alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Heru

A heru is a traditional ornamental comb of the Māori of New Zealand. They were carved from a solid piece of either wood or whale bone or made from individual teeth lashed together. They were used by men to fasten their long hair up into topknots. The heru indicated the rank of the wearer.

References

External links
Heru (ornamental combs) in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Māori culture
Bone carvings
The Ultra-Violence

The Ultra-Violence is the debut studio album by American thrash metal band Death Angel, released in 1987. The album was recorded while all members were under 20, with drummer Andy Galeon just 14 years old. It was mixed at George Tobin Studios in Hollywood, California.

The title could be a reference to Stanley Kubrick's movie A Clockwork Orange.

Reception and legacy 

The Ultra-Violence is considered a classic in the thrash metal genre, listed as number 370 in the 2010 reference book, The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. Adam McCann of Metal Digest wrote, "Punching their way out of the trenches of the Bay Area and following in the footsteps of the likes of Testament and Exodus, Death Angel delivered a beast of an album with many Death Angel fans still saying that The Ultra-Violence is their favourite album. The then snot-nosed kids showed how amazingly talented they were as they suddenly found themselves going toe to toe with their older peers and being able to come out on top with excellent songs and electrifying live performances."

Track listing 

Mark Osegueda claimed in a 2003 interview that "I.P.F.S." stood for "Intense Puke Feeling Syndrome", but it is unclear if this was meant to be taken seriously.

Personnel 
Death Angel
Mark Osegueda – lead vocals
Rob Cavestany – lead guitar, backing vocals, mixing
Gus Pepa – rhythm guitar
Dennis Pepa – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on track 1
Andy Galeon – drums, mixing

Additional musicians
Arnie Tan – percussion

Production
Davy Vain – producer with Death Angel
Warren Dennis, Dennis Hulett – engineers
Ron Goudie – mixing at George Tobin Studios, Hollywood, California
Robert Feist – mixing engineer
John Kerns, Brian Rutter, John Kliner – mixing assistants

References 

Death Angel albums
1987 debut albums
Enigma Records albums
Miroslav Žbirka

Miroslav "Miro" Žbirka (21 October 1952 – 10 November 2021) was a Slovak pop and rock singer and songwriter, widely popular in 1980s Czechoslovakia. Born in Bratislava to a Slovak father and an English mother, he sang in Slovak, English, and Czech. He sometimes recorded in London, but lived in Slovakia and since early 1990s in Prague, Czech Republic, where he died.

In the late 1970s, Žbirka co-founded two Czechoslovak pop music bands, Modus and Limit. In 1982, he rose to fame by winning the annual Zlatý slavík award for the best male singer in Czechoslovakia. After the 1992 division of Czechoslovakia, he repeated this achievement in the Slovak annual Slávik Awards, coming number one in the annual end of year charts in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Žbirka had some performances with Jon Anderson in 2012. Asteroid 5895 Žbirka, discovered by Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová in 1982, was named in his honor (the official  was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 ()). He died from pneumonia in Prague on 10 November 2021, leaving behind recorded vocals for his 15th studio album, Posledné veci (Last Things), which was completed by his son David Žbirka in Konk Studios by May 2022.

Discography

Studio albums
 1980: Doktor Sen
 1982: Sezónne lásky
 1983: Roky a dni
 1984: Nemoderný chalan
 1986: Chlapec z ulice
 1988: Zlomky poznania
 1990: K.O.
 1993: Songs for Children (designed for children)
 1994: Samozrejmý svet
 1997: Meky
 1999: Songs for Boys & Girls (designed for children)
 2001: Modrý album
 2005: Dúhy
 2009: Empatia
 2015: Miro
 2018: Double Album
 2022: Posledné veci

Export albums
 1981: Doctor Dream (aka Miro and/or Like a Hero)
 1982: Light of My Life
 1983: Giant Step (aka Dear Boy)
 1989: Step by Step

Awards

Major awards

Music polls

References
General

Specific

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

 
 
 Miroslav Žbirka at Billboard
 
 

1952 births
2021 deaths
Slovak expatriates in the Czech Republic
20th-century Slovak male singers
Slovak people of English descent
Modus (band) members
Zlatý slavík winners
21st-century Slovak male singers
Czechoslovak male singers
Musicians from Bratislava
Deaths from pneumonia in the Czech Republic
Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
Late at Night (Billy Preston album)

Late at Night is the thirteenth studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1979, and his debut for Motown Records.  It includes his hit duet with Syreeta Wright, "With You I'm Born Again", from the film Fast Break.

Track listing
"Give It Up, Hot" (Billy Preston, Ronnie Vann, Bruce Fisher)  – 5:59
"Late at Night" (Preston, Jesse Kirkland, Joe Greene)  – 4:49
"All I Wanted Was You" (Preston, Carol Connors)  – 4:43
"You" (Preston, Gloria Jones, Richard Jones)  – 4:25
"I Come to Rest in You" (Preston, Guy Finley)  – 3:52
"It Will Come in Time" (Preston)  – 4:57
"Lovely Lady" (Preston, Jack Ackerman)  – 3:52
"With You I'm Born Again" (David Shire, Carol Connors)  – 3:38
"Sock-It, Rocket" (Preston)  – 3:10

