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HSL 1

The HSL 1 (, , ) is a high-speed rail line which connects Brussels, Belgium, with the LGV Nord at the Belgium–France border. It is  long with  of dedicated high-speed tracks and  of modernised lines. Service began on 14 December 1997.

The line has appreciably shortened journey times, the journey from Paris to Brussels now taking 1 hour 22 minutes. In combination with the LGV Nord, it has also impacted international journeys to other cities in France and to London, ensuring high-speed through-running by Eurostar, TGV, Thalys PBA and Thalys PBKA trainsets.

The total construction cost was €1.42 billion. The signalling system installed is the TVM-430 in-cab signalling system, the same as LGV Nord in France, and High Speed 1 in the UK.

Route
Trains leave Brussels-Midi station via a new viaduct completed in 2006 to separate high-speed services from local services. From there they use the conventional line 96. At Forest/Vorst the train passes the depot where inspections of Thalys and Eurostar trains may be carried out. At Halle (km 13) the HST tracks split from the mainline and enters its own cut-and-cover section before crossing the Brussels–Charleroi Canal; at km 17 the high-speed line proper diverges from the mainline at the Lembeek Viaduct, supporting  speeds.

Between Rebecq and Enghien the line parallels the A8 autoroute, separated by a security fence. At Enghien the line parallels the regular Brussels–Tournai line for approximately .

The maintenance depot "Le Coucou" is located near Ath. This station served as the operations base during the construction of the line (from 1993 to 1998) and currently serves as the maintenance depot for HSL 1. Slightly further on is the  long Arbre Viaduct (one of the longest rail viaducts in Europe) between Ath and Chièvres; it passes over the Ath–Blaton canal, the Dender River, the Mons road and the Ath–Jurbise railway.

At Antoing there is a connector to the Mons–Tournai line, used by the Thalys between Paris and Namur. After passing over the  Scheldt River Viaduct, and through the  Bruyelle cut-and-cover section, the line crosses the Belgian-French border at Wannehain, km 88.  further on, the Frétin triangle splits the LGV Nord towards Paris or Lille.

See also
 High-speed rail in Belgium

Notes

External links
Belgian high-speed rail site (in French)

TGV
Eurostar
High-speed railway lines in Belgium
Railway lines opened in 1997
Standard gauge railways in Belgium
Tora Sudiro

Taura Danang Sudiro or better known as Tora Sudiro (born in Jakarta, Indonesia on 10 May 1973) is an Indonesian actor and comedian of Javanese descent.

Personal life
After his divorce, Tora married Mieke Amalia in 2009 with both having two children each from previous marriages. In 2012, they had a daughter. 

His mother, Dyah Setyoutami, died in 2023.

Filmography

Film

TV series

Variety show

Model video clips

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 

1973 births
Indonesian male comedians
Indonesian comedians
Indonesian male film actors
Indonesian male television actors
Javanese people
Living people
Male actors from Jakarta
20th-century Indonesian male actors
North Carolina Highway 740

North Carolina Highway 740 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina.  The southern terminus is in Albemarle, from which it runs northeast into the town of Badin, then turns northwest to terminate in New London.  The entire  route lies within Stanly County.

Route description

NC 740 is a two-lane rural highway; starting in Albemarle, it goes northeast to the factory town of Badin.  NC 740 through Badin is decorated with many town banners and street lights; most of the stoplights are found on the street corners rather than suspended from overhead wires.  After it goes through the town, NC 740 skirts along the banks of Badin Lake before going northwest to New London, where it ends.

History 
Established around 1930 as a spur of NC 74 (renumbered NC 73 in 1934), it connected Albemarle to the town of Badin then back to New London, ending at NC 80 (current NC 8).  In 1933, it was extended north, replacing some of NC 62; but then reverted to original terminus in 1935, replaced by NC 62A and later NC 8.  In the mid-1950s, NC 740 moved south from Badin Road to a new terminus with NC 27.  In the early 1980s, NC 740 was overlapped with NC 8 and extended  to its current northern terminus.

Junction list

See also
 Morrow Mountain State Park
 North Carolina Bicycle Route 6 - Concurrent with NC 740 from its southern terminus to Vickers Store Road

References

External links

 
 NCRoads.com: N.C. 740

740
Transportation in Stanly County, North Carolina
Rebecca Rigg

Rebecca Rigg is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in television and film. She started out as a child actor in Fatty Finn (1980), before also being featured in the films Hunting (1991), Spotswood (1992) and Ellie Parker (2005).

Early life and career 
Rebecca Rigg was born in Sydney, New South Wales. 

Her Australian television appearances include the television series Rafferty's Rules (in which she appeared as the daughter of the Magistrate, Michael Rafferty); and the ABC television movies Joh's Jury, Come In Spinner, and Naked. As well as a starring role in the Australian comedy television series Willing and Abel (in which she appeared as "Angela Reddy"). As a young girl she was also in the Australian film Fortress, which was about the kidnapping of a teacher (played by Rachel Ward) and a small class of students. She appeared in the television miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas.

She has made guest appearances in other Australian television series, including her brief recurring role of troubled teen Gabe in A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, G.P., Blue Heelers and Winners.

Rigg had a role as Nurse Amy as part of the Mr Bad storyline on hugely popular Australian soap E Street, playing the girlfriend of her real-life boyfriend at the time, and future (ex) husband, Simon Baker.

After the birth of her youngest son, Rigg retired from acting to be at home with her children. She has then returned to acting to appear in the films Ellie Parker and Fair Game with Naomi Watts. She also guest starred alongside her husband in The Mentalist episode "A Dozen Red Roses".

