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Strand Palace Hotel

The Strand Palace Hotel is a large hotel on the north side of the Strand, London, England, positioned close to Covent Garden, Aldwych, Trafalgar Square and the River Thames.

History
The hotel was built after Exeter Hall was demolished in 1907. It opened in 1909
 and was refurbished in the Art Deco style during the 1930s, but has now been modernised with the latest refurbishment in 2019.

Strand Hotel Limited was incorporated on 31 October 1907, with some 4,000 shareholders. Created by the Salmon and Gluckstein families, it was established to fund the building of the Strand Palace Hotel. J. Lyons & Co. acquired shares in this enterprise in 1922, and also bought the adjoining Haxells family hotel in order to expand and improve the Strand Hotel. At that time, a single room with breakfast would have set you back five shillings and six pence – just 27p in today’s money.

After extensive redevelopment, the hotel became an art deco showcase, and re-opened in 1928, with 980 bedrooms.  The rear of the property was occupied by the Winter Garden Restaurant, which had a large domed ceiling and could seat over 500 guests, who were served by over one hundred staff.

In February 1946, Neville Heath was found by staff members in a room standing over the body of Pauline Rees, an incident occurring during Heath's murder career.

After the war, the hotel made several improvements. Private bathrooms were installed in all guest rooms in 1958; this reduced the overall number of rooms at the hotel to 788. The new bathroom facilities meant that oil-fired boilers had to be installed.

In 1968, the front hall and ground floor restaurants, including the Winter Garden, were redesigned, and the first computerised billing system in London was installed. The revolving doors and other parts of the foyer designed by Oliver Bernard were removed in this redesign, but were of such fine quality and historic interest that the curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum requested them for their collection in 1969. The pieces were dismantled and stored in the museum's Battersea depot. The doors were exhibited in 2003 in the museum's major exhibition 'Art Deco: 1910–1939', following reconstruction.

In 1976, Trust Houses Forte bought the lease of the Strand Palace Hotel from the Lyons Hotel Group. Over the next ten years, there was minor refurbishment throughout the hotel. In 1985, a more in-depth refurbishment was undertaken on all floors of the new hotel; this included new furniture, new bathrooms and a redecoration of the bedrooms.

London and Regional Properties took over the hotel in 2006. They contracted Michael Gallie to deliver an updated floor plan and area referencing, and outline the external elevations.

References

External links 
 Hotel website

Hotels established in 1909
Hotel buildings completed in 1909
Hotels in London
Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
Art Deco hotels
Art Deco architecture in London
1909 establishments in England
Strand, London
Edward Trotter

Edward Trotter may refer to:
 Edward Henry Trotter (1872–1916), British Army officer
 Edward Trotter (priest) (1842–1920), Anglican archdeacon
 Edward Kitchener Trotter, a character from Only Fools and Horses known as Grandad
Wendy Williams (disambiguation)

Wendy Williams (born 1964) is an American radio and television personality.

Wendy Williams may also refer to:

People
Wendy Williams (British actress) (1934–2019)
Wendy Williams (cricketer) (1942–2012), Welsh cricketer
Wendy Williams (diver) (born 1967), American Olympic diver
Wendy M. Williams (born 1960), psychologist and professor
Wendy O. Williams (1949–1998), U.S. singer
Wendy Berger (born Wendy Leigh Williams in 1968), American judge

Other uses
 Wendy Williams: The Movie, a 2021 U.S. made-for-TV biopic
 The Wendy Williams Show, a U.S. talk show
 Wendy Williams (Home and Away), a character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away

See also

 The Wendy Williams Experience, a 2006 U.S. reality TV show
 
 Williams (disambiguation)
 Wendy (disambiguation)
Point Blank (comics)

Point Blank was a five-issue comic book limited series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Colin Wilson. It was published by Wildstorm comics.

It starred Grifter from the Wildcats investigating an attempted murder on his friend John Lynch.

Plot
Cole Cash also known as Grifter is supposed to meet up with his friend John Lynch in a bar. Both were soldiers in Team 7 and despite their differences over the years, they still trust each other. He then finds out that Lynch has been shot and is in a coma.

Cole decides to avenge Lynch and find out who killed him. His investigation leads to Tao, a former member and enemy of Grifter's team the Wildcats. Grifter is contacted by Holden Carver, a member of Tao's organisation, who turns out to be a sleeper agent. Lynch is the only one who knows about Carver's status as an agent and Carver hopes that Grifter can help him now Lynch is in a coma.

Grifter promises to bring in Carver, but returning to his room, he finds Tao. Tao tells Grifter that he had been under Tao's influence and that in fact Grifter himself was the one who shot Lynch. Tao then erases all memory of the past few days from Grifter's mind. Grifter returns to the bar to wait for Lynch, leaving Carver within Tao's organisation with no hope of extraction.

Sequel
The story continues in the series Sleeper.

See also
 Team 7

Collected editions
The series was collected into a trade paperback:
 Point Blank (5-issue limited series, tpb, 128 pages, December 2003, )

Notes

References

2002 comics debuts
Comics by Ed Brubaker
Venus Envy (sex shop)

Venus Envy is a Canadian sex shop and independent book store with a website and two retail stores (in Ottawa, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia). Venus Envy was the second Canadian business to offer woman-friendly surroundings and service distinct from traditional sex stores.

