alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Caterina Murino

Caterina Murino (born 15 September 1977) is an Italian actress. She began her acting career in the 1999 production of the play Richard III and later made her breakthrough with the 2004 film The Corsican File. She went on to appear in the 2006 film Casino Royale and received a European Golden Globe at the 2008 Italian Golden Globe Awards.

Life and career
Murino was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, and initially wanted to be a doctor. She finished fifth in the 1997 Miss Italy contest. She studied drama at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro run by Francesca De Sapio, between 1999 and 2000. She then appeared in stage productions of Richard III and Italian-language plays. She began her career in television in 2002, and then gained international fame after playing Solange Dimitrios in the 2006 adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale.

In early 2011, she co-starred with Rufus Sewell in the short-lived BBC One TV series Zen.

In 2011, she also appeared in Bob Sinclar's music video clip Far l'amore. She also starred in the video clip of the famous party band The Gypsy Queens' "l'Italiano".

In 2013, she starred as Penelope, Ulysses' wife for a TV production Odysseus.

In 2023, she hosted the 80th Venice International Film Festival from 30 August to 9 September.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
People from Cagliari
Italian film actresses
Italian television actresses
21st-century Italian actresses
Sardinian women
Ricardo Wong

Ricardo Wong Kuoman (Chinese: 王国曼 Wáng guó màn) is a Peruvian politician. He is of Chinese Peruvian background. He was the And It's Called Peru's presidential candidate who unsuccessfully ran in the 2006 national election. He announced his withdrawal from the race due to lack of support, claiming unequal media coverage and opportunities, but retracted a few days later. Three days before the election, he announced that he dropped the race again and expressed his support for Alan García's candidacy, but there was no change in the official ballot. He received 0.086% of the vote and came in 19th place.

External links
Y se llama Perú's site

Living people
Candidates for President of Peru
And It's Called Peru politicians
Peruvian politicians of Chinese descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Günther Herbig

Günther Herbig (born 30 November 1931) is a German conductor.

Born in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, Herbig studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar in 1951 (then in East Germany) with Hermann Abendroth. He later was a student of Hermann Scherchen, Arvids Jansons, and Herbert von Karajan. After completing his studies, he became Kapellmeister at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar in 1956. He subsequently held operatic posts in Erfurt and Potsdam. From 1972 to 1977, he was chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic. He was chief conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1983. After a dispute with the DDR Politburo, Herbig left the GDR and emigrated to the United States.

In North America, Herbig was music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1990. He worked regularly with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1994, initially as its artistic adviser and later as its music director. From 2001 to 2006 he served as Chief Conductor of Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, now Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. More recently Herbig has been the principal guest conductor and music adviser (2003–2006; and 2009–present) of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Since 2006 he is the Main Invited Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (OFCG) in Spain

Herbig holds the title of Conductor Laureate of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra.

References

External links

1931 births
Living people
People from Ústí nad Labem
Sudeten German people
German male conductors (music)
German expatriates in the United States
Naturalized citizens of Germany
21st-century German conductors (music)
21st-century German male musicians
The Cosmic Game

The Cosmic Game is the fourth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on February 22, 2005, by ESL Music. After the success of their previous album The Richest Man in Babylon (2002), the guest artists on The Cosmic Game are of higher profile. The album features various styles of music including club, future-bossa, breaks, rock, and more.

The album debuted at number 74 on the UK Albums Chart, and has sold over 151,000 copies in the United States.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2004 albums
Thievery Corporation albums
Canada Foundation for Innovation

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; , FCI) is an independent not-for-profit organization that invests in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions.

Creation
The CFI was created by the Government of Canada through the Budget Implementation Act 1997, Bill C-93, to "help build and sustain a research landscape in Canada that will attract and retain the world's top talent, train the next generation of researchers, support private-sector innovation and create high-quality jobs that strengthen Canada's position in today's knowledge economy".

Funding
The infrastructure funded by the CFI includes the equipment, laboratories, databases, specimens, scientific collections, computer hardware and software, communications linkages and buildings necessary to conduct research.

The CFI has established a merit-review process that relies on experts from across Canada and around the world to ensure that only the best projects receive funding. CFI funding is awarded to institutions, not individual researchers, and all funding proposals must support an institution's strategic research plan. Eligible Canadian institutions apply to the CFI through a suite of funds, and all applications are assessed using three broad criteria: quality of the research and its need for infrastructure, contribution to strengthening the capacity for innovation and potential benefits of the research to Canada.

The CFI funds up to 40 percent of a project's research infrastructure costs. This funding is then leveraged to attract the remaining investment from partners in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Governance
The CFI was established as an independent, non-governmental organization with a board of directors, which meets three to four times a year. The board of directors reports to Members—a higher governing body similar to a company's shareholders but representing the Canadian public. Members are nominated and appointed for a five-year term. An annual public meeting is held each year.

Criticism
CFI has been criticized for being redundant and part of a "convoluted" federal funding apparatus.

