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Fælledparken

The park Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, was created 1906–1914 by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel in cooperation with the Copenhagen Municipality on the commons (Danish: fælled) previously named Nørrefælled and Østerfælled. Fælledparken is located in the eastern part of Copenhagen called Østerbro. 

Fælledparken is used for activities such as:

 Walking
 Sunbathing
 Running
 Playgrounds
 Soccer training and matches on the courts marked on the grass
 The cafe Pavillonen
 Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix (auto racing with old cars)
 1 May: Labour Day demonstration, with speeches by politicians
 Concerts and celebrations such as carnival

Fælledparken lies adjacent to Parken, the Danish national stadium.

The southern part of Fælledparken was sometimes used by rescue helicopters from the Danish Air Force when transporting patients to Rigshospitalet. This practice was abandoned in the year 2006 with the construction of a helicopter platform on the roof of Rigshospitalet. 

A path runs along the southern edge of Fælledparken past the Niels Bohr Institute where Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and other famous physicists of the 20th century would walk and discuss their theories on space and quantum physics. These strolls in Fælledparken were essential in their thought process and theorising so soon acquired the name Filosofgangen, one of many with the same name where great thinkers gathered their thoughts.

Skateboarding and street sports
In 2009, and older skatepark from 1988 in the southeast of Fælledparken was rebuilt as Fælledparken Skatepark. The skatepark opened in 2011, and is designed for all levels of skateboarders (beginners, advanced, and professional), and includes bowls, verts, ramps and street skating facilities. Apart from skateboarding, the park is also open for BMX and rollerskating. The skatepark is unique in its diversity design and is also one of the largest in Northern Europe at 4,500 m2 of skateboarding facilities.

It is prohibited to use Fælledparken Skatepark for scooting, but a smaller park (Løbehjulsparken') has been built specifically for freestyle scooting near the southwest corner of Fælledparken.

Football
Boldklubben Heimdal football club, founded in 1919, play their home matches in Fælledparken.

References

External links 

 Café Pavillonen
 Source

1914 establishments in Denmark
Parks in Copenhagen
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (d. 1649)

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ( Talbot; c. 1580 – March 1649) was the wife of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.

Mary was the daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, by his wife Mary, and was thus a granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick. She had two sisters, both of whom also married into the nobility: Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent.

In June 1600 she was appointed as gentlewoman of the privy chamber of Queen Elizabeth and her sister Elizabeth was a maid of honour. 

She married William Herbert on 4 November 1604 at Wilton, Wiltshire, and had one child, Henry, who died in infancy.

Mary Herbert and her sister the Countess of Arundel were asked to "grace the court" during the visit of a French aristocrat, the Count of Vaudémont, in October 1606. Rowland Whyte mentioned a dance at Hampton Court held in the presence chamber of Anne of Denmark. Mary Herbert, described as "Lady Pembroke", danced with a member of the count's entourage, Prince Henry, and the Earl of Perth. Whyte wrote "No lady there did dance near so well as she did that day". Whyte added that the sisters were reluctant to write to their parents themselves. They were joined at Hampton Court by Lady Mary Wroth and Lady Montgomery. 

The Talbot Papers, held in Lambeth Palace Library, include several references to Mary. It appears from Thomas Crewe's letter of September 1603 that Sir Thomas Edmondes was instrumental in persuading her father of the advantages of her marrying Pembroke.

Following her husband's death in 1630, the dowager countess sometimes stayed at Baynard's Castle. She died at Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire, and was buried at Salisbury Cathedral.

References

1580s births
1649 deaths
English countesses
Daughters of British earls
Wives of knights
Mary
Mary
Mozambique at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Mozambique competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Field events

Women
Track & road events

Field events

Swimming

Men

References
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980
Oly
Markus Gandler

Markus Gandler (born 20 August 1966 in Kitzbühel) is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.

At the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, his team ranked 11th in the 4 × 10 km relay. In the winter of 1989/1990 he had his best World Cup finish with a third in Canmore, Canada.

He won an Olympic silver medal in the men's 10 km at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

At the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau, he won gold in 4 × 10 km relay with  his relay teammates Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botwinov, and Christian Hoffmann.

Since 2003, and also at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy he has been director of the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams.

He received a life ban from the Austrian Olympic Committee in 2007 as one of 14 team officials who were implicated in doping activity at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The bans on Gandler and 11 others were subsequently rescinded in 2009, after the International Ski Federation dropped doping charges against Gandler, biathlon coach  Alfred Eder and cross-country ski coach Gerald Heigl.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games
 1 medal – (1 silver)

World Championships
 1 medal – (1 gold)

World Cup

Season standings

Individual podiums
1 podium

Team podiums

 2 victories 
 2 podiums 

Note:   Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.

References

External links
 Personal Website 
 Markus Gandler at Database Olympics
 

1966 births
Living people
People from Kitzbühel
Austrian male cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Austria
Olympic silver medalists for Austria
Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Tyrol (state)
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
The Silent World

The Silent World () is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle. One of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color, its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure.

