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Lyle Neff

Lyle Neff (born 1969) is a Canadian poet and journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Born in Prince George, British Columbia, he is the author of three books of poetry published by Anvil Press. He has also written scattered essays, cultural journalism and literary criticism for various Canadian publications, ranging from the national newspaper The Globe and Mail to such obscure literary journals as Sub-Terrain.

Notorious for his hotheaded nationalism and elaborate use of profanity, Neff elaborated in 2003 his controversial Three Laws of Honest Dominion Belletrism, a sort of code for Canadian writers. The Laws, as published in Monarchist magazine, went as follows: 
1. Don't ask for subsidies from the Canadian people. 
2. Don't teach. 
3. Don't work for Americans.

Bibliography
 Ivanhoe Station, Vancouver: Anvil, 1997.
 Full Magpie Dodge, Vancouver: Anvil, 2000.
 Bizarre Winery Tragedy, Vancouver: Anvil, 2005.

External links 
  Review of Full Magpie Dodge
 http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=4678
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110612174907/http://www.nthposition.com/modestbatsof1993amp.php
 https://web.archive.org/web/20081203191314/http://www.vancouverreview.com/past_articles/rupertjasper.htm
 http://www.booksincanada.com/article_view.asp?id=4721
 http://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20070113/282471409381966
 https://archive.today/20130205112620/http://www.vancouverreview.com/past_articles/rupertjasper.htm
 https://books.google.com/books?id=gEeCCgAAQBAJ&dq=full+magpie+dodge&pg=PA154
 http://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20070407/282492884250192
 http://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20070113/282471409381966
 http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=1371
 https://dooneyscafe.com/dan-browne-eh/
 https://dooneyscafe.com/author/lyleneff/
 https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20070714/282406984944520
 https://canlit.ca/canlit_authors/lyle-neff/
 https://www.amazon.com/Lyle-Neff/e/B001K7X5SG%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
 https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=lyle%20neff&author=lyle%20neff&languages=en&in=ALL&date=Anytime&hideSimilar=0&type=2&state=2
 https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=lyle%20neff%20vancouver&languages=en&groupBy=Language&hideSimilar=0&type=1&state=1
 https://alllitup.ca/contributors/N/Neff-Lyle

1969 births
Living people
Canadian male poets
Journalists from British Columbia
People from Prince George, British Columbia
Writers from British Columbia
Canadian male non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
20th-century Canadian poets
Racconigi

Racconigi  (;  ) is a town and  (municipality) in Piedmont, Italy. It is located in the province of Cuneo,  south of Turin, and  north of Cuneo by rail.

History
The town was founded in medieval times. It was a possession of the marquisses of Saluzzo, of the princes of Acaia and of the Savoy-Carignano.

On 24 October 1909 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Nicholas II of Russian Empire concluded a secret agreement at Racconigi, known as the Racconigi Bargain.

Geography
Racconigi is located in the northern borders of its province with the Metropolitan City of Turin.  The town borders with the municipalities of Caramagna Piemonte, Carmagnola (TO), Casalgrasso, Cavallerleone, Cavallermaggiore, Lombriasco (TO), Murello, Polonghera and Sommariva del Bosco. Its municipal hamlets () are Berroni, Canapile, Migliabruna Nuova, Migliabruna Vecchia, Oia, Parruccia, San Lorenzo, Streppe, Tagliata.

Economy
The economy is mostly based on agriculture, production of milk and meat, and industrial working of metal sheets.

Main sights

Castle of Racconigi: This royal residence built in 1570 on the basis of an earlier castle which dated to the beginning of the second millennium. The large park was laid out in 1755 by the French gardener Molard from designs by Le Nôtre, and enlarged in 1835. The castle became the summer residence of the King of Italy in 1901, and part of the World Heritage Site Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in 1997.
San Giovanni Battista: Church
San Domenico: Baroque church 
Santa Maria Maggiore: Baroque church
Church of Santissimo Nome di Gesù: Baroque churchLIPU'': the Italian League for the Protection of Birds, established the Centro Anatidi e Cicogne in 1985 in a large farmhouse near the castle as a site for the reintroduction of the white stork, which became extinct in Italy as a breeding species at the beginning of the eighteenth century.  The site now includes a breeding centre for various endangered species of ducks, geese and swans—notably the white-headed duck which has been extinct in Italy since 1976—and an area of wetland where visitors can observe such migrants as black-winged stilt, little ringed plover and black-tailed godwit.
Tenuta Berroni: The estate was built in 1773 for the noble De Laugier as holiday house with beautiful gardens, a chapel and some rural buildings: it was an isolated villa in the countryside, but made entirely self-sufficient. The interior decoration and antique furniture were commissioned to the many artists who worked for Castle of Racconigi. Today it is both a private estate as well as a location for weddings, events and a set for several movies.

Notable people
 Francesco Imberti, archbishop of Vercelli.
 Umberto II, last King of Italy, was born here.