Personal life
Rigg married Simon Baker in 1998 after five years together, and they have three children, including actress Stella Baker. They lived in Los Angeles from 1995 until 2015, when they moved back to Sydney, Australia. Rigg and Baker separated in April 2020.

 Filmography 

Film

Television

 Awards and nominations 
 1980: Aged 13, Rebecca Rigg was nominated for an AFI award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film Fatty Finn''.

References

External links
 Rebecca Rigg – "A Country Practice" cast's actor filmographies
 Rebecca Rigg – Australian Film Commission website
 

Living people
20th-century Australian actresses
21st-century Australian actresses
Actresses from Sydney
Actresses from the Gold Coast, Queensland
American film actresses
American television actresses
Australian expatriate actresses in the United States
Australian film actresses
Australian television actresses
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)
Devika Parikh

Devika Parikh (born November 3, 1966) is an American actress, best known for her recurring role as Bonnie in the NBC political drama series The West Wing from 1999 to 2003.

Life and career
Parikh  was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She is of Indian and Black American origin, born to an East Indian immigrant father from Mumbai and a Black American mother. She received a degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University.

Parikh has worked in television, advertisements, film, voice work and theatre. She has also performed sketch comedy/improvisation with groups at the Comedy Store, the Upfront Comedy Theatre and the Underground Improv.  She has had recurring roles on television shows such as NBC's drama series The West Wing; Fox's series 24; and Showtime drama series Resurrection Blvd. She has guest-starred on Criminal Minds, That's So Raven, The Parkers, Bones, Shameless and Grey's Anatomy. In 2022, Parikh was cast in her first series regular role, in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, The Kings of Napa.

Selected filmography

Film
 1997 How to Be a Player as Barbara
 1999 Judgment Day as Officer Rhonda Reese
 2000 Dancing in September as Cheryl Reed
 2003 S.W.A.T. as Jail Intake Reporter
 2005 Madagascar as News Reporter (voice)
 2009 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs as Additional Voices
 2011 A Bag of Hammers as Interviewer 1
 2017 The Star as Additional Voices
 2018 Aquaman as Newscaster Morgan
 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Additional Voices

Television
1996 ‘’The Wayans Bros’’ as Dee's sister Natalie - 1 episode
 1999–2003 The West Wing as Bonnie – 41 episodes
 2001–2002 24 as Maureen Kingsley – 4 episodes
 2005 That's So Raven as Yolanda – 2 episodes
 2019 Grey's Anatomy as Nancy Klein – 3 episodes
 2020 General Hospital as Ms. Madigan – 2 episodes
 2022 The Kings of Napa as Melanie Pierce – 8 episodes

Video games
 2013 Grand Theft Auto V as The Local Population
 2019 Fallout 76: Wild Appalachia DLC as Janelle Priblo / Mary Tinley / Brother of Steel Dispatcher 
 2019 Rage 2 as Goon Shielder / Gunbarrel Civilian / Lagooney Civilian / Oasis Civilian
 2020 The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners as Radio Announcer / Additional Voices

References

External links
 

Syracuse University alumni
American actresses of Indian descent
People from Gaithersburg, Maryland
1966 births
Living people
American television actresses
African-American actresses
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
20th-century African-American women
21st-century African-American women
Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer

The Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer (CTI) is a research and development center of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), previously named Fundação Centro Tecnológico para Informática (CTI), which was founded 1982. It is located in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, at the Rodovia Dom Pedro I. The center was thus named in honor of former Brazilian politician, naval officer and minister of science and technology Renato Archer.

CTI Renato Archer has the aim of developing and implementing scientific and technological research in the areas of information technology, microelectronics and automation. One of its missions is to establish collaborative ties with the corresponding industrial sectors in Brazil, in order to carry out technology transfer.

Presently the center has 160 public servants and 500 contractors in 12 laboratories.

CTI Renato Archer was responsible for the first official demonstration of an electronic voting system. This demonstration occurred in 1990, and was performed jointly with Associação Brasileira de Informática (ABINFO). This demonstration has been witnessed by major press representatives.

CTI Renato Archer was also responsible for the first Liquid Crystal Display pilot line in South Hemisphere.

CTI Renato Archer pioneered also in Robotics by demonstrating the first unmanned zeppelin in the south hemisphere.

CTI Renato Archer pioneered also in semiconductor research by establishing the first lithography mask fab in south hemisphere.

Research institutes in Brazil
Organisations based in Campinas
Kotla, Poland

Kotla  is a village located at the northernmost border of Lower Silesia, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately  north of Głogów and  north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Kotla is part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and of Głogów County. It is also the administrative seat of Gmina Kotla (Kotla Commune). As of 2006, this rural gmina has 4,129 inhabitants, of whom about 1,400 live in the village of Kotla. The local economy is based on agriculture and minor industry.

Polish writer Edward Stachura lived in the area for some time and based his "Siekierezada" ("Axing") partly on events and people he met in a Kotla watering hole.

External links
Official Homepage (in Polish)
Edward Stachura website at Northern State University 

Kotla
Province (Poland)

Province was the largest territorial  subdivision in medieval and Renaissance-era Poland, and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The term designated each of the two largest constituents of the state: depending on the period, including Greater Poland, Lesser Poland and (upon the formation of the Commonwealth) the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Ducal Prussia was often counted as part of the Greater Poland; Livonia as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Ruthenian territories were split between Lesser Poland and the Grand Duchy.

Though larger than a voivodeship (województwo), the prowincja was less important in terms of offices and power. In most respects, it was merely a titular unit of administration. The real power lay with the voivodeship—and, to a lesser extent, with ziemias (lands).

