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New Orleans Public Belt Railroad

The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad  is a Class III railroad, and a subsidiary of the Port of New Orleans.  It connects with six Class I railroads serving the city, and provides switching and haulage service. It is estimated that one-third of the United States' east-west rail freight crosses the Mississippi on the Huey P. Long Bridge segment of the railroad.

The impetus for the NOPB came at the start of the 20th century era when multiple railroads terminating locally created both congestion at the Port of New Orleans and safety problems on city streets.  The railroad began operation in 1908 with the intention of giving the major railroads "uniform and impartial" access to the port.

The railroad is managed by the Public Belt Railroad Commission, which also owns and maintains the Huey P. Long Bridge.  NOPB covers over 160 kilometers (100 mi) of track with ten  locomotives.  No funding is received from the city; operating and capital expenses are covered by operating revenues.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 caused an estimated $450 million in damage to NOPB equipment and track.  At least 70 percent of the railroad’s lines and interchanges were back in operation by September 2005, and 90 percent by March 2006. The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad operates a fleet of EMD and Motive Power Industries built Locomotives. They own EMD SW1200s, SW1000s, SW1500s, GP40-2s, GP16s, and a single GP40, GE C40-8s along with MPI MP1500Ds and MP2000Ds all on their active roster.

Railroads served
Connections and interchanges are made with the following railroads:
 BNSF Railway
 CSX Transportation
 Canadian National/Illinois Central
 CPKC Railway
 Norfolk Southern
 Union Pacific
 Amtrak

References

External links

Louisiana railroads
Switching and terminal railroads
Nitrilotriacetic acid

Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) is the aminopolycarboxylic acid with the formula  N(CH2CO2H)3. It is a colourless solid that is used as a chelating agent, which forms coordination compounds with metal ions (chelates) such as Ca2+, Co2+, Cu2+, and Fe3+.

Production and use
Nitrilotriacetic acid is commercially available as the free acid and as the sodium salt. It is produced from ammonia, formaldehyde, and sodium cyanide or hydrogen cyanide. Worldwide capacity is estimated at 100 thousand tonnes per year.  NTA is also cogenerated as an impurity in the synthesis of EDTA, arising from reactions of the ammonia coproduct.  Older routes to NTA included alkylation of ammonia with chloroacetic acid and oxidation of triethanolamine.

Coordination chemistry and applications
NTA is a tripodal tetradentate trianionic ligand.

The uses of NTA are similar to those of EDTA, both being chelating agents.  It is used for water softening and as a replacement to sodium and potassium triphosphate in detergents, and cleansers.

In one application, NTA as a chelating agent removes Cr, Cu, and As from wood that had been treated with chromated copper arsenate.

Laboratory uses
In the laboratory, this compound is used in complexometric titrations. A variant of NTA is used for protein isolation and purification in the His-tag method. The modified NTA is used to immobilize nickel on a solid support. This allows purification of proteins containing a tag consisting of six histidine residues at either terminus.

The his-tag binds the metal of metal chelator complexes. Previously, iminodiacetic acid was used for that purpose. Now, nitrilotriacetic acid is more commonly used.

For laboratory uses Ernst Hochuli et al. 1987 coupled the NTA ligand and Nickel-ions to agarose beads. This Ni-NTA Agarose is the most used tool to purify his tagged proteins via affinity chromatography.

Toxicity and environment
Nitriloacetic acid can cause eye, skin, and respiratory tract irritation; and can cause kidney and bladder damage. The compound is anticipated to have the potential to cause human cancers.

In contrast to EDTA, NTA is easily biodegradable and is almost completely removed during wastewater treatment.  The environmental impacts of NTA are minimal.  Despite widespread use in cleaning products, the concentration in the water supply is too low to have a sizeable impact on human health or environmental quality.

References

Amines
Acetic acids
Chelating agents
IARC Group 2B carcinogens
Tripodal ligands
Paisano

Paisano may refer to:

Places in the United States

Arizona
 Casa Juan Paisano, a historic house in Tucson

Texas
 Paisano Grant, one of twenty-five land grants made in the Brooks County/Jim Wells County area
 Paisano Park, Texas, a census-designated place in San Patricio County
 El Paisano Hotel, a historic hotel in Marfa
 El Paisano Ranch, a ranch in Jim Wells County
 Edgewater-Paisano, Texas, a suburb of Mathis

Other uses
 The Paisano, an independent student-run newspaper of the University of Texas at San Antonio
 Edna Paisano (1948–2014), Nez Perce and Laguna Pueblo demographer and statistician
 Sphodros paisano, a species of purseweb spider in the family Atypidae
 Ue... paisano!, a 1953 Argentine film

See also
 Paisan, a 1946 Italian neorealist war drama film
George Gruntz

George Gruntz (24 June 1932 – 10 January 2013) was a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist, and composer known for the George Gruntz Concert Big Band and his work with Phil Woods, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, and Mel Lewis.

Gruntz, who was born in Basel, Switzerland, was also an accomplished arranger and composer, having been commissioned by many orchestras and symphonies. From 1972 to 1994, he served as artistic director of JazzFest Berlin.