Twin towns
  Bonneville (France) (1990)
  Cascais (Portugal) (2003)

References

External links

 Il Castello di Racconigi 
 Centro Anatidi e Cicogne 

Cities and towns in Piedmont
Nature reserves in Italy
Vitaly Solomin

Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (; 12 December 194127 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, best remembered for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for Soviet television. He was the younger brother of Yury Solomin.

Biography
Vitaly Solomin was born in 1941 in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Soviet Union, to a family of professional musicians. From childhood he was fascinated by music and learned to play the piano. On leaving school he went to Moscow and in 1959 he entered Shchepkin's drama school. He studied in the class of Nikolay Annenkov.

While a student, Vitaly rehearsed and performed at the Maly Theatre. After finishing the school he became an actor at this theater.

In the 1960s Vitaly Solomin began to appear in films. He debuted in 1963 in 1 Newton street. His first big role was as Kirill in the 1966 film Elder sister.

Vitaly Solomin shot to fame after playing the leading role as Cossack Roman in the epic film Dauria (1971) where he worked with his brother Yury Solomin and other Russian stars, such as Yefim Kopelyan, Viktor Pavlov and Vasily Shukshin.

During the 1980s his performances in films directed by Igor Maslennikov were especially successful. Most famous of these was his role as Dr. Watson in a series of films about Sherlock Holmes (1979—1986). In 1982 Maslennikov invited him to play the role of Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades, an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's story. His work in the film series Winter Cherry was very successful.

From 1 September 1986 to September 1989 Solomin worked in the Mossovet Theatre. There he acted in a play based on Viktor Astafyev's Sad Detective. In 1991 he returned to the Maly Theatre and staged Alexander Ostrovsky's Savage, playing the role of Ashmetiev.

Solomin wrote the screenplay for and directed the 1994 film The Hunt.

On 4 November 1974, he received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and on 3 February 1992 of People's Artist of the RSFSR. In April 2002, Vitaly Solomin suffered a stroke which proved to be fatal; he died on 27 May 2002 and is interred in Vagankovo Cemetery.

Private life
Vitaly Solomin's first wife was the actress Natalia Rudnaya. The marriage soon fell apart. On October 28, 1970, he married the actress Maria Solomina (née Leonidova). In 1974 they had a daughter Anastasia, and in May 1984 a daughter Yelizaveta.

Filmography

References

External links
 
  Biography
  Biography online peoples.ru
 To Be Remembered. Vitaly Solomin by Leonid Filatov (2003)
 

1941 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
People from Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
Russian male television actors
Russian theatre directors
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male stage actors
Soviet male television actors
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
Metal Slug Advance

Metal Slug Advance is a run and gun video game for the Game Boy Advance handheld system created by SNK Playmore in 2004, and is canon to the Metal Slug series.

Storyline
A survival training camp for new Peregrine Falcon recruits has just begun, where the recruits must survive on an unnamed island with limited supplies and weaponry. However, a large blimp  begins to hover above the island, as General Morden's troops parachute down and attempt to build a new base, while successfully capturing many of the new recruits. Players play as either new recruits Walter Ryan or Tyra Elson as the survival training soon becomes a full-fledged assignment for the remaining recruits as they pierce through enemy lines.

Gameplay
The gameplay is very similar to any other Metal Slug game, but with two new systems; the life system, and the card system. The life system is simply a life bar for players, as it replaces the extra lives from all the other Metal Slug games. As players take damage, the life bar depletes (different attacks cause different amounts of damage). Collecting food items can restore health, and players instantly die from being crushed or falling down a pit.

The Card system is a card collecting part of the game. Cards can be found from shooting certain parts of the background, and by obtaining it from certain hostages, and sometimes by doing both. The cards have many different purposes, from giving detailed info on items and characters from the Metal Slug series to boosting player abilities, and even unlocking special (and new) slugs. There are 100 cards to collect, and collecting them all becomes the main objective to anyone who defeats the final boss.

Reception 

Metal Slug Advance received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.

References

External links

2004 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Metal Slug
Run and gun games
SNK Playmore games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Single-player video games
Noise Factory games
Pud Pud in Weird World

Pud Pud in Weird World (also known simply as Pud Pud) is a computer game published by Ocean Software in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum. It was written by Jonathan Smith. Smith was paid £1000 for Pud Pud by Ocean Software and was given a job at Ocean as a direct result of the game.

Plot

Pud Pud is trapped in Weird World and needs to escape. He must explore Weird World looking for ten puddings and avoiding the deadly kiss of Mrs Pud Pud.

Gameplay

The player controls Pud Pud (who resembles a round pudding with wings or feet depending on whether he's walking or flying) and must explore the mazelike Weird World. Pud Pud has a limited amount of energy which needs to be topped up by eating certain creatures that live in Weird World although other creatures, which drain his energy if eaten, must be avoided. If Pud Pud runs out of energy he loses one of his three lives.

Mrs Pud Pud occasionally appears on the screen and is similar to Pud Pud, but white and wearing high heels. If she touches Pud Pud he loses a life instantly, regardless of his energy status although the player will receive a bonus score based on how much energy was remaining when Mrs Pud Pud delivered her kiss.

Pud Pud can obtain an extra life by collecting all ten hidden puddings.

