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Catholic Church in Iraq

Catholics in Iraq follow several different rites, but in 2022, most (82%) are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church; about 17% belong to the Syrian Catholic Church, and the remainder are primarily Armenian, Greek and Latin-rite Catholics.

There has not been a census in Iraq since 2010, and there is no exact number of Christians in the country. Local leaders suggest that there were 150,000 Christians in 2022;
 however, other estimates suggested that there were 295,000 Catholics. All figures suggest that Catholics make up less than 1% of the country's population.

In 2020, there were 170 priests and 364 nuns serving across 143 parishes. In 2023, there are 15 currently active dioceses in Iraq and a Patriarchal See.

In 2019, the Archbishop of Erbil, in Kuridstan, warned that Catholicism and Christianity in general was in danger of becoming 'extinct' in Iraq due to persistent persecution from militant Islamic groups such as Daesh.

Pope Francis visited Iraq in March 2021.

In July 2023, Louis Sako, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, announced that he would leave Baghdad for Iraqi Kurdistan after an ongoing dispute with the Iraqi government.

Dioceses and Eparchies
 Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad
 Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Basra
 Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Erbil
 Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk-Sulaimaniya
 Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul
 Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Alquoch
 Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Aqrā
 Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiyah and Zaku
 Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad
 Chaldean Catholic Patriarchal See of Babylon
 Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq
Latin Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad
 Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad
 Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul
 Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Basra and the Gulf

See also
Religion in Iraq
Christianity in Iraq
Freedom of religion in Iraq
Latin Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad
Catholic Church by country

References

External links
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic-Hierarchy

 
Iraq
Iraq
White-eared giant rat

The white-eared giant rats, genus Hyomys, are a group of Old World rats from New Guinea.

Description 
These large rodents belong to the genus Hyomys, with head and body lengths between , tail lengths between , and a weight of up to .

Species
Genus Hyomys - white-eared giant rats
Western white-eared giant rat, Hyomys dammermani Stein, 1933
Eastern white-eared giant rat, Hyomys goliath Milne-Edwards, 1900

References

Rodent genera

Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Rodents of Papua New Guinea
Back from the Brink

Back from the Brink may refer to:

 Back from the Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran: 1973–1979, a 2011 album by Kourosh Yaghmaei
 Back from the Brink, a 1983 book by Michael Edwardes
 Back from the Brink, a 2006 autobiography by Paul McGrath
 Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11, a 2011 book by Alistair Darling
 Back from the Brink, a rare-species conservation programme of Plantlife
Edstone Aqueduct

Edstone Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a  length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. All are unusual in that the towpaths are at the level of the canal bottom.  At ,  Edstone is the longest cast iron aqueduct in England. It crosses a minor road, a stream, and a field, a railway line (the North Warwickshire Line) and the trackbed of the disused Alcester branch line. There was once a pipe from the side of the canal that enabled steam locomotives to draw water to fill their tanks.

The aqueduct was completed in 1816 and is an early example of a prefabricated structure. Its cast iron trough is formed of 35 separate sections bolted together, which sits on thirteen brick piers, creating 14 spans. The trough is  wide, and  deep. The towpath is set level with the base of the trough, which is a somewhat unusual design feature.

The aqueduct is a Grade II* listed  structure.

See also
 List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom

References

External links 

Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
Navigable aqueducts in England
Buildings and structures in Warwickshire
Bridges in Warwickshire
Grade II* listed bridges in England
Grade II* listed buildings in Warwickshire
Cast iron aqueducts
Bill Morrow (executive)

Bill Morrow (born 1959) is the former CEO of the government-owned corporation nbn™ responsible for installation and implementation of the National Broadband Network across Australia. His departure was announced in April 2018 and became effective on 1 September 2018. He became CEO of Directv in February, 2021.

Career
1980 – 1995: Director, Network Data Products, Pacific Bell
1996 – 24 July 2006: Vodafone Group PLC, finishing as CEO Europe.
1 April 2005: appointed President of Vodafone UK
2006 – 2008: President and CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric Company
9 March 2009 – 10 March 2011: CEO of US telecommunications company Clearwire
21 March 2012 – March 2014: CEO, Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA)
 2 April 2014 – 1 Sept 2018: CEO NBN Co Australian National Broadband Network
 October 2019- February 2021: Special adviser and managing director of process service and cost optimization AT&T 
 February 2021: CEO of DirecTV

Education
Associate of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Condie College, San Jose, California 
BA in Business Administration from National University in San Diego

References

1959 births
Living people
American businesspeople
Australian businesspeople
Vodafone people
NBN Co people
Nezha (disambiguation)

Nezha is a protection deity in Chinese folk religion.

Nezha or Ne Zha may also refer to:

 Nezha (given name), a feminine given name of Arabic origin, meaning virtuousness or a promenade
 Nezha (2014 film), a Chinese period drama film 
 Ne Zha (2019 film), a Chinese animated fantasy film
 Laura Nezha (born 1990), Albanian singer, actress, and director
 Neta (car marque), also called Nezha, an automotive brand of Hozon Auto

See also
 
 Nataku (disambiguation), Nezha in Japanese
 Nalakuvara, a yaksha in Indian mythology, the etymon and basis for Nezha
Gerard Windsor

Gerard Charles Windsor (born 29 December 1944) is an Australian author and literary critic.

Biography
Windsor was born in Sydney, son of Mollie and Capt. Harry Matthew John Windsor MD. Dr Windsor had immigrated with his father Harry Joseph Windsor to Brisbane, Queensland from Cork, Ireland sometime before 1932, qualified as a medical practitioner, served with the 2nd AIF in WWII and was elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1947.