He died at the age of 80 in January 2013.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Main sources:

Compilations
Sins'n Wins'n Funs – Left-cores and Hard-core En-cores, 1981–1990 (Compilation, released 1996)
The MPS Years, 1972–1981 (Compilation, released 1996)
Renaissance Man a.k.a. 30 + 70: The One Hundred Years of George Gruntz, 1961–2000 (Compilation, released 2002)

As sideman
With Franco Ambrosetti
Close Encounter (Enja, 1979)

See also
List of experimental big bands

References

External links
Homepage with biography and extensive discography. Retrieved November 12, 2012 
George Gruntz page at Enja Records site
George Gruntz Phonography at Swiss National Sound Archives

1932 births
2013 deaths
Enja Records artists
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Musicians from Basel-Stadt
Post-bop pianists
Progressive big band musicians
Swiss jazz pianists
20th-century pianists
List of bands from Lincoln, Nebraska

List of notable bands from Lincoln, Nebraska.

Brimstone Howl
Casting Pearls
FortyTwenty
For Against
Lullaby for the Working Class
Matthew Sweet
Neva Dinova
Zager and Evans
Eagle*Seagull
Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal

Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln
Bands
Lists of bands
Akeyuth Anchanbutr

Akeyuth Anchanbutr (; ; 24 June 1954—7 June 2013) was a Thai pyramid scheme operator and political activist.

Akeyuth was the head of the controversial Charter Investment pyramid scheme, which collapsed in 1983.  He fled to England in 1984 to avoid charges. Akeyuth then invested the proceeds of pyramid scheme in a chain of oriental supermarkets and is estimated to have accumulated a personal wealth of billions.

In 2004, after the 20 year statute of limitations was exhausted, he returned to Thailand and launched a campaign against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.  His Thailand Insider website was strongly critical of the Prime Minister, and was temporarily blocked by Thai authorities on June 21, 2005, and again on December 15, 2005. He also attacked the premiership of Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra, causing a scandal in 2012 when he revealed that she had a private meeting with business executives at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bangkok.

Akeyuth was murdered in June 2013. He was last seen on 6 June, and his body discovered on 11 June. His driver Santiphap Pengduang was arrested and confessed to murdering Akeyuth with financial motives. This was questioned by Akeyuth's former lawyer Suwat Apaipak, who said that Santiphap had later claimed to have been hired. However, Suwat dropped the case in August, claiming to have received death threats. Santiphap and his friend Sutthipoing Pimpisarn were sentenced in December 2014 to death commuted to life imprisonment for their confessions, while two others, who had been involved in concealing the body, received nineteen and eight months. Santiphap's parents were found guilty of keeping and hiding the stolen cash. They appealed, and the case went to the Supreme Court in 2017, which upheld their sixteen-month jail terms.

See also
2005–2006 Thai political crisis

References

External links
Thailand Insider

Akeyuth Anchanbutr
Akeyuth Anchanbutr
Thai expatriates in the United Kingdom
2013 deaths
1954 births
Akeyuth Anchanbutr
Pakanic languages

The Pakanic languages constitute a branch of two Austroasiatic languages, Bolyu and Bugan. They are spoken in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces of southern China. Mang was formerly included, but is now considered by Paul Sidwell to form its own separate branch within Austroasiatic.

Classification
Jenny & Sidwell (2015) consider Pakanic to be an independent branch of Austroasiatic.

Various classifications had previously been proposed for individual Pakanic languages. In 1990, Paul K. Benedict argued that Bolyu constitutes a separate Mon-Khmer branch. Edmondson & Gregerson (1996) listed many phonological and lexical similarities shared by Bolyu and Vietic languages. However, Gérard Diffloth later suggested that Pakanic (i.e., Bolyu and Bugan) shares an affinity with Palaungic languages and was part of a wider Northern Mon-Khmer group.

Mangic proposal
Mangic, a proposed language grouping that includes Mang as a sister to Pakanic within a unified subgroup of Austroasiatic, is recognized by Ilia Peiros (2004) and Sidwell's earlier classifications. Nguyen Van Loi also classified Mang within the Samtau group of Waic with Palaungic, although he later classified Mang as a sister of Waic (Sidwell 2009:133).

Reconstruction
Proto-Pakanic, the proto-language ancestral to Bolyu and Bugan but not Mang, was reconstructed by Andrew Hsiu (2016). Hsiu (2017), citing Li Xulian (1999), notes that Pakanic languages were formerly spoken further up north in Guizhou and were in close contact with Gelao. Hsiu (2017) also notes that Pakanic languages display loanword influence from Kra languages, and have also influenced Kra languages.

See also
Mang language, formerly considered to be closely related

References

Further reading

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Chinese

External links
 Mang vocabulary from SEAlang
 Bolyu vocabulary from SEAlang
 RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
 Pakanic languages in RWAAI Digital Archive
Agios Thomas, Preveza

Agios Thomas () is a small village about 5 km from Preveza in Greece. It is set in an agricultural area, but also has a busy harbour. There are four taverns and one cafe. Savvas is the largest popular tavern in the village for family events due to its view over the harbour. Daliani is not as large a tavern as Savvas nor does it offer the same view of the harbor. The third tavern is on the seafront and the last tavern is on the road out to Agioi Apostoloi and Skafedaki. Inhabitants of nearby Preveza frequently visit the village.

