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Pamela Crowe

Pamela Mavis Crowe MBE is a former Member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.  Prior to entering politics she was a director of Crowes Ltd and an author of several books.  She was the MHK for Rushen from 1997 to 2003, when she was elected to the Legislative Council.

Governmental positions
Chairman of the Isle of Man Post Office, 2004–2008
Minister of Local Government and the Environment, 2002–2004
Chairman of the Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading, 1997–2002

References

Living people
Manx women in politics
Members of the House of Keys 1996–2001
Members of the House of Keys 2001–2006
20th-century British women politicians
21st-century British women politicians
Members of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man
Manx women writers
20th-century Manx writers
20th-century women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Xinglong Station (NAOC)

Xinglong Station () is an observatory (IAU code 327) situated south of the main peak of the Yan Mountains in Xinglong County, Chengde, Hebei province, China. Installed are seven telescopes: a Mark-III photoelectric astrolabe; a 60 cm reflector; an 85 cm reflector; a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope; a 1.26-meter infrared telescope; and a 2.16-meter telescope. The most recent telescope is the 4m LAMOST. As of 2014 the observatory installed a 5.2-meter telescope as part of their Gamma-ray astronomy program, known colloquially as Sām Tām for its aggressive focal length. It is a popular tourist site.

See also 
 Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program
 List of astronomical observatories

References

External links

Astronomical observatories in China
Buildings and structures in Hebei
Minor-planet discovering observatories
Valeriy Spitsyn

Valeriy Anatolyevich Spitsyn (; born 5 December 1965 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast) is a retired male race walker from Russia.

International competitions

References

1965 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Magnitogorsk
Russian male racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Russia
Olympic athletes for the Unified Team
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships winners
European Athletics Championships medalists
CIS Athletics Championships winners
Russian Athletics Championships winners
World record setters in athletics (track and field)
Jeff Meyer (director)

Jeff Meyer is an American television director.  He has directed episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, So Little Time, Coach, The Faculty, Still Standing and numerous episodes of Yes, Dear.

References

External links

American television directors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
SHK

SHK might refer to:
Schempp-Hirth SHK aerobatic glider
Speaker of the House of Keys of Isle of Man
Sun Hung Kai (disambiguation), groups of property and finance companies in Hong Kong
Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (Statens Haverikommission)
Stichodactyla toxin, a toxin from a sea anemone
Shoreditch Twat

The Shoreditch Twat fanzine was published and edited by club promoter Neil Boorman on behalf of the Shoreditch nightclub 333 between 1999 and 2004.

History 
Starting life as a listings magazine for the club, it quickly grew to become an irreverent, satirical fanzine at the centre of the creative boom in East London. Producing 25,000 copies every six weeks with funding from BAT, Anheuser-Busch and Diesel, Shoreditch Twat attracted writers from The Guardian, The Face, Arena, Loaded, ID and Sleazenation, and illustrators James Jarvis, Bump, Will Sweeney and Elliot Thoburn.

The Twat was art directed by Bump (John Morgan and Mike Watson), adding a surreal edge.

Hoxton resident Lida Hujic wrote:

In 2001, the term Shoreditch Twat became popular vernacular for an overdressed East London 'trendy' and the fanzine went on to produce an installation for the Barbican Gallery's UK culture exhibition 'Jam', which later toured to Japan.

Channel 4 Television and Talkback commissioned Shoreditch Twat to produce a one-off comedy under the amended title of Shoreditch Tw*t, and shown in the Comedy Lab strand on 31 October 2002. This programme went on to win a special mention at the 2003 Montreux Comedy Award.

After four years and 31 issues, Shoreditch Twat ran into legal difficulties and was forced to close down. The publisher went on to edit Sleazenation Magazine.

See also
Nathan Barley

References

External links
 Exhibition by Shoreditch Twat art directors

1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
2004 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Local interest magazines published in the United Kingdom
Satirical magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Listings magazines
Magazines established in 1999
Magazines disestablished in 2004
Media and communications in the London Borough of Hackney
Shoreditch
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (; August 24, 1863 – August 9, 1940) was a Av beis din (rabbinical chief justice), posek (halakhic authority), and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for over 55 years. He played an instrumental role in preserving Lithuanian yeshivas during the Communist era, and Polish and Russian yeshivas of Poland and during the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, when he arranged for these yeshivas to relocate to Lithuanian cities.

Biography
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski was born on 9 Elul 5623 (24 August 1863) in Iwye, Belarus, a small town near Vilnius. His father, David Shlomo Grodzinski, was rabbi of Iwye for over 40 years, and his grandfather was rabbi of the town for 40 years before that.

When he was 12 years old he went to study with the perushim, a group of Lithuanian Torah scholars in Eishyshok where he became bar mitzvah.

