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A. B. plot

In United States history, the A. B. plot refers to the political enmity in 1823-1824 between Senator Ninian Edwards of Illinois and William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury. Crawford had employed the unstable western banks to collect public land revenues in fluctuating banknote currencies. This policy, though justifiable, resulted in losses to the government, while he undoubtedly used his banking connections to advance his political influence. In 1823 the Washington Republican newspaper, a John C. Calhoun, published a series of articles signed A. B. which attacked Crawford for malfeasance in his relations with certain banks, and accused him of suppressing letters on the subject for which the United States House of Representatives had called. These articles were written by Edwards; while some thought he desired to damage Crawford in the 1824 presidential campaign, John Quincy Adams believed the real object was to remove William Winston Seaton and Joseph Gales, Crawford supporters, from the post of public printers. Early in 1824, while on his way west as the newly appointed Minister to Mexico, Edwards sent formal charges against Crawford to the House. He was at once recalled to testify before an investigating committee of seven, resigning his ministership. The committee report not only exonerated Crawford but also left Edwards's reputation severely blemished.

References
James Truslow Adams (1940). Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Part-Time Work Convention, 1994

Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 is  an International Labour Organization Convention for protection of part-time workers including the rights to equal pay for equal work.

It was established in 1994, with the preamble stating:

Ratifications
As of February 2023, the convention has been ratified by 20 states.

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Traisen (river)

The Traisen (, pronunciation in local German dialect ) is a river in Lower Austria. Its drainage basin is .

The Traisen is formed from the rivers Türnitzer Traisen and Unrechttraisen. Its total length, including the Türnitzer Traisen, is . It is a tributary of the Danube in the Lower Austrian region of Mostviertel. Its two sources begin near St. Aegyd am Neuwalde and Türnitz respectively. After meeting, they flow through the municipalities of Türnitz, Lilienfeld, Traisen, Wilhelmsburg, and St. Pölten, before meeting the Danube at Traismauer. In the course of building the Danube , the mouth of the Traisen was relocated to  in the municipality of Kirchberg am Wagram.

During a period of extremely high water in July 1997, parts of numerous municipalities along the Traisen, as well as the government quarter of the state capital St. Pölten, were greatly flooded.

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Paonias myops

Paonias myops, the small-eyed sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by James Edward Smith in 1797.

Distribution 
It is found from south-eastern Canada to Florida and westward almost to the Pacific Coast. It is also known from Mexico.

Description 
The wingspan is 52–69 mm. Adults are more nocturnal than most sphingids; after an initial bout of activity after dusk, they fly throughout the night. Adults are on wing from June to September in eastern Canada. In New Jersey, there are two generations per year and there are four generations in Louisiana.

Subspecies
Paonias myops myops
Paonias myops occidentalis Clark, 1919 (Mexico)

References

 Fullard, James H. & Napoleone, Nadia (2001): Diel flight periodicity and the evolution of auditory defences in the Macrolepidoptera. Animal Behaviour 62(2): 349–368.  PDF fulltext

External links

Midnight racer on National Geographic.

Paonias
Moths described in 1797
Moths of North America
Christine Williams (model)

Christine Williams (January 7, 1945 – November 22, 2017) was a model, actress and artist who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1963 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. She was born in Basingstoke, England.

Filmography

Films
 Funny Girl (1968) (uncredited) .... Ziegfeld Girl
 Otto und die nackte Welle (1968) .... Model
 The Swinger (1966) (uncredited) .... Model #7
 The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1965) .... Herself
 For Those Who Think Young (1964)

Television
 "The Monkees" - "Wild Monkees" (1967) .... Jan
 "The Beverly Hillbillies"
 "Jethro's Pad" (1966) .... First Kitty Kat
 "Brewster's Baby" (1966) .... Kitty Kat Showgirl
 "Petticoat Junction" - "The Windfall" (1966) .... First Showgirl
 "Burke's Law" - "Who Killed Cynthia Royal?" (1963) .... Chorus Girl

See also
 List of people in Playboy 1960–1969

References

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1945 births
2017 deaths
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People from Basingstoke
Home Work Convention

Home Work Convention, created in 1996, is an International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention, which came into force in 2000. It offers protection to workers who are employed in their own homes.

Overview
It was established in 1996, with the preamble stating:

The Convention provides protection for home workers, giving them equal rights with regard to workplace health and safety, social security rights, access to training, remuneration, minimum age of employment, maternity protection, and other rights.

Objectives of the Home Work Convention 
The term home work means remote work done by a person in a place other than the workplace of the employer. The term employer describes a person, who, either directly or through an intermediary, provides home work in pursuance of his or her business.

