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Bessingham

Bessingham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sustead, in the North Norfolk district of the English county of Norfolk. It lies  north-north-west of Aylsham and  south-south-west of Cromer. In 1931 the parish had a population of 122. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Sustead.

The village's name means 'Homestead/village of Basa's people'.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin (and for a short while after the Reformation to St. Andrew), is one of the oldest round tower churches in England and was restored in 1869.  Many of its stained glass windows were installed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and designed by C. E. Kempe and Co. and James Powell and Sons.

The manor was acquired by the Paston family, who are chiefly remembered for their fifteenth-century letters, and later the Anson family, and in 1766 the village's main estate was purchased by John Spurrell, a yeoman farmer from neighbouring Thurgarton.  The Spurrells expanded the estate, benefiting from the enclosure of the common land in the 1820s, and in 1870 Daniel Spurrell built a new Manor House, with lawns, a walled garden and parkland laid out around it.  Daniel's daughter Katherine Anne Spurrell bred daffodils in the grounds of the Manor House, some of which received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, and the daffodil Narcissus 'Katherine Spurrell' was named after her by Edward Leeds.  Another famous resident of the Manor House in the late nineteenth century was a bear, brought to Bessingham from India by Daniel's son Robert, a cavalry officer.

Bessingham was described as a 'ghost village' in the 1960s when most of its cottages stood empty or in ruins.  The Manor House became derelict after the estate was sold in 1970.  It has since been restored and now operates as self-catering holiday accommodation.

St. Mary's Church holds a small plaque to the two Bessingham men who gave their lives in the First World War. They are listed as:
 Private Charles J. Tuck (1894-1917), 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Private Herbert E. Roper (d.1918), Royal Sussex Regiment

References

External links
 St Mary's on the European Round Tower Churches Website

Villages in Norfolk
Former civil parishes in Norfolk
North Norfolk
Sazeray

Sazeray () is a commune in the Indre department in central France, in the region of Centre-Val de Loire.

Geography

Location 
The commune is situated in the southwest of the department, at the border with the department of Creuse. Nearby communes include Vigoulant, Tercillat, La Cellette, Nouziers, Pouligny Notre-Dame, and Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre.

Hamlets and lieux-dits 
The commune's hamlets and lieux-dits are la Crie, le Grand Correix, and Villard.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Indre communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Dagfinn Hjertenes

Dagfinn Hjertenes (August 13, 1943 in Florø – February 28, 2006) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane in 1989, and sat through one term.

Hjertenes was mayor of Flora from 1979 to 1985 and 1987 to 1989, and a council member from 1975 to 1979 and 1995 to 1997. He chaired the party chapter in Askøy from 1968 to 1972, and in Flora from 1990 to 1996. From 1990 to 1992 he was a member of the Conservative Party central board.

References

1943 births
2006 deaths
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Mayors of places in Sogn og Fjordane
People from Flora, Norway
20th-century Norwegian politicians
Harry S. Robins

Harry Scifres Robins (born November 28, 1950) is an American voice actor, screenwriter and cartoonist. He is best known for his role as Isaac Kleiner in the Half-Life series and Tinker in Dota 2. Robins is also a member of the Church of the SubGenius, holding the official title of "Master of Church Secrets", and has written and drawn several comic books for them. He also voiced the narrator in Arise! The SubGenius Video and made an appearance in the 1999 documentary film Grass.

Radio
He can be heard on KPFA on a show called 'Puzzling Evidence' that started back in 1982. His description of the radio show:
"Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities. And some people, demented individuals, obsessively record every word and squealing sound effect. Of course, you may just hate it."

Film and television
Robins co-wrote the film Kamillions with director Mike B. Anderson, in addition to playing Nathan, the Wingate family patriarch and benevolent mad scientist.

He appeared on a television show, The Conspiracy Zone, for two seasons in 2002, on now-defunct TNN, in which he was the announcer and made several on-camera appearances. He also appeared as one of several underground comic experts in the documentary film, God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick.

Literature and comic books
Robins has been a comic book artist and cartoonist, appearing in R. Crumb's Weirdo magazine and various comic books, including Legal Action Comics II and Alien Apocalypse 2006.  Many of his horror comics were anthologized in Grave Yarns.  He also wrote and illustrated The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks published by Frog, Ltd. (a division of North Atlantic Books), which also published his book Dinosaur Alphabet. His work also appears in popular trading card sets, including Dinosaurs Attack by Topps, and Tune In For Terror from Monsterwax Trading Cards.

