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Proxy board

A proxy board is a requirement imposed under a Proxy Agreement  by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Security Service on foreign investors seeking to acquire certain American companies. This is for national security reasons and applies mainly to defense contractors which are involved in highly classified contracts.  The Proxy Agreement is between the foreign company, the US subsidiary holding classified contracts and the DSS.

A proxy board is a board composed entirely of American citizens which are responsible for the day-to-day running of the business. In this way the company's classified information is "insulated" from foreign exploitation but the parent company still benefits from any profits made by its subsidiary.

Special Security Agreement
A variation is a Special Security Agreement (SSA) where the board of the company can be composed of both American citizens and nationals from the parent company's country. In this case when issues relating to national security are discussed only American managers may participate. SSAs require companies to be run under American law and by American citizens. In May 2006 the CEO of BAE Systems described the "firewalled" status of BAE's US subsidiary, BAE Systems Inc., " The British members of the corporate leadership, me included, get to see the financial results; but many areas of technology, product and programme are not visible to us.... The SSA effectively allows us to operate in the US as an American company, providing the highest levels of assurance and integrity in some of the most sensitive fields of national security provision."

Examples of proxy companies
Tyco Integrated Security and SimplexGrinnell: When the Swiss company acquired Tyco Integrated Security in 1997, and SimplexGrinnell in 2001.
GEC/Tracor — When the British conglomerate GEC acquired the US defense contractor Tracor in 1998 it was required to establish a proxy board due to the highly classified nature of some Tracor contracts. 
Rolls-Royce/Allison — Rolls-Royce was required to establish a proxy board for its newly acquired subsidiary Allison in 1995. However the Department of Defense lifted this requirement in April 2000 and allowed Rolls-Royce to adopt the more flexible Special Security Arrangement.
QinetiQ — UK defence technology company QinetiQ set up a proxy board to manage its US businesses in 2004 following the acquisitions of Foster-Miller Inc and Westar Aerospace and Defense Inc

References

United States Department of Defense
Taqa

Taqa or TAQA may refer to:
Taqa, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
Taqah, town in Oman
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA)
Training, Assessment and Quality Assurance (TAQA) in relation to adult, further and work-based educational assessment (in the UK)

See also
 Taka (disambiguation)
 TACA (disambiguation)
Tacca (disambiguation)
Takah

Takah may refer to:
 Taqah, Oman
 Takah, West Azerbaijan, Iran
Bad Hair Day: The Videos

Bad Hair Day: The Videos is a VHS release of four of "Weird Al" Yankovic's music videos.

The VHS contains the following videos:
"Amish Paradise" (Bad Hair Day)
"Gump" (Bad Hair Day)
"Headline News" (Permanent Record: Al in the Box)
"Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies." (UHF)

External links 
 

"Weird Al" Yankovic video albums
1996 video albums
Music video compilation albums
1996 compilation albums
Scotti Brothers Records albums
Scotti Brothers Records compilation albums
1990s English-language films
Hotel Green

The Hotel Green was a hotel in Pasadena, California. It was built in 1893 by George Gill Green, and later expanded by him with two additional buildings in 1898 and 1903, creating a complex of three structures. The Hotel Green was the home of the Valley Hunt Club and the Tournament of Roses association.

Hotel Green, designed by Los Angeles-based architect Frederick Roehrig in 1893, was the first of the three buildings. The second building in the complex was originally known as the "Central Annex" and became known as "Castle Green," while the third building is known as the "North Annex." The entire block of annexes is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Pasadena Historic Monument.

History

Construction on a hotel was initiated in 1887 by developer Edward C. Webster, between Raymond Avenue and the Santa Fe Railroad tracks. Webster's later insolvency led to George Gill Green acquiring the unfinished building. Green doubled the size and completed the hotel in 1893. The newly expanded hotel, named the Hotel Green, opened for business in 1894. During its time, the Hotel Green became a "social and cultural center for Pasadena," where it hosted society events such as receptions for significant visitors, and painting exhibitions. Due to the hotel's success, Green began building an addition in 1897, and the "Central Annex" opened on January 16, 1899 to coincide with Green's birthday, and 1,000 guests came to celebrate the occasion. The new building, to become known as "Castle Green," was on a full city block but was "set back from the streets, which provided ample space for a garden."

The hotel continued to grow in popularity with the new Central Annex. Its pedestrian bridge to the main hotel over Raymond Avenue became a popular viewing site for the Rose Parade, which ran along Raymond at the time. In 1903 Green added a third building. It incorporated an earlier building constructed in 1887, the Wooster Block, which had been part of the original site of the California Institute of Technology.

The original 1893 Hotel Green building was demolished in 1935.

In film
In certain scenes from the Puppet Master film series the Green Hotel was filmed to double as the "Bodega Bay Inn".

It is briefly seen in the 2005 film Rumor Has It.

Castle Green is also featured 1994's The Little Rascals.

