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Blood & Belief

Blood & Belief is the third studio album by English heavy metal band Blaze Bayley, then known as Blaze, released in 2004. It is the first album that did not have the complete original line-up, as Jeff Singer and Rob Naylor left just after the recording of the band's first live album, As Live as It Gets.

The album contains more emotional themes than the previous two Blaze albums, which dealt more with science fiction themes. A promotional video of the track "Hollow Head" was made, but no singles were released from the album. After touring for the album, the entire band left except for Bayley, leaving him to start from scratch.

Track listing

Personnel 
Blaze Bayley – vocals
Steve Wray – guitar
John Slater – guitar
Wayne Banks – bass
Jason Bowld – drums

References 

Blaze Bayley albums
2004 albums
SPV/Steamhammer albums
Albums produced by Andy Sneap
Johann Zahn

Johann Zahn (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (Würzburg, 1685).  This work contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. As a student of light, Zahn is considered the most prolific writer and illustrator of the camera obscura.

Zahn was a canon of the Premonstratensian monastery of Oberzell near Würzburg (see Kloster Oberzell).

The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography (that is, actually capturing the image on some sort of medium) was envisioned by Zahn in 1685, though it would be almost 150 years before technology caught up to the point where this was possible to actually build (see History of the camera).

In Oculus Artificialis, Zahn's comprehensive description of the magic lantern (along with twelve other different lanterns) includes some of these lanterns showing for the first time lens covers.  This was a very important evolution in the history of the camera, because it meant that the screen could be kept dark while the operator changed the slide.

Zahn used the magic lantern, whose invention he credited to Athanasius Kircher, for anatomical lectures.

He also illustrated a large workshop camera obscura for solar observations using the telescope and scioptric ball. Zahn also includes an illustration of a camera obscura in the shape of a goblet, based on a design described (but not illustrated) by Pierre Hérigone. Zahn also designed several portable camera obscuras, and made one that was 23 inches long. He demonstrated the use of mirrors and lenses to erect the image, enlarge and focus it.

Zahn is also the author of a compendium of mathematics and natural history, titled Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum (1696).
Religions-Hindu

Works

References
 Ralf Kern: Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in Ihrer Zeit/Streben nach Genauigkeit in Zeit und Raum. Cologne, 2010
 Wolfgang Grassl: Culture of Place. An Intellectual Profile of the Premonstratensian Order. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2012, 325-331

Sources

Burns, Paul The History of the Discovery of Cinematography  An Illustrated Chronology
de Luikerwaal: Oculus artificialis teledioptricus
Pre-history of Photography

 (See p. 107.)

1641 births
1707 deaths
People from Karlstadt am Main
17th-century German scientists
17th-century German inventors
Precursors of photography
Premonstratensians
German philosophers
German non-fiction writers
Scientists from Bavaria
German male non-fiction writers
Seán O'Grady (politician)

Seán O'Grady (1 December 1889 – 7 April 1966) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was unsuccessful when he first stood as a candidate for Dáil Éireann at the June 1927 general election, in the Clare constituency, but was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) there at the 1932 general election. He was re-elected there at every election until he lost his Dáil seat at the 1951 general election. In 1951, he was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 7th Seanad, and in 1957, he was nominated to the 9th Seanad.

O'Grady had been only a few months in the Dáil when he was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary. Over the next sixteen years until 1948 he served in a range of ministries as Parliamentary Secretary, including Lands and Fisheries; Defence; Industry and Commerce; and Finance. He was defeated in his final campaign at the 1957 general election.

References

 

1889 births
1966 deaths
Fianna Fáil TDs
Members of the 7th Dáil
Members of the 8th Dáil
Members of the 9th Dáil
Members of the 10th Dáil
Members of the 11th Dáil
Members of the 12th Dáil
Members of the 13th Dáil
Members of the 7th Seanad
Members of the 9th Seanad
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 12th Dáil
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 11th Dáil
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 10th Dáil
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 9th Dáil
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 8th Dáil
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 7th Dáil
Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
Fianna Fáil senators
Ranelic acid

Ranelic acid is an organic acid capable of chelating metal cations.

It forms the ranelate ion, C12H6N2O8S4−. Strontium ranelate, the strontium salt of ranelic acid, is a drug used to treat osteoporosis and increase bone mineral density (BMD).

References 

Carboxylic acids
Nitriles
Thiophenes
Amines
After All (David Bowie song)

"After All" is a song written by David Bowie in 1970 for the album The Man Who Sold the World, released later that year in the United States and in April 1971 in the UK. One of a number of Bowie songs from the early 1970s reflecting the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleister Crowley, it has been described by biographer David Buckley as "the album's hidden gem", and by Nicholas Pegg as "one of Bowie's most underrated recordings".