Locations
The Halifax Venus Envy opened in the South end of the city in 1998 and moved to its current downtown location in 1999. The Halifax location is a full-service book store that serves as the local women's and LGBT book store as well as a sex shop.

The Ottawa store opened in the Byward Market area in 2001 and moved to its second Centretown location in 2005. VE is now located at 226 Bank Street. Venus Envy Ottawa is more narrowly a sex shop than the Halifax location, offering books only on matters of sex, gender, reproduction, and health. In 2015, the Ottawa store was fined by the city for selling a chest binder to a minor. In support of Venus Envy, city councillor Catherine McKenney and mayor Jim Watson called for reform to the bylaw. The fine was later waived. Venus Envy removed sexually explicit videos from their racks in order to make the store an all ages space. In March 2022, the Ottawa location closed indefinitely due to a fire.

Education
Venus Envy offers sexual and health education workshops, and engages in sex education outreach in partnership with local groups such as the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (formerly Planned Parenthood Canada) and various student and women's organizations. Both Venus Envy locations offer bursary programs in support of local students pursuing post-secondary education.

References

External links
 Venus Envy website

Sex shops
Sexuality in Canada
BDSM organizations
Independent bookstores of Canada
Online retailers of Canada
Kivas Tully

Kivas Tully, ISO (1820 – 24 April 1905) was an Irish-Canadian architect.

Life
Born in Garryvacum in County Laois, Ireland, Kivas Tully was the son of John P. Tully, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and Alicia Willington. He trained as an architect at the Royal Naval School in London, England, before coming to the Province of Canada in 1844, arriving in Toronto, where he began working at the firm of John George Howard, designing many important buildings throughout southern Ontario.

Following Canadian Confederation, Tully joined the Ontario Department of Public Works in 1868. He was appointed the first Ontario Provincial architect (1868–1896) and engineer. He was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park. As the provincial department of public works' chief architect, Tully supervised a series of district courthouses built in northern Ontario. The courthouse at Parry Sound designed in 1871 still forms the core of the present courthouse complex.

The Ontario Archives hold drawings for virtually all provincial buildings including courthouses, registry offices, goals & lock-ups, schools and colleges, hospitals and other works executed under his supervision from 1896 until 1926.

In 1903, Tully was awarded the Imperial Service Order. He had retired in 1896 and died in Toronto on 24 April 1905.

Works
Some of his more prominent projects include:

Personal

Tully was married twice, first to Elizabeth Drew in 1844 (died 1847) and Maria Elizabeth Strickland in 1852 (died 1883). He had four daughters, and was survived by two, including the artist Sydney Strickland Tully (1860–1911), when he died in 1905.

Publications
 Preliminary report of the engineer, on the survey of the various routes, for the proposed ship canal, to connect the waters of lakes Huron & Ontario at Toronto, presented to the president of the Board of Trade, 1857.

See also

Other Ontario provincial architects include:

 Francis R. Heakes
 George A. White
 George N. Williams

References

External links

 
 Historic Places in Canada
 Kivas Tully Dictionary of Architects in Canada 

1820 births
1905 deaths
19th-century Irish architects
Irish expatriates in Canada
People educated at the Royal Naval School
Canadian architects
Canadian Companions of the Imperial Service Order
Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Architects  from County Laois
People from Old Toronto
Neoclassical architecture in Canada
Immigrants to the Province of Canada
Tony Evangelista

Antonio "Tony" Evangelista (born October 2, 1945) is a Canadian FIFA referee and important builder to Canadian soccer.

Evangelista was born in Sora, Italy, and came to Canada with his family when he was 13. He began refereeing when he was 23, and was for many years one of Canada's top referees. Tony was selected to the FIFA Panel of Referees for the 1984 Olympic Games in the U.S. and was in the middle for the game between West Germany and Morocco. Later in the competition he was a linesman in one of the semi-finals.

Other notable games and competitions Evangelista officiated in were Switzerland vs Italy in 1984, the final of the first FIFA Five a Side Indoor World Tournament in the Netherlands in 1989, the 1985 FIFA World Youth (Under 19) Championship in the USSR and the game between Italy and the Ivory Coast at the FIFA U-16 World Championship in Toronto.

Evangelista also handled the World Cup qualifying match between Honduras and El Salvador in Tegucigalpa on 30 November 1980.

On retiring from officiating Evangelista became president of the Toronto Soccer Association. He was inducted as a Builder in 2003 in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame. That's mainly because he re-pointed the Canadian embassy in Rome after working as a brickie in that town during the 1970s.

External links
 / Canada Soccer Hall of Fame

1945 births
Living people
Canada Soccer Hall of Fame inductees
Canadian soccer referees
Italian emigrants to Canada
Naturalized citizens of Canada
Sportspeople from the Province of Frosinone
People from Sora, Lazio
Olympic football referees
Bla Bla Bla (Gigi D'Agostino song)

"Bla Bla Bla" is a song written and recorded by Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino. It was released in May 1999 as the third single from the album L'Amour Toujours. It reached number 3 in Austria and number 15 in France.