References

External links

Official website

Buildings and structures in Pasadena, California
History of Pasadena, California
Defunct hotels in California
Green
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pasadena, California
Green
1893 establishments in California
Mediterranean Revival architecture in California
Victorian architecture in California
Castle Green

Castle Green may refer to:

 Castle Green, London, a suburb in Barking 
 Castle Green railway station
 Castle Green, South Yorkshire, England, a location in South Yorkshire
 Castle Green, Surrey, England, a small settlement near Chobham 
 Castle Park, Bristol, England, a public open space 
 Castle Green, the second building in the Hotel Green complex in Pasadena, California
Stow cum Quy

Stow cum Quy , commonly referred to as Quy, is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Situated around  north east of Cambridge lying between the Burwell Road (B1102) and the medieval Cambridge to Newmarket road (B1303, formerly A14), it covers an area of .

Origin of the name
The village's name derives from the joining of two settlements, one called Stow, meaning "high or holy place", that was around the present location of Quy church and Quy coming from Cowey or "Cow Island", the area around the Swan pub. Cum is Latin for "with". It was referred to as "Stowe Quye" in medieval times.

History
The area has been occupied for millennia and Bronze Age remains have been found in the parish. A Roman villa has been found just to the west of Quy Hall. 
The Saxon Fleam Dyke runs close by the village. The two Saxon settlements of Stow and Quy built up on a raised area at the southern edge of The Fens that ran north all the way to Lincolnshire. The settlements were already joined by 1066, though had separate manors, and became a single ecclesiastical parish by the early 13th century. Stow was the area around the present parish church, and Quy around The Swan public house.

Jeremy Collier (1650–1727), the bishop and theatre critic, was born in the village and has a street named after him. The oldest parts of the parish church of St Mary at Stow End date from the 12th century. The nave and chancel were built around 1340. A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1840 but closed just after the Second World War and was demolished when the Wheatsheaf pub was extended.

Village life

Quy currently supports three public houses. The White Swan, or Swan, a timber-framed house, was open by 1750. The Prince Albert opened in the 1840s on the Newmarket Road and was renamed The Missing Sock after refurbishment in 2010. The Wheatsheaf at Stow End opened in the late 19th century. Former pubs in the village were The Plough which opened in the late 18th century and was perhaps replaced by The Bush which was open from 1821 to 1904.

The village sign was erected to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Children initially attend Bottisham Primary School in the nearby village and usually then go on to Bottisham Village College.

Nearby are a number of places of interest including the National Trust property of Anglesey Abbey and Quy Fen a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Another nearby conservation area is Wilbraham Fen and there are several picturesque walks around the village.

Transport

The village is just off the A14 via the Quy interchange and is about two miles from the Newmarket Road Park and Ride. There is a bus service running between Cambridge and Newmarket passing through the neighbouring villages of Bottisham, Lode and Burwell. Cycle access is good thanks to a number of cycle paths.

Nearby villages 
 Bottisham
 Lode
 Teversham

References

External links

The White Swan pub
Stow-cum-Quy Parish Council website

Villages in Cambridgeshire
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District
Battle of Alexandropol

The Battle of Alexandropol was a conflict between the First Republic of Armenia and Turkish Revolutionaries of the Turkish National Movement which was on November 7, 1920 at Alexandropol.

Background

The Turkish-Armenian War was a conflict fought between the Republic of Armenia and Turkish Revolutionaries of the Turkish National Movement which lasted from 24 September to 2 December 1920 and largely took place in present-day northeastern Turkey and northwestern Armenia.

Active Stage
On October 24, Karabekir's forces launched a massive campaign on Kars. Rather than fighting for the city, the Armenians abandoned Kars which by October 30 came under full Turkish control. Alexandropol was occupied by Turkish troops on November 7. Turkish troops were withdrawn from her after Treaty of Kars.

Results

The Treaty of Alexandropol was a peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and TBMM ending the Turkish-Armenian War, before declaration of the Republic of Turkey on December 2, 1920. Armenian was forced to renounce the Treaty of Sèvres and cede over 50% of her claimed territory to Turkey.

References

Conflicts in 1920
Battles of the Turkish–Armenian War
1920 in Armenia
1920 in the Ottoman Empire
November 1920 events
Amos Nourse

Amos Nourse (December 17, 1794April 7, 1877) was a medical doctor who became a U.S. Senator from the state of Maine for a very short term. Born in Bolton, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1812 and from Harvard Medical School in 1817. At first settling in Wiscasset, and subsequently in Hallowell, Maine, he finally removed to Bath, Maine in 1845. He was collector of customs at Bath from 1845 and 1846 and commenced practice of medicine in that city. He was lecturer on obstetrics at Bowdoin College from 1846 to 1854, and professor of that branch from 1855 to 1866.

He was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hannibal Hamlin and served from January 16 to March 3, 1857. He then became judge of probate of Sagadahoc County, Maine in 1860. He died at Bath in 1877 and is buried in Hallowell, Maine.

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1794 births
1877 deaths
People from Bolton, Massachusetts
Republican Party United States senators from Maine
Maine Republicans
19th-century American politicians
People from Bath, Maine
People from Wiscasset, Maine
People from Hallowell, Maine
Harvard College alumni
Harvard Medical School alumni
Bowdoin College faculty
Vedic University

VEDIC UNIVERSITY : These special Universities are meant for spreading the knowledge of Sanskrit and Vedas / Vedic Sciences. Such Universities are concerned with Vedic Hinduism.