At the age of 15, he began studying at the Volozhin yeshiva and was accepted into Chaim Soloveitchik's shiur. He was married in his early twenties to Leah Grodnenski. Her father, Eliyahu Eliezer Grodnenski, was the head of the Beth Din of Vilna (this ear the most senior rabbinical position in Vilna). In 1887, after two years of marriage and at only 23 years old, Grodzinski took over his father-in-law's position, upon the latter's sudden passing.

Leadership
In 1887 he was appointed as a dayan (religious judge) of the beth din of Vilna. He was a participant in the founding conference of Agudath Israel (in Kattowitz, Silesia, in 1912) and served on the party's Council of Sages. He also was a co-founder and active leader of the Va'ad ha-Yeshivot (Council of the Yeshivot), based in Vilnius, an umbrella organization that offered material and spiritual support for yeshivot throughout the eastern provinces of Poland from 1924 to 1939. He wrote a three-volume work Achiezer.

He assisted in the management of the Rameilles Yeshiva of Vilnius. His students included Yehezkel Abramsky, Eliezer Silver, Moshe Shatzkes, and Reuven Katz.

In 1909, there was a meeting in Hamburg, Germany, that was the precursor of Agudas Yisroel, whose main goal was to combat the Zionists and the Mizrachi against Zionism. Grodzinski was the first chairman of the Moetzes Gedolei Torah, the rabbinical advisory board to the Agudah.

Death
Grodzinski died of cancer on 9 August 1940 (5 Av 5700).

Works
Rabbi Grodzensky's halachic opinion was highly regarded among the rabbis of his generation. His best known work is "Ahiezer" a collection of his "shutim" (responsa). The work is known for its lengthy discussions centered on analysis as opposed to final ruling.  In this work he often quotes Rabbi Akiva Eiger.
Other works include two collections of correspondences by Rabbi Grodzinski on more general communal and Hashkafic matters.

References

1863 births
1940 deaths
People from Iwye
Belarusian Haredi rabbis
Lithuanian Haredi rabbis
19th-century Lithuanian rabbis
20th-century Lithuanian rabbis
Anti-Zionist Haredi rabbis
Deaths from cancer in Lithuania
Rabbis from Vilnius
Leptoceroidea

Leptoceroidea is a superfamily of caddisflies.

References 

Insect superfamilies
Integripalpia
Olga Kardopoltseva

Olga Kardopoltseva (; born 11 September 1966 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a Belarusian race walker.

International competitions

References

1966 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Almaty
Belarusian female racewalkers
Soviet female racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Belarus
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Samuel R. Scottron

Samuel Raymond Scottron (February 1841 – October 14, 1908) was a prominent African-American inventor from Brooklyn, N.Y. who began his career as a barber. He was born in Philadelphia in 1841. He received his engineering degree from Cooper Union in 1878.

He was a community leader in New York, setting up organizations to promote racial harmony and fairness, as well as a public speaker and writer on race relations. He was a member of the Brooklyn board of education, and a leader in the Republican Party. He fought for the end of slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Scottron served as Chairman of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee which met at the Cooper Institute.

He invented a special mirror bracket that allowed one to see oneself as others saw them. He went on to receive four more patents, one of which being the curtain rod.

Career
Samuel Scottron moved with his family to New York City when he was a child, where he completed grammar school. During the American Civil War, he was the sutler for the 3rd United States Colored Infantry and almost went bankrupt. To recoup his fortunes, he first operated grocery stores in Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida, and then a barber shop in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was there that he developed and patented his first invention, the adjustable window cornice. Moving to Brooklyn, New York, he worked as a traveling salesman for an import-export business located in lower Manhattan while continuing to patent his inventions and, by the late 1880s, was able to support himself and his family by manufacturing the products derived from his patents. His company, the Scottron Manufacturing Company, was located at 98 Monroe Street in Brooklyn. He helped improve society through his anti-slavery efforts and his inventions.

Family
Samuel Scottron married Anna Maria Willett, a native New Yorker, in 1863; they would have five children.

Samuel Raymond Scottron died of natural causes on October 14, 1908.

Inventions
 Improved Mirror, March 31, 1868
 Adjustable Window Cornice, February 17, 1880
 Cornice, January 16, 1883
 Pole Tip, September 21, 1886
 Curtain Rod, August 30, 1892
 Supporting Bracket, September 12, 1893

Sources 
Ohio History Connection: African Americans in Ohio
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Brooklyn Public Library: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

References

External links
 

1841 births
1905 deaths
Activists for African-American civil rights
19th-century American inventors
People from Brooklyn
Cooper Union alumni
African-American inventors
African-American activists
New York (state) Republicans
Limnephiloidea

Limnephiloidea is a superfamily of Trichoptera caddisflies.

References 

Insect superfamilies
Integripalpia
NGC 4565

NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It lies close to the North Galactic Pole and has a visual magnitude of approximately 10.  It is known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. First recorded in 1785 by William Herschel, it is a prominent example of an edge-on spiral galaxy.

