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Persian Vision

Persian Vision was a Canadian category 2 Persian language digital cable specialty channel. The channel was owned by PersianVision Media and Broadcast Corp. It presented local Canadian content and programs from around the world. Programming on Persian Vision included news, sports, entertainment and more. Foreign programming was primarily derived from Jaam e Jam International as well as other networks from Iran and abroad.

In addition to the television channel, Persian Vision also operated a 24-hour radio channel broadcasting on television and the Internet. However, Internet broadcasting ceased in early 2010 when its website was no longer available. Both the television and radio channels were available exclusively on Rogers Cable until January 2011 when it ceased operations.  The television channel had been struggling to maintain its program logs with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and was hence closed down due to lack of adherence with CRTC regulations.  The channel was directed and run almost entirely by Ms Sheena Mojgan Amiri.  Ms Amir is a known fraudster and has been written up in the newspapers about how she scams landlords and destroys their property. (http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/michele_mandel/2010/08/20/15092061.html)

Persian Vision had been previously dissolved due to non-compliance earlier in 2005 (https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?corpId=4013344).  This issue was regarding a failure to file annual tax return (http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/cs02544.html)

Defunct television networks in Canada
Iranian-Canadian culture
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Bright Eyes discography

The discography of American indie rock band Bright Eyes consists of ten studio albums, one compilation album, one live album, two box sets, eleven extended plays, twelve split albums and EPs, 31 singles, and eleven music videos.

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Box sets

Extended plays

Splits and collaborations

Singles

Music videos

Compilation appearances

Notes

See also
List of songs by Bright Eyes
List of songs with Conor Oberst

References

External links
Official website for Bright Eyes
https://web.archive.org/web/20060424195439/http://www.thestoryinthesoil.com/albums.html

Discographies of American artists
Rock music group discographies
Conor Oberst
Master of Environmental Management

The M.E.M. (Master of Environmental Management) is a degree designed for students with primary interests in careers in environmental policy and analysis, stewardship, education, consulting, or management dealing with natural resource or environmental issues. The program requires course work in both the natural and social sciences, with a particular focus on the relationship among science, management, and policy. The ultimate purpose of the degree program is to prepare students to address ecological and social systems with scientific understanding and an ability to make sense of the complex underlying social and ecological context.

The value of an interdisciplinary environmental degree is best espoused by Aldo Leopold, who obtained a Master of Forestry degree.

"One of the requisites for an ecological comprehension of land is an understanding of ecology, and this is by no means co-extensive with 'education'; in fact, much higher education seems deliberately to avoid ecological concepts. An understanding of ecology does not necessarily originate in courses bearing ecological labels; it is quite as likely to be labeled geography, botany, agronomy, history, or economics. This is as it should be...". 

The "Big Four" Master of Environmental Management programs are:
 University of California, Santa Barbara - Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
 Duke University - Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth and Ocean Sciences

 University of Michigan - School of Natural Resources and Environment

 Yale University - School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Other programs include:
 

 Portland State University - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
 University of San Francisco - Master of Science in Environmental Management
 University of Maryland University College - Master of Science in Environmental Management
 Western Colorado University - Master in Environmental Management
 University of Connecticut - Master of Energy and Environmental Management – Online

Many of these schools also offer joint degrees, where the MEM is paired with an MBA, MPP, JD, or M.Div.

References

Environmental Management
Environmental studies
Volzhskaya (Moscow Metro)

Volzhskaya () is a station on the Moscow Metro's Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line. The station was opened on 28 December 1995 as the final part of the first stage of the Lyblinsky radius and was the line's terminus for just under a year. Just behind the station a former cross junction tunnels can still be seen.

The station is the first in Moscow to be built to a new design known as a single deck. In such a case the ceiling plate is made of individual long concrete slabs that are used for automobile bridges and they are lowered on the strengthened walls of the station. Moreover, this space automatically includes the vestibules and other construction details allowing more efficient and economical approach.

The architect V.Volovich took the extra space offered by the high ceiling and revetted the walls with enameled aluminium consisting of a pale yellow colour high up and red lower down. The floor is covered with grey granite. Innovative design also came for the lighting which consists of centrally mounted poles with square floodlamps on either side. Also unique are two yellow booths which contain benches for passengers to sit on.

The station has two underground vestibules which are located under the Volzhsky boulevard.

External links
 mosmetro.ru
 mymetro.ru
 news.metro.ru
 KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)

Moscow Metro stations
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1995
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
Railway stations located underground in Russia
2001 Cypriot legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 27 May 2001. The result was a victory for AKEL, which won 20 of the 56 seats. Voter turnout was 91.8%.

Results

References

2001 in Cyprus
2000s in Cypriot politics
Cyprus
Legislative elections in Cyprus
May 2001 events in Europe
The Robert Johnson Songbook

The Robert Johnson Songbook is an album by the British blues band the Peter Green Splinter Group, led by Peter Green. Released in 1998, this was their second album. Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member of that group from 1967–70, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The album consists of songs composed by legendary blues artist Robert Johnson, and featured a guest appearance by Paul Rodgers, ex-lead vocalist of Free and Bad Company, who later worked with Queen.