Personnel 
 Billy Preston – vocals, pianos, organ, synthesizers, melodica, harpsichord (2), rhythm guitar (2), backing vocals (2, 4-7, 9), arrangements (2, 3, 7, 9)
 Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars 
 David T. Walker – guitars
 Keni Burke – bass
 Robert Lee Hill – bass
 Chuck Rainey – bass
 Ollie E. Brown – drums
 James Gadson – drums
 Bobbye Hall – percussion
 Bobby Keys – saxophone
 Dorothy Ashby – harp
 David Blumberg – arrangements (1, 4-7, 9)
 David Shire – arrangements (8)
 Harry Bluestone – concertmaster
 Maxayn Lewis – backing vocals (1, 3)
 Scherrie Payne – backing vocals (1, 3)
 Joe Greene – backing vocals (2, 7)
 Jesse Kirkland – backing vocals (2, 7)
 Bruce Fisher – backing vocals (4, 5, 6, 9)
 Gloria Jones – backing vocals (4, 5, 6, 9)
 Richard Jones – backing vocals (4, 5, 6, 9)
 Bobby King – backing vocals (4, 5, 6, 9)
 Phyllis St. James – backing vocals (4, 5, 6, 9)
 Syreeta Wright – vocals (6, 8)

Production 
 Suzanne DePasse – executive producer
 Tony Jones – executive producer
 F. Byron Clark – associate producer, engineer, mixing
 James Warmack – assistant engineer 
 Steve Williams – assistant engineer 
 Bob Winard – assistant engineer
 Russ Terrana – remix engineer, mastering
 Jack Andrews – mastering 
 Suzanne Coston – project manager 
 Ed Caraeff Studio – art direction, design, photography

References

Billy Preston albums
1979 albums
Albums produced by Billy Preston
Motown albums
1965 Palanca Awards

The 15th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.

Winners

The 1965 winners, the fifteenth recipients of the awards, were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, and one-act play:

English division

Short story
 First Prize: Nick Joaquin, "Doña Jeronima"
 Second Prize: Bienvenido N. Santos, "The Enchanted Plant"
 Third Prize: Almatita Tayo, "Naked Song"

Poetry
 First Prize: Epifanio San Juan Jr., "Godkissing Carrion"
 Second Prize: Emmanuel Torres, "A Group of Poems"
 Third Prize: Valdemar Olaguer, "A Group of Poems"

One-act play
 First Prize: Nestor Torre Jr., "No Sadder Race"
 Second Prize: Jesus T. Peralta, "The Mouth is an Open Wound"
 Third Prize: Mar V. Puatu, "Lust is a Four-letter Word"

Filipino Division

Maikling Kwento
 First Prize: Benjamin P. Pascual, "Landas sa Bahaghari"
 Second Prize: Eli Ang Barroso, "Kamatayan sa Dilim at Ulan"
 Third Prize: Bayani De Leon, "Mga Luha ni Leila"

Tula
 First Prize: Ruben Vega, "Sa Pagkaparool"
 Second Prize: Teo S. Baylen, "Mga Sugat ng Siglo"
 Third Prize: Gonzalo Flores, "Makiling"

Dulang May Isang Yugto
 First Prize: Edgardo M. Reyes, "Mga Yagit"
 Second Prize: Pablo M. Cuasay, "Maskara"
 Third Prize: Agapito M. Joaquin, "Ang Taksil"

References

External links
 

Palanca Awards
1965 literary awards
Kendal Power Station

Kendal Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It is sited in a coal-mining area; one of its sources is AEMFC's coal mine at Vlakfontein, near Ogies.

History

Design
Kendal was built between 1982 and 1993. The first unit went online in 1988. On completion in 1993 it became the world's largest indirect dry-cooled power station. The total station water consumption of a dry-cooled system does not exceed 0,2lkWh, compared with the 2,5lkWh consumed by wet-cooled systems.  Evaporation losses in wet-cooled systems account for approximately 80% of the water requirements of a conventional wet-cooled power station.

Kendal is fired with coal mined in the Bombardie Cologne coalfield.  Twin overland conveyors transport the coal from the mine through the stock-year into the coalbunkers.

For each unit there is one cooling water system, including the cooling tower with its tuber bundle heat exchangers, three circulating pumps (units 4 to 6) two circulating pumps), one hot and one cold duct and a condenser.  The circulating water cools the condensate in the condenser.

The boilers are of the controlled circulation sub-critical design with coal-fired radiant furnaces and reheating.  Kendal's turbines are of the tandem compound reaction type. The two chimneys are 275 m, high structure, each having three internal brick flues, and their foundations rest on weathered bush-veld granite. With a height of 165 m and a base diameter of 165 m each, the cooling towers are the largest in the world.  Each shell required 16 800 m³ of concrete and 1 170 tons of reinforced steel to construct.

Kendal is currently the 22nd largest coal-fired power station in the world and largest power station of any kind in Africa.

Power generation
Power generation is done by six 686 MW units for a total installed capacity of 4,116 MW.  Design efficiency at rated turbine MCR: 35.30%

Environmental problems
In 2009, Kendal was the 10th most polluting power plant in the world.

Following a period of non-compliance of all six generation units at Kendal in 2018 and 2019, the Department of Environment, Forestry and fishery issued a Compliance Notice to Eskom on 10 December 2019, compelling operation of two units to cease, and ordered corrective measures to be undertaken in compliance with the Kendal's Atmospheric Emissions License (AEL). On 27 November 2020, Eskom was served with a summons for supplying misleading information to an Air Quality Officer. This followed an internal investigation and report prepared by Eskom Audit and Forensic (A&F) into air quality compliance and reporting, initiated by Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter on 17 May 2020 following investigations and articles by EE Business Intelligence on these matters.

