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Karel Kovařovic

Karel Kovařovic (9 December 1862  6 December 1920) was a Czech composer and conductor from Prague.

Life
From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory. He began his career as a harpist. In 1900 Kovařovic became the conductor of the national theatre in Prague, due mostly to the success of his opera The Dogheads, after the novel of the same name (about Jan Sladký Kozina) by Alois Jirásek. His engagement at the National Theatre lasted twenty years, until 1920. He composed seven operas.

Kovařovic is most remembered today for the revisions he made to Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa for its premiere in Prague, and it was in his version that the opera was heard for many years.

A recording of The Dogheads, featuring Beno Blachut, exists.

Compositions

Orchestra 
 1880 Předehra veseloherní (Comic overture)
 1883 Únos Persefony, symphonic poem
 1887 Concerto in f mineur, for piano and orchestra, op. 6
 1892 Předehra dramatická (Dramatic overture)
 1900 Fantasie from the opera "Prodaná nevěsta" of Bedřich Smetana
 Deux suites de ballet
 Gavotta, for violin and string quartet, op. 4
 Havířská polka (Miners' polka) from play Mr Brouček's excursion to the Exhibition (1894) 
 Valčík (waltz), for chamber orchestra

Works for wind band 
 1911 Lustspiel Ouverture
 1914 Vzpomínky
 Havířská polka

Theatre

Operas

Ballet

Incidental music 
 1918 Loutkářův sirotek, melodrama – text: Svatopluk Čech "Ve stínu lípy"
 Zlatý kolovrat, melodrama – text: Karel Jaromír Erben

Vocal music

Works for choir 
 1890 Královničky; staré obřadné tance moravské se zpěvy, for women (SSAA) en piano (of harmonium)

Song 
 1880 Osmero písní, for soprano and piano, op. 1
 1885 Tři žertovné písně (Three humorous songs)
 1887 Jarní květy (Spring blossoms), for soprano and piano, op. 7
 1892–1893 Čtyři písně (Four songs), op. 18
 Der Abendstern – text:  August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
 Gottes Nähe
 Frühlings Mahnung – text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
 Im Arm der Liebe schlummre ein – text: Georg Scheurlin
 1897–1898 Dvě písně (Two songs), for soprano or tenor and piano
 1915 Slovácká píseň, for high voice and piano  – text: Ema Destinnová
 1919 Svítání (Dayspring), for voice and orchestra – text: Vojtěch Martínek

Chamber music 
 String quartet No 1 (1885)
 String quartet No 2 (1887)
 String quartet No 3 (1889)
 Romance for violin and piano, op. 2

Works for piano 
 1885 Co ti to napadá, polka
 1910 Deux valses, 
 1910 Polka 
 1910 Deux mazurkas
 Čtverylka, quadrille 
 Národní tance
 Pasačka
 Starodávný
 Holuběnka
 Naše vlast, fantasie

Notes

References

External links
Works

1862 births
1920 deaths
Czech classical composers
Czech male classical composers
Czech conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
19th-century conductors (music)
Czech opera composers
Male opera composers
19th-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century conductors (music)
Composers from Prague
Prague Conservatory alumni
20th-century Czech male musicians
Composers from Austria-Hungary
Julie Deiters

Julie Bénédicte Deiters (born 4 September 1975 in Meudon) is a France-born former Dutch field hockey player. She played 166 international matches for the Netherlands, in which the defender scored fourteen goals.

Deiters was a member of the Netherlands squad that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. A player from Amsterdam, Deiters made her debut on 4 February 1997 in a friendly against South Africa. Her last match for the Dutch Women's Team came on August 26, 2001, when she faced Argentina (2-3) during the Champions Trophy in Amstelveen.

References

External links
 

1975 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Dutch people of French descent
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
People from Meudon
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Hauts-de-Seine
Korean Destroyer eXperimental

KDX (Korean Destroyer eXperimental) is a substantial shipbuilding program embarked on by the Republic of Korea Navy.

It is a three-phased program consisting of three individual classes of ships:
 KDX-I (3,800 tons),
 KDX-II (5,500 tons),
 Aegis-equipped KDX-III (11,000 tons).
 KDX-IIA, planned derivative of KDX-II with Aegis combat system (5,500 ~ 7,500 tons)

Gwanggaeto the Great class destroyer (KDX-I)

Chungmugong Yi Sun-shin class destroyer (KDX-II)

Sejong the Great class destroyer (KDX-III)

Destroyers of the Republic of Korea Navy
Myrna Veenstra

Myrna Veenstra (born 4 March 1975) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands. She was born in Goes and played 79 international matches for the Netherlands as a defender. During her international career, she scored one goal.

Veenstra was a member of the Netherlands squad that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She made her first international appearance on 6 February 1997 in a friendly against South Africa. Her last match for the Dutch Women's Team came on 29 September 2000, when they faced Spain (2-0) during the bronze medal match at the Sydney Olympics.

External links
 

1975 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Sportspeople from Goes
Honeywell TPE331

The Honeywell TPE331 (military designation: T76) is a turboprop engine. It was designed in the 1950s by Garrett AiResearch, and produced since 1999 by successor Honeywell Aerospace. The engine's power output ranges from .