Music and lyrics
The song has been interpreted as taking to nightmarish conclusions the children's world of Bowie's early song "There Is a Happy Land", from his 1967 debut David Bowie. Like much of The Man Who Sold the World, its lyrics are imbued with a Nietzschian Übermensch philosophy ("Man is an obstacle, sad as the clown"). The line "Live til your rebirth and do what you will" is often cited as homage to occultist Aleister Crowley and his dictum, "Do what thou wilt".

The track is unusual in a rock context for being in waltz time, most obviously in the surreal circus-like instrumental break. Its style was inspired by the "slightly sinister, measured melancholy" of songs Bowie recalled from childhood such as Danny Kaye's "Inchworm". Regarding the music's arrangement, producer Tony Visconti said, "The basic song and the 'oh by jingo' line were David's ideas. The rest was Ronno and me vying for the next overdub."

Legacy
As with "All the Madmen" from the same album, the gothic atmosphere of "After All" has been cited as a significant influence on such bands as Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure and Bauhaus.

Personnel
David Bowie: vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, Stylophone, saxophone
Mick Ronson: acoustic and electric guitar
Tony Visconti: bass guitar, recorder
Woody Woodmansey: drums, percussion
Ralph Mace – Moog modular synthesizer

Cover versions

 Human Drama – Pinups (1993)
 The Mission – Goth Oddity – A Tribute to David Bowie (1996)
 Ventilator – Crash Course for the Ravers – A Tribute to the Songs of David Bowie (1996)
 Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls (2001) (b-side from "Strange Little Girl" single)
 Billie Ray Martin – After All (2014) (EP including remixes by Mijk van Dijk and Caesar Gergess)

Notes

David Bowie songs
1970 songs
Songs written by David Bowie
CMC Zinger

The CMC Zinger (, originally the Mitsubishi Zinger before 2015) is a compact MPV designed by Mitsubishi Motors in conjunction with the China Motor Corporation from Taiwan, based on the chassis of the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, and sold in Taiwan from  24 December 2005.

Overview
The name derives from a "person or something full of energy and vitality". From 2007 until 2016, it has also been marketed in the Philippines as the Mitsubishi Fuzion, as the company claims it "merges together the best characteristics of [three] vehicles, the sporty character and ruggedness of an SUV, the spaciousness and versatility of a van, and riding comfort of a passenger car".

The first month's sales were 2,285, substantially exceeding the 1,200/month initial target. The companies planned to expand into mainland China in the second half of 2007 when a joint-production venture between CMC and South East (Fujian) Motor Co., Ltd. came onstream.

The automatic model engine was replaced by a 4G69 MIVEC-equipped version at the end of 2008, in order to meet new emissions standards. The 5-speed manual model still uses the 4G64 engine.

Rebadge and discontinuation outside of Taiwan
In October 2015, the 4G69 engine was detuned from  with peak torque engine speed lowered from 4,500 to 2,300 rpm, incorporated with a new 5-speed automatic transmission, which replaced both the earlier 4-speed automatic as well as the manual transmission. In Taiwan, from 2015 the Zinger received a mild facelift, and was transferred into a product branded as CMC following the recent change of CMC repositioning itself as a domestic Taiwanese car brand. The facelift includes CMC logo replacements and the signature CMC front grille and bumper design.

The Mitsubishi Fuzion was removed from the Mitsubishi Philippines website in 2016. The Xpander, which is built at Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Indonesia served as the replacement to the Fuzion and the Adventure due to the engine not meeting Euro 4 standards and some safety issues. The Xpander was not exported to China and Taiwan markets due to Mitsubishi's decision was to decline release of Mitsubishi Xpander and distribute to China Motor Corporation.

As of September 2020, a 2-door pickup variant of the CMC Zinger was available in the Taiwanese market. The compact pickup features a  bed with a  payload capacity. The Zinger pickup is based on the 2019 facelift Zinger model with everything before the B-pillars shared with the station wagon body style. The 4G69 2.4-litre 16-valve inline-four unit was also shared, producing  at 5,250 rpm and  of torque at 2,300 rpm. This is mated to a 5-speed automatic gearbox sourced from Hyundai and rear-wheel drive.

References

Crossover sport utility vehicles
Zinger
Cars of Taiwan
Mid-size sport utility vehicles
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 2005
2010s cars
J. K. Greye Software

J.K. Greye Software was a British software company set up by J.K. Greye in early 1981 and 6 months later joined by Malcolm Evans after they met at a Bath Classical Guitar & Lute Society meeting in Bath in 1981. They produced computer games for the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home computers.

They struck gold with the revolutionary 3D Monster Maze, the first 3D game for a home computer, which John Greye suggested they produce after seeing a basic 3D Maze that Evans had programmed in Z80 Assembler. In the spring of 1982, Evans split up the company and founded his own company, New Generation Software (a name taken from an advertising slogan by J.K. Greye), which continued to produce games for the ZX Spectrum.