External projects/facilities
 Canadian Light Source Synchrotron
 SNOLAB
 CCGS Amundsen
 Ocean Networks Canada
 Ocean Tracking Network
 Census of Marine Life
 Barcode of Life

See also
 Dr. Albert D. Friesen

References

External links
 

Federal departments and agencies of Canada
Funding bodies of Canada
Technology companies of Canada
Research management
1997 establishments in Canada
Government agencies established in 1997
Burton J. Westcott

Burton J. Westcott (1868–1926) was one of Springfield, Ohio’s most prominent citizens and successful businessmen.

Life
He was born in Richmond, Indiana, a son of John M. Westcott, who was the founder and president of the Hoosier Drill Company, a noted manufacturer of farm implements. A lover and breeder of horses, the elder Westcott founded the Westcott Carriage Company in 1896, and his son took an active interest in both businesses. Educated at DePauw University and Swarthmore College, Burton Westcott proved a capable executive and eventually rose to become treasurer of the Hoosier Drill Company. A 1903 corporate merger involving Hoosier Drill, Superior Drill, and several other firms created the American Seeding Machine Company. Its executive offices were located in Springfield on the southwest corner of Liberty Avenue and Plum Street. That year Burton Westcott, newly elected treasurer of the corporation, arrived to make his home in Springfield. It was a position he would hold for the next twenty-one years.

Years in Springfield, Ohio

The elder Westcott continued to prefer horses to motor cars, and, in 1916, Burton Westcott brought the Westcott Motor Car Company to Springfield, presiding over the firm as president until 1924. The Westcott Carriage Company continued in Richmond as a separate corporation, while the Springfield firm began to manufacture luxury touring cars, which enjoyed a brief popularity in this country after World War I. Few automobiles of this time tended to rival the Westcott touring car in its splendor and appointments, as a full-page advertisement in the October 9, 1920, Saturday Evening Post touted. Hand-assembled from parts manufactured elsewhere, the Westcott motor car was produced in large buildings, valued at more than $150,000, on Warder Street.

Westcott was an early member of the Springfield Country Club and a director of the Lagonda National Bank. He served on the Springfield Town Council from 1916 to 1922. He was elected president of the Town Council in 1921, a position equivalent to mayor.
A staunch Republican, he had admirers from both political parties, and there was general agreement that he helped to curb fairly widespread corruption in the city's administrative affairs, thereby placing Springfield on a firm financial foundation.

Westcott's home, Westcott House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been restored as a museum in Springfield.

Passing
Somewhat despondent over the sudden death of his wife in 1923, Westcott saw his own health begin to fail. The Westcott Motor Car Company was placed in receivership in January 1925, and was sold at auction to a syndicate of local Springfield businessmen in April of that year. After a series of illnesses, Burton Westcott died in his home on East High Street on January 10, 1926.

See also

Westcott House

External links

1868 births
1926 deaths
American businesspeople
Politicians from Springfield, Ohio
Swarthmore College alumni
People from Richmond, Indiana
Ohio Republicans
Mayors of places in Ohio
DePauw University alumni
Sanquhar Castle

Sanquhar Castle, now a ruin, was built in the 13th century; the ruins are situated north east of Dumfries overlooking the River Nith. Situated on the southern approach to the former royal burgh of Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland, it sits on the trail of the Southern Upland Way. The castle is a stronghold bounded on the west by the River Nith, to the north by a burn, and made strong by a deep ditch running the remainder of the boundary.

History
The castle was built by the Ross family in the 13th century and then passed to the Crichton family in the 14th century. In July 1617, James VI and I, visited the castle en route to Glasgow: the Crichtons welcomed him with a display so huge that it bankrupted them. Sanquhar Castle was sold by the Crichtons in the mid 17th century to Sir William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, who established the fairytale pink sandstone Drumlanrig Castle ten miles south of Sanquhar near Thornhill. From then on the castle at Sanquhar began to steadily crumble to a ruin, until 1895 when John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, purchased it and attempted to enthuse a restoration of his ancestral home, following successful restorations at Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch in Wales. This was undertaken by Robert Weir Schultz and the squarer and more structurally sound sections rebuilt at that time can clearly be identified.

Work ended following the death of the Marquess in 1900, and what is left of the site is a mix of restoration and original stonework, but still very far from any sense of completion. It is designated a scheduled monument.

References

Works cited

External links
phouka.com/travel/castles/sanquhar
marie-stuart.co.uk/Castles/Sanquhar
youtube video and commentary on the Sanquhar Cairn and Seann Cathair Fort.
youtube video of Sanquhar Castle.

Castles in Dumfries and Galloway
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Dumfries and Galloway
Sanquhar
Alberto Borea

Alberto Borea Odría is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He was Fuerza Democrática's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election.

He was Deputy from 1985 to 1990 and Senator from 1990 to 1992, when Alberto Fujimori dissolved the parliament. Later that year he participated in a failed coup attempt, led by General Jaime Salinas Sedó. From 2004 to 2005 he represented Peru at the Organization of American States. In the 2006 presidential elections he was considered to be a very minor candidate and received 0.2% of the vote, coming in 13th place. He is attempting to run again in 2016, but he is not a real contender. On December 20, 2017, at the Peruvian Congress, he defended President Pedro Pablo Kuscinsky from accusations of being morally unfit, his brilliant defence yielding a totally unexpected  positive result, as there were not enough votes cast to impeach him.