Each member of the Convention aims the continuous improving the situation of homeworkers. The intention of the convention is to strengthen the principle of equal treatment, in particular to guarantee the establishment of the rights of homeworkers.

In addition, the convention has the specific purpose of protecting against discrimination in the following areas of employment: occupational safety, remuneration, social security protection, access to training, minimum age for taking up employment and maternity benefits.

Safety and health at work 
National laws and regulations on safety and health at work also apply to home work. When working at home, certain conditions must be adapted so that a safe and healthy working environment is ensured.

Ratifications
The convention has been ratified by 13 countries as of 2022:

References 

 - ILO Convention C177

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Abilene Trail

The Abilene Trail was a cattle trail leading from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Its exact route is disputed owing to its many offshoots, but it crossed the Red River just east of Henrietta, Texas, and continued north across the Indian Territory to Caldwell, Kansas and on past Wichita and Newton to Abilene. The first herds were probably driven over it in 1866, though it was not named until Abilene was established in 1867.

In 1867, Joseph G. McCoy of Illinois settled in Abilene to engage in the cattle trade. He laid out a cattle trail to connect with the north end of the Chisholm Trail, near Wichita. It was to run northward to Abilene on the Union Pacific Railroad where the cattle could be marketed in a more expeditious manner. The road from the mouth of the Little Arkansas to Abilene "was not direct but circuitous. In order to straighten up this trail and bring the cattle direct to Abilene, and by shortening the distance, to counteract the exertions of western would-be competing points for the cattle trade, an engineer corps was sent out under the charge of Civil Engineer T. F. Hersey.

Hersey, armed with a compass, flag men, and a detail of laborers with spades and shovels, started out and ran due south from Abilene until the crossing of the Arkansas was reached. There they found good water and abundant grass with suitable camping points throughout the entire distance. With the first drove of cattle of the season, the party piloted the herd over the new trail and across the Arkansas River, thus opening it to the many thousand herds that followed in the months and years afterward."

In 1867 about 35,000 head of cattle were driven from Texas to Abilene over this trail; in 1868 about 75,000; in 1870 about 300,000; and in 1871 about 700,000. This was the largest number ever received from Texas in any one year. The country about Abilene was settling up quickly at this time. Grazing lands were becoming scarcer and these conditions were such that many of the settlers objected to the pasturing of the great herds in the vicinity. In the year 1872, Wichita was in possession of the trade that Abilene had enjoyed for several years prior due to the completion of the Santa Fe railroad. This gave Wichita the needed railroad facilities. From 1867 to 1871 about 10,000 cars of livestock were shipped out of Abilene and in 1872 about 80,000 head of cattle were shipped from Wichita.

The settlement of the valleys of the Arkansas and the Ninnescah rivers rendered it impractical to reach Wichita shipping yards after 1873 and the loading of cattle was transferred to points on the railroad farther west, finally stopping at Dodge City. The use of the Abilene cattle trail ended in 1887.

References 
This article incorporates text from Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc., published in 1912

Historic trails and roads in Texas
Historic trails and roads in Kansas
Trails and roads in the American Old West
Protambulyx carteri

Protambulyx carteri, or Carter's sphinx, is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from the US state of Florida.

References

External links
"Carter's sphinx (Protambulyx carteri)". Moths of America. Archived April 5, 2005.

Protambulyx
Moths described in 1903
Electoral district of Kaurna

Kaurna is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the Kaurna aboriginal tribe which originally inhabited the Adelaide plains, it is a 44.7 km² semi-urban electorate on Adelaide's far-southern beaches, taking in the suburbs of Hackham, Huntfield Heights, Maslin Beach, Moana, Noarlunga Downs, Old Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga South, Seaford, Seaford Heights, Seaford Meadows and Seaford Rise, as well as part of Onkaparinga Hills. It is one of two state districts named after South Australia's indigenous people (the other being the electoral district of Narungga).

History
Replacing the abolished seat of Baudin, Kaurna was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a marginal Labor seat. It was first contested at the 1993 election, where it was won by Liberal candidate Lorraine Rosenberg as part of a large swing throughout the state. However, she was swept away at the 1997 election, with John Hill reclaiming the seat for Labor. For most of the time since then, it has been a fairly safe to safe Labor seat, as its predecessor Baudin had been for most of its existence.

John Hill resigned from parliament at the 2014 election, replaced by Labor's Chris Picton.

Members for Kaurna

Election results

Notes

References
 ECSA profile for Kaurna: 2018
 ABC profile for Kaurna: 2018
 Poll Bludger profile for Kaurna: 2018

1993 establishments in Australia
Electoral districts of South Australia
Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996

Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1996, with the preamble stating:

Ratifications
As of 2022, 15 states have ratified the convention. However, fourteen of ratifying states have subsequently denounced it.