There are several institutions that contain the phrase Vedic University:

 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic University in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, India
 International Vedic Hindu University
1990 Bosnian municipal elections

The municipal elections of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990 were won by several parties. In most municipalities they organized governments in coalitions, or independently if they had a large majority.

In most municipalities with either a relative or absolute Bosniak majority, Party of Democratic Action (SDA) won a majority of the vote and the right to choose the mayor.

In most municipalities with either a relative or absolute Serbian majority, Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) won a majority of the vote and the right to choose the mayor. SDS also won elections in Doboj and Vogošća (a Bosniak relative majority).

In most municipalities with either a relative or absolute Croatian majority, Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ) won a majority of the vote and the right to choose the mayor. Only in Vareš—a municipality with a relative Croatian majority—did HDZ not win a majority of votes. HDZ also won elections in Bugojno, Fojnica, Jajce, Žepče, Stolac and Mostar (a Bosniak relative majority) and Modriča and Derventa and Kotor Varoš (a Serbian relative majority).

Nationally, Fikret Abdić gained the most votes to become President. He never assumed the presidency however, leaving it to Alija Izetbegović.

Results by municipality:

Nationalistic parties did not win only in Tuzla, Vareš and Novo Sarajevo

References

External links
 Election in Vitez
 Election in Busovaca
 Election in Bugojno
 Election in Mostar
 Election in Novi Travnik
 Election in Ljubuški, Čapljina and Kiseljak
 Election in Konjic
 Elections in Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje
 Election in Konjic
 Election in Kakanj
 Election in Bosanski Šamac
 Election in Odžak, Modriča, Sarajevo, Maglaj,Goražde, ...
 Election in Prijedor
 Election in Prnjavor
 References to elections in Derventa
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 References to elections in Kreševo
 References to elections in Banja Luka, Zenica and Bihać
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References to elections in Ključ
 Overall results of elections 

Municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Sigma Delta Alpha

Sigma Delta Alpha () is a Greek-lettered Latino-based fraternity established in spring 1992 at San José State University.

History 
The first interest group was formed in the Fall semester of 1991, at San Jose State University. Future Founding Father, Francisco Huerta, had the idea of creating a new organization on campus to serve the needs Latinos. Francisco Huerta took the forefront in organizing the initial meetings that set the groundwork for the establishment of Sigma Delta Alpha.

The first introductory meeting held in November 1991. The fraternity's ideological Purposes were set and after several meetings and numerous successful events it was decided that it was time for these individuals to present themselves to the community as an established organization. On May 5, 1992, Sigma Delta Alpha was officially recognized with 18 Founding Fathers.

This was one of only two Latino fraternities founded in the United States during the so-called fragmentation period from 1990 to 2000, and the third to ever be founded in California.

It is also one of the few Latino fraternities that eschew stepping, an important distinction when considering the cultural history of the practice.

Chapters

Chapter awards 
Cultural Ambassadors Certificate of Appreciation from City of Los Angeles, Alpha Chapter May 2006

USC MGC Fraternity of the Year Award, Alpha chapter 2009-2010 & 2011-2012

UNLV Greek Week 1st Place Overall Award, Gamma chapter 2009 & 2012

CSUS USFC Greek Week 1st Place Overall Award, Delta chapter 2009, 2010 & 2011

ΧΔ "Grand Slam" Philanthropy 1st Place Participation Award, CSUS Delta chapter 2011

ΔΓ "Anchor Splash" Philanthropy 1st Place Participation Award, UCR Eta chapter 2011

UNLV Rebel Awards Outstanding New Program
(Go Nutz for ΣΔΑ), Gamma chapter 2011

CSUF Greek Week 1st Place Overall Award, CSUF Zeta Chapter 2018

CSUF MGC-Overall Best GPA Award, CSUF Zeta Chapter 2020

CSUF Greek of the Year Award, Kenny Garcia, Alpha Beta Class, Zeta chapter 2022

Notable alumni 
 Mark Cardenas, Representative for Arizona House of Representatives, District 19
Oscar de los Santos, Rhodes Scholar

See also
List of social fraternities and sororities

References

External links
 Sigma Delta Alpha - National Website

Latino fraternities and sororities
Student organizations established in 1992
San Jose State University
1991 establishments in California
Former members of National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations
Wiscasset (disambiguation)

Wiscasset, Maine is a town in the United States.

Wiscasset may also refer to:

 Wiscasset (CDP), Maine, a census-designated place; the town center
 Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway
Love Is All There Is

Love Is All There Is is a 1996 romantic comedy film written and directed by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor, who also both star in the film.

Plot 
Love Is All There Is is a modern retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story, and it is set in the Bronx.

The Capomezzos, Bronx-born Sicilians, own a local catering business. They develop a bitter rivalry with the pretentious Malacicis, recent immigrants from Florence and owners of a fine Italian restaurant.

The Capomezzos' son, Rosario, falls in love with the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, after she replaces the star of the neighborhood church's staging of Romeo and Juliet. The rivalry intensifies after Rosario deflowers Gina after a fight with her parents.

The movie was made in a few locations in New York: it was filmed at Greentree Country Club in New Rochelle, and many scenes were shot in City Island, Bronx.