Design and development
Garrett AiResearch designed the TPE331 from scratch in 1959 for the military. “Designed as a 575-horsepower engine it was not a scaled-down version of a larger engine, as competitors were offering.”
The TPE331 originated in 1961 as a gas turbine (the "331") to power helicopters. It first went into production in 1963. More than 700 had been shipped by the end of 1973. It was designed to be both a turboshaft (TSE331)  and a turboprop (TPE331), but the turboshaft version never went into production. The first engine was produced in 1963, installed on the Aero Commander in 1964 and put into production on the Aero Commander Turbo Commander in June 1965.

Performance

The 715 shp TPE331-6 used in the Beech King Air B100 have a 400-hr. fuel nozzle cleaning interval, 1,800-hr. hot section inspection interval and a 5,400-hr. time between overhaul; approval is possible for 3,000-hr. HSIs and 6,000-hr. overhauls and engine reserves are cheaper than for the PT6A.

Variants

Military variants (T76)

T76-G-2
T76-G-4
T76-G-6
T76-G-8
T76-G-10
T76-G-12
T76-G-12A
T76-G-14
T76-G-16
T76-G-410
T76-G-411
T76-G-416
T76-G-417
T76-G-418
T76-G-419
T76-G-420
T76-G-421

Commercial variants (TPE331)

Applications

Fitted with TPE-331s as a replacement for their original engines

Specifications

See also

References

Bibliography

External links

 TPE 331 Cost Protection Programs
 TPE 331 Engine Conversions
 Power and fuel flow versus altitude and speed, for version 10.  (Archive)

1960s turboprop engines

TPE331
Whitman College, Princeton University

Whitman College is one of seven residential colleges at Princeton University, New Jersey, United States. The college is named after Meg Whitman, a former CEO of eBay, who donated $30 million to build the college. The structures were designed by the architect  Demetri Porphyrios, the winner of the 2004 Driehaus Prize. Whitman College was completed in the fall of 2007, and first occupied during the 2007–08 academic year.

Whitman is a four-year residential college, open to students of all four academic classes. Its sister college is Forbes College. Although it is possible for any upperclassman to live in Whitman, priority for housing room draw is given to those upperclassmen who lived in either Whitman or Forbes as underclassmen.

The current head of Whitman is Claire F. Gmachl; she is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. The Dean is Dr. Jaclyn Schwalm. The Assistant Dean/Director of Studies is Dr. Matthew Newmam, the Assistant Dean/Director of Student Life is Momo Wolapaye, the Program Administrator is Kristin Frasier, and the Office Coordinator is Sara Krause.  Josue Lajeunesse, a custodian at Whitman College, is a main subject of the documentary film The Philosopher Kings, and is also an active humanitarian working to make clean water accessible to the people of his home village of Lasource, Haiti.

The residential college comprises seven dormitories: Baker Hall, Hargadon Hall, Fisher Hall, Lauritzen Hall, Class of 1981 Hall, Murley-Pivirotto Family Tower, and Wendell Hall.  The college's dining hall is called Community Hall, so named not for the University community but rather after the eBay community.

Whitman College participates in seasonal intramural athletics, including soccer, volleyball and Ultimate Frisbee. Whitman also organizes a variety of other recreational activities, including a craft circle and the Jane Austen literary society.

In 2007, the college was criticized in a Bloomberg Businessweek article for its "over-the-top comforts."

References

External links

 Official website
 

Colleges of Princeton University
 2007 establishments in New Jersey
New Classical architecture
Suzan van der Wielen

Suzan Jacobien Unia van der Wielen (born October 30, 1971, in Emmen, Drenthe) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who played 191 international matches for the Netherlands, in which the striker scored a total number of seventy goals.

External links
 
 Dutch Hockey Federation

1971 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
HGC (field hockey) players
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Sportspeople from Emmen, Netherlands
Amar Gamal

Amar Gamal (born Teresa Infante c. 1975) is a Cuban bellydancer who grew up in Florida.

Early life and education 
Gamal, born Teresa Infante, grew up in Miami where she learned to bellydance at the age of thirteen. At thirteen, she began performing with the Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange company, based in Miami Beach. One of her directors at the time was the well-known dancer, Tamalyn Dallal, who had inspired her when she was younger.

Gamal went on to become the first dancer to audition with bellydancing techniques and be accepted at the New World School of the Arts' Performing Arts School. While a senior at the New World School of Arts, Gamal also taught dancing to young children. She trained in other types of dancing, such as ballet, jazz, tap, flamenco and modern, while at that school. 

Gamal graduated with a degree in psychology at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.

Career 
After graduation Gamal performed during the NFL's Super Bowl XXIX in 1995, and participated in the Miss World of Bellydancing contest of 1996, before dancing for five different dance companies.

In 1997, she performed at the Gianni Versace fashion show. In 1998, she participated at the Oriental Dance Production, in Lexington, Kentucky. During the late 1990s she has performed in Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and Costa Rica.

In 2002 Gamal earned first place in the Mondo Melodia Bellydance Breakbeats competition and was chosen to participate in the release tour of a CD — Bellydance Superstars — released on November 12.

