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Latvian Academy of Sciences

The Latvian Academy of Sciences (, ) is the official science academy of Latvia and is an association of the country's foremost scientists. The academy was founded as the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences (). It is located in Riga. The current President of the academy is Ivars Kalviņš.

Building 

The Academy of Sciences edifice was built after World War II, between 1951 and 1961, collecting the necessary financing from the newly established kolkhozes in Latvia and – as further expenses increased, collecting the finances as "voluntary donations" deducted from the salaries of the Latvian rural population.

The building is decorated with several hammer and sickle symbols as well as Latvian folk ornaments and motifs. The spire was originally decorated with a wreath and a five pointed star, which was removed after Latvia regained independence in 1991. Being  tall, it was the first skyscraper in the republic and was the tallest building until the construction of the Swedbank Headquarters in Latvia (), and at the time, one of the highest reinforced concrete buildings in the world.

The building, designed by Osvalds Tīlmanis, Vaidelotis Apsītis, and Kārlis Plūksne, is a cousin to similar Stalin-era skyscrapers, which were representative of what became known as Stalinist architecture (sometimes referred to as Socialist Classicism). The architecture of the skyscraper resembles many others built in the Soviet Union at the time, most notably the main building of Moscow State University. Local nicknames include Stalin's birthday cake and the Kremlin.

The view of Riga cityscape is open for public viewing from the 17th-floor balcony (height of ). The tower is located in the suburb of Maskavas Vorstadt.

Gallery

See also 
All-Russia Exhibition Centre
Eighth Sister
Hotel Leningradskaya
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Red Gates Administrative Building
Moscow State University
Palace of the Soviets
Seven Sisters (Moscow)
Triumph Palace
Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science
House of the Free Press in Bucharest

References

External links
 International cooperation of the Latvian Academy of Sciences

Buildings and structures built in the Soviet Union
Buildings and structures in Riga
Tourist attractions in Riga
Skyscrapers in Latvia
National academies of sciences
Socialist realism
1946 establishments in Latvia
Stalinist architecture
USSR Academy of Sciences
University and college buildings completed in 1956
Members of the International Council for Science
Research institutes established in 1946
Members of the International Science Council
Figurine (band)

Figurine is an American electronic music group. The band members, friends since high school, use the pseudonyms David Figurine (Forster David Rudolph), James Figurine (Jimmy Tamborello) and Meredith Figurine (Meredith Landman).

While the band seems to be inactive , all three members are also involved in other bands or have released solo work under their respective Figurine monikers. Mainly a long distance collaboration, the band was a precursor to James Figurine/Tamborello's later, more commercially successful project The Postal Service. Tamborello has also used the Figurine pseudonym for an official remix of Bright Eyes' Easy/Lucky/Free in 2005 and a solo album in 2006. Meredith is also a vocalist for Boothby.

Figurine lyrics commonly tell whimsical love stories involving technology, such as space stations, instant messaging or internet cafes. Their song "New Mate" was featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 cult film Napoleon Dynamite.

Discography

Albums
 Transportation + Communication = Love (1998, re-released in 2002)
 The Heartfelt (2001, re-released in 2005)
 Reconfigurine (2002) - remix album

EPs
 Discard EP (2002)

Singles
 "I Wait for You (By the Telephone)" (1996)
 "Zero Degrees" (2000)
 "IMpossible" (2001)

Other releases
 Split LP - James Figurine vs. David Figurine (2001) - solo material by James Figurine and David Figurine
 Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (2006) - James Figurine solo album
- "Virtual Reality Suit (Outake #1)" (1999), Dead Turtle Records

References

External links
 
Figurine at The Indie Music Database

Electronic music groups from California
Musical groups established in 1994
Sør-Vågsøy

Sør-Vågsøy is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway.  The municipality existed from 1910 until 1964 and it encompassed the southern part of the island of Vågsøy and a small area on the mainland just east of the island. The area is now located in the present-day Kinn Municipality in Vestland county. The administrative centre of the municipality was Måløy, where Sør-Vågsøy Church is located. Other population centres in the municipality are the villages of Holvik, Vågsvåg, Torskangerpoll, Færestrand, and Ytre Oppedal.

History
Sør-Vågsøy was originally a part of the municipality of Selje (see formannskapsdistrikt law).  On 1 January 1910, the western part of the municipality of Selje was split off into the two new municipalities of Sør-Vågsøy and Nord-Vågsøy. Sør-Vågsøy had an initial population of 1,517.  On 1 July 1921, the Blesrød farm in Nord-Vågsøy (just north of Måløy) was transferred to Sør-Vågsøy. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the new Vågsøy Municipality was created by merging the municipalities of Sør-Vågsøy (population: 3,926) and Nord-Vågsøy (population: 1,476) with parts of the neighboring municipalities of Davik and Selje.