External links
Fuerza Democrática's site

Living people
Democratic Force (Peru) politicians
Candidates for President of Peru
Members of the Senate of Peru
Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Peru
Permanent Representatives of Peru to the Organization of American States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Asu language

Asu is the name of two languages:

 Asu language (Nigeria), spoken in Western Nigeria
 Asu language (Tanzania), spoken by the Gweno people in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania
Addams (crater)

Addams is a crater  on Venus. It was named after Jane Addams.

References

Impact craters on Venus
List of CSI: NY episodes

CSI: NY is a CBS police procedural drama series created as second spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. This edition follows a New York City forensics team headed by Det. Mac Taylor. The series ran from September 22, 2004, to February 22, 2013. Over the nine seasons, a total of 197 original episodes of CSI: NY were aired.

Series overview

Episodes

Pilot—CSI: Miami

Season 1 (2004–05)

Season 2 (2005–06)

Season 3 (2006–07)

Season 4 (2007–08)

Season 5 (2008–09)

Season 6 (2009–10)

Season 7 (2010–11)

Season 8 (2011–12)

Season 9 (2012–13)

Ratings

Home video releases 

Note: In region 1 the pilot episode, "MIA/NYC NonStop", is included in the CSI: NY season 1 DVD set and all crossover episodes from seasons 6 and 9 are included in their seasons. Season 2's CSI: Miami crossover ("Felony Flight") is not included in its DVD set.

References

External links

CSI: NY episodes on Internet Movie Database
CSI: NY episodes on CSI Files
CSI: New York on The Futon Critic

List of CSI: NY episodes
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
Television episodes set in New York City
Dobromir Chrysos

Dobromir Chrysos (, , ) was a Vlach warlord in eastern Macedonia during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos.

Life

Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates reported that Dobromir Chrysos was, despite his Slavic name, a Vlach by birth. Per Bulgarian researcher Dimitar Bechev, he was of mixed Slavic–Vlach origins.

He was a leader of local Vlachs and Bulgarian Slavs. Choniates reported that Chrysos and his 500 men were initially on Emperor Alexius III's side, but due to suspicion of leaning towards his fellow Vlachs and wanting to rule independently, he was imprisoned. After his release in 1196, he became Strumica's commander and by the end of the year started a revolt, raiding lands between the rivers Strymon and Vardar. He soon expanded his power over Prosek, where he had an advanced fortification built. Emperor Alexius III launched a campaign against him in the spring of 1197 and laid siege for two months before returning to the capital Constantinople, allowing Dobromir to consolidate control over the area. After Alexius' unsuccessful campaign in the autumn of 1197, he sued for peace and recognized Chrysos' rights to the lands between the Strymon and Vardar, including Strumica and the fortress of Prosek. He was already married, but in order to cement an alliance with him the Emperor offered him a daughter of the Byzantine warlord Manuel Kamytzes. She was forced to divorce her husband and marry Dobromir in 1198. 

His father-in-law Kamytzes was captured by Ivanko during a campaign and Chrysos ended up paying the ransom for his release, with the former joining him in a revolt. Around 1201 they launched a series of fresh raids into Macedonia, Thessaly, central Greece, and the Peloponnese. Imperial diplomacy and Dobromir's marriage to Alexios III's granddaughter Theodora Angelina (who had previously been married to the rival leader, Ivanko) ended the campaign. Dobromir was then forced to accept a new treaty that allowed him to retain control only of Prosek and the surrounding countryside. After 1201, he died and disappeared from the sources. Prosek appears to have been conquered by the Bulgarian emperor Kaloyan after 1202.

Sources

References

Literature 
 Томов, Т. Добромир Хриз, който владееше Просек и Струмица - Анамнеза, Т. 6 (2008), 97-114

12th-century people
13th-century people
12th-century military personnel
13th-century military personnel 
12th-century births
13th-century deaths
Eastern Romance people
Medieval nobility
History of the Aromanians
People from medieval Macedonia
Ama language

Ama may refer to:

Ama language (New Guinea)
Ama language (Sudan)
Adungu

The a'dungu, also called the ekidongo or ennenga, is a stringed musical instrument of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda and the Alur people of northwestern Uganda. It is an arched harp of varying dimensions, ranging from seven to ten strings or more.
The physical form of the a'dungu African harp derives from uniquely African origins. The instrument is made of a hollowed-out slab of wood, which is covered by two pieces of leather, woven together in the center. The upper piece of leather functions as a soundboard, and a wooden rib supports it, serving also as a structure to secure the strings to the soundboard. A curved wooden neck, containing a tuning peg for each note, is inserted into the end of the instrument's body. The strings run diagonally from the tuning pegs in the neck to the rib in the center of the body.