Gamal was a member of the Bellydance Superstars, a professional dance company that was founded in 2003 and toured the United States in 2004. She founded the group BellyQueen with another dancer named Kaeshi Chai, and Jenna Rosenberg was also a member of the group.

Gamar has taught belly dancing in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, in New York City and in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She appeared as herself in the 2005 documentary, "American Bellydancer". In 2002, she had appeared in a concert DVD, "Bellydance Superstars". On 11 March, 2008, Gamal released a video titled "Mastering the Dance: Amar Gamal".

References

External links 
Official website 

1970s births
Belly dancers
Living people
People from Miami Beach, Florida
Cuban female dancers
Cuban dancers
Bridgewater State University alumni
Cuban emigrants to the United States
PREPA

PREPA or prepa may refer to:
 the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act
 the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
 Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, part of the French educational system

See also
 Prepa
James Madio

James Madio (born November 22, 1975) is an American actor, known for his roles in USA High, Hook and as Technician Fourth Grade Frank Perconte in Band of Brothers.

Early life
A native of The Bronx, Madio was raised in Morris Park and Pelham Bay.

Career
Madio was born as one of seven children in his family. At the age of 15, he had his first audition in Steven Spielberg's 1991 film Hook. He landed the role of "Don't Ask", one of the Lost Boys. Among the cast of Hook was Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, who had been cast as the villainous Captain Hook. Hoffman took notice of Madio and had him cast as his character's son in the 1992 comedy Hero.

He later appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries as a teenage drug addict. In 1997 Madio landed a regular role on the teen sitcom USA High where he played funny-man Bobby Lazzerini during the show's first season.

He has played lead roles in television series including miniseries Band of Brothers, in which he portrayed Frank Perconte. Madio contacted Perconte to develop ideas on how to play the real-life sergeant as well as to understand Perconte's background and history. In 2003 Madio was cast in a main role of Mike Powell on the short-lived CBS courtroom drama Queens Supreme.

In recent years, Madio has been focused on voice-acting and acting in independent films. He made a 2011 guest appearance on an episode of the new TV Land comedy series The Exes. In 2021, Madio was cast as Carmine, right hand to crime boss   Joe Colombo (played by Giovanni Ribisi) in the Paramount+ limited streaming series The Offer, which details the making of the film The Godfather.

Filmography

References

External links
Official website

1975 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from the Bronx
21st-century American male actors
American male child actors
American people of Italian descent
Laddie Boy

Laddie Boy (July 26, 1920 – January 23, 1929) was an Airedale Terrier owned by U.S. President Warren G. Harding. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. His father was Champion Tintern Tip Top. He was presented to US President Warren G. Harding by Charles Quetschke of Caswell Kennels and  became a celebrity during the Harding administration.

Laddie Boy was a faithful dog. When the president played golf and hit a tree, Laddie Boy would run up to the tree and retrieve the ball. Laddie Boy had his own hand-carved chair to sit in during Cabinet meetings. The White House held birthday parties for the dog, invited other neighborhood dogs to join, and served them dog biscuit cake. Newspapers published mock interviews with the dog. Laddie Boy had a caretaker.

He was the first "First Dog" to be regularly covered in the national press.
Harding and his wife Florence shared a love of animals and the First Lady, also an advocate for the care of abused and neglected animals, soon began employing this handsome dog as a poster child for the national promotion of animal rights issues.

Purportedly, the dog howled constantly for three days prior to President Harding's death in August 1923 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, knowing of his master's imminent demise. In memory of President Harding and honoring his former employment as a paperboy, newsboys collected 19,134 pennies to be remelted and sculpted into a statue of Laddie Boy. Harding's widow died before the statue was completed in 1927 and the statue was presented to the Smithsonian Institution. Harding's death and the dog were commemorated in song.

After the president's death in 1923, Florence Harding gave the Airedale to Harry Barker, her favorite Secret Service agent. She knew her poor health wouldn't allow her to look after the dog properly. Harry took Laddie home to his family in Boston, and the dog lived a very normal life and was much loved by the Barker family. Laddie's death in 1929 was proclaimed in newspaper headlines across the country.

Laddie is immortalized in bronze along Harding in Rapid City, South Dakota, as part of its "City of Presidents" art installation of presidential statues. In the summer of 2012, Laddie Boy's unique collar, fashioned from Alaskan gold nuggets, was stolen from the Harding Home and Museum.

See also

United States presidential pets
List of individual dogs

References

External links

Presidential dog collar stolen from Harding's home Photograph

1920 animal births
1929 animal deaths
Warren G. Harding
Toledo, Ohio
United States presidential dogs
Stella de Heij

Stella de Heij (born 17 January 1968 in Driehuis) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who played eighteen international matches for her national team.

De Heij was a member of the Dutch Women's Team that, under the guidance of coach and former international Tom van 't Hek, won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, after defeating Great Britain on penalty strokes in the bronze medal game. In Atlanta, Georgia she was the stand-in for first choice goalie Jacqueline Toxopeus.

References 

 KNHB Profile

External links
 

1968 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Female field hockey goalkeepers
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Sportspeople from Velsen
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Field hockey players from North Holland
20th-century Dutch women
21st-century Dutch women
The Dreams of Sparrows

The Dreams of Sparrows is a documentary film about post-war Iraq, by Hayder Daffar of the Iraq Eye Group, an Iraqi filmmaking group.