Name
The municipality is named Sør-Vågsøy since it encompasses the southern part of the island of Vågsøy (). The prefix is  which means "southern". The first element of the name is the genitive case of  which means "bay" or "inlet". The last element is  which means "island". Historically, the name was spelled . Prior to the 1917 Norwegian language reform law, the name was spelled with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the letter å was used instead. Also around that time, the letter y was added to the end of the word to "Norwegianize" the name ( is the Danish word for "island" and  is the Norwegian word). The prefix was also modified from Søndre to Sør-, using an alternate way of spelling the same thing.

Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Sør-Vågsøy was made up of 29 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Mayors
The mayors () of Sør-Vågsøy:

 1910-1919: Kristen J. Sunde  
 1920-1922: Hans Søreide 
 1923-1925: Rasmus Sæternes  
 1926-1928: Jakob Myrestrand  
 1926-1940: Gabriel Bruvoll
 1940-1941: Johan Gotteberg (NS)
 1942-1945: Ingolf Hagevik  (NS)
 1945-1945: Gabriel Bruvoll
 1946-1951: Hans Nystad  
 1952-1964: Marius Larsen

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

External links

References

Kinn
Former municipalities of Norway
1910 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway
EFPA

EFPA may refer to:

Equivalent Flat Plate Area [m2] - used in aircraft drag force calculations
Erlang fixed point approximation formula devised in 1917 by Agner Krarup Erlang
European Federation of Psychologists' Associations
European Financial Planning Association
Nord-Vågsøy

Nord-Vågsøy is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.  The municipality existed from 1910 until 1964, and it encompassed the northern part of the island of Vågsøy.  The area of Nord-Vågsøy now makes up the northern part of the present-day Kinn Municipality in Vestland county.  The administrative centre was the village of Raudeberg where the Nord-Vågsøy Church is located.  Other villages in Nord-Vågsøy include Halsør, Vedvik, Refvik, Kvalheim, and Kråkenes.

History
Nord-Vågsøy was originally a part of the municipality of Selje (see formannskapsdistrikt law).  On 1 January 1910, the western part of Selje was split off from the municipality to create the new municipalities of Nord-Vågsøy (population: 1,111) and Sør-Vågsøy (population: 1,517).  On 1 July 1921, the Blesrød farm in Nord-Vågsøy (just north of Måløy) was transferred to Sør-Vågsøy municipality. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the new Vågsøy Municipality was created by merging the municipalities of Sør-Vågsøy (population: 3,926) and Nord-Vågsøy (population: 1,476) with parts of neighboring Davik and Selje municipalities.

Name
The municipality is named Nord-Vågsøy since it encompasses the northern part of the island of Vågsøy (). The prefix is  which means "northern". The first element of the name is the genitive case of  which means "bay" or "inlet". The last element is  which means "island". Historically, the name was spelled . Prior to the 1917 Norwegian language reform law, the name was spelled with the digraph "aa", and after this reform, the letter å was used instead. Also around that time, the letter y was added to the end of the word to "Norwegianize" the name ( is the Danish word for "island" and  is the Norwegian word). The prefix was also modified from Nordre to Nord-, using an alternate way of spelling the same thing.

Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Nord-Vågsøy was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Mayors
Politically, Nord-Vågsøy was marked by the father and son Karl Iversen and Leif Iversen, who served as mayors for forty of the 54 years that the municipality was in existence. The mayors () of Nord-Vågsøy:

 1910-1917: Olaf Refvik
 1918-1925: Karl Iversen 
 1926-1929: Olaf Refvik
 1929-1937: Karl Iversen 
 1937-1941: Leif Iversen (H)
 1941-1941: Jon Sefland (NS)
 1941-1942: Reinhart Horn (NS)
 1942–1945: Ole Olsen (NS)
 1945-1964: Leif Iversen (H)

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

External links

Kinn
Former municipalities of Norway
1910 establishments in Norway
1964 disestablishments in Norway
Coombeshead Academy

Coombeshead Academy, formerly Coombeshead College, is an 11–18 Comprehensive School with approximately 1000 students.

Bushell Theatre
In the 2011 Spring term Coombeshead Academy opened The Bushell to the community. The theatre is used for the school's expressive arts shows, music concerts, drama productions and some assemblies.

Education South West
Since January 2017, Coombeshead Academy has been a part of Education South West, a large multi-academy trust consisting of 10 successful schools in Devon in order to maintain standards of education.

External links
 Academy website
 Sixth Form website
 Ofsted
 Education South West

Academies in Devon
Secondary schools in Devon
Newton Abbot
Good Times (Kool & the Gang album)

Good Times is the third studio album, and fifth album of new material released by the funk band Kool & the Gang. The album was released in November 1972, but did not make the Billboard R&B album chart until March 1973; peaking at number 34 during a 6 week run.

