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James Baxter (animator)

James Baxter is a British character animator. He was first known for his work on several Walt Disney Animation Studios films, including various characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Rafiki in The Lion King, and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

After The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Baxter moved over to DreamWorks Animation working on films such as The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, and Madagascar. Early in 2005, Baxter left DreamWorks and set out on his own as an independent animator. He became the head of his own studio, James Baxter Animation in Pasadena, California where he has directed the animation for the 2007 film Enchanted and the opening credits to DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda. He received an Annie Award for working on Kung Fu Panda. In 2008, Baxter closed his studio and returned to DreamWorks as a supervising animator. While at DreamWorks, Baxter worked on films including Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods. In 2017, Baxter left DreamWorks once again and went to work for Netflix.

In May 2013, Baxter was a guest animator for an episode of the fifth season of Adventure Time entitled "James Baxter the Horse". The episode's story focused on the lead characters trying to emulate a horse who can cheer everyone up by neighing his name (James Baxter) and balancing on a beach ball. Both the horse's animation and voice were provided by Baxter. The episode's title card features a drawing of the horse drawing a horse on a beach ball, while sitting at an animation table. A second episode focusing on the character's origins, "Horse and Ball", aired during the show's eighth season with Baxter once again animating and voicing the character.

In 2018, Baxter, along with fellow animators Stephen Hillenburg (months before his death), Amanda Forbis, and Wendy Tilby won the Winsor McCay Award at the 2018 Annie Awards.

Filmography

References

External links 

James Baxter reveals the secrets of enchanting character animation
James Baxter's visit to CalArt's Character Animation Program (Spring '06)

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Middlesex University
Annie Award winners
Cartoon Network Studios people
Netflix people
DreamWorks Animation people
English animators
People educated at Bishop's Stortford College
Film people from Bristol
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Aropaoanui River

The Aropaoanui (Awapawanui) river runs through northern Hawke's Bay Region in the eastern North Island of New Zealand.

Etymology
Aropaoanui is a Māori word which roughly translates to 'big smoke'. In local myth, the area was named when the local tribe were roasting their captives on a fire after a victory in battle. The fatty pulp around the kidneys of their victims began to bubble, giving the impression that the victims were still alive, which terrified the tribespeople.

Geography
The upper part of the river, above its junction with the Mairau Stream, is called the Waikoau River, a name also given to a river in the South Island. The Waikoua rises from streams on the Maungaharuru Range, running generally south-southeastwards, flowing through steep-sided gullies. It is joined by a tributary, the Mahiaruhe Stream, which is the main outflow of Lake Tūtira, also known as Tūtira Stream where it leaves the lake, after which it continues south along the lake's western flank. 

South of the lake, the river is crossed by State Highway 2 before veering eastward, joining with the Mairau Stream to become the Aropaoanui. It continues through a steep-sided valley past the Tangoio Forest, reaching its narrow floodplain just  from the coast. Some small farms dot the upper part of the floodplain, accessed by a metal road which meets the Napier–Wairoa highway. The river empties into Hawke Bay, the waters joining the Pacific Ocean, just north of the small settlements of Tangoio and Waipātiki Beach, some  north of Napier.

Ecology
The Aropaoanui has been described as one of the cleanest rivers in New Zealand by the Department of Conservation (only phosphorus levels are in the category of worst 25% of rivers and the river has longfin and shortfin eels, koura, inanga, torrent fish, blue gill bully, common bully, redfin bully, banded kōkopu and pātiki), and is fished for many species including trout and whitebait.

History
Floods in 1938 swept away the bridge on the Napier-Wairoa section of State Highway 2. The area around the river was also badly affected by floods in 2022.

References

Rivers of the Hawke's Bay Region
Rivers of New Zealand
Biessum

Biessum () is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Eemsdelta, and lies about 25 km northeast of Groningen.

It has about 35-50 inhabitants and has no village status. The postal authorities have placed it under Delfzijl.
It is situated near the nature reserve (protected area) Biessumerbos in which many birds live.

The hamlet was first mentioned in the 10th or 11th century as "in Bisashem", and means "settlement of Bisi". Biessum is a terp (artificial living hill) village with a star shape. It is one of the best preserved terps of Groningen.

Gallery

References

External links 
 

Populated places in Groningen (province)
Eemsdelta
Neutral particle

In physics, a neutral particle is a particle without an electric charge, such as a neutron. 

The term neutral particles should not be confused with truly neutral particles, the subclass of neutral particles that are also identical to their own antiparticles.

Stable or long-lived neutral particles
Long-lived neutral particles provide a challenge in the construction of particle detectors, because they do not interact electromagnetically, except possibly through their magnetic moments. This means that they do not leave tracks of ionized particles or curve in magnetic fields. Examples of such particles include photons, neutrons, and neutrinos.