The film was shot throughout 2003 and 2004 with a hand-held camera, consisting of street level interviews with various Iraqi citizens and explores their feelings about the changes occurring around them.  The film was produced by digitally sending footage to the United States via e-mail where it was assembled in rough sequences and posted on the internet.  A DVD version of the film was released in 2005.

Dreams of the Sparrows offers many differing viewpoints in its interviews.  Some Iraqis place photos of U.S. President George W. Bush in shrines, while others oppose the presence of American forces. Some admit a longing for the days of Saddam Hussein's rule, while others, having survived torture under his regime, express happiness with his removal.

The capture of Hussein occurred during filming and street interviews cover the topic. In the film, one of the photographers was allegedly killed by US forces before the film was completed.

References

External links

 Iraq Eye website
 Iraq Eye page on Dreams of Sparrows
 Harbinger Media press cuttings on Dreams of Sparrows

2005 films
Documentary films about the Iraq War
Iraqi documentary films
American documentary films
2005 documentary films
2000s Arabic-language films
2000s English-language films
2005 multilingual films
2000s American films
Fleur van de Kieft

Fleur Nicolette Andrea van de Kieft (born 22 October 1973 in Amsterdam) is a former field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who played 137 official international matches for Holland, in which she scored a total number of 44 goals.

Van de Kieft was a member of the Dutch Women's Team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, after defeating Spain (2-0) in the third place match. Four years earlier, when Atlanta, Georgia hosted the Games, she won her first Olympic bronze medal.

A player from Laren and Rotterdam Van de Kieft made her debut for the Dutch on 29 January 1996 in a friendly against the United States. Her last cap came on 1 September 2002, when Holland defeated Australia: 4–3.

References
KNHB Profile

External links
 

1973 births
Living people
Dutch female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players from Amsterdam
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
20th-century Dutch women
21st-century Dutch women
Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The table tennis competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics consisted of four events.

Participating nations
A total of 166 athletes (85 men and 81 women), representing 51 NOCs, competed in four events.

Medal table

Medal summary

References

Sources
 Official Olympic Report
 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
 

 
1996 Summer Olympics events
1996
1996 in table tennis
Serangoon Bus Interchange

Serangoon Bus Interchange is a bus interchange serving Serangoon New Town in Singapore, and is within walking distance from Serangoon MRT station. Opened on 3 September 2011, it is air-conditioned and has 9 services and 17 bus bays.

History
The original bus interchange was opened on 13 March 1988 along Serangoon Central. This interchange took over the overcrowded Serangoon Gardens Bus Interchange and a temporary bus terminal along Serangoon Avenue 3. The compound was located under a multi-storey carpark (Block 264), with end-on berths on the eastern side and sawtooth berths (with a bus park) on the western side. Access to the interchange was located along Serangoon Central.

When the shopping mall nex opened on 25 November 2010, the old bus interchange continued to operate due to congestion at Serangoon Avenue 2, carpark problems and large crowds in the shopping mall.

Relocation
On 3 September 2011, the interchange was relocated to a new air-conditioned facility along Serangoon Avenue 2 integrated with the shopping mall, nex, and the Serangoon MRT station, making it the fifth bus interchange to be air conditioned. The new facility was the first to have glass walls instead of cement walls facing the bus bays, allowing commuters to be aware of the departure of buses, which was not present in the earlier air conditioned bus interchanges. Due to space constraints, Bus Services 81 and 82 no longer terminated at the interchange and were amended to loop at Serangoon Central instead.

Bus Contracting Model

Under the new bus contracting model, with the exception of Bus Service 100 is under Clementi Bus Package, the rest of the bus services are under Serangoon-Eunos Bus Package.

Currently, all bus services at the interchange are operated by the anchor operator, SBS Transit.

List of routes

References

External links
 Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)

2011 establishments in Singapore
Bus stations in Singapore
Buildings and structures in Serangoon
Transport in North-East Region, Singapore
Hartranft, Philadelphia

Hartranft is a neighborhood in the central part of North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Hartranft is on the border of the predominantly Black central region of North Philadelphia and the predominantly Hispanic eastern region of North Philadelphia. Bounded by 6th Street to the east, Broad Street to the west, Allegheny Avenue to the north, and Cecil B. Moore Avenue to the south. Bordering neighborhoods are Fairhill to the north, West Kensington to the east, Cecil B. Moore to the west, and Ludlow to the south.

The neighborhood falls into the ZIP Codes 19122 and 19133. 

The demolished Northern National Bank building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Demographics
As of the Census of 2010 Hartranft had 15,883 people and was 49.6% Hispanic (primarily Puerto Rican), 29.9% African American, 13% White, and 7.5% mixed or other.

44% of its people live below the poverty line.

The average housing structure was built in 1946. 43.12% of all properties were vacant as of 2000.

Education
Public schools in the Hartranft district are operated by the School District of Philadelphia.

The Free Library of Philadelphia Lillian Marrero Branch serves West Kensington.

