyball
 Wrestling

Murray Arts Center 
The Murray Arts Center, bought by the school, opened in August 2008. Costing $35 million, the complex includes an 800-seat music hall, theater, dance studios and video production facilities.

References

External links 
 Mt. Paran Christian School

Christian schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Private high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Educational institutions established in 1976
Schools in Cobb County, Georgia
Kennesaw, Georgia
Private middle schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Private elementary schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Preparatory schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
1976 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
William Shanks

William Shanks (25 January 1812 – June 1882) was an English amateur mathematician. He is famous for his calculation of  (pi) to 707 places in 1873, which was correct up to the first 527 places. The error was discovered in 1944 by D. F. Ferguson (using a mechanical desk calculator). Nevertheless, Shanks's approximation was the longest expansion of  until the advent of the digital electronic computer in the 1940s.

Biography 
Shanks was born in 1812 in Corsenside. He may have been a student of William Rutherford as a young boy in the 1820s, and he dedicated a book on  published in 1853 to Rutherford. After his marriage in 1846, Shanks earned his living by owning a boarding school at Houghton-le-Spring, which left him enough time to spend on his hobby of calculating mathematical constants.

In addition to calculating , Shanks also calculated e and the Euler–Mascheroni constant γ to many decimal places. He published a table of primes (and the periods of their reciprocals) up to 110,000 and found the natural logarithms of 2, 3, 5 and 10 to 137 places. During his calculations, which took many tedious days of work, Shanks was said to have calculated new digits all morning and would then spend all afternoon checking his morning's work.

Shanks died in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, England in June 1882, aged 70, and was buried at the local Hillside Cemetery on 17 June 1882.

Calculations of pi 

To calculate , Shanks used Machin's formula:
 

Shanks calculated  to 530 decimal places in January 1853, of which the first 527 were correct (the last few likely being incorrect because of round-off errors). He subsequently expanded his calculation to 607 decimal places in April 1853, but an error introduced at the start of the new calculation, right at the 530th decimal place where his previous calculation ended, rendered the rest of his calculation erroneous. Given the nature of Machin's formula, the error propagated back to the 528th decimal place, leaving only the first 527 digits correct once again. In April 1873, twenty years later, Shanks expanded his calculation to 707 decimal places. Because this was an expansion of his previous calculation, all of the new digits were incorrect as well.

The approximation in the image reads as follows:

See also
Chronology of computation of π
History of π

References

External links
 Shanks's biography at the University of St Andrews
 Article about Shanks in Houghton-le-Spring
 Matt Parker explains the William Shanks method.

1812 births
1882 deaths
19th-century English mathematicians
Pi-related people
Amateur mathematicians
People from Houghton-le-Spring