The Polish term "prowincja" has not been used to denote any part of independent Poland since the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795)—unlike "ziemia", which has continued to be used for certain geographical areas.  Since 1795, the Polish word "prowincja" has been used only for certain foreign-imposed units of administration within territories of the old Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

See also
Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty
Regions of Poland

Notes 

Administrative divisions of Poland
Types of administrative division
Mark Connelly

Mark Connelly is a professor and Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. Connelly specialises in the 19th Century and First World War.

He is also the author of a book on the Second World War and the British home front called, We Can Take It!, as well as other books and essays.

He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.

In December 2007, Connelly appeared on the BBC television show The One Show, commenting on the social history of Christmas in the UK.

Books
Christmas: A Social History (London, I.B. Tauris, September 1999)
 (Editor) Christmas at the Movies: The Representation of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (London, I.B. Tauris, October 2000)
Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II (London, I.B. Tauris, December 2000; 2014)
Review, Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2002 reprint
Review. The Journal of Military History, April 2004, v.68, #2
The Great War: Memory and Ritual (Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2002)
Review by Janet Watson Twentieth Century British History 2004 15(4):436-438; )
British Film Guides: The Charge of the Light Brigade (London, I.B. Tauris, 2003)
We Can Take It! Britain and the memory of the Second World War (Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2004)
Review, ContemporLongmanary Review July 2005.
 (ed. with D. Welch) War and the Media: propaganda and reportage, 1900-2003 (London, I.B. Tauris, 2004)
British Film Guides: The Red Shoes (London, I.B. Tauris, 2005)
Steady the Buffs! The East Kent Regiment and the Great War (Oxford, OUP, 2006)
The Hardy Boys mysteries, 1927-1979 - A Cultural and Literary History  (2008)

References

External links
Official profile on the University of Kent School of History website
Department of History website at the University of Kent

Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
Academics of the University of Kent
British historians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ivan Šimonović

Ivan Šimonović (; born 2 May 1959) is a Croatian diplomat, politician and law scholar. In October 2008 he was appointed Justice Minister of Croatia. On 3 May 2010, Šimonović was appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights. As of 1 October 2016, Šimonović has been appointed as the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect.

Education and career
Šimonović graduated from the University of Zagreb Law School in 1982. He obtained a doctoral degree in 1990, at the age of 31. Šimonović joined the Croatian diplomatic corps after the break-up of Yugoslavia. He was an assistant and deputy to Foreign Minister Mate Granić during the 1990s, although he never joined the ruling party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).

In 1997, Croatian President Franjo Tuđman named him ambassador to the United Nations. Šimonović served there until 2002. While serving there, Šimonović presided over the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

In 2002, Šimonovic was named Deputy Foreign Minister in Ivica Račan's government. He remained independent and did not join the ruling SDP. When the HDZ swung back to power in 2003, Šimonović was not offered a job in the new government. In 2004, he became a professor at the University of Zagreb Law School, where he teaches general theory of law and state, human rights and atrocity crime prevention, and international relations.

Šimonović was appointed Minister of Justice-designate of Croatia by PM Ivo Sanader on 6 October 2008. His predecessor, Ana Lovrin, had resigned the same day following a series of unsolved assaults and murders linked to Croatian organized crime that culminated with the murder of Ivana Hodak, daughter of controversial Croatian lawyer Zvonimir Hodak. However, it turned out that she was killed by a homeless man, in some apparent act of retaliation against her father.

In May 2010 Šimonović was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights.  In October 2016, Šimonović has been appointed as the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. In 2019 he was reappointed Croatian Ambassador to the UN. In 2023 he serves as Chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission.

References

External links
Personal data at OHCHR portal

1959 births
Living people
Members of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
Politicians from Zagreb
Croatian diplomats
Croatian educators
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni
Croatian officials of the United Nations
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Permanent Representatives of Croatia to the United Nations
Justice ministers of Croatia
Fulbright alumni
Moutsouna

Moutsouna (in Greek: Μουτσούνα) is a small seaside village on the eastern coast of the island of Naxos, Greece. It has a relatively open bay and limited port facilities. It is located approximately 39 km from the capital of the island, and 11 km from the village of Apiranthos.

History 
Until the early 1980s, Moutsouna was the port from which the emery (used an abrasive) used to be loaded in boats and exported. The emery is mined up the mountain and was transported to the port by an aerial cableway. The cableway and the remains of the transfer station in Moutsouna can still be seen today.

Administratively it belongs to Apeiranthos with which it is connected by road.

In 1960 it had 65 inhabitants. At the last census there are 84 inhabitants.

References

Populated places in Naxos (regional unit)
Naxos
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2004

25th London Film Critics Circle Awards
9 February 2005

Film of the Year: 
 Sideways 

British Film of the Year: 
 Vera Drake 

The 25th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2004, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 9 February 2005.