Other neutral particles

Other neutral particles are very short-lived and decay before they could be detected even if they were charged. They have been observed only indirectly. They include:

 Z bosons
 Dozens of heavy neutral hadrons:
 Neutral mesons such as the  and 
 The neutral Delta baryon (), and other neutral baryons, such as the  and

See also 
 Neutral particle oscillation
 Truly neutral particle

References 

 K. Nakamura et al. (Particle Data Group), JP G 37, 075021 (2010) and 2011 partial update for the 2012 edition

Particle physics
Afshari

Afshari is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ali Afshari (born 1973), Iranian activist
Reza Afshari, Iranian historian
Rodney Afshari (born 1972), American talent agent

See also
Afshar language, Turkic language
Afshari (music), an avaz of the Dastgah system of Iranian/Persian classical music
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans

Henry Marshall Erskine Evans (August 17, 1876 – September 20, 1973) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, and a mayor of Edmonton.

Biography 

Harry Evans was born on August 17, 1876, in Davenport, Ontario, now part of Toronto, the son of Rev. J. S. Evans and Mary Jane Evans (née Vaux).  He was educated in Hamilton before earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1897.  After graduating, he attended the Michigan School of Mines in Houghton, Michigan.

He mined in Mexico for fifteen months before moving to Winnipeg where he was Business Manager for the Winnipeg Telegram (which had been founded by his brother William Sanford Evans, who went on to become mayor of Winnipeg and leader of the Conservative Party of Manitoba) from 1900 until 1904.  After leaving the telegram, he worked for the Manitoba Land & Investment Company for two years.

Evans moved to Alberta in 1906 to prospect coal seams on the Pembina River.  He moved to Edmonton the following year and managed the Pembina Coal Co. until 1908.  He was the Canadian manager of a financial house in London, England, until it went bankrupt in 1912, when he founded the H. M. E. Evans Company, Ltd., which dealt in bonds, insurance, and real estate.  In 1910, he married Edith Isabel Gifford Jackson, with whom he had one son and four daughters.

He was elected mayor in the 1917 municipal election, finishing first in a five candidate field.  He did not seek re-election at the expiration of his one-year term.  Immediately before his term as mayor, he was president of the Edmonton Board of Trade.

In 1925, he was appointed chairman of the Alberta Coal Commission.  He served as a financial advisor to the Government of Alberta from 1931 until 1937.  He was admitted to the Order of the British Empire on July 2, 1946, for meritorious service in war work.

Evans was involved with the Edmonton Rotary Club, the Manitoba Club, the Edmonton Board of Public Welfare, the Anglican Church, and the Conservative Party.

Harry Marshall Erskine Evans died in Edmonton September 20, 1973. Evansburg, Alberta, which he founded, and Evansdale, Edmonton, a neighbourhood, are named in his honour.

Notably, Evans's brother William Sanford Evans served as mayor of Winnipeg and leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party, and his nephew Gurney Evans was Minister of Finance amongst other portfolios in Manitoba. Evans's daughter Sylvia Evans was amongst the few women who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Notes

References 
 Edmonton Public Library Biography of Harry Evans
 City of Edmonton biography of Harry Evans
Information on Evansburg, Alberta

1876 births
1973 deaths
Politicians from Toronto
Canadian Anglicans
Canadian prospectors
Mayors of Edmonton
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Michigan Technological University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
20th-century Canadian politicians
David Pruiksma

David "Dave" Pruiksma (born January 15, 1957) is an American Disney animator best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company and occasionally other studios.

Early life and education
Pruiksma was born and raised in Falls Church, Virginia where he  attended J.E.B. Stuart High School. He graduated in 1975. He then studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York for two years. He left to attend California Institute of the Arts where he received a degree in character animation in 1981.

Career
Following graduation, Pruiksma was hired as an assistant animator at Disney and worked on the films The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid and The Rescuers Down Under. He rose to supervising animator and created the characters of Mrs. Potts and her son Chip in Beauty and the Beast. Other characters including The Sultan in Aladdin, Pumbaa in The Lion King, Flit and the Forest Animals in Pocahontas, Hugo and Victor in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mrs. Wilhelmina Bertha Packard and Mister Fenton Q. Harcourt in Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

After completing working on 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Pruiksma left Disney because of his disenchantment with "Disney's greed-driven corporate structure." He then worked freelance as an animation director and storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. He also accepted a position teaching at the Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) from the animation department's former chair Dave Kuhn, who Pruiksma had trained at Disney.

Pruiksma was a full-time faculty member at LCAD in Laguna Beach, California until his retirement in 2018.

Filmography

References

External links
 Official website
 

Animators from Virginia
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Living people
1957 births
Oriental riff

The Oriental riff, also known as the East Asian riff and the Chinaman lick, is a musical riff or phrase that has often been used in Western culture as a trope to represent the idea of East or Southeast Asia. The riff is sometimes accompanied by the sound of a gong at the end.

History 
The Oriental riff is a Western creation. The first known example of a precursor, showing similar rhythm if not yet melody, is the "Aladdin Quick Step", composed around 1847 and used in an Aladdin stage show named The Grand Chinese Spectacle of Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp. Later related tunes included "Mama's China Twins (Oriental Lullaby)" from 1900. In the 1930s, a couple of cartoons used a version of the tune specifically to accompany animated stereotypes of East Asians.

The notes used in the riff are part of a pentatonic scale and often harmonized with parallel open fourths, which makes the riff sound like East Asian music to the casual Western listener.

