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Monastic education

The Buddhist monastic education system facilitates basic educational needs of the Asian Buddhist countries before the contemporary era. Learning traditions can be traced back to ancient India where learning began with educated monastics, teaching younger monks and the lay people. The monastic instruction was based on Buddhist value system and emphasized that learning was an end in itself, one that is "worth a strenuous pursuit to possess for its own sake" and that "teaching was for ends that were above mere gain".

System 
The education system that emerged, particularly from 320 BCE to 500 CE, featured an open framework where learning was free for all including non-Buddhists. The monks used their temples to teach and since these were not enough to address the educational needs of the entire country, learning centers were also built in connection with the monasteries. There were also convents and monasteries offering opportunities for learning and self-culture that catered to women since they were also seen as equal to men, supplementing their work in the spread of their faith. 

Monastic education in other countries was heavily influenced by the Indian tradition such as the case of Sri Lanka where the sutra sannayas was heavily used in preaching, serving as one of the foundations of the Lankan monastic education. The formal monastic education introduced in Bhutan in 1621 was also patterned after the ancient Indian system. These developments show an absence of a standardized monastic education system although there were initiatives that sought to establish a curriculum such as those by the Saranamkara and his students, which stressed the importance of grammar and composition. 

Nowadays, countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos still practice Buddhist monastic education to fill the gap in the government education system. There are cases, however, when large Buddhist education centers were nationalized within governmental efforts to expand higher education facilities. Some scholars criticized this, citing the destruction of traditional Buddhist education and the politicization of Buddhist monkhood.

See also
 Pali Canon
 Pariyatti
 List of Sāsana Azani recipients
 Buddhist Institute (Cambodia)
 Champasak Sangha College (Laos)
 Myanmar Monastic Schools
 Monastic examinations (Myanmar)
 Pirivena, monastic colleges in Sri Lanka 
 Sanam Luang Dhamma Studies (Thailand)
 Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
 Phaungdawoo Monastic Education High School

References

Buddhist monasticism
Religion and education
Kurt Wöss

Kurt Wöss also Kurt Woess (2 May 1914, in Linz, Austria – 4 December 1987, in Dresden, Germany) was an Austrian conductor and musicologist.

Wöss was principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from 1951 to 1954.  From 1956 to 1959 he was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (then known as the Victorian Symphony Orchestra).

Decorations and awards
 Title of professor
 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
 Anton Bruckner Interpretation Prize
 Gold Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
 Culture Medal of the City of Linz
 Honorary member of the Franz Schmidt community

References

1914 births
1987 deaths
Musicians from Linz
Male conductors (music)
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
Recipients of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
20th-century Austrian conductors (music)
20th-century Austrian male musicians
Akela

Akela may refer to:

 Akela (The Jungle Book), the wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories collected in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
 Akela (Scouting), a symbol of wisdom in the Cub Scout program, usually (but not necessarily) Cubmaster or Den Leader; intentionally named after The Jungle Book character
 Akela (spider), spider genus
 Akela (film), a 1941 Indian film
 Akayla, a 1991 Indian film
 Akella, a Russian software developing company
 Akeelah and the Bee, a 2006 family film
 , formerly steam yacht Akela, built in 1899

See also
 Akeli (disambiguation)
 Akala (disambiguation)
Dow Jones Islamic Market Index

The Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIM), launched in 1999 in Bahrain, was the first index created for investors seeking investments in compliance with Muslim Sharia law.

The DJIM has an independent Shari’ah (Islamic Law) Supervisory Board. The DJIM screens have been adopted by the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions ("AAOIFI")-Standard 21.

The DJIM measure the performance of a global universe of investable equities that have been screened for Shari’ah compliance consistent with Dow Jones Indexes’ methodology.  The selection universe for the DJIM family of indexes is the same as the universe for the Dow Jones World Index, a broad-market index that seeks to provide approximately 95% market coverage of 44 countries.

The first level of DJIM screening removes companies involved in industries related to alcohol, pork-related products, conventional financial services (e.g. banks and insurance companies), entertainment (e.g. hotels, casinos, gambling etc.), tobacco, and weapons and defense.  A second level of DJIM screening based on financial ratios, is intended to remove companies based on debt and interest income levels in their balance sheets.

Stocks of companies that pass both sets of screens are included in the DJIM.  All other indexes in the DJIM family are created as subsets of this benchmark.

The DJIM indices use a screening process to identify companies that are compliant with Shariah law. The screening process is conducted by an independent Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) that consists of Islamic scholars and experts in Islamic finance. The SSB reviews the financial statements of each company and determines whether it meets the Islamic finance criteria.

Bibliography
Baum, Eric (2002). "Mutual Funds Report." The New York Times. October 6.
Henry, Clement and Rodney Wilson (2004). The Politics of Islamic Finance. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

See also
 S&P Dow Jones Indices

References

External links
 Official Website

Ethical investment stock market indices
1999 establishments in Bahrain
Dow Jones & Company
Sharia investment
Tibet (disambiguation)



Tibet is a landlocked region in Asia. See definitions of Tibet.