Characteristics 
NGC 4565 is a giant spiral galaxy more luminous than the Andromeda Galaxy.  Much speculation exists in literature as to the nature of the central bulge. In the absence of clear-cut dynamical data on the motions of stars in the bulge, the photometric data alone cannot adjudge among various options put forth. However, its exponential shape suggested that it is a barred spiral galaxy. Studies with the help of the Spitzer Space Telescope not only confirmed the presence of a central bar but also showed a pseudobulge within it as well as an inner ring.

NGC 4565 has at least two satellite galaxies, one of which is interacting with it.  It has a population of roughly 240 globular clusters, more than the Milky Way.

NGC 4565 is one of the brightest member galaxies of the Coma I Group.

This edge-on galaxy exhibits a slightly warped and extended disk under deep optical surveys, likely due to ongoing interactions with neighboring satellite galaxies or other galaxies in the Coma I group. GALEX images show the slight warp at the edge of the disc more clearly than other surveys.

Using the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR), astronomers of the University of Hamburg discovered a diffuse radio halo around NGC 4565. During the observations, a warp was detected in the radio continuum of NGC 4565 that is reminiscent of a neutral hydrogen line (HI) warp and identifying a slight flaring of the galaxy's radio halo. It is assumed that this flaring is caused by the warp as the vertical intensity profiles are asymmetric, which is in agreement with the warp. According to the study, a minimum age for the warp was estimated at approximately 130 million years. This is the spectral age of the galaxy's cosmic ray electrons, during which they are transported into the warp. This indicates that NGC 4565 may be in the aftermath of a period with more intense star formation.

References

External links 
 
 
 National Optical Astronomical Observatory  – NGC 4565
 APOD (2010-03-04) – NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
 APOD (2009-04-28) – NGC 4565
 SEDS – NGC 4565

Unbarred spiral galaxies
Coma Berenices
4565
07772
42038
038b
Astronomical objects discovered in 1785
Discoveries by William Herschel
Coma I Group
Sericostomatoidea

Sericostomatoidea is a superfamily in the order Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

Families include:
Anomalopsychidae
Antipodoeciidae 
Barbarochthonidae  
Beraeidae
Calocidae
Chathamiidae
Conoesucidae                     
Helicophidae   
Helicopsychidae – snail-case caddisflies   
Hydrosalpingidae   
Petrothrincidae   
Sericostomatidae

References

Insect superfamilies
Integripalpia
Frants Kostyukevich

Frants Kostyukevich (; born 4 April 1963) is a male race walker who represented the USSR and later Belarus.

Achievements

External links

1963 births
Living people
Belarusian male racewalkers
Soviet male racewalkers
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union
World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
Hubert Léonard

Hubert Léonard (7 April 1819 – 6 May 1890) was a Belgian violinist and composer.

Biography 
Léonard was born in Liège, Belgium on April 7 1819. His earliest preparatory training was given by a prominent teacher of the time, , after which he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1836. There he studied for three years under François Antoine Habeneck. In 1844 he started his extended tours which established his reputation as one of the greatest of virtuosos. From 1848 to 1867 he held the position of principal professor of violin playing at the Brussels Conservatoire, having succeeded the celebrated Charles de Bériot. Léonard developed a close friendship with Henri Vieuxtemps, a renowned violinist of the time. Owing to ill health, he resigned and settled in Paris, where he spent the rest of his life, and where he gave lessons. Among his notable students were Alfred De Sève, Martin Pierre Marsick, Henri Marteau, Henry Schradieck, Paul Viardot and César Thomson. He wrote a significant pedagogical work entitled Ecole Léonard.

References

Sources

External links

1819 births
1890 deaths
Belgian classical composers
Belgian male classical composers
Romantic composers
Belgian classical violinists
Musicians from Liège
19th-century classical composers
19th-century classical violinists
Male classical violinists
19th-century Belgian male musicians
WJYY

WJYY (105.5 FM, "105.5 JYY") is a radio station broadcasting a Rhythmic hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Concord, New Hampshire, United States, the station serves the Concord and Manchester areas. The station is owned by Binnie Media and licensed to WBIN Media Co., Inc.

History

The station was assigned the WJYY call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 31, 1983 The station was originally branded as JOY 105.5 FM. WJYY was also simulcasted on a sister station 92.1 WNHQ, which improved its signal in the southern parts of the Manchester metro. This lasted until December 1999, when WNHQ flipped to WFEX, an alternative rock format that also simulcasted the Boston, Massachusetts alternative rock station WFNX.

WJYY, along with 16 other stations in northern New England formerly owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by WBIN Media Company, a company controlled by Bill Binnie, on May 22, 2012. Binnie already owned WBIN-TV in Derry and WYCN-LP in Nashua. The deal was completed on November 30, 2012.

In an effort to compete with heritage Lakes Region CHR outlet WFTN-FM, WJYY started to simulcast in the Lakes Region on 1490 WEMJ and its 107.3 translator on May 24, 2019. The simulcast ended on October 26, 2020, with WEMJ switching back to its original news/talk format.