Cast 
 Lainie Kazan as Sadie Capomezzo
 Joseph Bologna as Mike Capomezzo
 Paul Sorvino as Piero Malacici
 Barbara Carrera as Maria Malacici
 Nathaniel Marston as Rosario Capomezzo
 Angelina Jolie as Gina Malacici
 Renée Taylor as Mona
 William Hickey as Monsignor
 Dick Van Patten as Dr. Rodino
 Abe Vigoda as Rudy
 Connie Stevens as Miss Deluca
 Joy Behar as Mary
 Vera Lockwood as Donna
 Sal Richards as Sal
 Annie Meisels as Dottie
 Bobby Alto as Joe Fasuli
 Randy K. Blackman as Flower Girl #1

External links 
 
 
 

1996 films
1996 romantic comedy films
American films based on plays
American independent films
Films based on Romeo and Juliet
American romantic comedy films
The Samuel Goldwyn Company films
Films set in the Bronx
City Island, Bronx
1996 independent films
Films produced by Elliott Kastner
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
English-language romantic comedy films
Metropolitan Police Act 1839

The Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act enlarged the district of, and gave greatly increased powers to the Metropolitan Police established by the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. It is one of the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895.

Section 2 of the Act allowed for the enlargement of the Metropolitan Police District to include places in a radius of 15 miles from Charing Cross.

Section 5 gave constables of the Metropolitan Police all "powers and privileges of constabulary" in the counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire and on the River Thames within or adjoining Middlesex, Surrey, Berkshire, Essex, Kent and the City of London (the MPA 1829 had already given them constabulary powers within Middlesex, Surrey, Essex and Kent).

The Act gave the police force powers over shipping arriving in the Port of London and using the Thames. Among these powers were:
 Power to inspect vessels to prevent smuggling
 Power to seize unlawful quantities of gunpowder
 Powers to seize guns loaded with ball

A number of activities were to regulated within the Metropolitan Police District:
 Fairs were only to be open during agreed hours.
 Public houses were to closed on Sundays, Christmas Day and on Good Friday until 1 pm. No alcoholic drink was to be sold to persons under 16 years of age.
 Police were empowered to enter unlicensed theatres.
 Police could enter premises where bear baiting or cockfighting were being carried on, and fine the participants £5.
 Police were allowed to enter gaming houses.
 Regulations could be made to prevent the obstruction of parades and processions.

Section 54 of the Act enumerated a long list of "Nuisances by Persons in Thoroughfares" that were now prohibited. Among the outlawed activities, for which the miscreant could be taken into custody and fined, were:
 "Furious Driving".
 Driving carts on the footway.
 Selling or distributing "profane, indecent or obscene books, papers, prints, drawings, paintings or representations", or singing any songs or ballads with similar content or using language "to the annoyance of pedestrians or passengers".
 Threatening or abusive behaviour or words.
 The blowing of horns (except by guards and postmen of the General Post Office).
 Discharging firearms, setting fireworks or lighting bonfires.
 "Wantonly disturbing" persons by ringing doorbells, knocking on doors or unlawfully extinguishing lamps.
 Flying kites or playing games to the annoyance of others.
 Making slides upon ice or snow to the danger of pedestrians.

The Act also outlawed the use of dog carts, obliged street musicians to move on when asked and allowed the imprisonment of "drunkards guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour".

References

Further reading
 Finer, Samuel Edward. The life and times of Sir Edwin Chadwick (1952)  excerpt pp 164–80.

External links

United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1839
History of the Metropolitan Police
1839 in London
Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning London
Police legislation in the United Kingdom
List of stock used by Swiss Federal Railways

The following is an incomplete list of locomotives and multiple units used by the Swiss Federal Railways.

Steam locomotives

Steam railcars

Electric locomotives

Electric trainsets

Electric railcars

Diesel locomotives

Diesel trainsets

Battery-electric railcars

Heavy shunters

Light shunters

Notes
1 Designations have changed over time
2 Numbers have changed over time
3 Numbers not continuous
4 Changes within one series
5 Not used any more, not yet used, or defined, but never used
6 Details have changed over time, this is the latest information
7 Today Zentralbahn
8 Classic Rail sold four of these locomotives to MThB
9 These locomotives were bought by the SBB-CFF-FFS and leased to BLS Lötschbergbahn

Pictures of some of the locomotives and multiple units

Sources, further reading

See also
Swiss locomotive and railcar classification

Literature
Hartung, Karlheinz  Kleine Typenkunde Schweizer Triebfahrzeuge Transpress Verlag (German)

  
Swiss railway-related lists
Swiss Federal Railways
Garden party (disambiguation)

A garden party is a gathering of people at an outdoor venue, particularly of social elites.