Tibet region 
 The Tibetan Plateau, a geographical region in Asia
 The Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China
 Central Tibetan Administration, organization created on 29 May 2011 based on the 2011 Charter Of Tibetans in Exile
 Historical periods or states:
 Tibet (1912–1951), the de facto independent entity between 1912 and 1951
 Tibet under Qing rule
 Tibet under the Ganden Phodrang government or regime established by the 5th Dalai Lama
 Phagmodrupa, Rinpungpa and Tsangpa Dynasties
 Tibet under Yuan rule
 The Tibetan Empire from the 7th to 9th centuries
 Pre-Imperial Tibet, the Yarlung dynasty before the rise of the Tibetan Empire
 Neolithic Tibet

South Asia 
 Great Tibet, a former name of Ladakh
 Little Tibet, a former name of Baltistan

Other places 
 Tibet, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Georgia, United States

People 
Tibet (cartoonist), pseudonym of Gilbert Gascard (1931–2010), a Franco-Belgian comic creator
David Tibet (born 1960), British poet and musician
Kartal Tibet (1938–2021), Turkish actor and film director

Other uses 
 Tibet: The Roleplaying Game, a historical fantasy role-playing game
 Tita in Thibet, a musical play

See also
 South Tibet 
 Free Tibet (disambiguation)
 Tibetan
 Tibetans
 Tebet (disambiguation)

Tibet
Plasina Tunnel

The Plasina Tunnel is located between Žuta Lokva and Ličko Lešće.  It is located between Otočac and Perušić interchanges of the Croatian A1 motorway.

Both tunnel tubes,  long, were completed simultaneously.  The northern portal of the tunnel is located at 532 m.a.s.l., while the southern one is at 547 m.a.s.l.  Excavation of the tunnel had been completed by January 2004.  In 2006, the tunnel was declared to be among the top three safest tunnels in Europe by EuroTAP.

Traffic volume 

Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske autoceste, operator of the motorway, and published by Hrvatske ceste. Substantial variations between annual (AADT) and summer (ASDT) traffic volumes are attributed to the fact that the motorway carries substantial tourist traffic to the Dalmatian Adriatic resorts. The traffic count is performed using analysis of toll ticket sales.

See also 
 A1 motorway
 Sveti Rok Tunnel
 Mala Kapela Tunnel
 Hrvatske autoceste

References 

Road tunnels in Croatia
Buildings and structures in Lika-Senj County
Tunnels completed in 2004
Roihuvuori

Roihuvuori (, or Roihis and Roihikka, literal translation Blaze Mountain) is a quarter, part of Herttoniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. The population of Roihuvuori is approximately 8,000 and its area is 1.47 km². There is a church, two schools, shops and restaurants in Roihuvuori. There is also a water tower, Japanese style garden, playground Tuhkimo and Kirsikkapuisto where a Hanami festival is held.

Each street in Roihuvuori was named after fairy tales, with the exception being Roihuvuori's main street (Roihuvuorentie). For example, Lumikintie is "Snow White Street" and Tuhkimotie is "Cinderella Street".
Alcina Lubitch Domecq

Alcina Lubitch Domecq (born 1953) is an Israeli short story writer.  She was born in Guatemala to an Auschwitz survivor father, and an Iberian-Guatemalan mother.  After her parents' divorced, she moved to Mexico in the sixties and left in the early 1970s.  After a stay in Europe, she made aliyah to Israel where she now works as a janitor in a Haifa hospital.
Her works include The Mirror's Mirror: or, The Noble Smile of the Dog (1983) and Intoxicada (1984); she has had short stories, focusing mainly on the Jewish condition, published in many anthologies.

References

1953 births
Living people
Guatemalan women short story writers
Guatemalan short story writers
Guatemalan Jews
Israeli people of Guatemalan descent
Guatemalan people of Spanish descent
Guatemalan people of German descent
Guatemalan emigrants to Israel
Israeli women short story writers
Israeli short story writers
North American people of Israeli descent
20th-century Israeli women writers
20th-century Israeli writers
21st-century Israeli women writers
21st-century Israeli writers
20th-century Guatemalan women writers
21st-century Guatemalan women writers
Näsbypark

Näsbypark is a district in Täby Municipality, north of Stockholm, Sweden.

Geography 
Näsbypark is located in the extreme southeastern part of the municipality next to Stora Värtan, an inlet of the Baltic Sea. It is bordered to the north by the neighbourhood of Viggbyholm and to the west by the neighbourhoods of Roslags Näsby and Näsbydal, which are separated from Näsbypark by the E18 motorway. To the south, Näsbypark is bordered by the neighbourhood of Lahäll, with the Sågtorpsvägen road generally defined as the border between the two.

History 
The name Näsbypark derives from the former park at Näsby Manor, which was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. The manor was totally demolished by a fire in 1897 and was rebuilt in 1902 by Carl Robert Lamm. Today, Näsby manor is a conference center.

The neighbourhood is characterized by detached houses mainly built between 1940-1970.

Transportation 

Näsbypark station is the terminal station of line 29 on the narrow-gauge Roslagsbanan railway, 11.8 km from Östra Station in central Stockholm. Roslagsbanan also stops at Näsby Allé station (11 km from Östra Station in Central Stockholm) in southern Näsbypark. Connections to central Stockholm are either by the E18 motorway or the Roslagsbanan train service.