Around fall 2021, WJYY shifted its format to rhythmic CHR. In January 2023, the format was modified to a rhythmic hot AC format, focusing on rhythmic gold from the late 1990s through the 2010s, with two recent titles per hour.

References

External links

JYY
Radio stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in New Hampshire
Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the United States
Concord, New Hampshire
Kokanee

Kokanee is a word from the Okanagan language referring to land-locked lake populations of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka).  It may also refer to:

 Kokanee Range, a subrange of the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, Canada
 Kokanee salmon, a landlocked type of sockeye salmon
 Kokanee Creek Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
 Kokanee, British Columbia, a settlement on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada, at the mouth of the creek
 Kokanee Landing, a former steamboat landing and CPR station on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada
 Kokanee Point is located on the north shore of the West Arm of Kootenay Lake, to the west of Kokanee (settlement)
 Kokanee Narrows, a narrows on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake
 Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, and associated placenames, including:
 Kokanee Glacier
 Kokanee Lake
 Kokanee Pass, a mountain pass located in Kokanee Glacier Park
 Kokanee Peak, a peak in the Kokanee Range located in Kokanee Glacier Park
 Kokanee beer, a popular beer in British Columbia, named for the Kokanee Glacier
 Kokanee Bay, a bay on the north side of Lac La Hache in the Cariboo region of British Columbia
 Kokanee Elementary School, a school in the Northshore School District, located in Bothell, King Country, Washington, United States
 Kokanee Campground, a locality in Fresno County, California
 Kokanee Picnic Area, a locality in Trinity County, California
 Kokanee Cove, a bay in Grand County, Colorado
 Kokanee Bend Fishing Access, a locality near Columbia Falls in Flathead County, Montana
 Lake Kokanee, a reservoir in Mason County, Washington
Permit

Permit may refer to:

Permit (fish), a game fish of the western Atlantic Ocean belonging to the family Carangidae, Trachinotus falcatus
Various legal licenses:
License
Work permit, legal authorization which allows a person to take employment
Learner's permit, restricted license that is given to a person who is learning to drive
International Driving Permit, allows an individual to drive a private motor vehicle in another nation 
Disabled parking permit, displayed upon a vehicle carrying a person whose mobility is  significantly impaired 
Protest permit, permission granted by a governmental agency for a demonstration 
Construction permit, required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding onto pre-existing structures
Filming permit, required in most jurisdictions for filming motion pictures and television 
Home Return Permit, Mainland (China) Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents 
One-way Permit, document issued by the PRC allowing residents of mainland China to leave the mainland for Hong Kong
Thresher/Permit class submarine, a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy
USS Permit (SS-178), a Porpoise-class submarine of the United States Navy
USS Permit (SSN-594), the lead ship of her class of submarine of the United States Navy
Permit (film), a 1979 Pakistani Punjabi film
Back to Times of Splendor

Back to Times of Splendor is the full-length debut album by the German band Disillusion. It contains a concept-based story, written by Vurtox; with each song dividing the story into separate conjoined sections (or chapters). The album received critical acclaim upon release and is considered by many to be a modern metal classic.

Track listing 
 All Songs Written By Disillusion.

Personnel

Disillusion 
 Vurtox − vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, orchestral arrangements
 Rajk Barthel − guitar
 Jens Maluschka − drums

Additional musicians 
 Thomas Bremer − piano on "... And the Mirror Cracked"
 Matthias Schifter − fretless bass on "And the Mirror Cracked" and "A Day by the Lake"
 Denise Schneider − female voice on "Fall" and "The Sleep of Restless Hours"
 Stefan Launicke − piano intro on "Back to Times of Splendor" strings on "The Sleep of Restless Hours"
 Alex Tscholakov − drum loops and percussion on "Alone I Stand in Fires"

Production 
 Recorded May through Nov. 2003 by Vurtox and Jan Stצlzel at Salvation Recording, Leipzig
 Vocals and acoustic guitars recorded by Alexander Tscholakov
 Mixed by Alexander Tscholakov, Vurtox and Disillusion during December to January 2003 at TAM Recordings
 Mastered at Mastersound Studio (Fellbach) January 2004 by Alexander Krull and Disillusion

References 

2004 debut albums
Disillusion (band) albums
Metal Blade Records albums
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management

The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) is an independent professional body and a registered charity in the United Kingdom that works internationally to advance the science and practice of water resource management and environmental resource management for sustainability. It is licensed by the Science Council to award Chartered Scientist and Chartered Environmentalist status to qualifying members. It is a member of the Society for the Environment.

The organisation was formed in 1987 when the Institution of Public Health Engineers, the Institution of Water Engineers and Scientists, and the Institute of Water Pollution Control merged. It was granted a Royal Charter in 1995.