The puddings are spread randomly throughout the maze with only one being in the maze at a time. When all ten are collected, Pud Pud can escape Weird World.

References

External links 

1985 video games
Maze games
Ocean Software games
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Echinodorus subalatus

Echinodorus subalatus is a species of aquatic plants in the Alismataceae. It is native to Cuba, Mexico, Central America, Guyana, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. It is found naturally growing in mud by the side of streams.

Description
Leaves with canaliculate petioles, blades lanceolate, narrowly to broadly ovate, sharp on the tip, decumbent or rarely abrupt on the base, 18 – 24 cm long x 2 – 9 cm wide, with terrestrial forms usually only 10 x 2 cm having 5 - 7 veins and distinct pellucid lines.

Stem below cylindrical, between whorls triangular in cross-section, often alate, 35 – 120 cm long. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate having 4 - 15 whorls. Bracts on base connate, longer than the pedicels (up to 3.5 cm). Pedicels 0.5 – 2 cm long. Sepals 4 – 6 mm long, petals about twice as long, the diameter of the corolla 1.2 - 1.5 cm. Usually 12 stamens, achenes 2 x 1.5 mm with one, rarely 2 glands separated by a rib. Stylar beak bent back - reaching usually 1/4 of the body.

Vegetatively, resembles E. andrieuxii, nut differs by having distinct pellucid lines, a usually paniculate inflorescence and by achenes with beaks that are at most 1/3 as long as the body.

Cultivation
Deep, rich growing substrate and a good light. Will grow submersed or emersed. Benefits from additional CO2.

References

External links 
 FishIndex
 Echinodorus (German text)
  E. subalatus : text in Spanish but very useful photographs

subalatus
Flora of Central America
Flora of Brazil
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Cuba
Flora of Guyana
Flora of Venezuela
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Paraguay
Plants described in 1830
Freshwater plants
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena

Francesco II d'Este (6 March 1660 – 6 September 1694) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1662 to 1694.

Biography
He was born in Modena to Alfonso IV d'Este, duke of Modena, and Laura Martinozzi, niece of Cardinal Mazarin. His sister, Mary of Modena,  married the future James II of England in 1673 and became queen of England in 1685. Their child, and therefore Francesco's nephew, was James, the Old Pretender who struggled to regain the throne of England during the 1715 Jacobite rebellion.

He became duke at the age of two. His mother, pious and rigorous, served as his regent until 1674, filling state offices with clerics under the advice of her Jesuit confessor Father Garimberti. When she left to accompany the princess to England, he assumed control at the age of fourteen, and was so transformed in the free and easy company of his cousin principe Cesare Ignazio d'Este, that on her return the dowager duchess withdrew from court.

Francesco's foreign policy was affected by the requirements of Louis XIV, his sister's patron after 1688, but he resisted French attempts to interfere in the duchies. A Franco Modenese alliance was proposed with Francesco and a princess of the House of Lorraine, Béatrice Hiéronyme, the eldest daughter of François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne. The marriage never materialised and instead, he married Margherita Maria Farnese. 

The couple had no children and when Francesco died heirless in 1694 after just two years of marriage, he was succeded by his half-uncle Cardinal Rinaldo d'Este, who renounced his ecclesiastical career and cardinalate for this purpose.

He learned the violin as a boy and the court orchestra was revived for him when he was eleven; one of the musicians employed there was Giovanni Maria Bononcini. Francesco was a lavish and discerning patron of music, and the composer Arcangelo Corelli dedicated his Op. 3 trio sonatas (Rome, 1689) to him. His library has remained substantially complete in the Biblioteca Estense, Modena.

Bibliography
Crowther, Victor. "A Case-Study in the Power of the Purse: The Management of the Ducal 'Cappella' in Modena in the Reign of Francesco II d'Este", Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 115.2 (1990), pp. 207–219.
Cont, Alessandro. "'Sono nato principe libero, tale voglio conservarmi': Francesco II d’Este (1660-1694)", Memorie Scientifiche, Giuridiche, Letterarie, Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti di Modena, ser. 8, 12 (2009), 2,  pp. 407–459.

Ancestry

External links

1660 births
1694 deaths
Hereditary Princes of Modena
Francesco 2
Francesco 2
Francesco 2
17th-century Italian nobility
Italian Roman Catholics
The Lantern Bearers

The Lantern Bearers may refer to:

 The Lantern Bearers (Stevenson essay), an 1888 essay by Robert Louis Stevenson
 The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff novel), a 1959 historical adventure novel for children by Rosemary Sutcliff
 The Lantern Bearers (Frame novel), a 2001 novel by Ronald Frame inspired by the Stevenson essay
Suba

Suba may refer to:

Groups of people
Suba people (Kenya), a people of Kenya
Suba language
Suba people (Tanzania), a people of Tanzania
Subha (writers), alternatively spelt Suba, Indian writer duo

Individual people
Suba (musician), Serbian-Brazilian musician
Mihai Suba (born 1947), Romanian chess grandmaster
 Miklos Suba (1880-1944), Hungarian-born American artist and architect
 Susanne Suba (1913-2012), Hungarian-born watercolorist and illustrator, active in the United States; daughter of Miklos

