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OLM (studio)

, formerly Oriental Light and Magic, is a Japanese animation and film studio headquartered in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, founded on October 3, 1990 by former Studio Gallop and OB Planning employees.

Establishment 
OLM was founded as Oriental Light and Magic, Inc. on October 3, 1990 by Toshiaki Okuno, Shūkichi Kanda, Shōji Ōta, Kunihiko Yuyama, Naohito Takahashi, Yuriko Chiba, Nobuyuki Wasaki, Tsukasa Koitabashi, and Takaya Mizutani, all of which were formerly affiliated with Studio Gallop or OB Planning. Their name is derived from the American special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic.

In 1995, OLM representative director Toshiaki Okuno founded OLM Digital, which became the main CG work company behind a majority of OLM's works. Toshiaki Okuno stands as both companies' representative director.

Studio structure
Similar to Bandai Namco Filmworks and Bones, OLM is divided into separate production lines that are typically named after the Animation Producer leading the production. As of 2023, the studio operates six separate production lines.

Works

Video games

TV series

Films

Original video/net animations

Specials 
 Pac's Scary Halloween (2015)
 Santa Pac's Merry Berry Day (2015)

Game 
 Pokémon Black and White 2 Animated Trailer (2012)

Distribution/dubbing 
 PAW Patrol (2019–present)
 Tinpo (2020–present)
 D.N. Ace

Notes

References

External links 

 
 

 
Japanese animation studios
Animation studios in Tokyo
Mass media companies established in 1990
Japanese companies established in 1990
Setagaya
Imagica Robot Holdings
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
B26

B26, B-26 or B.26 may refer to:

Games
 Sicilian Defence, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code

Military
 BAM B26, a pellet gun manufactured in China
 Blackburn B.26 Botha, a British World War II torpedo bomber
 Douglas A-26 Invader, an American Cold War bomber, which was designated B-26 from 1948 until 1962
 Fokker B 26, a proposed dive bomber derived from the G.I for the Swedish Air Force
 Martin B-26 Marauder, an American World War II bomber
 Soviet submarine B-26, a Soviet Cold War submarine

Transportation
 Bundesstraße 26, a road in Germany
 B26 (New York City bus), an American bus route
Variable dancer

The variable dancer (Argia fumipennis) is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae. It is native to North America, where it is widespread throughout the east and present in the interior western United States.

The male of the subspecies A. f. violacea (the violet dancer) is purple with a blue tip.

Subspecies
Argia fumipennis has three subspecies:
Black dancer A. f. atra
Smoky-winged dancer A. f. fumipennis
Violet dancer A. f. violacea

References

Coenagrionidae
Odonata of North America
Insects described in 1839
Macuata East (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Macuata Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity).  Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. The electorate was located in north-eastern Vanua Levu, and has been a stronghold of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) since its inception.

The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate.

Election results 
In the following tables, the primary vote refers to first-preference votes cast.  The final vote refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see electoral fusion), which may be customized by the voters (see instant run-off voting).

1999

2001

2006

Sources 
 Psephos - Adam Carr's electoral archive
 Fiji Facts
Ealing and Hillingdon (London Assembly constituency)

Ealing and Hillingdon is a constituency represented in the London Assembly.

It consists of the combined area of the London Borough of Ealing and the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Overlapping constituencies
The constituency contains all of the following UK Parliament constituencies after the 2019 General Election:
Ealing Central and Acton (Labour), Rupa Huq MP
Ealing North (Labour and Co-operative), James Murray MP
Ealing Southall (Labour), Virendra Sharma MP
Hayes and Harlington (Labour), John McDonnell MP
Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Conservative), Steven Tuckwell MP

Additionally it contains part of one other constituency:
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (Conservative), David Simmonds MP

Assembly Members

Mayoral election results 
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

Assembly election results

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Ealing
Politics of the London Borough of Hillingdon
2000 establishments in England
Constituencies established in 2000
Lapsed power

In politics and government, lapsed power is a term often used to describe a certain constitutionally granted power of government that is no longer used, according to constitutional convention. This may be because the power's original conditions of use no longer exist, making it an anachronism, or simply because the nation's political culture and attitudes have shifted, making the power appear too morally or ethically objectionable to use. However, the power still exists.

Examples of lapsed powers include the reserve powers of a monarch under a constitutional monarchy. Constitutional monarchs have significant powers over matters such as the appointment of the prime minister or the veto of legislation, but in practice these powers are rarely actually used independently.

Comparative public law scholar Richard Albert has theorized a related phenomenon he calls "constitutional desuetude," which occurs "when an entrenched constitutional provision loses its binding force upon political actors as a result of its conscious sustained nonuse and public repudiation by preceding and present political actors."

See also

 Regionalism (politics)

References

Political terminology
Steve, The First

Steve The First was a four-part dark comedy set in a post-apocalyptic future, broadcast on CBC Radio One in 2005. It ran on Saturday mornings from 11:30 - 12:00pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland).