Notable residents
The previous Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, grew up in Näsbypark and he lived there with his wife, Filippa Reinfeldt, prior to moving to the Prime Minister's mansion in central Stockholm.

References

External links
Official website of Täby Municipality

Metropolitan Stockholm
Jerome Levine

Jerome Paul Levine (May 4, 1937 – April 8, 2006) was a mathematician who contributed to the understanding of knot theory.

Education and career

Born in New York City, Levine received his B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1962, studying under Norman Steenrod. He began his career as an instructor at M.I.T., after which he spent a year at the University of Cambridge under a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. He became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, and in 1966 he left for Brandeis University. His early work helped to develop surgery as a powerful tool in knot theory and in geometric topology. In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice.

Jerome Levine died after a long and hard-fought battle with lymphatic cancer at the age of 68. He was an active mathematician at Brandeis until his death, with his last paper, Labeled binary planar trees and quasi-Lie algebras, published four months after he died.

References

External links

Obituary notice at the American Mathematical Society
Brandeis Justice
 In Memory of Jerry Levine

1937 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Deaths from lymphoma
Scientists from New York City
Topologists
Mathematicians from New York (state)
Princeton University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Brandeis University faculty
Brinje Tunnel

The Brinje Tunnel is a four-lane tunnel in Croatia, an integral part of the A1 motorway located between Brinje and Žuta Lokva interchanges. The Brinje Tunnel is located immediately to the south of the Mala Kapela Tunnel, the longest tunnel in Croatia.

The tunnel is tolled within the A1 motorway closed toll collection system, and there are no separate toll plazas related to the tunnel use.

Characteristics 

The Brinje Tunnel consists of two tubes, opened for traffic in 2004. Length of the northbound tunnel tube is , while the southbound one is 2 m shorter at . The northern portal of the tunnel is located at an elevation of 496 m.a.s.l., while its southern portal is found at 495 m.a.s.l. The tunnel carriageways consist of two  wide driving lanes and two  wide marginal strips.  wide inspection sidewalks are present in both of the tunnels.

The tunnel is equipped with the most recent traffic management and security systems, including video surveillance, automatic detection of congestion and variable information traffic sign systems.  There are 3 passages connecting the two tunnel tubes, accessible on foot. Naturally, the tunnel also has firefighting capabilities and fire detection systems.

Electronic equipment of the tunnel facilitates use of two UHF frequencies (HR1 102.3 MHz and HR2 97.5 MHz) and use of cell phones.

Speed limit applied in the tunnel is 100 km/h.

Safety 

In 2007 the Brinje Tunnel was declared to be the safest tunnel in Europe in 2007 by the FIA and the German motoring club ADAC. The award was presented following an assessment of 150 tunnels in Europe carried out between 2005 and 2007 within the framework of European Tunnel Assessment Programme (EuroTAP), supported by the European Commission, coordinated by FIA and led by German motoring club ADAC.

Traffic volume 

Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske autoceste, operator of the motorway, and published by Hrvatske ceste. Substantial variations between annual (AADT) and summer (ASDT) traffic volumes are attributed to the fact that the motorway carries substantial tourist traffic to the Dalmatian Adriatic resorts. The traffic count is performed using analysis of toll ticket sales.

See also 
 A1 motorway
 Mala Kapela Tunnel
 Sveti Rok Tunnel
 List of longest tunnels

References

External links 
 
 EuroTAP

Road tunnels in Croatia
Buildings and structures in Lika-Senj County
Tunnels completed in 2004
Monastic schools in Myanmar

The Buddhist monastic school system in Myanmar is an old education system with a very long history, dated back to the 11th century King Anawrahta period. The schools provided important education needs throughout Myanmar's history and they were the only source of education for lives ranging from royal princes to unskilled workers. The Buddhist monastic schools helped to give Myanmar a rate of literacy considerably above those of other East Asian countries in the early 1900s. In 1931, 56% of males over the age of five and 16.5% of females were literate — approximately four times as high as those reported for India at the same time.

Nowadays, the monastic schools assist in providing basic education needs of the country especially for children from needy families and orphans — filling the significant gap in the education system. The primary school children of Myanmar attend the Buddhist monasteries to acquire literacy and numeracy skills as well as knowledge of the Lord Buddha’s teachings. Thus, the schools provide curriculum education and ethics and moral foundation. Their role as principal education providers may have ceased for many years, but their contribution is still significant in 21st century Myanmar. Supplementing the government elementary schools, they provide underprivileged children all the basic education needs exactly as it does in government elementary schools by using the same curriculum. 

Generally, Myanmar monastic schools accept children from needy families who live nearby and are unable to attend government schools. Many of the orphans who attend monastery schools in Yangon and Mandalay are from remote areas and have been sent by senior monks from their villages and small towns. Some operate similarly as boarding schools and some as day schools depending on the situation and support of the public.

The schools are required to cooperate closely with township education authorities to be officially recognized. The operation and finance rely heavily on donations and collaboration from the public. The fees of most of the students at the school were covered by these donations, and some parents were able to make a small contribution. 

In the 2004-2005 academic year, there were nearly 1190 monastic schools, providing primary and secondary education to more than 100,000 Myanmar children.

