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Skonto Stadium

Skonto Stadium () is a football stadium in Riga, Latvia. The stadium was built in 2000 and currently has 8,087 seats in total (open for spectators & VIP guests on matchdays). It is the 2nd-largest stadium in Latvia, behind Daugava Stadium. The stadium design incorporates Skonto Hall.

Description 

Skonto Stadium is located in the heart of Riga at 1a E. Melngaiļa street. It is the second biggest football stadium with 8,087 seats, VIP lounges, offices, a press centre and cafes.

Use 

Skonto Stadium is mostly used for hosting football matches. Since its opening in 2000, it has been the home stadium for the Latvian Higher League club Skonto Riga and Latvia national football team, as well as Latvia U-21.

International artists have performed at this venue, including Aerosmith and Metallica in 2008, both of whom reached the maximum capacity for concerts, with 32,000 and 33,000 fans, respectively. Several other artists have performed there too, for example, Snoop Dogg, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode and Akon.

In 2003 Skonto stadium hosted the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, but in 2008 a friendly match between Latvian and Georgian football veterans was played at this venue.

In 2009 Latvian football club FK Ventspils used this stadium for its home matches in the UEFA Europa League matches, because of technical problems with its own stadium.

Attendance 

The largest attendance seen by the Skonto Stadium in a football match was 9,000 people in 2003 for the UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying playoff game between Latvia and Turkey.

References

Sports venues completed in 2000
Buildings and structures in Riga
Football venues in Latvia
Latvia
2000 establishments in Latvia
Pearl gourami

The pearl gourami (Trichopodus leerii) is a species of gourami native to Southeast Asia.

Description
It reaches about  TL. Its body is a brownish-silver colour, covered in a pearl-like pattern with a distinct black line running from the fish's head, and gradually thinning towards the caudal fin. The pearl gourami's appearance has given rise to other popular names, such as the lace gourami and the mosaic gourami.

Its male specimens, typical of many gouramis, are generally larger and more colourful than their female counterparts. They exhibit bright orange colouring around the throat region, which at breeding time becomes much brighter and is used to court the female. Males also exhibit somewhat of an orange tinge in their fins, with the exception of the caudal (tail) fin. The male also has longer fins, with a more pointed dorsal fin and extended anal fin rays.

Distribution and habitat
The pearl gourami is native to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia (where it is found on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo). It occurs in lowland swamps with acidic water.

Species description and name
Trichopodus leerii was originally described as Trichopus leerii by the Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker in 1852. The type was collected at Palembang in Sumatra, by Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. van Leer, who was a medical colleague of Bleeker's and whom Bleeker honoured in the fish's specific name.

References

Pearl gourami
Fish of Thailand
Fish described in 1852
Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
Freshwater fish of Malaysia
Freshwater fish of Sumatra
Freshwater fish of Borneo
Klaipėda Central Stadium

Klaipėda Central Stadium () is a football stadium in Klaipėda, Lithuania. It was the home ground of FK Atlantas, and has a capacity of 4,428. The construction started in 1925 and the stadium was originally opened in 1927. It was reconstructed several times.

References

Klaipėda Central Stadium
Buildings and structures in Klaipėda
Sport in Klaipėda
Laura Bell (courtesan)

Laura Eliza Jane Seymour Bell (1829–1894, married name Thistlethwayte) was an Irish-born courtesan of Victorian England. She was most notorious for the Nepalese Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana reputedly spending £250,000 on her. She later experienced a religious conversion and became a revivalist preacher on morality.

Early life
Bell was born in Glenavy, County Antrim. After an unsupervised childhood, she left home to work a shop assistant in Belfast. She earned extra money by prostitution.

She later moved to Dublin where she became a successful courtesan. Bell is rumored to have had an affair with Dr William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde.

London
Around 1849 Bell moved to London, where she became known as The Queen of London Whoredom. Rich noblemen and dukes were entertained by Bell.

She often drove in Hyde Park in a gilt carriage drawn by two white horses. It was here she met the Nepalese Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana.  Rana installed Bell in a luxury house in Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, and showered her with gifts. There are stories that Rana paid £250,000 for one night with Bell, but it's far more likely that the sum was the total value of gifts given to Bell over the 90 days they spent together. This sum was underwritten by Lord Canning, Governor-General of India.

When Rana had to return to Nepal, he gave Bell a diamond ring and a promise to fulfill her every wish as a parting gift. During the Indian Mutiny Bell wrote to Rana asking him to send troops to assist in the British during the Sepoy Mutiny. She enclosed the ring to remind him of his promise. Rana sent his troops.

On 21 January 1852, she married Captain August Frederick Thistlethwayte, who lived in Grosvenor Square, London, and had an estate in Ross-shire, Scotland.

Evangelism

Bell found religion and became an Evangelist, and referred to herself as "God's Ambassadress". She hosted Evangelical tea parties for high society. and aided London's prostitutes.

In 1887, Thistlethwayte accidentally shot and killed himself (he habitually shot his revolver into the ceiling to summon his valet). Bell never remarried.