Steve, a young slacker, emerges from an underground vault after a year spent reading a lengthy novel, and discovers he has missed a nuclear war (thereby surviving it unharmed) in the interim. Exploring the "post-popocalyptic" world, where animals have mutated into menacing giant creatures, fire now rains from the skies instead of water, dogs explode from human contact, and people melt when exposed to sunlight, Steve discovers latent telepathic abilities, and uses them to communicate with the one dog he meets who can tolerate human company.

Steve takes shelter at the home of Colleen, who hides her deceased parents from the "dead collectors"; roving children who claim melted corpses. They begin a relationship, which leads to Colleen's cure from melting when they become intimate. This frustrates Phil Green, an evil politician who sees his chances of becoming mayor of Toronto greatly enhanced by the death of his opponents, and has assigned two assistants to stalk Colleen, whom he strongly desires.

A bizarre power struggle develops as Steve bumbles his way into folk heroism, helping to reclaim civilization for the common people  as Phil tries to harness surviving resources to take ultimate control.

All of this is ostensibly told from the point of view of a storyteller who is recounting the tale 1,000 years later.

A sequel, Steve, The Second, was aired early in 2006.

Steve The First was written by Matt Watts, who also starred in the episodes.

Crew

Tom Anniko directed all four episodes. Joe Mahoney recorded and mixed every episode and also served as the series story editor.

Anton Szabo performed all the sound effects.

Tom Anniko was also the Executive Producer.

References

External links 
Matt Watts CBC Program Guide
Review of Steve the First SFF Audio
Interview with Matt Watts Gloryosky

CBC Radio One programs
Canadian comedy radio programs
Canadian radio dramas
Canadian science fiction radio programs
2000s Canadian radio programs
Urban Tapestry

Urban Tapestry is a three-woman band based in Toronto, Ontario that performs filk music, composed by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Allison Durno, and Jodi Krangle. As a group, they won the 'Best Performer' Pegasus Award in both 1997 and 2004.

Urban Tapestry has released three albums between 1994 and 2003.

Discography
 Castles and Skyscrapers, 1994. Cover art by Ruth Ohi
 Myths and Urban Legends, Dodeka Records, 1997. Cover art by Beckett Gladney
 Sushi and High Tea, Dodeka Records, 2003. Cover art by Beckett Gladney

References

External links
 Urban Tapestry's official homepage

Urban Tapestry
Musical groups from Toronto
All-female bands
Pallid-winged grasshopper

The pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) is a common grasshopper of the family Acrididae, native to the deserts of western North America along with South America, ranging from British Columbia to Argentina. They are more active during the summer months, and their pale, mottled coloration makes them hard to see against surfaces such as the granite often found in the gravel of dry river beds. They grow to be . The behavior of the pallid-winged grasshopper is apparently determined by temperature, with foraging occurring at temperatures of  and mating at .

Populations of the pallid-winged grasshopper occasionally irrupt to damaging numbers. Between 1952 and 1980, there were six outbreaks in Arizona, only one of which lasted more than one year.

References

Oedipodinae
Orthoptera of North America
Insects of South America
Insects described in 1838
Islamic Front for Armed Jihad

The Islamic Front for Armed Jihad (French name, Front Islamique du Djihad Armé, hence the abbreviation FIDA) was a militant Islamist organization active during the Algerian Civil War. It called for the violent overthrow of the secular Algerian government, and a system of government based on shari'a law.

On July 21, 1996, it merged under the auspices of Mustapha Kartali with the Movement for an Islamic State (MEI) and splinter factions of the Groupe Islamique Armée (GIA) to form the Islamic Movement for Preaching and Jihad (MIPD).
Factions of the Algerian Civil War
Jihadist groups in Algeria
Adi ibn Hatim

Adi ibn Hatim al-Tai () was a leader of the Arab tribe of Tayy, and one of the companions of Muhammad. He was the son of the poet Hatim al-Tai. Adi remained antagonistic to Islam for about twenty years until he converted to Islam  in 630 (9th year of Hijri).

Biography 
Adiyy inherited the domain of his father and was confirmed in the position by the Tayy people. He received a quarter of any amount they stole in raiding expeditions.

Before Islam 
Adi said that before being preached to by Muhammad he practiced Rakusiyya, a syncretic sect which adhered to teachings of both Christianity and Judaism, or a syncretic mixture of Christianity and Sabian religion.

Clément Huart has theorized this sect was linked to Manichaeism due to its syncretic nature. According to Khalid Basalamah, the sect was regarded as heretical by the official Eastern Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Empire, so Adi practiced it in secrecy, fearing persecution from his Byzantine overlord.

After Islam 
After converting to Islam, he joined the Islamic army at the time of caliph Abu Bakr. He was a commander of the Islamic army sent to invade Iraq under the command of Khalid ibn al-Walid.

Adi participated in the Khalid desert crossing from Iraq to the Levant, and fought on the side of Ali ibn Abi Talib, at the Battle of Camel and Battle of Siffin.

Legacy 
Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and others have attributed hadiths to him.

References

Further reading
https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/adi-b-hatim-SIM_0307?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-2&s.q=Adi+ibn+Hatim

Companions of the Prophet
Converts to Islam from Christianity
Year of birth unknown
Arab people of the Arab–Byzantine wars
Tayy
People of the Ridda Wars
Henrik Schaefer

Henrik Schaefer (born 1968 in Bochum) is a German conductor.