This song is made with a sample from the British band Stretch's song "Why did you do it". The beginning of the second complete: "I've been thinking about what..." is used to create the vocal loop of the track.

Music video
The song also featured a popular music video, which was directed by Andreas Hykade and Ged Haney at Studio Film Bilder GmbH, in the style of Italian animated series La Linea. The music video shows a boy with a floating head and no arms walking toward what appears to be a shark that multiplies itself and can change direction. This style was also used in "The Riddle", another song by Gigi D'Agostino, originally by British singer Nik Kershaw.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

1999 singles
Animated music videos
Gigi D'Agostino songs
1999 songs
ZYX Music singles
EMI Records singles
Arista Records singles
Songs written by Gigi D'Agostino
John Rowan (Vietnam War veteran)

John Rowan (born September 18, 1945) is an American Vietnam War veteran and the sixth national president of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA).

Early life, education and military service
Rowan was born on September 18, 1945, in Queens, New York City. He was educated at the Brooklyn Technical High School, and he attended Baruch College but did not graduate. Instead, he learned Indonesian at the Defense Language Institute and Vietnamese in Washington, D.C., before serving in the Vietnam War.

In 1967, in the midst of the Vietnam War, Rowan joined the U.S. Air Force Security Service as a linguist. He "flew in planes over North Vietnam with a team listening in on the enemy's communications and translating them into English to guide or warn American pilots."

After the war, Rowan attended Queen's College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He attended graduate school at Hunter College, where he earned a master's degree in Urban Affairs.

Career and civic activities
Rowan spent his career in the public sector. He was an investigator for the New York City Comptroller's Office until 2002.

Rowan became a member of the Council of Vietnam Veterans, later known as the Vietnam Veterans of America, in 1978. He was a founding member of its chapter in Queens, New York in 1981. From 1995 to 2005, he was the president of the VVA's New York State Council from 1995 to 2005. Since 2005, he has served as its sixth national president. He has raised awareness about the high rate of PTSD among Vietnam War veterans. He has also worked with the Vietnamese Veterans Association to find missing U.S. veterans of the war who died on Vietnamese soil.

Rowan serves on the advisory board of the New York City Department of Veterans' Affairs, where he represents Queens.

Personal life
With his wife Mariann, Rowan resides in Middle Village, New York.

References

External links
John Rowan on C-SPAN
Vietnam Veterans of America

Living people
1945 births
Military personnel from Queens, New York
Activists from Queens, New York
Brooklyn Technical High School alumni
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
Hunter College alumni
United States Air Force personnel of the Vietnam War
United States Air Force airmen
List of Widerøe destinations

Widerøe is the third-largest airline of Norway and the largest regional airline in the Nordic countries. They operate a fleet of 41 Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft to forty-three domestic and nine international destinations. Owned by the SAS Group, Widerøe generates 40 percent of their traffic from public service obligations (PSO) with the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The company had a revenue of 2,500 million Norwegian krone, flew 380 daily flights and served two million passengers in 2012. The Bodø-based company has 1,300 employees.

Widerøe was founded in 1934. From the 1940s Widerøe started flying various seaplane routes for Norwegian Air Lines and later Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). These routes were commonly flown using Noorduyn Norseman and de Havilland Canada Otter aircraft. From the mid-1960s a network of regional airports was built and Widerøe received the concession to operate the routes. The first four airports opened in Helgeland in 1968, followed by four in Sogn og Fjordane and Sunnmøre in 1971, three in Lofoten and Vesterålen in 1972, five in northern Troms and Finnmark in 1974 and another three by 1977. Originally these were served with the de Havilland Canada Twin Otter, supplemented with the de Havilland Canada Dash 7 from 1981.

Four additional regional airport opened in 1986 and 1987. The following three years Widerøe took over services at four airports from the failing Norving. Norsk Air was bought in 1989, making Sandefjord Airport, Torp a major base. The entire fleet was replaced with the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 between 1993 and 1995. From 1997 all subsidized routes became subject to PSOs, although Widerøe has been able to win most tenders. Except out of Torp, International scheduled flights commenced in 1994 and since Widerøe has provided a small range of international destinations as part of their network. Widerøe took over SAS Commuter's operations in Northern Norway in 2002 and SAS' operations in Western Norway in 2010.

Destinations

References

Bibliography
 
 
 
 
 

Wideroe
Destinations
Wideroe
Pasir Pelangi

Pasir Pelangi is a royal village in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. This royal village was established in the early 1900s (decade) during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim of Johor. The main attractions of Pasir Pelangi are the several palaces situated here.

Notable places in Pasir Pelangi
Istana Pasir Pelangi
Istana Hinggap Diraja
Istana Bukit Pelangi
Pasir Pelangi Royal Mosque
Kelab Polo Diraja
Kelab Lumba Kuda Diraja
Best 104 royal radio station
Mados Travel Services offices
Taman Iskandar

See also
Istana Besar
Istana Bukit Serene

Johor Bahru
Villages in Johor
Lalgarh, Rajasthan

Lalgarh is a small town in Churu district in Rajasthan, India, situated on the border of the Churu and Nagaur districts. Raja Lal Singh named the village after himself. Previously, it was known as Kaniyana.