Uses 
The Oriental riff and interpretations of it have been included as part of numerous musical works in Western music. Examples of its use include Poetic Moods () (1889) by Antonin Dvořák, "Limehouse Blues" by Carl Ambrose and his Orchestra (1935), "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas (1974), "Japanese Boy" by Aneka (1981), The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" (1980), "Chinese Laundry Blues" by George Formby (1932), Rush's "A Passage to Bangkok" (1976), and as part of the whistling refrain in "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John (2006).

The Oriental riff has also come to be used in many Japanese compositions as well, particularly in video games; these include Yie Ar Kung-Fus main theme, the Chai Kingdom theme in Super Mario Land, Dragon Chan and Hoy Quarlow’s theme in Super Punch-Out!!, Min Min's theme in ARMS, the Team China stage in Super Dodge Ball, the song "Shao Pai Long" in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the fighting theme of the Kung-Fu chapter in Live A Live, the Wabi Sabi Wall theme in Ape Escape, and the track "Oriental Rush" in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Unlike the Western use of it seen in cases such as "Turning Japanese", works produced in Japan often use it to give an impression of China.

See also
Arabian riff
Tarantella Napoletana, representing Italy
Stereotypes of East Asians
Wonton font

References

East Asian music
Stereotypes of East Asian people
Musical analysis
Musical terminology
Orientalism
Riffs
1847 compositions
Billy Masetlha

Billy Masetlha (21 November 1954 – 14 May 2023) was a South African intelligence officer. He was the head of the South African National Intelligence Agency before being fired by South African President Thabo Mbeki in 2006.

Masetlha died on 14 May 2023, at the age of 68.

References

1954 births
2023 deaths
Ambassadors of South Africa to Algeria
People from Johannesburg
South African spies
Ruben A. Aquino

Ruben Azama Aquino (born December 18, 1953) is a Japanese-Born Filipino-American Disney animator who's formerly worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios, his work has included the several Disney characters, including Maurice in Beauty and the Beast, Simba as an Adult in The Lion King, Chief Powhatan in Pocahontas, Li Shang and Fa Li in Mulan, Pleakly and David Kawena in Lilo & Stitch, Denahi in Brother Bear, Mildred and Mr. Willerstein in Meet the Robinsons and Eudora and James in The Princess and the Frog. His style is easily recognized by his powerful figures and his extremely geometric facial movements.

Early life
Ruben A. Aquino was born on December 18, 1953 in Okinawa, Japan. His mother is Japanese while his father is Filipino.

He studied in Christ the King International School in Okinawa from kindergarten to high school and graduated in 1971. He attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and majored in architecture.

Professional career
From 1975 to 1979, Ruben worked as a graphic artist in Honolulu, Hawaii. He worked for Farmhouse Films as a trainee, which was his first job in animation.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1980, he worked for Hanna-Barbera in visual development, character design, and layout. He was laid off after a year.

Months later, he was able to enter Walt Disney Feature Animation's clean-up training program and after completing it, he worked on a 30-second animation test of Fflewddur Fflam in The Black Cauldron and submitted it to the review board. He was promoted to animating assistant and worked for Disney from 1982 until 2013.

Filmography

Notes

References

External links

Living people
1953 births
American artists of Filipino descent
American artists of Japanese descent
Animators from California
Animators from Hawaii
Annie Award winners
Japanese people of Filipino descent
People from Okinawa Prefecture
University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Nercha

The Nercha (, , Nershüü; , Nerchüü) is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai in Russia, left tributary of the Shilka (Amur's basin). The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . The Nercha freezes up in October and stays icebound until late April – early May. The town of Nerchinsk is located on the Nercha,  from its confluence with the Shilka.

Notes

References

Rivers of Zabaykalsky Krai
Torisawa Station

is a railway station of the Chūō Main Line, East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in the city of Ōtsuki, Yamanashi, Japan.

Lines
Torisawa Station is served by the Chūō Main Line / Chūō Rapid Line, and is 81.2 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tokyo Station.

Station layout
The station consists of one ground level island platform, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is unattended.

Platforms

History

Torisawa Station opened on June 1, 1902, as a passenger and freight station on the Japanese National Railways (JNR) Chūō Main Line.  With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the control of the East Japan Railway Company.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2014, the station was used by an average of 871 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
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Surrounding area
Torizawa-juku on the old Koshu-kaido

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

 Miyoshi Kozo. Chuo-sen Machi to eki Hyaku-niju nen. JT Publishing (2009)

External links

Official home page.

Railway stations in Yamanashi Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1902
Chūō Main Line
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Ōtsuki, Yamanashi
Will Finn

Will Finn is an American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and director.

Career
His work in animation includes characters from Disney, Warner Bros., DreamWorks, and Don Bluth films such as The Secret of NIMH, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, and Pocahontas. Finn animated such characters as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Iago in Aladdin, and Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Finn wrote and directed Home on the Range and voiced the character of Hollywood Fish in Chicken Little. In 2006, Finn directed the computer-animated short Hammy's Boomerang Adventure, a spin-off of Over the Hedge.