J.K.Greye set up J.K. Greye Enterprises Ltd, a separate company which split off around February–March 1983, to produce games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

List of games
This softography is a merged list between J.K. Greye Software and J.K. Greye Enterprises Ltd.

Sinclair ZX81
 10 Games for 1K ZX81 (1981)
 1K Breakout (1981)
 Catacombs (1981)
 3D Defender (1981) (later re-released by N.G.S.)
 3D Monster Maze (1981) (later re-released by N.G.S.)
 Pyramid (1981)
 Starfighter (1981)
 ZX81 Artist (1981) (these last three released on one "gamestape")

ZX Spectrum
 Ufo (1982)
 Minefield (1982)
 Invasion (1982)
 Kamikaze (1982)
 The Arcadian (1982)
 3D Vortex (1983)
 4-Star (1984)

References 

Software companies of the United Kingdom
Software companies established in 1981
Software companies disestablished in 1984
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
1981 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies established in 1981
Star 107

Star 107 may refer to a number of independent radio stations in the United Kingdom:

 Star Radio (Cambridge and Ely) in Cambridgeshire
 Star 107.2 in Bristol
 Star 107.5 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
 Star 107.7 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
 Star 107.9 in Stroud, Gloucestershire
Luke Williams (Australian rules footballer)

Luke Williams (born 29 December 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Picked up in the 1998 AFL Draft, Williams was a utility who could play up forward or in the midfield. Debuting in 1999, he had very limited opportunities at the Melbourne Football Club, and after seven seasons on the list, Williams finally notched up his 50th AFL game in 2005. He spent most of his career with Melbourne playing in the Demons' reserve side, the Sandringham Zebras, in the Victorian Football League.

At the end of 2005, Melbourne decided to delist Williams.

External links

Melbourne Football Club players
1979 births
Living people
Sandringham Football Club players
People educated at St Kevin's College, Melbourne
Oakleigh Chargers players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Teddy Williams

Teddy Williams may refer to:

Teddy Williams (American football) (born 1988), American football cornerback
Teddy Williams (rugby union) (born 2000), Welsh rugby union player.
Teddy Williams (tennis) (born 1866), British tennis player active in the 19th century.
Luke Williams (wrestler) (born 1947)
Eduardo Williams (born 1987), Argentine film director nicknamed "Teddy"

See also
Ted Williams (disambiguation)
Edward Williams (disambiguation)
Mir Laiq Ali

Mir Laiq Ali (died 24 October 1971) was the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad State under the rule of the Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan. His official title was "President of the Executive Council of the Nizam of Hyderabad".

Career

Mir Laiq Ali was an engineer and an industrialist. He served as the Prime Minister of Hyderabad State from November 1947 until the Operation Polo "police action" of September 1948. During his tenure he struggled to maintain Hyderabad's status as an independent country as a monarchy within the British Commonwealth.

After the defeat of the Hyderabadi defence forces and merger of Hyderabad into the Dominion of India, he was kept under house arrest at his home in Begumpet. In March 1950, he left forever to the Dominion of Pakistan. In Pakistan, he served in the government.

He died in New York on 24 October 1971, while on an official assignment on behalf of Pakistan, and was laid to rest in the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia.

See also

 Operation Polo
 Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII

Bibliography

 Tragedy of Hyderabad by Mir Laik Ali

References

External links
 How Hyderabad's Last Premiere fled

20th-century Indian Muslims
Muhajir people
1971 deaths
Prime Ministers of Hyderabad State
1903 births
Hyderabad State independence activists
Indian emigrants to Pakistan
Ba (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Ba 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 population was predominantly Indo-Fijian and the electorate was a stronghold of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) throughout its history.

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

1999

2001

2006

Sources 
 India Abroad
 Psephos - Adam Carr's electoral archive
 Fiji Facts
RTL Radio

RTL Radio is a German commercial radio station based in Berlin and the part of the RTL Group. It originated as the German language service of Radio Luxembourg, which began broadcasting after World War II from Luxembourg. It broadcasts adult contemporary music nationally via cable, DAB+ satellite and internet and regionally via FM in Luxembourg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, eastern German-speaking Belgium, and Lorraine.

History

RTL Radio began broadcasting as the German service of Radio Luxembourg on 15 July 1957. Along with the Saarland-based pirate radio Europe 1, Luxembourg interfered with the non-commercial monopoly imposed by the German states since broadcasting first started in the country. Apart from advertising reaching German radios for the first time, RTL also introduced Germans from both East and West to rock-and-roll, bebop/cool jazz and other types of American popular music which contrasted to the classical repertoire that had dominated mainland services.

In 1990, Radio Luxembourg was renamed RTL Hörfunk. On 1 July 2015 RTL Radio branded itself RTL Radio – Deutschlands Hit-Radio and moved its studios from the City of Luxembourg to Berlin.

RTL Radio has slots on analog and digital cable, and transmits digital signals via the Astra 1L satellites.