Places 
 Suba District, a former district of Nyanza Province, Kenya
 Suba, Bogotá, a locality of Bogotá
 Avenida Suba (Bogotá), main avenue in the city, named after the locality
 Suba, Jerusalem, a Palestinian village near Jerusalem depopulated in 1948

Other
 Suba (film), a 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film
 Okinawa soba

See also

Subah (disambiguation)
Subba (disambiguation)
Shubha (disambiguation)
Subha (disambiguation)

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
National League for Liberty in Vaccination

The National League for Liberty in Vaccination () is a French anti-vaccine advocacy organization which opposes all government vaccine requirements. It was formed in 1954 to oppose tuberculosis vaccines. The organization denies the benefits of vaccinations while promoting misinformation about their dangers.

History 
The LNPLV refers to a tradition from the end of the 19th century, "the Universal League of Antivaccinators" (or "the International League of Antivaccinators" founded by the Belgian ophthalmologist, Dr Hubert Boëns (1825-1898) in 1880), which represented a scholarly "anti-vaccinism" bringing together only doctors and personalities, holding international congresses (Cologne 1881, Charleroi 1885). The action of this current aimed to postpone the obligation of vaccination against smallpox in France (Liouville 1880 bill) until the vote of the law of 1902.

Under the title of National League against the obligation of vaccinations, the association was founded in 1954, by a merger of three groups opposed to the vaccination obligation extended to BCG in 1950:

“Health and Freedom” League, founded in 1948 by  of the Natural History Museum;

Association of Parents of Vaccination Victims;

people from the “” movement, led by .

The founder is Marcel Lemaire, father and non-doctor, who refused BCG for his child in 1952, and who was fined.

The association also brings together hygienist movements advocating fasting, vegetarianism... as well as the current of . The magazine of the association then bore the title Vaccination or Health until 1966, to become Health, freedom and vaccinations.

References

Bibliography 
 .

External links
French web site for the Ligue nationale pour la liberté des vaccinations

Anti-vaccination organizations
Medical and health organizations based in France
Pacific Coast High School

Pacific Coast High School (PCHS) is a public high school in Tustin, California, United States. It is part of the Orange County Department of Education.

References

External links 
 

High schools in Orange County, California
Public high schools in California
Kewaigue

Kewaigue is an area, hill and school near White Hoe in the parish of Braddan, near to Douglas, Isle of Man

References
 Gov.im Education Kewaigue school

Photographs
 White Hoe, Kewaigue, Braddan - The famous Okells Brewery 
 White Hoe (at Ellenbrook), Kewaigue- The new bridge and old "Snotty Bridge".

Geography of the Isle of Man
Huntingdonian

Huntingdonian may relate to:

Huntingdon, a town in England
Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, a group of evangelical churches
NAT Port Mapping Protocol

NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) is a network protocol for establishing network address translation (NAT) settings and port forwarding configurations automatically without user effort. The protocol automatically determines the external IPv4 address of a NAT gateway, and provides means for an application to communicate the parameters for communication to peers. Apple introduced NAT-PMP in 2005 by as part of the Bonjour specification, as an alternative to the more common ISO Standard Internet Gateway Device Protocol implemented in many NAT routers. The protocol was published as an informational Request for Comments (RFC) by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC 6886.

NAT-PMP runs over the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and uses port number 5351.  It has no built-in authentication mechanisms because forwarding a port typically does not allow any activity that could not also be achieved using STUN methods. The benefit of NAT-PMP over STUN is that it does not require a STUN server and a NAT-PMP mapping has a known expiration time, allowing the application to avoid sending inefficient keep-alive packets.

NAT-PMP is the predecessor to the Port Control Protocol (PCP).

See also 
 Port Control Protocol (PCP)
 Internet Gateway Device Protocol (UPnP IGD)
 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
 NAT traversal
 STUN
 Zeroconf

References 

Apple Inc. services
Network protocols
Network address translation
Villa Cañás

Villa Cañás is a small city in the south of the , some 370 km from the provincial capital and not far from Venado Tuerto. It has about 9,400 inhabitants as per the .

The city was founded in 1902 by Juan Cañás, and acknowledged as a comuna (a minor municipality) on 1903-03-07.

People
Legrand sisters - film star twin actresses and TV personalities
José A. Martínez Suárez, film director

References

In Spanish.
 
 
 La Página de Villa Cañás - Portal of the city.

Populated places in Santa Fe Province
Cities in Argentina
Succoth-benoth

Succoth-benoth or Succoth Benoth (, Booths of Daughters) was a Babylonian deity, one of the deities brought to the former kingdom of Samaria by the men of Babylon. In the ninth year of Hoshea, "the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes", resettling large numbers of population. (2 Kings 17:6)  
 
The "men" from each of these five cities ("national groups" - NIV) made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the land, mixing it with the worship of Jehovah. "The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuthah made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites ... Adrammelech and Anamelech." (2 Kings 17:30-31) The Bible says that these deities were idols, although the Samaritans were not punished because they worshipped the God of the Israelites as well. Like Ashima, the identity of Succoth-benoth is unknown. Hayim Tawil noted that Bànitu (Akkadian: 𒁀𒉌𒌈 Ba.ni.TUM, "the creaturess") was an epithet of Ishtar in Nineveh, and postulated the name "Succoth-benoth" was a Hebrew rendition of a Neo-Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian divine name meaning "the image of Bànitu".