Windsor was educated at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, dux in both 1961 and 1962, and a student of Melvyn Morrow. Windsor trained as a Jesuit from ages 18 to 24 before realizing it was not his vocation.
He studied Arts at the Australian National University and Sydney University, before briefly studying medicine. He is a writer, having published ten books, including fiction, compilations of essays, and memoirs. Awarded the 2005 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, he noted that "The primary responsibility of the review is to entertain the reader...The primary responsibility is not to the book or the movie or the play or whatever, which is not to be utterly amoral about it. But nevertheless, it should be a work whole in itself, and give pleasure." Windsor's novel, I Have Kissed Your Lips, was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year award and longlisted for the 2005 Miles Franklin Award.

The author Penelope Rowe was a sister.

Bibliography

Books
Family Lore (1990) (memoir)
The Harlots Enter First (1982) (stories)
Memories of the Assassination Attempt and Other Stories (1985)
Heaven Where The Bachelors Sit  (1996) (memoir)
That Fierce Virgin (1988) (novella)
I'll Just Tell You This (1999) (memoir)
I Asked Cathleen To Dance (1999) (memoir)
The Mansions of Bedlam: Stories and Essays (2000)
I Have Kissed Your Lips (2004) (novel)
Ned Kelly and the Odd Rellie (2007) (clerihews)
 
The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic Today (2017)

Critical studies and reviews of Windsor's work
All day long the noise of battle

References

Links
 Profile of Gerard Windsor,  brisbanewritersfestival.com.au (2003)
Culture and the Arts: Australia in Brief from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

1944 births
Living people
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian essayists
Male essayists
Australian literary critics
Australian male novelists
Australian memoirists
Australian male short story writers
People educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview
Place of birth missing (living people)
Australian Roman Catholics
Australian Jesuits
Former Jesuits
21st-century Australian short story writers
21st-century essayists
21st-century Australian male writers
21st-century memoirists
Joan Whitney

Joan Whitney may refer to:

Joan Whitney Payson, heiress and New York Mets owner
Joan Whitney (actress)
Joan Whitney Kramer, American singer and songwriter
Großhabersdorf

Großhabersdorf is a municipality in the district of Fürth, Bavaria, Germany. As of 2020 it had a population of 4,377.

Town twinning 
  Święciechowa, Poland
  Aixe-sur-Vienne, France
  Malinska, Croatia

References

External links
Official Website 

Fürth (district)
Bernard Waley-Cohen

Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (29 May 1914 – 3 July 1991) was a British businessman. He was the 633rd Lord Mayor of London, elected in 1960.

Biography

The son of Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Alice (née Beddington), Waley-Cohen was educated at Clifton College where he was a member of Polack's House. He was an Alderman City of London for Portsoken Ward, 1949–84; Sheriff of London, 1955–56; Lord Mayor of London, 1960–61; one of the Lieutenants, City of London, 1949–1991. He was a director of the Palestine Corporation, founded in 1922 by a number British businessmen to promote economic development in the British mandate of Palestine. Waley-Cohen was a member of the College Committee of University College London, 1953–80.  He was Treasurer 1962–70, Vice-Chairman 1970 and Chairman, 1971–80.  In former times, as Alderman, he sometimes sat as sole Justice in the Mansion House Justice Room.

He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1957 and made a Baronet of Honeymead in the County of Somerset, in 1961.

Waley-Cohen married the Hon. Joyce Constance Ina, daughter of Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1920–2013). They had four children:
 Rosalind Burdon (married to businessman and former New Zealand politician and Cabinet Minister, Hon Philip Burdon)
 Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen
 Joanna Waley-Cohen 
 Robert Waley-Cohen

Their grandson (son of Robert) is the amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen who won the 2022 Grand National riding Noble Yeats. A 50/1 odds outsider, it was described as a fairytale win.

Arms

References 

Knights Bachelor
English Jews
Jewish British politicians
Sheriffs of the City of London
20th-century lord mayors of London
20th-century English politicians
People associated with University College London
Waley-Cohen, Bernard, 1st Baronet
People educated at Clifton College
1914 births
1991 deaths
Masters of foxhounds in England
Burials at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
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Bernard
Ōkura school

The  is, as are the Izumi school and the Sagi school, a school of kyogen, a form of traditional Japanese comic theater. Kyogen of Ōkura school uses an older form of Japanese language than does Izumi. Their kyogen preserves the sarugaku tradition.

References
 Ōkuraryū Wakate Kyōgen / SHIN (in Japanese)
 Kyōgen Ōkuraryū Zenchiku Tadaaki (in Japanese)

Theatre in Japan
Yisrael Hasson

Yisrael Hasson (, born 27 April 1955) is an Israeli politician and former Deputy Director of Shin Bet. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and Kadima between 2006 and 2014, before becoming Chairman of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Biography
Hasson was born in Damascus, and made aliyah to Israel at the age of seven. He served in Shin Bet for twenty-three years, and is considered a celebrated agents' recruiter and operations leader. He was involved in the negotiations behind the Wye River, Taba, and Hebron agreements, as well as Ehud Barak's negotiations in Camp David. He has also been Israel's envoy to Arab countries on numerous occasions. During his last position in the Shabak, he was nominated as its Deputy Director, under Ami Ayalon.