The musical form commonly known as adungu music today, is tuned to the diatonic major scale of classic European music and bears the influence of the British presence in Uganda. Traditionally the Adungu is tuned to a pentatonic scale within both the Acholi and Alur cultures. The a'dungu may be played alone, in an ensemble, or as vocal accompaniment. The instrument appears in various sizes that can be loosely categorized into soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. A'dungus are often played in quartets or quintets. The strings of the bass a'dungu are tuned only to the pitches of the tonic triad, and more notes can be played by placing the finger on a string any distance from the neck to raise the pitch. The tenor, alto, and soprano a'dungus are tuned to the pitches of a diatonic major scale. The bass and tenor instruments are played on the ground, while the alto and soprano are played held against the chest.

Tuning is not standardized, and players will usually tune by ear to each other shortly before a performance. The a'dungus are not in a particular key, and the tonality can be adapted to the preferences of the performers.

The a'dungu is generally not used melodically, and instead outlines chords. Generally, a single note is played at a time on the bass and tenor instruments, while the alto and soprano a'dungus are used to play triads. In performance, complex arpeggiation gives simple tonal chord progressions an energetic, sometimes syncopated rhythmic drive.

Modern performers adept with the adungu include the native Ugandan musician James Makubuya and the American artist Crystal Bright.

References

Arched harps
Ugandan musical instruments
Forum Julium

Forum Julium may refer to the following Ancient Roman places:

 the Forum of Caesar, a major square in Rome
 the settlement Illiturgis, in southern Iberia (Spain)

See also
 Forum Iulii (disambiguation)
Barbara Stevens

Barbara Stevens may refer to:

People
Barbara Stevens (basketball)
Barbara Stevens in 2004 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election#Cullercoats
Barbara Stevens, contestant in Miss Universe 1980

Fictional characters
Barbara Stevens, fictional ex-wife of Donald Fisher (Home and Away)
Barbara Stevens, character in Loft (2008 film) and The Loft (2014 film)

See also
Barbara Stephens (disambiguation)
Manaia (legendary chief)

In Māori mythology, Manaia was a chief of the mythological land Hawaiki. After his wife's brother Ngātoro-i-rangi had migrated to New Zealand, Manaia's wife, Kuiwai, sent their  daughter Haungaroa and four other girls to tell Ngatoro that Manaia had cursed him. Ngātoro-i-rangi performed rituals to ward off the curse, cursed Manaia in return, and set out for Hawaiki with a force of 140 warriors to take vengeance on Manaia.

Manaia's priests were confident that they would win easily and therefore prepared large ovens for the bodies of Ngātoro-i-rangi's warriors. Ngātoro-i-rangi's men bloodied themselves and  pretended to be dead, thus laying an ambush.  In their over-confidence, Manaia's men advanced recklessly and all Manaia's men and priests were killed; only Manaia himself survived.

Ngātoro-i-rangi and his crew returned to New Zealand. Manaia gathered an army and set sail to New Zealand to attack them. Ngātoro-i-rangi and his wife, however, performed magical incantations, as a result of which Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and storms, sent a great storm that destroyed Manaia's canoes and killed Manaia himself.

References
R.D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 154.
E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay 1891), 203–204.

Māori mythology
Polynesian navigators
Alcott (crater)

Alcott is an impact crater on Venus. Lava produced by a volcano at one point filled the crater and altered its rim.

References

Impact craters on Venus
Tengku Ampuan Rahimah

Tengku Ampuan Hajah Rahimah binti Almarhum Sultan Abdul Aziz Langkat (4 August 1928 – 27 June 1993) was the Tengku Ampuan of Selangor, Malaysia during the reign of her husband, Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor.

Biography 
She was born on 4 August 1928, as the posthumous daughter of Paduka Sri Tuanku Sultan Abdul Aziz Abdul Jalil Rahmat Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Haji Musa al-Khalid al-Mu'azzam Shah, Sultan of Langkat and Tengku Putri Zahra binti al-Marhum Sultan Alauddin Sulaiman Shah, daughter of Colonel Paduka Sri Sultan Sir Alauddin Sulaiman Shah ibni al-Marhum Yang di-Pertuan Muda Musa, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of the State of Selangor Darul Ehsan, GCMG, KCVO.

She married, as his third chronological wife, at Selangor Palace, Kuala Lumpur, on 11 March 1956, Paduka Sri 
Sultan Salehuddin 'Abdu'l Aziz Shah Alhaj ibni al-Marhum Sultan Hishamuddin Alam Shah Alhaj, by the Grace of Allah, Sultan and Ruler of the State of Selangor Dar ul-Ihsan and all its dependencies.

She was appointed as Raja Puan Muda (Crown Princess) of Selangor on 13 May 1958, and installed as Tengku Ampuan (Queen Consort) of Selangor at Alam Shah Palace, Klang on 28 June 1961. She was, hence, named Tengku Ampuan Hajah Rahimah binti al-Marhum Sultan 'Abdu'l Aziz 'Abdu'l Jalil Rahmat Shah.
 