Populated places in Preveza (regional unit)
Preveza
JazzFest Berlin

JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a jazz festival in Berlin, Germany.  Originally called the "Berliner Jazztage" (Berlin Jazz Days), it was founded in 1964 in West Berlin by the Berliner Festspiele.  Venues included Berliner Philharmonie, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Volksbühne, Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Jazzclubs Quasimodo and A-Trane.

The festival's mission has been "to document, support, and validate trends in jazz, and to mirror the diversity of creative musical activity.

See also

List of music festivals
List of jazz festivals

References

External links
Official site

Jazz festivals in Germany
Music festivals established in 1964
Music festivals in Berlin
Music in Berlin
Recurring events established in 1964
San Carlos Lake

San Carlos Lake was formed by the construction of the Coolidge Dam and is rimmed by  of shoreline. The lake is located within the  San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, and is thus subject to tribal regulations.

After it was built, the reservoir filled gradually. Because of irrigation needs, the water level at the lake sometimes is low enough to kill its self-sustaining fish, but during wet years, the water can overtop Coolidge Dam. Since construction of the dam, the lake has been nearly empty at least 20 times, and has been full only three times.

When President Calvin Coolidge dedicated the new dam in 1930, Cherokee humorist Will Rogers looked at the grass in the lake bed, and said, "If this were my lake, I’d mow it."

Recreational use

Fishing, boating and camping
San Carlos Lake is stocked periodically, and after winters with average or above average precipitation, is one of the largest lakes in Arizona. The San Carlos Apache Tribe Recreation and Wildlife Department stocks several species of fish using various methods to improve fishing. Several species are self-sustaining:
 Sunfish (Lepomis sp.)
 Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
 Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
 Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
 flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris)

The lake has set state records for largemouth bass, black crappie, and flathead catfish.  Other fish are stocked from cold-water fisheries, including brown trout and rainbow trout.

Jet-skiing, water skiing, and boating are also allowed. Individuals who are not members of the San Carlos Apache tribe who wish to use the lake must contact the tribal office for a permit, since the lake is on tribal land.

Soda Canyon Point Campground is located on the north side of the lake. Since the lake level varies greatly during the summer, visitors are advised to call the San Carlos Apache Recreation and Wildlife Department to determine the current lake level.

References

External links

 The American Southwest San Carlos Lake Article
San Carlos Apache Tribe Recreation & Wildlife Dept. - hunting permission forms and information about fishing permits
Southwest Tribal Fisheries Commission - San Carlos Apache Tribe
 San Carlos Apache Recreation & Wildlife Department

Gila River
Reservoirs in Gila County, Arizona
Reservoirs in Graham County, Arizona
Reservoirs in Pinal County, Arizona
Reservoirs in Arizona
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and one of the country's top and most important cabinet posts. The Minister usually is also a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a state councillor. The Minister is the second-highest ranking diplomat in China after the director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission.

History 
The post was initially established after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1 October 1949 as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central People's Government, with Zhou Enlai being appointed as both the minister and the premier.

Process of appointment 
Officially, the minister is nominated by the premier of the State Council, who is then approved by the National People's Congress or its Standing Committee and appointed by the president.

List of officeholders

References

Citations

Sources

External links 
 Official English website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 
China
Dataran Bandaraya Johor Bahru

Dataran Bandaraya Johor Bahru or (Johor Bahru City Square) is the main square in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

History
It was built on 1 January 1994 following the declaration of Johor Bahru as a city.

Architecture
The city square features a clock tower which was constructed not long after the opening of the square.

Activities
The square is often used for official events, as well as sport competitions. At night, the area turns into an eatery area.

See also
 List of tourist attractions in Johor

References

1994 establishments in Malaysia
Buildings and structures in Johor Bahru
Squares in Malaysia
Tourist attractions in Johor
20th-century architecture in Malaysia
The Good Oil

The Good Oil is a radio program on SEN 1116 in Melbourne, Australia. It airs between noon-4 pm and is hosted by Mark Doran. The Good Oil is so named as it provides information on a wide variety of news in the world of sport.

Host
Mark Doran is a journalist/commentator who has called the AFL Grand Final and has witnessed numerous Olympic Games. He was a former boundary rider on both channel 7 and Fox Footy. The show is currently produced by Kerry Lambert.

Regular guests
Rodney Hogg: "Hoggy"
Peter Brukner: Australian Athletics Selector and Olympic historian.
Carlos Alberto Diego: A wrap-up of the world game news of the week.
Sharelle McMahon: Melbourne Vixens and Australian team captain Sharelle McMahon 
Mark Robinson: One of the Herald Sun's journalists joins Mark to recap and discuss stories from the world of the AFL.
Footballers Brad Green, Sam Mitchell, Brent Harvey and Scott Burns are footballers that join Mark for the Huddle on a Wednesday. 
Daniel Harford and "Rippa Rita" join Mark on Fridays between noon-2 for Casual Friday.