In 2001, after Ariel Sharon told him to ignore a cease-fire offer from Marwan Barghouti during the Second Intifada , Hasson resigned from the organization and entered business. He founded the Hasson Energy company which delivers fuel to factories and gas stations in Israel's north, and also traded with the Palestinian National Authority. He was voted into the seventeenth Knesset in the 2006 elections.

In 2006 Hasson proposed a Knesset bill which require the internet websites to identify and tag every talkbacker who clicks on the talkback button, stating "I'm not seeking censorship... I only want people to know they must take responsibility for the words they write – just as they are responsible for what they say before a live audience."

In November 2008, Hasson left Yisrael Beiteinu to join Kadima. The immediate reason, while not official, is generally believed to be Lieberman's statements condemning Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Placed twenty-fifth on the Kadima list, Hasson retained his seat in the 2009 elections.

Placed second on the Kadima list for the 2013 elections, Hasson was re-elected as the party won two seats. However, he resigned from the Knesset in December 2014 after being appointed Director of the Israel Antiquities Authority. He was replaced by Yuval Zellner.

References

External links

Israel Hasson Yisrael Beiteinu

1955 births
Living people
Politicians from Damascus
Syrian Jews
Syrian emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent
Israeli Jews
Yisrael Beiteinu politicians
Kadima politicians
Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009)
Members of the 18th Knesset (2009–2013)
Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015)
People of the Shin Bet
Ya'akov Ben-Yezri

Ya'akov Ben-Yezri (, 1 October 1927 – 17 February 2018) was a Moroccan–Israeli politician. He served as a Knesset member on behalf of Gil and as the country's Minister of Health between 2006 and 2009.

Biography
Ben-Yezri was born on 1 October 1927 in Fes in Morocco. He was made aliyah to Israel on 30 November 1949. In 1955, he was elected to Pardes Hana local council, serving until 1963. In 1958, he became a clerk at Clalit health services, a job he worked in until 1993. He also served as a regional director for the company between 1974 and 1993. He is also a former national chairman of the Health Funds' Workers Organization and chairman of the Health Funds' Pensioners Organization.

He was voted into the 17th Knesset in the 2006 elections, and was subsequently appointed Minister of Health in Ehud Olmert's government. Ben-Yezri, a confessed smoker, later caused controversy when he lit up whilst being interviewed on television.

He was placed fourth on the Gil list for the 2009 elections, but the party failed to cross the electoral threshold, and he lost his seat.

References

External links

1927 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from Fez, Morocco
20th-century Moroccan Jews
Moroccan emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009)
Dor (political party) politicians
Ministers of Health of Israel
Ibrahim Sarsur

Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur (, ; born 2 February 1959) is an Israeli Arab politician. A former leader of the United Arab List, he represented the party in the Knesset from 2006 to 2015.

Biography
Born in Kafr Qasim, Sarsur studied English literature and English linguistics at Bar-Ilan University during the 1970s. He became a member of Kafr Qasim council in 1989, serving on it until becoming the head of the southern faction of the Islamic Movement (considered more moderate than its northern counterpart) in 1999. He also became one of the heads of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel.

In the 2006 elections he was elected to the Knesset. He spoke out against a meeting of Arab lesbians in 2007, releasing a statement saying that "all respectable people from all communities and streams to stand up against preaching sexual deviance among our women and girls." He also claimed there were no homosexuals in the Muslim community. Following an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip which killed a woman and her four children in April 2008, he compared the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis: "Israel's killing of innocent people is reminiscent of some very dark times, including that of the Nazis."

In April 2010 Sarsur lost in the elections of the southern branch to Sheikh Hamed Abu Daabas. Abu Daabas received 192 votes while Sarsur received 142.

Sarsur was re-elected in 2009. In a June 2011 speech he praised Hezbollah for "defeating" Israel and called for a new caliphate to be established with its capital in Jerusalem.

He was re-elected again in 2013. Later in the year he signed a petition along with 105 other MKs calling for the release of the Jewish-American Jonathan Pollard, currently imprisoned by the United States for spying for Israel. Sarsur was quoted as saying that he "felt an emotional kinship with Pollard when [he] heard about the conditions under which he lives", comparing Pollard's treatment to that of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Sarsur retired from politics prior to the 2015 elections, and was given a symbolic 119th place on the Joint List, an alliance of Hadash and several Arab parties.

His successor as party leader is Masud Ghnaim.

See also
List of Arab members of the Knesset

References

External links

1959 births
Living people
Arab members of the Knesset
Bar-Ilan University alumni
Israeli Muslims
Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009)
Members of the 18th Knesset (2009–2013)
Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015)
Muslim Brotherhood leaders
People from Kafr Qasim
United Arab List leaders
Roßtal

Roßtal is a market town in the district of Fürth, Bavaria, Germany. As of 2020 it had a population of 10,127. It has a primary school and a secondary school. The church is named St. Laurentius and was built from 1025 to 1042.

Surrounded by beautiful forests, made accessible via many hiking and biking trails, Roßtal is a place for those who love nature and the outdoors. Roßtal has easy trainklinks to Nuremberg and Ansbach which runs 3 times an hour.