At the morning of 6:00 am she was found dead in bed. 
She had died in her sleep at 3:47 am on 23 June 1993 and was buried in the Royal Mausoleum near Sultan Sulaiman  Mosque in Klang.

Issue 
The royal couple had two daughters: 
 Tengku Puteri Nor Marina (born 15 October 1957).
 Tengku Puteri Nor Zehan (born 18 November 1959).

Legacy
Several buildings were named after her;
Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (In Malay; Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah a.k.a. HTAR)- a general hospital of Klang which was opened in 1985.
SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah - a secondary school located in Klang.
Sekolah Agama Menengah Tinggi Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (SAMTTAR) - an Islamic secondary school in Banting, Selangor.

Honours 
She was awarded:

Honours of Selangor 
  : 
  First Class of the Royal Family Order of Selangor (DK I) (1963)
  Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Crown of Selangor (SPMS) - Datin Seri
  Knight Grand Companion of the Order of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (SSSA) - Datin Seri

Honours of Malaysia and sultanates 
  : 
  Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Crown of Kelantan or "Star of Muhammad" (SPMK) - Dato'

References 

Selangor royal consorts
1993 deaths
Malaysian people of Bugis descent
Rahimah, Tengku Ampuan
First Classes of Royal Family Order of Selangor
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian Muslims
Indonesian Muslims
Indonesian people of Malay descent
Royal House of Selangor
RLUG

RLUG stands for Romanian Linux Users Group.

RLUG is the largest and oldest Linux community in Romania, formed around 1999, with more than 2000 members subscribed to the main mailing list.

RLUG is an unofficial organization that promotes Linux and other Unix-like operating systems in Romania as well as free and open source software in general.

RLUG offers help for Linux/Unix/OSS users through its wiki, dedicated mailing lists and IRC, and hosts a number of software mirrors.

All services are free and offered by volunteers, as is common among all Linux user groups and other Free Software communities.

The community is sustained by its members (through hardware, financial donations, services) and by two of the main ISPs in Romania iNES and GTS.

References

External links
  
 Official Wiki  
 Mailing Lists  

Linux user groups
Weston Milton railway station

Weston Milton railway station serves the Milton and Locking Castle areas of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England.  It is situated on a loop off the Bristol to Taunton Line,  from the zero point at  via Box.

History 
The station was opened as "Weston Milton Halt" on 3 July 1933 to serve the expansion of the Milton area to the east of the town centre.  The name "halt" indicated that it was an unstaffed station but with platforms of sufficient length to accommodate full-sized trains.  Access to the two platforms, which were built of pre-cast concrete sections, was from the Locking Moor Road at the east end of the station.

When the line was singled between Worle Junction and Weston-super-Mare on 31 January 1972 it was the northern or "up" line that was retained.  After a while the line was relaid in the centre of the formation. To do this the new track was initially laid on the abandoned down formation and trains called for a short while at the old down platform while the up line was lifted and the up platform moved to be partly in its place. The new line was then slewed over to run alongside the platform after which the down platform was dismantled.

In 1983, £30,000 was spent to provide a new waiting shelter and refurbish the car park. The entrance was moved from the bridge to be nearer the middle of the platform. With the opening of Worle railway station on 24 September 1990 a number of commuters changed to using that station, but improved daytime services and the new Locking Castle housing development have mitigated this loss of passengers.

Description 
The station is located in Saville Road and consists of just one small platform (on the left hand side of the train when travelling towards Bristol).

Services 

All trains are operated by Great Western Railway. The basic pattern of services is for an hourly train between Weston-super-Mare and Severn Beach which calls at all stations. There are a few commuter services which run instead to  or to Bath Spa and then on to London Paddington. These London services are operated by Class 800s which are too long for the platform, so only the first seven coaches are able to stop alongside the platform.

Future developments 

The Network Rail Business Plan for 2007 proposed that the line should be doubled from Worle Junction as far as the east side of the station in 2008, with a further phase later extending the double track through the station as far as Weston-super-Mare. In the following year's Business Plan Update it was noted as being "subject to a positive business case".

The Weston Package Phase 1 strategic planning guidance suggests that the station 'could' be relocated underneath a proposed new bridge that would link Herluin Way and Locking Road. A new station could have longer platforms that can take larger trains which will be an important aspect of unlocking employment opportunities in the redevelopment of the former Weston Airfield.

References 

Railway stations in Weston-super-Mare
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1933
Railway stations served by Great Western Railway
DfT Category F2 stations
Yablochkina (crater)

Yablochkina is an impact crater on Venus. It was named after Aleksandra Yablochkina.

References 

Impact craters on Venus
James Milnor Coit

James Milnor Coit (January 31, 1845 – 1925) was an American teacher and scientist.

He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and educated at Hobart College. He was connected for some time with the Cleveland Tube Works. In 1876, he became master in natural sciences at his alma mater, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, where he was appointed vice rector in 1904. In 1909, he was in Europe at the University of Munich, engaged in research. He later became head of the Coit School for American boys in Munich.

In 1903, he was elected an honorary member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati.