CIWEM Awards

CIWEM presents a number of yearly awards. Since 2007 the organisation has run the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year (EPOY) competition for photographers and filmmakers, with the aim of raising international awareness of environmental and social issues such as climate change and social inequality. Winning and shortlisted photographs and films are featured in an exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society in London before touring the UK.

Other awards presented by CIWEM have included Sustainable Wetland of the Year, Tomorrow's Water, and the Environmental Parliamentarian of the Year Award.  they run the Environmental Photographer of the Year, Young Environmentalist of the Year (YETOY), UK Junior Water Prize in association with the Stockholm International Water Institute, and the Nick Reeves Award for Arts and the Environment.

CIWEM Communities
CIWEM also has a number of branches (predominantly across the UK) and groups and networks including:

 Water Resources Network
 Rivers and Coastal Group
 Urban Drainage Group
 Climate Change Network
 Arts and Environment Network
 Contaminated Land Network
 Faiths and the Environment Network
 Natural Capital Network
 Energy Network
 Waste and Resources Management Network
 Water Supply and Quality Network
 Wastewater and Biosolids Network
 Air Network
 Floods and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Specialist Panel
 WEM Pride
 CIWEM Early Careers Network
 Flood and Coast Community

See also

 Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
 List of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter
 List of professional associations in the United Kingdom

References

External links
 CIWEM website
 CIWEM Competitions and Awards

ECUK Licensed Members
Environmental management-related professional associations
International professional associations
Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
Water and Environmental Management
1987 establishments in the United Kingdom
Lake Burgas

Lake Burgas (, Burgasko ezero) or Lake Vaya (езеро Вая, ezero Vaya), located near the Black Sea west of the city of Burgas, is the largest natural lake in Bulgaria, with an area of 27.60 km2, a length of 9.6 km and a width of 2.5 to 5 km. It is up to 34 m deep.

The lake's waters contain relatively little salt (about 4-11‰). Lake Burgas is inhabited by a wide variety of species, including 23 fish, 60 invertebrates and 254 bird species (of which 61 are endangered in Bulgaria and 9 in the world).

An important fish-producing reservoir in the past, Lake Burgas lost much of its economic importance after the construction of the petrochemical plant near the city, but has witnessed an increasing number of species and decreasing pollution in recent years.

References

 

Burgas
Burgas
Denis Nizhegorodov

Denis Gennadyevich Nizhegorodov (; born 26 July 1980) is a retired Russian race walker. Between 2008 and 2014 he held the world record over 50 km distance, with a time of 3:34:14. He competed in this event at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively.

In May 2016, Nizhegorodov became one of 14 Russian athletes implicated in doping following the retesting of urine from the 2008 Olympic Games. His sample A failed the retest, but these results were not confirmed on his sample B.

International competitions

References

External links

 

1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Saransk
Russian male racewalkers
Olympic male racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Russia
Olympic silver medalists for Russia
Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
World Athletics Championships winners
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Russian Athletics Championships winners
World record setters in athletics (track and field)
India at the 1984 Summer Olympics

India competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
India didn't win a medal but the Games are remembered for bringing Indian women athletes centre stage. 
P. T. Usha lost the bronze medal in 400 metre hurdles by one-hundredth of a second. Earlier in the Games, Shiny Abraham reached the semifinals of 800 metres with a personal best of 2:04.69 seconds and became the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of an Olympic event. She finished last in the semifinal.

Later, the Indian women's 4x400 metre relay team of P. T. Usha, Shiny Abraham, M. D. Valsamma and Vandana Rao made it to the finals. They finished last among the seven teams in the final but set an Asian record of 3:32.49 seconds.

Competitors

Results by event

Athletics

Men Track And Field events

Women Track And Field events

References 

An interview with Shiny Wilson

Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Elisabetta Perrone

Elisabetta Perrone (born 9 July 1968) is a former race walker from Italy who won eighteen medals, eight of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.

Biography
Elisabetta Perrone won six medals, at individual level, at the International athletics competitions. She participated at four editions of the Summer Olympics (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004), she has 39 caps in sixteen years in national team from 1981 to 2004.

National records
 20 km race walk: 1:27:09 ( Dudince, 19 May 2001). Record held until 17 May 2015 (broken by Eleonora Giorgi with 1:26:17)
 5000 m race walk: 20:12.24 ( Rieti, 2 August 2003). Record held until 18 May 2014 (broken by Eleonora Giorgi with 20.01.80)

Achievements

National titles
Perrone won 9 national championships at individual senior level.
Italian Athletics Championships
5000 m walk (track): 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003 (4)
10,000 m walk (track): 1994, 1995 (2)
20 km: 2001 (1)
Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
3000 m walk: 1998, 2003 (2)

See also
 Italy at the European Race Walking Cup - Multiple medalists
 Italian all-time lists - 20 km walk

References

External links
 
 

1968 births
Living people
Italian female racewalkers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
Sportspeople from the Province of Biella
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
Athletics competitors of Gruppo Sportivo Forestale
World Athletics Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Vercelli
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Hexamethylene diisocyanate

Hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) is the organic compound with the formula (CH2)6(NCO)2.  It is classified as an diisocyanate. It is a colorless liquid. It has sometimes been called HMDI but this not usually done to avoid confusion with Hydrogenated MDI.