Notable segments
On Thursday between 1-2 Mark is joined in the studio by a special guest on "Feature Thursday" where there is an hour interview regarding this sporting personalities life or a sports life. Some of the guest on Feature Thursday so far have been Jim Stynes, Heather McKay, Michael Long, Michelle Timms, One Day International Cricket, Sarah Fitz-Gerald and Drew Ginn, Peter Thomson, Michael Klim, Brett Hawke, Mark French, John Steffenson and Jana Pittman just to name a few.

Australian sports radio programs
Sangat Island

Sangat Island is a tiny island in the Philippines situated  off the coast of Busuanga close to Barangay Bintuan, Coron in the northern part of the Calamian Islands in the province of Palawan in the Philippines. The Calamian Islands are known for their many natural attractions and is a popular attraction for tourists and cruise lines.

Tourism is the main income for the local community and a significant part of the island has been transformed into a resort with rentable cottages and exclusive villas. The island and resort is frequented by common tourists and scuba divers who seek to explore some of the many Japanese shipwrecks still in the area around the Calamian Islands since World War II.

See also

 List of islands of the Philippines

Calamian Islands
Wenecja

Wenecja  (Polish for Venice) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żnin, within Żnin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately  south-east of Żnin and  south-west of Bydgoszcz.

Its picturesque location among three lakes (Biskupinskie, Weneckie, Skrzynka) resulted in its name alluding to the location of Italian Venice. The village, called "the pearl of Pałuki", is one of the greatest tourist attractions in the Pałuki region. Wenecja is located on the line of the narrow gauge railway running from the town of Żnin to famous Biskupin and further on to Gąsawa. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum and the ruins of the 14th century castle attract tourists to the village.

People 
 Stachu Gic (1964?-2023) - mythical magician and jacksmith
 Michal I White (1387-1470) - Notable Emperor of Wenecja (1425-1470)
 Michal II Conqeror (1982-) - King of Grand Duchy of Wenecja (2006-), his army together with Szelejewo's Emperor Kotzper Katz against all odds managed to beat Gonsawa under the Prime Minister Marcinix in a spectatular 2009 War. After this war the King was awarded with a statue of him in 2012, the statue is placed next to the Skrzynka Lake,the area where Wenecian forces counterattacked turning the tide of war

See also 
 Biskupin
 Heritage railways
 Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship
 narrow gauge railway
 Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
 Pałuki
 Żnin

External links 

 Urząd Miejski - Żnin Town Hall
 Starostwo Powiatowe - Żnin County Office
 The Archaeological Museum in Biskupin
 The Narrow Gauge Railway Company in Żnin
 Muzeum Ziemi Pałuckiej - The Museum of the Pałuki Land in Żnin

Wenecja
Chemical City

Chemical City is the second studio album by Canadian musician Sam Roberts, released in Canada on April 11, 2006, and in the United States on May 16, 2006. The album debuted at number three on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 10,000 units in its first week. The album was certified Platinum in Canada on May 17, 2018. The album had three singles: "The Gate", "Bridge To Nowhere", and "With a Bullet".

Critical reception

Jo-Ann Greene of AllMusic praised the album for capturing '70s classic rock in terms of packaging and tracks that are reminiscent of New Model Army, the Rolling Stones and Small Faces, calling it "a sumptuous helping of songs with strong melodies and anthemic choruses vying with more subtle, shaded pieces, all filled with meaty lyrics that are easily the equal of the music." Cory D. Byron of Pitchfork also commended Roberts for his stripped down singer-songwriter take on classic rock but was more favorable to the record's upbeat tracks than its slower-paced ones, concluding that, "Ultimately the ballads do more to weigh it down than lift it up, but Chemical City still has plenty to offer fans of old-fashioned rock."

Track listing 
All songs written by Sam Roberts.

2021 Re-release

Personnel
Adapted from the booklet of Chemical City.

Musicians
Sam Roberts - Vocals, guitars, keyboards, strings, co-producer
Dave Nugent - Guitars, backing vocals
Eric Fares - Keyboards, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
James Hall - Bass
Josh Tragger - Drums, percussion on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9
Bill Anthopoulos - Drums, percussion on tracks 4 and 7
Matt Mays - Vocals, guitar on track 5
Danielle Duval - Vocals on tracks 8 and 9
George "El Condor" Donoso - Additional drums on track 4

Technical staff
Joseph Donovan - Producer, co-producer, engineer
Mark Howard - Co-producer, engineer
Don Murnaghan - Studio assistant
Garnet Armstrong - Art director, design
Susan Michalek - Design
Ken Dewar - Illustrations
David Gillespie - Photography
Dave Spencer - Manager
Patrick Sambrook - Co-manager

Certifications

References

External links 
 Chemical City - Chemical City Official Site

2006 albums
Sam Roberts albums
Universal Music Canada albums
Independent Democratic Pole

The Independent Democratic Pole (Polo Democrático Independiente) or (PDI), was a left-wing social democratic political party in Colombia.

Origins
Originally formed as a left-wing congressional coalition, the party itself was officially founded on July 17, 2003. The congressional movement consisted of the union of diverse tendencies among the Colombian left (including former guerrillas, labor and union leaders, indigenous representatives and others), including many of, but not necessarily limited to, Marxist extraction.