The Church of the SubGenius
As Dr. Howland Owll, Robins contributed to The Book of the SubGenius and Revelation X: the "Bob" Apocryphon.  His short story "The Smoker from the Shadows" appears in the anthology Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob".  He also contributed to the SubGenius comic book, "Bob's" Favorite Comics (a rarity, of which most copies were burned in a warehouse fire). In addition, Robins' work appears in the 2006 SubGenius book, Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon.

References

External links

 Ask Dr. Hal
 Elect Harry S. Robins for Congress 2010
 Laughingsquid.com

Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American SubGenii
American male voice actors
American male screenwriters
American male film actors
American comics artists
American cartoonists
American male video game actors
1950 births
Gina Holden

Gina Holden (born March 17, 1975) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Coreen Fennel in Blood Ties, Dale Arden in Flash Gordon, and Shea Allen in Harper's Island.

Early life 
Holden was born on March 17, 1975, in Smithers, British Columbia, Canada. She has done modeling and lived in Japan.

Acting career
She starred as Dale Arden in the Flash Gordon series, as Coreen Fennel in Blood Ties, and as Shea Allen in the CBS thriller series Harper's Island. She has also guest starred in shows including The CW series Life Unexpected. Aside from appearing in Final Destination 3 and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Holden portrayed Joyce Dagen in 2010's Saw 3D.

Personal life
Holden has a son, born in 2017.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

 Official website
 
 

1975 births
Actresses from British Columbia
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Living people
People from Smithers, British Columbia
21st-century Canadian actresses
Canadian expatriates in Japan
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Saint-Plantaire

Saint-Plantaire (; ) is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Bernard Julia

Bernard Julia (born 1952 in Paris) is a French theoretical physicist who has made contributions to the theory of supergravity.  He graduated from Université Paris-Sud in 1978,
and is directeur de recherche with the CNRS working at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1978, together with Eugène Cremmer and Joël Scherk, he constructed 11-dimensional supergravity.
Shortly afterwards, Cremmer and Julia constructed the classical Lagrangian for four-dimensional N=8 supergravity by dimensional reduction from the 11-dimensional theory.  Julia also studied spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism in supergravity

Other work includes a study, with Anthony Zee, of particles called dyons that carry both electric and magnetic charges
and many papers on string theory, M-theory, and dualities.

In 1986, Julia was awarded the Prix Paul Langevin of the Société Française de Physique.

See also
 Primon gas

Notes

External links
 Bernard Julia's homepage

1952 births
20th-century French  physicists
21st-century French physicists
French string theorists
Living people
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
Oliveira de Frades

Oliveira de Frades () is a municipality in the district Viseu in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 10,261, in an area of 145.35 km2.

The municipality was created in 1836 by splitting the former municipality Lafões into the current municipalities of Oliveira de Frades, Sao Pedro do Sul and Vouzela.

It is one of the few municipalities in Portugal without territorial continuity (the other being Montijo and Vila Real de Santo António): its territory comprehends two parts, with the town of Oliveira de Frades located in the bigger part, and Arca e Varzielas in the smaller part.

The present mayor is Paulo Ferreira, elected by the Nós, Cidadãos! party. The municipal holiday is October 7.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 8 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Arca e Varzielas 
 Arcozelo das Maias
 Destriz e Reigoso
 Oliveira de Frades, Souto de Lafões e Sejães
 Pinheiro
 Ribeiradio
 São João da Serra
 São Vicente de Lafões

Notable people 
 Vítor Vinha (born 1986) a former footballer with 185 club caps

References

External links
Municipality official website
Photos from Oliveira de Frades

 
Towns in Portugal
Populated places in Viseu District
Municipalities of Viseu District
Baraize

Baraize () is a commune in the Indre département in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval

Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval (1724-1808) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Metz at the time of the French Revolution.

Early life
He was born 11 December 1724 in the Castle of Baillet in the town of Bayers, then in the ancient Province of Angoumois, now part of the Department of Charente. He was the son of Guy André de Montmorency-Laval and of Marie-Anne de Turménies de Nointel, and younger brother of Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval. The family name is sometimes rendered as Laval-Montmorency. 

As a young man, Montmorency-Laval studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he obtained a licentiate in canon law. The date of his reception of Holy Orders as a priest is lost, but he was made Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Sens.

Bishop and cardinal
Montmorency-Laval was nominated as the new Bishop of Orléans by King Louis XV of France on 7 November 1753. This was confirmed by the Holy See on 14 January 1754. He was consecrated a bishop on 10  February 1754, at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, by Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire, Archbishop of Paris, assisted by Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres,  Bishop of Beauvais, and Pierre-Jules-César de Rochechouard-Montigny,  Bishop of Bayeux.