This was the first Splinter Group album to feature Roger Cotton and Larry Tolfree, after the departure of Cozy Powell and Spike Edney. The album won a WC Handy Award in 1999 for "Best Comeback Album".

Track listing
"When You Got a Good Friend"
"32-20 Blues"
"Phonograph Blues"
"Last Fair Deal Gone Down"
"Stop Breakin' Down Blues"
"Terraplane Blues"
"Walkin' Blues"
"Love in Vain Blues"
"Ramblin' on My Mind"
"Stones in My Passway"
"Me and the Devil Blues"
"Honeymoon Blues"
"Kind Hearted Woman Blues"
"I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" 
"If I Had Possession over Judgment Day"
"Sweet Home Chicago"

All tracks written by Robert Johnson.
Track 16 recorded at Lartington Hall Studios by Andrew Scarth

Personnel

Splinter Group
 Peter Green – guitars, vocals, harmonica
 Nigel Watson – guitars, vocals
 Neil Murray – bass guitar
 Roger Cotton – piano
 Larry Tolfree – drums
 Paul Rodgers – vocals (track 16)
 Street Angels '98 – backing vocals

Technical
 Kenny Denton – producer
 Andrew Scarth – engineer
 Tonic Communications – design

References

1998 albums
Peter Green Splinter Group albums
Robert Johnson
Tribute albums
Charles H. Swannack Jr.

Charles Henry "Chuck" Swannack Jr. (born March 9, 1949) is a former general officer in the United States Army who, once retired, called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Swannack is a 1971 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He later earned an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and became a Registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.

As a lieutenant colonel in the late 1980s, Swannack commanded the 2nd battalion (2/9) of the 9th Infantry Regiment garrisoned at Fort Ord, California.  During his command, the unit deployed as part of the 7th Infantry Division (Light) for Operation Just Cause in Panama.

On February 12, 2004 Fallujah insurgents attacked a convoy carrying Swannack and General John Abizaid, commander of US forces in the Middle East, firing on the vehicles from nearby rooftops with RPGs, after seemingly infiltrating the Iraqi security forces.

Swannack's last position within the Army was Deputy Commanding General of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg.  Prior to this assignment he served as the commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.  His last rank was major general.  On April 13, 2006, and after retirement, Swannack called for the dismissal of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  In an interview with The New York Times, Swannack said:

We need to continue to fight the global war on terror and keep it off our shores,  But I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq.

CNN reports that Swannack, the second General who served in Iraq under Rumsfeld told their reporter:

I really believe that we need a new secretary of defense because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too much baggage with him, Retired Maj. General: 'We need a new secretary of defense', CNN, April 14, 2006

After his retirement from active duty, Swannack became the Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Logistics, Inc. In 2014, he became Executive Director of Speedway Children's Charities.

See also
David M. Brahms
James Cullen
John L. Fugh
Robert Gard
Lee F. Gunn
John D. Hutson
Richard O'Meara

References

1949 births
Living people
United States Military Academy alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Army generals
American anti–Iraq War activists
Somatophylakes

Somatophylakes (; singular: somatophylax, σωματοφύλαξ) were the bodyguards of high-ranking people in ancient Greece.

The most famous body of somatophylakes were those of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. They consisted of seven men, drawn from the Macedonian nobility, who also acted as high-ranking military officers, holding command positions such as general or chiliarch. Alexander the Great appointed Peucestas as eighth somatophylax after the siege of Malli.

Under Alexander the Great 
(Note that this list is speculative in several cases and would be disputed by scholars. For example, Hephaestion was probably not named as early as given below. The only complete list of Alexander's bodyguard in the original sources is found in Arrian (6.28.4), upon the extraordinary appointment of Peucestas in Carmania.)

336–334
Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Arybbas, Balacrus, Demetrius, Ptolemy.
333
Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Arybbas, Balacrus, Demetrius, Hephaestion.
332
Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Arybbas, Menes, Demetrius, Hephaestion.
331
Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Leonnatus, Menes, Demetrius, Hephaestion.
330–327
Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Leonnatus, Perdiccas, Ptolemy of Lagus, Hephaestion.
326–324
Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Leonnatus, Perdiccas, Ptolemy of Lagus, Hephaestion, Peucestas.
323
 Aristonous, Lysimachus, Peithon, Leonnatus, Perdiccas, Ptolemy of Lagus, Peucestas.

See also
 Companion cavalry

References
 Heckel, Waldemar. "The 'Somatophylakes' of Alexander the Great: Some Thoughts." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte Bd. 27, H. 1 (1st Qtr. 1978), pp. 224–228.

External links
 Somatophylax (Bodyguard) at Livius.org

 
Ancient Greek military terminology
Military ranks of ancient Macedon
Ancient Greek titles
Military units and formations of the Hellenistic world
Military units and formations of ancient Greece
Kyril Vassilev

Kyril Petrov Vassilev (Bulgarian: Кирил Петров Василев; May 24, 1908 in Bulgaria – June 23, 1987 in the United States)  was a world-renowned portrait painter of royalty and American society during the mid-20th century.   His parents were Bulgarian and stated that he started painting when he was 3 years old.