Film 
The film was shot aboard the ship Calypso. Cousteau and his team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, of which 2.5 kilometers were included in the finished documentary.

The film later faced criticism for environmental damage done during the filmmaking. In one scene, the crew of the Calypso massacre a school of sharks that were drawn to the carcass of a baby whale for some reason, which itself had been mortally injured by the crew, albeit accidentally (Cousteau had the ship driven into a pod of whales to get a close-up view, striking one whale in the process before the baby was lacerated by the prop). In another, Cousteau uses dynamite near a coral reef in order to make a more complete census of the marine life in its vicinity. Cousteau later became more environmentally conscious, involved in marine conservation, and was even called "the father of the environmental movement" by Ted Turner.

Reception
The Silent World opened at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d'Or award; it was the only documentary film to win the award until Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 repeated the feat in 2004.

The film was released in the United States on September 24, 1956 by Columbia Pictures and earned theatrical rentals of over $3 million.

It was the first of Cousteau's documentary films to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

See also

References

External links
 
 
 
Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World by Greg Rubinson at salon.com, July 15, 2002, retrieved June 14, 2011

1956 films
Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
Palme d'Or winners
Documentary films about nature
Films directed by Jacques Cousteau
Films directed by Louis Malle
Documentary films about underwater diving
French documentary films
1956 documentary films
1950s French films
1950s French-language films
AgFirst

AgFirst, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and business-service provider to a network of local farm credit associations in 15 southern and eastern states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the Farm Credit Bank of Baltimore and the Farm Credit Bank of Columbia. The lender is cooperatively owned by 16 local associations. These associations, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to about 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners.  

AgFirst is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina in the former Bank of America Plaza.

References

External links 
 
 Hoovers Report on Agfirst
 Farm Credit Administration in the Federal Register

Farm Credit System
Companies based in South Carolina
European Union Civil Service Tribunal

The European Union Civil Service Tribunal was a specialised court within the Court of Justice of the European Union. It was established on 2 December 2005. It ceased to exist on 1 September 2016.

Legal basis
The Treaty of Nice provides for the creation of judicial panels in certain specific areas. This provision is later amended and codified in Article 257 ("specialised courts") of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union by the Treaty of Lisbon:

The Council of the European Union on 2 November 2004, adopted on that basis a decision establishing the European Union Civil Service Tribunal. The new specialised court, composed of seven judges, was called upon to adjudicate in disputes between the European Union and its civil service, a jurisdiction until 2005 was exercised by the General Court. Its decisions was subject to appeal on questions of law only to the General Court and, in exceptional cases, to review by the European Court of Justice. It was established on 2 December 2005. It was dissolved on 1 September 2016, despite the success in its mandate, in favour of doubling the size of the General Court.

Presidents of the Civil Service Tribunal

Judges on the Civil Service Tribunal in 2016

Source:

References

Further reading

External links
European Union Civil Service Tribunal: official website

2005 establishments in the European Union
2016 disestablishments in the European Union
 
Courts and tribunals established in 2005
Civil Service Tribunal, European Union
Civil Service Tribunal, European Union
Tribunals
Dean Yeagle

Dean Eric Yeagle (born July 27, 1947) is an American animator and cartoonist, born in the United States, known for his character Mandy, which has appeared in the pages of Playboy magazine.

Early life
As a young Disney fan, Yeagle set his sights on becoming an animator for Disney around the age of 10. During this time he often drew Disney characters, but later began to develop his own. After graduating from high school, Yeagle went to art school, leaving after a year.

Career
Yeagle began his animation career in a small studio in Philadelphia with a summer job, giving him his first taste of the industry. He served four years in the Navy during the Vietnam era, and later worked for Jack Zander (who once animated Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM) in Zander's Animation Parlour, New York.

Seven years after starting at Zander's Animation Parlour, Yeagle began freelancing, working for most of the New York animation studios before starting his own, Caged Beagle Productions,  in 1986 with Nancy Beiman. Caged Beagle produces TV commercials, CD-ROMs, sub-contracts or consults on features and character design.

Yeagle has worked as a designer, animator and director, and he was nominated by the National Cartoonist Society (NCS) for the 2003 Gag Award for his work in Playboy Magazine.

Yeagle's clients have included Blue Sky Studios, Broderbund, Dannon, Grey Advertising, Hanna-Barbera, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ImaginEngine, Kraft, Marvel Comics, Nestle, Playboy Enterprises, Procter & Gamble, Random House, Saatchi & Saatchi, Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. and Western Publishing.

Notes

References

External links

 Lambiek Comiclopedia article.

American illustrators
American animators
American comics artists
1947 births
Living people
Playboy cartoonists
U.S. AgBank

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U.S. AgBank, Farm Credit Bank based in Wichita, Kansas, was a financial institution, part of the Farm Credit System lending to Farm Credit Services organizations serving Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, eastern Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma,  Utah, and western Wyoming.  