Garden Party may also refer to:

Film and television
The Garden Party, a 1973 short film by Jack Sholder
Garden Party (2008 film), a film starring Vinessa Shaw and Willa Holland 
Garden Party (2017 film), a CG animated short film
"Garden Party" (The Office), an episode of The Office
"The Garden Party", an episode from season 1 of the animated television series The Boondocks

Music
Garden Party (album), a 1972 album by Rick Nelson
"Garden Party" (Rick Nelson song), a song from the album
"Garden Party" (Marillion song), released by Marillion in 1983
"Garden Party", a song by Mezzoforte, from the 1982 album Surprise Surprise
Garden Party (festival), an Irish music festival

Other uses
The Garden Party (play), a 1963 play by Václav Havel
The Garden Party (short story collection), a 1922 collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield
"The Garden Party" (short story), a story from the collection
 Rosa 'Garden Party', a hybrid tea rose cultivar
 An alternative name for the 1633 Rubens painting The Garden of Love

See also
North Central, Philadelphia

North Central is an area in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The name of the area is derived from its location, near the center of North Philadelphia. According to Census 2010, North Central is primarily a low-income neighborhood where 60% of its residents are African American and 40% are Puerto Rican. Hartranft and Stanton are neighborhoods locally known as "North Central". North Central borders both North Philadelphia East and North Philadelphia West.

Education

School District of Philadelphia operates public schools.

The Free Library of Philadelphia Lillian Marrero Branch serves West Kensington.

References

 
Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
The Middlewich Paddies

The Middlewich Paddies are an Irish folk band formed in 1979 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire. Although not widely known outside of folk music circles, two members of the band were instrumental in setting up the Middlewich folk and boat festival which has now become a recognised festival on the folk circuit.

Members
 Michael Woodbine - Tin Whistle, lead, founding member
 Richard Devaney - Vocalist
 Dave Thompson - guitar, Mouth Truss and vocals
 Graham Sivills - mandolin, guitar, whistle and vocals

Discography

Albums
 The Best of the Middlewich Paddies, 1990
 Mann Alive, 1992

External links
 Middlewich Paddies home page
 Graham Sivills home page for the Middlewich Paddies

Irish folk musical groups
Middlewich
Musical groups established in 1979
Musical groups from Cheshire
Hirotoshi Honda

is a Japanese business magnate, engineer and the founder of Mugen Motorsports. He is the son of Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company.

Tax evasion case
Japanese prosecutors had arrested Hirotoshi Honda in 2003, hours after prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into Mugen, which has business relations with Honda Motor Company, on suspicion of dodging ¥  in corporate taxes. Norio Hirokawa, 60, the company's auditor, was also arrested over his alleged involvement in the tax evasion.

Prosecutors alleged that Hirotoshi Honda approved the transactions, although he has claimed he was also a victim and only signed the tax documents prepared by his auditor without knowing about the crime. Prosecutors suspect Mugen hid its income by moving funds to a company named MG Estate under machine lease and other fictitious transactions for three years through to December 2000. Since his arrest in 2003, Hirotoshi Honda had stepped down as the company president.

Hirotoshi Honda is a board member of MG Estate, which has since been renamed GE Seirijigyosha. Mugen reported sales of about ¥  for the financial year to October 2001. Honda Motor has pulled its capital from Mugen but still teams with the firm to participate in auto races. All of Mugen's operations facilities and employees were handed over to M-TEC Company, set up by a relative of Soichiro Honda, while Mugen continued corporate existence only to participate in court proceedings.

On May 25, 2006, Hirotoshi Honda was found not guilty of charges of tax evasion, but Presiding Judge Yasuo Shimoyama of the Saitama District Court ordered Mugen to pay ¥  in fines. The judge ruled that auditor Norio Hirokawa played the central role in the tax evasion scheme, sentencing him to three years imprisonment.

Notes

External links
Mugen Official Site

Vehicle modification people
Japanese founders of automobile manufacturers
1942 births
Living people
Formula One people
Nihon University alumni
Han Hyung-bae

Han Hyung-bae (born March 21, 1976) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians were beaten by the title holders Netherlands after penalty strokes.

References 
 Profile on Athens 2004 Web Site

External links

1976 births
Living people
South Korean male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for South Korea
1998 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Black Blade (novel)

Black Blade is a thriller novel written by Eric Van Lustbader.  It was published in 1992.

Plot summary

In New York City, a series of murders begin. In Washington, a plot conceived at the highest levels of American government is at work to bring the nation of Japan to its knees. In Tokyo, a power struggle is nearing its final stages for control of the Black Blade Society, an ostensibly political cabal whose motives may encompass far more than politics.

Editions
Black Blade: A Novel (paperback), Fawcett Crest Books,

References

1992 American novels
American thriller novels
HarperCollins books
Novels by Eric Van Lustbader
Sahm

Sahm may refer to:

 Sahm (surname), with a list of people of this name
 Sahm International, beer glassware manufacturer
 Saham (Arabic: صحم), a coastal town in northeastern Oman
 SAHM ('stay at home mom/mum/mother'); see homemaker
Sinoconodon

Sinoconodon is an extinct genus of mammaliamorphs that appears in the fossil record of the Lufeng Formation of China in the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic period, about 193 million years ago. While sharing many plesiomorphic traits with other non-mammaliaform cynodonts, it possessed a special, secondarily evolved jaw joint between the dentary and the squamosal bones, which in more derived taxa would replace the primitive tetrapod one between the articular and quadrate bones. The presence of a dentary-squamosal joint is a trait historically used to define mammals.