At the age of 16, Vassilev received his first important portrait commission to paint Bulgaria's Secretary of War, General Lazaroff.  He then enrolled in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.  In 1927, he was selected to paint the official portrait of Bulgaria's King Boris.

In 1929, he completed his masterpiece portrait of the Archbishop Angelo Roncalli, then the papal nuncio to Bulgaria. The Archbishop later became Pope John XXIII.  This is the only portrait of Pope John XXIII in his bishop's robe.  Vassilev kept the portrait and later rejected an offer of $250,000 for the life-sized oil painting.

Vassilev continued to establish himself as a world-famous portrait artist.  He moved to the United States in 1937. He also established a studio in West Palm Beach, where he continued to paint political officials and socialites such as Helen Rich.  His friendships included Ernest Hemingway, President Harry S. Truman and Jack Dempsey.

In 1948, Vassilev painted a portrait of American president, Harry S. Truman, which hangs in the Truman Presidential Museum & Library.  
Vassilev's famous clients included King Peter II of Yugoslavia and King Michael of Romania.

In 1989, Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, held a retrospective of his work.

Vassilev died on June 23, 1987, of a heart attack.

References

External links
New York Times obituary

1908 births
1987 deaths
American people of Bulgarian descent
Bulgarian male artists
American portrait painters
Chicken claw

Chicken claw may refer to:

 Chicken feet, a part of the chicken that is cooked in China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Moldova, Jamaica, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Philippines and Vietnam
 Chicken sickles, a Chinese martial arts weapon
 "Chicken Claw", a song by That Handsome Devil
 The chicken claw, a variation of the Cartesian skyscraper
 Wrinkles in the outer corner of the eyes due to aging; these may resemble a chicken's claw

See also
 Crow foot (disambiguation)
Robert Risko

Robert Risko (born November 11, 1956, in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania) is an American caricature artist known for his retro airbrush style. Risko's style embodies the spirit of the 1930s Vanity Fair caricaturists Miguel Covarrubias and Paolo Garretto, the latter of which he corresponded with until Garretto's death in 1989.

Career 
Risko began his career by following in the footsteps of his mentor Andy Warhol and moved to New York City from Pittsburgh. He started drawing celebrity portraits for Warhol's Interview magazine. Risko's hard-edged airbrush style was an instant hit. Risko was influenced by the shiny aesthetic of the 1970s and the Art Deco revival taking place in New York City at the time. Risko recalls, "New York was a petrie dish of creativity back then, with people like Mapplethorpe and Madonna pushing the envelope. It was an amazing time to be starting out then."
 
At 25, Risko was chosen by renowned art director Bea Feitler along with Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz and artist Keith Haring to define the look of the new Vanity Fair when the magazine was relaunched in 1983. He has been a contributor ever since and has been instrumental in not only shaping Vanity Fair's unique look by contemporizing the spirit of the Bauhaus with his style but revealing personality traits of his subjects by reducing them to their essence with a few stylized colored shapes.

In addition to Vanity Fair, Risko's work is published regularly in many major magazines, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Esquire, and Interview, and was seen on VH1's Pop 200 Icons Countdown. He illustrated the packaging for the Capitol Sings composer series, and HBO's Comedy Club video series. 

Risko divides his time between New York City and East Hampton, New York. He is currently working on a children's book. He has also been published in books such as Fame (1979), Fame II (1981), and The Risko Book, published by the Monacelli Press  in 2000, which collected 180 of his pieces. His latest book is Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life (Rodale, 2009).

In October 2017, the Kennedy Center held an exhibition of Risko's work that he had created for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an activity that he has done since 2002.

References

External links
 

1956 births
Living people
People from Ellwood City, Pennsylvania
Kent State University alumni
American caricaturists
Vanity Fair (magazine) people
Southeast Division (NBA)

The Southeast Division is one of the three divisions in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The division consists of five teams, the Atlanta Hawks, the Charlotte Hornets, the Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic and the Washington Wizards.

The division was created at the start of the 2004–05 season, when the league expanded from 29 to 30 teams with the addition of the Charlotte Bobcats. The league realigned itself into three divisions in each conference. The Southeast Division began with five inaugural members, the Hawks, the Bobcats, the Heat, the Magic and the Wizards. The Hawks joined from the Central Division, while the Heat, the Magic and the Wizards joined from the Atlantic Division. The Bobcats changed their name to the Hornets effective with the 2014–15 season, after which it assumed the history of the original Hornets from 1988–2002. The Hornets name was previously used by the now-New Orleans Pelicans from 2002–2013.

The Heat have won the most Southeast Division titles with 12, while the Magic have won four, the Hawks have won two and the Wizards have won one. The Heat won the Southeast Division in four consecutive seasons from 2011 to 2014, a record to this day. Miami's three championships (2006, 2012, and 2013) each came after winning the Southeast Division. The current division champions are the Miami Heat. From 2004 through 2014, Florida's two state-based franchises, Miami and Orlando, won a combined ten straight division championships, a streak that was finally broken after Atlanta won with 60 wins in the 2015 season. Twice, in 2010 and 2014, four of five teams in the division made up half of the eight playoff teams in the postseasons of those two years.