Track listing

Personnel 

 Dennis "D.T." Thomas – alto saxophone, vocals, flute, percussion
 Ronald Bell – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, vocals, alto flute
 Robert "Spike" Mickens – trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn, percussion
 Claydes Smith – electric guitar , acoustic guitar
 Rick West – acoustic piano, vocals, clavinet, ARP synthesizer
 Robert "Kool" Bell* – bass, vocals
 George Brown – drums, vocals, percussion

Additional Personnel
 Allen McGill – cello
 Billy Brown – French horn
 Sharon Moe – French horn
 Assunta Dell'Aquila – harp
 Marty Salyk – viola
 Sy Miroff – violin
 Al Wagner – violin
 San Zimmerman – violin

Production
 Produced and Arranged by Kool & The Gang
 Engineers – Tony Bongiovi and Jeff Lesser
 Recorded at Mediasound Studios (New York, NY)
 Artwork – Alfredo Seville
 Liner Notes – Norma Pinnella

References

1972 albums
Kool & the Gang albums
De-Lite Records albums
Matthew Knowles

Matthew or Matt Knowles may refer to:

Matt Knowles (born 1974), professional wrestler
Matt Knowles (soccer) (born 1970), soccer player
Matt Knowles (rugby league) (born 1975), rugby league footballer
Matt William Knowles (born 1985), actor
Mathew Knowles (born 1952), record executive, father of Beyoncé Knowles
Örebro Chamber Orchestra

Örebro Chamber Orchestra is the string section of the Scandinavia's only full-time professional chamber orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (Svenska Kammarorkestern). The Swedish Chamber Orchestra, which was formed in 1995, is a result of merging the Örebro Chamber Orchestra and the Örebro Wind Ensemble. The home of the orchestra is the Örebro Konserthus (Örebro Concert Hall). The Örebro Chamber Orchestra has played with soloists around the world, which include Kerstin Svensson, Mats Widlund, Lynnette Seah, Mårten Larsson, and Marie Eriksson, just to name a few.

Swedish orchestras
Musical groups established in 1995
Cracroft Caverns

Cracroft Caverns, also known as the Cashmere Caverns, are a series of large chambers in the hill of the Cashmere suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Constructed secretly during the Second World War in response to the Japanese threat, they were intended to house operational headquarters in the event of attack. The military commandeered the Cracroft Wilson estate, founded by Sir John Cracroft Wilson in 1854, for their Southern Group headquarters, and work on the tunnels began in 1942.

Railways were built for access and for the removal of waste soil. The largest cavern was 7 metres high, 10 metres wide and 30 metres long. Prestressed concrete was used to line the caverns. Officers based in the estate house would come down stairs into the tunnels, while others were to enter through the access tunnels. Construction came to a sudden halt in 1944 as the threat of invasion receded, even though work on the bunkers was nearly complete. The weekend before the military left the estate, fire broke out and the Cracroft Wilson House was burnt to the ground.

The entrances to the underground complex were sealed after the war, and the existence of the caverns was largely forgotten until 1987 when TVNZ reporter Jeff Field was told of the caverns during a chance conversation with a gardener at Cashmere Hospital. Using the archives at the Ministry of Defence, Field discovered references to the caverns in newspaper articles dating from January 1945. The investigation was assigned to another reporter, Bill Cockram, who contacted the owner of Cashmere House which has been rebuilt following the fire. With the permission of the owner, excavations were carried out and the caverns were entered for the first time since the end of the Second World War.

The caverns now became the home of a series of ring laser experiments set up by the University of Canterbury's physics department, taking advantage of the extremely stable temperature in the caves. 

There is now an associated small public park behind the Princess Margaret Hospital.

Parts of the caverns have periodically been opened to the public in the past, but due to damage from the 2010 Canterbury earthquake and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes there is currently no access.

Sources

References

Fortifications in New Zealand
Geography of Christchurch
University of Canterbury
Buildings and structures in Christchurch
Wild and Peaceful (Kool & the Gang album)

Wild and Peaceful is the fourth studio album, and sixth album of new material released by the funk band Kool & the Gang, and is their commercial breakthrough album. It was released in 1973 and was hugely successful on the Billboard R&B chart, reaching No. 6 and charting for 36 weeks. It also reached No. 33 on the Pop charts, making it the band's first entry into that chart's Top 40. The album spawned the band's first three Top 10 singles. "Funky Stuff" reached No. 5 R&B/No. 29 Pop. The hugely popular track "Jungle Boogie" soared to No. 2 R&B and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Hollywood Swinging" topped the Billboard Hot Soul Singles in June 1974 while reaching No. 6 Pop. The latter two singles both sold over a million copies and were certified Gold by the RIAA. The album itself was also certified Gold.