See also 

 Eskom
 Fossil-fuel power plant
 List of power stations in South Africa

References

External links
 Kendal Power Station on the Eskom-Website

Energy infrastructure completed in 1993
Coal-fired power stations in South Africa
Buildings and structures in Mpumalanga
Economy of Mpumalanga
20th-century architecture in South Africa
1966 Palanca Awards

The 16th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.

Winners

The 1966 winners, the fourteenth recipients of the awards, were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, and one-act play:

English division

Short story
 First Prize: Lilia Pablo Amansec, “Loverboy”
 Second Prize: Kerima Polotan Tuvera, “A Various Season”
 Third Prize: Fr. Rodolfo Villanueva, “A Gift of Tongues”

Poetry
 First Prize: Emmanuel Torres, “Angels and Fugitives”
 Second Prize: Valdemar Olaguer, “A Collection of Poems”
 Third Prize: Manuel Viray, “After this Exile”

One-act play
 First Prize: Jesus T. Peralta, “The Sign of the Sea Gulls”
 Second Prize: Wilfrido D. Nolledo, “Flores Para Los Muertos”
 Third Prize: Mar V. Puatu, “O Lamb ... Poor Lamb”

Filipino division

Maikling Kwento
 First Prize: Wilfredo Pa. Virtusio, “Bilanggo”
 Second Prize: Pedro S. Dandan, “Ang Anino ng Kanyang Ama”
 Third Prize: Jeremias Victor Lacanieta, “Ang Dalaw”

Tula
 First Prize: Cresenciano C. Marquez Jr., “Ebolusyon”
 Second Prize: Vict. Dela Cruz, “Logos”
 Third Prize: Rogelio Mangahas, “Tinig Mula sa Kung Saan”

Dulang May Isang Yugto
 First Prize: Bernardo Del Rosario Jr., “Itim ang Kulay ng Paruparo”
 Second Prize: Rogelio Sicat, “Mga Kaluluwang Naghahanap”
 Third Prize: Benjamin P. Pascual, “Anino ng Kahapon”

References

External links
 

Palanca Awards
1966 literary awards
1967 Palanca Awards

The 17th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. 

LIST OF WINNERS

The 1967 winners, the seventeenth recipients of the awards, were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story, poetry, and one-act play:

English Division

Short Story 
 First Prize: Gregorio C. Brillantes, “The Fires of the Sun, The Crystalline Sky”
 Second Prize: Gilda Cordero-Fernando, “Early in Our Lord”
 Third Prize: Tita Lacambra Ayala, “Everything”

Poetry 
 First Prize: Edith L. Tiempo, “The Tracks of Babylon and Others”
 Second Prize: Marra Pl. Lanot, “Sheaves of Things Burning”
 Third Prize: Epifanio San Juan Jr., “The Exorcism”

One-Act Play 
 First Prize: Nestor Torre Jr., “And a Happy Birthday”
 Second Prize: Jesus T. Peralta, “Voices of Laughter”
 Third Prize: Nestor Torre Jr., “Apparitions”

Filipino Division

Maikling Kwento 
 First Prize: Efren R. Abueg, “Ang Kamatayan ni Tiyo Samuel”
 Second Prize: Domingo Landicho, “Talulot sa Pagas na Lupa”
 Third Prize: Epifanio San Juan Jr., “Masaya ang Alitaptap sa Labi ng Kabibi”

Tula 
 First Prize: Federico Licsi Espino Jr., “Toreng Bato ... Kastilyong Pawid at Bagwis ng Guniguni”
 Second Prize: Bienvenido Ramos, “Iba't Ibang Tula”
 Third Prize: Ruben Vega, “O Sanggol na Hari”

Dulang May Isang Yugto 
 First Prize: Fernando L. Samonte, “Gabi at Araw”
 Second Prize: Benjamin P. Pascual, “Isang Araw ng Paghuhukom”
 Third Prize: Levy Balgos Dela Cruz, “Isang Kundiman”

References

Sources
 

Palanca Awards
1967 literary awards
Orion String Quartet

The Orion String Quartet is a string quartet formed in 1987.  It is the quartet-in-residence of New York's Mannes College The New School for Music. The members are Todd and Daniel Phillips, brothers who alternate on first and second violin, violist Steven Tenenbom and cellist Timothy Eddy. Members of the quartet teach at the Curtis Institute of Music, Mannes, Juilliard, Queens College, and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

External links 
 Orion String Quartet Website

Musical groups established in 1987
American instrumental musical groups
American string quartets
New York International Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America.  It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the East Village, and Greenwich Village. Most of the venues were centered on the FringeHUB. Yearly attendance topped 75,000 people.

Festival
Unlike most Fringe festivals, FringeNYC uses a jury-based selection process. Around 200 shows, out of a much larger pool of applicants, are selected for inclusion each year. However, in 2018 the Festival reduced the number of shows.

The festival was founded in 1997 by Aaron Beall, John Clancy, Jonathan Harris (also known as Ezra Buzzington), and (current Artistic Director) Elena K. Holy, and is produced by The Present Company.

Notable shows that premiered at FringeNYC include Urinetown, Dog Sees God, the musical adaptation of Debbie Does Dallas, and the American English-language premiere of The Black Rider. Other feature shows included Charlie Victor Romeo, which premiered at New York Lower East Side theatre Collective:Unconscious.