References

External links
Monasteries aid in teaching the needy, The Myanmar Times, Feb 2005.
Myanmar’s literacy promotion campaigns, The Myanmar Times, Oct 2004.
Japanese NGO aids monastery schools, The Myanmar Times, Oct 2003.

Buddhist schools in Myanmar
Jeru

Jeru may refer to:

 Gerry Mulligan or Jeru, American musician (1927–1996)
 Jeru the Damaja, American musician (born 1972)
 Jeru people, an indigenous tribe of the Andaman Islands
 Jeru language or Aka-Jeru, spoken by the Jeru
 Jeru, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran
 Jeru (album), a 1962 album recorded by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan
Fu Manchu (disambiguation)

Fu Manchu is a fictional character created by Sax Rohmer.

Fu Manchu may also refer to:

People
David Bamberg (1904–1974), English magician who performed a character Fu Manchu on stage and screen

Art, entertainment, and media
Fu Manchu (band), an American stoner rock band
"Fu Manchu", a song by Frank Black from his 1993 debut solo album Frank Black
Fu Manchu (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character

Other uses
Fu Manchu moustache, a mustache style
Fu Manchu lionfish, a common name for Dendrochirus biocellatus

See also
Fu-manjū, a type of Japanese wheat gluten
David Daker

Colin David Daker (born 29 September 1935) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series Boon. He also played Tommy Mackay in Only Fools and Horses and Jarvis in Porridge.

He has made appearances in Minder, Kill Two Birds, Thriller, Hazell, andRising Damp. He played the bandit Irongron in the Doctor Who story The Time Warrior.

In film, he played young Kevin's father in Time Bandits (1981) and the desk sergeant in I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990).

Early life
Bilston-born Daker attended Etheridge Secondary Modern School, now called Moseley Park School, in the West Midlands.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 

1935 births
English male soap opera actors
Male actors from Staffordshire
Living people
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
People from Bilston
Kevin Lindsay

Kevin Lindsay (17 April 1924 – 26 April 1975) was an Australian actor, born in Bendigo, Victoria. He came to Britain in 1959 and is best known for his appearances in the Doctor Who series.

He appeared as Cho-Je in Planet of the Spiders, as well as playing Linx, the first Sontaran to be seen in the series, in The Time Warrior. Later, Lindsay played two more members of that species, in The Sontaran Experiment.

He died from a heart condition, nine days after his 51st birthday.

Filmography

References

External links
 

1924 births
1975 deaths
Australian male television actors
20th-century Australian male actors
Australian expatriate male actors in the United Kingdom
Yahia Ben Bakr

Yahia Ben Bakr (born in the 9th century) was an important Mozarab (Iberian Christian or, in some instances, a Christianized Iberian Jew, living under Muslim domination) figure in the al-Gharb al-Andalus. He was a member of a family of muladís who revolted in the year 879 in Xantamarya, Al-Gharb (now the city of Faro in Algarve, Portugal) against the power of the Emir of Cordoba, remaining independent for about 50 years. The Bakr government spanned three generations, personified by Yahia Ben Bakr, his son Bakr Ben Yahia, and later Calafe Ben Bakr.

Yahia Ben Bakr was of Jewish descent, the son of a Bakr Ben Yahia (not to confuse with Yahia Ben Bakr's son, also called Bakr Ben Yahia) and an ancestor of Yahia Ben Yahi III, a Sephardi Jew who would be later entrusted by King Afonso I of Portugal, in 12th century, with the post of supervisor of tax collection and was nominated the first Chief-Rabbi of Portugal.

Yahia Ben Bakr was succeeded in office by his son, Bakr Ben Yahia. Both Ben Bakr and Ben Yahia held political office and executed important construction in Faro. Bakr Ben Yahia is credited with constructing the walls, as well as the iron gates around the perimeter of Faro. It is during this time that he brought the image of Mary as it would be stated much later in the songs by King Alfonso X of Castile (1221 – 1284).

References 

Portuguese Roman Catholics
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism
Medieval Portuguese Jews
9th-century Jews
9th-century Portuguese people
Brozel

Brozel is a contract bridge bidding convention used to intervene after an opposing one notrump (1NT) opening bid.  It features the following calls:
Double – shows any single suit; advancer bids 2, after which intervenor corrects to his actual suit (or passes with clubs).  This was originally played as requiring either a solid suit or a very good suit and an entry, leaving advancer the opportunity to pass with a couple of side-suit stoppers, though many partnerships now allow a weaker suit.
2 – shows clubs and hearts
2 – shows diamonds and hearts
2 – shows hearts and spades
2 – shows spades and an unspecified minor suit
2NT – shows clubs and diamonds

Brozel is named loosely after its creator, Bernard Zeller.

See also
List of defenses to 1NT

References

Bridge conventions
Erik Sagström

Erik Sagström (born in Linköping in 1983) is a Swedish professional poker player. Sagström was introduced to poker accidentally while surfing the web. He began to play at ParadisePoker at the age of 17 and has since become a successful online poker player.

Sagström plays online poker at numerous sites as The Salmon, Erik123, and DIN_FRU. Sagström was also involved in setting up the online poker cardroom PokerChamps.com with Gus Hansen and Tony Guoga.

In May 2006, Sagström played Liz Lieu in a highly publicized series of three $200,000 limit Texas hold 'em matches at The Venetian. Sagström ultimately lost the series 2-1.