Winners and nominees

Film of the Year
 Sideways 
The Aviator
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
House of Flying Daggers
The Motorcycle Diaries

British Film of the Year
 Vera Drake 
Finding Neverland
Ae Fond Kiss...
My Summer of Love
Shaun of the Dead

Foreign Language Film of the Year
 The Motorcycle Diaries • Argentina
Bad Education • Spain
House of Flying Daggers • China/Hong Kong
The Return • Russia
A Very Long Engagement • France

Director of the Year
 Martin Scorsese – The Aviator 
Michel Gondry – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Alexander Payne – Sideways
Walter Salles – The Motorcycle Diaries
Zhang Yimou – House of Flying Daggers

British Director of the Year
 Mike Leigh – Vera Drake 
Paul Greengrass – The Bourne Supremacy
Shane Meadows – Dead Man's Shoes
Pawel Pawlikowski – My Summer of Love
Michael Radford – The Merchant of Venice

Screenwriter of the Year
 Charlie Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 
David Magee – Finding Neverland
Brad Bird – The Incredibles
Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnes Jaoui – Look at Me
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – Sideways

British Screenwriter of the Year
Mike Leigh – Vera Drake 
Joe Penhall – Enduring Love
Paul Laverty – Ae Fond Kiss...
Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne – My Summer of Love
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright – Shaun of the Dead

Actor of the Year
 Jamie Foxx – Ray 
Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator
Paul Giamatti – Sideways
Geoffrey Rush – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Actress of the Year
 Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake 
Annette Bening – Being Julia
Nicole Kidman – Birth
Natalie Portman – Closer
Charlize Theron – Monster

British Actor of the Year
Daniel Craig – Enduring Love 
Paddy Considine – Dead Man's Shoes
Ben Kingsley – House of Sand and Fog
James McAvoy – Inside I'm Dancing
Clive Owen – Closer

British Actress of the Year
Eva Birthistle – Ae Fond Kiss...  
Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 
Judi Dench – Ladies in Lavender
Emily Mortimer – Dear Frankie
Natalie Press – My Summer of Love

British Supporting Actor of the Year
Phil Davis – Vera Drake 
Brian Cox – Troy
Rupert Everett – Stage Beauty
Eddie Marsan – Vera Drake
Alfred Molina – Spider-Man 2

British Supporting Actress of the Year
Romola Garai – Inside I'm Dancing 
Eileen Atkins – Vanity Fair Minnie Driver – The Phantom of the Opera
Ruth Sheen – Vera Drake
Emily Woof – Wondrous Oblivion

British Newcomer of the YearNatalie Press – My Summer of Love 'Amma Asante – A Way of LifeEva Birthistle – Ae Fond Kiss...Emily Blunt – My Summer of LoveFreddie Highmore – Finding Neverland''

25th Silver Anniversary Award
Norma Heyman

Dilys Powell Award
Ken Loach

References

2
2004 film awards
2004 in London
2004 in British cinema
Kristvallabrunn

Kristvallabrunn is a locality situated in Nybro Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 246 inhabitants in 2010.

It lies about 30 km from Kalmar and the nearest city is Nybro. It has several woodworking industries. The village has a preschool and a primary school. Kristvallabrunn gained popularity for its health spa in the late 19th century.

References 

Populated places in Kalmar County
Populated places in Nybro Municipality
Alberta Highway 36

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 36, commonly referred to as Highway 36 and officially named Veterans Memorial Highway, is a north-south highway in eastern Alberta, Canada that extends from Highway 4 near Warner to Highway 55 in Lac La Biche. Lac La Biche County is lobbying the Government of Alberta to renumber Highway 881 to Highway 36 from Lac La Biche north to Highway 63 south of Fort McMurray.

Major intersections 
From south to north:

Footnotes

References 

036
Monuments and memorials in Alberta
Taber, Alberta
Suicidal Final Art

Suicidal Final Art is a 2001 compilation album by Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates. The name is taken from a line in the title track of the Slaughter of the Soul album.

Track listing

Credits
Anders Björler - guitar
Jonas Björler - bass
Adrian Erlandsson - drums
Alf Svensson - guitars
Martin Larsson - guitars
Tomas Lindberg - vocals

References

At the Gates albums
2001 compilation albums
Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström
Brandberg

Brandberg may refer to:

Austria
Brandberg, Austria, a municipality in the district of Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria

Namibia
Brandberg Constituency, the former name of Dâures Constituency in the Erongo region of Namibia
Brandberg Massif, a dome-shaped plateau in the Namib Desert, Namibia
Brandberg Mountain, in the Brandberg Massif, Namibia

People
Björn Brandberg (born 1986), Swedish curler
Karl Gustaf Brandberg (1905–1997), Swedish Army lieutenant general
Paulina Brandberg
Field pansy

Field pansy is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

Viola arvensis, also called the European field pansy
Viola bicolor, also called the American field pansy
Jaakan

Jaakan (Anglicized, já-a-kan), meaning "he twists", is a Hebrew name. In the Hebrew Bible, Jaakan is one of the sons of Ezer, the son of Seir the Horite (1 Chronicles 1:42). Jaakan is spelt "Akan" in .

There is also a reference to a location Be'eroth Bene-Jaakan, the wells of the children of Jaakan, in  and , a place where the Israelites camped on their Exodus journey from Egypt to the Promised Land.

References

Book of Genesis people
Palacky

Palacky or Palacký (Czech feminine: Palacká) is a Czech language surname. It may refer to:

People
František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech historian and politician

Other uses
Palacký Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic
Palacky Township, Ellsworth County, Kansas, USA
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
40444 Palacký, a main belt asteroid

See also
 

Czech-language surnames
Carmo do Rio Verde

Carmo do Rio Verde is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil.  The population was 8,897 (2007) in a total area of 457.5 km2.  Carmo do Rio Verde is a major producer of sugar cane for production of alcohol.

Location
The city is located 176 km. northwest of the capital, Goiânia, 22 kilometers west of Ceres, the most important city in the Ceres Microregion.  Highway connections to Goiânia are made by GO-070 / Goianira / Inhumas / Itauçu / GO-154 / Taquaral de Goiás / Itaguaru / Uruana. See Highway Distances for the complete list.