FringeNYC includes many component events, such as FringeU (educational events), FringeART (art events), FringeAL FRESCO (free outdoor performances), and FringeJR (children's events).

At the conclusion of the festival out of 200 shows, around 20 shows are selected to participate in the FringeNYC Encore Series which runs for an additional two weeks in September.

The festival went on hiatus in 2017 to revise its format and develop ambitious long-term plans.  It ran in the fall of 2018 and 2019 with fewer performances and smaller venues and included performances in the outer boroughs.  After the 2019 festival, there was no further activity.  The website was taken down in May 2021.

See also
 FRIGID New York

References

External links

 
 NYCFringeGuide.com

Further reading
 Article about 4 fringe festivals in New York City

Fringe
Fringe festivals in the United States
Performance art in New York City
Festivals established in 1997
1997 establishments in New York City
Nisa, Portugal

Nisa () is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,450, in an area of 575.68 km2.

The present Mayor is Maria Idalina Alves Trindade (PS - Partido Socialista). The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.

In addition, it lends its name to one of the most famous Portuguese sheep cheeses (Certificate of Protected Origin or D.O.P.).

Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Alpalhão
 Arez e Amieira do Tejo
 Espírito Santo, Nossa Senhora da Graça e São Simão
 Montalvão
 Santana
 São Matias
 Tolosa

Notable people 
 Álvaro Semedo (ca.1585 - 1658) a Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary in China.

References

External links

Town Hall official website
Photos from Nisa

 
Populated places in Portalegre District
Municipalities of Portalegre District
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab

The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab (Spanish transcription Omar Iban Al-Jattab) is a mosque in Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia. It is the third largest mosque in Latin America. It is locally known as "La Mezquita" ("The Mosque"), simply because it is the only mosque in the region. Along with the Dar Alarkan School, they are the centers for the Islamic faith and culture in the region. The mosque was constructed on 17 September 1997, and named after the second caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab. It was designed by the Iranian architect Ali Namazi and built by the civil engineer Oswaldo Vizcaino Fontalvo who used Italian marble for its construction. It can easily accommodate over 1,000 people.

Interior
At the entrance there is a large open hall decorated with framed Arabic calligraphy. Further on, there is another hall, larger than the first, used by men for prayer. This is also where they meet in order to end periods of fasting. The ceiling of this room has decorative engravings. Facing Mecca, there is a place for the women to pray, elevated and overlooking the men's hall. The minaret dominates the upper parts of the structure.

Below the great stairs exiting the mosque there is a room for undertaking of the deceased before their remains are taken to the local Muslim cemetery.

See also
  List of mosques in the Americas
  Lists of mosques 
 Islam in Colombia

References

External links

 La mezquita de Maicao (Colombia) cumple diez años, 16 September 2007
 Cumple Diez Años de Fundada la Mezquite de Maicao, Corazón de los Musulmanes Guajiros, 19 Sep. 2007
 Foto Panoramio

1997 establishments in Colombia
Mosques completed in 1997
Mosques in Colombia
Buildings and structures in La Guajira Department
Douwe Breimer

Douwe Durk Breimer (born 24 November 1943 in Oudemirdum, Netherlands) is a Dutch pharmacologist and was both rector magnificus and president of the Executive Board of Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Breimer studied pharmacology at the University of Groningen (1962–1970) and obtained his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Nijmegen. In 1975, he was appointed professor of pharmacology at Leiden University. His research focusses on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism. Breimer co-authored over 500 scientific papers and supervised more than 50 Ph.D. students.

Breimer holds honorary doctorates from Ghent University, Uppsala University (1992), Semmelweis University (Budapest), the University of Navarra (Pamplona), Hoshi University (Tokyo), the University of London and the Université de Montréal.

In 1987 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a member of Academia Europaea in 1992.

He has received the Host-Madsen medal of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the Scheele prize of the Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Fluckiger medal of the German Pharmaceutical Society.

References

External links
 Professor Breimer at Leiden University

1943 births
Living people
Dutch pharmacologists
Academic staff of Leiden University
Members of Academia Europaea
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Gaasterlân-Sleat
Radboud University Nijmegen alumni
Rectors of universities in the Netherlands
University of Groningen alumni
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
The Tabernacle, Machynlleth

The Tabernacle is a centre for the performing arts in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. It is located in a former Wesleyan chapel, which was converted in the mid-1980s and opened in 1986. Since then the Museum of Modern Art has grown up alongside it, with six exhibition spaces.

The Tabernacle' Auditorium seats 350 people and regularly hosts chamber and choral music, drama, lectures and conferences. It also has translation booths, a grand piano, recording facilities and a cinema screen. There is a bar in the foyer. There are music teaching rooms and an art studio in Ty Llyfnant. The Green Room doubles as a Language Laboratory where Lifelong learning classes are held.

The Machynlleth Festival takes place in the Auditorium in late August every year.

Since acquiring accreditation from the Museums, Archives and Libraries Division of the Welsh Government in 2016, the Trust owning the Tabernacle is now known as "MOMA Machynlleth".

See also
Machynlleth Festival
Hallstatt Lecture
MOMA, Wales

Further reading
 Michael Fraser: Graham Arnold: A Retrospective/ Ol Syllu (Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1992) 
Icons in Oil: Portraits from the Lambert Collection (Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Machynlleth, 1993) 
 Eric Rowan & Carolyn Stewart: An Elusive Tradition: Art and Society in Wales, 1870–1950 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2002) 
 D. Huw Owen: Capeli Cymru (Y Lolfa, Talybont, 2005)

External links
Official Webpage

Theatres in Wales
Chapels in Powys
Methodist churches in Wales
Former Methodist churches in the United Kingdom
Event venues established in 1986
Ponte de Sor

Ponte de Sor () is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 16,722, in an area of 839.71 km2.