Filmography

Awards
 In 2005, Finn received a nomination with John Sanford for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Annie Award for Home on the Range.
 In 2013, Finn received a nomination with Daniel St. Pierre for Best Feature Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival for Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

References

External links

Will Finn's blog
Will Finn at IMDb

American animated film directors
American male voice actors
American storyboard artists
DreamWorks Animation people
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Eternal Golden Castle

The Eternal Golden Castle (), alternatively but less well known as Erkunshen Battery (), is a defensive castle in Anping District, Tainan, Taiwan.

History
The castle was built in 1874 and completed on 1876 by the famous Qing official Shen Baozhen in order to safeguard the coast and to defend the island against Japanese invasions.  This military facility saw its first action in the Sino-French war of 1884.  When Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan by the Qing in 1895, the Taiwanese people fought under the Republic of Formosa banner against the invading Japanese battleships from this fortress.  Under Japanese control this military facility lost its value.  Its value is completely lost when during the Russo-Japanese War the imperial Japanese government sold some of the fort's cannons.

Features
There is a park near the castle grounds where people can enjoy picnics, as well as rental paddle boats for people to sail around the castle. There are occasional music performances in the evening, and actors sometimes fire the last remaining artillery gun in the castle to give visitors a fully immersive experience.

Transportation
By driving: Take the Yongkang Interchange (Exit 319) of Freeway 1 and head in a south-westerly direction.

By public transport: Take the TRA to Tainan Station, and then take buses 2, 7, 12, and 20 to Ximen bus stop. Then take bus 15 to Miaoshouli, and you should be there in a few minutes.

Ticket prices
There is a NT$70 fare for each visitor.

See also
 List of tourist attractions in Taiwan
 Ershawan Battery
 Fort Zeelandia
 Fort Provintia
 History of Taiwan

References

Bibliography

Bender, Andrew et al. (2004). Taiwan. San Francisco: Lonely Planet.

1874 establishments in Taiwan
Forts in Tainan
Taiwan under Qing rule
Taiwan under Japanese rule
Castles in Taiwan
National monuments of Taiwan
Star forts

19th-century fortifications
Azraq, Jordan

Azraq ( meaning "blue") is a small town in Zarqa Governorate in central-eastern Jordan,  east of Amman. The population of Azraq was 9,021 in 2004. The Muwaffaq Salti Air Base is located in Azraq.

History

Prehistory

Archaeological evidence indicates that Azraq has been occupied for hundreds of thousands of years, with the oldest known remains dating to the Lower Palaeolithic, around 500–300,000 years ago. The spring-fed oasis provided a more or less constant source of water throughout this period, and probably acted as a refugium for humans and other animals at times when the surrounding area dried out. The oasis itself changed as the climate fluctuated: at times a permanent lake, a marsh, or a seasonal playa.

During the Epipalaeolithic period the oasis was also an important focus of settlement.

Later history

Azraq has long been an important settlement in a remote and now-arid desert area of Jordan. The strategic value of the town and its castle (Qasr Azraq) is that it lies in the middle of the Azraq oasis, the only permanent source of fresh water in approximately  of desert. The town is also located on a major desert route that would have facilitated trade within the region.

Nabatean period settlement activity has also been documented in the area. Qasr Azraq was built by the Romans in the 3rd century AD, and was heavily modified in the Middle Ages by the Mameluks. In the Umayyad period a water reservoir was constructed in southern Azraq.

During the Arab Revolt in the early 20th century, Qasr Azraq was an important headquarters for T. E. Lawrence.

The Azraq refugee camp, sheltering refugees of the Syrian Civil War, was opened in 2014 and is located  west of Azraq.  The site had been previously used during the Gulf War of 1990–91 as a transit camp for displaced Iraqis and Kuwaitis.

Demographics

According to the Jordan National Census of 2004, the population of Azraq was 9,021, of whom 7,625 (84.5%) were Jordanian citizens. 4,988 (55.3%) were males, and 4,033 (44.7%) females. The next census was conducted in 2014.

Wildlife reserve

Azraq is also the site of one of Jordan's seven protected nature reserve areas (set up by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature): the Azraq Wetlands Reserve in Azraq al-Janoubi (South Azraq).

The separate and larger Shaumari reserve is about  south of the town.

See also

Azraq Wetland Reserve
Desert castles, of which the Azraq oasis has two: Qasr Azraq and Qasr Ain es-Sil
Druze in Jordan

References

Further reading

External Links
Photos of Azraq at the American Center of Research

Populated places in Zarqa Governorate
Oases of Jordan
Druze communities in Jordan
Psilogramma menephron

Psilogramma menephron, the privet hawk moth or large brown hawkmoth, is a member of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is usually found in Sri Lanka, India (including the Andaman Islands), Nepal, central and southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Psilogramma casuarinae from eastern Australia was long treated as a synonym but is now thought to be a distinct species. The introduced population on Hawaii was first thought to be P. menephron, but is Psilogramma increta.

Description 
The wingspan is 82–138 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen and forewings are grey. Dark brown bands along the sides of palpi and thorax meet on metathorax, where there are a few blue and yellow scales. A dark line runs down vertex of abdomen and paired more diffused subdorsal lines. Forewings with some dark strigae from the costa. There are two dark streaks in the interspaces below veins 2 and 3 and a dark streak down from the costa before the apex, curved down to vein 6, then upwards and bent back before reaching the apex. Hindwings are brownish with a pale patch with two dark lines across it near the anal angle. Ventral side is much paler with indistinct transverse lines. Larva greenish with white specks on the vertex of 1st, 2nd and 3rd somites. There are oblique white lateral stripes on 4th and 11th somites.