Like other Farm Credit Banks, U.S. AgBank generated funds from selling bonds backed by the federal government. It did not lend directly to borrowers, but to 29 local Agricultural Credit Associations.

In 2010, the company announced plans for a merger with CoBank. The merger was completed in 2012.

External links 
 U.S. AgBank website

Farm Credit System
Companies based in Wichita, Kansas
Agriculture in Kansas
Farm Credit Bank of Texas

Farm Credit Bank of Texas, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and business-service provider to 14 local borrower-owned Farm Credit associations in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas.

Farm Credit Bank of Texas is a federated cooperative owned by the local Farm Credit association cooperatives, which directly finance rural real estate, agricultural production, country homes and agribusiness firms. Together with the other three banks of the Farm Credit System (AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, Columbia, South Carolina; AgriBank FCB, St. Paul, Minnesota; and CoBank, ACB, Denver, Colorado), the bank generates funds from the issuance of debt securities in the national and international financial markets through the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation, a joint subsidiary of the banks of the Farm Credit System. These debt securities are the joint and several liabilities of the banks of the Farm Credit System and are neither guaranteed by the federal government nor backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government. The Farm Credit Insurance Fund is available to protect investors in Farm Credit System debt securities.

As of September 2008, the long-term debt of the Farm Credit System carries the ratings of AAA from Standard & Poor's Rating Service and Fitch Ratings and AAA from Moody's Investors Service.  As of the same date, the Farm Credit System's short-term debt carries the ratings of A-1+, F1+ and P-1, respectively, from the three rating agencies.

History
Farm Credit Bank of Texas is the product of the 1988 merger of the Federal Land Bank of Texas and Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Texas. These banks were known as the Federal Land Bank of Houston and the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston prior to changing their names in 1979, and were located in Houston from their respective founding dates of 1916 and 1923 until they relocated to Austin in 1982.

See also 
 Farm Credit of New Mexico, ACA

References

External links
 

Farm Credit System
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Agriculture in Texas
Plusquellec

Plusquellec (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany, in northwestern France.

Population

Inhabitants of Plusquellec are called plusquellecois in French.

See also
 Brittany (administrative region) 
Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
Listing of the works of the atelier of the Maître de Tronoën

References

External links

Website of Joseph Lohou on Plusquellec 
Callac-Argoat website 

Communes of Côtes-d'Armor
Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl may refer to:

Film, television and theatre 
 Boy Meets Girl (play), a 1935 Broadway play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, basis for the 1938 film
 Boy Meets Girl (1938 film), an American film starring James Cagney
 Boy Meets Girl (1982 film), an Israeli film directed by Michal Bat-Adam
 Boy Meets Girl (1984 film), a French film directed by Leos Carax
 Boy Meets Girl (1993 film), an American TV movie starring Jasmine Guy
 Boy Meets Girl (1998 film), a Canadian-American romantic comedy directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, starring Sean Astin
 Boy Meets Girl (2009 TV series), a 2009 UK 4-part TV miniseries (fantasy comedy-drama) starring Rachael Stirling and Martin Freeman 
 Boy Meets Girl (2014 film), an American film about a transgender woman, written and directed by Eric Schaeffer
 Boy Meets Girl (2015 TV series), a UK TV series starring Rebecca Root, Harry Hepple and Denise Welch, and featuring a transgender main character played by a transgender actress.

Literature 
 Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship, a 2000 book by Joshua Harris
 Boy Meets Girl (novel), a 2004 novel by Meg Cabot

Music 
 Boy Meets Girl (band), an American pop duo
 Boy Meets Girl (Boy Meets Girl album), 1985
 Boy Meets Girl (Sammy Davis, Jr. and Carmen McRae album), 1957
 Boy Meets Girl (Stroke 9 album), 1993
 Boy Meets Girl (EP), a 2003 EP by Junior Senior
 "Boy Meets Girl" (song), a 1994 song by TRF
 "Boy Meets Girl", a song by Evan Taubenfeld from Welcome to the Blacklist Club
 "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)", a song by Haircut 100

See also 
 Boy Meets Girls, a 1950s UK popular music TV show
 Boy Meets Boy (disambiguation)
The Hollywood Vampires

The Hollywood Vampires was a celebrity drinking club formed by Alice Cooper in the 1970s. The hazing to get into the club was to outdrink all the members. According to Cooper in the documentary Prime Cuts: "The Speakeasy and Tramps were the place to be in London. There was a little loft at the Rainbow Bar and Grill in LA (W. Hollywood), they only had that for the club."

Members
Cooper listed himself, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, Micky Dolenz and Harry Nilsson as the club's principal members: "It was that crowd, every night those same people. Every once in a while John Lennon would come into town or Keith Emerson and they would be honorable members of the night. They still have a plaque there at the Rainbow, where it says 'The Lair of the Hollywood Vampires'."