Marine labour issues on COVID-19 

The strategy of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) had been coordinated to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the aim of the ILO Memorandum.

Seafarers and shipowners were supported by both the International Chamber of Shipping and the International Transport Workers' Federation.
The International Maritime Chamber has assisted in issuing a 'Coronavirus (COVID-19) Guidance for Ship Operators for the Protection of the Health of Seafarers' while the International Transport Workers' Federation has issued the 'COVID-19 advice to ships and seafarers.'

According to the 2006 MLC, derogations, exemptions or other clauses are possible. Governments are provided with a flexible interpretation of the convention. Decisions are taken in consultation with shipowners' and seafarers' organizations, taking into account all the factors proposed by the government concerned to the office.

Some external circumstances can make it difficult to implement the obligations laid down in Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996.

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Treaties of Albania
Treaties of Brazil
Treaties of Fiji
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Treaties of Nigeria
Treaties of Peru
Treaties of the United Kingdom
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Admiralty law treaties
1996 in labor relations
The Painter (KC and the Sunshine Band album)

The Painter is the eighth studio album by the funk and disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. Produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, it was released in September 1981 on the Epic label.

History
The Painter, like its predecessor, was not successful, as the band turned to a more pop-focused music.

A notable track on this album is the ballad "All Through the Night". The song was co-written by Bruce Roberts and Donna Summer, and was first recorded by Summer for her 1979 album Bad Girls.

Track listing

Personnel 
 Harry Wayne Casey – lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, arrangements, horn arrangements 
 Anthony Battaglia – keyboards, guitars, guitar solo (3), backing vocals, arrangements, horn arrangements, string arrangements  
 Victor Paliuca – keyboards, synthesizers 
 Ernest Stewart – keyboards
 Blue Weaver – keyboards, synthesizers 
 Tommy Johnson – guitars
 Richard Finch – bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals, arrangements, horn arrangements 
 Emmanuel Taylor – bass guitar 
 Harold Seay – drums
 Fermin Goytisolo – percussion
 Jimmy "Bo" Horne – percussion
 Dan Bonsanti – saxophones
 Neil Bonsanti – saxophones
 Charles Chalmers – saxophones, sax solo (3, 5), backing vocals
 Mike Lewis – saxophones, horn arrangements 
 Whit Sidener – saxophones
 Eugene Timmons – saxophones, sax solo (4)
 Michael Katz – trombone
 Stewart Brenner – trumpet
 Ken Faulk – trumpet
 Brett Murphy – trumpet
 Frederick Hughes Jr. – French horn
 Paul Harris – string arrangements, string conductor (3, 9, 10)
 Bob Basso – strings
 David Chappell – strings
 Bogdan Chruszcz – strings
 David Everhart – strings
 Marjorie Lash – strings
 Jose Montoto – strings
 Ignus Naruns – strings
 Alfredo Oliva – strings
 Jorge Orbon – strings
 Alexander Prilutchi – strings
 Debra Spring – strings
 Guy Weddle – strings
 Deborah Carter – backing vocals
 Beverly Champion – backing vocals
 Denise King – backing vocals
 Sandra Rhodes – backing vocals

Production 
 Harry Wayne Casey – producer, mixing 
 Richard Finch – producer, mixing 
 Milan Bogdan – engineer, mixing 
 Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location 
 Guy Webster – photography

References

External links
 The Painter at Discogs

KC and the Sunshine Band albums
1981 albums
Epic Records albums
A Vision of Judgment

Written in the late 19th century by H. G. Wells and first published in The Butterfly (September 1899), and collected in The Obliterated Man and Other Stories (December 1925), "A Vision of Judgment" is a short story in 9 sections.  It portrays a Last Judgment in which God and the archangel Gabriel laugh at sinners and saints alike, embarrassing them until they flee "up the sleeve of God."  After every human soul has taken shelter there, all of humanity, "enlightened" and "in new clean bodies," is given a second chance.  God shakes them—or rather us—"out of his sleeve upon the planet he had given us to live upon, the planet that whirled about green Sirius for a sun," saying "now that you understand me and each other a little better. . . . try again."

"A Vision of Judgment" has been reprinted in  The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells, A Dream of Armageddon: The Complete Supernatural Tales., and various other collections and anthologies. Some of the publications were under the title "A Vision of Judgement."