Works
His publications include:
 A Manual of Chemical Arithmetic (1886)  
 Treatise on the X-Rays and their Relation to Medical and Surgical Sciences (1897)  
 Liquid Air (1899)

References

American science writers
American educators
Writers from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1845 births
1925 deaths
Sillok language

Sillok (Aka) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Sillok people of Sudan. It is spoken by around 300 people in Blue Nile state, specifically on Mount Silak (Jebel Silak), southwest of the Ingessana hills.

According to Ethnologue the language is moribund, having been heavily Arabicised and influenced by the nearby Berta language. The Sillok people who speak the language are a remnant group.

References

External links
 Aka basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

Eastern Jebel languages
Languages of Sudan
Kingston Park (stadium)

Kingston Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Kingston Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  It is used mostly for rugby union and rugby league matches and is the home stadium of Premiership Rugby side Newcastle Falcons and Betfred Championship Rugby League side Newcastle Thunder and Newcastle United Women. From 2007 to 2009 it was home to semi-professional football team Newcastle Blue Star.

The ground 
In 1990 Newcastle Gosforth, as the Falcons were then known, moved into their new ground Kingston Park, which they had purchased for £55,000. Prior to Newcastle Gosforth moving in, the site had been the Newcastle Chronicle and Journal Sports Ground.

The stadium has a capacity of 10,200 people. The stadium was built in stages, with the West Stand being the newest and most modern. There are plans to expand the exposed North Stand to give more protection from the elements and to provide more facilities for the fans. The South Stand (John Smith's stand) is all standing but it has good protection from the elements and facilities for the fans underneath the stand.

Through the 2013–14 rugby and football seasons, the stadium had a grass surface. In March 2014, Premiership Rugby approved Newcastle Falcons' plan to install an advanced artificial pitch during the 2014 close season, and Newcastle City Council approved the plan in May. The new artificial pitch, the second in Premiership Rugby, was installed by SIS Pitches, the company responsible for the Premiership's first such pitch at Saracens' Copthall Stadium.

The nearest Tyne and Wear Metro station is the Bank Foot station.

Northumbria University and the club are to develop the UK's first ever rugby-based Centre of Sporting Excellence at Kingston Park.

Ownership 
Newcastle Falcons own the stadium, having bought the ground back in June 2015.  The stadium was previously owned by Northumbria University who bought it in late 2008 for an undisclosed fee. The Newcastle Falcons were leasing the site back from Northumbria University, in a similar fashion to the agreement with the previous owner. Included in the university deal for the  site is the rugby stadium, the land around the stadium and the car park. The former owner was the Northern Rock bank, who purchased it in 2007 for £14,756,646.

Rugby League internationals

On 28 August 2019, it was announced that Kingston Park would host three games of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup (now to be held in 2022). These games were originally planned to be hosted at a new stadium built in Workington but in early July 2019, Allerdale Council announced that they would be unable to host the games as the project to build a new stadium had stalled.

Internationals

References

External links 

 Kingston Park at Newcastle Falcons

Newcastle Blue Star F.C.
Newcastle United F.C.
Rugby union stadiums in England
Sports venues in Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle Falcons
Gateshead Thunder
Multi-purpose stadiums in the United Kingdom
Sports venues completed in 1990
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) is a German broadcast orchestra based in Berlin. The orchestra performs its concerts principally in the Philharmonie Berlin. The orchestra is administratively based at the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) Fernsehzentrum in Berlin.

History
The orchestra was founded in 1946 by American occupation forces as the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester (RIAS, Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor / "Radio In the American Sector"). It was also known as the American Sector Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra's first principal conductor was Ferenc Fricsay. In 1956 it was renamed the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin), and in 1993 took on its present name.

Between the chief conductorships of Lorin Maazel and Riccardo Chailly, the orchestra did not have a single chief conductor.  The major conductors who worked with the orchestra during this period, from 1976 to 1982, were Erich Leinsdorf, Eugen Jochum, Gerd Albrecht, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Neville Marriner. The orchestra returned to having a single chief conductor in 1982 with Riccardo Chailly. Ingo Metzmacher became principal conductor as of the 20072008 season, with an original initial contract until 2011. However, after reports of disputes over financing and a threatened reduction in the size of the orchestra, in March 2009, Metzmacher announced his early resignation from the DSO-Berlin principal conductorship as of the summer of 2010.  His final concerts as the orchestra's principal conductor were in June 2010 in Berlin and in August 2010 at The Proms. In September 2010, the DSO-Berlin announced the appointment of Tugan Sokhiev as its Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, as of 2012, with a contract of 4 years.  Sokhiev concluded his DSO-Berlin tenure after the 2015–2016 season.

In October 2014, Robin Ticciati made his first guest-conducting appearance with the DSO-Berlin. In October 2015, the orchestra named Ticciati its next principal conductor, effective with the 20172018 season, with an initial contract of 5 years.  In September 2020, the DSO Berlin announced the extension of Ticciati's contract through 2027.  In March 2023, a news report indicated that Ticciati is to stand down as principal conductor of the orchestra in 2025, two years ahead of his previously announced contract extension.