Although Brian Wilson and Iggy Pop often fraternized with members of the club, it remains unclear if they were formally inducted.

Additional members

Supergroup

In 2015, Cooper formed a supergroup named after the club with Johnny Depp and Joe Perry. They released their debut studio album, Hollywood Vampires, on September 11.

See also
 Son of Dracula

References

Clubs and societies in the United States
History of Hollywood, Los Angeles
1970s in California
1970s in music
1970s in American music
Alice Cooper
2000 British Academy Television Awards

The 2000 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 14 May 2000. The ceremony was hosted by sportscaster Des Lynam, aired on ITV and took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Winners and nominees

Programmes with multiple nominations

See also
2000 British Academy Television Craft Awards

External links
Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
British Academy Television Awards 2000  at the Internet Movie Database.

2000
2000 awards in the United Kingdom
2000 television awards
2000 in British television
May 2000 events in the United Kingdom
White Door

White Door may refer to
 The White Door, a videogame
 White Door (band), 1980s band Clay Records discography
 "White Door", song (performed by A. Pugacheva) composed by Yury Chernavsky
Tro tro

In Ghana and neighboring countries, tro tro are privately owned minibus share taxis that travel fixed routes leaving when filled to capacity. While there are tro tro stations, these vehicles for hire can also be boarded anywhere along the route.

Operated by a driver and a conductor (who collects money, shouts out the destination, and can also be called a "mate"), many are decorated with slogans and religious sayings. Fewer tro tros operate on Sundays.

The term is believed to derive from the Ga word  tro, "threepence", because the conductors usually asked for "three three pence", which was the standard bus fare in the 1940s, when Ghana still uses the British West African pound and later the Ghanaian pound.

Alternatively, its origin is not "three times three pence" but rather "threepence [thruhpnce, tro] each": doubling a coin's name in the vernacular means "that coin for each person (or item)". Three pence was the price per passenger in the early 1960s, when pounds/shillings/pence were still in use, including threepence coins, before decimalization of the currency into cedi and pesewa in 1965.

Ghana
Used by 70% of Ghanaian commuters, tro tro is the most popular form of transport for work and shopping in the country as of 2010. Large buses also provide public transport in Accra, Ghana, as of 2008 and are patronized by people of different social classes.

Regulation
In Ghana, tro tro are licensed by the government, but the industry is self-regulated. There was no independent transport authority as of 2008 in the capital, Accra.

In the absence of a regulatory environment, groups called syndicates oversee minibus share taxis like tro tro in Africa. These may collect dues, set routes, manage terminals, and fix fares. In Accra as of 2008, such syndicates include GPRTU and PROTOA.

Despite the regulatory challenges, the service would lend itself to some regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. This allowed it to record significant levels (98%) of compliance to guidelines on physical distancing, although guidelines on individual use of face masks were more difficult to enforce.

See also
Dala dala of Tanzania
Matatu of Kenya

Further reading 
 Transport in Ghana
 Ministry of Transport (Ghana)
 Ghana Private Road Transport Union

References

External links 

Share taxis
Road transport in Ghana
Agios Antonios metro station

Agios Antonios (, ), also known as Aghios Antonios on signage, is a subway (metro) station of the Athens Metro. It started operating in August 2004.

It took its name from a nearby Christian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Anthony. This station is in the Peristeri, the biggest municipality of west Athens area. It was the first station in the area and has reduced traffic problems in Peristeri.

Layout 
The station of Agios Antonios has two exits, one to the right side of Panagi Tsaldari Ave and the other to the left side.

Surrounding landmarks 
In front of the station is Panagi Tsaldari Avenue, one of the important avenues of Peristeri, which links west Athens with Kifissou Avenue (to Piraeus harbor, southern and northern suburbs of city and National Road 1 to Lamia, Larisa, Thessaloniki, generally North Greece and Balkans) and city center. Buses, trolleybuses and taxis pass regularly toward Athens center, Agioi Anargyroi, Ilion, Petroupolis, Chaidari, Egaleo etc.

References

External links
 Official Website

Railway stations in Greece opened in the 2000s
Railway stations opened in 2004
2004 establishments in Greece
Athens Metro stations
Peristeri
CSIX

The common switch interface (CSIX) is a physical interface specification between a traffic manager (network processor) and a switching fabric. It was developed by the Network Processing Forum to:

 promote development and deployment of highly scalable network switches
 permit hardware and software interoperability

References 

Data transmission
Shahar, Saudi Arabia

Shahar, (also as , ) is a village in the sub-governorate of Bariq in  the province of Asir, Saudi Arabia. It is located at an elevation of  and has a population of about 1,000 to 2,000 Shahar is located on both sides of Wadi Shahar, south of Al-Ajmeh, west of Jabal Al-Adha, north of Saaban villages, and east of Thaaib villages..