Description
This animal had skull of  which suggest a presacral body length of  and weight about  due to the similar parameters to the European hedgehog. Sinoconodon closely resembled early mammaliaforms like Morganucodon, but it is regarded as more basal, differing substantially from Morganucodon in its dentition and growth habits. Like most other non-mammalian tetrapods, such as reptiles and amphibians, it was polyphyodont, replacing many of its teeth throughout its lifetime, and it seems to have grown slowly but continuously until its death. It was thus somewhat less mammal-like than mammaliaforms such as morganucodonts and docodonts. The combination of basal tetrapod and mammalian features makes it a unique transitional fossil.

Taxonomy
Sinoconodon was named by Patterson and Olson in 1961. Its type is Sinoconodon rigneyi.  It was assigned to Triconodontidae by Patterson and Olson in 1961; to Triconodonta by Jenkins and Crompton in 1979; to Sinoconodontidae by Carroll in 1988; to Mammaliamorpha by Wible in 1991; to Mammalia by Luo and Wu in 1994; to Mammalia by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. in 2004; and to Mammaliaformes by Luo et al. in 2001 and Bi et al. in 2014.

Phylogeny

References

External links
Mammaliformes from Palaeos

http://eol.org/pages/10575421/names?all=1
http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/mammaliformes/mammaliformes.html#Mammaliformes

Prehistoric prozostrodonts
Prehistoric cynodont genera
Transitional fossils
Jurassic synapsids
Jurassic animals of Asia
Sinemurian life
Fossils of China
Fossil taxa described in 1961
Taxa named by Bryan Patterson
Taxa named by Everett C. Olson
Bokota people

The Bokota, also called Bogotá or Bugleres, are an indigenous people of Panama. They live in Bocas del Toro and north of Veraguas. Bokota live in the same region as the Teribe or Naso Indians. As the 2010 Census, there were 26,871 Bogota living in Panama. They are the smallest tribe in Panama and live in the west of the country. Traditionally they spoke the Bokota language, a dialect of Buglere.

Culture
The Bokota dedicate themselves to livestock, fishing, and hunting. They still use weapons like bows and arrows and spears or fishnets. Men wear shirts of manta-sucia, while women dress similar to the Ngobes. They wear necklaces, facial paint of black and red, and shiny hair combs. They make hats of vegetable fibers, backpacks, baskets, and daily dresses called cobo. They live in round houses on stilts. They are monogamous, and the Bokotas have often intermarried with the Ngöbe Buglés. There are still fullblood families of Bokota. Many traditional ceremonies are maintained, including the ceremony of lightning, which prevents lightning from striking their houses.

Language
They speak the Bokota language, also called Buglere, which is one of the Chibchan languages.

See also
Ngäbe–Buglé people

Notes

Indigenous peoples of Central America
Ethnic groups in Panama
Indigenous peoples in Panama
Hwang Jong-hyun

Hwang Jong-Hyun (born 20 May 1975) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians were beaten by title holders, the Netherlands, after penalty strokes. He is nicknamed Jonathan, and also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

External links

 Profile on Athens 2004 Web Site

1975 births
Living people
South Korean male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for South Korea
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Asian Games medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2002 Asian Games
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Cork North East

Cork North East or North East Cork may refer to:
 North East Cork (UK Parliament constituency), 1885–1922
 Cork North-East (Dáil constituency), 1961–1981
Superman: Doomsday & Beyond

Superman: Doomsday & Beyond, also known as Superman Lives!, is a licensed novel, published in 1993, set in the DC Comics universe, written by Louise Simonson, and with illustrations from Dan Jurgens and José Luis García-López. It is a young-adult version of The Death of Superman comics storyline from 1992. An audio adaptation of the storyline, using the same title, aired on BBC Radio 1 also in 1993, which was released on audio cassette in 1993 and CD in 2005.

Source material
The book draws upon events from the following:
 Man of Steel #1-6 (limited series, 1986)
 Superman #73-82 (1992–93)
 Action Comics #683-692 (1992–93)
 Superman: The Man of Steel #17-26 (1992–93)
 Adventures of Superman #496-505 (1992–93)

Editions
Superman: Doomsday & Beyond (paperback), Bantam Books

Voice cast
 Stuart Milligan as Kal-El/Clark Kent / Superman
 William Hootkins as Lex Luthor
 Lorelei King as Lois Lane
 Vincent Marzello as Jimmy Olsen
 Garrick Hagon as Perry White
 Shelley Thompson as Lana Lang
 Dick Vosburgh as Jor-El
 Barbara Barnes as Lucy Lane
 David Graham as Fisher
 Simon Treves as Metallo
 Elizabeth Mansfield as Amanda McCoy
 Burt Kwouk as Doctor Teng
 Jon Pertwee as Schwarz
 Leon Herbert as John Henry Irons

References

Superman novels
1993 novels
DC Comics novels
Superman radio series
British radio dramas
BBC Radio 1 programmes
BBC Radio 4 programmes
BBC Radio dramas
1993 radio programme debuts
1993 radio programme endings
1896 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1896 in Australia.