Some of the members of the original group which did not formally join the new party remained as members of separate political structures, one of which then founded Democratic Alternative (AD).

Political platform
The PDI's platform principally consisted of supporting a negotiated settlement with the country's leftwing insurgencies, defending the principles and practical applications of Colombia's 1991 Constitution, rejecting the country's traditionally bipartisan politics, and promoting democracy, freedom and social justice while also respecting human rights. The party completely rejected the armed struggle of the FARC and ELN as an effective means to solve Colombia's social, political and economical problems.

Political development
Despite threats and violent actions from elements of the country's radical right-wing, most notably from AUC paramilitaries and others, which have resulted in the murder of some of its members, the PDI has become a nationally recognized movement and it has enjoyed some recent electoral successes, such as winning the October 2003 election for the office of Bogotá's mayor through their candidate Luis Eduardo Garzón, the governorship of the Valle del Cauca department through Angelino Garzón, and being partially responsible for the failure of the government's October 2003 referendum (which it opposed, together with the Colombian Liberal Party and others). The party also became part of a few ruling coalitions in other local municipalities, such as Nariño, Pasto.

The PDI was present as an observer in the Socialist International. The PDI was in political opposition to the government of president Álvaro Uribe, being critical of many of his actions and generally rejecting his policies as counter-productive or ineffective. This has not prevented several of its members from participating in discussions and finding points of agreement with some Uribe supporters or with other more traditional politicians.

Ahead of the 2006 elections, the PDI and Democratic Alternative formed an alliance called Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA). The PDA chose AD's Carlos Gaviria Díaz as its presidential candidate, defeating the PDI's Antonio Navarro Wolff in a close race.

See also
Politics of Colombia
List of political parties in Colombia

External links
PDI webpage
Democracia a distancia: Elecciones 2006 (Portalcol.com) (Information about the Pole's list of candidates to the Colombian Senate, Spanish).

Social democratic parties in Colombia
Former member parties of the Socialist International
Political parties established in 2003

fr:Pôle démocratique indépendant (Colombie)
Tom Riker

Thomas E. Riker (born February 28, 1950) is an American former professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a 6'10", 225 lb. center.

Riker was selected 8th overall in the 1972 NBA draft by the New York Knicks out of the University of South Carolina, and played three seasons for the Knicks from 1972 to 1975.

Riker was also selected in the 1972 ABA Draft by the Carolina Cougars.

External links
NBA stats @ basketballreference.com

1950 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
Allentown Jets players
American men's basketball players
Centers (basketball)
New York Knicks draft picks
New York Knicks players
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Sportspeople from Rockville Centre, New York
Basketball players from Nassau County, New York
South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball players
Glee Sides and Sparities

Glee Sides and Sparities is a 2003 compilation album by Australian alternative rock band, Jebediah. The compilation contains eighteen rare tracks and B-sides and the band did not record any further material with the Murmur label following its release.

New releases
Two newly released songs featured on the compilation: "Minutes" and "Pace It", a cover version of the Magic Dirt song. The album also features an unreleased demo version of "Closing Time" (a B-side from the "Nothing Lasts Forever" single).

Cover versions
In addition to "Pace It", the album also contains covers of Midnight Oil's track "When the Generals Talk" (from a tribute album called Power and the Passion) and Something for Kate's "Clint".

Track listing

References

2003 compilation albums
Jebediah albums
Murmur (record label) albums
B-side compilation albums
In the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Country (1977) is an early novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The book is one of Coetzee's more experimental novels and is narrated through 266 numbered paragraphs rather than chapters.

Plot
The novel is narrated from the point of view of Magda, the white daughter of a widowed farmer in the Karoo semi-desert of the Western Cape. Much of the novel is narrated from within the claustrophobic confines of Magda's bedroom and throughout the narrative the unreliability of Magda's narration means the reader cannot be certain what is actually taking place and what is occurring within Magda's imagination. At the beginning of the novel Magda fantasizes about her father unexpectedly bringing home a young bride and the violent way that she would kill them both. A short while later the black farm worker Hendrik really does bring a young bride named Anna to the farm. Magda's father seduces Anna and when Magda hears her father and Anna fornicating in the farmhouse bedroom, she takes her father's rifle and shoots him in the stomach. He slowly dies of his injuries and Magda buries him in a makeshift crypt on the farmland. Gradually, without her father to manage the land, the food begins to run out and Hendrik, who is owed wages, demands to be paid. Magda pays him in kind by offering him certain items from her father's former possessions. Hendrik and Anna move into the farmhouse and the power balance begins to tip in their favour. After a series of altercations, Hendrik rapes Magda and begins to visit her room every night for sexual intercourse. When white men from nearby farms turn up looking for Magda's father, Hendrik and Anna flee fearing that they will blamed for his death. The novel ends with Magda isolated on the farm, slowly starving and seemingly going mad, as she tries to communicate with the planes that are beginning to fly over the desert every day.