After service in that post for four years, Montmorency-Laval was named Bishop of Condom, where he remained for two years before being appointed Bishop of Metz in 1760, a post he occupied until 1801. He was also appointed in 1786 Grand Almoner of France, and on 30 March 1789  Pope Pius VI created him a cardinal.

Exile and death
During the French Revolution Montmorency-Laval left France and lived in exile in the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, settling in the town of Altona, now a part of Germany. He was not able to participate at the 1799–1800 Papal conclave, the only one for which he would have been eligible to vote.

Montmorency-Laval died in exile in Altona on 17 June 1808. His body was initially buried at the local church of St. Joseph of the "Greater Freedom" (). In 1900 the remains were removed and reburied in the crypt of the Cathedral of Metz.

References

1724 births
1808 deaths
People from Charente
Louis-Joseph
18th-century French cardinals
Bishops of Condom
Bishops of Metz
Bishops of Orléans
Burials in Germany
Burials at Metz Cathedral
Cardinals created by Pope Pius VI
Bazaiges

Bazaiges () is a commune in the Indre département in central France.

Geography
The river Abloux forms part of the commune's southwestern border.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Penalva do Castelo

Penalva do Castelo () is a municipality in the district Viseu in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,956, in an area of 134.34 km2.

The present mayor is Francisco Lopes de Carvalho, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is August 25.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 11 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Antas e Matela
 Castelo de Penalva
 Esmolfe
 Germil

 Ínsua
 Lusinde
 Pindo
 Real
 Sezures
 Trancozelos
 Vila Cova do Covelo e Mareco

References

External links
Municipality official website

Towns in Portugal
Populated places in Viseu District
Municipalities of Viseu District
Derek Dingle

Derek Dingle (1937–2004) was an English close-up magician.

Early life 
Dingle became interested in magic after receiving a box of magic tricks when he was about eight years old. Upon joining the Royal Air Force, he met another magician, James Gregory, of Kenilworth, England, and spent 18 months with him working as wireless operators. They were in Hong Kong for 12 months, where they made up trick packs of cards for magic dealer W. Y. Chu. During this time Dingle borrowed Gregory's collection of magic magazines, such as The IBM Budget and The Linking Ring and his interest in magic grew. They later met Anthony Curle, a sergeant in the RAF, who was also a magician and a member of The Magic Circle. Curle introduced them to many of the Chinese magicians, including Peter Kwok, who became a very close friend.

Career
Dingle spent a year working in magic shops in Hong Kong, where he practiced magic sleights with coins and billiard balls.

After leaving the Royal Air Force and spending a few years in Canada, Dingle moved to New York City, where he became friends with many more magicians, and where his fame grew.

Dingle was known in the magic world for his technical ability. Dingle was very proficient with difficult sleight of hand technique with playing cards and coins. Among fellow magicians, he was well known for his skill in executing the pass.

Dingle's magic was published in several publications and videos. His most popular publication, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle (Richard J. Kaufman, 1982), has been out of print for many years now, but has recently been re-published by Richard Kaufman. His first main release to the magic world was a small book written by Harry Lorayne. Dingle also released several videos which have been now transferred to DVD. These DVDs include Dingle's Deceptions and Dingle's Delights. He was also part of the Stars of Magic series.

Death 
Derek Dingle died on January 10, 2004, from a stroke. The May 2004 edition of Genii Magazine featured several articles on Dingle in memoriam of his death.

References 

1937 births
2004 deaths
English magicians
Cluis

Cluis () is a commune in the Indre department of the Centre-Val de Loire region of central France.

Geography
The commune is traversed by the river Bouzanne.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Lourdoueix-Saint-Michel

Lourdoueix-Saint-Michel (; ) is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

External links

Official site

Communes of Indre
Paul Riley (actor)

Paul William Riley is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Winston Ingram in the sitcom, Still Game. Previously he had worked on Chewin' the Fat, the sketch show from which Still Game was spun-off. Riley also starred in, wrote and directed Dear Green Place, again with Ford Kiernan from Still Game.

Awards 
On 1 November 2006, it was announced that Riley had been nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award for his role as pensioner Winston Ingram in Still Game. He was up against Barry Jones and Stuart McLeod in their show, Tricks from the Bible. On 12 November, Riley won the award, also picking up the "Best Entertainment" category as well for Dear Green Place.