Synthesis
Compared to other commercial diisocyanates, HDI is produced in relatively small quantities, accounting for (with isophorone diisocyanate) only 3.4% of the global diisocyanate market in the year 2000. It is produced by phosgenation of hexamethylene diamine.

Applications
Aliphatic diisocyanates are used in specialty applications, such as enamel coatings which are resistant to abrasion and degradation by ultraviolet light. These properties are particularly desirable in, for instance, the exterior paint applied to aircraft and vessels. HDI is also sold oligomerized as the trimer or biuret which are used in automotive refinish coatings. Although more viscous in these forms, it reduces the volatility and toxicity. At least 3 companies sell material in this form commercially. It is also used as an activator in process of in situ polymerization of caprolactam i.e. cast nylon process. HDI is also used bisoxazolidine synthesis as the hydroxyl group on the molecule allows for further reaction with hexamethylene diisocyanate.

Toxicity
HDI is considered toxic, and its pulmonary toxicity has been studied as well as its oligomers.

See also
 Isophorone diisocyanate
 Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
 Toluene diisocyanate

References

External links
 NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Isocyanates, from the website of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
 NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - Hexamethylene diisocyanate 

Isocyanates
Isophorone diisocyanate

Isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) is an organic compound in the class known as isocyanates. More specifically, it is an aliphatic diisocyanate. It is produced in relatively small quantities, accounting for (with hexamethylene diisocyanate) only 3.4% of the global diisocyanate market in the year 2000. Aliphatic diisocyanates are used, not in the production of polyurethane foam, but in special applications, such as enamel coatings which are resistant to abrasion and degradation from ultraviolet light. These properties are particularly desirable in, for instance, the exterior paint applied to aircraft.

Synthesis
IPDI is obtained by phosgenation of isophorone diamine:

Chemistry
IPDI exists in two stereoisomers, cis and trans. Their reactivities are similar. Each stereoisomer is an unsymmetrical molecule, and thus has isocyanate groups with different reactivities. The primary isocyanate group is more reactive than the secondary isocyanate group.

See also
 Hexamethylene diisocyanate
 Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate 
 Tetramethylxylene diisocyanate
 Toluene diisocyanate

References

External links
 NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Isocyanates, from the website of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
 Isophorone diisocyanate - NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

Isocyanates
Dana, Jordan

For the nature reserve, click here. 
Dana () is a village near the city of Tafilah, in the Feynan area in central-western Jordan (Tafilah Governorate). It is situated on the edge of Wadi Dana, a large natural canyon, and has views over Wadi Araba. It is host to Dana Biosphere Reserve, one of Jordan's premiere nature reserves with ecotourism facilities.

The modern village of Dana has been occupied for approximately 500 years. According to some sources, the village was built by Bedouins from Hebron, Palestine, who settled the area during the Ottoman period and were members of a tribe called Al 'Ata'ata. The perhaps 6,000 years of prior human occupation at the site included Paleolithic, Edomite, Assyrian, Egyptian, Nabataean, and Roman cultures, taking advantage of its easily-defensible topographical position, fertile soil, and water. Supposedly it preserves many aspects of Jordanian villages of the 19th century. 

The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) initiated a project to protect the nature surrounding the village and promote sustainable development and tourism ("revitalization"). Many of the families from Dana turn to the nearby village of Qadisiyya for access to more modern amenities.

Dana is home to several hotels, including the RSCN Guest House and the Dana Hotel operated by Dana and Qadisiyah Local Community Cooperative.

Gallery

Climate

See more
 Archival photographs of Dana from throughout the 20th century via the American Center of Research Photo Archive:
 https://acor.digitalrelab.com/index.php?s=filter=place_name:Dana%20(Jordan)
 An overview of the Dana Biosphere Reserve via Wild Jordan, an initiative of the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature:
 https://www.wildjordan.com/destinations/dana-biosphere-reserve

References

Populated places in Tafilah Governorate
WFHN

WFHN (107.1 FM), better known as Fun 107, is a contemporary hit radio station that serves the New Bedford-Fall River, Massachusetts, market along with (to a lesser extent) the Providence, Rhode Island, market. The station is licensed to Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and is owned by Townsquare Media. The studio is located in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, shared with WBSM. The transmitter is located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Pope's Island on a tower shared with W243BG. The station was originally built by broadcast engineer Randy Place in 1988–1989.

The call sign is drawn from the city of license, Fairhaven (FHN) and can also represent the word "FUN", the station's moniker.

References

External links
 Official Website
 

Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
FHN
Radio stations established in 1989
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Mass media in Bristol County, Massachusetts
Townsquare Media radio stations
Masaya Nakahara

, also known by his stage names Violent Onsen Geisha and Hair Stylistics, is a Japanese musician, writer and actor. He was described by Allmusic as "one of those musical entities that defy categorization." He co-starred in Shinji Aoyama's 2005 film My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? with Tadanobu Asano.