Development history
Coetzee has stated that the 'brief sequences' that narrate the novel are fundamentally influenced by filmic and photographic modes of representation. He cites Chris Marker's La Jetée and Andrzej Munk's Passenger as particular influences. Moreover, Coetzee explains that the numbered paragraphs should act like film scenes in that they point to 'what is not there between them'.

There are three versions of the novel in existence: the 1977 British version, the 1977 American version which was the same but published under the title From The Heart Of The Country, and the 1978 South African version. In the South African version the novel's dialogue is in Afrikaans.

Awards and nominations
The novel was awarded the 1977 CNA Prize.

Adaptations
Marion Hänsel directed a motion picture adaptation, Dust, in 1985.

Further reading

References

1977 novels
Secker & Warburg books
Harper & Row books
South African novels adapted into films
Novels by J. M. Coetzee
Novels set in South Africa
Berliner Festspiele

The Berliner Festspiele (German for Berlin Festivals) in Berlin organise and stage a large number of independent festivals as well as exhibitions and individual events in the fields of music, theatre, performance, dance, literature and visual arts throughout the year. Events are held at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, a pre-existing theatre devolved to that purpose in 2001, as well as at the Martin-Gropius-Bau and other venues.

The first of these events were the Berliner Festwochen (classical music) and the Berlin International Film Festival, in 1951. They contributed to the cultural life of West Berlin in divided Germany, before being expanded into the Eastern part of the city following Reunification.

Festivals of the Berliner Festspiele include:

MaerzMusik – Festival of Contemporary Issues, in March.
Theatertreffen Berlin, in May.
Musikfest Berlin, in September.
JazzFest Berlin, in early November.
Immersion, all year long.
Treffen junge Szene (Competition for young artists):
 Theatertreffen der Jugend, in late May and early June.
 Tanztreffen der Jugend, in late September.
 Treffen junger Autor*innen, in mid-November.
 Treffen Junge Musikszene, in late November.

References

External links
Berliner Festspiele official site
Berliner Festspiele history

Music festivals established in 1951
Organizations established in 1951
Organisations based in Berlin
Theatres in Berlin
Tourist attractions in Berlin
Music festivals in Berlin
Arts centres in Germany
1951 establishments in Germany
Romahapa

Romahapa is a locality in the Catlins region of Otago in New Zealand's South Island.  It is located between the towns of Balclutha and Owaka. The last shop closed in 1977.

Education 

Romahapa has a small primary school, named Romahapa School.  It was established in 1856 and is one of the oldest schools in South Otago.  In mid-October 2006, it celebrated its 150th anniversary.

Railway 

On 15 December 1885, a branch line railway (the Catlins Branch Line) from the Main South Line in Balclutha was opened to Romahapa.  The village became a railway terminus for a few years and a number of bush tramways also operated in the area during the 1890s.  Romahapa lost its terminal status on 7 July 1891 when an extension opened to Glenomaru.  The railway line came to be known as the Catlins River Branch and ultimately terminated in Tahakopa; it serviced Romahapa until its closure on 27 February 1971.  In the early 1900s, up to sixteen trains ran through Romahapa a week; these were predominantly mixed trains.  Today, the Romahapa station's goods shed remains in its old location, while the station building has been resited a few kilometres away, and the wooden railway bridge over the Romahapa Creek still stands.

Notable people 
Liz Craig

References 

Populated places in Otago
The Catlins
Clutha District
Re-Make/Re-Model

"Re-Make/Re-Model" is a song written by Bryan Ferry that appears as the opening track on Roxy Music's eponymous debut album. 

The recording starts with some brief background ambiance of a cocktail party, before launching into the song. Whilst the basic backing track of guitar, acoustic piano, bass guitar, tenor saxophone and drums is relatively straightforward and traditional in form, other elements of the arrangement are quite bizarre and futuristic: Eno plays continual squalls of atonal oscillator noise using Andy MacKay's VCS3 synthesizer, whilst Ferry's lead vocal style is strikingly distraught and anguished in tone. The lead guitar and saxophone solos in the middle of the song also tend to cacophony. In the song, each instrument is allowed a short solo break in turn; the sax mimics the trumpets from Richard Wagner's opera "the Valkyrie" and the bass guitar solo mimics the riff from the Beatles song "Day Tripper". Phil Manzanera's guitar part reverses the usual guitar pattern: he plays single-note lead guitar all through the song, with no chords, but his solo break consists only of chords.

The lyrics describe a man who likes the look of a woman, but is afraid to approach her.  Ferry explained in an interview that Eno and MacKay's backing vocal chorus of "CPL 593H" was the number plate of the car in which the woman is riding. On his way to the recording studio, Ferry had seen a beautiful woman riding a car with this number plate, and decided to use it in a song.

Ferry reworked Re-Make/Re-Model on his Let's Stick Together album (1976). The song was covered by Frank Black on his Oddballs collection of B-sides and rarities and he performed it live while touring with The Catholics. The song was performed in concert by Scott Miller's band The Loud Family, and Portland post-punk band Glass Candy released a cover of the song (titled "Nueva Version/Remodela") as the B-side to their 2003 single "Bicicleta Emocional." Other versions of the song also appear on several of their tour CD-Rs. Weasel Walter's group Cellular Chaos also covered it in 2012.