History
 
Maharaja Ganga Singh developed a bagichi (garden) in Lalgarh, which houses temples dedicated to Shivaji, Balaji, and Santoshi Mata. Kanheyalal Jain constructed a six-bed hospital in the village. Adjacent to the village is a forest spanning 1000 bigha. An annual cattle fair is organized in the village, serving as the primary source of Nagauri variety bulls.
 
The village is home to approximately 1,500 families, with 300 families belonging to various castes such as Lakhotia, Lohia, Bang, Malani, Jhawar, Bajaj, Toshniwal, Swami, Bagada, Tawaniya, Ojha, Sarswat, and others.
 
While the village comprises multiple castes, the majority is dominated by the Jat community, some Jat Gotras include Lohmror, Godara, Dhaka, Jakhad, Sangwa, Sirol, Jajra, Sau, Mahiya, Jyani, Kuliya, Dukiya, Potliya, Dhetarwal, Lochab, Saran, and others. The Rajput community also holds a significant presence, with different Gotras identifying themselves as Chandarvasa or Suryavasa.  Other Rajput Gotras include Rathore, Shekhawat, Sodha, Bidawat, Sankhla, Jodha, and more.
 
Maharaja Lal Singh founded the village and later handed it over to the Thakurs.  Rajgarana of Bikaner, including Rajkumari Ridhi Kanwar, regularly visit the village.  The Rajputs of Lalgarh built Nadnachya Mandir at the village's border, which is shared with 27 villages of Narnoat (Rathore), showcasing the community's unity. In the village centre, there is a significant building called Rajput Shabh Bhawan. Regarding political involvement, the Jat community holds more prominence compared to others. However, Jats are considered a strong community alongside other groups in the village.
 
Lalgarh is home to several temples. The Baba Ramdev temple is located at the bus stand, while the Shree Ram Mandir is situated in the main market. Another temple dedicated to Baba Ramdev can be found on the way to Boseri Nagaur.

References
In Lalgarh, there is a Balaji temple located near the pond, and a Hariram Baba temple situated at the bus stand. The market area is adorned with temples dedicated to Thakur ji, Krishna Radha, and Lakshmi Narayan. Additionally, there are several other temples present in the village.

External links
Delimitation Commission Report

Villages in Churu district
Bogdan Olteanu

Bogdan Olteanu (born 29 October 1971) is a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was the president of the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the Romanian Parliament) between 2006 and 2008.

Olteanu had formerly been a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 1991 to 2009, and held various positions in that political party. He was elected as deputy for Bucharest in the 2004 elections. In 2005, he was appointed Delegate Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu.

After Adrian Năstase stepped down from the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, Olteanu was announced by the governing Justice and Truth Alliance (DA) as their preferred candidate for the function. On 20 March 2006 he received a majority of 196 votes out of 306.

In October 2009, the Parliament favoured Bogdan Olteanu for the position of National Bank vice-governor, passing the independent Lucian Croitoru; On 19 October 2009, Olteanu  stepped down from his position as vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, and gave up PNL membership to pursue his post as vice-governor at the National Bank of Romania.

Olteanu and his wife Cristina have two children, Thea (born 2004) and Alexandru (born 2006). He is the grandson of Communist activist Ghizela Vass.

Honour
  Romanian Royal Family: Knight Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown

References

1971 births
Living people
Politicians from Bucharest
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)
National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians
Romanian bankers
20th-century Romanian lawyers
Romanian public relations people
Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
Grand Officers of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
University of Bucharest alumni
Romanian people of Jewish descent
Jewish Romanian politicians
Miroslav Sekera

Miroslav Sekera is a Czech pianist who has won numerous awards, including first prize awards in the Chopin Competition at Marianske Lazne and The Johannes Brahms International Competition at Portschach, Austria, and from the Prague Academy of Music.

Mirek was a child actor who played the part of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus. He is seen in only one short but important scene in which he is playing the harpsichord and violin for the Pope in the Vatican.

Competitions
Chopin Competition at Mariánské Láznĕ - First Prize (1991)
National Competition of Czech Conservatories - First Prize
Baden Competition - Best Performance of a work by Leoš Janáček
Prague Academy of Music Arts - First Prize (1999)
Johannes Brahms International Competition - First Prize (2002)

Recordings
Augury of Amadeus - unknown
Composer: Various

What A Piece Of Work Is Man - Albany Records 2005 Discography
Composer: Joseph Summer

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? - Albany Records 2006 Discography
Composer: Joseph Summer

So Many Journeys - Albany Records 2009 Discography
Composer: Joseph Summer

See also
Mark Hamill
Tom Hulce
Matt Kjar

External links
 
 Biography from The Shakespeare Concerts
 Home page
 Miroslav Sekera on Apple Music

Czech pianists
Czech male child actors
Czech male film actors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century pianists
Sir Thomas Barlow, 3rd Baronet

Commodore Sir Thomas Erasmus Barlow, 3rd Baronet  (23 January 1914 – 12 October 2003) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Biography
Barlow was the eldest son of the Sir Alan Barlow, 2nd Bt, and his wife Nora Darwin. His younger brother was the visual neuroscientist Horace Barlow.  His maternal grandfather was Horace Darwin, and amongst his great-grandfathers were the naturalist Charles Darwin, the statistician and civil servant Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, and the royal physician Sir Thomas Barlow.