The present Mayor is Hugo Hilário, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.

Economy
The economy of the municipality is based in agriculture, services and light industries ranging from food to aviation like the British-based company L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3CTS). However, the main industry is the cork industry, being Ponte de Sor one of the main producing areas of raw and transformed cork worldwide.

Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Foros de Arrão 
 Galveias
 Longomel
 Montargil
 Ponte de Sor, Tramaga e Vale de Açor

Notable people 
 Vitória Pais Freire de Andrade (1883–1930) an active Portuguese feminist who also campaigned against bullfighting in Portugal.
 José Luís Peixoto (born 1974) a Portuguese author, poet and playwright.

References

External links
Town Hall official website

Populated places in Portalegre District
Municipalities of Portalegre District
People from Ponte de Sor
Machynlleth Festival

The Machynlleth Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in the auditorium of The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, Wales in late August. During the week eminent performers take part in events ranging from recitals for children to jazz.

Events

The festival begins with a sing-along of sacred hymns, the Cymanfa Ganu. Special features include the Hallstatt Lecture on some aspect of Celtic culture. 

The Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales is given during the festival.

Performers
Performers in the first three Machynlleth Festivals included  tenor Paul Agnew (1987),  oboist Nicholas Daniel (1988),  soprano Elizabeth Vaughan (1988),  actor Leonard Fenton (1988 and 1989),  saxophonist Don Rendell (1989) and  bass-baritone Bryn Terfel (1989). Among the Festival performers in the next few years were: Alan Skidmore, tenor saxophonist, 1990; Bernard Roberts, pianist, and Kit and The Widow, 1991; and Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band, 1992.

The 1994 Festival, the last to contain four events per day for eight days, featured  musicologist John Amis, violinist Tasmin Little, soprano Joan Rodgers, clarinettist Emma Johnson and pianist Joshua Rifkin. In 1995 the Festival was reduced for reasons of economy to two events each day, more or less the pattern of the first Festival. Performers included broadcaster Richard Baker and  mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker. 

Jazz singer George Melly and trombonist Christian Lindberg were amongst the highlights of 1996.

References

External links
The Tabernacle Website

Music festivals in Wales
Music festivals established in 1987
Folk festivals in Wales
Classical music festivals in the United Kingdom
1987 establishments in Wales
Summer events in Wales
Tourist attractions in Powys
Dominican Church

Dominican Church is the name of a number of churches belonging to the Dominicans. Notable examples include:
Dominican Church, Vienna, Austria
Dominican Church, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit, Vilnius, Lithuania
Dominican Church, Lviv, Ukraine
Chiesa dei Domenicani, Bolzano, Italy
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Košice, Slovakia, commonly known as the Dominican Church.
Urchin (software)

Urchin was a web statistics analysis program that was developed by Urchin Software Corporation. Urchin analyzed web server log file content and displayed the traffic information on that website based upon the log data. Sales of Urchin products ended on March 28, 2012.

Urchin software could be run in two different data collection modes: log file analyzer or hybrid. As a log file analyzer, Urchin processed web server log files in a variety of log file formats. Custom file formats could also be defined. As a hybrid, Urchin combined page tags with log file data to eradicate the limitations of each data collection method in isolation. The result was more accurate web visitor data.

Urchin became one of the more popular solutions for website traffic analysis, particularly with ISPs and web hosting providers. This was largely due to its scalability in performance and its pricing model.

Urchin Software Corp. was acquired by Google in April 2005, forming Google Analytics. In April 2008, Google released Urchin 6. In February 2009, Google released Urchin 6.5, integrating AdWords. Urchin 7 was released in September 2010 and included 64-bit support, a new UI, and event tracking, among other features.

See also
UTM parameters
List of web analytics software

References

External links
 

Google software
Web analytics
Discontinued Google services
Web log analysis software
Livonia Transmission

Livonia Transmission is a Ford Motor Company transmission factory in Livonia, Michigan.  It is located at 36200 Plymouth Road.  The plant sits on 182 acres and totals 3.3 million square feet of enclosed floorspace, making it the largest transmission plant in North America.

Products
 Ford 6R Transmission
 Ford 10R Transmission
 Ford 8f Transmission

See also
 List of Ford factories

External links
Map: 

Ford factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Michigan
Livonia, Michigan
Buildings and structures in Wayne County, Michigan
Pat O'Shea (author)

Pat O'Shea (22 January 1931 – 3 May 2007) was an Irish children's fiction writer. She was born in Galway and was the youngest of five children. Her first novel was the best-selling The Hounds of the Morrigan, which took 13 years to complete. It was finally published in 1985 by Oxford University Press, translated into five languages, and is still considered a classic of children's literature.

Biography
O'Shea (née Patricia Mary Shiels) was born in the Bohermore area of Galway and attended Presentation National School and the Convent of Mercy Secondary School. She was the youngest of five children. Her mother died when O'Shea was a small child, and she and the other children were brought up by her older sister.

At 16 she followed her siblings to England and decided to stay there, getting a job in a bookshop in Manchester. She began to write theatre plays and received a bursary in 1967 from the British Art Council.