Discography

Violent Onsen Geisha
Excrete Music (1991)
Otis (1993)
Que Sera, Sera (1995)
Black Lovers: Early Lost Tapes 1988 (1995)
The Midnight Gambler (1996)
Nation of Rhythm Slaves (1996)
Teenage Pet Sounds (1996)

Hair Stylistics
1996–1999 (2001)
Custom Cock Confused Death (2004)
AM 5:00+ (2007)
Expanded Pussies (2009)
Live! (2009)
Live: Album (2010)

Guest appearances
Jim O'Rourke – "After the Fox" from All Kinds of People: Love Burt Bacharach (2010)

Remixes
Cornelius – "Volunteer Ape Man (Disco)" from 96/69 (1996)
Hanayo – "Makka na Shizuku" from Sayonalala (1996)
Microstoria – "Endless Summer NAMM" from Reprovisers (1997)

Bibliography
Mari & Fifi's Massacre Songbook (2001)
Bouquets of Flowers Everywhere (2001)
Naughty Manifesto of the Futurist Kids (2004)
The Nameless Orphans' Grave (2006)
KKK Bestseller (2006)
Less than IQ84! (2010)

Filmography
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005)

References

External links

J'Lit | Authors : Masaya Nakahara | Books from Japan 

1970 births
Living people
Japanese male actors
Japanese writers
Musicians from Tokyo
Yukio Mishima Prize winners
Mr. Green

Mr. Green may refer to:
Mr. Green (Clue), is the character in the game of Cluedo/Clue
Mr. Green Jeans, Hugh Brannum's role on the children's television show Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Green (record producer), an American Disc jockey and hip hop record producer
Mr Green (company), an online gambling company
Mr. Green Tea Ice Cream Company, a food production company based in Brooklyn, New York City
SoBe Mr. Green, a former brand of carbonated soda drink

See also
Green (surname)
Easington, North Yorkshire

Easington is a village in the Loftus civil parish and is part of the North York Moors National Park. It is in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the A174 road,  east of Loftus,  east of Guisborough, and  north-west of Whitby.

History
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Earl Hugh of Chester and having 34 ploughlands. The village name derives from the Old English Esa-ingtūn; literally the farm or settlement of Esa's people. Historically, the name has been spelled as Esingeton and Esington.

Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the village was transferred to the new county of Cleveland in 1974. Cleveland was returned to North Yorkshire in 1996. The village is in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland. Originally, the estate of Easington and Boulby had its manorhouse at the eastern end of the village. In 1799, a new estate was purchased to the south, and a new manorhouse, in what is now Grinkle Park, was built in 1802. The old manorhouse had a moat built somewhere between 1250 and 1350. The site is now part of a working farm, but it remains a scheduled ancient monument.

All Saints Church, a Grade II listed building, was built in 1888–89 by C. Hodgson Fowler in Decorated style, largely with bequests from the Palmer family of Grinkle Park, and incorporated fragments and remains of the previous church. The side chapel and several of the furnishings are by 'Mousey' Thompson of Kilburn.

The public house, the Tiger Inn, was previously a building of the same name at the opposite end of the village.

A railway station on the Whitby, Redcar, and Middlesbrough Union Railway opened in 1883 as Easington. Its name was changed to Grinkle after the local house and seat of the Palmer Baronets of Grinkle Park in 1904. The renaming avoided confusion with the station at Easington, County Durham, also on the North Eastern Railway. The station closed on the eve of the Second World War and never reopened although the line remains a freight-only railway to Boulby Mine.

At the 2011 census, the village had a population of 923. The village will be on the route that cyclists will race through on the 1st stage of the 2020 Tour de Yorkshire. The stage will start in Beverley, making its way up the Yorkshire Coast before finishing in Redcar.

Palmer Baronets
The Palmer Baronets, of Grinkle Park in the County of York and of Newcastle upon Tyne, were created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 July 1886 for Charles Palmer, a coal and shipping magnate and Liberal politician.

References

External links

Places in the Tees Valley
Villages in North Yorkshire
Loftus, North Yorkshire
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church

Saint John the Evangelist's Catholic Church may refer to:
 Church of St John the Evangelist, Liège, Belgium
 San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna, Italy
 St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Frederick, Maryland), U.S.
 St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Silver Spring, Maryland), U.S.
 St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), U.S.

See also 
 St. John the Baptist Church (disambiguation)
 St. John's Cathedral (disambiguation)
 St. John's Church (disambiguation)
Skinningrove

Skinningrove is a village in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England.
Its name is of Old Norse etymology and is thought to mean skinners' grove or pit.