The DSO-Berlin has recorded commercially for such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical and Harmonia Mundi. In 2011, the orchestra won a Grammy Award for its recording of Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin, conducted by Kent Nagano.

Principal conductors
 Ferenc Fricsay (19481954, 19591963)
 Lorin Maazel (19641975)
 Riccardo Chailly (19821989)
 Vladimir Ashkenazy (19891999)
 Kent Nagano (20002006)
 Ingo Metzmacher (20072010)
 Tugan Sokhiev (20122016)
 Robin Ticciati (2017–present)

References

External links

 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin official English-language website
 The RIAS Symphony (1946–1956) at The Remington Site

German symphony orchestras
Music in Berlin
Musical groups established in 1946
Radio and television orchestras
1946 establishments in Germany
Sugar House Park

Sugar House Park, also known as Sugarhouse Park, is located between I-80, 2100 South, 1300 East, and 1700 East in  the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The  park is at the heart of the Sugar House neighborhood.  It was the site of a fireworks show and concert every Independence Day (July 4), but the event was discontinued in 2018 due to environmental, logistical, and financial reasons. It is a popular sledding location in the winter.

The park was the location of Sugar House Prison, Utah's first state prison, until 1951 when the Utah State Prison was opened in Draper.

Features 

 10 pavilions for public use, available for reservation
 Popular sledding hills during the snowy months
  scenic pond with fountains
 2 Playgrounds
 Walking / jogging path estimated  around the entire perimeter of the park
 Estimated  road loop, great for cycling and jogging
 Baseball Field
 Basketball court
 Scattered picnic tables

References

External links

 

Parks in Salt Lake City
Baron Blayney

Lord Blayney, Baron of Monaghan, in the County of Monaghan, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1621 for the soldier Sir Edward Blayney. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was killed at the Battle of Benburb in 1646. His younger son, the fourth Baron (who succeeded his elder brother), represented County Monaghan in the Irish House of Commons. His elder son, the fifth Baron, was attainted by the Parliament of James II for supporting William of Orange. He had no sons and was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Baron. He was Governor of County Monaghan. His son, the seventh Baron, was Lord Lieutenant of County Monaghan. He was succeeded by his elder son, the eighth Baron. He was a clergyman and served as Dean of Killaloe. He had no surviving children and was succeeded by his younger brother, the ninth Baron. He was a Lieutenant-General in the Army. His younger son, the eleventh Baron (who succeeded his elder brother), was also a Lieutenant-General in the Army and fought in the Peninsular War. Lord Blayney also represented the rotten borough of Old Sarum in Parliament. His son, the twelfth Baron, sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for County Monaghan and was later an Irish Representative Peer from 1841 until his death. On his death in 1874 the title became extinct.

The family seat was at Blayney Castle, located near the town of Castleblayney, which was named after the first Baron.

Barons Blayney (1621)
Edward Blayney, 1st Baron Blayney (died 1629)
Henry Blayney, 2nd Baron Blayney (died 1646)
Edward Blayney, 3rd Baron Blayney (died 1669)
Richard Blayney, 4th Baron Blayney (died 1670)
Henry Vincent Blayney, 5th Baron Blayney (died 1689)
William Blayney, 6th Baron Blayney (died 1705)
Cadwallader Blayney, 7th Baron Blayney (1693–1732)
Charles Talbot Blayney, 8th Baron Blayney (1714–1761)
Cadwallader Blayney, 9th Baron Blayney (1720–1775)
Cadwallader Davis Blayney, 10th Baron Blayney (1769–1784)
Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney (1770–1834)
Cadwallader Davis Blayney, 12th Baron Blayney (1802–1874)

References

Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Ireland
Noble titles created in 1621
Irish noble families
Network traffic measurement

In computer networks, network traffic measurement is the process of measuring the amount and type of traffic on a particular network. This is especially important with regard to effective bandwidth management.

Techniques 
Network performance could be measured using either active or passive techniques. Active techniques (e.g. Iperf) are more intrusive but are arguably more accurate. Passive techniques have less network overhead and hence can run in the background to be used to trigger network management actions.

Measurement studies 

A range of studies have been performed from various points on the Internet. The AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is one of the world's largest Internet exchanges. It produces a constant supply of simple Internet statistics. There are also numerous academic studies that have produced a range of measurement studies on frame size distributions, TCP/UDP ratios and TCP/IP options.

Tools 
Various software tools are available to measure network traffic. Some tools measure traffic by sniffing and others use SNMP, WMI or other local agents to measure bandwidth use on individual machines and routers. However, the latter generally do not detect the type of traffic, nor do they work for machines which are not running the necessary agent software, such as rogue machines on the network, or machines for which no compatible agent is available. In the latter case, inline appliances are preferred. These would generally 'sit' between the LAN and the LAN's exit point, generally the WAN or Internet router, and all packets leaving and entering the network would go through them. In most cases the appliance would operate as a bridge on the network so that it is undetectable by users.