According to b. Sanhedrin, Succoth Benoth was a Hen; according to y. Avoda Zara, a Hen and her Chicks; thus associating this god with the astrological constellation Pleiades. According to commentators, either sukkot is a foreign word for "hen" and the phrase means "hen of chicks" or the entire phrase is a foreign word for "hen". Marcus Jastrow proposed that the phrase is native to Hebrew and should be read "covering the young".

References

Deities in the Hebrew Bible

Mesopotamian deities
Samurai Shodown VI

Samurai Shodown VI, known as  in Japan, is the tenth iteration in the Samurai Shodown series.

On December 17, 2014, the game was released as a PS2 Classic for the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network, although only on the Japanese Store. On November 22, 2016, the game was released for the PlayStation 4 in North America through the PlayStation Network, with enhanced features such as trophy support and uprendered resolution.

Gameplay 
The game features new backgrounds with 2D and 3D elements, as well as a returning cast of all 28 characters from Samurai Shodown V Special, 2 sub-bosses from Samurai Shodown V, as well as all 7 characters from Samurai Shodown and Samurai Shodown II that didn't appear in later games, and 4 new characters. It also features a "spirit select" system, which allows players to choose between six different fighting styles based on all previous installments.

Characters

Release
Despite normal Samurai Shodown releases and distribution outside Japan, the game has been released outside the country on the Atomiswave system, published in the United States by Sega. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan on January 25, 2006. The American and European home versions were released respectively on March 24 and March 29, 2009, on the PS2, PSP and Wii as part of the compilation Samurai Shodown Anthology. The PS2 release added even more playable characters, and three more spirit select systems to go along with them.  With the PS2 release, virtually every character to have ever appeared in the Neo Geo games including the referee, Kuroko, and the animal characters, are all playable. The Samurai Shodown Anthology version is similar to the PS2 version except that everything is unlocked at the start. In 2020, a homebrew conversion was released for the Dreamcast.

Reception

References

External links
 
Samurai Shodown VI at the official website of Sega 
Iroha game listed in SNK-Playmore DS schedule

2005 video games
2D fighting games
Arcade video games
Examu games
Fighting games used at the Super Battle Opera tournament
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Network games
Samurai Shodown video games
SNK Playmore games
Video games about samurai
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in China
Video games set in Ireland
Video games set in Japan
Video games set in Peru
Video games set in Tanzania
Video games set in the Caribbean
Video games set in the United States
Wii games
Steve, The Second

Steve The Second was a four-part comedy series that was broadcast Saturday mornings on CBC Radio One, running from 11:30 - 12:00pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland). The successor series to Steve, The First, this bleak comedy was set 25 years after the original story. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, it details the story of the son of the original Steve as he is sent for by his mother to save the city of Orontonto (a thinly disguised Toronto) as it is besieged by the Dark Alliance.

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

It was succeeded in its time slot by High Definition.

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 
Steve The Second Home Page
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
Berkeley House

Berkeley House may refer to:
 Berkeley House, London, a classical mansion in London that was destroyed by fire in 1733 and replaced by Devonshire House
 Berkeley House, York, Upper Canada, a large home occupied by two Clerks of the Executive Council
 Berkeley House is an alternate name for the Whitehall Museum House, in Rhode Island, which is on the USA's National Register of Historic Places

See also
 Berkeley (disambiguation)
Chemman Chaalai

Chemman Chaalai (The Gravel Road) is a 2005 Malaysian family drama film directed by Indian-Malaysian director Deepak Kumaran Menon. This film is notable as being one of the first Malaysian feature films to be made almost entirely in Tamil.

Plot
Set in the late 1960s, the film is about Shantha, an impoverished Malaysian Tamil girl, and her family. They all live together on a family estate, in an area where higher education for women is almost impossible. Shantha, a girl of many aspirations, wants to leave the estate and further her studies, however the financial hardships that will result make her dreams nearly impossible to achieve.

Production
The story is inspired by real events, related to the director's mother.

The film is director Deepak Kumaran Menon's first feature-length film. It was funded entirely by his father, Shanker Menon, the film's executive producer, and shot in digital video.

Reception 
The film "struck a deep chord with the ethnic Indian community" in Malaysia. To see the film, "they came by bus, they took the train, but they all wanted to tell their stories."

The film has met with a strong reception since its release, and has been shown at a number of film festivals across the world including the 2005 International Film Festival Rotterdam, the 2005 San Francisco International Film Festival, the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival, Korea; the Barcelona Asian Film Festival, Spain; the Nantes Festival 3 Continents, France and the Fukuoka International Film Festival, Japan among others. In February 2006, it was selected as an official entry to the Bangkok International Film Festival.