External links 
 Homepage of RTL Radio (in German)
 Homepage of RTL Radio for Luxembourg  (in German)
 History of the German service of Radio Luxemburg (in German)

Radio stations in Luxembourg
International broadcasters
Mass media companies of Luxembourg
German-language radio stations
RTL Group
1933 establishments in Luxembourg
Radio stations established in 1933
Gerry Crutchley

Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley (19 November 1890 – 17 August 1969) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club and Oxford University between 1910 and 1930.

Crutchley was born at Chelsea, the son of Major-General Sir Charles Crutchley. He was educated at Harrow School and New College, Oxford before working as a stockbroker in the City of London. As a cricketer he was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg-breaks and medium pace and who played more than 120 first-class cricket matches. He had played for his school XI and won a cricket Blue at Oxford, playing for the University between 1910 and 1912. He made 99 runs not out against Cambridge in 1912; overnight he was taken ill with measles and had to sit out the rest of the match.

He made his Middlesex debut in 1910 but played only a handful of matches for the county side before World War I. After the war he played more regularly, both for Middlesex and for a variety of amateur sides, including for the Gentlemen against the Players four times. He was a member of the Committee at Middlesex and President from 1958 to 1962.

Crutchley was commissioned in the Scots Guards during World War I and was a Prisoner of War from January 1915 until he returned to England in November 1918.

He died of heart failure at St John's Wood in 1969 aged 78. He was the father of the actress Rosalie Crutchley.

References

External links

1890 births
1969 deaths
English cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Free Foresters cricketers
Gentlemen cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers
English stockbrokers
Scots Guards officers
British World War I prisoners of war
People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Presidents of Middlesex County Cricket Club
English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
20th-century English businesspeople
Cricketers from Chelsea, London
Ayumi Ogasawara

is a Japanese curler, born November 25, 1978, as . She skipped her own team in Sapporo, Hokkaido, until 2015, which represented Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics before retiring from competitive sports. Currently she is working as a curling coach.

Career
At the age of 12, Ogasawara began curling in her hometown Tokoro, joining Akiko Katoh's junior team together with Yumie Hayashi. Then Ogasawara became the second for the team. The team represented Japan at four World Junior Curling Championships (1996, 1997, 1998 & 1999), winning a silver medal in 1998 and another silver in 1999. The team later represented Japan at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finishing in 8th place with a 2-7 record.

After the 2001-2002 season, Ogasawara and her longtime teammate Hayashi moved to Aomori and formed a new team there. The team, called 'Team Aomori', represented Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics. At the Games, Ogasawara threw last stones as skip and led her team to a 7th-place finish with a 4-5 record, including a surprise win over one of the usual curling powerhouses, Canada. After the 2005-2006 season, Ogasawara and Hayashi announced their temporary retirement. Ogasawara got married and had a child before returning to the sport in the 2011-12 season.

In 2011, Ogasawara and Hayashi, whose name had changed to Yumie Funayama after marriage, formed a new team in Sapporo. The team qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics through the Olympic Qualification Event held in December 2013. At the Olympics, Ogasawara, a mother of one, was chosen to be Japan's flag bearer, as it is unusual for women in Japan to compete in sports after having children. At the Games, she threw last stones as skip, and the team finished in 5th place with a 4-5 record, winning against two former World Championship teams, Switzerland's Mirjam Ott and China's Wang Bingyu.

Teammates
2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games
Akiko Katoh, Skip
Yumie Hayashi, Third
Mika Konaka, Lead
Kotomi Ishizaki, Alternate
2006 Turin Olympic Games
Yumie Hayashi, Third
Mari Motohashi, Second
Moe Meguro, Lead
Sakurako Terada, Alternate
2014 Sochi Olympic Games
Yumie Funayama, Third
Kaho Onodera, Second
Michiko Tomabechi, Lead
Chinami Yoshida, Alternate

Record as a coach of national teams

References

External links

Living people
1978 births
People from Kitami, Hokkaido
Curlers from Hokkaido
Japanese female curlers
Olympic curlers for Japan
Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Pacific-Asian curling champions
Japanese curling coaches
20th-century Japanese women
21st-century Japanese women
The Tournament (TV series)

The Tournament is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 2005 and 2006. The series, a mockumentary show about a community minor hockey team, depicted the behind-the-scenes interactions between the players, their parents and coaches as the team competed for a spot in the annual youth hockey championship tournament.

The cast included Alain Goulem, Paula Boudreau, Christian Potenza, Emily Tilson, Ari Cohen and Cas Anvar.

Seven episodes were produced in the 2004–05 television season, airing in the winter of 2005, and ten episodes were produced in the 2005–06 season. The CBC announced on February 13, 2006, that the show would not be brought back for the 2006–07 television season. The series was briefly televised in the United States on OLN, which had the rights to the National Hockey League at the time.