There are municipal boundaries with:
north:  Ceres
west:  São Patrício and Itapuranga
east:  Rialma
south: Itapuranga and São Patrício

Demographics
Population density: 19.51 inhabitants/km2 in 2007.
Population in 1980: 10,233
Population in 2007: 8,897
Urban population:  6,777
Population growth rate: -0.56.% 1996/2007

History
The town began in 1939 with the foundation of the Colonia Nacional de Goiás, a project to settle the area.  On the banks of the Rio Verde lived the Pinto family had set up a store to cater to the engineers and surveyors.  In 1945 a chapel was built to Nossa Senora do Carmo and the settlement became known as "Carmo do Rio Verde".  In 1948 it was raised to district in the municipality of Goiás, and in 1952 it was dismembered to become a municipality.

The economy
The economy is based on cattle raising, sugar cane for alcohol production, and dairy products.  There was a distillery, two dairies, and two banks in 2007.  There were 553 farms (2006) with 313 hectares of permanent crops and 8,021 hectares of perennial crops.  There were 19,471 hectares of pasture land producing 37,000 head of cattle, mainly for the meat market.  Sugar cane was the most important crop with 5,450 hectares planted and a production of 408,000 tons in 2007.  Other crops were watermelon, corn, rice, manioc, tomatoes, and passion fruit.

Health and education
In 2007 there was one hospital with 18 beds and 03 public health clinics (SUS).  In the school system in 2006 there were  07 schools.
Infant mortality rate in 2000: 23.97
Literacy rate in 2000: 84.1
Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index:  0.728 (2000)
For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br

Temperatures
→ Winter temperatures: low: 12 °C/high: 31 °C;

→ Spring temperatures: low: 19 °C/high: 35 °C;

→ Summer temperatures: low: 21 °C/high: 29 °C;

→ Autumn temperatures: low: 16 °C/high: 29 °C.

References

Frigoletto
Highway Distances from Sepin

Municipalities in Goiás
Addicks

Addicks may refer to:

People
J. Edward Addicks, Philadelphia gas magnate
Johannes Addicks, Dutch chess player
Karl Addicks, German politician
Lawrence Addicks, president of the Electrochemical Society

Other uses
Charlton Athletic F.C., a football club in south-east London 
Addicks, Houston, Texas
Addicks Reservoir, Texas
Addicks Estates, Delaware
Nocturnal Symphony

Nocturnal Symphony was the demo album that Gus G. recorded with his friends as a showcase for his talents to attract a record deal under the pseudonym of Firewind. However Firewind wasn't formed as a band until after Gus  had toured and recorded with Dream Evil, Nightrage, and Mystic Prophecy almost four years later. The album has two unofficial covers which have proved to be the most recognisable, seeing as there are only 500 copies of the album and the original and official album cover.

Track listing
 "Intro" – 0:37
 "Down" – 4:22
 "I'm Not Kind" – 4:44
 "Promised Land" – 5:31
 "Inside" – 6:09
 "Beneath the Eclipsed Moon" (instrumental) – 3:17
 "Lost Dream" – 6:30
 "Distant Thoughts" – 5:15
 "Speed of Terror" – 4:31
 "Nocturnal Symphony" (instrumental) – 4:30

Personnel
Brandon Pender – vocals
Gus G. – guitars, bass
Matt Scurfield – drums

References

Firewind albums
1998 albums
West 57th

West 57th can refer to:

West 57th Street (Manhattan) a street in New York City
West 57th (TV series), a news magazine program which aired on the CBS Television Network from 1985 to 1989
Renato Borghetti

Renato Borghetti (born July 23, 1963 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian folk musician and composer.

Career 
He works in many genres including traditional styles from his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, other styles of Brazilian music like samba, and international genres like jazz and European classical music. His main instrument is the diatonic button accordion (gaita). He won a Latin Grammy in 2005 for Best Brazilian Roots/Regional Album, for his album Gaita Ponto Com.

In 2009 he performed at the Womex festival.

Discography
1984 - Gaita Ponto - RNS Discos
1985 - Renato Borghetti - Som Livre
1987 - Renato Borghetti - RCA Victor 
1988 - Esse tal de Borghettinho - RCA/BMG-Ariola
1989 - Renato Borghetti - Chantecler/Continental
1990 - O Melhor de Renato Borghetti - Som Livre
1991 - Borghetti - Continental 
1992 - Pensa que Berimbau é Gaita? - RBS Discos
1993 - Renato Borghetti - RGE
1993 - Instrumental no CCBB (with Hermeto Paschoal) - RGE
1994 - Accordionist - Prestige Records
1995 - As 20 Melhores de Renato Borghetti - RGE 
1996 - Gaúcho - RGE 
1998 - Gauderiando - RGE
1999 - Ao Ritmo de Tio Bilia - RBS Discos/Som Livre
2001 - Paixão no Peito
2002 - Ao Vivo em Viena
2002 - Umberto Petrin & Renato Borghetti - Reunião
2002 - SESC São Paulo - A Música Brasileira Deste Século Por Seus Autores e Intérpretes
2005 - Gaitapontocom
2005 - Gaúchos (Quinton Recorde Viena)
2007 - Fandango
2011 - Andanças - Live in Brussels - Saphrane
2016 - Gaita na Fábrica - Sounds from the Squeezebox Factory - Saphrane

References

External links 
 

1963 births
Brazilian composers
20th-century Brazilian male singers
20th-century Brazilian singers
Culture in Rio Grande do Sul
Living people
Musicians from Porto Alegre
21st-century Brazilian male singers
21st-century Brazilian singers
Willing and Abel

Willing and Abel is an Australian television comedy series which was made in 1987, about two handymen.