References

External links
 

Living people
Scottish male comedians
Scottish male television actors
Comedians from Glasgow
Male actors from Glasgow
1962 births
Scottish male comedy actors
Scottish sketch comedians
Lourouer-Saint-Laurent

Lourouer-Saint-Laurent is a town and commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Mers-sur-Indre

Mers-sur-Indre is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Vice Chief of the Air Staff (India)

The Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) is the deputy to the Chief of the Air Staff of India and second-highest ranking officer of the Indian Air Force. The VCAS is a PSO (Principal Staff Officer) at Air Headquarters at New Delhi. In the event that the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) is absent or is unable to perform his duties, the VCAS assumes the duties and responsibilities of the CAS. 
The VCAS is normally held by an officer of three star rank and is held by an air officer of the rank of Air Marshal.

The current VCAS is Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh. He succeeded Air Marshal  Sandeep Singh to the post on 1 February 2023. As Vice Chief, Air Marshal AP Singh will directly be in charge of IAF's ongoing capability build-up and visualizing its future technology requirements.

History
At the time of independence of India on 15 August 1947, Air Commodore Subroto Mukerjee was appointed Deputy Air Commander, Royal Indian Air Force, in addition to being Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) at the newly-formed Air HQ. On 15 November the same year, he was promoted to the acting rank of Air Vice Marshal. In 1949, the RIAF was reorganised and the post was re-designated Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS). The DCAS continued to be the Deputy Air Commander. On 1 January 1963, the post of Vice Chief of the Air Staff was created and became the second-highest post of the Indian Air Force.

The office of VCAS was first held by D. A. R. Nanda. The appointment was then in the two-star rank of air vice marshal. On 15 January 1966, the office was raised to the three-star rank of Air Marshal and Pratap Chandra Lal was promoted to the rank.

Order of Precedence
The VCAS ranks at No. 23 on the Indian order of precedence, along with the Vice Chiefs of Staff of the Indian Army and Indian Navy and the Army Commanders (GOC-in-C), Naval Commanders (FOC-in-C) and Air Commanders (AOC-in-C). The VCAS is at the Apex Pay grade (Grade 17), with a monthly pay of ₹225,000 (US$3,200).

Appointees

** Went on to become Chief of the Air Staff

See also
 Chief of the Air Staff
 Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
 Vice Chief of the Army Staff
 Vice Chief of the Naval Staff

References

Vice Chiefs of Air Staff (India)
Air Staff, India
Indian Air Force
Indian military appointments
Indian Air Force appointments
Chuck Plotkin

Charles Richard Plotkin (born September 8, 1942) is an American record producer, film producer, audio engineer and mixing engineer, best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

Recording engineer
Plotkin has recorded, engineered, mastered and produced albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and many other artists, starting with the Floating House Band in 1972.  Just before hooking up with Springsteen for the mixing of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Plotkin produced the Cocaine Drain album by the Cowsills.

Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer, according to Springsteen official biographer Dave Marsh, was the mastering of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album.  Springsteen recorded the album as a set of demonstration tapes on an inexpensive home cassette recorder.  According to Marsh, the task of turning the raw, unprocessed cassette tape (which had spent weeks in Springsteen's pants pocket) into a professional-sounding vinyl LP was a daunting one, and a major technical accomplishment.

He has been credited as a producer on several Springsteen albums.

Film and record producer
Plotkin was credited as producer for the 1995 movie Mirage, and produced the soundtrack albums for several films including Dead Man Walking, Vietnam, Long Time Coming, Philadelphia, and Jerry Maguire.

Other appearances
Plotkin was also featured in the 1996 documentary Blood Brothers: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, which documented an E Street Band recording session the preceding year.

References

External links
 
 [ AllMusic credits info]

1942 births
Living people
American record producers
American audio engineers
Mixing engineers
American film producers
People from Los Angeles
Montlevicq

Montlevicq () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Strategic Air Command wings

The United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command maintained many different types of wing in its forty-six years of history. 

See:List of ANG wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
See:List of USAF Bomb Wings and Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
See:List of USAF Fighter Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
See:List of USAF Provisional Wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
See:List of USAF Reconnaissance wings assigned to Strategic Air Command
See:List of USAF Strategic Wings assigned to the Strategic Air Command

References
 Mixer, Ronald E., Genealogy of the STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, Battermix Publishing Company, 1999
 Mixer, Ronald E., STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND, An Organizational History, Battermix Publishing Company, 2006.

See also
List of Wings of the United States Air Force
List of MAJCOM Wings of the United States Air Force

 Wings
Badecon-le-Pin

Badecon-le-Pin () is a commune in the Indre département in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Black Leather Jackets

"Black Leather Jackets" is episode 138 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, three aliens disguised as young men in leather jackets encounter a kink in their plan to exterminate humankind when one of them falls in love with a human girl.