Since the 2021–22 season, the Southeast Division champion has received the Earl Lloyd Trophy, named after Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd.

2023–24 standings

Teams

Notes
 denotes an expansion team.

Earl Lloyd Trophy
Beginning with the 2021–22 season, the Southeast Division champion has received the Earl Lloyd Trophy. As with the other division championship trophies, it is named after one of the African American pioneers from NBA history. Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in an NBA game, debuting for the Washington Capitols on October 31, 1950. The Lloyd Trophy consists of a  crystal ball.

Division champions

Titles by team

Season results

Notes
 Because of a lockout, the season did not start until December 25, 2011, and all 30 teams played a shortened 66-game regular season schedule.

Rivalries

References
General

Specific

External links
NBA.com Team Index

Eastern Conference (NBA)
National Basketball Association divisions
Atlanta Hawks
Charlotte Hornets
Miami Heat
Orlando Magic
Washington Wizards
NBA
NBA
2006 Cypriot legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 21 May 2006. AKEL and the Democratic Rally both won 18 of the 56 seats. Voter turnout was 89.0%.

Results

Notes

References

2006 in Cyprus
2000s in Cypriot politics
Cyprus
Legislative elections in Cyprus
May 2006 events in Europe
Christian Surfers

Christian Surfers is an interdenominational mission movement composed of members who believe in God amongst the global surfing community. It was founded in the late 1970s in Cronulla, Australia.

Background

The movement, which is incorporated as a not-for-profit in Australia, also has chapters in over 35 countries worldwide including New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Japan, Spain, Norway, Costa Rica,  and Brazil. Christian Surfers have received recognition for their commitment to the international surfing community, organic faith initiatives, and compassionate activities such as tsunami-relief and other aid projects, as well as providing chaplaincy to the World Surf League. The Christian Surfers International website is the primary source for information about the work of Christian Surfers globally.

CS (as it is often referred to) publishes the Surfers Bible, runs mission trips, camps and surf comps like the Jesus Surf Classic and the Jesus Pro Am, premieres films in conjunction with Walking on Water, provides a positive mentoring environment for young surfers, offers hospitality for traveling surfers, and undertakes numerous social action initiatives (in the countries listed above, and also abroad).

At its core the movement's goal is that every surfer and every surfing community has opportunity to know and follow Jesus.

Members 
Notable members of the movement include:

 Bethany Hamilton
 C.J. Hobgood
 Damien Hobgood
 Bianca Buitendag
 Timmy Curran
 Tom Curren
 Skip Frye
 Joey Buran
 Glyndyn Ringrose
 Al Merrick
 Eric Arakawa
 John Carper (JC Surfboards)

References

Christian sports organizations
Sports organisations of Australia
Volkswagen Halle

Volkswagen Halle is an indoor sporting arena located in Braunschweig, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. It is currently home to the Basketball Löwen Braunschweig basketball team.

Sports

Aside from serving as the home venue of the Basketball Löwen (formerly New Yorker Phantoms) Basketball Bundesliga team, several other sporting events have been hosted in the arena. Those include four editions (2001–2003 and 2005) of the BEKO Supercup, an annual international basketball exhibition tournament organized by the German Basketball Federation, the annual international equestrian tournament Löwen Classics, three editions (2003–2005) of the Handball-Bundesliga All-Star Game as well as the annual pre-season-tournament Handball-Bundesliga-Cup, tennis Davis Cup matches (2001 and 2008), indoor soccer tournaments and boxing.

In October 2007, World Wrestling Entertainment hosted an event as part of the WWE Raw Survivor Series Tour at the arena.

Other uses

The arena also serves as a concert venue. Artists that have performed at the Volkswagen Halle include a-ha, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Die Ärzte, Die Fantastischen Vier, Dio, Bob Dylan, David Garrett, Nena, Ozzy Osbourne, and Status Quo.

From 2001 to 2009, and again since 2013, the annual finals of the international breakdance competition Battle of the Year have been held at the Volkswagen Halle.

References

External links 

 

Indoor arenas in Germany
Basketball Löwen Braunschweig
Sport in Braunschweig
Buildings and structures in Braunschweig
Sports venues in Lower Saxony
Basketball venues in Germany
Handball venues in Germany
Tennis venues in Germany
Sports venues completed in 2000
2000 establishments in Germany
Grugahalle

The Grugahalle is a multi-purpose indoor arena located at the edge of the Botanischer Garten Grugapark in Essen, Germany. Opened on 25 October 1958, its seating capacity is about 7,700 people and about 10,000 for unseated events. The building was heritage-listed in 2000.