Biology 
Larvae have been recorded on Clerodendrum fortunatum, Ligustrum species (including Ligustrum sinense), Fraxinus, Jasminum, Tectona grandis, Vitex negundo, Callicarpa arborea, Lonicera, Perilla and Osmanthus sesamum.

References

External links

 Life cycle

Psilogramma
Moths described in 1780
Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
Milgrom

Milgrom is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate (מילגרוים, Milgroim) and may refer to:

 Allen "Al" Milgrom (born 1950), American comic book writer
 Felix Milgrom (1919-2007), Jewish Polish-American microbiologist
 Jacob Milgrom (1923-2010), Jewish Biblical scholar
 Lionel Milgrom, British chemist and homeopath
 Marcia Milgrom Dodge, an American director, choreographer and writer
 Mordehai Milgrom (born 1946), Israeli physicist
 Naomi Milgrom, Australian business owner
 Paul Milgrom (born 1948), American economist

See also 
 Milgram

Yiddish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Barbara Bush (disambiguation)

Barbara Bush (1925–2018) was the wife of George H. W. Bush and the mother of George W. Bush.

Barbara Bush may also refer to:

Barbara Bush (born 1981), daughter of George W. Bush
Barbara Bush (diver) (born 1964), Canadian Olympic diver
Barbara Tyson (born 1964), Canadian actress sometimes billed as Barbara Bush

See also
Barbara Bush Middle School (Irving, Texas)
Poonam Chand Vishnoi

Poonam Chand Vishnoi (20 February 1924 - 25 May 2006) was a former speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 7 July 1980 to 20 March 1985.  He is a senior leader of Indian National Congress Party in Rajasthan.  He hails from Jodhpur region of Rajasthan.  He was elected to Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Bhinmal , Phalodi and Luni. He also served as deputy speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and Cabinet Minister in Rajasthan Government.

His daughter Vijay laxmi Bishnoi was Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and Parliament Secretary between 1998 and 2003. She is Ex-Chief of Woman Wing of Indian National Congress and Several Boards in Rajasthan Government .

Poonam Chand Vishnoi had also contested 1999 Loksabha election  from Jodhpur (Lok Sabha constituency) as INC candidate and lost to Jaswant Singh Bishnoi by a small margin.

Early life
Poonam Chand Bishnoi Born in Feench village luni(tehsil) in District of Jodhpur, After doing LLB he was a practicing lawyer in Rajasthan High Court Jodhpur. In 1957, he successfully contested MLA election from Luni.

References

External links
 

Rajasthani people
Speakers of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Deputy Speakers of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Indian National Congress politicians
1924 births
2006 deaths
Indian National Congress politicians from Rajasthan
Gröden

Gröden is a municipality in the Elbe-Elster district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

History
From 1952 to 1990, Gröden was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.

Demography

References

Localities in Elbe-Elster
1995–96 Azadegan League

The 1995–96 Azadegan League was the fifth season of the Azadegan League that was won by Persepolis.

Mohammad Momeni (Poli Ekril Isfahan) was the top goal scorer with 19 goals.

Teams
Sixteen teams competed in the league – the top thirteen teams from the previous season and three teams promoted from the Iran 2nd Division.
Promoted teams were Polyacryl, Bahman and Bank Melli, all making their debut in the Azadegan League. They replaced Zob Ahan, Naft Ghaemshahr, Chooka Talesh, Bank Tejarat, Teraktor Sazi, Payam Khorasan, Pars Khodro, Sanat Naft Abadan, Nassaji Mazandaran, Qods Sari and Shahin Bushehr.

League table

Statistitcs

Top scorers

 Iranian football champions: Persepolis
 Relegated: Jonoob Ahvaz, Ararat Tehran, Shahrdari Tabriz, Saipa
 Promoted: Zob Ahan, Payam Mashhad, Teraktor Sazi, Sanat Naft

References

Azadegan League seasons
Iran
1995–96 in Iranian football
Callionima nomius

Callionima nomius, the fan-tailed bark moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1856.

Distribution 
It is found from Mexico and Central America to the north-western half of South America.

Description 
The wingspan is 70–80 mm. It is immediately distinguishable from all other Callionima species by the forewing upperside pattern and hindwing upperside colour. The forewing upperside is deep brown with a pale brown triangular patch on the costa and a silver discal spot represented only by a minute dot. The hindwing upperside is dark brown with a buff base.

Biology 
Adults are on wing year round. Adults nectar at flowers, including Nicotiana forgetiana.

The larvae probably feed on Apocynaceae species, possibly including Aspidosperma macrocarpa.

References

N
Moths of Central America
Sphingidae of South America
Moths described in 1856
William Heffernan

William Heffernan (born August 22, 1940) is an American novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News. Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel Broderick. He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors. William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers.  The film rights for The Dinosaur Club were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million.