Musicians
Bryan Ferry: piano, lead vocals
Brian Eno: VCS3, backing vocals
Andy MacKay: tenor saxophone, backing vocals
Graham Simpson: bass guitar
Phil Manzanera: electric guitar, backing vocals
Paul Thompson: drums

References

Roxy Music songs
Songs written by Bryan Ferry
1972 songs
1/10

1/10,  or 110 may refer to:

1st Battalion, 10th Marines, an American artillery battalion
January 10 in month-day format, a date
October 1 in day-month format, a date
The fraction, one tenth

See also
1:10 radio-controlled off-road buggy
One tenth
Tenth (disambiguation)
110 (disambiguation)
Barbara Davis

Barbara Davis (née Levine; born October 9, 1930) is an American philanthropist, billionaire, and widow of Marvin Davis.

Biography

Early life
Born Barbara Levine in New York City in 1930, she graduated from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, in 1951.

Philanthropy
In 1977, she established the Children's Diabetes Foundation. Since 1978, she has organized the black-tie, invitation-only Carousel of Hope Ball every two years to raise money for juvenile diabetes.  In particular, the proceeds go to the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Aurora, Colorado and the Children's Diabetes Foundation.

She also serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, the Race to Erase MS in Los Angeles, California and the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Additionally, she is a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel of the Los Angeles Music Center.

In November 1992, she received the 1992 Promise Ball Humanitarian Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International in New York City (JDRF). In 1995, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Colorado. In 2004, she received the Angel Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Los Angeles.

Personal life
She married Marvin Davis (1925–2004) in 1951. They had five children:
Patricia Davis Raynes.
John Davis.
Nancy Davis Rickel (married Nebil Zarif; they had three sons: actor Jason Davis (1984-2020), Brandon Davis and Alexander Davis; they divorced and she remarried to Ken Rickel; they had two daughters: Isabella Rickel and Mariella Rickel).
Gregg Davis (married actress Kim Richards; they had two children: Whitney Davis (born 1990) and Chad Davis (born 1991); they later divorced).
Dana Davis.

They resided in Denver, Colorado, from 1951 to 1985. In 1985, they moved to The Knoll, an estate in Beverly Hills, California. Shortly after his death, she sold it for $46 million and moved into a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Additionally, in 2011 she listed a condominium she owned in the Wilshire Corridor in Westwood, Los Angeles.

In 2006, she was worth $2.5 billion.

References

Living people
People from New York City
People from Denver
People from Beverly Hills, California
Adelphi University alumni
American billionaires
Philanthropists from New York (state)
American socialites
Davis family
1930 births
Luigi Tripepi

Luigi Tripepi (21 June 1836 – 29 December 1906) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and poet. He was one of the most important Roman Catholic apologists of the 19th century.

Biography

He was born in Cardeto, a small town in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the deepest south of Italy.

He studied at the local seminary and soon became famous for his skills in different subjects: Latin, Greek, theology, history, moral theology and dogmatics. He moved to Rome for further study and in 1864, was ordained a priest. He stayed in Rome for more than 40 years, until his death in 1906. He wrote about 200 works in different languages on a wide range of topics, including: theology, ecclesiastical history, apologetics as well as poetry in Greek, Latin and Italian.

Originally a Jesuit, he left the order in 1865 and was subsequently appointed to a series of important positions in the Church. In 1868, he was appointed Privy chamberlain and beneficiary of the patriarchal Lateran basilica. In 1878 he was appointed Canon of San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome and, the following year, of San Giovanni in Laterano basilica. In 1885 he was named canon of St. Peter's. His following appointments include: prelate referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (1883); secretary of the Commission for Historical Studies (1884);  prefect of the archive of the Holy See (1892); secretary of the Congregation of Rites (1894);  Substitute of the Secretariat of State (1896). He was created  Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica by Pope Leo XIII on 15 April 1901. He was later also prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Sacred Relics, president of the Academy of the Catholic Religion and pro-prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites.

Tripepi died in Rome in 1906. He was buried in the chapel of the chapter of the Vatican Basilica in the Campo Verano Cemetery, Rome.  In October 1993 his remains were moved to Mallemace, near Cardeto, and placed in a little mausoleum named after him and built close to a famous sanctuary dedicated to the Holy Mother of Jesus, Madonna Assunta di Mallemace, to whom he was devoted since childhood.

References

Sources

External links
A portrait of the Cardinal
An interesting work related to the Cardinal

1836 births
1906 deaths
People from the Province of Reggio Calabria
20th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Leo XIII
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
Italian male poets
Members of the Sacred Congregation for Rites
19th-century Italian poets
19th-century Italian male writers
List of National Basketball Association head coaches

This list includes the date of hiring and the performance record of National Basketball Association head coaches. The league consists of 30 teams, of which 29 are located in the United States and one in Canada. In the NBA, a head coach is the highest ranking coach of a coaching staff.

Gregg Popovich has served as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs for 27 years. No other current NBA head coach has been head coach of his current team as long as Popovich has been head coach of the Spurs. Popovich has also coached more games (2,127), won more games (1,366), and lost more games (761) than any other active head coach has with his current team. Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra is the second longest-tenured NBA head coach, having been head coach of the Heat since the 2008–09 season. No active head coaches have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches. Popovich is the only current head coach to have been hired by his current team in the 1990s.