Whilst Sagström has competed in events of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT), and European Poker Tour (EPT), he is best known for his online poker record.  His largest online tournament cash was when he won Event #4 in the 2003 World Championship of Online Poker, beating 1,357 other entrants and netting $101,850.  

Sagström was also chosen by Ken Lennaárd to represent Sweden in both the Poker Nations Cup and the PartyPoker.com Football & Poker Legends Cup.

In February 2007, Erik Sagström opened his own poker site on the Boss Media network, using his nickname as the title, Erik123.com.

In the 2009 World Series of Poker, Erik finished 3rd at the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event.

As of 2012, his total live tournament winnings exceed $700,000.

Notes

External links
Official site
PokerListings interview

1983 births
Living people
Swedish poker players
Solid Klein bottle

In mathematics, a solid Klein bottle is a three-dimensional topological space (a 3-manifold) whose boundary is the Klein bottle.

It is homeomorphic to the quotient space obtained by gluing the top disk of a cylinder  to the bottom disk by a reflection across a diameter of the disk.

Alternatively, one can visualize the solid Klein bottle as the trivial product , of the möbius strip and an interval . In this model one can see that 
the core central curve at 1/2 has a regular neighborhood which is again a trivial cartesian product:  and whose boundary is a Klein bottle.

References

3-manifolds
National Film Award for Best Children's Film

The National Film Award for Best Children's Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (27 Awards), Bengali (7 Awards), Malayalam and Kannada (6 each), English (5 Awards), Marathi (3 Awards), Tamil, Telugu, Oriya and Assamese (1 each).

Winners 

Award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

References

External links 
 Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
 National Film Awards Archives
 National Film Awards at IMDb

Children's Film
Indian children's films
Motoemil

Motoemil was a Greek truck manufacturer based in Thessaloniki (now producing trailers under the name Emilios Trailers). It was named after Emilios Antoniades who started his business, together with his brother Konstantinos, by constructing crude-made trucks assembled from motorcycle and automobile parts. By the mid-1960s, like other similar Greek manufacturers (see also Styl Kar), they were already developing and building complete "automobile" three-wheeler trucks. Motoemil was one of the first of its kind in Northern Greece and soon became the largest in that region, its products sold throughout the country. The first models used 1200cc Volkswagen air-cooled engines. A completely redesigned, more modern-looking model was introduced in 1970, using a German Ford engine.  

Motoemil was one of the few Greek producers that survived the end of the "three-wheeler era" in that country, as it had developed a completely new breed of heavier, four-wheel trucks in the mid-1970s. The Autofarma model was an all-terrain 4x4 truck with 2 tonne payload and a Mercedes-Benz Diesel engine, perfectly placed in the "farm truck" category according to Greek law. In that respect, it was similar to other Greek vehicles (all locally developed), like the Agricola, the  AutoDiana Unicar, the Balkania Autotractor, the EBIAM, the Petropoulos Polytrak and others. However, the Autofarma was produced in numbers exceeding those of all others combined, sold through a network of dealers throughout the country. It was simultaneously a very rugged, reliable all-terrain vehicle requiring minimal maintenance costs (suited for the extremely harsh treatment farm vehicles were exposed to), with a significant payload, a relatively comfortable cabin and a reasonably smooth road behavior for longer drives. A minor facelift was done on the model in 1979, but by the mid-1980s this category of vehicles was not competitive anymore due to changes in Greek Law combined with more "sophisticated" demands of Greek customers, met by competitively priced imported types. This was a change the Northern Greek company was not able to cope with, ceasing all truck production in 1985. For one more time, though, it was able to adjust to market opportunities, switching to development and production of light (mostly for boat transport) and heavier trailers. The company name was subsequently changed to Emilios Trailers under which it successfully operates to date.

References
 L.S. Skartsis, "Encyclopedia of Greek vehicles and aircraft", Achaikes Ekdoseis/Typorama, Patras, Greece (1995) 
 L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History", Marathon (2012)  (eBook) 
 Walter Zeichner, "Dreirad- und Kleinlieferwagen 1945-1967", Schrader Motor-Chronik, Bd.72

External links 
 Company site

Truck manufacturers of Greece
Manufacturing companies based in Thessaloniki
1985 disestablishments in Greece
Greek brands
Field Day (Dag Nasty album)

Field Day is a studio album by American hardcore punk band Dag Nasty, released in 1988 through Giant Records; it was released in Europe through We Bite Records.

The album features a cover of The Ruts classic "Staring at the Rude Boys." It also offers a new recording of Dag Nasty's "Under Your Influence." The original version appears on the band's debut LP Can I Say, with vocalist Dave Smalley.

The CD bonus track "12XU" was written by Wire, and was also covered by Brian Baker's former band Minor Threat.

The album had sold more than 30,000 copies within a year of its release.