Prime Minister William Gladstone and his wife became friends with Bell, and this friendship continued until Bell's death in 1894.

References

Sources
Courtesans by Katie Hickman, 2003, HarperCollins,

External links
From Whoredom to Evangelism, by J. F. Burns

1829 births
1894 deaths
19th-century Irish women
19th-century Irish people
Irish courtesans
People from Glenavy
Women of the Victorian era
Ecolog Arena

Ecolog Arena is a multi-purpose stadium in Tetovo, North Macedonia used primary for football matches. The stadium's capacity is 15,000 seats.

History
The stadium opened in 1981 and was called Tetovo City Stadium (Stadion Gradski Tetovo) until 2016.

The Football Federation of Macedonia and the Tetovo Municipality agreed in March 2015 to renovate the stadium as a part of the UEFA "Hat-trick 4" initiative. The renovation began in April 2015 and was completed in April 2016. Floodlights to play matches at night were erected later the same year.

In July 2016, Ecolog International, the owners of KF Shkëndija, took Tetovo City Stadium under concession from the Tetovo municipal council and committed to invest 7.7 million euros to renovate the stadium to be able to host international matches. The ground was renamed Ecolog Arena under the concession agreement.

International fixtures

References

External links
Gradski Stadion – Tetovo
Macedonian Football 
Football Federation of Macedonia 

Football venues in North Macedonia
Stadium
KF Renova
FK Teteks
Multi-purpose stadiums in North Macedonia
Sport in Tetovo
Measuring spoon

A measuring spoon is a spoon  used to measure an amount of an ingredient, either liquid or dry, when cooking.  Measuring spoons may be made of plastic, metal, and other materials.  They are available in many sizes, including the teaspoon and tablespoon.

Country differences

International 
Metric measuring spoons are available in sets, usually between four and six, typically with decilitre (100 ml), tablespoon (15 ml), teaspoon (5 ml) and millilitre measures. For fractional measures, there is often a line inside to indicate "half" or "a quarter", or a separate measure may be included, like  dl.

United States 
In the U.S., measuring spoons often come in sets, usually between four and six. This usually includes ¼, ½, and 1 teaspoon and 1 tablespoon. 
The volume of a traditional US teaspoon is 4.9 ml and that of a tablespoon is 14.8 ml, only slightly less than standard metric measuring spoons.

Japan 
In Japan, usually two spoons are used: a  and a .
A large spoon is 15 milliliters, and a small spoon is 5 milliliters.
Sometimes a much smaller spoon may be used, usually a 2.5 milliliter spoon (½ small spoon).

Australia 
The Australian definition of the tablespoon as a unit of volume is larger than most:

{|
|-
|1 Australian tablespoon ||colspan=3| = 20 ml
|-
|-
| || = 2 dessertspoons, ||style="text-align:right;"|     1 dessertspoon = || 10 ml each 
|-
| || = 4 teaspoons,  ||style="text-align:right;"| 1 teaspoon = ||   5 ml each 
|}

Specialized measuring spoons 

Special spoons are manufactured to measure popular materials for common tasks. For example, for coffee the standard measuring spoon contains 7 grams of coffee powder, adequate for a 150 ml espresso.

Measuring with cutlery spoons 
Cutlery in many countries includes two spoons (besides the fork and knife, or butterknife). These cutlery spoons are also called a "teaspoon" and "tablespoon", but are not necessarily the same volume as measuring spoons with the same names: Cutlery spoons are not made to standard sizes and may hold 2.5~7.3 ml (50%~146% of 5 ml) for teaspoons and 7~20 ml (47%~133% of 15 ml) for tablespoons. The difference in size can be dangerous when cutlery is used for critical measurements, like medication.

See also 
Measuring cup
Cooking weights and measures
Kitchen utensil

References

Spoons
Food preparation utensils
Cooking weights and measures
Volumetric instruments
Units of volume
Jim Fidler

Jim Fidler (born in the 1960s in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania) is a singer, producer, and musician living in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Biography
In the 1960s, Jim and his mother relocated to Newfoundland where he grew up in the diverse Rabbittown section of St. John's. As a youth, Fidler spent a great deal of time along Conception Bay, where he developed an appreciation for Newfoundland's music and culture.  Fidler's family found that, as a child, he frequently picked up instruments and mastered them with ease.

Blind since age 9, he continued to develop his talents. By the age of 10, he had formed his own band with friends. He attended school in Halifax, where he continued his musical studies and eventually earned a degree in classical piano and music theory at the Maritime Conservatory of Music in Halifax.

Fidler plays many of the instruments used on his albums including accordion, guitar, whistle, bodhran, and keyboards. The styles of music that he plays range from reggae to bluegrass, Celtic to North African. He formed a successful reggae group called Pressure Drop in the late 1980s and was their drummer and songwriter. Between Pressure Drop and his first solo CD, Fidler arranged some songs on Great Big Sea's debut CD.

In addition to his solo albums, his project Gypsy won awards for Roots/Traditional Album of the Year and Independent Album of the Year in 1996. In 1998 and again in 2000 Jim was featured in the Toronto production of The Needfire. Fidler has collaborated with Great Big Sea, Paddy Keenan, Celtic Connection, the Masterless Men, Atlantic Union and others.