Works
Broderick (1980)
Caging the Raven (1981)
The Corsican (1983)
Acts of Contrition (1986)
Blood Rose (a Paul Devlin series book) (1988)
Ritual (a Paul Devlin series book) (1989)
Corsican Honor (1991)
Scarred (a Paul Devlin series book) (1992)
Tarnished Blue (a Paul Devlin series book) (winner of the Edgar Award for best paperback original) (1993)
Winter's Gold (a Paul Devlin series book) (1995)
The Dinosaur Club (1997)
Cityside (1997)
Red Angel (a Paul Devlin series book) (1999)
Beulah Hill (2000)
Unholy Order (a Paul Devlin series book) (2000)
A Time Gone By (2003)
The Dead Detective (2010)
When Johnny Came Marching Home (2012)
The Scientology Murders (a Dead Detective series book) (2017)

Translations
A Time Gone By has been translated into Polish:  Czas Przeszly, Wydawnictwo "Amber" Warsaw, 2004

References

External links
An Interview with Heffernan
Fantastic Fiction - William Heffernan
Who Dunnit, William Heffernan

Living people
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male journalists
American male novelists
American mystery writers
Edgar Award winners
1950 births
Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Connecticut
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Portland Street Blues

Portland Street Blues (古惑仔情義篇之洪興十三妹) is a 1998 Hong Kong film, directed by Yip Wai Man. The film is a spin-off of the Young and Dangerous series of films.

Synopsis
This spin-off movie provides a contrast to the other Young and Dangerous films with greater character development. This time, the story's focus is on a female character - Sister 13 (Sandra Ng) of the "Hung Hing" triad. In a triad underworld dominated by men, the film tells the story of how she faces trials and tribulations of rising to become the branch leader of Portland Street. The story shows the reasons she became a lesbian. The film also gives more details about the "Tung Sing" triad, and how the relationship between Sister 13 and Ben Hon develops.

Notes
 Notable absences: Chicken, Dai Tin-Yee, Tai Fei and Chairman Chiang
 This is one of the few movies in which Ng Man Tat, who is usually in many mo lei tau movies, took a more serious role, making this movie an example of his ability to act in other kinds of role.
 Ng Man-Tat, Sandra Ng and John Ching were previously in a film together in the movie God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai, which starred Stephen Chow.
 In the same year, John Ching and Kristy Yang also appeared opposite each other in the ATV series My Date with a Vampire. Coincidentally like the movie, Ching's character also has an attraction to Yang's character. However, the movie depicted the attraction out of lust while the series depicted the attraction as innocent since Ching's character was depicted as a "mother's boy".

Cast and roles
 Sandra Ng Kwan Yue - Sister Thirteen/Tsui Siu Siu
 Kristy Yang - Cheung May Yun (as Kristy Yeung)
 Alex Fong Chung-Sun - Coke
 Wan Yeung-ming - Ben Hon (credited as Vincent Wan)
 Shu Qi - Scarface
 John Ching - S.O.B.
 Ekin Cheng - Chan Ho-Nam
 Jason Chu - Banana Skin
 Jerry Lamb - Pou-Pan
 Ng Man Tat - Tat
 Ken Lo - Prince	
 Matt Chow
 Kam Hing Ying	
 Kwan Hoi-Shan	
 Lee Siu-kei	
 Ng Chi Hung - Uncle Bee
 Francis Ng - Ugly Kwan
 Peter Ngor		
 Jimmy Wong Ga Lok		
 Bobby Yip		
 Henry Yue Young

Awards and nominations
18th Hong Kong Film Awards
 Won: Best Actress (Sandra Ng)
 Won: Best Supporting Actress (Shu Qi)
 Nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Kristy Yang)

35th Golden Horse Awards
 Won: Best Supporting Actress (Shu Qi)
 Nominated: Best Actress (Sandra Ng)

References

External links 
 

1998 films
Triad films
Hong Kong LGBT-related films
Lesbian-related films
Golden Harvest films
Films directed by Raymond Yip
Young and Dangerous
1998 LGBT-related films
1990s Hong Kong films
USNS Mission Loreto

SS Mission Loreto was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. After the war she was acquired by the United States Navy as USS Mission Loreto (AO-116). Later the tanker transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS Mission Loreto (T-AO-116). She was a   and was named for Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, located in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, considered the "Head and Mother of all the California Missions."

Career 
Mission Loreto was laid down on 27 April 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract by Marine Ship Corporation, Sausalito, California; launched 28 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. S. D. Bechtel; and delivered 22 July 1944. Operated, under charter, by Los Angeles Tanker Operators Inc., she spent the remainder of the War transporting fuel to Allied forces in the western Pacific, during which time she was awarded the National Defense Service Medal. She continued in these duties until 26 April 1946 when she was returned to the Maritime Commission and laid up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at Mobile, Alabama.

Acquired by the Navy on 20 November 1947, she was placed in service with Naval Transportation Service on the same date as Mission Loreto (AO-116). On 1 October 1949 she was still performing these duties, but was under control of the new Military Sea Transportation Service and was designated USNS Mission Loreto (T-AO-116). She continued in these duties until 25 August 1955 when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register and transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at Beaumont, Texas.