Track listing
"Trouble Is" - 3:33
"Field Day" - 2:28
"Things That Make No Sense" - 2:44
"The Ambulance Song" - 3:38
"Staring at the Rude Boys" - 2:49
"13 Seconds Underwater" - 0:46
"La Penita" - 4:09
"Dear Mrs. Touma" - 2:37
"Matt" - 1:34
"I've Heard" - 0:12
"Under Your Influence" - 3:37
"Typical" - 2:37
"Here's to You" - 2:49
"16 Count" - 0:21

CD bonus tracks
"Never Green Lane" - 1:55
"You're Mine"  - 3:52
"All Ages Show" - 2:38
"12XU" - 1:31

Tracks 16 & 17 originally from the All Ages Show 7-inch EP.
Tracks 15 & 18 originally from the Trouble Is 12-inch EP.

Personnel
Dag Nasty
Peter Cortner - Vocals
Brian Baker - Guitars
Doug Carrion - Bass
Scott Garrett - Drums

References

Dag Nasty albums
1988 albums
Project A-ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group

is a 1987 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the sequel to the 1986 theatrical release Project A-ko.

Plot
The plot is centered on B-ko's father Hikaru Daitokuji, a billionaire industrialist who bears a strong resemblance to Ted Turner and Tony Stark. B-ko's obsession with C-ko finds another outlet, as she uses her genius intellect to help the Alpha Cygnans repair their spaceship, since C-ko has developed a soft spot for the stranded Napolipolita and D. The Alpha Cygnans have turned their ship into a posh 30,000 room hotel, but long only to return home.

The plot also involves a stereotypical summertime swimming pool scene. The heroines are also being stalked by a steadily growing number of mysterious men in white suits, who all attempt to appear inconspicuous by nonchalantly reading newspapers. Later in the movie, they reveal themselves as spies, their mission being the capture of the Cygnan "super-technology."

The climax of the movie involves the military forces — being manipulated by Hikaru Daitokuji — attacking the Alpha Cygnan ship with a giant experimental mecha named the Queen Margarita (whose blueprints he confiscated from B-ko) in a greedy attempt at seizing their alien technology. This results in the movie's one truly classic moment, in which B-ko's father flies into the fray wearing one of his daughter's revealing Akagiyama battle suits and attempts to catch the Ship — which is plummeting back to Earth — and ends up blowing out his back (it appears that his spine is broken, but since he is seen walking again in FINAL, clearly this is not so).

Cast

Production and release
For the North American release of Project A-ko 2 and further installations of the series, Central Park Media commissioned Ocean Productions for the English dub.

CPM released Project A-ko 2, along with Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody and Project A-ko 4: FINAL on the DVD compilation Project A-ko: Love & Robots on August 6, 2002. Discotek Media reissued Project A-ko 2 on DVD on September 26, 2017, and later on Blu-ray on August 30, 2022, featuring a new remastered scan of the original 35mm film.

References

External links
 
 
 Graviton City - A Project A-ko fansite

1987 anime OVAs
Direct-to-video sequel films
Project A-ko
1980s science fiction films
Discotek Media
Gunung Buda National Park

Gunung Buda National Park is a national park located in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is located to the north of Gunung Mulu National Park. Gunung Buda National Park was gazetted in 2001. As in September 2017, the national park was in the planning stage for tourism activities. Roads were also planned to connect Gunung Buda with Gunung Mulu National Park. Gunung Buda meaning White Hill in Lun Bawang language.

History
An expedition by British cavers in 1978 found the entrances and initial passages to several large caves such as Deer Cave and Clearwater Cave at Gunung Mulu National Park. These discoveries led to further explorations of Mulu caves in the subsequent years.

Americans first visited Gunung Buda when John Lane and George Prest visited the mountain to assess its potential for an American expedition in 1993. In late 1994 and early 1995 the first American expedition took place. Others followed in 1996, 1997, and 2000. Collectively the expeditions have surveyed more than 60 kilometres of cave passages beneath Gunung Buda. The 1997 expeditions were made by the members of National Speleological Society.

Geography
The highest mountain in the national park is Mount Buda, stood at  high. It is separated from Mount Benarat by Medalem Gorge.

Climate
The climate is wet year around and temperatures climb into the low 30s Celsius every day.

Biodiversity
The rain forests of Buda and nearby Mulu host a tremendous diversity of life including at least 300 bird species, numerous primates, more than 2,500 tree species, more than 60 snakes and many other beautiful varied forms of life.

Changes in substrate, slope, elevation and drainage make the forests of the area particularly varied. At Gunung Buda, limestone forest, lowland dipterocarp forests, kerangas swamp forests and upland dipterocarp forests all grow.

References

Related Resources 
Caves of Gunung Buda : report of the joint Sarawak Forest Department and USA Caving Expedition to Sarawak, Malaysia 1995
Caves of Gunung Buda, 1997 : Sarawak Forest Department and USA Expedition to Gunung Buda, Sarawak, Malaysia, January 30 to March 7, 1997
Caves of Gunung Buda, 2000 : report of the Gunung Buda Project and the Sarawak Department of Forestry 2000 expedition to Gunung Buda, Sarawak, Malaysia

National parks of Sarawak
Borneo montane rain forests
Borneo lowland rain forests
Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody

is a 1988 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the third installment of the Project A-ko series.

Plot
Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody opens with a fluidly-animated dream sequence of A-ko, B-ko, and C-ko engaged in a game of pool. However, this has nothing to do with the rest of the storyline.