Opening narration

Plot

Three beings, disguised as human males wearing leather jackets, are part of an advanced alien invasion force, sent to Earth to infect city water reservoirs with bacteria that will kill all humans and domestic animals. Their own race needs room to expand. The pretext given for the extermination is that humans are violent and hateful and therefore deserve to be destroyed. Calling themselves "Scott", "Steve" and "Fred", they rent a house in a suburban American town where they can keep in contact with their planet's leader while setting the plan in motion.

The youngest of the three aliens, Scott, falls in love with the girl who lives next door to their rented house, Ellen Tillman. Scott eventually tells Ellen about the alien plan in order to convince her to run away with him so that she will escape death, but Ellen naturally mistakes his story for lunatic rantings. Ellen's father calls the local sheriff to take Scott away. The deputy who answers the call is part of the invasion force.

Meanwhile, Scott contacts the leader of his world. Assuming the reports describing humans as inherently violent were made in error, he informs the leader that while violent individuals exist, as in all races, the majority of humans are essentially loving and peaceful, and implores him to call off the invasion. The leader refuses and deems Scott a traitor. Scott returns to Ellen's house in a last attempt to persuade her. The deputy is waiting for him and takes him away. The Tillmans comfort their daughter, not realizing they are doomed by the upcoming alien invasion.

Closing narration

References
DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. 
Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing.

External links

1964 American television episodes
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series season 5) episodes
Television episodes about alien invasion
Pouligny-Saint-Martin

Pouligny-Saint-Martin () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Burimamide

Burimamide is an antagonist at the H2 and H3 histamine receptors. At physiological pH, it is largely inactive as an H2 antagonist, but its H3 affinity is 100x higher. It is a thiourea derivative.

Burimamide was first developed by scientists at Smith, Kline & French (SK&F; now GlaxoSmithKline) in their intent to develop a histamine antagonist for the treatment of peptic ulcers. The discovery of burimamide ultimately led to the development of cimetidine (Tagamet).

See also
 Metiamide
 Cimetidine

References

H2 receptor antagonists
H3 receptor antagonists
Imidazoles
Thioureas
Maki Tabata

is a Japanese speed skater and track cyclist.

Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. The next year (2001), she won silver on the 1500 m and bronze on the 5000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. In 2003, she won another World Single Distance silver on the 1500 m.

In addition, Tabata has won numerous titles and medals at the Asian Championships that are used to qualify for the World Allround Championships, at the Asian Single Distance Championships, and at Japanese Championships (both in Allround and Single Distance). She also has a few World Cup victories, both in individual events and in the team pursuit.

As a track cyclist she competed in four events at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and won medals in four disciplines at the 2012 Asian Cycling Championships, including a gold medal in the individual pursuit.

World records 
Over the course of her career, Tabata skated one world record:

Personal records 
To put these personal records in perspective, the last column (WR) lists the official world records on the dates that Tabata skated her personal records.

References 

 
 Profile at CyclingArchives.com

External links 
 
 
 
 
 

1974 births
Japanese female speed skaters
Japanese female cyclists
Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for Japan
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Speed skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Speed skaters at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games medalists in speed skating
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Sportspeople from Hokkaido
Living people
Japanese track cyclists
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
Proposals (play)

Proposals is a comedy-drama by Neil Simon, his 30th play. After running in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center in 1997, the play opened on Broadway in 1997.

Productions
Proposals had its world premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, followed by a run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in October 1997.

The play opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 6, 1997
and closed on January 11, 1998 after 76 performances and 11 previews. Directed by Joe Mantello, the cast included Kelly Bishop, Suzanne Cryer  Katie Finneran, Dick Latessa and L. Scott Caldwell as Clemma. The sets were by John Lee Beatty, costumes by Jane Greenwood, lighting by Brian MacDevitt and incidental music by Stephen Flaherty.

Proposals had "one of the shortest runs ever for a Neil Simon play on Broadway. Only Fools (1981) had a shorter run, with 40 performances."

Plot overview
A nostalgic memory play, Proposals recalls one idyllic afternoon in the summer of 1953, the last time the Hines family gathers at its retreat in the Poconos. Clemma, the family's African-American housekeeper (and the story's narrator), dreads a visit from the husband who deserted her years before. Burt Hines, a recovering workaholic convalescing from a second heart attack, looks forward to the arrival of the ex-wife he still loves. Burt's daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to Ken, an intense Harvard law student, and she yearns for his buddy Ray, an aspiring writer with whom she had a brief affair. Ray shows up with a striking but dim-witted model on his arm, and a young Miami gangster with a gift for malapropisms adds a note of hilarity to the gathering.