References 

Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Lower North Philadelphia
Voloshin

Voloshin, Woloshin,Wolloshin, Voloshyn or Woloshyn (Cyrillic: Волошин) is a Ukrainian and Russian masculine surname. It comes from the dated exonym Volokh ("Vlach", "Romanian"). Its feminine forms are Voloshina, Woloshina, Voloshyna or Woloshyna.

People

Voloshin, Voloshina
Aleksandr Voloshin (born 1956), Russian politician and businessman
Leonid Voloshin (born 1966), Russian triple jumper
Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932), Ukrainian-born Russian poet
Mikhail Voloshin (1953–2020), Russian-American theoretical physicist
Sergei Voloshin (born 1953), Russian-American nuclear physicist
Vera Voloshina (1919–1941), Russian partisan
2009 Voloshina, main-belt asteroid named after Vera

Voloshyn, Voloshyna
Anna Voloshyna (born 1991), Ukrainian synchro swimmer
Avgustyn Voloshyn (1874–1945), Ukrainian politician, teacher, and essayist
Dmytro Voloshyn (disambiguation), multiple people
Nazar Voloshyn (born 2003), Ukrainian footballer
Oleg Voloshyn (born 1981), Russian-Ukrainian journalist
Vikentiy Voloshyn (born 2001), Ukrainian footballer
Vyacheslav Voloshyn (born 1952), Ukrainian scientist

Woloshyn
Bruce Woloshyn (born 1964), American digital effects artist and supervisor
Illya Woloshyn, Canadian actor
Stan Woloshyn (born 1939), Canadian politician
Ted Woloshyn (born 1953), Canadian broadcaster

See also
 
 
 

Russian-language surnames
Ukrainian-language surnames
Sengkang Bus Interchange

Sengkang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located on the ground level of Compass Heights condominium in the town centre of Sengkang New Town, Singapore. Located next to Sengkang MRT/LRT station, it is the second bus interchange in Singapore to be air conditioned. It was opened on 18 January 2003.

History

Old bus interchange
The bus interchange was opened on 12 June 1998 as a terminal. At that time, developments around the area in Sengkang New Town were still actively in progress. On 28 April 2001, the temporary bus interchange was located across the road of Sengkang Square. To date, only the main shelter of the old bus interchange remains, connecting Sengkang Square to nearby HDB estates along Compassvale Road.

Relocation
On 18 January 2003, which was the day Sengkang LRT East Loop opened, Sengkang Bus Interchange was moved to Compass One (formerly known as Compass Point), and integrated with the other transport networks like the Sengkang MRT, Sengkang LRT line and station, all housed under one complex. It is notably the second bus interchange in Singapore to be air-conditioned, after Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.

Enhancement
To improve ventilation at the former non-air conditioned alighting bays, the Land Transport Authority constructed a new air-conditioned passageway connecting to the existing air conditioned boarding areas in 2007. On 24 November 2014, LTA officially announced the expansion of the interchange to accommodate future bus services under the Bus Service Enhancement Programme (BSEP) Scheme as the current interchange does not have enough parking spaces for more services. The expansion consists of 12 additional parking bays, boarding and alighting facilities, concourse area, staff lounge and a canteen. The expansion works were scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2016. The extension, named Compassvale Bus Interchange (formerly referred to as Sengkang Bus Interchange Expansion), is located opposite the current bus interchange along Sengkang Square and it officially opened on 12 March 2017 together with the launch of bus service 374.

Bus Contracting Model

Under the new bus contracting model, all the bus routes were split into 4 route packages. Bus Service 965 is under Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package, Bus Service 83 is under Loyang Bus Package, Bus Service 156 is under Clementi Bus Package and the rest of the bus services are under Sengkang-Hougang Bus Package.

Currently, Bus Service 83 (Loyang Bus Package) is operated by Go-Ahead Singapore. Bus Service 965 (Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package) is currently operated by Tower Transit Singapore. All remaining bus services are operated by the anchor operator, SBS Transit.

List of routes

References

External links
 Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)
 Interchange/Terminal (SMRT Buses)

2003 establishments in Singapore
Bus stations in Singapore
Buildings and structures in Sengkang
Transport in North-East Region, Singapore
Sengkang
Sengkang Town Centre
Steve Monarque

Steve Monarque (born April 2, 1959) is a New York-based actor, director, writer and musician.

Life and career
Monarque was born and raised in the suburban New Jersey community of Pompton Lakes.

Monarque has appeared in films including No Small Affair and Sixteen Candles.  In 1985, he was the lead in a special MTV video for the song "25 or 6 to 4" by the rock band Chicago.  He also starred in the late eighties romantic comedy film Under the Boardwalk.  Monarque starred in two award-winning TV movies, ABC Afterschool Specials: Stoned (1980), co-starring with Scott Baio, and CBS Schoolbreak Special: The Day the Senior Class Got Married (1985), co-starring with Paul Dooley.

In 1989, he joined the syndicated sci-fi horror series Friday the 13th: The Series, as regular cast member Johnny Ventura, a streetwise kid and freelance writer who works part-time at an antiques store and who helped his store partners collect special items that had been previously cursed by the Devil. The series, also starring Chris Wiggins, Louise Robey, and John D. LeMay, is known in Europe under the title Friday's Curse. It has a loyal cult following and remains a favorite program for many horror TV fans worldwide.