The main cast were Grant Dodwell as "Charles Willing", Shane Withington as "Abel Moore", and Rebecca Rigg as "Angela Reddy". Their names ("Reddy", "Willing" and "Abel") were a pun on the saying, “ready, willing and able".

It had problems in attaining an audience.  The show was produced as a "comedy drama" however some at the Nine Network wanted to steer it to be a heavier drama.  There was much discussion between production executives and the Network and not much agreement.  One episode scripted by Ted Roberts dealt with a hostage situation at a bank, the pathos being reinforced by series characters caught up in the action. 

The series dealt with contemporary issues in a subtle way, sometimes making observations through humour.

Cast

 Grant Dodwell as Charles Willing
 Shane Withington as Abel Moore
 Rebecca Rigg as Angela Reddy
 Simon Chilvers as Pisani 
 Martin Vaughan as "Just One" Moore
 Tina Bursill as Margaret Hill
 Mark Mitchell as Sergeant Dobson
 Alan David Lee as Gary Conway
 Susan Lyons
 Judith McGrath
 Melissa Jaffer
 Lucius Borich
 Deborah Kennedy
 Maggie Dence
 Simone Buchanan
 Veronica Lang
 Leslie Dayman
 Justine Clarke
 Sharon Millercamp

Broadcast
The series first aired in Australia on the Nine Network and years later went onto air in a number of other countries such as South Africa and Indonesia.

References
 "The Australian Film and Television Companion" — compiled by Tony Harrison — Simon & Schuster Australia, 1994

External links
 

Nine Network original programming
1980s Australian comedy television series
1987 Australian television series debuts
1987 Australian television series endings
With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness

With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness is the second studio album by the Swedish death metal band At the Gates. It was re-released in 1993 with The Red in the Sky Is Ours and again in 2003 with bonus tracks. This would be the last album with guitarist Alf Svensson who left the band after its release.

Background information
Anders Björler, the guitarist, described With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness as At the Gates' "darkest album", and deemed the album's production as "heavier" than the group's previous work.

Tomas Lindberg, the vocalist, said of the album cover: "The cover [...] is probably my favorite. It is a piece of art made by Swedish author/artist/composer Åke Hodell. The piece is called 220 Volt Buddha. Åke approved for us to use it for free, after inquiring about the music of the band and our approach, as soon as he understood that we were a non-commercial act. He has composed several pieces of abstract music, written radio plays and novels. You could consider him a modernist along the lines of Vladimir Mayakovsky. It was an honour for me to work with him and I think the blue tone matches the abstract music on the album perfectly. Åke died in 2000. He is greatly missed."

Track listing

Personnel

At the Gates
Anders Björler − guitar
Jonas Björler − bass guitar
Adrian Erlandsson − drums
Alf Svensson − guitar
Tomas Lindberg − vocals

Additional personnel
Matti Kärki − vocals on "Ever-Opening Flower"
Åke Hodell − artwork
Noel Summerville − mastering
Eric Gunewall − photography
Tomas Skogsberg − production
Fred Estby, Lars Linden, Tomas Skogsberg − recording

References

At the Gates albums
1993 albums
Peaceville Records albums
Jaakobah

Jaakobah was one of the descendants of Simeon (I Chronicles 4:36). The name Jaakobath is a form of the name Jacob, literally meaning "heel-catcher", "Deceiver", and "Supplementer". It is also the name of the original form of life from George River's novel, "Return of Darkness".

References

Books of Chronicles people
Malvern, Jamaica

Malvern is a village in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Jamaica's St. Elizabeth parish.

It is the site of Munro College (a boys' secondary school founded in 1856), Hampton School (a high school for girls founded in 1858), and Bethlehem Moravian College (a tertiary college founded in 1861).

References 

Populated places in Saint Elizabeth Parish
Navelwort

Navelwort is a common name for two different plant genera:-
 Omphalodes
 Umbilicus
Between Heaven and Hell (album)

Between Heaven and Hell is Firewind's first album released in 2002 through Massacre Records in Europe, Leviathan Records in the US, EMI in Japan and Rock Brigade in South America. There were 3 different versions of the cover art, European, Japanese and American.
The album was re-released on 10 October 2007 with the European artwork originally designed by Kristian Wåhlin and with 2 bonus demo tracks.

Track listing

 "Between Heaven and Hell" – 4:51
 "Warrior" – 4:44
 "World of Conflict" – 4:04
 "Destination Forever" – 3:44
 "Oceans" (Instrumental) – 1:49
 "Tomorrow Can Wait" – 5:39
 "Pictured Life"  – 3:36
 "Firewind Raging" – 4:26
 "I Will Fight Alone" – 5:09
 "Northern Sky"  – 4:50
 "Fire" – 4:38
 "Who Am I?" – 5:18 
 "End of an Era" – 1:52 
 "Fire"  – 4:30 (re-release bonus track)
 "Destination Forever"  – 3:28

Personnel
Band members
 Stephen Fredrick – vocals
 Gus G. – guitars, keyboards
 Konstantine – bass
 Brian Harris – drums

References

Firewind albums
2002 debut albums
Massacre Records albums
Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading

The Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading () is an independent Statutory Board of the Isle of Man Government. The purpose of the office is to enforce criminal consumer protection legislation and advice on civil consumer legislation however the office cannot enforce civil legislation. Such legislation provides consumers with certain rights when purchasing goods and services and these rights can ultimately only be enforced by the consumer through the Courts. Unsatisfactory goods and services, breaches of contracts for goods and services are examples of matters covered by civil legislation.