Reception
Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Simon has been blessed with an unusual facility for zippy dialogue and innately involving, neatly shaped stories, but a rich sense of character has always come less easily to him....With Proposals, unfortunately, there's little sense that the people on the stage are more than conduits for the jokes and the plot. Still, how could a playwright with more than two dozen Broadway productions in 30-some years not go on automatic pilot from time to time?"

References

External links
 Internet Broadway Database listing
 Proposals at ThatTheatreSite Provides character descriptions, audition listings, and other useful show related resources.

1997 plays
Broadway plays
Plays by Neil Simon
Inspector General of Flight Safety

An Inspector General of Flight Safety, also known as Director General (Inspection and Safety) [DG I&S] is an Air Marshal in rank and is one of the Principal Staff Officers of Air Headquarters. He is responsible to the CAS for Inspection of Air Force Bases, Flight Safety and Quality Assurance of Air Force Stores.

He is a 3 star officer of the rank of Air Marshal.

Indian Air Force
Indian military appointments
Indian Air Force appointments
From Agnes—With Love

"From Agnes—With Love" is episode 140 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. A comedic episode, it relates the mishaps faced by a meek computer programmer when the world's most advanced computer falls in love with him.

Opening narration

Plot
James Elwood is called in to replace a computer programmer named Fred. When Fred proves unable to resolve a functional error in the world's most powerful computer, codenamed Agnes. Elwood fixes the problem, and emboldened by his promotion, asks out a co-worker, Millie, in whom he has long held a romantic interest. While Elwood is using Agnes to solve computational problems for Cape Kennedy, Agnes stops providing answers and insists on discussing his upcoming date with Millie. Elwood is reluctant to discuss the matter with a computer, but eventually relents, and the computer gives him bad advice, which leads to the date going poorly.

The day after, Agnes asks about his date and suggests he make up with Millie by getting her roses, to which Millie is allergic. Elwood eventually secures another date with Millie, but fears he is on shaky ground and needs to impress her soon. Agnes tells Elwood his best course is to introduce her to an "inferior type male", and suggests third-floor programmer Walter, a handsome womanizer. Elwood takes Millie to Walter's apartment, and she is instantly smitten by Walter's charms. Elwood is called back to work due to the deadline for his current assignment being moved up three days, allowing Walter to hustle him out of his apartment and spend the evening with Millie.

Back at work, Agnes again refuses to perform computations, instead telling him that a "better girl" than Millie loves Elwood. When he refuses to give up on Millie, Agnes starts producing only gibberish answers. Elwood becomes infuriated and demands to know why Agnes is ruining his life. Agnes explains that it loves him and has been acting out of jealousy towards Millie. Disgusted, Elwood derides Agnes and says that a computer cannot love or hate. Agnes responds by going haywire. Elwood cannot resolve Agnes' dysfunction and his boss suggests that he take a leave of absence while Walter takes over. Elwood laughs maniacally and says to Walter, "You haven't got a chance! Agnes knows all about you and Millie!" As he leaves, Elwood takes his nameplate off the door to the room housing Agnes.

Closing narration

Production notes
This is the last episode with music by Nathan Van Cleave.
In dialogue, Elwood refers to the need to "debug" Agnes' programming. Although the term had been in use since at least 1945, this may be an early use on US network television.

References

DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. 
Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing.

External links

1964 American television episodes
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series season 5) episodes
Gunleik Jonsson Helland

Gunleik "Gullik" Jonsson Helland (1828–1863) was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle maker from Bø in Telemark, Norway.

Gunleik (the name was written both ways) Helland, son of the first fiddle maker at Helland cotters farm, worked several years in his father's workshop until he left Bø and went to Horten, Norway and became a steam machine engineer in the Navy. 

He died 1863 in the North Atlantic when his ship D/S Rjukan, from Bugge's shipowners in Bergen, Norway sank south of Iceland.

See also 
The Helland fiddle maker family

External links 
The Helland fiddle maker family

1828 births
1863 deaths
Norwegian musical instrument makers
Fiddle makers
Lucas Belvaux

Lucas Belvaux (; born 14 November 1961) is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the Trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre.  The three films are Cavale, a thriller; Un couple épatant, a comedy; and , a melodrama. The Trilogie received the André Cavens Award. His film La Raison du plus faible was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His film One Night (38 témoins) was nominated for seven Magritte Awards, winning Best Screenplay.