Fidler continues to live in St. John's, Newfoundland with his wife, Lillian, a graphic designer, and their cat, Gypsy.

Fidler is Christina Aguilera's first cousin.

Discography
Gypsy (1995)
Friendly Fire (1999)
Musaik: In This World (2003)
Midnight Rover (2005)
Up That River (2011)

References

External links
 Jim Fidler Official site
 Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador - Jim Fidler 

Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts alumni
Musicians from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Musicians from Pittsburgh
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Blind musicians
San Marino Stadium

The San Marino Stadium (formerly Stadio Olimpico di Serravalle) is a multi-purpose stadium in Serravalle, San Marino. First opened in 1969, it is currently used mostly for football matches. It is the national stadium of San Marino.

Overview
The stadium was named "olympic" in 1985, on the occasion of the first Games of the Small States of Europe sponsored by the International Olympic Committee.

From 1969 till 2019, the stadium was used by ASD Victor San Marino for its home games. It was also used by Serravalle-based football club A.C. Juvenes/Dogana for its home games in the Italian league until the side withdrew in 2007 to concentrate only on the Sammarinese Championship. It is an all-seater stadium with a maximum capacity of 6,664. It has hosted teams such as England, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland.

The San Marino national team's three biggest defeats at the stadium are a record 13–0 to Germany in September 2006, 10–0 to England in 2021, and joint third are two 8–0 defeats in 2013 to both England and Ukraine. The national team's only win was also in this stadium; a friendly 1–0 beating of Liechtenstein in 2004. San Marino's first official international match, which was a 4–0 defeat to Switzerland, was also played here. In 2014, at the stadium, the San Marino national team earned its first ever point in European Championship qualifying, in a 0–0 draw with Estonia.

It is home to the youth teams of San Marino, some of which have worse records on the international stage than the senior team; though their Under-21 side did record a shock 1–0 win over their Welsh counterparts in 2013.

On 2 September 2014, the stadium was renamed San Marino Stadium in the presence of sammarinese football officials, who presented improvements and additions to the facility, including new changing rooms, a gym, and a TV studio.

The stadium hosted matches at the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

The final of the San Marino domestic cup, the Coppa Titano, is also played here each year.

The stadium typically hosts home matches for San Marino teams in UEFA competitions.

See also
Sport in San Marino
Football in San Marino
Athletics at the 1985 Games of the Small States of Europe

References

External links

World Stadium article (archived 16 March 2010)

Football venues in San Marino
Athletics (track and field) venues in San Marino
San Marino
ASD Victor San Marino
Multi-purpose stadiums in San Marino
Serravalle (San Marino)
Niederstetten

Niederstetten () is a town and a municipality in the Main-Tauber district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 14 km southeast of Bad Mergentheim, and 19 km west of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Sights

The main attraction is the Castle Haltenbergstetten.

Museum
The Albert-Sammt-Zeppelin-Museum is in memory of last German airship captain Albert Sammt and shows original parts as well as documents of Zeppelin history.

Economy, industry and infrastructure

Military 
Niederstetten is home to German Army Aviation Transport Helicopter Regiment 30 based at Niederstetten Air Base.

International relations

Niederstetten is twinned with:
  Le Plessis-Bouchard (France).

References

Main-Tauber-Kreis
Württemberg
Historic Jewish communities
Matija Gubec Stadium

Matija Gubec Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Krško, Slovenia.

The stadium was built in 1946 and has a capacity of 1,470 seats. It is currently used mostly for football matches and also hosts motorcycle speedway competitions since 1957, including the Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia as part of the Speedway Grand Prix World Championship series. During speedway competitions the standing area surrounding the track is opened for public and therefore the race can be viewed by more than 10,000 individuals.

The stadium hosted the final of the 1980 Speedway World Pairs Championship.

See also
List of football stadiums in Slovenia

References

Football venues in Slovenia
Multi-purpose stadiums in Slovenia
Krško
Speedway venues in Slovenia
Sports venues completed in 1946
NK Krško
1946 establishments in Slovenia
Aubaine

In old French customs, aubaine (, windfall) was an originally feudal right regulating the inheritance of goods from a foreigner who died in a country where he was not naturalized. The word is formed from aubain, a foreigner, which Gilles Ménage derived further from the Latin alibi natus; Jacques Cujas derived from advena; and du Cange from albanus, a Scot or Irishman, by the reason that these were anciently frequent travelers living abroad.

The opposite of an aubain was a régnicole, someone who died outside the French kingdom but was a royal subject by birth and residence.

In the Ancien Régime, aubaine was a right of the King of France, allowing him to claim the inheritance of all foreigners in his dominions; exclusive of all other lords, and even of any testament the deceased could make. An ambassador, though not naturalized, was not subject to the right of aubaine. The Swiss, Savoyards, Scots, and Portuguese were also exempted from aubaine, as they were considered naturalized. This right applied to every holder of a secular or church fief. It also applied to abandoned children, but the holder of the right was the owner of the place where the child was left, who could thus recoup the costs of the care and education of the child if there were no inheritors.