Some tools used for SNMP monitoring are Tivoli Netcool/Proviso by IBM, CA Performance Management by CA Technologies., and SolarWinds

Functions and features 
Measurement tools generally have these functions and features:
 User interface (web, graphical, console)
 Real-time traffic graphs
 Network activity is often reported against pre-configured traffic matching rules to show:
 Local IP address
 Remote IP address
 Port number or protocol
 Logged in user name
 Bandwidth quotas
 Support for traffic shaping or rate limiting (overlapping with the network traffic control page)
 Support website blocking and content filtering
 Alarms to notify the administrator of excessive usage (by IP address or in total)

See also 
 IP Flow Information Export and NetFlow
 Measuring network throughput
 Network management
 Network monitoring
 Network scheduler
 Network simulation
 Packet sniffer
 Performance management

References 

Network management
Internet Protocol based network software
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (disambiguation)

The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) was founded in 1923 and situated in East Berlin during the Cold War.

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra may also refer to:
 The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, known from 1956 to 1993 as the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and situated in West Berlin during the Cold War
Aka language (disambiguation)

Aka can refer to at least three languages:
Aka language (Sudan)
Aka language (Central African Republic)
Hruso language (India)
Additionally, several Andamanese languages have Aka in their names, where it simply means "language":
Aka-Bea
Aka-Bo
Aka-Cari
Aka-Jeru
Aka-Kede
Aka-Kol
Puʻu o Mahuka Heiau State Monument

Puʻu o Mahuka Heiau State Historic Site on the North Shore of Oʻahu is the largest heiau (temple) on the island, covering  on a hilltop overlooking Waimea Bay and Waimea Valley. From its commanding heights, sentries could once monitor much of the northern shoreline of Oʻahu, and even spot signal fires from the Wailua Complex of Heiaus on Kauaʻi, with which it had ties. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, when it became the center of a  state park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

Puʻu o Mahuka means "Hill of Escape." Hawaiian legends have it that from this point, the volcano goddess Pele leaped from Oʻahu to the next island, Molokaʻi.

The highest of the heiau's three walled enclosures may date to the 17th century, with the lower two enclosures perhaps added during the 18th century. These were times of great conflict, and the upper platform appears to have functioned as a luakini heiau (a sacrificial temple) to bring success in war. During the 1770s, the overseer of this heiau was Kaʻopulupulu, the high priest of the last independent high chief of Oʻahu, Kahāhana. In 1792, George Vancouver's ship, HMS Daedalus, anchored near Waimea Bay to collect water. Three men in his shore party were killed in a skirmish with Native Hawaiians, 1930's archeologist J. Gilbert McAllister noted it was "probable" that the bodies of the three men were then taken to the heiau as human sacrifices. After Kamehameha I conquered Oʻahu in 1795, his high priest Hewahewa led religious ceremonies here and the heiau remained in use until the traditional kapu system was abolished in 1819.

At the start of Makahiki, the four months of Hawaiian New Year, an observer standing at Kaʻena Point would see the Pleiades (Makaliʻi) rising out of Pu'u o Mahuka Heiau just after sunset.

The site can be reached from Pupukea Homestead Road (Highway 835), which starts at Kamehameha Highway (Highway 83) across from Pupukea fire station.

Gallery

References

Heiau
Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
National Historic Landmarks in Hawaii
History of Oahu
Archaeological sites in Hawaii
Buildings and structures in Honolulu County, Hawaii
Protected areas established in 1962
Protected areas of Oahu
State parks of Hawaii
National Register of Historic Places in Honolulu County, Hawaii
1962 establishments in Hawaii
NGC 1156

NGC 1156 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Aries constellation of the type . It is considered a Magellanic-type irregular. The galaxy has a larger than average core, and contains zones of contra-rotating gas. The counter-rotation is thought to be the result of tidal interactions with another gas rich galaxy some time in the past.

It has a H II nucleus.

The AGES survey has discovered a candidate dark galaxy close to NGC 1156, one of only a few so far found.

References

External links
 
 Arecibo Survey Produces Dark Galaxy Candidate (SpaceDaily)
 http://www.astrophotos.net/pages/GALAXIES/NGC%201156.htm
 http://www.jupiter-jp.net/~ike/English/description/N1156.htm
 http://www.ursa.fi/~sirius/cgi-bin/rade.cgi?NGC1156

Dwarf irregular galaxies
Aries (constellation)
1156
02455
11329
Orient Bikes

Orient Bikes is a Greek manufacturer of bicycles established in Larissa in 1987. However the company has been doing biking business since 1945. The main activity of the company started with imports of bicycles, spare parts and accessories and their distribution.  Despite being a typical Greek family business, Orient Bikes has an annual production of 64,000 bicycles and its models cover a wide range of designs and uses.

The current company is the successor to an earlier trading company owned by same family, Kokotis A. Bros S.A.

External links
Orient Bikes website 

Cycle manufacturers
Cycling in Greece
Manufacturing companies of Greece
Companies based in Larissa
Greek brands
Mountain bike manufacturers
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1945
Greek companies established in 1945