Awards
Best Alternative Film, Anugerah Skrin TV3

Special Jury Award, Nantes Festival 3 Continents (2005), France

Opening Film, Asian Film Symposium, Singapore

In Competition, Bangkok Int. Film Festival

References

External links
 

2005 drama films
2005 films
Tamil-language Malaysian films
2000s Tamil-language films
Films produced by Tan Chui Mui
Malaysian drama films
Torsa River

The Torsa River (also spelt Torsha and also known as Kambu Maqu, Machu and Amo Chhu) rises from the Chumbi Valley in Tibet, China, where it is known as Machu. Its course continues into Bhutan, India, and Bangladesh before joining the Brahmaputra River into the Bay of Bengal.

Course 
From Tibet, Torsa flows into Bhutan, where it is known as the Amo Chu. It has a length of  before entering India, of which  are in Tibet and  in Bhutan. After entering West Bengal in India, it is known as Torsa. In Bangladesh too, it is known by the same name. It is also known as: Chumbi, Am-Chu, Jaldhaka.

Afterwards, the river flows past the border towns of Phuntsholing (in Bhutan) and Jaigaon, and Hasimara (in India) and past the tea estate of Dalsingpara and the Jaldapara National Park. Ghargharia river meets with Torsa in the Tufanganj subdivision, near Deocharai and Balarampur. Torsa meets with Kaljani and then flows into Bangladesh by the name of Kaljani and meets with Brahmaputra in BD. A distributary known as Buri Torsa meets Jaldhaka.

Ghargharia river meets with Torsa in the Tufanganj subdivision, near Deocharai and Balarampur Torsa meets with Kaljani and it then flows into Bangladesh by the name of Kaljani and meets with the Jamuna there.

Major towns and cities
The major towns along the river's banks are:
 Phuntsholing, in Bhutan
 Jaigaon in India
 Hasimara in India
 Cooch Behar, in India
 Torsa Strict Nature Reserve, upstream in Bhutan

Hydro projects
 Amo chu Hydro Power Project, By NTPC Limited

Floods
The Torsha River, along with the Jaldhaka River and Teesta River, has created major flooding multiple times in Bangladesh during the monsoon season between June and September.

References

Further reading 

 

Rivers of Bhutan
Rivers of West Bengal
Rivers of Tibet
Rivers of Bangladesh
International rivers of Asia
Tributaries of the Brahmaputra River
Suba people (Tanzania)

The Suba of Tanzania are a community of people in Rorya District, Mara Region, Tanzania speaking mutually intelligible varieties of the Suba language. They are mainly located in Nyancha, Luo-Imbo and Suba Divisions of Rorya District. The groups commonly listed as being part of the Suba community are the Hacha, Kine, Rieri, Simbiti, Surwa and Sweta. There are a total of around 80,000 ethnic Suba living in Tanzania, most of whom are still speaking the Suba language although some, particularly the Rieri, have started to speak Luo .

The language spoken by the Suba of Tanzania is very close to the Kisuba language spoken by the Suna Girango(Abagirango) people of Migori County of Kenya and Kuria language spoken by the Kuria people. The language spoken by the Suba of Tanzania is distinct from the Olosuba language spoken by the Suba people of Homa Bay County of Kenya and some islands of Lake Victoria.

Ethnic groups in Tanzania
The Movie Monster Game

The Movie Monster Game is a computer game released by Epyx for the Apple II and Commodore 64 in 1986. The game offers a variety of scenarios, playable monsters, and cities to demolish (complete with famous landmarks, such as Tokyo Tower, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Saint Basil's Cathedral and Big Ben). The monsters are based on popular movie monsters such as The Blob, Mothra, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and the Transformers, and Epyx was able to officially license Godzilla.

Gameplay

The gameplay is depicted on a movie screen in front of a movie theater crowd simulating an actual monster movie. Each scenario even starts off with an advertisement, (for popcorn and "Gummi Glogs"; in the Apple II version "Godzilla Mouthwash" is also featured), and other attractions, (such as promotions for Epyx's own Summer Games) before the "Feature Presentation" of the game begins.

The game includes 5 different scenarios for the player to play through:

Berserk. The player must accumulate a certain number of points by destroying as many buildings and vehicles as possible.
Escape. The player must flee the city before being killed by the military.
Search. The player must use the monster to rescue its offspring hidden in a building. Godzilla's son is depicted as Minilla.
Destroy Landmark. The player must destroy a specific landmark within the city such as the Statue of Liberty in New York City, the Tokyo Tower in Tokyo, Big Ben in London, etc.
Lunch. The player must satisfy the monster's hunger by eating vehicles and civilians until the monster's hunger meter is depleted.

The monsters are Godzilla, Sphectra (a giant wasp), The Glog (a huge green blob with red eyes), Tarantus (a giant Tarantula), Mr. Meringue (a knock-off of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man), and Mechatron (a knock-off of Topspin from Transformers).

The cities featured in the game are New York City, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Moscow, and Paris.