Chairmen
Martyn Perkins, 2016-
David Quirk, 2011-2016
Robert Henderson, 2008-2011
Quintin Gill MHK, 2004-2008
John Houghton MHK, 1999-2004
Pamela Crowe MLC, 1997-2002

References

External links
 http://www.gov.im/oft/

Government of the Isle of Man
Economy of the Isle of Man
Law of the Isle of Man
Consumer organisations in the United Kingdom
Financial Supervision Commission

The Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) () was the financial regulator of the Isle of Man.

The commission was established in 1983.  The Chairman was previously a Member of Tynwald until legislation forbade this in 2004.

In 2015, the FSC merged with the Insurance and Pensions Authority (IPA) to form the Financial Services Authority (IOMFSA).

Chairpersons
FSC
Col Edgar Mann, 1983-1985
David Cannan MHK, 1986-1989
Donald Gelling, 1989-1996
Walter Gilbey, 1996-1999
Phil Braidwood MHK, 1999-2001
Alan Crowe MLC, 2001-2003
Rosemary Penn, 2004-2012
Geoff Karran, 2012-2015

IOMFSA
Geoff Karran, 2015-2018
Lillian Boyle, since 2018

References

External links

Economy of the Isle of Man
Government of the Isle of Man
Isle of Man
Basketball statistics

Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player's or a team's performance.

Examples
Examples of basketball statistics include:

 GM, GP; GS: games played; games started
 PTS: points
 FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage
 FTM, FTA, FT%: free throws made, attempted and percentage
 3FGM, 3FGA, 3FG%: three-point field goals made, attempted and percentage
 REB, OREB, DREB: rebounds, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds
 AST: assists
 STL: steals
 BLK: blocks
 TO: turnovers
 TD: triple double
 EFF: efficiency: NBA's efficiency rating: (PTS + REB + AST + STL + BLK − ((FGA − FGM) + (FTA − FTM) + TO))
 PF: personal fouls
 MIN: minutes
 AST/TO: assist to turnover ratio
 PER: Player Efficiency Rating: John Hollinger's Player Efficiency Rating
 PIR: Performance Index Rating: Euroleague's and Eurocup's Performance Index Rating: (Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks + Fouls Drawn) − (Missed Field Goals + Missed Free Throws + Turnovers + Shots Rejected + Fouls Committed)

Averages per game are denoted by *PG (e.g. BLKPG or BPG, STPG or SPG, APG, RPG and MPG). Sometime the players statistics are divided by minutes played and multiplied by 48 minutes (had he played the entire game), denoted by * per 48 min. or *48M.

A player who makes double digits in a game in any two of the PTS, REB, AST, STL, and BLK statistics is said to make a double double; in three statistics, a triple double; in four statistics, a quadruple double.  A quadruple double is extremely rare (and has only occurred four times in the NBA).  There is also a 5x5, when a player records at least a 5 in each of the 5 statistics.

The NBA also posts to the statistics section of its Web site a simple composite efficiency statistic, denoted EFF and derived by the formula, ((Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks) − ((Field Goals Attempted − Field Goals Made) + (Free Throws Attempted − Free Throws Made) + Turnovers)). While conveniently distilling most of a player's key statistics in one numerical score, the formula is not highly regarded by the statistics community, with the alternative Player Efficiency Rating developed by ESPN basketball statistician John Hollinger being more widely used to compare the overall efficiency of players.

Tempo-free statistics
Examples of tempo-free statistics including the following
 Pace: Possessions per game (typically ranges from 60 to 75)
 PPP: Points per possession, the points a team score for each possession regardless of a team's pace
 TO%: Turnover percentage, the measure of how often a team loses possession of the ball before creating a scoring opportunity

Fantasy leagues
In fantasy basketball, statistics are used in a formula as the measurement of a player's performance.

See also
 Player Efficiency Rating
 Efficiency (basketball)
 Similarity score
 Advanced statistics in basketball

References

External links
 Land of Basketball NBA statistics
 NBA & pro Basketball statistics
 Proballers.com
 Basketball-Reference.com
 Statistics at NBA.com
 
 A Layman's Guide to Advanced NBA Statistics at knickerblogger.net
 NBA stats at Yahoo!

 
Statistics-related lists
Sam D'Allesandro

Sam D’Allesandro (born Richard Anderson) (April 3, 1956 – February 3, 1988) was an American writer and poet. He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and came to San Francisco as a young man in the early 1980s and published a book of elegant lyrics, Slippery Sins.

D'Allesandro was a member of the so-called "New Narrative" writers, which included Robert Glück, Bruce Boone, Steve Abbott and others. He reached out to other like-minded writers and contacted Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Benjamin Weissman, David Trinidad, and Dodie Bellamy. With Bellamy he began an epistolary collaboration she was later to publish as Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D’Allesandro. A gay man, D'Allesandro died of AIDS in 1988, aged 31, leaving behind a body of work that ranges across various genre identities, from stories of one paragraph to fully developed novellas.  He is also the author of The Wild Creatures, which was published posthumously in 2005, edited by Bellamy's husband Kevin Killian. He is mentioned in Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott.

References

External links 
 Review of "The Wild Creatures".
 Kevin Killian reads D'Allesandro's story "Nothing Ever Just Disappears".
 "Bringing Back Sam," Bay Area Reporter 

1956 births
1988 deaths
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
AIDS-related deaths in California
American gay writers
American LGBT poets
20th-century American poets
American male poets
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American LGBT people
Gay poets
Shallon

Shallon  may refer to:

Gaultheria shallon - an evergreen shrub in the heather family (Ericaceae), known as salal or shallon.
David Shallon (1950-2000) - Israeli conductor.
Shallon Olsen (born 2000) - Canadian artistic gymnast.
Communications and Utilities Regulatory Authority

The Communications and Utilities Regulatory Authority () is a statutory board responsible for the regulation of telecommunications and broadcasting in the Isle of Man, and since 2020, certain responsibilities in relation to the gas market.