Record World said the lead single "Funky Stuff" provides "funk & fun from the gang and includes lotsa percussion and whistles."

Track listing

Personnel
 Robert "Kool" Bell – bass, vocals
 George "Funky" Brown – drums, percussion, vocals 
 Ricky West – electric piano, vocals
 Clay Smith – lead guitar
 Dennis "D.T." Thomas – alto saxophone, flute, congas, vocals
 Ronald Bell – tenor and soprano saxophones, vocals
 Robert "Spike" Mickens – trumpet, vocals

Additional personnel 
 Don Boyce – backing vocals (3)
 Rory Bell – backing vocals (4)
 Tomorrow’s Edition (Jerome Gourdine, Aaron Mathis and Wesley Thomas) – backing vocals (6)

Production
 Produced and Arranged by Kool & The Gang
 Engineers – Harvey Goldberg and Jeff Lesser
 Recorded at MediaSound Studios (New York, NY).
 Cover Artwork – Joseph Askew 
 Album Design – Richard Askew

Certifications

References

External links

Kool & the Gang albums
1973 albums
De-Lite Records albums
Salim

Salim, Saleem or Selim may refer to:

People
Salim (name), or Saleem or Salem or Selim, a name of Arabic origin 
Salim (poet) (1800–1866)
Saleem (playwright) (fl. 1996)
Selim I the Ottoman sultan reigned 1512–1520
Selim II the Ottoman sultan reigned 1566–1574
Selim III the Ottoman sultan reigned 1789–1807
Salim, birth name of Mughal Emperor Jahangir
Selim people, an ethnic group of Sudan

Fictional characters
 Saleem, in Corner Shop Show
 Selim Bradley, in Fullmetal Alchemist
 Pasha Selim, in Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail
 Saleem Sinai, in Midnight's Children
 Salim Othman, in House of Ashes

Places 
 Salim, Iran (disambiguation)
 Salem, Ma'ale Iron, or Salim, Israel
 Salim, Syria
 Selim, Yenipazar, Turkey
 Selim, Kars, Turkey
 Selim District, Turkey
 Selim railway station
 Salim, Nablus, West Bank

Other uses
Salim (film), a 2014 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film 
Saleem (film), a 2009 Telugu film
Selim (horse) (1802–1825), 19th-century Thoroughbred racehorse
 Salim Group, an Indonesian conglomerate
 Salim (Thai slang), a political slang in Thai
Shalim, or Salim, a Canaanite god
Grains of Selim, an African spice

See also

Ænon near Salim, place named in the Gospel of John
Salaam (disambiguation)
Salem (disambiguation)
Salem (name)
 Salimi (disambiguation)
Slim (name)
Š-L-M, the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words
Swedish Chamber Orchestra

The Swedish Chamber Orchestra () is a Swedish orchestra based in Örebro. Established under its current name in 1995, its primary concert venue is the Örebro Concert Hall.

The historical precursor ensembles to the orchestra included the Harmonic Society (Harmoniska sällskapet), which was active from 1831 to 1837. In 1859, the Philharmoniska sällskapet (Philharmonic Society) was founded under Karl Johan Lewerth. A competitor organisation, the Örebro musikförening Philomele (Örebro Music Association Philomele), was founded in 1868, and continued operations until 1916. In 1909, the Örebro orkesterförening (Örebro Orchestra Association), as an amateur orchestra. The ensemble began to receive support from the Örebro municipality in 1912. The composer Ingvar Lidholm took up a leadership post with the ensemble in 1947. In 1950, four full-time band musicians joined the orchestra.

In 1955, the organisation was transformed into a municipal foundation under the name of the Örebro orkesterstiftelse (Örebro Orchestra Foundation). Additional musicians, both professionals and military musicians, were recruited to the ensemble. In 1962, the Örebro kammarorkester (Örebro Chamber Orchestra) was formally established. In 1977, a new reorganisation occurred to form the Örebro symfoniorkester (Örebro Symphony Orchestra), as a professional ensemble. In parallel, the Örebro orkesterförening resumed operations as an amateur orchestra.

In May 1995, the most recent reorganisation combined the Örebro Symphony Orchestra and the Örebro Chamber Orchestra into a single ensemble, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard became the first principal conductor of the new ensemble in 1997. Nikolaj Znaider was principal guest conductor of the orchestra for three years, from 2009 to 2012. Dausgaard is scheduled to conclude his principal conductorship of the orchestra after the 2018–2019 season, and subsequently to take the title of conductor laureate with the orchestra. In May 2017, the orchestra announced the appointment of Martin Fröst as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2019-2020 season, with an initial contract of 3 seasons.