This right was a major risk for foreign traders at fairs, foreign contractors and workers in manufactures, mercenary soldiers, foreigners with rents or securities, and cities with large foreign populations. To give them security while generating state revenue, the right of aubaine was transformed into a tax on foreigners: for a 5% tax on the value of the property of the deceased, the king waived his right of aubaine for the nationals of Geneva (1608), Holland (1685), England (1739), Denmark (1742), Naples, Spain and other Bourbon lands in Europe (1762), the duchy of Tuscany (1768), and the duchy of Parma (1769).

The right of aubaine was abolished by the French Revolutionary Assembly. Reinstated in the Napoleonic Code of 1803, it was finally abolished in 1819 under the Restoration.

References

Political history of the Ancien Régime
Kingdom of France
Law of France
F.T.F.O.

F.T.F.O. (an acronym for Fuck The Fuck Off) is the debut solo studio album by American rapper Shaggy 2 Dope. It was released on February 21, 2006 via Psychopathic Records. Recording sessions took place at the Lotus Pod in Detroit and at the Funhouse Studio in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Production was handled by Insane Clown Posse, Mike E. Clark, Polar Bear and Fritz the Cat. It features guest appearance from Twiztid. The album art alludes to the ICP tradition of spraying the audience (and themselves) with the American soft drink Faygo.

The album debuted at No. 88 on the Billboard 200, No. 24 on the Top Rock Albums, No. 7 on the Independent Albums and No. 11 on the Tastemakers with nearly 14,000 copies sold in its first week in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel
Joseph "Shaggy 2 Dope" Utsler – lyrics, lead vocals, producer (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 12, 14, 16)
Paul "Monoxide" Methric – lyrics & vocals (track 10)
James "Jamie Madrox" Spaniolo – lyrics & vocals (track 10)
Joseph "Violent J" Bruce – lyrics (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17), additional vocals (tracks: 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17), producer (tracks: 1, 7, 13)
James "Lavel" Hicks – additional vocals (tracks: 3, 7, 13), engineering (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6-8, 12-17)
Chris "Blaze Ya Dead Homie" Rouleau – additional vocals (tracks: 4, 10)
Michelle "Sugar Slam" Rapp – additional vocals (track 13)
James "Anybody Killa" Lowery – additional vocals (track 14)
Annette Utsler – additional vocals (track 14)
Mike E. Clark – producer (tracks: 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15), engineering (track 10), mixing
Polar Bear – producer (tracks: 3, 8)
Fritz "The Cat" Vankosky – additional producer (tracks: 5, 14), engineering (tracks: 2, 5, 9, 10, 11)
Brian Debler – graphics
Michael Scotta – graphics

Charts

References

External links

2006 debut albums
Shaggy 2 Dope albums
Psychopathic Records albums
Albums produced by Joseph Bruce
Albums produced by Mike E. Clark
Council of the Republic (Belarus)

The Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (; ) is the upper house of the parliament of Belarus.

The Council consists of 64 members, and the representation is based geographically, with most of the elected members come from civil society organizations, labour collectives and public associations in their jurisdiction. Each oblast (six) and the city of Minsk (the national capital) are represented by eight members, and an additional eight members are appointed to the council via presidential quota.

It was established after the Constitution of Belarus was amended in 1996 following a referendum, replacing the Supreme Council of Belarus.

Speakers of the Council of the Republic

See also
National Assembly (Parliament) of Belarus
House of Representatives of Belarus
Politics of Belarus
List of legislatures by country

References

External links

Government of Belarus
National Assembly of Belarus
Belarus
1997 establishments in Belarus
Connie Chiu

Connie Chiu (born 1969) is a fashion model and jazz musician known for being the world's first fashion model with albinism.

Chiu was born in British Hong Kong and grew up in Kowloon. The congenital absence of pigmentation in her skin and hair, makes them sensitive to the sun. To avoid Chiu's exposure to Hong Kong's intensive sun, her family moved to Sweden when she was seven years old.

Connie Chiu was first introduced to modeling at age 21, when her sister asked her to become a model at one of her final shows. After sending a black-and-white photograph to French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, he invited her to model at his autumn/winter 1994 show. At age 25, Chiu began modeling for fashion photographers such as Terry Richardson, Paul Burley, Heidi Niemala and Morten Smidt. Chiu later studied journalism.

Chiu starred in the music video for the single "Stalker" by Recoil, the solo project of Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder.

References

External links
 Connie Chiu official website

1969 births
Living people
People with albinism
Hong Kong female models
Swedish female models
Chinese female models
Immigrants to Sweden
Emigrants from British Hong Kong
Erling Jevne

Erling Jevne (born 24 March 1966 in Lillehammer, Oppland) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who competed from 1987 to 2005. He won two medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano with a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay and a silver in the 30 km.

Jevne also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two golds (4 × 10 km relay: 1995, 1997) and two silvers (50 km: 1997, 4 × 10 km relay: 1999).