Reception

In Dragon #114's "The Role of Computers" column, reviewers Hartley and Pattie Lesser stated that "This is a game that is a great deal of fun to play!"

Computer Gaming World said that The Movie Monster Game "gets a little tedious after a while".

Reviews
Zzap! (Dec, 1986)
Happy Computer (Dec, 1986)
Commodore User (Dec, 1986)
Computer Gamer (Jan, 1987)

See also
Crush, Crumble and Chomp!

References

External links

1986 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Epyx games
Godzilla games
Kaiju video games
Video games developed in the United States

Single-player video games
Damian (martyrs, February 12)

Damian is the name of a Christian saint formerly included in the Roman Martyrology under 12 February. The saint was removed when the Martyrology was revised in 2004. It appears that two early martyrs—one a soldier killed in Alexandria or Roman Africa, the other one whose relics were found in the catacomb of Callixtus—were conflated at some point. The relics from the catacomb were later translated to Salamanca.

References

Christian saints in unknown century
Martyred groups
Christian martyrs
Ron Steward

Ron Steward is a filming TV critic and film reviewer, who started his career in the industry in the 1940s, and he packed films on trains going out to Paramount Pictures, he retired from this role in 1999.  

Steward went on to make regular appearance's  Rove Live presenting a movie review segment. in 2005 and 2006

References

Possibly living people
Australian film critics
Australian television presenters
Year of birth missing
Middle (sheading)

Middle () is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.

It is located on the east of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) and consists of the four historic parishes of Braddan, Marown, Onchan and Santon. Historically, from 1796 until 1986 Marown was in the sheading of Glenfaba, and before 1796 Onchan was in the sheading of Garff.

In addition to the current districts listed above, the sheading of Middle also includes the borough of Douglas, the capital and largest town of the Isle of Man.

Other settlements in the sheading include Port Soderick, Strang, Tromode and Union Mills (all in the parish of Braddan), Braaid, Crosby and Glen Vine (all in the parish of Marown), and Newtown in the parish of Santon.

MHKs & Elections
It is also a House of Keys constituency. Originally, in the 19th century, the constituency included the whole of the sheading (excluding Douglas), and elected 3 members. In the more recent period up to 2011 it elected one MHK, but the constituency excluded Santan, which was in the Malew & Santon constituency. In 2016 the constituency included Santan, and elected two MHKs.

This information is incomplete.

See also
Local government in the Isle of Man

References

External links
Constituency maps and general election results

Sheadings of the Isle of Man
Constituencies of the Isle of Man
Jamie Haskell

Jamie Haskell (née Johnson; born July 18, 1980) is an American curler. Haskell was born in Bemidji, Minnesota. She was a member of the United States women's curling team at the 2006 Winter Olympics and is the older sister of skip Cassandra Potter.

Career
Haskell usually plays third on her sister's team, and together they have won the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships, the championship at the United States Olympic Trials in February 2005, and the gold medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships.

As a junior curler Haskell competed at the United States Junior Championships six times, earning a medal every time. She finally achieved the gold medal her last year, 2002, playing on her sister's team. As US Junior Champion Haskell represented the United States at the 2002 World Junior Championships where they won the gold medal.

In 2002 Haskell also made her debut appearance at the United States Women's Championship, a championship she would return to 11 more times in the next 12 years. At her 12 appearances at the US Championship she won five medals, gold in 2005 (which was also the Olympic Trials), silver in 2007 and 2012, and bronze in 2011 and 2014.

Winning the US Championship in 2005 earned Haskell a spot at the 2005 World Championship as well as the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Team USA earned the silver medal at World's, losing in the final to Team Sweden, skipped by Anette Norberg. Coming off of the successful World Championship, Haskell and her teammates' trip to the Winter Olympics did not go as well, as the team finished second-to-last with just 2 wins. The team was the youngest ever to represent the United States in curling at the elite level, with an average age of 22.

Haskell, with her husband Nate Haskell, won the first United States Mixed Doubles Championship in 2008. This earned them a spot at the first World Mixed Doubles Championship, held in Vierumäki, Finland. At World's they failed to make the playoffs, finishing the round robin with a record of 3-4. Haskell and her husband returned to the US Mixed Doubles Championship in 2009 and made it to the final, only to lose to Brady and Cristin Clark, whom they had defeated in the semifinals the previous year.

Personal life
The Johnson sisters were born into a curling family, their grandparents and great-grandparents were curlers and their parents, Tim and Liz Johnson, have won the U.S. National Mixed Curling title four times.

Like her sister, Haskell studied Design Technology at Bemidji State University, but her emphasis was in exhibit design while Cassie specialized in graphic design. Haskell finished her degree in 2005.

Jamie is married to Nate Haskell.

Teams

Women's

Mixed doubles

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
People from Bemidji, Minnesota
Olympic curlers for the United States
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
American female curlers
American curling champions
21st-century American women
Sierra Point (Yosemite)

Sierra Point is an elevated viewpoint on a rocky outcropping of Yosemite National Park, at the eastern end of the valley, below Grizzly Peak, which was accessible through a now-closed trail.