See also 

 List of cities and towns in Saudi Arabia
 Regions of Saudi Arabia

References 

Populated places in 'Asir Province
Populated coastal places in Saudi Arabia
Populated places in Bareq
Maryland Route 342

Maryland Route 342 (MD 342) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as St. Augustine Road, the highway runs  from MD 310 at St. Augustine north to unsigned MD 537 in Chesapeake City in southern Cecil County. MD 342 was constructed in its entirety by 1915.

Route description

MD 342 begins at an intersection with MD 310 (Cayots Corner Road) at the hamlet of St. Augustine. The two-lane undivided highway runs through rural areas and heads northeast, makes a right-angle turn to the northwest, curves to the west, then takes a sharp turn to the north. The state highway enters the town of Chesapeake City and intersects an unnamed road (unsigned MD 537D) that leads west to an interchange with MD 213 at the southern end of the Chesapeake City Bridge over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. MD 342 continues to its northern terminus at an oblique junction with George Street, which is unsigned MD 537C and leads north to the western terminus of MD 286 in the South Chesapeake City Historic District.

History
St. Augustine Road was paved as a macadam road from George Street to the right-angle turn by 1910. The remainder of the road to St. Augustine and MD 310 east of St. Augustine were constructed as a  macadam road by Cecil County with state aid by 1915. MD 342 was resurfaced with bituminous concrete in 1988.

Junction list

See also

References

External links

MDRoads: MD 342
MD 342 at AARoads.com
Maryland Roads - MD 342

342
Maryland Route 342
CVM

CVM may refer to:

Veterinary medicine
 California Variegated Mutant, a sheep breed
 Center for Veterinary Medicine of U.S. FDA
 Cervical Vertebral Malformation or wobbler disease of dogs and horses
 Complex vertebral malformation of Holstein cattle

Other uses
 Christian Vision for Men, a UK charity
 Climate Vulnerability Monitor
 Securities Commission (Brazil)
 Cooperation and Verification Mechanism of EU applicant state
 General Pedro J. Méndez International Airport in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, IATA code
Dala dala

Dala dala are minibus share taxis in Tanzania. These converted trucks and minibuses are the primary public transportation system in the country. While the name originates from the English word "dollar", they are also referred to as thumni.

Before minibuses became widely used, a truck with benches placed in the bed was the typical Tanzanian privately owned public transport. Called chai maharagwe, these were popular and also used to transport and deliver goods along the route  1990.

While dala dala may run fixed routes picking up passengers at central locations, they will also stop anywhere along their route to drop someone off or allow a prospective passenger to board.

In contrast to most of these minibuses, in Dar es Salaam some dala dala are publicly operated as of 2008.

History in Dar es Salaam

The dala dala developed as illegal taxis in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, due to a deteriorating system of government-run public transport in an environment of rising demand for such services. Between 1975 and 1983, the year dala dala were legalized, the number of buses operating in Dar es Salaam declined by 36% while the population increased by around 80%. In 1983, the government transport company was allowed to sub-contract to private entities, but due to high tariffs, this did little to substantially increase the numbers of licensed dala dala.

Further reforms in the late 1990s caused the amount of legal minibuses to swell, and between 1991 and 1998 their numbers rose by 450%. Large amounts of pirate minibuses continued to exist, however, and in 1998 it was estimated that these comprised nearly half of all dala dala in operation. By 1998 dala dala had almost completely superseded government run public transport; in that year a total of 12 government operated buses plied the streets. Around that time there were somewhere between 7,650 and 6,300 dala dala in operation.

Conductor

Dala dala are often operated by both a driver and a conductor. Called a mpigadebe, the name for dala dala conductors literally means "a person who hits a debe" (a 4-gallon tin container used for transporting gasoline or water) in reference to the fact that conductors will hit the roof and side of the van to attract customers and notify the driver when to leave a station.

Regulation
These vehicles for hire have their routes allocated by a Tanzanian transport regulator, Land Transport Regulatory Authority (LATRA), but syndicates (informal groups that fix fares, collect dues, and manage stations) also exist. Prior to 1983, all forms of privately owned public transport were illegal in Tanzania, and as of 1991 and 1998 at least half of all dala dala continued to operate without a license.

In 2002 it was noted that the dala dala market "seems to remain under conditions close to classical perfect competition."

See also
Boda boda
Matatu
Tro tro
Weyala, share taxi conductors in Ethiopia

References

Share taxis
Public transport in Tanzania
Cyprus at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Cyprus competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Ten competitors, all men, took part in nine events in four sports.

Athletics

Men's 10.000 metres
 Marios Kassianidis
 Qualifying Heat — 29:06.08 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon
 Marios Kassianidis — 2:32:51 (→ 62nd place)
 Filippos Filippou — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 3.000m Steeplechase:
 Philippos Philippou
 Semifinals — 8:39.47 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump
 Dimitrios Araouzos
 Qualification — 5.67m (→ did not advance, 30th place)

Cycling

One cyclist represented Cyprus in 1984.