The Grugahalle is the venue for concerts, sport events, political rallies, annual general meetings of large companies, and live screenings of significant sport events. Notable past events include the concert of Bill Haley and accompanying riots three days after the hall's opening. The Essener Jazztage (Essen Jazz Days) from 1959 to 1961 brought international performers like Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet to the city. Later, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rush, ABBA, The Grateful Dead and many other groups included the Grugahalle in their tours. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention gave their first concert in Germany there in front of an audience of 13,000 during the  in 1968. This was followed in 1969 by the Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival which included Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Free, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Muddy Waters, Champion Jack Dupree, the Pretty Things, Queen and Tangerine Dream.

In September 1971, the Grugahalle was the venue for most of the games of the 1971 European basketball championship. In November 1987, the World Judo Championships were conducted there. Several handball clubs, including TUSEM Essen, used the hall for their home games from 1970 to 2005.

The Grugahalle was the main venue for the 82nd Katholikentag in September 1968, and in 1969 for the convention of the German Communist Party. Later that year, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Franz Josef Strauß held rallies for the 1969 West German federal election. In 1994 the European Council summit convened there.

References

External links

1958 establishments in West Germany
Sports venues completed in 1958
Music venues completed in 1958
Indoor arenas in Germany
Buildings and structures in Essen
Sports venues in North Rhine-Westphalia
Sport in Essen
Flens-Arena

The Flens-Arena (until November 2012 the Campushalle) is an indoor sporting arena located in Flensburg, north Germany.  The capacity of the arena is 6,300 people.  It is currently home to the SG Flensburg-Handewitt handball team.

References

External links 

 

Sports venues in Schleswig-Holstein
Handball venues in Germany
Indoor arenas in Germany
Buildings and structures in Flensburg
Sport in Flensburg
Delfo Zorzi

Roi Zorzi (born July 3, 1947), presently known as , is an Italian-born Japanese neo-fascist.

Biography
Roi Zorzi was born in Arzignano, near Vicenza, Italy, on July 3, 1947. In 1968 he moved to Naples to study Asian languages, later graduating with a PhD. In 1974 he moved to Japan and in 1989 he took Japanese citizenship with his present name, Roi Hagen.

 In 2014, the supreme Court of Cassation also acquitted Zorzi from the accusation.

In September 2005 an article by the magazine L'Espresso accused Zorzi of dealing furs in Italy via a series of firms under an assumed alias. 

Zorzi is the financial director behind several fashion stores (i.e luxury bags, furs, leather) in Europe, including some in Sweden. In October 2021, his name was mentioned in the Pandora Papers. Accused of tax evasion to the tune of 75 million euros to the tax authorities, he had bought a luxury home using the services of a shell company.

References

1947 births
Living people
Italian neo-fascists
Italian expatriates in Japan
Italian emigrants to Japan
People acquitted of crimes
Japanese fascists
Naturalized citizens of Japan
Overturned convictions in Italy
People from Arzignano
De Soto station

De Soto station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. The station is next to Victory Boulevard, which parallels that section of the Orange Line. It is located in the western San Fernando Valley near the meeting of three largely residential municipal communities of the City of Los Angeles: Canoga Park, Winnetka, and Woodland Hills.

It is named after the adjacent De Soto Avenue, which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route. Counting from the western terminus in Chatsworth, it is the sixth station on the Orange Line.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 City of Santa Clarita Transit: 796
 Los Angeles Metro Bus: ,

References

External links 

G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Canoga Park, Los Angeles
Winnetka, Los Angeles
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Bristol Virginia-Tennessee Slogan Sign

The Bristol Virginia-Tennessee Slogan Sign is a landmark in the twin cities of Bristol, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee, United States.  The sign is positioned over State Street, a roadway along the border separating the two states.  Although the landmark is technically located in both Tennessee and Virginia, the National Register considers the location as Tennessee.

History
In 1901, the center of Main Street was officially designated as the state line separating Tennessee and Virginia by the United States Congress.  The street has since been renamed State Street.

According to the Bristol Historical Association's booklet The Historical Bristol Sign, the Bristol Gas and Electric Company donated and erected the sign atop a hardware store in 1910 to advertise the city.  The sign originally contained the lighted slogan PUSH! - THAT'S BRISTOL referring to the hopes of continued growth and future prosperity for the two cities.  In 1915, the sign was moved to its current location.  In 1921, a contest was held in order to select a new slogan.  The winning slogan, A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE, has remained the slogan ever since.  The sign is featured at the beginning of a 2016 commercial for GEICO insurance.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Technical details
The lighted sign currently contains 1,332 light bulbs.

References

Sign History from City of Bristol Website

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Buildings and structures completed in 1910
National Register of Historic Places in Bristol, Virginia
Bristol, Tennessee
Bristol, Virginia
Buildings and structures in Bristol, Virginia
Individual signs in the United States
Buildings and structures in Sullivan County, Tennessee
Individual signs on the National Register of Historic Places
1910 establishments in Tennessee
1910 establishments in Virginia
Arena Leipzig

The Arena Leipzig is a multipurpose indoor arena located in Leipzig, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people for sporting events and up to 12,200 for shows and concerts. It is part of the Sportforum Leipzig, which also contains Red Bull Arena and the Sportmuseum Leipzig.