He also won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in March 1996. He also won six races between 10 km and 30 km, between 1994 and 2001.

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

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

World Championships
 4 medals – (2 gold, 2 silver)

World Cup

Season standings

Individual podiums
 3 victories  
 12 podiums

Team podiums
 10 victories 
 17 podiums 

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

References

External links
 9a at Åmot Secondary school interview with Jevne after the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. 
 
 Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 

1966 births
Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Living people
Norwegian male cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
Olympic silver medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Lillehammer
Skiers from Innlandet
Paul's Island

Paul's Island or Paul Island is an island off the coast of  Labrador, near the town of Nain in Canada.

The island is the geological type area of the mineral labradorite, which is a plagioclase feldspar.  Labradorite is the principal component of the igneous rock type anorthosite.  The Nain anorthosite batholith is a large igneous plutonic rock complex that covers a large area of this part of Labrador.

See also
Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador

References

Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador
Tara Morice

Tara Morice (born 23 June 1964) is an Australian actress, singer and dancer.

Background 
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Morice also lived in Sydney, Alice Springs and Adelaide as a child. She is a fifth-generation Australian and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Latvian, French and Jewish ancestry. She appeared in a short film for the Tasmanian Film Corporation in 1980, The ABC of Unions. She made her stage debut at Australia's oldest theatre, the Theatre Royal in Hobart in The Diary of Anne Frank, aged 16. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Australian History and English from the Australian National University and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1987.

Career 
She has worked extensively on stage in Australia, including productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre Company, State Theatre of South Australia, Queensland Theatre Company, Malthouse and the Ensemble. She played Fran in Strictly Ballroom when it premiered as a stage play in 1988, and she was a member of Baz Luhrmann's Six Years Old Company. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in Fat Swan at the 2012 Helpmann Awards and a Victorian Green Room Award for The Venetian Twins in 1990.

Her first film appearance was as Fran in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom (directed by Baz Luhrmann), for which she was nominated  for a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and an Australian Film Institute award. Morice also appeared on the film's soundtrack, singing a duet of Time After Time with Mark Williams.

Morice has also appeared in the feature films Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Hildegarde, Moulin Rouge!, Candy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance, Oranges and Sunshine, Dance Academy: The Movie and Peter Rabbit 2. Her many short films include the Oscar nominated Miracle Fish.

Her television work includes roles in Answered by Fire, After the Deluge, Salem's Lot and McLeod's Daughters. Morice had a starring role in the series of three Dogwoman telemovies with Magda Szubanski in 2000. She also plays Miss Raine in Series 1, 2 and 3 of Dance Academy for ABC/ZDF.

She wrote and directed the documentary My Biggest Fan, about her correspondence and friendship with an American great-grandmother, Mildred Levine, who wrote to her after seeing Strictly Ballroom. The film premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and was broadcast on the SBS network in Australia  in 2008.

Morice has a daughter, Ondine Morice Pearce, who was the stills photographer (at age 11) on My Biggest Fan.

She re-recorded Time After Time for Baz Luhrmann's album Something for Everybody and sang on the Strictly Ballroom, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance and My Biggest Fan soundtracks.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
Actresses from Hobart
Australian film actresses
Australian television actresses
Australian National University alumni
National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni
Australian children's television presenters
Australian women television presenters
Volosovo, Volosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast

Volosovo () is a town and the administrative center of Volosovsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the railway between St. Petersburg and Tallinn, Estonia,  southwest from St. Petersburg. Population:

History
It was founded in 1870 as a settlement around the railway station on the railway connecting St. Petersburg and Revel. The name originates from the nearby village of Volosovo. Volosovo was a part of Petergofsky Uyezd of St. Petersburg Governorate). On February 14, 1923, Petergofsky Uyezd was merged with Detskoselsky Uyezd to form Gatchinsky Uyezd, with the administrative center located in Gatchina. On the same day, Gatchina was renamed Trotsk and Gatchinsky Uyezd was renamed Trotsky Uyezd, after Leon Trotsky.

On August 1, 1927, the uyezds were abolished and Volosovsky District, with the administrative center in the settlement of Volosovo, was established. The governorates were also abolished and the district became a part of Leningrad Okrug of Leningrad Oblast. On April 20, 1930, Volosovo was granted suburban settlement status. On July 5, 1937, its status was changed to work settlement. Between August 1941 and January 1944, during World War II, Volosovo was occupied by German troops. On February 1, 1963, Volosovsky District was abolished and merged into Kingiseppsky District; on January 13, 1965, however, it was re-established. It had remained the last district of Leningrad Oblast the administrative center of which was not a town; this changed on April 14, 1999 when town status was granted to Volosovo. During the Soviet period it was a developed industrial town.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Volosovo serves as the administrative center of Volosovsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with the village of Lagonovo, incorporated within Volosovsky District as Volosovskoye Settlement Municipal Formation. As a municipal division, Volosovskoye Settlement Municipal Formation is incorporated within Volosovsky Municipal District as Volosovskoye Urban Settlement.