References

External links

 

Fürth (district)
Jau

Jau or JAU may refer to:

Places 
 Jaú, a city in São Paulo state, Brazil
 Jaú do Tocantins, a municipality in Tocantins state, Brazil
 Jaú National Park, in Brazil
 Jaú River (disambiguation)
 Francisco Carle Airport, Jauja, Peru (IATA: JAU)
 Campbell County Airport, Jacksboro, Campbell County, Tennessee, U.S. (FAA LID: JAU)

Other uses 
 Jau, formerly Indian units of measurement
 Fabrice Jau (born 1978), French footballer
 Euclydes Barbosa (1909–1988), known as Jaú, Brazilian footballer
 Yaur language, spoken in Indonesia, ISO 639-3 language code jau
 Jaú (Zungaro zungaro), a specie of catfish

See also

Jahu (disambiguation)
Jaww, a village in Bahrain
Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac, a commune in Gironde department, France
Jau gok or Yau gok, traditional dumplings in Cantonese cuisine
Ignaz Günther

Ignaz Günther (22 November 1725 – 27 June 1775) was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian Rococo tradition.

He was born in Altmannstein, where he received his earliest training from his father, then studied in Munich under the court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750. His Wanderjahre took him to Salzburg, Olmütz, Vienna, and Mannheim, where he studied with Paul Egell from 1751 to 1752. Between May and October 1753, he was enrolled in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and won the annual students' competition. In 1754, he started his own workshop in Munich, where he remained until his death in 1775.

He is best remembered for his work in churches, especially his altars.

A wooden crucifix styled by Günther was given by the official Bavarian civil and ecclesiastical delegation as an 85th birthday gift to Pope Benedict XVI, a native of Bavaria, on Monday 16 April 2012.

Major works
Altmannstein—Church of the Holy Cross (1763–1764)
Aschau im Chiemgau—Gallery of Ancestors in Burg Hohenaschau (two wooden statues) (1766)
Benediktbeuern—Church of St. Benedict (side altars, attributed)
Freising—Neustift Abbey Church (high altar) (1756)
Gmund am Tegernsee—Parish Church of St. Ägidius (gilded wooden relief on north side altar) (1763)
Greisstätt-Altenhohenau—Monastery Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (altars) (1767)
Ingolstadt—Minorite Church (Preysing epitaph) (1770)
Mallersdorf—Mallersdorf Abbey (high altar) (1768–1770)
Munich—Bürgersaalkirche (guardian angels under the organ gallery) (1762)
Munich—Pieces in the Bavarian National Museum, including his Hausmadonna for private devotion
München-Harlaching—Pilgrimage Church of St. Anna (altars) (1763&1764)
Nenningen—Cemetery Chapel (Pietà—last known work of Günther) (1774)
Rott am Inn—Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus) (high altar, side altars, and figures of the Trinity, Saint Kunigunde, Saint Henry, Saint Corbinian and Saint Ulrich) (1761–1762)
Starnberg—St. Joseph's Church (high altar) (1766–1768)
Weyarn—Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (woodcarving on high altar, including Annunciation, Pietà, putti, the carved shrine of Saint Valerius, and silver-framed tabernacle) (1763–1764)

Notes

Bibliography
 Christiane Hertel, Pygmalion in Bavaria: The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Art Theory (University Park, PA, 2011).

1725 births
1775 deaths
18th-century German sculptors
18th-century German male artists
German male sculptors
German woodcarvers
German Roman Catholics
Burials in Germany
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
Catholic sculptors
Catholic decorative artists
BKK (disambiguation)

BKK is the IATA airport code for Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand.

It can also refer to:
 The previous airport code of Don Mueang International Airport, Thailand (now DMK)
 The British Karate Kyokushinkai
 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap, a Norwegian power company
 The city of Bangkok, Thailand
 The Backus-Kehoe-Kydland puzzle, a puzzle in economics
 Betriebskrankenkasse, a type of insurance for healthcare in Germany
 Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (Budapest Transport Centre), the unified transport operator of Budapest, Hungary
 The Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kushnirenko theorem, in algebraic geometry
 Bukkake
Melissa Porter

Melissa Porter (born 18 December 1972) is an English television presenter, best known for her BBC programmes To Buy or Not to Buy and Escape to the Country.

Early life
Melissa Jayne Tindiglia was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester, the middle of three sisters of Italian-Czech parentage. Her father was an importer of luxury Italian motorcars. Porter got the property bug from her parents as they moved from one house renovation project to the next in Cheshire.

Career
After graduating with a degree in Retail Marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University, Porter worked as a marketing manager for Marks & Spencer, Kodak and a brand manager for Playtex. She then worked as a professional relocator for a company based in Knightsbridge.

While on a team building exercise, her colleagues suggested she ought to consider a career in television. Porter put a show reel together and CV, and got her first break in 2002 on Granada TV's Men and Motors. Porter then moved to the BBC, presenting a number of shows including Put Your Money Where Your House Is and Get a New Life. Porter has written on property for the Mail on Sunday and Yahoo.

In 2007, Porter presented in the series Countryfile: The Summer Diaries  and Escape to the Country. Porter has also presented new segments on travel, relocation and buying property for Barclaycard on GMTV. She has also presented on Live the Dream: As Seen on TV with Nick Barratt.

She has renovated and sold hundreds of homes and sold several without using an estate agent. Her most recent design project is 11 luxury apartments on the Kings Road, Chelsea,London.

She was the frontperson for Oral B toothpaste television advertisements.

Personal life
Formerly married, Porter has a son.

Porter is a patron of the British Thyroid Foundation.

Porter enjoys sport, particularly tennis, motoring, sailing and skiing, and both water-skiing and black runs on snow.