Her writing for the theatre was supported by David Scase, director of the Library Theatre, Manchester, and his successor Tony Colegate, and four of her one-act plays were produced by the Library Theatre. Her play The King's Ears was commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland. In 1971 she worked on a sketch comedy show for Granada Television called Flat Earth, but this was not successful.

In 1969 she had begun to write short stories and poetry, as well as a comic novel (unpublished). By the early 1970s she began writing The Hounds of the Morrigan to please herself and family and friends, with little expectation of getting it published. It took O'Shea ten years to complete her novel. By 1985, it had already been translated into several languages.

In poor health by the time of that novel's first sudden success, she completed only a few chapters of the unpublished sequel in the subsequent decades, although her obituary in The Guardian calls these "brilliant".

In 1988 O'Shea published a second children's book, Finn Mac Cool and the Small Men of Deeds, through the publisher Holiday. It was a retelling of folklore tales, illustrated by Stephen Lavis. In 1987 Horn Book Magazine included it in their annual list of notable children's books, giving it a Horn Book Fanfare Best books of the year award.

In 1999 she published her third (and final) book, The Magic Bottle (Scholastic). It was also illustrated by Lavis.

She married JJ (Jack) O'Shea in 1953, but they separated in 1962. They had one son, Jim. Pat O'Shea died in Manchester in 2007, at age 76.

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Jeffrey Bell

Jeffrey Jackson Bell is an American writer and producer best known for his work on television. He began his career writing for The X-Files, where he stayed for three seasons, then became a writer/director/producer on Angel, becoming its showrunner for the final two seasons.

He served as executive producer on the pilot episode for the V remake, his first project in a 2009-10 deal with Warner Bros. Television. From 2013 until 2020, Bell served as a co-showrunner and writer of the Marvel Television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Personal life
Bell was born in Indiana, studied design and photography at the University of Cincinnati, then moved to California, receiving MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1990.  His 20-minute MFA thesis film, Radio Inside, was adapted into a feature film of the same name starring Elisabeth Shue and William McNamara and released in 1994.

Bell is a visiting assistant professor for the UCLA Producers Program.

Episodes written
The following is a partial list of television episodes written by Bell.

The X-Files

6.08 "The Rain King" (writer)
6.16 "Alpha" (writer)
7.06 "The Goldberg Variation" (writer)
7.09 "Signs & Wonders" (writer)
8.10 "Salvage" (writer)

Angel

3.02 "That Vision Thing" (writer)
3.06 "Billy" (co-writer)
3.08 "Quickening" (writer)
3.14 "Couplet" (co-writer)
3.17 "Forgiving" (writer)
3.20 "A New World" (writer)
4.04 "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" (writer)
4.08 "Habeas Corpses" (writer)
4.12 "Calvary" (co-writer)
4.16 "Players" (co-writer)
4.19 "The Magic Bullet" (writer/director)
5.06 "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" (writer/director)
5.22 "Not Fade Away" (co-writer/director)

Alias

4.04 "Ice" (writer/director)
4.12 "The Orphan" (co-writer)
4.20 "The Descent" (writer/director)
5.06 "Solo" (writer/director)

Day Break

1.08 "What If He's Not Alone?" (writer)
1.12 "What If She's the Key?" (writer)

Harper's Island

1.02 "Crackle" (writer)
1.07 "Thrack, Splat, Sizzle" (writer)
1.12 "Sigh" (writer)

Spartacus: War of the Damned

3.09 "The Dead and the Dying" (writer)

The Protector

1.01 "Pilot" (writer)
1.04 "Spoons" (writer)
1.13 "Safe" (writer)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

1.02 "0-8-4" (writer)
1.04 "Eye Spy" (writer)
1.14 "T.A.H.I.T.I." (writer)
1.21 "Ragtag" (writer)
2.10 "What They Become" (writer)
2.21 "S.O.S. Part 1" (writer)
3.10 "Maveth" (writer)
4.06 "The Good Samaritan" (writer)
4.22 "World's End" (writer)
5.12 "The Real Deal" (co-writer)
6.08 "Collision Course (Part I)" (co-writer)
7.12 "The End Is at Hand" (writer)

References

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Year of birth missing (living people)
American male television writers
Living people
People from Indiana
University of Cincinnati alumni
UCLA Film School alumni
Screenwriters from Indiana
Steven S. DeKnight

Steven S. DeKnight (born October 28, 1965) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the Starz series Spartacus, including Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Spartacus: Vengeance, and Spartacus: War of the Damned, as well as developing Jupiter's Legacy for Netflix.

Career

DeKnight previously worked on  Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He also wrote "Swell", a story in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic series, and served as a consulting producer on Joss Whedon's television series Dollhouse.

In May 2014, DeKnight was reported to be taking over showrunning duties for the first season on the Netflix exclusive television series Daredevil from Drew Goddard, after Goddard's departure due to scheduling conflicts with directing Sinister Six. He was later replaced by Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez to serve as co-showrunners for the second season of the series.

In 2015, DeKnight joined the Transformers Cinematic Universe franchise's writers room, where Paramount Pictures hired multiple noted screenwriters to flesh out the future of the film series. He directed the science fiction sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising. The original film's director, Guillermo del Toro, remained on the film in the role of producer.

On July 17, 2018, it was announced that DeKnight would be credited as a show-runner and executive producer alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Dan McDermott in the Netflix superhero series, Jupiter's Legacy. On September 16, 2019, it was confirmed that DeKnight departed the series as a showrunner over creative differences in the midst of the production for the first season.