Karin Rehnqvist was composer-in-residence with the orchestra from 2000 to 2004. The orchestra has recorded commercially for such labels as BIS Records, Simax, Naxos Records, Chandos Records and Hyperion Records.

Conductors and musicians in leadership positions
  (1909–1917)
 Viktor Fritzell (1917–1918)
  (1920–1930)
 Nils Höglund (1930–1939)
 Gunnar Marcusson (1939–1945)
 Olgerts Bistevins (1945–1946)
 Ingvar Lidholm (1947–1957)
  (1957–1968)
  (1968–1974)
  (1974–1981)
  (1981–1983)
 Göran W. Nilson (1983–1993)
 Thomas Dausgaard (1997–2019)
 Martin Fröst (2019–present)

References

External links
  

Swedish orchestras
Culture in Örebro
Musical groups established in 1995
1995 establishments in Sweden
Chamber orchestras
Exemplification

Exemplification, in the philosophy of language, is a mode of symbolization characterized by the relation between a sample and what it refers to.

Description 
Unlike ostension, which is the act of showing or pointing to a sample, exemplification is possession of a property plus reference to its label (Goodman, 1976). For example, if a color sample has the property labelled 'green', then the color sample exemplifies green. At its most basic, possession of a property amounts to being correctly referred to by its label. In other words, an entity, 'x' can be said to possess a certain property if and only if: (1) there can be an abstract singular term which denotes that property, and (2) those assertions are true which predicate such an abstract term of a name or phrase denoting x.

A mode of reference 

Reference is the relation between something "standing for" something else, like the relation between a word and what it denotes. Usually reference goes in one direction, from the word to what it denotes, but it may also go in both directions, from the denoted back to the word. For instance, when a patch of green paint is used as a colour sample. The sample refers to green by possessing it and thus being referred to by the word denoting it. The sample exemplifies green, it stands for it, and in this way exemplification is a mode of reference.

Uses of exemplification 

Product samples exemplify certain properties they possess.
As a part in ostensive definition, i.e. definition by exemplification of what is defined. For example, an artist can define a new style by showing works that exemplify it.
Defined exemplification is a pattern of essay development that uses specific instances (examples) to clarify a point, to add interest, or to persuade (Clouse, 2006).
Exemplification means using examples to explain, convince, or amuse. Lending interest and information to writing, exemplification is one of the most common and effective ways to developing ideas. Examples may be developed in a sentence or more, or they may be only phrases or even single words, as in the following sentence: "Children like packaged breakfast foods, such as Wheaties, Cheerios, and Rice Krispies."

See also 
Reference
Ostensive definition
Nominalism

References
Goodman, Nelson, 1976, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, pp 52–57.
Clouse, Barbara, 2006, Patterns for a Purpose: McGraw Hill Publishing Company, pg G-2

External links 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Goodman's aesthetics by Alessandro Giovannelli.

Definition
Concepts in the philosophy of language
Truman (surname)

Truman is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the name include:

Sir Benjamin Truman (1700–1780), English entrepreneur and brewer
Benjamin C. Truman (1835–1916), American journalist and author
Bess Truman (1885–1982), wife of President Truman
Charles Truman (1949–2017), British art historian and curator
Christine Truman (born 1941), British tennis player
David Truman (1913–2003), American academic
Edwin M. Truman (born 1941), American economist
Harry Truman (disambiguation)
Harry R. Truman (1896–1980), American victim of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), 33rd U.S. president
James Truman (disambiguation)
James S. Truman (1874–1957), New York state senator
Joseph Truman (born 1997), British Sportsperson
Louis Truman (1908–2004), American general
Lyman Truman (1806–1881), New York state senator
Margaret Truman (1924–2008), American writer, daughter of President Truman
Michael Truman (1916–1972), British film producer
Ralph Truman (1900–1977), British actor
Timothy Truman (born 1956), American writer

Fictional characters
 Will Truman, fictional character in the television series Will and Grace
 Scott Truman, fictional character in the television series Power Rangers RPM

See also
Senator Truman (disambiguation)
Trueman, surname
Truman (given name)

References

Surnames
Surnames of English origin
English-language surnames
Australian bonito

The Australian bonito,  horse mackerel or little bonito, Sarda australis is a fish of the family Scombridae and is found in eastern Australia and New Zealand. They swim at depths reaching depths of approximately 30 m (98 ft), in open water. Its length is commonly at around  fork length and  weight. Its maximum length and weight are about  and , respectively.

References

 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 
 

Scombridae
Fish described in 1881
Jungle Boogie

"Jungle Boogie" is a funk song recorded by Kool & the Gang for their 1973 album Wild and Peaceful. It reached number four as a single, and became very popular in nightclubs. Billboard ranked it as the number 12 song for 1974, despite there being as many as 36 No. 1 singles that year. 