Background
Wells was raised by a mother—Sarah Wells née Neal (1822-1905)—with a "natural tendency to Protestant piety" and who believed "that God our Father and Saviour, personally and through occasional angels, would mind her; she believed that he would not be indifferent to her prayers; she believed she had to be good, carefully and continually, and not give Satan a chance with her.  Then everything would be all right." Wells rebelled against these beliefs early on.  "I was indeed a prodigy of Early Impiety. I was scared by Hell, I did not at first question the existence of Our Father, but no fear no terror could prevent my feeling that his All Seeing Eye was that of an Old Sneak and that the Atonement for which I had to be so grateful was either an imposture, a trick of sham self-immolation, or a crazy nightmare. I felt the unsoundness of these things before I dared to think."  In his autobiography he writes that at the age of "eleven or twelve" "the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie."  He wrote a satirical anti-religious poem as early as 1885.  Under the stress of World War I Wells went through an extended period of what he called in his autobiography "deistic phrasing," without, however, making "any concessions to doctrinal Christianity."  But "[a]fter The Undying Fire, God as a character disappears from my work, except for a brief undignified appearance, a regrettable appearance, dressed in moonshine and armed with Cupid's bow and arrows in The Secret Places of the Heart (1922).  My phraseology went back unobtrusively to the sturdy atheism of my youthful days.  My spirit had never left it."

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Khulan Khatun

Khulan (; ;  – ) was an empress consort of Genghis Khan and head of the second Court of Genghis Khan. Her status in the Mongol Empire was second only to Grand Empress Börte.

Biography
Khulan was a daughter of Dair-Usun, Uvas Mergid chief. She was offered to Genghis Khan as a gift after the chief's surrender. Genghis Khan was enamored with Khulan and following his coronation as Khan, installed her as an empress. She had a son, Gelejian, with Genghis Khan, and Gelejian's status was second only to Börte's four sons as he grew up.

As Genghis Khan's wife

Like his other wives, Khulan had her own ordo, or court. She was given the Khentii Mountains as her territory.

Genghis Khan was very fond of Abika Khulan, and most of the time she was the only empress accompanying him on many campaigns, notably the western campaign against the Khwarezmid Empire. She continued to travel with Genghis Khan until she died during one of Genghis Khan's campaigns against India. She was buried under thick ice.

As one of many wives of Genghis Khan, Abika Khulan held a special place both in the Mongol Empire and in Genghis Khan's heart.

Popular culture

Khulan was portrayed in the 2007 Japanese film Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea, played by South Korean actress and model Go Ara.

References

Citations

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Women in war in East Asia
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Wives of Genghis Khan
Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996

Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1996, with the preamble stating:

Ratifications
As of 2022, the convention had been ratified by 10 states. However, all have subsequently denounced it.

Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention and COVID-19
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), taking into account the Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, called on governments to immediately adopt possible measures in the interests of seafarers and to take steps to minimize the risk of COVID-19 virus infection.
The ILO Memorandum sought to coordinate the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and World Health Organization(WHO) action strategies to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

External links 
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Ratifications.

References

International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1996
Treaties entered into force in 2000
Treaties of Ireland
Treaties of Nigeria
Admiralty law treaties
1996 in labor relations
Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, 1996

Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, 1996 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1996, with the preamble stating:

Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention and COVID-19 
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the International Labor Organization (ILO), in conjunction with the Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, called on governments to take all possible measures to protect seafarers and to take steps to reduce the risk of COVID-19 virus infection. The ILO Memorandum was intended to coordinate the vision of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
A joint statement issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on May 22, 2020, emphasized the call for key worker status for seafarers. It relieves crews of travel restrictions and make it easier for them to join or leave the ships.

Ratifications
As of 2022, the convention had been ratified by 21 states. However, all have subsequently denounced it.

References

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Ratifications.

International Labour Organization conventions
Working time
Treaties concluded in 1996
Treaties entered into force in 2002
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Germany
Treaties of Ireland
Treaties of Romania
Treaties of Seychelles
Treaties of Slovenia
Treaties of the United Kingdom
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1996 in labor relations
Protambulyx goeldii

Protambulyx goeldii is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, southern Nicaragua, Costa Rica and probably Panama.

It is similar to Protambulyx astygonus but there is a distinct discal spot on the forewing upperside. Furthermore, there are differences in the pattern on the hindwing upperside, the distal edge is straighter, the antemedian line is less curved, the median line is absent and the submarginal line is less dentate.

Adults are probably on wing year round. In Bolivia, adults have been recorded in April and October.

References

Protambulyx
Moths described in 1903
All in a Night's Work

All in a Night's Work is the ninth studio album by the funk and disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The album was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch and was released in August 1982 on the Epic label.