Reception
The Serious Comedy Site said "The Tournament: The Complete Series is an absolute must for anyone who has ever been involved in amateur hockey. For those who like comparisons it is the Bad News Bears meets Slap Shot."

The TV show was remade in the UK as The Cup, and adapted to be about a junior soccer team instead of a minor hockey team.

References

External links

 

CBC Television original programming
2000s Canadian comedy-drama television series
2000s Canadian satirical television series
2005 Canadian television series debuts
2006 Canadian television series endings
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs

The Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs is a former position within the United States Department of State that, according to the Department website, "coordinates U.S. foreign relations on a variety of global issues, including democracy, human rights, and labor; environment, oceans, and science; population, refugees, and migration; women's issues; and trafficking in persons." The office was last held by Maria Otero. Other former Under Secretaries were Timothy Wirth, Frank E. Loy, and Paula Dobriansky. 
 
The State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 states the Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs had the responsibility to coordinate with the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and other offices from regional bureaus to promote democracy in nondemocratic countries. The Under Secretary also advises the Secretary of the Department of State of the effects on human rights and democracy on a foreign country on any recommendation requested by another official, or any agency program. The position was created when Section 161(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 authorized the appointment of a fifth Under Secretary of State.

Change
On January 17, 2012, the Office of the Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs (State Department designation G) became the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights (State Department designation J).

List of Under Secretaries of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, 1994—2012

References

 
Defunct agencies of the United States government
Variable darner

The variable darner (Aeshna interrupta) is a dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae, native from Alaska through the Northwest Territories to Newfoundland, south to New Hampshire and Michigan in the eastern United States, and to the mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, and California in the west. It's named after the distinctive broken stripes on the sides of the thorax of many male specimens. It lives in many habitats from northern and mountain peatlands to cattail marshes and temporary pools. It is the characteristic species of grassland ponds.

References

External links
 Variable darner profile

Aeshnidae
Insects described in 1904
Taxa named by Edmund Murton Walker
International Programme on Chemical Safety

The International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) was formed in 1980 and is a collaboration between three United Nations bodies, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, to establish a scientific basis for safe use of chemicals and to strengthen national capabilities and capacities for chemical safety.

A related joint project with the same aim, IPCS INCHEM, is a collaboration between IPCS and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS).

The IPCS identifies the following as "chemicals of major public health concern":
Air pollution
Arsenic
Asbestos
Benzene
Cadmium
Dioxin and dioxin-like substances
Inadequate or excess fluoride
Lead
Mercury
Highly hazardous pesticides

See also 
 Acceptable daily intake
International Chemical Safety Card
Concise International Chemical Assessment Document
 Food safety

References

External links
Official WHO site
Official site

Chemical safety
World Health Organization
International Labour Organization
United Nations Environment Programme
ICSC

ICSC can refer to:

 International Cataloguing Standards Committee, in thoroughbred horse racing
 International Chemical Safety Cards, promoting the safe use of chemicals in the workplace
 International Civil Service Commission, administering the United Nations common system
 International Climate Science Coalition, a climate change denialist group
 International Council of Shopping Centers, the global trade association for shopping centers
 Islamia College of Science and Commerce, Srinagar, located in Jammu and Kashmir state, India
 International Committee of Silent Chess, renamed International Chess Committee of the Deaf (ICCD) in 2012
The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure

The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure is a 2003 novel by Adam Williams. The book was first published on November 25, 2004 through Thomas Dunne Books. The book is set during 1899 in China and is told through the viewpoint of multiple protagonists.

Synopsis
The book's story is told in three parts.

Part One sets the scene, with the various character's arrivals and meetings. Helen Frances meets Henry Manners and begins to grow affectionate. The brothel is introduced. The Boxers watch as spirits appear within the sky.

Part Two develops the political aspects of the story and begins to demonstrate the influence of different powers within China. Later, the attacks against foreigners increase and the Airtons are forced to flee the town. Execution of foreigners, watched by the Airtons, as they hide in the brothel. Escape from the town, by means of train. Helen Frances is told that Manners is dead.

Part Three introduces Orkhon Baatar, who helps the Airtons to survive. Lament of the previous tragedies. Finally, new character (Arthur Topps) enters Shishan.

Reception
Critical reception for the book has been positive, and the work has received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. The Guardian commented that it was "A modern twist on the traditional historical epic, although at 700 pages, it does go on a bit."

References

External links
 

Historical novels
2003 novels
Fiction set in 1899
Novels set in the Qing dynasty
Hodder & Stoughton books
Thomas Dunne Books books
Blue-eyed darner

The blue-eyed darner (Rhionaeschna multicolor, syn. Aeshna multicolor) is a common dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; native to the western United States, it is commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma. In Central America it occurs south to Panama. This is usually the second earliest darner to emerge in the spring, with the California darner emerging first. It hunts small flying insects while on the wing.