Economy

Industry
There are enterprises of food and timber industries in Volosovo.

Transportation
Volosovo has a railway station on the railway connecting St. Petersburg (Baltiysky railway station) with Tallinn via Narva.

The town has access to the A180 Highway, which connects St. Petersburg and Ivangorod and runs north of Volosovo. It coincides with the European route E20 connecting St. Petersburg via Tallinn with Shannon Airport. Volosovo is also connected by roads with Gatchina and Kingisepp. There are local roads as well.

Military
Southwest of Volosovo was the Sumsk air base facility, which saw some use during the Cold War.

Culture and recreation
Volosovo contains one object classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. This is a mass grave of Red Army soldiers killed during the Civil War in Russia and during World War II.

References

Notes

Sources

Cities and towns in Leningrad Oblast
Volosovsky District
Petergofsky Uyezd
Country Is My Rock

Country Is My Rock is the debut studio album of American country music artist Trent Tomlinson. It was released on March 7, 2006 (see 2006 in country music) on Lyric Street Records. The album produced three chart singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts between 2005 and 2007: "Drunker Than Me" (No. 19), "One Wing in the Fire" (No. 11), and "Just Might Have Her Radio On" (No. 21). Tomlinson co-produced the album with Leigh Reynolds and "Hillbilly".

Track listing

Personnel

Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Jim "Moose" Brown – keyboards
Chad Cromwell – drums
Eric Darken – percussion
Chip Davis – background vocals
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
Rob Hajacos – fiddle
Wes Hightower – background vocals
"Hillbilly" – producer
Dennis Holt – drums
Troy Lancaster – electric guitar
Greg Lawrence – assistant producer
Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar
Mike Logan – mixer
B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Pat McGrath – acoustic guitar
Greg Morrow – drums
Gordon Mote – keyboards
Russ Pahl – lap steel guitar
Sang Park – assistant producer
Leigh Reynolds – electric guitar, producer
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
Michael Rojas – keyboards
Marty Slayton – background vocals
Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
Trent Tomlinson – Dobro (track 1), lead vocals (all tracks), producer
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

References

2006 debut albums
Lyric Street Records albums
Trent Tomlinson albums
Orthrelm

Orthrelm is an American avant-garde band from Washington, D.C.

Biography 
Orthrelm is a duo composed of Mick Barr on guitar and Josh Blair on drums. Their songwriting style is mostly experimental, and shows the influence of avant-garde music as well as shred guitar and minimalism.

Discography

Albums
 2nd 18/04 Norildivoth Crallos-Lomrixth Urthiln (2002; Three One G)
 OV (2005; Ipecac Recordings)

EPs
 Iorxhscimtor (2001, Tolotta Records)
 Orthrelm I (2001, self-released, 20 copies) / digital (2012, Orthrelm bandcamp)
 Orthrelm II (2001, self-released, 50 copies) / digital (2012, Orthrelm bandcamp)
 Asristir Vieldriox (2002, Troubleman Unlimited)
 Untitled 7" (2004, Forge)
 O-3 5" (2007, Soft Targets Journal)
 Orthrelm II II (2012, Orthrelm bandcamp) - previously unreleased 2001 demo
20012 (2012, Orthrelm bandcamp)

Compilation
 Untitled (2010, ugEXPLODE Records) - remastered/remixed old material

Split albums
 Touchdown/Orthrelm (2002, Troubleman)

Split EPs
 Orthrelm / Behold... The Arctopus (2006, Crucial Blast Releases)
 Orthrelm / Trencher - Trans Atlantic Asthma Attack (2005)

External links
 "Orthrelm" – Prog Archives

Heavy metal musical groups from Washington, D.C.
Rhytium

Rhytium or Rhytion (), also called Rhytiassus or Rhytiassos, was a town of ancient Crete which Homer couples with Phaestus in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as "well-peopled cities." The city belonged to the Gortynians. Earlier it was thought that the reading Rhythimne (Ῥυθίμνη) in the entry of Stephanus of Byzantium on Stelae should be emended into Rhytium (Ῥύτιον), but today it seems that Rhithymna or Rhittenia was meant.

The city continued to be independent until the Hellenistic period. According to Strabo, it then came under the rule of Gortyn and declined. Rhytion remained inhabited, although insignificant, until the Byzantine period, until, according to Claudius Aelianus, the citizens were forced to leave by an insect plague.

Its site is located near modern Rotasi.

References

Populated places in ancient Crete
Cretan city-states
Former populated places in Greece
Locations in the Iliad
Abraham Silberschatz

Avi Silberschatz (born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher. He graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.  He became the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, USA in 2005. He was the chair of the Computer Science department at Yale from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. He previously held an endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management. Silberschatz was elected an ACM Fellow in 1996 and received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1998. 
He was elected an IEEE fellow in 2000 for contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information. He received the IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 2002 for " teaching, mentoring, and writing influential textbooks in the operating systems and database systems areas".
He was elected an AAAS fellow in 2009. Silberschatz
is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

His work has been cited over 34,000 times.