History
All in a Night's Work sparked a brief return to success for the band, including the hit track "Give It Up", which became a number 1 hit in the UK and Ireland, and reached number 18 on the pop charts in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel 
 Harry Wayne Casey – lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, arrangements 
 Gary King – keyboards, guitars, bass, backing vocals, assisting arrangements 
 Steven Gordon – guitars
 James Magnole – guitars
 Richard Finch – bass, drums, percussion, arrangements
 Fermin Goytisolo – percussion, assisting arrangements 
 Jimmy "Bo" Horne – percussion, assisting arrangements 
 Gary Herbig – saxophones
 Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
 Larry Hall – trumpet, horn arrangements 
 Jerry Hey – trumpet, horn arrangements 
 Whit Sidener – bass clarinet (10)
 Christine Nield – flute (10)
 Neil Bonsanti – oboe (10)
 Ken Wadenpfuhl – French horn (10)
 Stacey Berkley – harp (10)
 Mike Lewis – horn and string arrangements (10)
 Deryl Lampkin – assisting arrangements 
 Gregory Robinson – assisting arrangements 
 Deborah Carter – backing vocals
 Beverly Champion – backing vocals, assisting arrangements 
 Denise King – backing vocals
 Teri DeSario – lead and backing vocals (4)

Production 
 Harry Wayne Casey – producer, mixing 
 Richard Finch – producer, mixing 
 Milan Bogdan – engineer, mixing 
 David Leonard – horn engineer 
 Barbara Rooney – assistant horn engineer 
 Bill Darlington – mix assistant 
 John Luongo – remixing (1-3)
 Nancy Donald – design 
 Bret Lopez – photography

References

External links
 All in a Night's Work at Discogs

KC and the Sunshine Band albums
1982 albums
Epic Records albums
Anne Ramsay

Anne Elizabeth Ramsay is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa Stemple on Mad About You, for which she shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Ensemble in a Comedy series.

Early life
Ramsay was raised in La Habra, CA. 

Ramsay studied theater at UCLA and graduated with a bachelor's degree. She landed her first professional role in an industrial film. She also worked with an acting group called The Continuum, which featured UCLA alumni. Their 1987 production of Waiting, which she co-wrote, won the group acclaim and Ramsay an agent.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 
 Anne Ramsay at Yahoo! Movies

American film actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from California
Living people
People from La Habra, California
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Podzilla

Podzilla:
PODZILLA is a patented lift system used by PODS 
Podzilla (GUI), used in iPodLinux
Scott Podsednik, baseball player for the Chicago White Sox
Podzilla, the resident monster truck of Santa Pod Raceway

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Pablo Moses

Pablo Moses (born Pablo Henry, 28 June 1948, Manchester, Jamaica) is a roots reggae vocalist.

Moses got his start in music performing with informal school bands. He and Don Prendes formed a group and entered talent shows, performing under the name, "The Canaries". Moses released a number of records over several decades, but he is best known for his debut, 1975's Revolutionary Dream, produced by Geoffrey Chung, which included "I Man A Grasshopper", engineered at The Black Ark by Lee "Scratch" Perry.  His 1980 follow up, A Song, was well received by his fans and music critics. Also well received was the single "Ready, Aim, Fire" off his 1983 album "In The Future".

Reviewing the 1978 I Love I Bring LP in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said "a lot of these charming, moralistic reggae ditties have the lyrical and melodic simplicity of Sunday School hymns—'Be Not a Dread' could almost be a roots 'Jesus Loves the Little Children.' And whoever devised the synthesizer riffs that set off Moses's spacey singsong deserves a gold star."

Album discography
Revolutionary Dream (1976, Jigsaw) (also released in 1978 as I Love I Bring)
A Song (1980, Island)
Pave The Way (1981, Island/Mango)
In The Future (1983, Alligator/Mercury)
Tension (1985, Alligator/Mercury)
Live to Love (1988, Rohit)
We Refuse (1990, Profile)
Charlie (1990, Profile)
Confession of a Rastaman (1993, Musidisc)
Mission (1995, RAS)
Reggae Live Sessions (1998, CRS)
The Rebirth (2010)
The Itinuation (2017)

References

External links
 

1948 births
Living people
People from Manchester Parish
Jamaican reggae musicians
Island Records artists
Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997

Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1997, with the preamble stating:

This Convention applies to all private employment offices, to all categories of workers and to all branches of economic activity. It does not apply to the recruitment and accommodation of seafarers.
The purpose of the convention is to enable all private employment agencies to operate and to ensure the protection of workers using their services within the limits of its provisions. According to the convention, private employment agencies have to treat all employees equally without discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, political opinion, national exclusion or social origin.