Structure
The main hall has retractable stands and has depending on its configuration a size from 2,400 to 4,656 square meters. The height of the hall is between 12 and 20 meters. A 200-meter track can be retracted for concerts and shows.

Sports
It is currently the home venue of HC Leipzig, a German handball team.

It hosted the 2015 Men's and Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup, and 2017 World Fencing Championships.

Other uses
The arena is frequently used by national and international artists for concerts and shows. Artists who have performed at this venue include:

A-ha, Alice Cooper, Anastacia, Apocalyptica, Backstreet Boys, Beatsteaks, Björk, Bob Dylan, Britney Spears, Cher, Coldplay, David Garrett, Deep Purple, Eric Clapton, George Michael, Gossip, Iron Maiden, James Blunt, Journey, Judas Priest, Justin Timberlake, Kiss, Kylie Minogue, Lord of the Dance, Loreena McKennitt, Mando Diao, Metallica, Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, NKOTBSB, Pink, Placebo, Queen with Paul Rodgers, Rammstein, Rihanna, Rise Against, Robin Gibb, Roger Waters, Sabaton, Sade, Scorpions, Shakira, Sting, Whitney Houston, ZZ Top and Soy Luna Live.

See also
List of indoor arenas in Germany

References

External links

 Arena Leipzig website

Handball venues in Germany
Indoor ice hockey venues in Germany
Basketball venues in Germany
Indoor track and field venues
Sport in Leipzig
Buildings and structures in Leipzig
Sports venues in Saxony
Indoor arenas in Germany
2002 establishments in Germany
Sports venues completed in 2002
Blunt-headed salamander

The blunt-headed salamander (Ambystoma amblycephalum) is a mole salamander endemic to Mexico. It is only known from the vicinity of its type locality, near Morelia, in Michoacán state in Southwestern Mexico. It inhabits a landscape consisting of a mosaic of natural grasslands and pine-oak forests at elevations of about  asl. Breeding takes place in ponds.

It has both neotenic and terrestrial populations. Neotenic populations are perennibranchiate and retain their fins. Neotenes are very long with extremely short, blunt heads and round eyes. They have relatively short, thick gills. Their coloring is dark brown-gray dorsally, with a lighter gray under-belly. They have small, dark marks on their head and back.

References

Mole salamanders
Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Amphibians described in 1940
GETEC Arena

The GETEC Arena (until 2011: "Bördelandhalle") is an indoor sporting arena located in Magdeburg, Germany.  The maximum capacity of the arena is 8,071 people for handball games and 8,820 for boxing matches.  It is the current home to SC Magdeburg's Handball-Bundesliga team.

See also
List of indoor arenas in Germany

External links 

Official website Fair- and Event-Company Magdeburg 

Handball venues in Germany
Indoor arenas in Germany
Buildings and structures in Magdeburg
Sports venues in Saxony-Anhalt
Tourist attractions in Magdeburg
Laomian

Laomian may refer to:

Laomian language, a Loloish language of Yunnan, China
Lo mein, a Chinese noodle dish
Rosa cymosa

Rosa cymosa is a species of climbing rose native to China, where it grows from the east coast in Fujian to western Sichuan at up to 1300 m, in warm areas in scrub and gorges, and in bamboo plantations. It is sometimes called the elderflower rose as its flower formation resembles elderberry (Sambucus) flowers.

Rosa cymosa has long smooth or hairy stems to 5 m, with a few, hooked thorns. Shoots and leaves are bright red when young. The leaflets are narrowly lanceolate, rounded at the base, and acuminate with a slender, curved point. Stipules are narrow and not attached to the stalk, or soon falling. The pedicels are slender. Flowers small and numerous, in a compound umbel or corymb, creamy-white, 1–1.5 cm across. The hips very small and round, around 5 mm across, and are dull or scarlet-red in color with many small seeds.

Rather tender, probably best grown in a greenhouse or conservatory in frosty climates. Flowers in late May and early June.

References

External links
 
 
 

cymosa
Flora of China
Sport- und Kongresshalle

Sport- und Kongresshalle is an indoor sporting arena located in Schwerin, Germany.  The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. It is currently home to the SV Post Schwerin handball team.

Buildings and structures in Schwerin
Handball venues in Germany
Indoor arenas in Germany
Sports venues in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Sport in Schwerin
Glaspalast

Glaspalast may refer to:

Glaspalast (Munich), Glaspalast in Munich modeled after The Crystal Palace
Glaspalast Sindelfingen, an indoor arena in Sindelfingen
Destiny Road

Destiny Road is an album by the British blues band the Peter Green Splinter Group, led by Peter Green. Released in 1999, this was their fourth album. Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member of that group from 1967–70, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The album included a reworking of "Tribal Dance", which first featured on Green's 1979 solo album In the Skies, and also a new version of the Fleetwood Mac hit "Man of the World".