Reacquired by the Navy 25 June 1956 she was placed in service with MSTS on the same date and served until 13 July 1959 when she was once again returned to the Maritime Administration and laid up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California.

The ship was scrapped in Portland, Oregon in September 1975.

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Type T2-SE-A2 tankers
Ships built in Sausalito, California
1944 ships
World War II tankers of the United States
Loreto
Type T2-SE-A2 tankers of the United States Navy
Hawknose grenadier

The hawknose grenadier, Coelorinchus oliverianus, is a species of rattail found around New Zealand,  at depths of between 80 and 1300 m.  Its length is between 20 and 35 cm.

References
 
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Macrouridae
Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
Fish described in 1927
Brookswood, Langley

Brookswood is a community (pop. approx. 13,200) in the Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of that municipality to the south of the Nicomekl River.  It is largely a residential area with several commercial areas, a Recreation Centre with a hockey area and curling rink.

Next to the Recreation Centre is a BMX track originally built in 1977 and a skate park in 2001. The Brookswood disc golf course at Langley Passive Park is popular with disc golf enthusiasts.

Education in Brookswood
 Brookswood Secondary School
 Belmont Elementary School
 Bradshaw Elementary School
 Noel Booth Elementary School
 Langley Fundamental Middle Secondary School
 Alice Brown Elementary School

History
Built at a cost of $1,750,000, the Langley Civic Center was officially opened on November 8, 1973.
In May 2005, the Langley Civic Center was renamed George Preston Recreation Center in honour of the man (former mayor and a local car salesman) who helped build it.
In early June 1977 a BMX race track named Kiwanis BMX was built adjacent to the Langley Civic Center (now named George Preston Recreation Center). The land at the time was leased to the Langley Riders Horse Association who were good friend's to Doreen Spinks who secured the land as a rental agreement and the first BMX track in Langley was built. On July 8' 1981, Town Council approved funding for the rebuilding of the track. It was then moved in the 1990s to its new location (some 30 yard's from the original track) and named Langley BMX where it still remains today. 
In 2001 the Brookswood skateboard park was officially opened almost right beside it.  
The Rec Centre is the current home of the Langley Rivermen BCHL hockey club, until the Chiefs' new arena in Willoughby is completed. Ground was broken recently on the new complex, which has an estimated completion date to coincide with the start of the 2008-09 BCHL season.

References

External links
Langley Civic Centre in Brookswood
Brookswood Library

Neighbourhoods in Langley, British Columbia
Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
Young and Dangerous: The Prequel

Young and Dangerous: The Prequel () is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film directed by Andrew Lau. It is the second prequel in the Young and Dangerous film series.

The film shows Chan Ho-nam (Nicholas Tse), Big Head (Daniel Wu), Chow Pan (Benjamin Yuen), Chicken Chiu (Sam Lee), and their friends being recruited by Uncle Bee (Ng Chi-Hung) and joining the "Hung Hing" triad.

Cast
Nicholas Tse as Chan Ho-nam
Daniel Wu as Big Head
Francis Ng as Ugly Kwan
Shu Qi as Fei
Sam Lee as Chicken
Sandra Ng as Sister 13 (cameo)
Kristy Yang as Yung (cameo)
Benjamin Yuen as Chow Pan

Notes

Because he was only 17, and born on 29 August 1980, Nicholas Tse is not allowed to watch the movie when the movie opens in Hong Kong cinemas on 5 June 1998 because this movie is classified as Category III, which is a restricted category in the Hong Kong motion picture rating system and the category is strictly for persons aged 18 and above only.

The story retcons the flashback from the first film, taking place in 1988 rather than 1985.

Awards and nominations
18th Hong Kong Film Awards
 Won: Best New Performer (Nicholas Tse)

External links 
 

Films directed by Andrew Lau
1998 films
1998 crime drama films
1990s action films
Hong Kong action films
Hong Kong crime films
1990s Cantonese-language films
Triad films
Golden Harvest films
Young and Dangerous
1990s Hong Kong films
List of towns in Romania by Romani population

This list contains Romanian urban localities (municipalities or cities/towns) in which Roma people make up over 5% of the total population, according to the 2011 census. The Roma are an ethnic group which make up 3.3% of Romania's population. There are several rural localities (communes and villages) which also have Roma populations exceeding 5% of the total population, even though those are not listed here.

In localities where Roma make up more than 20% of the population, the Romani language can be used when addressing local authorities, while state-funded education and bilingual signs are also provided. This arrangement applies in several communes, as well as in three towns: Bechet, Budești and Ulmeni.

See also
Romani people in Romania
List of Romani settlements

References

Romanian 2002 Census Results Database

 
Roma
Romania
Romani-related lists
Scott Moncrieff

Scott Moncrieff may refer to:

 Colin Scott-Moncrieff (1836–1916), Scottish engineer, soldier and civil servant
 C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930), Scottish writer and translator
 George Scott-Moncrieff (1910–1974), Scottish writer and journalist
 George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1855–1924), Scottish soldier and engineer
 Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (born 1954), British judge
 Robert Scott Moncrieff (1793–1869), Scottish advocate and artist

See also

 
 
 Scomo (disambiguation)
 Scott (disambiguation)
 Moncrieff (disambiguation)
Neusäß

Neusäß (English transcription: Neusaess, Swabian: Neisäß, ) is a town in the District of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. The town lies on the Schmutter river and borders the city of Augsburg. , the city had 22,164 inhabitants.