History 

The village had an agricultural and fishing economy until the opening of local ironstone workings in 1848 initiated an industrialisation boom.
A railway was built by 1865, and iron smelting began in 1874.
A jetty on the coast built in 1880 allowed seagoing vessels to carry heavy cargoes from the area. Mining continued until 1958 and primary iron production until the 1970s.

Oarfish 

On 17 February 2003, a rarely seen oarfish was caught by angler Val Fletcher, using a fishing rod baited with squid.
The fish was 11 ft 4 in (3.3 m) long and weighed 140 lb (63.5 kg). Graham Hill, the science officer at the Deep, an aquarium in Hull, said that he had never heard of another oarfish being caught off the coast of Britain.
The Natural History Museum in London said that it would have been interested in preserving the fish in its permanent collection; however the fish had been 'cut up into steaks' before any scientists could examine it.

Landmarks 

The Land of Iron (formerly the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and the Tom Leonard Mining Museum) describes the village's mining heritage, providing a unique underground experience and an insight into how 6.2 million tons of ironstone was extracted from Skinningrove.
The village has a large natural sand beach used for recreational fishing and a beck, which occasionally floods, notably in 2000.
It also has the Riverside Building Community Centre which is on the site of a former school.
There is a Methodist chapel which has services on a Sunday at 18:00. There is also a cafe, a community centre and general dealers and post office.
The Cleveland Way National Trail passes through the village.

Culture and events 

Every year Skinningrove hosts a bonfire and fireworks display which attracts hundreds of people from around North Yorkshire. Each year the bonfire is based on a different theme.
The Cleveland Way runs through the village.

Photographer Chris Killip created an unpublished photo series about the town's residents in the early 1980s, about which the American filmmaker Michael Almereyda produced a short film. The film won Best Non-Fiction Short at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

See also 
 Skinningrove railway station

References

External links 

 Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
 Skinningrove Bonfire
 .

Villages in North Yorkshire
Places in the Tees Valley
Populated coastal places in Redcar and Cleveland
Loftus, North Yorkshire
Carlin How

Carlin How is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

Notable people
Alfred Myers, ironstone miner, one of the Richmond Sixteen

References

External links

Villages in North Yorkshire
Places in the Tees Valley
Loftus, North Yorkshire
Khokhropar

Khokhropar or Khokhrapar (; ) is a border town situated in Tharparkar District, Sindh, Pakistan. It is located at 25°41 North 70°12 East and has an altitude of .

Railway
Khokhrapar railway station was established in 1916. Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Sind Mail was run between Hyderabad, Pakistan and Ahmedabad, India via  Mirpur Khas, Khokhrapar, Munabao, Barmer, Luni, Jodhpur, Pali, Marwar and Palanpur. After the independence Khokhrapar was the last railway station in Pakistan on Hyderabad, Pakistan - Jodhpur, India railway line and used for customs and immigration.

The train service between Hyderabad, Pakistan and Jodhpur, India closed down after the 1965 war.  The town, and the rest of the Nagarparkar salient were captured by India in the 1971 war, and returned to Pakistan in 1972.

In February 2006 Mirpur Khas - Munabao railway line reopened after the conversion of metre gauge railway track to broad gauge. Now Zero Point railway station is the last station in Pakistan on this railway line to customs and immigration.

References 

Populated places in Sindh
Kilton, North Yorkshire

Kilton is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Lockwood.

History
The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Chiltune, which is possibly derived from a combination of Old Norse and Old English of "narrow-valley farm/settlement' or a Scandinavianised form of cilda-tun, 'children's farm/settlement." The village is to the west of Kilton Beck Valley, a narrow cut that carries the Kilton Beck to the sea at Skinningrove. The remains of Kilton Castle lie to the south east and the village is  east of Guisborough and  south of Brotton.

In the 13th century, Kilton Castle was the base of the rebel Will Wither.

References

Villages in North Yorkshire
Places in the Tees Valley
Redcar and Cleveland
Kilton Thorpe

Kilton Thorpe is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
Noted for evidence of early settlement. The outlines of an ancient village are visible in fields adjacent to the present village.

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Mortain. Like other lands in the surrounding area, it was owned by the same noble families as those who owned nearby Kilton Castle. It was only a small settlement across two manors until the arrival of the ironstone industry when 30 workers cottages were built.

Kilton Mine
Kilton Ironstone Mine was opened in  just to the south of the village of Kilton Thorpe. The shafts of the mine were  deep, and like the other mines in the area, it supplied ironstone to the furnaces on Teesside. A private railway was opened in 1873, becoming the property of the North Eastern Railway a year later.

On 12 August 1899, three miners died in a gas explosion, and on 3 May 1954, an explosion in the mine killed one worker, with 15 rescuers being hospitalised after the event due to the effects of inhaling gas. The mine was closed in January 1963.

A conical shale heap still exists at the site and has become a local landmark, although it has become dangerous through land slips and the owners have taken steps to prevent access by the general public.

References

External links

Villages in North Yorkshire
Places in the Tees Valley
Redcar and Cleveland
Ironstone Mines in North Yorkshire