On April 15, 2019, DeKnight joined a host of other writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging.

Filmography
Film

Television

References

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American television directors
American male television writers
American television writers
Film directors from New Jersey
Living people
People from Millville, New Jersey
1965 births
Screenwriters from New Jersey
Television producers from New Jersey
Drew Z. Greenberg

Drew Z. Greenberg is an American television producer and writer best known for working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., Dexter, Warehouse 13, Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He has also written some comic books, like Green Arrow and Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics.

Personal life
Greenberg is openly gay, and is proud to work homosexual characters into his scripts. "I’ve never written an original pilot script that didn’t have at least one gay character in it, even if I was the only one who knew that character was going to be gay. Sure, telling stories about gays and lesbians has been a priority for me."

In 2022, Greenberg joined current and past Disney employees who criticized Bob Chapek for refusing to criticize anti-LGBT legislation that was passed in Florida.

Career

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 "Smashed" (November 20, 2001)
 "Older and Far Away" (February 12, 2002)
 "Entropy" (April 30, 2002)
 "Him" (November 5, 2002)
 "The Killer in Me" (February 4, 2003)
 "Empty Places" (April 29, 2003)

Firefly
 "Safe" (October 18, 2002)

Smallville
 "Slumber" (October 22, 2003)
 "Hereafter" (February 4, 2004)
 "Truth" (April 21, 2004)

The O.C.
 "The Family Ties" (January 6, 2005)
 "The Second Chance" (February 3, 2005)

Dexter
 "Let's Give the Boy a Hand" (October 22, 2006)
 "Truth Be Told" (December 10, 2006)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
 "The Hidden Enemy" (February 6, 2009)
 "Lightsaber Lost" (January 22, 2010)
 "Duchess of Mandalore" (February 12, 2010)
 "Senate Murders" (March 12, 2010)
 "Lethal Trackdown" (April 30, 2010)

Warehouse 13
 "Claudia" (July 28, 2009)
 "For the Team" (August 17, 2010)
 "Where and When" (September 7, 2010)
 "Trials" (July 18, 2011)
 "Stand" (October 3, 2011)
 "There's Always a Downside" (August 13, 2012)
 "The Living and the Dead" (April 29, 2013)
 "The Truth Hurts" (July 8, 2013)

Arrow
 "Salvation" (March 27, 2013)
 "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (May 8, 2013)
 "League of Assassins" (November 6, 2013)
 "State v. Queen" (November 20, 2013)
 "Tremors" (January 29, 2014)
 "Deathstroke" (April 2, 2014)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
 "Face My Enemy" (October 14, 2014)
 "Who You Really Are" (March 10, 2015)
 "The Dirty Half Dozen" (April 28, 2015)
 "Among Us Hide..." (November 3, 2015)
 "Watchdogs" (March 29, 2016) (co-writer)
 "Absolution" (May 17, 2016)
 "Meet the New Boss" (September 27, 2016)
 "Wake Up" (January 24, 2017)
 "A Life Earned" (December 15, 2017)
 "All the Comforts of Home" (March 2, 2018)
 "The Force of Gravity" (May 11, 2018)
 "Leap" (July 19, 2019)
 "As I Have Always Been" (July 22, 2020)

See also
Mutant Enemy Productions

References

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American television writers
American male television writers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Livonia Engine

Livonia Engine was a General Motors engine factory in Livonia, Michigan. It is located at 12200 Middlebelt Rd and opened in 1971. The plant closed in June 2010.

Products
 GM Premium V engine

References

General Motors factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Michigan
Livonia, Michigan
1971 establishments in Michigan
2010 disestablishments in Michigan
Warren Transmission

Warren Transmission was a General Motors automotive factory in Warren, Michigan that manufactured propulsion transmissions. It was located at 23500 Mound Road and opened in 1941 as a Navy ordnance plant, built and operated by the Hudson Motor Car Company, predecessor of American Motors Corporation.

As of 2006, the factory employed 1,200 people. The company announced on June 1, 2006 that it would spend $332 million to expand production at Warren. On April 5, 2010 GM announced it was adding 100 jobs to the Warren Transmission plant.

On May 31, 2017, Warren Transmission announced that the second shift would be eliminated starting June 26, 2017. On November 26, 2018, GM announced that the plant would be closed in 2019.

On March 20, 2020 GM announced that they would be producing face masks for to help protect workers in essential services across the country amidst the COVID-19 outbreak at the former Warren Transmission factory. On March 27, 2020, GM began production with first deliveries on April 8, 2020.

In December of 2021, GM would sell the  property to Northpoint Development for an undisclosed price. In January 2022, it was announced that the plant would be demolished and redeveloped.

Products 
 4T65-E Front wheel drive Hydra-Matic transmissions (Ended production Dec. 23, 2010)
 6T70/6T75 Front Wheel Drive/All Wheel Drive Hydra-Matic transmissions (Used by the Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac XTS)

References

External links

1941 establishments in Michigan
Warren, Michigan
General Motors factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Michigan
Buildings and structures in Macomb County, Michigan
Graftonite

Graftonite is an iron(II), manganese, calcium phosphate mineral with the chemical formula . It forms lamellar to granular translucent brown to red-brown to pink monoclinic prismatic crystals. It has a vitreous luster with a Mohs hardness of 5 and a specific gravity of 3.67 to 3.7.