Incumbents
Monarch - Victoria

Governors of the Australian colonies
Governor of New South Wales – Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden
Governor of Queensland – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington (from 9 April)
Governor of South Australia – Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet
Governor of Tasmania – Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston
Governor of Victoria – Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
Governor of Western Australia – Sir Gerard Smith

Premiers of the Australian colonies
Premier of New South Wales – George Reid
Premier of Queensland – Hugh Nelson
Premier of South Australia – Charles Kingston
Premier of Tasmania – Edward Braddon
Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
Premier of Victoria – George Turner

Events
 13 February - The Capsize of the ferry Pearl on the Brisbane River, killing 28

 27 October Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly the first film shot and screened in Australia

Arts and literature

 While the Billy Boils, a collection of short stories, is published by Henry Lawson
 Augustus Juncker (1855–1942) publishes English duet edition of I was dreaming popularised in the French opera Ma mie Rosette

Sport
7 to 11 April – Edwin Flack wins gold medals in the 800-metre and 1500 metre events, and bronze in the tennis doubles at the Games of the 1st Olympiad. He was the only Australian competitor at these games.
 3 October – The Victorian Football League is formed, with competition beginning in 1897.
 3 November – Newhaven wins the Melbourne Cup - the first horse-racing films produced in Australia.
 New South Wales wins the Sheffield Shield

Births
 22 January – Norman Gilroy, first Australian-born Cardinal (died 1977)
 8 February – Alfred Percival Bullen, circus proprietor (died 1974)
 18 February – John Cramer, politician (died 1994)
 5 July – Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia (died 1981)
 11 July – Evelyn Scotney, coloratura soprano (died 1967)
 18 July – Jack Mullens, politician (died 1978)
 3 August – Charles Adermann, politician (died 1979)
 24 August – Edwin Corboy, politician (died 1950)
 28 August – Arthur Calwell, politician (died 1973)
 15 September – Norman Lethbridge Cowper, lawyer (died 1987)
 29 September – Thomas James Bede Kenny, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (died 1953)
 21 October – Patrick Gordon Taylor, aviator (died 1966)
 16 November – Joan Lindsay, author (Picnic at Hanging Rock) (died 1984)
 27 November – Arthur Percy Sullivan, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (died 1937)

Deaths
 27 April – Sir Henry Parkes (born 1815), politician
 15 September – John Anderson Hartley (born 1844), educator
 10 October – Ferdinand von Mueller (born 1825), botanist

See also
 List of Australian films before 1910

References

 
Australia
Years of the 19th century in Australia
T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger

T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger is a PlayStation game released in 1999, developed by DreamWorks Interactive (which would later be named EA Los Angeles, and finally Danger Close Games) and published by Activision. The game is set in an oriental landscape populated by clans of animals, such as leopards and snakes. The game's protagonist, T'ai Fu, is the last remaining survivor of the Tiger clan and must journey to defeat the Dragon Master and avenge his kind. On the way, he learns about his clouded past and masters several Kung Fu styles, one from each clan master he defeats.

Gameplay 
While the game has some fairly challenging platformer aspects, the main focus of the gameplay is on fighting aggressors from other clans as T'ai seeks to receive Kung Fu tutoring from the masters of the clans. Each new style T'ai learns increases his repertoire of moves, and he can even learn more exotic moves such as energy blasts and the power of flight. An emphasis on combos is placed in the fighting, as each new style can be chained to one another in any order, allowing for impressively long and complex chains. The game also rewards players for completing combos, as pressing a specific button at the end of each combo refills a bit of the player's health and 'chi' energy (the latter which is used in performing energy blasts). Another unique aspect of the fighting aspect in the game, is that each move learned is not mutually exclusive to combat or platforming; they can be used for both to great effect.

Development 
Development was headed by Lyle Hall, best known as the designer of Gex. George Chang served as the lead artist, with Rion Vernon providing the character designs. The soundtrack was composed by Michael Giacchino.

The game used a new revision of the game engine which powered The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Reception

Notes

References

External links 
 T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger at MobyGames
T'ai Fu: Wrath of a Tiger can be played for free in the browser on the Internet Archive

1999 video games
Action games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games scored by Michael Giacchino
DreamWorks Interactive games
Video games about cats
Activision games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
3D platform games
Logluv TIFF

Logluv TIFF is an encoding used for storing high-dynamic-range imaging data inside a TIFF image. It was originally developed by Greg Ward for storing HDR-output of his Radiance-photonmapper at a time where storage space was a crucial factor. Its implementation in TIFF also allowed the combination with image-compression algorithms without great programming effort. As such it has to be considered a smart compromise between the imposed limitations. It is slightly related to RGBE, the most successful HDRI storage format, an earlier invention of Greg Ward.

Details 
Logluv TIFF's design solves two specific problems: storing high-dynamic image data and doing so within a reasonable amount of space. Traditional image format generally stores pixel data in RGB-space occupying 24 bits, with 8 bits for each color component. This limits the representable colors to a subset of all visible and distinguishable colors, introducing quantization and clamping artifacts clearly visible to human observers. Using a triplet of floats to represent RGB would be a viable solution, but it would quadruple the size of the file (occupying 32 bits for each color-component, as opposed to 8 bits).