After landing a role in a Chris Carter movie entitled Fencewalker, Monarque then went on to work on ER, Close to Home and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Monarque is also a director, writer, musician and composer. Monarque’s play That's Life was produced at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles in 2002. Monarque’s writing-directing effort Free Country won best play in the 2009 Strawberry One Act Festival and won best short film at the New York City International Film Festival (2011). "Free Country" has been published and can be found in the Drama Book Shop NYC and online. The founder of MonaVision Films, Monarque’s latest writing-directing project, Simpler Times, a 33-minute made-for-TV short film starring Jerry Stiller, was completed in 2014. "Simpler Times" festival screenings and awards include: HollyShorts Film Festival, the Nevada International Film Festival (Platinum Reel Award); the Lighthouse International Film Festival, NJ (Audience Choice Award, Best Short Film); the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival (Best Director); WorldFest Houston (Gold Remi Award); the Manhattan Film Festival (Winner); the Big Apple Film Festival (Golden Apple Award presented to Jerry Stiller); the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (Spirit of the Independent Award); the International Family Film Festival, Hollywood, CA (Best Short Comedy); the San Diego Jewish Film Festival; the New Jersey International Film Festival (Honorable Mention) and the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (LA Shorts Fest).

References

External links
 
 
 monavisionfilms.com

1959 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
People from Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
Karram-Allah-u Wajhahu

Karram-Allah-u Wajhah (; ) is a phrase used almost solely to honor the first Shia Imam and fourth Rashidun Caliph Ali as the only early Muslim who never knelt down to an idol in Jahilyah, and always followed Muhammad. This honorific is mostly used by some Sunnis and is acceptable to Shi'a Muslims. However, Shi'a prefer using Alayh-es-Salam or "Peace be upon him", which is conventionally used for the prophets and archangels.

According to Nasr, in the Battle of Uhud Ali fought the great Quraysh warrior Talha ibn Abi Talha. Talha constantly boasted that he defeats any Muslim who comes his way. When Talha was defeated by Ali, he asked for mercy by saying the phrase Karram-Allah-u Wajhahu. According to Nasr, this prayer of goodness became one of the titles of Ali that is mostly used by Sunnis. This phrase, which is usually accompanied by other words, is used to send greetings and good prayers.

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Arabic words and phrases
Islamic honorifics
Václav Bělohradský

Václav Bělohradský (born January 17, 1944 Prague) is a Czech philosopher and sociologist.

Life and career
A graduate in philosophy and Czech from Charles University, Prague, from 1970 to 2010s he lived in Italy, where he was Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Trieste. He is said to be a successor of Jan Patočka. He is a representative of biocentrism, which he developed to refusing anthropocentric overestimation of symbol and culture. He also thinks we need to step back from "us" to be able to lay foundations of new and freer society. He co-participated with Chantal Mouffe and Slavoj Žižek at Monument to Transformation. He publishes his political commentaries and essays mainly in Czech daily Právo.

He lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

Works
 Interpretazioni italiane di Wittgenstein, Milan, 1972.
 Ragionamento, azione, società. Sociologia della conoscenza in Vilfredo Pareto, Milan, 1974.
 Il mondo della vita: un problema politico, Milan, 1981.
 Krize eschatologie neosobnosti, London, 1982, 1984.
 Myslet zeleň světa. Rozhovor s K. Hvížďalou, 1985, 1991.
 Kapitalismus a občanské ctnosti, 1992.
 Mezi světy & mezisvěty, 1997.
 Společnost nevolnosti, 2007.
 Mezi světy & mezisvěty: Reloaded, 2013

External links
 
Watch film with Václav Bělohradský "Bye Bye Shanghai" at www.dafilms.com

Czech philosophers
Czech academics
Charles University alumni
1944 births
Living people
People from Prague
Academic staff of the University of Trieste
Pasir Ris Bus Interchange

Pasir Ris Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located at Pasir Ris in the eastern part of Singapore. It is located off Pasir Ris Drive 3, adjacent to Pasir Ris MRT station and near White Sands Shopping Centre. This bus interchange also serves as a pick-up/drop-off point for shuttle buses ferrying NSF men heading to the SAF Ferry Terminal for their shuttle ferry to Pulau Tekong.

History
The interchange was built at a cost of S$2.7 million and opened on 10 December 1989, along with the Eunos Bus Interchange. The interchange provides bus connections around the Pasir Ris estate. Bus Service 403 was the first bus route in Pasir Ris from 1979, which previously terminated at Tampines Road terminus before being amended to the current route of looping at Pasir Ris Road.

Bus Contracting Model

Under the new bus contracting model, all the bus routes operating in the interchange were split into 5 route packages - Bus Service 5 under Bukit Merah, Bus Service 58 under Serangoon-Eunos, Bus Service 46 under Bedok, Bus Services 21 and 88 under Bishan-Toa Payoh and the rest under the Loyang Bus Package operated by Go-Ahead Singapore. Services under the Loyang Bus Package started operations on 18 September 2016.