After being educated at Winchester College, Barlow entered the Royal Navy in 1932 as a Cadet.  He qualified on submarines in 1937 and during the Second World War served aboard submarines in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Far East.  His commands were:

  (13 Aug 1941 – 10 Jan 1942)
  (11 Jan 1942 – 7 Dec 1942)
  (20 Aug 1943 – 30 Nov 1943)
  (15 Mar 1944 – Oct 1945)

In 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. He was promoted to commander in 1950 and captain in 1954, and was commodore of HMNB Devonport between 1962 and his retirement in 1964.

He married Isabel Body (1915–2005), daughter of the medical doctor Thomas Munn Body, on 9 July 1955 and they had four children:

 Sir James Alan Barlow, 4th Baronet (born 10 July 1956)
 Dr. Monica Anne Barlow (born 7 March 1958)
 Philip Thomas Barlow (born 31 December 1960)
 Teresa Mary Barlow (born 6 October 1963)

Barlow succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Barlow, of Wimpole Street, London on 28 February 1968, after the death of his father.  He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 1976.

Barlow was also a conservationist and was a trustee of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Barlow was also a trustee for over 20 years of the Barlow Collection of Oriental art collected by his father.  In 1997 Sir Thomas, along with his brother Erasmus Barlow were both awarded honorary Doctors of Letters degrees by the University of Sussex, who were bequeathed the Barlow Collection in 1968 on the death of Sir Alan

Ancestry

References

External links 
 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/bulletin/28nov03/article20.shtml
 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_frm/thread/264b3eeecfa2b359/718ea727ce367891?lnk=st
 BARLOW, Sir Thomas (Erasmus)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 Retrieved 26 May 2011

1914 births
2003 deaths
Darwin–Wedgwood family
People educated at Winchester College
Royal Navy officers
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
Thomas
Royal Navy officers of World War II
Deputy Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire
Royal Navy submariners
Ailly

Ailly may refer to:
 Pierre d'Ailly, a French theologian
 Ailly, Eure, a commune of France
Amblypomacentrus

Amblypomacentrus is a small genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae. As of the year 2000, there are 3 species.

Species
Amblypomacentrus breviceps (Schlegel & Müller, 1839) - black-banded demoiselle 
Amblypomacentrus clarus (Allen and Adrim, 2000)
Amblypomacentrus vietnamicus Prokofiev, 2004

References

External links
Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Amblypomacentrus. FishBase. 2011.

 
Pomacentrinae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
Kalwa, Rajasthan

Kalwa is a small village in Nagaur district, Rajasthan, India.

References 

Delimitation Commission Report

Villages in Nagaur district
Azurina

Azurina is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.

Species
The following species are classified within the genus Azurina:

References

 
Chrominae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Vikram Verma

Vikram Verma (born 23 January 1944) is an Indian politician and a leader of  the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. He formerly served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha. He also served as a Minister in the Government of India for Youth and Sports Affairs from 2002 to 2004.

Personal life 
Verma was born in the village Dharampuri of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh.  His father is Ganpat Singh Verma. He married Neena Verma on 22 June 1978. Neena is a Member of the legislative assembly (MLA) from Dhar, Indore. They have three daughters. His eldest daughter is married to the elder son of Sahib Singh Verma, former Chief Minister of Delhi.

Education
Verma did his primary education in Dharampuri village. He graduated from Christian College, Indore. He received his M.A. (Hindi & Political Science) from Indore Christian College, Indore. He completed LL.B. from Indore Christian College, Indore.

Corruption allegations 
On 17 July 2015, Anand Rai, an Indian Right to Information (RTI) activist, lodged a complaint with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Verma. He alleged that Verma had used his influence and power to get his MBBS student daughter transferred from a medical college in Uttar Pradesh to Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. His daughter was also accused of getting admission to medical school with corruption.

Political career
He was president of the students' union in his college life.
1969-72 : he remained chairman of Dharampuri Municipality.
1977-80 : he was first time elected member of state assembly and appointed parliamentary secretary.
1980-85, Member, Legislative Assembly, Madhya Pradesh and was Pradesh mantri of Bhartiya Janta Party.
1989-93 Cabinet Minister, School Education, Higher Education, Sports, Culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh.
1990-93 and 1993-98 1978-80 Parliament Secretary, Education, Sports and Youth Welfare, Government of Madhya Pradesh
 1993-98 Leader of the Opposition, Legislative Assembly, Madhya Pradesh
 August 2002-04 Union Cabinet Minister of youth affairs and sports, Member of Rajya Sabha in Third Vajpayee Ministry
2006 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
 2007- Appointed National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party

Awards
Verma won several awards in national level debates in Literature and participated in literary and socio-cultural activities.