Individual road race
 Spyros Agrotis — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Judo

Men's under 78 kg:
 Ioannis Kouyallis - Preliminary:Lost to Gueye-Eljdji from Senegal

Men's under 86 kg:
 Costas Papacostas - Preliminary:Lost to Nose Seiki from Japan

Shooting

Men's trap:
 Anastasios Lordos - 173 (47th position)
 Demetrios Papachrysostomou - 176 (35th position)

Men's skeet:
 Petros Kyritsis - 192 (13th position)
 Michael Tymvios - 85 (abandon)

References

External links
Cyprus at the 1984 Summer Olympics by Cyprus Olympic Committee

Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Summer Olympics
Terpsithea, Glyfada

Terpsithea (Τερψιθέα) is the northernmost settlement of the municipality of Glyfada in Athens, Greece. It lies on foot of the mountain Ymittos and has an altitude between 120 and 180 m. The name comes from the Greek words Terpsi+thea (Τέρψη+θέα) and means pleasure, fun, gaze.

Climate

There is at least one automated meteorological station in Terpsithea that gives the following averages (1995-2006):

External links
 Live weather data from a weather station in Terpsithea, Glyfada

Populated places in South Athens (regional unit)
Glyfada

el:Γλυφάδα#Τερψιθέα
Aleta

This name should not be confused with the name Aelita.

Aleta may refer to:

Fictional characters
 Queen Aleta, wife of Prince Valiant, Queen of the Misty Isles in the comic strip Prince Valiant
 Princess Aleta in the television series The Legend of Prince Valiant
 Aleta Ogord of the Guardians of the Galaxy

People
 Aleta Baun, Indonesian environmental activist
 Aleta Fenceroy (1948–2006), American LGBT activist
 Aleta Freel (1907–1935), American stage actress
 Aleta Mitchell, American film, television and theatre actress
 Aleta Arthur Trauger (born 1945), US federal judge

Geographical locations
 Aleta Wendo (woreda), one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia
 Aleta Wendo, the administrative center of the woreda

Other
 West Aleta, a ship of the Western Pipe and Steel Company

See also
 Aelita (disambiguation)
 Alita (disambiguation)
 Elita (disambiguation)
Today (Mel B song)

"Today" is a song by British singer-songwriter Melanie Brown, released as the lead and only single of her second studio album, L.A. State of Mind (2005). The song was solely written by Brown and produced by Kevin Malpass. Released on 13 June 2005 in the United Kingdom, it entered and peaked at number 41 on the UK Singles Chart, charting for only two week. The music video was directed by Mark McConnell and filmed in Los Angeles, California. To promote the single, Brown performed the song on GMTV.

Track listings
 UK CD1
 "Today" – 3:16
 "Bad, Bad Girl" – 3:25

 UK CD2
 "Today" – 3:16
 "Music of the Night (Perdido)" – 3:48
 "Today"

Charts

References

2005 singles
2005 songs
Mel B songs
Rialto Channel

Rialto, is a commercial television channel in New Zealand. It began broadcasting in November 2002 on SKY Network Television.

The channel screens films, documentaries and general entertainment programming. The channel has at times sponsored the New Zealand Film Awards.

References

New Zealand's Film Commission Press release Jan. 26 2006. Retrieved Feb. 19 2006.
Rialto Channel (2004)  Retrieved Feb. 19, 2006
SKY Network Television Limited (2005).  Retrieved Feb. 19, 2006

External links

Rialto Channel 

Television stations in New Zealand
English-language television stations in New Zealand
Television channels in New Zealand
Hironori Kusano

is a Japanese singer and former member of the J-pop group NEWS, as part of Johnny's Entertainment, Inc., which he joined in February 2001.

Biography 
As a Johnny's Jr., Kusano had also been in other Jr. subgroups including J2000, J-support, and K.K.Kity, before he was selected as one of the nine members to debut as NEWS in 2003 along with Tomohisa Yamashita, Takahisa Masuda, Shigeaki Kato, Yuya Tegoshi, Ryo Nishikido, Keiichiro Koyama, Hiroki Uchi and Takahiro Moriuchi.

After recent news that Uchi and Kusano would be performing in "Shounentai Playzone 2007" (少年隊 PLAYZONE 2007) with other Juniors from Johnny's Entertainment, it was shortly thereafter conformed during the press conference for the recently announced Fuji TV drama "Isshun no Kaze ni Nare" (一瞬の風になれ), that Hiroki Uchi, along with Hironori Kusano, had officially graduated from their "trainee" status within Johnny's Entertainment.