In 1994 the song experienced a revival in popularity, after being used on the soundtrack of the film Pulp Fiction. It was also used in promo packages by wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling in the mid 1990's.

Background
The song's spoken main vocal was performed by the band's roadie Don Boyce. An instrumental version of the tune with an overdubbed flute part and additional percussion instruments, titled "Jungle Jazz", appeared on the album Spirit of the Boogie. There is a Tarzan yell at the song's end and grunting, panting and scatting heard throughout.

Track listing
De-Lite Records - DE-559:

Certifications

Charts

References

Kool & the Gang songs
1973 songs
Mercury Records singles
Songs written by Ronald Bell (musician)
Songs written by Claydes Charles Smith
Songs written by Robert "Kool" Bell
Songs about dancing
1973 debut singles
Screamin' Jay Hawkins songs
Light of Worlds

Light of Worlds is the fifth studio album, and seventh album of new material by the American R&B group Kool & the Gang. Released in 1974, it was later remastered by Polygram and was a second success for the band, reaching number 16 in the R&B chart and number 63 in the pop chart. It was a landmark in the funk/jazz fusion genre of the 1970s.

Light of Worlds is regarded as Kool & the Gang's most spiritual and sophisticated work, produced in the wake of the success of their previous album, Wild and Peaceful. While it was their seventh album of original material, the band considered Light of Worlds their ninth LP (counting two compilations), and therefore consciously chose nine songs for the album to represent the then nine planets in the Solar System. The album contains rock-inspired funk set to jazz-informed playing with afrobeat influences and a tinge of analogue synthesizing.

"Summer Madness" was later released as a single, with a follow-up titled "Winter Sadness" in Kool & the Gang's Spirit of the Boogie a year later.
In 1991, the Hip-Hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince sampled elements of "Summer Madness" for their song "Summertime". A remake of "Summer Madness" was released on their 1993 album Unite titled "WKOOL/Summer".

Track listing

Singles

Personnel
Kool & the Gang
 Ronald Bell – arrangements (1, 7, 9), acoustic piano (1, 4–7, 9), clavinet (1, 4, 5, 7), ARP synthesizer (1, 5–9), bass (1, 7), percussion (1), tenor saxophone (1–4, 7, 9), vocals (3, 4, 6, 9), alto flute (5), mellotron (6, 8, 9), ARP 2600 (7, 8), lead vocals (7),  electric piano (9), kalimba (9)
 Robert "Kool" Bell – bass (1–8), vocals (6, 7)
 George "Funky" Brown – drums (1–9),  percussion (1, 9), vocals (6), kettle drums (9), gong (9)
 Robert "Spike" Mickens – trumpet (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9), flugelhorn (2), vocals (6), arrangements (6, 8)
 Claydes Charles Smith – guitar (1–8), vibraphone (4), percussion (4), arrangements (4), conductor (4)
 Ricky West – acoustic piano (1, 2, 7), lead vocals (2), arrangements (2), electric piano (5, 8)
 Dennis "D.T." Thomas – alto saxophone (1, 2, 3, 7), clavinet (3), congas (3), percussion (3, 5), lead vocals (3), arrangements (3)

Additional personnel
 Herb Lane – vocals (4), backing vocals (7)
 Alton Taylor – vocals (4), lead vocals (6)
 Penni Phynjuar Saunders – vocals (3, 4)
 Richard Shade – backing vocals (7)
 Kenneth Banks – backing vocals (7)
 Al Pazant – trumpet (4)
 Ed Pazant – oboe (4), alto saxophone (4)
 Noel Pointer – strings (4)

Production
 Producers – Kool & The Gang
 Engineers – Bob Clearmountain, Godfrey Diamond, Harvey Goldberg and Alec Head.
 Cover Design – Frank Daniel 
 Liner Notes – Cleveland "Clevie" Browne
 Photography – Bernie Block, David Lartaud and Phil Willen.
Reissue 
 Digital Remastering – Gary N. Mayo
 Package – Mitchell Kanner
 Liner Notes – Cleveland "Clevie" Browne

Certifications

Notes

References

External links
 Light of Worlds at Discogs

Kool & the Gang albums
1974 albums
De-Lite Records albums
Jazz-funk albums
Dada (disambiguation)

Dada, or Dadaism, was an early 20th century art movement

Dada may also refer to:

Film
 Dada (1979 film), a Hindi film starring Vinod Mehra and Bindiya Goswami
 Dada (2000 film), a Hindi film starring Mithun Chakraborty
 Dada (2023 film), an Indian Tamil-language film 
 Dádá, original Chinese title of Dada's Dance, a 2008 film directed by Zhang Yuan
 Division of Animation and Digital Arts, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts

Music
 Dada (band), a three piece rock band formed in Los Angeles
 Dada (Dada album), their 1998 album
 Dada, a band that evolved into Vinegar Joe, and their 1970 album Dada
 DaDa, a 1983 album by Alice Cooper
 DaDa, a 2011 album by Polish band Blue Café
 "Dada" (song), a 2011 single by Japanese rock band Radwimps

People
 Idi Amin, Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925–2003), former president of Uganda
 Dada Dharmadhikari (1899–1985), Indian freedom fighter and social reformer
 Dadá Maravilha,  Dario José dos Santos (born 1943), Brazilian retired footballer
 Sourav Ganguly (born 1972), known as Dada, former Indian cricketer
 Dada Amir Haider Khan (c. 1900–1989), communist activist and revolutionary in India and Pakistan
 Isabel Dada (1941–2017), Salvadoran actress
 Maqbool Dada, American academic
 Sant Mekan Dada (1667–1730), a Kapdi saint from India
 Nayyar Ali Dada (born 1943), Pakistani architect
 Matt Schwartz (born 1971), also known as DADA, musician

Other uses
 Dada, a Yoruba child with natural dreadlocks of hair, known as an oruko amutorunwa
 Dada, Dursunbey, a village in Turkey
 Dada Mail, mailing list software

See also

 Da Da Da (disambiguation)
 Data (disambiguation)
 Daada, a 1988 Indian Kannada film 
 Dadha, a 1994 Malayalam film
 Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1920–2003), Indian activist and philosopher, also known as Dadaji
 Father in many languages; see Mama and papa
Ḍ

Ḍ (minuscule: ḍ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from D with the addition of a dot diacritic.

In the transcription of Afro-Asiatic languages such as Arabic, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents an "emphatic" consonant , and is used for that purpose in the Berber Latin alphabet.

In the transcription of Indic and East Iranian languages, and in the orthography of the O'odham and Sicilian languages, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents a retroflex . This was used in a former transcription of Javanese, but has been replaced by ⟨dh⟩.

Encoding

See also
 Ḍād

Latin letters with diacritics
Phonetic transcription symbols
Throne of Jahangir

The Throne of Jahangir (Urdu: Takht-i-Jahangir) was built by Mughal emperor Jahangir (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627) in 1602 and is located at the Diwan-i-Khas (hall of private audience) at the Red Fort in Agra.

History
The throne was built in 1605 in Allahabad and kept at the Allahabad Fort. Even after Jahangir became king when his father, emperor Akbar died in 1605, the throne remained there. It was only in 1610, that it was brought from Allahabad to Agra by Jahangir.

There is a crack in this throne. Agra fort was under Jats during 1761 to 1774. Jat Maharaja Jawahar Singhji of Bharatpur cracked it.

Structure
The throne is made of touchstone. It is 10 feet 7 inches long, 9 feet 10 inches broad and 6 inches thick. Its octagonal pedestals are each 1 foot 4 inches in height. At the top, it gently slopes from the centre to the sides like the shell of a tortoise. Persian inscriptions, dated 1602 are carved, in ornamental cartouches on its sides, in praise of Jahangir, whom they state as Shah and Sultan. This amounted to defiance of Akbar, who was at that time alive and on the throne. When the throne was finally brought to Agra, Jahangir had two inscriptions carved on top of the two western pedestals, stating that he had been only the heir to the throne, and that he had assumed the title of Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir Badshah (Badshah Jahangir), only after his righteous accession.

References

Hat.net

Individual thrones
Agra Fort
Daibyonin

, also known as The Last Dance and more rarely The Seriously Ill, is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Juzo Itami about the final year of a successful film director suffering from cancer.

The film can be seen as a criticism of the traditional attitudes of Japanese doctors to their patients, especially the withholding of information from patients with terminal illnesses, which Itami saw as "a violation of human rights". It also touches on other end-of-life issues for the terminally ill, and how Japanese society deals with both life and death.

The film's cast includes Rentarō Mikuni (Buhei Mukai, the film director), Masahiko Tsugawa (Doctor Ogata) and Nobuko Miyamoto (Buhei's wife). Mikuni was nominated for Best Actor at the 1994 Japanese Academy Awards for his role in both Daibyonin and Tsuribaka nisshi 6.

During a May 1993 showing of the film in Japan, a cinema screen was slashed by a right-wing protester.

Plot
Buhei Mukai is a successful actor and film director, and is making a film about a middle aged married couple, both of whom are dying of cancer.

After he vomits blood when he is with his mistress, Buhei's wife takes him to the hospital, where the doctor diagnoses him with terminal cancer and operates on his stomach. However, he withholds this information from Buhei, and tells him he has an ulcer.

After a remission, Buhei again becomes ill, is operated on for a second time, and is confined to hospital. Gradually he guesses that he must be suffering from cancer, despite constant reassurances to the contrary from his wife and doctor.