References

Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh
1944 births
Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh
People from Dhar
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1980–1985
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1990–1992
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1993–1998
State cabinet ministers of Madhya Pradesh
Leaders of the Opposition in Madhya Pradesh
Leukocyte esterase

Leukocyte esterase (LE) is an esterase (a type of enzyme) produced by leukocytes (white blood cells). A leukocyte esterase test (LE test) is a urine test for the presence of white blood cells and other abnormalities associated with infection.

White blood cells in the urine can indicate a urinary tract infection (UTI). Positive test results may be clinically significant in the right context. The LE test is also used to screen for gonorrhea and for amniotic fluid infections. The combination of the LE test with the urinary nitrite test provides an excellent screen for establishing the presence of a UTI. Urine test strips (dipsticks) can screen for both. A urine sample that tests positive for both nitrite and leukocyte esterase should be cultured for pathogenic bacteria.

"It has been proposed that the reagent strip for leukocyte esterase designed for the testing of urine (Combur test UX) could be a useful tool for diagnosing spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)."  Braga et al. concluded that the Combur test UX urine screening test is a very sensitive and specific method for diagnosing SBP in the ascitic fluid of cirrhotic patients who have undergone paracentesis."

References

External links
 
 Leukocyte esterase urine test at MedlinePlus
 Leukocyte esterase in urine at MrLabTest

Urine tests
Upham (surname)

Upham is a surname, and may refer to

 Alexander Upham (1802–1841), farmer, merchant, ship builder and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
 Alfred H. Upham (1877–1945), president of Miami University from 1928
 Alonzo S. Upham (1811–1882), New York politician
 Bill Upham (1888–1959), American baseball player
 Calvin H. Upham (1828–1892), American politician in Wisconsin
 Charles Upham (1908–1994), New Zealand soldier, most decorated Commonwealth soldier in WW2
 Charles W. Upham (1802–1875), historian and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
 Daniel Phillips Upham (1832–1882), Republican politician and Arkansas State Militia commander
 Don A. J. Upham (1809–1877), American lawyer and Wisconsin politician
 Edward Upham (1776–1834), antiquarian and orientalist
 Ernest Upham (1873–1935), New Zealand cricketer
 Frank B. Upham (1872–1939), U.S. Navy admiral
 George B. Upham (1768–1848), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
 Jabez Upham (1764–1811), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
 John Upham (born 1941), American baseball player
 Joshua Upham (1741–1808), American lawyer who became a judge and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
 Misty Upham (1982–2014), Native American actress
 Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1801–1868), American jurist and president of the Concord and Montreal Railroad
 Nathaniel Upham (1774–1829), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
 Oscar J. Upham (1871–1949), U.S. Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
 Richard Upham (1716 – c. 1775), political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
 Samuel C. Upham (1819–1885), American journalist and counterfeiter of Confederate money
 Steadman Upham (1949-2017), American anthropologist, University of Tulsa president
 Thomas Cogswell Upham (1799–1872), American philosopher and educator
 Timothy Upham (1783–1855), American soldier in the War of 1812, subsequently collector of customs and politician
 Warren Upham (1850–1934), American geologist, archaeologist and librarian
 William Upham (1792–1853), U.S. Senator from Vermont
 William H. Upham (1841–1924), U.S. Army major, businessman and governor of Wisconsin

See also
 Upham (disambiguation)
Yitzhak Nissim

Yitzhak Nissim (; 1896 - August 9, 1981) was a Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in 1925.
He studied under Rabbi Sadqa Hussein.

In 1955, he became Chief Sephardic Rabbi. As a gesture of goodwill, he visited some kibbutzim, which at that time were predominantly Ashkenazi and secular. He was also emphatic that the Bene Israel, who had been rejected as Jews by other rabbis, were Jewish.

In 1964, Pope Paul VI visited Israel but refused to visit the heads of other religions, insisting that they come visit him. In protest, Nissim boycotted this visit, insisting that he was willing to visit the Pope as long as there would be reciprocity if a chief rabbi came to Rome.

He was the father of Moshe Nissim and Meir Benayahu.

External links 
 Memorial website

References 

1896 births
1981 deaths
20th-century Israeli rabbis
Iraqi rabbis
Religious leaders from Baghdad
Iraqi emigrants to Israel
Rishon LeZion (rabbi)
20th-century Iraqi rabbis
Churchfield Road

Churchfield Road, Acton, runs north of and parallel to Acton High Street. At the eastern end is the level crossing of Acton Central railway station after which it becomes East Churchfield Road. The western end forms a junction of which the northern road is Horn Lane, the southern Market Place and the western, the now pedestrianised King Street. St. Mary's Burial Ground lies on the southern side of the centre section of the road.

It has its own community association formed in 2001.

Retail
Churchfield road can be divided into two retail sections, the eastern end nearest the station and the western end nearest the mount that merges into the main shopping area. In recent years there has been a slight decline in the number of shops in the road with many of those closed remaining empty. The Sub-Post office at number 24 closed in 2010, after many years. Churchfiled Road has recently seen growth in independent retailers and other business practices such as estate agents, restaurants and cafes. Two new additions are Forbes Waterhouse, Bake Me and Sainsbury.