It's Spring Break for the students of Graviton High. While B-ko plots to whisk C-ko away to some secluded location, C-ko dreams only of spending time with A-ko, having fun as usual. A-ko, however, has other plans. She decides that it's time to "stop hanging around" with C-ko and find a boyfriend.

Unsatisfied with her wardrobe, she gets a job at a local fast food restaurant to earn money to buy new clothes. This leaves C-Ko feeling quite lonely, so she spends most of her days waiting for A-ko to get off of work.

One day, A-ko (literally) runs into Kei Yuki, a handsome biker. To her great delight, Kei returns to the restaurant where she works and seems to hang about. B-ko also notices Kei and decides to "steal" him from A-ko. Later, C-ko sees A-ko and Kei arriving on Kei's motorcycle. She runs up to A-ko and snarls and hisses at Kei like a feral cat, angry that he is robbing her of A-ko's affections.

A-ko and B-ko's battle for the habitually silent Kei culminates in a disastrous "date" at the Alpha Cygnans' Space Hotel. During the posh event, A-ko realizes that she removed her magic armbands which keep her powers under control. Without them, her strength is so great that it obliterates everything she touches. The destruction spurs Graviton City's overenthusiastic Public Works Defense Force into action. This colorful all-volunteer force (of which Miss Ayumi is a proud member) assemble from all corners of the city, clad in superhero outfits and piloting a small army of various mecha.

Just when it seems that all hell is going to break loose, A-ko and B-ko's melee comes to an abrupt halt when Kei reveals his love for C-ko. C-ko utterly rejects him.

A-ko and B-ko are both crushed and disappointed, but A-ko does find joy in being with her best friend again.

Cast

Production and release
Central Park Media released Project A-ko 3, along with Project A-ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group and Project A-ko 4: FINAL on the DVD compilation Project A-ko: Love & Robots on August 6, 2002. Discotek Media reissued Project A-ko 3 on DVD on September 26, 2017, and later on Blu-ray on December 27, 2022.

References

External links
 
 
 Graviton City - A Project A-ko fansite

1988 anime OVAs
Direct-to-video sequel films
Project A-ko
Studio Fantasia
Discotek Media
Bakr Ben Yahia

Bakr Ben Yahia (born in the 9th century) was an important Marrano (Iberian crypto-Jew living as a Christian) figure in Gharb al-Andalus, modern-day Algarve in Portugal.

Bakr Ben Yahia was the son of Yahia Ben Bakr. Both Ben Bakr and Ben Yahia held political office and executed important construction in Faro. Bakr Ben Yahia is credited with constructing the walls, as well as the iron gates around the perimeter of Faro. It is during this time that he brought the image of Mary as it would be stated much later in the songs by King Alfonso X of Castile (1221 – 1284), and the settlement became known as Santa Maria (a former name of modern Faro).

References

Portuguese Roman Catholics
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism
People from Faro, Portugal
9th-century Portuguese people
Medieval Portuguese Jews
9th-century Jews
Project A-ko 4: FINAL

is a 1989 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the fourth installment of the Project A-ko series.

Story
The Alpha Cygnans—still searching for their "lost princess"—return to Earth, this time with a fleet of three thousand ships. A pendant is unearthed in ancient Babylon, identical to one belonging to Miss Ayumi, who is about to get married. Hikaru Daitokuji arranges a marriage between Miss Ayumi and Kei.

The wedding takes place at the gymnasium at Graviton City High School for Girls. At the same time, the Alpha Cygnan fleet—with their Queen on the flagship—approach the city, trying to stop the wedding. The weakened Earth Defense Force try to stop them from stopping the wedding. While all this is happening, A-ko and B-ko tear apart the wedding and try to do so to each other. Kei, Ayumi, and C-ko are caught in the middle of the melee.

Interspersed with the main narrative are cuts of an archeological team in Iraq, deciphering some apocalyptic writings at an ancient site that may have something to do with the approach of the Alpha Cygnans. It reads that Alpha-Cygni's alien princess will be claimed and demons will be unleashed on the earth for ten days. Also it has a connection to the star of David. Suddenly the wall begins to part revealing a statue (which looks like C-ko) that causes the temple to collapse on the archeologists.

The aliens finally arrive and explain that their princess must come with them. C-ko's mother reveals herself and convinces her daughter it is time to go home. C-ko agrees since she feels she never really fit in with any of her classmates anyway. Miss Ayumi is outraged that nothing special happened to her because of her lucky charm pendant and smashes it while the Captain and D lament that they've been left behind because the Captain wasted time getting there by picking up a few more alcoholic drinks. A-ko and B-ko chase after the alien ship in B-ko's giant robot. When it runs out of fuel B-ko carries A-ko using her flying battlesuit and continues the pursuit into outer space. After C-ko sees A-ko outside the ship's window she is delighted until she watches them slowly lose ground and eventually plummet to Earth, B-ko's suit out of power and appearing as a shooting star to viewers on the ground.

The next day A-ko sadly wakes up and walks downstairs to answer the door. A-ko is overjoyed to discover C-ko, who happily tells her she changed her mind and came back. As A-ko hugs C-ko, C-ko makes her promise to never fight with B-ko ever again, and the two girls lived happily ever after.

Cast

Production and release
Central Park Media released Project A-ko 4, along with Project A-ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group and Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody on the DVD compilation Project A-ko: Love & Robots on August 6, 2002. Discotek Media reissued Project A-ko 4 on DVD on September 26, 2017.