Ratifications
As of March 2023, the convention has been ratified by 37 states. These states are:

References

External links 
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Ratifications.

Employment agencies
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties entered into force in 2000
Treaties concluded in 1997
Treaties of Albania
Treaties of Algeria
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Treaties of Bulgaria
Treaties of the Czech Republic
Treaties of Ethiopia
Treaties of Fiji
Treaties of Finland
Treaties of France
Treaties of Georgia (country)
Treaties of Hungary
Treaties of Israel
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Japan
Treaties of Lithuania
Treaties of Mali
Treaties of Moldova
Treaties of Mongolia
Treaties of Morocco
Treaties of the Netherlands
Treaties of Niger
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Poland
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Serbia
Treaties of Slovakia
Treaties of Spain
Treaties of Suriname
Treaties of North Macedonia
Treaties of Uruguay
Treaties of Zambia
1997 in labor relations
William Carpenter (Australian politician)

William Henry Carpenter (5 April 1863 – 11 September 1930) was an Australian politician. He held seats in three parliaments: the South Australian Legislative Assembly, the Australian House of Representatives and the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.

Carpenter was born in Stratton, Wiltshire, England in 1863. He was educated at Swindon, and it was there that he took an apprenticeship as a boilermaker on the Great Western Railway. In 1886, he emigrated to Victoria, Australia, where he found work in locomotive construction at the Phoenix Foundry in Ballarat. On 3 April 1889, he married Alice Catherine Ross.

In 1891, Carpenter moved to Gawler, South Australia, where he spent the next five years as foreman of Jas Martin & Co. During this time he developed an interest in public affairs, becoming active in the Barossa Reform League, which agitated for land reform. In 1896, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Encounter Bay. Two years later he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Old Age Pensions. He held the seat of Encounter Bay until the election of 1902, at which he unsuccessfully contested the seat of Alexandra.

Carpenter moved to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1903. He became a member of the Fremantle Trades Hall Association, and president of the Transcontinental Railway League. In December 1903, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fremantle as a Labor candidate. He would hold the seat until his defeat in the election of December 1906. After his defeat he moved into a secretarial and agency business, and was also a journalist, working as editor of the briefly-reestablished Fremantle Herald.

After losing his federal seat, Carpenter turned to state politics, standing unsuccessfully for the Western Australian Legislative Council seat of West Province in May 1908. He stood once again for the federal seat of Fremantle in the election of April 1910, but was again unsuccessful. In October 1911, however, he won the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Fremantle. In 1917 he joined John Scaddan in leaving the anti-conscription Labor party for the pro-conscription National Labor movement. He contested the election of September 1917 under this banner, and was defeated by the new Labor candidate. He then left politics, going to Melbourne and then Sydney.

On 11 September 1930, his dead body was found floating in the Hacking River at Sutherland, New South Wales. He was buried at Rookwood Cemetery.

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Australian boilermakers
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São João da Pesqueira

São João da Pesqueira () is a municipality and municipal seat in the Portuguese district of Viseu. The population of the municipality in 2011 was approximately 7,874 inhabitants, in an area that extends . The present mayor is Manuel Cordeiro, elected by a citizens' movement. The municipal holiday is June 24.

History
São João da Pesqueira is the oldest recognized municipality in the country, created in 1055, thus taking precedence over such major cities as Coimbra, Guimarães or Lamego.

Geography

The municipality is situated at  above sea level and is bordered on the north by the River Douro and the municipality of Alijó, on the northeast by Carrazeda de Ansiães, on the east by Vila Nova de Foz Côa (district of Guarda), on the south-east by Penedono, on the south by Sernancelhe, on the west by Tabuaço and on the north-west by Sabrosa. The municipality includes an attractive countryside with viewpoints over the Douro valley and the Valeira dam from the chapel of São Salvador do Mundo (Ermo).

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 11 civil parishes:
 Castanheiro do Sul
 Ervedosa do Douro
 Nagoselo do Douro
 Paredes da Beira
 Riodades
 São João da Pesqueira e Várzea de Trevões
 Soutelo do Douro
 Trevões e Espinhosa
 Vale de Figueira
 Valongo dos Azeites
 Vilarouco e Pereiros

Economy
Situated in the heart of the Douro wine region, São João da Pesqueira is well endowed with vineyards that support the production of vintage and port wines.

Tourist attractions include a wine museum in Pesqueira and a network of waymarked hiking trails, including a section of the GR 14 Porto to Strasbourg Rota dos Vinhos da Europa (European Wine Route trail).