As of June 13, 2023, 15 coaches have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with their current teams: Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs, Erik Spoelstra with the Miami Heat, Steve Kerr with the Golden State Warriors, Taylor Jenkins with the Memphis Grizzlies, Mark Daigneault with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Chris Finch with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Chauncey Billups with the Portland Trail Blazers, Jamahl Mosley with the Orlando Magic, Wes Unseld Jr. with the Washington Wizards, Willie Green with the New Orleans Pelicans, Darvin Ham with the Los Angeles Lakers, Joe Mazzulla with the Boston Celtics, Adrian Griffin with the Milwaukee Bucks, and Darko Rajaković with the Toronto Raptors.

Popovich, Spoelstra, Kerr, and Michael Malone have won NBA championships with their current teams, while Rick Carlisle, Tyronn Lue, Nick Nurse, and Frank Vogel have won with their former teams.

Key

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the  season.

See also
 NBA Coach of the Year Award
 List of National Basketball Association head coaches with 400 games coached
 List of National Basketball Association player-coaches
 List of NBA championship head coaches
 List of foreign NBA coaches
 Top 10 Coaches in NBA History
 List of female NBA coaches
 List of National Basketball Association general managers
 List of National Basketball Association team presidents

Notes

References
General

  

Specific

External links
 NBA Coaches Association Official Website

National Basketball Association lists
National Basketball Association head coaches
Bru

Bru or BRU may refer to:

People 
 Bru people, an ethnic group of Laos, India, Vietnam, and Thailand
 Bru language
 Bru or Reang, a tribe from northeast India
Kokborok, their Sino-Tibetan language
 Bru (surname), including a list of people with name Bru or Brú

Places 
 Brû, a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France
 Brú, a farmstead and road junction in Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla county in northwestern Iceland
 Bru, Vestland, a village in Kvam municipality, Vestland county, Norway
 Bru, Sogn og Fjordane, a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
 Bru, Rogaland, an island and village in Stavanger municipality, Rogaland county, Norway
 Brù or Brue, a village on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
 Brunei, IOC and UNDP code BRU
 Brussels Airport, IATA airport code BRU

Other uses
 Buller Rugby Football Union, a New Zealand rugby region
 Bus Riders Union (Los Angeles), a U.S. civil rights organization 
 Bus Riders Union (Vancouver), a Canadian non-profit organization 
 Romanian Greek Catholic Church (Romanian: Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică) (BRU)

See also 
 
 Brao (disambiguation)
 Broo (disambiguation)
 Brue (disambiguation)
 Irn-Bru, a Scottish carbonated soft drink
 Saint Brioc, or other spellings, a 5th-century Welsh holy man

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
If There Is Something

"If There Is Something" is a song written by Bryan Ferry and recorded by Roxy Music for their eponymous debut album in 1972. A live version appears on their Viva! live album.

Song structure and themes
The song begins in a rather light-hearted, jaunty fashion, a slight pastiche of country music, with honky tonk style piano and twangy guitar. Ferry's singing is nonchalant and jocular.

However the mood of the song builds with a repeated instrumental motif played between guitar and saxophone, Ferry's vocals re-entering to provide a fraught vocal climax.

The instrumental motifs then return, often featuring Andy Mackay, before finally giving way to an emotional end section where Ferry's impassioned and melancholy vocals are set on top of a lush blend of backing vocals and the mellotron "three violins" tape set.

It has been said that the first part of the song is a youth wondering about love, the second part adults in the heat of passion and the third part the singer in old age thinking about their past love.

Live performances
The song was played on all the early Roxy Music tours and the instrumental passages were extended greatly, increasing the length of the song from 6:34 to sometimes over 12 minutes. On 18 February 1972, the BBC sessions aired a performance of over 11 minutes.

During the Country Life tour the song was also performed, and the performance at Newcastle City Hall on 27 or 28 October 1974 was used for the 1976 live album Viva!.

After 1975 however, the song was no longer played until the Roxy Music Reunion tour in 2001. A live version from this tour appears on the "Live" album.

The song was played again live during the 2022 'Roxy Music' Tour, which was scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of their eponymous debut album.

Personnel
Roxy Music
 Andy MacKay - saxophone, oboe, backing vocals
 Bryan Ferry - vocals, piano, mellotron
 Brian Eno - EMS VCS 3 synth, backing vocals
 Graham Simpson - bass guitar
 Paul Thompson - drums
 Phil Manzanera - guitar
(on Viva! version)
 Eddie Jobson - electric violin, synthesizer, keyboards

Cover versions
 Tin Machine covered the song on their 1991 album Tin Machine II. They also recorded a live version for their 1992 album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby.

Use in films
The song appears in the 2008 film Flashbacks of a Fool starring Daniel Craig where it features centrally in a scene where the main protagonist's younger self dances to the song with his girlfriend while made up as Bryan Ferry.

References

Roxy Music songs
1972 songs
Songs written by Bryan Ferry