Track listing
"Big Change Is Gonna Come" (Roger Cotton) – 5:04
"Say that You Want To" (Pete Stroud) – 4:02
"Heart of Stone" (Cotton) – 4:43
"You'll Be Sorry Someday" (Cotton) – 6:32
"Tribal Dance" (Peter Green) – 5:31
"Burglar" (Nigel Watson) – 5:55
"Turn Your Love Away" (Stroud) – 5:20
"Madison Blues" (Elmore James) – 3:40
"I Can't Help Myself" (Watson) – 7:00
"Indians" (Watson) – 4:59
"Hiding in Shadows" (Cotton) – 4:41
"There's a River" (Steve Winwood, Will Jennings) – 8:43
"Man of the World" (Green)

Track 13 is a hidden track.
Japanese versions of the album contained two extra tracks: "The Brave" and "Gambling Man".

Personnel

Peter Green Splinter Group
 Peter Green – guitars, harmonica, vocals
 Nigel Watson – guitars, mandolin, vocals
 Roger Cotton – piano
 Pete Stroud – bass guitar
 Larry Tolfree – drums, congas, percussion

Additional musicians
 Jennie Evans, Debbie Miller – backing vocals
 Derek Nash, Joe Green – tenor saxophone
 Kate Shortt, Guy Theaker, Malcolm Allison, Naomi Fairhurst – strings

Technical
 Pete Brown and the Splinter Group – producers
 Matthew Ollivier – engineer
 Richard Wheatley – assistant engineer
 9th Planet, London – design

References

1999 albums
Peter Green Splinter Group albums
Warner Center station

Warner Center station is an intercity bus station and former bus rapid transit station in the eponymous commercial development in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, United States. 

When service began on the Orange Line (now the G Line) in 2005, Warner Center was the western terminus, and the only stop not on the dedicated busway. In 2012 an extension of the Orange Line opened to Chatsworth station, leaving Warner Center on a one-stop stub served by alternate buses.

Service to Warner Center station on the Orange Line ended on June 24, 2018, replaced by a shuttle that stopped in several locations around the Warner Center area before offering passengers a transfer to the Orange Line at Canoga station, running every 10 minutes. 

The station remains standing as a transit hub for the area and is now served by several other bus lines.

Service

Metro Local: 150, 161, 164, 169, 601
City of Santa Clarita Transit: 791, 796
VCTC Intercity: Conejo Connection

References

External links

Orange Line history
LA Metro - countywide: official website

Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Majus

Majūs (Arabic: مجوس) or Magūs (Persian: مگوش) was originally a term meaning Zoroastrians (and specifically, Zoroastrian priests). It was a technical term, meaning magus, and like its synonym gabr (of uncertain etymology) originally had no pejorative implications. It is also translated as "fire worshipper".

The term is originated from the Persian word Magūsh (Persian: مگوش), then translated into the Greek language pronounced as Magoi (Greek: μάγοι), then to (Roman Latin: Magūs) which has mentioned in Matthew 2. The Arabs pronounced the word as Majūs (Arabic: مجوس) due to lack of voiced velar plosive in the Arabic. The word is mentioned in the Quran at 22:17 which says "Indeed, those who have believed and those who were Jews and the Sabians and the Christians and the Magians and those who associated with Allah - Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed Allah is, over all things, Witness".

They are also mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzi in his famous work Talbis Iblis (The Devil's Deceptions).,

The term was also used to describe the Vikings.

In the 1980s, majus was part of Iraqi propaganda vocabulary of the Iran–Iraq War to refer to Iranians in general. "By referring to the Iranians in these documents as majus, the security apparatus [implied] that the Iranians [were] not sincere Muslims, but rather covertly practice their pre-Islamic beliefs. Thus, in their eyes, Iraq’s war took on the dimensions of not only a struggle for Arab nationalism, but also a campaign in the name of Islam."

Today the term majus is distinct from Arabic kafir "unbeliever". Persian gabr is no longer synonymous with majus. Subsequent usage by Sunnis against Shi'ites has meant that some people view the term as Anti-Shia.

See also
 ajam, "illiterate", non-Arab, Iranian
 ahl al-Kitab, "People of the Book"
 dhimmi, "protected"
 Irani
 kafir, "unbeliever"
 Zoroastrians in Iran

References

Arabic words and phrases
Zoroastrianism
Religious slurs for people
Anti-Iranian sentiments
Racism in the Arab world
Anti-Zoroastrianism
Magi
Trier Arena

Trier Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Trier, Germany.  The capacity of the arena is 5,495 people.

It is currently home to the TBB Trier basketball team.

References

External links 

Indoor arenas in Germany
Buildings and structures in Trier
Sport in Trier
Sports venues in Rhineland-Palatinate
TRB (writer)

TRB is the name given the lead column of each issue of The New Republic magazine.

Historically, the writer most closely identified with "TRB" was Richard Strout, who wrote "TRB" from 1943 to 1983. Other TRB columnists have included Michael Kinsley, Andrew Sullivan, Peter Beinart, Jonathan Chait, and Timothy Noah.

On the origin of the name "TRB", Richard Strout said:

Bruce Bliven invented that. They wanted it—the magazine was published in New York at that time and they wanted an inside column from Washington, and they wouldn't have a name on it because they wanted to alternate it with various newspapermen. Frank Kent was the first one, so they decided they would put some initials on it, and they waited and waited and finally the composing room man came to them said, "You've got a half an hour to think what you are going to sign on it, the initials." And Bruce Bliven had just come over from Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, the BRT, so he just changed it around from BRT to TRB.