Books
Mainframe operating systems have an acquired dinosaur trope that even their manufacturers recognize.
Peter B. Galvin, co-author, notes that the series of books became informally known as the dinosaur book due to the illustrations on the front cover depicting the various operating systems as actual dinosaurs.

References

External links
 

Yale University faculty
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Stony Brook University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Yale University alumni
Richard Harrison (poet)

Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist.

His 2017 book, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood, won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and the Alberta Writers Guild Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.

His fourth book of poetry, Big Breath of a Wish (1998), was nominated for a Governor General's Award  and won the City of Calgary Book Prize.

25, released in the fall of 2019, is a 25th anniversary release celebrating the publication of Hero of the Play. It contains new hockey poems, poems from Hero of the Play (original and revised), and commentary.

Harrison was born in Toronto in 1957 and moved to Calgary in 1995 to spend a year as the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. He has lived in Calgary since then. He holds degrees from Trent University (in biology and philosophy) and Concordia University (in creative writing). He has had teaching positions at Trent University, the University of Calgary, and now Mount Royal University.

He has recently completed work on several books of essays (as an editor and contributor).

Selected bibliography
 1987 Fathers Never Leave You (Mosaic Press: out of print)
 1991 Recovering the Naked Man (Wolsak & Wynn: out of print)
 1994 Hero of the Play (2004 - 10th Anniversary ed. Wolsak & Wynn) 
 1995 Big Breath of a Wish (Wolsak & Wynn)
 2005 Worthy of His Fall (Wolsak & Wynn)
 2016 On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood (Wolsak & Wynn)
 2019 Twenty-Five: Hockey Poems New and Revised (Wolsak & Wynn)

Essay collections
Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey (2009 Wolsak & Wynn)
Secret Identity Reader (2010 Wolsak & Wynn)

References

External links
 Faculty profile at Mount Royal University
 Bio at Wolsak & Wynn Publishers

1957 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
21st-century Canadian poets
Writers from Toronto
Trent University alumni
Academic staff of Trent University
Concordia University alumni
Writers from Calgary
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
Academic staff of Mount Royal University
Governor General's Award-winning poets
21st-century Canadian male writers
Choo Freeman

Raphael Deseption "Choo" Freeman (born October 20, 1979) is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder.

Career
Freeman played American football in high school, setting a state record by catching 50 touchdowns for Dallas Christian High School in Mesquite, Texas, and being selected three times to the all-state team. In his overall athletic career at Dallas Christian, he helped the school win six state championships in various sports and signed with Texas A&M to play football, but chose baseball when he selected by the Colorado Rockies in the first round of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft.

Freeman spent four years making his way through various entry level Single-A minor league affiliates of the Rockies, even being selected as the Rockies top prospect by Baseball America in , before getting promoted to the Double-A Carolina Mudcats in . With Carolina, he hit .291 with 12 home runs and 15 stolen bases and was selected as a "Southern League" All-Star causing his stock to rise in the organization.

In , he found himself starting in center field for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, the Rockies Triple-A affiliate, a position he would retain for most of the next couple of seasons. His best season with the Sky Sox was in  where he hit .297 with 10 home runs and 50 RBI.

He made his major league debut with the Rockies on June 4, 2004, against the San Francisco Giants as a pinch hitter. He got his first two major league hits the next day in his first start for the Rockies, also against the Giants. However, he hit only .189 that season and wound up back with the Sky Sox in .

After hitting .280 with the Sky Sox in 2005, Freeman rejoined the Rockies for limited action in September before making the team full-time for the  season as a reserve outfielder. He hit .237 in the 88 games he played in during the 2006 season.

On February 2, 2007, Freeman was released by the Rockies.

On February 14, 2007, he signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he failed to make the major league roster out of spring training and was reassigned to the Dodgers Triple-A affiliate, the Las Vegas 51s. He hit .270 in 121 games with the 51s and knocked in 48 runs becoming a free agent after the season ended.

Personal life
Freeman is a cousin of Minnesota Twins Gold Glove right fielder Torii Hunter. He married Jamie Freeman in 2010. In 2008 the couple had a daughter named Zailey.

References

External links

(Freeman) chooses baseball over A&M – Baseball America article

1979 births
Living people
Major League Baseball center fielders
Colorado Rockies players
Baseball players from Arkansas
African-American baseball players
Sportspeople from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Arizona League Rockies players
Asheville Tourists players
Salem Avalanche players
Carolina Mudcats players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Las Vegas 51s players
Texas A&M University alumni
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Belledune

Belledune is a port village in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It has a population of 1,325, and straddles the boundary between Restigouche County and Gloucester County, New Brunswick.

The community of Belledune was created through the amalgamation of Jacquet River, Armstrong Brook, and Belledune in 1994. The community dubbed itself a "Supervillage" after this amalgamation. Belledune's population meets the requirements as a "Town" under the Municipalities Act of the Province of New Brunswick, but it has not requested a change in municipal status and therefore remains as a village.

Belledune is one of the few municipalities not significantly affected by the province's 2023 local governance reforms.