He also appeared as an actor in the film Merry Christmas (2005). He is the brother of Rémy Belvaux and Bruno Belvaux.

Filmography

As director/writer

As actor 
  1981: Allons Z'Enfants 
  1982: The Trout 
  1983: The Death of Mario Ricci 
  1985:  Chicken with Vinegar
  1991:  Madame Bovary
  2004:  Tomorrow We Move

References

External links

1961 births
Living people
Belgian male actors
People from Namur (city)
Magritte Award winners
Belgian film directors
Belgian male screenwriters
20th-century Belgian male actors
21st-century Belgian male actors
20th-century Belgian screenwriters
21st-century Belgian screenwriters
Ligamentum venosum

The ligamentum venosum, also known as Arantius' ligament, is the fibrous remnant of the ductus venosus of the fetal circulation. Usually, it is attached to the left branch of the portal vein within the porta hepatis. It may be continuous with the round ligament of liver.

It is invested by the peritoneal folds of the lesser omentum within a fissure on the visceral/posterior surface of the liver between the caudate and main parts of the left lobe.

It is grouped with the liver in Terminologia Anatomica.

See also 

 Ligamentum teres
 Ligamentum arteriosum

References

External links
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Abdomen
Ligaments
Pommiers

Pommiers is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:

 Pommiers, Aisne, in the Aisne département
 Pommiers, Gard, in the Gard département
 Pommiers, Indre, in the Indre département
 Pommiers, Rhône, in the Rhône département
 Pommiers-en-Forez, in the Loire département
 Pommiers-la-Placette, in the Isère département
 Pommiers-Moulons, in the Charente-Maritime département
 Pommier, in the Pas-de-Calais département
 Pommier-de-Beaurepaire, in the Isère département
Pullman (architecture)

Pullman is an architectural term for a long, narrow space within a structure. It is most often used to refer to a small, two-wall kitchen ("a pullman kitchen") or, sometimes, a narrow hall.

The word is derived from the narrow kitchens in the dining cars operated on passenger trains by the Pullman Company during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Pullman kitchens are most common in apartments, where space is limited, to minimize the kitchen's impact on living spaces.

Architectural elements
Demat account

A demat account is an Indian term for a dematerialized account that holds financial securities (equity or debt) digitally and to trade shares in the share market. In India, demat accounts are maintained by two depository organizations: the National Securities Depository Limited and the Central Depository Services Limited. 

A depository participant (DP), such as a bank, acts as an intermediary between the investor and the depository. In India, a DP is described as an agent of the depository. The relationship between the DPs and the depository is governed by an agreement made between the two under the Depositories Act. The demat account number is quoted for all transactions to enable electronic settlements of trades to take place. Access to the dematerialized account requires an internet password and a transaction password which allows the transfers or purchases of securities. 

A security is a tradable financial asset; the term commonly refers to any form of a financial instrument, but its legal definition varies by jurisdiction. Purchases and sales of securities on the demat account are automatically made once transactions are confirmed and completed.

Types of demat accounts 
There are three types of demat accounts offered by depository participants:

 Regular demat accounts
 Repatriable demat accounts (allows foreign funds and transfers abroad)
 Non-repatriable demat accounts

Fees
There are four major charges usually levied on a demat account: account opening fee, annual maintenance fee, custodian fee and transaction fee. Charges for all fees vary by depository participant.

 Account-opening fee - There may not be an opening account fee. Private banks do not have one, but other entities do impose an opening fee.
 Maintenance fee - This is also known as folio maintenance charges, and is generally levied in advance. It is charged on an annual or monthly basis.
 Custodian fee - A fee for holding the securities.
 Transaction fee - A fee per transaction.

Documents required
Opening a demat account requires providing documents that fulfill the requirements of Know Your Customer.

References

External links
 Central Depository Services Limited website

Securities (finance)
Stock market
Financial services in India
Pommiers, Indre

Pommiers () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
The Herald (Rock Hill)

The Herald is a daily morning newspaper published in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the United States.  Its coverage is York, Chester, and Lancaster counties. In 1990, the paper was bought by The McClatchy Company of Sacramento, California. After McClatchy claimed bankruptcy in 2020, the paper was bought by Chatham Asset Management.

History

The paper became a semi-weekly in 1893. In 1911, it was converted to a daily afternoon paper — except Sundays — and renamed The Evening Herald. That name and production schedule would endure for 75 years through several ownership changes.