Ofcom in the United Kingdom is responsible for the regulation of frequency allocation.

The Authority was established as the Communications Commission () under the Communications Commission Order 1989.  Since 2001 the Minister for Home Affairs has been chairman of the Commission ex officio.

See also
 Communications on the Isle of Man

References

External links
 Communications and Utilities Regulatory Authority (CURA)

Communications in the Isle of Man
Government of the Isle of Man
1989 establishments in the Isle of Man
Organizations established in 1989
Winnipeg Velodrome

The Winnipeg Velodrome was a cycling facility built in Winnipeg, Manitoba for the 1967 Pan-American Games and managed by Winnipeg Enterprises. The facility was a banked short-track oval with a cement surface. The velodrome was located near the Winnipeg Arena and Winnipeg Stadium. Notable athletes to compete here include Jocelyn Lovell.

The infield was large enough to accommodate a Canadian football-sized field, and indeed, the Velodrome was an important venue for high-school football in the city. It was planned as a facility that could relieve the larger Winnipeg Stadium from the duty of hosting amateur football, which was taking a serious toll on the grass field and making it unsuitable for professional play. Following the installation of artificial turf at Winnipeg Stadium in 1987, amateur teams resumed playing in the larger facility and football activity at the Velodrome declined sharply. Starting in 1994, the Velodrome was occasionally used as a practice facility by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League on days when the Winnipeg Goldeyes were using the Stadium.

By the 1990s, the facility had become functionally obsolete for competitive cycling, and its use by cyclists had all but ceased. In light of the facility's deterioration, a decision was made to build a temporary velodrome for the 1999 Pan-American Games at the Red River Exhibition Park. The Winnipeg Velodrome was demolished in 1998 and the site is now occupied by retail stores. The temporary facility built to replace the Winnipeg Velodrome was itself disassembled and sold to a group in the Netherlands shortly after the 1999 Pan-American Games, leaving Manitoba without a velodrome facility.

See also
List of cycling tracks and velodromes

References

External links 
Aerial photograph of the Winnipeg Velodrome in 1967

Sports venues in Winnipeg
Velodromes in Canada
Defunct sports venues in Canada
1967 establishments in Manitoba
Sports venues completed in 1967
1998 disestablishments in Manitoba
Sports venues demolished in 1998
Civil Service Commission (Isle of Man)



Chairmen
John Houghton MHK, 2004–present
George Waft MLC, 1996–2004
Clare Christian MLC, 1981–1982
Noel Cringle MLC, 1992–1996
Walter Gilbey, years unknown

See also
Civil Service Commission

Government of the Isle of Man
Burning Earth

Burning Earth is Firewind's second album, released in 2003. The original rhythm section of Brian Harris and Konstantine were replaced by Stian Kristoffersen and Petros Christo, respectively. This was the last album to feature vocalist Stephen Fredrick, who left months after its release. Burning Earth, has been remastered and re-issued in Japan via Hydrant Music in 2012.

Track listing
Original recording

"Steal Them Blind" – 4:58
"I Am the Anger"   – 3:45
"Immortal Lives Young" – 6:50
"Burning Earth"  – 4:00
"The Fire and the Fury" (instrumental)  – 5:24
"You Have Survived"– 5:26
"Brother's Keeper" – 4:40
"Waiting Still"– 4:04
"The Longest Day"  – 5:20
"Still the Winds"  – 2:13 

Remastered Version
"Steal Them Blind" - 5:00
"I Am The Anger" - - 3:48
"Immortal Lives Young" - 6:47
"Burning Earth" - 4:02
"The Fire and The Fury" - 5:26
"You Have Survived" - 5:28
"Brother's Keeper" - 4:42
"Waiting Still" - 4:06
"The Longest Day" - 5:24
"Burning Earth (Demo)" - 4:05
"The Fire and The Fury (Demo)" - 5:23
"You Have Survived (Demo)" - 5:27

Personnel
Band members
 Stephen Fredrick – vocals
 Gus G. – guitars, keyboards
 Petros Christo – bass
 Stian L. Kristoffersen – drums

References

Firewind albums
2003 albums
Massacre Records albums
Palais Coburg

Palais Coburg, also known as Palais Saxe-Coburg, is a palace in Vienna, Austria. It was owned by the Kohary branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Palais Coburg was designed in 1839 by architect Karl Schleps in Neoclassical style, and built from  1840 to 1845 by Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha  atop the Braunbastei (Brown Bastion), a part of the Vienna city defences dating to 1555. It is nicknamed the Spargelburg ("castle of asparagus") for its central portico with many freestanding columns.

Its last private owner was Sarah Aurelia Halasz, morganatic widow of a prince, who lived there with her family. The owners sold the palace in the 1970s and today is a luxury five star boutique hotel after extensive renovations. The palatial hotel has 33 suites and it was the venue for the Iran nuclear deal signed on 14 July 2015.

References
, Haus der Könige. Das Wiener Palais Coburg, Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2018, 
Richard Kurdiovsky, Klaus-Peter Högel (ed.). Das Palais Coburg: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte eines Wiener Adelspalastes zwischen Renaissance-Befestigung und Ringstraßenära. Brandstätter, Vienna. 2003. 
Palais-Coburg.com

External links

Coburg
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry
Hotels in Vienna
Houses completed in 1845