After a suicide attempt, the doctor and wife decide to tell him the truth. After wrestling with his conscience, Dr. Ogata also allows Buhei to direct the final scene of his film, even though the effort will shorten his life, and agrees not to administer drugs that would prolong his life at the cost of more pain and suffering.

Buhei completes his film. He tells the doctor how grateful he is that he was honest about his condition and could live his final weeks to the full. In the last scene, he dies, surrounded by his wife, doctor, nurse and members of the film production crew.

References

External links

1993 films
1990s Japanese-language films
Films directed by Jūzō Itami
1990s Japanese films
BCC-RAPID

Brisbane City Council - Realtime Advanced Priority and Information Delivery (BCC-RAPID) is a
bus priority and passenger information system developed by Brisbane City Council that is in use on the South-East and Inner-Northern, Northern and Eastern Brisbane busways. busways.  It aims to improve road capacity by encouraging people to use buses.

RAPID is built upon Brisbane City Council's BLISS ITS platform and uses existing traffic signal infrastructure to track the buses and to lower communications costs.

RAPID uses detector loops in the road and transponders on buses to track the location of buses
on the road and busway network. The data collected is used in a complex mathematical formula to predict the arrival time of buses at all busway stations and selected stops on the suburban network. The predicted arrival times are displayed on electronic signs for the information of people waiting at these stops.

Operations staff are able to use the system to identify the precise location of buses within the road network. Specifically the system displays bus numbers, route numbers, driver numbers, how early or late a bus is, where it originated and where it will terminate.

The system also has the ability, when configured, to provide traffic light priority to buses if they are running late.  This is possible because the same detection loops in the road network are used to control the traffic lights throughout the city.

The system has had significant problems, with information displays frequently being inaccurate, and buses simply not arriving, or their information simply disappearing from the screens.

References

Transport in Brisbane
Public transport in Brisbane
Devolo

devolo AG is a technology company founded on 1 May 2002 in Aachen, Germany, and specializes in the development of communications devices for private consumers and industrial applications. Its product range includes home-networking solutions mainly using the existing electrical wiring for data transmission, based on Powerline Communications (PLC).

The current range of consumer products is based on the PLC standard G.hn, older products were based on HomePlug AV. The consumer products are available as PLC or hybrid PLC/WiFi variants and can be purchased in retail stores as well as online. Moreover, devolo is an OEM supplier for international telecommunications companies. Additional to home networking, devolo develops data communications devices for industrial use, e.g. in the smart grid.

Moreover, the company regularly collaborates in publicly funded projects.
devolo is a member of several industry associations, e.g. the Homegrid Forum, the G3-PLC Alliance or the German BITKOM.

See also 
 G.hn
 HomePlug Powerline Alliance
 IEEE P1901
 Power line communication

References 

Electronics companies of Germany
Companies based in Aachen
Companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in Germany
Power-line communication Internet access
Botne

Botne is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.

The parish of Botne was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 1,600. In 1942 a part of Botne with 148 inhabitants was moved to Holmestrand, and in 1947 a part with 8 inhabitants was moved to Våle. On 1 January 1964 the rest of Botne was incorporated into Holmestrand. Prior to the merger Botne had a population of 5,656.

The name
The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old farm Botne (Norse Botnar), since the first church was built there. The name is the plural form of botn m 'bottom, hollow, depression'.

Botne Church
Botne Church (Botne kirke) is a stone church. It dates from the 13th century.  The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. There is rectangular nave and lower and narrower choir. The Renaissance / Baroque  altarpiece is from 1664 and consists of four pictures from the gospels. The pulpit is from 1634 with five subjects with evangelists and painted in large fields. The baptismal font is also from the 1600s and has an octagonal basin with painted biblical scenes on four sides.

Botne church was expanded in 1865 and restored in 1947. In 1865 the ridge turret was replaced by a tower in the west and with a gable roof at the east end of the choir. The ceiling was paneled, new hardwood floors replaced the stone floor, new gallery at the west wall, larger gallery at the north wall and new benches. During a restoration in 1947, the chancel screen and the north gallery were  removed and west gallery was renewed. The church got a new altar and paintings on the north wall were uncovered.

References

Other sources

Former municipalities of Norway
Manuel González García

Manuel González García may refer to:

 Manuel Asur (Manuel Asur González García, born 1947), Spanish essayist and poet
 Manuel González García (bishop) (1877–1940), Spanish bishop
List of Norwegian fjords

This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway.  In total, there are about 1,190 fjords in Norway and the Svalbard islands.  The sortable list includes the lengths and locations of those fjords.

Fjords

 ==See also==

 List of glaciers in Norway
 Geography of Norway

 
Fjords
Norway
Fjords