Adults 
The blue-eyed darner is a large species with a length of . The eyes of both males and females are bright blue. The male is dark brown to brownish black. The top of the thorax, behind the head, is marked with two blue stripes, and each side of the thorax is marked with a pair of blue diagonal stripes. The abdomen is marked with both large and small blue spots. The anal appendages of males and females are forked and the female is marked similarly to the male; however, the base color is brown and the markings are green.

Distribution and habitat 
The blue-eyed darner occurs in western North America and in Central America as far south as Panama, at both low and moderate altitudes. It occurs near a variety of water bodies, lakes, ponds, slow-moving streams, canals and marshy areas, especially in open rather than wooded areas. When not breeding, it is more likely than most dragonflies to be seen far away from water, in city yards, parking lots and other urban locations. It is on the wing from spring to late in the year and may be migratory in California, as a large number of them seem to appear in the fall.

Behavior
Males patrol at about waist height over open water, along the margins of water bodies and among dense vegetation, often having a regular "beat", and occasionally pausing briefly to hover. Copulating couples spend some time finding a suitable location in which to perch, often high in waterside trees. Females lay eggs among dense emergent water plants, and on floating stems and branches in open water, depositing the eggs both above and below the surface.

References

External links

 Blue-eyed darner info

Aeshnidae
Insects of the United States
Insects described in 1861
Hugh Saunders (RAF officer)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders,  (24 August 1894 – 8 May 1987) was a South African aviator who rose through the ranks to become a senior Royal Air Force commander.

RAF career

Saunders enlisted with the Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment in 1914 at the start of the First World War and then served in the South African Rifles before becoming a pilot in No. 84 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, and sometimes flew as a wingman of fellow South African, RAF flying ace Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor. He became a triple ace, with 15 victories credited to him. He was promoted to squadron leader on 29 May 1929. He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 45 Squadron in 1932.

Saunders served in the Second World War, initially as Chief of Staff for the Royal New Zealand Air Force before becoming Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Fighter Command in February 1942 and then being made Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in November 1942. He was made Director-General of Personnel at the Air Ministry in November 1944.

At the end of the war, he was made Air Officer Commanding RAF Burma before becoming Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command in January 1947. He went on to be Air Member for Personnel in October 1947, Inspector-General of the RAF in October 1949 and Commander-in-Chief at Headquarters Air Forces Western Europe in February 1951. He was appointed Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander Europe and retired in September 1953.

Post retirement
Following a series of fatal accidents in the newly established Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF), Saunders was invited to serve as a special advisor to the Minister of Defence of Denmark in 1954, in order to reorganise and, it was envisioned, bring the number of accidents in RDAF down. Saunders indeed reorganised the RDAF and, realising that most of the equipment/planes were of a tactical nature, established Tactical Air Command Denmark as the supreme HQ of RDAF. In addition, a number of specialist commands were established, training improved and gradually the accident rate fell. He served in Denmark until 1956 and received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog for his service.

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1987 deaths
Royal Flying Corps officers
Royal Air Force air marshals
British World War I flying aces
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Recipients of the Military Cross
Recipients of the Military Medal
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Commanders of the Legion of Merit
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Dannebrog
People from Germiston
Intellectual Property Owners Association

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) is a trade association that is composed of owners of intellectual property, represented mostly by in-house corporate counsel and private practice attorneys practicing in the field, and other parties interested in intellectual property law. According to its "About IPO" page, the organization is composed of about 200 companies and more than 12,000 individuals who are involved in the association either through their companies or as IPO inventor, author, executive, law firm or attorney members. IPO’s corporate members file about 30 percent of the patent applications filed in the USPTO each year by U.S. nationals. 

The Association advocates for reforms of patent, trademark and other intellectual property laws (in front of Congress and the courts) that it believes will advantage its members and the users of intellectual property systems, and it is often consulted by governments to provide an opinion on proposed changes in law as bellwether for how the relevant communities will be impacted by the proposed change.  

In addition, the Association provides continuing legal education (CLE) for attorneys in the IP field in a variety of "conferences and seminars" throughout the year.

See also
 Intellectual property organization

External links
Homepage of the Intellectual Property Owners Association

Intellectual property organizations
Brian Tompkins

Brian Tompkins is the former coach of Yale Varsity Soccer. He joined Yale in 1996 and helped Yale to win its first Ivy League title since 1991, in 2005. Before he joined Yale, Tompkins had also built the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee into a national soccer power. It was announced in August that 2014 would be his last year coaching, and that he would be moving into the administration following the season.
 
He was born in London, England, and first went to the United States in 1980 as a part of a summer exchange program working with inner-city children. He returned for several summers and later became an assistant boys' soccer coach at Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin, under coach Bob Gansler. In 1999, as head coach of Varsity Soccer at Yale, Tompkins lead the Bulldogs to a school-record 13 wins, an appearance in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1991 and a final national ranking of 18th.