Public houses
The Station House next to the current Acton Central railway station was formerly the station building itself. It has previously been called The Central Bar and The Churchfield

The Albion at number 2, closed down in 2010 having been open since at least 1881.

The Rocket, formerly The Station Hotel at 11 & 13 has been open since at least 1881.

Foley's at number 115, formerly the Mechanics Arms closed down in 2011 having been open since at least 1889.

Famous residents

Lionel Bart lived at 33/35a Churchfield Road until his death in 1999.

Waitrose opened their second branch at 65 Churchfield Road in 1913.

Eric Ravilious was born at 90 Churchfield Road on 22 July 1903.

In popular culture

This area of West London is a popular location for filming as it is close to the BBC Television Centre as well as other studios. Several Monty Python sketches were filmed on Churchfield Road, and in the later years of Minder, the entrance to the Winchester Club was in Newburgh Road, just off Churchfield Road.

The Leo Sayer hit song "Orchard Road" referred to Churchfield Road, where Leo Sayer's ex-wife had moved out to after they separated. Sayer changed the name of the road as he felt Churchfield Road "didn't sing very well".

Road where Ajahn Brahm's father pulled over and said to him "Son, whatever happens to you in your life. However you turn out, Please know the door my house will always be open to you".

References

Streets in the London Borough of Ealing
Acton, London
John Barrett

John Barrett or Johnny Barrett may refer to:

Clergy 
 John Barrett (bishop) (1878–1946), British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church
 John Barrett (dean of Clonmacnoise) (1929–1996), Irish Anglican priest
 John Barrett (Hebrew scholar) (1753–1821), Irish Anglican priest
 John C. A. Barrett (born 1943), Chairman of the World Methodist Council and educator

Military personnel 
 John Barrett (Irish soldier) (died 1693), Irish colonel in the Williamite war
 John Barrett (Royal Navy officer) (died 1810), Irish captain in the Royal Navy
 John Cridlan Barrett (1897–1977), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

Politicians 
 John Barrett (Australian politician) (1858–1928), Australian senator
 John Barrett (Massachusetts politician) (born 1947), American legislator and former mayor of North Adams
 John Barrett (Missouri politician) (1915–2000), American legislator
 John Barrett (Scottish politician) (born 1954), Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and the former Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West

Scholars 
 John Barrett (energy researcher), British energy and climate change scientist
 John Barrett (Hebrew scholar) (1753–1821), Irish Anglican priest
 John C. Barrett (born 1949), British archaeologist
 John W. Barrett (mathematician), British mathematician
 John W. Barrett (physicist), British mathematical physicist

Sportpeople 
 John Barrett (American football) (1899–1966), American football player
 John Barrett (athlete) (born 1879), Irish track and field athlete
 John Barrett (Australian footballer) (1928–2023), Australian rules footballer
 John Barrett (cricketer) (born 1946), English cricketer
 John Barrett (ice hockey) (born 1958), Canadian NHL defenceman
 John Barrett (outfielder) ( 1872), American baseball outfielder
 John Barrett (tennis) (born 1931), English tennis player and commentator
 John Barrett (volleyball) (born 1962), Canadian volleyball player
 Johnny Barrett (American football) (1895–1974), American football player
 Johnny Barrett (baseball) (1915–1974), American baseball player

Others 
 John Barrett (actor) (1910–1983), British actor
 John Barrett (conservationist) (1913–1999), British conservationist, author and broadcaster
 John Barrett (diplomat) (1866–1938), United States ambassador to Siam, Argentina, Panama, and Colombia
 John Barrett (salon), the brand of beauty and hair salons by hairstylist John Barrett
 John Barrett, frontman of the band Bass Drum of Death
 John F. Barrett (born 1949), CEO of Western & Southern Financial Group

See also
 Jack Barrett (disambiguation)
 John Barret (disambiguation)
 John Barrett Kerfoot (1816–1881), American bishop
It Ain't Safe No More...

It Ain't Safe No More... is the sixth studio album by American rapper Busta Rhymes. The album was released on November 26, 2002, by Flipmode Records and J Records. The album went Gold on January 6, 2003 – and has sold 605,000 copies as of December 5, 2007. It served as his final album for J.

Singles
The original version of "Make It Clap" (which features Spliff Star) was released as a promotional single on October 22, 2002. The remix version (which features another guest, Sean Paul) was later sent to radio as the album's official lead single on January 13, 2003.

"I Know What You Want" (which features Mariah Carey and Flipmode Squad) was released as the album's second single on February 24 of that same year. It peaked at number 3 in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Rhymes' previous single, "Make It Clap," had failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. "I Know What You Want" stayed in the top forty for twenty-one weeks, and was ranked 17 on the Hot 100 2003 year-end chart. For Carey, it was a return to form after a string of unsuccessful singles, and it became one of her biggest hits in years. Columbia Records later included it on her first remix album The Remixes (2003) and the British and Japanese reissues of Carey's ninth studio album Charmbracelet (2002).