References

External links
Melissa Porter Official website

1972 births
Living people
People from Wythenshawe
English people of Italian descent
Actresses from Manchester
Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University
English television presenters
Bimini twist

The Bimini twist  is a fishing knot used for offshore trolling and sportsfishing and the creation of double-line leaders. A Bimini twist creates a loop at the end of the line in which it is tied.  The loop secured at the top with a long barrel of coiled line created by the tying process.  A Bimini twist loop is stronger than the line itself. It is one of the rare knots that does not weaken the line in which it is tied. It is a simple method of doubling your fishing line in order to prevent chafing or to create the necessary loop in order to attach a wind-on leader without using strength in the mainline. For use in fishing applications, the old stand by is 20-30 initial twists in nylon monofilament and 60 or more initial-twists in Spectra-type braided line.

An article in Sportfishing Magazine in February 2007 made the claim that fewer twists created greater strength. However, the holding mechanism in a Bimini Twist is the friction created by the twists. It was quickly and has since been often demonstrated that the 12-twist knot (proposed in the article) in Spectra-braid slipped before breaking. It is not known what testing errors led to the erroneous conclusion that fewer twists made a stronger knot.

References

External links
 Video instructions on how to tie a Bimini twist
fisha.com

Loop knots
Fishing knots
Plaskett's Star

Plaskett's Star , also known as HR 2422 and V640 Monocerotis, is a spectroscopic binary at a distance of around 6600 light-years. It is one of the most massive binary stars known, with a total mass of around one hundred times that of the Sun. Indeed, it was long thought to be the most massive known binary system, but evidence collected between 1996 and 2005 demonstrated that Eta Carinae, which was previously thought to be a massive individual star, is a binary system.

This system is named after John Stanley Plaskett, the Canadian astronomer who discovered its binary nature in 1922. Plaskett was assisted in his observations by his son, Harry Hemley Plaskett. The pair of stars have a combined visual magnitude of 6.05, and are located in the constellation of Monoceros.

The orbital period for the pair is . The secondary is a rapid rotator with a projected rotational velocity of , giving it a pronounced equatorial bulge.

The brightness varies irregularly from 6.0 to 6.1 on a timescale of a few hours, thought to be due to many factors including the binary orbit, hot spots in the colliding winds, and granulation.
The luminosities of each component are much lower than expected for their spectral types.  It has been suggested that the star may be twice as far away as assumed, not a member of the Monoceros OB2 association, and each component would be about four times as luminous as currently calculated.  The masses derived from the binary orbit are also somewhat higher than expected from the spectral types, but with considerable uncertainty due to assumptions about the inclination.

References

Monoceros
Spectroscopic binaries
O-type supergiants
O-type giants
Monocerotis, V640
2422
047129
BD+06 1309
031646
Hugh Lindsay

Hugh Lindsay may refer to:
Hugh Primrose Lindsay (1765–1844), British naval captain, director of East India Company
Hugh Hamilton Lindsay (1802–1881), British businessman, director of East India Company
Hugh B. Lindsay (1856–1944), American attorney, jurist and politician
Hugh Lindsay (bishop) (1927–2009), Roman Catholic bishop
Hugh Lindsay (footballer) (born 1938), English amateur footballer who played for Southampton and appeared in the 1960 Olympics
Hugh Lindsay (British Army officer) (1954–1988), equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, 1983–1986
HCS Hugh Lindsay (1829), a paddle steamer built in Bombay in 1829
Adolph Esmit

Adolph Esmit was a Danish colonial administrator and slave trader who served as governor of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies from 1683 to 1684, and again from 1687 to 1688. He was born in Holstein. His older brother Nicolai Esmit preceded him as governor of St. Thomas.

Biography

When Adolph's brother's was proclaimed governor in 1679, Adolph was in Courland, but he quickly went to the West Indies, where he captained a slave ship. When there, Esmit led a faction of planters in opposition of his brother, and deposed him in the fall of 1682. Westergaard describes him as "shifty, shrewd, vain, and at times boastful, and an exceedingly exasperating neighbor to deal with." Meanwhile, his (likely English) wife Charity Esmit was in Copenhagen, securing the official proclamation of his inauguration as governor in 1683.

During his rule, St. Thomas gained a reputation of being a haven for pirates such as George Bond. This was due in part to that when the fact that a sloop owned by a Briton was seized in the harbor of St. Thomas reached Governor Stapleton of Nevis, he attempted having the sloop restored to its owner. He also required the delivery of seven white servants who had run away. Esmit was evasive, saying it was a free port. and Stapleton sent his deputy, Thomas Biss, who said "Sir, if your port is free, why did you seize the sloop?  If some rogues have freedom here, why not all?" Esmit later offered to return the sloop, even after having sold it on auction.

Likewise, French pirate Jean Hamlin, being pursued by Jamaican governor Thomas Lynch's men, arrived on St. Thomas in the spring of 1682. Under the protection of Esmit, Hamlin made the island his base and proceeded to rob several English vessels. When Stapleton's men encountered Hamlin's ship in the harbor of St. Thomas, they set it on fire. Although Esmit complained, claiming that the ship had been seized for the Danish Crown, he secretly sold Hamlin a sloop and let him escape the English.

Upon Esmit's arrival in Denmark, he was able to convince Danish West India Company that he could help them locate a sunken Spanish silver transport, and thus avoided the consequences of his rule. He was proclaimed governor again in 1687.

When it turned out that he would not be able to fulfill on his promises, and the citizens would not accept him as their governor, he was brought to Denmark again in 1688. Once there, Esmit managed to evade the impending trial by leaving for Courland.