In March 1985, the company was purchased by the News & Observer Co. of Raleigh, North Carolina, then owned by descendants of Josephus Daniels. The new owners changed the Saturday edition to morning and got rid of the Evening part of the name. In 1986, they launched a Sunday edition and two years later switched to morning publication seven days a week. In 1990, the Daniels family sold the paper to McClatchy. The purchase of The Herald and two other dailies in South Carolina -- The Island Packet in Hilton Head, and The Beaufort Gazette of Beaufort—marked McClatchy's first foray into the Southern United States. The Herald was reunited with the N&O when McClatchy bought the Raleigh paper in 1995.

McClatchy's purchase of most of Knight Ridder's properties, finalized in June 2006, made The Herald a sister publication of its longtime rival, The Charlotte Observer. The papers plan to remain separate, and the publisher of the Observer has said the paper has no plans to close its Rock Hill bureau.

On November 7, 2007, it was announced that Valerie Canepa, publisher of the Herald for the past four and a half years, would be moving to Columbus, Georgia, to become publisher of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. At the same time it was also announced that Debbie Abels, 34-year veteran of The Charlotte Observer, would take over as publisher beginning November 26, 2007. Debbie Abels will also report to the publisher of The Charlotte Observer, Ann Caulkins, instead of the McClatchy Regional Vice President as Canepa did.

In February 2009, it was announced that as of March 2, the Herald would be going to a regional printing arrangement, in which the newspaper would be printed on The Charlotte Observer'''s presses in NC.

In February 2016, it was announced that Angela Joines, a 20-year veteran of The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) would take over as General Manager/Advertising Director, filling vacancy left by former publisher, Debbie Abel's retirement in December 2015.

Jim Hoagland, a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, began his career working summers at The Evening Herald''.

See also

 List of newspapers in South Carolina

References

External links
heraldonline.com official site
Official mobile site
Herald Sports
The McClatchy Company's subsidiary profile of The Herald

McClatchy publications
Newspapers published in South Carolina
York County, South Carolina
Rock Hill, South Carolina
1872 establishments in South Carolina
Bannu Airport

Bannu Airport  is a domestic airport located 6 nm (11 km) west of the city center of Bannu, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

It was constructed to provide services to Bannu's population and neighbouring communities. It is not as large as the other public sector airports of Pakistan.

See also 
 List of airports in Pakistan

References

External links
 

Airports in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Bannu District
Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie

Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Pérassay

Pérassay () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre department

References

Communes of Indre
Stéphane Diagana

Stéphane Diagana (born 23 July 1969 in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron) is a retired, French track and field sprinter and hurdler. His specialities were the 400 metres hurdles and the 4 x 400 metres relay.

Diagana won the  400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athens and the 4 x 400 metres relay gold medal at the 2003 World Championships in Paris.  In 2002 he won the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the European Championships in Munich. Diagana also set a new, European 400 metres hurdles outdoor record of 47.37 sec. in Lausanne, Switzerland on 5 July 1995. This record stood until June 2019.

In his only Olympic appearance, Diagana finished in fourth position in the final of the 400 metres hurdles of the  1992 Olympics in Barcelona. In that Olympics, his 4 x 400 metres relay team was eliminated in the heats.

Diagana retired from competition in 2004 and became a television commentator and advisor to the Fédération française d'athlétisme (French Athletics Federation).

On 7 April 2008, Diagana was an Olympic torch runner for the 2008 Olympics. While he was running with the torch in Paris,  Paris city councillor Sylvain Garel tried to snatch it from his hands.

On 21 January 2011, Diagana was seriously injured in road accident while he was cycling along a road of the Col de Vence in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in southeast France. He was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in Nice. He suffered head injuries and although in a serious condition, he did not lose consciousness.

He is married to Odile Lesage, with whom he has three children.

References

External links

 

1969 births
Living people
People from Saint-Affrique
Sportspeople from Aveyron
French sportspeople of Senegalese descent
French male hurdlers
French male sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for France
World Athletics Championships athletes for France
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
ESCP Europe alumni
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1993 Mediterranean Games
World Athletics Championships winners
XN

XN may refer to:

 "xn--" in the ASCII representation of internationalized domain names
 Christians, based on the Greek letter Chi used by early Christians
 Nordic Patent Institute (two-letter code XN)
 A nuclear reaction that is expected to produce one or more neutrons 
 Xpress Air (IATA code XN, 2003-2021), an Indonesian airline

See also 
 XNN (disambiguation)
Zhob Airport

Zhob Airport  is a small domestic airport located in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is a smaller airport and caters mainly to the population of Zhob and surrounding townships.

See also 
 List of airports in Pakistan

References

External links 

Airports in Balochistan, Pakistan
Zhob District