Instead of using RGB, LogLuv uses the logarithm of the luminance and the CIELUV (u’, v’) chromaticity coordinates in order to provide a perceptually uniform color space. LogLuv allocates 8 bits for each of the u’ and v’ coordinates, which allows encoding the full visible gamut with imperceptible step sizes. In order to provide the required high dynamic range with imperceptible luminance steps, LogLuv uses 16 bits to encode a fixed-point base 2 logarithm of the luminance, which allows an EV range of nearly 128 stops. The space occupied by one pixel is thus 32 bits (L16 + U8 + V8), marginally bigger than a standard 8 bit RGB-image.

Extension 
In an attempt to prevent the expansion of data-size, Logluv comes in a 24-bit flavour, which in a rather complicated way quantizes lightness to 10 bit and merges U/V into a 14-bit look-up based value.

Usage 
Logluv TIFF has widespread use in HDRI applications such as IBL, image-based lighting.

Reading and writing of Logluv TIFF images can be handled via LibTIFF. LibTIFF is freely available in both source and various binary packages for different platforms.

Resources 
 HDRI, by Reinhard et al. has a discussion regarding Logluv Tiff in the 3rd chapter.
 For those looking for Logluv images, there are numerous example on Greg Ward Larson's page.

See also 
 Tagged Image File Format
 RGBE image format
 JPEG-HDR
 CIELUV

References 

Raster graphics file formats
High dynamic range file formats
Photographic techniques
Carrie Kabak

Carrie Kabak is an author and production designer. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, she now lives in Missouri.

Her first book, Cover the Butter, won an AudioFile Earphones Award in 2006. It was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal.

Carrie Kabak Publications 

 Cover the Butter (2005), Dutton Adult
 For Keeps (Contributor), Seal Press
 He Said What? (Contributor)  Seal Press
 Exit Laughing (Contributor) North Atlantic Books

References

External links 
 Author's webpage

Living people
People from Bolton
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Cardiff University
Jabrin

Jabrin, also known as Jabreen, () is a small town in Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate in northeastern Oman near Nizwa and the Jabal Akhdar Mountains. 

The town is known for its impressive castle, which was built by the Yaruba dynasty Imam Bil'arab bin Sultan, who ruled from 1679 to 1692 and who was buried onsite. The castle can be visited independently with an audio guide that is provided at the entrance and which lasts about 25 minutes.

Climate

See also
 List of cities in Oman

References

Gallery

External links 
 ArchNet

Populated places in Oman
Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate
Ji Seong-hwan

Ji Seong-hwan (born September 16, 1974) is a field hockey player from South Korea, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the final the Asians were beaten by title holders the Netherlands after penalty strokes. He is nicknamed Long Leg, and also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

External links

 Profile on Athens 2004 website

1974 births
Living people
South Korean male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for South Korea
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games medalists in field hockey
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
20th-century South Korean people
21st-century South Korean people
Harriman Institute

The Harriman Institute, the first academic center in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was founded at Columbia University in 1946, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, as the Russian Institute.

History
The goals of the new regional institute, as stated in the proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation, were viewed to be twofold: “First, the direct advancement of knowledge in the Russian field through the coordinated research work of faculty and students; and secondly, the training of these students… as American specialists who will subsequently do work of authority and influence in the Russian field.” Although the Institute’s geographical purview has grown to encompass the post-Soviet states and the post-socialist Eastern European states, the Institute has remained true to its overall objectives of teaching and research.

In 1982, the Russian Institute became the W. Averell Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, in recognition both of Governor Harriman’s generous endowment of the Institute and his lifetime of distinguished service. As Governor Harriman stated in the announcement of the establishment of the Harriman Institute: “My objective is very clear: I want to stimulate and encourage the advanced study of Soviet affairs. To base policy on ignorance and illusion is very dangerous. Policy should be based on knowledge and understanding.”

In 1992, following the collapse of the USSR, the Institute officially expanded its focus to encompass all the states of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and adopted the name of the Harriman Institute. In 1997, the Harriman and East Central European Institutes united to promote comparative scholarly knowledge and public understanding of the complex and changing polities, economies, societies, and cultures of the area between Germany and the Pacific Ocean.

Directors 
Past directors of the Harriman Institute Include:

 Geroid T. Robinson, 1946–51
 Philip E. Mosely, 1951–55
 Henry L. Roberts, 1956–62
 Alexander Dallin, 1962–67
 Marshall D. Shulman, 1967–74, ’76–77, ’81–86
 William E. Harkins, 1974–76, ‘80–81
 Robert L. Belknap, 1977–80
 Robert Legvold, 1986–92
 Richard E. Ericson, 1992–95
 Mark L. von Hagen, 1995–2001
 Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, 2001–2009 (on leave 2006–07)
 Jack L. Snyder (Acting Director), 2006–07
 Timothy M. Frye, 2009-2015 (on leave 2012–13)
 Kimberly J. Marten (Acting Director), 2012–13
 Alexander Cooley, 2015–2021
 Valentina Izmirlieva, 2022–

See also
 Marshall D. Shulman
 John N. Hazard

References

External links
 
 

Columbia University
1946 establishments in New York City
Research institutes in New York (state)
Research institutes established in 1946