History
The trail used to be quite popular, but was closed after a rock slide in the 1970s. This was John Muir's favorite trail. It is popular in part because it is the only point in the valley from which four major waterfalls can be seen from one vantage point: Vernal Fall, Nevada Fall, Yosemite Falls, and Illilouette Fall.

Following the rock slide, a portion of the trail approximately mid-way to Sierra Point is missing, although it is still possible to reach the point by scrambling over loose ground.  Although the trail is only  long and about  off the valley floor, this hike should not be attempted by beginning hikers due to the difficulty of the missing portions of the trail. In fact, the National Park Service does not recommend that anyone take this trail. Despite this warning, many people still reach the point each year as it is easily accessible from the Vernal Fall trail in Happy Isles, and still has the original railing at the top.

References

External links 
 Old map showing the Sierra Point Trail
 Finding Yosemite's Sierra Point
 Images of the point and the trail
 Images of the point
 Images of the point
 Yosemite topo with the point labeled
 

Landforms of Yosemite National Park
Landforms of Mariposa County, California
Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Heritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK or HIT is a self-financed institute in the state of the West Bengal. The campus is situated on the southern fringes of Kolkata. It is affiliated with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology Kolkata.

History 
Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of Kolkata in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing information technology, electronics, and related industries around Kolkata, and some public figures. The foundation behind the growth of HITK is the Kalyan Bharti Trust. To meet the demand for technical manpower and in view of fiscal constraints at the governmental level, the Kalyan Bharti Trust supplemented the state government's efforts in setting up new engineering colleges by establishing the Heritage Institute of Technology in September 2000.

Departments in Faculty of Technology and Management
The institute offers one undergraduate course (B. Tech.) and three graduate courses (M. Tech., MBA, and MCA). All courses are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education AICTE, Government of India, and the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal. Since its inception, it has been affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata.

The institute offers undergraduate B. Tech. course in the following engineering disciplines:
 Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
 Biotechnology
 Chemical Engineering
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science and Business Systems
 Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science)
 Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Information Technology
 Mechanical Engineering

The graduate school offers full-time two-year Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in the following disciplines:
 Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Biotechnology
 VLSI
 Renewable Energy
The institute also offers full-time two-year Master of Computer Application degree.

Admission to the undergraduate B.Tech. courses are done through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) and Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-MAIN).

Campus

Facilities and Infrastructure 

 Postal  Facilities
 Sports Facilities
 Banking Facilities
 Healthcare
 Fire Safety
 Transportation
 Cafeteria
 Student Accommodation

Student Life

Cultural and Non-Academic Activities

Student Exchange
The institute signed an MoU with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for a student exchange programme

It has signed an MoU with the College of Natural Science, Sungkyunkwan University.

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Business schools in Kolkata
Educational institutions established in 2001
Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology
Engineering colleges in Kolkata
2001 establishments in West Bengal
Martina of Rome

Martina of Rome, a patron saint of Rome, was martyred in 226, according to some authorities, more probably in 228, under the pontificate of Pope Urban I, according to others. Her feast day is January 30.

Biography
The daughter of an ex-consul and orphaned at an early age, she was described as a noble and beautiful virgin. She so openly testified to her Christian faith that she could not escape the persecutions under Severus Alexander. Arrested and commanded to return to idolatry, she refused, whereupon she was subjected to various tortures and was finally beheaded.

These tortures according to her vita include being scourged. She was condemned to be devoured by wild beasts in the amphitheater but was miraculously untouched by them. She was then thrown onto a burning pyre, from which she also escaped unhurt, and was finally beheaded. Her hagiography asserts that some of her executioners also converted to Christianity and were themselves beheaded.

Veneration
Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber, was the scene of her martyrdom; but her body was transported to Rome, where a church near the Mamertine Prison, Santi Luca e Martina, was later dedicated in her honour.

On October 25, 1634, during restoration of the crypt, as was common at this time in Rome, buried remains were found by the painter Pietro da Cortona, president of the Accademia di San Luca, and were attributed to the martyred Saint Martina. No doubt it was hoped that this would precipitate an influx of funds to shelter the relics in a new church. Pope Urban VIII, who occupied the Holy See at that time, had the church repaired and, it would seem, composed the hymns which are sung at her office.

References

External links

Catholic Forum: St. Martina
Martina at Lives of the Saints

Italian Roman Catholic saints
3rd-century Christian saints
228 deaths
Year of birth unknown
3rd-century Romans
3rd-century Roman women
Christian martyrs
Virgin martyrs
Oscar Fredrik Church

Oscar Fredrik Church () is a church in Olivedal in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was drawn by Helgo Zetterwall and erected in the 1890s. Belonging to the Gothenburg Oscar Fredrik Parish of the Church of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska Kyrkan), it was opened on Easter Sunday 1893. The style is Neo Gothic, but the influence is not the Nordic gothic style but rather the style one can find in the large cathedrals in continental Europe. The church and the parish got its name from king Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik being his full name).

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Churches in Gothenburg
19th-century Church of Sweden church buildings
Churches completed in 1893
Churches in the Diocese of Gothenburg
Gothic Revival church buildings in Sweden