Bibliography 
 Waldemar Westergaard, The Danish West Indies under Company Rule (1671 - 1754) (MacMillan, New York, 1917)
 C. F. Bricka (editor), Dansk biografisk Lexikon, first edition, 19 volumes, 1887–1905, Vol. IV. Online edition available: http://runeberg.org/dbl/4/ (page 599. Numbered as 601 in the online edition).
 Philip Gosse, The Pirates' Who's Who (Plain Label Books). Online edition available
 C.h. Haring, The Buccaneers in the West Indies (Plain Label Books). Online edition available

References 

Governors of the Danish West Indies
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
17th century in the Danish West Indies
17th-century Danish people
Danish slave traders
17th-century slave traders
The Dream Merchant

The Dream Merchant may refer to:

The Dream Merchant (novel), a 2002 Dutch fantasy novel by Isabel Hoving
Dream Merchant Vol. 1, a 2005 album by 9th Wonder
The Dream Merchant Vol. 2, a 2007 album by 9th Wonder

See also
The Dream Merchants, a 1949 novel by Harold Robbins
Learning to Walk

Learning to walk is covered at gross motor skill.

Learning to Walk may refer to:
Learning to Walk (Boo Radleys album), a 1992 compilation album by the British indie band The Boo Radleys
Learning to Walk (Sole album), a 2002 compilation album by American hip hop artist Sole
Craig Nevill-Manning

Craig Graham Nevill-Manning (né Nevill) is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he was an Engineering Director. He also created Froogle (now Google Shopping), a product search engine. He is now Head of Engineering at Sidewalk Labs.

Academic and professional career
Nevill-Manning graduated with a BSc in computer science from the University of Canterbury. He received his PhD from the University of Waikato where he was a co-creator of the Weka machine learning suite and the Greenstone digital library software. His doctoral advisor was Ian Witten. In 1994, he invented the sequitur algorithm, which uses data compression to infer the structure of a sequence of symbols.

Craig was invited to join Google at its formation but declined and then joined a little later on. 

Prior to joining Google in 2001 as a senior research scientist, he was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biochemistry department at Stanford University. His research interests center on using techniques from machine learning, data compression and computational biology to provide more structured search over information.

In 2016, Nevill-Manning joined Alphabet, Inc. subsidiary Sidewalk Labs as CTO.

Awards
In 2010 Nevill-Manning received a distinguished alumni award from the University of Waikato.

In 2009 he won a World Class New Zealand Award in the Information and Communications category.

References

External links
 University of Canterbury graduate profile

American computer scientists
Google employees
Living people
New Zealand computer scientists
University of Canterbury alumni
University of Waikato alumni
Rutgers University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Marlborough Boys' College
Hugobert

Hugobert (also Chugoberctus or Hociobercthus) (died probably in 697) was a seneschal and a count of the palace at the Merovingian court during the reigns of Theuderic III and Childebert III. He was a grandson of the dux Theotar, and it is assumed, but not proven, that his father was Chugus, who in 617 became mayor of the palace of Austrasia. The juxtaposition of names in the Vita Landiberto episcopi Traiectensis may imply a relationship between him and the family of Saint Lambert (see below).

It has been disproven that he is one and the same with bishop Hugobert of Liège, because his wife appears in the records of Echternach in the year 698 as a widow. He was married to Irmina of Oeren, who, shortly after his death, made possible the founding of the Abbey of Echternach. Irmina was sister to Adela of Pfalzel, founder of the convent Pfalzel, who is frequently confused with her daughter of the same name. He last appears in a royal charter dated 14 March 697.

Marriage and Family

Hugobert and Irmina had several daughters, including:

 Plectrude, 691/717 witnessed, the first wife of Pippin of Herstal and founder of the Abbey St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne 
 Adela (655-732), abbess of Pfalzel, married to Eudes I, Duke of Aquitaine (questionable Odo the Great)
 Regintrud, whose second marriage after the death of her husband was to the duke Theudebert of Bavaria
 Irmina (d. ca 704), married to Chariveus, brother of Lambert, Count of Hesbaye.

Other children sometimes attributed by genealogists to Hugobert and Irmina include:

 Chrodelinda, who was likely the daughter of Irmina and Chiriveus.  She married Wido, Abbot of Saint Wandrile.  Their son Warnhar was Count of Horbach and was the patriarch of the Widonids.
 Bertrada of Prüm (b. c. 670, d. after 721), the founder of the Prüm Abbey and mother of count Caribert of Laon, who was father of Bertrada of Laon, who in turn was mother of Charlemagne.

Relationships with Frankish Nobility 

Hugobert has been speculated by genealogists to have been ancestor of a number of powerful families of the Frankish nobility, including the Etichonids, Agilofings, Widonids, Carolingians and Robertians/Capetians, as well as the family of William of Gellone.  All of these connections are speculative in nature.

References

Sources 
 Settipani, Christian (1990), "Addenda aux "Ancêtres de Charlemagne", 1990" (PDF).

7th-century births
690s deaths
Mayors of the Palace
WPLI

WPLI  (1390 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia.  WPLI simulcasts a sports radio format with WPLY 610 AM in Roanoke.  Both stations are owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc.  Most programming is supplied by Fox Sports Radio.

References

External links
Sports Radio Virginia Online

1988 establishments in Virginia
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1988
PLI
Marco Matias (musician)

Marco Matias is the son of Portuguese immigrants who came to Germany in the 1970s. At the age of ten, he had his first experiences on stage when he was performing for a game circus, a project that arose in co-operation with Caritas and endeavored to inspire children for creativity. He himself got a lot of ideas out of this project. Shortly afterwards, he founded a duet with his brother Jorge and they had a lot of success presenting their songs – pop, rock and South American titles – at various private events.