Tompkins has done charitable work for several organizations. He organized a soccer/reading camp for underprivileged children, volunteered for the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Fund and worked at Camp Heartland, a camp for young AIDS victims in Wisconsin.

Tompkins is a 1979 graduate of Bingley College with a degree in education. He and his wife, Kristin, reside in Milford and have one child, Ava. Tompkins also has an older daughter, Hayley.

External links
Brian Tompkins Tompkins's Yale biography

English football managers
Living people
English emigrants to the United States
Yale Bulldogs men's soccer coaches
Year of birth missing (living people)
Milwaukee Panthers men's soccer coaches
Barnet and Camden (London Assembly constituency)

Barnet and Camden is a territorial constituency represented on the London Assembly by one assembly member (AM). The constituency was created in 2000 at the same time as the London Assembly and has elections every four years. It consists of the combined area of the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Camden. The current assembly member is Anne Clarke of the Labour Party who was elected in 2021.

Constituency profile 
The constituency is a 'pie slice' pairing of the large Outer London borough of Barnet with the smaller Inner London borough of Camden. It stretches from Holborn in the south to the Greater London boundary in the north. It includes parts of central London, the inner city, suburban development and a semi-rural fringe.

The seat originally was a very marginal Conservative seat, being won by the party by less than 600 votes in 2000. The result was perhaps surprising as all of the area it covered, apart from the Chipping Barnet constituency, was represented by Labour MPs at the time.

It became reasonably safer in the 2004 and 2008 elections, but was lost to Labour on a swing of almost 12% in 2012.

Assembly members 
The constituency returns one assembly member and is one of fourteen territorial constituencies in London. Represented from its creation in 2000 until the 2012 election by Brian Coleman, a Conservative from Barnet, former Labour MP Andrew Dismore won it from him with a swing of nearly 12%. Dismore stepped down ahead of the 2021 election and was replaced by Anne Clarke, a Labour councillor in Barnet.

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

Overlapping constituencies
The constituency includes all of the following Westminster seats:

Chipping Barnet - Theresa Villiers (Conservative)
Finchley and Golders Green - Mike Freer (Conservative)
Hendon - Matthew Offord (Conservative)
Holborn and St. Pancras - Keir Starmer (Labour)

Barnet and Camden also includes part of the following constituency:
Hampstead and Kilburn - Tulip Siddiq (Labour)

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Barnet
Politics of the London Borough of Camden
2000 establishments in England
Constituencies established in 2000
BORGChat

BORGChat is a LAN messaging software program. It has achieved a relative state of popularity and it is considered to be a complete LAN chat program. It has been superseded by commercial products which allow voice chat, video conferencing, central monitoring and administration. An extension called "BORGVoice" adds word producing chat capabilities to BORGChat, the extension remains in alpha stage.

History 
BORGChat was first published from Ionut Cioflan (nickname "IOn") in 2002. The name comes from the BORG race from Star Trek: The Borg is a massive society of cybernetic automatons abducted and assimilated from thousands of species. The Borg collective improves by consuming technologies, in a similar way wishes BORGChat to "assimilate".

Features 
The software supports the following features:
 Public and private chat rooms (channels), support for own chat rooms
 Avatars with user information and online alerts
 Sending private messages
 Sending files and pictures, with pause and bandwidth management
 Animated smileys (emoticons) and sound effects (beep)
 View computers and network shares
 Discussion logs in the LAN
 Message filter, ignore messages from other users
 Message board with Bulletin Board Code (bold, italic, underline)
 Multiple chat status modes: Available/Busy/Away with customizable messages
 Multi language support (with the possibility of adding more languages): English, Romanian, Swedish, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, Italian, Bulgarian, German, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Czech, Danish, French, Latvian, Portuguese, Urdu, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian.

See also
 Synchronous conferencing
 Comparison of LAN messengers

References

External links 
Official BORGChat website
10 Best Free Chat Rooms

LAN messengers
Online chat
Frantic Bleep

Frantic Bleep is a progressive metal band from Norway.

History
Frantic Bleep was founded in November 2001 in Kongsvinger, Norway. The original instrumentation was Patrick Scantlebury playing guitars and synthesizers, Eywin Sundstrom on guitars and Karl Arthur Renstrøm on the drums. In November 2002, they released four songs for their first and only demo CD called Fluctuadmission. During the recording, Paul Mozart Bjørke joined the group as a studio member on vocals and bass.

Although a debut demo, the release gained positive feedback. There was enough positive feedback for the band to receive offers from several labels, one of which was The End Records, with whom they signed with in the summer of 2003.