(Though the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company had been acquired in bankruptcy court in 1923 by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), the old initials were still well known.)

References 

Collective pseudonyms
Skonto Hall

Skonto Hall (also known as Skonto Arena) is an arena in Riga, Latvia. In the lobby of Skonto there are conference halls, a gym, and an arena with an artificial football field, which also hosts numerous exhibitions and concerts. The multi-purpose hall was originally built in 1996 and can accommodate either 2,000 seated spectators or 8,000 standing spectators. It is immediately adjacent to Skonto Stadium.

History
 
Skonto Hall was renovated in early 2006, so that it could be used as one of the venues for the 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships alongside the newly built Arēna Rīga. The hall also played host to the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, with a maximum capacity of 6,500.

After the World Ice Hockey Championships, the arena was the home of Riga basketball club BK Skonto Riga, but it is also used as a conference and congress center.

Due to outstanding loan payments, the hall was taken over by asset management company Reverta in 2011. On 15 October 2013, an auction which included the stadium was planned. At the auction, however, the property was not sold, but on 15 July 2014 it was acquired by SIA "SSA Assets".

See also
Skonto Stadium
List of indoor arenas in Latvia

References

External links

  

Buildings and structures in Riga
Indoor arenas in Latvia
Indoor ice hockey venues in Latvia
Basketball venues in Latvia
1996 establishments in Latvia
Sports venues completed in 1996
MartiniPlaza

MartiniPlaza (formerly Martinihal Groningen) is an indoor arena located in Groningen, Netherlands. It is used as an exhibition complex, theater and sports arena. The arena is the home of the basketball team Donar and has a capacity of 4,350 people.

Concerts

Sport events

Gallery

References

Indoor arenas in the Netherlands
Basketball venues in the Netherlands
Sports venues in Groningen (city)
Bergenshallen

Bergenshallen is an indoor ice hockey arena in Bergen, Norway.  It was built in 1968 and seats 1,800 people and has standing room for 1,200 more. The arena hosts the home games of the Bergen Flyers ice hockey team.

References

Indoor arenas in Norway
Indoor ice hockey venues in Norway
Figure skating venues in Norway
Sports venues in Bergen
1968 establishments in Norway
Spektrum Flyers
Antoni Wit

Antoni Wit (born February 7, 1944) is a Polish conductor, composer, lawyer and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Between 2002 and 2013, he served as the artistic director of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

Life and career
Wit was born in Kraków. He graduated from the Kraków conservatory (then called Państwowa Wyższa Szkola Muzyczna) in 1967. He studied conducting under Henryk Czyż and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki.  He went on to study in Paris under Nadia Boulanger (1967–68). In 1969, he also graduated in law from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

From 2002 to 2013 he was music director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He also collaborated with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra in Pamplona from the 2010–2011 to the 2016–2017 season, serving as their first guest conductor. In May 2013 he was nominated Artistic Director of the ensemble.

He has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, and in London the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and many of them with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, whose managing and artistic director he was from 1983 to 2000.  He specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Meyer, Witold Lutosławski, Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki, whose Polish Requiem he recorded in 2004. Wit received a Cannes Classical Award for his album of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony; his recording of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast cycle was also very well received.

He currently teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Selected awards and honours
Grand Prix du Disque de la Nouvelle Académie, (1983)
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, (1985)
Polish Radio's Diamond Baton Award, (1998)
Fryderyk Award for Album of the Year - Symphonic Music, (2002)
Cannes Classical Award, (2002)
Gold Medal of the Artur Rubinstein Foundation, (2002)
Fryderyk Award for Album of the Year - Symphonic Music, (2005)
Fryderyk Award for Album of the Year - Contemporary Music'', (2005)
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, (2006)
Gramophone Editor's Choice, (2007)
Gramophone Editor's Choice, (2008)
BBC Music Magazine Editor's Choice, (2008)
BBC Music Magazine Editor's Choice, (2009)
Karol Szymanowski Foundation Award, (2010)
Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta, (2011)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium, (2013)
Knight of Legion of Honour, (2015)

See also
Music of Poland
List of Poles

References

External links
Faculty biography from the Frederyk Chopin Academy of Music 
Naxos artist biography 
Biography from the Warsaw Philharmonic
Biography at culture.pl

1944 births
Living people
Polish conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Polish music educators
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century male musicians
Fulbright alumni
Spektrum

Spektrum may refer to:
 Oslo Spektrum, a sports, event and concert venue in Oslo, Norway
 Trondheim Spektrum, a sports and event venue in Trondheim, Norway
 Spektrum Flyers, a former ice hockey team based in Oslo
 Spektrum RC line of RC Hobby radio systems from the American company of the same name
 Spektrum (band), a band who had a number one on the UK Dance Chart in 2007
 Spektrum (building), an office tower in Warsaw, Poland
 Spektrum (magazine), a Norwegian literary and cultural magazine, issued from 1946 to 1954