He is Music Director of the Opera of Gothenburg (Sweden) 

Alongside his work at this house he keeps up an impressive carriere as a guest conductor with the Gävle Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic, Helsingborg Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Norrköping Symphony, Sapporo Symphony, Arctic Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic, Rouen, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Tokyo Metropolitan, Volksoper Wien, Bogota Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Nederlands Philharmonisch, Hongkong Philharmonic and the orchestras in Nürnberg, Curitiba, Aalborg, Antwerp, Porto Alegre, Enschede, Kristiansand and Belo Horizonte.

At the age of six he began playing the violin and changed to viola when he was 14. After his studies in Essen and Freiburg with Prof. Grahe, Prof. Koch, Prof. Kashkashian and Prof. Luethy, he became the then youngest member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 22.

As well as playing in the orchestra he studied conducting in Leipzig with Prof. Rohde from 1994 to 1998. After his first smaller projects as a conductor he led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time in 1999 for the MusikBox project of Sony music (Ludwig van Beethoven's symphony no. 5, Robert Schumann's symphony no. 3 and Felix Mendelssohn's symphony no. 4). In May 2000 he was chosen from numerous applicants to become Claudio Abbado’s assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and already in December 2000 he led all rehearsals for the production of Richard Wagner's Tristan in Tokyo, due to Abbado’s ailing health.

Since then he has conducted the orchestra on many occasions in Berlin and Salzburg (Falstaff, Parsifal) and took the dress rehearsal for Claudio Abbado’s last concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Gustav Mahler's symphony no. 7 in Vienna in May 2002.

His opera repertoire includes The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, Eugen Onegin, Faust, La Traviata, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Falstaff, Hamlet, Les dialogues des Carmelites, Hänsel and Gretel, Daphne, Elektra, Ariadne, The Flying Dutchman, Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Tristan and Parsifal.
He has recorded numerous symphonic works by Badings, Raff and recently the first opera by the romantic Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar with the Norrköping Symphony for the label Sterling.

References

External links
 Official website of Henrik Schaefer

German male conductors (music)
1968 births
Living people
People from Bochum
21st-century German conductors (music)
21st-century German male musicians
Eugen Diederichs

Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930) was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Prussian Province of Saxony.

Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896. He moved on to Leipzig, where he published the early works of Hermann Hesse, and from there to Jena in 1904. He started publishing the magazine Die Tat in 1912. His publishing firm, the  Eugen Diederichs Verlag, played a central role in Germany's neo-conservative or revolutionary conservative movement in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Diedrichs married Helene Voigt in 1898; the couple separated in 1911. He married the writer  in 1916. Diederichs died in Jena in 1930.

Since 1988, Diederichs has become an imprint of the Hugendubel publishing house.

References

External links

1867 births
1930 deaths
People from Burgenlandkreis
People from the Province of Saxony
German magazine publishers (people)
German book publishers (people)
Expatriates from the German Empire
Expatriates in Italy
Enfield and Haringey (London Assembly constituency)

Enfield and Haringey is a constituency represented in the London Assembly.

It consists of the combined area of the London Borough of Enfield and the London Borough of Haringey.

Overlapping constituencies
The equivalent Westminster seats are:

Edmonton (Labour)
Enfield North (Labour)
Enfield Southgate (Labour)
Hornsey and Wood Green (Labour)
Tottenham (Labour)

Assembly Members

Mayoral election results 
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

Assembly election results

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Haringey
Politics of the London Borough of Enfield
2000 establishments in England
Constituencies established in 2000
Heritage Reformed Congregations

The Heritage Reformed Congregations (HRC) constitute a continental Calvinist denomination in the United States and Canada. They were established in 1993 by dissidents from the Netherlands Reformed Congregations under the leadership of Pastor Joel Beeke.

History 

The Heritage Reformed Congregations were formed in 1993 by dissidents from the Netherlands Reformed Congregations, under the leadership of Joel Beeke. Originally, the denomination was called the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregations. The current name was adopted in 2005.

In 1995, the denomination founded the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. Later, the seminary was supported by the Free Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA).

Starting in the 2010s, the denomination began a dialogue with the FRCNA about a possible denominational merger. In 2017, the two denominations held simultaneous synods, in the same place, to discuss the approximation.

Doctrine 

The HRC adopts the Three Forms of Unity (Heidelberg Catechism, Belgic Confession, and Canons of Dort) as its official doctrine. The denomination advocates Biblical inerrancy and opposes the ordination of women.

Inter-church Relations 

The denomination is a member of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council and the International Conference of Reformed Churches.

Congregations
The Heritage Reformed Congregations consist of the following congregations:

References 

Reformed denominations in the United States
Calvinist denominations established in the 20th century
Religious organizations established in 1993
Trey Junkin

Abner Kirk "Trey" Junkin III (born January 23, 1961) is a former American football long snapper in the National Football League (NFL). Junkin played college football at Louisiana Tech University. Although considered one of the forefathers of the modern long snappers, Junkin also played at the tight end and linebacker positions.

Early years
Junkin attended Northeast High School in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and was a football star.