The first band he joined when he was fifteen was called ‘Lua Cheia’. He gained his first studio experiences with his school band ‘The Basement Kids’ during the production of his first CD ‘Cry For Peace’. He then passed his higher school certificate examination and began his studies at the University of Cologne. But he never gave up his music; he worked as a backing vocalist, participated in jam sessions and had many other musical activities.

At that time, he got in contact with the Cologne A cappella ensemble ‘Voice Sings’ with whom he toured a lot.

In 2000, Marco and his band ‘Atlanticos’ participated in an ‘international Festival For Young People Of The Portuguese Communities 2000’. The festival was broadcast live to the Portuguese speaking territories all over the world. Portuguese people living in Australia, Macao, Brazil and other territories watched his performance and Marco and his band received a tremendous reaction from the televoters and made third place. They produced an album in Portuguese and were doing a lot of TV-Shows and radio performances in the following years 2001 and 2002.

In 2003, he was invited to a casting called ‘The German Voice 2003’. He was elected from among 12,000 candidates and entered the final with nine other competitors. In that final he became second.

‘A Miracle Of Love’ is the title of the song written by Ralph Siegel that Marco performed, together with Nicole Süßmilch, during the German pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 and they again made a very good second place.

In 2006, Marco competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as a part of the group six4one, representing Switzerland, with the song, "If We All Give A Little".

References 

1975 births
Living people
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Switzerland
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2006
21st-century Portuguese male singers
Tusk (disambiguation)

A tusk is an elongated tooth possessed by certain mammals.

Tusk may also refer to:

People

Real people
 Donald Tusk (born 1957), Polish politician, former President of the European Council and former Polish Prime Minister
 Eberhard Koebel (1907–1955), also known as tusk, German writer and publisher
 Józef Tusk (1907–1987), grandfather of Donald
 Máel Brigte of Moray (fl. 9th century), known as Máel Brigte Tusk, Pictish nobleman

Fictional characters
 Raymond Tusk, a billionaire industrialist and éminence grise in the U.S. TV series House of Cards
 Tusk, a character from Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
 Tusk rapper, a character from the Black Mirror episode "Hated in the Nation"

Biology
 Cusk (fish), or tusk fish (Brosme brosme), a fish of the ling family
 Tusk shell (Scaphopoda), a class of marine mollusks

Fiction
 Tusk (Marvel Comics), a character in Marvel Comics
 Tusk (DC Comics), a character in DC Comics
 Tusk (Killer Instinct), a character in the 1996 arcade game Killer Instinct 2
 "Tusk", the fifth episode of Perfect Hair Forever
 "Tusk", a character from Cross Ange
"Tusk", Johnny Joestar's Stand in Steel Ball Run

Music and film
 Tusk (album), a 1979 album by Fleetwood Mac
 "Tusk" (song), a 1979 song by Fleetwood Mac
 Tusk Tour, a 1979–1980 tour by Fleetwood Mac
 Tusk (Camper Van Beethoven album), a 2002 rerecording of the Fleetwood Mac album
 Tusk (1980 film), a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky
 Tusk (2014 film), a film by Kevin Smith
 Tusk (The Dead C album), 1997
 Tusks (musician), an English singer

Acronyms
 Tank Urban Survival Kit, an upgrade package to improve the effectiveness of the M1A2 Abrams tank in urban warfare
 Tell Utilities Solar won’t be Killed, a group chaired by Barry Goldwater, Jr.

Geography 
 Tusk-e Olya, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
 Tusk-e Sofla, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
 The Tusk, a marble peak in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica
 The Black Tusk, a peak in the Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

Other 
 Tusk (mascot), the live mascot for the University of Arkansas, United States
 Tusk Trust, a British non-profit organisation
 USS Tusk (SS-426), an American submarine

See also 
 
 Tusker
Wee Papa Girl Rappers

Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, that found chart success in the late 1980s. They were sisters Sandra and Samantha Lawrence aka Total S and TY tim born 4 years apart, with Total S being the elder

Overview 
Before being signed to Jive Records, the two sisters were backing singers for Feargal Sharkey. Sandra Lawrence (aka Total S) and Samantha Lawrence (aka TY Tim) are best remembered for the single "Wee Rule" – more inspired by reggae and dancehall than rap/hip hop – which reached number 6 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1988. Another of their singles, "Heat it Up" featuring 2 Men and a Drum Machine, reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1988. It also featured an acid house/techno style remix from Inner City's Kevin Saunderson. They released two albums on Jive Records before first splitting up in early 1991. A later reincarnation as The Wee Papas saw limited returns.

The duo got their name "Wee Papa" from the Saint Lucia French Creole expression "Oui Papa", which their father frequently uttered. Their father hailed from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia.

Wee Papa Girl Rappers also worked with Greek singer, Michalis Rakintzis.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

References

External links
Discog's Wee Papa Girl Rappers page

English hip hop groups
Women hip hop groups
English girl groups
Black British musical groups
British hip hop girl groups
Jive Records artists
Rappers from London
English women rappers
Black British women rappers
Hip hop duos
English musical duos
Sibling musical duos
Twin musical duos
Female musical duos
Tearce Municipality

Tearce ( ; Albanian:Tearcë) is a municipality in northwestern North Macedonia. Tearce is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Tearce Municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region.