History 

The village was first settled by François Guitard around 1815. Guitard was originally from France, and after fighting in Napoleon's army he defected to the British Army. He and his wife Marie emigrated to Canada and after a brief settling in Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, were granted land in New Brunswick. Guitard had also helped map the New Brunswick coastline with the British military. Settlers from the Miramichi Valley moved towards Belledune after the 1825 Great Miramichi Fire.

Economy 
Belledune underwent unprecedented development during the 1960s when under the premiership of Louis Robichaud a major regional port was built to service various industries on the north shore of New Brunswick.

The first major industrial projects at the port included in 1966 a lead and zinc smelter, now owned by Glencore with a nominal production of 120,000 tonnes per year. built in support of the lead and zinc mines opened south of Bathurst during the 1950s in the Bathurst Mining Camp.  The smelter has managed to extract silver from its imported silver lead concentrates, and in 2011 produced 400mt of pure silver valued at 448M$; the company proposes to increase its silver production to 700mt.  The current permit to operate is file number I-7107.

NB Power opened the Belledune Generating Station, a coal-fired thermal generating station, at the port in 1993.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Belledune had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Language

Notable people

See also 
 List of municipalities in New Brunswick

References

External links 
 Official website

Communities in Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Villages in New Brunswick
Adam Kowalczyk

Adam E. Kowalczyk (born September 27, 1975) is an American musician. He is the brother of Ed Kowalczyk, lead singer of the band Live.

Biography
Kowalczyk was born in York, Pennsylvania to a family of Polish descent. He began learning the guitar at age 12. While studying in the Radio, Television and Film program at Philadelphia's Temple University, he started writing songs and performing with his first band, Portion. Portion recorded two extended plays and opened for Live and other bands.

In 1999, Adam began playing as the touring rhythm guitarist for Live, a position which he held for 10 years. He appeared as a guest musician on the Live albums The Distance to Here and V and was featured in the band's only concert DVD release, Live at the Paradiso – Amsterdam. During his time with Live, Kowalczyk relocated to Los Angeles and formed the band Adam & the Weight, which released the album Looking Up from the Ground in 2003. By 2005, he was living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and had recorded a solo EP, The Dream.

In January 2011, Adam became lead singer of the Lancaster-based band The Mint.

Discography

 Looking Up from the Ground (2003)
 The Dream EP (2005)

References

External links

1975 births
Alternative rock guitarists
American alternative rock musicians
American people of Polish descent
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
Live (band) members
Living people
Musicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Musicians from York, Pennsylvania
Rhythm guitarists
Temple University alumni
Guitarists from Los Angeles
Guitarists from Pennsylvania
Fluvanna, Texas

Fluvanna is an unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas, United States.  It lies just south of the Llano Estacado, high atop the caprock, where Farm to Market Road 1269 and Farm to Market Road 612 intersect.

Fluvanna is named for a surveyor's home county — Fluvanna County, Virginia. Fluvanna was established by realty promoters  who knew where the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway would terminate to satisfy its charter's 50-miles-of-line requirement.

Fluvanna's importance lessened when the railroad closed the station in 1941 and major highways bypassed the area. The population dropped from a high of 500 in 1915 to 180 in the 2000 Census.  The post office has closed in Fluvanna, yet the area still retains the 79517 zip code.  Several wind power generation companies (i.e.: GE) have office and shop locations in town, there is one convenience store, but no gas station in Fluvanna.

Gallery

See also
Caprock Escarpment
Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
Duffy's Peak
Farm to Market Road 669
Mushaway Peak
Salt Fork Brazos River

References

External links

Public domain photos of the Llano Estacado

Unincorporated communities in Scurry County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Jainism in Rajasthan

Rajasthan, a state in western India, has had a close historical connection with Jainism. Southwestern Rajasthan was the main centre for Svetambara Jainism. Major Digambara centres are in the northern and eastern parts of Rajasthan. Central and Northern Rajasthan are the main centres for the Terapanth sect of Svetambara Jainism.

Major centres

Major ancient Jain centres include:
 Soniji Ki Nasiyan (Ajmer Jain Temple)
 Khandela
 Bhinmal
 Osian, Jodhpur; Mahavira Jain temple, Osian
 Muchhal Mahavir Temple
 Nagaur
 Amer (Jaipur)
 Sanganer
 Kesariyaji Tirth, Rishabhdeo
 Shri Mahaveerji temple
 Padampura
 Lodhurva Jain temple
 Nakodaji
 Dilwara Temples, Mount Abu
 Jirawala
 Ranakpur
 Bijolia
 Nareli Jain Temple
 Pindwara
 Chittorgarh
 Bhandasar Jain Temple
 Chand Khedi
 Shree Pavapuri Tirth Dham
 Jaisalmer Fort Jain temples
 Mungathala
 Chamatkarji

Photo gallery

See also

Tijara Jain Temple
Shri Mahavirji Jain Temple

References

Sources
 Dr. Jagdish Chandra Jain, History of Towns of Rajasthan

External links 
 Jain heritage centers -Rajasthan

Jainism in India
Jain communities
Religion in Rajasthan
History of Rajasthan