Professional career
Junkin played 19 seasons in the NFL for six different teams: Buffalo Bills (1983–1984), Washington Redskins (1984), Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders (1985–1989, 1996), Seattle Seahawks (1990–1995), Arizona Cardinals (1996–2001), plus a single game with the New York Giants in 2002. Primarily a long snapper and special teams player throughout his career, Junkin started out as a linebacker and later moved to tight end.

It is his one game with the Giants for which Junkin is most remembered. The Giants coaxed the retired veteran back to replace an injured Dan O'Leary. In a 2002 Wild Card playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers, Junkin botched a snap on a field goal attempt that could have won the game for the Giants, who had squandered a 38-14 lead. Holder Matt Allen attempted to pass the ball to Rich Seubert, but it fell incomplete. There was an uncalled pass interference penalty on the play, which could have led to another field goal attempt as a result of off-setting penalties, as the Giants were penalized for having an ineligible man downfield. Junkin took full responsibility and said that the Giants lost this game because of him. This play ultimately became #10 on NFL Top 10's Top Ten Meltdowns and Top Ten Controversial Calls at #7.

After the 2002 NFL season, Junkin went on to coach in the Canadian Football League for the Calgary Stampeders. After a short stint with the Stampeders, he rejoined his family in Winnfield, Louisiana. Junkin is now the defensive coordinator for his son Connor's high school football team, the Winnfield Senior High Tigers.

Junkin is the older brother of former NFL linebacker Mike Junkin.

References

1961 births
Living people
People from Conway, Arkansas
American football tight ends
American football long snappers
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football players
Buffalo Bills players
Washington Redskins players
Los Angeles Raiders players
Seattle Seahawks players
Oakland Raiders players
Arizona Cardinals players
Dallas Cowboys players
New York Giants players
Calgary Stampeders coaches
Socialist Students

Socialist Students is a socialist organisation with branches in universities, further education colleges and sixth form colleges in the United Kingdom. Socialist Students was established in the late 1990s by members of the Socialist Party (SP) who had built support for the Save Free Education Campaign amongst students in the battle over the introduction of fees when the Labour Party under Tony Blair was elected in 1997.

Socialist Students describes itself as a politically independent organisation, and has its own national committee meetings and annual conference at which motions are debated and voted on. Socialist Students produces the political magazine Megaphone. It is affiliated with International Socialist Resistance and takes part in campaigns such as Youth Fight for Jobs and "Hands off our Schools" against city academies. The two organisations have a joint presence on anti-war and anti-G8/climate change demonstrations, which they term the "Red Contingent". Socialist Students has been active in the recent climate change strikes.

Political programme 

The organisation is broad, with some in the ranks being members of parties other than the SP - for example the Green Party of England and Wales, Plaid Cymru, the Communist Party of Britain and Labour, with the majority being non-aligned. The structure of Socialist Students is federal, with each society or organising its own activity and campaigns as well as building national campaigns. Socialist Students aims to be a forum for students interested in socialist and Marxist ideas, while giving students experience in debating, organising and intervening in struggle.

Socialist Students links the struggles of students with that of workers. Along with ISR and the Socialist Party, Socialist Students set up the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign.

Campaign to Defeat Fees

After the National Union of Students (NUS) demonstration against fees on 29 October 2006, Socialist Students members launched the Campaign to Defeat Fees to argue for a fighting platform against tuition and top-up fees.
Prior to the campaign's first day of action, Socialist Students received a message of support from National Union of Students, a message Socialist Students welcomed but were still critical of NUS's lack of action. The first day of action on 22 February 2007 featured action taking place at over 40 Universities and Colleges, which was followed by another on 27 April 2007, alongside various meetings on this issue organised by local Socialist Student societies.
So far students from 103 different schools, colleges or universities have signed the Campaign to Defeat Fees petition.

References

External links
 Socialist Students national website

Higher education organisations based in the United Kingdom
Student politics
Socialist_Party_(England_and_Wales)
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
List of Jamaican record producers

This is a list of Jamaican record producers.

B
B.B. Seaton
Bob Andy
Bena Di Senior
Bobby Digital
Boris Gardiner
Bunny Lee
Byron Lee
Beenie Man

C
Captain Sinbad
Carl Harvey
Chris Blackwell
Clancy Eccles
Clement S. 'Coxsone' Dodd
Clive Chin
Clive Hunt

D
Danny Ray
Dave Kelly
David Madden
Dean Fraser
Derrick Harriott
Demarco
Dennis Alcapone
Derrick Morgan
Devon Russell
Dobby Dobson
Donovan Germain
Dr Alimantado
Duke Reid

E
Edward Seaga
Enos McLeod
Errol Brown
Errol Holt
Errol Thompson
Etana
Everton Blender

F
Freddie McGregor

G
General Degree
Geoffrey Chung
George Phang
Glen Adams
Glen Brown
Gussie Clarke

H
Harry Johnson (Harry J)
Harry Mudie
Henry "Junjo" Lawes
Herman Chin Loy
Hyman Wright