References

External links

1989 anime OVAs
Direct-to-video sequel films
Project A-ko
1980s science fiction films
Studio Fantasia
Discotek Media
WJWD

WJWD (90.3 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Marshall, Wisconsin and serving the Madison metropolitan area.  It is owned by the Calvary Radio Network, an Indiana nonprofit corporation based in Valparaiso, Indiana.  WJWD broadcasts that network's lineup of Christian talk and teaching programs with some Contemporary Christian music, mostly modern praise and worship and Christian rock and pop.  Calvary Radio is the radio outreach of several non-denominational churches focused on the "inerrancy of the Bible" and the "expository teaching from Genesis to Revelation".

WJWD has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 9,900 watts (vertical polarization) and 55 watts (horizontal polarization).  The transmitter is on Route 60 at Zurbruegg Road in Columbus, Wisconsin.  In Madison, WJWD can also be heard on 10 watt FM translator W270AU at 101.1 MHz.

History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on February 25, 2000. The new station was assigned the call letters WJWD by the FCC on August 1, 2001. WJWD received its license to cover from the FCC on March 19, 2003.

WJWD first signed on in January 2003. In February 2007, the station applied to the FCC for a "main studio waiver" that would allow the station to be operated remotely from outside the broadcast area of the station itself.

Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa sold the station in 2010 to the Calvary Radio Network.

Programming
Some of the station's programs include The Upward Call and Battleground. For The Upward Call, Pastor Jeff Solwold presents the Gospel with line by line, verse by verse Bible teaching that airs weeknights at 6:00 p.m., noon on Saturdays, and 9:30 a.m. on Sundays.  Battleground airs live Mondays through Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Central.

Another popular program is Pastor's Perspective, a live call in show that deals with Christian apologetics and questions about the Bible and Christian living.  It airs every week night.

The Word For Today, with Pastor Chuck Smith, is broadcast twice a day at 7:30 a.m. and Noon.  The Word For Today is a non-profit organization, and an outreach of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. Pastor Chuck Smith's radio and TV programs can be heard on stations nationwide. The program can be heard in over 350 cities worldwide, and airs more than 300 times daily.

WJWD airs the 10:30 a.m. services, live, from Calvary Chapel Madison starting at 10:40 a.m. until noon.

Translators

References

External links
Calvary Radio Network's website

JWD
JWD
Radio stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in Wisconsin
Project A-ko: Gray Side/Blue Side

Project A-ko: Gray Side/Blue Side is a 1990 Japanese anime OVA series directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima. Though it features the main characters of the Project A-ko series, it is set in an alternate universe. It was released in two episodes: "Gray Side" in July 21 and "Blue Side" in August 21.

Plot
A-ko and B-ko are bounty-hunter partners who hunt giant tortoises on a sand planet. When C-ko is kidnapped by a gang of space pirates, A-ko and B-ko set off to rescue her—thinking only of the reward money offered by her wealthy father. Aided by a pint-sized Galactic Police Officer named Maruten, the girls discover that C-ko's abduction is part of a much larger scheme. Gail, the charismatic leader of the space pirates, intends to use C-ko's body as a host for the spirit of Xena, a long-dead sorceress. Although Gail believes that Xena will "purify" the universe, he is oblivious to her true motive—to annihilate all universes and create a new one in which she is the absolute ruler.

The final showdown occurs in the Talho sector, where Xena begins to merge all existing universes into one. This features A-ko and B-ko fighting each other in a variety of different eras and locations, including the climactic battle of the first movie. This seems to suggest that the two are always destined to battle.

The audience is also treated to what could be a brief glimpse of A-ko and B-ko back on planet Earth, in which the girls graduate from Graviton High and continue their rivalry for Kei in the workplace.

In the end, the universe is saved, Maruten takes all of the credit, and A-ko and B-ko are left as broke and short-tempered as they began.

Cast

Production and release
Central Park Media released the OVA series on the DVD compilation Project A-ko: Uncivil Wars on August 23, 2005.

References

External links

1990 anime OVAs
Project A-ko
Studio Fantasia
1990s science fiction films
Astrological Association of Great Britain

The Astrological Association is a British astrological organisation. The Astrological Association of Great Britain (AA) was formed in London on 21 June 1958. Its founding members, notably John Addey and Roy Firebrace, were members of the Astrological Lodge of the Thesosophical Society. John Addey later become President of the AA. The AA produces three publications - the Astrological Journal, published six times a year, Correlation, published biannually, and the Medical Astrology Newsletter.  In 2002 the AA said their membership was "something over a thousand".

In 2013 the organisation was awarded charity status and the name was legally changed to 'The Astrological Association'.

Aims and Objectives
The aims of the Astrological Association are: 
the advancement of education of the public by the critical study of astrology in all its branches; to encourage and draw together all students of astrology; to enlarge and integrate the knowledge of astrology; to co-ordinate and publish results as desirable and generally work for the more widespread understanding of astrology.

It holds events and seminars throughout the year, along with an annual conference that draws astrologers from all over the world.

References

External links
 

Astrological organizations
1958 establishments in England
Organizations established in 1958
Clubs and societies in the United Kingdom