It was first described from its type locality of Melvin Mountain in the town of Grafton, in Grafton County, New Hampshire.

References
Mindat with location data
Webmineral data

Iron(II) minerals
Manganese(II) minerals
Calcium minerals
Phosphate minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 14
Apollo Junior High School

Apollo Junior High School is a secondary school in Richardson, Texas. It is part of the Richardson Independent School District.

Apollo is one of two intermediate schools that feed L.V. Berkner High School. Founded in 1977, Apollo educates students in grades 7-8.

Its approximate annual enrollment is 800 students, nearly twice that of the Texas state average for middle schools.  The student-teacher ratio is 16.5:1.

Accomplishments
The Apollo Junior High Band is the only band in the history of Texas to win the Texas Music Educators Association Honor Band Competition for three consecutive years of eligibility.

In 1998 and 2000, teachers at the school were the recipients of the Edyth May Sliffe Award for excellence in mathematics.

The Apollo Junior High Symphony Orchestra received straight 1's when they played at UIL which took place in UNT's Performing Arts Center. The 1st Violins, Violas and Harpist received awards for their outstanding performance as well. The orchestra is led by Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Cies.

Notable alumni
 Jensen Ackles, television actor and fashion model (1993)

References

External links
 
 Richardson Independent School District
 Apollo Junior High PTA Website
 Apollo Band Website
 Apollo Junior High School profile provided by schooltree.org
 Apollo Junior High School facts provided by RISD

Educational institutions established in 1977
Public middle schools in Texas
Richardson, Texas
1977 establishments in Texas
Marr (disambiguation)

Marr is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Marr may also refer to:
 Marr (surname)

Businesses
 Marr (automobile) (1903–1904), an American automobile company
 Marr & Holman, an American architectural firm
 Marr and Colton, an American pipe organ company

Places
 Marr, South Yorkshire, England
 Marr College, a school in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland
 Marr Residence, a historic site in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
 Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, an inner-city park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Other uses
 Marr baronets, a British title
 Marr Prize, a computer vision award
 Marr–Hildreth algorithm, a digital image edge detection method
 Marr, or Marrette, a twist-on wire connector 
 The Andrew Marr Show, a British television series
 Minimum acceptable rate of return (MARR), a project finance concept

See also 
 Mar (disambiguation)
 Marre, a commune in Meuse, Grand Est, France
 Marre (surname)
 MARRS, a recording collective
 Mars (disambiguation)
Copa del Rey de Balonmano

The Copa del Rey de Balonmano (English: King's Cup of Handball) is an annual cup competition for Spanish handball teams. Organized by the Liga ASOBAL. It was originally known as the Copa del Generalísimo and was renamed Copa de SM El Rey in 1975. It was the first nationwide handball competition played in Spain, and was first played for in 1957.

Winners by year

Winners by titles

 2 titles: Selección de Balonmano de Madrid, Teka Cantabria, Bidasoa Irún, San Antonio and Valladolid.
 1 title: Arrahona, Selección de Balonmano de Guipúzcoa, Selección de Balonmano de Barcelona, Marcol, Alzira Avidesa and Ademar León.

External links

Spanish Beach Handball Community

 
Recurring sporting events established in 1957
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Hillsborough Community College

Hillsborough Community College (HCC) is a public community college in Hillsborough County, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System.

History 
HCC was one of the last community colleges to be created in Florida, founded in 1968. Only Pasco–Hernando State College, out of the 28-school Florida community college system, was founded later.

In January 2008 the school opened its first residence hall, Hawk's Landing, named after the school mascot. This marks HCC as one of the few community colleges with its own residence hall.

Campus 
The college has five campuses located throughout the county.  Locations include: Brandon, Dale Mabry, Plant City, Ybor City, and South Shore (on the south shore of Tampa Bay in Ruskin); with the Dale Mabry campus being the largest. There are also instructional centers at MacDill Air Force Base (South Tampa/aligned with the Plant City Campus) and at the Regent (Riverview) aligned with the Brandon Campus.  Administrative offices and headquarters are located on Davis Islands, near downtown Tampa. HCC has over 80 campus clubs, groups and organizations available.

Academics 
HCC has grown to include over 43,000 students. In 2010, HCC ranked 8th in the state and 20th in the nation in total number of associate degrees produced. HCC houses the Honors Institute.

Athletics 
HCC participates in the Suncoast Conference within Division I of NJCAA Region VIII within the Florida State College Activities Association (FSCAA). Sports include men's baseball and basketball, and women's basketball, softball, tennis and volleyball.  The school's nickname is the Hawks. The school's competitions are broadcast on both the school's athletic site and the school radio station WMNF 88.5 HD4.  Basketball is played at the Dale Mabry campus.

Notable people

Alumni 

Geoffrey Giuliano, radio personality and biographer of the Beatles
Colton Gordon (born 1998), baseball pitcher
Garry Hancock, baseball outfielder who played for the Indians and the Rangers in 1974.
Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea), professional wrestler
Othello Hunter (born 1986), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Robert Mosebach (born 1984), baseball player who has played for the Expos and the Phillies.
Jeffrey Webb, former FIFA vice president
Chad Zerbe (born 1972), baseball player who played for the Dodgers in 1991.

Faculty 
 Percival Davis, author, a young earth creationist, and activist in the intelligent design movement. Retired, former professor of Life Science.

References

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Universities and colleges established in 1968
Florida College System
Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Universities and colleges in Hillsborough County, Florida
1968 establishments in Florida