J 
Jack Ruby
Jack Scorpio
Jah Lloyd
Jah Screw
Jah Thomas
Jah Woosh
Joe Gibbs
Jon Baker
Joseph Hoo Kim
Junior Reid
Kamau Preston
Karl Pitterson
Keith Hudson
Ken Lack
King Jammy
King Sporty
King Tubby
Kurtis Mantronik

L
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Leonard Chin
Leroy Sibbles
Leroy Smart
Leslie Kong
Linval Thompson
Lloyd Barnes
Lloyd Charmers
Lloyd Daley
Lynford Anderson

M
Mavado
Max Romeo
Mike Brooks
Mike Beatz
Mikey Chung

N
Niney the Observer

O
Ossie Hibbert

P
Papa San
Phil Pratt
Philip "Fatis" Burrell
Pluto Shervington
Prince Buster
Prince Far I
Prince Jammy
Prince Jazzbo 
Prince Philip

R
Richard Bell
Richie Stephens
Robert Ffrench
Ronnie Nasralla
Roy Cousins
Roy Francis
Rupie Edwards

S
Scientist
Serani
Sonny Roberts
Steely & Clevie
Sanchez
Sean Paul
Sly & Robbie
Sonia Pottinger
Stephen "Di Genius" McGregor
Steven "Lenky" Marsden
Sugar Minott
Supa Dups
Super Cat
Sydney Crooks

T
Tapper Zukie
Tommy Cowan
Trinity

U
Uziah Thompson

V
Vincent "Randy" Chin
Vybz Kartel

W
Wayne Jobson
Willi Williams
Winston Riley

Y
Yabby You

See also
:Category:Jamaican record producers
Music of Jamaica
List of Jamaican backing bands

Jamaican record producers
Nabil Sahraoui

Nabil Sahraoui (26 September 1969 – 20 June 2004), alias Mustapha Abou Ibrahim, was an Algerian Islamist militant, and the head of the radical Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC, later renamed Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb) from August 2003 until his death the following year.

Early life
Sahraoui was born in Batna, Algeria, on 26 September 1966.

GSPC
In 2003, Sahraoui replaced Hassan Hattab as the leader of the GSPC, since the latter was removed from the post due to his view that reconciliation with the government should be encouraged. In October 2003, Sahraoui pledged allegiance as GSPC leader to both Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization and to the Taliban leader Mohammed Omar.

Death
Sahraoui was killed in a shootout with the Algerian army in the Kabylie region on 20 June 2004 at age 34. His top aides were also killed in the military sweep.

Sahraoui was replaced as head of the GSPC by Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud over the objections of former leader Hassan Hattab.

Notes

1966 births
2004 deaths
Islam in Algeria
Terrorism in Algeria
Islamic terrorism in Algeria
Algerian al-Qaeda members
Leaders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Deaths by firearm in Algeria
People from Batna, Algeria
Leaders of Islamic terror groups
Salafi jihadists
21st-century Algerian people
Taxi Rider

Taxi Rider, known as , is a video game for the PlayStation 2 developed by Tamsoft. It was published in Japan by D3 Publisher as volume 48 of the Simple 2000 series, and in Europe by 505 GameStreet.

A port for the PlayStation Portable was released in 2007 as Simple 2500 Series Portable!! Vol.9: The My Taxi.

Gameplay

The game's concept is similar to that of Sega's Crazy Taxi, in that the player, as a taxi driver, must pick up customers and deliver them to their destination within a fixed time limit. However, the execution differs from Sega's game - instead of competing to earn as much money as possible within a fixed time limit, the player is employed by Ogawara Gengorou, the boss of a local taxi firm, and given a quota which they must earn before the shift ends, with the ultimate goal of earning one million yen. Each shift, which can take place in the morning or evening, constitutes a "day" in-game, and the quota increases each day. After successfully completing a shift, the player may gain bonuses such as upgrades to the taxi's handling, acceleration or maximum speed or access to a previously restricted area. Additionally, customers may give additional challenges such as reaching the target without stopping or with transposed steering. However, unlike Crazy Taxi, the game does not feature any stunts or jumps, with the exception of nitro boosts which can be collected and used; it is also generally slower, particularly early in the game when the taxi's engine has not been upgraded.

Setting and graphical style
The game is set in the fictional Nijiiro (literally "rainbow-coloured") City, presumably located somewhere in Japan, with adjoining areas including Dream Hills (a residential area), Coast Amusement Center and Dragon Peak. Rather than opting for the semi-realistic approach of Crazy Taxi, the cars and people in the game are rendered in a super deformed style similar to the Choro Q video games (some of which were also developed by Tamsoft).

External links
D3 Publisher product page (Japanese)
505 GameStreet product page

2004 video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
D3 Publisher games
Simple 2000 games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games about taxis
Limber

Limber may refer to:

 Limber, a song off the album Aneurythm by the American hard rock band Living Syndication.
 Limber, a Puerto Rican frozen ice pop made in different flavors, supposedly named after aviator Charles Lindbergh.
 Limber in limbers and caissons, a cart used for supporting an artillery piece in transit
Limber hole, a type of drain hole in ships
Limber Pine, a species of pine tree found in the Western United States and Canada
Limber Perez, a Honduran football player
Limber Trail, a trail at Shenandoah National Park
Limber, in Africa is happiness term
Abrocomes

Abrocomes () was a son of king Darius I of Persia and his wife Phratagune, who died with his full brother Hyperanthes in the battle of Thermopylae, while fighting over the body of Leonidas.