List of routes

Redevelopment
Redevelopment of Pasir Ris Bus Interchange has started since 2019. The bus interchange underwent a reconfiguration on 3 July 2021, after which the western half of the old bus interchange will be demolished to facilitate the construction of the Pasir Ris Integrated Transport Hub and Pasir Ris Rail Turnback, which will be completed by 2028, two years before the Cross Island MRT line starts operations. The reconfigured interchange began operations on 3 July 2021 with inclusive facilities built as part of the relocation. The facility will remain in operation until 2028.

References

External links
 Interchanges and Terminals (SBS Transit)

Bus stations in Singapore
Pasir Ris
Ottersbo

Ottersbo is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway.  It is located along the Stjørnfjorden, about  east of the Austrått manor near the border with Bjugn municipality.

Ottersbo was built during the years 1977–1980. It is a peaceful quiet area with approximately 100 houses only about  east of the municipal center of Brekstad.  The  village has a population (2018) of 392 and a population density of .

References

Villages in Trøndelag
Ørland
Uthaug

Uthaug is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway.  It is located on the south shore of the Bjugnfjorden about  west of the village of Opphaug, about  north of the town of Brekstad, and about  east of the Kjeungskjær Lighthouse.  Ørland Airport lies just south of the village.

The  village has a population (2018) of 394 and a population density of .

Uthaug is home to fish processing and concrete manufacturing industries. It also has a good harbor with a breakwater.  The Uthaugsgården museum is an old preserved trading post that is located in the village.

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Villages in Trøndelag
Ørland
Opphaug

Opphaug is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway.  The village is located on the Ørlandet peninsula about  east of the village of Uthaug,  northwest of the villages of Ottersbo and Austrått, and  northeast of the town of Brekstad.

The  village has a population (2018) of 408 and a population density of . Opphaug has small-scale industry and a grain mill.

References

Villages in Trøndelag
Ørland
Réseau plate

A Réseau plate is a transparent sheet of glass or plastic engraved with a grid of crosshatches called fiducial markers. It was commonly used in film cameras (before the advent of digital cameras) for scientific and technical photography. The plate is placed at the focal plane of the camera just in front of the film. When the frame is exposed the fiducial markers scatter incoming light, creating a permanent shadow on the negative. 

The fiducial markers on a Réseau plate are sometimes called reticles. The Latin root of fiducial means trust, confidence; fiducial markers are trustworthy reference points. The Latin root of reticle means small meshwork bag, small net; a grid of reticles has a net-like appearance.

Purpose and function
If the film negative is properly printed the fiducial markers will be evenly spaced on the positive image. Uneven spacing reveals that the image has been distorted. Identical spacing on adjacent images (e.g. from a series of aerial photos) ensures that printing magnification is consistent. Irregularities in the grid can also result from incorrect positioning of the film in the camera, physical distortion of the film media in the development process, and (if digitally scanned) the nonlinearity of the image scanner. These errors may be visually imperceptible but limit the precision of measurements. Because the position of the marks is very precisely known, the image can easily be corrected to account for these effects. When used for photogrammetry, multiple images can be combined using the fiducial marks and knowledge of the camera geometry to enable measurement of distances between objects in the images.

Fiducial markers are generally unnecessary for digital cameras because the physical pixel structure of the sensor itself inherently provides a source of geometric reference.

Use on lunar cameras
The Hasselblad lunar surface data camera used on the Apollo Moon missions was fitted with a Réseau plate made of glass and fitted to the back of the camera body, extremely close to the film plane. The plate was 5.4 × 5.4 cm in the film plane, which was the useful exposure area on the 70 mm film.

The Réseau plate was engraved with a 5 × 5 grid of crosses. The intersections of the crosses were 10 mm apart and accurately calibrated to a tolerance of 0.002 mm. Except for the double-sized central cross, each of the four arms on a cross was 1 mm long and 0.02 mm wide. The crosses (also known as fiducials) were recorded on every exposed frame and provided a means of determining angular distances between objects in the field-of-view.

When the Hasselblad lunar surface data camera was fitted with a 60 mm lens, the images of the Réseau crosses on the film have an apparent separation of 10.3 degrees. With a 500 mm lens fitted, the apparent separation is 1.24 degrees.

References

Photography equipment
Photogrammetry
Selbekken

Selbekken is a village in the municipality of Orkland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located directly south of the village of Lensvik along the Trondheimsfjorden and the Norwegian County Road 710. The  village has a population (2018) of 390 and a population density of .

The village was the administrative centre of the old Agdenes municipality until 2020 when it merged into Orkland Municipality.

The lake Øyangsvatnet lies about  west of the village, the village of Ingdalen lies about  to the south, and the village of Vassbygda lies about  to the north.

References

Villages in Trøndelag
Orkland
Trondheimsfjord
Mansur Kamaletdinov

Mansur Kamaletdinov (Russian Мансур Фатхинурович Камалетдинов) (7 January 1926 – 19 April 2012) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer, teacher, ballet master and choreographer of classical ballet and classical character dance.

Kamaletdinov was born in Zlatoust, Russia and spent his early childhood in a village near Ufa, Bashkiria, which by coincidence is the same village where the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev grew up.

He attended the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg where he studied with many illustrious teachers including Aleksandr Shiryaev, former assistant to Marius Petipa, who codified the art form known as character dance.