Dramas
 Gekidan Engimono (劇団演技者) (2005), Ep. 13 Ie ga Tooi (家が遠い) – (A short 4-part series which also starred fellow group members Takahisa Masuda, Yuya Tegoshi, and Shigeaki Kato)

Radio shows
 News Kick and Spin Muzik as DJ, (was broadcast Thursdays @ 21:25~21.45)

Television
 The Shonen Club
 Ya-Ya-yah
 Hadaka no Shonen

Stage plays
 Playzone 2007 Change2Chance

References

External links
  
 Official blog 

1988 births
Living people
Musicians from Yokohama
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese idols
News (band) members
Johnny & Associates
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers
Gonia

Gonia (Greek: Γωνιά) is a village in the Rethymno regional unit in Crete, Greece, lying at an altitude of ca 222 m amsl, about 10 km southwest of the town of Rethymno. Gonia was the seat of the former municipality Nikiforos Fokas.

References

Populated places in Rethymno (regional unit)
Rethymno (municipality)
Thiotepa

Thiotepa (INN), sold under the brand name Tepadina, is a medication used to treat cancer.

Thiotepa is an organophosphorus compound with the formula (C2H4N)3PS. It is an analog of N,,N-triethylenephosphoramide (TEPA), which contains tetrahedral phosphorus and is structurally akin to phosphate. It is manufactured by heating aziridine with thiophosphoryl chloride.

Medical uses 
Thiotepa is indicated for use in combination with other chemotherapy agents to treat cancer. This can be with or without total body irradiation (TBI), as a conditioning treatment prior to allogeneic or autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (HPCT) in hematological diseases in adults and children. These diseases include Hodgkin's disease and leukaemia. Thiotepa is also used with high-dose chemotherapy with HPCT support to treat certain solid tumors in adult and children.

Thiotepa is used in the palliation of many neoplastic diseases. The best results are found in the treatment of adenocarcinoma of the breast, adenocarcinoma of the ovary, papillary thyroid cancer and bladder cancer. Thiotepa is used to control intracavitary effusions caused by serosal neoplastic deposits.

Intravesical use 
Thiotepa is used as intravesical chemotherapy in bladder cancer.

It may be used prophylactically to prevent seeding of tumor cells at cystoscopic biopsy; as an adjunctive agent at the time of biopsy; or as a therapeutic agent to prevent recurrence after cystoscopic resection of bladder tumor (transurethral resection of bladder tumor, TURBT). Efficacy in tumor control may reach 55%. The main toxicity of this therapy is bone marrow suppression due to systemic absorption of the drug.

Side effects 
The main side effect of thiotepa is bone marrow suppression resulting in leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and anemia. Liver and lung toxicity may also occur.

History 
Thiotepa was developed by the American Cyanamid company in the early 1950s and reported to media outlets in 1953. In 1959, thiotepa was registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a drug therapy for several solid cancers.

On January 29, 2007, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) designated thiotepa as an orphan drug. On April 2, 2007, the United States FDA designated thiotepa as a conditioning treatment for use prior to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

References 

Alkylating antineoplastic agents
Aziridines
Cancer treatments
IARC Group 1 carcinogens
Organophosphoric amides
Orphan drugs
Thiophosphoryl compounds
Vântoase

Vântoase are creatures present in Romanian folklore, as a sort of female spirits (iele). Popular beliefs describe them as capable of causing dust storms and powerful winds, similar to harpies. They live in forests, in the air, in deep lakes, and use a special wagon for traveling. The Vântoase are also believed to be capable of attacking children, and the only protection against them is the mysterious "grass of the winds".

References

Romanian legendary creatures
Female legendary creatures
Deities and spirits
Harpies
Kookaburra (rocket)

Kookaburra is an Australian sounding rocket consisting of a Lupus-rocket as first stage and a Musca rocket as second stage. The Kookaburra was launched 33 times, from Woomera, South Australia, and from Gan, which is an island located in Addu Atoll, the southernmost atoll of the Maldives and also from Kelaa Island, again another island located up in the north of Maldives.

Technical data 
Apogee: 75 km
Total Mass: 100 kg
Core Diameter: 0.12 m
Total Length: 3.40 m

External links 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20081015145230/http://astronautix.com/lvs/kooburra.htm

Sounding rockets of Australia
Pietro Piller Cottrer

Pietro Piller Cottrer (born 20 December 1974) is an Italian former cross-country skier who won gold medal in the 4 ×10 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He was born at Sappada in the province of Udine.

Career
Piller Cottrer's first relevant success in the cross-country skiing world cup came in 1997, when he won the 50 km race at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival. In the same year he won the bronze medal with the Italian relay at the 1997 World Championships in Trondheim. Thanks to Piller Cottrer's presence, the Italian relay confirmed as one of the best in the world winning silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics and, better, to gold medal in the home Olympics of Turin. He also won an Olympic bronze medal in the 15 + 15 km pursuit.

His successes include a World Championship gold medal in the 15 km freestyle pursuit at the 2005 World Championships, and a total of seven victories in the World Cup. The latest in Vancouver 2009.