References

Further reading 
The history of Herodotus, Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg

Battle of Thermopylae
Year of birth unknown
480 BC deaths
Achaemenid princes
Persian people of the Greco-Persian Wars
Military leaders of the Achaemenid Empire
5th-century BC Iranian people
Ethiopian Democratic Union

The Ethiopian Democratic Union or EDU, also known as Teranafit (formerly a separate group based in Shire before it merged with the EDU), was one of the political parties that formed in opposition to the Derg regime of Ethiopia. It merged with the Ethiopian Democratic Party to form the Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party.

Armed struggle
Founded in the aftermath of the revolution and the military coup that toppled Emperor Haile Selassie in September 1974, the EDU professed a conservative agenda. Established under the tutelage of the hereditary Prince of Tigray, Ras Mangasha Seyum, the EDU was made up of various elements that included land owners who were opposed to the nationalization of their land holdings, monarchists, high-ranking military officers displaced by the mutineers who had led the coup against the Emperor, and conservative and centrist opponents of the Marxist-Leninist Derg. From mid-1976 into 1977, the EDU broadcast radio programs into Ethiopia from the Sudan, and also launched a military campaign into Begemder that almost captured Gondar.  Although democratic ideals were voiced by the party, and vaguely promoted a constitutional monarchy, it never made its political program clear, a failing which eventually weakened the EDU when its various factions began to diverge politically. Ethnic rivalries between the Tigrean loyalists of Ras Mangasha and the non-Tigrean elements of the EDU also widened the split.

Other rebel movements politically opposed to the EDU, which included the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front in Tigray and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party in Begemder, fought against them and helped the Derg forces push the EDU out of the territories it held. In 1978, the leadership of the EDU split due to serious political differences that had developed between them and it withdrew from the armed struggle against the Derg regime. It remained active among Ethiopian exile communities, particularly in Europe and in the Sudan.

The group was responsible for a pogrom against Ethiopian Jews in 1978.

Opposition party
The EDU reorganized in Addis Ababa as a legal opposition party after the TPLF led the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front to power. It was at this time the party assumed a pan-Ethiopian liberal republican ideology.  The party had a representative at the July 1991 London conference which led to the establishment of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia. However some small factions continued to resist the EPRDF, particularly in Begemder province.

Merger
In September 2003, the EDU merged with the Ethiopian Democratic Party, becoming the United Ethiopian Democratic Party. Seyoum Mengesha became the party's honorary chairman, but played little role in the party administration, living in exile, and the post was quietly abolished.

References

Defunct political parties in Ethiopia
Factions of the Ethiopian Civil War
Political parties established in 1974
Rebel groups in Ethiopia
Anti-communist parties
Conservative parties in Africa
Monarchist parties
Megan Kelso

Megan Kelso (born February 5, 1968 in Seattle, Washington) is an American comic book artist and writer.

Early life and education 
Kelso received her B.A. from Evergreen State University, where she studied history and political science.

Career 
Kelso started working in the 1990s, with the minicomic, Girlhero, which won her a Xeric Foundation grant in 1993. She has since published several other projects including Queen of the Black Black and The Squirrel Mother. In 2004, she was the editor of the female cartoonist anthology, Scheherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters (published by Soft Skull Press). This anthology showcases the work of 23 major female graphic novelists of the time, including veteran and emergent graphic novelists.

From April 1 to September 9, 2007, Kelso published a weekly comic strip in The New York Times Magazine titled Watergate Sue. Her Artichoke Tales graphic novel for Fantagraphics Books was published in 2010. 

Among many other publications, Kelso had a story (which she co-created with Ron Rege) in SPX 2004, the annual anthology published by Small Press Expo (SPX). Kelso has also created work for several magazines, including the now-defunct Tower Records' Pulse Magazine.

She received two Ignatz Awards in 2002, for Outstanding Artist (for Artichoke Tales #1 and her story in Non #5) and Outstanding Minicomic (for Artichoke Tales #1).

Kelso has develop and led a workshop, "Comics for Writers," at various events, including the 2014 Seattle Graphic Novel Panel, hosted by the Graphic Artists Guild and sponsored by Fantagraphics.

Selected bibliography 
The Squirrel Mother: Stories (2006), Fantagraphics Books

Artichoke Tales (2010), Fantagraphics Books

Queen of the Black Black (2011), Fantagraphics Books

Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories (2022) Fantagraphics Books

Personal life 
She is married and lives with her husband and daughter in Seattle, Washington.

External links
 
 NYTimes Magazine strip
 Ellen Forney, Megan Kelso and Raina Telgemeier on Process at The Comics Journal

1968 births
Living people
Alternative cartoonists
American women cartoonists
American female comics artists
American comics writers
Female comics writers
Artists from Seattle
Ignatz Award winners for Outstanding Artist
20th-century American artists
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
American cartoonists
Evergreen State College alumni

References
Salar Jung family

The Salar Jung family was a noble Hyderabad family under the Nizams, who ruled from 1720 to 1948. They are credited with safeguarding rare artifacts and collections, which are now at Salar Jung Museum. 