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Towns in Portugal
Populated places in Viseu District
Municipalities of Viseu District
J. Selye University

J. Selye University (, ) is the only Hungarian-language university in Slovakia. It was established in 2004 in Komárno (Hungarian: (Rév)Komárom) and it has three faculties. It is named after Hans Selye (), a 20th-century Hungarian endocrinologist (see: Education in Slovakia). The number of students attending the university has increased from 1731 in 2015 to 1894 in 2020.

Faculties 

Faculty of Economics and Informatics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Theology

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External links

 official web page

Education in Slovakia
Educational institutions established in 2004
2004 establishments in Slovakia
Hungarians in Slovakia
Ethel Dickenson

Ethel Gertrude Dickenson (July 6, 1880 – October 26, 1918) was an educator and nurse born in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is noted as being one of the Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador for her tireless work and death in the care of patients during the outbreak of Spanish influenza at St. John's in 1918.

Biography

Dickenson was educated at Methodist College, St. John's and MacDonald Institute, Guelph, Ontario, became a volunteer nurse during World War I at the Wandsworth Hospital, London and also the Ascot Hospital. She returned to St. John's for health reasons in 1918. The outbreak of Spanish influenza required that emergency services be set up at the King George the Fifth Institute where Dickenson had once again volunteered her nursing duties to care for the sick.

Dickenson was the only nurse who succumbed to the disease, she died October 26, 1918. A monument to Dickenson stands in Cavendish Square, an octagonal shaft with a Celtic cross at its pinnacle, sculpted from grey Aberdeen granite. The monument was unveiled by Lady and Governor Sir Charles Harris on October 26, 1920. Inscriptions on two opposite sides read as follows: This shaft, surmounted by the world emblem of sacrifice, is set up by a grateful public in memory of Ethel Dickenson volunteer nurse who in the great epidemic of 1918 gave her life while tending patients at the King George the Fifth Institute, St. John's. In honour also of those who nursed with her in the imminent shadow of death. 
On the other two sides: Be Thou Faithful Unto Death and I Will Give Thee A Crown of Life.

See also
 List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
 List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador

References and notes

External links

Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
Memorial University Library Biography

1880 births
1918 deaths
People from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Deaths from Spanish flu
Dominion of Newfoundland people
Cornicle

The cornicle (or siphuncule) is one of a pair of small upright backward-pointing tubes found on the dorsal side of the 5th or 6th abdominal segments of aphids. They are sometimes mistaken for cerci. They are no more than pores in some species.

These abdominal tubes exude droplets of a quick-hardening defensive fluid containing triacylglycerols called cornicle wax. 
There is some confusion in the literature about the function of the cornicle wax secretions. It was common at one time to suggest that the cornicles were the source of the honeydew, and this was even included in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
and the 2008 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. There also is documentation in the literature for cornicle wax luring predators in some cases.

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Aphids
Insect anatomy
Hong Kong cascade frog

Hong Kong cascade frog or Hong Kong torrent frog (Amolops hongkongensis) is a species of true frog from southern coastal China, once thought to be endemic to Hong Kong. Their eggs are laid on rock faces in the splash zones of cascades. In Hong Kong, it is a protected species under Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 170.

Distribution and habitat
Originally described from Tai Mo Shan in Hong Kong, populations are now also known from  Guangdong. In Hong Kong, the species is found in the New Territories and on Hong Kong Island. It was found in rather small streams in Lung Fu Shan.

Amolops hongkongensis inhabit forest-fringed, small hill streams, particularly those with cascades. Tadpoles have a ventral sucker helping them to maintain their position in the stream. Its habitat is threatened by silviculture, clear-cutting, and dam and other infrastructure construction.

Description
Both male and female Amolops hongkongensis grow to a snout–vent length of . Tadpoles are up to  in length. The diameter of its suction discs is 3-4 times the width of the fingers. It contains the tarsal fold and has white velvety nuptial pads on the first fingers.

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Amphibians described in 1951
Taxa named by Clifford H. Pope
Endangered Fauna of China
São Pedro do Sul, Portugal

São Pedro do Sul () is a municipality in the Central Portuguese district of Viseu. Part of the subregion of Dão-Lafões, the municipality has a population of 16,851 inhabitants and includes 14 civil parishes. The seat of this municipality is the city of São Pedro do Sul, with a population of 5,728 inhabitants.

History

Pre-Roman
One of the oldest monuments of the region is the "Pedra Escrita" that is a written granitic megalith dated from 10th century BC.

In the region there are three known "Castros". The castro is a fortified village that began to be inhabited from the 6th century BC, lacking streets with right angles and characterised by construction which is almost always circular. One of the Castros in São Pedro do Sul is Castro da Cárcoda.

Roman Era
In the region there are several Roman bridges and Roman Thermal Spas.