Piller Cottrer won a bronze medal in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit at the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Piller Cottrer skied a 34:00.9 in the 15 km freestyle event and won the silver medal. In February 2013, Piller Cottrer announced his retirement.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games
 4 medals – (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)

World Championships
 3 medals – (1 gold, 2 bronze)

World Cup

Season standings

Individual podiums
6 victories – (5 , 1 ) 
21 podiums – (20 , 1 )

Team podiums
 4 victories – (4 ) 
 20 podiums – (19 , 1 ) 

Note:  Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.

References

External links
 
 Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 
  
 Piller Cottrer retires

1974 births
Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Italian male cross-country skiers
Living people
Olympic cross-country skiers for Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Sportspeople from the Province of Belluno
Skiers from Veneto
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Tour de Ski skiers
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Georgiana Blakiston (born 13 February 1933) is an English actress. She is best known in her native United Kingdom for her role in the television comedy series Brass, to international audiences as Mon Mothma in the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, and Aunt Agatha in Poldark.

Early life
Blakiston was born in London, the younger daughter of archivist"the most widely known archivist of his generation in England" and author Hugh Noel Blakiston (1905–1984), and (Rachel) Georgiana (1903–1995), daughter of barrister Harold John Hastings Russell (a descendant of the 6th Duke of Bedford) and Lady Victoria Alberta Leveson-Gower, whose father was the statesman Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville. The Blakiston family originated in County Durham, and were related to the Blakiston baronets.

Blakiston attended RADA.

Career
In the 1960s, Blakiston appeared in three episodes of The Avengers as well a number of ITC productions such as The Saint, Department S and the 1969 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "Never Trust a Ghost". She appeared to great acclaim as Marjorie Ferrar in the BBC Television adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967. In 1977 she appeared in Raffles as Lady Paulton, and also in Murder Most English as Helen Carobleat. In 1980/81, she starred in the BBC/Australian TV World War II comedy series  Private Schulz  as The Countess.

In 1983, Blakiston played the wayward character of Lady Patience Hardacre in the satirical Granada television series Brass, which ran for three series. She portrayed Mon Mothma, the primary political leader of the Rebel Alliance in the 1983 Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi. The 1980s saw Blakiston in a lead role as head of a special unit within British intelligence, opposite Alec McCowen in Mr. Palfrey of Westminster.

In 1986, Blakiston played the villain Bess Sedgwick opposite Joan Hickson's Miss Marple, in the episode "At Bertram's Hotel" of the BBC's Miss Marple series. She also appeared as Lionel Hardcastle's ex-wife in an episode of As Time Goes By. She and Geoffrey Palmer (Lionel) had previously played estranged spouses a decade earlier in Carla Lane's series The Last Song.
From 2015 to 2018, Blakiston played Aunt Agatha in the BBC adaptation Poldark.

Personal life
In 1970, Blakiston married the actor Russell Hunter after they had played together in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. They had a son and a daughter together, but later divorced.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 

1933 births

English television actresses
English film actresses
Living people
Actors from Chelsea, London
Actresses from London
Alumni of RADA
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Alexander King (author)

Alexander King (1899–1965), born Alexander Rosenfeld in Vienna, was a bestselling humorist, memoirist, and media personality of the early television era, based in the United States. Alexander changed his last name from Rosenfeld to King around the time he married his first wife Nettie.

In his late fifties, after becoming a frequent guest on the Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, King emerged as a presence in the realm of national celebrity: Elegant mannerisms and trademark bow tie, who spoke frankly and disarmingly about his bohemian lifestyle, multiple marriages, and years-long struggle with drug addiction. His checkered past led Time magazine to describe him as:
an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, and ex-dope addict. For a quarter-century, he was an ex-painter, and by his own bizarre account qualifies as an ex-midwife. He is also an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of sufficient age (60) to remember muttonchopped Emperor Franz Joseph. When doctors told him a few years ago that he might soon be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic ulcer, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay stories of the life of all these earlier Kings.

He was also the author of several books, including May This House Be Safe from Tigers, Mine Enemy Grows Older, (an account of his addiction to morphine, and his recovery), I Should Have Kissed Her More, and Is There Life After Birth. He illustrated and/or translated numerous editions of classics in the early 20th century as well as a book by Peter Altenberg released as Alexander King Presents Peter Altenberg's, Evocations of Love (a collection of sweet memories of the heart from another place and time in history). King's easy conversational recollections of the first part of the 20th century are informative and often funny.

External links
Alexander King A register of his papers in the Library of Congress
May This House Be Safe from Tigers review from Time magazine

Alexander King on the Jack Paar Tonight Show – YouTube

20th-century American memoirists
1899 births
1965 deaths
Austrian emigrants to the United States
I Want What I Want

I Want What I Want by Geoff Brown was first published in 1966 by Great Britain's Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It was made into a film by the same title  starring Anne Heywood.

References 

1966 British novels
Weidenfeld & Nicolson books
British LGBT novels
Novels with transgender themes
British novels adapted into films
1960s LGBT novels