The family were one of the remaining families of nobles other than the three great Paigah nobles, (who were the highest order of nobility under the Nizams) and after them ranked the Umra-e-Uzzam families. The Salar Jung family was one of the Umra-e-Uzzam. Their ancestry dates to the 16th century. By the middle of the 19th century, the family assumed importance as five members served as Grand Viziers to the Nizams. 

The family resided at the Dewan Devdi palace. 

The five Prime Ministers from the family are buried at Daira Mir Momin, a graveyard in the old city of Hyderabad. Prince Moazzam Jah and classical musician Bade Ghulam Ali Khan are also buried there. 

They claimed descent from Owais al-Qarani,who lived in the times of Prophet Muhhammad. According to the legend their claimed ancestor Shaikh Owais II who was tenth in descent from Owais,arrived in India during the reign of Ali Adil Shah of Bijapur,and established himself by marrying his son Shaikh Muhammad Ali to Minister Mulla Ahmad Nawayet's daughter. 

The family's Jagir comprised six taluks: Kosgi, Ajanta, Koppal, Yelburga, Dundgal, Raigir which had a total of 333 villages with a population of 180,150 (1901),spread over an area of 1.486 square miles that produced a revenue of 820,000.

Members

 Mir
 Turab Ali Khan, Salar I
 Mir Laiq Ali Khan Salar Jung II 
 Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III

See also
 Salar Jung Museum

References

External links

 The Salar Jungs

 
People from Hyderabad State
Sawt al-Jamahir

Sawt al Jamahir (Arabic صوت الجماهير meaning Voice of the Masses) was a monthly newspaper published by the Iraqi-controlled Arab Liberation Front (ALF), a small Ba'athist faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was edited by the ALF's Secretary-General Rakad Salem and was believed to have been funded by the Iraqi government. It was unclear if publication continued after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 during the Iraq War.

References

Arabic-language newspapers
Ba'athism
Defunct newspapers published in Iraq
History of the Ba'ath Party
Monthly newspapers
Newspapers published in Iraq
Organization of the Ba'ath Party
Palestine Liberation Organization
Publications with year of establishment missing
Publications with year of disestablishment missing
Fetendo

Fetendo or Fetal Endoscopic surgery is a form of fetal intervention in the treatment of birth defects and other fetal problems. The procedure uses real-time video imagery from fetoscopy and ultrasonography to guide very small surgical instruments into the uterus in order to surgically help the fetus. The name Fetendo was adopted for the procedure because of how the video-based manipulation recalls a video game.


Overview
Fetendo intervention is less invasive than open fetal surgery. It can be often be achieved with just a small guided wire sent through a needle-puncture of the skin (percutaneous), though in some cases it may require that a small opening be made in the mother's abdomen.

The fact that it is less invasive reduces the mother's postoperative recovery and lessens the troubles with preterm labor.

Fetendo has proven to be very useful for some, but not all, fetal conditions. Some examples include:
 Twin-twin transfusion syndrome - laser ablation of vessels
 Fetal bladder obstructions
 Aortic or pulmonary valvuloplasty - opening the aortic or pulmonary fetal heart valves to allow blood flow
 Atrial septostomy - opening the inter-atrial septum of the fetal heart to allow unrestricted blood flow between the atria
 Congenital diaphragmatic hernia - balloon tracheal occlusion

See also
 Image-guided surgery
 Fetoscopy

References

Obstetric surgery
Fifie

The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was a traditional fishing boat used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring drifters.

Design
While the boats varied in design, they can be categorised by their vertical stem and stern, their long straight keel and wide beam. These attributes made the Fifies very stable in the water and allowed them to carry a very large set of sails. The long keel, however, made them difficult to manoeuvre in small harbours.

Sailing Fifies had two masts with the standard rig consisting of a main dipping lug sail and a mizzen standing lug sail. The masts were positioned far forward and aft on the boat to give the maximum clear working space amidships. A large fifie could reach just over  in length. Because of their large sail area they were very fast sailing boats.

Fifies built after 1860 were all decked and from the 1870s onwards the bigger boats were built with carvel planking, i.e. the planks were laid edge to edge instead of the overlapping clinker style of previous boats. The introduction of steam powered capstans in the 1890s, to help raising the lugs sails, allowed the size of these vessels to increase from  to over  in length. From about 1905 onwards sailing Fifies were gradually fitted with engines and converted to motorised vessels.

There are few surviving examples of this type of fishing boat still in existence. The Scottish Fisheries Museum based in Anstruther, Fife has restored and still sails a classic example of this type of vessel named the Reaper. The Swan Trust in Lerwick, Shetland have restored and maintain another Fifie, The Swan, as a sail training vessel. She now takes over 1000 trainees each year, and has taken trainees to participate in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races to ports in France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland as well as around the UK. The Isabella Fortuna is owned by the Wick Society.