Kamaletdinov joined the Kirov Ballet upon graduation and performed with dancers such as Natalia Dudinskaya but was soon invited to join the Tbilisi Ballet and Opera Theater where he worked with the Georgian dance prodigy Vakhtang Chabukiani.

In 1951, Kamaletdinov was invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet as Principal Character Dancer and Teacher where he taught alongside outstanding teachers such as Elizaveta Gerdt. Apart from teaching and performing Classical Dance, Kamaletdinov was Chair of the Character Dance department. He was a choreographer of numerous ballets for the Bolshoi's Russian and International tours and was Ballet Master for many of the Bolshoi's performances. Kamaletdinov was Assistant to the Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theater, Leonid Lavrovsky, and would substitute as Acting Artistic Director in Lavrovsky's absence. Kamaletdinov worked and toured with, among others, Galina Ulanova and with his close friend and colleague Maya Plisetskaya. He toured the world as one of the "Stars of the Bolshoi" and was a Guest Teacher at the Ballet Nacional de Cuba by invitation of Alicia Alonso. Many of his students became stars of major ballet companies throughout the world. One of Kamaletdinov's former students, Vladimir Vasiliev, became the Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theater.

In 1976, Kamaletdinov emigrated from the Soviet Union, settling first in Italy and then moving to the United States where he taught and coached at many renowned ballet and opera companies and institutions including Boston Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Juilliard School, Ballets de San Juan, Metropolitan Opera House, Indianapolis Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Hartford Ballet, and many others.

Kamaletdinov died of natural causes on April 19, 2012 at his home in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

References

External links 
 Vaganova Master Classes and Summer School – Official website for Mansur Kamaletdinov

Ballet choreographers
Ballet masters
People from Zlatoust
Bashkir people
1926 births
2012 deaths
Soviet emigrants to Italy
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Soviet ballet dancers
Soviet choreographers
20th-century American ballet dancers
American choreographers
American people of Bashkir descent
Bjugn (village)

Bjugn is the administrative centre of the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Bjugnfjorden. It is about  north of the village of Høybakken, about  east of the village of Nes, and about  south of village of Oksvoll.

The  village has a population (2018) of 1,263 and a population density of . There is a videregående school in Botngård. Fosenhallen is one of only four indoor speed skating ovals in Norway. Bjugn Church is located about  west of the village, on the southern shore of the Bjugnfjorden.

Name
The settlement changed its name from Botngård to Bjugn at a meeting in March 2019 and this name change went into effect in September 2019. The former name, Botngård, was the name of a farm in the area, while the new name comes from the fjord and the municipality of Bjugn. On 1 January 2020, Bjugn municipality was to be merged with Ørland municipality and it was a local wish that the old municipal name should live on after the municipal merger, so the name was changed. After the merger this village became the administrative centre of the newly enlarged municipality.

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References

Villages in Trøndelag
Ørland
Lysøysundet

Lysøysundet is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located in the northern part of the municipality near the island of Lauvøya and the end of the Åfjorden. It is about  northeast of the village of Jøssund. The village lies on the mainland and on the nearby island of Lysøya which is connected by a bridge.

The  village has a population (2018) of 279 and a population density of . The village is divided into several areas: Lysøya, Rømmen, Hellesvika, Tiltrem, Olden, Teksdal, and Sundet. Lysøysundet has an elementary school, kindergarten, and a nursing home.

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Villages in Trøndelag
Ørland
Etymology of the Korean currencies

The won is the currency of both North and South Korea. "Won" is a cognate of the Chinese currency unit, the yuan (//), and the Japanese currency unit, the yen (; ¥), meaning "round object".  The won is subdivided into 100 jeon ().

Yang is a former Korean currency. It is a cognate of the Chinese tael ( pronounced "" in Mandarin). The yang was subdivided into 100 fun () (pronounced "pun" but spelt with an "f" on the coins). Fun is a cognate of the Chinese word fen (), referring to 1/100 of a Chinese yuan in modern context.

History
Due to interchanging Chinese and Japanese influences, changing Romanization methods, and the use of both hanja (Sino-Korean characters) and hangul scripts, the etymology can be hard to understand. 

From 1892 to 1902, when the yang was used, 1 hwan/won ( = 圓 in Chinese) = 5 yang (兩), while in the Chinese monetary system of that time, 1 yuan () = 0.72 tael (兩).

In 1902, the Dai-Ichi Bank (The First National Bank of Japan), which handled the Korean government's custom duties, obtained permission from the imperial Korean government to issue banknotes in yen replacing yang.

The table below summarizes the language used on the modern circulating and historical Korean currencies.

Use in the Western World
The word jeon is also used in Korean to translate the word "cent," and in this context is associated with bul (불, 弗), meaning "dollar." (The hanja character resembles the symbol "$".) These two words are used by Koreans living in the Western hemisphere when referring to dollar currencies.

Sign and computing
The won sign ("₩", a capital W with a horizontal stroke) is represented in Unicode at the code point 20A9 (8361 in decimal).

See also

 Hanja
 Hangul
 Revised Romanization of Korean
 McCune-Reischauer

References

 
Currencies of Korea