Middle Ages
São Pedro do Sul was the southern border of the Kingdom of Portugal at the time of the foundation of the country, being the natural border of the river Vouga.

The first King of Portugal Afonso Henriques lived in São Pedro do Sul while healing his injuries after the Battle of Badajoz.

Early Modern

The municipality was created in 1836 when the municipality of Lafões was divided, forming São Pedro do Sul and Vouzela.

Late modern and contemporary

São Pedro do Sul was elevated to the status of city on 12 June 2009.

Thermal Town
São Pedro do Sul is world famous for the thermal baths dating back to pre-Roman times.

Geography
The municipality is located in the north, along the Castro valley (southeast of Viseu), bordered in the south by Vouzela, to the south and west by Oliveira de Frades (northern section), in the west by Vale de Cambra and in the northwest by Arouca.

São Pedro do Sul is a municipality in the valley of Lafões, framed by the massifs of the sierras of Arada, Gralheira and São Macário. These massifs with green landscapes and crystalline water courses, hide many settlements. From the peak of São Macário, at  altitude, there are the views of the mountain range of Montemuro, Estrela and Caramulo.

The municipal holiday each year is on June 29.

Notable people 
 António Correia de Oliveira (1879-1960) a poet; nominated unsuccessfully 15 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 Conceição Matos (born 1936) a Portuguese communist who campaigned against the Estado Novo regime in the 1960s. She was arrested and tortured.
 Carlos Carvalhas (born 1941) a Portuguese economist, politician and former Secretary-General of the Portuguese Communist Party, 1993–2004

References

External links
Municipality official website

Towns in Portugal
Spa towns in Portugal
Populated places in Viseu District
Municipalities of Viseu District
People from São Pedro do Sul, Portugal
The More Abundant Life

The More Abundant Life was a phrase of scriptural flavor used by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his address before the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 1, 1936, to signify the improved living conditions and enlarged cultural and economic opportunities available to the whole world through the maintenance in the Western Hemisphere of constitutional representative government based on faith in God.

The phrase is taken from the saying of Jesus at John 10:10:  "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."  Roosevelt, an Episcopalian, would also have been familiar with a similar phrase used in the collect for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany in the Book of Common Prayer.

See also
 Abundant life

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Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
American political catchphrases
Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps

The Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps  is a World Class competitive drum and bugle corps.  Based in Sacramento, California, the Mandarins is a member corps of Drum Corps International (DCI). Holders of eight DCI divisional championship titles, the Mandarins made its first World Class Finals appearance on August 11, 2018, with a tenth-place finish.

History
The corps was founded in 1963 as the Ye Wah Drums and Lyras Corps, an activity for youth of Chinese-American heritage. Roy Wong, Frank Lim, Thomas Fong, and Yuk Fong had originally approached the Sacramento Chinese community with the intent of starting a drum and bugle corps to perform at the many festivals and parades held each year in the Sacramento area. After struggling to get underway, the corps made its debut on the Fourth of July, 1963. A color guard was added to the corps in 1964 and became a competitive unit in 1965. 

Entering the field as a competition corps, the group changed its name to the Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps in 1967. The corps competed only in Northern California until making its first trip to Southern California in 1970. Since that first trip, the corps has represented its community, Sacramento, and California around the country and abroad. Mandarins appeared in the Taiwan presidential inaugural ceremonies in 1972 and '78. In 1974, they went to Hawaii to march in the King Kamehameha Parade. In 1975, they made their first trip to the Pacific Northwest and Canada. They made their first appearance at the DCI World Championships at Denver in 1978.

In 1983, under the leadership of Executive Director Ray Mar, the corps began working toward becoming a highly successful competitive corps, and they have been regular competitors in DCI since 1986, winning Class A60/Division III championships in 1987, '88, '92, and '96 through '99 and the Division II title in 2001. Mandarins moved into Division I (now World Class) in 2003, and their highest finish has been 6th place, earned in 2023.

In 2014, the Mandarins and the Sacramento State Department of Music entered into a partnership to conduct the Mandarins Academies. These are performing arts camps held on the Sacramento State campus to help youth develop their skills in brass, percussion, woodwinds, and color guard performance, and in drum major conducting.

Sponsorship
Since beginning in 1963, the Mandarins have been sponsored by a volunteer booster club of parents and supporters. The Mandarins of Sacramento, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) musical organization. JW Koester is the corps director, Jim Tabuchi is the executive director, and Raymond Mar is the organization's advisor and director emeritus.

Show summary (1978–2023) 
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References

External links
Official website

Drum Corps International World Class corps
American instrumental musical groups
Musical groups established in 1963
1963 establishments in California