Karl Arthur Renstrøm was replaced by Sten Erik Svendheim in July 2003. The band began recording their debut album, The Sense Apparatus in October 2003. The recording took an entire year to complete. The album was produced by Patrick Scantlebury with artwork by Christian Ruud. The album also features Kjetil Foseid, Daniel Solheim and Agnete M. Kirkevaag (Madder Mortem) performing various vocal duties. In 2004/2005, Lars Gunnar Morastseter and Trond Sand, both previous from the Norwegian Death Metal band The Laughing Man, joined Frantic Bleep. Writing and rehearsals for the second studio album started around the time the band played their first, and so far only, live gig in their hometown of Kongsvinger during the month of August 2005.

As of 2009, the album was announced as being in progress, and had a tentative release date of 2009, but as of June 2012, there has been no updates from the band.

Members

Current members
Eywin Sundstrom - Bass, Guitars (2001–Present)
Patrick Scantlebury - Guitars, Synthesizers (2001–Present)
Lars Gunnar Morastseter - Guitars (2004–Present)
Trond Sand - Drums (2005–Present)
B.P.M. Kirkevaag - Vocals (2007-present)

Former members
Paul Mozart Bjørke - Vocals, Bass (2001–2003) (Session Only)
Karl Arthur Renstrøm - Drums (2001–2003)
Sten Erik Svendheim - Drums (2003–2005)
Kjetil Foseid - Vocals (2004–2007)

Timeline

Discography
Fluctuadmission (2002) - Demo
The Sense Apparatus (2005) - LP

References

External links
Official Homepage
Label Profile

Norwegian progressive metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2001
2001 establishments in Norway
Musical groups from Hedmark
Musicians from Kongsvinger
William James Herder

William James Herder (1849–1922), publisher, born Old Perlican, Newfoundland Colony, was the founder of Newfoundland's first daily newspaper, The Evening Telegram.

Herder was educated at Methodist Academy and in 1863 had apprenticed as a printer for the Courier.  When the Courier experienced financial difficulties Herder had bought it and in 1872 began the Evening Telegram.  Herder also started the Advertisers Gazette in 1883, which experienced limited success.

Herder was a sports fan, as evident with the participation of many of the Herder family, that in 1935 the Evening Telegram donated the Herder Memorial Trophy to Newfoundland and Labrador Senior Hockey League for the winning team.

See also

 List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador

External links
 History of Telegram
 Heritage Magazine PDF file.
 Junior Achievement of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography
 Herder Memorial Trophy History

1849 births
1922 deaths
People from Newfoundland (island)
Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people
Journalists from Newfoundland and Labrador
List of Secretary-General of the United Nations memoirs

The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. Many of the individuals who have served as the world body's top office have written memoirs, either before, during or after their terms of office (service).

Secretaries-General of the United Nations
Secretary-General of the United Nations memoirs
Beni Ebeid Stadium

Bani Ebid Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Bani Ebeid, Egypt.  It is used mostly for football matches and it also has an athletics track.  The stadium holds 30,000.  

Football venues in Egypt
Kalbar

Kalbar may refer to:
 West Kalimantan, known in Indonesian as Kalimantan Barat and abbreviated to Kalbar
 Kalbar, Iran, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
 Kalbar, Queensland, a small town near Boonah, in southeastern Queensland, Australia
South Kolan, Queensland, in the Bundaberg Region, Australia, which historically contains a neighbourhood called Kalbar
Greatest Hits (Billy Idol album)

Greatest Hits is a compilation of Billy Idol's most popular singles, released by Capitol Records in 2001. The album includes two additional tracks: a live recording of one of his most popular songs, "Rebel Yell" (this live version was recorded in 1993 and appeared as a b-side for the single "Speed" in 1994), plus a new version of Idol's longtime producer Keith Forsey's "Don't You (Forget About Me)". Although Forsey originally wrote the song with Idol in mind, Idol turned it down and eventually the song was given to Simple Minds who would go on to make it a worldwide hit in 1985. Greatest Hits was certified platinum by the RIAA in 2005.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Billy Idol albums
2001 greatest hits albums
Capitol Records compilation albums
Kirkuk Olympic Stadium

Kirkuk Olympic Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and it also has an athletics track. The stadium holds 25,000.

The stadium was built in 1982 for an Olympics that never happened.

The stadium refurbishment is being done in two phases. First the stadium is being comprehensively rebuilt. Phase two will augment the facilities.

After the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003, at least 500 Kurds who had been displaced returned to Kirkuk and settled in the stadium. The families lived in the stadium for more than six years before moving on.

Subsequently, the stadium underwent renovations costing approximately 20 billion Iraqi dinars (around 11.7 million euros) and was expanded to include a hotel and two training grounds, among other additions. The construction works were funded by the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports. The project began in 2011, with the initial completion date set for 2015. In January 2020, the budget for the project was increased to 33.5 billion dinars (approximately 25.2 million euros).

See also 
List of football stadiums in Iraq

References

Football venues in Iraq
Kirkuk
1982 establishments in Iraq
Sports venues completed in 1982