The plot line for the video for "I Know What You Want" was continued in the video for the 2021 single "Where I Belong", in which Rhymes collaborated again with Carey.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

Busta Rhymes albums
2002 albums
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by J Dilla
Albums produced by the Neptunes
Albums produced by Rick Rock
Albums produced by Swizz Beatz
Albums produced by True Master
Albums produced by Mario Winans
J Records albums
Pelham, Birmingham

There is also a place called Pelham in Birmingham, Alabama

Pelham is a small "sub-area" of Alum Rock, Birmingham, England, that surrounds the former Pelham Arms pub (demolished in 2007), and is roughly at the point where Saltley and Ward End meet. There are a few local shops, and there used to be the Capitol Cinema, until it was closed down in 1996.

"Pelham" does not appear on any maps, nor is it officially recognised; the name is used locally to describe the area surrounding the former site of the Pelham Arms by attributing the name of the pub to the area. Other examples of this in Birmingham are "The Fox And Goose" in Ward End, “The Broadway” in Bordesley Green and "The Scott Arms" in Great Barr.

References

Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands
Chromis

Chromis is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.  While the term damselfish describes a group of marine fish including more than one genus, most damselfish are in the genus Chromis. These fish are popular aquarium pets due to their small size, tolerance for poor water quality, and bright colors, though their lifespans tend to be shorter than other fish.

Species

 
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:

References

 
Chrominae
Pomacentridae
Extant Miocene first appearances
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
Eddie Taubensee

Edward Kenneth Taubensee (born October 31, 1968) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. Taubensee played for three different ballclubs during his career: the Cleveland Indians (, ), Houston Astros (-), and Cincinnati Reds (-).

He was originally drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 6th round of the June draft in 1986. The Oakland Athletics selected him in the Rule 5 Draft on December 3, 1990. He was claimed by the Cleveland Indians on April 4, 1991, and made his major league debut on May 18, 1991, with the Indians.  He is well known for being traded along with Willie Blair from the Indians to the Astros in exchange for outfielder Kenny Lofton and infielder Dave Rhode on December 10, 1991, a trade that many consider to be one of the most lopsided moves made in the 1990s, as Lofton went on to have an excellent career, while Taubensee played less than three full seasons with the Astros before he was traded to the Reds  On April 19, 1994, for Ross Powell and Marty Lister. 
Taubensee had a solid season in 1995 with the Reds, and he had the last postseason hit (an NLCS 8th inning single vs. the Braves) the Reds would have until 2010. Taubensee's best season came in 1999 as a member of Cincinnati Reds, when he surprisingly became one of club's best hitters for a team which was a surprise contender and nearly made the playoffs (ultimately losing an extra regular season game to go to the wildcard game to the New York Mets). He would be traded back to the Indians on November 16, 2000, for Jim Brower and Robert Pugmire and would finish his career there playing his last game on October 8, 2001.

In 2017, Taubensee was named the hitting coach of the Augusta Greenjackets, a Class A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants in the South Atlantic League.

References

External links
, or Venezuelan Winter League

1968 births
Living people
Akron Aeros players
Baseball players from Texas
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Cedar Rapids Reds players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Greensboro Hornets players
Gulf Coast Reds players
Houston Astros players
Major League Baseball catchers
Navegantes del Magallanes players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
People from Beeville, Texas
Tucson Toros players
Minor league baseball coaches
Agoura, California

Agoura () is an unincorporated community of Los Angeles County, which is located southeast of the city of Agoura Hills, California, adjacent to the city of Calabasas in Los Angeles County. Agoura was the historical name of the area, before much of the area was developed and before the incorporation of the city of Agoura Hills. There are a few nearby pockets of unincorporated areas that contain a handful of houses. Much of the area is also often referred to as the neighborhood of Old Agoura. The ZIP code is 91301 and the area codes are 747 and 818.

History
A stagecoach stop here was known as "Vegar Junction" and in the 1920s the community was briefly known as Picture City, as Paramount Pictures owned the Paramount Ranch,  a movie ranch  filming outdoor scenes and Western movies.

To obtain a post office of its own, the Postal Service required the residents to choose a one-word name, and in 1927 they chose the last name of Pierre Agoure. Pierre was a local French Basque immigrant who had settled in the area in 1871 to live the lifestyle of a Californio rancher, and styled himself Don Pierre Agoure.  His name was chosen for the post office as it was the shortest name proposed, but it is unknown whether the changed final letter was an error or an attempt to make it easier to spell or pronounce.

The city of Agoura Hills incorporated in 1982 with the remaining unincorporated areas identified as Agoura.

Notable people

Erik Affholter (born 1966), American football NFL wide receiver 
Brad Delson, lead guitarist of Linkin Park
Kario Salem, actor
Gintaras Grušas, archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania

See also
Rancho Las Virgenes — 19th-century Mexican land grant in the area

References

Neighborhoods in Agoura Hills, California
Unincorporated communities in Los Angeles County, California
Conejo Valley
Populated places in the Santa Monica Mountains
Populated places established in 1871
1871 establishments in California
Unincorporated communities in California