Geography
The municipality borders Kosovo to the north, Jegunovce Municipality to the east and south, and Tetovo Municipality to the west.

Demographics
According to the 2021 Macedonian census, this municipality has 17,694 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality:

References

 
Polog Statistical Region
Municipalities of North Macedonia
Rhema FM

Rhema FM is the name used for a number of Christian radio stations established with the help of, and assisted for many years by United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) in Australia. Each station is independent, being run and programmed locally with many having moved away from the Rhema name. UCB has also established the Vision Radio Network across Australia, which is entirely networked from UCB's Brisbane studios.

The name and logo of "Rhema FM" was derived from one of UCB's affiliate networks in New Zealand that was then of the same name. See New Zealand's Rhema.

UCB no longer recognises affiliations with other radio stations because it has given up its role as a co-ordinating body to focus on operating as a broadcaster in its own right. Rhema stations, and UCB's own Vision Radio Network retain affiliation with each other by being members of Christian Media Australia (formerly the Association of Christian Broadcasters), which operates as the peak body for Christian media.

Formats

In the majority of cases, the format of Christian Radio is loosely based on commercial radio styles, generally infusing Christian content by means of music tracks and short segments, such as Focus On The Family and other widely acceptable forms of Christian content.

Other stations present talk based formats, such as 3ABN, Faith-FM and similar services.

Stations

Current stations
The following stations are currently using the Rhema FM name in Australia:
Rhema FM 89.7 Tamworth
Rhema FM 94.9 Central Coast
Rhema FM 99.9 Port Macquarie
Rhema FM 99.7 Newcastle
Rhema FM 106.5 Manning Great Lakes/Taree
Rhema FM 105.1 Wide Bay
Rhema FM 101.7 Mount Isa

Former stations
Other stations originally started under the Rhema FM name, but now under another name:
1WAY FM 91.9 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
4CRM FM 107.5 Mackay, Queensland
4TVR FM 92.3 Cairns/Mareeba, Queensland
8KTR FM 101.3 Katherine, Northern Territory
96three FM (96.3) Geelong, Victoria
Life FM 101.9 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 
Orange's 103.5 Orange, New South Wales
Purpose FM 92.1 Armidale, New South Wales
Cooloola Christian Radio 91.5 Gympie, Queensland
Freedom FM 94.1 Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Cross FM 94.9 Broken Hill, New South Wales
Fresh FM 91.9 Gladstone, Queensland
Live FM 99.9 Townsville, Queensland
Ram FM 103.3 Goulburn, New South Wales
Star FM 97.3 Griffith, New South Wales
Darwin's 97 Seven (97.7) Darwin, Northern Territory
Dubbo's 94.3 Dubbo, New South Wales
Life FM 100.1 Bathurst, New South Wales
Life FM 103.9 Lithgow, New South Wales
Loving Life 103.1 Grafton, New South Wales
Lime FM 104.9 Mount Gambier, South Australia
Pulse FM 94.1 Wollongong, New South Wales
The Light 98.5 Albury, New South Wales/Wodonga, Victoria
Fish Radio 94.5 Bourke, New South Wales 
Juice FM 107.3 Gold Coast, Queensland
Life FM 103.9 Sale, Victoria
Riverland FM 100.7 Renmark, South Australia
Salt FM 106.5 Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Voice FM 92.9 Toowoomba, Queensland

Christian radio stations in Australia
Community radio stations in Australia
Evangelical radio stations
Jagdeep

Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffrey (29 March 1939 – 8 July 2020), better known by his stage name Jagdeep, was an Indian actor and comedian who appeared in more than 400 films. He played Soorma Bhopali in Sholay (1975), Machchar in Purana Mandir (1983), Salman Khan's dad in Andaz Apna Apna (1994) and directed the movie Soorma Bhopali, with his character as the protagonist.

Jagdeep started his film career as a child artist extra in B. R. Chopra's Afsana, then went on to do films as a child artist in films like Ab Dilli Door Nahin, K. A. Abbas's Munna, Guru Dutt's Aar Paar, Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin and AVM's Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke.

He was launched as a leading man by AVM in the films Bhabhi, Barkha and Bindiya, and went on to do a few more films as a leading man. He established himself as a comedian since the movie Brahmachari. Some hit songs are picturised on him like "Paas baitho tabiyat bahal jayegi" from Punarmilan, "In pyar ki rahon mein" from the same film, "Chal ud ja re Panchhi" and "Chali Chali re Patang", from the superhit movie Bhabhi, where he is paired opposite Nanda, and "Aa Gaye Yaaro Jeene Ke Din" from Phir Wohi Raat.

He is also known for his appearances in many horror movies, especially in projects of the Ramsay Brothers. He appeared in famous hits like Purana Mandir and 3D Saamri. He died at his home in Mumbai on 8 July 2020, following age-related health issues.

Filmography

Personal life
Jagdeep married three times and was the father of six children. In 1960, he married Sughra Begum. They had two sons, Javed Jaffrey and television producer/director Naved Jaffrey, Naved and Javed were hosts of the dance show Boogie Woogie.

Later, Jagdeep married Nazima. They have one daughter together, Muskaan Jafri.

References

External links
 
 News on Rediff.com

Indian male comedians
Male actors in Hindi cinema
1939 births
2020 deaths
Muslim male comedians
Indian Shia Muslims
Indian male film actors
20th-century Indian male actors
Indian male child actors