Town districts

 Alt-Neusäß
 Hainhofen
 Hammel
 Westheim
 Schlipsheim
 Täfertingen
 Ottmarshausen
 Steppach

History
Neusaess is a union from 8 formerly independent villages, which united in the years 1972 and 1977, in order to avoid the threatening incorporation by Augsburg.

Since 2014, Richard Greiner (CSU) has been mayor of Neusäß.

Attractions

 Pilgrimage church Maria Loreto on the Kobel (Westheim)
 Schloss Hainhofen
 Schloss Hamel
 Bismarckturm (Steppach)
 Titania hot springs
 Schmutter

Twin towns — Sister cities
Neusäß is twinned with:
   Cusset, France
   Eksjö, Sweden
   Markkleeberg, Germany
   Bracciano, Italy

Notable people 
 Sena Jurinac (1921–2011), Lederle, soprano and member of the Viennese Mozart ensemble, lived from 1973 until her death in Hainhofen

References

External links
 

Augsburg (district)
RSCN

RSCN may refer to:

Registered Sick Children's Nurse, a medical title given to a United Kingdom nurse specialised in the care of children
Registered State Change Notification, an FC network switch function
Melbourne Bus Link

Melbourne Bus Link was an Australian bus and coach operator in Melbourne. It was a Melbourne bus company that operated nine bus routes under contract to the Public Transport Victoria. Melbourne Bus Link ceased operations on 3 August 2013.

History

In April 1998 a consortium owned by Dysons and Reservoir Bus Company commenced operating a contract to operate the remaining bus services of Met Bus in the western and south-east regions of Melbourne. Included were depots at Footscray and Sandringham and 86 MAN SL200 buses. In November 2012, Dysons bought out Reservoir Bus Company and fully owned Melbourne Bus Link.

In April 2013, Transdev Melbourne were announced as the preferred tenderer to operate the Melbourne Metropolitan Bus Franchise, which included the services operated by Melbourne Bus Link. Melbourne Bus Link ceased operations on 3 August 2013.

Fleet
When operations ceased in August 2013, Melbourne Bus Link operated 86 buses, primarily Volgren bodied Scanias. The fleet livery was white with purple and orange stripes.

See also
Buses in Melbourne
List of Victorian Bus Companies
List of Melbourne bus routes

References

External links

Company website
Public Transport Victoria timetables
Showbus gallery

Bus companies of Victoria (state)
Bus transport in Melbourne
1998 establishments in Australia
2013 disestablishments in Australia
Erinnyis alope

Erinnyis alope, the Alope sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It lives from the northern part of South America, through Central America, up to Northern Mexico and the very south of the United States, although strays have been recorded as far north as Arkansas and Kansas.

Subspecies
Erinnyis alope alope (from northern Argentina and Uruguay north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to southern Florida, southern Texas, southern New Mexico and southern Arizona)
Erinnyis alope dispersa Kernbach, 1962 (Galapagos Islands)

References

External links
Alope Sphinx Moths of America

Erinnyis
Moths described in 1770
Moths of North America
Taxa named by Dru Drury
USNS Mission Los Angeles

USNS Mission Los Angeles (T-AO-117) was a  that served in the United States Navy. The ship was originally intended as USS Conecuh (AO-103) for the U.S. Navy but her acquisition was canceled. The ship, a Type T2-SE-A3 tanker, was completed as SS Mission Los Angeles and delivered after the end of World War II. The tanker was acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1948 as USS Mission Los Angeles (AO-117), but was transferred to the Military Sea Transport Service upon its creation in 1949. The ship was named for Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles Asistencia (a "sub-mission" to Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, one of the twenty-one California missions), she was the only U.S. Naval Vessel to bear the name.

Service history

1945–1946
Conecuh was laid down on 25 April 1945 as a type T2-SE-A3 tanker under a Maritime Commission contract by the Marinship Corporation of Sausalito, California, but launched as Mission Los Angeles on 10 August 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Daniel J. Johnston. The ship was delivered on 29 October 1945. Operated by Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc. under charter, her period of service was short, for on 16 July 1946 she was returned to the Maritime Commission and laid up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at Beaumont, Texas.

1947–1957
Acquired by the Navy on 24 October 1947 she was placed in service with the Naval Transportation Service as Mission Los Angeles (AO-117). Absorbed into the new Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) on 1 October 1949 she was designated USNS Mission Los Angeles (T-AO-117) and continued her services in support of the fleet until 12 November 1957 when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Registers and returned to the Maritime Administration to be laid up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at Beaumont.

The ship was scrapped in December 1975.

Awards
During her active military service she was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal (twice), the United Nations Service Medal and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactively). She also received two Battle Stars for her Korean War service.

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Type T2-SE-A3 tankers
Ships built in Sausalito, California
1945 ships
Los Angeles
Type T2-SE-A3 tankers of the United States Navy
Korean War auxiliary ships of the United States