Gallery

References

External links
 The Reaper - The Boats that Built Britain - Tom Cunliffe
 The history of herring fishing on the east coast of Scotland
 Scottish Fisheries Museum
 The Swan Trust

Sailboat types
Types of fishing vessels
Fishing in Scotland
Ships of Scotland
Scottish design
Sailing in Scotland
1850s establishments in Scotland
Topic (chocolate bar)

Topic was a chocolate bar made by Mars, Incorporated in France and sold throughout Europe.  It contained hazelnuts, nougat and caramel.

The bar was first introduced in 1962. In the UK, it was advertised with the line "A Hazelnut in Every Bite".

The chocolate bar was promoted in a series of radio advertisements broadcast in 2002 with the strapline "A joy to eat, but a bitch to make". These adverts featured actors Simon Pegg and Mark Heap who both appeared in the cult British TV comedy Spaced.

The bar was removed from boxes of Celebrations in 2006, along with Twix (although Twix has subsequently been reintroduced).

In 2022 Mars, Incorporated ceased production of the Topic. .

See also
 List of chocolate bar brands

References

Chocolate bars
British confectionery
Mars confectionery brands
Products introduced in 1962
Glenn Kesby

Glenn Kesby (born 1970) is an Australian countertenor, specialising in baroque music.

Concerts and oratorio 
His other concerts have included Rye Festival, post-Restoration music at the Chelsea Festival, Lute songs at Hampton Court Palace, Handel's Dixit Dominus, Bach's Missa Brevis in G minor and Purcell's Welcome to all the Pleasures at the Shipton Festival.

Baroque encounter 
In 2004, he set up his own early music ensemble, Baroque Encounter, to stage lesser known baroque repertoire in full period costume in a style similar to the original performances.

Other 
Kesby is a regular concert artist at London's Handel House Museum, and with the Artemis and Hanbarne baroque ensembles. He has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and overseas in Germany, Hungary, Cyprus, Ireland, France and his native Australia. Now permanently settled in Britain, he is the recipient of a Tait Memorial Trust Scholarship to continue his studies with Mary King.

External links 
 Glenn Kesby's website
 Baroque Encounter's website

1970 births
Living people
21st-century Australian male opera singers
Operatic countertenors
Maccabi Haifa (Weightlifting)

Maccabi Haifa Weightlifting team is a branch of Maccabi sports association in Israel.  This team is located in Haifa, the major city in the North part of Israel and active from 1991.  Almost all of the team members including the coach immigrated to Israel during the great wave of immigration from Russian-speaking countries in the 1990s. 
This team was formed by Semyon Minaker, who was its first coach and trained this team until his retirement.

From 1992 to 1997, Maccabi Haifa weight lifting team constantly won National Competitions.  Some members of this team hold the National Champion titles.

Here is the list of Maccabi Haifa Weightlifting team former and current members:

 Alexander Feler
 Dimitry Apelbaum
 Michael Plax
 Rostislav Novak 
 Alexander Shifrin 
 Roman Peler 
 Vasily Shteinberg 
 Seva Solomynik 
 Jenia Hutorskoy

Weight
Weightlifting
Weightlifting in Israel
Energy 52

Energy 52 was a trance project of German DJ Paul Schmitz-Moormann (DJ Kid Paul). The project was supported by Cosmic Baby (Harald Blüchel), who produced, co-composed, and remixed tracks.

The project is best known for the 1993 track "Café del Mar" which became one of the most popular trance songs of its time, being remixed a significant number of times and featuring on hundreds of compilation albums. In April 2011, the song was voted number one by BBC Radio 1 listeners in Pete Tong's Top 20 Dance Tracks of the last 20 years.

References

Musical groups established in 1991
Musical groups disestablished in 1993
Musical groups from Berlin
German DJs
German trance music groups
German dance music groups
Electronic dance music DJs
Mutant League Hockey

Mutant League Hockey is an ice hockey game that was released in 1994 for the Sega Genesis. It's a spin-off of Mutant League Football and has several of the same team names.

Gameplay
Unlike Mutant League Football which featured five species of mutant, Mutant League Hockey narrows it down to three: robots, undead skeletons and trolls, removing aliens and superhumans. The game has the same tone as its predecessor, with special plays that can cause things to happen like making the puck explode when it is picked up by an opposing player, bribing the referee to call fake penalties against the other team, and land mines and holes on the ice.

The teams in the game are ranked by a rating of zero through six skulls.

As with Mutant League Football, hazards litter the ice and death is commonplace. Players may substitute their goalie for a demon goalie, a gigantic demon head that takes the place of the net; scoring on a demon goal causes it to explode. In addition, the crowd is prone to throwing weapons or other powerups onto the ice; they may be picked up and used freely. When a player dies, their corpse remains on the ice and may be tripped on; between periods, a giant slug acting as an ice resurfacer eats the debris littering the ice. As in real hockey, fights may break out. Fights in Mutant League Hockey are done as a minigame, where the objective is to knock out the opponent. Both players are still sent to the penalty box, but the player who got knocked out also takes an additional penalty for losing.

References

External links
Unreleased Amiga port

1994 video games
Electronic Arts games
Fantasy sports video games
Fictional mutants
Ice hockey video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Mutant League series
Sega Genesis games
Sega Genesis-only games
Video games about death games
Video games scored by Russell Lieblich
Video games developed in the United States